The Toast - Season 8 (And Left No Crumbs): Monday, January 6th, 2024
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Good morning, millennials.
Welcome back to the toast.
Happy 2025.
Happy season eight.
Welcome back.
We are back after what felt like for me an extremely brief break, but for others apparently
felt endless.
It did feel really long.
It just feels so unfamiliar to be sitting here.
Like I forgot my routine.
I forgot the way that things go.
But welcome back everyone. Welcome to the new year. Like I forgot my routine. I forgot the way that things go, but welcome back everyone.
Welcome to the new year.
Welcome to 2025.
I literally like-
Welcome to season eight.
I locked myself out of the apartment.
I locked myself out of the apartment.
Like that's how disoriented I was.
I was like making a TikTok.
I forgot my jewelry.
I'm not, me and Ben are not struggling yet.
I just forgot my jewelry because I'm so disoriented.
Like getting back into a routine workflow.
No, I'm also really nervous
because this studio has seen a lot of people
in the last three weeks, a lot of different setups.
And so I'm hoping everything is parged.
Just keep your eye on all your materials
throughout the show.
I'm keeping my eye on my materials for sure.
And the last person in here was Ben.
You know what's so good though,
like while that's obviously horrible,
nobody wants to ever be in a place that Ben has last been in.
Be it a studio, a bathroom, whatever.
Just know like if things go wrong,
which would be the worst thing ever,
we have someone to blame.
Scapegoat.
But wait, you just reminded me of something.
It's not a scapegoat if he did that shit, right?
No.
That's just like the offender.
Accountability. the offender.
The offender.
Wait, fuck, you know, I'm really,
I'm having a lot of bad like memory stuff.
What were you saying two seconds ago?
Welcome to 2025, welcome to season eight,
new year, new us, same swirlies.
Maybe we could hit that heart in the new year.
Probably not.
Probably not.
At the end of last year, I tried really, really hard
to line up our summer, I mean our winter break
with like the new year and my new studio.
Obviously I'm still in the same old studio,
but I signed a lease.
So it'll be a couple of weeks.
I know everyone's been waiting with bated breath
to see what will she do?
And don't worry, Turtee found a studio on her block.
Like I can't deal like in my current state
with like walking multiple blocks.
Also you can't deal with the current state
and the congestion.
You know, I didn't know if I wanted to talk
about the congestion tax today
because it actually consumed.
You don't want to start the new year off
on a negative note, but the governor decided to.
Yeah and it consumed my whole evening
and Ben actually turned to me.
He's like, you are really stressing out.
I kept like finding out facts
about this new congestion tax in New York.
I just want, this is how it starts,
dirty local office, mayor dirty.
I see it.
You know what?
Like I'm just now sort of waiting.
Take back our city.
I'm waiting for like the documentary, whatever it is.
Like I know that there's so much nefarious behavior
going on at the MTA.
The MTA is giving, and I was talking to Shannon
about this this morning,
because she spends a lot of time in London
where the congestion tax.
You know what it's giving?
It's giving Tammany Hall.
What's that?
I'm only familiar with Tamron Hall.
It's actually, I'm only familiar with Tamron Judge.
And I'm only familiar with Aaron.
But Tammany Hall is actually like a big New York
historical story of serious corruption
in the New York government.
Boss Tweed and Tammany, you never heard of them?
No, but I'm telling you-
You never heard of Boss Tweed?
Never in my life.
I know Bo Deedle.
Boss Tweed does not pass muster.
That's what you need to know.
So actually I have to go to the doctor today
and I will be paying the congestion tax
to go to the doctor.
Is that crazy?
Wow, no, that's so crazy to go to the doctor.
Yeah, and like I keep,
I've sort of decided to take this on as my platform
and I wanna be clear,
cause mostly everyone agrees with me
and it's nice to like, you know,
not have a controversial take for once.
It's giving bipartisan.
And I just wanna say like,
I come from a place of privilege.
Like when I take this like tax today, whether it's peak hours, want to say, like, I come from a place of privilege. Like when I take this tax today,
whether it's peak hours, off peak hours,
like I will survive.
Like I can take the hit financially.
People who are commuting every single day,
like actually can't.
It's making a significant debt in their like salary
and it's not being covered by their jobs,
whether they're traveling.
Imagine traveling into the city to be a cop,
to be a police officer,
to be a fucking nurse or a doctor in a hospital,
to be a teacher, to teach these kids,
and you have to pay to go to work?
Like, what is this?
I can't get into this.
So for people who don't live in the city though,
I just wanna like explain what it is
because I don't live in the city
and you explain to me what it is.
But let me explain.
Because everyone's saying congestion tax,
congesting tax.
Like, what does that practically mean?
How do you get charged?
When do you get charged?
Oh, and what do you get charged?
So all across New York,
and they've been putting these cameras in
for a couple of years and everybody, they got sued.
They spent $500 million putting in cameras
all across 60th street.
And 60th street kind of like delineates
like uptown versus downtown, you know, roughly.
And now anytime you drive through the city
and you cross 60th street,
you will get charged the congestion tax.
And the camera will take a little picture of your EZPass.
And if you don't have one,
they'll send you a letter in the mail and charge you more
cause you don't have an EZPass
even though the EZPass is owned
by the Port Authority of New York.
Yeah, I was looking into like,
I'm like, wow, they're hyping up EZPass.
I wonder if it's a privately owned company.
No, it's not.
Like they make money from EZPass
and then they make money when you don't use EZPass.
Right, so now it's like,
it's law that you have to have EZPass
or else you get charged more.
And by the way, to be clear,
it is that way in most states.
People were DMing me like in Atlanta,
if you don't have a Peach Pass,
I think it's that way in New Jersey,
I mean in Florida, in a Sun Pass.
It's wrong, like it's classist to exclude people.
First of all, and it's also, it's ageist.
Do you know how hard it was for me
to set up my EZ Pass and I'm so technologically savvy?
It's also Jacksist.
I don't have a Sun Pass.
Well, you don't leave like your neighborhood, but fair.
Right, but like, so just cause if I want to travel,
if I want to go to Disney, I should pay more for the road.
When I think about like someone's grandmother
trying to set up an easy pass, I want to cry.
The website was so, it looked like Kindle, you know,
like black and white and so old school and slow.
It was hard for me.
And by the way, I set it up wrong the first time.
So that that's just like, that's so wrong.
Like we talk about the tax all day,
but to be charged more because you don't have
the easy pass, which you have to pay for
and which you might not need other than this one.
That's insane, but go on.
So anytime you cross 60th street,
depending on the time of day
and what type of vehicle you're in,
if you're a truck, you get charged more,
regular citizens get charged $9,
motorcycles do not get charged,
which I think is really crazy.
And it's all in an attempt to decrease congestion,
which is a platform I'm all for, you know?
The city, it's impossible to get around the city.
There are so many like poor,
what are those people called who like build cities,
like civil planners?
City planners.
City planners, like whoever built this,
would plan this city like is dumb.
Like it's really, there's so many things
that you drive around, it's enraging, right? Like the double parked cars, the like the pedestrian. That's not the people who built this city is dumb. It's really, there's so many things that you drive around, it's enraging, right?
The double parked cars, the pedestrian.
That's not the people who built this city.
The people who built the city are actually very smart.
It's the people, the little pedestrian squares
in the middle of Time Center.
By the way, Claudia, you're at the point in your life,
and it was my point too when I was pregnant,
that you have to watch Ken Burns, New York.
You have to.
For what you're talking about,
and you actually need to see how brilliantly
the city was planned in order to really appreciate
how downhill things have gone.
It's time.
So it has been years since they actually
installed those cameras and spent the $500 million,
but there was so much pushback.
Apparently like the Uber and Lyft lobbies lobby for this.
I don't know why they would want to charge
their drivers more, but there was a lot of like legalities and actually as of yesterday,
it officially went into effect. Everybody's talking about it in New York,
because it's kind of crazy. It's, it's an attempt to
decrease congestion, which is obviously a good thing,
but what it really is upon my research last night,
it is like a fundraising technique for the MTA.
The MTA apparently needs like $10 billion to do what they need to do. That is, you know,
to clean the air and, uh, you know, repairs and fix everything. They say that ridership
is down because of COVID. And so is there a budget for the crime? Wouldn't that go to
the NYPD? Right. So all of this is like a fundraising campaign.
That's what this tax is for.
And then also would encourage people to use the MTA
because they don't want to pay the congestion.
So to make it more expensive to drive.
To the MTA.
To make it more expensive to drive,
they're really trying to encourage people to use mass transit,
which New York is such a mass transit city.
The fact that they're experiencing such lulls in mass transit usage
really speaks to how inefficient and unsafe the mass transit is.
And it's just like the crazy timing of it all
because in the last month, there has been so,
I mean, it's all over my TikTok.
Everybody's talking about the crimes on the subway,
people just getting stabbed,
that woman who was burned alive.
Like it's so horrible.
And it's now, I feel like it's having such a, a big topic of conversation because it's really,
for years, the subway has been like a really unsafe place,
mostly for women.
And now it's happening to everyone.
You know, a man was pushed on the tracks
and the whole thing was caught on video.
A man was stabbed.
I saw a picture of his like big bloody arms.
So it's happening to everyone.
So now everyone's paying attention.
And the timing for the congestion tax is like, wow,
so many people are now opting who really can't afford it.
They're opting not to take the subway
and you are implementing a tax that forces us back
into these unsafe conditions.
Right.
So the timing is just so bad.
Also like, they need a 10, they need $10 billion,
but they spent 500 million on cameras.
How much should Uber and Lyft campaign?
But the budget, so then I started looking into the MTA.
I'm like, the MTA needs money.
It's like, okay, broke.
Who knew?
Like, no, no, so like your taxes,
your story made me laugh, like get a job.
So then I'm thinking, I'm like, okay, well, who funds the MTA?
I'm pretty sure it's like taxpayer dollars, right?
Plus the fares, like they charge you for it.
So the MTA makes money from our taxes.
They have federal funding.
And you have to pay to get on a bus or a subway.
And I know a lot of people like hop the turnstiles
and stuff and that like it's claims
to like make a huge deficit.
One thing you're not gonna catch me caring about
is people hopping the turnstiles on the subway.
Like seriously, get a life.
No, it's like too many people are hopping the turnstiles
as making it unprofitable, maybe fix that problem.
Don't charge the people who are paying more.
Not only that, like for a taxpayer to pay for this,
like the subway should be free.
We're already paying for it.
It's taxpayer funded.
So the fact that like they have all these streams
of revenue and they can't figure out how to operate
in a positive, Jackie, their budget in 2024
was almost $20 billion.
What is 10 Morgan to do?
You obviously don't know how to manage a budget.
That's your problem. Stop taxing us, like leave us alone.
And also when you really think about it,
I was reading like so much, um,
like sort of like intellectual think pieces about this on Twitter last night,
uh, a congestion tax is really like a way of creating, um,
affluent zones, right?
Because it's a way to keep desirable neighborhoods, in this case in
Manhattan, limited to people who live in outer boroughs. It's a way to keep really
poor people out and it's disgraceful and it's so wrong and people keep comparing
to London, right? They implemented in London it was like a really big deal, it
was really controversial, but the main difference in London is that London and
Europe in general where they do this, they have like the most sophisticated
public transit systems in the world. They are, where they do this, they have like the most sophisticated public transit systems in the world.
They are clean, they are safe, they are efficient,
they are fast, like people love the tube, the tube, the tube,
like everybody's taking the fucking tube.
Okay, give us that.
Maybe we wouldn't complain, like it wouldn't be a big deal.
Also, they take a lot of other measures in Europe,
especially London.
Shannon was telling me about this.
And I remember hearing about this,
I think when I was in Rome a couple of years ago,
I was like, that's so smart,
cause the roads are so tiny.
I'm like, how do they get like big trucks in here?
Like how do they deliver to the Duane Reed and the pharmacy?
And those big trucks that make huge deliveries
are only allowed within like the city center,
certain hours of night.
Like I think it's like midnight to 6 a.m.
They're only allowed to make their deliveries.
And that's helped obviously decrease a lot of congestion
because in the city, like there are 18 wheelers
on every block, they double park,
they take up multiple lanes. Like it causes a lot of congestion, but you have to allow there are 18 wheelers on every block, they double park, they take up multiple lanes.
Like it causes a lot of congestion,
but you have to allow for it
because that's how restaurants get their food.
That's how, you know, stores get their stock.
And so they're taking like a lot of measures in London
and it's still considered really controversial.
And I don't think it has actually made a huge difference,
except that it keeps people who can't afford to live
in the city, it keeps them out.
And that's wrong.
Like that's a, that's New York melting pot, it keeps them out. And that's wrong. Like that's New York, melting pot, it's for everyone.
Like it's wrong.
No, on all counts, it's so wrong.
I think it's something that everyone can unite around.
And I guess on the opposite side, easing congestion,
that's what they're trying to do would be a good thing.
And also I'm sure they also have like environmental concerns
are in that column as well.
Yes, so it's all about clean air and helping,
you know, fix the air quality in New York,
which is also something I'm super down for.
But like in terms of the list of priorities,
like people making a living, going to and from work,
like that to me, like to worry about just air quality
is such a privilege for that to be your only priority
and be like the reason you do all this,
you inconvenience millions of people.
And like, I don't know, that's just like,
that's comes from like a really privileged point of view,
I think like to exclusively care about air quality
and to inconvenience so many hardworking people for that.
Like, yeah, in an ideal world,
we would all have clean air everywhere all the time.
No, and also how would you go is like fix the subway,
fix the MTA and then try and push people to take it more.
Because also like say they get their $10 billion,
like it's not gonna get better.
They always say, whenever this happens, it will be better.
Like, and it's never, it only keeps getting worse.
And the people who are in charge
who are making these rules like have proven themselves
to be bad at their job.
And it's important to remember it's a mayoral,
mayoral, mayoral, election year.
I thought it was the governor.
It's both, it's really Cathy, the governor.
She's like all about this.
Kath.
Kath.
And she just like posted a picture of herself
on the subway being like,
I don't know what you guys are talking about.
This shit is safe.
I'm like, okay, but shut up.
Like literally shut up.
So just elected officials, like I know we're all,
and we're just coming off of a presidential one.
So obviously it's a huge concern, but like local state.
Also like the city is kind of its own entity, so-
Yeah, it's also just kind of like lawlessness out here, like it's really crazy.
It's a crazy place and a crazy time, but-
Having said that, I'm so fucking happy to be home, like let me tell you, New York,
like I'm always railing on New York, like it sucks.
When I got home on Saturday, I was like, I literally felt like a girl in a movie,
like window down, I'm crossing the bridge, I can see the skyline and I'm like, home.
I'm going home.
Like.
You're that girl on Instagram that we were talking about,
we were looking at her video who makes those,
she pretends to be the girl in a movie, Delaney.
We love Delaney.
No, I'm literally girl in a movie in the back of a cab,
like going to the big city.
I love it.
I wish I didn't love it here so much.
Cause when I went on my rant last night
about the congestion tax, everybody's like,
Florida, Florida.
You need to run for local office.
You know, Ben's dream is to run for local office
in New York, specifically mayor.
He's like actually asked me really seriously,
like over the course of the years,
like if he could run.
And I said, no, like, you, in elections, they just destroy families.
They dig up old dirt.
Could we have more to hide if we could?
I'm just not interested in that sort of life.
And he gets mad at me every time we talk about it.
Well, the thing is, I feel like if he's serious,
have him start as a local council person.
You don't just become mayor because you decide.
So like do the work.
It feels like everybody who's mayor
just like decides one day to become mayor.
Yes. And they have like.
Yeah. Like Eric Adams comes from law enforcement.
Eric Adams was a cop.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know.
And like Bloomberg totally just decided
to be mayor one day.
Business, but he had a business track record.
And then if you were in the city,
like a business, hey, that's like a good angle.
Look at the books for spritz.
They do well. Now let's, where did de Blasio come from? business track record. And then if you were in the city, like a business, hey, that's like a good angle to campaign on. Look at the books for Spritz.
They do well.
Now let's, where did de Blasio come from?
Where's that experience?
Literally like he came from the sewer.
Like, I don't know.
He's been like forgotten.
And I just feel like that's wrong.
Us to build a lot.
No, us to build a Blasio.
I want to forgive you.
And I want to forget you.
I know, but I just feel like for our peace,
like you have to move on.
That's why I like everybody hates on Eric Adams
and he's definitely like super problematic,
like one of our worst mayors yet.
Having said that, it was-
You don't know where we've been.
The best thing to happen to Eric Adams
was coming into office after Bill de Blasio.
Like there has never been a politician more disliked.
I never met one person,
like regardless of political affiliation,
I've never met one person who thought he did a good job.
I've never seen one de Blasio bumper sticker.
Glowing review.
Not one.
Yeah, and remember when he then tried to run for president,
like tell me you don't have your finger on the pulse
without telling me.
Oh, Terdi, 2025 is so political already.
I know, also major update in my life
that I cannot wait to share with everyone.
You might've noticed already.
I have a new laugh.
Now, I didn't know this was a pregnancy symptom.
And while I was at your house,
what was I doing the whole time?
Laughing, we're hilarious, I was giggling.
And I started to realize, I was like,
oh my God, I have a new laugh and I love it.
And I was just like, oh, I must be maturing.
I didn't know it was affiliated with pregnancy. And it wasn't until like a week with my new laugh that I love it. And I was just like, oh, I must be maturing. I didn't know it was affiliated with pregnancy.
And it wasn't until like a week with my new laugh
that I just mentioned it to you.
And you were like, yeah, that's like fully a pregnancy thing.
And I have to say, I hope it doesn't go back.
I hope my laugh never goes back.
I was never in love with my laugh.
I think it does go back,
but maybe like your muscles have remembered.
Cause I feel like my life changed when I was pregnant.
And I feel like I have nodes of my pregnant laugh still.
Yeah, it was like deeper and heartier.
And it's like, the thing is I couldn't breathe.
So yeah, it was like, also my,
I'm a little bit lost my voice.
I have a raspy voice today.
So I will sing Sticky Shoes later.
So if my laugh is like deep and hearty today, enjoy it.
No, my new laugh reminds me so much.
I don't know if you've noticed
like whose laugh it sounds like.
You told me that it sounds like Olivia,
but I wouldn't have noticed that otherwise.
No, it sounds just like our sister Olivia's laugh.
And she had such a great laugh.
Like I actually remember when I was on tour,
at every show she would come to you
and I would be able to like hear her laugh.
She's a cackle.
It's a cackle.
It's a cackle.
And I think that my new laugh is like a true cackle
and it's a little bit more high pitched and I love it.
I cannot wait for you guys to hear it.
You're just, you're gonna love it.
That's so funny.
Cause mine was such a low register.
A low, I had a low laugh.
Ho, ho, ho.
Very Santa Claus energy.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Anything else we need to catch up on before we dive in?
The stories, by the way.
So many things.
So for those just curious about the order of things,
the stories are obviously not everything that happened
like yesterday, the last couple of weeks,
there are stories we haven't covered on Patreon.
We did do like a big update when Blake Lively sued,
or filed the complaint against Justin Baldoni.
And so that has been covered,
but there's been a big update in the Baldoni story,
of course, the Golden Globes, Paige and Craig.
So we're gonna be covering the last couple of weeks
of big stories that weren't covered on the Patreon.
Yeah, it's been like a week,
even though time is just a contract really at this point.
We did both watch the Golden Globes last night.
Usually that'd be first story,
but it's actually gonna be third
because like not everyone watch
and we need to talk about like Paige and Craig
first and foremost.
And they're like,
I don't even know how long today's episode is gonna be.
I'm gonna say two hours.
Listen, I've got 128 gigs on the curd.
I'm totally fine.
My doctor's appointment is until later.
Like I literally have nowhere to be
but this chair on my coccidinia pillow.
Speaking of my coccidinia pillow,
we need to talk about Secret Santa,
which is something we've started to do within our family
since last year.
So it's like the second year.
And last year, famously, Ben fucked up so badly
when he got Margalaschre and he bought her a cameo,
which is just like the worst gift ever.
And he actually bought her a cameo.
He must've gotten confused.
He bought her a cameo from Frank Catania.
And when it came on the TV, she had no idea who it was.
She doesn't watch Real Housewives of New Jersey, never has.
And not only is it not like Teresa,
I think she would recognize Teresa Giudice,
but like someone's ex-husband,
she had no idea who this man was,
who's talking to her, telling her how wonderful she is.
And like last year, it wasn't even last year,
I would say like 18 months ago,
Jackie went through like an obsession with Frank Catania.
And by December of last year, like the obsession was over.
So when he thought it was for me,
it was a bad gift anyway.
And I do love him.
Even if he got it for me, like I wouldn't gift anyway. And I do love him. Even if he got it for me,
like I wouldn't have been happy.
Everyone else got like tangible, thoughtful gifts.
Like a cameo.
Custom mugs, like so sweet Etsy vibes.
Right, so we do need to talk about this year,
who Ben got.
I actually got Ben.
Yeah, what'd you get him again?
And he didn't open his gift and he left it at my house.
Oh my God, yeah, that's so rude.
I kind of, it was hard because some people were traveling
and some people were local. So I knew that like he might not take it home with him, which I didn't expect him to. So I was like, that's so rude. It was hard because some people were traveling and some people were local.
So I knew that like he might not take it home with him,
which I didn't expect him to.
So I was like, what's something that if he leaves here,
I wouldn't mind having, but he can use while he's here.
And it was like a little putting green.
So cute.
So cute, but now I'll just use it with the boys.
Yeah, no, it's a kid's toy now.
And I think there was a lot of anticipation
within the family, but also within the Toast community.
Cause you guys died when we told you
that Frankatania story about like how Ben
would make up for it this year, who was getting Ben.
And I actually thought that Ben got me and I was right
because he was being so serious about it.
Like I remember last year, I kept having to remind him.
Like, by the way, don't forget before we leave for Utah
to get your secret Santa.
And he was just like, so like relaxed about it.
Like I didn't want him to forget.
And honestly, I wish he had forgotten. That's how bad it was. So this year he was just like, so like relaxed about it. Like I didn't want him to forget. And honestly, I wish he had forgotten.
That's how bad it was.
So this year he was so taking it so seriously.
I was like, I gotta get my Secret Santa gifts.
He was like, I already got mine.
I was like, oh shit.
So then I realized why would he be being so serious?
I'm totally the person he got.
And I was right.
And he didn't wanna like gossip about like
who we thought other people had.
And I was like, okay, that's lame of you.
Like you totally have me.
Now let me tell you what he got me.
He got me a coccidinia pillow,
which sucks, first of all.
Who wants to get like a medical device for Secret Santa,
let alone a medical device?
I already have three of, one in the car,
one in the makeup chair,
and one that I'm sitting on right now.
And he was like, well, this one's better.
I did a lot of research.
It's like the,
the Rolls Royce.
Yeah, he said it's the Rolls Royce of coccidinia pillows.
And I'm like, you couldn't have just gotten this for me,
like a couple of weeks ago when you like,
that I could have used it.
You've just been sitting on it.
Literally what's worse, what's worse.
The fact that he got you like such a lackluster gift
or like it's something I could have helped you
and he didn't give it to you sooner.
Like a life saving device. And honestly I sat on helped you and he didn't give it to you sooner. Like a life-saving device.
And honestly, I sat on it, like it wasn't that great.
I happen to really like my coccidinia pillows.
Like I'm all set.
By the way, even if it was like a life-saving device
and coccidinia goes away when you sit on it,
like that's not a Secret Santa present.
No, I feel like maybe Ben doesn't know
what Secret Santa is.
Like he's gotten it.
What, which year do you think he did worse?
Last year?
Yeah, the first year will always be like
an infamous story in the family
and he will never live it down.
And I'm surprised he like really
dropped the ball so poorly again this year.
I really hope like next,
like we'll just try again next year.
I don't know what else there is to say.
Yeah, and what I gotta keep meaning to share
because I do think it's gonna be a big part
of my journey through life,
is Olivia got me a butter churner.
What's the brand?
It's like very legit.
I don't know.
I feel like you told me it went viral.
It's the handheld, everybody uses it, yeah.
So it's at like Mason jar with the handheld churner
and you can churn your own butter.
So that's what I'll be doing in 2025.
And a matching butter dish.
So Olivia basically said, get back in the kitchen woman.
Yeah, she said, you're not doing enough.
Like we need more.
Oh, this bread is good,
but have you tried it with your own butter?
Correct.
I-
So my next year I'll be suffering
from probably arthritis from all of the churning.
Carpal tunnel over here.
I'll need a carpal tunnel pillow.
I actually think I did like the best job in the family.
Do you think so?
Your husband?
What did you get?
Oh, you did really good.
I think like it was the most thoughtful
and like actually like you can applicable.
Like you can use it in your everyday life
because it wasn't just like a novelty gift.
We know your husband loves going to the movies.
So I got him a-
She bought him season tickets.
A year long movie pass to his local theater which gives him one free ticket a month. It rolls over to the movies. So I got him a- She bought him season tickets. A year long movie pass to his local theater,
which gives him one free ticket a month.
It rolls over to the next month.
So any month that he doesn't use it,
he'll have like a cumulative,
and you get 20% off companion tickets and concessions.
Like that, I feel like once a month,
like that's probably the frequency he goes to the movies.
Would you say?
I'm sure he would like to go-
Now he will.
To set that frequency.
Yeah.
And it's hard to give like,
cause it's technically a digital gift.
It's a gift card.
So then I had a big poster board made like a life-size check,
but it was like a big movie ticket and it says like,
here's your annual pass.
And I just think it was like actually brilliant
and thoughtful and like,
I hope he felt like really seen, you know?
If the ticket that he doesn't use rolls over
into the next month and then he has two tickets that month,
then can it be free for companion? Okay, so I didn't read the bylaws. I don't know. Okay. All I know is't use rolls over into the next month and then he has two tickets that month. Then can it be free for companion?
Okay, so I didn't read the bylaws.
I don't know.
All I know is that it rolls over.
I'll call and ask.
And then I actually thought Margo did the best
and she kind of always crushes.
She got Olivia and she got her like a bunch of custom
like cookware stuff from Etsy.
She's really good.
She is really good.
She's with the's face on it.
And she did, and that, and what else?
Like tea, stuff, other stuff.
I can't remember.
So good.
Yeah, it just had like monogram, like ship hero.
Like it was just like.
It was good.
I don't remember her.
But I remember we were all like, wow, good job.
And last year she did that too.
She got stuff, she got Zach.
Yeah.
And she got him a mug, like a custom dad mug and that hat,
that olive hat, which he loves.
Secret Santa is so fun.
It is so fun.
We had so much fun.
I hate that we have to wait like a whole year,
but maybe that'll give Ben some time
to think about his actions.
Maybe it would.
Maybe.
No, but like he thought about his actions all year.
It's like, I think he needs it like a presentation.
Like what is Secret Santa?
What is the goal here?
Somebody needs to put together like a YouTube tutorial
about what it is.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
What else to discuss?
I have so many notes for today's episodes.
If you guys see me looking at my phone.
She's looking at her notes.
Cause I have like,
I wrote down some thoughts that I had at the Golden Globes,
but mostly like my Blake Lively stuff.
Cause a lot of people are like,
ready for Claudia and Jackie to apologize.
Like, can't wait to hear them explain this.
And it's like, oh, did you not read the lawsuit?
Like literally, not only am I not apologizing,
not backtracking, I'm even more,
you're do-blaying.
I'm do-blaying down.
Like everybody's like, oh my God,
can you believe how much like his proof contradicted hers?
Literally, not only did it not contradict,
it actually supported a lot of her claims.
Like I, the willy nilly-ness of the,
like literally the internet is just like supporting
in this case and specifically,
but there are a lot of cases like this,
like just the last person who talks,
it's like, oh, she's right.
Oh no, he's right.
Like you guys stand for fucking nothing, bitch.
Like at least, at least I can like sleep well knowing
and I've never changed my stance and be like,
let's say everything Blake Lively said is a lie.
And I don't believe that it is.
Like I will never regret,
like her accusations are so disgusting.
Like I will never regret believing her and taking her side.
Well, so for me, like some of the things in his counter suit,
like tell his side of like the two sides of what happened
and some things like, I'm like, oh, okay.
Well, that's how Justin sees it.
But I just keep coming back to the birth scene.
Like him insisting that women,
him telling a woman who's given birth four times
that women give birth naked.
And by the way, that's the video that he made,
Blake watch that was considered the pornography.
And so that's him countering saying,
we didn't show pornographic videos.
It's my wife giving birth.
It's beautiful.
Yeah, no, that's not porn.
Supporting her claim.
Yeah, yeah.
But I'm like, okay, but the fact that you made her watch that
to tell her how to give birth
and then didn't have a closed set and wanted her to be naked, like. No, here, by the fact that you made her watch that to tell her how to give birth and then didn't have a closed set
and wanted her to be naked, like.
No, here, by the way, we'll hear a lot of claims
over the next couple of months,
but things we need to constantly like buoy ourselves to.
The birth scene.
Women don't give birth naked.
The birth scene.
Sorry, like some do, some don't.
Second, the entire cast, especially most of the women
having unfollowed him during,
not even during this like dramas,
during the actual filming, nobody is so standing with him.
And three, Jenny Slate, Brendan Sklodart,
all the people coming out supporting Blake Lively
after her claims.
Isn't that the same as two?
No, because one is privately, like they all,
like privately and while working together,
like decided not to fuck with him.
So he's obviously being a freak.
And then when it came time to publicly take a stand,
which is horrible, you're gonna get shit no matter what.
The important, a lot of the key figures in the film,
Colleen, Jenny Slate, Brendan Sklinar,
they stood with Blake.
That means something to me.
It's two separate.
We'll get into it.
We'll get into it.
There's a lot to discuss.
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First story, page to Sorbo and Craig Conover has split
after three years of dating.
Paige announced on her podcast, Giggly Squad,
on December 30th that she and Craig have, quote,
decided to no longer be together.
She said, it's weird, it's very weird.
I wasn't expecting this.
Obviously, when we first started dating,
you don't think, oh, what will happen?
Will we get married?
Will we not?
You're just kind of like in this relationship.
She didn't reveal what caused the breakup,
but hinted that there wasn't strife.
She, you know, went on and on about
how he's such a good person.
He was such a good boyfriend.
Like she has only wonderful things to say about him,
but it just doesn't work out.
And I think for people who have been
following their relationship and watching both shows,
especially this most recent episode of Southern Charm,
weirdly was very Craig and Paige heavy.
I think it's like pretty clear why it has happened here.
Everyone was like waiting for them to move in together
and take the next step in their relationship.
But like their lives are just in different places
and neither one of them can or wants to-
Budge.
Move and budge.
And you can make the case for either one
of why Craig needs to be in Charleston
and why Paige needs to be in New York.
And so without that, then you can't move forward.
You can't get engaged if you don't live together
and you can't live together if you can't commit to one city.
So I just feel like, you know, they realize that
and also their timelines might not be exactly the same.
And as he gets older,
like that is probably something that he's thinking of.
Yeah, like he has made it abundantly clear
that like getting married,
having kids is something he wants to do like imminently.
And I think he knew that Paige was a girl
he wanted to do it with and he loved her so much
and he was willing to wait for her to be ready.
And I think she like appreciated that space she gave him.
And then it got to a point where like,
either it was like kind of shit
or get off the pot for Craig,
or she had a realization that like,
this is not how she wants to go out.
This is not the life that she envisioned for herself.
So when the news itself was so shocking,
but if you've been paying attention,
like it wasn't a perfect relationship
for this one kind of big reason.
And it was this unsolved thing for so long.
And we just, I just thought, I'm like,
they're gonna figure it out.
Like they'll figure it out.
They'll figure it out.
And actually they didn't.
And Paige like spoke a lot about how like, you know,
making that decision at 32 and like the life
that you thought you'd have for yourself
with like marriage and kids, like the biological clock,
the societal pressures, like she,
she was sort of just like, fuck it.
And I like, I seriously am so upset.
Like I love these two.
No, I know.
I'm so upset.
And I feel like in the beginning, I was always like,
well, Paige will move to Charleston.
And like, whenever Paige is ready to do that,
then they'll do that.
But then like the last year or so,
like Craig was spending so much more time in New York.
And also on Watch What Happens Live,
like people were asked, who do you think will move?
And everyone was saying like,
Craig is gonna move to New York.
So I'm like, okay, well, Craig is gonna move to New York.
And I guess he just can't.
And he just opened a bar.
I know he's like a partner in a bar now in Charleston.
Obviously the show is in Charleston.
Sewing Down South is based in Charleston.
Like he really can't move.
So I think up until this point,
people assumed Paige would move
because like her job and her life is very like,
it's what we do.
You could really do it from anywhere.
And obviously being in New York,
you're afforded so many opportunities.
And I think she also just loves living in New York
and she shouldn't have to give that up
because she doesn't want to.
But the assumption that she would move
was just because like between their jobs,
like she only has to be in New York technically
for like eight weeks in the summer, technically.
Yeah, but she's also expressed
that she wants to be close to her family.
She cried on summer house talking about the idea
of leaving her mom, like just is so upsetting to her.
But the reason why this is so shocking
is because I feel like these are two people
who like really,
really not only love each other, but like each other.
And like, I feel like the absence of one another
from each other's lives, like I actually,
not to sound like in denial,
I can see them getting back together,
just being like, life isn't worth it.
You know, like whatever it is, they'll make it work.
Cause I feel like, how do you go from having like
this best friend and like, they liked each other.
A lot of couples, they don't even like each other.
They love each other, but they don't like each other.
Like, they really, like they talk all the time.
Like they were together most days of the week.
They really made it work.
Like, I feel like they're really gonna miss each other.
That's just me as a fan.
That's a good perspective.
Now, the internet like quickly ran with rumors
that like Paige cheated on him.
They said she was spotted out on New Year's Eve
celebrating with Marcello Hernandez from SNL.
Like seriously, I don't believe any of it.
Like Paige, say what you want about Paige.
She's actually like very like,
she like not all the time,
but she's like a deeply, she's a deep person, right?
And you don't just like go from
like a three year relationship to like out.
And people like are, like there was no proof of any of it,
no pictures, no nothing.
People are so annoying, like let the girl live.
And really she's definitely like mourning this relationship.
Now, not to make everything about me,
but you know, like I was kind of involved.
Like actually not at all.
Like that's an overstatement.
But over the Christmas break,
I was getting tagged in a million TikToks.
I'm like, what's going on?
What's going on?
And it was actually about Ben.
So yes, on the last episode of the year for good guys,
I don't know what they were even talking about.
I don't know why Ben brought up Craig,
but you know, Ben and Craig are really good friends.
Craig is an investor, like an ambassador for Spritz.
So he was talking about Paige and Craig,
I don't know in what capacity, in what context,
and he just referred to Craig as Paige's soon to be hubby.
And everybody was like, they're engaged.
Oh, BSC confirmed it.
Claudia's totally gonna kill Ben for spilling the secret.
Like implying that Ben had some sort of insider knowledge
from Craig about these two, you know,
proposing and getting engaged
and he accidentally spilled the beans.
And not only was that not the case,
but I guess they were literally broken up.
And I did actually like film a TikTok being like,
cause I felt bad.
Like, I feel like Paige gets like for years, they're engaged, they're like all these like fake rumors
about her and it's probably so fucking annoying.
And I felt really bad because Ben just talks weird.
Ben just says stuff like, I can't explain it.
He knew nothing.
When my friend is dating someone for a long time,
I call them their husband.
Yeah.
Ben just like talks weird.
I guess if I said it it to say it on the show
with two people that people are really reading into,
like, yeah, I understand how people arrived
at that conclusion, but also just know like,
it could also just be that there's nothing,
like leading in what he's saying.
It's just how you talk.
There was nothing nefarious.
Ben knew nothing.
Ben just talks weird.
Like he just is weird.
I can't explain it in any other way.
And oh my God, they ran with it.
He said soon to be hubby.
Yeah.
Which literally sounds like you know two people got engaged.
Like it's crazy.
And also it takes more breaths to say that
than it is to just say,
Paige is hubby or Paige's boyfriend.
Yeah, no, no.
And when I asked him about it, he was like,
what do you mean?
Like, it's not weird.
I'm like, he didn't even get it.
I'm like, you're so annoying.
And so I felt so bad.
And I was like, it's probably the most annoying thing.
This is like kind of plagued both Paige and Craig for years.
And now this is like a legitimate thing
people are reading into.
And then it turns out they're literally broken up.
I was shocked.
And I didn't know they were broken up
until I found out with everybody else.
Like I was shocked.
Yeah, me too.
I also like love that they released
like an audio only December 30th.
Nobody releases podcast episodes after Christmas.
Like it's like kind of dead zone for media.
There's no new episodes of anything.
So I like that they kind of buried it like seriously,
like it's probably hard.
Of course not, of course not.
But as much as they want it, like could have,
I think it was also a Friday.
Yeah, that was like Zach Brian and the election.
Like you cannot bury this.
Some things are too big.
Right.
I'm devastated.
I already thought that by the time the new year picks up,
today we would have moved on, but we can't.
Help.
And so we properly lay it to rest.
Still at the restaurant.
And I also feel like we will get to a place
where we as people, of course they're already there
probably, where we are like, this was sort of the best.
Like this is what needed to happen.
They'll go on and do great things
and hopefully find love and find joy.
But until like there, like today, just saying like sad
and Southern charm this week was so crazy.
Because it was a lot about like Craig changing,
Austin being like, why don't we get into the bar buddy?
And like classic.
Craig's like, I'm almost 40, that's why.
Craig froze his sperm.
He talks about his relationship with Paige.
And where he-
Wait, freezing your sperm.
He froze his sperm
cause he had this fear of something happening to him
where he could no longer have kids.
Like his heart accident.
I feel like that's not like a concern for men.
It's more so like you could have a-
No.
There are men out here getting women pregnant.
Robert De Niro. Yes, it's more so like you can have a- There are men out here getting women pregnant. Robert De Niro.
Yes, it was more so like of a freak thing happening
where he could no longer.
So he froze his sperm.
Kind of like an intrusive thought.
Yeah, yeah, but it's like, okay, just freeze it.
Pop off.
Literally.
And he's talking about the timetable
and how where he thought he'd be,
but he fell in love with Paige.
And it just really, I feel like if you wanna know why they broke up,
it's that, they thought that they could surmount
these really big things and they're kind of insurmountable.
Yes, but also, and I think the sad truth here,
and this is probably something
they came to the realization to,
is that while there are so many things
that keep you tied to a city,
at the end of the day, the person you marry
should be bigger than all of that.
Like this should be more important.
Like my life is in New York,
but if Ben said we're moving to Alaska,
like we're moving to Alaska.
And so if you can't even conceive giving all of that up
for the person, then that's not your person.
And that's probably like the saddest part of all of this.
And they had to come to that realization.
Cause yes, I think it was understood that Paige would move,
but like Craig wasn't out here offering.
Like, so for both of them, like it wasn't,
it wasn't the other one.
And beyond that, like New York or Charleston
are not even Alaska.
Like you can do, they really could do what they were doing.
There's, and they've been managing to make this
like bi-coastal, whatever you want to call it,
relationship work.
It's so easy to get to Charleston from New York
and New York to Charleston.
They could have lived in both places.
They could have done it together.
But the fact that they actively chose not to,
I think speaks to why we're here.
But then it's like,
and I've realized this recently about me and you,
because we have such different ideas
of like what our dream life looks like in terms of a home.
And what if there are two people who are like that?
If you and I were married, where would we live?
That's an amazing question.
Well, I'm a steamroller.
We would live where I wanna live,
because I'm an animal.
I would not be happy living in a city.
Yeah, that's so true.
So maybe they're just like a Jackson and a Claude
when it comes to like your idea,
what the charmed life looks like.
But then there are other cities
that are like hybrids of both.
Like I'm just saying, if that person is your person,
like you figure it out.
Like if me and Ben had such different ideas,
like we would move to Nashville.
Like we would figure it out.
By the way, we could agree on Nashville.
That's what we would do if we were married.
That's the only thing.
And if Nashville had a thriving Jewish community,
like we would all be living there today.
A hundred percent.
And don't come for me.
I know there are Jews there.
I'm just saying it's not like a thriving big community.
No.
Lots of shuls and-
And lots of kosher meats and lots of schools.
Yeah, trust us we've looked.
But then, okay, say we're moving to Nashville,
not to make Craig and Pedge about us.
Craig and Pedge.
Like, would you be happy in Franklin?
Yes, oh my God, would I be happy in Franklin?
All the celebrities live there.
Okay, okay.
So we can afford what we want, but.
Maybe Paige and Craig needed to move to Franklin.
I think moving to Franklin would work,
like solve a lot of problems for a lot of different people.
I agree.
Save a lot of relationships. That lot of different people. I agree. Save a lot of relationships.
That's what I think.
Yeah.
I'm so upset, but I do understand.
I'm upset.
I understand.
However, I'm finding like the hope and the joy
and thinking about like their futures separately.
Craig will be engaged in a year.
Like this is a man who really wants, and by the way, I think that if will be engaged in a year. Like this is a man- I know everyone's saying that.
Who really wants, and by the way,
I think that if the roles were reversed and, you know,
it was the woman who didn't want to give up or sacrifice,
you know, marriage and children,
like we would all empower that and agree and champion her.
And I think that while the roles are like a, like reverse,
usually it's the other way.
It's the woman who's worried about the clock and-
It's the Scott is sick. It's the chef.
And I know like we're back to Charleston.
Like I think both of their decisions like are brave
and deserve like Paige choosing herself and like her career.
Like that's commendable.
And Craig like not willing to budge on these like big things
that really mattered him.
That's also so valid and so real.
And like I champion that too.
Yes, also Craig is a few years older than Paige
and those few years are very critical in life.
And also in this situation, because he's nearing 40
and he like wants to be, yes, men can be dads whenever,
but he wants to be a dad in this time.
And Paige still has like a few years before she's there
and feeling that way.
And I just, I feel like three years was the max
they could give it, you know?
The longest they could stretch.
It's like shit or get off the pot.
That's sort of energy.
And it happens every day in relationships all the time.
It does.
It's really sad.
It really is.
Yeah.
Cause it's kind of like right person, wrong time.
However, I think what I'm coming to terms with
is that it might not be right person.
Like, because if it was,
like you're willing to move mountains to do anything.
Yeah, we'd be together in any time, in any place.
In any place.
Yeah.
So RIP, poor one out for these two.
Thanks for the memories.
They were pargy.
Such, I also feel like Paige is like a little bit like,
like eclipsing Bravo.
Sometimes I like remember she's on Summer House.
I'm like, why?
Like she's such a, I don't even know what to call her.
She's a star.
She's like a socialite now.
Her podcast is super popular,
but she's like a huge fashion girlie.
She's a very successful influencer.
Like she's just kind of like a Carrie Bradshaw of our time.
And I don't know, I feel like when she goes to BravoCon,
I'm like, girl, I'm sorry for you.
Like it was a great stepping stone for her to get here,
but I do feel like she's kind of outgrown it,
especially that particular show.
Like, what are you doing with Kyle?
Like-
Let's see what happens this season.
I do agree with you.
I'm like, if she didn't go back on summer house,
like her life would not change whatsoever.
In fact, her summers would be freed up.
She could go to Europe.
You know, she needs to be like a vote contributor.
Like, seriously, I just think there's endless potential
for her.
She's so beautiful.
She's so funny.
Like she actually has that personality
that most girls who are that pretty
sort of like rest on their laurels.
They don't have to be so dazzling.
She really is just like diamond of the season.
Yes, I agree.
For other brothers, Bravo stars,
BravoCon is like the biggest thing in their year.
Like for her to drag.
It's literally like something she probably dreads.
And by the way, I don't know any of this to be true.
It's just like how I perceive it.
Oh yeah, yeah.
I just think she's kind of like too good for it.
Like when you think of her accolades,
like reality star is like fifth on the list.
And it's like, it just doesn't feel any more like,
thank you for giving us Paige,
but like you have to let her go now, Bravo.
Yeah, set her free.
Yeah.
No, it's very true.
But anyways, like excited to see what she does next,
especially as like now she's sat, she's focused on Paige.
She's not going to Charleston every other week.
She dates, like she's so pretty.
Like let's see.
Obviously I don't want to go there.
Obviously I'm like so excited.
But like right, it's still too raw for both of, like.
Yeah, but I'm excited to see.
I just feel like we can't talk that way like yet.
I feel like we can't.
Yeah, no we can't.
It's so disrespectful and rude.
Yeah.
Are you ready for our next story?
Let me pull up my notes.
Speaking of disrespectful and rude,
Justin Baldoni is filing a $250 million lawsuit
against the New York Times over the Blake Lively story.
So while we were off, if you're a Patreon,
you're all caught up, but while we were off,
Blake Lively filed a lawsuit against
Justin Wayfair Studios, PR,
and New York Times, they had the exclusive.
They wrote up the whole thing.
It's like him and nine other complaints.
He's like suing on behalf of Melissa Nathan,
the publicist, Jennifer Abel, the publicist.
It's a bunch of people who were named
in the original complaint that was published
in the New York Times.
They're all suing together.
So I guess that means they're like splitting the bill
for the lawyers.
Yes, and they are suing the New York Times.
They wrote a 4,000 word piece titled,
We Can Bury Anyone, and it showed how Justin and his team
buried Blake and everything that happened this summer.
So Turi and I, of course, felt so vindicated.
You have to read everything that's in there
before we get into all of this,
but I feel like everyone is caught up.
So that's where we were at.
Yes, and if you were looking for our thoughts
on just the Blake Lively, up until that point,
we did a whole podcast episode about it on Patreon
over the winter break,
because there was so much to dive into,
so many like really abhorrent allegations.
And I thought her complaint really
colored in the timeline of events in a chronological sense
with that, like the SAG-AFTRA break.
So the internet sort of swung back completely
once Blake filed her complaint, because how could you not?
And so many celebrities were speaking out.
And then like a couple of days later,
maybe like a week later,
Justin Baldoine filed this lawsuit
and now everyone has swung back.
Yes, also Justin was dropped by WME,
which was his agency and also Blake's agency.
But beyond that, what other retribution did you see?
His podcast host left the podcast,
which by the way,
we need to add that to the list of which by the way, we need to add that
to the list of things booing us,
that we need to booey to.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I can't hang anything on this person
who left his podcast, who podcasted with him
for so many years and championed him as a male feminist.
And then the minute things went south for him, she left.
So were you lying that whole time,
or you didn't know who your podcast host was,
or you're just going, you're going with the tides?
I need clarification. That was where we left the going, you're going with the tides. Like I need clarification.
That was where we left the Patreon too.
Like, okay, unscrupuled.
But that's also like a big-
Is that not your boy?
For me, that's a big pillar in this story of things.
I wanna be surprised if she comes back to the show now.
Like this girl goes with the wind.
So we're back with Justin, I'm back on the pod.
So it literally was really wild
to see public opinion completely shift.
I think a lot of people were grudgingly supported
Blake Lively when she released her complaint.
Cause how could you not the things she was alleging
were really so fucking disgusting.
And this was a person, everyone was so quick and easy
and happy to destroy a couple of months ago.
And the fact that they sort of had to take her side
a couple of weeks ago, I think was hard for a lot of people.
They're just jealous.
Like she's this perfect, you know, skinny blonde, rich, you know,
married to Ryan Reynolds.
Like she's easy to hate and she's,
obviously doesn't seem like the best,
you know, most kind, like compassionate personality.
Cause what she said to then the flaw of it all.
She definitely is like kind of a wench for sure.
Not a crime, but obviously not the type of person
you'd like choose to hang out with and champion.
So it was really, I think hard for people
to have to take her side. And then Justin Maldoni came out with this lawsuit and people were so happy to sort of cling onto it to hang out with in champion. So it was really, I think, hard for people to have to take her side.
And then Justin Baldoine came out with this lawsuit
and people were so happy to sort of cling onto it
to be back on team Justin.
And basically the overwhelming consensus is like,
everyone's back on team Justin now
because so much of what he shared
and he has his own text messages, his own proof.
And so much of that completely contradicts
what Blake is saying in her complaint
according to people on the internet.
And I'm here to say like my thesis of today
that could not be further from the truth.
I have read a lot of the,
his is a lawsuit, hers is a complaint.
Yeah.
And by the way, a lot of people are like,
well, if Blake was really the victim, she would have sued.
Well, the thing is, and I saw a lawyer explain this
because people don't know anything.
So you're just like making stuff up like,
why didn't Blake sue?
Well, how do you know the law?
Blake is suing like a,
cause he's her employer.
It's like an employment lawsuit.
And in order to do that,
you have to get approved to sue.
And in order to get approved to sue,
you have to file a complaint.
The court has 60 days to approve
or deny you the right to sue.
So that's what she's doing.
That's why she didn't sue.
That's why she has a complaint.
It's step one in her lawsuit.
And then he sued.
So everyone's like, look, he can sue.
So he's right.
Actually, she was taking the proper legal steps.
Also, he's filed a lawsuit against the New York Times
over the story that they wrote,
because they say that that story
does not have the whole story.
So he's rebutting a couple of those
like heinous accusations that we stayed in.
And this is just inside.
So the accusation that he repeatedly entered
her makeup trailer uninvited while she was undressed,
including while she was breastfeeding.
He said that she pumped a lot breastfed in meetings
and he invited her into her trailer
when she was pumping in the past.
So any like disability that he had into her breastfeeding
and pumping like was, that was what was happening.
And the screenshot that's sort of taken the internet
by storm is a text message from Blake to Justin
basically saying they needed to meet about something.
She was like, hey, I'm pumping in my trailer, come on in.
Yeah, I'm coming in my trailer.
If you want to work out our lines, he responded, copy
eating with crew and we'll head that way.
So everybody says that this screenshot completely
contradicts what Blake said.
Blake said that he was entering when she was breastfeeding and pumping.
And look, here's literally proof that she invited him in.
So to be clear, because I understand the English language,
this in no way screenshot contradicts what Blake said.
First of all, just because you've been invited in one time
does not give you unfettered access to my breasts
and my trailer, first of all.
Second of all, the difference between pumping
and breastfeeding, and I don't even,
I have never done either, but even I know,
like breastfeeding your titties out,
pumping, you put the things on your nipples,
and you can go for a walk, like you can do anything.
So they're so different.
So inviting someone in while you're pumping
is not the same.
Breastfeeding in a public place,
like say she was breastfeeding in a meeting,
so it's like, oh, she had her titty out.
Like you can make it-
That's, but you're consenting.
No, but also whether or not she had her boob out,
like you can breast,
you can know you're breastfeeding in public and do it in a way that's covered up. But when you're breastfeeding in private, like you don't care that you're consenting. No, but also whether or not she had her boob out, like you can breast, you can know your breastfeeding
in public and do it in a way that's covered up.
But when you're breastfeeding in private,
like you don't care that you're out.
Someone walking in on you breastfeeding in private
is not gonna look the same
as you knowingly doing it in public.
No, but it's so true.
I feel like a lot of women with like newborn babies
who travel, they breastfeed on airplanes.
And there's like, you put that little thing over.
Yeah, yeah.
You can breastfeed in public.
People breastfeed in public all the time.
And, and most more often than not,
the way you breastfeed in public looks different
than private.
Of course.
And just because you've been invited in one time to see
while she was pumping, does not give you unfettered access.
Like you are still a, a coworker, be a male coworker
and see her boss.
Like everybody being like, Oh, look, Blake's a liar.
Like, are you thick in the head?
No, actually, this does not contradict at all.
And I don't care how open,
let's say Blake was one of those women
who didn't give a fuck, tits out, nipples out.
You still, as the director, as the boss, as her coworker,
and as a man, you still have to act
with the utmost knock five times.
I want you to knock five times.
You still have to act.
I don't care how Blake,
and I don't even think Blake was that type of breast feeder,
but even if she was like,
you still have to act with some sort of decorum.
Yeah. So all in all,
the lawsuit states that it was Blake who allegedly embarked on a
strategic and manipulative smear campaign using false sexual harassment
allegations to assert unilateral control over every aspect of the production.
The lawsuit also accuses her husband,
Ryle Reynolds, allegedly berating Justin during a heated meeting at their
Tribeca penthouse
in New York in which she accused the director
of fat shaming his wife.
So basically what he's saying is that like,
there was this-
And by the way, before this lawsuit or anything,
there was like a little bit of whispers
about Blake and Ryan.
One of the first things that came out
was Justin inquiring a lot about Blake's weight.
That was the first thing we had heard.
So I believe this.
Yes, and I think what Justin would say to that,
he had like a back thing.
And so he needed to know-
Yeah, so he says he was only inquiring
because he has like a hernia
and he has to lift Blake and kiss her.
So he needs to know exactly how much this woman weighs.
And you know what, if you have to ask, you can't lift her.
So why don't you just say, I am not strong enough
and let's cut that scene, you're the director.
Right, then we didn't need a lift.
This isn't dirty dancing.
No, seriously.
If your job requires you to ask a woman what she weighs,
unless you're the doctor, you're in the long,
that's just not what we're gonna do.
Especially given the context, she just had a baby
and you cast her for this role.
You see her, you see what it entails.
You're the fucking director.
You cast her.
It's not like she's got like lead in her feet.
Weight that you can't see.
Like use your eyes.
Oh my God, funny.
Funny, that's funny.
Yeah, lead shoes.
She should have, that would have been funny.
Okay, for me, the biggest part of this story
and so many people, like this is their big thing
with the lawsuit is that like really
he has disproven everything
when it comes to the intimacy coordinator.
And so I'm gonna read from my notes.
I watched an amazing video
from like an intimacy coordinator expert.
I just wanna shout her out
because I'm like about to literally copy everything she said.
It's like a nice long 10 minute video.
Her name is Brenna Perez, okay?
So Blake has said
that there wasn't an intimacy coordinator present.
She said that in interviews
and I think she alleges it in her complaint as well.
And Justin shows proof, like, what are you talking about?
We had an intimacy coordinator.
But if you actually, so that looks like a contradiction,
right, Blake's lying.
But if you actually read,
Justin actually corroborates a lot of what Blake is saying.
So after the SAG-AFTSTRA break,
Blake had demanded that there be an intimacy coordinator
on set at all times.
Usually an intimacy coordinator just shows up
on the days where we're fucking, you know?
They don't need to be around all the time.
But because Justin had like this obsession
with adding in kisses and adding in sex scenes
that weren't previously agreed to.
Blake said, listen, if you're gonna do that,
like I want an intimacy coordinator on set every single day
because who knows when you're gonna start kissing me?
And she's totally valid in that.
And what I didn't realize that this girl explained
in the video was like, when you sign onto a project,
every intimate scene, literally every kiss,
but mostly like the sexy scenes
are agreed upon contractually before.
So if you do wanna add, sometimes it happens,
it complicates things, but it has to be agreed upon.
But it's like, you can't just go around
like adding in an ass scrab, you know?
It's not improv.
Like these things, because of sag
and they have these rules in place,
are to protect actors and actresses.
So you can't just go around adding stuff.
So the fact that Blake alleges
that Justin really wanted to add stuff
like complicates things a lot.
So him saying that there alleges that Justin really wanted to add stuff like complicates things a lot.
So him saying that there was a coordinator on set is,
you know, not untrue, but it's half true
because if you're kissing her on days
when the lady's not there, who does that help?
Right.
So, after the SAG-AFTRA break,
they had agreed to have the coordinator on set full time.
So Justin is like, she was there full-time,
what are you talking about?
And he shares a text message.
Not only was she there,
but I actually tried to coordinate a meeting
between her and Blake and Blake said no.
So you read the text messages
and they're coming off the break.
So I think they're about to be back.
And he says, by the way, I found an amazing coordinator.
So first of all, it's a coordinator who he found.
I'd love to set up a meeting off set. Like not while they're on set found. I'd love to set up a meeting off set.
Like not while they're on set.
Like I'd love to set up a meeting.
And Blake's like, no, I'm good.
I'll meet her when we're back on set first day.
So look, Blake's being difficult.
I don't know that she necessarily wanted
to meet your coordinator.
Like how do we know she's legit?
After this SAG-Abstra break,
where this list of 30 things we agreed on,
you've been showing me pornographic videos,
your producing partner is a freak,
all these things like you add kissing scenes.
I don't know that I wanna meet off camera,
I mean, excuse me, offset with you
and your intimacy coordinator.
So it's like, look, Blake's being difficult to work with.
But then also the really interesting thing is Blake,
I mean, Justin alleges in his lawsuit
that he wasn't adding all these sexy scenes.
It was the intimacy coordinator's idea.
Now that is not the job of an intimacy coordinator.
That's like actually really weird.
So if that's true, like-
Why more work for her?
No, but let's say that's true.
More hours.
You hired a freaky ass intimacy coordinator
because that's not her job.
Why the fuck would Blake want to meet this person?
Right.
And let's say it's not true.
You're the one adding those things and you're a freak.
But now we understand why Blake said no
to meeting with his intimacy coordinator.
So she's putting forth all these sexy ideas
that you didn't agree to and that's not your job.
It's not your job to meet with the intimacy coordinator
off set, like you come up to work, you show,
you're not the director, like you are an actor,
you show up and do your job.
So, so much of what he said,
especially about the intimacy coordinator
actually validates Blake's complaint.
I don't know what people are talking about, like dead ass.
Yeah.
Also then the situation,
so there's all these like things that happened, disputes,
but then there's also this larger thing of like,
there were two different cuts of the movie.
Blake like made her own movie.
And like, I just think that the disputes,
like they go so, like they could go back and forth all day.
And also like Blake's alleging like sexual harassment.
I think Justin is saying like those things
were in sexual harassment.
And then like, people are like,
aren't you the male feminist?
Like, how are you gonna tell a woman like what sexual,
like it's so messy.
It is so messy.
There are a lot of things in the complaint
that don't personally interest me.
Like it's a lot of, he said, she said,
it's not illegal to have two different cuts of a movie.
Like does that mean Blake look difficult?
Sure.
But like when it comes down to like the actual allegations
that interests me more than like,
well Blake said I had my cut and Justin said,
I don't give a fuck.
No, I know it doesn't interest us,
but like they are germane to the whole story.
So I'm just saying like the whole story is so much bigger.
And then in this complaint,
Justin is saying that Blake was going to, you know,
come out with these sexual harassment allegations.
That's why he hired that PR firm that then grassroots,
grassroots did all that.
Now he looks bad for doing that, but you know,
he's like, well, she was going to do it to me.
So it's like him or her.
But you did the thing first.
Right.
Like you being afraid of retribution
for something you actually did,
like that's called crime and punishment, okay?
Right.
No, no, I have not changed my side, even in the slightest.
No, no, me neither.
But now I'm sort of going- And seeing the pendulum swing.
Back to like the original, I feel like it's just like,
when people are choosing sides,
like they're choosing a difference
of like the two personalities.
Some people just like want Justin Baldoni
to be this like male hero that they think that he is.
And they like see all this shit that he says and does and they're like,
Oh, I love and like for me, that's just like not my not for me.
That's not how I see Justin Baldoni. His like charms have not worked on me.
Right. So I think these are like two people who were not going to get along,
who were in like a really crazy environment where they're having to like do all these things.
They're both have their own things
that they're worried about him and his back,
her and her breasts feed in.
And it's a recipe for fucking disaster.
And it doesn't change how I see the situation
because what they did to her with all the media campaigns.
And offset.
And offset like, I'm out.
Yeah, I don't know.
I will, like if, if let's say, you know,
the truth comes out and Blake concoct,
I will never really,
I won't look back and regret having believed her.
Like what she, first of all,
there is a lot of proof that supports her claims.
There are a lot of people who support her claims
and her claims are really disturbing.
Not only like the, the astroturfing, which is now something we all know about and should be really conscious. Not only like the astroturfing,
which is now something we all know about
and should be really conscious of.
Which by the way, thanks for, I'm glad that we know that.
I'm glad to know that.
And he's not denying that by the way, which is even crazier.
But the fact that all of the things
between the birthing scene and the adding sexual scenes
and being really inappropriate
from the so-called male feminists, like,
I don't know, I'm sorry. I believe Blake, I really do.
And yeah, she's probably a bitch.
Like, I don't give a fuck.
Right.
Like doesn't mean that you had to,
like you hired, she's an A-list actress.
Like you wanted the biggest name in romantic comedy.
Diva, diva, diva.
That's what you got.
Yeah, like I'm sorry.
And by the way, thanks for-
This is not the time to talk about-
Thanks for ruining our favorite fucking book.
Because now this book is ruined.
The movie is ruined.
I never saw the movie and I'm never going to
because how could I even watch the movie?
What are we doing with the sequel?
There is no sequel.
It's over.
You guys ruined it.
Let's see if Kelly Hoover ever gets another movie
in her life.
Yeah.
What a mess.
And the thing is like,
sometimes things are like dramatic and like,
don't worry darling, where it's like,
helps the hype of the movie,
but like nobody wants to touch this.
Apparently, like even at the Golden Globes one,
it should have been nominated for best blockbuster.
A box office and cinematic achievement.
And they should have been there.
And I think Blake and Ryan were gonna go
to the Golden Globes and then didn't.
Like this thing is so messy.
And Nikki Glaser said she wouldn't even joke about it
because nobody even knows like what is true,
who's the villain.
Like it's just a mess.
You guys ruined the fun for everyone.
We were so excited about this movie.
We've been talking about it for years.
And this is where we ended up.
I...
And I think as far as ruining the movie,
like I blame him.
He was the director.
He was the star.
He casted it.
Up until this point, I stand by everything I've said.
And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
I really don't think I'm wrong.
I'm not changing my opinion
because I don't wanna have said,
I admit I was wrong all the time.
Remember when I thought Travis Kelce
was never even gonna close to Taylor Swift.
Like I can admit when I'm wrong,
I am even more certain
that Justin Baldoni is a bad faith actor.
And this like now the two suits for me
kind of like knock each other out.
And I go back to how I felt, not entirely,
but I'm just like back to how I felt in the summer
where it's like, I just, I'm with her.
I'm with her.
Everything she said in her complaint shook,
like really genuinely shook me to my core.
Like as a woman.
Yeah.
And everything in his complaint, whiny little bitch,
you're not denying the astroturfing.
You're not denying that meeting you had
during the SAG-AFTRA strike,
coming to terms and agreeing on 30 things
you're gonna stop doing.
You actually admitted that in your suit.
You admitted to not having an intimacy coordinator
on set all the time,
which you should have if you're adding in sex scenes.
So you admitted that they're,
he's literally admitting guilt.
I don't know what the hell people are reading.
Like I am, I'm sad.
Like I will be here.
My opinion has not changed.
And if your opinion has, like you obviously haven't read it
or you didn't really wanna believe Blake before
and now you have a reason not to.
I feel like for people, like his lawsuit counters
her lawsuit and kind of explains every charge
that they felt like they needed to be mad about.
So then they also go back to how they were feeling
this summer and they're with him.
Yeah, but if you actually read it,
it does not contradict her at all.
If anything, it supports a lot of her claims
and corroborates her timeline.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
So I'm sad.
So our next story, Golden Globes.
Oh, I have so many Golden Globes songs.
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Okay, last night, Golden Globes,
we've got the winners, we've got the moments.
Let's get into it.
You wanna start with winners
and then we'll shoot off from there?
No, let's start with Nikki Glaser.
Love that.
So I think we all knew she was gonna crush.
If you've been following Nikki Glaser's career,
she hasn't become enormous for lack of talent.
It's really been lack of opportunity,
but anytime she gets hired for something,
she fucking crushes it.
And I think a lot of people saw that
with the Tom Brady roasts,
and that's largely why she got this gig.
It's the first time a woman has ever hosted solo,
so there was a lot of pressure.
The fact that like there's so many successful
female comedians, but we're rotating the jimmies.
Like how was a woman never done?
Oh, but the one time they gave it to a woman,
they had to give it three women.
Amy Schumer, remember she did with two other women.
By the way, I'd be fine if they rotated the jimmies
and it was good, you know, and it was great.
And it was great, but it's not been.
And so it was Nikki Glaser's turn.
And I think there was even more eyes because of the Joe Koi of it all last
year, like which really was floppy. Oh,
Oh my God, I forgot about that.
And that was the same thing. I remember saying how disappointing it was like one,
cause it just wasn't funny, but two,
because like this is a comedian who's not huge, right?
So this is a global platform.
Like it would have been such an amazing opportunity if he had crushed it and it
sucks that he didn't, it sucks for him.
And it kind of hurts people who aren't the biggest comedians
to ever do it again.
They're not gonna take a chance on someone.
And they did, even though Nikki Glaser's like,
not really taking a chance.
She's the biggest female comedian right now.
No, but it's still a new me.
But that's in comparison to like Kevin Hart.
Right.
So to see her absolutely crush,
like I, the thing is I would have liked it regardless
because I happened to really like her.
She's been on the show.
She's incredibly nice.
You might've been biased in your review.
However, this is not biased.
No, and like I have such,
I really only have positive things to say
about Nikki Glaser, like having like met her in person
and she's been so nice to me.
Like anytime I've been in a room with her,
she's been like the most famous person in the room,
like a lot of other female comics
and she's always the nicest one.
Like she, I just, I can't say enough good things about her.
And then she came on our show,
like right after the Tom Brady rose,
like she could have canceled
cause like she was having this moment.
She was on, you know, every show in America
and she came on the toast.
Like I just, I fucking loved her.
So I would have, I would have loved it regardless,
but let me tell you, I laughed.
Oh, did I laugh.
Ben was dying the Sandler,
Chalamet thing was his favorite.
We were laughing so hard.
And by the way, I need to thank her for that.
We got so much Kylie because she gave us so much Timothy.
And I thought that bit with Adam Sandler and Timothy
was just like funny.
It's like, we're not making fun of everyone.
Like it's just a funny moment.
People really struggle between like being so soft
and not saying anything.
And then also you could go like, you know,
I'm gonna rip into everyone in this room,
which is gonna kill. And if you're funny about it, but like to find the medium where could go like, I'm gonna rip into everyone in this room, which is gonna kill if you're funny about it.
But to find the medium where it's like,
we're gonna talk about everything
and also be funny while not being nasty,
she was so good.
But also talking about certain elephants in the room,
roasting the celebrities at large.
I loved when she said we could be living through history.
We could be watching these clips in five days
being like, they got the guy.
It's so true.
And I think that was her greatest skill
was the way she told the line of, you know,
mock that you were mocking these people and not,
I would say there's literally only one person
who can successfully do like a full roast
and that's Ricky Gervais.
And then you go too soft and you're not funny.
So I think her balance of like, you know,
pointing out like a lot of the hypocrisy in the room,
these like fancy artists, storytellers, like people,
it was so brilliant while also like being funny.
Like it was just, the thing is, I don't care what you do.
If you make me laugh, that's literally all I care about.
She was brilliant.
There were so many jokes that were so funny.
Two time Holocaust survivor, Adrian Brody,
like actually killed me.
Like so funny and like, yeah, a little edgy,
but not offensive.
No, not at all.
Her saying Betty Blanca was here
because of the genie who granted him that wish.
So funny.
So funny.
Like she just, and she was so well rehearsed
and I heard her, she was being interviewed by Zuri Hall
and she was like, I practiced the monologue.
I counted 96 times.
And she's like, I know people are gonna be like,
well, it's scripted, it's scripted.
She's like, no, I just wanna be comfortable enough
that like I can riff and also not be like reading straight
from the teleprompter.
Hello, welcome to the Golden Globes.
And I felt that, I felt her sense of comfort.
Like she knew what the joke was gonna be.
And then you saw her like not looking at the teleprompter
riffing on her own joke.
Like she was brilliant.
Like she made me so, like she made me laugh so hard.
She made me, I just, I fucking loved it.
No, wait, you could also tell she was so comfortable.
She didn't care if the people in the room
were gonna find her funny, which I think they,
I don't even know if they did,
because I wasn't paying attention to them either.
It was like, she knew she was talking,
working for us, the viewer.
She was joking for us.
She wasn't like, like, Joe Coy,
like, you gonna laugh, or tough crowd.
She was literally ignoring everyone in the room,
which is the most important room in her field
and just really catering to the viewers at home.
And you could tell she felt really comfortable.
She felt like so cool.
Like it was like cool girl comedy.
Relaxed.
No, by the way, that's an amazing point
because the job is hard
because you're obviously performing standup
in a room full of like a thousand people,
but it's like those thousand people
literally do not matter.
It's the people at home.
And Joe Koy's big fault was like him making jokes
and it didn't get huge laughs in the room.
So if you were doing that in a comedy club,
you'd be like, what's wrong with you guys?
And he was doing it and it's like, no stop.
Like that's not the point.
Right, well, also it's like in this moment,
the a thousand people in the room don't matter.
You're playing to us,
but those people matter for your career.
So like you have to tow that line too
of not pissing them off.
And I thought she just did it brilliantly.
And she looks amazing.
And we got, have her host everything.
We got like so many looks,
which is always fun for the girl.
She had the glamour.
She had everything.
Like seriously, she.
Like I felt like she was having fun,
which typically everyone talks about this job,
the hosting job is like the most thankless job.
It's so dreadful.
It's like, you don't pass it up
because it's a good opportunity, but nobody wants to do it.
Like she was happy to be there.
And I feel like there's been a lot of discourse ever
since Joan Rivers died.
Like who's the next Joan, right?
And it felt like, you know,
everybody sort of gave it to Kathy Griffin
and then they took it back.
And we've just sort of been like waiting.
And honestly, after last night, like that was a,
I think a performance Joan Rivers would have liked.
Yeah, I'm gonna go back and watch some stuff.
Again, I feel like as we talk about people,
I'll remember jokes that she made because it was parge.
It was brilliant.
I hope this blows up her career like tenfold.
Any opp, she should be getting the same opportunities
as like Kevin Hart and Chris Rock.
Like she is fucking funny.
She works hard and she writes her own jokes
that you can tell she like workshopped them a million times.
I can't remember a time
where I've had nothing negative to say.
Nothing.
Yeah, I actually overall thoughts on the Golden Globes though,
I watched the whole thing,
which is tells you everything you need to know.
Usually I watch every award show
cause like that's what we do.
And then I turn it off when it either offends me
or seriously bores me. And I'm like, this is a bad use of my time. I watched till the end, I like that's what we do. And then I turn it off when it either offends me or seriously bores me.
And I'm like, this is a bad use of my time.
I watch till the end,
I watch them getting up out of their chairs.
Not to say that I loved it so much.
My only issue with the show is I felt like every mostly,
like 90% of the awards went to the wrong people.
Not that I saw any of the movies.
I just want to say it was just vibes.
Just based on vibes.
Just vibes and like knowing the actors
and seeing some of the reviews.
Like I think Amelia Perez won a lot of awards.
Like the things that I've seen about that movie,
not only the Spanish speaking debacle, which we discussed,
which I thought would make it like take it out
of the running of seriousness.
The reviews are like, I've just seen people being like,
no, no, no, the movie is so bad.
So much so that I actually want to watch it
just to make sure, but you know, my time is precious.
Same, but what I've also heard,
and I would love like our Mexican to status
to speak on this from my community.
What I've heard is like the fact that they made a film
about this particular story is so offensive
to Mexican culture.
They say it's like, I don't know if this was an exaggeration
but I saw a tweet that was like, it's the equivalent
of like making a sympathetic like backstory
to the 9-11 like doers.
Like, I don't even know who Amelia Perez is.
And like, I would love for the Mexican tostadas
please sound off in the comments.
Like, are you offended at the fact
that this movie was even created?
And the fact that of course-
We're finally telling the story.
It's a French director with like no real ties
to the Mexican culture.
And like, you know, one of the characters
doesn't even speak Spanish.
Like beyond that, like actual the execution,
the sheer concept of it, I believe is quite controversial.
That is so funny.
I didn't even know that all I,
I keep getting like piecemeal information about this movie.
Of course, the Spanish speaking controversy,
which I really thought would take it out of contention.
Like that kind of, that's like inauthenticity.
We're, we don't do that, you know?
So I was shocked that it won so many things.
And of course I didn't see it and I've heard bad things. So I was like, oh, maybe not, but here,
let's go through the-
Before we dive into the winners,
can we just quickly do red carpet?
Sure.
Now I don't need to go through everyone's looks.
Like everyone was actually well dressed
with the exception of Kerry Washington.
Like she actually like looked so ugly
and I couldn't believe that she decided to wear that.
Like, and it was Balenciaga.
Like obviously when you wear,
Nicole Kidman also wore Balenciaga,
which was enormously disappointing.
But let me say like-
She was undeniable.
It was undeniable.
Two things can be true.
It was such an unbelievably beautiful dress
and it really, it looked amazing on her.
So I could see how she struggled with that decision.
Like, damn, do I go for like the good dress
or the moral compass?
Like, and I know she's a spokesperson for Balenciaga.
So she has to wear, same with Kerry Washington.
But the fact that Kerry Washington
like knew she was gonna get shit
and decided to wear something so ugly.
Like for what?
You know?
But I was watching E and this is the first big award show
where they gave Laverne Cox the boot.
And I think the consumers and the watchers and the viewers
have been kind of requesting that for some time.
They really tried to make it work.
But I noticed like a big shift where Zuri Hall,
who is this like OG entertainment journalist
who's been with E for a really long time,
it doesn't necessarily always get these opportunities.
She was given the prime spot.
She was talking to most of the stars
and then Heather was on another,
like I think on the longer red carpet with the microphones
and Kelty was at the front.
So it was kind of like Zuri's moment,
which I thought was great because we're always talking about like the lack of like entertainment was at the front. So it was kind of like Zuri's moment, which I thought was great because we're always talking
about like the lack of like entertainment journalists
on the carpet.
And I know it's important to like involve, you know,
other people.
And that's why we're always saying like Kelty is so great
and Heather is so funny.
So like it's really great balance.
But the fact that they gave Zuri the main stage,
I think was really well-deserved.
Like she's been at the network for so many years.
I feel like she's always kind of like getting the boot.
And I love that.
I saw a bit of Ered carpet
and every interview that I saw,
like no awkward moments, like no butt clenching.
I feel like the flow of conversation
is like so hard in those moments.
And like, that's what makes someone really great.
And I thought everyone that I saw did a really good job.
And like, it was just conversation.
And the talent was having fun and they felt comfortable.
And the hosts like Heather and Zuri,
like they just did a really good job.
So much so like I shouldn't have so many thoughts
on the actual dialogue, you know?
Yeah, and Zuri is-
We should be like making fun of what the celebrity answers are.
Let's get back to those times.
Zuri is so beautiful, but what I really noticed
is like everyone who got on stage
was like kind of dazzled by her.
The Jamie Foxx?
Yes.
Oh my God, you look beautiful.
Like I don't know a time where like the talent
has complimented the host so frequently.
I feel like she probably got a date last night.
She better.
Well, I mean, she did day Travis.
So a lot of people forget that.
I was going to mention it, but like,
I just, I didn't want it to like eclipse
everything she did last night, you know.
Now we can go for the winner.
Sorry.
Oh, but the fashion.
Did you want to talk about the fashion on the red carpet or just the carpet itself? Just we can go for the winner, sorry. Oh, but the fashion, did you want to talk about
the fashion on the red carpet or just the carpet itself?
Just the Balenciaga and then the carpet,
because I'm always talking about the entertainment
journalists, like just as for people who study
entertainment journalism, like good luck getting a job.
Yeah, so backwards to forwards,
best motion picture, musical or comedy.
So in the Oscars, this is one category,
best motion picture.
At the Gold Globes, it's two.
We had best motion picture, musical or comedy
and that went to Amelia Perez.
It's like really crazy.
Just give them what I know about the film.
Yeah, I didn't see any of the other movies
except for Wicked, and I don't think Wicked
should have won for this.
I love Wicked, and it's the only movie that I saw,
but like, you know, I can acknowledge that like,
other movies could be the best in this category.
Anora, Challengers, A Real Pain, and The Substance.
Also, have you been seeing like the drama with Anora?
I never heard of Anora until last night.
So that very beautiful girl who is the star,
she has done a bunch of interviews
that there wasn't an intimacy coordinator on set.
And it's just like, it's kind of weird.
And she talks about it in a positive way.
She's like, but everybody made me feel so,
but like why, like literally why?
Is it not a sag production?
Like where the fuck is sag?
I don't know.
But also then do like smaller budget productions
like have to cut corners on stuff like that.
Bitch, I don't give a fuck.
Like get rid of craft services.
Like I'm imagining it's like an indie movie.
I don't think it is.
Get rid of craft services, starve, cast, lighting.
I'm saying like you could cut other corners.
You could cut other corners.
Yeah.
Next best motion picture drama went to The Brutalist,
which was the Adrian Brody movie,
which from the awards show,
two things emerged that I want to maybe watch
and I added to my plate.
The Brutalist and Shogun.
I think I would start with Shogun.
I think I would like that the best.
I love to see Adrian Brody like out and about.
I feel like he doesn't really leave his house a lot and seeing him with his lady love, Georgina Chapman. But yeah, I think I would like that the best. I love to see Adrian Brody like out and about. I feel like he doesn't really leave his house a lot
and seeing him with his lady love, Georgina Chapman.
But yeah, I will never get over that.
I need more jokes about Adrian Brody at awards shows
so that I could get more eyes on Adrian and Georgina.
And when he won, I was like, is he gonna mention,
and it's so crazy because like she's Harvey Weinstein's
ex-wife for those who don't know,
but she's also the founder of Marquesa.
Like she's a very accomplished woman.
She's so beautiful.
And she went from Harvey.
And she's like an age appropriate, like get for him.
It's literally a perfect match.
I couldn't, I just wish she was Jewish.
Like that's it, but I'll get over it.
She went from Harvey to Adrienne.
So she's like loving life.
And then seriously, she deserves peace.
And not only did he say like, shout out to Georgina.
Like he gave her such a glowing.
They've been together for a while now.
They've been together three years now.
And I just, I really, really ship.
So the Brutalist looks good
because it's about some architect who emigrated Jewish,
who emigrated from Hungary to the US and built his career.
It's a three and a half hour movie though.
So you know, Trudy's not seeing it.
One thing about Adrian Brody,
like he is going to tell the story of our people.
I love him.
No, I seriously love him so much. So- Is now an appropriate time to tell the story about the time I was seated next Asrian Brody, like he is going to tell the story of our people. I love him. No, I seriously love him so much.
So is now an appropriate time to tell the story
about the time I was seated next to Asrian Brody
at a dinner party and I had absolutely no idea who he was.
Jackie looked so different and I got seated next to him
and I was like, what do you do?
He's like, I'm an artist.
And I guess that's like what an actor would say.
He said, I'm an artist.
So I thought he like painted.
I'm like, oh, like sculptures or painting.
And he was like both.
And then he left.
That is so funny.
It was a humbling moment for Adrian Burde.
I think he referenced it last night in his acceptance speech
because he said like a few years ago,
like I thought I was done.
And that was a theme and I love when this happens.
Like Demi Moore won best actress
and she's been a working actress for 40 years
and she's never won an award like this.
So like that reminded me of Jennifer Coolidge
when like someone just gets their shine in their moment.
And then for Adrienne Brody, I'm like-
So we found out, she hadn't won.
I'm like, right, exactly.
I'm like if Adrienne Brody felt like
he couldn't act anymore, like who can?
No, it's so true.
I loved Demi Moore's speech.
Me as well.
And I won't watch her movie with Margaret Qualley,
but it looks like interesting.
I actually think I might watch it. I found myself being really dazzled with Margaret Qualley, but it looks like interesting. I actually think I might watch it.
I found myself being really dazzled
by Margaret Qualley last night.
I know her obviously as-
She was one of my best dressed.
Me too.
And I saw a lot of like hate for her dress.
I guess she like wears a lot of like boring Chanel looks
a lot cause she's a Chanel face.
Seriously goals.
Yeah, like I thought she looked so gorgeous.
Her hair and makeup was sick.
I thought she was dazzling.
And I was actually like,
I think her interview with Zuri
like left the biggest impact on me.
I was like, oh my God, I love this girl.
I could actually see her like hanging out with Taylor
and being a swirly.
Up until this point,
I thought she was like kind of serious.
I don't know.
And like her and Jack are like kind of granola.
They just looked like,
yeah, they just looked like kind of like,
like people I wouldn't hang out with, you know?
But then I saw her personality.
She's got that swirlitude.
She has that swirlitude.
Then you have to remember she's Andy McDowell's daughter.
Like, I know these things don't just happen.
I know, but it's just like you said about Paige,
like when you're Andy McDowell's daughter
and that you're that gorgeous and talented,
like do you also have to have a busting personality?
No.
No, but she's a really interesting example
because she's obviously like a nepo baby
where what are we calling nepo babies
who like so far eclipse their parents in stardom?
Because I think currently Margaret Qualley
is more famous than Andy McDowell has ever been.
And I think that when we have the nepo baby conversation
and we talk about people who only got to where they got
because of their parents and not for their talent,
we also need to talk about this category of person,
like even Gwyneth Paltrow.
Right, yes.
Similar to Margaret Qualley, I feel like is Maya Hawke.
I think she gets like a lot of the Neppo baby combo.
Ethan Hawke and what, Kira Sedgwick's daughter.
No, Kira Sedgwick is Kevin Bacon.
Literally same thing.
Okay, I forgot who's the Hawke's wife.
Yes, actually, yes.
So she to me is like classic Neppo, you know?
She's like in stuff, she's not like, you know, rocking
and especially she's not even close to her parents level.
But Margaret Qualley is really A-list, Oscar nominated,
really kind of making moves.
Making moves.
Best motion picture animated went to Flow,
best cinematic and box office achievement went to Wicked,
which is the award that it should win
if it was going to win any award.
And they added it last year, I think for Barbie.
Yeah.
So we got to have our Wicked moment.
Yeah, Cynthia and Ariana both lost
and John Chu wasn't nominated for director.
And it definitely felt like,
because we have to think about
how far the Golden Globes has come.
Like the fact that we're all talking about,
and I think a lot of people watched it,
when a few years ago, it actually was taken off air.
And the Golden Globes Association was like
on the verge of shutting down
and then people in Hollywood like lobbied to get it back.
So I think that they're very conscious of like remaining,
you know, upper tier, upper echelon, artsy cinematic,
and to give out any awards to a movie like Wicked
that had such commercial success,
I feel like they're afraid to do.
And so yes, they obviously won this category,
but this category is meaningless, honestly.
Like it's- And I actually, even though W this category, but this category is meaningless, honestly. Like it's-
And I actually, even though Wicked was really the only piece of work that I saw in the entire
show, so you would think I think it should win everything. They didn't even need this.
It's nice that the girls were nominated so that they could go to the show and Wicked
could be included in these conversations, but it's like, I'm okay without Wicked having
like, or if Barbie hadn't had that moment. Like, you know, you made all the money, enjoy that.
These people have a statue.
I just feel like Golden Globes is like afraid
to engage with Wicked because it's considered
like low brow and commercial.
So if there was an award show that they weren't gonna get
any awards, it was gonna be this one.
But I think like Ariana and Cynthia like definitely
have a chance at winning other more prestigious.
I do like, I don't think the Oscars give a fuck
if somebody from a commercially successful film wins.
Why do you feel like the Golden Globes
is more artistic than the Oscars?
It's not more artistic, but I feel like they had,
they're more afraid because they were like
literally taken off air.
Nobody was listening.
And they were largely for many years,
I considered like losery because they did TV and film
and they are now like making a comeback.
And so they're more protective of their brand,
thus not wanting to engage.
And that's why they had a stupid category made for Wicked.
So they don't have to give it to,
give the prestigious awards to the movies like Wicked.
By the way, I think the fact that it's TV and film
is what makes it a really good award show now,
because like to us, it's the same thing.
I don't know which of these is a movie,
which of these is a show.
And we get to cover more categories.
We get to see more people. And the Oscars then kind of feels like half movie, which of these is a show. And we get to cover more categories. We get to see more people.
And the Oscars then kind of feels like half of this
because TV is movies now.
It's all the same.
I agree.
And that's, I love Nikki Glaser said that
in a very funny way, just being like,
the big movie stars are here, Colin Farrell and ex.
And the big TV star is Colin Farrell.
It's actually amazing.
And I think for so long, like TV was looked down upon.
And that's largely why like the Golden Globes
have had like
kind of like a tacky sort of vibe to them.
They're coming up with television.
When you think about what people are actually watching,
when you're thinking about what's actually making money,
like it's TV.
Yeah.
It is. And it's like these mini series.
Like when I think I look at Anya Taylor Joy,
she's like one of the, she's like a movie star, right?
She started, sorry, bitch, Queen's Gambit.
Like that was a TV show.
She is the Queen's Gambit.
Yeah. She'll never not be Beth Harmon.
That will never not be like the single greatest
piece of art that we've been given as consumers.
I tend to agree.
Yeah, I wanna watch it again.
Best motion picture, non-English language,
Emilia Perez, France.
So, make it make sense.
Right, right.
Best performance by a female actor
in a motion picture drama, Fernando, Fernando Torres.
I'm still here.
That's a big category and I did not know her.
Me neither.
Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture drama, our boyfriend, Adrian Brody,
the brutalist.
The only reason why like I would have liked to see Timothy Chalamet win is to see if he
would thank his lady love.
But someone needs to tell both Timothy and Club Chalamet
that like that movie is winning no awards.
I can't believe he was even nominated.
I have heard not one thing good or bad,
which is even worse.
I can't believe the movie came out.
It's gotten nominated,
like enough time has passed for it to be in the nominations
because I feel like we're still talking about them filming
and he's seen on the streets with a guitar case.
No, I didn't even know it came out.
Like that's how nobody moved.
Yeah.
Let me just say something Jackie,
cause we're nearing on 90 minutes.
Your cards are still running?
My cards are still running.
Just good, good, good.
Okay.
Best performance by a female actor
in a motion picture, musical or comedy,
Demi Moore, The Substance,
which I thought was such a great moment.
I thought it was a great moment.
I do want to see that movie
and I thought she made such a great speech
about like, you know, being told her whole career.
Cause when you think about Demi, you obviously think like, yeah, blockbuster. And you think of it as a good way, as a good way. But I thought she made such a great speech about like, you know, being told her whole career. Cause when you think about Demi,
you obviously think like, yeah, blockbuster.
And you think of it as a good way,
but I didn't know it was like this thing
that was sort of like beaten her,
like she got beat down with by people in the industry
being like, you'll never be serious.
Like go make another blockbuster popcorn movie.
And this, and when we talk about her resurgence,
I really feel like we cannot talk about it
without talking about-
Landman?
Brad, Brad Goreski's impact. What? Yes. Oh, I feel like we cannot talk about it without talking about- Landman? Brad Goreski's impact.
What?
Yes, oh, I feel like so much of Demi Moore's-
Where does he come in?
He's her stylist.
And I think he's a new stylist,
and I think that people really started paying attention
to Demi last year when she was looking really good and hot,
and I saw all these Brad Goreski stylist videos,
and I feel like so much of her comeback
obviously has to do with the work that she did,
but also the pussy she's popping. And I think Brad Gores of her comeback obviously has to do with the work that she did, but also like the pussy she's popping.
And I think Brad Greske only started working with her.
Like it feels like a year ago.
And it was like this huge impact kind of how we all like
we're looking at Lindsay Lohan being like,
damn girl, what are you doing?
It felt like it had a Lindsay vibe to it.
She had a damn girl moment.
She had a glow up.
Yeah, I missed all that, but I'm happy to be here now.
And she's also in Landman.
So it just feels like she's pounding the pavement.
Landman's on my plate.
Oh, and Billy Bob Thornton was there.
Billy Bob Thornton.
So was Angelina.
That was really crazy.
I know.
That's really crazy.
Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture,
musical or comedy, Sebastian Stan, A Different Man.
Best performance by female actor
in a supporting role motion picture,
Zoe Saldana, Amelia Perez, which was exciting for her.
It's the same Demi Moore vibe.
I love her.
I don't know anything about the movie.
I love Zoe.
She was so emphatic in her speech.
I was like, oh my God, she really wanted this.
Oh wait, I forgot about that.
Yeah, she was like really zealous
and it must mean a lot to her for a multitude of reasons,
but pop off queen center stage is a hit.
And then best TV series, Shogun.
So I think I'm watching Shogun.
Yeah, Ben will not like let me rest until we watch it.
Oh, okay, great.
Maybe we could like do it together.
Yeah.
Best TV series, musical or comedy hacks.
Always a good choice.
Love to see Gene Smart and hacks
like constantly getting their flowers.
Like it's just a good safe choice.
By the way, best TV limited series, Baby Reindeer,
which I need to know your thoughts.
He won, he won, she won and, oh no, no, no.
She won and the show won.
Yes.
I have to say, I actually agreed that she should have won.
She was excellent.
Even though I didn't like the show,
I felt it was like really dark.
Not necessarily that it's a bad show,
but it was not the right show for me.
Right.
I thought she was an excellent actress
and it was like her first big break.
And I'm happy she won.
He won and then he gave this like really weird speech
about stories that dark never get made
and we need to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
And I just feel like that's literally not true.
Like everything that gets made is dark. Everything that we're watching is making us uncomfortable. And I just feel like that's literally not true. Like everything that gets made is dark.
Everything that we're watching is making us uncomfortable.
Like please bring back just like regular,
degular, bright shows.
And Liz Woods was posting about this too.
And that's always what I say.
Everything that I watch like makes,
it's just like depressing and dark.
And that's not how I want to feel.
The thing that isn't though is reality TV.
And I think that's why when I have a chance to watch TV,
I watch a lot of reality TV.
It's just like fun. Can we bring back fun? And I think that's why when I have a chance to watch TV, I watch a lot of reality TV. It's just like fun.
Can we bring back fun?
And I think that's why people love movies like Wicked
and Barbie movie where it's just like bright and fun
and like not everything has to be dark all the time.
These things are supposed to be an escape.
A thousand percent.
Now having said that,
like the actual story of baby reindeer is so crazy.
And the fact that it happened to this guy
and it was like this really fucking like life altering event
and he decided to like turn it into art.
Like that's a beautiful story.
And I'm happy for him.
But-
I don't know what the event is.
He was stalked?
He had a crazy stalker.
And when they were like sharing fun facts last night
when people would win.
That was the sideline reporters was a crazy touch
and the fun facts.
But the fun facts were not fun.
However, one of the fun facts I did find interesting was that like when he was stalked, cause emails were like a huge touch and the fun facts. But the fun facts were not fun. However, one of the fun facts I did find interesting
was that like when he was stalked,
because emails were like a huge part of the show
and like his stalking, he was sent over the,
however long period of time, 41,000 emails
by this crazy lady who was now suing Netflix, by the way,
for like, you know, telling her story
in a way that she didn't approve.
Okay. The stalker, the real stalker.
Let the court stoop it out.
More? You want more?
Not really.
Okay, like you get the gist, it was fine.
You either watched it or you didn't.
Ariana and Cynthia lost, like that was for me, like big.
Yeah, it kicked off award season,
so we'll have like more of this.
And it was totally fine, which is like,
that's the headline, it was totally fine.
I just want to say, I don't,
every time I watch the Golden Globes,
I'm really shocked that Steve Martin and Martin Short
get nominated every year and they never win.
And having just recently watched-
That's because how could you pick one?
Who would you pick?
Martin Short.
He is so fucking funny.
Having just recently watched a new season,
and I don't think all the seasons have been amazing.
I think the first was good.
The second, I think the first was great.
The second was good.
The third was bad.
The fourth was great.
I like, I, when will they win?
And seriously, Martin Short deserves it.
Give it to Marty.
They'll probably win in their last season.
That's what they like to do.
Yeah. On their way out.
Yeah.
Are you ready for our next story?
Totally switching gears.
Yes.
Because love is in the air, per chance.
Molly May and Tommy Fury were spotted kissing
on New Year's Eve five months after they split.
So right now is actually like high time for Molly May fans.
I'm wearing maybe today.
That's just a complete coincidence.
It's a fun fact about you.
Her docu-series is coming out in two short weeks.
It's all about maybe the Tommy split, the Molly of it all.
But now they're spotted kissing on New Year's Eve.
Like what does this mean?
Was what he did forgivable?
Why were we all under the assumption it wasn't?
Because it's not.
But we don't even know what he did.
Yeah, we do.
Because just based on that freaky girl.
Oh right, that girl.
That girl.
Did you see the other-
And that's just one person's story.
By the way, I think I sent you a video of that girl
talking about her daddy underwear.
Claudia. Yeah, and her dad.
Claudia.
Jackie, the girl's fucking disgusting.
Claudia.
So the fact that Tommy was willing to literally throw
his entire beautiful life away, not that, you know,
he would should do it for anyone,
but this girl in particular.
I just want to say, I am also like not believing
that girl at face value.
You're holding space for her being a liar.
She looks like a big fat liar.
Like one of the most morally bankrupt people
I've ever witnessed on my phone.
But we do know that he did cheat.
Yeah, yeah, I don't think he didn't cheat.
But anyway, so we don't know exactly what happened.
She literally dropped him in a day, it was that bad.
And now she's kissing him on New Year's Eve.
Now is it just like a friendly nostalgic kiss?
What brought them to the same party?
Right.
I am holding space for like, you know, trusting my fave,
right?
I know Molly is gonna make the best decision for her and her family, but I'm really struggling because at, you know, trusting my fave, right? I know Molly is going to make the best decision for her
and her family, but I'm really struggling because at the end
of the day, I don't believe that infidelity is the end all
be all for every relationship.
I think people really can change and people can work
through it and it's really, really hard.
Having said that, and this is based on information.
Yes, from that girl.
So I'm, I may be working with false information,
but what she had said was that he,
she was a third or fourth girl Tommy had sex with that night.
And you know, yeah.
So if every, like, then Tommy would be suing her.
He had to say shit.
I guess I don't believe that girl at face value,
not at all.
However, maybe-
Do you think everything she's saying is a lie?
But like what, maybe there's a percentage of truth.
But what if, say this, what if Tommy has a drinking problem?
Not to slander him, but don't worry,
we'll work through it.
What if Tommy has a really bad drinking problem
and he gets drunk and he sleeps with four or five girls
one night and now he, in the last five months,
like he is seriously gone, tree have gotten sober.
And like when he doesn't drink, that doesn't happen.
Could you take him back?
Well, not you, but like could Molly,
if he's not gonna drink again,
it would not happen again, say.
No, I actually, I think that like,
that is even harder for her to deal with,
with a newborn, or well not a newborn.
Allegedly.
Yeah, right.
Let me just throw that in.
No, I don't think so.
Also, I don't know that he's an alcoholic because when you're in like athlete.
No, I'm not saying, I'm just presenting a theory
that would show you how there could be a path forward
just to say that there would be paths,
not that that's the one.
I'm torn between like wanting a family to come together
and like reunite while also like men who behave like this
like absolutely need to be punished.
Harsher punishment for parole violators, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
I just, I really do trust my faith on this.
I trust Molly.
I know.
So I'm also-
But also sometimes you need to learn a lesson
like three or four times before it sticks.
That happens a lot with people who, you know,
get back together with sort of serial cheaters.
Now we don't know if he's a serial cheater
or something that happened one time, very Steve Brady-esque.
Like, do you think Miranda should have taken back Steve?
Yes, but I think she was totally valid
in literally taking a whole ass year
and getting a new apartment.
Like he needed to learn his lesson.
Like people need to be taught.
Yeah, well, I'm gonna wait for the docu-series
because I do imagine she will tell us
what happened in the docu-series.
Otherwise, like why film a docu-series
at this moment in time, you know?
I know she's also doing it for her clothing brand,
but like, I feel like that would be the right safe form
for her to share, even or, you know,
paint a vague abstract picture.
I don't need to know the details.
I mean, I would like to, but.
This is tough.
We're always saying to trust your faves and like, this is a practical application of policy.
And I'm struggling.
I'm trusting my fave and when I do that,
this makes me happy.
Do you know what I mean?
Because my fave.
I'm having a hard time seeing him as anything
other than like slimy and gross these days.
That's where I'm coming from.
Yeah. But Molly wouldn't than like slimy and gross these days. That's where I'm coming from. Yeah.
But Molly wouldn't kiss someone slimy and gross.
You love who you love.
Love is blind.
Love who you love.
And don't ever be.
So happy new year.
Don't waste the time we got so fast.
I feel like for Tommy and Molly,
and I don't feel this way about Paige and Craig, surprisingly when I look inward. I feel like for Tommy and Molly, and I don't feel this way about Paige and Craig,
surprisingly, when I look inward.
I feel like for Tommy and Molly,
there's no one else for either of them.
It'll never be over, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like I don't see Molly with the next guy.
Like it's her and Tommy.
And I don't see Tommy with the next girl.
But I don't know, maybe I'm just,
maybe it's not even them in the picture,
even though it looks like them,
she wore her hair half up, half down,
but maybe she has it tight.
Maybe she has it tight.
Because also right before this video was released,
there was a lot of rumors that they were spotted
at a mall together holding hands.
There was no proof.
So we were like waiting and then this,
so it was kind of, it is, it is.
Great.
So let's see.
Let us see.
July, what month is it? January 17th, the doc drops Great. So let's see. Let us see. Great.
July, what month is it?
January 17th, the doc drops Amazon Prime.
See you there.
Oh, that's soon.
That should be nominated for a Globe.
And that's how Molly sees it.
And then our fifth and final story is such exciting news.
Yes, from the business world.
From the business world, from the fashion world,
Kristin Ushchek has partnered with Emma Greed
to launch her brand off season,
which is a sports apparel brand,
born from Christian's viral DIY looks.
And what's, of course, getting Kristen's brand finally
to market is so exciting.
But the fact that she's partnering with Emma,
who is also the partner on Skims and Good American
and the Kardashians go to fashion swirly,
like just bode so well for the health of the company.
If you watch Shark Tank,
she's like a very popular guest shark.
She is like, she's a billionaire, I believe.
Yeah, she also does Safely.
Safely, she's like the go-to Kardashian business girly,
but before that she had like an even more impressive resume
that she got to the Kardashians.
But now it's like everything she touches turns to gold.
We all knew that Kristin Eustech
because she got her NFL license
was working on some sort of like line,
like consumer, consumer focused line.
And I figured she would like work with someone.
I didn't know if it was gonna be like a brand
she partnered with, like a Kmart line
that would have been cool.
If you would have asked me what's like the coolest,
best person she could have partnered with,
I wouldn't have even,
I couldn't have even come up with this idea
because it's so good and I'm so dumb.
But when I heard it, I was like, oh, parfait.
Like, yes.
Parfait, better than we could have imagined.
I think like we all want the world for Kristin Ushak,
not only because she's a gorgeous, wonderful, party girl,
but because she's so talented.
Like we want those clothes,
but she can only do so much with her sewing machine.
So like getting them to market is important,
but also in a way, like building a fashion brand,
as we said, like it's so hard and it's expensive
and warehouses and distribution.
And then you add all these teams too,
like having to make all this custom apparel,
like by team, by size, but it's just a lot.
So that she's partnered with the right person
who makes these things happen.
Like, oh, beautiful.
It's in partnership with Emma Greed,
but also with Fanatics,
which is like the official sports apparel.
Like, she could've done-
Oh, and that's the, you know, the July 4th guy.
Can't wait to see Kristin Yuscheck
at the July 4th party.
Can't wait to see Kristin Yuscheck.
She could not have gotten in bed with better people.
This shit is so cute.
Mine's on the way, I actually got an email
about like sizing and address.
I wonder which one they're gonna give me.
They're probably gonna give me a 49.
Oh, you got PR?
I'm like, you ordered it?
No, no, no, I got PR, bitch.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, it hasn't showed up yet.
She got PR.
I feel like they're gonna give me Kyle, number 44.
I feel like a vest or maybe a jacket
because I live in New York, whatever.
I'm so excited.
The shade is so cute.
It's pricey, but it's like,
I think maybe the first brand
when it comes to like
NFL licensing and like sportswear,
that's a little bit more high fashion.
It's not just like merch.
Yeah, but also the amount that men pay
for their faves jersey is a lot.
Those jerseys are expensive.
And like for women, you buy a t-shirt for a game.
You don't wear the same t-shirt every game,
but now this is something that you could wear
to every single game in the season.
And the off season.
Yeah.
The name was off season, which is really cute.
And I love the way they're rolling it out.
I don't know if you saw the 49ers game last night,
her husband was wearing a vest and then George Kittle,
who's like the other tight end on his team,
who's like huge, was also wearing a vest,
like with their custom.
So they're jerseys too.
So the numbers are on the front
and the last names are on the back.
It was so like, I'm just loving the rollout.
Do you know the price point?
Yeah, I think it's like $300, which by the way,
for like a puffer jacket, that's gonna keep you warm,
like an outdoor jacket.
I don't know how warm it like, what the insulation is like,
but that's like kind of a good price
for a real puffer jacket.
Oh, Terri, you don't know the insulation?
No, no, but I'll let you know when I get my PR.
I'm so excited.
That's so great.
But also this is making me realize
that there is one other piece of news
that we have to talk about on this episode,
not to make it two hours, but like people are waiting.
Meghan's trailer dropped for her show.
Oh my God, yes.
With Love Meghan.
We talked about the trailer a little bit on Patreon,
but we owe you guys a little bit of our initial thoughts
because her show is premiering on Netflix any day now.
The name is With Love, Megan,
which I actually don't like.
With Love, comma Megan.
This is, yeah, that's the only part of this I don't like.
I don't like the comma.
And you guys know I love comma usage.
It should be With Love, No Comma Megan?
No, no, it shouldn't be the title.
Of course, it should be-
Because the title requires-
Cooking with the Duchess.
Yeah, like Duchess Oven or something.
The Duchess, I love that.
The Duchess kitchen, like come on.
Yeah, no, it's the only thing I don't like.
It's so disingenuine.
Is that a word?
The name.
No, disingenuous.
The name with love, like stop it.
No, and if you need like a pause in your title,
it's just not gonna work.
Cause the way people talk, it's like, show gun.
I watched disingenuous? I watched this in genuous.
I watched it with love.
I watched with love Megan last night.
I don't, I just don't like it.
So that's my only critique, but let me tell you,
I gasped when the trailer dropped.
I feel like this is exactly what you and I
have been requesting from her.
And of all the business projects she's done upon mexit,
so many of them have felt like really random
and not pargy and this is pargy.
She's a homemaker.
She like lives on a farm with her chicken.
She's feeding her children.
She hosts a lot.
She's rich and beautiful.
And this is what I want to see.
Like, thank you.
I don't need to see you like talking to Gloria Steinem.
Like this is what I want.
I think she's like cooking with Gloria Steinem,
which I've said, like, I hate that shit.
Like I want to see you sat in your kitchen talking to me,
not Mindy Kaling, not your friends who I don't know,
not you teaching someone else.
I want you teaching me.
When I first saw the trailer, like I,
this is the exact type of content we've wanted from her,
but also wanted in general.
Like we want more like Pargylicious shows,
cooking shows, lifestyle, bring us into your home,
make it warm, comfort creators, as we say.
And so I'm so glad that that's what she's doing.
However, as I said on the Patreon,
what the show needs,
and we'll have to watch episodes to find out,
is substance, it needs heart,
we need to be hearing from her.
I want real words, I don't want word salad.
I want salad, but I want real words being spoken.
I really feel like we need to,
she needs to open up to us, the viewers,
because that's how like you endear yourself
and how you become someone's comfort.
So I feel like the potential here is so endless
and for such beauty and I'm really excited to watch it.
However, she needs to give us like more
than she's ever given us.
More than archetypes, no scripted, not phony,
like canned moments that you're pretending are candid,
but they're canned.
Like I want to be let in.
I completely agree.
I also, I do agree with your assessment
that like cooking shows with guests as a format
is really not something I'm particularly interested in.
And so I was a little disappointed to see
like the random guests.
Obviously I love Mindy Kaling, so I'm not talking about that,
but it just felt like who can we call to get,
and it's like, why don't you just give us an episode,
just you, you know?
You are enough, Megan.
Why don't you give us a season, just you?
And then eventually you run out of things to make you,
bring a guest, fine, Ina doesn't.
But I want to get to know you.
I don't wanna see your friendship with Mindy Kaling.
Like I genuinely don't give a shit.
The backlash has been swift,
and I have heard like some real like out of control
like critiques.
Like I feel like what we're criticizing is just like
format wise, like it's so fair.
And because we have a very high bar for it.
But like the criticisms have been like,
I have seen so many people being like,
are you kidding Meghan Markle?
Like there's people that are dying.
People can't pay their bills.
Like the countries in jambles.
Like, well, yes, all of that is true.
Why is that Meghan Markle's problem?
Like the Golden Globes were on last night.
Like who gives a fuck?
I just wanna say, I saw some criticisms like that
and it didn't make me stop and think
because like you have to remember,
they meds did five years ago,
they left a life of service and duty
and like giving back to their community.
And they were going, they like were acting
like they could do more outside of the family.
And like, this isn't doing any,
this isn't helping people in solving world hunger,
which you don't need to do as a human being.
But like, that's what they have like presented themselves as.
So now for-
This is her first like entertainment focused project.
So like, yeah, we're calling it.
Like you guys don't, aren't doing philanthropy.
Great, great, great.
I never needed them to come here.
They're not the president.
We didn't need that,
but they've always built themselves as that.
So like to go from that to now,
just like straight entertainment,
you know, we're not even pretending.
We're gonna.
Okay, let me ask you a question.
We're gonna waste food instead of giving it.
Let me ask you a question,
because I feel like a really fair comparison
a lot of people make in terms of their level of celebrity
is very similar to the Obamas, right?
Like formerly in service,
friends with lots of famous people.
If Michelle Obama had a cooking show,
like do you think it would be like distasteful?
No, no, because they did their service.
No, it's not a good comparison in this regard
because they get that comparison
because they were going on to do a life of service.
They just got married.
They barely did anything while they were in the UK.
And then they left to say we could do more
and we could be more impactful and more constrained
and instead they're making cooking shows.
Whereas like the Obama's like did their time,
they gave their service to the country.
And now if you wanna go do a cooking show,
do whatever the fuck you want.
That's so, it's not the same.
It's just like, then you should have been real
five years ago when you left that like,
we are here to go to Hollywood, which we all knew.
And I think that's why people were like annoyed with them for being so phony.
Like, no, we're not. But now like, yeah, you are. And the thing is like,
that's what we wanted her back in Hollywood. She was our star.
It's true. It's so true. Oh, and then a lot of the commentary saying like how inauthentic this is.
And I actually think a lot of people forget that like Meghan actually had a really,
it wasn't so popular in the States,
but when she was living in Vancouver,
she was like a really popular influencer there with the TIG.
It was like a blog that was like very lifestyle focused,
lots of like gardening, cooking, very similar.
She should have called this the TIG actually,
that would have been a good name.
That would have been an amazing name and really full circle.
And her saying like, yeah, I wanna go back
to being the person that I was before all of that.
It didn't work out and Harry wasn't happy either
and he's not been happy in that role in a long time.
So like, we're gonna do my life now.
And I feel like that honesty would have been appreciated
then would be appreciated now.
And that's where it gets to be like inauthentic,
but calling the show inauthentic,
you can't say until you've watched it.
Like, can this woman cook?
That's all I care.
No, but she also didn't like pick up one day
and decide to like get into lifestyle content.
Like she actually has a pretty lengthy history.
Yeah. And so that is really working on her side.
And the TIG would have been such a good name.
The TIG with Meghan.
The TIG. I really do love it.
I think it like seriously launches any day.
She's also going for like the sort of Madonna like thing
where her Instagram that she launched is at Megan, her show,
like she wanted her name in the title, just Megan.
So I think she's going for like kind of this one name wonder
type of thing, which I kind of like,
there isn't like a Megan,
who do you think is the most famous Megan?
Her, right?
She in competition with anyone?
Well, now that you say it, like Megan Moroney, you know?
Okay, so they're not on the same level, so thank you.
No, like now that you keep saying Megan, Megan,
but honestly, I don't know.
Let's see if it sticks.
Maybe it's a good PR move,
but I feel like there were other names she could,
like Sussex is strong and you're not competing.
Like Sussex Kitchen.
I kinda like that.
You know, like I just,
they actually have a lot of names between them
because they have Prince, Harry, Royal Highness,
Duke, Duchess, Sussex, Duke, Duchess, Sussex,
Sussex, Windsor, Mountbatten, Archetype, Arc.
You know, they've got a lot of names in their world.
So there was a lot to work with.
And instead we got with Love, Megan,
and American Riviera Orchard.
Because we've been podcasting for an eternity.
I'm about to pee in my pants.
Oh, I'm just like quickly checking page six
to make sure like nothing broke.
Oh, the only thing we need to talk about was Zendaya
wearing an engagement ring on the red carpet,
which was party.
And she also accidentally lifted her arm
and showed us that she got a tattoo, which is a little T.
Oh, cute.
It's so funny.
She wears an engagement ring on the red carpet.
And like, for some reason it's still like,
well, are they engaged?
And it's like, yeah.
Well, because celebrities wear like this diamond cocktail rings.
Maybe it was the only ring that fit her finger. No, there's pictures of her like showing the ring to people at the, so, are they engaged? And it's like, yeah. Well, because celebrities wear like, big diamond cocktail rings. Maybe it was the only ring that fit her finger.
No, there's pictures of her like,
showing the ring to people at the,
so she's totally engaged.
I love them.
I hope that they protect their privacy.
I hope she never announces it.
Like bitch, it's literally none of our business.
Yeah, but same doesn't go for Kylie and Timothy.
Like give us more.
It's time.
It's been two years.
She looked insane.
She is insane.
When she was just like smiling next to him,
laughing at the jokes of Nikki Glaser,
like, oh my God, I need Kylie cam at these awards.
Agreed, agreed.
Okay, we did it.
You have two hours, Nalafi, that is our show.
Oh my God, I started the year by drinking so much water.
So I've already drank one whole one of these.
And this is my- Good for you.
Claudia, I'm gonna pee my pants.
We can't do long episodes like this
if I wanna be a hydrated queen.
Well, by the way, you can go. I'm wrapping up, go.
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