The Press Box - Ep. 132: 'Jam Session' With Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins

Episode Date: June 15, 2016

The Ringer's Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins on Leonardo DiCaprio's rumored sexual tics, Queen Elizabeth and the coverage of the British royal family (11:00), James Corden's showmanship (21:00), and the latest trends in celebrity real estate (27:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Celebrity Gossip. Let's go. Late breaking celebrity. Everybody gossip, man. I can't, I don't even want to... We had, like, a whole, like, ideas set for this podcast, things we want to talk about. And we will talk about some of them. We're going to talk about Queen Elizabeth on the cover of Fair. QE2, yeah.

QE2, we also got some James Corden to check in on. We're going to do some celebrity real estate. That's one of our favorite topics. And who knows where else we'll diverge. But I want to talk about Leonardo DiCaprio. Okay. All right, so... Tell us about this late breaking news. All right, so this is courtesy of our friend Bobby Finger at Jezbo.

who did some reading of the tabloids this week and found an incredible Leonardo Caprio rumor. Should I just jump right to it? Yeah. The rumor is that while Leo has sex while listening to noise-canceling headphones that play MGMT. And also while vaping. Right. Sure. Sure.

I'm sorry that I left out the vaping. Headphones and vaping. Headphones, I know while you focus on that, is because it's so much more offensive. It's like vaping, sure, you could do that together. I feel like vaping during sex is like, as long as your partner is okay with it, if it's like a- Or you offer to share. Exactly. If both parties are on board or however many parties, I don't know why I'm like being,

you know, limiting the situation. Sure. Vaping during sex is fine. If all participants have agreed to vaping, sure, why not? That's not a big deal. The headphones. So I were noise-canceling headphones at my desk, which, which, which is, Do you really?

Yeah, which is... Here's a question. A new thing for me. Do they give you headaches? They made me feel nauseous at first few times. Like, I felt like I was like underwater or something. Because they are doing a little bit of like air pressure type things. Yeah, I always have to like swallow when I put them on.

Right. To like kind of like readjust my ears and like whatever. Yeah, I recently borrowed a pair and had this exact same experience and had to turn them off. It's really hard for me to like not think about Leonardo DiCaprio wearing my headphones while having stuff. I was just sort of like, do you think that sort of like, the dizziness is adding to Leo's, like, experience. Maybe it's sort of like a lot of asphyxia, it's like a, asphyxiation plus vaping, plus having sex.

Like, it's just, it's just such a, it's just confounding. It's just unbelievable. As the woman, why are you okay with that? I mean, I think that generally anyone who agrees to have sex with Leonardo DiCaprio at this point has, like. It's for the story, straight up. Has definitely let go of some of her standards. I guess so.

I'm saying I'm here for 96 Leo as much as the next woman. Sure. Dude is not, you know, taking care of himself, I would say. And then also definitely is just like trading supermodels in every day. So like you have to know that going in. You have to know that you're not the focus of this experience. Right. But I guess I wouldn't, even if I accepted that on like a superficial level, I think I would be

astounded by how much he himself made himself the focus at all times. I would like to read the quote of the item in OK Magazine because it really is, this is transcribed by Bobby Finger. The item tells the story of one of Leo's recent conquests, being invited to his home for a romp. Sorry, I'm doing air quotes. For a romp was in air quotes. As recounted by a friend, she, quote, tattled to. The friend claims that while Leo and the woman were engaging in sexual intercourse, Leo, and this is in quotes, reached for his vaporizer and a pair of noise-canceling headphones,

laid back and closed his eyes and signaled for her to keep going. I mean, I actually am speechless. I just cannot believe this. That is just so offensive. And then they legit claim that the song he was listening to was Electric Feel by MGMT. Can you hot dates dying? That's his sex choice song. Of all, okay, okay.

Is there any song that would be okay to listen to on noise canceling his headphones? Yes, there's one. Okay, what is it? Climax by Usher. That's the only one. I think there's probably like a whole category of songs that would be okay. Okay. Do you another?

Throwing out there? Like something's like really sexual? Neighbors know my name, Tray Song. Okay. Tate does neighbors know my name. Early in this early. in this podcast? Electric feels an embarrassing choice.

Straight up embarrassing. That's a song that 17-year-olds put on while smoking a joint and thinking they're cool. It's now like in commercials to sell you like stupid shit even though you're a millennial and you think that you're like your choices have meaning. It's kind of like choosing holiday by Vampire Weekend. Same level.

It's not okay, Leo. Really poor song choice. This is next level though. I mean, I feel like for the rest of, of my life when I think about Leonardo O'Caprio. The first thing I'm going to think about now, the water jet-ski is gone, and now it's noise-canceling

headphones during sex. Do you think he did that to Rihanna? Was he listening? If he was with Rihanna? And he were listening to Rihanna's song? Yeah. No, it's still not okay. Like, maybe like Nick Cannon when he was still married to Mariah Carey, listening to him, Mariah Carey. It's just so selfish. Also, like, it's so selfish.

Play the song for both people. Also, like, don't shut her out. It's like literally canceling the woman out. It's crazy. I think it's mean. Also just, you know, lying back and signaling for does not in general indicate that Leo is like giving all the future gives. Give it and say it's not a giver. Yeah. This is a wild story.

I really need some time to process it. I read it immediately before reading, coming on this podcast, and I'm just reeling. It's just a lot to take in. It's also like a very explicit picture. Like not like a graphic one, but it's like very clear. I definitely like have an exact picture of what the best. picture of what the bed looks like. Yeah, me too. Yeah. It's one of those that's like kind of sunk down in the floor. Sure. Also, like wireless noise cancelling headphones are not like easy to set up.

So there had to be like some prep to like make sure your network was working. Sure. In my vision, it's all like, it's like white enamel cabinet right next to the bed where the noise cancelling headphones and the vape are. Also like tons of pillows to like make sure he's really comfortable. Definitely. Definitely. Yeah. He's he's the worst. I think I've just officially turned on Leo forever. I don't know. This, like, maybe I turn a corner here. Because you makes you like a more? I mean, this is reprehensible.

Don't do this. No one do this. But on some sort of just like I'm out here being Leonardo DiCaprio and sleeping with supermodels and putting on noise canceling headphones. It's a transcendent level of dickheadedness. Right. Like, I hope he never gets married because he's obviously living the life he always wanted. And I hope he never gives it up.

Like, I guess if you're finding people who are okay with this, good for you. Uh, Leo. I can't believe this story. What a legend. Really leaves me really. I just want a legend. He should listen to Drake Legend. I guess, I mean, oh, we should do a, we'll do a Spotify playlist of songs that Leon

should listen to. Yeah. That are better than electric feel. And, like, I guess Trace songs will be number one. Yes. We'll put us for number two. Okay, great. I'm just trying to think, like, the next song.

Does he listen to it on a loop? Like, you know, does he have a whole playlist? I don't know. This is a great point also about how long that he needs. If it's just the one song, that's also troubling. I hope he has, like, another one. Is it, like, a couple MGMT songs? The thing is, they don't have that many hits.

He seems like an album guy. He's probably listening all the way through. It's so bizarre. I think he should listen to Animal Collective. That seems, like, also, like, the next level for him. Since there's vaping introduced, I don't know. Just really weird. Also, this is such a bizarre story.

I'm overwhelmed. It's just so... It's reprehensible, as you said. It's reprehensible and legendary. Yeah. You know who would be disgusted by this? The fucking Queen of England. Queen Elizabeth.

Does Queen Elizabeth knows what noise-cancelling headphones are? No. Definitely not. Also, are she really any discomfort? Like, if she had to, like, you know, felt kind of queasy for them or nauseous, so she'd be like, no, none of this ever again. So the Queen of England is on the cover of Vanity Fair because she just turned 90. Question for you.

Yeah. I'm not like a big Vanity Fair reader. Yeah. How often do they cover the Queen? They're pretty into royal stuff. Like Pip, so, and Royal adjacent. For example, Pippa Middleton, sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, was a columnist for a while there for Vanity Fair and just like wrote about ski resorts in Europe. That was a real thing she did.

It was incredible. That's just amazing. She just like ranked them by, I don't know. By something. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. So they're very into royal stuff. I mean, Princess Diana was. Well, so, and kind of when Princess Diana was really in the, I mean,

like 20 years ago when there was a lot of tabloid attention on her. Tina Brown was also the editor of Amy Fair. And Tina Brown has become kind of her official biographer. Right. Okay. I really, really recommend Tina Brown's book about Princess Diana. If you are at all interested in these things, I've read it at least 10 times. I'm available to talk.

Please add me if you want to read it and talk about it. I'm open to any and all conversations. Amanda and Tina's book club. We'll come to order now. I would be so happy. But anyway, this is like a, this is family fares wheelhouse for sure. She had her birthday, like last weekend. Did you see the pictures in the videos?

Oh, so many hats. Kay Middleton is wearing so many different hats. Charlotte made her big debut. Yes. And then there was a moment where she actually, like, lifted her skirt up, like, on the balcony. And then they had to, I thought that Kate Milton very deftly, like, put the skirt down and didn't look freak out. She seems like she's taken to motherhood and royal life swimmingly. She seems like a pretty, like, good, famous person.

Well, she's a good royal, which is very. very, very different from a good famous person. Because here's the thing. A good celebrity does crazy things, like have sex and wear noise-canceling headphones. A good, like, royal or princess person does absolutely nothing except look nice and hats. I don't know what Kate's voice sounds like, really, except for that one interview when they got engaged. Yeah, I think that's the only time. Was she ever allowed to speak other than that?

Occasionally, like, she's on, like, a, not a press line, what they call a walkabout, you know, when all the people are lined up. and you can catch her being like, oh, George is very naughty or whatever she says in her weird accent. But basically, no, she doesn't speak. She just seems like, you know, she wears a clothes well. It's all going well for her. I was also pretty impressed by Prince George, the little guy. I'm pretty certain he's going to be a great king because even though there's like a new baby in town, his sister,

I still find him to be like just really cute, like stealing the show. And that's like what a king does. He steals the show at all times. You know, we never talked about the iconic bathrobe photo. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It was the cutest thing that's ever happened. Legit met the president of the United States in a tiny bathrobe with slippers.

It was like one of the kids, the darling kids from Peter Pan. Yes. But real life. And so cute. And he just looks so unimpressed with the whole situation and every photograph. It's amazing. It was so cute. Pajamas in general are really cute, like on kids.

That's true. Like a matching pajamas set. I even think some adults, it's like a cute look. Like, pajamas just, I don't know. Did you know that pajamas is like fashion are in right now? Oh, really? I didn't know that. I was letting you know so that you could just like wear pajamas and be like I'm fashionable.

Well, I just feel like a a athleisure has creeped into nighttime pajama wear. Yeah, that's true. And that's kind of displaced typical pajamas like the matching set. Like the Nick is like the Nick and Nora's. That's true. And I will just like pajamas to make a comeback. They are. All right.

But like not as fashion. Like inside the home. Yeah. I mean, no one's, no one's keeping you. You're right. I could just do it. All right. You've inspired me. Anyway, George, he's just a really cute kid. Like, I feel like he's just really adorable. And it's, it's helping the royal family whose relevance is to us always abundant, but to everyone else, I'm not sure. Very clear. Well, I will say that, so, Vanity Fair has about a million articles on Queen Elizabeth, which I, like, read as comfort food. It's so, I don't know why it's so soothing. It's like a warm back for me. I think I have a idea of why, and I agree with you. It's because it's, like, so retrograde and so confident in its uselessness that you're like, yes, this is helping no one and completely pointless. But this is just the way things are done.

Exactly. There's something really, totally. Like, it's just, this has been happening for hundreds of years, and we're all just going to accept it. And it's nonsense. And I feel like, so I was reading one of her former private secretaries wrote like a long. It was a great piece. It was a great piece, right? There was kind of weird.

Like, I don't know. If you're the Queen's private secretary, like, maybe you shouldn't be snitching. But anyway. I think it must have been approved. Probably. I don't think that. I think Vanity Fair wouldn't burn a bridge with her. And also, he probably is, like, too scared for her to do that.

I just want to say, like, private secretary is having a moment. We had Trump's guy from Mar-a-Lago, and now I've got the Queens. He's just really good, though. It was, like, how many decades of being her, basically her party planner or whatever? 10 years is one of her private secretaries, but he'd been, like, in the orbit for forever. And anyway, he just recounts a typical day and then a typical yearly schedule for her. And it was so mind-numbing. And I could not believe that this still existed.

It's like the number of meetings that she has that are just about, like, maintaining her day-to-day existence as queen. And he talks about it as if that's like some extremely important job. It's the most important job in the world to make sure that like her cars run correctly or something. As your colleague, I know that you would not stand for all of those meetings. You would not be pleased. That's true. I have a more efficient thing. That's true.

That said, it was so dumb and it was... The thing is, they've got so much real estate. Yeah, it was soothing. And also they have so much real estate. I was just like, wow, they have a different home for every meeting of the day if they wanted to do that. But, you know, I was thinking about it because my first reaction was like, I honestly still can't believe this exists. And I love it. And I'm a consumer of it.

And I still can't believe it. exists. But obviously the reason it exists is because of consumers like me and because it is sort of like a, it's sensational. It's sensational. And it brings a lot of money into England. Actually, like, what would they be without the royal family? They're trying to figure that out, this Brexit situation. I mean, exactly. Good Lord. But, you know, so she's honestly just, she is doing a job, which is the job of like public relations for like the United Kingdom, which is a hard, demanding job. but they do it with no self-awareness, and it's just really incredible to me. With the Olympics coming, I've been reflecting on the 2012 Olympics, arguably the best Olympics

ever. Wow. And it's because it was in London and we got so much royals. And I just feel like London should be the official home of the summer Olympics. I loved the Dan & Craig James Bond opening and the corgis. And Kate and Will love sport and they just wore the... Oh, yeah. She wore so many of those jackets.

She wore all the team G. She wore all the time. It was so great. I loved it. Like London should be the official. official home in the summer Olympics. I don't care if that's just breaking every rule of the Olympics. It has no respect for Greece. I don't care. London is the city for it. It was just a great, a great two-week period. I like, I love Team USA basketball. I'm just really going to miss Will and

Kate from this, uh, these events. Well, maybe they'll go. They probably will. No, they can't because Zika. Oh, right. They can't. Damn it. I think that the, Vanity Fair implies that Kaye Middleton would like to have a third child. Oh, would she? Yeah. They want a big family. Did you learn anything new about the queen from all this content? Um, no, not really. I learned some things about Princess Margaret. Oh, tell us. What'd you learn?

Um, really just about, I don't know. You don't get a lot. Just stories about Princess Margaret. More stories about her, like, being naughty and liking show tunes, which I knew, but, you know. You do love showtunes. My favorite, or if I were going to be royal, I would not want to be in line to inherit the throne, but I don't want to be a sibling of the inheritor. So Princess Harry status?

Yeah, Harry or Andrew. Who was it that Prince Harry was dating for, like, quote, dating? For really, oh, Ellie Golding. Which I still don't believe. No, of course not. She's been rumored to date every British man who's remotely famous. But the siblings get to have fun. They have the benefit of being royal and rich, but they're not, like, held to very high standards

because they're, like, assumed to mess up as the non-inheritor of the throne. It's great. Yeah. I feel like Prince Harry is pretty sad, though. You think so? Yeah, because I think basically... Well, I think... Good Lord.

I can't let's have even talk about that. It's horrifically depressing. Poor will. Anyway, yeah, I think that this story on Prince Harry is that he really just wants to move to Africa and live with, I think, Chelsea. Yeah. And that he's not allowed to do that because he has to be a royal. Chelsea Davis.

It's all a play. Ooh. Bringing it back to theater called King Charles III. Oh, yeah. Which won all the Olivier's. Yeah. And was nominated for some Tonies. And it's essentially, it's imagining Prince Charles's.

actual rain. So it's kind of said in the future. And like sad, rebellious Prince Harry is a major plot point. I think that may be like influenced me. Yeah, he falls in love with some like got goth girl. Harry would never go goth. That's, um, that's not realistic. I don't know. They like meet in the street. Does you walk around in the streets? How much time do you think Kate Millington spends like on the street in her life? Well, so it says in the article that I read about their home life. I'm not kidding that Vanity Fair published 12 articles about the Royals that I I read all of them. They go to the local villages.

They go to the pubs and stuff and that it's normal and people leave them alone. I don't believe that. I don't believe that either. Would you leave them alone? Pixar didn't happen. Like, where are the pictures? Well, I think that's the point. So, like, when they're, like, a ball moral?

But I think it's sort of like the celebrities who wander around, like, Michelle Williams, wandering around Brooklyn. And most people leave her alone. And then the paparazzi find her, like, twice a month. Sure. You know? Sure. I think it's like that.

Yeah. Okay. And so there's a spoken under. understanding that they can just chill. That's nice, I guess. I mean, that's a reason to stay out of London for them. Yeah, which was like the whole point of the thing, that that's why they were living and their weird countries.

Probably better for their sons. I mean, they're kids, their son and daughter. Yeah, I guess so. I wonder if Harry will ever get married. Like, who will be the lucky lady? I think he has to at some point, right? Like, his, like, I think he's probably in trouble right now. And people are like, you need to get married.

It's kind of because he's living in his own rom-com. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's an incredible idea for rom-com. Let's make that. Okay. Okay. Get at us.

You just mentioned the theater. Amachel Williams, two were things related to this week's Tony Awards. Michelle Williams was there. Yes, she was indeed. She was nominated for Best Actress. So let me just say this about the Tonys on the West Coast. Oh, my God. I don't appreciate that time delay.

I know. It sucks. CBS is the only network that doesn't, they move the Grammys, but CBS. I was going to watch the Tonys all the way through. I should be really honest. Like, I was not, but whatever. Yeah, CBS doesn't broadcast it live. It's so stupid.

You kept tweeting about it and I was upset. I was home in New York. I'm on the couch with my parents, and I had a phenomenal three hours, and I knew it was going to be strong because James Corden killed it. His opening bit was so good. Did you see it? I did watch that part. He was just great. I mean, first of all, he started with a Hamilton joke, so he can't go wrong there. And it was just great.

He's so charming. Like, is he the most charming man on television? Currently, yes, I think of the late-night hosts. Yeah. Like, I think that he could host any show and just be good at it. I'm a big fan of carpal karaoke. Can we talk about the carpal karaoke? I would love to.

I have always enjoyed it. Me as well. As you know, I am kind of in and out on my musical references and what I can, what I enjoy and what makes me want to light myself on fire. One Day More is something that I enjoy. So he had Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, the guy from Modern Family, Jesse Michael Ferguson. Jesse Tyler.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson. That guy. And Jane Krakowski in the car. And they did a bunch of songs and they ended with everyone's favorite show tune One Day More from Lay Miss. It was rousing. It was great. It was really, really good.

And I just want to say that I was particularly surprised and impressed by James Corden. Yeah, he's great. I forget that he also did do theater for a long time. Yeah, he's been like a musical theater guy in the UK for a while. And he was in History Boys, which is a great Allen Bennett play. And it just wouldn't be a podcast if I didn't mention that he was in Into the Woods as well. Oh, yeah. Okay.

As the Baker slash narrator. Yeah, that was a good Into the Woods joke in the Hamilton Open. Yeah, that was really good. And then apparently he did a karaoke during a commercial break with Jake Gyllenhaal and a third person who I forget. The Jake Gyllenhaal thing I couldn't stop watching. I didn't actually watch it. Was it good? Yeah, it was incredible.

And it reminds me of kind of like the great lost Jake Gillenhall clip that somehow is not on the internet. He hosted Saturday Night Live. It was like 2006, 2007. He might have been promoting Brokeback where it's right after that. But it was the same. It was when Dreamgirls was out. And I'm telling you that I'm not going. And Jake Gyllenhaal did it.

I am telling you that I'm not going. And he starts in normal like Jake Gyllenhaal wear and then kind of by the end is wearing a dress and a wig and just like doing a full falsetto with Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler singing back up behind him. It's unreal. You have never seen anything like it. It's so triumphant. And because I guess of songwrites, it's not on the internet. Oh, that sucks. It's hard to find the Hamilton performances from the Tony's on the internet too.

Jake Gyllenhaal performing and actually doing fun things instead of being a weird psycho in movies is like a great lane for him and I wish he would do it more often. Why don't we have like fun Jake Gyllenhaal out in the world? I really don't know and he doesn't have to do it all the time. I'm not trying to like pigeonhole people, you know, express yourself. That's why you're an actor or whatever. but I like one fun thing for every five weird things. How about that? Let's just relax a little.

He should do a carpal karaoke like full stop. Oh my God. I mean, I wonder if it'd be hard because he doesn't have like songs or whatever. But James Corden makes everyone likable in those videos. Like literally everyone. Has there been, I can't think of a single example where I like the person less. I even watched the one with Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato and I was completely charmed. It was like a rousing good time.

I mean, I just want to say I even watched the one with Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato. Lovato, like, I just want to go out there and say those are two of them more likable, like young. I don't find the Jonas is that likable. Although Lindsay's article about him was, like, was great. And I was like, I'm going to give this guy another shot. Yeah.

But yeah, like, when he has people who know each other on it together, so like Demi and Nick have like literally grown up together. Yeah. It's fun because they're comfortable already. Like they don't need that much time to like find their comfort zone. It's true. James Cardin is just really, really good. I love that guy. And then I got a picture with him.

on Sunday night. It's true. I woke up Monday morning to a photograph of two of you. Great angle on that selfie, by the way. James took it himself. Okay. All right. He's perfect. James is a wonderful photographer or selfie taker. I feel like this is a British skill. Like, I once met one direction. I don't. And they were, all right. Well, time out. I want to do. No, no, no. The last two sentences, I just want to say, I feel like this is a British skill and then your transition was I once took a picture with one direction. They were very good at taking selfies. I know. I've seen them. I would like to. We'll share them on the internet when we post this

podcast. You look great. They look great. They were also charming, but you are ridiculous. That's all. Keep going. I just feel like the Brits really have embraced the selfie even more than we have. They're really good at it. I don't know. James Cordon really blew me away. He did a great job. I think I might just be that you like British people, as do I. I mean, they're great. Who doesn't? They're very charming. Who doesn't? James Corrid. was dancing on the dance floor and shout out to my friend Caitlin Fine who kind of got me into this position to take a picture with James Gordon. Right. And I was like, oh my God, James Corden's dancing. Why was he dancing too? I don't remember. I was too excited. I was just blacked out

I was wearing my imaginary noise cancelling headphones. He was dancing to electric feel. Yeah. And I was just like, James Corden. And he graciously took a picture with me. It was one of the highlights of my entire life. I'm just glad to be here sharing this memory with you. Thank you. Thank you so much. It was really hard on Monday to carry on. I was like, well, I have a photo with James Corden. What do I do now? Where do I go from here? But I'll never forget it. It was great. Thank you, James. I'm a real fan of yours. Thank you, James. Just for everything, for Juliet and for and for Carpool karaoke. Do you think anyone calls him Jimmy? No. Oh, wait, before moving on from Gordon, did you watch the 73 questions? I did not. I sent it to you and then I didn't. I

How was it? It was interesting. So James, usually the Vogue's area 73 questions, is that someone's home, right? His was at work. So they get in the car with him and then he drives to work. Okay, this, I keep meaning to ask you, does he actually drive during carpal care. Yes, he does. Okay, but like the one with Lynn and Audra and everyone, it just, he was driving through New York and it seemed very stressful. Is he actually driving? That seems like a safety hazard? When the Adela one came out, Ben Winston, who's the executive producer, and I learned. from the 73 questions video, James' best friend, said that the way they do it is James is actually driving. And then they have like a tail behind him. And they just, it goes on for a really long time. Like they usually takes like an hour or so. So it probably is really stressful with the way they cut it. Like they cut out all of that stuff, I think. Of him like just being like, oh shit, I almost like ran into this car. I was. I was trying really hard to see where he was driving in New York. I think it was either, I don't, I think it was the Upper East Side maybe.

I think it was supposed to be the Upper West Side, but I don't think it was. And I feel Like it's a little bit, if you go to like all the way to the east side, like on York or something, or first a little bit easier. It's a little calmer. Yeah, just got to stay here from that second avenue. I guess, yeah. If you're just staying on an avenue, then you aren't really, you don't have to change lanes. Yeah.

Just kind of. Just kind of go straight, basically. It still seems stressful. Oh, yeah. I mean, driving sucks. Full stop. New York, L.A., wherever. Just driving sucks.

One of our worst inventions. The 703 questions was good, though. I feel like he's maybe, like, he's at a tipping point. Like, the Tony's obviously the big look. Adele Carpourke. Like he's taken off really quickly. Like it's almost like a, I feel like when Seacrest started hosting Idol, it's kind of similar to that.

Yeah. Because like no one knew who was when he took the show, except for like freaks like me. And like Gavin and Stacey fans. Yeah, Gavin and Stacey fans. And even teachers that show with the guy from The Walking Dead. Oh yeah. Right, right, right, right. He was a kid on that.

He was like the student. But now he's like, you know, he's legit famous. He's a big deal. It's all happening for James Corden. It's really exciting. And for you. And for me. And for me too. Congratulations.

Thank you. Let's move on to our final segment of the day. Lots of celebrity real estate news to go over. Most notably, Taylor Swift recovering from her breakup by renovating her home. Classic breakup move. Classic breakup move. That's another, not quite a rom-com, but that's an Nancy Myers film. That's a real trope.

Yes. Absolutely. Also, just I would like to say based on, okay, so photographs of the home that she is renting, were published on the internet. The decor scheme could use a little help from Nancy Myers. Let's just put it that way. Let's not blame Taylor for that, though. It's true.

But I'm just saying, like, it would be nice to bring more, you know, neutral colors into her life. Yeah, more light, some, like, linens. There was a, I mean, I guess if you have an indoor pool, you have an indoor pool, but the ringer staff was, like, particularly upset with the pictures of the indoor pool, which definitely looked like they were in a, it was in a tomb. It reminded me of John Wick. Have you seen that movie?

Isn't there an indoor pool in John Wick? And I was just like, is there some kind of like killing that's going to happen here? It was not cool. It sort of looked like a medical facility to me. It reminded me of the pool that Candy Spelling installed in her new condo in L.A. When she moved out of the Spelling Manor. And I was just like, it's very gauche. Taylor Swift can do better than that.

Yeah. I don't think she would get an indoor pool on her own, like it. I just don't feel like that's a real Taylor move. She should really get a rooftop pool, though. There are not enough pools in New York. It's true. That's all I have to say. I think it might be your comment about everywhere, though.

I just feel like there aren't enough pools anywhere for you. That's really true. I think it was one of the leading reasons that I left New York City was that there were not enough pools. It's also true. In L.A., there aren't enough, like, pool clubs. I grew up in Atlanta, and there was always, like, not a country club, but, like, the neighborhood pool that you could join.

Totally. Sure. And, like, you had a swim team, and then you had a crush on the, a dude who coached the swim team. And there's just like, that's not, that doesn't exist. I had a crush on my tennis teacher. He was very handsome. He looks like a young Mark Wahlberg.

Wow. Yeah. He was great. Shout to Eric. Tenants players in general. Totally. Big time. Who else had some celebrity real estate news?

There was like quite a few. Oh, Nick Carter's Steampunk Baby Nursery. Okay. What is Steampunk? I mean, I'm not an expert. It's sort of like a sci-fi fantasy thing. But it's like old-timey sci-fi. that also involves like machines somehow.

This is honestly the most that I can explain it. I don't really get it. I'm imagining like a Brendan Fraser movie right now. I just feel like he would star in some kind of movie about like trains and time travel in the year 1904. Yes. I think that's it basically. Like that.

Great. Perfect. It definitely always involves like Victorian era. I feel like that's just like a style at like ABC carpet it's now. I think it is like standard. Because it has definitely become commercial. as we learn from Nick Carter, who, so I clicked on this link. I'm really glad you did.

Nick Carter spends $50,000 on a steampunk nursery. The celebrity nursery world is fascinating. It's a real rich person move. Sure. And also just like divulging how much you spent on your nursery. Let's not. But it's definitely not steampunk. I don't really understand.

I mean, as I said, either I don't understand steampunk or. or this is not steampunk. And I think it's probably a little bit of both. It just looked really generic. It's just like maybe the wallpaper have weird, like, hot air balloons that are, like, have little machines attached to them. Is that the steampunk element? I interviewed Nick and his wife last year. Okay.

And I really liked her. Like, she was cool and, like, seemed pretty normal. Okay. I just, I feel like, I feel hopeful for their child. I mean, the color scheme is nice in this. It's, like, all neutrals and there's, like, a giant giraffe. Yeah, it looks nice, but it also just looks. like a showroom from like what's the name of the store that restoration hardware open for kids.

It's like called like apartment or something. I mean it definitely has restoration hardware vibes. That's just what it looks like. And that's cool. But like it's not steampunk. Definitely not. As you and I as experts on steampunk, you can definitively declare, it's not steampunk. And also it's maybe not maybe we didn't need to know that it costs $50,000. No. But I feel like Nick Carter is just a really insecure person, like full stop and just like want to see people to know he can afford that. And you know what? Good for you, Nick. You've been a grinder your whole life. Get that money.

$1,200 on sconces in the nursery. I'm sorry, I'm done with this. But it's just like, you know what? I really do celebrity lighting choices in particular as a connoisseur of celebrity real estate and celebrity decor schemes. Like the light fixtures and the chandeliers and the like are always, it's the tell. You can tell whether someone has taste or not. Absolutely.

You can tell whether someone is spending their money wisely or not. People often aren't. The person who had the saddest celebrity real estate update of the last few weeks is probably Dean Fleischer Camp, the axe of Jenny Slate. Oh, this one's hard. And I don't know what his sconces will be like because right now he's just in the like home scouting phase. But he posted like an Instagram or something of him looking at apartments on Craigslist,

which is just really sad because presumably Jenny Slate got the house in their breakup. Or that they just don't want it. I don't know. It's just, it's very clear that something's going on there. And it was really depressing. And you don't want that kind of personal. You don't want that insight into someone's life. This is a story that we'll be monitoring very closely.

So we did, related to this, we did ask whether, do you think that Jenny Sladen and Chris Evans are still doing whatever it is that they're doing? I don't want to put labels on it. So respectful, Amanda. I'm going to go with yes. It's still summer, man. Make it last through Labor Day. I think that you can break up. I was looking at her Instagram recently and she was posting some sex jams on it.

Really? Maybe she could share with Leader DiCaprio. Ooh, that would be a great couple. Johnny Slate, Leonardo Caprio, I would love that. Yeah, I don't know. I think she's cooler than that. Nice. Giving her a lot of credit, I like it.

Yeah, anyway, I hope that, I hope whatever they want. Hope everyone finds happiness. And a home. And a home. Good luck, Dean. With decent consis. With great lighting and no indoor pools. And no noise-canceling headphones.

Thank you for listening to Jam Session. Thank you, everyone. We'll be back in two weeks.