American Eagle vs. Gap Ads, Jussie Smollett's New Docu, Lil Nas X's Arrest & more!

I Know You Didn't Ask with Megan O'Donnell

Megan O'Donnell

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

3.8 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

HomeGoods has turned into a haunted house of plastic skeletons, and somehow Thanksgiving is getting erased before it even arrives. We’re talking seasonal decor chaos, the new Dunkin meeting & the state of our consumer culture that demands a 12-foot skeleton in every front yard.

Then we pivot to TV talk: Project Runway (where Law Roach is delightfully savage), The Summer I Turned Pretty (yes, I’m late—don’t come for me), and a dive into Netflix’s Jussie Smollett documentary, which only leaves us with more questions than answers. Fame as a theme runs strong this week: from Lil Nas X’s chaotic spiral on Ventura Boulevard, to the broader reality that celebrity culture chews people up and spits them out.

In music + media news, we get into denim drama—Gap’s “Better in Denim” campaign (a nostalgic win), American Eagle’s disastrous Sydney Sweeney spot (borderline eugenics??), and why Beyoncé’s Levi’s collab is thriving with zero controversy. We also chat fan conventions, pop culture overload, and how advertising has fully entered its “let’s make TikTok dances” era.

Basically? It’s fall chaos, fashion chaos, and fame chaos—wrapped into one unhinged episode.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast?
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0:16.1	Welcome to I Know You Didn't Ask, the unapologetic, unfiltered, and slightly unhinged podcast you didn't know you needed. I'm your host, Megyn O'Donnell, pop culture obsessive, professional oversharer, and the host of your new favorite five-day-a-week fix for celebrity gossip, reality TV chaos, books, food news, beauty tips, and of course, navigating your life in your 30s. I know you didn't ask,
0:38.3	but I'm telling you anyways. Sit back, grab a drink, and enjoy the show. Welcome to I know you
0:44.2	didn't ask. I'm your host, Megan O'Donnell. And if you can't hear by like the prepubescent voice crack
0:49.5	that just happened on the word, welcome. I'm a little sick. So yesterday I had to take a little sick day and feeling a little better today but you know what i don't know what's going on with me my back is sore my throat is sore i feel crazy congested but to be quite honest with you i am leaning into being sick right now because my wedding's in exactly
1:11.9	one month. So I'd rather have whatever mystery illness I have. Get out of my system now. We have a lot
1:18.2	to talk about people. This episode is going to be all over the place. We've got to talk a little
1:22.3	Naz-X. We've got to talk Jesse Smollett, one of my favorite people in the world. We're talking
1:27.1	denim wars. We're
1:28.6	talking Unwellfest. We have a lot on the docket. So let's just jump right in. Of course,
1:34.2	it's almost the end of August, which means the theoretical summer is over. I'm trying to ride
1:41.2	summer out until mid to late September at this rate.
1:45.6	I will say I went into a home goods the other day and was absolutely disgusted just by the sheer disorganized aisles.
1:54.4	It was really too much.
1:56.5	As we all know, as every podcaster said, Halloween decorations are out. And in my home goods,
2:03.2	in Clifton, New Jersey, they have Christmas decorations as well already out. And I just want to say,
2:10.0	let us not lean into Thanksgiving erasure. We as a society should unanimously be more grateful. But instead, we're not. We just go from one holiday
2:22.5	where we buy shit to another holiday where we buy shit. And you know what? I was just, I was not
2:28.3	happy. I went into Home Goods for a notepad, a cute little notepad that I could put on my desk,
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