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Good morning, Millennials.
Welcome back to the shows and happy Tuesday.
Hope everybody's having a glorious morning.
A morning that is glorious.
And speaking of glory, it's Jackie O.
Speaking of glory, here I am.
Hey guys, how you doing?
Doing good.
Speaking of glory, me.
Speaking of glory, it is me.
Hi everyone.
And Turdy.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no speaking of glory it's gloria it's gloria
calling gloria i have to stop singing on the podcast we're gonna get into that on friday
on friday we're gonna get into it we're gonna get into kind of like what's been going down
there's a bit of drama in our lives no it's it's kind of like major. It is kind of major.
We haven't even spoken about it.
On a personal level.
Like one-to-one off email,
like seven lawyers emailing us.
Yeah, no, you and I have been communicating via email
with our team of litigators.
With our team of lawyers, yeah.
Seven business deals, seven attorneys.
And we'll talk about it on Friday, okay?
Yeah, I don't think it needs to be discussed
before Friday no it wouldn't be appropriate to discuss it before Friday wouldn't be so today's
Tuesday and I know that doesn't sound amazing but let me put some things in perspective okay we need
this okay like because I was thinking today I'm like oh wait as I was getting ready I'm like what
day is it Tuesday I was like yeah okay yeah do we wish it was Thursday of course but at least it's
not Monday like at least we've already started.
Do you know what I mean?
Yes, but like, there was excitement on Monday yesterday.
And it was-
I know, we had so much to live for.
Who's the fresh week anew?
And now we're just in the thick of it.
I know, and there's not like a big new Taylor and Travis story
that we could like hold on to, to buoy ourselves to.
But the stories actually did come together nicely today.
It took a while, but I feel good with where they're at.
Okay, I'm excited about that.
I have a lot of thoughts.
I know two of the stories I did ask to discuss,
and one in particular I have a lot of thoughts on,
so I can't wait to get to that.
Great.
Well, we'll get to it soon.
Just need to catch up with the Swirlies.
We recorded Redheads yesterday.
So you guys, it's time to become a Redhead.
Stop being an uncultured
uneducated swine swine sorry swine and join the redheads we read great books we just read none
of this is true by lisa jewel which turdy recommended so if turdy liked it when we liked
it like everybody likes you liked it yeah okay it was good right yeah it was super cute it's about
it's like true crime Book about a podcast
But by the way
That bitch Josie
Like such a loser
But then also
That other girl was like
You're like
So easily being
Taken advantage of
Like how do you not
See what's going on here
Yeah no and she let
This nut job
Into her precious life
With her precious family
Kids
Oh sorry
Don't want to spoil it
But no that's really
Not what it's about
It's not at all
So I'm so glad
Everyone enjoyed Love love love Turdy's influencing the redheads while the redheads
influence the culture while the redheads influence the culture and yesterday was our 50th episode
can you believe that 50 books it's amazing like if you just stay with the redheads like you will
have read 50 books right just stay with us you know what we didn't discuss that i feel like
actually would have been a great story?
If you have some,
if you have a story you want to swap out.
I guess there's one.
Moshe posted it on Instagram.
They did this big study
on the reading habits of Americans
based on like age group, gender, race,
and how many books people are reading.
And I thought it was really interesting.
Like for women,
the most popular was like True Crime.
And if you've read more than I think 50 books this year, you're in the top like 0.01% of readers thought it was really interesting like for women the most popular was like true crime and if you've read more than I think 50 books this year you're in the top
like 0.01 percent of readers it was really interesting but like most Americans read one
book in the year that's what I read yeah barely barely but then it was also really interesting
to see like you know genres based on like ethnicity or race it was super interesting
let me pull it up actually because there were some key takeaways Moshe posts so much I don't know how I'm ever gonna find this thing
take your time but not too much time no I won't take my time oh also okay hold on
reading we do it every day we're reading in the evening and even when we play oh here
46 percent of Americans did not read any books last year.
5% read more than one book.
Okay.
Wow.
That's very little.
You guys, we've got to step it up.
You guys need to become a redhead.
It's time.
This was interesting.
The country needs to join the redheads.
Paper books are two times more popular than e-books.
That makes sense.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you guys.
I left my Kindle on the plane again.
We saw your Instagram story.
We don't feel sorry for you.
What the fuck is wrong with me?
How are you leaving it on a plane?
What, do you put it in the pocket in the seat back in front of you?
I must.
That's disgusting.
It's so dumb.
And by the way.
Not even dumb.
Gross.
I wouldn't want it back after that with the vomit bag.
Fathom.
I can't even fathom how I left my Kindle on the plane.
I didn't even read on the plane.
Like, what was it doing out? Maybe Ben's trying to get you to stop reading. With the vomit bag? I can't even fathom how I left my Kindle on the plane. I didn't even read on the plane.
Like, what was it doing out?
Maybe Ben's trying to get you to stop reading.
That's on me.
I own that one.
White readers prefer mystery and crime over other genres.
Black readers prefer religion and spirituality.
And Hispanic readers prefer history.
Young adults favor fantasy, of course.
Millennials favor history.
And older readers prefer mystery and crime.
That's so funny that this whole movement of romance and reading smut is not represented here at all.
Well, maybe that's because it's kind of multi-generational, multicultural.
No, but it just feels like these books, like the Evelyn Hugo's, like they have taken over the world that they're in the list every week.
Yeah.
Where's the romance representation.
And where's like the Taylor Jenkins read,
where does she fall into it?
So how many books did you read last year?
42.
You were in the 94th percentile.
I'm in the 99.
Yeah.
You little old me. I just thought that was. Yeah, you. Little old me.
I just thought that was so interesting.
That is interesting.
But it is interesting how like you think book talk has changed the reading landscape and
in a lot of ways it hasn't.
And this is not shocking, but e-books attract the heaviest readers, which makes them upset.
Of course.
Yeah.
Of course.
I thought that was fascinating.
I guess we don't need to include it as a story because I just did.
Because we just debriefed so we can stick with the five that we have.
When does Redheads come out tomorrow?
I'm standing by the five.
30.
How could you ask that?
Thursday.
Thursday.
Sorry.
In two days?
In two days.
Yes.
The first Thursday of the month, which this month was on February 1st.
So we had to get to step in.
We had to get to step in on recording.
Rough. Yeah. but you know what we turned out always fun to be with the swirly such a great group such a great group of dynamic
readers with very opinions of dynamic women women let's talk about no let's not I had a very busy
morning actually my home was really coming together very Very exciting. I got my couches.
I got my drapes.
I cannot wait.
I'm also hosting book club next week.
And I was not going to host if my couch was not going to come in time.
But my couch came.
Pressure's on.
Are you going to cook?
No.
But it's balabusta.
Yeah, no.
But I'm going to do like a kosher catering.
Like I'm going to really go all out for the girlies.
They deserve it.
They deserve like good food.
They don't deserve
whatever crap I can scrounge together. Have Ben cook. I really I want it to be and then like I'm
I want my house to be so clean like I don't want to have to then like clean the kitchen after I
cook like I'll be ordering from like a kosher butcher or something. And what are you reading?
Oh I have to read the book it's called like Kitty Car. Oh, the lives of Kitty Car.
Something.
Yeah.
Kitty Car.
I've seen it.
I think it was a Reese's pick.
I was tempted by it.
Oh, was it?
Yeah.
I almost chose it like once for the redheads.
And then I didn't.
I don't always like like I don't love when something that we choose also Reese has chosen
because it just feels like everyone in the world is reading the same book when we should
be all reading like more than one book and you should be platforming multiple authors
right right and this author has already had her moment so um I actually I think that was the month
I chose Edvika and I feel good about that okay the Hollywood wives this was like kind of similar um
but it looks good it's on my want to read we almost chose what's the book you just read on
redheads that you said was great?
Strange Sally Diamond.
But somebody in the book club had read it.
Darn, darn, darn.
Yeah.
So that's exciting.
My house is coming along.
It's so great when you start to like love your home, you know?
It's like, I can't wait to get home and hang this piece of art, you know?
What piece of art?
Just the art that you bought me that's now going in my dining room.
Oh my gosh.
The Gray Mallon? Is it Gray Mallon? Or Slim Arons? Or who's the going in my dining room. Oh, my gosh. The gray mallet?
Is it gray mallet?
Or slim irons?
Or who's the other one?
Slim irons.
One of them.
It's one of them.
It's giving Italian landscape.
It's going in my dining room.
It matches perfectly, and I'm so excited.
So it's truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Me.
Little old me.
So anything else you want to, like, catch up on before we dive in?
Busy day yesterday.
Just doing a lot of personal admin, you know?
Personal.
Oh, you know what?
I actually made a TikTok this morning that I wanted to bring up today.
Because there's this big conversation.
This girl's video on TikTok went viral.
Her name is Darcy.
And she does like beauty, makeup stuff.
And so she's like unboxed my PR with me.
I've been gone for a week.
And Jackie, there might have been 500 boxes.
It was the craziest
thing and it really spawned this conversation about like the gifting industry and PR and you
know we've been having this conversation on the toast for many years no one listens to us but now
on TikTok everyone's talking about it so I made a TikTok like giving my two cents and I wanted to
know like what's your thoughts and experience on like the insane amount of gifting that comes with
being an influencer obviously it's like first world problem this isn't real but like what are
your thoughts my thoughts are when it's good keep
sending it when it's crap you can keep it and you know when it's crap Jackie I literally said that
in my tiktok I'm like at the end of the day like what most people don't realize I think a lot of
people look at like the gifting thing is like with envy and what you don't realize is like it's all
crap it's all crap and you feel you don't want to nobody like throws it away so you want to donate
it but you also feel bad like like just getting rid of all this stuff
so you try and incorporate it into your life
and then you just have so much crap.
It's crap.
It's crap on crap.
But what I've noticed is I feel like beauty brands
used to send their whole collection to influencers
because it's hard to get someone's shade.
Yeah, of course.
But now they're sending like four shades.
Yeah, I just saw Kylie's foundation launch did that.
I just saw Kylie's foundation.
I've been seeing some of the videos and I'm really tempted to try it.
Wow.
The thing is though, I love my foundation and I have no issues with it.
I don't know how a foundation could be better for me than the one that I'm using.
Foundation is also so personal.
But it looks thick.
I like a thick granny foundation.
You do like a thick granny.
I like full coverage i've heard
it's very matte and like drying i don't know if that's your vibe no but that's not what i heard
oh did you hear that like people reviewing it on social media i feel like i need to just try it
but then it's like it's hard to just try it because i still have to get probably three
colors to find my color well you can go can go to Ulta. Could I?
Such a good point.
Like, seriously, could I?
No, I mean, yes, actually.
You could.
If I'm leaving the house, look at my nails.
You guys don't want to see my toes.
Oh my God, what I did to my toes.
I tried to clip them.
Claudia, they look like dinosaurs, like raggedy, jaggedy. Was that Charlie
or Harry pregnancy
where I clipped
your toenails for you?
I feel like it was Harry.
They were scary.
Oh,
after I gave birth
to Harry,
yeah,
they were really long.
We were all just
coming over every day
and she was just like,
had her dogs out
and it was like,
I think for the culture.
In my bed,
like nursing my child.
I said,
for the culture,
we need to get these dogs under control.
And so she trimmed them.
But it's hard to clip your own toenails.
Even not as a pregnant person.
Yeah, no, but even, like, I just clipped my toenails because they were getting too long.
And I didn't do a good job.
And why is it so hard?
Oh, you know, I did want to share something, like, not to brag.
But I did, did like reach a new
personal milestone yesterday okay at the gym so like running is really hard for me like I'm just
like an extremely out of shape person between the vaping and you know being obese for many years
it's just not something I can do um so I've been trying to like run for like a full song like ever
since I started my health training it's really hard I ran for four minutes straight yesterday thank you thank you and I really feel as though the only reason I was able
to do it was because I pulled up on YouTube the 1989 version of Wildest Dreams x Enchanted and
like the last four minutes of that when she's just going so hard like it really it powered me through
and I was really proud of myself I was sweating so hard it's like literally four minutes how embarrassing is that whatever I did it
you know on FaceTime when you do a thumbs up now it does a thumbs up bubble I'm so glad you brought
that up because I keep getting thumbs ups from you and I know you're not giving a thumbs up but
I actually did just give you a thumbs up are you getting getting it? Oh, no. I'm on my computer. Yeah, no, I'm getting it on my computer.
I'm on my computer, too.
Oh, I got a thumbs up.
Obsessed.
Okay, because I just got the new phone.
Couple grandmas.
Wait, Jackie, do you know this one?
You can send hearts if you do heart hands.
Oh.
And two peace signs.
Hold on.
Okay, one peace sign sends balloons. Or it doesn't. Two peace signs sends Hold on. Okay. One peace sign sends balloons.
Or it doesn't.
And then two peace signs sends balloons and confetti.
I didn't get that.
It works though.
I believe you.
That's very cool.
Let's get a pregnant redhead.
I'm loving my new iPhone.
God, it's good.
Let's get a redhead bride.
Yep.
Because redheads are trad wives too.
Like they get married and settle down.
Redheads get pregnant.
Redheaded baby.
Redheaded anything.
Redheaded baby.
And then also it's like, okay, so we have pregnant man,
but not pregnant redheaded man.
Right, well then it's a slippery slope.
Yeah, yeah, but they have to wait in line.
Oh, imagine if they did pregnant
redheaded man before at this point they would you know at the rate that things are going yes
that's actually like the logical next step yeah anything to not get the redhead variant but i'm
so glad i've gotten so much outreach and support from redheads the redheads group chats are popping
off that's good i am speaking for the people i'm the voice of the people and you guys I'm happy to do it it's basically at this point it's you and Shannon like yeah it is
and Shannon was just I saw after we recorded that she was literally saying this on her story that
there's no redhead bride she is a redheaded bride but if she were a male bride then she'd have an
emoji oh Shannon's coming to town let me tell you Shannon called me yesterday and it was when my drapes were being installed and she's like what does that sound I'm
like oh my drapes are being installed she's like oh my god so funny my drapes were just installed
and I was like so excited about my drapes and then she showed me so exciting Jackie then she
showed me like her bedroom like I can't deal with Shannon's house I wanted to burn my house to the
ground I was like oh she's like show me yours I'm like no they're not done yet no I when I was on her podcast I was saying this to Shannon this is like two separate things but when I was like oh she's like show me yours I'm like no they're not done yet no I when I was on her
podcast I was saying this to Shannon this is like two separate things but when I was set like her
house is just came together so quickly so beautifully done to a tee but she says it's
because of tailored her best friend is like really great with design he just tells her what to buy
oh but like the thing about Shannon is like oh she wants to paint her kitchen cabinets it's done
tomorrow like she's so quick with it oh I need to take my christmas tree down at 6 a.m on december 26th she's so like she doesn't
she was wrong for that moment she was wrong for that she explained why she did it and i understood
like just that feeling of needing to purge and she had moved so much furniture around for her
christmas setup and she had uh people staying with her and they never got to see her house as it is
without all the Christmas crap and like normal.
Like to me, that's just like an extremely privileged thing to do.
Like she doesn't know what it's like to not be able.
Like some people don't have a Christmas tree.
She doesn't know what it's like to not be able to decorate for Christmas.
So to take it down so quickly and swiftly and so kind of,
you know, disrespectfully.
No, she made it make sense to me.
But I mean, I feel the same way.
Even the other day, she posted her messy closet.
And she's like, don't worry.
It was so messy, like no shade.
And she was like, don't worry, I will be cleaned up today.
And it was cleaned up today for me.
If that were my closet, three months later.
I actually relate to Shannon in that sense.
Like if something needs to be done, I'll get it done that day.
Like I'm extremely proactive.
But like-
Except this pap smear.
I have been needing to get a pap smear for like two months. And I just every day, I'm extremely proactive but like except this pap smear like I have been needing to get a
pap smear for like two months and I just every day I'm like oh I have to make the appointment
today I have to make the appointment today I have to make and I just can't make the appointment
when it comes to making appointments I'm not your girl yes you're not no but I've realized that's
something I can delegate to my husband not my pap pap smear, but appointments in general. I love that.
I love the phase of growing up where you realize like our husbands like can help us.
Like they should take stuff off our plates.
And the thing is our husbands love talking on the phone.
Love.
And it's my weakness in life.
Yeah.
And so I think that's a perfect situation where this is now your responsibility.
Love.
Yeah.
Love. Okay. So I feel as though we've dilly-dallied long enough yeah yeah i mean you know us we could always further dilly we could
wax poetic we could dilly further and dally further we could always dally further i don't
know about dilly she is so lost without further dilly-dallying,
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Our first story, we've got some musical beef today.
The first two.
First one, Nicki Minaj releases Megan Thee Stallion
diss track called Bigfoot amid their ongoing feud.
So Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion
have been having a musical feud over the last few days.
Last week, Megan Thee Stallion put out a song called Hiss, and there is a line on the song
about Megan's law, which is about a law that requires the sex offender registry to be public.
Sex offenders to register with the state, and we know that Nicki Minaj's husband is
a level two sex offender in New York State.
So is her brother.
So this line seems to be about a little bit of a of a
diss towards Nicki Minaj the thing is is that it could have been a diss towards Nicki Minaj but
Nicki Minaj like took it personally and then released her own diss track basically just kind
of outing herself like as the target of this lyric it probably was about Nicki Minaj but it could
have not been you know yeah she had plausible
deniability but maybe there's stuff going on behind the scenes where they because the the
origin of this feud is weird they've been they've worked together worked together before and they've
been fine so it's like what happened is this the first thing to happen if this is the first thing
to happen yeah it's kind of an outsized reaction but if there's stuff behind the scenes and then
Megan took it public with this line Megan's's Law. Now Nikki's responding in kind.
She put out a song called Bigfoot.
And she put it out a few days after the initial song came out.
So she moves quickly.
And I listened to it.
It's very good.
It's definitely about Megan Thee Stallion.
Yeah.
So here are some of the lyrics.
This little begging W word talking about Megan's law.
What's the W word?
I don't know.
Oh, they bleeped it out?
They blinked it out.
I was thinking wench.
Or witch.
But like they wouldn't bleep that out.
I don't know.
What's the W word?
Sound up in the comments even though it's clearly a bad word.
Yeah.
Okay, here's the rhyme.
This little Beggin' W talking about Megan's Law for a free beat.
You could hit Megan raw.
Ooh.
If you a ghost writer, party in Megan's jaw.
Wait, if you a ghost writer, party in Megan's jaw i get it i think like blowjob yeah okay i
think shots thrown but i still ain't let megan score bad bitch she like six foot i call her big
foot the bitch fell off i said get up on your good foot because you know she was shot in the
foot by tori lanes she was shot in the foot by tori lane she also accuses megan of lying to gail king on cbs morning about the details of
the 2020 assault by tori lenez oh wow i remember when we reported on that story jackie said the
name tori lanes a thousand times and every single time she called him tori lenez also i saw this morning it said megan the stallion was going on um gma she had a big announcement
and then i never saw what the announcement is i don't think gma is where you take your beef
this whatever she's announcing it's going to be like a collaboration with the bratz dolls not
like what your response to nikki minaj anyways she also in the outro nikki
teases there's a second installment to the dish track and she repeats lying on your dead mama
on your dead mama she said oh ho the things you've lied about even pertaining to your mom
you don't want them out okay now since you think it's funny to speak about people's families we'll
all join in we'll all play the reindeer games so here's where
I stand I feel as though we were just having the conversation about Nicki Minaj like she's so funny
and iconic and like she's so deeply problematic but like whatever you know this was like a gentle
reminder she is married to a sex offender and related to one and it's just like low-key crazy it really is and I think that
Megan Thee Stallion low-key got shot in the foot and I feel like this is the third time like it's
been made into a rap lyric and like people make fun of her I feel like the rap community has
actually been really awful to her after she was literally shot and I kind of stand with Megan
Thee Stallion oh really yeah and then and then Nicki Minaj like once this track came out Megan
Thee Stallion like really played this well she released the and then Nicki Minaj like once this track came out Megan Thee Stallion
like really played this well she released the track then Nicki responded and Nicki's been going
insane on social media leaving the most insane comments on like regular users like people in
the fandoms TikToks and stuff she's been like kind of acting like a nut and Meg is just kind
of letting her act nutty so I do feel like Megan won even though Megan like did start it she did
start it yeah I don't know I was gonna I think this song, like it's really good.
The lyrics are cutting.
It's a good diss track.
Like she thoroughly dissed her.
Yep.
She's been dissed.
She's been dissed.
And I feel like Nicki Minaj finds herself in these feuds often.
So it's kind of like a Nicki thing.
Yeah.
But at this point, like I'm gonna I'm sticking
with Nikki oh wow yeah and I feel like when she was fighting with Cardi B we we didn't we didn't
know I where's Cardi B I stood firmly with Cardi B right um because I felt as though like Nikki
really couldn't handle not being the only female rapper and and she should have been more supportive
even though that's so much easier said than done, by the way.
Like, I honestly kind of stand with Nicki on that.
No, I mean.
Where is Cardi B?
That's a good call.
Who knows what the beef is?
I just think time and time again, like, Nicki, she's hysterical.
Her music is great.
Like, the fact that she wrote this seriously disful track.
It's extremely disful.
It's extremely disful. In extremely disful in a matter of days
like she's the queen she's the queen for a reason she's a supreme talent i i don't think anyone's
gonna argue that like she really her personal life is a little chaotic yeah oh we okay when
we're talking about this like i just have to take that out of it because of course she loses every
time if oh okay oh okay by the, you have to say that. Yeah.
No, no, sorry.
You're taking the sex offender thing out of the equation, even though it's like a major part of the equation.
I know it's hard to like just take out of the equation, but if we put it on the table,
there's nothing else to talk about.
No, it's such a, it's kind of a game over.
Game over.
So we kind of have to take it off the table so we can even talk about the diss track.
But that's unfair to Megan Thee Stallion because like facts are facts. Like your husband's a sex offender. No, it's like, and okay. Why we just like take stuff off the table so we can even talk about the diss track but that's unfair to Megan the stallion because like facts are facts like your husband's a sex offender no it's like and
okay why we just like take stuff off the table no I I understand I just really like Megan the
stallion like I also really like Nicki Minaj you know what if we just what if we just didn't take
sides okay and I think also with this like time tell. We'll see how it ages.
Yeah.
Also, I do think it's probably best for Megan Thee Stallion not to respond because Nikki does look like a little loony.
Yeah.
Just like going off for days.
Yeah, it's a big response to a one line.
Yeah.
She just really also just outed herself in responding.
For sure.
But Nikki's not like
coy like that.
Like, oh, maybe if I don't say anything
like no one will notice
that it's about me.
That it's,
my husband's a sex offender.
Yeah.
You know, she's not like
trying to hide.
Yeah, that's true.
She's like, what'd you say?
Say it again.
Say it to my face.
Yeah.
Like this just could never be me.
I'm so averse to confrontation especially
publicly like I feel like we're really not and maybe this is to our detriment because this is
like a huge part of being like a podcaster and just like a an internet person is like having beef
it is but then everyone who has beef they like talk a big talk and then the second the other
person hears it they're like I'm sorry I didn't mean it like that it's so true but like should we start some beef like for our careers i think we need to have
beef with tana mojo no no i actually like i really like her yeah me too and i also like her co-host
she has a podcast too um who should we beef do we have current beef, we'll talk about it on Friday. Oh, yes, for sure.
We have beef.
We have beef.
Social media beef.
I feel like a lot of the beef has been squashed recently.
Yes, I would agree with you.
But there really, there was never like actual beef.
We just like, you know, we're girls.
Like we just see other people on social media and we're like, oh, you know.
No, no, but like, no, we've had beef.
And now we don't have beef. Who are oh oh yeah yeah oh you know what actually yeah
okay because that's the thing about squashing beef like you need to you don't bring it up
you don't move back and I do think it's worth mentioning we're not going to bring it up but
like in the beef like we actually were wrong yeah but yeah so it's not like if we brought it up it
would actually only be like in a positive light for the person we
squashed the beef with.
Yeah.
That they would be forgiving.
But we're not going to talk about it,
but just know like you're right.
We currently have no internet beef.
I forgot.
And we've talked about that beef before.
We did have beef.
We do not have beef anymore.
Like there is,
it's vegetarian.
It's vegetarian.
I actually was just realizing,
I think I have beef with someone.
Who?
Text it to me.
At least I should.
I'm going to text it to you.
Jackie's laughing like an evil witch, and she has beef.
What do you do?
I definitely have beef.
When I send you this person's name, you're going to be like, yeah, there's beef.
There is beef.
And you know what?
I hate her.
She's wrong. And you're right. Thank you. I agree. Did she's wrong and you're right thank you did you ever
respond i don't think so i mean that was humiliating but like it would be classic me if
someone like responded like a diss in my dm and i didn't see it it's so true like too busy to beef
too busy to beef too that's the name of our diss track. Too busy, too beef.
And the thing about my beef is that if you guys like,
what happened was public.
So there's nothing that like happened behind the scenes like you guys could maybe figure it out.
Oh my God, that's so funny.
I totally forgot about that.
Yeah, okay.
I guess we like low-key do have beef.
Yeah.
Yeah, love beef. Are you ready for our next? Wait, also, let me check to you one more person who I feel-key do have beef. Yeah. Yeah, love beef.
Are you ready for our next?
Wait, also, let me text you one more person
who I feel like we might have beef with.
Me or you?
We.
We, oh, okay.
Texted.
We're a united front.
If one of us has beef, all of us have beef.
Oh, yeah, by the way,
I stand with you against that other bitch.
Oh, yeah, that one is a little, yeah.
We do have beef with that, right?
Yeah, unfortunately, we do have beef.
And I meant to tell you,
we actually just got an email about that beef beef you're lying no i swear excited how
annoying is this conversation for people listening who don't who aren't us the thing is everything
that we're discussing like it's it's all in the public domain so if you've been paying attention
closely you could piece it together yeah do i have beef with anyone else well i can't did i say on
this podcast that i officially squashed the beef between shannon well I can't did I say on this podcast that I officially
squashed the beef between Shannon and Tinks you did or maybe it was on Patreon breaking Fred but
it's okay a week delay you had a week exclusive I'm bringing the girlies together Shannon and
Tinks beef is over they squashed it they don't even remember what it was about and like they're
both agreed just to like drop it and be friends now they follow each other love love bring it like
that's the barbie movie okay
you know are you ready for our next story which is more musical beef
yes i'm so excited about this one zach bryan and walter hayes are beefing walter
walter hayes and tony lanes walker hayes and tori lenez yeah not tony tori wait but it's a man
tori it's tori it's tori it's a man named tori yeah it's a man confusing. It's a redheaded pregnant man named Tori.
Lannes.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Okay, back to the story.
Tori Lannes.
Tori Lannes.
It's like Majdi Shah.
It's so funny.
It's really, you made it French.
Oh my God, I'm also cracking up that like we totally spoke about that story once.
Once.
I said Tori Lanez the whole time.
And then we never spoke about it again.
It was just giving like mic drop, you know?
Lanez, boom.
And I'm sorry, it will always be Lanez for me.
I agree.
It has and always will be Lanez.
And considering he shot someone and he's in jail,
he doesn't deserve like that.
I have to get his name right.
Oh.
One thousand percent.
Also.
If it's lanes with a Z.
Like that's probably not his real name.
Right.
Right.
It's Linus.
So it's Linus.
Anyways.
Walker Hayes and Zach Bryan.
Are beefing.
Because Zach Bryan woke up one day.
And decided to be a little rude.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay. Yes. Yes. However. However. He woke day and decided to be a little rude. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Yes.
Yes.
However, however, he woke up and decided to be rude, but also to tell a hard truth.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
No, but at the expense of someone.
Yeah.
And he said, imagine being radio, whoever the hell that is hearing shake the frost by
Tyler Childers and being like, no, no, let's go with the Applebee's song, which is a reference
to the Walker Hayes fan song called Fancy Like, which was huge on TikTok. And then there's a line
about Applebee's. So it's clearly about that song. Right. If people don't know, like the context in
country, Tyler Childers is kind of this like more outskirts. He's very not like pop mainstream
country. He's very folksy, but he's a really big following. And he is one of his biggest songs
called Shake the Frost. It's like he's very's very deep very country like it's kind of poetic and the applebee's song was like the number one song
on country radio for like three months and it goes like this yeah we fancy like applebee's on a date
night got that bourbon streak steak with the oreo shake and some whipped cream and it's up to like
it is it was played everywhere you definitely know the song it was played
everywhere yeah we all know it non-stop for probably three months and it was some of the
worst months of my life like for real so I actually in its essence I agree with his point
yeah but in order to raise up one artist he had to throw another artist under the bus even though
he was really trying to make a commentary about like radio in general. Yeah. And instead, like he besmirched Walker Hayes's name and Walker Hayes
is fighting back. So he responded to the tweet. At first, he just responded with another tweet
and it was very mature. What did it say? I can't find it. Oh, it was just like, you know,
different strokes, very, very mature, very, you know, bigger person.
Let me find it.
I can tell you exactly what it was.
Yeah, because then after that, he did a little more.
Hold on.
Take your time. You're're right where is his tweet
oh walker hayes then responded big shout out to radio for that applebee's song
zach and tyler praying y'all's continued success so honestly had he left it at that I would have had a lot of respect now he
was insulted so he has every right to respond but like Zach Bryan like had a good point I'm sorry
yeah he did his response the first one was good and then he decided to also put out a song about
the situation the lyrics include woke up wait so wait so he took the higher high road and then
like the next day changed his mind
and recorded a song about it yeah no I think he's still on the high road because it was a mature
song with like a mature message still not like a diss track but it just was a little extra so the
lyrics go like this woke up this morning read something mean something in the orange says
you're feeling green felt like throwing punches
I just held him back because Jesus didn't die for me so I could fight with Zach
that'll be me next time I'm getting to a fight with my husband literally in the post caption
so he posted the song to his Instagram and then in the caption he said me and my buddies were
talking about the whole Zach Bryan thing they were saying they appreciated how I responded I confess that they
only saw my best foot forward I had a hundred smart-ass responses in the chamber that I didn't
fire off then we got to talking about people in general why we get insecure etc mostly about how
artists size each other up compare and talk trash it's obviously our natural human tendency to be a
little butthurt by anyone else's success then we wondered about that why on earth we would do that as songwriters knowing
that point zero zero one percent of us are actually making it in this biz it took me 18
years to feed my kids with music and I'll still knock something I hear on the radio because I
didn't write it so we tried our best to put it all in a twanger and this is what we got I hope
it makes y'all talk about stuff that matters. Like so mature, we love, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But like I feel as though I'm like annoyed
that like Zach Bryan comes off as the villain here
because I think his point like needs to be spoken about.
Like what is it with country radio?
Also just radio in general,
how like the worst songs become the most popular.
What is that? And not the worst worst songs but there are like sometimes bad not the best songs that
they play over and over again like why right and we're forced into liking them but I feel like
fancy like went viral on tiktok not on radio and they started playing it on the radio because it
was so big on TikTok.
Perhaps.
That's actually a good point. I don't know that that one's like the best example.
But I do think there is, you know, an argument to be made here.
But I think in general, now Walker Hayes is trying to like capitalize on the moment.
I think he's also trying to, he sees that people are talking about him.
People might not know him as an artist.
And I think aside from Fancy, like he's a very talented singer and songwriter
and he writes like soulful music not just Applebee's jingles right and he's trying to use
this moment to show everyone what a talented artist he is like he wrote this song what overnight and
if you listen to it he sounds amazing so I think he's trying to use the moment to be like I'm not
just the fancy like guy because I'm sure part of him is like fancy like isn't my best song either
why is radio playing it by the way he definitely I think that happens with a lot of singers they like resent that one song because
it's not emblematic of like who they are and what they're capable of yeah I've like been using the
word emblematic so much it's such a great word I feel like it's emblematic of how great that word is
yeah but also I I do think it's a little bit of a miss in walker hayes's caption for him to be like
you know jealous of someone's you know like zach bryan's not jealous no i don't think so either
i just really like walker hayes we've interviewed him a few times at the cma he's a really nice
person sweetie he's like sober he's a dad he's really got like a good head on his shoulders
Sweetie, he's like sober.
He's a dad.
He's really got like a good head on his shoulders.
Sweetie.
Yeah.
And I like what he said.
Like it took him 18 years to like feed his kids through his music.
Like he's not going to be knocking whatever song it is,
the song to be the song to do that.
Say song again.
Zach Bryan then did like post another tweet being like,
I didn't mean like to like bring down someone.
I was just trying to make a point.
For sure. But you did bring someone down and they they're down and they're gonna pick themselves up yeah and like I feel like
why you gotta be Walker why you gotta be so rude it could have been anyone but I just feel like
Walker really like he's not the biggest artist like maybe go after
like a Luke Bryan song that stings it's such a good point like all those like OG country guys
like Luke Bryan Jason Aldean like their music sucks no no their music doesn't suck but like
they definitely have a corny song that's on the radio go after that sunrise bumblebee song of
Blake Shelton sunset repeat like that's the worst song on the planet. Right. Like go after one of them.
Not the one song
Walker Hayes on the radio.
But the thing is
when Zach Bryan
It's so true.
When Zach Bryan woke up
and decided to fire off
his fire point
he wasn't thinking about this.
He was just like
I'm making a fire point.
No.
So true.
No.
He wasn't thinking
how will this affect
Walker's day.
Wait.
He wasn't thinking
what about Walker?
No.
He wasn't.
And that so that's
I guess therein lies the issue.
He wasn't thinking about Walker but like he doesn't need to be thinking about Walker. He's just wasn't. And so that's, I guess, therein lies the issue. He wasn't thinking about Walker,
but he doesn't need to be thinking about Walker.
He's just a person trying to say something.
Aren't we all just people trying to say something?
Every damn day, Latterd.
Every damn day.
So I'm gonna issue a truce here.
Yeah, like let's kind of do what we did
with Shannon and Tanks, you know?
Just, you guys,
it wasn't meant
to be personal.
It's not like
Megan's Law.
Right, right.
It's not like
Mr. Lanez.
Also,
at the end of the day,
like, this is
a moment for
Walker Hayes,
which he really
hasn't had, so.
Yeah.
And it's a great way
for him to showcase,
like, his talent.
Right.
I think it's fine. I think it's fine.
I think it's fine too.
Are you ready for our next story?
What number is it?
Number three.
Yes.
And something that's like kind of not fine.
Oh no.
Nikki and Brie Garcia, formerly Bella,
are shocked and disheartened by WWE sexual assault
and trafficking claims.
Excuse me?
Okay, so the sisters who were previously part of the WWE
under the stage name the Bella Twins
left the company last year
and they had to change their name
because the company owned the Bella name.
So now they're the Garcia Twins.
We knew that.
We talked about that.
I didn't know that,
but like they will always be the Bella Twins.
Yeah, but so it's like ex-formerly Twitter,
Garcia, formerly Bella.
They shared a joint statement.
Toast, formerly Breath.
Toast, formerly Breath. They shared a statement on their respective instagram accounts about the recent allegations
of sexual assault against the company along with its co-founder vince mcmahon and wwe executive
john jackie jackie just let it go mcmahon next one he's literally so famous but yeah the next one's coming up it's gonna be worse okay and wwe executive john lori and teas who's their stepdad who's stepdad the bella sisters you
know their mom married that wwe executive oh i didn't know that you did you watch bella's show
i don't think i did actually who am i No, like, you were obsessed with, like, Total Diva, like, Bella.
No, I wasn't.
I never watched Total Divas.
I only, like, just casually fell into the Bellas one day.
I never watched.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay, well, their mom was married to a WWE executive, or is married.
John, they call him John.
Okay.
Just leave it at John L.
A former employee is accusing Vince and John of sexual assault,
physical and emotional abuse.
Well, there are two separate things,
but the former employee filed a lawsuit claiming that she experienced
physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault,
and trafficking while working at the company.
Among her claims in the court docs,
she alleged that Vince pushed her for a physical relationship in exchange
for her employment at the WWEwe and that he had sexual he had recruited john to have sexual relations with
her as well is that what is that what makes it human trafficking yeah and then so they put out
a statement and that's their stepdad saying we are shocked and disheartened with the recent
allegations against members of the wwe it has been a lot to process since we found out this past week
just as you all did this is something we don't stand for or condone from anyone no matter who they are we want all
women to feel safe and supported in the workplace and in their everyday lives damn yeah yikes yikes
and it's also crazy how even though they're no longer in the wwe and they don't even have their
name because of it like they're still kind of the face and they have to no it sucks I mean WWE like
literally took their name yeah but they still are like having to answer for the sins of the WWE
yeah I don't really I don't believe in this like culture where like everyone connected to everything
like has to talk on everything it is their stepdad but like they're not affiliated with this company
anymore I guess they are like the biggest women to come out of the WWE. So it's like a nice thing for them to stand in solidarity.
But this like.
And I'm sure they do stand, you know, like.
Of course.
Well, no, I don't think they're for human trafficking.
Yeah.
It's just kind of like it's an obvious statement.
Right.
No, like statement culture.
I'm not like a huge fan of.
And like the instances where people actually like should speak
out they don't so it's like always unnecessary statements like I didn't think the Bella Twins
were involved in human trafficking you know yeah or that it was something that they advocated for
well I'm not in their dms or comments so I don't know how many like people were calling for this
and so if it was in response to that sending them the link being like yikes Bella Twins really hope
you say something yeah yeah
or if they just felt compelled to say something yeah but they're saying it's definitely awkward
that's like their mom's boyfriend husband so yeah who knows and they do a lot of work as like
podcasters and talking so I guess in that sense it would come up at some point. Yeah. But yeah, crazy times.
Are you ready for our next story?
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Our next story is the first in, I think,
what will be a series of stories over the next two weeks, which is Super Bowl commercial collaboration pairs.
Oh, how exciting.
I love these stories.
First one, Elf Super Bowl commercial collaboration pair.
And they've teamed up with the cast of Suits for their Super Bowl commercial.
Wait, Elf Cosmetics?
Elf Cosmetics.
Yeah, remember last year they did Jennifer Coolidge.
She was having her big moment.
With the sticky, it's a primer so sticky and it was like sticking to everything.
Yeah, so this year the legal drama is going to be part of the Super Bowl.
Three of its stars are reuniting on the small screen.
Gina Torres, Rick Hoffman, and Sarah Rafferty appear in the trailer for Elf Cosmetics' new Super Bowl.
Wait, so is that, Rick Hoffman is obviously Louis Lit.
Yeah.
Sarah is Donna.
And who was the first actress?
These three people.
Jessica, right?
Yeah, yeah, okay. Jessica, right? Yeah, okay.
Jessica, Donna, and Lewis.
Great.
So they're in a trailer for the new Super Bowl ad.
Also, now Super Bowl ads have trailers and promos and teasers,
which it's just a whole thing.
Okay, it is a lot, but you're paying like $8 million for 30 seconds.
Like, milk that shit.
I'm not complaining.
I'm just saying.
I mean, that's $8 million before you even have to pay for production. You have to pay your stars, pay for the sets. Like, it shit. I'm not complaining. I'm just saying. I mean that's 8 million before you even have to pay for production.
You have to pay your stars,
pay for the sets.
Like it's just to get the commercial.
Yeah.
I don't know if it's 8 million.
I remember a few years ago it was 5.
So I assume with inflation it's at 8.
Yeah, the ad will promote
the brand's top selling product of 2023
which is the Halo Glow Liquid Filter Complexion Bluster.
Bluster.
That's interesting.
Like Elf is such an interesting company
because they're probably the best drugstore brand of makeup.
Like, they've really cornered the drugstore market,
whereas, like, their products are sometimes better
than, like, stuff from Sephora and Ulta,
but their whole kind of brand ethos is they, like, steal other things.
So the Halo Glow is a $5 version
of the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter.
The packaging looks exactly the same. It's the exact same thing. So it's kind of crazy that like
they have a commercial and Charlotte Tilbury doesn't, you know? Yeah. Crazy. And then there's
a bunch of other celebs and personalities who are like summoned to court and appear in the ad as
well. Oh, wow. So they're going all out. Yeah. I mean mean I wonder how much money like Elf makes because
when you think about like the brands that do Super Bowl commercials it's the biggest biggest
it's like the PepsiCo companies Frito-Lay like it's Dorito it's soda it's and that's why every
Amazon every year there's like randomly like a new brand like remember last year was the farmer's
dog yeah and we were like oh good for randomly like a new brand. Like remember last year was the Farmer's Dog? Yeah.
And we were like, oh, good for them.
Like a toast sponsor getting a Super Bowl commercial.
There was also Oatly.
Yeah.
I feel like they like just, I read a story about Oatly,
like how all their milk is like poisonous or something.
Or they went bankrupt, something like that.
Something like that.
But those milks that are not milk that's like a real milk. Mm-hmm.
Could go either way, you know?
There's always like things that come out.
I think like silk turned out to be really bad.
Did they?
Soy milk controversy.
I'm not finding, what was the Oatly story.
Whatever.
Also, just when I was looking,
Oatly is now going to be having desserts at Carvel.
That's pretty smart, actually.
Keep Carvel, Carvel.
Dairy free.
No, like an option.
Keep Carvel, Carvel.
Unfortunately, Carvel is a dying brand,
so they do need to do annoying modern things, and Oatly is a good collab. Sick. Sick, Carvel, like, is a dying brand. So they do need to do, like, annoying modern things.
And Oatly, like, is a good collab.
Sick.
Sick.
I agree.
And that's what's wrong, like, with.
Culture.
Culture.
Like, some things can't remain.
Agreed.
As they are.
And I actually think that's a great segue into our fifth and final story.
Okay. Which is a push into the future.
And I want to get Tony's take.
Okay.
Because Elon Musk says that the human patient is recovering well after a. Okay. Tony's take. Okay. Because Elon Musk. Says that the human patient.
Is recovering well.
After.
I saw.
Neuralink implanted.
Their brain chip.
So.
Neuralink is one of Elon's company.
Where they're working on like.
Brain chips.
Where they implant them.
Into the human.
And then they can.
Communicate with human brain.
No.
It's like.
You can control a computer.
With your brain.
That's the thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
Up until now.
They had been using
like pigs and animal testing but they just did a human patient for the first time Elon shared on
x that the unidentified patient is recovering well after they received the implant on Sunday he said
initial results show promising neuron spike detection he did not provide any additional
information regarding the patient's condition of the procedure.
The Neuralink is a quarter-sized chip implant.
It has dozens of tiny thread-like electrodes.
The electrodes are then implanted into the brain itself and relay electrical signals from neurons.
The chip is placed in the brain's region that controls the intention to move.
So Elon talks about how it would control phones and computers just by thinking.
He said initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs.
He said, like, imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer.
That is the goal.
Okay.
Well, now when you put it like that, because I was about to be like,
this is fucking weird.
Like, this is really some Black Mirror type shit.
Yeah, it's not for me at this moment.
Me neither. But, but like when you think about
the future like year 3000 like you do think about a world in which like your brain can control
your phone or whatever and like this is the first step it's just freaky as fuck because this is
this is AI on crack yeah yeah and. Like if people think AI is scary.
Like I think this is frightening.
But using it as like a medical device. For like.
People who have lost use of their limbs.
Like that.
To me is way less.
Intimidating and scary.
That's like always.
A good example of the positives of technology.
I remember those Super Bowl.
Microsoft commercials.
Where they would show.
People using Microsoft technology.
People who were handicapped.
Yes. And how amazing it is. I feel like that's always like the pro for technology. And then the con list just keeps going. Yeah. But I remember in Elon's book when he talked about the
reasons for Neuralink, I wasn't totally against it, but it's just like not for me and not something
that I feel like I need to see in the world, but he feels like it's important for the advancement of society.
Right.
I also think like Elon is very particular
and sort of conservative when it comes to like the advancement of technology.
Like he's not, he's all for like safe AI.
You were saying that.
So I do sort of trust his judgment here a little bit.
It's not like he's one of these crazy geniuses
who will invent anything at any cost, no matter what tells like he's very I think um prudent yeah I
agree so I I do think he's the right person to be doing something like this and I do trust him
because he is conservative and he doesn't like just want to build robots and machines that are
just going to take over the world for the sake of it and then like that chip could just like take
over your brain and you're just like a zombie robot doing whatever chip says right right right like he's probably building chips so that someone
else doesn't build it first and create a chip like that right right right so we have to support as
much as we can i'm just saying like you know maybe the future is not for me little old me i agree
no like even the way you just said like so that somebody else doesn't create a chip that could
take over like are you kidding no but like that's possible chip on chip crime it's gonna happen
it's gonna happen it just feels like you know it feels like a lot yeah but these are questions for
the elons of the world to grapple with and we just read about the headlines yeah this is where it
feels you know kind of great like ignorance like being dumb
it's like these are not my problems I know but I feel like with AI this year like it really crept
up on us even AI ethical issues we were just talking about last week like with the Taylor
Swift photos yeah it's so true like I went from not knowing what AI is to like being extremely
concerned extremely concerned but also like utilizing ai enjoying some elements of
ai but now we're kind of like in this we're all privy to this debate of like how smart should ai
be how intelligent should it be yeah and like should there be litigation around ai and like
laws and there probably should but even in the in the software of it in the coding of it that's
where like the elons come in and they like decide before it gets in the coding of it, that's where like the elons come in.
They decide before it gets to that point of like what AI's limitations should be.
Right.
Damn.
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