Pod Insights Girls Gotta Eat The Snack: 2024's Best Pop Culture Moments About this episode Welcome back to The Snack – a lighter serving of Girls Gotta Eat. This week, we're covering:
Christmas movie power ranking
Our review of Babygirl
This year's celebrity breakups
Best pop culture moments of 2024
Worst men of the year
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0:00 Rayna Greenberg? Welcome to The Snack, a lighter serving of Girls Gotta Eat. This is a Dear Media production. Enjoy.
0:10 Rayna Greenberg? Hi, guys.
0:11 Ashley Hesseltine? Hi, guys.
0:12 Rayna Greenberg? End of the year.
0:13 Ashley Hesseltine? Last snack of the year.
0:15 Rayna Greenberg? I'm looking forward to this.
0:16 Ashley Hesseltine? Sink your teeth in, too.
0:17 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
0:18 Ashley Hesseltine? So this is so fun because we used to do pop culture roundups, Raina's breakup recap of the year, all in like a regular Monday episode, and now we get to put it all in the snack jam pack.
0:29 Rayna Greenberg? I'm excited.
0:30 Ashley Hesseltine? Snack.
0:30 Rayna Greenberg? You know, just unpack it all.
0:31 Ashley Hesseltine? It's been a year.
0:33 Rayna Greenberg? It has. Less breakups this year.
0:35 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
0:35 Rayna Greenberg? It wasn't as robust of a list this year.
0:37 Ashley Hesseltine? But one big one. Well, you know, we'll see. I can't wait to hear your list.
0:41 Rayna Greenberg? I'm sure you got the biggest one because I had to keep it out of my list.
0:45 Ashley Hesseltine? If your biggest one is not my biggest one, I don't know what I have to do.
0:48 Rayna Greenberg? Well, we like different stuff.
0:50 Ashley Hesseltine? Well, I have two biggest ones this year.
0:51 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
0:51 Ashley Hesseltine? Did you put any personal acquaintance? Did you put any personal contacts on it?
0:56 Rayna Greenberg? Personal contacts?
0:57 Ashley Hesseltine? No, I was trying to think if, I don't even know if we have like a crazy breakup, like of people we know.
1:03 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, because we had that year where like everybody we knew broke up.
1:05 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
1:06 Rayna Greenberg? And then I broke up.
1:06 Ashley Hesseltine? Did we have any crazy, like?
1:08 Rayna Greenberg? I actually do think this is like one year where we like didn't have like crazy breakups from friends.
1:12 Ashley Hesseltine? People like got married and engaged.
1:14 Rayna Greenberg? People stuck together this year.
1:15 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
1:16 Rayna Greenberg? That is crazy, actually.
1:17 Ashley Hesseltine? Seriously.
1:18 Rayna Greenberg? Like, I really, I struggle. The breakups this year also, worse.
1:23 Ashley Hesseltine? Messier.
1:23 Rayna Greenberg? They're just messier. There's more lawsuits. I mean, there's just
1:28 Rayna Greenberg? less breakups, but more horrible.
1:31 Ashley Hesseltine? Less breakups, more lawsuits. I like that.
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2:03 Rayna Greenberg? What do you want to do first?
2:05 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay, so a standard report, we have to start with a report. We're just going to do a Christmas movie report. I've been threatening to do a power ranking of our favorite Christmas movies that we'd already talked about. There's a great post on our Instagram of like all the top 10 that we were anticipating for the season. I've been trying to get through them all.
2:24 Rayna Greenberg? I can't believe you did this.
2:26 Ashley Hesseltine? I haven't got through them all. Don't give me too much credit.
2:30 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes.
2:30 Rayna Greenberg? Like, I love when people, by the way, say like with Christmas movies, like, the dialogue just isn't good. It's not supposed to be good.
2:36 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
2:36 Rayna Greenberg? The plotlines aren't good. They're not supposed to be good.
2:38 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes. Every time I finish a Christmas movie, I have to read a book just to like counteract the stupidity. But like I said, there is a good post on our Instagram that's most of these, and I've tried, I've been trying to see them all. Some I just couldn't do. I'm like, I'm not doing it.
2:51 Rayna Greenberg? Which ones didn't you do?
2:53 Ashley Hesseltine? So we'll get to it. So, okay, so I did worst to best. I'm ranking these worst to best.
2:58 Rayna Greenberg? As you should.
2:58 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay. Worst is Nutcrackers on Hulu, zero out of 10. That's the one with Ben Stiller.
3:05 Rayna Greenberg? Why'd you hate it?
3:05 Ashley Hesseltine? I really hated it. I felt like it was really slow. It's like these bad kids. I mean, they've lost their parents, but they're like just bad. They like give me anxiety. There's this like messy house and it just, like Ben Stiller wasn't as funny. Like, I don't know. He, he just, he doesn't do it for me like he used to in like Meet the Parents or something and like Dodgeball.
3:27 Rayna Greenberg? I just, I think sometimes these, these, these movies get these big names and they're not showing up to do a good job either. They're showing up for the paycheck.
3:34 Ashley Hesseltine? It had a nice ending. It had a heartwarming ending. Not worth it. Zero out of 10. Okay. Hot Frosty.
3:40 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
3:41 Ashley Hesseltine? We all know Hot Frosty, Sexy Snowman, Weeks Ago at this point, already talked about it, four out of 10.
3:47 Rayna Greenberg? Okay. Listen, I don't think any of these are gonna be 12 out of 10. So I'm not like, oh my God, I can't, it's like you didn't like, I don't know.
3:52 Ashley Hesseltine? Right.
3:53 Rayna Greenberg? What's a good movie? Double or triple?
3:55 Ashley Hesseltine? So that's, so here's the thing. Let's, while we're here, 10 out of 10 is Home Alone.
3:59 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
3:59 Ashley Hesseltine? Nine out of 10, Family Stone. I mean, these are classics, like Love Actually, like, these movies that come out every year are never gonna touch those. I mean, maybe one day we'll get one, but you know what I'm saying? Like, that's the bar as a 10.
4:12 Rayna Greenberg? It's funny you think you call, you lump Holiday Stone in there with it, because I think like Holiday Stone, what did I say? Holiday Stone.
4:19 Ashley Hesseltine? You said it twice.
4:19 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah. Family Stone in there with like Love Actually, because like I, I think of these as like mo, there's movies to me and then there's like holiday movies, like Netflix.
4:29 Ashley Hesseltine? They're not the same category.
4:30 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah, you're right. I mean, they could be in a category all their own, but Home Alone was recently awarded the best Christmas movie of all time, obviously a hot take. Okay.
4:37 Ashley Hesseltine? Meet Me Next Christmas, this was on Netflix. I talked about this one, Christina Milian, five out of 10. That was the one about in the Sky Club. Okay. Christmas in the Spotlight. This is the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce inspired one on Lifetime. I had to pay like $3 to rent that shit.
4:51 Rayna Greenberg? You rented it?
4:52 Ashley Hesseltine? I don't, yes.
4:53 Rayna Greenberg? Did you put it on our card?
4:54 Ashley Hesseltine? I bought it on like YouTube. I bought it on like YouTube TV or whatever. I'm gonna give it a six and a half out of 10.
5:01 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
5:02 Ashley Hesseltine? It wasn't too horrible. It was not like Hallmark level cheesiness. Lifetime will show some tongue when they're kissing.
5:08 Rayna Greenberg? Was there an original score?
5:09 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay, so here's the thing. Here's the craziest thing about it.
5:12 Rayna Greenberg? She's saying Taylor Swift covers.
5:13 Ashley Hesseltine? First of all, it's crazy Taylor Swift coded. So there's all these Easter eggs. I really think the Swifties will appreciate it. The writer or director, whoever created the movie is like a huge Swiftie and like put all these crazy Easter eggs that like I didn't even pick up on all of them. Obviously, I'm not like that huge of a Swiftie. I'm gonna link this article. There was a today.com article of like all of them. It was actually pretty cool to read after the fact. Some stuff about it was like a little weird, but obviously it was like very, not even loosely, heavily based on them. But the craziest thing about it was the guy that played Travis Kelsey, I literally thought it was Gronk. I was like, is this supposed to be Gronk? Travis Kelsey, I feel like is like supposed to be kinda smooth.
5:51 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
5:51 Ashley Hesseltine? Gronk is like the big dumb jock.
5:55 Rayna Greenberg? They made him like big dumb idiot?
5:57 Ashley Hesseltine? But even he looked, I was like, is that Gronk? How crazy would that be?
6:02 Rayna Greenberg? So they really like underplayed the Travis Kelsey of it all?
6:04 Ashley Hesseltine? He was supposed to be Travis Kelsey. He had the brother, he had the Jason with the family. I mean, it was, they had the parents. Like it was, there was no podcast to speak of. And by the way, like the saddest part about it is like they don't have Netflix budget. So like the NFL games look like a high school stadium. Like that part was pretty sad. And like her concerts looked really low budget, but it's okay.
6:24 Rayna Greenberg? It's like Timo Travis, okay.
6:25 Ashley Hesseltine? It's Timo Travis. But I was like, is this a Gronk biopic? It was really weird, but anyway, it was fine. Merry gentlemen, this was The Strippers. Chad Michael Murray, we talked about it. I'm gonna get it, I'm gonna give it seven out of 10 because I just thought that plot was so ridiculous in a good way. It was corny, but it wasn't like too terrible. I thought the casting of Chad Michael Murray was insane.
6:49 Rayna Greenberg? So you appreciated the bravery of this?
6:53 Ashley Hesseltine? It was so brave. And here's the thing about it, Raina, so it was so GGE-coded because A, the strippers, B, main character, Amy Ashley, C, and someone DM'd this and brought it to my attention, the main character wants to fuck her contractor.
7:07 Rayna Greenberg? No. They stole these ideas from us?
7:09 Ashley Hesseltine? Chad Michael Murray's the contractor.
7:11 Rayna Greenberg? They stole... The stripper's a contractor?
7:13 Ashley Hesseltine? He's the contractor-turned-stripper, which is your dream.
7:17 Rayna Greenberg? That is my dream.
7:19 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay, that was 7 out of 10. Our little secret, which you can jump in now, this was Lindsay Lohan.
7:25 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, right. I loved it.
7:26 Ashley Hesseltine? Seven and a half out of 10, which is a strong rating.
7:29 Rayna Greenberg? I like an ensemble cast. I like these, like, everybody goes to the same house for Christmas and chaos ensues. I like that trope. I think it's fun. I mean, Lindsay Lohan's face is the chalk of the town. I mean, it's also a pop culture moment.
7:43 Ashley Hesseltine? Which, you know, her surgeon is like coming out with like, "I'm the one." She's in Dubai. She's like posting with Lindsay, like, "Hey, everybody, I'm responsible."
7:53 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
7:54 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, she's like pissing all over her territory.
7:55 Rayna Greenberg? She's booked for years.
7:56 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, she's busy and booked.
7:58 Rayna Greenberg? I really enjoyed it. I thought it was so cute. I just, I watched it with my family over Thanksgiving. Loved it.
8:03 Ashley Hesseltine? Like, Kristin Chenoweth is in it, John Ruditsky, who's like a really funny comedian. I've met him, been on shows with him in here. It was just, it was actually like funny and good enough writing. It wasn't like so corny.
8:16 Rayna Greenberg? I don't think it was that corny.
8:17 Ashley Hesseltine? That's people's favorite of the season.
8:19 Rayna Greenberg? I really liked it.
8:20 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay, and next, this is older, but I'm just gonna throw it in here because everybody recommended it to me, and it's called Christmas with the Campbells, and you can watch it on Hulu. And this is, it has Brittany Snow and Justin Long and the guy from SNL, who I'm forgetting his name, but he's so funny. It's funny. It's laugh-out-loud funny. You'll recognize the mom, who plays the mom. Like, it's super horny, super funny. So many people told me I should watch it for years, and I finally did, and I'm gonna give it an 8 out of 10.
8:49 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, you brought an old movie back. You like to do that.
8:51 Ashley Hesseltine? But it was new to me.
8:53 Rayna Greenberg? I just have to talk about it because it was so horny.
8:55 Ashley Hesseltine? New to me.
8:56 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
8:57 Ashley Hesseltine? And I've been recommending it to everybody. You know, in the group chat, I feel like Raina's probably like, Ashley, please shut the fuck about this movie. And then I don't think I'm gonna do a Chiefs love story. I don't care. I hate the Chiefs. It's Hallmark. It's gonna be too corny, not horny. Like, I'm not gonna do it. I still wanna do Style Me for Christmas, which is BET, and then Carry On, which is like the thriller on Netflix. I would like us to watch on Christmas.
9:18 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
9:19 Ashley Hesseltine? Because what we're not gonna watch on Christmas is Baby Girl. Because we have already seen it.
9:28 Rayna Greenberg? So we went to the premiere.
9:31 Rayna Greenberg? I, it was, first of all, it was a perfect length. I can't stop talking about it. It was under two hours. I was enthralled every moment. And I just wanna say, we will get into this. This is, it's a movie starring Nicole Kidman, and she's the boss of a company that's similar to, I guess, Amazon. And she has a sexual relationship with an intern.
9:48 Ashley Hesseltine? Mm-hmm.
9:49 Rayna Greenberg? And there's a lot of themes of like power dynamics and kinks. And it was, I loved it so much, but you and I watched it. And the first thing you said to me was like, we can't watch this with my mom. Because you had sold me that this was a Netflix dropping on Christmas movie.
10:03 Ashley Hesseltine? Did I make this up?
10:04 Rayna Greenberg? I don't know. And you were like, did you not know about this? And I was like, you said it to me, and I believed you.
10:09 Ashley Hesseltine? If I said that, I was lying. This is a theater movie premiere. It's coming out in theaters Christmas Day. Crazy time to drop a movie this kinky. But it's kind of like, get everything you want this Christmas with this movie, cuz she's getting everything she wants. And Raina, I can't imagine not seeing this in the theater, because there is these moments when things start to heat up. Like, one in particular, where like, there was like a collective gasp from the audience. Like, I, you just sometimes forget how different it is to see a movie in the theater in a good way, when you're all, especially a movie that's got like twists and turns and surprises like that.
10:45 Rayna Greenberg? I said to you, as soon as we walked out, I was so thrilled that we saw it with like a big theater full of people. Cuz like, there was things I don't know if I would've laughed at. And then everybody starts laughing, and you're like, oh, this is supposed to be funny. Like, you brace the tension. It's a high tension type of movie. It's tense. And people are just like laughing and all these power dynamics. I mean, at one point, I'm not gonna give you the, at one point, he tells her, go stand in the corner and face the wall. And I busted out laughing with 300 people. It was hysterical.
11:12 Ashley Hesseltine? I, I just, yeah, I don't wanna spoil it, but the first time he like says a seductive line, I was like, oh, it's starting! It's starting. And I just have to tell you, this is not a spoiler. It opens with her. Having sex, having an orgasm, but you'll see. And then the way it opens is like, I literally turned around. I was like, we were gonna watch this with my family?
11:36 Rayna Greenberg? As soon as I was watching that, it reminded me of when I went to see Wolf of Wall Street, my dad, and it opens with him getting his dick sucked in the car. And it's just, it opens so sexy. And I was just like, I cannot believe we're gonna watch it in your living room. I'm surround sound with your dad in the house.
11:49 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes, my dad wouldn't have been watching it, but he would have passed through. It would have ruined my life. Listen, but see it as a family, if you're that kind of family. It'll open up some conversations for sure.
11:58 Rayna Greenberg? If your family vibe is-
11:59 Ashley Hesseltine? It might get your mom to divorce your dad.
12:00 Rayna Greenberg? If it's erotic thrillers that your family likes.
12:03 Ashley Hesseltine? So yes, this is erotic thriller. There's like so much chemistry. Again, there's these like humorous moments. The writer and director Helena Rain was at the premiere and then she, some of the actors were there as well, including Nicole Kidman. So we were again at the premiere in LA. They walked out, Nicole Kidman walked out. She looked gorgeous, being such a queen. She is just, I mean, she's everything. She is like a 2024 it girl, which we'll talk about the others this, this episode. But I just love to see it. And I just haven't seen a movie like that, that I never once thought to check my phone. You know, I was enthralled the entire time. Like you said, it was like a great length, like I could have had more. And I saw this review that was like, you rarely see a movie where you feel like the characters don't even know what they're gonna do next.
12:47 Ashley Hesseltine? Like they don't even know what they're gonna say next. Like they're figuring out as they go along and you'll see what we mean when you see it, but oh my gosh, I mean, you were pretty horny after.
12:57 Rayna Greenberg? I was so horny, I had to immediately go home and start sexting. I, that was the night I went home and started sexting. I, I had to masturbate immediately. I mean, I was so turned on by this movie. There's so much tension. I love the whole power dynamics of it. I mean, you guys are gonna love it. Don't see it with your family.
13:15 Ashley Hesseltine? So Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, who was the actor who plays the intern, Antonio Banderas, which I didn't see coming.
13:21 Rayna Greenberg? I didn't see it coming. I had no idea. Just so you guys know, still the hottest piece out there. Holy shit.
13:27 Ashley Hesseltine? He's really your type.
13:29 Rayna Greenberg? I mean, how old is he? I gotta look it up. Antonio Banderas. How old is he? He is so sexy. He's 64 years old.
13:36 Ashley Hesseltine? Damn.
13:36 Rayna Greenberg? He is so hot, you guys.
13:38 Ashley Hesseltine? Wow.
13:38 Rayna Greenberg? He's getting hotter with age. I can't even wait to see him at 75.
13:41 Ashley Hesseltine? Like, I don't know that I'd see it with somebody who is not sexually satisfying you unless you're trying to send him a message.
13:47 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, like if you have a bad sex life with your partner?
13:49 Ashley Hesseltine? But what if you, should you see it with your coworker that you wanna fuck?
13:53 Rayna Greenberg? If you want to have sex with a person, go see this movie with them. Ashley and I had sex after.
13:58 Ashley Hesseltine? If you, if you wanna explore with them, because it could be intimidating to some people. Like, if you took someone to this movie and you walked out and you were like, hey, so I wanna do all that?
14:11 Ashley Hesseltine? I think they'd be like, I don't know for a match.
14:15 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, but if you are, if you are looking to fuck, this is the movie for you this Christmas.
14:20 Ashley Hesseltine? Uh, and like, I, again, really don't wanna give anything away, but I really liked the way they wrapped it up at the end. I mean, I found it to be absolutely perfect. We just sat there afterwards, like the whole theater, and we're like, that was it?
14:32 Rayna Greenberg? It's a movie that really makes you think.
14:33 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes, so.
14:34 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, well, we'll move on, but you guys, check it out. We really can't recommend it enough. Baby Girl dropping Christmas.
14:39 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, this Christmas, get exactly what you want. See Baby Girl is in theaters starting, yeah, on Christmas Day. And I am just gonna tell you guys about Quince, and then we're gonna get right back into it with Reina's breakup list. I was on the street last night, walking home from dinner with a girlfriend, talking about Quince. I'm never not talking about Quince.
14:57 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, I think I'm wearing Quince.
14:58 Ashley Hesseltine? Probably.
14:59 Rayna Greenberg? Probably.
14:59 Ashley Hesseltine? Is that the sweater?
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17:10 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
17:11 Ashley Hesseltine? All right, let's hear it.
17:12 Rayna Greenberg? So we're gonna do breakups and then pop culture. There probably, there usually is some crossover.
17:17 Ashley Hesseltine? I don't know. Like, we'll see.
17:19 Rayna Greenberg? But, like I said, I wasn't working with as much this year, which we love to see. So I broke it out into a couple of different categories.
17:27 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
17:27 Rayna Greenberg? I'm gonna, we're gonna start with least, least I care about to the most I care about. So my first category is stuff I don't really care about, but it did happen.
17:36 Rayna Greenberg? I don't know how much to say about it. Those people probably care.
17:38 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
17:41 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
17:42 Rayna Greenberg? Starting with Rachel Zoe and Roger Berman.
17:44 Ashley Hesseltine? What?
17:45 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
17:45 Ashley Hesseltine? Wait, some of these are gonna be surprises for me.
17:47 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah, yeah. So Rachel Zoe getting divorced.
17:50 Ashley Hesseltine? I liked them. Roger.
17:51 Rayna Greenberg? You care.
17:52 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
17:53 Rayna Greenberg? And you know.
17:53 Ashley Hesseltine? I care a little bit.
17:54 Rayna Greenberg? How, they had a bunch of seasons of an E reality show.
17:56 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes, I used to watch that show sometimes.
17:58 Rayna Greenberg? Me too. Okay, so who cares? Landon Barker and Charli D'Amelio.
18:02 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh, they're like kids.
18:04 Rayna Greenberg? Does not care.
18:04 Ashley Hesseltine? Kids broke up, who cares?
18:06 Rayna Greenberg? Channing Tatum and Joey Kravitz.
18:07 Ashley Hesseltine? That's, I care a lot.
18:09 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
18:10 Ashley Hesseltine? Devastated.
18:11 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
18:11 Ashley Hesseltine? I've gone on record, that is my favorite celebrity couple.
18:13 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
18:14 Ashley Hesseltine? Of all time.
18:15 Rayna Greenberg? Ashley cares.
18:16 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
18:17 Rayna Greenberg? Why?
18:18 Ashley Hesseltine? No, that one was crazy. I was so upset.
18:22 Rayna Greenberg? You look upset, but it's on this list.
18:24 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, this, I, this is insulting to me. You didn't give me a trigger warning.
18:29 Rayna Greenberg? It just, I just, I don't have much to say about it, but it happened. Sacha Baron Cohen and Ella Fisher. Not much to say about it, but it did happen.
18:37 Ashley Hesseltine? What do I know about a lot of these?
18:40 Rayna Greenberg? And then Jason Tardik and Kat.
18:42 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay. We were into that one.
18:44 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah, okay.
18:44 Ashley Hesseltine? As someone we know.
18:46 Rayna Greenberg? Bravo breakups. I listed it from least interesting to most interesting to both of us.
18:52 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
18:52 Rayna Greenberg? Teddy Mellencamp and her husband Edwin broke up. I know you don't even know who these people are. She's the daughter of John Mellencamp.
18:58 Ashley Hesseltine? Teddy is the girl.
18:59 Rayna Greenberg? Teddy's the girl.
18:59 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
19:01 Rayna Greenberg? Dorit and PK got divorced. Which, there's been whisperings of this for years. Jax Taylor and Brittany Carwright. Opened the year off with it and they were on The Valley and people thought this was a publicity stunt and he's been so horrible to her publicly for so many years. You just thought like, that's their vibe and I love to see that she walked away.
19:20 Ashley Hesseltine? Well, speaking of Jax.
19:24 Ashley Hesseltine? What? We can say this, what do we care? We just got pitched to have him on. No, thank you.
19:31 Rayna Greenberg? By his publicist.
19:33 Ashley Hesseltine? There was some tea. About her.
19:35 Rayna Greenberg? Thank you. We're just gonna say it. No, thank you here.
19:38 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, you know, guys, that's not someone we want to platform.
19:40 Rayna Greenberg? Unsure if they're breaking up or just taking some time, but James Kennedy and Ally, his girlfriend, some news about them this week. We saw photos of them with him carrying stuff to her car. And then finally, breaking news last night, it like happens and then it was rescinded and it's just some gossip and tea. Tom Sandoval and his newer girlfriend, Victoria Lee Robinson, she posted last night.
20:02 Rayna Greenberg? While on on her Instagram story, I'm gonna read you guys the the post.
20:06 Ashley Hesseltine? I didn't even know he like had a girlfriend or like who it is. Is this his girlfriend since Ariana?
20:12 Rayna Greenberg? So since Ariana, since they broke up, he got a new girlfriend. She's a model. She's so beautiful. They recently moved in together. She is brave to stand by his side to begin with, you know, to publicly date Tom Sandoval. She is brave. So she posted on her Instagram story last night, wow, you guys were right. Tiger never changes its stripes. He loves the best friends, apparently. I feel like a fool. I'm completely heartbroken.
20:35 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh.
20:36 Rayna Greenberg? So she really publicly.
20:37 Ashley Hesseltine? He loves the best friends, apparently?
20:39 Rayna Greenberg? So this is a callback to like him sleeping with Ariana's best friend. So she's essentially saying he slept with my friend. That is really hot tea.
20:49 Ashley Hesseltine? So also, can I just tiger never changes its stripes. Does she mean a leopard doesn't change its spots? Well, couldn't you just say it about whatever animal? Like, can we pull the room?
20:58 Rayna Greenberg? Or was she just trying to rhyme stripes with right?
21:02 Ashley Hesseltine? She was like spitting bars?
21:03 Rayna Greenberg? She was rhyming.
21:05 Ashley Hesseltine? She's like, I got this. Watch this. Tiger, I thought I've heard tiger stripes. A tiger doesn't change its stripes.
21:11 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
21:11 Ashley Hesseltine? Means that someone's essential nature can't be changed.
21:14 Rayna Greenberg? I know what it means.
21:14 Ashley Hesseltine? But the leopard can't change its spots also.
21:16 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, interchangeable.
21:17 Ashley Hesseltine? Either, same thing.
21:18 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, so.
21:19 Ashley Hesseltine? We should go harder on these. You know, flamingo, it'll always be pink.
21:28 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, but he, okay, so she posts this very publicly, black background, white writing Instagram story.
21:34 Ashley Hesseltine? Love it. You love to see it.
21:35 Rayna Greenberg? As dramatic as can be, hours later, "No, I would like to sincerely apologize."
21:43 Ashley Hesseltine? No, stop. You're just not telling me that?
21:46 Rayna Greenberg? So she, she posts the first one, and then he gets on his Instagram story live. And he's like, "She's gonna be sorry for this. This isn't what happened." And he's like, "Oh, Victoria's calling me right now."
21:57 Ashley Hesseltine? Wait, what? Why didn't you tell me to get on that live?
22:01 Rayna Greenberg? I wanted to tell us to you.
22:02 Ashley Hesseltine? Like it's COVID.
22:03 Rayna Greenberg? I, he took it down by the time I got, I got to it.
22:05 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
22:06 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, so then, hours later, she posts, "I would like to sincerely apologize for my previous post. I had a true misjudgment in this situation. Tom did not do anything. From my own personal trauma and experiences, hearing false accusations about him all the time, clouded my judgment. It got the best of me. Please respect him and know he's actually been the most supportive partner. The internet can be harsh sometimes, and I'm learning how to block out the noise." You're the noise!
22:31 Ashley Hesseltine? Right.
22:32 Rayna Greenberg? The internet can be harsh. You posted this on Instagram.
22:34 Ashley Hesseltine? It's giving hush money. So, is she a famous, is she an influencer, or like just a regular person?
22:40 Rayna Greenberg? She's a, an LA model.
22:42 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
22:43 Rayna Greenberg? Allegedly dated Leonardo DiCaprio at one point. She is one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen.
22:48 Ashley Hesseltine? It's such wild behavior, if you've been kind of in the industry in any way, to post that on Instagram. Like, you know, that should be in the group chat until it's proven.
22:59 Rayna Greenberg? She's 32.
23:00 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
23:01 Rayna Greenberg? Feels like the behavior of a 19-year-old.
23:02 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, I mean, listen, I love it. I love people being this messy.
23:06 Rayna Greenberg? My favorite thing is when I see something and I go, "Couldn't be me, but thank God it was someone else."
23:11 Ashley Hesseltine? So, are they together now? They're broken up?
23:13 Rayna Greenberg? I don't know. This was a developing story last night.
23:16 Ashley Hesseltine? They're engaged.
23:16 Rayna Greenberg? But they had bought a, they were, they moved in together.
23:18 Ashley Hesseltine? Wait, hold on, when did this happen? Yesterday?
23:20 Rayna Greenberg? Yesterday, okay. As we're recording, yesterday, so Monday, this had happened, and they'll probably stay together, I don't know. Where was he gonna go?
23:27 Ashley Hesseltine? God, I like wanna know. He loves the best friends, that is so specific.
23:30 Rayna Greenberg? I mean, she's basically saying, "He fucked my friend."
23:32 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
23:33 Rayna Greenberg? And then like, what did he, what happened in this timeframe that she was like, "I'm gonna publicly out him for sleeping with my friend." And then, how did he prove that that didn't happen?
23:42 Ashley Hesseltine? I don't know. I mean, he's just like a shitty guy that was able to stay in a relationship for 10 years. And he's probably good at like apologizing, grovelling, deflecting,
23:54 Rayna Greenberg? Gaslighting.
23:55 Ashley Hesseltine? Lying, gaslighting, all the things. So he probably just did that combo. A little one-two punch and she was like, oopsie.
24:01 Rayna Greenberg? No offense to her, but like if you are willing to be in a serious relationship with Tom Sandoval, you have a... You're a little different.
24:10 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
24:11 Rayna Greenberg? You know?
24:11 Ashley Hesseltine? She's like, guys, just... A tiger does change its stripes sometimes.
24:17 Ashley Hesseltine? I want to walk that back. Okay, who's next?
24:19 Rayna Greenberg? Last is reality TV, Selling Sunset Breakups. Jeff and Chelsea?
24:22 Ashley Hesseltine? Right. Okay, God, I forgot that happened. Yeah.
24:25 Rayna Greenberg? He had an affair, it was very public on the show.
24:27 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
24:28 Rayna Greenberg? And then Christine Quinn and her husband, um, Christian Richard, bad breakup. Domestic violence, police were called.
24:34 Ashley Hesseltine? There's a lot of that on my list, like a lot of crazy shit.
24:37 Rayna Greenberg? Didn't see that coming, breakups.
24:38 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
24:39 Rayna Greenberg? Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox.
24:41 Ashley Hesseltine? Right. Especially, what, two weeks post-pregnancy announcement?
24:45 Rayna Greenberg? I mean, they went, they went big on the pregnancy announcement and then broke up.
24:49 Ashley Hesseltine? But they're always like breaking up. I mean, they're just really volatile and...
24:52 Rayna Greenberg? Yes.
24:53 Ashley Hesseltine? I don't know, I've been like reading some of the comments on that and, oh, because Brian Austin Green, her ex-husband, came out and like basically showed support for her and was like, she doesn't deserve this. The narrative just feels like they're both probably at fault for being in this like toxic, volatile relationship, but it sounds like he's just, you know, he's got a lot of shit.
25:13 Rayna Greenberg? Uh huh.
25:13 Ashley Hesseltine? He's like got a lot of trauma and maybe she has always wanted to like fix him. I mean, what do I know? But something deep is going on there to get pregnant and then break up two weeks later.
25:24 Rayna Greenberg? When we heard they broke up, I was like, well, they break up all the time. It's like they just seem to be like one of those couples. And so, I mean, I have faith that they'll like figure it out.
25:32 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
25:33 Rayna Greenberg? I don't know. Okay. Other one I did not see coming, Cardi being an offset.
25:37 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh, did I even know that? But don't they break up a lot?
25:39 Rayna Greenberg? So on August 1st, she, she filed for divorce from Austin asking for primary custody of their kids. That same day, Cardi confirmed she was pregnant with her third baby.
25:50 Ashley Hesseltine? The drama.
25:51 Rayna Greenberg? And last, I didn't see that coming, but huge breakup of the year, Brianna Chicken Fry, Zach Bryan, they seem so lovey online and happy and then, you know, she dropped his bomb, it's been the most talked about breakup ever, now she's broken up with her co-host, that's tea.
26:05 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh yeah, you gotta fill me in on that. I just have been busy and I have like stuff saved to watch, like literally I have like reels saved, but I just haven't gotten into it. I need like a TLDR on that.
26:16 Rayna Greenberg? She, I, I think the internet was always kind of split on Brianna Chicken Fry one way or the other and I think that, you know, there was a huge wave of support for her when this happened with Zach Bryan and people were really impressed by her and her bravery to not take that money and be very public about abuse and there was a huge swing towards her positively, that people really liked her and then I think she kind of destroyed it all by coming out against Grace O'Malley and talking about the ending of their podcast and that, she said they couldn't continue the friendship, therefore they couldn't continue the podcast and people are taking Grace O'Malley's side. Grace O'Malley posted a series of Instagram stories talking about what had happened.
26:52 Ashley Hesseltine? Is it too long? You wanna tell me offline?
26:55 Rayna Greenberg? It's long.
26:56 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
26:57 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah, I'll tell you a little off-line, but I, I think that like-
26:59 Ashley Hesseltine? It's like the general theme.
27:00 Rayna Greenberg? I don't think that they're really-
27:01 Ashley Hesseltine? I'm really putting you on the spot.
27:01 Rayna Greenberg? I don't think they're really friends anymore. I think that like the Zach Bryan relationship in general kind of destroyed their friendship. I, I think that it's too damaged to move forward and I don't think that she thought that Grace O'Malley was gonna go so public with the Instagram stories.
27:14 Ashley Hesseltine? Are they still up?
27:16 Rayna Greenberg? They're on the internet.
27:17 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
27:17 Rayna Greenberg? I'm trying to read them.
27:19 Ashley Hesseltine? Alright, I gotta get into this, but we gotta go.
27:22 Rayna Greenberg? And then my biggest of the year, my two biggest, J Lo and Ben.
27:25 Ashley Hesseltine? Yep.
27:26 Rayna Greenberg? Just-
27:27 Ashley Hesseltine? Bennifer.
27:28 Rayna Greenberg? You know, I, I could've seen it coming because if you watched their documentary together, you should've maybe seen this coming, but I was like, he knows her and she knows him and like, there's no new information. If you watch the documentary, she does seem a little self-involved.
27:45 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, you watch the documentary and you're like, yeah, this seems a little whack that she's like, wants to kind of make their love letters public and do all this, but he seemed like, yes, that's, you know, she's, J-Lo's gonna J-Lo, like, that's the woman I know and love. I've known her for, I mean, decades, I don't know.
28:03 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah, I don't, I don't really know what changed. I mean, the whole theme of that was like, she wanted to make their love public and he's on the documentary saying like, I don't really want this to happen. And she's basically like, I'm a do me, but like, he knew who he was marrying. For it to implode so quickly shocked me.
28:17 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, and like, I don't know what went down. And I don't want to be this like Ben apologist. We don't know him either. I mean, and, you know, we see so many paparazzi photos where he looks miserable and it's become such a joke. But we've also seen ones where he looks like he's yelling at her. I mean, they're, they're probably pretty toxic and I certainly don't have a side. We just don't know what goes on.
28:35 Rayna Greenberg? I have no side. I'm with you.
28:36 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
28:36 Rayna Greenberg? Hundred percent.
28:37 Ashley Hesseltine? Who knows?
28:37 Rayna Greenberg? Who knows?
28:38 Ashley Hesseltine? Like, we joke that he's like an asshole and like a funny Boston guy way, but like, what if he just is a real asshole?
28:45 Rayna Greenberg? Totally.
28:46 Ashley Hesseltine? And, you know, like, I just always, you know, my nature is to side with the woman, but this was the year, a lot of people were out on J-Lo this year. Like, the documentaries, they were just so, like, self-serving. I think a lot of people were like, ew.
28:59 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
28:59 Ashley Hesseltine? You know?
29:00 Rayna Greenberg? But like,
29:00 Ashley Hesseltine? That was another breakup, the public's breakup with J-Lo.
29:03 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah. Well, it's hard to say, like, you know, I think people really try to get photos of him looking like that and yelling.
29:10 Ashley Hesseltine? It's a thing.
29:10 Rayna Greenberg? But like, are other people like that all the time too? And it's just not a thing?
29:15 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, who knows?
29:16 Rayna Greenberg? Like, you could catch me every day with a stink face.
29:18 Ashley Hesseltine? Right, exactly.
29:19 Rayna Greenberg? At 365, I have a stink face at some point in the day.
29:22 Ashley Hesseltine? Right.
29:22 Rayna Greenberg? My other biggest breakup of the year is Kristin Cavallari and Marquess DeSousa.
29:25 Ashley Hesseltine? Ugh.
29:26 Rayna Greenberg? I hated to see it happen. I loved watching it. I was really, I was rooting for this kid and this lady.
29:33 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, that broke my heart. I was here for it. And then obviously, we'll talk about it a little bit more.
29:39 Rayna Greenberg? But that's my breakup list of the year. Nothing so crazy, so shocking, so terrible. I mean, it's a short list this year.
29:46 Ashley Hesseltine? RFK and Larry David's wife from Curb, did they break up?
29:51 Rayna Greenberg? No, they're still married.
29:53 Ashley Hesseltine? Cheryl, Cheryl Hines.
29:54 Rayna Greenberg? You think that they've separated?
29:55 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh, I don't know. He had like a scandal, like he was like sexting.
30:00 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah, but they're still.
30:00 Ashley Hesseltine? They are, they're working through it.
30:01 Rayna Greenberg? Headlines say Cheryl Hines' friends are concerned.
30:04 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay, so they're still together.
30:07 Rayna Greenberg? Still together.
30:07 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
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33:03 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, pop culture list.
33:05 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh, my gosh.
33:06 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, this is my favorite holiday tradition.
33:07 Ashley Hesseltine? The top 24 pop culture moments of 2024.
33:11 Rayna Greenberg? I can't believe you did 24.
33:12 Ashley Hesseltine? It was so easy.
33:13 Rayna Greenberg? Was it?
33:14 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh, yeah, this year was crazy. And some months were just so heavy.
33:19 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
33:20 Ashley Hesseltine? So, I'm gonna do it chronologically. I'm gonna just recap the year.
33:24 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
33:25 Ashley Hesseltine? Let's remember 2024 and...
33:27 Rayna Greenberg? Did you do it per month?
33:29 Ashley Hesseltine? I did it per month.
33:30 Rayna Greenberg? No, you do two per month or was some?
33:31 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh, there was no way to do that, no. Because we have like one thing in November.
33:35 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
33:35 Ashley Hesseltine? And like 10 in June, you know? Okay, so, not in January.
33:41 Rayna Greenberg? Nothing happened in January. Nothing ever happens in January.
33:44 Ashley Hesseltine? Exactly.
33:44 Rayna Greenberg? I think everybody just takes the month off.
33:46 Ashley Hesseltine? Exactly, didn't make my list, no one was messy enough. Okay, February with the Super Bowl. The highlight of the Super Bowl for me was Travis Kelsey giving everyone the ick at the end with, "Viva Las Vegas." We watched Taylor Swift get the ick in real time. We'll play the audio.
34:13 Ashley Hesseltine? And that was my moment.
34:14 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
34:15 Ashley Hesseltine? Of all the things that happened, obviously, I didn't care about the win. Usher was great, halftime, of course. You had a great party, but that was my favorite part of it.
34:22 Rayna Greenberg? Absolutely.
34:23 Ashley Hesseltine? That made my jaw drop.
34:24 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, I, it was, ugh, I'm still getting icked, like, unicked.
34:27 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
34:28 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
34:28 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay. That was very Gronk of him. In that moment, that's probably when they found the inspo for that movie. February, March, Kristin Cavallari and the hard launch of The Montana Boys.
34:39 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
34:40 Ashley Hesseltine? Obviously, they existed, but we didn't know until we knew.
34:42 Rayna Greenberg? Are they, do they still exist now?
34:44 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes.
34:44 Rayna Greenberg? Or is it over?
34:45 Ashley Hesseltine? Like, they're out there.
34:46 Rayna Greenberg? Are they, like, doing it? Okay.
34:48 Ashley Hesseltine? So, yeah, so if you guys, of course, if you listen to this podcast, you know that Kristin Cavallari, like Raina said, started dating this young influencer and he had his little lip singing group, The Montana Boys, and that put him on the map. And we loved every moment. And also in February, Love is Blind, season six, which I do feel like one of the biggest moments of the year was Chelsea's comparison to Megan Fox.
35:10 Rayna Greenberg? I mean, who would have thought on a dating show that would be the biggest story?
35:14 Ashley Hesseltine? And, you know, I think she has handled it like a queen, but she got a lot of backlash. But I feel like of all the Love is Blind moments of the year, which we had season six and season seven and the UK, like, that was kind of the biggest pop culture moment.
35:27 Rayna Greenberg? And, listen, I'm not a Chelsea apologist, but I do think that some people in her life had said,
35:32 Ashley Hesseltine? 100%.
35:33 Rayna Greenberg? You resemble Megan Fox.
35:34 Ashley Hesseltine? I 100% agree.
35:35 Rayna Greenberg? I just, there's people that, people have told me I looked like, that I would look like I had an egg on my face when I announced it on national television.
35:41 Ashley Hesseltine? Right.
35:44 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay. March, Beyonce dropped Cowboy Carter and we all entered our cowgirl era.
35:51 Rayna Greenberg? Big cowgirl year.
35:52 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes, big cowgirl year. April, the Kendrick and Drake beef reignited. You know, they've always had some beef, but that's when it really ramped back up. And then in May, we got Not Like Us, which was one of the most popular songs of the year, and then Drake dropped Family Matters, which I love Family Matters. And, you know, just an aside, that I did puke at the Drake concert in February.
36:14 Rayna Greenberg? I forgot that that happened.
36:15 Ashley Hesseltine? Puked at Drake.
36:15 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
36:16 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, but still rallied and still enjoyed the concert. Okay, May, the Tom Brady roast. Which was huge in terms of like a live roast. It catapulted Nikki Glaser's fame. I mean, that's my favorite thing to come out of it. You know, like she clearly won that roast and she's more famous than ever and we love to see it.
36:31 Rayna Greenberg? That really, I, I went on a date with somebody that told me they hadn't seen it. And I have never been so turned off by somebody.
36:37 Ashley Hesseltine? How do you?
36:38 Rayna Greenberg? How did you avoid this?
36:39 Ashley Hesseltine? How did you, yes.
36:39 Rayna Greenberg? It was the biggest cultural moment of the month.
36:42 Ashley Hesseltine? Right. June, Brat Summer begins.
36:47 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
36:47 Ashley Hesseltine? Thanks to Charli XCX, Brat Summer is such a movement. Also, June, June was crazy. Also, by the way, June is when we started the snack.
36:54 Rayna Greenberg? Do you think everybody stepped up for us?
36:56 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes, that's how I feel. So June, most watched WNBA season ever. And I feel like Katelyn Clark became a household name. So I really feel like it was a big time for the WNBA and women's sports, of course. June also, Justin Timberlake DUI arrest.
37:11 Rayna Greenberg? This is gonna ruin the tour.
37:11 Ashley Hesseltine? This is gonna ruin the tour.
37:14 Ashley Hesseltine? June was also Hocktua.
37:17 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, my God, June really gave it.
37:20 Ashley Hesseltine? This is not one of my 24, if you guys are counting. But while we're here, June was also Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift, which we've talked about at length. But that was when you saw the concert.
37:29 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
37:30 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay, and then June was Chapel Rohn blew up.
37:33 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
37:34 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, that's when I feel it. That's what I feel like she did. I know people were like such fans before that, but that was like the Gov Ball. And I feel like that was like, I think for her, okay. July, we have the horniest Olympics in history.
37:44 Rayna Greenberg? Unbelievable.
37:46 Ashley Hesseltine? We have Big Dick Paul Walter, Pommel Horse Guy, just, nothing's ever been hornier.
37:51 Rayna Greenberg? Even the gymnast was just, the gymnast just wiggling around on the floor.
37:54 Ashley Hesseltine? Everything was horny about it. July also was Biden stepped down and Kamala stepped in and just re-energized voters. And that was like such a special moment. Obviously, we know how it all ended and that is not going to be on my list because it's best moments. But I really loved that time in history, in the year. August, we have It Ends With Us, the movie, the drama, the crazy press tour.
38:15 Rayna Greenberg? Press tour.
38:16 Ashley Hesseltine? All of it, picking sides, Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni. We've changed our stance a little.
38:21 Rayna Greenberg? We got some real tea. I mean, who's to say? We reserve the right to waffle on this show.
38:26 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
38:26 Rayna Greenberg? You know?
38:27 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay, then August also was Demure.
38:31 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
38:31 Ashley Hesseltine? Demure dropped in August, Jules LeBron. Yes, Cutesy, Mindful, August was Demure and it's still going. People are still, still saying it. End of August, I got engaged.
38:42 Rayna Greenberg? The big pop culture moment.
38:43 Ashley Hesseltine? The big pop culture moment. Um, men everywhere shed a tear. Uh, I'm off the market. September, Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala. Huge.
38:51 Rayna Greenberg? I was sitting on the toilet and I remember.
38:53 Ashley Hesseltine? September also, the long overdue downfall of Diddy.
38:58 Ashley Hesseltine? Baby oil gate.
38:59 Rayna Greenberg? And every day since.
39:00 Ashley Hesseltine? Lube gate, yeah. September also.
39:03 Rayna Greenberg? You know what made me think? So I was packing up my house with like the, with the Flatrate people. And they had to go into our studio. Actually, it was like dozens and dozens of bottles of lube in our studio.
39:16 Rayna Greenberg? I had to like explain it to them before they went in there.
39:18 Ashley Hesseltine? That is so funny.
39:19 Rayna Greenberg? Before you go into this room, in this garage, there's a wall of dildos and lube. I own a sex toy company.
39:26 Ashley Hesseltine? FBI shows up. Okay, September also, Sabrina Carpenter's tour started. So I do feel like this was such a Sabrina Carpenter year, and that's just the date I chose to represent her whole year, was when her tour started in September. September also, Lana Del Rey marries Alligator Guy.
39:43 Ashley Hesseltine? October, Mu Dang comes on the scene. Mu Dang was born on July 10th. She's a cancer queen.
39:50 Rayna Greenberg? You thought that she was gonna have 15 minutes of fame, but she's milking it. Every day, there's more stuff.
39:54 Ashley Hesseltine? I, this is the one I can't believe the most, the longevity of it.
39:58 Rayna Greenberg? Like, I want to hear more about Alligator Guy. No offense to Mu Dang.
40:01 Ashley Hesseltine? Mu Dang, like, it is December. She's still going strong. Okay, October also, I feel like, is when the Lookalike Contest took off.
40:11 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
40:11 Ashley Hesseltine? I feel like the Timothy Chalamet one was like the big one, because he showed up. But obviously, we've had like Glenn Powell. I still need to find the Jalen Hurts results, because that was this past weekend. But, you know, we've had so many different ones.
40:22 Rayna Greenberg? Jeremy Allen White.
40:23 Ashley Hesseltine? Jeremy Allen White.
40:24 Rayna Greenberg? Was the Luigi one real?
40:27 Ashley Hesseltine? People did go and dress like Luigi, Mangione.
40:32 Ashley Hesseltine? His merch is taking off. People are getting that backpack. Oh, it's crazy. I saw this reel that was like, "Our assassins, the new influencers." I was like, "Oh, my God."
40:39 Rayna Greenberg? No.
40:40 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay, November, Raina bought a house.
40:43 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, thank you.
40:44 Ashley Hesseltine? Other stuff happened, but this is the best list. So the best thing that happened in November, nothing else, is that Raina bought a house. And then December, I mean, it just has to be Luigi Mangione. I mean, it was the biggest story. It's like so meme-able. Like, we posted a clip last week that went crazy, you know, so whatever your thoughts on it, you can't deny that, like, it's been big in pop culture.
41:05 Rayna Greenberg? Huge in pop culture.
41:06 Ashley Hesseltine? I'm not saying like the best thing that happened was like a shooting, but like the pop culture-wise, it's been a story you want to follow.
41:15 Rayna Greenberg? Totally.
41:15 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
41:16 Rayna Greenberg? You know, people were DMing us that SNL stole our joke. Did you get this, like, a bunch?
41:21 Ashley Hesseltine? No.
41:21 Rayna Greenberg? So SNL did like-
41:22 Ashley Hesseltine? I've been really behind in my DMs.
41:23 Rayna Greenberg? Last week, we were talking about how like he hates big Luigi, hated big corporations, but he went to like Starbucks and McDonald's that day.
41:29 Ashley Hesseltine? That's your joke.
41:29 Rayna Greenberg? And SNL, like, did a bit and talked about that.
41:33 Ashley Hesseltine? I stole your joke.
41:33 Rayna Greenberg? It ripped you off.
41:33 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah. Okay, so that's my wrap-up of the year.
41:37 Rayna Greenberg? I love it. This is my favorite every single year. It's my favorite thing. This is why we launched this episode.
41:43 Ashley Hesseltine? But then I want to do an it girl of the year.
41:46 Rayna Greenberg? You have your own separate list for that.
41:47 Ashley Hesseltine? I just have three. I just want you to vote. The it girl of the year award, Sabrina Carpenter, Mu Dang, or Martha Stewart?
41:57 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, my God, Martha Stewart. I did not know you were going to hit me with that.
42:02 Rayna Greenberg? I don't care about Mu Dang as much as you do.
42:03 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, yeah, that's fine.
42:04 Rayna Greenberg? She's out for me.
42:05 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah. How do you choose?
42:07 Rayna Greenberg? I don't know, because you know, I'm just like, I love Sabrina Carpenter. You got in the car last night, and I was like, I'm trying to find a Sabrina Carpenter outfit. Like, I just, I love her so much, but like, I think that, okay, I think we do Sabrina for the year, because it's her year. She's it girl of the year. Martha's had many, many years where she's it girl of the year.
42:24 Ashley Hesseltine? Best comeback is Martha.
42:25 Rayna Greenberg? Yes.
42:26 Ashley Hesseltine? But Sabrina really, this year was so horny. I can't stop talking about it. Like, the horny Olympics, the horny holiday movies, like, the horny Santa.
42:36 Rayna Greenberg? Her Christmas special is horny.
42:38 Ashley Hesseltine? That's what I'm saying. And so also all her tour stuff, like, the innuendos, the miming, the blowjob, not even innuendos, just blatant.
42:45 Rayna Greenberg? The outfits.
42:46 Ashley Hesseltine? Sexiness. Yes, the sexiness. Like, she did lingerie, we did lingerie on our tour. You know, I really do feel like she has defined the year in that way.
42:55 Rayna Greenberg? I think she's such a little badass. I love her. She wrote a song that basically says, like, "I hope my pussy tastes good."
43:01 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
43:01 Rayna Greenberg? Like, it's, she's like a rapper. I love... I mean, she wrote a song, it's like, "How's my dick taste?"
43:11 Ashley Hesseltine? "How's my dick taste, damn?", that reminds me of Tell Me Lies, which the Tell Me Lies finale is an honorable mention.
43:15 Rayna Greenberg? Damn it, I forgot about, there's too much.
43:17 Ashley Hesseltine? There was too much.
43:18 Rayna Greenberg? There was good pop culture for us this year. So, I give her the year, I give Martha, Martha Stewart's had many years, but unbelievable comeback.
43:24 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
43:25 Rayna Greenberg? We kind of forgot about her for a little bit.
43:26 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah. Okay, and we're gonna end with a surprise segment. And this was Tessa's idea. Tessa's not here with us right now, she is already in Boston, because we're heading there this weekend for the shows. You guys can still grab tickets, probably, to the Friday Late Show, but she's in here within the studio, so we're gonna read it on her behalf, but it is the worst men of the year. 10 worst men of the year list.
43:46 Rayna Greenberg? Tessa was like, "I'll write this in one second." And she, literally, her only follow-up question was, "How many can I include?" We were like, "Let it fly."
43:53 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, I was like, "10's good."
43:54 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
43:55 Ashley Hesseltine? Whatever you need.
43:55 Rayna Greenberg? Because it could be endless.
43:57 Ashley Hesseltine? She got to 12.
43:58 Rayna Greenberg? Oh, she did 12? Okay, do you want to read it? She had a 13th, but we can't say it out loud, because it's somebody I personally know and hate.
44:06 Ashley Hesseltine? Who was me to me?
44:07 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, number 12, Sam McKinney, The Bachelor, season 21. So, Sam from The Bachelorette. Um, why was he so bad?
44:14 Ashley Hesseltine? Well, yeah, this is Tessa's list.
44:16 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
44:16 Ashley Hesseltine? You know, so she knows.
44:18 Rayna Greenberg? Okay.
44:19 Ashley Hesseltine? We trust, we trust in Tessa.
44:20 Rayna Greenberg? Okay, number 11, this really surprised us, Matt Rife.
44:26 Rayna Greenberg? No explanation. She didn't put explanations.
44:28 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah, you know.
44:29 Rayna Greenberg? She's like, that's just how I feel.
44:30 Ashley Hesseltine? Tessa's list.
44:30 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah. Number 10, Justin Timberlake.
44:32 Ashley Hesseltine? Mm-hmm.
44:32 Rayna Greenberg? Number nine, Scotty, The Ultimatum, season three.
44:35 Ashley Hesseltine? This is like current, like also a show we recommend. I'm watching it. Scotty, yes, like walking red flag. He's tough to watch.
44:41 Rayna Greenberg? Yes.
44:41 Ashley Hesseltine? Okay.
44:42 Rayna Greenberg? Number eight, RFK.
44:44 Ashley Hesseltine? I love this list.
44:45 Rayna Greenberg? Number seven, Ramses, Love is Blind, Stephen Seven.
44:49 Ashley Hesseltine? Ramses, and this is too tampered on.
44:50 Rayna Greenberg? Rat tail.
44:51 Ashley Hesseltine? Dangling. Yeah, I love that Ramses is on here.
44:53 Rayna Greenberg? Number six, Jax Taylor, The Valley. Honorable mention, honestly, so many men of Bravo.
44:58 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
44:59 Rayna Greenberg? Just terrible.
45:00 Ashley Hesseltine? Right.
45:00 Rayna Greenberg? Tom Sandoval, James Kennedy, honestly, the whole cast of
45:03 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
45:03 Rayna Greenberg? Southern Charm, except for Craig. Yeah. So, number five, Jeremy, Love is Blind, Stephen Six.
45:10 Ashley Hesseltine? I like that pick.
45:11 Rayna Greenberg? Really strong pick.
45:12 Ashley Hesseltine? Jeremy with an A.
45:13 Rayna Greenberg? I mean, that guy would have gotten more hate if Chelsea hadn't called herself Megan Fox.
45:17 Ashley Hesseltine? Totally.
45:18 Rayna Greenberg? Number four, Zach Bryan.
45:19 Ashley Hesseltine? Mm-hmm.
45:20 Rayna Greenberg? Self-explanatory. Number three, Elon Musk.
45:23 Ashley Hesseltine? Mm-hmm.
45:23 Rayna Greenberg? Also self-explanatory. Number two, P. Diddy. Number one, Donald Trump.
45:27 Ashley Hesseltine? Easy, number one.
45:28 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah.
45:29 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah.
45:30 Rayna Greenberg? Um.
45:30 Ashley Hesseltine? Go off, Tessa.
45:31 Rayna Greenberg? So this is Tessa's list.
45:33 Ashley Hesseltine? Is that right? She said, we were texting with her. She's like, I think I got a good, a good variety in there. Yeah, I love it. Tessa is so savage because she just also said, if you read it and Jax makes the list, should we just send that clip to his PR person as the response?
45:53 Ashley Hesseltine? No, we're actually all set, but we did talk about him this week a couple of times.
45:57 Rayna Greenberg? If you'd like to just hear our thoughts on him, you can listen to this episode. Two different points of it.
46:01 Ashley Hesseltine? So funny to be like, we're all set. We talked about him this week, actually.
46:04 Rayna Greenberg? We promoted him.
46:07 Rayna Greenberg? Brina said that she was glad his wife left him.
46:12 Ashley Hesseltine? Oh, my gosh. All right. Well, that really wraps up 2024.
46:17 Rayna Greenberg? Yeah, it was a good year and I'm proud to have started this episode specifically to have just done this. We said we were going to do it. We'll talk next week about our, our goals for 2024 and what we accomplished. But this is one thing we accomplished. We started the snack. It's something we wanted to do for a really long time. And talk about pop culture and just joke about light, funny things that are happening in the world. And I'm Proud of this show, this episode of the show.
46:37 Ashley Hesseltine? Yes. Thank you, guys, for embracing it and loving it and all the positive comments. We love reading them on YouTube and we're really just happy it took off. And, you know, as we were, the months leading up to it, things would happen and we were like, oh, my God, like, I'm, we were like upset we didn't have it yet, you know, to really deep dive on some of these things. But then the fact that we started in June and that really was one of the strongest months of the whole year, pop culture-wise, so, you know. We just, we really appreciate you, guys, and, and thanks for listening. And like Raina said, Monday will be an episode that talks more about the year in terms of like our personal lives and goals and things like that. But this was the pop culture roundup for 2024. What a year.
47:14 Rayna Greenberg? We can't wait to see what happens in 2025, what shit talk it brings.
47:18 Ashley Hesseltine? Yeah. So you guys can find us at girlsgottaeat.com. And like I said, we do have shows this weekend in Boston. We still have a few tickets left for the Friday Late Show, show number two of three. So you can grab those and come hear us talk more shit onstage and, you know, let it rip.
47:33 Rayna Greenberg? Really gonna be fun, you guys. I'm really excited.
47:35 Ashley Hesseltine? It's gonna be the best. We love Boston so, so much. We love performing there. So girlsgottaeat.com for tickets. We are girlsgottaeatpodcast on Instagram and TikTok. I am Ash Hess. Raina is Rayna Greenberg. Subscribe on YouTube. Share this episode with a friend and we'll see you Monday.
47:49 Rayna Greenberg? Have a good weekend, guys.
47:50 Ashley Hesseltine? Bye.
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