You. Good morning, millennials.

Welcome back to the chosen. Happy, oh, stay with me now. Friday, Friday gotta get down on Friday everybody's looking forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday day getting down on Friday.

I like the version better. Where we say Friday, Friday Jackson Claude. On Friday.

Literally, when have we ever said that?

It's in my head. So we've said it.

Okay. And we shall say it again.

I think we should continue to change the lyrics until they're our own.

Yeah. I love that for us.

Me too. I hope that somewhere, somehow, Rebecca Black knows that on one of the top podcasts, like, I'm not just saying this.

We are the biggest podcast on the planet.

On a very large podcast. We sing her song every week.

Honestly, when it comes to that particular song, I don't feel like that statistic would impress her, because that song is embedded in the fibers of our culture.

No, Claudia. Like, no one is doing more for that song than us.

Actually, Rebecca Black is like, she releases remixes.

No one who's not financially motivated or.

We are financially motivated.

No one who doesn't have a financial stake in the song is doing more for that song than us. Song sung, you guys, now that I hear it, my life is ruined.

My life is not ruined because toast merch dropped today. And honestly, what's the opposite of ruined? Made. My life is made.

That's so true. Toast merch dropped today@shoptosmerch.com. And I am wearing my sweatpants again today because they're that comfortable. And as I was walking up to the studio, I'm like, these are the most amazing sweatpants I've ever worn.

Drawstring. We love her. We know her. We are her. We see her. I wore them on this four hour flight yesterday. Why is it literally so long to get to Texas? I don't feel like it should be that long to get from New York to Texas.

It shouldn't be 4 hours. It should be three and a half. Like, it is three and a half. It should be less. I agree with you, but it's not four.

Okay, it was three and a half, but with the taxiing and such waiting for the Gala, it was four. And I feel like that's beyond unnecessary when it takes, like, a little under six to get to. Like, it just made no sense. Yeah, but all that to say, I was extremely comfortable on my flight. In my new toast merch, I wear a size medium. Jackie wears size large. Like, the merch is flying off the.

Shelf, by the way.

For years, it was Jackie's wearing a medium. Claudia's wearing an extra large, so please spare me. Okay.

And I just want to say, like, I could have taken a size.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

Wow. Turdy.

But I just want to say soon.

It'S not even going to fit me anymore, because once I'm done breastfeeding, it's over for you bitches.

I was just having this conversation with some of my friends who just had babies. They're all thinking about, like, ozempic. What do you think about Ozempic? Would you do it?

Great question. Yes, I would do ozempic between babies if I felt like I needed to, but I would rather not. So right now, my plan is to not. But I have 1520 pounds on a good day that I want to lose, and that's not like I need to be on Ozempic. But if I were in a place where I felt like getting pregnant at the weight that I was at wouldn't be healthy again, then I think it would be healthier to take ozempic between babies than to get pregnant, being severely overweight, which I know that I'm not. But when I'm done having kids, it's over for you bitches.

Yeah. And so all that to say, we could sit here and wax poetic about why you should get the merch, but I do feel it's, like, insulting to the intelligence of our listeners, especially when the merch is quite literally flying off the shelves. I don't even think we need to promote it. Let's just move on. It's so hot right now.

Quite literally. But what I will say is that it is like, an open order right now. So you can place your order right now. We're going to leave it open like that for a few days before we place the order. There will still be merch available after that, but right now, you can get your size, guaranteed. But place your order now. Place it now is what I'll say.

Place it now.

Yeah, now's the time to be placing it. But like Claudia said, we don't even need to be promoting.

Yeah. Like, honestly, I feel like it's like a detriment to our image to continue.

To talk about it honestly in what? Like, I don't know about a, like.

I feel like we would be seriously speaking down to our listeners to try and convince them to buy this merch. Like, they're intelligent women, they're mothers.

I don't feel like I'm trying to convince. I just feel like I'm speaking my truth today. And what's on my mind, and what's on my mind is that my sweatpants are really comfortable. Therefore I had to wear them two days in a row.

So funny when you said, you're speaking, like, what's on your mind? You know, it's like a phrase I've been using a lot recently that I feel I'm kind of appropriating it from, like, southern culture. When someone one's like, you've been on my heart a lot recently. I've been saying that because someone was on my heart the other day.

It's a nice saying.

It really is.

Yeah, there are some nice southern sayings. Like, I've noticed that they say if you're going to go see someone or hang with them, you're going to go visit that.

Yeah, we use the word visit, too.

No, but we don't use it like they use it. Pay a visit. What? Pay a, yeah, like, or, I'm gonna go visit with you. Like, if I was going over to your house, I'd be like, I'm gonna go visit with Claudia.

Oh, yeah, we don't say that.

We don't say that. And it's a nice way to say it, instead of being like, I'm gonna go be a slob on Turdy's couch.

Right? I'm gonna go pay a visit to Turdy's couch.

I'm gonna go pay a visit.

I'm actually in the south. I'm in Texas right now, so I'm going to keep my ears and eyes out for new phrases to bring home to the toast that we can appropriate. Going to the rodeo this weekend. Super excited. So just don't mind me. A little bicoastal podcast thing.

This is kind of, you love saying you're bicoastal when you are not, in fact, bicoastal.

So just so everyone, I can clear up any confusion when I say bicoastal, I mean, I'm not in New York, you're out of state, and I'm not doing a video podcast. Today's episode is audio only. I have my travel microphone with me. When I have my travel microphone, I am bicoastal podcasting. Okay.

Okay. Works for me. Also, when I'm in Florida, you're in New York. You also like to say, we're bicoastal.

No, I say, we're transatlantic then.

Oh, the other day, you said bicoastal, but I don't correct you because I know what you mean. So it's like, what's the point?

Thank you. So much. And I don't think I'm using it correctly. Like, I know I'm not and everything.

That'S, like, me and elk. But I'm just letting the other people know that we know, lest we not forget.

I know that's not the right way of using it. I'm going to continue to use it incorrectly. Grab a spoon and eat my ass, Majiz.

Niku. Even though that one, if you listen to Patreon, you know, I'm not even apologizing for Niku.

So I just wanted to point out that this is the third Friday in a row we're doing an audio only extravaganza. And you know what?

It's giving summer Fridays.

It's giving year of yes like, it's January. So I'm, like, doing all these things, taking all these trips, saying yes to life. And that's why for the last three Fridays in a row, well, one of them, I was sick. But your girl has been transatlantically podcasting.

Yeah.

What do you think about transatlantically podcasting for a title today?

If nothing better comes up, sure.

Okay. Jot it down in your memory.

The titles just this week have been off the rails.

Let's talk about this week in toast her story. And let's talk about everyone's noticing. We're kind of the name on everyone's lips. Everybody's talking about how the toast this week in particular released four, going on five episodes that just hit different. Everyone is talking about how different the episodes are, how funny we are, and they want to know what happened. That's why somebody thought I was on drugs. That's how different they are. And I want to give the people an answer, and I genuinely don't have one.

For my part, I can cite two things, but I don't know about you, but for me, two things were different for me this week from most recent weeks. One, I had went to Disney, and that changes a person.

It does.

Two, charlie is sleeping longer stretches in the night, and I feel like a human being again.

Oh, by the way, that's it.

But it takes two toast.

No, that's it. Because you have been particular funny, and you were more funny this week than you usually are. And when you're funny, it makes me crazy.

Oh, interesting. Well, then I really think it has to do with the fact that I'm once again getting sleep. Like, the four month sleep regression for us was so real, not like he was sleeping through the night before four months, but we were getting chunks before, and then it all just fell apart. And for the last few weeks, I was up every two to 3 hours. And then also getting him back, it was just like, really hard. But last night, for example, he went down around 730. He didn't eat until five. Again. That's kingship. Yeah, that's kingship. And then he slept down, like, went back to sleep till eight. Thing about Charlie is he kind of likes to sleep in. And this morning he only woke up because Bruno woke him up.

Fucking Bruno.

No, but Bruno just decided it was like 815. Bruno's like, everyone up. And Adam, I want to start my day. Give me my breakfast. I want my dinner now.

Yeah. And he was two breakfast tigs this morning. Or just one?

Just one. Maybe even. I don't know. I didn't see it happen.

If I had to pinpoint perhaps what caused a shift in my podcast Persona this week was that I was sick during the weekend. And as the week progressed, I kept feeling better and better and I was feeling like myself again. Perhaps that was it.

I feel like also because you were sick all weekend, you had all this pent up energy because you weren't out and about, like, giving all of yourself to the rest of the world. So you were able to give all of yourself to us.

So what you're saying is, like, for my job, I should start staying on the weekends?

Yeah. You need to rest and recover. You're an athlete. This is a sports podcast.

This is a sports podcast. And speaking of, like, this is our last episode before we know who's going to the Super bowl. So let's give our final predictions. We have been saying for a while, or at least I have, I think that it's going to be Niners and.

Ravens, which means that it's going to be the Lions and the other Chiefs. Chiefs. Oh, that's a good super bowl.

Oh, I don't agree with that. I think there's really no chance. Know, I don't want to jinx anything, but I'm so, by the way, I got on an earlier. No.

Last year, we literally did this sort of episode. We predicted who was going to the Super bowl, and it was the exact opposite of who went to the Super bowl, which I think it's going to.

Be Detroit and the Chiefs, then in that case.

Okay. No, but I feel like if you're saying it's Niners Ravens, which would mean that it's going to be Kansas City Detroit, I think that means it's going to be Detroit's 49 ers, half of each.

Jackie, it can't be Detroit. 49 ers.

Okay. Detroit and the others.

You mean Ravens, Chiefs and the Niners.

I think it's going to be Detroit Ravens. And I just want to say I have the utmost respect for both teams and may the best team win. It really might be one of those two, but a more lackluster Super bowl combo you couldn't find. Based on the options.

No, based on the year that we've had in terms of the NFL's place in culture, if we do end up with the Ravens and the debt, which both teams are so deserving, this is not a slight.

Jackson is a lifetime, once in a lifetime quarterback. The debt, the first in 66 years. You can't shirk whatever, blah, blah, blah.

But given what sort of renaissance the NFL has had in culture this year, having to do with celebrities like Taylor Swift, like the use checks like Olivia Culpo, like there's a lot going on. And if we end up with two kind of celebrity list, like, it will be lame. I'm sorry. It will.

I really have been thinking a lot about what you said, which is that it is in the NFL's best interest to get the Chiefs to the Super bowl.

Yeah, it is.

And now that you've said that, I can't unhear it and I feel like they'll be going to the Super bowl. And did you say on this show or was it Zach talking to me? It's also crazy how much, like Zach and I talk about sports now, and it's really like it's good for our relationship to have a more common, but. So it was either you or him who said that. The ref that they chose. Okay. The ref that they chose for the Kansas City game is usually favorable to the away team, and Kansas City is the away team. Like, I feel like the NFL wants Taylor Swift at the Super bowl.

Right. And not that necessarily the NFL is scripted, but they know do some things because it is in their best interest to move the needle a little bit.

They might pull some levers.

So we'll really just have to wait and see. I know. I think I've said this now three times, but I did change my flight to an earlier flight. Like, to get home to watch the game.

That is time number three.

This is going to be such a fabulous weekend. Going to the rodeo, doing all the southern tings, and then on Sunday, like being a real, not like other girls. Girl.

Speaking of southern tings, yesterday you were telling me about Pookie and Jet and when we hung up, I went down a rabbit hole. I didn't even have to go that far down the rabbit hole to become obsessed. I just need to state that Pookie is a toaster, because, of course she is. I am so obsessed. It literally took two videos for me to get.

Yep.

It's so funny and so cute and just so pure. And I think that's why people really are gravitating towards them, because we don't get just, like, pure true love like this. It's a she, like, wanted one Birkin, and she got two.

Yeah, it's a fantasy. And also, by the way, you just reminded me why I've been saying the phrase, you've been on my heart recently. Pookie and Jet were on my heart recently because I get really panicked when people, especially on TikTok, people discover something, become obsessed with them, because the natural next step is that people on the Internet are going to try and destroy this thing that they once loved. And Pookie and Jet are, like, having this moment where they're so sweet and so innocent, and they're just this lovely married couple. They live in Atlanta. They don't bother anyone, and everyone's obsessed with them. Them. And the natural life cycle of the Internet is the next thing they're going to do is destroy these two. And I was thinking about them. I was thinking of sending them a message almost just being like, it's amazing right now, and it might not always be amazing, but just be yourselves and don't. They were on my heart. They were on my heart.

They were on your heart. Well, my dms with Poki are open now. Probably yours, too, because she saw that she heard us talking about her on the toes yesterday.

I feel like I was just having this conversation with someone about TikTok has really changed what it means to be an influencer. And there's so many. I feel like the girlies we know from Instagram have been doing this for so long, and they have really good, steady jobs with that. They're not, like, the biggest influencers on the planet, but they're moms, and they pay their bills and they make a really good living being, like, steady influencers who have grown slowly over the course of five or ten years on Instagram. Whereas now it's like this new economy on TikTok where people, in a matter of minutes, their lives are changed. But it really remains to be seen if there's any longevity with that. And there are certain people who I think have cemented themselves. I keep setting these examples of these overnight successes on TikTok, like Emily Marico, and it's like you have these five minutes and what you do with those five minutes when you're at the top know, set the course for your career and how you handle those opportunities. And I feel like for Alex Earl, it was a perfect example of somebody who did it perfectly.

Like, she took every opportunity. And I do really feel like she will be an influential person for many, many years to come.

Agreed.

Then I think about Emily Marico, who I feel just based on vibes, didn't want that. She doesn't want to be the biggest, hottest thing. I'm sure she's really happy being able to be a content creator full time, but she was getting married, she's pregnant. I feel like she didn't want that. And so she intentionally didn't take those opportunities. I am sure when her salmon bowl took over the world, every opportunity was knocked and it appears as though she didn't take any. Right.

Yeah. I don't know her like you guys do because I'm not on TikTok.

She's someone.

This actually is a perfect example. She didn't transcend.

Right. And I feel like it was intentional. She didn't come up with a line of anything. She really didn't do many brand partnerships. She just quietly quit her job. She had like a big fancy job, I think, at meta or something. She was like, working in tech because she lives in San Fran and now she content creates full time, I'm sure makes an amazing living and it's enough for her Dienu. So I find it so interesting, like, what these hot commodity TikTok people are doing with their five minutes and how they're setting themselves up. And I feel like if you fumble the ball in those five minutes, you'll still be relevant for a little bit, but not in the way that Alex Earl is. I think she's really set herself up really nicely.

Yeah, but it's also like, you could plan to do things right, but you might just not have that factor of, like, people are going to care about you for resonating than those five minutes. Yeah, because maybe it depends. Did you go viral for something that was kind of like a fluke thing? How do you recreate that? Versus, like, if you go viral for who you are?

Yeah, it's just an interesting thing to be looking out for.

Yeah, no, and it's like, which would you prefer? I'm slow and steady. Tortoise and the hair.

Yeah. And that's really how we did it.

Yeah. Trails.

Yep. So we've got stories today. We've also got Queenie and Weenie of the week. And I just want to say all week, I've been keeping a list on my phone of things that remind me, oh, write down that person could be weenie of the week. And I don't know what it says about me that I have the longest list of weenies and not one queenie. Not one.

That's really funny. I feel like I have so many queenies this week.

You know what? Maybe you should do the queenie and I'll do the weenie because.

Oh, I like that. I have a hard time with Weenie.

Oh, my God. Weenie's so. I'm such a negative, like, miserable person. It's so easy for me.

That is so funny. Okay, well, let's get into the stories because you have a bull to ride.

Yes. I have a busy day. This whole weekend, we're doing things I've never done. Stockyards. You know what that is?

Yeah. I watch Real Housewives of Dallas.

Right. So I'm stockyard and I got to get some boots. I want to get, like, a hat. Like, I have a lot to do.

You have a lot to do. So without further ado, here are the fast five stories that you need to know.

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Thank you, law. Our first story is the big story of this Friday. Sophia Ritchie Grange is pregnant and it's a vogue exclusive and it's a girl. So Sophia, she's doing all of it at the same time, announcing her pregnancy, fire photos, gender reveal interview about pregnancy. And it's really a beautiful thing. So she is six months along. Her and Elliot got married in April, so nine months ago. So I think everybody's just like, when did they get pregnant? In the interview, she talks about how after their wedding they were like casually trying to not. So. She had taken pregnancy tests, but they weren't super trying or trying not to get pregnant. So she was very excited when they were pregnant. And she's just been keeping it under wraps, learning all about all of it female form, baby making. And she seems over the moon.

I mean, this is so iconic on so many levels. First of all, a pregnancy announcement in vogue when you're 25 is just like, so iconic. I can't even. Her husband was in some photos, those solo ones of her body. She's just so beautiful and she's caring so beautifully and this is just gorgeous. Also, I feel like we don't have a lot of role models like Sophia Ritchie for young women. She's so traditional in an OD sense. She's like a very modern woman. She's like this know, mogul, yada yada. But she's so know. She got married kind of young, pregnant quickly after, and I just feel like she's so different from the other people who girls look up to. And it's nice to diversify your role models.

I totally agree. I think she's a great role model. I love this trend. I feel like it was happening for a while. It's not a trend. It's actually the opposite of what it is.

It's trad. It's not a trend. It's a trad.

It's not a trend. It's a trad. But for a while, there were a couple of celebrities getting married young and we thought that was like just a nice, different path for people to look up to. And it's like, cool to see the coolest people doing it. I feel like, she's doing that now and just setting a really good example in a different way for girls who want to follow a path like this.

Yeah. And I feel like we said that about her wedding, about how so much of her esthetic was so modest almost, in a sense, and traditional in its styling, and it wasn't overly sexual or anything. And she was just very classy in the way that she dressed, and she really influenced a generation of young girls to dress like that, which is so nice. And I just feel like she's really this gorgeous role model. For real.

Yeah, we said that about her. Like, I look at Margot, and I'm like, margot's wearing trousers all the time now. And cardigans. Thank you, Sophia. Ritchie Grange.

Yeah. And I just thought the way that whoever is sort of managing her at this time, like, making these decisions, whether it's her or it's a team, is really doing a great job. She hasn't hit that level of overexposure yet where I feel like at her wedding, it almost got to a place where I was like, okay, enough. But then she went a little silent, started just doing her little Jo Malone brand deals, and she's been very smart about it. And this is obviously, like, a huge moment, and they made a big moment out of it. And I think her waiting till she was six months pregnant was obviously a choice, and doing it in vogue is a choice, and I think it's really just gorgeous. Tens, tens, tens across the board here.

Yeah. And now that she's revealed her pregnancy, I'm excited to see her pregnancy style. She said that she's kind of just been concealing the pregnancy with coats and whatnot, but now that she is out and about, she'll be showing it off. And that I'm excited to see because I feel like she will bring new, fresh pregnancy style.

I do think it's really interesting when people, celebrities and influencers choose to share their pregnancy and when they choose to do it really late or really early, because I just was looking at this picture. Nick vial posted, like, a really cute picture of him and Natalie, and her belly was like the centerpiece of the photo. And somebody's like, I feel like Natalie's been pregnant for a hundred years.

Like, imagine how Natalie feels. No.

And people say that, and it's so annoying when people say that. Like, shut up. Seriously. Imagine how the woman feels.

Yeah.

So I do think it's interesting when people choose to wait. I feel like they choose to wait so that they don't have that effect on people.

I don't think that you're caring about what other people are going to think. I think it's more. So it depends.

Superstition.

You are superstition. Of course, you want to reach a certain milestone, but then, especially in your first pregnancy, if you can hide it because you show less in your first pregnancy than you do in subsequent pregnancies, in your second, like, you get bumper faster and more and more. But I think in your first, you realize, like, hey, I can kind of get away with this. And it's nice to have this secret and this private thing for yourself, especially when you're a public person. And it's like, nice to keep it to yourself as long as you can. I feel like that's kind of where they were at also, she said in the interview, like, she didn't realize how many different milestones you have to reach and how many tests and how everything is really so precarious. So I think you do become really protective and you just want to keep this thing, holds it close. It's that maternal instinct until you're literally busting at the seams and you're like, okay, I'm pregnant. Here you go.

Yeah. I love this. I love her.

Yeah. And she has been really quiet recently. And I feel like probably because she's been in the throes of pregnancy. No.

Like, I really can't. With these fucking idiotic, bitch ass moron motherfuckers. Oh, her and her genocide supporting husband. Giving birth to a genocide supporter. Seriously, you are one of the dumbest, ugliest people I've ever met in my life. Start learning the english language because you obviously don't know what words mean.

English. Start learning English. Start learning history. Start learning.

So anti semitic. I was like, screenshotting stuff to make a post about it, but I'm like, okay, I'm not going to make a moment.

Yeah, don't make it about that.

But the comments were so disappointing. I can't.

These are the worst people. These are the worst of the human elk and human nature.

No, Jackie, they're the worst of the human elk.

Yeah.

I'm going to use it right this time.

Okay. You can use it right this time because if someone's listening, they're like. You're calling them.

No, like, it was so disappointing and I wasn't even expecting. I forget. She converted to Judaism. Her husband is jewish, and they're, like, supporters of Israel. I didn't even think of it. I just wanted to see what people were saying. It was so disappointing.

No, they ruined everything. Like, literally, they're at Sundance film festival. They're in the middle of the highway. Did you see that video? They've been protesting, like, Manhattan Bridge every day or whatever. And there was a man who needed to pick up his daughter.

Yes.

And he's like, he can't get through. They ruin everything.

Yeah.

So it's no surprise they would try and ruin a beautiful moment such as this.

But she persevered.

She'll be fine. Are you ready for our next story?

I am.

Some, I guess, big news. Morgan Wallen is fighting back against an early ep reissue of his music. So Morgan Wallen put out a statement on his instagram last night because an album is coming out that is by Morgan Wallen. But he is making it clear to fans that he is not a part of this album. He recorded it way early on in his career when he was under weird ass management and he signed a bad deal. And these people have the rights to his old music, and they're putting out the songs again, and it's sung by Morgan Wallen. So it's going to be like a part of his catalog. But he wants to make clear to fans that this is not sanctioned by him and this is not his new music. There's one song, one song on the album called spin you around became, like, a fan favorite from this early ep, so he surprised fans with a re recording of it. So he's, like, trying to thwart the interest in that new, old album.

Yeah. He basically was like, this weird album is coming out that I literally made when I was twelve with these freaks. I did not sanction it. I do not allow it. So I just want you to know it's coming out. Please don't support it. But there is a song on there that I know, like, the fandom loves. So instead, don't listen to that one. Here's my version. It's giving Taylor's version. And it's just like one of those things. I feel like we all know the music industry is so crazy. Young talent at this point. It's almost like a talking point. We know they take advantage of young talent, but to know that a whole ass album can be released of your voice without your approval years later is, like, low key. So crazy.

Yeah, seriously crazy. He said that at the time, they made 13 songs. He said some were okay. Most were terrible, as I was just learning how to write in general and figuring it all out. I was not the only collaborator. So many of these songs were not my idea nor met my standards. We deemed five worthy enough to make the standalone ep, which includes the fan favorite spin you around. And now they are releasing those songs that were like canned back then, but they're just trying to capitalize on the.

Wallen, of course, like, you have this batch of unreleased Morgan Wallen songs. People are dying for new Morgan Wallen music. Like, if you're a greedy person, you're just going to release it without any care in the world. The other part of this statement that I thought was really interesting is that he also donated $100,000 to this legal fund that helps, what's it called?

Volunteer lawyers and professionals for the arts.

Program, which I think just offers free legal services to people like Morgan Wallen when he was 15, who might have found themselves in a situation like this. And I think that's actually the coolest part of this statement. That's awesome.

Yeah. That is doing something, moving the needle. Yeah. And hopefully helping the next person so that they're not in a position like this. As a Morgan Wallen fan, I will not be listening to those songs, mostly because I still have albums from his songs, from his new albums that I haven't listened to because they're so damn long. And I feel like his fans and his fans really love him.

Ride for him.

Ride for him. I feel like they will honor this request and not listen.

Yeah, of course. But he had to let us know if we all just saw this thing coming out.

Of course.

I would be like, okay, sure, I'll listen.

I think he's handled this as best as possible. Between the statement, the re recording, and the donation, I think there's nothing. No notes?

No notes. Do you think he contacted Taylor Swift?

No, I don't think Taylor Swift would.

Pick up, take up his phone, call. Me neither. Oh, my God. Did you see the drama with Taylor.

Swift and the AI photos? Yes, I didn't want to give air to.

Yeah, yeah. But I do believe it's been widely taken down. So, like, an AI company generated really explicit pornographic, basically photos of Taylor Swift. They look very real. I haven't seen them. They apparently look very real. I think they're like football themed.

I saw what I think are two of them. I wouldn't say they look very real. They look like. Okay, I wasn't confused.

And they went mega, mega viral. And there were a couple of articles that said they were from Taylor's camp, that she was really mad about it. And it is like this legal gray area currently with AI. And a lot of people think that because it happened to Taylor, she might pursue it. Legally. And create some sort of legal precedent around making exploitive and pornographic images of mostly women, making it illegal.

Yeah, that's good. And by the way, I just want to say the two that I saw were not pornographic. They were just not real photos. Okay. Maybe I didn't see, but to me, I think most people would be able to tell that they're AI because they have that sort of AI look to them. But if there are pornographic, explicit photos, it doesn't have to look real.

It's gross.

It's gross, and it's inappropriate. And I agree. There's definitely legal gray area. I saw that there was this mom who her daughter had been like, yes. Someone made AI deep fake porn of.

Her that she was 14.

Yeah. Circulated. And so she's been really championing. So I do think that there is law that needs to be written for this, and maybe Taylor Swift is the right person to spearhead.

I think a lot of people are hoping that she will pursue legal action. Usually Internet drama is not something she puts herself into. But if there is anyone who can create, literally take it to the supreme court and create some sort of legal precedent, it would be Taylor Swift, because she has the means to fund that sort of legal fight. But people are just so fucking disgusting. It's insane to me. It's really gross.

Yeah.

Who thinks to come up? What if I just asked AI to create, like, Taylor Swift porn? Go get a girlfriend. Just having a freak.

I asked AI to help me write an Instagram caption.

Okay? I asked AI to recommend a book to me, and they couldn't even do it. Okay.

I asked AI to recommend some books to me, and there was one that I could tell was, like, an amazing choice. Dana read it. She said it was like. I told Dana about it. I was like, have you read this? She was like, no. She read it. She said it was amazing. I wish I chose it for the redheads next red head's pick. I'm asking. Been reading where the forest meets the.

Like. That's what we should be using AI for. Like, somebody used AI to generate a photo of Theo in heaven for me. And that meant a great deal to me. Thank you.

So how do you do, like, okay. I don't know.

Because I then went on chat GBT, and I was like, can you show me a picture of theo or whatever? And they were like, sorry, we don't generate photos. So it's like a different service. I don't know.

Different chat.

It's not the ones we're used to, like, chat GBT.

I use chat GBT.

Yeah. Duh.

Do you know that Elon started OpenAI with Sam Altman?

Oh, okay. I was going to say I thought.

Sam Altman with Sam Altman. And then, like, sam Altman's supposed it was a non for profit when he started with Sam Altman, because Elon really believes in ethical AI and that AI should have limitations, that it never takes over humans, whereas other AI founders think that AI should be able to get as intelligent as it can get. So Elon started OpenAI to combat that, and then Sam Altman started, like, a for profit arm of it. So I was getting, like, I feel like with Sam Altman, he got, like, everyone. He was, like, the people's man. But there's definitely something.

Oh, you feel like there's a dark side of Sam Altman?

I feel like there's a dark side of Sam Altman. I do.

She said it here first, you guys. She said it here first.

Yeah. I don't think him and Elon started together, and I don't even think they talk anymore. That's weird.

It is weird.

So just thought you should know.

Thought you should know that all the.

Don't stream Morgan, wallen me some more streaming news.

Okay.

Britney Spears fans are streaming her 2011 song selfish instead of Justin Timberlake's new single.

Oh, by the way, I'm so glad you brought up Justin Timberlake's new single because I listened to, like, a quick snippet of it because somebody, I saw toaster saying, like, wait, it's actually good. So I'm like, okay, I'm like a wench, but I'm a reasonable person. I didn't think it was good.

I listened to maybe 3 seconds. I don't know how it came across my desk. I thought it was fine. His voice just annoys me. Like, if someone else was singing that song, I think I would like it. But I don't like his voice.

No. And he did, like, he's doing the rounds. He did Zayn Lowe. And he's like, this is the greatest piece of art I've ever put out. Like, I'm sure every artist says that, but this is my best work yet, and I just don't think that's possible because you want about him. But there was a time period where he released really amazing music.

No, I feel like he still has good music in him, but I just don't like his voice at this point. I can't unhear him.

Yeah. What's that song? I don't want to lose you now I'm looking right at the. That is an amazing song. Can't stop the feeling.

I was going to say, can't stop the feeling is his last great hit.

Yeah.

That song took over the world. People forget that it's him, but it's him.

Yeah. Because it's also the trolls movie, which is so weird.

Classic.

The trolls movie is constantly churning out bangers. It's broken and it's beautiful. Speaking of Kelly, do you know the song my favorite kind of high?

Of course.

From her new album?

Yeah.

Do you know the David Getter remix? It came up on my Spotify. Like somebody at Spotify knew that I needed to hear this song, jackie. It is probably the only thing that can get me to get on the. So I just listened to it on repeat. It's so good. It's like a pussy poppin song.

That is so great. There's a great David Getta remix of something that you need to listen to.

David Getta is like David Getta, you know?

I know. Nobody is like David.

And I get it. Like, it's David Getta.

Do you ever listen to heartbreak anthem David Gatta remix?

Jackie, that's my song. That's my little mix. You know?

Little mix. My girlies I miss every day the world is a darker place without little mix. I just want to say, ever since they broke up or went on hiatus, things have been going down.

Shit's been fucked.

Everything. Look around at the world and tell me it's not correlated to Little Mix's dissolution.

The environment. You're so right.

War.

War.

When little Mix was churning out hits, there was peace.

Peace.

Something to think about.

Yeah.

Anyways, Britney fans are streaming Britney songs instead of Justin Timberlake's new music. Her song Selfish is already up to number four while his is at number one. Right.

Okay. Like, we'll let him have his moment. Justin Timberlake is just not really ever going to be at the level that he was. He needs to just kind of accept.

That he's taken a hit majorly. I think that anything is possible and he could get back to being that person. That's what I think. But not if he just keeps doing this. It's like he's banging his head against the wall like, oh, I'm going to put out new music and here's a free concert. I feel like we need a deep understanding of Justin Timberlake in order to move forward. So if he wants to write us a book or give us like a documentary. Documentary. But there needs to be an understanding because he has some things to answer for. I don't think that there are. And I think that maybe there are answers that we just need to hear, but there are now too many questions.

No, by the way, you're 100% right. There is no response for everything that's come out in the last couple of years and him just moving on. Like, everything's fine and dandy. It's giving cringe. I don't know what the right platform for his. Like, a book would be good. A documentary would be good.

I don't think enough people would read a. And I think. I think documentary or, like, a long form podcast, I'm sure he does that, but I'm sure it's like, dax shepherd asking him what his favorite fruit is.

Yeah, no, we need the real. He needs to just kind of peel back the curtain, and if the answer is like, yeah, I did all that shit. I was an asshole. I was 22. I was the most famous guy in the world. I think there is a level of understanding there. Maybe there's not some big thing we don't know that excuses all of his actions, but maybe he wants to sit down and be like, no. I was like, a big ass loser prick.

Like, okay, yeah. And it's like, then what changed? That you're not that person anymore. Right.

Maybe meeting your wife, becoming a father. I think a lot of people could relate to that journey.

Yeah. Maybe there's also things. Maybe Justin's been through stuff. Maybe he doesn't talk about it all the time, but maybe there are things that have upset him.

Maybe.

So I'm going to vote documentary.

Okay.

And if it had been in, like, a documentary in junction with new music.

Yeah.

Powerful.

Powerful. I want to say something so random. When we landed last night, we grabbed dinner, and I had a glass.

Grabbed it. That's a phrase I don't like.

Yeah, because also, it implies, like, I went to a drive through, like, I had a full blown meal at a restaurant.

No, but sometimes when someone texts you, like, hey, want to grab dinner this week? I don't want to grab it. I would like to sit. Civilized manner.

No. If someone texted me that, I would like it.

Not like, do you want to have dinner? A would you like to?

You're too formal. Like, you're too formal for this generation, I guess.

But really, grabbing dinner has always been a phrase that bothered me and something I would never use.

Okay, so Ben and I ate dinner.

No, but maybe you did grab it. If it was after the.

No, no. But it was, like, civilized. Like, we went down to the hotel.

So you didn't grab it?

No, we didn't grab it. We enjoyed it. We enjoyed dinner, and I had a glass of champagne, and it was just, like, kind of the craziest thing I've ever done.

Were you high? As a kite?

It was so lovely. I just want to say, like, justice for champagne. That's all I'm saying.

I understand what you mean. And, like, a couple of stitches of champagne, there's, like, no lighter feeling.

I didn't even think I finished a whole glass. Like, just almost one glass.

But the comedown from champagne is not worth.

Do you mean in the morning?

I don't know when it. Sometimes it hits an hour later.

It's true.

Sometimes it's the next morning. It's horrible.

Yeah, it's like this really sort of headache inducing, maniacal feeling.

If champagne is light, like, the comedown is heavy, horde, hoard, hoard. Well, our next story is related to our previous story because Jessica Beal is making headlines. She says that she loves eating in the shower.

Oh, I saw this this morning on Instagram.

She finds it satisfying.

This is giving attention seeking. I know celebrities sometimes will slip or admit that they do something weird, and I feel like they actually really do do that, and it's weird. And they didn't think people would make such a big deal out of it. This is giving, like, staged. I'm sorry. No one on the face of the fucking planet eats in the shower and.

I eat every day. I feel like it was one of those things where she feels like she's coming clean and we could all be like, oh, I do that too.

Relatable.

Gina George raising her hand and mean girls. I've been bullied. And this is just like, no, we don't do that. Nobody does that. I want to say that. You don't even do that.

No, Jackie, she doesn't do. Like, I know that this whole story is fake, and I'm mad that we even chose it as a story because we fell for her trap. This is all a part of her.

Jackie, for her trap.

This is a part of her and, like, really poorly strategized scheme to get people to care about them again.

This is not me falling from her trap. This is me seeing her trap, picking it up off the floor and saying, jessica Beal said, a trap.

This is me seeing Jessica Beale's trap, picking it up off the floor and saying, this is a trap. No, it's a trap.

And me saving fellow mice from entering into a trap.

Do not fall for this. Like, we're moving on. This is not real. Nobody eats in the shower. Not even.

Let me tell you what she said. I want to describe the trap to you. She took to TikTok to rave about eating in the shower, claiming it's deeply satisfying and saves her time. She said, it's pretty simple, guys. You can do this. I find it deeply satisfying. She has a set of rules. Cringe. She has a set of rules for shower eating, which involves a ledge to stick a coffee or a yogurt container on.

Gross. I'm sorry. Actually, that's gross. Yogurt in the shower.

But also, how do you do your yogurt with the spoon? Because the spoon topples the yogurt canister. You really can't set it down unless.

You'Re using a plastic spoon, she said.

But you know, she doesn't use plastic.

No, definitely not.

She said, I like to take a bite or a sip and put it on the ledge, and then you do your thing. You wash your hair, keep the soap out. That's a big deal. The only tricky thing is when you're chewing. So the whole time that you're eating, you got to keep your mouth closed. Because I still like to get under the water while I'm chewing, and for whatever reason, I want to open my mouth at the same time.

That is disgusting. She's under the water while she's chewing. Okay. Jessica Simpson. Jessica Simpson. Jessica Beale set this trap for us to think of her as relatable and adverse effect. I think she's disgusting and unhygienic.

No, I don't just know this doesn't work. Like, if this were a thing, more people would do it. There's a reason why we don't.

Jessica doesn't do it.

The only thing I've heard of that I've never actually done. But it always sounds like a good idea, is like bringing your coffee into the shower, because apparently it really awakens you if you sip on it between showers, which that's fine. That's not a fucking yogurt.

No. I have drawn myself a bath and grabbed, like, a diet Coke and a bowl of pretzels. Like, that's.

No, Claudia. That's so different.

That's luxury.

That's not even of this.

Okay. Okay. She's a liar and a fraud and not relatable.

And if she is doing like she.

Needs to stop, it's true. Honestly, she would be better off coming clean as a liar than someone who actually does this.

And do you think that this is put out at this time? To gender, goodwill to the beal Timberlakes.

They are, like, on a mission to come back. Not maybe at the level that they were, but they don't want to be hated anymore, and she's not hated. She's worked. She's done some things during his hiatus, but they're just not it right now. And they just kind of need to understand that.

Yeah. Sometimes you just have to just take.

A seat in your mansion, and you'll be fine.

Yeah. That's why I don't feel sorry. You have no ideas to choose from?

I don't feel sorry. So many rooms to sulk in.

Are you ready for our fifth and final story?

I am.

Some drama I've been kind of following because I think it's kind of crazy.

Okay.

Alexis Bellina was rejoining the real houses of Orange county in a friend role. She was spotted filming with Heather Dubrois and Emily Simpson. But what's crazy is that she is now dating John Jansen, who is Shannon Bador's ex of many years. They just broke up, and now he's dating Alexis Belino.

I did know that.

That's crazy.

Alexis Belino is just kind of this, like, will. She's just, like, this omnipresent presence in the OC universe. Like, you cannot get rid of me, bitch. She's gonna come back around. Like, just when you think she's gone, boom, there she is.

Yeah. This kind of makes me want to get back into OC. I think she should be a cast member for this reason. Her and John Jansen seemed very serious, but also Shannon and John Janssen seemed.

Very serious, and they were for, like, many years.

Yeah. I just think it's so crazy.

I think it's crazy, too. And, like, what? Is there one single man in OC? John Jansen?

Perhaps it's giving Tom D'Agostino.

Yes. That's an amazing comparison.

Except from what I saw, John Jansen, I didn't see a lot, and I don't know anything, and I haven't watched in a few years. He seemed like a good guy.

Yes. I watched a bunch of the seasons where he was on, and they seemed like they were in a fine relationship. There were moments where they were really toxic, but that was because they were drinking. And I don't know if it's necessarily emblematic of their relationship, of him being toxic, but then, like, was in a toxic era after her and John Jansen broke up, that's when she got her. Like, I don't know where the toxicity was coming from. Her him.

Yeah, that's a good point.

It is crazy that Alexis Belino is dating him. Like, the world is so small.

Yeah. And so she has to get back on the show. She is back right now in a friend role. She was filming with Heather and Emily. And for the rehoke stands, like, next season will probably be a good one. Maybe I can get back on into it.

Yeah.

And those were the fast five stories. I feel as though you needed to know them.

I definitely feel like you needed to know every single one of them.

I can't think of one that you didn't need to know. You did need to know that Alexis Balino is dating John Jensen. If you didn't know that, I don't.

Know if you needed to know Claudia.

Like, I don't give a rip about the OC. And when I saw to, I did a double take. This was a few weeks ago, and I went, like, on a stalking spree of Alexis Bellino. I needed to know.

All right, before we give everyone the weekend off, let's do a little bit of Queenie and Weenie of the week. So Queenie and weenie of the week is a new segment here at the toast that we do every Friday where we're going to name a weenie of week. Somebody who was just giving Weenie energy this week and a queenie of the week. Someone who was giving Queenie energy of the week. And as stated in the beginning of the show, I had a really hard time coming up with Queenie. So let me put forth my nominee for Weenie of the week.

Okay.

My weenie of the week is PETA.

Oh, that's a good one.

Not only is it a good one, because we spoke about them at length yesterday, doing, like, losery ass shit. Somebody sent me a screenshot this morning of PETA doing something egregious again this week. Gypsy Rose Blanchard posted that she got a dog like her and her man's like, new dog. Welcome to the family. And PETA left, like, a hate comment.

What did they say?

Excited for your new family member. Next time, adopt, don't shop. It's like, all right, well, she already shopped, so just leave her alone.

Yeah.

And they're just like, out here again, in my opinion, dying on the wrong hills.

Yeah. My weenie of the week.

Oh, wait, I'm sorry. And a close runner up for my weenie of the week was Ryan Atwood.

Oh, that's good. I really don't have a weenie.

That's okay. You do Queenie. Because I don't really?

That's good. My queenie of the week. And I feel like we owe a lot of this week's success and humor to this man. And that's Mickey Mouse.

Wait, I never thought Queenie could be a boy. I just was always thinking girl.

Yeah, you think girl. But also, we love to celebrate women.

We do love to celebrate women here at the toast.

But today we're celebrating mice because Mickey Mouse really just. I'm so impressed with him and what he's built. And I feel like this was the week of realizing that and having an appreciation for this mouse who works so.

Hard, by the way. I absolutely love that answer. And when we were talking at the beginning of the show about what was different. It's Mickey.

That's what I said. I had the Disney Joa de Viv.

Yeah, the spirit.

So I do think Mickey is a big factor for why these episodes were fire, and he deserves queenie for that reason.

And we made so many clips about Mickey, and they all went viral.

I made so much. He was. He was great. He is great.

Okay. Mickey is the queenie of the week, and PETA is the weenie of the week. Very animal centric Queenie and weenie segment this week.

Wow. And I love how even though we're putting down PETA, we're still lifting up animals.

That's what we do here. We don't hate animals. We love animals.

We love them. We wish everyone loved them as much as we do. Right?

So that is our show, our fifth and final, and I think we can confidently say, like another banger in the basket. Love you all dearly. We're back on Monday in studio regular stuff. Make sure to grab your merch. Shoptostmerch.com. We've got two new kind of sickening, very different sets. Crew neck and sweatpants sets. You're not going to want to miss them. So check it out again. Jackie is in large and I'm in a medium. But Jackie really could have done a medium. She probably should have.

Yeah, I probably should have. Any day now, these will just be falling off me.

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