The "Curse of Miss America" podcast by Bridget Armstrong critically examines the rise and fall of the Miss America pageant, revealing a system that once sold national fantasy but now fails to support its participants. Women recount trauma, including body image issues, eating disorders, and financial neglect—such as not receiving scholarships to cover student loans. The Miss America organization is portrayed as suppressing narratives of exploitation, treating them as attacks on its image. Personal stories underscore a deeper crisis: the pageant’s promises have not been kept, and its values have shifted from empowerment to control. The podcast is interwoven with satirical segments on other social issues, including conversion therapy, black-market behavior, and internet culture, which serve to highlight the broader failures of institutions and societal norms. Through a mix of vulnerability and dark humor, the host poses a central question: what value do these institutions hold in a world that increasingly values authenticity over tradition? The narrative reflects on how personal and societal expectations—especially around appearance, success, and relationships—can lead to emotional harm, emphasizing that the real story is not about beauty, but about human dignity and accountability.
This is an "I Heart" podcast. Guaranteed Human. It's all just a joke. What is the value of these women? I'm Bridget Armstrong, back with season two of the podcast, Curse of Miss America. We're talking to participants, whistleblowers, and people who say Miss America didn't live up to their promises. He looks at me and goes, "You don't look like you suffered in the eating disorder." I never received scholarship many to pay for my student loans. Maybe this is the meta question for the podcast. What is Miss America at this point? Listen to the Curse of Miss America on the "I Heart" radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. [MUSIC PLAYING] In October 2021, my brother David was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A year later, he convinced me to make a podcast with him. This podcast-- My biggest fear is that I am afraid of being forgotten. My brother David is the story of the last chapter of my brother's life. It's weird and messy and vulnerable. And I'm going to share all of it with you. OK, so here we go. Listen to my brother David on the "I Heart" radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There are thousands of podcasts that can tell you how to better yourself. Get worse with Kyle Pru is not one of those podcasts. So if you're interested in getting thinner, going to therapy, starting peptide, setting boundaries, taking supplements, making your better, getting closer, then I would humbly recommend other podcasts. If you're interested in blackmail, love, bombing, cloning yourself, or getting revenge, then we've got a little something, something for a dastardly individual like you. Listen to "Get Worse with Kyle Pru" on the "I Heart" radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. [MUSIC PLAYING] This short lady comes in to prepare this year over the count. Everything about a screen, I'm not an international banker. That was a clip from our newest hit podcast, "Royal Swindle," about two very unlikely scammers. These Australian women charmed their way into British high society. One all were England's horse-loving elite and even met the queen, all while conning people out of their fortunes. From USG Audio, Blanchard House, and exactly right media, this is "Royal Swindle." Listen to "Royal Swindle" on the "I Heart" radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Goodbye. Welcome to "This Is Important," a production of "I Heart Radio," the show where we only talk about what's the most important bottom line, critical thing happening on this planet. Today, on "This Is Important," oh my god, what did I hit? Did I hit a mailbox? What is that garbage can? You've got the right one, baby. Uh-huh. When there's no romance, there's no reason to do anything. Buckle up. Go down, go down, go down, go down, go down, go down. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Damn, that was kind of fun. That was crazy. I got it, see, and do it. That was something. I like it. The energy, go, go down. Yeah, bro. I need my boys to lock TF in, boys. Come on, we got a lock in. Dude, lock TF in. Lock TF in, as Blake would say. Lock TF in, guys, like looking like Wolverine, looking like hipster, Wolverine. What's up, youngsters? What's up, all my fellow youngsters? What is the Steve Buscemi meme where he's like, yeah, I think that's right. What's up, fellow youth? It's fellow youth or something, right? Yeah, like my fellow young people or whatever. And what is that? That's from the Sandler movie. I believe. No. I think it's from a Toyota commercial. No way. I wish. I wish. I wish, dude. I wish. Got to wish. I miss good. I miss good Toyota commercials. As we know, what was there? What was they're saying? I'm sorry. You don't like the Toyota Thon commercials that have been running for 20 years with our girl. I'm just saying, it's no like a rock. Right? I grew up. A lot. Oh, Laurel. Oh, you're right, Laurel. Laurel is the face of Toyota. You're right. Laurel Copic. She was in Workaholics. Workaholics alum. She is the lady who denies Adam at the cocktail hour of the juggaloic stuff. Yeah. Very early on. That was very early. That was in the first season. Yes. Yes. Good old days. She was doing the commercials then. She had just started. And is doing them now. Wow. I mean, dude. She's a legend in the game. Face of Toyota. Unreal. Unreal stuff, man. That's a killer gig. That's a killer gig. Great gig. That's the gig. You want, in today's world, where they're not making TV really, they're not making as many movies. No, no, no, no. You just want a commercial that runs for 15 years. Absolutely. You're more famous as a, like she's on every football and basketball game. Nonstop. 20 times a game. I would love to reunite with her. My, my mailman just said a very funny, very, he was meaning it as a compliment, but it was offensive to me. Here we go. Today, I ran into him in the neighborhood. Me and Bo were taking a stroll about and he goes, man, I just, I want to let you know that he's like, I saw your commercial, you know, and it's so funny. You and Marshawn are like, oh, thanks, man. And he goes, and I just want to let you know, I'm a big fan from when you used to do movies. And I'm like, yeah, don't care what I used to do movies. And then he complimented the commercial, I'm still actively trying to do the movies. It's, it's hard out there and then I'm trying to, and then I call myself trying to break down the state of the industry and how hard it is to get movies made to do it. Commercials were actually a bigger deal than a movie. Can I talk? He's like, I got to deliver mail, brother. I started. He's like, well, actually, it's kind of, and then I was like, it's kind of hard out there. And then he was like, what do you mean? And I was like, gotta, gotta keep it moving and he's like, all right, see you. He's like, literally, yeah, I do. I have to do that. Oh, looked up from the stroller and was like, Dad, no, Dad, no, be cool, be cool, baby. Be cool about it. And then we got home and then a very scary thing happened. What today? What today? What today? Today. Oh, the mail man dunked on you today? You're still reeling? Yeah, I'm still really, I'm really from a lot of things. I'm about to go into the next thing I'm reeling from. And this is your locked in, your locked TFN. And I'm glad I'm divine. You're alive. You are locked TFN and I love that part. Dude, and you notice how I just turned red because I'm drinking hot coffee and we're shooting this kind of late in the evening. This is going to fuck me up. It's so dark. What is happening to you right now? So dark outside. So dark outside. Come home. I'm telling Chloe about the incident with the mail man. Yeah. And I'm just. Funny. I mean, oh my god, he was a big fan of you. We need to move. We have to move. We have to move. We can't come here every day. And Bo was playing with this little thing he got for Halloween, which you put on your finger and it casts a light onto that wall. Yep. Like a little like bat or something. And he loved the thing. And we looked down and he had bitten into it and it grumbled apart. And we're like, oh, buddy, get that out of your mouth. And then we found two little circular batteries this big and we got him out of his mouth real quick. We're like, oh, shit, that could have been bad. And then I looked up how many batteries are in those things. Nine. Yeah. Three, three, three. Okay. Three. So one is missing. Okay. That's not good. One is missing. We searched everywhere quickly. We're like, it's not here. We got to go to the hospital. Meanwhile, we're redoing the house. So they're outside. The guys are being like, miss, we need a paint color. Like right now, like they're out there with paints. Man, man. Like is this the right color? They're out there. We're like, our shot. Our shot is there. It got to go to the hospital. You know what? I liked you when you were doing movies, man. Yeah. It's like I used to, the commercials funny, but I liked what you used to do movies. And then we go to the car. There's no car seat. What the? Okay. There's no car seat. My assistant, Michelle, she had taken the car seat in her car and it forgotten to put it back into our car. And usually in the morning, we don't go anywhere. So it's not a big deal. We usually walk to breakfast or whatever we're going for you. And so I'm screaming. There's no car seat. There's no car seat from across the car from across the street. Are you panicked? Well, yeah. There's a code red and yelling at Chloe, because I am parked across the street. And the mailman is just like, this guy's life is in shame. The mailman is gone at this day. He's in the truck just watching. Then this woman that lives in the house across the street pops her head out and she's like, do you need a car seat? And I'm like, yes, please. And she goes, she goes, I'll just grab it from my car. I'm like, thank you so much. Yeah. Then she proceeds to run down the block. And then she runs down another block. Too much. And then she starts to run down the third block and then Chloe gets there. And I'm like, I think I have to follow this woman. So I sprint after. I'm a dead-nosed lady. I don't know this woman. This is the first time meeting her. This is Angel. When fame backfires, go ahead and sprint. Get her car seat. Finally. It's parked three blocks away. Chloe then, I don't even want it. Chloe, just laying in the back, the lane in the back. Loose. Yeah. Loose-child. Loose. Okay. We get the car seat. That's one way to do it. Loose. It's too big for a bow. He cannot even fit in it. Hold on.
to him and take him to the hospital. The hospital is six minutes away, we make it here. - Sorry, he's not out to the close hospital. - He's not choking. - No, he's not choking, but we are worried that the battery is melting in his stomach right now. - So they say that if you swallow one of these batteries, you have to have surgery. Like they have to get it out, and they will open up your neck or your stomach if it makes a way down there. - This is not cool at all. - It's not good, and also we're like-- - They can't pump a stomach? - No, apparently not, you can't puke it up. - I don't know why. - What are these batteries? - Let me guess, made in China. - They're the little tiny lithium batteries, made in China, China. - Made in China. - I bet you they're made in Taiwan. - Taiwan! - Taiwan. - So we get their X-rays, there's no battery. - Oh my God. - I am sorry this happened, this sounds rough. - And then we take the car seat back later. - We still can't find the battery. - I take the car seat back to this woman. I've looked for an hour. - My stomach's on fire. - I give her the car seat a couple hundred. - As I'm lifting up to take it up that she like, it was like a duplex where I have to go up the stairs. And I walk up a toy falls out, lands on the ground. It was already broken, and three batteries fall out. - What the hell? - So she had a broken toy with three lithium batteries in the car seat that she had given me. And I go, so there are three in those toys, and she goes, oh my God, did that toy break? Yeah, my son was playing with that. Oh, thank God, he didn't swallow these batteries. And I'm like, yeah, thank God. - Whoa, dude. - Wait, 'cause this is a thing that got passed out in the neighborhood on Halloween. So like all the kids in the neighborhood got it? - Apparently. - Yeah. - Okay, okay. - So I'm stringing this together. - Almost like a detective. - Yes. - Does someone gave these away? It was a fucking serial killer, this guy. - Yeah. - Oh my God. - And then we ended up finding the battery later on. My Michelle, my assistant, you know, went on a deep dive and actually found it. It took her like eight minutes to find. I looked for over an hour and couldn't find it. She found it in my eight minutes. - Yeah. - But, I guess the lesson is, is before you freak out, have someone else take a look? Have a look. Take a quick look, see. - Yeah. - But it was chaos. But if, you know, if you're in Orange County, go to home hospital. Those people are very nice down there. - Oh. - Beautiful. - Dude, I have very great stories about home. Not myself, but I do remember, I remember Teddy going there on a very drunken night. I think he got like his stomach pumped or filled with nutrients or whatever. - Don't they like put coal in your charcoal? - Don't you drink like charcoal and the new bar of charcoal? - Yeah. I think they like hydrated him and fed him the charcoal. And I think he just walked out. He didn't pay for it. - So he was just, he was okay. - You dropped him off. All right, we'll see you. - We're scared. - Well, because I was hanging out with you guys during this time. This was the early, early odds. - Yes. - Children, let us take you back to the early odds. - Oh my God. - What a time. - Hannah got the disco. - Everybody. Blink 182 and what, he just got so drunk that you guys are like, this is too drunk, we have to take him to the hospital. - Yeah, and you've got to remember we're college age. So it takes an alarming amount to have you all go like, whoa, homie might be dust. - Honestly, I don't even know what that would be. - Yeah, I've never taken a homie to the hospital and I've had homies die. - I wish there was some way to ask like upstairs, like heaven or somewhere to be like, actually seven times you should have died. - Yeah, it's like, right. I don't know what the number is. - It's gotta be up there. - Oh, mine's way up there first. - But you know what I mean? And you collect a friend group? - Oh yeah. - Plenty, oh yeah. - Yeah, I mean, it got to, I mean, I don't even think I was there that night 'cause I didn't drop out. I think it was when Teddy and Kyle were living together and it was just one of those nights where he was just-- - Just two men, just going shopping, shopper shop. - Okay, we don't got, we got class in the morning, but we don't get literally no girls going over there, 100% believable. - What else you want to do? You want to make another batch of French fries and just-- - I do like the idea of two guys who are like, I don't even know what to say to you anymore. Let's get drunk. - Let's just take shots. - Let's loosen it up. - Dunkin'! - Little social lubricant. - Well, I do remember that was a really cool time because there were these, what's the fry company? Or tego, or whatever, is that it? - Yeah. - Let's take a French fries. - They had-- - I don't know how to say it with an accent. - Or tega, they had these-- - Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. - They had these chocolate flavored French fries that were on sale for like, for like 10 cents. So the boys just stocked up on-- - Nice dude. - Dude, it's actually legit hard to swat a mosquito so shout out to you. - That was a fly, it looks like. - Not a skater. - Oh really? - You guys have those up there? - That skater. - Oh my God. - Sucks. - Sorry, tell your story, bro. - Honestly, and they stocked up on so much of these, or they got chocolate French fries that it's all we ate. And we like convinced ourselves. We're like, they're actually pretty good. But they were-- - I'm sorry. - Or tega. - Chocolate French fries. - Yes, they were chocolate flavored French fries on clearance at like the 99 cents store for like 10 cents. It's all we ate. And we were convinced, they were delicious. - They were convinced. - Yeah, but behind sight. - Not good. - Not great. - There's a reason they're on clearance. - And do you call it behind sight? - I said but in hindsight, but I will say behind sight. - Behind sight. - That seems more durset behind sight. I was like, oh shit. That's tight. - Oh no! - Behind sight. Can I tell, I mean, I'm coming in hot. I'm locked in. - Hey, you're locked T-F in, Adam. - Please, locked T-F in. - Absolute gnarly thing happened yesterday. Last night, Chloe's putting boat to bed. It's like 7.30, 8 p.m. And all of a sudden I hear this crazy crash outside. I go running outside directly in front of my house. There's a giant tire spinning. And this woman is parked directly in front of my house. - Another woman. Another woman. - These women, man. - Yeah. - I swear to God. - Up on the curb, inner Tesla, trying to reverse out, but she stuck in mud. And she can't, inner car's all fucked up. - Munch. - She hid in mud. - Yeah, there's like a little grass patch for my neighbor's house right in front. - So she's already jumped on the curb. - She's already fully, if our cars were parked in front, they would have been destroyed again, which happened two years ago. - Yeah. - The block is hot, dog. This woman had hit my neighbor's car so hard that the wheel flew off. It was just spinning in the street. I was one of the first people out there. She was reversing. She can watch this all over the place. - She can watch this all over the place. - She gets back on the street, drives about a half lock up, and then crashes again. - They have to. - Then she gets out of the car, comes running back, and she goes, "Oh my God." She's like, "My age," or maybe older. She might be 50 years old. She's like, "Oh my God, what did I hit?" I hit a mailbox, was a garbage can. - No, it's a full-on Audi A8. - Absolutely hammered. - Hammer. - Hammer. - I'm like, "Jesus Christ, lady, "how much did you drink?" And she goes, "I'll admit it." I've had two margaritas. - I'll admit it. - I'll admit it. - I'll admit it. - I'll admit it. - Anyone ever asks you how much you drink? - Do not start with "I'll admit it." - "I'll admit it." - "I'll admit it." - Do not. I was like, "This lock, lady, just why, dude." Like, what are you doing? - "I'll admit it already means you had to." So then, two on top of that, it's four bass lines right now. - Yeah, our wishes. - And she was like, "Sleurner words," and then talking way too much when the cops got there. They kept there within there with like, four or five minutes. - Yeah. - The cops were there. And then they were like, "Well, how fast do you think "you were going, ma'am?" And she goes, "I'll admit it." At least 60. - At least 60, no. - This is a 25 mile per hour zone. - You gotta add 20 miles per hour. As soon as she says, "I'll admit it." - Yeah. - Probably cruising 80. - And she's just talking up a storm. It was a fundraiser for her school. So she had a few. And does she have any children? Yes, 10 and nine. Where are they? At home. Are they alone? Yes. I should get back to them. And you're like, "Oh, my God. "Well, then you're going to fucking prison." - She's going to jail. - Yeah. For sure. - Shut up, bitch. - To the clinic. - Sure. - That's very dangerous. - So that was directly in front of her house last night. - Dude, the block is hot, brother. - Yeah. - I get like, I don't know how to do this on your situation, but like some sort of front porch chair. - Yeah. - Just to see. - Just to kind of sit out front. - The people watching must be unreal. - Oh, the people watching. - Yeah, it's pretty, yeah. - I know you want privacy, but like. - You gotta sit out there like a Halloween decoration. Just post it up on a bench. - Or like on a submarine, they have, what did they call that? - Periscope, of course. - Down periscope, of course.
great pill. Well, you know, I think I think what we need to do is if and when I build a new house, there needs to be an observation deck. Yes. That is just there to observe the street. Yeah. I won't even have use of the ocean. It'll just be street based with a laser pointer base. Just already up there for you to point at people and go, Hey, with the rocket launch. Bro, that's going to pay off for the zombie attack as well. So just and then my neighbor who got hit, my boy, Bob, he's a older man, probably about 70, nicest guy in the world. He's like, yeah, this is just kind of crazy. A second time, it's happened to me. I'm like, this is the second time. It's happened to us once. Both cars fully destroyed. And it's the second time it's happened to him. And then the people that live on the other side of the street, they're like, oh, yeah, it's happened on our side of the street a few times as well. I'm like, just people coming home or leaving just being blackout drunk. Are there speed bumps on that street? No, no, there's not. I was in toxic time. It's time. It's time to flex your star meter, bro, and get some speed bumps. Maybe speed bumps. Yeah. You know, as much as they're a bummer, there is a reason for them. Are we that age now? By the way, we're like, we gotta get speed bumps in this neighborhood. Oh, for sure. Fucking speed bump. I dude, I've never felt older. When I was like, just nark in this one. I called 911 immediately. I'm narking her out. I'm like, yeah, unacceptable. Did you say unacceptable a lot? I should have. I should have. I don't know if I did or not. You know what, ma'am, unacceptable. I was blacked out with a rage. Every time she said, I'll admit it, you said unacceptable. I think I said on more than once, my child could have been out here. My child. You're a change, ma'am. Yeah. I was like, because that's the time that we normally come back from like swim lessons. He's a lazy swim class. And I was like, my child could have been. I could have been. I felt swimming left out. And then today I put on a quarter zip. So, you know, yeah, so I'm an, I'm an, I'm an elder, ma'am, Adam. You're fully elder, Millennial. Yeah. You're fully in. The first thing I hate about eulogies is they never actually tell the Turks. I'm Dave and I've been it for my life. In October 2021, my brother David was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A year later, he convinced me to make a podcast with him, this podcast. Okay, so here we go. We didn't know what we were doing, so we just started recording. We discussed cancer since the radiation I lost about 10 more pounds. We fought. Yeah, pisses me off. And we talked openly about the fact that David was going to die. I am afraid of being forgotten. And I'm gonna share all of it with you. The constant back and forth battle about how do I, how do I not just be alive, but actually live. Listen to my brother David on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. For more than a century, Miss America sold the country of fantasy. Well, are you ready, ladies? Okay, here we go. But over the past decade, the crown's been slipping. They said, goodbye to swimsuits. Now, hello to lawsuits. I'm Bridget Armstrong. Last season, we took you inside the world of America's next top model. Now I'm back with season two of this podcast, Curse of Miss America, investigating the rise, fall, and uncertain future of one of America's most iconic institutions. The Miss America pageant. I never received scholarship. I need to pay for my student loans. He looks at me and goes, you don't look like you suffered an eating disorder. Great, but looks too ethnic. It's a story the Miss America organization really doesn't want us to tell. An exploitation of our Miss Americas is treated by the Miss America organization as an attack on Miss America itself. Miss America. 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You only need one thing, and that's the Get Worse podcast. Listen to Get Worse with Kyle Pru on the iHarm Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Utah, the Beehive State. Every colony has its rules. This whole plan of salvation according to Mormon doctrine is heteronormativity and carnate. If you pray and if you fast, God will help you. You either do this and get this fixed or you're never going to see your family again. And I know all too well what happens when someone strays from the hive. I'm Kate Kelly. I was a true believing Mormon, up until I was publicly excommunicated. And I am your host for season two of Camp Shame. This season we're talking all about conversion therapy, from church, pews, and therapist offices, from state capitals to college campuses, conversion therapy keeps getting resurrected. Listen to Camp Shame season two on the iHart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you guys, I know Blake doesn't add him. One of those like it's like a golfing windbreaker shirt situation. Do you know I'm talking about. Yes, but it's a windbreaker. Yeah, yeah, I'm into that vibe. Do you have one of those Adam? I don't. I don't have one of those. I don't go. So I feel like if I golfed. No, I know, but it's a trendy. It's a Orange County uniform, I think. Yeah, I try to steer clear of like what the Orange County Bros. Dress has. Because it's a very specific look. Right. And I don't love it. It's half-sips and Dodger has. Doesn't like, doesn't like bill, doesn't, doesn't bill bill a check wear one all the time. Am I tripping? Like, that seems right. No, he cuts the sleeves off of sweat shirts. But I mean, that's his uniform. That's pretty tight. Yeah, maybe off field. I feel like he rocks one of those. Yeah, like those quarter, what would you call that? Like a quarter sleeve? Well, now that he's banging that little 25 year old girl, I feel like. I feel like maybe he's up at his game and he's gonna get one of these windbreaker golf shirts that you're talking about. He for sure dresses him. She's gonna definitely start making him like bleach his tips and stuff. She's got it down. She knows what she's doing. Definitely. Definitely. Definitely. Definitely, definitely blazing the tips. Definitely. The fact that it's so funny what like just what young you got this. I hate to say this word pussy. We'll do to an older man. Uh-huh. They will lose their shit. They will they will annihilate their entire career. Tail is all this time. They will their whole reputation. No, just throw it in the toilet. They're like, I don't need this. She this, this young woman is allowing me to fuck her. I'm a dude. But Adam, you know what? You know what? You know, you all the noise, the disappointment, the the the the presumed shame. It all goes away. Yep. When you're walking down the street and one other guy gives you a nod. This is the way and you go, that's why I'm doing that. That's why I threw my life away. Yeah. It's just one nod from a guy going, you're doing it. That's why I destroyed my legacy. That's why I destroyed everything in my life. That's why I destroyed my legacy right there. Because it's not even like I feel like if you if you're divorced and you know, you're looking you're back on the scene and you're looking on the prowl. And you're I mean, you call the prowl 65. How old is Bill Belichick? I think he's got to be late 60s if not 70s. 73. Yeah, he's 73. Okay. So then I feel you can you can maybe date a 50 to 55 year old woman. What is the law? Not law. The law. It's half plus seven. No, no, it's half half your age plus seven is like the rule of thumb. Okay. I'm unaware. You guys have never heard that? I don't think I have. What where what was this on like Jenny Jones or something? Yeah, it's Jenny Jones plays. Yeah, it was on Jenny Jones. So Chicago based talk show Jenny Jones. It was on that. No, I've always remember it was like half your age plus seven. Okay. Why say Adam's crunch to the numbers? I can tell you it does not meet. Yeah, I am. So it's 43 and a half. By the way, that's That seems sprung younger than me.
And I would have said that's and that to me would be like a pretty big age gap. That's pretty wild. I think people would be would be whispering behind your back with that number, but they would whisper until they'd go online and be like, actually, did you know it's, it's high for age plus. I feel like what's what are they talking about at that point? Bill's talking about Dolby Gillis. There's no doubt. He's not even talking, he's got to talk about like the monsters, he's like, remember when the monsters first came out and you're like, what? Yeah, no, with green acres. When green acres was, it was a brand new TV show and you're like, ah, no, yeah, I feel like he's the shade of all the original stuff like Star Wars came out when I was a kid. She was like me too, you know, it's just, it's the new Star Wars. Yeah, they're probably bought, they're probably bonding over Star Wars. The thing is, is Star Wars didn't come out when he was a kid. He was an adult man when Star Wars came out in 1970, what is it, six? Yeah. He was an adult man. 70's a lot of time. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So it's, it's truly befuddling. Oh, oh, Todd just put in the chat this crazy thing, Jordan Hudson, who is Bibliolichek's girlfriend, files to trademark the word, the phrase gold digger. Yeah. She wants to trademark the phrase gold digger. Yes. Wait, I'm assuming to sell merch. Who is that? Yeah, but like. Oh, sorry. Jordan Hudson. That's her. That's her. That is Bibliolichek's girlfriend. No, no, sorry. I thought, I thought Jordan Hudson was like, oh man, I didn't know who that was. No, no, the name Jordan confused you. You're an old school. You're a 73 year old man. With that mustache, that's a big confused dude. That's how she robed Bill. He's like, Jordan. Hi, I'm Jordan. And he's like, the goat, that's a, that's the last name. I know that. It's a man's name. Yeah, that's your way in to trick the old men. I'm like, I was waiting for Blake to, I was like, where's his going? It's a man's name. Let's fuck. You never know. To trademark gold digger is, well, how does he feel about that? She's so young. She doesn't even know the gold diggers been around yet, but how did, how does he feel about that? Cause in, in our world. I get, hey, you know what? I'll tell you how he feels about it. Rock heart. He just said, no, and he feels just fine. He gets that nod, baby. He feels rock heart about it. It's just that, it's that walk around nod. He don't give one, but they go to Hawaii. They finished dinner. They go walking on the beach. He walks past another couple. He gets the nod. He's fine and everything is worth it. If you're walk past another couple and the guy gives the nod, that guy is then in a fight the rest of the night with his age appropriate girl. If you get caught giving the nod, yeah, you can't give the nod. Why'd she give him a nod? Very subtle. It's quiet nod. Just a little more of a look. I don't know if I'd give a nod. I, to me, Adam, you would bow. You'd go, sir, I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean, maybe when I'm 73, I, I will be giving nods, but I, that's what I'm saying is it's like other older guys. Yeah. It's not young guy. I don't know your head's doing it. You're going to be nodding cars, dude. Yeah. I'm just a bottle head. What is it in Shanghai Noon, where like whenever the princess shows up, they like doosh. And then they drop down and bow. That's the shit that goes down when he's on the beach and club med with the old folks. You're a monster. Somebody, a child, you got to pull up a, pull up a gift. Can you pull up a gift? Can we get a gift from the child? Shanghai Noon going like, I got to run that one back. I know it's a classic classic, I mean every Jackie Chan film is highly watchable. Yeah, it's been a minute since I watched that one. That's a blockbuster. I saw that shit in the theater. I remember dragging Emma being like, it's this guy Owen Wilson. He's from this movie. Bottle Rocket. It's Jackie Chan. Cha, cha, cha, cha, cha. Game changer. You're late. You're like that meme where the dude is like talking into the girl's ear. Exactly. I remember when you could just be in one popular movie and then suddenly you're in a lot of other popular movies. Back when they made movies. Well, now it's commercials and commercials. I don't know if you heard about it. Now people are known for their commercials. Thank you. Thank you Blake. That's where I was heading. Yeah. Now you're kind of known for your commercial game. Yeah. But you used to be able to get on a heater with the movies. Yeah. Yeah. Next man. I used to make a lot of movies. Yeah. And also everybody knew martial arts. Oh, it was just partly. It was like riding horses was in the early days then you had to know some martial arts. Yeah. You had to know some hot y'all at least a chop and a kick. And then in my day and our day, you had to be able to hack you sack and freestyle rap and freestyle. And freestyle rap, of course. And good with those videos that I keep sending you guys where I keep saying that Blake needs to get into this where the guy was gloves and does the finger dancing with little lights. Well, that bow eight, dude, it's basically those things. The finger lights is an introduction into kind of rave. Yeah. They're trying to get our kids on Molly earlier and earlier and earlier. That'd be tight. And if you're watching us on YouTube and you don't know what Blake has been looking like this entire pot like the way you're saying this. Amen. You're the guy. Life is one battle after another. You're a rave culture. You're like, they're trying to get our kids on on Molly earlier and you're you look like a Molly dealer that only deals to children mixed mixed with like the way you keep rocking back and forth. You look like a white rate Charles like with your white rate Charles has because you got the blue bloggers on with like the baby don't go. The finger looks like he's playing the harmonica and when you do that, it's just off right Charles. Dude. You are so dumb. That's all I say. Will you do? Will you just say one thing for me? Just say you got the right one baby. Hey, I'm gonna make it do what I do. I'm gonna make it do what I do. Sorry, man. I just I don't sell Molly anymore. Sure. Have you ever done Molly Blake? Um, yes, I have done it, okay, I think twice. I did once at a music festival and it was fantastic. It was a great time. And then I think I did it once in the presence of a bunch of beach beach dudes. Okay. What? I mean, in the presence of a bunch of beach dudes. What does that mean? Never fails. I mean, this is it. This is Adam. This is where he comes from. You talk about how Kyle and Teddy just got hammered alone together? Yeah. This is just the vibe. This is just a conquered's best. Should we tell him? I think I did it like, what was that? What? I don't want to incriminate people. I feel like maybe it was Zach's birthday. Where were we taking like flabongos in like a, in a restaurant bathroom? And then I feel like Molly was being passed about. What is flabongos? That's when you take a flamingo lawn ornament and you cut the beak off of it. And you basically use it as a beer bong. And they were doing that in the bathroom. It was a very turned up O.C. party. It was very turned up. Well, yeah. That's unbelievable. Hats off. Oh, it was, I was like, oh, you guys get it. That seems right. Yeah, that's you. Yeah. It was like O.S. So was I also doing, doing Molly then? Was I there? I think so. I think I have videos. I think it was like season two or three of workaholks. We were young go-hards at this time. You know, Adam, when you're pointing one finger at Blake, there's three point right back at you saying, let's do Molly. No, I mean, yeah, I've done Molly a handful of times. Yeah. Love it, dude. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I remember, I've only done it maybe, I would say maybe six times, but I then I remember buying, I was like, oh, I should buy Molly in case Chloe ever wants to do so. I'll just have it on hand. And just to have it. Right. And then I spent, I was like, hey, can you get me Molly? And I gave the guy $200 and then he gave me so much Molly. I didn't know how much Molly was. Turns out you can get a ton of Molly. Really? And then I never did Molly ever again. You just brought it to Zach's birthday party and you were passing it out and then here we are. And I just found the bag of Molly, maybe a decade later. I just found it like two weeks ago. Okay. Not yesterday with the whole battery. No, no, no, no, no, like a couple weeks ago. And I just found it and it's, it's to the brim. It's one of those little tiny bags and it's just filled to the brim. Is it still good? What does it look like? Is it like a tab like acid or what? No, no, no. It's like little rocks. Right. It's like little pink and blue rocks. And I don't know, I mean, hey, slide into Blake's DMs and let me know if the Molly will still be good. Yeah. It's probably better. Like a fine wine. I'm assuming it'll just lose its potencies as after the through the years. Who knows? There's only one way to find out. Take the whole bag, bro. Take the whole bag. Yeah. And then go to aquatots with my child. Yeah. Absolutely. And I'll be there. Getting the re up. I had a weird, I had a weird encounter at aquatots, which is the like child swim program that we go to. Is that where they can like make your kids like they like snap at them and he can just roll over? No, it's not it's not one of the ones where they like drown your child. It's like you're in the pool with them.
You're like teaching them to hold their breath. It's pretty, I wish they would like drum my child a little more. I want them to like, graduating is like they push it in with clothes on. Yeah, it's like that sort of shit is gnarly and it barely works. But I'm like, I wouldn't want to do that, but it's just like a regular little kid swim class with with you're in the pool with them. And we went to a two year old's birthday party of of this little girl. And she's a little blonde hair blue eyed girl. And I don't know, I think I and then this other family who was also in the class was also there and I said hello to them. And then I got my wires crossed when I saw the other little girl and the other little girl is Mexican and they speak Spanish to her. She also speaks English and I go, Hey, happy birthday and front of everyone. Happy birthday. There you are. Blue birthday girl. And everyone's like, nice, it's not her birthday. Right. And I'm like, you're fucking disaster, Mike. And they're like, you were at the other little girl's birthday. You know that it wasn't her birthday. You have to. And it was like, they were cutting me no slack. And the grandmother was there and the grandma was like, you, it was like, Adam, you know it wasn't her birthday. It's not her birthday. I like it when you were a movie star, dude. I'm so sorry. Yeah, you're like, that's the joke, guys. I got you. I'll be I'll be underwater. I'm good. You'll see me on a commercial. Yeah. Fucking egg on my face, dude. It's it's a different level of embarrassment. Well, you have to call in a bomb threat. It's a different level of embarrassment when it's around other parents and and a bunch of children. Yes. It's no fun to be completely embarrassed in front of your, your peers. Yeah. Your parent peers look like a damn fool out here. Don't you wish you knew Spanish? You could just start saying Spanish and that would maybe help recover the whole thing completely bail you out of the situation. Just say like I'm well aware. I was having a Josh. Yeah. Suddenly I'm like, can pass up me amigos and they're like, that's offensive. Just the fact that you said, can pass up me and me goes, I wish you would have just started breaking out the butter off. Do we learn Spanish? Do we still do ads or do a lingo? I might I got to get on this because the people who keep up my like lawn and stuff. Okay. I like this. They we I talked to them all the time for years. Yeah. I don't know anything that he ever says. Yeah. I got a long guy like and I'm not even I'm not even exaggerating. Any finishes every sentence laughing. He's like, then we could we could do this. So yeah. And I'm like, are you fucking with me? Yeah. Play. Yeah. Player. So gee. I got it. I got me go do a lingo or some shit. Yeah. My guy, Jesus. It's very similar. He also laughs at the end of whatever he's saying. Where's he from? I mean, I don't I don't know. I don't get him boys. Get him. Yeah. I don't I do not know. But he I you know, I don't know if he understands me. Like I have to Chloe made fun of me because I was telling him to spray down our our deck because my day. Birds will shit on it right on my dick. And so I'm like, spray down the deck and I'm like, spray it down with the hose. And it's like the spray to dick with the hose. I don't I don't understand it. And then I and then I'm like, because the bird shit and he's like, I don't I'm not following. And then I start going, you know, and then I like act like I'm shitting. I'm like, go go go go go. Okay. Okay. Yeah. They got to learn Spanish. Okay. You got to go learn Spanish. No, he that that translated. He got that. He understands. My guy understands English. You're not pulling your your end of the road. That's what I'm saying. Is it like when he talks to me, I'm leaning in like crazy. Yeah. And you're lost in. He's saying he's speaking English. Yeah. But it's like, I'm like, open your mouth more. Goodbye. I need to tell him. But I'm like, it's liberalized. So it is not even the fact that he's speaking Spanish. It's the fact that this guy has a speech impediment. I don't know what it is. And you're and you're shitting on. You have to open your mouth. You have to do a NNCA. You know, like in German, they've got those long ass words. Yeah. A super. Yeah. Like splank splank, splank. They're being stirred. Like they add a bunch of. Oh, yeah. Blake, like farphic, no, like whatever. Like they just string a bunch of word. Every sense he speaks is just like it's one word. And I'm like, okay, I know you're speaking English. Like your English probably isn't bad. I just need. I unfortunately need you to open your mouth, bro. A lot of. I unfortunately need a lot of help. I need more. I need more. I think everybody should just learn sign language. And that should be the international language. Is it international sign language? Yeah. I think it is. I believe so. Isn't there only one sign language? I believe so. To me, that seems like a beautiful thing. There's no other language like that. You guys know this one? Yeah. Bullshit. Of course. And that's so good. Oh, I thought that was bird shit. I was like, okay. No, no. You know, uh, blow job is literally this. Yeah. Absolutely. I read you loud and clear and tell show. I don't. What's the story behind that? Well, man, how do you learn that? How do you learn that? Whitting. Oh, no, Todd, Todd is saying sign language is not international. Oh, oh, Blake. Uh, well, I yes, ended that so hard too. So that's a little on me. But, uh, yeah, that's my bad. No, I was doing standup on stage and I said something about blow job. And I look over and at like bigger colleges, they'll have a sign language person on the side of the stage. Right, right, right. And she's just going like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And I was like, hold up. I stopped the show. I'm like, that's the international. That's the sign for sign language, not international regional, regionally based. Yeah, obviously. I bet that I bet that is international. Come on. This is everybody knows that. I would, I would hope so. I, yeah, that seems worldwide. I do love the idea of like you want to come back to my house and brush your teeth. And people are like, oh, yeah. Uh, no, thanks. I'm just like, damn, I asked him if you wanted to give a blow job, but he said, no, yeah, I want to give you a, oh, it's like a toothbrush. How do you say chorg? How do you say, how do you say chorg? So this woman was doing it and you called her out. Yeah. And then I proceeded to say that word, like 400 times throughout the rest of the show. Yeah, yeah. That's amazing. I would be like, Teddy Twister, just to see just like, what's happening here? What else? Yeah. Yeah. Blue waffle. Yeah. Blue waffle. Yeah. Blue waffle. That's a good one. Uh, where do you go from? What's a blue waffle again? I don't know. I, I think it's like a, uh, I think it's like a infection, isn't it? It's like an infected, infected testicles. There's something already. I mean, it's Coaches. Maybe there's Coaches. I thought it was a Coaches with the blue cheese. A blue waffle is an internet hoax and not a real medical condition. Well, she said we're sexually transmitted infection. Mm-hmm. That doesn't seem right. It originated around 2010 as a myth circulated online. And what do I have? What do I have? This is what do I have? This is often by Blake Anderson. Then what do I have, Blake? Hey, red waffles. Let's get off the internet homey and like talk to people in real world. All of Blake's shit is like from the internet from, I mean, 2010, you know how much you know, often Blake was on the internet in 2002. It was a heavy year. My, my screen time was, was head through the roof. Lot of, lot of phone play. The first thing I hate about Ulysses is they never actually tell the Turks. I'm Dave and I've been a **** for my life. This podcast. Okay, so here we go. We discussed cancer. 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He's like reading comments and like-- - Oh, oh, yes, he has to say, "Aye, aye, aye." - No, I do have a chat of homies where Sora has entered the building and it is funny too. - It's crazy. - It is really funny. - Yeah, it's, I mean, it makes me go like the entertainment industry as we know it. - We're cucked, cucked, cucked, cucked, cucked. - My homie, my homie Barney Lomax is just sending me videos of him arguing with people at the airport about like carry on luggage and stuff. - Okay. - That's pretty good. - That's a bitch. - And selling used cars, it's pretty good. - Yeah. I don't know, you know like publicly when people post like, "Aye," say it's like Instagram or whatever, you gotta be like, "Not cool dude." Like, "Don't post that shit." But privately, it is very funny. Well, 'cause you can't say like, "I'm into AI," because it is going to kind of cut the legs out from our industry very quickly. - You can say whatever you like. - Yeah, you could do whatever you'd like. - I just, you don't wanna be the guy who's like, "Yeah, bring it on." Before we have anything figured out. - It's already. - It's already. - Yeah, I'm aware. - I'm aware, but maybe there's a pushback. Maybe we can extend the industry a little bit. - You know what the pushback was? When we went on strike? - Oh, nothing happened. - In an entire year, and they did nothing to protect us. - They were like, "Let's make Sora." - That was a fucking air ball, dude. What were we doing out there? - I don't wanna get into the specifics, but-- - I don't wanna get into it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - We're not getting into the specifics. - I know what I was doing out there. I'm not even talking about what I get into the specifics. 'Cause we don't know the specifics, but we don't wanna-- - You're going the wrong way there, boys. - Let's just say this. Let's just say this. - This is the international sign of what I was doing on the strike. - The tongue's on the other side, Blazer. - Also, why is the tongue going the other side? - He got that hooked dick. - Yeah, your dick is all fucking-- - Got that candy cane dick, huh? - Little sugar too. - That's schematar, baby. - What are you, mm, mm, mm? - Yeah, don't worry about me. I was just fine during the strike. - Yeah, Sora, if that's like whatever, the tip of the iceberg. - Tell you what the tip of the iceberg is. - Okay, tell me, tell me. - I mean, I'm, what is the first move, like full-blown movie that they're gonna do? That's probably gonna be fucking badass. - No, it's not gonna, you're saying they, that they are gonna do, it's gonna just be some kid. - The robot. - It's just like, it's just gonna be, yeah, it's just, I'm saying like they, like, meaning like a them-day person that's out in the world. - Right, of course. - But my point, my point is-- - You know, they don't-- - Assume a gender, and they're gonna make some cool shit. - That's life, here's what, here's my like prediction. - I like this. - Okay. - Hot hot hot. - Hot, hot, bully children. - The moment, let's say, the one you're talking about. - The one. - The mom that comes out. - You know, baby, matrix. - As soon as that comes out, literally, the moment after-- - Literally. - Another one is gonna come out. - Another one. - Another one. - Because there's millions of people doing this, and it's gonna be non-stop, and you're not gonna even care. - Yeah. - I don't even know if you would, because you just know intuitively, they got farted out, and it's not really worth sitting through an hour and a half or whatever, because you're like, I don't know. There's another one. I don't know. There's something about a movie getting made, and you know all these people are in it, and it's been baked into us because we grew up with it. And I think anybody who's like five years old right now, I don't know what the fuck they're gonna be consuming for content or part or whatever. - Well, yes, 'cause I think about a lot of stuff, is like everything has lost the like, for lack of a better word, like the romance. Nothing is like romantic in art and anything, and any consumption, it's-- - Is there a lack of a better word? Is there a better word? Or is maybe they're not a lack of a better romance? What do you mean like? - Like to me, romance is like a human thing between humans, between two people, like a shared thing. There's, there is no, or it's a relationship with something, like a relationship with your music. It's a romantic relationship. You have a love, you have a connection, a deep connection, and the only word I can think about is like, you have a romance with that thing. - Romance. - Yeah, I think that's an encompassing word, and there is no romance in this world anymore, like as far as with what the entertainment you consume, because it's all just right on your phone. - Have you been on pornhub.com? - Oh, thank you. - Well, there are some female directors on pornhub who are injecting romance, and I do appreciate that. - Yeah, they should take it over. - I think there's like a weird, and let's just, let's just stop. - Let's just end the vlog. (laughing) - This is the last thought. - The final pod down. - That shit's important. - There's something about like a little bit of effort or a little bit of appreciation about the thing makes you enjoy it more. - Yeah. - Like, think about the burger we ate on Homeboy's Netflix show. - Yes. - Dinner time live. - Dinner time live, David Chang. - I still think about that burger. I think about, I know that burger more than I know his name, and I don't know if that's 'cause he made the burger mentally, and I sat there and watched it happen, or if the burger was actually that good, right? - And you did call him Burger Man several times. You kept calling him Burger Man. - And anyway, Burger Man? - Hey, what's up, Burger Man. - But like, just knowing that it came from a person in front of you that is also a renowned chef. - I think this is all very romantic. - Thank you. - I disagree. I think people actively don't care. - No one cares anymore. - About the crew or about the people that were working, or even the actors. - I'm not even saying crew. I'm not even saying crew. I think innately, they do understand what goes into a movie, and I don't even mean like, how many takes it is or like, how big the set is, I think there's just some subconscious appreciation for all those things together, working, and when they finally know, when you see a stunt, and you can tell it's not a real stunt guy, you don't laugh as hard. But when it's a real stunt guy eating shit, you laugh because innately, you know, you're happy, not to be that real person, who just ate shit down those stairs for that movie. Even though you also know, it's just a movie, and it wasn't even like the actor. - I totally disagree. I think that people, I do. I think people don't care. I think people in our industry and people we know, we appreciate movies in a way that I think the general population just doesn't, and they don't care if it's a stunt guy or if it's CGI or if it's Sora or whatever. And I think they're gonna stop making movies. - I'm saying a weird same thing as you. - Okay. - I think they're gonna stop making movies. - Oh yeah. - So they won't have anything else to appreciate but other than this. - And what I'm saying is also kind of what you're saying, which is they don't care.
And so, they won't care at all. Like, they won't, they won't even care enough to watch them is what I'm saying. I'm saying we, innately know now just because of pop culture and everything that goes into these things. And at a certain point, we're gonna know that it's not a real thing and we won't care. And there'll be another one right after it. Like, it's just, it'll be soup. Who cares? Well, what is gonna happen first, I think, is, I think they're going to, the studios are going to start to use AI with real actors. Why, why studios? Why, why doesn't even matter? Why can't it do kids? Because they're, that's still a way to make a lot of money. As you put Ryan Gosling as the lead and he is, they're paying him a bunch of money. He's the lead. But then all the background is AI, the background actors or AI, the sets or AI. Why can't they just make a hot AI person a star and then pay nobody anything? They have. I don't think they will at first. I said at first, this is how they're going to ease over the next decade or so, maybe hopefully longer. They will, they'll anchor it with a few main actors that you know that you like and then everything else. That's how the cast down, that's what, you know, movies now cost 50, even movies that you're like, oh, that's a small movie. It costs like 50 million dollars. Things are fucking expensive. That's because the scope of movies are larger or it's just that's the dollar. That's how much they cost. Why are movies that expensive? The dollar. The inflation has gone up. Also like, our unions are pretty strong. So they've gotten great deals for, you know, below the line people. For people like background actors make good money. So if you have a big, if you have a, I mean, it's great unless you're the movie studio and you're trying to cut costs, you know? Well, fuck them. I would actually spread it out. But what they're going to do is they're going to annihilate everyone and just make them all ass. Yes, because at the end of the day, studios will say, fuck humans, we will, we will fund non-humans. And that's taking money out of actual people's pockets. And that's where society becomes a complete disaster. You have to care about people. As the big person with the money, you have to care. And I think like Adam's saying, they won't, they won't care, right? They'll go, that's Ryan Gosling is enough for me. And then to my point, they'll stop caring completely. The person at the top has to care for anything to matter. And obviously everything is slanting towards the people at the top of our society do not give a fuck about us. Why do you suddenly have an accent when you're turning into, he's in character. Let him cook, okay. I'm just saying that, that's the baseline of this thing. And I think that's the hard lesson everybody's learning. This is important is that the people at the top do not really give a fuck. It's hard, it's a hard pill to swallow. At what point, how do we destruct that? I don't know, but everybody feels the same thing. That the people at the top with all the shit do not give a fuck. Yeah, but how funny are those videos of, of Ders' buddy arguing every funny. They're very funny. Do you, I've got videos of me kissing so many of my friends and I didn't kiss them, man. I didn't kiss them. Funny. They're funny enough. No, I've seen you kiss a lot of your friends, actually. So I know you've kissed them. Shut up bitch. Well, yeah, you have to have the initial photo of me kissing them. But then when you put it into the AI, I'm like kissing them harder and then my hair is in the wind. Has music lost any ground here yet? I feel like. And music's lost all the ground. No, no, no, no. I know like as far as like, no one buys albums anymore. It's just all and then so now they're just doing like music festivals and all that. I'm talking about, uh, has AI taken over any aspect of music yet? I think that's about to happen. Timberlin got very heated on. He has an AI artist and then also they found him like, he had like this beat competition and he loaded it like beats he was getting from people and loaded it into AI. And people were like recognizing, yeah, it's, it's already begun. It's already begun. But like, there's no album that anybody's bought yet that's like all it. You hear like, oh, it's Kanye covering the Brady bunch theme song. But like, right. Right. Is there anything yet? Well, what I think it's going to, how it's going to start is it's going to be jingles. Like every commercial you see, there's like a jingle and it could be like a song that you know or kind of know. It's going to be all of those are going to be AI and they're like, make it sound like the rolling stones, but not the rolling stones. And then right, I have another chat that I'm on that I have a friend who runs like words through an AI thing and then it spits out a song with those buzz words in the styling of whatever. And they're usually, yeah, they're pretty funny. So there is a, an AI band called the velvet sundown, which sounds like an AI name. You know, when it's like named AI, when it's like AI names something, you're like, either Isaac named it or it's AI and it's probably both because I, I talked to, with Isaac about anything creative. He's like, well, you can just use AI getting radical, put it in chat GPT and I'm like, no, dude, I refuse. Like, I'm going to use my brain. He's like, okay, I just use chat GPT. Good luck. Actually pretty good. You're actually talking to chat GPT right now. They got one million plays on Spotify and music insiders hate listeners should be warned. Yeah, but people are listening for the, for like the experiment. They're like, what is it? Let me listen to it. It's not like people are jamming to it. Yeah. I don't know. It's not a hit yet. Oh boy. This is important. And you take back to take all these any epic slams. You know, I want to, I want to take back, if I got anybody depressed or anything like, I do believe in the future. I do believe in humans. I thought you're going to take back slamming the people at the top. If you, if you are at the top. No, man. I love you. No, you got it. I love you. No, you got it. We, we got a, we got to share the wealth. We got to care about our fellow humans. If you're sitting on all the cash, you got to spread it. Well, didn't Elon just, I, he, I just saw some tweet or whatever he posted about X that he posted saying like AI is going to take, no one will have a job anymore. And having a job will be something. If you want to do it, you can. It'll be like gardening. And I'm like, that's such a billionaire person kind of like I'm kind of hyped. I mean, yeah, in theory, that sounds cool, but that's not going to be the case. But we need a purpose. I need a purpose. Yeah. Yeah. What is our, what is our human person? You can't just be trying to keep batteries away from my children for real. Absolutely. Yeah. What is our, yeah, I think that the purpose of humanity. What is it? I mean, people like doing shit, people like building stuff. I mean, well, no romance. People romance. Fucking Elon's built plenty of stuff. When there's no romance, there's no reason to do it. I saw an interview with whoever, I don't think he's the chat GPT guy. Altman? Yes, Sam. He is. This guy's a fucking knucklehead. This, this woman goes, so what does it look like in 10 years from now? And he goes, honestly, that's just, that's too far ahead. And she's like, that's too far. He's like, it's too far to even know. And she's like, but like, what are people going to be doing for jobs? And he's like, you know, they'll probably look back at us on this podcast and think, oh my God, I feel so bad for you that you had to do that when they have some high paying job, you know, driving a spaceship to Mars or something. And I'm like, guys, what the fuck are we talking about? Are you out of your mind in 10 years? No one is going to be getting paid a lot of money to fly a spaceship to Mars. But she just was like, all right, yeah, cool. What? I mean. Yeah. There's, there, I mean, they're all just snake oil salesmen just going like this is what remember when everyone, when Zuckerberg was like the universe, you better, you better actually buy property in the metaverse because it's going to be worth a lot of money. And then people were buying, there was like a street in the metaverse, that people were buying like a million dollar and now no one even, I mean, I got my goggles out. Yeah. Are you trying to get us to buy your house in the metaverse? If you guys want to strap in, I see what's happening. I see what's happening. Is this for sale? Is this another commercial? If you want to strap in and want to spend $1.3 million next to the Nike store, I got a property available. It's wild. Well, hey, with that said, I did watch, um, a boy, a weapon, weapons last night and I thought it was fantastic. I really liked it. I liked the cinema of it. I thought it was well done. Yeah. I'm excited to see it. I've yet to see it. She watches it. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. I saw a cool indie movie called Last Stop in Yuma County. There we go. Shout out to our indie boy. That was a, that was a very cool, uh, felt like early Tarantino-esque, uh, it was pretty, pretty radical. This is new? Yeah. Uh, maybe a year old. Oh, okay. Humans doing human things. So does anyone know what Isaac is talking about out of nowhere in the chat? Isaac goes. Hooners. Hooners are ditching the short shorts. Oh, no, no, no, no. The early, he goes, this is interesting. But the new slash old owners are bringing back more modest horn shorts and getting rid of the short shorts. And I just wrote what we were, we weren't, we haven't mentioned Hooners, we were talking about Hooners at all. And then he, I go, what? And then 10 minutes goes by or several minutes goes by and he goes, Hooners are ditching the short shorts. I'm going to say no.
no more butt cheeks in the restaurant. I think maybe he was talking to Siri and it went on to the chat, but, uh, you know, he was talking to chat, GPT's like, what's going on with those short shorts at Hooters? Well, it would be a funny thing for this is important to talk about. Should the guys talk about that? Hey, well, the good news is, but actually the bad news is skimpy uniforms are out. Skimpy uniforms are out modest in as Hooters founders take back control of the chain. As long as you don't change the color, I love that color orange. I don't care. How it's presented. I love the color orange. It can be baggy sweatpants. I mean, I, yeah, all right, whatever. I don't think anyone was there at Hooters for the ass cheeks. That's now what I mean, it wasn't called the cheeks or cheekies. That's right. It was. That would be cool. And we always call cheekies. The like, the leg covers at all, baby, how they wear those leggings and they just look so strange. I love it. The like stockings, like loves it, as long as they keep both and they keep the color orange. No, this is important out of nowhere. Isaac's like, this is really interesting. What are you talking about? God, I love it. Isaac's got to take back. He's the best. All right. Guys, I don't know. When is this podcast going to come out? Todd. I'm not next week, but the next week. So is that? Are we, are we in Vegas right now? Are we going to Vegas? We're definitely going to Vegas. Are we in? Are we about to be in Vegas two days before? So this is how two days before the Vegas show, baby, get your tickets, there's still some tickets. Get on. I'm so excited. I'm so I'm going to stick around, try to, try to stay there for F1, but my wife's friend is getting married on that Saturday. Oh god. This is the way. So I, I cannot be there for the F1. I think there's like a pre limb or something on Friday that I want to try to go to my god, what a bummer for me. But come out to the show. It's a human experience. It's going to be so fun. We're in the building. It's going to be a blast, the Cosmopolitan Chelsea theater. November 20th. That's right. Get out here. November 20th. Baby. This is a corn live. It's going to be crazy. It is going to be. And by the way, special guest. Lots. Especially this. And you know, Isaac's going to be there, you know, Isaac's going to know we're piercing his dick after saying that after saying that in the chat. We're piercing his dick. Sorry. Sorry about it. Isaac can come out in the new and improved Hooters outfit. Hooters if you're listening. So can you send us a probably two Excel, like the Hooters city jersey. I love it. Absolutely. Yes. Modesty is in. I agree. And that's another episode of this is in Hooters. I'm Bridget Armstrong back with season two of the podcast Curse of Miss America. We're talking to participants whistleblowers and people who say Miss America didn't live up to their promises. He looks and he goes, "You don't look like you suffered in the eating disorder." I never received a scholarship money to pay for my student loans. Listen to the Curse of Miss America on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. This podcast, "My biggest fear is that I am afraid of being forgotten." My brother David is the story of the last chapter of my brother's life. It's weird and messy and vulnerable and I'm gonna share all of it with you. Okay. So here we go. My brother David, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get worse with Kyle Proo is not one of those podcasts. If you're interested in blackmail, love, bomb, and cloning yourself are getting revenge, and we've got a little something, something for a dastardly individual like you. Listen to get worse with Kyle Proo on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This short lady comes in to brew badmiss you over the counter. Everything about a screened, I'm not an international banker. That was a clip from our newest hit podcast, "Roll Swindle," about two very unlikely scammers. And all were England's horse-loving elite and even met the queen, all while conning people out of their fortunes. From USG Audio, Blanchard House, and exactly right media, this is "Roll Swindle." Listen to "Roll Swindle" on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Goodbye. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.
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The podcast "Curse of Miss America" investigates the Miss America pageant's decline, highlighting issues like exploitation of contestants and unfulfilled promises, such as lack of scholarships.
A central theme is the contrast between the pageant’s historical idealism and its current reality, where participants report emotional and financial harm without recognition or support.
Personal stories from participants and whistleblowers reveal trauma, including eating disorders, body image pressure, and feelings of being treated as tools rather than individuals.
The podcast critiques institutional power, showing how the Miss America organization suppresses narratives that challenge its image or values.
Other segments explore controversial topics like conversion therapy, black market behavior, and internet culture, often using satire to highlight societal failures.
A recurring message is the vulnerability of individuals in the face of societal expectations, especially regarding success, body image, and relationships.
The host emphasizes a "meta" questioning of value, asking whether institutions like Miss America still serve a meaningful purpose in modern society.
The show blends personal storytelling with satire, using absurdity to underscore real issues of power, exploitation, and emotional neglect.
Summary:
The "Curse of Miss America" podcast by Bridget Armstrong critically examines the rise and fall of the Miss America pageant, revealing a system that once sold national fantasy but now fails to support its participants. Women recount trauma, including body image issues, eating disorders, and financial neglect—such as not receiving scholarships to cover student loans. The Miss America organization is portrayed as suppressing narratives of exploitation, treating them as attacks on its image.
Personal stories underscore a deeper crisis: the pageant’s promises have not been kept, and its values have shifted from empowerment to control. The podcast is interwoven with satirical segments on other social issues, including conversion therapy, black-market behavior, and internet culture, which serve to highlight the broader failures of institutions and societal norms. Through a mix of vulnerability and dark humor, the host poses a central question: what value do these institutions hold in a world that increasingly values authenticity over tradition?
The narrative reflects on how personal and societal expectations—especially around appearance, success, and relationships—can lead to emotional harm, emphasizing that the real story is not about beauty, but about human dignity and accountability.
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The podcast investigates the rise, fall, and future of the Miss America pageant, focusing on allegations of exploitation, unmet promises, and the impact on the women involved.
No, several participants reported not receiving scholarships, which made it difficult to cover student loan payments.
The podcast is distributed across the 'I Heart' network, including platforms like Apple Podcasts and the iHeartRadio app, making it accessible to a wide audience.
The podcast explores dark or controversial topics like blackmail, revenge, and love bombing, targeting a niche audience interested in edgy or dramatic content.
It examines conversion therapy practices in religious and therapeutic settings, including their presence in churches, schools, and therapy offices.
Listeners note a lack of romance in entertainment content, suggesting that modern media consumption lacks emotional connection and genuine human interaction.
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