Bennifer 2.0: Crazy Stupid Love
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
The episode where we dive deep into the origins of 'Bennifer' and the 20 years it has taken to do the same thing, twice!
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Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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- FAKE: Did Jennifer Lopez donate $4.5 million to Palestinians for food and medical supplies?, 07/31/24 [MM]
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- Jennifer Lopez's friends claim singer tried to salvage failed relationship — but Ben Affleck 'has a darkness to him', 08/24/24 [Page Six]
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- That Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Grammy fight: What really happened, 02/09/23 [NYP]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | These gays, they're trying to murder me. |
| 0:05.0 | What do I think of her? Yes. I don't think of her. |
| 0:25.1 | Wait about down to the New York |
| 0:26.5 | fucking post. |
| 0:29.9 | So, well. |
| 0:31.7 | Well. |
| 0:33.1 | Well. |
| 0:33.9 | Where are we? |
| 0:35.2 | Girl, I don't know. |
| 0:36.7 | We're in the middle of San Francisco. In the middle of San Francisco. I'm looking at the window right now. I'm seeing buildings. I'm seeing sky. Seeing streets. Matt is doing something that very few people get to do in my life at the moment, which is enjoy the benefits of my job. We are recording in a very expensive hotel room at the moment in San Francisco. It's pretty posh. It is |
| 0:57.1 | why you are hearing this a little bit later in the day than you normally would because I am |
| 1:02.9 | unexpectedly quite suddenly traveling for work. No. Happened to be in San Francisco. And this is |
| 1:09.7 | one of the things, hot minute. Yeah, this is one of the things... For a hot, hot minute. |
| 1:16.9 | Yeah, this is one of the things that we are adapting to as my job sort of changes. That's your jet set lifestyle takes over. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm trying to be normal. |
| 1:20.0 | By coastal living. |
| 1:21.4 | Be normal. |
| 1:22.7 | But as I travel a lot for work currently, I was this time around, happened to be in San Francisco, |
| 1:29.6 | and was like, you're in town. We can see each other. And then of course, the reasons that I'm here |
| 1:34.0 | for, which I can't quite say just yet, like, just made it impossible for us to record yesterday. |
| 1:40.6 | And I was like, if I had just brought my recording equipment I would have been able to |
| 1:44.2 | record yesterday but we would have recorded remotely in the same city it's a little odd yeah |
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