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Pumps
So are we supposed to start the podcast? Ready?
Kylie
One, two, three.
Pumps
Patriots. Gay Triots Day Triots. All right, listen up, Listener. We spent a week in New York City, and I just have to tell you, America's greatest legal mind shines in the city. It is sexless in the city. The way she parades around the subway. She had purchased this darling little tracksuit from Amazon. Yeah. And she felt so cute about it.
Kylie
So sassy.
Pumps
I put on my Instagram story a video of her doing pelvic thrusts on the subway platform, waiting for the train.
Kylie
Yeah, no, I did. I was like fucking killing this tracksuit. And I'm just going to say, could have been a lie because they're trying to sell me something. But we go into a department store and two people, two came up to me and said, I love your tracksuit. And I was just beaming. I couldn't have been more proud.
Pumps
All right, so here's what we did, listener. When we were at the dnc, we made a lot of friends. And two of my favorite friends are these Gen Z Tick Tock sensations called Twink and A Redhead. And their names are Grant and Ash. And so Kylie messaged them and said, hey, Grant Nash, can you meet Jen and Pumps? We're going to have a studio in New York to film the podcast and they were excited to do it, but I want to give y'all some tea on Grant and Ash. So they are like a Twinkle, obviously.
Kylie
Or Twinks, depending on how you say it.
Pumps
No, depending on not how they say it, only on the way Pump says it. And the redhead. And they make they have a single I Got in Panera, which is an absolute overnight sensation.
Kylie
Yep.
Pumps
They troll the right wing relentlessly and they're incredibly talented. Like, Grant does all of the editing and Ashley contributes to all of the writing. And I never thought, as a middle aged woman that's much younger than my mother, Meemaw, that I would enjoy following these two Gen Z so much. But Listener, I'm telling you, Twink and A Redhead is a total sensation. Kylie, do you like them? I love them. They're one of my favorite follows.
Kylie
They're so funny. And here's the deal. You can tell instantly when you meet them. They're big thinkers and they're smart. You couldn't be as funny as they are and write their own lyrics. They're songwriters without being pretty smart.
Pumps
Didn't you think they were smart, Pumps? I thought they were smart.
Kylie
I've really. I like. I thought you gave me hope for Gen Z.
Pumps
That Twink and that redhead, they are as sharp as a tack.
Kylie
They are. They are. And they're super cute and they have a great friendship. You know what I mean? They've been friends since high school, and I love that, that they. They have a huge amount of chemistry.
Pumps
I felt like. Oh. And I like their dry, cynical fight. The good fight. And so, without further ado, let's get to our in person interview. Sexless in the City for Pumps. New York City with Grant and Ash of Twink and a Redhead. Oh, my gosh. Patriots. Gay Triots and they Triots.
Grant
Caca. Caca.
Ash
You have to caca.
Grant
Gay ass eagle. A real gay eagle. Caca.
Pumps
That's right. Okay, listen up, listener. We are here with Twink and a redhead. Or as Pumps likes to call them. Twink. Twinks and a redhead. I was just saying the last. Sorry, Twinks.
Grant
Oh, you've been just saying Twink.
Kylie
It's like Twinks and a redhead.
Ash
Yeah, it's like Twink.
Grant
Oh, like TwinX.
Pumps
TWS.
Kylie
KS. I would say X, but I'm not that cool.
Grant
Oh.
Pumps
So, listener, we met Grant and Ash, aka Twink and a redhead at the DNC and it was instant Bondarama. Totally BFFs. And we came up here to New York. We just got off a flight, so we don't look our best, but we had to immediately come to record this episode with the two of you.
Ash
It's such an honor. You guys look gorge, by the way.
Grant
Thank you.
Ash
I was serious.
Grant
I was freaking out when I met you guys. I was scared of pumps. I can't lie. I was scared of pumps.
Ash
We were intimidated by you. You guys looked so chic at the dmc.
Kylie
Oh, my gosh. Well, we're quite a bit older, too, so it was the respect your elders.
Grant
I knew you guys from the pod, so I'm like, they're nice, they're approachable ladies, but I still just like, NER nerve. Like, I was scared.
Pumps
Were you starstruck by pumps?
Grant
Yes.
Pumps
Yes.
Ash
Everyone was like, kamala who? That's Pumps in that.
Grant
Sweet. I wasn't looking down at the stage. Right.
Kylie
You're just watching me.
Ash
Literally.
Pumps
That's so funny. Yes. Okay. So, you know, we like to talk about what we've had it with. I mean, we have to start shit talking right out of the gates.
Ash
Yeah.
Pumps
What have you guys had it with?
Ash
Do you want to start?
Grant
I could. This is kind of a broad thing. Me and Ashley have talked about this for a long time, but we do, like, a lot of satirical content on our social Media. And I think I've had it with the lack of media literacy and critical thinking skills out there. And if you want to see an example of it, you just go to our page and read some of the comments. Most recently, we had a video where we were singing at the dnc, and it was an original song we made. We found out real quick that we weren't going to be allowed near any politicians.
Pumps
Let me play that song. Let me play that song for the listener real quick.
Ash
Absolutely.
Grant
Much more happens at the DNC than what people see.
Ash
Oh, and I just can't believe this happened to me at the dnc.
Pumps
Oh.
Grant
Oh.
Ash
I got dick down at the dnc.
Grant
Pa. Dick down at the dnc.
Ash
Yeah.
Grant
Yeah.
Ash
Thank you for having us.
Grant
Thank you, guys.
Ash
It's been a real pleasure.
Pumps
So, okay, so you got dick down at the dnc, right?
Ash
Like, that was the goal of us attending the dnc. God forbid.
Grant
God forbid.
Ash
A lot of hot men in the room, right?
Grant
We weren't allowed near any politicians, rightfully so.
Ash
But going into the week, we kind of had the idea. We're like, we're probably going to meet Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Do you know what I mean? Like, that was our dream, everyone's dream, right? And they would, like, bring creators. They'd be like, guys, it's time to go meet Pete. You two stay here.
Pumps
You two stay away. Specifically, right?
Grant
So then we were like, okay, well, we're just gonna take advantage of, like, the environment and just do the content we would normally do, but at the dnc, right? And so Ash came up with this lovely tune, Dick down at the dnc, and it went viral on, like, conservative Twitter.
Ash
Tomi Lahren tweeted it. That's when you made it.
Grant
Which was, like, an honor.
Ash
It was an honor that Tommy, like, took us seriously to post it. We were like, we trolled Tommy. That's a goal.
Pumps
And didn't libs of TikTok post it?
Ash
Yeah.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
Okay. Now, what's so hilarious about this listener is you guys then trolled them right back and made a statement that said we were there as operatives and we are a straight heterosexual couple. Saving ourselves. Saving yourselves until marriage.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
And you just stayed straight on the course, but then the Daily show drops it and accuses you guys of being virgins.
Grant
Absolutely.
Ash
That was the last.
Pumps
That was the last show.
Kylie
Right?
Ash
How offensive. You could say anything about us, but virgins. Virgins, Really?
Grant
A virgin would not use terminology like dick, dad.
Ash
Yeah, right.
Grant
You know what I mean?
Kylie
Not near the capacity, seriously.
Grant
But I mean, at least they used it, like on a comedy platform, you know, like Tommy Lahr and these people, they were dead ass. They're like, people are literally getting dicked down at the dnc. This is what they're paying. First of all, we had to pay to play. We weren't paid to be there. Right.
Pumps
What's my favorite part? So listener. The dnc. There was a lot of creators there. And then right wing media was like, oh, they're paying all of these creators all of this money. And you guys go onto our posts and start trolling these people and you're like, we got paid 500k, right?
Grant
Like, yeah, no, it was a million dollars. They paid. Kamala personally paid us a million dollars.
Ash
For POG for sure.
Grant
And specifically wanted the Dick down video. She asked for it, but no, but I'm like, why are you so mad? Like, it just shows some sort of, I think, like, maybe sexual frustration or jealousy from these people. Like, they've never been dicked down. Godfrey.
Pumps
Never been dick down. It happened at the rnc. Right. You know what happened?
Grant
Oh, Grindr crash.
Pumps
Yeah.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
So there's some dick down going on. On the DL, but they don't talk about it.
Ash
I think there are glory holes at the rnc.
Grant
I bet there's way more.
Pumps
There was a lot of glory holes.
Ash
Totally. So many way more glory holes. Lindsey Graham was just posted up at the Glory Hole.
Pumps
That childless cat lady was probably just all perched up.
Grant
Dare I say I forget his name. The man in the wheelchair. Kind of. Kind of attractive.
Ash
Greg Abbott.
Pumps
Greg Abbott.
Grant
No, no, no, no, no. The younger one who's weird, Crazy, psycho. I'm pretty sure. Well, let me say. But I think he's gay.
Pumps
There's some gay. Isn't there some gay footage of him grabbing.
Grant
I think there was a scandal wearing lingerie years ago.
Pumps
I was wearing some lingerie. Lingerie, which, you know. But here's the thing. As liberals, we fight for their right.
Ash
Yeah, yeah.
Pumps
Right. To be in Glory Hills.
Ash
Yeah. I want you in a glory.
Kylie
Right. That's where you want to be.
Pumps
Their right to do it. We're fighting for them when they can't even fight for themselves.
Ash
Totally.
Pumps
Yeah.
Ash
That's kind of beautiful.
Grant
And yet here they are shitting on us for, you know, trying to normalize something.
Pumps
Okay, so let's just go behind the scenes. So you see that when Tomi Lauren, like, trolls you guys and Libs of TikTok. Are y'all, like, fuck yes. Are you dying?
Ash
Kind of excitement. Some of the comments Like, I was getting scared. I was like, oh, my God. Like, they are. They're very violent. Very violent, very violent. So I didn't love that.
Pumps
Right.
Ash
But I do feel because when we were at the dnc, like, our goal was to also get on Fox News. Like, we just really wanted to be interviewed by Fox and just troll them.
Kylie
Right.
Ash
So this was like the next best thing.
Grant
Yeah, there is like, oh, I'm sorry.
Pumps
I have a flex for you guys. So we interviewed Kamala in March. Yeah, March.
Grant
March.
Pumps
And then Jesse waters does a 10 minute takedown of us on Fox News. Top of the hour, right out of the gates, it's us. And he goes on for 10 minutes. And here's the thing. We loved it. But then you're right, it's like these demons from hell get released and these people are violent.
Grant
Yeah. It makes no sense like that. It's just so hypocritical.
Kylie
They get so mad.
Grant
Yeah. And yeah, we were getting death threats for sure. And like, crazy things.
Kylie
Isn't that crazy? Like, do you hate something bad enough? You'd make a death threat.
Pumps
Over a podcast or over a get dicked down at the dnc, Like, God forb.
Ash
Also, even if it was true, oh, God forbid we got lucky at the dnc. Is that the worst thing in the world?
Grant
We're just trying to make people laugh, like, at the end of the day.
Pumps
Okay, let's move on to this grievance about gyms.
Grant
Oh, that was also mine.
Pumps
Yeah, let's hear it.
Grant
Well, I unfortunately, or fortunately, I go to a budget gym. So I go to a blank, my local blank. It's fine. Like, it's relatively. Well, it's not clean all the time, but the clientele is kind of hit or miss. And in the stretching room, you'll just find someone doing literally like handstands, cartwheels, sometimes a round off rebound, the plate. We're on the second floor, the floor shaking. And you're doing all that at a gym. And then on top of that, it's like, okay, let me take my shoes off and be like barefoot or in my socks in the gym.
Pumps
Okay, let me ask you, I've had it with them. Have you seen the men? They're middle aged and they go to the gym and they have their little kind of dorky outfit on and their, you know, their elastic shorts are kind of up over their gut and they're standing in the mirror and you can tell they're wanting to check out the women. Right. But they start doing these like, aerobic Exercises. And they're doing their arm like this over and over and over. They're not lifting a weight. They're not really doing any sort of exercise. And they're just kind of like, have you seen that?
Grant
Yes.
Pumps
I mean, this is epidemic where we live.
Grant
It's horrible. And it's like. Is it a lack of knowledge? Like, were they never taught how to work out? I just. I don't know.
Pumps
What do you think about the people. We need to talk about this. We need to really, really talk about the people that document every workout, every day.
Ash
I can't stand it.
Pumps
Every single day. Yeah. Exercise.
Grant
Have you seen it in the flesh? Like, the them, the behind the scenes of it all?
Pumps
Yeah, I have.
Kylie
Sadly, I have yoga studio.
Ash
If I'm in the background, like, I don't need to be, like, sweating, no makeup on the treadmill. Like, where's my release video?
Kylie
I haven't signed my release.
Grant
And a gym's, like, a place where it's like, that's my kind of me time. Like, I don't want to be checked out or looked out or whatever. Like, I'll wear a hat. Like. And then I'm in the background of someone's, like, influencer workout video. I don't. I'm not looking my best when I go to the gym, and I don't want to be part of that. No shade, but.
Pumps
Right. I just.
Kylie
Okay, here's what I want to know. The person that's doing the round offs and the cartwheels, what's our age group?
Grant
It could be. It's probably, like, 20 to 30. They're old, and it's not like teenagers.
Ash
But we live in Brooklyn. You know, the free spirits are there.
Kylie
So do you think this is, like.
Pumps
A frustrated cheerleader breaking out? What's going on here?
Grant
Well, okay, so I used to do gymnastics and cheer growing up, and so.
Pumps
We were former cheerleaders. Yeah, we were.
Grant
Oh, my God.
Pumps
Period.
Ash
Of course. You guys are. Yeah.
Grant
No. All right, me too. Did you guys cheer in college?
Pumps
No.
Kylie
No.
Grant
Oh, so not that good.
Kylie
Not that good is right.
Pumps
That's exactly right.
Grant
But y'all had to look, though.
Pumps
Hashtag almost.
Kylie
Almost in the 80s with the big hair.
Grant
Hashtag almost.
Pumps
Hashtag almost. Okay. So when I was younger, I would go out with all of my gay friends, and I would put on, like, a really cute outfit. And this gay friend of mine named Dale, he was a hairdresser, and he was just the biggest on the planet. I love this man. And I'd walk out, and I'd go, dale, what do you think? And I sought his fashion approval so badly and he'd go, oh, honey, almost. That's kind.
Grant
I love that. I'm gonna adopt that.
Pumps
So now that's good.
Kylie
Almost.
Ash
Cheerleaders, so close.
Grant
Just the ballast. What were we saying?
Kylie
We're talking about the old. The people doing the deal.
Pumps
The gymnastics.
Grant
Okay. So when I was growing up and I went to the gym in high school, I can't lie, like, I would do like a standing tuck.
Ash
You were that person. You were in high school.
Grant
And I also. I was a competing, like gymnast cheerleader at that time.
Pumps
You're an athlete?
Grant
I was doing standing tuck burpees, which.
Ash
Is like a planet fitness.
Kylie
Oh, my gosh, that's impressive.
Pumps
This is what you call showboating?
Ash
Yeah.
Pumps
This is not exercise. That was a full blown exhibition. Everybody here knows it. You're doing standing back tuck burpees.
Grant
Yes. That is hard.
Pumps
That is. Show was kind of a workout.
Kylie
I'm going to give you a little credit.
Grant
Thank you.
Pumps
Hey, I really like it, but you know that. You thought, I'm fucking nailing this.
Grant
Yeah, no, I was, but I would do it when no one was around.
Ash
Okay, but you love to go in public. Like whenever we'd go to the beach, the city, anywhere, he'd be like, can you film me? And then he would just do like a round off, backhand, spring, backflip.
Pumps
How's your toe touch?
Grant
I was always in the back row.
Pumps
What about your herky?
Grant
I could do a good.
Kylie
What about pike?
Grant
Well, okay, first of all, herkies, like, out of style now. No one does herkies.
Pumps
No, but he does her keys.
Grant
They're called, like right hurdler or left hurdler. And they're kind of different.
Pumps
What? Yeah, the herky's gone. Herky's like down.
Kylie
It's been out.
Ash
What?
Kylie
I knew that. Cause of Emily, she's cheered. And I knew that the herky was.
Pumps
Like my best jump.
Kylie
Obviously mine was a toe touch.
Pumps
Yeah.
Grant
Oh, really? Were you like center jumps?
Kylie
Okay, yes, center jumps.
Ash
Wow.
Kylie
Back in the day.
Pumps
But not good enough for college prom and queen.
Grant
Oh, wow.
Ash
Oh, wow. We lost prom king and queen.
Grant
Wait, I was runner up for FSU's homecoming.
Pumps
You know what?
Ash
Really?
Pumps
Hashtag, almost literally my dad.
Grant
I get off the stage, my dad was like, you know what? Second place is first to lose.
Ash
Oh, my gosh.
Kylie
Abby Lee Miller. Did y'all watch that dance Moms?
Ash
I did. But even at the time when I was watching, I was like, this is abuse.
Pumps
Yeah, I was fucked up.
Ash
Yeah. I was like, I can't stand for this. Meanwhile, I'm like 12.
Pumps
Listener. This may come as a total shock to you, but Pumps and I have not always been this pulled together and rock solid. In fact, we used to be rather screwed up. Wouldn't you say, Pumps?
Kylie
I would say damn near psychotic.
Pumps
Totally. And we have written a cell phone expose. One could even say it's a manifesto. And the book title is Life is.
Kylie
A Lazy Susan of Shit Sandwiches.
Pumps
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Ash
Okay, so my main one is something I just discovered. Have you guys heard about fridge scaping?
Grant
Yes.
Kylie
It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Ash
Can we get real? Like, can we have one place in our house that doesn't need to be, like, aesthetically pleasing? These women are putting like and men and people are putting vases of flowers in their fridge. They're taking things out of the plastic and putting it in these, like, gorgeous glass containers to make their fridge beautiful. Like, that's a little ridiculous to me. They're like Chip and Joanna ing their fridge and I just. I can't. I can't help but yearn for the days where you could just have three craft singles and a Brita filter, you know? Yeah, right.
Kylie
Those were the days.
Ash
Get real.
Pumps
Right?
Ash
It's just. It's hard and it's becoming an Epidemic.
Kylie
Is it? I mean, I just think I saw that, and I thought, these people are too stupid to live. Nobody's gonna do this. And now they're doing it.
Ash
I was literally on TikTok. Cause I saw it the other day, and then I went on the hashtag fridgescaping. It's like people are fridgescaping their fridge for Halloween. They're decorating. They're putting twinkle lights in their fridge.
Pumps
What do we think this is? I mean. Cause I have a theory about a lot of this. I think that a lot of places in the United States lack culture. And so then these people get iPhones, and then they get a social media account, and then all of a sudden, they think they're creative and cute, and then they start putting Christmas lights in their fridge and throw in a little vase in there, and it's. I think that this all leads basically as a straight line to a Trump rally.
Ash
Yeah.
Grant
Oh, wow.
Pumps
I.
Ash
Do you think that there's a pipeline from fridgescaping to, like, QAnon Trump, right?
Pumps
I do.
Kylie
It's not far.
Ash
You know what?
Pumps
I do.
Grant
I agree as well. I don't think. I feel like social media does have an aspect to it, because, like, there's that whole, like, how can I get more and more creative? How can I be more and more different? And so, like, it probably started with organizing your house, and now it's like, well, how can I be different? Let me organize my fucking fridge.
Ash
I also think. Have you ever seen how, like, Khloe Kardashian has her kitchen set up?
Kylie
Like, the Oreo kitchen.
Ash
Every Oreo plays perfectly. Like, get real. Like, as if you're not just taking a handful and eating seven Oreos at once. It's ridiculous.
Grant
I've had it.
Pumps
You had it. What about.
Kylie
Have you.
Pumps
What was the one you told me.
Kylie
About the other day? When you go through tsa, people are organizing and posting.
Pumps
Oh, my God. It's your generation. It's the Gen zers. Let me tell you.
Kylie
No, she sent me a picture.
Pumps
So they get their tray, and they put their shoes and then their purse and then their phone and their AirPods, and they arrange it. You're you. You have a job to do to get through tsa. I mean, my goal is I want the TSA agents to think she's fucking awesome. Totally efficient. She was fast. She did everything she was told. I want to be invisible. They're doing a photo shoot of the stuff they put in the tray before it goes to the X ray machine and then posting it on Social media for what? I have no idea.
Ash
If someone was doing that in front of me, I would be detained, I would be deteriorated. I would be on a no fly list.
Grant
Yeah, that's insane. I. I feel like that's just a whole new level. It's also like this whole thing with, like, I guess tying in a media literacy again. It's like you have to rely on social media for everything, even to the point of, like, how you should organize your security bin for yourself. Yeah. Like, who's. Who are. What's the target audience? Like, are you making it for people who, like, don't know how to go through tsa?
Pumps
Here's the thing that's happened with social media. When it comes to, like, acting, we all know that there are certain people that are good at it, and they're on stages and on TV and in movies.
Grant
Right.
Pumps
And then everybody else is eliminated because you don't see them in those places. With social media, people get think. Start to think, oh, I can do that. Yeah, I can do that too. And it lures them into this false sense of creativity and talent. And then we're all celebrating this very mundane, boring thing. Like somebody picked up a vase and stuck it in their fridge and then took a picture of it. Or they did the same with their TSA tray and I fucking had it. It's boring. It's unoriginal. Leave the creativity up to the creat creative types. Be a consumer of social media. Little known fact here, we don't run the. I've had it socially.
Kylie
No, we have no idea.
Pumps
We have a millennial that does that. Of course we don't know how to do it. You guys are very good content creators. I couldn't even dream of. I wouldn't know how to do any of that.
Kylie
Right in the trolling is a plus. Christian Mingle a plus.
Ash
That was my favorite.
Pumps
That was my favorite. Excellent is excellent.
Grant
We love doing, like, fake brand deals. We do a ton with like Disney too, because they will never work with us, unfortunately. I feel like that's a dream, but were too raunchy. We did a brand deal, a fake brand deal with Disney where Ash got flown out to Pandora to promote Avatar 2. And she comes back, her mouth is all blue, like stained blue. And she talks about how she got real close with like, the locals, like the Na'vi.
Ash
I was sucking cough, like the blue people's eye.
Pumps
Okay, I want to talk about your single.
Grant
Oh, Panera.
Pumps
Panera. You got at Panera.
Grant
Yes.
Pumps
And so I want to play a little Bit of that for our listener. So who wrote that?
Grant
Both of us? Yeah, we did it on a live. Like a TikTok live. Like maybe over a year ago.
Ash
Was it two years ago?
Pumps
Yeah.
Ash
Yeah.
Pumps
Let me ask you this. Do you think Panera has seen it?
Ash
Yes, they hate it.
Grant
Trust me. We've had direct contact with them.
Kylie
They ghosted like cease and desist or they far.
Ash
But just like. I think they're like pretend it's not happening and we're not giving up. Yeah, Relentless.
Grant
Because the song originated as just like a tick tock video of me and Ashley sitting there and singing it. And it was just like acapella. And we have like a bunch of songs like that. There's one like, about us getting fucked into TJ Maxx that we're also maybe recording and producing into a real song. But they expressed interest back when that video came out, like when it was acapella, same lyrics and everything. And they potentially wanted to work with us on it, but then fell through months later. I let them know, hey, we're actually professionally recording it. We have a clean version too. Like.
Pumps
And how does that count?
Grant
Let's do something. It says ate down in Panera instead of.
Ash
But we still give birth.
Grant
Yeah, we still give birth. It just gets rid of the got fucked part. But yeah, it just feels like they edged us a bit and then ghosted us.
Pumps
Do you love Panera?
Grant
Yes.
Ash
We did Panera. We would go like three times a week in high school. That's where like some of our best ideas were born. In a booth at Panera.
Kylie
So it felt like the perfect full circle.
Grant
Absolutely, yeah.
Ash
And the food is, of course, glorified hospital food. It's not. It's not good. Good.
Pumps
I don't think that's going to do well for your sponsorship.
Ash
Sorry, Panera. I love your Mac and cheese in a bread bowl.
Grant
We do. No, I would go to Panera, I'd get two different soups.
Kylie
Like, I've done that before.
Pumps
Then you released, then you made a video. So you. So you write the song and then y'all sing it and you do all the work on this and then you do a music video that I saw drop. And it was incredible.
Ash
Thank you.
Pumps
I mean, really, it's wildly creative. It's hilarious. It's a good little jam. I think it's super fun. What else do you have on the horizon?
Grant
Ooh, well, we're coming out with an ep. Oh, my God. This is kind of like the first time we're talking.
Ash
Oh, really?
Kylie
Dropping.
Grant
We're dropping news on iPad.
Pumps
It give us the tea.
Grant
We're coming out with an EP sometime in the fall. It's six songs. Some of our die hard fans similar to Panera might know some of the songs that are becoming real songs and. Yeah, and we're doing live shows in November as well.
Kylie
Yay. Where are you going to be?
Grant
Bcc. Brooklyn Comedy Collective. We're doing two shows there for. Are you guys doing New York Comedy Festival?
Pumps
Yes.
Grant
Yes. As part of New York Comedy Festival as well.
Pumps
You're coming to our show?
Grant
Yes. Ours is November 12th or 9th.
Pumps
Listener. Ours is November 16th. Come to all.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
Matinee and Twink and a redhead will be at ours.
Ash
Oh, I love a matinee.
Pumps
We are going to normalize matinees.
Ash
Totally.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
We just did a show in Seattle recently. Started at 4pm we were in bed eating room service at 7:30pm it was great.
Ash
Heaven.
Grant
Gorgeous.
Kylie
Isn't that great?
Pumps
Yes. We had the guy, he came in, said, let's order room service. It sounds like a great idea. So we had a double room because we share room. Because we're girlfriends. Not Leslie's, but like girlfriend, girlfriend.
Grant
Sometimes a finger slips in after a.
Ash
Couple glasses of wine or two.
Grant
Hey, you never know.
Pumps
It'll work in a patch. So the guy comes in, of course he's. He's gay. And he goes, oh, do you want me to push the bed? The table right in between your beds. And we were like, yes. He was like opening up the ketchup. He took such beautiful care of us.
Kylie
Great care of us. We loved him. We gave him a huge tip because we just loved him.
Grant
Shout out him. Shout out the gay man at the whatever hotel.
Pumps
Yes. Four season Seattle. Okay, fiance, listen, we're older. Yeah. We've worked hard. Sometimes when we travel, we go. We have to stay at other hotels that aren't as nice and we accept it, but we'll walk in and punch goes. This is what I call a two seasons.
Kylie
If we know it's gonna be.
Pumps
Listen up, listener. We've worked a long time and Pumps is fucking old. She's earned her way to the four season.
Kylie
That's right.
Ash
Good for you, Palms.
Pumps
That's right. I want you guys to do a lesson plan.
Grant
Oh, my God. Yeah.
Pumps
For us. Okay. Because we. We're pretty cool.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
I think there's room for us to be cooler.
Kylie
Yeah, a lot of room.
Pumps
I think there's room for us to be hipper. And we want the Gen Z's to educate the Gen X's. Okay.
Grant
Okay.
Ash
Okay.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
Pumps could. I mean, she's kind of on the cusp. Gen X Boomer. I'm not on the cusp of being a boomer. Full blown. Gen X. Yeah.
Kylie
I can't pay you.
Ash
Seriously.
Grant
Wait, so you're on the cusp of Boomer?
Pumps
No, I know. That is a lie. I just troll. I'm just a lot younger than she is. Four years.
Grant
It's not that much.
Pumps
Yeah, it's a lot significant. What's the age difference between y'all?
Grant
Earlier a year. Yeah, but we've been in, like, the same school. I was like, how bad?
Ash
I'm younger.
Grant
Yeah.
Ash
I still have my 25.
Pumps
What grade? What grade for you?
Grant
Kindergarten.
Pumps
So you hash. Almost made it to first grade, literally.
Grant
And then. Yeah, there was, like, an extra grade in my town.
Pumps
Yeah.
Ash
Our town has a grade between kindergarten and first grade. That's where, like, the summer birthdays go, where the people that just aren't ready.
Kylie
All my kids were red shirts like that.
Grant
Well, we prepared a list of terms.
Pumps
Okay, let's hear it.
Grant
Me and Ashley use pretty commonly.
Ash
Yeah. I wouldn't say these are, like, widespread amongst Gen Z, but, like, this is our lingo and it's. And it's catching on.
Pumps
Why don't you tell us what it is and we'll guess. Yeah, we think it is. And then you can enlighten us as to what it really is.
Grant
All right. You do the first. The first one.
Pumps
Okay.
Ash
Okay.
Grant
We could use it in a sentence, too, if you.
Ash
Okay, so the. The term is so cl.
Pumps
Okay, so I'm gonna say using a sentence.
Ash
Okay.
Pumps
So you don't have to worry about.
Grant
Oh, my God, Ashley. Like, your hair looks so today.
Ash
Oh, my God. Thanks.
Pumps
So sexy.
Kylie
I'm gonna say really, really good.
Ash
Yeah.
Grant
Yeah.
Ash
I feel like it's fierce.
Grant
You know how, like, cun became a thing. Like, that's so con. I feel like it's kind of an evolution, and we just moved to. Yeah, but it's something that's very chic, fierce, kind of a little feminine, but, like, it's a compliment.
Pumps
It's good. It sounds very female empowering.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
And it also sounds like it could really upset the right wing. Totally.
Ash
Like, if I was, like, Tomi Lahren, like, serving today, like, she would be, like, killing herself.
Grant
Y. Yeah.
Kylie
She would die a thousand deaths.
Ash
Yeah.
Grant
Yeah.
Kylie
Okay, so we did pretty good on that.
Grant
All right, so next one. These next few were kind of tampering into almost like, drag lingo. Like, pretty lgbtq.
Kylie
Okay.
Grant
This is the Term boots. So it's like, oh, my God, you are serving. I need to think of a word. You're serving, like, mother boots in a lot of ways.
Pumps
Is boots bad? I'm thinking it's bad.
Grant
No, like, you're serving, like, chic, rich boots.
Kylie
Okay, so like.
Grant
Like.
Kylie
Like, good.
Grant
Yes.
Pumps
Okay. So, like, if Pumps and I are gonna go shopping later today on Fifth Avenue and if she buys herself a new ensemble.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
She comes out of the dressing room, I can go, oh, my God, you are serving boots. Or does that sound.
Grant
It's almost like you need something before that. You're like. You're serving, like, what's the outfit given? Yeah, you're serving, like, grandma boots. So I guess it could.
Kylie
But grandma boots sounds like it wouldn't be good.
Grant
I guess it could be.
Ash
I guess it's kind of like.
Grant
It's an emphasis verse. I think it's similar to, like, oh, period. Like. Like it's an emphasis. Like you're serving. Whatever it is. Boots.
Pumps
Okay, stop.
Ash
Almost like full stop.
Grant
Like, that's what it is. Like, boots over. Kind of like boots.
Ash
No more questions.
Grant
Boots.
Ash
That's final. Boots. Yeah.
Pumps
Okay.
Grant
And you can even, like, in conversation, like, if I just said something that you really resonate with, you could be like, boots.
Ash
Like, yeah, but like, there's not anything else.
Kylie
Like, right when you say that, they're very, like. Yes.
Grant
Oh, my God. Thank you.
Pumps
Okay, what's our next lesson?
Grant
Next one's crazy.
Ash
Okay. NHL.
Grant
This comes from a friend of ours.
Ash
It comes from a friend of ours. But so like, oh, my God, I just saw Senator John Assa from Georgia.
Grant
NHL.
Pumps
Okay. Not.
Kylie
It's something like, I want to.
Pumps
Him not humping ever.
Grant
Get this.
Pumps
Okay. All right, tell us, Limp dick.
Kylie
Never.
Pumps
Never humping limp dicks.
Grant
It starts with the word need.
Pumps
Need his. Is it L?
Grant
Yeah.
Kylie
Yeah.
Ash
Pretty vulgar.
Grant
It's pretty vulgar.
Kylie
Need his labia's not right.
Pumps
Because that's ready.
Grant
Need his load.
Pumps
Oh, I think that's great. She hasn't been late, as our listener knows. And I'm. I mean, we're up to, like, 12, 000 days.
Grant
Oh, God.
Pumps
Yeah. The last time.
Grant
Like, pumps.
Ash
You could be in a bar. Like, need his load.
Pumps
You know? She will be. She loves a good acronym.
Kylie
I like an acronym. I like a naughty acronym, too.
Grant
Okay, we'll get this.
Pumps
We like potty talk.
Grant
Yeah. Follow up to NHL. Sos. You see someone hot.
Kylie
President on sex.
Grant
Oh, you were so close.
Kylie
Suck on sperm.
Grant
No, suck on sight.
Ash
Like it's going down.
Grant
Like Immediately. Like love at first sight. Suck on sight. Like, yeah, so like, if you're walking.
Kylie
In, you're like, oh, my God. SOS now.
Ash
Yes, yes.
Grant
Like SOS boots.
Ash
That's so close.
Kylie
Sos.
Grant
Yeah, yeah.
Pumps
So use all of them together in one sentence for us.
Grant
Oh, my God. Well, okay, so. Oh, my God. That man is serving hung boots. Do y'all know hung?
Pumps
It's like a big right? We've been saying for years if they're over, they're over six foot four. They're hung to the floor. Six, four pretty much checks out. Yeah, it does.
Kylie
I've done some field research. Yeah, that's right.
Ash
Yeah, that checks out.
Grant
12,000 days ago.
Kylie
So back in my young days, my year age days.
Grant
No, yeah, I agree. I believe you. Your studies are accurate.
Pumps
Pumps. Our ability to suck and then wake up the next day and suck more than the previous day is undefeated. It's unparalleled.
Kylie
We are the champions.
Pumps
If you would like to see how bad we suck, please join us in New York City in November for, you know, just some world class shit talking.
Ash
That's right.
Pumps
Live.
Kylie
Live and in person.
Pumps
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Kylie
Not only are they so comfortable, but they keep the dragons from sagging. They push them right up. I have the wireless push up bra. It's fabulous.
Pumps
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Ash
Okay.
Pumps
Oh, my God. Welcome to had it or hit it. I would hit it, had it. I hit it every day. Sometimes twice a day. Had it or hit it. Moo dang.
Grant
Hit it.
Ash
I'm obsessed.
Kylie
I am too.
Grant
You hate her.
Pumps
No, I love her. I'm an animal lover.
Grant
Oh, she's cute.
Pumps
And she's like super cute.
Grant
She's close.
Ash
I like that. She's got like some sass to her.
Kylie
She's definitely sassy.
Grant
Don't you want to Touch her.
Pumps
Yes.
Grant
Like what is that texture feeling?
Ash
Slimy.
Grant
Yeah, but is it slimy?
Pumps
Yes.
Grant
Or is it rubbery?
Ash
She's always got a glisten to her.
Grant
I know, but is it like lubed up or is it like dry Mudang's lubed up. She always looks like she's got a fresh coat of baby oil on her.
Pumps
Yeah. Just straight out of the shower.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
Okay. Had it or hit it. Matching family outfits.
Grant
Had it, had it, had it. That's embarrassing. Oh, you don't want your kid to have individualism.
Ash
Oh, I like a Christmas. But at least let's get like different colors maybe. Like I agree with you.
Pumps
It's like I think there's a. Our generation started it where they have claimed the child's individuality and it's. And they, they're making the child the center of the parents life.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
And I think. And you see like a lot of people in your generation have depend debilitating anxiety. And I'm like, well, yes, because the moms are power mom psychos that won't let the kids do anything.
Ash
Yeah, yeah.
Grant
Why don't you have family pictures and you say, hey, how about you pick out your outfit?
Pumps
I agree.
Grant
God forbid, I feel like it'd be.
Kylie
Better not one killer.
Pumps
If there's a bad character and something.
Grant
That they feel most comfortable with in a probably uncomfortable situation, like being in front of like a fancy camera or.
Ash
Something, you'll get a better photo out of that.
Pumps
Yeah, I agree. And it's a better memory. Like look at what like when my youngest son, when he was like three to five years old, he was obsessed with tie dye and he wanted to wear 5 tie dye T shirts at a time layered on top of each other.
Ash
Iconic.
Pumps
And so I always remember it and we have some pictures of him in it and I'm so glad we do that. I didn't make him change. Okay. Had it or hit it. True crime before bedtime. Like a homicide before bed.
Ash
Really true crime.
Kylie
Really at all.
Ash
No, I literally can't watch like things like that. Stay with me. I don't really like horror. Like I watched Halloween Town when I was a kid and it stuck with me for years.
Kylie
Trauma.
Ash
Yeah. So like true crime. I remember reading about the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart when I was younger. It ruined my life. Yeah, Seriously ruined my life. I thought I was gonna be kidnapped.
Pumps
I love a homicide before bed. I love to check in and they've done a study recently and they say if somebody admits that they like a little homicide before bedtime, that it's a.
Kylie
Red flag, which is probably right.
Grant
It might be.
Pumps
Listen, here's the thing. We have not always been this pulled together. You guys are really meeting the best.
Kylie
Versions of ourselves, other than the straight from the airport right now.
Grant
And y'all are good.
Pumps
Had it or hit it. Impossible Burgers.
Grant
Oh, I have a controversial opinion. No, I don't. Well, I was gonna say I'm vegan phobic, but.
Ash
Oh, wow.
Grant
Yeah, That's a really, like, harsh claim. I'm not vegan phobic. I can get on board with that, right?
Pumps
I can get on board with that.
Kylie
I just don't want to hear about it.
Grant
I don't want to hear about. I don't want you to make, like, ruin everyone else's dinner.
Kylie
Yeah, exactly.
Grant
No shade. No shade. Mind your Impossible Burger. I'm glad that a restaurant might have that option for those people, but if it's Impossible Burgers for everyone, no, thanks.
Pumps
Right?
Ash
Yeah. I kind of hit it, though, because I was. I went through a phase. I was a vegan in college, and I found. Well, I don't really like burgers. I've only had a burger once in my life.
Pumps
What?
Ash
Yeah. Of two years ago. I tried a burger for the first time.
Grant
The shits.
Ash
Yeah. Like, it did not.
Pumps
How is that possible?
Ash
I don't know. I just. My. My mom was a vegetarian growing up, so I just never had, like, red meat. And then I had a Shake Shack burger two years ago. It ran through.
Kylie
Yeah. Yeah, that would be hard.
Ash
It was not. Okay.
Pumps
Yeah, that. No, that's not good at all.
Ash
Yeah.
Pumps
Okay. Had it or hit it? Country music.
Ash
Oh, that's hard.
Grant
I'm verse.
Ash
Yeah.
Grant
You know what verse means? No, Come on. You know what verse means? And y'all are a couple hags.
Pumps
We are a couple. Like that you can do. But verse.
Grant
Yeah. So I've just been. I've just been using verse in, like, everyday language. So I'm, like, verse with that because.
Pumps
Like, you're a top and a bottom.
Grant
Yeah.
Ash
Right.
Grant
It depends on the situation.
Ash
Yeah, it depends who's the country artist.
Pumps
I agree.
Grant
And, like, we may or may not have a song on our ep.
Ash
That's country. Yeah.
Pumps
Okay.
Ash
Yeah.
Grant
So hit it with that.
Pumps
Okay. Had it or hit it. Laura Loomer.
Grant
Who the hell's that?
Ash
That's Trump's new. New girl. New boo. Yeah.
Kylie
Super racist.
Ash
Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. All right.
Pumps
Had it or hit it? Disney World. Are you Disney adults?
Ash
I think Grant more so than me, but I can respect and appreciate a Disney adult.
Grant
I am.
Ash
But it's kind of a big. I really can.
Grant
I'm like, aware. I'm a self aware Disney adult.
Ash
I'm fascinated by the psychology because there's clearly something like nostalgic and you're kind of like trying to like reclaim from childhood and being a Disney adult. So I can. I feel like that's the.
Grant
I think I love the immersion of it all. Like, I love an immersive experience. I'm not a Disney adult in the way that, like, I'm tuning into like this movie all the time. Like I'm going to the parks. Like, I'm a Disney park goer.
Pumps
Okay, let me ask you this. What's your favorite ride?
Grant
Oof. I think I went in June and I think there's a new. There's a new Guardians of the Galaxy ride in Epcot.
Ash
Stunning.
Grant
It's lovely. Lovely roller coaster. I think it's.
Pumps
Let me just tell you.
Grant
That's right. I've been on.
Pumps
I took my kids to Disney twice and you hated it. Here's the thing. I don't like group activities. I don't particularly like waiting in lines. And I think I'm really cynical. Borderlining on a sociopath when it comes to stuff like that. Because I get angry. And I think that adults go there. But I like you so much. I think we have to give them a pass.
Kylie
Everyone gets. There's a gay exception for everything and.
Ash
Everyone makes a mistake.
Kylie
We do like couples that sit on the same side of the booth. But it's like. But if they're gay. That's totally. Yeah. I've had to go to Disney three times. And every time as I'm driving, I'm thinking, this is the. The most miserable fucking place on Earth.
Grant
Wow.
Ash
I just wish it wasn't in. Or like, it's too hot.
Grant
Do you guys go to the LA one?
Pumps
Yes.
Kylie
Down to la.
Grant
Oh, that's so much worse. No shading.
Kylie
See, I just can't ever go back to Florida.
Ash
No.
Kylie
Period.
Ash
I. Yeah.
Grant
And you'll find. You find every part of America at a Disney World park.
Pumps
Yeah.
Grant
Like every genre of person got.
Ash
Studying abroad a little bit.
Grant
Yeah.
Ash
In your own country.
Grant
Yeah. Crazy.
Ash
Studying abroad at Epcot.
Grant
We did a Disney swingers video.
Pumps
What? Yes.
Kylie
I saw that.
Grant
It prompted a Rolling Stone article because people believed it. The alt right believed it.
Kylie
They believe everything.
Grant
And we're like, these people around children, like, these are pedophiles. Someone told us we needed to go on. Have you been on Space Mountain?
Kylie
Yeah.
Ash
Yeah.
Grant
Space Mountain's a roller coaster in the dark. And, like, it looks very close. Like the bars, like, are gonna hit you or something. Someone told us that we needed to go on Space Mountain and stand up.
Ash
About a creative death threat.
Grant
Creative death threat. Telling us to get decapitated on Space.
Ash
Mountain just because we were swinging at Disney.
Grant
God forbid.
Kylie
I guarantee there's a lot of swingers at Disney.
Ash
I think there are more swingers than we know about, just in general.
Pumps
Absolutely. She's a divorce attorney.
Kylie
And I've had lots of swingers.
Pumps
Because what happens is, is that there's supposed to be rules with the swing, and they don't.
Ash
And they never follow that.
Kylie
They never follow the rules. There's always separate hookups.
Ash
There's emotion.
Kylie
Yeah. They get tied up with one and then separate. Well, and swingers are super jealous, which seems like it would not compute that that would be the opposite. But they're very, very jealous with their rules.
Ash
I've heard that if, like, your children do, like, competitive sports, like, a lot of times, like, the parents are swinging, you know, you're going to all these tournaments. What else is there to do? Right.
Kylie
And you're in hotels and you're drunk and.
Pumps
No, the eyes. We have some plays. AAU basketball, which is. And hers did, too. And there's definitely been some slap and tickles with parties. Right.
Kylie
More cheating. In my experience.
Pumps
Some one to two season hotels.
Grant
Oh, yeah.
Kylie
Maybe zero seasons.
Pumps
Oh, my God, Those travel hotels are zero seasons.
Grant
Yeah.
Ash
Yeah.
Pumps
They're bad. Yeah.
Grant
Days in.
Pumps
Okay, last one. Had it or hit it. Mega churches.
Ash
Like, fraud. Like, it's fraud. It's embezzlement. Like, please.
Grant
They got to be just taking your money and you're eating it up. Like they. And the shows. Have you seen the Tik Toks of, like, the Christmas shows? And it's like global production.
Ash
They have private planes.
Pumps
I know.
Ash
Like stylist. It's horrible.
Grant
I don't get how these people going to these churches aren't realizing they're part of some sort of mass scam. But I don't know. That's.
Kylie
We just read an article where some church is selling plots in heaven to people.
Ash
I saw that.
Kylie
They're buying their death plots in heaven. Yes.
Grant
Where do I get mine for hell?
Kylie
It's reserved in hell for free.
Pumps
We've started our podcast and kind of ventured on through this the last couple of years. We've come to the conclusion that half of the country is just stupid.
Grant
Yeah.
Pumps
And it's just. We can try to Say, how do we connect to middle America? How do we reach these people? You can't reach. Stupid.
Grant
No.
Kylie
Can't fix it.
Pumps
Can't. You know, it's sad.
Ash
It's really sad.
Pumps
I used to think it was sad, but I really.
Ash
But now you're just like, you're over. You've had it.
Pumps
I've had it.
Ash
You've had it.
Pumps
Exactly. All right, Grant and Ash, thank you.
Ash
Dream come true.
Grant
No, literally. You guys are so iconic. So click.
Ash
So.
Grant
So click.
Pumps
Now we're gonna make some tiktoks. Yes.
Ash
My dog would tell me if I.
Kylie
Did not do the Panera Bread one.
Grant
Okay.
Ash
Oh, we're doing it.
Grant
Y'all are gonn get. Yeah.
Ash
Down with it.
Kylie
I'm a terrible dancer.
Ash
For the record, you don't have to be good.
Pumps
And listener, make sure you go follow. I'm serious. This is such a great follow. Twink and a redhead. I started following them after the dnc. After we dig down together at the dnc.
Kylie
Dig down at the dnc.
Pumps
And we had so much fun. Do y'all remember how pumps wasn't working and we were.
Ash
I was just like, pump was in her own zone.
Kylie
So many people. It makes me overwhelmed.
Pumps
All right, Pumps, tell them we will.
Kylie
See you next Tuesday and Thursday.
Grant
Bye.
Pumps
Tell you what I've had it with. Let's hear it. I've had it with that. Listen up, patriots, gay triots and natriots. We have a new podcast that has dropped. It's called I Hip News. It's Monday through Friday. Every day, 15 to 20 minute hot takes on the political landscape of the United States of America. Always served with a side of petty grievances.
Kylie
We are on all the available platforms. Apple, Spotify, Google, whatever you get your podcasts and YouTube.
Pumps
Please go rate, subscribe and review so that we will chart upwards with America's greatest legal mind. Pumps. Pumps. What does an eagle say? Caca. A little bit more enthusiasm.
Kylie
Caca.
Pumps
That's it.
Kylie
That's.
Pumps
That's caca. That's the patriotism that this country needs right there.
Podcast Summary: "I've Had It" – Episode: "The Gay Exceptions"
Release Date: October 22, 2024
Hosts: Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Guests: Grant and Ash (Twink and a Redhead)
The episode kicks off with hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan sharing their recent experience at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in New York City. During their week-long stay, they formed a swift bond with two rising Gen Z TikTok stars, Grant and Ash, known collectively as Twink and a Redhead.
Notable Quote:
Pumps [00:03]: "We spent a week in New York City, and I just have to tell you, America's greatest legal mind shines in the city."
Grant and Ash are introduced as dynamic TikTok sensations specializing in satirical content that targets right-wing ideologies. Their viral single "I Got in Panera" has garnered significant attention, particularly from conservative circles.
Notable Quote:
Kylie [02:00]: "They're so funny. And here's the deal. You can tell instantly when you meet them. They're big thinkers and they're smart."
The conversation delves into Grant and Ash's creative process, highlighting their adeptness at editing and songwriting. They recount their creation of the provocative song "Dick down at the DNC," which became an overnight sensation on conservative Twitter platforms.
Notable Quote:
Grant [05:05]: "I think I've had it with the lack of media literacy and critical thinking skills out there."
Grant and Ash discuss the backlash they faced from right-wing media, including Tomi Lahren and Libs of TikTok. Their satirical approach led to their content being misinterpreted and targeted with intense criticism, including death threats and false accusations about their personal lives.
Notable Quote:
Pumps [07:07]: "What's so hilarious about this listener is you guys then trolled them right back and made a statement that said we were there as operatives and we are a straight heterosexual couple."
Shifting gears, the hosts and guests express their frustrations with contemporary gym culture. They critique behaviors such as disorganized workouts, excessive focus on appearance, and the prevalence of ostentatious exercise routines that detract from genuine fitness.
Notable Quote:
Pumps [12:35]: "I mean, this is an epidemic where we live."
The discussion moves to "fridgescaping," a trend where individuals aesthetically arrange items in their refrigerators for social media appeal. They lament the prioritization of appearance over functionality in everyday spaces, viewing it as a misguided extension of social media's influence.
Notable Quote:
Ash [18:40]: "Can we get real? Like, can we have one place in our house that doesn't need to be, like, aesthetically pleasing?"
Grant and Ash highlight the absurdity of meticulously organizing TSA trays solely for the purpose of social media posting. They question the necessity and practicality of such actions, attributing them to a lack of critical thinking fueled by constant online influence.
Notable Quote:
Pumps [20:58]: "They're doing a photo shoot of the stuff they put in the tray before it goes to the X-ray machine and then posting it on social media for what? I have no idea."
The hosts briefly mention their forthcoming book, "Life is a Lazy Susan of Shit Sandwiches," which serves as a manifesto sharing their personal struggles and the journey that led them to create the podcast. This segment underscores their commitment to addressing everyday grievances with humor and candor.
Grant and Ash reveal their plans to release an EP featuring six songs, some of which originated from their TikTok content. They also announce upcoming live performances as part of the New York Comedy Festival, inviting listeners to attend their shows in November.
Notable Quote:
Grant [26:11]: "We're coming out with an EP sometime in the fall. It's six songs."
A recurring segment titled "Had It or Hit It" takes center stage, where the hosts and guests engage in playful debates over various topics. This interactive part of the episode showcases their dynamic chemistry and penchant for humorous banter.
Notable Quote:
Pumps [36:16]: "Had it or hit it. Impossible Burgers."
Wrapping up the episode, Jennifer and Pumps encourage listeners to follow Grant and Ash on their social media platforms. They emphasize the value of their guests' content and the importance of supporting rising creators who challenge mainstream narratives with their unique perspectives.
Notable Quote:
Pumps [46:18]: "Make sure you go follow. I'm serious. This is such a great follow. Twink and a redhead."
Key Takeaways:
Satire and Social Commentary: Grant and Ash utilize humor and satire to critique political and social issues, particularly targeting right-wing ideologies and the superficiality of certain social media trends.
Media Backlash: Their provocative content has led to significant backlash from conservative media figures, illustrating the polarized nature of contemporary discourse.
Generation Gap: The episode highlights tensions between different generations, especially regarding the influence of social media on everyday behaviors and expectations.
Upcoming Endeavors: Both hosts and guests are actively expanding their reach through music, live performances, and published work, aiming to connect with a broader audience.
This episode of "I've Had It" offers a blend of sharp social critique, engaging dialogues, and laughter, making it a compelling listen for those interested in understanding the intersections of media, politics, and generational perspectives.