The Toast - Toast Wrapped: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023

Episode Date: November 29, 2023

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Good morning, Millennials. Welcome back to The Toast and happy, happy hump day. A great day of the week. A great day to be alive. Spotify Unwrapped is here. It's a great day. I'm gonna have a good day. I don't know why, but it feels like love's coming my way.

And I'm here too. So true. So true, I'm here too, yes. You are here. As well. Not even as well. Primarily. Turby, stop. Primarily, you're here. Primarily, I'm here. Wait. And it's going to be a good day. I wrote down two things that I wanted to talk to you about on air. Oh, wow. Jump right in. Okay. The first thing is the craziest thing happened to me this morning. Okay. So I was walking to work and I walked past my old building and my route doesn't usually take me there, but I don't know. I felt pulled and I was waving. You know, I saw my, one of my favorite

door men and he came outside and we were chatting and he's like, congratulations. And I was like, and I was like on what he was like you're pregnant I was like no I'm not he was like what I'm like where did you hear that he's like I don't know people are starting rumors about me in my old building wow the rumor mill I wonder where that came from I know like it didn't come from this world. No. Like your social media. No. Someone is spreading lies about me again. Okay.

As far as lies go, they could be saying much worse things. They have, but I just thought that was interesting. And that's the craziest thing that's happened.

Thus far today at 9 a.m.? Yeah. And what was the second thing? Just like something I found out last night that I cannot believe you didn't tell me oh am I in trouble no no just like something kind of

major happened to you and you didn't share with the class do you want to think for a second is it about my car yes so Shapiro Olivia's husband is in New York for work I think he's actually already gone but he came over last night to see Theo and just hang out. And we were talking, you know, about football and just life, catching up. And he just very quickly mentioned that he was able to get this, like, dent out of your car using rubbing alcohol. And I was like, wait. Not a dent, like a scratch with alcohol. And I'm like, wait, what?

I knew nothing about this car crash. Not a crash. So here's what happened. I've been driving more, everyone. Kessler and I are back together. Yesterday was my first jaunt to like relatively far and back and I made it. But Zach uses my car too sometimes like because I prefer it. And he parked my car in the garage and it wasn't charging. So I just need to like say that because sometimes you have to park it there to charge. Right, so you're saying like you got in the accident in the garage and if it hadn't been

in the garage, which it didn't even need to be, you wouldn't have gotten in the accident. Therefore, the accident is Zach's fault. No, I'm just saying like he parked it in the garage. So I didn't park it there because you could ask if you parked it there, how come you couldn't get it out? By the way, your Tesla's like always parked in the garage. No, only when it's charging and it wasn't charging. He just likes parking in the garage sometimes, like wasn't you know considering I might not know

how to back out and it was tight on one side and I was squeezing through and then I realized oh I might be like touching because I didn't hear anything but then I saw the like rubber of the garage door was like bending so I mean thank god Tesla doesn't have like handles that come out oh you were you would have finished so I managed to get out of the garage but I did do a little damage to the car but Shapiro said it looked brand new like his rubbing alcohol got the the scratch right out the scratch out but there is a little bit of a dent I'm not gonna lie but I think there's like companies that can just like pull the dent out. I mean you can also like take a plunger.

Yeah. There's companies that like do that more professionally but it is pretty elementary. They just like pull the dent. Yeah.

So I just thought I could also see them making it worse. Yeah. I just thought it was interesting because I have been in one you know fender bender in my life

and who was riding shotgun and in my opinion partially to blame for the fender bender in the shop right parking lot you and so we just kind of have this history and this connection to the fact that you're you know a new driver this happened to you and you didn't share it with me like I'm hurt honestly I don't know I guess I'm supposed to make a bigger deal out of it because my husband was like freaking out about the car and I just I'm just not attached to material things like that no I feel that my car has a dent honestly it was about time I'm a really bad driver yeah and I will say I've driven the Tesla once and I did pull it out of your garage and it was one of the scarier moments of my life

it's very tight I don't even blame you at all. New driver, old driver, it's tough. Yeah. Like there's a reason that wasn't for me, but I had to do it. I actually, I don't even think I'm a bad driver. I don't drive enough to be a good or a bad driver. Inexperienced driver. I'm inexperienced. Yeah. But when I'm out on the road, it's not like I'm terrible. I'm just like nervous. Yeah. Do you think like the other drivers can feel that sort of nervous energy from you? Because when I was like a new driver, I'm just like nervous. Yeah. Do you think like the other drivers can feel that sort of nervous energy from you? Because when I was like a new driver, I would be like, everybody knows I'm new. Yeah. Well, for a while I had my sticker on the back of my car, like student driver.

But then when Zach started driving my car, he took it off. And so like, I just feel like I kind of have my training wheels off. And I'm just like, nobody knows what they're next to. But then I was driving with fellow drivers yesterday and people were like zooming past and just like everybody seemed to really know what they were doing and then I like looked in the cars it's so interesting and it's just like wasn't what I thought I thought it was you know gonna be like biker vibes like because they're driving so fast Kia soul and I'm going crazy yeah but it's kind of

just like old people and mothers they're like driving just like they're driving just like me close to the wheel we're all in the same boats that's beautiful so you've officially popped your your cherry and also whenever I drive somewhere and I arrive like I tell everyone who I'm with like about my experience and I've realized like so many other people have driving things too like I talk about how like when I'm turning I always want to know where my next turn is so I can get into the right of course in the initial turn and that's kind of like something that everybody's doing because we're all kind of hating changing changing lanes is definitely the worst and I think a safe bet is to always go in the middle yes but if you can predict your next turn and it's not too far down you can turn into into that lane. Yeah, we call that a wide turn.

Yeah, or I have to get in the left lane because I'm making a left turn. So I like the Tesla because it lets me know where my next turn is too. I love that for you. It's a little bit of a cheat. I was in a Tesla yesterday with the nicest driver. We were so connected, you know. And it was when I was with Theo. I picked him up from the vet he had a good

appointment at the vet yesterday so he was asking me about Theo and I'm at the point now where I just tell literally anyone who listens about what I'm dealing with and when we just got to talking about cancer you know his daughter-in-law's mother has cancer and it's been really hard on his family and then he told me he's from Afghanistan and we actually talked a little bit about Israel Palestine and it was just like a lovely lovely – and then it started to snow. It snowed yesterday in New York for all of five minutes. I saw your story. And we were talking about the snow.

And it was just kind of like a magical ride. I don't know. Maybe I'm so desperately seeking signs right now. Like I'm taking everything as a sign. I'm like, oh, my God, this light turned yellow when I got here. Theo's cancer is going to slow down. Like I'm literally insane, desperately seeking signs. And I, but I do think that that driver, like he was just,

he had a light about him, you know? That's beautiful. Yeah. What was his sign or was he just there to provide solace? He just had like this warm voice and I don't know. I, he was, and then he was like telling me he's having this issue with the customer service rep. Like we were giggling. Like I'm telling you. It was a sign. Maybe it was the Tesla. Right.

Maybe it was. The ambient. What kind of Tesla did he have? It looked kind of just like yours. But I think it was black. A lack of tests. Lack of tests. So.

So model Y is what I have. Sure. Theo had a good visit to the pet yet vet yesterday um and today i found this new vet and they have a bunch of city uh locations in the city and at the tribeca one no not you not you scrolling your phone when i'm giving like a theo update turning on do not disturb because i don't want to be disturbed by the new phone cases in zebra yes I didn't know if you would notice it's not zebra so what it is it's a high contrast phone case which these are the sorts of patterns that babies like look at because they can see high contrast colors best so that way if I'm ever on my phone like and Charlie's looking at me on my phone he's actually getting an education okay that makes total sense

because other than that it is fucking ugly and I was like I know but it's I love it it's in it's enriching for myself I love it it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen but before that I was like oh my god it's giving like millennial chevron 2008 enrichment enrichment yeah so like if I'm like breastfeeding I'm on my phone and he like looks up of course of course it's not just like oh mommy's on her oblong. It's like oh look at this a game for me. Oblong? It's from Clara and the Sun. Oh okay. It's like because he doesn't know what a phone is. No of course. It's just like this device. Of course. Okay well you know what I'm I'm glad I asked because the more you know. Yeah and the brand is Maisel as in Marvelous Mrs. If you'd like to get your own. I'm so, I love that. They could do like a little bit cuter on the high contrast designs.

Yeah, it's fine. It's a moment in time. It's fine. It's a moment in time. It's fine. So I found this new vet and that's where we were yesterday. It's called Your Vet Care.

You are vet care. They have locations all over the city and I was on the website yesterday and I saw they had an herbalist and an acupuncturist and you know I was saying yesterday I'm really open now to all different types of alternative medicine.

So today we're going down to the Tribeca location to get Theo seen by an herbalist who's hopefully going to do some acupuncture, which should be really helpful, God willing, you know, if it works correctly, for his leg pain. So I'm excited about that. Trini, you're kind of crunchy. No, I'm granola. I'm crunchy. It's really, there's something about like becoming a mother makes you crunchy. A hundred percent. I went to the holistic pet store yesterday. Yeah. Granola turdy era. I mean, I guess like I got to granola life by sheer

desperation for lack of other options. I don't know if that's how everyone comes to it, but I imagine that's how a lot of people come to it. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Cause it's another option. No, but I think a lot of new mamas, at least like mom friends of mine, like we're all turning crunchy. No. And that's Ben's dream. Ben like wants to give up on Western medicine. He thinks it's like giving us all cancer. And he's literally like denise richard's husband like he fully is like if it were up to him like he would get strep throat and like have a tea you know but like he can't you know yeah no i mean he can't deal with the like pain is it just about medicine or is he crunchy about other stuff too like does he make his own potato chips in the air fryer no no he's not

crunchy like that it's really only about medicine like he really believes in the power of like Chinese herbs eastern medicine and he's always like trying to get me and I'm like please just take Advil and shut the fuck up and he's also loves essential oil right you know he loves eucalyptus so this like us turning to eastern medicine for Theo's care is Ben's absolute dream so does he not want to be doing all the scans, radiation? He does. He does. He's not all in. No, but like I could see one day Ben becoming like a Christian scientist, you know, like they don't believe in like Advil and stuff. Yeah, there's more to that. I think Marjorie Post, we read a book about her. Her family was Christian scientists. That's why they like made a really healthy breakfast. Well, i don't judge anyone for their beliefs like that's something i could never fucking do like do you know how many

adville bit tums adville aspirin like you know many shits shits i take a day not shits like poop shits like medicines okay but i think on the other side of the argument it's like you're also putting a ton of shit into your body i'm fueling my my problems. Yes it's a self-fulfilling thing whereas if you kind of exited from the whole toxic ecosystem and you were non-toxic and you made your own soap then you wouldn't need to take Advil because you wouldn't have these headaches. It's a self-fulfilling thing and I've never been happier okay so leave me alone. I'm just saying like I'll add it to the list of one day she'll become crunchy. I'm crunchy. I'm taking my son to an acupuncturist.

Okay. You're on your way. I'm on my way. Speaking of music, Spotify wrapped. We have a story today. So I guess we'll like save that. But that was definitely a big part of my morning. and I actually like have a kind of like a conspiracy. My wrapped is not accurate. But that's the whole point Jackie. It's data driven facts. No I know

but I can prove it. Oh my god we're blowing this thing wide open. I can prove it but I think they might be trying to help me is I the investigation later yeah in the show stay tuned stay tuned for the investigation oh wow it's not bad I don't think Spotify is doing anything bad I just feel like they're being dishonest but maybe for a good reason so Spotify wrapped is obviously an exciting time of year but I think it's like more exciting for us because a lot of people don't know this when you are like like a creator on Spotify, like you can go to Spotify and search for us. You get your own set of wrapped statistics that I watched this morning and they're kind of general, but they are interesting and they're just interesting. Yeah, I'm excited.

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Thank you, La. You're welcome, Jacqui. And thank you, GameTime, for sponsoring today's episode. Our first story, Spotify rap 2023 is here and spotify is giving their own the news of their most streamed artist songs albums of the year globally so the most streamed artist globally of the year was taylor swift yes Yes. Number two, Bad Bunny. Three, The Weeknd. Four, Drake. Five, Peso Pluma.

I think it's so crazy. Like every big statistic The Weeknd is on. Do you know what I mean? Like all these lists, he's always on them. And like I do listen to his music, but I don't know. It just feels like so random to me. Yeah. You know?

I feel that. I do. Also the rest of the list six is five seven Travis Scott eight SZA nine Carol G ten Lana Del Rey this is interesting well this is global right yeah this is global but it's um I don't know some of these are pretty surprising yeah and also there's some like people I feel who are notably missing but I guess because I'm thinking America yeah I was trying to find the American list but the Spotify wrapped link is like not working I like I would have thought maybe Olivia Rodrigo would be in there

or Billie Eilish yeah yeah like there are some big names that aren't here. Beyonce. Oh yeah. Beyonce. And Renaissance came out this year, right? Yeah. That's weird. So it's surprising. It is. Now for most streamed songs globally. Okay. Number one, Flowers.

You're lying. That's major. That's major. Two, Kill Bill by SZA. Wow. Three, As It Was by Harry Styles. That feels major. Two, Kill Bill by SZA. Wow. Three, As It Was by Harry Styles. That feels right. Yeah.

Four, Seven by Jungkook. I don't even know. Oh, I don't know that. I think it was in BTS. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Five, Ella by La Sola by Peso Pluma.

Okay. Six, Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift. So that's her top song of the year. Yes, but that's interesting. Like her being number one global artist makes total sense, but logically wouldn't then the biggest song be? No, because she might, she has song number six. She has song number 10.

She might have 11, 12, 13. Right. And Miley only has the one. Right, right, right, right, right. Seven, Creepin' by Metro Boomin' The Weeknd and 21 Savage. What do we think? I know it. 8, Calm Down, Rema and Selena Gomez.

The only stuff I saw about this. Come down, come down, you saw me in Oasis. Come down, come down. I don't know if I know it. I only know the drama, drama like because Hailey Bieber posted a version that's not the Selena version right right that's all I know about the song yeah nine Shakira song and 10 anti-hero Taylor Swift okay very interesting I mean this is obviously the year of Taylor Swift so none of this is surprising to me but honestly Flowers that's that's huge

yeah Miley must be freaking like this is I feel like success musically that she's really been like searching for for a while and she's had like major bops in the last you know five ten years but this is like a global hit yeah and then for most streamed albums of the year first Bad Bunny wow yeah but I guess he was off of that all that last list so yeah to make up for in order to be And then for most streamed albums of the year, first, Bad Bunny. Wow. Yeah, but I guess he was off of that last list, so he needed to make up for it in order to be the number two artist. Right. Two, Midnights by Taylor.

Midnights become my afternoon. Three, SOS by SZA. Yeah, no, when we were talking about Grammy nominations and stuff, like SZA might sweep. Yeah, and she would be right too because the songs are really good but also they have like such commercial success yep and I think it needs to be a mixture of both yeah four star boy by the weekend oh my god the weekend is an industry plant like I know he's really famous like everybody knows who he is but the weekend is an industry plant like let me

ask you a question does anybody like if I have a playlist or whatever, like, maybe there's a weekend song on there and I always hear them on the radio and, you know, restaurants and stuff. But has anybody, like, ever gone to Spotify and searched, like, The Weeknd just to listen to only The Weeknd? I feel like no. Clearly people. But I don't want to diminish, like, he's extremely talented. I thought his Super Bowl performance was very good.

Like, he is that bitch, but, but like part of this feels plenty. I agree. Okay. Plenty McPlant. Like he's just on every list all the time. Yeah. Five, Carol G. Six, One Thing at a Time by Morgan Wallen.

Seven, Lover. Eight, Heroes and Villains by Metro Boomin. Nine, Genesis by Peso Plumauma 10 harry's house by harry styles well and harry's house didn't even come out this year so that's super impressive yeah wow statistics are so interesting who was your number one artist luke holmes he's every song of mine who was yours so mine was taylor swift but then my top four songs were Luke Combs you know what my number one song was what Joe oh I feel that you're always talking about Joe I love that song but also it was the first Luke Combs song we had gotten in a while so I must have listened to it so many times

my first my top four out of five are Luke Combs songs and my first one is Still which I love oh but it wouldn't come to me as like my it's probably my third favorite song on the album that's like not a single right uh so it's just it must have been in the order in which it was on um in the album and and in my like songs I just kept playing it I do have a hot take about Wrapped oh okay wait hold on I want to hear the rest of your rap my one was Still still two, Growing Up and Getting Old, but that's also because it's the first song on the Luke album. So every time I went to press the album, that started it.

Three, You Found Yours, which I would say is one of my favorites from the album. And four, Take You With Me, of course. Okay, so my all five songs, oh no, four out of five were Luke. Number one was Joe. So random. I'm like not like a sober queen or anything. It's a song about sobriety. Two, Everything I Love by Morgan Wallen.

That feels right. Three, Growing Up and Getting Older. Is that the first song on the album? Yes, that's what I just said. Four, You Found Yours. That's definitely one of my favorites from the album. And five, Love You Anyway from Luke Holmes as well. Love. And then my top artists

one luke holmes let me guess i was gonna say two taylor swift three morgan wallen am i right four okay he's four who would three be is it like a kid's thing no who is it mimi webb oh i was not going to guess that. Yeah. And then five, you could guess. Who's my queen? Megan Maroney. No.

Oh. Who? Kelly Clarkson. Oh, right. Of course. Of course. Of course. So honestly, I feel obviously like it's data.

What's your top genre? Pop. Oh, mine's contemporary country. Contemporary country was my second, which is interesting. So my top artist was Taylor Swift, Luke Holmes, Morgan Wallen, Kelsey Ballerini. And then the fifth,

I was like shook by the 1975. Like I definitely got, I definitely got into them this year, but I don't know probably more than five songs. I must have listened to those five songs a lot. Or I literally don't listen to anything other than my top four artists that like they just threw one in there.

Yeah, yeah. So then where my Spotify rap went wrong, I went to my top songs and I was also very worried this year that my Spotify rap would be infiltrated by kids' music. Because like when Harry once listened to one song, I listened to it. Wheels, over.

I thought Wheels on the Bus was going to be, like, my top five for sure. And it's not even on my playlist. So maybe they are doing... Intentionally taking off kids' songs, like, because there's a couple like that. Right. You know, that I listen.

But then, at the bottom, like, towards the end of my playlist, Daisy Bo Peep has lost her sheep is on there which we maybe listen to like we only listen to it when we listen to the whole Mickey album so maybe like a lot of the Mickey and wheel songs become ineligible for wrapped but they forgot that one you know no and also Donald went to Corton from the Mickey Mouse album but it's like if you're gonna put anything for the Mickey Mouse album. But it's like, if you're going to put anything from the Mickey Mouse album, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Hot Dog, like we listened to those a million times.

Yeah. So I'm just saying. I mean, I appreciate that they didn't like ruin my playlist, but Donald went to Corton. That's Zach's favorite song, not mine. Do you want to hear some of our toast podcast statistics? Always. So we had an episode this year that 3% of our new listeners

started listening to on this particular episode. And they stayed with us. And that was our episode on October 7th about Israel, which kind of makes sense because it's like a kind of a diversion from what we normally talk about. So it makes sense that we'd find a new audience there. Yeah, but it's also very heartwarming because you would worry that if we talk about such serious subjects that that would deter people.

Because this is a fun upbeat show. But no, you guys rocked with us. Thank you. And you sent it to your friends and family. We were listened to in 133 countries. Obviously, the United States was our top country with 94% of our total streams being from the United States. But our countries go as such. United States, Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland.

And we're always offending them. I know. I'm always like fucking up Irish history. I won't do it anymore. I'm really sorry. Our most shared episode of the year, October 7th. But our most streamed episode of the year, which makes a lot of sense, was August 4th. Our final episode before your maternity leave.

That does make a lot of sense. We charted for a total of 40 weeks, which I feel like is like- What happened to the other 12? Well, no, no. Well, I feel like it's all of them because the weeks like starting now don't count towards wrapped.

True. So that's like six weeks. Plus maternity leave. Right. We were off for a month. We crushed that. We charted every week. We are in the top 10% of charting podcasts. Plus maternity leave. Right. We were off for a month. We crushed that. We charted every week.

We are in the top 10% of charting podcasts. We could work on that. I don't know what that really means. No, it's like, wait, hold on. Of the ones that chart, we're in the top 10%. Okay, that's pretty good. I thought it was top 10% of podcasts. I'm like, we can get better. No, no, of ones that chart.

So of the elite. Of the elite, We are top 10. Okay. We saw some nice growth this year. 112% increase in streams. That's a lot. I know. I was shook by that.

And we are a top podcast. Like we are the number one show for 250,000 people. That's crazy, especially because most of our listeners don't listen on Spotify. Right. And most of our listeners don't listen on Spotify. Right. And most of our listeners listen to a lot of other shows. Like we met, they might listen to us, but they also probably like, maybe they have a different favorite podcast, but we are the favorite. Right.

That is crazy. But also maybe some, maybe those are some Apple users too, who like when the episode didn't go to Apple one day, they listened on Spotify and now it's their number one show on Spotify. So I find those wrapped data graphics from the Spotify for Creators account that we have, I find that more interesting than like my personal music taste. Like I could have told you my personal music taste. Fascinating stuff.

No, I like to see my personal music taste. It's like, is it what I think it is or am I secretly listening to a ton of something but I don't identify as a that person fan? Right, right, right. You know what I mean? No, I do. But no, I'm very consistent. luke through and through luke it was a lukey year as it was yes the luke's where luke's luke's comes luke's combs and what i also like about spotify wrapped is like we all

know what's coming every year but they always like sneak it up on us it's not like we feel early today no it like drops in the middle of the night and it's so exciting to wake up to and I like that I like it too what are your thoughts on a people sharing on their Instagrams their own personal wrapped I'm okay with it as long as I'm interested in you which is really like anything else and then what what are your thoughts on, you know, podcasters or like creators sharing however many times they got tagged and like someone being like, yay, the toast is my number.

Like I shared a few this morning on the toast, maybe three or four, but I think maybe I'll stop there. No, I love it. It's nice. I love it. And also when other podcasters do it, when I've seen it,

like when they share a bunch, I'm impressed. So like, why not us impress? Okay. impress turdy lou okay yeah no it doesn't bother like there's an influencer who i like yeah i want to see what you got down to this year what are you about cool cool i just feel like no one would be surprised by what we're about because we're such consistent genuine influencers authentic right right right are you ready for our next story someone who didn't make spotify wrapped um casey musgraves and her poet poet boyfriend cole schaefer have broken up after two years of dating i didn't even know they were still together like i remember them being spotted and then

like it was over so i thought they were over you. Like I remember them being spotted and then like it was over. So I thought they were over. You know, nobody ever, the paparazzi caught them and they never followed them around. So I just thought like it was a one-time deal. No, they were together. They had a blissful romance for two years, but it's come to an end. Sources told Page Six that the relationship has been over for at least a month

and say it's all the buzz in Nashville where the former couple resides. They've even stopped following each other on Instagram. Cool. I love Kacey Musgraves. I kind of wanted more for her in her next relationship. You know, maybe someone like on her level, fame-wise. So I'm not going to cry tears over this.

I do want Queen to be happy. And I think a breakup is good for, you know, the creative... Juices. Yeah. So I think we'll be getting good music out of it but I'm not gonna you know no love lost for me yeah yeah I don't know him um maybe they wrote some nice poetry together well he was helpful for her art Liz Woods did like a funny thing on her Instagram story about this like how can you be a poet full time like in this day and age how do you make a living off of being a poet? You could write greeting cards. You could write a book of poetry, I guess. A book. Well, let's look at his work. Like you get published. Where do they publish poetry? Like if you're a writer, like short

stories, you know, they put you get your short stories published in like in big magazines. They pay you for that. Like how do you make money as a poet? You could also, maybe like literary magazines. Yeah. He said on his website, I'm a multi-hyphenate writer slinging ink in a number of different genres ranging from poetry, short fiction, memoir, and spoken word. Okay. So he's more of a writer than a poet.

Yes. And I don't want to, I'm just like accustomed to never clicking someone's LinkedIn link because then they see it. But like, why would I care if he sees? I'm not even logged into LinkedIn.

I don't even have a LinkedIn. I think he has a job. Oh, a job. He's a creative director and copywriter. For? Honey Copy. Oh, he's got a job.

Yeah. And then he has a really long about him. Like that, that I think is a sample of his writing. Oh, okay. Okay. That's nice. Are you interested? No, no, please, please.

I'm literally begging you with every fiber of my being not to read that. Like for real. There's a screen separating us. It's the same screen separating you and the people that could bearrell. There's a screen separating us. It's the same screen separating you and the people that could be your customers. It's everywhere. It's beautiful. It's getting AI generated.

It's staggering what a boot costs. It's packed full of endless opportunity, but it doesn't come without a few drawbacks. Chilling. I'm going to leave it there. I'll leave it at that. So let's play a game and maybe we should add her to our list. She's a very eligible girly,

and I didn't even know that she'd been in a two-year relationship, so she probably should have been on the list before, but now she's officially single. So who can we set her up with? Let's see who's available. Kenan Thompson. She doesn't like to date famous people. Maybe not yet.

Maybe she's had enough of like. Oh, you know who I could see her with? Who? Bill Hader. Honestly, because she looks like all the girls he's previously dated, like Rachel Bilson. Same vibes. Yeah. Josh Groban.

Even though he has a girlfriend wait casey masquerades and josh groban is the greatest couple of all time think of the music think of somebody needs to set them up even though i believe he's in like a very committed relationship yes he is but i'm leaving him on the list no ring no list um keenan keenan and casey i'd like to believe that these two honestly because honestly like casey's kind of goofy when i say ye you say hi you know yeah she is goofy but i also think she's so serious and no i don't think it would work i don't think there's anyone on the list for her. What about Joe Manganiello? Even though he's with someone.

And I think they're having a baby. Yeah, I think that's about it too. So maybe not. But like. No, there's no one on the list for her. I agree with you. It's going to be, you know, an artist. Right.

Like a Taylor Swift formerly. Like a joe alwyn honestly totally no i feel like she could eat him for breakfast no totally that's the funniest saying eating him for breakfast yeah yeah but like you know exactly what i mean Of course she would eat him for breakfast. Nom nom. Bon appetit. I'm so hungry. Are you ready for our next story? Yeah. What'd you have for lunch yesterday?

Oh, I went from here to the vet. Oh, no, I don't. No, I don't know what you had. I had, I mean, I don't know why it's so hard. I think I had turkey. Turkey. Turkey. Yeah, I had a late lunch and then I had like a big delicious dinner.

I made egg noodles. What did you have for dinner? Egg noodles. Egg noodles, which is one of my favorite things to eat. And I did like fancy. So I drained the egg noodles, which is one of my favorite things to eat. And I did like fancy. So I drained the egg noodles. I put them back on the stove. Butter cheese Rayos.

Oh, wow. It was really good. Yum. Yeah, I did that. My eye is twitching so bad. Like. Just keep it closed. I need to get an eye patch, honestly.

OK. I'm going on like three weeks of this fucking eye twitch. I need to get an eye patch, honestly. Okay. I'm going on like three weeks of this fucking eye twitch. I'm sorry. And it always shows up at inopportune times, you know? Yeah. Are you ready for our next story, which is some relationship news? Yes. Megan Fahey and Leo Goodall share a kiss at the Bowery Hotel,

so the two White Lotus 3 co-stars couple couldn't keep their hands off each other Monday night at New York City's Bowery Hotel. So these two are confirmed together. And I didn't watch their season, but were they a couple? No, no. He was with that annoying wench, Portia. But they were both on White Lotus Season 3.

So this is an on-set romance. Yeah, but I don't think they literally an on-set romance yeah but I don't think they literally had one singular scene together so I don't even know when they would have met but I'm obsessed junkets yeah no I'm obsessed he's so handsome and I just watched an episode of Gossip Girl and Megan Fahey was a character who was she Chuck was trying to get a meeting with this like big-time businessman and she was his assistant and she ended up being like a like a sleuth yeah it was kind of amazing that's a great thing about Gossip Girl because it was so long ago when it launched many careers like there are a lot of people on it um Jessica Pearson from Suits

plays Vanessa's mom oh and I also just got to the part I did not know like Hilary Duff had like a four episode cameo where she plays like a famous person who dates Dan sure um and ends up having a spoiler alert threesome with Dan and Vanessa like me and Ben were like this is not real I did not remember any of this happening I remember that and when we first saw her in the first episode that she was on I'm like oh okay she did an episode no she had like an arc she had a multi-episode arc she was on the show casted it was shocking now I'm I'm very deep into Gossip Girl and I think I can make some generalizations if I will sure hands down it's a tie for who the worst character is Serena Serena and or Jenny Humphrey it just depends.

Like she gets good and then she gets bad, but she's really just an awful, awful person. Yeah. Best character. Blair. Blair. But honorable mention, honestly, Lillian Rufus.

Yeah. Okay, Rufus is really the moral compass of the show. Yeah. And when you watch it as a kid, maybe you're like he's annoying like let the kids be kids but he's an amazing dad and facts everything he says facts like no you can't go to you know Guadalajara in the middle of the night like the kids are nuts they're always just going places and Lily she's like a little bit more relaxed but she's a very

okay so I just got to the episode where Serena is dating Armie Hammer and Armie Hammer is this big tech guy and he's raising money and so Serena invites him to the co-op board meeting of Lily and Rufus's building so he can pitch people so I think he literally ends up getting a million dollars from like a bunch of different people and that night he runs away with it just like Chuck and blair said he would right so serena's freaking out trying to fix this herself and lily's like no because if people find out about this you're gonna look like a fraud con woman so what i'm gonna do is tell everyone that the investment fell through and give them their money back and i will pay it off personally queen what a thing to do and of course serena's like no mom i can fix this oh my god i can't with fucking serena and i just got through the trip episodes where she's a dumb bitch and a half

and then that right after the whole trip thing she's dating nate i can't with these people serena is the fucking worst serena's the worst and i think because she's like meant to be like a sweet we're supposed to like her she's so reckless but Jenny is like obviously the worst but we all hate her like no and she has bad intentions like yeah she is evil Jenny Serena's just fucking annoying and just dumb and just really thinks she knows best yeah I like I'm at the point where Chuck and Blair are together and I know that because I remember she ends up almost marrying this prince. So I know that they break up at some point soon and then of course their end game but they don't make it easy for us the whole time.

But I'm just really loving living in Chuck and Blair being together and like living together and he's his businessman. Like I just love it. I know it's going to end soon but I love it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Are you ready for our next story? Yeah. So a little almost casting news. You probably haven't heard. My favorite news. Bradley Cooper wanted Howard Stern to play his brother in A Star is Born.

The role eventually went to Sam Elliott. You know him. Right, right. Mustache. 1883 mustache man. But he wanted Howard Stern to shave his head and take the role is Howard Stern an actor a patron of the arts well he had his movie he did yeah there's like a movie based on his book it was like a biopic and he played himself people say that we say the word biopic wrong it's biopic and that's just never gonna work for wrong. It's biopic. And that's just never going to work for me.

It's a biopic. Potato, potato. Because it's biographical. So biopic. And it's a picture. Right. Biopic? No.

That sounds like a sort of surgery. Having a biopic. Yes. No, Theo, we're going to get him a myopic. Biopic. Yeah. It's biopic. Yes. No, Theo, we're going to get him a myopic biopic. Yeah. It's biopic. Eat my ass. Agreed.

So, yeah, he almost played the half brother manager, but Sam Elliott crushed it. Like he was amazing. So, yeah, I don't know. It doesn't hurt me. No, not at all. But I did see a bunch of clips from this interview. It's obviously like making waves and Howard Stern asked Bradley Cooper

would you rather for this he's doing with Carey Mulligan is it the Leonard Bernstein film? Is that what he's doing press for? Yeah. Is it? That's already out? I don't know if it's out yet

but that's what he's doing all this press for. Just what is Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan doing together? And he's also directing. What would Carey Mulligan be doing in the movie? Maestro. That has to be about Leonard Bernstein.

He's a music composer. Graceful portrayal of Felicia Bernstein. Yeah. Okay. So he said, and I guess Bradley Cooper is directing it. Wow, a movie about a Jewish man, not a Jew in sight. I'm said, and I guess Bradley Cooper is directing it. Wow. A movie about a Jewish man, not a Jew in sight.

Um, I'm like, yeah, that's what I was saying. What is Carrie Mulligan doing in the Jewish flick? give it to Alex Bornstein. Like give it to someone. Um,

so he, and obviously it's a film that's very close to Bradley's heart. He's directing it. I think he was really involved in it. So he said, would you rather win the Oscar for Bernstein, have Carrie Mulligan win the Oscar, and you rather win the oscar for bernstein have carrie mulligan win the oscar and you also win the oscar for best director or the eagles win the super bowl and he said the eagles really he didn't even flinch he was like no question i don't believe him duh i mean how

like vapid would he be if he said the first one? Well, no, but also the Eagles winning their sports game. Like when you really whittle it down, it's a game. Well, no. I mean, you could say the same for both. Like these are like, you know, rich actors like acting for millions of dollars being rewarded for that. Yeah, for like fake awards that they just pat themselves on the back for. And they're social constructs.

They're both social constructs. No, the Super Bowl is not a social construct actually it's the opposite because it's based on numbers like there's no there's no strategy or formula for why someone wins the Oscar over someone else okay no I understand what you're saying but in the sense that like they've the Super Bowl itself like is a social contract that we've all propped up. No, it's not. It's because it's literally based on winning. It's based on numbers. No, I understand what you're saying.

I understand what you're saying, but you're just not understanding what I'm saying. That's entirely possible. Regardless. That's very interesting, and I just feel like he will look like a loser if he had said the first one. Yes, I agree. It's a funnier a loser if he had said the first one. Yes, I agree. It's like a funnier, more relatable answer to say the second one.

Yeah. But don't get it twisted. That's not the truth. That's crazy that that Bernstein movie is out and that it's out now. Like, yikes for Bradley Cooper. Yikes for Bradley Cooper, like, championing one of the greatest Jewish musicians of all time and dating Gigi Hadid, one of the largest known anti-Semites of our time. Like, the math ain't mathing for me.

And I know his the Leonard Bernstein family was not mad about the nose, but I thought the nose was literally the most unnecessary thing ever. Like Leonard Bernstein didn't literally has the same exact nose as Bradley Cooper's God given nose. Like, yeah, and I saw him a little dramatic, but also like the nose is just it's not our biggest problem right now. So I'm not going to get the nose isn't our biggest problem right now. So I'm not going to like get. The nose isn't our biggest problem right now.

Gigi Hadid is. Right, right. I don't even care about the nose, but like the Bernstein family, what are you doing? Yeah, no, I don't know. It's all weird. I wonder if Gigi will go to the premiere. It's so weird.

Like Leonard Bernstein's whole thing was Israel, loving Israel. He went to Israel in 1967 when they were at war to play for the troops of Israel because he wanted to support Israel because he believes in the Jewish state. No, it's, we didn't talk about the weirdness more. I didn't, that's why I was shocked

that Bernstein is what's coming out now. Cause like, how? No, it's so true. They should premiere the film in Israel. That is crazy. No, I know. I wonder if it's any like good or accurate or

I'm sure it's good. I don't know. Napoleon's not. Oh, you heard it wasn't good, Napoleon? Yeah. The reviews are in and it's like, it's bad. Abysmal? It's bad, yeah. And it's like an affront to Napoleon and his legacy, I think. And like, just like not a good, yeah, bad.

Wow. So it can be done. It can be bad. It can be, that's so true. Are you ready for our fifth and final story? Am I ready for our fifth and final story? I think you are. Oh, okay.

I think you're ready because it's something that we were talking about yesterday. Okay. Sort of. But Mark Cuban is selling his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks. I'm so glad you're bringing this up. Something's going on with Mark Cuban

and we have to get down to the bottom of it. But okay, here's what's key because I sent this right when I saw it. I sent it to Zach because he's obviously a huge Mavs fan. And he said that Mark will still have like shares in the franchise and will still be running the team.

But he's not the majority owner. No, he's selling it to the Adelson family. Israeli, we love. What does that sound? That was the press conference about, yeah. Now, I want to know if these two pieces of information that were dropped on back-to-back days are, like, is it coincidence? No, Mark Cuban is restructuring his business.

Something's going on with Mark Cuban. I find this so interesting because I feel like you know he's super successful and I wouldn't even say that the Dallas Mavericks is his biggest you know money earner because he has so many billion dollar companies but it's the thing he's most proud of and I think it's the thing he's most like in love with. And I think it's also the thing he's most known for. Fame maybe he's taking a step back from fame because both of these things are like the two things we know him for fame wise sharks and the mavericks the sharks versus the jets or he has a huge project coming up that he needs all of his time and he needs money like billions because they bought it uh 3.5 billion was the valuation for the team no i'm so intrigued by this this is fishy fishy yeah or like i think i saw a comment like maybe

he's trying to take time away to spend more time with his family and enjoy his success which i i love that and that would be my reason too but but why do you have to sell the team why not continue on like no it sounds like his new job is more you know involved if there is a new job right most owners just own the team like they bring in management and GMs like they don't spend all day working on the strategy yeah but I think that he's always done that and he loves doing like that's what makes him part of the Mavericks as opposed to other owners who just own like we don't even know their names he does oversee the basketball operations like he's intrinsically tied to the Mavericks whereas other owners do they just like you know oh this is my team say hello yeah say hello to my

little team it's you know what it what it is? It's interesting. It's interesting. And I feel like there will be more news about what Mark Cuban is doing because he's obviously, I think it's a restructuring of the business, I do. And then when I heard that he sold it to the Adelson family, I wanted to refresh my memory. You know, how did the Adelson family make their fortune? And, you know, it's never what you think. Charter buses. I feel like we're thinking too small, know about how to become billionaires like it's always the random

shit you think we're thinking small we're thinking too big no I think we're thinking like you know obviously like tech lottery that's small yeah you got to think random like remember when we were in Turks and Caicos and we did that jet ski tour and we passed this enormous house? Yeah. And the jet ski leader was like, oh, that house belongs to some guy. And we're like, oh, how, you know, who is he? And he said, he literally has a patent on a door.

It's always the random shit. Yeah. We got to get a door patent. Yeah. Instead, we're doing this. Right. Like, trying to be famous. it's never going to happen. Um,

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So deartoasters at gmail.com is where you can send your submissions. You can also go to thetoastpodcast.com. There's a little box there. It's anonymous. We'll never include your name. Totally safe with us. And we've got three unique ones today are you ready yeah i'm not i can't find it where's pages app i don't ever understand this thing uh okay oh i thought this one was

interesting ready hi jackson claude i'm writing to get the opinion of two proud jewish queens on something my husband and i have been talking about lately we are gay he's jewish and i was raised christian but his temple has been nothing but welcoming and lovely we are part of their interfaith program you look two man two yeah they're gay that's what gay means you know for sure but i just assumed this was a woman just like it's usually usually yeah and I'm like man and woman gay okay so he's Christian man husband can you read that sentence again we're ready to get the opinion of two proud Jewish queens on something my husband and I have been talking about lately we are gay he's Jewish I was raised Christian his temple has been nothing but welcoming and

lovely and we are a part of their interfaith program that's the cutest thing I've ever heard we always knew that we wanted to raise our kids Jewish and with everything going on in the world, you know, it's now progressive to want Jews wiped from the face of the earth. We are more resolute than ever. The only thing I am struggling with is do you think there's going to be a disconnect later on with my kids with me not being Jewish? Is that going to be an important part of their identity that I miss out on? Sincerely, an interfaith toaster. So they're going to raise their kids Jewish. But I don't think he's planning on converting. Got it.

So I don't have personal experience with this. But I feel like we know people. And I have friends. And like you've heard stories. Like I don't think that that. There will be a disconnect. If there is no disconnect. If like it's just something.

If you're all about it. Just like they are. It would just be like. Oh my dad is Jewish and my dad is not Jewish and plenty of kids grow up like that and grow up to be proud Jews it's just about what you teach them no and the cool thing is it's like you can always convert like if you do find down the road that you feel like left out or something or like there is a disconnect just convert like it's always something you can do you don't have to do it now but it's like a backup plan totally this sounds so nice like I'm obsessed yeah and if you're like in the interfaith

programming you're taking them to synagogue and that's just like a part of your life I think there will not be a disconnect me neither as long as like you take it seriously and like you have respect and love for the faith which it seems like you do. Right. I think your kids are very lucky to have both of you and you sound great. Great. That was nice. Okay. Next one. I'm having trouble with my iPad today. Happens to the best of us. I wanted to, I wanted to choose. Oh, I thought this one was interesting. I keep saying that. Dear Jackson Trudy. Hi girlies. I recently decided to get sober. I'm going about four months strong. I'm planning my wedding festivities this year, and I was wondering if I could get your advice on how to approach my bachelorette party.

All of my friends will be in attendance, love to drink, and I want them all to still feel like they can drink and have fun. But I'm concerned how they will be with me not drinking and the overall vibe of the bachelorette weekend. Any advice on how to approach this? Thanks so much and love you dearly. I feel like it doesn't need to be an approach at all. Like I feel like when anyone goes on a bachelorette party,

like they are going to do what they want to do because you still have to remember, like it's their vacation. They paid for this. Like I'm not not drinking for one person or drinking for another person. Like I'm me, I'm going to do what feels right to me. So I think as long as they know,

like do whatever you want, whether that's drink a lot or a little, and it's just a overall place where everyone can just do whatever they want. I don't think there needs to be like rules set in. No I have two things. Three things to say. One I do think you should tell your friends. Like by the way I'm totally comfortable.

Like I want you to have fun. This is like for all of us. Because I think they're probably thinking. Well we're going on a bachelorette party. But she's sober. What should we do? What's appropriate? We don't want to be disrespectful.

So I think you can tell them how you're feeling. Also, I would just caution a little bit because bachelorette parties are like notoriously overconsumption vibes. And it's only been four months. And I think if you don't want people to drink, like I think that's okay too, because there are ways to have bachelorette parties. Like you could do a spa weekend. Yeah. Is she sober? She just hasn't been drinking. I recently decided to get sober and I'm going four months strong. Okay. So that's amazing.

But like you could also do like a low key spa weekend. There's a million different things you could do for a bachelorette party that don't include drinking. So I would just think, I would think hard about like, if you think you're ready for that, it's a lot. but I would also be okay with everyone just showing up as they are like if people want to not drink out of respect to you like that's really nice and they should do that and if they want to drink what you want them to drink then that's good too like yeah it's there's nothing bad no I would just like think very hard about a separate thing it's about your decision if you're doing it like for them or for you.

Yeah. Because you want to be like buzzkill bride. But like honestly I feel like when you go on a lot of bachelorette parties. If somebody was like we're going to do like a low key one. That's like going to be you know still really nice. We're going to go to a gorgeous spa. But like it's not going to be drinking heavy. I'd be like thank God.

Yeah. Like a break. I would be so down. Right. So people might surprise you. Yeah. But I guess my advice would be like if you really really are. Like feel very strongly that you are ready for this just tell them you're like by the way it's not weird like do you we're gonna have so much fun it's kind of how like so many people like have

one night stands and like hook up with people on bachelorette parties when the bride fundamentally cannot do that right right so it's the other girls are always gonna be rowdier right okay ready for our third one oh okay this one was funny I'm writing in because something horrifically embarrassing happened to me and I need advice but I mostly need to unburden myself after a long day of work I will often go home and take the edge off with a little weed pot marijuana whatever you will while I'm high I just usually like scroll on my phone. Smoke. She's not giving up smoke.

While I'm high, I'll usually just scroll. I'm not going in that smoke. By the way, I said it with the same, whoa, I'm not going in that lake intonation. While I'm high, I'll usually scroll my phone mindlessly doing random bullshit. About a month ago, I did partake in my after work retreat and I was doing the usual scrolling through my phone and also having a side conversation with my roommate. I was scrolling on Instagram, just basically liking every photo that went by. Little did I know the entire time I was mindlessly scrolling and liking, I was on someone's profile liking, yes, every single photo of hers. This girl is someone I met in college, but honestly,

we were never friends and I can't even remember a conversation that we've had so she had to have gotten at least 50 notifications for me liking every single one of her Instagram photos literally mortifying and I'm just like haunted by it I had to unburden myself thanks ladies love you yeah that's an unburden yourself there's no solving this there's only releasing it there's only releasing it but also maybe this should just help you like think critically about who you follow like why are you following someone girl from college who you've never even had a conversation with like you need to protect your better that it happened with someone that she doesn't have to answer to like no but okay let's say this was like you know someone you're close with or you can be honest with and they're like the next day they're like what the hell right but then you're

like i was high people and you know what keep your circle Right, but then you're only following five people. And you know what? Keep your circle close. Yeah. Like if you keep your circle hella close, nothing really embarrassing can happen to you. That's the lesson for me always. Yeah, but I do follow a bunch. You like to follow people you used to know on Instagram. That's why you have a second Instagram account

that's completely anonymous. Like a normal person? I thought that you detoxed from your finsta I actually did I'm like clean I'm like two months clean in my finsta I thought about it the other day I used to literally check it once a day I was not okay and I actually feel better for real and I did I naturally stopped using it it's not like I was like I'm quitting yeah I feel amazing I know I can't I really can't talk no because I feel like for a finsta it's either people that like you hate and so you're like looking at them to hate on them and

that's not healthy or it's like people that you're like kind of clowning on but you find yourself like engaging all their content you're their fan and you should just follow them from your real account is how I feel like if it's really just to like hate follow, like you're a fan. It's okay. Just follow. No, the fan, the hate, like the hater to fan pipeline is extremely small. It's literally just like a step. But then there's the other sect of Finsta where it's your enemies that you're checking in on.

Oh, I do that too. That's just unhealthy. You shouldn't follow those people from your personal. You shouldn't keep up with them. Keep up with them at all because then you're just holding on to that yeah so um when it comes to like actual tactical advice for you there's no advice it's lol um it happened good thing it's really it's harmless harmless just i'm sure if you told her the truth she'd be like lol you know what is she a narc yeah watch she's a cop well that's dear toasters our weekly advice segment where you girlies can write in about truly anything and we'll do our absolute best to help you in your time of need

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