The Breadth of Stories: Thursday, January 30th, 2025
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Good morning, Millennials. Welcome back to The Toast and happy Thursday. I hope everybody's having a day that's gargy, of course, a day that's pargy, of course. And for me, it's a day that's largy because I'm just getting bigger every day. That's a beautiful thing. What a wonderful update that you've shared with us. I'm so happy for you. Yes, of course, of course. That's the appropriate reaction. The bigger, the better. Yeah.

- Yeah, that's great. Well, if that's the case, I'm so good. - And at least you're getting bigger and we have bigger chairs, you know? 'Cause some of us did two pregnancies in the Buckel chairs. - That's actually an amazing point. This new renovation couldn't have come at a better time for my big fat ass.

And I actually, when I edit the show, I do compare the square footage that I take up on the chair versus you. It's hard to constantly be comparing yourself to others. I really need to stop. Also, I know you're gonna kill me. And I'm putting it out there, I know you're gonna kill me. That cord to your left is just bothering me. Can you just flick the black one? - This? - No, no, no, on the armrest, excuse me, behind you. Can you just flick it off the actual chair?

Thank you so much. I think it's really going to help with the beautification. It's been flicked. I think it's going to help with the beautification. Consider it flicked. Thank you so much. This has just been a really, like a week of trials and tribulations. Like every day we are trying new things, new lighting, new camera. We are getting really close. I don't want to jinx it, but I was, you know, in the studio with the Department of IT this morning, just doing a lot. The Department of Agriculture.

culture. Of testing and troubleshooting, if you will. I think we're getting really close to being in a really good place, but I don't want to say that because then, you know, my memory card will like die or something. Right. Don't jinx it. Yes. Parginess is increasing every day in every way. I mean, and that's just kind of a...

I think of who we are as individuals, like always trying to increase our pargy-ness. Every day we wake up, we said, how are we going to be pargy today? It's true. It's really true. Just like my own pargy-ness right quick.

It's Thursday, which means it's like a very chill day here at The Toast. We're between Dear Toasters, TV recaps, Queen is in Wieners. It's kind of a day where we can finally relax and be ourselves, you know? Yes, so true. We actually have pretty good stories today, so I'm looking forward to getting into those. But actually, we can't even go on with the show until we talk about what happened last night on the Potomac in D.C., like a passenger aircraft and a military helicopter crashed midair in

And as of this morning, it's a recovery mission, not a rescue mission. They don't believe there are any survivors. They were able to recover a bunch of people like throughout the night, but now it's officially. Yeah. So it's a rescue mission and it's just, it's so devastating. Oh, sorry. Recovery. Yeah. Okay. I think. Yeah. I get, I don't know. I think recovery. It's, it's very, very sad and confusing. Um,

Because it seemed to be like a day-rigger sort of like flight path. And that airspace is shared by military and commercial airlines all the time. So I don't know what happened. But like it's very unfortunate. No, Brian had like a bunch of stories up. Like kind of breaking it down and explaining actually in 2013, there was a near miss like in this exact area. So like this is obviously like a highly trafficked area. It is.

And that's why we have all the agencies that we have too. So I feel like, and everyone's now saying, because if you're afraid of flying, this is obviously going to send you into a tailspin. But it really is the first commercial crash in- Since 2009. Yeah, it's really not a common thing. So it's just such a weird feeling, like a plane crash. What is this, an episode of Lost? Yeah.

Yeah, I just, I hope that they figure out what happened because these seems, there are so many systems in place to make sure these things don't happen. Should be avoidable, yeah. So that's so sad. And I saw a lot of like the passengers, there were a lot of like figure skaters on their way to a competition. So it was like championship figure skaters. I think like US national championship, like, and a coaching couple. And I'm sure we'll learn more about the victims in the next few days, but just so sad, so sad.

So sad. So sad. Oh my God. I didn't hear that figure skating thing. That's really sad. Yeah. Well, sending love to everybody who is. Yeah. But that was just like shocking to fall asleep to and then wake up to the news. It just was. Well, I missed it. I went to bed early and then like, I guess I'm at this part of my pregnancy where I just like wake up in the middle of the night for like fun. Yeah. You just like, you just like chill and like think about stuff that you don't want to do. Yeah. And so that was me from about 137 to 312. Yeah.

And I was having horrendous heartburn. So I got up to get a tum to find that they were empty. And it's cream cheese gate. Yeah, that was really like cream cheese. I almost woke him up and told him to go run to a pharmacy. Like I was so mad, especially because, but I couldn't be mad because like I definitely finished the tums, but I,

Ben retrieved it for me. Do you know what I mean? Like I'm always in bed being like, can you get me a tum? Can you get me a tum? Can you get me a tum? So while yes, I consumed it, I wasn't aware that we had reached rock bottom because if we were, I would have gotten a new one. Yeah. And you're saying in your whole apartment, heartburn man doesn't have another pack of tums?

- I am sure that in the laundry basket is a pair of jeans that Ben wore last week with a rolled up, you know the ones that look like pennies? And I'm sure there's a dusty tum in there. And you know what, if I knew exactly where it was, I would have taken it and eaten it. That's how bad it was. - You should have just woken him up to ask if there are any more tums in the house because I feel like there were probably more tums in the house. - There weren't more tums in the house. I run inventory on this bitch. No more tums in the house.

No more Tums in the house. Like I run inventory on my house. I know every crevice, every corner, every cabinet. Every Tum. There was not another Tum. We had this huge jug. What more do you need? You know? No, I feel like Ben's the type where he knows he has a huge jug at home, but like he'll run out and pick up a spare jug.

You know, if he's on the way to something. If he has a briefcase, there's definitely, or backpack, there's definitely Tums in there, Turdy. Ben's actually not like a crazy Tum person anymore. Like when we first met, he was like just popping Tums like how people pop gum. Like I think he thought it was a mint. Like he's moved on. He pops like other things, like a Zyrtec, like an Afrin spray. He loves that. But I almost gave him the keys to the studio because I just got this extra large, like Costco-sized Tum. And I was like, go get it. Like seriously, go get it.

But he had a really early flight this morning and I thought that would be like really bitchy of me, but I almost did it. Well, you're so big that you didn't. Big? You're so magnanimous that you didn't. I know. And I just like laid there and suffered. I really hope this part of pregnancy, like it's not a, I hope it's not here to stay. Like waking up in the middle of the night, being alone with your thoughts and you know that you shouldn't be on your phone because that'll just make you stay awake longer. Like that is my own personal hell. Yep. And that's when it's time for your Kindle.

Yes, my Kindle was actually right next to me on the nightstand in the middle of a book I started last night. But I just like, I don't know, I wasn't feeling compelled to start reading in the middle of the night. Like, what am I, a librarian? I know, but that's a way to take your mind off your thoughts. You're not getting blue light. You're getting Kindle light. You don't have to turn on the light to read a book and wake your partner, even though I know you would love to. Love. And if your book is shitty, it'll put you to sleep. Pargy. I know. I just like, my sleep is so important to me. My sleep means a lot to me.

And I've gotten to a place, like, I know pregnancy, like, really sacrifices your sleep. Like, it fucks with your sleep. And I'm, like, every time I reach a hurdle, like, I'm working around it. Do you know what I mean? Like, I will not be deterred from getting my sleep. Yeah. And if you say right now, like, just wait till you have a baby, I'll seriously choke you out. Like, we know, we know having a baby is hard. I seriously can't with some of these bitches. I wasn't going to say that. I was going to go to thesaurus.com and find another way to say it. Yeah, no, I just, like, I actually can't deal with, like, bitches these days. Do you know what I mean? Claudia.

Pause. What's another way to say just wait? Oh, pause. Yeah. Hold tight. We're saying another language. No, I speak. Yes. Jackie, that's not even correct Hebrew. Must speak means enough. Must be. Yes. Yeah. I just want to say on the record, like I can't with these bitches. Like I'm allowed to complain. I'm allowed to complain.

And everybody's like, oh, well, you have to shut up. Like, I seriously can't fucking take it anymore. Like, it's like, you think this is bad?

How about you just shut up? Have you tried that? It's not exactly what I was going to say. What I was going to say is, once again, I'm a broken record on this, which is trust the architect, because this is all by design to prepare you for all of that. Imagine you go from sleeping 12 hours a night, rock solid, to then having a newborn getting up every three hours. This is your body's way of preparing. Okay, I also don't want to hear that. The process. And...

I don't want to hear it. What I'll say is take all the sleep where you can get it. If you're not napping every day, are you napping every day? I feel like you're not. You're answering types at four o'clock. Oh yeah, no, I haven't napped in months. Go back to napping. No, I don't like napping. Like,

There were parts of my pregnancy where I napped every day, like par-G-licious. When I was at your house, I was napping every day. But for the last couple of weeks, I haven't felt inclined to nap. And I just go to bed at a reasonable hour, like 9.30. I don't know, something about napping in the middle of the day. Because the day is so long. It's like two days in one. I'm good. The day is long enough. Okay. That's all I'll say then. And I'm running a successful business. I can't just be tapping out for hours, you know? What would you do?

Who would you talk to? It's actually typically the hour where I'm kind of unavailable. So like we could sync.

Right, no, you're unavailable, so I'm holding down the fort. I'm just going to be sleeping on the job. I don't think so. It could wait an hour for turdies. I'm also not tired. That's the other thing. Okay, so I'm going to just stop trying to give you cheery advice and solves. No longer solution-oriented. The architect. How about I just can complain, and why don't you just hear me? Okay, I thought, sorry, I thought we were looking for solutions. I'm so sorry.

Oh my God, why would you ever think that? Everybody knows. I just thought like when there's a problem, we want to solve it. I'm so sorry. Okay, that's so Ben's offer. I am never looking for a solution when I'm complaining. I'm just looking for misery and company. Do you know what I mean? That's the worst. I agree. How unfair. Oh, forgot to put my wedding ring on today. Rumor is a swirl. Maybe it was the Tums. Maybe it was the lack of Tum.

How wrong? Thank you. There's not another tum in the house. That's what I'm saying. Could never be. Even with the tums, you were doubting me. Are you sure? There wasn't one in another cabinet? Why don't you just let me live my truth? Why don't you let me live my truth? Okay, I'm going to try again. It's been a few months since I attempted to not...

I need you to get down in the gutter with me, okay? Join me. Okay, so that's different than like not being like contrarian to you? No, not contrarian. Like you're always just like... Because remember that episode where I tried not to disagree? I tried to be agreeable. Do you remember that? No, obviously you didn't like do a good job. I don't even remember. You have like a clip of it. It's like really funny. No, it's not ringing a bell. Let the good times roll. So today I am not going to problem solve.

- Thank you. Like seriously. - I can't help it, I'm such a helper. - Yeah, that's what everybody says about you. - She's such a helper. - She's such a helper, always offering a helping hand. That's what they say. - Well she is. They're not like saying the opposite. - No, they're just kind of like not talking about you, if I'm being honest, like they. - Good, that's how I like it.

Oh, when you said there were good stories today, I'm assuming there's like that planted story about Taylor Swift, like distancing herself from Blake Lively. To be honest, there is not. However, there is a story that is swappable and I could swap it in if you want. No, no, no. I mean, let me just say really quick. To me, it just felt like fake news. Yeah. I'm glad you didn't even give it the credit, like the credibility of making it a fast five story. Cause when I saw that people are so annoying, like, and again, it really harks back to a lack of media literacy in this country. Like

When Taylor Swift wants you to know something, like, we know she puts it at certain news outlets. Taylor Swift has never fucked with Daily Mail. And I'm sorry, if you even know, like, the smallest thing about Taylor, you would know that's, like, so not how she operates. Like, she literally writes songs about people who leave her when she gets, like, bad press reputation. That's, like, what the whole thing is about. So to assume that, like, her best friend, who's, like, kids are her godchildren, she would stop being friends with because she's being sued. Like, seriously? Like, how low do you think of Taylor? Yeah. Like, so not Taylor. So I...

wanted to get out of the pattern of like making it a story every single day that it ends in a drama. And this felt like not even a full story, just someone's idea of what happened. And maybe it is true. Maybe she is distancing herself. Um, but I'm just going to need a little more proof. I will be curious to see if Blake goes to the Superbowl. She was at almost every game last year and she hasn't been at a lot of games, but I know she also has a lot going on, but like the Superbowl who would pass up the Superbowl. She's not going. Why? Why?

She's just not like she hasn't even publicly responded to the Justin Balzoni claims. We haven't seen her. We haven't heard from her. Like, I don't think she's just going to pop up at the Super Bowl. I don't. Well, if Taylor brings a lot of friends and Blake doesn't go, that would be curious to me. I also don't think. But I think it would be on Blake, like Blake's choice, not Taylor's.

Okay, well, if she wants to like show that Taylor, if she wants to like, you know, dragons rise up, use one of her dragons, she would go to the Super Bowl. So she's going to show up and she's going to say Dracarys. Dracarys, motherfucker. She literally would. So that will be interesting to see. There are like other things that I'm looking for to see what's going on. A source in the Daily Mail could be true, sure. Could also very well not be. So I'm not holding too much...

- Space. - Wait for that. - Oh my God. - Is all I'll say. And I don't wanna talk about it every single day 'cause it's really getting confusing. We have a long road ahead of us. - Yeah. - And there's so many different, like we could on the one hand talk about it for so long, all the different theories and on the other hand, we could have done that and said absolutely nothing. Do you know what I mean? - Yeah.

um totally separately I'm on Boz and Dorit talk why do I keep calling her Boz Boz Boz and Dorit talk because there's like people are literally like making edits of them as like best friends and Dorit posted like literally like a thirst trap of Boz on her Instagram story today like they're literally obsessed with each other and somebody said that they're the Ariana and Cynthia of Bravo and honestly I felt that I saw that and that tracks that feels right

I'm just taking a tum break. Excuse me. Wow. So, yeah. How many times do you think is too many times in a day? It says it on the back. Oh, just go by that. That applies to the pregnant community. Yeah. Don't overdose. If anything, you should take less than the regular, like just cause. So I think it's like every few hours, right? Two to four tablets as symptoms occur. All right. We're sorry. Five minutes. Symptoms occurring. Okay.

Dr. Fox, is there a great source of calcium? Yeah, they are. Yeah. Okay, well, because it is Thursday, we're in like sort of such a relaxed mood. We could get into the Fast Five stories if you're ready. Is there anything else you wanted to talk about? Any major life updates in the last 24 hours for you? Major life updates, particularly, no. Okay. It's just been kind of standard procedure. Okay, I just wanted to ask. That's so sweet of you.

Yeah, sometimes I like to talk to others. To ask people how they're doing. That feels wrong. It's so funny because when I think about qualities I really dislike in a person, one of my things is if you're talking to somebody and the entire time they don't ask you one single question, it's like them. And I also, I feel like a lot of my...

like characteristics that I hate are like projection of like my own self-hatred. Yeah. Because I do like some of my like classic things that I hate. I think that I do them. But I also think it has to do with what you seek out in a person might not necessarily be like, you're not looking for yourself. It's like a magnet. You need the opposites, opposites attract and you have to have like different properties in order to be attractive to me. I think it's more so like, I just hate myself. You know, there's,

There's definitely some of that, but I actually don't think that you do whatsoever. I think it's more so like it's the competitive, like there can't be two of you. There just can't. There can only be one Turdy Lou. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Like two of you. It's like a magnet that just opposes one another. Okay. You need your match. Okay. Oh, look at you again being like so positive solution oriented. You hate yourself. You're the worst. Okay.

Need to work on self-love, Claudia. No, sorry, you don't even need to fix it because how much you hate yourself is just right. Thank you. That's what I've been saying. Keep on hating. Thank you. I will. Yourselves. Now, I think. I think without further ado-da-do-da-do. Here are the fast five stories that you-da-do need to know.

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Thank you, the turd. What can I say except you're welcome for all the codes and all the links that'll save. I saw some people in the community like begging for that song to make a return. So I thought today would be a good day because it's a Thursday. Because it's a Thursday. It's always a good day for that song. But there's not a lot going on, you know, and like we're just sort of free today to do what we want. So I was going to, you know, just pop.

But I think you'll actually be shocked by the breath of these stories. Not the breath. The breath. There's a D in there, right? The breath. The breath. We need to start pronouncing words as they are spelled. I mean, I've been out here doing the work, Majdi Jean, if anybody wants to join me. My kidney is killing me.

I think all this new weight I'm carrying around has been really tough on my kines. You mean the weh-gir-d? Oh, right. The we-ah-jit-jah. Like, that's how I see it. You know what I mean? That's how Turd sees it. Okay, how would you pronounce ha-ha? Like that act of doing ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. No, no. What am I doing when I ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha? Oh, like halfing. I would do la-oo-ga-ha. Like...

That's how I visualize. Because I think it's because I'm a very musical person. I really see songs like, I mean words. Because for me, I'm such a reader. I learn how to pronounce things by reading them. So how am I to know? Unclear. The way the people are saying it. You mean, how are you to canal? It's unclear. Yeah.

Honestly, this is my favorite game of all time. I can do it for- So you and Ben, you and Ben would go on a road trip and then every word that you see on a sign, you would say, pronounce it the way that it's done. I would say like, how do you pronounce that? Let me look for a word in front of me. Like my bronzer. I'm reading page six. Page six. Wow. Yeah. I love that. That's where I get my news. Okay.

It says, Hula, believe this bronze. Believe this bronze to me should sound like this. Beliave? Beliave tis bronze. Maybe it's a sign of high intelligence. I just see things differently. Do you know what I mean? I agree. I so agree. Unclair. It's unclair, but the breadth of stories today, there's actually a lot to talk about. Okay? Okay. Our first story is an L for me, for sure.

An L, like the letter L? I'm taking an L. Oh, wow, okay. It's kind of a W for you. Someone that I think I've been wrong about that I champion that you have said is not bueno. Country singer Sam Hunt has been arrested for speeding and violating an interlock device five years after his DUI. I don't even want to be right about this. Like, who cares about this actual irrelevant person? Yeah, who cares about him? No, I don't even think that I... Who likes his music? I've actually made peace with Sam Hunt. Like, I don't...

Even hate him so much. So at this point, it's just like, dude, get your fucking life together. What are you doing? Get a driver. Yeah, right. Get a friend. A driver. Country singer Sam Hunt was arrested after speeding on a Tennessee highway and violating the terms of his past DUI. According to TMZ, the musician was pulled over on January 20th in Hendersonville, about 22 miles north of Nashville, on charges of speeding and violating an interlock device, best known as a car breathalyzer. He was charged.

Taken to jail but released the same day on $1,500 bond. Well, so his crime here was speeding, which is obviously not a crime. But if you have like a specific parole agreement, I guess, like you can't be speeding. So it's not like he's out here, you know, drinking and driving again. To be clear, it's a little bit misleading. So I'll make space for not me being like so lenient with Sam Hunt today. I think it's because I made you listen to that song. His new music has been really good.

It's like, I don't know how he finds the time to make new music while he's also just like constantly getting arrested. It's true. And he should get a driver so he could sit in the back and like make new music. But do you feel like some men would find it emasculating to be driven around? 1000%. That's...

Yes, I do. And maybe that's why more male celebrities don't just get a driver. Especially in the South where your truck is sort of like your manhood. Yeah. I could see Sam Hunt being like, that's gay to have a driver. I saw such a funny video recently. And it's hard to apply to myself because

like driving in my family is just such a thing in my like little family. - You mean in your, you, just you. - No, but like with Zach, because the video was like, if you're a man, like,

why is your wife ever driving you guys? Like what are you doing? Just like sitting in the passenger seat, like one thousand percent. Like you should always be a girl. Like you should always be driving when you're the man. However, I just want to say in my situation, usually I always want to actually drive, but sometimes I want to drive to get the practice in if he's going to be with me. So like he's actually being a driving instructor. He's not just passively sitting there. I have not driven my own car like with Ben in the car. Right.

I mean, I've driven my own car seriously twice in the last five years. And it was only like when Ben wasn't available to drive me somewhere. If I, you know, I should like actually do a prank. Like we just go to the garage to pick up the car and I get in the driver's seat. You should. He would be like, and one of the things that I'm actually...

Ben and I are having an issue with is he does this thing where at a red light, he pulls out his phone, which like, it's not a crime, but it's so annoying because I'm sitting there being like, go, I let the light stand like for, for four minutes. I'm like, the light's been green for four minutes. Fucking go. It's such a point of contention with us. And I'm like, why can't you just not be on your phone?

Claudia, it's such a point of contention for me too. My husband always like picking up the phone. When you're in the driver's seat, like you don't look at your phone. And the issue is, is that even when I'm in the passenger seat, I don't look at my phone because of motion sickness. And it's a shame that he has to drive because when he's in the passenger seat, he could just be on his phone the whole time being happy. I would drive, not look at my phone and I would be happy. But again, like why would he be in the passenger seat? Just passively passengering.

Ben hates your Tesla. And the only positive thing he'll say about it is that it gives you like that little ding when the light turns, as soon as the light turns green. So if you are being like a bad driver on your phone, it does sort of give you like a kick in the ass, which I agree that is a great feature. It's a great feature. As soon as you don't have to be paying attention, because I'm not even on my phone. I sometimes just zone out at a long run. Right, putting on music. And it dings when it's green. You don't get beeped. It's purge.

So maybe Sam Hunt should look into maybe getting a different kind of car. Also, I imagine if you have like really strict parole where you can't go over a certain speed limit, like there's a setting you can put your car on to just like literally not go fast. I would be afraid of going to jail again. The thing is, and what's clear here is that Sam Hunt doesn't give a fuck. Doesn't care. Yeah, yeah. That should be the name of his next album. I'm Sam Hunt and I don't give a rip. Yeah. Memoir. Sam Hunt doesn't give a fuck. Memoirs of a huntress.

Memoirs of a Sammy. And also, not to bring her into this, but like where is his wife? I feel like I never hear about her. They were like rumored to be getting divorced, but they didn't, did they? Then they got back together and I think they split up again. Oh, okay. I do think. There's no woman in his life and that's why he's sort of on this downward spiral. He's untethered and he's speeding. To where is he even going? Right. Nowhere.

He's got a one-way ticket to Loserville. I think they are still married. Population, Sam Hunt. I know, but like, Sam, turn it around, but don't speed when you turn it around. Just like, and turn around and like drive in the right side of the street. Let me ask you a question. Be totally honest. We're rooting for you, Sam.

speak for yourself, but be totally honest. Do you think it's too late for Sam Hunt in terms of so many things? I feel like his career really had so much potential. There was a time where even if you didn't like country music, you knew Sam Hunt. He was so on his way to being like a Morgan Wallen. And then he flopped off the planet. He got his DUI. He had a lot of rumors about just personal issues.

then his music just also like took a hit he's been like trying to rebuild but then he gets arrested I'm like do you think it's it's over for Sam Hunt so that would depend on a bunch of factors that I have no insight into like what does the industry think of him what do his the fellow country music world think of him what does radio think of him the big wigs is he nice to work with I think if he in earnest like wanted to come back and people really liked him they would support him they would

have him as an opener. They would give that to him. But if he's pissed everyone off along the way and he's really out here on his own, and I just want to say like getting arrested or a DUI, like never stopped Morgan Wallen. So something else is blocking and being, you know, an alleged alcoholic never stopped Morgan Wallen. So something else is blocking. Because it never stopped Morgan Wallen from like showing up for work. Like, you know,

else is blocking Sam's self yeah yeah there's kind of a blockage in Sam Hunt and I feel like in a couple music genres if not all of the music industry like being you know breaking the law getting arrested it's a rock star but for a man it's so not a big deal it's so not a big deal yeah so I think there's something else yeah I do think like because Sam Hunt is a man like he if he really wanted to and it seems like he doesn't but he could make a comeback

Yeah, it seems like he doesn't. He does still make music because I think he loves music and he puts it out, but he doesn't really care about like promoting it. And yeah, and we're going to go tour and we're going to go on this radio show and we're going to do the toast. Like he doesn't give a fuck. Yeah. And that's probably why he's flopping because he hasn't been on the toast. My chair is big enough for the both of us. Sam Hunt, if you ever want to come on the toast. That's very, very like provocative of you. No, no, no, no. I didn't mean it in that way. It was like metaphorical. What if your husband heard you say that?

And I was getting Sanhunt in our house. I think we should shut up. Okay, cool. Good to know. Right? There are definitely a couple of people like Ben would let me act like really crazy around just to like entice them. But I'm not even saying I would be acting crazy. Yeah, but no, you said you were sitting, you're sharing a chair with him. That's really crazy. Like it wouldn't be in a crazy way, but thanks for making it weird.

Ooh, yeah. Oh, that'll be your new way to let me know when you want to move on from a story. Yeah, like that I'm over a subject. Oh God, how scary. I appreciate it in that moment, but please don't abuse it. Like every time now. No, I won't, I won't. But I do agree. Hey, I started a new book last night. Ooh, yeah.

I'm thinking of making a beef stew. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now let me ask you a question. That way I just did it though. That was a kind of good, because we were reaching the end of the Sam Hunt combo. I love that. I'm just calling it out. No, I'll be really extremely prudent. Thank you. Our next story is actually some breaking influencer news.

- That's actually my favorite type of news. - I don't even think that-- - Chiara Ferragni's getting divorced? - No, well that's like already happening. This is like kind of crazier, 'cause she hasn't been spotted with Fidesz in a while, but like there's not been anything like concrete. Italy's biggest-- - I love finding things out live on air, like my genuine reaction, let's hear it. - Italy's biggest influencer, Chiara Ferragni, faces five years in jail as she is charged with fraud for misleading followers that sales of her Easter eggs would fund a children's charity.

Oh, by the way, this got worse and worse with every word you read in that headline. Like, I thought it was going to be tax evasion and I was going to say queen. And then I'm like, oh, scamming her followers. I'm like, oh, well, people are dumb. But now it's like, no, what? This has been like an ongoing story that they colloquial call Pandora Gate because she was selling these like pink Christmas editions of a Pandora, which is a traditional festive cake, which is a fruitless alternative to the more famous Panettone. Okay.

What the hell is this story? This has been an ongoing story because a while ago she promoted these cakes, like buy these cakes and a portion of it will go to a children's hospital. She's selling cakes now? No, it was like a branded thing. Okay. The cake maker, like it was a whole, she's not making cake, like it was a sponsored post. Okay, because she's like a fashion influencer, okay. Yes, it was like the barbershop

box is very fancy. Her logo is on it in addition to like the Q Lab. It would be like, you know, Kinder X Chiara. Just like my Nespresso cups. I use the Chiara Ferragni Nespresso cups. Anyways, her followers were told that the cash raise would go to Turin's Regina Margarita Hospital for Children and money raised was said to be earmarked for a new scanner to help detect types of bone cancer. However, after a year long investigation, Italy's competition watchdog AGCM announced the fine of 1 million euros.

They found that consumers had been duped into thinking that buying a Frogney branded Pandora, they were contributing to the charity and hospital. They also find that they also find the cake maker 420,000 euros. They justified the high nine euros price by saying the more cakes they sold, the more the children's clinic would receive. That's what they said when they were selling the cakes. I would assume that it

In fact, the inquiry heard that they had agreed to just 50,000 euros would go to the hospital regardless of how well the cake sold. So it wasn't like for every cake sold. It was like we're making a flat donation. Buy as many cakes as you want. They added that Chiara made no personal payments to the hospital while her companies received 1 million euros from Belaco for the branding initiative and related promotional activities.

In a video published to her page in 2023, she admitted to a communications error and apology to her fans. So that was like the civil piece. However, now she is being charged and this might go to trial. This is like one of those things I imagine in Italy where like,

You want to make a, make an example out of celebrities who break the law. Like, cause this is so extreme. Like she definitely should be fined. And honestly, she should more so be like publicly shamed for like using charity to sell something that's like really tacky, but like it's to go to jail for five years. Yeah. I don't think she'll go to jail for five years. Milan public's prosecutor issued her lawyers with a summons for September 23 with the influencers legal team saying in a statement that their client has committed no crime.

Okay, this is like such a weird, like not like juicy story, what I thought it was going to be. Yeah, it seems like the meat of the story has already happened, which was that. Right. And that is totally deceptive. Like saying a portion of sales will go to a charity. You do expect that it is scaled up or down depending on sales, not a flat fee. Of course. And then after that, they're pocketing the rest. So they all paid fines on that. And now they really want to make an example of her, which is surprising because I feel like she's Italy's darling girl. Beloved.

They do. Like they're so proud of her. Yeah. I mean, what she's built is amazing. And I do think her and Fadez are not together anymore because she never posts him. And it's been like a really long time now. And they were- That's so crazy because their wedding was like actually a global affair. Yeah. And they had a show. Yeah, on Prime. Or they're like just going through a tough time. I don't know. And maybe she has posted, but I follow her and I never saw anything concrete. Yeah. And they have two kids together. But if they were actually filing for divorce, we would know. Right. Right.

Hmm. So I think she's just going through a hard time. And perhaps facing jail time at that. Right. She should not go to jail for this. No, no. But like seriously deceptive. That's like really shady. And it's just like one of those things that gives influencers such a bad name. Yeah. And you would think at like this sort of level it wouldn't happen. Right. Because people have teams and things like this. Everything you do is just like official and fancy. Yeah. And you know that people are going to.

be inquiring right you can't just like not donate to the charity in the way that you said because they did donate fifty thousand dollars

That's like not a lot of money for somebody at that level, just to be clear. No. Oh my God. When on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, when somebody asked Erica, like, would you sleep with someone's husband for a million dollars? She's like, a million dollars is not a lot of money these days. I was like, honestly, that's so funny. And $50,000 for like someone of Kiara's level, the way she operates is like literally not a lot of money. Yeah. And then I wonder if the fines went straight to the hospital or did the government take that?

I mean, if they're finding the hospital, like that's just counterintuitive to this whole-

Did they take all that fine money and give it to the hospital? Of course not. It's a government fine. Of course not. Yeah. So no one actually cares about them sick kids, by the way. Classic. Classic. We're the only ones here advocating for the children. It's true. Give it to the children. I believe the children are our future. Are you ready for our next story? Yeah. Something that I feel like we've kind of manifested.

Correct me if I'm wrong. - Oh my God. - Gretchen Rossi is returning to the Real Housewives of Orange County for season 19. - I had a similar thought about a conversation we just recently had about OC kind of crushing the, not reboot vibe, but like resetting, but then also dipping into old iconic characters. Alexis has been on this season, people have been loving it. So Gretchen is an American treasure. - Yeah. - She is a classic talent.

And she's somebody who is so desperate to be on reality TV that she actually will make good television with her desperation. I could spell it from here. - It's true. Nobody wants this to go well more than Gretchen. - And by the way, she had that same energy the first time around. - Yes.

And we've said not only that OC is doing it well, but for a lot of these franchises, I think their future lies in the past. And when you do get new cast members like Roni, there's not that desperation. It's more of a shrewd move. However, it's just like the OG housewives of all franchises who are no longer on the show, just still have that desperate energy to get back on the show. And that's how you get people who are willing to do whatever on reality TV again.

Yeah, and that's how you also just like really blend the old housewives, like the peak sort of cultural relevance with this new era. Yeah.

Like there's old beefs like Alexis and Gretchen were on together back in the day. Then there's years worth of things that happened while they thought they would never be on television again. So they're acting real. And there in we have herstory and herstory is what's necessary for a good reality show.

1,000%, I couldn't have said it better myself, and I think that this is brilliant, and I don't know if it had anything to do with the conversation we had on the toast last week, but I'm glad to see that this trend, I need to see it in other franchises, because I think OC's doing it really well, and OC has such a breadth of crazy people to tap into. They really have years. They all do.

but New York, I mean, really does. Like they have so many people. I would love to see this. And I don't know if you saw people are freaking out that like the production company that produces Real Housewives of New York posted on their Instagram, like a casting call for New York Housewives. So I don't know if that means that everybody's gone, but things are definitely going to be shaken up because like, seriously,

It's atrocious. Also, I'll be right back. I need to get a tissue, but feel free to like make fire points without me. Sure thing. Sure thing. I would say that's the wrong move. We don't need a casting call. You need to go into the files and into the history books and pick old cast members who would pair nicely with new cast members. And I know you're probably thinking of like, like when Sona Ramona, I don't think that's right either. Cause I think there would be too much of a gap between the old and the new, but there were definitely housewives and,

in New York's history who would pair well with these new younger housewives. I'm saying that I don't think it should be like Ramona, Sonia vibe for the new Roni, but they should go into the archives with some former cast members. Like who?

I know they tried that, but someone of that elk who's like a bit younger. - Kristen Takeman. - Kristen Takeman, Ashley Madison. - So she could finally sort of rid the stain on her ruby daisy 'cause-- - The thing is, they're still married, so. - And that's interesting, by the way. I would love to hear about that. - Yeah, they're definitely cast members. Anyways, I think they should take that post down. We don't need new people.

I agree. There's sort of roadies specific. Like we're sort of at this impossible place where I don't think that they should bring back those women, but those women like need to be used in something. Like I actually think that Sonia and Luann show simple life vibes where they went to that like town in Indiana was so funny. More things like that. Even I was watching Ramona's stories last night.

She was at an affair, a gala, at the Breakers in Palm Beach. She got all dressed up and she was like, she was talking about her girlfriends. She was out with her girlfriends and she was like, I have such amazing girlfriends. These are my girlfriends. This is Amy, this is Jill. Girlfriends are everything and I just love my girlfriends. It was so funny. Her Instagram is a movie. It's actually a movie and somebody needs to bring it to the mainstream. Does she live in Palm Beach now or does she live in New York? New York.

So she bought a condo in Palm Beach. I don't know like where her primary residence is. And I'm sure she still comes back to the city to see her daughter. But she's mostly in Florida. Every time I watch her stories, she's, or maybe she only stories when she's on vacation, but she's mostly in Florida. Because I think Real Housewives of Palm Beach is coming down the pike. I would love to see Ramona. I had heard about Real Housewives of Palm Beach. And also I had heard- We talked about it. Like some of the past- Yeah, the caliber of women was really- Of women. Yeah.

Of woman. Did I say that? Yeah. Was really premium. Yeah. So throw Ramona in there. Thousand percent. Anyways, I was also just randomly stalking Gretchen Rossi the other day, which I never, I hadn't been on her page. She sells handbags. I hadn't been on her page in years. I didn't know she had two children. I didn't know for certain if her and Slade were still together, but she's, I was watching her feed. She's ready.

- Yeah, no, I know two things about Gretchen Rossi since she left The Real Housewives of Orange County. She has two babies whose faces she Facetunes into oblivion, like it's actually the craziest thing. And two, she sells her own handbags. - Great, roll cameras. - Yeah, action.

- Action. - Agreed. - I think I need to start watching OC again because like these are my people. - No, I know. - It's not a lack of intrigue, it's a lack of just time to catch up. - They went through a couple of bad seasons but they ended up picking up a couple of good people, Gina and Emily. - I know, you and Gina, I know. - Gina, me and Emily. - Sorry, Emily. - Emily's my queen. - Sorry, I'll maintain that. - No, I don't mess with Gina. - I will maintain that Emily looks like a Gina and that Gina looks like an Emily. - Wait, let me think, let me think.

It's a bad call. When they came on the show, we said that. You've obviously just like went to the other side. And now because of the love that you have for Emily, she'll be an Emily to you. But Emily looks like a Gina and Gina looks like an Emily, period. Okay. Oh, yeah. The remainder of today's show is brought to you by Good Ranchers. As we welcome the new year, it's time to focus on what matters most, creating healthier habits and enjoying more moments with family, plus spending less money on going out to eat.

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Thank you, Turtle. What can I say except you're welcome. Our next story is a story that is just like I'm living for. She's living. No, you're going to freak. So JoJo, the singer, I just feel like JoJo, the singer and actress. And who else would it be? Fletcher? Siwa? Okay. Oh, actually, great call. Okay. Thank you. I've been put in my place officially.

JoJo admits that she almost swiped right on her co-star from 2006's Aquamarine after spotting him on Raya. I know this is a lot to take in. The guy who plays Raymond, like the heartthrob who Sarah Paxton is in love with. I put my iPad away far too quickly. I think I know him. Is he like Sandy Hare? Yes, his name is Jake McDormand. He played Raymond, who is like the end-all and be-all of the movie Aquamarine. Oh, wait, this is not who. Oh, yes, that's exactly who I was thinking. Okay.

So let me say this. Wait, just listen to the deets. Jojo made the admission on an episode of First We Feast, Truth or Dab, Rapid Fire, when she was asked about one scene in the film, which she shot when she was 14. So in this scene, Jojo whispers in Emma Roberts ear and asked on Truth or Dab what she was whispering. The actor said, we were probably just talking about Jake and how cute he was.

Yes. Thank you, Claudia. So she continued. And it's so funny because I saw him on Raya. We were both on there and I'm like, do I do I swipe? Because like you. But I kept going because that ship has sailed. That ship has not sailed. No, the ship is at the dock. We are ready to board. You asked. I thought Jojo was married. She's on Raya.

Did she get divorced? Hold on. She had a really cute husband. Well then. I'm mad. I wrote Jojo married and you know what comes up? Fletcher. Jordan Rodgers. Jojo married. Singer. They're humbled. Yeah, they were engaged in 2021. Dexter Darden. He's no Jake McDormand. So maybe this is like an old story.

Oh, they broke off their engagement in 2022. Okay, never mind. So she is available and she needs to get together with Jake McDormand today. I can't believe that they saw each other on Raya. I can't believe she didn't swipe right. She's so wrong for that. She is. It's actually like come across my desk to perhaps rewatch Raya.

this movie although I fear like fear has stopped me from doing it because I fear it doesn't stand the test of time it does it does for some reason I feel like I don't remember the last time I watched it but it doesn't feel so far off like I remember everything and it is such an adorable good movie okay that makes me feel so much better it's also star-studded yeah and at the time like it wasn't a blockbuster hit but it has aged really well in like the conscience of the millennial

So Emma Roberts is in it. Of course. And Sarah Paxton. I know Sarah Paxton. Who is Emma Roberts? She's just a friend. Her JoJo. They're the two best friends and one of them, JoJo's moving and then they make out a mermaid and they can make a wish for the mermaid if they help the mermaid stay as a human girl, but she needs to have true love's kiss. Duh. Okay, I definitely, like, it's not coming, like, to me at all, so I need to rewatch. If it makes you feel better, the fact that you don't know this movie backwards and forwards is showing your age in a way that's positive for you. Slay.

You've never heard of this movie. Who is Jojo? The singer? I don't know her. Yeah. Must have been before my time. Yeah. So anyways, this is just like, get back out there, Jojo. I hope he sees this. And the answer was like, oh, I swiped right, like I was waiting for you. Well, that's the thing. Let's go out. I'll whisper compliments in your ear. You have to wonder what happened on his end. Did he also just ignore her?

Well, I feel like he probably swiped right because if he had, it depends on the timing, but like if he swiped left, he wouldn't have come up for her, you know? Yeah. Unless she saw him first and he hadn't swiped yet. But I think the odds that he swiped right are pretty high. I agree. Even just like say hello. Yeah. Like good times. It's kind of rude that she didn't, honestly. It doesn't have to be romantic. No, it's rude that she didn't. Is she crazy? Yeah.

It's a good point. And her saying, because the time has passed. Like, no, it has not. And you thought he was cute. Like, are you crazy? Girl, what are you doing? It's Raymond. It's a great little love. Everybody loves Raymond. Everybody loves Raymond. It's such a great, like, throwback. But we need to make this right. Ooh, yeah. Wow, you really don't care about Aquamarine? No, no, no. By the way, I was just wondering, like, were we on the same page? Like, I felt like that story was coming to an end.

Okay, it's not that I didn't enjoy the story, by the way. I loved it. Okay. Our final story, some more throwback news. Actually, very interesting. Who remembers Cher Lloyd? Oh, first of all. Who could forget Cher Lloyd is a better question. I never forgot Cher Lloyd, and I did also see this story.

So Cher Lloyd has done an interview and she is claiming that her record label asked her to seduce Justin Bieber to launch her career. So I think we were just talking about Cher Lloyd. It feels like semi recently, like saying, where did she go? What happened to her? I feel like she never made it in America. She had her album sticks and stones. Obviously like we would have supported anything that she did, but like she didn't crack anything.

Is she? I want you back, want you, want you back. Yeah, such a good song. So she claimed that her record label previously asked her to seduce Justin Bieber in order to launch her career. She first rose to fame as a contestant on, which show was it? X Factor UK. UK in 2010 and then released her debut album, Sticks and Stones. In an attempt to promote her record, Cher claimed she was asked to hit some of the clubs and find out where Bieber is and leech off of his fame.

Speaking on Paul Brunson's We Need to Talk podcast, she admitted, I walked into my record label and said, look, I really need some cash to try and push my record. Basically, I got told no. Instead, she was told she needed to hit some of the clubs and find out where Bieber is and I should try and go and get with him. She added, now this is going back years ago. I was a teenager, but I was very much with my husband at that same time. He was even stood in that office while I was told that they weren't going to spend any money on this album, that I was to go hook up with someone mega famous and basically leech off of the back of someone else's fame.

Was I not good enough to invest in that you would rather use me in that way? They didn't care. In fact, she remembers. How bad are you at your job? Like that's your advice? You literally work at a record label. Right. And like why do some people get money to promote their albums than other people who have proven to have like raw talent? Yeah. And that they have like people.

people fans already like why wouldn't you support that album also the fact that this was like how Justin Bieber as like a young kid was being spoken about like in the industry also gives me a pill it gives me a bit for both of them yeah I think there's a lot of weirdness if you like ever want to like really look into like Justin Bieber's rise to fame because he was so young and like so cute and people were just fucking weird about him and they were just like

I think like, well, because it's a perverse industry that doesn't protect children. And he was the most successful child musician. So yeah, I'm sure some things happened. Yeah. Yeah. And this is just like, well, it's crazy and disgusting for Sharon Lord. It's also gross for Justin Bieber.

Yeah. And then it just makes you wonder how many people used him at that time to launch their own careers. Right, right, right, right. Which is something you probably always suspect, but now it's like concrete. Not only might someone have a desire to use you, but like they're actually being pushed by adults and business people and people in power to use this child.

This is also just sad because it's not like Cher, like why wouldn't Cher Lloyd have the support at the time? If you were there, if you remember like the X Factor days very much like,

One Direction time. Like, first of all, it was a machine. If you were on that show, like you were guaranteed UK to be huge. She had like a couple of songs that were huge hits. Like why wouldn't she be eligible for like promotional funds? Yeah. And the potential to have a huge career because as we said, she's actually talented. No, she was like a pretty young girl. Like there was no reason for her to like not be a plant in the machine. Well, I feel like the plants are the people who comply, right? Yeah.

Yeah, well, I don't know what the plants are. Like, I don't know. I've yet to understand what the point of a plant is. Are easy to control, I think. And who like maybe aren't going to say, no, I'm going to marry my high school sweetheart and we're going to have an irrelevant relationship. Instead of Justin Bieber. Like seen with Justin Bieber at a nightclub.

Is that it? A musician who appears to be self-made but is supported by a record label family or wealth. Right. And I think that the record label supports a particular person because they are easy to work with. Yeah, malleable. And they do what they want. And they put out the music that they want and they dress how they want and they go and do whatever they want. And instead of working with someone who like is a constant struggle to get to do what you want.

A Constance Duglay. Right. Right? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. And when you think about the people who we think would be interested with your plans, like they seem pretty unscrupled, yeah? Yeah. I mean, the more I study and cover this industry, I don't know a single person who has scruples. Like for real. It's true. Like the more successful you are, the less scruples you have probably. And that's why the people who actually seem to be scrupled and successful are such a marvel like Gwyneth Paltrow, let's say.

That's a great example. But the thing with Gwyneth Paltrow that Gwyneth has that I think others don't is that she's able to be scrupled because with or without her career, she always had something to fall back on. Yes, as a nepo baby. So maybe that's not even a fair... No, the nepotism adds just a little bit of comfort if you want to be a scrupled person. If you want to walk away from it all and say, oh, I won't do this. And maybe they'll fire you from the job, but you would be okay. So yeah, maybe that's not a fair comparison.

No, but she's a good example because she is somebody who's like deeply principled and who speaks out for what she believes in, but is also like enormously successful. And it's a good example, except that she never had to wonder, like, do I have to run home to my small town and go back to that one horse town? Yeah, it wasn't. There were multiple horses in her town. Yeah, on her property. Yeah. Yeah.

That's sad. It is sad. And at the end of the day. And it just reminded me of Cher Lloyd that like her bops are bops. Her bops. And her covers like when she was on X Factor. Probably even better than her bops because she was performing like popular music. So amazing. And at the end of the day like we, I actually am mad because we've been denied the magic of Cher Lloyd. Yeah, her music was like really poppy, dance, fun, young. But like what was crazy about her was she has an amazing voice and then she also rapped.

Yes, yes, yes. Get you a girl who can do both. Yes, she was kind of like the British version of Carmen. But they were multiple people and she was doing it all. Okay, Carmen was not multiple people. Like I know it was a husband and wife duo. So one of them can sing and one of them can rap. I'm not impressed.

No, but the guy was never doing anything. That's what I'm saying. She was rapping and singing. I think maybe he was like doing some of the production. Yeah. Okay. That's not the same. Cher Lloyd had a piano player too. Okay. He just wasn't like, I was actually very generous of, of Carmen to, to become a band, like a duo, not just a girl. And not just be Amy Noonan. Correct. Instead they're Carmen. So let's get up. Let's get on it.

Don't you leave me brokenhearted tonight. Come on. That's right. Cheerio. That's where she sounds like chair Lloyd. And then also, hello. That's not, I just came to say, who was that? I don't know. That was a cultural shift. Yeah, but that's not either one of the people we've been discussing here today. Okay. But I just need to now put a pin in that. Kind of a big episode for music. And for like throwbacks.

And for throwbacks, which we love. Even though we're so young, we can barely remember like last year. Martin Solveig and Dragonette. Right. Not. It's less impressive that it was Martin Solveig. Not Carmen. Yeah. But not Carmen. Unfortunately for them. That's our show. Wow. This is going to be our first show in like a month. That's under an hour. Should we talk for one more minute? I can't. If you hadn't kept cutting me off with your little transitions, we'd be there. Ooh.

Yeah. I actually can no longer see my timer in the new studio, in the new PNS. Oh, you gotta move it. That's kind of a problem. Yeah, I'm kind of flying blind here. Oh, that is bad. Yeah. Yeah. So I'll rearrange. Do we want to like sit around and fuck around for a few more minutes? Anything like you want to say or announce? Tomorrow's Friday is very exciting.

Let me see if like anything is going on on my phone. Oh, I actually saw an interesting, let's do the bonus story that I just was reading while you were doing the ads because Claire Crawley has spoken out about Matt and Rachel.

yeah and when I saw it I was like what could she possibly have to say um she has what to say to note she's like not a thirsty person no she she had her season I actually think like she regrets it immensely and she's like so moved on with her life married with a baby she's not thirsty she does like content but she's not someone who's always like trying to be in us weekly no not at all she really genuinely wanted to get married and have a family and that's what she did like she was very authentic about her desires like respect she posted on Instagram stories catching up on

up on SoCal News and SMH some of this stuff remember she's such a mom remembering that one time I specifically asked producers to please not allow one specific guy on my season because I knew for a fact he was not looking for a serious relationship whatsoever and I didn't want him to waste anyone's time so instead they made him the next bachelor

Well, then that's interesting because Matt James is the only person in the franchise history to have become the lead without ever being on the show. Yeah. And I guess it wasn't for lack of trying, but Claire had said no. Yeah. I think we knew that he was like going to be on Claire's season. And then instead they announced him as The Bachelor. So it was like, well, then he wouldn't be on Claire's season because he has this gig waiting for him. I didn't realize that it was because Claire did not want him. Didn't want him. Because she saw something in him, obviously a thirstiness because...

he was matching, I mean, Taylor, Tyler's friend. That whole thing was so crazy. And then also it was BLM and they were like, the bachelor was getting dragged to filth. They had never had a black male lead. And then they had this guy who was like already affiliated with the franchise. Kind of. Because through Tyler and then almost going to Claire's season, they're like, okay, you're our guy.

Yeah. And then they didn't realize like he doesn't want to get engaged. Well, no, not only that, like they thought they were like course correcting like 20 years of never having had a black lead. And then they end up with this big scandal. Right. So I forgot that like the order of things was Claire Crawley and then Matt James. I was watching Jeopardy last night and like it was recorded. So like there was like a minute before and they're playing commercials for the new season of The Bachelor. I was like, who is watching this? I genuinely forgot that it was still on.

I saw that it premiered. I don't know. I feel like I'm getting to like an age in my life where like. Where you could see yourself watching it again? Where I could see myself watching it again the way that like older people watch The Bachelor. Yeah. Yeah. You know? It was big with that community. With that demo of just like older women. Like I think I'm in. It's true. My senior age where I would love to watch these young people fall in love. That's actually hilarious. The problem.

is that like the episodes are really long and I would want to watch like very passively and not week to week but then this is where this job comes like because it's like I have to recap it. It's not a show that can be recapped anymore. I feel. That's why I stopped watching it because they really took advantage of your time. Like the way that they had

hours and hours of episodes per week with so many commercials and so much clickbait and so much like cliffhangers it really became unenjoyable where like I would say 65% of the episodes you were watching were so unsubstantial yeah but if I could like batch episodes fast forward through dates I would but then like then I wouldn't be recapping it on the show and like seriously what the fuck am I doing watching The Bachelor if I'm not recapping it on the show and if I'm recapping it on the show is literally anyone watching and listening

No, no. Right. So that's why I won't be watching The Bachelor. And that's why I believe we've made it to an hour. So we're good. Check. I'm glad we discussed that though. Claire Crawley. Yeah, me too. That's what I'll show you guys.

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