Halfsies

Brian is back from a week long vaycay, so he and Molly catch up on the Yashar Ali tea that dropped this week. Chrissy Tiegan's new apology, Pete Davidson's "ex-wife" Michelle Mootready moving on and of course, produce. They wrap it all up by taking a quiz designed to tell them how toxic they are to the online community. Spoiler: They both failed.

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The Curious Rise of Twitter Power Broker Yashar Ali

Twitter Superstar Yashar Ali got evicted by Kathy Griffin

"Hi again" by Chrissy Tiegan via Medium

Fashion designer Michael Costello says he was suicidal after threats from Chrissy Tiegan

What Happened Between Monica Rose and The Kardashians?

Tiegan's old tweet about Lindsay Lohan resurfaces

BuzzFeed Quiz: Sorry Babe, But You're an Online Nightmare if You Check 27/40 of These

Updated Bodega Cats Presents Website

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Stuck fetishism

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/woman-tiktok-fetish-stuck-chair-jaws-of-life

Lorde’s album art got memed:

https://twitter.com/foIkrav/status/1402142862607732739

https://twitter.com/firthism/status/1402178646547202050

https://twitter.com/rinasivy/status/1402141347352518656

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When viral TikToks blow up on Twitter, ugly truths come out. This weeks victim? The bee removal specialists Texas Bee Works, who TikTok knows as an Insta-ready one woman show known for scooping up the little stingers with her bare hands. Brian sheds some perspective as a parent on why teen retailers like Justice and Claire's have fallen out of favor. And of course there's plenty of discussion on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul PPV Exhibition and a little Jake/Logan incest fanfic to spice things up.

Links;

OrigInal TikTok about tweens skipping tween stage by BryanaVlogs

GymGuppies, a teacher, adds on to BryanaVlogs' theory

Mayweather/Paul fight rules

Body Talks by SayingYourName (via archiveofourown)

Texas Bee Works TT that went viral on Twitter

It's revealed that Texas Bee Works are Trump supporters

Female removal specialist exposes Texas Bee Works

Female removal specialist points out that Texas Bee Works removes "the wrong type" of bee

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Benito Skinner’s impression of Kourtney Kardashian post-Travis

Acoustic P***y

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Scientists say there’s a possibility that convicted felons could serve a life sentence in a handful of hours, but somehow it seems worse than just dying in jail. Molly and Brian really dig in to a “kooky modern love story” that played out over Twitter this week and frankly, they resent it. And as always, this is a podcast that’s horny for two things 1) food, 2) disgusting, unapologetic judgement and this week we doubled down.

Links! 

Woman Flies from Orlando to Portland to profess her love for a man, gets rejected 

R/FridgeDetective

“What about me”?

“New Case” 

“Went Grocery Shopping Yesterday”

“Should Be Easy Work, Dig Deep” 

“Supernova”

“NO FRIDGE FRIDAY” 

BuzzFeed Quiz: How Normal is Your Refrigerator? 

Prisoners Could Serve 1000 Year Sentence in 8.5 Hours

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Benito Skinner’s impression of Kourtney Kardashian post-Travis

Acoustic P***y

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Brian Beckner and Molly McAleer answer this week's biggest questions. Is it abusive to wake your spouse up every 15 min until dawn? Can a manicure manifest your dream boy? What hard lesson did John Mulaney's divorce teach his parasocially related fans? What the hell happened at Adrian's lil beach function? It's 10 PM, where are your children?

Links:

Gucci_Pineapple on TT via Horny4Bitcoin

Adrian's Kickback thread via Taylor Lorenz on Twitter

KCAL9 Report on Adrian's Kickback

This has happened in Huntington Beach before

BuzzFeed Quiz: Get Your Nails Done and We'll Tell You What Male Celeb You're Supposed to Be With

Johnny Fallon (Alarm Guy) becomes Twitter's main character

History of the Wife Guy via KnowYourMeme

Kevin Smith's Wife Guy moment

The Personal, Private and Parasocial of John Mulaney via Pajiba

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Does Shrek Actually Suck? and Smashmouth reacts

"That Teacher Who Spills All Her Personal Business" @nannymaw on TikTok

Molls' Fav TikToker Gucci_Pineapple aka Alden

KICKBACK - Myles Parrish x Scotty Sire x Heath Hussar (David Dobrik's Vlog Squad)

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Facebook might be catering to some unique fetishes. Chrissy Teigan is cancelled once again. Brian and Molls turn to fan-fic to process Bill Gates' affair and then they make t-shirts about it.

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What happened between Chrissy Teigan and Courtney Stodden

Products disappear from Target website

Pulled from Macy’s

Bill Gates left Microsoft in 2020 because of investigation 

Untitled (Bill/Steve Stockholm Syndrome)

ULTIMATE SPAGHETTI TRICK! Facebook video (Josh and Lisa)

ULTIMATE PARTY TRICK! Facebook video (Josh and Lisa)

TikTok Fetish Videos by Alli Baggett and Kelita Rosita: 1,2,3,4,5

NiceShirtThanks.com

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Streamer reacts to opening creased Pokemon

TikTok Creator with TBI goes viral for Bathroom DIY Disaster

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What did we think was going to happen? Molly talks about investing the $200 KFC from Barstool owes her in $DOGE the day of Elon Musk's SNL appearance and got hosed. Plus, they talk about the biggest baby names of 2021 and take a Buzzfeed Trending quiz to figure out how old they are. Oh, and Raya? It's done. Totally done.

Links:

TikTok from creator with autism re: Elon's diagnosis reveal

Ben Afflek's Raya encounter goes viral

Twitter introduces Tip Jar

Most popular baby names around the world

GUESS YOUR AGE BY YOUR CLASSMATE'S NAMES

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Chrissy Tiegan organized her fridge

Frequent AirPod users are getting the same ear fungus

LaKeith Stanfield is in some weird Clubhouse rooms

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Growing up a meme turned out to be worth a pretty penny for Disaster Girl. Taylor Swift fans theorized about the potential release of TS10/Woodvale/Lakeshore/Sea Shore/Red (Taylor's Version)/Speak Now (Taylor's Version)/1989 (Taylor's Version on April 30th. Cheugy became the unofficial breakout word of 2021. What's an apology dinner?

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Swiftie TikTokers:

ChampagneFolkie (Molls' favorite)

Oatmilk623

WillyWill1377

Stevensully1

Taylor Lorenz's NYT piece on cheugy

Disaster Girl makes $500k selling NFT

AITA for arranging a potluck for my sister's apology dinner?

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What do Disney World and Demi Lovato have in common? WOKENESS, AND TOO MUCH OF IT. #DietCultureVulture

Brian Beckner and Molly McAleer work through some personal stuff at the top of the show. Brian dives deeper into his failed commercial acting career and the inappropriate therapist who led him there. Molly acknowledges that her groin tension is an issue and looking back on her sessions with Radiant Human, it should be more obvious. Mothers asked strangers on Twitter to "demonstrate kindness" to their children who are barely old enough to read and certainly don't care about strange adults. Elon Musk is being Extra Elon-ish this week with the announcements that he'll be hosting SNL AND is well-aware that many people will pass away on Mars. Oh, and Grimes still doesn't even have bone marrow, sis. Scroll down for show links!

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Elon/SNL/Tesla:

Elon Musk says a "bunch of people will probably die" in Mars landing efforts

MarketWatch on Elon's SNL hosting gig

SNL cast member Bowen Yang is not happy about Musk's upcoming hosting gig

Thirsty Mom Tweets:

Mom asks Twitter to praise her kids' art

Mom asks Twitter to wish son Happy Birthday

Disney Parks are being ruined by cancel culture:

Orlando Sentinel Op-Ed: "Wokeness" is ruining the Disney Parks experience

Our bonus clip of the week available only on Patreon

Demi Lovato vs. The Bigg Chill Yogurt Shop

L.A Times piece on how Demi Lovato's Instagram stories affected small business The Bigg Chill

Founder of allergy-safe cookie business chimes in on Demi Lovato's comments

Demi Lovato explains herself on Instagram Live

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Josh Fight:

Hundreds of men named Josh get together in Nebraska for #JoshFight

Little Josh wins Josh Fight

Jeff Wittek of the Vlog Squad's series about busting his eye on excavator operated by David Dobrik continues:

Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuJLt6tz1I

Episode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_KasvQNm-Y

USPS

#BackTheBlue hashtag is co-opted to support USPS

USPS is spying on us online and we don't know why via Fast Company

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Updates and story gaps on the Paul vs. Askren fight, addressing the elephant in the room, the Telly of it all and Brian commits to showing the BTS of his relationship. This is a replay of the after/pre show we do every Tuesday and Friday on the Stereo app.

Molls Stereo

Brian Stereo

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The news of Chrissy Tiegan being back on Twitter has Brian and Molly pondering the age old question, "is simping kindness?"Paula Abdul is filling in for Luke Bryan on American Idol and known heterosexual Ryan Seacrest helped welcome her back with a FaceTime from Randy Jackson that instantly transported the audience back to 2007. The biggest Internet event of last week, though, probably had to be the heavily-hyped fight between Jake "The Problem Child" Paul and Ben "The Dad Bod" Askren. After a slap fight hosted by Ric Flair and Pete Davidson, commentary from a slammered Oscar De La Hoya, the weakest undercard fights ever and a heavily lip synced concert we finally got to see the main event. Well, Molly didn't because her illegal stream broke. What everyone else saw was Jake Paul proving to society for the millionth time that only cream and bastards rise.

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Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren:

Jake Paul claims 1.5M buyers for PPV boxing, $75M total earnings

Donald Trump Jr. promotes Jake Paul Fight on Instagram

Jake Paul Fight was 'f-cking embarrassing' for Ben Aksren

HR Slide

Tweet from @WorrierPrincess

Chrissy Tiegan is back on Twitter:

Ultimate Simp Tweet to Chrissy Tiegan

Paula Abdul calls Simon an STD on American Idol

Reddit link

Catfishing Japanese Biker story blows up on Twitter

@azusagakuyuki turns out to be a man using a face app

Vlog Squad's Jeff Wittek releases series on what happened to his eye (David Dobrik nearly killed him)

COMING CLEAN ABOUT EVERYTHING - EP 1 - DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

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