The Press Box - We Found Love In a Sparsely Decorated Kardashian Place | Tea Time (Ep. 574)

Episode Date: February 16, 2019

Celebrities celebrated Valentine's Day with both extravagant gestures and spon-con (7:05). Zoe Kravitz is thirst-trapping (16:49). John Mayer got his hair cut in between the Grammys and the afterparty (20:31), and if you're going to throw food at someone, why would you throw a salad (27:18)? Hosts: Liz Kelly, Kate Halliwell, Amelia Wedemeyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's up, guys, it's Liz Kelly, and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. Each day starting on Monday, February 18th, the Big Picture will be hosting six Oscar preview videos leading up to Sunday ceremony. Sean Fennacy hosts with a variety of other Ringer staffers covering everything you need to know about this season's Oscar race. You can watch these videos at YouTube.com slash The Ringer or catch the highlights on the ringers Instagram and Twitter. What's up, guys, and welcome to T-Time on the Ringer Podcast Network.

I'm Liz Kelly. I'm Pete Hall-Wall. And I'm Amelia Wendemeyer. Today we're going to talk about the Grammys, weird celebrity day gifts, and Miranda's Lambert salad throwdown.

Yes. Every time you hear the bell, we have to change topics, no matter what. And now, let's spill the tea. As usual, our first category is tea time checks in with.

There are a couple of birthday parties in the last week. Amelia, tell us about them. Okay, first up, we have Stormy. Kylie, Jenner, and Travis Scott's adorable little baby, who turned one,

and they threw her a stormy astro world themed birthday party. They called it Stormy World. Yeah, they did. And it was just decadent. Lavish. Yeah. Holy shit.

They had like, what was the face with like a cut out? An inflatable face of Stormy's face. And then you walked into the mouth and it was just like decked out. There was a carousel. There were a lot of beautiful snacks. There was a stormy gift shop where you could literally. buy like Stormy merch just like about her. Baby Shark was there. Baby Shark was there. was there. Yes. Who gave her like a Chanel quilted mini purse. Yep. It was I don't know if you guys have

ever seen the Twitter account Humans of Late Capitalism. But it was like so that. It was just over the top, but I enjoyed it. Yeah. Other Stormy gifts we saw. So Stormy was like crawling in an Instagram story over just like a mountain of wrapped presents. That feels right. First of all, they had, I don't know, I guess rich people can have anything. They had Christian Louvaton wrapping paper, like branded wrapping paper. Yes. Why not? And then she got her first Gucci bag.

She got her first Gucci bag and first Chanel bag at her first birthday. And then they had like the Louis Vuitton monogram logo, but it was like stormy and I loved it. And it was like in French fries wrapper thing. It was just, it was crazy. It was incredible. I don't know how you top that. Also, Kendall later that week went on Ellen. And Ellen was like, why?

do that when she's one years old. And Kendall was explaining, she had the same thought. And literally, Kylie's answer was like, I don't care. Like, I don't care. I'm being it for myself. Which granted, you are as successful and rich as she is, I mean, I guess. Why not? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Other birthday that happened this week was the queen of Avino herself turned to 50 years old. And Jennifer Anderson is notoriously, extremely private. There's only a little bit of knowledge about, like, what this birthday party was. is at the Sunset Tower Hotel. The most notable thing is that Brad Pitt showed up and that sent like, you know, celebrity gossip magazines into a tailspin.

Yes. The thing I want to focus on more than Brad Pitt is the photo booth situation because they had a no social media policy. Sure. At this party. And you are not allowed to take pictures, even of the photo booths that people took. But Kate Hudson did God's work. And she got permission from Jennifer Aniston posted on Instagram of the photo booth that happened. Good.

Anyway, what I want to highlight is that you guys should go, this is on Kate Hudson's Instagram. It's Gweth Paltrow, Kate Hudson, and then Jennifer Aniston, and they're all making this, like, shocked face, like a surprise, so their eyebrows are up. But all of those women's foreheads are literally frozen at the top. There's no expression. And you wouldn't be able to tell that they were making that face of their eyebrows weren't so close to their hairline. Because their face isn't doing anything. It's not moving. No, I'm looking at it.

I'm also looking at it. It's actually incredible. It's glassy. It's so weird. Yeah. There are no wrinkles, nothing. It's just... Wow. I know. Did you guys see how Reese Wethersunes fell down the stairs, leaving? Oh, I did see. No. That's what I thought you were going to say when you were like, we have to talk about one thing.

Yeah, they're like, paparazzi photos of her. I mean, she's not like, she's fine. She's, like, laughing and like holding out of the railing for dear life. And yeah, it's tough. Yeah, she had a great birthday. Also, Justin Thoreau wished her a happy birthday. Oh, my God, yeah. On social media, very public. Yeah, very unflattering photo. But like, the kind where, like, your husband. can do it or your ex-husband can post that, you know? Right. Sure. Yeah, that was a whole interesting dynamic. Are we checking you with anyone else? Kate? We are checking in. Just real quick, we got to do a Chris watch. I know. I'm really sorry. First of all, we talked last week about Chris Pratt versus Ellen Page, where Ellen Page kind of went after him for supporting Hill Song, which is notoriously anti-LGB, or at least the pastor has come out and said that LGBT, you know,

gay people shouldn't marry. So Chris Pratt posted this thing on his Instagram story. And I called a thing because it's a mixture of different types of writing and so it's a picture of a sheep on a rock some religious imagery there but then he posted a lot of words over the top of it

and didn't quite know how to make them readable so he just had a long thing about you know how he doesn't agree with that and that the church basically that she was wrong and oh my god isn't necessarily the case so convoluted and also you're going to use it as an IG story

Yeah. This whole execution was... Because he can tailor it and because he can perfect it and because 10 other people can look at it. If he was put on the spot somewhere... Right. Right. That's true. And I get, yeah, I get posting on Instagram, but like putting on IG stories and not doing a post,

putting it in this way where like there's red text, there's white text, you can't read any of it. Yeah. There's like random quotes. He put literally a quote from Jesus where like in quotes. Right. Just terrible execution. The picture was grainy. Yeah.

It was just not good. Just bad. execution for his message. And just dumb things to back it up. Yeah. Like divorce. Yeah. They didn't make fun to me for that.

Are you kidding me right now? The message was tough and the execution was tough. And in comparison, even tougher because Chris Evans had a great social media week. He did. He started off and quote tweeted E.T. Canada, because E.T. Canada posted this picture of him along with a story about his new movie. And it was the picture with the mustache and the buzz cut. Yeah.

We all know which one. It was horrible. Yeah. And he quote tweeted them and said, this is clearly. an act of aggression. There are literally hundreds of photos to choose from. What did I ever do to you, Canada? Which, listen, he knows how to play the game, you guys. Yep. Yeah. He does. Him or his social media person. Exactly. Yeah. You know what I love is when Amelia's so lost for words that she just started doing. Oh! Oh! Yeah.

True. But you're right. He had a great week. Yeah. And he also posted on Valentine's Day a picture with his dog. Yeah. Come on. Chris Prack and suck it. It's a home run. Okay. Next topic. Love is in the air. It's just one day after. Valentine's Day. This is T-Times Valentine's Day recap. The most important story, there's one obvious choice. Amelia, take it away. Okay, so on Kim's Twitter, she posted a video of Kenny G. playing the sax in a room full of single roses in vases. And I guess, and the video panned over to like a very smiley Kanye. So obviously this was his gift to her. It was so Kenny G. just, you know, playing away on a saxophone. It lasted, the video lasted like for a minute and a half. People were like, is he okay? Is Kenny G.

still trapped? Like, what is going on? How's it going to get out? Yeah. And also, my friend Abigail, brought this up. Where is their furniture? Right. No, but this isn't, they're notoriously, their house is like a cavernous, empty cell. This is what we were talking about last time. And this is evidence that Kylie knows how to decorate a home and has fun. Whereas her siblings, they do not. Yeah, There was a lot of floor space for these roses. Although when she panned it decided to see Kanye, there's like a workout machine by the wall. I'm like, you couldn't move that. Right.

Also, Katrina TMZ, this call that Kanye made to Kenny G came at like midnight on the Wednesday. So weird. So the night before Valentine's. Oh, my God. Of course. Yeah. And also like what was, because you know Kanye West and you know there was probably three other like very lavish gifts lined up that fell through. And I want to know what plan A and plan B was because obviously Kenny G is plan C.

Right. Because he is never celebrity's plan. Right. Kenny G. is famous, but he's so passee, I feel like. Yeah. And it's just like, you couldn't get John Williams to do an orchestral kind of thing. I don't, I don't. Okay. So who do you think was?

Yeah, who fell through first? That's a great question. I really don't know, but I also think there's like some self-awareness where they were like, Kenny G's like very good at social media and like people, he's kind of a living meme. And so I feel like they kind of knew they were like creating a meme as they did that. You're right. You're right. And also, just for the record, they replied with him playing somewhere over the rainbow, like a second video.

And he does have a clear path of escape. Oh, good. Oh, good. Thank God. He's not still there. He made it out. He's okay. Otherwise, I feel like social media on Valentine's Day was kind of boring with something.

Yeah, I was a little disappointed. Run of the mill. The only thing, I mean, Miley and Liam are the cutest couple on the planet. They are always will be. She's been like really gushed. You know, from recently, especially with all this, isn't it romantic press tour? Right. Also, the weekend spent like $8,000 worth of.

of red roses to decorate Bella's apartment. Oh my God. Other than that, the real MVP was Hallie Berry, who's just posted a photo of herself and said, be your own Valentine's. Which, yes. Love that. Yes, you go. And then also I was wondering, where was the Ryan Reynolds of the celebrity world who

posts, like, not Blake Lively, but like some idiotic friend of theirs being like happy Valentine's to my babe, whatever. Right, exactly. Yeah. And like, he could have done it with like any of his like superhero buddy. Yes. I was very surprised that didn't happen. Yeah.

Where was he? Like a Jake Gyllenha. Hall posts or something, you know. Yeah. Yeah. That is surprising that he didn't take advantage of that. Yeah. Agreed. There was also some like, a little bit disappointing, but definitely some very egregious Valentine's Day SponCon, which

I was personally looking forward to. Ariel Vandenberg, you probably don't know who that is. She's like, runs with like the Nina DeBrev, like Julianne Huff crowd. What a crowd, yeah. She did some SpanCon for Wing Stop. Jesus. Just as an example.

For Valentine's Day, Wingstop is spicing things up with their 11 flavors of love challenge. Oh my God. So she like posed with her boyfriend and they were like feeding each other wings. What? I just love this shit. This is a bigger problem. This is a bigger problem. That's wing stops problem. That's their campaign. Wingstop, sponsor tea time.

Also another troubling like sponsored Valentine's Day plan was Sophia Richie and Scott Dissick spent their Valentine's Day in San Diego, which fine, that's nice. It's romantic place. But at the sugar factory, which is like like meant for Times Square for like you take your aunt who's from Minnesota who like wants like go insane on sugar. Like why are they do, why did they choose the sugar factory? Are they that strap for cash that they want to like even juice like Valentine's Day, which is a really private and intimate night? What the hell? It was a lot too. Like they posted a lot

about it. Sugar Factory had like a ton of pictures. This is a big deal. It was like a weird campaign. Six figures to get the both of them at this. Well, and haven't the Kardashians, they have like a history of doing stuff with the sugar factory. I mean, yes. Like back in the 2000s. Yes, right. So it's like, why, what is going on? Right. The sugar factory needs Scott Dissick.

Scott Dissick doesn't need the sugar factory. Yeah, that's true. Okay. Moving on to the next category. This is T-Times' biggest relationship news ever. Just in the nick of time before I record, big news. Orlando Bloom and Katie Perry are engaged. Yes.

They are engaged last night. They posted on social media. It's all confirmed. Congrats, first of all. That should be our first comment. congratulations. Sure. Yes. This ring is freaking insane. It's hideous. Yes, you're right. It's estimated to be $5 million. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. Multiple people have reported it. It's a thing. I also didn't believe it. And then I looked up like various sites. And they're all citing this one expert. But like he seems like he knows his shit. Yeah. Also, I didn't realize, apparently it's a four-carat pink diamond ring at the center and then eight white diamonds around it. Like a flower.

I thought it was a ruby. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I guess that's that. I thought it was. I thought it was. was a Ruby too. Oh, Kaya's pitching in because Kaya is a fan of this ring. We told Kaya she had to share because she likes it. I like it. I'm into like non-traditional wedding rings. Like,

I like the idea of going with like a colored gem, like a ruby or an emerald. I saw comparisons to Kate Middleton's ring. See, that's generous. I thought about that too. And I also like non-traditional wedding rings, but like not the ones that look like,

like Liz said, that you bought them from Clare's for $11. Right. Okay, but it's like, it's got like diamonds around that. But, Kay, do you think that that ring is worth $5 million? Well, I looked at one article that said that the Ruby, okay, well, they brought in an expert. And he said that the Ruby is about two carrots and that the diamond halo is about 4.5 carrots. And I don't know what that means.

Yeah. But he also estimates it's about $5 million. Why are this number so different about the carrots? Like, isn't that kind of easy to figure out how big that is? Yeah, I don't know. Well, this is so confusing because is it? a pink diamond or is it a ruby? Either way it's fugly.

Someone tweet us. Seriously. And it's just like it's really goddy, you know? Yeah. I'm just like it. I like it. I like it. It looks vintage.

No, it doesn't. They're leaning into the Orlando blue. Right. I love that too. I hate that. Is that really? Why? Well, yeah.

It's a flower. Because Miranda Kerr got a similar ring. He got her a flower ring too. I can't deal with that. I can't deal with that. I can't deal with that. Like you're taking my last name bloom. I will admit Miranda's ring is much, much better.

Much better. It's all diamonds instead of like a ruby in the center and it's... Well, if this ring, it looks like someone went down to the bottom of the ocean, found the Titanic, found the remaining ring on the Titanic, and came back up and was like, here you go. Maybe that's why it's worth $5 million. Maybe. Because it's like old looking. It's like old lady.

But that's her style. It looks like you wanted out of a vending machine. Right. I'm shutting this conversation down only because they want to jump to the next relationship news, which I forced Kate to take in this list of bullet points. Kate, take it away. So Soldier Boy and Black China. Get through it. You can do it.

Are dating. Liz told me I had to do this because she wanted to hear me say that out loud. That's funny. Listen, I'm a professional and I put a lot of research into this because it's my job. And on Valentine's Day, Soldier Boy. Solge boy, tell him. Yeah. And Black China, who I, first of all, I know who Black China is.

She's Rob Kardashian's ex. They went on a shopping date. Mother of his child. Yes, they went on a shopping day in Beverly Hills. They hit up Saks Fifth Avenue. And apparently they bought a lot of shit. And then they got in a car and he put his hand on her butt. And then they posted some.

Wow. It's official. And then they posted some pictures together of them holding Christian Duer candles and Chanel handbags. Thank you, Kate. That's all I needed. A thrilling saga. Well, dare I say he's too good for her. Oh, shit.

Soldier boy. Yeah. Silence fell over the room. I can't mustard opinion on this. I'm sorry. You did your job. You did a good job. Thank you.

Any other relationship news, Amelia? Yes. So it is being reported that Lady Gaga and her fiance, Christian Carino, have allegedly split. She attended last week's Grammys alone. She wasn't wearing an engagement ring. And she didn't thank him in her speech. So this means that Bradley and Gaga

can finally be together. I legit forgot that she was engaged. Like that happened and I was like, oh, good for her. And then this whole Starzborn thing happened. And I literally, when you said they broke up, I was like, wait. Yeah. The only reason I remember is because she went on a hike with him in like seven-inch sky-high heels one time, like a year ago.

And that is so burned into my memory that she did that, that's the only reason I remembered. But you're right. I mean, this couple was bound to break up. Isn't it like a thing if you blow up, especially in the movie industry? Yeah. and the Oscar running things unravel in your personal life.

Yeah. I don't know if she was already so big, though. But like this kind of revived her. I mean, not that her career is stagnant, but it was a little like, like Joanne, what? It's a different level. That's a great level. But yeah. No, no, it is.

But I think just people weren't, you know, into it as much as. Agreed. All right. Next topic. This week in social media. Hey, Hallowell. Okay, there was a video online of Regina King at a basketball game getting nearly murdered by Joelle and Bede.

Nearly decapitated. Like legit almost ended her life. She's sitting court side and Dwell and B. goes just hurtling into the crowd. I truly can't describe it. You have to look it up and watch it 7,000 times because you won't be able to watch it any less than that. His foot comes within like a millimeter of her face.

She like flinches to the left the perfect amount to barely miss his like giant feet. Yeah, that foot could take her out in general. Absolutely. Like what would cause permanent damage to her? Oscar winning, soon to be Oscar winning face. It like clips her bun. Yeah.

And then he like lands on the guy behind her and she like looks like, she does look like her life flash before her eyes, which is what it was tweeted with. But it's so true. I don't get why that I guess courtside you're closest to the players, but that is such a dangerous area to me. It is. I did, I reported on one basketball game in college as like a quote unquote sports reporter and sat like at a legit thought I was going to die.

No, it's not terrified. Could never do it. I was terrified the entire time. Right. Also quickly before I move on, Kate had to. to clarify that Joelle and Bede was pronounced like Joel and Bid. I don't know. Tea Time is trying to be a part of the Ringer content.

Okay. Amelia, I know you want to talk about this. Yes. So Jessica Simpson and her pregnancy, they're at it again. And this time she leaned back on her toilet. I think it was her toilet. And she broke it. Chias close to tears.

She posted it to Instagram. And it was just like, you know, another casualty of her. pregnancy. Okay, here's my question. Is Jessica Simpson having like the worst pregnancy ever? Or is she just oversharing way more than anyone else? She's having the best pregnancy ever and she is using it to her advantage on social media. I was going to say this is not a run of the mill pregnancy. I have never heard of another human being on planet Earth who's having a pregnancy experience. Yeah, you're right. This is the worst. I really wanted to comment, um, don't worry my sweet girl, it'll all be over soon. But I didn't. I'm restrained as well. It's not too late.

Come back to Ashley. I know much less fun social media happenings on Instagram. Selena Gomez has popped up out of, you know, the blue once again. She's looking happy, healthy. She's in Cabo, celebrating her best friend's wedding. She looks great. Oh, that's nice. She does.

And I want her to keep doing this and keep just saying like, F everybody. And I'm going to stick with like my close group of friends because there's a lot of noise that I'm sure she's trying to tune out. Yeah. Especially on social media. Uh-huh. So the fact that she's even like doing this at all is great. It's good. Good for her. Yeah.

Finally, Zoe Kravitz has been thirst trapping extremely hard on Instagram. She's been posting all these pictures of her, like, half-naked with fruit. And, like, Zoe Kravitz, stupidly beautiful. Like, we know that you're super hot. I feel like it's reached a point where she's gone too far. Like, we get it. Yeah. Half-naked was also generous. I feel like she's almost fully naked.

A lot of them. And then also, she's not just posing with fruit. She's a little, like, call me by your name situation on somebody. sexual. Yeah. Yeah. I asked Sean you about it. Big Zoe Kravitz fan, very outspoken. And he, even he was like, we get it. You're hot. Yeah. I was in a grocery store the other day and I saw watermelon and I felt uncomfortable. Is this one photo shoot that she's just like pressing out? Yes, that's the other thing. Yeah. I would be better if it was like multiple photo shoots and it was like she was just posting one picture from all the different photos shoots. Definitely the same photo shoot. And she's just like every now and then like, oh, I have to remind everyone that I'm super hot. Yeah. And just watermelon. Waterballon. Yeah, it's too much. We're moving on. Tea Times, Grammy's reaction slash takeaways. For the record, I said I wasn't going to watch.

You said you're definitely going to watch all of us watch, right? Oh, yeah. It was better than expected. It was, yeah. Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. Okay, first thing that I want to talk about is this is important. John Mayer, we're trying to bring him back into like the Zygus. Even though, like, he never really left.

Everyone talks about him. But this is important. Yeah. John Mayor went and was on screen at the Grammys. like he presented an award, looked at himself, like went off stage, looked at himself,

watched the clip, decided that he didn't look good, and then here's a series of events. Then he went home and did his Sunday night show current mood on Instagram, cut his hair, and then went to the Grammy's after party.

Incredible. He has someone on call on a Sunday at like 10-ish. Yeah. To just fucking haul ass to his house in the hills and cut his hair. And then he cut like a couple inches off the top. And he looks great.

So he showed up on the red carpet at the Grammys with a certain hair length. And then he showed up in the after-party red carpet and looked completely different. Yeah, he said, I used the Grammy Awards telecast as a mirror. And it was, quote, the ballerest thing I've ever done, which I don't love that quote. But I love the flex. I do too. Yeah. That's hilarious.

That's my only thought. Objectively funny. Yeah, no, he was great. And Alicia Keys brought him up and they were talking about how he beat her for, I think, best song a few years, or not a few years, like 10 years. years ago and it was a cute little bit. Yeah. All right. What other takeaways do we have?

Lady Gaga, again, she performs shallow with Mark Ronson. And I just want to say, I mean, I like the performance. I thought I was fine. I always forget how hot Mark Ronson is. He's hot. And I just, I always forget. I don't know. That's your takeaway.

That's my takeaway. Listen, I totally support that. I agree. And like, I kind of forget. He's like kind of a badass in the music. industry. And I, like, never think about it until, like, he'll come up and do a song that he wrote and produced with someone. And it's, like, the biggest hit of the year. He does that every time. And I'm like, oh, yeah, you're, like a big deal. Yeah. And you're attractive and talented.

Good for you. Also, I thought that shallow performance was horrible. But, you know, that's neither here nor there. Yeah. Any other takeaways, Kate? Yes. It was a big night for me because I talked a while back after the Golden Globes about my experience with fandom on Twitter and how the Harry Styles fans just destroyed me online. And I kind of had a fandom-shaped hole in my heart. Sure. Ever since then. But during the Grammys, I tweeted a few times about BTS because I love and adore them and want to adopt them. And I had like a similar situation where their fan base like found my tweets like three days after the show. And I just like the mention started to roll in and I was like, oh shit, here we go again.

Like I have to quit. I have to quit Twitter because they had the memes and they had the gifts and they were like yelling at me in a different. language again and I was like I don't understand what's happening but this time it was good they were like aggressively validating me in Korean instead of like telling me to kill myself in Portuguese that's good that's what happened that is great Kate really happy for you anyway so yeah the hole in my heart has been filled by BTS I'm no longer accepting applications for new fandoms oh damn okay understood all right next topic this is not worth the tea and I just want to say we put a bunch of things in a bullet point list that our stories that we need to talk about no one took this I am taking... No one wanted to talk about it, so I am. Liz is taking it for the team. Way to step up. Okay. This is Lindsay Lohan trying to start some beef with Leonardo DiCaprio.

I'm losing she... Leonardo DiCaprio is a huge environmentalist. It does a lot. Raises a lot of money. Yeah. Anyway, he posted on Instagram, like a bunch of shark fins that had been cut off from obviously shark buttons that are now. Very graphic image.

Yeah, I think Instagram marked it as graphic. It did, yeah. Sensitive content. He's trying to bring awareness to shark finning. She commented for no freaking reason. She goes, I hope you are there and taking this photo, maybe with like, at 4 Ocean, which is an organization that helps, like, clean the coastlines and the oceans. Anyway, she's basically implying that, like, he's not doing anything to stop this. Right.

Which, Lindsay Loehan, what are you doing? Trying to kidnap children on the streets of Paris. Right. Like, you don't remember that? That's for a different time. I'll like that later. But, like, what is she doing? She's not helping anybody.

Also, so out of left feel. I know. The weirdest, like, beef to pick. Like, why? Who would be like, oh, Leonardo DiCaprio is not doing enough, first of all? Right. And I doubt that Leonardo DeCapro is going through any mentions, or cares about Lindsay Lohan and Lowe.

Right. But if he did, why try and make an enemy out of him of awful? I see how old. Exactly. And she's trying to, like, get back into, like, the Hollywood world. Right. That was a mistake. That was a mistake.

Huge mystery. Anyway, other news that's not worth the tea. We're going to talk about the Low Hands one more time. This is a follow-up. Last episode. talked about, Dina Lohan, has a catfish of a boyfriend. Turns out his identity has been revealed. His name is Jesse Nadler.

He's 53 years old, and he works in commercial real estate. After all these stories came out about him not being real, he decided to dig it upon himself, be like, hey, stop talking about that. Like, I am a real person. He goes, just the thought of people thinking that I could be at catfish when everyone knows me and knows how hard I work and how I respect women and mothers. It just kills me. What?

Which, like, you know, this guy's not used to, like, publicly speaking on the record because like women and mothers? Has he met her now then? Nope. He probably watched Dirty John and like was like, oh, I know how to craft. Yeah, I know how to craft a statement. Yeah. Yeah, he says the reason they haven't met up is because of his mother's failing health, but maybe that is true. But Dina Lohan is all the money in the world. Do you like go to fly him out? Yeah. That's where he's at and fucking see him. That's weird. So sketchy. There's a lot of questions around that. Any other, any other news,

not worth the tea? Yes, we have one more. Will Smith. as the genie. It was revealed during the Grammys. He's the genie for Aladdin, the upcoming movie. And it really looks like Disney just spent a bunch of money trying to do Thanos the best they could do him. And then they had like this leftover budget. And they're like, well, I guess we can really only afford photoshopping Will Smith's face onto like a stock image of a blue genie. It's so bad.

It's not good. It's like legit nightmare fuel. It is. It's so bad. Yeah, and it's not just like they turned Will Smith blue. It's like they turned someone else blue, and then they like took Will Smith's face off of his body and put that face but like slightly too small. Like on a WWE wrestler or something. And it's like very uncanny valley.

Like he doesn't really have a neck and it's like weird and it's really creepy and I'm against it. That's how I feel. Agreed. Okay. Final category. As usual, we are ending with T-Times most unanswerable question of the week. there's a puzzling set of questions this week. They've been keeping me up at night. I wrote down two, and they're big ones.

The first one. It has to do with Miranda Lambert, first of all. She was at Stony River State Couse earlier this week. She was at dinner with her mom and a friend, and she got in an argument with the table next room, which I have questions about that, but we're going to move on. Anyway, they get in this heated argument. A restaurant staffer calls 911.

This argument escalates. There's like yelling and cussing on these 911 records. The woman, the restaurants staffer, was like, she's trying to hit people, blah, blah, like, you have to come over here. And then the climax of this fight was that Miranda Lambert dumped a salad onto the woman that she was fighting with. So my unanswerable question is, why is a salad the thing that Miranda Lambert chose to dump on this woman when it water, wine, a pasta dish? Take your mom's meal, whatever that was, if it was a salmon. Soup, any kind of soup or sauce. That is the lowest-stakes food I am.

to throw on a person in a food fight. What are you going to do? You just rub the romaine off and you're fine. Exactly. Yeah, just literally just like brush it off your shoulder. No, literally, that does nothing. For real. No, I don't understand.

It's, there isn't a food item that's worse other than like maybe a roll, but you could even like throw a bread. You could chuck a roll. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. That's terrible. It's a great question.

I don't know. Once again, if you have answers to any of these questions, just tweet us all. Please let us know. Okay, Kate, take the next one. Okay. Also a food-related question. Vincent's Tinovrio's Twitter, I don't know if you guys have ever been on there, but you need to see it for yourself. Well, I have now.

He really, he tweets some threads where it's kind of like a poem, but also just like random stream of consciousness thinking. He did a thread about Girl Scout cookies. I'm just going to start doing like a dramatic reading and then I'll stop and we can talk about it. I blame the Girl Scouts and they're freaking cookies. I covet them. The cookies, not the Girl Scouts. after all, they are scouts and are needed out there. Scouting.

Hmm, I guess. Scouting. They have names of cookies I've never heard of, never dreamed of. So then he goes on for six more tweets. That was just the first tweet about how the Girl Scout cookies basically are like he can't stop eating them. He told his wife they need to get rid of them. He covets the Girl Scout cookies. And they're too wonderful with too many strange names.

So my unanswerable question is, because clearly, first of all, is Sinanofio OK. Yeah. That's important. That's the main question here. And also, what's the best Girl Scout cookie? This is answerable. This is thin mince. Yeah.

Yeah, this is thin mints across the board. 100% of people wait in and it's thinnints. Tagalogs. It's taggons. See, I think it's Samoas, which tells you that this is not. Well, I was going to say taggongs and thin mints. I like those two. I've never even, what is that that you said tagglo?

Tagalog are those? They're the peanut butter ones. Yeah, the peanut butter ones. Hell yeah. Delicious. And you can like scrape them off with your teeth. Thin mince you get the most. bang for your back. But Samoa's are the best.

You can't eat a whole, try, like a whole box of Samoas. I don't, or you could. I could very easily eat a whole box at the end. Or at least one of the skinny little package. Let's do both. Anyway, thank you to Vincent's No-Gro, and maybe please, you know. Wait, I just want, okay. Please, let's talk more. I just, uh, sure, let's.

He also talked about how he was a frog. Did you read that? Yeah, that was a different thread. A monkey with an organ grinder? Yeah, he really, maybe. Maybe someone like go to Vincent's house and like just check on him. Yeah. Liz, you have one more question.

I do. Okay. Jennifer Lopez is turning 50 this summer. She's doing a big tour. She went on Ellen to promote those things. And she answered a lot of questions. The one I want to focus on is a story that she told to Ellen that like Ellen wasn't really phased by, but it's been keeping me up at night.

Okay. So apparently J-Lo and Arod own a modest lake house, which like, okay, sure. Sure. We'll see. That's really in need of renovations. And I guess Jailo has a fascination with the fixed repit slash Joanna Gaines designer. Like obsessed, right? Yeah.

Okay. So then I guess Joanna doesn't work outside of Waco, Texas, where her whole, like, brand is like based. Anyway, A-Rod orchestrated a meeting and surprised Jaila with a one-on-one consultation with Joanna. Jailo said, quote, it really blew me away. So my question is, A, is Joanna Gaines the biggest design? Like, there's many questions. How do I phrase this? Why is J-Lo obsessed with Joanna Gaines when she has all of the money in the world, all of the resources in the world?

And she wants to put up like a wooden framed, like love poster in her kitchen. Sure, sure. And like, mason jars with lights instead of them? Yes, yes. J-Lo, what the, like, what is that style? It does feel very off-brand for her. It's a little weird. She's all about glam and she's, like, why is Joanna Gaines of all people, like, a style that she looks up to and wants to be?

Does she just watch? Like, are they fix her up or? Is that what they do? Yeah. Does she literally just, like, watch that show and, like, is a fan? But even still, like, to have a consultation and, like, want to meet with her and fix, like, have this woman of all people fix her. Like, you can just go to Target. They have, like, a line at Target. Right. Also, are J-Lo's so low that this? Apparently. This really blew you away? J-Lo?

Apparently. I guess. I mean, it's weird. It's very weird. I mean, I've seen fix rapper, and it is kind of an addictive show. But like you said, it's like wooden. There's a lot of wood. There's a lot of mason jars. There's a lot of cutesy, homie kind of twee stuff. Yeah, and she's like, I don't, I'm not here for it.

Yeah, I'm really confused by that. That does feel really weird for J-Lo, I have to say. Yeah. Also, she's a woman of the people. Yeah, I don't know. I suppose. Anyway, that's my question. If you can come up with answers to any of this, let us know.

Okay, that's all the time where we have really quick. I want to say we did not talk about Ariana Grande. a single time. You're welcome. Wow. Thank God. Thank God. Thank you for listening. This has been Tea Time. I'm Liz Kelly. I'm Kate Hallowell. And I'm Amelia Weddemeier.