The Toast - Dating Big As Her Mother: Friday, May 3rd, 2024

Episode Date: May 3, 2024

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Good morning, Millennials! Welcome back to The Toast and happy Friday! A celebración! Congrats! Hey Jax, how you turn? I'm doing good. Excited that it's Friday. We've got a big weekend ahead of us. And today is really Giving Friday because I know we were both out late and up late last night. And it's just it's giving morning after it's giving morning after yeah I got home I went to bed at like 2 a.m we got home like a little bit earlier than I expected about 1 30 you know it's not much better yeah um but it was not all for not you know the Knicks did win thank god for that I told Ben you don't want to feel my wrath if this team fucking loses and we drove all this way now I don't want to spoil too much of the evening because I did decide very last minute to vlog it.

It's actually Ben's idea. He was feeling like, you know. He was feeling camera ready. He was feeling like he wanted his close up. He was ready for it. So I won't spoil the evening. But Ben had an amazing time. And that's really why we went.

So I'm glad that he did. I'm happy for Ben. I'm happy for you because not only did you get a picture with your man, which we were discussing yesterday on the show, how difficult that can did. I'm happy for Ben. I'm happy for you because not only did you get a picture with your man which we were discussing yesterday on the show how difficult that can be uh two because we like sort of made it into this thing and we're like is she gonna get the photo talking about it for endlessly you kind of like broke the internet engagement wise. Yeah the engagement was through the roof I was telling a story yesterday. A thread. And even there was a thread through my getting ready process. I was capturing content.

In the evening, we got our picture. And then I needed to like post all my content. And there was an ad in there monetizing the story that I'm telling here. And all's to say, I got the shot at dinner. Except I brought my camera, my G7X. Because yeah, I influence. Yeah. I create content.

And I didn't have a memory card in it, so I, like, stretched out my bag, my lethal purse for nothing. But the phone was fine. You are literally post-Below'd. All of this to say. That's like you, the line from Fortnite. If you know, you know. Because of my memory card or just because I keep saying all of this to say. That's like you. The line from Fortnite. If you know, you know. Because of my memory card or just because I keep saying all of this to say?

The latter. The second one. Oh, because I keep saying all of this to say. Yeah, because I'm saying all of this just to say we had a lovely evening. Happy birthday to my husband. And for those of you who are really proud of me for asking a stranger to take our photo outside pre-dinner with lipstick on, don't be so, hold your praise because Olivia and Shapiro joined us for dinner last minute. So I had a photographer on call.

I actually asked a stranger to take a picture of me and Ben at the game, which is probably more embarrassing than like a stranger on the street. Cause like it was like a- Then you have to sit with them the rest of the time. Not only that, it's not the type, it's not like I was at, you know, a Taylor Swift concert.

I wouldn't feel weird about asking anyone at a Taylor Swift concert. They would kill it. They would see if I needed more all the angles like this man who was like so not wanting to take my actually he was super nice I'm projecting he was so lovely he took an amazing photo but like I definitely felt weird like the vibes were not on the same vibe level and he literally um like had to sit behind me the entire time what if I didn't like it that's the weird part but it all turned out good. I love the photo. Great.

So it was just like a photogenic evening for the Swirlys. Pretty much. Yeah. Did you post your photo? I did. Not in feed. It wasn't like that type of moment. It was just a pic of me and Ben like, hey, we made it.

We had great seats. Philly Swirlys. Philly Swirlys, essentially. If I did post it in feed, that would have been my caption. Speaking of girly Swirly, I just think it's important that everybody knows, you know, a couple of weeks ago, Jackie and I dropped sort of like a game-changing collection. Of merch. Of merch, yeah.

There's like the waves and the impact it had on the fashion industry is still being discussed and it will probably for generations to come. I think I heard next year's Met Gala theme is girly swirly. Well, we were supposed to be keeping that under wraps, but sure. Let's just. No, it's just rumors can't confirm or deny. No comment. And what's exciting is that if you head to shoptoastmerch.com,

some of you might have noticed there's a countdown. And the countdown is very girly swirly. That's what I'll say. Okay. I'll leave it at that. It's a girly swirly countdown. Head to ShopToastMerch.com to see what the hell we're talking about.

Make sure to sign up, you know, for alerts and things of that nature. Things in which to alert. Exactly. Yeah. Sometimes, like, sometimes, like, you just, there's nothing else to say after that, you know?

Yeah. It's true. I'm feeling delirious. yeah it it's true I'm feeling delirious the truth I'm feeling delirious and probably because you went to bed at 2 a.m no and I was thinking this morning because I'm trying like not to be angry you know it's not good to hold on to anger but something who are you angry with let it out Ben something that's because I went with him and it was good yeah yeah I'm like now I'm feeling tired and groggy and like I have a really really busy like next six days and like feeling groggy doesn't behoove me. I'm supposed to run today. Honestly, I don't think I can. Like I feel so run down. And I realized like one of the most important things in the world to me is my sleep schedule for real. And

I know at the beginning of last year, like I'm saying yes to life. And honestly, my sleep schedule is like put on the back burner, but it always remained a priority. last year, like I'm saying yes to life. And honestly, my sleep schedule is like put on the back burner, but it always remained a priority. And I feel like this year I'm going to say no to everything that deprioritizes my sleep schedule. I honestly, that's what, that's the lesson after Philly. For sure. But it feels like it was just Philly because this hasn't been an issue until yesterday. No, like sometimes, and like I have a hard line, like I will not do things on the weeknights. Like it's just not, it deprioritizes my sleep schedule. And also like my wind down routine, my bath time, my TV time, my reading time. Like, no, don't ask me to do anything

Monday through Thursday or Sunday through Thursday, rather. Okay. Well, Sunday, Sunday day. Yeah. Sorry. I'm talking about just in the evenings. Okay. Like, after 6 o'clock, if I have to work the next day, like, I really, I need to shut down. Yeah, we were out to dinner really late last night. I was stressing. I'm like, this is late, man. No, I know. It's like a really radical thing to do. I think we got home at like 10.30, later than that.

Well, compared to, oh, and we got home. Just for a dinner like yeah yeah yeah and then I got into bed like it was 11 30 did you get into bed and start feeling sad no I didn't because I was reading all the comments you guys were cracking me up so happy for me you can't feel sad when engagements through the roof so many people wondering if I'm on which just means the world to me I'm so glad you brought that up because we. It means everything. Thank you guys. We need to talk about something in your photo. Do you know what I'm gonna. My legs. Yeah uh should we be worried? No the thing is I don't know why they look so skinny. I didn't I didn't edit I didn't edit the photos whatsoever. I was

actually gonna call you and be like did you facetune like specifically your like shin calf area like. No and that's not an area that I'm like insecure about so I wouldn't even think to I was actually going to call you and be like, did you Facetune? Like specifically your like shin, calf area. No, and that's not an area that I'm like insecure about. So I wouldn't even think to Facetune there if I was going in. But no, I didn't go in. I think I posted when we were in the car anyway. Like I could barely do things on my phone in the car. Certainly not moving a photo around.

There was no Facetune. My legs, I don't know. They just like looked really skinny. I don't think they're that skinny in real life. You don't have to worry. Sometimes like your body will just do things for you not always but every now and then like your body will really show up and show out for you like in a photo or just in a moment and it's so it's also important that we thank our bodies for doing that so why don't you take a moment like in a moment of gratitude to express to your legs well I will always thank my body like for everything that's done done for me carried me

through but I also want to thank the headlights on the car that were pointed at me because I think that they lit up my legs in a way plus the flash where it was just like an optical illusion oh it's you know how like some high contrast some people like see a picture and they see Jesus in the contrast like I saw thin legs well you can tell Jesus that the bitch is back okay oh yeah you can tell him she warned us she said it will be over for you bitches and it looks like it's really over for us I think yeah it's ending for you guys I'm sorry to say you can definitely get a few more good times in. But count your days. I would start packing your bags. Yeah, I would.

You're out of here. Pack your bags. Pack your bags. Your time is up. It's my turn now. May. So it's Friday. And that obviously means like a whole host of things.

What does it mean for the stories? So I have something I want to share with everyone. Rip. What? Rip. Rip what? To the stories. So I have something I want to share with everyone. Rip. What? Rip. Rip what? To the stories. What stories? What? Like this there's no like I have some things to say but that is like there's legit no story. So I've been sitting in my studio for 45 minutes. Oh whoa whoa I thought you were saying like you showed up and you're like I'm'm not doing it. Even though earlier in the week we were saying the Fast Five is going nowhere. Yeah, no, no, no.

I'm saying like, who knows what will be today? So like, don't feel like you're in any sort of rush to get there. There's not really like somewhere to get to. There could be if need be, but there's all's to say, like there's not that much going on in the world today. All's to say. All's to say.

Yeah. Well, it sounds like it's a great day for Weenie and Queenie of the Week, which we do have at the end of the show. So thank God for that. Yeah. And all of this to say, yeah. And it sounds like it's a great day

because it's our last show together for a week. Oh, wait, there's a lot. Oh, thank you for bringing that up. A lot of housekeeping announcements. So today is today. Live. This is Friday. This isn't prerecorded.

Tomorrow, Jackie and I are headed to Austin, which is super excited. In the earlier afternoon, Jackie and I. It is super excited. Jackie and I are doing a meet and greet at Spritz, our first meet and greet at Target. We just launched in Target. So head over to the Spritz Instagram for all the details. And then after that, Jackie and I are doing a panel and greet at Spritz, our first meet and greet at Target. We just launched in Target. So head over to the Spritz Instagram for all the details. And then after that, Jackie and I are doing a panel hosted by Ms. Taylor Strecker at the Dear Media event. So we're just kind of giving business attire.

The next day, Jax is headed home. I'm headed to L.A. for the 5K. Okay, finally it's here. She'll stop talking about it after. But, like, I will never stop talking about it. I can't believe it's just here. Whatever. And then I'm doing five shows in L. LA. So I just wanted to let everyone know the shows that I'm doing in LA are all being recorded the day prior. So don't expect like gangbusters,

pop culture, like breaking news energy. Also a lot of the people I have scheduled it so that like the Monday episode the person is not doing the Fast Five with me. Tuesday they are. Wednesday they're not. Thursday they are. Friday they're not. So it'll be a good mix of some people whom you probably don't you don't want to hear you know the Fast Five with them. You want to hear like a good podcast interview and getting to know them introducing them to the girly swirly universe. So just keep that in mind but that is better because all the episodes

will be out super early since i'm on west coast time if i was doing it the same day the girlies here in new york wouldn't get it to like three so i'm doing yeah i think what's best so next week is all pre-recorded the day prior guest interviews with girly with turdy in la then we're back now i know what you guys are gonna say it's It's the Met Gala on Monday. It is the Met Gala on Monday. You're a genius. That's 100% true. That's why it's so important to be a Patreon member. Because if you're going to be looking for some sort of Patreon,

I mean, excuse me, some sort of Met Gala recap outfits, things of that nature, it will be on patreon.com slash your toast. So it's really never a bad time. No, never. Certainly not. And I have something exciting for the Patreons next week. You do. I'm working on an exciting project next week.

I'm so excited for my week. Let me tell you. What do you have planned for the week off? Oh, just a lot of leisure. Just being a woman of leisure. I'm getting lunch with friends. Manicure? Manicure. I'm actually getting today because of our big work event tomorrow. I should have done that. Manicure? Manicure.

I'm actually getting today because of our big work event tomorrow. I should have done that. She will be manicured. Yeah. And pedicured. Yeah. I think I might get a facial. Oh, okay.

She's truly leaning into the leisure. And I'll be making sourdough. Oh. So now it's over for all of you. And that's kind of scary because like we've come to, you know, I feel like people who tune into the show, they know exactly what they're getting. They know exactly who we are.

And it sounds like you'll be taking a week off and you'll be coming back an entirely different person. It's literally like, it's going to be a new host. No, I think you know exactly who we are. I think I'm taking the logical next step in my journey. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

And I think people have known this was coming for a while while I've been warning you and talking about it for months so if I don't do it it's like what am I talking about you know I kind of have to now like I've been talking to talk it's time to walk the walk yeah if you don't do it you're just gonna be one of those people who says they're gonna do stuff and doesn't do it which is the worst type of person no I never even said oh I'm gonna do and I didn't do it I've just been like you know you just have to continue to grow. And that's the next step. And if you never bleed, you're never going to grow.

And it's all right now. You know? Yeah. I heard a rumor that Taylor and Travis will be showing up at the Kentucky Derby this weekend. I could see it. I could see it too. What are you doing for the Derby? Oh, I guess we'll be, the Derby's on Saturday. We'll be working. I could see it too. What are you doing for the derby? Oh I guess we'll be the derby's on Saturday. We'll be working. I have no fucking idea. Like the derby's not something I

keep up with. But I have seen Secretariat. Yeah everyone's kind of like I like the derby. Everyone's excited about it. Everyone's dressed nice. Sometimes there's a horse that is very exciting. I'm pro derby. I don't think there's like a famous horse this year that everyone's talking about. It's been a little while since there was like a horse. Not yet. Wait also when you know we have that list of things like that there are two of. I think it's so crazy that there are two movies and also two horses like Seabiscuit and Secretariat. I like don't understand. Secretariat. Secretariat. I don't understand why we got both movies like especially if you watch them like

Seabiscuit like low-key wasn't even famous. Also is Seabiscuit real? Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah okay. So like Secretariat like was that bitch but like Seabiscuit got the Oscar treatment like Tobey Maguire and literally Secretariat is a DCOM. It's a Disney Channel original movie movie i don't even know if it ever even hit the theaters it was like and it was literally such a more interesting story horse wise yeah make it make sense you should read horse the book we read for the redheads a while ago i don't know sometimes there's a book like and i might like it but i see other reading it, whether it's people I know or people on social media or it's on someone's book club chart list. And I know that it's not for me. Do you know what I mean?

I feel that way. You're judging the book by the reader. Yes, but also the cover. You know what I feel that way about? Like every person I've ever seen who highly recommends Untamed by Glennon Doyle, like those are not my people. Do you know what I mean? And that's not your book.

Exactly. And I feel that way about yours. Because those are not your people do you know what I mean and that's not your book exactly and I feel that way about your people I feel that way no yeah I would say I wouldn't like if if horse was like a girly swirly recommendation like you would have already read it by now if you're interested though in Secretariat and Seabiscuit and like you want more this is an interesting story about a famous real horse but is AJ Mishalka in the bookJ. Meshalka is in the DCOM Secretariat and thus making it superior. No, but there's definitely a part for her in the movie adaptation.

Secretariat, the DCOM, is so Hannah Montana movie coded. How so? Oh, because of the grandma? The grandma. The grandma, Miley's grandma in the movie plays like the secretary girl. Secretary.

Then, this is not a Hannah Montana movie. Sorry, it's just Hannah Montana. The, Jesse from Hannah Montana, he could be the one. He's in the movie too. He plays like some other horse guy's son. Mm-hmm. And then there's AJ Mishalka, who's not Hannah Montana, but she reminds me of that era at Disney.

Cowbells. She's in that universe. Yeah. It's such a good movie. It really is. If you haven't watched it, Cowbells. She's in that universe. Yeah. It's such a good movie. It really is. If you haven't watched it, stream Secretariat. On Disney Plus

because it's a DCOM. What's your favorite DCOM? High School Musical. Okay, but I don't really consider that. Do you know what I mean when I say DCOM? No, I know, but that was legit a DCOM.

Of course, and then it got turned into seriously a billion dollar franchise. But I'm talking about like the one offs like sort of, you know. Wish Upon a Star. Catherine Heigl. That's a good one.

What's yours? I don't know because for so many years it was like Luck of the Irish. I loved Luck of the Irish and Smart House. But I actually later in life, like maybe three, four years ago, watched Smart House.

And it was fucking horrible. Like it was one of the worst movies I've me and Ben like we couldn't even finish it so I don't know how they all age but I will say at the time probably my favorite was Luck of the Irish I thought that guy was so hot like he was my dream crush yeah he had it going on he had it going on Xenon was good too yeah okay I wasn't we weren't like Xenon girlies no no no no we were down oh model behavior so good uh pixel perfect pixel perfect although that one was weird like that kid needed to seriously touch grass like there's like there's a lot of interesting themes between like humans

and technology in dcoms yeah well I think it was also like reflective of the time it was sort of this industrious time for technology. Like people started having phones and like the idea of like a hologram was like all these like sort of out there ideas that we thought the future would hold, you know? Yeah, and you didn't know what it was going to be. Also Descendants is a DCOM.

Absolutely love and adore. Yeah. J'adore Descendants. I mean, actually Hannah Montana movie is technically a DCOM, but it's not. No, no, no. It was released in theaters, yeah. No, it has to have premiered on the Disney Channel for movie is technically a DCOM, but it's not. No, no, no. It was released in theaters. No, it has to have premiered on the Disney Channel for it to be a DCOM.

A Disney Channel original movie. I just want to look up. I mean, The Color of Friendship. Oh, powerful. Powerful. Disney Channel original movies. Let me just, like, make sure we're not missing any. Halloween Town.

That wasn't us. Oh, we're totally missing, like, something that literally shaped us as human beings. The one about Hanukkah? No. The cheetah girls, cheetah sisters. Totally. So good.

Camp Rock, but that to me, like that was so big. I don't consider that. It transcended. I consider like the one-offs that we remember like Smart House.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. These are the obvious ones like High School Musical. Oh, the movie, like this movie was, like we loved this movie so much. Cadet Kelly. Slay. Arguably Hilary Duff's best and most important work. No Claudia. Raise your voice. Stop. Oh I spoke too soon. Yes. Sound off in the comments. What's your favorite DCOM? What's your favorite Hilary Duff movie? Raise Your Voice.

What about? Cup on your pants. What about that one where she's like dating big as her mother? You know it. Is that English? Dating big as her mother? Claudia. What does that sentence mean?

Wait, I feel like I'm having a stroke. Dating big, capital B-I-G. Like from Sex and the City? Mm-hmm. As her mother. Oh, she like swaps places. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Her mother's Heather Graham. No, Heather Locklear. Literally same thing. And she's in high school and she becomes pen pals. What twisted ass movie is that hold on like the perfect man or something yeah heather locklear hillary duff that movie was fucking weird i didn't realize that the the male protagonist the perfect man i didn't realize

that the male protagonist in that movie is big dating big as her mother dating big as her mother like seriously i had no idea yeah Chris not the right title should be the tagline for the movie oh I thought you meant the title of today's episode oh also good but you never know where the episode could take oh yeah and then like her her classmate is like falling in love with her the whole time and she's like too blind to see it cuz she's so busy with her mom yeah lest we not forget a cinderella story oh yeah yeah yeah i mean hillary duff's like discography or whatever it speaks for itself we like seriously like we could do an anthology of episodes diving into

her work and we would start with raise your voice because that's definitely the one one more mile to jericho okay you know i was thinking about this on my run the other day yeah i run That's definitely the one. One more mile to Jericho. Okay. You know what? I was thinking about this on my run the other day. Yeah, I run. The word Jericho is like beyond confusing to me. Like it's biblical question mark. I think it's a New Testament energy, but it's also a town on Long Island.

Like I don't understand like Jericho. That's a lot of things, you know, that are biblical. And then they use them again like Babylon yeah I guess even like Jerusalem Salem Massachusetts is named like for Jerusalem you're lying that's one of the funnest facts you've ever shared here on the show yeah Jerusalem Jerusalem but like nobody called it would be called salam maybe it was and then it morphed oh you really learned something new every day here at the toast yeah so i think people get inspiration from the bible all the time jericho just is

different i understand what you're saying it It hits different. Like I remember being a kid watching Raise Your Voice and she's singing this song about Jericho like the town 45 minutes away and I was like is Hilary Duff from Jericho

and what's the significance? I really like it was one of those things that truly like stumped me as a young woman. Now I also still don't understand the biblical significance of Jericho

because am I correct in that it's a New Testament term? I want to say yes because I don't know the significance either. Right. And when I listen to the worship music like a lot of times they reference Jericho because am I correct in that it's a New Testament term? I want to say yes because I don't know the significance either. Right and when I listen to the worship music like a lot of times they reference Jericho. Yeah it obviously like major things happened. I feel like it might be worth our time just to google it. Yeah it might be a good story too. I love a biblical story that can be referenced in everyday life Tower of Bab it's a battle forget it it's a

cautionary tale in the biblical book of joshua yahushua that's not new testament no was the first battle fought by the israelites in the course of the conquest of canaan which is modern day israel according to yahushua the walls of jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days, seventh time on the seventh day when the priests blowing their horns daily and the people shouting on the last day excavations. Wait, I feel like this has something to do with the Sheva Brachas. You know, when you get married in a Jewish wedding, if you've ever. The bride walks around the groom seven times and they walked around the walls seven times. This is definitely, Jericho is giving a wedding.

To bring the walls down. Google it, Claude. We don't have stories. Sheva Bracha wedding. Jericho. No, I don't think there's a, oh wait. Also seven is just a big number in Judaism. Yeah, but like walking around.

Yeah. Okay, hold on. I'm on DallasJewishNews.com. By circling around her new husband, the woman the jews circling jericho yeah oh my goodness i totally thought jericho was like a church thing i didn't know we were a part of it and you thought it was like an irrelevant ugly and it's not okay so they're sorry there are actually a few different links like i'm sure there's a lot of different interpretations as there always are yeah seven circuits derives from the biblical concept that seven denotes perfection and completeness this has also been linked to when Yehoshua circled the walls of Jericho seven times

and they were destroyed Sephardic Jews do not perform this ceremony very interesting I feel kind of dumb for not knowing Jericho is like our thing too. And now I can sing it in my worship songs and not feel weird. Yeah. And go off Israelites. Yeah, you walk that walk, girl. You walk.

No, but Claude, you know the Jews have only been in Israel for 70 years when they colonized the land, right? Jackie, Jews need to go back to Poland where they came from. That's what people say. Do you know that? Yeah, yeah. No, I know.

It's astounding how dumb people can be. And while like saying it with their whole chest and really thinking they're the good guys. They can't really think that though, right? Like look at them. Like the way that they're behaving, you think that that's the right side. Listen, I happen to know the good guys. They are not the good guys. The good guys would never.

The good guys don't. Literally. Period. Well. Yeah. Well. Well, well, well. It is time for, I'm not going to put a number on it, you know.

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a mom that's urbanstems.com slash toast code toast for 15% off your purchase thank you turtle you're welcome just doing a little more research on jericho in on jerusalem yeah because i was just looking about you know because just to confirm that sal Salem is named for Jerusalem, which it is, but it also, so Jerusalem, it's a city of peace, and the Salem is Shalom. Oh. Yerushalayim. Yep.

So the city of Salem here is named for Jerusalem, but it's also just meant, it derives from the word Shalom, meaning just like peace. That's so interesting because I feel like there is nary a city that has less of a peaceful history than Salem. Yeah. It's funny how that it's almost like it was a jinx. Perhaps. You just reminded me of something I wanted to say. Oh I feel like because you shared such a fun fact and I realize it's been so long since I've heard a really good or even shared a really good fun fact and I feel like ever since Snapple stopped doing it on the caps, like we're all worse off as a generation, as a people.

And maybe like the sad state of the world can be originated back to the lack of Snapple caps. Agreed. And I feel like that's a really great impetus for us to just generate a fun fact of the day today. I love. Even though technically we did one. I love that. Here's a list of fun facts to have on hand

at your next dinner party. Oh my God. Nobody wants to invite the fun fact guy to a dinner party. But you know what? Yeah. It's like a low bar

for conversation but it gets the people going. Okay. Here's one. The Spice Girls were originally a band called Touch. Fifth Harmony

was originally a band called Lilas. Lilas. Love you like a sister. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. Okay. That's not a good one.

That's a dead ass one that would be on a Snapple. Yeah, and that's one, that's a conversation ender at a dinner party. 1,000%. Like say you're eating shrimp and you're like,

do you guys know the heart of a shrimp is located in the eating shrimp and you're like do you guys know the heart of a shrimp is located in the head like okay can you leave yeah like thanks then I would just start thinking about how like you have to pull the poop out of shrimp and that's reason enough to never eat it it's like that's seriously just so disgusting there was like pulling out that little brown string you're like oh what's that it's like oh it's their poop the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland how can you have a national animal that's not real is that true about shrimp that's not lobster then a shrimp you like take a knife slit it down the back and it's like duty tube

comes out dead ass to duty tube also duty tube okay do you remember somebody I don't know if this was like, this was a rumor. It never was confirmed because, you know, Snapple facts. Sorry, I'm stuck on Snapple facts. When you used to like pop open the cap, there would be like Snapple fact number six thousand eight hundred and twenty five. And there was a rumor that Snapple fact number one was that half the Snapple facts are not true. Let's dispel the rumor. So you would always just sort of doubt. You would doubt your Snapple fact. I feel like that's not true.

Snapple fact one. Facts in order. Oh my God. There's an, there's a wait, the Atlantic. We fact check Snapple's real facts. Oh great. Now the internet is ruining like the age old pastime of.

Yeah. And like their fact checkers are probably like brain dead morons. No. And it's going to be like Snapple facts is a key part of white supremacy. Like I can't. No like honestly.

Key. Major key. I'm so happy actually that Snapple facts like really they had their shine before the internet was around to like debunk everything because that was such a pure time for us. Like it was not only a drink, but also an activity. And it was fun and fresh and it was good. Okay.

But I just want to say you can go to snapple.com and you can generate facts like in their generator. Okay. Like they're moving into the 21st century, which I respect. Here's Snapple fact number 1029. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. Well, that's bananas. Jackie, I'm sitting next to my twin.

Is that dirty? Why are you holding yourself? This is so crazy. An octopus has nine brains and three hearts. When you think of bananas, what do you think of? Lizzo. How about you? I think of Banana Girl.

Do you remember Banana Girl? Stop. Stop. Okay. I also think of like that. There was a movie growing up where like someone was passing out. They needed potassium. Like and then some genius was like banana get her a banana and now it's like we just take for granted that we know that bananas have potassium but like in that moment that person

was albert einstein and honestly i feel like we all learned that i honestly i know i don't know what movie you're talking about but i know the scene in my bones and it sounds like it might have been in the decom like for real a hundred percent it's giving like honey I shrunk the kids doubt by the way might have been that was a movie about science right right and the person just like comes back to life yeah because they've had a banana because they had potassium deficiency they're so right sound off in the comments what fucking movie that was because we know you all saw it who fainted and i and i know that everybody knows exactly what i'm talking about i know this scene i could recreate it in my in my mind you know yeah but what fucking and up until that point in human history it wasn't common knowledge that bananas had potassium movie where someone faints and then is given a banana like is there any way

that google's gonna know what i'm talking about if ai is real oh my god you're right honey we shrunk the kids and somebody wrote on reddit who else learned that bananas contained potassium by seeing honey we shrunk ourselves maybe the sequel okay wow wow that's really like that's crazy wow we all just like are living the same life we are all living the same life okay i'm ready for the stories you don't want one more fact sure oh but now there's so much pressure to make it a good one i don't feel like that one is oh here folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex you'll soon fall in love see that's where Snapple really lost the plot because no but they said it's folklore so basically they said some you know nutty people moron I think fun

facts like really have to be based in fact not No, I agree, but at least they said this is folklore. They shouldn't have generated that. Like that's not a Snapple fact. They shouldn't have generated it. Okay, what about this? This is like kind of the same but different. Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.

The fact would be that strawberries can cure bad breath and common- That's better. It's rooted in history. Yeah, it's a history fact there are a lot of facts about strawberries here strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature okay so i should stop keeping them in the fridge no that's disgusting this is interesting i feel like people know this but they don't realize it russia and the united states are less than three

miles apart yeah and that's how we know the world is round oh no no no I'm sorry I just saw TikTok about this they're really not there is like an island where it's like Russian territory like nobody lives there and it's like by Alaska or something but it's Russian that doesn't count but it's still a fact yeah okay one more no like enough we need to move on okay i'm just telling you we're running towards nothing is what i'm saying but we the thing is we've been doing nothing this whole time like we can do anything jackie i don't i've just learned immense amount i mean salem will stick with me truly forever we'll always have salem yeah no matter what else happens today yeah but our first story like this is why I don't want

to do the stories new Kevin Spacey doc reveals the actor allegedly groped a house of cards cast member on set made aggressive sexual moves on a schoolmate and more so less than 10 months after Kevin Spacey was found not guilty of sexual assault allegations brought by four men in a UK court a new documentary series is due to air featuring previously unheard of testimonies about the actress' alleged sexually inappropriate behavior. Like, I want to talk about strawberries. No, you know what's so funny? I'm sick of talking about Hollywood,

like, disgusting people in Hollywood. They're disgusting, we know. I completely agree. And it's so Hollywood. Like, the cycle of Hollywood is so funny. How, like, not funny, but, like, they fostered and created this environment where, like, disgusting predators

and, like, male predators got power and could abuse other people whether you know Kevin Spacey young men however you want to see women and so that was like the environment that they created for centuries then they finally like we're gonna do better time's up and now they're capitalizing like it's like a cycle. You are a Hollywood predator, you become a Hollywood star in a Hollywood documentary about the Hollywood predators. And the way they keep capitalizing.

And then soon there'll be a documentary about the person who was the director of documentaries who was taking it. They don't learn. And it's always good that people can get their story out there and the truth will come out. And we know that Kevin Spacey is not a good guy.

I feel like there are certain, like, celebrities, disgraced celebrities who people, like, are obsessed with. For me, like, I never saw a piece of content Kevin Spacey was in. I never watched House of Cards. I don't think I've seen him act in literally anything. So for me, like, I'm so disinterested. Like, I was never a part of making him famous. Yeah, he's not your problem. He's not one of mine.

Someone who, for me, was like, oh my god. I don't even know. But it's just not a person I particularly care about. But the Quiet on Set documentary, that was a slate of content that raised me. So I found that interesting. But I would never watch this because I seriously a slate of content that raised me. Yeah. So I found that interesting. But I would never watch this because I seriously don't give a fuck about Kevin Spacey. Even Harvey Weinstein, I would say, we've watched a lot of Miramax movies.

Yeah. We've seen his work. Yeah. Yeah. But I agree with you about Kevin Spacey, though I did watch House of Cards. But my takeaway from House of Cards was that I hated his character. Hated so much. So good to know the character matches the man.

And every time Kevin Spacey comes up on this show, which is so infrequently, thank God, I'm reminded of like how crazy it was that like Netflix built this billion dollar company. Like we know of Bridgerton. We know Orange is the New Black. How many Emmys? And they have a million original shows.

But they were like a DVD company. And the first show they ever made, like what if we make our own show, was House of Cards. And it really started Netflix. Yeah. And it's so crazy. Speaking of Netflix, like a part B to this story now, because this wouldn't be a story, but Unfrosted comes out today. I was going to bring that up at the beginning of the show.

I was seeing so many people posting about it on Instagram this morning. I'm going to download it for my flight. I'm so excited. Yeah, maybe I'll watch it tonight with Zach it's the movie with Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer it's about the breakfast wars Marjorie Post she's not the main character unfortunately I know it's more from like Kellogg's POV I think she's the villain that's what I was about to say I saw I think because I follow Jerry Seinfeld's daughter she was like posting all these behind the scenes things. And it was like Kellogg's. And we read Marvelous Marjorie Post. Like we see this from the Post POV.

And, you know, Post saw Kellogg as the enemy. And I'm sure Kellogg saw Post as enemy. So I feel like it's not being told from the side that I stand, which is obviously the Post family, CW Post. So I'm open. I'm open. But it's just not the story I wanted to hear, you know? Yeah. It's also drawing comparisons to one of our favorite movies, The Founder.

Because it's like a food origin story. This is like about the creation of the Pop-Tart. And the Pop-Tart wasn't covered in the book, by the way. So I'm assuming that was a catalog ting. Or maybe it was just a small part of her journey as a woman. No, I feel like they each had their own big things. And Marjorie Post was the inventor of frozen food. The reason why there's freezers in grocery stores is because of her.

And maybe, okay, they had the Pop-Tart. Not the inventor, but the curator. She knew a good thing when she saw it. No, she didn't invent it, sorry, because she acquired the company. But she knew it was good, yeah. And she popularized it. We might not have. Sorry, because she acquired the company, but she knew it was good. Yeah. And she popularized it. Like, we might not have. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So, stream Unfrosted on Netflix. Yeah, I'm excited about that. Me too. Are you ready for our next story? Yeah. Gypsy Rose is kind of running amok ever since she got her new nose.

Gypsy nose. Is it confirmed she got a new nose? Yeah. There's pictures, like, paparazzi photos of her with a bandage on her nose she said she was getting a new nose and now she's posted some glam shots where she's showing off her new nose yeah like celebrity makeup artist alexis oakley who i follow on tiktok made like a whole series she's like i'm glamming and alexis oakley's thing is like she's dying to glam hayley bieber so she did this whole series. She's like, I'm glamming. And Alexis Oakley's thing is like, she's dying to glam Hailey Bieber. So she did this whole series.

Like I'm glamming, like a dream client, dream client. And everyone was like, Oh my God, she's finally glamming Hailey Bieber. And it turned out that it was Gypsy Rose. And she took Gypsy Rose to Sephora.

And like, honestly, she slayed the glam. Like she looked amazing. And Gypsy's running around town, like honestly being a glamazon. Glamazon, like with her new man.

She's slamming the old man. Did you see what's going on with her ex-fiance? Of course I did. Doggy Gate? I'm looking at the nose. I have to. Yeah, Doggy Gate. Pixie.

Pixie. Okay. I'm looking at the before and after of the nose. And it's good. Do they say who did it? Maybe she said it. because she's been open. She's been definitely authentic about this. Yeah, of course.

She also replaced her old silver teeth last month. Yes, porcelain, new caps, no cap. I mean, now she's officially famous. She has fake teeth. Yeah, and she will be a success because she has fake teeth. No, I'm loving the yassification of Gypsy Rose. Like what's next for her? Botox.

I'm sure actually she probably has Botox. You think? I think she'll probably get lip filler. And I also think like a nose really takes many, many months to like fully de-puff and get to its place. So I think we'll still see the evolution of the nose. But it's clear she's diving headfirst into like Hollywood and surgery. And I love that.

I think she looks great. Yeah. And she has her new man who's her old man. She's got her old man, not her dad. And not the killer. Not the killer. And yes, her and her old man. Ryan.

Ryan, her ex-husband have been fighting in the comments on TikTok. He like posted like giving victim energy like hey y'all thanks everyone for like the well wishes. Like no one's wishing you well. He was just really kind of giving in to influencer like a trope. Yeah and he was like me and Pixie are here you know we're we're hunkering down. We're doing good. I guess Pixie is their shared pet. And Gypsy was like, funny how you're like literally making content

and getting sympathy with Pixie when like literally that's my dog or cat. I don't know. And you won't even get, you wanted to drop her off at a shelter. So like give her back to me. I have a text to approve it to like. And that's why I love making former felons famous.

They just like don't give a fuck, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I guess like, you know, gypsy seen some stuff. She's not afraid to fight in the comments. Yeah.

I think that's putting it mildly. Gypsies seen some stuff in her lifetime. Yeah. Yeah. So happy for her. Happy for her. I want to say, Oh,

don't let me stop you. so Saturday Night Live this week is Sabrina Carpenter and Jake Gyllenhaal yeah everyone's freaking out and honestly like this is kind of like the second thing Sabrina Carpenter has done that's like really in congress with her best friendship with Taylor Swift the first is obviously Skims I feel like we could explain that away um now this Jake Gyllenhaal thing now I want to say Sabrina Carpenter I don't feel is at the level that she could be turning down SNL opportunities. She's really a pop star on the rise. I think this is harder. This is easier to explain than Skims actually because like she doesn't choose who she's going to be hosting with.

She's not going to say oh actually I'm not doing that week. Can you put me in a different week? Like she is happy and grateful to be here. Thank you for the opportunity. So she can't say no. But the two things together are definitely weird. And I think a lot of people will be looking to see, like, because she's very much a part of, like, the Swifty lore.

She knows the history. She reads the tweets. And, you know, she does this thing, Nonsense. You know her song? I'm a manifesto by the nonsense. Every time she performs it live, she does, like, a little, she changes the lyrics to the last two lines it makes like a little skit about like where she is or whatever and a lot of people are thinking like maybe she will not address head-on but like subtly like maybe she'll say like I know I said it also too well like something like that

you know got it okay cool um and you know her new song are you familiar with it like what are your thoughts on it it's amazing I haven't listened in full but I've seen some snippets and I like it I mean I'm an OG Sabrina Carpenter fan like you don't need to tell me

I've been waiting for a day like this to come strike like lightning she wrote the song for boys for girl meets world yeah how does that sound here I have her on my liked i'll go through the like the she had her first album which i thought was so amazing now i love her everyone

loves sabrina oh and i also i love skin which was her like response to um olivia rodrigo like i loved it i also really do love the stars oh literally like you guys don't know old Sabrina especially when you that you know the Disney machine was making her music yeah uh our boy Matthew Gerard correct it had that Matthew Gerard energy Neville Longbottom what was that Is that another guy's name? Rob. McNeil. Yeah. Thumbs. I don't know that one. Oh, that one. Hold on. Oh, I do know that one.

Yeah. It's like, it's got a good beat. I'm playing it. Okay. No, no, no. I know it. I know it. Jackie, pause it.

Pause it. You can't hear it. Yes, you can. The mic picks up everything. Yeah. Like it's giving Natasha Benningfield. And so they keep on twiddling their thumbs. No, she's everything.

She's literally scatting. But Espresso, people are saying it's the song of the summer. And I actually agree. She's long overdue. Anyway, stream Eyes Wide Open, the album. She's long overdue. Anyway, stream Eyes Wide Open, the album. She's long overdue. I also agree with that. And I just feel really happy.

Like, you know, we could wax on. We could go back and forth like a million times about the whole Olivia Rodrigo thing. But at the end of the day, like Olivia Rodrigo is one of the biggest pop stars in the world. And she did it on, you know, the back of Sabrina Carpenter. On the tresses of her blonde hair. And I really, I'm happy that Sabrina Carpenter is also becoming like a major her blonde hair. And I really I'm happy that Sabrina Carpenter is also becoming like a major major pop star. They both deserve it. They're both super talented. But I think that time was really hard for Sabrina. Yeah. So at least she's getting

something out of it too. Yeah. And she at least she gets to enjoy her herself now and her success. Yeah. And us OG fans are just happy to see it. Yeah. And she's just like so cute. I love her. And honestly I'm still holding a candle for her and Shawn Mendes yeah and I'll stay holding the candle do you remember a time when Shawn Mendes was so famous yeah I feel like he's really not like obviously he's a famous person but yeah I think that's a choice and I actually respect it same he could have stayed famous you know thirsty going out on dates, whatever. But I think he's taking a step back, so I respect it. It's Addison Rae style.

Also, ship. Addison Rae and Shawn Mendes. No. She's too much woman for him. Okay. Also, wait, shit. I had something I wanted to say. What did we say two seconds ago? Oh! Anne Hathaway's new movie is out the idea of you I am not on that hamster wheel I didn't watch

I didn't read the book I saw the trailer it looks good I'm not gonna watch the movie I don't really give a rip but I know that you are well you know I have a lot of problems with the book from a moral standpoint in an ethical place um and I was planning on skipping it even though I really do like even if I don't love or like are obsessed with the book I do like to watch a movie because I always just find it interesting to see how it's done um but I was going to skip this one just because you know I was taking moral high ground on it I don't like books about seriously like predators and pedophilia like I don't um however people are seriously, like predators and pedophilia. Like, I don't. However, people are saying it's so good.

So, like, I might watch it. Okay. I'm sure it is good. She really doesn't do bad work. Yeah. And that guy, Nicholas Galtsey, like, everyone's talking about him. He's in Mary and George. Right. Like, he's kind of having a moment.

Happy for him. Happy for Sabrina. Happy for Sabrina. Happy for our next story. What number? It's number three's number three we're fine yeah and ahead of next week it is an explainer for the met gala 2024 theme sleeping beauties reawakening fashion okay like if somebody doesn't come in a sleeping beauty dress from

amazon like go home everyone and also somebody doesn't come in a sleeping bag oh yeah yeah like i love when people take a literal approach to the theme for us mere mortals to understand it. Yes so in November they announced the theme would be Sleeping Beauties Reawakening Fashion accompanying the Costume Institute's exhibit featuring approximately 250 items from the museum's archives including 15 historically significant pieces that are too delicate to ever be worn again. It will be open to the public May 10th through September 2nd. Andrew Bolton who is the director of the costume institute said these are the sleeping beauties of the title these pieces including a ball gown that dates back to 1887 will be displayed in tandem with designs from

the likes of dior mcqueen giovanni along with works by their contemporary successors okay so they don't mean sleeping beauties in the sense that like it's about like your sleep disney right which you know is a priority of mine they're saying like things that have been slept on for a while like old tings it's getting history question mark oh i love that interpretation right like we're they're waking up like reminder these things are here that's why i thought that's why i just understood yeah the theme in the exhibit underscore the importance of sustainability and preservation exploring the ways in which time and nature affect fashion both literally in a more abstract sense oh someone's gonna show up completely naked like in the name of sustainability

with like nickel covers and a vagina cover on and be like yeah sustain this bitch wait this is not like sleeping beauties is not a euphemism for sustainability in no no but they're saying no but they're saying in addition like sustainability like keeping it in mind how will this dress be at the year 3000 mac ala wow okay at the end of the day like no theme will ever be more confusing and abstract than com de garcon com de garcon so whatever com de garcon is a designer no it's like a state of being i think it's like it's androgyny hold on because now like once when there was carl as the theme last year like i actually thought that was a good theme because there's so much to do it's like just

carl's history of work but come Coman de Garcon is a designer. Okay, but I think also the phrase means something. Now, every May, people who listen to the show are reminded how little I truly know. So don't quote me on this. But I know, yeah, it's like that brand that makes the little heart T-shirts. Yeah, it's a Japanese brand. But I don't think that's what the theme was.

I think the theme was like the translation hold on I'm on my way also as much as like yeah we sound dumb and whatever like this is how most people feel about the Met Gala too we're just like speaking for the common man in French it means like boys yeah so that Met Gala was actually more understandable than we thought at the time because it was Rai Kawakubo Comte de Garcon he's the head designer for Comte de Garcon so it was like about um his important influential designs over the past 40 years oh okay okay okay I liked Heavenly Bodies like I understood it the thing is we didn't understand that because we didn't break it down on the show and that's why we do what we do.

Correct. Now. And I will say a theme that I loved and I feel like also I now understand because of the Met Gala was camp. Like that wasn't a word I had heard prior. I remember when we were talking about it on the toast, we thought they were all going to be wearing whistles around their neck. And a clipboard. And t-shirts.

Like we literally thought it was giving like summer camp. Now I understand camp and it's a word I use everyday life I'm looking camp right in the eye and I wish I could go back and like relive that Met Gala now having a full understanding of what camp really is yeah I feel like we feel that way every year no and by the end of the Met Gala like we get it sort of sort of well after we see everyone's dresses and then they explain their reference and they like talk like them, you get it as much as there is to get. As much as there is to get. Correct.

But, you know, you can't go wrong with a sleeping bag this year. An eye mask. Set of pajamas. Seriously. A Laneige lip mask. Yeah. It's giving cozy. Cozy vibes.

You know who should be there? Bruno. Thousand percent. If they really cared about fashion, they would have invited him. Well, they don't. We know that. We know that. It's just politics at this point.

At this point, yeah. Money. Are you ready for our next story? Speaking of politics and money to a degree. TikTok and Universal Music groups settle their royalty dispute with a new licensing agreement so annoying the months-long standoff between umg and tiktok over royalty payments and ai policies is finally over at least for the time being with the announcement the two entities have struck a deal to bring the label's music back on the platform

as part of the agreement the company stated that they will deliver improved remuneration for umg songwriters and artists new promotional and engagement opportunities for their recordings and songs and industry leading protections with respect to generative ai the thing is is like this was annoying but it was probably most annoying for umg and their artists like it's really crazy how all powerful tiktok is like you would think all of the biggest and best music can't be on the platform. Oh my God, TikTok's gonna, they literally were unfazed. Like it didn't affect the platform whatsoever. People just pivoted and like made content about the lack of UMG.

Like it really, they're almost too almighty to have been taken down by this. So I feel like probably UMG had to concede on a lot of things that they probably didn't want to. Yeah. And they keep on twiddling their thumbs, you know. and they keep on twiddling they thumbs you know and they keep on twiddling them thumbs i'm happy for us especially happy for sabrina carpenter because espresso kept getting taken down and like really it's really hard for things to become the song of the summer if we can't be popping our pussies to it on TikTok. So. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, for you. Yeah. You know. Empathetic. Yeah. Yeah. You're so empathetic.

Yeah. In solidarity. I love that. Are you ready for our fifth and final story? If it's the fifth and final story, that's brought to you by State Farm. It is. State Farm will like this story. Oh, good.

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Otherwise, you would have gotten four. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. But I saw this story this morning and it just it was harking back to what we were talking about. Ancient cities. Mm hmm. And there has been a discovery of a stretch of wall in ancient Jerusalem that vindicates the Holy Bible's claim and debunks like what archaeologists

have thought for a while. So it's kind of like- Okay, you have to explain from the start. A scientific breakthrough has exposed the truth about an ancient site in Jerusalem, overturning expert opinion and vindicating the Bible's account. Okay, the Bible remains supreme?

The Bible remains supreme. Until now, experts believed a stretch of wall in the original heart of the city of Jerusalem was built by Hezekiah, king of Judah, whose reign straddled the 7th and 8th centuries BC. He had seen his neighbors to the north, the kingdom of Israel, destroyed by the Assyrian Empire, and it was thought that he built the wall

to defend against the invaders. But now, an almost decade-long study has revealed it was built by his great-great-grandfather, Uzziah, after a huge earthquake, echoing the account of the Bible after all. The wall is in the city of David, the historic archaeological site that formed the original town of Jerusalem,

according to the Bible. So... Okay, go off Bible. Go off Bible. I just feel like this is probably like a shit stain on the resume of these historians. Like, you literally have one job, and you can't even do it. It's like seriously humili humiliating that's how i felt last night watching the knicks

like not to be so rude but like up until the very end they couldn't score any points and it's like literally it's almost like you're being paid to make the points like score for sure i do feel like being an archaeologist is a very hard job like it requires a certain skill set i could see how they can get it wrong sometimes like Like how can you date a rock? Seriously. But they do it. But there are measures in place. It's actually, I think, quite easy to date a rock.

There are like ridges and shit. Like I actually don't think it's hard. I'm just saying, to me, I'm impressed by archaeology and what they're able to do. And there are oftentimes stories like this every once in a while, like, you know, Dead Sea Scrolls will be dug up, like really, really ancient things.

And it's always, you know, in in Israel the indigenous homeland of the Jews and everything that they dig up is just written in Hebrew and just goes to prove the point that the Jews have been there for thousands of years and it's fascinating no I I'm gonna go back to something you said about archaeologists like being impressive I don't know I see them coming in with their little makeup brush like dusting off a rock and it's just really hard I know what they do is important and I'm not of course you know disqualifying that I just feel like they're really hard to take seriously with their little glasses and their little makeup brushes like I don't know and now stories like this coming out like they've been lying to us I don't know

yeah I guess they got it wrong they're man enough enough to admit that. That takes a big person. And I do feel like that's probably the perfect segue into Queenie and Weenie of the Week because I've just found mine. Archaeologists are your weenie? No, actually I have an amazing weenie. Even though like they're verifying the claims of the Bible, ultimately, even though like all of us like Bible thumpers

have been like, we've been new, but okay. Right, right, right, right. But it is nice when like, you know, facts in modern times. It is. Substantiate claims made in this book that sometimes people are like, this is a little whack for me, you know? I agree. No, it's nice, you know, for all the haters and doubters, non-believers,

but it's also extremely cool. Okay. I have like something to say about the Bible that might make me sound really stupid. And we might need to cut this out, but like, I just have a question. Okay. Okay. I have like something to say about the Bible that I can make, might make me sound really stupid and we might need to cut this out, but like, I just have a question. Okay. So the pyramids, as you guys know, if you read the old Testament, Jews were slaves in Egypt, part O made us build that backbreaking work, you know, terrible, terrible. And now the pyramids are standing. And of course there are people who don't like read the Bible or believe in the Bible. It's not their book. Like, I totally understand.

There's like a million other religions. How do those people think the pyramids like just popped up? Like what's their like who built them according to, you know, non Bible consumers? Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Well, I guess anyone could have built them according to what's like what's like the going theory. Do they think they've just been there for years and nobody knows where they came from?

Yeah, like, well, just like anything that was built. Someone built it, builders. But like there would be history, like they would know. Where do people who don't believe in the Bible think that the pyramids came from? Like what's the opposing argument? Do you know what I mean? I don't know that you have to believe

in the bible to acknowledge that the pyramids were built likely by slaves in Egypt yeah I don't know I just like because that's not a myth I think people who don't believe in the bible will say like it's supernatural and mystical and they don't believe in the miracles but like the facts the story outside of you know the parting of the red sea and things like that uh i don't know if they still dispute those things but oh oh the history of it you mean just yeah as a history book but i think some people have a hard time you know who aren't believers have a hard time seeing it as a history book because they don't believe in the whole thing. They just throw away the whole thing. But also people, like, people are born into a million different religions.

Like, so they just might not even, like, think about it, you know? Yeah. Like, we're seeing it, of course, through our own lens. Yeah. I don't think they spend a lot of time, like, thinking about it. They're just like, oh, you know. They have their book we have ours yeah got it okay that wasn't like so dumb right we can leave that in no and I think the people who do think about it well your book says this and my book says that like there has been wars fought over that right it's giving crusade it's giving

crusades exactly correct um okay well let's dive into weenie and weenie of the queenie well for me it's always weenie and weenie oh the queenie. Well, for me, it's always weenie and weenie. I just realized I've been slouching like literally the entire time. I told you yesterday you need to keep me like accountable. I feel like in a sweatshirt, it's less noticeable. Okay. I feel like in a sweatshirt, like I look like a linebacker, but it is what it is. Well, are you starting?

Are you making a high salary? Cool. What's wrong with being a linebacker? They're professional athletes. Yeah, they are. I don't want to look like a professional male athlete. I that's okay to say we all have ideal body types i think that's rude to the linebackers justice for linebackers great i bet i bet that linebacker wouldn't like saying hey you look like claudia ashrae either okay he's it's a point of pride for him to be wide and big for me it's not I'm just a woman in this industry trying to survive okay is that okay yeah yeah awesome yeah

I was trying to make you feel better but okay like you're a millionaire congrats you're famous and successful you're on tv literally my dream um okay queenie and we need the week our weekly segment here that we do every Friday, where Jackie and I just take a look at the week at a glance. And we dole out two very prestigious awards, Queenie and Weenie of the Week. Now, I want to say, I feel like your Weenie of the Week

is going to be the terrorists at all the college campuses. How'd you know? Because it's so obvious. But I want to beg you, I really, I want to beg you to reconsider. Because Weenie of the Week is really supposed to be fun and light-hearted and there's literally nothing light-hearted about what's going

on there they're not weenies of the week they're actually the criminals of the week so I'm I'm actually going to ask you to rescind and think about someone else okay but there are there are criminals there are terrorists there are terrorist sympathizers and there are also like serious weenies there who actually do not know what they're doing there of course and they think and they think that they're like they're revolutionary and they're fighting for freedom and like they are changing the world and they don't even realize like they're being paid by george soros to like up end world order okay one thousand percent but like but you're doing great but i champion everything you say no no i'm gonna be a stickler I'm not weenie I know I hear you um could their parents be the weenies no because I actually saw a video of this mom who saw her kid

on tv and she went over she literally she must live nearby she drove over to campus and grabbed him by the fucking arm and started literally slapping him i loved it no i love that like she literally said get in the car we're going home these kids like you need to call their parents first of all it's like where are their parents how could they have raised such like brain dead morons seriously but then also it's like maybe maybe that's why they wear the mask because they're scared of their mom yeah i mean they also like hi mom i don't i don't know how fair it is to blame the parents like these kids have been away at school for four years a lot of them are like graduate students maybe six years and they've become radicalized by their institutions like the parents can only

do so much they thought they were doing a good thing oh my kid got into columbia woohoo i can go brag about it at book club for sure but pay attention to what's going on to your child and who's paying for that you pay attention please you've got your paying so you gotta pay attention so my weenie which I think really captures the essence of what we need of the week should be okay is now I don't want to say Normani because I don't feel like it was her but at the end of the day that's the industry we live in like it's gonna reflect poorly on you but I'm gonna say Normani slash Normani's management for totally mishandling and really bringing shame upon her house this whole

what is happening saga the interview in the cut was disgraceful and seriously they have dropped the ball on what should have been like a camilla cabello type career yeah now i understand why you didn't want me to say what i was gonna say because you say terrorists and i say normani and they're like sorry that's actually not fair to normani. They're not both weenies. Right. Of the same degree. Like weenie, I think it needs to remain unserious, you know? I know, I try.

And being a weenie is something you can be, we have said, you can one week be queenie and one week be weenie. That's true. And these people can never be queenie. Never. And they'll never be queenie. So I beg you to reconsider. Okay.

Okay. Reconsidered. Now for Queenie. Queenie, I wanted to end on Queenie. I want you to go first. Because I want to have the last word. Okay, I don't like love my Queenie. But honestly, people weren't giving Queenie behavior this week.

Let me just say that. Nobody acted in a way that dazzled me. Okay, so no Queenie for you. No, I love my Queenie but honestly people weren't giving Queenie behavior this week let me just say that nobody acted in a way that dazzled me okay so no Queenie for you no I have a Queenie I it was Melissa McCarthy like I think what the Barbara thing that could have been really embarrassing for her like I would have died um but she handled it with grace I loved the video she put out and seriously like she didn't even address like the Ozempic stuff like it's so awkward seriously it had the potential to like start probably like make someone cry if that was me like I might have cried okay who's yours my queenie is Claudia Aschere because she is embarking on a 5k this weekend and she has been working so hard and she has completely changed her life and she is doing something new and doing something hard

and she's been consistent with it and we are so proud of you and you're just you've been working so hard and that's queenie like behavior and now all of your fruits all your hard work you're gonna breeze through this thing and we're so proud of you oh my god this is so unexpected oh my god this is so unexpected like Oh my God, this is so unexpected. Like seriously, I'm shaking. I'm shaking. No, like everything you said is completely factually and historically accurate.

Like I've changed my life. I can do anything. I literally like, yeah, maybe I will run a marathon one day. Like my ass, I'm literally dreaming about the 5K. First of all, I didn't even share a personal best. I ran the fucking 5K on Monday in 38 minutes. And I took one extra minute because I was feeling like I kind of had to poop. So I really, like, I'm currently tracking at 30.

Yeah, bitch, I did. Thank you so much. You're a queenie as well. Sending you off on a queenie leisurely week. Have the best time. I will be a queenie this week. Living like a queenie. Yeah, as you should.

And then actually, I'll change my weenie to a fictional weenie. Okay. Only redheads will understand oh elise from the book that we read is my weenie of the week i y k y k yeah redheads will know redheads will know and if you don't uh it's never too late to become a redhead we are not like we're not exclusive whatsoever we welcome anyone who isn't a weenie um and we welcome anyone who's not living in an encampment exactly exactly i can't believe our bar is extremely low i just want to say something i want to admit something. When we sat down to record this episode, I had one story on my iPad. And I didn't know how we were going to make it through the episode.

Oh, wow. The truth is out. That's so crazy. I know. And I'm not lying that I sat here for 45 minutes looking for stories. And I just, I was being like, you know, too picky, whatever. And then as the show went on, I kept rearranging. And look at us. Hour 15. That's beyond impressive like nothing wow well that's queenie behavior kind of no take the it can be about you it can be just about you today and every day but but tomorrow we go back to it being about you okay next Monday see you

next Monday next Monday Jax we'll miss you next week you guys I'm super excited for next week thank you so much for an amazing week of shows I'm super excited for what's to come yeah and if you're missing so many of you tomorrow oh my god we'll see so many of you tomorrow and if you're missing me next week I'll be on the patreon still doing content like not actually ever taking off fully because I have too much to say they literally like she refuses to be silenced I won't do it I won't go out quietly thank you so much for listening to the toast the millennia morning show where we deliver the past five stories you need to know everybody through Friday on YouTube so if you're watching us on

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