From Tone-Deaf Posts To Plastic Surgery Pressure: Culture, Clout, And Consequences

Headlines can be loud and hollow, but the stakes underneath them are real. We start with a celebrity anniversary post that tried to be edgy and landed squarely in the wrong month, raising hard questions about timing, tone, and how public figures wield influence during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The photo looks staged, the caption tries to shock, and the audience reaction reminds us that jokes about harm don’t exist in a vacuum—especially when thousands of real stories sit behind the statistic.

From there, we step into a Houston tragedy involving a Porsche 911, a 0.301 BAC, cocaine, and a legal defense pointing to designer heels. The facts feel blunt, the excuses feel thin, and the outcome is irreversible. We unpack accountability and why narratives that blur responsibility only deepen public cynicism. When lifestyle and luxury collide with impaired driving and loss of life, the lesson is not about fashion—it’s about choices that endanger others.

We also come up for air with a look at The Diplomat: the performances, the politics, and yes, the hair that somehow became a character of its own. That detour opens a larger conversation about Hollywood’s pressure to stay “ageless,” the surge in cosmetic procedures, and what it means to age on your own terms. We share a candid take on past Botox, the decision to stop, and how seeing unedited faces can reset our idea of normal. It’s not about shaming any choice; it’s about widening the lane for all of them.

We wrap with a sweet, simple question for Halloween season—your go-to candy bar—because small joys are how we balance heavy news cycles. If you’re into pop culture with substance, true accountability, and a little nostalgia, you’ll feel right at home here. Listen, share with a friend who loves a good debate, and leave a review to tell us where you land on accountability, aging, and the best candy on the shelf.

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Chapters

• 0:29 Opening And Viral Headlines
• 0:53 Kristen Bell Anniversary Backlash
• 4:29 Domestic Violence Context And Critique
• 8:29 Texas Porsche Manslaughter Case

Transcript

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Well, hello and good morning. Okay, what do we have for you today? Well, I read something on the New York Post today that the White House administration has decided to wipe out all the student loan debt. What? What? I read that. I thought, is this an old article from the Joe Biden administration? Wow, crazy. I put it out on my ex feed if you want to look at it. I don't know why. I don't know what is happening. Okay, so we need to move on to okay, this uh have you heard of Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepherd? They're both actors. They're not that great, okay? And this Dax Shepherd dude, I cannot stand him. Uh, just from little snippets I've seen on social media of him. He has a podcast with two other actors. One of them is Jason Bateman. I forget what it's called. Never listened to it. Um, but he they're just so stuck on themselves, this couple right here. They have tried so hard to make themselves relevant, and it's uh it's sickening. Well, they got a little backlash this past weekend. Kristen Bell limited her Instagram comments after critics slammed her tone-deaf message honoring her and Dak Shepherd's 12th wedding anniversary. Well, at least I've been married for 12 years, but on Monday, the nobody wants this star shut out. I don't even heard never heard of that. Nobody wants this. Never heard of that. Uh Star was shut out the critics in light of her controversial post over the weekend that read, Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me, I would never kill you. What in the world? These people are just sick and demented. She recalled the actor also telling her that's a that a lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point, but reassured he would never do the same despite being heavily incentivized to kill her. What in the world, what in the big round world are we doing here? Uh if he would have told me that by what these people, I swear. Belle, who is 45 years old, was immediately called out by critics good, highlighting that October is domestic violence awareness month. Hello, dumbass. That's a wildly sad and insensitive thing to say considering it's domestic violence awareness month, and thousands of women have died uh at the hands of the man they trusted, one person wrote. Yeah, because these people are clueless. They live in their own little stupid world. And look, they have this picture of themselves. He is sitting in a guess what? I hate to say this, a wife beater tank top, sitting on this edge of the bed that looks like it's not made up. It looks like it's in actually a hotel room. Uh, and she is straddling him and they're hugging, they're embracing, they're hugging. That's all they're doing. She is fully clothed, she has on a pair of blue jeans and a sweater, um, but her head is away from the camera. These two set this camera up to take it. This is a set up. I mean, nobody sat there and took this picture of them being all genuine and authentic. This was a set up photo. Okay. Just an FYI posting this caption during domestic violence months, a w a violence month, awareness month is unbelievably tone-deaf. Please reconsider another chimed in. These two. That's all I'm gonna say. I can't go on with these two because they're just utterly ridiculous. They're trying so hard to make themselves relevant because they are B lister actors, B list comedy people, whatever they are. No, go away. Go just stay out of the spotlight. Don't stop trying to post stuff and make yourself relevant. Okay, moving on. Texas housewife. Okay, this is sad. Lawyers for wealthy Texas Housewife accused of plowing Porsche into man on first date, argue her designer heels caused by deadly crash. Okay, so the wealthy Texas housewife was not on a date. The guy she killed was on a first date with someone else. Okay. And the wealthy Texas housewife accused of plowing in into and killing a man on a first date while drunk and high. So she was the one that was drunk and high, not the guy she killed. The way they write this stuff is ridiculous. Claims her expensive high heels got stuck on the gas pedal of her Porsche 911 Carrera. Christina Chambers, of course, her name's Christina, 34 years old, went on a trial Friday for manslaughter in connection with the April 2023 crash that killed 33-year-old Joseph McMillan as he and his date were leaving a voodoo donut shop in Houston. So she was high and drunk on alcohol, high on cocaine. She plowed this guy, and they have a picture of the Porsche. This front of the Porsche is totally disintegrated. I don't know how they said she was going like high speed. Um and her because her sh her expensive, her expensive Louis Vuitton shoe got stuck on the hill. BS. Come on. They already have her blood alcohol level of at 0.301, and they found cocaine in the car. They all they have to do is a blood test. Obviously, she's already drunk and high. Uh so yeah, her stupid. She's she's toast, as she should be. She should go to prison for a long time. Alright, next up. Uh oh. Have you guys been watching The Diplomat? I binge watched the first two episodes, and then we had to wait a little while, and finally season three came out. I've already watched it. But I just the whole time, I just can't get over her stupid hair. Carrie Russell's hair. She plays in the The Diplomat. It's a good show. You have there's a little hint of political, I mean, it's all about politics, fictional politics, of course. Uh, but there's some references to things that might ruffle your feathers, but it's not too bold and in your face. Uh so, but her hair is just awful. It's like, wash your damn hair, comb it. They even addressed it this season. It's hilarious. It was cute and funny the way the way they addressed her hair. The way they addressed the fact that her hair is messy all the time and unkempt and just it looks dirty. It looks just run a comb through it. But they like I said, there was a there was an episode in the current season where they kind of made fun of that. Okay. And it was cute the way they did it. But Carrie Russell, who's 49 years old, is speaking out about the pressure to get plastic surgery in Hollywood. It's something my girlfriends and I talk about all the time. Plastic surgery is having such a moment right now. Men, women, 20-year-olds. I mean, it is around, she told people in an interview published on Sunday. And good for her because she says she likes the way she looks good. We're uh inundated in or sorry, we're inundated with these movie stars, she explained, without naming names, even though they might be 50 or 60 years old, they look amazing. Well, do they do they carry? Maybe some of them, but not all of most of them do not look amazing with their plastic surgery, is what I'm talking about. They would look e they would look even more amazing without the damn plastic surgery. Someone posted a picture of Madonna right before she had all that plastic surgery, and she looked freaking amazing and beautiful. Now she doesn't. She looks like a weird doll or something. I don't know. She looks creepy. She looks creepy. She does not look well. So talking about watching herself on her Netflix political drama, The Diplomat, she added, I watched this show and I'm like, I do not look like that, you know. I like the way I look on this show, and it's amazing that I feel like that's strange, like that's unique thing to look like that, but it is. I don't know what she just said. The actress has been in a relationship with her, the Americans co-star, Matthew Rise, fifth, and that was a good series too, the Americans. That was really good. She's been in their relationship with him since 2014. The pair share son Sam together. She's also mom to Kids River and Willa with her ex-husband, Shane Deary. She said it's such a weird thing being a woman. Is it? Is it really a weird thing being a woman? She told the outlet. Everyone has an opinion about the way you look. Well, that's true, but you know, you just don't pay attention to that. You just move on. The way you dress, the way your hair is, it's just the nature of your our society. I don't know that it's because you're a woman. We do that with men too. We I talk about how men look too. So it's not about it's not about being a woman, no. Her show, The Diplomat, addresses such topics. Oh, here we go. I like how cranky she is about it, and now she's always trying to fight people about it, and it is rude about it. I love it. I find it delightful, she said, referring to her character Kate. It's like a fun thing to play. Okay, what we're I thought we were gonna talk about the hair. Um, well, whatever. The Diplomat is an okay show. I'm glad she's not getting plastic surgery because she doesn't need it. And I don't like the women that are getting plastic surgery. Just age like you normally would. Don't do all that stuff. I mean, you don't need it. I now I'm gonna tell I'm gonna confess to you that for probably a year and a half, maybe two years, I was getting Botox injections in my forehead and around my eyes. It was probably I probably did, I don't know, like once every five, six months or something like that, I would do it. So not a lot, but I've stopped doing it. I haven't done it in probably two years, maybe. Um, and I've I've just stopped, I just I decided to stop doing it, and and I'm okay with it. My wrinkles are coming back, I have that big big wrinkle across my forehead, but whatever, I'm fine with it. I am looking forward to actually aging and showing my age. I am looking forward to it. Okay, I'm I'm got off track here. So uh let's move on to the question of the day. All right, in the in the honor of I guess uh Halloween, what is your favorite candy? What's your favorite candy bar? I love a Milky Way dark chocolate. Oh, I don't care what kind of a diet I'm on. If I see a Milky Way dark chocolate, I'm buying it and I'm eating it right there. I love a Milky Way dark chocolate. That's my favorite. It's actually called midnight, I think it is. All right, whatever. What's your favorite candy bar? All right, gotta go. Thanks for listening.

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