Rebel News Podcast - Miss Understood No. 26 — Keep Swinging Your Hips, Elvis

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for all you culturally and politically misunderstood

00:00:22.360 lady or gen. We're your hosts. I'm Kat. And I'm Nat. And today we're going to be talking about

00:00:27.940 someone I've been dying to talk about since MU's conception, climate criminal Taylor Swift.

00:00:33.840 We also analyze Demi Lovato's confusing de-transition from they-them to she-her-they-them

00:00:39.260 and discuss if it's okay that Ana de Armas doesn't drop her Cuban accent to play Marilyn Monroe in an 0.64

00:00:44.920 upcoming film. But first, our patented culture shock moment of the week. Take it away, Kat.

00:00:50.880 Oh my gosh. How do we even address this?

00:00:54.040 This is the biggest news since episode one of Misunderstood.

00:00:58.080 This is huge, you guys. Life-changing.

00:01:00.420 I don't even know how- I didn't get any sleep last night.

00:01:02.760 No.

00:01:03.100 I'm a wreck.

00:01:03.840 She's a wreck. Look at her. She looks like a nine instead of a ten. 1.00

00:01:08.160 Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have split up.

00:01:12.720 After how long?

00:01:14.380 Nine months.

00:01:15.580 Enough to bake a baby in your oven.

00:01:18.940 Almost.

00:01:19.680 Oh my gosh.

00:01:20.280 So, insiders share that the pair has a lot of love and respect for each other,

00:01:25.700 but they found that the long-distance dynamic and their demanding schedules just made it

00:01:31.280 really difficult to maintain a relationship.

00:01:33.700 Question. Didn't Daily Mail put in an article that she said that it was because he was too immature?

00:01:39.080 Ooh.

00:01:40.160 She's trying to get ahead of it, you guys.

00:01:41.940 So, he's what, like 28?

00:01:43.420 Yeah.

00:01:43.780 And she's like 40,000 or something.

00:01:45.420 Yeah.

00:01:46.020 She's 40,000. 0.99

00:01:46.920 So, she could be his mom.

00:01:48.520 Yep.

00:01:49.420 And maybe, you know, as a 41-year-old with multiple children, you don't date people who

00:01:55.740 could also be your kid.

00:01:57.180 Mm.

00:01:57.880 Maybe.

00:01:58.520 Mm-hmm.

00:01:59.340 Also, he just always seems like someone who's trying to get ahead in his career.

00:02:03.340 Yeah.

00:02:03.360 And he uses women to advance it. 0.94

00:02:05.580 Well, not like she doesn't use people to advance her career. 0.98

00:02:07.460 No, that's true.

00:02:08.220 It was obviously, like, I mean, it was a thing.

00:02:13.020 Like, celebrities do that.

00:02:14.140 I don't know because I've never been asked to be involved in one of these, like, celebrity

00:02:18.860 cult, like, hookups.

00:02:20.340 But I think it's, like, manager A calls manager B and they're like, oh, she's single now.

00:02:24.460 Like, she'd like a new relationship with someone young and on the fringe.

00:02:28.160 And they're like, oh, Pete's single as well.

00:02:30.280 Right.

00:02:30.420 Like, he's looking for someone in the upper echelon of the porno industry.

00:02:34.180 Sounds like I'm in the room hearing this conversation live.

00:02:37.060 I am available if anyone's – I'm not.

00:02:39.380 She is not available.

00:02:40.760 Not available.

00:02:41.340 But I am.

00:02:41.700 But wouldn't be open to certain celebrities.

00:02:43.840 Yeah.

00:02:44.140 No.

00:02:44.840 I'm not available either.

00:02:45.900 However, I do think she may have also picked someone or her team picked someone that they

00:02:50.740 knew would piss off Kanye the most because his reaction to it has been kind of interesting.

00:02:54.880 I think he posted something on Instagram, like, rest in peace.

00:02:57.720 Yeah, he said, Skeet Davidson officially dead at 28.

00:03:02.140 That's so bad.

00:03:03.880 He just –

00:03:04.740 You need to act your age, too, there, buddy.

00:03:06.040 Kanye.

00:03:07.060 I am convinced, though, the real reason is that she does not want to be considered a

00:03:10.820 climate criminal like her sister Kylie because flying her private jet all the way to Australia 0.99

00:03:16.240 and back to L.A., hella far.

00:03:18.180 She could take Coach for love.

00:03:20.560 Would you take Coach for love?

00:03:23.100 No.

00:03:23.840 No.

00:03:24.800 I've only ever taken Coach, but I wouldn't do it for love.

00:03:28.280 I have done it for love.

00:03:29.400 Wouldn't do it again, though.

00:03:30.300 Wouldn't do it again.

00:03:31.160 The food is atrocious.

00:03:33.140 Yes.

00:03:33.380 That's some tinfoil hat theory.

00:03:36.720 Honestly, I wouldn't put it past her to be like, it's no longer convenient for my career

00:03:41.420 to date you.

00:03:42.720 Because she's so busy doing stuff.

00:03:46.600 Her makeup the night before and sleeping in it, apparently.

00:03:49.600 It's a thing.

00:03:50.340 She's a busy guy, you guys.

00:03:51.460 She's a busy guy.

00:03:52.180 And speaking of guys, Demi Lovato is no longer identifying as one.

00:03:59.140 No, that's not true.

00:04:00.040 Wait, I thought we were doing Taylor first.

00:04:01.700 No, you're right.

00:04:02.660 My things are just messed up.

00:04:03.940 That's cool.

00:04:04.480 We can do Taylor.

00:04:05.300 Nope, nope.

00:04:05.820 I got it.

00:04:06.400 Okay, so Demi Lovato.

00:04:08.540 Demi Lovato.

00:04:09.600 So she will now include she, her pronouns with they, them because I know what that means.

00:04:14.120 Do you know what that means?

00:04:15.380 Oh, yeah.

00:04:15.760 She has an album coming out in August.

00:04:18.160 No, seriously.

00:04:18.840 I know she does.

00:04:19.520 But how can you be she, her, they, them?

00:04:23.020 You're non-binary. 0.98

00:04:24.000 Can you tell our viewers?

00:04:24.920 Oh, yes.

00:04:25.780 This is my area of expertise.

00:04:27.440 And I advise you to tread carefully.

00:04:30.680 I will.

00:04:31.540 I don't want to be come across as a bigot. 0.74

00:04:33.560 Yeah, so if you called Demi Lovato she a month ago, you were a hateful bigot.

00:04:40.040 But now it's okay.

00:04:41.620 Because she says it's okay.

00:04:42.980 Probably because she's sick of people just calling her she and she's like, I can't.

00:04:48.620 Okay.

00:04:48.800 Also, she grew her hair out.

00:04:50.760 So that's what being a woman is. 0.99

00:04:52.620 Yes.

00:04:52.700 It's long hair.

00:04:53.340 Yes, because she had a really short haircut last year and then she was they, them.

00:04:58.020 And now she said, and it's her quote is, I've actually adopted the pronouns she, her again

00:05:03.040 with me.

00:05:03.480 And then she also said, I've been feeling a little bit more feminine lately.

00:05:06.040 And it's like, okay, so you have longer hair.

00:05:11.520 And now everyone, again, needs to change how they refer to you.

00:05:14.720 Almost like your hair is supposed to be what defines you as a human being.

00:05:20.180 Yeah.

00:05:20.800 Well, my favorite part about this, and we've talked about this offline, is how like we should,

00:05:25.540 like people are growing and it's okay that they change.

00:05:28.140 And it's like, okay, it's okay that you change Demi because you didn't like splice and dice 0.92

00:05:32.420 your genitals as David Menzies would say. 0.97

00:05:34.580 Quote David Menzies. 0.99

00:05:35.400 But some people take it a step too far and they can never fully go back.

00:05:40.420 So the narrative that you're perpetuating with pronouns is so dangerous, whether it affects

00:05:44.980 you personally or not.

00:05:46.160 And I actually think all these people who have followers should be held accountable for that.

00:05:50.460 Like, because you have millions and millions of followers and you going they, them, that's

00:05:55.380 confusing your younger listeners. 0.98

00:05:57.800 And I'm sorry, but you deserve hell for that. 0.99

00:06:00.820 Yeah. 0.76

00:06:01.100 Like, what if you were a teenage girl and you were a huge fan of Demi Lovato and then she

00:06:07.060 becomes a they, them. 0.85

00:06:08.380 And then you're like, mom, dad, I want to be a they, them.

00:06:11.140 And say you're like so adamant about it that you like cut ties with your family who are not

00:06:15.500 on board.

00:06:16.080 You sue your family.

00:06:17.400 You start taking drugs.

00:06:18.860 You have a surgery.

00:06:21.540 Just to find out.

00:06:22.640 Because when I was a teenager, I was very influenced by celebrities, which is embarrassing.

00:06:26.140 Like, super.

00:06:26.400 No, but we're young and impressionable.

00:06:28.060 Exactly.

00:06:28.660 And we're trying to.

00:06:29.080 And girls are particularly impressionable. 0.78

00:06:31.660 Exactly.

00:06:32.100 And you're trying to find something you identify with so that you feel less uncomfortable as

00:06:36.560 you're, you know, developing as a woman.

00:06:38.540 So say she sees that Demi Lovato is now including, her words are adopting the pronouns she, her again

00:06:46.120 as if she's like adopting a troubled teenager's child.

00:06:49.040 Like, oh, so brave.

00:06:49.960 But imagine you, she, they see that and then they're like, oh, I don't want to be a they, 1.00

00:06:53.940 them anymore.

00:06:54.480 But it's too late.

00:06:55.560 Yeah.

00:06:55.820 You've already, I mean, your family should forgive you.

00:06:58.060 But it's like, if you've done something to your body that's irreversible, like Abby

00:07:01.900 Gail Schreier's book, Irreversible Damage, like you might not be able to come back from

00:07:05.640 it.

00:07:05.900 Yeah.

00:07:06.240 And it's sad.

00:07:06.900 And you're right.

00:07:07.460 Demi Lovato should be held accountable.

00:07:08.680 But how do you even, yeah, you can't hold these people accountable.

00:07:12.040 And they're just so, you know, they're so immature.

00:07:16.040 Like these people are so immature and they don't realize how much power they have.

00:07:19.600 And like, that's why.

00:07:21.140 And fickle.

00:07:21.620 And that's why it's important to talk about them because we need to, we need to expose

00:07:26.160 this side of them.

00:07:27.360 And I think people aren't critical enough of like, because you might think as like a

00:07:32.100 mom, like, oh, I don't, I'm, I'm discerning.

00:07:34.940 I won't be influenced by this.

00:07:35.980 But your daughter or your niece or your student, they are going to be, they will be if you 0.99

00:07:41.080 don't nip it in the butt. 0.99

00:07:43.320 Yeah. 0.98

00:07:43.820 And it's just so funny that it, it was a year ago.

00:07:47.040 Yeah.

00:07:47.380 It's only been a year.

00:07:48.360 Yeah.

00:07:48.640 Like how quickly she changed her mind.

00:07:50.280 Yes, exactly.

00:07:50.960 And also like people, if, if you were a critic of ours or you were like a huge Demi fan,

00:07:56.800 you would be like, well, she's, I've seen it on Twitter.

00:07:59.240 They're like, well, she's allowed to learn about herself and like explore.

00:08:02.640 It's like, sure.

00:08:03.600 But really, if she was actually doing it in an authentic way, that would be going on

00:08:06.840 in her own heart, in the privacy of her heart.

00:08:09.500 Not because she has an album coming out next month.

00:08:11.480 And it'd be like, I'm going by they, them.

00:08:14.060 Now I'm going by she, them, they, her, them.

00:08:16.640 It's like, exactly.

00:08:17.680 You could just be doing that in your close circle.

00:08:19.900 Yeah.

00:08:20.320 In your family, in your tight, like you don't have to announce it to the world so that

00:08:23.700 teenagers start chopping their boobies off. 0.59

00:08:25.460 Well, and to your point, she apparently changed her pronouns on Instagram in April.

00:08:30.140 And now she's coming out about it.

00:08:31.900 And as you said, her album's coming out in August or something, end of August or something.

00:08:35.580 So it's like, how convenient, Demi.

00:08:37.920 And another thing she said was last year, she didn't necessarily feel like a woman or

00:08:43.940 a man when she was faced with the choice, like walking into a bathroom or something.

00:08:48.860 And she wanted to go with they, them to like balance her masculine energy. 1.00

00:08:52.600 But it's like, okay, do you have a vagina? 1.00

00:08:54.920 Like, which bathroom are you going to use? 1.00

00:08:56.320 Do you have a toilet where the other vaginas are, Demi? 1.00

00:08:58.120 Are you going to like pop a squat in a urinal? 1.00

00:09:00.760 I don't think so, buddy.

00:09:01.640 Like, how's that going to work, pal?

00:09:03.160 And also, like, if you want to like bro around and throw a football, like, be my guest.

00:09:08.320 Like, again, I've always had masculine, like, hobbies and interests.

00:09:13.660 Yeah, me too.

00:09:14.060 Yeah.

00:09:14.280 Yeah.

00:09:15.020 And look at me.

00:09:15.960 Like, you're allowed to push boundaries and do whatever you want.

00:09:19.120 Like, and if I chose to cut my hair tomorrow, I'm still me.

00:09:23.140 You're still a woman.

00:09:24.080 It doesn't mean I need to identify differently.

00:09:26.080 Yeah.

00:09:26.840 No, it's so true.

00:09:27.860 Like, your interests can be fluid.

00:09:30.640 They can be fluid.

00:09:31.320 Like, no one's a monologue.

00:09:32.240 We're putting people in a box.

00:09:33.020 Exactly.

00:09:33.620 It's like, oh, I have short hair, so now I'm a boy.

00:09:34.900 It's like, what?

00:09:35.700 Yeah.

00:09:36.240 Like, what?

00:09:37.100 It's just, it's gross. 0.92

00:09:38.600 Girls can be whatever they want to be. 1.00

00:09:41.080 Yeah.

00:09:41.760 They can be.

00:09:42.400 And, like, it's funny, though, that she's admitting that gender expression is that ongoing conversation

00:09:48.080 and it's an evolving experience.

00:09:49.800 It's like, like, Teen Vogue wrote about this and it's like, okay, so you agree that you

00:09:53.260 can evolve and change your mind after only a year, but a kid should go and just go all

00:09:57.740 in without their parents knowing sometimes.

00:09:59.880 A child.

00:10:00.440 Yeah, exactly.

00:10:00.880 A child.

00:10:01.440 So it's like, Teen Vogue's evil. 1.00

00:10:03.240 Demi Lovato's an idiot. 1.00

00:10:04.620 Yeah. 1.00

00:10:05.240 These are facts.

00:10:06.460 And, you know, maybe it's partially because she grew up in Hollywood.

00:10:09.960 She's obviously had a very trying time.

00:10:13.320 Yeah, she's had a troubled life.

00:10:14.720 And I do, like, sympathize with her.

00:10:16.980 Like, anyone who was a teenage superstar, like, she was on Joe Rogan talking about it

00:10:21.500 about a year ago or more, just before she came out as they them.

00:10:24.660 And she said, like, she was addicted to drugs.

00:10:26.840 She had an eating disorder.

00:10:27.860 She was assaulted sexually, too. 0.82

00:10:29.480 Oh, that's horrible.

00:10:30.760 Like, I think they all have.

00:10:32.040 Yeah.

00:10:32.340 They have been in Disney.

00:10:33.360 I don't know.

00:10:33.720 Maybe not.

00:10:34.420 It's awful.

00:10:34.680 It's awful.

00:10:35.180 And she, and this is a, I, and I'm not saying that everyone who has, you know, issues with 0.98

00:10:42.280 their gender is mentally ill. 0.96

00:10:43.980 That's not what I'm saying. 1.00

00:10:44.660 But she clearly has mental illness issues. 1.00

00:10:47.360 She's struggling. 0.99

00:10:48.020 She's struggling.

00:10:48.860 And to, to idolize someone for being like, oh, today she's a boy.

00:10:52.260 Today she's a girl.

00:10:52.840 She's non-binary.

00:10:53.520 It's like, she's struggling.

00:10:54.660 She's literally struggling.

00:10:55.580 And she needs, like, support and love.

00:10:56.900 And, like, maybe we should be more loving.

00:10:59.320 But also, it's like, you're influencing children who are getting their parts removed.

00:11:03.420 So, it's like, you need to take responsibility for that.

00:11:05.560 And if you want to have these, like, trials within your own mind, like, do it privately

00:11:09.580 until you know who you are.

00:11:11.540 Like, instead of doing it in front of everybody and, like, encouraging young children to...

00:11:16.600 Slice and dice.

00:11:18.520 Slice and dice.

00:11:19.620 Slice and dice.

00:11:20.540 Yeah.

00:11:20.820 And, I mean, I am very glad, actually, that she's reverting back to she, her pronouns.

00:11:27.100 I do think that's a win.

00:11:28.240 Well, she's a she. 1.00

00:11:29.120 Yeah.

00:11:30.400 That's excellent.

00:11:31.240 Only in 2022 can a woman be going by she, her, be news. 0.58

00:11:36.720 Yeah.

00:11:37.000 That's news, apparently.

00:11:37.560 But it is a good thing.

00:11:38.700 Yeah.

00:11:39.060 It's a good thing, yeah.

00:11:39.740 And hopefully it means that maybe she'll influence people in, like, a more positive direction.

00:11:46.660 I don't know.

00:11:47.760 Possibly.

00:11:48.840 But, you know, she also did have a strange relationship with her ex that we would like

00:11:55.080 to also, I think, discuss just before we talk about Taylor Swift.

00:11:57.020 And it goes to, it speaks to her troubled life as a Hollywood, like, star, as a teen star.

00:12:03.500 Yeah.

00:12:03.880 A child star, really.

00:12:05.140 But, yeah, she dated Wilmer Valderrama, who played Fez on that 70s show and some other

00:12:13.580 stuff, but not really credible.

00:12:15.700 Right.

00:12:17.060 And she's now, so she dated him when she was, she had just turned 18 and he was, I guess,

00:12:22.280 30.

00:12:22.560 But they met when she was 17 and he was 29.

00:12:24.740 Yes.

00:12:24.880 She has this new song on her upcoming album.

00:12:27.580 Yes.

00:12:27.780 Her album is called Holy FVCK.

00:12:30.960 Ooh-hoo.

00:12:31.700 Which is the perfect album name for someone who claims to be a Christian. 0.97

00:12:36.200 Hilarious.

00:12:36.660 Yeah.

00:12:37.740 And so a snippet from one of the soon-to-be-released songs titled 29, it surfaced on TikTok and it

00:12:44.000 appears to make a few shady references to her ex, Wilmer.

00:12:47.500 Mm-hmm.

00:12:47.780 And so I guess they had an on-again, off-again relationship for a while.

00:12:53.900 So I didn't know, I knew that they dated, but I didn't, I never really knew their age

00:12:57.500 difference because I, like, didn't.

00:12:58.580 Me either.

00:12:58.860 I just didn't pay attention.

00:13:00.000 Yeah.

00:13:00.320 But, so at the time, she, like, I looked, looking back, she said at the time that he was adamant

00:13:07.760 not to date her until she turned 18.

00:13:09.520 Like, he, she said in her words that he was like, you're not 18, get away from me.

00:13:13.860 Like, so at the time she had no problem and she didn't think he was a creep and he, she

00:13:18.560 didn't feel like she was being groomed.

00:13:19.860 Yeah.

00:13:20.400 And then now, cause she's 29, there is a line in her, one of her songs about consent.

00:13:25.380 Mm-hmm.

00:13:26.200 And I think it's like, she's, I don't know if it's an accusation.

00:13:30.700 Well, she probably feels like a bit manipulated because one of, I mean, in, in her defense,

00:13:34.560 like when, like we're, we're 17, but we are also almost 30.

00:13:39.500 I'm more than 30.

00:13:40.660 Um, but like you have your life together in a different way when you're, when you're

00:13:45.480 30 versus 17.

00:13:46.760 18 is so young.

00:13:47.880 It's so young.

00:13:48.240 You're fresh out of high school for a normal person.

00:13:50.520 I don't even remember, honestly.

00:13:52.220 Yeah.

00:13:52.380 It was a hundred years ago and you were just being free, trying to get your first boyfriend.

00:13:57.160 Yeah.

00:13:57.460 And like, you know, you're about to try alcohol for the first time in some instances.

00:14:00.780 Like you're, you have no life experience.

00:14:03.220 You're still living at home and this person's 30 years old.

00:14:05.820 They hopefully have their life together.

00:14:06.920 They probably own property.

00:14:08.420 They probably had a pet before.

00:14:09.440 They probably had multiple loves and like heartbreaks.

00:14:11.560 Yeah.

00:14:11.580 Like a serious relationship.

00:14:12.300 Yeah.

00:14:12.540 Like lost family members.

00:14:14.000 Exactly.

00:14:14.520 They've traveled.

00:14:15.340 They've done school.

00:14:16.460 They've made a little money.

00:14:17.580 Like such a huge age gap.

00:14:19.740 And it's like, okay, sure.

00:14:20.600 Maybe it's different when he's 50 and you're 30.

00:14:24.100 I, I mean, you know, whatever, whatever floats your boat.

00:14:26.960 But like, it's like, it's creepy because she's kind of an adolescent.

00:14:31.320 Yeah.

00:14:31.840 You know, even if she is a consenting adult at 18.

00:14:35.480 Yeah.

00:14:35.780 It's like one week, it's gross and a no, no.

00:14:38.440 And then the next week, cause she's 18, it's like all good.

00:14:40.700 Yeah.

00:14:40.880 Like no full steam ahead.

00:14:43.140 You know?

00:14:43.420 And you're like, I don't know.

00:14:44.240 I respect that he didn't break the law according to her, but like she feels used or, or, or

00:14:51.520 she's using it because she is, and it goes back to the pronoun thing.

00:14:56.380 Like she is, and the cookies, remember the cookies?

00:14:59.400 Oh yeah.

00:14:59.800 Like she got mad at a, at a sugar-free bakery.

00:15:03.080 Oh yeah.

00:15:03.100 The Froyo place.

00:15:04.140 Oh yeah.

00:15:04.320 The Froyo place or whatever it was.

00:15:05.680 Some place that was selling sugar-free cookies because it was like fat phobic. 1.00

00:15:09.880 She's an attention whore. 1.00

00:15:11.000 So, so maybe she's seeing what in my life could possibly be construed as trauma when she's 1.00

00:15:19.700 already experienced so much trauma.

00:15:21.120 Like, so I, I don't know.

00:15:22.540 I don't want to assume that because she likes to hop on the pity party train a lot.

00:15:26.960 Yeah.

00:15:27.460 And she likes, but maybe she's up for clout.

00:15:29.840 Yes.

00:15:30.260 And so the problem is it's literally the boy who cried wolf.

00:15:32.900 When you get mad at a Froyo shop or a bakery for having sugar-free cookies and you say that

00:15:37.160 that's trauma, but then you actually experience legitimate trauma.

00:15:40.740 It's really hard for people to be like.

00:15:42.660 To sympathize.

00:15:43.300 Exactly.

00:15:43.960 Like I do, we sympathize, but it's like, you're calling him a rapist, but at the

00:15:48.340 time, like it's hard, it's really hard to disseminate, is that the right word?

00:15:52.860 I don't know.

00:15:53.780 To, to figure out what's true and what's not because this person, she, her woman is 0.82

00:15:59.380 always coming up with something to be upset about.

00:16:01.380 Well, yeah.

00:16:01.780 And, and to that point, it kind of reminds me of like the whole me too movement a little

00:16:05.800 bit because women were reflecting on past hookups and they were like, oh, I was sexually assaulted. 0.82

00:16:11.500 And it's like, no, it was just bad sex.

00:16:13.260 And now you're going back and you're saying.

00:16:15.320 It's just like when Lauren Southern went to that women's march with Milo Yiannopoulos

00:16:19.560 and they held, she held up a sign that said, um, regret isn't rape. 0.99

00:16:23.480 Yeah.

00:16:24.100 And it's like, yeah, cause there was a time not too long ago when people were like, oh

00:16:28.240 yeah, like, just like you said, like, oh, I felt awkward the next day.

00:16:32.100 It's like, that's called a hookup.

00:16:33.840 Yeah. 0.98

00:16:33.960 That's a hookup having sex with strangers and you, and you regret it. 0.98

00:16:37.960 And then you're like, that's right. 0.79

00:16:38.800 It's like, exactly.

00:16:40.400 And to that as well.

00:16:42.000 It's like, okay, that saying those kinds of hookups are assault, much like, you know,

00:16:46.740 Demi is kind of seemingly, um, accusing Wilmer of taking advantage of her is that, um, it

00:16:53.500 minimizes real assault victims.

00:16:55.580 Yeah.

00:16:55.980 And maybe she is one.

00:16:57.540 Of course.

00:16:58.120 Yeah.

00:16:58.260 Maybe she is. 0.93

00:16:58.820 And I'm not trying to pull those over that.

00:16:59.960 Yeah.

00:17:00.140 Like we don't know what happened.

00:17:01.820 The problem is, is she's always coming up with some crate weed. 1.00

00:17:03.860 She said this.

00:17:04.340 We get it.

00:17:04.860 Yeah. 0.98

00:17:04.960 You know, she's always crazy. 1.00

00:17:06.280 Boy, who cried wolf Demi. 0.98

00:17:07.500 But I do sympathize with her.

00:17:10.120 And we'll pray for you.

00:17:10.900 She has, she has trouble. 0.79

00:17:11.820 She has trauma.

00:17:12.420 Clearly.

00:17:12.980 Like, look at her.

00:17:13.980 Yeah.

00:17:14.100 Look at her.

00:17:14.540 Look at her.

00:17:15.420 Um.

00:17:15.900 All right.

00:17:16.660 Speaking of trouble.

00:17:18.160 Actually, okay.

00:17:18.740 This is not trouble.

00:17:19.440 This is just kind of exciting.

00:17:19.860 I knew you were trouble when you walked in.

00:17:22.400 Beautiful.

00:17:22.940 Thank you.

00:17:23.260 Way to intro this one.

00:17:24.360 Thank you.

00:17:24.720 You guys, you are, all our listeners are going to stop listening.

00:17:27.740 But Taylor Swift is preparing a new album.

00:17:29.980 And I just, I just want to talk about something light for like three seconds.

00:17:34.160 Um.

00:17:34.940 I'm so excited.

00:17:36.180 We love her.

00:17:36.640 I love her.

00:17:37.180 We love her.

00:17:37.820 We love her.

00:17:38.080 Remember we found out that we both loved her?

00:17:39.860 Yeah.

00:17:40.220 Oh, the white blonde girls love Taylor Swift. 1.00

00:17:42.600 Yeah.

00:17:43.120 Yeah, we do.

00:17:44.040 We do love her.

00:17:45.200 We do.

00:17:45.520 I don't care if she's Illuminati, all you people in the comments.

00:17:48.200 She's my favorite Illuminati.

00:17:49.620 She's my favorite Illuminati, too.

00:17:51.080 I actually hated her for most of my life.

00:17:52.560 Me, too.

00:17:53.300 And then I was like, no.

00:17:54.360 Ew.

00:17:54.520 And then Red album came out.

00:17:56.140 And I was like, man.

00:17:56.680 I was, for me, it was 1989.

00:17:59.040 Oh, that's a good one.

00:17:59.200 I was really late.

00:18:00.060 But I was like, all right.

00:18:01.100 And it was like, oh, just, ugh.

00:18:02.820 It's so good.

00:18:03.420 It's so good.

00:18:03.980 She's amazing.

00:18:04.560 And I love her.

00:18:04.900 And they went back.

00:18:05.340 So basically, she has a new album coming out.

00:18:08.780 And it's, interestingly enough, it'll be not about breakups,

00:18:13.140 but her budding romance with actor Joe Alwyn. 0.98

00:18:15.360 So actually, it could suck.

00:18:16.760 It could, because breakups are kind of her thing.

00:18:18.420 People do love her heartbreak.

00:18:19.700 Yes.

00:18:20.320 So we'll have to wait and see.

00:18:21.760 But this is her first album in two years.

00:18:23.300 Her last two albums were incredible.

00:18:25.040 Amazing.

00:18:25.680 OK.

00:18:26.020 So on that point, they're like, oh, it's her first album in two years.

00:18:29.460 It's like, she gave us two albums in that year.

00:18:31.620 And she re-recorded Red this year.

00:18:33.540 Yeah.

00:18:33.720 Or in 2020.

00:18:34.540 And Fearless a while back.

00:18:35.500 Yes, exactly.

00:18:35.900 And she's redoing 1989.

00:18:37.000 Exactly.

00:18:37.520 So basically.

00:18:38.300 So please leave her alone. 1.00

00:18:39.040 She's doing great.

00:18:39.720 She's putting out more music than all y'all.

00:18:41.300 Yeah.

00:18:41.600 She's a star.

00:18:42.280 Anyways.

00:18:43.480 Whatever.

00:18:44.160 She's a star.

00:18:45.280 We hate her.

00:18:46.160 We hate slurping. 0.98

00:18:46.440 Chill.

00:18:46.740 Whatever.

00:18:47.020 I can be objective.

00:18:47.880 She's whatever.

00:18:48.460 But she's also apparently the celeb with the worst private jet carbon emissions. 0.95

00:18:53.600 And of course, the jokes have begun.

00:18:55.600 Mm-hmm.

00:18:56.800 They've begun.

00:18:57.200 I can't think of one.

00:18:57.840 But so there was this private.

00:19:02.020 Okay.

00:19:02.240 I'll just read a quote from this article.

00:19:03.960 Private.

00:19:04.300 Is it the same one?

00:19:05.480 BuzzFeed?

00:19:05.800 Yes.

00:19:06.020 Okay.

00:19:06.620 Private jet discourse has peaked after marketing and analysis agency Yard released a list that

00:19:10.980 purported to rank celebrities with the worst private jet carbon emissions since the start

00:19:15.140 of the year.

00:19:15.720 The list ranked Taylor Swift as the biggest celebrity CO2 polluter with her private jet reportedly

00:19:20.440 emitting more than 8,000 tons during the total of 170 flights since January.

00:19:25.000 Now, we recall like two weeks ago, Kylie Jenner was being called a climate criminal for her 1.00

00:19:32.960 three-minute flight or whatever it was.

00:19:34.680 And Drake as well.

00:19:35.700 I think he flew to like Hamilton or something recently.

00:19:37.920 Dude, that's like 40 minutes from here.

00:19:39.240 Yeah.

00:19:39.360 However, however, my theory is that Kris Jenner, the devil of all devils, is getting ahead 0.90

00:19:46.300 of it.

00:19:46.680 And she's like, this is, again, tinfoil hat, non-fact.

00:19:50.860 My theory is that Kris Jenner's like, hello, Yard.

00:19:54.380 You need to make a list.

00:19:56.060 Like, it sounds just like her.

00:19:58.660 You need to make a list and put Kylie at the bottom of it.

00:20:01.140 So, yes.

00:20:02.120 And again, it's very possible that this is a real thing that was done and that Taylor

00:20:07.080 Swift's jet does pollute more than Kylie Jenner's. 0.99

00:20:10.320 Her rep has said that Taylor Swift often lends or rents out her jet to other people and that

00:20:15.800 But, you know, it is still your jet, babe.

00:20:18.700 So, your jet, your emissions.

00:20:20.500 Sorry.

00:20:21.360 I don't know.

00:20:22.880 I don't know.

00:20:23.480 I think the moral of the story is you got bad blood with Greta.

00:20:26.820 And you should watch your back.

00:20:29.620 Yeah, honestly, I don't care when rich people fly in jets.

00:20:34.100 I just don't like when they tell me not to eat, like, use plastic spoons.

00:20:37.760 Exactly.

00:20:38.320 And she's never said that to me.

00:20:39.620 We're looking at you, Leo.

00:20:41.080 And by the way, Kim Kardashian was on that list and she's someone who's trying to get 0.97

00:20:44.320 us eat bugs and Beyond Meat and all that crap. 0.98

00:20:46.740 So, like, take your plane. 0.95

00:20:49.000 Even if, like, that's another thing when it's like, oh, the average celebrity emits this

00:20:52.980 much more than the average citizen.

00:20:54.260 It's like, yeah, but there's like 1% of them and 99% of us.

00:20:57.200 So, like.

00:20:58.200 Yeah.

00:20:58.980 Again.

00:20:59.340 The rich.

00:20:59.960 Let them do what they want.

00:21:00.800 Yeah.

00:21:01.080 What would you do if you had a private jet?

00:21:03.160 You'd be flying.

00:21:03.880 You would be flying to the doctor's office down the street.

00:21:06.960 And again, as long as they ain't telling us how to live, I don't really care.

00:21:10.540 Let them do what they want.

00:21:11.320 He's jealous.

00:21:12.440 Oh, yeah.

00:21:13.180 Okay.

00:21:13.400 Well, let's move on to something more interesting.

00:21:16.420 Another blonde. 1.00

00:21:17.940 The blonde. 0.85

00:21:18.360 Another blonde. 1.00

00:21:19.260 The blonde. 0.85

00:21:21.120 There's a new Marilyn Monroe biopic because they've never made one of those before.

00:21:24.980 No, we don't have enough.

00:21:25.860 No.

00:21:26.360 It's called Blonde. 1.00

00:21:28.080 And it's about Marilyn Monroe.

00:21:29.300 But it's also about Norma Jean.

00:21:32.240 The real.

00:21:33.260 Blah, blah, blah.

00:21:33.840 The real Marilyn.

00:21:34.660 What's her last name?

00:21:35.560 Norma Jean something-mick-other.

00:21:37.380 Something.

00:21:38.020 I know.

00:21:38.420 I wrote it down.

00:21:39.600 Whatever.

00:21:40.220 Norma Jean.

00:21:41.820 So, Anna de Armas, who's a Cuban actress, Cuban-American actress, has been cast as Marilyn Monroe.

00:21:49.560 She looks really very much like her.

00:21:52.280 She looks gorgeous.

00:21:53.360 She looks almost better.

00:21:54.480 Like, if we can show a pic.

00:21:56.000 She's so beautiful.

00:21:57.100 She is stunning.

00:21:57.720 It's painful.

00:21:58.160 So, on the right is, I'm sorry, on the left is Anna de Armas, and then on the right is Marilyn. 0.67

00:22:03.100 It's like, who's who?

00:22:04.580 You can really, you can barely tell.

00:22:06.040 Yeah.

00:22:06.380 They're gorgeous.

00:22:07.100 Yes.

00:22:07.180 Now, the issue that people are having with this is that Anna de Armas has a Cuban accent. 1.00

00:22:12.980 Mm-hmm.

00:22:13.640 And she didn't, like, lose it for the movie, which I think would be hard.

00:22:19.860 Like, actors should do accents.

00:22:22.660 I just don't cast her then.

00:22:23.820 I'm sorry.

00:22:24.760 Like, if you're cast as the Queen of England, you better have a British accent.

00:22:27.560 Yes.

00:22:27.820 If you're cast as a cowboy, you better have a Southern accent.

00:22:30.200 Yes.

00:22:30.680 And I was going to say, like, if you were cast as, like, a Cuban, like, pop star, you should have a Cuban accent.

00:22:37.500 Yeah.

00:22:37.860 So, if you're an American icon, one could argue you should have a perfect American accent.

00:22:43.260 Yes.

00:22:43.880 However, she does, like, I saw the trailer.

00:22:47.180 Did you see the trailer?

00:22:47.860 No.

00:22:48.300 It looks so good.

00:22:49.760 I bet it's going to be incredible.

00:22:50.340 The accent wouldn't stop me from watching it. 0.73

00:22:52.400 No.

00:22:52.580 It looks, it's all black and white, and she looks like she's really, like, acting.

00:22:57.720 Yeah, like she's taking on the character.

00:22:59.080 Yeah, exactly.

00:22:59.580 No, I agree.

00:23:00.380 I just think, like, it's another example of Hollywood rewriting history in a way, because, like, movies, this is a movie about a real person.

00:23:08.040 It's supposed to reflect their life.

00:23:09.660 So, it's, the person playing Marilyn should reflect Marilyn 100%.

00:23:13.840 Like, if we're going to start doing this with actors, then I get to play Malcolm X in another movie or something.

00:23:19.160 Like, you're blurring the lines here.

00:23:21.620 It's, like, we can't, like, we need to be historically accurate to an extent unless it's, like, a spoof or, like, a comedy or something, I think.

00:23:28.320 Because, otherwise, it's giving me 1984 vibes in a way.

00:23:31.520 Because it's, like, okay, we can just completely rewrite history by casting someone who does not properly reflect the character 100%.

00:23:38.540 Yeah, and it's not that she's Cuban.

00:23:40.700 It's just that she doesn't, she has a Cuban accent. 0.80

00:23:42.820 Exactly.

00:23:43.180 And Marilyn Monroe did not have a Cuban accent.

00:23:45.480 Now, I will point out that Tom Cruise cannot do accents.

00:23:48.720 Right.

00:23:49.280 He is the worst at accents.

00:23:50.940 But he gets called out for it.

00:23:52.360 And he's, like, really not a good actor, I would argue.

00:23:54.820 I don't think so either.

00:23:55.600 Like, he's just very confident.

00:23:57.400 He's very confident.

00:23:58.380 And he's awesome at stunts.

00:24:00.540 Like, he's super, he's a superstar in many ways.

00:24:02.480 But, like, a method actor, not one of them.

00:24:06.160 Yeah, and it's kind of interesting because the president and chief marketing officer of Authentic Brands Group, which owns Marilyn's estate, told TMZ that Anna has artfully captured the essence of Marilyn's voice.

00:24:17.000 It's like, but how?

00:24:18.440 I started high.

00:24:19.900 Yeah.

00:24:20.280 It's like, she does, like, a breathy, sexy.

00:24:21.880 It's like, why did Margaret do that a million times?

00:24:23.960 Yeah, and Margaret, who's one of our colleagues, has a Canadian-American accent.

00:24:28.720 So, it kind of works a little better.

00:24:29.640 She should have played Marilyn Monroe. 1.00

00:24:30.720 I think so, too.

00:24:30.940 She actually looks, like, very much like her.

00:24:33.480 Alternatively, I was thinking Carey Mulligan.

00:24:35.200 But I think Carey Mulligan should play everyone.

00:24:38.000 Yeah.

00:24:38.440 And then Brad Pitt also defended her.

00:24:41.000 But it's interesting because Brad Pitt's producing the movie.

00:24:44.060 So, of course, he's publicly.

00:24:45.180 Yeah, his production company, Plan B, is producing the movie.

00:24:48.040 So, it's like, of course, he's going to say she's amazing.

00:24:50.940 Like, hello.

00:24:51.980 He doesn't want to lose money.

00:24:53.520 He's like, no, she's terrible.

00:24:55.100 Yeah.

00:24:55.420 She can't do the action.

00:24:55.860 She can't do it.

00:24:56.580 Get her out of here. 1.00

00:24:57.300 Get her out of her. 1.00

00:24:58.000 Yeah, it's so funny.

00:24:58.880 So, I will still be watching the film.

00:25:01.380 Yes, me too.

00:25:02.180 It looks amazing.

00:25:03.140 And I love a black and white.

00:25:04.440 Me too.

00:25:05.100 It's also funny, though, because people were upset about Kim Kardashian wearing the dress.

00:25:10.200 But, like, they seem to be okay.

00:25:12.120 People in Hollywood seem to be okay with having this actress play her. 1.00

00:25:15.840 It's kind of, like, just.

00:25:17.880 And you know what?

00:25:18.420 I bet that Anna D'Armas didn't wear a single one of Marilyn's actual dresses for this movie. 1.00

00:25:23.140 I don't know that for a fact.

00:25:24.960 But, like, hello, Kim.

00:25:26.320 You had a replica made.

00:25:28.140 I'll say it again.

00:25:28.880 Just wear the replica the whole time.

00:25:29.840 Wear the replica.

00:25:30.720 Hello.

00:25:31.460 Hello.

00:25:32.040 Oh, my God.

00:25:32.800 She is just exhausting. 0.85

00:25:34.180 She's exhausting. 0.96

00:25:34.980 And so is Brad Pitt, apparently.

00:25:36.440 Guys, Brad Pitt.

00:25:37.320 Is he okay?

00:25:38.100 Is he okay?

00:25:39.280 I don't think so.

00:25:40.880 Because he's wearing burlap-looking skirts to premieres now.

00:25:47.100 Mm-hmm.

00:25:48.000 So there's a new movie of his called Bullet Train.

00:25:50.740 Wow.

00:25:51.000 No one's going to watch it.

00:25:52.000 Who knows?

00:25:52.380 Which is why he probably wore a skirt. 0.73

00:25:53.320 Yeah, but he wore a skirt.

00:25:54.720 And they're like, oh, my God, he's showing off his legs.

00:25:58.160 It's like, yep, that's a skirt. 0.96

00:25:59.820 It's an ugly skirt.

00:26:01.140 Maybe that helps. 0.93

00:26:01.940 Like, maybe because it's so ugly.

00:26:04.120 It's like, it looks to me like a suffragette skirt. 0.90

00:26:07.740 But, like, a little shorter.

00:26:09.260 It's like, we just want all rights.

00:26:12.800 It's hard buying.

00:26:14.300 It looks like someone just found it on the street.

00:26:16.600 They're like, I guess.

00:26:17.500 Like, he, like, pooped himself.

00:26:18.640 And he's like, I need something to wear.

00:26:20.700 It's a bad fit.

00:26:21.800 It's not a good fit.

00:26:22.880 And when asked, he said, when asked why he was wearing the skirt, he said, I don't know.

00:26:28.320 We're all going to die, so let's mess it up.

00:26:30.000 It's like, I think the real reason is that you're an irrelevant person and you want attention.

00:26:34.140 Honestly, if you want to mess things up, go skydiving.

00:26:37.380 I was going to, yeah.

00:26:38.660 Yeah, there's a lot of things you can do.

00:26:40.560 To mess things up.

00:26:41.480 Also, like, what a weird philosophy.

00:26:44.200 First of all, do you know something we don't know, Mr. Pitt?

00:26:46.620 Like, we're all going to die when?

00:26:47.880 Yeah.

00:26:48.240 You're a lot older than me.

00:26:49.160 Like, I have some time. 0.99

00:26:50.260 Also, like, we're all going to die, so just throw your baby off a cliff. 0.89

00:26:55.020 Like, what?

00:26:56.600 The logic's not quite there, Brad.

00:26:58.760 It's not there, Brad.

00:26:59.380 It's not there.

00:26:59.880 I feel like he knows something.

00:27:01.160 Like, is there a meteor coming that they only told celebrities about?

00:27:03.360 And they're like, wear your skirts.

00:27:04.380 We're all going to die.

00:27:05.020 It's like, I plan on looking cute.

00:27:07.280 I want to die looking really cute.

00:27:09.180 I want to die looking amazing. 0.78

00:27:10.920 Like, Marilyn Monroe cute.

00:27:12.400 I want to be like those, you know, in Pompeii?

00:27:15.420 Yes.

00:27:15.980 I want to be like an adorable, like, crusted corpse. 0.97

00:27:19.620 You will be. 0.51

00:27:20.180 She will be.

00:27:21.580 Thank you.

00:27:21.940 I just, one final word on this is that this trend of men wearing skirts is the least sexy 0.82

00:27:28.600 thing ever.

00:27:29.560 Unless you're 14.

00:27:30.520 Um, unless you're.

00:27:32.500 Maybe 12.

00:27:33.920 I.

00:27:34.260 Like, when I was 14, I was obsessed with Orlando Bloom.

00:27:37.640 Did he wear skirts?

00:27:38.580 I don't think so.

00:27:40.640 But now I look back and I'm like, mm, ee, you know?

00:27:45.280 Like, I guess if you're a teenage girl.

00:27:46.920 You like something soft.

00:27:48.840 Right.

00:27:48.940 You don't, like, when you're a teenage girl, you're not like, ooh, that manly man with a

00:27:52.020 hairy chest.

00:27:52.520 Like Justin Bieber was all the rage.

00:27:53.480 Exactly.

00:27:53.620 Like, oh, he's so smooth.

00:27:54.860 Yeah, that's true.

00:27:55.520 You don't want, like, Wolverine when you're a kid.

00:27:57.760 No, exactly.

00:27:57.960 But when you grow into a woman.

00:27:58.980 But, you know, even then, as a young youth, as a young, innocent youth, I did not want

00:28:04.180 my men in skirts.

00:28:06.200 Times has changed, Matt.

00:28:07.060 Times have changed.

00:28:07.660 Because all those girls are thems, theys. 1.00

00:28:09.980 Thems, theys.

00:28:10.940 And they're like, someone's got to wear the skirt. 0.98

00:28:12.860 Brad, you can have thems.

00:28:16.260 No, we can't.

00:28:17.040 That's illegal.

00:28:17.620 They're children. 0.99

00:28:17.760 That's illegal, you 59-year-old weirdo. 1.00

00:28:19.680 You sicko, Brad. 1.00

00:28:20.440 You're sick. 1.00

00:28:21.360 Okay. 0.99

00:28:22.080 Anyway, you look like a frump. 0.96

00:28:23.900 You look frumpy. 0.93

00:28:24.700 Girl, girl, Brad, girl.

00:28:26.900 Brad, them.

00:28:27.860 Girl.

00:28:28.160 Girl, you can get a better skirt. 1.00

00:28:29.620 You're a frump and. 1.00

00:28:30.940 You're a frumpy bitch. 1.00

00:28:32.300 That's it. 1.00

00:28:33.540 All right, we got one final topic for you all today.

00:28:35.960 All right, let's talk about ableism.

00:28:38.420 This is a really, really serious.

00:28:41.060 This is serious, you guys. 1.00

00:28:42.200 You ableist scumbags. 0.99

00:28:43.580 Just so you guys know, Beyonce, who released an album, her seventh studio album on July 29th, 0.99

00:28:50.020 confirmed.

00:28:51.480 She's so big of her.

00:28:53.140 She's going to remove the ableist slur from a song on her new album. 0.80

00:28:58.160 And what's the word, Kat?

00:29:00.420 Trigger warning.

00:29:01.220 Trigger warning.

00:29:01.780 Trigger warning.

00:29:02.240 Trigger warning.

00:29:02.940 Trigger warning.

00:29:03.420 The word is spaz.

00:29:05.580 What?

00:29:06.340 Yes, I'm so sorry.

00:29:07.620 What does that word mean?

00:29:09.160 I didn't write it down, but it means, oh.

00:29:15.400 To go crazy.

00:29:16.880 That was the original.

00:29:18.400 That's the meaning.

00:29:19.500 That's the meaning.

00:29:20.220 Meaning of the word.

00:29:20.840 If you look it up in the dictionary.

00:29:21.780 Yes.

00:29:22.040 So the line in the song.

00:29:25.260 Please sing it for us.

00:29:26.080 In the song Heated.

00:29:26.880 I haven't heard the song, but I'll just make up my own. 1.00

00:29:30.040 Spazzing on that ass. 1.00

00:29:31.720 Spaz on that ass. 1.00

00:29:34.040 Thank you. 1.00

00:29:34.660 Well, that sounds ableistic.

00:29:36.160 Yes.

00:29:36.580 Brick.

00:29:36.820 I just wanted to note that like 50 years ago, people would have been protesting the word 0.99

00:29:40.500 ass. 0.94

00:29:41.380 And it's the same people, the same types of people that are now protesting the word 0.99

00:29:47.300 spaz. 1.00

00:29:47.880 So like we're fine with ass. 1.00

00:29:49.580 Ew, don't be a bigot. 1.00

00:29:50.600 Ass is fine. 1.00

00:29:51.200 But spaz I have a problem with. 1.00

00:29:52.920 And I guess that most of the people who are complaining have no disabilities.

00:29:58.940 Yeah.

00:29:59.400 Like maybe like two of them are offended.

00:30:01.380 Whatever.

00:30:01.760 That's fine.

00:30:02.220 But I bet you it's mostly like white suburban moms who are like. 1.00

00:30:06.120 And it's just really, really sad because we're literally going back in time.

00:30:10.100 Like, um, I wrote down a quote here, but it's, it's basically Elvis Presley.

00:30:14.480 He was never arrested, but a judge threatened to arrest him for gyrating his hips.

00:30:18.960 Ooh.

00:30:19.500 Like when he did that Elvis dance, they literally were like, we need to charge him with a crime.

00:30:23.980 Because it's too hot.

00:30:24.880 Because it's too hot.

00:30:25.860 And people were like losing their minds and girls were fainting and stuff.

00:30:28.800 That's hilarious.

00:30:29.620 Yeah, seriously.

00:30:30.200 Not happening to you, Brad.

00:30:31.540 Yeah, exactly.

00:30:33.020 So it's like, it's the same thing happening now.

00:30:38.720 Yeah.

00:30:38.960 But it's just a different word and a different group of people getting offended by it.

00:30:42.540 But those same people would literally have been the kinds of people to get offended by 0.96

00:30:46.240 the word ass and pelvises in the fifties. 1.00

00:30:48.980 Yeah. 0.99

00:30:49.320 It's just embarrassing.

00:30:50.120 And we've talked about this on the show a thousand times.

00:30:52.700 If something offends, you turn it off.

00:30:54.280 And I'm actually a little surprised that Queen Bee, Queen Bey, I don't know. 0.89

00:30:58.580 I don't really like Beyonce.

00:30:59.360 But I'm surprised that she of all people came because she's one of those people where it's

00:31:03.780 like, you could never be canceled.

00:31:05.900 Yeah.

00:31:06.100 People will always love your music for whatever reason.

00:31:09.720 So just she's going.

00:31:11.880 She sings about this kind of stuff all the time.

00:31:14.180 Like about how her producers tell her to do this.

00:31:16.320 And she's like, nah, I'm going to do it my way.

00:31:17.920 And she's so bad and whatever.

00:31:19.420 And she doesn't do it for the ratings. 1.00

00:31:20.640 She won't do it for the radio edit.

00:31:22.760 So it's like, why now?

00:31:24.240 It's embarrassing.

00:31:25.100 Why now?

00:31:25.560 Is it because you're rolling too closely with the Clintons or something?

00:31:29.620 And they're like, you've got to be more politically correct if you want to stay in the business.

00:31:33.220 Like, I don't know.

00:31:33.820 That's Hillary. 1.00

00:31:34.400 Was she here?

00:31:35.220 Hillary?

00:31:36.280 Hillary, don't murder me. 1.00

00:31:37.700 Where's my pantsuit?

00:31:39.600 So Lizzo made this exact same ableist slur like recently.

00:31:45.360 And she also removed it and put out like a statement about like, she's learning and it was

00:31:48.960 a mistake.

00:31:49.420 Like, so my thing is like either Beyonce didn't know that happened, knew it happened, but didn't

00:31:54.320 care.

00:31:55.720 Or those are the only two.

00:31:56.880 Well, and people are-

00:31:57.360 Like she thinks she's more famous than Lizzo.

00:31:59.280 Which she absolutely is.

00:32:00.400 She is.

00:32:00.940 But people are saying that there's no excuse even if she herself didn't hear it because

00:32:04.540 someone on her team must have known. 0.98

00:32:06.520 It's like, maybe they just don't give a crap about Lizzo. 0.98

00:32:10.100 But they- 0.99

00:32:11.460 True.

00:32:12.000 Maybe they don't care about Lizzo.

00:32:12.920 But like, I was going to say like, oh, maybe she's just pushing the boundaries. 0.98

00:32:17.400 But it's no, the boundaries are pushing her and the boundaries are pushing art back.

00:32:21.180 Yeah.

00:32:21.560 Like, just like Elvis Presley, they tried to stop his pelvis.

00:32:25.800 And his hips didn't quit, y'all.

00:32:27.380 His hips did not quit. 0.97

00:32:28.480 And now the word ass and pelvic gyrations, free to go. 0.80

00:32:32.300 And like art should be art. 0.93

00:32:33.800 And sometimes it offends me.

00:32:35.300 Like we've seen things where we're like, oh, like that's nasty.

00:32:38.120 I just don't watch it.

00:32:39.220 I don't want, I wouldn't want my children to watch it.

00:32:41.440 Like, I can criticize it.

00:32:42.820 But to have it canceled and removed from the zeitgeist is literally 1984.

00:32:48.400 And there is a line, obviously, where things kind of could become actually unsafe or they

00:32:53.140 are really just depraved and evil.

00:32:55.960 Well, yeah, like calling threats of murder, anything like that.

00:32:59.180 Like there's a line for everything, of course, but this is not crossing that line.

00:33:02.920 No.

00:33:03.180 This is truly harmless.

00:33:05.500 And I think in both songs, they're using the meaning of the word the way it's intended.

00:33:10.160 They're not trying.

00:33:10.560 As in the definition of the term.

00:33:12.100 Exactly.

00:33:12.180 They're not trying to throw stones at any group of people.

00:33:16.440 Like, I don't think their heart was in the wrong place here.

00:33:19.380 So y'all need to chill out, you spazes.

00:33:22.440 I want to read a quote from 1984, which talks about some similar topic.

00:33:27.440 It says, don't you see that the whole aim of new speak is to narrow the range of thought?

00:33:30.820 In the end, we shall make thought crime literally impossible because there will be no words

00:33:34.900 in which to express it.

00:33:36.300 So we're literally just killing vocabulary because, and this is a little different because

00:33:42.620 this is about offensive, like being offensive.

00:33:44.920 And in 1984, it's like more than that.

00:33:47.380 It's like they don't even want you to have words to describe things so that you can't

00:33:50.220 even think about them.

00:33:50.920 But we're like going down that road.

00:33:52.600 Yeah, it's a slippery slope.

00:33:53.580 It's extremely terrifying.

00:33:55.220 It's very dangerous.

00:33:56.820 And it's, I think we're just going to continue to see this happen more and more.

00:34:00.960 And then what will we be able to do or say?

00:34:03.020 This show will be canceled.

00:34:04.080 Yeah.

00:34:04.280 Well, I was going to say, like, if we keep on this trend, the only song, the only words

00:34:08.060 and songs that you'll be able to use are like love and baby.

00:34:11.240 Yeah.

00:34:11.580 But even those, it's like, well, what about people without love?

00:34:14.100 What about people without babies? 0.78

00:34:15.500 Yeah.

00:34:15.660 What about people who can't have babies? 0.97

00:34:17.000 So you cut those words.

00:34:18.140 What is a baby?

00:34:18.800 It's just going to be humming.

00:34:19.600 What is love?

00:34:20.000 But what about people without lips? 0.83

00:34:21.500 Yeah.

00:34:21.800 It's just, you can't win.

00:34:23.660 You can't win.

00:34:25.440 And this show is going to get canceled.

00:34:27.720 The mob.

00:34:28.360 Oh, yeah.

00:34:28.780 That's better.

00:34:29.560 I just said this show is going to be canceled.

00:34:31.240 No, it won't.

00:34:31.380 But I think she's right.

00:34:32.180 We will be like Krusty in that episode of The Simpsons when Sideshow Bob takes, kills

00:34:37.800 television and then Krusty finds one station and then he goes on it and he, anyways.

00:34:41.660 We'll be like that.

00:34:42.440 It'll be like The Prohibition. 0.72

00:34:44.000 Yes.

00:34:44.500 We'll do a bootleg version of this.

00:34:46.580 Anyway.

00:34:48.060 I think that's the sure.

00:34:49.140 I think that's the sure.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 09, 2022

Miss Understood No. 26 — Keep Swinging Your Hips, Elvis

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