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MINI SCROLL: 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast backlash, McDonald's CEO burger troll, Zendaya reportedly married + more · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  All right, let's get into the stories for today.
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  So the first story that I have for you guys today is the 2
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  Bears 1 Cave podcast is facing backlash over a rage bait viral
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  clip about holding your newborn baby.
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  So the podcast 2 Bears 1 Cave, it's kind of like a raunchy
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  comedy podcast. It's by two comedians, Bert
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  Kreischer, Craig Kreischer. I always see EIS.
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  My last name is EIS, like Meisner EIS.
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  And I always pronounce it the opposite of how I pronounce my
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  last name. And then I'm like, why did I not
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  read it like my last name. Bert and Tom Segura.
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  The podcast is super popular. They have millions of listens.
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  They have millions of followers. They've been supported over the
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  years by Joe Rogan. So it's like that type of comedy
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  podcast, OK. Over the weekend, the podcast
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  was facing major backlash after a resurfaced clip started going
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  viral from an episode in which Bert makes a sexual joke about
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  men holding their newborn babies.
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  I know what I'm about to say to you and I know that you're going
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  to go what he goes. There's a lot of things people
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  don't tell you about parenting, especially dads.
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  A lot of people keep dads in the dark.
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  Like first time you hang out and hold your kid by yourself,
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  you're going to get hard. It gets better.
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  So I didn't know any better so I just listened to him and I'm
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  only my kid going. How come my?
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  OK, so in this clip it's kind of hard to decipher, but he's
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  actually referring to something that someone else said to him.
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  So this was apparently a prank that his father played on him
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  before he had his first child. Which is why everyone is
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  laughing so much in the clip. Because Burt was basically
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  saying like I was holding my newborn child waiting for this
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  to happen to me after I was told that it would happen to me and
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  he was told that it was going to happen to him as a prank.
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  And while that context has been missing from a of the social
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  media reactions and the reporting of this clip, I don't
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  think that makes this any better.
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  That's been like the defense that, you know, fans of this
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  podcast and men that don't think that this is that weird and
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  thought that this joke was funny or whatever.
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  That's the defense that they've been using when people are
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  criticizing this podcast clip. They're like, this is taken out
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  of context. You don't understand.
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  He's not saying it about himself.
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  He's telling a story about something that was told to him.
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  OK, That honestly doesn't make it any better.
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  First of all, the entire room of men laugh so hard that they can
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  barely breathe. This is a room filled with grown
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  men and fathers laughing at a joke about being aroused over
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  your newborn baby. If my friend told me a story
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  like that, that their parent played some type of prank on
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  them like this, I would think that was sick and I would be
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  deeply concerned about what my friend experienced as a child
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  having a parent like that. That is not a story to use as a
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  joke on a podcast to relate to people and think that this this
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  is a funny joke that was told to you.
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  This was a funny prank that was played on you.
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  Once you realize that that was a quote UN quote prank, you should
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  have been so horrified that somebody thought that that was
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  appropriate or funny or whatever to play on you and to tell you.
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  And that should have been it done there.
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  Second, this clip was obviously edited to be rage bait.
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  The podcast episode that this clip is from came out in 2019.
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  Their podcast network posted this clip to TikTok in 2024.
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  And then the two bears. I was going to say Two Birds,
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  Two Bears 1 Cave podcast posted it on their like actual podcast
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  account in 2025. So they have reposted this clip
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  multiple times over the course of several years because they
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  knew that it's shocking and that it probably goes viral every
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  time they post it. And look like we all understand
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  the dynamics of rage bait online.
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  We've probably all engaged in rage bait online.
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  We've probably participated in it in one way or another.
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  But this is not rage bait opinion.
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  This is not being contrary in for rage bait purposes.
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  This is not like sensational rage bait.
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  This is intentional rage bait that makes a mockery of
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  something so sick and disgusting and they're just.
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  There needs to be consequences for people who engage in rage
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  bait like this. At some point you actually can
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  take the joke too far. You can take the rage bait too
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  far. And the fact that they have
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  reposted this so many times over so many years is really telling.
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  This is an example of what we constantly say, which is other
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  men need to hold their friends, their family, their peers
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  accountable. They need to hold each other
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  accountable. That room of men who were just
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  laughing their asses off at this.
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  I understand some of them are probably working for Bert.
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  It's an uncomfortable situation. But at the very least bare
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  minimum his host who is on equal playing field with in this clip
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  should have called him out and been like that is sick.
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  We are obviously not posting that anywhere.
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  We are cutting this out. Like what the fuck is wrong with
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  you? OK, the next story that I have
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  for you guys today is the McDonald's CEO is being trolled
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  for his new promotion of the McDonald's Big Arch Burger.
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  So Chris Kemsinski, who is the CEO and president of McDonald's,
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  is going viral for his promo video that he made of the
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  company's new burger, the Big Arch.
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  I've never done this on many before, but I'm going to do a
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  live react for you guys because I actually need you to
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  understand how insane this video is.
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  Here it is, the big arch. This is something that we have
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  tested already in Portugal, Germany, Canada.
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  I love this product. This is a man who is speaking to
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  shareholders all day, every day. This is not a man consuming
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  their quote UN quote product to be speaking to consumers, trying
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  to get us excited about this new burger and calling it a product,
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  talking about how you've tested it around the world.
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  This is the least humanizing, appetizing way that you could
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  ever market this burger. So good.
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  I'm going to do a tasting right now, but I'm going to eat this
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  for my lunch, just so you know, so.
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  Just so you know, I eat McDonald's too, just like you
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  plebs. Here we go first.
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  Holy cow God, that is a big burger.
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  We've got a. Very God that's a big burger.
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  That is a regular degular sized burger.
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  As we all know, McDonald's burgers are like, notoriously
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  incredibly flat and very small. Unique kind of sesame poppy sort
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  of bun on it. We've got 2 quarter pound
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  patties. Is it that unique?
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  A bun with sesame seeds and poppy seeds on it.
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  Is it that unique? This thing, I don't even know
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  how to attack. It got so much to it.
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  Oh, there's also some crispy. Has he ever eaten a burger
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  before? I just.
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  Want those kind of coming out All right.
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  The moment of truth that is so good.
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  That's a big bite for a big arch.
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  The jump cut from when he takes the world's smallest bite.
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  We don't even see him swallow. He says that's so good.
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  And then the immediate jump to the world's smallest bite in his
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  burger, that's a big bite. No, it's not.
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  Delicious product. You know, you've got sort of the
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  cheeses and the gooeyness, but those crispy onions as well
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  gives a nice texture. And of course, we've got the
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  Pickles. So I'm going to enjoy the rest
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  of my lunch. Of course, the Pickles.
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  Try it when you can get it. So this is going viral because
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  this is basically like Aceo cosplaying as a normal person
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  trying to convince us to eat this for lunch as if he's ever
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  in McDonald's for lunch in his life.
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  He's being trolled so much. Everybody's like, hello fellow
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  humans. What a delicious product.
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  It's so funny. You guys need to look at the
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  reactions on Reddit and like in his comments on TikTok.
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  It's so good. I love how he also doesn't tell
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  us at all like what it tastes like.
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  Like what is this new quote UN quote product?
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  What is big garch sauce? Like what is the flavor profile?
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  Why would I want to try it? I don't know anything about the
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  burger. All I know is that he thinks he
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  took a big bite out of this burger that has a mixture of
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  sesame seeds and poppy seeds on the button.
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  So aside from being awkward and obviously funny because of how
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  awkward it is, I do feel like if you want people to purchase from
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  your brand, don't get the CEO who is totally out of touch,
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  makes around $20 million a year in salary to promote your brand,
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  especially when you are on the boycott list.
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  Like none of this is going down. Well, I mean, they actually, you
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  know what, they're going viral. Maybe I take that back.
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  They are getting their viral moment.
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  It's just really not for what they expected or probably what
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  they hoped for. There are some brands that don't
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  need to be humanized because it doesn't actually make sense.
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  There's a lot of CE OS that promote their companies and use
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  their products and all that kind of stuff, but for a company like
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  McDonald's, we don't need to humanize the executive team.
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  We don't need for you to pretend that the executive team is
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  eating McDonald's for lunch. We know they are not eating
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  McDonald's for lunch. This doesn't do anything for the
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  brand aside from making us think that the social media team or
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  his own personal team, whoever is encouraging him to make this
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  type of content, it feels like they really don't understand the
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  purpose behind employee generated content, leader
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  generated content, CEO generated content, founder generated
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  content whatever. OK, the next word that I have
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  for you guys today is Flava flav someone I never thought I would
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  talk about on mini scroll is putting on a celebration for
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  women Olympic athletes and tons of brands are stepping up to
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  participate. So rapper Flavour of Love, star
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  and apparent women's sports enthusiast Flava Flav offered to
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  host the US women's hockey team in Las Vegas for a celebration
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  of their win after they were disrespected by Trump and the
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  men's hockey team. Which caused a lot of backlash,
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  especially amongst the hockey community.
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  Over the past couple of weeks, given the hockey community has
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  expanded a lot and now includes, I'm sure, way more women than
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  ever before, particularly thanks to disciplines, particularly
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  thanks to things like book talk and huge rivalry.
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  Last Monday, Flava Flav wrote on X quote.
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  If the USA women's hockey team wants a real celebration and
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  invite, I'll host them to Las Vegas, do some nice dinners and
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  shows and good at times. I'm sure I can get a hotel and
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  airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real,
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  for real almost right away. StubHub and Alaska Airlines
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  reached out to Flave over social media, offering to cover the
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  women's show tickets and airfare.
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  Now, for anyone confused, Flava Flave first got involved in the
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  US Olympic teams during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, where he
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  pledged to support the women's water polo team.
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  I will also note before I keep going that Flava Flav does have
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  a history of alleged abuse and violence against female family
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  members, romantic partners. So I think we need to keep that
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  in mind when looking at, you know, his advocacy and his
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  support of women's sports over these just past couple of years.
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  Now, this offering that he put out early last week has
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  continued to evolve. Flava Flav has now widened the
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  invite to include all US female Olympic and Paralympic medalists
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  as well as the US bobsled and skeleton teams groups that he
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  did support as an official sponsor and self-proclaimed
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  quote UN quote hype man at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter
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  Games. He then launched A GoFundMe for
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  people who want to support the celebration from afar as well As
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  for people who want to support the women's hockey player Kelly
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  Pannek who was recently involved in a car accident and I guess
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  needs a new car. This is from women's sports
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  commentator You forgot about Dre.
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  Was started as a desire to celebrate the women's hockey
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  team because the men and the president weren't now turn into
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  an entire female Olympian celebration weekend in Vegas
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  hosted by Flavor Flav and the gist and sponsored by hundreds
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  of companies already Alaska Air stuff, Amica Carvey, Michaels.
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  I mean, literally, so many stores are like, we're in, let's
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  do. This I do love seeing brands
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  jump on to support something like this, but maybe we can keep
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  this energy for women's sports in general when they need
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  sponsorship and money and funding and support, you know,
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  year round, not just around this one specific event.
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  All right, And the last word that I have for you guys, this
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  is like 3 seconds long, but I saw it right before I started
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  recording. La Roche has seemingly confirmed
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  that Zendaya and Tom Holland are already married.
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  So in an interview on the red carpet at the Actor Awards,
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  which used to be the SAG after awards but now they've renamed
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  it to the Actor Awards, Zendaya's longtime stylist La
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  Roche told Access Hollywood that her wedding to Tom Holland
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  already happened and we all missed it.
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  The. Wedding has already happened.
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  You missed it. It's not true.
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  It's very true. Thank you so much.
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  I feel like I'm not surprised that they would have done this
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  like totally DL, but I am surprised that we're finding
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  that out through her stylist on the red carpet in such a casual
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  way. People online are like, Oh my
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  God, I can't believe he spilled it like this.
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  And then others are like, he's been her stylist for decades.
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  Like he obviously knows what he is and is not allowed to say and
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  she probably would be OK with him saying this if he's saying
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  it and I tend to agree with that.
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