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Today I'm joined by the wonderful Thuy Dam who is a Chinese Face Reader and helps us this week to analyze celebrity faces! Join us as we observe the most unique looking celebrities (as well as celebrity plastic surgery before and afters and what that means for their personality) and speculate on how their face impacts their life.

0:00 101 on Chinese Face Reading

5:12 How does plastic surgery change face reading?

8:41 Anya Taylor Joy and Halle Bailey

14:05 Lily Rose Depp

16:14 Benedict Cumberbatch

20:07 Sarah Jessica Parker

22:18 Cillian Murphy

25:58 Natalie Dormer

28:18 Timothee Chalamet

29:48 Angelina Jolie

34:00 Rihanna

35:05 Lana del Rey

38:41 Zac Efron

41:20 Ariana Grande

43:00 Olivia Munn

44:58 Bella Hadid

46:44 Taylor Swift

49:49 Selena Gomez

52:55 Mole placements

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This episode comes from our Patreon bank, where we talked about Timbaland, his blind items, his relationships with Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliot and much more. We take a journey through his music and explore the background behind his most popular songs.

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From Jeff Bezos professing his (smell worthy) love to Lauren Sanchez, to Anthony Weiner chatting on Facebook about some of the most x rated things I've seen - this week we dive into a variety of different celebrities who have had their DMs leaked (usually by an angry relationship or affair partner)!

Timestamps:

8:00 Jeff Bezos messages

20:04 Anthony Weiner messages

35:05 Elizabeth Holmes messages

39:45 Tiger Woods messages

51:45 Salman Rushdie messages

55:58 David Boreanaz messages

59:50 Adam Levine messages

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This week we had on The Bizarre AF to talk about all types of castration conspiracy theories - from the celebrity minded (Michael Jackson) to the cultural and historical (castration in history and around the globe) to some of the scary (castration cults). Join us for a palm sweat inducing episode!

1:00 Your favorite conspiracy theory

4:09 Castratos

6:39 History and information about castration

15:40 Castration for pedophiles

20:40 Was Michael Jackson chemically castrated?

29:02 Blind item about castration (lol there’s only one)

31:05 Female castration

35:25 Cell phones affecting sperm count

41:51 The cult of castration

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This week we welcome Bekah Day to the podcast for a talk all about grooming in Hollywood. We go over her Colleen Ballinger deep dive, and dive into some grooming instances in Hollywood that are confirmed (Jerry Seinfeld and R Kelly) as well as rumored (Drake and Jared Leto) as well as more. Shannon also shares an update at the beginning about her move to Denver!

Timestamps:

1:11 Moving to Denver update

22:00 Introducing Bekah

27:50 Grooming

35:36 Colleen Ballinger

43:07 Jerry Seinfeld

54:44 Drake

58:40 Jared Leto

1:00:40 R Kelly

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Today on the podcast we're joined by Tyler Bender of the Almond Mom pod to talk all about the Hadid family as it relates to the Almond Mom lifestyle. We dive into Yolanda, her almond quotes (haha), Bella and Gigi's relationship with food, and blind items that seem to follow the family over the years.

0:00 Intro and which celebrities we consider Almond Mom Types

6:28 Cece’s theory about food and sex

9:22 Diving into Yolanda Hadid

19:06 Yolanda Hadid and Lyme

21:40 Gigi Hadid’s journey with eating

29:40 Bella Hadid’s journey with eating

43:00 Blind items about the Hadid’s

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Dive deep and explore the vast ocean of conspiracies about the sea with us today! For today's episode of exploration we're joined by FluentlyForward Favorite Jenny from the Red Room podcast to talk all about mermaids, ocean lore, sea animals and more. 

Timestamps:

13:23 The ocean is space? Space is the ocean?

18:18 Octopus are aliens haha

24:27 The Marine Kingdom

40:36 Mermaid lore

49:02 Brine pools in the ocean

54:30 The mystery of the tagged shark

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Happy Friday everyone! Hope you're enjoying the new Speak Now re-record from Taylor Swift, hopping on for a quick mini episode to share initial thoughts on the album and vault tracks. If you ever want more FluentlyForward, come join us over on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/fluentlyforward 

Have a great weekend and see you Monday for a full length episode!

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Today Sophie Ross and I share our opinions on our most hated celebrities (and loved) and find that we share nearly all of the same opinions! This week we dive into blind items, the Meghan Markle Spotify drama, our takes on famous podcasters (Alex Cooper, Nick Viall, Emrata, etc.) as well as interactions we've had with celebrities where our b*tching about them was seen...by the celebrity themselves!

4:02 The current state of blind items

10:30 I hate Tom Hanks (lol)

13:30 Sophie hates Rachel Sennott and OctopusLover

18:12 The Meghan Markle Spotify drama

24:00 Our advice for Alex Cooper

27:55 We hate Nick Viall

34:56 Sophie got dragged by the Kardashians on Twitter

41:47 Our Madison Beer thoughts

45:46 Our Emrata thoughts

55:14 Celebrities we love

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Today we break down the new scandalous HBO show "The Idol" and explore why the show is so controversial, as well as diving into the two stars of the show - Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd (Abel). We discuss their romantic relationships, childhood, troubles, successes, blind items and more!

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