Dark Energy Tuesday (Kymanda Divorcing?, Kris Jenner’s Birthday Party, Paige Lorenze & Hallie Batchelder)

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21:59Christy Noel:What should we talk about next? Okay. So I had to do market research last night. I was so freaking tired, but I knew we were recording and, you know, because we have a business that we're passionate about and I knew the baby snarks would want to hear like a recap of Paige Lorenz on Hallie Batchelder's Extra Dirty. I saw it on the NYC Influencer Snark, people saying that she was, I guess Paige is releasing a Dairy Boy capsule collection of blue sweats, like a sweatshirt and matching sweatpants. Light baby blue with like a milk jug on the butt. Ew, ew. Why is there a milk jug on the butt? And I guess in the marketing campaign, her and Halle were on the ad together, which is why she was on Extra Dirty.

22:45Christy Noel:That was the reason. So, of course, I had to watch it. And, you know, I was watching it while I was brushing my teeth before bed, while I was, like, turning down my normal turndown service. Put the hatch light on, drying my hair. So I watched it on 2X speed, and I want to just talk about a couple highlights that I thought were interesting. First of all, I know nothing about Halle Batchelder other than the fact about that Wes Wilson rumor. And also that she doesn't believe in condoms. Yes. between those two things and the fact that she's Alex Cooper's new sidekick, what Alex Cooper wanted Alex Earl to be, but Hallie Batchelder took her place, took Alex Earl's place.

23:23Christy Noel:I know nothing about Hallie Batchelder. And the fact that her podcast is called Extra Dirty. So it's like, you don't believe in condoms. You've admitted to having anal allegedly with Wes Wilson and your podcast is called, it has the word dirty in it. I actually hate that name, Extra Dirty. Yeah. It's supposed to be like an extra dirty like martini, but with a double entendre because she's always talking about like sex, which is great. I am all for people being open about talking about sex. I'm not shaming that. It's what she says. Yeah. And I don't want to sound like I'm some prude. It's more so this could just be as if I'm like above it or whatever, but it just feels so vapid.

24:06Christy Noel:And I genuinely felt like I lost brain cells while watching it. So first of all, thank you for doing this research. But I just wanted to say really fast that like Hallie Batchelder's dirty party girl image where she's like dirty and greasy and hates condoms, whatever. I feel like Paige Lorenz has this very like clean girl image now with her like tennis swag and she's so clean and perfect. So it feels like a weird partnership to me. That's such a good point. the juxtaposition between their two brands, Paige, the Ralph Lauren Country Club, New England, Clean Girl Aesthetic, Farming, Gritty, Hallie Batchelder partying in New York City with her dirty martinis and talking about her sexcapades.

24:44Christy Noel:It's so different. So I found this partnership, especially Paige's decision to include Hallie on the marketing campaign. Very odd. I had no idea they were even friends, but I guess the two of them are actually related. I found out Paige called her mom to validate the it's some like second cousin through Paige's mom's side. In any case, they were talking about how they both grew up summering in Nantucket Island and how Paige always knew about Hallie just through the social scene. And Paige was like, growing up, I was such a serious competitive ski racer. I didn't drink. I was straight up. So I didn't go out.

25:20Christy Noel:But I always heard the lore about you, Hallie. And I always looked up to you and I thought you were so cool. and it's the entire first 25 minutes was Paige just showering Hallie with compliments. How smart you are, how business savvy you are, how genuine you are, how supportive of mine and other people's businesses you are. It just felt incredibly disingenuous from Paige's perspective. It was almost laying it on too thick with the compliments. That could just be me being a hater, but I found that to be very odd. And Paige made a couple of statements. She goes, you know, I don't really go on TikTok.

25:54Christy Noel:Give me a break. We've done an episode on Paige Lorenz on Patreon, patreon.com slash snarkbaitpod. And we kind of got a lot of heat for putting it behind a paywall. It's not because we wanted people to come and convert to being patrons. It's because we are absolutely terrified of Paige and reasonably so because she subsequently blocked all of our accounts after she probably came across something. Yes, and we've gotten asked, our patrons know this, because we talked about it on Patreon. We've gotten asked before if we get blocked by influencers. And we really have never gotten blocked by anyone.

26:23except that Paige Lerens.

26:24Christy Noel:Yes. And I just found that to be comical because I know from doing the research for that episode and when we did an episode on Morgan Riddle, who's kind of her op in the tennis wag sphere, we talked a little bit about Paige on that episode as well. And every TikTok I went to, Paige about her, about people talking about her, she would comment on it. So I know she's on TikTok. Yeah. She was really, really pushing, like I would say 50 % of the podcast episode on how successful and huge of an endeavor Dairy Boy has become. She said that they're opening a store in Nantucket and she feels like after summering and working in retail in Nantucket, I know exactly what the buyer wants.

27:01Christy Noel:And I feel like Dairy Boy at our price point, there's not a place where you can purchase clothing at our price point on Nantucket Island. And I feel like Dairy Boy is perfect for the aesthetic. I think that Paige is really trying to create Dairy Boy into like a Ralph Lauren. Do you feel that way? I actually saw, well, I saw it. I think that's a laughable concept, but I think it probably is true. And I saw a TikTok. I can't remember if it was a TikTok or like on Instagram, whatever. Either way, it was basically someone saying Dairy Boy is the next Ralph Lauren. Everyone was like, this has got to be a joke.

27:34No one actually thinks that, except there are those. I think they're really young. Her fans that love Dairy Boy, like college students and younger Gen Z, they think that she literally is the next Ralph Lauren. I think that probably is what she's going for, honestly.

27:49Christy Noel:Yes. And I just had to look it up. Ralph Lauren founded his company in 1967. Ralph Lauren is a tried and true historical, like American brand. Dairy Boy is five years in the making. So I think it's kind of a slap in the face to compare the two because you really just cannot compare like at all. There is no comparison. Ralph Lauren invented this certain aesthetic. Yes. That Dairy Boy is also Dairy Boy. and we talked about this on our Paige Lorenz episode too, about how Dairy Boy can't decide what it wants to be. It's like, oh, you invented camo, but now you want to be all country club. Okay, so you're like country, but now you're country club, you're tennis swag.

28:30Like, it just is all over the place, the aesthetic of it. And now it's like, oh, now it's all Ralph Lauren country club. Like, what?

28:37Christy Noel:People were asking on Reddit, who actually is a purchaser of Dairy Boy? And it's funny because I lived in San Francisco, I actually did live in the marina. And that neighborhood gets a lot of hate because it is kind of like, I feel like it's the West Village of San Francisco. Yuppies, USC grads, like that kind of sorority fraternity. And people were saying it's that kind of girl that lives in the marina, that walks around Union Street, donning Dairy Boy, but it's like younger people. It's kind of like what I would feel, call her daddy's demographic primarily is just a young, fresh out of college demographic of people that are wearing Dairy Boy.

29:10Christy Noel:But yeah, she said a couple things about the brand, like you just mentioned, she said, I was making camo when it wasn't cool. And I was like, what? That was such a good 90s look or early 2000s look. Like, what are you talking about before it was cool? It's always been cool. Camo has always been cool. I literally pulled up just, I just literally typed in 90s into Google just to prove my point. Destiny's Child wearing camo, Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton during The Simple Life, donning camo like on the red carpet. This has been a tried and true trend forever. Yeah. What about, okay, so I'm just looking at your notes here.

29:42she said she works a nine to five please please don't don't even fucking get me started because when we know for a fact she is so online on reddit on tiktok we always ask ourselves and i think we

29:57Christy Noel:talked about this on our patreon episode i would love to know what a day in the life of page lorenz actually looks like because she is so incredibly online so much so to the point where she's blocking snarkbait pod my instagram your instagram so if you are working a nine to five you probably just don't sleep because you work a nine to five, then you go home and you troll Reddit, you troll TikTok, and then you sleep for two hours. Please. Just the concept of her thinking that she works nine to five. I'm sorry. It's not. She's like, I go to the office every day. I'm not trying to diminish what she has built with Dairy Boy because it really is impressive.

30:35but to act like she is a nine to five employee in the workforce is just insulting to people that actually have. And she also has been an influencer online. She grew up wealthy, has been an influencer online since forever. Like she never, she never actually worked a nine to five in her life, like a real nine to five. She hasn't. So it's just kind of insulting to the real working class here, the workforce, I mean. The work, yeah.

31:04Christy Noel:No, it's true. It's like you have no idea what it's like to wake up and answer a bunch of emails, like from your stakeholders, from your cross-functional business leaders. Like you don't know. You have no idea what it's like to log in for a cross-functional review. You have no idea what it's like to open a document that says OKRs for Q4. Oh my God. But if it were up to her, according to her, she says that she has built such a savvy business and such a savvy brand that she's bringing in the best of the best. Like her CEO is the best. Listen, I haven't actually looked into who she's hired. I'm sure she's hired great people to help run this.

31:43Christy Noel:I'm not saying it's not a successful brand. It clearly is. But I think she's giving herself far more credit than I think she's deserving of, if that makes sense. Just based on her online activity and how she's constantly online, I feel like I'm going to get a lot of heat for this. I'm kind of scared to say all this. Don't be scared. No, I think what it comes down to is that she's trying to justify it to herself in a way, maybe. Like, I think that she is, we know from the history of Photoshopping and kind of changing her look and her personality, that she is someone who's deeply insecure, even though she has no reason to be.

32:16She's obviously beautiful, successful. She has everything. Yeah. She has everything. Has like a hot fiance. She literally has everything. But I think she's insecure deep down. So I think part of it is her trying to convince herself.

32:26Christy Noel:I think you hit the nail on the head. And I don't want to, I want to be clear. I know that she is like, I always say, I respect Paige Lorenz when it comes to her influencing. The way that she creates content is bar none, probably some of the best content I've ever seen. Like she is talented as shit. Wait, but she blocked you. How do you see it now? Well, when I used to be able to see it, you know, God. But, and I want to get into her acknowledging that she does in fact block people. I think she is very talented at content creation. But I think when she talks about her business, you're so right.

32:57Christy Noel:She doubles down on the fact that it's the best business that she has. Garments that are worth the price point. They're not bad quality, like the bots are saying. She really continued to press on how savvy of a businesswoman she is. And undoubtedly, she does have a successful business. But I think she has an incredible team. And she's been able to hire such an incredible team because of her background and her connections. So you cannot have all this. the success that she has without acknowledging the privilege that she's also had underneath her to even start her career to begin with. The people that she's been connected, like Armie Hammer, Tyler Cameron, Tommy Paul.

33:33Christy Noel:You can't have one without the other is what I'm saying. Totally. You and I could never start Dairy Boy and have it take off in the short amount of time that it did without having her connections. But what she was saying about blocking people was she's like, I want to talk about why I block people. And I want to actually just be truthful about this. She goes, I don't block people if they like post or anything like that. I'm blocking people if I think what you're posting is sideways. She's like, the misconception is that I don't take criticism well, but it's because I'm an empath. Oh, my, the eyes rolled to the back of my head.

34:01Please, people who call themselves empaths are actually like sociopaths. The least I hate when people self-describe.

34:07Christy Noel:I'm the type of person, you don't need to tell us, babe, just show us. Yeah, show us, show don't tell. I'm an empath. She continues to talk about how much she's succeeding in business. And she's like, I can tell you that the amount of hate that I've received online and the criticism that I've received online has never limited my ability to push product. My business has never been as successful as when I receive hate. Which, like, I kind of don't doubt that is, in fact, the case. I think for as much hate as she has, she has that same amount of followers and diehard Dairy Boy and Paige Lorenz stans.

34:38But I just thought it was so comical that she was like, I don't take criticism well because I'm so empathic. Empathetic with who? like herself what does that even mean what is she even saying she's an empath so that's why she blocks you so she's an empath towards herself yeah like i think that's just i think that's not

34:59Christy Noel:the definition of empathy and i need to look it up because i'm like i don't want to clear to be clear that makes zero sense okay empathy definition the ability to understand and share the feelings of another right but i think you're right it's like i think she's misrepresenting what being an empath really means. Is she trying to say that she like feels feelings? It's like, dude, I feel my own feelings too when I'm sad when I'm like down bad when people say bad shit about us. That's not what being an empath is. Right. So yeah, she's. Wait, also. Okay. So I'm just looking at your notes. Sorry. I like how she said there's nothing hotter than a masculine thing with a woman's touch.

35:38You steal your dad's Carhartt and then you crop it.

35:43Christy Noel:She's like, I really lean into outdoor gear because that's how I grew up. I grew up hunting, fishing, and there's nothing hotter than a woman wearing menswear. She acts as if she created that concept. She also acts like she grew up in a log cabin in the woods. She grew up in a very wealthy suburb in Connecticut. They were summering in Nantucket. Summering in Nantucket. Like, what do you mean? She was like hunting and gathering. If it were up to her, she was like killing the deer, putting it into the pot for venison stew, and also picking berries for smoothies. Mm-hmm. She was like, I'll clean the deer.

36:30Like, what?

36:31Christy Noel:Like, what are you talking about? Please, please, Paige. Come on. That's so funny. I'll clean the deer. She also said that her tennis content is her highest performing content that she ever puts on. But she's like, it's the least interesting thing about me. Because she loves to talk about how she was a competitive ski racer. And how that's really interesting about her. The fact that she's a business owner. And she goes, you know, Hallie goes, do you ever ask Tommy about your business or get his feedback? And she goes, bless his heart. He's not really business minded. He's very simple. But she meant it in an endearing way.

37:02Christy Noel:but she's like, he is the most simple, truest form of what Dairy Boy represents, which is like the simple pleasures in life. What? Fishing. Wait, but also the fact that she has - Picking flowers. Picking flowers. I made that last word. Like, what? No, picking berries. He's hunting and gathering. Pruning flowers. No, but it just, it's such a contradiction. It's like, so my tennis content gets the most engagement, but it's actually the least interesting thing about me. And it's like, okay, then what? It just, it's kind of like a contradiction in a way. I don't know. I'm like very confused by her.

37:40For anyone who's saying we're just jealous, to be clear, I am jealous of Paige Lorenz.

37:44Christy Noel:Like, I wish I looked like that. I wish I had the money she did. I wish I had a hot feel. Like, I, this is my like jealous side coming out. And I can like self, I'm self-aware enough to say she is so, to me, like visually, she's so pretty. But like the hypocrisy and just like what she's without is so untrue to herself. And I just wish she could see like you are just perfect the way you are. You don't need to prove or be so insecure. Like there's nothing to be insecure about. Right. You know, it's almost like a self-hatred that's coming across so much on the screen that I don't like seeing. It's disingenuous.

38:13Yeah. I think there's a lot of inner turmoil. And I think that this is something that we talk about a lot. It's like, yeah, someone's life could look really perfect on Instagram. And these influencers are literal professionals at making sure their lives look perfect on Instagram. But you never know what's actually happening. Like Paige doesn't know who she is. Yeah. There's a lot of just inner turmoil. Like, don't be jealous of someone like that. Yeah, she might look perfect on the outside. And then you hear an interview like this and it's like, you just don't know who you are. Yeah. But like, again, not taking away from her success.

38:44She has been so successful. She has built something really huge and popular and incredible with Dairy Boy. So good for her. Speaking of people that don't know who they are, I want to talk about Kris Jenner's birthday party and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry being there, but then trying to like erase evidence that they were there.

39:04Christy Noel:There are so many ways that this conversation can be had, like why that photo was taken down. I'm curious what you think. So I think it was because they and people are like, oh, it's it's Remembrance Day in the UK and Prince Harry was wearing a poppy, but Meghan wasn't. And everything that Meghan does or doesn't do, like doesn't wear or Poppy, is going to be torn apart by the press, especially the British press. Yes. I think it could be that. I think it's more because I personally think this, I obviously don't know for a fact, this is speculation. I think it's because they didn't want everyone to know that they were being seen with the Kardashians, even though they literally were seen with the Kardashians and the evidence isn't going to go away.

39:51Right. I think they realized, they maybe had some regret after the fact and realized it's maybe a little misaligned with what they're trying to have their brand be. But I don't think they even know what they want their brand to be. That's what's so confusing. And I am such a Meghan Markle defender and proponent for her. And I always will, we both are, we always will be. But I feel like she just doesn't know who she is or what she wants to be. And going to something like Kris Jenner's birthday party with all of these billionaires and the Kardashians, it's like, I feel like it goes against what they are trying to, I don't know, the image that they're trying to portray.

40:30They've been trying to portray since they left the royal family. I think that Harry specifically,

40:37Christy Noel:I read his book and I was that avid viewer of the crown. I do know a bit about the royal family and I feel a certain type of way towards Harry because I feel as if he never stood a chance to really understand what it's like to be a real adult in the real world. and I think it's heartbreaking that he and William and he and his father probably aren't on the best terms. King Charles has cancer and we don't know how much longer he has. His mom died at such a young age. All of this, I feel like Harry has had a very difficult life for all things considered. And I hate that he hasn't been able to reconcile with his family since he left the monarchy.

41:15Christy Noel:But I think that he just, when he's living in this seemingly normal life in Montecito, being best friends with Mindy Kaling, best friends with Oprah, best friends with Tyler Perry. It's like you're almost like this toddler that's being thrust into, I don't know, he can't be a real adult. And I feel like Megan is trying to continue hanging on to some kind of fame and relevancy because at the end of the day, she was trying to, she was seeking that at one point. She was on suit. She was trying to make it as an actress. There'll always be a part of Megan that desires some semblance of notoriety and fame.

41:48Christy Noel:But I feel like with Harry not understanding how to be an adult in real life and with Meghan wanting to find her place in Hollywood without seeming too thirsty, it's almost like they're behaving almost too thirsty now. And I feel like they don't know how to pull it back anymore because they've tried Endeavor after Endeavor. It's failed. They had that podcast. It failed. She had her Netflix show. People didn't really care for it. People trolled it. I feel like people watch the Netflix show, but they like hate watch it. I mean, it comes as no surprise that I loved it. Yeah. Like loved it. Yeah. I watched it with Shannon when I was at her house last year and she's like, God, can we turn this off?

42:26Christy Noel:I was like, I'm kind of enjoying it. I don't really want to turn it off. There's a holiday special coming. Yeah. So get excited. It's fun. It's light. Yeah. I just feel badly. I don't know. I feel badly for them. And I feel like Megan being friends with the Kardashians, Hera being friends with the Kardashians, that doesn't surprise me whatsoever. Again, they're in that world. They're friends with Tyler Perry, Oprah, and all these other people. But it's like for you to then like redact that and demand that they take it off their Instagram, you're actually making it worse. No one would have been talking about it if you hadn't requested for those photos to be removed.

42:59Christy Noel:But now it's a thing. And now here we are. And I try to defend you, Megan and Harry, but you make it really hard. It's like the Streisand effect. And I talked about this when we recorded our Thursday episode yesterday. And I'm pretty sure I talked about it. Frankenstein, the new Frankenstein movie. and Jacob Elordi, I said this when we reported the Oscar. My point is that he's like Frankenstein's monster. He's so like innocent and like new to the world. Yeah. Where like he's kind of like a baby in this big body. That's how I kind of see Prince Harry. And that sounds really like patronizing or like I'm infantilizing him.

43:35No, I don't think so. I know exactly what you mean.

43:37Christy Noel:It does make sense. Just knowing if you are used to literally people on your hand and foot, literally. From the moment you wake up to the second you go to bed, when you had to have security details surrounding your school campus, when you would go at like when you were a toddler, you don't know how to behave when you're just like, you're free. Go ahead and be. You're like, wait, but what am I? Who am I if not a prince? It's very, I don't envy the position that they're in. Of course I want the money, but I just feel badly for them. I know. They're under so much scrutiny. And then I saw another theory that maybe they are trying to reconcile with the royal family.

44:12and that this would have been, like them being pictured with the Kardashians would have been an obstacle for that. So that's another theory. I don't really know. But again, it's like, who else was there? Mark Zuckerberg, obviously Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Oprah, Carter Gregory. I swear to God, we need to do an episode on Carter Gregory.

44:34Christy Noel:His entire existence is so confounding to me. Or his ties. Yeah, like where did he come from? Beyonce and Tina, literally the who's who of the billionaire class. It felt so insidious to me this entire birthday just because of the powerful players. Yeah. Everyone was like, oh my God, this is like literally an Illuminati meeting. It does feel that way. I'm like, this is probably how Jeffrey Epstein's parties, the type of crowd is what I'm saying. The most powerful players in the world. I'm shocked Donald Trump wasn't there. Seriously. No, yeah, totally. I think it also is just, I think it's one of those things that doesn't really like meet the moment.

45:14We have like millions of Americans that are about to lose their slap benefits. Snap benefits, yeah. Snap benefits, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And I know I mentioned this on Trigger Warning Ryan Bailey. We have millions of Americans that are about to lose their snap benefits. Then you have this billionaire party that is the most glitz, glam, over the top, ostentatious. Yes. just doesn't it I feel like it just came out at a moment where people are like oh my god ew ew it's just a bad look and then you have Meghan Markle and Prince Harry there and it's like what are you doing but you know what it's kind of reminding me oh sorry keep going I was just gonna say like you said it's not surprising but at the same time it's like what I want to I do want to guide them I want to help them I want to be like who is doing your PR and I think part of it is that they don't listen to their PR.

46:02I think that Meghan does their PR.

46:04Christy Noel:I mean, there's no one working PR over at the Markle, the Sussex residence. Right. What was I going to say? Jeffrey Epstein is to Prince Andrew as Kris Jenner is to Meghan and Harry. I'm not saying that they're the fact that. Say that again. Say that again. Jeffrey Epstein is to Prince Andrew as Kris Jenner is to Meghan and Harry. You have these very powerful people, powerful Americans tying themselves to British royalty. And if you guys know anything about the Kardashians, I have a very weird relationship with the Kardashians because I enjoy them as people. But I think there's something incredibly insidious about the family.

46:43Christy Noel:And if you guys have not listened to our Corey Gamble episode, we go into that basically. It's not just about Corey Gamble in that episode. It's about his ties and him potentially being a Hollywood fixer and the Kardashian-Jenner clan kind of being the gangsters of Hollywood. There's so much lore to Corey Gamble in the overall Kardashian empire that goes far, it's far deeper than I think what we just see. Yeah. In the funny clips and I'm Todd Crane. It really is really seedy and scary. And I think seeing another British monarchy member kind of tying themselves with the Kargeners, it feels weird.

47:18And I'm not saying that Meghan and Harry

47:20Christy Noel:are like Prince Andrew at all. I don't think that whatsoever, but it's just, I don't like this. pairing. Yeah, that's an interesting comparison that I feel like we could do a whole deep dive on. Yeah, yeah. Like Lou Taylor being there. Oh, I mean, when you got Lou Taylor, then we need to talk about Brittany Murphy, Ashton Kutcher, P. Diddy. Right. Corey Gamble, Kris Jenner, like it all it's a if you get all these people are tied in some which way. Lou Taylor and Britney Spears. Lou Taylor and Diddy. Lou Taylor and Kris Jenner. Lou Taylor Lauren Kim Kardashian. All of this is in a web. Oh my god.

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51:46Well, speaking of dark energy. Yeah, let's get into our dark energy objects of the week. What is yours, Christy? Printers. I really. They never, because they never work.

51:58Christy Noel:When I tell you I have a printer, it's typically, it's worked, but it's been a little hiccupy. I changed my Wi-Fi password because it used to be like the numbers and the letters. So I changed it to something very simple. And I think I disconnected my printer. When I'm telling you, I spent probably two and a half hours. You always say, Chris, these are CTO with technology. I can figure out how to put together fancy cameras. I can figure out how to diagnose anything. The printer, it's like a, I feel like I'm reading hieroglyphics when I'm trying to understand like the printer instructions and how to connect it to the Wi-Fi, connect it to my phone.

52:29Christy Noel:It's so frustrating. They literally never work. That's the thing. They never work. Ever. Someone should invent a printer that works. Why is it so hard? Why is it so hard? Because I think it's like hardware and software mixed together. And then the connection through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, it's so difficult for me to try and figure out. I love how in 2025, we thought there'd be like flying cars. We can't even get printers that work. Yeah. It's like we're Elon Musk is literally developing like a chip for like blind people to be able to see again. We can't get a printer to work. No. So I what are your thoughts on Southwest Airlines?

53:09I fucking hate Southwest. I hate it. I never fly Southwest by choice, but it was a scenario where it was thrust upon me for this trip. For some reason, I remember seeing the headlines about how Southwest was dropping their open seating policy. They're changing it. And I was like, oh, great. I remember seeing it in the head. I don't fly Southwest. I was like, yeah, they don't do that anymore. They, they still do it. They are changing it in 2026. So I didn't have my alarm for checking in. I ended up, yep. I ended up checking in three hours after I was able to. So obviously I was in the C class. Third, wait, what was it on Titanic?

53:54Third class, third class. Yeah, I think third class, yeah. There was like first class, second class, third class. I was in C. Hadn Marie and I both were, we were like, oh my God, we need to check in like at the same time. So we were like C20 and C21. We were like, there's no way we're going to be able to sit together. We're going to have middle seats separately. It's always so chaotic and stressful. It's just like a mob of people. Everyone is confused. It's always just so confusing and stressful. I hate it. I want to be assigned a seat. Assign me a seat, please. And you have to ask people, what number are you?

54:28Oh, C21. Okay, I'm, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm C22 behind you. And then also, if you're in C, you automatically have to check your carry-on bag because there's not going to be enough overhead space. Luckily, Henry and I actually got lucky. We found two aisle seats that were next to each other. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. Comic gods, yeah. The girl next to me was saving the window seat for her friend that didn't check in on time. He was actually last to board. He was like, I didn't know about Southwest. I haven't done Southwest before. So he checked in right before the flight. And I was like, the fact that people can save seats is also messed up.

55:03People were walking by. They're like, is that seat taken? And she was like, I'm saving it for my friend.

55:08Christy Noel:I was like, that's annoying. Yeah, that is. Okay. So when I was in Vegas, the only direct flight from Orange County to Vegas is Southwest unless you want to fly Spirit. So when I've gone to Vegas the last couple of past months, I've had to fly Southwest. Oh, I would rather fly Spirit. Sorry. I know at this point I'm ready to do that, to take the alternative. But I had to go. When I got back from my bachelorette party, I had to go straight to, sadly, a funeral. So I had to upgrade to like A because I was like, I need to basically go straight from Orange County Airport to L.A. which obviously horrible idea like landing from vegas and then going to a funeral like do not recommend it was i was down bad for days but when i tell you when i got upgraded to a like five i was just a bieber i was up front and you know like i'm crazy but you like that like i had my like tucked my hair behind my ear and i'm like am i yeah the most fabulous person just the high that I got from them saying, now boarding A1 through A25.

56:10Christy Noel:I was like, I'm crazy, but you like that. So I felt so cool. And you know what? Just to capture that high once again, I might swing maybe 40 bucks for that high one more time. Oh, we tried, by the way. We tried. I was like, let's pay them whatever. Whatever they want. Take what you need. Let's throw the card. But they only reserve like a through a 15. So enough people had already upgraded at that point that we were fucked. Oh, my God. I just I hate it so much. But yeah, there's no better high than being one of the first to board in general. But especially with Southwest. Yeah. Anytime. Yeah. It reminded me why I'm like, I don't do Southwest.

56:55And I like, thank God they're getting rid of this open seating policy in 2026. It's barbaric, if I'm going to be honest. It actually does feel like... Okay, so this is one of my light energy objects. Are you watching Squid Game, colon, The Challenge? Of course, no, because I don't watch anything that's... Oh, okay. So I actually am obsessed with Squid Game, The Challenge. It's so fun. It's such a fun reality competition. And the stakes are really high. It's for$4.56 million. And they do... You don't watch the original Squid Game, right? so i don't do subtitles they do christy i just can't

57:37Christy Noel:i also don't like when they dub english and the mouths are moving at a different pace than what they're actually speaking okay quick i made sophie laugh so hard at the fact that i don't do subtitles that she froze and we had to restart the recording wait so funny i am So you don't like the dubbing either? No. The actors, I don't like dubbing. I would rather subheadles over dubbing. The actors who do dubbing are like the worst actors of all time. Yeah. What's that about? They can't find one good actor who does dubbing work. How do you even get hired for dubbing work? I always wonder this about like referees.

58:17Yeah. Like how does a referee get that job, you know? Right. And how do you know he's not an inside job? Yeah, that's a great question. He's not working for a team. But yeah, so moral of the story is Squid Game, the challenge. That is one of my, oh, so I was tying this back to Southwest because one of the games they do on Squid Game and Squid Game, the challenge is called Mingle, where you have to like pair up with people. And it's like very stressful. I can't even, I don't know how to describe it. And that's what Southwest feels like. It feels like it's some sort of game where everyone is out for themselves.

58:50It's just really, really, really stressful. It does feel like life or death sometimes. Yeah, I usually like murdery stuff, but I'm not really like a game show person unless of course it's the traitors. The traitors. Oh, I love like reality competitions. You guys know that. Survivor, traitors, squid game.

59:07Christy Noel:Also, I just have to shout out. Okay, so we have our new fancy cameras. And if you guys go to youtube.com slash at snarkbait pod, it's like full episode video version. And we're not using our fancy cameras today because Sophie's traveling. But in any case, I just need to call out the fact that my bronzer is not on my forehead. So I'm giving five finger forehead this morning. I just look, there's no bronzer. So I just feel like I'm very insecure right now. I would never, ever, ever notice that. You look beautiful. Okay, thank you. But I don't, you know, someone's just like an aura. It's a thing.

59:37I'm just crying at the five finger forehead. Because remember we were talking about, for context, you guys, if you missed this original episode, we were talking about like college ACV back in the day and what people would say about us on these online forums. and I was called like a McNutt slut. And Christy was like, I was called five-finger forehead. And again, many insecurities,

59:57Christy Noel:but my five-finger forehead is not one of them. Nor should you. I've never looked at you and been like, hey, big head. I'm still dying about you. I'll clean the deer. I'll clean the deer. That was Paige Lorenz growing up. Venison stew. Venison stew. you. And the fact that you've also interviewed her, it like makes it even funnier. I thought we had a connection and then she blocked me. I thought we had something special. This is how you know Sophie's a real one. She's not a cloud chaser. Cause you know how cloud chasey like I would be? My ass would never say a thing. You're like, we can do the episode.

1:00:36Christy Noel:Not a problem. Oh, yeah. Sophie is not like, Sophie, like you just do what's right. And that's what I love about you. You're like, no, let's release the episode. I fight for what's right. You do. So my other light energy object is, and I meant to talk about this last week on DT. So I'm sorry that I'm a little delayed here. I just want to acknowledge Jonathan Bailey being named sexiest man alive by people magazine. Correct. They finally got it right. After years of Blake sheldon weird what's his name krasinski yeah who else have they done where we're like what well that's i mean wasn't it paul rudd which i totally stand by by the way oh yeah for sure i think the thing that makes it hard who was 2024 is john krasinski 2023 was patrick dempsey okay that sure but like yeah maybe in 2010 what are we talking about here right they always try to be I hate when they do that.

1:01:36Christy Noel:It's like, we need someone at the moment like Patrick Dempsey. I'm not saying he's not a hot man. Obviously, objectively, he has a great career. He's handsome. But again, are we in a time capsule and you're trying to put the sexiest man alive from literally 2010 when he was on Grey's Anatomy? Don't insult my intelligence. Well, I know that people have to agree to it. Well, Patrick Dempsey was like, please. He probably nominated himself from 2010. So like they definitely have asked Ryan Gosling or like Timothy Chalamet or whatever. They're like, no, we're not going to do your People magazine photo shoot.

1:02:09Jonathan Bailey is at the top right now. Totally. I'm so glad that he agreed to it. Like, yes, correct. Jonathan Bailey is so freaking hot. And again, I know we've talked about this before. I love that he is an openly gay movie star. I think that he actually was the first openly gay sexiest man alive. But I love that. I'm also so excited for Wicked 2. We already have our plans to go over Thanksgiving with all the cousins like we did last year. I'm just, I'm so excited. I actually was listening to the Wicked soundtrack on my freaking Southwest flight. I know. I also was trying to like figure out how to hold my mic and I did like the Wicked riff and no one acknowledged it.

1:02:51Christine and Jordan were like, okay, let's get started. I think no one acknowledged it. I was like, oh. I must have missed that.

1:02:59Christy Noel:Oh, well, speaking of people that we love, that we're loving to watch, Hannah C on TikTok, she's this 29-year-old creator who lives in Nashville. And she posts just homey content. She'll do like a day of my life, like wrapping up the workday. And she'll do it to like some melodic Taylor Swift, like string instrument background music. And she's so homey and cozy and comforting. She just has the simple pleasures in life. You're winding down, you're turning down for the night. You're watching Gilmore Girls. You're cooking your meals, your meal prepping. You put on your pajamas. You're lighting a candle.

1:03:32Christy Noel:You're setting the mood. I just love watching her content. So Hannah C on TikTok. I haven't heard of her, but I'm looking at her page now and I totally love the vibe. Yeah, she's so cute and I like her voice. And sometimes she'll do just B-roll to like a Taylor Swift song or she'll talk to the camera and be like, come with me to go to a super cute town in Tennessee with me and my family. And then she'll narrate the entire thing while she's walking. I just love her content. It's very peaceful. It's like my show's on type energy. Yeah. And then the second thing is my best friend Sarah told me about chamomile tea to help sleep, to help aid sleep because I just have really bad high anxiety and I've read melatonin is not great to take all the time and I also have really crazy dreams when I take melatonin.

1:04:16Christy Noel:Oh shit. Should I stop? You can take it sometimes but I don't think it's great every night and I also feel incredibly groggy when I take it as well. So chamomile tea, I got this huge pack, no joke, it's as big as me, this pack from Amazon for like 25 bucks of chamomile flowers. And I had this kettle and you can put the flowers in the strainer and boil it. So I boil it and I use it every night before I go to sleep. Oh my God. Love that. I've never been much of a tea person, but I feel like if I'm not supposed to take melatonin, I need an alternative. Yeah. And I like my CERLITOL like kettle because it has the tea strainer.

1:04:55Christy Noel:So you can put loose leaf tea in the strainer and boil it simultaneously so that the tea is brewing in the kettle itself. Wow. Yeah. Which by the way, I blame my new melatonin addiction on you, Christy, because you gifted me the Lemmy Sleep gummies as a gag gift and now I'm addicted to them. No, I am too. I'm the same way because Because ever since I gifted them to you and you're like, they actually work great. They work almost too strongly. They knock you out. Yeah. Literally immediately they knock you out. Yeah. And like, I love that. Right. Me too. But sometimes when you have to record super early, I always wake up super groggy and just like, oh.

1:05:30Yeah.

1:05:30Christy Noel:Yeah. That's all she wrote, you guys, on Dark Energy Tuesday. Tomorrow we have an episode, a really fun one for you. Let me just check the calendar to make sure I don't misspeak. So tomorrow we're talking about Sydney Sweeney, the GQ interview, all that fun stuff. And then on Thursday, we have a very, think about Kardashian adjacent media and entertainment music mogul in Hollywood. That's the hint. And it's a man. So head on over to patreon.com slash snarkbaitpod if you want to hear about Sydney Sweeney and our thoughts on the GQ interview. We look forward to seeing you guys on Thursday if you're not a patron.

1:06:09Christy Noel:And youtube.com slash at snarkbaitpod for full videos. Thank you to Jordan, Rachel, Olivia, Kartik, and we'll see you guys on the next one. Bye. Bye.

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