The Snack: Bad Bunny, Fat Bear Week, and Life of a Showgirl

Welcome back to The Snack – a lighter serving of Girls Gotta Eat. This week, we're talking about: Azul's mouth makeover Fat Bear Week Bad Bunny doing Super Bowl halftime (and responses to it) Taylor Swift's new album (and criticisms) Woman in San Francisco using billboards to find a man Headlines: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban divorce, Laguna Beach reunion, Love is Blind Denver, Selena Gomez's wedding, delivery driver in Chicago outruns ICE Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit girlsgottaeat.com for live show tickets and more! Thank you to our partners this week: Shopify: Go to https://shopify.com/gge and start building your own empire today. Saks Fifth Avenue: Head to Saks Fifth Avenue or saks.com for inspiring ways to elevate your personal style. Addyi: Learn more at https://addyi.com. Cakes Body: Get 20% off your first order at http://cakesbody.com with code GGE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Rayna Greenberg?

  This week on the snack, Bad Bunny, Life of a Showgirl, Fat Fair Week, and a bold way to get a date.

• 0:06Ashley Hesseltine?

  This is a Dear Media production.

• 0:07Rayna Greenberg?

  Enjoy.

• 0:12Rayna Greenberg?

  Hi, guys.

• 0:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  Hello.

• 0:16Rayna Greenberg?

  How we doing, everybody?

• 0:17Ashley Hesseltine?

  Just kidding. Like, it's a live show. I'm wearing sweatpants. I just needed to be cozy today.

• 0:22Rayna Greenberg?

  I wore that outfit last week.

• 0:23Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's my emotional support sweatpants.

• 0:25Rayna Greenberg?

  What do you need emotional support for?

• 0:27Ashley Hesseltine?

  I don't know. The world.

• 0:29Rayna Greenberg?

  They're great.

• 0:29Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's tough out there.

• 0:31Rayna Greenberg?

  This shirt I'm wearing, do you like it?

• 0:33Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 0:33Rayna Greenberg?

  It's a, like, old vintage Steelers shirt.

• 0:35Ashley Hesseltine?

  But, like, for real, for real, or it's, like, on revolve?

• 0:37Rayna Greenberg?

  It is. It is my oldest piece of clothing.

• 0:39Ashley Hesseltine?

  Wait, no, really?

• 0:40Rayna Greenberg?

  I got it when I was 17.

• 0:43Ashley Hesseltine?

  And you still have it?

• 0:44Rayna Greenberg?

  And I still have it.

• 0:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, I can tell, like, the wear and tear.

• 0:46Rayna Greenberg?

  Because it's cracked?

• 0:47Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, it's, like, the, because it's cracking. But it's quality.

• 0:49Rayna Greenberg?

  I got it at a frat party when I was visiting Indiana University the year before I started going to school there. And I asked some guy to, like, take it off and give it to me, and he did. And I think this is the oldest piece of clothing I know.

• 1:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yes, I love, like, the screen print is, like, cracking. They just don't make shirts like that, like they, they used to.

• 1:05Rayna Greenberg?

  No, they don't crack them like this anymore.

• 1:07Ashley Hesseltine?

  That's great.

• 1:08Rayna Greenberg?

  I was excited to tell you about it.

• 1:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  Did you ever have a terrible towel?

• 1:11Rayna Greenberg?

  Girl, everywhere. We wash our face with terrible towels.

• 1:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Did you ever use it to clean up cum?

• 1:16Rayna Greenberg?

  No.

• 1:18Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, was that, like, sacrilege?

• 1:19Rayna Greenberg?

  No, I don't care. Anything can be used to clean up cum. I usually use their clothing to clean up cum. I'm not gonna, I'm not trying to use my stuff.

• 1:26Ashley Hesseltine?

  I just didn't know if, like, Pittsburgh people really used a terrible towel in, like, that way.

• 1:30Rayna Greenberg?

  I love that idea because it, like, really, like, sends you off with, like, a perfect finish.

• 1:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 1:36Rayna Greenberg?

  I mean, some guy probably at some point used his own terrible towel to wipe his cum off my back or my stomach or something.

• 1:42Ashley Hesseltine?

  After they score.

• 1:43Rayna Greenberg?

  I'm more of like a, I'm more of like a tits, like, come inside of me kind of girl.

• 1:48Ashley Hesseltine?

  Well, yeah.

• 1:49Rayna Greenberg?

  I don't want it, it's like, I just.

• 1:50Ashley Hesseltine?

  No, I haven't wiped cum off of me since 2023.

• 1:54Rayna Greenberg?

  Like.

• 1:55Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's been up, it's been up in there for two, for the last two years.

• 1:59Rayna Greenberg?

  Like, I think.

• 2:00Ashley Hesseltine?

  Just mixing and mingling with my IUD.

• 2:02Rayna Greenberg?

  I think it's so funny to, like, dirty talk about people, like, coming out of your tits. When I finally let somebody do that, the, the look on my face, like, you're not gonna want to come. You know what I mean? I'm just like, ugh.

• 2:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, tits?

• 2:16Rayna Greenberg?

  You're cooler than I am when it happens.

• 2:17Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, well, we're, well, I mean, I've just never, it's never been on my face. I wouldn't know what to do. You know, I'd just plug my nose and close my eyes.

• 2:23Rayna Greenberg?

  Face, no.

• 2:24Ashley Hesseltine?

  Like, I'm about to jump in the pool.

• 2:28Rayna Greenberg?

  Dad, if you're listening to this.

• 2:29Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. Go Steelers.

• 2:31Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah, go Steelers. I think the cat's out of the bag.

• 2:35Ashley Hesseltine?

  All right. I have one quick tour announcement. This is second to last time you're ever gonna hear me talk about the tour.

• 2:39Rayna Greenberg?

  Your stupid live shows?

• 2:40Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, I have been pushing these like Cardi B and her new album, which just, listen. Did you listen to Bodega Batty?

• 2:48Rayna Greenberg?

  You told me you wouldn't voice note me and gossip with me yesterday until I listened to it six times. And so I did. I listened to the, do you do that? I actually like, a friend of mine said to me the other day, she was like, my boyfriend will listen, actually it's her fiance, will listen to the exact same song on repeat. And she's like, he, like he sets it to repeat.

• 3:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  I, well, so Bodega Batty, what, track six on Cardi B's album, Am I the Drama? It is too short. It's the best song. It is such a banger. I can't believe how good that song is.

• 3:18Rayna Greenberg?

  I agree.

• 3:18Ashley Hesseltine?

  And so it's getting towards the end and I run it back before it can even end. It's too short. It needs to be like a five minute song. I told my fiance, I was like, is this not the best song ever? And he was like, are you trolling me? This is mariachi. I said, divorce.

• 3:35Rayna Greenberg?

  Mariachi, get out of here.

• 3:36Ashley Hesseltine?

  I was like, do not.

• 3:37Rayna Greenberg?

  We're hearing the different things.

• 3:38Ashley Hesseltine?

  Don't you dare. The slander.

• 3:41Rayna Greenberg?

  Mariachi. Wait, what's the thing? Like you hear two different things? You hear, you know, there's like the blue dress and the, it's the dresses. What's the, what's the verbal equivalent of that?

• 3:50Ashley Hesseltine?

  I'm not sure. Oh, what was it? Um, there was two names. Oh, my God.

• 3:54Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah.

• 3:54Ashley Hesseltine?

  It was the dress thing, but they did it with names of like a couple of years later.

• 3:58Rayna Greenberg?

  Yes. Um, but him hearing mariachi is funny to me because I'm like, that's not what I'm hearing.

• 4:02Ashley Hesseltine?

  I, I get what he's saying. And he loves female artists. We talked about this before. He loves Cardi, but he does not love that song like we do. But that song is so strong.

• 4:13Rayna Greenberg?

  It's so strong. I listened over and over. But do you do this behavior? Do you listen to the same song? Like, I will take a walk. This is really like crazy. I will take a walk for like a really long time and I'll listen to a song like 12 times.

• 4:24Ashley Hesseltine?

  When Avicii, Wake Me Up came out, Raina, I had to pull my car over. I was like, this is the best song that's ever been made.

• 4:32Rayna Greenberg?

  Do you remember when I?

• 4:33Ashley Hesseltine?

  I played it probably 12 times for sure.

• 4:35Rayna Greenberg?

  Do you remember like my obsession with Levels? It was not normal. It was the first song.

• 4:38Ashley Hesseltine?

  Do I remember it's still happening this current day? I've never been in your car and haven't heard Levels by Avicii.

• 4:44Rayna Greenberg?

  It's the first song I ever put on a Spotify playlist. It's the number one first song.

• 4:48Ashley Hesseltine?

  When you got off a Napster?

• 4:50Rayna Greenberg?

  When I got Spotify.

• 4:51Ashley Hesseltine?

  Got off Rhapsody.

• 4:54Ashley Hesseltine?

  No, Avicii, R.I.P. I mean, some of the best songs of our generation.

• 5:00Rayna Greenberg?

  Without a doubt. And I, well, I'm on my, I'm on an MGK kick. I can't stop. It's just, it's not healthy.

• 5:06Ashley Hesseltine?

  How do we get here?

• 5:07Rayna Greenberg?

  I don't know. It's a big music week for us, though, on the snacks.

• 5:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yes. Oh, I just, I've been hustling my tour. Two mentions left of the year. I added a show in Minneapolis. Late show next week, Tuesday. So come on out. And I just, I wanted to add a show because the first one sold out so quickly. So I will be there on October 7th at Acme Comedy Club and then New York and then Boston. And then we're done. And then I can just hang it up.

• 5:29Rayna Greenberg?

  You run vibes now?

• 5:31Ashley Hesseltine?

  Just, yeah. Just be in the bodega. I'm gonna be in New York like Bodega Batty. They're like, please don't, white girl, please stop.

• 5:37Rayna Greenberg?

  You come to New York with me all the time now?

• 5:39Ashley Hesseltine?

  No.

• 5:40Rayna Greenberg?

  I'm gonna be there next weekend.

• 5:41Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay. Thank you to Shopify.

• 5:44Rayna Greenberg?

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• 5:58Ashley Hesseltine?

  And thank you to Addy. Learn more at addyi.com. And Cakesbody, get 20% off your first order at cakesbody.com with code GGE. Okay, we are kicking it off with an animal report. Azul did get his dental surgery. He had 10 teeth pulled.

• 6:15Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh, my God.

• 6:15Ashley Hesseltine?

  Including the bottom row, the underbite that sticks out, all four of those incisors. And he's here today. He's a little low energy, meaning he's on pain meds. But if you want to say, Azul, do you want to come show? Come on. Oh. So, I mean, you can kind of tell. He just doesn't have those teeth sticking out, but he looks really cute. And he just has that little like pad, you know, that the teeth would stick out of. And his tongue like kind of sticks out a little bit.

• 6:48Rayna Greenberg?

  So cute. He won't show it to me.

• 6:50Ashley Hesseltine?

  I know.

• 6:51Rayna Greenberg?

  Later, buddy.

• 6:52Ashley Hesseltine?

  But he, yeah, he's still got teeth in there, but he is, I think he's missing, it was like 14 to 15 total. Cause we had to pull 10 and he'd had to have teeth pulled when I first got him. Um, but he did really great and he has a new look now. And I was saying last night, I was like, how does he look both older and younger? I don't know how to describe it.

• 7:13Rayna Greenberg?

  I actually think he looks younger. I think it's funny you said that. I actually think he looks younger.

• 7:17Ashley Hesseltine?

  But it was a part of his personality, but he's just as cute as ever. He's still an icon. And so I had texted the vet. Like, do you guys save the teeth? Like, is that an option? Cause someone DM me, they were like, you should save his teeth. And I'm like, what? Make it into jewelry? And then I just texted, he was like, we usually don't, they're kind of gross. And I was like, okay. People keep their placentas. I can't keep his teeth.

• 7:41Rayna Greenberg?

  Do you know how many people ask me what they do when you give a breast, when you get a breast reduction? Like where, where all the stuff goes?

• 7:47Ashley Hesseltine?

  Where the boob goes?

• 7:48Rayna Greenberg?

  Everybody to ask me this. Like, do you, can you save some of it? Where does it go? This stuff, it's in a body. I don't want it.

• 7:56Ashley Hesseltine?

  But what do they do? Do we talk about this before? Do they just throw it in the trash?

• 7:59Rayna Greenberg?

  So it's hazardous waste.

• 8:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  Hazardous waste. Everybody knows that. But where does there's there's special trash?

• 8:09Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah. You never see those like things that say hazardous waste on them. It's like blood and guts and yeah, um, breast tissue. Yeah. And teeth. Your nipples just go on the table next to you and they put it back on.

• 8:23Ashley Hesseltine?

  That's right. Well, someone once told us they, they switched their nipples. I think KFC, we went on KFC at Barstool and he had a friend, which was right after your breast reduction. And he had a friend, probably number two. Who's to say? Yeah. Number two and a half. And the woman that got her nipples switched, when they put them back on, she knew because only one nipple was pierced. So she had the pierced one on the wrong side. Crazy.

• 8:51Rayna Greenberg?

  That's crazy. I actually, I, I don't know. I've had this happen three times and I couldn't say which nipples.

• 8:56Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, for sure. I couldn't tell my nipples apart. So fat bear week.

• 9:00Rayna Greenberg?

  You specifically instructed me to not read about this. And I was like, say less. One last thing I have to read. So I have no idea what this is.

• 9:06Ashley Hesseltine?

  So I didn't really know either. So Fat Bear Week, I was seeing it in my feed on Instagram and TikTok and I'm like, what is this? So I dove a little bit deeper. So Fat Bear Week is when you can vote for the fattest bear of the year. So some of the largest brown bears on the planet make their home at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. And basically, you vote for them. There are matchups open for voting September 23rd to the 30th. So it just ended, or it's still going on as we record. And it's a single elimination tournament. For each matchup, you vote for the bear you believe best exemplifies fatness and success in brown bears. The bear with the most votes advances to the next round. Only one will be crowned Fat Bear Champion. So you fill out a bracket.

• 9:51Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay, you do. Is there cameras in this area? Like, how do we, who nominates the bears, names the bears, puts them up?

• 9:58Ashley Hesseltine?

  A lot of it is unclear. I think they search out these bears. They know who they are. And some of them have been in the running for a couple of years. I was watching a clip from Stephen Colbert talk about last year's bear of choice that he chose. And then they're all around and then they put their pictures up, it sounds like. And then you, again, fill out your bracket and predict your fat bear winner. And then you can campaign for your candidate. So some of the bears have, they all have numbers, and then some have names and numbers. So I'll, we'll put these up on the screen, but I found my favorite. And I'm gonna tell you, I think here your favorite is. Okay, so my favorite bear is bear, and I've chose all females, obviously, because there's obviously males and females, and there's cubs. So my favorite bear is number 901. She is a medium sized and fat adult female.

• 10:41Ashley Hesseltine?

  She has blond rimmed triangular ears. Her fur is golden brown in the early summer and grizzled brown in the late summer. I just felt like that sounded very...

• 10:48Rayna Greenberg?

  Not the blond rim?

• 10:48Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, just a little. I liked her, her hair, her hair color choice. Okay, she was, has since, first identified in 2018, she has since become one of the most prominent and recognizable female bears.

• 11:00Rayna Greenberg?

  She's the Beyonce of bears.

• 11:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yes, she readily achieves a level of fatness above that of many other bears.

• 11:05Rayna Greenberg?

  She exceeds the fatness of the other bears.

• 11:06Ashley Hesseltine?

  She's in it to win it. Yeah.

• 11:08Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh, is, are we voting on the fattest of the bears?

• 11:10Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, however you want to vote. But yeah, the, the thing is like, pick the fattest bear.

• 11:14Rayna Greenberg?

  But like, fatty, like PHAT fat?

• 11:18Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, so this one for you, it was for you. Bear 909, also female. She loves salmon. She's always catching salmon. And after, after losing some of her cubs, which is really sad. They like tell you all these sob stories when you're reading about the bears. She adapted quickly to single life and behaved a bit more boldly this summer than she might have if she were caring for young cubs. So she had a slutty summer.

• 11:41Rayna Greenberg?

  Doesn't want kids.

• 11:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  Exactly.

• 11:47Ashley Hesseltine?

  She was like, bye. I don't care about those cubs. So you're 909 and I'm 901. And again, you guys can go to it's explore.org and it will tell you about fat bear week. And you can like, look at the, their hall of fame and vote for your favorites and fill out your bracket. I just think it's so funny. Like they were just showing up in my feed. I was like, what is fat bear week?

• 12:08Rayna Greenberg?

  So this has really taken off this year. And also I was wondering if it had anything to do with, and it doesn't, but like I've been getting sort of so much content lately of bears in people's homes. Yeah. Bears that go into homes and like people are trying to like lure them back out of the house.

• 12:21Ashley Hesseltine?

  I know they're in the homes or in the cars. I mean, I just feel like they have gone a little rogue and that's a state of the world.

• 12:29Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah, I think they're just like, this is a lawless land. Get the national guard to get me out of here. What are you gonna do?

• 12:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  Right. And I always say like, if I get killed by a bear, that's how I wanted to go out. If the last thing I see before I die is like a cute cuddly bear, that's what I would have wanted.

• 12:45Rayna Greenberg?

  What's the, the dangerous ones are, there's a rhyme.

• 12:47Ashley Hesseltine?

  So black, fight back, brown, lay down.

• 12:50Rayna Greenberg?

  The brown ones are gonna kill you.

• 12:52Ashley Hesseltine?

  Right? Those are just how you react, like the.

• 12:54Rayna Greenberg?

  You could fight a black bear.

• 12:56Ashley Hesseltine?

  They just, they are, I guess they get a little more scared. So yeah, brown, big brown bears. So anyway, that's your bear week update.

• 13:05Rayna Greenberg?

  And this is a perfect segue into, speaking of animals, Bad Bunny is doing the Super Bowl halftime show. I mean, I guess, call me naive, I didn't expect the amount of attention that this got, both negatively, all of the complaining and the feedback and it was a really fascinating choice. I, my, my initial thought was, great, I love Bad Bunny, I think this is gonna be so fun. I think about like, the collabs he's gonna do and the people he's gonna like, bring on, I mean, he's collabed with everybody, so Drake, Rosalia, Cardi B, J Balvin, I mean, there's like, nobody he hasn't collabed with. I thought like, this is going to be the most lit. There's been a lot of talk about this, about how Bad Bunny is not gonna sing in

• 13:49Rayna Greenberg?

  English, it's all gonna be in Spanish. And as somebody who's always listened to like, Latin artists for a long time, way before it became like, so popularized in the US, like, I was like, Daddy Yankee OG fan, rolling around, and I'm a huge Pitbull fan, and I have been singing songs in Spanish, not knowing one word of Spanish, for many, many years, over a decade, since I got this shirt.

• 14:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, I mean, I love Bad Bunny. He is a global superstar. If you, if you don't know this, you're a huge fucking dork.

• 14:23Rayna Greenberg?

  That's the most famous artist on the planet.

• 14:25Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 14:26Rayna Greenberg?

  Besides Taylor.

• 14:27Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's literally him and Taylor Swift. He just did a residency in Puerto Rico, and, you know, I don't speak Spanish, and I, I love his music, but there have been times where I've been like, I do wish I could sing along. But it doesn't matter, I still appreciate it and enjoy it.

• 14:44Rayna Greenberg?

  I think you, I think that you don't even realize that you do sing along to a lot of songs in Spanish. "Donza Cuduro" and "Pepas" and "Bailando."

• 14:52Ashley Hesseltine?

  "Nueva York."

• 14:56Rayna Greenberg?

  Like, all the like, the hottest songs in, "Donza Cuduro" was like, the biggest song for years. Everybody can sing every word of that song. You don't know Spanish? I don't know Spanish.

• 15:06Ashley Hesseltine?

  Right, so you are learning it while you're listening.

• 15:09Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah.

• 15:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  It is enriching your life.

• 15:12Rayna Greenberg?

  And if you're like, I don't know, I'll be able to like, sing along for this 15 minutes of your life. Either skip it, or I don't know, start listening to his music and sing along to it. Again, I have, I don't speak Spanish, and I belt out these songs.

• 15:25Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, so, there's just so many different layers here. I mean, I am just so deep in the tweets and the comments that people are saying. I mean, people don't like it, their racism is on full display. And I think a lot of people don't know that Puerto Rico is a US territory. He's a US citizen.

• 15:46Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh yeah, your education level is showing.

• 15:49Ashley Hesseltine?

  Truly, I think people are like, think he's Mexican. I don't fucking know what people think, but I just think that that has been on display. And you can just tell that the way that people are speaking about this, and you know what? I, I always wanna say, you know, these negative tweets and comments and posts are being amplified. Because of course, we talk about rage bait, and it may not be, obviously, the majority of people. There's people that are excited, there's people that hate this, and then there's people that don't care. Or they're like, I don't know the songs, but I'm down for it, whatever. But I, obviously, we've been seeing a lot of like racism, both blatant and just coded in general when it comes to this.

• 16:31Ashley Hesseltine?

  And I just think it's crazy, like, if you're racist, maybe don't watch football. You know 75% of the players aren't white? Truly, I've looked at the stats this morning, and like, I just think the people that have the audacity to complain if it is about race at all, when we're talking about sports, when we're talking about music. I mean, I could just rant forever about people that are in favor of what we're seeing with ICE and the deportations, and have the audacity to eat at a Mexican restaurant. But that's a whole different story. Like, stop consuming the culture from the people you want to be harmed.

• 17:05Rayna Greenberg?

  Go off this. And also, what are you gonna do, not watch the Super Bowl?

• 17:08Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh my god.

• 17:09Rayna Greenberg?

  Get the fuck outta here. You're gonna watch it, you're gonna watch the halftime show, you're gonna watch it next year, you're gonna come back time and time again. You will survive this few minutes of a musical performance. If you hate it, go eat at Pigs in the Blanket in the kitchen.

• 17:22Ashley Hesseltine?

  Right!

• 17:22Rayna Greenberg?

  Like, you're gonna be okay. Also, yes, he's an American citizen, you want an American to perform, he's an American citizen. It's gonna be so lit. It's gonna be so fun. I can't wait. And this is sort of an interesting play by the NFL. So I want to talk about like the business of reaching other consumers. So the Steelers played in Dublin this week. And I was talking to a friend of mine about like, I've never seen a football game in Ireland. It's pretty common for there to be a Mexico City game, a game in Brazil, and a game in London. That's like most years, but now they're expanding to other markets. They're in Germany. The Steelers played, I had to watch the game like eight o'clock in the morning this Sunday in Dublin. And the NFL is trying to reach other markets. They've tapped out the United States. Every single person in the US that's gonna watch the NFL is watching the NFL.

• 18:04Rayna Greenberg?

  They're trying, they have. So they've saturated the market here and they're trying to reach other markets. So like, all of these Spanish speaking countries, all of these people that are Latin in other countries are gonna watch this. This was a play to make money.

• 18:17Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, well, it's always money. Just follow the money. Also, it needs to be said that like 50 million plus people and growing speak Spanish here in the US. And the US is the second largest Spanish speaking population in the world. So it still is speaking to a lot of people here. But I wanted to go back to the US citizen thing. I love this, I saw this one post and some, you know, stupid idiot wrote, of course, the NFL would announce a non-US citizen for the Super Bowl halftime show. And then someone wrote back, all the non-US citizens who have performed at the Super Bowl. Rihanna.

• 18:55Ashley Hesseltine?

  Rihanna still isn't a citizen. She was talking about not voting.

• 18:58Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh.

• 18:58Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, like recently, yeah, Shakira, Coldplay.

• 19:02Rayna Greenberg?

  That's crazy.

• 19:04Ashley Hesseltine?

  The Who, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, U2, Bad Bunny, US citizen.

• 19:10Rayna Greenberg?

  That's crazy.

• 19:11Ashley Hesseltine?

  When you really do think about, like, you guys are so stupid. And, you know, I just think the level of delusion and self-centeredness that you, a random nobody in the middle of the country, no offense to the middle of the country, thinks that the halftime show should fit your taste every year.

• 19:26Rayna Greenberg?

  Totally.

• 19:26Ashley Hesseltine?

  Like, sometimes you just might not like it, like anything else. Did I like last year? You know how I feel and that's okay. And I love the message that it sent and it wouldn't have been my pick, but like, how self-important are you as a person to think that it should be catered to you, music, the most subjective thing in the world? Like, do you think like, everyone liked Tom Petty years ago? Like, which I'm a Tom Petty fan, but you know what I mean? Like, it goes back and forth and sometimes it's older performers and newer performers and Spanish-speaking performers. And we had, obviously, we had J Lo and Shakira and we had the, like, Dr. Dre year and I don't know. It's just like crazy to get all up in arms

• 20:08Ashley Hesseltine?

  about it to the point where I'm boycotting the NFL or goodbye, not gonna watch the Super Bowl. This isn't safe for children. Oh, I'm sorry. You don't want your children to be bilingual?

• 20:17Rayna Greenberg?

  Spanish is safe for kids. With all the sexual messaging from every other artist that has done the halftime show. That is so crazy to me. I don't know. It's like, I think you'll survive if this performance doesn't like suit your palate.

• 20:31Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. And Bad Bunny, you know, he has been vocal about only doing Puerto Rico to support his people and not doing the continental US shows. And he was saying that he had a fear of ICE raids at his shows. He had a concern that ICE agents could be present outside the venues, potentially targeting concertgoers, which is sick that we're here. And then he made the decision to protect his Latino fans, who are the majority of his audience, from that threat. And now he's like, I'll do one and it'll be the fucking Super Bowl. Think it's a power play. I love that he, what he stands for, that he's standing on business and that he's doing that. And he knows it's gonna ruffle some feathers, too. And I like that the NFL did it. I saved a couple tweets that I loved. This was so

• 21:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  crazy. This person tweeted, I love Mick is the handle, in February of 2025, it's February this year, "All these white people mad about Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance. I hope next year they get Bad Bunny performing the whole set in Spanish." Can you imagine being that person?

• 21:32Ashley Hesseltine?

  And then I just loved, um, some person tweeted like NFL fans are furious. Nobody wants to see him perform. Jamel Hill responded, he might be the biggest entertainer in the world.

• 21:43Rayna Greenberg?

  Furious, furious.

• 21:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  That's probably a you problem.

• 21:45Rayna Greenberg?

  Imagine being this mad about anything. Who has the time?

• 21:48Ashley Hesseltine?

  I know. Oh, here, here's one. Why the heck would you want someone that sings in a foreign language, before language? It just doesn't sound right. I think I would feel unsafe being there. Someone wrote, they're all about to cry and say it should have been Pitbull. And someone wrote, this is Bad Bunny. He was just announced as the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. Massive Trump hater, anti ICE activist, no songs in English.

• 22:11Ashley Hesseltine?

  I'd just love to see it.

• 22:13Rayna Greenberg?

  I saw this girl's take and she was like, people are complaining, like you won't be able to understand like anything he says, but like Dave Matthews Band is like the biggest artist and like all the songs are just like, try to understand anything Dave Matthews says.

• 22:29Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's so crazy. I don't know. Do you want to sing along at the halftime show? Learn Spanish. Fucking be smarter.

• 22:34Rayna Greenberg?

  You've been given a warning, so you can start learning now.

• 22:37Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, Duolingo. Get it poppin'. You're that upset?

• 22:41Rayna Greenberg?

  And just, you could dance to it. This is the kind of music that like gets me out of my seat. This is why I've been such a fan for so long.

• 22:47Ashley Hesseltine?

  Monaco, when that song dropped.

• 22:48Rayna Greenberg?

  I can't wait.

• 22:49Ashley Hesseltine?

  I lost my mind.

• 22:49Rayna Greenberg?

  I know.

• 22:50Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's just like, if you are upset about this, like you are a pathetic loser and you are not hot. If you were wondering, am I hot? No. This is not saying you have to be a huge fan, but if you're upset, if you are boycotting football over this and you're making all these racially coded remarks, you are not hot.

• 23:12Rayna Greenberg?

  That's a tweet.

• 23:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  Stay inside. Be better.

• 23:17Rayna Greenberg?

  Get hotter.

• 23:18Ashley Hesseltine?

  Get hotter.

• 23:19Rayna Greenberg?

  Learn Spanish. Get off.

• 23:21Ashley Hesseltine?

  Imagine like shitting on Bad Bunny, the coolest motherfucker in the world.

• 23:26Rayna Greenberg?

  So embarrassing.

• 23:27Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's so embarrassing.

• 23:28Rayna Greenberg?

  You are ugly.

• 23:31Ashley Hesseltine?

  Did you see this video of Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who are married, the hottest couple alive?

• 23:39Rayna Greenberg?

  Why didn't I know this?

• 23:40Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, I feel like it's a little under the radar.

• 23:42Rayna Greenberg?

  I feel like that's the hottest couple that's ever lived.

• 23:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  They've been married since 2010.

• 23:46Rayna Greenberg?

  Wait, what?

• 23:47Ashley Hesseltine?

  They have two children.

• 23:48Rayna Greenberg?

  What are you saying to me? What?

• 23:54Rayna Greenberg?

  Do people know about this?

• 23:55Ashley Hesseltine?

  I, yeah.

• 23:55Rayna Greenberg?

  Is it on Wikipedia?

• 23:58Rayna Greenberg?

  How did you find out about this?

• 23:59Ashley Hesseltine?

  Well, I think I like low key knew it, but forgot about it. And I saw a video of them dancing at a Bad Bunny concert and it was so hot. It was like such a turn on. I mean, the two of them, and they obviously just both had great moves and rhythm. And they were like getting after it, like watching Jon Hamm at a Bad Bunny concert. Like if you really are anti-Bad Bunny again, I can't stress enough, like please get, get out.

• 24:25Rayna Greenberg?

  Cooler. I feel like I'm blacking out that you told me these two are a couple.

• 24:29Ashley Hesseltine?

  I really?

• 24:29Rayna Greenberg?

  They're so hot.

• 24:31Ashley Hesseltine?

  Well, I don't think about Javier Bardem a lot. I mean, when I, well, I, I just, when I watched F1, he was so sexy in that. And so it kind of jogged my memory that he was out there being hot.

• 24:43Rayna Greenberg?

  I love her too. Like I love her.

• 24:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 24:45Rayna Greenberg?

  Blow. Blow is like one of my favorite movies and I just low key forget.

• 24:48Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. Okay. So we're super excited. This is going to be huge for you. This is literally rain a Super Bowl.

• 24:55Ashley Hesseltine?

  So I can't wait for this. If the Eagles are in it, oh my, oh my God. I'm fine if they don't make it to the Super Bowl. I'm way more chill because we won last year and that's okay. I mean, obviously they're on the right track. They're four and O, but Jalen Hurts and Bad Bunny. I won't be able to handle it.

• 25:11Rayna Greenberg?

  It's too sexy.

• 25:12Ashley Hesseltine?

  I gotta go.

• 25:13Rayna Greenberg?

  Um, you know, I want to go every year and I'm sad we didn't go the last two years.

• 25:17Ashley Hesseltine?

  What do we do? We don't have anything to do.

• 25:18Rayna Greenberg?

  That's true. We don't have anything to do. We might have a bachelorette party that weekend, but we're not going to do that. We're going to do the other weekend.

• 25:23Ashley Hesseltine?

  We'll go from the bachelorette to the Super Bowl.

• 25:25Rayna Greenberg?

  I am so sad we did not go to the Super Bowl the last year. It's like so, so sad.

• 25:29Ashley Hesseltine?

  I know. All right. Well, we are just going to thank a couple of partners and we will get back into it. Okay. I'm telling you guys about Saks Fifth Avenue. Once again, we've been talking about them a ton. I have a big announcement. So I've been on this journey to find what I'm wearing for my special. I can't even describe the amount of things I've ordered, sent back. I tried to get something customized. Like I've been.

• 25:52Rayna Greenberg?

  It's a big decision.

• 25:53Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's huge. I've worked with a stylist, like it just, it has not been working out the way I've wanted. I had an outfit, I thought I was gonna get it tailored, they couldn't tailor it, because whatever, it's not important. I found something from Saks. I can't even believe it. I was, it was my la, it was a totally different vibe.

• 26:08Rayna Greenberg?

  Very different vibe.

• 26:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  I'm not gonna tell you guys, you'll see. And I was just like, you know, we've been talking about Saks every week. I'm gonna go to Saks, I'm gonna get this thing. I actually got it on sale, they have great sales from time to time. And I think that's what I'm wearing.

• 26:20Rayna Greenberg?

  I'm, I love the vibe, it's really special and different. And you know, I say all the time, like, there's some websites that just every person shops all the time, and everyone's just like rolling around in the same stuff.

• 26:30Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, I've never seen anything like this.

• 26:32Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah.

• 26:33Ashley Hesseltine?

  It feels like it was made for me. I'm just so excited. So, I can't recommend it enough. I mean, I'm directing people there to get stuff for my wedding, I've ordered shoes from there, and they have accessories, they have stuff for kids, they have all different kinds of brands, all different price points. And so, at this point, I am just like, they are my go-to. If you can't find something somewhere else, you're gonna find it on Saks, and I will die on that hill. So, we are just such fans. Of course, fall means new trends, and you wanna get your jackets, and coats, and sweaters, and new denim, and pants, and all the things for your work, your play, date night, workouts, everything. They truly have it all. We just can't recommend it enough, and hopefully you will see what I'm wearing from Saks when I shoot this special.

• 27:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  I can't wait to show you guys. So, check out Saks Fifth Avenue, or go to saks.com for inspiring ways to elevate your personal style every day.

• 27:23Rayna Greenberg?

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• 27:29Ashley Hesseltine?

  I know, right? I have been hearing about it and seeing it everywhere.

• 27:32Rayna Greenberg?

  I just saw that Gwyneth was talking about Addy. I heard some celebrities like Jennie Garth say Addy has helped them.

• 27:38Ashley Hesseltine?

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• 27:58Rayna Greenberg?

  Hell, yes. And the Addy vibe is a sexy vibe.

• 28:02Ashley Hesseltine?

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• 29:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Go to A D D Y I dot com to find a provider.

• 29:18Rayna Greenberg?

  So in the biggest news probably of the fall, Life of a Showgirl drops this Friday. I mean, this is the most anticipated album in the country.

• 29:28Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 29:29Rayna Greenberg?

  For a lot of people.

• 29:31Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, I mean, I feel like a, this is the, would you say this is the most promo she's ever done? I mean, some albums-

• 29:40Rayna Greenberg?

  Her most promo anybody's ever done.

• 29:42Ashley Hesseltine?

  Right, yeah, like, it's a ton. Sometimes previous albums have felt like they came out of nowhere. Yeah, I guess this is the most promo I've seen for, for any album in recent history, if not ever.

• 29:53Rayna Greenberg?

  I mean, for any artist, I mean, she is releasing this movie, which she did release a movie of the tour previously, but she's releasing this movie in theaters that people can go and like, listen and watch the album get made and there's a video in it.

• 30:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay.

• 30:06Rayna Greenberg?

  So that'll drop. There's been these like exclusive merch drops. She's done vinyl album drops. The Elizabeth Taylor estate- Did a drop because one of the songs called Elizabeth Taylor. I mean, it is just consumerism at its finest. And I the

• 30:22Ashley Hesseltine?

  At its finest?

• 30:23Rayna Greenberg?

  She, she can do whatever she wants. It's been a lot. And I understand she's like, I'm the biggest musical artist. I'm the biggest selling touring artist in the world. I'm going to like make that money. It's just, it feels a little cringe to me.

• 30:38Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. I mean, people want anything and everything from her and they will buy it. And she is running a business and we live in a capitalist society. People will say there are no ethical billionaires. Don't know if I disagree. But there has been more pushback and criticism than I've ever seen for her about this. And I am seeing it from her, from fans. This is not, she's always had haters and I'm not talking about them. But I noticed it in my algo on TikTok, just a lot of it. And I don't think I'm seeking that out to, to have it kind of show up for me.

• 31:21Ashley Hesseltine?

  You know, this is something I particularly felt like I cared about. So it made me think that this is really out there in the world. It's not such a niche thing. You know, people who are self-proclaimed Swifties have really been turned off by the amount of promo for this album. Given the state of the world and the vibe is read the room, you know, like we are in dark times. People don't have money and it is just so much stuff to buy.

• 31:49Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah, I actually didn't take any issue with quite a few. So the movie I thought was actually kind of fun. I think that like after the era tour, people are like looking for some immunity.

• 31:57Ashley Hesseltine?

  People want it.

• 31:58Rayna Greenberg?

  They want to like go and sing in a theater. My dad went and saw the era's tour movie and he was like, it was so delightful. It was so nice.

• 32:04Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 32:04Rayna Greenberg?

  So I think people like that and I, I love the era's tour. It was so fun to be there. And there's an exclusive vinyl collection edition at Target. It's the cardigan that really pushed me over the edge.

• 32:15Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh my God.

• 32:15Rayna Greenberg?

  I was just like, we're selling an exclusive cardigan?

• 32:18Ashley Hesseltine?

  The cardigan. It's always, it's funny what pushes you over the edge because people will criticize Beyonce for this too. And the perfume is what pushed people over the edge. Like the haircare line was like, okay, well, she put a lot of work into this and she has great hair. We want to see her haircare line, but the perfume, does Beyonce need a perfume? You know, like it's just, it feels like too much for a lot of people. I mean, I go back and forth. I'm kind of sharing what I'm seeing. And I guess I'll, I'll give my stance, but I mean, you know, it could, it could change, but it's just like all these vinyls. I mean, she's raking in millions and millions of dollars. And at the same time, not speaking out about anything happening in the world. And that's her prerogative. And I also want to say like, would we ever scrutinize a man in

• 33:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  this way? Probably not, but it has a male performer since, I don't know, Michael Jackson, like in our current age, ever been as popular as her? No. I, I don't, I don't, besides Bad Bunny. Like truly, I think of like Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, maybe some country artists I'm not, I'm not thinking of, but you know, she broke the internet with her Kamala endorsement. And I feel like she really motivated people to vote. And then she's just been silent. And people say like, well, she's maybe scared for her safety and she has a target on her back with the president. But I, I think that she is this female empowerment, LGBTQ rights. Like it's so bad. Everything is bad. Like, and I think people want to hear from her.

• 33:43Rayna Greenberg?

  I think maybe she's like, I did, I did at least try to do my part and I did, I, sure, I put my name on Kamala and I don't know. I'm trying to think, have we seen other music artists? I mean, Beyonce put her support behind Kamala, but like, have we seen like Selena Gomez do this? Have we seen Sabrina Carpenter do this? I'm asking, I'm genuinely asking, I'm not, I'm not sure.

• 34:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, it's definitely, people hold her to a higher standard, but it, I think it's just the two things together. It's like, it's all of the pushing this stuff to buy. This person who was so rich and so famous. And again, she's really generous. I mean, what she does for her crew and that goes without saying. There's just a bunch of different things to say here, but it's just like, I think people like, stop selling us stuff without doing something in the darkest of times. I mean, I'll just like read a few things I saw, I said, Some, I saw this TikTok and he said, if I'm being completely honest, it's never been harder to be a Swifty. It feels like us fans are just a vessel to get her album to number one. We're expected to play into all the gimmicks, pre-saves and variants, all under the guise

• 34:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  of connecting with Taylor, but in fact, we're just used for marketing, which is sad as her older music was so special and truly felt like a connection with the fans. And now it's never felt more than just a manufactured pop product. And I saw another one that said, this just feels very calculated. If yours, like, everything is a business transaction, even from her engagement, just hovering over all of it is the political undertone. Again, this doesn't reflect everybody, but I just hadn't seen this much criticism for her. And I do think the two things together feel a little like a read the room situation. But also, I mean, this is the plan. These marketing plans are decided well in advance, but they're still decided in this current climate since it's been 2025. So, I don't

• 35:25Ashley Hesseltine?

  know. I mean, my take is that it, it does feel a lot of like, buy this thing, buy this thing, buy this thing, over and over and over. And people are like, come on.

• 35:35Rayna Greenberg?

  I guess it just feels like it's, if people want it, if there's a market for it, sure. If there's like a huge fan base and they're like, I gotta get this cardigan. Like, for me, the movie feels like you're providing an experience for people. At least people can go with their girlies and get dressed up and have a night out with it. You've provided an experience. The vinyls, I mean, people have been collecting stuff like that forever. I hate to be, I hate to like, say like, you can't collect a cardigan. I guess you could. It's just like, I don't know. We did, we did cardigan.

• 36:02Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 36:03Rayna Greenberg?

  We're done with cardigan. We did the cardigan thing already.

• 36:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. Yeah. I'm curious what people think. I mean, I, again, I have mixed feelings on it. And not everybody has to speak out about what's happening in the world, but I feel like, once you start, once you kinda do the endorsement, you push back on Donald Trump, it's like, people are like, hey, it's so bad now. When you posted that, we were still in a democracy. And what's, do you care what's happening now? I don't know. I think, I guess that's where people are coming from.

• 36:34Rayna Greenberg?

  I guess as much as she can have like world-class security and people around her, like, Donald Trump has made public statements against her and it does threaten her safety. And so I'm just, like, I'm just hypothesizing, but like when they had that bulletproof shield, take her out into the game.

• 36:52Ashley Hesseltine?

  That was her stalker.

• 36:53Rayna Greenberg?

  So I don't know, but like Donald Trump has made public statements about her and it is frightening if he mobilizes his audience against her. And so I guess I understand sort of feeling like I have, I'm the biggest star in the world. I tried, you know where I stand and now I'm gonna, I have to prioritize my safety. I'm still a young woman, you know?

• 37:12Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, and when it comes to the consumerism of it all, like is there a world in which she does anything that's like, I don't know about free? I don't know what the answer is. I just think they were like.

• 37:22Rayna Greenberg?

  Charitable component, of course.

• 37:24Ashley Hesseltine?

  Something where people are like, Taylor, we have spent thousands of dollars on you. You know, is, I don't know, I don't know, I don't have the answer.

• 37:32Rayna Greenberg?

  But I think that's a great point. Like I've seen people say like, I paid $5,000 for floor seats at her concert. If I buy this cardigan or this vinyl, why isn't there a charitable component? You honestly rarely see people do things today that there aren't charitable. Like how many companies do you and I have advertised on the show that 10% of proceeds go to XYZ? And we've seen it for so long and it would be really nice if she picked a cause and said like, a portion of these proceeds go to something.

• 37:59Ashley Hesseltine?

  Or I don't know, you mean, you're in charge of your ticket prices and I, as someone who toured, we, both of us, but we really don't feel comfortable with certain prices, even though people would pay it, people will buy it. I mean, we have been pushed by the ticketing platforms to do more platinum tickets, which the price is based on demand. And there was a point where I saw my ticket prices for this tour, specifically like the Boston show, that were fewer platinum and they were up to a price I didn't feel comfortable with and they would probably sell and that's more money for me, but I don't, I don't like it. I don't like that price, people thinking I would charge it. And I really don't want to be like, oh, I'm so much more ethical than Taylor Swift. I just, I do wonder about that.

• 38:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  I do, are these artists like, well, if they're gonna pay it, you know? And I know that sometimes it's Ticketmaster making these decisions, but we are involved in these decisions as the artist and we have a cap for fluct- fluctuating ticket prices and there's been points where we're like honestly let's we're gonna make less money but we're gonna set this price as something that feels like what people can afford right now even though there's been times where we're like god we put on such a show especially for the holiday shows but we're like it's just more about wanting not wanting to price people out and wanting people to come and have a good time and not feel like they need to overdraft because of it.

• 39:19Rayna Greenberg?

  I'm with you but I guess there are I mean verified resale sites so like I sold my I had four Taylor Swift tickets I sold to.

• 39:25Ashley Hesseltine?

  Outside of the verified resale.

• 39:27Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah.

• 39:27Ashley Hesseltine?

  Which also they're in a lawsuit right now because they were gouging those which you'd love to see it. If there's one thing that can unite the nation it's taking Master Price.

• 39:37Ashley Hesseltine?

  Anyway, all right.

• 39:38Rayna Greenberg?

  All right, moving on. Anyways, I now there's shit all over this. I could not be more excited. Like Friday is gonna be so exciting for me. I can't wait to hear the album. I just I have loved most of her albums. I'm really excited.

• 39:51Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, for sure. I again, this is just like an interesting aspect of the Taylor Swift fandom. The criticism and her ability to what it sounds like a lot of people think not meet the moment with this new album. But yeah, I mean, we made our little album covers to mimic it. Like, I'm excited to hear it. I think it's gonna be a little more lit than past albums and I'm into it. We just thought it was interesting to discuss. So, anyway.

• 40:19Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay, well.

• 40:20Ashley Hesseltine?

  All right, we just have one funny thing and I just love this. Someone sent this to me and I did a little more research and the headline is Mary Lisa Bay Area Bachelorette puts up billboards in quest to find husband. So this woman Lisa Catalano, she put up billboards that say MaryLisa.com and then you go to the website and it's like all about her and what she's looking for. She's 40, 42. I think she's 41 or 42. I saw varying reports on her age. But anyway, she's in that age range, our age range. So she is really out here and I don't mind it.

• 40:54Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh, I love it.

• 40:55Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 40:55Rayna Greenberg?

  I would have picked a different photo. She looks like she just came from a workout class. But other than that, listen, it's tough out here. Whatever you need to do, you know?

• 41:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  So she told a local news station she has seen significant interest in her search for husband with applicants from across the country and even as far as Brazil. In one day, the site drew over 27,000 unique visitors and more than 127,000 page views. 350 applications of eligible men who meet her criteria. Her website features dating preferences, likes, dislikes, political party affiliation, religious beliefs. She's also posted several videos where she shares her views on kissing on a first date, sex, intimacy, yada, yada.

• 41:35Rayna Greenberg?

  I love this and I wonder what she's using. I wonder if she's using like a Google form. You have to use a Google form to like weed people out.

• 41:40Ashley Hesseltine?

  Right.

• 41:41Rayna Greenberg?

  Like you can't just like hire somebody to be like reading all these emails. So it's definitely got to be like yes, no on the political stuff. Like you have to be able to like sort it quickly.

• 41:50Ashley Hesseltine?

  I love this.

• 41:51Rayna Greenberg?

  I love this. She is like yellow aura all day. She is type A. I wonder what her sign is. They say like what her sign is. This is just somebody who is like not going to leave it up to fate.

• 42:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 42:02Rayna Greenberg?

  She is like organized. She has like a lot of like spreadsheets. I love it. I'm not surprised she's from the Bay area.

• 42:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  She said the dating apps aren't going well and she's reached the point where a drastic measure was in order. She goes, also, how Silicon Valley is it to do a website? Yeah, like this is, like you said, it's so Bay area. I just, I love it. I mean, billboards are back. Do you see like?

• 42:24Rayna Greenberg?

  Did they go anywhere before?

• 42:25Ashley Hesseltine?

  I'm just saying, I think that's the oldest form of advertising. I mean, I learned about that in college, outdoor advertising. You probably did too.

• 42:31Rayna Greenberg?

  It was my first internship. I worked at this company called Lamar. They're a billboard company.

• 42:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, but Olivia Herman, who is, who does the Philly mom on Instagram. She does this impression of a Philly mom. You guys have seen it. She wears this blonde bob wig and a red turtleneck. And I guess she's working with an outdoor advertising company and every week after the Eagles game, they put up a billboard. It's a real billboard. I didn't know if it was real at first, so she'll, they put up a billboard with her and she's collabing it. I'm like, this is genius.

• 42:55Rayna Greenberg?

  Honestly, I mean, anybody can, people think like billboards are hard to get. Anybody can get a billboard.

• 42:59Ashley Hesseltine?

  We had billboards in Times Square. We just bought them. Listen, when you see people like, oh my God, our billboard, they just bought it.

• 43:04Rayna Greenberg?

  They just paid for it. It's not even that much money, to be honest. It depends on the one that you want and like where it is, but like you could have probably afford a billboard if you needed one.

• 43:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  So I want to keep tabs on her. If she finds her man, what a story. How did you guys meet? He responded to a billboard?

• 43:21Rayna Greenberg?

  That guy's cool.

• 43:22Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yes.

• 43:22Rayna Greenberg?

  Like, you just, I think about people that meet in certain ways and it's like, those people are going to vibe because they're attracted to the same type of like, I don't know, just we vibe on the same level.

• 43:31Ashley Hesseltine?

  Exactly. Like, I, there's two types of men. A man that would be like, oh, that's so desperate.

• 43:38Rayna Greenberg?

  Ringe, weird.

• 43:38Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. And the guy that's like, huh, what's up with Lisa?

• 43:43Ashley Hesseltine?

  That immediately is a good filtering system.

• 43:46Rayna Greenberg?

  It weeds people out, yeah. And then you know somebody can fill out an online form. They had to work a little bit harder.

• 43:52Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, exactly. You know, they have a car? They were on the highway?

• 43:55Rayna Greenberg?

  Well, buses go on the highways too.

• 43:58Ashley Hesseltine?

  Uber pool.

• 44:00Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah, that doesn't weed anybody out.

• 44:02Ashley Hesseltine?

  They don't do that anymore. That died with COVID. Okay, well, let's just talk about our other partners and then we will get into headlines for you guys. I am telling you about Cakes Body. Another thing that will probably be part of my special outfit is my nipple covers. So, we love Cakes Body. So obsessed. I feel like this summer, this replaced bras for me. They just really are the solution for so many different types of tops you could wear. And again, they are nipple solutions and they are sticky, they're reusable, you just wash them, you stick them on. They have this little nip nook, so the sticky part doesn't stick to your nipple and it feels like you're like ripping your nipples off when you take them off. There's a large size and shape range

• 44:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  to ensure seamless coverage on a wide range of boob sizes, from Cakes itty bitty to Cakes Plus. And they're even Cakes triangles, which works great for teardrop shaped girls. Oh, that makes sense. I was wondering about the triangles. So if you have a more teardrop shaped breast, they have the triangle shaped cakes.

• 45:00Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh.

• 45:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. And I just love this. I mean, again, I've worn them with just like a white rib tank and I have this one sheer tank and I'm like, how am I gonna wear that? Like, you can fully see my areola, but I'm not gonna put a bra on it. It had little spaghetti straps. So this worked for that. We love their story. They were founded by twin sisters. They are a woman-run company and they do really great things for the employees that work for them within the company. Dermatologist tested and approved, safe for sensitive skin. And they are super seamless. We love that. Their mission is of course to provide boob solutions for all women that make them feel flattered and free while supporting women's health causes as well, which we love. So I want you guys to check this out. I said it before, I never really used a product like this and I tried it and it has completely changed my life. I'd rather wear these than

• 45:46Ashley Hesseltine?

  a bra most days, obviously. And you can even wear them when you're sweating, you're running around. So, and I also feel like they give my breasts a little bit of shape, you know, like they're obviously, I don't know how to describe it, but that's how I feel. I think my boobs look better when I'm wearing them. So you guys can check out the product for yourself. Go to cakesbody.com and use code GGE for 20% off your first order this fall. Again, that is cakesbody.com code GGE for 20% off.

• 46:13Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay, and Shopify, literally, I'm gonna go a little rogue. Ashley and I have used Shopify to run all of our businesses for many years. Even prior to meeting each other, we had merch businesses through there. We run Vibes Only through Shopify, The Girl's Gotta Eat merch store. If you have any small business, side hustle storefront and you're looking for a one-stop shop to grow that business, Shopify really is the answer for that, is the best place to start and grow anything you are thinking of. It's the one commerce platform behind the big brands you know and love. We can log in from anywhere on a computer or our phones. We track inventory of everything at Vibes Only through this. I love the reporting and analytics. Ashley and I can track what time there's traffic on the site and how

• 46:55Rayna Greenberg?

  much inventory we have left. We can change prices at the drop of a hat. It runs our website. I mean, it truly does everything else. And you and I are such pros at it by now, but if you know nothing about it, it really is user-friendly and they have all these AI tools, which are a total game changer to guide you through everything, directions, reporting, editing image, content ideas. I mean, it is just the one-stop shop for running your business. And we have run ours on there for many, many years, close to a decade. So if you're ready to build your own empire, whether it's merch or products or the next best idea, get on Shopify.com/GGE and make it happen.

• 47:30Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, headlines. We have a lot.

• 47:33Rayna Greenberg?

  A lot of headlines this week.

• 47:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, so the biggest headline and saddest, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban split.

• 47:41Rayna Greenberg?

  After almost two decades together.

• 47:43Ashley Hesseltine?

  After 19 years.

• 47:44Rayna Greenberg?

  Crazy.

• 47:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  She filed for divorce and I don't, I don't know what to say. It's sad. People are upset. People are in our comments like, please talk about this. I need community.

• 47:52Rayna Greenberg?

  I mean, I think that a 20 year marriage is a huge accomplishment. You almost never hear of this in Hollywood. Like, it's unbelievable to be able to like make it last this long. She escaped the Church of Scientology. I'm so proud of her.

• 48:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  Right.

• 48:06Rayna Greenberg?

  And she married this country superstar. I mean, it's just, it's sad to see a couple for such a long time that also like really kept their relationship out of the spotlight, which I think is such like a recipe for staying together for so long. But, you know, you hate to see the ending of any lovely couple.

• 48:22Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, of course. I mean, like you said, this isn't like a failure. You stayed together for 20 years, but I think they're one of those couples that people didn't expect them to break up. So you do kind of hold them as your like Holy Grail, like fairy tale together forever.

• 48:37Rayna Greenberg?

  Like if they can't make it.

• 48:38Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, like what's the world coming to? I saw a tweet that said AMC is gonna fly their flags at half mast. She's the AMC spokesperson. I don't know. She's been working so much. Like she's in like 10 movies a year. Like was that because of the, she wanted to get out of the house? Or was it, did that put a strain on the marriage? I mean, I don't, it's not.

• 48:56Rayna Greenberg?

  Keith Urban, you're not as big of a country fan as I am. He is a huge country star.

• 49:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay.

• 49:02Rayna Greenberg?

  So he might be doing too much too.

• 49:03Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, no, I'm not blaming her, but I'm like, she has, you know, has she, have they had trouble in paradise? And she's like, I just gotta get out of the house.

• 49:11Rayna Greenberg?

  I don't know. I think a lot of couples like really thrive with some distance between them.

• 49:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay.

• 49:14Rayna Greenberg?

  You know?

• 49:15Ashley Hesseltine?

  Well, they didn't. All right. So speaking of, speaking of breakups, we have a reunion and that is Laguna Beach. They are reuniting.

• 49:22Rayna Greenberg?

  Also after 20 years.

• 49:24Ashley Hesseltine?

  After 20 years.

• 49:25Rayna Greenberg?

  I am so excited and they are saying, you know, this is obviously not going to be the same style of reunion that you would see on Bravo or with Mormon, Mormon Wives. This is all positive. It's just catching up with everybody. Kristin Cavallari is a producer on it. And you're gonna see all these people come back for it. Jason Waller is not on it, which I'm upset about.

• 49:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  What about Justin Bobby?

• 49:47Rayna Greenberg?

  Justin Bobby was the Hills. He wasn't on Laguna Beach.

• 49:49Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, true. Okay, sorry.

• 49:51Rayna Greenberg?

  Not Adrianne Patridge either. So none of the.

• 49:54Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, right, like Talon and Trey, Dieter, Lo. Okay, and Alex, that was season two. And when you guys watch this, it says, fans can look forward to hearing never before told behind the scenes stories. I mean, I feel like I know all the behind the scenes because I listened to the podcast. I listened to that first season of Kristen and Stephen's podcast. And I feel like I got all the tea, but I'm just so excited for this. And this is set to debut on the Roku channel in 2026, so I guess I won't be watching it.

• 50:20Rayna Greenberg?

  I don't know how to find it. How does one find Roku? I mean, I'm sure like they'll link out to it. Lauren Conrad is also the executive producer and Stephen Colletti. So like they're all gonna be there. I'm sure they'll like link to it. Someone needs to teach me how to use Roku.

• 50:31Ashley Hesseltine?

  I love Laguna Beach so much. I have a joke in my stand up. And it's about, it's very specific to only people that really know Laguna Beach. And when I tell it, about half the audience laughs, maybe even a third, maybe five people sometimes. But they laugh hard and it is worth it every time. It gets a very like, if you get it, you get it, get it.

• 50:49Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay, you can't tell me the joke now. You guys tell me after.

• 50:51Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, and then also premiering, but sooner is, uh, because it's premiered this week, is Love is Blind, season nine, Denver.

• 51:00Rayna Greenberg?

  I've actually been waiting for Denver for so long. Like, I feel like I've been hearing about Denver for like four years. I'm just dying to see, I have a specific idea about what Denver is like. So much more than I had a specific idea of like what that dating Houston or Charlotte or any of these cities would be like. It's, uh, everybody has an idea of Denver dating.

• 51:20Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, Denver, it was called Menver. A lot of women were moving out there years ago, like pre-COVID to find men. And some of them did, and it's changed a lot. And we've been interviewed about the Denver dating scene. The Denver Gazette interviewed us or some of the Denver Post. You know, like it's, it's such a, uh, city that has like a reputation regarding dating. And I guess they interviewed all the contestants and they were like, it's terrible. I saw this interview that it was just like, it's rough out here and the show just amplified it. So I don't know what we're about to find out, but that, uh, premiered on the first. So you guys can watch the first few episodes on Netflix.

• 51:56Rayna Greenberg?

  Selena Gomez got married last weekend to Benny Blanco. I have a lot to say about it. Congrats. Happy for them?

• 52:03Ashley Hesseltine?

  The photos were great.

• 52:04Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah, she looked beautiful. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran gave speeches. It was star studded with her whole cast of Only Murders in the Building. It was in Santa Barbara at a beautiful hotel.

• 52:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  Looked great. I saw Kate Kennedy answer a question on her Instagram story and someone was like, "Why wouldn't she do a Vogue exclusive or another massive publication?" And Kate's take was, "She is the biggest Instagram follower in the world. Why would she not put this out on her own platform and control all the photos and the narrative and all that?" I thought that was interesting.

• 52:33Rayna Greenberg?

  I totally agree with you.

• 52:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  But you would think like a huge-

• 52:35Rayna Greenberg?

  Why? Because she doesn't need to?

• 52:36Ashley Hesseltine?

  Because she doesn't need to, exactly. But I do think you think of this being in Vogue.

• 52:41Rayna Greenberg?

  It feels beneath her.

• 52:42Ashley Hesseltine?

  But yeah, well, I think that's fair.

• 52:44Rayna Greenberg?

  Like, I think the biggest stars in the world do Vogue exclusives. I hate to like, immediately compare it to the person I'm gonna say, like, say, because I think so highly of her, but like Alex Cooper did an exclusive in Vogue for her wedding, which is, she's a humongous star. She's not Selena Gomez.

• 53:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, Selena Gomez is like, the biggest.

• 53:02Rayna Greenberg?

  So like, it feels like it is a different level of stardom. Like, it would be weird to me if Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter-

• 53:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  I, true. Yeah, you're right. You're right. That's true.

• 53:13Rayna Greenberg?

  It feels like a different, you know, it feels like our level, you know, us and Alex.

• 53:17Ashley Hesseltine?

  Is my wedding gonna be in Vogue?

• 53:20Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, and lastly, so this delivery driver in Chicago, it says, "Delivery driver curses Trump, then dodges border patrol agents in a wild Chicago provocation." So I saw this and now I'm seeing it set to all these different sounds and music. So this delivery guy, I think he just yelled like, "Fuck Trump" or something, and these ICE agents started chasing after him and they could not catch him.

• 53:46Rayna Greenberg?

  The video is absolutely insane.

• 53:49Ashley Hesseltine?

  I mean, first of all, it's crazy that you can't yell something. I mean, the way it went down is disturbing, but it's so funny. It brings me so much joy. Can I show you my favorite one?

• 53:56Rayna Greenberg?

  The way that he is evading the police is so insane to me. Like, he's a professional bike driver.

• 54:03Ashley Hesseltine?

  He's, just so you guys know, he's running with the bike and then he's on the bike.

• 54:08Rayna Greenberg?

  And they just give up!

• 54:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  There's 15 agents chasing after him.

• 54:12Rayna Greenberg?

  They just like, give up, these fucking losers.

• 54:15Ashley Hesseltine?

  And this other, this is the other music that I thought it was so funny, set to.

• 54:21Ashley Hesseltine?

  Have you seen that one?

• 54:24Rayna Greenberg?

  It's so unserious watching this.

• 54:29Ashley Hesseltine?

  He's like, "Bye, bitches." What an icon.

• 54:32Rayna Greenberg?

  It's just, just in case you guys aren't watching, I mean,

• 54:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  No, we'll put it on the screen.

• 54:35Rayna Greenberg?

  Fifteen of them are chasing after me. It's so ridiculous.

• 54:38Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's like a Looney Tunes sketch.

• 54:40Rayna Greenberg?

  Well, aren't they just letting whoever sign up to be part of it? You don't have to be like-

• 54:43Ashley Hesseltine?

  I can't talk about it. It makes me sick.

• 54:45Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah.

• 54:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  Meanwhile, they're getting paid like three times more than teachers. I could throw up, but for him to taunt these assholes and then ride off into the streets of Chicago, just like, "Fuck y'all, they can't catch him."

• 54:55Rayna Greenberg?

  I hope he's having a great time.

• 54:57Ashley Hesseltine?

  Like, you know, he got home and he like got in the, in his house and he shut the door and he like leaned up against the door and he was like breathing so heavy and he's like, "I just did that shit."

• 55:04Rayna Greenberg?

  Every man on earth, that is their fantasy.

• 55:06Ashley Hesseltine?

  Or what if he was bringing someone a delivery? Like, he's just bringing someone their Sweetgreen.

• 55:10Rayna Greenberg?

  Which I would just, I would be like, "I gotta talk to somebody about this."

• 55:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  Right. Like, if that man showed up on your door with your salad and he's like, "Listen, I gotta talk to someone. You'll never believe what just happened." I would get all my cash in the house.

• 55:20Rayna Greenberg?

  I would hang on every word of the tea.

• 55:22Ashley Hesseltine?

  I'd be like, "We gotta record a snack right now." And take your pants off.

• 55:24Rayna Greenberg?

  Zoom you while I blew them.

• 55:28Ashley Hesseltine?

  All right, guys. Well, that's your snack. Hope you enjoyed. And you know where to find us, girlsgottaeat.com. You can get tickets to our holiday shows in New York and LA at girlsgottaeat.com, girlsgottaeatpodcast on Instagram and TikTok. I'm Ash Hess, Reina is Reina dot Greenberg. Subscribe on YouTube. Share this episode with a friend and we'll see you Monday.

• 55:49Rayna Greenberg?

  Have a great weekend, guys.

• 55:50Ashley Hesseltine?

  Bye.