June 26, 2025 • 25 mins
One of our fave pop stars is dominating headlines again, releasing an alternative cover for her new album, Man’s Best Friend. After the backlash to her raunchy first cover, fans were surprised when Sabrina Carpenter joked this one is "approved by God"- so what’s really going on behind the scenes in her PR team?
Then, we unpack the wedding of the year: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s lavish celebration in Venice. From the A-list guest list to the luxury yachts, we tell you everything you need to know about the star-studded event.
Plus, who exactly is Lauren Sánchez? We take a closer look at her impressive list of accolades, how she and Bezos met, and why on earth the public is so obsessed with their wedding.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Weekend Watch episode that's coming out tomorrow, I've chosen stuff
that I know LB would.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
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On the show. Today, we have a big billionaire wedding
and the real reason why we can't look away from it.
We're getting deep, we're getting personal with this billionaire.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
But first we've got some Sabrina Carpenter news.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We do have Sabrina Carpenter news, and it's news that
kind of made me go she's so smart.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
She is really clever. This whole album cover Debarcle has
been an expert intro into how to actually do a prchad.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeahs one hundred percent Oh, she's just so brilliant. So
if you didn't know Sabrina Carpenter, which you definitely would,
because it'll be all over your socials by now. Sabrina
Carpenter has released an alternate album cover to an upcoming album,
Man's Best Friend. She posted it on her Instagram and
was accompanied by a caption that said, I signed some
copies of Man's Best Friend for you guys, and here
(01:47):
is a new alternate cover, approved by God, available on
my website. It's so teeky, it is so funny. So
this new album cover is black and white. It shows
her like I think it's like a formal event. She's
either slow dancing or holding onto a man and you
can only see his profile view. Everyone's saying it's Tom
Holland have you seen that? Yah him?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So I think it's some random model, But it's kind
of got this very nineteen fifties Hollywood glad. It feels
very Kennedy, very Kennedy. It feels very Marilyn Monroe, Like
you know that famous image of her and Sophila n
and Marilyn Munroe's looking over. That's exactly it, and that
is kind of what it's reminding me of very sexy, very.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Sexy, and quote unquote tasteful.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, I mean the whole controversy around the initial cover,
which I know that we don't want to go back
on it too much, but this is exactly what she
wants us to do. The whole controversy of it was,
you know, it's demeaning to women, It's there was all
of this kind of discourse around is this anti feminist
or pro feminist? And then I love that she's kind
(02:55):
of come out addressed it in a very cheeky way
because she's also had backlash for doing you know, parts
of her music videos in churches, Catholic churches, all of
that sort of thing. So she's she's kind of been
marred by a lot of this controversy. But I think
she's doing this so intentionally and that's why it's so smart.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It is so smart, And even the timing that she
decided to release this U was on the cover with
the first cover, Like you said, the discourse about it
was everywhere, like including us, like every podcast, every newsletter,
every hot take, every opinion piece on social media, like
all the tweets about it. It was just literally everywhere.
(03:37):
And it feels like now exactly now has been when
it's died down, where everyone's moved on, stop talking about it,
and now she's just released the new cover and all
of that same sentiment has just come back flooding my feet,
like she knows exactly what she's doing and including us,
we're playing into it. Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's brilliant. It's brilliant. Anyone who thinks it's I don't
think it's anti feminist. I think she's doing it's very
intentional the way that she's gone about it. Even you
know the title of the album, Man's Best Friend. She's
playing into the that discourse around you know, being a bitch,
you know, being a dog. She's playing into.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's playing into it. I just remember when it first
came out, when an album first came out, it actually
did upset me. I was very much like, at one point,
there's the thing, stop becoming satire and it just becomes
a thing. Yeah, and it just made me go, I
wonder if she's actually like reading into this the same
way we are all reading into it on her behalf,
(04:38):
Like she actually hasn't said anything about it, so we
actually don't know what her thoughts are or what her
process was in putting that album out there, and we've
all just made this big opinion of kind of analyze
her thoughts when really it could just be anything. She
probably just want to do it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's kind of like, you know how Queen wrote Bohemian Rhapsody. Yes,
they were sick of people like trying to find meaning
in all of their music, so they wrote Bohemian Rhapsody,
which is just like nonsensical, like a four minute yeah,
like this, because Freddie Mercury apparently was like, I'm so
tired of people liked di secting my music and making
all of these comments about it, dissecting it like poetry,
(05:14):
like yeah, doing a you know, English extension to paper
on it. Maybe that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm pretty sure I did an English essay on Bohemian Rapsy.
Did you really went against what he wanted? I brought
into that completely similar to how like everyone's buying into
Sabrina Carpenter, But she's just so smart, she knows what
she's doing, and I just want more album covers by her.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I know. I mean, she looks great, amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I love the conversation. So Jeff Bezos take Billionaire might
have heard of him. I know who's Hey, it does
something with Amazon. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, something about packages getting delivered.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, a little known figure.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He is marrying his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez. You might know
her as the one who went into space with Katie Perry.
She certainly did the helicopter driver who went into space
with Katy Perry and is somehow going to marry Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
We are going to talk about her a little bit later,
but I don't know much about her. I have, I've
got the tea for you. Okay, good, We'll do like
a full data on Lauren Sanchez. But their wedding festivities
in Venice have just taken up all of our news
feeds over the last few days. They are doing a
three day extravaganza.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
A three day extravage. I know so much about this
wedding against my will. Yeah, I did not ask for this,
and yet I have the entire download. So if you
are one of the privileged people who don't know much
about this wedding, I'm about to bring you in.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yes. Sorry, we're about to disappoint you.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I'm so sorry. So they have their wedding is going
to be taking place in Venice, Italy, which is where
they are right now and have been for a while.
They've just been partying it up. You might have seen
some very tasteful photos of them at a phone party
on their private yacht.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I don't know we still did phone parties.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't know if phone parties were a thing. Was
that a thing?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I went to a phone party in Belgrade in twenty
ten when I was twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What's the purpose of them?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I don't know. People just get drunken, but it's like
wet and cold, kind of go in there. You're like
covered in bubbles, like this is fun, and then you're like, oh,
I'm really cold and everything's wet and all of my
like my phone's wet, and my money's wet, and now
I'm just in like sticky shoes.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I do feel like it's something that I should have
been part of. I feel left out, a bit of
a right of passage, right, I feel because I first
saw these photos and the paparazzi photos. So I first
saw them and I was like, Oh, these are rich
people doing their rich people things. This sounds insane. And
then I look closely and I was like, that actually
looks like a lot of fun. Well, it was actually
feels like something like a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, funny that you say that because it was Lauren's
son's nineteenth birthday. Oh so I think rather than it
being like a pre wedding celebration, I think it was
more so his like a celebration for him for his
nineteenth birthday. Oh my god, that makes it kind of
is a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's a kid's birthday party that I out of all
the whole wedding festivities, that's the one I wanted to
be part of.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, I wouldn't mind being on a super yacht
getting served like fewerful champagne.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
With protesters around you.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I mean, do you really think they care about the protest.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We'll get to the protest.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We will go to the protesters.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So, as you said, it is a three day event,
which I feel like a lot of weddings now are,
especially if you're a billionaire. You're not allowed to have
one day weddings. It has to be three or more days.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Especially if it's overseas.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, we saw this, especially with the Embarni wedding. Do
you remember this? The Barneys are at one point, like
the richest family in the Southern hemisphere in India. So
the most recent wedding was one of the Embarni sons
in that and he married a woman named Radica. And
this wedding, I don't know who. I wrote about it
on Mama Mia because it was just it just blew
(08:51):
my mind. It was like days of festivities, and a
lot of Hindu weddings are days anyway, but this was
just festivity after festivity after festivity. They had like these
massive performers. It became like full concerts. It just blew
up into this massive worldwide event Coachella, like Coachella. Bill
(09:12):
Gates was there, Zuckerberg was there. It was just absolutely insane.
Kardashians were there, Kardashians were there, where Chloe and Kim
went there.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It was just one of those like parties that just
you know, with the status of these billionaires, it would
be like thirty percent family and then seventy percent investors.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, see, this is the thing that I was thinking
about with Jeff Bezos's wedding. So there's been a lot
of riding around the people that are actually attending the wedding.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I think that's are over just over two hundred people.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, so two hundred people, but it's you know the
who's who. We've got all your other billionaires. But then
there's like Corey Gamble's going to go be there, the
Kushners are going to be there.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Victoria Beckham's going to be It's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Also like are these people actually friends with these people
or is are they doing it for status status?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Because I feel like, Okay, I was actually thinking about
this because I was like, if I got invited to
Jeff Bezos's wedding, don't know him, and I had another
event that same day, I'm going to the wedding, you
have to you can't decline that wedding invite.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But I think they're like paying for everyone's hotel rooms
and stuff. They're surely they are if you have to
pay your way there, they I think they're like flying
everyone in like it would be a real spectacle. It
would be something to the hold. So they've apparently, you know,
rented out like five different hotels and the best hotels
in Venice, all of the water taxis, all of the gondolas,
like they have booked the whole city out.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, they had to because then the protesters would come
for them.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, And this is the thing. The undercurrent of all
of this is the protesters, yes, who are like, leave
us alone.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The protesters are honestly my Roman Empire. I am obsessed
with all of them. So the reason why you might
have been seeing this wedding everywhere is because Venice locals
have protested this wedding, like for weeks now. They had
this big sign in the airport that you could see
if you owned a private jet coming into Venice, and
(11:10):
it said, if you can have your wedding in Venice,
then you can pay more tax. The protest was called
no space for Bezos with the symbol of a rocket ship.
Is very very tasteful, and they kind of won. The
protesters initially did win because the wedding was originally meant
to take place in this big like party area of
(11:30):
Venice in the center. In the center, it got so
intense with the protest that they had to move the
wedding to a private island where you can only get
there by gondola because it's like in this little remote island.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, apparently all over the streets of Venice are these
stickers being like no space for Bezos like it. They
are heavily because they've had to hire.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Security to separate the wedding guests and the protesters.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So the reason they're protesting is because, as we all know,
Venice is like really heavily impacted by tourists.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
There are only about two hundred thousand locals who actually
live in Venice, and with global warming and the rising
sea levels, Venice is sinking.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's not going to be there.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And now there's like what ninety private jets, massive yacht,
heaps of people. It's not looking good.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And it's putting a lot of pressure on the people
in balness, the economy. It's just caused a lot of issues.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
A lot of issues.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
We need to tax the people that have a big,
huge number of money and use the money for reduce
the impact of climate change. So we are here because
we won't to stop these in justice society.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Interestingly, Bezos hasn't actually addressed this at all, except the
ABC did get their hands on an invite or to
the wedding, and there were some very interesting instructions given
to the guests. Okay, so in the card it said
please no gifts. Instead, we're making contributions in your honor
with gratitude to you from making the journey to celebrate
(13:04):
with us in Venice. The cards stated that donations on
the guest behalf will go towards Habitats are Venice's Future
and to Venice International University to support research and education
for sustainable solutions. And I'm like, Okay, he didn't have
to leak his own invite to the ABC. Do you
think he's one hundred percent he leaked his own invite
(13:27):
he went to.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
He's like trying to get some good press around this.
I mean, I guess at least he's, like if he's
going to spend you know, twenty million on a wedding, like,
at least he's donating something to a good cause.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh gosh. What I found really interesting about this whole
thing is just how much I know about certain billionaires.
This never used to be like back in my day. Yeah,
I don't know a single billionaire's name. The only person
I kind of knew was JK Rowling. And I only
knew that because then she gave like the big news
about that where she gave so much money away to
(14:00):
charity that she lost her billionaire status. Yeah, and now
I know so many billionaires, and it's a type of
billionaire that are just the reason we know them is
because they're so loud about being a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's also because they have become celebrities in their own right,
even if they're not in that Hollywood circle. I mean,
if you've seen all the photos of justa he's waving
like his George Clooney, like, have you've seen that? It's
interesting how just because you are extremely wealthy that can
create celebrity status. You know, We've seen that with Zuckerberg,
(14:34):
We've seen that with masks and with besils particularly. You know,
I feel like I didn't really know much about him.
Then he got divorced from his wife, she became a
billionaire because there was no prenup. Yeah, what happened to
these like secret billionaires, That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It used to be like we never ever used to
know about billionaires. I didn't even know a billionaire's name.
And it also felt like there was some hidden agenda
where you felt like you should be embarrassed for having
that much wealth because they would just never talk about it.
And now these guys are like, no, you should know
how much wellth I have? And I'm going to show
you exactly how much money I have, and we can't
(15:14):
look away. And I do think it goes hand in
hand with like societies crave to see that much wealth
play out, Like the amount of money that you would
never even I can't even count that high, Like the
amount of money that you would never see in a lifetime.
Just see someone spend it all in a day.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I think it's quite voyeuristic.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yes it is. It's a show off thing.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You know, Earth audience members. Basically, we're watching this because
that level of wealth is so beyond anything any of
us regular people will ever experience in our lives. Yeah,
like seeing that amount of money just being dropped like
it's a cup of coffee. Ye. Actually though I did
(15:56):
buy a cup of coffee for seven dollars the other day,
so it's not really easy to buy a cup of
coffee anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But in like comparison, and it's exactly what you're saying,
if bezos like accidentally misplaced one million dollars, he wouldn't
even realize, No, he wouldn't like that, he wouldn't feel
that a little bit at all. And that's like someone's
lifetime achievement. It's just insane. But I do think it's
like exactly what everyone's been craving. And I don't just
mean real life, but on TV and movies as well,
(16:22):
Like we see how successful Succession was, White Lotus was
even the new movie Materialists, where we just crave seeing
so much wealth and wealthy people. It has something to do,
I feel like with how the economy is going now
in real life and then just seeing it it feels
like a big fairy tale for us. Yeah. Yeah, whereas
before we were being entertained, we just real life stories
(16:44):
and everyday people, and now we're being entertained by everyday
people that don't seem like the every day.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But I mean, as we can see from these protesters,
people are really sick of it.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, they do not want this.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I mean I enjoy watching it because I enjoy seeing
the spectacle of it and seeing what people spend their
money on because you know, as we know, money can't
buy taste. But it's interesting watching the spectacle. But then
it does feel a bit yucky and a bit tasteless.
When you think about people who can't even buy food,
(17:16):
it feels really yucky.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Do you feel icky about it? Because I weirdly don't
feel icky about it because for me, it just feels
so separated.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It doesn't feel real enough to me for it to
feel too iky, because it's dystopian it does. It feels
so far away from anything that I could remotely touch.
But if I think about it for long enough, these
people can spend their money on whatever they like. But
no one needs a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's true. If you don't need a billion dollars, billionaire
should not exist.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm not a social I'm not like talking about socialism
and you know communism here, but like, we don't really
you don't really.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Need you don't need any you absolutely don't. I mean
we could.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I wouldn't mind, like half a billion. Do you know
how much a billion dollars is?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I like, I actually, in my head it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
How many zeros is a billion?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
How many zeroes? We now have to ask our prea
you someone this is like, tell us how many zeros
a billion?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
How many zeros in a billion?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I've never seen in them because a six six.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Is a million?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Nine nine zeros? Yeah, that's too much.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The thought of that many zero's actually makes my head sore.
I think the key to all of this is like
it does. It is fascinating to see the fact that
there are significantly more billionaires than there were twenty years ago.
Like we know that the rich getting riches of the
poor are getting poorer at the one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Percent becoming five percent, but there's still the.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
One percent, but they're getting just so much richer and there's.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So many more of them. Yeah, that's heaps are billionaires.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's pretty crazy. But I think the fascination around this,
and we were talking about this this morning, the fascination
around this whole wedding, it's just a voyeurist stick almost
like a train wreck, Like you want to just see
how these people.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Spend Yeah, because you'll never see it any.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Other way, never. But I think what we should do
is get into the elusive Laurence Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh my god, she is so interesting to me because
she feels like the type of person that wouldn't marry
a Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I was actually pleasantly surprised by Lauren Sanchez. Okay, so
I'm going to just give you a little bit of
a rundown on who she is because she's kind of
kind of flown under the radar. Now, the first thing
that you need to know about Laurence Sanchez is she's
extremely age appropriate for Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yay, the bare Minimummum.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So she's fifty five and he's sixty one, which I
think is very appropriate.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Nice, well done, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But you know, and I was actually so pleasantly surprised.
I was like, Oh, he's marrying a fifty five year
old woman that he's very appropriate. Bare minimum.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Oh, he's such a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Isn't it amazing how how much we applaud.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Men for doing He's my favorite billionaire, right, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Well, I was actually so impressed by that because he
could have easily gone with some thirty year old, you know,
but at least she's fifty five. She's had three kids
from previous marriages. So she's an Emmy Award winning journalist
and news anchor. She was actually the first host of
So You Think You Can Dance? Oh random?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh my god, michellebos She was a guest host on
the View and a contributor to Larry King Live. She
actually became a licensed helicopter pilot at the age of forty.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And then she founded a company called black Ops Aviation
in twenty sixteen, which is the first female owned aerial
film production company.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
So she's got a few accomplishments, like she's she's.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Doing really well. So her company actually consulted on Christopher
Nolan's Dunkirk. Oh wow, you know that movie she's done writing.
She was, as we mentioned earlier, as she was in
this shuttle with Katie Perry. So Lauren Sentis used to
be married to Patrick Whitzel, who is actually now married
to Pe Miller, whoa so weird connection there. So they
(21:02):
got divorced. That's how they met. They met at some
Apple release party. Then Bezos, hiw do.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
We get invited to an Apple release party? That's what
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Maybe we need to get on the list somehow. So
Bezos actually hired Sanchez's filming company, Black Ops Aviation to
create content for his space venture Blue Origin. So they
met through work. So apparently they kind of hit it
off because of their shed interest in you know, aviation
in space.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Wait, and he was he single at this time when
they met.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yes, So when Jeff and Lauren first met in twenty sixteen,
they were both actually still married to the other partners.
But they didn't cross paths again that we know of
until twenty eighteen, when Bezos actually hired Sanchez. So Bezos
and his first wife divorced in twenty nineteen, I'm imagining.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I think he announced his relationship with Sanchez only shortly
after his divorce, which was in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
There could have been some crossover.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, interesting, But like with all her accomplishments and stuff,
and this is me one hundred percent drawing on stereotypes,
it's kind of interesting to me that he married someone
who has so much under their belt, Like she's done
so so much. And the first time I really knew
(22:22):
of her or heard of her was during the Blue
Origin flight with Katie Perry, just.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Because I was Jeff Bezos's wife. Yeah, and that's all
I like.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I remember, Like it was Jeff Bezos's wife and she
drove helicopters.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, I think. And again I know this is the
bare minimum, but its actually make me like him of
slightly more, even though he's very problematic. We know he's problematic,
but at least he's gone for a woman who is
like intelligent, she's got her own business.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
She's Emmy Award winning.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Emmy Award winning, clearly very successful in her own right,
fifty five to three kids. You know, she's clearly a
very established successful woman before she met him. Yeah, so
that gives me like slightly.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
More hope for billionaires worldwide.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
But I mean, would he go for someone who was
just after his.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's more like, what is she like?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
What does she get out of it? Why did?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah? She obviously gets a billion dollars, But with someone
like Lauren Sanchez, I would have not expected more because
I don't expect anything from this woman, but someone with
all of these like esteemed accomplishments to then kind of
have the commentary around you be about you're having a
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wedding in this endangered area that's about to go underwater,
and you don't care, and you're like chucking so much
money at it, and then you're making it this big thing.
It kind of like juxtaposes everything she did beforehand.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, I see what you mean. I mean, it's not
as if she was like a really philanthropic person before this.
I mean, and again, her previous partner, Patrick Whitzel is
you know, this big Hollywood agent again married to Pen
Miller now and he's like extremely wealthy as well. I
don't think he's a billionaire. But he's a millionaire, so
she comes from money already.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So it's again it's this like generational wellthing, like rich
people marry rich people because it's like this sucks for me.
It's like the Habsburgs, but with rich people. With rich people,
they just like incestuous. They all just marry each other.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Oh my god. Well, the wedding is well and truly underway.
On Thursday, they have an outdoor event, so I'm assuming
they just like drinks cannapees outdoors, and they only had
up until the main ceremony on this Saturday was publicized.
But I do have a feeling they surely have to
do a recovery brunch on Sunday. I'm sure they got
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to send them home.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
No, they're not going it'll be any roll. Come on.
We will keep you updated because there's going to be
obviously a lot of celebs there, and we'll see if
there's any more backlash.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Surely there's going to be more backlash. I want to see,
you know what I want to see because the wedding's
happening on that private island that you can only get
to by water, So I want to see like canals
of like all the protesters like in an aisle, just
protesting them all the way.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
They're getting all these bat they're gonna start getting boats.
Maybe they'll hire Lauren Sanchez is Colic to do like.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
That'd be really smart.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It would be smart. One.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
We also have been covering all the latest news that
have come from the wedding that hasn't even happened yet,
So if you want more information on everything that we
know so far, we'll put a bunch of links in
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On the show. Today, we have a big billionaire wedding
and the real reason why we can't look away from it.
We're getting deep, we're getting personal with this billionaire.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
But first we've got some Sabrina Carpenter news.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We do have Sabrina Carpenter news, and it's news that
kind of made me go she's so smart.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
She is really clever. This whole album cover Debarcle has
been an expert intro into how to actually do a prchad.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeahs one hundred percent Oh, she's just so brilliant. So
if you didn't know Sabrina Carpenter, which you definitely would,
because it'll be all over your socials by now. Sabrina
Carpenter has released an alternate album cover to an upcoming album,
Man's Best Friend. She posted it on her Instagram and
was accompanied by a caption that said, I signed some
copies of Man's Best Friend for you guys, and here
(01:47):
is a new alternate cover, approved by God, available on
my website. It's so teeky, it is so funny. So
this new album cover is black and white. It shows
her like I think it's like a formal event. She's
either slow dancing or holding onto a man and you
can only see his profile view. Everyone's saying it's Tom
Holland have you seen that? Yah him?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So I think it's some random model, But it's kind
of got this very nineteen fifties Hollywood glad. It feels
very Kennedy, very Kennedy. It feels very Marilyn Monroe, Like
you know that famous image of her and Sophila n
and Marilyn Munroe's looking over. That's exactly it, and that
is kind of what it's reminding me of very sexy, very.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Sexy, and quote unquote tasteful.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, I mean the whole controversy around the initial cover,
which I know that we don't want to go back
on it too much, but this is exactly what she
wants us to do. The whole controversy of it was,
you know, it's demeaning to women, It's there was all
of this kind of discourse around is this anti feminist
or pro feminist? And then I love that she's kind
(02:55):
of come out addressed it in a very cheeky way
because she's also had backlash for doing you know, parts
of her music videos in churches, Catholic churches, all of
that sort of thing. So she's she's kind of been
marred by a lot of this controversy. But I think
she's doing this so intentionally and that's why it's so smart.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It is so smart, And even the timing that she
decided to release this U was on the cover with
the first cover, Like you said, the discourse about it
was everywhere, like including us, like every podcast, every newsletter,
every hot take, every opinion piece on social media, like
all the tweets about it. It was just literally everywhere.
(03:37):
And it feels like now exactly now has been when
it's died down, where everyone's moved on, stop talking about it,
and now she's just released the new cover and all
of that same sentiment has just come back flooding my feet,
like she knows exactly what she's doing and including us,
we're playing into it. Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's brilliant. It's brilliant. Anyone who thinks it's I don't
think it's anti feminist. I think she's doing it's very
intentional the way that she's gone about it. Even you
know the title of the album, Man's Best Friend. She's
playing into the that discourse around you know, being a bitch,
you know, being a dog. She's playing into.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's playing into it. I just remember when it first
came out, when an album first came out, it actually
did upset me. I was very much like, at one point,
there's the thing, stop becoming satire and it just becomes
a thing. Yeah, and it just made me go, I
wonder if she's actually like reading into this the same
way we are all reading into it on her behalf,
(04:38):
Like she actually hasn't said anything about it, so we
actually don't know what her thoughts are or what her
process was in putting that album out there, and we've
all just made this big opinion of kind of analyze
her thoughts when really it could just be anything. She
probably just want to do it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's kind of like, you know how Queen wrote Bohemian Rhapsody. Yes,
they were sick of people like trying to find meaning
in all of their music, so they wrote Bohemian Rhapsody,
which is just like nonsensical, like a four minute yeah,
like this, because Freddie Mercury apparently was like, I'm so
tired of people liked di secting my music and making
all of these comments about it, dissecting it like poetry,
(05:14):
like yeah, doing a you know, English extension to paper
on it. Maybe that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm pretty sure I did an English essay on Bohemian Rapsy.
Did you really went against what he wanted? I brought
into that completely similar to how like everyone's buying into
Sabrina Carpenter, But she's just so smart, she knows what
she's doing, and I just want more album covers by her.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I know. I mean, she looks great, amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I love the conversation. So Jeff Bezos take Billionaire might
have heard of him. I know who's Hey, it does
something with Amazon. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, something about packages getting delivered.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, a little known figure.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He is marrying his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez. You might know
her as the one who went into space with Katie Perry.
She certainly did the helicopter driver who went into space
with Katy Perry and is somehow going to marry Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
We are going to talk about her a little bit later,
but I don't know much about her. I have, I've
got the tea for you. Okay, good, We'll do like
a full data on Lauren Sanchez. But their wedding festivities
in Venice have just taken up all of our news
feeds over the last few days. They are doing a
three day extravaganza.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
A three day extravage. I know so much about this
wedding against my will. Yeah, I did not ask for this,
and yet I have the entire download. So if you
are one of the privileged people who don't know much
about this wedding, I'm about to bring you in.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yes. Sorry, we're about to disappoint you.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I'm so sorry. So they have their wedding is going
to be taking place in Venice, Italy, which is where
they are right now and have been for a while.
They've just been partying it up. You might have seen
some very tasteful photos of them at a phone party
on their private yacht.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I don't know we still did phone parties.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't know if phone parties were a thing. Was
that a thing?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I went to a phone party in Belgrade in twenty
ten when I was twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What's the purpose of them?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I don't know. People just get drunken, but it's like
wet and cold, kind of go in there. You're like
covered in bubbles, like this is fun, and then you're like, oh,
I'm really cold and everything's wet and all of my
like my phone's wet, and my money's wet, and now
I'm just in like sticky shoes.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I do feel like it's something that I should have
been part of. I feel left out, a bit of
a right of passage, right, I feel because I first
saw these photos and the paparazzi photos. So I first
saw them and I was like, Oh, these are rich
people doing their rich people things. This sounds insane. And
then I look closely and I was like, that actually
looks like a lot of fun. Well, it was actually
feels like something like a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, funny that you say that because it was Lauren's
son's nineteenth birthday. Oh so I think rather than it
being like a pre wedding celebration, I think it was
more so his like a celebration for him for his
nineteenth birthday. Oh my god, that makes it kind of
is a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's a kid's birthday party that I out of all
the whole wedding festivities, that's the one I wanted to
be part of.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, I wouldn't mind being on a super yacht
getting served like fewerful champagne.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
With protesters around you.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I mean, do you really think they care about the protest.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We'll get to the protest.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We will go to the protesters.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So, as you said, it is a three day event,
which I feel like a lot of weddings now are,
especially if you're a billionaire. You're not allowed to have
one day weddings. It has to be three or more days.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Especially if it's overseas.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, we saw this, especially with the Embarni wedding. Do
you remember this? The Barneys are at one point, like
the richest family in the Southern hemisphere in India. So
the most recent wedding was one of the Embarni sons
in that and he married a woman named Radica. And
this wedding, I don't know who. I wrote about it
on Mama Mia because it was just it just blew
(08:51):
my mind. It was like days of festivities, and a
lot of Hindu weddings are days anyway, but this was
just festivity after festivity after festivity. They had like these
massive performers. It became like full concerts. It just blew
up into this massive worldwide event Coachella, like Coachella. Bill
(09:12):
Gates was there, Zuckerberg was there. It was just absolutely insane.
Kardashians were there, Kardashians were there, where Chloe and Kim
went there.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It was just one of those like parties that just
you know, with the status of these billionaires, it would
be like thirty percent family and then seventy percent investors.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, see, this is the thing that I was thinking
about with Jeff Bezos's wedding. So there's been a lot
of riding around the people that are actually attending the wedding.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I think that's are over just over two hundred people.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, so two hundred people, but it's you know the
who's who. We've got all your other billionaires. But then
there's like Corey Gamble's going to go be there, the
Kushners are going to be there.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Victoria Beckham's going to be It's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Also like are these people actually friends with these people
or is are they doing it for status status?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Because I feel like, Okay, I was actually thinking about
this because I was like, if I got invited to
Jeff Bezos's wedding, don't know him, and I had another
event that same day, I'm going to the wedding, you
have to you can't decline that wedding invite.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But I think they're like paying for everyone's hotel rooms
and stuff. They're surely they are if you have to
pay your way there, they I think they're like flying
everyone in like it would be a real spectacle. It
would be something to the hold. So they've apparently, you know,
rented out like five different hotels and the best hotels
in Venice, all of the water taxis, all of the gondolas,
like they have booked the whole city out.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, they had to because then the protesters would come
for them.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, And this is the thing. The undercurrent of all
of this is the protesters, yes, who are like, leave
us alone.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The protesters are honestly my Roman Empire. I am obsessed
with all of them. So the reason why you might
have been seeing this wedding everywhere is because Venice locals
have protested this wedding, like for weeks now. They had
this big sign in the airport that you could see
if you owned a private jet coming into Venice, and
(11:10):
it said, if you can have your wedding in Venice,
then you can pay more tax. The protest was called
no space for Bezos with the symbol of a rocket ship.
Is very very tasteful, and they kind of won. The
protesters initially did win because the wedding was originally meant
to take place in this big like party area of
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Venice in the center. In the center, it got so
intense with the protest that they had to move the
wedding to a private island where you can only get
there by gondola because it's like in this little remote island.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, apparently all over the streets of Venice are these
stickers being like no space for Bezos like it. They
are heavily because they've had to hire.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Security to separate the wedding guests and the protesters.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So the reason they're protesting is because, as we all know,
Venice is like really heavily impacted by tourists.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
There are only about two hundred thousand locals who actually
live in Venice, and with global warming and the rising
sea levels, Venice is sinking.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's not going to be there.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And now there's like what ninety private jets, massive yacht,
heaps of people. It's not looking good.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And it's putting a lot of pressure on the people
in balness, the economy. It's just caused a lot of issues.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
A lot of issues.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
We need to tax the people that have a big,
huge number of money and use the money for reduce
the impact of climate change. So we are here because
we won't to stop these in justice society.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Interestingly, Bezos hasn't actually addressed this at all, except the
ABC did get their hands on an invite or to
the wedding, and there were some very interesting instructions given
to the guests. Okay, so in the card it said
please no gifts. Instead, we're making contributions in your honor
with gratitude to you from making the journey to celebrate
(13:04):
with us in Venice. The cards stated that donations on
the guest behalf will go towards Habitats are Venice's Future
and to Venice International University to support research and education
for sustainable solutions. And I'm like, Okay, he didn't have
to leak his own invite to the ABC. Do you
think he's one hundred percent he leaked his own invite
(13:27):
he went to.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
He's like trying to get some good press around this.
I mean, I guess at least he's, like if he's
going to spend you know, twenty million on a wedding, like,
at least he's donating something to a good cause.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh gosh. What I found really interesting about this whole
thing is just how much I know about certain billionaires.
This never used to be like back in my day. Yeah,
I don't know a single billionaire's name. The only person
I kind of knew was JK Rowling. And I only
knew that because then she gave like the big news
about that where she gave so much money away to
(14:00):
charity that she lost her billionaire status. Yeah, and now
I know so many billionaires, and it's a type of
billionaire that are just the reason we know them is
because they're so loud about being a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's also because they have become celebrities in their own right,
even if they're not in that Hollywood circle. I mean,
if you've seen all the photos of justa he's waving
like his George Clooney, like, have you've seen that? It's
interesting how just because you are extremely wealthy that can
create celebrity status. You know, We've seen that with Zuckerberg,
(14:34):
We've seen that with masks and with besils particularly. You know,
I feel like I didn't really know much about him.
Then he got divorced from his wife, she became a
billionaire because there was no prenup. Yeah, what happened to
these like secret billionaires, That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It used to be like we never ever used to
know about billionaires. I didn't even know a billionaire's name.
And it also felt like there was some hidden agenda
where you felt like you should be embarrassed for having
that much wealth because they would just never talk about it.
And now these guys are like, no, you should know
how much wellth I have? And I'm going to show
you exactly how much money I have, and we can't
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look away. And I do think it goes hand in
hand with like societies crave to see that much wealth
play out, Like the amount of money that you would
never even I can't even count that high, Like the
amount of money that you would never see in a lifetime.
Just see someone spend it all in a day.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I think it's quite voyeuristic.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yes it is. It's a show off thing.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You know, Earth audience members. Basically, we're watching this because
that level of wealth is so beyond anything any of
us regular people will ever experience in our lives. Yeah,
like seeing that amount of money just being dropped like
it's a cup of coffee. Ye. Actually though I did
(15:56):
buy a cup of coffee for seven dollars the other day,
so it's not really easy to buy a cup of
coffee anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But in like comparison, and it's exactly what you're saying,
if bezos like accidentally misplaced one million dollars, he wouldn't
even realize, No, he wouldn't like that, he wouldn't feel
that a little bit at all. And that's like someone's
lifetime achievement. It's just insane. But I do think it's
like exactly what everyone's been craving. And I don't just
mean real life, but on TV and movies as well,
(16:22):
Like we see how successful Succession was, White Lotus was
even the new movie Materialists, where we just crave seeing
so much wealth and wealthy people. It has something to do,
I feel like with how the economy is going now
in real life and then just seeing it it feels
like a big fairy tale for us. Yeah. Yeah, whereas
before we were being entertained, we just real life stories
(16:44):
and everyday people, and now we're being entertained by everyday
people that don't seem like the every day.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But I mean, as we can see from these protesters,
people are really sick of it.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, they do not want this.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I mean I enjoy watching it because I enjoy seeing
the spectacle of it and seeing what people spend their
money on because you know, as we know, money can't
buy taste. But it's interesting watching the spectacle. But then
it does feel a bit yucky and a bit tasteless.
When you think about people who can't even buy food,
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it feels really yucky.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Do you feel icky about it? Because I weirdly don't
feel icky about it because for me, it just feels
so separated.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It doesn't feel real enough to me for it to
feel too iky, because it's dystopian it does. It feels
so far away from anything that I could remotely touch.
But if I think about it for long enough, these
people can spend their money on whatever they like. But
no one needs a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's true. If you don't need a billion dollars, billionaire
should not exist.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm not a social I'm not like talking about socialism
and you know communism here, but like, we don't really
you don't really.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Need you don't need any you absolutely don't. I mean
we could.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I wouldn't mind, like half a billion. Do you know
how much a billion dollars is?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I like, I actually, in my head it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
How many zeros is a billion?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
How many zeroes? We now have to ask our prea
you someone this is like, tell us how many zeros
a billion?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
How many zeros in a billion?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I've never seen in them because a six six.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Is a million?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Nine nine zeros? Yeah, that's too much.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The thought of that many zero's actually makes my head sore.
I think the key to all of this is like
it does. It is fascinating to see the fact that
there are significantly more billionaires than there were twenty years ago.
Like we know that the rich getting riches of the
poor are getting poorer at the one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Percent becoming five percent, but there's still the.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
One percent, but they're getting just so much richer and there's.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So many more of them. Yeah, that's heaps are billionaires.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's pretty crazy. But I think the fascination around this,
and we were talking about this this morning, the fascination
around this whole wedding, it's just a voyeurist stick almost
like a train wreck, Like you want to just see
how these people.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Spend Yeah, because you'll never see it any.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Other way, never. But I think what we should do
is get into the elusive Laurence Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh my god, she is so interesting to me because
she feels like the type of person that wouldn't marry
a Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I was actually pleasantly surprised by Lauren Sanchez. Okay, so
I'm going to just give you a little bit of
a rundown on who she is because she's kind of
kind of flown under the radar. Now, the first thing
that you need to know about Laurence Sanchez is she's
extremely age appropriate for Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yay, the bare Minimummum.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So she's fifty five and he's sixty one, which I
think is very appropriate.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Nice, well done, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But you know, and I was actually so pleasantly surprised.
I was like, Oh, he's marrying a fifty five year
old woman that he's very appropriate. Bare minimum.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Oh, he's such a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Isn't it amazing how how much we applaud.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Men for doing He's my favorite billionaire, right, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Well, I was actually so impressed by that because he
could have easily gone with some thirty year old, you know,
but at least she's fifty five. She's had three kids
from previous marriages. So she's an Emmy Award winning journalist
and news anchor. She was actually the first host of
So You Think You Can Dance? Oh random?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh my god, michellebos She was a guest host on
the View and a contributor to Larry King Live. She
actually became a licensed helicopter pilot at the age of forty.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And then she founded a company called black Ops Aviation
in twenty sixteen, which is the first female owned aerial
film production company.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
So she's got a few accomplishments, like she's she's.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Doing really well. So her company actually consulted on Christopher
Nolan's Dunkirk. Oh wow, you know that movie she's done writing.
She was, as we mentioned earlier, as she was in
this shuttle with Katie Perry. So Lauren Sentis used to
be married to Patrick Whitzel, who is actually now married
to Pe Miller, whoa so weird connection there. So they
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got divorced. That's how they met. They met at some
Apple release party. Then Bezos, hiw do.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
We get invited to an Apple release party? That's what
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Maybe we need to get on the list somehow. So
Bezos actually hired Sanchez's filming company, Black Ops Aviation to
create content for his space venture Blue Origin. So they
met through work. So apparently they kind of hit it
off because of their shed interest in you know, aviation
in space.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Wait, and he was he single at this time when
they met.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yes, So when Jeff and Lauren first met in twenty sixteen,
they were both actually still married to the other partners.
But they didn't cross paths again that we know of
until twenty eighteen, when Bezos actually hired Sanchez. So Bezos
and his first wife divorced in twenty nineteen, I'm imagining.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I think he announced his relationship with Sanchez only shortly
after his divorce, which was in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
There could have been some crossover.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, interesting, But like with all her accomplishments and stuff,
and this is me one hundred percent drawing on stereotypes,
it's kind of interesting to me that he married someone
who has so much under their belt, Like she's done
so so much. And the first time I really knew
(22:22):
of her or heard of her was during the Blue
Origin flight with Katie Perry, just.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Because I was Jeff Bezos's wife. Yeah, and that's all
I like.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I remember, Like it was Jeff Bezos's wife and she
drove helicopters.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, I think. And again I know this is the
bare minimum, but its actually make me like him of
slightly more, even though he's very problematic. We know he's problematic,
but at least he's gone for a woman who is
like intelligent, she's got her own business.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
She's Emmy Award winning.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Emmy Award winning, clearly very successful in her own right,
fifty five to three kids. You know, she's clearly a
very established successful woman before she met him. Yeah, so
that gives me like slightly.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
More hope for billionaires worldwide.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
But I mean, would he go for someone who was
just after his.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's more like, what is she like?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
What does she get out of it? Why did?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah? She obviously gets a billion dollars, But with someone
like Lauren Sanchez, I would have not expected more because
I don't expect anything from this woman, but someone with
all of these like esteemed accomplishments to then kind of
have the commentary around you be about you're having a
(23:35):
wedding in this endangered area that's about to go underwater,
and you don't care, and you're like chucking so much
money at it, and then you're making it this big thing.
It kind of like juxtaposes everything she did beforehand.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, I see what you mean. I mean, it's not
as if she was like a really philanthropic person before this.
I mean, and again, her previous partner, Patrick Whitzel is
you know, this big Hollywood agent again married to Pen
Miller now and he's like extremely wealthy as well. I
don't think he's a billionaire. But he's a millionaire, so
she comes from money already.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So it's again it's this like generational wellthing, like rich
people marry rich people because it's like this sucks for me.
It's like the Habsburgs, but with rich people. With rich people,
they just like incestuous. They all just marry each other.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Oh my god. Well, the wedding is well and truly underway.
On Thursday, they have an outdoor event, so I'm assuming
they just like drinks cannapees outdoors, and they only had
up until the main ceremony on this Saturday was publicized.
But I do have a feeling they surely have to
do a recovery brunch on Sunday. I'm sure they got
(24:45):
to send them home.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
No, they're not going it'll be any roll. Come on.
We will keep you updated because there's going to be
obviously a lot of celebs there, and we'll see if
there's any more backlash.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Surely there's going to be more backlash. I want to see,
you know what I want to see because the wedding's
happening on that private island that you can only get
to by water, So I want to see like canals
of like all the protesters like in an aisle, just
protesting them all the way.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
They're getting all these bat they're gonna start getting boats.
Maybe they'll hire Lauren Sanchez is Colic to do like.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
That'd be really smart.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It would be smart. One.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
We also have been covering all the latest news that
have come from the wedding that hasn't even happened yet,
So if you want more information on everything that we
know so far, we'll put a bunch of links in
our show notes. Thank you so much for listening to
The Spill today. Do not forget to follow us on
Instagram and TikTok at the Spill podcast. This Spill is
(25:39):
produced by Manitius Warren would sound production by Scott Stronik.
And we'll be back here in your podcast speed for
a weekend watch tomorrow. Bye bye,
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