Hey guys, welcome back to One Popular. I'm re-recording this intro. I just recorded it earlier and then I listened back and I sounded way too peppy and like switched on in a way that felt very alien to me. I'm like, am I auditioning for like a hosting gig on Dancing with the Stars? Like, this is too much. So I'm re-recording this now. I have Kiki from the Talk of Shame on the pod today. She's great. She's one of my friends. She is an influencer, a real influencer with a lot of followers. So we talk about social media stuff. But the main reason that I had her on here, oh, we also talk about Lizzo, by the way. But the main reason I had her on was to talk about the Zeus network. Now, some of you already, because I know what you guys are like, are probably like,

I don't watch Zeus. I'm not going to listen to this podcast. I'm skipping this week. Girl,

the Zeus network is like the biggest fucking streaming network in the game. So if you like reality

TV and you like pop culture, you should

probably just kind of like know what it's about, even if you have no plans on watching it and it's

not your like demographic or whatever. So please tune in and, you know, Kiki's great. And what else?

I'm trying to think, do I have anything else to tell you before I get into the episode?

Because I just want to, like, jump in. Oh, yeah, I did have a funny thing kind of happen this week. Well, not funny, but sometimes things happen in the industry that I'm in. And I just feel like, why am I in this industry? Not in a negative way, just more in a, like, what am I doing here? because the main thing people have been talking about for the last few weeks, well, it's Barbie, which I still haven't seen. I think I told you

last podcast, I think I was brainwashed now in wanting to watch it because I've never seen

such a relentless marketing campaign for anything in my life. So once it hits streaming, I will watch it.

I don't know anything about Oppenheimer. Um, and the big things have been Taylor Swift's

tour, don't care. Beyonce's tour, don't care. And Ariana Grande, like her affair or the marriage

thing, whatever that is, I feel like that's been like the big news,

like everywhere. I have not clicked one article and I'm an Ariana Grande fan. Like when the albums

drop, I'm the first to listen to the new Ariana music. Like, I think she's great. I loved when she

like licked the donut and she was like, fuck America. Like it was so funny. So I'm totally into

Ariana Grande. But this did not give

a fuck about who, what affair she had. People were like, this guy's ugly that she's with. Okay,

well, she's a creative person and, you know, she's probably not just thinking visually. She's like

fucked hot rappers and stuff before, isn't she? Actually, she doesn't even go for

hot guys. Now, who cares? Whatever. I don't even care who she's with. That's the point. Like,

I didn't go into any of the articles. And the last, like, two weeks, I've been in a real

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