Girls Gotta Eat - The Snack: Engagements, Labubus and GRWM for WW3
Episode Date: June 26, 2025Welcome back to The Snack – a lighter serving of Girls Gotta Eat. This week, we're talking about: Rayna's cashier crush + Ashley's farmers market hall pass All the recent engagement and pregnancy ...announcements (including former GGE guests) Tr*mp tweeting to Israel and Iran Could Gen Z handle WW3? The Labubu craze (and our feelings) What we're watching/excited to watch Headlines: Jeff Bezos wedding drama, Karen Read acquitted, DCC pay raise, and Beyoncé's Euro shows Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit girlsgottaeat.com for more. Thank you to our partners this week: Shopify: Go to https://shopify.com/gge and start building your own empire today. iRestore: Get a huge discount on the iRestore Elite at https://irestore.com with code GGE. Olive Ave: Get 15% off your first order at https://oliveavejewelry.com with code GGE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to The Snack, a lighter serving of Girls Got to Eat.
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Hi, guys.
It's cancer season.
We did not announce it one day.
Welcome.
Do we have an episode?
We did have, yeah, we just, we had recorded that kind of farther out.
So I just wanted to say, give it up for all the cancers.
Favorite time of year.
Yes, all you sensy little babies.
We've been celebrating this since day one of the podcast.
I know.
Early days.
And you think I know when this.
season started. I do not. I always know. What's the date? Like the 21st, the solstish? Yeah, yeah.
Well, did you celebrate the solstice? I don't think I, okay, what was the 21st? What day was it?
Well, it was supposed to be the 20th. Monday? I think they're the same. 20th, 21st. I feel like there's
two camps. I've always been like a 21st person. 21st is like the first day of the summer,
longest day of the year, but then they say it's the 20th. Who's to say? I feel like we grew up on
the 21st. I thought it was the day. Well, to me, the 21st signals the shortest day of the year, the
longest day of the year. You cannot tell me otherwise. But then the internet says it's the 20th.
When did this change the 20th? I swear it used to be the 21 first. It was 21 always. But who cares?
What the sun sets at 807 versus 806. All my friends are cancers are geminized. I mean, I have an
influx of June cancer friends. Best time of year. It's, oh, I love having a summer.
It's our birthday. It's the best. All right. Well, happy cancer season to everyone who observes and
celebrates, happy birthday, and we'll get into it.
I just had the weirdest lunch, and you didn't really pay attention, and I'm glad
because I got octopus from aeron, like, grilled octopus, and you kept trying to make eye
contact with me, and I was like, could she just be on her phone call and not looking at
me while doing it?
I was dealing with something, but I didn't realize you got the airwant octopus.
You're really getting ready for grease.
Okay, so I've been going to heroin at lunch a lot lately because I have a thing for one of the
checkout guys.
Oh, my God.
He's so hot.
He's inexplicably hot.
Do you flirt?
A lot.
Okay.
Sometimes I just stand there.
Does he give you free free stuff?
No.
See if he'll give you a free little something, something.
There's nothing up there.
Just see if he'll give you on the house.
My farmer's market guy gave me something on the house.
What do you give you?
That Italian guy?
He's so hot.
He's so fucking hot.
So I spend so, every week I get this pasta from this place.
My farmer's market and a pasta, LA.
It's the best pasta I've ever had, truly, made in my home.
I don't even care how taste.
That guy's so hot.
He's only at my farmer's market like once a month.
We go every Saturday.
I see him in Venice.
And he was there the first time they ever came there.
First day, like their debut at my farmer's market, because I know all the stalls.
I know who's new.
I'm like, oh, they're new.
So they brought him in to attract people.
And then he hasn't been there since.
And I'm still buying every week.
He baited and switched you.
Nope, it's fine because I love the pasta and the sauces so much.
So then I saw him.
I'm like, I'm buying everything.
And then I bought like two pastas and some parmesan.
And then he was like, we have meatballs.
I was like, oh, he brings out the meatballs.
I bought $70.
worth of stuff. Oh, I bought $85 for the day that I met that guy, two pasta's cheese. Anushka was like,
you're going to love his stand. You got to go. And I was like, this guy is too hot. I can't say no.
And so then he put, he gave me a little thing of this like butter. What is it called? It's like a special butter.
A special, like clarified butter? No, like it's got compound butter. Yes. My fiance is big on it.
And so you can use it on like steaks and different things like that. He was like this one's on the house.
So that's what you got to see. My point is the guy at Airwan. Stick a little something.
small and cheap in there.
Not that there's anything in there.
The only thing is up with the register at Airwant are a $75 candle and like a $120
hat.
I don't think there's like a pack of gum.
That's probably $35.
Here's the thing.
You just like bring all your items up there and have your little small thing,
whatever it may be like a cookie or brownie, even though that's going to be $20.
And kind of forget to like, be like, oh, you must have missed this.
And then if he's like, that one's on the house.
And then we're like, and then we're going to fuck.
Then I'm going to fuck the cashier in the stock room.
He wears like a,
bit to work.
He always looked.
You can't tell, listen.
Oh, no.
Did you take a picture?
Yesterday, I took a picture for you.
I, you can't, listen.
The last time this happened, the last time you showed me a picture of somebody
had a crush on it did not work in your favor.
Okay, well, listen, I probably say, no one looks cute from behind.
Like some girls look cute from behind, but it's hard to be at a register at a grocery
store and looking cute from behind.
But he, like, wears a little fit.
He's tall.
He is gay.
No, he is.
Rana, I'm just saying, like, everybody in L.A.
He's, the way his stance, he's about to do a plea A.
No, he's clutching his butt cheeks.
No, tell you, I got him in a weird moment.
We're going to go over there after this.
You're going to see him.
Send this to Eddie.
Send this to Mateo.
Send it to Oscar.
This guy is about to plea.
He is spread.
This is his feet.
Listen, I live in L.A., okay?
And you have to accept a little gay if you want to date a man here.
This could be your new gay bestie.
He is hot.
and you got a little gay there.
Hold up the line flirting with this man.
He's got good facial hair.
He's like six to.
This man does not want you.
He does.
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Okay, I am the only person in America that did not get engaged,
announce a pregnancy, or have a baby this weekend,
and you don't count because you are engaged.
I am the only one.
Listen, this weekend was a check on your single friend's moment.
It was an avalanche.
So this is our pregnancy and engagement report.
We're trying to make me kill myself.
You wanted to do this report.
Just so I need to say.
I'm happy for our friends.
There's like so many former guests of ours.
So it's yes, it's former guests and we'll throw a few more in there.
But it was like one after the other.
It was engagement, pregnancy, engagement, pregnancy, engagement,
pregnancy.
My whole feed and World War III.
But we'll get to it.
I barely realized we were going to war this weekend because I was at war.
You almost.
You almost.
missed the president tweeting out his war plans.
You guys better stop that right now.
We'll get to it.
So I think engagement season has typically been end of summer.
I'm not just saying this because it's when I got engaged.
No, I have said this.
I can be on record.
I blogged about this so many years ago back when I lived in Atlanta,
kind of tongue-in-cheek that guys would propose to their girlfriends at the end of the
summer, early fall, so the girls would plan weddings and leave them alone for football season.
Obviously, I lived in the South.
college football. I mean, my ex was obsessed with football. So it kind of went viral and it took off.
They had me on like a radio station to talk about. Anyway, it was just a theory because whatever it is was
jokingly, but that's when you do see them the most. I even talked to my wedding planner about it.
Like Labor Day-ish. And again, that is when I got engaged, but I saw ones around mine like end
August, early September. So this is the opposite. This is the beginning of summer. I got engaged
June 14th. Okay. I got engaged. I was the beginning of the summer baby.
Well, I guess this is the new season or like existing. But like it is. It is.
is interesting, like this beginning of summer and a summer vibe.
So, I mean, it was an avalanche of people.
So we woke up Saturday morning and our friends.
So a lot of former guests, Alyssa Maroso, who is our guest in January of 2024.
I think so.
Something around there.
We have been with her since the start of their relationship.
We were with them on like one of their first dates or her now fiance.
We just like love him so much.
They met on Hinge and she found love in L.A., which is crazy.
I mean, it's just interesting.
We were chatting a little bit, and again, we love him.
And the time that we met him, we were going to go to this movie.
We were going to see Devil Wars Prada at the cemetery, Sinaspia.
And we had an extra ticket.
And we were like, does Sean want to pick us up?
And he picked us up.
He came with all the girls.
But I remember this dinner.
It was me and Alyssa and Kate Steinberg.
And Alyssa had just gotten back from Greece, that big European trip.
And she talked about this when she came on our podcast.
And they had just had their whirlwind weekend together.
So I don't know, whatever, it was August, 23.
And I had just made official with my now fiancé.
And it's just funny to think back to that dinner.
And like, we went to this place in Beverly Hills and just being like,
she's like, I think I'm going to date this guy.
And I'm like, no, I have a boyfriend too.
Like, it was just kind of funny to look.
I don't know.
I get like settlement about those moments when you first started dating somebody and
now you're going to marry them.
And we've been along on the ride the whole time.
They're so cute.
They're really buddies.
They're so fun together.
And they're a great couple.
And they just moved to Newport, Rhode Island.
together and he proposed.
I do love being there from like day one.
I mean, I'm like that with a lot of long-time friendships.
I have a lot of friends I've seen since day one of their relationships.
It's really nice to watch it grow.
So congrats to them.
And then Taylor Strecker, who's been on the podcast and her wife, Taylor Donahue,
announced that they are pregnant.
And everyone's like, you've got to name your kid Taylor.
Yeah.
And they didn't know if they wouldn't have kids.
They, we've talked about, I don't know if Taylor, we talked about it on her podcast.
So she has taste of Taylor.
She's also on Dear Media.
And I think she asked us, like, how do you know you don't want kids?
I think we talked about it.
We've been on her show a couple times.
So she's always been really open and always been like,
I'm not going to be the one to carry the child.
And Taylor, her wife would.
And they announced her pregnancy.
And can I tell you my favorite comment?
It was probably the same as yours.
Was Andrew Collin in the comments saying,
I'm so glad to be the donor.
So proud to be the donor.
I can't stop thinking about it.
That is so funny.
What if he is?
I mean, it's not that far outside of...
Why not?
You don't want a baby with a list.
You have your kids.
You kind of can't.
His wife is probably like...
Oh, right, he's a wife.
Brett probably wouldn't like it.
So, congrats to them.
We're obsessed with them.
We just love them so much.
And then, I don't know, probably the one that lit the internet up the most was
Alex and John,
Alexandra Madison and John Boof,
who were guests on our podcast last year.
You guys were obsessed with them,
and they're big influencers and content creators,
and they lost a child a few years ago
and were really open about the journey.
They were really far into the pregnancy,
and they did lose their baby, Leo,
and they had put it out there to the world,
and they really shared their journey.
And if you guys haven't heard their episode,
so please go listen because they really are so open and vulnerable about that, but it's also a
hilarious episode. It's one of our best. And so they are pregnant again and they're going to
have a baby girl. I mean, that just, tears just start pouring out my face. I didn't see that
coming. I didn't, again, they've also said they didn't know if they want to have kids.
Like, they didn't know if they wouldn't have kids before they got pregnant the first time. So
I made this decision and they put it out there to the world. And so, ooh, man, people were not okay.
I was really not okay.
I've been crying.
Them and Taylor and Taylor, the content they made, like calling their friends, telling people,
I'd just been crying all weekend.
And then a few others, I mean, non-guests, but Jordan Woodruff, who is Mean Girl Pod,
and we've been on there.
And I followed her journey too.
Her now fiancé.
Also Hinge, I think.
Yeah, they met on Hinge.
I remember listening to the episode where she talked Pete, where she met him.
And it's just like, I don't know.
And then someone who, whatever, people have mixed feelings on.
I wouldn't call myself a fan.
But Daniel Bernstein is an influencer.
We wore what.
And she got engaged.
And I can't help myself.
I got to watch the content.
Well, you sent it to me because you're like, another one.
Another one.
And another one.
I mean, Saturday, thank God I was in Laguna Beach.
Thank God I was on a luxury vacation and a seaside town.
I was like, am I okay?
I don't know.
Yeah, but like, you don't want kids.
now these people
gotta have a kid
I think of all the attention
now you gotta raise a kid
what am I gonna do for attention
I don't know
you just had Raida Paloosa
you've had a lot of attention
listen it's worn off
and I'm ready again
okay our friends make fun of me so much
because we were in Vegas
with Sean and Nushka
in this guy who wants kids
and
Sean Nushka said they knew
that I was blacked out
because I started telling him at dinner
that I wanted kids
because I was like
what else am I going to do in my 40s
no I heard
I caught wind of this.
I was like, that's what happens,
but I don't come to a friend vacation.
Raina starts lying.
That was my dirty talk.
To get laid.
It worked.
You're like, I'll rip this out of your deal right now.
It worked.
So,
congrats to everybody.
Yeah, we love all these couples so much.
We're so obsessed with all of them.
And congrats.
Yeah.
Anyways, war.
World War 3 is here.
It's on our door stuff.
Is it looming?
Listen, we have to laugh about it
is what else we're going to do.
Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of, like, everything happening right now is so, I don't have
the words for how bad it is in so many different, I don't even know what to focus on.
Our data, the forests, like, everything is so bad.
But, like, I don't know.
Every five minutes, something else happens.
Humor is healing.
We're going to make some jokey jokes about it.
I mean, listen, my central nervous system needs it.
It's like every hour, something else crazy and terrible happens.
I don't have time to process it.
I just got to write jokes.
I know.
And I go back and forth because I'm like, I don't want to like make light of, you know,
I don't want to be so doomsday and alarmist?
I just do we want to look back if we're really in the thick of a really terrible,
worst case scenario and be like, we were just joking about it?
Like, I don't know.
Am I going to regret it?
I go back and forth as a comedian of like, where's the line?
Because this stuff weighs on me so heavily.
But it kind of ties into Alex and John.
And you said you were texting with Alex and you're not going to read your text out loud, but you said something about her, I'm getting pregnant.
And she wrote back a dark joke.
Like she's, they did some, they told some dark jokes on our show too.
And they made content surrounding it and stuff like that.
So it just kind of all goes in and like the darkest of times.
Can you still find humor?
And so this kind of started having has been, it's been going on.
Like, of course, like this maniac of a president.
But Israel and Iran are fighting.
They've been fighting.
And our crybaby of a president.
She's tweeting out orders.
Was upset.
No one came to his birthday party.
So he was like, let me get in there and drop some bombs.
And then declare world peace in the same breath.
And then he tweeted out, okay, everything's fixed now.
They're done fighting.
And I.
Thank you.
I clown face emoji was like, maybe we are.
You're welcome.
I was like, maybe it's true.
And people were like, what is how?
Did he just say he ended the conflict?
Like, is he just the luckiest girl in the world?
or is, are they playing him?
I was just walking around like, that's neat.
Lo of a behold, they played him.
He wakes up.
Wait, they're not.
They didn't cease fire.
So now he's tweeting again.
He's like, I already tweeted that it's over.
What are you guys doing?
I ended it.
You got to read me the next tweet.
So this one,
one of my comments is getting a lot of traction.
So I'll just pull this up.
So he's going, this is today, I believe, as we record Tuesday.
The first one, Israel.
Do not drop those bombs.
If you do it, it is a major violation.
Bring your pilots home now.
Donald J. Trump, president of the United States.
Tweeting out, Israel, put the bombs down.
He's like, you stop that right now.
You go back to your rooms and you stop.
I will turn this car around.
He signed his own tweet.
He signed his own tweet.
I love him.
My dad texts me and he's like, happy birthday love dad.
I'm like, I read who this was from.
Then, like, 30 minutes later.
The first one was all caps, and we'll put it on the screen.
Israel is not going to attack Iran.
all planes will turn around and head home while doing a friendly plane wave to Iran.
Like they're Jeep drivers, a plane wave?
Is that a thing?
Yeah, you know, like during a parade, like people wave.
Nobody will be hurt.
The ceasefires in effect.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
Do you think he talked to anybody or do you think he is just brokering world peace just on Twitter?
And this is what's so gross that we have to take these people seriously.
I know.
Because they shouldn't be.
They're really incompetent.
And, you know, the regime change, J.D. Vance, Pete Heggseth, and Marco Rubio were like,
we're not interested in regime changes in Iran.
And Trump's like, maybe, though.
Maybe Iran wants to be great again.
Just takes a minute to just, like, undermine his whole administration.
Okay, so some of these comments on this are pretty good.
I'll read mine first.
It's up to like 1,200 likes as of an hour ago.
It's so satisfying.
This is why I troll the internet every day.
I wrote, is the ceasefire in the room with us.
Someone wrote signing his tweets, like my parents signed their text messages.
That's what I'm saying.
It's so boomer.
My favorite one is I hope Israel checks their Twitter account in time.
I think this is truth social.
So does Israel even have truth social?
Did they even know about truth social?
Does Iran have truth social?
No.
They don't know about this.
Can I tell you my dumb little joke?
Yeah.
Do you think Trump bombed Iran because it rhymes with Elon?
He's talking to get canceled.
Cappity, this stuff he's tweeting.
So, like, he thinks he's just brokering world-based on truth.
I have one more.
I have one more.
I made a poo and a pee-p-p.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Why is he signing off like he's gossip girl?
Is he assuming that Iran and Israel both of true social?
Oh, my.
I can't believe this is a real life.
Like, it's so dangerous and embarrassing.
And then he dropped the hottest observation of all time on his way on his helicopter this morning.
someone was like what's going on over there and he goes
I don't know what the fuck is going on with Israel and Iran
if that wasn't the president that would be the funniest political commentary
on this situation that I've ever heard because honestly most of us don't
it's not my job to know but it's and also then why get involved
that's what's the craziest part right wait what's going on why are they
why are you involving yourself I don't even get involved in my friend's marriages
And it's kind of our job.
And I knew the media was going to focus on him saying fuck.
And I was like, please don't focus on him saying fuck.
Because that's the coolest part about it.
Actually, it was on, so I liked him.
The whole sense.
I don't know what the fuck is going on over there.
They did not mind my tweet.
When I told them to ceasefire, they did not listen.
This is crazy.
It is an urgent message.
And he put it on social.
Like, what if they're doing summer Fridays there?
What if they don't have the premier accounts to?
Like, what are they?
read the truth. How do you even get on truth social? I wouldn't know. Somebody emailed you and me
the other day at like 3 p.m. on a Friday and they said it was urgent. We were like,
we can't be expected to read an email after 3 p.m. in the summer. Like, what time does that go out?
It's really so nuts. So that's what's happening. And the thing that we've been kind of like giggling
about is just that this generation is too unsurious to go to war. I mean, they're talking about
reinstating the draft, which I think we're pretty far from that actually happening. But I can't even,
I can't comprehend of millennials and Gen Z people going to war.
I mean, I need every creature comfort in the world.
Like, I can't be somewhere.
Can you imagine being somewhere without air conditioning?
No.
Without Grubhub.
No, I just can't imagine them at war.
Like, get ready with me to go to war.
We've been laughing back, get ready with me to go to war.
Get ready with me to go to war.
Like, Gen Z could never.
Like, they'd be in the trenches, like doing TikTok dances.
You know what I mean?
Like, they would be throwing grenades and be like, I got them.
Find camo from revolve.
Seriously. I mean, it really is like a terrifying time. And I will say just on a serious,
I feel like the people I follow the most that really give me a lot of clarity and understanding
of what's happening and what could happen, even though everything is unprecedented. We have like this
maniac at the helm, but like Sharon says so and Jessica Yellen. Like Sharon says so is just like
America's teacher and Jessica Yellen. And they kind of, everybody's like, are we going to war?
I mean, when this happened, when he bombed Iran, I was like, whoa, this seems serious.
And I was, I asked my fiance, like, do you think you, he has like, he was in a really bad car accident and he has some, some like metal in his arm, whatever. I said, do you think you'd get draft? Do you think you could not be in the draft because of your arm? Because, you know, like, I don't know how old the draft. And he goes, actually, actually, I think I'm aged out of it. And I was like, oh, right, right, right. Like, they would start young. How, I mean, is he too old to be draft? I actually don't know. I don't know. It's been a while. But I asked him, like, do you think you'd, you know, get out of it because your arm? He's like, I think I'd get out of it because I'm in my.
30s.
Maybe.
Who's to say?
You can't trust men of this generation to go to war.
You can't trust them to do anything.
You can barely get them to make plans.
You think these guys are going to, you can trust them at war.
Women could.
Women could fight this.
We're not going to go.
But if we went, we would look cute and we would have a plan.
I would have a whole fit.
My war fit would be so cute.
Oh my God.
Like us in our camo.
And I have something for you.
So a lot of people are saying one of the tweets I've seen is, let's
all the guys that have military time on their phone.
I don't really think a lot of Trump supporters are using military time because it's too much math.
It's too much math.
It's too happy for me.
I don't love that take.
No.
Obviously, MAGA hats go first.
But if you voted for him, you got to go.
You wanted this.
And that data is readily available.
I didn't want him to be president.
Yeah.
All your data's out there.
I didn't really want him to be the president.
So I shouldn't have to be.
You didn't really.
You were on the fence.
Yeah, I wasn't sure.
I wasn't sure before, but now I'm super sure.
I'm extra sure now.
As an undecided voter, I think it's safe to say.
Like, that's so good.
I was talking to my dad last night because my dad was drafted into Vietnam and right in 78.
And he did not have to go because he's colorblind.
So he got kind of like rejected.
He got selected for the draft, but then rejected after like the physical.
And I was talking to him about it.
I was like, do you really think like men this generation could like go to war?
And I actually thought I, you know, every generation looks at the next one and is like,
they're weak little bitches.
My dad was like, no, like we would have figured it out.
They'll figure it out.
And I was like, I don't think you've met a man in their 20s today.
Yeah.
I don't think you're aware of what they're like.
I know.
I mean, it's a different time.
It's like drones, not like muskets.
You know, like I think it's the war times are different.
Oh, like digital.
Yeah, it's just a different time.
I mean, you know.
I don't know how we do war.
But anyway, stay safe out there, you guys.
Yeah, good luck.
Anyways, let's talk about Lubbubo's.
Okay.
Yes, Lububoos.
You and I are on different sides of the fence on this one.
and I didn't see it coming.
I actually thought we would be on the opposite sides of the fence.
Okay, so Labibu's are these plush little stuffed animals there,
the range in size,
because I think you can get like a keychain size and you can get like a full size.
They're still small.
Keychains are still the size of a stuffed animal.
They do look big.
They're pretty big.
They're not your average keychain.
And they are from Pop Mart, right?
That's the company that's like billions of dollars richer now because of it out of China.
And I don't have one yet.
And I know you're upset about it.
My fiance is the first one who told me about it.
He's always breaking the news to me.
He tells me, I'm like, I want one.
And here we are.
Still, I don't have one.
I mean, my birthday is coming up.
It is financially obtainable for you, right?
Like, they go up to $100.
I would like one as a gift.
You only like it.
So he first saw it when Lisa from Black Pink really put them on the map for a lot of people.
So Lisa from Black Pink, who was also in White Lotus, but one of the biggest pop stars internationally.
She's a K-pop star.
She had one.
She's obsessed with them.
And Rihanna was spotted with one.
So if you're going to come at me for one in one, you're also coming at Rihanna.
I think if Rihanna does anything, it's approved.
I, this is like the one thing.
Like, this is like, if you know, you know, like, I like being on that side of history.
I like choosing the thing that's, like, kind of ugly that other people don't understand because you want to, like, be different and cool.
I just, this is like the one thing.
I can't get behind.
So it's so ugly.
So I can't explain it.
I love it so much.
Like, I love them so much.
So when you first saw it, your immediate thought was like, ooh.
My immediate thought was this is really try hard to just.
do something that looks so ugly. It's the size of a whole clutch. People are walking around
that clipped onto their clutches. It looks cumbersome to carry. It's so ugly. I just, I can't
explain it. My immediate feeling when my fiance showed me this, when he showed me that Lisa
was carrying one, he was like, have you heard of this little boo-boo? I didn't know they were popular.
I mean, Lisa has one, whatever, but I was still like, I love it. And it's the way I felt when I
first saw gritty. And I think there's some similarities. So I wanted to talk about it because I think
the reason why Gritty, when he's a newer mascot, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot,
he was such an instant hit because of the way he looks.
And he's like oddly scary, but like cute and cuddly.
And I pulled, I googled like why to people love Gritty so much.
And is Gritty's design with his googly eyes, orange fur, and unkempt beard was meant to be memorable and a bit unsettling,
making him stand out from other more conventional mascots despite the intimidating appearance.
Gritty also has a playful side.
Like they, it's something about that look.
They feel similar to me where you look at it.
You're like, it's ugly.
It's a little scary.
I feel unsettled, but I want it.
It's just, it's just, I guess I understood Beanie Babies.
I understood.
I never got on board me.
I understand like gremlins.
It's the face for me.
Like, it's the way they look.
No, the Lubu face.
Like, it's the way they look.
I don't need a stuffed animal.
I don't have a bunch of stuffed animals.
I'm not a stuffed animal girl.
Yeah.
It reminds me of a zool.
We'll talk about it probably for Monday's episode.
Yeah.
What's happening with the Zol's teeth?
It might be like an RIP situation.
No, we'll talk about it.
I'm like upset about it.
Maybe because I had ugly teeth and I fixed it.
I just can't get behind it.
I like bag charms.
I like, I do like a big bag charm.
Like a huge cherry bag charm.
I love those.
Question for you.
Yeah.
Were you a troll girl?
I had troll dolls.
Okay.
I think people like got me.
I wasn't obsessed with troll dolls.
Oh, I was obsessed.
People gave me trillions.
Earings.
Pencil toppers.
I had a pencil toppers.
Those were so lit.
Treasure trolls.
Wait, those are the ones with little gem in the belly button.
Oh, I love treasure trolls.
Oh, I had them with all kinds of outfits.
I loved the pencil toppers with the hair.
Oh, my God, made your pencil so lit.
I had troll earrings, obviously, from Clares.
It was a troll coming out of a pumpkin.
And I would wear that shit all of October.
You guys, your lo-bibu.
Are there a lobooboo earrings?
I have no idea if I'm getting one for my birthday.
Do you know?
I mean, I think you've asked for it a few times.
You posted a whole Instagram story series about it.
It would be crazy if he was like, I didn't know.
No, he knows.
They're never going to know.
The thing that made me post it was Jack Fannick from Lady Gang.
She got one.
Some companies sent her one.
And the thing is, I'm not sure, I don't know every single detail of these, but they
come in like a blind box and you don't know which one you're getting.
And I just want to say that I'm really open.
I like a neutral color over like a pink, but I'll be fine with whatever.
Oh, if somebody gets you a little bit of the creamier colors.
You just, you don't know what's going to be in the box.
watched this girl in box like four of them and I'm like you can get like this variety pack this
girl was in her car in TikTok she got like four I'm like that's hoarding how do you pick send me one but you
just say like you just give them your money and you get what you get I don't know I don't know how people
are getting them and maybe they are easier to get than I'm no but I'm saying like you give them your money
and they're like that's like the blind box I'm not sure let us know in the comments I just I wish I could
get behind it I just can't do it I like some ugly shit and ugly dudes no I tell
That one guy.
Which guy?
The one of the girls that, um, run the runway were making in front of?
Yeah.
Um, that guy, that guy that I let take up a lot of my time that blew me off, he was pretty
ugly and he had a stupid haircut.
Yeah, we hate a stupid haircut.
He had a really bad haircut and the content he makes online is also really stupid.
I am still in a one-sided beef with this guy.
He keeps responding to my Instagram stories.
He's still off there.
I'm just, I won't respond at all.
I'm in a one-sided beef.
He's like, I'm past those.
Yeah.
You got to get over.
Well, while you guys are shopping for Labuboos, you may find yourself on a Shopify site,
and you can have your own Shopify site. We want to talk about Shopify today. We absolutely
love Shopify. It has run our businesses, all of them for years. So when I met you and I had
100 June, my food blog, I wanted to sell merch and you explained to me how to do it. And that was my
first entree into Shopify. And ever since, we have used that as a platform to build our websites,
see what our inventory looks like.
Look at all of our reporting on our phones
because they have a great app.
Oh, the little ching sound.
Every time you go to sale.
Sounds like money.
Yeah.
We run all of our sites on it.
So girls can eat merch.
And Vibes Only is all run through Shopify.
And we've built our websites through it.
They have great plugins.
So like our merch company plugs right into Shopify.
So it tracks the inventory for us.
And all the analytics are right there.
The reports are fantastic.
We know what our best sellers are and when to pivot.
And I just, I could not love this platform more.
There's no way in the world we could have launched
and run a business without it.
I used it for a merch business so many, I mean, 10 plus years ago.
And like Raina said, I told her how to get started.
I don't know any other way.
I mean, we once had a merch company pitch us, and they weren't on Shopify, and we
didn't work with them.
Like, we didn't understand what they were using.
We were like, we don't trust it.
Like, they're so trustworthy.
And again, we do merch for Girls Got to Eat, and we do all of our vibes-only
products.
But you can sell whatever.
I mean, you know, within reason, nothing illegal.
But you can set up any type of business, and they make it so easy.
And I mean, I remember one time I was doing pulling merch, like my shirts and my mugs were coming from somewhere different.
And I got a plug in that was able to do the drop shipping so I could sell from different suppliers.
And again, like this stuff can sound really complicated.
But once you get in there, it is so easy to use.
Like I think of like me just in 2014 like setting this up, no one to help me and I just figured it out.
And the app is so great too.
We're just such experts in this today.
But we had no background in this.
And building the website was so simple.
Some people have a really clear vision of exactly what they want their website to look like,
and you can certainly build it on there.
But they have hundreds of templates that you can just use with themes.
It's easy to drop in whatever you want and manage it.
You can add staff.
You can manage shipping, payments.
I just can't say, I don't know what we would do without it.
I love it so much.
And like, if you're thinking about launching a business today, no matter what it is you want to sell,
like that is the goat of platforms to do it on.
Totally.
And they have great support.
we've tapped their support plenty of times.
There's a suite of AI tools
that are going to allow you to spend less time
wondering, more time doing.
They have a Shopify sidekick acts
as your AI assistant.
They'll guide you through everything.
Again, the reports, I mean,
you can do like abandoned card emails.
Like when so many, most of the places
you guys are shopping, probably use Shopify.
I mean, so many the world's businesses run on it
and truly anybody can do it.
And they have really, all the tools are at your fingertips.
Yeah, really, if you want to start,
grow, scale a business. That's the place to do it on Shopify and there's a million tools for you.
We really hear from our listeners all the time. I'm thinking about leaving my job. I want to know
what the next step is. I want to know how to grow my passion and what is the first step. And
right after you figure out what that thing is, building a business is the next step and you need tools
to do that. And really, Shopify is the thing that's going to centralize this and make it the easiest for you,
and make it look beautiful and professional and give you every tool imaginable to start and grow business,
that you can turn your hobby and passion into a real profession.
And summer, you can be running your business on Shopify at the pool on your phone.
In Greece.
I just remember when my merch business for BrosBeM Basic was like an all-time high.
I just remember like being in the Lenox Mall and just here, I had my sound on that
chiching, chiching, chiching, all our holiday merch was just flying.
And I remember just sitting there in the mall and like sitting on one of the couches and just
taking a beat and just being like, man, I'm really doing it.
Like it felt like I'm like watching.
this money come in. I'm hearing it come in. Like the way that it felt like that was, you know,
one of my really first forays into like any sort of running retail. And it just felt so great.
Oh my God. The rush. It's such a rush. I used to sit at our Shopify on Black Friday every
single year and just watch those orders just pour in. And my family would be like, can you hang out with
us? And I'd be like, no, I want to watch us make money. Yeah. And they really, you know, there's all types
of things. I mean, we've had a little bit of a fraud issue recently. And so it's just like they can
work with you on the, there's the fraud protection aspect of running any type of business. And so it all
just keeps it in one place, really simple, like monitor everything. Yeah, we love it. So this is
your sign to start your journey as an entrepreneur. Head to Shopify.com slash gge and see how easy
it is to get started. Okay. So we just want to get into a little bit of what we're watching.
We did this last week, but a lot of stuff going on. Oh, this has been building inside of me.
I'm so excited to talk to you about this. And you haven't watched.
it yet, but I spent all day on the couch on Sunday watching We Were Liars. And this is a new show on
Amazon Prime. It is a summertime show set in New England about rich people, which is my favorite
trope. Is that every piece of content these days? I mean, I'm also reading a book. Inantec,
like, it just feels like that's what people want. Yes, that's what people want. Sad, angsty, rich people.
And so the premise of the show is that it is this girl that spends summers in New England,
their family. She wakes up on a beach. She's been very badly injured or blacked out. She's not sure
what happened.
And the show explores for eight episodes,
like how she got there and what had happened.
And it's told from two perspectives,
post-accident, her trying to figure out what happened,
and then flashbacks from the past.
And it was, listen, I love the show.
And I posted that I was watching it.
And I got so many messages, so many people being like,
I started it.
And I really loved it.
It was great.
The acting was great.
It's almost all, like, new actors, unknown actors.
It is the most fucked up ending of any show.
I have ever seen in my life,
it has taken me days to process this.
More than tell me lies?
Way more than tell me lies.
No, Raina, that's a bold claim.
Way more.
More than severance.
Yes, more than severance.
I was the head exploding emoji.
I could not believe how they ended the series.
This author was like,
what is the craziest way I could end this series?
Make it three times worse.
I talked to our friend last night,
who's a therapist.
I talked to Louisa last night,
and she was like,
I'm still recovering.
Oh, my God.
And no, there's no trigger warning.
It's not sexual assault.
Okay.
Like that.
So I guess I am sort of making it sound like that.
It's not that.
But I'm still processing what happened here.
I'm excited for people to watch it.
I could not believe it.
They just like slam you in the chest.
I had to take a break halfway through the last episode.
Louisa did too.
We both were like, I took a break halfway through because I could not digest what was
happening.
Okay.
I loved it.
I thought it was fantastic.
It's a book series.
It's a trilogy.
So I'm going to immediately...
The second book is a prequel to the first book.
So I'm going to immediately start it.
I can't...
I like miss it already.
What's it on?
It's on Amazon Prime.
Okay.
Well, I have a pallet cleanser for that.
No, seriously.
So this is Stick, and this is on Apple TV.
It stars Owen Wilson,
and he is a former professional golfer.
And now he's like a golf club salesman.
And it opens.
He's like working, selling golf clubs.
And then you kind of see, like,
why he left the game.
and he was this like renowned golfer and he kind of had a meltdown and Mark Marin is in it.
That's his friend.
And then he kind of takes this young golfer under his wing and wants to coach him and take him on the road.
And his, their family's involved in whatever.
I love it.
I didn't watch Ted Lasso.
People have compared it to Ted Lasso.
It is really feel good.
And I don't know anything about golf right now literally nothing.
I just want to be clear.
I don't know if there's a sport I know less about.
Golf and tennis for me.
Yeah, nothing.
But like I watch tennis and I've played a little bit.
Like golf, I got nothing.
And so I'm enjoying it is my point.
Like you do not have to know anything about golf or even enjoy it to enjoy the show.
And we know one of the executive producers on it.
He dates our good friend.
We were at dinner with him the other night.
And it's just so fun to talk to him.
I met him for the first time last summer in Vancouver.
They were there when I was there with my fiance on our vacation and that he was telling me about this show.
that they were just filming it there.
Was he in the middle of filming Bridgetton at the time?
No, he was filming there in Vancouver.
He was filming stick. He also worked on Bridgetton.
He worked on Bridgetton. He's just incredible.
And so he was there filming it and telling me all about it.
I was getting so excited.
So I was so excited when it debuted.
And they have had different directors for each blocks of two episodes.
And his are airing now.
This week was one of his.
Last week was one of his.
And I'm just like obsessed with them.
And it's just a really great feel good show.
I love Owen Wilson. I always have.
He's like told us some tea about Owen Wilson and honestly just what a great guy is.
Like just all good stuff and it's just great.
I'm glad. Listen, I needed a plow.
You need this.
So bad after that show. I watched tires. I finished watching tires, which made me really laugh.
But, um...
Oh, and then Judy Greer is in it too. And she's Owen Wilson's ex-wife and our friend who is a
producer in the show, he really wanted her to star in something because she's not a starring role.
She's always the friend.
I know.
Yeah. She's always a supporting.
actress. So Judy Greer is great in it. And I really love that. You guys, it's a feel-good show. And again,
that's on Apple. And I have a really fun comedy special for you guys. So this is our friend Avery Pearson,
and it's called Give It Up, Avery Pearson. That's the name of the special. And they're calling it the
greatest concert of comedy songs of all time ever. And he's a musical artist. He does the jam,
the goddamn comedy jam that we do. And he's also a comedian. He runs shows around town. He's just a really
wonderful guy and he put out the special. It's on Veepes. I'm going to tell you guys how to access
it. But I'm going to tell you some of the people that are in the special. So again, it's like a
comedy concert of sorts. It has him, Jay Farrow, Adam Ray, Beth Stelling, Josh Adam Myers, and just a
bunch of different comedians. And there's some really funny songs. I'm going to play like a tiny
little snippet of one of these songs. It's called Finger Blasting Women. So I'll play it for you guys.
I play piano. And I play ukulele.
straight white guy and I'm a gay lady I'm super careful I'm impulsive and reckless I don't eat me I had a
cheeseburger for breakfast the thing that unites us and all is forgiven despite where we're different
we both love finger blasting women okay so that's a as a sample it's edgy it's spicy and I just wanted to
recommend that so you guys can go to vips dot events slash give it up
to get the special and you'll sign in there.
So again, that's veeps.
dot events slash give it up.
I have two more wrecks.
You guys haven't watched them yet because they're not out yet.
So the ultimatum queer love comes out as this air as it will be yesterday.
So that's on Netflix.
Ashley and I love the ultimatum.
I cannot get enough of it.
It's pretty much every summer.
I love it too much.
This is a queer love version.
And then on July 1st, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Reunion, which Nick Pyle is hosting.
I'm so excited.
I listen to like all of his interviews with the girls when they're
in town. He just like has his finger on the pulse of this and I'm so obsessed with that show. And like,
I got to know like what I have with Marciano and like Italy and with Jesse and her husband. I just like
need all the tea. I'm so, so so so obsessed with that show. So we'll talk about it after. But
that's on the first. Okay. Great. So those are the wrecks for you guys. And we're watching
America Sweethearts, of course, Dallas Cowboys cheerleers, but we'll leave that to we have a headline
about it. So we will. Are you still out on and just like this? Yeah, I'm, I'm not watching it.
You're fully out. I really, and just like that. I really. I said.
just like this.
I really like don't want to watch it.
Okay, so I saw this thing.
I was wondering if you saw this episode.
I saw a clip and I don't know which episode it's from.
Miranda is going on and on.
She's like, I can't watch it.
It's so stupid.
The dialogue is terrible.
She's talking about like a dating reality show about bisexual people,
but it's very funny because it's like, are they on to us?
Like it said like, she says like,
I've experienced the joy of hate watching.
This show makes me dumber, the more I watch.
it and I was just like is the dumb show in the room with us? You know, like this is, hello.
It's so funny. She's like doing a monologue about that show. But it's, you know, I was wondering
myself. I was like, am I going to be tempted to watch it? I couldn't help it wonder. Am I going to
be tempted to watch it? Did I say I'm quitting and I'm lying to myself? No. Like I do every
year with like Real Housewives. I even saw the Evan Ross Katz like meme recaps and was like,
I don't want to watch it. It genuinely makes me mad. And I, you know, I'm just,
trying to just like have less anger in my life.
And so I'm not.
I'm still out.
Okay.
Great.
Check in every week.
I'll be honest.
I'll ask.
Okay.
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Okay, headlines.
A lot of headlines this week.
Lots going on.
So Jeff Bezos is getting married in Venice, and people are upset.
Can you imagine being so hated that a whole city is like, we don't want your wedding here.
It's giving J.D. Vance energy.
So there's a grass.
We don't want you.
You can't sit with us.
There's a grassroots effort.
It's called No Space for Bezos.
And they don't want it there for a lot of reasons.
So this is going to be a $10 million wedding.
That's it.
It's a three-day $10 million wedding.
I guess it's like some, right now, you know, I said that just because of like.
It does sound like a little.
How rich he is.
But also like what else could you spend money on at some point?
Like that's pretty high.
I don't know.
You could do more.
Yeah, yeah?
10 million.
I mean, why don't you,
why not have Taylor Swift perform?
Oh, right.
Performers.
Right.
Who performed at the Ambani?
I don't know.
Rihanna performed at one of the events for the Ambani wedding.
But I can't remember who actually performed at the,
remember that last summer,
that like insane wedding.
Yeah, you could have more performers.
I mean, that's pretty much.
That's great. You're right. That's where the money should go.
What a cheap wedding.
I know. It's just like really run of the mill to me.
There's a number of things that they're saying that they're upset about.
It's not just but Jet Bezos. It's urban strain, housing and services.
They're just saying like the environmental impact of having all these people here, but it's a small wedding. It's 200 people.
Yeah.
So it's not like they're flooding Venice with all these people. Venice is already overrun with tourists.
I've never been there and been able to move at all.
To do it now feels crazy. To do it at this time.
that's a peak of tourism anyway.
Like, why would you not do this in May or in the fall?
Because, again, it already is so overrun with tourists and it's really crowded.
So, like, and especially, you know, the mayor, Luigi, Mayor Luigi, he is saying it will
have a multi-million dollar impact on the city's economy.
So I want to.
And a positive.
That's what I'm saying.
So there's kind of two camps.
They're using all these Venetian vendors.
But do it in the off season.
That's like doing this during peak season does feel like.
it's a little much. And so people are saying, yes, some people obviously hate him and Amazon and
everything that he stands for and the oligarchy of it all, but it's also just over tourism and
anti-capitalism is what people are saying. So there's definitely a couple different reasons people
are protesting, but it says that they moved it. So this was a couple hours ago that says the wedding
has been moved to an isolated, less accessible part of the lagoon city on security concerns and
to prevent the risk of protest. So so many people are protesting it that they're like, we got to move it.
But like Venice is so little.
Like where are you moving it?
Like it's either in Venice or not.
It's so tiny.
Did you see that like landing?
Like people painted this like sign on the ground for that they would see when they land.
Like people are really out here.
This says Jeff Bezos is getting married in Venice and look how he was greeted.
And so people put this massive sign.
If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax.
Love it.
We'll put it on the screen.
Hell yeah.
But only 10 million.
I mean, fairly.
It's a second wife.
Maybe he's hurting.
She's been married before, right?
She's a bunch of kids.
She's been married.
Oh, Lauren.
Oh, Lauren.
This feels like cheap to me.
Maybe it's because it's a second wedding.
Whatever.
He's a bazillionaire.
Who cares?
Okay.
Karen Reed, acquitted.
I mean, I felt like I was personally invested in this.
Like, my girl got acquitted.
So basically, Karen Reed, the trial was whether or not she,
She accidentally on purpose murdered her police officer boyfriend.
Yeah, we've talked about this at length.
You guys should go back and listen.
It was, what, a month ago, Raina had an amazing impression of one of these cops.
And you guys can watch the documentary Body in the Snow on HBO.
But really just we wanted to give the headline that if you've been following it,
she was found not guilty in the death of her police officer boyfriend.
She was found guilty of DUI, which she did admit to.
She was like, I already said that.
I had been 14 drinks and got.
the car. She was like, I don't even remember driving home. She was, so the first trial ended with a
mistrial. Yes. I literally cannot believe the, the waste on resources to retry this woman for something
she so clearly did not do it. And by the way, will we ever find out who did it? Right. They're just
going to drop this. Right. That's, I know, like, justice for John. Hello. That's it. I love this one
tweet. It says, don't know if people outside the Northeast were following this, but some cops killed their
friend, then tried to pin it on his girlfriend, but kept sending each other text like, hey,
don't forget to drop that fake evidence later and Googling how long for a dead body to stop bleeding A-plus work.
Insanity.
I mean, that is really what it comes down to.
I mean, all these police officers that lived inside that home clearly killed him or accidentally
killed him, right?
The dog attacked him.
I don't know.
It was hard to say.
Yeah, of course the dog attacked him.
He had injuries that he clearly had been beat up.
Who knows what went down inside the house.
but the fact that she was ever tried in the first place and framed.
And then retried, which, I mean, what a disgusting waste of resources,
but love to see that she's been acquitted.
Yeah, and she's a star now.
Do you think she's going to fuck the head of the legal team?
Is that guy married?
I'd be curious because her legal team was hot.
That guy was cute.
Oh, yeah, they had a vibe.
And he, like, got her acquitted.
Yeah, what a meet cute.
Okay, so DCC, they're getting paid more.
So we finish it, loved it.
It was amazing.
And then they basically this season,
like we said last week, there's a real through line of how much they get paid and how they get treated.
And they really focused on the lives of these women.
And it was a really like a lot of bravery from these women.
The three head captains of the squad were negotiating with the team and they weren't sure if they were going to get this raise.
And so they've gotten a 400% raise.
And it was, it came out what these women were being paid.
I mean, the Cowboys are an $11 billion industry.
And these girls were getting paid $15.
an hour, sometimes as little as $200 a game.
And they got a 400% increase to $75 an hour.
These girls sometimes have to go every night of the week, 7 p.m.
until like 11 p.m. at practice on top of a full-time job.
On top of a full-time job, and they have to do full glam for practice.
We've talked about this during season one, and we just at least wanted to update this.
But what does this mean for the rest of the league?
I mean, I know that they're the most famous cheerleaders and there's a Netflix show about them,
but did this change across the board?
Why wouldn't it?
And a lot of teams have gotten rid of their cheerleaders.
But like the Steelers don't have any.
The Eagles do just as examples.
But like, are they getting paid more?
Like is this industry-wide?
So I'm glad that they are.
It's still not enough.
But that was my main question.
So maybe I can do some more research.
But I think this was just like this is a step in the right direction.
I just,
I think that these women really did a really, really brave thing.
I felt really emotional watching them.
These are women of color also fighting against this industry.
And to basically go up against these people that do employ them
and facilitate them living their dreams, of course,
but to still say, like, they even knew that they weren't going to get the raise.
The next team would get the raise.
Because it wasn't for these girls.
It was for the next incoming team.
Right.
They did not film the meetings of what went on,
but it did not feel as though the coaches were necessarily on their sides.
And if they were, they weren't interviewed saying those things.
They probably couldn't be.
But it was just like,
It's nothing to pay them more within these organizations, all of them, not just the Cowboys.
And the first season, they even said that, like, if DCC functions as its own organization,
I mean, it brings in a huge amount of revenue to the team.
And so to a lot of these squads, even if the team is bad that year, so the Cowboys were really bad during this 2024 season,
that the DCC cheerleaders kept getting booked for all these appearances.
I mean, they're an entity all on their own and deserve to be paid as such.
Yeah, and then the appearance fee is another thing too, like on top of their practice and the games and stuff like that.
So we love to see it or hopefully this sets a precedent for the rest of the league.
And then lastly, Beyonce was in Paris.
She brought out Miley Cyrus and Jay-Z.
And I agree.
America doesn't deserve it.
Taylor Swift knew it too.
She was like Travis, an American football player is only coming on in London.
I respect it.
We don't deserve it.
we do not deserve it
LA deserved it
we're in the rights of history out here
but no Jay-Z came out
he performed his song about Paris
I'm not going to say it
Miley was there the night before
the outfits the looks the London
looks the Paris looks I mean
I love to see it and you know I
just have to go back to people like doubting
this tour like oh it's not selling
as well like Beyonce's you know
her moments over the
oh okay she's breaking record she's crushing
it she's doing all the stadiums she's doing all the
I do.
I wonder people just compared it to Taylor Swift and you're talking about the biggest
tour and the history of the world.
Nothing could ever compare to that.
This is like right under that.
Yeah.
I do.
I just,
I find it really fascinating that these like American artists with American partners have
only chosen to have these like really iconic moments outside of the country.
I don't know if they're, if it's purposeful, but I support it.
I mean, it feels confidential.
Yeah.
Like, Travis Kelsey was just hanging out in London on a Sunday night on the stage.
Like, how did that have?
happen and Jay Z's just in pair like I just I find it wild these are American citizens and they were like don't give it to the American people well we wish we were there maybe we'll go again but you know Cowboy Carter tour just lives on if you guys haven't seen it it highly recommended it I went here in LA and it was just like the absolute best thing I've ever seen so that's your snack you guys can follow us at girls got to eat.com girls got a podcast on Instagram and TikTok I'm Ash Hess. Raina is Raina
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