May 8, 2025 • 45 mins
Maddy McClain returns from a mini-hiatus to share the latest headlines & personal stories she deems vulnerable. Your usual Easily Entertained pop culture madness, from turning thirty to the start of the highly anticipated Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' federal criminal trial.
• Introduction of the "Quietly Losing My Shit" segment where Maddy shares personal moments of vulnerability... among other things that tend to lead to crashing out
• Reflections on turning thirty and comparing ourselves to past and future versions
• Lady Gaga's record-breaking Brazil concert that drew 2.5 million fans and the foiled bomb threat
• Bill Belichick's relationship with 24-year-old Jordan Hudson and the internet's reaction
• Detailed breakdown of P. Diddy's federal trial beginning, including the celebrity witness list
• Jury selection stories and creative excuses people are using to avoid serving on the Diddy case
• Updates on podcast schedule shifting to bi-weekly episodes temporarily
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Maddy McClain (00:12):
Hello, homies, and welcome to Easily
Entertained with your host, yourpop culture sherpa, Maddy
McClain, here to guide youthrough the latest in pop
culture, from entertainment newsand Hollywood to internet
convos, and my latest findingsfrom my doom scrolling
adventures that I've been knownto dive into here and there,
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along with a sprinkle of poppsychology, just for good
measure, but unlicensed, ofcourse, just unlicensed pop
psychology.
Anyways, we are back fromsomewhat of a mini hiatus.
It's been a few weeks and Imissed you guys.
There's been so much going on,not only in the pop culture
universe and world at large myfavorite phrase to make things
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sound just a wee bit moreintelligent but also in my
personal life.
So today we are talking how Iam quietly losing my shit across
an array of topics, includingBill Bilicek and his
delightfully young girlfriendand the latest ripples and waves
that they've made in the media,as well as Lady Gaga's recent
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concert scare in herrecord-breaking concert in
Brazil.
We'll get into that in a minute.
And our biggest topic today, orthis week, is Sean P Diddy
Combs, because the notorious,the infamous trial that we've
been leading into for a whilenow started this week.
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It began on Cinco de Mayo aswell as Met Gala Monday, so the
irony has not missed me thereand I hope it hasn't missed you
either.
Who knows?
We're going to talk all aboutit, so I hope you stick around
and enjoy this week's episode.
Let's get right into it Now.
We started this new seasonintroducing somewhat of a new
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topic, or new segment, really,that I like to call Quietly
Losing my Shit.
It's very gracefully named, sowe can all hold space a la
Ariana Grande and Cynthia fromWicked, and get a little Brene
Brown vulnerable together, ifyou will.
You can't tell by my immediateuse of humor.
It's like my default setting,really, so it annoys some people
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.
So if you don't like that, weprobably won't get along.
All that to say, this is a stepnonetheless.
I'll start off with just like alight seasoning of
vulnerability.
The most recent time that I feelas though I was exposed for the
world.
It was a rainy Wednesdayevening and it was about 8pm.
I have no groceries, nothing inmy fridge.
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I mean, if the gun to my head,I'm sure I could have put
something together, but I didn'thave the brain power for that.
So I decided to go across theway to God's favorite grocery
store.
That would be H-E-B HowardEdward Butt.
So I took my little self overto H-E-B and I also didn't have
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brainpower to think of likesomething healthy and fun and
unique to whip together.
So I just went to the frozenfood aisle, as one does, got
myself a Rao's frozen pizza.
Okay, so it's like not, youknow, we're not going to
DiGiorno's level, although Ilove me a good DiGiorno's but we
got Rao's so frozen pizza.
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Grab myself a bottle of wine,cause why not?
It was a long week, okay, andremembered that I needed toilet
paper too.
So might as well grab that.
Something about that combotoilet paper, frozen pizza and a
bottle of wine.
And I also was raw dogging itLike I didn't have a grocery
cart or anything.
Um, was extremely, extremelyhumiliating, like it was
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horrifying already for somereason.
Like walking into your house orwhatever in public.
Like carrying toilet paper,call me whatever.
I hate it.
I feel so uncomfortable, I feelso self-conscious.
Like walking into your house orwhatever in public.
Like carrying toilet paper,call me whatever.
I hate it.
I feel so uncomfortable, I feelso self-conscious.
But that's on social anxietyAnyways.
So that was really that.
Felt vulnerable.
It felt like a big deal.
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I was trying not to pay to makeeye contact with anybody,
although I could feel it.
You know what I mean, I couldjust sense it and of course I
was like, okay, perfect, we'llgo to self-checkout then to
avoid human interaction as muchas possible.
They need to ID you for thatbottle of wine.
So I had to not only you know,have said human interaction, I
had to draw more attention tomyself and pressing that little
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button or please remove your ID,and you have to stand there and
, anyways, my fault, my fault,but yeah, kind of felt a little
bit like vulnerability exposuretherapy, if that's a thing I
don't know.
Um, it's pretty evolved and youmay ask yourself, wow, how is
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Maddie McLean so evolved?
And I'll tell you why.
Maybe it's because I've enteredmy thirties, ladies and
gentlemen.
Yes, and they say my frontallobe is fully developed,
allegedly.
So that is great and you'd beright for the most part.
So leads me to say I am, I haveto admit I'm quietly I guess
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not in this case I'm quietlylosing my shit over turning 30.
And I never thought I would bethat person.
I also made it a point to neverbe that person and I haven't,
like, been scared of gettingolder or hating their birthdays
or anything like that.
And trust me, if you askanybody who's been around me
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longer than I don't know a yearwill tell you that that part I
do have down pat.
I love a good birthday.
I'm one of those birthdaybitches that loves their
birthday.
It's a month Only to those youknow really close to me.
It's a month Kidding Sort of.
I won't lie to you.
We're all about honesty hereand vulnerability.
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I won't lie to you.
We're all about honesty hereand vulnerability, right, but I
have to say it's really alifestyle.
Okay, just ask Drake, he knows.
But I have to say the big 3-0lore kind of got to me.
So this time around already,birthdays get you uber
reflective and just likethinking about everything in
your life.
For me, like my inner monologue, tends to go quite negative.
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At first we're working on thatfrontal lobe developing, but
yeah, I found myself thinkingabout that.
And birthdays, they alreadytend to force the reflection
right.
But this one, this one feelslike a timestamp, like a red
flag, like a marker.
You know a pretty obvious oneand you know it had me Carrie
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Bradshaw, all CarrieBradshaw-like thinking.
We always talk about howcomparison is the thief of joy,
and that's very accurate.
In fact, that is a large partof most of where the negativity
I feel like when it comes tobirthdays comes from.
Is this whole comparingourselves to others?
But we always talk about it interms of comparing ourselves to
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other people.
Right, but what about?
Okay?
What about when we compareourselves to ourselves, our past
version, our past selves, whowe were in the like I don't know
?
For example, you look at a 10thgrade picture of yourself and
you're like damn, I looked sogood.
What happened?
That's like a very light, lowkey version of what I'm talking
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about, but you get me.
Or maybe it's the version ofourselves that doesn't really
exist yet, but we know we wantto be or want to do eventually.
I find myself doing that thesedays far more often than
comparing myself to other people.
I still do it.
I'm not perfect and I'm human,but that can get like very
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tricky.
It can be almost just asdamaging.
I feel like if you have acritical inner monologue, like
you know myself, I feel like weall do.
It's all about kind of managingit a little bit.
You know that was a bit of apast, the blunt past, the
thought there but I figured, whynot?
We're easily entertained overhere.
I'm still trying to figure outwhere to look in the camera, so
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work with me here.
So this birthday is we'reapproaching and my birthday is
in April, late April.
I'm a tourist what up, what upLike myself.
When I look back on the past fewyears, I've found myself on
somewhat of a roller coaster,taking me in directions that I
didn't necessarily want to orplan to go, as life does.
And there's always that saying,a man or human you make plans
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and God laughs.
I used to fully believe thatand say that to other people out
loud, kind of in a jokey way.
But the more I think about it,the more I don't like it and
disagree with it.
First of all, I don't thinkthat's God's nature, but it's
just the nature of life and Idon't think that anybody's, that
God's laughing at us.
I do think if you put too muchweight into your plans and hold
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on to them really tightly andyou only want it to go the
version you see it going yeah,maybe God will giggle, because
that's us just trying to be hima little bit.
You know what I mean.
And nobody wants me, nobodywants me to play that role and
nobody asked either, fully aware, in particular, if I could take
you down briefly in the last,this five-year cycle of the
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beginning of COVID, let's go2020, right, I made plans and in
that moment of time and Ibelieved that God was laughing
at me, because I was fresh outof semi fresh out of college,
I'd been working in an ad agencyfor three years and I was
already feeling burnt out.
So, number one.
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But I immediately jumped intothat corporate game and I was so
down to will just becompetitive.
We're taught that too.
It's natural for all of us tothen compete and, you know, be
the whole first one in, last oneout of the office, toxic
bullshit.
That whole thing led to a quickburnout, and so I was planning
just a mini few month longsabbatical.
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I yes, I am lucky to be able todo so, but I had made the plans
.
I was going to go to SoutheastAsia, yada, yada, and the day
came for me to quit my job.
So I quit my job at the agencyand the very next day I shit you
not was when COVID shut officesdown for the next foreseeable
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future.
But at the time, remember, wethought we'll just wait it out.
It's only a matter of time,yeah, but the beautiful part of
that is that it did come allaround and I did make my
Southeast Asia sabbatical trip,and it always happens in the
right timing, you know, it justtakes.
It takes more time to look backand be able to see why maybe
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not why, but how that thing thatdidn't go your way led you to
the thing that was supposed togo your way.
You dig.
Then I moved back home to Austinand then found myself another
job and it was perfect on paperand I really did learn a lot.
I'm so grateful for that job,but I use the same habits and
lifestyle that just put me rightback down the path to burnout
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again.
So we left and we're tryingfreelancing in this podcast and
we're trying something new, andI think I was kind of having my
quarter life crisis.
So if you're in a place in yourlife where you don't know
what's next or you're not sure,but what you are sure of is that
it's something different, I'mwith you.
I'm with you and something funI think I might add on.
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And if you follow me on TikTok,maddie is easily entertained.
I'll be putting more stuff onthere, but I was thinking about
sharing some of the things I'mlearning from the career coach
and it's almost like a lifecoach therapist.
I mean, I've gone to therapyfor like seven years.
Believe it or not, it uses allof that.
So she was recommended by mytherapist.
So you were really gettingvulnerable, yeah.
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So I just really wanted to getreal with you and let you know
that I'm in that place right nowwhere I'm not entirely sure
what to do, and right on theheels of a birthday when you're
like thinking about oh my God,what did 16 year old me picture
as 30 year old version of me?
And I can tell you it was alittle bit different than from
what's happening now.
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But that's also the beauty ofgrowing older and maturing is
frontal lobe developing and Inow have the ability to see that
.
You know, get a little wiserand see that maybe things aren't
happening to us, but they'rehappening for us and whether you
believe that because of ahigher power or the universe or
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ourselves or whatever it is,once you shifted to that
thinking, it's made shit a wholelot easier for me.
I spent in between I mean reallyleading up to launching this
podcast.
I was terrified of puttingmyself out there and this has
always been something I want todo, like I was that kid that had
her, I had like a comp.
Whatever my model shots, Iwanted to be an actress.
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Okay, that's where I wasgetting at.
And then life kind of justscared me away from putting
myself out there, which is notuncommon.
After coming out of a reallypainful time of my life, after I
moved back like 2022, I fellinto a very toxic, emotionally
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abusive relationship and now Ican say and as crazy as this may
sound, I am so grateful forthat experience and for how I
learned so much about myself,and it's all about how you then
use that to react and alchemizethat kind of thing.
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Anyways, I'm getting wayoutside of the topic of easily
entertained, so we're going tobring it right back.
But after getting through thatreally reflective in my thoughts
, in my feels, time periodleading into turning 30, I had
so much fun with a bunch of mygirlfriends.
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We went out to Fredericksburgsome wineries out there that's
in Texas for those that don'tknow, and so we're not really
known for wine or wine making byany means.
I think they get some imported,but it's still not until you
try it.
I was quite surprised.
It'd been a long time since I'dgone to these wineries.
Quite good and it's alwaysrefreshing.
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Well, I don't know aboutrefreshing or relaxing, but it's
.
It is refreshing for your souland a ton of fun to go on a
girl's trip.
Girl's trips are the best andgirls are the best.
Yay, woo, woo, woo, rah, raw,raw, shish goomba, something
else that's pop culture.
Adjacent that's been making mequietly lose my shit lately is
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one of the latest of Trump'stariffs.
While this is not at all not atall the most important like
probably the least importantthis is a pop culture podcast
after all.
So he's now coming for ourmovies.
Hollywood is in a panic afterTrump proposed 100% tariffs on
all films US films that areproduced outside of the US.
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Now, this is exactly what hesaid.
Mr Trump said he had authorizedJameson Greer, the United
States trade representative, tobegin the process of taxing any
and all movies coming into ourcountry that are produced in
foreign lands.
Mr Trump added this is aconcerted effort by other
nations and therefore a nationalsecurity threat.
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Okay, the Motion PictureAssociation, which represents
the biggest hollywood studios inwashington, declined to comment
, as is often the case with mrtrump's declarations on social
media, it was not entirely clearwhat he was talking about.
Did he mean any movie,including independent foreign
language films, art housecinemas or movies playing
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exclusively on streamingservices?
Time will tell.
This is is from a New York Timesarticle I just read from.
Now, majority of American filmsare actually made outside of
the US Produced that is.
So it gets a little bit.
I guess the way they're slicingand dicing it is a little bit
of like word salad Everythingoutside of the cameras rolling,
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filming, you know, on location,on set part.
So like the scripting, casting,you know, things like that pre
production that usually, atleast for American films, does
happen in the States.
But it's the filming part thatmost people will choose, or
major companies will choose, tofilm outside of the US for well,
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one big reason really money.
But some countries like UK,hungary, australia, new Zealand
and Canada and among others,will also offer tax incentives.
So major incentive to do so.
And there is this is taking awayjobs.
Obviously, if you're movingsomething to another country,
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that's a way generally fromAmerican jobs, but it is taking
away middle, the middle classportion essentially of those
jobs, like camera operators,onset designers, makeup artists.
They called it middle class inthis article.
I don't really know about that,but basically not the super
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majorly you know absorbentlypaid producers, directors or
actors.
Outside of that.
Their jobs are of course safe,but you know people that aren't
getting paid so much.
Their jobs are in jeopardy.
But when I looked into thenumbers we've lost, we've lost
Hollywood's lost around 15,000jobs like those in the last.
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It said three years, so like5,000 a year, comparatively not
a ton.
Hollywood's kind of scramblingand freaking out Budgeting is
already a crazy thing, becauseif you are the movies that are
only choosing to film in the U S, usually it's a budget thing
and then even still filming hereand like in places like LA or
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wherever, it still does cost alot here.
We'll see what happens likethat and hopefully we're not
seeing the white Lotus filmed atlike the Lubbock motel five
next season.
So cross your fingers on thatone, although there's like a lot
bigger fish to fry.
Um, just saying.
Next, in our pop culture newsnuggets we have sorry, I just
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got really into it for a momentover this last weekend Lady Gaga
broke records for the highestattended concert by a female
artist woo woo women by bringingover 2.5 million fans to a free
God bless her free concert atRio's Copacabana Beach, and this
was this last Saturday.
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It was the previous recordholder was Madonna.
It was also a free concert, butLady Gaga called it mayhem on
the beach after her latest albumand she, I guess, hadn't
performed in Brazil for sometime now five, somewhere like
five to 10 years and she's got abig Brazilian fan base,
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obviously.
I for one, by the way, dying togo to Brazil.
I had the pleasure of workingwith a bunch of Brazilians, as
in my last job the lastcorporate job, that is and they
were the nicest, funniest people.
I always loved meetings withthem, and that's like crazy, who
likes meetings?
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Anyways, I'll show you some ofthe videos of the concert.
I mean, wow, massive, probablya nightmare if you have a fear
of large crowds or likeclaustrophobia.
Luckily, everything, everybodywas fine, everyone was safe.
However, it wasn't until thefollowing day, on Sunday morning
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.
We learned the next morning fromBrazilian police and
authorities that they hadactually foiled an alleged bomb
threat.
There was a group of peoplethat were planning to set off a
bomb at the concert, but thepolice were able to arrest the
suspects and keep things reallyunder wraps because the arrest
happened the day before or theday of the concert and they
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decided not to tell people inorder to make sure everyone
remained calm and to avoid panic.
I don't, I don't know.
I definitely don't have to makethose kinds of major decisions
like that, but I don't know if Iknew about that.
I feel like I'd want to knowabout that, because what if they
didn't get everybody, but theydid?
They did Hallelujah and I'mlike mean that.
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Unfortunately, this is somethingthat us in the United States
are not foreign to and,unfortunately, same for around
the world in terms of concerts.
For example, just last year,taylor Swift, a similar thing
happened to her concert inVienna.
That was foiled, but theycanceled the concert and that
didn't move forward.
Different circumstances,different situation.
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I suppose At the show they hadlike over 5000 military and
police officer presence at theBrazilian show for Lady Gaga.
So keeping everybody safe andthank God.
Really scary and allegedly itwas a group of people motivated
by hate speech and anti LGBTQ,homophobic beliefs, whatever you
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want to call them, and luckilyeveryone was safe and Gaga made
a statement that she's very gladand she learned too that the
following day about the plot.
So it's kind of crazy and also,in terms of another concert,
almost like mishap.
I saw some videos on TikTok andBeyonce nearly missed getting
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literally like bitch slapped bythese robotic arms that are part
of her show.
If you look it up it's for thesong Ego, I think it is.
I guess in this particularvenue the stage managers or
whatever didn't mark her placeand luckily she has muscle
memory so knew exactly where tostand.
But where she's standing, causelike these robotic arms of
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three different robots that weremoving around her and like
close to her face.
Um, it's like in this dragportion where it's basically
like picture frames surroundingher face moving around, scary,
scary and you can actually seethe fear in her face.
And for a performer likeBeyonce has done that every day,
every day, and can put on likea fake face that you could like
see the fear, that was prettyscary.
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You should totally look it up.
Like nothing obviously happens,but you can kind of tell she's
like looking around herfrantically.
Anyways, if I can figure outhow to put it on this video, by
the time this podcast is outyou'll see it on the video.
All right, now let's talk aboutone of the strangest celebrity
adjacent pairings I've seen insome time.
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Um, that's really dominatingthe gossip circle right now and
that is Bill Belichick.
Yes, that, bill Belichick.
And if you're lost again, not asports podcast, pop culture
podcast, but stick with me here.
Bill Bilicek, if you don'tfollow sports, has a new
girlfriend, by the way, and hername is Jordan Hudson.
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Bill Bilicek is the formercoach, head coach of the New
England Patriots, best known forhis hoodies, his complete lack
of facial expressions and, aswell as coaching, the one, the
only I don't know like.
Is he like a dinosaur?
He's like not real Tom Brady.
That's who to six Super Bowlwins.
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He's basically the NFL's answerto a grumpy grandpa, who also
happens to be a football genius.
He's also 72 years old.
He is newly single aftersomewhat of a long-term
relationship that ended, I guess, in 2023.
Enter 24-year-old pageant girlwho reads Jordan Hudson.
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So apparently the story goesthese two met on a flight back
in 2021 and bonded over JordanHudson's book that she was
reading, a philosophy book, asOne Does midair, and he signed
her book for her, and they keptin touch via email for a few
years and eventually turned intoa full-on relationship and
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potentially also like aworkplace relationship as well.
So Jordan Hudson is nowreportedly his new girlfriend.
She's now posting photos onInstagram, particularly the
Halloween costume outfit with 72year old Bill Belichick as like
, like fishermen catching amermaid fish, which is his
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girlfriend.
Yeah, he's doing things, I'lltell you what.
And now she may be also asunofficial publicist, because
when you think who will lead thestrategic PR for an NFL team,
you think a recently graduated Iguess not that recently, but
semi some 30, a 24 year old whohas most experience in the
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pageant world.
I'm sure she's smart and that'sgreat, but it seems like a
strange fit for, you know, an exfor a major NFL Titan coach
like Bill Belichick.
Now they started popping up inthe scene because of the super
awkward, cringy CBS Sundaymorning interview that started
making the rounds.
So they were going on.
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They Bill was being interviewedby a CBS morning host, mostly
just promote his book, and he'sa very private person for the
most part, so it's not rare thathe doesn't want to share all
these details.
But it's like CBS morning news,which is basically like a layup
to a.
Really, you know, it's a puffpiece, they're going to be sweet
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to you.
So they asked him.
You know, here's Jordan Hudsonhere with you at this interview.
Like you tell us, you know howdid you guys meet?
And you hear her, they showthis, they release this footage
that CBS did, jordan going Nope,we're not talking about this
and being just like sittingright there and CBS mentions she
was right there throughout theduration of our interview and
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word is they released it becausethat was like the least
overbearing part of theinterview and he was also major
reason why Mr Bill Belichick inthis interview was wearing a
sweatshirt with like a big, bigold hole right on his shoulder,
like a distressed hoodie.
You know that you get atForever 21.
Like a distressed hoodie, youknow that you get it forever 21.
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So then the internet went wildand is saying he's clearly
uncomfortable, almost robotic,and felt like someone dragged
their dad into a tiktok danceand, um, people are wondering if
he needs help, if he is beingheld hostage by jordan, which,
let me say, interesting.
I think the reaction is largelythis way because of the
audience pool of the NFL andit's like a woman who God forbid
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a woman like also have you knowskills that could help in
business too.
But whatever, it was the wayshe did it and him wearing a
torn hoodie.
We even had Dave Portnoy fromBarstool weigh in and this is a
man who's been in several agegap relationships himself.
So for him to be talking aboutit and for his own interview,
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behavior is says something.
So that's when you see DavePortnoy talking about is this
man being held hostage by thisyoung girl says something?
I will say 72 and 24.
Wow, I don't want to shameanyone for falling in love first
of all, or for age gaprelationships, because they
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happen and in fact, I mean I'mkind of into that.
So I think it all depends onphase of life, the age that you
meet.
So if you meet and the person'slike 18 and the other person is
like 45, there's a powerimbalance.
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There's a lot of things at playhere.
So just keep that in mind.
But seeing these two inparticular, and then knowing
like she's stepping in, shestarted filing trademarks left
and right.
Now she's posting Instagramlike receipts of Bill's emails.
It's just not looking like thekind of PR that Bill's
historically done.
So that's why people are also alittle bit confused by this
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behavior.
People Magazine released arecent article asking Bill
Bilicek's three kids, who areall 10 plus years older than his
new girlfriend, what they think.
And they were as polite as theycould be, I suppose, but said
you know, it is a realrelationship.
We hope things work out reallywell.
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And that was pretty much all ofthe quote, so you can read into
that however you please.
And then people also.
Other aspect was that story ofthe meeting on the plane.
Is that not true?
And, like you guys, it's neverbeen true.
Think about it.
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I'm not going to assume, butI'm assuming right now that
maybe he asked her to be hisdate once, if you catch my drift
and said he loved her so muchthat he would, you know, pay her
to be his date because shewould miss work, anyways.
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So what do you think?
What do you think about thisrelationship?
What do you think aboutpeople's reactions to everyone
saying this girl, jordan Hudson,is holding Bill Belichick
hostage?
Can anyone really do that?
I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see how long that lasts,because then, if you look it up
now, he's already.
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Word on the street is that he'salready shopping around for a
new PR representative after hedid say they have both a
romantic and now, um, why can'tI think of the word for business
relationship, but they havethat as well, and she is in fact
working, as in you know, for PRand we see how well that's
going.
So we'll see.
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Although his book is selling,it is selling, I guess in this
case.
You know, any talk is good talk.
Bad talk is good talk becausehis newly released book and
autobiography is at the top ofthe charts.
Not that I'm going to read it.
Cinco de Mayo this year waspacked with pop culture activity
.
Met Gala Monday fell on Cincode Mayo and this year's theme
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shone a light on black designerswith the theme super fine,
tailoring black style, and itpaid tribute to black dandyism,
which was a style that wasforced upon slaves in the past
but was later reclaimed as amessage in and of itself.
You can see.
By the way, I'll post some ofmy favorite outfits on the
Instagram, which is easilyentertained pod.
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If you don't already follow,what are you doing?
But this year for one previousMet Gala attendee at least at
some point in the past, shitlooks a little different.
We're looks a little different.
We're wearing a different suitand this time, instead of a
tailored black one, he's wearinga prison one.
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He's wearing a prison suit.
There was a better way to likeget into that transition there,
but that's okay, because whileHollywood was out there serving
camp on the Met Gala stepsacross the country in New York,
a very different kind of dramawas unfolding in a New York
courtroom Because on May 5th,the federal trial for P Diddy,
sean Combs, puff, daddy, lovewhich is hilarious that he
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called himself Love, lookingback it officially began on
Monday with a jury selection, noless.
Yeah, so finding a jury is goingto be really, really hard.
But before I give you thelatest on the updates there from
this week, how did we get here?
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Let's rewind, shall we?
So?
Sean Combs, rap mogul, fashionking, music exec and former
party thrower of the centuryWell, all those words may seem
like a little bit of BS now, ashe's now been accused by
multiple women and I mean lotsof people, men and women of sex
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trafficking, abuse and runningwhat prosecutors are calling a
full-blown criminal enterprise.
Like Diddy, dirty Money was notsupposed to be this literal, I
don't think.
And one of the biggest updatesleading into this trial is that
Cassie, diddy's formerex-girlfriend of many years, who
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broke open the watergates ofthis entire federal trial with
her very brave lawsuit.
She will actually be testifyingat the trial.
She initially filed under JaneDoe anonymously, but she's
standing ten toes down and willbe in the courtroom and her
legal team says she's ready tospeak on the record as Cassie or
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Cassandra about the abuse sheendured during their decade long
relationship.
And it's not just Cassie.
So the center of this trial,the one that's focusing on there
, are three other women that arecentral to this.
It's centering on four cases.
Although wait for it he hasover 50 lawsuits against him
right now.
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So Diddy's legal team wasfuriously trying to limit the
damage leading into the trialbeginning.
They had filed a motion tostrike any allegations that were
not directly tied to those fourcases, basically saying you
know, let's not bring upanything else that makes me look
bad, which is what you knowevery defendant will do and
every lawyer that's doing thejob will have them do.
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But part of that is they'realso asking to subpoena all of
Warner Brothers and HBO'sfootage, used and unused, so raw
, unedited footage for theirfall of Diddy docu-series, um,
where two of the alleged victimsfor this case participated.
So we'll see.
They haven't ruled on that yet,at least at the time of
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recording.
But it's an interestingquestion because usually
journalists and people like inthe media, the free press, are
never, not, never, but arerarely forced to pass over that
kind of thing simply because ofethics and media and granting
people the right to theiranonymity and such being on and
off the record.
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This isn't his first time in atrial in a courtroom either.
Years back, when he was firststarting out as a producer and
setting up events, there was aterrible tragedy of just
overcrowding.
People lost their lives and hekind of got away with it and the
venue was the one who got introuble essentially.
But I mean among other like gunposition charges and things
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like that.
So it's not all necessarily new, but this time it's for real,
because these charges they'reserious and they're scary and I
hope his ass gets nailed to thewall, allegedly Leading into the
beginning of jury selection.
This week Diddy has officiallybeen in prison hands.
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He's been locked up for sevenmonths, so that's pretty wild.
Already he should have beenlocked up for a lot longer, but
the way that this has moved soquickly, at least in the public
sphere, is definitely it's goingto get faster and it's going to
get wilder and we willrecognize a lot of names.
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Whether or not they'rewitnesses or they're defendants
we'll see During jury selection.
Alongside the standard, they'llpass out a list of somewhere
around 15 questions about thecenter of some of the biggest
issues or charges of the case,to see if these jury members can
be impartial.
And so names of a bunch ofeither potential witnesses,
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defendants and people involved.
They don't make clear, but alot of names were already
mentioned and this list readslike a fever dream.
We've got Kid Cudi, my boy,don't worry, wait for it, he's
fine.
Michelle Williams of Destiny'sChild not the Oscar nominee
actress, michael B Jordan.
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Mike Myers as in Austin Powersis Mike Myers, among quite a few
others, including Kanye West.
We have lots of questions, zeroanswers, but I do have
speculation for some of thesenames.
So for context, kid Cudi's nameappeared in Cassie's original
lawsuit, which alleged thatDiddy allegedly blew up Kid
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Cudi's car in front of his houseone time because he was, I
guess, jealous or annoyed.
Kid Cudi and Cassie likebriefly dated in between, I
suppose, when Diddy and Cassiebroke up so when they're on a
little bit of a break andbasically forced somebody else
to help him too in order tobreak in and then dropped like a
allegedly some sort of likeMolotov cocktail into his car
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and it blew up, and kid cuddyhas confirmed this.
That's where kid cuddy's namecomes from.
Kanye's name was also beenfloating around the case.
He may be the one that I'mquite sure isn't just a witness
but may be involved, given thosereally weird phone calls that
were leaked um of a recent callbetween kanye and diddy while
diddy was in jail.
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And it's just weird.
They're like both kissing eachother's butts and like a gotcha
man essentially.
But yeah, kanye is not knownfor making good decisions, so
that's not that surprising, bythe way, for those that love
Michael B Jordan.
So you're not freaking out.
In Cassie's lawsuit he was alsohe's named as a witness.
Basically he and Cassie'slawsuit he was also he's named
as a witness.
Basically he and Cassie datedbriefly in 2015.
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Michael B Jordan and Cassie whenthey were filming, I guess, a
movie.
It says they were filming amovie in Cape Town, south Africa
, and they began a flirtatiousrelationship spending New Year's
Eve together.
But Mr Combs soon found out,called the actor, threatened him
.
But Mr Combs soon found out,called the actor, threatened him
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and, uh, I guess Michael BJordan told Cassie, you really
need to call P Diddy and get himoff my jock, probably.
Um, there's also chatter aboutwitnesses potentially testifying
under pseudonyms for safety.
So essentially, inside thecourtroom, probably the big
famous witnesses that we'retalking about now too, I mean
some will be obvious but willtestify under fake names or
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pseudonyms, some even just under, like Jane Doe or something
like that, and it can play out afew different ways.
Like the court will see theperson and know who they are.
They may not get their namelike the jury and such um.
They can see them testify.
Basically they can be disguisedor something, and usually it's
in cases where their safety isat risk, if their identity is
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known for things likeretaliation, and in this case,
yeah, p diddy is known toretaliate.
He's already.
There have been uh whispers ofcreators of tiktok, even people
outside of the major, like theydon't have millions of followers
being accosted and harassed bysome of Diddy's team, allegedly
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to get them to stop putting outthis kind of information.
So it's still unclear too ifDiddy will be taking the stand
himself with a man with thatkind of hubris, that kind of
narcissist-like vibes.
I could see that happening in alot of true crime cases, it's
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usually the real psychopathsthat choose to represent
themselves, definitely notrecommended by most lawyers.
So we'll see what gets broughtup in this case.
I think there are a lot ofstories and we'll I will break
them down for you as they come.
The case will get messy, and italready has.
While the celebrity names arealready pretty wild, let's not
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lose sight also of what theseriousness of this case is
about.
We're talking abuse,trafficking, power run amok,
drugs being used, horrible, likehundreds of people's lives
being ruined.
So just keep in mind that whilewe talk about this and I make
talk about it lightly here andthere that it's still very, very
serious.
So, as of recording, juryselection is still underway.
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They're hoping to get it doneby the end of today, wednesday,
may 7th, but odds are notlooking good because nobody
wants to be on this jury.
First of all, it's estimated tolast eight to 10 weeks and lots
of companies most companiesreally won't pay you for those
days you're serving jury duty.
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They'll give you like $15 orsomething like that usually.
So that's two months, no pay,very little pay.
So already a lot of peopledon't want that.
Then B we're hearing of thesestories of he did equal.
He's clearly a very powerful,rich man with the ability to
keep a lot of people silent andscare a lot of people.
So that's another factor that'splaying into this.
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But some of the excuses this iswhere we can get a little light
because people are gettingcreative.
One person walked up and this isday two of jury selection, so
they had some time to thinkabout it.
I guess the judge asked did youhave anything that could
prevent you from being, you know, from serving on this jury or
whatever?
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She allegedly said yeah.
So I have this reaction where Ican go unconscious and
sometimes pass out and faint atthe mention of anything sexual
or seeing any sort of sexualimagery.
Ah, that's good.
Somebody else came up and saidjust straight up, was like I
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looked it up on the train on theway here and then, because of
that, though the I guess it wasthe prosecution was like okay,
you can stay.
And defendants were like no,obviously.
No, kick him out, get him outof here.
Another one somebody did whateverybody wanted to do and
really let their, their what isit called?
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Their impulsive thoughts takeover and just said did he do it?
And they're like, okay, get himout, get him out.
Just people making up excusesleft and right of strange
bizarre things.
Someone was just like I have abum knee so I don't think I can
do it.
One of my other personalfavorite jury responses
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potential juror responses wasthis there's a dude sitting next
to the judge.
The judge asked him okay, so isthere anything you think that
will prevent you from serving onthis jury?
He goes well, yeah, I smokeweed every day and at least once
or twice.
And I don't, I don't know, Idon't know if I could not.
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Judge goes okay, well, ifyou're on this jury, I'm going
to make it a mandate, I'm goingto make it required.
You must avoid stop smokingweed for the duration of the
trial.
Can you handle that?
And he was like I don't know.
So of course the judge saidokay, all right, you're excused.
I just I'm wondering what Iwould say, because low key, I
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think.
Obviously here I am talkingabout it.
So I think I would maybe pay tobe on the jury.
So, unless I ended up goingmissing, like allegedly one of
the witnesses allegedly one ofthe witnesses police can't get
in touch with still and they'vebeen trying for months and
months.
So it's scary out there, y'all.
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I really hope that.
I feel like there is a potentialthat he could go free, just
based on.
I mean, anything is possiblethese days, especially in this
timeline we're existing in, butI hope that's not the case,
because it's not looking good.
They got to find 12.
I think that is possible.
Got to keep in mind that moreand more of the algorithms are
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keeping us within our siloedlittle news cycles.
So, while it feels like there'sno way in hell to me but people
can't know, like there arepeople that have no idea who P
Diddy is.
We will see.
Stay tuned.
I'll keep you posted oneverything P Diddy.
You can also follow me onTikTok.
Maddie is easily entertained.
We all have more frequentupdates and I'll be using that a
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lot more these days andInstagram easily entertained pod
.
But, as always, thank you somuch for listening.
I am so excited to be sittingon camera now for listening.
I'm so excited to be sitting oncamera now and we have lots of
exciting things down thepipeline, lots of exciting
guests, and we are potentiallyswitching to bi-weekly episodes,
(44:31):
just for the time being, justfor the next few months.
While I get a few personalthings in order.
Your girl's got to move.
Where to?
We literally don't, don't knowyet.
Yay, that probably makes allyou type a's want to cry.
But yeah, that's today'sepisode.
I will talk to you guys nextweek.
Bye, homies, I don't know howto end this on the camera.
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That's weird.
Bye, bye, bye now, bye, see ya,okay, bye.
Hello, homies, and welcome to Easily
Entertained with your host, yourpop culture sherpa, Maddy
McClain, here to guide youthrough the latest in pop
culture, from entertainment newsand Hollywood to internet
convos, and my latest findingsfrom my doom scrolling
adventures that I've been knownto dive into here and there,
(00:34):
along with a sprinkle of poppsychology, just for good
measure, but unlicensed, ofcourse, just unlicensed pop
psychology.
Anyways, we are back fromsomewhat of a mini hiatus.
It's been a few weeks and Imissed you guys.
There's been so much going on,not only in the pop culture
universe and world at large myfavorite phrase to make things
(00:58):
sound just a wee bit moreintelligent but also in my
personal life.
So today we are talking how Iam quietly losing my shit across
an array of topics, includingBill Bilicek and his
delightfully young girlfriendand the latest ripples and waves
that they've made in the media,as well as Lady Gaga's recent
(01:23):
concert scare in herrecord-breaking concert in
Brazil.
We'll get into that in a minute.
And our biggest topic today, orthis week, is Sean P Diddy
Combs, because the notorious,the infamous trial that we've
been leading into for a whilenow started this week.
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It began on Cinco de Mayo aswell as Met Gala Monday, so the
irony has not missed me thereand I hope it hasn't missed you
either.
Who knows?
We're going to talk all aboutit, so I hope you stick around
and enjoy this week's episode.
Let's get right into it Now.
We started this new seasonintroducing somewhat of a new
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topic, or new segment, really,that I like to call Quietly
Losing my Shit.
It's very gracefully named, sowe can all hold space a la
Ariana Grande and Cynthia fromWicked, and get a little Brene
Brown vulnerable together, ifyou will.
You can't tell by my immediateuse of humor.
It's like my default setting,really, so it annoys some people
(02:29):
.
So if you don't like that, weprobably won't get along.
All that to say, this is a stepnonetheless.
I'll start off with just like alight seasoning of
vulnerability.
The most recent time that I feelas though I was exposed for the
world.
It was a rainy Wednesdayevening and it was about 8pm.
I have no groceries, nothing inmy fridge.
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I mean, if the gun to my head,I'm sure I could have put
something together, but I didn'thave the brain power for that.
So I decided to go across theway to God's favorite grocery
store.
That would be H-E-B HowardEdward Butt.
So I took my little self overto H-E-B and I also didn't have
(03:12):
brainpower to think of likesomething healthy and fun and
unique to whip together.
So I just went to the frozenfood aisle, as one does, got
myself a Rao's frozen pizza.
Okay, so it's like not, youknow, we're not going to
DiGiorno's level, although Ilove me a good DiGiorno's but we
got Rao's so frozen pizza.
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Grab myself a bottle of wine,cause why not?
It was a long week, okay, andremembered that I needed toilet
paper too.
So might as well grab that.
Something about that combotoilet paper, frozen pizza and a
bottle of wine.
And I also was raw dogging itLike I didn't have a grocery
cart or anything.
Um, was extremely, extremelyhumiliating, like it was
(03:57):
horrifying already for somereason.
Like walking into your house orwhatever in public.
Like carrying toilet paper,call me whatever.
I hate it.
I feel so uncomfortable, I feelso self-conscious.
Like walking into your house orwhatever in public.
Like carrying toilet paper,call me whatever.
I hate it.
I feel so uncomfortable, I feelso self-conscious.
But that's on social anxietyAnyways.
So that was really that.
Felt vulnerable.
It felt like a big deal.
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I was trying not to pay to makeeye contact with anybody,
although I could feel it.
You know what I mean, I couldjust sense it and of course I
was like, okay, perfect, we'llgo to self-checkout then to
avoid human interaction as muchas possible.
They need to ID you for thatbottle of wine.
So I had to not only you know,have said human interaction, I
had to draw more attention tomyself and pressing that little
(04:40):
button or please remove your ID,and you have to stand there and
, anyways, my fault, my fault,but yeah, kind of felt a little
bit like vulnerability exposuretherapy, if that's a thing I
don't know.
Um, it's pretty evolved and youmay ask yourself, wow, how is
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Maddie McLean so evolved?
And I'll tell you why.
Maybe it's because I've enteredmy thirties, ladies and
gentlemen.
Yes, and they say my frontallobe is fully developed,
allegedly.
So that is great and you'd beright for the most part.
So leads me to say I am, I haveto admit I'm quietly I guess
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not in this case I'm quietlylosing my shit over turning 30.
And I never thought I would bethat person.
I also made it a point to neverbe that person and I haven't,
like, been scared of gettingolder or hating their birthdays
or anything like that.
And trust me, if you askanybody who's been around me
(05:44):
longer than I don't know a yearwill tell you that that part I
do have down pat.
I love a good birthday.
I'm one of those birthdaybitches that loves their
birthday.
It's a month Only to those youknow really close to me.
It's a month Kidding Sort of.
I won't lie to you.
We're all about honesty hereand vulnerability.
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I won't lie to you.
We're all about honesty hereand vulnerability, right, but I
have to say it's really alifestyle.
Okay, just ask Drake, he knows.
But I have to say the big 3-0lore kind of got to me.
So this time around already,birthdays get you uber
reflective and just likethinking about everything in
your life.
For me, like my inner monologue, tends to go quite negative.
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At first we're working on thatfrontal lobe developing, but
yeah, I found myself thinkingabout that.
And birthdays, they alreadytend to force the reflection
right.
But this one, this one feelslike a timestamp, like a red
flag, like a marker.
You know a pretty obvious oneand you know it had me Carrie
(06:48):
Bradshaw, all CarrieBradshaw-like thinking.
We always talk about howcomparison is the thief of joy,
and that's very accurate.
In fact, that is a large partof most of where the negativity
I feel like when it comes tobirthdays comes from.
Is this whole comparingourselves to others?
But we always talk about it interms of comparing ourselves to
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other people.
Right, but what about?
Okay?
What about when we compareourselves to ourselves, our past
version, our past selves, whowe were in the like I don't know
?
For example, you look at a 10thgrade picture of yourself and
you're like damn, I looked sogood.
What happened?
That's like a very light, lowkey version of what I'm talking
(07:31):
about, but you get me.
Or maybe it's the version ofourselves that doesn't really
exist yet, but we know we wantto be or want to do eventually.
I find myself doing that thesedays far more often than
comparing myself to other people.
I still do it.
I'm not perfect and I'm human,but that can get like very
(07:51):
tricky.
It can be almost just asdamaging.
I feel like if you have acritical inner monologue, like
you know myself, I feel like weall do.
It's all about kind of managingit a little bit.
You know that was a bit of apast, the blunt past, the
thought there but I figured, whynot?
We're easily entertained overhere.
I'm still trying to figure outwhere to look in the camera, so
(08:16):
work with me here.
So this birthday is we'reapproaching and my birthday is
in April, late April.
I'm a tourist what up, what upLike myself.
When I look back on the past fewyears, I've found myself on
somewhat of a roller coaster,taking me in directions that I
didn't necessarily want to orplan to go, as life does.
And there's always that saying,a man or human you make plans
(08:38):
and God laughs.
I used to fully believe thatand say that to other people out
loud, kind of in a jokey way.
But the more I think about it,the more I don't like it and
disagree with it.
First of all, I don't thinkthat's God's nature, but it's
just the nature of life and Idon't think that anybody's, that
God's laughing at us.
I do think if you put too muchweight into your plans and hold
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on to them really tightly andyou only want it to go the
version you see it going yeah,maybe God will giggle, because
that's us just trying to be hima little bit.
You know what I mean.
And nobody wants me, nobodywants me to play that role and
nobody asked either, fully aware, in particular, if I could take
you down briefly in the last,this five-year cycle of the
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beginning of COVID, let's go2020, right, I made plans and in
that moment of time and Ibelieved that God was laughing
at me, because I was fresh outof semi fresh out of college,
I'd been working in an ad agencyfor three years and I was
already feeling burnt out.
So, number one.
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But I immediately jumped intothat corporate game and I was so
down to will just becompetitive.
We're taught that too.
It's natural for all of us tothen compete and, you know, be
the whole first one in, last oneout of the office, toxic
bullshit.
That whole thing led to a quickburnout, and so I was planning
just a mini few month longsabbatical.
(10:06):
I yes, I am lucky to be able todo so, but I had made the plans
.
I was going to go to SoutheastAsia, yada, yada, and the day
came for me to quit my job.
So I quit my job at the agencyand the very next day I shit you
not was when COVID shut officesdown for the next foreseeable
(10:27):
future.
But at the time, remember, wethought we'll just wait it out.
It's only a matter of time,yeah, but the beautiful part of
that is that it did come allaround and I did make my
Southeast Asia sabbatical trip,and it always happens in the
right timing, you know, it justtakes.
It takes more time to look backand be able to see why maybe
(10:50):
not why, but how that thing thatdidn't go your way led you to
the thing that was supposed togo your way.
You dig.
Then I moved back home to Austinand then found myself another
job and it was perfect on paperand I really did learn a lot.
I'm so grateful for that job,but I use the same habits and
lifestyle that just put me rightback down the path to burnout
(11:13):
again.
So we left and we're tryingfreelancing in this podcast and
we're trying something new, andI think I was kind of having my
quarter life crisis.
So if you're in a place in yourlife where you don't know
what's next or you're not sure,but what you are sure of is that
it's something different, I'mwith you.
I'm with you and something funI think I might add on.
(11:34):
And if you follow me on TikTok,maddie is easily entertained.
I'll be putting more stuff onthere, but I was thinking about
sharing some of the things I'mlearning from the career coach
and it's almost like a lifecoach therapist.
I mean, I've gone to therapyfor like seven years.
Believe it or not, it uses allof that.
So she was recommended by mytherapist.
So you were really gettingvulnerable, yeah.
(11:56):
So I just really wanted to getreal with you and let you know
that I'm in that place right nowwhere I'm not entirely sure
what to do, and right on theheels of a birthday when you're
like thinking about oh my God,what did 16 year old me picture
as 30 year old version of me?
And I can tell you it was alittle bit different than from
what's happening now.
(12:17):
But that's also the beauty ofgrowing older and maturing is
frontal lobe developing and Inow have the ability to see that
.
You know, get a little wiserand see that maybe things aren't
happening to us, but they'rehappening for us and whether you
believe that because of ahigher power or the universe or
(12:39):
ourselves or whatever it is,once you shifted to that
thinking, it's made shit a wholelot easier for me.
I spent in between I mean reallyleading up to launching this
podcast.
I was terrified of puttingmyself out there and this has
always been something I want todo, like I was that kid that had
her, I had like a comp.
Whatever my model shots, Iwanted to be an actress.
(13:00):
Okay, that's where I wasgetting at.
And then life kind of justscared me away from putting
myself out there, which is notuncommon.
After coming out of a reallypainful time of my life, after I
moved back like 2022, I fellinto a very toxic, emotionally
(13:25):
abusive relationship and now Ican say and as crazy as this may
sound, I am so grateful forthat experience and for how I
learned so much about myself,and it's all about how you then
use that to react and alchemizethat kind of thing.
(13:47):
Anyways, I'm getting wayoutside of the topic of easily
entertained, so we're going tobring it right back.
But after getting through thatreally reflective in my thoughts
, in my feels, time periodleading into turning 30, I had
so much fun with a bunch of mygirlfriends.
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We went out to Fredericksburgsome wineries out there that's
in Texas for those that don'tknow, and so we're not really
known for wine or wine making byany means.
I think they get some imported,but it's still not until you
try it.
I was quite surprised.
It'd been a long time since I'dgone to these wineries.
Quite good and it's alwaysrefreshing.
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Well, I don't know aboutrefreshing or relaxing, but it's
.
It is refreshing for your souland a ton of fun to go on a
girl's trip.
Girl's trips are the best andgirls are the best.
Yay, woo, woo, woo, rah, raw,raw, shish goomba, something
else that's pop culture.
Adjacent that's been making mequietly lose my shit lately is
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one of the latest of Trump'stariffs.
While this is not at all not atall the most important like
probably the least importantthis is a pop culture podcast
after all.
So he's now coming for ourmovies.
Hollywood is in a panic afterTrump proposed 100% tariffs on
all films US films that areproduced outside of the US.
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Now, this is exactly what hesaid.
Mr Trump said he had authorizedJameson Greer, the United
States trade representative, tobegin the process of taxing any
and all movies coming into ourcountry that are produced in
foreign lands.
Mr Trump added this is aconcerted effort by other
nations and therefore a nationalsecurity threat.
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Okay, the Motion PictureAssociation, which represents
the biggest hollywood studios inwashington, declined to comment
, as is often the case with mrtrump's declarations on social
media, it was not entirely clearwhat he was talking about.
Did he mean any movie,including independent foreign
language films, art housecinemas or movies playing
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exclusively on streamingservices?
Time will tell.
This is is from a New York Timesarticle I just read from.
Now, majority of American filmsare actually made outside of
the US Produced that is.
So it gets a little bit.
I guess the way they're slicingand dicing it is a little bit
of like word salad Everythingoutside of the cameras rolling,
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filming, you know, on location,on set part.
So like the scripting, casting,you know, things like that pre
production that usually, atleast for American films, does
happen in the States.
But it's the filming part thatmost people will choose, or
major companies will choose, tofilm outside of the US for well,
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one big reason really money.
But some countries like UK,hungary, australia, new Zealand
and Canada and among others,will also offer tax incentives.
So major incentive to do so.
And there is this is taking awayjobs.
Obviously, if you're movingsomething to another country,
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that's a way generally fromAmerican jobs, but it is taking
away middle, the middle classportion essentially of those
jobs, like camera operators,onset designers, makeup artists.
They called it middle class inthis article.
I don't really know about that,but basically not the super
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majorly you know absorbentlypaid producers, directors or
actors.
Outside of that.
Their jobs are of course safe,but you know people that aren't
getting paid so much.
Their jobs are in jeopardy.
But when I looked into thenumbers we've lost, we've lost
Hollywood's lost around 15,000jobs like those in the last.
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It said three years, so like5,000 a year, comparatively not
a ton.
Hollywood's kind of scramblingand freaking out Budgeting is
already a crazy thing, becauseif you are the movies that are
only choosing to film in the U S, usually it's a budget thing
and then even still filming hereand like in places like LA or
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wherever, it still does cost alot here.
We'll see what happens likethat and hopefully we're not
seeing the white Lotus filmed atlike the Lubbock motel five
next season.
So cross your fingers on thatone, although there's like a lot
bigger fish to fry.
Um, just saying.
Next, in our pop culture newsnuggets we have sorry, I just
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got really into it for a momentover this last weekend Lady Gaga
broke records for the highestattended concert by a female
artist woo woo women by bringingover 2.5 million fans to a free
God bless her free concert atRio's Copacabana Beach, and this
was this last Saturday.
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It was the previous recordholder was Madonna.
It was also a free concert, butLady Gaga called it mayhem on
the beach after her latest albumand she, I guess, hadn't
performed in Brazil for sometime now five, somewhere like
five to 10 years and she's got abig Brazilian fan base,
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obviously.
I for one, by the way, dying togo to Brazil.
I had the pleasure of workingwith a bunch of Brazilians, as
in my last job the lastcorporate job, that is and they
were the nicest, funniest people.
I always loved meetings withthem, and that's like crazy, who
likes meetings?
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Anyways, I'll show you some ofthe videos of the concert.
I mean, wow, massive, probablya nightmare if you have a fear
of large crowds or likeclaustrophobia.
Luckily, everything, everybodywas fine, everyone was safe.
However, it wasn't until thefollowing day, on Sunday morning
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.
We learned the next morning fromBrazilian police and
authorities that they hadactually foiled an alleged bomb
threat.
There was a group of peoplethat were planning to set off a
bomb at the concert, but thepolice were able to arrest the
suspects and keep things reallyunder wraps because the arrest
happened the day before or theday of the concert and they
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decided not to tell people inorder to make sure everyone
remained calm and to avoid panic.
I don't, I don't know.
I definitely don't have to makethose kinds of major decisions
like that, but I don't know if Iknew about that.
I feel like I'd want to knowabout that, because what if they
didn't get everybody, but theydid?
They did Hallelujah and I'mlike mean that.
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Unfortunately, this is somethingthat us in the United States
are not foreign to and,unfortunately, same for around
the world in terms of concerts.
For example, just last year,taylor Swift, a similar thing
happened to her concert inVienna.
That was foiled, but theycanceled the concert and that
didn't move forward.
Different circumstances,different situation.
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I suppose At the show they hadlike over 5000 military and
police officer presence at theBrazilian show for Lady Gaga.
So keeping everybody safe andthank God.
Really scary and allegedly itwas a group of people motivated
by hate speech and anti LGBTQ,homophobic beliefs, whatever you
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want to call them, and luckilyeveryone was safe and Gaga made
a statement that she's very gladand she learned too that the
following day about the plot.
So it's kind of crazy and also,in terms of another concert,
almost like mishap.
I saw some videos on TikTok andBeyonce nearly missed getting
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literally like bitch slapped bythese robotic arms that are part
of her show.
If you look it up it's for thesong Ego, I think it is.
I guess in this particularvenue the stage managers or
whatever didn't mark her placeand luckily she has muscle
memory so knew exactly where tostand.
But where she's standing, causelike these robotic arms of
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three different robots that weremoving around her and like
close to her face.
Um, it's like in this dragportion where it's basically
like picture frames surroundingher face moving around, scary,
scary and you can actually seethe fear in her face.
And for a performer likeBeyonce has done that every day,
every day, and can put on likea fake face that you could like
see the fear, that was prettyscary.
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You should totally look it up.
Like nothing obviously happens,but you can kind of tell she's
like looking around herfrantically.
Anyways, if I can figure outhow to put it on this video, by
the time this podcast is outyou'll see it on the video.
All right, now let's talk aboutone of the strangest celebrity
adjacent pairings I've seen insome time.
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Um, that's really dominatingthe gossip circle right now and
that is Bill Belichick.
Yes, that, bill Belichick.
And if you're lost again, not asports podcast, pop culture
podcast, but stick with me here.
Bill Bilicek, if you don'tfollow sports, has a new
girlfriend, by the way, and hername is Jordan Hudson.
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Bill Bilicek is the formercoach, head coach of the New
England Patriots, best known forhis hoodies, his complete lack
of facial expressions and, aswell as coaching, the one, the
only I don't know like.
Is he like a dinosaur?
He's like not real Tom Brady.
That's who to six Super Bowlwins.
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He's basically the NFL's answerto a grumpy grandpa, who also
happens to be a football genius.
He's also 72 years old.
He is newly single aftersomewhat of a long-term
relationship that ended, I guess, in 2023.
Enter 24-year-old pageant girlwho reads Jordan Hudson.
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So apparently the story goesthese two met on a flight back
in 2021 and bonded over JordanHudson's book that she was
reading, a philosophy book, asOne Does midair, and he signed
her book for her, and they keptin touch via email for a few
years and eventually turned intoa full-on relationship and
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potentially also like aworkplace relationship as well.
So Jordan Hudson is nowreportedly his new girlfriend.
She's now posting photos onInstagram, particularly the
Halloween costume outfit with 72year old Bill Belichick as like
, like fishermen catching amermaid fish, which is his
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girlfriend.
Yeah, he's doing things, I'lltell you what.
And now she may be also asunofficial publicist, because
when you think who will lead thestrategic PR for an NFL team,
you think a recently graduated Iguess not that recently, but
semi some 30, a 24 year old whohas most experience in the
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pageant world.
I'm sure she's smart and that'sgreat, but it seems like a
strange fit for, you know, an exfor a major NFL Titan coach
like Bill Belichick.
Now they started popping up inthe scene because of the super
awkward, cringy CBS Sundaymorning interview that started
making the rounds.
So they were going on.
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They Bill was being interviewedby a CBS morning host, mostly
just promote his book, and he'sa very private person for the
most part, so it's not rare thathe doesn't want to share all
these details.
But it's like CBS morning news,which is basically like a layup
to a.
Really, you know, it's a puffpiece, they're going to be sweet
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to you.
So they asked him.
You know, here's Jordan Hudsonhere with you at this interview.
Like you tell us, you know howdid you guys meet?
And you hear her, they showthis, they release this footage
that CBS did, jordan going Nope,we're not talking about this
and being just like sittingright there and CBS mentions she
was right there throughout theduration of our interview and
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word is they released it becausethat was like the least
overbearing part of theinterview and he was also major
reason why Mr Bill Belichick inthis interview was wearing a
sweatshirt with like a big, bigold hole right on his shoulder,
like a distressed hoodie.
You know that you get atForever 21.
Like a distressed hoodie, youknow that you get it forever 21.
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So then the internet went wildand is saying he's clearly
uncomfortable, almost robotic,and felt like someone dragged
their dad into a tiktok danceand, um, people are wondering if
he needs help, if he is beingheld hostage by jordan, which,
let me say, interesting.
I think the reaction is largelythis way because of the
audience pool of the NFL andit's like a woman who God forbid
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a woman like also have you knowskills that could help in
business too.
But whatever, it was the wayshe did it and him wearing a
torn hoodie.
We even had Dave Portnoy fromBarstool weigh in and this is a
man who's been in several agegap relationships himself.
So for him to be talking aboutit and for his own interview,
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behavior is says something.
So that's when you see DavePortnoy talking about is this
man being held hostage by thisyoung girl says something?
I will say 72 and 24.
Wow, I don't want to shameanyone for falling in love first
of all, or for age gaprelationships, because they
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happen and in fact, I mean I'mkind of into that.
So I think it all depends onphase of life, the age that you
meet.
So if you meet and the person'slike 18 and the other person is
like 45, there's a powerimbalance.
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There's a lot of things at playhere.
So just keep that in mind.
But seeing these two inparticular, and then knowing
like she's stepping in, shestarted filing trademarks left
and right.
Now she's posting Instagramlike receipts of Bill's emails.
It's just not looking like thekind of PR that Bill's
historically done.
So that's why people are also alittle bit confused by this
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behavior.
People Magazine released arecent article asking Bill
Bilicek's three kids, who areall 10 plus years older than his
new girlfriend, what they think.
And they were as polite as theycould be, I suppose, but said
you know, it is a realrelationship.
We hope things work out reallywell.
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And that was pretty much all ofthe quote, so you can read into
that however you please.
And then people also.
Other aspect was that story ofthe meeting on the plane.
Is that not true?
And, like you guys, it's neverbeen true.
Think about it.
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I'm not going to assume, butI'm assuming right now that
maybe he asked her to be hisdate once, if you catch my drift
and said he loved her so muchthat he would, you know, pay her
to be his date because shewould miss work, anyways.
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So what do you think?
What do you think about thisrelationship?
What do you think aboutpeople's reactions to everyone
saying this girl, jordan Hudson,is holding Bill Belichick
hostage?
Can anyone really do that?
I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see how long that lasts,because then, if you look it up
now, he's already.
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Word on the street is that he'salready shopping around for a
new PR representative after hedid say they have both a
romantic and now, um, why can'tI think of the word for business
relationship, but they havethat as well, and she is in fact
working, as in you know, for PRand we see how well that's
going.
So we'll see.
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Although his book is selling,it is selling, I guess in this
case.
You know, any talk is good talk.
Bad talk is good talk becausehis newly released book and
autobiography is at the top ofthe charts.
Not that I'm going to read it.
Cinco de Mayo this year waspacked with pop culture activity
.
Met Gala Monday fell on Cincode Mayo and this year's theme
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shone a light on black designerswith the theme super fine,
tailoring black style, and itpaid tribute to black dandyism,
which was a style that wasforced upon slaves in the past
but was later reclaimed as amessage in and of itself.
You can see.
By the way, I'll post some ofmy favorite outfits on the
Instagram, which is easilyentertained pod.
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If you don't already follow,what are you doing?
But this year for one previousMet Gala attendee at least at
some point in the past, shitlooks a little different.
We're looks a little different.
We're wearing a different suitand this time, instead of a
tailored black one, he's wearinga prison one.
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He's wearing a prison suit.
There was a better way to likeget into that transition there,
but that's okay, because whileHollywood was out there serving
camp on the Met Gala stepsacross the country in New York,
a very different kind of dramawas unfolding in a New York
courtroom Because on May 5th,the federal trial for P Diddy,
sean Combs, puff, daddy, lovewhich is hilarious that he
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called himself Love, lookingback it officially began on
Monday with a jury selection, noless.
Yeah, so finding a jury is goingto be really, really hard.
But before I give you thelatest on the updates there from
this week, how did we get here?
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Let's rewind, shall we?
So?
Sean Combs, rap mogul, fashionking, music exec and former
party thrower of the centuryWell, all those words may seem
like a little bit of BS now, ashe's now been accused by
multiple women and I mean lotsof people, men and women of sex
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trafficking, abuse and runningwhat prosecutors are calling a
full-blown criminal enterprise.
Like Diddy, dirty Money was notsupposed to be this literal, I
don't think.
And one of the biggest updatesleading into this trial is that
Cassie, diddy's formerex-girlfriend of many years, who
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broke open the watergates ofthis entire federal trial with
her very brave lawsuit.
She will actually be testifyingat the trial.
She initially filed under JaneDoe anonymously, but she's
standing ten toes down and willbe in the courtroom and her
legal team says she's ready tospeak on the record as Cassie or
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Cassandra about the abuse sheendured during their decade long
relationship.
And it's not just Cassie.
So the center of this trial,the one that's focusing on there
, are three other women that arecentral to this.
It's centering on four cases.
Although wait for it he hasover 50 lawsuits against him
right now.
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So Diddy's legal team wasfuriously trying to limit the
damage leading into the trialbeginning.
They had filed a motion tostrike any allegations that were
not directly tied to those fourcases, basically saying you
know, let's not bring upanything else that makes me look
bad, which is what you knowevery defendant will do and
every lawyer that's doing thejob will have them do.
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But part of that is they'realso asking to subpoena all of
Warner Brothers and HBO'sfootage, used and unused, so raw
, unedited footage for theirfall of Diddy docu-series, um,
where two of the alleged victimsfor this case participated.
So we'll see.
They haven't ruled on that yet,at least at the time of
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recording.
But it's an interestingquestion because usually
journalists and people like inthe media, the free press, are
never, not, never, but arerarely forced to pass over that
kind of thing simply because ofethics and media and granting
people the right to theiranonymity and such being on and
off the record.
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This isn't his first time in atrial in a courtroom either.
Years back, when he was firststarting out as a producer and
setting up events, there was aterrible tragedy of just
overcrowding.
People lost their lives and hekind of got away with it and the
venue was the one who got introuble essentially.
But I mean among other like gunposition charges and things
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like that.
So it's not all necessarily new, but this time it's for real,
because these charges they'reserious and they're scary and I
hope his ass gets nailed to thewall, allegedly Leading into the
beginning of jury selection.
This week Diddy has officiallybeen in prison hands.
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He's been locked up for sevenmonths, so that's pretty wild.
Already he should have beenlocked up for a lot longer, but
the way that this has moved soquickly, at least in the public
sphere, is definitely it's goingto get faster and it's going to
get wilder and we willrecognize a lot of names.
(35:31):
Whether or not they'rewitnesses or they're defendants
we'll see During jury selection.
Alongside the standard, they'llpass out a list of somewhere
around 15 questions about thecenter of some of the biggest
issues or charges of the case,to see if these jury members can
be impartial.
And so names of a bunch ofeither potential witnesses,
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defendants and people involved.
They don't make clear, but alot of names were already
mentioned and this list readslike a fever dream.
We've got Kid Cudi, my boy,don't worry, wait for it, he's
fine.
Michelle Williams of Destiny'sChild not the Oscar nominee
actress, michael B Jordan.
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Mike Myers as in Austin Powersis Mike Myers, among quite a few
others, including Kanye West.
We have lots of questions, zeroanswers, but I do have
speculation for some of thesenames.
So for context, kid Cudi's nameappeared in Cassie's original
lawsuit, which alleged thatDiddy allegedly blew up Kid
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Cudi's car in front of his houseone time because he was, I
guess, jealous or annoyed.
Kid Cudi and Cassie likebriefly dated in between, I
suppose, when Diddy and Cassiebroke up so when they're on a
little bit of a break andbasically forced somebody else
to help him too in order tobreak in and then dropped like a
allegedly some sort of likeMolotov cocktail into his car
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and it blew up, and kid cuddyhas confirmed this.
That's where kid cuddy's namecomes from.
Kanye's name was also beenfloating around the case.
He may be the one that I'mquite sure isn't just a witness
but may be involved, given thosereally weird phone calls that
were leaked um of a recent callbetween kanye and diddy while
diddy was in jail.
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And it's just weird.
They're like both kissing eachother's butts and like a gotcha
man essentially.
But yeah, kanye is not knownfor making good decisions, so
that's not that surprising, bythe way, for those that love
Michael B Jordan.
So you're not freaking out.
In Cassie's lawsuit he was alsohe's named as a witness.
Basically he and Cassie'slawsuit he was also he's named
as a witness.
Basically he and Cassie datedbriefly in 2015.
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Michael B Jordan and Cassie whenthey were filming, I guess, a
movie.
It says they were filming amovie in Cape Town, south Africa
, and they began a flirtatiousrelationship spending New Year's
Eve together.
But Mr Combs soon found out,called the actor, threatened him
.
But Mr Combs soon found out,called the actor, threatened him
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and, uh, I guess Michael BJordan told Cassie, you really
need to call P Diddy and get himoff my jock, probably.
Um, there's also chatter aboutwitnesses potentially testifying
under pseudonyms for safety.
So essentially, inside thecourtroom, probably the big
famous witnesses that we'retalking about now too, I mean
some will be obvious but willtestify under fake names or
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pseudonyms, some even just under, like Jane Doe or something
like that, and it can play out afew different ways.
Like the court will see theperson and know who they are.
They may not get their namelike the jury and such um.
They can see them testify.
Basically they can be disguisedor something, and usually it's
in cases where their safety isat risk, if their identity is
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known for things likeretaliation, and in this case,
yeah, p diddy is known toretaliate.
He's already.
There have been uh whispers ofcreators of tiktok, even people
outside of the major, like theydon't have millions of followers
being accosted and harassed bysome of Diddy's team, allegedly
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to get them to stop putting outthis kind of information.
So it's still unclear too ifDiddy will be taking the stand
himself with a man with thatkind of hubris, that kind of
narcissist-like vibes.
I could see that happening in alot of true crime cases, it's
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usually the real psychopathsthat choose to represent
themselves, definitely notrecommended by most lawyers.
So we'll see what gets broughtup in this case.
I think there are a lot ofstories and we'll I will break
them down for you as they come.
The case will get messy, and italready has.
While the celebrity names arealready pretty wild, let's not
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lose sight also of what theseriousness of this case is
about.
We're talking abuse,trafficking, power run amok,
drugs being used, horrible, likehundreds of people's lives
being ruined.
So just keep in mind that whilewe talk about this and I make
talk about it lightly here andthere that it's still very, very
serious.
So, as of recording, juryselection is still underway.
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They're hoping to get it doneby the end of today, wednesday,
may 7th, but odds are notlooking good because nobody
wants to be on this jury.
First of all, it's estimated tolast eight to 10 weeks and lots
of companies most companiesreally won't pay you for those
days you're serving jury duty.
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They'll give you like $15 orsomething like that usually.
So that's two months, no pay,very little pay.
So already a lot of peopledon't want that.
Then B we're hearing of thesestories of he did equal.
He's clearly a very powerful,rich man with the ability to
keep a lot of people silent andscare a lot of people.
So that's another factor that'splaying into this.
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But some of the excuses this iswhere we can get a little light
because people are gettingcreative.
One person walked up and this isday two of jury selection, so
they had some time to thinkabout it.
I guess the judge asked did youhave anything that could
prevent you from being, you know, from serving on this jury or
whatever?
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She allegedly said yeah.
So I have this reaction where Ican go unconscious and
sometimes pass out and faint atthe mention of anything sexual
or seeing any sort of sexualimagery.
Ah, that's good.
Somebody else came up and saidjust straight up, was like I
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looked it up on the train on theway here and then, because of
that, though the I guess it wasthe prosecution was like okay,
you can stay.
And defendants were like no,obviously.
No, kick him out, get him outof here.
Another one somebody did whateverybody wanted to do and
really let their, their what isit called?
(41:58):
Their impulsive thoughts takeover and just said did he do it?
And they're like, okay, get himout, get him out.
Just people making up excusesleft and right of strange
bizarre things.
Someone was just like I have abum knee so I don't think I can
do it.
One of my other personalfavorite jury responses
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potential juror responses wasthis there's a dude sitting next
to the judge.
The judge asked him okay, so isthere anything you think that
will prevent you from serving onthis jury?
He goes well, yeah, I smokeweed every day and at least once
or twice.
And I don't, I don't know, Idon't know if I could not.
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Judge goes okay, well, ifyou're on this jury, I'm going
to make it a mandate, I'm goingto make it required.
You must avoid stop smokingweed for the duration of the
trial.
Can you handle that?
And he was like I don't know.
So of course the judge saidokay, all right, you're excused.
I just I'm wondering what Iwould say, because low key, I
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think.
Obviously here I am talkingabout it.
So I think I would maybe pay tobe on the jury.
So, unless I ended up goingmissing, like allegedly one of
the witnesses allegedly one ofthe witnesses police can't get
in touch with still and they'vebeen trying for months and
months.
So it's scary out there, y'all.
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I really hope that.
I feel like there is a potentialthat he could go free, just
based on.
I mean, anything is possiblethese days, especially in this
timeline we're existing in, butI hope that's not the case,
because it's not looking good.
They got to find 12.
I think that is possible.
Got to keep in mind that moreand more of the algorithms are
(43:46):
keeping us within our siloedlittle news cycles.
So, while it feels like there'sno way in hell to me but people
can't know, like there arepeople that have no idea who P
Diddy is.
We will see.
Stay tuned.
I'll keep you posted oneverything P Diddy.
You can also follow me onTikTok.
Maddie is easily entertained.
We all have more frequentupdates and I'll be using that a
(44:10):
lot more these days andInstagram easily entertained pod
.
But, as always, thank you somuch for listening.
I am so excited to be sittingon camera now for listening.
I'm so excited to be sitting oncamera now and we have lots of
exciting things down thepipeline, lots of exciting
guests, and we are potentiallyswitching to bi-weekly episodes,
(44:31):
just for the time being, justfor the next few months.
While I get a few personalthings in order.
Your girl's got to move.
Where to?
We literally don't, don't knowyet.
Yay, that probably makes allyou type a's want to cry.
But yeah, that's today'sepisode.
I will talk to you guys nextweek.
Bye, homies, I don't know howto end this on the camera.
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That's weird.
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