Kim Kardashian’s nine-month fling with Pete Davidson crumbled under long-distance strain and media scrutiny, while Taylor Swift’s private jet spewed 8,000+ tons of CO₂—dismissed as "climate activism for the rich." Demi Lovato’s August pronoun shifts sparked backlash over performative identity, revisiting her 2017 age-gap relationship with Will Wilmer Valderama and questioning whether trauma narratives exploit impressionable fans. Beyoncé and Lizzo’s removal of "spaz" from songs mirrors modern censorship trends, where intent is ignored in favor of offense, risking artistic stagnation akin to 1984’s "New Speak." The episode mocks Hollywood’s selective sensitivity—from accents to skirts—while warning that over-censoring could leave only sanitized language, stifling culture. [Automatically generated summary]
Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for all you culturally and politically misunderstood, lady or gen. We are your hosts.
I'm Kat.
And I'm Nat.
And today we're going to be talking about someone I've been dying to talk about since MU's conception, climate criminal Taylor Swift.
We also analyzed Demi Lovato's confusing D-transition from they, them to she, her, they, them, and discuss if it's okay that Anna DeArmas doesn't drop her Cuban accent to play Marilyn Monroe in an upcoming film.
But first, our Pattenten Culture Shock moment of the week.
Take it away, Kat.
Oh my gosh.
How do we even address this?
This is the biggest news since episode one of Misunderstood.
This is huge, you guys.
Life-changing.
I don't even know how I didn't get any sleep last night.
No.
I'm a wreck.
She's a wreck.
Look at her.
She looks like a nine instead of a 10.
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have split up.
After how long?
Nine months.
Enough to bake an oven, a bake baby in your own.
Almost.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, my gersh.
So insiders share that the pair has a lot of love and respect for each other, but they found that the long distance dynamic and their demanding schedules just made it really difficult to maintain a relationship.
Question.
Didn't Daily Mail put in an article that she said that it was because he was too immature?
Ooh.
She's trying to get ahead of it, you guys.
So he's what, like 28?
Yeah, and she's like 40,000 or something.
Yeah.
She's 40K.
So she could be his mom.
Yep.
And maybe, you know, as a 41-year-old with multiple children, you don't date people who could also be your kid.
Maybe.
Also, he just always seems like someone who's trying to get ahead in his career and uses women to advance it.
Well, not like she doesn't use people to advance.
No, that's true.
It was obviously like, I mean, it was a thing.
Like, celebrities do that.
I don't know because I've never been asked to be involved in one of these like one day.
Celebrity hookups.
But I think it's like manager A calls manager B and they're like, oh, she's single now.
Like she'd like a new relationship with someone young and on the fringe.
And they're like, oh, Pete's single as well.
Like he's looking for someone in the upper echelon of the porno industry.
Sounds like I'm in the room hearing this conversation live.
I am available if anyone's.
I'm not.
She is not available.
Not available.
Can't be open to certain celebrities.
Yeah.
No.
I'm not available either.
However, I do think she may have also picked someone or her team picked someone that they knew would piss off Kanye the most because his reaction to it has been kind of interesting.
I think he posted something on Instagram, like rest in peace.
Yeah, he said Skeet Davidson officially dead at 28.
Kanye.
You need to act your age too there, buddy.
Kanye.
I am convinced, though, the real reason is that she does not want to be considered a climate criminal like her sister Kylie because flying her private jet all the way to Australia and back to LA, hella far.
She could take coach for love.
Would you take coach for love?
No.
No.
I've only ever taken coach, but I wouldn't do it.
Wouldn't do it for love.
I have done it for love.
Wouldn't do it again.
Wouldn't do it again.
The food is atrocious.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's some tinfoil hat theory.
Honestly, I wouldn't put it past her to be like, it's no longer convenient for my career to date you.
Because she's so busy doing stuff for makeup the night before and sleeping in it, apparently.
It's a thing.
She's a busy guy, you guys.
She's a busy guy.
And speaking of guys, Demi Lovato is no longer identifying as one.
No, that's not true.
Wait, I thought we were doing Taylor first.
No, you're right.
My things are just messed up.
That's cool.
Nope, nope.
I got it.
Okay, so Demi Lovato.
Demi Lovato.
So she will now include she, her pronouns with they, them, because I know what that means.
Do you know what that means?
Oh, yeah.
She has an album coming out in August.
Seriously.
I know she does.
But how can you be she, her, or they, them?
You're non-binary.
Can you tell her who you are?
Oh, yes.
This is my area of expertise, and I advise you to tread carefully.
I will.
I don't want to come across as a bigot.
Yeah, so if you called Demi Lovato she a month ago, you were a hateful bigot.
But now it's okay because she says it's okay.
Probably because she's sick of people just calling her she and she's like, I can't.
Okay.
Also, she grew her hair out.
So that's what being a woman is.
Yes.
It's long hair.
Yes, because she had a really short haircut last year and then she was they, them.
And now she said, and it's her quote is, I've actually adopted the pronouns she, her again with me.
And then she also said, I've been feeling a little bit more feminine lately.
And it's like, okay, so you have longer hair and now everyone, again, needs to change how they refer to you.
Almost like your hair is supposed to be what defines you as a human being.
Yeah.
Well, my favorite part about this, and we've talked about this offline, is how like we should, like people are growing and it's okay that they change.
And it's like, okay, it's okay that you change Demi because you didn't like splice and dice your genitals as David Menzies would quote David Menzies.
But some people take it a step too far and they can never fully go back.
So the narrative that you're perpetuating with pronouns is so dangerous, whether it affects you personally or not.
And I actually think all these people who have followers should be held accountable for that.
Yes.
Like because you have millions and millions of followers and you going they them, that's confusing your younger listeners.
And I'm sorry, but you deserve hell for that.
Yeah, like what if you were a teenage girl and you were a huge fan of Demi Lovato and then she becomes a they them and then you're like mom, dad, I want to be a they them.
And say you're like so adamant about it that you like cut ties with your family who are not on board.
You sue your family.
You start taking drugs.
You have a surgery just to find out.
Because when I was a teenager, I was very influenced by celebrities, which is embarrassing.
No, but we're young and impressionable.
Exactly.
And girls are particularly impressionable.
Exactly.
And you're trying to find something you identify with so that you feel less uncomfortable as you're developing as a woman.
So say she sees that Demi Lovato is now including, her words are adopting the pronouns she, her again, as if she's like adopting a troubled teenager's child.
Like, oh, so brave.
But imagine they see that and then they're like, oh, I don't want to be a they, them anymore.
But it's too late.
Yeah.
You've already cut, I mean, your family should forgive you, but it's like, if you've done something to your body that's irreversible, like Abby Gail Schreier's book, Irreversible Damage, like you might not be able to come back from it.
Yeah.
And it's sad.
And you're right.
Demi Lovato should be held accountable, but how do you even?
Yeah, you can't hold these people accountable and they're just so, you know, they're so immature.
Like these people are so immature and they don't realize how much power they have.
And like, that's why.
It's fickle.
And that's why it's important to talk about them because we need to expose this side of them that I think people aren't critical enough of.
Like, because you might think as like a mom, like, oh, I don't, I'm, I'm discerning.
I won't be influenced by this.
But your daughter or your niece or your student, they are going to be.
They will be if you don't nip it in the butt.
Yeah.
And it's just so funny that it, it was a year ago.
Yeah.
It's only been a year.
Yeah.
Like how quickly she changed her mind.
Yes, exactly.
And also, like people, if you were a critic of ours or you were like a huge Demi fan, you would be like, well, she's, I've seen it on Twitter.
They're like, well, she's allowed to learn about herself and like explore.
It's like, sure, but really, if she was actually doing it in an authentic way, that would be going on in her own heart in the privacy of her heart, not because she has an album coming out next month.
And it'd be like, I'm going by they, them.
Now I'm going by she, them, they, her, them.
It's like, exactly.
You could just be doing that in your close circle.
Yeah.
In your family, in your tight, like, you don't have to announce it to the world so that teenagers start chopping their boobies off.
Well, and to your point, she apparently changed her pronouns on Instagram in April.
And now she's coming out about it.
And as you said, her album's coming out in August or something, end of August or something.
So it's like, how convenient, Demi.
And another thing she said was last year, she didn't necessarily feel like a woman or a man when she was faced with the choice like walking into a bathroom or something.
And she wanted to go with they, them to like balance her masculine energy.
But it's like, okay, do you have a vagina?
Like, which bathroom are you going to use?
Demi.
Are you going to like pop a squat in a urinal?
I don't think so, buddy.
How's that going to work, pal?
And also, like, if you want to like bro around and throw a football, like be my guest.
Like, again, I've always had masculine like hobbies and interests.
Me too, yeah.
Yeah.
And look at me.
Like, you're allowed, you're allowed to push boundaries and do whatever you want.
Like, and if I chose to cut my hair tomorrow, I'm still me.
You're still me.
Doesn't mean I need to identify differently.
Like, yeah.
No, it's so true.
Like, your interests can be fluid.
They can be fluid.
No one's a model.
Exactly.
It's like, oh, I have short hair, so now I'm a boy.
It's like, what?
Yeah.
Like, what?
It's just, it's gross.
Girls can be whatever they want to be.
Yeah.
They can be.
And, like, it's funny, though, that she's admitting that gender expression is that ongoing conversation and it's an evolving experience.
It's like Teen Vogue wrote about this, and it's like, okay, so you agree that you can evolve and change your mind after only a year, but a kid should go and just go all in without their parents knowing child.
Yeah, exactly.
So it's like Teen Vogue's eagle.
Demi Lovato's an idiot.
These are facts.
And, you know, maybe it's partially because she grew up in Hollywood.
She's obviously had a very trying time.
She's troubled life.
And I do, I do like sympathize with her.
Like anyone who was a teenage superstar, like she was on Joe Rogan talking about it about a year ago or more, just before she came out as they, them.
And she said like she was addicted to drugs.
She had an eating disorder.
She was assaulted sexually too.
Oh, that's horrible.
Like I think they all have been in Disney.
I don't know.
Maybe not.
It's awful.
It's awful.
And she, and this is an, I, and I'm not saying that everyone who has, you know, issues with their gender is mentally ill.
That's not what I'm saying.
But she clearly has mental illness issues.
She's struggling.
She's struggling.
And to idolize someone for being like, oh, today she's a boy, today she's a girl.
She's non-binary.
It's like, she's struggling.
She's literally struggling and she needs like support and love.
And like, maybe we should be more loving.
But also it's like you're influencing children who are getting their parts removed.
So it's like you need to take responsibility for that.
And if you want to have these like trials within your own mind, like do it privately until you know who you are.
Like instead of doing in front of everybody and like encouraging young children to splice and dice their gender.
Splice and dice.
Slice and dice.
Yeah.
And I mean, I am very glad actually that she's reverting back to she, her pronouns.
I do think that's a win.
Well, she's a she.
Yeah.
That's excellent.
Only in 2022 can a woman be going by she, her be news.
Yeah.
That's news about it.
But it is a good thing.
Yeah.
It's a good thing.
Hopefully it means that maybe she'll influence people in like a more positive direction.
I don't know.
Possibly.
But, you know, she also did have a strange relationship with her ex that we would like to also, I think, discuss just before we talk about that.
And it goes to speaks to her troubled life as a Hollywood star, as a teen star.
Yeah.
A child star, really.
But yes, she dated Will Wilmer Valderama, who played Fez on that 70s show and some other stuff, but not really credible.
Right.
And she's now, so she dated him when she was, she had just turned 18 and he was, I guess, 30, but they met when she was 17 and he was 29.
So she has this new song on her upcoming album.
Yes, her album is called Holy F V C K, which is the perfect album name for someone who claims to be a Christian.
Hilarious.
Yeah.
And so a snippet from one of the soon to be released songs titled 29 was it surfaced on TikTok and it appears to make a few shady references to her ex Wilmer.
So I guess they had an on-again, off-again relationship for a while.
So I didn't know, I knew that they dated, but I didn't, I never really knew their age difference because I didn't.
I didn't either.
I just didn't pay attention.
So at the time, she, like, I looked, looking back, she said at the time that he was adamant not to date her until she turned 18.
Like he, she said in her words that he was like, you're not 18.
Get away from me.
Like, so at the time, she had no problem and she didn't think he was a creep and he, she didn't feel like she was being groomed.
Yeah.
And then now, because she's 29, there is a line in her, one of her songs about consent.
And I think it's like she's, I don't know if it's an accusation.
Well, she probably feels like a bit manipulated because one of, I mean, in her defense, like when, like, we're, we're 17, but we are also almost 30.
I'm more than 30.
But, like, you have your life together in a different way when you're, than, when you're 30 versus 17.
18 is so young.
So young.
You're fresh out of high school for a normal person.
I don't even remember, honestly.
Yeah, it was 100 years ago and you were just being free, trying to get your first boyfriend.
Yeah.
And like, you know, you're about to try alcohol for the first time in some instances.
Like, you're, you have no life experience.
You're still living at home.
And this person's 30 years old.
They hopefully have their life together.
They probably own property.
They probably had a pet before they were.
They probably had multiple loves.
Yeah.
Like heartbreaks.
Yeah, like lost family members.
Exactly.
They've traveled.
They've done school.
They've made a little money.
Like such a huge age gap.
And it's like, okay, sure, maybe it's different when he's 50 and you're 30.
I mean, you know, whatever, whatever floats your boat.
But like, it's like, it's creepy because she's kind of an adolescent.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Even if she is a consenting adult at 18.
Yeah.
It's like one week it's gross and a no-no.
And then the next week because she's 18, it's like all good.
Yeah.
Like, no.
Full steam ahead.
Yeah.
And you're like, I don't know.
I respect that he didn't break the law according to her, but like she feels used or, or, or she's using it because she is, and it goes back to the pronoun thing.
Like she is, and the cookies, remember the cookies?
Oh, yeah.
Like she got mad at a at a sugar-free bakery.
We had the Froyo place.
Oh, yeah, the Froyo place, whatever it was, some place that was selling sugar-free cookies because it was like fat phobic.
She's an attention horror.
Yeah, so, so maybe she's seeing what in my life could possibly be construed as trauma when she's already experienced so much trauma.
Like, so I, I don't know.
I don't want to assume that because she likes to hop on the pity party train a lot.
Yeah.
And she likes to suffer clout.
Yes.
And so the problem is it's literally the boy who cried wolf.
When you get mad at a Froyo shop or a bakery for having sugar-free cookies and you say that that's trauma, but then you actually experience legitimate trauma.
Trauma And Hookups00:02:04
It's really hard for people to be like.
To sympathize.
Exactly.
Like I do, we sympathize, but it's like, yeah.
And you're calling him a rapist, but at the time, it's really hard to disseminate.
Is that the right word?
I don't know.
To figure out what's true and what's not, because this person, she, her woman, is always coming up with something to be upset about.
Well, yeah.
And to that point, it kind of reminds me of the whole Me Too movement a little bit because women were reflecting on past hookups and they were like, oh, I was sexually assaulted.
And it's like, no, it was just bad sex.
And now you're going back.
Yeah.
And it's just like when Lauren Southern went to that women's march with Milo Enopoulos and she held up a sign that said, Regret isn't rape.
Yeah.
And it's like, yeah, because there was a time not too long ago when people were like, oh, yeah, like, just like you said, like, oh, I felt awkward the next day.
It's like, that's called a hookup.
Yeah.
That's a hookup.
It's called having sex with strangers.
Yeah.
And you regret it.
And then you're like, that's rape.
It's like, exactly.
And to that as well, it's like, okay, that saying those kinds of hookups are assault, much like, you know, Demi Demi is kind of seemingly accusing Wilmer of taking advantage of her, is that it minimizes real assault victims.
Yeah.
And maybe she is one.
Of course.
Yeah.
Maybe she is.
And I'm not sure.
Of course.
Yeah.
Like, older.
We don't know what happened.
The problem is she's always coming up with some crazy.
We said this.
We get it.
We know.
She's always crazy.
Boy, Crowdwolf Demi, but I do sympathize with her.
And we'll try.
She has trouble.
She has trauma, clearly.
Like, look at her.
Yeah, look at her.
Look at her.
All right.
Speaking of trouble.
Actually, okay, this is not trouble.
This is just kind of trouble.
You walked in.
Beautiful way to intro this one.
Thank you.
You guys, you are all our listeners are.
I'm going to stop listening.
Taylor Swift is preparing a new album.
And I just, I just want to talk about something light for like three seconds.
I'm sweet.
We love her.
I love her.
We love her.
We love her.
Remember, we found out that we both loved her.
Yeah.
Oh, the white blonde girls love Taylor Swift.
Yeah.
Yeah, we do.
We do love her.
Taylor Swift's New Album00:02:42
I don't care if she's Illuminati, all you people in the comments.
She's my favorite Illuminati.
She's my favorite Illuminati.
I actually hated her for most of my life.
Me too.
And then I was like, no.
And then the Red album came out, and I was like, I was, for me, it was 1989.
I was really late, but I was like, all right.
It was like, oh, just, it's so good.
It's so good.
She's amazing.
So basically, she has a new album coming out.
And it's interestingly enough, it'll be not about breakups, but her budding romance with actor Joe Alwyn.
So actually, it could suck.
It could, because breakups are kind of like a lot of people.
People do love her heartbreak.
Yes.
So we'll have to wait and see, but this is her first album in two years.
Her last two albums were incredible.
Amazing.
Okay, so, but on that point, they're like, oh, it's her first album in two years.
It's like, she gave us two albums in that year.
And she re-recorded Red this year for fearless a while back then.
She's redoing 1989.
Exactly.
So basically.
So please leave her alone.
She's doing great.
She's putting out more music than all y'all.
Yeah.
She's a star.
Anyways, whatever.
She's a star.
I'm a hater.
We hate.
She's chill.
Whatever.
I can be objective.
She's whatever.
But she's also apparently the celeb with the worst private jet carbon emissions.
And of course, the jokes have begun.
They've begun.
I can't think of one.
But so there was this private.
Okay, I'll just read a quote from this article.
Private, is it the same one, BuzzFeed?
Yes, okay.
Private jet discourse has peaked after marketing and analysis agency YARD released a list that purported to rank celebrities with the worst private jet carbon emissions since the start of the year.
The list ranked Taylor Swift as the biggest celebrity CO2 polluter with her private jet reportedly emitting more than 8,000 tons during the total of 170 flights since January.
Now, we recall like two weeks ago, Kylie Jenner was being called a climate criminal for her three-minute flight or whatever it was.
I found Drake as well.
I think he flew to like Hamilton or something and redoing like 40 minutes from here.
Yeah.
However, my theory is that Chris Jenner, the devil of all devils, is getting ahead of it.
And she's like, this is, again, tinfoil hat, non-fact.
My theory is that Chris Jenner's like, hello, Yard.
You need to make a list.
Sounds just like her.
You need to make a list and put Kylie at the bottom of it.
So, yes.
And again, it's very possible that this is a real thing that was done and that Taylor Swift's jet does pollute more than Kylie Jenner's.
Her rep has said that Taylor Swift often lends or rents out her jet to other people and that.
But, you know, it is still your jet, babe.
So your jet, your emissions.
Sorry.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I think the moral of the story is you got bad blood with Greta.
Why Kylie Shouldn't Be First00:14:15
And you should watch your back.
Yeah, honestly, I don't care when rich people fly in jets.
I just don't like when they tell me not to eat like use plastic spoons.
Exactly.
She's never said that to me.
We're looking at you, Leo.
And by the way, Kim Kardashian was on that list, and she's someone who's trying to get us eat bugs and beyond meat and all that crap.
So like, take your plane.
Even if, like, that's another thing when it's like, oh, the average celebrity emits this much more than the average citizen.
It's like, yeah, but there's like 1% of them and 99% of us.
So like.
Yeah.
And again.
They're rich.
Let them do what they want.
Yeah.
What would you do if you had a private jet?
You'd be flying.
You would be flying to the doctor's office down the street.
And again, as long as they ain't telling us how to live, I don't really.
Exactly.
Let them do what they want to do.
It's jealous.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, let's move on to something more interesting.
Another blonde.
The blonde.
The blonde.
There's a new Marilyn Monroe bio pic because they've never made one of those before.
No, we don't have enough.
No.
It's called Blonde.
And it's about Marilyn Monroe.
But it's also about Norma Jean.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
The real Mary.
What's her last name?
Norma Jean something McOthers.
I wrote it down.
Whatever.
Norma Jean.
So, okay.
Anna DeArmis, who's a Cuban actress, Cuban-American actress, has been cast as Marilyn Monroe.
She looks really very much like her.
She looks gorgeous.
She looks so much better.
Like, if we can show a pic.
She's so beautiful.
She is stunned.
It's painful.
So on the right is, I'm sorry, on the left is DeArmis, and then on the right is Marilyn.
It's like, who's who?
You can really, you can barely tell.
Yeah, they're gorgeous.
Yes.
Now, the issue that people are having with this is that Anna DeArmis has a Cuban accent.
And she didn't lose it for the movie, which I think would be hard.
Like, actors should do accents.
I just don't cast her then.
I'm sorry.
Like, if you're cast as the Queen of England, you better have a British accent.
If you're cast as a cowboy, you better have a Southern accent.
And I was going to say, like, if you were cast as like a Cuban like pop star, you should have a Cuban accent.
Yeah.
So if you're an American icon, one could argue you should have a perfect American accent.
Yes.
However, she does, like, I saw the trailer.
Did you see the trailer?
No.
It looks so good.
I bet it's going to be a good thing.
The accent wouldn't stop me from watching it.
It's all black and white, and she looks like she's really like acting.
She's just like, not just doing the glamour.
Yeah, exactly.
No, I agree.
I just think like it's another example of Hollywood rewriting history in a way because like movies, this is a movie about a real person.
It's supposed to reflect their life.
So the person playing Marilyn should reflect Marilyn 100%.
Like if we're going to start doing this with actors, then I get to play Malcolm X in another movie or something.
Like you're blurring the lines here.
It's like we can't, like, we need to be historically accurate to an extent unless it's like a spoof or like a comedy or something, I think, because otherwise it's giving me 1984 vibes in a way because it's like, okay, we can just completely rewrite history by casting someone who does not properly reflect the character 100%.
And it's not that she's Cuban.
It's just that she doesn't, she has a Cuban accent.
Exactly.
And Marilyn Monroe did not have a Cuban accent.
Now, I will point out that Tom Cruise cannot do accents.
Right.
He is the worst at accents, but he gets called out for it.
And he's like, really not a good actor.
I would argue.
I don't think so either.
Like, he's just very confident.
He's very confident.
And it's awesome at stunts.
Like, he's super, he's a superstar in many ways, but like a method actor, not one of them.
Yeah, and it's kind of interesting because the president and chief marketing officer of Authentic Brands Group, which owns Marilyn's estate, told TMZ that Anna has artfully captured the essence of Marilyn's voice.
It's like, but how?
Yeah.
It's like it's like a breathy, sexy.
It's like, well, I've seen Margaret do that a million times.
Yeah.
And Margaret, who's one of our colleagues, has a Canadian-American accent.
So it kind of works.
She looks better.
She actually looks like her.
Alternatively, I was thinking Carrie Mulligan, but I think Carrie Mulligan should play everyone.
Yeah.
And then Brad Pitt also defended her, but it's interesting because Brad Pitt's producing the movie.
So of course he's publicly, his production company, Plan B, is producing the movie.
So it's like, of course, he's going to say she's amazing.
Yeah.
Like, hello.
He doesn't want to lose money.
He's like, no, she's terrible.
Yeah.
She can't do that.
She can't do it.
Get her out of here.
Get her out of her.
Yeah.
It's so funny.
So I will still be watching the film.
Yes, me too.
It looks amazing.
And I love a black and white.
Me too.
I just, it's also funny, though, because people were upset about Kim Kardashian wearing the dress, but like they seem to be okay.
People in Hollywood seem to be okay with having this actress play her.
It's kind of like just, and you know what?
I bet that Anna DeArmus didn't wear a single one of Marilyn's actual dresses for this movie.
I don't know that for a fact, but like you're probably.
Tomorrow, Kim, you had a replica made.
I'll say it again.
Just wear the replica.
Wear the replica.
Kim, hello.
Heller.
Oh, my God.
She is just exhausting.
She's exhausting, and so is Brad Pitt, apparently.
Why is Brad Pitt?
Is he okay?
Is he okay?
I don't think so.
Because he's wearing burlap-looking skirts to premieres now.
So there's a new movie of his called Bullet Train.
No one's going to watch it.
Who knows?
Which is why he probably wore a skirt.
Yeah, but he wore a skirt and they're like, oh my God, he's showing off his legs.
It's like, yep, that's a skirt.
It's an ugly skirt.
Maybe that helps.
Like, maybe because it's so ugly, it's like, it looks to me like a suffragette skirt, but like a little shorter.
It's like, we just want all rights.
It's horrifying.
It looks like someone just found it on the street.
They're like, I guess.
Like he like pooped himself and he's like, I need something to wear.
It's a bad fit.
It's not a good fit.
And when asked, he said, when asked why he's wearing the skirt, he said, I don't know.
We're all going to die.
So let's mess it up.
It's like, I think the real reason is that you're an irrelevant person and you want attention.
Honestly, if you want to mess things up, go skydiving.
I was going to say, yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot of things you can do to mess things up.
Also, like, what a weird philosophy.
First of all, do you know something we don't know, Mr. Pitt?
Like, we're all going to die when?
Yeah.
You're a lot older than me.
Like, I have some time.
Also, like, we're all going to die.
So just throw your baby off a cliff.
Like, like, what?
The logic's not quite there, Brad.
It's not there, Brad.
It's not there.
I feel like he knows something.
Like, is there a meteor coming that they only told celebrities about?
And they're like, wear your skirts.
We're all going to die.
It's like, I plan on looking cute.
I want to die really cute.
I want to die looking amazing.
Like, Marilyn Monroe, cute.
I want to be like those, you know, in Pompeii.
Yes.
I want to be like an adorable, like, crusted corpse.
She will be.
Thank you.
I just, one final word on this is that this trend of men wearing skirts is the least sexy thing ever.
Unless you're 14.
Unless you're maybe 12.
Like when I was 14, I was obsessed with Orlando Bloom.
Did he wear skirts?
I don't think so.
But now I look back and I'm like, eh.
You know, like, I guess if you're a teenage girl, you like something soft.
You don't, like, when you're a teenage girl, you're not like, ooh, that manly man with a hairy chest.
Exactly.
Like, oh, he's so smooth.
Yeah.
That's true.
You don't want Wolverine when you're in the middle.
No, exactly.
But when you grow into a Walmart.
But, you know, even then, as a young youth, as a young, innocent youth, I did not want my men in skirts.
Times has changed.
Times have changed.
All those girls are them's days.
Thems, they're.
And they're like, well, someone's got to wear the skirt.
Brad, you can have thems.
No, we can't.
That's illegal.
That's illegal.
Are you 59?
You're sick of it, bro.
You're so sick.
Hey.
Anyway, you look a frump.
You look frumpy.
Girl, girl.
Brad, girl.
Brad, them, girl.
You're a frump.
You get a better skirt.
You're a frump, and you're a frumpy bitch.
That's it.
All right, we got one final topic for you all today.
All right, let's talk about ableism.
This is a really, really serious you guys.
You ableist gumbags.
Just so you guys know, Beyonce, who released an album, her seventh studio album on July 29th, confirmed.
She's so big of her.
She's going to remove the ableist slur from a song on her new album.
And what's the word cat?
Trigger warning.
The word is spaz.
What?
Yes, I'm so sorry.
What does that word mean?
I didn't write it down, but it means oh.
To go crazy.
That was the original.
That's the meaning.
That's the meaning of the word.
If you look it up in the dictionary.
Yes.
So the line in the song, please sing it for me.
In the song Heated.
I haven't heard the song, but I'll just make up my own.
Spazzing on the ass.
Spaz on that ass.
Thank you.
Well, that sounds ableistist.
Yes.
I just wanted to note that like 50 years ago, people would have been protesting the word ass.
And it's the same people, the same types of people that are now protesting the word spaz.
They're like, we're fine with ass.
Ew, don't be a bigot.
Ass is fine, but spaz I have a problem with.
And I guess that most of the people who are complaining have no disabilities.
Yeah.
Like maybe like two of them are offended.
Whatever.
That's fine.
But I bet you it's mostly like white suburban moms who are like.
And it's just really, really sad because we're literally going back in time.
Like, I wrote down a quote here, but it's basically Elvis Presley.
He was never arrested, but a judge threatened to arrest him for gyrating his hips.
Like when he did that Elvis dance, they literally were like, we need to charge him with a crime.
Because it's too hot.
Because it's too hot.
And people were like losing their minds and girls were fainting and stuff.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, seriously.
It's not happening to you, Brad.
Yes.
Exactly.
So Elvis.
It's like, it's the same thing happening now.
Yeah.
But it's just a different word and a different group of people getting offended by it.
But those same people would literally have been the kinds of people to get offended by the word ass in Pelvis's in the 50s.
Yeah, it's just embarrassing.
And we've talked about this on the show a thousand times.
If something offends you, turn it off.
And I'm actually a little surprised that Queen Bee, Queen Bay, I don't know, I don't really like Beyoncé, but I'm surprised that she, of all people, caved because she's one of those people where it's like, you could never be canceled.
People will always love your music for whatever reason.
So just she sings.
She sings about this kind of stuff all the time, like about how her producers tell her to do this and she's like, nah, I'm going to do it my way.
And she's so bad and whatever.
And she doesn't do it for the ratings.
She won't do it for the radio edit.
So it's why now?
It's embarrassing.
Why now?
Is it because you're rolling too closely with the Clintons or something?
And they're like, you got to be more politically correct if you want to stay in the business.
Like, I don't know.
That's Hillary.
Was she here?
Hillary?
Hillary, don't murder me.
Where's my pantsuit?
So Lizzo made this exact same ableist slur like recently, and she also removed it and put out like a statement about like, she's learning and it was a mistake.
So my thing is like either Beyoncé didn't know that happened, knew it happened, but didn't care.
Well, those are the only two.
Well, and people.
Like she thinks she's too more famous than Lizzie.
Which she absolutely is.
She is.
But people are saying that there's no excuse, even if she herself didn't hear it because someone on her team must have known.
It's like maybe they just don't give a crap about Lizzo.
But they true.
Maybe they don't care about Lizzo, but like I was going to say, like, oh, maybe she's just pushing the boundaries.
But it's no, the boundaries are pushing her and the boundaries are pushing art back.
Yeah.
Like, like, just like Elvis Presley, they tried to stop his pelvis.
His hips didn't quit.
His hips did not quit.
And now the word ass and pelvic gyrations, free to go.
And like art should be art.
And sometimes it offends me.
Like, we've seen things where we're like, oh, like, that's nasty.
I just don't watch it.
I don't want, I wouldn't want my children to watch it.
Like, I can criticize it, but to have it canceled and removed from the zeitgeist is literally 1984.
And there is a line, obviously, where things kind of could become actually unsafe or they are really just depraved and evil.
Well, yeah, like calling threats of murder, anything like that.
Like there's a line for everything, of course, but this is not crossing that line.
No.
This is truly harmless.
And I think in both songs, they're using the meaning of the word the way it's limited.
They're not using the definition of the word.
Exactly.
They're not trying to throw stones at any group of people.
Like, I don't think their heart was in the wrong place here.
So y'all need to chill out, you spazzes.
I want to read a quote from 1984, which talks about some similar topic.
It says, don't you see that the whole aim of New Speak is to narrow the range of thought?
In the end, we shall make thought crime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.
So we're literally just killing vocabulary because, and this is a little different because this is about offensive, like being offensive.
And in 1984, it's like more than that.
It's like they don't even want you to have words to describe things so that you can't even think about them.
But we're like going down that road.
Yeah, it's a slippery stone.
It's extremely terrifying.
Yeah.
It's very dangerous.
And I think we're just going to continue to see this happen more and more.
And then what will we be able to do or say?
This show will be canceled.
Yeah.
Well, I was going to say, like, if we keep on this trend, the only words and songs that you'll be able to use are like love and baby.
Yeah.
But even those, it's like, well, what about people without love?
What about people without babies?
Yeah, what about people who can't have babies?
They cut those words.
What is a baby?
It's just going to be love.
But what about people without lips?
Yeah, it's just, you can't win.
You can't win.
And this show is going to get canceled.
The mob.
Oh, yeah, that's better.
I just said this show is going to be canceled, but I think she's.
We'll be like Krusty in that episode of The Simpsons when Saijo Bob takes, kills television and then Krusty finds one station and then he goes on it and he, anyways.
We'll be like, we'll be like that.
It'll be like the prohibition.
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Yes, we'll do a version of this.
Anyway, I think that's the sure.
I think that's the sure.
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