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Punk'd

April 01, 2026 • Aidan & Noah

0:00 | 1:05:22

Is this not appropriate for April Fools?

We break down why and how Punk'd was allowed to thrive and cover episodes including but not limited to the episodes featuring Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Brandy and Miley Cyrus.

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SPEAKER_00 0:07

Welcome back, No Takers. We are here once again on April Fool's Day. Getting to you with a little throwback moment, getting into the punt of it all. And usually I would have prepared something for you, Noah, maybe had some cops accost you on your way back from your day job, but I couldn't arrange that in time.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

Oh well, you know what? I'm I'm glad you couldn't because that that sounds like a very stressful way to end my day. That's not how that's not the kind of energy I want to come into this with.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

And I feel like you're the type you might pop one of these fake ass cops in the mouth. Oh Lord, and get some real charges. Nope. I mean, if they're not a real cop, if if you weren't in on the bit, I know I feel like you'd be asking for a badge number, you'd be making calls. Like I know I know the sheriff.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

I know the I mean, you know, I do know the sheriff, but um that's neither here nor there. What what you said? The the the sheriff lives next door.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

All right, Natalie, all right, Natalie. But if you could not tell by the description, by the title, this week we are getting into the 2000s phenomenon that aired on MTV Punked, starring and hosted by Ashton Kutcher, but featuring a myriad of celebrities of the times, pretty much like whoever was famous whenever their season came out, and even people who are global superstars today, such as Beyonce, and to a lesser extent, that man who ruined Janet Jackson's career. What's his name? Definitely horrible for the tour. But yeah, no, a prank show, April Fool's Day on a release day. It felt like a natural fit. And we love a throwback moment, so it's gonna be a little bit of a time capsule similar to you know the multiple America's next top doc next top documentaries, next top model documentaries that we recently have been accosted with. And you know what? There might be a third. I wouldn't be mad at a third. Let's do it, let's do it. It can go straight to Zeus, I don't know. Now, I I would be intrigued by a Zeus documentary, but that's neither here nor there. Let's see it.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Well, yeah, and just in general, I think this is a fun little April Fool's episode. I mean, honestly, we could we were like, we were thinking about, we were like, oh, this episode's gonna come out on April Fools. Like, what can we be on theme? Is there something we can do with them? And eventually, like after spitballing some ideas around, we came up with we were like, oh, punked. Like, that works.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Period.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

The damn prank show.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

We love a little seasonal moment. We love a little seasonal moment. You know, what was your relationship with punked like? Like, were you a super stan? Was it more like you understood its place in the culture? Where was that? Was it on in your house?

SPEAKER_02 2:44

So, I mean, it was on occasionally. I feel like I was never necessarily a big fan of Punked. I wasn't like seeking it out or like really actively trying to watch it, but sometimes it would just come on, you know, like it would come on after something else. Um it would be on the house. So I I had like, I have like some vague memories of Punked of certain like specific punked episodes or celebrity moments or whatever. Um, but I was never like a huge fan or anything like that.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

No, it was the same for me. Like, it wasn't really anything that I even saw my siblings watching, particularly. It was definitely always, you know, okay, punked. I understood its place in the culture. I knew it was a prank show. Ask and culture celebrities, but I knew it more from like being featured on other things or seeing gifts over the years, like Brandy's infamous one, rather than, you know, necessarily watching all of these things live. But I understood it as an entity. Like it was, you know, it was a verb, it was part of the zeitgeist. So shout out to Punk for that. Even though it's like most things then aged terribly.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

Right. You know, fun, fun fact, um, uh, there was a point where I had not seen the brandy episode, but I had seen like the I knew like the setup. I saw like the thing of the cops and everything, and I saw the chip of her running. I thought she ran from the cops. Before watching the opposite, like uh like this, I mean I found out the the actual tea like years ago. Um, because it was not my first time seeing her episode, but like for the longest time, I just like assumed that she tried to run from the cops during the prank.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Now you don't know Brandy and her brand at all. That was that would be not good looking looking good for her. She was very image conscious. Right. Well she was taking off. She was zoomed in, she was zoomed in. Once she saw those cameras.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

Um, y'all got me.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

What?

SPEAKER_02 4:37

But yeah, with that, let's get into like overall like the lasting legacy of the show. I what I find interesting about this show is that in a lot of ways, it really did um kind of predate a lot of like what we see on social media now with like the prank content, the rage baiting content, the fucking around and finding out content. You know, I mean, I mean, yeah. If you go on literally any social media platform, whether it's X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Shorts, like wherever you go, you're gonna see this kind of type of content of people, not necessarily on the professional television show level. Um, for some of the bigger channels and creator content creators, yeah. But I mean, you will find pages and content creators where they're all of their content is centered around pranking people. Not so much celebrities, but just random people just trying to get about their life, but still.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

And people hate it and they've, you know, they're very tired of it. I think we as a society are kind of tired of it, but it lives on because it you know gets the engagement and you know, these algorithms are evil. They literally they they proved it in a court case, but yeah. Well, and I think probably being served to you on a TikTok for you page.

SPEAKER_02 5:44

Right. Well, and I think that people have just a different reaction to like watching celebrities get pranked versus like regular everyday people that are just trying to go to work. Um except for Lindsay Longham, she was trying to go to work, and she'll tell you that when they did her punk episode. For once, for once, yeah, Jane Fond. That thing was this about some smoke for her on that set. Um It might have been, it might have been. She was like Jane Fond, waited. She was like, Jane Fond ain't gonna believe this excuse. Um but um who?

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Ask and who?

SPEAKER_02 6:23

Yeah, I feel like to a certain degree, like when people see like celebrities getting pranked like this, it's more of like a like, oh ha ha, fuck celebrities, fuck rich people.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Right. Especially back then where celebrities had a bit of a more veneer, they were less accessible than they were now. Yeah. It was kind of like a bit of like a humbling experience, you know, for them. And the viewers got to kind of like, you know, because it's like punching up essentially, so it doesn't feel as bad. You know, the viewers got to judge them. It's like, oh, how was Justin Timberlake going to react to this?

unknown 6:51

Right.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

You know, you're gonna have a little bit of a moral high ground.

SPEAKER_02 6:54

Right. Well, and I think that um, and I also I'm glad you brought that up because I did have this in my notes that, you know, in a lot of ways, because this show started in 2003, I believe, is when it premiered. Um, and this was still at a time where celebrities were not quite as accessible as they are now. Um, because like in this age that we're in now with like social media and reality TV being a big thing and just like kind of all the all of it all. Um nowadays that's kind of like the big thing. It's like, oh, there's no mystique to celebrities anymore. We know everything about them. They're all over the place. You know, we're constant, they're constantly in our feeds, you know, they're sharing so much of their lives with us. You know, this was back when that still was not quite the case. You know, you um social media wasn't really what I mean. I think MySpace might have already existed at this time, but you know, aside from that, like social media wasn't really. Yeah. And celebrities, ultimately, the only way you would really like see them is by seeing their projects, what they were working on, uh, watching them in like television interviews, watching them at award shows, red carpets, uh, picking up magazines. So I think that that was probably a big part of what made the show successful in the first place was the fact that, like, oh, we get to see like just footage of just celebrities outside of their element.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

You know, it's the prank concept, the slice-alive concept of the celebrities. And also, you know, if they align out right with MTV, it could work to promote a project. Like, you know, your punk episode comes out, your movie comes out two weeks later, you back in the public eye, it's driving a little bit more demand, you know. Especially because it rings a gamut of celebrities. You had people who were kind of on the rise now. Obviously, Beyonce isn't the star, I mean, wasn't the star. She is now then, but yeah, she was on the rise, and you see people who you probably haven't seen in years who are maybe out of Hollywood, like Eliza Dusku. So it really was all over the place. And that wasn't Shade. She left Hollywood because she wanted to.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

Yeah. Well, and um, and like honestly, I was surprised, even just in the first episode alone, like how many kind of like big stars they got, um, like who they were able to get on the show. I mean, Justin Timberlake, Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards, Christina Aguilera, Ray Leota, like all of these like celebrities who are famous for it, like some of them are like a you know, kind of like esteemed actors, some of them are kind of like tabloid fodder, some of them are pop stars. You know, just like all these stars they had just in the very beginning, it's kind of crazy to me.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

Right. Because you have to understand these stars have to sign the release just to get on the show. So obviously they're filming, but for it to make MTV, they have to kind of, you know, play along, sign the release and be a part of it. So it's great that all of those celebrities, whether they were, you know, on the red carpet, had a little bit cameo, or just, you know, had a full-on episode or moment, you know, appreciated it, appreciated their little 15 minutes. But I'm sure a lot of the most publicity MTV play, oh, do this or do cribs and you'll play your music video. Even though already by 2003, I'm sure MTV was weaning from the music video. Because I feel like people of our generation, we associate MTV with a messy TV more so than music videos.

SPEAKER_02 9:59

Yeah, no, MTV was kind of already way past its original roots by this point. And I think this sh I think like shows like this, I mean, it's just of the time. And like you mentioned, like maybe not all of us necessarily aged well, but I think in a lot of ways, people would prefer this over, you know, the the content that we get now that we already mentioned.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

I mean, that's true, but it's also so easy to make that, and so that please aren't surprised anymore. Yeah. But I don't know if people care about like regular dagular print shows. I mean, I'm sure they still try to produce that, but yeah. I don't know if punk another punk can happen. I think it was just kind of a moment in time.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Well, I feel like part of it is in a lot of ways, yeah. I mean, you you know, you you see the think pieces about it, but like, you know, people kind of talk about how celebrity is kind of dying to a certain like a lot of people just nowadays really don't fucking care about celebrities as much as they used to.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

There's so much entertainment, niches, Patreons, smaller content creators. It's yeah, the attention economy is insane. So it's not just like, you know, three people. Not that it was ever three, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

I I mean, as as you know, I would be more excited to to see Alonda Parker out in the wild than than some movie star or pop star. I I want to see my favorite YouTube reactor. Right.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

I don't know, I still I appreciate some big celebrities, but yeah. Yeah. It's like, but that's just New York. Yeah. I be seeing a lot of times I see celebrities I'm like, is that sell and sell? I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

It's so hard recognizing people in person for real. Right. Well, I mean, you just see Andrew Cohen out and about. Um, you I think I've seen that man multiple times. Well, that's it. And I mean like uh That man was enjoying his coffee being unbothered. Right. Well, and I mean like I've never seen a celebrity in person. I've seen like, I've seen a few now, um, particularly in Wiiho. Um I've seen a few like, you know, Instagays, content creators and stuff like that. Um that I recognize as like, oh, I've seen you on my Instagram feed. Um the wildest one I saw was Johnny McGovern. Um I don't know if you know him. He hope he hosts um I don't know who that is. He hosts an internet talk show called Hay Queen, where he mainly interviews like queer, famous people, drag race girls, stuff like that. But I remember seeing him in Weeha. I remember like I, because I didn't realize it was him at first. I like looked and um I like was looking at him and he kind of smiled at me and I smiled at him. I was like, oh, okay. Um and then like I it took me a moment and I turned to the person next to me. You, you, you know, you know him, the Boba man. Um I turned to the person next to me, and I was like, was that Johnny McGovern?

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Did he know who that was? Yeah, yeah, he did. Okay, okay. His old ass knew. I need to uh brush up. Okay, anyway. Was that messy?

SPEAKER_02 13:00

Now we've been punked. Now we've been punked. Uh, ooh. You know, and nowadays I feel like if you walk if you walked up to somebody talking about you've been punked, first of all, nobody would even recognize Ashton Kutcher, because who cares about him? But I feel like if you walked to somebody talking about you've been punked, they might be like ready to punk you back. They might get in your face.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Who punked me at the reunion?

SPEAKER_02 13:18

Let's say Angel, this ain't angel. I get you in chat. I get you in chat. Um, but yeah, what are like overall for I know we had kind of already talked about like what our experience was of the show and stuff and whether or not we were fans or watched it, but like overall, especially now that we've revisited it to like talk about this episode and kind of to cover this. Like, what are your general thoughts of the show? Like, do you like it? Are you like whatever?

SPEAKER_00 13:46

I think it's interesting for what it was. Like it's cute enough to watch. The show was quickly paced in production. I don't necessarily love prank shows, they're kind of annoying to me in a contest.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

I feel like there's you know other ways to go about it. I'm more of a I love a sketch. Yeah. I know everyone's kind of in on it, but and I feel like for the time of where Celebrity was, it was kind of a nice highlight to get to see some celebrities in a different light. Especially like Beyonce, who doesn't do shit anymore. I know. They really had her doing this. It's a very interesting time cap, so I'll give it that. Yeah. And it's also interesting to see how everyone's star has kind of evolved or faded over time. I think it's interesting in that regard. That was a big lens I used when we were watching, you know, for this episode. I'm just like, oh yeah, so and so, Alicia Silverstone. Like, you know. Some people were definitely on the red carpet then who may not be now. Right. Yeah, can rock jump scare. Or Dak Shepard literally just being one of Dak Shepherd being one of the background actors, playing fake FBI agents or whatever. Now he's, you know, has a more legitimate career. It's like, oh yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

I know. In the very first episode when they had Dak Shepherd in on the plot against Frankie, I was I I literally was almost like Dak Shepard.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Right? But he wasn't famous then, so I guess he was just bit apart. Nobody could recognize him, right?

SPEAKER_02 15:06

But somebody did. And now he's famous and has a podcast where he shares too much information, and people regularly tell him and his wife they're sharing too much information. Well, yeah. They are they are always getting brought up. Right. Talking about that, talking about how often they bathe or don't bathe. I don't know. It's always something weird.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

Um I don't ever see the content. I just see that I'm getting dragged about it. Yeah. It's fine by me.

unknown 15:35

Yeah, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

What I know for him is from parenthood.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

Well, I am I'm kind of with you. This isn't really like this isn't really my type of show. I'm not really into like the prank stuff. I'm not really into like impractical jokers or this or that. I don't I don't watch like really prank content on social media, mostly because the prank content on social media is crazy. It's like going and punching someone in the face and being like, oh, it's a prank. Um just crazy shit like that.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

Um they do too much.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

Yeah, but I I do enjoy like, like you mentioned, like kind of like the time capsule of it. I enjoyed like revisiting the episodes and being like, oh, like seeing like just certain things that were so of the time and like having little memories and stuff, especially of like because like you see these celebrities too, especially at this time, when you see like Christina Aguilera and you like kind of see the way she dressed and stuff, you're like, oh, this was like during the dirty era and everything. And like it kind of brings back memories. So I I thought that was fun. That was an enjoyable part of it. It definitely gives you some good nostalgia hits.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

Right? Well, before we did our little rewatch, did you remember any episodes? Were there any that stood out to you? Like immediately, which one did you want to get into?

SPEAKER_02 16:50

So I rem the the main things that I remembered is I remembered like the brandy prank. And because I mean that's just like that's been that's become the me, the meme itself has become bigger than this show ever was, I feel like. Um the memes that it generated. It never was. And I also did like vaguely remember the Beyoncé one. Just I I vaguely remembered You ruined our Christmas. Uh that was so dramatic. That was so dramatic. And I think that yeah, like just stuff, like those, those were the ones that like really stood out the most to me that really like stayed in my brain for all these years. Um, most of the other ones that we like kind of like revisited, because like we didn't watch every episode of Punk, you know, there's a lot of episodes. We just kind of like picked a few, like a handful to like revisit. But most of what we revisited, like, I didn't really remember. So it was like watching it for the first time again.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

No, I was definitely in the same boat, did not recall a lot. Yeah. Honestly, even the Brandy and Beyonce things, I kind of remember through like internet culture and Tumblr, not necessarily watching it live. I definitely seen the show at some point. I just I think that was committed to memory, honestly. Yeah. I don't know, maybe Jessica Simpson or something. Was she ever on there? Oh, I'm sure I'm sure she was. I'm sure she was. I feel like TV Darling at that point.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

I feel like damn near every celebrity that was even remotely relevant during the time the show was airing was on it.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

But um, yeah, with the actual episodes that we revisited, we kind of picked a handful and we just really wanted to kind of go into our highlight episodes, moments, stuff that we thought was funny. Um, let's start with just going back to the very beginning, honestly. Let's go to the very first episode of the series premiere. Um, like I said earlier, we got a lot of people covered. We got a Frankie Muniz prank. We got a red carpet prank with a bunch of celebrities, we got a Justin Timberlake prank. Um, the Frankie Muniz prank was kind of just funny to me because I'm like, why are y'all harassing this child?

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Play Lee and Mola.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

Talk about I didn't have a car when I was his age. Well, were you working every day? Right. Were you doing the big fat liar?

SPEAKER_02 19:05

That's saying, were you were you leading a sitcom?

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Were you Malcolm in the middle?

SPEAKER_00 19:12

Ashton definitely was not. I don't even know. What did Ashton get famous for? Dude, where's my car?

SPEAKER_02 19:18

Is that how we hopped on the scene? I think Ashton's first like big break was that 70s show, I want to say. Which I think makes sense. Because I do get that, like I understand that Ashton Kutcher like had his moment as a leading man in like a lot of big movies and blockbusters and stuff. But um, I don't really remember any of those because like I feel like he he was not in movies that I would want to watch anyway. Um, so I mainly remember him from Yeah, I can't name one. Yeah, I remember him from this show and from that 70s show, and that's about it. Um, but yeah, the Frankie Muniz Porsche prank, where they like pretended like his car was stolen and they had Dak Shepherd on the phone with him talking about like, well, maybe I'm gonna sell the car for $100,000 and something's gonna happen. I was like, that is so. I know, and Frank Frankie was just like freaking out because he this was his like damn expensive ass car. But poor kid. The setup was so weird. They like went to dinner with Frankie Muniz and like had the valet like pretend to like let his car get stolen. And then just had him come out. I didn't I skipped over the Frankie ones. I I am learning for the first time with you. Oh yeah, no. They basically like he dropped his car off with the valet, they went and had dinner, and then and and the funny thing is because I think he was having dinner with Ashton. So like Ashton like didn't wait until the very end to come out and say, You've been punked. Um, and then they came out and the valet was like, Oh, pissed me off. Somebody else got the car. Um, what do you mean what do you mean somebody else took my car?

SPEAKER_00 20:52

I'd be pissed because I'm all full. I'm ready to go nap and go home. And now you got to go.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

Yeah, it was it was funny, but personally, and the thing is, is I know like the big moment of the episode was the Justin Timberlake prank. But personally, my favorite moment was the red carpet prank where they had this little kid just rage baiting these celebrities on the red carpet. That was my favorite moment. That was funny.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Yeah, he was like, Because why did he have to gag Denise Richards like that? Talk about are you glad you got to play somebody smart? Like, and she did not know what to say. She was looking stuck like she looked she was on Beverly Hills. That's not fair. That's not true. Just confused. And he followed up with, oh, did you see the new Bond with Holly Berry? They say she's the best Bond girl. She was like, oh, her little publicist or whatever says, like, you know what, we're done talking.

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Yeah, like we're like, uh-uh, get him out of here. Um I thought I my favorite was there were a few celebrities that he like like intentionally mistook them for other celebrities. Um and was like, oh, like, how did you feel about doing this role? Or like, oh, this project, and they were like, Like Tori Amos and Tori spelling. They're like, oh my god. Oh my god. She was when when when she she was trying to be so nice to that kid, too, being like, oh honey, no, you don't be confused with someone else.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

And then he did it with Christina Applegate, even though he saw Christina Aguilera earlier. Yeah. He's like, Oh, I love your songs. And she was cackling, like, I'm glad you think I'm 20.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

So I would take that.

unknown 22:24

Right.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

Christina Applegate, she's always been a down ass bitch, honestly.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Right? No, she seems swallowed.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Yeah. Well, that that was the beauty, I think, of having this child rage bait these celebrities is that you really can't get that mad at it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Oh, yeah, no, they um even they didn't know what it was, because I'm sure some of them were like, what the hell is going on here? But they had to know it was some kind of bit or something. Right. Or maybe some, I don't know. Disney, A, B, C, get a little project. But a lot of them were kind of being, you know, trying to be nice. Mostly the women. I don't know. Some of the men were just like, whatever. But some of them, you know, they were nice. They were cool.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

Right. Well, and then the main event of the episode, obviously, Justin Timberlay having his shit seized by the feds.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Just the setup of that, like, oh, the IRS is after you. Because it's believable, because he probably doesn't do that himself. He's not on terrible tactics like the rest of us, looking for his W-2s, you know.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Exactly. Well, no, 100%. I think that when like when you are at that level of like wealth and stuff, like you have people handling all your finances, all your tax stuff and everything. And you see stories of like rich people getting into trouble because some, yeah, somebody fucked up something along the way.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

It's terrible. But no, they pretty much had them, they had all his cars on freaking, I don't know what to call them. I'm too gay to know. A little lifts and whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Like they were going to tow his shit.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

Yeah, they were so they took his dogs. The dogs. Yo, people so just try over them damn dogs. Seizing the dogs is crazy. Is that even allowed?

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Like he's that should have been the give up. I don't think, yeah, I don't think I like I understand. Because like definitely they can go in and take like any like physical property of yours, but I don't think they can like I don't think they can snatch up your pets.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

Right? Also, like can you resell? Like the resale value isn't bad. Like, I see why they're gonna take your car, but Fido isn't gonna what they gonna get for Fido? $200 and some dog food?

SPEAKER_02 24:26

Like, I don't know. I mean, I don't know. If you say like, oh, this dog belonged to Justin Timberlake, you might be able to get some coins.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

That's true.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

Or if it's a fringe bulldog. IRS might take fringe bulldog.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

They might take frengies.

SPEAKER_02 24:40

Uh but and I I loved when they were setting it up when they were like talking about the fact that Justin's mom was in on it. They're like, if you're all if your own mom wants to get you, you know you deserve it. It's like, what does that mean? What does that mean, Ask Jim? Well, maybe she wanted to knock him down a bit.

unknown 24:57

Right?

SPEAKER_02 24:57

One thing it just was giving me like war flashbacks to Marlowe. If someone's own mother done wanted to do with them.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

That's dirty. That's dirty. What said me about that was when they threw Jermaine Dupree under the bus. They were just randomly like, oh yeah, we did it to Jermaine Dupree last week. I said that why is he in it? I would have been I would have called up MTV like, hello? Why is he getting name dropped? Why am I in it? Well, especially why am I getting name? I mean, he probably doesn't pay his taxes.

SPEAKER_02 25:26

I mean I'm thinking, why am I getting name dropped in the way to taxes?

SPEAKER_00 25:29

What's the last thing? Right? Because what's the last thing you heard of Jermaine Dupree? Even in 2003. The rap game.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

The rap game. We should cover the rap game. We can. We can.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

No, you don't like when I do ethnic shows. Oh. You won't cut that out.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

Okay. Let's see if that makes the final cut. Riverside, don't clip that.

unknown 26:01

No.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

It's gonna be like 99. That's messy. That's very messy. Uh speaking of messy, I I was cackling at the fact that Lindsay Lohan was on this. Right?

SPEAKER_00 26:18

The same episode as Biog said and Goldberg from the WWE. Well, I know you don't know, but I was guided by that whole lineup.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

I know. It was funny. And honestly, like Lindsay was I feel like Lindsay was like a really good uh, she was a really good get for the show. Because I feel like 2003, this is like when she was like at her biggest. Like she was like, that was like during her big moment, you know, in the spotlight.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

Right. And she could have been wild there. I think like if she had been crazier, she probably wouldn't have signed the release, but who knows?

SPEAKER_02 26:50

One thing I did notice though with Lindsay is that once the once the driver, and in case you guys don't know the uh setup for the prank, basically Lindsay and her assistant are getting into the car with this driver that's supposed to be taking them. I think it's to set or something, like some kind of like something having to do with work. Um and basically, like part way through the drive there, he's just like, he's like, oh my god, my wife is in labor. I gotta pull over and go to the store, whatever. And he goes in and then they get out, and they they have this whole setup about like the car got stolen and this driver's freaking out and everything. But anyway, this driver starts kind of going off on Lindsay and getting a little bit aggressive with her, being like, What are you gonna do for me? What are you gonna do for me? As she's trying to apologize for the situation. And I noticed, because the entire uh prank, Lindsay had her hair down and they cut away from Lindsay. They cut back to her, her hair is pulled back, and a ponytail is like, was she about she getting ready?

SPEAKER_03 27:45

Was she active?

SPEAKER_00 27:47

She wanted to get active. You know what they say about people from Long Island? They get down. That's what I heard. That's what I heard. You be you be the one to show me.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Oh I can. I can. We're not here for that. But um, yeah, that was one thing I noticed. I was like, oh, Lindsay was getting ready just in case it honestly, I wonder if Lindsay would have hit somebody. She might have. She might, I mean, if she hits people with her car, why not her fist?

SPEAKER_00 28:17

You know what? Not necessary. But I'm sure she enjoyed the fact that she got to avoid going to work, knowing her. Especially then. Especially then. Right. She finally had an excuse to a valid excuse for not showing up on set. Well, I'm sure they didn't believe her until the episode aired, and by the time the project probably wrapped.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

So well the the Beyonce segment. I mean, I think probably one of the more iconic moments from the show, like similar to the brandy one.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

I love, I mean, people have always compiled these clips back when Beyonce would do regular celebrity press moments, like the Tyra Bakes show. Yeah, you know, this. Yeah. Which she would not be caught dead doing now because she does not need to do it. Or pay her due. Well, right. And it's kind of funny. You could see the polished star that she is. Yeah. That she is a became even that. Very poised.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

I know. I I put in my notes that, like, when they were kind of doing the whole shindig, at one point, when she was singing Silent Night, like someone just hands her the little baby Jesus in the cloth, and without missing a beat, she takes the baby and holds it. Like, she literally, like, she didn't even look, she didn't even look at who's handing it to her. She just takes it and continues on with the song.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

And she's holding the baby and sort of sort of. They would just demand in, they're like, Beyonce, sing for us.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

I know that's yeah, no. And it's kind of funny because I see people talk about like because Beyonce, like, in kind of everything she does now, when she does put out something or content or whatever, it's very serious. Um, but people talk about like they're like Beyonce, like, she has a personality and she's funny as hell. Just look at all these old, like, all this old content she used to do.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

Right. No, she definitely had like a sillier side, and definitely she obviously signed off on it. So she didn't come across too bad. Obviously, I think they definitely gave her a more sympathetic one because ruining Christmas is a lot. So the premise is that Beyonce is supposed to be putting a star up on the tree.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

And she puts a star up, the tree falls, collapses on people, the presents, the kids are all upset. Yeah. I think the kids are supposed to be like disadvantaged in some way.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

So very kind of advanced.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Because they made sure to slide in all kinds of things to make Beyonce feel as bad, like before the big moment happened to make Beyonce feel as bad as possible. Because the lady that was there, like that was supposed to be like the organizer or whatever, she was sliding a little thing. She like pulled Beyonce's head and she's like, you know, just so you know, these kids have not had gifts in several years. Um and she's she like at one point one of the kids was holding up. She was mercy. Yeah, she was holding up a sign that they made for Beyonce. Um, and the lady was like, Oh, yeah, they made that sign in their guardian's basement. I was like, just shit like that. Like really just adding things up. Yeah, she was just setting so many, like, she was putting down so many breadcrumbs to make sure the Beyonce would feel as awful as possible when the tree fell over.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

She was being shady too, talk about, oh, they're both things hiding for the presents, not you girl. Like damn. Trying to humble Beyonce. Right.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

Well, honestly, the thing is though, is like Beyonce, like after the tree fell, like she looked a little concerned, but like as you pointed out, she was checking her nails. Um she did go quickly, like, oh fuck.

SPEAKER_00 31:31

She did a quick little glance. Like, did my nail break that? What happened there? It just her little face she was looking around. She was so bewildered. Yeah. And keep in mind, that's not just like a regular tree you find in a house. This is like a tall, 60-foot like maw Christmas tree. Well, she's lifted up on some of the portion up there looking out at everyone. And these kids are all going up looking up like, You ruin Christmas. I would have been overwhelmed.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

I would have been looking around like, who did that? Right, right. And she kind of, I mean, she kind of was because like even after they brought her down the aisle, the kids were like, Who you run Christmas? And like, and they were like, Oh my god, did it land on somebody? Is somebody under there? And like Beyonce did not say one word the entire time. She just like looked around and said, Like, she did not say anything.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

She said, That was some good training. They said, Don't incriminate yourself, don't do no advice. I'm surprised she didn't ring for her team or her dad or Matthew or something. Right.

SPEAKER_02 32:27

She must not have her phone on her.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

Well, maybe they were in on it because someone had to set up this appearance, this fake ass appearance. But you know, speaking of iconic black pop stars that were on her, let's get into Miss Keep You, you know, keep some brandy handy. Right. Brandy no Cinderella.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Yeah, the brandy episode. Fucking Ray J always at the scene of the crystal. Ray J always at the scene of the crime. He is.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

First, I want to say cop related pranks for black people. I don't like them.

unknown 33:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

Don't like them.

unknown 33:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

But if you ever do a cop-related prank with me, I'm gonna pop you in your mouth. You wouldn't ever, but right.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

Well, and I even put in the crap. Can we say that on Spotify? What well I put in here that I felt really bad for Brandy. Like when she started crying, I was like, ah, cut the prank. We've gone too far. And like, she was like tell she's trying to tell us cops. She's like, she's like, we're good kids, you know we are.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

She really was concerned, because of course it probably has happened with Ray J doing some dumb hood rat shit. Right and Brandy is, you know, having to clean it up.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

Well, yeah, no, and she seemed very like on alert. Like the mu because she even said, like, why are they pulling us over? Uh she she seemed very like from the very beginning, and like once the jewelry came, and like, and just so you guys know, the the kind of the setup for this prank is that basically um Brandy and Ray J got pulled over. The cops want to search this backpack they have, they find all this jewelry in there. And Brandy's under the assumption that like this is jewelry that's been provided for her to try on to see if she's interested in it, which she she says, she's like, this this happened. She's like, This is what they do with celebrities. Uh she's like, I'm a celebrity. And basically the cops are like heavily implying that they suspect it's stolen, and then they confirm this is stolen jewelry and everything. And uh they were messy, like, oh, do you know when I want to ride her? I know. I don't I don't know her to even ask. I don't know her to even ask. Well, because Brandy was like, I have millions of dollars, I don't need to steal anything from anybody. Um like Brandy was stressed the entire time. There was a moment where the cop is talking to her and he's like, Oh, you're Brandy, like the singer. Oh, you were Cinderella? Yeah. My daughter loved you in that. And the way she looks that copy.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

She looks at him pissed as hell, like.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Um, but then she she started getting really upset, obviously, when like they pretended to arrest Ray J and everything, and they were getting him in the cop car. It was it was a mess. It was a mess. And then the camera, and obviously the Ashton Kutcher comes out, the cameras come out, and she realizes what like that that it's the show. Um, and that's where we get the iconic moment where she goes, takes off running into the grass.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

That long ass gif, she took off like a Maury freaking baby mom, but just but threw the scenery and all that finally fell open. Do you think she fell? Do you think she just got tired, was like the gig is up? I wonder.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

I think, yeah. I think she was just like dumb. I think I think one, I think, like you said, I mean, that was kind of a fucked up prank in the first place. So I'm sure she was like, I'm sure all the emotions and the and like going from like scared to stressed to sad to relieved to a degree, but also like, oh my god, you guys fucking serious? I'm sure she was just exhausted. She was like emotionally exhausted. Right? Like, how's this gonna air?

SPEAKER_00 35:57

How's this gonna come out? Yeah, I'm sure. That does sound taxing. That sounds like tack like a long. I would need a nap after that. Right. A nap and a glass of orange wine.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Right. And even though for us, like it was a few minutes, who knows how long that went on, like in reality.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

That's true. Because they had different cops, like it started with just the one black cop and then multiple ones showed up, so they have to call for the backup. But I mean, they were probably around the corner, but still.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

Right. When they went from like saying we suspect this is stolen jewelry to saying this is like confirming like this is stolen jewelry. So they probably like walked away, left them there for a while to like check it out and confirm. Uh so God knows how long that ordeal was going on.

SPEAKER_00 36:37

They definitely edit it tight because it's a 22-minute show and they put in essentially two to three scenarios each episode. So each segments get, you know, seven, eight minutes at most. So they really begin right to it. It's like the setup, you see the reaction, the fallout, and resolution. Which is probably why it also you know was quick, easy to watchable TV, you know, hotel room TV, you know, you you get it quickly. But it fell in line with what the programming structure was then with cribs and room raiders and all. I I love hotel room TV. I'm gonna start using that.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

Right? That's the only time I watch me some below deck, but I'd be loving it. Oh, that's hotel room TV is when I'd be watching like Maury or Jerry Springer. I do watch some Maury too.

SPEAKER_00 37:21

I do watch some Maury too. It depends. It depends.

unknown 37:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:27

Speaking of custody and baby mamas, well, none of these people have baby mamas. I don't know why I made that segue. But Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 37:38

Well, Justin has a baby mother, but it's it's his wife, so but they c they kind of act like, you know, a baby mama, baby daddy situation. I mean, I I think they're gonna I think they're gonna stay together. I don't think Haley will sign the divorce papers, but this is not that episode. All I'm saying is I can see Justin Bieber popping up on like the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and it's saying Haley's baby daddy in the corner. That's what I'm just saying. I I can see it. I can see it.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

Unfortunately, Haley was born into better, you know, family situations than some of those girls on Utah, but unfortunately she does have the personality for it. Better extensions. Haley would not be caught dead in some of them cheap Utah extensions. I was okay. Haley always looks good. She blends her tracks.

SPEAKER_02 38:23

If she even wears extensions, I don't know. I mean, I feel like every white girl in Hollywood wears extensions, so even Taylor Swift? No, that's a segue. Taylor Swift, especially. Have you seen her clip on Bang that's thicker than the rest of her hair? You know I don't pay attention to that girl. Well, I I'm um should I don't know if I should mention a snark subreddit by name. I'm not going to, but there there's a snark subreddit around Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey that I engage I don't I don't comment on there because I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

I mean you damn near said the name there.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

Well, people can take what they want from that. But um I do work on there and those people are evil. They're mean. They're evil. They're they have they have mean. They have a darkness in their hearts.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

They have it, they have a win. Well, I do want to say it's a little dark sided. But I think with snark subreddits, it's just there's no like wittiness. It's just straight up monitoring spirit or evil. It's like, can we throw in some fun? Can we throw in a fun gag?

SPEAKER_02 39:27

Like, well, and I just feel like the people that are gag. Well, I think the people that are like omni snark subreddits, it seems like they're like almost obsessive about the subject. And like it seems like they spend like literally the majority of their day like hyperfixated on this person that they hate. And I'm just like, this is a very negative headspace.

SPEAKER_00 39:48

But I do like wild, and it'll be for the most random influencers too. Yeah, like I remember when I had my little influencer era at my last job, and I'd be looking up the snark survey for these random women. I'm just like, y'all have some involved people.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

Like, why why do y'all why do y'all hate this mommy vlogger so much? What'd she do? Except trying to pedal products and not want to go to work. Um, but yeah, Taylor was up to adjusting. It is work. It is work. That the episode was funny. I like the setup. The setup was crazy.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

So pretty much they're like on this very beautiful like home in Malibu, right up against the water, waves crashing, they see out boats and whatnot. Justin being Justin, starts shooting off fireworks, and sprinkler is just uh. Very Justin. It's on brand, like it kind of fits. So they're like, Taylor, try, Taylor, try. And she's like apprehensive. She's like, Oh, I'm not sure. I'll just watch watching this fun, watching this fun. So they get her to try. The moment she does, they start a fire on a buck where there's supposed to be a wedding happening. And Taylor is stressed. Is that for a girl? Like from immediately, like, oh they're like, oh my god, wait, no, it's a real fire. And I was wondering, did they start like a real fire? Like, is that allowed? Like, is that a fax? I don't. I think whatever in the sky was definitely a fax, but that's what I was wondering from a production standpoint. Because like fires in California, I guess they're out on the water, but still.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

Yeah. It's no joke. Uh and then the bride and groom come over, they start chomping up in our Taylor.

SPEAKER_00 41:28

And the damn light.

SPEAKER_02 41:32

The the fucking the bride was woman in her wedding dress, like climbing out of the lifeboat and like rolling around the ocean water before coming to Taylor. It just like sends me.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

I'm surprised Taylor didn't realize then that this must be a bit. Right. Or maybe she did. It was just like, well, I should I don't know. Well, I did.

SPEAKER_02 41:50

But people from California are just a little weird. We'll talk. Yeah, we'll talk about it near the end of the episode, but it seems like it's for some of what's come out, it's suggested that like sometimes the celebrities were not always as unaware as they seemed of the bit.

SPEAKER_00 42:07

Um I mean that makes sense, especially later on, like the season nine setups. Because the show was already established by that point. Yeah. And they were leading into more popular modern people. So this is why like Justin and Taylor ended up on it in this later iteration. And then they tried to definitely break the fourth wall a little bit more in these, you know, kind of how Housewives evolved, punked evolved a little bit. Mm-hmm. Season nine, they also did like a rotating host thing, which was interesting. So they'd have like Miley and then Heather Morris from Glee. Yeah and a bunch of random people from MTV shows. So it was kind of a cute recreation, but I could definitely see the veneer being a little bit lost as we got by to season nine.

SPEAKER_02 42:48

So right. Well, and the the last episode from our revisit was the Miley episode, which that prank with her man at the time, Liam, was hilarious. With like, there are there are naked people in the car.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

I know. He was at the ATM, man. And I was like, is that Wii Ho? I mean, I thought I walked by that bank before. But they might have been a Wii Ho. You know, Miley. Miley just being Miley. Miley is being Miley. I know. And Miley's ass was in on it to end up her ex-boyfriend who. I'm sure she's mad she gave him this press. I wonder if she would what she would say about it now.

SPEAKER_02 43:25

I mean, I don't know. Miley, like, she just has such a sense of humor, she might just say something funny, honestly, about it. She would.

SPEAKER_00 43:34

But Liam walked, he was, he was ready. He got active. He was pissed. She had said in the beginning, oh, he had a temper, but I mean, if your girlfriend walks out like, there's two naked people in the car, you would just have to ATM in five minutes. I'm sure anyone shows up ready. But if you're 6'4 Liam Emsworth, it's like, who wanna fuck with me? So he walks over mad as hell and he sees these naked people and he's still like, get out of it. And then the cops show up, they ain't really doing shit. Cause obviously, you know, fake police set up by a mug. But just the way they were talking, describing things like, I'm sure this man doesn't want your wiener on his nice Mercedes. Which is so unserious. I know.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

When they were when when the the woman was like, Well, I'm what I'm wearing underwear, and they're like, Oh, but he isn't. Talk about they were being chased by somebody, like, excuse me. Like, what do you mean? Um and then when they had them get out of the car and they're up against the car and everything. Everything is blurred. That's what, like, that's what I was kind of gathered about. I was like, oh, y'all like really had them like actually naked in front of just in front of Liam? I mean, they have to commit to the bit. They have to up the ante by season nine. Yeah. Well, I I'm sure though, like Liam was used to these antiques from my lakes. Remember when she had that controversy because she brought like that huge dick cake to his birthday? Like he had a he was having a birthday party at like a club or something, and she brought like a cake, and it was literally like just like a big black dick, and that was it. I do remember that. It shouldn't have caused much controversy as it did.

SPEAKER_00 45:06

She was just a silly goofy girl.

SPEAKER_02 45:07

Yeah. Well, I mean, back then though, like everything Miley did caused controversy. Right?

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Smoking salviata bongs and walking around with that old bitch making YouTube videos. What happened to that girl? That old girl she used to hang talking shit about Miley and De talking shit about Demi and Selena. Oh my god. You know what I'm talking about, right? I don't yeah, I don't know what happened to that girl, honestly. I have no clue. I wonder if they're still friends. Oh well. They might be. But what is the behind-the-scenes mess you wanted to get to?

SPEAKER_02 45:38

Well, yes, so what I thought was funny was I was kind of looking up, because like I said, I was never a big fan of this show. So kind of like with other shows we've covered on here where I have been a fan, I feel like I've already known a lot of the like dirt and behind-the-scenes TSD ahead of time. But for this one, I kind of didn't. So I wanted to look it up and see if I could find much of anything. And I did find an interesting article from ranker.com, which goes, um it's it's the article title is Go Figure. MTV's Punked Was Faked. Here's how the producers manipulated viewers. Um, and some of the information here I thought was really funny. Like um, we got um so there was like some episodes that I guess I got pulled that got uh pulled or never aired because uh it got violent. Um this one says producers had to deal with so much potential violence on punk that they made a policy. If you see a weapon, shut the prank down and reveal yourself immediately. And it said, And what I find interesting here is it doesn't specify who, but it said someone actually pulled a gun in a never-aired episode featuring the black-eyed peas. A physical altercation broke out when someone in their entourage brought out the weapon.

SPEAKER_00 46:58

I mean, it could have been Eddie, it could have been one of the main four, could have been a bodyguard, one of their people. But I actually came across this too with the black-eyed peas, which is funny because they were saying how they thought it was fake police, so they didn't think it was pumped, but they thought they were gonna get robbed, so that's why they got violent. Which I think makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

Yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 47:17

If you keep talking, these aren't real police, but you don't immediately go to pump. So you're like, what are they trying? They're trying to take our equipment, they're gonna take our coins. Right. Fergie don't play that. Fergie had some heat in her purse.

SPEAKER_02 47:28

I know, not the Duchess, not the Duchess, not the Duchess. Exactly. Um I to believe it was Fergie that pulled out the gun. Oh, I could see Fergie doing it. Um, well, another one was um this one editing eliminating potentially dangerous scenarios. This one features Serena Williams. Um it said, even with the teams of lawyers at the ready, punk sometimes got dangerous. And Serena Williams episode, the tennis star drives a car at nearly a hundred miles per hour chasing someone she thinks abducted two children. Rob Pink.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

Oh, I do, I actually I forgot. That is what I remember seeing as a kid, actually. The Serena one with the kidnapping. Oh, thank God.

SPEAKER_02 48:11

They nothing, and it says here that in the episode they edited it. Um it said when the episode aired, the editing made it appear like Williams was told to drive to where the kids were taken. Not that she was chasing down someone she thought was a criminal. Um and then one more that I wanted to like. At least we know Serena's about it. Right? I know a hundred miles per hour trying to catch these kidnappers. Um another one, though, that I wanted to touch on was this one involving um this one involving Zach Brough from Scrubs. Um, Punked undoubtedly manipulated celebrity reactions in posts, especially when it painted them a negative light. What star would sign a release for that? In Zach Braff's episode, the actor actually threw punches when he thought someone had painted graffiti on his brand new porch. Uh Rob Pinkston, who played the delinquent teenager, admitted that the star tried to beat him up as he ran towards fellow actor Chris Elwood, who was playing a security guard. I felt the swings hit the jacket, which was terrifying. But like honestly, I can see violent. Well, like you pointed out with um with the black IPs where someone, like if they thought it was like a sketchy situation or whatever, like I can see in some situations where like you really are pissing these people off, they might get violent, just like anybody else.

SPEAKER_00 49:31

No, definitely. Especially, you know, who has what background, if they somebody tried them before. I do have a few more I want to mention. One that you might appreciate, but according to Ashton Kutcher, he failed to punk Nev Campbell twice before he finally got her in season six. So you know, she she's the final girl multiple ways. She doesn't like getting got. She doesn't like getting got. She ain't no dummy. Another one. And then Lil John. This one was funny because they tried to get Lil John when he was boarding a plane, saying, Oh, your plane isn't going to Vegas, let's go to Ecuador. But he watched the show too much. And he was like, I know who that is. You a fake ass customs agent.

SPEAKER_02 50:11

So they have to shut that one out and not make the end. Yeah. I saw about like unaired segments and stuff because like the celebrity just wasn't going for it.

SPEAKER_00 50:20

I know. Jojo was funny too, because she didn't, she apparently didn't want her young fans to see her cussing. With JoJo, you could have cussed, but she probably was very young. She was very young on her eyes. So that makes sense. They wanted to protect her image a little bit. Yeah. I wonder what they were doing to Jojo that had her cussing people out. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 50:38

I mean, they don't want to know.

SPEAKER_02 50:40

Clearly stressing her the fuck out.

SPEAKER_01 50:44

Uh clearly not enough.

SPEAKER_02 50:46

Clearly not enough. Oh my god. But yeah, I think, and I think though, honestly, some of the behind-the-scenes stuff, because I remember like over the years, like kind of questioning just how real the show was. I was like, is this all just completely fake or whatever? And I think the behind the scenes stuff though, that team makes me feel like at least it was a little bit more like it wasn't completely fabricated or scripted, like obviously heavily produced, but it made me believe more that, like, oh hey, these celebrity reactions and stuff are like kind mostly real, at least. Because I'm like, because I mean you got some of these celebrities swinging and throwing hands and shit. So they they they they they think it's real.

SPEAKER_00 51:22

And I think they tried. Also, it was such a thing. People would be like, oh, am I being punked? Is Ashton gonna be here? Like you would see that like in shows. It was definitely such a thing. Like if anything was a little weird or a little off. So everybody would say that. Even regular people who knew they weren't being punked would be saying that. Am I being punked? I don't know I would fucking say it'd probably a third degree.

SPEAKER_02 51:41

And see, and that nowadays, though, it's more so if I see something crazy happening, I I I'm gonna sit there thinking I'm on that damn sh dateline show, what would you do, or whatever it's called. That's like I'm actually looking around. That's like I see I see some nice, I see some nice friendly person with short blue hair getting bullied over in the corner. I'm like, oh no, what am I on the show?

SPEAKER_00 52:04

Because you look like a white person that likes to intervene.

SPEAKER_02 52:06

Well, that's my thing, is I'm like, but if I don't intervene, are they gonna make me look bad?

SPEAKER_01 52:11

Well maybe, maybe. You could have just faked the limb. Fake a limb.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

Just that's insane.

SPEAKER_02 52:24

But um, let's talk about though, because obviously this show's been off the air for quite some time. Like we mentioned earlier, it's kind of a relic of its time. But the thing with that is nothing is gonna stop us from talking Dreamcasts. Like we're always gonna do this. Um it doesn't matter if it's possible or plausible or anything, we're gonna do it. So let's talk about who in the modern era in 2026 we would want to cast on Punked.

SPEAKER_00 52:52

Okay, I'm starting off with my girl Natalie Nunn. I want to see them get her get her somehow. Oh my god. So I know she'd be screaming, she'd be yelling, she would have been either with a punk, she'd be cackling, or does she get mad again? Or does she cackle again? She yeah, she she wouldn't. I think it would be a series of emotions. Especially like depending on what they did, like but Natalie doesn't like to be played with in general. But if you kind of said something about like her house, her car. Yeah. Anything like a book gang, because she doesn't play about her book gigs. No, so you didn't talk about potentially messing up a book gang. She would have watched it. Right? She don't play with the back. That thing, if you're fucking up the brand, she's gonna lose it. Right? And we could probably get Scotty in the back or someone Rolly in the back. Somebody will be there as well in the back. So you get some cameos, you get Natalie. I'm starting off with my girl Natalie now. That thing, if you get Tommy, there might be another gun pulled again. Ooh, no, Tommy's not insured. We can't afford the insurance on Tommy to get punked. That's a little dangerous. I mean, she liked he did get punked. Remember when that man came to her house? Did you see that club? No. It was like this random like guy. I don't know if he thought he was dating her or what, but he had came to her house apartment. She had let him in. They had chatted. It was all while she was online. I will send you the link after. It was Tommy is reckless. Oh my god. She'd be with it. She'd be with it. She'd be with it. Who do you have though? Who's on your list?

SPEAKER_02 54:22

So I, you know what's funny is even though, you know, we've made it clear that I don't necessarily like this person, I do think she would be good for the show. And that's how you know I'm a real bitch because I think about what's good for the show. Um, I feel like Cardi B would be the perfect material for us. Because she would have a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 54:43

I knew you were going there from the moment.

SPEAKER_02 54:46

Oh, yeah. No, I agree. And the thing is, I think her mind too. And I think the thing is that even if she got really pissed off, I feel like the moment she found out it was a prank, she would like go back, like just be like laughing about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:02

No, she would she would get it. She would be in on the joke after. Yeah. She was actually in on the joke. And she would appreciate, like, oh me, I got pumped. Like, I feel like she's old enough to be like, you know, that was probably peaked for a celebrity when she was younger. So she'd probably exciting. Like, I made it, yeah. Yeah. I have another one.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

But it would have to be like lighthearted enough to for Right. Well, that thing, because and the thing with her is she might throw something if she has something in her hand. Um, but another another one that this is like my ridiculous one that would never happen, but I would kind of want to see Hillary Clinton get punked.

SPEAKER_00 55:39

Honestly, I don't I don't know, unrealistic it is. I don't know. I feel like we can arrange some. Well, maybe she's running, maybe she's gonna run the Boston Arathon next year. I would watch that. I would watch that. I don't know what they would do to set it up, but I hope it involves Monica. Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 56:06

Can you have to be made it involved Monica? Not Monica walking out talking shit.

SPEAKER_00 56:14

That's enough. That's enough. That's not even punked at this point. That's not just the conversation.

SPEAKER_01 56:20

What show was that?

SPEAKER_00 56:21

Just a conversation. Yeah, no, that's the ultimate monument.

SPEAKER_02 56:26

It's something. It's something. I think it would be better if like the prank itself had nothing to do with Monica, but Monica was the guest host that week, and Monica comes out tomorrow, you've been punked. That release form definitely would not be getting signed. We would never see that shit. Like, uh-uh.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

Get her out of here. Was but was Monica Lewitsky never pumped?

SPEAKER_02 56:57

She was part of the chorus. But right. Well, especially because like I mean the show started in 2003, so she was still like getting clowned in the media at that time.

SPEAKER_00 57:05

Right? Like, but she admittedly, to her point, she never seemed very 15 minutes of famous. Obviously, she did what she did, but she could have she could have done much more salacious things, much more books and reality shows. She could have done the thrill line. She's chosen to yeah. Yeah, right. She could have done every celebrity big brother across the fucking country, the world. Right. I know. I know they probably still ask her. Well, who who else you got on your list? Um, I have ice spice. Oh god. Well, they would give us nothing, but it would be like a fun little like she would still go viral giving us nothing. Like well, no, here's I think she's kind of like a clip farm. Like she knows what to say.

SPEAKER_02 57:50

Yeah, no, the thing with Ice Spice is like they would do the most outrageous thing, and then she'd be there. Just imagine me with an orange afro. She'd be there just like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 58:03

And then when Aston came out, she would be she would turn around and twerk.

SPEAKER_02 58:07

Not she was just. That's the episode. That's the episode. I mean, and and and and that's you know, that's good enough for me. Good enough for me. That's that's that's television.

SPEAKER_00 58:18

I feel like that's good enough, right? Right. All right. Another one I had was um speaking of tennis star Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam champion. I had two spot two-time Grand Slam champion Coco Garf on my list. You know I love me a woman's athlete, but you do. I know Coco's isn't generally very like sweet-hearted, eager, but I don't know I could feel her like easily being set up for it again, some media appearance or something, and like trying to help, trying to be eager. I don't know if she would drive 100 miles an hour like Saripa, but she might chase after, like on foot. Coco's fast. She might chase down somebody on foot. They took a baby. I don't know. Oh my god. They could use Coco's athleticism very smartly here. And she would also like take it on the chin. She'd be a good sport about it.

SPEAKER_02 59:04

Yeah. No, I agree. I agree. Um, another one that I had on my list was Kiki Palmer. Because you know, you know, Kiki's reaction would be hilarious. She would give a reaction.

SPEAKER_01 59:16

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:17

I'm surprised. I guess she wasn't. I mean, even in like the season nine era, I feel like she was probably famous enough, but you know, Kiki would definitely be good. She has the tone, the community timing, but it would be like fooling Kiki. I thought she'd be so like, what's going on? Right. Well, that thing.

SPEAKER_02 59:33

Well, the other thing, yeah, because I mean the other thing is because Kiki's been in the industry for like since she was a child. She knows all the tricks, she knows all the shenanigans, she knows how TV works. And on top of that, Kiki's like a bit of a clowner herself. She likes to clown people. So she can probably spot the clownery coming at her.

SPEAKER_01 59:48

Right. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 59:51

Another one I had was sexy red. I would love to see sexy red get punked. Again, I think she would be a good sport about it, too. Yeah. But she also might get active. She's the only one where you gotta do it right. Yeah. I don't know what timing she'd be on. But I would love to see sexy red in a punked environment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:10

I I had one, I had one more left, and my last one is um Ariana Grande, because I know she'd be gagged. She'd be gagged. What would people do with her? They'd do something crazy. Nothing, yeah. They would do something insane and she would just be gagged. Like, I mean, she gives she gives shocked reactions all the time to everything.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:32

Yeah. She always gives us a little whistle note. Maybe she'll give us a little whistle note as she's gagged.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

Or or better yet, if they could get like, if they could get her and Cynthia Revo together and punk them both at the same time. Not the double duty. Right? Not Bob Wang doing it. Not bow not Bowen involved. He would be involved.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:56

He's everywhere. He's everywhere. Yeah. As long as Spongebob stays home. I don't I don't care.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:02

I mean, is she ever really seen out is she really ever seen out in public with Spongebob? No, you're right. We'll see where that one goes. I saw a picture. Somebody posted like a picture of like a crackhead the other day, and they said Ariana Grande would drop everything for this man, and I was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:23

I mean, is he in a relationship? I mean, maybe with the streets, with the pipe. I think she likes her as taken, you know. That's true.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:34

She she likes to challenge that girl. You gotta commend her for that. But not the challenge on MTV. Oh, her and can neither her nor Candace will do the challenge. Um Candace unpunked. I wasn't she wasn't even on my list, but now I just thought of it. Right? She'll be cussing. I was thinking about Karen Huger earlier. The thing is, they would just in the candice, and Candace would be like, I feel like Candace would be still be pissed after it got revealed it was a prank. She'd be like, you rusty ass bitch, Ashton Kutch.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:05

And then her husband are gonna have to be there calming her down.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:09

Not not Chris, not Chris having to hold her down so she don't go and swing a knife at Ashton Kutcha.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:16

A damn butter knife. Just as we need to throw in a man, I do wonder how Andy would react and like what they would do for Andy for him to get bugged. Andrew Cohen? Yeah. Like I just wonder what the setup would be. Just to throw in a man, just to throw in a man. But I thought it would be interesting. And if like all the housewives got involved, like let's punk his ass. Maybe just one of his favorites, like Kyle or something.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:38

Oh, that would be funny. Like the Grand Dame, Kyle, Vicky. Right. Giselle. Doing something with Andy. I don't know. Like Vicky fell in the pool. Something. Oh, well, because Vicky's Vicky's always getting hurt when they go on cast rip, so maybe Vicky could fall and pretend to break a head or something. Andy would be panicking. I need Andy and a camera. Andy and a camera, yeah, always. Well, you know, even though we're even though clearly Punked is probably not going to be making a 2026 return, if it does, call us because clearly we should be casting producers on this damn show. Because we know what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:22

Field producers too. I'll set up some pranks.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:25

Right?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:26

But I'm not working that he I wanna I need the craft services nearby and a golf cart.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:31

So when I I don't want to, I I definitely don't want to be like an actor or anything in the in the more inflammatory pranks because if somebody punches me, I'm getting pissed.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:42

Well, you you just look like somebody that can play in the IRS. You just look like an IRS agent. So now now now I have You look like somebody that would knock on my door and be like, you're in foreclosure.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:53

Speed it up. Well things. So now I gotta stand there explaining to Karen Huger why why we're seizing her property. She has to move to Great Falls again.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:04

Well, she's gonna recognize you because you've been talking about fucking her husband on TikTok. So they wouldn't use you for that role. That's true. That's true. I would welcome you. She'd be like, oh, it's heal. Now for Monica Lewinsky, you can play the DoorDash driver or whatever. We're using the prank hair.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:21

Oh my god. Not not me showing not me showing up talking about uh you you wanted extra sour cream, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:32

And on that note, this has been a lovely episode. Recapping Punk. Please rate and review wherever you're watching. Subscribe on YouTube. Let us know if you're enjoying the video of it all, please. And thank you. We are at Honorio NotePod on all social media platforms. I am Aiden. That is Noah Heron. And have a lovely April Fool's Day. And whenever you are listening to this.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:55

And if you don't give us a little something something, you might get punked. Bye Kiarna. Bye Kiarna. Oh god, not not not madness. Justice for Angel. While we're here, justice for Angel. Justice for Angel. She got dragged down in some bullshit.