Radimir protocol Drer.

Love you.

So we have to, I think, at the top here,

take at least a brief moment to acknowledge the fact that TMZ,

your beloved TMZ got it wrong. Well, I think everybody got it wrong. It wasn't just TMZ, but TMZ, your beloved TMZ, got it wrong.

Well, I think everybody got it wrong.

It wasn't just TMZ, but TMZ is, you know,

you've kind of heralded them as a reliable source

of celebrity and cultural news.

Of every kind of news, TMZ is one of the best news outlets

of our time that both follows journalistic standards and reports

on things that rich people do, famous people do, that other places won't touch.

But they were wrong this time and that was surprising.

They were wrong that what Beyonce was going to show up at the Democratic National Convention.

Right.

Because TMZ was the one that reported that, right?

I mean, it started for me on Twitter. I'm not entirely sure where, like, Patient Zero is on all

this, but like it was a Twitter rumor. But then like, I want to say Reuters, there were other, like,

reputable news outlets that were saying that Beyonce was going to show up.

Or like they were saying a chunk of time was like cut out of the DNC for a special surprise, which there wasn't, right?

Yeah.

And then you and I were going back and forth on a text thread about whether or not it would be Taylor Swift.

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