GDLA+ Thursday, 7/23/2026

Hello there, everybody. Hello. Welcome to G Daily Plus. It is Frying Thursday. We're frying. Frying Thursday. I like that. Yeah. Because it's hot. We'll talk about that in a second. So we do want to tell you a very funny author and podcast host, Laura Cleary will be here. Her new book, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter. Couldn't agree more. Is out. And she's going to tell us all about it, her upcoming signing event. Before that, though, let's talk about the frying with Maria. Yeah, sizzling right outside. Do I sound like a broken record? We have been talking about this for quite a while right now. But I'm telling you, I cannot remind you enough about the things, the things that we need to do here, especially as we get into tomorrow and Saturday with the checklist. It is going to be hot. We want you to take numerous water breaks, please. Hydrate. Water is important. If you are working under these weather conditions and take numerous breaks from the sun, wearing the appropriate clothing actually makes a huge difference. Light colored, lightweight clothing, a hat that can bring those temperatures down, your body temperature. Get in the A.C., though. That's really the bottom line. You want to check on your elderly neighbors, your family members, and please, let's take care of our pets because that pavement can be super hot and can burn them. The heat risk is quite high. It is very high to extreme today, especially out in the valleys and the Inlet Empire, when you factor in a little bit of that humidity, that heat index, or that feels-like temperature really goes up. So we're talking about well into the 100s today for many of our inlet areas, and this is not changing much tomorrow or Saturday, like I said. Monday, I think that ridge of high pressure, that dome of high pressure will weaken enough to where we will get a little bit more of that sea breeze, and so that will bring the temperatures down just slightly. But for now, high pressure is going to stay in control. It's tapping into that subtropical moisture from the south and southeast, so we're adding the humidity to the mix. So not only is it hot and warm at night, but we're also feeling the muggy conditions, especially inland. So we've got these advisories that are in effect, extreme heat warnings and heat advisories. We also have harmful levels of ozone, so we have an air quality alert. If you have any sensitivities, respiratory issues to all of that pollution, you really should stay indoors. I think we should all stay indoors, especially because it's going to be so hot. Even on the sand, it'll be in the upper 70s, low 80s. We do have some high surf, so if you're headed to the beach to cool off, yeah, that water temperature feels good. In the 70s, actually, in a lot of our beaches, bigger sets for south-facing beaches. Right now, three- to six-foot sets, Ventura County, L.A. coastline, and then Orange County. A little smaller, but when you make that turn near Huntington Beach, it can get up to around five feet. 94 degrees for downtown L.A., inland Orange County. We'll get down to the 80s on Monday. So maybe not quite as hot. It'll still be hot, but not quite as bad. 106 in the valleys, and the Inland Empire. Extreme heat alerts. Like I said, please watch what you're doing out there, outside. Mountains, 88 degrees. 89 on Saturday. 10% chance for those showers, so a little bit of instability. It's not a zero chance. So if you have some hiking plans or whatever, make sure you do it in the early morning. In the afternoons, that chance for showers will increase. 116 in Palm Springs today, possibly 118 by Saturday. So stay heat safe, guys. Okay? Back to you. All right, Maria, thank you so much. The preliminary hearing for Singer David entering day three. Mario, live at the Criminal Courts Building in downtown L.A., with the details. Good morning. Hi, Roxia. We're getting updates from inside the courtroom from our Cristina Gonzalez. And the first order of business actually didn't involve witness testimony. It involved courtroom conduct. The judge calling out one of the members of the public who gained a seat from that lottery system saying that they violated the strict ban on live transmitting from inside the courtroom. The judge said she was updating a Google document from a laptop inside yesterday, and that was being transmitted online, that information being shared as the proceeding was happening. So she apologized and she was kicked out. Now, something else that we're seeing today is the defense continuing to argue, aggressively challenge how some of the evidence in the case has been handled. And I'll get into more of that. But first, I want to take you back to what one of the observers said about the demeanor of the 21-year-old singer as these proceedings have been happening. He's leaning back on the chair, kind of towards the left side, relaxing. He's got his hand like this. I mean, you would not know that this guy is up for murder because I think, like, everyone else in the courtroom are far more uncomfortable than he even is. Now, once testimony resumed this morning, defense attorney Blair Burke, she challenged LAPD criminologist Lauren Wallace over evidence that was not collected. She questioned why two chainsaws, a smaller saw, and a foam floor mat were left at the scene. The forensic scientists testified the items tested negative for possible human blood during the initial screening, so they weren't considered forensically valuable, as she put it, for further testing. Prosecutors then called on an LAPD trace evidence expert this morning who testified that two blue plastic fragments recovered during Celeste's autopsy physically matched the cuts in a blue inflatable pool found in the garage, fitting together like puzzle pieces. And she also said another 12 blue plastic fragments found on the body very likely came from that same pool. Now, I want to go back to yesterday for a second when the judge heard from an Interscope Records executive who testified that Burke's record contract would have been worth as much as $19 million, and this is how Celeste's family attorney reacted to that news. He was an up-and-coming rising star, but once you started hearing the numbers, it was rather stunning, the amount of money that he was earning and his earning capacity. He had guarantees of a minimum of $3 million and a maximum guarantee of $6 million with bonuses that increase, and so the numbers just went up and up and up. Now, that all ties into how prosecutors have been arguing that Celeste had gone public, if she had gone public with those allegations about that sexual illegal relationship, it would have destroyed his career and threatened those earnings. Now, today, as the proceeding continues, a preliminary hearing day three getting underway here, we're expected to hear from an LAPD detective who was investigating the alleged relationship between the two. We're expecting a lot more evidence to be presented, and it appears they're going through these witness testimonies fairly quickly today. Again, we have Cristina Gonzalez with us inside the courtroom. She's giving us any updates, and we'll have more to come on this for now, live at the Criminal Courts Building downtown. I'm Mario Ramirez. We'll send it back to you. All right, we're following. Thank you, Mario. We have some breaking news out of West Hollywood, where work is underway to fix a leaking water valve that flooded Santa Monica Boulevard this morning. Brooke Thomas is there, and she has got an update for us. Good morning, Brooke. Hey there, yeah, let's get right into it right here at Santa Monica in Laurel. What we have heard so far is up to 20 businesses have had their water impacted, four at least, have had to completely close for the day because of what happened behind me. I talked to one of those people, a representative from a business here, actually, a man who said he works at, I believe, Westside Construction. He told me they were simply working on an apartment here down the road. And they have had to shut down work because of this. Not only that, he said they don't have water. The biggest thing is when he got out here and he saw everything, it freaked him out a little bit. That's exactly what I thought. I was like, man, is it gonna keep on happening all over West Hollywood or what? But hopefully not, hopefully not. Is it gonna keep on happening around West Hollywood? Hopefully not. That is a common thought out here in West Hollywood. The video that you're watching right now is actually from Jose. He was one of the first people on the scene, getting here early for what he thought would be a day of work. He tells me he was out here before emergency crews were, before anyone really knew what was going on. And that's what he saw. You're looking at video that he got for us on his own phone, just of the disaster happening. But I can tell you that crews were out here. They are working very quickly. And when we got out here, we saw also puddling, not as much as that. But by the time I got out here this morning after the early show, they had shut the water access to that six inch pipe in question, where the water main break was. And they were able to get the water to stop flowing, stop expanding through this area. And now at this time, there's not really any water there though, still many people in the area left with many questions. I arrived around six in the morning. And then as soon as I arrived, I heard and I noticed like the literally like the river going down the street. And that's when I came in and I looked at I think that it was right there. And so I immediately started recording it. And then my inspector came over and said I had to cancel my train for today due to the street closure. I've been hearing that line was over 100 years old. So I'm like, what a coincidence. Like what is it like five miles, less than five miles away and this bus that too now. So I'm just hoping they fix this. And look, that's exactly what authorities are telling us. Officials I should tell you from LADWP is that this actually just is just that a coincidence. They tell us these two water main breaks, just days apart from each other, just miles apart from each other were both a coincidence and they are unrelated. As you can see behind me out here live, traffic is moving pretty quickly, obviously westbound, eastbound. Traffic is down to one lane. So if your normal route takes you through Santa Monica and Laurel, it's just best to go around just to be safe because you don't wanna get caught up in any traffic, but they do have traffic moving in both directions, which is different than what we saw around seven o'clock this morning when eastbound lanes were completely shut down. So as of right now, we've also been told that they expect this to be wrapped up around four o'clock and they're hoping that that means the road is fully open around that time as well. But officials couldn't make any promises. I'll send things back to you all in the studio. It's a busy area. What a mess. Brooke, thank you. Meantime, LADWP crews hit a minor snag while they were repaving and striping Sunset Boulevard early this morning. Overnight, workers discovered a small pinhole-sized leak at the east end of that work site, requiring them to dig out a section to track down the issue. This, of course, is where that major water main break happened a week ago. This morning, the team is pulling water quality samples and wielding a patch over the leak. Despite the overnight repair, LADWP says the timeline has not been impacted, and they're still on track for their goal of reopening the streets by Friday or Saturday. Who says you have to wait until December before a little Christmas magic? This weekend, you can have that. A holiday wonderland popping up in the middle of summer. And Coco live at Heritage Square in Montecito Heights with the sneak peek. Coco. Good morning. We've been having so much fun here at Heritage Square Museum in Montecito Heights. We are previewing a wonderful production happening on Saturday called Christmas in July put on by Storyland Productions and Pasadena Civic Ballet. This is Tanya and Zoe. So tell us about this production. Hi, Coco. Yes, we are here actually in Toyland, and this is where the magic happens. Heritage Square Museum is such a beautiful place to transport you to Christmas, even in the summertime. And Toyland is where all the magic happens. It's where Santa creates all of his toys for the next season. So we can't wait to welcome you all here to Christmas in July. Our storybook, Festive Immersive. Guests will start by visiting five gorgeous storybook settings, meet their characters up close and have a chance to get their Christmas card photos done well ahead of the Christmas rush. And then they'll enjoy Candyland with Miss Sweet Strolling Table, a gummy bear lounge and cool off with some delicious gingerbread apple slushies. And we're going to have strawberry ice creams dipped in chocolate. My favorites. We don't have to wait until Christmas to celebrate these treats. And then we'll enter here into Toyland and see a performance with a cast of over 20 performers. We're just getting a sneak peek today with ballet, tap, hip hop, jazz, musical theater. And oh, here's Little Red Riding Hood, one of your storybook characters that you'll get to see up close and personal. I love that. She looks wonderful. And you have so many performers. And here's Goldilocks and her little bear. I'm guessing the other two are probably taking a little nap. I don't know if they had their porridge this morning, but. Oh, my gosh, how wonderful. Oh, look, it's Little Bo Peep. And thankfully, she has finally found her sheep. Yes. I think Little Bo Peep might need an air tag for some of her sheep. Definitely needs an air tag for her sheep. Look at this performance. It's really a chance to immerse yourself in this, right? Absolutely. And as you can see, our cast, we have young children who are, you know, perform and take classes at Pasadena Civic Ballet. And we also have professional dancers. Both Emily and Josh started at the ballet school at three. They're both professional dancers. So it runs the whole gamut, just like our studio, whether you want a recreational class or you want serious training. We have amazing faculty members. Yeah. There's Tom. You look incredible. You can't miss this production. You can go to our website, pcballet.com. We have special Good Day LA tickets for $25, pcballet.com. And you can see this amazing production. This is a little bit of our finale, but this is just a small, tiny sneak peek of what we have to offer. We have hip hop. There's going to be tap. There's lots of things here. And I think, oh, my gosh, Santa's coming. Oh, we love Santa Claus. What do you think, Coco? I think we should join the cast and maybe learn the toy soldier dance. OK, let's do it. OK, I can't say no to Santa Claus, of course. OK, let's see here. All right, let's get our salutes on, everyone. OK. And here we go. Forward, two, three, four, and back. Or two, three, four, and turn. OK. I like it. And forward. And back. And turn. And let's give a salute. Hope to see you all at Christmas in July. July 25th. I love it. It's never too early to celebrate Christmas. It's my favorite holiday. I also love spending time with Tanya and Zoe from Pasadena Civic Ballet. You're going to want to spend time with them, too. Come on Saturday here to Heritage Square Museum to really enjoy this production, Christmas in July. I'll send it back to you. Never too early. Thank you, Coco. All right, coming up, the very funny Laura Cleary is in our Yamaha lounge. There she is, that beauty. She's going to be talking to us about her new book. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter. I'm sorry you can't possibly be any hotter. And her upcoming signing event when we come back. Hi, welcome back. So our plus one today is a digital powerhouse with over 24 million followers who love her unfiltered honesty about motherhood, divorce, and resilience. Laura Cleary hosts a hit podcast Idiot with Laura Cleary. And is a New York Times bestselling author. Her brand new memoir is What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter. I like that. I like that, too. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. This is very exciting. Congratulations on your book. Thank you. I feel like Kelly Clarkson needs to make a remix. What doesn't kill you makes you hotter. She does, right? It's true. And the glow up is real. It's real. It really is. You know, the post-divorce, you know. Yeah, it's a real thing. Well, post-divorce, I turned 40 yesterday. What? That's a big birthday. It's crazy. You're in good company. We're all in our 40s. Cancer. You are cancer. Yeah. Cancer, you're caring. You're nurturing. Is that what I am? I guess I am. But Leo's an emotional, Yes. Right. I don't know anything about signs. Me either. In high school, I had a teacher that said, cancer. Loves having fun. Hates being told what to do. And that's all you have to know. Is that you? Yes. 100%. That's why I'm a professional idiot. That was always my only dream, was to get paid to be an idiot. And that's what I'm doing, girls. It's amazing. Did you do something fun for your birthday? Just your ways. I had a little pizza party with my five and seven-year-olds. Yeah. And then I'm going to go to Malibu, do a little staycation. I love a staycation. That's fun. Don't you love a little staycation? I love it. I love a little staycation. Yeah. You love to get on a plane. Are you doing an Airbnb? What are you doing? Just a little fun, little hotel. OK. Hotel. Excuse me. Nobody's saying that the hotel-motel holiday anymore in this show. We've got to get back to that. Because you're a millennial. Yeah. OK, go ahead. That was a vibe check for a second. I've been having a lot of millennial content pop up in my feed lately, and I've been sharing it with my girls. I think that we are the blueprint as millennials. Listen, I saw somebody yesterday walking near the Whole Foods with a double tank top, a spaghetti strap tank top with the lace at the bottom. Yeah. And the bell bottom. Do they have a belt? And I'm like, oh, you missed it. I thought you just threw this on yourself, didn't you? No, you didn't. No. You learned it from all of us. You learned it from us. It was a non-millennial wearing it? Oh, yeah. Oh, no, no, no. The Gen Z's are totally taking our stuff. That's why we're the blueprint. Yes, exactly. Yeah. It's the big baggy jeans. Yeah. You guys, I bought a halter top from Target last week. Help me. Is that because I'm 40 now? I'm coming around again. Is this midlife crisis? No, but they're back. And I was just like, I saw a halter top. But I'm like, a halter top? Does that not take you back? Yes. Dawson's Creek days. Oh, my god. I love it. Tube tops are back. Listen, I have it. They never left in my house. I will always wear a tube top. That's true. You do always wear a tube top. And a tube top loves you. I love a tube top. Just no low-rise jeans, please. No more. After you're a mom, absolutely not. But maybe low-rise sweats. That I can do. Sure, with a massive baggy t-shirt, fine. They've got to have some good. Or no pants at all. And a really big t-shirt. And just walk around the house. I prefer no pants. Yeah. Yeah, I did a Zoom the other day with no pants. And you could. Because it's a Zoom, right? It wasn't a professional Zoom. Yeah, let's get one thing straight. Yeah, it wasn't a professional Zoom. It was a personal Zoom. And so I had an old rocker t-shirt on. And no pants. No pants. Yeah. I love that. So what's your story? When did you get divorced? What happened? So you guys, I'm only divorced for like two months. What? Yeah, it's fresh. Yeah, it's very fresh. But you know, that takes the process takes a long time. I'm hearing this. Yeah, so like we Back and forth. So I separated four years ago. And so this is my third book, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter. It's funny because I reached out to my publishers four years ago when I had first separated from my husband of 10 years. We had a one and a three year. My kids were one and three at the time. And it was a few months in. And I was like, you know, I was writing in my journal every day about it. And I'm like, you know, so many women go through this. Like 56% of people go through divorce. So you were how old were you? Like what? How old were you when you well, you were 36 months ago. So, yeah, you were 36. Look at us doing math. So you're mid 30s. You're like in your career. Yeah, at the prime of your life. And it probably felt at that point like your whole world had fallen apart. Absolutely. It was very abrupt, too. Like, yeah, you know, a lot of people I talk to go like I wasted 10 years of my life and fair. But I don't feel that way. Like we had so many good, amazing years. I talk about this in the book. I'm a recovering addict. So is my ex-husband now. I truly believe sobriety brought us together and addiction ripped us apart. And it really did. So I didn't know that he had relapsed and was back on drugs. At that time, I just saw like crazy erratic behavior. And I was like, I need to separate. We need, you know, because I don't know what is going on with you, but this is not safe. I need kids. And then I have kids. Yeah, so I had to walk away from this man that I loved. Yeah, because I was like, who are you? Right. And I wish I could say that that separation, that that first moment was the worst of it. But it really did just get so insane. Like my publisher says this book reads like a thriller, you guys. Yeah, now I make it funny because I can't not. Sell it to a streamer. Make it a limited series. Yeah, maybe, you know, I mean, it really was another thriller. And another thing about it, too, was also public. So I separated and then it got it was on the Internet within a week. And so I had like thousands of people commenting on this thing. It makes everything like weighing in on a situation. They have they have no knowledge of what what got you here, what got the both of you here. Totally. Which is just like compounds in the pain. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So when I first started writing the book, I was like, I didn't think it was going to be a fluff piece. I didn't think it was going to be like Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, like conscious uncoupling. Right. You know, I didn't think that. But I thought, yeah, my my hope was still let's be friends for the kids. And, you know, yeah. And yeah, it just did not go that way now. Now he has 11 months over, which is amazing. And that's great. It's great. And like, you know, we're co-parenting. But it was quite a ride this last four years. It was the most insane years of my life. I'm sure you learned a lot about yourself. Right. And yeah. Yeah. Our producer said that you were recently crushed by a refrigerator. I'm hoping this is true because it would be really ridiculous if it wasn't. There's video of it. Yeah. There's not video of me under the fridge. The aftermath. But yeah. OK, what happened? So, oh, girls, this was. Wait, wait. Who's that? This is that hottie. Yeah. That's your new boyfriend. That's my hot ass firefighter. Oops. It's OK. That's fine. I don't think that's a bad word. I don't think so. I can't hear our producer, so I don't know if it is or not. I mean, my five year old says it, so it can't be that bad. I know. FTC rules. I'm not sure. I think that's OK. But if it's not, we apologize. Yeah. OK. Keep going. I'm really sorry. Yeah. It's fine. OK. Take me anywhere. So what happened? Back to the fridge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like 830 p.m. Right. We're doing bedtimes. We're all bathed and showered and ready for bed. And I go to the bathroom and all of a sudden, I hear my seven year old who's on the spectrum. He's not nonverbal, but he's not conversational. So anyway, I hear him go, mommy, mommy, mommy from the kitchen. I run out. He's standing over my massive stainless steel French door, just huge 600 pound fridge. Oh, my gosh. And it's tilted forward. And he's just standing under it. And the doors are open and the doors are keeping it from crushing him. Oh, my gosh. So I get him out of the way. Now, how that happened, my son, you know, he climbs on everything. I have a feeling he tried to climb while I was in the bathroom and it wasn't properly installed because there's no way a seven year old should be able to pull a 700 pound, 600 pound fridge. Absolutely not. So I get him out of the way and then I'm like, I got this. I'm going to push it back into place. That's what I would think. It was just tilted like that. And I just thought, OK, I can just push. And then right as I started pushing the doors shut, it just just right on me. So now I'm pinned. I have an eye. There's a kitchen island behind me. So I'm pinned under this between the island and the fridge. That's right. So my it's the the island is on my lower back. And the fridge is just just slowly just crushing my hips, my chest, my ribs, everything. When I try to push it off of me, it's like pushing a building. Yeah, there's just and you're not at a good angle to be able to do anything. No, no. And by the grace of whatever, I had my phone in my pocket. Oh, lucky. And I never had my phone in my pocket at home. Right. It's always charging like on a table. But I had it in my sweatpants. Thank God I was wearing pants. Sweatpants. Good thing you were wearing pants. Oh, my God. So I pull out my phone from my pocket, put it on the island and I call 9-1-1. Oh, my God. And I sound like a frickin crazy person, right? Because I can barely breathe. My five year old's next to me crying. My son ran out the backyard. He's just freaking out. And I'm like, oh, great. Has he eloped? Because he'll run off. He's on the spectrum and that's something they do. So I'm like, did he run away because he's scared? Oh, my gosh. There's nothing I could do. Right. And so I call 9-1-1. I sound like this. OK. And then the 9-1-1 dispatcher goes, ma'am, if you don't calm down, I'm going to hang up on you. What? She goes, if you don't calm down, I'm going to hang up on you. You're under a bridge right now. First of all, calling 9-1-1 and calming down don't work in the same sentence. Who is calling 9-1-1 when you're panicked about something? Little emergency stuff. Help. I'm like, I'm kind of sort of dying. Right. So anyway, but it kind of worked. I think it was a tactic so she could hear the address and my gate code and everything because I was like, in my head, I go, if she hangs up, I'm dead. I'm going to die in front of my children. This is so dark. Sorry. But but it didn't happen. But it didn't happen, folks. Happily, we're here and we're hotter than ever. All right. You hotter. It made me hotter. I've got lower back pain, but it made me hotter. She's got sciatica. Yeah. But so anyway, so then firefighters come, they break down the garage door. It takes three firefighters to break down my door and three firefighters to push this fridge off of me. Wait, how long did it take for them to come? I was under there. I would say about 20 minutes. Wow. I mean, I would that's a long 20 minutes. You know what? Can I just say I have a refrigerator where it beeps if the doors are open after too long. Do you guys have that? Yeah, that would drive me to insanity. Like, you know, the modern day fridges are not very calming. No, not at all. I don't recall the beeps, but OK, thank God. Yeah, because I was just too busy trying to stay alive. Yeah, trying to breathe. And then when I went to the trauma unit, they did a full CT scan. I didn't know if I was sure internal damage. Right. You don't know. You just don't know. And everything's like, you know, you're shaking. You're in pain. You're feeling numb. Like, you just don't know. They did full CT scans. 2 a.m. The doctor comes out and he's like, well, you got very strong hips. Oh, I was like, I know. I was like, tell my children that we stop. I am divorced, but no, but he said I didn't break anything. Wow. When was this? Like recently? It was a few months ago. A few months ago. Wow. Did we get a new refrigerator? No. We still have the same one. Guys, my first book's called Idiot. No, I had a handyman come in the next day. Mount it. Like exactly. And he goes, oh, well, I'm suing because they did not put the fridge in correctly or into my cabinetry correctly. Wow. So there were nine or sorry, eight holes on the fridge that were supposed to be nailed in. None of them were nailed in. None of them. Wow. Right. It was all empty. And this is why you're going to Malibu over the weekend. That's right. Yeah. And this is why I'm going to Malibu. But I haven't cooked a meal since that happened. Yeah. So I so we installed the fridge correctly. And I'm letting them see it. Oh, my God. They could have been my son. And, you know, that could have been. Yes. And I probably had about 10 more minutes before I passed out. And if that happened, there was no adult due to come the next day. I mean, that's my biggest fear as a single mom. Something happens. They've got young kids, of course. And what do we do? Right. You know, my lesson from that is keep your phone with you everywhere you go. And we're and we're and we're and we're and put your pants on. Yeah. And beware. Right now, refrigerators be so much to the story. Really? I know. But we survived and we're hotter. That's right. And it's never. Yeah. And you know what I like? I like when hot women can say I'm hot. You know what I mean? And you you don't come off conceited or like, oh, she's so full of herself. Like, let's bring the power back. Yeah. Do people like give you, you know, negative feedback on that? Not even. I don't. Not that I see. Yeah. But, you know, I tend to ignore the negativity when you have 26 million followers. You're going to get and we definitely don't know what that's like. You're going to scale. Oh, yeah. But I also get a ton of comments. Oh, for sure. Out of crazy fields. Yeah. And mostly I just, you know, look the other way, focus on the positive. And then sometimes I'm petty and I'll like post their comments. Oh, yeah. And start a war. Yeah. You know, it just depends on where I'm at in my life. You know what I do is I will post their comments and then I'll post their face. Girl, you're savage. Oh, yeah. Like the Titanic song, doo doo doo. Yeah. I saw you call somebody that is my nose, idiot, the other day. Because somebody said something about my nose. They were like, it's nose job Wednesday. And I'm like, this is my real nose. You think I would pay for a nose this small? And then she goes, idiot, idiot. People are just ridiculous. You do. I mean, when you're online, you have a powerful social media presence like yourself. Like it takes an incredible amount of restraint to not. Well, you know, hurt people hurt people. But I'll tell you something else. One hater. I started a clothing brand based off this hater comment. OK, so I was like, look at the monetization. Yeah, I love it. That's what I say. I say monetize the haters. OK, cool, I monetize you. Yeah. Wait, so what's it called? So so it's it's it was a few years and it did really well. And then I just got sick of slinging sweatpants. So I stopped. But I got this DM. My son was six months old and I was breastfeeding him and I was out to eat. So someone snapped an Instagram story about saying like both we're both eating lunch. OK. And it was just like a story. That's cute. He was drinking out of my booth. I was eating a salad. It was just a cute moment. And I'm all about normalizing breastfeeding. Right, because there's a lot of shame that comes with women. They don't feel like they can feed their kids in public. And it's so silly. So that was a big deal for me. Anyway, I get this DM from this woman and she goes, put your boybs away. She spelled boobs. B-O-I-B-S. Put your boybs away. Nobody wants to see your boybs. Your boybs are for your husband. Your baby is too big for your boybs. Put your boybs away. She kept saying boybs. She just kept saying boybs. It wasn't like one typo. Right. That's how she spelled it. It was B-O-I-B-S like six times in the DM. It made me laugh so hard that I posted it. And then it went super viral. Then all these women are sharing stories of their being ashamed for breastfeeding. Hashtag boybs. And then when I got approached to start a clothing brand, they were like, what do you want to call it? And I was like, boybs. And I liked it because it was like a made up word, like goop. You know what I mean? It just was like a fun. And then it had a great backstory. So anyway, that was like a few years of fun. So it's like what doesn't kill you makes your hotter. What doesn't kill you makes you richer. Boybs will be boybs. That's right. You can make your own acronym out of it. You could do anything. Bring on idiot behavior. Yeah. No, yeah. Yeah, there we go. It really is like idiot. So bring on idiot behavior. Bring on idiot. Like an acronym. Boybs. Hire her. You gotta hire her. That's your fourth book. That's right. That's my fourth book. Boybs. Yeah. A memoir. It's just turning the negative into something fun and fruitful. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You have to. Yeah. That's why. We love you, Laura Cleary. OK, so you have a book signing event that's happening. Friendship in the car. Oh, yeah. We did this at what? 4 p.m. Zibby's Bookshop, 1113 Santa Monica Avenue in Santa Monica. Moderated by your friends. Yeah, Manon Matthews. Manon Matthews. You guys are fun. You need to come together. Please. Can you guys come back together? Oh, we will. I would love that. When she's singing and dancing in the car. Yeah, that was me and you. Except I was you. You were her and I'm Manon. Yeah. So good. Yeah, you just need that silly friend. Yeah, everyone needs one. We've been making silly content together for 10 years. It's so fun. I meet her and we're like children again. Oh, I love that. Seriously, come back with her. Seriously, you guys would be great. I would love that. OK, where are we going? You know? Oh, yeah. Take a trip Thursday. Travel Thursday. Jen, we'll start with you. Where are you going? Take me to the south of France. OK. I want to go to Greece. OK, great. I would like to go to Japan today. What? OK. I'm changing it up. I would like to go visit Japan today. I'm manifesting. That's a long flight. I know. You can't go to Japan without Sandra. She has to, like, take us all. That's true. That would be really fun. Yeah. One day we're going to have to do that for sure. And then you'll take us to Armenia. OK, and then you'll take us to Puerto Rico. Give me a taste of Italy. Italy. There we go. I've never been, but I'll take you there. Don't you love when one of your friends does a post and it blows up? Because the subject matter is so juicy and I love this. So how do you feel about some of your exes? Do you ever want one of your exes to wake up when he's visiting L.A. or he's in town and see you on TV? I want all my exes to wake up and to see my face on the screen. Now, this is what Jordan asked. Take a look. I have zero intention on ever getting back with any one of my exes ever. I do, however, I want to know that I'm the favorite ex, the benchmark, the lure, the one that got away, the great white buffalo. Is that toxic? Are you the favorite ex? How do you know? OK, oh, that's a good question. I love that she asked that. One, I commented to her and I said, yes, I absolutely do hope I'd like to think I'm the favorite ex. And I don't think it's toxic to think that. No, I don't think so either. Yeah, I think that's normal. I think that's normal. We all want to feel special in some way. I always know if like you still get to them where you'll say, oh, you unfollowed me, but you were following me under your skin. Yeah, but you were following me for two years after we broke up and then you suddenly unfollowed me. That's right. When I was posting my boo. Uh huh. Wait, did you go back to check to see if they were following you? Well, no, my one of my family members told me that he posted something and you went to and I went to go and see it. And I saw that I couldn't see it anymore because he was private. So not only unfollowed, but blocked or no, just unfollowed. You can remove a follower too. Yeah, I've never done that. But the fact that he had to go through one, two, three steps. You got to, you got to. That's what I'm saying. So, yeah, I like to think I also got a DM from my high school ex. You know, the one that I went to homecoming with. Yes. And he wanted to tell me what he thought about the Odyssey. Now, I know. Now, I know I'm an ex because I know you're not DMing your college exes to tell you about the Odyssey. No, he's not. Yeah. So I know. And did you respond? I just liked it. Yeah, I just like and if my husband's watching right now, he's going to probably say to me, why did you like it? Why are you engaging? Why did you like it? I don't know, because I like the Odyssey and I was just like, well, I've ignored like some of his other messages. But I did agree with some of his thoughts on the Odyssey. It was very much about the subject matter at hand. That's right. Yeah. But also in here, you're the favorite. Right. Yeah. So tell me about you guys. I will during break. Yeah, I will. Apparently, we're going to break. I can't hear anything. Not to say like the fate. I have a I want I'm the favorite ex or whatever. This is about our ex-boyfriend. I just have a good story about about an ex-boyfriend. So and this is like the ultimate like, yeah, you know. So this was a couple of years ago. I was working for a syndicated entertainment show and my executive producer was meeting with somebody in her office. And this voice sounded very familiar. Oh, no. And I was like, oh, gosh, wait a second. I know a chill ran through my body and I go past her office and he is on Zoom with my executive producer and the head of telepictures. And I was like, what's this all about? So I'm like hovering outside of the office and my stylist, because I had a stylist at that point. What's that like? I know. Right. She was like, you've got to go in there. And I'm like, because she said they're interviewing him for a job. And I said, the heck they are. So she shoves me into my executive producer's office to show her an outfit that I had tried on. Oh, smart, clever. And and she said, oh, Jen, I'm glad you're here because I actually have somebody in my office right now. You might know of him. He's very popular on social media, but he also lived in New York. And I know that you used to live in New York. She had no idea. Oh, my gosh. She said, come over here. Sit on my lap. And I sat in her lap and we were just face to face, baby. Face to face. And I said, hi. What'd he say? Like he saw a ghost. His whole face turned light. Did he say hi back? Yeah. How did you look? I looked great. Yeah. And the outfit was great. And the outfit was banging. Yeah. And he didn't get the job. No, he did not. He did not. And it was nothing to do with me, by the way. Just he just wasn't good enough anyway. So so they said, she said, why are you guys so quiet right now? Oh, my gosh. Do you know each other? And I said, yeah, we actually dated for two years. And he said, yeah, she lived here with me. This was her home. And then her face turns white. So I'm like, wow, what's the connection? Yeah, how did that come? So then, you know, I said, he's a he's lovely person. As soon as the call was over, I'm like, that's my ex-boyfriend. Do not hire him. Oh, my God. Yeah, I got to reach out after that. He did. He did. What do you say? Like he texted. He was like, well, that was funny, wasn't it? Oh, and did you text him back? Nothing. Yeah. Good job. That was my crowning moment. Do you have anything to share? We got a good break. Saved by the break. I love it. There's a bird. It's not Jackie. I don't know who that is. No, no, no. I don't know. Where is this? Oh, it's in Boston. Yeah, I guess that's an osprey. I was going to say it's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman at Comic-Con right now in San Diego. That's great. Instead, you end it. It's a bird. It just goes. It's a bird. There we go. Welcome back. It's like a hey, it's a it's a camera. Hey, learning is fun. Speaking of learning, though, a new toy has parents buzzing on social media. It's the. Oh, no way. It's called the My Mini Baby Surprise Doll. This is not real. Uh-huh. It's a pregnant woman with a removable stomach that contains a tiny plastic baby in a sack of slime that the kids get to free by ripping, twisting, you know, pulling. Oh, and then she just had it back. Hey, why couldn't we do this after we do it? That's the offensive part, right? One commenter had fun with one comment saying no one gave me the option for the flip to a flat stomach section. And honestly, I'm upset about it. I love again that that's the part that, you know, that some babies have actually really been born like that with the sack intact. It's like one in. It's such a rare birth. There's a term for it. But all they do is like, boop, they wait the sack. Another way, if it's a C-section or in general, it could be happen like this. Yeah, it's a C-section. Another comment says, where are the stretch marks and swollen angles? We're doing this. Make it realistic. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Blondie. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Also, your hair wouldn't look like that. Your makeup wouldn't look like that. I don't know. Have you seen people get glammed before they go? Which is ridiculous. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I know. But there's a lot of hair. Isn't that full? You get all your hair is falling out. You're still in the Dalmatian. Listen, you've got a double, triple chin going. Are they even like that for the conception? Yeah. Let's keep it consistent. You have like dark veins on your boobs, because you're about to start breastfeeding. I'm just telling you what happens to a body. It's not good. Yeah. She's smiling like this. Tears coming down her eyes. With her boibs out. Oh. And now she's going to have, our guest, Laura Cleary, is going to have me calling them boibs. Boibs. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, we're back.