Meghan Markle Flames Out! The Los Angeles Fires! Spencer Pratt & Heidi Montah's Comeback! Plus, Justin Bieber, Liam Payne, Mark Zuckerberg, Jessica Alba And More!

Published Jan 13, 2025, 7:20 PM

Booker gives us a first-person account of what's happened and is still going on in Los Angeles. Plus, some much needed levity throughout! Serious AND fun show! Enjoy!

From Los Angeles, pH prank and one and only Famous Hilton. Hi, everybody, welcome to the php on Booker. That, of course is Perez Hilton. How do you do.

I'm well, we're gonna be talking about Meghan Marco. I'm not well, but.

What's wrong?

Well, guy, we'll get to it. I'm gonna be talking. We're gonna be talking about Meghan Markel and her newest controversy. Also some truly surprising justin Bieber News and very exciting coverage of the LA fires. Yay, oh god. I'm just you know, like I don't. I don't. I'm so lucky, you know, my house is here and and I'm alive and all of that stuff. But I've been obviously covering the situation in Los Angeles so much, and it's taking so much of my bandwidth in my time, and it's like, who gives a fuck? Like, I don't even. I'm just I'm not at one hundred percent. I'm not making this about me. I don't want to make it about me. My sister's fine. How are you? How are you? How is your home? How are you? How's everything?

My home is good? I am intact, I am in my normal podcasting position. Shit got real on Friday night, though, I'll tell you that.

Were you on evacuation warning?

The line was drawn at the top of my street? Oh wow, So I was definitely on warning for evacuation the entire time. I was in warning.

Yes, you're like in the flats, right.

No, I'm in the hill.

Oh you are.

I am five houses from the woods.

Oh wow. I didn't know that.

No, I'm at the top of the hill.

Oh shit, I didn't know that.

Yeah, So it got real on Friday night.

Oh my god.

As we talked, and maybe you don't have the Patreon you should get it if you don't, we talked in depth about it a little bit on what would have that been Thursday, and I was telling everyone, you know where the Palisades are, situated directly behind the Palisades is Tarzana and there's a forest in between, and as we spoke on Thursday, it was making its way up the hill. Well, as it turns out, and there's just been terrible communication. They really should have kind of shared this with the community. But I get it. They're busy fighting the fire. They drew a line at the top of the mountain, which if I walk up the street. I could see the top of the ridge line, and that ridge line is what separates the Palisades from the San Fernando Valley, which I technically live in. So they drew a line at the top of the hill and the tankers were up there all day with the big DC tens. God bless them. I have no idea how they are so trained and so precise with these drops, but they had to retardant along the entire ridge line. They had the bold Tho up there carving out a line of where the fire was going to go to.

Wait. Wait what they were able to direct the fire.

Well, that's exactly what they've been doing. They've been steering this fire. So at one point I think they said, let's let this fire burn up this hill, but let's draw a line to where it can go to. So that's exactly what it did. The fire moved all the way to the top of my hill and it reached the peak I would say about seven o'clock on Friday night, and that's when shit got rialed.

Yeah, they were more evacuation orders Friday night.

The neighborhood above me was evacuated. I would say the neighborhood to the I guess the west of me was evacuated, but I was, like I said, right on that line of evacuation, we were in warning that God there was no wind. All my neighbors. I would say eighty percent of my neighbors left, even though they didn't have to. We stayed. And it got scary because driving home from work around six o'clock, it's dark on Friday night. You know, I'm driving towards this fire, and it's like there was a lit up stadium on the other side of the hill, right, but it was just solid red. It was the scariest, most ominous thing I've ever seen in my life. I was like, I can't believe I'm driving towards this. And they held that line. They had that fire exactly where they wanted it, and as soon as it got to that line, it had stopped and they pound the crap out of it, and then it moved another direction. It is purely unbelievable what they did. And I want to say a couple of things. Number One, thank you to Mexico. Their president was here, and God knows, they've been put through enough shit by our former future administration. They've been demonized as people. The president of Mexico, she came here, she brought planes and firefighters and they were out there digging and making those lines, and their fire jets were here. So thank you to Mexico number one, number two, and we have a chit ton of listeners in Canada. Canada, you can't imagine how many Canadian helicopters and planes were in the air. It was absolutely unbelievable to see and just to see the different markings of the planes and their country's planes up there dumping this retardant was unbelievable.

You're able to from where you are on your side of the hill, you can still see it all with your own eyes.

Yeah, oh yeah. I don't know if you saw my story, but you could see me. We were identifying the DC tens flying over the house. It was truly I can't imagine what a war zone would be like, but if I was to try to, I would say this is the closest to it. I mean, I could read the tail numbers on the planes flying over my house. It was plain after plane after plane, helicopter after helicopter. That was all day Saturday and yesterday quiet, nothing, nothing flew over. So they they held that line. So thank you to Canada, thank you to Mexico, thank you to the Seattle Fire Department. All of the surrounding states of California all sent their fire departments. There were inmates out there and the red jumpsuits. They were out there digging. They've got a whole fire squad as well. It was truly unbelievable how with it they were after the initial Palisades fire. I'm mesmerized by what they were able to do and how they've been able to steer this fire around the way that they did. I know there's high winds expected. The Santa Anas are going to come back tomorrow, so that's a little iffy for other areas like Brettwood and such. But I think they've got a pretty good handle on this right now and they have it exactly where they want to. But man, I'm telling you, it was fucking scary on Friday night packing up my things. We had a couple of bags packed, we had the dogs ready to go, the carriers are out for the cats. It's like walking room to room deciding all right, what do I need in this room? And it's funny when it comes to that, you realize you don't need a lot, you know. I'm like, I want to watch from this room. I'll take my baseball card collection from this room, and that's just the binder, not even the crap cards, just the good ones. I'll take my first radio air check, you know, the dumbest little things, and a couple bags of clothes, and they were all packed up in both of our cars. We were ready to go. So it was eye opening and unbelievable, to say the least. And the Palisades looks like a motherfucking bomb went off.

I don't know if people are aware, but you're only looking at footage on the news, right. I don't even think Palisades residents who lost their homes are allowed necessarily to go up there without some kind of escort, right.

Right, they're not. It's still closed down. But you know local news here they are in. They've let them in and they're doing an incredible job. I mean ABC seven here in Los Angeles KTLA. I've watched Fox, I've watched CBS. The coverage has been unbelievable. It's eye opening.

Didn't I say that on Thursday, Like the importance of the news media.

Yeah, about that? They've done an incredible job. I can't thank those broadcasters enough for being on the front lines day after day, and I mean it's twenty four hour coverage. And by the way, if anybody wants to help, I don't know if the number works in other countries, but if you want to text the word relief to thirty three one hundred, you can choose your denomination. It's iHeart, which were on their platform. They've partnered with this great foundation, reputable. I don't need to go into that, but if you want to help, there's a lot of people that could use your help. It's five bucks, if it's ten bucks. If you can give just text relief to thirty three one hundred, it'll help somebody. It's truly unbelievable.

My assessment from AFAR is that, you know, like obviously it's they're not all contained yet, but the majority of the damage is done, and yes, it's possible to get it even more contained today, right.

Yeah, I think it's mostly contained control And they use these weird percentages, like you know, eleven percent containment, which is very misleading. That's something that talks about the whole like radius of the fire and where they are working on it. They seem to have a handle on this fingers crossed. It seems to be exactly where they want it to be, and they've drawn their lines and they're protecting the neighborhoods in the houses now. A lot of this vegetation, I believe is planned burning right now, like they just want this brush gone for the future. I don't know how they're going to rebuild the Palisades. I don't know if there's enough constes fractally.

Yeah, I was about to say that.

But it is La. There's plenty of money. There'll be people here ready to fix things Monday. It's a lot to do about the permits and the zoning. I wonder if those beachfront properties will ever come back. I can't imagine they're going to let people build there again. There's going to be such strict regulations for that. I assume.

I was listening to NPR. They were saying that Gavin Newsome announced that they're going to make permitting and the process of rebuilding streamlines and easier for folks. So that's a good thing.

It's sad the finger pointing really sucks and it's not helping. There'll be enough time after this to figure out what went wrong. Newsom went on and explained in a very calm way that since he's been in office, tenfold the amount of money that has been put into our fire systems and departments and our planes and our coverage. And you know, it's just a lot of disinformation and misinformation and a lot of fucking blowhards that don't even live here that have to put their two cents about this. They'll be time enough for that later on, but I will say enough with mayors going on vacation. If you're in office for four fucking years. I haven't been on vacation in four years. I haven't. The farthest I've been is Vegas or maybe a weekend to see my mom in Florida. These people don't need to be going to Uganda. They don't need to be going to the fucking Olympics. Okay, you're a mayor, stay in town. If you want to go to Vegas or Phoenix for the weekend to get your jolly's out, great that. But you're here to serve the fucking people. That's what I would say. I'm so tired of this. Every time I turn on the TV, there's our mayor, fucking smiling at some event in another country. You're like, we don't need this. She's not the fucking president. Stay here and serve the people.

Yeah. Well, I was gonna ask you that next, because I, you know, have not been a fan of this mayor. And actually I didn't even vote for her. I voted for Rick Caruso in twenty twenty two.

We talked about this. I voted for him as well, but when she beat him in the primary or whatever you call that, I then voted for her. Look, she's a nice lady, and she's done some really good things with the homeless, and that's an impossible situation. And I've seen the difference. I've seen the areas that she's cleaned up, and she campaigned on that. She did not campaign on fire safety. So I just think a lot of her responses have been very cringe. She's smiling in some of them, and it's very weird. She wasn't here in the beginning. They're asking her questions that she's not answering. Maybe she's in shock. I don't know, but it's uh, whatever, This isn't a political show, and I don't want to make it about that. I'd like to get back to what I said, Let's not politicize this. Let's just fix the problem and get the people the money that they need to get back on their feet for the moment.

Speaking of polarizing, that mayor of Los Angeles is very polarizing right now, and so is Megan Markle. Yesterday it was announced this show that Megan had previously said it would be debuting this month, which we talked about on a previous episode. I don't remember if it was a regular show or the podcast or the Patreon it was announced that Megan Markle has decided to delay the premiere of With Love Megan. This is a statement that she released through Netflix. I'm thankful to my partners at Netflix for supporting me in delaying the launch as we focus on the needs of those impacted by the wildfires in my home state of California. I don't even want to say anything. What's your initial thought on this?

You know I love the Marples a lot. I think it's the right move. I don't think you need to release a statement. There's no one fucking sitting there going Oh, countdown's on eight days till the Marple Home Family show. I don't think you needed to release a statement. If anybody asked, hey, where's that show? I think a tweet would suffice. We're going to delay it because there's a lot going on in my home state. And that's the end of it. But look, getting in front of it, fine, there's bigger fish to fry. No one's looking at her statement at the moment. I see that she is down here giving out hugs and helping and doing whatever she can, so I can only praise that.

Wait, wait, so why do you think this is the smart move?

I think pushing the release of anything back and seeing what this looks like is prudent for everyone, including the award shows, which I'm sure we'll talk.

Yeah, I was gonna talk about that next, but I mean specifically here. I'm just trying to understand because I disagree with you. The show's completely finished, it's all done. It wouldn't require any of her time to do anything except promote it, and she doesn't have to promote it. They could have released it without any talk show appearances or whatever. The crew, nobody else would need to be working on this. It wouldn't you take time away from any possible good doing that she would be, you know, engaged in because of the fires, and on the flip side, I actually think having this kind of content could be healing and good and a distraction from people who did get displaced from their homes or struggling or whatever. I'm not I'm being Chris Booker and now I'm not a I'm not a cynic or a conspiracy theorist. But what I think this is about is money, because I'm sure that she's got some bonuses tied to performance on her Netflix show. The more viewership it gets, the more she makes, and if she doesn't promote it, obviously not as many people are gonna watch it. That's what I think is really behind her delaying this, not anything to do with the people of California, and also to maybe make herself look good. But I don't know if it makes herself look good.

In my opinion, you can see this any way that you want. I think, just get back to the optics of it all. Making something about II me me right now and releasing it feels cringey. Now to your point, I don't disagree with what you said, though it could be like a distraction for people. You're not wrong about anything like that. But here's the thing. She wants to promote, she wants to go on the fucking Today Show. They're covering fires and they're gonna be for a while. She doesn't want to be out there doing something that's me me about the Marples, you know what I mean, Like, she has no interest in that, and I understand that as well. Look, you are trying to make money. It is a business, and if you are seeing that the opportunity may not be there at this moment, I don't think that's a bad thing to pull back. She wants to be on TV, she wants to be promoting this, and she can't do that is the whole thing blanket in narcissism. Of course, it's them they need, like you said, the reality show stars, they need the eyeballs. They're not going to get them. They're not going to get what they want. She's also right, she probably would feel icky doing something in her home state where she's from at this moment, and I get that.

To That's all I'm saying. Though, I'm saying that she could have released it without doing any press or promo, but you you know, you said, yeah, she wants to do it, so that's why she's dealing it I just wish it was a little bit more transparent, you know what I mean? Right now, the statement she gave was like, all about the people of California blow up? Right, That's why it didn't ring jenuine, I gotcha.

I don't think anybody when they put out statements really does a great job in being real. If she was to put out a real statement and be a real human being and not this plastic manufactured ran through nine publicist drafts of what we're going to say and how we're going to handle this, if she would have just said jumped on Twitter or whatever and just said me rely, this right now feels icky to me. I just want my state to heal. We'll talk about this down the line. What I'm trying to do is an important at the moment, and here's a number to donate some money and let's try to help out the people of my home state.

Just say that. Yeah, So taking it a step further, you know, the Grammys are around the corner. I don't think the Grammy's taking place in Los Angeles where they were supposed to. It is a good idea, but let's say they move the Grammys to Vegas? Should the Grammys go ahead as normal in Vegas.

I think there's a real opportunity to make that show an award show slash fundraiser. Shake it out differently and say this is where I would say seventy percent of the musician's attending live, this is where the producers live, This is where the music industry hub is centered in Los Angeles, the industry.

I'm not necessarily saying change the location.

I like the idea of changing the location, and like no one feels like celebrated.

That's why though, But once again.

I still see that it could be an opportunity to maybe raise some money. Listen, you raised ten dollars and you have this show. It's ten dollars that you didn't have. That's what I would do with it. But I don't know what they're going to do. I'm with you. I would move that thing right over to Vegas tomorrow.

I think that they should make it a two part thing, to be honest, like a Saturday night telethon fundraiser and then Sunday night award show, just because I still want the artists to be able to accept awards and have their moments, you know what I mean. Yeah, So people would tune in for a to night thing. I think, you know, if all the artists are already going to be here for the Grammys, maybe even more people that aren't nominated or weren't planning to perform could come in the night before for the fundraiser part of it.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean this whole we need to be honored and we need to be celebrated. It's such horseshit. You know who needs to be honored and celebrated. Fucking fire We on the teach I know, but we don't do that. We keep putting on award shows and giving aw It's like these people only exist to go to the ward How about they say this, I'm not going this year. There's too much fucking shit going on. Hey, if I win, I'll thank the Academy, I'll thank my fans, I'll thank my management, I'll thank my God. Then I'll fuck off, you know what I mean. That's what I would do if I was an artist.

I know that things are heated, but you're smarter than this. You know. The reason that we're not honoring firefighters and teachers on TV is because the public doesn't want that. The public, no.

Public watch the musicians standing next to them, they might.

I disagree that. I don't think people would tune in to watch an award show honoring.

No one tunes in in the first place. These fucking ratings for these award shows are aneem.

It well, they would be, but then be honest, they would be even less they would.

I guess the point is it doesn't matter either way. If they have the show, no one cares. There's no one that wakes up the next morning except for you and me to find out who won Best Pop Artist. Because we talk about this thing general consensus. The general population couldn't give two flying fucking shits on who wins what and who gets an award. They're there to watch a good TV show with some fun performances.

I disagree. Also, I think people do care. They're just watching it in different ways. They're watching on social media, they're watching on YouTube, and it's hard to really measure that. So I do think people still care about the Grammys and some award shows, and I would I would love it if there was a you know, maybe I don't know, maybe PBS could do it because it's not necessarily about ratings. I would love if there was an award show or something to honor teachers and firefighters and things like that. But at the end of the day, the regular networks are a fucking business, and the viewers are not going to tune in to watch that.

The viewers are tuning into the first place. Everyone is nauseated by the fact that this town just constantly has to celebrate itself. And if that is an evident If there was ever a joke written that better summarized this town and how it feels about itself, it was on the Golden Globes when Nicki Glazer talked about how these people couldn't influence an election. Whatever the joke was, and how she delivered it, that's the best joke of the night. It's the most poignant thing that's ever been said. I should up my grade from B to an A just for that joke and how she phrased it, because she's one hundred percent right. People are nauseated by these people. It's like they exist to go to award shows. Now cancel all of them. This season is what I say. This is Los Angeles, this is where they hold Listen. If they're in New York, fun you can have them there, but in that way. Fuck off, nobody wants it right.

If they didn't cancel for COVID, they're not going to fucking cancel for the fires. Sadly, well, there is something positive for at least for me, to come of all of this, and that's to see a lot of folks on social media all over the world rallying around some friends of mine, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag and the things that have happened over just this weekend alone are pretty just accept her music, which this one album of hers that's like fifteen years old, is actually selling copies. People are buying copies on the iTunes store, not even streaming it, buying to support them. They got it all the way to number one, beating the new release from Bad Bunny. Pit Bull agreed to be on a song of hers like It's pretty awesome.

That's amazing.

Yeah, And even just on a smaller level, Spencer Pratt more than tripling his following on TikTok and being able to monetize that with the videos that he's making and live streaming. And my anxiety has also been through the roof with this whole potential TikTok situation this week especially because on Friday they were there arguing in front of the Supreme Court and the justices were signaling that TikTok's going to lose, which is what I predicted all along. But I'm still so cautiously optimistic that Donald Trump will save TikTok, which he can.

Donald Trump isn't the president.

There's just a day. It's just one day of difference. The law goes into effect January nineteenth. He is inaugurated January twentieth. The Court might also punt to him because there is an overwhelming conservative majority and say, okay, we think that the law is legal and it's going to stay, but will give it a week delay until Trump is in office. Then it's up to Trump and his Department of Justice to enforce or not enforce this new law. Or as I predicted, he'll give them a twelve or twenty four month extension.

Kick the can down the road and say this is the deadline exactly.

That's it. He'll give them a twelve or twenty four month extension to sell to an American company, and after they lose in the Supreme Court, which sadly they will. I do believe that TikTok will agree to sell just because there's billions being made on there and they have thousands of employees in the US.

If they sell, the money will probably in all likelihood be diced up differently, meaning what creators are getting now they're going to get a fraction of that.

Yes, and no, for example the live stream why not because I don't think it'll affect live streaming too much.

But it's about the money. If some American company has to take on this outpouring of cash that goes to creators, that's probably the hold up. That's why no company has stood up and said, hey, we'll buy this. That's my guess.

No, I don't think that's why. I think it's because TikTok has said we're not selling and they haven't tried to sell it. Right, So happy to see what's happening to Spidey and I think we talked about it on the Patreon show, and happy that before all of this, Spencer and I made peace because we were strange for two years. I remember we were really close and then we were strange, and then literally last weekend, two days before everything happened, we made up.

Oh so prior to the fire, you.

Made prior to the fires.

Oh wow, I thought that was the no.

No, no, oh wow, oh no. If we hadn't made up before the fires, I would not have. I wouldn't have.

You would have.

I don't know if I would have. Well, I just didn't. I wouldn't have wanted them to feel like I was trying to like take advantage of the situation, you know what I mean.

I think you would have came out and said exactly what you said and said I still like these people. They're good people. We don't get along at the moment, and shared their conscience, I think.

Okay, yeah, yeah, I would have done that, but I wouldn't have reached out to them personally. Oh no, yeah, okay, yeah, I wouldn't have reached out to them personally, you know, because we had falling out. But like literally two days before everything, we made peace and and like and we refollowed. He unblocked me, We refollowed each other.

You guys have children.

He's the child, not me. Okay, he's the child.

Yeah. I don't think anybody on the show's by and that one.

No, I said, maybe this is why we get along and also don't get along because Spencer and I are very similar. I said, he's like my annoying little brother, and even though we are estranged at points, like a family, the love is always still there. So anyways, I'm happy to see that also some folks are being involved in the whole trying. LA is such a wait. I haven't seen this on the news, but you're there, so this is an even better understanding. Somebody in the comments section said that the National Guard is in Los Angeles. Are they there?

They're here?

Okay, why have I not seen that on the fucking news yet? So that's good to know. LA has been a shit show since last week, with now arsonists setting fires on purpose and Whitney Cummings trying to hunt down arsonists, and David Spade offering a five thousand dollars bounty if somebody catches somebody trying to start a fire.

Good for both of them, because it's real, it's not made up. This was on the local news and I was shocked. It took it like a tire day to get to the national news. But there's a guy riding around on a bicycle out in Calabasas and they go to the edges of these neighborhoods that they can't get into. This guy's got a torch, and like I'd said, I think I told you, and I was like, look, a lot of this is arson because it happens at the basin right around the four or five where the one oh one meets. There's a big homeless encampment there that they clean out, and they keep coming back and they periodically set a fire. I would say once every couple of months, you'll see a giant plume. You're like, Oh, it's the fucking homeless again. These crazy fucking people, they just I don't know if like in their mind they're into fire or what it is, but they're constantly setting fires. So yeah, a couple people have been arrested, and that's what we're dealing with that.

I've seen so many of those videos, Like I saw one yesterday of somebody setting a fire in front of a gym I think as a homeless person, or did do that video in a shopping car.

I haven't seen that one, but I believe you. I mean, it happens constantly here and the palasages. To think about that billions of dollars, It probably was some fucking homeless person that just lit up a bag or a cigarette or god knows what. I doubt it was a barbecue or anything like that. It was probably a homeless person. And here we are.

Let me just quickly wrap things up the fire extended segment a little bit of positivity. You know, there's been a lot of destruction and randomness. That's how chaos is, right. Sometimes chaos is totally random, like Jamie Lee Curtis living in the Palisades, but her house was spared because she was like one canyon over and even home. I saw on this one now very viral photo of all of these homes in the Palisades except for like one in the middle that I think an architect might have built or something like that still standing. Anyways, I saw this one video yesterday that really warmed my heart, and I thought it might resonate with you because you're a big dog rescuer and animal lover. This guy, who was not home in the Palisades when the evacuations were ordered, was just re nighted with his dog, who miraculously survived the fire and five days without food or water. So, oh God him, i'most gonna start crying even thinking about it.

I did see that video and it warms my heart. How about this? So day before yesterday, we found another dog in the neighborhood. And this dog, he was a big boy, and he was scared and he was hiding behind a neighbor's trash can, and he's fucking neighbors like, you know, some of these people are just fucking pieces of shit. They don't do anything. We're like, is that your dog? They're like no, Like, well, then why don't you open the gate and like commandeer the situation. This dog scared to death. So I couldn't get near the dog. I don't think he likes guys, Callen tried. We stayed there forever. We took some pictures. We found another neighbor that has a couple of dogs. She's like a fucking dog whisper of this other woman and she walked up and they got the dog. Started posting pictures everywhere. We went on the neighborhood apps and did all that shit. We found someone that had a microchip detector that could read the chips. Oh wow, she came over to the house, found the owner's information, reunited the dog with the owner. So that was our That was our.

Din fucking video of that. That shit would have gone so viral.

Yeah, I don't care, damn it.

That would have been good content anyways. In other non fire related news, twenty twenty five is going to be an interesting year, hopefully a positive year for Justin Bieber, according to a new report from NME. I mean, what fucking connections does NM have with Justin Bieber? But you know, there are music publications, so maybe so maybe they do have some in I don't know, but they say that Bieber is planning a comeback for twenty twenty five. He will be releasing new music and touring, so wow, that would be cool. Also, some updates on I don't even want to fucking talk.

About it though, don't talk about did hey tho?

No, not Diddy, not Diddy. Some updates on the whole twitch we talked about on the Patreon. It's just it's so messy.

He's talking about Ellen's DJ twitch and the wife.

I literally had a meltdown on Friday, No Saturday. This news outlet in the UK asked me if this is so stupid, but whatever, this is not. I don't even know what's stupid. I've barely been sleeping anyways. This news outlet in the UK asked me to be in this special, this news special that they were doing about the LA fires, to talk about the celebrity angle, and that's just like, ill, ilk, I don't want to talk about the celebrity angle the celeb fires, even though it's my job and I get it, but like so I said no, and then my sister she pushes me and pushes me because, like you know, I have a lot of dependence and I got to She's like, if you don't do it, they'll ask somebody else, or if you don't do it, they'll they'll stop asking you. And I'm likeugh, but I don't want to this is it doesn't feel right. I don't want to do it. She's like, okay, fine, I'll tell okay fine, and this is her altiate Okay, okay, okay, fine, I'll tell them no and then like, okay, fine, I'll fucking do it. And then and then it's like but I'm only going to give them fifteen minutes and then they fucking kept me on the fucking zoom for thirty eight minutes. Wow. Anyways, Sorry, I'm not well, but I'm but I'm well, I'm well, I'm well. I have a house, I'm safe whatever. Twitch his family, the Stephen Boss and the mom. His mom is chiming in and calling out the widow and now the widow this is actually this I'll mention that. I'll mention this, okay, because but it's also it's like she's a fucking teenager. I was under the assumption that this guy, Stephen Boss Twitch from The Ellen Generous Show, adopted the eldest child in their family, the woman Alison Hulker had from a previous relationship. But she went on social media and said that she was never adopted and the Boss wasn't her last name. And I'm like, ew ew oh, oh oh, I get it. You're like on the defensive and you're wanting to defend your mom. But I would have had her take that down if I was the mom. But anyways, let's look and move on. There's a couple of things. Let me just barrel through the Jessica Alba and her husband of seventeen years calling it quits. They had a good run. For some reason. Over in the UK, a coroner did what's the fucking term autopsy? There we go, Jesus Christ, fucking a they did an autopsy in the UK on Liam Payne and on his body, even though they already did one in Argentina, and obviously, no shit, he died from multiple traumas. Like, I don't understand why they even felt the need to do that.

I don't either. Just put the body to rest.

They did it, okay. And then two quick items before we get to calls. First, Mark Zuckerberg, did this come across your radar? Was a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast.

I did see some of this, yes.

And thankfully this is what I needed. I needed a moment of just patting myself on the back, praising myself for being so awesome, and just loving myself. Thank God, I love myself because I really like being in the middle. I like not being so rigid about like, oh I'm a liberal or oh I'm a conservative. No, I'm a fucking centrist. I'm a realist. I'm in the middle. And Mark Zuckerberg was saying some things that really just did not sit right with me. That Joe Biden and his administration were putting pressure on meta you know, Instagram and Facebook to censor so much content and I will always die on the hill of censorship. Sucks. We should not be censoring shit, freedom of speech. I'm a journalist, even though people may not want to view me as a journalist. I take what I do seriously. Or even Mark Zuckerberg saying that after Meta was really pushing back on censoring things like memes and jokes about the pandemic, that he believes that retaliation happened and that the federal government was starting all sorts of investigations against Meta and his company because they weren't censoring content enough. And he claims that this is all public record and that's out there, and I guess it would make sense because anything that the president puts into writing or the administration does would be privileged or public.

And from I think that having a paper trail and trying to show the people, the citizens of our country whom are gullible, that everything that they read online is not true, isn't a terrible thing, because as you can see, you've got a vast majority now of our population that don't believe in things that are fact, disease science, whatever it could be. There's just too many opinions that are being passed around as fact. And I don't think the government trying to make an effort and making a plea to the person that owns the biggest let's just say, bigger than any network TV streaming, bigger than any newspaper, bigger than any publication, making a plea to them to say, hey, people are taking this stuff at fact now because they're stupid. We want the American people just to know that censorship. I don't think it's called censorship. I think it's a different word. And that's the problem with all of this.

I think it is censorshit.

I think they're demanding them to say, hey, all of this stuff isn't true, and you owe it to the country, the people, the well being of the world that the information that you're spewing, that you're letting your platform people spew, is catching on as fact and it's endangering other people.

That's not what Mark Zuckerberg claimed.

Mark Zuckerberg cares about Mark Zuckerberg, Okay, that he doesn't give a fuck about the regular person.

None of them do, not even Elon Musk.

I'm not gonna blame Bidener's administration for that.

My counter is, I don't give a fuck if you flag the content like oh, people fact checkers or this or That's why he introduced the new community notes thing or whatever. Like, I don't know. I'm not a fan of taking shit down personally. Here's the great thing again, I don't want to go log into this, but like, what if somebody says the earth is flat and it's adamant about that, should that be taken down?

Then it's not about taking things down, it's just about making an effort to let the citizens know, let the dumb fucking people know. Hey, dumb people, what you're hearing isn't fact. And that's it. That's all we want to say that everything on this platform, you shouldn't take his fact. By the way, it's like you had to get down the road to be able to look back to see what's happened. Now we're at the point where I agree with you. At this point, everyone knows you should know better. You should know that the crap out there on Facebook is being manipulated a by other countries and be completely made up half the time, and you should take it for face value. But you didn't know that yesterday, or you didn't know that six months ago or five years ago. That's the thing. It's easy to look back and throw rocks at how we handled the pandemic. God knows what that could have turned into. I mean, a million plus people died as is, but who knows what happens when the next one, the flesh eating virus fucking flies around and stuff. Who knows what it could be. Everything's a lesson.

There is no lesson. What's the fucking lesson we learned from COVID.

Was the fire drow. The lesson was let's trust science.

Now you could don't get it people. If there is another pandemic, people are going to continue to believe exactly what they believed last time. Okay, let them so there is no lesson learned.

No, some people learned. Some people have learned that the facts on Facebook aren't real. They have some people have the stupid have it. They're still congregating and spreading stupid.

I actually think the opposite's happened. I think over the last two years, now that we're mostly out of the pandemic, even there's been even more vaccine skepticism.

Oh I agree with that. Okay, but if you don't want to trust science, go ahead, don't, because we'll eradicate stupid people. That's what's gonna end up happening. It's like Darwinism. I mean, that's what's gonna happen.

So then I was right. What the fuck did we learn right about anything? All right, let's wrap things up before we take some calls. I want to thank Andrea who signed up at patreon dot com slash Perez Hilton recently. Actually I am. I'm so overwhelmed. We've never had more people supporting us on Patreon, and over the last week we've had an explosion of sign up, So bless you all, Thank you. I also need to thank Michelle, Miss Gala, Yaira Agbo Malou Michelle said what, Holly Dylan, Christopher Perkins, Kaylee Dingman, Alexandra Rios, Alison Schuler, Louis Shabbat, Kylie Nevins, Celia, Nancy Godswin, Krista Cooper, Kamalami Cahouney listening to you, but stop it. Stephanie Dale in Australia. You wouldn't do any better. Jesus no, I would do Sephanie Dale in Australia, Michelle Aaron, Courtney Corditez, Kim Hannah c Colleen Winter, Carolyn Hussa, Mike another dude, Mike Dubenski, Jess fuck Jess.

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She just signed up.

I know her from Instagram. Maybe she just joined Patreon.

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You need a top show.

You two are perfect together. But he don't cut me off. You're my favorite for your honesty, Perez, your TikTok lives. I live for my real question for you both for my birthday this week, it gets from you.

What is your favorite story you ever covered together?

No Kanye allowed go lie in sending you both love. Yeah.

Fuck the Steelers. By the way, teepe steaks.

My favorite story. The first thing that comes to mind is just because she brings me joy. I love talking about Taylor Swift. And it's not like, you know, oh, Britney spears and negative and like, you know, like anything Taylor is like okay, could be juicy. Everybody knows who the fuck Taylor is, but it's not like, oh, somebody's struggling with their mental health or whatever. I love talking Taylor's I would say anything Taylor Swift.

I do like the Taylor conversations. And I know people hate when we dive into the numbers of things and how I think they're horseshit. I love doing that. I'm sorry that you guys hate when I do that, but I fucking love doing that. I agree anything Brittany. I could care less if we ever fucking mentioned again. I just like when Perez tells me a story about someone that I don't necessarily care about or know anything about, and I like having just an honest reaction to what he's telling me. I don't know if it's fat, I don't know if it's gossip, but I'd like to just kind of dice up situations so I don't think I have a specific answer to that, but I genuinely enjoy his storytelling of what's going on.

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