Savannah Guthrie's Shocking Return, Timothée Chalamet's Fake Image, & Brooke Shields' JFK Jr. Reveal

- Hello and welcome to your Friday edition of The Nerve, I am your host,

“Maureen Calahan, what a show we've got for you.”

We're going to kick things off with none other than Timote, Shamalama Ding Dong, Oscar voting wrapped yesterday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern. But Timote has been snubbed twice now,

once at the bath, is second at Sunday's actor awards.

So, I've been waiting to do this piece because we go after Timote deservedly quite a bit on this show, but we haven't yet spoken about Marty Supreme, partly because it took me forever to work my way through this film.

It's very difficult to watch. We're going to talk about what nobody covering this movie in any remote way is talking about, and they're shocking stuff in this film, shocking stuff, I mean, there's one scene

that stopped me in my tracks, and I thought, how is it that the New York Times isn't discuss this? And any remotely, woke, feminist, media outlet should have been all over this one particular scene, and it's just gone completely unremarked upon.

And then we're going to go into what the problem is

with the Safty Brothers. The much-law did Safty Brothers, and if you don't pay much attention to independent film, you really wouldn't know who these two are, but they are two brothers who made their name

with the Adam Sandler Indy Drama Uncut Gems. And since then, they've been lauded, as like, you know, you know how I always say, explain the duplast brothers to me. These two are treated like the duplast brothers on steroids,

and we've got some, again, some really, really, really effed up stuff about these two, that the media will not cover,

“but hey, that's why the nervous here, right?”

That's why the nervous here, then we've got breaking news over at the today show. Our pal Rob Shooter's reporting was dead on Savannah Guthrie, showed up back on set on Thursday. Not back to work yet, not quite back to work,

but she's back on set. She's back in New York City, all signs indicate she's going to come back to work. We have a lot to discuss as well as what those miscreants, what those morons over there have been using,

as like, passable topics of conversation on a breakfast morning show.

Again, the culture just always provides for us.

We had to push a bunch of other stuff into next week, because this became a very voluminous segment, and then we've got trouble maker feedback with some trouble maker art that made me laugh out loud.

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outing JFK Junior as basically a terrible guy, a terrible guy, the gamut essentially. And then we have a plea to the trouble makers to get Bill from Brooklyn on our Oscar's live stream, our Oscar's live stream, which is going--

it's going to begin, we believe, at 630 P.M.E.T. that's the plan, Oscar night, that's Sunday, March 15th. Bill from Brooklyn is kind of like-- I have a next game to go to. And we're like, we can make this work.

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unless some other egregious statement is uttered by timetay or something occurs, which cannot escape our notice. We are going to leave him alone until the Oscars. OK, that's the deal.

Timetay, can you keep your mouth shut? Can you stop flouncing around? Like a theater kid on steroids for a hot minute. Now, before we get into Marty Supreme, we have got to cover a little bit.

So and we're doing this to show, basically,

how this machinery works. The industry, for a time, clearly, wanted Timetay to win the best actor Oscar for Marty Supreme. This is part of the business, how they annoying to the next generation, the next actor who

can potentially still be a draw at a dying box office. So income the big guns. Now, again, I don't see any of this going on really for Ethan Hawke, and we all know the nerves feelings here at regarding the Oscars and the best actor category.

It should be Ethan Hawke's to lose a career defining performance in Blue Moon, a body of work that really just surpasses most of his peers, a collaboration with Richard Link later, which is one for the ages,

but goes all to undervalued in the culture.

We'll get to it in another time. We really will. But for now, Matthew McConaughey did a town hall with Timetay on CNN. And again, these media, legacy news wonders why it's dying.

People are not tuning in to see the likes of, oh, right, all right, all right.

“Having an intellectual tech with Mr. Top level shit, OK?”

And the ratings can attest to that because this town hall, which aired on Saturday, February 21, 2026 in prime time, tanked in the ratings, OK? It only drew 435,000 linear viewers. And we don't even know if that means a view is counted

for like 30 seconds or a minute. So on to this meeting of the minds. Timetay is going to talk to McConaughey. I don't understand how this is what passes for a hazing or a practical joke in Hollywood.

George Clooney is guilty of a very similar prank. And I've got theories about this kind of stuff. But they work together on interstellar, great film, directed by Christopher Nolan, who we're going to get to in a moment.

Matthew McConaughey was the star. Timmy was a teenager on the come-up. And this is Timetay and Matthew reminiscing about a little prank Matthew pulled on Timmy. If you are eating something, I would suggest that you stop.

This is pretty graphic. It's gross. Here we go. I went in my trailer, and I went in the bathroom, and there was a huge, huge turd, and then I played it.

And I was like, I felt so disrespectful to this. I mean, I know I'm not the star on this movie, but like, who was coming to sell, went around to all the huge grips. We were in the suburbs of Canada. He's a big guy, just said to me, hey, when you guys,

you know, let me lose my throat. And they said, no, I went up to Nolan on set to us. Actually, and he kind of pointed to Matthew. And I'm like, Matthew, you devilish grin on his face. Like, right now, man.

So why'd you do that? I mean, he said, come and text us, come to VHB. He's like, you know, I'm moving here. He'll see over here. That's a true story of that.

I don't think that's funny. I think it's disgusting. And I love how to, like, Timmy's got this way of speaking. Like, he's trying to sound cool and like he's got some swag. And he's like, you know, he doesn't really fully announce the eight.

“I guess, and then he's talking about like Nolan, Nolan, you know?”

Like, like, they're so cool.

not that like Christopher Nolan is, you know,

an iconic director worthy of more respect than that. Timothy was like, had barely barely begun making his name in film. But anyway, it's Nolan, and it's like, and the idea that like a crew member would go into a trailer belonging to talent and take a dump in there.

“And I think they, they would get fired for that.”

That it wouldn't be laughed off as a prank pulled by their a list, leading man. You know, again, that goes to sort of the level of classism, and this is why, again, this is why Hollywood is dying. Nobody on the planet relates to stories like these.

Now, Timothy Shalame and Christopher Nolan, then then did a Q&A. They did a Q&A, sorry, before the McConaughey town hall. This was done on February 10th, 2026 at the AMC Universal City Walk in LA. The audio is bad, so I'm not going to play it. But in some, in substance, Christopher Nolan talked to Shalamellama Ding Dong

about an interstellar scene in which Nolan was, I'm saying this as a certain, because like, I'm shortening it now, just for expediency, not because him being like, Timote, sling in my bullshit, you know, whatever. He's not cool. He tries to be cool.

He's not cool.

“Anyway, Christopher Nolan was telling Shalamellama Ding Dong,”

here's how I want you to do this scene. And he wouldn't do the scene the way in which he was directed. And he, Nolan kept telling him, I want you to do it this way. And he wouldn't do it. And the takeaway, the poll quote from Christopher Nolan,

to Shalamellama Ding Dong is, you went ahead and did whatever the fuck you wanted. And I don't think that's charming. And I wonder if Christopher Nolan got roped into doing this, you know, because I just, he's an unlikable person. Now, I do think that there is a melding here between Shalamellama Ding Dong's

persona and the titular character he plays in Marty Supreme.

The character is always at 11.

You know, that's, that's my sort of spinal tap metric. You know, where they say like, he, they're asked like, how loud. They like to play live and, and one of them goes. I forget whether it was Christopher Guester, Michael McKean, but they say, oh, we, we, we put the amp up to 11 and Rob Riner goes,

the amps only go up to 10 and they're like, yeah, we put it up to 11. Marty is always at 11, just like Timothy, we're always at an 11. And it's a lot of energy coming at you, just like unrelenting. Like the movie never really takes a dip. And the guy is completely unlikable.

Now I'm going to tell you, I mean, we're going to show

“two of what I think are some of the darkest scenes in a very dark movie,”

a very dark movie about a malignant narcissist, whose only goal is to become the ping pong champion of the world. Who can't relate, a real rocky story, you know what I mean? Lacking the depth and the nuance, you know, this is really actually such a travesty because um, Sylvester Stallone,

really I think never ever gets the full credit he should have gotten for rocky.

Like that movie is both a piece of true pop culture, but it's also a work of art, it really is, but because it appeals to the masses, it never really gets elevated the way that it should. But Marty's supreme is getting elevated because the Saffty Brothers did it, oh, sorry. The Saffty Brothers have split up, we're getting to it.

Josh Saffty did this movie. Josh Saffty did this movie. Timote is, you know what I mean? It's just like a whole thing, it's gotten, it's just gussied up and ribbons and bows and it's a garbage movie about garbage people. Now, at one point in the movie, the Marty character is responsible for a dog, not belonging to him, either getting blown up in a very violent, I mean,

there's only one way to get blown up, but we're talking like spraying gasoline around, you know, in the film, it cuts to a scene of the dog, like sort of running away, but it almost looks like a celestial heavenly kind of backdrop. And so I'm reading that as the director saying to me, viewer, you can read this as one of two outcomes. The dog died, which is the legitimate logical one, or the dog somehow disappeared.

Whatever will sit best with you. These are dark hearts at work, dark minds, dark hearts, and then anyway, Marty and his pregnant married girlfriend, by the way, who he's refusing to believe that the baby is his and other very disgusting ways. They are attempting to rip off the dead dog's owner

I know it's really not your problem, but I'm about to have a baby, and look, I got no husband right now, I got no job, and this money was really, really helped me, and, you know, let's be good people.

“Really, I think I said go for free, and the power, right?”

Well, that's kind of the wrong way to look at it. Oh, really? Yeah, really. Yeah, I'm supposed to look at it. Yeah, because let's just say that I'm not, I'm not calling about a dog,

would say that I'm calling about your mother, and I'm a dog when I got to perform emergency surgery in her, she's going to die. What are you going to do? Refuse the surgery because you got your mother for free? No, that's crazy. You're going to take the surgery if you love your mother for free. I guess you don't know anything about love. All right, good. Give me your address. Okay, come now, I bring you to care.

I'm sorry, but no. No, it's really not your fault, and it's telling like a very nice person. It's just, I've been ripped off once and many times in the past, and I'm just not willing to let

that happen to me again, so we're just going to need to find a way to give you the money first.

You know? Yeah, I mean, the worst scam artist ever. What's wrong with you? I'm trying, hey, okay fine. Well, then if you really don't give a shit about your dog, then you bought for free. How about I don't need it? It's a medical perk,

“but that would be something you wanted to work. It's just so bad. It's no better. What am I doing?”

Money. Terrible ideas, moronic. I'm sorry, I was trying to give it a shot. That's not your fault, it's stupid. Right, calm down. What color is the dog? Why? Who cares? He's brown. Okay, because my boss knows all of the local breeders, and maybe we can get one that looks the same. And the only one being able to tell the diff, you don't think he's going to recognize his own dog that he loves, but I'm saying maybe not

at the car. We're working on my game right now instead of I'm going to use car a lot, making a mockery in my life, doing prank calls. That's Marty Supreme in a nutshell. Truly, what kind of dog is it? It's brown. I can find another dog. You know, and not for nothing, the strain of misogyny. It's strong. I was speaking a bit over that clip, but the dog owner's calls the girlfriend on the phone. You dumb bitch. There's a scene in which it looks like the

the girlfriend's husband's smacks are around. Marty just completely, everyone in everything in his life, but women, especially, are just at best a distraction as he rises through the ranks of international table tennis. Now, there's a sex scene in this movie that I found extremely disturbing. Involving to Matei and Gwyneth Paltrow, and not just because of the obvious age difference, and if the reports are true, it was Julia Roberts who was offered the Gwyneth role first. At one point,

they were like, listen, we will give you $20 million if you just do this small role, which is going

“to require maybe five to ten days worth of work. And Julia Roberts said, no, I'm not doing it. You know why?”

I'm going to look like a molesting a child. Timothy looks like he's 12. It's creepy for that reason, but I'm going, I'm not going to tell you what goes on in this sex scene. We'll watch it together. This is graphic by the way. So if you've got kids around, like, no, no, no, no, no, this is graphic, and I cannot believe anybody is, I can't believe nobody else is talking about this. Again, this is why the nerve exists. Here we go. Sorry, Ms. Stone wanted to let you know that she'd love

to have lunch with you. Ms. Stone? Yes. Yes. Mm. Smash cotton is then having sex in the shower. In the days behind her, he's got his hand wrapped around her neck, choking her, and also removing her diamond necklace. I'm going to retrieve later from the train. He's got his hand around her neck, and she looks like she's in ecstasy. Okay, that's enough. That's enough. I don't even want to see any more. This is what porn has done to young men. They think that this is what women

want. They think this is hot. They think this is sexy. They think this is powerful. Never let

a man put his hands around your neck. No matter what, this is disgusting. But hey, let's listen to Timothy talk about the work he's put now because we can never get enough of it. Here we go. Hey, good to hear about this rule. Um, the assertiveness, the confidence, the, uh,

get older. I'm about to be 30. I want to look back on my interviews when I'm, um,

fried and, and mentally anguished in my 60s, and look back on my interviews when they take off. You go, man, I was really speaking the truth and not afraid of, uh, of the truth. Just got to a chance. That's it. Like, this is probably my best performance, you know, and then it's been, like, seven, eight years that I feel like I've been handing in really,

“really committed top of the line performances. And it's important to say it out because the discipline”

and the, the work ethic, I'm bringing you these things. I don't want people to take advantage. I don't want to take for granted. This is really some top level shit. Look at that smart, honest face. This is really some top level shit. I can't wait to see that smart get wiped off. It's fucking face at the Oscars. God, if the nerve is moving as quickly as we want it to, Timote will be denied now onto this affdy brothers and what broke this artistic

union up. Now, you may not know this, but the New York Post has launched a California addition, and their inaugural front page headline Oscar Wilde. This is from, sorry, January 2026. We're just in March. I can't believe it. Okay, January 2026, Oscar Wilde is the headline. That's cute. Actually, Oscar Wilde, spiritual godfather of the nerve, shocking truth behind director, saffdy brothers, mystery split, a mystery no more. Page six Hollywood headline,

the teenage sex scene that sparked the infamous rift between the edge of director brothers. Okay, the root of the quarrel. I'm reading from this article. Again, I cannot believe this was not picked up gone viral, but you know, the ease of the world, the access Hollywood's of the world. They're

never going to cover it. They're never going to cover it. A month stems from a much darker incident

that occurred on the set of their 2017 breakout good time. Page six Hollywood can reveal with Benny cutting ties with his brother in 2023 after he learned the full scope of the event. So I'm

“going to guess Benny's the source here, because, you know, I think he probably was aware of the full”

scope of the event sooner than, you know, I'm just just my opinion, just my opinion, according to good time sources. Reading from the article, a 17 year old girl was cast to play a prostitute in the crime thriller. Again, how many prostitutes does Hollywood need? Talk about overrepresentation of a subgroup. Once on set, the teenager was thrust into a scene that involved nudity and simulated sex with actor in quotes, Buddy Dress. What a what a name. Under Dress, nominative determinism

during production in New York as part of their verite style. The safeties were known for using a mix of professional stars like the film's lead Robert Pattinson, as well as non-actors like Dress. They're non-actors all over Marty Supreme. It's a gimmick. You know, everybody's going, wow,

“Kevin Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank is a revelation acting as Gwyneth”

Paltrow's husband in this movie. You know what, he's not. I'm sorry, you know what? They give him as his big scene. It's a shark tank episode. It's Kevin O'Leary sitting across from Marty,

AKA Timate, and they're basically brokering a deal. And it's a watch and Kevin basically

channel himself on Shark Tank. He's not a brilliant actor who was just waiting to be discovered. You don't get the fuck out. Hype is hype. I see through it. Okay, anyway. So the non-actor, Buddy Dress, picking up from the page six piece, had just been released from prison. Dress, real name Michael, state this, had been jailed numerous times dating back to 2009 on drug charges, weapons violations, fencing stolen property, and motor vehicle theft according

to court records. Okay. This is how we know Benny's the source. Just my opinion, because he said he learned the full, the article says, rather not the Benny says, the article says that Benny later learned the full scope. I don't know how Benny could later learn the full scope as it's described here. Benny's right on the set holding the boom. Reading from the piece, while Josh Safdie watched the action unfold on his monitor, and Benny stood in the corner holding

the boom. Dress, who was high at the time, pulled down his pants, exposed himself, and asked the

Hollywood, Dress died of a heroin overdose in November 2023. Quote, any director who had seen that

should have yelled cut and stopped the scene. First of all, any director who had any moral fiber

whatsoever would not be hiring a violent ex-con who seemed to have been an active drug addict and put them in front of a 17-year-old to simulate a sex scene. Okay. These guys, Josh Safdie,

“I can't say it about Benny necessarily. I'm going to say I think Josh Safdie is one sick”

fucking puppy. Quote, any director who had seen that should have yelled cut and stopped the scene, but Josh let it continue. Says an onset source who's definitely not Benny Safdie. Who noted that Josh picking back up and not Benny was the day facto commander on set. Three sources say Josh, who is now vying for this year's best director Oscar, became aware of the girl's age on the day of production, shortly after the scene shot,

as the traumatized girl spiraled, Josh declined comment using a minor for nudity and a sex scene would flout industry norms, including a screen actor's guild rule that stipulates

“work conditions not be quote detrimental to the health morals and safety of the minor close quote”

those familiar with the chain of events. Say Josh's recklessness was beyond the pale. That is an understatement, my aside. The safeties removed the scene. Sometimes some time, excuse me, before the A24 film made it splashy world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival sources close to them insist that the scene was excised quote for creative reasons. Anyone who wants to sell you the notion that Hollywood has changed for the better since Harvey Weinstein was sent to prison,

since the Me Too movement, since people like Reese Witherspoon found their own production companies and it's girl power all the way, not effing so, not effing so and I got to say like,

“you know, shame on Queen of the Paltrow for not pushing back with that sex scene. She certainly has”

the power. She could have said there's no fucking way I'm doing a sex scene, pushing out the idea that is totally normal for a male partner to be choking out a woman during sex. You can die that way. Fuck this shit! That's it. That's it. Let's hope that the Oscars does right and shuts out Marty Supreme. We will be back in a minute with your feedback. See you soon. After having a few drinks, do you find it hard to bounce back? Do you find yourself choosing

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trouble maker feedback and art that will make your day. We have got to talk about the latest breaking developments over at the today show. Zibiotics got three returned. She is back in New York city and on Thursday morning she did not go on camera but she went to studio one a. She went to the today show and saw her colleagues and this is a very good indicator and good for her good for Savannah that she is likely returning to that chair. Her life has got to go on. I don't think there

is a single person in America who would be grudge Savannah and attempt to return to some normal sea living through this nightmare. Hollywood reporter headline on Thursday. Savannah got three

today show. I think just my humble opinion are really concerned with how this most impacts that.

TMZ got this incredible footage which Marlene found right before we came to you and I was like we

have got to get this in. This is incredible. So we're going to look at it together. Now what's amazing about this footage is Savannah. These are these are creatures of television. Okay. They know camera angles. They know live TV. They know paparazzi. They know still photography. They are aware of everything. Savannah is at studio one a which is on the ground level. It's got floor to ceiling windows. It's designed so that the fans outside can see in and the talent inside can see out. Okay.

Savannah's got her back to the windows. She's got her back to the cameras. Guess who's facing the window

“facing the cameras. It's Hoda. It's Hoda coffee. Who is visibly seen wiping away tears. I think these”

tears are not for the reasons. Kind or minds would ascribe. Okay. I think Hoda now sees the writing

on the wall. She's sitting in Savannah's chair and Savannah's coming back and you can look at this footage too and Savannah's hugging a lot of people before she ever gets over to her BFF Hoda. And Hoda is just kind of like where do I go? What do I do? Oh, there's someone over here. I'm going to hug you. I may see you every morning. You may be bringing me coffee every five. I think seconds. I'm just going to hug you. So I can eat up some time before Hoda finally dains to acknowledge

me people magazine. How does this affect Jenna Bush Hagar? You may ask the incisive, sensitive nuance to mega talent. Non-neppo, baby, that is Jenna Bush Hagar. People magazine's headline. Jenna Bush Hagar tears up on air over Savannah got through his emotional return to today's show set quote, we've all been waiting for her Dallas in that creaky voice. You know, that creaky voice

Jenna uses when she's trying to squeeze out tears that are never going to come. All right, listen,

next week is going to give us no shortage of this and we will be, we listen. As I've said, this is another crime scene. The today show is another crime scene. And I for one and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, I'm very happy to see Savannah go back. She, I'm very, very happy

“for her to go back. And you know why not just because it's, I think, psychologically healthy for her,”

but because it's going to be like array, like the rats, they're all going to scatter. They're going to scatter. Do you think anybody at 30 rock really wants Hoda being a permanent fixture there? That once Savannah settles in and like gets sort of a little bit back into her routine. No, no, Craig Melvin, Rob tells us he doesn't want her there. Nobody wants Hoda there. Jenna doesn't want Hoda there. You don't, okay. Before we come right around, you know, we like to tell a story that

has a beginning of middle and end and we'll circle back and tie this up with a bow for you guys. I've been wanting to do this for a while and then the way this story began unfolding, it just

“gave us a beautiful, beautiful opening. We all ready went through the, um, I believe the”

today show openings for the fourth hour of today when it was Hoda and Jenna and then when Hoda left and it was Jenna and friends and these show opens are so low rent and so embarrassing and to me, they're evident of two things. One, um, the network thinks very little of these two is talents and to they're only willing to budget accordingly. I mean, this show open looks like they spent five cents on it and unlike the Jenna and friends show open, which was a solo Jenna,

like stiffly walking around New York City and her big trench coat, like just very naturally getting a cup of coffee from a street vendor and maybe very naturally waving at her fans, you know, this, that one had what was clearly like a like a middle-aged white woman singing that singing that theme song and this one, because now Chanel is the co-host and Chanel is black and Jenna is white. It seems like they've tried to make the theme song sound a little bit more urban, you know what I'm

saying and um, if you are only listening to the podcast, I'm going to encourage you, go to the

Chanel, if Chanel was doing it, um, and it's just the production values are, it's so cheap. Okay, here we go.

It's got like two lyrics, like we got it, we're shining with Jenna and Chanel, everything's going to be okay. I mean, can you talk boilerplate and like there's not even, it's so cheap, like they're in the same close for like three quarters of the whole thing, which is like, oh, let's high five, let's like Savannah cannot come back fast enough. I know she really doesn't have much to do with the fourth hour of today, but I would like to see like like Savannah who's

really now been through some real fucking shit, just just take that rage and and and just have it just explode in studio one a okay, because on Tuesday, Jenna and Chanel decided to open their show and mind you, this is a breakfast show, this is a show that people of you know are easing into their day and they're having their coffee and they've maybe just, you know, had something to eat

and these two decide that the the first topic of conversation should be Benny Blanko's filthy

disgusting feet. And I'm going to, we're going to show this and again, if you're watching, we're just going to give you a real warning. This is, this is disgusting. I personally hate feet.

“I think that men should never, ever, ever show their feet in public unless they're on a beach.”

A beach or a boat. That's it. And if you're going to do it then, they better be pedicured to the health. That's it. This is a provocation to the culture, okay? And this is why the nervous here, we're going to push right back. Now, and Jenna is too much of a dummy to say to her producer, we should not be doing this. This is disgusting, but to, to Jenna have two fucking brains else rub together. No, even her own father, a former president said, I don't have time to watch your stupid

effing show. I mean, I don't think it cars. But he called her show stupid in some substance.

Here we go. Yeah. I'll talk about feet now. Let's do it. Okay. So never,

every couple of slain of Gomez and Benny Blanko, they're making the head. We're now nearly in the last week. Benny's feet went viral. Then he looks like a drug addict. There they are. Well, I mean, it looks like a drug addict. It's a drug addict. It's a couch. Let's, let's, let's let it be fly. Yeah. It's disgusting. These people are, they're so wealthy. You're telling me you can't afford a nice pair of slippers. Like, how much did that couch cost? You're going to put

your bare filthy effing feet. You know, I think that Benny Blanko is one of those guys who just

“is like, like, he necks. His entire existence is a neg. If you remember that guy, um, what was his”

name, mystery? He was big in the 90s. And his whole thing was like, he was going to tell loser dudes how to punch above their weight on the dating scene. And the way to get women who were way out of their class was to just neg them, insult them. Benny Blanko is the embodiment of a human neg. This is disgusting. And then Jen is going to take this as an opportunity. Again, she can only bring it back to herself. This is a limited mind. A limited self absorbed mind. And she's going to

share with America, the state of her heels. And this is a woman trust me who has the money and the means to have a paddacurist come to her home and attend to her feet. So she doesn't even have to build in, say the 15 to 20 minute drive to a spa. And the 15 and 20 minute drive back, let

“alone the extra 5 to 10 minutes. You have to wait if your paddacurist happens to be running”

behind. Do you know what I'm saying? Here we go. We're in people are going to don't look too close. Yeah, but you have a heel. We won. But I don't have one too. But anyway, okay, that's just a one here. Yes, this week and paddacurist, paddacurist way. But I cannot believe that there are executives at 30 rock who are comfortable enough with this level of inertia, conversationaly, talent wise. Can we bring it up to a level that isn't completely embarrassing? Again, this is a

breakfast show ostensibly. Now this brain trust, again, I'm going to warn you because this is truly disgusting. They're going to continue with a photo of Selena Gomez kissing Benny Blanco's disgusting feet. Here we go. Okay, we were prepared for that to see it coming. That came too soon.

there's been such a hub of blue about people talking about his feet and she's like, you know what?

“Oh, blue. You've downed to your toe. Did she put it in her mouth?”

Yeah, she just kissed his feet. Talking about his feet when she did that or that just happened, no. She just felt led to kisses feet. They love each other all the time. So of course this is we chat on the show. You're in the same feeling of use of relation to be my opinion. I know. No, I will not. You. Genie's a mean girl. She's asking Chanel. She's ever has. She's a sexual relation to the foot in some substance. She should know. I'm looking at me. She should know. You're telling me

not all thrones. You have passion. Have the feet been brought to the table. Listen, mean girl. Push down. You don't have to answer every question. Listen, let's end it and what? They're wearing their yellow ribbons for Nancy Guthrie and they're talking about Jenna, rather, is prosecuting Chanel

and saying you've never involved feet in your sexual play. This woman's husband died not to

long ago. When I tell you that morning television is a cesspool full of vipers. I mean, Megan Kelly talks about it all the time. Who would know better? You know what I mean? Now, I did attempt at dignity. The brain trust over at the today's show invited New York cities, New York, New York, New York, New York. Now, New York's former archbishop Timothy Dolan was like a real media kind of god fly. He'd love the media. He was very media friendly, very

media savvy, knew how to do it. The new guy Ronald Hicks. And I mean, no disrespecting calling him

“the new guy. Orn and raised a Catholic. He doesn't seem that media savvy yet. And I think it was”

premature for him to appear on the today's show where, again, the brain trust of Hoda Kotby, Craig Melvin and Carson Daley asked the Archbishop to lead them in a public televised prayer for Savannah Guthrie and her family. And this thing extremely uncomfortable, which means we're going to watch it together. Here we go. I want to ask you something. I'm sure you're aware of what's been going on around here. Our dear friend Savannah's mom has been smiling for a couple of weeks. And

there are a lot of people starting to smile in Savannah and her family. And just wanted to do had any more words for them and for us. It's the new Archbishop here. It's just like everyone. It's heartbreaking. It's hard to watch. I want to just extend my absolute support and especially my prayers. Not only my own prayers, but she as a community of people who's praying for her and for her mom and for the entire family. Archbishop, we don't have a lot of

“Craig. And this spirit's actually just moved me. Could you lead us on a brief really?”

Right. And let's just take a moment to put ourselves in the presence of God and ask God with his Satan rules that today show Archbishop Grace and his mercy and his goodness. Well, just be with Savannah. He's struggling with this entire situation. Be with her mom. Bring hope, peace. Some are solution to all of this and let her know of the great love and support and prayers that's around her and your name we ask Amen. Amen. Thank you for that.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Archbishop. Well, you know what? I think that Huda did not get the answers to her prayers that she was hoping for. I think that Huda was hoping that Savannah would be gone forever. I think that Huda is now looking at a long future of being barricaded frankly from the set at the today show from Studio 1A. I mean, if I'm Savannah and I'm coming back and Savannah's got all the power now. She's got all the power. Oh my God, first order of business,

after negotiating a much greater pay package and deal with full of perks and whatnot and making

sure they never do a date line on my mother. Okay, that too. Those ghouls over there have been

trying to do a date line since the minute Nancy was snatched from her bed. Yeah, I would Huda would be barred for life. Barred for life. Okay. Now on to your email, which is so incredible. Okay. This,

event in the adventures. Excuse me of posts and pooch. She calls this operation steadmuffin. Can he finally be saved? We are showing this art full screen in it is my one and only teddy bear.

“Pilating a helicopter. His helmet says team nerf. He's on comms unlike JFK Jr. Am I right?”

In the back is Nadia's cat Daisy with her pearls lifting steadmen nested muffin to safety as there is an explosion in the back and coming up on Teddy Van Halen is none other than Oprah in her helicopter. Hello again from Snowy Canada dearest mooring. All my beloved cat Daisy and the distinguished Teddy Van Halen are hot on the trail again for the possibly departed steadmen gram.

But look, this amazing picture was captured by team nerf satellites. It appears as though top

gun Teddy and goose pus daisy are about to rescue steadmen in a wild helicopter chase. The helicopter of the mistress of darkness herself Oprah is about to go down but will they succeed find out on the next

“captivating fast and furious episode of pus and pooch signed off with double hearts from trouble”

maker Nadia P S fuck Oprah and gal to love it. Subject. Oh my god. This actually does not have a subject line which made it very enticing high mooring. My husband and I have watched you since day one. Thank you. I cannot tell you how much we admire your bravery for going into space. Thank you for acknowledging my greatness Denise and Jim. Although we were happy to go on vacation for a week in Charleston, we were sad to miss your show this week. Little did we know that you would be

with us in spirit. We went to a restaurant, highman seafood and low and behold, look, who sat at the table in the past see picture below. We're going to show it full screen. It made our day Sarah Jessica Parker eight at the table. Marlena's question did she give like a shitty tip like she tried to do and she had lunch with Jerry Seinfeld on comedians and getting cars in coffee.

“Subject Jean Tierney yet we heard back we talked about Jean Tierney in the most recent I think was”

nerve at night and we heard from a lot of you trouble makers who say yes as trouble maker Laura here does to a nerve episode on Jean. Tierney Laura says I have loved her since I saw Laura when I was a teenager. Same I think I saw Laura when I was maybe 11 for the first time. As a Laura myself I love the movie and the theme song. As I often do with my favorite actresses I've tried to watch all of her other films, Razor's Edge which I've not seen. I love the summer set mom book but I have not seen

the I've never seen that there's a Bill Murray adaptation too but I should see the Jean one. Heaven can

wait two other gems of hers. I have a collection of old Hollywood bios so do I but I was unaware of her autobiography I will definitely be ordering a copy now you will not regret it Laura so yeah we will do a segment on Jean Tierney in a future nerve Marlena's taking notes I know that. This came to me from a DM on Instagram sent to my account @moreencalahan writer. I read this I immediately copied it and sent it to myself because this one is too good. It is

from someone who goes by chief James who gave me permission to read this with his name.

Basically in some substance he was like I'm old enough not to care. I'm not caught up with the

JFK mini series chief James writes but I assume Ted Kennedy is about to enter the chat you are so right so I wanted to share this story with you. I grew up on Cape Cod and joined the military there with the local air national guard unit circa 2005 2006 there was a groundbreaking ceremony for the new fire department that was about to be built. I was working in the public affairs office at the time Senator Ted Kennedy was the guest speaker sympathies. He hung around after were afterwards

excuse me to mingle with people I was in close proximity because my job was to take photos of him with our fellow military members. Ted had both of his dogs with him. Given your intimacy

you are not. Do you know what kind of dogs that's son of a bitch owned? Portuguese, water, dogs,

“water. Remember Ted Kennedy left Senator then left Mary. Joe Capakni, two die in three feet of”

water. She could have been saved. Did he bother to save her? No you know why? He was so concerned with what that might look like for his presidential ambitions that he made the calculation. It was better to let her die and figure that he could probably with enough help get away with it then to go seek help rescue this girl who died of virgin. She was 28. She died of virgin. I knew chief Jim that Ted I hate calling him Ted because it's so fuzzy you know. His real name

was Edward Edward Kennedy had Portuguese water dogs you know why because he gave two puppies to Michelle and Barack Obama when they were in the White House. So they were descendants of Edward

“Kennedy's water dogs and I never really cared for Barack Obama's closeness to Edward Kennedy.”

I understood he needed it for political reasons but the guy was an amoral piece of shit. We can get into him sexually assaulting waitresses in full view of restaurant staff at a DC restaurant that he and his good friend Senator Christod used to frequent all the time. He could get into that later it's in Ask Not. But anyway so Kennedy had Edward Kennedy had these Portuguese water dogs and chief Jim continues do you know what one of them was named I did not? So chief Jim you were doing

just the nerves work here. One of those dogs was named Splash. Fucking Splash Jim says

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your first order and thanks to wildalaskan company for sponsoring this episode. We are back with none other than Bill from Brooklyn. We are so happy to have returning to the nerve A because you guys have been asking for him and B because he had a birthday this week. Welcome back to the nerve bill and happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Have me very happy to be here today. We are very happy to have you back now. We've been

“waiting to have this conversation with you about the Olympics. In particular, I really want”

to talk to you about Lindsay Vaughn. We're going to take a look at her crashing at the Olympics.

She was skiing on a torn ACL. She has already aged out of this and she injured herself so gravely that four-minute there was speculation that she might actually need to have part of her leg amputated. This story has been covered in the mainstream media as a kind of hero's story, like a hero's journey but you see it differently and I'm very eager for you to share your thoughts with all of us. It's the inner limit. The total set right here. Taking a

look at her crash out at the Olympics. She's just there on her. I mean, anybody that's ever watched sports knows that someone with an ACL you're not playing. I mean, we've seen some great NBA players come off the court immediately knowing it's over. Yeah, point that's when you see them really crying. It's not so much even from the physical pain as it is knowing like their season is over. It's not their career. Yeah. And for anyone to think that she was going to make it down

a hill at 80 miles an hour with two foreign skis attached to a leg and whatever. However, why they are. To me it was just selfish. There's a kid someplace in the United States that was the last one caught from the Olympics ski teams from the women's ski team. Could have been that kid's only shot at ever making an Olympic team dedicated the last four years of her life. And she lost out because Lindsey Vaughn was too narcissistic to too much of an

Eagle Maniac and had to be there. Even after knowing her knee wasn't going to hold up, she still had to try to be down that mountain. Bill, what kind of what kind of drugs do you think she was on in order to do that? Anyone who's had a torn ACL or even like a torn meniscus knows like in the in the immediate aftermath of a tear like that, you're lucky if you can even put weight on it.

“You know, she's not superhuman. She's a human being. So she had to be on some kind of drugs, right?”

Yeah, this got to be some type of numbing agent that goes through. I mean, I don't do numbing, right? I mean, let's just let's just talk real talk. Yeah, no, I mean, when I say numbing agent like you're not feeling anything through that leg and that that can actually be more dangerous because

you feel normal, you behave normal. But even if you watch that video in the first couple seconds

as she's coming down out of the gate and she goes off the first little hill and there's a little jump. You see her land on her left foot and she keeps her right foot in the air. She comes down a second later and you can tell it's in her mind that she can't put that kind of weight, that kind of pressure on her foot. If she knows that going into it at the very beginning of it, she has no business on that mountain. And it to me, it just, I mean, we're going to sit here and

we're going to question the decision making, but this is also someone who decided it was going to get a date tiger woods when he was in the middle. Right. By the way, have you seen the tiger woods as bitching and moaning that his latest flame, his latest squeeze Vanessa Trump is too insecure and clingy for him? No, I haven't following it, but that's--

waitress number 85 in the parking lot at a denies, you know, your girlfriends of a certain

caliber might be a little needy and clingy. Yeah, I guess she has such a need, my opinion, she has such a need to be famous for anything. Lindsey Von, you mean? Yeah, yeah, that she'll just she'll go out there in at 40 years old. She could have been a commentator. They would any new child would say this. Exactly. I mean, not anybody can be a commentator. It's some of some of them can't do it, but, you know, we're watching Tom Brady struggling, you know, but

that could have absolutely been a career path for her, a color commentator at the Olympics, or at other winter sports. The other thing that bugs bugs me to your point is, you know, she's been

doing all of these, hey, it's not just Lindsey Von's unilateral decision, I'm going to go.

“I think the IOC has a lot to answer for here as does NBC. These big institutions that need”

stars and that need stories and what better story is it than an Olympian against the odds, trying to come back even after she's retired and age out. Like they all have a vested interest into your point squeezing out that kid who this may have been there one and only shot to give it to Lindsey, Effing Von for the eight millionth time. We all knew what was going to happen when she said I'm skiing on my torn ACL. No, I don't know anybody who had an expectation she was going to

even finish a race that alone metal in anything. It was ridiculous and it was, I love the Olympics because of the Olympics to be it's about the purity of the sport and competition and there's nothing out there. I mean, you hope that somebody makes a money off their name at some point, but it's really just you want to be the best in the world. And this wasn't that. This was someone struggling to remain relevant and it cost her a great deal, it cost someone else. But hey, you know, she's got a lot of great

social media poses for the hospital bed, right? That I'm just going to say that. Okay, have you ever suffered an, like a sports? I know you suffered sports injuries. I've had to have surgery after like breaking a bone, whatever. The last thing I would think to do is put on some false eyelashes, smack on some makeup, get my lighting correct, possibly get a ring light in place, and then do a social media post from my bed when I've got like metal rods sticking out of my legs every

which way. Hey, calm me crazy. That's just me. Yeah, I mean, I could remember when I was younger

“and I got knocked out and broke my leg playing hockey. I remember that. I'm glad there were no cameras”

around to capture that and the aftermath. That was a bad break. You were laid up for a while with that. That's not, that's not something people normal people my opinion would would want to put out there for the world to see. Hey, we're advancing the story. By the way, before we get to the men's hockey team, USA hockey team, which has among its members a native of Long Beach, New York, which is where you and I grew up, and it's such a great story and he's such like the pride

of Long Beach, which is also produced not for nothing Billy Crystal, native of Long Beach, New York. You and I will you do this before I did, but I only learned like five years ago, there's another Olympian from Long Beach who is one of our cousins. We are related to his

“name is Tom Farrell. He metled in the 1968 Olympics in track. And I remember I was like,”

is this the most Irish thing? Like we just don't talk about like a star in our family? I'm like, how is it? I'm just learning this now. I should have grown up learning all about my cousin who made it to the Olympics and got a medal? Yeah, I mean, I vaguely remember hearing about it. And we're just kind of said, but you know, Irish Catholic growing up 70s and 80s. We didn't really talk about my family. They don't even talk about it now. They don't even talk about it now during the Olympics.

You think he'd be all over the family thread. I know, at least it's a cool fun fact and you have somewhere in the DNA that somebody was at Olympia. Yes, I agree. Oh, we're very proud of you here at

the nerve. 100% want to meet you someday. Never even met the guy. Okay, so the men's hockey team.

Now, Connor's story, who we're going to show a clip from this, because who is the guy who's tooth got knocked out? Was it Jack Hughes? Yeah, Jack Hughes. Okay, I love this guy. I love this guy. So Connor's story is this young actor who's having a moment because he is in the hit HBO show he did rivalry. Do you know about the show, Bill? No, I don't. Okay, so it's about two gay hockey players.

Okay, so he's having a moment and he was hosting SNL this week and he brought out Jack and Quinn Hughes from the USA Men's hockey team and then a couple of other Olympians. Gold medalists came out and we'll see that and I just want to show this and then you and I will talk about it because even the, like, there's a certain kind of audience that SNL attracts and it's a kind of audience that you might not think would traffic and just like unilateral,

like it doesn't matter with sight of the aisle you're on. Like your country wins gold, it's a win and we're all proud and patriotic and psyched that Americans won. So let's take a look.

Here we go. And then I'm watching the Olympics and I see these amazing players and I'm like,

I don't think I pulled it off. I love that the sky didn't get like a place. She was still broken. No man, I hear you're great. Oh, and in Jack, you guys literally just won the Olympics congrats. Thanks. We've been so busy playing. We haven't had time to see your show yet.

“It's about hockey, right? It kind of. I got my teeth popped out in the finals. Does that happen in your show?”

Metaphorically. Cool. What team do you play on? The Boston Raiders. Boston Raiders. What league is that? The NHL? The HBO. But you guys should check it out. Oh, I hope some hockey players watched it. And then here come two of the stars of the women's hockey team, which also won gold. And I just love this whole thing though. Tell me, um, I think you were watching the

weekend ending theory, guys. I think you were watching the men's hockey in real time. Yeah. Yeah, I got up. I got up to watch it. It was good. Yeah. What time did it? What time did it start? 8 a.m. 8 a.m. Eastern time. Yeah. And, uh, so this was a weekend. I'm guessing. Yeah, it was something morning. And, uh, so like talk to me about that moment when this kid, like gets his tooth knocked out and like just comes back up swinging. So this is more to it, too, because it's a 46th anniversary

“of the miracle on ice. Where do you think you should sell the arts, right? So you have that. You also have,”

there's, there's a rivalry that is developed between T. Mu S. Antipan and it goes back to the, another tournament that was played. I remember if it was late last year earlier, last year at Four Nations tournament, where the Canadian friends, booed during the American National Anthem. And the American... What was this? Do you remember? This was about six months ago, year. I'm not, I'm not certain. It was important. It was fantastic. Um, so during that tournament,

the Canadian friends booed the National Anthem because of politics. Um, and three American players

in the first nine seconds of the fight of the game, there were three fights in the first nine

seconds of the game. And it was the American player saying, you're not going to boo our National Anthem.

“And it was, you know, nobody hates Canada. Nobody, you know, it's, it's a, it's a rival. Right?”

It's like, no, it's, it's like the Yankees and Red Sox. A rivalry developed because of the fans and because of outside, you know, circumstances, but it's a great rivalry. Everybody has nothing but respect for those players from Canada. And it was a great game. And they probably beat us on a different day, but not that day, not the gold medal day. We won. And you watch this kid go out there. You watch him get hit in a face with a stick, knock down, gets a blood drip and teeth missing.

And he stays out there in a time when we have guys in the NBA, making $50 million a year

that take a rest day, a day to rest their body. And this guy just lost his teeth and stays out there and scores the golden goal. Like, you can't, you can't be any more proud than to watch that happen. You know what? I also think this resonates and like just goes beyond the Olympics and sports and into pop culture. The way it has is we live in an era of trigger warnings, safe spaces, gentsiers who bring their momies to their job interviews. And we want to go back to a time

like the muscular Herculine in 1980s, the era of Rocky and Arnold Schwarzenegger and we're tough. And we win and we, we get knocked down and we get bloodied and battered and we're missing teeth.

kid has just captured everybody's hearts. Yeah. I mean, it goes back to the last conversation

we had when I was on the show last. I, I forget his name, Willy Wonka, the new America. To obtain something wrong. Yeah, I mean, he's not getting his teeth out and getting back up. I'm sorry. It's not happening and he's 100% that whole team got up and then, you know, the way they won that game and they, they played their hearts out. Everybody gave everything on the ice. And I don't, I don't care, you know, if you're a sports fan, every sports fan knows there's no

“better sport than play of hockey. The only thing I've ever seen for better than play of hockey”

is Olympic hockey. Why is that? Why is that? Hockey players are just the toughest there are. And during the playoffs, it's everything is on the line. It is the fastest moving game hard to keep up with. Just keep in track of the puck on the ice. Everybody's giving everything they have. 110% speed. They play till their teeth fall out like you see it. And it's just, it's all out there for for everything. It's a time when too many athletes are more worried about

the money they're going to make. And, you know, you don't see that for these guys and you didn't, you didn't see it through these Olympics from either team, you know, the Canadians played out all the game too. And just, you know, we got the better of them on this day. So I want to move on to something that is not related to sports, but that has also

“captured the world. I think this is currently the biggest star in the world. And I speak of”

punch the monkey in the Japanese zoo. And we're going to look at some photos here. Punch is a baby monkey who's mother rejected him and who's tribe troop. I forget what you call a group of monkeys has rejected him. And so the the zoo keepers bought this little guy, a stuffed animal, and I Kia, a stuffed monkey. And he's been seen carrying it around, dragging it around, hugging it, snuggling with it, using it for comfort. I want to roll a little bit. We're going to look at

one other thing before I show you this real bill. I don't know if you saw this in the paper the other day are online, but in Washington Square Park, a bunch of people are just got together and they built a huge punch statue out of snow. And we're going to show it right now. Look at it. It's punching his stuffed animal, hugging in front of the arch at Washington Square Park.

It's incredible. And then I'm going to show you this clip of John Stewart.

That asshole, on punch the monkey, and then you and I are going to talk about punch. Here we go. But clearly there is probably something wrong with that fucking monkey. I got, please, I say this. John's mugging. Here we are. I understand, and it's adorable, and he's breaking by heart.

“But that being said, who are we to question the wisdom of the truck?”

No, I'm just saying, they're the ones that know him best. They've decided he's problematic. What the f*ck are you? I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. He's John Stewart. He's trying so hard to grasp onto what his career was back when he was at the height of the daily show. I just, it's a baby monkey. Who's looking for a hug? That tells me a lot more about John Stewart's

psyche than I clearly really want to know Bill, what do you make of this story? What do you make of punch going viral, global, super star punch? I look for what John Stewart was just looking for

clickbait. I mean, he might have gone away the first line might have been funny, but that just doubled

that. I mean, the first line was okay. Punch, though, if punch is funny because this monkey has united people all over the world. I've read comments on some of the social media posts and you have people talking about invading Japan to write the wrongs that's happening with punch and everybody just wants to see him do well and be okay. It's pretty sad. I was talking to Emily this week. My stepdaughter in medical school forgot him studying to be

a bat. Yeah, so she actually brought it up to her professors who said that to them it's more of a sign that there's something not right within the environment that he's in that through

him or the rest of the monkeys and that's part of the problem there. So it gets overall, you know,

“zoos and how animals are kept and treated that could be part of it as well. It's also an ultimate”

underdog story, right? It's like we're off the red nose reindeer. The unwanted becomes the most beloved. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, listen, it's tough to watch. Your baby monkey get tossed around by the other one. Pushed away. Like he's looking for a hug. I mean, punch is really all of us. We just want a hug. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the end of the day. But you know what, you know, he's going to grow up to be stronger and tougher and you know, he'll be, he'll be the leader in that

do one. He'll be the jack-use of that Japanese Zoo. Yeah. Run around with a stick and a missing tooth. That's exactly right. Okay. Two more topics for you, Bill. I wanted to look at this with you and discuss Kelly and Sharon Osborne were on the red carpet at the Brida Wards. They were there. Four Aussie, who died recently. He was being posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. This is February 28th, 2026. Kelly Osborne in particular. Let's take a look at her on the red carpet.

For me, the people love him just as much as we do. They're giving us so much grace and

just support and it's basically four. Okay. She's absolutely skeletal. Absolutely. What are your

theories about what's going on here? Because to go out in public like this, I don't. She clearly doesn't see what the rest of us see. No, I mean, I listen. I want to be mean, but I mean, as you look better than she does, it's she. If there was ever a reason to second gas, or maybe pump the brakes on those epic or whatever it is, she's taking. We've got to really take a look at what these drugs do to you before you go all in on them or whatever it else. She looks like she's

installed all from death. She does. Do you know what this reminds me of, Bill? Do you remember when Lisa Marie Presley was on the red carpet for Baz Lerman's Elvis? I think it was at the Golden Globes. And she looked like she was near death. People were like, she looks like she's near death. She had John to skin. She had dead, blurry eyes. She looked like she needed help just even standing

“up. That's what Kelly Osborne looks like. And I'm showing this and talking to you about this,”

again, not to be mean at all. But I think it's very dangerous messaging when these people present in this way, which is a complete cry for help. And the media treats it like this is normal. She looks fine. Yeah, no, it's not. It's scary. I don't know how people close to her, like. Well, I didn't show her mother. Her mother looks like, you know, just about as in, in, in dire physical shape as her daughter. Yeah. I mean, they, they, they,

she, the near image of her. It's just somebody, you would hope you had somebody in your life that would say, hey, you know, it's time to get them out. What do they do? And they just don't hear it or they don't want to hear it. But this is one of the most obvious cries for help. I think we've seen it a long time. You know, it looks like she also had there's this thing that some young women do that is ill-advised in my opinion, but it's called buckle fat removal.

Do you know what this is? The plastic surgeons will like surgically, we'll suck out the skin between your, the bottom of your cheekbone and your jawbone. So it's supposed to give you like real angular cheekbones and just make you like give you bone structure where maybe you're, you were lacking before you remember Kelly Osborne used to have all that puppy fat in her cheeks. She had like no real definition. So it looks like she had that done plus she's on a GLP one that is accelerating

her weight loss. I mean, even Sharon said a few months ago, like, she's on one and she can't stop

“losing weight and she doesn't want to lose any more weight. I think she went off of it.”

I listen, I'm, there's a need for it for people right there.

GLP ones, you know, buckle fat removal. No, no, buckle fat removal. I've never heard of that. I don't

know why people, I don't know why people go through all the things they do for plastic surgery, but there, there's a healthy, I guess it's like any medicine, right? There's a healthy reason for it, but it's, it's the abuse and I guess the doctors that will just so easily prescribe it to anyone who has, she's got to be going to a doctor one would think to get her, you know, replenishment of this prescription and see how we're going on this. She's got a doctor. This is Hollywood for you.

This is like a Michael Jackson doctor. It's like, oh, you want some more profanal?

Kelly, you're wasting away. You look like you've got stage four terminal cancer. We'll give it to you.

“He does. I mean, honestly, I didn't see this before you sent me the link to that article with them.”

And I, I wouldn't think even a street deal is selling narcotics on the side of the road. We, you can't even question whether they should continue selling to someone with that appearance. There's something so wrong physically mentally emotionally. Yeah, but I mean, even, they really appear to be, you know, not long for this world. No, they do. They do. They do. They do. They do. They do. Okay. Last subject, which I've been dying to get to you, about we're going to show

three little clips of Brook Shields talking to Howard Stern. This was several years ago, but now that love story is the monster hit that it is on Hulu and FX, we've got to revisit it. JFK Jr took Brook Shields out on a date. Brook Shields remember famously throughout most of her

“time, even at Princeton, was publicly a virgin. She, she was not sort of the usual girl in Hollywood.”

So they went on a date while they were skiing. They were all sort of around the same resort. And this is Brook retelling her experience with JFK Jr, who you and I grew up in New York and

always the line on him and all the tabloids. Niceest guy. Niceest good guy. You would never know

he came from where he came from. Here we go. Went out. I invited with the family. He kept saying I looked like his mother, which was really interesting and I'm confident. I don't know how to feel about this. Then they go on the date. They're back at JFK Jr. Schelle in Aspen. And he kisses her and she's really into it, but he wanted to have sex with her and she wouldn't do it and Howard gets some more details out of her. Here we go.

You're in the room with him. You kiss him. It's the best kiss of your life. I froze though because it was so precious to me and I was like, oh my God, you're falling in love. And if you sleep with him, he may not talk to you again and you can't handle that. Right. You wish smart. You did the kiss. And then he probably wanted to go right the sack. Absolutely. He's like, come on. Let's go. And you're like, no, no, we're moving a little fast.

Yeah. And I thought I wasn't playing a game. I really was just I was so afraid of being really hurt. Okay. Again, here's this girl who has been covered from the time she was an infant model, a baby model. Everyone in America knew she had been a virgin through much of her college career. So that

includes JFK Jr. She's not your average starlet sling in her shit around. So here's what happens

after Brooke Shields declines to have sex with him on the first date. I had to get a cab home. You take now. That's a little less than civil rights. It might be. He should have gotten in a car and made sure you got home. Yeah. He didn't have to, though. He had women falling at his feet and he didn't have to do anything for it. You know, so I'm believing. I'm on the next day on the slope and he didn't look at me.

And he didn't talk to me. And on the one hand, I was like, shit. And the other hand, I was like, oh, thank God. Thank God. Because he still might not have talked to you. Even if you had and you would have given something that he wouldn't have under like cared about. And, you know, and he showed his two colors in that. And then we got stranded. We were all supposed to leave. We got snowed in and he had to stay in my, the house. My mom was renting.

So then it was my mom and John John and me in this in this chalet. And, and it was just like,

“this was surreal. Did he finally talk to you and say hello?”

Bill. Yes, the Kennedy DNA runs deep, huh? So it's in with all the rest of them. It does any of

that surprise you, though, given I don't get always really none of its surprises.

Why would it surprise anyone? I mean, because people are still buying into this mythology. And like the reason we're talking about this now is, I don't know, you're probably unaware, but their Ryan Murphy has this mini series going that's a huge hit right now. It's called Love Story, John of Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Beset. And they are treating it like it's this fairy tale.

affable guy. He might be a little, you know, spacey and like, as entitled. But he's a really good

guy. He's just John. He's just John. And here's this guy who, like, doesn't even have the ego to withstand a woman. She's sitting there. She's saying, like, I knew if I slept with him, I wouldn't recover from that. He must have been able to feel how intensely she was into him. And he's still pushing her for this. And she's like, I can't do it right now. It's date one. And he's like, f off, get yourself home. And then the next day they all get snowed in in the same Shalei.

And he won't speak to her. He won't look at her. Like a child. But he still stayed there. She's, they allowed him to stay there. So it, it just, it all goes with, with. That's a great point. That's a great point. And he wasn't a great point. Would have been on the street. But they allowed him to. So he's going to have that behavior

“if people tolerate it. And that, that's what it is. I, I gotta tell you though, I read, I read an article”

when you send me this like I read an article on people. And I could be mistaken. But I, I think I remember in the article saying that it remained the best kiss of her life. And if I am not mistaken, again, and then the last part of the article was, um, it was, you know, updated where she was in a life and she was married to her husband of 22 years. And all I could think of was this one, put this out there publicly. Let's, yeah, she's married. And I know that this guy was the best

kiss of her life. Like, you know, her husband kind of go to work the next day and face all of his friends. Everybody's going to see that. I mean, come on. That's, that's a tough one. Well, he's a TV writer. So it's not like he's like, you know, a regular person go into the same. I remember, by the way, her husband worked at MTV when I was like a baby, like intern/PA there. And nobody, like, the everybody would be whispering like, "Can you believe that guy is dating

“books?" You know, like, nice guy. But he wasn't like a JFK junior, you know what I mean? But I think that”

at that goes to, you know, even, you know, I'm Carly Simon once said this and I do think it's true. Like, she said nobody cares about celebrities more than other celebrities. And I think that for Brooke Shields, she really bought into that Camelot JFK junior mythology. And maybe he was the one that got away. Instead of being like, "Wow, I dodged a bullet because that guy wound up killing his wife and his sister-in-law in a holy avoidable plane crash that may or may not have

been a murder suicide." Wow, bullet dodged. Also Madonna said he was terrible in bed because

he never had to work for it. I don't know what to say about that. But maybe there is something

to that where, you know, for the regular person and you run into a celebrity in the street, it's exciting. Wow, the wild factor. But if you are the celebrity, who are you looking up to? Who's the other people? Brooke Shields was star struck by him. Right. So there couldn't have been many that would make her feel star struck. So it's, I guess it's that, you know, this, it's not owned yet. No. No. That's really smart. You're totally right about that. You're totally

“right about that. That's why we have you on Bill. You have all these insights that just sort of come”

sideways and you hear them and you're like, yeah, he's right. He's absolutely right. By the way, no pressure. But the trouble makers really want you on the Oscar's live stream. I'm just going to say, I'm just going to put it out there for those of you who might want to try to sway Bill, taking his daughter and his wife to a next game that night. The next game is starting at eight. The nerve studio is like a five minute walk from the garden. We're trying to convince Bill to get

here early for the top part of the Oscar's live stream around six. So please, exert your very gentle pressure on convincing Bill to join the Oscar's live stream because we really want him here. That's it. Thanks, Bill. Enjoy. Yes. Thank you for having me. It was a lot of fun. All right, talk to you soon. Be a winner. And that's it. That's it for our Friday edition of the nerve come back and see us tomorrow for the mini that drops on YouTube at 10 a.m. Eastern. If you haven't

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