April 2, 2025 • 39 mins
Maddy McClain takes us through the latest pop culture news including celebrity controversies, ridiculous rider requests, and viral pranks from around the internet.
• Chappell Roan facing backlash after claiming "all my friends who have kids are in hell" during Call Her Daddy interview
• Celebrity rider requests revealed: from Justin Timberlake's disinfected doorknobs to Marilyn Manson's apple-throwing habits
• Sydney Sweeney and fiancé Jonathan Davino officially separate after seven years together... Looking at you, Glen Powell
• Morgan Wallen walks off SNL stage and posts about returning to "God's country"
• Reddit's best April Fool's prank stories, from wine truck hoaxes to elaborate bathroom dummy pranks
• Streaming recommendations
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello, homies, and welcome to another episode of
Easily Entertained with MaddieMcClain.
I am your host, your dutifulpop culture sherpa, your girly
pop, your bestie whatever youwant to call me, as long as it's
nice here to break down thelatest in pop culture, hollywood
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and the entertainment world atlarge.
I just really wanted to say atlarge.
I feel like if you add that onto the end of a sentence,
generally it makes whatever youhave to say sound a whole lot
smarter.
Somehow, someway, we have madeit to the month of April in 2025
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.
So if you're listening to thisbeyond April 2025, hello from
the past.
And if you're listening to itright now, baby hello.
Isn't it wild that it's April?
I know that this is whateveryone has to say, I think by
law at the beginning of everymonth is can you believe it?
It's inter-month here, or canyou believe it?
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It's already Wednesday, youknow, and everybody feels that
way, though it's not always fake, I'm sure.
There are plenty of times whereit is.
However, the physics of time, Idon't even think that's what it
is here, as time goes on inhours like a shorter portion of
your life.
Anyways, back to the subject athand April Fool's Day.
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I would be born on a month thatbegins with one giant punked
episode.
Basically, I'm always terrifiedto go out in public on April
Fool's Day.
You never know what's lurkingout there.
And historically, I'm one ofthe more gullible people out
there.
My siblings always told me I'mthe youngest of four.
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I don't know if that is alsojust.
Perhaps I signed a legallybinding contract that all babies
with older siblings mustreceive while in the womb.
That means they have to begullible when they exit the womb
.
So that's how I exited the womba gullible girly, which makes
April Fool's Day.
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Well, I'm everyone's favoritetarget and now that you know,
now that I've placed that targeton myself, it's just going to
keep going.
Now that you know, now thatI've placed that target on
myself, it's just going to keepgoing.
I will never, ever forget aboutthis till the day I die.
So it was not on April Fool'sDay proper, I don't believe, but
it was a prank.
It was at some point in highschool.
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We're walking around the campus, I think like leaving lunch or
something, and the guys in frontof us are like whispering and
doing their you know high schooldude thing.
Right, I noticed they're likeobviously talking about
whoever's walking a ways infront of them, and they nudge
one of the guys at the timewe're going to call him Jim.
They nudge Jim and Jim races upto who looks like their guy
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friend, troy, up ahead.
So Jim's running up to Troy andgrabs Troy from behind and
gives him a noogie and thenstops and everyone starts
cracking up and screamingbecause that was not Troy, it
was not his buddy Troy, it wasthe assistant principal at the
time, who everyone did not, wasnot a fan of yeah.
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So he immediately red faced.
I mean, the look on his facewas out of a movie and that was
hilarious.
Hopefully that wasn't a you hadto be there story, because if
it was, I apologize first of all, but second of all I'll make up
for it Because I thought let'slook up some prank stories,
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shall we?
Let's hear some good ones, andnone other than Reddit.
Reddit is a treasure trove ofstories and off-the-wall
comments.
So you know, just giving you amajor heed of warning if you've
never used Reddit somehow.
Giving you a major heed ofwarning if you've never used
Reddit somehow.
First one we have One year forApril Fool's.
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The local newspaper posted anarticle about a truck full of
wine bottles that had crashed.
The article stated that winewas spilling everywhere and they
didn't want it to go to wasteso anyone could bring buckets to
fill.
One guy at my dad's work sawthe article and ran out.
All the people at work laughedat him.
Halfway to the place where thetruck supposedly was, the guy
realized his mistake.
He then went and bought acouple of cheap wine bottles
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which he emptied into the buckethe had brought with him and
then walked back into worktricking a couple of other
people to run out for this winetruck.
I like it.
Flip the script, uno, reverse.
I'm going to lock that in fornext time.
Just play the person on theirown prank.
Here's another one.
We had an IT guy at work thatcould not keep a secret.
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He was famous for it.
It earned him the nicknameLoose Lips.
Anyway, one day my bosssecurity did not come in because
of another obligation.
Loose Lips, who workedconstantly on our high-tech
security system, asked where hewas and my work partner, in a
moment of inspiration, said Ican't tell you.
Loose Lips became excited andbegged.
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Finally, partner, that's thenickname they're giving.
The boss quote caved and sworeLoose Lips to secrecy Then told
him our supervisor was on hisway to Moncton to collect the 10
million dollars he won thenight before in a lottery
Absolute BS.
We had a great time using oursecurity cameras tracking him
going from cubicle to cubicle,from building to building.
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We kept our supervisor informedby text of the developments.
He was amused to say the least.
But mid-afternoon we got a textfrom him.
Loose-lipped nose, I justtexted him instead of you by
mistake.
Sure enough, the camerasrevealed a fuming loose-lip
stomping towards the securitybuilding.
He charged in, swore at us.
He was not a happy camper.
But wait, my partner said weswore to you to secrecy.
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Who did you tell?
Loose-lips?
His shoulders sagged.
I told everybody he moaned.
Told everybody he moaned.
Well, now you'd better go tellthem all the truth.
Yeah, I guess Much hilaritywatching him retrace his steps.
The great thing is, a gagdepended on his own character
fault to be successful, and itwas a great success.
By the way, he didn't improve.
That's another flip the script,except they just proved
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themselves.
In my college dorms, rooms wereorganized into suites of four
rooms, eight people that had aprivate bathroom, living room,
balcony and hallway.
Each suite was permanentlylocked from the main hallway so
you needed a key or needed toknock to get it.
Me and my roommate had a bunchof friends in another suite.
We lived with them the previousyear but left them for a 10th
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floor amazing view and one nightwe went to their suite to
return a borrowed Xboxcontroller.
Upon leaving, we duct tapedthin cardboard over the hole
that the doorknob latch goesinto, thus making the door
closed but unlocked.
We came back at like 3 in themorning when we were sure they
were all asleep and we placed onthe toilet in the bathroom
stall a dummy that we made.
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He was made of jeans, shoes anda hoodie all bought from Value
Village, whatever that isstuffed with crumpled newspaper.
His quote head was a plasticbag stuffed with newspaper.
Then we locked the stall doorfrom the inside.
The next morning the girl thathad spent the night there
awkwardly waited over half anhour for the quote guy in the
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stall to leave but ended up justwalking down to the lobby to
use the restroom.
A guy sat in the stall next tothe quote occupied one and
attempted to make small talk.
Then, feeling really awkwardwhen the guy wouldn't respond, a
number of suitemates tried tofigure out who's been in the
bathroom so long, and when theytalked about it together they
realized that it had been hours.
One of them finally took therisk of peering in the crack and
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they had a good laugh about itand called us to talk.
They knew it must have been myroommate and I.
There's a part two.
That last prank was then usedas a setup to this next prank.
I snuck into their suite againwith the help of my roommate,
this time at a normal time likefive o'clock in the evening.
However, I was dressed in thesame shoes, jeans and hoodie as
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our dummy, stuffed with someextra newspaper to make me
crumply.
I even had the plastic bag withnewspaper over my head, with
room to breathe, don't worry.
I sat on a toilet for maybe 20minutes, this time with the door
unlocked.
Then someone noticed my shoesand looked in the stall gap.
He went to some other guys toshow them that Gabe and Ryan did
it again.
When he came back with otherguys, they opened the stall door
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and one of them reached forwardto grab what they thought was
the dummy.
So I grabbed him back, stood upand screamed, and they screamed
.
It was hilarious.
I like that one.
I like that one a lot.
It doesn't really hurt you.
It's a good one because it'sit's somewhat innocent, you know
I I mean there's nothing likesomehow.
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It's still wholesome, thewholesome joy and laughter of
seeing someone else get prankedor scared and they let out like
a little crazy shriek and thenyou know if it's not too scary.
It's pretty hilarious to see.
Oh, this one is good, okay, myfriend and his girlfriend
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recently got engaged.
As an engagement gift, a bunchof us got together to buy a
portrait for them.
We bought the portrait fromthis guy named Picasso, who's
famous for drawing portraitswith his ding dong.
The portrait even came with avideo of him drawing it with his
ding dong.
Neither one of them has everseen this video.
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When we gave the painting tothem, they were all really
excited and we told them thatthe paints had a taste to them
and that they should give it alick and smell it.
They must have tried lickingthat stupid portrait for at
least five minutes before givingup.
Oh, they currently have theirportrait hanging in their living
room above the fireplace.
We do not plan to give them theDVD of him painting their faces
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with his wang for at least afew years DVD, and now you
really, you really are lookingat 12 year old stories.
So every time one of us comesover we get a nice chuckle at
the Wang painting they have soproudly hung on their wall
Proudly hung.
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I would love to hear yourfavorite prank stories, whether
they involve you or not.
So if you want to share anythat I can read on the next
episode, feel free to press sendus a text which you can find in
the episode show notes and thatwill take you directly to chat
with us.
I'm so happy we started to getour first ones in and it's fun
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to read y'all's messages.
So keep it up, homies, keep itup Now.
While I was on Reddit,naturally, I just kept scrolling
and it gave me an idea for thisnext little segment.
Here we're going to talk aboutsome of the most ridiculous
specific celebrity requests,sometimes called writers.
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So if a musician is on tour,they'll give off this writer or
piece of paper that basicallytells them.
It's basically an instructionset, almost like a branding
guideline for my marketing peepsout there, but basically
requesting all the shit thatthey want in their green room to
notes on how they want thesound guys to handle, you know
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the live production throughoutthe show, lighting, all that
kind of thing.
But the most exciting pieces ofinformation in these writers
are the kind of wacky requeststhat celebrities will make.
Because I'm nosy and want toknow such things, I figured
maybe you do too.
Think of me as a little Dumoismoment here.
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All of this is just readdirectly from what's put on the
internet, so nothing isconfirmed as truth, necessarily.
But I don't know.
Where there's smoke, there'susually fire.
Okay, so Joe Jonas has askedfor 12 puppies backstage and
apparently he has confirmed thatone.
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He did indeed ask for 12puppies.
Kanye asked for Carmexeverywhere he goes, and one time
he asked for a specific type ofwater that the employees had to
go to another city to find.
I mean, that's not really thatshocking.
Kevin Hart requests five women,what?
Between the ages of 21 through27 with an athletic build.
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Well, that's his type rightthere.
Beyonce asked for her room tobe kept at 78 degrees the whole
time she was in it.
That's really warm.
Kylie Jenner wanted a hotelemployee to stay with her 24-7.
Cardi B always asked for squidand Pepsi Future always requests
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a lavender candle.
That's kind of cute.
Drake asked for four dozennaturally scented incense sticks
.
Christina Aguilera asked forthe driver to never get stuck in
traffic Don't you dare.
Rihanna asked for a big fur rugfor her to walk on barefoot I
mean, that sounds nice and blueor black chiffon curtains she
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just wants the aesthetics, right.
Is she a Taurus?
I don't know.
Appreciates the finer things.
Justin Timberlake requires thedoorknobs of wherever he's going
to be disinfected every twohours.
Eminem used to ask for sixLunchables three turkey and
three ham with 24 cans and 24plastic bottles of Diet Coke.
Also, to add, one time JustinTimberlake asked to only ride
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the employee elevator at a hotel, but he didn't want the
employees to walk down thehallway at the same time, so
instead his team followed behindhim to make sure that the
employees basically waited wherethey could not be seen or heard
from, until he got on theelevator.
All that for a tiny,ding-donged man.
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I say that because the photos,if you have not seen these, they
took photos of JustinTimberlake on tour in one of
those hydraulic suits so that hecan be lifted into the air
Basically one of those crotchsecurity belts that connect you
to something.
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And it was not looking good forJustin Timberlake and people
were making fun of him all overthe internet and then he started
wearing long t-shirts so thatpeople couldn't take photos of
his crotch and make fun of him.
That's actually really sad.
The more I talked about it,madonna, she always had to have
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a new toilet seat because shecould not use one that somebody
else had used.
That is a pre-Madonna thing todo.
Samuel L Jackson said you cancall him Mr Jackson, sam or
Samuel.
Do not call him Sammy, which isa really normal thing.
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To just request people call youor not call you a name, I guess
, but in this context is prettyhilarious.
So they also wrote thetemptation to call him Sammy was
real, for real.
Tell someone not to dosomething that's the quickest
way to get someone to do thatthing.
Usually or maybe I justsurround myself with people like
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me, and here's a creepier oneNow, knowing, uh, the very, very
dark history behind Mr MarilynManson, uh, that can bea whole
other episode where I can giveyou the full story of that.
But Marilyn Manson a musician.
He wanted black fabric hungover the windows and walls of
his dressing room and AC, ascold as it would go.
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We were instructed not to lookhim in the eyes.
I was in high school at thetime, working at a catering
company.
The music venue was on the bankof a river and there was a
secluded fire pit area behindthe venue for the artist to
enjoy.
Manson came backstage where weprepared food and asked for a
bag of apples.
He wanted to throw them atpassing boats from that fire pit
area.
Of apples, he wanted to throwthem at passing boats from that
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fire pit area.
Interesting, really indicativeof the kind of person he is,
just enjoys cruelty andintimidation of all kinds.
Yeah, my good.
Stuart Lee, a UK comedian, has afunny bit about Dave
Chappelle's writer requests,which he found out after
performing on the same bill ashim one night.
Their requests were for all thenormal light bulbs around the
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mirror to be replaced with redbulbs, lots of bottles of
champagne and two rotisseriechickens rotating on individual
rotisserie skewers.
What made these diva-likedemands even funnier was that
apparently this wasn't somemassive venue.
It was a small UK theaterholding about 300 capacity max
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To be able to request thesekinds of things.
I suppose it's like once youmake it and you're there, maybe
everybody's tempted to make somecrazy wild request.
People talking about whatcelebrities have requested on
these writers is not a new topicof conversation.
In fact, people find itobviously very interesting.
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But this all came about.
It started really back with VanHalen.
They would request a bowl ofM&Ms and that all of the brown.
Some say brown, some say green,I'm going to guess it's brown
because that's like the mostboring color.
But they would request thatthey remove all of the brown
ones and people thought this wascrazy because obviously, like
that's like the most boringcolor.
But they would request thatthey remove all of the brown
ones and people thought this wascrazy because obviously like
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that's such a mean, almost justmonotonous, boring task to give
to somebody.
But then, allegedly, years downthe road, they said that this
was all part of a strategyreally to make sure that the
teams are reading the writer andtheir paperwork super carefully
.
They can look at the bowl ofM&Ms, if it's there, and see if
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they read all the details andpaid attention.
If they messed that up, thenthey could probably mess
something up important having todo with the production of their
live show at the venue.
So that was allegedly theirstrategy.
Whether or not that's true orjust to make sure we don't think
that they're that much of divas.
It is time for Pop Culture NewsNuggets, where I tell you what
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everyone's talking about.
And what we're going to talkabout first is our girl, chapel
Roan, who, by the way, inpreparing for this podcast I was
making sure I was pronouncingher name right.
I ended up having to Google itand have some robot speak it for
me, because you know, when yousay a word so many times or
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pronounce it, that it juststarts feeling all wrong.
You know, gives you thefeelings like no, wait, no, no,
and you gaslight yourself intooblivion.
Wait, no, no, and you gaslightyourself into oblivion.
That's what I just did withChapel Roan.
Chapel Roan, the 27-year-old popstar who was catapulted into
fame and stardom kind of reallyover the last year or so, but
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she's been around.
She's released several albumsbefore the rise and fall of a
Midwest princess, but that'sreally when her career took off.
She's been the center of lotsof internet conversations and
criticism quite a few times inthe recent past after she gained
popularity or really like thiscrazy skyrocketed popularity.
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Let's be honest.
He will question if she's evertruly been media trained based
on her responses she gives, bothin interviews and just out in
public while, you know, speakingwith paparazzi or interviewers
or media on the red carpet,she's kind of has a flippant
attitude and I think it's partof what people love about her is
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she's very quote real Peoplelove her for her kind of bold,
flippant, kind of playfulattitude.
That can at times come off thewrong way, which I think is the
case in the latest interview shejust did with Alex Cooper on
Call Her Daddy.
Chapel has moms across theinternet up in arms and divided
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with a semi-controversialstatement, I suppose.
So Alex Cooper and Chapel Rohnwere having a conversation about
how Chapel's career skyrocketedso quickly and kind of well,
seemingly out of the blue, whenyou've been working on something
for years and years, as she has, and how that's changed her
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lifestyle in both obvious andnot so obvious ways.
And Chapel mentions that,coming from the Midwest, many of
her friends who are alsoassuming around the same age of
27, that they'll have kids nowand bought houses, and how her
life is so much different thanher friends who are all young
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mothers.
And then Alex asked her youknow, do you want to have kids?
Like, do you seriously lovehaving kids?
Chapel responded saying all ofmy friends who have kids are in
hell.
I actually don't know anyonewho's happy and has children at
this age.
I've literally not met anyonewho's happy, anyone who is light
in their eyes, who has slept,and obviously that is literally
just a single quote pulled froman entire podcast interview.
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So keep that in mind.
So that clip started making itsway across TikTok and, right or
wrong, pissed off a bunch ofmoms and obviously broad stroke
comment from Chapel and she'sprobably exaggerating to be
entertaining, but I don't thinkthat she's all that wrong and
where she's coming from as awoman without kids and now kind
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of thinking about facing thatquestion more seriously than
ever, I suppose just becausethat's what happens naturally as
you get older that I'm not sosure.
If I personally want to havekids and I've grown up always
wanting to it's just a scarythought being completely
responsible for another human'slife, but we're not talking
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about me.
I think that what Chapel'sgetting at is that young women
who are unmarried or don't havekids we are hit with, I mean
horror story after horror storyafter horror story from our
women peers around us telling usabout their experiences and how
much of a nightmare it is, andmostly the ones that I can
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remember, yes, are filled withnightmare examples of just crazy
kids, no sleep, losing theirminds, no time for themselves
and sexless marriages and all ofthat.
That's just what we hear.
I think that those storieschange at least from my
perspective of being aroundpregnant women, I think it
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becomes.
They still get those, but Ithink that there are a lot more
positive stories shared to them,which is probably good.
All to say, that commentshouldn't have been as
controversial as it was isreally my biggest opinion in all
of this.
So if you go on any socialmedia platform or just look up
her name, you'll find articlesfrom all media sites and
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publications talking about thisuproar that she's caused and
it's not the first time she'scaused an uproar.
She tends to take up that wholekind of tired used bit that
celebrities and influencers willuse where they complain about
being famous and you know, trybeing an influencer for a day
kind of vibes and um, and I canthink of very few scenarios
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where that argument or thatstance has worked in that
person's favor, truthfully.
So I do think we need to dropthat, and people don't want to
hear that.
Especially, she's not just aninfluencer or content creator,
she is a musician are countlessartists and musicians out there
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that would do anything to swapplaces with her and blow up
overnight as she did, eventhough that whole phrase like
something like an overnightsuccess.
Rarely, if ever, are theyactually overnight successes.
That's just the part that wesee, so keep that in mind
whenever venture you're doing.
Nothing is truly an overnightsuccess.
Chapel Roan had been working inthe industry for 10 years,
busking in the streets like youknow all those musicians on the
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streets.
That's asking for change.
Yeah, that's where she started.
Everybody starts somewhere.
So that's what I had to tellmyself when I was starting this
whole shebang.
Sometimes it takes justcompletely putting your ego and
your self-conscious thoughts andshoving them in a closet and
then you can unlock that closetlater once you do it and you
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know, organize through it andthen shut it again, because if
you spend too much time in thatcloset you won't ever come out.
And I'm not talking sexually,no, I mean we're going to just
really gracefully move on fromthat and get right back to
Chapel.
I feel a little bit badly forChapel in the sense that she's
been extremely scrutinized andlargely because she is so
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publicly identifies as queerthat people assume she then
needs to speak for them at alltimes and she's kind of been
bombarded to take up a politicalstance and opinions and all of
that.
So she's expressed frustrationswith that part.
In that part I can totally getbehind and understand.
The one that's annoying is thecomplaining of being famous and
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like complaining about yoursuccess.
However, I don't think hercomments about motherhood should
be as inflammatory as they havebeen.
Lots of moms on TikTokresponded with basically
montages of loving momentsbetween them and their kids and
saying you know, we're not inhell.
A baby looking at you andsmiling isn't hell, and I think
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that's the point being missedhere.
I don't think Chapel Roan hatesbabies Right and Chapel Roan
hates babies right, although, Imight add, if there are so many
controversies in such a shortperiod of time for things that
are coming out of your mouth,maybe that's something to
self-reflect on.
I will say Just maybe, but Iguess we all make mistakes.
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Sydney Sweeney and her fiancénow ex-fiance jonathan devino,
have officially separated.
While it doesn't come as acomplete surprise if you're
paying attention to that thisclosely, I suppose sources like
tmz and other publications hadrelease information in January.
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I believe that Sydney Sweeneywas possibly living separately
at the Beverly Hills Hotel forabout a month or so before she
went on to Paris Fashion Weekwithout her fiance anywhere in
sight, but nothing wasofficially confirmed until this
week.
A few days ago, they releasedtheir official PR note, if you
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will, pr announcement thatSydney and Jonathan had
separated, but mostly due toSweeney needing to focus on her
career.
If that's true, we don't know,but the internet will guess, net
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will guess.
And of course, this re-sparkedup rumors, dating rumors between
herself and Glenn Powell, whoshe co-starred with in the movie
Anyone but you, great chickflick movie which I truthfully
didn't even fully watch untilliterally last weekend.
So I guess an instance where mytiming is impeccable, might I
add.
The source goes on to say thatSweeney has been focusing on
work amid the end of herengagement.
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She's exactly where she wantsto be.
Most people would feeloverwhelmed by her working
schedule this year, but not Sid.
She's all about working rightnow and very excited about all
her projects, and all of herprojects, lots of big ones.
So Euphoria finally, finally,finally, finally, finally going
to be given to us all and it'sgoing to be delightful.
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Some of her projects excitinglyinclude, obviously so the new
season of Euphoria, but also sheis going to be in the leading
role for the movie version ofthe Housemaid and as well as the
real-life boxer Christy Martin,and another movie she'll be
playing, screen star Kim Novak.
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So lots of biopics these daystoo.
So she's super busy.
But people wonder, does thatmean they broke it off because
of Glenn?
But people wonder, does thatmean they broke it off because
of Glenn?
Well, as people learn this news, some more details kind of came
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out in that apparently therelationship had been rocky for
a while, but Jonathan DeVino hadbeen a producer on the movie
Anyone but you and present inthe filming for pretty much its
entirety.
And Glenn Powell's mom, cindyPowell, even came out to dispel
those rumors and say they'redefinitely not dating and that
they just enjoy each other'scompany and they're good friends
.
A tale as old as time.
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Time will tell, yeah, but theyactually.
So they started dating whenSidney Sweeney was 19 years old
and Jonathan was.
I guess he had to have been 33then and then.
So it was a total seven yearrelationship and I'd been
engaged for four.
I could say I'm not judging, butI'll be real kind of judging.
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Do you boo and have a longengagement, but for me
personally, no like shit or getoff the pot.
You know what I mean.
I guess, in this instance I ama toilet bowl, so I hate that
phrase now, oh, but as I waswatching Anyone but you I was
like, oh, wow, so Glenn Powellmust be pretty, pretty short,
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right?
Although I have not going tobrag or anything, I have met him
in Austin.
He's from Texas and there'sfamily, friends and relation or
whatever, and I didn't rememberhim being super short by any
means.
It's not that he's small.
Sidney Sweeney is only fivefoot three.
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Did you know that?
Now you do, because I didn'tknow that.
So all it takes is a quickGoogle search, but I did
eventually figure it out.
So she's only 5'3".
I feel like all actors, that'sanother legally binding contract
.
If you want to be an actor oran actress, you have to be
pretty short, or you know you'rean exception.
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Up next on the celebrities thatpeople are mad at is Morgan
Wallen.
Again, morgan Wallen, thecountry superstar singer, who
really knows how to stay in thenews.
I'll tell you what.
If that is his goal, baby, he'sachieving it with flying colors
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.
This time it's for walking offthe stage of SNL.
That may not immediately soundlike a big deal and it may still
not be a big deal.
It isn't in the you know schemeof things, but it's customary
and it happens after everyepisode.
When the credits start rolling,the band will start playing
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again and the cast and host andmusical guest all get together,
mingle.
We watch the end of that, yadayada.
Typically to that there's anafter party that the host will
go to and you know, do afterparty things.
Instead of doing that, morganWallen walked directly off stage
which happened to be directlyin front of the camera, at least
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that we were seeing as theaudience and passed the
cameraman and you could just seeKenan Thompson's facial
expressions and it was prettyhilarious and there was far less
people than usual.
It appeared lingering on thestage, so it had people
wondering wait, what justhappened?
Why did he just storm off Like?
Did something go down in themiddle of the show?
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People immediately noticedsomething was off, and then the
plot thickened because shortlythereafter, morgan Wallen posted
on Instagram a story of theplane that he was about to get
on, with the words get me toGod's country right after
walking off the stage andheading home.
So it became pretty clear thatthere was some sort of message
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he's trying to make there.
Given his history, it seems tobe that he's making some sort of
shade at both the show itselffor previously uninviting him to
host, and maybe just makingsome sort of political statement
as well.
Back in 2020, kind of whenMorgan Wallen's career was
really really taking off in theearly days of the coronavirus
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pandemic SNL had invited him tohost and be the musical
performance for the show.
He happened to have been ontour I suppose it was still a
thing going on and then posted aton of videos of him after a
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show taking shots and allegedlymaking out with a bunch of
college girls from theUniversity of Alabama, and that
made its rounds, and people wereput off by that for a multitude
of reasons, especially at theheight of COVID no masks and
that was like the biggest sinback then and I mean, you know,
for good reason.
Looking back, however, theyuninvited him to make some sort
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of statement too and for obviousreason not to get everybody
else sick, he kind of put histail between his legs and moved
on, but he definitely got like afinger wagging.
Then, of course, there's morethings that he did that are a
bit more inflammatory.
For instance, the followingyear, another video surfaced of
Morgan Wallen using a racialslur, and then he decided it had
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been too long since he'd made aruckus in the news and he threw
a chair off of the balcony orroof or something of a Nashville
bar on Broadway and he wastaken to jail for that and
ultimately fined.
And all of this Like he didn'tspend time behind bars, but he
was definitely charged andlegally hand slapped for that.
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Then, to add this on top of it,it's just, I mean, the hits
keep coming.
Kenan Thompson was asked abouthis thoughts on it and he gave
the best kind of response,essentially saying yeah, it's
pretty customary for people tostick around and we all kind of
looked around thinking what'shappening, but he must be, you
know, just a complicatedindividual.
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And that, by him saying goingback to God's country, are we,
are we not all in God's country?
Were you not in God's countrybeforehand?
Great response and pretty muchwraps up how I feel.
But that's just why MorganWallen is currently in the hot
seat and I will leave you withsome good shit to watch.
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What is streaming, a good showto rot to, although I will warn
you, it is probably one of theraunchiest reality TV dating
shows I've seen in some time,and that says something.
So be warned.
So if you want to indulge inthat kind of lovely reality TV,
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dessert, temptation Island onNetflix, if you have not yet
seen it.
It was originally broadcastedon Fox way back in 2001 through
2003.
So not that long, but honestly,it gives the vibes of early
2000s show, and how I'm shockedit's still airing what they
aired, but it was remade on USAin 2018.
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The rights eventually gotshifted over to Netflix, but
it's for couples where they cometo an island and essentially
test their fidelity.
I don't know why you would wantto do this really, but I guess
if you're about to break up orit's like, okay, biggest test
ever, can you stay true to me?
Like, am I the one for you?
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I don't know, but it makes goodTV.
So basically, the men and thewomen are in separate houses and
they are joined by, I think,like something like 10 to 12
single contestants and basicallythrowing themselves at them to
try and tempt them, and then hersignificant other proceeds to
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watch.
Clips of these happen at aquote bonfire, very Love
Island-esque.
So if you want to beentertained, but like in a
non-intellectual way at all,just something like that Trash
TV, do it.
It's very entertaining andplenty to talk about if you want
to talk about it later.
If you don't want to watchreality TV, you should watch the
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Studio on Apple TV+.
It's Seth Rogen's latest TVseries that he also stars in,
and so do a shitload of othercelebrities.
It's still releasing episodes.
So if you join now, it will bewatching week by week, but there
are two or three out.
Seth Rogen made it and it'sabout a man whose job, to
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basically quote, make thingshappen in filmmaking, and he is
the newly appointed person incharge at Continental Studios.
Matt Remick is not only inpursuit of creating great movies
, but also grappling with stress, egos and executive bigwigs who
are all part of the process.
It's a world where bringingprojects to life can be
productive, satisfying anddestructive.
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He's not the only one underpressure.
Continental Studios' team isdriven but prone to conflict,
and it's part of the job to beon edge, whether it's on set, at
an industry event or in theirown building.
The series features a packedcast and parade of cameos this
is what I'm talking about,including Katherine Hahn,
katherine O'Hara, ike Barinholtz, brian Cranston, martin
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Scorsese, ron Howard, steveBuscemi, ice Cube Zoe Kravitz,
quinta Brunson and Netflix CEOTed Sarandos.
If you want some true crime, Isuggest you watch the
documentary on Karen Reed andthe Karen Reed trial, because
that is coming back up in thefuture and I'm not going to give
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anything away.
It's a true crime docuseriesabout a trial of a woman who was
believed to have been set up bylocal cops for the death of her
husband, dun dun dun.
It's super interesting and Iwill definitely put out a video
or a podcast episode solely onKaren Reid trial, because it is
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wild, as always.
Thank you so much for listening.
I hope you enjoyed this week'sepisode.
Don't forget to send us a textby checking out the episode show
notes and visit our website ateasilyentertainedpodcastcom and
follow us on all of the socialsand your preferred podcast
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platform.
Until next week, homies, bye,thank you.
Hello, homies, and welcome to another episode of
Easily Entertained with MaddieMcClain.
I am your host, your dutifulpop culture sherpa, your girly
pop, your bestie whatever youwant to call me, as long as it's
nice here to break down thelatest in pop culture, hollywood
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and the entertainment world atlarge.
I just really wanted to say atlarge.
I feel like if you add that onto the end of a sentence,
generally it makes whatever youhave to say sound a whole lot
smarter.
Somehow, someway, we have madeit to the month of April in 2025
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.
So if you're listening to thisbeyond April 2025, hello from
the past.
And if you're listening to itright now, baby hello.
Isn't it wild that it's April?
I know that this is whateveryone has to say, I think by
law at the beginning of everymonth is can you believe it?
It's inter-month here, or canyou believe it?
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It's already Wednesday, youknow, and everybody feels that
way, though it's not always fake, I'm sure.
There are plenty of times whereit is.
However, the physics of time, Idon't even think that's what it
is here, as time goes on inhours like a shorter portion of
your life.
Anyways, back to the subject athand April Fool's Day.
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I would be born on a month thatbegins with one giant punked
episode.
Basically, I'm always terrifiedto go out in public on April
Fool's Day.
You never know what's lurkingout there.
And historically, I'm one ofthe more gullible people out
there.
My siblings always told me I'mthe youngest of four.
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I don't know if that is alsojust.
Perhaps I signed a legallybinding contract that all babies
with older siblings mustreceive while in the womb.
That means they have to begullible when they exit the womb
.
So that's how I exited the womba gullible girly, which makes
April Fool's Day.
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Well, I'm everyone's favoritetarget and now that you know,
now that I've placed that targeton myself, it's just going to
keep going.
Now that you know, now thatI've placed that target on
myself, it's just going to keepgoing.
I will never, ever forget aboutthis till the day I die.
So it was not on April Fool'sDay proper, I don't believe, but
it was a prank.
It was at some point in highschool.
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We're walking around the campus, I think like leaving lunch or
something, and the guys in frontof us are like whispering and
doing their you know high schooldude thing.
Right, I noticed they're likeobviously talking about
whoever's walking a ways infront of them, and they nudge
one of the guys at the timewe're going to call him Jim.
They nudge Jim and Jim races upto who looks like their guy
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friend, troy, up ahead.
So Jim's running up to Troy andgrabs Troy from behind and
gives him a noogie and thenstops and everyone starts
cracking up and screamingbecause that was not Troy, it
was not his buddy Troy, it wasthe assistant principal at the
time, who everyone did not, wasnot a fan of yeah.
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So he immediately red faced.
I mean, the look on his facewas out of a movie and that was
hilarious.
Hopefully that wasn't a you hadto be there story, because if
it was, I apologize first of all, but second of all I'll make up
for it Because I thought let'slook up some prank stories,
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shall we?
Let's hear some good ones, andnone other than Reddit.
Reddit is a treasure trove ofstories and off-the-wall
comments.
So you know, just giving you amajor heed of warning if you've
never used Reddit somehow.
Giving you a major heed ofwarning if you've never used
Reddit somehow.
First one we have One year forApril Fool's.
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The local newspaper posted anarticle about a truck full of
wine bottles that had crashed.
The article stated that winewas spilling everywhere and they
didn't want it to go to wasteso anyone could bring buckets to
fill.
One guy at my dad's work sawthe article and ran out.
All the people at work laughedat him.
Halfway to the place where thetruck supposedly was, the guy
realized his mistake.
He then went and bought acouple of cheap wine bottles
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which he emptied into the buckethe had brought with him and
then walked back into worktricking a couple of other
people to run out for this winetruck.
I like it.
Flip the script, uno, reverse.
I'm going to lock that in fornext time.
Just play the person on theirown prank.
Here's another one.
We had an IT guy at work thatcould not keep a secret.
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He was famous for it.
It earned him the nicknameLoose Lips.
Anyway, one day my bosssecurity did not come in because
of another obligation.
Loose Lips, who workedconstantly on our high-tech
security system, asked where hewas and my work partner, in a
moment of inspiration, said Ican't tell you.
Loose Lips became excited andbegged.
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Finally, partner, that's thenickname they're giving.
The boss quote caved and sworeLoose Lips to secrecy Then told
him our supervisor was on hisway to Moncton to collect the 10
million dollars he won thenight before in a lottery
Absolute BS.
We had a great time using oursecurity cameras tracking him
going from cubicle to cubicle,from building to building.
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We kept our supervisor informedby text of the developments.
He was amused to say the least.
But mid-afternoon we got a textfrom him.
Loose-lipped nose, I justtexted him instead of you by
mistake.
Sure enough, the camerasrevealed a fuming loose-lip
stomping towards the securitybuilding.
He charged in, swore at us.
He was not a happy camper.
But wait, my partner said weswore to you to secrecy.
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Who did you tell?
Loose-lips?
His shoulders sagged.
I told everybody he moaned.
Told everybody he moaned.
Well, now you'd better go tellthem all the truth.
Yeah, I guess Much hilaritywatching him retrace his steps.
The great thing is, a gagdepended on his own character
fault to be successful, and itwas a great success.
By the way, he didn't improve.
That's another flip the script,except they just proved
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themselves.
In my college dorms, rooms wereorganized into suites of four
rooms, eight people that had aprivate bathroom, living room,
balcony and hallway.
Each suite was permanentlylocked from the main hallway so
you needed a key or needed toknock to get it.
Me and my roommate had a bunchof friends in another suite.
We lived with them the previousyear but left them for a 10th
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floor amazing view and one nightwe went to their suite to
return a borrowed Xboxcontroller.
Upon leaving, we duct tapedthin cardboard over the hole
that the doorknob latch goesinto, thus making the door
closed but unlocked.
We came back at like 3 in themorning when we were sure they
were all asleep and we placed onthe toilet in the bathroom
stall a dummy that we made.
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He was made of jeans, shoes anda hoodie all bought from Value
Village, whatever that isstuffed with crumpled newspaper.
His quote head was a plasticbag stuffed with newspaper.
Then we locked the stall doorfrom the inside.
The next morning the girl thathad spent the night there
awkwardly waited over half anhour for the quote guy in the
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stall to leave but ended up justwalking down to the lobby to
use the restroom.
A guy sat in the stall next tothe quote occupied one and
attempted to make small talk.
Then, feeling really awkwardwhen the guy wouldn't respond, a
number of suitemates tried tofigure out who's been in the
bathroom so long, and when theytalked about it together they
realized that it had been hours.
One of them finally took therisk of peering in the crack and
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they had a good laugh about itand called us to talk.
They knew it must have been myroommate and I.
There's a part two.
That last prank was then usedas a setup to this next prank.
I snuck into their suite againwith the help of my roommate,
this time at a normal time likefive o'clock in the evening.
However, I was dressed in thesame shoes, jeans and hoodie as
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our dummy, stuffed with someextra newspaper to make me
crumply.
I even had the plastic bag withnewspaper over my head, with
room to breathe, don't worry.
I sat on a toilet for maybe 20minutes, this time with the door
unlocked.
Then someone noticed my shoesand looked in the stall gap.
He went to some other guys toshow them that Gabe and Ryan did
it again.
When he came back with otherguys, they opened the stall door
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and one of them reached forwardto grab what they thought was
the dummy.
So I grabbed him back, stood upand screamed, and they screamed
.
It was hilarious.
I like that one.
I like that one a lot.
It doesn't really hurt you.
It's a good one because it'sit's somewhat innocent, you know
I I mean there's nothing likesomehow.
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It's still wholesome, thewholesome joy and laughter of
seeing someone else get prankedor scared and they let out like
a little crazy shriek and thenyou know if it's not too scary.
It's pretty hilarious to see.
Oh, this one is good, okay, myfriend and his girlfriend
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recently got engaged.
As an engagement gift, a bunchof us got together to buy a
portrait for them.
We bought the portrait fromthis guy named Picasso, who's
famous for drawing portraitswith his ding dong.
The portrait even came with avideo of him drawing it with his
ding dong.
Neither one of them has everseen this video.
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When we gave the painting tothem, they were all really
excited and we told them thatthe paints had a taste to them
and that they should give it alick and smell it.
They must have tried lickingthat stupid portrait for at
least five minutes before givingup.
Oh, they currently have theirportrait hanging in their living
room above the fireplace.
We do not plan to give them theDVD of him painting their faces
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with his wang for at least afew years DVD, and now you
really, you really are lookingat 12 year old stories.
So every time one of us comesover we get a nice chuckle at
the Wang painting they have soproudly hung on their wall
Proudly hung.
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I would love to hear yourfavorite prank stories, whether
they involve you or not.
So if you want to share anythat I can read on the next
episode, feel free to press sendus a text which you can find in
the episode show notes and thatwill take you directly to chat
with us.
I'm so happy we started to getour first ones in and it's fun
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to read y'all's messages.
So keep it up, homies, keep itup Now.
While I was on Reddit,naturally, I just kept scrolling
and it gave me an idea for thisnext little segment.
Here we're going to talk aboutsome of the most ridiculous
specific celebrity requests,sometimes called writers.
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So if a musician is on tour,they'll give off this writer or
piece of paper that basicallytells them.
It's basically an instructionset, almost like a branding
guideline for my marketing peepsout there, but basically
requesting all the shit thatthey want in their green room to
notes on how they want thesound guys to handle, you know
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the live production throughoutthe show, lighting, all that
kind of thing.
But the most exciting pieces ofinformation in these writers
are the kind of wacky requeststhat celebrities will make.
Because I'm nosy and want toknow such things, I figured
maybe you do too.
Think of me as a little Dumoismoment here.
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All of this is just readdirectly from what's put on the
internet, so nothing isconfirmed as truth, necessarily.
But I don't know.
Where there's smoke, there'susually fire.
Okay, so Joe Jonas has askedfor 12 puppies backstage and
apparently he has confirmed thatone.
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He did indeed ask for 12puppies.
Kanye asked for Carmexeverywhere he goes, and one time
he asked for a specific type ofwater that the employees had to
go to another city to find.
I mean, that's not really thatshocking.
Kevin Hart requests five women,what?
Between the ages of 21 through27 with an athletic build.
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Well, that's his type rightthere.
Beyonce asked for her room tobe kept at 78 degrees the whole
time she was in it.
That's really warm.
Kylie Jenner wanted a hotelemployee to stay with her 24-7.
Cardi B always asked for squidand Pepsi Future always requests
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a lavender candle.
That's kind of cute.
Drake asked for four dozennaturally scented incense sticks
.
Christina Aguilera asked forthe driver to never get stuck in
traffic Don't you dare.
Rihanna asked for a big fur rugfor her to walk on barefoot I
mean, that sounds nice and blueor black chiffon curtains she
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just wants the aesthetics, right.
Is she a Taurus?
I don't know.
Appreciates the finer things.
Justin Timberlake requires thedoorknobs of wherever he's going
to be disinfected every twohours.
Eminem used to ask for sixLunchables three turkey and
three ham with 24 cans and 24plastic bottles of Diet Coke.
Also, to add, one time JustinTimberlake asked to only ride
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the employee elevator at a hotel, but he didn't want the
employees to walk down thehallway at the same time, so
instead his team followed behindhim to make sure that the
employees basically waited wherethey could not be seen or heard
from, until he got on theelevator.
All that for a tiny,ding-donged man.
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I say that because the photos,if you have not seen these, they
took photos of JustinTimberlake on tour in one of
those hydraulic suits so that hecan be lifted into the air
Basically one of those crotchsecurity belts that connect you
to something.
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And it was not looking good forJustin Timberlake and people
were making fun of him all overthe internet and then he started
wearing long t-shirts so thatpeople couldn't take photos of
his crotch and make fun of him.
That's actually really sad.
The more I talked about it,madonna, she always had to have
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a new toilet seat because shecould not use one that somebody
else had used.
That is a pre-Madonna thing todo.
Samuel L Jackson said you cancall him Mr Jackson, sam or
Samuel.
Do not call him Sammy, which isa really normal thing.
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To just request people call youor not call you a name, I guess
, but in this context is prettyhilarious.
So they also wrote thetemptation to call him Sammy was
real, for real.
Tell someone not to dosomething that's the quickest
way to get someone to do thatthing.
Usually or maybe I justsurround myself with people like
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me, and here's a creepier oneNow, knowing, uh, the very, very
dark history behind Mr MarilynManson, uh, that can bea whole
other episode where I can giveyou the full story of that.
But Marilyn Manson a musician.
He wanted black fabric hungover the windows and walls of
his dressing room and AC, ascold as it would go.
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We were instructed not to lookhim in the eyes.
I was in high school at thetime, working at a catering
company.
The music venue was on the bankof a river and there was a
secluded fire pit area behindthe venue for the artist to
enjoy.
Manson came backstage where weprepared food and asked for a
bag of apples.
He wanted to throw them atpassing boats from that fire pit
area.
Of apples, he wanted to throwthem at passing boats from that
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fire pit area.
Interesting, really indicativeof the kind of person he is,
just enjoys cruelty andintimidation of all kinds.
Yeah, my good.
Stuart Lee, a UK comedian, has afunny bit about Dave
Chappelle's writer requests,which he found out after
performing on the same bill ashim one night.
Their requests were for all thenormal light bulbs around the
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mirror to be replaced with redbulbs, lots of bottles of
champagne and two rotisseriechickens rotating on individual
rotisserie skewers.
What made these diva-likedemands even funnier was that
apparently this wasn't somemassive venue.
It was a small UK theaterholding about 300 capacity max
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To be able to request thesekinds of things.
I suppose it's like once youmake it and you're there, maybe
everybody's tempted to make somecrazy wild request.
People talking about whatcelebrities have requested on
these writers is not a new topicof conversation.
In fact, people find itobviously very interesting.
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But this all came about.
It started really back with VanHalen.
They would request a bowl ofM&Ms and that all of the brown.
Some say brown, some say green,I'm going to guess it's brown
because that's like the mostboring color.
But they would request thatthey remove all of the brown
ones and people thought this wascrazy because obviously, like
that's like the most boringcolor.
But they would request thatthey remove all of the brown
ones and people thought this wascrazy because obviously like
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that's such a mean, almost justmonotonous, boring task to give
to somebody.
But then, allegedly, years downthe road, they said that this
was all part of a strategyreally to make sure that the
teams are reading the writer andtheir paperwork super carefully
.
They can look at the bowl ofM&Ms, if it's there, and see if
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they read all the details andpaid attention.
If they messed that up, thenthey could probably mess
something up important having todo with the production of their
live show at the venue.
So that was allegedly theirstrategy.
Whether or not that's true orjust to make sure we don't think
that they're that much of divas.
It is time for Pop Culture NewsNuggets, where I tell you what
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everyone's talking about.
And what we're going to talkabout first is our girl, chapel
Roan, who, by the way, inpreparing for this podcast I was
making sure I was pronouncingher name right.
I ended up having to Google itand have some robot speak it for
me, because you know, when yousay a word so many times or
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pronounce it, that it juststarts feeling all wrong.
You know, gives you thefeelings like no, wait, no, no,
and you gaslight yourself intooblivion.
Wait, no, no, and you gaslightyourself into oblivion.
That's what I just did withChapel Roan.
Chapel Roan, the 27-year-old popstar who was catapulted into
fame and stardom kind of reallyover the last year or so, but
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she's been around.
She's released several albumsbefore the rise and fall of a
Midwest princess, but that'sreally when her career took off.
She's been the center of lotsof internet conversations and
criticism quite a few times inthe recent past after she gained
popularity or really like thiscrazy skyrocketed popularity.
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Let's be honest.
He will question if she's evertruly been media trained based
on her responses she gives, bothin interviews and just out in
public while, you know, speakingwith paparazzi or interviewers
or media on the red carpet,she's kind of has a flippant
attitude and I think it's partof what people love about her is
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she's very quote real Peoplelove her for her kind of bold,
flippant, kind of playfulattitude.
That can at times come off thewrong way, which I think is the
case in the latest interview shejust did with Alex Cooper on
Call Her Daddy.
Chapel has moms across theinternet up in arms and divided
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with a semi-controversialstatement, I suppose.
So Alex Cooper and Chapel Rohnwere having a conversation about
how Chapel's career skyrocketedso quickly and kind of well,
seemingly out of the blue, whenyou've been working on something
for years and years, as she has, and how that's changed her
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lifestyle in both obvious andnot so obvious ways.
And Chapel mentions that,coming from the Midwest, many of
her friends who are alsoassuming around the same age of
27, that they'll have kids nowand bought houses, and how her
life is so much different thanher friends who are all young
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mothers.
And then Alex asked her youknow, do you want to have kids?
Like, do you seriously lovehaving kids?
Chapel responded saying all ofmy friends who have kids are in
hell.
I actually don't know anyonewho's happy and has children at
this age.
I've literally not met anyonewho's happy, anyone who is light
in their eyes, who has slept,and obviously that is literally
just a single quote pulled froman entire podcast interview.
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So keep that in mind.
So that clip started making itsway across TikTok and, right or
wrong, pissed off a bunch ofmoms and obviously broad stroke
comment from Chapel and she'sprobably exaggerating to be
entertaining, but I don't thinkthat she's all that wrong and
where she's coming from as awoman without kids and now kind
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of thinking about facing thatquestion more seriously than
ever, I suppose just becausethat's what happens naturally as
you get older that I'm not sosure.
If I personally want to havekids and I've grown up always
wanting to it's just a scarythought being completely
responsible for another human'slife, but we're not talking
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about me.
I think that what Chapel'sgetting at is that young women
who are unmarried or don't havekids we are hit with, I mean
horror story after horror storyafter horror story from our
women peers around us telling usabout their experiences and how
much of a nightmare it is, andmostly the ones that I can
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remember, yes, are filled withnightmare examples of just crazy
kids, no sleep, losing theirminds, no time for themselves
and sexless marriages and all ofthat.
That's just what we hear.
I think that those storieschange at least from my
perspective of being aroundpregnant women, I think it
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becomes.
They still get those, but Ithink that there are a lot more
positive stories shared to them,which is probably good.
All to say, that commentshouldn't have been as
controversial as it was isreally my biggest opinion in all
of this.
So if you go on any socialmedia platform or just look up
her name, you'll find articlesfrom all media sites and
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publications talking about thisuproar that she's caused and
it's not the first time she'scaused an uproar.
She tends to take up that wholekind of tired used bit that
celebrities and influencers willuse where they complain about
being famous and you know, trybeing an influencer for a day
kind of vibes and um, and I canthink of very few scenarios
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where that argument or thatstance has worked in that
person's favor, truthfully.
So I do think we need to dropthat, and people don't want to
hear that.
Especially, she's not just aninfluencer or content creator,
she is a musician are countlessartists and musicians out there
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that would do anything to swapplaces with her and blow up
overnight as she did, eventhough that whole phrase like
something like an overnightsuccess.
Rarely, if ever, are theyactually overnight successes.
That's just the part that wesee, so keep that in mind
whenever venture you're doing.
Nothing is truly an overnightsuccess.
Chapel Roan had been working inthe industry for 10 years,
busking in the streets like youknow all those musicians on the
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streets.
That's asking for change.
Yeah, that's where she started.
Everybody starts somewhere.
So that's what I had to tellmyself when I was starting this
whole shebang.
Sometimes it takes justcompletely putting your ego and
your self-conscious thoughts andshoving them in a closet and
then you can unlock that closetlater once you do it and you
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know, organize through it andthen shut it again, because if
you spend too much time in thatcloset you won't ever come out.
And I'm not talking sexually,no, I mean we're going to just
really gracefully move on fromthat and get right back to
Chapel.
I feel a little bit badly forChapel in the sense that she's
been extremely scrutinized andlargely because she is so
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publicly identifies as queerthat people assume she then
needs to speak for them at alltimes and she's kind of been
bombarded to take up a politicalstance and opinions and all of
that.
So she's expressed frustrationswith that part.
In that part I can totally getbehind and understand.
The one that's annoying is thecomplaining of being famous and
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like complaining about yoursuccess.
However, I don't think hercomments about motherhood should
be as inflammatory as they havebeen.
Lots of moms on TikTokresponded with basically
montages of loving momentsbetween them and their kids and
saying you know, we're not inhell.
A baby looking at you andsmiling isn't hell, and I think
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that's the point being missedhere.
I don't think Chapel Roan hatesbabies Right and Chapel Roan
hates babies right, although, Imight add, if there are so many
controversies in such a shortperiod of time for things that
are coming out of your mouth,maybe that's something to
self-reflect on.
I will say Just maybe, but Iguess we all make mistakes.
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Sydney Sweeney and her fiancénow ex-fiance jonathan devino,
have officially separated.
While it doesn't come as acomplete surprise if you're
paying attention to that thisclosely, I suppose sources like
tmz and other publications hadrelease information in January.
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I believe that Sydney Sweeneywas possibly living separately
at the Beverly Hills Hotel forabout a month or so before she
went on to Paris Fashion Weekwithout her fiance anywhere in
sight, but nothing wasofficially confirmed until this
week.
A few days ago, they releasedtheir official PR note, if you
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will, pr announcement thatSydney and Jonathan had
separated, but mostly due toSweeney needing to focus on her
career.
If that's true, we don't know,but the internet will guess, net
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will guess.
And of course, this re-sparkedup rumors, dating rumors between
herself and Glenn Powell, whoshe co-starred with in the movie
Anyone but you, great chickflick movie which I truthfully
didn't even fully watch untilliterally last weekend.
So I guess an instance where mytiming is impeccable, might I
add.
The source goes on to say thatSweeney has been focusing on
work amid the end of herengagement.
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She's exactly where she wantsto be.
Most people would feeloverwhelmed by her working
schedule this year, but not Sid.
She's all about working rightnow and very excited about all
her projects, and all of herprojects, lots of big ones.
So Euphoria finally, finally,finally, finally, finally going
to be given to us all and it'sgoing to be delightful.
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Some of her projects excitinglyinclude, obviously so the new
season of Euphoria, but also sheis going to be in the leading
role for the movie version ofthe Housemaid and as well as the
real-life boxer Christy Martin,and another movie she'll be
playing, screen star Kim Novak.
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So lots of biopics these daystoo.
So she's super busy.
But people wonder, does thatmean they broke it off because
of Glenn?
But people wonder, does thatmean they broke it off because
of Glenn?
Well, as people learn this news, some more details kind of came
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out in that apparently therelationship had been rocky for
a while, but Jonathan DeVino hadbeen a producer on the movie
Anyone but you and present inthe filming for pretty much its
entirety.
And Glenn Powell's mom, cindyPowell, even came out to dispel
those rumors and say they'redefinitely not dating and that
they just enjoy each other'scompany and they're good friends
.
A tale as old as time.
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Time will tell, yeah, but theyactually.
So they started dating whenSidney Sweeney was 19 years old
and Jonathan was.
I guess he had to have been 33then and then.
So it was a total seven yearrelationship and I'd been
engaged for four.
I could say I'm not judging, butI'll be real kind of judging.
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Do you boo and have a longengagement, but for me
personally, no like shit or getoff the pot.
You know what I mean.
I guess, in this instance I ama toilet bowl, so I hate that
phrase now, oh, but as I waswatching Anyone but you I was
like, oh, wow, so Glenn Powellmust be pretty, pretty short,
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right?
Although I have not going tobrag or anything, I have met him
in Austin.
He's from Texas and there'sfamily, friends and relation or
whatever, and I didn't rememberhim being super short by any
means.
It's not that he's small.
Sidney Sweeney is only fivefoot three.
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Did you know that?
Now you do, because I didn'tknow that.
So all it takes is a quickGoogle search, but I did
eventually figure it out.
So she's only 5'3".
I feel like all actors, that'sanother legally binding contract
.
If you want to be an actor oran actress, you have to be
pretty short, or you know you'rean exception.
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Up next on the celebrities thatpeople are mad at is Morgan
Wallen.
Again, morgan Wallen, thecountry superstar singer, who
really knows how to stay in thenews.
I'll tell you what.
If that is his goal, baby, he'sachieving it with flying colors
(30:37):
.
This time it's for walking offthe stage of SNL.
That may not immediately soundlike a big deal and it may still
not be a big deal.
It isn't in the you know schemeof things, but it's customary
and it happens after everyepisode.
When the credits start rolling,the band will start playing
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again and the cast and host andmusical guest all get together,
mingle.
We watch the end of that, yadayada.
Typically to that there's anafter party that the host will
go to and you know, do afterparty things.
Instead of doing that, morganWallen walked directly off stage
which happened to be directlyin front of the camera, at least
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that we were seeing as theaudience and passed the
cameraman and you could just seeKenan Thompson's facial
expressions and it was prettyhilarious and there was far less
people than usual.
It appeared lingering on thestage, so it had people
wondering wait, what justhappened?
Why did he just storm off Like?
Did something go down in themiddle of the show?
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People immediately noticedsomething was off, and then the
plot thickened because shortlythereafter, morgan Wallen posted
on Instagram a story of theplane that he was about to get
on, with the words get me toGod's country right after
walking off the stage andheading home.
So it became pretty clear thatthere was some sort of message
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he's trying to make there.
Given his history, it seems tobe that he's making some sort of
shade at both the show itselffor previously uninviting him to
host, and maybe just makingsome sort of political statement
as well.
Back in 2020, kind of whenMorgan Wallen's career was
really really taking off in theearly days of the coronavirus
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pandemic SNL had invited him tohost and be the musical
performance for the show.
He happened to have been ontour I suppose it was still a
thing going on and then posted aton of videos of him after a
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show taking shots and allegedlymaking out with a bunch of
college girls from theUniversity of Alabama, and that
made its rounds, and people wereput off by that for a multitude
of reasons, especially at theheight of COVID no masks and
that was like the biggest sinback then and I mean, you know,
for good reason.
Looking back, however, theyuninvited him to make some sort
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of statement too and for obviousreason not to get everybody
else sick, he kind of put histail between his legs and moved
on, but he definitely got like afinger wagging.
Then, of course, there's morethings that he did that are a
bit more inflammatory.
For instance, the followingyear, another video surfaced of
Morgan Wallen using a racialslur, and then he decided it had
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been too long since he'd made aruckus in the news and he threw
a chair off of the balcony orroof or something of a Nashville
bar on Broadway and he wastaken to jail for that and
ultimately fined.
And all of this Like he didn'tspend time behind bars, but he
was definitely charged andlegally hand slapped for that.
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Then, to add this on top of it,it's just, I mean, the hits
keep coming.
Kenan Thompson was asked abouthis thoughts on it and he gave
the best kind of response,essentially saying yeah, it's
pretty customary for people tostick around and we all kind of
looked around thinking what'shappening, but he must be, you
know, just a complicatedindividual.
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And that, by him saying goingback to God's country, are we,
are we not all in God's country?
Were you not in God's countrybeforehand?
Great response and pretty muchwraps up how I feel.
But that's just why MorganWallen is currently in the hot
seat and I will leave you withsome good shit to watch.
(34:37):
What is streaming, a good showto rot to, although I will warn
you, it is probably one of theraunchiest reality TV dating
shows I've seen in some time,and that says something.
So be warned.
So if you want to indulge inthat kind of lovely reality TV,
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dessert, temptation Island onNetflix, if you have not yet
seen it.
It was originally broadcastedon Fox way back in 2001 through
2003.
So not that long, but honestly,it gives the vibes of early
2000s show, and how I'm shockedit's still airing what they
aired, but it was remade on USAin 2018.
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The rights eventually gotshifted over to Netflix, but
it's for couples where they cometo an island and essentially
test their fidelity.
I don't know why you would wantto do this really, but I guess
if you're about to break up orit's like, okay, biggest test
ever, can you stay true to me?
Like, am I the one for you?
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I don't know, but it makes goodTV.
So basically, the men and thewomen are in separate houses and
they are joined by, I think,like something like 10 to 12
single contestants and basicallythrowing themselves at them to
try and tempt them, and then hersignificant other proceeds to
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watch.
Clips of these happen at aquote bonfire, very Love
Island-esque.
So if you want to beentertained, but like in a
non-intellectual way at all,just something like that Trash
TV, do it.
It's very entertaining andplenty to talk about if you want
to talk about it later.
If you don't want to watchreality TV, you should watch the
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Studio on Apple TV+.
It's Seth Rogen's latest TVseries that he also stars in,
and so do a shitload of othercelebrities.
It's still releasing episodes.
So if you join now, it will bewatching week by week, but there
are two or three out.
Seth Rogen made it and it'sabout a man whose job, to
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basically quote, make thingshappen in filmmaking, and he is
the newly appointed person incharge at Continental Studios.
Matt Remick is not only inpursuit of creating great movies
, but also grappling with stress, egos and executive bigwigs who
are all part of the process.
It's a world where bringingprojects to life can be
productive, satisfying anddestructive.
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He's not the only one underpressure.
Continental Studios' team isdriven but prone to conflict,
and it's part of the job to beon edge, whether it's on set, at
an industry event or in theirown building.
The series features a packedcast and parade of cameos this
is what I'm talking about,including Katherine Hahn,
katherine O'Hara, ike Barinholtz, brian Cranston, martin
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Scorsese, ron Howard, steveBuscemi, ice Cube Zoe Kravitz,
quinta Brunson and Netflix CEOTed Sarandos.
If you want some true crime, Isuggest you watch the
documentary on Karen Reed andthe Karen Reed trial, because
that is coming back up in thefuture and I'm not going to give
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anything away.
It's a true crime docuseriesabout a trial of a woman who was
believed to have been set up bylocal cops for the death of her
husband, dun dun dun.
It's super interesting and Iwill definitely put out a video
or a podcast episode solely onKaren Reid trial, because it is
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wild, as always.
Thank you so much for listening.
I hope you enjoyed this week'sepisode.
Don't forget to send us a textby checking out the episode show
notes and visit our website ateasilyentertainedpodcastcom and
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Until next week, homies, bye,thank you.
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