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Allison Labubu & Love Island Drama
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Labubu has taken over and Allison finally has one! Join us this week as we talk about the Backstreet Boys, Health Anxiety, Labubu’s & Love Island! You might even see Alex’s biceps and finish the episode craving mango sticky rice!
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Allison Florea
Alex Hinsky
Concert Outfit Shopping Struggles
Speaker 1Um, so get this please. I have gone shopping on exactly four trips to try and find my outfits for Gaga and Backstreet Boys Zero luck.
Speaker 2What's your inspiration mood board?
Speaker 1So for Gaga I'm trying to go grunge cause mayhem ball. The colors are black and red and I was just like oh, grunge just works for Gaga, like hot topic but like more my style.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So I bought a shirt that I thought could work. The boyfriend borrowed it for a concert he went to last week and it looked so good on him.
Speaker 2So he took it.
Speaker 1Well, it's no. He brought it back and I was like, yeah, it looks really good, it looks good in photos, and then, but I was like I don't know, it's a little big, but if I got the one size down it would be too short on my arms. So I'd rather have it be a little bigger on the side rather than have it like be short on the arms. Okay anyway, but I was unclear about the bottoms. I bought A ton of stuff from amazon because I was like, let me just see what I can scrounge up with amazon.
Speaker 2Not a single thing worked and like it didn't look right or didn't fit didn't fit.
Speaker 1There's a pair of jeans that could. That was. I was like these are promising. They were okay, so I'm a size 31. They were a size 32. So I was like, okay, I'll belt it. Like they're baggy jeans with like a ton of buckles and stuff. I pulled them out of the bag. I was like these look worn. I put them on. They're way too big. Like it said it was a size 32. It was definitely like a size 38, like the way that I could fit a second me in them.
Speaker 1Not only that, I put my hands in the pockets, pull out an empty no, an empty um liquid iv packet so someone wore them in return and returned them, so I was like forget this so return all that?
Speaker 2you were gonna do that?
Speaker 1no, I was like I was looking for a pair of baggy jeans that could work, that I would just hold on to yeah anyway. So I with I had about thrown out, throwing the towel. And then today boyfriend wanted to go shopping for something for backstreet boys, so we went to the galleria.
Speaker 2He- made out like a bandit. The glendale galleria he made out like a bandit.
Speaker 1Yeah, he found amazing things, that he got some basics at uniclo. He got like a ton of stuff at zara. He got some stuff at where else, somewhere else. Oh, he got jeans at aripod abercrombie aberccrombie is the best store right now. Like.
Speaker 2I don't know what to say. They're the best he was looking for a very specific.
Speaker 1So his jeans ripped yesterday like up by his hip and I was like, oh, has this always been there? He's like what? So he's looking to replace those?
Speaker 2We found an almost exact match today at Abercrombie.
Speaker 1I tried on so many cool things as are. I was like something here's going to work.
Speaker 2No, it didn't work, cause it's not long enough for your legs. There's a spider on the wall. That was crazy.
Speaker 1That was so calm and you could dump spiders on me and I'd be fine. There's a snake in there. I'm dead immediately. Okay, so listen. No, then I, I'm dead immediately In there. Okay, so listen, no. Then I came back today with absolutely nothing and I said you're going to figure this out. So what I neglected to say was that I also there was another. There was a pair of pants that were like I was like these will be my backup pants. Okay, if I can't find pants, for good God.
Speaker 2Okay, cause you're in Vegas, you have to wear pants because you can't go out after. If you don't wear pants, right, what? No, isn't there like dress codes everywhere?
Speaker 1No In Vegas. Yeah, maybe in some clubs, but typically no.
Speaker 2Oh, I thought there was like hardcore dress codes.
Speaker 1I don't For Gaga. We're not like planning to go to an after party. That's the way you're saying it. These will be a backup. So I start putting so. Today, boyfriend leaves and I was, like allison's here in an hour. I'm gonna find these fits, because I don't have time. I have tomorrow, then I have to work a full day yeah while then also packing, cleaning, washing stanley, packing stanley like it's there's no time yeah so it's like I've got to figure this out.
Speaker 1Now I'm gonna do it. So also, the inspo for the backstreet boys concert is like the. The residency is called millenn 2.0. So it's like a celebration of that album.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Is how I'm interpreting it, and so the group I'm going with were like so that's like silver right, silver white, blue. Yeah. So, like all of the Backstreet Boys family that have been posting, they're all wearing white, they're doing the white, okay. And so initially we were thinking that and then we kind of pivoted to just like in early 2000s inspo. But I have, like I don't know, like I have a lot of this stuff already because of wasting time and like the pieces I held on to.
Speaker 1So I do you remember the jumpsuit that I have, that I've never worn, that's sleeveless and it's light jean colored? Yes okay that we had gray come over and and like tailor a bunch of stuff and she made it fit me better and I've never fucking worn it this is your time I put that house and I put that shit on, slapped on, slapped on a bandana, do you?
Speaker 2see this? Do you see this?
Speaker 1yeah, that's everything these boots from wasting time I do love those boots and I'm gonna wear it shirtless like this your biceps, oh yeah I'm also like gaining so much also jacked, I'm also jacked. With these teeny little gold.
Speaker 2Yeah, you look so cool.
Speaker 1There it is.
Speaker 2Wow, then Throw this photo up for the peeps, okay guys.
Speaker 1Then I was like let me just see if this fit works for Gaga. And then this is the Gaga fit.
Speaker 2I thought that was a Halloween skeleton. Ew, it's cool.
Speaker 1But I'm going to do black combat boots instead. They just haven't come in. They're supposed to be here tomorrow.
Speaker 2I was picturing some black cargo jean type situation, so that's exactly what that is.
Speaker 1Good job. So in the hour before you got here I did that. Good job With things that are already in my closet.
Speaker 2So you can return everything.
Finding Perfect Outfits in Your Closet
Speaker 1I did already return everything Nice, so you can return everything. I did already return everything Nice. Again, that's a lie. Those pants are new from Amazon and that's the shirt that I got that Chad wore. Oh yeah yeah, but I think it's perfect.
Speaker 2Yeah, looks great Proud of you.
Speaker 1Thank you. Should we start the show?
Speaker 2Yes, yes, welcome back to the A-List Podcast with Allison and Alex. I'm Allison, she's.
Speaker 1Allison we're getting good at that.
Speaker 2I never know if it's for real or if it's that. You're always going to be on your toes. Oh sorry, no, not tits.
Speaker 1How was your day?
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, my day's been actually fine, slept in that was so Irish sounding, my day's been actually fine I wish. There's this um a girl that plays football with Josh. That is Irish and I love talking to her.
Speaker 1She's also the sweetest ever and she does she say oh hey, lassie, it's good to see you.
Speaker 2She doesn't say Lassie, but she is like, she's like straight up, like from Ireland.
Speaker 1That is dope.
Speaker 2Not just like fake or like her mom, you know, she's like for real and her Irish accent is so cute.
Speaker 1I love it. I love an accent. Do you talk like her when, if you're around her too long, no, okay, well, that's good Cause.
Podcast Introduction and Daily Updates
Speaker 2I don't really. I can't really do that. When I'm around a British person, I do that Like my friend Dan he, but one time he got mad at me. I couldn't tell if he was actually mad or if he was just joking, but I started talking in a. British accent and he was like, what Like? You can't do that I was like wait a joke, yeah, but um, okay, I have, there's a lot to say. My week has been it's been ups and downs. Okay, I'm gonna start with an up.
Speaker 1Great, I got the lububu and I brought her here to show you okay I am so mad, though I did a, an unboxing.
Speaker 2I was like filming a vlog where I haven't. I'm just doing like little clips of random things. But then I was like I'm going to do a TikTok unboxing. My audio accidentally connected to my headphones Cause I like had used them and just like uh took them out for something but didn't put them in the case and my phone connected to them so you can't hear any of my audio and my unboxing. So I'm going to have to do like a voiceover or something, which is not going to be as good you should try an ADR.
Speaker 1Match your lips. That will take so long oh my God, I want to do it. Okay, that would be so funny. I'll send it to you.
Speaker 2Okay, so I got to get her over here.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, okay, man Cause I was going to ask, I was going to say you should put the unboxing video like insert it here.
Speaker 2But if there's no, no, I haven't done any dubbing or voiceover yet, because I watched it back and I was like what is happening with the audio? And then I realized that's what happened so frustrating.
Speaker 1So, yeah, green grape.
Speaker 2No, no, it's, it was the big. I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna have you guess what you think I got. Okay, so it's the big. Into energy um collection did you know that?
Speaker 1yeah, yeah and then you don't know what Labu you're getting in the. Whatever the category is, you don't know.
Speaker 2Correct. So the collection has? You can get love, happiness, loyalty, serenity, hope or luck, and then there's a secret that I don't know what it looks like. So which do you think I got? Serenity that was one that I wanted. I'll show you them in a second.
Speaker 1Well, no, let me guess by what it looks like, if it's not Serenity.
Speaker 2Okay, I didn't get Serenity.
Speaker 1Oh, great, there you gave it away.
Speaker 2This is her.
Speaker 1Love.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Cute.
Speaker 2This is her Love. Yeah, cute, this is her. Ah, mm-hmm you want to see her yeah.
Speaker 1Wow, this is the thing that has the world it was.
Speaker 2Sorry.
Speaker 1This has the world in a chokehold right now.
Speaker 2It was pretty exciting to do. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. The whole blind box of it all is a fun thing.
Speaker 1Oh, their feet spin, that's cute.
Speaker 2What am I going to get? Opening it, I will say as soon as it's over. It's over. I just like set it down and I was like, okay, yeah that's the rest I also don't have like a big purse to put it on, because all my purses are pretty small.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So I don't know what to do with her.
Speaker 1They're called the monsters.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1That's the brand.
Speaker 2Um, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1Cute.
Speaker 2So here she is.
Speaker 1That's an up.
Speaker 2I don't think I'm going to get another one and I'm not going to buy one.
Speaker 1What if it's gifted to you?
Speaker 2That would be exciting. If anyone has one, okay. But yeah, la Boo Boo happened and that was exciting love that.
Speaker 1I got my, I got a lash lift for the first time.
Speaker 2How do you feel? I like the way it looks it does look cute, not extensions, just the lift. Never done that before, I wasn't prepared I'm sorry, is this a down?
Speaker 1are we still in an up?
Speaker 2but this is still okay, I was afraid um, I wasn't prepared for how long it was going to take, like I thought it would be 30 minutes max.
Speaker 1Okay, and it was not.
Speaker 2Hour and a half. Whoa and um, it's a little scary with the eyes.
Speaker 1Sure.
Speaker 2Just cause I hadn't done it before and I was like kind of scared of whatever was going around my eyes. Kind of scared of whatever was going around my eyes was going to make me blind, cause that's something that would stress me out. But um, the girl who did it was very nice and I liked the way they look. I am maybe interested in getting um extensions, but very, very minimal.
Speaker 1Like just more like filler.
Speaker 2Yeah, just like a little little like the the most natural looking of the extensions, not a big like crazy like yeah, yeah wild that kind of thing, but I don't know because it is. It is a lot of upkeep. It was like 100 little over 100 bucks and it only lasts for six to eight weeks and so, so it's like it is like it's another expense on top of like nails and waxing and stuff like that.
Speaker 2It's like I don't really know that I'll add it to my Rolodex all the time, but it's nice for um, maybe going on vacation or right now. I wanted to do it in the summer because it's like I'm wearing less makeup yeah and so it's to have them already. Look like good, basically, and just be like oh, I'm just gonna do a little tinted moisturizer fill in my eyebrows, maybe a little like highlight yeah it is nice that it's like already they're up and in place, alert and cute then I left the appointment, got my first ever parking ticket.
Speaker 1So sad oh, why would you do?
Speaker 2because I didn't know how long it was going to take. I and I couldn't fathom that it would have been more than an hour and a half, okay so what did you pay?
Speaker 1for an hour?
Speaker 2no, I paid for an hour and a half but because the appointment went that long, like the paying checking out, walking down in that time period, they got me. I was like because I obviously couldn't open my eyes. So in my mind I was thinking this is kind of going a long time, like hopefully I can still get down there. I was like if it's close, there's no way that they're standing there waiting for me. They must have been.
Speaker 1I think I was like eight minutes late. Is that like a shopping center?
Speaker 2It was in West Hollywood, Um kind of near Barney's Beanery in Salon Republic space.
Speaker 1On Sunset.
Speaker 2On Santa Monica.
Speaker 1Not the one on Sunset.
Speaker 2Correct, no, not the one across from the Laugh Factory. I was also there. I've been done a lot this week, oh my God, I was at that Salon Republic. That's usually where when Fernanda was coming, that's where she would rent out. No, this girl is the one. It's like right across from Barney's Beanery on Santa Monica, but yeah, it was like eight minutes and in that time period I got my first. Ever since I've moved to your parking ticket and I have been priding myself on Hollywood, we'll get you.
Speaker 1That's where I got my first one.
Speaker 2Yeah Well, and I can't believe they only give you three weeks, like you're not going to give me a full month.
Speaker 1What was it? 56.
Speaker 2Yeah, not even going to give me a full month until I get so I could pay, pay when I get paid for next month. So annoying. So that streak has been broken and a down. That is a down. Um, josh and I went to see his friend perform at the laugh factory.
Health Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Speaker 2That wasn't up, except for it was late and I was tired. Okay, but that's not fully a down. But this whole week, now we're getting into the real down. Actually it's been like three ish weeks. I have just my true health anxiety and hypochondria has been in full effect and I have been feeling I hesitate to talk about health at all online because it one hater and mean person get wind and it they'll just tell me everything that yeah, I'll just be mean yeah.
Speaker 2But I mean, it is what it is. I have just had a weird feeling and my, my like heart just feels like not right. But I also know that I have anxiety. Yes, normally I can like talk myself down from the health anxiety and be like you know, if something, if something was wrong, like it you, you would have already caught it, or I don't know.
Speaker 2I can usually talk myself down, but in this case I was like you know what? You are 35 and I don't want to play with fate. So if I have a weird feeling, I would rather just go to the doctor and just get it out of the way, get it out.
Speaker 2My blood pressure has always been a topic of conversation, but I have a lot of high anxiety and white coat syndrome and so when I go to the doctor, if it's a little elevated, they're like your, your blood pressure is a little high and I'm, I am, I have a lot of anxiety.
Speaker 2I like explain the whole thing and they're like, okay, we'll take it again at the end, and then they would take it again and it would go down and they'd be like okay but since I've been on well buterin over the past year, um, it is a stimulant, so it kind of already raises it a little bit and so I was kind of like that's adding on to it. Everyone, everyone like anxiety plus that, just so everyone knows, and it hasn't like really like been an issue when I've been at the doctor, but since I've just had this like new, like weird tightness or like weirdness in my chest went to the doctor, we were just like it's time to do like an yearly checkup, so like let's do blood work and all that. So I'm waiting for that. But because I have such high anxiety the waiting for the results of my blood test or my like blood work and it do I actually need to be concerned about my blood pressure now because I'm older.
Speaker 2But like in thinking about that, then I have more anxiety and I'm like taking my blood pressure at home and it's it's like on the higher end. It's not like, you know, critical or anything. It's not like that high, but it is higher than the normal thing or whatever. And but my anxiety is compounding that and so I had to call and be like I need a beta blocker, because we had talked about it a little bit when we were there and she was like, if you, if that's something like you, it will give you more peace of mind, like you can totally have it. But I was like I think I'll be fine there. And then I called on Friday and I was like I think I'll be fine there, okay.
Speaker 2And then I called on Friday and I was like, nope, give it to me. So I um have been taking a beta blocker the past couple of days to just like ease my mind a little bit, but I think so it's a very low dose, so it's not like I'm really feeling much, but it is helping my peace of mind. Because there was one night I was literally laying there like you're going to have a heart attack and die and like that's going to be so sad for Josh to wake up to that, and I made myself so anxious that I almost passed out. And I think it was also because I took my blood pressure, like a couple of times in a row. I had there was some time in between. I know you can't like just like back to back, do it, but I think, because I was so stressed and giving myself such anxiety that I was sitting there being like I'm going to pass out and like you know that feeling in your ears and this it's like static in your head and I was like I'm going down.
Speaker 2But I, like what was able to walk into the bed bedroom and was like, hey, I'm just letting you know like I think I'm gonna pass out. And he was so dead asleep that he was like okay, like can I do anything? And then I was like I know, I'm just gonna sit here. And he was just like, okay, I don't know what to do. I didn't end up passing out, but I, when I took my blood pressure again, it was like in the, it was like 89 over something, and I was like, am I still gonna pass out? And I, when I took my blood pressure again, it was like in the, it was like 89 over something, and I was like am I still gonna pass out? And so then I laid there the whole night being like I'm gonna pass out or I'm gonna have a heart attack, and then like what do I do? But I also don't want to preemptively be like, hey, I'm gonna go to the emergency room because I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and then be like you're.
Speaker 1Well, they would say it's like a panic attack probably.
Speaker 2Yes. So what I do know now is I was having a panic attack, but this whole week I have been just not okay with that and I have a whole nother week to go.
Speaker 1I was going to say we're not. We're a week away still.
Speaker 2I know I don't go until Friday, so everyone comment something nice.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's just like.
Speaker 2So having health anxiety is like the actual worst thing that can happen to you, because you're either totally fine, but your mind is telling you that you're not okay. And then if you're, if you listen to that and you're like tell yourself, okay, this is just your anxiety, it's not real and you ignore. Then what if something? And then your mind is like but what if something is really wrong? And I'm telling myself, it's anxiety, but it's actually not anxiety, it's actually the thing that is wrong. And so you're in this constant loop of is it real or is it anxiety?
Speaker 1And that is so true it's horrible, yeah.
Speaker 2So I probably won't like come back with, like the results of my blood work because like I'm not ready to face that on the internet and I'm sure like everything is going to be fine, other than like as an as you get older, like I'm sure you have to, you know, watch certain things like that. You didn't have to care about when you were 18. But in, in the grand scheme, like I'm sure everything's fine and everything always is fine. Whatever my hyper fixation is at the moment, like it's usually like a yearly or every couple of years thing where like something is a super hyper fixation whatever. And then once I get the results of, or I see the doctor and I am like told everything is fine, then I'm good, yeah, but this is the most recent one, so we're with you.
Speaker 2All of that. That was so much, but we're on the up right now. The blocker has, I guess, helped a little bit. Today I was like I'm not taking my blood pressure today, like I can't. I can not taking my blood pressure today, like I can't, I can't think about it, because it's it. When I take it, I'm nervous about what it's going to be. Right, you guys, I'm going to let this go because I could be on this loop forever.
Speaker 1But yeah, cause it is a loop.
Speaker 2I know and you have health anxiety too, right?
Speaker 1So like you get it, I get it big time.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I'm more surrendered to it, I think.
Speaker 2Just take me.
Speaker 1But yeah, it's still there.
Speaker 2If I'm going to have a heart attack, I'm going to have a heart attack.
Speaker 1Like I almost had a panic attack in the parking garage at the Glendale Galleria earlier today, but they happen so frequently for me that I know what they are. Because of the traffic. No, it's true, it's just like one. I have one weird heart flutter and then like it sends my mind spiraling and then all of a sudden I can't breathe and then I feel like I'm going to throw up, and then and then I go. It's just a panic attack Park the car.
Speaker 2Do you have beta blockers? No, maybe you should get some. I'll give you a couple. Is that allowed?
Speaker 1You heard it here first folks.
Speaker 2Everyone, like a lot of people in my life, swear by them. Like Caleb is a big fan.
Speaker 1Well, yours are fast acting. Are they ones you have to build up in your system?
Speaker 2I think they're fast acting, like it's as needed.
Speaker 1So it's like Xanax.
Speaker 2Yes, but way different and it's more. It's what I think, probably for you. I guess you could probably also talk to your doctor I'm not a doctor, everyone, so in case you weren but I think it treats the, the physical things that are going on. So when you're having a panic attack, it like lowers your heart rate or your blood pressure and um the like shake, like if you're like shaking or sweating and things like that, like it's like in my non-professional opinion from what I've heard or researched, it's like those types of symptoms is what it calms those. So I honestly think cause Xanax is like also like makes you like sleepy and like all that stuff.
Speaker 1Right, it's a beta blocker.
Speaker 2But doesn't it make you super sleepy?
Speaker 1I think some people yeah, to me it was just like.
Speaker 2Xanax is just like scary Because it's easy to Get addicted to yes and people out here Are all like Xanned out Like that For some reason scares me. So when she we talked about a couple and I was like no, xanax.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2None, so Perpanol, perpanol is. Oh okay, yeah, nice, anyway, everyone, I'll be okay you will, she will what else happened with you this week?
Speaker 1this week I had three shoots. I went to the red carpet premiere of zombies. Four, not one, not two, not three. There's four, apparently, okay disney channel original movie oh, decom this generation's high school musical is what they say okay, was.
Speaker 2Is there anyone in it that we know?
Speaker 1well, it's like the next generation of disney kids. So everyone on the red carpet? I didn't know. But then sabrina bryan came on the red carpet and I lost my shit that's exciting a cheetah girl in live and living color yeah um the kid that played lizzie mcguire's brother. It's like when that group of Disney people came through.
Speaker 2I was like those are mine, those are your people. The era of DCOM Sitting down on the couch Just wow what a time.
Speaker 1So there was that I had two other shoots at the Buzzfeed and then In between all that, I'm trying to shop.
Speaker 2Trying to shop.
Speaker 1Trying to find fits for the shows this weekend. And then I went to Newport Beach yesterday, oh, and I got my hair cut. You didn't say anything.
Speaker 2People do that to me all the time. I don't look, I don't see.
Speaker 1It's also a half joke, because you can't I mean.
Speaker 2You got a trim.
Speaker 1She gave me layers and I, she gave me layers. Well, I also have headphones on, so you can't really see, that's also true, but I have layers and she cut off the dead ends and my hair is healthy Some inches are gone, but it's for the greater good.
Speaker 2You said she, that means someone new, yeah.
Speaker 1I went to someone new.
Speaker 2Because I'm also in the market.
Speaker 1Yeah, I went to my boyfriend's gal.
Speaker 2I was like I gotta get this before yeah if one more person tells me my hair looks like a bob speaking of bobs, I'm gonna punch a wall, so I needed to get something done I think what I did wrong last time I saw a tiktok of someone explaining um, I think why I hated I didn't say this publicly, but I didn't love my bob the last time I got it done and I think it's because I was so used to Fernanda just knowing what I wanted. So then when I went to someone else and they cut it, I wasn't clear on. I wanted a blunt bob.
Speaker 2So I got some layers that I wasn't interested in, and then I think that's why it looked different to me and I didn't love it. Yeah, so everyone out there, if you're looking for a blunt cut with no layers, you have to specify when you go to get your bob.
Speaker 1Lesson learned.
Speaker 2So I do. I think that that's why I never I couldn't pinpoint it before. I was like why is this so different? Like I would said the same thing, like I want to look like a little bit longer in the front.
Speaker 1I want to like a little bit longer in the front.
Speaker 2I want it like shoulder length or whatever, but I it's because I was given layers and that's on me for not explaining exactly sure way to take ownership. I do want to get a little trim and just like a go a little darker call up salon angela palermo I know, I do think I'm going to ask her to cut it, but, um, I don't know, I don't want to put that on her to color unless she wants to. But I also, like I don't know if a box color is like the healthiest for anyone's hair.
Speaker 2No, not that I don't trust Angela, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1I love this woman so much.
Speaker 2I'm going to go back and start to lighten with her. I'm gonna get a balayage next month work and we're gonna just lighten and lighten, and lighten and light. Give me the deets, because I sure will. Okay, I, oh my gosh, I took the train to anaheim.
Speaker 2Oh, so in in the midst of panic attack other the other day yes um, josh was at work and I called him and I was like what if I just came to the Angels game to get my mind off? Because it was like it was Friday night and I didn't have any plans and I was like I don't want to sit at home and I didn't. I also wasn't like last minute going to call my friends and be like what are you guys doing? Because by that time everyone who had plans probably had plans, because it was I don't know four o'clock or something. And I was like what if I just came to the game?
Speaker 1I love that.
Speaker 2And I was like can I just come meet you? And he was like I'm already on my way, sorry. And I was like, oh, I could drive, but that's going to be the traffic at that time Terrible.
Speaker 1Truly.
Speaker 2And going to Anaheim like absolutely not rough. So he was like why don't you check the train schedule? And there was a train that I could just make like change really fast, drive to the van nuys like station.
Speaker 2And I took the amtrak and it was so cute it was like an hour, a little over an hour ish. Um ride stopped, had a couple stops. It was like stopped somewhere, stopped at the burbank airport, stopped in glendale, downtown la, and then from there there was like one more stop before it got to the stadium. It was like it dropped off right outside the stadium and I just literally walked under an underpass and there I was.
Speaker 1Oh my God, that's cool.
Speaker 2So it was like super cute, 20 bucks.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2And got a $17 ticket to the baseball game. Oh okay, so cheap because angels industry and I just like watch the game. Josh came up and said hi, like when he had a little break and then met him after the game drove home and I was like this was like such a nice distraction for my brain Got a little angel dog.
Speaker 1Did they win?
Speaker 2They did. It went on extra innings. It actually was too long, they were tied, no one could score and then at the last they eventually won. But that was that part was a lot. And then I come out, I like I'm trying to finding to meet josh, where he was leaving, at an exit that was different than other people, since he works there, and so I'm on the phone and I'm he's telling me where to go, so I we hang up and I walk over and I see him and he's signing autographs and I was like listening and he did say he was like it was little kids and he was like, just so you guys know I don't play and but he has like his like MLB uh uniform and stuff on.
Speaker 1Wow.
Speaker 2And they're like we don't care, and so these kids just wanted his autograph and it was the cutest thing ever. That's really cute but it was just funny to walk up to, just like signing a baseball that was funny I loved it. But um, yeah, the train super cute, love that did angela make it to your game on wednesday? Wednesday yes, no she didn't. Oh, cause she was a Buzzfeed, I saw.
Speaker 1Right, yeah, but we got off at four. She got off at like four.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't think that she am I crazy. I don't think I remember her being there.
Speaker 1She was very much like well, I guess I should go. I got off with enough time.
Speaker 2I now I'm I'm mixing the two weeks together Um cause she was there one week, oh then it was this one, because this was she hasn't been doing it On Wednesday. She was like I've never made it to a game. Okay yeah.
Speaker 1Okay, she did, she did make it.
Speaker 2Okay, good, what was she doing there? I don't know if you can say I hired her as a PA.
Speaker 1I needed extra hands for this shoot and I was, like everyone that's like already part of BuzzFeed machine. Who would know how it all goes? Yeah, it was unavailable except for one guy, and I needed to. I was like who else do I know that has film set experience? I was going to say you could call me but I was like oh, and I was like Angela, I did work on first gentleman and I was a good PA show runner.
Speaker 2I was PA right.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You're okay. I think I did a good job.
Speaker 1Yes, actually you would have been fine, but I was just like let me see if Angela's interested. Because, it doesn't pay great.
Speaker 2But then she's kind of in the door, she's like, yeah, why not.
Speaker 1She did really great. She was a great PA, she helped out a lot and we were able to get the shoot done pretty quickly. I'm glad she made it to baseball, softball, dodgeball.
Speaker 2Well, nice glad she made it to baseball, softball, dodgeball. Well, I am also glad you win. We literally beat them so badly.
Speaker 1It was like 10 to 1.
Speaker 2So you guys, might win this year killing it crushing crushing. And my other team, my tuesday team we did win this week, but harder yeah, what's that team I do?
Speaker 1think I'm gonna play on um Labor Day well then, sign up, because I'm about to back out of it wait why? Because no one else is signing up and I might, and I might get a free trip to Palm Springs, but but I have already paid for this and I'm committed to it yeah, I just told him because I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2But I just told him on Wednesday that I would okay, well, we'll see.
Speaker 1Send me proof, because Karina said she would too and she didn't. And it's just me right now, okay, okay, I guess I will stick to my commitment, all right.
Speaker 2Yeah, you need to Okay.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Start over. Start over, start over.
Speaker 2Tonight is the finale of love Island. Do you care.
Speaker 1I can't care. Do you know? Did you see any of the controversy that happened this past week?
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what we're about to talk about, but, yes, tonight is the finale, and then Big Brother has already started Whoa, so you better get in line. Get in while it's hot.
Speaker 1Guess who's on Big Brother. Yeah, christmas.
Speaker 2Well, no, I had a dream recently that she came back on the show, so I was.
Speaker 1I had to think no, rachel, rachel, yeah, why? Because she's bored I guess. Wow, okay, all right she was just on traders.
Speaker 2She's just trying to stay in the good for her in the loop, I guess okay but big brother has started. I haven't watched. I watched like the first, like two minutes of the first episode and I really wasn't mentally prepared for it. So I need to get through tonight's Love Island.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2And then this coming week I can allow myself to like get in the mindset of Big Brother. Yeah, luckily Big Brother is only three times a week and I won't be watching the live feeds, okay, well, love island being every night has been for hump day stressful, except for hump day I wasn't watching sundays either because that was after sun.
Speaker 2They're like talk show. So really, yeah, two nights, but yes, the finale is tonight. There has been controversy this past week with they removed Sierra from the villa Post people seeing, uncovering old videos and stories and whatever of her using a racial slur.
Speaker 1Okay, this, by the way, is not what I was talking about, so, like I don't know any of this, so do you know who Sierra is?
Speaker 2No, Okay, she um.
Speaker 1I know a Sierra, but it's not her one two step, you know.
Speaker 2I know a Sierra. So this um contestant and she was paired with this guy named Nick and cute girl. She kind of became part of like a little bit of a mean girl click, which was people started being down on her. And so then, as soon as people don't like you yes, as soon as people don't like you then that's when the digging starts happening.
Speaker 2Okay, that's when the digging starts happening, okay, and people found these um, I think it was a video or a story, a screenshot of a story that she put out where she was saying, um, that she gets Botox near her eyes to open them up a little, but she used um, a slur against, like the Asian community, if you can imagine, and then it in more digging.
Love Island Drama and Reality TV
Speaker 2It was like she had used that in an instagram caption back in like 20, the mid 2010s, like 2015, 2016, like that type of time, where she had said it then and then it came out that when she did the one recently, like last year or something, was the original screenshot that people found when she was talking about the Botox, that someone had messaged her and been like, hey, that's offensive. And she, um, um, apologized or whatever, I think, and then maybe there was like one more time that it was used, so it was like something that's in her vernacular, basically, and because she was corrected and then, like, still used it, it was like, oh, people are people just went in on her. It got a little far, like people involved her family and stuff, and she's Latina, I think, hispanic descent in some way.
Speaker 2Sorry, I don't know really exactly her ethnicity, but, um, people were like called ice on her family and stuff and like that is crazy, like, uh, she got removed and I think that that was the right decision, since they had removed ulyssa from the beginning beginning.
Speaker 1Yes, I remember that.
Speaker 2So like they were consistent, even though, like Sierra, had been there for a while, she had been a favorite and it's like a week until the finale, and I was like I don't think they're going to remove her because it's so close to the finale, but they did like overnight.
Speaker 1Wow.
Speaker 2The next morning, after, like people were really going in on her, she was gone the next episode and they they just said she was removed or whatever. Um, so that has been the controversy, and she came out with an apology video by the time she got home. And it wasn't. It was. It was, uh, art, she articulated well, but I don't think that people really bought all of it, because she used the phrase holding space a lot.
Speaker 2She was like I'm no longer holding space for this slur or something, and it was like holding space. People were not a fan of her using holding space, but this is what she looks like.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, I remember the one episode I watched. Yeah, so that is that the finale is tonight.
Speaker 2Um, okay, yeah, I remember the one episode I watched. Yeah, so that is that the finale is tonight. Thank god, the guy she was with Is now with Alandria. Do you remember her? I do, and people are really liking.
Speaker 1Because they More than Nicolandria, oh, that's them.
Speaker 2That's them, so we'll see, but I think that Amaya Papaya Is gonna win.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Love Island is ending that, so we'll see, but I think that Amaya Papaya is going to win Okay.
Speaker 1Love Island is ending.
Speaker 2That's all I just needed to tell you. But since you don't know that, you didn't know the drama, then I'm just informing you that there was drama.
Speaker 1I should hope so.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Reality TV.
Speaker 2What are your thoughts on? I guess the precedent of like if you're on television and something comes out like what's the statute of limitations on removal. Like if she hadn't had the. The Instagram story about the Botox was like last year, if that wasn't it, and someone found something from 2015,. Like is that? No, we, someone found something from 2015 like is that?
Speaker 1no, we've talked about this. I think that, yeah, as long as there's like they're, they are not.
Speaker 2It's like what happened with tana and brooke brooke yeah, yeah, like I think, because both of theirs were recent. You listen at the beginning. You're right, we did talk about it when you listen. I got kicked out. They were so recent that it's like we can't. This is too close to you right now. Yes, and if it's said in during filming, which with love Island, they, because they're editing, they would just wouldn't put it in the edit and then no one would know.
Speaker 2But because on big brother and stuff with the live feeds, as soon as someone says something, the guy in big brother UK with our celebrity big brother with Jojo and there's been countless people on big brother us that say something and it's on the live feeds and the fans clock it immediately and then it's like, well, we have to remove you now because you said it in real time right and I don't know, but if it was just the 2015 thing, I think I would have not been.
Speaker 2I think that she probably will would have needed to hear about it or address it when she got out and just be like I. I, you know it's not, it was this many years ago. It doesn't change the fact that I said it, but I am sorry. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2Like you do need to be like okay, I acknowledge that this was wrong to say, but again, like we, our childhood was a different time. I guess she's younger, but like when we were younger. I can't believe how many people in regular life said the F slur, the R slur, like all those things. It was just like so in the world, in music, in movies. I think I just saw a movie that someone said something crazy that I was like Whoa, that could never happen today. I wish I could remember, but I think it was our word and it was just like like wild, yeah, like the like people in school.
Speaker 1when I was in school used to say the R word without the R E.
Speaker 2It yes, no, the what I'm thinking of. I forget the show, but it was um the t word. This is hard to say um referring to oh yeah yeah yeah that was in a show. It could have been like friends or something and I was like wild, yeah. But anyway, sorry about her, I guess yeah she'll, she'll have to deal with it and whatever yeah I do hope that she feels like understands and isn't just like because her apology.
Speaker 2she was wearing like a sweatshirt that said empathy and she had like a Jade necklace which I guess has like some sort of significance in, and it was just like she's trying hard to be like feel sorry for me and kind of like. The empathy sweater was like very it felt it was like I'm putting this on because I'm about to do this, so that's why people aren't really buying it.
Speaker 1That sucks.
Speaker 2Do you, are you ready for you know what time it is I am. Are you going to sing?
Speaker 1it. It's time for.
A-List of the Week Recommendations
Speaker 2A-list of the week. Ooh, I liked that Mango sticky rice.
Speaker 1Okay, elaborate.
Speaker 2Have you ever had it?
Speaker 1Of course, and you've actually talked about it before.
Speaker 2Was it an A-list of the week already, or was it just like I had?
Speaker 1it. No, you were just talking about it.
Speaker 2I just had it today. That's why I remembered it, Because it is like mango season right now summertime.
Speaker 1It is summertime. I have mango in the fridge right now.
Speaker 2We had lunch from.
Speaker 1Josh's favorite Thai place. Oh yeah, Is it Sun Sunset Thai?
Speaker 2Summer Canteen.
Speaker 1Nope, okay, have you ever had that?
Speaker 2No, but summer it's pretty good. Summer what did I say Sunset Thai?
Speaker 1has mango sticky rice.
Speaker 2I think most Thai places probably do it this time of year, but I just had it earlier and it was delicious, so I just wanted everyone to know it's mango season, get your mangoes and if you have the opportunity, to order mango sticky rice, do it because it's delicious. I love that. What's yours?
Speaker 1my list of the week is the backstreet boys album, album millennium, because I'm going to their residency in vegas, millennium 2.0 I might need some merch you let me know if there's like a cute crew neck or t-shirt or something, I might need you to send me a quick. Have you seen any of the videos from their opening night?
Speaker 2I have because Reagan has sent them to me and I've seen them on Tik Tok.
Speaker 1It's pretty crazy Like the set of this at the sphere is insane, but it is interesting to see it how we've progressed to a place where there's no backup dancers now. I don't like that. I'm in. I'm curious.
Speaker 2I think it's because, well, do you think it's because the sphere has so much going on? Also, do you need a zofran no are you worried? Oh, I think I would be if we were high up okay, I would be so worried about being nauseous because even in the videos I'm like whoa no, I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1I'm probably gonna be. It be, it's going to be fine.
Speaker 2Oh my God, I'm going to be barred out. Is that what you're about to say? I was going to say barred out, no.
Speaker 1But I was just like, yeah, it looks very impressive, but it's like seeing the Backstreet Boys without dancers. It could also be that the residency is only Fridays and Saturdays and maybe it's just like hard to like. How do you employ dancers for just two days, two nights a week?
Speaker 2You just do.
Speaker 1You're right, it's Vegas. You're right.
Speaker 2They just would. It's like a it's a gig. Yeah, they would just probably pay for some cheap housing in Vegas and they would have a rehearsal or two midweek and then they would have you're right the show. Like that's weird to me. There's obviously it's a group of them, it's not just a single singer, but I think it's weird that there's no dancers.
Speaker 1It's interesting. I am excited and I do. I've been listening to the album they re-released. It called Millennium 2.0. And it's got some live performances from their show in Indianapolis, Indiana. I'm going to have fun. And then the new version of I Want it that Way, which everyone go listen.
Speaker 2Yeah, he was telling me earlier it's got some new lyrics. Yeah, it's crazy, no one's going to sing Like I'm so sorry, no one's singing that.
Speaker 1We're going to listen to it after this.
Speaker 2Two things. One, I do think that I've seen the Backstreet Boys a couple times in concert because my sister is a New Kids on the Block fan and they toured with them a couple times, and so I feel like I've been to like two of those concerts where they were together. One time it was like also TLC and Nelly and someone else. I will say I think that they didn't have other dancers there either.
Speaker 1Oh my God, wait, it's a boy band.
Speaker 2Maybe they don't have other dancers yeah, I don't think NSYN ink ever did right, I don't know. Yeah, I don't think they do oh okay, so debunked I guess. The second thing is have you listened to jb's?
Speaker 1jb's I just started to and I like the song daisies. I think it's cute I do.
Speaker 2I'm just like kind of bored with this style, I'm sorry is it more of the same? Yeah, what he's been doing. Yeah, yeah, it's just like not my vibe. Yeah, give me one. Is it one world?
Speaker 1Huh.
Speaker 2What's that Um? One his album like from when he my world is that what it's called, I think it's called my World and then it's my World 2.0. Oh my gosh. The acoustic version.
Speaker 1I have it on CD. How many? I told you it's so good my World.
Speaker 2Yeah, I liked that. Believe was good too. I just like haven't cared after that.
Speaker 1I like the one that has um. Yes, you do, we both. You love the album. What do you mean?
Speaker 2I like that singular song, but that song sounds different than all of these not on that album.
Speaker 1They all sound like that when it where's.
Speaker 2What do you mean?
Speaker 1I don't know it could have been you I don't know that song what about the one that paris? Oh, that's what do you mean?
Speaker 2yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 1doesn't sound like so that was his last like full pop out. Yeah, it was very pop purpose 2015 purpose you'll give me purpose love yourself, yeah yeah this vibe is what I like, I don't like the last two albums, yeah and I didn't care for journals either journals 2013.
Speaker 2What's on that?
Speaker 1you might not even recognize it was a kind of an indie release.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't recognize any of them. Um Christmas album.
Speaker 1Yes, I'm in the mistletoe and my world acoustic.
Speaker 2Everyone go listen to that.
Speaker 1It's so good it's so good.
Speaker 2But yeah, I just don't care and I am happy for him to be releasing music again.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And I would love for him to go on tour for all the girlies that like need to see jb again I got to see him perform what do you mean?
Speaker 1at the billboard awards? It was great.
Celebrity Birthdays and Entertainment History
Speaker 2He's great, yeah, but he's just like going through something right now that maybe we don't want to see it but, happy for him to be doing music yeah all right.
Speaker 1Well, there's no speak pipes all those birthdays probably, I'm sure there are oh, shout out, daphne, my niece her birthday was yesterday ninth, tenth, ninth ninth birthday 10th, 9th 9th birthday, nine, that's it.
Speaker 2Yeah, nine going on like 21.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Conor McGregor, MMA fighter. We don't care, he's 37. Lonnie Love 54. Aw, Hilarious Jane Lynch 65.
Speaker 1Nice.
Speaker 2Scott Porter. Do you know who that is? He's an actor, but he's on that show Jenny in Georgia.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2He plays the Mayor.
Speaker 1Yep.
Speaker 2Happy birthday, you random few Having a hard time Getting through this, president Gerald Ford.
Speaker 1Oh good.
Speaker 2Mistress Isabel Brooks, oh fun. 27.
Speaker 1Oh, I am an episode to catch up on.
Speaker 2Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2Do you know her? I've heard her name before. Sounds familiar English actress and playwright earned praise for the play Fleabag oh yeah, and she's a head writer and executive producer on the hit series Killing Eve, which is a great series everyone and you should watch it. Period is killing eve, which is a great series everyone and you should watch it. Period period she's 40. That's it. Okay, let's look at entertainment, because I also like to see what came out on this day also a bug's life well, maybe x-men released in 2000 okay the blair witch project 1999 changed the landscape of horror films forever.
Speaker 2True, Johnny Bravo 1997.
Speaker 1I was always told that my hair reminded people of him.
Speaker 2It was very tall from what I've seen it was tall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Good movie Nicolas Cage.
Speaker 1Honestly great.
Speaker 2It's a good movie 2010. The Wendy Williams Show premiered in 2008. Wow Clap, if you think that they should die.
Speaker 1Is that what she says?
Speaker 2I don't something like that, yeah clap if you think they should die. It's so stupid um you, me and dupree 2006 okay, will and osin will and osin osin will and oh oh oh my gosh, um john cook. The song seven one, two, three, four, five, six, wait, monday, tuesday, wednesday, is that the song?
Speaker 1monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday saturday, seven days a week.
Speaker 2There it is. Yeah, 2023. That's a good song. Oh, they're all out. Have we talked about this? They're all out, it's done.
Speaker 1Finally, they're all gay.
Speaker 2They are all released from the military and they announced a world tour and they are like we're back.
Speaker 1Dust off those dancing shoes, Jimin. We need you.
Speaker 2I would like to go to the concert concert, but it's going to be crazy well, maybe if we're lucky we'll get the last.
Speaker 1Maybe if we're lucky we'll get to sit at the very top.
Speaker 2I can't do that again, although the tickets were only 60, so I can't be mad that's true because now concerts are literally, if you want to sit anywhere, that's not the last row. It's like you're paying 500, 2000 and I just like don't care enough for that. Yeah, anyway, all right everyone. Well, that's that on that on that, that's that thank you for watching me and my laboo boo. Thank you, yes, and alex wants to tell you that he loves you so much and have a great week. Bye the A-List.
