Haven’t talked about Holly Madison in a while. She was one of the women from Girls Next Door where we saw Hugh Hefner have three girlfriends. It was on E for a long time. I’ve told you my story about Holly Madison. That goes all the way back to my radio days in the early two thousands in Los Angeles.
Real quick review. Every Monday night we went to Hooters on Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica to our, our drive time show from three to seven, broadcasted from Hooters during Monday night football. So from September to December. And I was not a host on that show, but I was the engineer that would set up all the equipment.
And I remember every Monday night we were going there, it’s basically the same waitresses every Monday night. And one of the waitresses there was always on roller skates. And I was like, wow, that’s kind of dangerous, especially when she’s carrying around food and drinks. But there was a rollerskating waitress at the Hooters in Santa Monica, obviously I saw her every week for 16 weeks.
And then, you know, I can’t remember how many years later, but girls next door, girls next door, girls next door becomes a show on e and. Holly Madison looks really, really familiar and, but I couldn’t picture, I couldn’t pinpoint what I remembered her from. And then when I googled Holly Madison, if you go to a Wikipedia page, it says she worked at Hooters as the roller skating waitress.
So I knew her before she became that big and half’s girlfriend anyway. Getting back to the current story at hand, she accused her ex-boyfriend, Zach Baggins. I have no idea who that is. Is he related to Bilbo? She put out an Instagram story starting on Saturday and or actually yesterday. Right? Well, it says it’s a perfect day for me and not just my ex, who I just found out was cheating on me with at least three other girls.
Never too late to find out. LOL. And then she had a second post that went up and said, wait, the count is now up to four girls and they all have major receipts. Let’s see what this number gets up to by the end of the day, feel free to place bets. I’ll keep you posted. And then a few hours later, she put up another post that said It’s up to five girls now.
And then in a fourth post yesterday, she said the number is up to seven women with receipts. Now, for those keeping track, some people were cheating in bulk. So that was the last story I saw. I don’t know how many more, put put it this way, is it, do we really think it’s gonna stop at seven? It’s just a matter of how many women have seen this that have been with this Billbo Baggins guy and decided to contact Holly and say, yeah, me too.
Sorry. So I just thought it was funny the way she kept updating her Instagram story to fill us in on how many more women had contacted her to say, yeah I was with your boyfriend. Which I’m sure he lied to those women about who Holly was to him and, oh, we’re not, we’re not together anymore. We’re broken up.
So he could get with them and yeah, boy, men really, that that game is so old. That’s like one of the oldest games in the book. And to see that it’s happening to Holly, you know, sucks for her. And even though she’s at seven, as the time of at, as of the time of this recording, my guess is that number’s getting bigger for sure.
And finally wanted to end with a little American Idol. We are down now to our final five as Disney Night was last night. Went from seven down to five, one, I’m not surprised. Went home. One, I’m very surprised. Went home and Lynn Manuel Miranda was the mentor for the week. There were just a couple things that jumped out to me on those performances.
I remember when. Lin Manuel Miranda was coaching Brianna, and one of the biggest things he gave her was the biggest tips he gave her was, I want you to open your eyes when you sing, especially on this song she sang, refre reflection from, that’s from Milan, right? I know Christina Aguilera sang it. I actually saw Christine Aguilera sing that in Vegas at her when she had a residency there.
Great song. But Linda Manuel Miranda told Brianna, I want you to open up your eyes when you sing this. And then I watched her sing the song and she had her eyes closed for a lot of it. So doesn’t mean she didn’t sing it well, but she didn’t really listen to the advice, and I’m sure she tried. But if you’re used to hitting a high note and your eyes closing and concentrating, yeah, it’s probably not easy to sing with your eyes open, but I just remember that specifically.
She ended up making the top five. Another person that ended up making the top five is John Foster. And as we talk about all the time with music and comedy, totally subjective. There just is no rhyme or reason why people like certain comedians, people like certain music, and just because you like a comedian, somebody might think that they are the most unfunny person in the world and vice versa.
Same with music. You might like music, you might dislike music. Oh my gosh, I love that singer. And some people might, might be like, I, what? For me, John Foster is not a star. He seems to be a guy that would do well singing at county fairs and in like small dive bars. He just, he doesn’t scream star to me at all.
And I guarantee there’s somebody listening right now that’s screaming. And not related to John Foster. Doesn’t know John Foster. I’m sure he’s a great guy, but for me, he’s not an American Idol. No way. I just, I, I don’t see it now. Watch him end up winning. ’cause my predictions have sucked this year. Slater was the one I predicted at top 24.
I said I, this guy’s making the final three and we’re basically one show away from him making the final three. ’cause I, I’m assuming they eliminate two more tonight. And we’re gonna be down to our final three next week. And the finale is probably next week. But. I had Maddie in my final three at Top 24, and the second last week that she was in the bottom two.
I was like, well, she’s not long for the show, especially to be in the bottom two at Final Eight. You’re pretty much gone the next episode. And that’s exactly what happened. Gabby was the one that surprised me last night. I. Thought that she connected with the audience. I thought she was the best female vocalist on the show.
Very surprised that she went home. But it just, you know, this is a popularity contest. It doesn’t mean that Gabby can’t have a better career than somebody who lasted longer on the show. We’ve seen seen that thousands of times on this, well, not thousands, but we’ve seen that a lot on this show. It doesn’t matter where you finish, it just matters what you do from this point forward.
So we have our final five and four of them are men, thunderstorm, Artis, John Foster, Jamal Roberts, Slater, Nally, and Brianna is her last name. Nicks, I’m totally blanking on it. I don’t know why Nicks is coming to it. Maybe. Maybe that is her last name. But anyway, Brianna is the only woman in the Final Five.
So now if you’re asking me who the final three is. I’ll go
Slater, Brianna, and Thunderstorm. I, I don’t know. I mean, I’m just guessing at this point we have really nothing to go off of, but I’ll go with those three and I’ll probably be wrong, but I, I would hope that we’re getting final three after tonight’s episode. Right. If we do, then what Next Sunday night would be down to the final three?
And then Monday night, probably the three hour finale is, is my guess. So it’s been a good season. I mean, when I look at these Final five Thunderstorm, John, Jamal Slater, Brianna, I, I can’t sit here and say even I think that any one of them is like, oh my gosh. Mega star in the hap in, in the works. Just because in recent seasons, whoever’s one idol has not gone on to be any sort of megastar.
They’ve done well for themselves, I think, but. None of them jump off the page at me. It just good singers, you know, good singers and I just leave it at that. Anyway, thank you all for listening. Really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcast. Also rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts.
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