The Press Box - If Your Wedding Wasn’t Livestreamed by Diplo, Did You Even Get Married? | Tea Time

Episode Date: May 3, 2019

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner had a Vegas wedding after the BBMAs, complete with an Elvis impersonator officiating (1:18). We preview the 2019 Met Gala and try to guess real past themes from fake past themes (9:54). Also, Kylie Jenner hosted an extravagant birthday party for Travis Scott (31:59), and we break down what celebrities are drinking in the name of skin care (44:46). Hosts: Liz Kelly, Kate Halliwell, and Amelia Wedemeyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Guys, and welcome to Tea Time. This is a weekly pop culture podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Liz Kelly. I'm Kate Hollowell. And I'm Amelia Weddemeier. And today we're going to recap the BBMAs. We're going to predict what will happen at the Met Gala.

So excited. It's very exciting. And finally, we're bringing it back. It's the triumphant return of Liz's worst take of the week. Kill me. Kill me now. Every time you hear the bell, we have to change topics unless Liz is gone long on her worst take, in which case we'll give her some slack.

But now, Let's spill the tea. Okay, first category, as always, is tea time checks in with. Like Amelia said, the Billboard Music Awards just happened. They're in Las Vegas. A couple things happened. Halsey performed with BTS, which will get to in a bit. Taylor performed me, which will also get to in a bit.

But the most important news is Jonas Brothers, they performed jealous, kicked by the ocean, and then sucker together. Right. Then two hours later, Joe Jonas went to the Little White Chapel, Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, and got married to Sophie Turner. Just casually. I decided to do it. Yeah, this was what time, Kaya, were me and you slacking in the T-Tenium?

It was like 10-m because I was asleep. And I was like, I'm pretty sure Diplo is live streaming on his Instagram this marriage, which feels on brandy at the same time. Not? Kaya, thoughts? I mean, sure. Why not? That's a good point. Okay, so according to TMZ, Reverend Elvis is how we're referred to.

He officiated, so he was booked for a week ago but wasn't told who it was for. So they did give this some thought. They did plan this little bit. They rented the chapel from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Fine. Reverend Elvis recognized the Jonas Brothers, but not Sophie Turner because I guess he doesn't watch the damn. Damn, though.

Yeah. He and Amelia, that's it. I know. Okay, let's see what they all. They exchanged ring pops as wedding bands. Of course they did. Again, of course they did. Yeah, that's very on brand.

Like, raver kind of. Yeah. And then after the wedding, Sophie and Joe went into their hotel. Jukuzzi, like, fully clothed in their outfits. Oh my gosh. She was in, not a dress, but she was in a white blouse and slack. She looked great. But, like, why?

It's a great question. It's my question to all of this, really. Is Mrs. Jonas on the phone with Joe crying right now? Because she's an over conservative and, like, very traditional. Be like, you took away this opportunity for me. Yeah, and also somebody else at work was like, Maisie Williams. Masey Williams. Huge loss for her supposed to be the maid of honor.

Yeah. Oh, shit, you're right. Priyanka Chopra was her maid of honor in this ceremony. Oh, that's unfortunate. So, obviously, we think they're going to get, have a real wedding at some point. And Macy will be able to do it them But like That's kind of bullshit

I'm sorry This is the real one Yeah exactly They're eyeing a summer wedding in France So that would have all the traditional aspects but like you guys Like they're so annoying about this stuff thinking that they're the coolest

people on the planet I love Soviet dinner I'm like so meh on Joe Jonas But they were like posing on this pink corvette Like with these dumb sunglasses Do you think they were like drunk I mean We hate to speculate

Sure No I mean right right right Right. However. Honestly, I'm in on this. I was out on them. And then I was like, you just, you crazy motherfuckers. Just like, do it. Sure. They have committed to the craziness and just spontaneity. And I'm like, you know what? This got me. I'm in. Interesting. Just having a wedding in Vegas with Diplo live streaming it is like crazy to the point of like, we don't give a fuck. Write that down. Kate Hollowell is officially on board with this Las Vegas wedding.

I am now on board with Sophie and Joe. Okay. Interesting. She noted. All right, what else happened from the BBMs, Kate? Taylor Swift opened the show, and I know Amelia has a take on this, but people immediately were pissed off because she walked out with an entire marching band. Just sort of like cocked her hip and just got down to her new single with this marching band, which if you've been anywhere online or been on Netflix once in the past couple weeks,

you've probably seen Homecoming, which is Beyonce's Coachella Doc. about her set, which famously used a marching band and was like a tribute to like black universities. And no one can do it better than Beyonce, which is what I... And so everyone's like, oh, Taylor Swift ripped her off. They hashtag Mayo Cella was trending because it was like the way Bay Cella. My take is like, I don't think she intentionally was like, I'm going to do it. Beyonce did and do it better. I think it was just an unbelievable oversight.

Yeah. On her part, not her team's part. Yeah. To come so close on the. heels of this documentary, which like everyone watched at least a bit of... It's baffling to me. The fact that one person either didn't say, hey, this is a bad idea, or said, hey, this is a bad idea, and everyone else was like, no, it's going to be fine. Right.

Plus, with all the Kim and Kanye shit that she used to go through, you would think she's just like, Uber aware of what everyone of reactions. You have to be. Like, this is just such a stupid choice to me. And so avoidable. I just, I don't know. I mean, like, I really don't have a dog in this fight because I'm like, they're, like, they're make cool music. I'm not like going to be an outright stand for either of them. Yeah, sure. But I feel like, okay, it'd be one thing if she was doing like a total copy for copy like traditional black,

you know, step dancing and stuff. But I don't think she did that. Did she? No, she just had the marching man. Yeah. And it's like, okay, well, like the Beatles did Sergeant Pepper's band. You know, I mean, like it's been a thing for a long time. It is a thing. I don't know. I mean, obviously I'm not educated on this, so I don't know. Right. I mean, I do it. And people were like, oh, like, you know, Beyonce didn't invent the marching band. She did it, but like, it was so recent. Yeah. It's just an oversight.

Taylor's team, you gotta do better for. So she's like about to release an entire album and like really be in the forefront again for a while. It's just a dumb mistake. Yep. Yep. Anything else happened? Amelia. Yeah, let's talk about some C-list stars.

So, her favorite. Paul Abdul, who follows me on Twitter. Shout out to Paula. Oh, my God, incredible. Yeah, it's pretty exciting as a former American Idol fan. She performed because she has like a residency at the former. Mingo? I didn't know that was a hotel in Vegas, but I guess it is. I've stayed there. Okay. Keep going. So she's doing that. And so she like kicked it off, I guess, by performing at the Billboard Music Awards last night. And she did this whole like song and dance thing. And she went into the crowd. And she had a hat on. She took off the hat and she just flung at like a freaking boomerang. And it almost decapitated Julianne Huff.

Kate, have you seen this video. You're right. This is the most unbelievable thing I've seen it so long. Also, she is such a performer. I don't think I would have had the wherewithal to do this. She gets smacked in the middle of the neck. Obviously, like, knocks her wind fight in half. And then she turns to the camera and just kind of like smiles. Like, does like a show smile. She was...

Julian Huff, you know you're out of breath and like about to die. And it is, it's so impressive because you see it's hard. Yeah. And there's like a split second. It's a split second where she's like, what the fuck, like my life's in danger? Yeah. You know?

It like really comes for her. And then she does. She turns to the camera and like you see her. face changed. She's like, that showbiz baby. No, it wax her. It really does. I don't even like her that much, but she took to like Instagram and she had like a fake

what's the neck brace. Oh, neck brace on. That's funny. That is good. She knows how to play the game. Yeah. A performer. Other things you're checking in with really quick is Variety just published the A-list stars salaries for movies being released in both 2019 and 2020. I wanted to

like just throw a couple of these out there. Gage your guys's opinions because some of these shocking some of them. But also they're millions and millions of dollars, so I kind of have a hard time visualizing that kind of money. Okay, so Ben Affleck, Amelia, your boy got $8 million for Triple Frontier. Are you surprised

or not? Too low? I'm just kidding. He got, he was dead. Like, 30 minutes in. He checked out. Spoiler alert. Okay. Spoiler alert. Okay. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are both making $10 million for once upon a time in Hollywood. Too low. Too low. Actually, in relation to that

the Ben Affleck like Triple Frontier. It's too low. Yeah, I think it's too low, honestly. You're kind of right. You're right. Those two, like, next to each other, don't make sense. But do you think they should be making the same amount of money? Both $10 million?

I think yes. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Robert Downey Jr. is making $20 million for a movie called the voyage of Dr. Doolool. Dool? Dool? Okay.

Dr. Dool. Relax, it's too little. This is weird, but he also makes so much money from those Marvel movies. Wait, how much money did he make for endgame? Do we know? No. That's easily Google. Google.

I don't. I don't want to know. I don't want to know. That is wild, though, actually. $20 million for, I think it's like an animated. A bunch of people are just going to be playing animals. And he's talking to the animal. Yes, because Selena Gomez is a giraffe, I believe.

They're a bunch of voice. The voice cast is wild. So is this like a reboot of the Eddie Murphy, Dr. Doolittle? Sure. Okay. Let's say that. Cool. Okay, one last one.

Kristen Stewart is making $7 million for Charlie's Angels. Is Kristen Stewart that big still that she can pull that kind of money? I think so. Well, for a property like Charlie's Angels. I think so. I think so, yeah. So are we saying everyone in Hollywood is just being paid fairly except for Ben Affleck? Yes, that's exactly what we're saying. Okay, good. I'm glad that that's where we're at.

A uniquely tea time take. All right, next category. This is Tea Time. Previews the MetGala. We are very close to the first Monday in May. It's coming up in a couple days. What do we think? Kate Hallel, start us off. So this year's MetGala theme is Camp. Great theme. It is a great theme. It also has a lot of potential. to go wrong.

Sure. Because camp is something that's extremely hard to explain and understand. I had like a whole week on camp in a college class that I took and I still would have a hard time

explaining what it is. Yeah, I was unusually confused about this theme. Inspired by this woman's Susan Sontag's 1964 essay notes on camp which is to known to have introduced

the notion of camp to the mainstream. Sure. According to Vanity Fair, camp is quote, theatricality, quote, nothing in nature can be campy.

It is the love of the exaggerated, the off, the things of The things being what they are not. I was more confused after reading about camp than I was before. When I think of camp, I always think of like a drag queen show with like the stages of Judy Garland's life. That's actually not bad. I do not understand this theme then.

If that's what you think of camp. No, because gay culture is really important in camp, which I think is part of, I think, what a lot of people are expecting from this year's gala. The co-chairs are Serena Williams, Lady Gaga, Harry Stiles, and designer Alessandro Michelle of Goose. who is sponsoring the event. Okay. And so I guess, well, my main concern is Harry Styles, but Sierra Williams and Lady Gaga, I'm sure, are going to be faithful to the theme. There are a lot of ways you can be faithful to the theme this year, which is nice.

Do we think that Lady Gaga will go back to her meat dress roots? Will she do a veggie take on it? She's been so old style, like Hollywood recently on the last two years. But I want her to. She's like drag it up for sure. I feel like she'll really, I mean, she has to. Plus Lady Gaga is like kind of an instrumental part of gay culture these days. Yeah.

Why are you concerned about Harry Styles? I'm not concerned. I'm just, you know, he... Choose your words carefully because his stands are crazy. I know. I know. I think he'll be great. I think, well, first of all, he's like a face of Gucci, which is sponsoring the event.

So he'll almost certainly show up in Gucci. He's been like doing like some very sort of playing with like gender rules in fashion lately. So I think that'll be great. Yeah. I also am really looking forward to Lena Waith, is going. Nice. I hope Billy Porter

of Pose is going. Yes. Because they, Lena was talking about this, but she was like talking about how she really wants to channel the black drag queen,

like ball culture. Yes. Which I think will be, there's like a really good way of interpreting that. So I think she'll probably do that Billy Porter if he comes. He should be a co-chair.

He absolutely should be there. And then some other people who are going for sure. J-Lo, Arod, Katie Perry, Jared Leto. Venus Williams is going.

Will J-Lo and A Rod coordinate their outfits. For sure. Yes. I don't know how on theme she'll be, though. She's kind of in the slinky dress every year camp. The Kardashians and Rihanna and Cardi B aren't confirmed yet, but are very likely to know. You know what I would love if she did a version of that Versace dress that she wore with P. Diddy to like the Grammys, and she'd spoof that. That'd be great.

It doesn't seem like J-Lo's the girl to kind of spoof herself. True. Perhaps. Yeah. And so I think a lot of people will follow the theme, although there's always like the contingent of models who just just fully ignore it and wear something skimby. The person who didn't do that last year was Gigi Hadee. She was something beautiful and very on theme.

But you're right. Kendall wore a sheer right. Diamond. They're always the models that don't. Thank you. There are always the models that don't. But yeah, I think a lot of people will. I'm looking forward to see what Harry Styles is Lady Dogg all to wear.

Yeah, why not? Before we do this, oh, before we play your game as well, want to remind the general public about the weird ass rules of the MET guys? Yes, please. One, no selfies, which everybody doesn't follow. That's a lie because that freaking bad. bathroom pick. I know.

Everyone is vaping. I know. No one under 18 is allowed to go, which not to be mean, but like I totally agree with. That feels fair. This is an adult event. There's no smoking inside the museum, which also, I guess, nobody abides by. No. Because everyone's in that bathroom.

And then according to the New York poster and food items are like purposely admitted from the menu because Anna Winterer demanded it so. There's no parsley, there's no onion, and no garlic. Okay. So, okay. All right then. And then spouses are never seated. next to each other, which I didn't really realize.

Yeah, I guess they were like, why I sit next to your husband. The whole point is to mingle with everybody, which, again, I would be like kind of like, I want my husband next to me. Oh, and a fancy event like that? Does that explain why Taylor Swift wasn't with Calvin Harris and she was with Tom Hildston? Oh, my God. Wow. We are connecting things.

We are. Okay, that's it. Let's play your game, Kate. Okay, so like we said, this year's theme is Camp Notes on Fashion. And all the themes, there have been a lot of weird themes in MacGala history. They're all kind of formatted like that. You know, last year it was Heavenly Bodies in the Catholic imagination. Yes.

So, you know, we played a game a couple weeks ago where Liz and Amelia tried to stump me. Largely failed. I only missed one. Whatever. So it's my turn to try to stump them. I will be shocked if they do as well as I did. Okay, relax. Okay.

So I took four real historical MetGala themes, and I made up four. Okay. And I'm going to give you a theme and you have to tell me whether it's has actually happened, whether it's a real theme, or whether. it came from my brain. I am so excited to hear the ones you made up. I cannot. Wait, let's do it.

Okay. You ready? Yes. Kyle, wait, do you want to play two? Sure. All right. Let's do it. Sound more excited, Ky.

You're not the best team. Okay, ready? Theme number one. Coco Chanel, Art Deco Inspirations in the Jazz Age. Oh, that... What do you guys think? Wait, Art Deco Inspirations in the Jazz Age? Yes.

Kaye, you seem like you know something about either art deco. Are you the Jazz Age? So please contribute. I'm going to go with real. Are you seen real? Sure. Team Kaya. We're going to go real.

Fake. Then Jazz Age threw me off. I was like, that sounds fake. Whatever. Okay, go to the next one. You guys know who you're playing with here. Oh, my God. Relax.

Next theme. Anglomania, tradition and transgression in British fashion. Yes, yes, yes. Everyone good? Correct. That one's real. Woo. Next theme.

Superheroes. I remember the vogue layout. Really? I swear to you, yes. Okay, we're going to go real. Correct. Real. Amelia is carrying this team.

Next theme. French Baroque, Versailles, and Vogue. Oh, fuck. I don't know. That feels real. That feels real, too, and I feel like I remember it. But this could be a Kate trap, which we have to remember. Because Kate is evil.

Sure. Can you repeat it? Oh, my God. French Baroque, Versailles and Vogue. Wait, that kind of sounds real, though. Amelia? What are you thinking? What are your spidey sense of telling you?

I don't, God, I like. Okay, Kate, we're going to hesitantly say that's real. Fank. That's my bad. That is my bad. Next one. Jacqueline Kennedy, the White House years. I don't think that's real.

No, that can't be real. A whole exhibit on her. That's actually insane. May I just say that I would take the Noah Centenio game over this game? This game is very difficult. Next thing. We have three more. Oh, my God.

Grecian influences an historic pantheon of fashion. No, that's too like... An historic pantheon of fashion. I'm going to say that's real. I was going to say real. You think Kate was... Really? Okay, fine. Fake.

No. Guys, I worked really hard on it. You have thought of the word pantheon? You're damn right. All right. I knew that was the giveaway. Two more. You've only gotten two right.

Speak up. I'm sorry. Two more. You could go half and half if you could go home. Okay, all right. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Japanese postmodernism.

A dynasty of design. Oh, okay. I know they had... I know they had something to do with, like, Asian, influenced, facts. But that was like, Chinese, and then they had Ray something or other who's like a Japanese designer, but I don't think this was, I really don't think it was. All right. I'm going to go ahead, Amelia.

Is it fake? Yeah. Correct. Wow. Thank God. All right. Last one. Dangerous liaisons, fashion and furniture in the 18th century.

Honestly, that sounds so familiar. Oh, God. Amelia, go with this guy. She's doing this on purpose. She's messing with us. I know. It's real. It's real.

It's real. It's real. It's real. Woo! You went 50-50? That's pretty good. Amelia really carried the team. Thank God. Great stuff.

Matt Gallup. Come up with some better themes. All right, moving on to the next category. This is Tea Time Investigates. We were completely switching gears. My heart is racing. I know, to like the very fancy steps in New York City, to the very, very ugly, polluted steps of Hollywood Boulevard.

We're going to investigate Walk of Fame ceremonies. Kate, why don't you introduce this? Okay, so this was prompted by Lucy Lou's ceremony. I think yesterday, right? Yeah. And Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, her Charlie's Angels co-stars showed up. Yeah. Everyone was like going crazy.

It was like a whole thing. That's amazing. And it made us wonder, is the Walk of Fame ceremony a signifier of like who your real friends are in the industry? Yeah. Yeah. So we wanted to look at some other recent friend or co-star appearances at these ceremonies. Because my opinion is that it's not a big enough event for people to go just to do promo.

It is sometimes. And I have some examples of when that has happened. But largely, like, if you show up at this, it's not covered enough. Yeah. Right. To warrant, like, showing up if you don't actually care about the person. Right. That's what you found even in trying to investigate this is there's not that much press on

these Walk of Fame. Right. Like, there's not that many photos as we were trying to search through, like, what Randos showed up. Exactly. It's honestly hard to, like, find lists of this. So, like, really, if they come, our take is if they come, it means that you're, like, actually close.

Yeah. So some recent examples of, like, former co-stars. friends showing up. Judy Greer presented to Jennifer Garner. That's nice. Okay. 13 going on 30. Mela Kunis was at Zoe Salinas and they were in a movie together like way early in their career. It was called After Sex. Okay. She was also at Seth McBarland's.

Yes, she was. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So anyway, she presented to her. They both cried. Yeah. That's like nice. Wait, actually, as I'm, as we're talking about this, I think also there are so many opportunities for celebrities to introduce other celebrities. Like there's so many award shows and gala's and evenings out, that the people that have to write a speech for this especially love you because there's really no coverage of whatever you say to this person. That's so true. For like very little like chaos.

You're speaking as like a real friend. Right. It's like, okay, deadline and variety are covering this. Yeah. Tops. And then one that was very important to me recently was Mandy Moore and Shane West. Shane West from a walk to remember showed up for Mandy Moore. That's beautiful, honestly.

It was great. Honestly, Shane West probably doesn't have much going on, but still, whatever. Still, that was big to me personally. Also, it's fun. Ryan Murphy had one, and Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falkchuk showed up because he introduced them. Oh, that's cool. And then all of his American Horror Story ladies showed up, including, like, Sarah Paulson and stuff. Yeah, sometimes it's a good photo op.

Like, Blake Lively, who showed up for Ryan Reynolds. Big family event. Yeah, it is a big family event. Exactly. You bring out your kids, and that was, like, the first time we had even seen their two children. And she had really, like, an infant in arms. Jennifer Garner's all, like, all of Jennifer Garner's kids were there, too. It was so great.

It was like one of the first moments where you can be like, she looks like this one. And like they all have like, oh my God, yes. Yeah. It's very easy to like map out families based on this as well. I loved when Mark Hamill got his star and he had George Lucas and Harrison Ford present.

I thought that I was like, oh my God. Yeah. This is so beautiful. And then he's been like trying to get Carrie Fisher a star, which I love that. And she doesn't have a star. Are you kidding me? Yeah,

that is some bullshit. Wow. She doesn't. No, she doesn't. Damn. Yeah. She really should. The one that popped out for me was Jennifer Aniston.

who got her back in 2012, so this is a while ago. But by 2012, she was still an absolute A-lister for like a good decade and a half at that point. Adam Sandler gave her speech. And here were the other attendees. Malin Ackerman. Oh, what? Yeah. That Catherine Hogan movie.

Catherine Hahn. Okay? Well, Catherine Hahn, but okay. But okay. Her dad and then now, like, her ex, Justin Thoreau. But Jennifer Amistin. And Courtney Cox? And Corey Cox or any friends cast?

Like, the fact that Adam Sandler, was the one giving the speech. And they were all, Melan and Catherine Hahn were from her movie Wonderless, which was like around that time. Gotcha. But it was very random. Like, Jennifer Anderson, you're probably friends with every single A-LIS in Hollywood. Get like L. in there. You couldn't find one friend to be like

show up on Hollywood Boulevard for 20 minutes. And also, actually, similarly, Matthew and Connehey, this was my example of how it is, sometimes a promo. Okay. The people of his were Anne Hathway, Jessica Tustane, and the woman who plays his daughter and Interstellar because they were promoting interstellar. And that was it. Those were like his,

Also, Anne Hathaway's been to a lot of these. She went to Matthew McConaghanes and Hugh Jackpins. And Ann Hathaway is getting her own next week. Yes, but she's Aquafina. Aquafina is presenting. And then Deerese, whose movie she's working on right now, is presenting. So we'll see if someone else shows up. Hopefully people show up for Anne Hathaway.

Well, Anne Hathaway's son show up because she has a family. Oh, that's true. Oh, that's cute. It might be a family event. Pink brought her children out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So we're deciding that walk of fame ceremonies are only for like your absolute best friend Or if you're randomly Do an interstellar? Sometimes a promo shoot, but largely like the real ones. It's reserved for friends and family, yeah. Case closed. Woo. Wow, it's time.

It is time. So I just want to say that we put Liz's worst take of the week in the outline and she decided to withhold all of her notes from us and put them in her own dock. So it's the only empty category on the outline right now. It's a total mystery as to what she's going to say. And also we, do we want to introduce how this came up? Yes.

So we were talking about walk of fame ceremonies. Yeah, speaking of the walk of fame, I was on just Jared, as I do. As we all do, as we all do, was not knees deep into like page 75, but the cast of the Big Bang Theory apparently became the first television show to get their hands in cement outside the Chinese theater, which is out of all the freaking TV shows that have ever aired in the history of time. of humankind. You're going to choose a Big Bang Theory? So that was the take that Amelia dropped into T-T-Time slack,

which prompted just a very organic reaction from Liz Callie. Yep. Big Bang Theory isn't that bad. Capital T-H-A-T. Is it my time now to speak? It's your time.

Okay. You guys, Big Bang Theory, I started this take yesterday workshop and it didn't even realize it was a take. I said it's not that bad.

that less than 24 hours later, as we record, I've decided that Big Bang Theory is a very good show. What? It's not only not that bad, but it is extremely important in current pop culture. We should respect it as such, and I won't hear otherwise. And I have evidence. Okay, yeah, yeah, please. Incredible. I love to watch Liz at work.

Me too. Context. There have been 279 episodes of the Big Bang Theory, so I'd want to see any of us do 279 of anything, okay? First of all. Okay, personally, I'm into quality over quantity. It's a good point. I'm moving on. The Big Bang Theory has been nominated for 46 Emmy Awards. Jim Parsons has been nominated for 63 different awards and actually won 21 times.

Kili Cuoco, who kind of can't act for shit, has been nominated 30 times, which you know is because of the genius of the show. And it's not her like girl next door stick winning her these awards. She's actually gotten five of them. The show has won 10 Emmys as an entity. So the stats alone don't lie, okay? But if you can't be swayed like that, I can sway you because of the human storytelling that this show has. They show, Amelia, please have something different on your face. I'm so sorry.

The look you're giving me. Okay. It shows successful female scientists. Oh, my God. It's based in real science and there's real data in the dialogue. Oh, my God. Impressive. And then it is kind of slapsticky.

Yes, sure. Is it like my exact brand of humor? No. But it is something that you can turn on. Like, I every day after work don't want to come home and like get elbows deep and like succession, like complicated family storyline. Sometimes you just got to turn something on and have it be there as a comfort. Yeah, but you can't do that with like the office? Okay, anyway. Also, I consulted. My family in particular is Big Bang Theory fans. And Kate, I know don't want to blow up your spot, but I know your family is too. So I consulted my dear sweet mother, Pamela Kelly, why she likes this show.

And by the way, she's a lawyer, so you know, you can't argue with these facts. Here we go. She says, it's very cool that it celebrates being smart and nerdy in her high school. It wasn't cool to be smart, okay? It's cool to be smart in Big Bang Theory. It celebrates Penny being common sense, smart and kind. So she's not book smart or like classically. Yeah, she's not classically intelligent.

But she often comes out as like the quote hero or winner of the story, not just for her looks. important. Okay, it's cool that it shows everyone can find someone to love and characteristics that even though you're deeply flawed like Sheldon, he still is capable of loving and being loved, which you guys, that's what life is about, okay?

Incredibly deep takes from your mom. Yeah. It shows a great apartment, so that's kind of a segue, not incredibly deep take. And then also it pulls a lot of nerdy stuff from her past, like the Star Trek stuff, which I know your dad, Mr. Hallowell. Had a very similar take. So I don't want to

cut in. Are you... Go ahead. Go ahead. So I also emailed my dad to ask him why he loves the Big Bang Theory. He loved the Big Bang Theory. And he called me to tell me all about it. He also sent me various YouTube link that I did not watch. That's so funny. And he had a very similar take to your mom. He said

it's, first of all, it started in 2007. So this was before, like, nerd culture was, like, really a big thing. It was before the MCU, before the first Iron Man movie, before... I can't believe it's been on for that long. It has. I know. So it was like before, like, nerd culture was, like, really deep in, like, in the zeitgeist like it is now.

He said he really liked all the niche references to the shows that he liked, Firefly, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, which obviously isn't as niche, but all these old, like, 80s movies, just like little, like head nods. He said, yeah, it was written by nerds for nerd humor. And he also, he said they were like the first ones to kind of mind that nerd humor genre. However, this is why I'm kind of in the middle ground on this. He stopped watching like four years ago because he said that it basically started to become like a family sitcom. Like it lost its way, the more popular guy, which he's like, I'm not into that.

And also his take was that it was like happy days and how the Fonz was like such a popular character that then it became the Fonzies show. And the same thing happened was Doey on Friends. He was like, once it became the Sheldon show, he was like, it got so much worse. Right. Yeah. Do I like the fact that there's a show called Young Sheldon? No. Also, I think the bigger thing is people, it's like my, I can't believe I'm reminding people of this, but my Imagine Dragons take a couple weeks.

People think that they're too good for things because it's really mainstream cool and like a majority of America that maybe the coastal elites, which maybe I am myself. This is kind of like coming out anti-coastal elites. But like you're not too cool for anything, really. You're not too cool for the Big Bang Theory. It's like a very beloved, universally beloved show. Okay? Amelia, what are your thoughts? I just think that the jokes are really cheap.

The big joke is Sheldon is awkward and condescending. says Bazinga a lot, and I just don't think that's very funny. And he's like, Aquaman was the first Avenger. Yeah, I don't know. It's something like that. How much of the big thing theory have you seen? It was a ballpark number. A clip of him saying Bazinga like 20 times.

Oh, my God. How dare you? This is going from a place of knowledge. But I've read criticism of the characters, like the Indian character. Yeah. Like the Jewish character. Sure. And they do also call out Penny, which I mean, I'm sure she does have her moments.

but stereotypically she was like the dumb blonde kind of. Maybe she's grown throughout the series so I can respect that. Yeah. But just there are a few stereotypes that are just like definitely. Yeah. The characters are like pretty derivative. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I can't argue against that.

So can we reach a middle ground? Sure. Should I go back to it's not that bad? I don't argue as it's not that bad I think is a fair take. Yeah, I have friends who like it, you know, and I said this, they're like dentists. So, right, that's expensive. Dentists are the backbone of this country, but okay. The dentist is the English teachers in the law.

lawyers. That makes a lot sense, actually. What we have right now is the Big Bang Theory fans, and that makes sense. It's like that's America. Thank you, Kyle. Extremely measured take from Liz this week, actually. I know. It started my cheeks out right now. We're like phasing down. Okay. This is good. This is good. Yes. So before we go on to the next category,

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Okay, we are back, and our next category is this week in social media. It was Travis Scott's 28th birthday. On Tuesday, he celebrated at Universal Studios. According to TMZ, Kylie Jenner hosted a gas station-themed birthday party. There was a Hennessee Slurpee Machine, a fake convenience store with Travis-themed grocery items. That's kind of funny. I know.

Yeah, very interesting theme. She could have like a side job of being a party planner. She goes all out. There was a tattoo station with John Boy Tattoo, who we've talked about quite a bit on tea time. And then shoe-themed floral arrangements. I don't know what half these things mean. But the reason it's in social media was because all the Jenner Kardashians are posting all on Instagram. And the biggest thing was that she posted an Instagram for his birthday.

A couple really cute photos of the two of them. She was like, happy birthday, blah, blah. And it ended with, let's fuck around and have another baby. Ooh. Do you have thoughts on this? I mean, no. Okay. That's fair.

I predicted in 2019 that Kylie Jenner was going to get pregnant. Not have another baby. This is Liz's prediction. I think it's looking very good. You were like they're going to settle down and whatnot. And they have. They have. They're extremely in love.

They refer to each other all the time as wifie and hubby. They just got matching tattoos at this birth. Another matching tattoo of birthday party. They celebrated the release of Ventures Endgame by dressing up. They're going really strong. It's actually quite cute. I like him so much more than TIGA. So I'm very happy with this.

Totally. Okay. I guess that's it for me. Okay, what else happened? Social media. It's a really important news that Amelia dropped in here. Speaking of that whole Kardashian-Gener family. So Haley Bieber, I think it was like actually last week.

She went on vacation. And she went on Snapchat. And she Snapchat and a photo of her legs. And I'm just going to say it. She looks like a different race. Like she, I'm worried this girl is going to get melanoma, like, tomorrow. Okay. So for the record, you put in this outline, quote,

Haley Bieber went on vacation and got really fucking tan. She did. Hard-hitting news that tea time is responsible for providing. But did you guys look at the photo? You didn't link it. Well, I know. Amelia, show us a photo. Hold on.

Do you know where she went on vacation? I don't like some tropical place. Actually, you're right. Some place with the sun. No celebrity really tags exactly their location. This is not a white person. That is too tan. It's too tan.

You're going to get cancer. Haley, you're going to get cancer. I'm sorry. Does Kelly wear sunscreen every day? What are your thoughts? I do, and this worries me for sure. Although I am pale as hell. So it kind of like works out.

I wear sunscreen all the time. Yeah, but you're not going to die of cancer. You're right. She will hopefully have the very leathery face. Me, I have a chance at least being somewhat decent. There you go. Not offensive looking at an old day. But people were like calling her out for like black face, which I don't even know.

I don't even know anymore. She's whatever. Just put on some sunscreen, Haley. We're concerned for you. Yeah. Okay. And then the last thing, there was a. picture of someone brought a vegan lasagna to, I think, to their office.

Sorry. It was like layered with like salad and tomatoes. It's like a rectangular salad. Iceberg lettuce at the bottom. Nice sliced Roma tomatoes in the middle. This is like, not a joke. This was real. And it went crazy viral on Twitter because everyone was like, what the fuck?

And what's the quick, like, did we ever find out of this was actually real? I think it's fake. I think it was created to go viral on Twitter. Okay, well, Stoufers, the at Stoufers account was like, this is not lasagna. It was, certainly, well, it's not lasagna, you're right. Would you guys, as you guys are fans of salad? Yeah, indeed, we are. No, just more so, I like, you know, I feel like I eat meat.

Yeah, we're sweet. You guys are, yeah. What, would you guys eat this vegan lasagna? I would if there was dressing. I was going to say it was absolutely undress. Yeah, it looked very dry. It looked very dry. Okay.

Next category is T-Times biggest relationship news ever. Really, we led with our biggest relationship names with Sophie and Joe. Yes, true. This is the okay relationship news. Yeah, it is the okay relationship news. So Jennifer Lawrence is still going strong with Cook Moroni. They're engaged. And they were spotted carrying a painting, I guess, of the two of them that looks like it was done by a 10-year-old.

But apparently it was done by an art dealer, who I'm guessing is probably friends with him because he's like an art gallerist or whatever. And he said, he told Vulture, this guy who painted it, I've just been painting portraits this week and they wanted their portrait painted. I just paint that way because it's the best I can do. And I kind of love that. You know, he was being honest and I was like, okay, yeah. Yeah, the point was that it looked like a second grader did it. Which granted, like, I don't understand a lot of like high-end art. Maybe this is, and also Jennifer Lawrence, I feel like would do that. Like, I'm sure this was super expensive and it's like very highly esteemed. But she would have gotten a better portrait done if she went to the Santa Monica Pier and got one of this. 100%.

Yeah. Do like a character of the two of them. Exactly. But I guess like I feel like I've seen similar art in museums and people lose their shit over it. I guess. I guess the news that they're still together, still going strong. They're getting portraits of each other. That means it's very serious. In their home, yes.

Okay. Other relationship news? You know who to crush that vegan lasagna? Oh, damn. Walking Phoenix and Rooney Mara. Nice one. Who are referred to in a headline that I just found. today as vegan couple walking

Phoenix and Rooney Mara. They were seeing at Kate Mara and Jamie Bell's baby shower. Wait wait wait you got this from VegeNews.com. I googled Walking Phoenix and Rune Marr because I was trying to see when they got together. And this was a top headline. It was like vegan couple and this was yeah.

Obviously they referred to as a vegan couple if you got it on VedgeNews.com. Let's see what the Daily Mail has to say. Okay, continue. Anyway, there were pictures of them on the Daily Mail at Kate Barra's baby shower. I assume they did not partake in any of the catered foods unless it was extremely indeed. Exactly. And yeah, they went public in 2017. They moved in together in 2018 and I feel like maybe they'll get married soon. I don't know. They're so weird. They're both so weird.

They were the, they met on the side of Mary Magdalene. Yeah. Yeah. That was what this headline said. Vegan couple, Rooney Mar and Walking Phoenix played Jesus and Mary in New Film. Okay. The ringer take notes on that. Yeah. And some SEO right there. All right. Other relationship news, Kate? Jude Law got married. A lot of like secret, not really secret, but like spontaneous weddings. Jude Law married

Philip Bacon, 32. She's a psychologist. She has a PhD in environmental change. Runs her own consultancy. Wow. She got married to Jude Law and it was like very casual. She had like wildflower bouquet. He had like a dark blue suit with like blue suede

shoes. Kind of like his own little Elvis thing there. They looked great. Honestly, I was really into their whole vibe. But something that I had forgotten about Jude Law is that he has five children from three different women. Holy smokes. Uh-huh. So I would assume that they maybe will add more. She's only 32.

Yeah. So Jude Law just is like really just grown his own little army of mini Jews. Although good for it. Like as we say, T-Time is pro celebrity settling down with not celebrities or celebrity-adjacent. In this case, she's like very not-celebrity adjacent. So Jude-law, you settle down. You lay down. I do this couple acts. I hope the best for them.

Yeah. Edris Elba also got married. I only refer to him as DJ Idris here because that is one of his jobs. He married his fiance and model Sabrina. They tied the knot in Morocco. She wore Vera Wang. She looked like the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Like look at these wedding photos. It's what he deserves. Unbelievable. There was this huge festival party with camels and fire dancers and tons of dancing. And then they released a couple wedding photos and the rest are being released. in the July issue of British Vogue. So very classy for Idrisalba. So actually that's good. I'm impressed. For Idrisalba?

Yeah, British Vos. Congrats to all these happy couples. This is what? We're going into the summer. Everybody's in a good mood. Everyone's settling down because cuffing season was in the winter. Now that's done. Right.

That's true. Let's hope it. I feel like we've gone through a couple like summer of breakups. Fingers crossed for the celebrity world. Let's do a spring of weddings. Yes. Is that a thing? It is now.

Yes. Okay. Why not? All right. Next category. this is not worth the tea. This is a particularly weird one this week. A lot of weird stuff is happening.

This is not weird. This is just every week about not worth the tea. I guess right. And also every week, I think, we will never be able to fill this category. And every week, people are doing weird things. The first one is Courtney Kardashian decided push.com wasn't enough. She's spreading to YouTube.

She was not being filmed enough in her, like, bajillion seasons of keeping up with the Kardashians. She's released two videos so far. I watched both. One is Courtney Kardashian and Kendall. Jenner talk love and dealing with negative energy. Wow. This was extremely boring.

You don't have to tune into that one. The other one was Courtney Kardashian and Scott Dissick on co-parenting. That's interesting. Okay, no, it's not. I mean, they're pretty long. They're shot just like one straight on. Oh, no. The mics are like...

Do like some over-the-shoulder shots, you guys. The production value is not that great, which maybe she wanted as it like more intimate, just conversation. And she's really monotone. She is. Her trying to lead an interview is really difficult. Sure. She was trying to talk to Kendall

kind of ease into all this stuff and she was asking all about her writing her equestrian history and she goes, Courtney goes, I've ridden, is that a word? And Kendall goes, yeah. And she goes, I've ridden with you once before.

Like Kendall Jenner is correcting you on your grammar. Yikes. Kind of a dumpster fire. So that's not worth the tea. Kate, what else? Also not worth the tea. Jaden Smith is playing Kanye West

in a TV show for Showtime. Sure. It's a show called Omniverse, Kanye West is executive producing. Yeah. And it is called a limited half-hour anthology series examining the many doors of perception. Season one will explore the ego, capital E, through an alternate reality, Kanye West, whose younger self will be played by Jaden Smith.

What? So this is Kanye West basically like making a show about himself in an alternate reality where Like using Jaden Smith's tweets. And honestly, Jaden Smith is a good actor. Yeah. So I'm like kind of on his side in this. I've never seen him. But yeah, this is just going to be horrible.

Yeah. There's no way it can be good. It's Kanye making a show about Kanye. Yep. And that's going to be that. And that's not worth the tea. Absolutely not. The other thing is for all those 20 shark tank heads out there, including myself.

Barbara Corcoran, who is a shark and, like, you know, guest judge goes on shark tank. She's rich. She turned 70 this week. And she had a birthday party for herself. Her family and friends showed up to her birthday party last weekend in New York. and she was in a casket and appeared dead as everyone came in and then all of her friends and family like paid their respects to her and then she woke up or like you know quote woke up and then celebrated

so she posted on Instagram and said surprise 70th I surprised my guest laid out in a coffin on Saturday after 90 friends and family paid their respects I popped out of the coffin to the Diana Ross song I'm alive and danced the tango and then she ended what the heck you only die once you might as well be around for it. Also, 70 is too young. I was just going to say that's... 70 is that old. No, it's not.

Also, can you imagine 90 people paying their respects to you? That's just like an ego trip at this point. It really is. Yeah. And she looked all done up and then she popped out in this little dress. It was freaking did a performance to Diana Ross. Like, are you serious? That is deranged.

That is bizarre. It is so weird. Celebrities are bizarre. All right. Last thing, not worth the tea. Okay, so Burger King debuted Unhappy Meals. for mental health awareness month and they're pretty great.

I was trying to look them up, but it didn't say like what they were made of or what was in the meal. So maybe it's just like a burger king. It's probably just the same, right? It's just the marketing. Yeah, just like the marketing,

which is kind of annoying. But they're real meals because no one is happy all the time. And they're inspired by a different mood. There's the pissed meal, the blue meal, the salty meal, the Yas meal, and the don't give a fuck meal. Thoughts.

I, hmm. No, I'm against it. I'm pro-mental health awareness, but not in this context. There's a way for it not to try to be internet savvy, like one with the internet culture. Very cringy. The Yasmeil, are you kidding? That's a lot. That's definitely not worth the tea.

Definitely not. All right, last category is you're ending this with Tea Times' most unanswerable question of the week. Amelia, do you want to start us off? Yes. And as you all know, you can tweet us your questions at our Tea Times. account, which is at T-Time underscore 33. So this week, I was just, you know, reading. And I found this article in The Cut, New York Bags, The Cut.

I guess Rosario Dawson, for whatever reason, I mean, I guess for beauty purposes, is chugging clay now. She's literally drinking clay. And I don't, why? Shailene Woodley was really into that for a while. Drinking clay? Yeah. That sounds toxic.

She talked about it on a talk show. I forget which one. But yeah, she definitely was consuming clay. It's a thing. People are stupid. People are stupid. They're, you know, push with a line of peptides and collagen and stuff. And the retinol, which is like very severe shit on your face.

It's like eating vegetables and wash your face. Yeah, exactly. Like I don't. Exactly. It's like what are we going to like drinking our own pee? Like I really don't know where it stops. Yeah. I don't.

That is an unanswerable question. I know. I'm serious. All right. Next question. Kate? Taylor Swift released a lyric video for me, her song, in which she's writing out the lyrics, obviously, in sort of this, like, stylized way. And she holds a pen in a really fucking weird way. She does. She's got the pen between her index finger and her middle finger. And it's like sticking out the top and then she has her thumb holding it at the bottom. And this is literally just like how she's writing the whole time. And people were like, why the hell does Taylor Swift hold a pen this way? I personally was like, why the hell does Taylor Swift hold a pen this way? So it turned into this whole thing And people said that there's actually

It is kind of an answer to this question But apparently it was taught in schools That taught italics instead of cursive What? So like there's a way of writing Where like you don't loop the cursive But like you connect the letters And it's called italics

And some people were taught that in school What? Yeah I know this was wild to me too So I'm glad that none of us know this Maybe it's like the old's If you personally were taught italics in school Instead of cursive, let us know Yeah, please

But yeah So apparently that's how you hold a pen when you're writing in italics. Okay. I have a slanted. It's like a slanted, connected way of writing that's not quite cursive, but it's not quite print. Was Taylor Swifted homeschool or was this in a school that she grew up in that taught her this?

It is taught in some schools. I don't know if she was homeschooled. That's so bizarre. I'm pretty sure she was like in regular school for a good like. Right. You're right. Because you learn to write in like the first grade. And she's not writing in italics in this video.

She just kind of has like a sloppy handwriting. Honestly. Also, my question is like, is this really her handwriting? hand. Also, she's very long thumbs. Yeah. I don't know that this is actually her. I think this is maybe not her. You don't think? I don't know. I mean, I would hire someone to do this for me. I guess you're right. Yeah.

She doesn't have to do it. There's a lot of mystery around her. Like, remember when this is kind of an off topic? But remember how she travels in a suitcase? Yes. I want to know about details about that. There's a lot of mystery clouding her whole person. So maybe it's not her hand. Maybe she doesn't even know.

Yeah. But if you know, if you hold her pen this way, like hit us up. I need to know everything about you. Yeah, because that is so strange. It's very strange. Okay, last question is, what constitutes as a celebrity, like, quote, stepping out? Either with someone or alone. So as we all are now, like, I'm elbows deep in pop culture news all the time. Yeah.

I see this phrase literally 400 times a day. Yeah. I was just on, like, all these magazines here are a couple headlines on Just Jared. Andrew Garfield keeps a low profile while stepping out in New York City on Tuesday. And it's just like him, a picture of him walking, okay? That's him alone. Then Suki Waterhouse and Chase Crawford step out for Charlie Says premiere. The two of them aren't photographed together.

It's just two people attending a premiere. And then OK Magazine, Chloe Kardashian shows out plumber-looking pout as she steps out with adorable daughter, True. And then last one, our favorite couple, Emma Roberts was the picture of happiness as she stepped out with her new boyfriend, Garrett Headland, on Easter Sunday. My question is, what, like, Kate, you're the writer out of this group. What constitutes someone as stepping out? because all these situations are different.

It's not like they're alone. They could be with their daughter. They could be with a couple. And it's used, it's like the most used phrase in celebrity, like, paparazzi reporting that there is. I think it's good because you don't need to have a destination. And they don't know where they're going.

They left their house. Like that's, you can't say that. You can't be like they're going to a restaurant because you don't know. Yeah. So like just saying that they like went out into the world. I guess right. Because a lot of paparazzi like don't know where these people are going.

It sounds better than like walkout because walkout to be like, I'm leaving you. We chased behind Ben Affleck as he went to Dunkin' Donuts. Right, right. We can't say it like that. And also, I think it does kind of imply like an old-timey way to say like went on a date. I was going to say that's how a lot of celebrity couples are like first kind of like premiered into the world as they stepped out to dinner. Yeah.

But then again, it's reported that Andrew Garf was just walking out of his apartment. So is this just a creative way to be like they're walking around New York City and L.A.? And if someone's like, oh, I'm not dating him. Like, why did you say they're like, oh, we just said you stepped out. Yeah. Yeah. You guys flag this for us. This I see all the time.

I mean, I feel like I use it too. Like, oh, I saw them step out. Do you say that in real life? Yeah. I mean, it's just, I don't know. It sounds better than walk, I guess. We shall step out of this podcast studio. Right.

After we record. Yeah, interesting. Okay. Okay. That is it for tea time this week. Thank you, producer Kyya. You're the best. Thank you for listening.

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