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Too Many Tequila Shots!
Happy Monday! Listen this week as Allison recounts her trip to Mexico, and the toll it took on her body. Alex tells us about some Swiftie drama and his final thoughts on Younger! We finish this show with tv recs and saying goodbye to Alex’s apartment!
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Alex Hinsky
is it march 3rd? It is march 3rd get a good look at this apartment. Oh, soak it all in.
Speaker 2:It's about to be gone ready yeah, welcome back to the a-list podcast with allison and alex. I'm allison, I'm alex. What's up?
Speaker 1:well, a lot.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, excuse me this doesn't feel for some reason.
Speaker 1:This doesn't feel real and it feels like we're, like we didn't it's also because we were talking so much right before we started this so we didn't. There was no like time to like. I was just like, and record Is mine recording.
Speaker 2:It is. But all of a sudden I feel like such a weird, like imposter, like I'm acting Also because I just thought about that show that I watched, the Kristen Bell Nobody wants this when they're doing their podcast like I feel like I'm imitating them acting in the show. It doesn't matter, but that felt weird for a second and now I'm good. Okay, now I'm good and wait, uh, okay.
Speaker 1:So wow, lots to update on you. Literally I thought you were gonna come back so tan from mexico I was really good at my sunscreen application. Congratulations.
Speaker 2:And I was wearing 50 because Don't they say anything.
Speaker 1:Over 30 is like BS.
Speaker 2:I don't know, do they? There's 100.
Speaker 1:And I think that means nothing.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's just a marketing thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but good for you.
Speaker 2:Well, I was wearing 50 and, honestly, I did get a little burnt on my shoulders. My shoulders are like freckle licious right now, but I like that freckle licious and my face, I feel like, was a little bit more tan. It's like started to go down this week. But yeah, I don't know, I was really good about my sunscreen cause I'm afraid of skin cancer and we know that I'm not literally.
Speaker 1:but I mean, wow, you guys did you buy that self-tanning spray, by the way?
Speaker 2:no, but I want to. I thought you did that you told me about no, because it was. I was leaving like the next day and there was no time to get it.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're right, you're right don't come with me, come on over so hi guys um ali went to mexico I am back from mexico and obviously last week was a little pre-recorded, so now, yeah, it's been a minute back. Let me start from the beginning, I feel so it's great yeah, um, that was my first time to puerto vallarta. Okay, pv beautiful. Yes, so gay, vallarta, okay.
Speaker 1:PV.
Speaker 2:Beautiful. Yes, so gay had no idea.
Speaker 1:Pv's very gay.
Speaker 2:Is this just known? Yeah, you knew this A hundred percent. Yeah, had no idea. Literally I just was like, oh, we're going to a different city, like we went to Cabo last time trying out a new city. That's so fun. Going down the streets I was just like wait what? This is so gay. Every street is like. You know, they have hanging signs for things, Drag queens and like Broadway style shows not Broadway shows, but Vaudeville. Yeah, that type of thing for different shows Cabaret.
Speaker 2:Cabaret, yeah, those type of things All of it gay. And I was like wait, huh, and we were going to a beach club and so like we me and Josh and our friend Jake got in like at the same time, so we were taken to the house to change and then to the beach club and like I was picturing a beach club from I don't know a movie or I don't know, like rich people with big hats and things, and what I walked into was just men in thongs. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I said this is a gay beach club and I was very happy to be there, but I just like had no idea what I was going into and it was so many men, just men. I think that me and Haley and Lacey Cameron's sister, I think those we were the only women that I saw in a radius literally, and we walked into like all of our friends being shwasty already because they had been there for like four hours already.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, okay and we were just like whoa, how do we navigate this? Yeah, we can't get. There's no way to catch up to you, right? Everyone's wild like. One of our friends was vomiting over the like. It was crazy, um, but very beautiful. That was the first day and then we uh, most days we just like got up, we had a lunch, we sat by the pool. But let me tell you, tell me. I have not consumed alcohol like this, I think, ever but did you get sick?
Speaker 1:In my life, the last night I did oh the worst time to get it.
Speaker 2:I know, but honestly, drinking at the house I never really felt super drunk.
Speaker 1:Interesting.
Speaker 2:But I was drinking a lot.
Speaker 1:Just because it was spaced out. So you just had a consistent buzz going, but I was drinking a lot. Just because it was spaced out, maybe.
Speaker 2:The night that we went out to the bars. I felt more drunk then. So I don't know if there's a correlation, but we just had ordered bottles of alcohol, it wasn't anything special, and then we went out. I don't know if the bar drinks were made differently or just like using like really really bad Watered down Alcohol, like really really like cheap, but we weren't drinking like whatever. That. 1942, is that what it is? 46, 42? Don Julio, the big brown bottle. I know that's really expensive. 1942? 1942, don Julio, the big brown bottle. I know that's really expensive. 1942 sounds right, but the big, that big like brown bottle. That's like the bougie bottle. It wasn't like we were drinking that, but we weren't drinking like the worst tequila you could ever drink in life. So I don't know, but I was drinking. I haven't drank like that, I think, ever, and in that many days yeah I am not okay right now, like emotionally I have now recovered.
Speaker 2:Physically, okay, good, but emotionally like I'm not okay. I don't again, don't know when the next time I will drink it. It's like I am a changed person. I look back. I looked back after we left because, okay, the last night I'm getting ahead of myself we were taking shots I mean, it was lunchtime, but it was not too long after waking up because we, we didn't have like formal breakfast okay um, we were, you know, going to bed late, waking up like nine, somewhere between nine and ten, and then, uh, lunch was at 11 every day, so we would have lunch and it would be mimosa.
Speaker 1:Whoa.
Speaker 2:It would be like here's a mimosa or here's like a coffee with Bailey's in it, like it's insane. And then, as soon as it was, as soon as lunch was over and people like were by the pool, immediate tequila shot. It was wild. And and then it was like drinks, drinks, and then an hour later, another tequila shot. It was like so many shots were happening. I think the staff was like these people are insane, like what is happening.
Speaker 2:I feel like during the days I wasn't drinking that much because I just like I didn't feel that I needed to because I'm already not a big drinker, but I was playing a part, I feel so by the end of the week caught up to me in the other night, before we left, I woke up in the middle of the night vomiting. Now let me tell you, tell me, I don't like bugs. We know, we know this. Maybe you guys don't know this. I don't like bugs, small creatures, bugs. We know, we know this. Maybe you guys don't know this. I don't like bugs, small creatures, small things that move quickly. I don't like that includes rodents.
Speaker 2:That includes cockroaches well, let me get to the cockroach. But first when, when josh was still there, there was a lizard on our bed one night and I didn't like that because it was moving fast. He picked it up and removed it. That was fine. So the night I woke up sick and I just left the lights off and I vomited. And then I saw a figure in the corner Wait, man-sized, small-sized, got it and I said what's that? So I turned on the light and there was a cockroach. And now I'm alone because Josh left on a few days earlier. Yeah, I was alone and I didn't know what to do, right? So I?
Speaker 1:Screamed.
Speaker 2:No, because it was like 3 am. So I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a glass in the bathroom that I put on top and it was a heavy glass, so it was weighted. I don't think. I didn't think the cockroach could move okay so I just put it there.
Speaker 2:I heard giggling outside of my door so I opened and I walked out and I saw who it was. This was not someone that could help me with the cockroach, but I tried anyway. It was Haley and Caleb and they were doing their, their giggling Haley and Caleb thing.
Speaker 1:It's 3am.
Speaker 2:Everyone's in bed, they sit up, and I said you guys, there's a cockroach, can you help me get it? And they just stared at me and said you know what, never mind. And I just turned and left, and so I just left it under the uh glass and I went back to sleep and then I woke up and it was probably an hour later to throw up again. Oh okay and it was next to the toilet and I just like said we're doing this together.
Speaker 1:And it was still there in the cup.
Speaker 2:It was still there in the cup and I just vomited next to him and I was like all right, I guess this is what we're doing tonight. And so I just said please be here Like, please don't leave, Please stay under the glass.
Speaker 1:Just stay under the glass, stay with me.
Speaker 2:And then we left the next day. So staff take care of it and sorry to them but I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't do that. I would be more concerned about the lizard coming back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it was very small as a little guy, but still, yeah, I mean every night I was checking the bed to make sure. There was not another one, but that was that. And then I got home and I thought to myself why, why did you do that, like you could have had fun with your friends and and just not participated in the amount of alcohol that was?
Speaker 1:I mean I'm more like no, but on the last night that's like when I would have a hard no, cause you don't want to fly feeling sick.
Speaker 2:Which I did, you did, I wasn't. I did have a a whole row to myself, which was very nice.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's a blessing.
Speaker 2:I don't know how that happened, but that was really like.
Speaker 1:By the grace of God.
Speaker 2:Literally, I was so thankful for that. I had a bad time and I, just I was like I don't know why you participated in that amount of drinking. You don't drink literally ever. There are weeks that go by in life that I do not consume a single drop of alcohol, right and and I don't usually like to be drunk like I like a craft cocktail dinner. You know, I'll try something new, but I'm not trying like I don't like the feeling of being super drunk yeah more than a few times a year.
Speaker 2:So I to myself, I was like you are need to be reformed.
Speaker 1:Born again.
Speaker 2:And I've had so much water over the past week and half and I don't know when the next time I will drink is, and that is my declaration, maybe your birthday. Maybe, but even then, like I feel that it will be minimal, Some elderflower frilly drink one time. So that is the trip. The one thing I did want to say is that we one whole day on this trip we played real life traders.
Speaker 1:Fun. Which is such a fun?
Speaker 2:thing to do for a birthday, and everyone participated and it was super fun.
Speaker 1:Love that.
Speaker 2:I was chosen as a trader.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:And you know what, in my mind I think that I could be a trader. And then, on this trip, I learned that I can.
Speaker 1:No, I think you'd be an excellent faithful.
Speaker 2:I would yeah. Because I understand how people who are traders and would be strategists would be thinking Correct, so I would really be good at sussing that out. Yeah, I so. Sal, our friend Sal, did what played the role of Alan Cumming. Yeah, and he was the narrator and everything Fun. He did the whole thing where he walked around the table a bunch of times and he picked traders.
Speaker 1:Is this a favorite show of cameron's?
Speaker 2:yes, okay okay and we played and I was chosen as a trader, cameron was chosen as a trader, which we all kind of like figured, we just like pretended to, not until the end. And then um hayley's boyfriend, cena Sina, was also chosen. And I know why I was chosen it's because I am a fan of the game and I know it. So you don't want to choose someone who's literally never seen the show before because they're not going to really know how to play. And so he chose me because of the people that know the show. I think I guess I was the least likely to people like be thinking that I am the traitor. So we all had to go into rooms.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I went to my bedroom and I didn't think about the fact that I'm right next to someone who wasn't a traitor. So every time they, we would all go to the rooms and then Sal would text the traitors and be like, okay, come upstairs. I had to move so slowly so that my door wasn't heard.
Speaker 1:It was played over the course of one day. Right, this wasn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we played for like four hours but I had to move so slowly to open and close the door so that the person next to me didn't hear. It was dan, our friend, dan um. And so we would go upstairs and we would talk about who we wanted to murder, and then we would tell him that we would go back to the room and then sal would text the whole group and be like, okay, come upstairs, and then we would see who was murdered, and then we played little games that were silly, like um, things that a bunch of gay people and girls would know, like get like, finish these pop lyrics and who who facts about celebrities and whatever. So like we played little mini games. And then we had a round table where we voted people off. I made it probably five or six rounds and then the person that turned on me was hayley. Oh fuck, she turned on me and she her reasoning was what there was one round where I was.
Speaker 2:I've killed hayley immediately I know I should, you should have but I didn't think she was going to turn on me because she is, she doesn't. She hates when we play, like, um, those types of games like mafia and stuff, like she does not like playing those games. So I thought she would just be very timid and just like sit there and not do much. But she referenced a time where I said to her I was like I am like think, I feel like it could be this person, cause I was just like trying to plant a seed and I was like I think it'd be this person. And then that person got murdered the next time or a time after and I, I guess, talk to her again and I was like said something like oh my God, like I had did not.
Speaker 2:I thought I literally thought that person was a traitor, like I didn't think they were going to get murdered. And so she, in one of these round tables, turns on me and she's like you know what? I think it's Alison, because I think it's weird that you uh said something about Jake and then when he got murdered, like you came straight to me and we were like, isn't that weird? I was like Haley, I did that to you. I said that to you because you were the one person I talked to about it. I was like that's a lot.
Speaker 1:I mean I yeah, you're right, that's.
Speaker 2:I mean I was like I just talked to you because you were. You were the person I said it to. So, I came, I just like, was talking to you about it again, but I was flustered by the fact that she turned on me and everyone started questioning me. Then, you know, as they do, like everyone turned to me and I was like you guys, like I.
Speaker 2:I tried to say you guys, I'm a faithful, because you know, when they say that on TV like it's so good, I first of all. We were drinking while this happened, so every round that happened, we got more intoxicated. And by this time I was a little tipsy and I fumbled the word faithful and they all were like it's Alison.
Speaker 2:She's a traitor, so I didn't get voted out that round. But I got voted out, I think, the round after, and I was so mad because Haley's boyfriend, who was also a traitor, voted for me, which he didn't have to. But he had to he, he didn't, but he did to save himself, like he could have been like you guys you guys, I I really don't think it's allison blah, blah blah.
Speaker 2:He like there was still time for that, but he just decided to, yeah, self-preserve, and he voted for me and I was not prepared for it and I like turned and looked at him kind of like what the hell? And I gave it away that he was a traitor by doing that, because everyone was like why'd she react like that, like why does she care? So honestly. But I was like I don't care, you turn on me yeah so anyway, it was fun. Highly recommend for your friends the faithful win. The faithfuls did win.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And Caleb actually, like uh, put up some money for them, so that was fun and highly recommend for your friend group to do that.
Speaker 1:That is very fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And what a great show.
Speaker 2:Love. Have you been watching oh?
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm all caught up.
Speaker 2:Same, we can talk about it later. You can tell me about your past two weeks. A lot has happened very fast and I'm going to be moving this week, so this is the last time we'll be here, right, or we'll have one more, because I have a lot of overlap, so we'll be able to do, I think, a couple more here, while we figure out the next setup.
Speaker 1:Anyway, nothing else really to report, because I've just been busy, just keeping busy and. I'm not going to talk about my unhinged have you already started um packing? I have already started packing and I bought paper plates and plastic utensils so that I can pack up the kitchen class. I feel like the kitchen is the most tedious. The kitchen and the bathroom, for some reason in my head, are like the worst.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause it's like there's so many little things and you're like oh yeah, but it was opening my cabinets and I was like do you know how much stuff is above my refrigerator?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it is a good opportunity to throw things away.
Speaker 1:You're right, and the place I'm moving is like double the square footage, so I will have more space, which is nice, um, but that doesn't mean I need to get more things or take everything.
Speaker 2:No, because you have a storage unit that you can get rid of now.
Speaker 1:So use the space. I have a two car garage, though, so that can go into the garage.
Speaker 2:That's fire. That's rich, that is rich.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so yeah, it's been pretty chill over here, um, and that's all I'm going to say on the podcast.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Oh, but I do have news.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I've been waiting.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:What do you think I'm going to say? Mine's pop culture.
Speaker 2:No, I was just trying to be funny.
Speaker 1:Let me look at my list. I have three things, oh okay. So first, this is pop culture, music news. So in the Taylor Nation there was, so back a while ago, two songs got leaked from Taylor from the Lover era. Oh okay, she ended up releasing one of them as part of something.
Speaker 1:Poets no, it wasn't part of torture poets, maybe it was. Whatever she released. The other one is called need. Never released it, okay. Okay, all of a sudden that, but we all you can like find the demo of it, of her singing it, and it's a banger. All of a sudden this guy starts teasing this song on tiktok. He has like little to no following but like has the artwork for it and it's the lover era artwork and it sends taylor nation into a tizzy for like 48 hours. We're all like what is happening? Why? What is this? Who is this man? Yeah, when you look him up, he has released a few songs on spotify. He's a songwriter who's written for other artists, okay, and one of the songs he's recently released is called Hiss. So everyone assumes this is a Taylor deep fake. Like reputations about to be announced.
Speaker 1:Okay, because it's like too many things and it's like what is, and then he releases it. So now we have this version out in the world by this guy that is a cover, essentially of Taylor's song.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Did he release his? His has already been out. Yeah, it released. Then he released Need.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And it's a banger. I downloaded it. I was like wow, this is really good. And if you look at it on Spotify, it says produced by Taylor Swift, written by Taylor Swift. And so everyone was like, and so everyone's like what does this mean? Like she's not even talking about this.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Taylor Nation goes insane on this man trying to figure out what's going on, to the point where he removes it.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:It has nothing to do with Taylor at all, it's he got a mechanical license to do a cover of this song.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then it blew up. So he posts the thing on TikTok and he's basically like you guys, I did this legally, I was allowed to do this, but like I'm going to take it down for a second because everyone is freaking out that I lied to people and I didn't, I was just like he was doing a publicity stunt. He was literally like yeah he was kind of like in the comments of his own leak he was like can't wait for Taylor's version. So people were like, what do you mean? Yeah, he did nothing wrong.
Speaker 2:He did it legally. What's a mechanical license?
Speaker 1:So a mechanical license is what you get to be able to do a cover.
Speaker 2:How do you get that?
Speaker 1:You're just like when you well. So in this case he would have had to get permission from her because it was unreleased about it the legal way and she just responded like I mean it's like imagine how many people. But like, if I wanted to do a cover of an already released taylor song, you just get a mechanical license when you register it, so like I would go to upload it.
Speaker 1:It would ask for the original songwriters you submit it, then they have to approve it okay and nine times out of ten it gets approved that has to be so many people a day oh yeah, of course, and that's someone has to be someone's full-time job and I'm sure, like a lot of them, get denied if the quality isn't good but, like I've never had a mechanical license be denied work period thank you, celine. Um so, I just thought that was so funny that's crazy.
Speaker 2:She's gonna release it now that everyone's like.
Speaker 1:I don't think so, because lover Lover, she owns Lover. Lover was the first one that she owned after the Scooter. Yeah, so we're not going to get a Lover Taylor's version, cause it already is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but she could just release the song.
Speaker 1:It's just so that era. If you listen to it it's like she could, she won't.
Speaker 2:I don't think she will Just as a random, like single.
Speaker 1:No, what would be a really fun like this is how much I love my fans move would be for her to like do a duet version with this guy Cause he like didn't do anything wrong and it was so good. So it's not come back on the Spotify yet, but I'm keeping an eye out cause I liked it. It was really good. You should listen to it.
Speaker 1:I think you vibe, I guess, lover, I guess if you say that I can pick up the vibe, but is it poppy like? Is it fast or is it slow? Fast, okay, let me see if I can play a little cup of it. But the other thing, while this loads is so, when I was in a boy band we did a cover of break free by aria grande. We performed this song and I have had it stuck in my head, but it's it's funny because it's been brought to my attention multiple times by anyone that's listened to. It's been brought to my attention multiple times by anyone that's listened to it that the way that I sing the first verse is like oh no sounds like a slur, so it's.
Speaker 1:If you want to take it. I should have said it before. Try to hide it, fake it. But the way that I sing, fake it it sounds like the f sounds like the f, sl, and now it's all I can say when I'm singing it. Well, I mean you can say it it popped up as a memory and I was watching it. I was watching the performance and I was like, yeah, I am 100% saying the F slur. Anyway, you be the judge.
Speaker 2:Well, you can't get in trouble because you can say it.
Speaker 1:True, but you know, okay, here's what you released. The song is not available due to circumstances that I, due to criticism that I've been receiving lately for making a cover song, which millions of people have done and still do, I have decided to remove need completely. I received the mechanical license to make this cover song and have never once said I was taylor or her team, which he didn't, but he was also like playing with people yeah however, speculations and clowning got way out of hand, which caused many people speculating and spreading false information around and purposefully twisting things, and for that I've decided this.
Speaker 1:I appreciate all the support that you have given me and I hope to enjoy, if you enjoy, future music that I put out steven and it sucks, because it was good oh, so it sounds like he's not gonna put it back up he had.
Speaker 1:He originally said he was, and it seems that he's not part of me also wonders if that means he did get like legally. They were like they got too big and her team may have been like okay bro yeah, but I feel like if you get a mechanical license, they can't they can't. Yeah, renee can be like just kidding it got. It's too popular like what mechanical, like the cover artist gets nothing. Yeah, like it all goes to the original artist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway that is like a fun saga to follow.
Speaker 1:It is, and it was like all my attention for two days.
Speaker 2:That's so funny. I saw none of it.
Speaker 1:That is funny.
Speaker 2:Like not even a single, a single video, yep. So it's just so crazy how things can be happening on the internet While Depending on what site, and people can have no clue, none. Well, speaking of the internet, dizzy um asap rocky was acquitted I saw that which seemed like launch over and tackle rihanna oh yeah hilarious wild.
Speaker 2:It is wild and good, I guess yeah, I didn't really like look into it because I was. Where was I, I don't know. It was like early in the morning, was I still in mexico, I don't know, but I so I didn't really get to read too much into it. So let me just look up really quickly. So he was being charged with two felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm, um, in which a former friend said the rapper shot at him in hollywood, grazing his knuckles. So he pled not guilty, rejected a plea deal that would have involved very little jail time and opted not to testify during the case.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the jurors decided it took the jury of seven women and five men roughly three hours to decide the case, finding Rocky not guilty of the two felonies. They could decide Rocky was not guilty because he only fired blanks from a prop gun taken from a music video set, as the defense argued, or in that he acted in self-defense. They could simply decide that, oh, this is what they could. They could, that was what he his defense was arguing that it was a prop gun that he took from a music video. And, um, there, they said that there was too much reasonable doubt to convict. So ASAP rallies.
Speaker 2:Testimony made up the bulk of the prosecution's case. One surveillance camera recorded the sound of the shots being fired, another partially captured a scuffle shortly before the shooting, and another video showed, uh, the incident itself, though the frame within the view was small, blurry and far from definitive, so it looks like they just didn't have enough physical evidence to show it that they just had this guy's testimony, and so, beyond reasonable doubt, I guess, wins again wow but yeah, he launched himself over.
Speaker 2:Did he get in trouble by the? They were like quiet down, get back here, yeah, I was like. I feel like the judge would not have liked that.
Speaker 1:No, but speaking of courts, you saw diddy's lawyer quit. I did. Did you also know his lawyer was osama bin laden's lawyer?
Speaker 2:I just learned literally that today how the hell's osama bin laden's lawyer gonna quit. And also, when was this and why did he have a lawyer here? Yeah, I don't know what was the context of this.
Speaker 1:That I don't know, it's just the like.
Speaker 2:Diddy and Osama bin Laden's lawyer. We're through line Okay, okay, okay. How do I find this Attorney who defended Osama bin Laden quits sex trafficking case? Anthony Rico, one of Sean Diddy Combs defense attorneys, has sorry, has filed to withdraw from the hip hop moguls case, sparking a wave of speculation discussions online. Um, although I've provided Sean Combs with a high level of legal representation, under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for sean combs consistent with the aba standards for criminal justice.
Speaker 2:Okay, get me to the why obl this attorney defended none other than osama bin lad in the US court after World Trade Center bombing. He was here. What?
Speaker 1:We were 11.
Speaker 2:Weren't we trying to find him for so long?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, zero Dark Thirty, Hello, great movie.
Speaker 2:Bryce Dallas Howard. No no way, no way.
Speaker 1:With such confidence. You said that it's not Bryce. One more try. It's Jessica Chastain, Jessica.
Speaker 2:Chastain. There's no way I will ever be able to tell the difference between them. My eyes are watering. That's funny, okay, how was Anthony Rico Osama's lawyer?
Speaker 2:I feel like chat gbt could answer this anthony rico is a veteran criminal defense defense attorney known for taking some of the most high profile and controversial cases controversial cases, why can't I talk? In 2001, he served as part of the legal team defending osama bin laden. In that capacity, rico Rico argued that bin Laden shouldn't be prosecuted because he was not present in the US at the time and thus couldn't effectively defend himself under US law. The stance was one of several Rico's career that highlights his willingness to represent clients involved in the most challenging, contentious legal battles. So there was a time in which bin Laden was in the Us on trial, and then he left, and then we were searching for him was it pre-9-11 for something else?
Speaker 1:this is in 2001 okay, well, hell, if I know how did we get him?
Speaker 2:there's plot holes in our history, sorry okay, so this says osama bin laden was indicted by the us authorities following september 11th attacks, as part of the government's broad effort to hold those behind terrorism accountable. He was charged for orchestrating attacks and supporting terrorism, where the indictments were issued in 1998 and again in 2001. However, bin laden was never captured or brought within us jurisdiction. Okay, so they had him on trial when he wasn't here, so he was probably like okay, right, I'll defend this guy um, but zero dark 30 is a good movie, so you guys should watch it yes, it is uh
Speaker 1:with jessica chastain and it is christina hendrix best performance christina hendrix, who's that?
Speaker 2:just another redhead that you would confuse there is a girl who is in that movie, who is also in lioness, oh, oh, doing the same thing.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:She just like is playing the. She's like a us official. Yeah, just like this lady just keeps getting cast as the same character. Good for her. Um, but I finished lioness and I liked it, so I recommend okay, are you, did you finish younger?
Speaker 1:I finished younger. What are your thoughts. Here's my thoughts. Here's what I actually think happened. I think younger kept getting renewed and they didn't think they were going to.
Speaker 2:So they kept trying to end it.
Speaker 1:I think the last two seasons. So first of all, my favorite character in the whole show.
Speaker 2:Marketing yes.
Speaker 1:Whatever her name is, the I don't remember her character. The bestie calls her Diva.
Speaker 2:Diva yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:What is her name?
Speaker 1:You know who I'm talking about, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Liza's boss.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think she was like okay, I'm really sick of this show getting renewed, Because when she gets married, then she only appears one more time in a video call.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a FaceTime. It's like I'm really loving Italy.
Speaker 1:Loving Italy, I'm going to stay. It's like, yeah, your character would never but okay, um, and I loved her. Like her comic relief was really like refreshing to me. I also loved the commitment to like that bit, that her bit never changed, the large, gaudy necklaces and the attitude was this it was the only character that just was consistently that you end up hating Charles, which is like oh my God, yeah, fine with me.
Speaker 2:I. I think the the besty, the like, uh jewish lesbian girl, I think she was the same the whole time. She too, right I?
Speaker 1:think she became way more likable, like she went from being a supporting character to almost like a lead yeah um, I think it's funny that, like I, I think what must have happened too is, like in the testing for the last seasons, because I know how that stuff goes I think people really resonated with her because, like, come on, what do you mean? She just goes there and gets herself a job. She just like takes the place of this marketing executive. I'm her eyes and ears.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway. So I think the last season specifically, they were like okay what do we do? Let's put Liza in a precarious situation again, where the signals get crossed and she is made to look like a fucking idiot and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then it ends and literally like, oh, it's the season finale. Wow, there's like nothing building up here. So what's about to happen? Yeah if you haven't seen it, plug your ears. It ends literally. I was like this can't be the last scene.
Speaker 2:This cannot be the last yeah, it's so unceremonious in the bar, you know yeah the recreation of when her and josh raising the shoe, yeah, yeah yeah, and I'm just like and then they're like not together, right they're?
Speaker 1:They're not together. Here is how the show could have been exponentially better at the end.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was set up like like a fucking um Darren Chris show or Darren.
Speaker 2:Star.
Speaker 1:They're in star show. It was like a sex in the city, just a little cornier, but like devil wears Prada-esque, where it's like they could have literally had that scene and then done a one minute montage of like six months from now, where there's literally no dialogue. It's just one of those like anthematic song where they just pan shot across each of their lives and they show hillary duff in la like running the new, her new thing that she's doing in la. Yeah, liza. Liza and Josh like on a vacation together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, their wedding.
Speaker 1:Like in a home, but you see, like a wedding photo. Yeah, lesbian redhead hot friend like doing some boss shit. Yeah, charles, like hanging out with his daughters. I don't know, they could have done one minute it could have just been a quick, sweeping shot that would have literally tied it all up and been like a nice.
Speaker 2:Couldn't they also have just recreated this scene of her and Josh meeting and them just being like it was always you?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And just kiss.
Speaker 1:Because they did that four other times throughout the show.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Where Josh was, like you've always been there.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yes, it could have been Just make it like her being like yes, you're right, it was always you. We love each other. We're kissing and then a little montage. Yeah, I agree, it was very unceremonious.
Speaker 1:When I get to audition for Darren Star one day. I'm going to be like thank you for seeing this audition. Can we have a chat? Because, look, I loved and look it's put, it's reignited this like love for Hilary Duff and me that I've always had.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I've been relisting to her albums. I think we really slept on her as a pop princess.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. That video has been viral of her doing her little booty shake.
Speaker 1:I've now been listening to podcasts where she's a guest, so I just listened to her on um your.
Speaker 2:Josh Peck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was from like two years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I watched it when it came out immediately, don't worry, it's just like but she's like the most likable person ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she is America's sweetheart and is pure and just like, living her life, doing her thing, being like. Yeah, I love music.
Speaker 2:I would like to watch the series bunheads that um is features sutton foster. I watched this when it came out um in what year?
Speaker 2:I just saw it was older it was featured on hulu, or yeah, it just became featured on hulu. I watched this. What year? 2012? It's a. So the description is bunheads tells a fish out of water story where michelle sims, a once promising, classically chained professional dancer who was drawn to the lights of las vegas where she became a showgirl. After she impulsively marries her persistent suitor, she moves to sleepy to sleepy California coastal town where he lives with his mother. Fanny, herself a former dancer, now runs a local dance studio. Michelle ends up bonding with some of Fanny's students after meeting them. Among the students is Sweet Boo, who struggles with her body type. Rebellious Sasha, who has talent to be a ballet dancer but doesn't have a heart in it because of family issues. Shapely Jenny, who's not comfortable in her own skin. And fun-loving Melanie, ready for whatever life throws at her. The students benefit from Michelle's knowledge, but she also benefits from them, as they help her adapt to small town life.
Speaker 1:All I got from that is how insulting it is to call someone shapely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's crazy is to call someone shapely. Yeah, that's crazy Okay so no, I'm not going to watch that. That's a IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes description. But, yeah, she is a Vegas showgirl that moves to this small town and she starts teaching at the dance studio, and I sure watched it when it came out Great.
Speaker 1:It also is just another reminder that is Sutton Foster, the busiest woman in show business. She's doing theater, she's doing movies, she's doing the TV shows. Like I forgot too until I was I was rewatching A Year in the Life Gilmore Girls that she is in an episode of that with her, then husband, what's his name? Who is not gay, apparently the guy that's. He was also in Younger. He had a cameo in younger.
Speaker 1:He played like the poor magazine editor who she kind of dates, but he's always like stealing food from parties cause he doesn't have food at home. Oh, and then I barely remember that he is the one that writes the article about her, her actual age.
Speaker 2:Do you? How does that happen? Is it just like my husband wants? Or we have this character and she's like my husband will do it?
Speaker 1:They do so much stuff together and they've remained best friends since their divorce. And he is the original Emmett in Legally Blonde on Broadway. He was in oh, did you watch? Let Me Be your Star. What was that Smash? I watched like the very beginning beginning I never finished it okay play the gay man, so again work but not all theater.
Speaker 1:Men are gay, I guess well, the few that aren't really, they get the pick they get the pick of the litter of whatever they get the pick of the litter indeed, anyway. So, yes, younger's done, finally. And now I'm on to like well, white Lotus just started again.
Speaker 2:I started it.
Speaker 1:Did you watch the newest episode?
Speaker 2:I did not watch last night's. I've only seen the first episode.
Speaker 1:Spoiler alerts. I'm not going to talk about the second episode to you, but I am going to say that I don't know why Mike White always has to throw like a little something that's just like a little icky, into each season brothers and sisters.
Speaker 2:They were being weird about the sister too, and I don't. Yes, and this is not a spoil, but the episode opens. Episode two opens with a shot of schwarzenegger's like naked body in bed and the brother, his little brother, looks at him so it's the little brother that's the weird one, because there was a conversation where at the beginning that was like brothers and sisters can't sleep, like don't sleep in the same room anymore, and I thought that Schwarzenegger was the weird one.
Speaker 1:So it's the younger one that is like, and I'm just like, are we going to find out he's not his biological brother? And then he's going to make a move on it. I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's just the way he looked at him.
Speaker 1:He was literally like yeah, the whole time josh and I have been like hate this, hate this feeling, stop it, stop it. I do love the gossipy lore coming out now about patrick schwarzenegger being closeted gay and that his boyfriend wasn't like allowed to come to the premiere because he's like trying to keep his closeted life closeted. Otherwise, the show is good. Like I'm excited about it. Episode two was really good. It's just I also always forget this is one of those shows that's honestly better to give it a couple weeks so you can binge it, because 60% of the show is just really artsy, slow panning shots of something that's happening. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Okay, because I have not seen season one or two.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:So I'm coming into the universe cold.
Speaker 1:Oh, so you don't know the lore of also how Mike White was on Survivor. No, mike White.
Speaker 2:No, but that name is familiar and that's probably why.
Speaker 1:So he is the creator of the show. He was on Survivor. He's also an actor. He wrote and was in the movie School of Rock, like he's famous. Oh yeah, I saw him on survivor yeah, he puts his survivor cast mates in every season but, only for like a background style like cameo okay so natalie from his season oh, yeah, was in the first episode. She was the woman that went and sat at the table and then the lead actress, black woman like looks over at her and, like they, smile at each other in the first episode.
Speaker 2:How did I miss that?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but that's Natalie.
Speaker 2:So it's always like look out who's in the first two seasons.
Speaker 1:The first season is. You'd have to look it up. I don't remember who it is.
Speaker 2:I mean, I would know if I saw his face, but anyway, so he always puts his cast mates which is another fun piece of lore.
Speaker 1:But the show is such beauty shots and like you need to. I mean, jennifer Coolidge is iconic, you must. I mean I love it.
Speaker 2:It wasn't that I didn't want to, I just never got around to it because we had just finished lioness. We were like we have also started the penguin, which we I don't know why we started another show in tandem with this. But he, josh, is a fan of the white Lotus in general, so he was like should we watch it? And I said I've never seen. But yeah, and I wanted to watch because of Lisa.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, oh, my God, she's doing great. She's such a good actress.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't put to, I didn't know it was in Thailand. So then when the opening it started in Thailand, I was like that's why Lisa's in it, because she's Thai, and yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, so that's great. I also did you watch the SAG awards yesterday? I didn't, so be aware, and it's pretty much you'd expect. Everyone that wanted the globe globes basically want except timothy did win the best actor and he gave a great speech like well deserved. It was also much shorter and kristin bell is such a great hostess so like they did, like a gossip girl bit with leet and meester I heard that they did that.
Speaker 2:That's fun um.
Speaker 1:She sang like a medley in the beginning do you want to be an actor instead of. Do you want to be a? Do you want to build a snowman?
Speaker 2:I like that. I'll look that part up. I just was like do people watch this awards show Like I didn't? I didn't think that anyone cared.
Speaker 1:It was really produced in a way that seemed like to me it was produced better than the Golden Globes, like it was entertaining.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Um.
Speaker 2:I honestly didn't even know they were happening to be really honest.
Speaker 1:It was like live on Netflix. How would you even know that?
Speaker 2:I didn't Right but, and then I was like oh, no one's watching this for sure, but I will go back and watch that, because I do love Kristen Bell.
Speaker 1:And Jane Fonda got the Lifetime Achievement Award and her speech was really good, like the speeches were really good in this one.
Speaker 2:I saw that, Timothy like his outfit.
Speaker 1:It was looked really good, it was really cool. But anyway, sag awards now we're fine.
Speaker 2:Finally we're to the oscars. Yeah, is that this sunday? It's this sunday. Yeah, wait, it was yesterday. When this episode comes out, they will have already happened. Okay, oh right, so I did end up watching conclave oh, you did.
Speaker 1:Now I have one today, or it wanted the sag awards I was not prepared for this movie.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 1:do you mean?
Speaker 2:like it just like took a turn a twist really that I just like didn't I couldn't, yeah, I thought it was good. It's very artsy and yeah you know, kind of slow. I mean it's. How crazy could it be with, you know, cardinals in the vatican? It wasn't that wild, yeah, but it. I mean I had no idea what was going to happen and it it took me by surprise it won not.
Speaker 2:Best picture won something, though, at the sag awards I have to watch it, I want to see it and like the, the guy that is like becomes like a integral part of it. He's like not an actor at all. I don't. I looked him up and it was just like he's just like a regular working guy.
Speaker 1:That just got put in this movie. That happens sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I, I, yeah, I think you should watch it. It is just like it's slow. It's not like it's slow, it's not like it's not like any other movie I've seen. It's just, it's very artsy and slow and I'll check it out whatever, but I enjoyed it and we are going to watch the substance this week.
Speaker 1:Oh good, please let me know how, so we you got to actually talk about it. Yeah, um, she won demi more one at the sack. The other thing, that one that was shocking for everyone, was um best ensemble in a comedy series went to um, only murders in the building. And when they announced them, selena gomez was truly shocked and she went up there because, no, none of the other cast was there except mom shannon and she was like sorry like we've never won, so I was not expecting this.
Speaker 1:and she was like sorry, like we've never won, so I was not expecting this. And she was like Steve and Martin they're not here because they don't care.
Speaker 2:It was so good. That's funny. She, um, her and Benny are just everywhere all at once. Yep, and they're cute.
Speaker 1:I guess I don't have thoughts on benny blanco I don't honestly writes every song ever so talented man for him, zoe saldaña. One like all the ones you'd expect I um.
Speaker 2:Another show that I've started watching is paradise. Have you seen this? No I am very invested in this show so the premise is uh, the world ends, like you know, like they tell us, it's going to the, the climate and the fires and the natural disasters, whatever that happens. But this billionaire lady um wants to save initially, her like thing is that she wants to save her family. So she uh funds this building of this city under um, these mountains, somewhere.
Speaker 2:Oh she hires all these architects and scientists and whatever to make it so that they can live underground and umames marsden plays the president. So he was a president in real life and then they made him the president under oh under the city what is this on hulu oh? And um sterling k brown, I think his name.
Speaker 2:He is the main character he plays um one of his secret service agents, and I've only seen like three episodes, so I'm still learning the background, but it's so interesting to me they've created this whole fake world under this mountain with and it kind of looks it's like hunger games s, because it's like a dome of basically like LED screens or whatever that make it daytime, oh yeah, yeah, and then it's sunset and then it's nighttime. They have like fake sounds of birds and all these things. And I don't know they wear these bracelets that tell them when to do things so I don't like that part.
Speaker 1:People are in there, would you say hundreds oh, it's it's very big.
Speaker 2:They like, uh, picked families and stuff and people because they they obviously the world ended, so they need to have babies and they can't have people who, like everyone who's related, basically, um. But then the premise and this is not really a spoiler, cause it happens in the very beginning of the first episode James Marsden gets murdered, so the president dies and they're trying to find out what happened. But I'm very invested, it's so good and I just saw that they got renewed for a second season.
Speaker 1:And then that is all I need to know to execute watching it myself.
Speaker 2:You should watch it. That's good. Good, rex. Yeah, I guess this episode is just us talking about what we're watching. Well, yeah, pop culture, so wait. One more thing is have you been watching the POV TikToks? I think I sent you some.
Speaker 1:I have watched the Titanic, one that you sent me, and then I saw that you made one.
Speaker 2:I can't stop, they're everywhere. So you guys.
Speaker 1:It's like your ASMR.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so someone started making these AI videos that make it a POV that you've woken up somewhere and there are a lot of them are bad. It's like you wake up the morning of the eruption of Pompeii. You wake up on the. Titanic. You wake up the morning of the eruption of pompeii. You wake up on the titanic.
Speaker 1:You wake up um I saw one that was like you wake up in the lost city of atlantis yeah, most of them are disasters.
Speaker 2:You woke up the morning of the atomic bomb dropping in hiroshima like it is wild. And there's all these scenes that ai has created of what the like day would look like for someone like that. They aren't really accurate, but it's like you wake up in your bed and one of the Salem witch trials I've been to the Salem witch trials and it's like she wakes up and then she like makes bread and then they go to church and then there's like men pointing at her and then she goes to trial and then she gets hung. Like it's like wild. So, yeah, I made one just to be funny, because that is fine I needed content.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's been my whole timeline love that and that's another example of this is all I'm seeing and I've talked to people like when I did that POV video I was telling Haley and she was like I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:Like she had not seen a single one.
Speaker 2:And I was like this is every single video that I'm seeing, so that's also what I've been watching is POV disaster videos.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 2:Also, just before I get to the birthdays, I just need you guys to know that I in fact did go to the pokemon go event in los angeles didn't even know that was a thing I uh caleb and hayley. I am not a big pokemon goer I played in 2016.
Speaker 2:pokemon head played in 2016 when everyone else was and then when we were on tour two years ago, I started playing again with Caleb and Haley because we were new cities and it was like a fun thing to do on the car rides and whatever, and then I stopped again. They never stopped. They are constantly Saturday mornings going on Poke walks and catching them all.
Speaker 2:There was a big Pokemon event this weekend that apparently there was only two in the world happening at the same time. One was, I think Caleb said, like Taipei, and then Los Angeles at the Rose Bowl, and they got invited as like influencer, content creators, because they're big into playing it. I went with our friend, kyle Hanagami, who choreographed Mean Girls. He had me as his plus one, so I went as like kind of a content creator. I really didn't have to post anything. I did, but I didn't have to and we got like vip access. But when I tell you, so many people, hundreds and hundreds, probably thousands of people were in the rose bowl just walking around looking at their phone, catching them them all.
Speaker 2:I got to meet Pikachu.
Speaker 1:What do you mean?
Speaker 2:Your worst nightmare. It was a character suit. I don't want it Pikachu, but cute Little feet and just not creepy, okay, but if you saw us at Pokemon Go, whatever tour, there I was Hi. Well, today's birthdays are light-ish. We have Camila Cabello of Fifth Harmony fame. Of Fifth Harmony yes, she's 28.
Speaker 1:Quiz Mouths.
Speaker 2:Christy Lukusiak, who is Chloe's mom from Dance Moms. She's 48. Julie Bowen of Modern Family is 55. Okay, julie Jessica Beal is 43. Buddy Valastro Cake Boss.
Speaker 1:RIP. He's not dead. Oh yeah, Right.
Speaker 2:He just had his hand almost got chopped off In their bowling alley, but he's okay. Okay, he's 48.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay. And then In pop culture he's 48, that means when Cake Boss Came out, he was like 33.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1:Looking like a 45 year old man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, okay, I mean it's tough In the bakery, you know, and family. And yeah, the Spice. Yeah, I mean it's tough in the bakery, you know, and family, yeah, the spice girls, the girls, the spice girls.
Speaker 1:All right, Camila Cabello.
Speaker 2:The spice girls formed in 1994 on this day and the movie iconic movie Aquamarine came out in 2006.
Speaker 1:We are blessed to have that.
Speaker 2:So blessed.
Speaker 1:Jojo Emma Roberts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, emma Roberts, yeah, emma. Roberts wow, so good so and, by the way, I'm going to Jojo's concert um next week hell, yeah, yeah, love her excited for that very good that's all that's all folks.
Speaker 1:I hope everyone has a great week. March 3rd it's your birthday week. No, I guess are you counting this as your birthday?
Speaker 2:week. It's on Sunday, so it depends on when your week starts. Does your week start on Sunday or does it end?
Speaker 1:on Sunday. I typically Sundays are the start of my week.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, mine's the end.
Speaker 1:But we won't have an episode again before your birthday, so we'll say happy birthday to you today.
Speaker 2:Okay, wait what? Yes, we will.
Speaker 1:No, wait, no, we won't, no, we won't. This episode comes out and then the next one comes out the day after your birthday. Yes, so this is your pre-birthday episode.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday, Allison Thank you. From all of us here at the A-List, which is just me and Stanley From all of us here but everyone listening and watching.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so happy to be back from Mexico and not drinking, and if you do see me with a drink no, you didn't. But just know that it's probably only that one.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, just one, just one frosé.
Speaker 2:And I will see what happens on my birthday and I'll let you guys know.
Speaker 1:Yes, and you're going to watch what's the movie you're watching.
Speaker 2:The Substance and we'll talk about it next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have, we're going to watch what's the movie you're watching?
Speaker 2:The Substance, and we'll talk about it next week. Yeah, have a great week. Everyone. Thanks you too. Okay, bye, bye, thanks, bye, bye, bye.
