Girls Gotta Eat - The Snack: America’s Semiquincentennial, World Cup Controversy, and Taylor and Travis Wedding

Episode Date: July 9, 2026

Welcome back to The Snack – a lighter serving of Girls Gotta Eat. This week, we’re talking about: Ashley’s birthday America’s 250th birthday celebrations – Beyoncé drops new music, Eiffel Tower lights, DC fireworks go too hard, the empty Great American State Fair Team USA’s loss in the World Cup aka the Tr*mp Curse Cape Verde’s legendary World Cup run Taylor and Travis’s MSG wedding Headlines: Empire State daredevil engagement, Mitch McConnell might be dead, Summer House updates Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit https://girlsgottaeat.com for more. Thank you to our partners this week: Helix: Get 20% off a new mattress at https://helixsleep.com/gge. Zenni: Refresh your glasses and get 15% off at https://zenni.com/podcast with code PODCAST15. Ride or Die: Watch the new series starting July 15 only on Prime Video. Liquid IV: Get 20% off your first order at https://liquidiv.com with code GGE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the snack, Taylor and Travis get married, America 250 and a FIFA drama. This is a Dear Media production. Enjoy. Hi, guys. Hi, guys. Here we are. Let's say where we're coming to you from. I am in.

Okay, you first. It's your birthday. You first. Listen, it's my birthday. I would leave in the conversation. No, I'm nowhere special. So I thought you'd round us out. I am just in L.A.

In my home, I'm back. So we will talk all about our. trip actually on Monday's episodes. We'll recap for you guys. We have a travel episode for you guys. But yeah, we're back. I'm back in L.A. And Raina, where are you coming to us from? Yeah, we missed you guys. I like, we haven't done episode in like a couple of episodes. We just miss you guys. So I'm in London. I rented a hotel room for the evening. I usually stay with my brother, but I just need a little peace and quiet to record. But I'm here until I go back to New York in a couple days. Okay. Well, that is your geography update. Let's just thank our partners.

and then we will get into it. Okay, thank you to Helix. Get 20% off a new mattress at HelixSleep.com slash GGE and ZENI. Refresh your glasses and get 15% off at Zeni.com slash podcast with code podcast 15. And thank you to ride or die. Watch the new series starting July 15th only on Prime Video and Liquid Ivy. Get 20% off your first order at Liquidiv.com with code GGE. Okay, I'm going to introduce the report this week.

So we are introducing a birthday report and let's kick it off with the most important birthday of the week. And that is Ashley's. So that is today. Happy birthday. Today. Today, you guys, listen. An episode drop on a birthday. How fun. So we are recording two days in advance, which is actually my dad's birthday. So Lee Hustl Tyne turned 75 on July 7th. If you guys are new around here, all the cancer birthdays is my family. My dad's the 7th. I'm the 9th. And my brother is the 9th. So we just kind of like celebrate. We're going to do like a little family vacation, family and friend vacation this month and celebrate everybody. So yeah, I'm excited. What are you doing for your birthday? Without me. We are getting a table at this place tonight. I'm not going to reveal the location. And yeah, like 10 of us are going to go do like a swanky little birthday party. I might wear the outfit I bought in San Trope. We'll see. I don't know. Oh, okay. Well, I just was like, when should I, when am I going to get to wear this? Next summer, our next trip. Yeah, I wore all white last year in my bridal era. So I just, I've been spilling a lot on myself, but I'm going to, I might try it

because I was like, it'll be, it's my birthday. Like, it'll be a fun time to wear it. And then this weekend, we're going to Montecito of some friends in town. And it's not like for my birthday. This is like a separate thing. But, you know, on the here. of my birthday. It'll be a fun little monocito weekend and doing like a winery day, which is my dream. So that's the birthday. And then we'll keep the celebration going. I'll be in New York next week. And then we will take a little vacation. And, you know, that's what July is all about. Less work, more play. Ashley, do you know how hard it's been for me to like, do you know how hard it's been for me to like work today? Like I put together the like ads for the outline. And I was like,

I don't remember how to do this stuff. Like, I have been like fully offline from work for for like 10 days. I feel like my brain has melted. I like it. You asked me a question about booking guests for the show last night. And I was like, booking guests. For our job? For next week.

I don't want to do that right now. For one week from today. So let's talk after. Let's talk about that guest bookings. We have this studio booked already. It is one week out. But yeah, that's what's going on for my birthday. But a bigger birthday, someone much older than me,

old girl, America. 250. 250 years. Oh, wait, did you see what this is called? What did you? This is like a long word. Hold on. The semi.

Semi quin centennial. What's that mean? Semi quin. Semi quin. Semi quintin. Semis half. Semi quintin. What the fuck does that mean?

It's one word? The semi quintennial. Yeah. Like the 200th birthday for. America 50 years ago was the bicentennial. That was huge. You know, our like parents remember that, obviously. Okay. And that was some, a time when people really wanted to celebrate the country is what I've been hearing. People, reports have said. But 250 is semi-quincennial. And that's how you know it's fake. So what is that word? That's how you know it's not worth celebrating. I mean, I wish you was, we'll start with the positive stuff.

And then I'll, I'll get into my, my sad feelings. Yeah, let's talk about some of the highlights. then the low lights. So Beyonce released a new song as a 4th of July surprise. She released a sexy new little song, her first new music in two years. And this is counting down to the 20th anniversary re-release of her album B-Day. I love B-Day, which came out on her birthday, September 4th, 20 years ago. So it looks like she's going to re-release B-Day. And then this song, which is called Morning Dew, also known as Donk, the song, that will be on it. So it's like it's going to be Be-Released. So it's going to be B day but some new tracks. I love this song. It's sexy.

It's sexy. I don't know. I just feel like this has just been kind of a bummer overall, and I really wanted to like celebrate this milestone, and it was nice to see like somebody do something to bring our spirits up, you know? And if it's going to be somebody, it's going to be Beyonce. Well, Taylor Swift got married. So

together, they healed the 4th of July weekend. I was like, why didn't Taylor put out new music? And I was like, fine, she's busy. She was a little busy. So Beyonce was like, I got this. I got you, girl. I got you.

I'm going to put the song now. Do you think they texted each other? Like, who's going to go first? Taylor's like, you think they played it at the wedding? Probably. I would hope that's the song that Taylor and Travis had morning after wedding sex too. It's a morning sex song.

It is definitely. Morning due. I think that they desire. Do me in the morning. Yeah, morning do. What to do? Donk. Donk this down.

Okay. And then just something I wanted to throw. in other countries and other world leaders have celebrated us. Not that we're really worth celebrating right now, but I still think it's really nice. And I was in the Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was all lit up. And it said USA 250.

And so the light show, when it just sparkles, happens every hour on the hour. And it does the sparkly thing for five minutes. And it was like, oh, we'll post this if you guys are watching on YouTube or Spotify. And I didn't know they were going to do all that. I didn't know if they were forced into it.

I don't know if Trump made them do that, but I think it was nice. You know, like, we have a nice relationship with France, or we did. And so they were just like, shout out USA. They were not saying America Who. They were like, we're going to recognize. It's just, I didn't expect it. I didn't expect anybody to say anything nice about us. But, you know, the World Cup's going on here.

And I think people are trying to play nice a little bit. It's nice to know somebody can say something nice about us, you know, if we can't. Yeah, like, I'm over here posting America Who and Paris is like, we're, we see you guys. This is a shout out, you know. So, and then we had the D.C. fireworks turned the whole area into a hazard zone. They did way too much. So I think they were trying to, or maybe they did, break a Guinness world record for fireworks. Did you see that?

So they're saying it's 10 times the size of the New York City fireworks that they do every year, which is one of the largest fireworks displays in the, maybe the biggest fireworks display in the country every year. and it polluted the air so badly. And it was this terrible mix of like it was the most fireworks they've ever set off, coupled with the fact that it was so punishingly hot in the atmosphere on top of that. In D.C., they had triple-digit weather. And D.C. in general, it's just like a swamp in the summer. I mean, the humidity stays in the air and traps all of it.

So it was pretty bad overall for the environment. They were hoping it would start raining. So they could at least, you know, wash that into the water system and not the air stream. But like I think of living in California. Like you could not set that amount of fireworks out in California. Like legally, I feel like into the air, just in more of a fire zone. I mean, I get D.C. is more humid. But with the heat, like this just seemed like dangerous.

And it was a code red after this fireworks. And I cannot imagine how that looked and sounded. I didn't really see anyone that was there like posting from it. Like I just want to give my prayers up for all the dogs. in the area. I hope they've recovered. I can't imagine. Azul would have never recovered from that fireworks display. I know. All the dogs in DC, like, just put them in the basement, like drug them up. I can't even imagine. It probably went on forever. I think it was 45 minutes, they said. Did we need this? I don't know. I mean, listen, I love a fireworks display. As much as the next person,

I love to take photos of it that I'll never look at ever again and take videos that I'll never posted nobody wants to see. But like, I don't know that we need this volume of fireworks. It's very American though. I didn't notice as many fireworks in L.A., which could be a recession indicator, but I felt like I didn't hear them going off all night. But I also was the most tired I've ever been in my life. I got home from our trip, got off a 10-hour flight, landed at 4 p.m. on the 4th, and then still went to a little barbecue that night. So by 10 p.m., I was, I've never been so tired. I fell into bed. So maybe they were going off all night.

But Azul wasn't as scared as he normally is. I just, I didn't hear as many in L.A. I fucking hate it, by the way. I like, you know, state, city, sanctioned fireworks, but everyone doing their own little amateur fireworks, which is illegal, like right next store to you. It makes me fucking crazy. And like, again, having a dog.

The fourth in L.A. is a real problem. Okay? If you have an opportunity, you should leave town. Because the amount of fireworks that people set off illegally until 5 o'clock in the morning. You will never go to sleep. And there is no protection from it. You can't go. I couldn't go anywhere in my house. Like every bedroom was just like, I couldn't get this. I couldn't get sleep or silence. I'm telling you, it wasn't that bad this year. I really, I mean, again, unless I slept through it, but it was all. Probably not. Probably not. Chishonk didn't mention it. I'm just like,

yeah, it's a recession. That's how you know. Okay. And then lastly, the Great American State Fair. So if you guys aren't familiar with photos of this, it is a fair that's being put on in the National Mall in D.C. It's supposed to run from June 25th to July 10th. And there's all these vendors and there's a stage. And there was going to be this like big concert with all these musical acts and everybody famously pulled out of it. America 250.

It's run by this company that's obviously highly in bed with Donald Trump and this administration. And I mean, the photos are shocking. Nobody went. I mean, there should be tens of thousands of people in this space. The National Mall is gigantic in D.C. And I mean, there was, it looked like 10 people there. Right. Like, imagine a fair for the country.

300 million people in this country and 12 people show up. Like, this is so crazy. And this isn't just us hating on it. Truly, no one was there. It was totally empty most days over this, like, 16-day period. Like, it's not just that there were, like, crowds. It's not just that it was this huge space and there was a few hundred people. Like, no one was there.

Jessica Yellen reported on it. She said, the crowds have gone from. from sparse to theoretical, which is a bar right there. That is so funny to me that crowds are theoretical. They're non-existent. Like, Fox News couldn't even make this, like they couldn't even pretend to show that there was people there. They tried their best to lie, but no one was there. The speakers and the performers, like if you watch clips from it, they're not performing for anybody.

Like, if you see performers, it looks like they're doing a sound check. Because no one is there. There's no crowds. And do you know, like you said, all the legitimate artists dropped out. Cash Patel's girlfriend performed. Like, Cash Patel's girlfriend performed at this fucking thing.

I saw this clip of Maddie Pruitt and she's like giving a sermon and like no one is there. No one. No one is empty. It's shocking. And Fox News they were reporting in front of it. Isn't it though?

Is it shocking? If you were here. No, it's shocking they tried to act like people were there. Fox News is like, just trust us if you were here. And I mean, I know that this is like obviously a show

we like make fun of stuff. and like I'll spend all day making fun of it. But like it's just sad. It really made me like bummed out to think that this is the state of things. Like celebrating a 250 birthday should be like a fun thing. Going to the national mall and like having all these like food vendors set up and listening to music and people like releasing songs and speakers. Like this should be a really fun thing and it's really like disappointing. And a lot of like time and energy went into setting this up.

And it would be nice if people wanted to celebrate this and they don't. And at least it gives me hope that like people are rejecting the status quo. what's happening and saying like, this is not okay and I won't, I won't show up for this. But just in general, it's just gross and sad. And I feel like I would like to have enjoyed this and like, you know, maybe you and I should have been hired to do this, you know, if it was like the Barack Obama presidency. Like, we would have gone. Can you imagine? But can you imagine? Like, that's what I'm saying. Like, people are reminiscing on the bicentennial and how high the the vibes were. So if we did have a different administration. I mean, it is a momentous occasion.

And it's just a real shame to see where the country's at. I mean, we had white supremacist marching on the National Mall on the 4th of July. And it's just, it's so bleak. And it just doesn't feel like we should be celebrated right now. But like, I love this country. That's why I'm so upset. I think the people that really love this country are just devastated to see it being ripped apart.

So I still have hope. I think we have a lot of potential, America. I really do. I think that like we were great. And we can be great again and not in the racist, misogynist, violent, corrupt way Donald Trump means. Like, I really do have hope. And, like, you know, I oscillate back and forth between like, fuck this country and just, like, we're going to come back. You know, and even being in France and seeing the Eiffel Tower, like, I was like, oh, that's interesting.

But it made me happy, too. I love America. Yeah, I live here. I'm going to continue living here. That's why I'm so upset. That's why it's so upsetting. you know, because no one hates America more than the man trying to fucking burn it to the ground. So it's sad, you know, and we may see the next one.

We might be kicking in 50 years for the tri-centennial. I hope I'm not. Honestly, you know, I'm ready to go. Yeah, but maybe we might want to live to see that. No, I don't. That's what I'm saying to. I just say, you know, I'm ready to go at like 75. I just, I'm good.

I don't know. 93, I'll be 93. I'll be turning 93. So we should perform. If we're alive and you're 93 and I'm 91. Can I, can I tell you that I said that I said tricentennial joking and that is what it is? Right, because centennial, bicentennial, tri-centennial. You thought you made it more. Look at her go. I mean, I was just, it makes sense. It makes sense. Yeah. So happy birthday to me. first and foremost and happy birthday to America. But before we get into

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where you were saying, does it feel like the NBA finals or so much bigger and so much more excitement surrounding them than years past? And we've talked about this with the Super Bowl. We've talked about this with Halloween decorations. Like we've said that people really want joy and community and excitement and something to rally around and get excited about and get together for. And it does feel like that. I don't remember a World Cup feeling like this. I remember in 2014, the men's team got really far. And I, I remember I knew the guy in the team went to my college. I had a crush on him. Like, I was so invested in it and I was going to watch parties. But all I remember caring about was the USA team. And it just feels like everyone is so invested in all these stories and like following all these different teams. Like so many Americans are rooting for all these other teams like going to games. Like I have friends, going to games. And it just feels so exciting. I'm just like really loving it. And it just like I'm really loving it. Yeah. And I've been in France, Italy and the UK. Well, this is really loving. I'm just. I'm just loving it. Yeah. And I've been in France, Italy and the UK. Well, this is.

going on and it's just like it's so fun everywhere you go like everybody's celebrating it everybody's like i got to get home from dinner to watch it you know it's just it's really nice people woke i'm in london right now and people woke up at like one o'clock in the morning to watch the game last night and like we went to bed early and they like woke up to like watch that at one o'clock in the morning like it's just it's been fun it's been fun to like watch it all together and just like you know when the president isn't interfering with fifah which we'll talk about later but otherwise feel good so Feel good. And the hottest people in sports.

I know. And just like we were watching Norway won the other night. Who now I feel like that's kind of who I'm like rooting for. This one player, he's like a cartoon character. He's like wild and so fun to watch like Norway's most popular player. And then they do the Viking Row after the game. They like hit the drum. Like I was just like getting so excited.

But the U.S. lost and they're out as a couple nights ago. I went to a little viewing party last night at Santa Monica Brew Works here. Rain, I have to tell you, I saw so many like listeners. Like, I think like four girls came up to me in a span of like, I hadn't even gotten my beer yet. Like I think I was like the first five minutes, like so many people came up. I was like, do I need security? It's just very funny. It was really fun.

You know people in L.A. do not do that also. That's how you know people are feeling good. Normally they just take one look at you and DM you later. Like I saw you. It's like, that's how you know. People are feeling good. That's the cool girlies at the brewery for, for. a football game. So they, shout to all those girls that came up to me. One was like, it's my

birthday the same day as yours, and I just broke up with my boyfriend. And like, everyone was just so wonderful. And it was just really great. So shout to all you guys came up to me in Santa Monica Rewarks. But the vibes were high before the loss. But yeah, so the U.S. lost this game. And it's like, of course they did because of what happened prior to the game. So they lost against Belgium because Trump got involved in everything he touches turns to shit. Truly such a curse. like Raina, Nick's game three, that he was there. Like, the way he tainted the men's hockey team win. Like, all of it, like the White House, the reflecting pool, the country.

Like, imagine being this much of a... Like, he's a disease. Our birthday party. Yeah. So basically the game before this, one of the star players who I've been looking at pronunciations all day, I'm doing my best, you guys, this is hard, there's a lot. but Falorin Balogoon? I think it's Balogoon.

You're doing your best. We're doing Balogoon. Okay. So he got a red card in the previous game and they banned him from playing in the next game. The red card itself was controversial. I don't, I'm not going to get into it. I'm not an expert. People really think he shouldn't have gotten one.

It was controversial. People were saying that this was a bullshit call. And that the ref made a bad call. And sure. I mean, for centuries, for centuries, for, for, many years in every sport, people have feedback on what the rats do. And then you move on with your life. The president does not call the head of the organization. Yes. So Trump calls the president of FIFA, but like obviously he did. The FIFA gave him the FIFA Peace Prize, if you guys

remember. Like this is not surprising at all. Like, but of course it shouldn't have happened. Like, two things can be true. This can be universally recognized as a bad call is kind of what I'm seeing. and you can't apply political pressure in this type of situation because even if the U.S. were to win, then it still is tainted. So Trump calls, him speaking on this,

Raina is like some of the, it's some of his best work. Like, there was this, like, there was this two-minute rant of like, he got all his greatest hits in. He got Biden in there. He talked about, he said Biden fell asleep in there. He's talking about,

he called himself an athlete. He said he knows sports so well. He said he's a great. athlete. He did it all. And so, like, they reverse the decision and let him play. And they play like shit. The loophole was so such bullshit what they said. They basically pulled this thing saying, like, the red card will stand, but because of this amendment, we will not enforce it. But he's keeping the red card, but we're just not enforcing it. I mean, it was such bullshit. And FIFA is widely known. You guys could look it up, read about it, for being pretty corrupt in terms of negotiating with

different countries, like Russia, like ours, they're in bed with Donald Trump. They're wildly, they're widely known as being a really corrupt organization. A world leader should not be able to pick up the phone and call a sports organization. This is so sick and crazy. What is the point of rules? So they lose. They play like absolute shit. And like they shouldn't have even wanted that to happen.

You know, like I get that it was a bad call, but it's like to me, if they would have played without him and won that would have been so much better. Like England played and won the other night with 10 players on the field. Like that, you know, like it would have been so much more motivation to really play to win and they played like shit and they lost. And I was at this watch party and I just feel like, yeah, it was sad, but we're all Americans there. But you're also like, this is what you get. Like you can't fuck around with karma like that. It's just, it sucks. It sucks how it's been tainted. But here's the plot twist. Balogoon. I I don't know if you knew this, is a birthright citizen of the U.S.

No. He is a birthright citizen while the president is actively trying to overturn birthright citizenship. You can't write this shit. That's crazy. So the people that Donald Trump is like, you don't belong here. You don't deserve to be a citizen. He is one of them born to Nigerian parents while they were visiting the U.S.

How insane is that? Yeah, but he's just, I mean, he'll pick and choose whatever argument, satisfies whatever he's trying to say in this five minutes. I mean, it's crazy. I know, but I can't get over that. That is just crazy. Like, at the same time, like, I always feel like the writers of the season are just outdoing themselves. Like, at the same time, he's trying to, this, all these Supreme Court things, like, decisions were just made. At the same time, he's actively trying to eliminate the right for citizenship to people born on U.S. soil, this guy.

he's like saving his ass so he can win a game. You know, like I just find the irony. So U.S. is out. All host cities are out, right? There's nothing. No, Mexico's out and Canada. Mexico. That was sad.

I was bombed. I was rooting for Mexico. I can't keep up. But there is a feel good story. Canada's been out for a long time. Who can keep up? It has been long gone. You guys, who can keep up?

Canada's hockey. Oh, you know what I did the other day is I watched cheated rivalry to masturbate? That was really fun for me. Oh, nice. Just throwing an oldie, you know? I forgot my vibe. I thought you were going to stay off campus. No, I don't do that.

It's not gay enough for me. I forgot my vibrator. What? Are you upset that I don't, are you upset that I don't ask me to off campus? I've always upset. You don't love off campus, like all the rest of us. But continue. I just don't care about it.

I forgot my vibrator and I've been like really bummed. I found my vibrator on this trip, and then I was going through airport security in Rome, and this has never happened before. This woman unpacked my entire carry-on, like every single item. And I was like, let her cook. I don't have a vibrator in there for one time in my life. So I was like, all right, that's good. Okay.

And then just one more World Cup story. We have a really incredible feel-good story coming out of the World Cup. So Cape Verde, I looked at this pronunciation too. So they say Capu Verda, but we say Cape Verde. So anyway, Cape Verde. Isn't it Cape Verde? Isn't it Verde like Spanish? No, it's bird.

Bird like bird. And so this is a country in Africa, the second smallest nation in the World Cup, population of about 500,000. A lot of people prior to this couldn't have found it on a map, limited resources. They scouted players via LinkedIn. in. Like, they, do.

Yes, how they put together this team is a story in and of itself. Like, literally one of the players got a message

on LinkedIn. He thought it was spam. And he played in the team. He's one of their star players. So the goalkeeper who's known as Vosina. So he, that's his Instagram panel two.

He's 40 years old. He was a free agent. He was like the star player, the goalkeeper. And during the group stage, they did not lose a single game. They had a zero-zero-zero-d-d-d-d-dra against Spain, two-two-draw-uruguay, zero-zero draw against Saudi Arabia. And then they played Argentina and took them to extra time.

Like, Argentina, like Lionel Messi, like they played against him and they had to go into extra time. Like, that's one of the greatest teams and players of all time. Like, I saw this thread that was like, he's the number one athlete in the world. In the world. I saw this thread that I love so much. And it was like, describe this Argentina, Cape Verde situation to me in terms I can understand, or in basketball terms, sorry, in basketball terms. And someone said, it's the 98 Bulls against whatever your high school team was. That's what it is. That's what we're talking about. I think that, so Americans don't really, I mean, obviously soccer is not our main sport, you know. Lionel Messi is the number one

greatest, most famous athlete in the world. Cristiano Ronaldo is behind him. LeBron James is behind him. Like, to play against, I mean, it's crazy. I get so amped about it. And so he hugged the goalkeeper Vosinia afterwards and told him, you are great, your people should be proud of you. And then Vosina asked to swap jerseys and then Messey agreed to swap in the tunnel. And Vosinia has blown up so much, Raina. He has 27 million followers on Instagram. That's more than Tom Brady. Tom Brady has 15 million, which is kind of low, but I think he's kind of new to the gram.

But 27 million followers, such a star. And I just love this story so much. and they will just go down in history. This was truly the most legendary story coming out of the World Cup. I can't believe it. It's crazy. It truly is like a high school team.

It's like, we'll take on the 98 bowls. And take them into overtime. I'm really proud of you for all these words because these words are hard to say. These names are, I mean, the only name that I really care about is Meduka Okoey. Meduka Okoey. He's the Nigerian goalkeeper.

And Nigeria is not in the World Cup. So I have just become horny about him on my own. Yes. So has everybody. So is the whole internet. Look up Nigerian goalkeeper. I've never seen anything so sexy in my life. But yeah, his name I know how to say.

But no, you're doing great. These are really hard things to say. Well, speaking of words, could I just say one final thing that I think it is so fucking embarrassing we call it soccer. And we call a game football that we play with our hands. I will never get over this. It is so embarrassing that America does not say football, that we say fucking soccer and the game that we call football is a handball. I hate it so much. I feel crazy about it.

Why do we have to do it like this? Why have to ask you another question? Like football, football, soccer. Like that existed before American football, right? So like we took something that already existed and called it the same thing. We invented a different sport and we called it the same name. But like, is that what happened? Like that's what happened. Soccer proceeds football, soccer. It precedes American football. We took something that existed. We called it the same thing. Didn't the NFL come around in like the boardies?

I mean, there's a lot of history here that I feel like I can't. We don't time for. But it's still stupid. In summary, I think I'm right. In summary, I think I'm right. And we took a sport that was already named. We made another sport. We called it the same thing.

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screens at Madison Square Garden, I like, once again, I have missed an amazing moment in New York city history. I would have died to see it. I love the people compared it to the Pope, white smoke, when they declare a new Pope, like the sign that they were just married. Okay, Frina, I just have to say, I can't believe this happened.

I cannot believe that it really fucking happened. And she got married at MSG on July 3rd. Like, I was just like, there's no way. Like, I hadn't even considered this as a venue and my feelings about it as a venue because I never once thought. And then I was like, surely they're going to get married already or they're privately or they're already married and this will just be the party.

This will just be the party. All these people are not going to see their boughs and then it's like jokes on us. Adam Sandler officiated it. Like I can't get over this and you know what? Go off queen. I support it. Because I always believed in it. You talk about Taylor, not me.

No, did you believe you. Yes. I've always, yes, I did. Because here's why I believed it. Because you need a venue that's going to be like Fort Knox. You need a venue that people. Yeah, yeah, you didn't say that. They called in the National Guard.

I think they had like 120 National Guard agents, but people didn't really show up the way I thought that they would around the venue because you're not going to see anything. Helicopters weren't flying above it to get like press photos. Her guests were able to walk in and just sort of like not really be bothered that much. I mean, we had great photos of every person walking in. I mean, we got really fed by like page six and everybody of like people in their SUVs. But for the most part, like they were unbothered.

And I mean, people are wildly speculating what this could have cost, $50 million. I mean, she can turn MSG into anything she wants to. So I always thought this was true. But what through me was when Mamdani confirmed it, then I was like, this is not true. And he's in on it. And this is a diversion. And this is going to be.

I was just like, there's no way the mayor just confirmed this. That's crazy. And he did. And she hosted a wedding for- I think he's always in on this stuff. Like, I wouldn't have thought that was a diversion. But I thought she paid him or like got him in on it to like, save him. that publicly. No, that's weird for a politician. Whatever. He's so cool. He's not taking bribes.

Okay. Whatever, actually. Devert off of her wedding. Whatever. I just, I can't believe this happened. And as we record, there are no, like, photos from her or anything. Like, is she just going to bust out a carousel, like, Duolipa? Like, doolipa? We haven't seen the dress. Well, I'm just like, is this going to be dated, but we're going to talk about it as much as information as we have in the moment? And, you know, I, I love this decision, like what I really think about it. Like, it's easy to get to. It's affordable. Not that it matters to these people, but she didn't make a bunch of people take

their private jets to some island somewhere or I don't know, Venice, Italy. Like, she made this easy to get to a place designed for large events on the emptiest weekend in New York City. Truly, it is, like, without a doubt, the emptiest weekend in New York. And even all these fans could travel to it if they wanted to. not disrupt the city in any way. And to boot, she donated $26 million to charities. And I saw all these charities posting saying, like, I can't believe this is happening for us.

And, like, really, because I saw, there's always going to be haters saying this is, like, a grotesque display of wealth, whatever. She's a billionaire. She donated $26 million to charities. I think it's a beautiful thing to have done on top of this already. Yeah, I'll talk about the hate, too, because I just, like, can't believe it. like the outrage has made me outraged, quite honestly. I think this is just like the way people have, the discourse on this is like a level of toxicity. I have, I don't even know if I've ever seen.

But, you know, I think it's so funny, the memes that are like getting married to MSG is tacky. And it's like, you got married in a barn, Kaylee. You know, like, I'm just like, what do you mean? Well, you haven't even seen it yet. I am dying to see it. Like, it's, what do you? And as a fellow inside bride, I also respect it. You know I didn't want to get married in the elements. People are like, why wouldn't she want to get married? Like the fresh air and the sunshine. I don't know.

Maybe she didn't want the wind to ruffle her bangs. I respected 100% getting married inside. You know, that's what I wanted to do. Like, I, for a fleeting moment, I thought about getting married at the Wilbur at a theater too. Like, I just feel like, why not? You know? And so it's just like, what do you mean? It's tacky.

It's whatever she wants it to be. She's a billionaire. She can turn that place into her living room if she feels like it. She can do anything she wants. and why not get married outside? Because thousands of helicopters would be flying over trying to get photos of her and her guests. She eliminated all these factors. Taki, she could make it anything that she wants. And to boot made all these really wonderful donations, charity donations to all these worthy causes. It never even occurred to me that she would do something like that. It's a wonderful

thing. Her and Travis are very, very charitable. It's not the opposite of tacky to me. She put it, like you said, it easy to get to a place on a weekend when everybody was out of town, made it easy for everybody to get in there. She employed tons of people. It took hundreds and hundreds of people the whole week to set that up and break it back down. I think it's great. She could do whatever she wants. If you're a hater, I mean. I don't know.

I think that's so weird. People are people really hated on it. So I don't know when we're going to see all these things. Like, what do you feel like you're the most excited? anything from the wedding. If you could pick one thing to like see in full from anything, from a dress to a first dance, like it's a real tie for me between just like the dress, yes,

but I think even more than that, like I want to know what you did to the floor at Madison Square Garden. I want to see the decor. Like I just want to see like what they did in there. I'm dying for it. There's been like some leaks in terms of people. What was the guy from AMC? The guy who is the head of AMC sort of like, put a couple tweets up detailing what it was like, which I thought was really weird.

And a couple of people posted those like hanker shifts that say, so it's going to be forever, the little, oh, and people posted the photos of the wine boxes, the Velvet Custom Wine Box souvenirs. But I just want to see a photo of the decor, just one photo. I'm fascinated. I think that there's only been, correct me if I'm wrong, three weddings ever at MSG. The last one was 44 years ago and it was Elizabeth Taylor. I'm like, I didn't know at all.

But it's funny because they do events. It's on their website. We'll host your private events. Of course they will. There's events bases all over there. Exactly. Exactly. Okay, what's your answer?

The fucking vows. I would die to see these vows. Like Taylor Swift, songwriter, poet, voice of a generation versus Travis Kelsey, who once tweeted, I just gave a squirrel spelled wrong,

a piece spelled wrong of bread, and it's straight smashed all of it, five exclamation points. I had no idea they ate bread like that. Ha ha, ha, hashtag crazy. Squirrel is spelled S-Q-U-I-R-E. Peace is spelled P-E-I-C-E. Actually, she's not with him for his intelligence.

Okay. Do you want any more? Went from class to therapy. Now I need some hashtag Chipotle. And then I'm off to check out my new apartment. I'm going to die. Let me see. Oh, wait, here's a going.

I'm at this improv comedy. show, at least if sports isn't where I make money, I can easily do stuff like this. Easily. Is this one of our exes? Like, what loser wrote this shit? This is not a Super Bowl winner. Here's one more. Here's one more.

This will really tie it all together. Too hype I just got to see on my exam without even studying. Just using common knowledge, two exclamation points. Shout out to Papa Kelsey for the genes, apostrophe S, possessive genes. Ashley, no. So I want to see those vows. I want to see those fucking vows. Taylor's Fives Vows versus Travis Kelsey.

I would pay so much money to see it. And then the dress and the bangs. I got to know what she did with her hair. It's not going to be cool. It's not going to be cool, Ashley. It's not going to be good. Honestly, I don't think the dress is going to be that good. I think I'm going to say something that is really,

I think a lot of people are going to be bad. Well, I don't know. People might agree with me. This is one of the worst dressed weddings just in general for everybody. Maybe that I've ever seen. people did not bring the fashion to this wedding. Every person. The guests?

The guests. I was just like, I love Gigi Hadid. She dressed to go to prom. So did Brittany Mahomes. I love Trey. Why would you even, of course, Britney Mahomes is, don't loop her into that. Of course she did it. That's not fair.

I love Tate McCray. She wore taffeta. I just, oh, there was so much gold. There was so much gold and sequins. I just, it wasn't for me. I love Selena Gomez. I love, yeah, I love Selena Gomez. She's beautiful.

She dresses the mother of the bride. I love all these people. I want a different fashion. Yeah, but think about the bride. Yeah, I think that was the theme. Dress like the bride. No. I wasn't even thinking about that.

I didn't see anything that really, I mean, Portneau homes is never going to be a fashion icon. But I like Nikki's dress. It was fine. I don't know, though. I think it is so hard to dress for wedding. Wedding guest dresses are so difficult for people. I feel like there's been more discourse about this recently.

Not for you, Queen. Oh, thank you. I think that it's really easy to dress for it. You just get like a simple gown. Gracie Abrams, I did love her dress. It is backless and red and sequined, but it is so. It's her side boom. She brought side boob to a wedding.

I mean, Nikki's dress was fine. Nikki was one of the better dressed people, J-Lo. And we can get, sorry you guys, I jumped the gun on the guest list because I do obviously want to talk about who was and was not there. But, I mean, it was one of my worst dress weddings. I just was like, what are we doing? This was crazy. Anyways, I don't have high hopes for the dress, but Taylor, I'm sure, was happy.

And I'm sure she had a couple outfit changes, too, and Dior did the dress and the tucks. So I just, I can't wait to see it. So excited. I wish there was a documentary about it. Like, I could watch a documentary about them setting up the venue and, like, breaking it down. And, like, I was hanging on every single post of them, like, every piece of food they brought into the venue. like everything that looked. They were like, are they building a castle in there?

Like, it just looked so cool to load in. And so they had a thousand people at this wedding, which, I mean, obviously, MSG allows for it. I mean, the walk of people going in there, I was like, are we the only people that did not get invited to this wedding? It is everybody in music, everybody in media, not everybody in sports. I mean, I just, it was incredible, the amount of people. And I really, can I tell you, I was so happy for Nikki Glazer. Seeing Nikki Glazer go to that wedding, I was just like, she has spent so. much time and money going to these concerts. It made me so happy. I was like, oh my God,

she got to go to the wedding. Yeah. So everybody was at this wedding, by the way, Carly Closs, which was really surprised into a lot of people because they sort of famously seemed to have a falling out. But, you know, it was like, well, she was there. Everybody was there. So most famously the two people that weren't there were, I don't know what's Kaylee or Kelly Teller. She's Miles Teller's wife. They were like best friends rolling around. They were not invited. And people were saying for a while they had a falling out. But Blake lively and Ryan Reynolds were not invited to this wedding. And it's pretty crazy because Taylor Swift is the godmother of their children. So, you know, there was all this stipulation of, are they still friends with this falling out over

the Justin Baldoni's situation and just how gross Blake Lively's, you know, behavior was throughout all this. And she really wasn't there. I mean, this was pretty crazy. Yeah, I know. But do we actually know for certain these people? Like, could they have been there? I saw some speculation of like, you don't know for sure. You do know. So they were photographed upstate at an event for one of their children. So they were photographed. At the exact same time. They have an alibi? Yes, they were their photographed at the exact same time. I mean, Blake lively was photographed with Taylor Swift for years at these football games throughout the whole relationship. They were always in New York City having dinner together.

I mean, this is some crazy confirmation that this like relationship will never be mended. Like, if you were not even going to be invited to a event with a thousand people, you wouldn't even had to see her. Right. I know. It really is crazy. And then I guess there's some football players that are coming out and saying they weren't invited. I just saw this. Travis Kelsey gets called out by former NFL players who weren't invited to his wedding. Will Compton. I saw like some other things like that. I mean, I just, I like that they invite all these people who have been a part of their lives. You know, like it's regardless of who wasn't invited, like I love that she had a thousand person wedding and, you know, people got to be a part of this. I think it's really cool. I do too. And she. I was wondering when you thought about this. They did not have a bridal party. So she had her brother as her, like, best man. And so did he.

So it was just their brothers as part of the wedding party, which I just really loved. And I think that that keeps it small and intimate and special. So I really like that they did that. Taylor's, I can't picture having a bridal party. But, yeah, if you guys, if you know, you know, I didn't have a bridal party either. It was just me and Shishonk and Raina up there. So when I talk about this is my special, you guys can check it out. It's also on a prime video.

It's crazy you say that. I can imagine her having it. an 18-person bridal party. She seems like that to me. She does, but I just don't think it'd be like these A-listers, too, they're going to stand up there and like matching gowns. No, totally. They wouldn't probably be matching, but I can't even picture all those celebrities.

And then I don't know what's going on with her friend group, too, you know? Like, it feels like who she thought would be her bridesmaids a year ago may not have even have been at the wedding. So who's to say? I just, you know, I want to hear more. I'm dying to see, like you said, the way that they transform the space. And just the outrage about this, like I'm seeing a lot of it, like on threads and on Twitter. It's, like, pretty disgusting.

Like, people are acting like she's Donald Trump himself or, like, Elon Musk. Like, it's pretty brutal. Like, the amount she donated, by the way, is significant. Even with her net worth, like, significant. Like, she's not Jeff Bezos. And, like, she's a billionaire because she owns her music. You know, I'm not defending any billionaire. But I'm just like, the discourse has been so crazy.

Like, the way that people are acting about her wedding. She has triggered something in people that, like, again, it's like a level of toxicity. It's, like, hard to comprehend. And I just, like, wanted to read, like, one thread that I just really like the kind of encompasses the way that I've been feeling reading all days. Her handle is Claire underscore Lawrence. She said, I'm very liberal, and I understand plenty of the criticism of Taylor Swift. No billionaire is beyond critique.

But I also think we've reached a point where the discourse around her has become disproportionate. She seems, by most accounts, to treat the people around her well, gives generously, pays bonuses that materially change employees lives, donates quietly after disaster. and has managed to avoid most of the genuinely abusive or predatory behavior that so many powerful celebrities have been accused of. Somehow that's still not enough. I'm increasingly exhausted by the purity test on the left. It feels like we've been spending more energy litigating whether Taylor Swift is morally perfect

than focusing on people and institutions causing actual harm. And if we're going to make a billionaire the standard, I'd at least like the outrage to be consistent. I rarely see this level of fixation directed at other billionaire celebrities. Critique is healthy, internalized misogyny that becomes an obsession with hating a popular female celebrity getting disguised as critique is not. Mike drop. If every billionaire acted like Taylor Swift, this would be a much better country in terms of the generosity and the way she's treated people. And you know me. I'm not even a Swifty. But I feel like I'm, I feel like I'm turning into one because of the criticism on the other side. It's been crazy.

It's been crazy. I love what that girl said and I'm glad that you read it. And I mean, I mean, I don't know if you know this. Did Jeff Bezos donate a bunch of money to Italy and Venice? Yes. Okay. No, not a bunch. So let me just, I'll read my thread while we're here because I think you'll, since you ask, I think you'll like it. I said, how dare Taylor Swift only donate $3 million when she is worth $252 billion for her

tacky wedding that overwhelmed a city where she wasn't even welcome. Oh, wait, sorry, that was Jeff Bezos. So he donated three, he donated $3 million. Great. Along with his wedding. And you know why I don't know anything about this? Because no one ever talked about it. Because no one ever came after him.

No one was upset. Yes, at this man who sat on the stage with Donald Trump at his inauguration. So people that have a problem with this could get fucked. Yeah. Save your fucking outrage. And we can't wait to see more. I hope that we will. So congrats to the newlyweds.

Justin T. married. I knew you'd become a Swifty one day. I know I'd wait you out. Don't go there. Okay. So just a few quick headlines, and then we will send you guys into your weekend. So this couple climbed the Empire State Building and got engaged. This was last week.

This was huge. Big week for engaged couples in New York City landmarks. I think Empire State Building tweeted at Madison Square Guard, like they were going back and forth, like about this. It was like very funny. But you guys have seen this. They got arrested for all these different charges. And I just didn't know if you knew how they did this. So I would want to tell you.

Yeah, did you see this? No. Okay. So Daredevils, Angela, Nicola, and Ivan Kuznetsov, guys, I'm trying my best. Entered the Empire State Building by purchasing general emission tickets, then secretly hid inside the skyscraper to stay overnight. And then in the morning, they breached security and climbed up to the spire. They breached a lock security door on the 104th floor and climbed the exterior.

Because, like, they didn't climb the whole building. Obviously, we saw that. But they stayed in their open. overnight. They, like, state, like, you always wanted to, like, get locked in the mall when you were a kid. That's what they did. they purchase tickets and then hid inside overnight. Is that not crazy? But you could just do that? That's crazy to me.

They're like professional daredevils too. Like you and I couldn't probably figure it. Well, you and I could figure this out. Women could be average person. Yeah, two women could figure it out. But I just thought that was so nuts. And the other thing I thought was really funny was our friend Anna Royceman, who's been on the podcast and her boyfriend Jared, did a video like hours after this happened, like

pretending they were them. And they were like, we just got out of jail. They had the accents and everything. and it's gone totally viral and people really believed it was them. So all these people were in the comments like, is this them? This isn't them. This isn't them. It was like very funny.

They were quicker than anyone else to like parody it. And it's like taken off. It's gotten like millions of views. And like people initially I think thought it was this couple. So also the audio from, you guys, if this isn't real, I'm going to be so upset. The audio from like the air traffic controllers to like NYPD got released and they're going back and forth in these like thick Brooklyn accents. and it's like, what's all the hoopla about?

And then the other one's like, in this heat, in this heat, they climbed up there. Nah, ah. It's so funny. The audio of these guys, they're not impressed. They're not surprised. They're not mad. It's like they're just having a conversation about what they're having for dinner that night. He's like, what's all the hoopla about?

It is so funny. If you guys have the opportunity to listen to this audio, it's hysterical. KFC, our FACBarsie Barstool, has a great video, and you can go on Instagram and just find it through him. But I mean, it is just so feel good and hysterical. These guys are not upset about it. They're just like, what to do? Yeah. Like, what's all the hoopla?

Okay. Let's see what's next. Mitch McConnell might be dead. We, it is unclear. So we've just been talking about him for years. So we just at least wanted to, that feels relevant to our podcast. And so people are saying, is he dead? So people are saying he's brain dead.

No one's seen him. He's been hospitalized. So Mitch is old as dirt. And that is a development. developing story. Okay. And so Amanda Batula, she is out for Summerhouse, right? I was like, we can't do Mitch McConnell. I'm just reporting. I'm just a reporter. I'm just a reporter. I'm just a girl. I'm just a journalist. I'm just a girl who's a reporter. I'm just a girl. Don't look in me. Oh my God. Don't look at me. Okay. Okay. Next up, Amanda Betula is out on SummerHouse.

I mean, I think that people have speculated about this. Her and West Wilson are both out. I support the decision. I have no interest in watching the two of them engage with this cast. It feels like drama that's not fun to watch. It feels like feel bad drama. So also, she never brought anything to the show besides fighting with her husband. So I'm really glad that somebody could have a different storyline.

And people are speculating who the cast is. They're saying it's Kyle, Carl, Mia. And we're unsure of some newbies. Her friend Bobby. He's been on the list of speculation. Bobby's working full time to make people think that he is on the show. We're not sure, to be honest. So stay tuned.

It is a developing story. We thought we knew. We talked to him every day, but, you know, stay tuned. All right, guys, that's your snack. Girls Got Eat.com. Girls Got E! Podcast and Instagram and TikTok. I am Ash Hess on Instagram and TikTok. Raina is reina.

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