Benedict Ray Cyrus: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

0:00Good morning, Millennials. Welcome back to the shows and happy Tuesday. That has, you know, a different kind of energy because it's the first day of the week, but it's not a Monday and it's 11 degrees and it's just, it's unique. It feels like a Monday, but it's a Tuesday, which is bless up. So fabulous. Send your prayers to the sky. Hopefully this means the week will go by quickly. Not to rush things along. We'll progress in a way that I find unoffensive. Yeah, but you don't want to rush through things, even though something really exciting is happening next week, but you don't want to rush through things.

0:35Turney's moving. I meant to acknowledge, thank you for opening up this space for me. This is my final full week in this studio, which has housed us for so many years. And I'm not even remotely sad, but I feel we must acknowledge this monumental moment. Yes, it is our longest running studio that we've had. It is? We moved in in 2020. we took refuge on the boots of an eviction in the midst of coronavirus who remembers Turdy and Jax's eviction era that was probably one of my most fun times no that that wasn't a fun time before that when we were in that apartment like things were busing and then not only were we evicted we had to go to zoom toast like dark times so this studio was our saving grace and we had so many amazing memories in that studio so many wonderful shows both together and remote and it deserves to be honored in a respectful way it's true we sought refuge here and it was a home to us but nobody else would have us and while I am really excited because my new studio is so much closer to my house and I don't know if I mentioned that it's 11 degrees today um I I want to put you're right some honor and some respect on these four walls you know these four walls came down around us.

1:53Do you remember that Miley Cyrus song? Yes, of course. Must have been something sent me out of my head. Oh, speaking of songs, I meant to text you this morning because we haven't, the Toast theme song competition is completely over. Yes, that was on my notes of things to discuss because we have not, you and I, officially selected the winner. So if you haven't been reached out to, no one has yet. I really I have still top two top twos in my head okay I chose my winner like we'll vote in my head we will vote but I'm sending you a picture of the girl like who's my winner okay I'll know who it is it's between it's the same as my top two I think it's not like a third right no no no no like we I had three that I was like mulling over that were like I would have been happy with any of them you saw who I texted you I see it yeah like it's her it's always been her I'm sorry it's her yeah so we will reach out to her privately you know get the paperwork sorted out and then we will announce and then we have to start the process of recording it I've already booked studio time with the fabulous producer who produced the Grammy award-winning song 100 % by Claudia Oshry so we're in really good hands and people seem really excited I know you haven't seen the fanfare because it's all on TikTok and we are going to talk about TikTok but like people are so invested in the winner because I did a minute TikTok last night I was like it's over like I think I know who I want to win but like who do you guys want to win and a lot of the same names were circulating which like my top three seemed to be the internet's top three which made me feel good but also we have given away that it is a singular person and that it's not a man so in just our conversation oh my god fucking pronouns you're right yeah so shit I really wanted that tells you a little something no people are so invested my friend Sam stayed with me this week and we had such a fun weekend and her sister called because her sister is a huge toaster and she was with her camp friends and they're all toasters and they were calling to try and find out like what I was leaning towards they're like have you heard this one and they're all singing it Jackie the people coming out of the woodwork first of all like random people text me being like I'm dying from this competition and to like people I know like Shannon is so invested being like I'm getting DMs from like local Nashville songwriters wanting to make sure that you guys see guys I've seen every submission don't worry about me my screen time this weekend for like a million reasons was so fucking high like I saw every single submission don't you worry my screen time this weekend was so high so many things were happening and I have to think like this was the biggest weekend in news like ever I have never turned on like cable news really I rarely ever do this weekend like it was constantly playing in the back of my house for one reason or another like the hostages coming home yesterday the inauguration waiting all day for Rascal Flatts TikTok TikTok like I had the new like the the news channels must be really happy people turned on their little shows yeah media is a buzz and that's what we do here we are women in media So we're breaking it all down.

4:35Are we making TikTok a story or should we talk about it now? No, we're not making TikTok a story. Oh, okay. Like, I like how you said that. Like, as if it was stupid. Like, why? No, because, like, the stories are, like, the fun, fodder, not, like, world news. And two, we always keep putting into the pre-fast five. Okay, okay. Well, let me tell you my experience this weekend then. Because I'm, and I wonder if other people are feeling this way. Like, and I'm a big advocate. Like, I love TikTok. It's my favorite place on the planet. It's literally my personality. Like, this affected me. I was directly in the line of fire.

5:02and I'm like really getting to the point where these people are making me kind of like hate TikTok and like not care anymore it's giving fatigue it's giving will they won't they because on Saturday night like there was a lot of hoopla they had said they were going to shut down operations as opposed to just like taking it out of the app store and they did so it was kind of like this crazy historic thing I was with a bunch of girls on Saturday night and like I opened TikTok and it was 10 30 it wasn't even midnight and they closed down early you were making herstory it was really crazy so it was like it was it was just this like exciting not in a positive or negative way, but just like an exciting thing to be a part of.

5:34And it was really crazy to see like how the media landscape was shifting, how people were talking about it, where people were going. And it coming back less than 24 hours later was seriously like one of the lamest things anybody could have done. Like it was so pick me, so like attention seeking. I was just, when it came back, I wasn't even like relieved and I missed it. Like I was, do you know how many times I opened TikTok in that 14 hour span? Like when it came back, I was like, wait, no, like go back it was just not it wasn't giving it wasn't gone long enough and first of all I saw such like really crazy content from people like crying sobbing screaming crying throwing up like it really kind of put into perspective for me like we actually as a society could have used a break and I think we actually could have used more than 14 hours like give it 24 perhaps like just so people could perhaps reset and touch grass so oh and now that it's back like people are like it's different tiktok's not the same like and I feel like we hyped it up so much because I actually know what people are talking about like it's not hitting in the way that it did before because it was going away so we were all excited now it's just this like thing like you all smelly used yeah like i people are and like bethany frankel's like starting a conspiracy that it's about the drones she's like i'm not seeing any more content about the drones like a lot of people are thinking like chinese communist party like i don't think it's that i just think it's like psychological like we hyped this thing up so hard and then it came back and it's just in a half like Like with dumb videos.

6:55Like I, it's just been, it's been really crazy. Like, and I actually, I'm kind of over like the whole conversation. I don't even care anymore. And not me telling everyone like, cause you know, I'm kind of like a social media expert, you know, like, so when I was with a bunch of my friends on Saturday, they're like, do you think like it's going to come back? Like, what do you think? And I was so adamant. I'm like, there's no way Trump is going to bring it back. Like this was his thing. He hates TikTok. He hates China. Like, this is like, this is like the Trump thing. And I'm like, guys, it's definitely not like being so like speaking with such conviction cut to like literally three hours later, it's back up.

7:24like i'm embarrassed said recently that he didn't want it to go away he said more recently like yes four years ago he said like national security issues then more recently he was like we want to make find a way to make it work yeah no i was just like speaking with like the utmost conviction i think people like you know in like the respect what i say when it not comes to everything obviously but like tiktok like yeah what she knows probably and i was like guys it's not coming back like say your goodbyes travis has never met taylor correct it's giving travis has never met taylor Well, I thought it was coming back imminently.

7:54I did not expect it to only be 14 hours. So on that, I wasn't right either. The whole thing was just like really lame for everyone. Really lame and exhausting and seeing the same content like from every individual over and over again, like of them saying goodbye. The screenshot of TikTok, me. The screenshot of TikTok, oh my God. Adjusting to reels. Hey, how y 'all doing when it comes back? Like I am moved on. Fatigued for sure. and like as for the future of TikTok like genuinely I don't care anymore like they've officially made me not care which I guess is good yeah and I think let this be a lesson to people who make a living on TikTok whether that's like through TikTok shop or your content creator diversify your platforms we have 90 days now that's three months like really get to work because this is a platform that is like kind of finicky like it's here it's there it's not there it's China it's America like you've been given a warning so now you have three months to hustle we could do YouTube we could bring it on Reels come on over to Reels the water's warm the more time you spend on Reels the better it gets for you I think that's what people are noticing and this was my biggest disappointment because I feel like it was such a wasted opportunity for Instagram because we have known for like a real month now that like TikTok has this date and the fact that Instagram didn't do what they usually do and just copy TikTok's algorithm their format everything we would have moved over like if it was even remotely similar it wouldn't have been such a big deal for tiktok to go but like when instagram came out with instagram stories like we were all like oh this sucks and then we all just eventually transitioned over and stopped using snapchat stories they do this thing where they copy everyone and we all make fun of them and then we end up becoming you know primary storytellers on instagram so i didn't understand why like because we were left with nothing reels i'm sorry and i know you like love it it is not a sufficient alternative to TikTok.

9:44Not only is the algorithm like not as smart, I don't really feel like it targets what I need to see. The interface is not as user friendly. Like it's just, why didn't they spend the last month like doing their, you know, usual control C, control V, like copy that shit. I thought that was like a wasted opportunity from the man who's like known for copying other competitive platforms. Why do you think that is? Well, I just have some thoughts. Maybe a couple things. First, I do think the more that you use Reels, the more the content is tailored to you. Like right now, I like the things that I see, but I also, I'm not on TikTok, so it's not like I have the two to compare it to.

10:19I don't know what an even better algorithm for me is, but I also like that the algorithm on Reels isn't as addicting as you say TikTok is because I will inevitably spend less time on it, and so I think that's good. Why Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want me to spend more time on Reels and doesn't want me to be as addicted, I don't know, but overall, I'm happy with the product because of those reasons. Because of those reasons. I think that I wouldn't have been surprised. I think what the cool thing about TikTok is, is that like you're seeing content from people you really don't know. And when you scroll your Instagram feed, it's people you follow.

10:47Yeah, they sprinkle in like things you might like, and it's never something I would even be remotely interested in. I wish that they had, well, now the opportunity is lost, but if they had created like a second feed where you could swipe and see like, you know, people you don't follow, things you might be interested, just like a feed of not your following, but just. well when you go to your explore page and you and you click a video here I get so much like oh yeah when you scroll down and then you start scrolling I don't know who any of these people are I guess yeah like that's their I'm getting all types of stuff of the FYP it's just it doesn't hit the same that's where you go for outside content okay like I don't know why I like only get slime I don't I don't partake in slime culture there's so much slime and I don't know it's just tiktok knows me better than i know claude self yeah and that's what i'll miss maybe it's back yeah there's nothing to miss there's nothing to miss it's back we also i meant to tell you have your toasters today and they are so crazy okay good we also have a lot of stories today and i watched the molly may documentary this weekend first three episodes dropped we're getting clarity oh it's first three i thought it was three total i'm like that's a lot of hoopla for you know first three episodes dropped next three drop in the spring but they showed the previews for the next three and there's footage from January 1st where she sees everyone seeing her kissing Tommy on New Year's Eve like the turnaround they got me there good I mean they are from Love Island like we are used to tight turnaround from these two and like technically you filmed this two weeks ago like put it on my screen it shouldn't be so hard that it is for other people like so here's what's going on between the two of them and a lot of it was shrouded in mystery in the early episodes and I wish they would have been a little more clear they're like what Tommy did, what Tommy does.

12:29I'm like, what does Tommy do? What did he do? No, I hate when there's like this big thing. It's like, just say it. So here's what I've pieced together. He obviously has turned to alcohol since being injured from fighting and then drinking was ruining their relationship. I don't know exactly what he was doing at family functions, why she had to beg him not to drink at her sister's wedding, what he would have done. What does he do? He was just being embarrassing. What, like drunk or angry? Drunk, saying embarrassing things, like how drunk people do. yes but I just don't know which exact one it was but like he was drinking all the time making like half the time their relationship was just so terrible because he'd be drinking the other half like she really loves him like really really does she couldn't keep doing the cycle anymore and she knew she had to break up with him but if she didn't announce it she would have never followed through with it so when she posted that over the summer it was like a slow roll last resort not just like Tommy came home drunk I'm breaking up with him um she posted it and really did it like to hold herself accountable in like leaving him you need to get help however throughout the documentary she shares like the reason why I haven't been crying and I'm not like totally a mess over this is because like I believe we're going to get back together so that like comes out later in the episodes and you start to see how like they're working towards being back together he's not in it once except for on the phone and just like talking about Bambi I think in the second and half it will be more about them making their relationship whole again and then the first three episodes are really about her clothing brand maybe um and all the work that she's put into it and like the launch event and a lot of like scandal that it had I didn't even realize that she had a pretty big like see with the brand because they launched these blazers that were like the hallmark of the collection did you see the blazers on tiktok the pilling the bubbling yeah she said like the manufacturer what they actually used to make the blazers was not the agreed upon fabric that she had been wearing every single day like she was wearing her own blazer and it was just really a bad mess and then they had more stuff coming out in that fabric and I think she had to cancel it I think maybe has kind of been like a complete clusterfuck for her and I'm shocked to hear that I thought it was such a slight everything I've gotten from there I love and I also now find that because a lot of it is sold out I go on like revolve and look for pieces that are like even And this cardigan I'm wearing today is maybe inspired, but it's Lioness.

14:44I started on Friday night the Molly May documentary. And it occurred to me, like, as I started watching it, like, I'm actually not a Molly May fan. Like, I didn't watch Love Island. I don't watch her YouTube videos. I like her and her man as a couple. And I feel like I like them, like, through osmosis from you. And I was, like, forcing Ben to watch it. And, like, when I force Ben to watch something, like, I need to feel really passionate about it. And especially in the beginning, like, they weren't talking about the Tommy stuff. and I was just like I feel like I girl boss too close to the sun like this actually isn't for me yeah it's it's very slow pace she is a comfort creator it's not like comedy exciting craziness like it's hard-hitting documentary in her life in her house and like if you she's what's so remarkable about her actually is that she's just a she's a very ordinary girl yeah like who has created something that no other reality tv store star or influencer has done and like why her it's so crazy but like we are I am drawn to her I do I don't need her to have like the biggest personality like she has really lovely taste but not so outrageous again like I don't know there's just something about her that's um she kind of sounds like an equivalent not now because she's like evolved so much past YouTube but like an Emma Chamberlain like why did Emma Chamberlain out of all the YouTube swirlies get this chokehold on America she her original content she was like a regular girl who would like get manicures and like wear her hair in a high pony like she was She had a certain aesthetic that was very Gen Z, but it wasn't, now she's a high fashion.

16:13No, but she has a big personality too. And then she was also dressing in a very distinct way. Yeah, I wouldn't say her personality in her YouTube videos that shot her to fame was so outrageous. It was just like, she was literally just a girl. When she was living at home, before she blew up, it was just girly, swirly content. Yeah, and I think for Molly also, it's about Molly and Tommy, but even without Tommy like it's really about her so what she's done is just so impressive and she's also very much like a perfectionist like very in the weeds on everything like a post doesn't go out on any social media account related to her without her looking at it her she was showing her camera roll like she just went to take an aesthetic picture of her bath like hundreds of photos of it like seriously so unenjoyable yeah and she's like it gets to a place of like it's absurd and when we get to that place like then I just forget about it well I have to tell you that when I stopped watching Molly Mae I did watch the movie Conclave and I've been meaning to talk to you about it but you like ignored me all weekend because yeah you had a friend over congratulations cool for you so happy for you that you have a new best friend um my best friend was and I absolutely have to tell you about this movie okay because me and Ben started to watch it like a week ago and it was just clear that it was like not a movie we wanted to watch and then I was like let's give it a second chance Josh had told Ben that it was like one of his favorite movies of the year so we were like you know what let's try it again and I'm so glad we did because I actually enjoyed it but like it It was the craziest movie I'd ever seen.

17:34And I am going to spoil it. So if you have any plans on watching Conclave. Wait, who's in it? Jackie, you're never going to watch this movie. It's Ralph Fiennes. And it's about the selection of a new pope. It's like a hypothetical scenario. Oh, okay. I don't want to watch that. Yeah. So I guess I didn't know. Like the ceremony after a pope dies is called Conclave. All the archbishops and cardinals, excuse me, from all the world, like the global ones, have to come together and vote on which cardinal they want to make the next one. So it's very political. You know, people have allegiances. it's regional too.

18:03Like the Europeans want somebody who speaks Italian. The Africans would love someone black. Like it's very, you know, it's a lot of personalities, a lot of cultures mixed. And Ralph Fiennes plays like the, the deacon, the dean or something like he's in charge of the procession. And so basically the whole time they're trying to pick a new, I didn't like understand what the movie was about. Cause at first I'm like, oh, they're trying to pick a new Pope. And Ralph Fiennes, his team wants to put a Stanley Tucci. And I'm like, sorry, Stanley Tucci is actually too famous to act now in no fucking world did I think Stanley Tucci was a cardinal and like when he was going to be the pope I was like sorry it's just I'm not seeing it like I'm I'm just not seeing it he has a cookware line yeah I want to say Stanley Tucci actually ruined the movie with his like with his own aura you know yeah yeah so and then they were explaining how it's very political like Stanley Tucci and Ralph were like a a little bit more like of a liberal uh very modern progressive popes whereas a lot of the others were like very old school and whatever.

19:01So they were just like, we have to - Is this a true story? No, no. So then like these cardinals who were getting a lot of votes, they hadn't reached the, you needed like 71 votes. They vote every day. They do a vote until somebody gets it. Then this guy was making a lot of progress. Turns out, you know, he fucks some nun and has a daughter. So it was like all these different scandals. So I'm like, where is this movie going? Then they're doing one of the votes in this like special, they're under sequestering. Like they're in this like secret Vatican room for weeks. one of the windows shatters. Turns out there's a suicide bomber outside.

19:32I'm like, whoa, this movie's taking a weird turn. So then all the popes start fighting because they're all on like different sides of the political spectrum. And they're talking about like other religions. And I'm like, damn, this is getting like kind of twisted. And then this one guy stands up and he's like, gives this whole speech about like peace for everyone. It was just like very like, you know, peacemaker is the pope so we're like oh okay i guess that's at first i was like you know i kind of like that resolution it's like somewhere in the middle and this rando who people didn't even know like he didn't speak any of the languages rando became pope but it's like okay all right but there's like something sinister going on while they're getting ready to announce the new pope i'm like what is going on where is this movie taking us ralph fiends who's in charge his guy he's got like a spy who's like been talking to the outside world for him comes with some information on the person they have just elected pope.

20:23The peacemaker. The pope had this trip to Switzerland, but he never took the trip. Why was he going to Switzerland? He had to go get this medical procedure. The new pope is a hermaphrodite. The new pope has ovaries and a uterus. And I was like, me and Ben were like. And a penis? Yes, so he was explaining his whole life he's been a man. And no, like he had a surgery for his esophagus one time. They found his uterus and his ovaries. And he's been struggling with it with his faith. And he went to get the surgery, but he said, God made me this way. I'm not getting the surgery. That's why he didn't go to Switzerland.

21:02And like Ralph Fiennes is like, oh my God, we tried to avoid the guy with the daughter. We tried to avoid the guy who was paying people off. We ended up with a woman. And then that's how the movie ends. Like it was seriously, I didn't know where the movie was going the whole time. And the fact that it ended up like so left field, me and Ben were like, what the hell did we just watch? It was actually so random. Because I think about the whole suicide bomber plot. I'm like, what was the point of that? Like, it was seriously the craziest movie I'd ever seen. I couldn't really come to terms with what I was supposed to learn.

21:35So did you like it? Like, yes. Because first of all, the movie itself was just like, it moved at a good pace. It was interesting. Like, I didn't know about this whole, you know, what a conclave was. I guess some people know that word. and I didn't. And the movie actually didn't explain that that's what that was, but I put it together. But the ending seriously threw me so, it was just like, it was so kind of crazy, you know? And so random that I was like, okay, like, okay, the Pope's a hermaphrodite. Like, I imagine if I was like a Catholic, I might have like stronger opinions about it, but I was just like, oh, okay, like we're just fucking shit up in this movie.

22:11But I also like want to go back to the definition of a hermaphrodite, if I may. Sure, sure, sure. And by the way, actually the movie never said hermaphrodite. It's my understanding that if you are like medically like a certain gender, but you have other parts, that is a hermaphrodite. Yes. I just put the label hermaphrodite. I don't know what the other, I'm like 90 % sure. Yes. It's a medical condition. Does he have a penis? Yes. And an ovaries. Yeah, because like your ovaries are in like your stomach. Like he didn't know. It wasn't until he said he was like 35 that he had to get this surgery.

22:49The doctors were like, sir, you have a uterus. Got it. Okay, hermaphrodite is an organism that has both male and female reproductive organs. A hundred percent. Okay, so I was right. It's a hermaphrodite. Wow. It was really like so, like when I saw this movie about the Pope, like I didn't think we were going to be going into the gender conversation. Like it was just. Hermaphrodite education. Yeah. And actually I've been thinking a lot about hermaphroditism because I feel like. I actually feel like hermaphroditism isn't a lot a big part of the gender conversation it's like no it's not completely separate no no I've been thinking about it because like when we were getting screened for all those genetic tests the um as I think everybody does this but a specific sect of Judaism we are very on top of it because of Tay-Sachs which is like a genetic disease if you're Ashkenaz from Eastern European and a lot of people with our backgrounds can carry it and if both you and your husband are carriers it's very dangerous so we get screened for genetic testing we just did it and a lot of the genetic testings are about like gender and reproductive genitalia and actually I came back positive for one that was like if you have a boy the boy's gonna have a big penis and if you have a girl the girl's gonna like have a big penis too now it didn't end up being an issue for Ben and I but like some of these genetic diseases that like they discover new ones like every day there's like a thousand that you could test for and they're really really rare but it's just been top of mind for me so yeah no it's so it's basically like you have a baby you're not sure what gender it is but like you're like you make a call are you talking about hermaphrodite yeah no because it's clear what the gender is like this guy was born a boy he had a dick like they couldn't see the baby's ovaries and i guess like never in his life did he do a scan or anything where they saw he had a uterus like it was just you can function you're a man like you've like you've got balls in a okay yeah it was weird but the thing is like not Not hermaphrodites.

24:34Hermaphrodites are lovely. Interesting movie. The movie, like plot twist. Interesting movie. We're talking about it. Like I'm telling you, it was so crazy. I was actually shook that that is what the, and I'm glad I saw it because I think it's going to be one of those Oscar contenders. And I'm really trying to, I'm trying to make my way across all the films and I'm really doing a good job. So I don't think it should win anything. And I certainly like not to be a hater, I don't think Stanley Tucci should win. I actually think Stanley Tucci needs to stop acting and just commit fully to being like a chef influencer socialite celebrity because it's overshadowing his acting career yeah I agree his personality is just so big like it's not a it's not a knock on Stanley's self no I'm not saying and it's not he's a bad actor it's that he's so Stanley yeah you can't take the Stan out of Stanley was he wearing his glasses yes like it was just at least why is Stanley Chuchi at the Vatican at least take his glasses off that's so Stanley like and that hasn't been a problem for him up until recently like I didn't blink at him in Devil Wears Prada I certainly didn't blink at him in the Lovely Bones like yeah he he is now reaching a pinnacle where he has to choose I feel like he would choose acting I feel like he would too I think there's more money in acting no and that's like who he is at his core you can't take him out he's like trained for it his whole life yeah yeah the rest is just confetti yeah okay well well thanks for that recap you are so welcome.

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30:36Thank you, Terta Travel. You're welcome. Our first story, some musical news from yesterday, two headlines to share first Carrie Underwood sang America the Beautiful acapella after a major text snafu at the inauguration so seriously such a terrible thing to happen to a performer like the whole world is watching especially Carrie Underwood like you know you take a risk when you're performing at an inauguration you're gonna divide we're already so divided she was already like this big risk and I know she like came ready to slay and like whoever was in charge of the ox cord like seriously the government is so embarrassing like this would never happen at like the Grammys like it's just it's not even hard and the music started and then stopped and then it cut it's it was seriously just like butt clenchingly awkward I felt so bad for her and I was thinking I'm like this is like a Katie Heron you know moment what a bright time it's the right time and I'm like if this goes on a little bit longer she'll she should just like you know start singing acapella and that's exactly what she did she rallied the room honestly thank fucking god that they moved it indoors because if she was outside there was like supposed to be like 100 ,000 people or whatever I don't know how many go to an inauguration and there was no music she would have had to stand there she couldn't then start singing acapella like she would have had to stand there and truly wait well actually I think that would have been okay and I think she would have done acapella because I think I saw some people saying like the room was singing with her which was really nice but they were like all off key and it was probably fucking with her even harder for her to stay on key and given all of the trials and tribulations like it was getting a little scary there for a second she sang amazingly and we actually just watched her on new year's rock and eve and i feel like we were saying like it didn't sound the greatest we were just saying like her vocals were like a little bit strained yeah um and the thing about carrie underwood is like we have faith in her as a performer because she comes from one of those shows like right when you come from a talent show like an expert kelly clarkson like you have actual talent there are so many singers who like come up out of nowhere and they actually can't sing it's really crazy you can't win a competition like that voice raw many times however I feel like people's voices change over the years people could lose their voices nodes you never know she was struggling at rock and eve like she gave a great performance she looked great her music was great she sounded fine but like we know her to be better than she didn't sound like amazing and here she sounded amazing like perfectly sung she didn't do anything extra with the song she hit every note it was like seriously beautiful and I actually think overall turned out to be a really nice moment and probably a little more impressive than if she had had her track and she just sang it so i think it actually turned out better than what it would have been but now she's being commended for like slaying it but also like making the best out of a shitty situation it was make it work moment i know she was like at first before because the accolades have really been overwhelmingly positive i know that like when she got behind that curtain and it was over like she was so pissed like she definitely was and then she definitely like heard that everyone was like no that was amazing katie heron honestly that was just like she said that was the best it ever went like yeah it got the people singing together it was really like a beautiful harmonious moment everybody was singing the song together everybody knows america the beautiful yes it was kind of like we should do it like that on purpose next time now for her to have it happened to that song i could just tell you like from a singer's perspective it's actually a kind of easy song to sing like you can make it big and but it doesn't have any like crazy high notes or anything if you had to do that with the anthem and then everybody else is trying to like join in with you the anthem is one of the hardest songs to sing like so I'm glad that it happened with that particular song but beyond unfortunate and like I would like an investigation done like whose fault is this like I feel like we just moved on from it and then the music worked for the rest of the day but like who who who I want names well the music didn't work I'm sorry yes thank you for bringing that up because part B of the story is other headline news from inauguration performances as we reported Billy Ray Cyrus was performing at the liberty ball all these balls oh my gosh like you really shouldn't participate in activities where balls fly at our nose the fact that rascal and gavin weren't at the same ball and like it was so confusing it was just it was a lot as like a number one fan of both of them i didn't even get to see gavin perform anyways billy ray cyrus performed at the liberty ball or did he it was an absolute you guys disaster it was so disastrous and to be honest i am like now i never thought much about billy ray saris i definitely like a soft spot in my heart for him as hannah's dad on the show and then miley's dad in real life and icky ricky heart like he old town road like he's never given me reasons to dislike him no except for miley the devil don't need it to you and oh yeah that oh right oh my god i forgot about that that devil dumb slut molly oh man he's so crazy they've been beefing so like he's been a little bit on my shit list but i do hold I like I do have this bit of nostalgia where I'm like oh maybe it's just you know it's showbiz.

35:22I think a lot of people have that nostalgia like for our age like he really raised us he was like the television he was a Disney channel dad and then for people older than us like achy breaky heart like yeah he really does have like ties to culture for a lot of different people. Last night ruined our childhood. The ties were severed. The ties were severed. childhood ruined you guys it's it is actually worth watching the whole thing first of all because he only sang I don't know how many songs he was slated to sing but it was very clear from the moment his performance started that he hopefully was high on drugs because if that's like who he actually is like that's best case best case he's high on drugs worst case like that's who you are so here's what happened and I don't even know what happened okay so he came out I think they started playing the music video for Old Town Road on the screen now I was watching a really terrible live stream that didn't cut it was just like the back of the room so it wasn't it looked like he was singing at the end of the song Claudia is like what is Billy Ray Cyrus doing I'm like he's not up there yet like we're just watching the music video turns out he's up there there's no lights on him he's groaning I thought and I was like watching it while also on my phone I thought I heard someone like mumbling in the background I was like that's weird when you told me that no he's there and then I went to a different stream and You see him and he is a mess.

36:39Oh my God. The hair. Disheveled. The hair, the shirt, the scarf. Like he looks like something that just like washed up on shore. At the beach. No, no. Literally, it was bridge troll come to life. He was wearing his crazy hair, a beanie, and then a cowboy hat, a jacket, a shirt, a scarf. And he kept taking items of clothing off and like leaving it on the stage. So when it was time for him to leave, he had to like pick up all of his belongings. So let's talk about him leaving because I don't know how many songs he was supposed to sing, but somebody clearly turned his guitar off after the first song because it was so disgraceful and I think they were hoping that like he would just walk away oh don't walk away when um will you could not get willy way cyrus off that stage you couldn't have offered him six million dollars in that moment like nothing was stopping this man from continuing to sing and he said my guitar's not working my guitar's not working not end he's walking on the stage like talking then he's saying achy breaky heart like we'll just do it acapella he compared himself to carrie underwood he's He said she had tech issues too.

37:37Oh my God. I actually was mortified. I could only imagine what it was like being there because, and honestly, like shame on the event planners for not getting a security guard and just like, okay, it would have caused a scene for one second. It went on. You would not believe. I think the whole thing start to finish was 10 minutes. Like it was really long. And it's just like, how is this still happening? We're like texting. I could not believe what I was watching. And even if you watch it now, like you'll see what he did. But like that feeling of it happening live and it would not end was so crazy.

38:03and he's walking on the stage talking to everyone. By the time, and security's coming, they take his mic stand, they take his clothes. This guy was ill-equipped. The guy was ill-equipped. He wasn't security, he was like a stage manager. Yes, he wasn't, because somebody needed to give him a flask and grab him by the arm and escort, because he kept going the wrong way, whether it was on purpose or not. He could not find the exit of this facility, and he wasn't trying. He wasn't looking for it. No, but even when he went down those stairs, I think he thought he was leaving. Oh, and then he starts hugging and kissing on all the fans and taking pictures like he's Princess Diana.

38:31Like it was so crazy. You guys, it was seriously the craziest thing I'd ever seen in my life. It was disgraceful. Like seriously to every, it was a slap in the face to every American. It was in my lifetime in like, in terms of like crazy performances, top three craziest I'd ever seen. Craziest I've ever seen. Like it was traitorous to our country. It was Benedict Ray Cyrus. It was so crazy. And now I feel like I have a lot more understanding because while we've gotten a lot of intel on what's going on with the family's Cyrus drama, we don't know for sure. We just know that there's like a divide between like Billy Ray and everyone.