The Toast - Female Founder Friday: Friday, March 14th, 2025
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Okay. Should we just start like that's funny. Sure. Okay. Hey, Jack. How you doing? I'm doing good. I'm doing sweaty. I have had such a busy morning. I literally ran off of a firetruck to come
Record the show because we are at a program party this morning and it was one of my favorite kinds of events
Which is touch a truck which is not something apparently this is like a category of child's party
I never heard of it a touch a truck party
Yeah
like a touch a truck event where a local place will invite all the great trucks to come and the kids can touch a truck.
And I would have never understood why that's amazing before having sons.
But let me tell you, the trucks were touched.
Okay.
And I was touched vis-a-vis the trucks.
I also had like a crazy morning, but not even close.
I washed and blew out my hair because we had like two extra hours
since we were out touching trucks,
we're recording a little bit late.
So it was like kind of the perfect time
for me to wash my hair this week.
I'm broken.
Like I am dead.
Yeah, no, I'm a bit broken from carrying the two
on top of a full like digger, that was major.
The fire truck-
Also known as an excavator, correct?
Oh yeah, but the kids don't call it that because-
No, I know, I know.
Unless you're a blippy sand.
Unless anybody listening to this show doesn't have kids
and they don't know what a digger is.
I didn't know what that was either.
Like it's an excavator, the yellow cat.
The yellow cat, exactly.
The fire truck though had par GAC,
so I wanna shout out to the fire truck
because the others did not.
So it was really fun.
If you ever find yourself able-
At a TAT event?
Or available to attend a touch a truck,
I would highly recommend it.
Are they colloquially known as TATs, Tuck A Truck Event?
Oh no, maybe they're TATs, Touch A Trucks.
Or TATs, Tuck A Truck, wait, trucks. Or tates, tuck a truck.
Wait, what are we saying?
Touch a truck events.
Perhaps.
Events, events.
I want to go to events.
Invite me to your events.
Invite me to your touch a truck events.
We will come there and we will touch them trucks.
We will touch them.
It's also just like, I know it's a weird word, touch. But that's exactly what it is. All kids want to do is touch trucks. They want to look touch them. It's also just like, I know it's a weird word, touch.
But that's exactly what it is.
All kids wanna do is touch trucks.
They wanna look at them.
They wanna be up close.
And this provides that opportunity.
It's Friday and that's fabulous, obviously,
but it definitely feels like a weird kind of Friday
because I don't wanna let down the SCQ.
Southern Charm community. But Jackie, for the first time, didn't. Southern Charm community.
But Jackie for the first time didn't watch Southern Charm.
You know what?
I had to force myself not to watch Southern Charm last night
because I knew that today's episode,
we were either gonna be doing it really early or late.
And I didn't wanna feel compelled
to do a Southern Charm recap and make the show a Nalafi.
When we don't have time for a Nalafi,
it might be a Nassafi or a Narrafi.
We have time today for a Nalafi though,
like now, now that we decided to record late.
That's true.
I feel like it'll be a Narrafi,
a nice regular episode for ya.
You can't predict these things though, you know.
No, it's a nice regular one for ya.
Or it could be Narefi, nice regular episode for ya.
Yes, so I held back and also I was just like on my phone last night.
I got home late because we were out to dinner
and I just, it wasn't in the cards for me.
So I'm sorry to the small
and mighty Southern charm community.
I do want to know what the barber told Ryan
that told Leva that told JJ that JJ said to the barber.
I do want to know.
Wait, I'm sure you don't know about this
but like Leva has found herself in like some drama on TikTok that made its way. And it has nothing to do to the barber. I do wanna know. Wait, I'm sure you don't know about this, but like, Leva has found herself in like some drama
on TikTok that made its way.
And it has nothing to do with the show,
it has to do with her restaurant.
I'm not-
Because her restaurant has its own show,
Southern Hospitality.
She opened a new place, Zachary's Zachary's.
Are you familiar?
Zachary's Zachary's?
Yeah.
Who's Zachary?
No clue.
And so somebody posted a review,
and normally like a restaurant
review, like on TikTok, nobody cares.
But when they realized it was Love is Restaurant, it became the PsyQ channel.
I'm really not clear on the details, but she's being accused of like elitism.
I think maybe a little bit of racism as well for enforcing a dress code.
I'm not 100 percent sure.
I found myself in the middle of the Zachary's, Zachary's drama.
And like I seriously, I, you know what I said to myself?
I said, how did we get here?
How do we get out?
And I just like kept scrolling,
but just want to let you know,
she's kind of going through it.
Interesting.
You haven't provided enough color.
So I don't really know.
I don't have it.
I don't have it to provide.
I don't really know what she's going through.
I'm not with her.
She's got her restaurants like going through a big scandal.
She'll be okay.
Yeah, you know, they're like review bombing it.
She'll be fine, but that's annoying.
But that's just like, that's just what it is
when you launch businesses off of reality TV
or social media, like it's the tides, rising tides,
raise all tides, low tides, lower all tides.
The vibes today might be off one because there's no SCQ,
but also because I chose the stories,
Jax is super busy and I feel like
I kind of did an amazing job.
What did you think when you opened them up?
So it's funny, some of them were the obvious ones,
like of course Megan's Lemonada.
Lemonada shmemanada.
It's Lemonada o'clock, like I'm tingling.
I need to, it's Female Founder Friday, okay?
It is Female Founder Friday, okay? It is female founder Friday.
Of course we were gonna talk about that.
And then you chose actually like a lot of TV stuff.
Yeah, I did end up on deadline.com.
No, this literally feels like an episode of like TV guide.
Like here's-
It was a lot of news about television.
No, I know.
I wonder if I would have come to the same conclusions,
but I love it.
I love it.
We'll just- Let them yell at but I love it, I love it. But they're yelling at you for a day.
I love it.
It's a lot of pressure choosing a story.
So if you didn't like it today, it was all Jackie.
No, it was all co-jurors.
I know everyone loves to,
it's in art, choosing stories.
It is, it's hard.
Some things that you think we should choose a story,
it's just not meaty.
You know what I mean?
There's not enough to converse about.
But also sometimes I have to really,
I know when to put forth internet stuff
that I wanna talk about, right?
And that I can explain to you
and some of our beloved Gen X listeners.
And the other week, there was something going on
on the internet that people were really shook
we weren't talking about.
I'm sure you don't even know about it.
What?
It was this rap battle beef
between Alabama Barker and Bad Baby,
the Cash Me Outside girl.
I do know about it.
Now I wanna tell you guys,
I know nothing about it other than what I just said,
that Travis Barker's daughter, Alabama,
who's like a social media influencer and who's like 16,
is beefing with the Cash Me Outside Dr. Phil girl,
who has like become a pretty
like well respected rapper.
Beyond that.
And like a wealthy woman.
Yes, yes.
She's a woman of means.
Beyond that, I actually like couldn't get myself
to learn more about the drama.
Like I have standards for myself, you know what I mean?
And like that is information I actually don't wanna know.
I don't think it's good for my brain.
I don't think it's good for the baby. I don't think it's good for the baby.
Yeah, no, I have a life.
I have friends and family
and I just don't need to be spending my time doing that.
I can't.
Also like Tyga was involved in some way.
I was, you see, I don't know.
I don't care to know.
Like that is something I actually chose.
I would like to be excluded from this narrative.
Wait, speaking of the baby,
I did something really crazy last night.
The bad baby?
No, no, the good baby.
The bad Bobby?
I went to bed and I was just like,
you know when you get in your head about something,
like you know it's fake,
but the more you think about it,
like you convince yourself that that's the reality.
I'm like, oh, I really haven't felt the baby kick all day.
I know I felt one in the bath,
but usually these days I can feel the baby a lot.
So then I was dreaming about the lack of kicks
and then I woke myself up at four in the morning
and I was fully convinced that something was wrong.
Nothing was wrong.
I was laying in bed, Googling how to feel the baby kick.
I laid in bed for four hours on my left side,
tapping the belly, sorry, not for four hours,
four in the morning for one hour until I felt three kicks.
I was having the craziest psychosis in the night
and I was telling you, I felt nothing in my belly.
I felt like I was back on Ozempic.
I felt like skinny as a needle.
Oh, I'm sorry for that experience for you.
It was terrible.
It was terrible.
The tricks of mind plays.
Yeah.
And I got terrible sleep because of it.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
But this morning, he was like, I'm here.
Right, well, maybe he was just trying to give you
like a restful sleep.
Most people complain, the baby only kicks in the night.
It was too restful, it was too restful.
Things were too quiet.
Yeah, but that's actually kind of nice,
like very considerate.
I feel like it bodes well for his personality,
like he's very much a people pleaser.
Jackie, let me tell you, I almost took myself
to the emergency room.
Like that's how like I was like really convincing myself
something was wrong. Yeah, and it's like, I almost took myself to the emergency room. Like that's how like I was like really convincing myself something was wrong.
Yeah. And it's like,
I think that happens a lot to people.
And then you also hear stories where like someone's like,
I knew something was wrong.
And so I went to the hospital.
Yes. And you're supposed to like trust that instinct.
How many times do we know something is wrong
and nothing is wrong?
I know. I know.
And I was like, if I just,
and I was like going to text Dr. Fox, like I really,
and I'm glad that I didn't cause like, it's like, nothing happened, but I don't know. I just like and I was like gonna text Dr. Fox. Like I really, and I'm glad that I didn't
cause like it's like nothing happened,
but I don't know, I just like had a feeling.
But my feeling was wrong.
No, he wanted you to come in the morning
and just get on the monitor and like,
you'll see the kicks and then he'll send you home.
Yeah.
All I was just saying was a fitful night's rest.
I think they deal with that often.
I think a lot of girls take themselves
to the emergency room and are like.
Like trusting their intuition.
Yeah, just being like, making sure there's a baby in there.
It's like, there's so much trust, you know?
In?
Pregnancy, like the fact that there is a baby in there,
you know?
Yeah.
Like according to who?
The monitors, the lack of period.
No, but when you haven't been,
like in between your doctor's appointments.
Yeah, I mean-
It's like, according to who?
God. Yeah. Yeah. Profound. Thank you.
Other than that, have you had a splendid evening? Yeah, I
finished Running Point on Netflix. I felt like maybe it was one or two episodes too long.
Okay.
But you know that to me, I like short things.
Well, you'll get to share your thoughts
because you chose a Running Point story.
I did choose a Running Point story
and that wasn't because like selfishly I just finished it.
I actually was wondering the content of the story.
I was wondering if Chet Hanks got any acting advice
from his father, Tom.
And you know what?
Page Six is gonna let us know today.
I think, what is that?
Probably like third or fourth story father, right?
Fifth, stay tuned for the details.
You don't wanna miss this.
Coming right up after the break.
After the break.
Should we do the break?
That's so beautiful.
Well, I also have to sing so it's like not perfect
but it is time for the fast five stories.
You need to know you do do do do do.
I know you mean do do do do.
I know what you mean when you say like some days
it's not like, it doesn't flow naturally.
I feel like you just forced that.
I did because you literally like held a gun to my head
and started singing. I bet you over and spanked you.
Yeah, you know what?
You don't have to do it anymore.
Thank you so much.
Only when it feels right.
Only when it feels right.
Okay, I'm doing something else.
We've got the Fast Five Stories for you after the break.
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You know what, not to sound like Ben having like an Eastern medicine thought.
An Eastern moment.
Yeah, an Eastern moment.
But does anybody ever realize that the word meditation
is medication without the C?
Yeah.
Well, no, I haven't, but yeah, facts.
It's kind of powerful when you think about it, right?
That is powerful.
Why don't you swap out your medication
for some meditation. For some meditation. Just when you think about it, right? Why don't you swap out your medication for some meditation?
For some meditation.
Just something to think about.
Swap out the C for the T.
Correct.
And that's what being dyslexic,
that's the type of like really intellectual thoughts
you're gonna get from a girl who reads ads
who is definitely dyslexic.
I definitely, like when I used to read these ads,
the words are just like all over the page. It's a lot reading. I'm definitely living with dyslexic. I definitely, like when I used to read these ads, the words are just like all over the page.
It's a lot reading.
I'm definitely living with dyslexia.
Oh, that's really wonderful.
You should explore that because I feel like-
No, Piper, no.
No, I don't wanna explore it.
I live to have like six undiagnosed medical conditions.
I have ARFID-
But you also live for six diagnosed.
Coccidinia.
It's changed as a woman.
It has, but like I diagnosed-
TMJ, IBS.
I do, yes, thank you for reminding everyone
about my IBS, I appreciate it.
She has IBS.
Whenever someone like talks about their IBS,
and I'm not saying that we should ever be ashamed
of our illnesses, like speak your truth. But as somebody who like talks about IBS, like I need to stop talking about it because I just know the person I'm not saying that we should ever be ashamed of our illnesses, like speak your truth.
But as somebody who like talks about IBS,
like I need to stop talking about it
because I just know the person I'm telling
is like envisioning me on the toilet making a duty.
And like, I don't want that image in their head.
No, but I feel like IBS can go either way
where it's like, oh, maybe she doesn't duty.
Like-
Well, people, yeah, people don't realize
I have the type of IBS where I was constipated, okay?
So I feel like if you want people to think
that you don't poop, you could say that you have IBS. Because if you don't, if you say you have nothing, then of course you poop, like you're regular. Okay. So I feel like if you want people to think that you don't poop, you could say that you have IBS.
Cause if you don't, if you say you have nothing,
then of course you poop like you're regular.
Regular.
But if you have IBS, like perhaps you don't poop.
Yeah, but I need them to know it's the good type of IBS.
The beautiful type.
It's IBS Aladdin.
So yes, I did technically get diagnosed with IBS,
but I haven't gotten diagnosed for my dyslexia or my ARFID.
And I just feel like if you did,
that could really become a cornerstone
of your personality.
And these are the invisible illnesses
that me and millions of Americans
are living with every day.
Certainly ARFID is invisible.
Yeah.
Dyslexia seems more tangible.
No, dyslexia is real.
And I'm telling you, I feel like I have it.
How do you get tested?
I don't know, I feel like if you made it
out of elementary
school without getting tested, it's too late for you.
You're doing okay.
Who gets late in life dyslexic diagnosis?
You literally read 50 books a year,
you're gonna be okay.
Even if you have dyslexia, you're strong
and you're pushing through.
Think about how many I could read
if I finally tackled my lifelong battle with dyslexia.
If all the words were straightforward.
Correct.
Well, that's something to think about, unlocking potential.
And that's what we do on this podcast.
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Well, ain't that the truth?
What are you even talking about?
And lamination because our first-
Lamination!
Oh my God.
Could this story have dropped at a worse time yesterday?
As our asses are getting up from the chairs,
something Jackie and I have been waiting for
for months finally comes out.
Now I'm glad that I actually had a minute to think about it
because sometimes getting breaking news on the show is great,
but I don't get time to like really fully form my thoughts.
Yeah, no, and yesterday's episode was stacked
and today is a Fry Dairies with a lot of TV news.
So we needed this as our lead story,
but you guys, Meghan Markle's podcast
with Lemonada Media has launched.
We have a title, we have artwork, we have a description.
Years after being announced, and very vaguely,
when it was announced, we didn't get the name of the show,
the concept of the show, We have it all now.
She's already had a podcast.
Don't forget, Archetypes on Spotify.
And then Lemonada was acquiring her podcast.
So you would think like Archetypes on Lemonada,
sure, whatever.
No, it's a whole new thing.
So like Archetypes is in the cam, like flop.
We're gonna call it a flop on Archetypes, yeah?
No, and we're also calling it, that's a wrap on Archetypes.
Like it's over.
I thought maybe Lemonada would be the second coming.
I thought so too, but no, like you did like two,
10 episode seasons of archetypes and that was it.
So we're gonna call it.
That's a flop.
We're calling that.
Officially.
Megan is now launching Confessions of a Female Founder
with Lemonada Media.
It comes a year after she started to deal with the company
for her podcast.
The series will launch on April 8th.
It will see her have candid conversations with female founders and friends who open up about the struggles, the series will launch on April 8th. It will see her have candid conversations
with female founders and friends
who open up about the struggles, the success,
and the never before told stories that took many of them
from starting a company to selling it.
Per the log line, the series allows audiences
to be a fly on the wall and hear the unfiltered stories
behind the success of notable female founders,
while also sneaking a peek behind the curtain
of Meghan's own entrepreneurial journey
launching as ever.
It's an eight part series
that we'll see episodes released weekly.
And they announced the first guest.
Who?
Danielle from Summer House founder.
Oh, journey.
I was like, I missed it.
No, I was sitting on that joke for like 10 minutes.
I was like, damn, I was in that truck for too long.
No, and that's, it just kind of like brings my,
my first and initial thought about this, it brings it home.
There is no two words, actually just one word
that I hate more than founder.
To me, founder is the new entrepreneur.
It's code for unemployed.
It is meaningless.
Like, and yes, there are founders of companies
and like, yes, like Mark Zuckerberg is a founder,
but it is colloquially taken on this toxic internet
hustle culture, founding, like shut up.
It means nothing.
So to put it in the title of your podcast,
and I think if you had broken this news to me
on the show yesterday, I would have the same thought
yesterday that I, this didn't require deep thought.
This is a very bad name for a show.
And a pretty cringe concept that's pretty overdone.
I feel like, you know, there has been this moment
and this girl boss, CEO, leading in.
And that was then, and that really did have a big moment.
And now we're in like a new phase of it
where like it doesn't have to be this way and like-
Corny.
Corny, cringy.
And do you feel like it sets the bar just lower for women?
It's like, I don't know.
I don't, I think, I understand why she's doing females
because also, Lemonada is like, elevates women's voices.
So I feel like Lemonada was female,
but I don't think she pushed back.
I think she's female, and everyone in the room is female.
Yeah, well, I feel like if this podcast had been launched five years ago, like Elizabeth
Holmes would have been a guest. Like that's when you say founder, like that's the type
of person you're attracting. And I just, I hate this, this culture. Now, if, if she's
having like, I guess it really does depend on the guests, right? And she did get very
good guests on archetypes. The conversations weren't really interesting, but the guests, right? And she did get very good guests on archetypes. The conversations weren't really interesting,
but the guests were Shed and Mariah Carey,
Shed Indy Cohn, I believe Shed Mindy Kaling.
I feel like we wasted the good surprise on them.
Like, who really wants to be a guest on this?
It sounds very unserious as we guide Megan
into her founding of her new brand as ever,
which is like a jam that she slapped a label on.
Like it's not really big business.
And the people that she would wanna hear from,
the real female founders in this country,
like Sarah Blakely, that's who we want.
That's just the richest self-made billionaire
in the country.
That's who should be your first guest on the show.
Bethany Frankel.
Bethany, I feel like Sarah Blakely
could be the first guest on the show.
She's like promoting those sneaks.
Emma Greed.
And yes, I'm just going down the shark tank female.
Yes, Emma Greed.
That's a very good one.
Lori, Barbara Corcoran.
Yes, yes, yes.
Kim, Kylie.
Yeah, Kylie.
Pat McGrath.
But there are a million ways that she could do this well.
Like the name is cringy,
but like if she does,
if she has half the guests that you just mentioned,
like in real women, like talking about like their business
sense, business strategy, who have like really achieved
amazing things, that like has potential to be interesting.
I don't think that's what it's gonna be.
I think it's gonna be like, how can I make this about me?
Because a theme with all these projects
that Meghan's recently been launching,
and like actually the things that are coming to fruition
is like they all are in promotion of as ever and like that's really boring.
Yeah, no and if you're just interviewing people
and getting their stories then having a more anonymous host
and a professional host is better
because we're getting the best out of this person.
But if it's always supposed to tie back to Megan,
which it should because she's Meghan Markle
and we're tuning in for her,
but that's not like a great conversation
because we're trying to do too many things.
Like this reminds me also, of course,
like Diary of a CEO, which I think I've never listened,
but like is amazing.
I feel like I could say that-
I would say it's also like the leading business podcast.
I feel like I can say that based on a track record,
clips I've seen, it's been around forever.
It's a great concept.
So this is like a very watered down version
of that concept that has been done.
Women are always talking to other women.
How'd you get here?
How I built this.
Like we got it.
We got it.
This is not an original idea.
It's not exciting.
It's not something that only Meghan Markle can do.
There are things in this world that only Meghan Markle can do.
A former princess, Duchess of Sussex.
And this is not, anyone can do this.
By the way, there's two other podcasts with this name.
Yeah, and so I think that it's disappointing,
especially because I feel like with her TV show,
one of my biggest takeaways was that she wasn't,
I would say the thing that she lacked the least
in that TV show was the hosting capability,
like making eye contact with camera and funny references
and stories and personal anecdotes and jokes.
And that's all a podcast is, right?
It's just your voice.
And I feel like her voice was the thing
that was really missing from the TV show,
maybe because she saved it from the podcast.
I don't think that's it,
but like, it just doesn't give me a lot of hope
that this will be like really substantial
when it comes to getting to know Meghan.
And that's like all we want.
I feel like that's all the feedback that we give,
but also a lot of people is like
just scratching the surface a little too much,
which is fine.
Nobody's compelled to like share their life with you,
but don't do a podcast, don't do a TV show,
and a book, and a documentary.
And a documentary.
Yeah.
Yeah, like for someone who doesn't have a lot to give,
you have to open a vein.
She's spreading herself too thin
for someone that doesn't even have that much left in the tank.
And who's seemingly unwilling to like, oh, open up and like, you know, bleed out for
a podcast, which is fine.
You don't have to, but like that's the best podcasts are people just like bearing it all.
That's what the medium kind of requires from a host.
I don't even know what that would look like from her.
And I feel like she thinks that she has like right? It wasn't Oprah opening up and bleeding out
and wasn't the documentary.
I will say, I think Oprah is probably the most honest
and vulnerable she had been with us up until that point.
And she's kind of like closed off ever since then.
Which again, is fine.
No celebrity, no matter how famous you are,
nobody is entitled to know your innermost thoughts,
but don't launch platforms built on the premise of that.
Yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, it hasn't come out yet,
so there's still potential, but just name, ugh,
like so corny and seriously, chuggy.
Like so lemonada, honestly.
In the worst way, like sometimes someone can be lemonada
and it's like lemonada. Like wiser than me with Julia Lee Reed Drive is lemonada, honestly. In the worst way, like sometimes something can be lemonada and it's like lemonada.
Like wiser than me with Julia Lee Reed Drive is lemonada.
Yes, that show is really popular.
But this is lemonada.
Yeah, it's just like corny ass
International Women's Day type shit, you know?
And the photo is not making me wanna tune in more
than I already did or didn't.
Agreed, the photo is giving like stripped back,
acoustic, you know, hair in a pony,
jeans and a tee. But it's not her confessions.
So why do you need you stripped back?
Aren't you Barbara Walters?
Get your glasses on, you're interviewing,
we're going to work.
And also when she was like quote,
interviewing her guests on her Netflix show,
which maybe she wasn't interviewing,
they were just like conversing,
it was all about Meghan, which is great.
Like I want to know more about Megan.
Megan.
But she.
Oh, that was funny.
Just also like came out of left field.
I don't know why I feel like the universe that you exist in,
like I watched Drake and Josh like all the time
growing up with Margot.
Like I feel like you never even saw an episode
of Drake and Josh, you know what I mean?
Yeah, no, maybe not as much as you,
but I obviously know the lore and I know Meghan.
Yeah.
That's how I feel.
Oh my God, you actually scared me just now.
Meghan.
If you listen to the good guys,
he actually does it all the time.
That's so funny.
I hope that he does it when they talk about Meghan Markle.
I don't think they talk about Meghan Markle,
but if they did, he would say, Meghan Markle.
That's why it'll never be great.
So true, just the good guys.
I forgot what I was saying,
but all's that to say like disappointing.
You said that the guests always talk about Meghan.
Oh yeah, and it's like they came with like
prerecorded stories about like something that paints Meghan
in a flattering light, like the makeup artists.
When she ordered me room service for the first time,
Mindy talking about the Jack in the Box.
It was all in service of Meghan, which is fine,
but for a podcast where we're interviewing other people,
maybe Meghan really will take a back seat
and just ask thoughtful questions,
which is good if the guests can carry.
No, but also all those questions on the show,
on the TV show, it it was the producer prompts,
like you didn't hear Megan ask the question
because like someone behind the camera did.
It was like, had you, was the first time you met Megan?
What was that like?
Like that wasn't even-
We were both on TV shows for seven years.
What's it like?
Like it wasn't even her asking the questions.
This is just like really a bad idea.
And I don't understand why they're doing all this.
I don't know, she works too hard.
Are there not simpler ways to make money for them?
That's a really, really good point
because they're very well connected.
I think when you get to a certain level.
Yes, of course, they live like a very fancy life
and they come out of the woodwork every couple of years
to do a project.
Harry obviously was just doing the books
and then they took a break and now it's Meghan's turn.
Like they each take turns paying the bills.
And I think when you get to a certain level of celebrity
and like you're so well connected,
like there are kind of easy ways for you to make money,
not public facing, right?
Like you got opportunities to invest in random things
that are like 100%, you know, sure to go.
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah, and I don't know why they insist
on doing so much public facing work to pay their bills.
Cause I do believe that-
Especially when the whole thing was they wanted
their privacy. Right, and I do believe like all Especially when the whole thing was they wanted their privacy.
Right. And I do believe like all the work that they do,
even though Harry definitely is like,
I need to tell my story.
And we're like, okay.
I feel like for the most part,
a lot of the projects they take on are seriously
just paychecks, which is very regular of them.
We all got bills to pay.
And I don't know why they insist on doing it
in like a public facing way.
Like I know that's definitely one way to do it,
but invest. There's a, like when you're that rich,
like you just get these opportunities like to make money.
Your money makes money for you.
Yeah, and Harry comes from money.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe, I don't know.
But I guess they were getting like these big deals
like $20 million from Spotify.
Like, is there an easier way to make 20 million?
That's kind of- I don't know.
20 mil from Netflix.
It's also really interesting how he is completely-
Does Lemonada have the big bucks?
Yes, yes, yes, they're huge.
They have the big bucks?
Yeah.
Oh wait, we should like kind of shut the fuck up.
Yeah, that's why I said like you were being negative.
I'm like, no, Lemonada's amazing.
Lemonada is the place to be,
especially for women in podcasts.
Female founders.
That's for sure.
Female founders, of course, like it would be,
I just say this cause I'm jealous.
It would be a dream to be with lemonada.
It is also very interesting that Harry is completely absent
from all of her projects these days.
Like he didn't show up on the show.
Yeah, I know, I know.
I feel like it, it signals like a,
maybe this is just me projecting
cause I can't fucking stand Harry.
Like I really, even with the show, Megan with love,
like I didn't like it, but like she, like I enjoy her.
She's pretty, I can't fucking stand this man.
Like, and maybe other people feel that.
And like his Q score has gone down.
So they're just keeping him, you know,
behind the curtain for a while,
because he's not gonna be on the female founders podcast.
He wasn't in with love, Megan,
even though it was a show about like home.
So home and hearth.
So where in the world is Harry Mountbatten?
Windsor.
Sussex.
Duke.
I don't know.
And I don't think they're getting divorced
because that is what the streets are almost saying about them.
I do not think they're getting a divorce.
I don't think they could ever get a divorce.
And I don't think they'll ever will get a divorce
no matter how much they might hate each other.
Yeah, I agree.
That's what I think.
What could, like seriously, could you imagine?
No.
I guess there would have to be like irrefutable evidence
of like, you know, maybe like him at a strip club
or you know, like a picture, I don't know.
No, there's no way.
No, they would work through it.
Down for life.
All's that to say, I probably won't be listening to this.
No, and who will be, all's to say?
I don't know, because it feels like she has no fans left.
Like how is it us?
Like we are her biggest fans.
Yeah, you have to call Stassi.
She's like my pulse check on like Megan Stans.
Like how are we feeling?
What does this make us feel?
It feels like everyone has left her.
But like everyone hasn't left her until Stassi has left her.
Like truly if she has zero fans,
then Stassi has walked out the door. It's devastating. So I need to know. But I do feel like like I didn't see Stassi has left her. Like truly if she has zero fans, then Stassi has walked out the door.
It's devastating.
So I need to know.
But I do feel like, I didn't see Stassi posting like,
oh my gosh, with love.
With love, yeah, I know.
She's been actually,
so absolutely silent. Stassi's been real quiet.
Yeah.
Well, that's the latest in podcasting,
Confessions of a Female Founder, you guys.
Finally, the one we've all been waiting for. Also, like the trope Confessions of a female founder, you guys. Finally, the one we've all been waiting for.
Also, like the trope, Confessions of,
is such like a tired, especially for a podcast,
but like just in general, culturally,
it's just a very tired trope.
Like Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen,
Confessions of a Shopaholic,
it's very like overused and tired.
And then the female founders, it's just like really corny.
Unless Ina Garten named her memoir,
Confessions of a Contessa.
No, her name should have been Barefoot Confessions.
Barefoot Confessa.
Sure.
That was the only way, but I agree.
It's a tired trope.
And I just don't feel like we're gonna be getting
a lot of confessions, it's just a hunch.
These are my confessions. I am curious who the first, the guests will be, a lot of confessions. It's just a hunch. These are my confessions.
I am curious who the first, the guests will be,
especially like the first guest.
Let's make a prediction.
That would be fun.
Oprah.
Like she, Meghan did Oprah a huge solid.
Like anyone could have,
anyone would have wanted that interview.
She could have gone to any publication.
It was huge for Oprah, huge for Meghan too.
But at the time she could have gone anywhere.
And I don't know if Oprah has paid her back yet. That's so true. That's a really good one. That would be newsworthy. That would be good too. And they could talk about the interview
and the fallout. Like that would be interesting. Yeah. Yeah. That would be worth it for sure.
You want to put in your prediction? I would like to put in a prediction. Okay. We need to make an
app. You know how like Jake Paul and like Bar would like to put in a prediction. Okay. We need to make an app.
You know how like Jake Paul and like Barstool,
they have like betting sports apps.
Yes, we need betting.
We need a betting app on like things that we care about.
Like who will be Meghan Markle's first podcast guest?
Yeah, Female Founders USA, sorry.
Oh, cause you know that's what her team did.
So true.
Okay. 2024 is more intriguing women entrepreneurs.
Literally, I feel like I'm rifling through their-
Or what about like Gwyneth?
Oh, that's a good one.
Because Gwyneth has a very big wellness company
similar to what I think Meghan would wanna build,
different skews, but similar.
She also, I feel like they live near each other.
They both like garden and shit.
They're very green.
Goop has a huge podcast.
So that would be like a good alignment.
Don't you think they're almost too similar.
They either would get like, they either,
I feel like if they're not as publicly associated yet,
that there's-
Didn't we think that about Poosh and Goop?
And then there she was doing a club.
I feel like Gwyneth is so successful.
Like nobody can really touch her.
And there are a bunch of copycat brands
and that's what Poosh is like from other celebrities.
And I think Poosh is like really actually successful
cause it's so authentic to Courtney,
but it is like inspired by,
everyone is inspired by Gwyneth.
So when you're at the top,
like you're not easily shooketh.
You know what, I'm gonna go Emma Greed is my guess.
It's a really good guess.
Except she is British.
Oh my God, is she a monarchist?
Is she a royalist or an anarchist?
Oh, now it's getting political.
So who knows?
But yeah, she's super British.
That's a good call.
Okay, we shall see.
To be determined, April 8th.
Sound off in the comments.
April 8th.
Yeah, add it to your list and sound off in the comments.
Who do you hope to or think we will see
as one of Meghan's eight guests
on the new Lemonada show,
Confessions of a Female Founder,
coming to an iPod near you.
Are you ready for our next story?
Yeah.
Actually, a female founder that she could have on,
Wendy Williams, is on The View today.
Yes, I guess Oprah didn't snag that interview,
The View got it.
Wendy Williams wants her guardian to get off her neck.
The former daytime talk show host called into The View
for a pre-taped interview exclusively obtained by Page Six
in which she got candid about her current conservatorship.
The interview kicked off with her explaining
her hospital visit and her decision
to get an independent psych test,
which she says she passed with flying colors earlier
this week.
She said, I needed a breath of fresh air.
I needed to see the doctor.
So that's why I went to the hospital. She said, I needed a breath of fresh air. I needed to see the doctor. So that's why I went to the hospital, she said.
Hold on.
Honestly, I think the sheer fact that she sat
for an interview speaks to her mental capacity.
And I know I keep comparing it to Brittany and I'm sorry,
but that's really the only frame of reference that we have.
And even in the years that Brittany has been freed,
she's never sat down for an interview
because it really requires a lot of mental fortitude
and lucidity that, I mean, I haven't seen the interview yet
and it was just recorded, but sounds like Wendy kinda did.
Yeah, but it's also pre-taped over the phone,
so not entirely live and-
Oh, I didn't see that over the phone.
But still, Britney didn't do a pre-taped
over the phone interview.
No, of course, and the day after she left the facility.
Right, right, Wendy said that she-
Give Wendy a week and she'll be sitting down with Oprah.
Right, she said, and also to get blood work done
for her thyroid condition and made it clear
it was her choice to get an independent evaluation
on her incapacitation, which I don't have it.
How dare they say I have incapacitation?
I do not, she said.
She must be so mad.
I can't even imagine.
And I imagine that comes through on the phone interview
because I'm like hearing it even in just like
your paraphrasing to literally have your actual freedom
and like stripped from you.
Like you're literally stuck.
Like it's so crazy.
And if it all is what she says it is, and it's not like,
you know, this is actually a person suffering
from dementia who thinks that they're fine.
And it's, you know, it's a freedom McFadden novel.
Yeah. I was going to say it's like, oh yeah. If it is what she's saying it is
who's going to prison? Like you can't just throw someone in jail and lock a throw away the key.
Yeah, that's very true. There needs to be repercussions, not to change the subject,
but speaking of novels,
did you see the opening scenes of Verity being shot
in the streets with Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartman?
So I did.
It's reminding me of like when the first pictures
of It Ends With Us came out,
like it went so viral negatively,
but it was just like the photos were everywhere,
seeing this book that everyone in America has read
come to life.
And now these pictures of Dakota Johnson
filming in the New York City streets.
Now everybody, and I don't want you to tell me
because I did read the book and everybody's like,
oh, I know what scene this is.
I know what's this.
Yeah, you.
Am I okay?
I have no idea.
I thought the book takes place at a house
in like Connecticut.
So this is not a spoiler because it's the opening scene
of the book.
I don't really think I wanna know.
I really wanna go in like eyes wide open,
but everybody, like I saw all the influencers,
like who read, they were like, not this scene.
I'm like, what the hell are you guys talking about?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But to me, you are like one of five people that I saw.
So, you know, like I didn't even know Dakota Johnson
was in this movie.
I didn't remember it if I didn't know that
or Josh Harden, I didn't know they started filming.
So I just saw a video of them filming the scene of her
and the blood and him and the traffic.
So is Dakota the woman who comes?
Loan.
And then Anne Hathaway is the lady upstairs, Verity.
Is Anne Hathaway Verity?
Yeah.
Okay, then yeah.
I thought they would both be blonde.
I thought Verity was blonde, as she could be.
I mean, I didn't see Anne Hathaway, but it-
No, but I think also the thing is maybe subliminally
is that they look alike.
And they did.
Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway look alike.
Yeah, yeah.
I love Dakota Johnson.
I guess because they did Amanda Seyfried
and Sydney Sweeney for Housemaid,
they needed the brunette version for the party.
I don't know if I knew consciously
that Dakota Johnson was in this movie.
That's what I'm saying.
I didn't know it consciously.
So I saw a video of her in the street with the blood
in the traffic and him wissing her away.
And I knew exactly what movie they were shooting
and what scene this is.
And I posted it that my sister thought it was.
I'm sad that I didn't have that same experience.
I know I read the book so long ago.
I have no idea.
It is the opening scene of the book.
Before, think about why she moves in. Before she moves in, think about why she moves in.
Think about why she moves in.
Let's rewind.
I thought she got a job.
To do what?
To write.
Right, so.
You know what, I really do wanna be surprised.
Okay.
And for any of you who didn't read Verity,
I know you also wanna be surprised.
Right, and I'm sure you'll see the movie.
It's very good, Verity good.
Yeah, it is good.
So I'm excited. And it must be nice for Colleen good, very too good. Yeah, it is good. So I'm excited.
And it must be nice for Colleen Hoover
to have movie, like photos from her movie leaked
and then be received positively.
Viral positive.
Because it's never happened to her.
Yeah.
It's just be like, what is this feeling?
So sudden and new for Colleen.
Yeah, hopefully she's entering a new phase
of like positive book adaptation.
And you know, I only recently saw Pearl Harbor for the first time,
which is where Josh Hartnett got his start. So now I feel really invested.
Yeah. Jerry's out on him for the role.
I agree.
Like, I'm open.
He is beloved, by the way.
By the people.
The way he was like just being in the scene from the videos, like, jury's out, is all I'll say.
I agree.
It's important to know, like we are unique in that take,
which is, you know, very on brand for us.
America loves him.
He is like beloved.
No, no, I'm not saying like he's, jury is out, okay?
Do you find, cause this is like a new media,
like new age issue that like a movie gets made
and we see stills from it, right?
Like we see the costumes, we see the hair and makeup,
nothing, it's still surprised what happens,
but like some of the visuals are spoiled.
Do you find that to affect the movie watching process?
Like a spoiler a little bit?
No, I think it like hypes me up.
And a few examples of that where my favorite
like books were turned and we got photos before,
it was like luckiest girl alive.
That was so hyper.
That was exciting.
And you know what else it was?
Brie Larson, Chemicals.
Oh, Lessons in Chemistry, yes.
Lessons, yes, I remember seeing that
and being like, oh, fab,
that's exactly how I pictured it.
And I feel like I remember seeing stills
from Confessions of a Shopaholic before it came out
and that's my favorite book
and it was my favorite movie
and it just got me really excited.
So this gets me excited.
I mean, I think the It Ends With Us issue was the outlier.
Like usually it's good.
That's the only negative experience that I've had
where it's like, no, no, no, you guys, cut.
Start from the beginning.
Well, I think about like, and just like that season two
where they brought back Aiden, it was completely spoiled.
Yeah.
But I guess that's what you get when you shoot on the street
and I feel like they could have avoided that.
But also that's not book,
cause book like we know the story.
Right, right, right.
So, but I guess it's just like a teaser
of like the book world come to life.
It's a teaser of the world that they're building
and that gets me excited.
I agree.
And excitement excites me.
Why wouldn't it?
Seems reasonable.
1000%.
Are you ready for our next story?
Some TV news.
Is it three?
It's three.
Okay, yeah.
Ted Lasso season four is a go with Jason Sudeikis
and a women's team.
Junotemple is in negotiations to join the returning cast
as the Apple series heads to Kansas.
So this is like exciting and annoying
because Ted Lasso just started.
And it was very bittersweet.
And the whole season was like a big farewell. And I love annoying because Ted Lasso just started and it was very bittersweet and the whole season was like a big farewell
and I love you to Ted Lasso.
And that was about two years ago
and now Ted Lasso is coming back for another season.
And Junotemple, I just had to Google it,
that's Keely.
That's Keely, yeah, and we need Keely.
We do.
I feel like this is kind of weird.
I didn't know that this was even up for debate.
Like it definitely felt like the show ended early,
but that's of course, like the sign of a good show.
They're able to like tell their story on their own terms,
go out on their own terms.
So I was sad because I liked the show and like when it ended,
I was like, oh, that's a show that I'll miss,
but I didn't feel like wronged or mad.
They didn't leave us on a cliffhanger.
No, in the last season I found to be really bad.
I didn't finish it.
Yeah, I agree actually.
I found it to be actually unwatchable
and it came out during a time when I was desperate for TV.
It was like Sir Clash era and I could not finish it.
Well, spoiler alert, he goes back home to Kansas.
And so I guess that's where this new show is picking up.
And it's a women's soccer team now.
Right, which is very on brand.
I also think Jason Sudeikis,
a lot of those people in Hollywood,
they've all started to like own parts
of the women's soccer league across the U.S.
They're like trying to make it a thing.
A lot of like Eva Longoria, Jennifer Garner
are involved in the LA.
I want to say the Angels is the name of the team.
So like all the, they're trying to create like a big league
for women's soccer.
So this is obviously like propaganda, not in a bad way.
Like propaganda has a negative connotation,
but like in service of that.
Because a lot of celebrities have like a big financial stake
in women's soccer for some reason.
They've all like decided that this is going to be the thing
they want to create like the next NBA.
Yeah. I don't think that that is a fruitless idea growing up.
Me neither.
I was a female soccer player.
I love soccer. I love me a ham.
Like bring us back to the glory days.
And in terms of, yes, well,
soccer is not an inherently American thing.
We happen to be quite good at it as women.
No, and like women's US soccer is better than men's soccer.
It's like, I don't know, gymnastics.
I don't know why it shakes out that way, but it does.
It does.
And so, and we have like a lot of like famous soccer,
I don't know one American soccer player who's a man,
but I can name like 11, Abby Wambach,
Mia Hamm.
Who walked on stage with Taylor Swift.
No, like David Beckham and Lionel Messi came to play.
No, that doesn't count.
Of American descent, like the women.
I feel like they were just causing drama.
Remember we were talking about Ashlyn Harris.
Yes, and so I actually follow them.
Yeah, we know them. We know the gals.
It's not a bad business venture.
And I think like bringing in TV,
cause you know like him and Olivia Wilde
definitely like put money in years ago
to like one of the LA teams or something.
Totally.
Not to pit like women's,
like struggling women's league
against struggling women's league.
But like-
But what does this mean for the WNBA?
Which league do you think has a better chance of success?
The WNBA or women's soccer, you best.
It's a really good point.
I mean, women's soccer has a much harder task.
Cause not only do they have to get people
to care about women's sports,
they also have to get Americans to care about a sport
that really doesn't exist.
Like the MLS, Major League Soccer,
is like, nobody gives a fuck.
Like remember when in the Beckham documentary,
he talks about his time playing on the American team?
Like seriously, there was three people in the stand.
And like they had full-time jobs.
Like this was their like side hustle.
Hobby.
Playing soccer.
And David Beckham's there like making a hundred million
dollars.
Like, so they have a harder job.
Although I do think it's more palatable for Americans.
No, no, maybe not palatable.
Maybe like it's been many years of the WNBA.
And yes, people care now this year more.
They do.
The Caitlin Clark effect, the Angel Reese,
like there's a lot going on.
But there is a, you have to look as to why people
haven't cared up until this point.
Yeah, no, it's like they've had their shot,
multiple shots, shot hasn't taken.
I will be very curious to see.
I do feel like as Americans,
we miss out on the cultural like fun of soccer.
Like soccer's fun.
But we have football and they don't.
Yes, yes.
So like, I feel like we're actually all set
and I don't know if as a country we could like take on
another sport in such a way.
But I also think that these things of like getting people
to care about things and like building worlds and teams
and history, these take years. It's
not like women's soccer is just going to be popular next year and be popular forever.
Like you got to maybe that's what the WNBA has been doing. And we're just we're too in
it to say we need to zoom out like talk to us. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that like the even
though the last couple of episodes of Ted Lassow weren't good, there is magic there,
right? Like it's a good formula.
The characters are good.
The writers are good.
This will probably be excellent.
Yeah. And the premise sounds good.
So it's a women's team.
He's going back to Kansas.
I think Keely might come on
and probably be his PR girl again.
I don't want the whole cast.
I don't want to name names.
No, I really don't need the assistant coach.
I don't want to name names,
but I don't want everyone, okay?
I know. Who?
I just feel like I can't say it.
I don't like the assistant coach, the bald guy,
or like the guy with the beard.
What's his name, like Eagle?
It's like a bird.
Yeah, yeah, let me find it.
I really like- I just texted you what I don't know.
He was my least favorite.
You texted me who you don't.
Wait, why? I love her.
I don't like her anymore. Like, I just, I don't like her anymore. Like I just, I don't know.
She's just the most disgusting the most.
I like her.
Jackie, can I put you on the spot and say who it is?
No, no, cause now I feel like maybe I'm wrong
for like not wanting to.
You are.
I am.
She's like so, like what's wrong with her?
I don't know.
She's not Keely.
No, no, she's not Keely.
But I also need them to bring back Brett Goldstein.
Even though he's the writer. Roy. Roy, he's the writer on theely. But I also need them to bring back Brett Goldstein.
Even though he's the writer.
Roy, he's the writer on the show.
So I'm sure he'll still be like involved in the project.
Yeah.
The assistant coach actually like doesn't bother me.
No.
So much except he got his own episode
and he like went on a trip.
Oh my God.
He was like walking through the tunnels on drugs.
Yeah, that was like really bad.
Horrible.
Yeah.
Anyways, are you ready for our next story?
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Our next story, some more TV news,
cause we are Mike TV and we are addicted to the television.
And I did wonder about this. So when I saw the headline, I wondered,
was Jason Isaacs wearing a fake penis when we saw his penis on white lotus?
Which we didn't even talk about how we saw his penis.
And it turns out it wasn't his penis. It was a prosthetic.
So I'm glad we didn't even talk about it because it wasn't his real penis.
Jason, every time I see a penis on TV and then it doesn't happen a lot.
So it's always big news. And then there's always, was it a prosthetic? Like remember sex life when he had that big schlong in the shower?
They're like, it's a prosthetic. Why? Like women show their titties and they're not fake.
No, I didn't even wonder if it was a prosthetic. I was like, oh, there's his penis. And he wanted
to show his penis on HBO today. Like let him. I don't know why they get the option to wear a
prosthetic. Like it's, it's, that's actually, that needs to be talked about on confessions
of a female founder. Like that's an equal. Let, that needs to be talked about on confessions of a female founder.
Like that's an equal.
Let's talk about this.
If Jason Isaacs doesn't want to show his real penis,
can't we just take out that moment?
It literally didn't move the storyline or anything.
At all.
And it was actually kind of random.
And it's actually not like all worthy
that we're looking at a, like it was shocking
that he showed us his penis and okay,
doesn't move the storyline, but that's classic HBO.
But you're not even showing us his penis.
So what does this prosthetic serve?
Yeah, no, it's an amazing point.
They should have kept this secret in the vault
because you're right,
it was so not germane to the storyline.
And it actually is kind of not on brand for the dad
who's like this very buttoned up tailored guy.
So it was this random thing and for it all to have been fake
in service of what?
Right, like not necessary at all.
It was like, it-
And I'm more focused on the fact that like
when there's nudity on a woman,
like we've never seen a fake like boob, right?
They're not wearing breast plates.
They're tits.
Yeah.
Tushies, we see tushies.
But boobs are like penis and vagina.
Vagina to penis.
That's the complex.
No, I'm sorry.
It's not the same because men only-
I know that you don't feel that way
and I don't feel that way either,
but that's just what-
If a man does nudity, it's penis.
If a woman does nudity, there are multiple options.
There's breasts, there's tushy, there's vagina.
Why?
I need the intimacy coordinators
and like the women's rights movements, I need them to get on this.
Why do you get the option to do nudity?
And if you don't do nudity as a woman,
like you're penalized, right?
Like it's, you lose roles.
And if you're a man, like you just slap on a prosthetic
if you're not comfortable showing penis.
I think that's actually the definition of inequality.
So you want to cage the nipple again.
I didn't say that.
You don't want to cage the nipple.
Once again, your interpretation of my words
is merely a reflection of your thoughts.
I literally didn't even share my thoughts on this.
I hadn't spoken yet.
You want to cage the nipple.
I didn't say cage the nipple.
You guys are gonna cancel. I didn't say that. You want to cage the nipple. Tell everyone. I didn't say cage the nipple. You guys are gonna cancel that.
I didn't say that.
She's flippin'.
She's flippin'.
Okay, by the way, big talker, what are your thoughts?
I don't see any for any of it.
Man, woman, nothing.
Yeah, yeah.
Keep your junk in your pants.
Keep your shirt on.
It's just a show.
Keep your dong in your jeans.
And you know what, if you wanna have the balls
to show us your dong, better be the real thing.
It's so true, we want full frontal.
Except Jason Isaacs is my king,
and I'm so glad he did the prosthetics,
that was so the right move for him,
he's so smart and brilliant.
No, yeah, nothing but love and respect
for our Thomas Ravenel, we're not speaking ill of him.
We're just talking about the industry in a general sense.
And let's talk about a prosthetic penis
that really looked like a real penis.
What is the journey of that thing?
Like, does it lay on the prop table
next to craft services?
I bet they keep it in like a warm climate
so that when you slip it on, it's like not freezing.
Kind of how like the gel at the doctor for the ultrasound,
they keep it in the warmer.
They maybe keep it in like a prosthetic warmer.
No, see like all of that, that's like budget.
Not necessary.
And then the intimacy coordinator's job is to like
physically, I think, put it on.
And she's like walking around with this little case of penis
and she's like coming through, coming through.
Yeah, and she definitely walks around also
with like a fanny pack full of like different cosmetics
needed, like some powder if the penis is shiny,
maybe scissors to like trim the pubes.
And I don't wanna put anyone out of a job ever.
Right.
But that's not needed.
Agreed.
Is what I'm saying.
That part of the job.
Agreed. But intimacy coordinator, of course, I'm not a That part of the job. Agreed.
But intimacy coordinator, of course, I'm not a monster.
No, she wouldn't dream.
I take Zac Efstra more seriously than anyone.
I have, like, we've spoken more about intimacy coordinators
in the last year than like any two people should.
We need to interview an intimacy coordinator.
I don't follow.
Who was also a female founder.
Well, I guess all female intimacy coordinators
are female founders in a sense.
Well not if they're like contractors
for a larger intimacy coordination company.
Oh that's true, but maybe like they founded
the company of intimacy coordinators.
We need to talk to the founder.
Yeah, only if she's a female.
She is only a female.
Correct.
If you're like a man and your job is an intimacy
coordinator, like okay,, creep, creep much.
These are women's issues.
Agreed, right.
It's women who suffer on sets.
So true.
And you wanna be like, I'm sorry,
if I were a naked actress and my intimacy coordinator
were a man, I'd say, please leave.
1000%.
There are some jobs that are only for women.
Masseuse.
Pilot.
For women.
Doctor.
President.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
She's going to Lemanada.
And of course, founder founder of Lemonada. Oh, I'm tired, he cracked me up.
Thanks.
Are you ready for our Fit the Menos story,
which is more TV news?
Is it about the brilliant advice
Chet Hanks received from his father, Tom?
Yes, but it's also about how you've been duped
a little bit by this story.
I'm sorry. By the way, I only read the headline before I sent it been duped a little bit by this story. I'm sorry.
By the way, I only read the headline
before I sent it to you.
So let me read you the story.
I wanna show you the insidious way that they report.
Hollywood is so sinister.
Headline, Chet Hanks reveals the acting advice
Dad Tom gave him to prepare for Running Point.
Okay, click.
Yeah, easy click.
Chet Hanks turned to his award winning father, Tom Hanks,
for acting tips ahead of his breakout role
in Netflix's new hit show, Running Point.
Quote, I've always asked him for advice
when it comes to acting
and he's always given me really great advice.
The rising star told Page Six exclusively
at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards last September.
But they wrote the article yesterday. But they wrote the article yesterday.
But they wrote the article yesterday
about an interview that they did last September
that they're recycling.
Oh, this is so insidious.
Sinister.
Chet shared that Tom told him three key things
he has to do to be successful in Hollywood.
Jackie. So it's not even advice
on the running point. Jackie.
It's just advice in the business.
I'm completely uninterested in the rest of this story.
I thought it was like actual advice about this project.
And I was interested in it because I have felt like
for years that there has to be like some bad blood
between Tom and Chet.
Like when you think of Tom's kids.
I thought Chet was on the outs.
Right, like when you think about how his family
might've like really been upset with him
about a lot of his like public facing behavior
over the years compared to his brother.
Who's the other one?
Colin Hanks?
Colin, and he's so buttoned up.
Oh my God, he's so buttoned up.
He gets all the good roles.
Like he's really well behaved. House Bunny.
Right, he's very well behaved.
So I feel like Chet has been the bad egg
and I could see like Rita and Tom being like annoyed with him.
So the fact that Tom was giving him advice on Running Point,
I was like, you know what?
The headline here said they speak.
Yeah, but this was a year ago, who knows?
This is from September.
And also here's the advice, which by the way,
it's just general acting advice
and not specific to running point.
He just said, quote, if you just know your lines
and you show up on time and you're nice to everybody,
that gets you a long way.
Okay, privilege, like bare minimum, do less.
So that's like not advice, that's the obvious.
Can I tell you though, that his character- That's the job, do the. So that's like not advice, that's the obvious. Can I tell you though that his character-
That's the job, do the job and show up.
Right, thanks, Captain Obvious.
Maybe they don't speak.
Right, well the second half of the series,
actually he takes on a little bit of like a darker,
up until this point he's like a funny, ha ha,
but something happens where he's like struggling
and he has, and he's actually a very dynamic actor.
He really crushed it.
That's one of my biggest takeaways from the show
is get Chet Hanks more roles.
Yeah, I'm so in agreement.
And the show already is getting a second season.
I'm clear if he's in it, but if you just finish it,
would that poison him to be in it?
It could go either way.
Oh, he's either like on the team or not on the team.
No, he's like struggling with something personally.
So like, maybe he just like quits or he comes back, you know?
Yeah.
Understood.
So that's the stories that you needed to know.
I would say four out of five you needed to know,
not last year's news from the MTV VMAs.
But I do think the lesson in media literacy was important.
Hugely important.
And I'm glad that you didn't swap out the story
once you realized it was a fake.
No, I think it's so important.
I love that we've started calling out these journalists.
Inconsistencies.
No, and also the former singer slash turn.
Yeah.
Hanks.
Well, also when I was looking for stories on page six,
it was like, here are all the couples expecting in 2025.
And like, it was really Z-list.
Like they had- Were you on it?
No.
But you're such a page six darling.
I know, what the hell?
Like they went out of their way
because they had really like bottom of the barrel peeps.
People I didn't even hear, I haven't even heard of.
That's really-
There's obviously an oversight.
I feel like they wrote the whole thing
like just to hurt you.
Yes, yes. So that's the last time I look for wrote the whole thing just to hurt you. Yes, yes.
So that's the last time I look for stories
because I'm trying to help and I catch a stray.
Yeah, oh, I feel like I have the opposite experience
where I'm looking for stories.
I'm like, hey, there's my sister.
Oh, there's my brother-in-law.
Oh, that's nice, that's nice.
Oh, there's my friends.
Shall we dive into Queenie and Weenie,
our final segment of the week?
Yeah, we should.
So Queenie and Weenie, you guys,
a tale as old as time every Friday.
Jackie and I like to wrap up the week in a little bow with a segment we call Queenie of the Week and Weenie, you guys, a tale as old as time every Friday. Jackie and I like to wrap up the week in a little bow
with a segment we call Queenie of the Week
and Weenie of the Week.
And it's Jackie and I sharing someone
who we thought to be Queenie this week
and somebody who acted like a Weenie.
And again, it's not that serious.
It's a seven day title.
You can be Queenie one week, Weenie the next.
It's never happened, but it is possible.
Would you like to go first?
And should we do Queenie or Weenie?
Let me pull that up.
I forgot who I chose. We go Queenie And should we do Queenie or Weenie? Let me pull that up, I forgot who I chose.
We go Queenie first.
We go Queenie first.
And I'm sure there's like a more obvious Queenie of the week,
but for some reason, my mind keeps going to maybe Funke,
who has brought me so much joy this week and laughter.
And I'm just really here for the renaissance of maybe Funke.
I'm so down.
If that's okay with you, I know it's a little rogue.
It's totally fine.
I'm just now realizing I chose two weenies
instead of a queenie and a weenie.
That's so co-journ.
So share your truth.
Okay.
Share your co-journers truth.
Okay, cause I do have two weenies.
Okay, share your first one.
The first weenie is the San Francisco 49ers.
Like I think it was really not a smart move
to drop my boyfriend, Kyle Yustchak.
Like I just, I don't like that.
Okay, and then I'll go my first weenie.
And then also I said that cause it was a jumping off point.
Are you, I actually meant to talk to you about this offline.
Are you familiar with any of like the,
the wag drama going on in the 49ers?
I saw we were being accused of burying it.
I have not, it has not reached my desk.
It's actually ongoing. I had heard about it like a year ago and the weird part is like, you has not reached my desk. It's actually ongoing.
I had heard about it like a year ago.
And the weird part is like, you know who Fred Warner is.
He's like a big player on the 49ers.
Okay, so I do know that he is engaged or married to a woman
who is an influencer and she was low key on The Bachelor.
And she does it.
Yes.
And she's like, you know, a girly
and she's not with the other girlies.
Okay, so Fred Warner's, I think wife,
they have a baby together.
Sydney Warner.
Sydney Warner.
She was on The Bachelor and then just like happened
to have like a successful career as an influencer,
married and he's really good.
So like she's really popular and there's like a noticeable
like schism up until this point between her
and the other wives.
And when you think of all the girlies.
They're always together.
And even when Olivia joined the team,
like immediately she was in with the gals.
Like they're obviously a welcoming bunch
and they love an influencer.
And like over the years years she has like posted things
that like led people to believe
she really dislikes Kristin Yustchak.
And on Monday, when it was announced that Kyle was released,
like everybody on the 49ers, all the other players,
all the other wags are posting like crying,
Kyle we love you, pictures of Kyle from the last 10 years.
Sydney starts posting, what an amazing, beautiful day.
Isn't this the most amazing Monday you've ever seen
in your whole fucking life?
I love Monday.
Like really?
Like very obviously being like,
oh, Kyle was dropped, Kristin's leaving the team.
I love it.
Yeah.
And there's a lot of speculation about what the beef is.
Nobody knows.
People are just like guessing online,
but a lot of people thought that was really kind of,
you know, tasteless to celebrate the man losing his job.
And that's why I chose the 49ers as my weenie
because I just wanted to tell you that.
Got it.
That's crazy.
I wonder what happened between the two of them.
And also it's like, okay, so things worked out for her
because she doesn't want to be around Kristen Uchik.
Like take the win and shut up.
Be, right, be the big, be humble. Be gracious, just be happy privately
and things are looking up for you for whatever reason.
Now you've just made yourself look like an arse.
The villain.
Yeah, I can't imagine what the beef is.
Kristen gets along with everyone.
So the streets and the internet,
which they have no proof,
they say it's a disagreement on politics.
Who's what?
Well, they said that Sydney is more liberal
and then like some of the other wags,
Kristin included, are more conservative.
They have no proof of that.
That's just like what-
Oh, but they love to say that, like about everything.
It's giving Florida Georgia line.
It's everyone's go-to.
You know, it's giving Becca and Garrett.
Yes, but with Becca and Garrett, that was the case.
With Florida Georgia line, it was the case. Correct, so maybe it's the case. It's giving, but with Beggin Garrett that was the case with Florida. Georgia. I know was the case correct
No, I don't think so because because even if the wags are
Like conservative leaning they don't post anything like if they were so extreme like they would post even a little bit more
I don't think it's like their whole personalities. No, but we really we have no we have nothing to go on here
So I think that's like a lot of people's natural inclination
is just to be like politics.
Yeah, that's their favorite.
That is always a good one, like Sarah and Ben.
Correct, which leads me to my second weenie of the week.
Thank you so much.
Just this entire season of Love is Blind.
And I guess in a small way,
I need to make myself the weenie of the week
because I know a lot of our listeners
only started picking up this season
because it probably sounded really funny and interesting
based on my funny and interesting recaps.
Like how many, how much did we laugh over the last month?
Like if I was listening to a show, I'd say,
oh, I would watch Love is Blind.
And the whole thing was full of losers.
And I felt like a loser just watching it
with the reunion that we kept on Monday.
Yeah, everything was truly the definition of weenie-licious.
Loser sneeze.
So I would say love is blind season, whatever,
Minnesota season, and the San Francisco 49ers
are my weenies of the week.
I'm sorry, no queenie this week, not my fault,
everybody was acting like a weenie.
What does that say about the state of the world?
Correct, who's your weenie?
My weenie of the week is James Kennedy, obviously.
Oh yeah, that's a good one.
Requires no explanation.
Agreed.
He had to know we'd be like fashion
in all facets of his week.
Oh my God, wait, we didn't even talk about Kelly Clarkson's
new song with Rascal Flatts came out today.
I'm moving on.
Excuse me, I'm sorry, I've been inside of a truck.
Yeah, okay, so. Oh my God, oh my God,
I'm sorry, we have to hang up.
The Rascal Flatts album. No, no, we have to hang up,
I have to listen unless we're gonna get copyrighted.
The Rascal Flatts album that we spoke about
at the beginning of the week, it hasn't come out yet.
I think they're releasing song by song.
And this morning they released Kelly's-
They're the cover of my release rate,
it's right here.
I didn't even get to see my release rate,
so we were listening to Paw Patrol in the car.
I gotta go.
The I'm Moving On cover of Rascal Flatts
with Kelly Clarkson.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
Let me say my thoughts really quickly.
Can I just take off my helmet?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, take your helmet off.
Take your helmet off.
I just wanna say it's so good.
I love the song, I'm moving on.
But I really, I could have used more of a duet.
It's basically a Kelly Clarkson cover,
which I'm of course never complaining about.
But the fun was that they would be collaborating
and it's pretty much Kelly the whole time
and then Gary at the end.
There's never really any point in the song
where they're singing together. I feel like they weren't even in the same room and they didn Gary at the end. There's never really any point in the song where they're singing together.
I feel like they weren't even in the same room
and they didn't like harmonize with one another.
I was looking for more like pargy harmonies
and the blending of vocals and I didn't really get that.
I just got like a beautiful Kelly Clarkson cover.
It's still good obviously.
It's like the best song I've heard this year, but that's it.
All right, Jackie look alive.
We're good.
Put your helmet back on.
That's so funny.
We're athletes, what can I say? This is a full context for. Correct. That's so funny. We're athletes.
What can I say?
This is a full context.
Correct.
That is our show.
That's our show.
I have to go listen to I'm moving on.
So I'm moving on from this show.
Thank you so much for listening to the toast.
Was it a nerafi and a Safi or a nalafi?
An hour seven, like very normal for us.
But it's a very nerafi these days to do an hour seven.
There's like literally someone at my door.
I have to go.
Hello? Oh, maybe it's your boy. Yeah, I'm having wallpaper installi these days to do an hour seven. There's like literally someone at my door. I have to go.
Hello?
Oh, maybe it's your boy.
Yeah, I'm having wallpaper install, but in 30 minutes.
Maybe he's early because he's excited to work with you.
Jackie's coming to town in a few weeks.
So I'm getting our second studio set up,
set up where we can record together in person in a pargy.
There won't be frames.
So everyone can just like unclench.
Everyone will be very upset.
And they'll obviously be like something missing in the air.
Maybe it's here early, so I gotta go.
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