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Category is Business: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Category is Business: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026", an episode of The Toast published February 17, 2026 (1 h 10 min, about 16,540 words). It mentions 34 people, works and ideas, including Jackie, Freda Baby, Jackson Claude, Taylor Swift, Southern Charm.

What this episode is about

A lighthearted behind-the-scenes recap of a busy start to the week, highlighting notable personal anecdotes and a playful celebrity sighting, with a focus on mood, brief updates, and casual banter. Key moments include President’s Day weekend reflections and a surprising encounter with music executive Scott Borchetta.

Key takeaways

  • Celebrity spotting in everyday life blurs fantasy and reality, revealing how fame remains theater outside the spotlight.
  • Scott Borchetta at the beach proves high-profile exits to ordinary spaces are more common than we admit.
  • Swifty implications: Taylor could influence artist rights by starting her own label, reshaping power in country-pop.
  • Reality-check: internet vibes on TikTok can outpace Instagram, proving audience momentum now hinges on platform culture.
  • Media drift: casual chatter about labels, careers, and fandom converges into a micro-drama about branding and legitimacy.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: BHC Tommy, Scott Borchetta, Shaws of Sunset, Southern Charm
  2. – 20:00: Jackie, Southern Charm, Craig Conover, South Florida
  3. – 30:00: Cozy Earth, Thrive Market, Squarespace (company), Roback
  4. – 40:00: Freda Baby, Paul Salem, Jackie, Olympics
  5. – 50:00: Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Angela Bassett
  6. – 1:00:00: Cozy Earth, Roback
  7. – 1:09:50: Jackie, Nashville

Notable quotes from "Category is Business: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026"

  • Good morning. It's the It's Jackson Claude and we're your host.
    about Jackson Claude · at
  • We're just like two gals from New York at the beach and like there were people there and I turned to Jackie and I was that guy like is giving like he looks like Scott…
    about Jackie · at
  • Well, I've often thought that Taylor should start a record label because wherever like label she goes to, it's always such a big story. And she's always like fighting for artist rights.
    about Taylor Swift · at
  • It is. Well, I'm so busy right now watching Shaws of Sunset. Don't get me to call it the Valley Persian style.
    about Shaws of Sunset · at
  • Oh that's good. I actually watched a couple episodes of Southern Charm last night. and I'm trying to catch back up.
    about Southern Charm · at
  • So in order of no Nicole Kidman is being actively sought out by this chairman of MGM Resorts.
    about Paul Salem · at
  • Million to give 200 grand in financial benefits to every US Olympian and par Olympian starting in Milan because you know they don't get paid and a lot of them like work…
    about Olympics · at
  • Are you ready for our next story? M Freda Baby has responded to the controversy. They have put out a statement in defense of Freda baby self.
    about Freda Baby · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Jackie — Person · Co-host · 7 mentions · first at
    One of the two primary voices throughout the episode; participates in all major segments (reality TV, sponsors, advice).
  • Jackson Claude — Person · Host · 1 mention · first at
    Named in the opening as part of the hosting team for The Toast episode.
  • Taylor Swift — Person · Referenced celebrity (core pop-culture frame) · 4 mentions · first at
    Used as the main reference point for why Scott Borchetta matters and later as a lens for discussing Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo dynamics.
  • Scott Borchetta — Person · Referenced public figure (celebrity sighting + music industry foil) · 2 mentions · first at
    One host recounts spotting him on a South Florida beach, prompting discussion of Big Machine and Taylor Swift-related lore.
    At the beach and like there were people there and I turned to Jackie and I was that guy like is giving like he looks like Scott Borchetta. Now, obviously Scott Borchetta wasn't…
  • Paul Salem — Person · Referenced business figure (celebrity gossip/businessman-of-week) · 5 mentions · first at
    Discussed as MGM Resorts chairman allegedly pursuing Nicole Kidman; becomes a springboard for a 'businessman of the week' idea.
  • Craig Conover — Person · Referenced reality TV personality · 3 mentions · first at
    Central to the Southern Charm discussion; hosts defend him and describe cast conflict and public hate.
    Things were happening that I was not enjoying. Like first of all, every like everyone hates Craig.
  • Olivia Rodrigo — Person · Referenced celebrity (pop rivalry/industry narrative) · 3 mentions · first at
    Appears in discussion of the Bassett-Carpenter-Rodrigo saga and speculation about her relationship with Taylor Swift.
    Life other than that like three-year period where sorry 3-month period where he stopped dating Olivia Rodrigo and started dating Sabrina Carpenter and then created like two of…
  • Sabrina Carpenter — Person · Referenced celebrity (pop rivalry/industry narrative) · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed as a beneficiary of Taylor Swift's support and as part of the Joshua Bassett/Olivia Rodrigo storyline.
    Period where sorry 3-month period where he stopped dating Olivia Rodrigo and started dating Sabrina Carpenter and then created like two of the biggest pop stars on the planet. Like he doesn't get enough credit.
  • Mercedes Javeed — Person · Referenced reality TV personality · 2 mentions · first at
    Highlighted as a standout cast member in the Shaws of Sunset recap; her marriage issues are discussed.
    Yes, they have Reza Jay. So they have the OGs. Mercedes Javeed like is a treasure.
  • Angela Bassett — Person · Referenced celebrity (memoir news hook) · 2 mentions · first at
    Hosts discuss his upcoming memoir title and his role in the Rodrigo–Carpenter pop-culture saga.
    Yes. But first, we're talking about Joshua Basset's memoir. What do you think it's called?
  • BHC Tommy — Person · Referenced reality TV personality · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed as Mercedes Javeed's husband and as a key part of the marriage conflict shown on the series.
    Her husband Tommy is a like a reality TV dream. Gold Messa, I actually have like issues with her. I actually don't think she's a good reality star. She's so extreme and so chaotic. Like for the.
  • Vita June — Person · Referenced reality TV personality · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as part of the cast and as someone who confronts Tommy about his behavior toward Mercedes Javeed.
    Young party boy. they have this really cute couple who are totally the Danny and Nia, Amir and Natasha. and of course Vita June. Like it's I become so Persian when the show…
  • Big Ben — Person · Referenced person (hosts' personal life) · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as watching TV with the hosts and recording his own podcast; no full name provided in transcript.
    Like me to the most random places and the other day they were playing Nashville and Ben was What is the show? And I was explaining it to him.
  • Ali Reza — Person · Referenced reality TV personality · 1 mention · first at
    Praised as an 'OG' and strong reality star within the Shahs-related recap; only first name used in transcript.
    Literally so they have the OGs, like people who have been reality stars for many years. Like Reza is a perfect reality.
  • Terrence Rohan — Person · Referenced business figure (Shark Tank 'guest shark') · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a potential 'shark' partner for the hosts' hypothetical hospitality/food-and-beverage business idea; no last name provided.
    So I was actually thinking Rowan. He does beverage, which again is like not this, but I feel like he operates. Yeah.
  • Marggo — Person · Referenced person (family member present at sighting) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the sister the host ran over to after spotting Scott Borchetta; no full name provided.
    No, I like ran over to my sister Marggo.

Companies & orgs

  • Freda Baby — Company · Core topic (brand controversy) · 3 mentions · first at
    A major segment covers the company's statement responding to backlash over sexual humor in marketing for baby products.
  • Big Machine — Company · Referenced company (context for Borchetta sighting) · 2 mentions · first at
    Appears via Borchetta's shirt and as the label associated with him; discussed in relation to artist careers and Swiftie backlash.
    Obviously Scott Borchetta wasn't at the beach, right? Until he turned around and his shirts said Big Machine on it.

Places & events

  • Olympics — Event · Referenced event (news story) · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed via two stories: Olympic Village condom shortages and a businessman funding U.S. Olympians starting in Milan.
  • South Florida — Place · Setting (hosts' weekend + business idea context) · 2 mentions · first at
    The beach sighting occurs here and the hosts mention needing partners in South Florida real estate for a future business.
    Yeah. He was probably like seeing local talent, maybe scouting like the South Florida music scene.
  • Tommy Live — Event · Referenced media event (series finale) · 1 mention · first at
    Hosts note the series finale timing and speculate about what would be a 'perfect ending.'
    Right we also have deer toasters today and today is and I'm sure this is one of our stories today is the series finale of Tommy Live I know and I keep seeing have people watched it already no you saw a spoiler okay last night.
  • President's Day — Event · Temporal anchor (holiday weekend) · 2 mentions · first at
    Used to frame the weekend timeline for the beach trip and celebrity sighting story.
    Yay. Happy President's Day week.
  • United States (states) — Place · Referenced location (Olympians + assimilation context) · 2 mentions · first at
    Appears in the Olympian funding story and in discussion of Iranian-born cast living in America.
    Of the people from Shaz I remember like they were born in Iran, but they've lived in America for the majority of their lives. They have this couple Sky and I'm so sorry I'm not…
  • Iran — Place · Referenced location (cast background context) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned regarding Shahs cast members being born in Iran and one couple fleeing Iran.
    The people that they've cast. So, a lot of the people from Shaz I remember like they were born in Iran, but they've lived in America for the majority of their lives. They have…
  • New York, New York — Place · Referenced location (hosts' identity + weather context) · 2 mentions · first at
    Used to describe the hosts as 'two gals from New York' and referenced in a winter weather ad read.
    We're just like two gals from New York at the beach and like there were people there and I turned to Jackie and I was that guy like is giving like he looks like Scott Borchetta. Now,.
  • Milan — Place · Referenced location (future Olympics context) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the starting point for a fund paying U.S. Olympians (future games context).
    Million to give 200 grand in financial benefits to every US Olympian and par Olympian starting in Milan because you know they don't get paid and a lot of them like work…

Media & podcasts

  • Southern Charm — Media · Core topic (reality TV recap) · 4 mentions · first at
    Hosts discuss catching up on the season, complaints about episode structure, and cast dynamics around Craig Conover.
  • Shaws of Sunset — Media · Core topic (reality TV recap) · 2 mentions · first at
    A long segment praises the show, discusses cast members, and notes real-time divorce context for Mercedes Javeed and Tommy.
  • Nashville — Media · Referenced TV show · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as something playing on the Airbnb TV and as a show one host explains to Ben.
    Yeah. Well, in this one they always take like me to the most random places and the other day they were playing Nashville and Ben was What is the show? And I was explaining it to him.

Sponsors

  • Thrive Market — Company · Sponsor (advertised product) · 4 mentions · first at
    Hosts recommend the grocery membership service for clean ingredients and delivery convenience, with a promo offer.
    That you heard about cozyear right here on the toast. Today's episode is also brought to you by Thrive Market, the best way to get your groceries delivered in an aesthetic but…
  • Squarespace (company) — Company · Sponsor (advertised product) · 3 mentions · first at
    Presented as the website platform the hosts recommend for building and running a business site.
    Do need to know? If you're the fast five stories you need to know that are brought to you by Squarespace. This podcast is sponsored by Squarespace, the all-in-one website…
  • Cozy Earth — Company · Sponsor (advertised product) · 6 mentions · first at
    Promoted for bamboo pajamas and bedding; hosts describe product benefits and provide a discount code.
    Your rowback layers. They are a winter wardrobe essential. So, be brave out there. Brave the brave with rowback. Use our code toast at roback.com for a generous 20% off your…
  • Roback — Company · Sponsor (advertised product) · 4 mentions · first at
    Promoted for winter layering and jogger sets; hosts provide a discount code.
    Always easy to do it. Like sometimes you just have to like look like the Michelin man, but you don't. Thanks to Robok.
  • Artificial Intelligence — Concept · Referenced concept (product feature in ad read) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as part of Squarespace's capabilities ('using AI') rather than as a discussion topic.
    You have a brick-and-mortar facility, which we hope to have one day. and Squarespace has got you covered using AI in the pardiest of way, offering services to get you up and…

Full transcript with timestamps

Good morning. It's the It's Jackson Claude and we're your host. It's your favorite show, the best five things you need to know. We'll start your day off swirly. It's the toast. They sound amazing.

Welcome back to the toast and happy Tuesday. That feels like a Monday, but it ain't. You know, it feels like a Monday, but it doesn't suck.

Short week alert week that is short. Yay. Yay. Happy uh President's Day week. Happy President's Day weekend. I hope everybody celebrated President's

I did in a meaningful manner. I actually did. I spent President's Day weekend with the president of like a pretty big company.

The CEO of Tyl Global. Yes. The CEO of Spritz Society. But more importantly, actually, I spent the Friday of President's Day weekend with kind of one of the world's leading presidents. Kind of a controversial president.

Who's that? My celeb spotting on on Friday. Oh, yeah. Is that what you want to you want to share with everyone?

Oh, yeah. So, kind of like the craziest thing happened to us on Friday. We went to the beach. Um, which is crazy enough. We're just like two gals from New York at the beach and like there were people there and I turned to Jackie and I was like, that guy like is giving like he looks like Scott Borchetta. Now, obviously Scott Borchetta wasn't at the beach, right? Until he turned around and his shirts said Big Machine on it.

Mhm. And I was like, "Wait, that is Scott Borsetta." Like, you just you don't expect to wake up and see Scott Borchetta, like scorned music executive out in the streets at the beach.

Yeah. Wearing a long sleeve shirt. It was so crazy. And AirPod Maxes. He was being like really chatty on the phone,

like rolling calls, talking loud, like strolling, being like, "Yeah, I have a job." He was be giving job.

Yeah. But he was also giving low-key like if you're not a discerning eagle-eyed

celebrity podcaster, you might have not known that was the older gentleman, Scott Borchetta, the man who which so many songs are written about

and everybody cuz I posted on Tik Tok that I saw like you know Scott. Oh, did you? Cuz you didn't post on Instagram.

No, I wanted to test the the real the the vibes on uh Tik Tok first. And what' they say?

They were freaking out people being like, "Did you go up to him and sing father figure?" No,

I didn't go up to him and sing the smallest man who ever lived, Jessica. Like what do you think? What kind of animal do you guys think I am?

Did you go up to him and sing father figure? No, I like ran over to my sister Marggo. I was like a couple bigger weenies.

We were like giggling and taking pictures of him behind his back like normal people. Like no, I didn't go up to him and sing the bridge of um my tears ricochet. No, I didn't. I'm sorry. I'm not a real Swifty.

Do people do that to him? I don't I actually don't think he gets spotted out a lot. And the thing is he's actually like an extraordinarily wealthy man. What he was doing at like the beach. I don't know. Um,

well, we were saying his other f his other artists were in town. Yeah. He was probably like seeing local talent, maybe scouting like the South Florida music scene.

Oh, singing for him. Okay, let's say let's say Yeah. Yeah. I'm so glad we're playing this game.

Scott Boretta wants to give me a record deal. Wants to give you a record deal. Would the Swifty in you like accept it?

Of course. I just like would hope that like the internet wouldn't find out that like my big break was a Big Machine because like Big Machine has lots of artists. Like I don't think like Scott's cancellation affected Big Machine like

didn't affect Dan and Shay, right? Like actually, you know what I mean? So being associated with Scott Borshetta, like sorry, people need jobs, they need labels, and he owns a big one, especially in the country scene. But obviously as an outspoken Swifty, um I got to put me first.

Yeah, I do. Or you could take your deal that Scott gave you. You could present it to Taylor

or like Colia. No, no, no. But why would they care? They would say go with Scott. Like,

right. Right. But if Taylor wants to stop you from going with Scott, you could present it to her and say like you have first right of refusal.

Well, I've often thought that Taylor should start a record label because wherever like label she goes to, it's always such a big story. And um she's always like fighting for artist rights. So it's like start a label with like good artist rights.

You're right. I've always thought that she should like she has her own management company. She has her own production company. Like start your own label. Be your own label. First of all,

she's probably thought about it and decided against because like the work that she does for H like she should be making money off of that first of all.

I mean, and Gracie and Breener, right? Right. It's so It's so Raina James starting her label.

I I keep talking about how like the TV in our Airbnb like opens up automatically to like Samsung TV plus cable,

right? What does it have you watching? So, the other day, Channel 1000. Yeah. It It always has the most random [ __ ] on like very um what's his name? That was like the house we were in this summer. Every time we turned on was on Brat TV.

Yeah. Yeah. Bratz. Like teenage young adult. We wish. No. No. Like young adult.

It's called Brat TV if you like. It's like teenage content. Yeah. Ya. Yeah. Well, in this one they always take like me to the most random places and the other day they were playing Nashville and Ben was like, "What is the show?" And I was explaining it to him. And what episode did they put it on? I won't spoil it, but like the one where the thing happens.

So many things happen. Soap opera. No, no, no. the thing that like sort of changed the course of the show.

Oh. Um and so Ben was like I said to Ben like now that you've seen that like you actually don't really need to watch a show.

Maybe he'll forget you guys. Actually, that's a great rewatch. It is. Well, I'm so busy right now um watching Shaws of Sunset. Don't get me to call it the Valley Persian style. That's not what it's called. You had a perfect name of a perfect

Shaw of the Valley. What about Shaws of the Valley? Valley Shaw. like something

because it was like they were the Shaws of Sunset and now they are the Shaws of

the Valley or what's like a big street in the valley? Shaw of North Robert. Yeah.

Shaw of Janga Canyon. So, while it's a bad name, everything else about the show is amazing. Like, it's so good to have I had started it like a couple of weeks ago and I didn't make it past the first episode. It was good. I just like wasn't in that sort of space.

Oh my god, I was in such a space last night for it. I watched like four episodes. It's so good. Um, it's literally like, so they have the OGs, like people who have been reality stars for many years. Like Reza is a perfect reality.

Then they also have Reza Jackson. Yes, they have Reza Jay. So they have the OGs. Mercedes Javeed like is a treasure.

Uhhuh. Her husband Tommy is a like a reality TV dream. Gold Messa, I actually have like issues with her. I actually don't think she's a good reality star. She's so extreme and so chaotic. Like for the sake, I think of being interesting. Um it's just not interesting to see someone she sits down with like this guy she used to date and like she's outside like blowing off steam within 5 seconds of him sitting down like she's so drama but not in an interesting way. Um she's like and every scene she's storming out of like it's her anger. It's her anger.

It's like girl you're 40 like she's just she's not doing it for me. But they cast all these other people who are so valley it's giving like Michelle and Jesse you know and I love some of the people that they've cast. So, a lot of the people from Shaz I remember like they were born in Iran, but they've lived in America for the majority of their lives. They have this couple Sky and I'm so sorry I'm not going to say her husband's name, right? But he's my favorite person on the show. Bad Cham Badgam, something like that. They fled Iran when they were like in their 20s and 30s. So, they are like really like like they're American, but they're so like not assimilated. They're so funny.

Um, they chose really good people like outside of the OGs. some I could live without. Resa Jay is like this like young party boy. Um they have this really cute couple who are totally the Danny and Nia, Amir and Natasha. Um and of course Vita June. Like it's I become so Persian when the show comes on. It is the best show. I will get like fully caught up. Highly recommend if you've been thinking about like start from the beginning though. Sha Sunset is on Peacock and if you like want to know True Happiness like you will find it like in Diamond Water, you know.

I'm glad that you're enjoying I saw like a little bit of it this weekend. And it was like a scene with Mercedes and Tommy like fighting like

I know. So this also it's great obviously timing for the show because we know that they're getting divorced in real time and you see like sort of the breaking apart of the marriage. I think like a big issue was like of course a very stereotypical like they became parents and forgot about one another, you know, and Tommy has this like kind of like cute but annoying disposition where he's like a jokester all the [ __ ] time. And now their kid who's eight, Sham, he's like loves his dad. He's like copying his mom. So he's like making fun of MJ and it's like she just goes home and everyone's

calling his dad. Sorry, copying his dad and like poking fun at his mom and she goes home and everyone's making fun of her. Yeah.

And it's like [ __ ] annoying and she like asks him to stop and he like doesn't get it. He's like that's my love language and she's like annoying. He's like Queens like a bully from Queens. Like

that's really annoying. Yeah. And so Vita June steps in and takes him out to breakfast and is like she's like you're making her miserable. And he did not receive it well. So you see it like starting to unravel. It's such a good show.

Oh that's good. I actually watched a couple episodes of Southern Charm last night. and I'm trying to catch back up. I don't want to skip over.

Um, and I think the season picks up cuz Zach said that it does and he also watches. Um,

but the episodes I watched last night like were not good. We're like a couple things were happening that I was not enjoying. Like first of all, every like

everyone hates Craig. Oh, Craig is having a It's hard for Craig. I'll get to Craig. No, I mentioned more so the rest of the show. Like half the episode is spent like with people on FaceTime talking to either their parents or their friends or like Austin and Charleston. I don't want to watch you on FaceTime recapping the like fight that happened two episodes ago. I've seen the replay of the fight four times in this episode. And like it wasn't that interesting to watch Austin and Craig yell at each other to begin with. Like I don't like boys yelling. So I'm like not loving the central drama.

boys yelling like with their friends is so for the like that's girly. So much focus on like people's pets like Austin's cat.

Excuse me. Austin's new cats. They had a a kitty. Uh I have to go home and you know Molly has to go home and feed her something. Like they had a party at Craigslist and everybody had to leave because they had to go feed their pets. Like it's funny when I say it but it's not funny to watch. Like they're on FaceTime like look at my kitty.

Yeah. And I like, let me tell you, I don't want to see your kitty. I don't want to see your kitty on FaceTime. And I don't want to watch a TV show of your kitty on FaceTime.

I have never been like somebody who really deeply follows Southern Charm. Not since the very beginning. And especially in recent years, like I'm not interested because anytime I see people like recapping it, it's like hate for Craig. And I know Craig like offline. And when I tell you there isn't a more genuine charitable individual like I can't turn on the TV and see my friend being hated on. Like I actually know him.

Yeah. No. And Craig is like it's it's hard because and now I see people it's like you know the Austin redemption arc like Austin was always right about Craig. I'm sorry I'm not doing that.

No, no, no. But like Craig is obviously like heartbroken and sad and so like he's drinking and acting out and then like

but last season when he was in a good happy place they were like mad at him for like not drinking and not having fun and now like he's drinking and having fun and they don't like him and it's hard for Austin and Craig because they're like jealous of each other. Austin Craig is like jealous that Austin is in like a good stable relationship and he doesn't seem to appreciate it, you know, and like

I think Austin's a little bit jealous of like Craig's single mom and so they're just like this. Um but then Yeah, it's it's a mess. But I I just feel like the show like and the girls are fighting about Molly's labia plasty like

oh my Yeah, cuz Molly's like, "You keep talking [ __ ] about my vagina and like like that's really and then she's No, no, she No, but she's not. She didn't. Like maybe Sally mentioned the fact that because Venita literally said to Sally, "Molly had a laboplasty." I mean, guess who paid for it? Like insinuating that a sugar daddy paid for it.

What else is a sugar daddy for? Sally goes to someone a couple and it's like Molly had a laboplasty and guess who paid for it. And then that someone goes to Molly and says that Sally said that,

right? It's Sutton and Darede and um Amanda Francis. Yeah. And it's like Venita said it but Molly just doesn't like Sally but Venita said the same thing. But you like her so you're not mad at her. And then then Molly goes to it and he they're talking about my vagina. And it's like now you're the one talking about it,

right? And now we've said it like now the one you're the one who keeps bringing up that other people are talking about it when like the comment was this big and it didn't have to even make it to air.

Yeah. No. So it sounds like I'm really not missing anything over it's on the track.

Yeah. There but like we have Charlie Charlie. Charlie and Craig. I wonder what happens. I hope they're dating.

I don't know. And you crazy. Ben was at the studio yesterday recording his podcast called What's it called? I can't remember. Um, and they had a guest on. Do you know what the guest's name was?

Charlie Craig Conover, but it wasn't Craig Conover of Southern Charm Fame. It was like a doctor

and he was in South Carolina also. Oh, yeah. He like he dos out GLP1s. He's like a big GLP1.

Dr. Craig Conover. Dr. Craig based in Charleston as opposed to Craig Conover Esquire.

Yeah. DDS. No, that's Dentist. ESQ. ESQ. Yeah. Um, yeah. We're just like on top of our reality TV. It's giving pulse.

Yeah. I almost like watched a screener of like I think maybe it was like summer house or something but then I was like how do I I don't know if I could shut my mouth today so I'll watch it on

right we also have deer toasters today and today is and I'm sure this is one of our stories today is the series finale of Tommy Live

I know and I keep seeing have people watched it already no you saw a spoiler okay last night okay came out last night cuz I saw people being like the crazy No just the I didn't see any spoilers no no people are like being like the ending was perfect like oh good

and I'm was like, "When did everyone watch it?" I got lost. Well, the ending is perfect if Steven like dies at the wedding, right?

Or if or if Lucy murders Steven, right? I don't care. I actually don't care who does it.

What do you think would be the perfect ending to this show? Steven dying like for That's the only way that everyone can unwrap and also like one of like a chandelier falling on him where no one is.

No, he trips. He trips and falls into the pool and he's drunk and nobody knows and he drowns.

No. or like Big Little Lie style where it's like everybody has a reason for killing this person

and so the chandelier fell and so they kill him and then they drop the chandelier on him.

Yes. And then they're all free from this like eight years long nightmare. Uhhuh. Uhhuh.

I love it. So will be tomorrow. We didn't spoil it for you. We have Dear Toasters. The swirlies are in need. And of course one girl is actually writing in the age question. Is my boyfriend gay? So um I'll be looking forward to helping her out.

Disgusting. I think I know where where you'll stand on that. Well, think about ty. You never know.

And I do feel like if you have to ask, well then we've said it. What else did we want to chat about this weekend?

We had such a pargy weekend. We did. So much love and laughter. Like so much laughter. So much maong.

So much ma. We're getting so good at ma. I know. I feel my brain expanding. And I want to say like I think maang is like keeping it's keeping my brain in intact. Like my brain would otherwise be mush right now. Oh. And I also want to say like when I'm done breastfeeding and I'm out of postpartum like it's over for you [ __ ] once I have my

Oh, that's so true. Once I have all my wits about me like you're not being drained like you know um what's his name? Zach Alphanakis and Overwatch

when the numbers are she's counting tiles. Yeah, it's over for you [ __ ] I didn't know what you were going with that but 100%. Cuz I feel like you're definitely being held back.

Yeah, because my brain is mush. Like the thing with maong is and I know everyone's like tired of me but I have been playing for 10 years and I always play like very sporadically so not like consistently. I don't play

no when we don't play in a few days like it takes me a couple rounds to get it back.

So we've been playing like pretty much back to back like multiple times a week and when you're in a good groove like that you get so good.

And also I'm now getting familiar like I have my favorite hands right and there was like two and three.

I see hands when I have the tiles. But now like yesterday I never played a 369 hand but I saw I have three and six and nine. So I'm like okay I'll play a 369 hand. And I found some really pardy hands. And so I feel like people who are more familiar with the card than we were, they they know all the they like all all those hands feel good.

But then they make a new card every year just keeping us all. That's what I was going to say. I'm excited for the new card will be a level playing field cuz I feel like we're a little bit behind because we don't know the card so well.

Love that. So like April's going to be major. You know how like pickle ball became so popular and like pickle ball started popping up everywhere and then they were doing like celebrity pickle ball tournaments sponsored by Celsius. I need them to do a celebrity ma jang tournament where it's like us, Emily Kaiser Kenzie.

Yeah. I feel like every celebrity plays. Is Lauren Elizabeth playing now? Probably.

I feel like I saw her. If you're cool, you're playing Maj. And it's so good for the brain. I'm like never on my phone. I'm just like I always have like the the baby monitor on loud and I'm not on my phone. I'm like engaging. It's brain camp.

Yeah. And I'm like addicted to playing. I'm like at Jackie's house. I'm like where's our I'm like itching. I'm like where's our fourth? We learned how to play with like a ghost player. It's not as fun.

I like it. It goes quick. It does. And now I'm like one of those players. I can't really play with Ben. Um if you're slow, like I can't play with you.

Yeah. Like Olivia played with us and she was like, "Oh, this table's like really hostile." Like you're just being slow. I was like a little, you know, and she's new to gay. I should have been nicer, but I couldn't.

You were hot in the pants for the maj. Yeah. So just like expanding our brains, expanding our Just forgot it. Should we dive in? maybe not expand. Yeah, I was like trying to like come up with a party sentence to like end that segment, maybe move on and I couldn't. So, just

But what did you what were you what was the sentiment you were trying to convey?

That we are just like women doing a lot, you know, we're expanding our families, expanding our minds,

uh, expanding our our businesses. Yes, you guys, Jackie and I actually came up, we're going to be annoying. We came up with a business idea over the weekend. We don't have a lot of business ideas in the sense that like we do what we do and we have a good business and we're not always trying to like reinvent the wheel or anything. But we came up with a with a business idea, a brickandmortar business idea that we think will really take off. So we thought of it yesterday and we haven't made any like steps towards but just know like in 18 months we are going to be like

launching a major business. Launching it like I think an industry shifting business and we're we sound like we're joking but we're not.

Yes. Hopefully we can get it off the ground. Yeah. We need some like partners, strategic partners.

Strategic partners in hospitality, in um food and beverage. Mhm. And in local South Florida real estate. I don't want to give too much away. I

think we need a shark. No. Wait, let's just play. If we could have any shark on our business, this business,

which shark would you want? So Ben was actually throwing around some great names yesterday. Ben was aiming really high. Um even though he would get it done. So

which sharks have Oh, sorry. Do we have to choose from sharks or can we just talk about like successful business people?

Oh no. Choose from sharks and guest sharks. And guess sharks and guess sharks. Okay. Um

I think I would still go Mr. Wonderful. He's just smart. Yeah, but like for what we're doing, he's not the right fit. He does like educational what?

That's crazy that you would turn down Mr. Wonderful. I would never. I love him with all my heart. Um but I don't think he's the right fit.

You know what? Because this this idea is so big. There's actually like not even the shark for it.

No, I don't think um anyone on the Shark Tank or their guest co-host like is the right person for this.

They don't do what we do. They don't do hospitality. They don't do what we do. They don't do what we do. Like what the founder of Ring Doorbell? He can't help us, you know?

Yeah. Like maybe Bethany. She might have be the closest, but I still don't think she's right for it.

Rowan. So I was actually thinking Rowan. He does beverage, which again is like not this, but I feel like he operates. Yeah. I was His name is Rohan, I think. Um I was thinking Rohan.

His friends call him Rowan. Oh yeah, for sure. Um yeah. Okay. Okay. We won't we won't tease anymore

because it's annoying to talk about like our groundbreaking business idea and our groundwork like that is not even a crumb of an idea yet. So like there we just we have to put in the leg work first.

Yeah. But again like if you're a professional in the industry as we stated, reach out. We have a a business opportunity for you.

We're so Romeo and Michelle. What kind of business y'all? We can't tell you. But it's really good. It's groundbreaking.

But it like when our groundbreaking business launches, you guys are going, "Wow, they did this overnight." And we just want to plant this seed today that like

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Thank you, the turt. You're welcome. Okay. Today's stories like are so not the Tuesday after a long weekend, but like I feel it's our fault.

No, no, no. But they're like good in their own way. They're just like not like major headlines.

Yeah. But like all very interesting. Okay. So in in order of no Nicole Kidman is being actively sought out by this chairman of MGM Resorts.

What did she do? No, in a romantic way. Oh. Oh. Oh, I thought like she like trashed a hotel room and they need her to like, you know.

No, Paul Sale fill out a credit card authorization form. Paul Salem. Wait, I'm cracking. I had no idea what that sentence meant. Like,

no, that was a confusing. What did you say? Nicole Kidman is being actively sought by the chairman.

Yeah, it's giving like a high-speed car chase. No, he likes he has a crush on her.

Oh my god. The chairman of MGM has a crush on Nicole Kidman and he is pursuing her in a romantic capacity.

Can I see a picture of Paul? You can. Okay. What do you think? Does he have a chance?

No. But what job did he chairman of the board of MGM Resorts International? So he has a chance.

Yeah. He has his eye on Nicole Kidman. TMZ has learned multiple sources with direct knowledge.

This is so random. Like Well, like we're always looking for a business memo, but like we don't know any anonymous businessmen other

That's the whole point of a business. We're not supposed to know your name. A businessman. So like add Paul Salem to the list of eligibles.

I love him. How is he putting himself out there? So, uh, TMT is told they're not dating at this point. The sources say they have shared two mutual friends and have met twice in group settings.

What the [ __ ] I don't get it. What do you mean? Like, this is not how like high-profile people act. No, not that this is news. I love this story, but like this is not how like really wealthy people act. They're supposed to be cool.

Yeah. Like, why? I met her once through a friend and now you're telling me twice. But why does TMZ know this know that Paul like likes her? He hasn't even asked her out yet. Why are we talking about it?

This is so strange. I feel like it's going to backfire before it even has a chance.

And this is like what that Olympic bronze medalist like thought he was doing like big romantic gesture. He's like maybe if I go to TMZ and you just know like Nicole Kidman hates the press cuz he's going about this all the wrong way.

Yeah. He needs to invite her to MGM as like a Well, I don't even think she's not a Vegas girl.

No. Like he could invite her as like a guest of honor, but like she doesn't need a free trip to Vegas. They'll have to pay her to get her there.

Yeah. And then but also it's not just Vegas. MGM owns like Oh, true. She doesn't need a free trip anywhere.

Paul sounds like he could be a great strategic partner for our business. So watch what you say.

So watch what you say about Paul. He's extremely handsome. He's extremely handsome. I really ship him in

too. He sounds like a great guy to not only go into business with, but also a life.

You know what? I really like this sort of story. Like so and so has a crush on so and so. Like I want

You know what? Sure. That's news I want to know. Yeah. Yeah. I have a crush. And even if it goes nowhere, like I like to know what's in your heart.

That's beautiful. And I personally love like learning about a new businessman, you know?

Me too. Me too. We should learn about a new businessman. The businessman of the week. New segment idea.

Segment. Businessman of the week. Because obviously Paul David, what's his last name?

Salem is the businessman of the week. Um I like how I made him Jewish. Paul David.

He will obviously be our inaugural businessman of the week, but I think Can we get a framed photo for these um shelves of Paul Shayam?

Every week we should each like we'll alternate. You bring a businessman like it could think of your what's your favorite

and I think that will encourage us to like start reading about business news. I think so too

because did you hear a lot of business news? I have a a I have a businessman of the week. Oh my god, I do. Let me find his name. Hold on.

Okay. Yeah, it's easier if I do it on my phone. Okay, but it's not going to be Paul.

No, he divorced in 2021. Okay, let me learn more about I bet his ex-wife's like group chat is blowing up. Did you see what Paul did? Okay, ready? My businessman of the week is Ross Stevens. Do you know him?

Is he the Dolphins? He's a CEO and founder of Stone Ridge Holdings Group. Do you know him?

No, I don't know Stone Ridge. I feel like he might be because this has to do with sports. He has pledged $100 million to give 200 grand in financial benefits to every US Olympian and par Olympian starting in Milan because you know they don't get paid and a lot of them like work multiple jobs. So if you go to the Olympics and represent our country, this guy's giving you 200 grand.

That's great. Can I see a picture of him? So it's 100 million total for that. Yeah. I think it's not just for this Olympics, though. It's like a fund.

Oh, wow. And maybe other business people. Oh, that's good. That's really good. Oh, he's handsome. Ross Stevens.

Oh, wow. He looks like the Selling Sunset brothers. Oh my god. He's giving up my brother.

And is he married? I'm finding out everything there is to know. And so he started Stone Ridge Asset Management. So it's giving like money. All these places are reporting about Paul Salem be romantically pursuing Nicole Kidman.

What did he put out a press release on the wire? I don't know. I don't know if Ross, by the way. And you know what I really like about Ross Stevens? There's no information about his personal life on the internet.

Oh, but so does the businessman of the week have to be single? No. Okay. We're just learning about businesses. That's the whole point.

So Stone Ridge Stone. Ross Stevens. Ross. Okay, we'll have a tie. Ross Stevens and Paul Salem for businessman of the week.

I love it. Good luck, Paul. Good luck, Paul. We're rooting for you. Yeah. No, but literally it's in Daily Mail. It's everywhere that Paul is

right. So, how does this sort of information get out? It's giving like he had MGM, like seriously, the PR team draft a statement. Multiple sources with direct knowledge tell us Salem is romantically pursuing the Oscar-winning actress.

Right. So, it's like not even a dating announcement. I don't know. I've never I This is not like a There's no template for a story like this. Do you know what I mean? There's no precedent.

It breaks the mold. It's unprecedented. It's broken the mold. It's broken me. I like don't know what to say. I'm over here talking about businessman of the week. Like

businessman of the week though a great idea has been born. Yes. Right. Are you ready for our next story? M Freda Baby has responded to the controversy. They have put out a statement in defense of Freda baby self. They say, "From the very beginning, Freda has used humor to talk about the real raw and messy parts of parenting that too often go unspoken. We do this because parenting can be isolating and overwhelming and sometimes a moment of levity is what makes a hard experience feel human, shared, and survivable." They added that while the products are designed for infants, the brand's voice is intentionally written for the adults caring for them to make quote awkward and difficult experiences feel lighter.

However, they acknowledge that humor is personal. What's funny to one parent can feel like too much to another. We're never trying to offend, push boundaries for shock value, or make anyone feel uncomfortable. They emphasize their mission to support families through some of the most vulnerable and transformative chapters of their lives. We will continue to show up with honesty, empathy, and courage. I was I was reading the statement with an open mind until that line.

Oh, because I don't agree with the statement, but I was like giving it a chance until we will continue to show up with honesty, empathy. That's just word salad.

Yummy. Yummy. So, I think for the most part, people have been like, "Wow, this is like a rude statement." They're basically like not apologizing.

They're saying like, "You're not funny. You don't get it. We're funnier than you and this is mature humor. Get over it."

Now, I kind of like this statement. Like, I do like when like No, they said what they said. Like, this is their way of marketing. And while they're not hurting anyone, some people think it's like taking it a little far and they're not being like wokey like no, we're sorry. we're all going to cancel oursel. Like I kind of like that they're like, "No, this is what we do. If you don't like it, like that's totally fine." I'm like, I'm kind of over it. Like I'm not going to punish myself by like canceling this company. Like I need them more than they need me. Um and I saw somebody make a really good comparison that like, you know, cuz if you ever watch like Shrek or like a kids movie, there's actually like a lot of adult humor like layered on top of it that obviously a kid would never understand, but it's like for the adults. Now, they took this a little far and like I still don't think that it's a

good way or an appropriate way of like marketing your products, but it's their way and they're doing it, you know.

Yes. And I can understand like it's jokes for the adults, but there are some jokes like about having a threesome with your baby. So, but I do think when

and I feel like for something like that because it's so sensitive and like it's just so inappropriate like they could have just said a couple of them missed the mark.

Yes. Because now being hyper sensitive like some of the stuff isn't but it's put in the light and next to baby threesome then everything looked

baby threesome's really bad. So they could have said some of them missed the mark

and and maybe some of those posts were from a while ago. So they could have been like and and that was in the past and and we com we're going forward with honesty, empathy and better judgment whatever. Um

you threw something was like new. No I feel it was new. Okay. So still it was in it's yesterday's

Yeah. No there was zero acknowledgement that even any part of it missed the mark.

Yeah. And with this category and this subject you know these like I'm sorry there's literally like no room

room for error. No, I agree, but I'm moving P. Like I am letting go. I'm I agree. I'm not going to like punish myself. There's something Freda that I love and I want like I'm not going to like full boycott like Balenciaga, but it's not going to be my default. Oh, because Freda makes it like, you know, sometimes I just buy the freedom one cuz I'm like, oh, well, like

it's probably better until I know that like it's the best one. I'm not going to just like be always throwing my money out, you know?

Yeah. I can't like work that hard, you know? If I need something, I'm just getting it, you know?

I don't know. Like I don't really believe that there's like a ring of like in Balenciaga, I actually felt like there was something extremely nefarious going on and we never got any sort of resolution and it was just really spooky.

No. And also, it's not hard for me to not saga like with Freda. I feel like Freda is a company that like up until this point like has like talked the talk and walk the walk. I feel like they are like a parent founded company. I feel like they do like you have I think I'm always hearing about like you know so many moms work there and they have great parental leave and like they do a lot of the things that they say they're going to do.

I've heard that they have terrible parental leave. That's weird that you just said that cuz that's what I heard.

All right, now we have to Google it. Hold on. And it's a very toxic workplace. Someone sent me that but that's I didn't bring it up because like just someone sent it to me. It could be wrong.

Okay. FAR provides employees with flexible paid paid pregnancy and parental leave as a part of their benefits package. Mean

yeah, flexible is now like good luck finding anything about them right now that doesn't have to do with like the sexual jokes.

Mhm. Jokes and memes. It's just jokes and memes, right? Great maternity leave. Okay. I'm on glass door. You know where people can like leave. So Freda Baby has a 4.4, but there's only 13 reviews. They have health insurance, dental insurance, flexible spending account, vision insurance, life insurance. During summer, you get to work from home.

Okay. A lot of people are saying that 15 days PTO. Okay. I thought you were saying

summer remote and a great maternity leave. Three months and one remote month for a parent company. I think they could do a little bit better.

They could, but that's not that's like standard. The remote month is nice. Freda has so many company perks. Meals, swag, generous PTO, hairs, hair, nails, great parking, strong benefits, matching a 401k, and a beautiful office. according to anonymous team leader

Mr. Freda and I think they make like products that nobody else makes like for moms like postpartum. I'm like I'm just I'm giving them another chance. Like I can't I can't not I can't afford not to.

Yeah. I'll see how it I'll see what I do next. I don't know if I'll pull the trigger.

Yeah. One thing about Jackie, you think she's going to zig and she's like Yeah. But like this just rubs me the wrong way and that I opened like the Freda thing that I bought right before the straw. I opened it this morning. Not happily.

I already bought it. Of course. But like No. And don't like throw I see I see people doing this all the time. Like don't throw away your Freda products. First of all, you bought them. Second of all, that's so wasteful. And like I could understand somebody like even like Balenciaga, don't throw it away. Like you paid for it. You don't have to wear it, but like you can still have it.

Go sell it. Yeah. Like something. Don't throw away your feet products. Like then you're just like punishing your baby.

You're punishing yourself. Yeah. You already paid for it, right? Now you have to go out and like spend more money and like leave the house. Don't

Yeah. I agree with you though. Like I like when people are like, "Nope, you know what? This is who we are. This is what we do." But I just like not for this.

I know in like backlash culture when people do nothing wrong, they apologize and then it gets into a thing where like if you don't apologize, you're evil. And I think it's like a really vicious cycle. So for a company to be like, "No, no, like this is our thing. Like if you don't like it or you don't get it, like that's fine and we're sorry if that hurts you. It just hurts you." So I do like that approach. Now this is such a sensitive topic. Like maybe not the right time to do it, but I do like when people are like, "Well, what if you just [ __ ] off?" Like

Yeah. But a couple things went too far and they should have just claimed that, you know, but then it sort of is like admitting like, oh yeah, we're disgusting. We're freaky at

Fre. It's an enormous admission. Freaky. Yeah, Freda. Freaky Freda. So I guess they actually couldn't admit it. Otherwise, it's like, oh, okay. A bunch of pedophile.

Then you have that admission on your permanent record. Yeah, but they could have just blamed like Jim.

And why as a kid were we always like threatened with the person permanent record? Like what record is that like your school record? Well, it would have been your school record as a child

that goes on your permanent record. Like, do I currently have a record? Well, you don't have a record.

Or is it like a judicial record? There's both. Like the way they were saying it, it was like you have a permanent record your whole life with the government.

No. Well, I hope not. But you have your school record and then if you have a record,

right, you have a record. You have your cousins and you have your first cousin.

Exactly. And you don't have a record right now. No. As far as we know. TG. Are you ready for our next story? It's a major memoir news. Not major.

Oh, minor memoir news. Okay. Joshua Bassin. Oh, wow. It's really really dry. No, it's not that dry. I wanted to talk about it because we always talk about Joshua.

Did you forsake like any other story for Joshua Bass memo? Maybe like Brooks Nater passing out on the on the private plane.

Okay. Can we also talk about Brooks Nater's birthday party in St. Barts? Yes. But first, we're talking about Joshua Basset's memoir. What do you think it's called?

Memoirs of a Basset. Nope. Um, I don't know. So, he has like the Disney background. Would I be able to guess it? No.

Oh, so go. It's actually a pretty good like overarching title. Name Rookie. My public private

My first period. My public, private, and secret life. That's so funny. I think this is an awful title. Like just all around rookie. He's not a baseball player.

Maybe he is. Um, but he's known for singing and dancing. So, um, you know whose memoir could be called rookie whenever we find out who they are?

Like the Sports Illustrated Rookie of the Year. Pug Caso. You are like always trying to hurt me. Like Jackie actually said to me before we recorded today that Yeah, I'm rooting for Pug Caso for the remainder of the the season of the Masser. When you know he would like attacked me personally,

it was the audience that attacked you. He did what he had to do. And imagine how Pug was feeling in that that costume. warm

knowing how that he's going up against Queen Corgi. Yeah. I can't even listen to that song anymore. Ordinary.

That's how it came up this morning. Ordinary is playing in like our pre-show like jam sesh the always jamming. Yeah.

Um and she was like this song is ruined for me and that's how I told you my truth,

right? That she's rooting for Bug House. So she has a picture of him on her wall.

He's the background of her own. I need to know who it is. I need to know who it is. And the funny thing,

how come no one you don't have any producers that will just [ __ ] tell you and put us out of our misery? The thing is, I actually think that they won't tell. If I had asked, maybe they would have told me, but they know I'm obsessed with it and like they don't want me to say it on the show cuz like they take the integrity of the True.

So, I don't think they would tell me. But it's funny how like it's pretty much decided who everyone is. Like people on Reddit, they figured out everyone. They knew Billy Ray Cyrus. I think they know that Galaxy Girl is Ashley Simpson. They know that the Stingray is Evan Ross. Like how cute. A married couple on together. Wow.

So they figured they know Snow Cone is Heidi Pratt. Imagine if Ben was on it, too. Would that make it better?

They should have done that. That would have made it worse. Okay. because like the only thing holding down with child care like he was a nanny. Um

they figured out who everyone is except there's still this big question mark on Picasso the person I just need to know

and it's like they're they kind of have nothing right now. Well, they have Anthony Ramos

which I just like have a really hard time believing he would do the show. Have you checked like the the chat boards recently on who was Picasso? They're still throwing around Cord Over Street based on like a little research I did just like behind the scenes of someone I know who like has um like who knows Cord. He like wasn't in LA at that time. They don't think

viewers strongly believe it's Philip Phillips. Oh, okay. Wait. And then did you see Philip Phillips made a Tik Tok about us?

Yeah. Um where we were talking about the mass singer and I don't think if he was Pugaso, he would have made that until he was revealed. Do you know what I mean?

Really? Yeah. No, I feel like the way same way you did crumbs. Oh, maybe they like are leaving crumbs.

Okay, this is what like if it was Philip Phillips, I would die. Gemini said panelists, guests, all these. I bet I don't think they were right. Clues point to Philip Phillips. Other less likely theories included Cordover Street and Anthony Ramos

and Matthew Morrison. I'm still holding out hope. Oh, I just haven't heard Philip Phillips sing in a really long time. I need to go find a cover of him singing and like do put in the work. Yeah, people say Phil Anthony Ramos, man. Okay, I'm really pulling for Anthony Ramos.

I know you are. And I know like if Anthony Ramos came up to you and like slapped you in the face, you would say, "Who are you?" Like you have no idea.

The clues were really compelling. You don't even know who he is. Hamilton. You've never seen Hamilton.

He must be in something in the Heights. You never saw that either. You know, I should start following him to see if like he's leaving any crumbs the way you did,

right? We wouldn't know if he was. He's singing on his podcast more and more. Oh, maybe actually that's a good call. Maybe like production asked him to make a Tik Tok.

Let me look at his Instagram. Let's do this later. We have so much to say. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm just obsessed. Yeah. Okay. So, Jonathan

Oh, Joshua memoirs are coming out. Memoirs of a Joshua. Like, if he doesn't have five chapters, no offense, like this is going to be really mean. Um, like personally, I don't need a memoir from him. I'm not really interested in any aspect of his life other than that like three-year period where sorry 3-month period where he stopped dating Olivia Rodrigo and started dating Sabrina Carpenter and then created like two of the biggest pop stars on the planet. Like he doesn't get enough credit.

How does that make him feel? Right. Does he get any proceeds from anything? Like he's just sort of was left behind.

Sabrina was almost left behind. That saga I will never stop talking about. No, it's insane.

I need you know how they she defied the odds. Sabrina. Oh, it almost became the saddest story ever. Like there was a year or two long period where Olivia ate her up, chewed her out, she released skin, nobody cared, and then Olivia went on to become like almost the level of Taylor Swift. Like almost.

And then something happened. I feel like Taylor actually got involved. Like I have so many conspiracy theories about that time and like how Taylor played into all of it. Stopped being friends with Olivia, started touring with Sabrina. Like there's so much. I need like an actual documentary on that. Um

because Sabrina, it was almost the greatest tragedy like for what happened to Sabrina. It it does feel like Taylor sort of weighed the scales.

Yeah, because whoever Taylor gives her, people are always like, she's an ex Taylor Swift and no one really was until Olivia Rodrigo. She was so on her way to becoming like a real contender and I think she rubbed Taylor the wrong way. They had some sort of something with the licensing and the sampling something and they both [ __ ] hate each other now. And I think just to stick it even more to Olivia, Sabrina, Olivia Taylor was like, "Well, let me give my approval to Sabrina, you know, opening up for the ERS tour at such an interesting time too, like for the eras tour." And then TikTok, a lot of it was natural, like slam the door. Like that dance that launched Sabrina a lot. It was a perfect storm. But Taylor definitely helped.

Yeah. But Sabrina has the goods. Plenty of people have opened for Taylor. Well, Taylor gives her approval to a lot of people who like are not threatening. Like she's always like lifting up. They will never in a meaningful way like impact the music industry, let alone let alone Taylor, you know, she always gives Gracie like her flowers and Gracie is sort of like a non-threatening. She's powerful. She's I'm sorry. She's successful and she's talented, but she's not really ever going to be like a threat to Taylor. So, when Sabrina got like the Taylor, that was the first time Taylor ever gave flowers to somebody who like has what it takes.

Mhm. But Olivia too, right? But then she stopped. So, the second time. But then she stopped. Yeah. Second time. Yeah. And I think she did it like for a lot of reasons.

Yeah. I Yeah. Are you ready for our next story? Little wacky of Olympic Village news of the day.

Oh god. Olympic villages run out of condoms at the 2020. Oh my god. We're always talking something about like sexual

activity at the Olympics. I mean, wouldn't you No. Well, you have to think about the fact not every Olympian there like is about is winning gold. In fact, most aren't,

right? But most of them are young, are in the prime of their life, surrounded by other fit

youngsters. The village does foster like a sense of community. I believe there are probably like gatherings. Yeah.

And then you also just feel like you're back in college, right? You're in like this little room with a little bed and it makes you want to do like crazy things.

You see them like at the cafeteria. Oh, how'd you play today? And so I remember a couple of years ago it was a story that the Olympic Village started giving out condoms just to like promote sex safety, which is always good. And now they've already run out after a report from Italian outlet Lasampa said the free condoms available to athletes at the village ran out in just 3 days.

Well, it sounds like an amazing marketing opportunity for a Trojan or a KY or like some, you know, sexual wellness brand.

Lasta said, "We can confirm that com condom supplies in the Olympic villages were temporarily depleted due to higher than anticipated demand. Additional supplies are being delivered and will be distributed across all villages between today and Monday. They will be continuously replenished until the end of the games to to ensure continued availability.

I'm curious about the means like how do you go about getting one? Like do you have to go to like your RA

or maybe they're in the bathroom like with the tampons? Yeah, maybe they're just like in your room. Maybe you get like a gift basket.

Yeah, but it's like some people might use zero and other people might use 20. There's definitely like a commissary at the Olympic Village where like if you need toothbrush, toothpaste, like and condoms

and they're free. Yeah, like a canteen if you will. next. Not to account for like the people who brought their own.

I just feel like if you brought your own condom to the Olympics, like you're not winning gold. Like you you're so not making for the right reasons.

You're just here like to have fun and that's great too. No, but like as you should.

Yeah. Like this is once in a lifetime. Thousand%. You like we said, you're probably not winning gold. You might as well have a great memorable time with your fellow Olympians. You know, it's really like a community. Nobody Nobody's knows what they're going through other than them.

You know, you two won another medal, a silver queenie. Mhm. And she was like training with someone.

Oh yeah, you saw that. She was training with the American. So there is an American. I told you about him. Jordan Stalls. He's like widely considered like the greatest speed skater of our time. Like maybe ever. He's won all the golds. He keeps breaking the records. Everybody wants to kill him. Like all the other they just can't stand him. Like he's so fast. He's literally Michael Phelps. Um and then they caught a really funny moment where like you and him were training together cuz it's like the two greats.

The two greats. Yeah. They see one another. Yeah. And like he is so famous in the Netherlands. That's what they were saying cuz speed skating is not really popular. I had never heard of him. So like the Michael Phelps except nobody's heard of him in the Netherlands. He's so famous they call him the Jet.

Cute. So like him and you definitely know each other from being like Dutch pop stars

and maybe like he's friends with Jake. Hopefully he doesn't give Jake vibes. Maybe he has a lady love.

He lives on like a rural farm in Wisconsin and he like skates on his pond. He definitely does not like get along well with Jake.

You you never know. You can't put Jake in a box. Yeah. Are you ready for our fifth and final story?

I am a little No, I'm not. Oh my god. I've like literally forgotten what we're here to do, which is to raise funds for our future business.

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Thank you for turt. You're welcome. Our fifth and final story affforementioned Brooks Nater

her bday party. her bday party and she got food poisoning on the private jet in route to her 29th birthday celebrations.

I feel like we can add to the list of like things I talk about all the time is the fact that I'm on Bandator's close friend story and I don't know like how I got there. I'm so grateful to be there. I will never snitch. Like it's just such a when you think like she lives this fabulous life, it's like that 10x. But I did see she shared this but like a few days before she posted on her close friend story these like videos of her unwell on a plane and I was like, "Oh my god, what happened?" Turns out it was just little food poisoning. That's what she said. Bad sushi.

You can't keep a good girl. I feel like that's what you say when it's not bad sushi.

You think it's like another GLP1 induced episode? You do. Yeah. She's so open on the show. Like she can't we like you can't pull the wool over.

Like literally has anyone who's ever said, "Gh, bad sushi." Like actually had bad sushi and then did she faint on the plane? The ambulance had to come.

She's on a GLP one. So we know she like isn't eating that much sushi. So even if it was like one piece, it's not enough to like call an ambulance.

Yeah. Like she probably she's always with her sisters and she's the only one who had bad sushi poking. She's on the floor.

But like I I think whatever is going on like Brooks is entitled to her privacy, but like Bad Sushi that's literally like a a cliche at this point. Her birthday party looked so fun. It's very rare that I see something and I like wish that I was there. Sometimes I'm like looking at stuff I'm like I know that wasn't fun. I saw this party and I'm like that looks so fun. Like it was just like her really like her actual friends and like a ton of her family. Of course, Trinity from the show was there from Louisiana.

Of course, Trinity. And she rented this enormous boat. They all stayed there and just like partied the whole weekend. Swam like St. Barts. So fun.

Yeah. But like they didn't go on. It didn't look like they ever left the boat. No, they went to Laere.

Oh, they did? Okay. She's like swirling. Oh, yeah. I saw them like bringing bottles in a motorcycle.

Um but yeah, they got a boat and I just can't believe that she got off the plane into an ambulance and then like partied hard for her birthday. One thing I know about Brooks Nater is like she works hard, plays hard. It's not just a facade. Like they are so busy all the time. She's like literally the biggest model. She's doing campaigns for everyone and everything. And every weekend she's going to Aspen. She's going to Malibu. She's going St. Barts. Like she does not stop. I guess it's like when you're 28, that's what you do,

right? But also maybe that's also why she ended up on the floor of the plane. Yeah.

You know, she's not putting Brooks first. She needs like a little RNR. Yeah. I'm worried about her.

Yeah. But like I know she's like happy and fulfilled and like I'm not worried like I just like I'm worried about her like physical

Yeah. being. Yeah. She needs like a massage and like a nap. Well, I feel like she gets massages a lot.

Yeah, that's what I learned from the show. Yeah, but they're probably like lymphatic purposeful massages.

No, it looked like very peaceful and relaxing. And she was on her belly. Okay. Okay. And a nap. Don't forget the nap.

Don't forget that. Oh, you know what? Today is my anniversary. I was thinking when I said the date earlier that it sounded like a something like a birthday.

It's a very busy week for me like in my life between Valentine's and her birthday and anniversary and today's my anniversary of my husband. We're celebrating seven years of marriage.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy anniversary. Happy birthday to our marriage.

Beautiful. And a beautiful marriage. It is. It's the day our marriage was born.

Well, today is also besides obviously being your anniversary which is huge. It's also Tuesday which means it's Dear Toasters Day. Our weekly advice segment. So, every Tuesday, Jack and I do a segment called Dear Toasters, where our listeners write in if they ever find themselves in a bit of a pickle, and we try to help them in, I would say, a sort of old Jewish mom type of way. Like, that's the kind of advice you're going to get here. If you're looking for like softball, we're we're here to tell you the truth.

No. So, every week we pick three submissions. If you ever want to write in, you can send us an email, dear toasters@gmail.com, or head over to our website, the toastpodcast.com. Um, you can scroll down, there's a little submission box. You can also buy merch. Like, you can do whatever you want. Our website's kind of you can catch up on episodes. Our website's like kind of

um Okay. And our new business will be on our website. No, our new business is actually separate from this business from our website.

Yeah. Well, we'll need a separate website. And they won't ever link. There won't be a link for

Maybe there will be one link. Okay. We obviously have like a lot of work to do on our project cuz like we're still working on little things like that.

Yeah, I can understand why it wouldn't be on our website. Yeah, but I don't know. We get so much traffic on our website that you would No,

you want traffic to the new business, right? Just an idea. All right, first up,

we'll we'll brainstorm. Hey, Jackson Tie. I need to know if this is a nice gesture from my ex fiance's sister or it's just extremely odd. Me and my ex- fiance broke up several years ago. I have since remarried. Three years ago, I got remarried and I'm pregnant. I randomly got a $1 Venmo from my ex- fiance's sister that said, "Hope it's born on the 15th." It's worth noting she doesn't have social media. The last time we texted was 2 years ago. Is this weird? Should I say something back?

That is weird. It is weird. Um I need to know more about the sister. Like is she a weird girl?

She sounds like crazy. Yeah. No, she sounds like like this is something like like someone who's like a little off would do. So that's why I said I like need to know more about her personalitywise.

I don't Yeah. I I don't I think it's just a weird respond. What's the 15th even mean? Like

maybe it's like a bet. Maybe it's like the eyides of March. No, it's really weird.

But also like do you want to engage with this person or not? do like this person and you like this is stifling further relations and you want to be like, "Hey, what do you mean?" But like if you're never going to see this person again, like I just could I guess it's hard for people to just like actually like ignore things.

Especially when you're pregnant, you're like low-key really bored. Especially when it's your first pregnancy. Like there's quite literally nothing to do when you're pregnant with your first baby.

Yeah. I You can't do any of the things from your old life and like your new life hasn't started yet.

I would just ignore it because of course sounds like something that interests me.

No, I'm also like scared. Like I wouldn't involve myself with a crazy person. And I feel like if you follow it up, it's just giving like a still foot in that world.

Yeah. It's an ex fiance. It's like kind of a big deal. Sister. Yeah. No, I know. But it's not like an ex-boyfriend.

Venom sister. Yeah. Um like if you saw like a person being crazy on the street, like you wouldn't go engage with them, right? So Venmo like she's acting crazy like don't engage.

Yeah. I wouldn't engage. And then it's like a step back into your old life. Yeah. Personally, like I would not go backwards in that way.

This is probably very jarring for you to receive the notification. And I'm sorry that you had to deal with that while being pregnant.

Yeah, cuz it's weird. Yeah, but you'll be okay. You'll be fine. You're like pregnant with your new man.

Right. Right. Living well. She's obviously like stalking Venmo. I don't even The crazy thing The crazy thing is that she doesn't even know how you She doesn't know how this girl knows she's pregnant cuz she's has no social media.

And you got a dollar. Don't spend it all in one place. All right. Hey girlies. One night my boyfriend and I were so drunk and I was on my period. This is like much more of an unbburden myself, but I had to pick it just to make you uncomfortable. Hey girlies. One night my boyfriend and I were so drunk and I was on my period. We were trying to have sex. So I pulled out my tampon and I completely slapped my boyfriend in the face with the tampon. What the hell do I do? Do we bring it up? Forget it ever happened. I think that you should go get treatment. Like you should never drink again. Like this is insane.

Agreed. And was it intentional? No. Oh, accidental. You know, a tampon on a string, it kind of has like a mind of itself, especially one that's soiled. It's like bogged down. I think if he doesn't bring it up and he's your boyfriend. It's not like a guy that you like and now it's like should I bring it up? How do we move forward? If he wants to discuss it, he can bring it to you.

Yeah. It's on him. Otherwise, we can move forward. Also, I think like the type of man who's like ripping out tampons and like having period sex like isn't that precious about it.

Yeah. I think they're less precious about it than we are. That's like anything else.

No, I actually think some men are very precious about it and some aren't. Like he was down.

No, he was down. Yeah, he was down to get dirty literally. So, I think it's actually fine. I mean, it's just something that you would feel funny about. Um, and if he doesn't bring it up, I would never.

Yeah. Funny enough, it's like worse for the person who slapped, not the person who got slapped.

That's like a lot of things where it's like just like more like personal to you.

So, yeah. If he doesn't want to talk about it, I would not talk about it. Pretend like you forgot you were so drunk

and just pretend like let's hope he was so drunk. Yeah. Or like that happens all the time, you know?

Does it? He doesn't know that. Oh, to him. Like, no. Like, yeah. That's what happens when you have period sex. You get hit in the face of the ton. You can't have period sex otherwise.

Thank you. I actually wanted to speak directly to our audience because I was reading through submissions this morning and a lot of them like write to us about like sex and this is like this is a fine example, but a lot of it is like a little bit more um

mechanical and like intimate. And I just feel like this is the wrong show. Like we are sisters. Like there's only so much like we can talk about and like give advice on without like being icky. like spent a lot of time at your house and like it's just it's like weird, you know? It gives this like don't look at me. So,

oh, I'm not saying no no you I feel like you misunderstood what I was saying. I feel like we have to just convince this guy that that's what happens.

Yes. I'm talking I'm not talking about the submission anymore. I was wanting to talk to the listeners cuz I read a lot.

Okay. This morning and sometimes they were like looking for like intimacy advice and it's like

try Girls Got to Eat, you know, like try like that's just not the type of show we

we run. We can do a lot here. No. And like there's so many benefits to doing a show with your sister. Like you know, we're bound for life. We have so many inside jokes, like family memories to sort of tell on this.

I mean, we could go on and we're never going to split up. Yeah. Like there's so many benefits. And there are like a couple like maybe two drawbacks. And one of them is like we really can't talk about sex.

Yeah. And that has to be okay with you guys. Yeah. And there's so many shows for that. They're always like girls talking about sex on podcasts.

Yeah. Yeah. And just not this one. Yeah. All right. Ready? Dear Toasters, I need help because I genuinely don't know if I'm being dramatic or if my life has turned into a psychological thriller. I'm 27. I love how drama everyone is. I'm 27.

This is so drama. And I've been casually dating a guy who's 29 for 3 months. Nothing official, but we talk every day. We see each other a couple times a week and he refers to me as his girl to his friends. Red flag already.

If he has multiple girls, he can't keep your guys' name apart, right? Anyway, I know it's just like I'm your girlfriend. Like people who are precious about saying girlfriend, like grow the [ __ ] up.

Oh, no. I think like saying like that's my girl is cute. Okay. He recently told me he was going out of town for work for a week. Cool. No big deal. Fast forward 2 days later. I'm scrolling Instagram. I see a girl that I very vaguely recognize from his tagged photos post a group pick at a bachelorette party in Miami. He's there in the background wearing a sash that says bride's bestie. I spiral. Obviously, I don't say anything because I want more information. Later that night, he facetimes me from his hotel. I casually ask how the work trip is going.

He says it's exhausting. It's mostly just been meetings. He's an absolute pon besides this one thing. Please help. on a bachelorette party

and he's lying to you saying that it's and she called him now knowing and he said how's the work trip and he's like it's great just

wait why is he lying to you and what does having that's my girl have to do anything with it

so she thought that was like a red flag about him already and now she thinks he's gay

because he was on the Bachelorette as bride's bestie oh that is gay it's more likely that he is gay if he is the bride's bestie because like a girl getting married doesn't have a straight man best friend

no that you invite on the bachelorette you only invite a gay man on the bachelor you don't invite the straight man on the bachelorette.

Like quite it's literally illegal. It's the antithesis of a bachelorette. Yeah. So obviously like the lying is a huge red flag, but the fact that he

I didn't even think of that. Yeah. No, it literally right like was that the last thing she said? Is he gay? Has she realized this?

Yeah. She said, "Is he gay?" Yeah. Yeah. It's being gay. I feel like a lot of times I have to like

Oh, I I'm so blinded by the deceit. Yeah. I didn't see the big gay. And I think a lot of times like I have to jump through hoops to get to the gay. But it seems like the gay is just surface level.

Yeah. Or at least he's gay to her. Is there a world in which a straight man is a bride's best friend on a bachelorette party? No.

No. And certainly not the only straight man on the bachelorette party. His sister.

Bride's bestie. Okay. You would know. You would say it's a sister. And if you don't know who his sister is, then you guys are not dating.

And maybe he's your gay best friend. Her cousin. You didn't even know. cousin rides bestie. And still your straight male cousin is not He's invited on the groom's party. Get to know the groom.

Yeah. No, but the fact that he feels the need to lie about it. Your brother's not invited on your bachelorette party.

Right. Right. The fact that he needs to lie about it is giving closet. Yeah. And how what have the last three months been like?

They're seeing each other like they see each other a couple of times a week. They talk every day. He refers to me as his girl,

which she thought was a red flag. Like of in a sexual nature. Yeah. Yeah, you guys kiss.

Oh, maybe you just like misunderstood the situation. Um, you need to just be straight forward. But I also don't want to get forget about the deceit like he's lying to you.

This is so not your guy. This is not your guy. This is not your guy. But I'm now curious. When he comes home, you sit him down across the table and say, "What were you doing on a bachelorette party?" Like,

I need explanations, but your bags are packed. And not that you had bags there because you don't even sleep over there cuz you're just friends. But if he was her gay best friend, like, why would he have lied?

The lying element makes it seem he doesn't want her to know that he has other best friends.

Jealous. No, I'm sorry. This is so off. Yeah. Also, in this day and age, like, how do people really think that they can get away with lies like this?

What if he went on a work trip and this girl that he knows happens to be having her bachelorette party? What if he went on a work trip and he goes like out for cocktails with a guy and then like at a bar they run into

the girl that he knows and she's on her party and it was a girl that he knew. Yeah. And they like hysterically put a bride's bestie sash on him.

It is entirely possible that he is on a work trip. Where was the trip? There are only a couple places that would be for a bachelorette party and a work trip.

Miami could be both. They have like lots of conventions. What does he do? Nashville. Scottdale.

Yeah, Scottdale. Not the Bahamas. He's not on a work trip in the Bahamas. If he's in Columbus, like we need to know.

That's a work trip. That's a work trip. Yeah. But also like just ask like this is so

a screenshot. Be like, "Oh my god, I'm dying. How do you know Lydia?" or whatever.

Yeah. Be like And also just ask why we have to lie. What is the location? It's so important that we

use context clues, but still just ask. And please update us. Please. We haven't gotten an update in a while. We're always dulling out amazing advice and we encourage people to update us like let us know what happened. Did you take our advice? Did you not? That's okay. What happened? Were we wrong? Was like, was he gay? Never. Um, always gay.

That's our show. That's Dear Chasers. Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Thank you, Jackie, for just like giving it all like your all today.

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Who speaks in "Category is Business: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026"?

Jackson Claude (Host), Jessica (Guest), Ben (Guest), Unspecified callers/audience (Guest).

What is "Category is Business: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026" about?

A lighthearted behind-the-scenes recap of a busy start to the week, highlighting notable personal anecdotes and a playful celebrity sighting, with a focus on mood, brief updates, and casual banter. Key moments include President’s Day weekend reflections and a surprising encounter with music executive Scott Borchetta.

What is mentioned in this The Toast episode?

34 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Jackie, Freda Baby, Jackson Claude, Taylor Swift, Southern Charm, Scott Borchetta. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Category is Business: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026"?

The episode runs 1 h 10 min; the transcript is about 16,540 words in 408 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated October 29, 2026.