A Friday mood sets the stage: feeling strong, clear-headed, and ready to wade into some thorny stories with humor and heat. We start with the Leslie Jones and Paul Rudd clash and ask harder questions about workplace boundaries, public grudges, and how identity labels get weaponized when tempers run hot. It’s not about picking a celebrity side—it’s about how fast a long workday turns into permanent outrage and what that says about our culture of airing everything online.
Then we dive into Glamour UK’s decision to honor a group of trans “dolls” as Women of the Year and the wave of backlash led by J.K. Rowling. We explore the pressure points around language, womanhood, and representation, and why so many people feel the ground shifting under their feet. Media power, social movements, and girls’ futures sit at the center of this debate, and we try to separate signal from noise without dodging the hard edges.
Next up: a Rhode Island school district’s reported $117,000 price tag for public records about a teacher’s political comments. What should public really mean when curriculum and teacher emails are on the line? We unpack the tug-of-war between transparency, cost, and public trust—and why parents keep pushing even when institutions push back.
To end on a lighter note, a negative review about a “leaf” in baked beans sparks a masterclass reply from a restaurant: it’s a bay leaf, it’s scratch cooking, and it’s the opposite of canned. That small exchange becomes a bigger lesson about how craftsmanship and communication can turn complaints into loyalty. And yes, we want your take: how do you season your baked beans—sweet, smoky, spicy, or all of the above?
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Episode Transcript
Ooh, y'all, it's Friday and I am feeling good.
I don't feel bloated.
My inflamm I'm not having aninflammatory flare-up.
My joints feel good.
I don't feel like I'm retainingany fluid.
I feel good.
I feel like I've lost weight.
Ooh, I just feel good andhealthy this morning.
(00:21):
You ever have those days whereyou wake up and you just feel
good?
I call these pre-COVID days.
This is how I felt before COVID.
I feel fit and I feel healthy.
Okay, but I don't always feelthis way.
No.
Sometimes most of the days, uh,I do feel a little bloated and
okay, you don't really careabout that.
We need to get to the stories.
(00:42):
All right, here we go.
What do we have on the storiestoday for X over at the X file?
Let's see, go to my profile.
Profile.
Okay.
Let's see.
Oh, let's start with uh Leslie.
Leslie Jones.
Do you know who Leslie Jones is?
(01:03):
She used to be on Saturday NightLive.
Um back when it was goingdownhill.
Leslie Jones is she cannot standPaul Rudd.
And here's what the point Iwanted to get to.
She goes on this podcast andshe's bad mouthing some people,
and mainly she's bad mouthing uhPaul Rudd.
(01:25):
Because he made her stay on aset.
I guess he was directingsomething, and he made her stay
on the set all day and she wastired, and all she wanted to do
is go home.
And here's what she says.
Oh, wait, about him.
Let's see.
Paul Rudd sees that I don't likehim.
So Paul is like, oh, I'menjoying this, Jones revealed.
The guy goes, I want to take apicture with you.
(01:47):
I'm not taking an effing picturewith you.
You're a piece of SHIT.
I'm not gonna take a picturewith you, she said.
Okay, well then she goes on tosay sorry, I'm getting down to
the bar.
Rudd snapped the photo betweenthe two ex SNL co-workers before
Jones erupted over the tenseencounter.
I wanted to kill him and I justget and I just get your effing
(02:12):
hands off me, Jones recalled.
I would take that as a threat.
Okay, Jones had revealed herhatred of the man she previously
described as a narcissist Dhead, peaked after he wouldn't
let her leave following a longday on set.
Oh, I guess at SNL.
He wanted to make sure they gotthe skit right or something.
(02:34):
I don't know.
I thought it was a liveproduction.
Maybe they were rehearsing.
She was shooting a pre-tapedsegment for a November 2017 SNL
episode with fellow cast memberKyle Mooney when she needed to
go home following the long nightof filming.
The guy who would direct thosewas a effing D hole, Jones said
(02:55):
on the tour show podcast inFebruary, and I don't give a F
you see this.
You are still probably effingDick D head, a effing narcissist
D head.
Okay, here's the part I wantedto get to.
This just chaps my behind.
Here's what she says.
(03:16):
He was just one of the whiteboys who thought he's doing
Shakespeare, Jones added.
What if he had gone out on apodcast and said she's just one
of those angry black women?
What do you think would happento Paul Rudd?
Okay, that I just no, stop allthis.
(03:38):
He's a white boy.
He's a white boy.
No, you're not allowed to say itanymore.
Okay.
You've had your fill of it.
Now knock it off, Leslie Jones.
And everybody and all the otherpeople who want to call out
white, all those white calls,white boy.
Whatever.
Okay.
(03:59):
Alright, we need to move on.
J.
Cal JK Rowling leads outrageafter Glamour UK names a group
of trans dolls as women of theyear.
So they use these dolls as aderogatory term.
The TERFs, dude.
Now, if you don't know what aTERF is, T-E-R-F, I am
definitely a TERF and I'm proudof it.
(04:19):
Trans exclusionary radicalfemale, I think is what they
call us.
The men pretending to be womenhave named us TERFs.
Like it's a bad thing, like it'sa derogatory term.
It's not derogatory to me.
Because I am a trans.
(04:40):
What is it?
Trans-exclusionary radicalfemale.
I think that's what turf standsfor.
And that I am definitely that.
All right, we need let's see.
Um I'm sure you've seen thisstory out there already, all
over the place.
The UK glamour magazine, puttinga bunch of men pretending to be
women on the cover and tellcalling them women of the year.
(05:01):
Get out my face.
This is from Paige Snow from theNew York Post.
Glamour UK announced a group oftrans women.
There's no such thing as transwomen.
Let me correct New York Post.
Glamour UK announced a group ofmen to be among the 2025 Women
of the Year.
Shut your effing pie hole.
(05:23):
I'm so upset.
But I felt good.
But I feel good.
Yeah, I know.
I'm crazy.
It's okay.
It's Friday.
It's a good day.
Stoking outrage from outspokenauthor J.K.
Rowling who said the honor sendsthe wrong message to girls.
Of course it does.
And I saw the other day, too, Iput it out on Facebook from uh
(05:44):
USA Today.
No, People magazine, I think itwas, put out this high school
homecoming queen was a boydressed in a gown.
Y'all, this has got to stop.
We think it's over because Trumpsigned some executive orders.
No, no, no, sir, no, ma'am.
(06:05):
It is not over.
This crap is still happening.
The British glossy said it wasbestowing the annual award to
the nine men dubbed the dolls,saying they these trailblazers
saying they these trailblazerswork tirelessly to empower,
(06:26):
uplift, and celebrate transvoices.
You mean they want to shutfemales up?
That's what you mean.
They want to shut females up.
That's what they're saying.
But Rowling, the Harry Potterauthor who's spoken out against
the trans issues, panned thedecision.
Well, of course.
So she says, I grew up in an erawhen mainstream women's magazine
(06:49):
told girls they needed to bethinner and prettier.
I remember that too, JK.
Now Mainstream Women's Magazinetells girls that men are better
women than they are.
Yes, that is exactly whatthey're saying.
Um now Mainstream Okay, Ialready read that.
Rowling was not the only one whoattacked Glamour UK for its
cover.
Zubi, never heard of Zuby, aBritish rapper who has also
(07:13):
advocated against thetransgender community, agreed
with Rowling and criticizedthose who celebrated the cover.
Um so yeah.
The trans movement is easily themost misogynistic movement in
modern history, especiallybecause of its scale and
mainstream acceptance.
(07:34):
Uh Ollie London, a fellow Britwho has become a vocal critic of
the trans community afterdetransitioning, joined in on
the outrage.
I did not know Ollie London haddetransitioned.
I just thought he was a gay man.
Uh so yeah, there you go.
There's a whole long article.
A lot of people are speaking outagain.
It's that, but you know, nobodycares.
None of this is gonna happen.
They're still on the cover ofthe stupid glamour UK magazine.
(07:59):
All right, moving on.
We have two more stories, andI'll try to get to it quick.
This woman, I'm she's a hero tome.
Uh, where is she?
Rhode Island Public School.
Now, and why do we call thempublic schools anymore when
they're not really publicschools?
Because the government gives themoney.
So they're reallygovernment-owned schools.
We need to start calling themwhat they are government
(08:19):
schools.
Charged mother, get this.
They charged her$117,000 forrecords request about teacher
who called Charlie Kirk garbage.
Here we go.
A Rhode Island Public SchoolDistrict reportedly charged a
mother roughly$117,000 forrecords pertaining to a high
(08:42):
school teacher who was placed onpaid leave after calling slain
conservative act Charlie Kirk apiece of garbage.
His name is Benjamin Philo, asocial studies teacher.
I'm surprised they still teachsocial studies, but what version
does he teach is the question.
And she requests records aboutthat too.
(09:02):
So he was ousted in Septembershortly after posting a rant on
TikTok, branding Kirk a piece ofgarbage who hated the LGBT
community on women's rights.
So you can go probably find himon TikTok and watch that if
you'd like.
I'm not gonna do it.
One irate mother submitted apublic records request.
I thought those were free torequest, but uh I guess I'm
(09:24):
wrong, for information relatedto Philo's school email and
course materials, but thedistrict pushed back with a
steep fee, according to a letterfrom the law firm representing
Barrington Public Schools.
Nicole Solis is the mom soughtto obtain any emails Philo sent
from September 1st, 2024 onward,referencing Trump and a
(09:49):
secondary request for more emailcorrespondences sent January
1st, 2016.
Also flagging Trump.
You know, I think these schooldistricts and lawyers and judges
are catching on to this thatpeople are starting to smarten
up and request these records.
And I think this is why they'retrying to charge a crazy fee in
(10:13):
order not to parents can't getthem because who can afford
$117,000?
It doesn't say in this articleif she paid it or not.
Obviously, she did not.
I mean, come on, who has thatkind of money laying around?
Solas additionally asked for allof Philo's curriculum materials
he used to teach the young andimpressionable minds.
Okay, so here's the thing.
(10:35):
So the records request flagged astaggering 789 emails Philo sent
containing the word Trump sinceSeptember 1st, 2024.
That's a lot of emails,according to the letter.
If she wanted to obtain all therequested materials, she would
(10:59):
have to fork out$117,000 withthe 15-year curriculum alone
costing roughly$116.
Jeez.
The estimate that we received isexorbitant, completely
unreasonable, just to get theircurriculum materials.
Yeah, so it doesn't say if sheactually got them or not.
(11:19):
Who knows?
And obviously she didn't becauseshe's not paying the fine the
fee for that.
Come on.
All right.
Last story.
This is kind of a cute one.
This I'm gonna end on a goodnote.
So you know how people like toeat at restaurants and then they
go home and they get on theirlittle computer and they rant
and give a bad review.
I hate people who do that.
(11:41):
Unless it's absolutely calledfor, but people do it over the
stupidest thing.
My napkin was foldedincorrectly.
Whatever.
Okay, so after finishing a mealat a restaurant, a negative
Nancy of a customer wasted notime running home to write a not
so great review of theirexperience.
And the restaurant's response isgolden.
(12:02):
I love clever people like this.
All right, a so let's see.
Um, well, the restaurant lookedat it as an opportunity to
promote their business, and theydid with I mean absolute
trophy-winning material.
A screenshot of the exchange wasposted to the R Funny Forum on
(12:23):
Reddit.
The funny forum on Reddit.
This disgruntled dinner dinerwrote, I ate here for the first
time tonight.
The brisket was probably thebest I've ever had, but I found
an entire leaf in my bakedbeans.
I cannot make this up.
Y'all ready for the response?
unknown (12:44):
Ha ha!
SPEAKER_00 (12:45):
And you know what the leaf is.
You're smart, you know what itis.
So the restaurant replies, sowe're glad you enjoyed the
brisket.
I'm guessing you've never seen abay leaves in your food before.
If you see them in the future,you can rest assured that that
is a sign that someone spenttime and effort making your food
(13:08):
from scratch.
We pride ourselves on makingeverything fresh in-house.
No cans ever.
So you will find unique spices,blends, and herbs, uh, herbs
being used in our food.
That includes bay leaves.
Again, I'm glad you enjoyed thebrisket, and I'm sorry for the
leaf surprised you.
(13:31):
I mean, how stupid can you be?
There are some stupid people outthere.
Okay, we need to move on to thequestion of the day.
I have extended my time herethis morning.
So the question of the day isOkay, okay, so we're gonna stay
on the topic of baked beans andseasoning.
How do you season your bakedbeans?
(13:53):
Now, this might this might be alittle contr controversy down
here in the south because a lotof people have opinions about
how to how to uh spice up yourbaked beans.
What is your spice?
What is your added touch tobaked beans?
Oh, now I'm starving.
I could eat a whole can of bakedbeans right now.
(14:13):
I'm so damn hungry.
All right, I gotta go.
Y'all have a great weekend.
Uh I'm gonna have a greatweekend.
Um uh let's see, and um oh, staytuned for hopefully Sunday.
The gent and I will remember todo the Brood Awakening podcast.
Okay, for real, this time I'mgonna go.
Thanks for listening.
(14:33):
Bye.
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