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The Rise and Fall of J Lo · Pop Culture Junkie®

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[Music]
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Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of Pop Culture Junky Podcast.
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My name is Shauna and I am joined by these lovely co-hosts whose names are...
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Olivia
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And Nicole.
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It is wonderful to see you guys today.
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You both look lovely as I was just telling Olivia and Nicole,
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they kind of dressed up today and I look kind of like a Shlumpy Asshole.
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Your titties look phenomenal.
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Thank you, I'm not wearing a bra.
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I know, that's why I look so good.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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It's just...
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It's just she puts her hair in front of me.
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Thank you.
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Tits up?
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No, I appreciate that.
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Since COVID, it's been a challenge for me to get a bra on.
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I don't know, if I go to the office, I'll wear one.
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What is this prison you want me to put my chest in?
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Honestly, this tit prison, no.
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Not good.
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Hanging it free.
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I have words for the maker of the bra.
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It is a leg up from a corset, but it is.
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I look skinnier in a corset.
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Sometimes an outfit requires a bra though.
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If I have a good, like, a tip top and I'm like,
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"This needs a little piece."
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A little piece?
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It needs counter gravity?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I get that deeply.
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They look a little too 35 sometimes.
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I think they're beautiful, 35.
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Oh my god.
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Almost like J-Lo and her 54.
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No one's as perfect and amazing and relatable as J-Lo.
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Go to group that.
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J-Lo would too.
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All right, so you guys have great tits and that just about wraps up another episode.
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We're not going to get better at that.
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Go to the Patreon for pictures.
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Oh my god.
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Can you imagine?
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No.
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We will blow up right next to Nicole's face.
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Nicole's face in my tent.
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They're not hairy.
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Oh, I thought that was the bit.
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Are they hairy?
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I've seen them.
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You won't show us.
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Yeah, they're always covered.
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Unless they're on my shoe.
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They are hairy then.
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It's the universe.
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Oh my god.
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This is feral.
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Okay.
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What have you guys been watching?
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Reading, listening to, what are you obsessed with this whole hairy feet?
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Besides tits and feet.
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What else is there?
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Since I'm a sports girl, I've been obsessed with March Madness.
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That's what I've been watching.
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I didn't know where to go from there.
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Who's in it still as of recording today?
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If we want to go by local teams, U of A University of Arizona is still in it.
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Hey, how's A?
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Is you doing?
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Never even made it.
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Well, but you know who did make it that is very surprising.
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I believe if I remember this correctly, Grand Canyon University made the second round of the
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tournament for the first time in school history.
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That's insane.
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Loads up, baby.
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Which is, yeah, it is crazy.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So GCU for anybody listening is a for-profit Christian University in Phoenix, Arizona.
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And they just entered into what's it called?
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The league that they're, I don't know.
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They just got eligibility.
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A division monitor?
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Some there it is.
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Yeah.
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That's the past.
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Like within the last decade.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I dated a guy who was a tour guide for GCU.
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I heard it say an athlete.
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She's huge.
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It's no idea.
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And who was a tour guide at GCU.
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And we didn't break up immediately after this fight.
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But right after we had this fight, we broke up like two weeks later.
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So I do blame this.
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And I'm sorry, GCU.
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Oh, no.
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Fuck GCU.
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I think you're supporting it.
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I'm with your eye shadow.
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I'm calling it.
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We're, we were watching Patriots Day.
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And he went on this completely like anti-Muslim rant.
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Oh my God.
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And him and I got into an argument about how like the Quran and how it doesn't say to
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like hurt anyone.
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He was like, I've taken a college level class about how what you're saying isn't true.
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And I was like, you took a college level Christian university class on religion.
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Do you really think that's a lot of non-gaiic Christianity 101?
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I was a enrollment counselor there.
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No, it's like a world religion.
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Yeah.
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So if you're going to a Christian university, you're not going to get the most unbiased view
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of what religions believe.
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And I was so bad.
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But yeah, he really believed.
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He really believed.
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Shout out.
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And I'm sorry, I said, fuck GCU.
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I know a lot of my friends went there and got degrees there.
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But from a person who's in a affordable work there for a minute, it was not a great place
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to be employed.
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Yeah, it's very much Dan Marles.
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Really sure.
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For head coach for basketball.
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Oh, okay.
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Phoenix Suns, Dan Marley.
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Well, yeah, Hottie McHot Hot.
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Maybe that's why they made it.
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To a proper way.
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They have like a former Phoenix Suns player.
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I'm sure they're a good team.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, they looked pretty decent when they were playing.
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Just like my ex-boyfriend, Torgaid.
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Looks decent from the beginning.
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Looks decent from the beginning.
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It's like a suck.
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All right.
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Now that we went on a Christian college rant, Olivia, what have you been in too lately?
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So I've actually read two books this week, shocking.
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And unfortunately, there were both intro novels to a series.
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And I have learned something about myself that if one book ends, I need a second one immediately.
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So I need to like, wait and not read these debut novels.
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But both of them were really, really good.
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So the first one was a fate, inked in blood.
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And it's all on Norse mythology.
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So think like low key, love those kind of things.
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And it was great.
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When I finished it, I was so sad.
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They don't even have a release date for the second book.
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It's that new of a debut novel.
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But the second book that I read, which is a book talk book.
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And I was like, okay, I'm seeing it a lot.
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I need to go check out what this is.
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And it's called Bride.
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It's by Ali Hazelwood.
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It's a traditional romantic writer.
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But it's her like forte and two fantasy.
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And it's in what they call the Omegaverse, which I still don't really understand.
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But from my understanding, it's like vampires, werewolves, like a bunch of magical creatures,
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kind of existing in it.
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And I really, I'm so ready for this.
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It's about a vampire and a vampire has to forcefully marry like a werewolf to unite their
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people, whatever.
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And the last hundred pages of it.
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I'm glad it was in the end of it because the werewolves are very similar to dogs in the
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sense that they also get red rockets.
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But okay, it's the red rocket like human size, so.
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No, so the original, the original male part is like a normal male part.
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And then whenever they are about to relieve themselves is when they get the red rocket.
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And it comes out of the tip of the human.
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Just like a dog, baby.
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Just like a dog.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it was drawing.
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And then they call it the not, not a red rocket, not the same.
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That's not sexual, that's not hot.
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They call it the not.
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And it, yeah, yeah, the word the not to describe that.
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It's painful.
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I don't like it.
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Like, try and not inside of you.
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Like, I imagine it being like, like, a boy scout.
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Not like it goes inside and then it ties them up.
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I'm just picturing like it being folded like that.
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And I'm in pain for them.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I didn't like it.
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But the book was good.
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Unfortunately, it was like the last hundred to fifty pages.
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Oh my god.
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So after that, I was like, okay, I'm glad this ended because if they kept talking about
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it, I'm out.
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So I've heard of Notting before from a vice article.
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And vice rights, just the most fair last fucking article is right where you're just like,
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do you want to know where the G spot is?
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And this part of your butt reaches article and you're like, sure, like click.
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Yeah.
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I mean, obviously, I'm going to click on that.
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And when it was like, why this one direction fanfic trope is making the internet go wild.
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And I was like, sure.
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And Notting shows up a lot in one direction fanfic.
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Like there's going to be a rocket.
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Yeah.
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Where like Harry's the, the alpha and the driver, whatever.
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And he knocks inside of God.
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I can't think of any other one direction members.
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There's the same.
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He knocks inside of Zane and they all.
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And then a little one direction.
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Yeah.
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Baby is formed in.
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Yeah.
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And apparently this is a thing.
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Okay.
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Well, from a teenager's mind to my disturbing nightmare.
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Now you heard it.
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Fate, inked and blood, not as much weird shit.
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End of the book.
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So good.
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Bright.
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We have some questions for you.
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Ali Hazelwood.
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You know, we don't see you in one direction.
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You're going to be.
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I feel like she's a one direction girl.
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She has to be who knows.
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But really, really good.
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That's what I've been obsessed with.
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What about you?
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So she's been obsessed with where we've sex.
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Yes.
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Who couldn't be who amongst us?
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Who amongst us?
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Who amongst us?
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I want to talk about two things that I've watched this week.
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The first one is X-Men 97, which I feel like a lot of millennial Marvel fans have been
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interested in an excited for.
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So there was an X-Men cartoon, X-Men the animated series that aired from 1992 to 1997.
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And it was amazing and iconic and kind of started.
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It was part of Marvel's animated universe in the 90s.
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They had a few shows that really kind of launched Marvel creating movies and television
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shows.
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I feel like the MCU.
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This is like pre-Brian singer X-Men.
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This is pre the MCU pre-The In-If-The-Live-Action thing is I was a child when these came out.
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I watched them.
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It's like a Saturday morning cartoon thing.
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The theme song is amazing and iconic.
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And at the very end, it ended in spoiler for the ending of a show from 1997.
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I don't know.
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Professor X dies.
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So this X-Men 97, it has a lot of the original voice cast came back for this and it's on Disney
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Plus and it picks up right where it left off.
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So it's based in 1997.
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They pick up right after Professor X died.
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Magneto is there.
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Cyclops storm.
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Wolverine.
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It's incredible.
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Is that like new writing or is that a part of a comic?
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So there are a lot of comic stories where Professor X dies.
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Spoiler I guess for X-Men 97.
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At this time of airing, it'll be a couple episodes in.
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But Magneto is left the Academy in Charles's will and Magneto is like their main bad guy
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that they've been facing all these years.
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But Magneto, whose name is Eric, is actually like best friends with Charles from childhood
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and they kind of went their separate ways.
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Yeah, I remember that from the live action one.
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Yeah, how they always kind of have that like strained friendship.
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So now Magneto is trying to kind of prove to the X-Men.
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Like I'm changing, I'm going to lead the X-Men now that Charles is dead and they're all
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like, we're not sure if we trust you bro.
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We're kind of evil and we've been fighting against you for so long.
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But it's really been great.
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I'm only a couple episodes in right now, but the graphics stay really true to that 1990s
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Saturday morning cartoon vibe.
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But you can tell the budget is up, right?
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So there's amazing fight sequences, the voice cast is really solid.
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It feels nostalgic but with an extra injection of money in there.
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That's good.
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There's a lot of time.
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I think I have like continuations in a story more than like a remake.
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I think remakes make a lot of people angry.
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But that's cool to see that it just picks up and kind of continues the story.
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Yeah, it's amazing.
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Like I feel like millennial fans love it.
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Those of us who remember the cartoon from the 90s, but also new fans could probably jump
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right in here because they cover okay, our old principle of the school, our headmaster is
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dead.
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And now our headbat guy wants to take over, is being taken over from this, you know, so
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I don't know.
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I've really been enjoying it and I feel like it's a good spot for new fans to jump in and
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old fans to enjoy.
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The other thing I want to talk about briefly is a movie that I watched on Netflix called
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"Damsel."
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Ooh, I started it, but I fell asleep.
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That's not a good sign.
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I went to the Spring Training game and drunkenly ordered two pizzas and put on "Damsel"
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and stuff.
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Oh my god, I'm so hungry.
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I want a pizza right now.
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So it is a movie starring Millie Bobby Brown.
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Pop her.
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Robin Wright is also in it.
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She's a little bassist, which I didn't know, and she's pretty cool in it.
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And it is a fantasy tale, Millie Bobby Brown stars as this girl, LOD.
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LOD.
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And they call, I know, it's a weird name.
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Sorry if your name's LOD.
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And they call her Ellie and we were like, okay, L.
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All right.
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It's a blame your parents if your name is LOD.
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Yeah.
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It sounds like a Lote.
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Lote and Melody mixed together, which is kind of lovely because I love a LOD.
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Yeah, that sounds good right into you.
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I'm so happy.
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A Melody about a LOD.
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LOD.
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LOD.
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LOD.
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I love you.
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Oh, LOD.
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Okay.
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Anyway, I'm about that dark.
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I was supposed to try verse.
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The transectic actics.
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Yeah.
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It comes out so weird.
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LOD.
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I love you.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, this doesn't do nothing to do with this movie.
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So she comes from a village that is kind of destitute.
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She gets betrothed to this prince and she thinks she's going to have this charming, beautiful
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life.
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And this isn't giving anything away because it's all in the previews.
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She's kind of given up as like a sacrifice to a dragon for the well-being, what they think
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of this village she married into.
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And it's kind of, I mean, the movie is called Damsel and the plot is basically, she ain't
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no fucking Damsel.
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Yeah.
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Like, she does all of her own stunts for that movie.
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It's really impressive.
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Yeah.
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And the upper body straight, she displays throughout this movie is incredible.
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I would die.
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I would pass it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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She does all of her own stunts, but I like her.
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I think she's.
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I like her too.
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She's got a pill battle with a lot of people.
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Yeah.
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But I think she's just a great person.
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And I'm like, how can you be 11 and become a movie star and not change people are very
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harsh on her?
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Literally.
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And like, let's just stop being so fucking harsh on young women anyway.
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I mean, my God, she's transitioning from being a child star to trying to be a woman in
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an actress.
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And I think she's taken on some great project so far.
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All of her projects that I've noticed that I've watched of her anyway are strongly feminist.
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It's, oh gosh, the one where she plays Sherlock Holmes sister.
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Anola Holmes.
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Yeah.
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All of her characters start with E.
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Interesting.
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For a lot of them to.
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Millie.
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Millie.
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Millie.
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I thought it was a great action. It reminded me of ever after, with Drew Berrymore back in the day. Also, it reminded me of that movie, "Ready or Not," where she marries into that family and they have to play hide and seek with some family ritual and their children remember. And, Dan also feeds into one of our previous episodes of...
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-Guff her! -Guff her!
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-Guff her!
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[Music]
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[Music]
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So, Jennifer Lopez...
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That's it, that's the whole sentence. [Laughter]
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I mean, she's having a moment right now in pop culture for better or worse.
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I feel like a couple years ago, she was... I mean, a worldwide love from her...
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Maybe not love, but at least admiration and some kind of respect from her show at the Super Bowl, where everybody said, "Oh my God, she's in her 50s. Look at that body, that's insane."
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-Amazing, yeah, that's great. -Yeah, she looks great.
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But, she's facing a bit of a downfall right now, which is of her own making and just also proof of how fast I think the public can turn against you.
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Yeah, I think to back it up a little bit for those who have been under a rock or maybe are not TikTok users, like the three of us are...
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JLo made a movie, which is called "This is Me Now."
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And it's a call back to an album she made a while back, is "This is Me Then."
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And a couple years ago when she announced she was gonna be doing this album, everyone made the joke like, "This is Me Now, 'cause it was a shanty then."
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Yeah, so a big conspiracy theory of JLo is that on all the songs that she made on her first album is actually a shanty ghost singing.
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Dude, she doesn't sing on a lot of songs.
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Yeah, on a lot of songs, she's a ghost singer.
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So JLo decides that she's going to make a movie film or a musical movie about this album, "This is Me Now."
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And also she makes, in conjunction with this, a documentary about making "This is Me Now."
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And an album.
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So it's like a three-step thing.
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She went for the Beyonce special.
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Literally, but she is not Beyonce.
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And she's playing and she funded it.
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Yeah, that's crazy to me.
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Yeah, so we watched the documentary as well.
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All of us together.
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But after watching this documentary, I had to watch the movie.
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And so with the movie, if you're not really familiar or don't want to see it, I would not recommend it.
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Yeah, do you pop this movie?
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No, absolutely not.
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But the movie is based on this Puerto Rican myth about these two, it's kind of like a Romeo and Juliet story.
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So it's kind of further.
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It's sort of so-and-out like the movie is based on this Puerto Rican myth that it's like a star-crossed Romeo and Juliet lover situation.
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And one woman gets turned into a rose and her lover to find her gets turned into a hummingbird.
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So it's a Puerto Rican myth that if you see a hummingbird, it means that they're looking for their lover.
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And that is the theme of this entire movie.
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And so she's creates this myth into the through line of this movie.
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And I'll tell you the three stories of it.
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There are the zodiacs who are all the cameos that they talk about in this documentary, which we'll talk a lot about.
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So the zodiacs are all the celebrities.
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And they're overlooking JLo's life and wondering like, why can't you see the signs?
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Then there is JLo who is playing a 28 year old.
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Oh my god.
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She's a fucking old woman.
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Does she D.A. herself?
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I don't know. I mean, she looks so good. Who knows?
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I know.
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And I'm sure there's some kind of filter going on here.
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Yeah.
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But like, yes, she scores.
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And so there's like the real storyline of her going through it in her life.
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And then there's also this weird dream sequence.
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Meanwhile, all this entire time, it is her dancing.
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And there's some lines, but it's like dancing into the music.
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And so it's all the songs from her album from the album.
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And I was trying to figure out I was like, okay, watching this movie, this is not the worst movie I've ever seen.
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The music is so bad.
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And they talk a little bit about on the documentary where they made the album.
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And then they had to reverse engineer the album into the movie.
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Oh, man.
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And I really, truly believe if she had made the movie and then made the music, it would have been better.
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It's like to the detriment of your music.
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And if you were going to present yourself as a musical artist, I don't know, maybe you would be focused.
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But that a little bit.
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It sounded like me in an Apple freaking garage band.
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Like I'm not even kidding. Like the mixing was bad.
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Of the songs, like the songs themselves were bad.
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The beats were bad.
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Like all of it was so atrocious.
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And so I don't know about you guys.
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I know we mainly watch the documentary.
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What did you think about the documentary?
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Like did it seem interesting enough?
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Like obviously people had said that it was really bad.
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But what did you guys think about the way she was telling the story and the documentary?
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I feel like you describing the musical movie is basically just a documentary.
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Yeah.
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Honestly, like the way you just described it, I'm like, I feel like I watched it.
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I remember her calling the people to be the zodiacs.
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Yeah.
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Nobody wanted to work with her.
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She called so many celebrities.
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And everyone was like, oh, they're busy that day.
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Oh, they can't do it.
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They have this commitment that day.
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And I'm like, do you not know that that's a sign that nobody wants to work with you?
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That's what I gathered is, I mean, for people kept telling her, left and right.
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This is a bad idea.
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Yeah.
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You shouldn't do this.
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And she went ahead and did it anyway and self-funded it.
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And honestly, it's getting a lot of flat.
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Like even her best friend, Jane Fonda, who I don't know if that's actually her best friend,
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but from previous clips when she got her walk of fame star, they were best friends.
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They were in that film together years ago.
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Yeah.
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And it was crazy to me about like all the people who are best friends with JLo.
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I don't know if you guys picked this up.
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They were all her employees.
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They were like, she's like my best friend.
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She's like a sister to me.
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So that felt very interesting.
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Like, I definitely think JLo will only surround herself with yes people.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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And a very common through line.
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Yeah.
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And she has, it's interesting to see that these people work for her.
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I wonder what their salaries look like to say that they're her friends and stuff like that,
23:10
because she has a big history of being awful.
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She's staffed and to just the public like a few things that I gathered.
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So her drivers allegedly follow strict rules or they're going to be fired.
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She won't work with Virgo's.
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Yep.
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That's insane.
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Like literally refuse it.
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That's fine.
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So it wasn't lost on me that she made Kim Petra's the Virgo.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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You only transversal.
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And she's accused of being a terrible tipper and just if you're some kind of ordinary person
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around her, then she's going to treat you like shit.
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JLo is universally known as a diva, which I typically do not like because it's like, okay,
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if you stand up for yourself, you're not.
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You're a bitch.
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You know, that's very common.
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Well, there's different than being like standing up for yourself when something really
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goes wrong.
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Like, Bree Larson and when people are talking down to her for just having the audacity to
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do exist as a woman, that's different than being like not tipping people.
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Yeah.
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That's another one that I had is she refused to speak to a flight attendant who directly
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spoke to her.
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She won't acknowledge her backup singers.
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You're not allowed to look her in the eye.
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She makes her nannies work 16 hours a day.
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I watched some tick talk about a guy who worked at a movie theater in Hollywood and she wanted
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to go watch a movie.
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And she had to go through the back door because she cannot go through the front door like the
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public.
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But he's like, okay, well, the back door is where if you've ever worked in a movie theater
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or restaurant, that's where the dumpsters are.
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That's where we take the trash out.
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Yeah.
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So it's kind of sticky and smells.
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So he said the whole staff had to spend like 24 hours hosing it down and making it look
24:51
like a red carpet and it's like pristine for JLo.
24:54
I thought one of the funnier things was the beginning of the movie, Ben Affleck.
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Because like, what are we doing?
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Why are we having this now?
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The opening line was the irony of the greatest love story never told is that you're telling
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it.
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And they were calling him Penn Affleck because she showed all of those letters he wrote
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there in the 2000s.
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That was crazy to me.
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Dude, and I do think he was okay with all of them.
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Because being shown he seemed kind of uncomfortable.
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Ben Affleck kind of baseline seems uncomfortable at all times to be there.
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But now let's speak a little bit to Jennifer Lopez trying to seem so relatable.
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I think this is like a downfall of her brand too is I mean, she's in her 50s.
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I feel like she could be a person who kind of speaks like, yeah, this is what it's like
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to be a woman in my 50s.
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This is what I'm doing for my fitness.
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She comes across is so extravagantly.
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She wants you to feel that way.
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Exactly.
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And then it makes you feel bad about yourself.
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That's just kind of what I gather from her on social media anyway.
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Yeah.
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I also read to you that I don't know if this is true or not, but it probably is considering
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everything we've been talking about that.
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When she went back to her hometown, I believe that she was a woman who was a woman who
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I believe she grew up from the Bronx.
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- Yeah, she actually grew up in Coragloth.
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- Annie from the blah.
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She went back to her hometown and a group from her neighborhood knew she was there.
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They asked her to come back to her old-time school to help out and support it, probably
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donate some money if she could, and she just completely ignored them and did not want
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to do anything to help her old-time school.
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And I'm like, you came from absolutely nothing, and you don't want to help out in any
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way.
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- Yeah, but you're a mother.
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- Possibly can.
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- Yeah, exactly.
26:52
- And she wants to rep the Bronx whenever it serves her.
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- Oh, yeah.
26:55
- She wants to say Jenny from the blog, and from the Bronx, but then I saw some funny clip
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of her going to her childhood home or in the area, and she's like, I'm Jennifer Lopez.
27:03
- I'm obsessed with that.
27:05
I think that's the funniest thing ever.
27:07
And she would tell she was taken aback.
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She's like, oh my god, you don't know who I am.
27:10
- J-Lo.
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- It's me, Jenny.
27:12
- That was a really popular clip going around right now with her taking out her extension.
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She's like, I remember when I was a little girl, and I was just so wild, and I'd take my
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hair out, and I was free.
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And she's like making this per-slip.
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Like, you know, I wish I could be her again.
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And she's talking like that.
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- Yeah.
27:35
- She sounds like me right now, and then she goes, man, when I was a kid, I was in the Bronx,
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and you know, like, I don't know if she's performing for her.
27:44
But for everybody in the Bronx, she's like, we don't rep you.
27:47
- Yeah, we don't know you.
27:49
- You rich and I'm claiming you.
27:50
- Yeah, we don't claim you.
27:52
- That's yeah, I mean.
27:54
- So in the beginning of this documentary, this is one of the things that pissed me off
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the most.
27:59
So they're going like, why do you want to do this?
28:02
And J-Lo goes, you know, Prince is my inspiration.
28:08
He made a movie, musical, album, of a purple brain.
28:13
And it's like, girl, are you comparing yourself to Prince Prince?
28:17
And she does that like multiple times throughout the documentary.
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- This self-angry.
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- What's the word I'm looking for?
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Self-aggrandization.
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- Yeah.
28:26
- There it is.
28:27
- And so she could care for yourself to purple rain.
28:29
And then the next clip is, you know, Beyonce's movie didn't make anything.
28:33
Bababla's movie didn't make anything.
28:36
And like, no one believes in us.
28:37
So she's producing in herself.
28:39
And I went, you said, oh, I'm just like Prince.
28:41
So I'm going to make this movie.
28:43
Beyonce couldn't do it though.
28:44
And I'm like, okay, well, Beyonce did it.
28:46
And it was iconic.
28:47
But they were like, no studio would pay for it.
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And it didn't make money.
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And I'm like, yeah, but that's like one of the most iconic parts about it.
28:54
Beyonce is lemonade.
28:56
Like exactly.
28:57
- And it went over really well.
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But Beyonce made an amazing album.
29:02
And then she made an amazing visual album.
29:05
It wasn't, she made a shit album and then made up semi-good movie.
29:09
And like throughout this whole documentary, which I thought was pretty crazy,
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is Ben Affleck is literally begging her not to do this.
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He's like, this isn't going to go well.
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Like at one point, he asked her like, what is success with this?
29:26
Like what's the point?
29:27
Like, when are you going to be happy with what you did?
29:30
And she goes, just making it.
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And she says like, I want to show the world that you can do it.
29:36
I want to make this movie so people know love exists.
29:40
- Yeah, yeah.
29:41
I mean, level of delusion.
29:43
- Yeah.
29:44
- Girl.
29:45
- I mean, okay, listen, I'm not going to shit on somebody for going for their dreams.
29:52
And if you a passion project, sure.
29:55
But it's just, I mean, okay, she had what was it?
29:58
$20 million to make this?
29:59
- She would have $20 million of her own money.
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- Yeah.
30:02
- But not all the money.
30:03
- Must be nice.
30:04
- Other people put money into it.
30:05
- Yeah.
30:06
Like I wish I had $20 million to do an passion project to prove that I love my husband.
30:09
I don't know.
30:11
And comparing herself to Beyonce and things, like we kind of alluded in the beginning,
30:15
that J-Lo doesn't sing a lot of her own songs.
30:18
As you mentioned earlier, Ashanti sang on "Antit Funny" and "I'm Real."
30:24
The song play is all Christina Million.
30:28
Ginny from the block was rumored to be sung by a woman named Natasha Raymos, who demoed
30:33
the song and then "Ant your mama," or one of her more recent hits, "It's Megan Trainor."
30:39
It's 100% Megan Trainor.
30:40
- Oh wow.
30:41
- Yeah.
30:42
If you re-listen to that song after we record this and the entire chorus, you're like, "That's
30:47
Megan Trainor."
30:48
- That's Megan Trainor.
30:49
- And their voices don't even sound similar, which is funny.
30:52
So a lot of these people have come out and said, "Yeah."
30:54
Either I recorded these songs first and then J-Lo recorded them over them.
30:59
And then I'm kind of like the background vocal and not credited.
31:04
Megan Trainor famously has written a lot of songs for other artists, but those are straight
31:08
up her vocals on this.
31:10
I feel like J-Lo's talented.
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I would say that she's more talented as an actress than as a singer.
31:15
- Yes, for sure.
31:16
- If she didn't have such a grife to prove that she could sing, she could dance, she could
31:21
act like a dancer.
31:22
- She's a great dancer.
31:23
If she didn't put all of her eggs into being a really good actress, she would have done
31:29
that.
31:30
- I totally agree.
31:31
- That's why when I was watching the movie, it was like, "Isn't a bad movie?
31:34
The music is so bad."
31:36
Like, she's dancing throughout it and it is good dancing and she's like choreographing
31:40
it, but the music is so bad that you really can't do it.
31:45
And she had multiple producers on that.
31:47
- She's just like, "Girl, I don't know."
31:49
- If you guys were in charge of J-Lo's team, what would be your advice now in order to
31:56
kind of get her out of this hole, this cringe cycle where everyone's saying she's
32:00
unrelatable, she's cringe, she's flaunting herself, she's rude.
32:07
What is your, if you're in charge of her team, what do you do?
32:09
What do you think, Nicole?
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- Give me all your money.
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No, I'm just joking.
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What is your advice to her if you're in charge of her?
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- I'd probably tell her just to kind of lay out of the, I know she's not really in the
32:21
spotlight right now, but kind of just lay out of the spotlight.
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Just don't go out.
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I don't know.
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- Big advantage.
32:29
- Yeah.
32:30
- That's what I mean.
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You have your assistant.
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I know, I don't know.
32:33
Stop chicken likes her assistant, who knows, but have your assistant go out and do stuff
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for you?
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That's what they're there for.
32:40
Just, yeah, lay low.
32:41
- Lay low will hold eyes down.
32:43
- Lay low will hold eyes down.
32:44
- Yeah.
32:45
- Mine's polar opposite.
32:46
Interested.
32:47
So I say that she goes full expose on Tommy Metola and what Tommy Metola used her to get
32:57
back at Mariah Carey for.
32:59
Interested.
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I think she goes full warfare on Diddy.
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- Oh, there it is.
33:05
- There it is.
33:06
- Given everything with Diddy being rated, I think that she talks a lot, like I think she
33:12
needs to rip the bandaid off about being an industry plant.
33:16
And just say, here's my experience, here's how I got into the business.
33:20
And like here's what it is.
33:22
And because everyone knows that JLo is so fake and that's the problem.
33:27
I think if she would talk about how she came into the industry and came from a backup dancer
33:33
to this person who's incredibly famous because a record executive wanted to get back at
33:38
Mariah Carey, who's his wife at the time.
33:40
Like it is such an interesting story.
33:44
And she's trying to address it, but in such a fake and manufactured way.
33:48
- That's the thing is actually be real.
33:50
- Be real.
33:51
- Like she's creating an image right now where she's trying like, oh, I'm being so authentic
33:55
and vulnerable.
33:56
- But she keeps saying.
33:57
- She's trying to figure out it that it's a meta version of her life.
34:01
And I'm like, yeah, we don't think you understand what meta means.
34:04
- Yeah.
34:05
- First of all, no.
34:06
- And then like we all see through this.
34:08
- Exactly.
34:09
- And actually people are making fun of her.
34:10
- People are craving authenticity.
34:13
And I mean, obviously celebrities do their own privacy.
34:18
They don't need to tell us every detail of their lives.
34:21
But if you're going to go and say like, this is me being vulnerable and like authentic.
34:25
- This is me.
34:26
- Be fucking vulnerable and authentic.
34:28
- Well, I thought I was really introducing myself.
34:30
- There's a part where like it's kind of like documentary style.
34:33
She's wearing that black turtle neck.
34:36
And Ben Affleck is the one asking her all of the questions.
34:39
And it is really vulnerable.
34:41
- Yeah.
34:42
- And she's talking about it.
34:43
And it's because of his questions though.
34:44
He's like, do you forgive me for 20 years ago, 20 years ago?
34:50
And every moment that he was interviewing her, I was like, oh, okay.
34:54
I could like this J-Lo.
34:56
- Yeah, I could like this fake J-Lo.
34:59
- I think that's the thing.
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And what I would say if I was in charge of her team is show people the real you.
35:04
Show them what it's like to you.
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Like you said, be like a woman in your 50s who's had to work through this entire industry
35:11
and work your way up and claw for what you have.
35:14
And I mean, show your actual skin care routine without filters if that's what you want to
35:19
do.
35:20
And if you really want to rep the Bronx, go and do some good things for the past.
35:25
Go donate.
35:26
I mean, actually get your feet in the ground.
35:29
I mean, don't do it just for a photo up and show up for one day with your entire entourage.
35:36
Maybe go and shake some dirty hands of the calm and the soul.
35:40
- Make eye contact.
35:41
- I mean, check the whole thing.
35:43
- She did put her hands in mud.
35:45
- Yeah.
35:46
- Oh god.
35:47
- The mud part was shit.
35:48
- It needs to be thicker.
35:49
- And it's water.
35:50
- Good god.
35:51
Fix my mud.
35:52
- It made me so mad when they were like, oh, let's bring the mud over and just like, I don't
35:56
have time.
35:57
- Yeah.
35:58
- I'm like, girl, what are you doing?
35:59
You're going, probably going back home.
36:00
- Yeah.
36:01
- Show out.
36:02
- You can't wait for them out.
36:03
- Girl.
36:04
- Yeah.
36:05
- My servant.
36:06
My servant.
36:07
- Yeah.
36:08
Pretty much.
36:09
- Well, I hope J.Lo listens to this and gets some good advice from us.
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I think we all need to take our hair out and just run up and down the block.
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