The Snack: Fat Bears, White House Media Ban, and the Iced Coffee Debate

This week on The Snack Mike's off at the White House Bestiality and an iced coffee debate This is a Dear Media production Enjoy Hi guys Look at us We are here We're doing it Do I look weird with a jacket on? I meant to ask you before we started recording Do I look weird with these pajamas? These children's pajamas? I thought this was the cutest set And I feel like I'm a kid on Christmas morning Be honest It's the color It's just too light It looks like a No, I know Listen, I was so excited about this And I just wanted to be cozy today And I was like I don't feel appropriate on the streets of New York Like, I don't know I used to live here and run around And like work out clothes And it You got a little L.A. comfy It's too light This in black is not an issue Listen, I will pretty much You can wear anything on the streets And I would never shame you Like, I think fashion is just whatever you want it to be There's like no rules anymore Totally But that That's a little We should keep it in the house I didn't Yeah, I don't know I mean, it's for the streets It's not pajamas I love the top Yeah, you look great But I wore the top with like a black legging And that felt a little different Than these gray pants It's the pants They're too smooth I need like a rib on them Or I need them to be looser Or I need them to be tighter They're too smooth Like, I need them I just I feel like I'm gonna see your whole vagina line But why wouldn't I see that Yeah, in a legging I lower half These are not meant for it You know what I mean? In the front, in the back I brought jeans for lunch You know what? Because I was like I just don't know what like we're I don't know if you're going But I'm meeting Bobby for lunch Where are you going to lunch? I don't know Wow So I was like Are we getting like fast casual? Or are we gonna I don't know, go to the Smith And I don't want to I just need to wear a jean Yeah But to answer your question Yeah, you know what I like about this conversation Is that I asked you a question about me And you were like What I'm gonna do is talk about me And that's very me coded I'm channeling you Yeah Always bring it back to you In the most serious of moments Yeah, I like that jacket Okay I think you're gonna get a little hot in here Under these lights I am a little hot All right, well Let me throw a t-shirt on While you guys are watching Who knows? Who's to say? 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And he said no No someone else did Someone else said it His explanation was That somebody at the FBI Showed him an unspecified case Involving applicants Who were forced into bestiality And so apparently Apparently this is a real problem Okay so then John John Kennedy Is that his name? Like JFK? It is Robert Kennedy Sorry I take it back It's not RFK It's John Kennedy Republican Senator John Kennedy So Which also RFK is totally fucked up To Animal 2 At first I thought it was RFK And I was like Why is he against this? Or no he just like Kills animals He puts them in his car I don't know Whatever he's got going on So he goes And when this person Brought this to you Cash Did you not say What planet are you from? Like I hate nothing more than An old dusty Republican Senator But really he held his feet to the fire Because he's like What are we doing? Cash Patel was like Really trying to do something He was like I am going to stand up For this disenfranchised Marginalized community And you know It's through zero faults of their own That they had sex with an animal Whose fault was it? You know what I gotta say Why stop there? Because we have pedophilia covered Now we have bestiality covered What about necrophilia? Dendrophilia Sex with trees Agalmatophilia Which I just looked up Dolls and mannequins What about the one Where you have sex with the ground Like in Saltburn? Okay That didn't come up On my Google search It's giving necrophilia Like trees and the ground Like nature You get turned on by nature Necrophilia is dead bodies though Dendrophilia Sorry Dendrophilia Dendrophilia Sex with trees Okay Sounds like dandelion Like this administration Right now is so sick Like how about We all just have sex With consenting human adults Is that so much to ask? Let's not bring anything else Into the mix Like if you were trafficked And you were forced To have sex with an animal And you've applied to the FBI And didn't get in Because of it previously Please leave a comment But I just don't think That's happened Also like I guess there can be Exceptions to rules And we don't have And we can like Cross that bridge When we come to it Why have we used The precious time Of our United States government I mean what else Are they doing? But like this needed To go to court We need to stop No like let's cross that bridge When we get to it Like it's in the FBI bylaws It's like we could allow it Let's just worry about it When it happens He also never explained What those circumstances Look like How many cases Of this existed He never provided Evidence or examples Citing privacy concerns He was like It does happen We just can't tell you about it Right And you know You know the crazy part Is that prior to 2016 Maybe even if this happened In Trump 1.0 This would be The biggest headline Because of how insane it is Like if James Comey Had done this You know what I mean But this is just like Another day This didn't even make Top headlines I bet If Democrats Brought this to the floor This was niche The Republicans would be Carrying torches Like I can't believe We're wasting our time on this This is just another day We have the Paul brothers Going to the Pentagon Like this country Is a clown Show Like is Cash Patel not Embarrassed He's like I would like these words To come out of my mouth I would like to bring this To the floor of the House And the Senate I would like to say Out loud In front of hundreds of people And the world That bestiality Should be a protected class So Cash Patel Is totally incompetent But he can't own it Like they're all so terrible Pete Hegseth When he speaks He speaks with conviction He's wrong He's a horrible person He's misogynist Racist All the things But Cash Patel Can't own it So it makes Makes me think Someone set him up It makes me think Someone saw an opening To be like Cash I gotta tell you There's all these Trafficking victims That have been forced To have sex with animals It's a work prank And you need to bring this To the Senate It's a work prank He's so He's the person That would buy it Remember that time That you thought That TV show That fictional TV show Was real Yeah I forget what it was about It was about how We all have a soulmate In the world And there was a company That could find it for you And you thought That was real I was just really desperate To find someone at the time I was just really on the hunt I'm not Sometimes I think that I don't need Romantic love The way that other people do I think that's great It would be sad If you were like Desperate to find someone And you felt like you couldn't I mean I think that you can Obviously But like If you were desperate To find love You would have Not broken up With the guy That was just Really into you You know Sometimes I just think Like why do I I don't need anybody Besides for sex Because I have you And Emily and Melanie We've been fucking you guys No she doesn't have sex With me But if you did That would totally Neutralize my need For a partner Yeah I never sit around In my house And think You know what makes This experience better Is a man I know And if you ever get horny Hit the zoo And join the FBI Okay so on a lighter note In our animal report It is fat bear week Hell yeah So fat bear week Is a single elimination tournament Where the public votes online For the fattest Most successful bear This is in Canada Sorry sorry Alaska you guys Let me be clear Canada and Alaska Get them all twisted up Okay so Fatter bears Have the best chance To survive winter hibernation The bear with the most votes Advances And then won Winner is crowned Fat bear week champion On Tuesday September 29th And you can go to Explore.org To find out all this and to vote. I think it's very funny that voters decide by comparing early and late summer photos of the bears. So it's based on how fat they got. This is the opposite of like American like game shows that we had growing up, like The Biggest Loser. It's just like, how much weight can you gain? So you meet the bears. They're all on the website. The website looks like it's the Oregon Trail. Honestly, this website has not been updated since 95. And I love that nostalgia. So there are more plus prong. You meet the bears and then you consider their life history, their unique challenges they face. There's a bio on each. And there are four categories. Bear families, sub-adults. What's that mean? Single teens. Okay. Single adult females and adult males, which when I read these, it was the low-key giving porn category. We have family, stuff family for you. Sub, sub-adults. That's for Donald Trump and Epstein and all them. I was thinking more submissive, not teens. Oh, I thought Matt. When I said porn, you didn't. I said sub-adult. And I was like, oh, you were right. Teens. But I'm thinking submissive adults. All so sexy. Single adult females. I just think it was funny. Okay. So I have a pick for us. I don't know if you checked them out, but there's really only one that spoke to me. These are like the categories, like best actor, best supporting actor. Okay. And then I think you vote from each category. Again, guys, it's a little confusing. I wish I understood this better, but just get in there. You'll explore literally on explore.org and then you'll vote. So I just wanted to give you guys our pick this year. It is a single female. She's number 910. Again, some of them have names, some of them have numbers. It's confusing, but this is a large adult female who has dark brown fur, a prominent brow ridge, and somewhat, short forward pointing ears. Born in 2016, Bear 910 is the daughter of former Fat Bear Week champion. So she's a legacy 409 bead nose and then sister to 909. Just a little bit about her. She, this is where I really think it would speak to you. So she separated from that litter in late spring 2025. Since then, she's lived alone and has used the opportunity to fish wherever and whenever she wants. She is me. That's what I'm saying. She's like, I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want. I'm just going to do me. And large and healthy female bears attract the desires of many males. So body fat is really what attracts the males. It's like the ability to nurse their newborn cubs. 910 looks well endowed. Her previous life experience, success, and her skills in building fat give her the position to achieve even more life. So we have a single independent woman who loves to eat. Not on this epic. She loves salmon. She just wants to be alone. Whatever she wants. So Bear 910. But I mean, you know, there's read about them and see which one speaks to you. And I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. Okay. Did you pick a family for us? Um, I just thought a single woman would be our out of the whole. Okay. I agree. No, I'm with you. I don't care about families. But check out the family. I'm never gonna have one of those. I don't care about that. And that's our animal report. It's so delightful. Um, should we move into our Taylor report? We have a Taylor report. Yes. Okay. So Taylor Swift. I mean, she was obviously at the Chiefs game. She is on camera watching Travis Kelsey and she is yelling at his clip. That's my husband. I don't care about the Chiefs. What do you score? He passed like whatever. She pointed a ring. Yeah. The clip that went viral. Again, this is really her first big sighting of the NFL season. I think he scored. I think he scored. Yeah. Let's just call it that. And she just like points at the ring and like mouths, that's my husband. I thought it was very cute. The cutest. It's the cutest. I mean, like. Oh my God, it's so cute. If you're gonna hate on it, you just hate her. Which is fine. I actually was really surprised when I saw like a couple people being like the internet's divided about this. That's her man. She's proud of him. Yeah. What, I actually was like shocked. And I mean, people just want a problem with everything. I thought it was cute. And also, look what she has been through. She's just like, Joe Alwyn, what's that guy doing? Matt Healy, who just like fucked her over and just like strung her along. She had John Mayer, who's one of the more famous fuckboys in America, just fucked with everybody. And she gets her guy. She's happy. She's excited. She's just, I think it's the cutest thing. I couldn't believe people had a problem with it. I just saw some, I mean, people also just are probably just posting rage bait, but I just like, you know, make marriage cool again. But I liked her hair. Is for sure. Did we know this? She didn't communicate it with me. Did I miss something? Like she's cut her hair since her wedding, right? Yes, absolutely. So I love this hair. She's wearing a tank top. It's from Aaron Andrews brand, Wear by EA, which I had never heard of. $40 tank top sold out during the game. It was very kind of Abercrombie in the nineties, early two thousands, like the cut and the style. I thought it was really cute and you know, good for her. And I'd be showing that ring off too. Okay. Taylor, Frankie, Paul, huge news. Huge news. She has announced in a rather wordy statement. I thought I was having a stroke, but I don't follow her. And then I went and read some of her other posts and like, yeah, it's just, it's a lot of words and you know, she's, she's letting it out. It's giving diary entry. I mean, she's just stream of consciousness. Let it go. Yeah. So she announced that she will be leaving secret lives of Mormon wives. And so in the post, she kind of cycles through like accountability and victimhood and martyrhood and martyrhood, martyrdom, martyrdom, and reinvention. I mean, she just kind of changes her tone throughout this post saying like, I wanted to leave before, and now I'm going to go back to having left, but I was bullied, but this is the best thing for me. And it's just, she sort of like, just goes back and forth. She's an interesting character because she both created the show, but she is destroying the show. That is the take. There was no show without her and there will never be another season like this. I mean, they'll do spinoffs and whatnot. I don't think it will ever reach this level of popularity. Also, it was the first season of it, but she needs to go for her own mental health. And then they don't want to film with her. And then Michaela came out last week and was like, this is why I'm leaving the show. I can't be on this show with her. And so you said, we'll see if it sticks. She's making a statement. Would she go back on it? Would they let her back on? I have no idea. I mean, this is just really chaotic. I think they'll let her back on. I think she's like some great television and I'm guilty of it too, where I'm like, this person shouldn't be on TV, but I tune in to watch her. And I don't subscribe to some, sometimes she says, you know, I created all this. Of course I should be in charge of it. I'm, I created, I'm the leader. It's like, yeah, but you're also the person that has made everybody not want to film, but she is the most famous person. She's the most chaotic. It's like, would people tune in without her? I don't know. I'm guilty of it too. Yeah. I mean, I guess you could test that by giving her a spinoff. Not that that's what should happen. She's unwell, but give her her own crazy spinoff. Give her a Rob and Chyna. What did she say in the car? She's, are you texting bitches? Like Rob and Chyna was one of the most toxic shows where it was like, I don't know this, this shouldn't be, shouldn't be watching this. And that's kind of what it's turned into. I know. And I mean, to me, there's a real, and I think we've talked about this before. There's a real difference between like drama that feels like things that do happen every day in real life, like West and Amanda and Kyle and Summer House. And of course that's all a horrible situation, but people break up and then they sleep with their, their spouse, ex-spouse's friends. This does happen. It doesn't feel like a sick level of drama. Yeah. The stuff with Taylor, Frankie, Paul and Dakota. I mean, they're calling child protective services on each other. Her children aren't safe. I think that's the thing for me. Yeah. If she didn't have kids, I'd be like, let her cook. I mean, obviously I care about people's mental health, of course, but I think that's the part that's like, lady, you got to take care of your kids. This is just too much. Like we, everyone feels for the children involved in this. I saw another post because I was on her Instagram where she said she's celibate now, ma'am. I'm sorry. Maybe she is. I can't picture a world in which her and I can't picture a world in which they are ever in the same vicinity. So I just thought that was interesting. And she just, you can tell the behavior because the way she responds back to comments and stuff, like she's just going through it. I don't know, like someone like that needs treatment or medication and for their own sake, she eggs people on a line. And then she says, I'm being bullied. And there was a situation like last week with like Layla and Miranda and her and Chase. And she did something that was a little provocative towards them. And then they clap back at her and she claims victim and whatever it is, this person like does need help and should be like taken off the television. It's just, it's like enough. And if I was the other cast members in season five, all these women who have built really big followings on their own, their own businesses. If I was a facilitator to a storyline for five episodes about the same shit that we've been watching for the last four seasons, which is Taylor and Dakota and no one focused on me or my business or my family or my marriage, I would be like, what am I doing here? Like if I'm Jesse, if I'm any of these other characters. Yeah. I mean, getting a paycheck relaxing. I'm sure they had to film just as much time. I'm sure there was cameras in their homes and true. I mean, listen, I would collect a paycheck if I was just there to like hang out. Okay. You write a little bit of bullshit. Okay. Let's just take a break and then we will pick it back up. Okay. 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That you do not need to bring it. Yeah. How do you feel? I would love to start by saying that I love that hot coffee isn't even in this debate. As a hot coffee drinker, because, oh, I kind of thought of it as just showing up with a beverage to an interview. I know, but I want to speak on it from a hot coffee girl. Okay. If you brought a hot coffee, it would be better than a wet dripping cup. But us hot coffee drinkers would never. I just think we have more sophistication, professionalism, and not say that iced coffee drinkers don't, but I just love how we're not even in the conversation. We would like to be excluded from this narrative. I'm an iced coffee drinker and I have tons of professionalism and class. I also don't put ice in my iced coffee, if you guys are new here. So it's actually not to me. I was thinking the sound of just an iced beverage I don't love. That sounds a little too fucking casual to me. I don't like when people bring it into our studio. No, I'm also, again, I'm just making jokes because I'm a hot coffee ass bitch. Showing up with a coffee at all is insane. It's exactly what she said. It's like, this is a casual part of your day. You didn't manage your time. Why didn't you have your coffee already? You would just stop and get it on the way to a job interview. A straw. You're going to drink out of a straw at a job interview. Tell me you're drinking out of a straw at a job interview while this cup drips on what your lap or a desk. Where are you going to put it? You haven't thought this through. It's deeper than that. I'm sorry because you know what you have on your person, what you're wearing, what you're holding when you walk into a job interview, if it means something to you. So you're thinking I'm going to roll up in there and do what with this cup and sip this straw in someone's face? See, I totally agree. When I was 22, I worked at this job and Melanie and I were waitresses there and my boss was this big, giant Serbian guy. And it was like a pretty serious restaurant. She and I were, I don't know, probably drunk and laughing. And he came up to me and he said, you're a little too fucking comfortable. And I hear that in my head all the time. Like it's not as deep as that, but I would never talk to somebody like that. But I do hear it in my head. You're a little too fucking comfortable. People are welcome to have a snack and a beverage before they walk into a you should be able to get through an interview without needing to hydrate. And no one's starving you. No, no, no, no. This is like a little too sensitive. The people on the internet that are like, you should let people have drinks. People can get through an interview for 45 minutes without drinking. Listen, I'll push back. You can hydrate. Who has ever gone to a job interview and not been offered a water? Or if you actually said, do you have a water? You should be offered the beverage in the building. But this isn't about hydration. Stop it. This is not about hydration. That's not what coffee's for. I'm just saying. I understand. If you're going to talk for an hour, you can have a water. You don't need to bring your iced coffee. I don't even think hydration is in the conversation. This is a whole different thing. I'm telling you the comments that I read, people being like, people should be allowed to hydrate. Well, that's a terrible argument. Also, someone called this ableism. No, the arguments are crazy. And the people that were actually disabled were like, do not say this is ableism that you need to have your iced coffee. We've taken it too far. Also, by the way, it's the smelliest of the beverages. It makes your it does smell. You don't need it. I want to go to an interview smelling perfect and not dripping coffee breath in a room. It's just like you look casual, a little too fucking comfortable. And if that's how you want to treat a job interview, you better hope that potential future employer feels the same way. And they probably don't. And I so like one of I saw that one Gen Z TikToker explained the fight isn't about lattes, but about rejecting arbitrary standards of professionalism, which I just like don't agree with at all. Like, we hire people. I would not stand for this dress for the job you want. It doesn't include a cold brew. Get out of here. If somebody showed up for an interview, I was thinking that somebody showed up for an interview and I and they like had their little coffee even on a Zoom interview. I wouldn't like it. And it wouldn't be something I would be like texting you about being like, can you believe this? I would just be like, huh, it's a little comfortable for my for me. It just looks like, again, you just this was a stop on your day. So I want to read a couple of my favorite threads. This one says, go ahead and bring that iced coffee to a job interview. Eat a cheeseburger or doctor's appointment. Show up to court with a bowl of ice cream. Why shouldn't you have everything you want at exactly the moment you want it? And that's the problem. Have some fucking restraint. This says, when did professionalism become oppression? Why does everything have to be casual? The iced coffee discourse is insane. It's unprofessional. As a head of talent acquisition and recruiter for Fortune 10 companies for over 20 years, I've watched professionalism decline in real time. We're watching basic standards become controversial. And then this one, don't stop at iced coffee. Take powdered donuts, Nature Valley granola bars, seafood boils and tacos to your interviews, too. You got this. You don't have to. And again, you can have a water and you can bring a water. Like if I brought my tote bag to a job interview and I might I'm going to talk for an hour, potentially I might get a little parched. I would bring my water bottle out of my bag if I hadn't been offered a water. Hydration is allowed. Sure. Coffee do better. I just like we can't have a problem with everything all the time. Like there are just some standards. There's a society that we can we just like adhere to them like just we don't need to be bringing a loud, smelly, sweating beverage into an interview. Someone said a condensation cup. Yeah, it's the straw for me. Can you picture it? Sipping from a straw in a job interview. I mean, certainly not if it was a man. If I watched a man sip with a straw in an interview. Oh, my God. So let us know what you guys think. But if you think you should do that, you're wrong. You can't work here. You can work somewhere else. And we are hiring. It's not going to be you. Oh, my God. I was interviewing when I used to work for Union Square Cafe for Danny Meyer. I was interviewing people for like hostess positions. And somebody emailed me and asked what the address of the building was. And I just never wrote back. I was like, you can't work here because it's about you, your ability to figure things out on your own and problem solve. Yeah. I mean, this was while the Internet existed. I know this was a while ago, but the Internet was alive and kicking. And to me, when we are interviewing candidates, I am thinking about the way their brains work and how they function through their thought process. process. So the thought process of I'm heading to interview with Girls Gotta Eat, let me grab my iced coffee on the way and bring it is not the thought process I want to hire. And you could be a great employee. You could do the job. But that's what I'm thinking about if I'm the employer. If somebody showed up to ours with iced coffee, I would be like, they think that we're friends. And I do want to be like friends with all you, especially Ashley really wants to be friends with all of you. But I don't want to hire one of our besties. I want to hire somebody who's going to keep us in line. If you get the job, you can bring your iced coffee to work every day. 365. Every single day. Every day of your life. It's just the fucking interview. Yeah, that's it. Okay. And we just want to give an update on this Ed Sheeran controversy. Macklemore, we talked about it last week. So right after we recorded last week, news broke that Ed Sheeran's openers and his band quit the tour in solidarity with Macklemore. And of course, the opposition of censorship, the way that situation was handled. So I just want to say that I was kind of a part of this drama and like the fallout from it. I went to Dermot Kennedy this past weekend in Boston. So exciting. Life-changing concert, guys. I can't recommend enough. Like I just, that's like my favorite artist outside of Beyonce. I just, I feel like my heart was like breaking and bursting at the same time. It was so great. If you have a chance to see him, you should. So two days before the concert, we get a notification. The concert time has been moved from 8 to 7.30. Okay. Moved up. I find that interesting. Don't you? It's moved up a half hour. And I didn't really think much of it. But Alyssa, we, went to the concert with Alyssa Amoroso, our friend and her husband, Sean. And she looked it up and she saw that they had added an opener. And that's why it went 30 minutes earlier. So in addition to the one opener they had, they had added this other opener, this Irish singer-songwriter named Aaron Rowe. Okay. Because he had left Ed Sheeran's tour. So the night that we saw him, that was the night in Philly that we're going to talk about. So he was not on Ed Sheeran's tour. So Dermot Kennedy brought him onto his tour. Wow. I could cry thinking about this. I know. I was like, I don't know what went down. Obviously, these are all Irish performers. So maybe he wanted to make sure he had a job or made some more money since he's quitting this tour. And Aaron Rowe, we loved him. We loved his energy. He was incredible. Just really no fucks kind of attitude. And I saw his statement when he left Ed Sheeran's tour. It was nice. It was professional and kind. But I'm going to do this and stand in solidarity with what's happening. And I just think that was crazy. And Alyssa and I were like, we're in the drama. We're part of this fallout. And it was cool to see that that really happened. So that was happening on our end in Boston. And meanwhile, Ed Sheeran was making a statement at his show in Philly. Crazy to pay to see Ed Sheeran at the link. But, you know, that's you do you, you guys. And he opened the show with this apology, essentially. And we're going to discuss it. I don't want to spend too, too much time on it. I know it's juicy. I know it's a big news item right now. You know, part of me just doesn't want to contribute to this problem of holding musical artists more accountable than the billionaire who started this shit in the first place, who's the real villain, our politicians, our administration. Like his statement was what I expected. I knew he would not please everybody. I think that he said some worthy things. I think it also felt a little self-centered and authentic at times. People also felt like this arrived. You were he was very like up the middle before. I'm not political. And then everybody quit. And this affected ticket sales. But he's yeah, maybe. But I'm not certain of all the statistics on the ticket sales of the stadium was full, I guess. But the few things like later in the show, he kind of apologized for the apology. He didn't walk it back, but he was like, I just want to apologize for earlier. And I saw a comment that said, when you apologize for the apology, neutralize the apology. He said it was the best show of his life. Oh, OK. After your whole band and all your your openers quit, best show your life. He said his family and friends abandoned him, which is rough. You know, no matter what you're canceled for, that is rough. Your family abandons you. But, you know, he did this whole kind of what was me thing at the end. But I wanted to talk to you about the teleprompter of it all. And I really want to hear your thoughts on this, because he was reading off a teleprompter that was more at his feet. Yeah, obviously, it couldn't have been in the back because everyone would have seen it and read it. But it was clear he was looking down and he was reading the teleprompter at his feet. And I want to talk to you about this, because this has been a real critique that I've seen that people were upset that he was upset or just throwing shade. Yeah, I guess. And upset. So I didn't hate it as much as other people hated it. And the reason why I think this is just really touchy. And I think that he's already stepped on minds. And I'm glad you acknowledge it. I mean, I'm not on his side, but I'm glad you acknowledge like Robert Kraft and other people are also to blame here. Yeah, he handled it terribly, by the way. I'm not defending it. Handled so crazy poorly. Yes. And he really just was like very wishy washy and said my promoter made me do this. I mean, he really just he made all the wrong mistakes. Yes. So I do understand feeling like there are so many landmines and I want to get this right. And I want to show that this matters to me. And so I can't memorize this long speech. I wrote something and I want to read it to you. I don't think it's that crazy that he read off of a teleprompter. This is a speech that needs to be read. You are talking about Gaza. You are in the thick of this controversy. People are going to dissect every word. I would never raw dog this shit. I would never. But what I would do is I would say I'm going to read this because I want to get it right. Sure. I you know, I might have pulled out a piece of paper to make it seem more authentic. Like I might have been like, I want to read this because I want to make sure I don't get it wrong. And it's very important to me. At least I think addressing it would have been the better move. Again, they're doing everything so right. I would have read that word for word. I would have practiced it. So it would have felt more natural to me. But I really would have wanted that. You're so right. I think he should have said, like, what has happened up until now is really disheartening and it's affecting a lot of people. And I want to get this right. And there is only one shot for him. You and I went to a late night monologue recently and it was long. And so the person that was doing the monologue paused and restarted and then it's edited together. We went to like a 4 p.m. taping of something that was going to air at 11 p.m. So, I mean, you get a lot of shots at this. This is live. By the way, he wrote that and had practiced it a million times and still read it off the teleprompter. Yeah. I think it's crazy to have demanded that he memorize something that is so touchy and in general, you know, I just I couldn't have been me. I would have needed to read it from something. I think you're right. I think a woman would have thought, let's have it on a piece of paper. Let's acknowledge this. This is really important. I would have felt more authentic. So people's critique are like he was reading a prepared statement from his PR company off a teleprompter. You might be right, but I'm not mad at the teleprompter. And if that's your main critique, then I don't know. I think you should do better at criticizing him because there's plenty to criticize. And I didn't like how did you watch as soon as he finished his speech? He was like, now we're going to do these songs. He was like, now watch this drive. Like it literally was so cringe. And then the way it was all handled, like it was such a disaster. All of it. Like I'm not in defense of it, but I'm not going to get mad about the teleprompter. No, me too. All the things to get mad about. That's not one of them. Okay. Well, that is that. And we are just going to take a quick break and then talk about more censorship over here. Okay. So I am going to tell you guys about Redken Acidic Grow Full System. I am so excited to talk about this day. I'm always excited to talk about my hair and my hair journey that I'm always on. And we all know your hair affects the way that you feel about yourself, your confidence. I feel like however my hair looks, that's how I'm going to feel that day. It's not my best day today, but you know, it could be worse. So we just feel like the difference between a good hair day and a bad one, it can just really throw you off. 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Even the Fox News propaganda machine should be like, free speech includes having these outlets hold our administration accountable and be at the White House. I don't trust them, but who can you trust these days? But everyone really has come together on this. Of course. This is insane. I feel like it's just like, what else is there to say about this? It's horrifying. It should be totally illegal. I can't believe that the Supreme Court didn't strike this down in an hour. How are we, days into this, this is still happening. You can't deny press access. And there is no, you know, there's freedom of the press. There's no precedent that says like, precedent, whatever, don't worry about it. That says that you must allow press access to the White House, I guess, if you want to get into semantics. But this feels wholly unconstitutional and sick and crazy. And you know, what people voted for. So. Okay. So then at a White House event, yesterday, as we record, Trump is out there talking about a helipad, I believe, whatever. There's no press. So there's no mics. So he's screaming into the abyss. These videos right now, I can't, they're my porn category. I can't stop watching them. So he's just screaming and no audio is getting picked up. So even news outlets trying to air it are like, we can't hear him. He's just yelling into the void. Like I'm obsessed with him not understanding how this works. If there's no mics, there's no sound. It's unbelievable. It was a good day. It was a good day yesterday after all of this, which is just so obviously. Devastating, but not surprising. And so sad for our country and our democracy to see that, to see this fucking idiot yelling into the abyss. No audio inaudible mics are off. Did you see the clips of him and Mom Donnie yesterday? And Mom Donnie is standing there just disassociating. I was on screen together and I was like pissed. I was like, I cannot believe that he's going to stand there. He's strategic. He knows what he's doing. But he literally just stood there. He just wasn't even alive. Like strongest man alive while Trump just ranted and rambled. So that's happening. And this is a developing story, but we like to see it. These news organizations should stand together when it comes to this of all things. And just on this note, James Tallarico. So this is going to be the one of the most watched Senate races of the midterms. He is running against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has faced 10 to 20 years of corruption, impeachment. Criminal indictments. Ken Paxton is a total criminal. He has 15 homes. Real man of the people. His own staff reported him to the FBI. Like his rap sheet is insane. So James Tallarico, he might be my new crush. I got to say that. I don't know. He's got this sexy voice and this like calming demeanor. He was going on Kimmel and the FCC basically threatened them that they couldn't air it. And it has to do with like equal time for both parties. But this is all, this wouldn't have happened outside of a Trump presidency. And they're not, having Ken Paxton on Kimmel, he wouldn't go on in the first place. Also late night TV shows have usually been excluded out of this equal time. Bottom line, if you want to get into it, you can read up yourself. But because of FCC threats, the James Tallarico interview wasn't aired on Kimmel. So they put it on YouTube. It's currently at 13 million views and it's incredible. There's no reason for it to be banned other than, like this isn't controversial. I mean, he's talking about the corruption, the theft of his opponent, people in Texas being sick and tired of being taken advantage of. He talks about the fallacy, the welfare queen, Elon Musk. And what would Jesus do? You can't love Jesus and hate your neighbor. So he is a Christian man and he really has become a popular political force in Texas. And I'm just really rooting for him. So we will be watching that one really closely. And it's a grassroots movement. It's very Mamdani coded. And I'm just excited to see it. But it's just crazy. You know, I told you, like pull up this interview and just watch the first three minutes where they talk about why this couldn't air on Kimmel. And it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. So anyway, go James, go James, go. We're going to take you guys through your headlines and then we're going to send you off into your weekend. Lena Dunham welcomed her first baby with her husband. She wrote a lot about how she has a hysterectomy. And she wrote a lot in her book about how she couldn't conceive. And she talks about wanting to be a mother. And then she had a hysterectomy and wasn't sure if she would ever be able to be a parent. She welcomed her first baby with her husband via surrogate. So congrats to her. Congrats, Lena. On to the next Machine Gun Kelly and Dakota Johnson. Might be a thing. How do you feel? You're a huge MGK stan. He's my number one Spotify. But is he like a celeb crush? I think so. But I'm sort of jealous. I'm very jealous. I'm sexually attracted to him. I don't think he'd be a fun hang. OK, shots fired. I don't I just can't imagine him and I would like so much fun together. I just I'm not I don't know. I don't want to like suck each other's blood and stuff. Yeah, it's kind of like that. Yeah. Dakota Johnson is everywhere. And I was like, why is she she's literally on the cover of everything. She's every like magazine that was Verity comes out on October. So next week, Verity next Friday. I'm so excited. I'm so sad. I can't go with you. I'm like devastated. I am. I am so, so sad. Shashank wants to go for Anne Hathaway and Anne Hathaway only. And, you know, this is number one. So that will be our third Anne Hathaway movie that I've seen with him this year. I've seen an Anne Hathaway movie. How have I been to the three movies with my husband in a year all with Anne Hathaway? That's kind of wild. Not there anymore. I know. But Devil Wears Prada to Odyssey and then this. But we cannot fucking wait. I'm just so excited. It looks so scary. It's a Colleen Hoover book. It's the second book I ever read. OK. And lastly, Channing Tatum does not have a burner account. Wink, wink. I'm obsessed with this story. So people discovered this burner account. None of your business business. None of Channing Tatum follows this burner. Yes. Also, it the burner account was trolled. His exes and hyping him insane. So people took this and ran with it. And he has since come out and posted a public statement on his story that was like, yo, this isn't me. Fucking hilarious. You guys thought it was. I have better stuff to do with my time. Now we know it is you. Do you? Do you have better stuff to do with your time? It's not your account. You accidentally followed it. OK. We know you did it. But if it was a woman, she would have never done this by accident. But excuse is so funny. What's Channing Tatum doing? Right. So it's crazy, though, you guys, because he's like trolling like what Zoe Kravitz and like her new man and like Jenna Dewan's new man. Like it's all of the things that you would do. But OK, I just want to say I want to be I want to be real with you. OK. Deep down in my heart of hearts, I guess it's not him, but he knows what that account is up to and he supports it. So if there was an account that all they were doing was hyping me and trolling my exes, I might follow it, too. And that's all I have to say. Like either way, if it's not him, he's on board with it. And he didn't say he wasn't. So let us know what you guys think in the comments. I'm good with either theory, but like he supports none of your business. Yes. Business. At least like because like when you go to none of your business and that you see that like he's in the follows like you also might follow. He follows a lot of people, by the way. Not us. I know. I think we could work on it. He follows like Hannah and Nikki and Mary Beth. And he follows a lot of female comedians is what I noticed. I liked 8000 people. Oh, my God. It's not that hard to get a follow. Just be tossing out follows. Do you think that that's that's misdirection? Do you think that he followed 8000 people so that people would notice? He might be following other burner accounts. I'm assuming he saw a comment that he liked of none of your business on like Harry Styles or Zoe or Jenna. I'm sure he saw that and he liked it and followed them because yeah, he does be given out follows like that's a fire roast. But all I have to say is Jenna of Tatum's trolling with the burner accounts of women. stay winning. Amen. All right. Well, that is your snack for the week, guys. GirlsGottaEat.com, GirlsGottaEat podcast, Instagram, and TikTok. I'm Ash Hess on Instagram. And TikTok, Raina is Raina.Greenberg, RainaGreenberg.com for her tour tickets. You can watch full video on Spotify and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend. And we are so excited to see you guys on Monday. Have a good weekend, guys. Bye. Bye.