Death, Taxes and The Selenators: Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

0:00Good morning, Millennials. Welcome back to the Chost And happy Tuesday That feels like a Monday Cause like I'm back in my studio For the first time Landed Hopped up the plane At LAX Literally Every time I leave your house And again No slight against you Like I'm so happy to be home I feel disgusting I wish I never left Like it's monsooning in New York My flight was four hours Oh you wish you never left me Yeah like this sucks dude This blows Even though I hate podcasting With you in person Like the remaining episodes Are gonna be so much better This week because we're apart and that's why I had to leave.

0:32No, I agree. We have gotten into such a good group with remote podcasting and I realize like what it is. When we're together, like we're having so much fun. We don't want to stop and work. However, when we're apart, it's like, I would never be like, hey, let's do it a little late today. Like I respect your schedule and you respect mine. Like I know you made a lot happen to get there. Like we are too scared of each other. We're so lazy together. We're so lazy together because we just want to like be together. But when we're apart, we're like too scared of the other to just like say screw the schedule.

1:01No, and the schedule is what keeps us alive. Like, but when I'm at your house or you're here, it's just like whatever. Like I hate podcasting with you in person. So as much as I hated flying home and like leaving my family and like waking up without the boys in my bed, like it was horrible. It is the right thing to do so we can churn out premium episodes, four more episodes until the end of Toast season one. I forget, six? Seven? I feel like at the beginning of the year we thought it was seven and it was actually six. because remember we celebrated six years of toast. Hold on. Our episode called Season of the Six.

1:31Let me just look in the podcast app and tell you what year that was. No, in the podcast app, they'll just tell you what season you're on. Oh, that too. Okay, that would have been much smarter, but now I'm too far deep. We are. Season of the Six was 2023. This is season seven, and next season will be season eight. Wow. Oh, do you know that on Apple Podcasts, like when you go to the page of a podcast that you're looking at, they give you different details, and it says the hosts and guests and people's face comes up it says our show is hosted by claudia ashley and jackie ashley and our recurring guest is goldie hahn so that just has to do with like the things that we talk about their ai isn't that smart and they just think oh we talked about goldie hahn maybe she was on the show it gets a little confusing but like i'm not mad about it yeah goldie hahn was on the show should should we what if we just reached out to goldie made it true made it true made honest men out of Apple.

2:23So yes I'm sad that you are gone but we have so much goodness this week that we really can't be mad and I also agree it does feel like a Monday so we've kind of hacked this week into feeling like a short week by having a crazy schedule. We also definitely have a Nalafi today a nice long one for you because we've got really good stories we've got to catch up with each other we also have dear toasters oh my god I was cackling the dear toasters today are like actually really crazy and one of them we are responsible for like the girl being in the pickle that she's in oy oy and now when you say dear toasters are really crazy like they've been really crazy and I'm actually scared I'm scared of what is coming our way okay tell me if you agree with this because maybe it's just like me thinking everything is about us because like it is do you feel like everyone's talking about dear toasters yeah dear toasters is having a moment okay love that maybe do you think it has anything to do with the shift from Wednesday to Tuesday perhaps it also has to do with the time of year like just familial ties things are happening i feel like this is the time of year where people either get engaged or break up around the holidays because they don't want to bring you home to their families like it's just it's a wild time of year it's ripe for dear toaster submissions is what you're saying yes yeah that's exactly what i'm saying and then tomorrow we're going to do real housewives of beverly hills recap friday it'll be our last episode regular episode of the year so we'll both watch oh no never mind just ignore me yeah just say something because I like wasn't speaking English great great yeah Real Housewives of Beverly Hills very excited I may recap Southern Charm on Friday because that's on Thursdays there you go Pargy there you go Pargy Pargy oh Pargy what was the Pargy song we were singing last week and I'll never stop singing my Par nope that sounded good too that was good too that was like pretty much it you were just off key it goes like this no actually i don't know i'll never stop singing my party song no definitely not i know that's not right but like i like it too they heard of it all night long something like that yeah i really the more we do our show and you know our business evolves like the more all signs are pointing to an album like for so many reasons one like people do comedy albums also like for the children like people love singing these songs you can listen in the car with your kids like I want this album I know it really wouldn't yield anything in terms of like revenue or but like it would literally do nothing for us other than like joy yeah bring joy I agree I was gonna say I didn't know where you were going with that sentence but the more we do this show and the more our business evolves it's very clear like we need to put out a children's entertainment album like seriously this would need to be for the kids like and I'll never stop singing that Parchi song is obviously the intro we obviously need um to finally finish our Selena Gomez song I'm like being alone too much to dance with your heart no but like do to do to Theodora like this is so fun for the children it's fun for the whole family because you can be listening to like music in the car with your kids and you're being swirly and I I really do believe we get asked all the time like what would you guys be doing if you weren't doing this for a living and we always give like blanket answers like social media but I really believe like I would be climbing the corporate ladder of children's entertainment and I would be like a pivotal either talent wise or an executive you know I actually think like as a duo we would be unstoppable because of course like coaching on my dream no no no you would be the talent I'm not I want to be behind the scenes like I want to be my manager I know I want to be like focusing on the educational and enrichment piece and it's like you go off and provide the entertainment value but like I I want it because my dream was always not always but like I do think something I'd be really good at is like being a substitute teacher I don't want to do it all the time but like once in a while I'm coming in to teach these kids so I feel like I could teach them like through you through music and I'd want to be on like the content development team but no I should not be singing no you need to be working with like the researchers and the scientists like how that Imogen Heap song is like especially song it's like especially engineered to titillate and stimulate and soothe babies something about the different they did a lot of research like you would be ahead of the R &D team who then sends the files to me and me and my team implement that into the music yeah I'd want to work for you I guess oh I'm so down what do you think I'd be like as a boss so scary a thousand percent so so scary yeah although I I'm also your younger sister so like I'd be limited in how like you know bossy I can be but don't you think you'd be like taking out years old gripes like you could finally tell your big sis what to do.

6:57That's actually a really good point. I'm glad you brought that up. I don't really have gripes with you. You don't have years old gripes? About like being named weenie of the week every week with Margo. I took my power back by making weenie of the week. I monetized it. Like seriously, gripe vanished. I don't have, I have gripes like with, you know, other people. Like seriously, like you, it's funny. Like I seriously forget nothing. But in the family, like I don't really have like childhood trauma, gripes, things like that. That you're like holding on to and like taking out on us when we least expect it.

7:26Let me think. Let me think. Because actually, if there was a sister that I would like take out on, it would be you. We were like the least close growing up. Right. And I think like I thought you were mean, like for sure. Like you didn't get me and I didn't get you. It's true. That's what's always so crazy. We actually just did an interview recently. Yeah, we do interviews. Yeah, we talk about ourselves. And we actually gave this juicy little anecdote that didn't make it into the end. But I actually thought that was like one of the more interesting things that we said, which is that growing up, we've always been close to sisters.

7:54There's six years between Olivia and Margo and there's four of us. So like that's a lot of girls close in age. We have everything in common. And we were all very close. However, if we had to say who was the least close, it was Claudia and I. Because we did split off into two groups of two at certain times. More often than not naturally, it was Olivia and Jackie and then Margo and I. Oldest and the youngest. The oldest and the youngest. But then Olivia and I really started to get really close. We had a lot of similar interests. I would say like the family dynamic shifted when we started watching Law & Order SVU.

8:21And then like me and Olivia were a unit. and then you and Margo were a unit too. Yeah, and you guys really like the food network. We did. And you and I, so the different ways we could have split up, we were never together. It was either me or Olivia. We never split up in our own way, like until now. Right. And so the fact that we ended up working so closely together is actually kind of odd. But back to the childhood gripe, like we were all really close growing up. But yeah, I guess you and I were the least close. So if there was anyone I would have a gripe with, it's you. And I can tell you I don't.

8:52Great. I don't have one because that was kind of the thing like you didn't even literally talk to me like enough to have a gripe do you know what I mean like seven seasons later the gripe has been it's good to know that we don't have a gripe we are washing our hands of this gripe no we're all good over here no no that's really funny that's really funny I guess like growing up something that frustrated me was like I could never when Olivia and I like started to make like friends that would like drive us places and stuff like even when we were driving with like our counselor our friends who drove like I was never allowed to sit shotgun like she always was sitting shotgun because she's older and that's just how it like goes in the family actually this book we read for redhead shred sisters like the younger sister it's all about her gripes with her older sister and like she never got to sit in the front seat and like yeah that's facts that is annoying like to never get it right now people give me the front seat one it's like nobody wants it anymore like sitting in the back it's like rolling kids yeah but because of my nausea I have been promoted to the front seat yeah yeah yeah that's so you have been promoted margo i guess i wonder if she did she talk on the redheads at her middle seat trauma because like when we would get in a car it was always the same you know layout mom in the front live in the front us three in the back but who wants the middle the youngest sister gets the middle it's the worst seat you don't have armrests everybody's like kicking you there's nowhere to put your legs and that was margo's designated spot for life what does she feel about that did she discuss that on the redheads does she have middle seat trauma gripes no she didn't mention it and now with captain seats like where does the youngest child go back back what's preferred middle seat or back back I think back back you get a whole row she would have loved that thousand percent if only we had a three row vehicle at the time oh sister tings oh sister tings we have a lot to discuss today there are stories there's deer toasters so I'm ready to dive in unless there's anything we haven't covered that you would like to discuss?

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15:54Download Game Time today. Thank you, Turd Time. What can I say? It's very musical theater of me. I feel like that's like the transition from one scene to another. Then it's nighttime. Yeah, I prefer hoo-oh-oh-oh-oh as a transition. Oh, I like that too. I prefer hoo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. Not my best, but you know what I was going for. well speaking of wicked our first story golden globe nominations golden globe nominations are out and actually is it a story that jay-z was like out and about last night no okay like because it's just a premiere for yeah i just want to talk about it briefly after remind me because i had a thought okay you could talk about it now okay so jay-z like classic us forced his family to go out last night you know they were fighting in the car being like beyonce's like seriously you and your stained reputation now i have to be seen with you tina was there too um but they were showing up for blue for blue for blue of course i'm just could the timing have been worse because i don't think at this point like i think beyonce has more like clout in the relationship where it's like if she doesn't want to go to something she's not doing him this favor she's not going to do it well he shouldn't have went he yeah but don't you think that's like a sign of an admission i know but this is blue ivy's big night and we're talking about jay-z like he should not have went and it wouldn't have been a big deal if they had tina beyonce like three generations of women beautiful like he's a business and non-problematic queen on a business trip yeah like i i get what they're doing he's like he's maintaining his innocence i have nothing to hide so yeah we're going to move south and you're gonna like it but i was really shook to see him and then seriously three seconds later on the red carpet crystal kong minkoff and her family because it's her husband's directorial movie right because he did lion king he is actually such a big deal they didn't even play that up that much like she could have been way more annoying he is such a big deal rob with the lion king and obviously mufasa's like a spin-off of it so i was shocked to see and they brought their kids and they did like a cute little she's she actually had cloud she didn't use it right she could have done better but i thought it was interesting to see um but i was shocked jackie guess did you see what um blue ivy was wearing first of all she looked gorgeous yes how old do you think blue ivy is i feel like we know like that she's probably 16 15 she's 12 okay I don't know where I was it said like Blue Ivy comma 12 I was like excuse me wow I thought she was 17 like I was shocked just fun fact very exciting for Blue and Mufasa so it's the origin story of Mufasa which like should be a good movie because I loved what they did with the Lion King live action like seriously pargy perfection pargy perfection whoever did that like you have created You know who did it.

18:41Yeah, Liotta. Jon Favreau. Oh, was it not Crystal's husband? No, like Jon Favreau directed that movie, which is the weirdest fact. Okay, we need to talk about Jon Favreau. Like, I know we have a lot to do today, but just really quickly. The thing is, back in 2020, like, we had an episode titled, like, Jon Favreau, where we did talk about him. Because Jon Favreau is, like, the biggest director of all time. Every time I'm even watching, like, an old movie, it'll say to be directed by Jon Favreau. but are you also telling me that that's Jon Favreau the actor who we know from like stuff I believe so like I think that we did this so yes it's the same producer yeah he's a producer on all these things like Mandalorian he's in Iron Man I think Young Sheldon yes oh my god yes yes yes yeah and I believe the Lion King yeah here it is he's a producer on the Lion King the live action one but he's also an actor now i think his acting days are a little bit behind him i think he's been eclipsed by himself but like i know his face and how many directors faces do i know i know him because he's an actor he's in that movie couples retreat where they all are like you know the last leg of their relationship so they go on vacation okay that's a good movie it is that's just like a thing in holly like that's just like a cultural blind spot for me how Jon Favreau like the actor who's like that funny big guy is also like one of the most critically acclaimed he's literally like a he's like Reese Witherspoon James Cameron like he does everything okay I'm just I was confused about that like thank you I need to clear that up anyways now back to our first story if we may Golden Globe nominations are here and really awkwardly Amelia Perez is dominating with 10 nominations and like I'm glad to know what we found out yesterday otherwise I'd be like oh this is probably like amazing and Selena deserves the the globe um here are the nominees it's so crazy um I know I just want to say I I read a lot of our comments yesterday the Latina community like they did not stand for this like they're not standing with Selena like they actually found a downright offensive and I stand with my tostatic community so I stand by what I said even though the selenators were coming at me like I actually don't care the selenators are always coming at you like so true three things you can be certain of death taxes and the selenators coming for you coming at someone coming for anyone yeah selena also like finds herself in a lot of peculiar situations so i feel like being a fan of hers is actually a full-time job like defensively do you know what i mean like you're always defending her acting and i actually somebody commented was like what is up with like the selenators like they're always having to defend selena's like inability to do her job like whenever remember when she last performed at that award show amas and like she actually couldn't sing dance or even walk and everybody's like you try performing in front of thousands it's not my job like and so i thought that was actually really an astute observation like being a salinator is a full-time 360 degree operation best motion picture drama the brutalist a complete unknown oh i've heard of that because that's bob marley timothy oh timothy conclave dune part two that's also timothy right yeah nickel boys less than nickelback i prefer and september 5 so i haven't heard of any of these movies as the years go on like usually there was two and then there's one that i've even heard of i haven't even heard of any of these i'm not a movie buff give it all to wicked it's the only movie anybody cared about this year like seriously how is it even not in nominated so so the golden glow splits up best picture for drama and then musical or comedy whereas the oscars it's all one category so here are the movies that you've heard of for best motion picture musical or comedy okay thank you anora no challengers amelia perez a real pain the substance wicked okay so here's the one you heard of so here's what i all i needed to know well of course give it to wicked but i saw challengers um me and ben like watched it we enjoyed it i mean we watched the whole thing i didn't like think it was amazing i got through it the fact that that's what's considered like that's the bar I feel like when I was younger like the bar for movies that were nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes was so much higher like this movie about like nothing that doesn't even have an ending that's made the list oh like the bar has been lowered in my time yes but also it's two categories so that's like 10 movies and I wonder if it were one maybe it's less right I'm not even gonna tell like my opinion here is like so irrelevant it's Wicked I saw Wicked but I guess like what also like looked good enough to see because I saw wicked for a reason because it looked marketed it was marketed well yeah and it's it's a great story like nothing else where I'm like oh I have to go and see that well I saw challengers not because even like even Barbie I didn't see in theaters I didn't even see challengers because it looked so compelling there was a lot of discourse about it online because there's like this one almost threesome scene and I was like I gotta see what everyone's talking about so I don't even feel like the movie was adequately marketed towards me i watched it because i'm like a loser who doesn't want to be left out understood and that's my truth so now you're in how does it feel i'll never get those two hours back and like the movie did not have an ending i can't stress that enough interesting next is best motion picture animated flow inside out too as i get older like this becomes my dominant category because this is what I've watched but I've not seen Jackie it's the circle the circle of life no I haven't seen any of these though but I've heard of two of them Flo Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail gotta see that Memoirs of a Gay Shaw Memoirs of a Snail Shaw okay Moana 2 Wallace and Gromit Vengeance Most Foul and The Wild Robot can't believe I missed that one I actually feel like there wasn't an animated film this year that like took the kids community by storm and adults.

24:31Like like it wasn't like like a frozen where it's like, wow, this is a cultural shift for the like every the kids were obsessed. But then like seriously, even the pair in Kanto, like Coco, like there are ones every year that like really transcend age. And I actually don't feel like any of these maybe Inside Out 2, but I didn't even hear it was that good. Yeah. And it's a sequel. Like it had the established audience. They didn't do much. Yeah. So I'm not sure. now this next category is like the swirly one cinematic and box office achievement so like popular movies that performed well first alien romulus no second beetlejuice beetlejuice third deadpool and wolverine four gladiator two five inside out six twisters seven wicked eight the wild robot i feel like i was just thinking of something that should have been here that's surprising that's not here well wicked's gonna win you think so is that the biggest movie of the year well because this category is like for lowbrow movies that had big budgets that weren't like artsy enough for the main category but wicked is in the main category too so it has to win by the way here's a crazy suggestion for what should have been nominated it ends with us one thousand percent thank you thank you very much oh you just know justin baldoni is vomiting he didn't get nominated for director and neither did John Chu I know people are mad about that and they're right for that 1000 % maybe now like I feel like they didn't expect Wicked to have the effect that it did and he'll definitely get nominated next year like with the sequel but it's too little too late just like they didn't nominate Ari for the Oscars like don't sleep on Wicked it's wrong don't bet against Wicked uh what was the uh I actually didn't see the nominees for the original song did Luke Holmes get a nominee nomination because seriously Oklahoma from Twisters is not only an amazing song it was immensely popular great question best original song motion picture beautiful that way from the last show girl which actually Miley is on so Miley is nominated for a globe then compress and repress from challengers El Mal Amelia Perez Forbidden Road Better Man and Kiss the Sky the Wild Robot so that's wrong Luke Holmes deserved a nomination for Oklahoma and from the Twister soundtrack and he deserved a win for that 1000 but like a Lisa nomination another song from Amelia Perez was also nominated that's insane that's insane Twister's put out a whole ass album of songs originals sick that's wrong then we have best performance there's so many because it's broken down by musical versus drama there are so many categories but I'm gonna just breeze through them if I may just just the highlights please best performance by a female in a motion picture drama.

27:05Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl, Angelina Jolie, Maria, Nicole Kidman, Baby Girl, Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door, Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here, Kate Winslet, Lee. Star-studded category, by the way. Yeah, yeah. Next, Best Performance by a Male Actor in a motion picture drama. Adrian Brody, The Brutalist, always a good choice. My friend. Timothy Chalamet, A Complete Unknown, Daniel Craig, Queer, Coleman Domingo, Sing Sing, Ralph, Phineas, Conclave, Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice. don't care best performance by a female actor in a motion picture musical or comedy Amy Adams Night Bitch Cynthia Erivo Wicked Carla Sofia Gascon Amelia Perez Mikey Madison Anora Demi Moore The Substance Zendaya Challengers it's Cynthia's award to lose you think I think that about Ariana too I don't know if both will win like is that crazy i i don't know it depends how much like wicked has endeared the industry you know i just don't know the politics yeah yeah golden globes is so political yeah all these awards are about political and campaigns and i just don't know if they want to give it all to wicked i feel like they don't i feel like they don't either especially because the only thing that discredits wicked is that it's an adaptation.

28:24So it's not like an original script or an original story. It's actually an adaptation of an adaptation. Do you know what I mean? Everything these days is an adaptation. I know, I know. But if you wanted to critique it compared to other films, you could say, well, this is an original story and this is not. Yeah. Then best performance by a male actor in a motion picture, musical, or comedy. Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain, Hugh Grant, Heretic, Gabrielle LaBelle, Saturday Night Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness Glenn Powell, Hitman, Sebastian Stan A Different Man I don't know any of these, but give it to Jesse Plemons Nobody works harder Seriously, did you see how fat he got for that Elizabeth Olsen TV show?

29:04Yeah That man is committed, and by the time it was award season He was back to his OG weight Seriously, anyone willing to put their body through that Deserves all the awards Because I wouldn't He's an actor who does it for the art like not for the celebrity. Oh, he loves to fucking act. And he got his start on the greatest show of all time, Friday Night Lights. And he's married to Kirsten Dunn. It's like the facts are so fun about him. Oh, and he's in our favorite episode of Black Mirror. Oh my God, stop. I think about that episode all the time. The one where he's like killing people. And puts them in his video game.

29:38And then like they end up killing him and he like dies like on his video game. Like it was so good. Yeah. Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in any motion picture. Selena Gomez, Amelia Perez. So this is not looking good today. Ariana Grande, Wicked. Felicity Jones, The Brutalist. Margaret Qualley, The Substance. Isabella Rossellini, Conclave. Zoe Saldana, Amelia Perez. I don't want the Selenators to come for me. This is just like I would say this about anyone. I feel like for her performance to have been so discredited by like the community it was made for and then her to get a Golden Globe nomination the next day actually really discredits the

30:16parginess of a golden globe like it really like it has widely been just she wasn't even speaking the right she wasn't even speaking the language correctly but you think that's the best of the year like yeah I feel like it's actually not a good look for the golden globes no I agree it's not it's not looking well and then best tv series drama the day of the jackal the diplomat mr. and mrs smith on prime video showgun slow horses squid game i just know nobody watched the mr and mrs smith reboot like i saw like one commercial for it they didn't even like market it i can't believe it's been nominated for something that's what i'm saying like really and then best tv series musical or comedy which is like what would be swirly is abbott elementary the bear the gentleman hacks nobody wants this only murders in the building so happy for aaron foster um and Sarah.

31:06Do you know Sarah's worked on the show too? Yes, yes. It's Erin's like baby, but Sarah like was a part of it for sure. But like when you. Like she would be up there on stage accepting the award with her. Which we would love to see. I though know that the bear is going to win and like that just must be annoying for Erin Foster. Because like it's enough already with that show. It's not an honor to be nominated. No, like I when we talk about shows everybody was watching and talking about this year, like it was nobody wants this. Yeah, it's really true. I think it like broke all the streaming records like for Netflix.

31:37Correct. So. I feel like they could win. I feel like they could win. I just feel like these awards, like they don't care about what's popular. And it's so annoying. Things are popular for a reason. No, and they put that one category in for box office achievements so that they don't have to deal with popularity in other categories. There also was a category for concert films. Am I correct? Like concert DVDs. And Taylor Swift was not nominated, which is shocking. That is shocking. Yeah, I guess it came out. Did it come out? It came out two years ago. No, one. last October last so would it be I think it would I think it was included like in this I'm not sure actually don't quote me on this I just went on social media the other notable nomination is best performance last year sorry sorry best performance in stand-up comedy on TV Jamie Foxx which uh is called what had happened was and we're actually talking about that later Nikki Glaser Seth Meyers Adam Sandler Ali Wong and Rami Youssef but Nikki Glaser is the host hosting of the award show and she could also be a winner that would be cool that would be cool and when you talk about like who made waves in comedy this year like it was nikki glazer it was nikki glazer although again shane gillis like being snubbed is like they just don't like him like he's not industry approved because that really was the comedy event of the year like everybody was talking about it right so i will watch the golden globes in the beginning in earnest see how see how it's going but i don't have a big stake in who's gonna win no me neither but i'm gonna tune in because i want to see nikki glazer and i want to see uh wicked yeah and is there a performance i feel like they're only gonna perform at the oscars yes and they're not nominated for a song though are there performances at the golden globes i don't think so i don't think so but also it's only the songs that are nominated that perform so oh right and also their songs are an original oh my god so they might not even perform yeah they'll have to find a way around that they'll figure it out they will anyways it's really like this time of year um which this like we always do nominations but our next story is a big list news okay because the short list for times person of the year has been announced yep i always forget that they tell you like the 10 people that they're choosing from oh oh i didn't know that it was like an official list from time I thought it was like everybody guessing.

33:54No, it's at time.com. They reveal their 10 candidates on the Today Show. Do people vote or it's already done? It's already, like they vote, but they're letting you know who was in consideration. So it's just like a great way to see the year at a glance, I would say. And I feel like this year, not only because it was an election year, but like just because of everything going on in the world, like was so political. Like I don't think they could or should give it to like a Taylor Swift this year. Whereas in years past, like it was so her year. I think giving it to someone who's not like a world leader or a politician would be wrong like between like Israel, Ukraine, like there was the election.

34:26There was a lot politically going on in the world this year. Yeah. And that was the big theme of the year. We were even talking about on our Patreon episode when we tried to do like Thanksgiving table topics. Trying not to talk about like politics or the election is literally impossible this year. Unless you want to talk about the listeria outbreak. Which by the way, I don't know if you want to talk about whilst you're eating turkey, but it is a big deal that listeria outbreak. and we let Boar's Head get away with far too much. Yes, but your turkey at Thanksgiving like was hopefully cooked through and it's a deli-y thing.

34:57Of course, I'm just saying as a society, we moved on from that listeria outbreak far too fast. And it went on way too long and now like with the E. coli and the carrots, what's going on? It's like, if everybody could just wash their hands, like that would be great. Especially those who work near food. That's being mass produced. So here are the contenders for Time's Person of the Year. One, Kamala Harris. Two, Kate Middleton. It was a big year for Kate Middleton. That was Q1, but still. Yeah, but compared to the other people on the list, like seriously. I don't think she's going to get it, but it was actually crazy.

35:32She was a big part of the year. Everyone was talking about her. The conspiracies. Yeah, no, everyone was talking about her, but actually overall. No, she was. No, she was till Easter. She was MIA for most of the year. Like, that's what the story was about. So how can you be time persons of the year if you don't leave your house? Okay, so she wouldn't win for you. No, who was the first one? Kamala. okay like that that would make sense three elon also would make sense i wonder has he ever won i'll go back and look at past but i think i'll look it up i think that at some point in his life he should be person of the year and maybe this year was a big elon year the cyber truck the robot kim's boyfriend uh-huh okay previous time people of the year let me know when you're ready i'm ready like in the last 10 years you know okay because they have me starting from 1927 also interesting oh we don't have all the time in the world on the car for some reason this list is only starting me at 19 i mean at 2019 and it was gratitude oh wait but oh yikes um in 2023 it was taylor swift and then that felt right the year before was the ukrainian president selensky and the spirit of ukraine together oh not the spirit spirit and the president Elon was 2021 And then Joe and Kamala 2020 And what was Greta Toon Joe and Kamala were 2020 The Guardians aren't those the COVID nurses No that's what I thought but this person is What year Oh All our Journalists who were violently attacked or slapped with criminal charges In an empowering effort to silence the free press Worldwide I must have missed that one oh taylor swift is also a person me too me too or like a couple of people because 2017 was the silence breakers a couple of journalists or a couple of silence breakers the voices that launched the me too movement so like taylor swift and other notable swirlies 2016 was trump 2015 merkel what is she the prime minister merkel not markle merkel i said i know but it sounded like Markle and I was like oh honestly she could have too she should have been I mean 2020 was such a busy year and who knew at the outset when they megsited that they'd be totally eclipsed by a virus but like 2020 was their year but this is 2015 Angela Merkel's Angela Merkel 2014 the Ebola fighters that was like such a throwback Ebola yeah 2013 Pope Francis 2012 Obama so it seems like in most election years it's the winner give it to the person who won so 2012 Obama 2016 16, Trump.

38:0920, Joe and Kamala. Oh, not Joe getting like half. A piece for Joe Biden. By logic, and I know he's on the list, 2024 would be Trump. Right. But this also just was like such a busy year. Yes. So let's continue through the list. Another nominee, Yulia Navalnaya. She is the wife of Alexei who died in February. He's like a Russian political oppositionist. Also nominated, Benjamin Netanyahu. Prime Minister of Israel. next Jerome Powell the chairman of the federal reserve I didn't really feel like it was Jerome's year and I actually have some questions for Jerome I just paid my taxes and like I would love to see like an itemized list of what what it's going to I don't know if that's the reserves department or the IRS I just feel like they're all working together to hurt me yeah but also I don't want it to go to Jerome Jerome's like big thing is like the interest rates which have been like so high it's kind of been a part of the year for interest yeah and for interest but not the interest rate payers no no for but everyone's talking the name on everybody's list is interest oh and inflation yeah yeah yeah also nominated big for podcasting joe rogan oh you know what i actually feel like if there was a year for joe rogan to win it wouldn't have been this i understand he actually had a huge impact on the election but i feel like he made way more ways with his vaccine drama yeah um so i don't think it's his time who won in 21 we just went over this elon oh okay elon what was elon doing in 21 i think that was the year he like recycled a rocket ship which was like his biggest feat to date like you're not spending 10 billion dollars to build a rocket ship that only goes up once that was his documentary on netflix yeah yeah yeah and his idea that he stole from sheldon yes exactly the rocket in the water exactly yeah that was big and then also he had a big um year of rockets this year so it actually could be him because of what he did with that tower catching the rocket and its claws perhaps then claudia scheinbaum not to be mistaken with claudia ashray but she is actually mexico's first ever female president oh she's jewish yeah well obviously scheinbaum um yeah i feel like i heard about her when she was um one because everyone is like her name is claudia and she's jewish and then i never heard about and i never heard like about her like making strides and that's not to say she's not like a successful president i'm just saying as somebody who lives a little bit north of mexico like i don't hear about her work a lot like i hear about you know macron like i hear about what trudeau's up to i actually feel like it's not her year shinebaum sorry no it wasn't her year then trump for winning the election but also the assassination attempts like i really don't see how it's not him well also it's kind of like their thing that they do like the person who wins for the last x amount of years i bet obama won in 2008 for sure yeah oh for sure because it was the first win right 2008 2012 16 i don't know but it just it was a competitive year the short list is kind of like who was would be your number two thought for it who's the his biggest competition also let me just also say the final nominee is mark zuckerberg like no thanks oh no i actually feel like he had quite a loser a year like thanks but no thanks there have been previous years where he was like we were always watching those senate hearings right like and then he had the viral surfboard moment i feel like he was like kind of low-key this year like getting a tan and and a stylist like i feel like it's on his ear yeah so who do you think it would be the list top to bottom one more time okay okay so we have kamala kate middleton elon i just want to say it can't be kamala she didn't win like she was literally the not person yeah i i and it can't be kate middle team either she was not visible so xx elon it could be yulia naval naya i don't know i i know like the work of her husband and the bravery i don't know enough so i'll leave her i'm not gonna x her but i'm not sure not to yahoo they're not gonna give it to him and also it would have been last year yeah yeah actually it would have although like this year was like big for him with and also the war started in q4 of last year by the way i could definitely see i would say the biggest story of the year is the war in gaza in addition to the election and it was such a big part of the election and i think why people voted the way that they did so i i actually think netanyahu is a formidable formidable opponent you think he's number two to trump yeah or elon but yeah no i would say second to trump jerome powell joe rogan no no claudia shinebound trump no no No.

42:45Okay, yeah. It's going to be, in my opinion, Trump or Biebsters. Or Elon. Or Elon, yeah. I think it will be Trump or Elon, I guess, or not. I just don't see it going. I also, I don't see them breaking their streak. Like, this is clearly what they do, time, strategically for the last decade or two. So we'll be sat until they announce. When did they say they're announcing? It's crazy that, like, there's really no celebrities. Oh, I love a little short. This is a good. I like how they did this. it's interesting that there's no celebrities on this list with the exception of Kate Middleton but she is like a dignitary yeah I think it wasn't a good year for celebrities I think so too because if if we're talking about the biggest year of celebrities like it was Taylor Swift but compared to last year it's sort of leveled out we're all just like used to it now you know so last year really was her year yeah and this year she just like worked a lot yeah hustle you know what's moving in silence my talks wealth whispers i never can remember i remember i saw it in a commercial with like michael phelps where it's like what you do in the dark will show in the light yeah i like that he's like doing his workouts at dawn and like it's literally dark out no one can see but then like game time it's bright all that work shows through no people who constantly talk about how hard they work like you're not you're not working hard at all yeah because if you have so much time to chat about it like you could be working yeah like the work is what happens with like nobody sees the work you just see the result correct are you ready for our third story am i no i feel like no yeah no is it our third story that's brought to you by ag1 yes it is staying motivated and eating healthy during the holidays can be a challenge and there are tons of different ways to approach it and i think a great way to approach it is getting to a really good routine especially in the morning and ag1 is the perfect thing to add to your morning routine if you're looking for tons of different benefits when it comes to how you feel your digestion and there's no better spokesperson for AG1, like I'm literally a mouthpiece for my husband.

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