Hailee Steinfeld & Josh Allen Engaged + Taylor Swift Hosts Thanksgiving for the Kelces

Summary

Podcast Summary: Chicks in the Office – "Hailee Steinfeld & Josh Allen Engaged + Taylor Swift Hosts Thanksgiving for the Kelces"

Release Date: December 2, 2024

Host/Author: Barstool Sports – Ria Ciuffo and Fran Mariano

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1. Episode Introduction and Holiday Transition ([00:00]–[06:00])

The episode opens with Ria and Fran navigating the swift transition from Thanksgiving to the holiday season. They reflect on the sudden shift, noting how quickly December arrived after Thanksgiving, leaving little time to fully digest the holiday.

Notable Quote:

• Ria Ciuffo ([02:21]): "There was not a lot of time to digest Thanksgiving fully. We're just straight into Christmas."

2. Celebrations and Personal Updates ([06:00]–[16:00])

The hosts share personal anecdotes, including Ria's admiration for Vito the pug, who won Best in Show at the National Dog Show, garnering a significant presence on TikTok.

Notable Quote:

• Noah ([05:10]): "I have to look [at Vito the pug]."

Ria discusses her plans to possibly adopt a dog in the future and the challenges of fostering pets, particularly highlighting Noah's selective nature towards foster dogs.

3. Surviving Barstool – Reality Show Premiere ([10:25]–[12:20])

Noah introduces "Surviving Barstool," Barstool Sports' rendition of popular reality competition shows like "Survivor" and "The Challenge." This fourth season features 24 Barstool employees competing in Chicago, battling mental and physical challenges with eliminations and drama. The show boasts high production levels and features notable Barstool personalities such as Dave, Big Cat, Lauren Bates, and Ryan Whitney.

Notable Quote:

• Noah ([10:25]): "If you love reality TV, you should definitely give it a watch."

4. Hailee Steinfeld & Josh Allen Engagement ([32:02]–[38:40])

The central focus of the episode addresses the recent engagement of Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Allen. The hosts celebrate the couple's joyous announcement while delving into surrounding drama involving Josh Allen's ex-girlfriend, Britt, who faced allegations of her Instagram account being hacked. Britt was seen posting disparaging comments about Josh, which she attributes to hacking and blackmail, raising questions about the authenticity of these posts.

Notable Quotes:

• Noah ([33:40]): "Josh Allen literally like threw and caught a touchdown at the same time."
• Ria Ciuffo ([37:25]): "I hope that she gets that situation figured out because that is."

The discussion emphasizes the couple's desire to maintain privacy and happiness amidst public scrutiny, applauding their ability to stay offline and cherish their moment together.

5. Taylor Swift Hosts Thanksgiving for the Kelces ([40:11]–[43:59])

Ria and Noah delve into Taylor Swift hosting Thanksgiving for NFL star Travis Kelce and his family in Nashville, Tennessee. This marks their first Thanksgiving together, with Taylor orchestrating a festive and family-oriented celebration. The event featured homemade dishes, including Taylor's signature pop tarts for the Chiefs swag bags, highlighting her hands-on approach to hosting.

Notable Quotes:

• Noah ([40:11]): "How are you feeling, guys?"
• Ria Ciuffo ([41:16]): "And she makes the main stuff, though."

The hosts speculate on the possibility of a future destination wedding for the couple, envisioning an idyllic celebration in locations like Cabo.

6. Weekly Watch Report ([63:07]–[89:38])

The latter part of the episode transitions into the "Weekly Watch Report," where Ria, Fran, and Noah discuss various TV shows and movies they've watched over the week. Highlights include:

• "Based on a True Story" Season 2: Reviewed with mixed feelings.
• "Love Island" Australia: Rated B+, praised for its engaging love triangles.
• "Chicago Med" and "Laguna Beach" 20th Anniversary: Celebrated for their enduring appeal and nostalgic value.
• "Gray's Anatomy" and Other Series: Discussed recent plot developments and guest appearances.
• Movies: Conversations about "The Line," featuring Halle Bailey and Angus Cloud, and reflections on classic films like "The Sopranos."

Notable Quotes:

• Fran Mariano ([84:24]): "He refuses to be a part of the documentary."
• Ria Ciuffo ([82:26]): "I always thought it was because there's Halle Berry."

The hosts also touch on upcoming events, including their scheduled live show in Boston, encouraging listeners to attend and engage with their content.

7. Sponsorships and Closing Remarks ([57:00]–[89:38])

Throughout the episode, the hosts integrate promotional segments seamlessly, advertising products such as Barstool merchandise, Macy’s holiday sales, Coors Light, BetterHelp therapy services, and Skims clothing. The episode concludes with a final call to action for listeners to attend their live show in Boston, coupled with warm holiday wishes and reminders about ongoing sales and promotions.

Notable Quote:

• Ria Ciuffo ([89:41]): "Don't forget, 20% off all day Cyber Monday."

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Conclusion:

In this engaging episode of "Chicks in the Office," Ria and Fran navigate a blend of personal stories, pop culture highlights, and in-depth discussions on significant celebrity events. The engagement of Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Allen and Taylor Swift’s role in hosting the Kelce family’s Thanksgiving serve as central anchors, providing listeners with both celebratory news and thoughtful commentary on the surrounding drama. The episode balances entertainment with relatability, ensuring a rich and engaging experience for both regular listeners and newcomers.

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Highlighted Quotes:

• Ria Ciuffo ([02:21]): "We're just straight into Christmas."
• Noah ([10:25]): "If you love reality TV, you should definitely give it a watch."
• Noah ([33:40]): "Josh Allen literally like threw and caught a touchdown at the same time."
• Ria Ciuffo ([37:25]): "I hope that she gets that situation figured out because that is."
• Ria Ciuffo ([41:16]): "And she makes the main stuff, though."
• Fran Mariano ([84:24]): "He refuses to be a part of the documentary."
• Ria Ciuffo ([89:41]): "Don't forget, 20% off all day Cyber Monday."

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Key Takeaways:

• The episode successfully intertwines major pop culture events with personal anecdotes, providing a comprehensive and entertaining narrative.
• Notable discussions on celebrity engagements and family gatherings offer listeners insights into both public and private aspects of celebrity lives.
• The integration of sponsorships and promotional content is handled smoothly, maintaining the episode's flow without detracting from the main content.
• The "Weekly Watch Report" segment adds value for listeners interested in TV and movie recaps, enhancing the episode's depth.

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Transcript

[Ria Ciuffo]

Hey Chicks in the Office listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. The holiday season is here and the Barstool store is the ultimate stop for cyber Monday shopping. Going on now through midnight, the barstool.

[Fran Mariano]

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[Ria Ciuffo]

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[Fran Mariano]

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[Ria Ciuffo]

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[Fran Mariano]

Will not want to miss out on.

[Ria Ciuffo]

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[Noah]

End the friendship or choose chill because.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You'Re drinking Coors Light with your buddy Coors Light.

[Fran Mariano]

Choose chill.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Celebrate responsibly. 2024 Coors Brewing Company Golden, Colorado what's up everyone?

[Noah]

It's Chicks in the office with Rhian Fran giving you that Friday energy on a Monday. Happy Monday everybody. Hopefully you had a lovely little Thanksgiving. And we are back. And of course this podcast is presented by Macy's. It's Macy's best offer of the season. Right now you can get an extra 30 off top gifts plus 15 off Macy's best beauty brands. Macy's has truly everything. Whether you're shopping for clothes, tops, jackets, coats or you're shopping for beauty brands. You can get your top gifts like ugg. I got my Ugg slippers right now on that I got from Macy's. You can get matching sweats, water bottles, advent calendars, and then you can get crocs, dry bar travel kits. So many different options from beauty to clothes to toys. They have it all. And you can get free shipping at $25. So from December 4th until December 12th, you can get an extra 30% off top gifts plus 15% off at Macy's beauty brands. Their best beauty brands. So right now shop@macy's.com or shop in store for that end of the year shopping. Maybe you haven't done all of your shopping yet for the holiday season so you can get that at Macy's. How are we feeling, guys?

[Ria Ciuffo]

We're going to do it.

[Noah]

Yes. We're back from the Thanksgiving little break we had. How are we feeling? How was everybody's Thanksgiving Good.

[Ria Ciuffo]

The studio is decorated for it's. It was a weird, like we're. It was a jump. I woke up Sunday morning. I was like, oh my God, it's December. Like it's just, just happened so fast. Thanksgiving. There was not a lot of time to digest Thanksgiving fully. We're Just straight into.

[Noah]

Is that like a pun?

[Ria Ciuffo]

That was on purpose. Straight into. Straight into Christmas.

[Noah]

Yeah. You know what I realized now?

[Ria Ciuffo]

The studio is decorated. Well done, everybody.

[Noah]

Yes. You guys, this studio looks fantastic. I realized that the Thanksgiving Day parade is so Christmas heavy. No, I. It's always been Christmas heavy, but it feels like it's gotten. I know, like, Santa cumming is the big thing because it leads into the Christmas season, but it feels like it was even more Christmas heavy than usual this year.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Really? Yeah.

[Noah]

Maybe that was just my own. Maybe I just was feeling more Christmas heavy and that's why I took it that way.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I feel like it's always. They're always pretty Christmas heavy when it comes to, like, singing Christmas songs or, like, different floats having kind of Christmas themes. But, yeah, I mean, the Santa is the big. The big closer.

[Noah]

The Santa's the closer. And my favorite part about Santa coming at the end of the. Of the parade is all of the adults at the parade, not the children. All of the adults, like, waiting. Waiting, like, on their last breath for Santa to march down the. March down the street in the parade. I'm like, oh, my God, they're so in the spirit. They really believe. You know, they really believe that.

[Ria Ciuffo]

They do. And I. I thought I did feel bad for them this year just because it was raining, which. What? That. Not super pleasant to be out in the rain and performing and doing all that. Especially, like, the marching bands that are always so good. And then they're doing their whole routines and everything. And the dancers. All the dancers who have to have to do their whole routines and everything in the rain, but everybody crushed it.

[Noah]

So everybody did a great job. Ariana. Ariana Maddox performed on the peacock float, which was cool to see. I mean, she's up there singing. Great show. Great, great Thanksgiving parade. Per usual.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I love watching the parade. And then it does go right into the national dog show, which is my favorite, and. Oh, my God. Did you see the winner?

[Noah]

No, I didn't.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, my God. He's a star.

[Noah]

I have to. I have to look.

[Ria Ciuffo]

He's a pug, and his name is Vito.

[Noah]

Oh. Oh, my God. My cousin has a pug named Vito.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Really?

[Noah]

Yeah. Not him.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, my God. He's not best in show.

[Noah]

No, I guess not.

[Ria Ciuffo]

But this was Vito the Puget, and he won best in show. He won the whole shebang.

[Noah]

Wow. Well deserved.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Let me tell you what a star that pug is. I was. I was blown away by him, and now I'm seeing him all over TikTok. It was also so cute. Because I saw other people posting tiktoks of their pugs at home watching Vito.

[Noah]

The pug win best of his Pisans at home watching.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It was very funny. All the comments were like, yes, representation matters.

[Noah]

Italians on top.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, my God. It was actually so cute. All the pugs, they were like, oh, my God, look at this pug. He was a very handsome, handsome man.

[Noah]

Handsome.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I'm really getting dog fever like that.

[Noah]

Are you going to get one?

[Ria Ciuffo]

I. Yeah. I mean, it's. The clock is.

[Noah]

The clock is ticking.

[Ria Ciuffo]

The clock is off. I think maybe, like, this is the end. I am traveling for, like, after Christmas a little bit. Like, I'll be in Florida, so I. It won't be before that, of course.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

But, I mean, come 20, 25, it's. It's in the cards to me. There's a couple rescues, one of the ones that is in New Jersey that we got flow at. They posted this post yesterday that was like a grid of just 20 different puppies that. That they have right now. And the top of the caption just said, it's December 1st, and the puppies need you.

[Noah]

Wow. They're really.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, my God. I'm like. I'm, like, laying on the couch. I was an absolute gremlin on Sunday. Just, like, didn't live the crowd. I'm showing. I'm like, joe, the puppies need.

[Noah]

They need us on January 1st.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, the puppies need us. So, no, it's. It's. I'm almost there.

[Noah]

It's almost time. I got some good cuddles with Norm this weekend, which reminded me someone messaged me. They were like, where is Norman? And I feel like I've talked about this, but every so often, I have to remind people that Norman lives at my house on Long island with my parents. Better than ever. Big backyard. Love and life. He goes to Florida with them. But I go home all the time, so I see Norm all the time. I just don't post him. But I. I got a couple messages this week being like, where's Norm? So I feel like I had to. I had to throw up a story of him. I was like, all right, let me. Let me feed a little Norm, content to the people here he is, but he's him and Luca together. My godson. It's the cutest thing in the world because I'm like, oh, Luca, this is gonna be your best friend. Norman's gonna be your best friend. Then he goes over and licks him, and it's just the cutest. Like, a Baby and dog together is just like. It is the cutest combination.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It is. It is.

[Noah]

Luca right now has to wear a helmet because he has, like.

[Ria Ciuffo]

He's got, like, the flat spot on his head.

[Noah]

So he used to wear this helmet, and it, like, hurts my heart looking at him. He's so cute, but, like, I feel like he's miserable with this helmet on his head.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, yeah.

[Noah]

He's just like. He's just got this, like, grumpy old man face on. Not even a one year old's body because of this damn helmet.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right. Even without the helmet.

[Noah]

I know. He just has this, like. He literally looks like a little old man. It's.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Put that helmet on him. He's just like, oh, come on.

[Noah]

Yeah. His first Christmas is coming around the corner.

[Ria Ciuffo]

He's so great.

[Noah]

But thanks. Thanksgiving weekend was exactly what I needed.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, it was nice.

[Noah]

A great Thanksgiving, great family time. And then I truly had to conquer my closet this weekend. Like, I had to conquer it. It's been months now of things just piling up and just me throwing things on the floor and putting stuff in my luggage and then throwing that stuff out of my luggage and putting new stuff in my luggage, and it was time. And it took me about a good seven hours on Saturday to do it all. And wow, does my brain feel so much better. But. But my body hurts.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Just a lot of up and down.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Because everything was on the floor. I took. I took everything out. So I have a room that I use as a closet. And I took. I just started from the beginning. I took everything out of this room. Like, everything that was in my closet, my drawers, racks everything out. And I just started from the beginning and just everything was on the floor, so I was like, up, down, up, down. I woke up the next morning, I was like, oh, my God, why does my back hurt so bad? But I got it done.

[Ria Ciuffo]

No, that's the best feeling when you. When you get everything fully cleaned out. I. Closet space. It's just. I dream of. I dream of a. Of a large closet one day. I'm almost there, right? It's just. Oh, God. Everything piles up. It does. It's hard to keep. It's hard to. Especially in New York City. It's just hard to keep organized. You have to have everything. Like, summer stuff goes in storage. The jackets. I love a good jacket. I realized I actually had so much stuff hanging on one rack in my big hall closet. The rack has fallen off the wall. I didn't even realize. I went to go move some stuff And I was like, oh, my God, this is no longer even secure on the wall. No, it is hanging off the wall. But no, nothing's better than a closet organization day.

[Noah]

It just. And now things are in the right places.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You know, I got pants where everything is.

[Noah]

Shirts over there.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Everything's hung up.

[Noah]

Everything's hung up. It's all organized now.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And then you remember things that, like, you're like, oh, shit, I forgot. I.

[Noah]

Exactly what happened this weekend. That's exactly what happened. But it's also a big week. Surviving Barstool premieres this week.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It does.

[Noah]

Surviving Barstool is the barstool reality show that I filmed while Fran was on her honeymoon. And for people who don't know what Surviving Barstool is, it's basically Barstool's version of Survivor the Challenge, all those, you know, reality competition shows. And this is the fourth season that they've done at Barstool, but it's the biggest season they've ever done. The first one started with eight people. I forget how many was last year. I think it might have been 12. This year it was 24 of us who work at Barstool, All Barstool employees, co workers, competing in. Well, we're living in the Chicago office, competing in mental challenges, physical challenges, voting each other out. There's eliminations, it's drama, it's intense, it's chaotic. And if you love reality tv, which if you are listening to the show, then I assume you are a lover, somewhat of reality tv, you should definitely give it a watch. Even if you have never seen other barstool stuff before. If you just listen to chicks in the office, I really recommend watching because, honestly, like, production level on this was insane. And people put in so much work to make this show happen. And I think it's going to be incredible. So make sure you are tuning in. They put out the schedule. It's like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday this week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the next week, the following week. And then there's like a little bit of a break, and then it comes back in January. But it's on all barstool platforms. You can watch on YouTube, the Barstool YouTube channel you can watch on there.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I mean, it's like it's you, Dave, Big cat. I mean, it's like major players.

[Noah]

Yeah. Will Compton, Taylor, Lauren Bates, Ryan Whitney, Kelly, Keys.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. The million dollars guys.

[Noah]

Yes. Mubi, Mubi, Jerry. The list goes on and on. There's 24 people. Robbie Fox, Smitty.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yep.

[Noah]

Francis, Francis, Roan. Tons. I mean, tons of People.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

So if you've never seen other barstool stuff before or maybe you are in a little bit. There's. It's 24 people, so it's going to be great. So make sure you tune in, make sure you watch. Support your girl Ria, you know, and I'm excited to watch. I'm excited. I'm excited to see it all unfold. Honestly.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It'll be Tuesday. It is still. It is still Monday. Cyber Monday. Sales are still going on. You can get our new hat. Ria's wearing it right now. It's a great hat.

[Noah]

Yep.

[Ria Ciuffo]

We have some bridal merch, cute sweatshirts, makeup bags. I made a wicked Saquon Barkley. It's a great T shirt that you can get as well. You know what's maybe the most condescending thing you can say to somebody else that's just like. That just like, you know, you're like throwing a jab. What is it when somebody ends their message with, like, a sassy thought and then they just go,. TBH.

[Noah]

Mm.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Like, yeah, it's. It has such a different snap than if you were to say honestly and then you say your thought. You know, when you hit somebody, it's because I saw it last night because somebody replied to one of my stories about the Eagles winning, and she said they really shouldn't have comma. Tbh. Well, tbh. They really should have because they did.

[Noah]

Yeah, because they won. How can you take away a win?

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's just the set, like, it's just the bitchiest thing you can send back to somebody.

[Noah]

It is tbh, tbh. Or imo, in my opinion, it's like the same energy.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It is. And even, like, if it's someone you know or don't know when you hit him with a tbh. Not even like a TBH at the end of a thought hits different than a TBH at the beginning. Can you write back?

[Noah]

Well, they did win.

[Ria Ciuffo]

No, no, no. I.

[Noah]

Could.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I. My. My ears turned red. I just had to close out the message. They really shouldn't have tbh. Well, it's just. It's the TBH at the end.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

When they just. Well, to be honest, nobody cares because they won.

[Noah]

Right, Exactly. That should have been your. Well, if you were to respond. But you respond.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I was like, oh, well, sorry, that does.

[Noah]

That does just hit a little bit harder.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, no. And then it's even, like, even when somebody. Even when it's just a different. Like, that was just straight up fact. The Eagles won. Like, sorry, but when it's a difference of opinion, even, and they're like, mm, I actually really think. And then they give their thought and they go, tbh. And I'm like, ugh.

[Noah]

If only they would have just started off with tbh.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Or just send it without the. Like, just send it without it. Because you're. It's your thought anyway. I hope you're being honest.

[Noah]

Yeah, I would be honest.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You know.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I feel that that really. That was just a thought.

[Noah]

Well, at least the Eagles won, so.

[Ria Ciuffo]

No, exactly.

[Noah]

You came out on top on that one.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right. It's like, well, sorry if they lost.

[Noah]

Different story.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Well, they lost, you wouldn't be sending that message.

[Noah]

Right? Exactly. Salty.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

This is. It's the end of the year.

[Ria Ciuffo]

That time of year.

[Noah]

People get the sports.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yep. People are getting chippy. People are getting chippy. They are.

[Noah]

You know, it's the end of the year, who's going to come out on top? Right around the corner.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Here it is. It. It is in. Angie's 100th birthday was a. Was a massive success. She's got to be. She was so. H I I. I have to tell Mima to tell her. All the messages I got of people being so floored that she is 100 years old that I was like, oh, you got it. The people are going. Going crazy for Aunt Angie.

[Noah]

When I saw the photos and videos of Aunt Angie, I kept thinking to myself, where is Aunt Angie?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Like, where is.

[Noah]

Where is Aunt Angie? And then I realized that was Aunt Angie and my jaw was on the floor. How does Aunt Angie look like that at 100 years old? It's.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It is very impressive.

[Noah]

I can't believe it. No, like, truly, what are her secrets? It needs to be shared with the class because that is just incredible.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I know she's gonna live.

[Noah]

The way she's looking, she's living until 150. She is maybe 200.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She is really. She's really phenomenal. I mean, she's out on the. All she wanted to do the whole party was dance, have people dance with her. She's doing high kicks on the. On the dance.

[Noah]

She's got sandals on, moving around, moving and grooving.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

I'm like, how Is this woman 100 years old?

[Ria Ciuffo]

I know. It was very sweet. Everybody kind of like, went through toasts. Meanwhile, my grandma, like, Mima, I won't say her age because she'll be upset with me, but she was like, I grabbed the mic. Everyone had some toast things to say. We went family. 12 family members in My grandma's family members, like, it was a representative from every sibling. And Meemaw started off, but then she was like, now I'm not so great at this. So I did consult AI and I was like, who's teaching you how to consult AI?

[Noah]

And also, she is good at it. You know what I mean? She doesn't need AI.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I know, I know. But that really got the room. Was really laughing.

[Noah]

Maybe that was part of her joke.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Does that mean. Yeah, they're like, how does she even know how to do that? But no, it was. It was. It was a fun event. And she does look absolutely fantastic. My Aunt Angie and I have a couple of my other grandma sisters that were. That were there, and. And they're doing great and feeling good, and that's. It's very impressive. Everyone was like, you got friend. You got some great genes. It's like, yeah, you really do have.

[Noah]

Some phenomenal genes on that side of that side. Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

The women genes are strong.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, yeah. They are tough cookies.

[Noah]

Both my grandmas died at an early age. 70s.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Oh, really?

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

That is tough.

[Noah]

It is because, you know, I 70s.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Not that old anymore.

[Noah]

No, I'm saying that's really not. That's an early age.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, it really. Because I think it.

[Noah]

Well, my. My dad's mom, even younger than that. Yeah, I didn't really. She died in 1997 when I was born. Yeah. So.

[Ria Ciuffo]

No, that. It's crazy because I do feel like obviously, like, you know, people live longer, but it's just the aging process of when you get older and you don't feel like you're old or getting older, but then your parents are getting older. And then in my mind, I'm like, oh, my parents are so young, but, you know, they're not that far off. Like, my dad's not that far off from 70 now. Like that. So it's crazy.

[Noah]

It is crazy.

[Ria Ciuffo]

When I think about it like that, I'm like, oh, my God, that's so not, like, so not that old.

[Noah]

No, not at all. Like, when you're younger, 70 something's like, well, but now I think it's 70 something or I think that's. Yeah, young.

[Ria Ciuffo]

He always jokes that that memaw is going to outlive him. And honestly, it's possible.

[Noah]

I saw.

[Fran Mariano]

That's like the King.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, it's. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

[Noah]

I saw a video that was. I forgot where I saw this where I was talking about. It's like being in your 20. Late 20s is old, but being in your early 30s is young, and then like, being in your 50s is old, but being 60 is young.

[Fran Mariano]

You're young for your class.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, right.

[Noah]

Like you're always young for your. You.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right, right, right, exactly. You have like a fresh new decade.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

Like you're old in middle school, and then when you get to high school now, you're the new, like, young kid.

[Noah]

Yeah, that's exactly it.

[Ria Ciuffo]

So. No, but that was. That was really very nice. Saw a lot of family members. I don't get to get to see a lot either. So that was good. A lot of fan. A lot of photos taken, obviously.

[Noah]

Well, that sounds lovely.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And Angie was not kissing everybody on the lips, which, you know, she was told not to.

[Noah]

Zan Angie do that?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

She's not to. For her own well being or just.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Well, I mean, she's just kissing like, you know.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah, no, I mean, just like in terms of getting sick early.

[Ria Ciuffo]

That is a major factor, as at her age, for sure. But also just, you know, kissing people she doesn't know. On the left on the lips.

[Noah]

Yeah, right. There needs to be a boundary.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I think she may have gotten. I think she may have gotten TJ sometimes if there's like.

[Noah]

Oh, right, we did talk about this.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You were like, she was gonna try and get Joe on the list.

[Noah]

Oh, she got tj.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I think she might have gotten tj.

[Noah]

Newcomer.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, she. She was Double Joe got the double cheeks. But also Meemaw was close by, so she was like, don't kiss him on the.

[Noah]

Mm. So he got a double cheek. He got double cheek.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we all. I mean, with like.

[Noah]

Of course, that's a.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Went back and forth. I think I probably got 10. 10 double back.

[Noah]

And Yuri And Angie, you're giving out all the kisses you can at that age.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

TJ got a little.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Get yourself an Aunt Angie to make you feel good in yourself. You know those. That older generation, they just love to give love to floor everybody with compliments. She's like, oh, my gosh, what a beautiful couple. You guys look so great.

[Noah]

It's just.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She's so cute.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

So cute.

[Noah]

They always make you feel really good.

[Ria Ciuffo]

They do, they do. They do. Grandmas do that too.

[Noah]

Meemaw, RIP Grandma.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, me grandma talk. I know a lot of grandma talk for you too. She will. She does.

[Noah]

She does.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She does.

[Noah]

That is really nice.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

I really do miss my grandma because my grandma would have fucking loved this show.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Like, she would have ate up our show. She loved gossip. She loved pop culture. I wish it Was around when she was going through, like, her dialysis and her chemo.

[Ria Ciuffo]

So she could have listened to it.

[Noah]

Yeah. And she would have really enjoyed that. But unfortunately.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

No. Well, yeah, we're coming up on 10 years. She passed away in 2015.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Wow.

[Noah]

Yeah. Right around my birthday.

[Ria Ciuffo]

That is very selfish, Grandma. That is actually so crazy, too, because I feel like when it just shows how long we've been here and, like, working together, too. Because I just feel like when we first started working together, you would talk about it, and it was like. It was like, oh, my grandma basically just pat. Like, it was not long. And now. Now 10 years.

[Noah]

So crazy. Wow. Yeah, I know. I miss her a lot. She was a blast. Tall woman. Nobody in my family is tall. Tall woman, about five, nine.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Wow.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's really not what I envisioned at all.

[Noah]

No porcelain skin. She never went into the sun.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

You know, beautiful skin.

[Ria Ciuffo]

That's what. That's what they tell you to do.

[Noah]

They tell you. They tell you to do.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Tell you to do.

[Noah]

Beautiful skin. Didn't stop other things from happening.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right, right, right.

[Noah]

Unfortunately.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Well, you know, it's. You just got to live your life because at the end of the day. Yeah, you do look it. Everyone was talking about how an Angie would, like, slather her. Her oil on and go outside and, like, sit on the tar roof.

[Noah]

Oh, my God. And look at her neck to a crisp. Look at her now.

[Ria Ciuffo]

So geez. Yeah.

[Noah]

Bless aunt Angie. Bless those jeans.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I know, I know. It was quite a feat. 100 years old. Very impressive. So, yeah.

[Noah]

That's insane. That's not just, like, quite a something. That's actual insanity. That's actually insanity.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I know, I know, I know.

[Noah]

Noah, how was your break? How was your Thanksgiving?

[Fran Mariano]

It was good.

[Noah]

You cook anything this year for Thanksgiving?

[Fran Mariano]

No. No.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, please.

[Fran Mariano]

What did I do?

[Ria Ciuffo]

No, there's no shot he lifts a finger when he's home for the holidays.

[Fran Mariano]

That is kind of. I'm like, I'm here. Like, I'm here to relax.

[Noah]

You're the gift. Yeah, I'm here to relax.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Ladies and gentlemen, the present is my presence.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

But no, got to see Murray. We have a foster dog, a new foster dog. It's a yellow lab with, like, a shepherd mix. Nova. Yeah. She's actually very nice.

[Noah]

Aw.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And for those listening, Noah doesn't talk about it too often, but he is picky with the foster dogs that his mom brings home.

[Fran Mariano]

Some are. Some.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Some he's like, that dog sucks.

[Fran Mariano]

And the ones that I say suck, unfortunately, it's sad, but they don't get picked by a family for a while, if ever. Like, it's tough. No, no, but this, like, the one before this.

[Noah]

What if Fran picks up?

[Fran Mariano]

Honestly, if you want a dog, take Nova. Her name's Nova. I like Nova, but no, the one before Nova, like, I was only home for one night. And in that one night, she like barked at me, tried to bite me, like, pooped all over the floor. And I was like, just based on our relations, like, I can't speak that highly of you.

[Noah]

Left a bad impression.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah, but no, it just hung out. Didn't. Didn't really do much.

[Noah]

Which is the best relaxing weekend.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I fear you won't have the patience for training a dog.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah, I think I would. If it was my dog, I think I'd be like, I want him to be trained very well. Yeah, it's kind of like I keep my. I try to keep my apartment really nice, but when I go home, I'm like, this isn't my domain. So, like, you know, I'm saying, like, you don't care. I do care. This is gonna make. I mean, my mom.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I feel like basically what he's saying is I go home and I don't care because my mom picks up.

[Fran Mariano]

Well, I'm just like, this is part of the fun of going home. It's like I go back to my childhood self and my mom is taking care of me again.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, no, that's. I think a lot of people feel that way. I actually saw a TikTok that was cracking me up of a girl being like, does anyone feel like they get uglier by the day when they're home, when they're home at their parents house. And I was like, honestly, that's how I feel. Because when I go home, like, that's when I'm like, I'm in sweats all day, not doing anything. I'm being as lazy as I possibly can.

[Noah]

That is really nice that your families treat you that way. My family does not treat me in the way that they're like, let me serve you. Like, when.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I mean, I don't really. I don't have a. I'm not going home to any of My parents don't live here anymore. So.

[Noah]

No, I know, but when you go.

[Ria Ciuffo]

To fl, like, like, no, when I go to Florida, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not telling my mom to come bring me lunch.

[Fran Mariano]

Okay.

[Noah]

I don't do that. It sounds like Noah's family is like, catering him.

[Fran Mariano]

Honestly, let me Just say that. Like, they don't like it. And they, they don't really, like, do it for me. They like, my mom.

[Noah]

You disembrace.

[Fran Mariano]

I just am like, I'm not doing any. Like, they were putting up yesterday, like, Christmas lights, and my brother and my mom, like, kind of handle that always. And they're like, you want to help? And I'm like, this isn't my thing. Like, oh, my. You guys are the Christmas light people. I was like, I'm more on the Jewish side.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Me and dad. No. Is the, the, that isn't my job guy.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah. And my sister's.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, that's not my job. That's not my job.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Oh, man, that is funny. That is.

[Fran Mariano]

But you can talk about it at the Boston show. They'll be there, so.

[Noah]

Yeah, we can discuss with them. Oh, yeah. We have our, our last show of the year, Boston. We're coming to you Tuesday. We're going to be at the Clock Tavern, 6 to 8. We're doing a little meet and greet, a little drink, a little have fun. And then Wednesday, we will have our show. We can't wait to see you guys. Make sure you bring those signs. We're going to be giving out a lot of gifts, a lot of prizes. It's going to be a great time. We can't wait. Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's going to be so much fun.

[Noah]

So much fun. I, I, I. What was I going to say? Never mind. Cut it out. I just, like, brain malfunctioned, so fine. I happened to me this weekend, too. I was saying something, and, like, as I was saying it, it left my brain. Okay, never mind. It's gonna be an absolute blast. We cannot wait to see all of you in Boston.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I'm enjoying looking through this tree. There's one hole right here. That's the only way I can see your face. Everything else is covered in branches, but it feels festive. I was gonna say.

[Noah]

Why are you looking at me like that?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Because I'm.

[Noah]

You were looking at, like, squinting. Yeah. Like admiration, you know, because I can.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Like, your little face fits perfectly right, Right in this spot.

[Noah]

Thank you.

[Ria Ciuffo]

So I could just, like, it's just filled with Christmas spirit right now, you know?

[Noah]

Thank you. We cannot wait to see everybody in Boston. So make sure you are coming to see us on Tuesday, and then we'll see everybody at the show on Wednesday. Bring your signs. We're gonna have a magical time. And we've reached the end of the year, baby. It's December. It is December. The clock is ticking. Down. And really, I just want to cuddle up on the ball and speak with the microphone downwards to my face.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Well, it got cold too. And that always, you know, all of a sudden it was like, boom, winter.

[Noah]

All of a sudden, 30 degrees.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. I just want to cuddle up.

[Noah]

Yeah. I just want to get warm and cozy.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Did you get your tree yet?

[Noah]

No, I didn't get my tree yet.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's tree night.

[Noah]

It's going to be sometimes.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Mariana Riley apartment.

[Noah]

Nice. Nice.

[Fran Mariano]

I'll make a note of this now.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

Because remember at the live show, I was like, yes.

[Noah]

When Noah was like, fran already got her tree. And we were like, what?

[Ria Ciuffo]

There was one point during the show where we were talking about. What were you even talking?

[Fran Mariano]

It was a trivia question.

[Noah]

Noah put a Christmas trivia in the trivia show part of the show.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, yeah.

[Noah]

We were like, it's not Christmas.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Christmas trivia yet. And literally, like, under his breath, but still in the microphone so we could hear him, he's like, holly, well, you already put up your tree, Frank.

[Noah]

She goes, well, Fran already put up a tree. Yeah. And we were like, no.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I'm like, repeat yourself. No, I didn't. Three nights tonight, Noah. Mark it down.

[Fran Mariano]

I had it mixed up. Maddie was the one who put.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yes. Tree night is tonight true.

[Noah]

Tree will happen some point this week.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Noah]

You know, I had to clean before I can get so fair.

[Ria Ciuffo]

That's so. I'm so excited to see the tree you get.

[Noah]

We'll see what happens.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You know, like, what kind of tree are you gonna get?

[Noah]

Like a big. A big one.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Big fatty.

[Noah]

Big one. Big tray. Beautiful with the city lights behind it. It's gonna be fabulous.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's gonna be so picturesque.

[Noah]

Maybe I'll finally do an apartment tour now that I cleaned my closet.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right.

[Noah]

People always ask. They're like, oh, show us your whole apartment. And I, like, never show it, because this my closet.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You were like, here's a door to a closet. I will not open it.

[Noah]

I won't open it. Like, it's just. It's never. It hasn't been done.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

So maybe.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Well, with everything decorated for Christmas, maybe that's.

[Noah]

That'll be a beautiful time to do it.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Beautiful.

[Noah]

Yeah. We'll see. We'll see what happens.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Love it.

[Noah]

All right, let's get into the rest of the show. We're going to be talking about some topics lackluster, but we'll get into it. Make it fun. Josh Allen.

[Ria Ciuffo]

What a tease. Yes.

[Noah]

It's just December. It's December.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's Thanksgiving. Everybody spending time, people, celebrities, they like.

[Noah]

Get into the holiday spirit and they don't want to do anything raunchy or, you know, sexy because it's the holiday time. Josh Allen Haley Seinfeld engaged. That was a fun one. Taylor Swift hosted the Kelsey's in Nashville for Thanksgiving. Nikki Garcia returned to the Nikki and Brie show podcast to talk about her relationship with Artem and everything that transpired there. And Laguna beach held their 20th high school anniversary.

[Ria Ciuffo]

20 years.

[Noah]

20 years since the graduation of the Laguna beach high school students. And they have, they have lived to tell the tale and show some pictures from it. And we have the weekly watch report. So get into the topics. I am so excited because I just did some shopping this weekend and I picked up myself a few new items from skims. I got some shirts, I got some pants. But of course I also got items from the Fits Everybody collection. The Fits Everybody collection at skims is fantastic. The feeling that this underwear brings me is such joy, especially with traveling around. Like we're walking around the airport. Airports now are just humongous. So you're just walking for what seems like hours and you want breathable underwear. You want something that you're going to feel comfortable traveling in. And that's why I love the Fits Everybody collection and the underwear from skim that you can get from that. Also the bras. Fran, you are raving about the bras from skims from Fits Everybody.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I love those bralettes. I'm wearing one right now. I got the triangle bralette on right now.

[Noah]

They're so good.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's so comfortable. I think it's like truly my go to everyday bras wearing these bralettes because it's just, it's just so much more comfortable than especially when you're wearing like sweaters and sweatshirts and stuff you don't need like that Sometimes those other bras can feel so tight and constricting. And the bralettes are just so comfortable. And they still wear a skims bra right now. There you go. I just realized, yeah, you give it a little tug. It keeps everything up and perky. Still, everything looks great. The triangle bralette's like my favorite thing ever.

[Noah]

Yeah, they're the best. And like I talked about, the Fits everybody collection is also an available sizes xx s to 4x. So you could shop [e-mail] There are so many options, different sizes, colors. I love the colors that they have on skims because you could wear it under clothing without being see through or if you Want to go with fun colors? They have that as well. So after you place your order, be sure to let them know that we sent you select podcast in the survey and be sure to select our show in the dropdown menu that follows. And if you're looking for the perfect gift for the whole family, Skims just launched their biggest holiday shop ever. That's what I shopped from this past weekend. So make sure you're shopping that also [e-mail] so Josh Allen and Hailey Seinfeld, they got engaged November 22nd. So a little bit before Thanksgiving, Josh Allen and Haley posted a collab on Instagram showing that they got engaged. And I'm just happy for these two. I'm like, oh my God, how sweet.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Beautiful, beautiful photo. I love that. It's always funny when, when a football player goes through a big life event and then it's talked about on the broadcast for the. For their next game. So the Bills played in the snow. Crazy game. Josh Allen literally like threw and caught a touchdown at the same time, basically. And Chris Collinsworth was just, he was absolutely giddy with the way Josh Allen was playing. And he was like, oh, you know, that's what happens when you get engaged. You get a little love in your life. It was cracking me up. But it's so true. Josh Allen engaged game and he played fantastic. Love is in the air. It is unfortunate for them that it was. There was like some drama involved. There was some drama because people had thought that Josh's ex girlfriend, Brit, who we have actually met before.

[Noah]

Yeah, years.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Really sweet girl.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

That was rowdy, right?

[Ria Ciuffo]

No, Super Bowl.

[Noah]

Yeah. Well, and they also came to the office.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Early.

[Noah]

Like I want to say it was 2018 or whatever it was.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And that's. They were like, grew up together. They were together high school, college, that whole process. And then they broke up. He's been with Haley and somebody screenshotted like a comment that came from her account, but she's saying she got hacked and like her social media was being hacked and it had been actively being hacked for like the whole week. But somebody commented on her post and said, haven't found the next pro athlete yet. And the alleged reply was, luckily my boyfriend owns a team and doesn't play for one. Don't have to be with another brain dead CTE athlete. And that got screech screenshot and sent around everywhere. She posted on her story that she had been hacked. We actually have a mute. Like we have a mutual friend with her as well who posted on her story like in defense of her. And I feel like, who? So. Oh, Sophie, Julia posted.

[Noah]

Oh.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She posted a whole story and was like, this is, you know, Brits, one of her close friends and she would never do this. And if you know her, you would know she would never do this. It was like she said, need to speak up on behalf of my good friend. People are so evil right now. And I gotta say something. Britt would never in a million years speak in the way that person commented. She's also single and thriving right now, so that doesn't even make sense. Her accounts got hacked the other night and she's being blackmailed. She had reached out to me asking if I had a connection at Meta to help her and she posted like screenshot of their, of their text as well. I mean, this would be the time somebody would fucking hack her account. Like, that's like the perfect opportunity. And I, you know, I think everybody's gut response is like, oh yeah, sure, you were hacked. Like, whatever. But I'm kind of feeling like she got hacked because that's a crazy comment to post. And like, and she's been like, she has not said anything about Josh and their breakup and dating Haley and like the whole thing. She's never really said anything. And that's the time she's going to reply to a comment and be like a brain dead CT athlete. Like, I don't, I don't think that really would make any sense.

[Noah]

Yeah, I sort of agree with you because it's like, also if she's single, then the comment doesn't make sense that she's like dating of a team. It was a wild comment. So initially, like, seeing that you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah, what the hell? But I think it's very possible that she was hacked. I mean, like you said that would be the time someone would hack. It's like, oh, this whole thing just happened. Now let's hacker and make it seem like she's pissed. It's a whole thing and that's the time.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Especially because you can use that as leverage if she is getting blackmailed of like, oh, you know, I'm going to post crazy shit on your account because this is going on. Like she'll probably, if they were blackmailing, be like, oh, well, she's gonna pay to get her accounts back. So this doesn't like, you know.

[Noah]

Right.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Doesn't happen.

[Noah]

Yeah, it's, it's an unfortunate situation because also on top of that, like, Josh and Haley are trying to enjoy their moment.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

And be happy and Then you have all these articles like, Josh's ex girlfriend gets hacked with this comment. And then. But like, honestly, it seems like Josh Allen and Haley have stayed offline for the most part of their relationship. So like. Yeah, definitely at this point they're probably like better at just ignoring these types of things and just like carrying on. So congratulations to them. Yes.

[Ria Ciuffo]

What a couple.

[Noah]

Yeah. And for his ex, I hope that she gets that situation figured out because that is.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I know, I know. That is a shitty situation. That is just worst case scenario.

[Noah]

Worst case scenario.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Not only are you dealing with the, you know, whatever engagement of it all.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

But people are posting as you and not nice messages.

[Noah]

Not nice messages. And if she didn't get hacked, then that's just.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, I can't imagine. I just, I can't.

[Noah]

I don't know.

[Ria Ciuffo]

There's no world that I. I don't. I really like. I don't know her personally, but I just. The interactions that were in the past and like the way other people have spoken about her, it just wouldn't make any sense to me that, that she.

[Noah]

Would post also considering she's been quiet. It's like. Yeah, that would be. That would be a bad time to do that.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, totally.

[Noah]

And also the comment as a whole just doesn't feel like something somebody would write. Like straight up.

[Ria Ciuffo]

No. Like there's been a couple tick tocks and there been tik toks that she's made of like alluding to, you know, gossip or like talking about gossip or whatever. But even that's like, that's harmless compared to straight up being like my ct, like brain dead ex, you know.

[Noah]

Bad. Yeah, really bad.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Yeah. So I don't. Yeah. That. That feels to me like she. She was really. Yeah, she was really hacked, which is unfair. Unfortunate. But man, they'll have a gorgeous wedding. Josh and Josh and Haley. I wonder where they do it. I feel a destination.

[Noah]

Yeah, I'm sure it'll be something they.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Feel like a guy. Like a Cabo wedding to me.

[Noah]

Oh, that would be sad.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You know.

[Noah]

That sounds gorgeous.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, it does.

[Noah]

Sounds beautiful. Happy Thanksgiving for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Taylor Swift's the Swifts. The Swifts hosted the Kelsey's in Nashville, Tennessee for Thanksgiving. And that just sounds like a lovely little time. I feel like Taylor gets so in the holidays spirit. Then I could imagine this home feeling cozy and warm and filled with Thanksgiving cheer.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I couldn't agree more. This sounds so nice. They hosted in Nashville this year. Travis was there before he had to fly. And leave for his game on Friday. But she was in South America for the ERAS tour around Thanksgiving last year. So this is their first Thanksgiving that they celebrated together. Taylor and her family were excited to host the Kelsey's this year, the source told People magazine. Jason was there with his family and kids, too. It was very festive and special.

[Noah]

I'm sure it was. And I'm sure the food was just delicious. Do you think they all cook or do you think they cater? You think they have chefs come?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, Taylor cooks. I think.

[Noah]

I feel like they cook.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. I feel like maybe some of the big things you get, like. But she's. Taylor's definitely got some specialties.

[Noah]

She makes the main stuff, though.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Taylor's out here making homemade pop tarts for, like, Kansas City chief swags and, like, giving them out as gifts and stuff.

[Noah]

Right. So I feel like a homemade Thanksgiving meal.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, I totally. It's funny. This article says the news may come as a surprise to some fans. As Travis's mom, Donna said one week before Thanksgiving during appearance. During an appearance on the Today show that Taylor would probably not be joining the Kelsey's for the holidays. I feel like Donna is so nervous to ever say anything that she just lies. It's like. Or just, like, downplays. It's so funny because I feel like she's often on the Today show and they must be like, donna, you're really giving us. You're giving. You're not giving us a scoop.

[Noah]

My question is, why is she on the Today show so often?

[Ria Ciuffo]

I. Well, she was promoting the Hallmark movie.

[Noah]

It just feels like she's always doing some sort of media junket.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She's got. She's got her. She's got her own endeavors. She's promoting.

[Noah]

There's a lot of media from Donna Kelce where, you know, look, no, everybody.

[Ria Ciuffo]

This is the time of the Kelsey's. Everybody wants to see them. Kylie's got a podcast coming out now. Like, there's. It's. The Kelsey's are high in demand. But I felt like that was really funny that. That you're like, not. She's probably so afraid to be like, oh, it's. The Swifts are hosting us at Nashville. You know.

[Noah]

Well, she was probably like, ooh, I got them. I told them she wasn't coming to our Thanksgiving, but, ha, Right there. Like, so technically, she's not really lying, you know, because they're actually, you know, they're going to Nashville or maybe, you know, maybe there.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's. It's. She's also added that Football is always for always the holidays for her family, noting that her loved ones had not planned to have Thanksgiving dinner. So it's like she just said, oh, we're not even doing Thanksgiving.

[Noah]

We're skipping Thanksgiving this year. That's how afraid she is. No, no, we're actually not acknowledging Thanksgiving this year. Well, I'm sure it was just lovely. I could taste the warm. The warm yams with marshmallows. I feel like that, you know, little. Maybe like cinnamon.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, that's what I taste when I.

[Noah]

Think of that kind of Thanksgiving.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Some good desserts, some good baked goods.

[Noah]

Oh, gosh. It's making me actually want to go back in time to Thanksgiving.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I know, right?

[Noah]

You know what I mean? Like, I just want to go back and eat the Thanksgiving food that I just had and just do it all over again.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yep, Yep.

[Noah]

Because beautiful. I love a good Thanksgiving meal. You know, remember the people who used to say, like, they didn't like Thanksgiving food?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Whack. So whack.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I will say I. I do enjoy Thanksgiving food a lot, but I really. And I love turkey. Like, I love a turkey sandwich, but there's something about Thanksgiving turkey that's not my. Like, the turkey's my least favorite part of the meal.

[Noah]

Yeah, that's common, but I'm talking about all the sides.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, the sides are fantastic.

[Noah]

Stuffing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

You know, sweet potato.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I love stuffing.

[Noah]

Mashed potatoes, green bean casserole. Mashed potatoes.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, yeah, you really just have it all.

[Noah]

Mac and cheese, cranberry sauce. Oh, my God. The canned cranberry sauce. I don't want. I don't want your homemade cranberry sauce. I want the chemical one.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yep. Yep. Totally.

[Noah]

Ah, bring me back. Bring me back to just a couple days ago. Moving on. Nikki Garcia has returned to the Nicki and Brie show to talk about the situation with Artem. As we know, Artem was arrested for domestic violence against Nikki.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yep.

[Noah]

And I think people were confused and shocked by that, because from what we have seen is that they had a pretty strong relationship. Nikki went on the podcast to talk about how she kind of put up a front about their relationship online and on the podcast, so. So that people would believe that they had a great relationship because she didn't want people to know that she was having another failed relationship in which she believed she had in the past. So she was sort of putting up a front about this relationship with Artem, and then, unfortunately, this situation happened, and she talks about, you know, having shouldn't, should have leaving before this, and all of this happening, which is so sad. And it's. It's just incredibly sad that people feel the need, with social media pressure, to kind of put on an act because of what people will say about them.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

And it's really just like, fuck what people have to say about you, do what's best for you who don't live your life or social media sort of thing, you know, And. And it's no one's fault. Perception, the public perception and the social media, there is a lot of pressure, so you can't blame Nikki for feeling that way. But it's just unfortunate that people feel the way they need to instead of just, like, living the life they want to live. Right. Because they want to do it rather than what the public thinks they should do.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right. It's sad for that to be, like, the reason to hold on to a relationship because you're so afraid of, like, scrutiny and, oh, my God, like, I already went through such a public breakup. Like, I can't do that again.

[Noah]

Right.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Which is so tough because it sounds like maybe a different decision would have been made. And they do have a son together, so that comes into play as well, of, like, wanting to make it work for him. But she had said she, you know, felt heartbroken and betrayed. She had to mourn the family that she envisioned for herself, which is like, what I was saying. It's so you. You picture what your life is going to be. She said, you go from having a great love story to having a terrible one. Never saw any of it coming as far as what the ending would be. It's been a struggle. She said, obviously, of course, having a tough time, and she's been focusing on. On healing and at this point is just trying to, like, focus on taking care of her son and everything, because she even just said, like, she wanted Artem to kind of get himself together for Mateo and so that. That they could make it work. She had said, I wanted him to heal. I wanted him to get help, because that's what my son Mateo deserves. So it's just. It's sad that that's obviously how it all came to. To an end and blew up in that way. And now she does, as a public Persona. Like, she still has to come out, like, has this podcast. So she still. Even though it's been months, it's like, okay, well, now I have to talk about it and explain how she's feeling and all these things. So it's just. It sucks that everything that she was afraid of happening is what happened.

[Noah]

Right.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And probably At a bigger. At an even bigger level, larger scale.

[Noah]

And it's not her fault. Like, none of this is her fault. Yeah, there's nothing she could do about this situation, really. It's like she thought she knew somebody. She loved this person. Person, and he turns out to be this kind of guy. And like, of course you root for, you know, the father of your kid, I imagine, because she's like, you know, well, we have this child together. Like, I want him to have a good dad.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

But if he can't do that for himself, how much can she really do? You know, she really can't do much if he doesn't want to help himself. So kind of a. It's a very. It's a sad situation. And also just like from a Dancing with the Stars viewer. How do you like. It's kind of, you know, you got to be like this guy we've been watching on tv.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, I know it's not good. And I feel like Artem has always had not like a bad reputation, but maybe more like an of, like an iffier reputation as just one of the pros. Like, some of the stars have had tougher times with him because he is really like, from what they, from what it seemed like, really like strict and intense with, with the, with the celebrities on the show. And that can be obviously super, super tough. But yeah, as far as, like, when you see these couples that are on the show that end up being paired together, it's. And then they like actually become a couple, it's sad to see it end in such a tragic way.

[Noah]

And I feel, I feel bad for Nikki that she had to go through this.

[Ria Ciuffo]

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[Noah]

Oh right. Oh my God. I forgot that we didn't have an episode. Yeah. Joey won Dancing with the Stars. It was Alona and Joey were the final two. Chandler came in. Chandler and Brandon came in third and Riley and Stephen came in fourth. Really just a top. And Whitney and Danny Manila came in fifth which I felt like was appropriate but it was just a tough top four because I feel like people had their die hard fan bases. Chandler was absolutely incredible but Joey was incredible. Lona was incredible. Like they were all incredible. And I think it just comes down to the voting at the end of the day, right? It's like you are all so good and you've all improved so much but it comes down to those votes.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And at the end it's tough because as much as people vote based on like who their favorites are or like who's improved the most or skills like Chandler is such a beautiful dancer and she's so great. But another just an element of Dancing with the Stars is that like some of these celebrities have these massive fandoms. Alona's fan alone, his fans are dedicated and, and came out for her. Even if you solely just go based on followers like that makes such a big difference. Chandler is so great and I mean I don't think she deserved to come in third. I think she was a top two for sure but she just isn't as well known as some of the other stars. And maybe for a younger generation they're watching the shows that she's on or the movies like zombies, the Pretty Little Liars reboot. Like those are all things I haven't watched. So when the season was announced and they like announced the cast, I did not know who she was. And now like there's, I'm sure the older generation that's watching Dancing with the Stars too. They, it's, it's like, oh, oh she's, she's so great and impressive and sometimes that gets lost which is I'm sure absolutely the worst for them because they're like, like worse. They're so good. Chandler and Brandon are so good. Their freestyle was fantastic and she's just a fantastic dancer at the end of the day. But there's so many Other factors that go into winning Dancing with the Stars and Joey very well deserved as much as like, you know, you have your other people you want or you're voting for whatever you like. I don't really think you can argue with a Joey win. Like, he was really so good, put in the work, amazing performances and deserve to. Deserve to win.

[Noah]

I agree. I think he did an incredible job. And just to see how happy. Happy they are about winning and it was. It was great to see and I, I feel like everyone was so good. It was such a. It was such a hard finale.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Especially when they sent everybody to the finale and there was like five teams in the finale and they didn't do the. The semi. They didn't send anybody home. So, like, going into that, I felt like it was going to be crazy. But all well deserved. I feel like anybody. Well, honestly, like, no. Like, if Whitney and if Whitney and Danny Madola won, people have been like, what the fuck?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, yeah.

[Noah]

But top four. I feel like if any of those four couples won.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

People would have been like, yeah, that makes sense because they all did such an incredible job and they had the fan base behind them.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I. Riley choreographed like the best free. I thought Riley and Stevens freestyle was the. Maybe my favorite one. Like, they were also great. But Ryan. Ryan, Riley and Steven. I. Oh, my. I just. It captured his journey, but was so well done. The choreography was so good. It was. I feel like I'm a dance with SARS mom of like, oh, my God, I'm so proud of her. Like, she's 19. She's so young. She's so impressive.

[Noah]

They are just the cutest. They're. They were like the perfect pairing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

They really were.

[Noah]

That could ever happen.

[Ria Ciuffo]

They really were. It was so, so cute. What there was like, what did you think of the little Julianne and Danny moment? Did you?

[Noah]

I feel.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I don't know what happened that were like, Danny. Everything Danny said, like the whole show just like, was getting sexualized.

[Noah]

I feel like Danny was just like, fuck it, I'm Ken tonight.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

You know, like, that's it. That's me.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

I'm just leaning into being Ken, baby.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right, Exactly.

[Noah]

All these.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And he did pull it off. Like, he really did look like that was impressive.

[Noah]

All these flirtatious remarks were coming out of his mouth.

[Fran Mariano]

Seriously.

[Noah]

They were on the bed together. I was like, oh, it's finale night. Or the Huffs would say finale.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, the finale.

[Noah]

The finale.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yes.

[Noah]

It drives me nuts that the Huffs do that. Both Derek and Julianne, the Finale.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I saw a lot of people be like, guys remember that they grew up in the UK for, like, so many years, dancing. And there's probably, like, certain things that they say.

[Noah]

That's the finale. Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

The finale that really stuck.

[Noah]

But it was a great show. It was a great show, and now it's over. It was people. They won't be back until the fall. They used to do double seasons.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's so interesting now because now it's like there was the highs and lows. It's crazy. After watching the show for so long, after the whole Bobby Bones thing, like, it was just after that, I was like, oh, God, this show, like, the whole thing. And the. The consensus for everyone was, like, when they were doing two, that became. It was like, too much. Everyone's like, oh, this is too much. You gotta cut it down. Cut it down. Then they stopped, and now everybody, like, is so into it again that they want more. It's just crazy. It's just up, up and down.

[Noah]

It's up and down, people. Wanting more is a good thing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Giving too much. People get sick of it.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

But wanting more, that's a good thing. Yep. Last topic, Laguna beach. They celebrated their 20th high school anniversary. Lauren Conrad was there. Stephen Coletti was there. A lot of the OGs were there. No. Christine Cavallari.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Big reunion. Well, they weren't the same grade.

[Noah]

Right, right, right. Forgot about that.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She was a year younger.

[Noah]

Yeah, I forgot about that.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Such a good point.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I'm pretty sure, right?

[Noah]

Yeah. They weren't in the same.

[Ria Ciuffo]

They weren't in the same grade.

[Noah]

Yes.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She had one more year because they.

[Noah]

Graduated and then she. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Wow. I need to do.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You know, it was. But Low was definitely in their year. I didn't see her.

[Noah]

No.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I feel like Elsie and Low kind of had not, like, a falling out, but it just seems like they're just not that close anymore.

[Noah]

I know. Which is so sad, because watching the Hills, like, they were it, you know, they were the besties.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

They always stuck together. Whatever fight Lauren got into, Low was by her side. But I love seeing Lauren in any of these situations because it just brings back all these feelings.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She looks exactly the same.

[Noah]

She really does. Like, and the amount of hairstyles I copied from LC from the Hills or Laguna beach, but mostly the hills. The braids.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

The twists, all of it. Like, I got all of my hairstyles from her.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I love seeing them all back together and having their big reunion. It's the whole high school reunions. Are just a, just a crazy, a crazy thing, a crazy concept.

[Noah]

So.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And you get 20 years. 20 years is 20 years. So much life. But it's so, it's just so fun to see them all back together and like joking and posting pictures and it's great.

[Noah]

It's crazy. Tommy Smokes went to his high school reunion this weekend. Yeah, I'm pretty sure his 10 year high school. And I was like, damn. Like, it's so like thinking about showing up to the high school. Crazy shit happens. Maybe, you know. Yeah, maybe. Maybe the reunions go off the rails. Everyone feels like they're back in high school. I wonder how they felt. 20 years.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I know, exactly. And it was, it was, it was fun to see. It's fun to see like the guys too. From look from the Laguna Beach. You watch a show, but it's also, it's funny because you watch the show and then you, it's a show that you go back and rewatch. And so in your, in your mind you're like, it's hard to grasp that they've all aged, right? You see them, you're like, oh my God, that was 20 years ago.

[Noah]

It's insane. And I honestly feel like if you've never watched Laguna beach or the Hills, at least go back and watch the Hills. Yeah, like I'm always good for like a Hills rewatch ever so often because I lived through them. Like I was in like seventh grade or whatever. Like watching Hills, feeling like I am them. I used to sit in my classes, like in middle school and pretend I was at fashion school with like Lauren, you know, like in my head I was like, yeah, this is Fashion School. Like I'm doing my thing. Like I wanted to be them. Like they were so cool. And the fact that they filmed in high school, the fact that they had a reality show about them in high school, like actually so insane if you really think about it. Imagine filming high schoolers. Now that feels illegal.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

That feels like it shouldn't be allowed. But I know the fact that they were filmed in high school is so hard to wrap your head around.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Did you ever watch NYC Prep?

[Noah]

No, but I remember it.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I loved NYC Prep. Loved NYC Prep. Andy actually mentioned it at the Bravo Fan fest that they did in Miami because somebody asked like if they could reboot a show and he had mentioned NYC Prep, but then he was like, it would be like actually impossible to do now. Which is, which is probably true.

[Noah]

Was there no BravoCon this year?

[Ria Ciuffo]

It was, There was Bravocon. They did like, oh, Wait, no. When is BravoCon normally?

[Noah]

It's usually around the fall. Right. Was there. No. Bravo. Bravo.

[Ria Ciuffo]

This was what they did. They did Bravo.

[Noah]

Bravo. Why was that happening to me?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Bravo fan fest.

[Noah]

So they did that instead of BravoCon.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Because normally BravoCon is in Vegas.

[Noah]

2024 sets. Las Vegas dates for 2025.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Okay, so they just did, like, they did this. They basically just did a smaller version of it in Miami. Yeah, People were still there.

[Noah]

Yeah. It's November 14, 16, 2025. It's season five. I wonder why they skipped 2024. They're like, not this year. Maybe because they're doing some revamps and they're like, let's change it up.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Well, because they also were, like, alternating between doing it out in Vegas and they're also doing in New York, and now I think they fully, like, want to just keep doing it in Vegas, so.

[Noah]

Yeah, but they did a little.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, I did like that. I did like the NYC Prep shout out. Because that did. Did take me back to a time where I was like. Because NC Prep came around that time where it actually felt like real life Gossip Girl. Like, it was like, oh, this is actual. This is like, what. What's going on with these people? What Gossip Girl is thought to be, you know.

[Noah]

Right. I just can't imagine going to school in New York City. Like, in high school. Like, you just grow up so fast. No, I mean, it's like Gossip Girl.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

They're going to the bar and ordering a martini, and they're like, 16 years.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

I feel like they were doing sort of the same thing. Laguna beach, for sure. Insane. All right, that wraps up the topics.

[Ria Ciuffo]

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[Noah]

Cheers. Thank you, guys.

[Ria Ciuffo]

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[Noah]

All right, let's get into the weekly watch Report, where we talk about the things we watch this week. Weekly watch report on Monday. Weekly watch report on Monday. Weekly watch report on Monday. Weekly watch report on Monday.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Noah]

We're back for the weekly. Okay. Weekly watch report. What I watched this week Based on a true story. Season two is back. Did you guys watch anybody?

[Fran Mariano]

I watched the first three episodes.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I never watched the first season.

[Noah]

Oh, okay.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, it's a good show.

[Noah]

Yeah, I'm about six episodes in, and I'll give it B minus. I'll give it a B minus. Okay. Like, I'm into it and I'm out of it. Like, I go back and forth, like, some seconds. I'm like, oh, my God, what's happening in the next second? I'm like, all right, let's get on with the show here. Yeah, you know, so I'll give it a B minus. And I also watched. Why am I blanking now? I, like, came in, like, so solid today being like, this is everything.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I. Here's my list. I have my list.

[Noah]

I have my list. And now I'm forgetting everything I watched. What the fuck?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Sex Lives.

[Noah]

No, I wanted. I didn't watch out on that. Oh, my God.

[Ria Ciuffo]

No.

[Noah]

This is actually going to kill me because I was like, you got this. Get in there. Talk about your list. And then I'm like, totally blanking on what I fucking watched. What the fuck? Still rewatching the Sopranos?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Classic rewatched. Blink Twice because we wanted to watch a movie with Matt's parents.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Still haven't seen it.

[Noah]

We want to watch a movie with Matt's parents. And they were like, we want something that we're going to be like, what's happening?

[Ria Ciuffo]

And we were like, that's the movie.

[Noah]

We were like, fudge it. Let's show him Blink Twice. And they were like, what is happening? And the end. They were like, that was good. That was good. I was happy to rewatch it because I picked up on a Lot of stuff that I missed. The first time we just, like. You were like, oh, my God, that's so funny. The foreshadowing. So. Right.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right.

[Noah]

That was a good rewatch. I'm actually so mad at myself right now because we come to. Oh, Love Island, Australia. Yeah, I watched a couple episodes of that.

[Ria Ciuffo]

So good.

[Noah]

It's good.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I'm like, I'm up to date. It is so good.

[Noah]

I'm gonna give it a B plus.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

I want to say I watched about seven episodes.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Okay.

[Noah]

I want to say I'm on the seventh episode.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah, I started watching too, because my sister was watching it. So I just. I missed, like, the first few, but now I'm like, probably. I don't even know. Like, I'm probably, like, close to caught up now.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, I mean, there's like.

[Fran Mariano]

How many are there?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Sixteen or maybe not.

[Noah]

Yeah. I think I'm at seven or eight right now. Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Feel like there was something big that you watched and you're forgetting it.

[Noah]

I. That is true. Because I told myself this morning, like, you have to bring this up. And I am, like, totally blanking. So I was off to you.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yep.

[Noah]

It'll come back to me. Probably.

[Ria Ciuffo]

The floor is yours.

[Noah]

And this is the one time I haven't. I usually write mine down.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

But I was like, no, I got this. And like, for some reason, so confident. I came in so fucking confident.

[Fran Mariano]

Was it a movie or a show? You don't even know.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Okay.

[Noah]

I don't even know.

[Ria Ciuffo]

You think about it and maybe we'll come back to you.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

All right. Love Island, Australia. I will give a B plus as well. I'm pretty much caught up to date. I. I think there's a big recoupling that I haven't watched yet. That is happening before Casa. But there's been this whole, like, love triangle rectangle thing that's been going on that has been honestly kind of fascinating because the way these, like, I can't tell if this one guy that's on it is actually the most, like, toxic, manipulative guy I've ever seen or if he actually is, like, being genuine. I just. It's. He's so good at it that it's another person that I also feel like I am being manipulated by, you know, watching it myself. It's very interesting. So I've enjoyed that big mid season break for all the Chicago shows classes. This is where everything. They take their time off, they come back in the new year. Chicago Med really hit. Punched a little throat punch with the way they ended this one better than the rest of the episodes have been. I'll give that a B. Chicago Fire was fine. There's an, there is an interesting story going on there. So I'll give that like a B minus. And then pd I don't pd like maybe gets a C plus because they were kind of wrapping up this characters plot line from last season and I just thought we were done with this. I thought we were done with the woman. I mean we're done with it. We're done with her now, but I thought we were already done with her. And then there's the last episode of Grays which classic Grey's Anatomy. You know, they hit us with the mid season finale where there is two of them are in a. They're in a massive heat wave and two of them run to get ice. They go to a convenience store. Young, young kid with a gun tries to rob the convenience store. Whole, you know, that, that whole whole saga. Sophia Bush is now on the show. This is her guest. She's doing a guest stint on Grey's Anatomy as a doctor. That comes up seems to be stirring up Teddy and Owens marriage a little bit, which is, which is interesting. I will give Gray's the last episode. You know, they. I'll give it a generous C plus.

[Noah]

That's nice and.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Shrinking. Episode 7 I watched. I know 8 is out, but I have not watched 8 yet. Episode 7 I will give a B plus. Disappointed in Liz.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah, I saw. You saw that coming.

[Ria Ciuffo]

No, you saw it coming. But disappointed, you know. Yeah, I do. Like he's coach from New Girl. I always forget his actual name, but I like him his character on the show. Other Derek.

[Fran Mariano]

Oh, other Derek.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, I like him. Joe and I started Lioness. Seen it being talked about a lot. Lioness. I don't know that Zoe Saldana show on Paramount plus that is on the second season right now. But we, I now watch, I'm watching the first season, episode one through five. We watched Nicole Kidman is in it as well. It's really good. I'll give it. I think, I think I'll give it an A minus. We watch episodes run one through five. It's like, it's all kind of like CIA military ops. It's intense like this. It was way more like graphic than I kind of thought going into it. But it's, it's really fascinating. It's basically all about this like CIA program of them taking undercover there. She has this, a group of marines that are her team and they taking a marine and Basically putting them undercover with the family members of, like, known terrorists. And they. Their job is to, like, get close to, you know, the daughter, the girlfriend, the wife, to get intel on the. On the. On the guy. And that's, you know, it's just. It is. It is very interesting. There's a lot. A lot of moving pieces, a lot going on. It. Zoe's fantastic. Really good. So I like that a lot. And the last thing I watched was the kicking off the Christmas movies, the new Lindsay Lohan one on Netflix, I believe it's called. Our Little Secret, I think is what it's called. It was cute. Not overly impressed. I saw people, like, kind of giving it more positive feedback than I probably would have on. On Instagram. It was like, fine. I. I don't know what it is about these Lindsay movies that I don't know, like, if it's. If it's just her life now or. She is a great actress, but some of these, like, love stories now that she's doing, it's. It's not. She's not selling it that well. Like, I'm not really believing her character actually likes the person she's with, you.

[Fran Mariano]

Know, so she's not good at acting.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Well, I feel the love from. I feel the love from his side, and I don't feel the love from her side as much.

[Noah]

She's not. She's.

[Ria Ciuffo]

But there's other moments. There's, like, comedic moments, other things that. That are good, but the actual, like, romance aspect of it, I'm like, hmm. You know, I don't know. That's. That's my personal opinion on it.

[Noah]

She's being distant.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Yeah. No, I. Honestly, that's kind of what it feels.

[Noah]

Like, not fully embracing the role.

[Fran Mariano]

She's jj.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And I will.

[Noah]

I'll give it a C. That's nice of you.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

Like, that seems. I haven't even seen anything.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It was so. I'll give it a C. Like, I mean, I watched the whole thing. It was cute. I liked Kristin Chenoweth. She was in it. Her character was good.

[Noah]

Gia never answered my text last night in the group chat.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Oh, I didn't. Oh, yeah. About Gladiator.

[Noah]

You didn't either?

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Noah]

She gave Gladiator.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I mean, it wasn't directed at me, so I had nothing else.

[Noah]

She gave Gladiator a three and a half. That's a half a star. Yeah. Gladiator 2, that's a half star less than Wicked.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. But I feel like that makes sense.

[Fran Mariano]

They'll know Gladiator's in pretty bad.

[Noah]

Yeah. Gladiator 2's getting awful.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She fucking loves Paul Mescal.

[Noah]

So I was gonna say it's getting bad reviews. So for that to be only half a star less than Wicked.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right, Right.

[Noah]

Yeah. I gotta get on letterbox to see what this shit's about because maybe she.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Didn'T think it was. It was as bad as everybody's.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

I also texted her the color was really good.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I've seen reviews that are, like, not great, but the people that I personally know who have seen terrible reviews have not. Like, I think it was like an.

[Fran Mariano]

80 on rotten tomatoes or something. It's not, like, awful. It's like. Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I mean, that's soup. That's pretty good.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I hear the 40%.

[Fran Mariano]

I hear that Denzel is like, yeah, the best part. And everything other than 10 is not that great.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

They're kind of just remaking the movie.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right, Right. Right. I mean, I've just had lines from Wicked stuck in my head, like, for two weeks straight. Like, it's just, like, the only thing that's going on in my brain. It alternates. I have to go see it again. I'm, like, dying for somebody. Like, I know we. We said we were going to see it again, but we're. We're like. Like we're busy.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

When are we gonna go? I'm dying to go see it again. I have.

[Noah]

What is this feeling on repeat?

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's. I have three alternating lines in my head. I'm either going, loathing, unadulterating loathing. Either that's playing. Or now, because of TikTok, it's Nessa. Oh, Nessa. That. Nessa. That one guy. Or it's. Or it's Goldblum having another drink. My dog got beauty. And that just plays on a loop in my head at all times. Nothing else is going on in here.

[Noah]

Maybe we'll see it in the new year.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It'll be like, well, we could go.

[Fran Mariano]

To the sing along.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I want to go. I. You know, I thought, would I actually want to go to a sing along? And I think I don't. No, I think I don't want to sing along.

[Noah]

I don't want to hear anybody else sing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. Like, that's the whole point.

[Noah]

Besides that again. And I want to hear them sing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

I don't want to hear anyone else sing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Including myself. I'm tired of hearing myself sing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right. I think that's how I. How I feel about it as well.

[Fran Mariano]

Cynthia said that people should be allowed to Sing or am I making that up?

[Noah]

I thought that that was a quote she said. She was like, oh, good. Like, I love that people want to sing. That's what she said. Because someone said that people are singing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah. I was gonna say it was definitely somebody, but the Rock said it, which is just like.

[Noah]

I was in.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Back off.

[Noah]

I was in the Jersey City Target yesterday that Cynthia Erivo went to like, a week or so ago, and I was like, oh, my God. She was standing right here.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Oh, she was standing right here.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She graced the hall.

[Noah]

Like, I was like. Like, I was, like, really breathing it in.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I was like, she graced the halls.

[Noah]

Get your talent, Jersey City Target into me. You know, it's like, I actually almost bought you the Taylor Swift Aerostore book at Target.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I bet.

[Noah]

Then I did it.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I. That's fair.

[Noah]

Because I was like, I don't know if she wants it that bad.

[Ria Ciuffo]

The vinyl sold out so fast. That's really what I would have.

[Noah]

Yeah, that's what you would have wanted. Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Gia went and tried to get it, but they didn't. She got the book, but I think the vinyl was sold out. But then I think she said TJ's parents found the vinyl, which is actually very sweet. Yeah, that is really nice at, like, a different Target, because they were going to. They were going to. Other.

[Fran Mariano]

How many things is she selling?

[Noah]

So the books, like, the books are easy to come by. So I was like, if she really wants the book, she'll get the book.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

You know, I also think you can.

[Ria Ciuffo]

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[Noah]

All right, Noah.

[Fran Mariano]

Ok, I finished.

[Noah]

I show. You had a big weekend.

[Fran Mariano]

I know you didn't do shit.

[Noah]

Yeah, you said it was relaxing.

[Fran Mariano]

I watched the last two episodes of say Nothing. Very good. Sad. Very good.

[Noah]

Have you finally figured out about the Irish war?

[Fran Mariano]

I feel like I have a pretty good handle on it now because I.

[Noah]

Remember the first time you brought it up. You were like, I don't want to sound dumb.

[Fran Mariano]

Didn't want to sound dumb.

[Noah]

I mean, I have no idea. That's not coming from a place of.

[Fran Mariano]

Like, me knowing, you know, they hate. They hate the Brits. And I think that'll always be the case for some people. But I'll give it an A minus. But it could be an A too. You know, I just feel like I'm a harsh grader this time.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

Okay.

[Noah]

It's the end of the year. Yeah. This is when you should ease up on your grading.

[Fran Mariano]

I did watch the first two episodes, Sex Lives of College Girls.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I haven't watched any of it yet.

[Fran Mariano]

It's still, like, a fun watch, but it definitely doesn't have that same oomph.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

And on now, like, I don't know if. I don't know if it's a spoiler.

[Noah]

Or not to say it's not a spoiler.

[Fran Mariano]

Like, she left. Like, oh, yeah.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

They know.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

Because, like, in the second episode, it's like, she's leaving, and then it's. You see, like, the other girls, and I'm like, damn. This is who we're left with. Like, no offense to them.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Wow. Renee really carried the show.

[Fran Mariano]

I mean, she was a big part, Noah.

[Noah]

Personally, I'm like, well, Renee wasn't really a great character. She was.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She was.

[Fran Mariano]

What's her name? She's the worst. Oh, Bella. Like, I'm like, come on. Like, I can't take this girl anymore. And, like, they all just. I don't want to spoil it, but what the fuck? They're all so unlike. Like, not all of them, maybe, but I would say, like, Kimberly and Bella. I'm like, I don't like these girls. I like Whitney.

[Noah]

Yeah. But okay, we are literally, like, saying the same exact thing at the same exact time.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yep.

[Noah]

And it needs to end where we.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Sound like we're just like robots. That was like AI response.

[Noah]

We sound like we are the Maria and Francesca doll where you just pull us and these are the answers that come out.

[Fran Mariano]

I'll give it a C plus the first two episodes I watched. First three for Based on True Story, I'll give it a B.

[Noah]

Like, oh, higher than me.

[Fran Mariano]

Higher than you. I enjoy it. Like, I really like that guy, what's his name, the main actor?

[Noah]

Oh, Nathan. The guy who plays Nathan.

[Ria Ciuffo]

That's the guy. Is that the guy from Mindy Projects?

[Noah]

Yes. And let me tell you, I actually do not like him.

[Fran Mariano]

Really?

[Noah]

No, Let me tell you, it's actually so strong that I've had to, like. I've never said it out loud, actually, until this very moment that the last couple of times we've put on the show, I have said in my brain, man, I really don't like this guy. And I never say it out loud because really. Because in my head I'm like, this is so irrational. Like, I don't really have a reason why. And that makes me feel bad about, like, about that. Like, I'm like, why don't you like him? And you shouldn't be expressing that if there's no reason.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Anything I've ever seen you two cancel each other out. Noah's favorite part.

[Fran Mariano]

No, he's my favorite part.

[Noah]

No, I don't think I watched this.

[Fran Mariano]

I just, like, seriously.

[Noah]

I actually find Kaley Cuoco's role also to be.

[Fran Mariano]

I don't like her bad too. Like, I. I don't really like anything.

[Noah]

I don't really like either of them in the show. And yet I still like the show.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

But I find their characters to be unlikable, unlikeable.

[Fran Mariano]

Well, they are like helping a murderer.

[Noah]

I think the murderer is my favorite.

[Fran Mariano]

He's a good character.

[Noah]

He's a good character. And I. I actually find him to be the funniest.

[Fran Mariano]

I kind of intrigued like a bromance so far.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah, I don't.

[Noah]

And I. Yeah, I just.

[Ria Ciuffo]

There you go.

[Noah]

Yeah. But it's still interesting.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Like, I'm still. I mean, wait. Wait until you get. There's one part I'm like, what the just happened?

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Let's talk offline about this. I'd like to discuss the show further with somebody.

[Fran Mariano]

I watched new documentary that came out of Max Yacht Rock. And it's about Yacht rock, Rock and everything that goes into that. It was. It was pretty good.

[Noah]

I love me some yacht rock.

[Fran Mariano]

Yes, same. It wasn't like the most well done, like, documentary in terms of watching. Like, it wasn't emotional or anything. I don't know what I was expecting. But it was interesting to hear. And it's weird because yacht rock, the whole point was like no one called it yacht rock until like 20 years after that all happened.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Right.

[Fran Mariano]

And some people, like, who made music that people consider yacht rock are really offended by the term yacht rock. Like the guy, the main guy, Fagan. David Fagan from Steely Dan.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

He like refused to be a part of the documentary. And they played like a phone call. The director played a phone call of him calling and being like, hey, would you love to have you sit down? Like we're doing a documentary on like the whole musical genre and everything. And he's like, what genre? And he's, he's like, yacht rock. And he's like, I'll tell you this, go fuck yourself. And hung up.

[Noah]

Wow.

[Fran Mariano]

Which I kind of get. I'm like, yacht rock might be like.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Why did yacht rock get such a negative connotation to it?

[Fran Mariano]

Because I think then they were saying like at first it was about the music and everything and like just the style. And then it became like about more of the looks with MTV and everything. And like you had to be like a good looking guy. And it wasn't really about the music, it was just like easy listening. I don't know.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Interesting.

[Fran Mariano]

But there's a lot of bands in that that I love.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

So I'll give it a B minus. And I watched Love island in Australia. I'm not sure exactly what episode I'm on. I just kind of was popping in and out with my sister, playing it 24 7. I like Mimi.

[Ria Ciuffo]

That would have been my guess for.

[Fran Mariano]

You or M. Yeah. It is funny though, because I'm. I don't really know the names that well, but like there are one with.

[Ria Ciuffo]

The short hair and all the tattoos.

[Fran Mariano]

Oh, no, I don't like.

[Ria Ciuffo]

No.

[Fran Mariano]

I was actually pissing my sister off by saying I don't like her.

[Ria Ciuffo]

What do you mean?

[Noah]

She's cool.

[Fran Mariano]

Awesome.

[Ria Ciuffo]

She is cool.

[Fran Mariano]

Maybe I haven't gotten to know her, I think, but it's funny that one guy, I'm like, that's the Rob of the season. Like the guy. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then. Oh, no, I just deleted all my lists. Okay. I give that a B minus though. Yeah, it's Love Island. And then final thing is I watch It's Love Island.

[Ria Ciuffo]

It's Love island, bro.

[Fran Mariano]

I watched this movie called the Line, which has Alex Wolf as a main character. Naked Brothers.

[Noah]

Oh, my God.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

Haley Bailey is a Haley Bailey or Halle Bailey Hallie. Halle Bailey.

[Noah]

No, I thought it was Haley.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Hallie. No.

[Fran Mariano]

H A L L E. Halle.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Chloe and. No, no. Chloe and hate. Oh, my God. Oh.

[Noah]

Because here's the thing.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Haley Bailey.

[Fran Mariano]

I feel like that's how I've heard it because it kind of rhymes. Haley Bailey. Halle Bailey.

[Ria Ciuffo]

I always thought it was because there's Halle Berry.

[Noah]

Right, right.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And there's Haley Bailey. Yeah, I think that's.

[Noah]

I think that's Haley Bailey Bailey has.

[Fran Mariano]

A nice ring to it.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Chloe and Haley.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah. Angus Cloud is in it.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Haley and Chloe.

[Fran Mariano]

I'm like, this guy is. How many movies did he film? Like, there's so many. Like, he. How's he.

[Noah]

Why are you saying it with an.

[Fran Mariano]

Anger that wasn't like. That wasn't supposed to come off as angry. I'm just like, wow, this guy was fun in work. Like, yeah, a lot of movies. But basically. Did you ever watch that Nick Jonas movie where it was about him in, like, a frat? Yeah, it's like the exact same movie. Essentially. This came out, it says 2023. I thought it was this year, but.

[Noah]

It'S like, wow, you're behind.

[Fran Mariano]

I think it's. I don't know. Sometimes it's weird. It said 2024 in prime, but it's very similar. And it's like, he's in a frat. He loves a frat. Then the hazing becomes, like, too serious, and then bad things happen.

[Ria Ciuffo]

Goat was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can remember that. And that was. Yeah.

[Fran Mariano]

The one he did. I would say this movie is just like, more like. It looks like it had a higher budget or something. It was like, more well done, but it was all right. But it's exactly what you would expect. And like, it kind of from the start of the movie, you're like, you know what's gonna happen. And also, just all these movies make me so happy I wasn't in a frat. I'm like, I would have never done, like, I'm sure it's exaggerated, but I'm like, I did not. The second they were like, chug a beer, I'd be like, I'm good. See ya. Like. And that's like, the least of what they're doing.

[Noah]

No, totally. That kind of stuff scares me.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah.

[Noah]

The hazing and all that.

[Fran Mariano]

Yeah, I'll give that a B minus. And that's all that's it. Yeah.

[Noah]

All right, everybody. That's all we watched, and it never came back to me, what I watched. So I'll come back strong.

[Fran Mariano]

You're gonna remember it, like in 20 minutes.

[Noah]

I'm gonna come back even, even stronger next week. I'm pissed at myself for forgetting, but all right. That's everything we watched this weekend. Chicks in the Office is sponsored by BetterHelp. How do you stay cozy in the winter months? For some wrapping up in a blanket with a mug of hot chocolate or watching a movie with family is the best way to spend the month of December. But therapy is a great way to bring yourself some comfort that never goes away, even when the seasons change. If you're thinking of starting therapy, give better help a try. Plenty of people I know started trying better help online because it's all online. Entirely online. Designed to be convenient, flexible, and suited to your schedule. So you don't need to get in the car. Go to an office. Everything's online. In the comfort of your own home or the comfort of wherever you are and available. Just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a licensed therapist and switch therapists anytime for no additional charge. So find comfort this December with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com office today to get 10% off your first month. That's BetterHelp. H E L p.com office Once again, that's BetterHelp. H L p.com office all right, that wraps up today's episode of Chicks in the Office. Thank you so much for watching and listening. Reminder. Surviving Barstool premieres this week. You could watch on all barstool platforms. You can watch on YouTube. We love you guys so much.

[Ria Ciuffo]

And the Cyber Monday sale is still going on at the Barstool store.

[Noah]

Don't forget, 20% off all day Cyber Monday. You can get this hat we're wearing and the save the date line. So go shop. We love you guys and we'll talk to you on Wednesday.