Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey besties.
Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, we're popping off and dishing
Speaker 2: on all the pop culture moments you need to know
Speaker 2: from this week with host and film critic Naz Perez,
Speaker 2: Like what are this year's hottest Halloween costumes? Which iconic
Speaker 2: white two cake clothing brand is getting a refresh? And
Speaker 2: speaking of refresh, Seth Cohen is all grown up and
Speaker 2: in this Hot Rabbi era, y'all, it's Friday, October eleventh.
Speaker 2: I'm Simone Voice.
Speaker 1: I'm still stuck on Hot Rabbi.
Speaker 3: I'm Danielle Robe And this is the bright Side from
Speaker 3: Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to
Speaker 3: share women's stories, laugh, learn and brighten your day.
Speaker 1: Happy Friday, see money.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Happy Friday, Danielle.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're both on this shine away. Hi.
Speaker 3: We had so much fun this past weekend and we
Speaker 3: had our first ever live taping.
Speaker 2: I had a blast. I had so much fun, and
Speaker 2: it was just the most warm, embracing, supportive environment, Like
Speaker 2: I literally couldn't want two feet without seeing someone that
Speaker 2: either I fangirled over or they had something really kind
Speaker 2: to say to me. And we were just embrace in
Speaker 2: this huge bear hug and it just happened over and
Speaker 2: over again, and it was it was just like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, being surrounded by all your favorite girl crushes
Speaker 2: and hypegirls like Gobby Dalkin and Amanda Klutz, who were
Speaker 2: part of our very first live episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed reframing the conversation about imposter syndrome because
Speaker 3: it's such a buzzy topic and I feel like we
Speaker 3: really broke it down in a different way, and it
Speaker 3: felt like we continued that supportive, warm energy with Jenny Garth.
Speaker 3: She was so open and fun. I felt like we
Speaker 3: were hanging at the peach pit. Okay, not the peach bit.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am truly so inspired by Jenny Garth, just
Speaker 2: because of the way that she continues to choose herself.
Speaker 2: I mentioned it during the interview, but I'm still so
Speaker 2: in awe of how she and her ex husband Peter
Speaker 2: Facchinelli have navigated co parenting post divorce. And they also
Speaker 2: did this incredibly can and did two part podcast interview
Speaker 2: series where they talk to each other about their divorce
Speaker 2: about how they're co parenting now. It was really really
Speaker 2: powerful and we can't forget about Anna Marie Tendler, who
Speaker 2: joined us to talk about how she's taken control of
Speaker 2: her life since her public divorce. I thought it was
Speaker 2: really fascinating to hear from her about how easy it
Speaker 2: is to lose yourself in a relationship.
Speaker 3: I think my favorite line from that interview is that
Speaker 3: cats can't cheat.
Speaker 2: Cats can't cheat, cats will never cheat on you.
Speaker 3: It's the mantra we need, honestly, But she really speaks
Speaker 3: to the impact of therapy and what you gain when
Speaker 3: you look inward. And speaking of therapy, I was captivated
Speaker 3: by your conversation with doctor joy Harden Bradford. I really
Speaker 3: love all the work she's doing to remove the stigma
Speaker 3: around mental health, and I know that conversation is going
Speaker 3: to empower a lot of people. And today we get
Speaker 3: to kick the weekend off with the best moments in
Speaker 3: pop culture. But first it's time to spotlight our favorite
Speaker 3: moment the week.
Speaker 2: Yes, today is International Day of the Girl Child, so
Speaker 2: we want to spotlight all the girls far and wide
Speaker 2: who are making this world a better place. This year's
Speaker 2: theme is Girl's Vision for the Future, and according to
Speaker 2: the United Nations, recent analysis shows that girls are quote
Speaker 2: not only courageous in the face of crisis but hopeful
Speaker 2: for the future, and the UN says that with the
Speaker 2: right support, the quote potential of the world's more than
Speaker 2: one point one billion girls is limitless. Girls can change
Speaker 2: the world, y'all. You know research shows that if you
Speaker 2: educate girls in underdeveloped nations, that is the best way
Speaker 2: to lift their communities out of poverty.
Speaker 3: And it's up to all of us to help make
Speaker 3: sure these girls are able to realize their full potential
Speaker 3: and create a vision of the future where all girls
Speaker 3: are protected and empowered, and that starts by listening to them.
Speaker 3: So shout out to all the girls around the globe
Speaker 3: who are dreaming and believing in a better future, who
Speaker 3: are speaking up and taking action.
Speaker 2: Cheers to that. That is a vision I can one
Speaker 2: thousand percent get behind. And one more thing before we
Speaker 2: pop off, y'all, if you have ever been ghosted, or
Speaker 2: if you've ever been the ghost, you're gonna want to
Speaker 2: tune into our episode with dating coach Sabrina Zohar. She
Speaker 2: is joining us on the bright Side very soon to
Speaker 2: talk all things ghosting. So if you have any ghosting
Speaker 2: questions you've been too afraid to ask, send them over
Speaker 2: to us at Hello at the brightsidepodcast dot com.
Speaker 1: Simon, are you ready to pop off?
Speaker 2: Ready as I'll ever be, Let's do it Okay. Today
Speaker 2: we are joined by interviewer, host, film critic, and founder
Speaker 2: of the support group Heartbroken Anonymous. It's Nas Perez. Nas.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 4: Hi guys, this is so fun. As soon as you
Speaker 4: just did your intro, it felt so bubbly.
Speaker 5: I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: Well, Nas, you're the founder of the online and irl
Speaker 3: support group for people going through heartbreak called Heartbroken Anonymous.
Speaker 3: I've always loved the name heartbreak is all the famous difficult,
Speaker 3: but once you're on the side, on the other side
Speaker 3: of it, I've also felt like heartbreak brings some humor too,
Speaker 3: like you just can't believe the ridiculous situations. I know
Speaker 3: you're in person and virtual meetings are really heartfelt, but
Speaker 3: I'm wondering if you've ever run into funny experiences in
Speaker 3: Heartbroken Anonymous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 4: I think that's the best part about going deep and
Speaker 4: within grief is once everyone shares about their heartbreak in
Speaker 4: our support group, whether it's virtual or in person, there's
Speaker 4: always a laugh in someone's share or story.
Speaker 5: I'll never forget. There was like one time a girl
Speaker 5: was like.
Speaker 4: Driving to a guy's house every night, like just because
Speaker 4: he hadn't text her back yet, and of course it's
Speaker 4: like whoa, you know, that's like really intense, but she
Speaker 4: was just parking outside his house and she was just like, god,
Speaker 4: I just want to like hear from him. And everyone
Speaker 4: just kind of laughed because it's like we sow. Everyone
Speaker 4: just so deeply sort of understood that feeling of not
Speaker 4: wanting to like face that like rejection and then personally
Speaker 4: like heartbreak is I look at it as like your
Speaker 4: heartbreaking open to really open up, to get you.
Speaker 5: To love yourself more, and I'll never forget.
Speaker 4: I was like singing sheres song Believe in the shower,
Speaker 4: and it wasn't until I was like heartbroken.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god, this is a heartbreak song.
Speaker 4: So that's a moment where I remember personally just laughing
Speaker 4: out loud and be like, wow, I'm so heartbroken. I
Speaker 4: never knew my whole life this like banger was just
Speaker 4: about heartbreak.
Speaker 3: I was actually just going to ask you about heartbreak anthems.
Speaker 3: So I always think of Beyonce's best thing. I never
Speaker 3: had that to me is the heartbreak anthem, scream in
Speaker 3: the shower, in the car someone, what do you think.
Speaker 2: I My first inclination is country music, like super dangy
Speaker 2: country music, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like they do heartbreak really well. In County.
Speaker 5: They do everything really well.
Speaker 4: I feel like they emphasize like I'm going full my
Speaker 4: coffee in the morning, you know, like everything's so musical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean all the partons I Will Always Love You,
Speaker 3: that's just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a classic.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think I mean that. And also the
Speaker 2: Whitney Houston version of course. Okay, I have to ask, though,
Speaker 2: whatever happened with the girl who was parking outside the
Speaker 2: guy's house, Like do we have a resolution there? I
Speaker 2: mean that's kind of wild.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, what's beautiful about Heartbroken Anonymous and the safe space
Speaker 4: that we create is the whole sort of ethos is
Speaker 4: that you're more willing to tell a stranger how you
Speaker 4: actually feel in your own friends and family.
Speaker 5: And what's beautiful is it's.
Speaker 4: A group that you can come to when you need
Speaker 4: it and you don't necessarily have to come back. Maybe
Speaker 4: it's like one month, even if she did come a
Speaker 4: bunch and I knew the conclusion of this story, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't share because obviously it's anonymous and confidential, but she
Speaker 4: kind of just came in the month that she needed it.
Speaker 4: And I think that's what's beautiful is that sometimes we're
Speaker 4: scared and embarrassed to say things, especially when it comes
Speaker 4: to heartbreak, those raw feelings that we actually feel, our
Speaker 4: behaviors and reactions that we have to feeling rejected or broken.
Speaker 4: But that's what's great is that we actually don't see
Speaker 4: it as being wild. We see it as being like
Speaker 4: so normal and part of the human experience.
Speaker 2: So when you're not breaking your heart open and guiding
Speaker 2: others through that process. You also co host a podcast
Speaker 2: called I Don't Get It, where you talk about all
Speaker 2: things dating, pop culture, sex, and I've been watching Nobody
Speaker 2: Wants This on Netflix and it kind of reminds me
Speaker 2: of the show that Kristen Bell and her sister host
Speaker 2: on that show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so crazy.
Speaker 4: I used to be a producer on the Bachelor, and
Speaker 4: I produced one of the cast members named Ashley I
Speaker 4: Ashley and Connetti, and she has a sister, Laura and Connetti,
Speaker 4: who is also on the show Bachelor in Paradise. For
Speaker 4: like a couple episodes and I was their producer, and
Speaker 4: when I had left the show, we all became really close.
Speaker 4: So they're like sisters to me, but they're actually blood sisters.
Speaker 4: And we started a po podcast called I Don't Get It,
Speaker 4: just based off things we don't get so it's like
Speaker 4: sort of sex relationships, just millennial subcultures.
Speaker 5: And so we started this podcast.
Speaker 4: And then when I started watching Nobody Wants This, that's
Speaker 4: exactly Ashley and sort of Lauren's dynamic, so it was
Speaker 4: really cool to see that reflected and Nobody Wants This
Speaker 4: it was pretty well.
Speaker 3: So this show has me in a choke hold. I've
Speaker 3: now watched it twice.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: Danielle, same with you.
Speaker 5: Why got you watched it twice? I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like one of those shows like it's like,
Speaker 3: I'm not putting it in the sex in the City category.
Speaker 3: It's not like iconic in that way yet, but it's
Speaker 3: one of those shows that you could just throw on.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like Emily in Paris. You can just
Speaker 3: throw it on and watch it multiple times because it's
Speaker 3: so happy. Yeah, So for all the besties who haven't
Speaker 3: watched the series yet, It follows a podcast host played
Speaker 3: by Kristen Bell who is sort of embodying Aaron Foster's life.
Speaker 3: It was written by Aaron Foster and produced by Sarah Foster.
Speaker 3: Kristen Bell meets newly single Rabbi Adam Brody, and the
Speaker 3: series follows their love story. Adam is Jewish, Christen Bell's
Speaker 3: character is not, and it's like it follows like them
Speaker 3: trying to figure out if they can make a life together.
Speaker 1: It's gotten rave reviews.
Speaker 3: Vanity Fair said that Adam Brody has entered his hot
Speaker 3: rabbi era. Everybody feels very excited about the re emergence
Speaker 3: of Adam Brody after the OC.
Speaker 1: Were you guys OC fans?
Speaker 4: I never actually watched the OC. You like you watched it, Simon, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I did. I was like more Laguna Beach, like I
Speaker 4: liked like the real sort of who oh yeah. It
Speaker 4: was so real, like going to be just so real.
Speaker 4: It was so real, so not staged, so not stage.
Speaker 4: I know that was basically a scripted show. I heard
Speaker 4: that Seth Cohen's character in the OC is very similar.
Speaker 4: I guess would would you say, Danielle that it's like similar?
Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of like very witty, fast talking, adorable, but like,
Speaker 3: what do you guys think of the show, And also
Speaker 3: as I'm curious what you think about the ingredients of
Speaker 3: a perfect realm com like why is this getting so
Speaker 3: much praise? Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I think one, this show does really well because
Speaker 4: Adam Brody and Kristen Bell are friends. So Adam Brody
Speaker 4: and Leeton Mester his wife, and Kristen Bell and her
Speaker 4: husband Dex Shepherd actually all hang out. And Kristen Bell
Speaker 4: actually asked if Adam Brody could play the character in
Speaker 4: Hot Rabbi and nobody wants this, And I think because
Speaker 4: they have that shared chemistry really works. But I really think,
Speaker 4: aside from just Adam Brody being like this really.
Speaker 5: Hot Jewish guy who he's been hot forever.
Speaker 4: He's been like on a Hulu show called Fleischmann's in Trouble,
Speaker 4: I think we're just not used to seeing like a
Speaker 4: healthy masculine man sort of embody all those traits and
Speaker 4: stick by the woman and want to work things out
Speaker 4: on screen. Like Actually, while I was watching it, it
Speaker 4: made me really sad because I feel like, in my
Speaker 4: stomach each episode I was sort of expecting him to
Speaker 4: fall short in some way and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 4: we really have all in short in general when it
Speaker 4: comes to the male character in the rom com, and
Speaker 4: maybe the male is the one that can really show up,
Speaker 4: and so I think that's what everyone's obsessed with. And
Speaker 4: you know, he really shows up for her, and whether
Speaker 4: you've seen a finale or not, you'll see that he
Speaker 4: continues to show up for her in a way that's
Speaker 4: really healthy and really just great to see.
Speaker 2: I think it's resonating so deeply with audiences because we
Speaker 2: rarely get to see a midlife, mid thirties, early forties romance.
Speaker 1: Well, I think a lot of people, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of people have felt overlooked
Speaker 2: by Hollywood, neglected by it. I also think there's something
Speaker 2: that's so charming about just like the normalcy of it all.
Speaker 2: They're very normal people and they do normal things, and
Speaker 2: so there's something comforting about that. But in terms of
Speaker 2: what makes a successful rom com and immemorable rom com,
Speaker 2: I think tension is number one, right, and that is
Speaker 2: what keeps us all invested in their story. Is this
Speaker 2: tension that's so perva throughout the season. Yeah, I've been
Speaker 2: dying to ask you why you like the show like,
Speaker 2: why you feel like it's resonating with you, so it's
Speaker 2: your turn girly.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, first of all, I feel like it has
Speaker 3: the ingredients of a perfect rom com, Like it has
Speaker 3: a meet cute, It has really fun, quirky, lovable supporting
Speaker 3: cast members. Like it's not just the two leads that
Speaker 3: you fall in love with, which I think is really
Speaker 3: goodlords are siblings.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh my god, yeah, the brother's so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But there's also a great conflict or obstacle, like there's
Speaker 3: a hero's journey, you believe it. I really think there's
Speaker 3: a reality aspect too. They had a rabbi, Steve Leader,
Speaker 3: consult on the characters and the script, so I feel
Speaker 3: like there's like a believability for people. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you, Danielle, because I saw an
Speaker 4: article about a rabbi who weighed in saying this actually
Speaker 4: feels and not that a scripted show has to be accurate.
Speaker 4: I was just curious they were saying that, like, uh,
Speaker 4: a rabbi and head of a synagogue could actually in
Speaker 4: fact be with someone who's not Jewish, And I was
Speaker 4: just curious what your thoughts were on that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's deep.
Speaker 3: I think it depends if you're part of like the
Speaker 3: reform Jewish synagogue culture. I think it's totally doable if
Speaker 3: you're more religious and orthodox.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that goes.
Speaker 3: But I do think that the believability of the characters
Speaker 3: is definitely something that people buy into.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nice, Yeah, the mother in law dynamic. I was like,
Speaker 2: you're a professional future daughter in law, Like I was
Speaker 2: just in awe of.
Speaker 1: Kristen Bell's character is so good at being a daughter
Speaker 1: in law?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because she she's just like I'm here whether
Speaker 4: you like it or not, and like that sort of
Speaker 4: groundedness is so also beautiful to witness and the way
Speaker 4: she again not to spoil anything, but the way she
Speaker 4: just continuously chooses herself while she's growing is so important
Speaker 4: for us to see as women too. I think someone
Speaker 4: who's not conforming or playing small to make a relationship.
Speaker 1: Work just to quick aside.
Speaker 3: I saw an interview with Kristen Bell saying that when
Speaker 3: she was watching the show with her husband Dak Shepherd,
Speaker 3: that Dax looked at her and was like, I want
Speaker 3: you to kiss Adam Brody so badly, Like that's how good?
Speaker 1: No way, Yes, that's how good their chemistry. And like Simon,
Speaker 1: to your point, the tension was you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, we are just a couple of weeks away from Halloween,
Speaker 3: and Real Simple just put out an article predicting this
Speaker 3: year's most popular Halloween costumes. Before we dive into the article,
Speaker 3: I need guesses because I feel like every year there's
Speaker 3: a new sort of obvious costumes that are going to
Speaker 3: be happening. I have one, Okay, please share with the class.
Speaker 2: I think Raygun, the disgraced breakdancer from Australia, is going
Speaker 2: to be a big one. Someone I would have never
Speaker 2: thought of that. Yeah, she's going to be near the
Speaker 2: top of the list.
Speaker 4: That's such a good one too, because it's so easy
Speaker 4: to pull together.
Speaker 2: It's so easy. I can run Goodwill right now, I
Speaker 2: can buy an old green track suit. I'll show up
Speaker 2: looking like ray Gun to the part.
Speaker 5: That's crazy so good.
Speaker 4: I know Man on the world stage too, it's so wild.
Speaker 4: I think we're going to see a lot of pop
Speaker 4: culture moments like that. Like I already know a couple
Speaker 4: that wants to do Sabrina Carpenter and an alien.
Speaker 5: Remember when she kissed the alien?
Speaker 4: So I think that's sort of in line of like
Speaker 4: what you're saying with an Olympics moment, Yes, which I
Speaker 4: really love, but I think it's so funny. I thought
Speaker 4: we were going to see a lot of jokers in
Speaker 4: Harley Quinn's but now that the movie's not doing as projected,
Speaker 4: I don't know if we will. But the Penguin is
Speaker 4: a big show on Max, and I could see a
Speaker 4: lot of people dressing up as like Penguin and Alphaba
Speaker 4: and Glinda for like those people that like to be
Speaker 4: like ahead of the trend before Wicked comes out.
Speaker 2: That's a heavy lift if you're gonna show up as Alphabum.
Speaker 5: Though you're covering.
Speaker 2: Yourself in green paint, like I mean crops and one
Speaker 2: who can do that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 3: Do you think in terms of couple's costumes, what do
Speaker 3: you think, Like, I think we're gonna see a lot
Speaker 3: of Travis Kelsey Taylor school.
Speaker 4: Yes, Oh my god, it's like insane because all you
Speaker 4: have to do is like throw on a red lip
Speaker 4: and like put you know, your partner in a jersey.
Speaker 3: What do we think about Kylie Jenner and Timothy Shallowy costumes?
Speaker 1: Is that gonna happen.
Speaker 2: That's harder to pull off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I also feel like they haven't been in
Speaker 4: the ether as much. I don't know if it would
Speaker 4: be like top of mind for people, but that would
Speaker 4: be a sick costume. I feel like we're gonna see
Speaker 4: a lot of groups of friends or families, especially like
Speaker 4: little kids dress up as the emotions of Inside Out too.
Speaker 4: It's the highest grossing animated movie of all time, like
Speaker 4: over Frozen, and I remember when Frozen came out, they
Speaker 4: were so many like Elsa's everywhere, you know.
Speaker 5: So I think we're gonna see a lot of Inside
Speaker 5: Out too.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you want to know what the predictions are?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, First up, beetlejuice. Lots and lots of beetle juice.
Speaker 3: Have you seen the beetle juice lip trend? No, that's
Speaker 3: the beetlejuice lip About that?
Speaker 4: Is it like wearing a black lip or like putting
Speaker 4: white powder over it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's like a lipstain that's like deep purple that
Speaker 3: people put on and then when you peel it off,
Speaker 3: it becomes like a pretty rose color and it's more
Speaker 3: of like a new let's sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you want to look like a demon who's
Speaker 2: been living underground for hundreds of thousands of years exactly.
Speaker 3: The other ones were pop icons like Taylor Swift now
Speaker 3: as you weren't so far off, Ariana Grande but maybe
Speaker 3: not wicked.
Speaker 4: Just Ariana as a just Ariana. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: That's an easy one. Caddier's Ponytail.
Speaker 1: Yep, I went as Ariana one year.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 3: Lady Gaga or Beyonce. I wonder if people are going
Speaker 3: to do Beyonce from the Renaissance tour like all Silver.
Speaker 4: I actually think what we're going to see are a
Speaker 4: lot of cowgirls and cowboys this year because with her
Speaker 4: Cowboy Carter album, Western just Aesthetic was everywhere showing up
Speaker 4: on like fashion runaways and just in regular you know,
Speaker 4: department stores like Zara.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hot tip for anybody who is near southern California.
Speaker 2: You know those sketchy like souvenir stores on Hollywood Boulevard,
Speaker 2: They actually have great chrome cowboy out.
Speaker 1: Why are you?
Speaker 4: I love those wait, I love those stories. I shot
Speaker 4: from them regularly.
Speaker 3: Thank you NAS gift on our first day from one
Speaker 3: of those stories.
Speaker 4: I haven't oh, I want to get a gift for
Speaker 4: someone there, but I love going onto like my Wou'd
Speaker 4: you get her?
Speaker 2: It was a fake Oscar that said like best coworkers.
Speaker 5: That's so sweet?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: This list also says Bridgerton inside out to Wicked Harley
Speaker 3: Quinn and the joke are Deadpool and Wolverine and even Minions,
Speaker 3: which is interesting.
Speaker 1: That's kind of making a comeback. Do you guys know
Speaker 1: what you're going to be?
Speaker 4: I always like to dip into like nostalgia, and I
Speaker 4: feel like a lot of movies that we liked growing
Speaker 4: up were coming back and I've actually so. Death Becomes
Speaker 4: Her is a movie that I love, starring Goldie Han,
Speaker 4: Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis and Sabrina Carpenter and her
Speaker 4: music video Taste of Ripped Off. Death Becomes Her with
Speaker 4: Jenna or Tega, So I could see a lot of
Speaker 4: people playing Meryl and Goldie Hans's character from Death Becomes Her.
Speaker 4: If you haven't seen it, look up the movie poster.
Speaker 5: It's iconic.
Speaker 4: But there's a woman in that movie who has like
Speaker 4: the Stay Young potion, and I want to be her character,
Speaker 4: but I don't know if I'm to be able to
Speaker 4: pull it off.
Speaker 5: I'm upsets with Halloween. I love like planning weeks in it.
Speaker 2: Do you go all out?
Speaker 5: Nas I do?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 5: When I have like good disposable income, I do.
Speaker 4: So if I don't dress up, you know, I'm not
Speaker 4: doing that well because it's expensive.
Speaker 2: It is, and yeah, in I don't know, I have
Speaker 2: a hard time spending money on Halloween. It's one night,
Speaker 2: Like I would I would much rather take myself on
Speaker 2: a staycation, vacation, spa day something. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I you have to go young kids, so I feel
Speaker 3: like it's about them at this point too.
Speaker 2: It is, yeah, which gets me off the hook, which
Speaker 2: is kind of nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's kind of more fun that kids Halloween.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 4: Yeah, living Halloween through the lens of a child, there's
Speaker 4: like no greater feeling like walking around and then being
Speaker 4: someone else.
Speaker 1: You know, the absolute opposite.
Speaker 3: Now, as I cannot plan for Halloween, I never know
Speaker 3: what I'm doing until like the morning of Halloween, and
Speaker 3: so really my costume has to exist in my closet,
Speaker 3: like I'll just cullo something together.
Speaker 1: I was thinking this year coyote ugly is easy.
Speaker 3: I have leather pants, I have like a tea that's
Speaker 3: a rock and roll.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's great because I'm telling you, I think
Speaker 4: sexy cowgirl in that stun. Yeah, there, you're a Western style.
Speaker 4: I think that's you're like right on point.
Speaker 3: When I was growing up, my mom always went all
Speaker 3: out for Halloween, and I remember I had the best
Speaker 3: memories and she would come to school dressed up like
Speaker 3: in crazy outfits. And one year my dad was a
Speaker 3: dentist and so she came as the tooth Fairy and
Speaker 3: it was so cute.
Speaker 2: That's so cute.
Speaker 5: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: No, I think you got to go all out for
Speaker 1: your kids, Simone.
Speaker 5: That's so cute.
Speaker 1: Now, should we decide on a costume for Simone this year?
Speaker 5: What are they really into?
Speaker 2: I don't see it. That's the thing. They would want
Speaker 2: me to be a minion?
Speaker 4: If anything, it's someone's like, I'm not trying to be
Speaker 4: a minion. I think I like more classic costumes, like which.
Speaker 1: You know, or which is always good?
Speaker 4: Like, or like going as a vegetable you know, and
Speaker 4: you're like a family of veggies like I love.
Speaker 5: I think those are the ones that bring me the
Speaker 5: most joy.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the costume that I aspire to be
Speaker 2: if I can actually like press ad to cart on
Speaker 2: Amazon would be a clover from Bring it On.
Speaker 5: Oh that's you can't do that on Amazon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I, if I, if I convince myself to
Speaker 2: spend the money on it, I would be do.
Speaker 1: A bright side costume and I'll be the what's the
Speaker 1: other team?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forget the one that appropriated the clovers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the choreography.
Speaker 1: I'll be the bad guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, you know who you could be. You could be
Speaker 2: Eliza Love She's the gymnast. She's like the bad girl
Speaker 2: gymnast from the other school. Yeah.
Speaker 3: She had the twist favorite and like the two twists
Speaker 3: in the front, which I thought was so cool.
Speaker 1: I tried to do that.
Speaker 2: After that movie. I like tried to convince my mom
Speaker 2: that I needed to like bees wax my hair into
Speaker 2: like folo.
Speaker 5: I love it. I wait, someone you should do it
Speaker 5: because you can totally return the costume.
Speaker 2: See, yeah, this is the kind of advice that I need.
Speaker 3: I also think Gabrielle Union should do it and like
Speaker 3: the Internet will break.
Speaker 2: Last thing I'll say about Bringing On, because I could
Speaker 2: talk about this for hours, but there was this really
Speaker 2: cute clip of Kirsen Duns at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Speaker 2: where they screen a lot of old movies, and she
Speaker 2: was watching it and then reciting the words. She still
Speaker 2: knew all the words to the cheers, and it was
Speaker 2: it was so cute.
Speaker 5: I love it is so cute.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: We need to take a quick break, but we'll be
Speaker 2: right back to popping off with nas Perez. And we're
Speaker 2: back with nas Perez. Okay, y'all. From Costumes to Fashion.
Speaker 2: Just this week, Vogue announced the first details about the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five met Gala. Coleman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Asap,
Speaker 2: Rocky Farrell Williams, and Anna Wintor of course, will serve
Speaker 2: as co chairs. And the theme this year is super
Speaker 2: Fine Tailoring Black Style, So Vogue says, this exhibition will
Speaker 2: focus on black dandyism, and we'll examine the quote importance
Speaker 2: of clothing and style to the formation of black identities.
Speaker 2: And this is actually kind of a big deal because
Speaker 2: this will actually be the first Costume Institute exhibition in
Speaker 2: more than twenty years that's dedicated exclusively to men'swear, and
Speaker 2: the first time the exhibition will focus only on work
Speaker 2: from designers of color. I know Danielle and I had
Speaker 2: some instant reactions to this in the studio yesterday when
Speaker 2: we found out about this. Nas what's your reaction to
Speaker 2: next year's Met Galla theme?
Speaker 4: My reaction was perfectly just like emulated in the way
Speaker 4: that you said, super fine, Like it was just so
Speaker 4: I was like, what, Wow, Like, good on Met Gala
Speaker 4: for getting us all interested again, especially after last year.
Speaker 4: I feel like the public spectator is this younger generation
Speaker 4: gen Z isn't so much as into this sort of
Speaker 4: like you know, the biggest site in fashion.
Speaker 5: So to me, I was like, wow, this is so sick.
Speaker 4: And also just to see how like women in general,
Speaker 4: like we've all been rocking men's wear for so long. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I think this is like a perfect way to
Speaker 4: celebrate that. I also wanted to just say that Lebron
Speaker 4: James is also an honorary chair, so it's so sick
Speaker 4: to have Lebron Oldest, one of the best obviously athletes
Speaker 4: in the MPa.
Speaker 5: Him being a co chair.
Speaker 4: And what I love most about this was the fact
Speaker 4: that all the co chairs are actually into fashion, you
Speaker 4: know how in past years it's been like Chris Hemsworth,
Speaker 4: the Ryan Reynolds and I'm like, oh, now we have
Speaker 4: Farwell Williams, who's the creative director of men'swear at Louis Vauton.
Speaker 4: Coleman Domingo is like one of the best dress men
Speaker 4: in Hollywood and like really prove that on the press
Speaker 4: tour during award season last year with Rustin and the
Speaker 4: color purple. And they have Lewis Hamilton who talk about
Speaker 4: like this being the first time that we're solely focusing
Speaker 4: on black designers. Lewis Hamilton in twenty twenty one actually
Speaker 4: paid the tickets are expensive for the Mecala. He paid
Speaker 4: for like three or more young black designers just to attend.
Speaker 4: And he's a race car driver and he has a
Speaker 4: line with Tommy Hill. Figure he got an entire table.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lack of representation and he saw
Speaker 3: it and so he bought a whole table out and
Speaker 3: it kind of changed the game for the Metcala.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like so sick, right, And so for these people
Speaker 4: to be honored in this way, like for the co
Speaker 4: chairs to actually be involved in fashion and like love
Speaker 4: black designers, I think is just going to take the
Speaker 4: Mecala like to the next level. And then of course
Speaker 4: there's Asap Rocky, who we all know is like the
Speaker 4: king of fashion married to the Queen of Fashion, and
Speaker 4: like having covered the Met for a couple years now,
Speaker 4: they always show up really late, Like you know how
Speaker 4: we always see Rihanna come last. What I think the
Speaker 4: big question going into Met Gala next year is like,
Speaker 4: is Rihanna going to show up on time with Asap first?
Speaker 5: Because when you're a coach.
Speaker 4: Cherry, you have to show up first, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: to sort of honor him and it being sort of
Speaker 4: his moment this year, which I think is really cool.
Speaker 1: Here's my question.
Speaker 3: I don't know what dandyism is, so I googled it
Speaker 3: and it says a synonym for dandyism is foppishness, which
Speaker 3: also doesn't help me.
Speaker 2: What is foppishness? Okay, I'm glad you brought this up, Danielle,
Speaker 2: because I think we do need to clarify the term dandy.
Speaker 2: I also didn't really understand what this term meant. Just
Speaker 2: reading from the Met Museum website, it says historically the
Speaker 2: term dandy was used to describe someone, often a man
Speaker 2: who's extremely devoted to style and approaches it as a discipline.
Speaker 2: So dandyism offered black people an opportunity to use clothing, gesture, irony,
Speaker 2: and wit to transform their given identities and imagine new
Speaker 2: ways of embodying political and social possibilities. And then when
Speaker 2: you think of modern day examples of a dandy, people
Speaker 2: like Prince come to mind with his really ostentatious ruffles
Speaker 2: and velvet. Andre three thousand during his hip hop peak
Speaker 2: era with the dapper hats and the bold signature glasses
Speaker 2: and super colorful fits. Also Andre Leon Tally with his
Speaker 2: you know, custom floor length calf dans. So I think
Speaker 2: this will be a really cool opportunity to inform a
Speaker 2: lot of fashion lovers about the history of black men's wear.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: In addition, there's a big emphasis on gender fluidity and
Speaker 3: androgynous beauty in dandyism. Yeah, and I think fashion has
Speaker 3: been like segueing towards androgyny anyways, And so I'm actually
Speaker 3: excited to see the looks, Like what are they going
Speaker 3: to bring out?
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what everyone wears. Okay, from
Speaker 2: the megala to nineties and two thousands. Nostalgia, Oh my
Speaker 2: favorite topic. It's obviously been a huge trend these past
Speaker 2: few years, right and a lot of brands are trying
Speaker 2: to make a comeback by appealing to that nostalgia demographic.
Speaker 2: And one of those brands that's trying to make a
Speaker 2: comeback is the Limited Too. Do y'all remember limited To?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Limited To had my entire young tween years in
Speaker 3: a choke hold.
Speaker 4: Remember that and all the Delias bbies, like all the
Speaker 4: pacsn Yeah, like shop. Limited To is like right across
Speaker 4: from Pacsan at the book ratone mall where I grew up.
Speaker 5: But that's like, immediately what I remember.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to talk offline about South Florida because
Speaker 2: I'm from Miami.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, yay, I would love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember I adored this one limited To Tankini
Speaker 2: that I yes, bring back the Tankini. Millennials want the
Speaker 2: Tankini totally.
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Well, limited To is officially making a comeback, and this
Speaker 2: time for adults. So get ready y'all. The limited To
Speaker 2: Adult collection is coming this spring. In a post announced
Speaker 2: on Instagram, the brand said the line is a quote
Speaker 2: tribute to our cherished ogs that have supported us all along,
Speaker 2: not limited to trying to use our modern day slang.
Speaker 2: That's so funny to me.
Speaker 5: I think it's really cringe.
Speaker 4: Like Limited to coming back is very cringe to me personally,
Speaker 4: because they're gonna come out with a holiday capsule collection,
Speaker 4: which is technically a preview to that collection that you
Speaker 4: just mentioned will come out next year. And they posted
Speaker 4: this like black quilted bomber jacket, and it just to
Speaker 4: me looks like a free jacket you would get after
Speaker 4: working on a production like in La you know, like
Speaker 4: here's your show jacket.
Speaker 5: And it was just not it for me.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna have to wait and see what they're
Speaker 4: actually going to roll out to weigh in, because based
Speaker 4: off that jacket, I'm not I'm a little cringed out.
Speaker 2: I agree. Maybe it hasn't aged, well, maybe it hasn't
Speaker 2: aged with us, but if they bring that that Tankini,
Speaker 2: if they bring back a Tankini, then I'm in.
Speaker 3: I just hope if they do this right. They got
Speaker 3: to do it right. They can't let us down. I
Speaker 3: just remember having such fond memories. It was like Abercrombie
Speaker 3: before Abercrombie, I think Limited two walks, so Abercrombie could run.
Speaker 5: Like we were wearing that before you could graduate.
Speaker 1: Yes, like I think we bought like underwear. It limited To.
Speaker 3: We bought like chokers, and then you could go anywhere
Speaker 3: a teen, you could go to Ambercrombie.
Speaker 2: That's so funny.
Speaker 5: I wasn't.
Speaker 4: I was more a Victoria's Secret Pink girl over limited To.
Speaker 4: So think like sweatpants folded down ten times.
Speaker 2: Did you ever wear Juicy tracksuits?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I have one in my closet right now. Juicy made
Speaker 4: a comeback recently.
Speaker 1: The way I begged my parents for a Juicy tracksuit.
Speaker 5: That belore they were and the key.
Speaker 4: Chains they were so expensive it was like wearing a
Speaker 4: towel totally.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I feel like the best thing that limited
Speaker 2: To could do here is higher a Y two k
Speaker 2: era celebri to kind of steer or even like a
Speaker 2: fashion icon to kind of steer and guide this collection.
Speaker 2: Similarly to how Gap has brought on Zach Posen to
Speaker 2: take over creative efforts there, I think that would be
Speaker 2: the best thing to do so that they don't understand
Speaker 2: right about that, or at.
Speaker 4: Least use someone in marketing, Like if I saw Dua
Speaker 4: Liba wearing something from the limited To line, I'd probably
Speaker 4: be like, okay, let me let me take a second
Speaker 4: look at this.
Speaker 5: Maybe I can actually rock.
Speaker 1: This one hundred percent. Yeah, yeah, agreed.
Speaker 3: Okay, So Naz, you're not wearing it, Simone, you're a
Speaker 3: maybe maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll see what they have. Yeah, I'm a maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a maybe too. But I'm leaning towards yes.
Speaker 2: I'm honest, I'm leaning towards us. To be honest, it's
Speaker 2: a yes for me. I have been really tempted to
Speaker 2: buy a Von Dutch hat though, you guys I loved those.
Speaker 1: I want to bring that, don't do it.
Speaker 4: I would rock the one thing I would rock from
Speaker 4: Why two K Now like I wouldn't rock at Hardy.
Speaker 5: I don't think i'd rock Von Dutch, but i'd rock
Speaker 5: true Religion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like a deep.
Speaker 4: Indigo, make your butt really perky, low rise true Religion
Speaker 4: with long bell bottoms and shoes.
Speaker 5: I would rock that.
Speaker 1: That's a good call.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a Verac.
Speaker 2: Well, the low rise is back. It's now the new
Speaker 2: Jean style. It's our nightmare come true. It's true. The
Speaker 2: men are gonna love it, the women not so much.
Speaker 2: The men have been begging for this comeback forever. What
Speaker 2: would you guys wear like from those days.
Speaker 1: I mean I still wear Abercrombie jeans sometimes.
Speaker 2: Really a lot of people love them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they make great jeans. I don't tell anyone, but
Speaker 3: now I have.
Speaker 5: Yay came out.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know.
Speaker 3: I'm actually not a big nostalgia girl. I kind of
Speaker 3: like to keep it pushing. I'm I'm happy in the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four is. I like the styles better, I
Speaker 3: like the cuts. They're better for me. I remember I
Speaker 3: was always kind of like a curvy girl, and I
Speaker 3: remember being pissed at fashion growing up because it was
Speaker 3: never made for my boss. I always felt uncomfortable, and
Speaker 3: I really think it's changed, Like bathing suits fit me.
Speaker 3: Everything fits better now. So I'm happy in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep living in the past.
Speaker 1: You guys, Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: It's good for you.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of twenty twenty four is everyone gets
Speaker 1: to choose.
Speaker 2: That's feminism people.
Speaker 1: Well, Nas, thanks for popping off with us, Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, thank you guys so much for having me.
Speaker 4: I loved our chat and now I gotta you rethink
Speaker 4: all my fashion choices from back in the day.
Speaker 2: So Nasprez is a host film critic and founder of
Speaker 2: the support group Heartbroken Anonymous. You can find her on
Speaker 2: social media at Nasprez.
Speaker 3: It's time for another short break. We'll be right back
Speaker 3: to share what's in our cart this week. We're back,
Speaker 3: all right, simone. It's Friday, so let's get ready for
Speaker 3: the weekend with What's in Your Cart, presented by Walmart.
Speaker 1: Welcome to your Walmart.
Speaker 3: This is our weekly segment where we have the opportunity
Speaker 3: to share a product that we're loving right now.
Speaker 2: This time of year is so much fun, Danielle, mostly
Speaker 2: because I get to see my boys get so excited
Speaker 2: for Halloween. Like they are obsessed with Halloween right now.
Speaker 1: That's so cute. Do they know what they want to be?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, We've got a Jack Skellington and a Jedi
Speaker 2: in the house. We've tried on their costumes. It's so adorable.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. I got to admit, I feel
Speaker 2: so overwhelmed by the pressure to decorate for Halloween. It's
Speaker 2: become a whole thing in recent years.
Speaker 1: What do you mean a whole thing.
Speaker 2: I was going for a walk in our neighborhood with
Speaker 2: my boys, and I just noticed that so many houses
Speaker 2: have these elaborate Halloween decorations in the yard, and my
Speaker 2: boys are begging me to get some. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: used to decorating for winter holidays that I kind of
Speaker 2: know how to do, but I haven't really gotten into
Speaker 2: Halloween yet. I don't really know where to start.
Speaker 1: Are you going to lean in this year?
Speaker 2: I honestly feel like I have to. The demand has
Speaker 2: reached a fever pitch in my house, and I, you
Speaker 2: know what, I can't resist creating a little holiday magic
Speaker 2: for my kids. So I went to Walmart and I
Speaker 2: got a giant sixteen foot spider web. It's epic sixteen feet. Yes,
Speaker 2: you can go indoor outdoor. It's truly like the perfect
Speaker 2: Halloween decoration. And my kids are so stoked. I think
Speaker 2: they're thinking, like, oh, we might actually be one of
Speaker 2: the coolest decorated houses on the block.
Speaker 3: Now I feel like, you guys can have a haunted house.
Speaker 3: You're such a cool mom.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, We're gonna start small, maybe haunted
Speaker 2: house next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, Bestie's that's it for today's show.
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