The Snack: Jimothy, Usher, LeBron, and No Influencers Allowed

This week on the snack, Jimmithy Usher's Laptance and no influencers allowed. This is a deer meaty production. Join! Why are you laughing? When we, you just looked scared before we started, like, you know, yes, that face. I looked outside and it looks like it's gonna pour down rain and you and I got invited to this, like, premiere party with Stasi for her show, who was on our show this week, and I have to go outside to it and I think it's scared. I looked outside and I got scared. I had forgotten that was tonight and you knew that was a trigger for me and I completely forgot about it, Raina, and you had to be like, oh my god, it looks like it's gonna rain, I'm not gonna go to the party that I should go to. I had forgotten all about it. I'm very upset, like, the fact that yes, this week at Stasi, the party is tonight and it will have already happened so we can share that it's gonna be at the corner store. I am so upset to not go. Well, you know, every day, you were gonna see it on Instagram later, okay? I know, I know. But, like, I was able to get through the day and like, not have that, like, FOMO, ROMO. Wait, actually, you don't really laugh so hard. Is you wrote, I have to reset and then you just wrote my attitude and it made me laugh. Yeah, I just, we've discussed not loving these virtual recordings, but there's always like a technical difficulty and I just have to like, reset and just, yeah. Can I tell you something very funny? Just some weird shit went on yesterday. Like, just some stuff within our business has just been a little, but ups and downs and everything's fine, you guys. But last night, Shashant came home from work and he sat down next to me. We were outside in the patio and I said, some weird stuff happened today. Also stuff, some personal stuff. I just had like a few different things to tell him. And I said, like, some weird stuff happened and he goes, I'm sat. Girlie pop. Girlie pop. I'm sat. Girlie pop sent me. He's like, "Clip it, you have queen." Okay, and just on that note, before we get into it, I have an announcement that we are officially married. Oh my god, you guys, I'm just finding this out right now. I saved it for you. So we are officially married, I guess we were, but I did not have the official marriage certificate in hand. It has been a nine-month journey. I had to get one of our business managers involved. It has been so much back and forth dealing with the postal service and just all these things Raina had to resign. We've talked about this before, but finally got it. Like, Lindsay texted me. She was like, "Did you get it?" I called them and they said they said they sent it on July 8th. I ran to the mailbox. I was like, "It's here. We did it." Congratulations. I'm so happy for you. And I would like to say, I hope we can still do the wedding. I really want to do it again. Let's do it every year. You know, like, Creshell Stouse and her spouse, they get remarried every year. So I would like to do it again next year, please. Okay, yeah, we talked about just doing like a festival in general, the W. So, and Halloween party. So this year, the Halloween is going to be Saturday. We'll talk about it, because how fun would that be just to run it back to gold diggers? I think I have a show on the West Coast, and I will be. I think I have Stassi's party. I think I have Stassi's party if you're not ready. I think you are invited. The invite to join it actually. And Ashley was like, "I refuse to move to New York, so I will be abstaining." We'll see. We're still talking about it, okay? Great. Let's thank our partner. Okay, thank our partners. Thank you to FashionPast. Get your first month for just $55 at fashionpass.com with Code GGE and Parallel. If you're pregnant trying or postpartum, get 20% off your first order at parallelhealth.com/gge and Zbiotics. 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When you guys all sent me punch, I started to read about punch the monkey and started to cry. I was like, I need to be alone and private to fully get into this. So I didn't know. And when I finally took the time to look at Timothy, Raina, at first sight, he took my breath away. Like, punch is like the story is the thing. Mudang, even. It's like her personality was the thing. Timothy, his looks are the thing. I gasped. So if you guys haven't seen this yet, Timothy is a raccoon that has like a spinal disorder and he is circle-shaped. I mean, it's crazy to see. And like, you know sometimes you see something on the internet, like two or three times and your brain like won't let you digest the information. I was like, this is clearly AI. It's a monster. Like, he doesn't look real. He's mutated. He does have short spine syndrome. Someone said Spina Bifida, which I'm not totally sure if that's accurate. But like, this is like a genetic mutation that has made him football-shaped. I mean, I guess there are like more of him out there. But it began with a Seattle resident, Kiana Hall, posted him on Instagram and was like, what am I looking at? That's why I felt-- I just took off my hands. I just want to rate a few of the headlines. And I know you have like a favorite part of the whole-- Do you mean Timothy Madness? Jim, Timothy Madness, yeah. But here are just a few headlines that I just pulled this morning. Seattle's viral raccoon, Timothy, celebrated with official city proclamation. Meet Timothy, the viral raccoon who bridges political divide. Timothy, the raccoon receives honor from Washington governor. Goodyear, Blizzard, Roku, and Slim Jim get behind Timothy raccoon. And Congress crosses party lines for Timothy. Roku. And lastly, Seattle officially declares Timothy Summer. Move over Poop Girl Summer. It's short spine summer. Welcome, Jimmy. I am just so into him. I like the brands that came for it. If Roku came for it, for me, I'd be like, I'm okay. Thank you so much. Where's Netflix? Honestly, where's Netflix? The smallest remote? No, thank you. But I think we do need to celebrate short spine summer in honor of Timothy. What I have, I feel like you can get into this. My favorite thing about this, this is crazy, you guys. So I was doing research this morning, and I googled Timothy. And across the bottom, there's this green circle with a handprint. And if you click the handprint, which at this point, almost 17 million people have this little ball of a raccoon's scurries across your screen. I mean, Google has really just like gotten in the mix in the best way. Oh my god, so delightful. Yeah, I know, and I love the tickers down there of how many people are experiencing this. It's really so special. So that's what's going on with Timothy. Thank you guys always for sending this to us. Obviously, we were going to cover it. And just to end this conversation, I do want to note some news from last year that we never really talked about. That raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. So do with that what you will. You could very well have your own Timothy in your home. I know, I love raccoons so much. And you know, I've talked about this. And like they-- Oh, you should follow her. They're at this point. I don't think I support domesticating them. I do follow if you domesticated ones on Instagram. And they seem really happy. But every couple of months or so, they are on our patio backyard situation. And it's like the best night of my life. I just-- I'm obsessed with raccoons. So obviously, Timothy really hid different from me. There's just some animals. I just-- I don't know. It's like watching a dog walk on his hind legs. I can't understand it in the home. Like, remember that guy who had that squirrel, that guy with a huge penis? Oh, that guy. That squirrel. What was that squirrel? That squirrel also got political. No, something like Donald Trump had that squirrel killed. And you guys don't hold me to this. I-- I don't know if that's what happened. I don't know if that's what it was. [LAUGHTER] There's just been so many, like, yeah, the stories. But I don't know if that's exactly what happened. But it sounds about right. You guys don't quote me on this, but that's probably what happened. You know, like, if anybody was going to kill this huge dick guy's squirrel, it was Donald Trump. But I think the huge dick odor was Republican. Don't quote me on this. You know what, I don't want to fact check this. Let's just go with it. I don't care. You know, I feel like would be so fun for us just once. You would be very good. You know, I love when you go to the museums and you, like, meme all the art. I think it'd be really fun to be, like, museum docent, or just, like, city guides in general. And you just make it up. You just make stuff up. Like, how fun would that be? Our friend Taylor, who we love, has a podcast called Spoonerism with her two friends, Jordan and Ren. And their tagline of the podcast is, we fact check nothing. And I love that energy. So you guys check it out if you want to go through. They don't care. - Normally we say it stuff. Yeah, not them. And on a satir note of the animal report, Simon Sitz, who was the dog of Isabel Clee, and the Instagram handle was Simon Sitz, and that was the whole brand has passed away. And we had Isabel on our episode last week. And we'd recorded that a few weeks prior. Simon was sick, but they weren't talking about the end of his life when we recorded with her. And as the weeks went by, she spoke about his decline, and he had had a seizure condition. And she documented this. People are so grateful to her. Me included for sharing this journey, because it's something so painful that so many people have to go through. And they decided to put him down, because his quality of life was severely declined, with really no hope that it would get better. And so they made the decision, and they set the date. And in his final days, the way they were able to celebrate his life, I mean, it was something I wish I could have done for Dewey. I mean, they had all his friends and family come over, and they did all his favorite things, and was able to celebrate his life in such a special way. And we're all getting to witness this. And I mean, every morning, I woke up to texts from friends who were recently introduced to Simon, or had heard of her from our episode, or just, you know, I'm never not talking about this. You know, this was like always on my mind. So every morning, Laura Lee, Ashley, why'd you do this to me? I'm crying, you know, like I can't handle this. And so I just feel like the passing of this dog collectively rocked the internet in such a way. But it was so beautiful the way she was able to celebrate his life, and the Muddy Paws rescue had recently renamed their on-site veterinary facility to the Simon Sitz Veterinary Clinic, which Muddy Paws is a rescue out of New York, one that is well really worked closely with. They got over half a million dollars in audience donations, like the his legacy of helping people and encouraging them, inspiring them to foster and adopt in her incredible book. And all the things, it leaves such a legacy behind. And it doesn't make it any less heartbreaking. But I just, I'm thankful to her for sharing. And I mean, all of our love and our thoughts are with her. Yeah, and she is so inspiring. I mean, you guys loved her. It's one of our top episodes. I mean, truly in a really long time. You guys just listen to that. You love the clips. And so, I mean, obviously, you need to follow her. Our hearts are with her. Yeah, and I wanted to look this up. When this stuff comes up, people share their stories of pet loss. And if you're new around here, I lost Dewey in 2021. And we did an episode on it. And I just wanted to pull it up. It is called pet loss grief relief and showing love. And it was February 7th, 2021. And people messaged me weekly, probably, that they listened to it or they relistened to it and helped them. And so this is not like promoting an episode. It's just like, there are resources out there. There was more than just this episode. But we even have a lot of the resources that helped me in the episode. So you guys can check that out if you are struggling with this. And RIP to Simon, as is all wines from the back. Hold your dog's tight, everybody. And we're thinking about them. OK, well, moving on to this surprised me. It surprised the nation. Maybe it surprised me for a different reason, which I will tell you. But LeBron James has signed a two-year deal with the 76ers to play in Philly. And this will be his fourth team ever, correct? To Cavs, the heat, the lakers, and the 76ers. First of all, I would like to refer to him as Reyna listed him on our outline for this week, which is LeBron. So something made me laugh so hard right now. It's like, it's like L.E. capital B. And she wrote it, L.E.B. capital, R.O.N. LeBron. And I could not stop laughing, really, really, maybe laugh. So LeBron is going to the 76ers. We woke up to a text on our group chat. We were on a town this weekend of our friend, so being like, Ashley, did you see LeBron's going to Philly? And I was like, literally, she just met for the weekend. I would never in a million years have believed this. It took me a while to even digest it. I cannot fucking believe this. This is like the coolest thing of all time that he's going to pretty much end his career there. He wants to win a championship for them. He's not doing it for the money. He's making $8 million over the course of two years. I'm pretty free. I'm pretty free. Charity. So for this man to be like, I just want to play, I want another championship. And I'm going to go to Philly to do it. Sir, what? And now Philly, as a couple of weeks ago, the Celtics traded Jalen Brown to Philly, this is going to be unstoppable team. I am worried about the amount of money I'm going to spend on six or six tickets. This is how I get you back to this coach. This is how I catch these things and tickets. Take my money. Things are filling. I'm going to be totally honest with you. I didn't really entirely realize he was still playing. I mean, I guess I didn't-- I guess if he had returned-- But I would have been aware of it. You know what I mean? His son plays also in the NBA. I was like, he plays with his son. How is this still happening? I just didn't know that we were at the point at which he was signing new contracts, going to new cities. Like, I thought we were done here. Well, yeah. So I think people were like, he's going to retire. First of all, by the way, I love LeBron. If you know the show, you know this. I know some people don't like him. He's a crybaby, whatever. He is kind of crybaby. I love him. He's a legend. He is the go. If I could-- what would I say? If I could pick one person to trade bodies with, I'd choose LeBron. We did this back years ago, and you were like, I'm Rada, and I was like LeBron. So I just love him. And yeah, I think people thought he was about to retire. And the fact that he was like, nah, let me give it one more go. Like, I still got that dog in me. I still have another championship to win. And I want to go play with Jaylen Brown and Joel M.B.D. But I have a question for you, because you brought up Brony. Do you think Brony is upset, his dad is leaving, or he's glad to not have him watching his every move on the team? I can't go to work with my dad. OK, like one nightmare. Like, I am just an HR disaster. Can you imagine my dad came to work with me? I hate when he comes to shows. My poor dad is sitting in the front. Listen, let's talk about eating buttholes. No, no one wants to go to work with their parent. I think he's probably excited. Then now they can play against each other. And like, you know, they can challenge each other for interstellar domination. It's pretty crazy. It's really so like a crazy god. Has this ever happened? Are they the only ones? I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure it was the only time a dad is playing on a team with his son. It's so crazy and it's obviously so cool. But I bet he's ready to shine on his own. Play against his dad. That's insane. We need a documentary about this. Can I just say, what a fucking year for basketball. Raina, I ordered a basketball last night. I ordered a basketball. We have-- for what? To play? To play if LaFran can start with a new team at 41. I can restart my basketball career at 43. We have these incredible courts in the park across from our apartment. I keep asking Shashank to go over there and play with me. I asked for a basketball for my birthday. Apparently he thought I was kidding. So last night, I got on a-- I am on an order of basketball. It arrives tomorrow and I'm going to get out there. I've just been so inspired this year. And I used to play in high school. I was the worst. I was a junior on JV. I'm like a legendary terrible player. But I want to like get out. I don't know. I just feel like we had these brand new-- they've redid the courts recently. It looks so fun. People are out there at night playing. I just want to go hit the courts. Wow, you really missed me. This is what you're doing. Raina's like, I would never allow this. This is so proud to check. After I was like, I'm really just getting into basketball right now, because you're not here to stop me. Also, you know, I don't know if you guys have ever heard me say because I used to play basketball. I would go every single weekend in middle school. And my dad was like, as an adult, he was like, I have to be honest with you, it was genuinely humiliating. It was humiliating. I would run away from the ball and just be talking to the other kids on the court. Totally. Yeah, I was terrible. Honestly, though, I was not great at organized sports because I would get too much in my head of like, I couldn't just relax and play the sport. It never came naturally to me. I'd be like, what's the play where am I supposed to be? When I would play just pick up basketball or when I would play basketball in gym class, I was way better. And I would play with the boys. And when I could just let loose, I was just really neurotic about everything in school growing up. Sports included. So I was always, I could never just play the game. And so I'm excited to just play the game, you know, for the love of the game. Yeah, it's just for the beauty of the game. OK, well, we are just going to take a quick break and then get back into it. 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She doesn't really want to be engaged with like this. I mean, he is so sweaty in this video. And the internet went kind of crazy about her reaction. I mean, she just looks stiff as a board. Like, is not into this at all. I mean, she makes you look like the world's best person to get stripped on. And then she clapped back. So we'll take you guys through all of what he said. And she said, yeah, I mean, I can't even imagine my 20 year old self this happening. The usher was my number one. Reyna, I don't even know. Like, I did a speech on him in college. I was so obsessed. I went to multiple concerts. Like, I remember having a birthday party for him one year. Like, I was so obsessed with him. And then I met him. And I was like, Oh, I'm towering over him. And the crush is over. But I still think he's super sexy. And I'm like a lifelong fan of his music. They called her up. And I mean, truly, he's trying to kind of lay her down. And like you said, she is light as a father, stiff as a board. She doesn't want it. And they had pre-organized this. So and she talks about that too that they had chosen her ahead of time. And she was going to go on on stage. And her name is Gabrielle Cheyenne. And she is gorgeous, by the way. I mean, she is in her in her 20s. Because there's no there's an age gap there. And as she is not feeling this usher is kind of like in the nicest way possible, get her off the stage. I mean, he doesn't he is thinking this isn't going to go how it should and how it typically does. And he's probably thinking like this should have been vetted better. And it's like they abandoned the bit, basically. And he kind of like shoes are off the stage. And she gets off the stage. And so of course, it went viral. And do you want me to read her clap back statement? Yeah. Okay. So she posts this. This looks like it was on Facebook. And it looks like it was just to her friends. And she was kind of clapping back to people in Chattanooga that really were just like coming first. So she says first off, nobody is declining to go on stage. I looked good as fuck. You thought I wasn't going to let thousands of people see me on the big screen where you bitches will never be. My mom and I had floor seats. Their team approached us and moved us to VIP before the show even started. Pretty privileges. Something y'all will never know about. They don't say who you're going to go up there for. Y'all wanted me to get up there and fuck him. Chatt folks aren't used to anything. Chattanooga. That's the most exciting thing y'all would have happened. Y'all little ass lives. Fuck y'all disrespectfully. So my try. Oh my god. I was terrified to get over it with her. I'm scared right now. So when when I first saw it, I did have some compassion for her. Like maybe she got herself into a situation she didn't want to be in. But when I read the statement, I was like, imagine saying pretty privileged publicly. Like to me, this is the difference between internal thoughts and public posts. Like, this is what you say to your friends privately. Like I look good as fuck. You think I'm not going to go up there? Like, this is shit. You say to your friends and she posted it online. Like, this is what it, I mean, she's not a person that's famous or has a publicist. Like, you should kind of know how this is going to be received. But she said what she said. I actually don't disagree with what she said. It's funny. Like every sentence, like, jobs with the next sentence. The statement does not jive with me with the person I'm seeing on stage, being like, don't touch me. I'm so stiff. Listen, I get it. Not everybody wants to be stripped on by a sweaty, shirtless man. That's that's your progative. But like, this person, it's like, fuck you. And you can't tell me nothing. The person I'm looking at stage did not want to be up there. Why'd you go up there? This is where I'm a little confused. I, again, I watched her interview. She went to the concert explicitly to see Chris Brown. Oh, which, that's all the comments too. She thought it was going to be Chris and she got usher, which to me, listen to lust after Chris Brown is a red flag. I'll never understand it. Oh, you know, so that's why I'm not going to this concert. You know, in the, in the first place. But that's her progative. So I'm unclear, though, because they, they lead her up. I watched the video where they lead her up. Like usher was on stage. So you know it's going to be usher. Like this isn't a mystery who's behind door number one. I don't think. But like she, so I'm a little unclear on that. I understand they're leading you up. You had been pre-picked and you wanted to get dance on my Chris Brown. She, her narrative is when they said, will you come up on stage and get and got her consent. They don't, she said they didn't tell her who and she was hoping it would be Chris Brown and lo and behold, it's usher. I echo a lot of the comments that are like, she was too young to be up there with usher. Like leave Chris Brown to the, to the young girls. Like let some aunties be up there with usher. He is 47 years old. Like bring some elder millennials like our age up there. They would 100% be into it. I think she's 24. Like I, I mean, either Chris Brown's not that young either. But I think, you know, you can consent to something and then decide the moment you don't want to do anymore. But you, but you also do know what these shows are about. And you know, they're hypersexual. And you've seen the videos and you've done the research. And I mean, she didn't come across humble. That's for sure. I mean, to type out, I had pretty privilege in a, in a social media post is crazy work. That is not a girl who took her statement tossed it in Chatchy B.T. and said, soften this for me. She needs like, make it more fucked up. Make it crazier. I've never been always out here trying to like, wordsmith like myself down to actually sounding like rational and not insane, not her. Yeah. And, you know, it just, again, this is entertainment for us. This is giving us something to talk about. Like usher didn't love it, but he laughed it off too. Like this girl is probably kind of a bitch, but she is beautiful and like, let her live. Like, I'm sure people are just saying the meanest shit to her death threats and whatnot. Like, once again, people, the internet takes it too far. But, you know, she did the fuck up the vibes at the show. And she has since clackback. And that's just like, what it is, you know, this really hits close to home as we have done two undershielding. shows, I mean, and a lot of them, we have had male strippers at the shows. And we've also been to the Chippenales. We've been to Magic Mike. Like, Raina has been on stage with the Chippenales and at their show in Vegas. And we've had them at our show. And every time we pull girls up on stage, there is a part of me that's like, I hope this goes well. And I think 100% of the time our girls know themselves enough to volunteer. Like, I'm not that girl that's going to volunteer. I really don't want to be thrown around a stripped on. I'll do it here and there. But Raina loves to do it. But there's always a part of me that's like, what if one day like someone thinks they want to come up and they come up there and they aren't enjoying it because it does get super sexual. Like, it is for entertainment. And it looks crazy to some people when you're basically kind of getting like dry humped. But that is the type of show that it is. And that's why people go. Yeah, I volunteer for it every time. But that's just me, you know, and I know myself. And I know what I'm going to enjoy it. Listen, if I wasn't having that type of day, I wouldn't go up there. But I like it. But I also validate that like, the majority of our audience doesn't want to come up there and get that done. And like, I also think that's totally fine too. Like, you do it to your body what you want to do. Yeah. I mean, we've never had a situation like this in dozens and dozens of shows with our guys. I mean, there was a girl at the show recently that basically assaulted one of the strippers. Obviously, she flipped him over. He did not see it coming. Like, that's actually probably the most scandalous thing that has happened. And a girl's got each show was that someone from the audience took it too far with this giant jacked stripper where he never think it's happened. He truly got off the stage like, what the fuck just happened? I mean, it was fine. But she was a little too into it. But I don't like this girl statement. She's, she's probably not my kind of girl. But at the end of the day, I do respect a what y'all thought I wasn't going to go on stage looking like I do. Hey, man. Go on. Say it to your, say it to your friends. Just talk shit in the group. And I feel like we're right on the internet. Don't you friends? Talk to your friends. I just wanted to say one thing, speaking of pretty privilege. There are articles out there that it's no mascara summer. And that if you can rock no mascara, you have pretty privileged because it could not be me. The article in the cut says it's a no mascara summer. I've seen this before. It scares the shit on me. It's giving like low rise jeans coming back energy. I won't be bullet into this. I won't be doing it. We've lost so much. And honestly, over the years, gotten so comfortable wearing very little makeup. I have skin care scene now. I don't wear a lot of makeup. I used to like never walk out the door without like quite a bit of makeup on. But like, you can't take, you can't take my mascara away from me. Let me just speak for all the blonde haired women that have no definition around their eyeballs. You will not be taking my mascara away from me. Okay. What else do I have? I already got rid of black eyeliner. All of it. I never wear it. I got rid of top and bottom eyeliner. Okay. Yes, I got rid of everything. My hair extensions. You can't take mascara away from me. No. Like, this is rage bait. And I will say if you think you can just have nothing on your lashes, you are prettier than me. Like, I think about Nikki Glazer's bit when she says without makeup, I am an attractive man. She's like, I look like a yoga teacher named Jasper or something like that. Like, I can't remember the exact joke. Like, that is my one thing. And so I wanted to ask you and ask our audience, of course, if you want you to weigh in in the comments, one makeup item you can put on mascara. Number one. My second one is Lenege. I like their lip balm, the color berry. It's like, that's it. And I'm out the door. But I can only do one thing. Obviously mascara blonde eyelashes. I look crazy with that. And I've thought about eyelash tinting. But truly, I have a really nice eyelashes. It's like the only thing that's real on my face. And like, I don't want them to fall out. So I just like, you can't take this away from me. Okay. We've lost so much. I'm with you. I mean, if my lips are crusty, like, if I have that white line, I will go lip before lash. But like, if my lips look okay and I have one thing I can use before I go out in public, it is mascara. And of course, I wear no makeup mascara included around the house when I go around errands and stuff like that. But if I really am going to like be in public, be seeing people be on camera in any way, like, that's my item. Tentos down on mascara. What are we doing here? I'd rather have like no brows than mascara. Shave my brows off. Bleach my brows. Yeah, pretty lashes. Tungy statement necklaces are back low rise jeans. I mean, we are dealing with a lot this summer balloon pants taffeta. There is so much that I never wanted to see again for the rest of my life. I'm doing mascara. Okay, fuck all this bullshit. Yeah, it is not a no mascara girl summer. It's poop girl summer and shorts fine summer. And that is where we draw the line. Yes. Okay. So for the next story, I'm obsessed with what's going on. So there is a store in Nantucket. It's an antique store and they put up this sign that said no influencers. And Nantucket, I will say, has just more and more of the last couple years. Just there is an explosion of influencers flooding the island. And I think this was just kind of like cutesy tongue and cheek. They don't have a huge social following. They took a photo and posted on their Instagram. And it has gone super viral. And Paige Lorenz, who is an influencer, she's married to a famous tennis player. She owns a company called dairy boy in the same town. She basically like got in the comments and said like, this is bullshit. And like so many women, specifically women, depend on influencer income and things like that. She really like kicked up a big stink. And that is a response also in dairy boy put up a sign that said like influencers welcome. So this is the story and the background that we will discuss for you guys today. I think it's so lame to get offended by like a no influencers sign. It means don't come in here and take up space and make a bunch of content and not buy anything. I feel like that much is obvious. It's more of a behavior than an attack on your profession. It didn't say no white women. It didn't say no blonde women. It's like not defining of your physical appearance, which means you can shop there. You just need to behave. So I've seen people take it as far as this to say like you are picking up group of people and saying they can't come in here and I'm like, you guys influencers are not a marginalized community. You can't keep us out of it. You can't like make rules like it's so ridiculous. Like I am an influencer. I'm an OG influencer. So is Reina. I mean, that's not my top thing I would describe myself today. Obviously podcast or comedian. But we are original influencers. Like I was an OG back in 2014. Reina was an original food blogger. Like I went on an influencer trip for my honeymoon. I mean, I was offered a brand trip and I will tell you there was a store on our honeymoon in Singapore. It had all these lanterns and it said no photos. Whatever the language was was like no photos or video unless you buy something. It was more finesse to than that. And I wanted photos and video. I also wanted to shop there. We bought a lot of things there. We bought gifts for people. And then the owner could not have been more happy for me to take photos and video. Like I respect them because it is it's on Arab Street and it's so enticing to look at. Like I can understand people coming in there to get content and not buying anything. And I really respected that. And that's all that's kind of what I feel like the no influencers are sign men. I'm 100% in agreement with you. This is like a little antique shop. And I think they're just like we know this is like I know you want to come in here and do this. I see this a lot also in like oh hi California. Like right by where I live. I used to live and where you live. Like all these little antique and thrift stores and people do go there to make content. And you know the point of the store was like you're in the videos of like other people are in these videos. We don't really want that to be the experience of our customer or this like little town. I just didn't take as much issue with it. And that comes from me. Like I support influencer culture more than anybody. I live in the epicenter of influencer culture. If you guys are curious live in the West Village. And it's honestly kind of hard to be outside on Saturdays and Sundays in the West Village. I mean the lines are so long for pizzas, bagels, sandwiches, ice cream. I mean the line. There's no line frozen. Yeah. The frozen yogurt line. It's like it's so long it like almost meets the Apollo bagels line and the industry pizza line and the mom is two line and the hanks salt hangs sandwiches. And all of these lines are so long. Like it's hard to be in the West Village. But I still support people's right to make content. And also on top of that. I think it's incredible. How incredible it is to start a small business where you are just selling like frozen yogurt or pizza and like you go so viral. So like I really support these small businesses very, very, very much. That's how you want to spend your days standing in line to make content. I don't care. All that being said, I think it's a little silly to take issue with this because I think a business also has the right to be like this is not the experience that we want to have. It's not the experience I want to have. I hate walking around here in the middle of all this shit. To tag on what you said, which I totally co-sign is like influencers have supported these businesses and stimulated this shit economy. And of course there's a ton of bad behavior and they've ruined things too. And I say that is someone that's still in my job description. But they've influenced people and they've helped a lot of businesses. And I saw this one comment under the article that says this actually isn't really the influencers that are problem. It's the wannabe is that are filming everything for TikTok that they've been influenced. It's not as much these OG influencers. They were there way before. And now it's like everyone else. Everyone is filming all the time. When we say influencers are ruined everything, it's like they encouraged a bunch of people who are motivated to go to a certain spot that now is overrun with people who are not influencers. That's kind of the thing that's gone wrong. But page Lorenz basically said this was anti-feminist, which is a real reach and just takes away from the feminist movement as a whole, yes, I understand influencer culture is mostly women as a woman and an influencer and, you know, I don't agree with statements like all influencers are terrible, they're ruining everything, but to bring feminism into it is virtue signaling and I just had a problem with that. I agree, listen, this is just one of those things like you're welcome to do either, like you want to be an influencer and run around do your thing, that's fine. If you want to be a store that's like actually to my own detriment, I do not want influencers in here. This is not the experience I want to give to my store. Like you know what I mean? Like your own detriment mean like influencers aren't going to come in there and promote your store. You're like that's important, it is to me to not have that experience for my customers. Like I don't care either person is right, like it's just not that deep to me. It's not like a feminist thing. It's not really making a comment about people being influencers, it's saying I don't want my customers to have to like be around this shit. And that's fine. I see that as an influencer and somebody who does not particularly love being around this shit, but I support other people wanting to do it. Right. I just, I really have a problem with weaponizing feminism and like my fear though was that a bunch of influencers or wannabe influencers were going to go get a photo in front of that sign. That's where I kind of thought this was all going. Like you want to kind of just be snarky about it, but yeah, it feels crazy to get offended by it. You know what it means. You are an influencer, one of the most famous ones in the world. You can walk in there. You know you're allowed to walk in there. You know that's not what it meant. Also, I just think that this sort of brought a lot of really negative and unfair attention against this business and you know, they get threats and people, you know, it's mobilizing a lot of people to hack this like really small anti-shop. Yeah. And I, but I like the way he's handled it. Like when they're like, what do you think about her feminist comment? And he was like, I don't care, I don't care, this is ridiculous. So team antique store. Okay. Well, let's just talk about our remaining partners and then we will hit you guys with your headlines. So I'm a new partner of ours, parallel. This is prenatal and postnatal support and dooring, natal support. 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He swears he's alive. He says he's in a rehab facility and he has not worked for six weeks. I feel like they are trolling us at this point. If he can take a photo, he can make a video. I don't know where this man is or what he's doing, but he has been off work for six weeks. A man who has continuously voted against paid medical leave for the American people. Six weeks. Sir, get out. You're done. You're done. They're trying to sell us on the reality of this photo. They didn't even bother to change it from the last photo. His wife is next to him. She's holding him up. She's holding him up by the arm. She's like, you will be in this photo. She got him dressed this time and got him into a chair. I mean, it is crazy. And he's like, I swear, I'm going to get back to work. Listen. You're not qualified to do this job anymore. Get out of here. So the Kentucky's governor, Andy Bashir, wrote in a new letter to Mitch McConnell. It has now been 43 days since news of your hospitalization. During that time, you have cast zero votes, engaged in no official activities. I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve. You're done. You're fired. People voted for you to represent them and your consistency, and you can't do that. You don't have the capacity to do that. So come on, let's be honest about what's happening here that you're not really alive anymore. Yes. Goodbye. And RIP. Okay. I'm not qualified to talk about it. So next up, we haven't. We haven't. We haven't. We haven't. We haven't. We haven't Amanda and West update. We haven't Amanda and West proof of life. That's so funny. This is a proof of life report. Listen, I really hoped that people would just leave them alone who cares. They can return to their own life and return to social media. And they have sort of done that, but in the strangest way possible, I don't really understand like what is going on. Listen, you don't have to go away forever. You don't have to get off the internet forever, but like they have been posting some of the weirdest shit. So people, it started like a week or two ago. They're out of wedding. She's wearing a flowy dress and people were speculating that she was pregnant. And so the two of them guys, West Wilson and Amanda Batula, Summer House, if you're new under a rock, we kind of glossed over it. But anyway, so just sorry to interrupt you. But yes. No, no, thank you. She's wearing this flowy green dress. People speculated that she was pregnant and then they made this TikTok where they're at the store getting ice cream and pickles and putting it into this cart. I don't know. It would be like funny if everybody didn't hate you guys so much. I know. Like, that's the thing. Like, they, I feel like they think they're really eating down with this and it's like, they're still just the way you guys got together in the first place. You like, cause harm to other people. Like, just stop. Like, it's not, no, that's what it is. I'm not seeing a genuine apology from either person. I never thought in my entire life, I'd see somebody whose behavior made me go, well, at least Tom Sandevall did X, Y and Z. Like, these two have never publicly apologized for anything. They have skirted around all this and all the people that they heard and now they're like making silly videos. And it's just, it's a decision. They're trolling. They're trolling. So it's just like, that's weird. Like, it's like, it's not even that funny. It's like, you're trolling people after all the harm you caused. Yeah, it's weird. It's not funny. So the new thing that they posted was, um, he posted a happy birthday to her and it's like an AI photo of her where it's not really her and he had posted it at first and put one caption, took it down, put it back up, he said happy birthday, twin, I just, what are you guys doing? Like, what are you guys doing? What are you doing? Are you consulting with nobody? Not a publicist's insight. No, just like, I don't think people like want anything from them. It's like, "Oh, they just did that shit." Like, I think people want to do it. genuine apology from you guys or for you to go away, but they don't want this. Right. Okay. Well, moving along, the White House correspondent's dinner was this week, and Donald Trump, the biggest joke of all, decided to try to make fun of other people. It was a key hard watch. It always is. It was silent in the room, a complete bomb, as always. Well, I mean, you know, sometimes we say, like, if he wasn't the president, he would be funny. This was not one of those times. He went in on Caitlin Collins, again, with her thing about her not smiling. The room is dead silent. He made a trans joke. He compared her to Dylan Mulvaney. Dylan Mulvaney is a gorgeous trans woman. You know, it's just kind of like, okay, what are you even trying to do there? And everybody's just sitting there and, you know, she has been doing us some press around it and she is just such a queen and is like, this isn't about me, you know, this is about holding the president of the United States accountable. She always says the right thing. She posted a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt and that's all she's really going to do, you know, and I respect it and he always goes in on her because she's doing her job. And I honestly think that it's a badge of honor that the smallest man who ever lived, this disgusting predator, is her op. I mean, if Donald Trump likes you, you're not living your life the right way. I know that kind of thing. You're doing the right thing. Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, she's the queen and we support her and it's so funny. The smile thing, because I think I was watching her, I was watching a clip with her and John Stewart. She can't stop smiling. She's always smiling. She's not going to smile at you. She's, I mean, she's a lovely disposition. We have some mutual friends with her. I've only ever heard wonderful things about her and it's so weird and creepy and antiquated to tell women to smile. Like, what is this? 1920? This is the president. It's so weird and creepy. He's like, she's an attractive woman. She's very attractive. I can feel the uncomfortableness in the room. It's so creepy. It's so bad. It's like every day. Obviously, it's a new fresh hell and it's like, this shouldn't be allowed. The president of the United States should be able to talk to people like this at a correspondence center or at all, but, you know, here we are, the bars and hell. Well, we stand with you, Caitlin. And one thing, we're just going to make a quick. We missed this last week. We didn't have a snack, but speaking of predators, Andrew Tate was arrested in what can only be described as capri pants and a going out top and rate of flagged his outfit immediately. And he's now he's in solitary confinement. I don't know what's going on. We don't want to give it too much air time, but the outfit he was arrested in. I mean, this is supposed to be the beat, the so-called beacon of masculinity and how men are supposed to dress. He is wearing a skin tight button down, sparkly purple shirt with silver capris and slippers and gold necklaces. He looks so fucking ridiculous. This is supposed to be the picture of masculinity. He looks like he's not the way the ice debates. It's the first thing I thought when he walked out and was getting arrested. Yes, he's like live tweeting from solitary, which I don't really understand, or how he doesn't have drinkable water and his conditions are bad. How are you tweeting? Thank God. He's telling us how terrible it is. I love that. Thank God. He's in hell. I would love to. He should be the people that created this situation for him, but let him tweet that out. I can rest easy. Okay. We couldn't really get too much in that last week, but we still at least wanted to address his look. And I saw like brands hopping on the tread, like selling the outfit. And lastly, there are some celebrities that are slowly starting to talk about Taylor and Travis' wedding. Some comments about how wonderful it was from Nesee Nash, Mike Raeble, Stephen A Smith. All I wanted to say is, "Rain, I can't believe we have not seen a damn thing from this wedding." It's shocking. Sometimes it'll hit me that this wedding was on July 3rd and we haven't seen a thing. And I respect the privacy and that they wanted this to be private. But I didn't see this coming. I thought we would see something by now. Address. Like, anything. I thought we would see wedding photos. We saw their engagement photos. They have shared a lot with us. So I, for one, I'm shocked. Why do I get hundreds of photos on the internet every time they go to Via Corota or the corner store or Toreesi? Like, I have so much more information about what they had for dinner and yes, I guess they wanted to keep it private. But they invited 1,000 people and got married to the most famous arena in the world. So like, could we just get a picture of the decor, please? Like, what, they leaked like what the wedding invitations and like the little handkerchiefs. And then you have the guy from ANC theaters talking about the wedding. Like, can I just get a photo? This is so unfair. I don't, I just don't understand it. I don't get it. We saw the whole engagement setup, the photos, like, I'm curious what the strategy is here. Never? Is this it? I know. Almost August. It's almost a month out. I'm devastated. Okay. I've not been a fan this long to not be fed. Okay. You know what? There's something's going to happen. Is there a music video? Documentary. Is there something we will see it? It's a matter of time. I will die on that hill, but it's just who's to say when it will be. I hope there's a documentary about her concert, about the arrest warrant. They're going to, I think they're going to monetize it in some way. God, I hope so. You know, we're all sitting here wanting to see it. So it's like, why would they not make a splash? I don't know. Yeah. And then don't eat the money to charity. Okay. I love that. But we'll be, we'll be waiting. You guys. Okay. Well, that is your snack. You guys. Thanks for being here. Thank you. Bye.