From Tone-Deaf Posts To Plastic Surgery Pressure: Culture, Clout, And Consequences

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Headlines can be loud and hollow, but the stakes underneath them are real. We start with a celebrity anniversary post that tried to be edgy and landed squarely in the wrong month, raising hard questions about timing, tone, and how public figures wield influence during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The photo looks staged, the caption tries to shock, and the audience reaction reminds us that jokes about harm don’t exist in a vacuum—especially when thousands of real stories sit behind the statistic.

From there, we step into a Houston tragedy involving a Porsche 911, a 0.301 BAC, cocaine, and a legal defense pointing to designer heels. The facts feel blunt, the excuses feel thin, and the outcome is irreversible. We unpack accountability and why narratives that blur responsibility only deepen public cynicism. When lifestyle and luxury collide with impaired driving and loss of life, the lesson is not about fashion—it’s about choices that endanger others.

We also come up for air with a look at The Diplomat: the performances, the politics, and yes, the hair that somehow became a character of its own. That detour opens a larger conversation about Hollywood’s pressure to stay “ageless,” the surge in cosmetic procedures, and what it means to age on your own terms. We share a candid take on past Botox, the decision to stop, and how seeing unedited faces can reset our idea of normal. It’s not about shaming any choice; it’s about widening the lane for all of them.

We wrap with a sweet, simple question for Halloween season—your go-to candy bar—because small joys are how we balance heavy news cycles. If you’re into pop culture with substance, true accountability, and a little nostalgia, you’ll feel right at home here. Listen, share with a friend who loves a good debate, and leave a review to tell us where you land on accountability, aging, and the best candy on the shelf.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Well, hello and good morning.
Okay, what do we have for youtoday?
Well, I read something on theNew York Post today that the
White House administration hasdecided to wipe out all the
student loan debt.
What?
What?
I read that.
I thought, is this an oldarticle from the Joe Biden
administration?
Wow, crazy.
I put it out on my ex feed ifyou want to look at it.

(00:22):
I don't know why.
I don't know what is happening.
Okay, so we need to move on tookay, this uh have you heard of
Kristen Bell and her husband DaxShepherd?
They're both actors.
They're not that great, okay?
And this Dax Shepherd dude, Icannot stand him.

(00:43):
Uh, just from little snippetsI've seen on social media of
him.
He has a podcast with two otheractors.
One of them is Jason Bateman.
I forget what it's called.
Never listened to it.
Um, but he they're just so stuckon themselves, this couple right
here.
They have tried so hard to makethemselves relevant, and it's uh

(01:04):
it's sickening.
Well, they got a little backlashthis past weekend.
Kristen Bell limited herInstagram comments after critics
slammed her tone-deaf messagehonoring her and Dak Shepherd's
12th wedding anniversary.
Well, at least I've been marriedfor 12 years, but on Monday, the
nobody wants this star shut out.
I don't even heard never heardof that.

(01:24):
Nobody wants this.
Never heard of that.
Uh Star was shut out the criticsin light of her controversial
post over the weekend that read,Happy 12th wedding anniversary
to the man who once said to me,I would never kill you.
What in the world?
These people are just sick anddemented.
She recalled the actor alsotelling her that's a that a lot

(01:48):
of men have killed their wivesat a certain point, but
reassured he would never do thesame despite being heavily
incentivized to kill her.
What in the world, what in thebig round world are we doing
here?
Uh if he would have told me thatby what these people, I swear.

(02:14):
Belle, who is 45 years old, wasimmediately called out by
critics good, highlighting thatOctober is domestic violence
awareness month.
Hello, dumbass.
That's a wildly sad andinsensitive thing to say
considering it's domesticviolence awareness month, and
thousands of women have died uhat the hands of the man they

(02:37):
trusted, one person wrote.
Yeah, because these people areclueless.
They live in their own littlestupid world.
And look, they have this pictureof themselves.
He is sitting in a guess what?
I hate to say this, a wifebeater tank top, sitting on this
edge of the bed that looks likeit's not made up.
It looks like it's in actually ahotel room.

(02:58):
Uh, and she is straddling himand they're hugging, they're
embracing, they're hugging.
That's all they're doing.
She is fully clothed, she has ona pair of blue jeans and a
sweater, um, but her head isaway from the camera.
These two set this camera up totake it.
This is a set up.
I mean, nobody sat there andtook this picture of them being

(03:20):
all genuine and authentic.
This was a set up photo.
Okay.
Just an FYI posting this captionduring domestic violence months,
a w a violence month, awarenessmonth is unbelievably tone-deaf.
Please reconsider another chimedin.
These two.
That's all I'm gonna say.
I can't go on with these twobecause they're just utterly

(03:42):
ridiculous.
They're trying so hard to makethemselves relevant because they
are B lister actors, B listcomedy people, whatever they
are.
No, go away.
Go just stay out of thespotlight.
Don't stop trying to post stuffand make yourself relevant.
Okay, moving on.
Texas housewife.
Okay, this is sad.

(04:06):
Lawyers for wealthy TexasHousewife accused of plowing
Porsche into man on first date,argue her designer heels caused
by deadly crash.
Okay, so the wealthy Texashousewife was not on a date.
The guy she killed was on afirst date with someone else.

(04:27):
Okay.
And the wealthy Texas housewifeaccused of plowing in into and
killing a man on a first datewhile drunk and high.
So she was the one that wasdrunk and high, not the guy she
killed.
The way they write this stuff isridiculous.
Claims her expensive high heelsgot stuck on the gas pedal of

(04:48):
her Porsche 911 Carrera.
Christina Chambers, of course,her name's Christina, 34 years
old, went on a trial Friday formanslaughter in connection with
the April 2023 crash that killed33-year-old Joseph McMillan as
he and his date were leaving avoodoo donut shop in Houston.

(05:13):
So she was high and drunk onalcohol, high on cocaine.
She plowed this guy, and theyhave a picture of the Porsche.
This front of the Porsche istotally disintegrated.
I don't know how they said shewas going like high speed.
Um and her because her sh herexpensive, her expensive Louis
Vuitton shoe got stuck on thehill.

(05:35):
BS.
Come on.
They already have her bloodalcohol level of at 0.301, and
they found cocaine in the car.
They all they have to do is ablood test.
Obviously, she's already drunkand high.
Uh so yeah, her stupid.
She's she's toast, as she shouldbe.
She should go to prison for along time.

(05:55):
Alright, next up.
Uh oh.
Have you guys been watching TheDiplomat?
I binge watched the first twoepisodes, and then we had to
wait a little while, and finallyseason three came out.
I've already watched it.
But I just the whole time, Ijust can't get over her stupid
hair.
Carrie Russell's hair.
She plays in the The Diplomat.

(06:16):
It's a good show.
You have there's a little hintof political, I mean, it's all
about politics, fictionalpolitics, of course.
Uh, but there's some referencesto things that might ruffle your
feathers, but it's not too boldand in your face.
Uh so, but her hair is justawful.
It's like, wash your damn hair,comb it.

(06:39):
They even addressed it thisseason.
It's hilarious.
It was cute and funny the waythe way they addressed her hair.
The way they addressed the factthat her hair is messy all the
time and unkempt and just itlooks dirty.
It looks just run a comb throughit.

(06:59):
But they like I said, there wasa there was an episode in the
current season where they kindof made fun of that.
Okay.
And it was cute the way they didit.
But Carrie Russell, who's 49years old, is speaking out about
the pressure to get plasticsurgery in Hollywood.
It's something my girlfriendsand I talk about all the time.
Plastic surgery is having such amoment right now.

(07:21):
Men, women, 20-year-olds.
I mean, it is around, she toldpeople in an interview published
on Sunday.
And good for her because shesays she likes the way she looks
good.
We're uh inundated in or sorry,we're inundated with these movie
stars, she explained, withoutnaming names, even though they

(07:42):
might be 50 or 60 years old,they look amazing.
Well, do they do they carry?
Maybe some of them, but not allof most of them do not look
amazing with their plasticsurgery, is what I'm talking
about.
They would look e they wouldlook even more amazing without
the damn plastic surgery.
Someone posted a picture ofMadonna right before she had all

(08:06):
that plastic surgery, and shelooked freaking amazing and
beautiful.
Now she doesn't.
She looks like a weird doll orsomething.
I don't know.
She looks creepy.
She looks creepy.
She does not look well.
So talking about watchingherself on her Netflix political
drama, The Diplomat, she added,I watched this show and I'm

(08:28):
like, I do not look like that,you know.
I like the way I look on thisshow, and it's amazing that I
feel like that's strange, likethat's unique thing to look like
that, but it is.
I don't know what she just said.
The actress has been in arelationship with her, the
Americans co-star, Matthew Rise,fifth, and that was a good

(08:50):
series too, the Americans.
That was really good.
She's been in their relationshipwith him since 2014.
The pair share son Sam together.
She's also mom to Kids River andWilla with her ex-husband, Shane
Deary.
She said it's such a weird thingbeing a woman.
Is it?
Is it really a weird thing beinga woman?

(09:10):
She told the outlet.
Everyone has an opinion aboutthe way you look.
Well, that's true, but you know,you just don't pay attention to
that.
You just move on.
The way you dress, the way yourhair is, it's just the nature of
your our society.
I don't know that it's becauseyou're a woman.
We do that with men too.
We I talk about how men looktoo.

(09:31):
So it's not about it's not aboutbeing a woman, no.
Her show, The Diplomat,addresses such topics.
Oh, here we go.
I like how cranky she is aboutit, and now she's always trying
to fight people about it, and itis rude about it.
I love it.
I find it delightful, she said,referring to her character Kate.

(09:52):
It's like a fun thing to play.
Okay, what we're I thought wewere gonna talk about the hair.
Um, well, whatever.
The Diplomat is an okay show.
I'm glad she's not gettingplastic surgery because she
doesn't need it.
And I don't like the women thatare getting plastic surgery.

(10:13):
Just age like you normallywould.
Don't do all that stuff.
I mean, you don't need it.
I now I'm gonna tell I'm gonnaconfess to you that for probably
a year and a half, maybe twoyears, I was getting Botox
injections in my forehead andaround my eyes.
It was probably I probably did,I don't know, like once every

(10:36):
five, six months or somethinglike that, I would do it.
So not a lot, but I've stoppeddoing it.
I haven't done it in probablytwo years, maybe.
Um, and I've I've just stopped,I just I decided to stop doing
it, and and I'm okay with it.
My wrinkles are coming back, Ihave that big big wrinkle across
my forehead, but whatever, I'mfine with it.

(10:59):
I am looking forward to actuallyaging and showing my age.
I am looking forward to it.
Okay, I'm I'm got off trackhere.
So uh let's move on to thequestion of the day.
All right, in the in the honorof I guess uh Halloween, what is
your favorite candy?
What's your favorite candy bar?
I love a Milky Way darkchocolate.

(11:22):
Oh, I don't care what kind of adiet I'm on.
If I see a Milky Way darkchocolate, I'm buying it and I'm
eating it right there.
I love a Milky Way darkchocolate.
That's my favorite.
It's actually called midnight, Ithink it is.
All right, whatever.
What's your favorite candy bar?
All right, gotta go.
Thanks for listening.

unknown (11:39):
Bye.