Thank you to those who reached out to me after yesterday’s podcast to inform me that Steve. I don’t really think Kelly Clarkson is going to move back to LA. She moved to New York. With her children for her TV show. And that was the one thing I didn’t know yesterday.
Remember? I was like, wait, is her TV show in LA or New York? Well, you corrected me. It’s in New York. So I guess we can officially eliminate her from being a host on American idol next season. Lionel Richie said his two replacements for Katie would be either Taylor Swift or Kelly Clarkson. Kelly’s out and look, is there a 1 percent chance American idol just says, fuck it.
Let’s throw. Gob smacking amount of money at Taylor Swift and see if she does it. Like if you’re Taylor Swift and I know money isn’t an issue to her. She’s got enough money that her children’s children’s children’s children’s children are going to be set for life. But would she do it for 50 million a season?
Like Ryan Seacrest makes like, I think 15 to 18 million a season just to host American idol. The judges I think are all around 10 to 12. I think Katie makes the most, but they make, you know, a ridiculous amount of money for being on that show where they don’t even have to coach them. They’re just judges.
Would it create too much of an imbalance if you bring in Katie Perry to sit alongside Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, where she’s making triple what they make? Will they be like, Hey, if you’re bringing her in and giving her 50, can we get a bump in pay? I, you know, I don’t know, like, I, like I said, there’s 1 percent chance that Taylor Swift becomes judge.
I’m just saying if I’m American idol, just like I said about SNL, if I’m SNL, I at least make the call. I at least say, can we make it work? I said, SNL should have had Taylor Swift be the musical guest and Travis Kelsey host again. He did it last year. He could have done it again, but I don’t know why. Maybe they did reach out and maybe it just could not with their schedules work out.
I’m not sure. If you’re American Idol, you got to at least reach out, right? Gauge her interest. Ask her what money would you ask her here? Here’s a blank check. Taylor, how much would it take for you to be a judge for a season? And just scratch that check because I look, everything she touches turns to gold.
Is it going to go back to 35 million viewers a week? Like it was in its heyday? No, not even close, but it’s getting like 4 million viewers a week, maybe five. If Taylor Swift became a judge on that show, their ratings would double, if not two and a half to three times. Just because her fans would want to tune in to see her.
They would care less about the singing competition. They wouldn’t even probably care to vote. Maybe they would. I mean, obviously a few of them would, but I don’t think that matters. Your whole point is how do people watch American Idol again and make it appointment viewing? You know how you make Taylor Swift, a judge, I’m sure they would love to have her as a judge, takes two to tango.
She has to want to do it and they have to agree to terms and I just, you know, like I said, in 2024, I find it impossible ’cause she’s still touring in 2024 until November. So it looks like 2024 is out, which means if you hire somebody next season, the 2020 five American Idol, which is gonna film a lot of its judges stuff and the auditions at the, you know, fall of 2024.
You would need her there and it doesn’t look like she can be there. And I don’t think you would bring in a judge for one year and then the next year, bring in Taylor Swift. So it looks like it’s a pipe dream. Like I said, it’s a 1 percent chance, but I would at least gauge her interest for maybe the future seasons, unfortunate news in a bachelor nation.
The trolls. Really jumped on Claire Crawley. Why? Because they didn’t like the filter she used on her Instagram stories. And basically we’re calling her out. And, you know, Claire put out on her Instagram stories yesterday, if you listened to this before, probably, you know, Instagram stories are up 24 hours.
I don’t know when I saw it, it was maybe 6 or 7pm, so it’ll be up for a few more hours today if you want to go. But I want you to go to Claire’s Instagram stories, probably still up, and she posted some of the messages that she got. Let me read one of them to you. Here’s one. Too much work done to your face, so sad.
Your face is swollen, looks bad. I’m not hating, but we see that you have had something done. No need to post random a year later about wisdom teeth, LOL. Desperate content. Did someone really say, I’m not hating, and then just flat out insult her? Yes. That would be the answer to that question. Claire goes on to say, because of everything that she’s been to, she had x plants, she had her implants removed, she had x plant surgery, She’s had to be taking a steroid to combat her.
She also has autoimmune deficiencies and. Or autoimmune, she’s had some sort of autoimmune problems in her body. And so she’s had to take steroids for it. And unfortunately the steroids are puffing up her face. And she even admits in the video become very insecure about it. And then she has to read that.
From people you’ve gotten too much work done on your face. Like, you know, we talk about this all the time, but
it’s just so easy to say that to somebody behind a computer screen. Who the fuck do you think you are saying that to somebody that you don’t even know? I mean, the best way to describe it is. If you walked by Claire in the grocery store, or anybody in this franchise in the grocery store, the thing that you’re writing to them behind your fake screen name, would you say to their face?
Someone met Claire in the grocery store and went up to her and said, Hey, man, your face looks bad. Too much work done. Desperate content. No, you wouldn’t in a million years. So that’s what I mean. I feel so bad for Claire. She’s a new mother. Probably very, very hormonal. And then she has to read that. And she even admitted, I mean, she was, she was basically crying in her Instagram story saying how much it got to her and it just like, yeah.
I get it. Of course. I don’t. I, how could it not get to you when all you’re doing is taking medication that’s having an adverse effect on your body somewhere and people are pointing it out saying you get, you’ve got work done to your face.
Oh, this franchise, I swear this fan base, just a bunch of awful, awful, sad, pathetic, lonely individuals. And again, I would just love it. I would just love it. And I’m, I’m a little disappointed in Claire that she didn’t post the Instagram handle of this person. She should’ve. That absolutely warranted that person being called out.
You’re going to say that to somebody behind a screen name in your Instagram account, that person, Instagram account should be made public to everyone else because they would get so much shit that would probably force them to create a new account. Or at least shut that one down. And that’s the whole goal, because if you have the balls to say that to somebody behind a screen name, a fake screen name, or maybe it wasn’t, maybe it was legit Instagram account where it’s like the person’s face, their name, I don’t know.
She just, she just cut and pasted the message, but man, I would just love to know the person behind that account. That says that to her, what they look like, what they’ve written before, what’s in their bio. You know, I mean, this is, it’s, it’s, it’s sad and pathetic, but you know, I don’t know, send Claire a positive message after that, because I’m sure she was pretty down having to deal with a loser like that.
And finally, did you know that we’re in the middle of an April palindrome for 10 straight days, starting on April 20th. Today’s obviously April 26th. Happy birthday, mom. April 26th is so from April 20th to April 29th, we have a palindrome. Do you know what that is? If you remember from school, each date.
When you write out 4 20 24, reads the same backwards and forwards for 10 straight days. 4 20, starting on April 20th to April 29th, 4 20 24 backwards reads 4 20 24. Same with 4 21, 4 22, all the way to 4 29. So today is 4 26 24 backwards reads 4 26 24. Cool little nugget! I thought we’d end the podcast with that.
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