The Snack: Kelly Clarkson, Spooky New Shows, and STD WTF

Welcome back to The Snack (a day early!) This week, we’re talking about: Sexually transmitted diarrhea on the rise Alexander Skarsgård's see-through shoes Susan Dell not beating the robot allegations Kelly Clarkson vs. Art of Play store in Brooklyn Show/movie reviews: East of Eden, Carrie, Below, Animals Coming soon: Love is Blind Boston, You Can See Everything, The Golden Life Headlines: Ukraine taking out Russian bot farms, Tobey Maguire officiating his ex wife’s wedding, Instagram apologizing for too much Creed, Ohio HOA vs. Taylor and Travis Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit girlsgottaeat.com for more. Thank you to our partners this week: Lola Blankets: Get 40% off select products at https://lolablankets.com with code GIRLSGOTTAEAT. Noom: Start a GLP-1 program for $39 and have it delivered in as little as 7 days at https://noom.com. Helix: Get 20% off site wide at https://helixsleep.com/GGE. ShopBop: Get 15% off your first app purchase on the app with code GGE. Redken: Visit Ulta Beauty to shop Redken Acidic Grow Full System online and start building your healthiest looking hair routine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ashley Hesseltine?

  This week on the snack, Kelly Clarkson controversy, sexually transmitted diarrhea, and officiating your ex's wedding.

• 0:09Rayna Greenberg?

  This is a Dear Media production.

• 0:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  Just leave it.

• 0:18Ashley Hesseltine?

  Hi, guys.

• 0:19Rayna Greenberg?

  Hi.

• 0:20Ashley Hesseltine?

  Going on. This was like a snack where we are recording a little earlier than normal. And so we were like, are we going to have all the topics? We're going to have enough to talk about. A lot is going on. I'm excited about this one.

• 0:30Rayna Greenberg?

  I know. It's just like fun and light. I mean, terrible things are happening too. You know, it's still America, but.

• 0:35Ashley Hesseltine?

  I would say the most terrible. I would say the most.

• 0:37Rayna Greenberg?

  I'm leaving America this week.

• 0:39Ashley Hesseltine?

  I can't wait to get out of here.

• 0:42Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 0:42Ashley Hesseltine?

  Come back. Okay. Well, yeah, get tickets to arena shows.

• 0:46Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh, yeah. See you guys on Saturday night in London. But actually, this is like the last two days of peace I have before I am never home for like a month and a half. Like.

• 0:55Ashley Hesseltine?

  That's October, baby.

• 0:56Rayna Greenberg?

  Why do we do this to ourselves? Every October and May, we're just like, I'm never going to be home. So I will be home.

• 1:03Rayna Greenberg?

  I leave Wednesday. I'm gone until Monday. I'm home for a day and a half. I go to Buffalo. I'm gone back for a day. I go to LA and then we're going to be together. Actually, this is by far the longest I've been away from you. It's crazy.

• 1:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  Do you feel it?

• 1:14Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah, I feel sad. Do you feel?

• 1:16Ashley Hesseltine?

  I mean, we just talk so much. It's hard. I can't tell. But you know what? I will say, I have been missing girl time. Like, I've realized it. I just feel like people have been out of town and I did go out with the girls and went to a concert this past weekend and I feel like it was much overdue. Like, I was out with Shashank having drinks and like, there was a group of like five or six girls also there, just being loud and being crazy and talking about stuff. And I was like, I am jealous. Like, I just really miss it. I really have not, I don't know. I mean, you're gone and you and I would kind of get a group together and it just hasn't really felt like that. And I have really felt a void there in just like girl time. And I feel like that's all you're doing.

• 1:55Rayna Greenberg?

  Women are so special.

• 1:57Ashley Hesseltine?

  But I am, I'm without foster dog right now. It feels very peaceful. It's a good week. We are moving this week. As you guys listen, we are probably in the midst of our move. So we're moving on the 15th. So stay tuned, watch this space for more about that.

• 2:13Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay. Well, you guys, we have a great episode. We're just going to thank our partners. Thank you to Lola Blankets. Get 40% off select products at LolaBlankets.com with code GIRLSGOTEAT and Noom. Start a GLP-1 program for $39 and have it delivered in as little as seven days at Noom.com. And Helix, get 20% off site wide at helixsleep.com/gge.

• 2:33Ashley Hesseltine?

  And thank you to Shop Pop. Get 15% off your first app purchase on the app with code GGE. And Redken, visit Ulta Beauty to shop Redken, Acidic, Grow, full system online and start building your healthiest looking hair routine. Okay, so we are going to kick it off with a what the fuck report because it has just been an avalanche of what the fuck. And none of these three things we're going to talk about are really having a correlation besides that, besides the sheer what the fuck reaction they all incited.

• 3:03Rayna Greenberg?

  Do you think somebody's going to be like, I take umbrage. None of these are related in any way.

• 3:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  Relate them. Try it. Put, drop it in the comments.

• 3:12Rayna Greenberg?

  So there is a bacteria that is creating diarrhea that is sexually transmitted on the rise. And I would just like to start off by saying the bacteria is, it's called shigala. It's, it sounds so delightful. Shigala.

• 3:28Ashley Hesseltine?

  It really does.

• 3:29Rayna Greenberg?

  It's a good dish.

• 3:30Ashley Hesseltine?

  Dance move from the seventies. Doing the shigala.

• 3:34Rayna Greenberg?

  Like a little meshugana, you know?

• 3:35Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 3:36Rayna Greenberg?

  Delightful, but it's transmitted through the mouth, but it is transmitted from poop particles. So, I mean, think like ass to mouth.

• 3:46Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, my God. So is, are you only affected if you're eating ass?

• 3:51Rayna Greenberg?

  Or if you're dabbing butt sacks straight into oral. So ass to mouth.

• 3:57Ashley Hesseltine?

  Don't.

• 3:59Ashley Hesseltine?

  Nobody's doing that. And that's not kink shaming. I don't think that's happening just for sanitary reasons.

• 4:07Rayna Greenberg?

  So I say this in one of my jokes. I say, I'll go ass to mouth. You don't make me take a hike. And I'm like, I actually don't know if anybody's actually doing that.

• 4:17Ashley Hesseltine?

  Well, eating ass is one thing, but I don't, guys, this is a blind spot for me. Okay. So I got to tell you, I saw this headline last week that sexually transmitted diarrhea, the new STD, is on the rise. And I thought it was a joke. I saw a few comedians posted. So I saw Adam Ray posted at first and I was like, this is an obscure, not true headline. That's no shade to Adam. I just saw comedians posting it and I was like, this is the onion or this is like some really old headline that's not current news, that's not really totally accurate. And they're just making jokes. Like, they're just being funny comedians about it. Ha, ha, ha. And then I was like, this is real? Like, you have to be kidding me. Like, first it was the lettuce that gave us diarrhea. And we were like, fine, I can live without a wedge salad. Then it was the guac. And we're like, you know what? Now

• 5:02Ashley Hesseltine?

  it's gone too far. We can't have guac and now we can't have sex. Now we can't have ass to mouth. We can't have any joy in our life. Everything in 2026, which is a shit show, gives you diarrhea? If they say wine gives you diarrhea, right? I'm, we're rioting in the streets. What else is, shopping online gives you diarrhea? Like, what else brings people joy? Like, it's literally, how did we, guac and sex in 2026 give you diarrhea? Stop.

• 5:27Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay. Can I tell you like a dad joke about this that I thought of? And I was like, okay, you know how we say like, I want a guy to like rearrange my guts?

• 5:33Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 5:34Rayna Greenberg?

  But like, not like that, you know?

• 5:36Ashley Hesseltine?

  I've never said that. Guys have said to me, like jokingly, like, I'm going to rearrange those guts, be all up in those guts. I've never been like, babe, I can't wait for you to be in these guts.

• 5:44Rayna Greenberg?

  But I'm just looking, shopping for a medium. That's all I'm looking for.

• 5:47Ashley Hesseltine?

  What's the joke?

• 5:48Rayna Greenberg?

  Like, they rearrange your guts with like poop instead?

• 5:51Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, that was the joke?

• 5:52Rayna Greenberg?

  That was the joke.

• 5:53Ashley Hesseltine?

  That didn't.

• 5:54Rayna Greenberg?

  No, I actually, I actually like try with my jokes, like my real ones. Like, if I was hosting SNL, I would have like written a joke. I wouldn't just be like, women are whores and I'm fat. Get it?

• 6:08Ashley Hesseltine?

  Not funny. We're like, this is funny. This is funny. That was not funny. Okay. Yes. I appreciate your guts dad joke way, way better than the whole monologue, quite honestly. Uh, we don't want to give it too much airtime, but yeah. So be careful out there, I guess. I don't know. It's always like this thing, like you and I keep making light of diarrhea and then someone dies. And then someone's in the comments like, someone died. I'm like, I don't know. We're allowed to make fun of this. So be, stay safe. We're not doctors.

• 6:33Rayna Greenberg?

  Someone's like, my mom died from shigala. And this is really insensitive.

• 6:39Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay. So next up, Rain, I feel like this is your, the headline you're most excited about. You were on top of this before I saw it and you've been itching for a week to talk about this.

• 6:48Rayna Greenberg?

  Well, Alexander Skarsgård, he stars in the movie Wicker, which we are both so excited about. I think this was up, the London Film Festival, and he went in this gold suit and the shoes he hit the carpet with are these YSL see-through dress shoes. And you can fully see all of his toes, which like, why am I looking at your toes? You should never see a man's toes. And on top of that, that's really not my main issue. They look steamy. They, the shoes look steamed up.

• 7:20Ashley Hesseltine?

  Well, of course they are. Like, I can smell them. Sorry. This is, everyone's feet, like stuffed into a shoe that doesn't breathe is gonna sweat and it, they're fogged up. The shoes are fogged up. This is crazy. There's no ventilation holes in these shoes?

• 7:35Rayna Greenberg?

  They should have built a ventilation hole.

• 7:37Ashley Hesseltine?

  They should have. So I have to ask you, would you rather these shoes or the Chanel sandals?

• 7:45Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay. I, as someone who has really ugly toes, to walk in or to look at, for me personally, you mean?

• 7:52Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, on, for you and then also for a man. Actually, the man wouldn't wear the Chanel sandals.

• 7:57Rayna Greenberg?

  I think Alexander Skarsgård, Skarsgård, it's unfair. No one, listen, just get a name people can pronounce. I can't do it. Skarsgård? Sorry. Pam. Um, I, I still would rather those because they're at least like full, fully covering the bottom of your foot. As, as part of the community that has ugly feet and ugly toes, like, I don't want to be in this at all. This is my worst nightmare.

• 8:21Ashley Hesseltine?

  But don't you have a ballet flat that's clear like this? I have seen your toes through your shoes before.

• 8:28Rayna Greenberg?

  I have a, they're not, they're not a frosted clear. They're like, uh, mesh.

• 8:32Ashley Hesseltine?

  Close.

• 8:33Rayna Greenberg?

  They're mesh.

• 8:35Ashley Hesseltine?

  They're in the same family.

• 8:37Rayna Greenberg?

  They're very, they're, people like them.

• 8:40Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, they're fine. I mean, this is also men. It's men's toes. We don't want to see.

• 8:44Rayna Greenberg?

  It's a mesh ballet flap. I told Jay Vida, people like them. What would you rather?

• 8:50Ashley Hesseltine?

  I just think these are smart PR plays.

• 8:54Rayna Greenberg?

  Totally.

• 8:55Ashley Hesseltine?

  The same thing what we said about Margaret Qualley, right? With the Chanel shoes for the, for the, for all the dogs or whatever the movie was called. Dog, the dogs, dogs, dog movie, dog days?

• 9:05Rayna Greenberg?

  I don't remember.

• 9:06Ashley Hesseltine?

  For all the dogs is a drink.

• 9:06Rayna Greenberg?

  All the dogs I loved.

• 9:08Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, all the dogs I loved before.

• 9:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  Dogs, boys, and other things I've cried about. No. So I just think it's smart. It gets people talking and it's like so low stakes, right? Like this isn't like a cancelable and it's just like people are going to talk about him. They're going to talk about the movie now, like, you know, Wicker, people are talking about it because of what he wore on the red carpet. Yeah, I think I never would want to see a man in these because I just feel like I'm watching your feet sweat in real time. I'm watching your feet fog up your shoes in real time and I'll never be able to forget that.

• 9:42Rayna Greenberg?

  I just, I feel like you can smell it like through the screen and a chucky.

• 9:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 9:46Rayna Greenberg?

  But right, I like it as a PR play. I'm with you.

• 9:48Ashley Hesseltine?

  Totally. Okay. So third on our what the fuck report is Susan Dell. So Susan Dell is the wife of Michael Dell. Michael Dell is the founder of Dell Technologies. He's worth $280 billion. Susan Dell is his wife. They've always donated a lot, which you have to when you have that much money. She's a longtime philanthropist. They have definitely done a lot of good in the world. They work with every administration. They are very aligned with Trump. They have supported Republican administrations more than Democrat and they are always all up in the Oval Office. I clocked them months ago when Trump was ranting about FIFA and I'm like, who are these people standing behind him? And Susan Dell just deer in the headlights. I'm like, who are these people?

• 10:32Ashley Hesseltine?

  And so I, they've been on my radar for a minute now. So I just wanted to start with that, you know, that they have donated a lot of money, but it's also just like, it's a bummer that they're so aligned with Trump. Like a rapist, criminal, con man who couldn't be less of an example for the children they're trying to help, but whatever. So they're talking about these Trump accounts. They're putting a bunch of billions of dollars into the Trump accounts. Trump accounts are like, your kid gets a thousand dollars, whatever. It's probably a scam. It's probably some way to like, again, line the pockets of his rich friends, whatever. Like nothing is for actual good or authentic with this president. And she's talking about it and the way she's speaking, like the internet went wild. So I see this clip first thing in the morning and I fire up the group chat because I gotta tell you guys, we are one degree of separation from the Dell family and I'm not going to

• 11:15Ashley Hesseltine?

  say much further than that, but we are invested. This is close to home for us. So I fire up the group chat and, but I was like, this is going to take off because of just how crazy she looks. And I'm not going to talk about her looks. Like she's a 62 year old woman. She's had work done, like everybody has, like, but she's not looking or acting or speaking human. That's what's so crazy. Like people are pulling photos of her from 20 years ago and that doesn't even really make sense. Like you can't compare a woman in her twenties, thirties, sixties. I was watching clips of her from like eight, nine years ago. She does look like this. This is how she looks.

• 11:52Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah.

• 11:53Ashley Hesseltine?

  Her face looks the same, but the way she's speaking, right? The way her head is tilting, her neck, her body, her eyes. I'm like, that's a robot. Like, I'm sorry. I am in this conspiracy camp that this is a Dell robot. Like obviously like they have the technology, they have the money, like they can do this and I really have. She's a robot. It's so crazy. Like what is the only other explanation is like a botched upper bleff and the wrong meds. Like I don't know what else it could be. Like just the way that she is speaking and moving is shocking. It's shocking. This is not about her looks.

• 12:34Rayna Greenberg?

  It does require a wellness check and she just seems like she's on drugs and like you would have to prop me up on that kind of drugs to get me to stand behind Donald Trump on national television.

• 12:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  I mean, that's fair, but it's like the stiffness in the eye. So the eyes are wide. She's these really light blue eyes, which you know, can be a little scary. No shade to the light eye group, but like they're wide open. Like they're not normal eyes. Like they're, it's alien robotic. I mean, it's just so abnormal human behavior. And so I've gone so deep in Tik Tok.

• 13:06Rayna Greenberg?

  That's Trump supporters. I mean, that's, that's what you have to be to be the constituency stone at this point.

• 13:12Ashley Hesseltine?

  I know. I mean, it's just like you, you obviously like completely sell your soul. Like you're rotting from the inside if you're aligned with him, but this feels different. Like this isn't Kristi Noem to me. Like this was, it's just not, she just look human. And so, you know, I hope she's, she's okay, but I, it's going to be a Halloween costume for sure. People are already doing it.

• 13:34Rayna Greenberg?

  Great call.

• 13:35Ashley Hesseltine?

  The videos and the memes, like the thriller, they put her in the thriller video and I saw them, a men in black. These two guys do men in black, saw the video and they went and got all their gear and the Will Smith song is playing. Like I've seen a bunch of funny parodies about it. I think she did make a statement that was like, this is a bummer. Like we're just donating money to help children and this is what people took away from it. I'm not criticizing her looks. I'm criticizing that that's the first Dell robot in the wild.

• 14:00Rayna Greenberg?

  That's not her anymore. Michael Dell also made a statement and he was just like, she's beautiful. Don't talk about her. Take my wife's name.

• 14:07Ashley Hesseltine?

  That's how.

• 14:07Rayna Greenberg?

  Take my wife's name out of your mouth.

• 14:13Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay. I just like, I've never seen that. Like, let me know in the comments what you guys thought. Like just watching her, like the, the way, the tilting of the neck, like it was just wild. Okay. Well, I mean, you're, I feel like you're staying a mom on it. Do you think she's a robot or not?

• 14:29Rayna Greenberg?

  I wouldn't put it past. I mean, maybe she found out too much about the Epstein files. I mean, you know, I think that they are disappearing people.

• 14:36Ashley Hesseltine?

  Where's the real Susan Dell?

• 14:38Rayna Greenberg?

  Yes.

• 14:39Ashley Hesseltine?

  Honestly, justice for the real Susan Dell, wherever she is.

• 14:45Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay.

• 14:47Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay. So next up, this is probably the biggest story today as we're recording this. And I mean, neither of us saw this coming. So Kelly Clarkson is in a beef with a Brooklyn magic store called the.

• 15:01Ashley Hesseltine?

  The Art of Play. It's an adult toy store, not those kinds of toys. It's a little quirkily toy store in Brooklyn. And yes, very popular in the magician community. Magicians are like defending the store.

• 15:11Rayna Greenberg?

  They host magician events all the time. And so the story is basically that Kelly Clarkson goes into this store, not looking, I don't know, at the height of beauty allegedly. And they basically treated her as though she was too poor to be in there. She said she got pretty woman and she sent out a pretty lengthy tweet saying that she was mistreated and treated like she was less than by the store. And now we have gone back and forth. The store has responded. She has responded. The store has responded. So this has kind of taken over the news now.

• 15:42Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yes. Since you've been gone, this is what's been happening. So she posted, I drove all the way to Brooklyn to check this store out and they acted like I couldn't afford it. And I was told I could, they could find something comparable for me. Wow, dude, you're an idiot and just lost a huge sale. But, and then she names the store and says she felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. It's aggressive language. I mean, just in general. And the store clapped back and was like, she wanted to buy this bird named Molly that hangs on the wall. And it's like this fixture of the store. Everybody knows about this bird. And Molly's not for sale. They write this whole thing. A little snark to it. The store seems like there could be pretentious assholes. I don't know. Like the vibe wasn't really

• 16:27Ashley Hesseltine?

  apologetic, but it's also like, well, we'll get to it. So then I was like, what's going to happen now? So she writes back to the response of like, that she wanted to buy this bird that wasn't for sale and nobody was rude to her. And that only thing was she wanted to buy something that wasn't for sale. She was like, cool, cool. Sure. It wasn't for sale. That's the narrative Art of Play is going to go with. She's posting this on her story. So she's just talking about that. Yes, there was a tag on it that said $15,000. She posts that. Apparently it did say that. And then she's like, I do support small businesses, but fuck you guys. Basically, you know, like I'm just paraphrasing. And then she posts like Molly's not for sale yet at $15,000 price tag. I'm still so unclear as if this bird is for sale. So then Art of Play comes back and is like, Molly's not for sale, but

• 17:09Ashley Hesseltine?

  she has a twin. Like basically you can buy this thing from the craftsman for 15K, but we offered her a $2,000 dupe, basically whatever. It has gotten so out of hand and it's like they kind of seem like they're backpedaling, but I am still so fucking unclear as if this bird is for sale.

• 17:26Rayna Greenberg?

  There is a sign on the wall next to the bird that says it's for sale. So who's to say? I have not talked to you about this previously and I'm curious about what your take is and.

• 17:36Ashley Hesseltine?

  I have so much to say.

• 17:37Rayna Greenberg?

  I sort of feel that the internet is a little divided. I'm not seeing like 100% support for either, to be totally honest. I'm not on either side. It's who, how do you pick a side here? I like, I think Kelly Clarkson is great. So I think that historically she has been pretty unproblematic. People were upset recently with some comments she made about AI, but it wasn't so egregious. She uses AI. You know, that's kind of what it was about, you know? I think she's known to be pretty kind and generous. She's not super political, but she's notoriously been on the right side of history, whatever. Like I'm, we stand Kelly. We, we should. It is an interesting choice. Kelly Clarkson is one of the greats. Like she's ultra famous.

• 18:21Rayna Greenberg?

  So I actually looked up how many followers she has, by the way. It's not, I mean, it's eight million on Twitter. It's eight million on Instagram. It's 15 million on Facebook. It's five million on YouTube. I mean, it is a mega following.

• 18:33Ashley Hesseltine?

  It goes without saying, she's mega famous. So for her to drag a small business publicly is a really interesting choice. Like I think a giant corporation, go for it. An airline, drag Delta to filth, no matter how famous you are. And I love Delta. I say that like, it's not going to affect their bottom line. Do whatever you want. Like there's such a disparity here. And like, also if anyone of any level of fame wants to drag any business, small or not, for discrimination, racism, sexism, sure. But the crime here was like mistaken, poor shaming, you know, like what? Just general rudeness. Like, yeah, she got

• 19:16Ashley Hesseltine?

  pretty woman, I guess. So I just felt like that was a real choice. I think you need to take a beat with these things. And like, think of how big of a following you have and think of who you're going after and why before you post. And Raina, I have to ask you, this is my most serious question. I feel like this is my major takeaway from all of this.

• 19:33Rayna Greenberg?

  Would I buy the bird?

• 19:35Ashley Hesseltine?

  Does the Kelly Clarkson just not know what it's like to shop retail in 2026 when she's not recognized? Because people are rude. Has she never been to Zara? Has she ever asked a Gen Z retail employee to get her a different size? Like, I just don't think she knows what it's like to shop, because we have these experiences all the time. Like, this is standard. People are rude. And I have more positive experiences than I don't. And I especially think in LA, people are really nice. Like, more positive than negative. But we have so many negative experiences. Like, people are rude. They're in bad moods. It's the state of the world. They're working with shitty customers. Like, the amount of times you

• 20:19Ashley Hesseltine?

  and I voice note each other back of like, the way we were treated. Remember the Super Bowl subs? Raina, you never posted about, I'll say at Bay Cities. Raina had a terrible experience picking up Super Bowl subs.

• 20:28Rayna Greenberg?

  Also, not because of the store, because of an employee talking about the team going to the Trump White House. And I was like, why is this coming out? And I'm trying to buy some fucking hoagies.

• 20:38Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, you encountered a really out-of-pocket MAGA person when you were trying to get your subs in your fucking car. He was in the parking lot with you, just the two of you. Felt unsafe, whatever. You never posted about it. Like, I had a thing with my vet, and I was like, do I post about this? Like, it's my dog's health. I was pissed for days. And what I did was email this vet, CC the CEO, I found his email online, and shared my experience. And like, I feel like, what's your goal here? Like, Kelly should have gotten that employee's name that was rude to her. And if it really meant something to her, that she felt this sort of way, email the store, here's the experience that I had, and then sign the email, Kelly fucking Clarkson. And they can, you know, have egg on their face for treating

• 21:20Ashley Hesseltine?

  her that way. And they can talk to the employee. Like, what is the goal here? Because I really think it's crazy that she took to social media because someone was rude. Not discriminatory, necessarily. She's a white woman.

• 21:34Rayna Greenberg?

  It blew my mind that somebody that has been in the spotlight for this long would do something like that. And nobody deserves to be treated poorly, unfairly, because of the way you look, or your race, or your age, or your gender, etc. But being right about a rude interaction and handling it proportionately are two very different things.

• 21:53Ashley Hesseltine?

  Proportionally, totally.

• 21:54Rayna Greenberg?

  And I know that, like, yeah, just because you're famous or rich, it does not mean that you deserve to be treated a certain way. But unfortunately, that is the trade-off. And it's not fair that you go on your accounts with tens of millions of followers and slam a store. Like, no one should treat you this way. But like, it doesn't feel fair.

• 22:15Ashley Hesseltine?

  No, the punishment doesn't fit the crime. I hate that she had a bad experience. I hate every time I have a bad experience. Like, part of me is like, yeah, you know, we should hold these people accountable, because you work with customers. And like, you should treat people, you should lead with kindness. But it's just, I don't know, that's life.

• 22:31Rayna Greenberg?

  That's between you and the store, not you and the entire internet.

• 22:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yes.

• 22:35Rayna Greenberg?

  Like, and I think we have seen so many times, time and time again, the internet takes everything and runs with it, and makes it huge and enormous. And what if people start going to that store and threatening the employees? And, or they break something in the store, steal something from the store? Like, it's just, it doesn't feel fair. It doesn't feel like the punishment fits the crime. It's, and I just thought she would know better. I don't understand, like, this rich white woman is posting this whole thing? Like, they were mean to me because I looked ugly that day? Like, seriously?

• 23:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  So, yes. Also, I'm sorry, I saw this take, this is not coming from me. People in Brooklyn look like shit all the time. Like, I don't, something else like happened here. And like, I feel like the truth is somewhere in the middle of both of their narratives. And I am leaning more towards Kelly, by the way. It's owned by three men. I'm sure someone was rude to her. I don't know what went down. This isn't like in defense of them. But the way people are like demanding accountability, it's so crazy. Like, you haven't apologized yet. Like, there, it's just so wild. Like, they are still kind of digging their hole a little deeper. They're not doing a great job in how they're handling this. But it really should not be that serious. Like, the way that people have totally blown this out of proportion. Like, again, I'm not on either side. And neither of these are cancelable offenses. Like, I've still been listening to Kelly Clarkson and love Kelly Clarkson.

• 23:49Ashley Hesseltine?

  And I would also shop at that store. I wouldn't not go in that store, like they have a MAGA hat in the window. But I do think they were probably assholes, too. But it still shouldn't end up on the internet. Like, I just, I don't have, that's really my experience shopping at a lot of stores in New York. That's just how people treat everybody. That's... Thank you. Like, that's my feeling, is that Kelly Clarkson is not going shopping. And so she went out into the wild. Like, all of us go shopping and go to Zara and get abused. And it happened to her. And she just hasn't experienced it before. This is what it's like, Kelly, on these streets. I'm sorry, people are, people are tense. And it's a tough time in the world. And they've dealt with 10 shitty customers before you. And

• 24:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  like, shit happens. And you can message them privately, or you can even write a public review. But this was like, not, you know, I hope this isn't her legacy. It's like Demi Lovato in the frozen yogurt shop. I mean, people just...

• 24:47Rayna Greenberg?

  Oh, my God, thank you for bringing that up. I was like, when is the last time I have ever seen a rich, white lady dare to post something like this? I mean, really, I mean, you can zoom out from, from white lady to any celebrity at that level. I mean, what have I ever heard somebody be like, poor me?

• 25:03Ashley Hesseltine?

  And I want to say, by the way, like, we should be allowed to complain when we spend our money with businesses, especially big corporations, and get mistreated. Like, everything is not, you're a Karen. You know what I mean? Like, I will complain. Like, I will email. Like, do you think you have to think about who you are, in this case, mega celebrity, and who you're going after? Because this isn't like, no one can complain ever. Because I think we've overcorrected there, too. Like, I used to just be on Twitter all the time, Verizon this and that. Like, I would get shit done that way. Because you deal with a lot of shitty customer service. And so it's like, sometimes taking publicly is the only way to get stuff done, when you are sometimes being taken advantage of, or

• 25:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  incorrect billing. Like, crazy stuff happened with airlines. You know, like, it's sometimes the only thing to do. But this didn't fit that type of scenario.

• 25:55Rayna Greenberg?

  Also, let me ask you a question. What did she think, truly, and I'm sorry, Kelly, what did she think the response was gonna be? You want me to feel bad for you? You can afford a $15,000 trinket?

• 26:08Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, but people are like, just carrying torches for her. And like, you know, in defense of her. I mean, I have seen both sides. I do think the internet's divided. And I'm more on threads than you are, too. And like, that's where I'm just seeing that it's really like, down the middle. And I have to ask you, like, if you're worth $50 million, which she is...

• 26:25Rayna Greenberg?

  I would buy that store and put it in my backyard.

• 26:28Ashley Hesseltine?

  If, thank you. If someone treated me like this, I would probably laugh it off. I'd be like, I'm so fucking rich. Like, I think I would walk out of that store. I don't know. Like, didn't something happen with Bethenny Frankel and Chanel? Is this like, this longstanding beef? Like, but it's Chanel. Like, I'm sorry, little mom and pop, small business in Brooklyn, even if it's three asshole men that own it, this just isn't like, a fair fight.

• 26:56Rayna Greenberg?

  I'd start a spite store next door.

• 26:58Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yes, if you learn nothing from Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 10, Kelly, open art of play, too, right next door.

• 27:06Rayna Greenberg?

  I'd open another magician shop right next door, where we sold $15,000 birds.

• 27:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Raina, no, because, you know what? She's had a long, successful career. And like, that's what my next phase of life would be. Because that's my favorite season of Curb, is because of the spite store. And this is what I envision for me, in like, 10 to 20 years. Is someone doing me wrong, the coffee not being hot enough, and I open my own coffee shop next door? Like, exactly that. She better open a spite store, have all the birds you want in there for sale.

• 27:38Rayna Greenberg?

  She's like, I'm gonna tweet about you. Like, I...

• 27:42Ashley Hesseltine?

  Literally, pun intended. Like, it's just crazy. That's funny. I think this is a teachable moment for her. And Kelly, I gotta tell you, like, we are dealing with this shit all the time on these streets. And what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So just remember that.

• 27:56Rayna Greenberg?

  Go to Zara, and then tell me how you feel afterwards, okay, Kelly?

• 28:00Ashley Hesseltine?

  Kelly did Zara in Flatiron, please God. No, like, send Kelly to like, one of the New York City hotspot restaurants without a rez, and see how they treat you. It's always like that, actually. I will say, where did we go in Greenwich Village?

• 28:18Rayna Greenberg?

  Minnetonka Tavern?

• 28:19Ashley Hesseltine?

  Minnetonka Tavern, yeah. And we went in there. And it's like, it's just been hard to get a rez forever. And we walked in there, and they were like, so nice, you know? And like, because I hate that you don't have a rez, or you an idiot for walking through these doors, energy. But you, it does happen. It's happened to me so many times. I remember one night, Marilyn and I tried to go to Laser Wolf, Mother Wolf, Laser Wolf, Laser Wolf's Brooklyn.

• 28:41Rayna Greenberg?

  There's both of them. Laser Wolf is Brooklyn. Different, one's Israeli and one's Italian.

• 28:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, I still lived in New York. It was New Year's Eve, Eve. We're like, no one's gonna be out. The way that, we got laughed out of the restaurant. The girl was like, I mean, you can maybe wait four hours, but you're not gonna eat here tonight. You know, like, I, we, I've been abused by service people. We all have. That's why I'm just like, mad at her. I'm like, you, this is out of touch, you know?

• 29:03Rayna Greenberg?

  It's also, every day of her life is easy. She flies private. I don't have to keep basing on her. But like, I think that you could endure 10 minutes of being told you can't have this $15,000 bird. You don't have to like, drag this store all over the internet.

• 29:15Ashley Hesseltine?

  They could have been ruder than that. And we don't know. And I'm sure that they are assholes. I wanted to really stand on business there.

• 29:20Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah, if you guys have gone shopping in Brooklyn, you know.

• 29:22Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 29:26Ashley Hesseltine?

  They, you know what? They probably saw her comments about AI. They actually probably knew who she was. And they were like, um, Kelly, not woke enough to be in here with these magicians. Your AI is taking their jobs. And they were like, knew exactly who she was. And it was a targeted attack. And that's my new theory. Okay.

• 29:47Rayna Greenberg?

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• 30:31Rayna Greenberg?

  just like any diet you go on, where you say to yourself, I'm gonna do this thing, but like, how can I do this for the rest of my life? So Noom is really invested in doing that. They help you change your mindset with these daily lessons and science-backed habit formation tools. They're designed to help you build sustainable habits and like, small steps. So the app is fantastic. And when you sign up, they're going to help you figure out a diet plan and workout plan and understand how to manage food noise. And that was always my problem. I've struggled with that my whole life, honestly, making really intentional food choices and exercise choices and staying consistent with that. And Ashley and I are on the road a lot. We travel a lot. So it's hard to keep up with like, really sustainable, good eating habits. And I love that, like, their whole company isn't just like, lose

• 31:14Rayna Greenberg?

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• 31:18Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. And I think friends that we've had who are on GLP ones, all cite the way that silencing the food noise changed their life. And I think also just realizing how much food you actually need slash don't need. And, you know, to, you know, stay satiated to also to stay healthy and get the nutrients you need and not to overeat and just to feel better and feel good.

• 31:43Rayna Greenberg?

  Yeah, I think that, you know, when you do this, I, again, the fear is like, how do I do this? How do I do this psychologically forever?

• 31:51Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah.

• 31:51Rayna Greenberg?

  What I have found is that, like, this has helped me to figure out, what do I stock my fridge with? How do I cook for myself? I'm still hungry. This is not a limited, I'm not taking a dosage that has eliminated all my hunger. I want to be hungry. I want to enjoy going out to eat. I want to enjoy having a drink of wine with my meals, if you choose to do stuff like that. So it's just helped me to just kind of figure out, like, what does my day to day life need to look like? And they'll give you daily lessons and food logging to support your weight loss also. So if you're just like, I don't know where I'm at, this is a good way, if you're just curious about GLP ones, to jumpstart that in a way that is hopefully healthier. And the program is designed to maximize your success with GLP ones. And you can hopefully sustain these type of habits, even if you choose to get off of the medication, which I love that that's their whole goal. The Noom

• 32:34Rayna Greenberg?

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• 32:55Ashley Hesseltine?

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• 33:36Ashley Hesseltine?

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• 34:20Ashley Hesseltine?

  Shop up, style for what's next.

• 34:22Rayna Greenberg?

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• 35:05Rayna Greenberg?

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• 35:11Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, I have the Midnight Luxe, rated best mattress for sex, which I can co-sign. And I have the Moonlight Luxe in my guest bedroom. We also are big fans of the Dusk Luxe. I like a medium, a little more on the soft side, but nothing super, super firm. But they have that too. Super soft, super firm, medium, all the things you guys could ever want. Just truly the best.

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• 35:58Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, so we are going to review some shows that we have been watching and preview what's coming. So much, really a lot for fall, and really a lot of spooky stuff.

• 36:10Rayna Greenberg?

  There's so much out right now. I feel like we've been like, blessed. So number one on my list is East of Eden. It is on Netflix. It is a seven part series. It is a masterpiece.

• 36:21Ashley Hesseltine?

  Raina, don't. I just want to watch. I'm just like, I'm out here like, I can't watch it myself. I just like, haven't had the time. And I really want to watch it.

• 36:28Rayna Greenberg?

  So I will tell you that it is a great couple show. I've told all my girlfriends, if you live with a partner, watch it as a couple. Men will like it too. They're people too. Um,

• 36:37Ashley Hesseltine?

  Sort of, sort of. I don't know. Men dress like whores, am I right?

• 36:43Rayna Greenberg?

  Great joke. Um, you should host SNL.

• 36:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  Men dress like rapists, am I right? Why are men acting so rapey at the gym? Am I right?

• 36:51Rayna Greenberg?

  Ashley, don't ruin their lives, you know. Um, okay, so it is starring.

• 36:59Ashley Hesseltine?

  Sorry.

• 36:59Rayna Greenberg?

  We're living in weird times. It is based on the book East of Eden. I think it's from like, 1952. And it stars Florence Pugh. And it is sort of like a Cain and Abel story about good and evil. And are you born that way? Is it nature versus nurture? Florence Pugh, it is one of the greatest performances I have ever seen in my life. I think that she will win an Emmy for it. I don't even think anybody else should apply. It is just a brilliant portrayal of her life. And you just sort of see what makes people who they are. And do they choose to be evil or not? Um, she, it is a phenomenal performance. It's an incredible show. I, you guys have to watch it. Everybody that I like posted about it DMs me and is like, thank you, thank you for recommending it. It was number one on Netflix

• 37:43Rayna Greenberg?

  for about a week and a half. It is be dethroned by Below, which we will cover. I don't really tend to love what I would call old timey stuff. It starts off in the late 1800s and it goes into the early 1900s. But I thought, I see too much dust. I'm just like, am I gonna like this?

• 37:56Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, I wouldn't say I'm a person who gravitates towards period pieces. But like, Bridgerton is one of my favorite shows of all time. I mean, obviously, they did that a little differently. And it's modern day mixed in, you know, like, it's not true to the period. But yeah, I'm super excited about this.

• 38:11Rayna Greenberg?

  And Wuthering Heights, which, love.

• 38:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah. Okay, so we started Carrie last night. We did a little spooky walk around our neighborhood and checked out all the Halloween decorations and then came home and started Carrie. This is an eight part series on Amazon Prime. Obviously, Stephen King's iconic novel. Carrie's been adapted like, seven times. And I just wanted to share a little history. So the original, 1976, Sissy Spacek, Stephen King did praise that. That's like, the original. He was like, they did a great job, whatever. Since then, he has critiqued, or at the least, just dismissed a lot of these Carrie adaptations. So primarily, 2002 TV movie, 2013 theatrical remake. And so now, we have this television series, which I love that it's a series instead of a movie. I love that they're doing this.

• 38:56Ashley Hesseltine?

  And the showrunner is Mike Flanagan, who he is this renowned filmmaker, showrunner, especially in horror. And it's incredible. So Stephen King has said it's brilliant. He loves what Mike Flanagan has done. I mean, Stephen King, it's his book. You know, he's the, like, final say. And we just watched two episodes. I was hearing how wonderful this was. KFC posted it too. He also was like, this is a great show for couples to watch, or whoever. But you know, like, again, you could watch it, whatever. You guys are mostly familiar with the story. Shoshak wasn't totally familiar with the story, which I was surprised. But like, he's very into it too. And I saw this stat, and I wanted to look it up and confirm, that showrunner, Mike Flanagan deliberately assembled an all female roster of directors

• 39:39Ashley Hesseltine?

  outside of himself, to shape Carrie's story, noting that men have told the story for too long, and that the only thing I know less about than being a teenager is being a woman. So we love it. I love that all women are doing this show. It's so good, because it's about a teenage girl's experience. And so I love that all women are working on this.

• 39:58Rayna Greenberg?

  Is this the first time it's been made into a TV show?

• 40:00Ashley Hesseltine?

  Was it always movies? No, I just, 2002 TV movie? Yeah, I think this is the first. I could be wrong, because I didn't, I did a lot of research, but I didn't check that. I think so. I mean, it's a movie. It's like, it started as a movie in the 70s. And I think people have tried to remake it since. But like, an eight episode TV series, I mean, I'm sat for it. And I'm just really loving it. I love that women are working on it. It's great for a spooky season. And throwback actor, Matthew Lillard, plays the principal. And I'm loving him in it. Loving him. Like, yeah.

• 40:32Rayna Greenberg?

  That's crazy.

• 40:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  And I think he was in something else recently that we talked about. He's great. And the cast is great. This one girl, like the mean girl, I'd want to strangle her. She's so good at playing this part. And the actress that plays Carrie is really great as well. And we're just loving it. So I'm excited to finish that. And then we did pretty much watch Below for the most part. We watched most of it. This is again on Netflix. It's horror technically. I wouldn't really say it's that scary. It's a thriller. Josh Hartnett, who I guess is back, you know, now he's just gonna be everywhere. He's, he's just back on the scene. He's back, baby. So he stars in it. Um, it's about this fishing community in Newfoundland. There's this sea creature on the loose. It killed Josh Hartnett's dad when he was a kid. It's

• 41:15Ashley Hesseltine?

  this like giant squid, whatever. And we watched most of it. We DNF'd on this one. We were liking it and then it, I don't know, it kind of took a turn. It's getting a lot of good reviews. It's like 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics really like it. I'm sure you guys really like it. I really don't want to criticize. I think it's a very well done show. It just kind of lost us a little bit. And there are all these similarities to Widows Bay. And I prefer Widows Bay. Again, Widows Bay is comedic and this is not. So there's certainly a difference there. But I'm curious if you guys have watched both, like which you prefer? If you're like team Below or team Widows Bay? Cause there are like sea creature scary, spooky similarities. So I'd be curious what you guys think. Drop a comment if you've

• 41:56Ashley Hesseltine?

  watched both. But yeah, it's fine. I mean, it's, there's just other stuff. Like I, there's just a lot of things we want to watch and a lot of stuff coming out, which we'll get to. And so I don't think we're gonna finish Below. All right. Well, my final rec and then we'll tell you guys what's coming up, um, is Animals on Netflix, the movie starring Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington. He is running for the mayor of Los Angeles and their child gets kidnapped. So it's kind of a thriller about that. I'm only like 35 minutes into it. It's about two hour watch. I'm really liking it. And Ashley and I are big Ben Affleck fans. So. Okay, Raina, but like, I don't know, like, is he still hot? You know, like I? Yes. He is still hot. I know. It's just like, I like, just like to think of him as the town. The town. Or Pearl Harbor or Armageddon. Armageddon Ben Affleck. I'm wet thinking about it.

• 42:41Ashley Hesseltine?

  I mean, he's like Paul Rudd to me. He doesn't age. And honestly, he looked 50, 30 years ago. So I just, he hasn't gotten older. I just, I just don't like to see him looking all disheveled, you know, like just picture him with his spilling his Dunkin' on the street and he's just like looking pissed off. But I love Ben Affleck and obviously Kerry Washington. And I live in LA, you know, we just had this controversial mayoral race anyway. So I'm excited to watch that. We, we, I wish we would have put that on. We put on Below the other night. So that is on our list too. But there is so much coming out. We have Love is Blind, Boston dropping. So we are, can't wait for that. And then what else? You can see Everything, which is the Elizabeth Holmes movie. It is a documentary, but it's eight 24. So it is in theaters. I'm gonna try to see it in London this weekend

• 43:26Ashley Hesseltine?

  so that we can talk about it on a snack next week. And you know, nobody's more obsessed with Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder. So that's out in theaters. The Golden Life is premiering on E next week, which I'm really excited about. It is the former cast of Real Housewives of New York. Oh. Ramona, Luanne, Sonia, um, Kelly, Ben Simone, and there's one more. Oh, Dorinda. Oh my God, Dorinda. I'm so sorry. Sorry, Dorinda. I'm so sorry. She tried to make it nice. Uh, so they are back on our screens. And I mean, I just miss these women together on screen. So I, I, I am liking the current season of Real Housewives of New York. It's, it pulled me back in. As you know, Martha Stewart is in every episode. Raina, I just, I saw this clip on TikTok and I didn't know what I was watching. And

• 44:11Ashley Hesseltine?

  Martha Stewart's like clicking at this kid, like, like it's a horse or she's clicking at this kid. And she's like, does it want some water? And I was like, what am I watching? If this is Real Housewives, I'm locked in.

• 44:22Speaker 02

  Hello. Do you want something? Do you want some ice water? Here, give her some ice water. This is, this is untouched. Give her this. She looks thirsty.

• 44:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  To click at a kid or just, and then be like, do they want some water? Like, I'm so dead. And she has kids. She's a kid. So the woman on the show, her name is Daisy. She's Martha Stewart's makeup artist. And Martha Stewart posted a photo the other day of Daisy with another woman. And the caption was two women that I've known for a long time, bloody, bloody. But the other woman in the photo was Martha Stewart's daughter. Women I've known for a long time. That's how she captioned it. That's so funny. That's giving Donald Trump when he's like, what? He didn't go to his son's wedding? And he was like, he's, I've known him for a long time. I've known him for a long time. So and then the last thing I just threw on here, it's just, it's a headline that excited me, won't be for a long time. Crazy Rich Asians, they're making a TV show, um, in 2027 on HBO, which I'm very excited about. If ever in doubt, TV over a movie. Just always. Give us more.

• 45:19Ashley Hesseltine?

  Always a series. Yeah. And it's a lot of the original cast. So, um, that is one of my favorite plane movies. So I'm very excited for that to come out. Okay. Well, let's just talk about our remaining partners and then we will hit you guys with your headlines. We have some really fun ones today. So I am telling you guys about Redken Acidic Grow Full System. I have the bottles here. I am loving this. I have talked about the smell of the shampoo. Obviously, it's a product that really works great for strengthening your hair. But I mean, just get it for the smell, if nothing else. But we are just loving it. So you have your density and strength system shampoo for thinner, flat hair, the conditioner right here. And then the full system includes

• 46:00Ashley Hesseltine?

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• 46:45Ashley Hesseltine?

  Full System. And you can visit Ulta Beauty to shop Redken Acidic Grow Full System online and start building your healthiest looking hair routine. Okay, guys. And it is cozy season, which for me and Ashley means Lola Blankets season. I mean, we love these blankets. Chili last night and we put the fire, with the fireplace on, Raina, and watching Carrie. And it's been so hot here. And to be able to, we had the blanket just in the closet because we haven't needed it for weeks. And so we brought it out. Oh my God, like orgasmic. You guys, this, the quality of these blankets, they, it is the world's number one blanket. It's, it says Lola is the world's number one blanket. Okay. Well, we'll go for it. It's crafted with ultra soft luxury faux fur and a signature four weight stretch. So I think you get these really soft, fuzzy blankets sometimes, and they are a mess. And

• 47:29Ashley Hesseltine?

  this does not shed. There are so many different colors, but it doesn't shed. It doesn't pill. There's no like delicate care warning. It is an incredible. Machine washable. Oh my God, I didn't even know. What? You're a big fan. I'm doing this one next time. Yes, machine washable. That's the best part. Don't ever get me a blanket. I have to take the dry cleaner. I dare you. That's crazy. Um, and they have a new fall collection, the Westward collection. So you can cozy up with the most, um, comfortable palette yet. So they have autumn colors and a western inspired prints. It just looks so nice on your couch as well, or on your bed. I have one on my couch and my bed. We have a girlfriend that has like six of them in, in her closet at all times. So she can gift them to other people. She's, she's like, I just bought seven more.

• 48:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Say her name. Shout out to Megan. Megan.

• 48:17Ashley Hesseltine?

  This is her legacy. Megan's also always like, I just bought six more. Um, they have different sizes, by the way. So if you want large or extra large, they've weighted blankets. They have matching pillows. So get on there, outfit your entire place for fall and winter. For a limited time, our listeners get 40% off select Lola blanket products with code GIRLSGOTTIE at checkout. Just head to LolaBlankets.com and use code GIRLSGOTTIE. After you purchase, they'll ask you where you heard about them. Please support our show and let them know we sent you. Wrap yourself in luxury with Lola blankets. Okay, headlines. Two of these headlines are more Ashley's friend and two are more Raina's friend, like that we're really such to talk about. So I'm just gonna kick it off with a quick one. So Ukraine is bombing data centers and they are taking out Russian bot farms. So if you care about this at all, you know that Russian bots are a problem.

• 48:59Ashley Hesseltine?

  But bots in general are a problem. They can swing elections. I mean, there's fake accounts, spewing a bunch of disinformation and nonsense. And so Ukraine is, they bombed this like center for this big search engine and they took out all these bots. And so President Zelensky is like, and we don't plan to stop. And you're welcome, America. And it's just funny that people are seeing even on like threads and Twitter, like checking for bots, like posting stuff that bots might gravitate towards. Like, it's very funny. It's been this trending thing of like, can you feel the effects of it? And I don't want to misspeak about this, especially it's like political and, uh, I don't want to get it wrong. But I mean, people are saying that you can tell. Like people are reporting, like you can tell

• 49:39Ashley Hesseltine?

  that there's a lot less bots on these platforms. And so anyway, obviously Zelensky is the hero we need. And, uh, we love that. Just the less bots, the better, especially less Russian bots that interfere with US elections. So that's that. Okay. This headline I'm so excited about. So Tobey Maguire officiated his ex Jennifer Meyer's wedding to billionaire heir weeks after finalizing their divorce. And I know. Yes. So I just was gonna let Raina educate me on this. I didn't, I saw the headline. You, they're recently divorced? I just figured they'd been separate, like apart for years for him to do this. So I will say, my parents have, were separated and did not finalize their divorce until my mom got remarried. And that was like seven years later. I remember I went

• 50:24Ashley Hesseltine?

  with my dad. He was like, oh, your mom's getting remarried. We gotta finalize this divorce. Like, uh, my parents had a separation agreement. They had a custody agreement and they didn't actually like finalize until my mom married Chip. Okay. So they've been separated a while. I mean, it's like, the only way you could do this is if you'd been separated a while and you have a friendship, clearly. Also, I didn't know who she was. And now I'm realizing too. I'm obsessed with this jewelry. So Jennifer Meyer jewelry, there was a necklace last season of Nobody Wants This, a name necklace. Remember he gets her the name necklace? Mm-hmm. And she's like, what is it? She, she doesn't like it? She says, I can't remember. There was a whole thing with the necklace. Anyway, it's Jennifer Meyer. Okay. So they were married from 2007 till 2016. So they have been split for 10

• 51:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  years. Okay. And I just think it is so, I'm fascinated by it. And I'm fascinated by like, would you guys want your ex to marry you guys? And would you marry your ex? Would you headline your ex's wedding? If he allowed it, yes. I can't decide if you and I would do it. Like, would we give them a gift like that? Or would that be the funniest thing you could ever do? I mean, I feel like this is what happened with mine. You know, you were my life partner before. So technically, my marriage to Sean, he became my ex. I had to give you away. But, um, the person that I had been in love with for years previously was also at the wedding. So I had to stand up there and marry you in front of him, which was delightful.

• 51:50Ashley Hesseltine?

  And they crushed. But yeah, I mean, this, if this works, it feels really special. Like they know you on a level. I mean, I don't. I don't think a lot of

• 52:02Rayna Greenberg?

  layers to it. I don't know.

• 52:03Ashley Hesseltine?

  I don't think a lot of men would love it. Men and women. I don't know that you'd want the person that marries you that you fucked them.

• 52:09Rayna Greenberg?

  But this guy's a billionaire. So to me, it's like if I was marrying my ex and he was marrying a supermodel. And so she's like, I don't care that you're marrying us. Have you seen me? So this guy's like, I don't care that you're marrying us. Have you like seen my bank account? You know, like I'm wondering.

• 52:25Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, I thought you just meant because like billionaires have no feelings.

• 52:27Rayna Greenberg?

  No, but also that.

• 52:28Ashley Hesseltine?

  They don't care. They're sociopaths. There's no empathy. They don't care.

• 52:32Rayna Greenberg?

  Jeff Bezos was at this wedding with Lauren Sanchez.

• 52:34Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay. Oh, my God.

• 52:36Rayna Greenberg?

  Let us know in the comments. Would you guys marry your ex? And would you let your ex marry you?

• 52:41Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yes and no. Yes to the first.

• 52:44Rayna Greenberg?

  Actually.

• 52:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  No to the second.

• 52:45Rayna Greenberg?

  You're one of your exes is getting married and I would give nothing more than to tag team headline this wedding.

• 52:56Ashley Hesseltine?

  I just did. I have so many questions. Did Jennifer approve what he was gonna say? Like, it's just, this could go left. It's not going to. Tobey Maguire seems like a great guy. And he's not a comedian, because you couldn't let a comedian do this.

• 53:10Rayna Greenberg?

  Ashley.

• 53:12Ashley Hesseltine?

  That you couldn't, because they wouldn't be able to help themselves. They would be saying the most out of pocket stuff.

• 53:18Rayna Greenberg?

  The stuff that you and I would write would be unimaginable. Every sentence would start with when, when him and I were together. Every single sentence.

• 53:26Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, my God. Yeah, no, it would have to be something like, yeah, so I guess you paid for this wedding because we know he didn't. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Like, I would not be able to stop.

• 53:38Rayna Greenberg?

  Does he ask you if you came every time, even though there's no evidence to support that you did come? It's crazy.

• 53:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  Okay, well, I love that. Good for them. You know, it's just, you know, untraditional relationships these days. You love to see it. Okay, so Instagram apologized for too much Creed. So I will say, Shoshak noticed this. Every time he was posting a story, he was getting suggested hire by Creed to post with his story. And he noticed it. And I was like, you're crazy. Whatever there's, because they, they, it's a little scary. They see what's in your story and they suggest you songs based on it. Like, if it's the dogs, or if I'm with my nephews, or like, you know, with the girls, like, they'll say songs. And sometimes they are pretty good. They have great suggestions. They are right. They know what you posted. They did a quick scan of it and they suggest you the songs, or they recommend you the songs.

• 54:27Ashley Hesseltine?

  So this was recently, and hire by Creed was linked to all kinds of moments when it didn't really make sense. And people started to post about it. Like, I can't prove it, but pretty sure Creed is paying Meta to suggest their song higher. Instagram really wanted me to add hire by Creed to the picture of a Caesar salad I posted. They almost had me this time. And then someone was like, that song is always recommended to me, too. And it says in this article, Instagram is supposed to recommend music by the same sort of methods it uses to recommend other content, like via the algorithm. And so Instagram looked into it and they admitted this was a mistake. It's, we looked into this and found that this song is being recommended to more people than intended.

• 55:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  We're continuing to investigate. I can't believe this is something that the biggest company and one of the biggest tech companies in the world actually has to issue a public apology. This is so funny to me. Creed's laughing all the way to the bank.

• 55:18Rayna Greenberg?

  You never think it's gonna be Creed.

• 55:20Ashley Hesseltine?

  This is funny. It says, people have also flagged Soulja Boys Turn My Swag On as showing up more often than seems plausible.

• 55:27Rayna Greenberg?

  More delightful. Okay, do you get suggested Paint the Town Red? That's, I mean, always. Number one, constantly. Do you know what yours is?

• 55:38Ashley Hesseltine?

  It's just so, it's always like something about dogs, because it's like always dogs.

• 55:43Rayna Greenberg?

  90% of my shit is just food. I don't know why it's always Paint the Town Red.

• 55:47Ashley Hesseltine?

  Because you're trying to pay the town red. Okay, let's see.

• 55:51Rayna Greenberg?

  You know me, always trying to paint, paint the TR.

• 55:54Ashley Hesseltine?

  Lil Homies by Tupac is probably my number one. And because I'm like with dogs or my nephews recently, Lil Homies comes up all the time. Hillary Duff, Come Clean. It's like they get me. You know what I mean?

• 56:07Rayna Greenberg?

  Different than mine.

• 56:08Ashley Hesseltine?

  That's my conspiracy theory, is Lil Homies for me, all the time. And then like Best Friend. Okay, well, lastly, we have a Taylor and Travis headline.

• 56:17Rayna Greenberg?

  This one makes me laugh so hard. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's Ohio neighbors blast absentee couple as a tremendous blow to the community. So the couple during a village planning meeting last month were not there. The village is upset about their presence in the village to the community's peace and quiet, according to transcripts from the Daily Mail. However, it's not what you like really think, because it's, I, I thought it was gonna be like, this is too much celebrity for this little town. But it's because of the fencing they want to erect for security purposes and the trees they want to plant around their mansion. So they're saying that animals might impale themselves on the fencing.

• 56:56Rayna Greenberg?

  And that all the trees are bad, like the roots are gonna go into the systems. It will cause catastrophic sewer backups. People are upset.

• 57:05Ashley Hesseltine?

  Oh, my gosh. So I think that the headlines were kind of clickbait, because the headline said, the neighbors are blasting absentee couple, which makes it sound like the neighbors are just pissed they're not home enough.

• 57:16Rayna Greenberg?

  I thought they were mad they skipped the community planning meeting. Like, Taylor Swift's gonna go to that.

• 57:21Ashley Hesseltine?

  Like, they're, I'm so, okay. People just were like, why are you mad they're not around? What, what nuisance could they be causing if they're not there? But they're not attending the right meetings, the HOAs. Yeah. Imagine Taylor Swift at your HOA meeting. And you, it's like, I think they have to go if they want to put that fence up. You have to show up.

• 57:40Rayna Greenberg?

  You could send a proxy. I'm pretty sure that like legally.

• 57:44Ashley Hesseltine?

  Well, then they're not gonna approve it. They're like, we'll give you the fence if Taylor comes to the meeting.

• 57:48Rayna Greenberg?

  Okay, Taylor Swift, just like Kelly Clarkson. Taylor Swift's just gonna buy that whole town. Okay, you can't really tell her what to do. No, she's a nice person. She would never.

• 57:56Ashley Hesseltine?

  Can't tell her nothing. Okay, well, yeah, I mean, it's just like, I get it, but where are they supposed to live? I don't know.

• 58:03Rayna Greenberg?

  They also have properties in Rhode Island, Tennessee, California, New York, and there was one more. I forget what it was, Kentucky. So they do have, they properties literally, where Ashley's like, where are they gonna live everywhere?

• 58:14Ashley Hesseltine?

  Yeah, literally everywhere. Just, just like us. Stars are just like us. They have a house in every state. Okay, well, that's your snack, you guys. girlsgottaeat.com. And we do have a show. This is gonna be on November 8th for the New York Comedy Festival. It's gonna be so much fun. Just come out. It's gonna be Raina and me and some Girls Got to Eat friends, people you know and love, doing comedy and just having a really fun night out at the Stand West. So you can get those tickets. They are on our website. They're linked in our Instagram bio. And you can also get them on the New York Comedy Fest's website. So grab them while you still can. Girls Got to Eat Podcast on Instagram and TikTok. I'm Ash Hess on Instagram and TikTok. Raina is Rayna Greenberg, RainaGreenberg.com. She will see you this weekend in London. And you can watch full video on Spotify and YouTube.

• 58:55Ashley Hesseltine?

  Share this episode with a friend, leave a comment, a review, and we will see you guys Monday.

• 59:00Rayna Greenberg?

  Have a good weekend, guys.

• 59:02Ashley Hesseltine?

  Bye.