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The A-List
We didn't get raptured, but we have plenty to talk about anyway.
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Ever have one of those weeks where end-of-the-world predictions collide with stubbed toes and unexpected medical diagnoses? That's exactly where we found ourselves as social media erupted with rapture predictions for September 23rd. Join us for this perfectly imperfect mix of the profound and the everyday, and remember—if you've made it this far, you definitely didn't get raptured!
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Allison Florea
Alex Hinsky
Podcast Intro Reflections
SPEAKER_00I just really love how that came together.
SPEAKER_01That was nice.
SPEAKER_00That was nice.
SPEAKER_01It's an organic intro that just set out for in this podcast.
SPEAKER_00We were like, we want a intro that feels natural. But it's like a people know it's a recurring thing. And somehow it really came together.
SPEAKER_01I think it took us a year.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't think it was consistent until we hit a year.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And we it even adapted more unintentionally because I we used to talk over each other.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then I was like, no, it's gonna sound better if we say the names the same, but just change the you're he.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01I'm I'm she, I'm he.
SPEAKER_00And we are we.
SPEAKER_01We are and we are we.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01And we are here. So if you're listening to this, you didn't get raptured.
SPEAKER_00You didn't, and neither did we. You gotta figure that out. What a crazy I know that happens like every few years, right? Because I looked back on the Rapture Wikipedia because I started really deep diving. Um, I haven't really studied the Rapture since I was in vacation Bible school. And probably like I'm sure we talked about it in like teenagers.
SPEAKER_01Vacation Bible school. Hilarious thought. I I can almost promise that they're not being like one week out of the summer that you're at church for VBS. They're like one day one day you're gonna wake up and your family's gonna be gone. Are you gonna be with them?
SPEAKER_00No, but probably like the teen time during you know when you go back in the back during teen time. Is that what was it called? Kid, no.
SPEAKER_01Sunday school?
SPEAKER_00I guess.
SPEAKER_01I know what you're talking about, and yes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, probably we talked about it then. I never saw the movie, I'm sure you did.
SPEAKER_01Left Behind. Yeah, and Left Behind 2, starring Jordan Sparks.
SPEAKER_00There's two?
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's a sequel or is it just another one?
SPEAKER_01No, it's a sequel.
SPEAKER_00Whoa.
SPEAKER_01Kirk Cameron is in it, and Jordan Sparks. I'm gonna say it again.
SPEAKER_00And Jordan Sparks. Was that one of her earlier works?
SPEAKER_01Wait, I lied to you. It's a remake.
SPEAKER_00That does make sense. Because, like, what is part two, you know?
SPEAKER_01The second rapture.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, if you guys, I don't know if people who aren't online know about this. Right. So over the past week, someone predicted that the rapture, the Christian rapture, was going to happen on today, Tuesday, September 23rd. And I feel like this kind of came out of there's a random girl who went viral that was like, I know someone in the government, and on September 24th, don't believe anything you hear.
SPEAKER_01Okay, I did see that too. I didn't connect it to this.
SPEAKER_00Well, because people were saying if you, if everyone is taken, don't b the government's gonna try to say that it's aliens.
SPEAKER_01Oh, they tied it into that video?
SPEAKER_00I think.
SPEAKER_01Because that's tomorrow.
SPEAKER_00Yes, but it would be like this happened today, so then we wake up tomorrow and everyone's like, where did all these people go? And they were like, the government's gonna try to tell you that it's aliens. And don't believe them. And so then I think out of that, somehow the rapture happening on the 23rd happened, but it took over the social media community.
SPEAKER_01Well, it was a South African minister.
SPEAKER_00He predicted it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So So two different things were going on.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Because I maybe that is why people really like were really believing.
SPEAKER_01And I found the podcast he was on where he talked about it.
SPEAKER_00He just said like a prophecy came to him.
SPEAKER_01No, it's be based on the Jewish, isn't it like ra ha uh Rosh Hashanah today? And it's tied into the the Feast of Trumpets.
SPEAKER_00Which, yeah. But also, how does it how is it Jewish? Because this is not a Jewish thing.
SPEAKER_01Correct, correct. But he said it has to do with the Feast of Trumpets and something with the but he is the one that started it.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01The South African minister.
SPEAKER_00But why this year? Because Rosh Hashanah happens every year.
SPEAKER_01Right, I know. I don't know. Maybe because of all the turmoil turmoil in the world, and that's like one of the signs.
SPEAKER_00True. True.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But I looked on the um Wikipedia, and it was like it listed however many years like this has been a worldwide or uh something that has taken on, like where a lot of people thought like this is the year.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And it was in the 50s, in the 70s, in the in 2008. Yeah, literally. So um, and I'm not disparaging anyone who believed.
SPEAKER_01I want to see the following.
SPEAKER_00I just don't believe that it's supposed to be known and being prepared for because I was seeing a lot of TikToks that were like people who were like, I'm preparing my home for when I leave. And I've I saw this woman she like laminated cards that were like, This is what happened, and this is what you need to do, and then like this is how to take care of my dogs. And I was like, I just don't think you're supposed to be able to prepare like this. I don't correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's it.
SPEAKER_01The Bible does say not even Jesus knows the day of his return. Like yeah, it the scripture says something literally like a thief in the night. Like you're not supposed to know.
SPEAKER_00Because if you have time to prepare, then you have time to be saved, which honestly, maybe that is good. I don't know.
Medical Updates and Doctor Visits
SPEAKER_01Sure, but the point is you're supposed to be a faithful follower all the time. Yeah, because you're not supposed to know. Because if we all knew that it was January 16th, not January January 16th, 2026, then w everyone would just be doing their thing and then be like, okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00Okay. One thing, the last thing that I will say, because this is not a religious podcast, it's not. It's not, is I do have a problem with I saw this guy who was an Uber driver. Bless you.
SPEAKER_02Thank you.
SPEAKER_00And he was like, I picked up this couple from church on Sunday, and they got in the car and they were like, We prayed for this. Could all be made up by the way, but this was his story. And he's he said they got in the car and they were like talking to him, and they were like, We prayed for our Uber driver to be someone who will need this money that we want to give you. So they're saying they prayed for someone who was going to be left behind to be their Uber driver. And they had a lot of cash and they were like, We don't need this money because like we aren't gonna be here. So we want to give you like an extra amount of money and so that you can do do something with it. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I wonder if they're looking at their Uber history today to try to find this man.
SPEAKER_00Maybe. And and they gave him like an extra tip like on the app, too. And it was like sixteen hundred dollars, like it was a lot of money. And I'm watching him and I'm listening to him tell the story, and I'm like, wait, so they were like, You're definitely not going. So we're gonna give you this. But in no, at no point in time did they try to be like, like, let me tell you about God, like, let me teach you, let me spread the word. They were just like, you're not going, so we're gonna give you our money and pity you. Like, isn't the point to spread the word?
SPEAKER_01Well, in that particular instance, to me, it's it's a it's a little like they believe this thing was happening with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. Yeah therefore, when they prayed for an Uber driver to give the money to, they trusted that it would be sent to them someone who wasn't saved. So there could be no other option. Because they believe it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I guess you could still try. If that's like, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I don't we can't get too far into this, but that I just thought that was an interesting can't wait to like get on TikTok when I lay down tonight to find the videos of people being like, well, I was wrong. Like, there's one woman I was following who's like crying, and she was like, I'm just uh this is my last video, and I promise, if we wake up and it didn't happen, I'll come on here and I'll apologize for my my ignorance. It's like I'm waiting. Yeah, I bookmarked that video so I can come find her account today.
SPEAKER_00And you know what? Believing in something is great, yeah. So I don't know, but that was what was happening online. And when I tell you I couldn't, that's all I was seeing, that's all I was seeing. So I had to it had to be talked about because what else?
SPEAKER_01Yep. I I saw a doctor.
SPEAKER_00You saw a doctor.
SPEAKER_01I finally saw the doctor. For just a general I found a new doctor, went and saw him.
SPEAKER_00How did you like him?
SPEAKER_01I liked him a lot. Um he was very funny, very disarming. He thinks that I have I might have an autoimmune disease based on my strange medical history.
SPEAKER_00You know what? That checks.
SPEAKER_01So he ordered all these tests. So I'm having like a bone density test test, a bunch of blood work.
SPEAKER_00Does he know like what's what kind he's thinking it is? Or just like in general, autoimmune?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and he's that's why he wants to check my bone density to see if it's something. I don't I don't I don't know. I'm seeing I'm getting a dexicon test or something. Dexascan. Dexascan. Dexicon. I'm getting a dexascan.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna find out a lot of info.
SPEAKER_01A kidney doctor, a cardiologist.
SPEAKER_00Was he your weird medical history? What all did that include? Heart, kidney stones?
SPEAKER_01Heart, kidney, really high testosterone levels.
SPEAKER_00Hey.
SPEAKER_01Hey. Um my migraines.
SPEAKER_00Okay. And did you ask Chat GPT?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Because I saw this guy, but it was funny when he was taking all my medical history, he was, you know, doing the questions like, do you drink? Do you smoke? All that. And then he was like, when was the last time you were tested for STDs? And I was like, March or April. And he was like, Nope, March. It was March, and I definitely told him April. I just remembered. And he was like, Okay, should we we should probably do that again? I was like, No, I'm in a committed relationship since then. And he was like, um he starts to he was one of those doctors that reads while he types. So he was like, committed, heterosexual. And I was like, oh sorry, homo. And he was like, Thank God, honestly, I prefer spelling homo, it's much easier.
SPEAKER_00Whatever. You're funny. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I liked him.
SPEAKER_00Okay, well, that's good.
SPEAKER_01So, but because I leave the country twice in the next two weeks, I'm doing all those tests when I get back.
SPEAKER_00That's good.
SPEAKER_01But I got my asthma piece refilled. Oh, that was another one. He's like, severe allergies, asthma that I still have.
Entertainment Catch-Up: Shows and Books
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. He's like, let's just Because it's you should grow out of it. I saw a product on TikTok that is a nose Alarmy. What?
SPEAKER_01Oh, uh if we saw the same thing, it's called Alarmy.
SPEAKER_00I don't know the name of it, but it was like a stick that you sniff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And they have different like smells.
SPEAKER_01Oh no. Alarm is a like nasal spray. I know what you're talking about. It's the boom boom sticks.
SPEAKER_00Boom boom sticks. Have you tried?
SPEAKER_01Well, it's VIX. I have had those a lot. I actually have two right now, but it's And they don't help. Yeah, I mean it gives you an instant like like eating a Listerine strip. Yeah, but it doesn't help with the get rid of the claw.
SPEAKER_00What do you say about that?
SPEAKER_01Didn't tell him about it.
SPEAKER_00Well.
SPEAKER_01So my hope, my next thing is to go see an allergist or uh uh ENTER an ENT, because they're the ones that like Yeah, he would just refer you to an ENT. Correct. So I'm gonna take care of these for and I have to go to a whoever does colonoscopies.
SPEAKER_00I don't know their name.
SPEAKER_01But I have to go to one because I'm I am only 35. They don't do that until like 40 is the first. Um but because of the history of colon cancer on both sides of my family and my medical history, he's like, might as well just go talk to one and see like what they think.
SPEAKER_00You can just do an at-home test. They do those now.
SPEAKER_01Well, he referred me to the case.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I'm not a doctor, but I knew they I know that they have at-home tests.
SPEAKER_01So I'm gonna well, yeah, I think it's more like he just wants me to meet with one, talk about medical history, see if that doctor thinks that I should get one now or wait till I'm 40.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I have to tell the psychologist I've been seeing that I can't see him anymore because it's too expensive. And like, what do I how do I do that?
SPEAKER_01Exactly like that.
SPEAKER_00Because not only meeting with him, even though it's telehealth, is expensive, and then the medication is a hundred dollars a month. And so I can't do$200 a month because I just got a bill and I'm assuming it was for the last one and it was like$113. So therefore$200 a month, like I'm so sorry I can't do that.
SPEAKER_01Are you but does will you st will still be able to get the medication without something? I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I kind of don't want it. Oh but I feel like he's gonna be like, Well, how do you feel? And I'm gonna be like, I feel pretty good. And he's gonna be like, is that the medication or what? But I or he's gonna be like, you're gonna have to switch to a cheaper one. And like that, I don't the reason I'm on the one I'm on is because I wanted less side effects.
SPEAKER_01Here's what I recommend. Or like stopping six weeks away from being able to switch your health insurance plan.
SPEAKER_00True.
SPEAKER_01So why don't you maybe maybe we do some research and see if there's a better plan that would cover more of that medication?
SPEAKER_00That's true. All right.
SPEAKER_01Food for thought.
SPEAKER_00Food for thought. But I will be like, hey, can we like I can't afford meeting with you every month? So like can we email? Like, what's the right because really he was just like, How do you feel? And he was like, Have you had any nightmares? Have you blah blah blah? And I was like, no. And he was like, Okay.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00So like, don't I don't need you to charge me$100.
SPEAKER_01And this is weekly?
SPEAKER_00Monthly.
SPEAKER_01Monthly, yeah. Maybe can you go on like a quarterly even?
SPEAKER_00Maybe, maybe it gets less frequent, like the longer.
SPEAKER_01We need more information.
SPEAKER_00We do, but I have to meet with him tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01I like your necklaces, by the way.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. Speaking of doctors, yeah. I had I went to the gynecologist this week, and this is a PSA. If you are someone who goes to the gynecologist, to don't be afraid and go, especially if you're 30 plus.
SPEAKER_01Don't be afraid and go.
SPEAKER_00Don't be afraid. If you've never gone, I mean, if you're younger and you are, you know, doing adult things, you should go. But it isn't scary, and it's better to go and, you know, be healthy than to be scared and not go. So I went and actually it was like a very quick thing, so it wasn't annoying. Okay. And then I came home and I stubbed my pinky toe on the shower, like on the tub, so hard that my whole pinky toe is perfect.
SPEAKER_01Broke off.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I don't right now.
SPEAKER_01Now later. You're already later. You're you're tucked in.
SPEAKER_00I couldn't believe it. I stubbed it and it was just like that, like few seconds of like intense. Intense. And and you normally it's just like, and then it goes away and it's fine. And then a few hours later, I was like, my toe still hurts. And I looked at it and it was starting to get purple. And then the next day it was so purple. And Josh was like, told me that I should go to urgent care or something. And I was like, what are they gonna do? They don't do anything for toes. They're just gonna be like, if it's broken, they're just gonna be like, you're gonna have to like tape it together and just let it go. And if it's not, they're just gonna be like, I can't do anything. Yeah. So I didn't go, but you're right, that's uh that's all that would happen. What else?
SPEAKER_01That was our medical corner.
SPEAKER_00Medical corner.
SPEAKER_01Anything for sports corner?
SPEAKER_00No, we start tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01Oh, hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00New season starting tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01Right on.
SPEAKER_00And my old team is merging with my new team. Well, our original team. Because the Tuesday league is um like a one of those weird, like not a real different format. This god, I can't talk. It's a different format this season, and a lot of my team wasn't playing in that because they don't like that format. And we had a good amount of people not come back this season.
SPEAKER_01For Lucius, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So Jack recruited the old Cooter Punch.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, who? Do you know who?
SPEAKER_00Brendan Blake, Nick, Trent?
SPEAKER_01No, Maddie?
SPEAKER_00No. It might honestly just be those three. Oh, okay. There might be someone else. I just like can't remember the group chat, but so I was like, wow, both teams. But yeah, there's nothing to report because we start tomorrow. Okay. So next week you will have a thing.
SPEAKER_01A full report.
SPEAKER_00But yesterday I cleaned my fridge.
SPEAKER_01How'd that go?
SPEAKER_00It took a long time and I was sweating so much, but it looks nice. Like I fully took out all the drawers, took out all of them, washed them down.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's the worst.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it is.
SPEAKER_00But it looks really nice in there.
SPEAKER_01I'm proud of you. That's hard. Clean the refrigerator is like top top of like one of the things I hate.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Floorboards and that.
SPEAKER_01Floorboards, refrigerator, dishes. I don't know why I hate dishes so much.
SPEAKER_00What? I guess you don't. You don't have a dishwasher here. I don't know. So you do have to do them by hand.
SPEAKER_01I do. I love vacuuming though. Give it to me every day.
SPEAKER_00I need a new vacuum. They're expensive.
SPEAKER_01They are. It's one of those things. It's stupid expensive.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, I am almost done watching Sex Lives with College Girls. I like season three.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_01It's because of the musical theater girly, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00Do you know who that is? No. That girl I hate. Well, she's fine. She's not good. The musical theater girl, she's kind of annoying. I, the like kind of nerdy, smart girl from that's in all the seasons.
SPEAKER_01Timothy Chalamet's sister.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's what I was gonna tell you.
SPEAKER_01I was like, Oh, I know.
SPEAKER_00No one told me this, and I didn't know she had a si he had a sister.
SPEAKER_01And her breasts are huge.
SPEAKER_00She does have moves.
SPEAKER_01And she has that face that's like, are you 45 or are you 21?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I followed her on Instagram and she is cool.
SPEAKER_01She is cool.
SPEAKER_00Like she has like really cool photography shots.
SPEAKER_01No, I love that show.
SPEAKER_00I want to say this might be controversial. I don't think Renee Rapp was the best part of the show.
SPEAKER_01That is controversial.
SPEAKER_00I liked her storyline and I like her. But her being gone is not not affecting you. It's not really affecting me. I will say the new girl, the British girl, I don't care. Like the core girls are enough for me.
SPEAKER_01I will say what I think they did what they did. I first saw they gave her a nice exit. I'm glad that they gave her an exit and then just cut her out.
SPEAKER_00Expecting her to be in the first like three episodes. Yeah, two or three.
SPEAKER_01But they should have just left it with those three girls, the other three.
SPEAKER_00I agree.
SPEAKER_01I think they tried too hard and it made it awkward. It's like don't replace them.
SPEAKER_00Just side characters come in that aren't like they're trying to be be main characters because like most of the guys, like I think the uh Lily, is that her name?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And Kanan, like the all of those people are still good. Those storylines are still happening, and I'm like, I don't, yeah, I don't need these other girls. And I like the core three girls enough that like I'm still having a good time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, I'm not like devastated by Renee's departure.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Cause sometimes I'm sorry, sometimes she doesn't do it.
SPEAKER_01She's a little too gen Z for you.
SPEAKER_00Maybe. I don't know. But I do love her like as an artist and singer and everything. It's just I I was like, oh, I'm fine. Yeah. With this. I'm almost done. I have like three episodes left.
SPEAKER_01Love that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. What are you watching?
SPEAKER_01Well, it's Go More Girls season, of course.
SPEAKER_00How far have you gotten?
SPEAKER_01Almost done with season one.
SPEAKER_00Nice.
SPEAKER_01And Chad's watching two. And the other night, Angela and I, Angela Crean and I went out and we went to Foreman's and randomly ran into Katie. My friend Katie. And she works on the Warner Brothers lot. And I was like, hey. She was like, yeah. It's like, what's going on?
SPEAKER_00Can you get me in?
SPEAKER_01And she was like, yeah. So that's on the docket now.
SPEAKER_00Love.
SPEAKER_01I'm like, Chad.
SPEAKER_00I might try to watch it once I finish this.
SPEAKER_01Don't say that.
SPEAKER_00No, I might, I might try. But I'm not making any promises. If I if it doesn't, how how long do I need to give it to pull me in?
SPEAKER_01You're asking a real Gilmore head. Um I mean, to be honest, boyfriend has was ne like it was never something. And then he was like, Let me give it a shot. And episode one hooked him. And he was like, okay.
SPEAKER_00But I have seen episodes.
SPEAKER_01But not consecutively.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01Here's the thing light a candle, set the vibe, which I know your apartment already is.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And that is what like that's what he does.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I think because it's also not like chilly yet, although next week there's like three days where it's like high as like 77 or something.
SPEAKER_01I just yeah.
SPEAKER_00But I think I would like it more if it wasn't so hot.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00But I can't do anything about that.
SPEAKER_01No. Unfortunately, this is where we live, and we will get that weather in December.
SPEAKER_00How about every episode I complain about the temperature?
SPEAKER_01That's good.
SPEAKER_00Um, wait. So yeah, I might. I finished this show. I'm almost done with the pumpkin size cafe book, which and there are five, there are four more books in this world, in this city.
SPEAKER_01Do you care to do it?
SPEAKER_00It isn't good, and I probably will give it a two-star, but I it's like bad enough that I understand not gonna be mad at reading more of these books.
SPEAKER_01It's taking you a minute. Are they easy reads? You're just taking your time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I just like I haven't consistently read a bunch every night.
SPEAKER_01I need to see the cover of this book. Can you show me a picture? Because I feel I'm picturing, I want it to know if it's what I'm picturing.
SPEAKER_00I'll show you the whole series. Maybe. There's a there's a couple gay characters.
SPEAKER_01Okay, not what I was picturing.
SPEAKER_00What were you picturing?
SPEAKER_01Like those books that everyone's reading right now that have a very specific like like AI, like boy and girl guys.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes. Yes. Here's the box set. So when they're next to it. Oh great. Well, when they're the like binding has part of the house or the cafes or whatever. So when they're next to each other, like it looks like little stores next to each other like that. It's pretty cute.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It did take them until chapter 25 to do the deed.
SPEAKER_01Is it their wedding night?
SPEAKER_00No, it's uh it's a it's really up and down with Logan and Janine. Logan is the brooding farm owner, and Janine is the shebrands the pumpkin spice cafe.
SPEAKER_01Did they do it for the first time in the barn?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_00So like it does feel like a little homey, but it isn't a good book or storyline. And it will be two stars on my good readers.
SPEAKER_01Like, I do not recommend, but I will be reading more.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's just like it's a Hallmark movie. Like Hallmark movies aren't good.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00And you wouldn't rate them highly, you know, cinematically, but it is something to read or to watch and pass the time and have like warm and fuzzy feelings. It's like literally just a Hallmark movie in book form.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00So I should be done, like honestly, tonight.
SPEAKER_01I'm excited to hear how it concludes.
SPEAKER_00So that's um Wow. What do you uh what do you want to talk about?
SPEAKER_01Well, I am gonna get to I'm going to Bogota, and until today I thought it would be humid summer weather. No, Bogota is like Seattle, apparently. So I'm going to 50, 55 degree rainy weather. So I have been planning in my head crop tops and shorts, and now I have to pivot to pull out jackets and jeans.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, do you have that like put away somewhere?
SPEAKER_01No, no. Everything is in my closet because you know me. You never know when you need your leather jacket.
SPEAKER_00That's true. Do you have a rain jacket?
SPEAKER_01No. I won't be going out in the rain.
SPEAKER_00What boots? Are you taking boots?
SPEAKER_01What kind?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. Something that you can walk around if it's raining in and not be like wet feet and your chucks, that's gonna be so wet.
SPEAKER_01Hadn't considered that.
SPEAKER_00You might need a boot.
SPEAKER_01Well, I do have boots. It's just like packing shoes is the worst part of packing for me. Usually for anyone, I think.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because it takes up a lot. Were you planning on just taking carry-on?
SPEAKER_01No, no, because I get a bag included because it's international, so like I'm gonna load it up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You gotta throw some boots in there.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00You also don't know like terrain. I don't know what's what's the terrain. Like you're gonna be hiking somewhere.
SPEAKER_01Well, it is on a mountain and it's very highly elevated, so there's a the potential of altitude sickness. But she said the streets and the sidewalks and stuff is like LA. Like it's very like uneven sidewalks, not super clean, but not like dangerous.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um you might need one of those oxygen things.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she said she has all that supplies for us, and there's like an altitude tea that you can drink that's supposed to help you.
SPEAKER_00Okay, is she like fully acclimated?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and the altitude sickness didn't hit her until like day six, so she's like, you might actually avoid it because I'm only there for three nights.
SPEAKER_00Okay, that's fun. I can't wait for your stories.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm gonna learn how to speak Spanish.
SPEAKER_00While you're there? Yeah, three nights.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna become back, I'm gonna come back and be a pro.
SPEAKER_00Did you? I guess you didn't probably take Spanish.
SPEAKER_01Yes, I did.
SPEAKER_00At home? Or call you Spanish?
SPEAKER_01I took I was video school, so Oh, okay. I learned Cristo me llama esto se Jesus loves me in Spanish.
SPEAKER_00Um Billy Scumpianos.
SPEAKER_01Aki.
SPEAKER_00Ati.
SPEAKER_01Ati. I'm uh we're going to like some four-story, five-story gay club, the biggest club in South America.
SPEAKER_00Fun.
SPEAKER_01That has a giant food court in the middle.
SPEAKER_00Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_01Why doesn't that exist here? A math a club with the food court? That's genius.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because you get hungry. You get hungry. Is every floor a different vibe?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, something it's one of those, which we do have in downtown LA.
SPEAKER_00I don't think I've ever been to one of those. I I always hear stories. It's like Nashville has them and all these places.
SPEAKER_01I just lied to your face. I have been to one.
SPEAKER_00Why did you lie?
SPEAKER_01Last year for uh pre for Pride.
SPEAKER_00Where? Downtown?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, near downtown.
SPEAKER_00Didn't love it. I don't think you would like any bar downtown.
SPEAKER_01You have been to one. Halloween.
SPEAKER_00We all went to what year?
SPEAKER_01The f I don't know, the first year we were friends. What? That club where you and Chloe dressed as tourists.
SPEAKER_00I guess I was a little too drunk. I don't remember.
SPEAKER_01Every room was a different DJ with a different.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yes. It wasn't floors, it was rooms. But it was different. There was a 70s room.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00There were yes.
SPEAKER_01So it's that vibe, but bigger, bigger scale.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. That's fun.
SPEAKER_01You can be like, I had enough of the CDM. But for me, it's gonna be like somehow I just know. If it's a gay club with multiple levels, it's just different house music, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_00And I hate that, but I love that for you.
SPEAKER_01Thank you.
SPEAKER_00What was I gonna ask? I had something.
SPEAKER_01Were you gonna ask?
SPEAKER_00Oh no, I wasn't gonna ask. I was going to update you. My sister texted me, and she was like, um, she said that she talks, tries to talk to us like while she's listening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she said she was like, um, when we were talking about why Ariana isn't at SoFi, and she says it's she thinks it's because the World Cup will be there.
SPEAKER_01Oh, well, hard to compete.
SPEAKER_00It is hard to compete. They need it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00To be honest. So she believes that that is why Ariana isn't at SoFi.
SPEAKER_01Dylan offered me a ticket to Ariana today.
SPEAKER_00Oh my gosh. Wait, he got them?
SPEAKER_01I was offered two tickets.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Amazing.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00Is it bad seats?
SPEAKER_01No, it's amazing seats.
SPEAKER_00Oh, offered like you still have to buy it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00How much?
SPEAKER_01$1,500 each. I said, hi. No.
SPEAKER_00That's crazy.
SPEAKER_01I was like, I have debts that go before a$1,500 Argonne ticket. Sorry about that.
SPEAKER_00Do you have to pa pay for it now? Could you when is it? It's next June.
SPEAKER_01And yes, I would. And no, I mean I can't do that.
SPEAKER_00You're like, get me a brand deal. Yeah, which that pays that much.
SPEAKER_01We may have, I'll say that off air, but there could be potential for some new streams of revenue. Love. But I'm not gonna spend it on Ariana Grande. I'm gonna pay for it.
SPEAKER_00That is like it feels it feels reckless.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I didn't even spend that much on Taylor.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I went twice to Taylor.
SPEAKER_00You did? And she was in the movie. Did you guys know?
SPEAKER_01Guys, I'm in the Airs tour. I didn't and I spent 280 on Gaga.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Like honestly, that's kind of the limit.
SPEAKER_01Totally. It really is. Totally.
SPEAKER_00Because the more we the more people will spend, it's never gonna go down. Like you have to like boycott. And we learned that boycotting works. Yeah. So you kind of have to be like, no, I'm not doing it.
SPEAKER_01Period.
SPEAKER_00And then it will be cheaper. Supply and demand, right? Am I right?
SPEAKER_01Amen, sister.
SPEAKER_00Speaking of movies, kind of two things. One, James Vanderbeek. Did you see that video picture of him or video?
SPEAKER_01I didn't realize I was that sick.
SPEAKER_00I didn't either. I didn't know he had cancer at all. I just I'm not tapped into James Vanderbeek news, I suppose. But um there was a Dawson's Creek reunion that just happened and James couldn't attend because I think it it wasn't like because of the cancer, they said they said he was had an illness that I think probably just is exacerbated because of the cancer, or if he's doing chemo or whatever, but he wasn't able to be there. This was weird that they sent Lynn Manuel Miranda and his That I didn't know. His replacement was Lynn Manuel Miranda. I don't know, I haven't seen any videos, so I need to know what that means. Like because it was on stage, like it was like not like a televised thing. Right.
SPEAKER_01Was Michelle Williams there?
SPEAKER_00I believe so, yeah. And at the beginning, they were singing the intro. I saw like a little thing of that, but then like, are they acting out things? Are is it just a QA? Are they watching the things in Brim and Missing? But like, why would Lynn need to be there?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, was he hosting it?
SPEAKER_00Because like, remember when Maybe, but why wouldn't they just say hosted by Lynn Manuel Miranda, not replaced? James Vanderbeek was replaced by Lynn Manuel Miranda.
SPEAKER_01Maybe they reenacted. Because like, remember the Friends Reunion on HBO Max? They did do some, like they read some of the table read thing, yeah. So maybe it was like that.
SPEAKER_00I do need to look into it, but the uh still of him in that video is so sad. He's just so tiny and not like so gaunt, like his face. Is that the right word? Yeah, yeah, it's sad. It makes me think sad. Dawson's Creek was my life for a few years in high school. So funny. I had my little TV in my room that had the built-in VHS player, and I had the no DVD player, and I had the box, the series set, and every night I would fall asleep to Dawson's Creek.
SPEAKER_01And I would watch them also, but I only watched a few episodes and it was with you.
SPEAKER_00Maybe you should go back and watch it. I feel like that's honestly Gilmore Girls vibes? No.
SPEAKER_01It doesn't feel like fall?
SPEAKER_00No. Oh it doesn't feel like Katie Holmes there? I think so. Let me double check. That's not the right one.
SPEAKER_01Miss Holmes, if you're nasty.
SPEAKER_00Due to two stomach viruses, is what Oh my god, James. There's Michelle Williams.
SPEAKER_01Wasn't Miss Busy there too?
SPEAKER_00Busy Phillips was I saw Busy, I saw Michelle. There was another person that was blonde that I don't know who it was. Kimberly and the little ones joined James's former co-stars, including Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Michelle Williams.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Josh Jackson and Katie were like looking at each other really cute, and I was like, uh spoiler alert.
SPEAKER_01No, I knew about that. I know about that.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but I don't think it feels like any certain season.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00It just it feel because it goes through all the seasons because it's just so many years of their life. To me, it feels I don't know. It doesn't feel like fault to me. But I think maybe you should give it a try.
SPEAKER_01Just like you with the Elmore Girls, I'll put it under the maybe category.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00Maybe.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And then the other like movie thing that I was gonna say is Kanye's documentary has come out.
SPEAKER_01Saw the trailer.
SPEAKER_00I didn't know that it was like in theaters.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I didn't know that either.
SPEAKER_00I won't be I was like, oh, I'm interested in watching because like I just am so curious at like what's going on over there because all I hear are is the you know, really negative things and like not interested in him, but like I am like documentaries are just so interesting. But one produced by him, like how I don't know, yeah, like how real is everything, like not being the narrative not being spun like in his favor, you know what I mean? Yeah, and two, I don't really want to give him money, yeah. But also I'm curious, it's just like uh he's so he's gone through so many eras that I can't have never been able to keep up, and but I'm definitely not going to the movie theater. So I guess I don't care to watch, but yeah, I did look up on Rotten Tomatoes and it had like 85% audience, I think. I don't think I saw a critic rating yet. Okay, I think it just came out like a couple days ago. I don't know how long it takes, it didn't have anything in there. So I'm interested in what people think, but we'll see. The trailer did look crazy.
SPEAKER_01The trailer, I was like, whoa, I would watch this, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I wonder the like wasn't there a fight with um Chris. Yeah. And I did see one that was said that um Kim was like crying, but I didn't see her crying. I think that was just like a clickbait title. Oh but I don't know, it's like it's a lot.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And actually, the more I think about it, definitely don't want to give it my money. But I don't know. The people's minds are interesting to me.
SPEAKER_01They sure are.
SPEAKER_00I think my notes are funny. Stub my toe and it's purple Stub my toe so bad it's purple.
SPEAKER_01Ouch!
SPEAKER_00Are you ready for? It's time for the week.
SPEAKER_01Good job.
SPEAKER_00Thank you.
SPEAKER_01That was really great.
SPEAKER_00I actually don't have one, but I knew it was time.
SPEAKER_01Okay, mine is? It's a VJ. Oh my god, I had a song recommendation too. Hold on. Oh my god, it looked Oh! Okay. There is what is his name? Column Callum.
SPEAKER_00Do I need to look up something?
SPEAKER_01Yes. A duet of I Wanna Dance With Somebody just came out. It's with Whitney Houston and Colum Call Callum some British dude.
SPEAKER_00Callum Scott.
SPEAKER_01Callum Scott. It is hauntingly beautiful. And it's a male and female duet with Whitney's raw vocal over like a ballad. It's a ballad.
SPEAKER_00So that's been like he's gay. Love that.
SPEAKER_01Is that why? Is that what you pictured?
SPEAKER_00He looks like a country artist.
SPEAKER_01He does. He's British. British. It's I cannot stop listening to it.
SPEAKER_00It's your happier than ever.
SPEAKER_01What?
SPEAKER_00It's your Kelly Clarkson's Happier Than Ever. Yes. Which I listened to on the way over here because I've decided that I want to quarry, I want to teach a dance class.
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SPEAKER_01Are you going to teach at Devon's again?
SPEAKER_00Yes. Probably in maybe the end of October or November.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Um, and I was like, I think I want to do like a contemporary class and I want to do that song.
SPEAKER_01I love that. So that's your A-list of the week then.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's my A-list of the century. But that is your happier than ever.
SPEAKER_02It is.
SPEAKER_00No, I was gonna say, I on the way over here, I was listening to Cardi's new album. And it is good. I haven't, I don't think I made it all the way through, and I really was just doing my initial vibe check of like what's the vibe of each song. And although I do love a, you know, banger of like things she's released, like as singles and stuff, love a wop, love a wop.
SPEAKER_01Oh, up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, things like that. Like I do love those just because it's fun to sing and dance to. I do think the vibe um is different and it feels like I don't know what the category it is. What would you say?
SPEAKER_01It feels more pop to me, honestly.
SPEAKER_00But everything is kind of like slow and vibey.
SPEAKER_01Did you like the one with Selena?
SPEAKER_00Yes. Good. I like that one. That one is more upbeat, but there are a lot of slower tracks. Like the one with Kalon Kalani is cool.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I, you know, I haven't listened to every song. I think I'm oh no, maybe I did. I think it but it was a quick listen. But I do I like what I hear.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, sold a million copies. Work. Go hurt.
SPEAKER_00And she's pregnant.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00She's so cool.
SPEAKER_01She announced it to Gail.
SPEAKER_00The bodega song is cool.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm a fan. I like it.
SPEAKER_00Same.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Are you ready for birth birthdays? Happy birthday to Halsey.
SPEAKER_01It's so crazy you said that because I was just thinking about her.
SPEAKER_00Right now in this moment?
SPEAKER_01I said Cardi B sold a million copies. It made me think of Halsey, how I saw a TikTok about her, how she was like very upset that she's not selling a lot of records.
SPEAKER_00Is it her label?
SPEAKER_01No, it's just because she did kind of an indie concept album that didn't sell a lot, and they're punishing her for it, and it sucks because she's a good artist.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, she was.
SPEAKER_01She turned 34, 33?
SPEAKER_0031.
unknownBaby.
SPEAKER_00She's young. Yeah. Iris from Love Island. I know you don't know her, but some of the listeners probably do. She's 26. Wow. But you do know this person. Nicholas Galzantine? Galantine? From Red White and Royal Blue, he is 31.
SPEAKER_01Uh, fine, he's in that gay movie we love. But even better.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_01I don't know the name of it. That movie with Anne Hathaway, where he plays a young boy band member, and she That's him? Yes, as a Brevet.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I didn't know that. He's Harry Styles.
SPEAKER_01Yes. And she's Olivia Wilde.
SPEAKER_00I didn't know that was him.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Ooh, I want to watch that again.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Chrissy Metz. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01How old?
SPEAKER_0045.
SPEAKER_01Nice. Did you see the thing about Hunting Wives, by the way?
SPEAKER_00The wig?
SPEAKER_01No. I mean, yes, that way that was funny. But how so I guess work is still hard for actors right now. It's like hard for them to get work.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So all these actors were can like the leads were convinced to do this show because it was going to stars.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01And kind of under the guise of like, um stars is still a thing? Exactly. So they're saying it's like, who has a stars subscription?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But it is still a thing and they have a lot of money. So they all got six salaries and thought, okay, fine, we'll be tots out for this whole thing. It's going to be on stars. Like, no one's going to watch it. And then truly, the week of that it was supposed to like all the initiatives were going to stars, stars pulled out. Netflix came in.
SPEAKER_00Dang.
SPEAKER_01Great for visibility, but then all of the actors were like, a lot more people are going to see our tots. Yep. Well, pretty interesting.
SPEAKER_00That is interesting. Yeah. A couple more interesting facts now that you say that is we just alluded to this, is that um Malin, what's her last name?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Her.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Redheaded uh one on Hunting Wives. She was saying that the because people were talking about her wig and how it wasn't great.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And she was like, Well, I made I they had this like really good wig made for me and like it looked perfect. And something happened.
SPEAKER_01What happened that when it showed up, it was manufac it was like no, something about the it didn't fit right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the wig that they had made didn't work, and they had to just like find a wig really fast because they were like shooting that day, and they just found one in the makeup tent and just put it on her, and they were like, Well, we gotta make this work. And so then that became what she had to be. So it wasn't supposed to be that.
SPEAKER_01Until the episode that she's getting her hair done in the living room.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's so smart. They should have done that way earlier.
SPEAKER_01Well, that was they didn't shoot it in order either, I don't think. All the way in order.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I guess like what would be the need for that?
SPEAKER_01So like there was never supposed to be that scene. They added it so that they could transition it to the new wig.
SPEAKER_00That's really smart. It was wow.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And then I just saw an interview of Brittany Snow.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And she was talking about how she wasn't, she did the um audition for hairspray. Did you see this? She was doing an interview. Yeah, she was doing the interview or the um, she auditioned for hairspray and she said it went really badly. And like she her voice cracked singing, she didn't do the reading well, like she was just really in her head and she had a really bad audition. And then she talked to the director who is someone we all know, but I can't remember his name. And he was like, Yeah, that wasn't great. And he was like, It really sucks because we just signed on Michelle Pfeiffer to meet the mom character, and that would have been really cool if she was your mom. Yeah, yeah. And which is so mean to say on the phone to someone. And so she like they hung up, and then she was she remembered that she had seen a psychic that told her that she was going to work on a project with Michelle Pfeiffer and she was gonna be her mother. And she was like, I called him back up and I told him that. And I was like, please give me another chance. Like this, my psych, the psychic told me this, like, this has to happen.
SPEAKER_01So she was like, I know that this is gonna sound crazy. And he was like, Yeah, yeah, it does sound crazy, but he gave her another shot.
SPEAKER_00And he was like, All right, you we'll get you another audition, and then she booked it, which is like a really fun, yeah. Uh story for you know, it is hairspray heads, yeah. Which I haven't seen in a while, and I would love ultra clutch heads. Yes, ultra clutch hairspray. Well, if you oh no, there's more, there's more. Big mouth. I know you just did a premiere with them that premiered first in 2017. Wow. And then we have talked about this movie, I think, like for the past three episodes or something. I remember the Titans.
SPEAKER_01Wow, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Premiered on this day in 1998. 2000.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay, close.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So I thought that was apropos. I needed to say apropos.
SPEAKER_0125 years old.
SPEAKER_00Thank you everyone for watching. Um and thank you for listening. Thank you for listening. Hopefully, there'll be like more. I literally searched for interesting things, and there was not a lot.
SPEAKER_01Well, it's because unfortunately, in this week and leave in, there's just so much going on in the political climate right now that that's really what's flooding.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like page six had we're trying to be uh bright, light, fun.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So we don't want to talk about, although we did talk about it today, but it was like a ingest, I suppose. And we want to be happy. So hopefully someone can give us something exciting and nice to talk about next week.
SPEAKER_01We're getting into spooky season, so fun. And yeah.
SPEAKER_00Can't wait.
SPEAKER_01Cannot wait.
SPEAKER_00Thanks for watching. We love you guys so much.
SPEAKER_01Have a good night. Day.
SPEAKER_00Bye. Whatever time.