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Pop Culture Chaos and the 2025 Grammy Awards
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Broadway enthusiasts, hold onto your hats as we candidly discuss Trisha Paytas's bold Broadway performances. We also share our thoughts on this years Grammy awards.
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Alex Hinsky
Casual Conversation About Music and Memories
Speaker 2wait, crazy are you wearing? That's weird that is how awkward.
Speaker 1That's super weird anyway, welcome back to the a-list podcast with allison and alex. I'm allison I'm alex I almost said welcome back to the canceled podcast because I just listened to that. Um wow, so crazy that you copied me it's weird because like you're the six flags guy, so like my house I am um.
Speaker 2We should also tell angela to wear hers, and we'll do this again.
Speaker 1We just wear it again. I mean, I do wear it a lot and I'm constantly washing it, which sucks. Well, maybe it'll make it more lived in, but I, I wear it all all the time because it is the perfect. Um hang, it is a nice hang is a nice hang.
Speaker 2before you leave, I have washed and bleached your white shirt. Thank, goodness. I was going to tell you. Allison left a shirt with me and asked if I could throw it in with my whites, Cause I take my bleaching my whites very seriously.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I don't when I I forgot and I so I was washing whites the other day. I'm holding this shirt and I'm looking at it and I'm like who is this? Also, there's no indicator that it's a women's shirt. It says like Abercrombie or something. Yeah, it just says a cropped tee. Is this from some guy that I had over? Is it mine?
Speaker 1You could have worn it, I'm sure, so I almost text this person. Did you?
Speaker 2leave your shirt, yeah, and in a flash was like oh, Alison, it's.
Speaker 1Alison.
Speaker 2Anyway, it's clean. Thanks for doing that, I didn't dry it cause I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1Um no, I probably wouldn't have tried it, so it's hanging in the bathroom. I do need to go pick up more of those, cause I really liked the way those shirts fit.
Speaker 2You like the way they lay, much like the shirt you're wearing right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1Great, I have a blue one and that white one, and I would like more.
Speaker 2Okay, so that's hey. You know what? It's your right.
Speaker 1Thank you, you can do that, is it? Yes, for now I have a question yeah, do you ever. Just, I don't know. I was thinking about this on the way get in your car and put on oceans like a religious song. I don't know the words. Here's how different you and I are right now.
Speaker 2When you started to say that I was gonna finish your sentence and I was like I'll let her finish you ever put on fat, juicy and wet? No, I thought you're saying do you ever? This is genuinely what I do you ever? This is genuinely what I thought. Do you ever just get in your car and want to, like, drive over a cliff?
Speaker 1Yes, that too.
Speaker 2Do you ever?
Speaker 1just want to into the other lane, yeah.
Speaker 2I think about that all the time.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Anyway, no, You're like do you ever just want to praise the Lord? Do you ever just get into your car and want to praise him?
Speaker 1I don't know any lyrics of that song. I I'm going to praise him. I don't know any lyrics of that song. I don't know the first half at all.
Speaker 2Do you listen to my version?
Speaker 1I actually tried to. I don't it's under a pseudonym, it is. And you guys, he makes Christian music, but you'll never know the name of it, so you just happen to have to come across a voice that sounds like Alex. And good luck I did. I searched oceans and I looked briefly at the songs hundreds of thousands of covers wait, let's cut this out. What's it called? Ocean no, you're an artist, right?
Speaker 2I didn't see that you didn't see that I'm gonna bleep it out just for fun, instead of cutting it.
Speaker 1Okay, but the first half do not know a single word. Actually want to skip the first half. I only like when the music drops and then we come back with spirit. Lead me you like a good bridge, but it repeats like 35 times. I also don't know those words.
Speaker 2I just like the way it sounds in my head.
Speaker 1Yeah, but.
Speaker 2So are you singing along? Are you humming along? If you don't know the words, what's happening?
Speaker 1Um no, because the Hillsong girl is absolutely not. The Hillsong girl is so good Whoever is saying that, Um, and I can't imagine to sound that good. So I kind of just listen really loud and then I'm over it. But I haven't done that in, probably in years to be really honest.
Speaker 2I will say similarly to that. I do have a playlist in Apple music which I am subscribed to but never use.
Speaker 1That's insane.
Speaker 2It's because I have at home pods. It's ridiculous, and I have a playlist that I will sometimes check into that taps into my youth, called Jesus, lift Me the F Up.
Speaker 1Right. Sometimes I just need to hear that old Does it say F.
Speaker 2Yes, but it's just for me.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Like F.
Speaker 1What's on there? What else is on there?
Speaker 2Well for me, oceans is not on there, that's insane. Contrary to to you know the charts, it's not one of my favorites um a lot of like stuff I used to listen to in my youth.
Speaker 1So, like the group avalon out of eden newsboys, so like pop yeah christian pop, christian pop from my youth what was that? One band, the like rock band rock yeah, like a christian rock band that everyone liked.
Speaker 2Starts with a P. Hmm, or I thought you were going to say first of all, I don't listen to Christian rock. I listen to like Plus One who was like the Christian NSYNC.
Speaker 1Right and.
Speaker 2Stacey Urico and.
Speaker 1Rachel Lampa Stacey Urico.
Speaker 2Stacey, she bridged the gap Like she went over.
Speaker 1Yeah, she was mainstream. The gap like she went over. Yeah, she's mainstream, she went mainstream for a sec. What is that? L there's an? L oh I'm. Am I thinking, oh, reliant, k is what I really was thinking. They're punk, switch foot. That's a good one is there an l?
Speaker 2what?
Speaker 1jars of clay. Pop their pop. I swear there's one that starts with an l mercy me I can only imagine when I'm side of sun you don't know words. No, um switchfoot. I only like that one song that's in um a walk to remember a walk to remember well, they sing their version, so I lay my head. That's the one, that's not them. That's a cover.
Speaker 2No, that's them, but it's also saying by Mandy Moore.
Speaker 1Like they both sing Both are great.
Speaker 2Switchfoot was known for. Dare you?
Speaker 1to move. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, I had an era of Switchfoot.
Speaker 2Well, I had an era of a walk to remember Jamie saved my life.
Speaker 1I'll always miss her, but yeah, I don't know there was no reason for it. I just heard someone talk about Christian music and I said you know what I need? To listen to Oceans right now.
Speaker 2You said cue up Oceans, Hillsong live.
Speaker 1It's so good. I don't know any other Hillsong songs. Was it live? No, it was the recording. Oh, okay, but that's it.
Speaker 2You definitely probably do know other hillsong songs, but they've been around for a minute.
Speaker 1Yeah, and my church growing up was not a secular music, christian music, oh contemporary. Yeah, it was from the hymnal I'm talking like what's a good, what's a how great that were yes, my grandma played the organ, oh I said norma no, judy, judy, yeah, judy.
Speaker 2Anyway, I just needed to know if you ever do no, but you know, I do have those random where I'll get in a car and I'll be like it's time to listen to 18s. Don't know why. Let's's do it Similar, I think.
Speaker 1More fun.
Speaker 2Well, oceans, it does something for you, it scratches an itch.
Speaker 1Yeah, it sounds really pretty. Yeah, but I only like the repeating part at the end the bridge.
Speaker 2Allison Say the bridge.
Speaker 1But it keeps going.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1It's a long bridge, it's like the golden gate of song music.
Speaker 2The long, the longer it is, the more they tithe yeah, yeah, it's when the they're passing that off.
Speaker 1Yep, yeah anyway, welcome back everyone yeah, thank you um what's today, february 10.
Speaker 2The day before my birthday.
Speaker 1Speaking of not harmonizing we need to talk about the clips from Trisha Paytas' Broadway debut.
Speaker 2We're going to get right into Trisha right now.
Speaker 1I think so. All right, let's do it. Did you see what I watched? Wait whoa. Did you watch what?
Speaker 2I Did. You see what I watched.
Speaker 1Did you watch what I sent you? I didn't. And then did you look up anything more?
Speaker 2I was served my own batch of content which I think was pretty similar to what you sent me.
Speaker 1Yeah, I sent you. Take Me or Leave Me with Rachel Zegler.
Speaker 2It's just, I watched that.
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Speaker 1Which you guys. I don't care for Rachel Zegler, but she honestly ate down in that.
Speaker 2And Trisha went totally off key and then found her way back at the end.
Speaker 1Honestly, it made me feel better about singing myself.
Speaker 2Well, that's the point, right, she knows, she knows she's not like a Broadway singer. This has just always been a dream of hers.
Speaker 1But she sings without abandon. She goes for it and everything she does, Like I think that she kind of does think that she can sing, Like I think she doesn't, but she Does that make sense.
Speaker 2I think she's just so confident she's like doesn't matter, I'm just going to give it my absolute best, and my absolute best is off key sometimes.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think that I am too much of a perfectionist. I want to be perfect and it's never going to happen. I don't have the ear, as we know. Yeah, so, but it did make me feel better because I have sung, take me or leave me quite a few times in my day. What?
Speaker 2part.
Speaker 1Oh, I am the second part.
Speaker 2What's her name. You're not Maureen.
Speaker 1No, of course I'm singing with my best friend, reagan. Do you think that I'm ever going to be Maureen?
Speaker 2Who's the other part? It's lost my body.
Speaker 1I don't know her name.
Speaker 2Maureen and.
Speaker 1It won't work. That's the part that I sing.
Speaker 2I look before I leap.
Speaker 1Yeah. Um can you look lower too?
Speaker 2Can you look it up? I need to know what her character's name is.
Speaker 1Joanne.
Speaker 2It's Joanne.
Speaker 1It's Joanne.
Speaker 2Not very corporate actually.
Speaker 1No, it's actually pretty.
Speaker 2She's just very corporate.
Speaker 1She is, she's wearing lawyer things Professional Okay. But honestly, Rachel Zegler sounded really good but I just don't like her and there's nothing about. I know nothing about her, except for what I've seen of her on social media or red carpets, when she was being real weird and annoying during this snow white red carpets. Well, those are singing in the hunger games prequel. I wasn't here for that, but she sounded really good. And do you know?
Speaker 2the premise of the show.
Speaker 1Tricia's a little bit. You can tell the people.
Speaker 2No, I just caught a little like it's like she. It's a dream where she can tell the people no, I, I just caught a little like it's like she. It's a dream where she invents broadway yeah, and she wait, wait.
Speaker 1I saw I don't know if we saw the same tiktok where apparently at the beginning she gives john wilkes booth the idea to kill and like work we can stream this somewhere right?
Speaker 2it's like you can pay to watch it I don't.
Speaker 1I assume I saw people were watching it while it was happening, but I don't know if you can do it afterwards. I don't know if it was like good I think I was serving take out.
Speaker 2That was like go here to watch the full thing oh, well, maybe we should, and then? We didn't see I know it was the same time where the guy was, like he thinks it would be. He thinks that his show should run every night or every week with three different or four different celebrities every time and like make it a regular, like cabaret show.
Speaker 1Yeah, I will say, did we talk about this last time, where it's like we don't know where Sutton Foster is coming from in this? Because no, I don't know because Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt like seem like they're tapped into social media. They know who Tricia is. They get the lore. They think it's camp. It's know who tricia is, they get the lore they think it's camp.
Speaker 2It's funny, but like sutton, 100 does not know anything about, but sutton's everywhere. She was in the show younger, that I've been watching we'll get to that, like I just think she's like very in pop culture world.
Speaker 1You do, I do I feel like she has to have someone tell her what is cool look, she's friends with hillary duff is she? Do they hang out?
Speaker 2They gotta be friends.
Speaker 1I'm sure they're friends or friendly, but do you think they're hanging out?
Speaker 2Every Christmas they get together. I heard Right Point is I don't know.
Speaker 1Yeah, Well, I do like the four ensemble. Four or five, how many?
Speaker 2It was their.
Speaker 1Broadway debut, which was really cute. And then you had Amber what's her name? That's in every Broadway show, ever, every single one.
Speaker 2As an ensemble.
Speaker 1She needs to get a lead soon.
Speaker 2She's been like a understudy for a few of them. She was Fanny Bryce for a long time.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, is she back on Hamilton?
Speaker 2Oh, I don't know, but she played a lot before Lea Michele came in.
Speaker 1She was Fanny Rice Interesting. I don't like see her as that. I don't know why.
Speaker 2Amber, we're sorry.
Speaker 1I'm not saying she can't do it. I actually have never seen the show. Also, it was the choreographer's debut. Oh cute, that's fun. Yeah, I think that really fun. Good for all those people.
Speaker 2What did Sutton sing? Do you know?
Speaker 1That this was my thing. I made a TikTok about this because I was like I'm not seeing any videos of Sutton Foster singing. And I was getting the Ben Platt, I was getting the Rachel Zegler, and every time the search would be Trisha Paytas Broadway show Sutton Foster, and every time I would click on it and there are were no videos. The singular video I've seen is Tricia doing her speed reading to. It's one of the uh, it's something from a show Sutton's been in. That's recognizable, I just don't remember it.
Speaker 2Yeah, Was it into the woods? She wasn't in the. It wasn't a trek, was it? Oh, Once Upon a Mattress, probably you found it.
Speaker 1Now there's a video of her singing. When I tell you, all day I've been looking for this, and the one video was just of Trisha speed reading. Let me see if I can find that part, though Is it from Once Upon a Mattress. I think it's on Once.
Speaker 2Upon a Mattress, yeah.
Speaker 1I hate Once.
Speaker 2Upon a Mattress. By the way, you're full of opinions today.
Speaker 1I know crazy. Okay. Well, now there has been a video of Sutton singing and I will watch it later, but all day I thought it was a conspiracy Like no one's allowed to film Sutton Foster and this show cause she's embarrassed. No, I guess people were just late to that. But anyway, good for her Interesting. Live your dreams, live your dreams.
Speaker 2Live your dreams.
Speaker 1Now I need one Live, your dreams Live your dreams.
Speaker 2So, speaking of Sutton Foster, here's my younger.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, back to younger.
Speaker 2I was watching it as you walked in. Tonight I'm on season five. I'm cruising through this show.
Speaker 1How many are there left?
Speaker 2One Don't even know. So now Kelsey knows, AKA Hillary Duff.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And Robert, her boss, knows.
Speaker 1Okay, what's their relationship here's?
Speaker 2where I'm at. Oh God, sutton's all like okay and it's all just very Robert, and Robert has just told his ex-wife hey, I don't want to get back together with you.
Speaker 1Is his name Robert, or is it Richard?
Speaker 2It's Richard. It's Richard. Okay, it's Richard. Okay, there's seven seasons. Okay, richard is so rude to Liza right now. He's like you're such a liar, did you give her the idea to lie? And Liza's like Richard. And then he tells his wife hey, I don't want to get back together with you. And then he looks over at Liza and he's like blah, blah, blah. I can't believe. I didn't even see that when I was sitting right in front of me. And then the wife looks over at Liza and is like wait, pause.
Speaker 1Is he mad right now?
Speaker 2Richard's, so mad.
Speaker 1And the wife is the one that blew it up, right.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1The ex-wife.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2He found out because some he was going to oh oh, some he was going to, oh oh. So there's the guy that's like the character that's designed after the dude that wrote game of Thrones.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2He sexually harasses a bunch of women.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So Richard, publicly is like we cannot support this book because of these allegations. Then that dude meant to look like the dude that made the dragons.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Hires an investigative team that finds out that Liza is actually her actual age, he gives it to. Robert, I keep wanting to say Robert, are you sure it's Richard?
Speaker 1Hmm, charles, it's Charles, it's Charles.
Speaker 2Charles. So he's like yo, charles, um, if you, if you don't shut the f up, I'm about tell about your girl who's the co-editor of millennial and you'll be discredited. So he's like I gotta keep up appearances, but fuck you, liza anyway. So the three of them his ex-wife liza and him are all there and he's like I can't do it, I can't be with you anymore. And she's like you were so selfish the whole time. You knew I wasn't happy, but you didn't want to address it because you didn't want to admit it. And then he's like I know it was right in front of me.
Speaker 1I should have seen it there the whole time, staring right into Liza's eyes.
Speaker 2Then the wife looks and she's like that's weird. And she's like and then runs away and Liza's like then she looks over at the ex wife and then she goes Charles and runs after him. Oh, they're in the street and he's like it's best to just keep things professional. And she's like but I care about you. And he's like you're going to need to forget about all of that and she's like maybe it'd be best if I left then and he said I thought you did all this line so that you could get a job.
Speaker 2Mic drop turns around and walks away.
Speaker 1I mean work.
Speaker 2She is kind of in a tough spot right now.
Speaker 1She is PS. She looked great in that little outfit that she was wearing for the Game of Thrones dupe dupe book.
Speaker 2Princess, pam, pam, princess, pam, pam, fucking, gross.
Speaker 1But she looks hot, but she looks amazing. Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 2And she's done it three times. Three episodes.
Speaker 1Has Charles dated anyone else in?
Speaker 2this time. Yes that bitch, yes that gorgeous Indian woman.
Speaker 1No, she was actually nice, wasn't she?
Speaker 2No, she hated Liza. Oh, she turned.
Speaker 1She was nice at first that's the only person he's dated there's a bitch yeah, who helped tell me her name's quinn, I think there's no quinn yet okay, well, you haven't gotten there.
Speaker 2So well, here's what I have to say about my feelings towards charles. He can be mad, sure. Hillary duff got over it much quicker and I think she had every right to be more mad yeah charles, it's coming off like he's upset that he didn't actually make out with a 20-year-old.
Speaker 1T. He's like oh she's 40?. Ugh.
Speaker 2I only want to make out with 26-year-olds. Anyway, that's my younger corner, that's where I'm at. I hope to finish the series soon because it's.
Speaker 1There are seven seasons. Okay, so you're close.
Speaker 2I'm close, and there's 12 episodes a season. I thought it was 10. There's 12.
Speaker 1Well, other, we didn't even talk about our weeks. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2I had to talk about Trisha. So fast you jumped right into Trisha, that's okay.
Speaker 1Well, let's go back. How was? I'm sorry, I have an itch. Take care of it Always. Your health is, but I don't want to mess up my makeup. Tap, tap tap, tap, tap, okay, Okay, how was your week?
Speaker 2Well, instagram approved for me to join the creator program, so I'm making money off my post now. How much so far 38 cents.
Speaker 1Work, but I just started today I've only made $10 more than that total, so look at us, it's really not where it's at right now, but I mean but it was nice of them to ask it is nice and, honestly, maybe you'll make more than me because you're hot. That's not why you would make more than me. That was not what I meant but more than a pretty face I just mean you're, you're like new and you are on the grind, so maybe oh, maybe they'll like push me in the algorithm a little or maybe your content will just be better than mine.
Speaker 2I'm about to have, but I do wish that upon you.
Speaker 1Dope content I wish that upon you thank you um other than that I can you apply for tiktok's probably going away, but you could still try.
Speaker 2I could try.
Speaker 1Or is it just you're already in it? If you make a minute over a minute video, then oh, you're right, yes, correct. Which.
Speaker 2No, that's not true. You have to be it's 10,000 followers or and a certain amount of Like. You have to have posts of whatever.
Speaker 1Whatever Like, you have to have posts up and whatever, whatever.
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Speaker 2Let's see, since I saw you last, do you have any updates before we talk about the Grammys, which is very important.
Speaker 1Yes, I went to Emily's school today. I taught. I'm teaching a contemporary dance.
Speaker 2Why don't you remind me what I'm supposed to make the song edit for you.
Speaker 1Well, I just was doing the first section today, so I didn't you remind me what I'm supposed to make the song edit for you. Well, I just was doing the first section today, so I didn't need it today. Okay, I need to put it on my to-do list Now, just whenever I'm not going back until like the 24th but since we'll both be gone. Whatever's easiest for you. What's the song again, I Can Do it With.
Speaker 2A Broken Heart.
Speaker 1Make sure you use the clean version. Yeah, so sorry Wow.
Speaker 2It's okay.
Speaker 1So I went there today and I taught and let me tell you two things. Yeah, teaching was fun. Fine, it went fast cause it was a short day for them, but had a great time as I was walking in to the school.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I had. They had just had a passing period or they were having a passing period, and so I was walking and I was thinking to myself like I wonder if these kids think I'm one of them. Like do they think do?
Speaker 2they think I'm 18 yeah.
Speaker 1And then I was just definitely like, no what, you probably look so old to them, but in my mind I don't. And then when I left it was lunchtime. And when I tell you how freaking cool it must be to be a kid in Southern California at lunchtime, because this school is like the movies.
Speaker 2It is outdoor, indoor.
Speaker 1And all the kids during lunch are sitting outside. They're all in their cliques and they're having fun and they're like running around and all of the things and I had to walk through them to get out and I was just like, wow, how cool that this is what you get to do every day. Just like, and they're playing really cool music. The school is playing music. There's a speaker outside and it's just like Drake and it's like what my school would never.
Speaker 2No, and my home would never.
Speaker 1You could play cool music, cool Christian music.
Speaker 2Cool Christian music. That's right Only for the Lord.
Speaker 1But yeah, that's what I did today. And then, hmm, oh, I went to see Angela and Sass's movie.
Speaker 2Oh, my God, how was it? Do you want to wait and talk about that on Thursday, actually?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2We'll talk about that with Angela, because, guys, angela's coming back.
Speaker 1Yes, Angela's coming back. My face itches so bad. I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2Do you want to take a? Second I don't know what I could possibly do to change this.
Speaker 1Oh no, Now mine's itchy. Is there something in the air?
Speaker 2Is there asbestos? Probably Honestly, probably honestly, this building, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1I thought maybe I had like a hair that I couldn't, but I don't know. I don't know what to do. But I will tell you all about that when Angela's here. But that's what I did on Friday, and then that was Saturday, and then Sunday I went to a Grammy's watch party.
Speaker 2Okay, we'll get to the Grammys in a second, so I forgot that. On Sunday I shot with BuzzFeed, so I was booked on a shoot for Monday and then there was a lot of miscommunications. I was actually they needed me Sunday, so it was on the street. We were shooting on the street for Cocoa Butter at the Hollywood Farmer's Market and it was so fun. That was so fun. It was a very fun shoot.
Speaker 1Where is that In Hollywood?
Speaker 2Yeah, like right by the Equinox in Hollywood.
Speaker 1I don't know that.
Speaker 2Hollywood proper. Okay, just like, really right in it.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Ivar off of Ivar In like sense. I don't know.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2Anyway, it was cute. We got some great footage. It was a really fun time. It was for Black History Month. Video series Cute, which was fun. I haven't done on the street content in a long time.
Speaker 1Which PS, black History Month is still a thing.
Speaker 2Still a freaking thing.
Speaker 1In case anyone wonders.
Speaker 2So is Women's History Month. Yeah, I don't know. Breast Cancer Awareness, all of them.
Speaker 1The whole list. So is women's history month?
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know Breast cancer awareness, all of them.
Speaker 1The whole list, still things God.
Speaker 2Um, and then I hung out, made pizzas and watched the Grammys.
Speaker 1God made pizzas. It sounds fun, I want to do that.
Speaker 2Okay, so Grammys 2025. Here's some things I'd like to first say Hello, jeff, saw you on camera a lot. He's Benson Boone's manager, slash Queen Herbie's manager. So he was his date, sitting next to him and Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 1Cute.
Speaker 2So, Jeff, because I know you listen you looked great. I missed him, but I'm sure he did. Benson performed.
Speaker 1Here's the thing. I don't know anything about Benson, but he was cute and he flips and that's fun.
Speaker 2You know that song right.
Speaker 1I do know the song, but I had never seen his face.
Speaker 2He was an American Idol contestant that dropped out.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2And then Jeff Was like you, and then Is he Straight or gay? So straight.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2He's a straight man.
Speaker 1There you go, ladies. He's a straight man.
Speaker 2There you go, ladies.
Speaker 1He's like this tall Really. He looked tall to me.
Speaker 2No short guy. Hung out with him a few times. He's very nice, he's 21.
Speaker 1Was he at her listening party that I was also at? No, way.
Speaker 2Yeah, he was there.
Speaker 1You guys, what the heck? I was in the same room before he became famous. You were in the same with his mustache.
Speaker 2No, he didn't have the cool mullet hair. Okay, then I definitely like built his look.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh, my God Crazy. I wish I had remembered that at all.
Speaker 2Well, you were there.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You were in the room where it happened.
Speaker 1I'm in the room where it happened.
Speaker 2Um, and I was emotional when Do Chi won best rap album. Same Best rap vocal album.
Speaker 1Yeah, her speech was so good, her performance was so good. Her mom is her sister. Yeah, literally.
Speaker 2And then her performance. I couldn't believe.
Speaker 1So fun.
Speaker 2This is it Now. Everyone's going to know her.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I've been following her for so long you have.
Speaker 1You were the first person to tell me about her.
Speaker 2Loved her from the beginning. She's so fucking talented and I was so stoked to see her A win that I wanted her to win Best New Artist. I'm glad Sabrina didn't, because that would have been just weird. I wanted Sabrina to win a bunch. She did. But, Best New Artist no.
Speaker 1It would have been weird, but I'm, it would have been weird. She's been around for so long. Chapel.
Speaker 2Chapel Deserved.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2As long as it wasn't Sabrina, but anyway, dochi's performance, she crushed it. Great I was so proud of her.
Speaker 1Yeah, anyway.
Speaker 2So I'm on the phone with Karina today and she's like yeah, oh. Dochi is here. So the Like the one day I'm not there On a Tuesday to shoot and Dochi's there, she's like, yeah, everyone's congratulating her on her wins.
Grammy Awards Conversation Highlights
Speaker 1Wow, I'm so sad for you, thanks Cause you're an OG. I'm an OG, truly.
Speaker 2She's always on my Spotify raps, okay.
Speaker 1Did you find her on TikTok or did you find her on Spotify like new artist or whatever?
Speaker 2Amy introduced me to her back when I was working with Amy Okay. And I was like holy.
Speaker 1Yeah, so good.
Speaker 2And then the first song that I like geeked out was Trampoline with Missy Elliott.
Speaker 1Yes, it's a.
Speaker 2Bahamas. A Benihana. You need a hug. You need a father. You need some guava. The way I spend it, it ain't proper. I need a doctor. I have the tobacco, so good.
Speaker 1Doesn't she have a song that has the Hamilton? Yes, yeah, I have only heard it on a little bit on tick tock, but now I need to listen to the whole thing because this latest DP isn't great.
Speaker 2It's incredible.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Remember old. Okay, I can't.
Speaker 1I can't go. Everyone's going to start wearing face tape.
Speaker 2Yeah. But yeah, it's a fun look Um other notable things yeah, will Smith, I thought he was canceled. That was so confusing to me.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean, I understand why they had him do it. Sure, he, if you didn't watch, he made a big long uh speech, whatever about.
Speaker 2Quincy Jones.
Speaker 1Quincy Jones, who produced the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. So it made sense. But, a lot of people could have also done that because he worked with everyone yeah.
Speaker 2His daughter. That would have been so epic.
Speaker 1Yeah, he's worked. He worked with everyone in music, so literally anyone could have had stories.
Speaker 2Janelle Monae performing Michael Jackson was pretty epic.
Speaker 1So good. I think that was Dochi and those like were the most that I liked, the most I think Sabrina's. I liked Sabrina's, but it also had an element of flatness to me. I'm so sorry, but there was something about it that was like I don't know if, if her humor I feel like her humor sometimes just doesn't.
Speaker 2Falls flat.
Speaker 1Yeah, Like people don't get it Like she's, I was making sure your thing she is really fun and funny, but it's sort of like her Christmas special to me.
Speaker 2Okay, that I totally get.
Speaker 1Fell a little bit flat and I really I thought the tap dancing was fun. I thought to me it kind of looked like it was supposed to be the set. Uh, on white Christmas.
Speaker 2It did kind of look like that.
Speaker 1Or like gentlemen prefer blondes. Sure, yeah, yeah, but I don't know. There was something about it that I just maybe. Maybe it just was because the room they're like not paying attention, they're all talking, no one cared. It could have been that, just like the lack of hearing any sounds of people could have in it, but I do think she did a good job. Honestly, benson was good.
Speaker 2Benson's performance was one of my top.
Speaker 1Again, I didn't know what he looked like, so I had never seen him perform, and he was very energetic. I didn't know what he looked like, so I had never seen him perform. And he was very energetic. I didn't know he flipped so much.
Speaker 2I would have been happy with him winning Best New Artist too. That would have been dope.
Speaker 1Yeah, do you know any other songs of his?
Speaker 2Yeah, his whole album. You would know them if you heard them. They're like playing everywhere, it's like that.
Speaker 1All right, is he country?
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1I don't know why. I thought he was country he's like a Freddie Mercury, like rebirth. I think most of the people, except for excuse me, Krungbin or whoever it was. Yeah, I think everyone that was up for Best New Artist.
Speaker 2Other than Sabrina.
Speaker 1Other than Sabrina were all Worthy of it, Could have won. Teddy Swims could have won. Who was it? Who else?
Speaker 2Someone knows enough about whiskey. Oh Shabu um oh shibuzi, shibuzi.
Speaker 1Yeah, that would be a great one too. Love shibuzi um teddy swim.
Speaker 2Oh ray that performance was incredible I teared up.
Speaker 1That was wild we have a bunch of dances to ray songs, so yeah, ray's amazing we support. But it was ray ben simoon. Teddy swims dochi shibuzi. Serena carpenter, serena carpenter serena carpenter crung, crung bin and chapel and chapel one chapel took the crown so the other um people that won were kendrick won for best song with they not like us beyonce won for cowboy carter country album and album and album which is like she's never won that.
Speaker 2That was the big one that jay-z raised hell about yeah, and did you?
Speaker 1the internet has been so funny about uh blue telling her to stand up and being like over her, acting like she hadn't didn't know that it was happening.
Speaker 1you should go back and watch, because beyonce has her shocked face on which maybe she really didn't know that it was happening. You should go back and watch, because Beyonce has her shocked face on which maybe she really didn't know. I don't know. She's not standing up and Blue gives her this look and then motions for her to stand up and she's like get up and the internet thinks it's so funny. I've seen like 30 videos today of people being like. Blue is funny, but don't she.
Speaker 1So pretty and Josh just refereed her volleyball game. So, weird and random. Yeah, but she plays volleyball.
Speaker 2Everyone she is, she's still a kid and she's tall, it makes sense.
Speaker 1Yeah, um, don't. She won for best rap album. Sabrina won pop vocal album. Kendrick won best music video. Sabrina won pop solo performance, which that was a pretty stacked category, which it was it was sabrina, billy eilish for birds of a feather, charlie xcx, apple beyonce, bodyguard and chapel. Good luck babe yeah and any of them could have won. Honestly, billy didn't win anything, did she?
Speaker 2no, I don't think so weird um, what was the one that I knew you'd be excited about? I'll tell you what I'm not excited about is pop duo group performance with lady gaga and bruno mars no you like it no, I do not like the song, but I am, I was, I mean I like lady gaga?
Speaker 1did you think it was weird that every time they announced the winner they were like 13?
Speaker 2000 people voted on this.
Speaker 1It's like okay, we get it. 13 000 people voted like why are you shoving that fact down our throat? Who is in the? Who are these 13 000 people?
Speaker 2who are the 13 000 people, even 13 000, that like how,000 people, even 13,000, that like how? Is it also just exactly 13,000?
Speaker 1They're like cut off. Is it musical artists?
Speaker 2Give it a G. Oh, give it a Google. Give it a Google.
Speaker 1Who are the 13? Let's get them on the show.
Speaker 2Let's talk to them.
Speaker 1Guess what Other people are asking this question because it came up right away. As noted by presenters like Diana Ross and Miley Cyrus on Sunday's show, grammy winners are selected by 13,000 members of the Academy, who must demonstrate their bona fides as working music professionals to vote. What does that mean? That qualification as peers of the creators on the ballet is central to the Grammy's sense of legitimacy. Can we get on the Academy?
Speaker 2How do you apply?
Speaker 1The recording Academy Grammy voters are a select group of music industry professionals responsible for determining the winners of the Grammy awards. These voters are primarily voting members of the recording Academy. I wonder if you could get in.
Speaker 2You are an industry professional not a member of the recording Academy, though I could apply.
Speaker 1You should.
Speaker 2Let's see, I'll vote.
Speaker 1Yeah, I want to know how it works. Anyway, how do we get there?
Speaker 2I put the microphone away and said right, oh, you're cutting out Rewind.
Speaker 1We're back to pop duo.
Speaker 2Pop duo Lady Gaga, lady.
Speaker 1Gaga.
Speaker 2You're fine with Bruno Mars, bruno, you're fine with Bruno Mars.
Speaker 1It's fine, don't care for the song. Sure, the other people wore war Ariana, brandy and Monica. Oh, love the boys Mine. Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams, us Billy, eilish and Charlie guess and Beyonce and Post Malone. Levi's jeans would have been happy.
Speaker 2Uh, and Taylor Swift, and come on.
Speaker 1I said that oh what? That was the second thing I said.
Speaker 2Yeah, taylor Swift and Jack Harlow.
Speaker 1Gracie Abrams.
Speaker 2Oh, it was that one.
Speaker 1Oh, you thought that it was Taylor and Post for Fortnite?
Speaker 2Yeah, it wasn't, it was Post and Beyonce.
Speaker 1Post and Beyonce and Taylor and Gracie.
Speaker 2I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1And, honestly, I would have been happy with any one of them. I honestly wanted Ariana, brandy and Monica I do too and or Billy and Charlie, yeah, that would have been, good too. Because I like those songs more than the other two, but I don't whatever. So what were? The one rock album went to the Rolling Stones. Are they making music? Are they alive? Also the Beatles.
Speaker 2That was crazy. I hate that.
Speaker 1I the visual of the two alive and two dead. We don't need that, nope. Literally, we don't need it, nope. What is that?
Speaker 2I don't know, don't like it.
Speaker 1Rap performance went to Kendrick Not like us and rap song Uh. Best dance pop song recording went to Von Dutch Charlie XCX. Um best dance pop song recording went to Von Dutch Charlie XCX. Sza won for Saturn R&B song. What were you talking about?
Speaker 2I thought you would be excited about Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1You genuinely thought I was going to be excited about that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I did. Sorry, but speaking of though, how do you feel about Abracadabra?
Speaker 1Abracadabra oh okay, crazy, not that about abracadabra. Abracadabra oh okay, crazy, not not that. Abracadabra, lady gaga. I thought that it was. It's more of what I like about lady gaga. It's more the style that I want to be back to. Which disease was that? Is that for me? So, like I've already been like, okay, she's back on the train we're going back to Born.
Speaker 2This Way we're going back to that pop era.
Speaker 1Which is my favorite era of hers. That was a weird thing. A music video in the middle and when it started we were like is this just a Lady Gaga music video? And someone at the party was like, what if this is a MasterCard?
Speaker 2commercial.
Speaker 1And at the end we saw MasterCard pop up and we all screamed. We were like what a crazy thing that they just paid for her to just put her music video out there. It was fun.
Speaker 2It was fun. I think the song is. It gets better every time you listen to it.
Speaker 1I've only heard it that one time, but I will be listening again. Oh, I wanted to talk about the weekend. What a weird. First of all, the grammys were too long too long we don't need it it was crazy I don't know, we don't need, we can. You can do more awards. You don't need to only do nine. You can do less performances. Let's keep it to the people we really need to hear from, or make it more medleys like the um new artist medley.
Speaker 2That was great.
Speaker 1Let's do that, let's give shorter times for more people.
Speaker 2How sad were you real quick that Cynthia didn't do Defying Gravity. I don't know why I thought when I saw she was a performer I was like, are we going to get it? Because we're never going to get it.
Speaker 1I honestly thought it was also going to be that, but she sounded phenomenal so I was like okay with it, with it, what else did I? Oh, we need to talk about Kanye and Bianca. What an insane thing.
Speaker 1I saw the original post I think it was Dumois posted an uncensored picture immediately as it happened and I was like no way that it has. I was thinking, oh, this is like you know how drag Queens were a breastplate that looks like boobs and I was like maybe she has a full dress that looks like a naked body, but it's a dress. Honestly, I could see that and like maybe that is cool and avant-garde, I don't know. And then I was like no way, this girl is wearing a pantyhose dress that's see-through and just fully naked and Kanye is standing there just in a black t-shirt and jeans.
Speaker 2I didn't realize, he that she was kind of like a Kim Kardashian clone.
Speaker 1Oh, they look exactly the same.
Speaker 2It's wild.
Speaker 1And everyone just thinks that she is being held against her will and made to do all these things Cause she is always doing crazy stunts and he's just dressed normally. She walked around Disney world barefoot once. What else has she worn I? Don't know, it has been weird there's always like some weird clothing item or lack of clothing item that she's wearing and everyone is like, oh, he's making her do this and maybe maybe he is or maybe she likes it. I don't know. It's weird and it was fully public indecency.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And then people were like, oh, Julia Fox was wearing a bra and panties and Willow Smith was wearing a bra and panties and everyone was like, yeah, that's the point. They were at least covering their private parts. I wouldn't wear a bra and panties and a little shawl over it.
Speaker 2But it's not like they're naked. I also read somewhere that it was like they weren't even invited. They weren't supposed to be there.
Speaker 1Of course, Stupid. Then I saw pictures of them at the after party just making out and I was like everything I see about these two is against my will.
Speaker 2I want it to be gone so what a time.
Speaker 1Yeah, the other funny thing was everyone talking about um Shakira and Bruno Mars's debt and that they should go on tour together and call it the tax evasion tour.
Speaker 2That's actually genius, which is funny.
Speaker 1Someone at the party said that and I really agree Like do it go on tour together half and half. Do a number or two together. At the end, get people there, pay off your debts.
Speaker 2It's like when Christina and Justin went out together.
Speaker 1I went. I saw I went to that tour, the justified strip tour.
Speaker 2Yeah, and it was actually, didn't they do that? They bounced back and forth.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was like a section of one of them, a section of the other. Yeah, yeah, it was a really fun show. I was a kid, but I had a great time.
Speaker 2Yeah yeah. That's a little inappropriate for your age.
Speaker 1I wasn't that young.
Speaker 2You said little kid.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2I was in like probably late middle school. I mean I think I've always had, Then it may have been fine.
Speaker 1Yeah, I remember um the microphone shot out. This is when Justin was still cool. I remember his microphone shot out of the ground and he caught it.
Speaker 2Was it on a stick, so cool? I mean, was it on a stand or was it just the microphone it?
Speaker 1was just the microphone, Wow so cool. I mean, was it on a stand or was it just the microphone? It was just the microphone, Wow so cool. And that's the first time I saw Christina do her really sexy song with the um stripper pole and the man and she was definitely having sex with oh I, he was probably gay.
Speaker 2Well, I listened to her interview with Alex Cooper and she slept with a lot of her dancers and they, a lot of them, were gay.
Speaker 1I guess probably not work. That's like you're the boss. It's kind of the Lizzo situation, except she wasn't sleeping with them. But who am?
Speaker 2I, who are you?
Speaker 1I'm not the law.
Speaker 2No, you're Alison.
Speaker 1True. Is that all you have about the Grammys?
Speaker 2That's it. It was a entertaining show. I'm not mad at really anything Other than the length.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm just tired, although, because it starts so early here.
Speaker 2That is true, that is nice. I was in bed by what time Ten I was in bed by ten.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's the only good thing If we were on the East Coast, wow.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, so late. This is the 10th, but tomorrow's my birthday, and I share a birthday with none other than brandy kelly, roland uh, taylor lautner, jennifer aniston. I am stacked two of my friends maddie, what up? Misha, what up? Oh yeah, maddie maddie, amisha and Alex all have birthdays on the 11th and it's a really magical day, so happy birthday.
Speaker 1It is magical. What was I was going to?
Speaker 2And last year for my birthday, we played Topgolf and I had a perm. My, my, how times have changed.
Speaker 1Had a great time.
Speaker 2We did have a great time.
Speaker 1I was going to say on the 10th. I have to see if this is the day to say on the 10th. I have to see if this is the day. Abraham Lincoln, yeah, so did you know that here kids get off of school for to observe Abraham Lincoln's birthday?
Speaker 2Do you think Donald Trump knows that? We do that.
Speaker 1I don't know. He's probably going to put it into it man. He does. No one believes it.
Speaker 2Lincoln was gay. Everyone look it up.
Speaker 1But yeah, josh was like oh yeah, we don't have football on that day because of Abraham. Lincoln's birthday and I was like what? That's crazy. Who's doing that? But the birthdays for February 10th, let's hear it. Are Emma Roberts. She'll be 34 or she is 34.
Speaker 2So we're the same age, she and I.
Speaker 1No, because you're 35.
Speaker 2No, I'm 34, turning 35.
Speaker 1She is turning 34.
Speaker 2You said then she oh, because you're talking in present tense.
Speaker 1Yeah, because today is the 10th I do that. I go back and forth a lot on that and I hope people just can understand. Yeah, well. I don't Chloe Grace Moritz 28.
Speaker 2Famously married to a woman now.
Speaker 1Work, but to me she is our age.
Speaker 2How old is she?
Speaker 128 like she's turning 28. Oh yeah, I don't know why. I just feel like she gives older charlotte tilbury the makeup yeah mogul 52. Elizabeth banks 51. This is really hard when I am, I don't write this down. Mia Khalifa Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2Yes 32.
Speaker 1Oh, honestly, I thought she was older than that Laura Dern.
Speaker 2Love her 58.
Speaker 1Laura.
Speaker 2We love you, Laura. We go to the same astrologer, you know.
Speaker 1Have you been back? You haven't. No. Bob Iger Is he still alive? He is Bob Iger, the. Is he still alive? He's the current CEO of Disney. Right yep 74. Okay, do we? How do we feel about him? We don't like him. He's raising our prices too much though he is doing that.
Speaker 2But also, have you been driving down the 101 and see the roller coaster on the side of the mountain now at Universal Studios? It's huge, it comes all down the mountain. It looks incredible. You need to look.
Speaker 1I haven't been, I haven't driven that way, I don't.
Speaker 2Next time.
Speaker 1Since I don't know when, but I will look.
Speaker 2It's the Fast and Furious roller coaster. It looks incredible.
Speaker 1Fun.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Do we need another Fast and the Furious thing there?
Speaker 2The only thing there is. It's part of the studio tour. Yeah, that's one. I still haven't done Jurassic World, so like I'm ready, I'm going to wait till the roller coaster opens.
Speaker 1The water ride.
Speaker 2Yeah, the boat.
Speaker 1I think I've done that, but Jurassic World or Jurassic Park? Did they update it?
Speaker 2They updated it to Jurassic World. I have not ridden it, since they did that, like the year before you moved out here.
Speaker 1So yes, I have been Because when. I went with.
Speaker 2Right, yes.
Speaker 1Megan.
Speaker 2Yep.
Speaker 1We went on it. Okay, well, those are the birthdays. That is the episode.
Speaker 2This is aggressively ending. This is Alex saying thanks for listening and watching.
Speaker 1And I'm Alison and ditto.
Speaker 2Have a good, have a good week everyone.
Speaker 1Bye, bye, bye.