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Speaker 1:
[00:00] I sold my car in Carvana last night.

Speaker 2:
[00:02] Well, that's cool.

Speaker 1:
[00:03] No, you don't understand. It went perfectly, real offer, down to the penny. They're picking it up tomorrow. Nothing went wrong. So, what's the problem? That is the problem. Nothing in my life goes as smoothly. I'm waiting for the catch. Maybe there's no catch.

Speaker 2:
[00:15] That's exactly what a catch would want me to think. Wow, you need to relax.

Speaker 1:
[00:19] I need a knock on wood. Do we have wood?

Speaker 3:
[00:21] Is this table wood? I think it's laminate.

Speaker 1:
[00:23] Okay, yeah, that's good. That's close enough.

Speaker 2:
[00:24] Car selling without a catch.

Speaker 3:
[00:26] Sell your car today on Caravana.

Speaker 1:
[00:29] Pick up these may apply.

Speaker 4:
[00:30] Well, guys, you have to feel bad for Blake Lively because she lost $40 million because the Internet thinks that she is a mean girl. West Wilson is breaking his silence saying that his girlfriend, Amanda, is now being cyberbullied and lots to get into. I hope you're ready for it. Alex Cooper is running a toxic workplace. Lots to dive into. Let's jump in. This is No Filter With Zack Peter, your go-to source for all the latest pop culture and reality TVT, Sir Fresh, all week long. Now, let's dive in. And dive in we shall. Welcome on in everybody in the club. I hope you guys are having a great start to your week. It is Tuesday, April 21st. We out here, we live in life. Just live your life. Hey, keep on chasing the paper. Just living your life. Oh, oh, oh. What's up everybody? Happy Tuesday. There's not a ton of news going on today. If I'm being honest, TBH, but we will still get into all of it. Hi, Josh. Hi, Robin. Just a reminder, everybody, we are having our weekly Zoom call. The weekly Zoom call is happening tonight instead of Wednesday because we are, it's happening tonight instead of Wednesday because I have an event tomorrow night and then I'm traveling to DC. So I will not be able to do it any other night this week. And rather than canceling it or postponing it for the week, I made sure that I scheduled it for tonight. So just expect that you will be getting an email later this afternoon with the link to join. So you can come on in, join and we will have a fun Zoom tonight. Robin, you're going to be here, right? Even though Robin did miss one of our Zooms recently because she was on a hot date. Laura says, your hair is looking great. Thank you. I feel like it looks like a mess today. I feel like I look like a mess today, but it's okay. We live in life. We out here. Debbie says, it's lunch here. Oh, lunchtime. What are you having for lunch, Debbie? What's your tattoo? Didn't know you had one. Oh, yes, I did. Look at that. It is an anchor with a compass in the middle. I got it in honor of my grandmother because she used to be my anchor, and then when she passed, she became my compass. But yeah, so mushroom and herb soup, delicious. Okay, let's dive into it. Do we want to start with Blake Lively? Do we want to start with, let's see. I guess we can start with, let's start with Alex Cooper, because as we know, Alex Cooper and Alex Earl, the two Alexs, as the ladies of the toast will say, it's Lex versus Lix, because Alex Cooper spells her name A-L-E-X, and Alex Earl spells her name A-L-I-X. And so they're beefing. And so Alex Cooper was like, why are you out here? You know, talking smack on my name, like she came out all gangster. And then Alex Earl, because she was like liking comments and like reposting videos that were like a little shady towards Alex Cooper. And so they used, the girlies used to be friends, the pretty girls, they used to be friends. And then Alex Cooper, who you know of from the Call Her Daddy fame, that's her popular flagship show. And Alex Cooper started a podcast network called Unwell. And the first show she ever signed was a show called Hot Mess with Alex Earl. And so it was like, oh my god, the Alexs are coming together. This is back in 2023. And then before her two-year contract was up, Unwell announced that they were partying ways with Alex Earl. It was like a year and a half into the contract, I think. And people thought it may have been about Super Bowl or a Super Bowl ad, but apparently the falling out happened before the Super Bowl ad. I think it's a battle of the egos. But, so I guess Alex Earl has been liking shady posts and reposting stuff and whatever. And so Alex Cooper finally came out and she's like, listen Alex, girl, you didn't sign an NDA, so why don't you just spill the tea? Like you got something to say about me? Say it with your whole chest. She's like, 10 toes down, come at me. And so we were all waiting for Alex Earl to like have a comeback and then Brianna Chicken Fry jumped in and she was just like, yeah, I hear Alex Cooper is a mean girl. And so that's kind of the narrative is that Alex Cooper is a mean girl. Well, Alex Earl posted a video where she's like dancing on a stripper pole and she's dancing to that song, you don't own me. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, you don't own me. Dun, dun, dun, dun, and so people were like, oh, because people think that it was, well, Dave Portnoy also came out, he's the founder of Barstool, which was the company or the network that initially bought Call Her Daddy, and they helped make Call Her Daddy what it has become now before Alex Cooper took it and launched her deal with Spotify and then now she's all over the place. But anyway, Alex Earl posted the stripper video, and then Alex Cooper, I guess, now there's a smear campaign against Alex Cooper, because now there are all these articles that are coming out, and all these people that are trying to be like, oh, she's a mean girl, she's a mean girl, she's a mean girl, and so I don't know, maybe she's taking a page out of Blake Lively's book. So now there's a new story that came out that claims that Alex Cooper, her husband, was berating staff members, and he made somebody cry at the Unwell Network. So this is from the California Post. It says, Alex Cooper's podcast, Empire, is facing claims that her husband, co-CEO, berated staffers and threatened their careers with one veteran crew member reduced to tears. Okay, that sounds like a, I don't know, a regular Tuesday. These kids need to buck up, okay? I'm tired of this Gen Z, not saying that millennials or Gen X or the Boomers were a healthier generation, but at least we had grit, at least we knew how to work hard, at least we had something called work ethic. We didn't have mental health days, okay? I'm sorry if somebody's a little stern because your performance, yes, I would hate it when I had a boss and she was a little tough on me, and I would turn something in and she would be like, nope, it's not there yet, she would make me do it over and over until it was perfect or near perfect, and of course, I hated her in the moment, and I was like, oh my God, this is so annoying. I don't know how much more I can perfect this project, but it pushed me. It pushed me to think better, to be more creative. My mother's always said, hard work builds character, and it does. That's why these little kids nowadays, they don't have any character, they'll know who they are, they can't even talk to each other, they can't even have a real person conversation because they're still in the family.

Speaker 3:
[07:46] Boy, boy, I don't know how to make a dog disappointment. Oh my God, don't yell at me.

Speaker 4:
[07:50] Like, I can't. Stop. Get your shit together, okay? You're growing up, you're in the big boy world, stop crying about what a shitty economy it is, stop crying about not being able to pay for your rent, and all that stuff. Listen, you're an adult now, and being an adult means that things can be hard sometimes, and sometimes you're gonna have a boss that is less than stellar, okay? I mean, listen, you shouldn't berate your employees. I'm not endorsing that either on the flip side. I'm just saying, they're like toxic workplace, and it's like Blake Lively, and she's just like, oh my God, toxic workplace, and it's like, get it together, you're embarrassing yourself, you know? Hard work causes wrinkles. Then why does this new generation look so beat? They look rough, yo, with their mullets and their choppy bangs and all. No, they look rough, R-O-U-G-H, rough, rough, rough. Sorry. We didn't have mental health days, that's our problem. But listen, but you know what we had? We had grit, we had determination, we had will. The other day my friend Sabrina, who I grew up with, I was talking to her one time, she's like, yeah, I called in and took a mental health day. I was like, Sabrina, what is that? What is a mental health day? My dad taught me, I'm not saying this is good, I'm not saying this is healthy, but my dad taught me that when you're sick, you go to work. You don't call out because you're sick, you go to work and you make them send you home because you need to show them what a valuable asset you are to the company. You need to show them that you're willing to share your COVID with everybody. You know, that was a joke, that was an LOL before your little cheeto-dusted fingers started popping off. That was a joke, that was a ha ha. Janet says, if you got an ass kicking at work, you learn to do better. Exactly. You are like, now people talk about burnout. We invented burnout. Hello, if we weren't burning ourselves out, we wouldn't be giving you mental health days. You know? Fifi said, we kicked ass. I are out. I know that's right. Trippin on a mystery says, people on my job who behave like Blake get lots of write-ups. Oh my God, like my cousin, she was always, she, she's been like sexually harassed four times and not to negate or to diminish it, but she's always like, yeah, I'm filing a lawsuit for sexual harassment. I'm just like, Lord, how many times, or is this every job you go to, you then find yourself in another situation? Like maybe you're the problem, Lord. Like this has happened a little too often to you. And then she writes about toxic masculinity, workplace environment, and I'm just like, girl, I'm telling you right now, if somebody that used to hire people, or still hires people, but like as someone that looks at resumes, when you see that somebody has not kept a job for more than a year, and then they always cite that they keep getting sexually harassed, you're like, red flag, red flag, like sorry, nope, that's a Blake Lively situation, I don't want it, I don't want it, not gonna go there, no thank you, we're not hiring that one. We're like, we're just gonna slip that one, that resume in the trash. Now, we won't say it out loud, but, you know. Elle says, the millennials are the reason we had to invent a performance improvement plan. Burnout is my normal state. Yeah, you know, and I love it, exactly. Thank you, Joss. Somebody with some integrity, okay? Burn, now they fight about being victims, right? It's the victim Olympics. Who can be the bigger victim? Who can be the most oppressed? But with us, we had the tired Olympics, right? You would come into work, you'd be like, oh, I'm so tired. And then you'd tell your colleague why you were tired. And then you'd be like, oh my God, I'm so tired. And you would like try to one up each other as to why you worked more, right? And you did more and you were more tired. You know why? Because the more tired you were, the more valuable you were. That's how much, we didn't have self-love, we had self-shame and that motivated us. Heather says, we can lead the way. Cosmic Mochi says the same. Been burned out for my whole 35 years. Right? Like, listen, I was chugging coffee at work. If my eye didn't twitch, I wasn't doing something right. Like, my body doesn't know what it's like to be in a relaxed state. Like, my body has never been regulated, right? It thrives off of dysregulation and caffeine and alcohol. Right? Dysregulation, caffeine and alcohol. And you know what? It's working out for me, okay? Special KKS that I started working on. I was eight. Yup. I know that's right. Listen, in middle school, I was in seventh grade and I remember speaking of, you know, I was doing my millennial rants. I remember High School Musical had just come out and it was like all the rage on the Disney Channel and all the kids loved High School Musical. And I went on LineWire, downloaded the CD, and got burned, got the Blink CDs from Target, the pack of Blink CDs, and I got the sticker paper and I printed the High School Musical logo onto the sticker paper. And I would stick the sticker onto the CD so that it had a nice little logo. And then I would get the cases and I would print out the, what the actual album's front picture was. And I made the albums myself and I was selling those in school. And I only charged $3 because if you went to Target, you had to pay $10 to get the album. But if you got it through me, then you only had to pay $3 to get the album. And I picked $3 because that's how much school lunch was. School lunch was $3. I was a hustler since back in the day. Tommy says, we were the ones who were going to work our way up the ladder, right? We were working our way up the ladder. We didn't come out with a college degree and we're like, all right, I expect to be CEO. Like, bitch, sit down. You need to put in 15 years before you get CEO. Like, come on. You want to be a marketing executive? You want to be a C-suite level? No, no. You still have to work your way up. I remember sometimes I would work with people, because I was working, I was in my 20s and I remember having to work alongside people that sometimes were maybe a little older, they had their degrees or whatever, and I get it. You were sold the American dream and go to college, you get a degree, you get a good job. But I was like, you still have to have an entry level starting spot, starting place. I remember they would get annoyed because I would be working and I would be hustling, I'd be trying to climb up that ladder, and they just would walk in so entitled. Bear share, yes, I remember Bear share too, that was the knockoff line where when the line where it get shut down. Reverend Amanda said, I didn't have no mental health days, I had mental health nights and further, a break having a shameful cigarette. Yeah, that's when you had emotions, was at work but in the bathroom. You would go and you would cry it out and then you'd smoke a cigarette, and then you'd come right back in because your lunch break was almost up and you had to finish your projects. So again, I'm not saying that it's healthy. I'm just saying it's what we lived on. If we could grin and bear it, then I don't have time to listen to you cry about your mental health days. Of course, mental health is important. I'm not saying the mental health is not important. I'm not saying that I'm not trying to shame anybody, but I'm also like, come on. Alex Cooper skips straight to CEO, that's the problem. You know what, Octavia, that's actually a touché. That's a mic drop right there, you are right. But she did, I mean, listen, she invented something new. And the thing is, when you look at Alex Cooper's work ethic, like when you hear her and what she talks about and how she talks about scaling out her business, I've actually come to respect Alex Cooper as an entrepreneur because she does have work ethic. Alex Earl is just a pretty girl that I think gets a lot of really good opportunities, but I don't think she has the same work ethic. Yeah, Elle says, every day I'm hustling, every day I'm hustling. That's right, because you needed a song. You needed your motivation song. For some people, it was every day I'm hustling. You needed a little good gangster rap. For other people, it was, what is it? Rachel Platt, this is my fight song, take back my life song. Everybody had that song. Whatever your song was, that was your song. Everybody has a work song and a treadmill song. And they're pretty much the same thing, right? Mine is the rock version of Survivor, the remix, Survivor by Destiny's Child. But it's the rock, it's like a rock and roll version. It's like, I'm a survivor, I'm not going to give up. Everybody has their song. Did Alex Cooper snake her friend to get where she got? I don't think so. It seems like the friend was more greedy and wanted more money upfront. And Alex Cooper played the long game and she was smarter. Kenny says, it was Kenny, it was just to suck it up. Yeah, suck it up and do it. What did she invented? Well, it's what did she invent? Just trying to make sure we have good grammar. But she says, everyone is following the Joe Rogan footprint. Well, I would say Alex Cooper and Joe Rogan were very different. Listen, they got lucky. Alex and Sophia, when they started Call Her Daddy, because they were pretty girls and they were talking about sex. That was their shtick. That's what they did. They talked about the raunchy topics and all of that. But from there, they were able to build a very large, strong and engaged audience. Then Alex Cooper played chess and she was very smart with, oh, we have something good here, we have something of value here, and now we can use this to scale it out and build the brand that she's built, now has Unwell Water and Unwell Energy Drinks and Unwell Network and there's the Call Her Daddy show, she has a deal with Sirius XM, it's all good. Mine is Hustle Heart, yeah. Mine is Down with the Cygnus, yeah. Unstoppable by Sia. I'm unstoppable, I'm unstoppable. Or Elastic Heart, that's another good one by Sia. But anyway, but my point being, everyone's knocking Alex Cooper, but I think the one that deserves to be knocked is Alex Earl, okay, because at least Alex Cooper built something and now they're putting out all these smear campaign articles saying like, oh my god, her husband was yelling at staff members and one of them cried and I'm like, and? Didn't we all cry at work? Didn't we all have a boss that made us cry at one point? Like, okay. Am I supposed to, was that supposed to make me feel something? Sorry, I'm a bitch today, I apologize. I just, I don't have much tolerance. She calls herself the founding father that tells you, listen, I get it, I get it. I get the critiques about Alex Cooper. But I think of the Alexs, I think Alex Earl is kind of getting out a little unscathed here, and I think she deserves, Octavia says, yes, Eminem gets you to the work, yeah. I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid to take a stand, take a stand, everybody, everybody, come take my hand. Let's walk this road to get through the storm. Sorry. Absolutely, cried a lot at work, smoked, went back inside, heavy drinking after work. Yeah, it was the norm. Now, these bitches don't even drink anymore. Everybody's getting sober, and I'm like, okay. I thought we were supposed to die of liver disease by the time we were 80, but like, okay, live your life. Travels with Nick and Nick says, I cried so much at work. I created a special little boardroom for it, and teach the new hires. That's where you go. That's how you knew you had a good job. Oh yeah, brunch cocktails, right? Well, it's already past noon, so might as well. Sober, yeah, good point, Josh. That's a very good point. He said sober, and he put it in quotation marks because they're not really sober. They're doing all sorts of other stuff. They're not drinking alcohol, but they're like vaping all day, or they're abusing their body in other ways. Ash says, also cry at least once a week at work in corporate America. Yeah, see? Listen. Heather says, I cried once at work, and I was so embarrassed. Shame. It goes a long way. When you really think about it, shame does wonders for people. I remember working the drive-through at Burger King, and our friends would order a soda, then dump it, and had us back. Oh, beer to keep it cooler. That's smart. That's smart. You know? My boss yelled at me. Yeah. On Wall Street, drinking during lunch was normal. Yeah. We always drink during lunch. Like, if you're going out for a meal, like, I don't understand how you go out from a meal at a restaurant and like order just a Diet Coke. If I'm ordering a Diet Coke, it's coming with a martini, you know? Go to Navy boot camp and tell the company commanders, you made me cry. Yeah. So happy hour is gone. Happy hour is not gone. Some places fight for happy hour, but it's no longer like one or two hours. They're like happy hour all day. And I'm like, well, then is it really happy hour? Isaac says people want to go through life thinking they deserve the world and no one deserves shit. Oh, Alex or Isaac is over it today. Sometimes you work hard and get, sometimes you get lucky and you get it. You don't know what will work out. That's right. That is the motto. Between Zack mentioning M&Ms and seeing samosas in live is making me hungry. I love samosas. What? Flowers in the basement. Are you the new Danielle? Did I mention M&Ms? Did I say M&Ms? I don't remember saying anything about M&Ms or samosas, but I'm glad you're living your best life. Okay. Look up sailing hookers. Oh, I'm actually afraid of looking that up, Heather. I don't know what that is. I don't get the no drinking though. A Jen Alpha told me that you don't need alcohol to have fun. Yes, you do. Excuse me? What? You don't need alcohol to have fun? Well, listen, it's not that I get more fun, it's that everybody else gets more fun. I'm able to tolerate people better. I told him drinking is like running shoes. You don't need them to run, but they do help. That is a great, Joss, I love that. Exactly. It is like running shoes. It makes things go smoother. You run smoother. You don't have as many aches at the end of it. Zack, I know you're live is high rise. When you do the aerial shots of LA, can you see your building? I'm always curious. Say what, oh, Zack, do you live in a high rise? Oh, Zack is, no, you live in, Zack, I know, I think you meant to say, Zack, I know you live in a high rise. When they do aerial shots of LA, can you see your building? I'm pretty sure. My building's very tall. You can see it throughout downtown. Nothing can stop me. I'm all the way up. Josh says, I don't drink these days because I reserve my calories for you. See, I understand the body shaming part of it, right? If you are trying to shame yourself into having a better body, I'll accept you not drinking. That is the only plausible reason. But when you're just like, drinking is toxic, so is air, pollution, hello? Everything is toxic. You might as well pick your battles, girlfriend. Sophia would never, Sophia would never. I'll never forget when my boss who was a doctor slash surgeon took a clipboard and smacked my ass and called me a bad girl. Okay. It was one time, it was the one time I cried at work because I thought I was going to jail because I broke his nose. Oh my God. See, that's how you know that you were from a different generation because your fear was that you were in the wrong when he smacked your butt and called you a bad girl, and you protected yourself. See, I'm not saying evolution is terrible. I'm just saying we've gotten a little too weak. We haven't found, like the pendulum hasn't started to swing the other way. We haven't found our happy medium yet. Lisa says, I need a mental health day from the Blake mess. Yes, let's get into the Blake mess. Let's do it. But before we do, I know you want to be looking fly, right? You want to be looking cute. 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[26:56] Oh, everyone's sharing their war stories from work. Robin says, I'm at the eye doctor, so I'm catching up. When I was a kid, we were only allowed to stay home sick if we were currently vomiting with a fever higher than 101. Exactly. Robin knows what's up. People are more tolerable when I drink. Exactly. Bethany from Real Housewives in New York made the skinny girl margarita. That's right. Skinny is offensive now. I don't know why skinny is offensive. Speaking of skinny, so Lena Dunham, I was reading this wild article on the Daily Mail. It was an opinion piece. We'll get to Blake in just a sec. But the headline was wild. It's from the Daily Mail and it says, Lena Dunham is not a genius or an inspiration. She's a morbidly obese, self-obsessed mediocrity, which is savage. Completely savage. But it's crazy because even Donna Bowling, Donna is now like, I think I'm a fan of Lena Dunham. Like Donna has turned to the dark side and she's like now, she's like, like totally pro Lena Dunham. And I was like, oh, that's Maureen Callahan. Yes, she hates Lena Dunham. I read it this morning and it was scathing, but I was also like, yeah, I get it. Like, why do we keep trying to make Lena Dunham happen? Like, I don't understand. Damn, they got Lena. Yeah, they definitely got her. Is this one thing that got me tripping? Repromanda says, I've seen a few interviews recently. I had no idea that she had blown up so much. Okay, I know I said that we were taking things back to like the 90s, but like, there are some things we need to have a little decorum for. Yes, I didn't realize skinny was such a triggering word for people, but Marina is absolutely not having any of Lena. Yeah, and she's not. And I'm actually kind of glad because Lena Dunham is a bit insufferable and I can't believe she's even getting this Renaissance. She wasn't even that interesting even when she was famous, back when girls was a thing. So I don't understand the hype over her at all, but I did read that and I was like, oh God, I'm not interested in this book, but I guess Donna is going to read the book and she's probably going to recap it for her dosers. So just know, there is more Lena content come into Daily Dose of Donna, and I don't know if she's going to be able to turn me too. Wasn't she part of Taylor Swift's Girl Squad? Was she? I don't know. What happened to Taylor Swift's Girl Squad? Did Lena Dunham, is that what happened to Taylor Swift's Girl Squad? She ate him, no, I'm kidding. Jokes, guys, jokes. Ba dum bum, pssh, don't cancel me. I want you to collaborate with Maureen Callahan. I don't know Maureen. I keep hearing her name and I think, hasn't Donna had her on her show before? Maybe I will, but I just find Lena Dunham insufferable, obsessed over Donna's ripped arms. Donna does have ripped arms. Donna's got abs, her little waist is all tight. I was like, okay, you go girlfriend. She's looking good. You will love Maureen. I'm sure I will. Based off of that article this morning, she was savage. I was like, oh my God. Blake Lively, because everybody loves Blake. She's now complaining because apparently, wait, what Blake Lively breaks her silence in Justin Bieber's Coachella return with a message that hit different. She praises Justin Bieber's Coachella. What? Why is this a headline? Why is everybody talking about Blake Lively praising Justin Bieber? I did, like I said though, hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I love that song. I've been listening to it. Hallelujah. All of the, give me all of the hallelujah. But anyway, so Blake Lively is claiming that because she was called a mean girl and a bully, that it cost her $40 million. So this is what she's claiming in terms of damages. So according to new court documents, Blake's out here breaking down the money that she's sinking per her damages. So Blake really wants $161 million from Wayfair, which is Justin Baldoni's company. And so this includes $56 million in past and future earnings, $49 million in losses to her hair care company, $22 million for her Betty Booze or Betty Buzz beverage company, and more. But she had an expert that came in and specifically said that posts using the words mean girl, bully and tone deaf, those are the three words she's leaning in on here, mean girl, bully and tone deaf. And this expert is saying that Blake's reputation was harmed and she's estimating the damages here at 36 to 40 million, 36.5 to 40.5 million dollars. So that's because people online said that they thought she was a mean girl, a bully and tone deaf. Now why would we ever call her tone deaf? What? That's not tone deaf at all. And of course her defense to being tone deaf is to be even more tone deaf. Here, let me cost Blake some more money. Bully, bully, bully, Blake is a mean girl, bully, bully, bully, Blake Lively is tone deaf, bully, bully, bully, Blake Lively is a mean girl, bully, bully, bully, Blake Lively is tone deaf. There you go. You can add a few more million for those, a couple more millies for that digital violence. Bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, can't you see sometimes your words just mesmerize me because you're so damn crazy. You're such a mean girl, you bully. Hashtag Blake is a mean girl. The digital violence, digital violence. Oh my God, so much digital violence. Still tone gift, she still doesn't get it. Yeah, no. I mean, all she's doing is proving her case that she's toned. Again, I cannot wait for her to take the jury stand. But it's going to be interesting that she's asking for 49 million for Blake Brown, her haircare line, and then 22 million for Betty Buzz. Because to my understanding, she's not a sole owner in those companies. And just because those companies take a loss, that's not necessarily the responsibility of Wayfair to have to pay for that. I'm surprised she's not saying that this hurt Mint Mobile too. Might as well throw some Mint Mobile checks in there, throw some Wrexham checks in there. But how does she estimate 49 million in losses or 22 million? I don't understand that. But I mean, again, her own behavior is what's really going to bite her in the butt. I think the jury is going to feel the same way. Flowers in the Basement says, narcissists crash out when their poor behavior comes to light, that digital violence they engage in is going to get worse against Justin and his legal team. We'll see how this goes. Betty Buzz was already going down before all of this. That's what I mean. I think she's just throwing figures out there and hoping something that sticks. Michelle says, I hate hits for Mean Girl and Bully in my email. Before this case, I never heard of her products. Yeah, if anything, it was good marketing. It made me buy her products. I bought her Betty Boo's The Whiskey. Remember, I did a taste test for her whiskey cocktails, which were weird because whiskey drinkers don't typically drink whiskey cocktails. Sure, there are an old-fashioned or something, but she just tried to make these weird bourbon cocktails in a can. It was just very strange to me. How much did Blake pay the ex-CIA guy to scrub and control socials? That's a good point. I forgot about him. What was it? Shapiro? Remember, she hired him. What was his name? Nick Shapiro? She was like, uh-oh, former CIA guy coming in to help Blake Lively. Then she hired Sigrid and that, everyone she hired just was a disaster. Mean girl, mean girl, bully, bully, bully. You have to Google the P's and L's before 2023 for Betty Buzz, etc. Oh, I believe you. I believe that it was going downhill. Remember, no such thing as bad press. Apparently, it's digital violence. Digital violence, oh, oh. She has horrible ideas. Everything she did on the movie, people hate it. She did it to herself. She better pay herself. I mean, I don't know what she's gonna do. I don't know how she's ever gonna recover from the loss of this money. It's, you know, I'm pretty sure they're struggling to pay their rent right now in this economy, right? She's struggling to put food on the table for her children. She can't buy eggs. Okay, that's Blake Lively. Aren't we so happy for Blake? We're like, oh my God, Blake, you're the best. You're the bomb. That's all you can say. Blake is the bomb, thebomb.com. We love Blake. We love Blake. Bully. Is bitch better? Remember that quote from Teresa? Is bitch better? Don't call me honey. Oh, is bitch better? Okay, well, let's. I do, I'm over here breaking the internet. Okay, let's get an update on West and Amanda. We talked about them making out at the Yankees game, and now West is breaking his silence. Dun, dun, dun. So let's hear what West had to say. This was shared by Biwig Hello Drama on X. Let's play it.

Speaker 2:
[37:22] West, are you actually doing better though, you think?

Speaker 3:
[37:25] I have been better. A lot has happened in a very, very short amount of time, obviously, and yeah, should I take it a day at a time and stay off my phone, but the Internet is a very scary place to be. Amanda has taken like a big brunt of all of this too, which I just wish if people had shit to talk, they could deliver it to me. Like, for example, her number got leaked. I don't know how that happened and someone messaged her and called her a home wrecking whore, which I found to be obviously inappropriate. Can't talk like that to people, but it's also not true.

Speaker 2:
[38:04] I feel like once you guys can kind of like speak your truth of like the actual timeline, I feel like a lot of-

Speaker 4:
[38:11] I don't think the timeline matters. Like I think the timeline, yes, would make things worse, but I don't think the timeline matters. It's digital violence against Amanda. I know it's digital violence. Yeah, I don't think the timeline is any, like I don't care. Like the timeline doesn't change in anything. It's still a shitty thing to do to Ciara and to Kyle quite frankly.

Speaker 2:
[38:32] False narratives out right now and like, you can just about everything. It's made it more messy, but not all of it is true.

Speaker 3:
[38:41] Yeah, that's actually one thing I would like to be very clear about. There was no overlap. I know there's a thousand different theories on the internet right now, but that is one thing that for sure did not happen. Everyone was single, like I said earlier. Then we realized things are maybe a little bit serious in February, and that's when this all started and there's not a whole lot more to it than that.

Speaker 2:
[39:06] Have you talked to any other castmates?

Speaker 3:
[39:10] I've sent some texts, haven't gotten responses from everybody yet, which is to be expected, and I get it. But that's the hardest part, I think, with this whole situation is my actions have hurt people that I care about. But the reunion's coming up, and I can give those apologies face to face and also clear up all of the crazy shit that's been on the internet.

Speaker 4:
[39:43] Okay, so for starters, don't call Amanda a home-working whore, okay? She's not Raquel. Number one. Number two, hit the like button. Yes, thank you, Mary Ann Trow for reminding everybody to hit that like button. Zack, didn't you say he was cute? He is cute. Actually, yeah, he is cute. I think he's a cutie. Bullet, so don't do digital violence. Okay, so he said in this interview though, that their relationship started in February, which is strange that that was February and March. There was at least a month and a half-ish, let's say about a month and a half, where they could have told Sierra and they told her nothing. I want to know when Sierra suspected something and when Amanda allegedly told Sierra nothing is going on. Because remember, Sierra like texts Amanda and is like, is something going on? She's like, we're just friends. So was Amanda lying? And also, Amanda and Kyle just announced their separation in January. And then you're telling me a month later, she's already hopping into bed with West and they're already a thing. So what, I mean, granted, there was speculation that Amanda and Kyle were broken up prior to the holiday, or yeah, prior to the holidays, because they didn't spend the holidays together, people were assuming they were broken up, which means they could have been broken up, likely broke up sometime at the end of 2025. But even so, what is the appropriate timeline? Let's take a poll here. What is the appropriate timeline for sleeping with your friend? Who was dating your other friend? What do we think is the best timeline? What amount of time would make it better? Debbie says, guys move faster than women. Yes, they have very strong legs, Debbie. So, yeah. Laura says, you can't wreck a home that's not there, peeps. Yeah, yeah, she's not a home-wrecking whore. Because there was no home that she wrecked. So, yeah. That can happen. It's a rebound. Yeah, well, that's my point. Is that it's a rebound. And I think I said this like last week before he even made the statement, that this is clearly just like a rebound situation, and it's not really intended to last. But they've like decided to really double down and put their heels in the sand on this one. And I just think it's such a stupid move because they don't think it's ever going to work. One, a conversation period. Yeah, it's in poor taste, but it's not criminal. They will punish each other enough. I don't think they're punishing each other at all. I think they're totally good, but you're right. It is in poor taste and it's not criminal. I agree. Maureen Callahan is savage. Yes, hit the like button, guys, if you're enjoying this. I'm always late to the live. Starting over. Okay, thanks, Aunt Lala. T-Bear says, how is West able to talk about this? I thought they had NDAs. NDAs about... NDAs about what? NDAs. From the show? I think from the show, they have NDAs where they're not allowed to talk about... I guess, but they're not allowed to talk about story lines on the show. They're not allowed... I mean, I guess they could technically talk about things that happen outside of filming, right? I don't know. I just hope they are honest during the reunion. I mean, listen, it looks like they have zero Fs to give. How many do they give? Zero, zero, none, not one. When are they filming the reunion? I believe they are filming the reunion early May. So, we will see. But they better give us a good one. The joint release statement was a cherry on top and so do. No, yeah, no, that was the chocolate sauce on the Sunday. The cherry on top is when she released her other statement where she was basically just like, fuck y'all hoes, I don't know who Sierra is, who is that girl even? And then they went and started kissing at the Yankee game. That was wild, she was like, yes, I'm gonna be, I'm moving on with my life and y'all better just deal with it. So, oof, Joy says, if you are my friend and you are dating an ex, go away little girl. Exactly, this actually happened to me recently with my friend Jacques, you guys remember Jacques, he has a podcast, it's called The Unpopular Podcast, but I think now it's Patreon only. He's a reporter at the Daily Mail. We're still good friends, we still talk often. But there was a time where there was this guy that I was dating, not dating in the sense that we were exclusively in a relationship, but dating in the sense that we were going on dates, we had met I think on Hinge, and then we'd gone out on a series of dates throughout the summer. And then by 4th of July, I think I told the story on Disaster Daters, the 4th of July thing I had called things off with him. And then a few months later, Jacques matched with him on Hinge, and then he had his Instagram profile on his bio. So Jacques went to his Instagram profile, and then when he saw his Instagram profile, he saw that we were following each other, and you were talking. No, there's a difference. I'm going to get into this in a minute, Josh. So Jacques found out that this guy almost had his name, that this guy and I were following each other. So Jacques texted me, and he's like, how do you know this guy? I was like, oh, that's the crazy dude from last summer, who I was dating, but obviously I was telling Jacques about all my crazy dating stories and how he was a total psycho. Then Jacques very politely messaged him, and he was just like, hey, so apparently you and my friend dated, I just don't think it's good bro code, and so I'm sorry, I'm going to have to leave it here. Then he went off the rails and he was just like, what do you mean? I've never even dated anybody here now, because he had just moved here at the time. He's like, I'd never even dated any, your friend is delusional, whoever your friend is is crazy and yada, yada, yada. Like one off on Jacques and Jacques was like, whoa, that's crazy. I was like, yeah, now you know what I was having to deal with, because he really was very emotionally erratic, like he would fly off the rails in two seconds, very interesting. In retrospect, he really was not a great guy, but he was cute and he was tall, so that's all that mattered. But yeah, Josh said you were talking. No, talking is when you're talking. Talking is before you start going on dates. The talking phase is when you match with somebody. You match with them, you're texting, you're getting to know each other, but you haven't really tested your physical chemistry yet. That's talking. When you move past talking, if you're just sleeping with somebody, then you're hooking up. That's what we're doing. We're hooking up here. We're having sex, but it's just sex because we don't really go on dates. If we do go on dates, then we're casually seeing each other. But when you're dating somebody, you're going on dates with them, multiple dates. You've gone on more than at least two dates. I would say three to four is when you can confidently say, okay, we're in the dating phase. We're not together, we're not in a relationship, we're not exclusive, but we are dating. You can be dating multiple people at the same time. Talking is when you're literally just talking. I hate when people are like, no, dating is not when you're going on dates. I'm like, why the fuck do you call them dates? If you're not going on dates, you're not dating. But if you're going on dates, that's considered dating. Make some watermelon wine. What is watermelon wine? That actually sounds very refreshing. Friends with benefits. Yeah, if you're going on dates and you're, well, that's a situation ship. When you're hooking up, but you're also going out on dates and you're also kind of like friends, you know. Yeah. Janet says tall matters. Tall does matter. Tall. Listen, inches, inches go a long way. For some people, they care about the inches downstairs. Other people, they care about the inches up high in terms of height. And so inches matter. You excuse a lot. Like every inch is another red flag that you're willing to tolerate. You know, you can tell by the way he said February and his voice goes up at the end. That's an FBI tell that somebody is lying. Yeah. My sorority sister in college went after three guys that she knew I was interested in and made out with one of them right in front of me. We didn't date. So I get I didn't have dibs, but it's the lack of respect. Yeah, that's where it's not nice because it is a lack of respect because you know that what your behavior is doing is going to hurt your friend. And so you just shouldn't do it if you care about your friend. You know, Sierra and West were a situation. Yeah, it was a situation ship. They weren't in a relationship. They were dating, sort of. Well, yeah, that was a situation ship because it was like messy, but you didn't really know what it was. Wear condoms, kids. People don't wear condoms anymore. This isn't the 70s. The gays. Zack, you make me laugh out loud. Thank you, Lori. Thank you. I assume everyone's smashing everyone. Who are you smashing, Josh? I think we need a new handbook on dating. Should I write the new book on dating? Clock that, T-Zack. Thank you. Going out in public together versus just booty calls. Yeah, you have your booty calls and then you have the ones you go on dates with. Very different. You need to find a cute guy to marry and have babies. That sounds amazing, Kathy. I have a phobia of too tall. Well, how short are you? How do you have a phobia of too tall? You have to be real short or you're afraid of people that are too tall. Because the only people that are too tall are like basketball players. Isaac says, I just want a taller guy. Exactly. Isaac, how tall are you? What is watermelon wine? Who's drinking watermelon? Why are we talking about water? What is watermelon wine? It sounds very refreshing. And right now, I'm quite parched. If the FBI looked at my search history, I'd be in jail for watermelon wine. Wow, ever heard of watermelon? I don't know what watermelon... Why are we talking about watermelon wine? What is watermelon wine? How to be a Debbie Downer, but STDs are going around again big time. Did they ever not go around? I feel like STDs are always going around. The guys are like anti-condoms. The guys are like anti-condoms. He says, yeah, guys don't wear condoms anymore. Dating is stressful. It's very stressful. You don't wear condoms? What the hell? People don't wear condoms anymore. 2026, modern technology. You have antibiotics. My son is six, seven. Six, seven, six, seven. You're five foot, okay. Five, two, everywhere is tall for me. When you hug someone and your crotch height is awkward. Oh no. Podcast episode on dating handbugs, Zack. I gave you two good seasons of Disaster Daters. I should, well, I feel like I could write a book on dating. Seriously though, there's HIV outbreaks around the country currently in major cities. What? How is there HIV in the era of PrEP? That's interesting. Are you making that up? Can somebody explain to me watermelon? Where's Christina? Christina did not explain to us what watermelon wine is. Zack, what do you mean people don't wear condoms? People don't wear condoms anymore. It's like a thing. I was talking about it with my friend Jess. My friend Jess, she was just like, nobody wears condoms anymore. I was like, I know people don't like to work on. Because if you're avoiding HIV, then you have PrEP and PrEP is an HIV prevention medication. You don't get HIV because you're taking PrEP. You have a very, very, very, like a 99.9 percent chance. Everyone's taking PrEP and then there's also now Doxie PEP. If you think that you were in a murky situation where you could have potentially gotten an STI, then you take Doxie PEP. I technically have it. I don't take it though because I've never needed it. But they give it to you at the doc, like here, take this too. I was like, okay, but it's like literally just sitting in my cabin. I never needed it. But that helps to, they say to take it within 72 hours of risky sex. That way it can prevent you from getting any STIs like gonorrhea, chlamydia. But should you get gonorrhea or chlamydia, then you go to the clinic and they test you and then they give you antibiotics. They give you the little pills and then they give you the shot in the butt. And then they kill whatever you have. Again, modern technology, people don't wear condoms anymore. I'm dying. They have antibiotics. They do. They give antibiotics. People, it's crazy how many... I've had friends that then had... They got antibiotic-resistant chlamydia, the ones where it's the chlamydia that the antibiotics don't even seem to be killing anymore. I'm like, you're getting crazy. You need to tone it down, okay? You shouldn't be doing all this crazy sex all the time with all these people. You need to have some discernment, you know? Again, bring back shame. We have modern technology now, like antibiotics. Yeah, it's true. Two fellas don't need condoms if they take PrEP or whatnot. Exactly, that was my whole point. PrEP has the gays raw dogging like nobody's business. Seriously. Chicago is experiencing a terrible outbreak. What? We're going to ask ChatGPT. Is Chicago having an HIV outbreak? Get them on some PrEP. Okay, ChatGPT just said no, Chicago is not currently experiencing a declared HIV outbreak. Here's what we do know. HIV in Chicago rose about 29%. Oh, that was back in 2022 and 2024. There were 800 new diagnoses, okay, 800 in 2024 up from the previous year. Cases had been declining for roughly two decades before the recent uptake. Well, I think it was declining because people were using condoms because people were afraid of getting HIV and then it shifted because then PrEP became more readily accessible. I think that was in what, 2016 is when it became more accessible to people. But people were probably stopping using condoms around that time because PrEP had come out and was becoming more accessible. But yeah, now everybody's on PrEP. So I don't think there's a real, there's no official outbreaks, but it's rising enough to be concerning. Got it, got it, got it. Wear condom, it's really not that hard, guys. You missed my comment from Watermelon Vine and you said wine. You started, oh, watermelon wine is not a thing? What? Let's ask chat. Is watermelon wine real? Watermelon wine is absolutely real. It's like a fruit wine that's made by fermenting fresh watermelon juice instead of grapes, because watermelon is high in water content and relatively low in natural sugar. Wine makers use extra sugar. Okay. Well, that's not good to balance out the flavor. It's light, slightly sweet, very refreshing, often more subtle than you'd expect from watermelon. It's usually about 8-12 percent alcohol by volume. It's a pale pink light rosé, and it can be still or sparkling. Yes. You guys, should we have a watermelon wine taste test? Look at what we started. Josh says, I could write a book on why not today. Oh, that's sad. Don't do that. Trader Joe's has a lot of orange wine. Yeah, orange wine has become like raw dogging it. Orange wine has also become very trendy. Watermelon wine is great. Watermelon wine is real. Okay. Well, then why are you shaming me for talking about watermelon wine? It's important enough to mention, obviously. Oh, that, okay, thank you for scaring all of us. Forgive me, guys, but I did not intend to alarm anyone. You alarmed all of them. You alarmed everyone. That wine sounds right. I actually want some watermelon wine now. Well, I will tell you that this, I had now officially delivered to you the, the lesson of the week. There you go. Oh, you make me wanna la la. I learned about prison wine. Okay, nobody wants to try prison wine. I'll keep my husband compare, I'll keep my husband compare to 2026 dating. Thank you very much. Yes, Donna is coming on soon. Yay, tell her that she needs to drink watermelon wine and stop defending Lena Dunham. Let's see, I, I, okay. Oh no, it says we'll recommend some, we'll recommend some brands for you. And the first one that comes up is Stella Rosa, watermelon rose. No, nobody should be drinking Stella Rosa. That is not good wine. Okay, these all look very cheap. This is like an 8.99 bottle. The most expensive one is $15 watermelon wine. I don't think watermelon wine is very, oh. Oh, a lot of these are just flavored moscato. Moscato is gross. Oh, there's a Wilson Creek. Is there not like, oh, there's barefoot watermelon wine. There's Stella, okay, watermelon wine is cheap. Sorry guys, we're not drinking watermelon wine. I'm not doing watermelon wine. Pineapple wine, interesting. Blueberry wine, peanut butter whiskey shots are delicious. Flavored peanut butter, when I went to Nashville with Emily D Baker and Up and Atom, oh my God, we did a whiskey tasting. Oof, it was the best. We were getting Litty City off of that whiskey. It was delicious. It was, it was, it was, for sure. Oh my God, do not knock on my stuff. Listen, if you enjoy, if it brings you joy, then I'm not gonna yuck your yum. But you do you, boo. You do you. Yes, yes, yes, condoms. I don't care what pill can cure anything. That is an STI. Rather not itch or burn, not even for a day. Waiting for meds to work when a C can avoid it, in my opinion. Thank you, Joe. I only drink French rosé, the drier, the better. Same, French and light. Well, European. Watermelon wine also country songs. Watermelon wine, watermelon wine. When did you come to Nashville? It was a while ago. Because Emily lives there, and she took us all around town. We were drinking up at the clubs and the bar. We were living life. We were living life. Dry is so gross. Dry is not gross. Only if you're dry down there. I love our adult conversations. Thank you. I love sweet wine. I do not, Lori. Don't date. Don't have sex. Enjoy your life drama-free. No dating and no sex? That doesn't sound drama-free. What do you do all day? You don't have to Google about wine. It's what I do for a living. Drink. Got it. Okay, guys, go listen to Donna Bolling. She is about to go live. I'll probably hop on over to her live chat. So go tell her to stop defending Lena Dunham. That is your assignment today is to go tell Donna to stop defending Lena Dunham. Okay, no more justice for Lena, number one. And two, tell Donna I'm gonna bring her some watermelon wine. All right, guys, bye. Have a good weekend. Hit the like button on your way out. Hit the subscribe button. Do all the things. Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. I love you. I appreciate you following me and Zack Peter all over the internet. And show me some love in the club. All right, guys, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye. And I'll see you tonight on Zoom. So become a member of No Filter. You'll have full access on Supercast. That way you can join tonight's Zoom com. All right, guys, have a good one. Bye.