Talk To Me Taylor

A Christian TV network gets flak. Celebrating Japanese culture is appropriation. Harry Potter books are mutilated. Normal body image is considered toxic. Demi Lovato's bondage album cover is deemed the antichrist. This is why we can't have nice things!

A modern-day, female Forrest Gump, Carla White is a tech world renegade who's taken her blondness AND savvy to entities including: the Olympics, Microsoft, NASA, the US Government, and Oprah's couch. While many assume her Chinese husband is the brains and she's the bimbo, she's over here running multimillion dollar businesses -- all while whipping up a mean-ass casserole, bitch! Now the CEO of Hiro.fm, Carla has SUCH real and refreshing views of male-female work dynamics so go ahead and eye her tits while she outsmarts you all day long. 

Up in your chimney is Santa's sweet little ass along with this Xmas week solo ep drop. First thing's first is a follow up from my last ep with Lou Ridley about something that's been weighing on my mind regarding the p-word. (Privilege, you dirty minds.) Speaking of privilege, is Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman 3/DCU fallout really a function of being a woman? I revisit my past interviews with her during milestone moments in her career to discuss. Then we hit all things Barbie, my Barbie alter ego, and why the Barbie movie better.not.be.preachy. Lastly is Elon and Twitter and the media folk's diagnosis of short-term memory loss. Splash some of this in your eggnog and enjoy. 

She's beauty and she's grace, she's here to cut you with her words like a knife. On this special Sunday Service ep, musician Lou Ridley is an artist with a message and is the embodiment of truly giving no fucks what you think while also caring and giving the most fucks about her beliefs, know what I mean? As someone who's able to empathize and also take issue with both sides of the destructive political divide, her art is poignant and intentional. With boobs and hella brains, we get into: religion in pop culture, the icon of Barbie, messaging for men without male-bashing, victim mentality, and a moment where Lou psychoanalyzes me on my own show that I can't stop thinking about and will CERTAINLY be revisited so stay the eff tuned. Take us to church or something like it, Lou.

According to the court of public opinion, you're either a sinner... or a saint. Because nuance can't compute in the minds of 2022 folk, everybody. This phenomenon is something Paul Johansson and I discuss regarding his dark and twisted character in "Detective Knight: Redemption" (out now) -- the action trilogy in which Grandma Dan Scott (my One Tree Hill lovers) stars alongside icon Bruce Willis. This short chat ain't like the others in Paul's junket circuit experience. We get deep about society's obsession with judging everyone and behind the scenes of working with Bruce Willis in the last bang before his retirement amid all the headline chaos around the actor's aphasia (a cognitive and language disorder) diagnosis. After this you'll think twice about how society labels people: naughty or nice. You decide.

Tourists from all over the country flock to Nashville eager to experience and snap pics at Blake Shelton's downtown Broadway bar Ole Red. But not everyone is backstage at said establishment causing a ruckus with important entertainment folks... like I was. Here's the story of what actually happened behind the scenes interviewing Blake and his Barmageddon co-stars Nikki Bella and Carson Daly and how I wound up in quite a pickle, but a pickle with a few important takeaways and as always, a bigger message for us all. Bottoms up.

And much to your surprise, I'd agree!

I'm taking you behind the scenes of my time at Blake's Nashville bar Ole Red where I talked to him and his Barmageddon co-stars Carson Daly and Nikki Bella while celebrating their new USA show... Cancel Me, Baby style, but of course. In the new USA game show, celebs go hard at bar-themed challenges giving your fraternity a run for its money, and further, showing that in a time of pure divide and chaos, we can all come together to throw one back and play. And if not do you even have a soul. Check out snippets of my talk with: Blake about Luke Combs's recent sentiment about traditional-sounding country, Carson Daly about the culture clash cure, and Nikki Bella about being a great wrestler and tv host -- not just a "female wrester" or "female co-host." Chin chin.

Lady in the street, Balenciaga in the... trenches of Sam Bankman-Fried's closet, prob. In this first solo ep in a hot minute, I'm looking at the complete and utter clown fest that is the mainstream from my experience on the inside and as someone with eyeballs. This media epidemic is running rampant but I'm looking at: bizarre coverage of Balenziaga's gross spring campaign, Dave Portnoy and FTX con artist SBF, and tumbleweed of attention around the horrible women's crisis in Iran. And of course, why this all matters. So who's more vindictive: the hot blonde bully cheerleader in an 90's movie... or the media? You decide. 

Welcome to the glorious chaos that is my sit down with Machine Gun Kelly's "Taurus" co-lead, Maddie Hasson. Why is it as such, you ask? It's like dating, sweetie, and I don't give it up that easy. So stay tuned as the ghost of Steve Jobs possesses Maddie's devices while we ALSO dive into: power dynamics and bitches vs. dicks in the workplace, Peter Pans: an epidemic beyond Hollywood, narcissism, ego, and insecurity among superstars, Disney gone woke, Maddie's sexual awakening via co-star Megan Fox, and how behind MGK's provocateur persona is actually the sweet little emo boy who needs a hug. Enjoy.

Look out Zuckerberg, shit's about to get real meta up in this bitch. Welcome TAURUS director Tim Sutton, who wrote and helmed the new film starring Machine Gun Kelly, Megan Fox, and Ruby Rose in which MGK plays a self-destructive rockstar plagued by the demon that is... fame. Megan Fox even plays his ex and the two have an on-screen moment that will have Meryl shaking. Tim and I get into: the pair as global provocateurs vs the individuals and the artists, celebs who fuel their media attention then complain about the spotlight, and the darkness where drugs and success collide. How much of the film is fact vs. fiction? Choose your own adventure, hun, because you may never know.