Hello and welcome to your Friday edition of The Nerve.

I am your host, Maureen Callahan.

This show is a banger. We had to remove things. We are so excited to bring

you a fully stacked and packed show as we kick off Memorial Day weekend, which here in the U.S.

is considered the unofficial start of summer. So it's going to be great. We're going to luxuriate

and a lot of great stuff. Got a lot of people were packing into the woodshed to keep those

mean streets clean for the rest of us law-abiding citizens. We're going to begin. Now, this is a

pun that Marlena put in without telling me with an ending.

Or Marlena says, an impending, impending the rap.

Okay, I saw this piece on entertainment tonight the other night, and if I could have just grabbed it through the screen with my hands, I would have. Okay. I saw this piece on entertainment tonight the other night. And if I could have just grabbed it through the screen with my hands, I would have. But you know, you have to wait till they post it. And then like they don't post like the actual host banter that I always want to get because it's so inane. And but now and it just goes to why all of these shows are dying access done it's dead

e-news done it's dead entertainment tonight i'm sorry you guys the nerve is an asteroid now we're coming

right towards you we're gonna we're gonna go into two of their stories, their lead story. I think this was Wednesday

night and then their second story. The first one involves modern day Hollywood royalty, which

has been dethroned like no other. And then we've got someone extremely stubborn in the culture.

You know, and if this guy thinks we can't take him on,

I'm telling you, we've done a number on Oprah already.

Never forget, Pilot Gal, her tower reading, said that Oprah was considering suing the nerve

because we want to know where Stedman is.

She thought better of it because of discovery and the like.

And then we have an author who has an explosive addition to his book about the British

Royal Family. I mean, usually, I'll tell you a little bit about how publishing works in this way,

but like, this guy's paperback, you know, there's always sort of like, publishers love to ask you to do like, add a little bit of new information,

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