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Pop Culture Chaos and the 2025 Grammy Awards
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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Allison Florea
Alex Hinsky
wait, crazy are you wearing? That's weird that is how awkward.
Speaker 1:That'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 2:We should also tell angela to wear hers, and we'll do this again.
Speaker 1:We 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 2:before 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:You could have worn it, I'm sure, so I almost text this person. Did you?
Speaker 2:leave your shirt, yeah, and in a flash was like oh, Alison, it's.
Speaker 1:Alison.
Speaker 2:Anyway, it's clean. Thanks for doing that, I didn't dry it cause I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1:Um 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 2:You like the way they lay, much like the shirt you're wearing right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Great, I have a blue one and that white one, and I would like more.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's hey. You know what? It's your right.
Speaker 1:Thank 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 2:When 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 1:Yes, that too.
Speaker 2:Do you ever?
Speaker 1:just want to into the other lane, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think about that all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, 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 1:I 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 2:Do you listen to my version?
Speaker 1:I 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 2:I didn't see that you didn't see that I'm gonna bleep it out just for fun, instead of cutting it.
Speaker 1:Okay, 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 2:I just like the way it sounds in my head.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but.
Speaker 2:So are you singing along? Are you humming along? If you don't know the words, what's happening?
Speaker 1:Um 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 2:I will say similarly to that. I do have a playlist in Apple music which I am subscribed to but never use.
Speaker 1:That's insane.
Speaker 2:It'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 1:Right. Sometimes I just need to hear that old Does it say F.
Speaker 2:Yes, but it's just for me.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Like F.
Speaker 1:What's on there? What else is on there?
Speaker 2:Well 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 1:So, 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 2:Starts 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 1:Right and.
Speaker 2:Stacey Urico and.
Speaker 1:Rachel Lampa Stacey Urico.
Speaker 2:Stacey, she bridged the gap Like she went over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:what?
Speaker 1:jars 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 2:No, that's them, but it's also saying by Mandy Moore.
Speaker 1:Like they both sing Both are great.
Speaker 2:Switchfoot was known for. Dare you?
Speaker 1:to move. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, I had an era of Switchfoot.
Speaker 2:Well, I had an era of a walk to remember Jamie saved my life.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:You said cue up Oceans, Hillsong live.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:You definitely probably do know other hillsong songs, but they've been around for a minute.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Anyway, 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 1:More fun.
Speaker 2:Well, oceans, it does something for you, it scratches an itch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it sounds really pretty. Yeah, but I only like the repeating part at the end the bridge.
Speaker 2:Allison Say the bridge.
Speaker 1:But it keeps going.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a long bridge, it's like the golden gate of song music.
Speaker 2:The long, the longer it is, the more they tithe yeah, yeah, it's when the they're passing that off.
Speaker 1:Yep, yeah anyway, welcome back everyone yeah, thank you um what's today, february 10.
Speaker 2:The day before my birthday.
Speaker 1:Speaking of not harmonizing we need to talk about the clips from Trisha Paytas' Broadway debut.
Speaker 2:We're going to get right into Trisha right now.
Speaker 1:I think so. All right, let's do it. Did you see what I watched? Wait whoa. Did you watch what?
Speaker 2:I Did. You see what I watched.
Speaker 1:Did you watch what I sent you? I didn't. And then did you look up anything more?
Speaker 2:I was served my own batch of content which I think was pretty similar to what you sent me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I sent you. Take Me or Leave Me with Rachel Zegler.
Speaker 2:It's just, I watched that.
Speaker 1:Which you guys. I don't care for Rachel Zegler, but she honestly ate down in that.
Speaker 2:And Trisha went totally off key and then found her way back at the end.
Speaker 1:Honestly, it made me feel better about singing myself.
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:But 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 2:I 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:part.
Speaker 1:Oh, I am the second part.
Speaker 2:What's her name. You're not Maureen.
Speaker 1:No, of course I'm singing with my best friend, reagan. Do you think that I'm ever going to be Maureen?
Speaker 2:Who's the other part? It's lost my body.
Speaker 1:I don't know her name.
Speaker 2:Maureen and.
Speaker 1:It won't work. That's the part that I sing.
Speaker 2:I look before I leap.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Um can you look lower too?
Speaker 2:Can you look it up? I need to know what her character's name is.
Speaker 1:Joanne.
Speaker 2:It's Joanne.
Speaker 1:It's Joanne.
Speaker 2:Not very corporate actually.
Speaker 1:No, it's actually pretty.
Speaker 2:She's just very corporate.
Speaker 1:She 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 2:the premise of the show.
Speaker 1:Tricia's a little bit. You can tell the people.
Speaker 2:No, 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 1:I 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 2:it's like you can pay to watch it I don't.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:That 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:It'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 1:You 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 2:They gotta be friends.
Speaker 1:I'm sure they're friends or friendly, but do you think they're hanging out?
Speaker 2:Every Christmas they get together. I heard Right Point is I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Well, I do like the four ensemble. Four or five, how many?
Speaker 2:It was their.
Speaker 1:Broadway 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 2:As an ensemble.
Speaker 1:She needs to get a lead soon.
Speaker 2:She's been like a understudy for a few of them. She was Fanny Bryce for a long time.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, is she back on Hamilton?
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know, but she played a lot before Lea Michele came in.
Speaker 1:She was Fanny Rice Interesting. I don't like see her as that. I don't know why.
Speaker 2:Amber, we're sorry.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:What did Sutton sing? Do you know?
Speaker 1:That 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:Now 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 2:Upon a Mattress, yeah.
Speaker 1:I hate Once.
Speaker 2:Upon a Mattress. By the way, you're full of opinions today.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Live your dreams.
Speaker 1:Now I need one Live, your dreams Live your dreams.
Speaker 2:So, speaking of Sutton Foster, here's my younger.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, back to younger.
Speaker 2:I was watching it as you walked in. Tonight I'm on season five. I'm cruising through this show.
Speaker 1:How many are there left?
Speaker 2:One Don't even know. So now Kelsey knows, AKA Hillary Duff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And Robert, her boss, knows.
Speaker 1:Okay, what's their relationship here's?
Speaker 2:where 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 1:Is his name Robert, or is it Richard?
Speaker 2:It'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 1:Is he mad right now?
Speaker 2:Richard's, so mad.
Speaker 1:And the wife is the one that blew it up, right.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:The ex-wife.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:He 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 1:Right.
Speaker 2:He sexually harasses a bunch of women.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hires 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 1:Hmm, charles, it's Charles, it's Charles.
Speaker 2:Charles. 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 1:I should have seen it there the whole time, staring right into Liza's eyes.
Speaker 2:Then 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 2:Mic drop turns around and walks away.
Speaker 1:I mean work.
Speaker 2:She is kind of in a tough spot right now.
Speaker 1:She is PS. She looked great in that little outfit that she was wearing for the Game of Thrones dupe dupe book.
Speaker 2:Princess, pam, pam, princess, pam, pam, fucking, gross.
Speaker 1:But she looks hot, but she looks amazing. Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 2:And she's done it three times. Three episodes.
Speaker 1:Has Charles dated anyone else in?
Speaker 2:this time. Yes that bitch, yes that gorgeous Indian woman.
Speaker 1:No, she was actually nice, wasn't she?
Speaker 2:No, she hated Liza. Oh, she turned.
Speaker 1:She 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 2:So 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 1:T. He's like oh she's 40?. Ugh.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:There are seven seasons. Okay, so you're close.
Speaker 2:I'm close, and there's 12 episodes a season. I thought it was 10. There's 12.
Speaker 1:Well, other, we didn't even talk about our weeks. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:I had to talk about Trisha. So fast you jumped right into Trisha, that's okay.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:Well, 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 1:Work, 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 2:I'm about to have, but I do wish that upon you.
Speaker 1:Dope 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 2:I could try.
Speaker 1:Or 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 2:No, 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 1:Whatever Like, you have to have posts up and whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2:Let's see, since I saw you last, do you have any updates before we talk about the Grammys, which is very important.
Speaker 1:Yes, I went to Emily's school today. I taught. I'm teaching a contemporary dance.
Speaker 2:Why don't you remind me what I'm supposed to make the song edit for you.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:A Broken Heart.
Speaker 1:Make sure you use the clean version. Yeah, so sorry Wow.
Speaker 2:It's okay.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:they think I'm 18 yeah.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:It is outdoor, indoor.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:No, and my home would never.
Speaker 1:You could play cool music, cool Christian music.
Speaker 2:Cool Christian music. That's right Only for the Lord.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's what I did today. And then, hmm, oh, I went to see Angela and Sass's movie.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, how was it? Do you want to wait and talk about that on Thursday, actually?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:We'll talk about that with Angela, because, guys, angela's coming back.
Speaker 1:Yes, Angela's coming back. My face itches so bad. I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2:Do you want to take a? Second I don't know what I could possibly do to change this.
Speaker 1:Oh no, Now mine's itchy. Is there something in the air?
Speaker 2:Is there asbestos? Probably Honestly, probably honestly, this building, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Okay, 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 1:Where is that In Hollywood?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like right by the Equinox in Hollywood.
Speaker 1:I don't know that.
Speaker 2:Hollywood proper. Okay, just like, really right in it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Ivar off of Ivar In like sense. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Anyway, 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 1:Which PS, black History Month is still a thing.
Speaker 2:Still a freaking thing.
Speaker 1:In case anyone wonders.
Speaker 2:So is Women's History Month. Yeah, I don't know. Breast Cancer Awareness, all of them.
Speaker 1:The whole list. So is women's history month?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know Breast cancer awareness, all of them.
Speaker 1:The whole list, still things God.
Speaker 2:Um, and then I hung out, made pizzas and watched the Grammys.
Speaker 1:God made pizzas. It sounds fun, I want to do that.
Speaker 2:Okay, 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 1:Cute.
Speaker 2:So, Jeff, because I know you listen you looked great. I missed him, but I'm sure he did. Benson performed.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing. I don't know anything about Benson, but he was cute and he flips and that's fun.
Speaker 2:You know that song right.
Speaker 1:I do know the song, but I had never seen his face.
Speaker 2:He was an American Idol contestant that dropped out.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:And then Jeff Was like you, and then Is he Straight or gay? So straight.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:He's a straight man.
Speaker 1:There you go, ladies. He's a straight man.
Speaker 2:There you go, ladies.
Speaker 1:He's like this tall Really. He looked tall to me.
Speaker 2:No short guy. Hung out with him a few times. He's very nice, he's 21.
Speaker 1:Was he at her listening party that I was also at? No, way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was there.
Speaker 1:You guys, what the heck? I was in the same room before he became famous. You were in the same with his mustache.
Speaker 2:No, he didn't have the cool mullet hair. Okay, then I definitely like built his look.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, my God Crazy. I wish I had remembered that at all.
Speaker 2:Well, you were there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You were in the room where it happened.
Speaker 1:I'm in the room where it happened.
Speaker 2:Um, and I was emotional when Do Chi won best rap album. Same Best rap vocal album.
Speaker 1:Yeah, her speech was so good, her performance was so good. Her mom is her sister. Yeah, literally.
Speaker 2:And then her performance. I couldn't believe.
Speaker 1:So fun.
Speaker 2:This is it Now. Everyone's going to know her.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've been following her for so long you have.
Speaker 1:You were the first person to tell me about her.
Speaker 2:Loved 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 1:It would have been weird, but I'm, it would have been weird. She's been around for so long. Chapel.
Speaker 2:Chapel Deserved.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:As long as it wasn't Sabrina, but anyway, dochi's performance, she crushed it. Great I was so proud of her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyway.
Speaker 2:So 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.
Speaker 1:Wow, I'm so sad for you, thanks Cause you're an OG. I'm an OG, truly.
Speaker 2:She's always on my Spotify raps, okay.
Speaker 1:Did you find her on TikTok or did you find her on Spotify like new artist or whatever?
Speaker 2:Amy introduced me to her back when I was working with Amy Okay. And I was like holy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so good.
Speaker 2:And then the first song that I like geeked out was Trampoline with Missy Elliott.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's a.
Speaker 2:Bahamas. 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 1:Doesn'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 2:It's incredible.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Remember old. Okay, I can't.
Speaker 1:I can't go. Everyone's going to start wearing face tape.
Speaker 2:Yeah. 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:Quincy Jones.
Speaker 1:Quincy 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 2:His daughter. That would have been so epic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's worked. He worked with everyone in music, so literally anyone could have had stories.
Speaker 2:Janelle Monae performing Michael Jackson was pretty epic.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Falls flat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Okay, that I totally get.
Speaker 1:Fell 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 2:It did kind of look like that.
Speaker 1:Or 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 2:Benson's performance was one of my top.
Speaker 1:Again, 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 2:I would have been happy with him winning Best New Artist too. That would have been dope.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you know any other songs of his?
Speaker 2:Yeah, his whole album. You would know them if you heard them. They're like playing everywhere, it's like that.
Speaker 1:All right, is he country?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Other than Sabrina.
Speaker 1:Other than Sabrina were all Worthy of it, Could have won. Teddy Swims could have won. Who was it? Who else?
Speaker 2:Someone knows enough about whiskey. Oh Shabu um oh shibuzi, shibuzi.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would be a great one too. Love shibuzi um teddy swim.
Speaker 2:Oh ray that performance was incredible I teared up.
Speaker 1:That 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 2:That was the big one that jay-z raised hell about yeah, and did you?
Speaker 1:the 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 1:you 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 1:So pretty and Josh just refereed her volleyball game. So, weird and random. Yeah, but she plays volleyball.
Speaker 2:Everyone she is, she's still a kid and she's tall, it makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:no, 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 1:did you think it was weird that every time they announced the winner they were like 13?
Speaker 2:000 people voted on this.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:who 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 1:They're like cut off. Is it musical artists?
Speaker 2:Give it a G. Oh, give it a Google. Give it a Google.
Speaker 1:Who are the 13? Let's get them on the show.
Speaker 2:Let's talk to them.
Speaker 1:Guess 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 2:How do you apply?
Speaker 1:The 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 2:You are an industry professional not a member of the recording Academy, though I could apply.
Speaker 1:You should.
Speaker 2:Let's see, I'll vote.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to know how it works. Anyway, how do we get there?
Speaker 2:I put the microphone away and said right, oh, you're cutting out Rewind.
Speaker 1:We're back to pop duo.
Speaker 2:Pop duo Lady Gaga, lady.
Speaker 1:Gaga.
Speaker 2:You're fine with Bruno Mars, bruno, you're fine with Bruno Mars.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:Uh, and Taylor Swift, and come on.
Speaker 1:I said that oh what? That was the second thing I said.
Speaker 2:Yeah, taylor Swift and Jack Harlow.
Speaker 1:Gracie Abrams.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was that one.
Speaker 1:Oh, you thought that it was Taylor and Post for Fortnite?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it wasn't, it was Post and Beyonce.
Speaker 1:Post and Beyonce and Taylor and Gracie.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:And, 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 2:That was crazy. I hate that.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:I don't know, don't like it.
Speaker 1:Rap 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 2:I thought you would be excited about Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1:You genuinely thought I was going to be excited about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did. Sorry, but speaking of though, how do you feel about Abracadabra?
Speaker 1:Abracadabra 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 2:This Way we're going back to that pop era.
Speaker 1:Which 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 2:commercial.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:It was fun. I think the song is. It gets better every time you listen to it.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:That was great.
Speaker 1:Let's do that, let's give shorter times for more people.
Speaker 2:How 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 1:I 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 1:I 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 2:I didn't realize, he that she was kind of like a Kim Kardashian clone.
Speaker 1:Oh, they look exactly the same.
Speaker 2:It's wild.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:But 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 1:Of 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 2:I want it to be gone so what a time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:That's actually genius, which is funny.
Speaker 1:Someone 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 2:It's like when Christina and Justin went out together.
Speaker 1:I went. I saw I went to that tour, the justified strip tour.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was actually, didn't they do that? They bounced back and forth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah yeah. That's a little inappropriate for your age.
Speaker 1:I wasn't that young.
Speaker 2:You said little kid.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I was in like probably late middle school. I mean I think I've always had, Then it may have been fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Was it on a stick, so cool? I mean, was it on a stand or was it just the microphone it?
Speaker 1:was 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 2:Well, 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 1:I 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 2:I, who are you?
Speaker 1:I'm not the law.
Speaker 2:No, you're Alison.
Speaker 1:True. Is that all you have about the Grammys?
Speaker 2:That's it. It was a entertaining show. I'm not mad at really anything Other than the length.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm just tired, although, because it starts so early here.
Speaker 2:That is true, that is nice. I was in bed by what time Ten I was in bed by ten.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the only good thing If we were on the East Coast, wow.
Speaker 2:Oh 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 1:It is magical. What was I was going to?
Speaker 2:And last year for my birthday, we played Topgolf and I had a perm. My, my, how times have changed.
Speaker 1:Had a great time.
Speaker 2:We did have a great time.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Do you think Donald Trump knows that? We do that.
Speaker 1:I don't know. He's probably going to put it into it man. He does. No one believes it.
Speaker 2:Lincoln was gay. Everyone look it up.
Speaker 1:But 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 2:So we're the same age, she and I.
Speaker 1:No, because you're 35.
Speaker 2:No, I'm 34, turning 35.
Speaker 1:She is turning 34.
Speaker 2:You said then she oh, because you're talking in present tense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Famously married to a woman now.
Speaker 1:Work, but to me she is our age.
Speaker 2:How old is she?
Speaker 1:28 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 2:Yes 32.
Speaker 1:Oh, honestly, I thought she was older than that Laura Dern.
Speaker 2:Love her 58.
Speaker 1:Laura.
Speaker 2:We love you, Laura. We go to the same astrologer, you know.
Speaker 1:Have 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 2:But 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 1:I haven't been, I haven't driven that way, I don't.
Speaker 2:Next time.
Speaker 1:Since I don't know when, but I will look.
Speaker 2:It's the Fast and Furious roller coaster. It looks incredible.
Speaker 1:Fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Do we need another Fast and the Furious thing there?
Speaker 2:The 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 1:The water ride.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the boat.
Speaker 1:I think I've done that, but Jurassic World or Jurassic Park? Did they update it?
Speaker 2:They updated it to Jurassic World. I have not ridden it, since they did that, like the year before you moved out here.
Speaker 1:So yes, I have been Because when. I went with.
Speaker 2:Right, yes.
Speaker 1:Megan.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:We went on it. Okay, well, those are the birthdays. That is the episode.
Speaker 2:This is aggressively ending. This is Alex saying thanks for listening and watching.
Speaker 1:And I'm Alison and ditto.
Speaker 2:Have a good, have a good week everyone.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye, bye.
