Speaker 1: From Los Angeles, PHPA one and only, world famous Perez Gilton.
Speaker 2: Guys, welcome to our PHP. My name would be Chris Booker. That,
Speaker 2: of course is the great Perez Hilton. How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm good, and I'm excited to talk about a lot
Speaker 3: of non political things today, such as Ariana Grande, Liam Payne, Rihanna,
Speaker 3: Selina gome Is, Nicole Scherzinger. Well, Nicole Scherzinger is a
Speaker 3: political story, but a lot of non political stuff today.
Speaker 3: I need this to be an escape, but the beginning
Speaker 3: of today's show will be a bridge towards that. Okay,
Speaker 3: So at the top we will talk a little bit
Speaker 3: of politics and then we will be done with it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I had a pretty wonderfully uneventful weekend. I was just
Speaker 3: so tired. I went to LA on Thursday to film something.
Speaker 3: And it's, you know, one of those quick like I
Speaker 3: was in LA for just a few hours, like flew in,
Speaker 3: flew back home the same day.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know you were here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was literally just there to film something. That's
Speaker 3: one of the things I love about living in Las
Speaker 3: Vegas and why I moved here. It's like I could
Speaker 3: do that, like it takes me less to get to
Speaker 3: Los Angeles sometimes than people who live in Orange County.
Speaker 3: It's pretty wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so that was my weekend. How are you all good.
Speaker 2: I'm good. Nothing new to report. My Steelers won. I'm
Speaker 2: an excited boy.
Speaker 3: I saw Taylor Swift was at a football game yesterday.
Speaker 2: She was and the Chiefs somehow miraculously pulled out another
Speaker 2: win when they should have lost.
Speaker 3: What do you mean they should have lost?
Speaker 2: Well, the Broncos had the game. All they had to
Speaker 2: do was kick a field goal, which was a chip shot.
Speaker 2: It was like twenty five yards, like just money, easy
Speaker 2: instant for an NFL field goal kicker. Of course, the
Speaker 2: Chiefs blocked the field goal, which happens. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe one out of every one hundred times. That's what
Speaker 2: it happened to happened that Broncos didn't get the score
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs won, so they narrowly escaped once again.
Speaker 2: So they're still undefeated.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Wow. Are they the only team so far
Speaker 3: that's undefeated.
Speaker 2: There's the Lions that are seven to one, I believe,
Speaker 2: but I think that's the only other team that's lost one.
Speaker 2: My Steelers have lost two. The Chiefs are weird because
Speaker 2: they're really they're really not that good this year, and
Speaker 2: they just find a way to win because they got
Speaker 2: that quarterback Patrick Mahomes is one of the best to
Speaker 2: ever play the game. He finds a way to win.
Speaker 2: He didn't find it this time, but somebody else found
Speaker 2: it for him, and that's I guess why that team's
Speaker 2: so great.
Speaker 3: I'm not as superstitious person, but a lot of sports
Speaker 3: fans are, and I think perhaps this year the opposite
Speaker 3: of a jinx is happening and Taylor Swift is blessing
Speaker 3: the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: There does seem to be some dark forces. But look,
Speaker 2: we're about halfway through the season. We'll find out on
Speaker 2: the second half, because this first half has been topsy
Speaker 2: turvy at best. I mean, up is down in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Nothing has made since this year, and I think it's
Speaker 2: all it'll all come together in the second half. But
Speaker 2: I still like the Lions, so shout out to the
Speaker 2: people of Detroit, and I still like the Ravens, which
Speaker 2: pains me to say because I'm a Steeler fan.
Speaker 3: Awesome. So, over the weekend, we released an excerpt a
Speaker 3: portion of our Patreon election episode. We put it up
Speaker 3: on our Patreon because you know, we didn't know what
Speaker 3: was going to happen on Monday when we recorded, and
Speaker 3: then you know, the results came out, and you asked
Speaker 3: a question in the episode that we released for everybody,
Speaker 3: which I will bring back up because I think it's
Speaker 3: a really good question. You said, have my thoughts changed
Speaker 3: since our Thursday Patreon episode? And before I answer, I
Speaker 3: want to turn the question back on you and ask
Speaker 3: you that have your thoughts changed now?
Speaker 2: In retrospect, I could see what happened. The writing was
Speaker 2: sort of on the wall, and I think I kind
Speaker 2: of puked it all out on our show.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you regret the way that you spoke about
Speaker 3: people who were gonna vote for Donald Trump?
Speaker 2: Do I think people made the right choice? I don't do.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna help people. No, I don't think
Speaker 2: he will. I don't think any of their problems are
Speaker 2: going to be solved. I think they all have amnesia.
Speaker 2: I'm from West Virginia. The last time around, he said
Speaker 2: he's gonna bring back Cole. How's that coming? Come on?
Speaker 2: This was everything you said about this was just a feeling.
Speaker 2: It's the bottom line, It's just a feeling. The economy
Speaker 2: is booming, Unemployment is down. Inflation is not because of
Speaker 2: the president. The inflation is because of the pandemic. The
Speaker 2: whole world is paying for that still and it has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with politics. But you can't tell that
Speaker 2: to people. They don't want to hear it. And that's
Speaker 2: what I mean about being uneducated. You don't understand what's happening.
Speaker 2: The market today is at an all time high.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's today after the election, but.
Speaker 2: It was on its way anyhow. It's not like you
Speaker 2: can't go, well, the election did this, No, no, no,
Speaker 2: this trajectory has been going up, up and up. This
Speaker 2: happened with Obama. It was on its way up. Then
Speaker 2: Trump comes in and everybody's like, see what Trump DIDs?
Speaker 2: Like Trump didn't do anything. All you had to do
Speaker 2: is not fuck it up. He fucked it up. He
Speaker 2: raised taxes and he gave all these corporate tax breaks,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna drive your price of everything up. It's
Speaker 2: just going to because it's trickled down economics. It's like
Speaker 2: ragged if we make more money as corporations, we'll give
Speaker 2: it to the little people. Here's the thing they're not Look,
Speaker 2: how fucking these companies, they're all making record amounts of money.
Speaker 2: Are they cutting their prices? No, they're not. They're keeping it.
Speaker 2: That's what the greedy fuckers do. And they're trying to
Speaker 2: put guardrails on some of these people and some of
Speaker 2: these corporations, and they're like, no, let's not do that.
Speaker 2: The corporations won. And that's the bottom line, the little man.
Speaker 2: If you think you want, come on. It's maddening and
Speaker 2: frustrating to me that there's a party that actually cares
Speaker 2: about the middle class and they're acting like they don't.
Speaker 2: That they're evil, or she's stupid or something. She's a
Speaker 2: fucking state senator. It's just stupid.
Speaker 3: I don't want to rehash what I said on the patreon,
Speaker 3: but as I said on the patreon, you know, a
Speaker 3: lot of people that voted, they haven't felt that economic
Speaker 3: improvement for them. They haven't seen that in their bank accounts.
Speaker 2: Right because everything costs more. That's exactly why they're not
Speaker 2: in the market. And I understand that, but that's not
Speaker 2: the problem of the president. He has no control over
Speaker 2: the price of eggs or bacon or any fucking other
Speaker 2: thing you'd make for breakfast.
Speaker 3: But also that wasn't the only reason people voted. A
Speaker 3: lot of people also voted because of Trump's starkeledly different
Speaker 3: stands on immigration versus Kamala Harris's many to most Americans
Speaker 3: are in favor of mass deportations. That's just a fact.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I actually believe that. I think
Speaker 2: they think he's tougher on the border. Meanwhile, they tried
Speaker 2: to pass a border bill and he had it killed
Speaker 2: so he could run on it. That is a fact.
Speaker 2: That is not something that's made up. They've been trying
Speaker 2: and trying and trying. When you don't have the house
Speaker 2: in the Senate, you can't get things passed, you can't
Speaker 2: move the things along. So, like I said on the show,
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for him to do it. I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: go ahead and tell all you people, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: He's gonna drink diet Cokes and play golf every goddamn
Speaker 2: day while Elon Musk and the rest of these billionaires
Speaker 2: run this country and make more money for themselves. That's
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just disillusioned with both parties, to be honest,
Speaker 3: and I wish that we had more options, like in
Speaker 3: the United Kingdom, where they have I don't even know
Speaker 3: how many parties they have in the UK, they have
Speaker 3: a lot where you can choose one that more closely
Speaker 3: aligns with what you believe.
Speaker 2: By the way, are you on TikTok and what's happening
Speaker 2: on TikTok right now? With people are counting these votes
Speaker 2: and a lot of things aren't making sense.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's ridiculous. It's everywhere. I've seen it on threads too.
Speaker 3: The left can't be doing what the right was doing
Speaker 3: four years ago.
Speaker 2: But the left can't just say, hey, if there was cheating,
Speaker 2: prove it. That's what the left said last time. If
Speaker 2: there's cheating, if the Democrats cheated the last election, I
Speaker 2: want to know how they fucking did it.
Speaker 3: They can wait.
Speaker 2: The court overy different cases and won every single one
Speaker 2: of them because they couldn't prove it. They didn't have
Speaker 2: any sort of information. So now you've got a litany
Speaker 2: of people that are saying, hey, I went to vote
Speaker 2: dot org and to see if my vote was counted
Speaker 2: and it wasn't. And it's happening over and over and
Speaker 2: you can see a mountain of people that it's happening
Speaker 2: to something nefarious is fucking going on. That's what the
Speaker 2: Republicans couldn't do last time. They couldn't come up with
Speaker 2: a receipt. That whole startling thing that Elon Musk owns
Speaker 2: the company that collects the results. You don't think that's
Speaker 2: a little weird. I do.
Speaker 3: I accept the results of this election.
Speaker 2: I accept them if they're correct.
Speaker 3: In other segueing news, we're working our way towards celebrity.
Speaker 3: There's an overlap here. Nicole Scherzinger, formerly of The Pissycat Dolls,
Speaker 3: currently starring on Broadway in a revival of Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 3: She is the lead, She is the big draw. She
Speaker 3: is Norma Desmond. A lot of people both in and
Speaker 3: out of the Broadway community, are upset at her over
Speaker 3: her social media interactions. Recently, she liked a post from
Speaker 3: Ditty's Instagram account. She liked a post from Robert F.
Speaker 3: Kennedy Junior saying that they were going to make America
Speaker 3: great again and make America healthy again. And she even
Speaker 3: commented on a post from Russell Brand who was celebrating
Speaker 3: Trump's victory and he was holding on to this red
Speaker 3: cap but not the make America great again. Cap it
Speaker 3: was to make Jesus first again. Cap and Nicole commented
Speaker 3: on Russell Brand's post saying, where do I get this hat?
Speaker 3: So collectively, because of all of these things, a lot
Speaker 3: in the theater community and out of it are very
Speaker 3: angry at Nicole Scherzinger, to the point where she felt
Speaker 3: compelled to release a statement apologizing, and then even there
Speaker 3: people were upset at her apology because she didn't explicitly
Speaker 3: say who she voted for. Does she have to? I
Speaker 3: don't think so. No, No, yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think there's a lot of celebrities out there
Speaker 2: that feel the same way as her, or voted the
Speaker 2: same way as her, that we're all hiding from the
Speaker 2: liberal media. I think that's run rampant in our Look,
Speaker 2: fuck the whole liberal media, all the pundits of these
Speaker 2: people that call elections, they all called it for Kamala.
Speaker 2: I mean they all said she was gonna win. Which
Speaker 2: is another thing that's a little suspect too, that literally
Speaker 2: every person got it wrong.
Speaker 3: Not even them, but the polls all. That's why once again,
Speaker 3: I knew it. I knew it. I said, you can't
Speaker 3: trust the polls. Now, all the polls said that Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris was gonna win. Did she fucking win?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Or something nefarious has happened. No, Why are you so
Speaker 2: eager to dismiss the fact that I didn't dismiss it
Speaker 2: when Republicans said this four years ago?
Speaker 3: I did. I didn't.
Speaker 2: I said, just give me receipts.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: The good thing about the ballots, there is a receipt.
Speaker 2: So somebody's gonna eventually going to go, hey, this isn't
Speaker 2: adding up here.
Speaker 3: There is. I'm sure. For example, actually i'll give you
Speaker 3: an example. My vote was not counted originally, but this
Speaker 3: is why, thankfully I preferred to vote by mail early.
Speaker 3: My vote was not counted because I don't fucking remember
Speaker 3: how I signed my voter thing right, like, oh, did
Speaker 3: I just do my initials or did I do it
Speaker 3: the long way? Like? I don't remember how I signed.
Speaker 3: So I got a notification your vote needs to be cured.
Speaker 3: That's the word cured. So it was real simple. I
Speaker 3: went to a website, I showed my ID, they verified
Speaker 3: it was me and how I voted, and then I
Speaker 3: got a text message your vote was cured, meaning your
Speaker 3: vote counted. I'm sure that a lot of that is
Speaker 3: probably what happened with many people, I'm guessing, or there
Speaker 3: just were some errors, but the errors were probably minimal.
Speaker 3: It's not like massive amounts of this happened that will
Speaker 3: to the point where people will change out.
Speaker 2: This massive amounts because you're getting the stories over and
Speaker 2: over again online.
Speaker 3: That's how social media works. People with these stories. Those
Speaker 3: stories are ooh shocking.
Speaker 2: Okay, but does that mean they're not true.
Speaker 3: I didn't say that weren't true. What I said was
Speaker 3: I doubt that enough of these instances happened to the
Speaker 3: point where it would change the outcome of votes in states.
Speaker 2: The other thing that's a little weird is the fact
Speaker 2: that all these swing states, the Democratic senators they all won.
Speaker 2: So you mean to tell me the Democrats went into
Speaker 2: the booth like North Carolina. Let me give you an example.
Speaker 2: North Carolina, three hundred and fifty thousand more people voted
Speaker 2: for the Democratic senator in the race. But you're telling
Speaker 2: me three hundred and fifty thousand people said, but I'm
Speaker 2: going to vote for Trump instead. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: Nine ten people vote down the party line, or.
Speaker 3: People abstained from voting as a protest vote. It absolutely
Speaker 3: makes sense.
Speaker 2: Something stinks in Denmark. To man, oh god, we'll see. Hey.
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm.
Speaker 2: Just stating what's being said. I'm not going to stick
Speaker 2: my head in the sand and say it's not possible.
Speaker 2: I didn't stick my head in the sand four years
Speaker 2: ago and say it's not possible that the Republicans are wrong.
Speaker 3: But they never proved it anyways. To Nicole Scherzinger, you know,
Speaker 3: this is one of the things about liberals, not just
Speaker 3: the media, you know, like liberals a lot of liberals,
Speaker 3: as are a lot of conservatives too. It's on both sides.
Speaker 3: I see. This is why I hate both sides. I'm
Speaker 3: in the middle. I want a party for me the
Speaker 3: people in the fucking middle. A lot of liberals are
Speaker 3: very intolerant of others that don't agree with them and
Speaker 3: demonize them, and especially in the Broadway community, because the
Speaker 3: Broadway community is i would say, hyper liberal. Like there's
Speaker 3: the left, and then that's even more left, you know, Like,
Speaker 3: I just think we need to learn to be more
Speaker 3: tolerant of people. We need to not ostracize people. I
Speaker 3: saw this fucking thing on MSNBC. This psychologist said, if
Speaker 3: you were upset that a family member voted for Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: it's absolutely fine not to invite them for Thanksgiving? Like,
Speaker 3: what the fuck? Like, that's just stupid.
Speaker 2: If you don't want to have a fight, you don't
Speaker 2: want to sit there and listen to the propaganda and
Speaker 2: rhetoric over your turkey dinner.
Speaker 3: I unders time, No, I think that's stupid. I think
Speaker 3: you know what your feelings are valid. My encouragement would
Speaker 3: be set boundaries, invite that person and say I'm inviting you,
Speaker 3: and I want my Thanksgiving table to be a politics
Speaker 3: free zone. That's what I would think as a therapist,
Speaker 3: a psychologist would encourage.
Speaker 2: But you're telling other people what they can or cannot
Speaker 2: say at your dinner.
Speaker 3: Tap Yeah, and then then it's up to them to
Speaker 3: agree to them or to agree to that.
Speaker 2: Or to understand you're telling other people what they do.
Speaker 2: Right there, it's the same thing.
Speaker 3: No, but you're hosting so what.
Speaker 2: I totally get it. Why put yourself through it? It's Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: I think not inviting family members that you may have
Speaker 3: been inviting every year, then that opens it up to
Speaker 3: more problems with your family.
Speaker 2: I think personally, I think to each zone, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to tell any family person, what they should do,
Speaker 2: how they should feel, who they should invite, disinvite, whatever?
Speaker 3: Do you all right? In other news, First, some props
Speaker 3: people have been very excited for the release, so the
Speaker 3: new Wicked movie. It's coming out soon, and they've done
Speaker 3: quite a spectacular global PR blitz with premiers and multiple
Speaker 3: cities all over the world, and it's I love seeing
Speaker 3: a good old fashioned, mega Hollywood PR campaign and premiers
Speaker 3: like that. Like the last that I've seen of that
Speaker 3: kind was like the Barbie movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, because.
Speaker 3: They're expensive to do all these big premieres and travel
Speaker 3: with all these stars all over the world, and it's expensive.
Speaker 3: So it made me happy.
Speaker 2: It makes me happy that it's not a superhero movie too.
Speaker 3: I do wonder, though, like my kids have not brought
Speaker 3: up the Wicked movie at all, Like do young young
Speaker 3: like is it a family movie? Like does a six
Speaker 3: year old or a seven year old or an eight
Speaker 3: year old give a fuck about going to see the
Speaker 3: Wicked movie?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm curious.
Speaker 2: It only answer that I couldn't answer that.
Speaker 3: Mine don't care. Mine having brought it up, they're not
Speaker 3: even I don't even know if they're aware of it,
Speaker 3: to be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're a little young to go to musicals,
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, look, with the green face
Speaker 2: and the characters and the witch hats and whatever, the
Speaker 2: magical part of it, like Harry Potter, they might just
Speaker 2: get into it.
Speaker 3: Maybe, But one thing has really gone viral and divided
Speaker 3: people and upset people. How do I want to phrase this?
Speaker 3: A lot of actually, even Ariana Grande fans have been
Speaker 3: commenting on her body, what about it? Out of concerned
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, she does not look healthy, she looks scary, skinny.
Speaker 3: She's always been that little No, I don't know if
Speaker 3: she has.
Speaker 2: I just saw her on hot Ones and she looked
Speaker 2: the same to me that I've seen her in person.
Speaker 2: She's the tiniest little thing in the world.
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of fans think she looks even skinnier.
Speaker 2: I think it's because she's not painted on anymore. She's
Speaker 2: not like completely head to toe that dark bronzer color
Speaker 2: with the shading of makeup and everything else that she
Speaker 2: was wearing before the big eye blashes everything else. I
Speaker 2: just think it just makes her look different, because she
Speaker 2: does look completely different. I mean, night and day she
Speaker 2: sounds different too, especially on this hot one's preview that
Speaker 2: I saw. I don't think she looks any smaller.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't even want to comment on it,
Speaker 3: but I'm just commenting on people commenting on it. So
Speaker 3: that's something that's definitely been dividing people.
Speaker 2: Gotta imagine this is what you waste your time on.
Speaker 3: I guess it is. I guess a lot of people
Speaker 3: still do believe that it's bad to even out of
Speaker 3: a place of concern, comment that, oh, that person looks unhealthy.
Speaker 3: So I don't know. All right, We're still working our
Speaker 3: way towards you know, happy news. But a few updates
Speaker 3: with regards to Liam Payne and his death. Three people
Speaker 3: were arrested and charged on different charges. One was a
Speaker 3: hotel employee, the other one was the alleged dealer, and
Speaker 3: the third one was this friend of his. Now here's
Speaker 3: what I don't understand the friend. Obviously, you know, Argentina
Speaker 3: has their own laws. The friend was not charged with
Speaker 3: facilitating drugs, with supplying drugs, with anything like that. He
Speaker 3: was charged with abandonment of a person resulting in death. Okay,
Speaker 3: what the fuck? This friend of his is not responsible
Speaker 3: for Liam Payne dying right. It's not like he was
Speaker 3: being employed by Liam either, he was not his manager,
Speaker 3: there was no official capacity.
Speaker 2: It sounds like it's someone that he partied with.
Speaker 3: Perhaps they were definitely friends, they may have party together.
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's just speculation, but well, yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm speculating. But I also say that like likes.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, so I just don't I don't understand that charge.
Speaker 3: I don't agree with it, to be honest. You know,
Speaker 3: maybe the friend did try to help Liam that day repeatedly,
Speaker 3: and then after a certain point of like God, your
Speaker 3: friend's out of control and you're dealing with a celebrity
Speaker 3: and you've been told don't call an ambulance or whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't fucking know.
Speaker 2: I kind of think it's just optics where they're trying
Speaker 2: to make it look like doing something, and they're looking
Speaker 2: into this because there's such a public outcry, Like if
Speaker 2: this was Joe Public, it's not a charge that would
Speaker 2: have been you know what I mean, like somebody overdoses.
Speaker 2: I think Joe Public's friends wouldn't end up in handcuffs
Speaker 2: somewhere because they partied with them. I think it's a
Speaker 2: lot of just the optics of making it look like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're doing something here. I meanwhile, what's he going to
Speaker 2: be arrested for doing drugs with Liam? But like you said,
Speaker 2: it's a different country. Maybe they do have different rules.
Speaker 3: Do we have a law like that? Could something like
Speaker 3: this be a charge in the United States?
Speaker 2: Well, if you see a crime and you don't do
Speaker 2: anything about it, yes you can be held liable. But
Speaker 2: that's crime. Like I said, I don't know what his
Speaker 2: relationship or arrangement was with him. Are they friends that
Speaker 2: just partied together? He clearly partied way too much, and
Speaker 2: this is known and everybody knew about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had all those substances in.
Speaker 2: Him, right, So I find it hard to believe that
Speaker 2: the person you're rolling country to country with, like you know,
Speaker 2: sober Jane over there. I doubt it. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm speculating, of course, but I honestly think this is
Speaker 2: just optics. Nothing's gonna happen of it. They just are
Speaker 2: making it seem like they're doing something. You know, when
Speaker 2: you're a famous person, I doubt you're on the street
Speaker 2: score in age or cocaine or whatever, the pink whatever
Speaker 2: somebody else is doing that for you.
Speaker 3: The official autopsy confirmed that he didn't have that in
Speaker 3: his system. It was just alcohol, regular cocaine, and antidepressants.
Speaker 2: Ah. The antidepressants, Yeah, whenever you mix those with alcohol,
Speaker 2: you never know. That's Russian roulette.
Speaker 3: Well, I wonder my last question with Liam Payne. You know,
Speaker 3: if that friend was charged with abandonment resulting in death,
Speaker 3: you know what about his girlfriend. I mean, I guess
Speaker 3: maybe it's possible he waited to go on this binge
Speaker 3: until after the girlfriend left Argentina, But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I think it was probably going on for
Speaker 3: a while she knew. I mean, I'm not saying she
Speaker 3: should be charged.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he should be charged.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I'm not either.
Speaker 2: You're responsible for your own behavior, all right.
Speaker 3: In lighter news, I don't give a fuck about this person,
Speaker 3: but I love a scandalous story. And I don't even
Speaker 3: know how popular he is, to be honest, Zach Brian.
Speaker 3: Is he popular in the country? Yeah he is? Oh,
Speaker 3: he is.
Speaker 2: That's one of the biggest country stars in the world,
Speaker 2: right he is.
Speaker 3: I know Morgan Wallen is, but I didn't know Zach
Speaker 3: Bryan was. Well, Okay, he's you've not been hearing all
Speaker 3: these stories about it, which ones about his ex girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love these stories.
Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, So he was dating this influencer and podcaster
Speaker 3: and they broke up and it was real messy. I
Speaker 3: think we briefly mentioned it on an episode we did,
Speaker 3: but then now there's a lot more that's come to light,
Speaker 3: such as on her podcast she revealed her name is
Speaker 3: Brianna chicken Fry. Yeah. She claims that he offered her
Speaker 3: twelve million dollars to sign an NDA and stay silent
Speaker 3: and not talk about anything related to him or their breakup,
Speaker 3: and that she turned that down. I'm gonna make a
Speaker 3: bold prediction in twenty years time, she's gonna regret turning
Speaker 3: down that twelve million dollar pay check.
Speaker 2: First of all, she's full of shit. He was either
Speaker 2: fucked up or joking. What's there to tell?
Speaker 3: She's told a lot.
Speaker 2: You're really leaning into the point that I'm about to make.
Speaker 2: This person is a nobody dot anybody. She's no one. Okay,
Speaker 2: She's just another person that's got a podcast, an influencer
Speaker 2: pretending like she's Oprah or something. She's not. This breakup
Speaker 2: is the best thing that's ever happened to her. That's
Speaker 2: the game. He did her a favor if she's really
Speaker 2: truly quote a podcaster or broadcaster. So stop. You got
Speaker 2: your five seconds of fame from this. Be happy that
Speaker 2: he broke up with you. Go on, bangs some other dude.
Speaker 2: Because here's the thing about hot chicks. It's not hard
Speaker 2: to find somebody to bang. Yet it turns out that
Speaker 2: there's many guys that are willing to do it. Famous guys,
Speaker 2: rich guys, poor guys. Everybody wants to bang a hot chick.
Speaker 2: So calm down.
Speaker 3: Honestly, all of the things that she alleged, it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, nothing that bad now.
Speaker 2: She said a thank you, Carr, thank you for doing
Speaker 2: me dirty. According to her.
Speaker 3: No, no, And I want to clarify it, like he sounds
Speaker 3: like a douchebag.
Speaker 2: Oh he probably is. But by the way, if you
Speaker 2: date a douchebag, this justin you're probably a douchebag. Ooh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead call it like I see it
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: I for me need to differentiate. There's one thing being
Speaker 3: verbally abusive, and that's awful. I'm not saying it's okay.
Speaker 3: But there's another thing being physically abusive. She has not
Speaker 3: claimed he was physically abusive. You know, he was just
Speaker 3: a douchebag, and she stayed with him for about a year. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe she's a dick riding surfer.
Speaker 3: Oh, she probably is, but she specifically said she's not.
Speaker 3: She's like I saw this one, this one part of
Speaker 3: her interview of her podcast. So all of those things
Speaker 3: about him being famous, that's what I didn't like about him.
Speaker 2: Stop stop it. I was forced to day a douchebag.
Speaker 3: In more music related news, chapel Ron has parted ways
Speaker 3: with her manager really yeah, yeah yeah. And I've seen
Speaker 3: a lot of her fans defending this decision, saying, oh,
Speaker 3: he was a manager of small artists and now she's
Speaker 3: really big and she needs a bigger manager. And I
Speaker 3: don't know, I disagree. You know, look at Justin Bieber.
Speaker 3: He became the biggest thing in the world, and he
Speaker 3: helped elevate his manager, Scooter Braun, who was a nobody,
Speaker 3: to become one of the biggest managers in the world,
Speaker 3: and he learned along the way. And I don't know,
Speaker 3: it saddens me. I think it's a disloyal move, like
Speaker 3: this person helped you and believed in you when nobody
Speaker 3: else did, and now you're drop in them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel that because you're truly a team and
Speaker 2: you're all in it together, you kind of hope that
Speaker 2: someone's going to be loyal to you and you navigate
Speaker 2: the bumps in the road together. But you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know. It's hard to dissect other people's business decisions,
Speaker 2: but I guess ultimately I agree with you. It's it
Speaker 2: seems kind of lame.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. And also it's like, I don't know
Speaker 3: the read the real reason. She hasn't spoken about this publicly,
Speaker 3: but it's like, oh, are you upset that you're working
Speaker 3: too hard? They got you too many shows? Right?
Speaker 2: He made you happen?
Speaker 3: I know, like' I don't get it.
Speaker 2: It's like the movie Almost Famous. Remember they got the
Speaker 2: one tour manager and they had to like fire him
Speaker 2: and bring somebody else in because the person just did
Speaker 2: not know how to change gears so fast. They were
Speaker 2: growing in such a still water, they were growing in
Speaker 2: such a fast pace. I mean, I guess I could
Speaker 2: see both sides of it, but I still kind of
Speaker 2: lean on what you said. It's so big that it's
Speaker 2: kind of hard to fuck it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Unlus, you're spreading someone too thin. I don't know.
Speaker 3: In more music related news, Diddy's lawyers are yet again
Speaker 3: trying to get him released from prison on bail, and
Speaker 3: actually this time they're making some better arguments. I would say.
Speaker 3: I think they're still going to get denied yet again
Speaker 3: on their fourth attempt, but at least now I think
Speaker 3: I actually am now convinced they should release him. Here's why. Now. Listen,
Speaker 3: I believe he's guilty, but I'm a fan of equitable treatment,
Speaker 3: treating everybody the same under the law, right, Okay. And
Speaker 3: one of the things that Diddy's lawyers are arguing is
Speaker 3: that people who face similar charges have been allowed to
Speaker 3: be released on bail awaiting trial. If that's true, if
Speaker 3: people who are also charged with trafficking and racketeering and
Speaker 3: all that, if they're allowed to be out on bail,
Speaker 3: then he's be allowed to be out on bail too.
Speaker 2: I think it's optics kind of goes back to the
Speaker 2: other story we were talking about. We aren't privy to
Speaker 2: what the hell he actually did or is being charged with.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like this umbrella of assumption and only
Speaker 2: they know and only a judge knows, so it's kind
Speaker 2: of hard to.
Speaker 3: Know, right Well, that's another thing his lawyer brought up.
Speaker 3: The lawyer is adamant that the government based on all
Speaker 3: of the findings thus far, meaning based on everything that
Speaker 3: the government has turned over in terms of evidence they
Speaker 3: claim did He's attorneys that it's thin is the word.
Speaker 3: That they don't have a strong case against him, and
Speaker 3: that's another reason why he should be released on bail
Speaker 3: pending trial. And also they're alleging that where he's currently
Speaker 3: housed at that one detention center in Brooklyn, he's unable
Speaker 3: to get a fair trial because he has to go
Speaker 3: over so much evidence with his attorneys, and that they're
Speaker 3: not able to accommodate his needs pre trial allegedly.
Speaker 2: I don't get that either.
Speaker 3: You know where he is, that's the argument.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to schedule around his appointments. He
Speaker 2: could sit in a can all day long and talk
Speaker 2: to you on that phone, what he is claiming.
Speaker 3: In other news, music related, Selena Gomez has announced that
Speaker 3: she is retiring from music really, she said in a
Speaker 3: new interview. Right now, I just want to do things
Speaker 3: that I love. It's taken a while to get here,
Speaker 3: and it's been a challenge for people to accept I
Speaker 3: have moved on, but I'm happy. I've learned so much
Speaker 3: and I'm excited for the future. She's not a touring artist.
Speaker 3: She I think she might have just done one tour,
Speaker 3: to be honest, in her entire career. She did the
Speaker 3: Revival tour, which I went to, and it was fun.
Speaker 3: I liked it. It was good.
Speaker 2: I thought she wasn't enjoying herself at all.
Speaker 3: Exactly, She's not one that enjoys performing live because she's
Speaker 3: self con just about her voice. She doesn't have the
Speaker 3: best voice, but thanks to studio trickery and auto tune
Speaker 3: and all of that, you know she's able to sound
Speaker 3: good on records, and you know her acting career is
Speaker 3: going really well. But I think the bigger picture actually
Speaker 3: is she started her music career around the same time
Speaker 3: as Katy Perry, and look at where Katy Perry's music
Speaker 3: career is now. The shelf life of success and relevancy
Speaker 3: in the music world has run its course for Selena.
Speaker 3: She had been releasing one off singles for the last
Speaker 3: few years and none of them ended up being hits.
Speaker 3: I think that's probably a bigger factor in her decision.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: One other part of this that we're not really talking
Speaker 2: about is she seems pretty committed to a music producer,
Speaker 2: which is odd to me that in his mind he's
Speaker 2: got to think, Wow, we could do something fun together.
Speaker 2: She must really dislike it, the fact that she's with
Speaker 2: a music producer and they don't want to do anything.
Speaker 2: So that's a little odd to me. Little bit.
Speaker 3: I think she just knows. You know, she's in her thirties.
Speaker 2: She's just done with it, right, She's like, what's the point.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go on tour. I don't want
Speaker 2: to do this stuff. I'm making music. I'm not into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, And more music related news very similar.
Speaker 3: Rihanna also has finally let her fans know she's basically
Speaker 3: done with music too. She was in her home country
Speaker 3: of Barbados and at an event for her fenty Beauty,
Speaker 3: her beauty brand. She there's video that has gone viral
Speaker 3: of her speaking to people there and she said music
Speaker 3: was the thing that got the attention, but God had
Speaker 3: other plans for me. You know. She's a billionaire now
Speaker 3: thanks to Fenti Beauty, but she has not released an
Speaker 3: album in almost nine years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me just say this, who cares? She's another
Speaker 2: one like Selena Gomez. I mean, she wasn't into writing music,
Speaker 2: being a studio rat. She had other people she came in.
Speaker 2: Her voice sounds really cool, but she never really seemed
Speaker 2: like she was into it. If you look at Taylor Swift,
Speaker 2: there's no way you could possibly say she's not into it.
Speaker 2: I think she could live in a studio for three
Speaker 2: months and be the happiest person in the world. Selena
Speaker 2: Gomez not her gear. Taylor Swift on tour genuinely seems
Speaker 2: like she likes it up there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I think there's something to that, Like you can't fake
Speaker 2: that funk. And when you're like a billionaire Selena Gomez
Speaker 2: probably a billionaire as well, why what's the point? Like
Speaker 2: why waste your time on something you're really not into?
Speaker 2: You paid your dues back then to get to somewhere else,
Speaker 2: and you know, why spend one second doing something that
Speaker 2: you're not into. So I guess I get it on
Speaker 2: both parts.
Speaker 3: I get it. I'm just sad. I'm sad. You know, Rihanna,
Speaker 3: I think I looked it up. She's got I forget,
Speaker 3: but I think about fourteen number one singles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say she probably has twenty legit.
Speaker 3: Hits nineteen nineteen in the top ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would have guessed twenty. So there you go.
Speaker 3: She's got nineteen songs that were in the top ten
Speaker 3: and she stopped. She could have had even wigh more
Speaker 3: than that had she continued to release music.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, you can say the same
Speaker 2: thing about justin Timberlake. He really was on a roll
Speaker 2: and just wasted so much time on acting something he's
Speaker 2: terrible at. And I always thought that the guy could
Speaker 2: have been someone that's I don't know, revered as a musician,
Speaker 2: and he's not. He only seems like he does it
Speaker 2: when he wants to do it now, and he's not,
Speaker 2: like I was just saying about Taylor Swift, like this
Speaker 2: studio rat that enjoys like finding the hit.
Speaker 3: Well. In other news, Bad Baby's mom has called me
Speaker 3: out name checked me for thanks for I never said
Speaker 3: she was lying, Okay, Bad Baby has cancer. I didn't
Speaker 3: say she's lying. I just said it's a possibility. Okay.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean I think she's lying. I just think,
Speaker 3: Oh I need to pose this, you know, like and whatever.
Speaker 3: I'm not sorry. Sorry, Mom, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 2: Because it is a possibility when you yeah, when you're
Speaker 2: talking about social media, people that know they'll get hits
Speaker 2: for saying some things that are not quite truthful. Hello,
Speaker 2: that's our society, and it's happened over and over again.
Speaker 2: To say it's possible, I don't think there's any problem
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, And other news quickly, ardam chig VINSIV
Speaker 3: has gone to court asking for Nicki Garcia has soon
Speaker 3: to be ex wife to pay for all of his
Speaker 3: expenses right now, because he claims that since she, according
Speaker 3: to him, made up these domestic abuse allegations against him,
Speaker 3: he was let go from a job where he would
Speaker 3: have been making about one hundred thousand dollars and he's
Speaker 3: lost a lot of money, and so she should be
Speaker 3: covering his expenses. He claims, I don't know, they don't
Speaker 3: have a prenup, So that seems like a sensible argument
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not against it. I mean, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: lie about somebody allegedly, right, if you're gonna allegedly lie
Speaker 2: about somebody and it can be proved that it's not true,
Speaker 2: and you know you took a loss because of it.
Speaker 2: It's fair.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also remember that Olympic breakdancer Rega. Well, she is setting
Speaker 3: the record straight and backtracking saying that she is not quitting. Okay,
Speaker 3: so you can all relax. She's not quitting, she's just
Speaker 3: not going to be competing. But she never said the
Speaker 3: word retired, right, Okay.
Speaker 2: There was a guy that caught a touchdown, yeah, the Vikings.
Speaker 3: I think he did the exactly the kangaroo. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it was a.
Speaker 2: Basic I mean he it was perfection, like he must
Speaker 2: have practiced this for it's so good.
Speaker 3: That's funny. Speaking of Australians, there is some speculation that
Speaker 3: this relationship between Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster has actually
Speaker 3: been secretly going on for years now while they were
Speaker 3: both still married, because Hugh and his wife broke up
Speaker 3: a while ago. But Sutton and her husband just recently
Speaker 3: announced they were divorcing. So there's that. And then finally
Speaker 3: I get it. I'm older. The older you get, the
Speaker 3: harder it sometimes can be to really just sit and
Speaker 3: make time for new music. But I also love that
Speaker 3: there's an old fashioned way. I have a come up
Speaker 3: and Benson Boone has really done it this year that way,
Speaker 3: like the old school way of just building and doing
Speaker 3: shows and doing TV appearances. And I finally got around
Speaker 3: to listening to his album. Have you listened to it?
Speaker 2: I don't think I've listened to the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Now I listened to the whole thing, and I fucking
Speaker 3: love it. And I keep watching all these performances of
Speaker 3: his and he is so fucking talented. He is gonna
Speaker 3: be even bigger with his next release. I feel it.
Speaker 3: He's very, very talented, and I love the album and
Speaker 3: I'm excited to hear more from him. Quick. Thank you
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Speaker 2: We never talked to Grammys.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 2: I just was shocked that Arianna got snubbed, so did
Speaker 2: do a liipa. That doesn't shock me.
Speaker 3: I mean that's that in the pop categories, it still
Speaker 3: could have.
Speaker 2: I just think there were bigger things that were more kind.
Speaker 3: Of real and on the flip side, Okay, here's a
Speaker 3: good controversial take, but I believe it. I actually think
Speaker 3: Billie Eilish got too many nominations. I don't think Birds
Speaker 3: of a Feather is like that epic amazing.
Speaker 2: So I think you're crazy. I would say that song
Speaker 2: of the what in the conversation for song of the Year.
Speaker 3: Well, it's nominated, but I don't think it should be
Speaker 3: up there.
Speaker 2: No, it's like the best song she's ever put out. Man,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: I like it. I don't think it's I like it
Speaker 3: a lot, but I wouldn't call it like one of
Speaker 3: the songs of the year.
Speaker 2: I would just from the virality of online and how
Speaker 2: many people are putting it in their things, and how
Speaker 2: many covers of it are all out there. It's just
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, it's bigger than any Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift song this year, and she's nominated for that Fortnite song.
Speaker 2: It's not a good song song of the year. Give
Speaker 2: me a break.
Speaker 3: I mean, Beyonce got a ton of nominations, and she
Speaker 3: should have.
Speaker 2: But I told you she's gonna win Album of the Year.
Speaker 3: I think it should be Chapel Roane. Absolutely, it's close.
Speaker 2: You're right, it's really close. But that Beyonce record.
Speaker 3: If I was a Grammy voter, I would vote for
Speaker 3: Chapel Rome.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any wrong answer there. I don't
Speaker 2: like disagree with you. I just kind of think Beyonce
Speaker 2: that album was it's fantastic, so fantastic too. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's kind of what I was saying to you.
Speaker 2: I think that the Grammys did a pretty good job
Speaker 2: of getting it all right.
Speaker 3: Going back to what I said about Record of the Year,
Speaker 3: since I'm looking at it now, it doesn't make sense
Speaker 3: to me that Billie Eilish song was nominated over the
Speaker 3: Shaboozy song. The Schabboozy song is the much better record
Speaker 3: of the Year and a bigger hit. Same with the
Speaker 3: Morgan Wallin and Post Malone song that wasn't nominated and
Speaker 3: Billy Eilish was.
Speaker 2: But was that last year?
Speaker 3: No, it's this year.
Speaker 2: Shaboozy was this year because Chaboozie should have been nominated.
Speaker 2: Shaboozy was nominated for something, though, Wasn't it not for
Speaker 2: Record of the Year. That's shocking. But record of the
Speaker 2: Year is recording.
Speaker 3: It's like the hit of the year. It's not a
Speaker 3: songwriter award. The songwriter awards for song of the year.
Speaker 2: So it's actually like, that's the more I always get,
Speaker 2: the too confused. So that's like the more like relevant one,
Speaker 2: not so much about the recording of a song.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, Chaboozy should have been nominated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so should have Morgan Wallen and post Malone.
Speaker 2: Which song was that I had some held it was?
Speaker 3: It was an enormous hit this year.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I think Birds of the
Speaker 2: Feathers one of the biggest songs of the year. I
Speaker 2: think Beyond the Way, but Fortnite.
Speaker 3: That you know that should not have been nominated. No,
Speaker 3: give me a breath, No, all right, let's take some.
Speaker 4: Calls hips hype Booker, love you guys. Just finish sharing
Speaker 4: your election podcast, and just wanted to add a quick comment.
Speaker 4: I voted for Harris, I have to say, and I
Speaker 4: just want to hear your thoughts. It was just for
Speaker 4: me really hard to hear some of my other fellow
Speaker 4: liberal friends and who are women. I saw quite a
Speaker 4: few videos of them crying and sending putting up the
Speaker 4: longest Facebook posts and literally filming themselves in tiers and
Speaker 4: having complete meltdown turning onto the view and seeing everyone
Speaker 4: dressed in black. I'm forty four. I volunteered for Obama's
Speaker 4: first presidential campaign. I remember sneaking photo copies at my
Speaker 4: job after work so I could hand out fires and
Speaker 4: making the phone calls. I just feel like our party
Speaker 4: has to change, our narrative has to do the work.
Speaker 4: I attended abortion rallies, local rallies, and I felt like
Speaker 4: most of them were even third party people, you know,
Speaker 4: Like I'm just wondering. I just feel like we just
Speaker 4: sound like a bunch of whiney babies sometimes, and I'm
Speaker 4: just completely fucking over it now.
Speaker 3: Well, on the flip side, the right were whiny babies
Speaker 3: and they fucking stormed the Capitol. So hello, that's a
Speaker 3: very good point.
Speaker 2: It's funny that the ride always has the narrative that
Speaker 2: the lefts a bunch of whiners. I've never heard more
Speaker 2: complaining in my life. Have you listened to Trump speak?
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the Dems stirring the pot. I
Speaker 2: think it was him stirring the pot. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: Everybody's a big whiner. You're right, but you gotta play
Speaker 2: with the cards that you're done.
Speaker 3: In twenty sixteen, after Hillary lost, I was one of
Speaker 3: those hysterical people making videos. So that's totally fine. All right,
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