Speaker 1: From Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: PHP one and only, world famous Perez.
Speaker 1: Perez Hilton.
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Speaker 1: What is doing? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are upsetting
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I'll let you know why. Coming up. Also,
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar has been chosen to headline the upcoming Super
Speaker 1: Bowl halftime show, and opinions are very divided. We'll share ours. Plus,
Speaker 1: Lama del Rey is a liar. Also some truly shocking
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez news and somebody we like rarely talk about
Speaker 1: which always excites me. Jessica Simpson. Something nefarious is going
Speaker 1: on with her and more. But first, I did something
Speaker 1: this weekend that I rarely do. I got hungover and
Speaker 1: I don't even know how it happened. Like that's the
Speaker 1: weird thing, Like how did that happen? Because I'm usually
Speaker 1: really good about pacing myself, and I felt fine leaving
Speaker 1: this party that I was at.
Speaker 2: Oh that's the whole idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt fine. And then I wake up the
Speaker 1: next morning and I'm like, I'm still drunk and I
Speaker 1: had slept nine hours. I slept nine hours. I was
Speaker 1: still drunk. I felt like shit, I couldn't function, so
Speaker 1: I went back to sleep. I was up for an hour.
Speaker 1: I went back to sleep for two more hours.
Speaker 2: I text him because they made the announcement really early
Speaker 2: about Kendrick Lamar, which we'll get to. But uh, He's
Speaker 2: like thanks, I'm still in bed, and I'm like it's
Speaker 2: ten am, Like what the hell?
Speaker 1: I went to the opening night of this news show
Speaker 1: here in Vegas, disco show at the Link. It's always
Speaker 1: extra fun when they have a theme and people are
Speaker 1: encouraged to dress on themes. It was a disco party,
Speaker 1: disco ats higher and it felt like Halloween almost like
Speaker 1: I fucking love Halloween. And the show was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. And seeing all of my Vegas friends in
Speaker 1: one place was a lot of fun, so a plus.
Speaker 1: And then also this weekend I went to go see Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1: I was not the only one. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice is the
Speaker 1: actual title far exceeded expectations, made about one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten million dollars at the box office. It was the
Speaker 1: first film that I had seen in the theaters in
Speaker 1: thirteen months. The last time was the Barbie Movie. So
Speaker 1: I was just happy to be back because I love
Speaker 1: going to the movies, and God, for every possible reason,
Speaker 1: I'm just so much happier in Las Vegas, La. People
Speaker 1: go to the movies all the time, and the tickets
Speaker 1: are fucking expensive. I was able to get four tickets
Speaker 1: to the movie theaters here in Vegas for forty six
Speaker 1: dollars in one cent. Wow. Yeah, La, it's like eighteen
Speaker 1: dollars without taxes and search charges.
Speaker 2: For one fucking ticketing and everything else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, free parking, free parking, and forty six dollars for
Speaker 1: four tickets. So the movie, well, actually you love that
Speaker 1: Catherine O'Hara, right, because you have Shit's Creek. That actually
Speaker 1: annoyed me a little bit because I kept watching it
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm watching Moira from Shit's Creek.
Speaker 2: Oh really, it's.
Speaker 1: Almost like the same character, same kind of character. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was. It was enjoyable. The best analogy is
Speaker 1: it's like eating a Snickers bar as an adult. You
Speaker 1: can enjoy it, but it's not as delicious as you
Speaker 1: remember it as a kid. Right. So I still liked
Speaker 1: the movie. I would recommend it, but it wasn't like Wow,
Speaker 1: it didn't blow me Away. It wasn't spectacular, but it
Speaker 1: was enjoyable. The best thing about it was really Tim Burton.
Speaker 1: When you see a Tim Burton movie, you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is a Tim Burton movie. He's just so talented
Speaker 1: and creates the world.
Speaker 2: He takes you somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I love that. And that was my weekend.
Speaker 1: How was yours?
Speaker 2: Mine was fantastic. I didn't do shit, it was great nice.
Speaker 2: I cooked a lot. There was a birthday party at
Speaker 2: my house, so I hosted that yesterday, and I got
Speaker 2: like at park this week. I'm going to go check
Speaker 2: out the show with the new lead singer on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about them later.
Speaker 2: Oh good, Okay, we'll talk about that coming up then.
Speaker 1: All right. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey had a very
Speaker 1: busy weekend in New York City. Yesterday they were at
Speaker 1: the US Open, the tennis tournament, and very public, not
Speaker 1: hidden inside of a box. They were there out on
Speaker 1: full display. And I thought most people would be like me,
Speaker 1: excited to see them having a good time in love,
Speaker 1: hugging and caressing and kissing and dancing and singing. But no,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are fucking haters. And angry that
Speaker 1: they're like shoving their relationship down our throats and it's
Speaker 1: showing your showing off, Like, we get it, you're in
Speaker 1: a relationship. So I was truly surprised at the reaction
Speaker 1: that a lot of people have had. Personally, this was
Speaker 1: a defining moment in Tavis's relationship.
Speaker 2: That's not a thing, by the way, Tavis.
Speaker 1: Let's just say, oh, it is okay.
Speaker 2: It is okay. You and you you hit pot luck
Speaker 2: once and you keep going back to the well trying
Speaker 2: to do stupid things like Tavis.
Speaker 1: We are all about Tavis.
Speaker 2: Nobody calls them that except for you. Everybody does, no
Speaker 2: one ever has but continue.
Speaker 1: This was a defining moment in Tavis's relationship because they
Speaker 1: finally gotten to that point where they're just so comfortable
Speaker 1: with each other and in sync and relaxed and happy
Speaker 1: and like a real, real couple. Like there's to all
Speaker 1: of those skeptics, like it's just pr it's I don't
Speaker 1: think it's pr there's nothing pr about it. They're just
Speaker 1: I would even say the L word, like they're really
Speaker 1: in love. And you know, at the end of this season,
Speaker 1: at the end of her tour, we're getting a marriage
Speaker 1: and a baby or one or both. It's happening. So
Speaker 1: I was really happy about that. And they also went
Speaker 1: out to dinner afterwards, and they were at a wedding
Speaker 1: the night before, which I'll tell you a little bit
Speaker 1: more in a second. But also there at the US
Speaker 1: Open was Brittany Mahomes hanging out with Taylor and Travis
Speaker 1: and her husband Patrick. So you know, Taylor can be
Speaker 1: friends with trumpers and that's cool, you know, like build
Speaker 1: bridges not walls.
Speaker 2: I say, I liked watching her sing the Darkness. I was, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was pressed that she knows the darkness. So that
Speaker 2: was pretty cool to be.
Speaker 1: Do you mean Taylor is a huge music fan.
Speaker 2: I know, but the Darkness is like the darkness. I
Speaker 2: mean they're kind of a one hit wonder one thing.
Speaker 1: Look, I love that song.
Speaker 2: It's a great song, a great song. It's very meatloads.
Speaker 1: Taylor's a drama queen. She loves stress songs. Ship like that.
Speaker 1: I love ship like that. It's like a that's like
Speaker 1: a hetero that's like a straight version of meatloaf.
Speaker 2: That's what I said. Yeah, it's meat loaf for queen.
Speaker 2: It's very campy.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I was thinking. The reason I said
Speaker 1: meatloave is Celine Dion, that it's all coming to same singer,
Speaker 1: same songwriter, Jim Steinman. Anyways, it's so fascinating because you know,
Speaker 1: you don't ever like to compare things, but I believe
Speaker 1: that you can learn a lot by comparing, especially when
Speaker 1: it's truly apples to apples. And a lot of time
Speaker 1: has gone by. So the big game was on Thursday,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs versus the Ravens. The Chiefs won and it
Speaker 1: was the first game on the NFL roster for the season,
Speaker 1: and the ratings were through the roof football. No, but
Speaker 1: I mean even for football. Let me let me show
Speaker 1: you the number.
Speaker 2: Is the AFC Championship Game rematch, one of the biggest
Speaker 2: games of last year. Those two teams going head to head,
Speaker 2: both perennial Super Bowl contenders this year. It's a big
Speaker 2: football game and to be the only one on, to
Speaker 2: be the only game in town, you're going to pull
Speaker 2: a huge number.
Speaker 1: So the game averaged forty eight point nine million viewers,
Speaker 1: with a peak meaning even more people watched part of
Speaker 1: it of fifty five point six million towards the end
Speaker 1: of the first half. By comparison, last year, the kickoff
Speaker 1: game was between the Chiefs and the Troit Lions.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares.
Speaker 1: Nobody cared why Chiefs cool?
Speaker 2: But you know the Lions. They made a name for
Speaker 2: themselves last year and they're definitely going to be a
Speaker 2: contender this year. But look, Taylor Swiff had nothing to say.
Speaker 1: It sounds stupid, It's not stupid.
Speaker 2: It's one of the biggest matchups and it's the first
Speaker 2: game of the regular season. Taylor had nothing to do,
Speaker 2: and she was barely shown on the game. She was
Speaker 2: shown at the very beginning a bunch of times, which
Speaker 2: annoyed everybody. But the game was about the game, and
Speaker 2: it was truly a great game that came down to
Speaker 2: the very last second. If the guy would have wore
Speaker 2: white shoes, Baltimore would have won. But he wore black
Speaker 2: shoes against a white line, and it looked like he
Speaker 2: was one toe over the line. It was a crazy
Speaker 2: great game, And that's what happens with great games because
Speaker 2: people see it on social media they're like, Ooh, I
Speaker 2: got to check in, how's this going to end? And
Speaker 2: you know when it's a blowout. I don't even know
Speaker 2: what the score was. Last year between the Lions and
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. But this was an incredible So Taylor had
Speaker 2: nothing zero to do with it.
Speaker 1: She did, she did, she did, she did, she did.
Speaker 2: Did you watch?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: You didn't. Well you're a big super fan, then why
Speaker 2: didn't you watch? Because Taylor Swift was in the building,
Speaker 2: you guys in your fucking pomp pomps. Put them away.
Speaker 2: People are getting so bored of her. Come on, look
Speaker 2: at her at the US Open. I mean, people are
Speaker 2: like enough, all right.
Speaker 1: I knew that I could watch the highlights on social
Speaker 1: media and I did well, right, But the highlights of her,
Speaker 1: that's all I care about.
Speaker 2: The only people sat through the game were the fans
Speaker 2: of the game.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know. I don't know. I still think
Speaker 1: Taylor's to think, Thank you, Taylor.
Speaker 2: She had nothing to do with it zero. It was
Speaker 2: a great fucking football game.
Speaker 1: Also, Travis gave this new interview where he talked about
Speaker 1: being Taylor's arm candy, and he had a really good
Speaker 1: answer to that. He said, it's the life I chose.
Speaker 1: I just love how he's comfortable, like not even just
Speaker 1: dating somebody more famous and richer, just more successful by
Speaker 1: every metric than him. But also comfortable to totally being
Speaker 1: in her shadow and being having every question be about
Speaker 1: her and centered around her. And he's the one, He's
Speaker 1: the one. It's the endgame.
Speaker 2: I can't wait till they break up.
Speaker 1: They're not going to break up. They're not gonna break up. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's the wood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. He looked pretty bored with her.
Speaker 1: Yes, WENK shut up.
Speaker 2: They were doing The Darkness. He's like, Oh, we're really
Speaker 2: gonna do this in front of everybody. You could see
Speaker 2: it in his eyes, like he's like, half ass, what
Speaker 2: are you look? Halfway through that song, he's like, really,
Speaker 2: we're going to continue with this.
Speaker 1: I there's one video where he's just staring, gazing adoringly
Speaker 1: at her. He was so into it. All shut up. Anyways,
Speaker 1: The night before they went to this wedding that was
Speaker 1: a celebrity filled there in New York. A lot of
Speaker 1: stars showed up, including Lana del Rey and that new
Speaker 1: boyfriend of hers that we spoke about on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, they are dating?
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. We spoke about it on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and then a few days afterwards she denied it. Somebody
Speaker 1: posted about her dating this guy, The guy is an airboat?
Speaker 1: Is it? There? Are they called airboats?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 1: I think it's called an airboat, you know, Like I'm
Speaker 1: from Miami, so like in the Everglades they have all
Speaker 1: those airboats. And exactly what the guy lives in. The
Speaker 1: guy lives in Louisiana and he gave he gives gator
Speaker 1: tours of the swamps on airboats, and some outlet did
Speaker 1: a post about it, and Lana commented on Instagram and said, no,
Speaker 1: so okay, how would you interpret that?
Speaker 2: No, like they're not dating, they're not dating, interpret it
Speaker 2: as no.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Well, she fucking lied because on Saturday night she
Speaker 1: stepped out with this guy, Jeremy du Friend to the
Speaker 1: wedding and they walked out captured by the paparazzi, hands
Speaker 1: in hand. Really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that guy gets Although there.
Speaker 1: Is an update, it's like, I love it. Like the
Speaker 1: media didn't really know too much about him at first.
Speaker 1: They got the age wrong. Initially. I think I said
Speaker 1: on the show that he was fifty six, and now
Speaker 1: we're hearing he's forty nine, so not quite fifty six,
Speaker 1: but still a lot older than her, not too much.
Speaker 1: She's thirty nine. He's forty nine.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's not that big of a dal Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know. I guess in my mind, I feel like
Speaker 2: she's younger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's thirty nine. He's got grown kids. Apparently they
Speaker 1: had met before years ago, and she was in the
Speaker 1: New Orleans area earlier this summer to perform at some
Speaker 1: festival hangout fest and they reconnected that way, and then
Speaker 1: one thing led to another and there we go.
Speaker 2: Good for him.
Speaker 1: Also, speaking of Lana del Rey, this is I guess
Speaker 1: interesting is the most appropriate word to describe it. Lana
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the headliners at Stage Coach,
Speaker 1: the Country Music Festival next year at the Coachella Campgrounds
Speaker 1: where they had the Coachella Music Festival. And like, I
Speaker 1: get stage Coaches trying to like sprinkle in a bunch
Speaker 1: of different things. You know, they have some interesting artists
Speaker 1: also performing, like the Backstreet Boys and T Pain and
Speaker 1: Creed and Nelly and the Goo Goo Dolls, But Lona
Speaker 1: del Ray doesn't make sense. Like, if you're a country
Speaker 1: music fan, I could understand going to see Backstreet Boys
Speaker 1: and T Pain and Creed and Mellie Yeah, sure, but
Speaker 1: going to see Lona del Ray if you're a country
Speaker 1: music fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to further your point, to headline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: If you said everything except for to headline, then I
Speaker 2: would say, Okay, I understand. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 2: popular country music artists that should be in that position
Speaker 2: over her, you would think headline. That's one weekend. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's a weird look.
Speaker 1: I know. I just think that there's trying to like
Speaker 1: hedge their bets because if you remember, Coachella for like
Speaker 1: the first time ever, did not do well this year.
Speaker 2: Well, the lineup sucks. They made it all like gen
Speaker 2: zax and there's no musicality to it anymore, and that
Speaker 2: used to be the thing. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still I mean, I think it's cool, but
Speaker 1: I think it's weird. Also at the.
Speaker 2: Same time, No, I agree it is cool, but I
Speaker 2: don't look at stage coach is something that's caved in,
Speaker 2: like Coachella. Coachella's caved in. It's just they've lost their way.
Speaker 2: They're not sure what they are anymore. They're in the
Speaker 2: middle of something, they're trying to figure it out. Doing
Speaker 2: two weekends of it's too much. I park that for
Speaker 2: a second stage coach is not broken stage coach still.
Speaker 2: The trajectory's in the right direction up, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Like, more and more country music fans are
Speaker 2: coming around every year, and like you said, I totally
Speaker 2: even Backstreet Boys, I totally get, Like, yeah, the nostalgia dolls.
Speaker 2: It all kind of makes sense. She's fine being there.
Speaker 2: But if you're saying headlining here you go, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is them going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also equally getting people talking is the decision to
Speaker 1: have Kendrick Lamar be the halftime show headliner for the
Speaker 1: upcoming super Bowl. And listen, I love that. I'm afraid
Speaker 1: to speak my mind. I'm just gonna say it before
Speaker 1: anything else. If you think that someone having the opinion
Speaker 1: that Kendrick Lamar isn't the best choice to headline the
Speaker 1: super Bowl halftime show, that that person's racist or it's
Speaker 1: racist to say that. That's stupid. Okay, that's stupid.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kendrick Lamar is a bad choice, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the best choice. And I'm I
Speaker 1: was so excited to talk to you about this because
Speaker 1: you you and I are very different how we perceive music.
Speaker 1: You go all like you fucking make a bigdo about
Speaker 1: the new Taylor Swift album. It doesn't have hits. Okay.
Speaker 1: When I mentioned to you Kendrick Lamar, you tell me
Speaker 1: how many hits does Kendrick Lamar have?
Speaker 2: Zero?
Speaker 1: Okay? Wow? Look at that.
Speaker 2: Humble to me, is the biggest song that he's ever done.
Speaker 2: And do I think that that is anywhere near scratched
Speaker 2: the surface of the mainstream. And I mean when I
Speaker 2: say mainstream, I don't say the white I mean the
Speaker 2: everybody knows a song that's the mainstream. To me, he
Speaker 2: is zero records, zero point zero. I just know Humble myself.
Speaker 2: And maybe it's just because I happened to work, you know,
Speaker 2: in radio at a station that played it right, But
Speaker 2: nowhere near is he the mainstream. And yet I still
Speaker 2: don't care because you know, kind of my stance on
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. To me, it's a football game. I
Speaker 2: don't really give a shit what they do at the halftime.
Speaker 2: I'm usually getting my dip or peeing or talking or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm there for the football. I love football. So if
Speaker 2: this is the best that they could do, I guess
Speaker 2: it's the best that they could do. But I can't
Speaker 2: get too hung up on it because I'm not one
Speaker 2: of those people that get so excited every year. It's
Speaker 2: a football game. That's what it is to me.
Speaker 1: I understand the logic and why jay Z chose Kendrick,
Speaker 1: but you know, the whole Drake and Kendrick thing, Drake
Speaker 1: would have made way more sense to me. To me,
Speaker 1: Drake would have been a better pick. You don't like numbers,
Speaker 1: but I did. I checked on Billboard and surprisingly this
Speaker 1: might surprise you, Kendrick Lamar has fifteen top ten Billboard
Speaker 1: hits on the Hot one hundred.
Speaker 2: Well, that's to my point that I'm telling you that
Speaker 2: means nothing. You just said there's no songs that anyone knows.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. No, you said that, But the
Speaker 1: whole chart is dumb.
Speaker 2: It doesn't reflect It used to reflect all people. You
Speaker 2: could have an agreement on what a top ten song
Speaker 2: was in nineteen eighty five or whatever. Everyone knew them.
Speaker 2: But there's so many different avenues and ways of getting
Speaker 2: music now. There's no consensus plays anymore outside of radio,
Speaker 2: which the audience is waiting.
Speaker 1: By comparison though, so still there is some things that
Speaker 1: you can gleam from that. So Kendrick Lamar has fifteen
Speaker 1: top ten hits on the Billboard Hot one hundred, and
Speaker 1: Drake has seventy eight top ten hits on the Billboard
Speaker 1: Hot one hundreds.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that even accentuates my point a bit more. Now,
Speaker 2: if we are comparing apples to apples, like you like
Speaker 2: to say, Drake to Ken, Drick Lamar to me, not
Speaker 2: even close, key, key, do you love Me? There are
Speaker 2: so many Drake songs that maybe youd Devez, you debug
Speaker 2: and Bess. There are so many of them that I
Speaker 2: would say everybody knows, Like you'd have to be living
Speaker 2: in a hole not to have heard those songs. So Drake, Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe a better pick. Drake's Canadian, Maybe there's something to that.
Speaker 2: He's not a football.
Speaker 1: Shania Twain's done the Super Bowl before, and she's Canadian.
Speaker 2: But Shouldia Twain did have the I'm talking the everybody
Speaker 2: knew hits, you know what I mean? Like she was
Speaker 2: so enormous, I mean just enormous, enormous. Well, Drake does too,
Speaker 2: You're right, he does. I mean, look, I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: mad at Drake. I'm just trying to poke holes in
Speaker 2: Drake versus Kenith Lamar.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's in New Orleans, and everybody was
Speaker 1: really hoping that they would have picked Lil Wayne, and
Speaker 1: it could have been so cool if it was like
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne and Metallica, like something really weird. Yeah, Lil Wayne,
Speaker 1: it would have been awesome. And then of course, like
Speaker 1: my gay faves, like I would have loved Miley or
Speaker 1: tailor Paint, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I get all that because I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: if the NFL is trying to bring more people to
Speaker 2: the party, you know, and you want to get the
Speaker 2: female number up because the guys were there, I'm there
Speaker 2: for football. If you want to give me something else
Speaker 2: at halftime, cool, you want to give me Kendrick cool.
Speaker 2: But I will say this like I watched Coachella this
Speaker 2: year from the couch to Couchchella, and I watched Tyler
Speaker 2: the Creator, whom I'd never really got into before. He's
Speaker 2: always like one of those guys the headlines everything, and
Speaker 2: you're like, who the fuck is this guy? And then
Speaker 2: I watched it and I was like, this guy's fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: I didn't know one song, not even a hint of
Speaker 2: a song, but yet for me to sit there captivated,
Speaker 2: maybe I was drinking a little bit still to be
Speaker 2: captivated by what he was saying and how he was
Speaker 2: saying it on that stage with his presence. I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: this is impressive. But that was a concert. I'm okay with.
Speaker 2: Give me a long runway where I can get into
Speaker 2: what you're doing. This is fifteen minutes or twelve minutes
Speaker 2: or whatever the hell it is at a football game.
Speaker 2: So I guess I would say odd pick, but I
Speaker 2: still don't care and I'm not mad.
Speaker 1: I like I like Kendrick. I think it's cool. He's
Speaker 1: great live, so but I just don't have any desire
Speaker 1: to watch now though. Actually, oh well, Travis Scott is
Speaker 1: pulling a Donald Trump. He is very salty. Last week,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I mentioned it, but Sabrina Carpenter
Speaker 1: and her new album debuted at number one on the
Speaker 1: Billboard Album chart, and Travis Scott says he was robbed
Speaker 1: that they didn't count the numbers correctly and that he
Speaker 1: was the real number one last week.
Speaker 2: Travis Scott has an enormous fan base, but Sabrina Carpenter
Speaker 2: has hits legit. Everybody knows these Please Please Please, and
Speaker 2: these you know my espresso and all the other shit.
Speaker 2: I mean, these are real.
Speaker 1: Big song So yeah, Illuminate, which is the company that
Speaker 1: tracks all of the music that Billboard gets their data from,
Speaker 1: says that they stand behind it and that everything was
Speaker 1: done correctly and accurately.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if you really wanted to be number one,
Speaker 2: he could have been number one.
Speaker 1: So he tried. He released a lot of variants.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, there's a lot of ways to
Speaker 2: game the system, but it's hard to beat a legit
Speaker 2: number one, you know.
Speaker 1: Not only that this is this is why they were angry,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't make sense to me. They released a
Speaker 1: variant at eleven pm on the final day of tracking, right,
Speaker 1: and they're like, there was a delay in processing.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah, there was a delay at us tried
Speaker 2: to game the syson.
Speaker 1: Well, there was a delay. It didn't go through when
Speaker 1: it was in the tracking period. So sucks for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. In more music related news, we spoke about
Speaker 1: it on the Patreon Show, but then afterwards controversy erupted.
Speaker 1: Lincoln Park chose a new lead singer, and I think it.
Speaker 1: I still think it's cool. I said it was cool
Speaker 1: when I heard the concept they weren't trying to replace
Speaker 1: Chess Bennington, you know. Instead, it's like a Lincoln Park
Speaker 1: two point zero, and they chose a female vocalist, this
Speaker 1: woman named Emily Armstrong, and afterwards we found out that
Speaker 1: she is a scientologist and also a former friend and
Speaker 1: public supporter of Danny Masterson, the former actor who's been
Speaker 1: convicted of rape and is currently behind bars serving a
Speaker 1: prison sentence for rape. She showed up in support of
Speaker 1: Danny Masterson, and a lot of Lincoln Park fans were
Speaker 1: very upset about this, especially because Chester Bennington. I don't
Speaker 1: know the exact details, but I think he might have
Speaker 1: suffered sexual abuse when he was young himself, or something
Speaker 1: like that happened.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, but he definitely obviously had mental
Speaker 2: health issues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there was a lot of backlash, and ultimately
Speaker 1: the next day after the announcement this, Emily Armstrong released
Speaker 1: a statement which I don't think made things better.
Speaker 2: Honestly, she I think it did. I thought it was
Speaker 2: very honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she didn't apologize. She didn't say I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Well, she didn't do anything Danny Masterson did the thing.
Speaker 2: She doesn't need to apologize. She's just telling people why
Speaker 2: she did what she did and she realized that it
Speaker 2: was wrong. She doesn't need to apologize to anybody. Wow,
Speaker 2: she doesn't. You have to apologize for somebody else's crimes
Speaker 2: and Haines's fucking behavior.
Speaker 1: I apologize for supporting a rapist.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, if you read the States, I've read that,
Speaker 2: she said she did not know and she had no
Speaker 2: idea to the extent. And you act like she came
Speaker 2: to court the last day and heard all this information.
Speaker 2: All of that stuff happens before court case even happens. Look,
Speaker 2: it's not a good look. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2: I think these scientologists, I think this is kind of
Speaker 2: their game. They sort of always go hard for one another.
Speaker 2: And to that, I say, good for you. I don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't care if somebody prais to a tree, I
Speaker 2: don't care if they're scientologists. I think only the feeble
Speaker 2: minded would sit there and say that one religion's less
Speaker 2: wacky than another religion. They're all fucking wacky. There's like
Speaker 2: two hundred different religions, like one's less wacky than the next.
Speaker 2: So it's all just weird to me. Why anybody goes
Speaker 2: down that rabbit hole but to each his own, I
Speaker 2: don't care. I don't fucking care.
Speaker 1: I do care, and I can't support scientology and the
Speaker 1: people that support Scientology personally. That's just me.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh, by the way, I did, But I did
Speaker 2: talk to I should say this. I talked to Shnoda
Speaker 2: about the whole album and her being in it and stuff,
Speaker 2: and he said like the sweetest thing about it when
Speaker 2: he was just saying, look, this is weird for us too,
Speaker 2: and he totally said he understood, like there's gonna be
Speaker 2: people that are all out on this because Lincoln Park
Speaker 2: is Chester and he goes, I understand that, and he's like,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be people that are going to be all
Speaker 2: in on it. He goes, I see both sides of it.
Speaker 2: He goes, look, this is what the band wants to
Speaker 2: do now, and this is how we've decided to carry on,
Speaker 2: and you know, give us a chance, Like I really
Speaker 2: like this music and I think you will too. And
Speaker 2: it wasn't like, hey, let's you know we're doing this
Speaker 2: and it was like pompus and arrogant. He just was
Speaker 2: very honest and forthcoming about knowing that people some people
Speaker 2: are gonna hate it. No matter what. And I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll see where they go. But I'm gonna go see
Speaker 2: him Wednesday night. We'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: Where are they playing the Forum? Oh god, I thought
Speaker 1: you were saying that they were playing at the you know,
Speaker 1: the fucking Viper Room or the Key Club or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: That would have been awesome. But no, they did that
Speaker 2: one show. I guess at the what is it Universal?
Speaker 2: They did it over there, but that was just for
Speaker 2: like a few fans. But they're going on tour and
Speaker 2: the whole thing. But I brought that up too. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, Oasis gets back together, They're gonna go on
Speaker 2: tour next year. I'm like, you're going on tour Thursday,
Speaker 2: Like what are you thinking? And I think he and
Speaker 2: every all of them were a little overwhelmed by how
Speaker 2: quickly all of this is unfolding. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: you know, I knew Chester and he was the nicest
Speaker 2: fucking guy I've ever met. I mean, he was such
Speaker 2: a lovely, sweet guy. And to me, I don't want
Speaker 2: to say I'm not into the idea, because I think
Speaker 2: it's that they are deciding to do something. But forever
Speaker 2: Chester is Lincoln Park to me, like Lincoln Park, you
Speaker 2: need that scream. Him his emotions, his you know, those
Speaker 2: were his experiences and now it's you know, it feels
Speaker 2: a little like a cover band to me, and you
Speaker 2: know it is what it is, I guess, but I
Speaker 2: can see both sides of it. Mike's a lovely guy.
Speaker 1: He is he is okay. In more music news, Lady
Speaker 1: Gaga's on the cover of the new issue of Vogue,
Speaker 1: mainly promoting the new Joker movie where she plays Harley Quinn,
Speaker 1: but also talking her upcoming album, which she revealed is
Speaker 1: coming out in February. And there is one point where
Speaker 1: she's talking about the music industry and being being supportive
Speaker 1: of all the other women in popper and music, and
Speaker 1: she says, quote Charlie XCX, Chapel Roan, Billie Eilish, I mean,
Speaker 1: I really love them. I go on the internet and
Speaker 1: like cry and I love Taylor Swift too, and Kesha
Speaker 1: I watch it all. Did you notice what I know Kesha? No,
Speaker 1: well sort of, yeah, she purposely did not mention Katie Perry.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a purposeful, intentful omission. And I think it's
Speaker 1: because of Kesha.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, everybody in that lump of people
Speaker 2: has something really really going on. Kesha doesn't. Let's be
Speaker 2: I mean Kesha's new tracks, okay, but it's not like
Speaker 2: she's not in the mix with those other names at
Speaker 2: the moment. She's just not. And either is Katie Katie's
Speaker 2: Yesterday's news.
Speaker 1: No, but I think she mentioned Kesha on purpose and
Speaker 1: not Katie, you know, because she supports Kesha and she's
Speaker 1: she says, she's on the internet, she sees it all.
Speaker 1: So she knows that Katie worked with Doctor Luke on
Speaker 1: her new album, and she's like, I'm not messing with that.
Speaker 2: Nope, all right, I'll follow you down that hole because
Speaker 2: she is saying I see you like she's she sees
Speaker 2: the talk that's happening. Yeaheah, So all right, I made
Speaker 2: I guess I gotta agree with you on that when
Speaker 2: it sounds like she's, uh, she's picked a side there.
Speaker 2: But did she ever work with Max Martin, Not No,
Speaker 2: not Gaga.
Speaker 1: She worked with bread One a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know she has no reason to be
Speaker 2: on anyone's side on that one.
Speaker 1: I wish she would work with Red One again. He
Speaker 1: was so good. I love his sound red One anyways,
Speaker 1: is that what.
Speaker 2: He's I always thought she said red Wine there now,
Speaker 2: I swear to god, I always thought she said red Wine.
Speaker 1: Oh God, I swear to god. I had no idea
Speaker 1: how red One, red One? I love when they would
Speaker 1: they would do that back then, like red One or
Speaker 1: who else? Dark Child?
Speaker 2: Well and fucking another one.
Speaker 1: Another one and then Scott Storwitch and uh who else?
Speaker 1: I mean. There was also the Jason Derula who shouted
Speaker 1: himself out during his song Jason Jason. He worked with
Speaker 1: Scott Storage Jason Derulo anyways. Gaga also opened up about
Speaker 1: her now fiance a lot in this interview with Vogue,
Speaker 1: and it's very interesting, you know, like she would in
Speaker 1: the past, would never talk about her romantic partners. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's like Taylor Swift. I guess when you
Speaker 1: find the one, you don't care and you'll open up
Speaker 1: and nothing to hide.
Speaker 2: So or maybe you just don't think it's so precious anymore.
Speaker 2: It's just like you're not you know, there's no need
Speaker 2: to hide from it. I think people are going to
Speaker 2: figure out who it is annyhow and what's the point. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also more music related news, well sort of semi retired
Speaker 1: musician Rihanna was in New York City at a fashion event,
Speaker 1: and I love I mean, she's not that old Rihanna's
Speaker 1: I mean, Naomi Campbell is in her fifties, she's old,
Speaker 1: but Rihanna's still only in her thirties. I just love
Speaker 1: caddie drama. I mean, hello, it's what I do. I
Speaker 1: love caddie drama. Rihanna showed up at this New York
Speaker 1: Fashion Week show and ran into this friend of hers,
Speaker 1: this guy named Edward and Enna Full who is a journalist,
Speaker 1: and he was seated in the front row, right next
Speaker 1: to Naomi Campbell. Rihanna goes up to Edward, gives him
Speaker 1: a hug and a kiss, doesn't even look at Naomi,
Speaker 1: doesn't acknowledge her, and then leaves. Yes, they're is drama
Speaker 1: between Rihanna and Naomi. Okay, it's about a man, and
Speaker 1: the drama's been going on for many years because Naomi
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen started dating this billionaire and then things
Speaker 1: didn't work out, and then that same year, Rihanna started
Speaker 1: dating the same billionaire. So I guess they're both still
Speaker 1: salty over how that all wow played out. But I mean,
Speaker 1: like they're both mothers now and it's been over what
Speaker 1: six years, eight years? Like, you know, like, can't you
Speaker 1: just at least be civil? I thought that was petty
Speaker 1: and I love it.
Speaker 2: I mean, there may have been some name calling there,
Speaker 2: and there's just no interest in being friends with that person.
Speaker 2: You know, I have no problem with somebody ignoring somebody else.
Speaker 2: I would rather see somebody do that than fucking fake it.
Speaker 2: I don't need to see if people fake it. If
Speaker 2: they don't like one another, they did the adult thing.
Speaker 2: They just ignored each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I just but I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: you could at least be civil, like hello, why.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't like that fucking person, why
Speaker 2: give them to the time of day? You know doesn't
Speaker 2: know it to anybody, nor does Naomi Campbell for that matter.
Speaker 1: Well, the opposite happened over in Toronto with Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 1: Jen showed up for the premiere of her new movie Unstoppable,
Speaker 1: produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. As I previously
Speaker 1: shared on the show, Ben opted to stay in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and didn't go, but Matt Damon was there and,
Speaker 1: according to People Magazine, at the after party Matt and
Speaker 1: Jennifer were talking, just the two of them in a
Speaker 1: deep conversation for twenty plus minutes, so they had a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about. And then actually, I saw this photo.
Speaker 1: I posted it on my Instagram story. They were in
Speaker 1: deep conversation and holding hands. Nothing, I'm not inferring anything.
Speaker 1: It was just like, of course, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: truly a deep conversation, like holding hands, and you know,
Speaker 1: they had a lot to talk about. But then that
Speaker 1: wasn't even my favorite thing, my favorite thing from the
Speaker 1: after party. Jennifer Lopez has been in show business for
Speaker 1: like thirty years. Okay, she knows what the hell she's doing.
Speaker 1: She knew that at this after party, not only were
Speaker 1: there photographers and videographers and fans with cell phones, but
Speaker 1: there were a lot of journalists, you know, reporters there.
Speaker 1: And she was talking to one of her co stars,
Speaker 1: Bobby Cannavali, and you could hear her say I have
Speaker 1: a bad picker. And then he, I think, was in
Speaker 1: shock and he's like what he made her repeat it.
Speaker 1: She said it a second time, I've got a really
Speaker 1: bad picker.
Speaker 2: She does, yeah, Allie, she's aware.
Speaker 1: Finally yeah, and then she said and we could hear me.
Speaker 1: It was a loud party, but we could hear all
Speaker 1: this she said. She said I'm a bad I have
Speaker 1: a bad picker twice and then she says, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. So I mean, it doesn't take a
Speaker 1: rocket scientist to figure out what they were talking about.
Speaker 1: So I love that.
Speaker 2: Well, it could be Roles too, Hey, it really could be. Hey,
Speaker 2: she might have a bad picker. When it comes to,
Speaker 2: you know, the projects that she did, decides to put
Speaker 2: herself all in on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I explained why that is, because she's producing
Speaker 1: all these movies. She just needs to work with better producers, directors.
Speaker 2: She needs to go away, That's all she needs to do.
Speaker 2: She's always going to be a star. Make people miss you.
Speaker 2: Disappear for a little while, come back and be in
Speaker 2: somebody's really good thing. And don't expect to be the
Speaker 2: lead either. Take a good role. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, at the Venice International Film Festival, this was so sad.
Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman won the award for Best Actress for her
Speaker 1: New movie there. However, she wasn't able to accept the
Speaker 1: award because she had this statement read on her behalf
Speaker 1: shortly after landing in Venice that same day, she found
Speaker 1: out that her mother died, so she had to go
Speaker 1: back to Australia to be with her family, sending her
Speaker 1: a lot of love and light.
Speaker 2: Her new show's called The Perfect Couple on Netflix, and
Speaker 2: you know, for what it's worth, they say it's the
Speaker 2: number one trending show, which you know means nothing.
Speaker 1: Show or a movie.
Speaker 2: You mean, it's a show. It's a show, okay, And
Speaker 2: I just started watching it.
Speaker 1: But is za Efron in that No?
Speaker 2: I hope not.
Speaker 1: Why I love Zacha Fraud.
Speaker 2: It's good so far, it's really good. We just started
Speaker 2: watching it. I kind of feel like she plays the
Speaker 2: same character and everything, but you need that character, that cold,
Speaker 2: snooty whatever. But she's very good and it's uh, it
Speaker 2: looks to be a who Done it? And there's a
Speaker 2: murder and there's a wedding and it's good so far.
Speaker 2: I think it's great.
Speaker 1: All right, A couple quick items. Casey Anthony, who should
Speaker 1: be behind prison?
Speaker 2: Behind bars?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I meant, who should be in prison?
Speaker 2: Say what she doing behind the president? Blowjobs me? What's
Speaker 2: happening here?
Speaker 1: I mean, basically, Kasey Anthony is free and enjoying life
Speaker 1: and wrecking another life. According to a new report with
Speaker 1: exclusive images, Casey Anthony started having an affair with this
Speaker 1: married man who was happily married for decades and now
Speaker 1: left his wife for Casey Anthony. Can you imagine being
Speaker 1: a woman or whomever a guy, but like my spouse
Speaker 1: left me for fucking Casey Anthony, You're right, God, oh man,
Speaker 1: what a trash human she is. Also wacky news, Rob
Speaker 1: Kardashian's daughter Dream has officially launched her social media If
Speaker 1: you care, she's got an Instagram page at dream Verified.
Speaker 1: Rob commented on it, and yes, she is seven years old.
Speaker 1: Why does a seven year old need a dedicated Instagram page?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but there are I think it's maybe money.
Speaker 1: Financial like to monetize it, I guess is the only reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna take that loot.
Speaker 1: They're already putting her to work. Dream Kardashian was in
Speaker 1: New York for Fashion Week, walking at a runway show.
Speaker 2: Change that kid's name to Nightmare.
Speaker 1: Also, speaking of social media and people paying attention to
Speaker 1: these things, Jessica Simpson, you know she's she's not had
Speaker 1: a hit in a while, but she still has a
Speaker 1: lot of fans and her fans have noticed that she
Speaker 1: has not posted a photo with her husband of ten
Speaker 1: years in many months since April. And actually they've also
Speaker 1: noticed that she's stopped wearing her wedding ring. Oh so
Speaker 1: maybe there's something to that. I don't know.
Speaker 2: The wedding ring would be a sign for me. The
Speaker 2: not posting. I don't think my fiance's posted a picture
Speaker 2: with me in ten years, so it's you know, I
Speaker 2: don't think that.
Speaker 1: Means any So both of those things collectively combined.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a little you know, there's a little bit
Speaker 2: of smoke.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, all right, and one last thing, but before that,
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Speaker 1: people don't like it when we talk politics, but I
Speaker 1: thought this was interesting and it's not really anything really
Speaker 1: like aside the son of Joe Biden. Hunter Biden was
Speaker 1: beginning this trial in Los Angeles on multiple tax charges
Speaker 1: and at the last minute pled guilty. His dad had
Speaker 1: previously said, you know, the president that he would not
Speaker 1: pardon his son. But now Hunter Biden is facing on
Speaker 1: these tax charges seventeen years in prison. If I'm Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: I'll be like, I changed my mind. I'm pardoning my son.
Speaker 2: Trump did the same thing. Trump pardoned everybody under the sun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's going to pardon himself if he becomes president.
Speaker 2: So I mean, go for it, Joe, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Joe had said that when he was still planning to
Speaker 1: run for reelection. You know, now the guy is fucking
Speaker 1: eighty plus years old, is not worried about getting re elected.
Speaker 1: Would would I'll take it a step further. If you
Speaker 1: don't pardon your son, you're a bad dad, Like you
Speaker 1: need to parton your son.
Speaker 2: I don't know his vice president as a prosecutor. That
Speaker 2: is not a look the Democratic Party wants at this moment,
Speaker 2: because it's because you know, the Republicans have just run
Speaker 2: with I don't care. I mean, the most hypocritical party
Speaker 2: in the history of fucking politics, but they'll still run
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 1: It's his actions, it's not Kamala's actions, you know. So yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take some calls.
Speaker 2: Hey guys, this is MJ.
Speaker 1: And I'm calling because I'm in the middle of I
Speaker 1: think what may be your third discussion. I take that,
Speaker 1: I say discussion very generously regarding streaming the Billboard Hot
Speaker 1: one hundred and what makes a song a hit? I
Speaker 1: love you both in your own ways. I think this
Speaker 1: would be a.
Speaker 2: Great standalone episode like you did years ago.
Speaker 1: I think on about Evermore or Everlaine or whatever whatever
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: I don't know the music.
Speaker 1: That episode was great on its own, and so I
Speaker 1: was thinking, let's bring in some experts, let's go into this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys know some people that maybe have
Speaker 1: worked at Billboard or whatnot, music industry experts to talk.
Speaker 2: About what makes listen. I gave the line last week
Speaker 2: and I don't think we need to delve into it anymore.
Speaker 2: And we touched up on the charts just this week.
Speaker 2: We just talked about it with Kendrick Lamar and I
Speaker 2: have a different threshold of what I call a hit
Speaker 2: versus what Perez has. Perez is kind of a very
Speaker 2: literal person, because how you.
Speaker 1: Need to quantify it? You need I need metrics. How
Speaker 1: do you It's Oh, it's just a feeling for you,
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: And you're kind of contradicting yourself because you just said
Speaker 2: that Kendrick Lamar has seventeen number.
Speaker 1: One songteen not on number one songs, fifteen top ten, top.
Speaker 2: Ten songs, whatever, and even you were like, I don't
Speaker 2: know any of them. That's my point.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I said I knew some. I
Speaker 1: know some of them, like the song with Taylor's swift
Speaker 1: bad Blood. Obviously, I know bad Blood.
Speaker 2: Okay, you weren't talking about that one.
Speaker 1: Well, he's that's one of his top ten hits, That
Speaker 1: swimming Pool song. I love that song. And there's a
Speaker 1: swimming Pool Malica that one, like, I fucking know that
Speaker 1: one too. I know I know some of his songs, definitely,
Speaker 1: But I'm also like a music lover, so I'm not
Speaker 1: necessarily like an average consumer.
Speaker 2: So just to bring this full circle, I just think
Speaker 2: our bars are different. I think a hit song is
Speaker 2: something that everybody knows. He sometimes says, well that the
Speaker 2: chart says, and I'm like, well, the charts manipulated. He
Speaker 2: even gave you an example of a guy trying to
Speaker 2: game the fucking chart. That's all I'm ever saying, like
Speaker 2: it's all fucking gamed. I have a different bar. That's it.
Speaker 2: Let's wrap this up, baby.
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