The Press Box - Are We Out of the (Jordyn) Woods Yet? | Tea Time

Episode Date: March 1, 2019

Taylor Swift is dropping some major hints that she's going to release new music (1:00). A follow-up to our investigation of the Tristan-Khloe-Jordyn saga (5:14). A new investigation into whether Brie Larson is actually friends with Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence (17:25). And Liz brings back her worst take of the week (22:49). Hosts: Liz Kelly, Kate Halliwell, and Amelia Wedemeyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. This week on the site, Danny Kelly, Robert Mays, and Kevin Clark will be offering their takeaways after each day at the NFL Combine. Miles Surrey brings you his ringer guide to streaming in March, and Andrew Grida Dara tells you how to survive The Bachelor. You can check those out and more on the ringer.com. Hey, guys, and welcome to Tea Time, a weekly pop culture podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Liz Kelly. I'm Kaye Hall.

And I'm Amelia Wademeyer. And today we're going to talk about the breakup season that's going on right now. all the new music that's been dropping lately, and our final thoughts on the Oscars. Thank God. Every time you hear the bell, we have to change topics no matter what. And now, let's spill the tea. Okay, first topic as usual. Tea time checks in with.

Amelia, you got this first one. Okay, so Taylor Swift has been posting to her Instagram. She had that picture of her, like, cat standing up on her bed. Her cats are so weird. Her cats are very weird. And she was like hearing all your rumors about like her new music because she also posted a couple Instagrams that really we were talking about this. And they're kind of a throwback to her red kind of era. A lot of like boca lighting and color images, something that like a 20 year old girl would really enjoy in their apartment.

I was going to say very Tumblr friendly. Exactly. And then she has this photo shoot. with L-U-K coming out. And it also looked a little like pre-reputation era. Yeah. Kind of a throwback. She's cleansing herself of all the anger.

All the snakes. Yeah. And so she's not denying it. So we think new music is officially on the way. Yeah. And this is a smart pivot like brand-wise because that's the tale of that everyone really wants to see. It was like fun for a second to see her mad in the world.

It's like fun to see a child mad. But then you're like, just go back to like what's best. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Maybe she has like a song she's doing for cats. Oh, God, I hold on. You think that's, no.

I would never listen to her again if she did that. Yeah, and also her award season appearance is really very strategic. Like, she didn't go to the Oscars, but she went to the- like the Vanity Fair party, but she wasn't on the red carpet. Like, it's like very subtle, but she's like making sure she's in our faces. Right. But not in a way that makes us like immediately tired of her. Nothing is a mistake for her.

Right. So like, you know all of this is playing now. Yeah. I was speaking of new music, just as podcast. popular. Carly Ray Jepson released two new songs. She's like, come out from M. Security once again. She's got two new songs, now that I found you and no drug like me. I don't really care too much about her, but it made me do a deep dive into what she's been up to her. Her last album was in 2015, but Call Me Maybe was in 2012. Was it really? Yeah. Wow. Okay, but her last album was so good. Are you against Carly Ray Jepson? Wow. Horrible. I'm not for or against. I'm happy for.

her, I suppose that she's still... I thought she was going to be like, you know that song Friday? Yeah. Oh my God, I'm not going to say. Are you? Hillary Debson to Rebecca Black. Well, kind of. A walk out of the studio. It's horrible. I'm happy that she didn't go that route.

Granted, she was like 10 years older and... You can actually like sing. Right. And more musical chops. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Also, in new music, Selena Gomez released a new song, I can't get enough. I listen to it.

It sounds like every single other one of her songs. I cannot decide for these anymore. They keep sounding the exact same. They do. I can hear it without. Having heard it. Completely. Yeah.

Yeah, right. So I, like, looked into it. She collaborated with Benny Blanco, Jay Balvin, and some other dude named Taney, Taney, whatever. Anyway, I think she needs to start being more creative with who she collaborates with because these three guys, this lineup is some, she's worked, like, a lot with them. So that's why all of her music sounds the same. Yeah.

I want to see some out there. Yeah. She needs, like, a new era. We need a new era for synagogues of music. Yeah. And I feel like she's in a new era in her personal life anyway. Oh, right. Yeah.

Go acoustic maybe. Oh, I would actually love that. None of my suggestions go over that well with you, too, so that feels really, really good. Finally, finishing up our music corner. Incredible run for Casey Musgraves. First of all, she went to the Grammys, won a ton of stuff. She presented at the Oscars. Everyone went crazy.

And then just in the past couple days, she opened the Houston rodeo on an actual horse. Wow. She rode, like, a giant horse. It was like a weirdly big horse just for the record. She wrote out on that, and then she covered Selena, which is incredible. And then she just last night pulled out Haley Williams out of her casual retirement to come out and cover girls just want to have fun with her onstage. Yeah. She's been rocking the best fake eyelashes in Hollywood for a couple months now.

Yeah, a long time. Yeah. She looks great. It's just like really like making it count, like her moment in the spot. Completely. In all the right ways. Yeah. I'm here for it.

I'm loving all the bandwagon people joining me on this endeavor. Great than I am too, but I have people beat by like at least a couple months. There you go. There you go. At least by one album. Yeah, I'm happy. Happy for you. We're all in on her. Okay, next category. We are putting back on our detective hats. Once again, we are not over this. This is Tea Time Investigates. The Jordan, Kylie, Tristan, Chloe saga continues.

Wow. Okay, since the last time we all spoke last Friday. The following things have happened. It's been announced that she's going to go on Jada Pinkett Smith's talk show called Red Table Talk tomorrow. The problem is we're recording on a Thursday. I know. This is coming out on a Friday, tomorrow. Who knows what's going to happen, but we can make some predictions. Let's do it.

Did you see the video? Oh, my God, so dramatic. She's like walking in and sitting down at a table. She posted it herself. Did you see that? Yeah. It's dumb. Apparently, she's going to come clean about the whole thing.

The first report said she's going to say she was super, super drunk and, like, obviously didn't have a total control of herself. Now it's saying that she was completely sober and lucid, and she's just, like, basically apologize and coming. I made? Yeah, completely. Interesting. Yeah.

All right, well, can't wait. I know. She's been blackballed apparently by all the Kardashian ventures. She's for sure going against some NDA or multiple NDAs that she has with the Kardashian family. Oh, man. I guess, yeah. There's no way. Kristen, make her sign a single thing when she moved into Kylie Jenner's house.

Right, right. That's true. That girl's seen some shit. She has. And that's why I would love for her to write a tell all. But what can she talk? Or how much do you break it? Do you just at this point, like, completely say,

F at all and then just go Yeah. I mean, I don't know how much money she would have to fork over Or what's on the line exactly. Do you survive if Chris Jenner sues you? What if Chris is like actually behind it still? Well, right. We can go back to the conspiracy That like this is a Chris Jenner plot.

Because it feels like maybe like she and Chris would like come to an agreement about like what she's going to say that like makes it seem like she's like actually like leaking secrets that like aren't actually the real ones. I know. I'm scared because TMZ has like been doing a lot of these. updates and as we know, the two of them are very closely connected. There's like a feed from Christian or TMZ. I don't know what to believe. Although, if some crazy shit breaks tomorrow after this Red Table Talk, I am hijacking. Amelia, you work in social. You can help me.

Hijacking the ringer's Instagram, going live with my thoughts. You know something is going to happen tomorrow and we won't be able to talk about it for like another six business days. Oh my God. I really hope that happens. I want to see those takeover the ringer.com. We shall see you guys. Okay.

Next topic. This week in social media. Speaking of the Jordan Wood saga, Lena Dunham is on Twitter. That is true. Where she makes no good decisions whatsoever. She supported Jordan Woods during this whole thing. She never mentioned her by name, but she tweeted, Can you imagine if who you'd made out with when you were 21 had massive public shaming consequences?

And I was like, read that, I was like, okay, that's fair. Good job that you didn't split, like, you know, it's not too am I. Of course she didn't end there, and she tweeted again. She goes, when I was 21, I kissed my friends cross. in a bathroom during a dinner party. I was inexplicably wearing a dog leash. I stayed in bed for days feeling hot shame. That was enough of consequence.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, why couldn't she just be done? I don't know. I love the added detail of the dog leash. She had to. This is her problem on social media. She's a parody of herself at this point. Completely.

I don't know how she... I mean, like, I'm honestly drained just even thinking about her. Like, my energy levels have depleted because I just don't... She sucks out your life for it. I feel bad bringing her into the social media category, but she is on social media all the time making mistakes. Oh, my God. Her whole life is a mistake.

Oh, my God. Okay, that was extreme. I agree. All right, we can move on. Next social media, Amelia. Yeah, you know, this actually probably belongs in Not Worth the D, but Bradley Cooper's ex-wife commented on David Spade's Instagram, and David Spade had an Instagram that he posted.

It was like a picture of Lady Gaga and Bradley at the Oscars, and he was like, oh, they're definitely fucking or something like that. We're going to hit on that in a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So his ex-wife, Jennifer Esposito, who's an actress, she commented like, ha. That's it. I just heard of Ha's there. That is all she commented was two letters.

Not even Ha with another age. I don't even know if it was capitalized. It was just like, oh, it was capitalized. Interesting. Capitalized, but no extra age at the end. But if you type into Instagram on comments, doesn't it already capitalized it for you? This is a mindless comment is what we're saying. Right, exactly.

And people were like, oh my God, what is that mean? Okay. But was it mindless or was it calculated? I don't think so because I don't think she has enough cloud to think like she's like something I say matter that much. I think she's like a 40 something year old woman and which careful, which isn't to say that 40 year old women can't be involved. But like, you know, she's not like she doesn't live and breathe Instagram and know how everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so she took to her own Instagram to like this like four, almost four minute long video of her being like, I bet nothing. I was reacting to David

Spade. I thought his comment was funny. and she just went on about the culture of commenting. And I was just like, okay, let's move on. Yeah, that feels like just like an earnest kind of mistake and then being like, oh, no, the internet. Yeah, actually the exes of those two, Bradley and Lady Gaga, got in a lot of trouble. They just need to stay off of social media because Taylor Kinney, which was her ex-fiancee, right? Not ex-husband. Yeah, he gave her the heart ring.

Yeah, right. So he liked an Instagram post that said basically that he dodged a bullet by, like being broken up with Lady Gaga. And then, of course, the public went after him and was like, How dare you? Like, you can't touch, blah, blah, blah. And then he said again that that was a mistake. Like, he accidentally liked it, which, as you know, is not true ever. Exactly.

When anyone just asked the guy from the Bachelor Garrett, yeah, who accidentally liked like 50 posts about MAGA or something? Horrible. Right. No one likes something in that's a mistake. Yeah, that's not a mistake. Yeah, no. Stay off social media, kids.

Okay, speaking of all of these people, we're staying on brand. This is our Oscars wrap up. It is. Liz, congratulations. This is the last time. Yes, it is. I'm really happy for you. A Star is born or Lady Gaga or Bradley Cooper, probably. That genuinely means so much to me. You're so welcome. Who wants to go first with our Oscars wrap up?

Let's continue talking about Gaga and Bradley for a minute. Okay, go for it. And then we can go back to picking up with Robbie Malick. Okay, so obviously at the Oscars, they performed shallow for the last time. They did this very dramatic thing where they came up from the audience, and then they stared at each other in an uncomfortable amount. Yeah. And then they sat next to each other in the last. the piano and like rub their faces together and made some very intense eye contact again.

How do we feel about that overall as an experience? I just, they were so orange. Did anyone else know this? It was like Halloween with the black and the orange. I was like, Jesus, okay. Minus that, because you're right, they over tanned a lot. But this was their big night. I mean, Lady Gaga should have known better. But I believe in true love. I believe in Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. I love it. I wish I had seen this video before I had seen. the star as born if anyone talked about it because I feel like I would have been more in it. The way that they looked at each other was so authentic and genuine.

It was the way you look at someone you really are in love with. Wow. Okay, I kind of had the opposite reaction from that. What? And I'm interested. This was the thing that made me go, okay, they know exactly what they're doing. They've directed this performance within an inch of their lives and like this is their big finale. You think Bradley Cooper has enough acting jobs to sell true love in a live performance?

I tweeted this, but I made this. connection in my head to the ice dancers. Oh, yeah. And, like, how everyone would not stop talking about how they were actually in love. And then, like, a year later, we were like, you wouldn't stop talking about how they were actually in love. Yes, but me, but also the world at large.

Yeah. But it was like, a year later, I was like, okay, obviously that was just, like, a tactic for people to talk about them. Yeah. And, like, it worked. And that's what we're going to look back on this as well. Okay, here's what I'm dubious of that. Lady Gaga went on Jimmy Kimmel to address this because the whole world

blew up and was like, oh, my God. Right. This is what she said. She said, people saw love. And guess what? that's what we wanted you to see. This is a love song. Shallow, the movie,

it starts born. It's a love story. She also added, I'm an artist, and I guess we did a good job. Fooled ya, which makes you sound guilty. What do you think,

Lady Gog is going to say, Fooled you? No. This is suspicious. They're in love. I love that, but I don't agree with it. But I wish they were.

I mean, I'm down for whatever, honestly, as long it has nothing to do with Rami Malik, who did not deserve that Oscar. Okay, so go ahead. Go for it, Amelia.

Go off. Okay. Here's my thing. If you're going to win an Oscar, I want you to do the work. I don't want you lip syncing and like pretending to play the piano. This is a biopic about Queen, about Freddie Mercury, and he's singing in like a good portion of it.

And you're just going to lip sync? That's not an Oscar-worthy performance. I'm sorry. It's called lip-syncing. And if you're going to give him an Oscar, you might as well give out every drag queen in Los Angeles an Oscar. I agree. The internet agrees. The world agrees. I don't know what this is like. The clip they show of the acting nominees. Oh my god. Where he was lip-syncing.

Literally. They had like 15 seconds of Rami Madge lip-syncing at a piano. And I was like, wait, you can't even find a clip from the movie where he's talking. I know. It was bad. That was an extremely tough choice. Also, relatedly to both of these topics, it was announced, you know, somewhere on the awards campaign that he was dating his co-star Lucy Boynton. And he like, when he won, they had like a very long kiss. He like, thanked her multiple times in the speech. He calls her like the heart of the film. The heart of film. I'm like, no, that's not true. This is a queen.

Yeah, like we all saw the film. Come on. Do we believe them or is that another? It's a farce. Oh, come on. I'm the only person on T-T. I'm willing for true love. Kaya, I don't know your thoughts on true love.

I believe it exists in every corner of this world. I mean, yes, I believe it. Sure. Why not? Yeah. I don't think it's. I, maybe he seems pretty into her, but I think she's just using this for clout. That could be true.

Raising her profile because now people are like, who is this Lucy Binton? You're right. And that's maybe why she did so many crazy red carpet looks because she needed one press season to like really like put her name out there because she was written up a lot. And maybe that's why she was so far out there style-wise, you know? I mean, I would not know who the fuck this woman is had it not been for the fact that she's dating Romney Malick. You know? Also, she has a really Lucy Boyton. It's just a fun name to say. It's very British.

Yeah, that's true. Okay. Other final Oscar repos, we've got to talk about the fashion really quickly. Oh, okay, Velvet. There was a lot of Velvet going on. She's great. Michael B. Jordan was rocking it. I think Henry Golding was, Jason Momoa with the pink and the scrunchy. Chris Evans. Chris Evans, I just wanted to bury my face into his jacket. Oh, yeah, I did. I'm sorry.

That sentence could have gotten a number of ways, and I'm glad it went where it did. Thank God. You never know what Amelia. I was trying to contribute to this. I was looking at what the trends are. and I went through some slides on some Godforsaken website and the biggest trends yes they're a multiple but it's all basically things

Liz Kelly can't rock it was like really low back dresses can't do that ponytail that sit right in the middle of the back of your head with like a slick back thing definitely can't rock those tiers of tool is what this website said

and capes none of those things I can wear I feel like you could do a cape but that's my own personal opinion also one more thing Zoe Kravitz and J. Spemmo I need to do less They looked, Jason Loll looked good

He had his pink velvet suit But at the Vanity Fair Oscar party He took off his shirt and just wore the jacket Over his bare chest I was like, why? And he put up his hair in the pink scrunchy Which was a good choice Yes

And then his stepdaughter, Zoe Kravitz Showed up in literally like a bra And like a black skirt Which like okay, you're Zoe Kravitz, you can pull that off It was an $18,000 gold mesh Tiffany bra A site that I read said it was more jewelry than garment which is probably true. But like you're at the fucking vanity for Oscar party.

Yeah, this is not Victoria's Secret Runway. Thank you. It's not. I'm sorry. Well, no, that's a really good point. I was literally like where else? Why not wear it at the Vanity Oscar party? And then you both said the exact same thing.

You said it you should be saved for Victory Secret. Yeah. Fine. Okay. Next category is Tea Times biggest relationship news ever. You guys, breakup season is upon us. It really is. Cuffing season is coming to an end.

The weather's getting warm. the fall is over. Winter is slowly, like, you know, being defrosted. Tons of people are breaking up. The following people are no longer together. Jamie Fox and Katie Holmes, which... I don't believe that. Okay, it hasn't been confirmed, confirmed. Okay, he went to a party and was like, I'm single. How is that not confirmed? That did happen, yeah. That was the evidence I was going to bring out. He literally said, I am single. That feels like confirmation. So we'll keep tabs on that. Other people that broke up was Zachary Quinto and Miles McMillan. By the way, Zachary is 41, Miles is 29 and Miles is a model.

That's just side info for other people. Great. Last people that broke up very recently, like within this last week, is Ryan C. Chris and Shana Taylor. I don't know how many people were like really invested in this relationship. Sure. I wasn't until, you know, yesterday when we started going through this stuff. Again, she is also a model.

They've been dating for three years, which is longer than I thought. That's so hard. Yeah. Yeah. That's surprising. Apparently, she at 26 was the one who was ready to settle down. And Ryan C. Chris at 44. was the one who was like, you know, freaking out

and I was like, I don't know about this. I hate that so much. Ray and C. Chris, what's going to be good enough for you, man? Julian Hoff wasn't good enough. Shana Taylor isn't good enough. I know. Like, come on. But I don't want him turning into like an old jigolo

who's like, you know, with the leathery skin. He's already very tan. The only thing creepyer than current Ryan Seekras is like 60-year-old singer. Oh, my God. It's horrible. You should get together with Chris or something. I know. Oh, my God.

I don't know. Okay, we're going to put a pin in that. You guys watch out. We also have to talk about, this is my favorite thing. Amelia over on her Instagram has been doing this in-depth investigation that we need to talk about because female friendships count as relationships. Sure. Okay. So I feel like this is better. If you've seen it, maybe I'll tweet it out.

I don't know. You should. Okay. So Brie Larson, who I really like, I think she's a great actress. She's Captain Marvel. Go see the movie. Comes out next weekend. There you go.

So she has this thing that she does on her Instagram and in a lot of interviews where she, where she pretty much praises the shit out of Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone. She's like, during one interview, she was like, I am on a text chain with Jennifer Lawrence and like Amy Schumer and Emma Stone. And it saved my life. And I'm like, okay, well, that's not hyperbole, but all right. And not only that, but she like posts to her Instagram like the weirdest anniversaries. Like, this was one year ago today. Emma Stone won the SAG Award.

And I was just like, okay. Great, cool. But anyway, so she has expressed just her undying love for these ladies. Yet, here's the thing. I have yet to see a picture of her and Jennifer Lawrence or Emma Stone hanging out together. Unless it's like, you know, it was at like an awards show and they were talking side by side. You Google it, Google, Jennifer Lawrence and Bree Larson. I went through the entire Google image search.

Incredible investigative journalism happening there. And most of the pictures are them like Photoshop side by side for like an article. And the only other pictures that exist are like these grainy ass photos from like an awards banquet or something. And she posted one of the grainy ass photos

and I'm like you don't have photos of yourself and Jennifer Lawrence that you can post on your Instagram. You have to borrow this grainy photo or she'll post like Getty images. But we know that She has photos of her friends that aren't on Getty or, you know,

because she posts that picture of that little six-year-old boy, like, all the freaking time. Oh, Jacob Tremblay. Yeah, it was adorable, adorable. But, like, she has a lot of photos that are candid of him and of her other friends. So what are you saying? You're saying Brie Larsen doesn't have any real Hollywood friendships? She's thirsting after these particular friends. And they're not giving her anything because they don't mention her ever in any articles,

except they mention each other. They've been seen, like, out on the town going to Adele concerts with Woody. Harrelson and like Bree's like... She's just not. She's not there. She's not there. And she's like, yeah, when I was filming in Montreal,

Jennifer and I hung out all the time with Woody Harrelson. But like Woody has a camera that is so old, it doesn't work. And I'm just like, that's another excuse. Show us the receipts, free. Show us. I want to see the receipts. And also, here's another thing that I noticed. Jennifer Lawrence calls Emma Stone by her real name, Emily.

And we also learned Olivia Coleman in her Oscar speech, she called Emma Stone Emily. She was like... As her real friends do. Right, exactly. She was like, thank you, Emily and Rachel. Anyway, that was my Olivia Stone. I mean, Olivia Coleman impression. But anyway, sorry.

Okay. Brie Larson has not called her Emily. Emily. And you could be saying like, oh, well, maybe, you know, the journalist was like, okay, well, we'll just call her because that's what she's known by. But, but as someone who works in media, I know that that kind of, like, behind the scenes, friendshipy kind of stuff is something that you. You would get it right. Yeah.

Well, and it would be like such a little cute little part of your story. That would be a big part. And people would be like, oh, my God, that's what I want to click on that. That's click bait. Damn. It goes all the way to the top. I'm sorry. We'll come back to this.

I'm fascinated by Breelaherst's friendships. Yeah. All right. I don't want to introduce this next one. One of you's got to do it. All right. We're bringing it back. It's been like a month since we've.

We've had this segment. It's been far too long. It's Liz's worst take. It's back. This is my worst nightmare, but against my will, people have summoned me for another bad take. Also, for the record, Liz just has these in her heart. She doesn't scrounge around every week for worst take. That's why we've had it off for a while.

Because you can't force the worst take. It has to happen organically. Need it to be inspired. And this week, I was. Incredible. Here's the take. Oh, my God. I'm embarrassed for myself.

Okay. The band, Imagine Dragons, is not as bad as everyone says. I'm not going to claim it's good. It's not as bad is my take. And here's why I was inspired this week. The poor frontman named Dan Reynolds, like, the band is universally hated, and I will probably get a lot of shit for this. Dan Reynolds took to his Instagram this week,

basically doing like a multi-post essay about all the hate that the band gets and how he knows. He knows that they're like nickel back. Like, you can't be on the internet and not know about how much people hate Imagine Dragons. They're a meme by now. Yeah. And just to make everyone feel like assholes, he was basically saying, he said, I've stood silently and taken it for years. It's added to the depression I've dealt with since youth.

This poor man. So listen up, everybody listening. You're contributing to this. And I'm here to tell you why Imagine Dragons is not that bad. First, I had to go to the experts. And that's not me. Those are Ringer music writers, Rob Harvilla, and Lindsay Zolads. Here's what they had to say.

I asked them, I was like, why are they so. hated and is it deserved? And I feel like their opinion matters more than me on this topic. So Rob said, they're a corny and commercial rock band, which has never been cool and is enormously uncool now, which is very fair. He also said it's like 50% deserved. They're lousy a lot of the time, but most bands in their spot could be worse. Then I went to Lindsay and I said the exact same questions.

Why are they so hated and is it deserved? Lindsay said, she's not entirely sure where they're so hated. But when she listens to this song, Thunder at the gym, she gets extremely. hyped up, which brings me to my point, you can't deny the fact that a lot of their songs are freaking catchy. That thunder song? Yeah. It goes, okay?

It goes. It gets you at that Friends of Friends House party that you're out. It kind of turns around the mood. You're like, okay, maybe I could go out and I don't have to go home like right now. You know what I mean? It's kind of like a mood booster because it's rock music at its core is lame for some and for most of America, I guess. But it's like catchy.

You cannot deny the fact that they have a lot of like good songs. I think you swayed me. What? Yeah. I mean, like, I was kind of indifferent coming into this, but I feel bad for the depression thing. Also, that thunder song is really catchy. It's really good. And I remember my dad, so they played at some pre-super Bowl party last year in Minneapolis,

and my dad was like, oh, look, I went to see Imagine Dragons. And I was like, oh, that's cool. And then someone was like, oh, my God, Imagine Dragons is so lame. And I was like, oh, I didn't know that we were supposed to think that they're so lame. Yes, it's extremely uncool to like Imagine Dragons. And just, again, for the record, I'm not saying, I love it. like them per se. But for all of those hating on them so much, I need you to look inward because Wiz Khalifa, Lowell-Wain, Kendrick Lamar, Kygo, Tidalasine, they all have collaborated with this

band. That does a lot. And like performed with them at Grammys, performed with them with like tons of huge events. So these are your favorite artist people and their judgment, you know, counts for something. Yeah. This is the first, oh, do you not cut me off, Kyle. This is the first Liz's worst take I agree with wholeheartedly. I will not be silenced. I love Imagine Dragons. I love them since high school. I had an Imagine Dragon shirt in high school.

I had it in college. There are pictures of me on my Instagram wearing it. Pause. I saw this picture. Kate is in very dark lips to get a lot of eyeliner. So please, please go back. I'm going to look for that. I really don't need to say any more other than that I wholeheartedly agree.

And I actually truly genuinely like Magic Dragons. Yes. I want to end on Born to Be Yours and Radioactive. Good Songs. Oh, radioactive is. Legitimately good. Demons, also great. Cue the bell!

Okay, moving on to much more civil topics. This is T-Times TV Corner. Kate, take it away. You know, there are a lot of fun TV shows coming out. There are a lot of weird TV shows coming out, and we just need to talk about them as we move into sort of the spring season. First up, Iderselba's DJ show on Netflix.

Just got a trailer today. It's tough, you guys. It is. I'm worried about Iderselba in 2019, between this. and cats. The trailer just says a lot of, Liz watched it and was like,

I thought Idriselba was famous. Oh, damn. Which was like a very earnest question. It was. I wasn't trying to be mean. No, you legitimately were confused and it was merited. He's too famous to be in a trailer like that

or a TV show like this. I've not seen the trailer. I don't know if I want to now. It's going to be tough. He's in it with Piper Parabo of Coyote ugly fame. Yeah. Which kind of tells you the level

that he's working off of here. You know, like no disrespect to Piper. She's great. and I hope for, you know, hope the best, whatever. But yeah, it's going to be an interesting year for him, and I hope you can come back from whatever's happening there. Yeah, prayers up for Idriselbo. Yes.

Any TV news, Amelia? Yes, okay, so the masked singer wrapped last night, and I actually have been watching the show. Yes. And I, okay, so it's like a dumb show where, like, they're in costumes, and the costumes are actually really cool. Uh-huh. And they sing, and it's all these, like, it's like dancing with the stars,

but, like, they're masked and they're singing. Right. And the name would imply. Right. Exactly. But anyway, the best part of this show is Jenny McCarthy, because her guesses are so absurd. One time she guessed, like, under the mask, she was like, Barack Obama. Like, yeah, that's what Barack is doing right now. Taking the time out of his day to be on the Mask singer. And then last night, they unveiled the monster, spoiler alert. It was T-Pain and everyone thought it was. But anyway, so. So they, he had like the storyline about how he's like, he wanted to be redeemed, blah, blah, blah. And I think that has to do with like the whole voice changing. Remember he brought that on and people were like, eh.

So Jenny McCarthy was like, okay, you're a monster. You want to be redeemed. But you're not, the public sees you as a monster, but you're not really. Michael Vic. Oh, God. Oh, my God. Everyone was like, oh, this. just got really depressing.

Really dark. Literally, they like cut to like Ken Jong and like Keenan Thompson was making a guest appearance and they were both like, okay. Like, God damn. But that's why Jenny McCarthy, love you, Jenny. You're the best part of this show. Is there going to be a season two or is this? Yeah, I think so. It's been really popular.

God bless. That's so funny. Oh, God, Jenny. Other TV knows Kate. Okay. Also today, the Babysitters Club reboot and Netflix was ordered straight to series for for 10 episodes. I was a huge

Babysitters Club fan growing up. I'm super excited that it's getting a TV show. Amelia, you used to watch the movie, right? Yes. Also great.

Rachel Lee Cook, where has she been? She's married to someone who was on the vampire diaries, but that's all I've got. That's all I've got for her. My friend has seen her at

training mate, but that's sorry, I'm sorry, that's... Thank you for that insider knowledge. What would we do without that? The Babysiders Club reboot is it's got Rachel Schuker from Glow.

It's got Lucia Aniello from Broad City and it's just gonna be family friendly which honestly is kind of a new thing for Netflix so I'm excited to see what they do with that but I just fucking love the babysitters club Yeah I did you have someone that you identified as From the babysitters club?

I just remember there was that well I didn't I just remember there was one girl and she like couldn't pass her math test Claudia Damn geez Kate Excuse me I've seen the movie and I've read all 30 million of the books When's the last time you consumed any babysaters club content Be honest. Be honest.

I probably rewatched the movies sometime in college. That was it, though. Okay, that's fair. I didn't know it had already been cast. Has it? Wait, wait. Oh, wait. So it's from them. They're not actually... No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. So it's still in the works. I hope they cast, like, actual high schoolers is, like my main thing.

I hate when they, like, the 30-year-old actor playing a high schooler. I had some names that I want to throw out. Oh, go ahead. Yeah. Okay. Lana Condor. Love her. You know? Amandala Stenberg. Great. Oh yeah. I think Kiernan Shipka could be like a little... Oh, you know, she wants to get her claws on this because...

She's already part of the Netflix family. This makes sense. And I think you guys are going to love this one. I want Leo's girlfriend, Camilla Maroni, to play the pretty one who had diabetes. Stacy! Yes, yes. Boy, one hat. Tite goes full circle. We love it. Okay, also my only other thing is that they need to make Christy gay. Because she was like a quote-unquote tomboy in the books. And like, come on, in 2019, she's just like a teenage lesbian.

Feel you. Feel you. Okay. Okay, we are ending this week's episode, as usual, with TTIM's most unanswerable question of the week. This is just Liz Kelly with two extremely random questions, which is honestly how this segment should always go. For some reason, I just am always puzzled by the celebrity happenings.

This week was no different. Here are my two questions. How strict is the Los Angeles Department of Transportation that Ben Affleck cannot even smile and hug his way out of a parking ticket? Here's the context for that question. On Tuesday, Ben went on as usual, like, five times a day Starbucks run in Brentwood. He already got one parking ticket for an expired meter. He walks out, the woman is writing him another ticket for expired tags.

She's like, Ben Affle, get your shit together. You have so many people on your team. Anyway, so he walks out and she's, like, in the process of issuing this ticket. He starts laughing, starts chatting her up. Like, he's like rubbing elbows, blah, blah, blah. She continues to write this ticket. Even though Ben Affle, like an A-list star is like trying to rub shoulders, trying to like butter you up.

This woman is impenetrable. Oh, my God. More power to her. She told him when this was caught on tape. She goes, you look better in person. Oh, my God. She's my icon. Shouts to this parking attendant.

This parking lot is a really difficult. I myself have gotten many parking tickets here. So I feel for you, Ben Affleck. But I just want to know, how strict can this possibly be? You know anyone listening. If Ben Affleck can't get to this parking attendant, No one can. No.

And honestly, like, Ben Affleck's team, get your shit together. And he's back together with Lindsay Shookas. I know. Right. Despite your tax, it does not fly here. Okay. Damn. So also, if you have answers to these questions, you know, shout us out.

Second question. How is the Godforsaken TV show Bones? Popular enough where there was a lawsuit where the two stars and the two executive producers were awarded 179 million. $1 million. Wait, what? They were awarded that, which means God knows how much that enterprise. For bones. For existence or what?

Okay. Emily Nis Chanel and David Borneoz. Okay. And then the show's executive producers won a massive lawsuit against Fox over the show because they said that it was essentially about their back-end payments for the show's distributions, like on platforms like Hulu and stuff. And Fox lied and covered up a lot of the financial details. of this deal. So they just won this case.

And now, between... They're even richer. They have $179 million. Was everyone watching Bones without me? No. It was an extremely popular show. I went for like 12 seasons. It did go for 12 seasons.

I had that in my notes. And actually, when I was a newspaper reporter, I went to a classroom because I was like the education beat. And one of the things they showed during this class was like an episode of Bones. So maybe it's an instructional kind of... I watched at least one episode of Bones in a... In class.

For those of you who... You Bones fans who are listening. You come and tell us why Bones is so fucking famous that they have $179 million to give out. I feel like Bones is like one of those shows, like, you know, anything on TNT or TBS that have like a really weird but like supportive following that... I don't know.

Fans all congregate on like Reddit or something. Show yourself. Bones fans. I want to see you. That's it. If you have answers to those questions, let us know. Okay, on that note, that's all the time we have for tea time this week. We'll be back next Friday.

I'm Liz Kelly. I'm Kate Howell. And I'm Amelia Wadamire.