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The A-List
Trisha Paytas, The Louvre Heist & Hinge Horror Stories
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We weigh the Euphoria comeback, share the chaos of launching our BuzzFeed series Gay and Trying, and break down the Louvre’s audacious $102M jewel heist. Pop culture, production reality, and a few hot takes on LA dating and Britney headlines make for a sharp, funny ride.
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Alex Hinsky
Cold Open And Euphoria Rumors
SPEAKER_02Welcome back.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, that was a crazy cold over that you'll never see.
SPEAKER_02All right.
SPEAKER_01Welcome back to the A-list podcast with Allison and Alex. I'm Allison. He's Alex.
SPEAKER_00We always have our pre-recording catch-up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we had to debrief on some things. Debrief. I have a fun thing that I can't tell you for a few weeks, but I was telling you.
SPEAKER_00But she shared with me, and I can tell you it is funny. It is very exciting.
SPEAKER_01And no, I'm not in Beetlejuice on Broadway. Wouldn't that be cool?
SPEAKER_00She I saw that she got something else.
SPEAKER_01She's in euphoria.
SPEAKER_00In euphoria, yes.
SPEAKER_01And she was in um a Mac campaign.
SPEAKER_00Go off, Trisha Paytas.
SPEAKER_01Like crazy.
SPEAKER_00Insane.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. After we talked about Trisha Paytas last time, I think it was like the next day, it was revealed that she was in euphoria. And everyone thought that the original cast wasn't in euphoria. And it was just like Trisha and what's that one girl?
SPEAKER_00Wait, I don't is the original cast back?
SPEAKER_01They are. But the um the graphic that HBO shared didn't have the original cast, so it was very confusing for people. Let me see if I can.
SPEAKER_00Well, we lost Angus.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And we're losing someone else right now. The guy that plays the dad.
SPEAKER_01McSteamy. Um well he has ALS.
SPEAKER_00McSteamy?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's McSteamy?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. McDreamy is Patrick Dempsey. McSemy is a good one.
SPEAKER_00No, I didn't know McSteamy was McSteamy is the like fucked up dad in Euphoria. Yeah. Oh yeah. I s yeah.
SPEAKER_01He has ALS and he's rapidly declining. Like he's already in a wheelchair. I don't know. That's facts. I think they've already filmed like Oh, really? Patricia, I was just listening to her podcast today, and she was already talking about her part, like she filmed a while ago. So I'm pretty sure.
Casting Confusion And McSteamy’s Health
SPEAKER_00Oh. Like maybe they already got his stuff.
SPEAKER_01That or they are close to being done. I don't know. But he's yeah, he's already in a wheelchair. So it's like rapidly declining.
SPEAKER_00That's sad. Here we go. The hair's on the microphone.
SPEAKER_01New series regulars. So it does say like series regulars, Zendea, Hunter Schaefer, Jacob Alordi, Cidney Sweeney, Alexa Demi, and Maud Apatau. And while guest stars will include Rosalea, Marshawn Lynch, Kadeem Hardison, Daryl, Daryl Britt, Gibson, Priscilla Delgado. I don't know these people. Where's Trisha?
SPEAKER_00I do not know that man.
SPEAKER_01But Rosalea was. I think Rosalea had already been she'd already been announced. Announced before Trisha was. Natasha Leon.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Eli Roth.
SPEAKER_00Oh, interesting.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So whenever HBO shared the graphic that had like Natasha, uh Trisha, all that on it, didn't have the original cast. And then in the comments, someone said like they're not coming back. And so people were like, is Trisha playing? Sydney Sweeney older, but it's only a five-year jump. But I don't know. It was funny.
SPEAKER_00It's funny to think that Sydney Sweeney and Zindea are in like the same, the same universe in any way. I forget about that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's weird. Did we need this?
SPEAKER_00The coming back? Yeah. I don't know. Because like they it's been so long and they're all like the girl that played like The Hot Latina.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00She already was like 30 when they filmed that show. Oh really? Being a high school student.
SPEAKER_02Couldn't tell.
SPEAKER_00No, I know, but it's like, come on. Now she's like 35.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Zin, like uh Zendaya. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00It does seem like it's like she's past that to me.
Do We Need More Euphoria?
SPEAKER_01But I think she already was, to be honest. I think hot take, Zendaya was already like punching down a little bit. I think so, yeah. Is that crazy? Like they were they were lucky to have her. Yeah. Yeah. And that was a good one. The others, it launched them into Jacob, Sydney. So I don't know. It feels it feels weird. We were watching Euphoria, wasn't it already? We watched season two.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_01In like 2022, right? So season one had already been out for what? In 2020. Yeah. Yeah. So it's been too long.
SPEAKER_00It's been too long.
SPEAKER_01But I'm gonna watch.
SPEAKER_00No, totally. Even though it's so heavy and dark.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, we will be watching.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, let's talk about your series.
SPEAKER_00Guys, Gantrine is out.
SPEAKER_01It is. I watched it and I watched your trivia show today.
SPEAKER_00And guess what?
SPEAKER_01You won.
SPEAKER_00The millennials won. You did. We took home the book.
SPEAKER_01I didn't know a lot of the things, but I did know something I feel like you guys didn't get. What was it?
SPEAKER_00What that the millennials didn't get?
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh, um one of my followers. Oh M F.
SPEAKER_00Oh, one of my followers, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I knew that one.
SPEAKER_00Online only. What did Ash say? Something like online only some friends. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01No one knew that. Not even the Gen Zers.
SPEAKER_00No, not even the Gen Zers.
SPEAKER_01And I was like, dang, I would have gotten it.
SPEAKER_00It is. Were you proud of me for getting the homeschool?
SPEAKER_01Or wasn't homeschool, but I I was proud of you for that. Who someone on the Gen Z knew it, right?
SPEAKER_00No, no one knew it.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00No, cool math games, red.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00She was like, I say cool math games. Well, cool math games isn't a thing, Red.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It looks like I mean her beefed like for real that time.
SPEAKER_01Everyone was beefing. Was it really that serious, or was that just the editing? No, it was. Okay.
SPEAKER_00You guys like we were worried that because Dylan was a lot. They cut a lot of Dylan's stuff out.
SPEAKER_01Dylan was aggressive.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he goes on and on and on.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Go watch um the trivia.
SPEAKER_00Feed feud.
SPEAKER_01Feed feud and then gay and trying came out. We talked about it last time, but then I watched it and I had a great time.
SPEAKER_00It's doing okay on YouTube. We're getting like way more traction on the socials, which is nice. I mean, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. To be expected.
SPEAKER_00This was the first episode.
SPEAKER_01On TikTok or on Instagram?
SPEAKER_00Instagram. My TikTok, I mean, I got 20 followers overnight. We started a new channel on there, but um I have just finished making 28 cut downs.
SPEAKER_0128?
SPEAKER_0028. So they're all just gonna be going up. But we start promo for Friday's episode tomorrow. So it's like this is how it happens. And then you're like, oh, but I still have 26 cutdowns for whatever.
SPEAKER_01Are you physically posting them or someone else?
Launching Gay And Trying
SPEAKER_00No, we're physically posting it. We asked for to have the like like art be in charge. Because here's the thing. I'm actually not gonna talk about this on camera. But just no, it's just shocking to me that like I work at a media company and we don't have someone to make cut downs.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean, but okay.
SPEAKER_00Um anyway.
SPEAKER_01Expensive, I get it.
SPEAKER_00This episode, the episode that has oh, I can talk about it because this comes out on Monday. So the episode that just came out is our gay and trying to survive the 17th door.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. And and you're looking sickening.
SPEAKER_00I am you guys, I am in full drag Britney Spears Hit Me Baby one more time. If you haven't seen the video already, you should go watch it. I got to see the first cut yesterday.
SPEAKER_01You mean will baby one more time or the your video?
SPEAKER_00The video. I'm not in Hit Me Baby One more time.
SPEAKER_01That's why I was confused. I thought you were shouting out. If you haven't seen Hit Me Baby one more time, 1990. I was eight years old.
SPEAKER_00Sorry. No, our video, I saw the first pass, and it is like if even if that was the final, I was like, this is gold.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I'm sure that the once it's edited with effects and music and stuff. Yeah. And some like cutting some fat. Um, anyway, so it's out now. You can check that out. Uh my I look, I looked pretty yeah, I looked pretty sick. And Dylan was if anyone's seen Weapons, have you seen it? No. Dylan is Aunt Gladys, which I believe is gonna be like one of the biggest costumes this year.
SPEAKER_01I agree. I think K-pop demon hunter is in that.
SPEAKER_00Yes, for sure. So it was a fun episode, and we have three more still to come.
SPEAKER_01I'm excited to watch it. One of my favorite moments um was when you guys were putting each other in timeout in the uh building the cabinet. Yeah, putting each other in timeout. That was funny. I liked that.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00That video, that was that was your pilot.
SPEAKER_01So you were like, Yeah, it was our test.
SPEAKER_00I mean, if you watch it and you're paying attention, you can tell like I have dark hair in the video, but blonde hair in the confessional.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Because it has been six months, six or five months.
SPEAKER_01You'll you'll continue to you know find your groove, but I thought it was great. Yeah. Speaking of watching things, I watched the first two episodes of Gilmore Girls. And it's nice to have on.
SPEAKER_00Sure. You need to pay attention. That's what you what you mean is it's nice to have on in the background. It's like having on a false scene.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00How do you like Dawson's Creek, but you don't like Gilmore?
SPEAKER_01I don't think I could watch Dawson's Creek now.
SPEAKER_00Oh.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think it would be like very slow and like cringy to me now. I used to watch it in high school and be very into it, but I think like it would be similar to me.
SPEAKER_03Okay, sure.
SPEAKER_01But I I mean I was paying attention. I was a little on my phone, but I was paying attention. I know the reason we have to go to Sunday dinner is because of her she needed help paying to get her into the school. Correct. Like I I got that. I never knew why they were always at having dinner.
SPEAKER_00So um yeah, but you need to watch long enough so that you can have an opinion on the boys that Rory dates. So that's it.
SPEAKER_01I remember some of them just from what I've seen. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Well, I guess the question is really, are you gonna continue, or do you think you're like married?
SPEAKER_01No, I think I I will, but I just like for some reason I couldn't just binge. Like I watched two episodes and then I watched two episodes, the first two episodes of Abbott Elementary. Because I've never seen that either.
SPEAKER_00Great show. Yeah. New season.
SPEAKER_01Same set, not really, but kind of.
Social Cutdowns And Promo Strategy
SPEAKER_00English teacher. I watched Did you watch that?
SPEAKER_01I watched like the first episode. Josh and I watched it, we never and we never went back to it. That's so funny. It was funny. Abbot Elementary is filmed right next to Star as Hello, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, correct. So a lot of the same like outdoor sets.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um I don't wish this upon you, but I do think Gilmore Girls, like the if as an adult, the best time to go into Gilmore Girls is like surviving a like week-long sickness. So it's like that kind of show to have on.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or going through heartbreak. So I don't want you either of those things to happen to you.
SPEAKER_01But you know, it's like I do not accept that.
SPEAKER_00Reject.
SPEAKER_01I reject that energy. I will say I'm confused that what is with the Luke. I feel like he's acting so annoyed by them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's his that's the whole shtick.
SPEAKER_01But I don't remember that later. And though because I what I've seen sporadically, I don't remember him being like that annoyed. And why does he care how much coffee she drinks?
SPEAKER_00It's because he cares about her, but he's like a hardened man, so he's gotta be like, Merr, you're so quirky and weird. But then he's like writing in his diary about her, you know.
SPEAKER_01I feel like I've probably seen the episodes I've seen probably have been in later seasons. So I didn't feel like he was that like mad. Right. Do you know why?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01Because again, I've never seen like in Well, your observation is correct.
SPEAKER_00Go ahead and answer. No. Are you sure? Well doesn't he have like limited availability?
SPEAKER_02Hello.
SPEAKER_00Love you.
SPEAKER_02Love you.
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm asking because like, do you want do you want spoilers?
SPEAKER_01Weird, because like I've seen I've seen episodes. I know I can picture the one boyfriend.
SPEAKER_00Well, because I'm like, No, you must not know because there's a reason his temperament changes a bit.
SPEAKER_01Don't they like get together? No, they never get together.
SPEAKER_00It's the will they won't they tension, sure, but anyway, no, you're right. And I have partied with that man in real life, by the way.
SPEAKER_01Oh. Is he straight?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. He is straight.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Was he nice? Yeah. What put you in that position?
SPEAKER_00Uh he is he lived across the street from Queen Herbie, and so at her birthday party, she was like, Come on over. So he like we hung out. It's random, but fun. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, don't tell me. Yeah. I will tell you. How many seasons are there?
SPEAKER_00Seven. But remember, this was back in the day.
SPEAKER_01They're 30-minute episodes, right?
SPEAKER_00No. They're they're 44 minutes, but this was back in the day when seasons actually meant 22 episodes.
SPEAKER_01Ah, that's right. That's stressful. Oh, I finished um Wednesday.
SPEAKER_00Wednesday.
SPEAKER_01Finally.
SPEAKER_00Love that.
Surviving The 17th Door In Drag
SPEAKER_01It was good. It was fine.
unknownHmm.
SPEAKER_01It wasn't wild. I feel like the first season was still better. Is that crazy to say?
SPEAKER_00Well, I got bored of the second season, so I didn't even finish it. So that would make sense.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you didn't?
SPEAKER_00No. How was Gaga?
SPEAKER_01She was it was so Was it brief? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_01She's in literally like one e a 10-minute scene, and that's it. One up, ten minutes.
SPEAKER_00They really made it seem like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, her song is in the last episode.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01Because there's a big dance scene.
SPEAKER_00Always. Yeah. Well, because wasn't it her song that like got a went kind of viral from the Wednesday dance?
SPEAKER_01From the first season?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yes. She used that song in a like TikTok or something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, sped up or something.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and that made it go viral. And then like the dance.
SPEAKER_00What was it?
SPEAKER_01Dance, dance, dance, and the tent.
SPEAKER_00Above my head. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's an older song. Right. Yeah. But it was it went viral because Gaga used it in a video or in a TikTok.
unknownGot it.
SPEAKER_01Then her that she made a song for Wednesday. Then Dead Dance. Dead Dance, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Well, I am shocked that it was only one scene because the way they announced it at like Comic-Con or something, they were like, Gaga! And then she comes out and does a whole performance, and they're like, She's gonna be in Wednesday. She's literally in 10 minutes. Alright, get your bag, girl.
SPEAKER_01Okay, what else? I'm going through my week. I actually like wrote down my week.
SPEAKER_00Nice.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I got I ordered extensions. Not um, okay, I'm scared of clippings.
SPEAKER_03For your teeth?
SPEAKER_01I'm scared of clip-ins because I don't think I'll be able to put them in in a nice and uniform way. So I got the halo.
SPEAKER_00I've seen the halo. I think it looks really good on girls. I was gonna give warning about clips, so I'm glad you're not doing it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I have I have known two people personally that lost so much hair because of clips. From the clips. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I just truly I think that I would never be able, I wouldn't put in the time to learn how to put them in and blend them well. Yeah, and I would give up so fast. I would never go back to them. So I knew that I couldn't do that. And then I got an ad because I think I searched. Well, I had ordered one on Amazon and it was so bad. I immediately a Halo?
SPEAKER_00Yes. Like the an off-brand one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, just like an Amazon. It was like the worst quality quality ever.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I returned that immediately. And then I think because I had Googled or whatever, I started getting ads.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01And I got an ad for this brand. I don't even remember what it was, but I got a wavy one. Okay. And then they gave me a straight one for free.
SPEAKER_00Because of your influencer.
SPEAKER_01So I get to no, it was just like a deal they were running.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01So we'll see.
SPEAKER_00Your color. Well, how much length?
SPEAKER_01I actually got it. Let's see. Or is it just like um because I don't actually think that my hair will grow.
SPEAKER_00Like but it obviously has.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but it's been so long. I don't think that it's gonna grow down here. And I don't know if I can wait for it to do that.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I love extensions. I'm a big fan. I would donate my hair to you.
SPEAKER_01And I don't really and I really don't know. I know that like actually getting extensions like installed is also really bad for your hair.
SPEAKER_00Correct.
SPEAKER_01The brand is that hair.
SPEAKER_00Girl, you got that hair.
SPEAKER_0118 inch.
SPEAKER_00Cute. So it it's like the clear band that sits like a you like put your hair half up like this, right? And you put it on, then you put your hair down.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Hmm. Halo extension.
SPEAKER_00I think that is what you do. Because you you don't want it to look like hold down your hair. You want it to be in the mix.
Production Grind And Scheduling Chaos
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean that you obviously like, yeah, have to hide it. Oh my god, I'm nervous. Why?
SPEAKER_00What if you're dancing at the club and like the stream breaks?
SPEAKER_01Um, I don't know. Then it's gonna suck.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. We'll see. But I really had a vision of having long hair. And I was like, the thing is, is I like the way that my face looks with a bob, a long bob. And I really like the stra like stick straight when it's but right now it's a little too long for me for that look. Yeah, and I was like, but my hair is like definitely not going to it's gonna, it would take a decade to grow my hair out to that length. Because it's been how long would you say it's been since my too shortcut?
SPEAKER_00Nine months.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's a long time. It's almost a year, and it's like not that much longer.
SPEAKER_00I mean, this took me two years with like two trends.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I don't know. I just feel like the older we get, the harder it is for your hair to grow. I.e. why like ladies eventually just cut their hair short.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_01So I was like, I'm excited. I want to see what I I don't actually know. Well I just ordered it like Monday.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01So we'll see.
SPEAKER_00But I'm excited for you.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. That was on my list to tell you.
SPEAKER_00I'm proud.
SPEAKER_01What was your what was the rest of your week like?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I've just been fully in production so much. This is our we're filming our last episode this week, and it is a juicy. And then how long will you be on a hiatus before you We probably won't start again until the new year because the rest of the year we'll be filming short form content for the channel.
SPEAKER_01Cute.
SPEAKER_00Which so much easier.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Tomorrow's gonna be a really long day. Tomorrow for us guys is Wednesday, and I will be at the office from roughly 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
SPEAKER_02What are you filming tomorrow? You can't tell it.
SPEAKER_00Um let me see.
SPEAKER_02Don't tell us.
SPEAKER_00Well, what we're filming comes out this Friday. That's how fast we have to turn this one around.
SPEAKER_01Wait, I thought you what happened to the Yeah, that's our season finale. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Because of how funny it turned out. Okay. They want to save it for the finale. Got it. So this one that we're filming, we're I can say because it's fine. We are gay and trying to be matchmakers. I remember I told you about this, right? We're trying to find love for Karina.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00And it has been. Anyway, after the episode comes out, I will give you guys the full tea, but tomorrow is gonna be incredibly stressful, let me just tell you that. So I am going to bed early tonight.
SPEAKER_01I'm very interested to hear that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um, I will say, straight men in LA, you all suck. Um my god, yeah. I've had terrible interactions with so many of you over the last two weeks that I want to have you been interviewed. Jump off a bridge. Oh, yeah. I'm fully on hinges, Karina.
Gilmore Girls, Abbott Elementary, And Wednesday
SPEAKER_01Uh oh, yeah, it's terrible. I can't believe that I actually found someone.
SPEAKER_00Because it was. I'm like, wow, it in many ways it is difficult to be gay. But in one way, if you want to be in a relationship, you can find a gay that wants to be in a relationship.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Straight men in LA, it's actually a nightmare. The thing I'll tell you some of the things that these men have said to me. Okay. And I'm not catfishing them. I tell them immediately.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Her account is verified. So like they're not nervous that it's catfish, but I don't even let it, I don't even play with it. I'm just like immediately at the Yeah. So I'm really, I feel really feel for my straight friends, straight female friends in LA, especially those that have had to go through so much to get to where they are, like Alison. Yeah. Or those that are still single, that honestly, I don't know if there's hope for you. I want to say that there is, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I think what it is here is that there's such a big pool of women that they do not care. They're like, if you aren't down to, you know, do whatever, on to the next. I can easily find someone. So like they just like do not care.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Part of the video is we interviewed, we shot the first half of the video yesterday. We uh brought in an actual matchmaker and we interviewed her and we got like the tea on, and she said, She's like the thing you'll realize with straight men, v straight women, is that straight men are rarely looking beyond the first photo and they're just swiping right on everything.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And if they're not, it's that just like they're not going that deep. But like women are more intentional.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, reading through the prompts, like reading through the lines on the prompts.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because I had said to her, like, there was at one point I was like overwhelmed with the amount of people that had liked her page, but I'm looking at them and it's like trying not to be an asshole would be like, in what world? Yeah. 56 year old.
SPEAKER_01Also just liking everyone, or are you?
SPEAKER_00No, I'm literally only doing like I'm doing so we have budgets, so they put money into this. So we were just doing boosts to like just get seen. Because it felt more predatory and weird if like I interacted with a guy. We considered all options, but it felt weird.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00If like I, even though I was going through being like, this guy checks all the boxes, still could come off like a little feeling a little like a gay guy was looking for, you know, rather than hey, you've reacted with this photo or this prompt of her. Here's what's happening. And I just like want to beat my head against a wall.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Really not a fan of straight men the last two weeks. No, like really not stoked.
SPEAKER_01I yeah, I could have I could have like.
SPEAKER_00There should be an app, and I believe this. There should be a dating app where women and gays and lesbians free, but straight men must pay.
SPEAKER_01And a lot.
SPEAKER_00Hinge is expensive as hell.
SPEAKER_01Yes, but when I for a while, like I don't know how many years ago, like eight, nine years ago, I think I paid for what's the one that used to be the serious one?
SPEAKER_00Bumble.
SPEAKER_01No, like think more old school, I guess.
SPEAKER_00Oh, like plenty of fish, match.com.
SPEAKER_01Match.com. Same thing. It's like these people are spending all this money and they were acting the exact same way. Because Matt, I think match was not cheap.
SPEAKER_00No, it wasn't. It wasn't.
SPEAKER_01It was just like older men that were acting the same way. Just can't believe it. Already been divorced, now they're just like out to like pro on the beyond the prowl again, but acting the exact same way. Right. Well, I'm interested for that too. All these things sound so fun.
SPEAKER_00It's been a lot of fun, and it does seem we're gonna get a season two green light for the new year. So nice. Which I hope comes with a little more resources because we are I am burnt out. I am so tired.
SPEAKER_01Having to edit yourself is like a whole Well, it just becomes this whole thing, too.
SPEAKER_00Like, imagine Dylan and I, plus our three producers, it's a team of five where we do all of the planning, all the logistics, all the storyboarding creative, contacting all of these people. Like it is part of the job because that's what they do at BuzzFeed. Creators are also producers. But there does come a point where like the ask is really high when the actual day job is also asking a lot of you, but you're still expected to like give this this, yeah. And not trying to complain, like I love doing it, but it is like at the end of four weeks of filming while also trying to have a normal life, it's just like, what?
SPEAKER_01Well, I do think that the more it grows, like you definitely Yeah, because my and I don't mind any of the pre-pro actually, it's it's the day of stuff.
SPEAKER_00Like tomorrow I have to be on camera in three different scenes, but I'm also coordinating the arrival of all these men and making sure that lunch is ordered on time. And like, yeah, it's like I have to go from that to be like Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, also because now you're putting Karina as talent, so then that's taking her producer role and reallocating it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So it is just a lot, but the last day is tomorrow. Actually, we have one little pickup shot on Monday, but other than that, and then we have our big promotional photo shoot on Monday, which that'll just be fun because there's nothing to do but show up and be on for photos.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I was gonna ask, did you take a did you do a photo shoot in your Brittany thing, like for you to post? I did, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Nice, yeah, and I did those TikTok, the trending sounds for Ghostbusters, and I think I showed you, didn't I?
SPEAKER_01You just showed me a picture, I think.
SPEAKER_00I didn't show you me slow-mo singing Hit Me Baby One More Time Through the Hallways.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yes, you did. You showed me that, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So there's a few assets going out, but um My neck just like Does she need a massage?
SPEAKER_01She does.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but anyway, it was it's been very rewarding and very exhausting in a lot of ways, but I think that it's leading to more opportunity and stuff.
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SPEAKER_01So the big news of the week is that the Louvre got robbed.
SPEAKER_00In broad daylight.
SPEAKER_01Isn't that crazy? But also kind of fun.
SPEAKER_00Fun, crazy, and also like if you were able to do it in broad daylight, you deserve to keep it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I saw someone say that.
SPEAKER_00What was stolen?
SPEAKER_01Okay. Don't worry. I will tell you though.
SPEAKER_00You go, okay.
SPEAKER_01I will tell you. Okay. So if you guys don't know, which I don't know how you wouldn't, but um crazy. This link is not the right link.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god, it's conspiracy.
SPEAKER_01If you don't know, on Monday morning, the Louvre was broken into at 9:30 a.m. So like they were just opening. Yeah. And a bunch of jewels were stolen. So after an estimated$100 million worth of jewels were stolen at the Louvre in Paris, the museum's director was summoned to appear before French lawmakers amid the ongoing investigation in Manhattan. So as of right now, they have not been caught. Although there are videos. So these people used a uh ladder that extends from a truck, got onto the second floor of the Louvre, smashed. So they were dressed like they were workers. Like they were like, you know, going off.
SPEAKER_00This is some Oceans 11 type heist.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But like also, this is the difference, is because Oceans 11, or like the Da Vinci Code or whatever, they would have National Treasure. National Treasure. They would have taken the window off in a way that still looked like they were workers. Like they would have they would have had power tools unscrewing it.
SPEAKER_00Some like laser beam thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, these people just smashed it open. Like obviously, it immediately set off alarms. Oh. And then, so yeah, sorry, they were dressed like they were workers. They get up on the second floor, they just smash the door, the window open, alarms start going off, they go into this room and they just smash these crates, um, or these like glass things.
SPEAKER_00Glass cases.
SPEAKER_01Glass cases. And I'll tell you what was stolen.
SPEAKER_00Wham bam, thank you, man.
SPEAKER_01But it's just like that's not. I'm sorry, you're not Nicolas Cage in this because Nick would never have done it that way. You can't just smash things open for one. Right. Okay, sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. Because like on one hand, it's very bold and they have gotten away with it as of right now, but they're definitely gonna get caught.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01And on the other hand, I'm like, you just smashed and grabbed and ran away. They tried to like set their truck on fire or something, it didn't really work.
SPEAKER_00So they got caught.
SPEAKER_01Not yet.
SPEAKER_00Incredible.
SPEAKER_01I know.
SPEAKER_00So I need a so bold to be like, imagine being the friends together, we're gonna rob the Louvre.
SPEAKER_01At 9 30 a.m. Now the Louvre is huge.
SPEAKER_00Is it?
SPEAKER_01So if people, I don't know like when it opened initially. Did it open at 9? Did it open at 9 30?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01If they opened at 9 30 and they smashed at the same time, the people who are just entering, there's no way they're gonna get to that second floor super quick unless they are like, I'm going to see this necklace and only, and I'm beelining it there. I can't imagine they would. So I don't know how many people were around.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01But let me get the list. Oh, did you know while I'm looking at this? Like there was a time where the Mona Lisa was like stolen for years.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'll have to look it up after this and tell you, but I found that out. Not a clue. I had no idea. In the four-minute heist, eight pieces of the Napoleonic era jewels were stolen, while an additional piece was dropped by the thieves as they escaped.
SPEAKER_00Whoa.
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SPEAKER_01Can I just get a list? Okay. The Imperial Crown of Princess Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, which features over 1,300 diamonds. And uh some emeralds. Then the Diadem of Empress Eugenie, which contains 212 pearls, 1,998 brilliant cut diamonds, and 992 rose cut diamonds. Empress Eugenie's diamond bow brooch, which has 2,438 diamonds. So was there MO to take these and then just take out all these diamonds and then resell them? Yes. Because like you can't resell, you can't be like, obviously, look at this diamond brooch I have. Like they're gonna be like, that's stolen from the lube.
SPEAKER_00What's the estimated value of all this?
SPEAKER_01Over 100 million, it said. Right? Isn't that what I said in the last one? 102 million.
SPEAKER_00That's wild. Yeah. 102 million.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And then Empress Eugenie's reliquary brooch. I don't know what that word means. So sorry. Uh the sapphire tiara necklace and earrings of worn by Queen Hortense, wife of Louis Bonaparte, and Queen Marie Amelie, wife of Louis Philip I. A tiara. A tiara? And Napoleon tire tiara and earrings. And then Napoleon the first emerald wedding gift to Marie Louise, Empress of France.
SPEAKER_00Marie Louise.
SPEAKER_01That was a has a bunch of green. Oh, 32 emeralds, 1,138 diamonds. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_01Crazy.
SPEAKER_00Actually wild.
SPEAKER_01And so the yeah, and when I heard people talking about this, then they talked about the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 by a former Louvre employee and was missing for over two years before it was recovered in 1913. The sensational theft made the painting a global sensation.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_01So was it not as cool? No, it was already in the Louvre.
SPEAKER_00It was stolen from the Louvre.
SPEAKER_01Yes. I honestly thought it was earlier than 1911. I would say this later. I did.
SPEAKER_00Mona Lisa's small, huh?
SPEAKER_01She's smaller than you think she is.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01She's not like tiny, but she's that smaller than that. Oh my god, yeah. She might be like the inner square.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Which I guess you can't see on camera.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01What would you say that is?
SPEAKER_0012 by No, it this is like the actual pictures.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I think it's 15 by 12.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Maybe more square than that, but pretty smaller than you think. Like I thought going into it, it is gonna be like Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Humongous? No. I didn't even make it. I mean, you can never on one visit to the Louvre, I don't think you can see everything. Like you cannot make it through the whole thing. It's like I think it someone said it would take a week or something to really see everything. We saw Napoleon's apartment, which I'm assuming is I probably saw these things and I didn't know it or I don't remember it. Which was actually one of my favorite parts. Like they re um Like get a replica of his house. Yes, they made a replica of his house. They called it the apartment. I don't know why. Maybe that's a French thing. I don't know. But it's like you cannot believe like the how ornate really just like a sitting room. You can't, it's like paintings on the ceiling. Everything is gold leaves and it's wild. I can show you pictures. We saw a lot of like the Roman and Greek statues that I don't know. I guess you would probably recognize maybe. Uh-huh. Hmm. Um, I loved the we saw Egyptian things, sarcophaguses, mummifications, mummifications. I read that was a very interesting to me. But yeah, I mean, we probably spent like three hours there and barely saw, like barely scratched service. But yeah, that's been the big news of the week. So we'll see if by next week anyone has been captured.
SPEAKER_00Ooh, yeah. Gotta keep an eye on that.
SPEAKER_01And then I got catfished by a headline that was that MTV was shutting down.
SPEAKER_00I saw that too.
SPEAKER_01And I was like, that's so sad. And then upon um looking into it, it was it's the UK MTV. So they just shut down the UK.
SPEAKER_00I saw that too. It was like a tombstone that said RIP MTV 85 to 25.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I was mad when I I mean I was relieved, I guess. But I was like, why did you try to catfish me like this?
SPEAKER_00Rage bait.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Everything is rage bait these days. And then the other big thing I want to talk about was Kevin Fetterline.
SPEAKER_00And that Brittany also like didn't like slap back, but she literally like, did you see her posting me like I have brain damage?
The $102M Louvre Jewel Heist
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I saw I saw that, and because I was looking at articles to pull up things that he said. And here's my thing. I'm not discounting, I'm not saying that everything he's saying is a lie. I'm not saying anything he's saying is a lie. I don't know. But what I do know is that if he really cared about her, he wouldn't be trying to make money off of her.
SPEAKER_00And is that his thing? Like, I'm doing this because I care about her.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. He wouldn't be writing a book and profiting off of it. He would be, I mean, it's not, she's not his problem anymore. His their kids are over 18. They're not married. So, like, what I know that you, his whole thing is like he doesn't want his sons to have to deal with their mom not being here anymore, if something here happened. And I hon yeah, he does, I'm sure he does care about like the well-being of his kids and the mental health of his kids, and if they were to have to deal with their mom being gone.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But writing a book and profiting off of it when the whole world knows that now you're not getting her money every month. I think it was he was getting like, what was the amount he was getting?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I have no idea.
SPEAKER_0140 grand a month?
SPEAKER_00Something big, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Which is what I can't do math.
SPEAKER_00What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01A year. Like what what would that be?
SPEAKER_00Four times twelve?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. 480,000.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01480. 480, yeah. 480,000. So 4 million. Wait. No, 480,000. That actually doesn't sound like as much as I felt like he was getting. Half a mil a year. I need to look this up. Kevin Federaline reveals how much money. Nope, that's not. That's a wrong headline.
SPEAKER_00Kevin Fiedelein.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, 40,000 a month.
SPEAKER_00Half a million a year for being married to Britney Spears for two years and three years and having two children with him. Not a bad deal.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But that money is supposed to be for the kids. It's not supposed to be for you.
SPEAKER_00It definitely doesn't go to the kids, or at least not all of it.
SPEAKER_01Like that's not the thing. Like I understand you get alimony or whatever for, but like the money was like, I'm pretty sure for the kids. Right?
SPEAKER_00I'm sure it was alimony plus child support. But yeah, it is a little like, I mean, I definitely as a child lived on less than 40k a month.
SPEAKER_01You don't say.
SPEAKER_00I did.
SPEAKER_01On less than 40K a year.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. I just am like, it's it's hard for to find him credible, obviously, because he it's very convenient that all of a sudden now that his both the sons are over 18 and now he's no longer receiving this money from her a month, that he's now releasing a tell all book when it's like it's not even about you. Like if you're not like telling a book about your life, and then Britney just happens to be a side character in your story. You're telling the world, like you're airing out her alleged dirty laundry for you to profit off of. And so that what that's what makes it not credible, and it makes you just look like a dick because you're profiting off of putting her down and saying terrible things about her. Like his main thing is that he claims that he saw her doing cocaine while she was breastfeeding one of their sons. Did you see that? No. Yeah, that's one of his um claims and like why he like he that's how how why he had to leave. It says, um Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are in an all-out war after the father of her two kids had unearthed sharp claims in his memoir You Thought You Knew out Tuesday, alleging his ex-wife was physically and verbally violent with their sons and even used cocaine while breastfeeding. Fetterline27 writes that he walked into a dressing room at his album release party in 2006 to find Brittany and a young starlit friend snorting a line of coke off the table. They didn't even try to hide it, he says. At the time, their son Preston, who was one year old and Jaden was one month old. He says he told said to her, please don't go home and breastfeed the kids like this. Call your mom or someone. We need to get formula. You can't do this. And that was a proverbial final straw, the breastfeeding thing. That's what ended us.
SPEAKER_00But did she go home and breastfeed or did she call for formula?
SPEAKER_01I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Right? That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's like he's claiming she did it. Maybe it was reckless. I don't think anyone's naive to the fact that Brittany probably did cocaine.
SPEAKER_00Sure.
SPEAKER_01I'm sorry, your faves are doing cocaine. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Guys, your faves are doing cocaine. Faves are doing cocaine.
SPEAKER_01They are. And it's not right or good, but like it just like is what it is. So no one's claiming or being like Brittany would never. Right. Like, I'm sure that she was. But yeah, you're where's the proof of this? But it's like a bad, it's a horrible claim. Sure, it is. If it's not true. And it's not good that she did it if she did. That's very bad. But like, did she actually go home and breastfeed?
SPEAKER_00Right. That's the part that's conveniently left out. Because to me, it's like, it's not the same as drinking wine, but pregnant women will drink wine and then not breastfeed a uh one round. I'm sure there's something to uh to the effect of she was like, eh, I'll just pump and dump. You know?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Not that it again, not that that's a main thing. But like to set it up like that and then leave it on the Yeah, it's very convenient information. And then we went home and she deliberately breastfed Preston.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's like Orchan.
SPEAKER_01Did you take a picture? Where's the timestamp?
SPEAKER_00Where's the You just said like that was the last straw? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And again, this is quotes, so like I don't know. I'm and I'm not gonna pay or read this book, so I guess I have to rely on someone else to tell me that. But also, like, do we believe that he was like so eloquent in his words? Saying For sure not. Wait, what did he say? Please don't go home and breastfeed the kids like this.
SPEAKER_00No, he was like, I don't know, Kevin, but I'm on.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, I don't know. He's just like a rat.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because if you really and Brittany even said that in one of her, like, she's been ranting about him. And she's like, if you love someone, like you wouldn't be profiting off of it. And I'm also not like, I don't think she's okay. Like, I don't think she's mentally okay. Do I think that she needed to be like deserved to be in the conservatorship in the way that she was with all of her rights stripped of her? No. But do I think she probably needs some extra like mental health? Yes. But because of that, but that doesn't mean that she was a bad mom when like she was taken care of.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01The sons. And it's like people like to use that they the kids don't really hang around her, they don't spend a lot of time with her.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But I don't think people are discounting that Kevin could have had a lot of like help in that with shaping how they look at her.
SPEAKER_03For sure.
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SPEAKER_01For all of these years, that he could have been saying a rhetoric in their mind that makes them feel like she's not a good mom, that she's unfit, that she's unwell, that she like, I don't know, they could have, they I feel like he could have been feeding them things like that to make them feel a certain way. And on top of it, her being in the conservatorship, being drugged up on all these medications that they were making her be on. I'm sure that she wasn't being the greatest mom. I don't know that she was capable of it in the conservatorship or whatever. So it's a lot going on, and it's a lot like we're all speculating, which obviously gets us nowhere because it nothing we know is true or not true.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01So I don't know. I just think that he's a rat for like trying to profit away. Yeah, I don't love that. I just like calling him a rat. Yeah. All right. Are you ready for A-list of the week? Ow! Gelato. I had a great gelato the other night.
SPEAKER_00Didn't we talk about it?
SPEAKER_01I don't think so. When we went from talking about have I already said gelato as a A-list of the week?
SPEAKER_00What did you say was last week?
SPEAKER_01Oh, I have no idea.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, I had a really great lemon ricotta.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_00Is that gelato?
SPEAKER_01No, that was a pancake.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so last week was a pancake. This week it's gelato.
SPEAKER_01It's gelato.
SPEAKER_00Josh and I were Let me guess your flavor, but tell me what the story, but don't say the flavor yet.
SPEAKER_01There's there's no story. We just were we went to get some shoes for him.
SPEAKER_03Fun.
SPEAKER_01And then we picked up dinner, and I was like, there's this gelato place in Tarzana that's really cute. And we were like, hey, let's just like stop on the way and then we'll like take it home, put it in the freezer, and then have our dinner and whatever. And it was a gorgeous place.
SPEAKER_00Was it delicious gelato? It was okay. You go to Salt and Straw and get a lavender caramel combo. But at a gelato place, do you go the citrus route or do you go the race?
SPEAKER_01That's always honestly, it's always the dilemma. It's the dilemma. Because I like both.
SPEAKER_00I feel like at this gelato place you got some sort of chocolate. And Josh got something strawberry.
SPEAKER_01No, he hates strawberry.
SPEAKER_02God.
SPEAKER_00Josh got, I don't know, caramel crunch.
SPEAKER_01We both kind of got a different form of like a cookie butter situation. Mine was like a cookie crumble cheesecake vibe, and he got like a more straightforward like cookie butter thing. Okay. And then I had like one scoop of that, and I forget what the other scoop was, but it was really good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It was, I really wanted the lemon cello, but I was like, I always get like the fruitier flavor.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, it was delicious. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Tarzana, you should go. Okay. Oh, you don't live over here. Or over there. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Gilato Tarzana.
SPEAKER_01It's on the corner of some street.
unknownPerfect.
SPEAKER_00Keep an eye out. My list of the week is another shameless self-promotion. Gay and trying. Go and watch.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00This week's episode that you can see is. I actually don't know what the title is because we have a whole team that A B tests all the titles to see what's best.
SPEAKER_01I've been loving doing that.
SPEAKER_00I'm thinking. Are you? I think it's going to be something like can two gay besties survive the scariest haunt in SoCal?
SPEAKER_01Okay. I don't think you need the SoCal.
SPEAKER_00Because it's not the it claims to be the scariest haunt in SoCal.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00We'll see what A B testing tells us. But anyway, go check it out. Okay, and trying.
SPEAKER_01Go check it out. We only have two birthdays.
SPEAKER_00Okay. And the day is?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. The 27th?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Kelly Osborne is 41. And literally they she was the only living person that we cared about.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god, okay.
SPEAKER_01Theodore Roosevelt. I was just gonna leave it, Kelly, and I was like, you know what?
SPEAKER_00TDR.
SPEAKER_01TDR.
SPEAKER_00Kelly turned how old?
SPEAKER_0141.
SPEAKER_0041, okay. Happy birthday. And TDR would have been what? Oh, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I stopped doing that a while ago.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It would just be his birthday.
SPEAKER_00Happy birthday. Happy birthday.
SPEAKER_01And Teddy.
SPEAKER_00And Teddy.
SPEAKER_01All right, take us home.
SPEAKER_00Alright. Well, that concludes our episode of Gang. Gain trine. Um, be sure to tune in next week when we discuss well, it's a next just tune in next week because it's next week's Halloween week and something spooky's gonna happen. You'll see.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Sure. We're not dressing up.
SPEAKER_00We're not.
SPEAKER_01Well, this would be it.
SPEAKER_00No. Next week would be it.
SPEAKER_01Oh, alright.
SPEAKER_0027th?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01This would be it.
SPEAKER_00This would be it.
SPEAKER_01I'm wearing an orange sweater.
SPEAKER_00And a purple microphone.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's very Halloween-y.
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SPEAKER_00I'm not dressed up. This is the Halloween episode. I didn't have it in me.
SPEAKER_01I thought about it, but like I just didn't have it in me.
SPEAKER_00I do have a costume upstairs I could have worn. Oh, but it's a little inappropriate.
SPEAKER_01That's just for me.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_01All right, love you.
SPEAKER_00Have a good night. Bye. Bye bye.