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I am Lisa and I am Kara, and every week we pick an episode of SVU to dissect as well as the true crime it was based on, as well as talking to an actor from that episode. Today's no different. We got a hot one for you. But first we like to catch up.
We like to chat. We like to talk about the world, our lives, et cetera.
I mean, my life is very, very small, and if I go even one now we're not talking about vander Pomp, I feel like I deserve a gold medal. Like that's Unfortunately where I'm at is Bravo, Bravo, Bravo, fucking Bravo, Bob, Bravo, Bravo, fucking bravo.
Lisa and I were in a are in a text chain with like four or five other friends that we started it just about scandaval and I was like, this will maybe like be every couple days or whatever. No, No, it's like every day we all have updates, everyone's putting in what they find on the internet.
It is truly. I mean this. You guys know, we're always in the time machine.
So by maybe by now, no, by now, we'll be in the throes of the reunion.
We'll have even more to talk about.
But I've never been more upset that my comedy show is on Wednesdays because now I can never fucking watch it live and I just have to avoid the Internet for a day.
But we're do cocaine and watch it all night.
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Oh, I would tell you.
Yesterday I went to a performance that Rosie did for school. It was a musical performance and at the very beginning, she was killing it, Like the music teacher kept going what's this and Rosie would be.
Like, it's a you guleley? How many strings?
For?
Like she knew everything.
She was being so great, but then she really focused in on me, like she saw me because there was two rows of parents. It's not a big room, and she just started like hamming it up and going fucking nuts.
It was crazy. I had to keep going calmed down, comped. I had to keep like.
Making sign language and her to like calm her body. But she just went nuts. And everybody is like, what a natural performer, And I was like, this is not and.
What does nuts entail?
Funny faces, funny fasis spinning.
Around periodic like yips and yelps and screams.
You know.
Just there was another kid there kind of hyping her up, and like once he got going, she was like, yes this week and do whatever we want, like and I don't know, I just don't know what to do. I feel like she's gonna be a little performer. She's such a ham. She loves to get laughs from people. Yeah, that's great news.
I always like the videos online of like parents showing up. It matters and it's like a little boy looking for his parents and he's depressed and then he sees a parent and like truly shines.
Yeah.
I remember, like my mom worked a lot and she couldn't come to everything. But like I do remember, like my mom wore one of those big puffy coats with like a fur hood like and I remember seeing her little fur hood like bobbing through the audience and being like, oh, my mom came because like she could barely ever come to anything, and yeah, I want to go to her stuff.
My husband couldn't go.
Because you heard it here first, he finally got a vasectomy.
We're done, everyone.
The factory, the baby fact making factory is closed over at my house and I'm excited.
Yeah, shut down.
Yeah, he couldn't go sit on a super tiny little kid chair and watch our daughter freak out.
So I went alone.
So was it a performance show or was it like name this instrument?
And then they they.
Did, they sang songs, they like they did all this stuff with their their teacher, but like their music teacher was leading it. So it was a little bit of call and response with their music teacher. But I could feel parents keep looking at me to be like, look at her.
You know what I mean to.
Like give me, and I think most of them know that, like I'm in the I'm in the arts, so I feel.
Like they were all like look at this.
But speaking of performances, Miley Cyrus did an interview with British Vogue beautiful photo shoot with Stephen Misel, but she said she doesn't want to tour and has no interest in touring. And I've been calling that for a while. I said she's not and she had to put out a statement like a like a notepad apology on her notes app on her Instagram because the fans went nuts. You know, the fans are like, you don't care about us, because you know you don't. You're not here for us,
We support you. Why how dare you not connect with us? And She's just like I don't wanna.
Yeah, but like it's also like you don't own these people, like you don't own your heroes.
Oh no, if you want to have a good time and take a deep dive into mental illness, I would look into the comments of the notes app. It's just people truly like we'll forgive you this time, but I don't understand you're making excuses and we do this and no press nothing. You just dropped an album and that's that, And it's like, who are It's really confusing. She's She's just straight up like, I don't want to live on a bus. I don't want to travel NonStop, and I
don't want to perform for huge crowds. That's not really my vibe at the moment. It can always change, but like, and the outfits I want to wear don't fold well, And well, why don't you do a residency?
Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask you. Would she ever do a residency? I don't know. If I have, I'll you know.
When you talk, because I feel like that would be really cool if she could pick like a super cool she could pick a super cool, like small venue, and it would just be like whoever gets tickets gets tickets, you know, like it doesn't have to be like a Vegas like Caesar's thing, you know.
Yeah, And I don't think people realize like she was selling out stadiums before she was sixteen, you know, like, yeah, she has been touring for a really long time.
Her last sore was twenty fourteen.
But they say that's where all the money is like, don't they say that's like really, where the artists make the money is like through the touring.
Yeah, but that's why she's so cool.
She doesn't need money and she's not she's not beholden to anyone. She truly is an artist and does whatever she wants whenever she wants. I mean, during her flaming lips, you know, happy hipp vibes she was, she released the free.
Album on SoundCloud. Yeah, you know.
She she does is She's not part of the machine. She doesn't have to be. She truly is guided by Dolly. But you're convincing me to follow her right now. I can't believe.
I don't.
Well, yeah, and she just did like Vogue like my life and looks, and she just loves fashion in her crew and she's making music and she doesn't have to do anything, and that's what's cool. And obviously I think everyone just compares everyone to Taylor Swift and like how much Taylor get three hour concerts for the fans and that's amazing. But everyone is different and it's cool that my hat. I'm mad, I'm upset. I want to see her live. I would love to.
I think Taylor's doing it for money as well. And it's like, if it was about connecting with the fans, she would sell all the tickets for fifty dollars, Like they're one thousand dollars per fucking ticket.
They're so hard to get, Like, I don't know, is.
It really about just like connecting with the fans. It's a business.
No.
Amy Schumer did an interview this past year before her tour and she said that she was going to make around ten million from her stand up tour, and the interviewer was like, wait, wait what or something, and she goes, did you think it was for the love of comedy?
Like what are you talking about?
Like Pearl Jam back in the nineties liked went to war with ticket Master because they were like, we want our tickets to be twenty dollars, because they were about in it for that, Like they were not in it for that reason, like the money, you know, No, the price. Again, I'm I'm not here to make fun of Taylor. Please nobody come for us about that. I'm just saying it is a business, Like I don't think that they're just purely out there to be like got to connect with
the fans. Aren't she doing meet and greets like, I don't know how much connection it is. You know, it's like most of you can only afford a ticket where she looks like a tiny ant you're watching it on a screen.
Well, it's so much the parasocial thing of it all. Yeah, we kind of invent what we want about the people. Like I guess I can think that Miley is doing things for me, but I think that's what's cool about her is it's.
What she wants to do.
Yeah, and touring is hard, and if you don't have to do something you don't want to do, I don't.
Yeah, I don't know. My favorite thing is but a full apology. Look how.
My favorite thing is the outfits I want to wear don't fold. That's like so funny to me because like Miley, Cyrus makes enough money that, like her outfits could be on a rack, like in their own bus, like going across the country, you know what I mean, like in a truck, fully hanging, never folded.
But that's a funny. Try working a nine to five like many of your fans do. They don't make millions like you, but we would still paid excessive amounts.
Too bad.
Your reason for touring is simply because you don't want to change in a locker and sleep on a tour bus.
Poor you.
And it's like, yeah, I don't know why you think she just the sacrifice.
I I don't really.
Yeah, And then you come home and you go to bed in a bed, and you get your rest time and you get your free time. You don't get that when you're touring city to city and you're sleeping on a fucking moving bus.
Like I don't know that. Like to me, this is apples.
To Orange is talking about how your your job is just as hard as her job or whatever, like they're they're hard in different ways.
I love you to pieces truly, but I'm very disappointed. Feels very privileged to just exit out. It's like she's she could come back, Like I don't know. But Kylie sonic Love wrote I love you, baby girl, which reminds me, and we can we'll start soon. But I watch the pit stop and Beyonca mentioned like a wild night in Palm Springs where so Kylie's Sonic Love, Bianca and Miley were hanging out at Bianca's house having a little tequila.
Oh fun, and I knew they were friends and that she was such a big Drag Race fan.
But I love that they're drinking tequila and palm springs together.
Oh my god.
Miley, I think is one of the only celebrities I will say, who fucking like when she's like I love drag, she like means it, like she's not just like oh yeah, it's fun, like oh I love RuPaul and like we did a project together and whatever.
You know what I mean, Like Miley went on Rogan and.
Like defended fucking drag and like she is about it, you know.
Oh yeah, she loves it. Yeah.
I think the residency maybe I don't know. I guess she wants to do a residency. Do a residency. I mean, that's it's gonna be crazy to get it. I also understand like not feeling safe with like shootings and bombs going off at concerts like that happened at an Ariana Grande concert, Like I could, you know, I can understand just being like I don't really feel like taking this risk right now of like being up on a stage in front of in front of fans that would tear
me apart for choosing my mental health over doing a tour. Well, yeah, and I think the interviewer told her like Olivia Newton John didn't tour for sixteen years, and then once she could do smaller venues, not at her peak, she did and she loved it, you know.
I it's just.
I love the concerts and small values, but I would love to see my ley. I'm with all these people, but I don't understand the ownership or the demand or like thinking you're entitled for her to do this. Of course, she's making so much lovely music for us, looking sexy as a fuck, Like what what.
Do you guys want?
But I watched her vogue My Life and looks three times.
Yeah that's you know. I miss her too, got you know.
Yeah, you're giving her the clicks, you're giving her the love. Let's get started, because oh my god, this is a perfect segue talking about pop stars and fame into today's episode. We don't even mean to do this. Wow, this is wild. Guys, stay where you are, We're about to start.
Okay, we are doing diss which is funny, but season twenty episodes too, so is this one.
Our friend Warren Light was not working on the show.
Yes, I was noticing that because they're all I think he comes back in twenty one because twenty one is where the names get big again.
And you know, with the title diss it is unfortunate that Christopher Maloney isn't here to bring up his black scent, you know what I mean, Like, I'm really sad we don't have Maloney saying this all thing. Yeah, she said your wang's no big thing, so that you know, we're starting on a sad note in terms of people speaking black when they're not.
I don't even know if that's how you say it.
But also air date May second, so that's my niece's birthday and Alex Crawley, my friend.
So shout out.
Shout out to the Taurus queens. So we open this episode, no, we're noise of cop cars driving on an empty street under a bridge in the city, and we hear a damn it in a woman's voice put over her car and she gives herself a little pep talk. She's like, okay, girl, be cool, be cool. The cop approaches the car and she shouts, I know, officer, I forgot to signal, which my father, you never admit anything to the cops. This is that's a mistake. You don't give him any anything. Yeah,
and he asks have you been drinking. She answers no, but he still makes her get out of the car, and she's like seriously, and he demands she gets out while a flashlight glows in her face. She is black, so obviously this is intense. She's dressed in a green glitter short dress, long sleeves, low cut. Her lips have a bold color on them, so it looks like she had a fancy night, maybe participated in a ballroom dance competition.
That's the vibe I get. It gets serious fast. They bend her over onto the car, slam her on the hood. She breathes heavily and then says, if you boys want to have some fun at least look, let me look at you.
And so the cop is like, what did I tell you?
And so then she turns around and she kneeds him in the dick, takes his gun, points it at the other like the other you know cop.
There's two cops.
Demands his gun, which he hands over, and she has both arms straight out with a gun in each hand. It's pretty hot but dangerous, and she's in her lime green glitter dress. She makes them get all the way down and lay down on the ground, and that's when we realize it's a music video.
Lol.
A perfect opening for an SVU though, because this is absolutely how an SVU could start. And then it's just like one hundred drop the beat. I was not expecting it. So there's sexy dancing explosions. It's a song. The song is called fire gyrating glitter boots. Close ups dance scenes. She's posing with the gun and we hear cut and both are and the director really happy with the shot. One and done, one take wonder and he's all about the sex appeal.
He's like, this video's hot as fuck.
And she's like and it's about BLM and me too, and he's like, I don't care. And then we meet a daughter and she's she's my kind of girl. Right away, she goes, can we go to Dave and Busters now? So I love her. The mom's like, we can't. You know, daddy has a concert tonight, and the girl's like, fuck that, I want to go to d and B. So a person I assume is on the payroll, a young man, he's like, you know, I'll stay with her, I'll take her, and she's like, oh thanks, Wallace. Then our main superstar
sees that Venetia is performing on Snake's concert tonight. Not happy about it, so she asks Wallace, like, hey, can you drop me off at home first and then you guys can go to Dave and Busters.
And it's like, yeah, she can't go to Dave and Busters. She'll be mom.
Yeah, so you know, she thanks the cop actors. She is a professional, kind, benevolent, amazing superstar. We cut to Wallace and the girl coming home. No prizes, so I'm like, what the fuck. But then she's saving up her tickets for a big ticket item. No, I see she's eating something. I think she got the candy prizes, so that's good. I mean, I'm sure she's not even impressed with the toys. She's you know, she's a two Superstars kid. But Wallace right away sees something's up, like the door is open
and he he's like, holds up, Lexis, something's up. But then he makes her enter first, like he follows the child into the dangerous situation, which was very funny to me. But then before he actually enters the apartment in the foyer, he leaves Lexi. He calls for Dallas, are you okay? And so our girl's name is Dallas, and he's creeping
in the dark, Dallas, Dallas. The room is disheveled, he's getting nervous, and then we see she's splayed out on the ground out cold blood all around her head, staining the white carpet. Lil Lexi runs in and yells, mommy, mommy.
Fuck. The media acts fast.
Dozens of photographers are there, ready to snap shots as the paramedics take Dallas out in a stretcher with a full neck brace, and IT'SO and Benson and Rollins are on the scene.
They're in shock. Benson's like, is that really her?
She's starstruck, she can't believe it, and Rollins is like, she fought back, maybe she shouldn't have. And of course Rollins is blaming a woman always always, do you know what in terms of scanned of All, I bet she would say Arianna deserved it.
No.
Just before we came on to record.
This, I was rewatching a favorite of yours, the video where Ariana's.
Like, this is my birthday and my dad's.
Dead, and sand of All is like, I get it, but we rented a bulldozer.
Trucks, Babe, I got it.
And so of course I read the comments, and I'm in the comments and there are people being like, she's always cross, she's manipulative, she should this that, And I'm like, I wrote something on someone's I go, I hope one day you have someone that chooses your pain over a construction park. That's you could like, I want to know what the what's if they're just trolls or if these
people's lives are that sad? Yeah, like that you think it's manipulative to ask for someone to support you as you're grieving on your birthday, Like I don't, I don't, I don't know. It was just crazy how many comments were like she's so annoying? Why is she always them sad? Your dad's been dead for years, get over it. The comments are always shocking. I'm always like, we're all together on this, right, No, we're not. None of us are together on anything. I just hope they're trolls. I just
hope they're trolls. Or maybe we should be like Swarm the TV show and we can go I'll kill all these people with main comments about our riata. It's really good. I think you should watch it. I'm going to well with this writer strike. I'm gonna need to I'm gonna watch everything I've ever said I would watch for you.
So yeah, Rollin's blaming the woman.
I guess she should have sat and taken it, according to Rollins, and I bet she would have been like why didn't she fight back?
It's like insane.
We find out that she has bleeding behind her ears, possible skull fracture.
She was hit multiple times in the head.
Benson asked, if she was raped, we'll see rape, you know, we got to wait for the rape kit, but her robe was ripped open. And then now we have a delivery boy witness and he heard someone say it was snake in Dallas, so he hung around and Creasey's questioning him. It was dark out, and Creasey's like, whoa, I love
that mongoose bike. I'm sure that's not going to come back, and sends the kid off, and Benson asked if he gave him anything on Creasy He's like, ah, no, just the lookie Lou And then they commiserate how much they hate celebrity cases. And so it's ten Grammy, he's twenty five nominations. The press is asking if it was snake, and the detectives enter the house. Everyone is out and about dusting, searching for evidence. They find a glock. It
could have been the victims. There's no sign of force entry, I says as he walks in. And he also said that the security cameras were hacked last week and the security system was off, so strange for such rich icons, you know. Rollins rules in to inform the group. Another witness says they got into a big fight recently and Finn is like, no way he would do this, and Creasey informs him there were two domestic disputes at this address last month.
But where is Snake now?
He's doing a concert at the Apollo, which is not really a giant venue.
So I wonder if you know where nobody. I wonder if to pop up. Yeah, I wonder if just doing it because it's iconic, like, I don't know, but I think he would have already done it, So that's what I mean. I wonder if it was just like a quick pop up show, yeah, or he's you know, at that level. I don't know, but it seemed like they were both kind of superstars. Yeah, the Apollo is cool, No knock onto the Apollo. Yes, it just gives clues as to what's going on. Actually, have you been in
I've never been into it never. I don't know how big it is.
Yeah, I'm gonna guess three thousand. Let's see. I'm gonna yeah, certainly not MSG for sure, I do. I guess no.
I would say I'll do prices right and say twyne and ninety nine.
We're both over fifteen hundred. Wow, So yeaho it.
I mean it's gorgeous, it's really pretty.
It's really pretty. Yeah. Yeah, it's cool that they do. It's cool that they shoot there too.
Anyway, So we're at the Apollo Sorry, but you know we we love Vedyas.
Okay.
So a concert's happening and it's a Kanye vibe of song, I would say, And there she is Venetia singing her slut ass off and I love this song, like I'm really into this fake Kanye song. And Fake Kanye is played by Orlando Jones. And then from the corner we see Finn off stage side stage, and Orlando Jones knows him, so fake Kanye. Orlando's like Finn, oh my god. And then Finn gets a full shout out to all the audience.
He's like Manhattan's own and Orlando Jones that end quote otafin tutuola baby Harlem's own and Cariese is confused, angealous, like he doesn't get what's happening, and he makes Finn come out, calls him family, and then Finn whispers into his ear and Orlando looks stunned. He says, shows over family emergency and walks off, and they run off and we head to the credits.
Finally, Jesus, So when I wait?
I just want to say, when I was like researching this episode for the crime part, I ended up on like a Reddit thread discussion of the episode, and like everyone wanted to know what the song was. Everyone was like, what's the song that he's singing with Venetia?
Like everybody loves it.
So SVU needs to like release some of this fake music that's on their show.
But also put out a CD. Yeah, so I know Orlando Jones from Mad TV? Or is he anything else for you?
Seven up?
Oh?
Make seven up yours baby? Yes? I had the T.
Shirt really, yes, somebody gave it to me like a bit T shirt in college and said make.
Seven up yours.
I thought those commercials were so funny for some reason. They really tickled me in the right time of my life. I guess when I was like nineteen and they came out, I thought they were so hilarious.
Yeah, and then I did look and he was in office space. He sold the magazines to them. Oh, the magazine subscriptions. It really is one of the best movies. It's so good a hit.
It's a hit baby, so okay, we're back.
It's you know, so in the credits, though, I never really noticed Peter's photo and he's standing by like a train as a train, you know, flies forward, and I really like that. I think that would have been my choice for photo. Like do you ever think about like what your SNL photo would be.
At the beginning? I've thought about it. I guess I've thought about it, but.
I know this careesy choice or Scanavino, Like I wonder if they got to decide, Yeah, like I would probably just be like hailing a cab and being like, oh, oh, it's you hi, you know, like to the camera.
But yeah, I don't. I gotta like look at the credits again. I feel like I didn't even notice this.
Well that's what I mean. I never noticed it either, But I liked it. I like the way he looked, so yeah, we're back and we're just leaving the concert no time, no time lapses, and Cariese's walking asking, like Finn how they know each other, as mobs of cameras and people are trying to get a peek, and Finn explains that their moms were best friends, so they're childhood friends. Carisy has but her because he didn't get a.
Heads up about that.
Okay, Orlando's in the limo and it's big as hell, and he thanks Finn for coming down personally, and Cariese's dumb ass is like, well, we have some questions for you, and Orlando's like, who the fuck is this and ignores Cariesy fully, and I'm on his side, like you can't you question a little bit later?
I don't know.
I don't like the attitude. And Finn just told you this is his childhood friend, so sit your asss down. Fucking Staten Island. So he blames Twitter and stalkers and he's like, there's so many fucking stalker's man, and Cresey's like, well, we heard from your neighbor that you fight a lot, and you just fought before you left, and He's like, I never laid hands on my wife, and Caresy pushes, then, why did the cops show up twice for domestic abuse
at your house? And he turns it on Creesy and he goes, well, one day, when you get a woman, we'll see if you don't yell now and then and Finn pushes, so all you did was scream and Orlando's like, damn, Fin, you too, man, and Finn is like, dude, I just need to know what you guys are fighting about. And he says one word Venetia. So I love Venetia so much.
He was on her last record and their reports that they were together, but it's false, and so they keep pushing him further, like how'd you get that bruise on your face? And Orlando says that he got into a fight with paparazzi people who got too close to his daughter Lexi, and then he calls Creesy wonderbread and I think he deserves it. Finn is like, okay, then why haven't we seen anything released about that? And he explains
that his manager paid off the paparazzi. Dude, and the paparazzi's got name is a mere, and he goes, when I left Dallas, she was fine, and so they meet everyone in the hospital. Rollins fills Creasy in that she has significant brain swelling and they put her in a medically induced coma to release pressure. The rate kit was sent to the lab and Orlando makes a wild choice in front of the cops and says, whoever did this is going to die.
Finn responds, come on.
Cuz, and then somber music plays with the background of a heart monitor, so it's a really a collab the between the heart machine and some tunes, and so then Orlando is sad and walks over to his wife, but not before pushing Finn a little bit with his shoulder, and Creasy then decides to question Finn about their relationship and Rollins that little starfucker is just like, holy shit, you know, snake, and I just love how consistent she is throughout her tenure.
Finn says they haven't seen each.
Other since they were sixteen, but Cresy is still like, sure, but you don't think he did it. And they all decide like, let's just go talk to a mirror the paparazzi, So they leave Rollins at the hospital and they run to La Central Restaurant. So this guy is such a greasy little meatball and I love him, and he.
Goes, ah, I was paid off. I'm fine with it.
And Finn's like, your face looks crazy, though, and he goes whatever, I don't care. I just hope Dallas is okay. Her face is prettier than mine. And then he digs you think Snake's the one who beat her up, and he's like, I wouldn't you know, wouldn't shock him? You never know how temper erupts. Finn is like he was on stage during the attack, and the paparazzi. Meatball goes sure, and OJ was in Chicago. Finn asks for proof from the paparazzi and the pap says he's a celeb. People
cover for celebs, and then has a wild theory. He says, guys running for Saint don't spend a lot of time. And Infodo's playground what, It's a rage room.
So then the.
Paparazzi sees a celebrity and you know, little Meatball goes and runs, and so then the Sinfoto's playground is a place where you smash stuff, so it's like an escape room, but instead of escaping, you smash.
I've only seen these on reality shows.
I've never heard a person go to one or seen one in person. I've only seen them go on various casts like The Housewives, and I think the VPR people went to one, like I would do it.
I would do it, Yeah, I definitely would. And I don't think this is wrong, like I if it keeps you in check, like I don't think this is a sign of criminality. So we hear Finn to an employee in the darkness behind that's smashing things and people really pay for this, and the workers like it's cheaper than a shrink. You smash and you scream and you know, and so they get more scoop.
So there's deluxe rooms.
You get a dummy, and you can get Donald or Hillary.
She says, So this is very of the times.
And of course they record everything and they want to see snake surveillance. And he's beating up a dummy and he's calling the dummy Dallas and screaming I'll kill you Dallas.
So not that good.
But Crasy's like, you still think he's innocent, And we cut to Orlando kissing her forehead As male detectives arrive, Orlando says, you find the fuckers that did this, and Ice is so cold and goes stand up as he Jingle's handcuffs.
He stands out, I don't really understand how footage of him beating up a dummy gets you a warrant for this, right, it's like very SVU like jumping to whatever they want to do.
It's it's not real because we've seen episodes where they have so much evidence and they can't do anything.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
So someone at in a place where you're the whole point is to hit things, you're not doing anything outside of the norm of a legal establishment, right, and you're not.
Yeah, yeah, foolish. This was foolish.
So he stands up and says, uh, you talk to a mirror and Creasy goes yeah, and we talked to the smashroom place, and he goes, come on.
So then he goes, it's mistake.
It's not how it looks, and then he says dead ass,
and I like that. So Finn cuffs him and they all take him in and the iPad is out and Finn's showing him the footage that they saw at the smash place and the lighting is gorgeous in this shot, and Orlando says it's a rage release and it's better than pills, but you wouldn't know what it's like to have my life, and Finn goes, oh, yeah, being rich must be rough, and he uses some tabloids and asks about marital problems and it's like Phil, Phil, Phil, Philly. You know tabloids are a lie.
Come on.
Orlando's like, yeah, and last week I died in a car accident and gets up and pushes his chair and screams, it's all lies. Finn is like, oh, you gotta hit me like you hit her, and he says, get up
out of my face, and they start arguing. Stone and Benson are spying and they're like, maybe he's not the right guy for this job, but Finn is sickened by him and shows the crime scene photos and calls him a disgrace off of one footage like this is unlike Finn, this is just like elapse, elapse for me, and he says I'm a disgrace. You want to look in the mirror and shoves him, so Benson runs in, pulls him out. They make him take a break and he sighs and
runs off. Orlando's mom is here, so then Finn goes, oh, Joe, I haven't seen you in.
A long time.
She slaps his ass hard. They go talk in private. She is fuming. She says, I took you in for six months when your mama died. Yeah, you definitely need to be off this case. Finn, I agree with everyone here. He says, I love you, and she still guilts him.
How could you?
How could you arrest my baby without as much of a phone call. He's family to you. Where is your loyalty? You really believe my child could do this. I'm his mama, and I gotta do something. Finn says, listen, if you want to do something, tell me what's going on with Justin and Dallas? Like she goes, they're married. Okay, So she sits down and then she explains, and Justin first made it the red fraft would never leave him alone, but Dallas changed all of it.
She cleaned him up good.
And Finn pushes and now and she's like, I don't get to see my baby as often as.
I would like. You know, she's the superstar.
So what she says goes, but he would never raise a hand to that girl, and she has perfect gray curls.
Finn says it doesn't look good.
For him right now, and she cries and pleads that he has to fix this. He owes them. She grabs his face and says, you owe me. He looks down and says, listen, go take care of Lexi and I'll call you. Stone and Benson are spying on that conversation too, and Stone definitely wants him off the case. Benson breathes deep,
she'll take care of it. Finn walks out of the room and Benson's like, yeah, she called you family, and so then Finn explains, So, Finn's old man thought he could get off by ripping off the neighborhood drug dealers, and then the OG's figured it out and then shot at Finn and his parents at a local bodega as they were coming out, and Finn and his dad went untouched, but his mother died in the street.
Have we ever heard that story before? Is this the first time we're hearing that in season twenty? I feel like I didn't know that.
I didn't either.
I'm trying to think what we learned during the ludicrous episodes. But yeah, that seemed like he was more about like him and his wife and like, oh, yeah, you know, and less about his parents, like so interesting. Yeah, I just was wondering if you had a memory, because I don't, but I'm sure someone will message and let me know.
Benson says, I'm so sorry. And then so Joe took him in.
So she took Finn in until his grandparents moved from Fayetteville to take care of him, which is really like cool for the grandparents because in most cases that you'd have to be a kid leaving and you'd go live with your grandparents. So it's cool that his grandparents came to keep his life consistent. But also, wasn't his dad still alive? Yes, we could stay with his dad probably too. They were just probably moving to help the dad. Yes, yeah,
but he wasn't living with his dad. He was living with Joe.
Yeah. The dad's a drug dealer though, right.
So maybe it's I don't know, was not an option, not a suitable home?
Yeah, Benson leans in. That doesn't mean you can cover for snake phone buzzes.
Who is it? Benson answers, and it's Rollin.
She's on her way to meet her because Dallas is awake and they're gonna keep Snake in the cage, so.
They're at the hospital.
Dallas says, he has never laid a hand on me, and she has an all around bandage on her head, so that's a really elite SVU club. Congrats, congrats baby, you make an around the head bandage look incredible, Sleigh, she says, yeah, me and Justin got into a fight before he left, but like, who fucking cares? She says, someone else did this to me and I could prove it. She explains that after Justin left, she was facetiming with
her mom and Boca. She's in a nursing home and Justin was already at the Apollo and they're like, fine, so what do you remember?
She breathes deep.
She is beautiful and she just so what she remembers is she got off with the phone with her mom and went to bed, and then she heard something downstairs. She thought it was Lexian Wallace, so she went downstairs and next thing she knew, there was a man standing in her room.
He was wearing a mask and gloves.
She ran to get the gun from behind the bar, but he just hit her and hit her and hit her. She breaks down in tears, crying. Benson asks if she was rape. She cries harder and says, I don't know.
You know.
I know we're famous, but we're just people. It's part of the deal we make with the world.
I guess.
Benson says, nobody deserves what happened to you. She says, well, there's a whole world on Twitter that disagrees with you.
Rollin's asks what.
She means, and she's basically explains that Snake and RB Banks are in a dis war, so they said dis if you'd like to take a drink, take a hit, eat a jellybean. This is her moment. So they bad mouth each other and they're wraps. It's good for pr and sales, she says. But we're all good, like we all are fine. But the fans take it too seriously. The nurse, an actual true advocate for the victims, goes, why don't we let her rest?
I think her brain just came back to life. Chill up.
So Benson runs to tel Finn about the Old Folks home, confirming the call with her mother. Great news, your friend is not a woman beater. Cut him loose, but the damage has been done. He gets released and Finn says, Snake, you didn't do it, and Orlando goes, yeah, I appreciate you again. Why would they arrest him a good friend from just a video like it from a smash place. I will never get over it. Finn is trying to be friendly now and offering a ride. Orlando was done.
Fuck off, bro. Finn is like, there's a lot of press outside, and he goes safer than you.
That hurts Finn.
Benson is walking around when Rollins flags her down to share some Twitter scoop. Something was posted on her page two weeks ago. So it's a video of baby Lexie and she's dancing and you know, having a good time, spinning around, and in the background, Snake is fucking around with the security system and if you put it on slow motion you can see him pressing the code and like the buttons. So fuck You know, two hundred thousand plus people liked the video, so it could be one
of them as a stalker, but you can't what. So her manager is getting a list together of anyone they've had trouble with in the past, and they start reading fucked up letters and messages out loud and Chrees reads one out loud teach that black tailor swift wife of yours a lesson.
Okay, that's not chill so but it's rap lyrics.
RB Banks dropped that last week and he liked the video of Lexi dancing. So we're gonna go meet up with RB Banks. Rapper diswar in the community, not really happy with Dallas And who is RB Banks?
It's Snoop dogg Snoop.
Dog, the hardest working man in the world, stoner hero.
I would say Martha Stewart's best friend.
Honestly, I haven't heard a bad thing about him, so, I mean, I guess.
I guess he was arrested for.
Murder back in the nineties, but I don't think he was convicted, was.
He I didn't know murder was the case that they gave him. That's what he says. What do you mean that's one.
Of his lyrics. Murder is the case that they gave me. But like, I didn't I thought that was all just like posturing. I guess I don't know my Snoop history.
No, like it is really cool. I mean, ice is in this category. Ice Cube is in this category Snoop like starting with gangster rap and ending up on like cookbooks, children's movies, the box. Yeah, yeah, it's really cool to see gangst has grown up.
So I love that. Yeah, I think I have three lines going.
I love him so much, truly, I love Snoop Like it's really fucked up. So he's in a recording studio and right away he tells Chrisy and Rollins that bitch got what she deserved. Not nice, and they're like, you know, we're cops, right, and he goes, I don't care.
I didn't have done anything. Rollins says, well, what about the dis war.
That's humiliating Rollins, I would have fought and been like, I can't say this line out loud.
They bring up the.
Taylor Swift thing and he justifies it, saying that Snake accused him of having a ghost writer, and Cariasey's like, where were you a babe, and he's like, I was home all night and the doorman can vouch for me, and that's that. And then he straight up says to them beat it. So we're at the precinct. Benson arrives with good news the rape kit came back negative. Finn says, thank god for the little things. Sone is the dumbest man alive, walks in with the paper and goes, why
is our case on the front page? Are they not two famous successful artists? What are you talking about?
Stone?
There were paparazzi right outside the minute she was getting taken out in a stretcher.
It's just like, he's so dumb. How are you alive? How are you a lawyer?
They're both giantly famous, Like I can't even deal with it, like obviously in old episode's like Stranger where it's like a minor kidnapped six sex slave? Fuck, why is this on the papers? That makes sense? Why are the two biggest celebrities? I just hate him? I hate him. He's trying to point fingers at the squad, and they're like, what about the Grammys?
Why don't you go point at them? Like shut up.
Finn sees the paper and says, fuck, I hope Snake doesn't do anything stupid. So we get to Banks studio asap because they're scared, like there's gonna be the dis war is gonna be turned into a real physical war. And Benson and Finn are in a black car spying. Dallas is still in the hospital and Joe and Lexi are there with her. Snake saw the paper and took off is what we you know the scoop And it's like, isn't Snake the one who knows the tabloids are lies?
But then Finn is like, no matter how much fame and Bentley's I guess it's hard to get over disrespect. Benson takes a moment, checks in with Finn, sees that he's doing and he's having a hard time being vulnerable, but he does pop off.
He's pissed, he's embarrassed, a lot of things. So we're here.
Banks walks out of a studio, eight people behind him. An escalade drives by and they all stopped. Tons of escalades, tons of men, guns are out. Snick comes out and asks Banks to trying to take me out, and then Banks is like, you fucking with me? I don't know, I don't know what they're saying, but like, oh, you're here to take me out.
So they both are trying to take each other out.
I don't know what to tell you, and then snoop and admits to it and says that bitch got what she deserved and takes ownership of the crime. He escapes Rollin's grip runs at Snoop. A few people have to stop him. Benson is on Snoop trying to relax him. I'm wondering at the end of the workday, who smoked weed with Snoop Dogg.
Or in the middle of the work day.
I mean, I worked on something with Snoop Dogg where he was just smoking weed in the hallways.
Like the whole time. I'm not talking about Snoop smoking weed. That is a given.
I'm saying I don't think Benson would smoke during the workday. Oh no, no, so what I wonder if she would smoke after? Well, that's what I'm asking. Who do you think smoked with Snoop at.
The end of the day. I don't think it's Benson. I don't think it's Rollin's.
I don't know.
Maybe Corina, Yeah, maybe Scanavino. I feel like Finn I feel like I feel like Hargate would smoke weed with Snoop.
Maybe.
Well, if we meet, if we get to talk to Ice Tier or Marishka or Peter, we have to remember to ask this. We will ask Casey write a note we need if we get any of the leads, we need to know who smoked with Snoopy know, yeah, I kind.
Of love it.
You think, yeah, not even Warren Light But yeah, Warren wasn't around. I wonder who, Oh we should ask? Oh we should ask our friend that wrote on this season. Didn't he write on the season or DM him? DM him? Maybe by the entry bye when it airs, we'll get it. If you think have an idea, let us know. So the cuffs are on banks, Benson drags him off. Snake is, you know, staring into the distance. He's upset and we
open an interrogation. Benson's like, so you're telling me not to believe my own ears, and he goes, what do I know?
Maybe you need a Q tip. She's like, my ears are fine.
And you confess to a crime and he corrects her, No, I confess to what I said.
In my wraps.
She does not like this. He says, no way I beat her. But his alibi does suck. The video from the building confirmed that you weren't home the night of the attack, and he really doesn't want to share his true alibi. Obviously he's cheating on his wife, so that's what's happening. He would rather admit to cheating than go to Rikers obviously, and then he goes, come on, you're trying to ruin my happy home. But he writes down the name of the bit he's cheating with. So Dallas
is home. She's in a cute turban and she has like Ivy stands in her nice home and Orlando's with her. Finn's like, you think it's a good idea to bring her home, and it's like, babe, they're rich. They're so rich. They have doctor's uncle. It's probably safer here than in a hospital. And they want Finn to leave. They kind of hate him, and he just wanted to let them know that bank's alibi checked out.
It's not him, and it's like, who the fuck did this?
But Finn on the way out sees Lexi playing video games his passion. So that's really sweet, and they have like a little, a little moment, and she says that she plays with Grandma Joe a lot because daddy is not really here that often. Okay, she's spilling everything's fin and also the little girl Lexi says that mommy told him to kick his mom out. Interesting, So she's playing video games with grandma Joe until the dad kicked her out. So we head out to West one hundred and thirty
third Street and he's like, Joe, what's up. What's your relationship with Dallas? Tell me everything. She goes as cop or family. He goes family first, so she trusts him. I guess immediately for no reason, and well not no reason, but he did just fuck up huge Dallas and her used to be good.
What happened?
Of course, money, She's scared that Justin's gonna piss it all away if she's not holding the string, so any like, she's in charge of everything, and he goes, well, didn't he buy you a place? She goes, I was ten years ago and needed fixing up, and so she usually she just writes to the business manager, who writes her a check.
And she got a check for.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the fixing the updates some HGTV moments and she found and so Dallas found out and was mad and she and like the grandma, Joe wanted more money and Dallas refused, and she's like, what the fuck, that's my baby's money. But she didn't want to bring it up to Justin. And she didn't want to start any trouble and that's that. But this episode is silly. I don't know why she would spill all these beans. So Finn is depressed at his desk,
he's pouting. Rollins comes in to say they looked at Joe's financials and she goes, damn, I hope my girls take care of me like this. So three months ago, Joe wrote a check for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to a vic Lewis.
Is that a contractor?
I don't know, because there's no contractors under that name in the city. But they're gonna go to the vic Lewis that they found an address for. And Finn wants to go alone, but Rollins is coming. Whether he likes it or not. They have to fancy meeting you hair, so silly. One hundred and thirty sixth Street, April twenty fourth. Let's go wait, this is actually stretching a long time. Oh no, it just aired me a second. I was like,
this is the longest case in history. Vicki denies knowing anything, and Rollins is like, oh, so you get tons of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars checks so Finn describes her Joe Anderson nice black ladies, seventy eight years old and our girls in dark lipstick. Goes okay, so she was investing and he goes, mmmm, she has better taste
than this. Dis Another diss, another dis. She scoffs, then starts walking and talking to the back of the salon and she's like, listen, I'm entitled to that money, especially with all this me too stuff lying around, And so we get the scoop and about a year ago, she was at his show at the Garden.
She was backstage.
The manager invited her to Snake's hotel room and she needed cash to start this place.
So done and done.
She got to Joe because she couldn't get close to Snake, and she offered a bunch of money to keep quiet. Finn and Rollins make eye contact, and now we're at a bowling party. He denies cheating to Finn and Joe is right behind him and they're like, so, why is your mom playing the paying this white woman a ton of money for nothing? Rollins says the photo of Vicky on her phone and flashes it, and he says it
was one time that can't be right. Just one time with this woman, like what but he calls her thirsty and says she threw herself at him. Joe says, shut up, that was You reminded me of Kennedy Davenport always and forever. She came to me and I didn't want to see his face with hers on the cover of magazines. But like, how did she get that kind of money? And she goes to mister Maples. We've already discussed all this, Timmy
YadA YadA. Oh no, she goes mister Maples, and then Finn goes, wait, what about Timmy, and Snake laughs and says, damn, you're old. Timmy died in six Rollins confirms the death of the precinct and Finn's like, I don't know, I don't really love the timeline. Something is miss here, and so he goes to get Okay. So as he's leaving, trying to contemplate, like what's missing. I'm gonna do detective work, someone comes and gives him ballistics report on the gun found under Dallas.
The Prince were hers. It's her gun.
But she got this gun illegally because ballistics popped off on an old crime. And the old crime is an unsolved murder of a gangsta named Malik Harper. Finn says thank you, but the music playing suggests there's more to this story.
The captions say it's foreboding music.
If that means anything to you, Finn looks suspicious and runs off. Finn is at an Irish wooden bar talking to a retired cop who doesn't remember anything or any particular corpse.
Finn's trying to get info from him, like mor photos, this that.
Any and the cop goes, you know people cops that are haunted by old, unresolved cases. Well I'm not one of them. So Finn is like, so you never gave a damn He goes, listen, I didn't have enough get damned to give. He's like, can you just please help me? Here's an address, like just think. He goes, oh my god, this address is right above eleanor his best ribs in the city. They tore it down about six years ago, so now he remembers the ribs.
Were that good. He remembers the man being shot.
So what he remembers is the girlfriend works the counter at the rib place, and when the news broke about Maleik, she threw ribs at him.
So that's kind of funny.
So there's no name, but it was a crazy white chick and she was pregnant. And so I think we're starting to put some stuff together, hopefully, unless you're not, and I'll continue talking. Benson's trying to leave the office, but Rollin says something that can't wait. She says that she dove deeper into Dallas's socials check it out. So there's always a bike in the background of some photos, so not always just a few photos.
And so it's a bike. It's the same bike.
And then Careesy remembers the bike from the beginning of the episode, the mongoose that belonged to the Lookie Lou and so, okay, what's going on here? So the Lookie Lou is Andreas Harper. Hello, Malie Harper, there's a connection. Fit is upset and I'm super emo and walks around without sharing anything with the group. As Andreas is an interrogation and he maintains that he had a delivery down the block and once he saw the cops and you know, he heard it with Snake in Dallas, he needed to
check it out. And Benson goes, no, man, we call delivery all the delivery, food services. None of them have a record of you. So then he breaks down. He goes, fine, I'm a huge fan. I just thought if I hung around the apartment long enough, Snake would come talk to me, and Benson goes, yeah, talk to you about what?
And so then Benson also is like.
Well, if you're such a big fan, why were you at the apartment with his wife. If you were a real fan, you would have been at the concert. And he's looking mad at her and she's like, straight up, you were there for Dallas and he shouts back, I was there for Snake. Benson fights back, this isn't my first time with stalkers, Okay, I've seen them all, the sad guy, the psychopath. So which one are you? What happened?
And he has tears in his eyes and goes, don't I get a lawyer or something, and she goes, yes, and don't forget to show them this bicycle lock, because we're gonna take it to the to the lab and if any of Dallas's DNA's on it, we don't actually
have to talk to you at all. Finn is now talking to the crazy White Chick salon owner and it's a sunny day in New York and he's like, I'm not on the case and she's like, okay, so why are you talking to me And he's like, well, you know, Andreas is at the station and he's about to be charged and that's your kid, and she goes, yeah, nobody said that wasn't my kid. But he has no reason to hurt Dallas and Finn is like, I have a
long list, but let's start with revenge. And she's like, for what to get back at the man who killed his father, Malik Harper, And then they stop and they stare face to face and she says nobody knows who killed Malik, especially Andreas. She starts to walk off, and Finn is trying to push her on stuff and she's like what the fuck, like, I'm not gonna help you put my son in jail.
Back off.
The acrylic nails in the sky are wagging, and that is that's the.
Scene and the scene.
Finn looks confused, but it's like come on, dude, So like she's not gonna help put her child in jail. So now Finn is in jail to talk to Andreas, and he's like, the lawyer told me not to talk to any cops. And he also is an orange cool jacket, Like, I've never seen a prison jacket before, but it's like pretty nice cold day. I guess cold day in April. Yeah, I just have never seen prison issued coats.
I don't think. I guess orange is the new black.
They had coats, yeah, so I just think pretty fashion forward for a prison. So he convinces Andreas to talk to him because he gets it because he saw his mom get shot in front of a bodega and the story connects with him. So Andrea swallows aggressively and is down to chat with him.
Now.
He asks the Finn got revenge, and he's like, they killed my mom, the person I cared about most. I wanted him to feel the same pain as I did. Killing him wasn't enough, and Andreas cuts him off. He should have suffered, she she should have died, he yells, so Dallas, Dallas. Finn asks Andreas, answers he would have hurt. Then it wouldn't have been enough, but he would have hurt. Solemn music begins to play. Andreas walks back inside after
his shouting performance, So he did do it? Finn stands longingly thinking, then he goes to see so hopefully everyone has put it together that snake with a gun ballistics. Snake killed Malie Harper, and Andreas is the son who wanted to make Snake suffer. So Finn goes to see Snake over the Intercolm and Snake's like, I got nothing to say to you, and Finn goes, great, I'm gonna
talk and you could just listen, you dumb bitch. So he gets buzzed in and Snake has an attitude and they're like, boo, you whore, and Finn's like, I'm here to talk about your mother, and Snake says she's a good lady, then asks him a question. Do you think I should have turned Yusiffin after I saw him kill my mother? Snake chuckles, this is not funny, but he goes,
that's not how it's done. If they thought you were a snitch, she would have been dead by dinner, and Snake says, also, the cops aren't about to change or like, the cops wouldn't have helped anyways, they're not good and well now Finn's a cop, but yeah, he said, the cops wouldn't have changed anything. Finn would have been dead, like no one cares, and Finn says, I didn't do anything for that kid that attack Dallas, but everything you do in your past will eventually come back on you.
He says, he wouldn't know.
So Finn brings up Malik Harper, and Snake says, damn, i'ven't heard that name.
In a minute.
Finn goes, well, yeah, he got shot dead about eighteen years ago. Tough break, Snake says, while drinking out of a matte black mug. Cool, Finn tells a story about Yusef So thirty years after he killed his mom, he got a call to one hundred and twenty seventh Street that there and there he was stretched out on the concrete, two in the back of the head. And so Finn didn't want to solve the crime because he was a
piece of shit. And then just how Malik was a piece of shit, and Snake agrees, like, yeah, they're both bad dudes. And then Orlando is like, Snake, whatever is games, and it's like Finn is here because he knows something, you know, like he's not actually playing charades. He has the evidence. So then Snake asked Wolf, whoever killed him did it in self defense? Would that make a difference, and Finn gets real professional and says that if the
shooter could prove it, he wouldn't be charged. Snake gets closer to Finn in a slow pace while saying nobody would ever believe him. You know what I mean, you know how it is, and then he scoffs. Finn says, you got to remember one thing. Everything you do in your past will eventually come back to bite you. Snake nods. Finn says, take care of those ladies upstairs. They stare at each other. Snake says, church they hug. I didn't
know that that was a goodbye, but cool. Finn exits the luxury building when young boys on bikes are like, whoa you know? Does Snake live there? And Finn responds, no, he still lives uptown. Then he whispers himself and always will. And then he puts on his sunglasses and walks off into the New York distance.
And that's dick wolf baby.
I gotta say this episod so just has like a few weird holes for me, Like it's just a very confusing episode. It's hard to connect the dots, like, so Andrea's killed, Andrea's never met his father. I understand, like that's hard to grow up without a father, but like, I don't know that you would feel the pain of missing someone that you've never met before enough to like risk your entire future to attack Beyonce.
Basically, do you know what I'm saying?
Like it's not all coming together for me? And then when did Vic fuck Snake after she had Andreas and she just needed the money for the salon? Yeah, it must have been like deca a decade later, She's.
Like, I'll just soot the guy that killed my baby daddy to get money for my salon.
I don't think that's real. I don't think the fucking is real. I think she threatened Joe. I think she was like, give me money, killed my husband, got it? This is his baby, yeah, got it, even if it's not the death.
But it's like, this is her baby.
And I also wonder if Andreas wouldn't care as much who his dad was if it wasn't someone famed.
Yeah, like, I see you live in the life and you killed my dad and like left me without a dad.
Yeah, but the mom the crazy White Chicks seemed not involved, not visiting your son in prison, just out living her life. I also don't get how Finn put it together to even ask Joe the warrant with the smashroom.
This episode is just disjointed but great.
Also, like another cop brought Finn the ballistics report, like that gun popped on another murder and it was found in their house.
Someone has to investigate that. That's not just gonna go away and.
Like Finn walking away and letting his pal get away with something, because like that doesn't feel like Finn at all, not to mention, it's reminding me of this current season where Benson is like Velasco, go find your old buddy from Mexico and make him pay for his crimes.
Like I just feel like all of them makes that justice.
Yeah, but then I'm gonna let Betty Buckley, you know, get away with yeah exact.
I guess there might not have been proof on that one, but yeah, yeah, the moral stances feel like they're wooh like really up and down.
But yeah, A good.
I also so, I mean Andreas committed the crime, but I don't want him to do that much time.
I know he has to.
I wonder if it would be attempted murder or assault and battery, like maybe you only get a few years for that. I don't know, no, because if he I mean a bike lock to the head and breaking even dead, like you do deserve to go to jail. Yeah, I feel bad for your circumstances, but I love I'm team Dallas. Yeah, but also, why does like the woman have to I don't know, why does the woman have to suffer for something that her guy did, like get attack him, make him feel pain, like she didn't do anything.
To your dad. Well, it's kind of like manipulated too.
Where they're first seeing is like, oh, someone's trying to get to her by destroying her husband, you know, right right, Yeah, people are up too, not my hobby, not my hobby, fucking people's lives up through murder and revenge.
Well, I have some interesting factoids coming up, so listen to these brief messages and we'll be right back.
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So obviously Dallas and Snake seemed to be roughly based off of Beyonce and jay Z. You could even make the argument that the Venetia thing is like the whole Rihanna rumor when he was working with Rihanna and everyone thought they were sleeping together, and that's allegedly what led to the whole Solange elevator thing, but Snake had.
I thought the elevator thing was Becky with the good hair. Rachel Roy.
Oh, I thought it was Rihanna. Maybe I'm wrong now it was Rachel Roy.
But I actually have inside it was really going on from someone that works at deaf Gym that I know.
Oh wow, Well you can tell me later if you can.
But the I thought it was because Rihanna was going to be at a party they were going to, and so Launch flipped out and was like, why would you have her here?
Like Rachel Roy?
Okay, because then everyone got Rachel Roy and Rachel Ray confused that beehives started attacking Rachel Ray on Instagram.
Well, I didn't think that Rachel Roy shit came out until Lemonade with Becky with the good Hair. But obviously I don't know what's going on. But Snake also has
Kanye shades of Kanye. As you said, the song sounded kind of Kanye and but with the number of Grammy nominations they're saying the woman has and how famous they are as like a couple in music, it's definitely Jay and Bae to me and jay Z has had a lot of rap beefs with people that they always seem kind of low key, just like rapping about each other in songs. There's no really violence or retaliation against family members.
That's where it kind of differs in this Episodsode. But probably his most noted beef, which by the way, dis war you would just say beef is I think how they say it in the in hip hop. His most noted beef is with fellow New York City rapper Nas. They started fighting in the late nineties into the two thousands, and it actually started in ninety six when I guess nas No showed for a recording session for a track
on jay Z's Reasonable Doubt album. Then they started taking shots at each other in songs and it got really heated in two thousand and one on jay Z's The Blueprint, in a song that Kanye produced called Takeover, where jay Z calls Nasa has been and says Nas has quote one hot album every ten year average, and he, like, you know, questions is street cred. It's like a lot
of disrespect, as they talk about in this episode. That same year, Nas claps back with this track called Ether, which is known now as like a historic dis track, and Remy Ma like released a distrack called Sheather that was aimed at Nicki Minaj. That's like a reference to that. So that's considered one of the biggest diss tracks of all time. And then jay Z released Super Ugly.
Say about What did he say about jay Z in the dis track?
I think just like he's tired, like lame, you know, like in early Beefs he makes fun of jay Z having a Lexus with TVs and he's like, that's the bare minimum that you should have, like you should like as soon as I heard jay Z rob about that, I got rid of my lexus, Like you need to have more than that. That's like bear or something like that. I was reading about. So I don't know the exact uh. I didn't write down the exact diss is from Ether.
But then jay Z released Super Ugly, in which he brags about having a three year affair with NAS's girlfriend Carmen Bryan. So they're hitting below the belt and this one is so bad that jay Z's mom Gloria Carter, So I feel like this might be where they got the inspiration to like bring in the moms and everything Gloria Carter calls into Hot ninety seven and said that her son should apologize to NOAs and his family, which I kind of love.
Wild.
Jay Z did call in and apologize to his mother and any female listeners who we might have offended with the lyrics. So yeah, So then they call a ceasefire for a couple of years, and then in two thousand and five they reconcile publicly in front of a sold out crowd in New Jersey for jay Z's I Declare War tour. They perform Dead Presidents and the world is yours, and jay Z said, all that beef shit has done.
We had our fun. Let's get this money. So then a year later, Nas quit his record deal or left Columbia Records and signed with def Sham, which jay Z was heading up. So that's that, and I guess they're cool now. But I feel like that's a little bit the raft beef. But like it was never like showing up with guns and shooting at each other. I think it was, like like Dallas says in the episode, it was mostly about like publicity and it sells records to have like this kind of fighting going on.
So another case.
That I feel like this episode could be based on is Kim Kardashian's Paris robbery because in the episode, when Snake hears the news, he goes shows over family emergency.
This is basically identical to what.
Happened to Kanye when he found out that his then wife Kim Kardashian had been robbed in Paris. He was performing in New York City at the Meadows Music and Arts Festival and someone came up to him and told and he goes, I'm sorry, there's a family emergency.
I have to stop the show. So it's pretty much ripped right from that.
And I feel like we all heard about this, but I'll just recap it because there was some facts I found out about this crime that I did not know about.
In October of twenty sixteen, Kim Kardashian West at the time, was staying at an apartment inside a luxury private mansion called the Hotel de Portalis de Portal I think, where she was in Paris for fashion week, and a group of five men was wearing ski masks and police uniforms got into the mansion, threatened the concierge person with a weapon, handcuffed him, forced him upstairs to the private apartment that he had to open for them, and then two of the men went into Kim's room and put a gun
to her head, and she talks about it later that she wasn't wearing anything underneath her robe and she is like, Okay, this is the moment that I get sexually assaulted, Like I have to just like prepare myself.
This is going to happen. And she pleaded for her life.
She was pleading to the concierge because she didn't know, like she didn't speak French, and she was like, tell them I have a family, Tell them I have a husband, please, like pleading for her life with them. They threatened her with the gun, They tied her up, They forced her into a bathtub with tape over her mouth and then tape over her eyes. And the last thing she saw before they put tape over her eyes was them holding
up her jewelry box. And at the time she did have two children, but they were in New York City at the time, so her sister, Courtney had been staying with her in the same suite but was out with friends. And Kim later was saying, I was so worried that Courtney was going to come in and find me dead and be traumatized for life. So like that's the stuff that was going through her mind when this was all happening.
But the men did not sexually assault her or like kill her or you know, actually beat her up in any way really other than like forcibly tying her and putting her in the bathtub. They took two cell phones and ten million dollars worth of jewelry, including her four million dollar Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring. What I didn't find out until doing this research is that all the men
who did this were in their sixties and seventies. They were called the Grandpa Gangsters by some of people on social media.
So it kind of is in line with most robbery movies. It's always these old guys.
They're getting out of jail and they want one last cash grab, Like every robbery movie, even the robbery SVU episodes.
Are old men.
Yeah, it's like Ocean's eleven, but like, yes they're older, Like.
Robert DeNiro was in one of these.
I think we're in like their grandpa gangsters are doing the bit because you need a lot of skills, yes, but you know, I am sure.
You're going to talk about this.
But so many people thought this was fake because it's Kim Kardashian and their show. Everything's produced, And I know one of those suspicions was like where was her personal security? Like, yeah, I think that was like one thing where it's like, don't you have security with you? Where were they? But
maybe they were out with Courtney, But I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, honestly, none of that, none of that, none of the stuff I read, and I did read like eight articles about this that are all of my sources, Like, there's really nothing about her personal security.
It seems an assistant was there. I'll get to that.
But so basically, five years later, in twenty twenty one, twelve men were indicted and were to be tried for robbery with a weapon committed in an organized gang, kidnapping, enforceable confinement or criminal association. One of the guys, so, now one of the guys, this guy who's sixty seven years old, his name is Eunice A Boss, was one
of the twelve men. He spent twenty two months in prison in France for this crime, and then he was given an early release and he gave a full interview to Vice News, which is on YouTube with a content warning by the way, and it's all about robbing influencers. This Vice piece and a boss said he'd seen Kim Kardashian throw a diamond into her pool on her reality show and was like, Oh, this woman doesn't care about money,
so like, we're just going to rob her. And when they asked him if he felt guilty about his crime, he goes, he said it in French, but this is the translation. Since she was throwing money away, I was there collect it, and that was that guilty. No, I don't care, And he said a bunch of times he goes, I don't care, like and he also told them, had you released.
This person after twenty two months?
I don't know, and because the reason they found him is because he left DNA at the scene when he subdued the concierge and he's a criminal in the system, so they found his ass quick as hell.
And he even said that, he goes, oh, yeah, I left my DNA. They found me really quick because I'm a criminal. So they let him out after twenty two months. He's like, fully gonna do something like this again.
He's not sorry.
Why would you bet. You know, we just covered the fucking that monster. They might they have a more lenient system than.
We do over here. Yeah.
They asked him like to like, don't you think she was traumatized? And he goes, oh, yeah, sure, of course, of course she'd be traumatized, of course, but he had no feeling about it, like, no guilt at.
All, and please he's self aware. I don't know. Yeah.
Well, we also found out that Kim Kardashian, I'm a boss fan unice of boss for president Lisa love them. We also found out that Kim Kardashian's assistant made the mistake of calling nine to one one, which in France doesn't do anything that is not the emergency number in France, so French police weren't notified immediately, and that's left the gang more time to escape. So they did get away, but then of course they were all like, they were
all tracked down. Another guy whose name was Almar Eit Kadash, a sixty year old veteran robber also implicated in the heist, said that they got most other information from social media, which is I think where the tie in of this episode where they're like, oh, Twitter, finding the code and all that stuff, and he said, quote this is probably translated also quote it says the jewels were shown on the internet, and she said she didn't wear fakes the
time she would arrive in France. You just had to look at the internet and you knew everything, absolutely everything. And that was in a police report obtained by Lamond, which is a French newspaper, so allegedly it was Kim.
Snapchat is where they got all this information.
And this vice reporter pointed out and goes, if a nearly seventy year old man can figure out how to target one of the world's most famous people using snapchat, she goes, I don't think any of us have any hope.
So but they inspired criminals all over the world.
This Kim Kardashian attack was kind of like one of the first major influencer robberies, and it inspired all these criminals all over the world to target wealthy influencers by using their social media to like gather clues.
So, Kim Kardashian, I'm not giving it to these guys. This is the Bling ring. We learned this in the Bling Ring. Well, the blame ring is a little bit different because those people became friends with them, didn't They get like invited to their parties and shit, and that's when they would case the area.
Nah, you got to watch the three part doc oh okay.
I thought that they were like young kids that kind of would hang out at the parties and then steal shit or like then break into their houses when they knew they were on vacation.
Now that's the thing. It was breaking in when the people were gone. But it is like using your social media to know your full schedules and know when to rob your ass.
Yeah, so bling ring.
But maybe these guys brought it more to the internation because Kim Kardashian was just wasn't so huge.
This is just coming back to me when this case broke. I remember hanging out with someone that was like, yeah, there's so new money. Real rich people don't wear their real diamonds like I guess old money. They all have fakes that they wear. Well, Kim learned her lesson.
Apparently after this happened, she went into hiding for three months and then re emerged and immediately went to Ellen as you do after a trauma, and she told the talk show.
I did did Ellen play a little trick on her, make her think she's about to get kidnapped on the stage. Yeah, Like did she come out dancing to a Kanye song like hey babe, straddling her little coffee table.
It is fucked. I am bad.
I'm like one of the bad people in the episode diss where I'm like because of Kim's status, I'm like more detached from her or like where I'm like I have whatever, I'm tiama boss Like it is fucked.
Like she is. Yeah, she is a person.
Yeah, And you know, so she did go on David Letterman and have this like hard to heart with him where she is very upset, Like when people talk about this being staged again, it's like when people talk about the Scandal all stuff being staged. These people are not good enough actors. There is absolutely no way Kim Kardashian is a good enough actor to cry the way she cries in these interviews talking about this experience.
If it was fake, I'm sorry. I don't give that to her.
She has one line in Paw Patrol movie and it's not good, So I can't imagine that she's good at this. So she said to Ellen quote, I know this sounds crazy, but I know that was meant to happen to me. I am such a different person, she says. I just don't care about that stuff anymore. I don't care to show off the way that I used to.
Like.
She was very obsessed, she said, with being in the mix, like showing everything she was doing, and now she's like during the Keeping Up with the Kardashians reunion in twenty twenty one, she said, quote, no expensive items ever come to my home. I have it all taken from security before I even enter my home. I can't sleep if I have jewelry in my safe or money or anything at my house. I just don't live my life like that,
she says. And she says, as far as jewelry, if I'm wearing something, it's borrowed, it's fake.
So this really changed.
And apparently she doesn't post in real time anymore, like she'll save she'll take photos and then save them and post after she's left a location.
She has really like.
Some of the articles I was reading was like, yeah, you can notice after that she goes to the met ball in like a really scaled down dress, like the like the year or two after well before Marilyn like in the just the direct aftermath of this happening, Like they said, she went really like much more simple with her fashion and stuff, and I think was trying to like live more simplistically for a Kardashian or whatever.
But that's that's the story on that.
I just like, I think I knew most of that, but I just didn't know that it was like this gang of oldies, and I didn't know that most of them have like been tried and gone to jail and are out already.
Like crazy.
Yeah, I wonder if the guys got out early because of COVID or something they got rid of like kind of more nonviolent crimes or something like that.
People that were in jail to violent, right, but they didn't. It was emotionally violent for her for sure.
So that's that on that.
But no, you have it's kind of like the story we talked about with the engagement kidnapping, where it's like, no, I think he's tying someone up and holding them hostage.
Is physical for sure, for.
Sure, Yes, absolutely violent, But like I'm glad they didn't pistol whip her, you know what I mean, Like I feel like they could have done a ton of damage to her.
And like, now these are classic robbers. They're not interested in that.
Yeah, yeah, they're not taking the time to like, yeah, inflict.
I'm shocked there's no movie made yet about it. But because I don't believe Dorie in her robbery, and Andy Cohen was like, Dorrit is not a good actress. Yeah this is this happened, and he's like appalled. People think it's fake. But I think Teddy's husband being in charge of their insurance security. Yeah, just there's like a lot of things that don't make it. And then this is a fucked up theory about Dori, but that her husband did it without telling her and he knew what was going to happen.
That's beyond fucked up it is. But they're all scam artists.
I mean, look, like what that's what's crazy, Like scandival is so shocking to us, and the lies and the deceit and all of that. But they're all fucking criminals from coast to coast of that of the housewives.
They say criminals. It is the age of the scammer. It is the age of the of the criminal. Truly, I just wouldn't put it past them. I guess that's my point. I wouldn't put it past these people.
I don't have any any tensions or any good thoughts on these people.
I thought Duraid's thing was fake. I really did, because I was like, why'd they leave your cell phone? Like I don't really There was a few things where I was like, this doesn't make sense to me.
But you know, I agree with Andy, she can't be that good.
No, I'm wee being appalled by people who were not sympathetic to Kim at the time.
I remember being like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
I like, could that's I mean, it's just like when someone reaches such a level of fame. I remember thinking like, oh my god, this is like a movie. How is that possible? But you're right, like where was her personal security? It sounds like an assistant was nearby that called nine one one by accident and like there, but there wasn't like a guy right outside her room all night.
Like I don't get that. So especially if like a concierge has a key.
It's like, anyway, we do have a fantastic guest, so don't go anywhere, okay, guys, our guest today is not only an actor but also a former Beverly Hills High School student body president. You'll know her from her work on past shows such as The Carmichael Show and Happy Together. You can also see her in The Amazing Spider Man and twenty two Jump Street. She's currently a lead in the stars comedy Run the World. But you know we're today as the glamorous pop star Dallas Monroe. Guys, enjoy
our convo with the very talented Amber Stevens West. Good morning, Good morning, Thank you so much for being here.
This is amazing, Thank you for having me. Yeah.
I mean I first, like I know your work from like Carmichael's Show, and like all these comedies that you've been in, Like we have a friend that wrote on the current show that you're on, so like we are fans, but this feels like such a different kind of thing for you from what I've seen you do. I'm sure you've done drama or whatever, but this felt like a departure. So how did this come to you? They just like threw you an SVU or were you like to your agents? I'd love to be on an SVU? Like what how
did I get it all go? I got lucky.
I got a phone call and they said, hey, they've got this part and they thought of you for it.
Are you interested? And I said, yeah, I mean it was very it was very cool.
I read it obviously and like double checked that it was something that seemed fun for me. But basically the role was like you're a big pop star and then you're injured. So I was like, I'm done. That sounds cool. And then we like made a music video.
Well yeah, well wild SVU start if I've ever seen one, because it's scary, dramatic, very realistic. Oh no, what's going to happen? And then a real kooky turn for us. I've ever seen anything like it.
How did you feel being so glamorous with the with the guns? I guess Oh.
God, it was funny. It was funny to rehearse all of it. Was funny to dance on top of a car and those heels. Was funny to.
Dance while holding guns and like make it look sexy with a wing that went down to my waist.
It was fun. It was a good time. It was a I.
Didn't realize, you know, I don't know what they're doing and they're behind the directors have in mind how they're going to shoot one into the other. But yeah, that false start is quite a surprise I think for the audience.
Well, yeah, because I had the same feeling like I haven't with her, uh like with little relling get out where the you know, the cop shows up and right away like or the TSH, but the like pit in your stomach where you're like, oh no, what's about to happen?
What horrible start of this SVU? And then glitter, Yes, like a very fun and then Beyonce. Yeah, was there a wind machine?
No, there was no wind machine, but those were live actual like fire whatever you call those fire rotechs.
Yeah, pyrotechnics. That was real.
Yeah. Did you have to learn choreo?
I did. I had to learn choreo. They didn't show a lot of it. I'm not a great dancer. They didn't know that when they hired me. So it was more just a lot.
Of like body rolling with guns, yeah, and rolling around on the hood of a car.
But there was a choreographer. She was very cool and.
I and you know, help me try to learn how to dance and heels on top of a slanted.
Roof of a car like truly not I think what any actor thinks they're going to be doing when they agree to an SVU.
Not at all, to be like in a sparkly mini dress, just getting down.
Not at all.
Were you channeling your inner Beyonce? I mean it feels very Beyonce.
Obviously, of course I was, of course.
But then quickly you're in a pool of blood, which is.
Very you know, typical. Yeah, yeah, that's what that's what we come for. We don't come to the Beyonce dance, you know. It's a little fun thing to put in there.
But yeah, well, outside of laying in the blood, you also joined a very select few esteemed actors of SVU where you had a full.
Around the head bandage. Yes, I did cool.
Thing too, Yes, close around the head bandage. That whole scene of me laying in a bed. They're like, you have a head injury, so you can't really like move your body, and so they shot it. I look freaking crazy, and that whole shot.
It's just like a whole.
Double chin shot really close to my head because I couldn't move my head. That was a that was a challenge actually, And then Marishka's just sitting at the foot of the bed and they're like and cry and I'm like, no pressure, don't move your body or do anything, and have like, you know, the leads of the show staring at you, waiting for you to kill it.
You did kill it, though, I mean you had me feeling bad for the celebs that we harass all the time.
Good good, I'm glad. I was like, they are just people.
She's right, But we always we do like to ask how long were you in the blood?
Was that a long laying in the blood scene?
Or no? It was quick? Was it was quick? So this? When did we shoot this? Like four years ago? Right?
Yeah?
Trying to remember there was four seasons ago, so that sense with COVID give or take, I think it was like twenty nineteen.
Probably sounds right because I had my boobs look especially lovely in that opening scene because I was still breastfeeding because I had a new baby at the.
Time, and my mom came to New York with me with the babe.
It was the first time we'd ever traveled with her, So that sounds about four years ago.
So I'm trying to remember all this stuff.
I'm saying all this to say that it's been a while since this experience, but from what I remember, I was not in the head bandage blood for very long. I didn't have to have that breathing machine thing in my mouth for a little while though in the background of the scene.
Was that annoying hard?
Yeah, it actually was kind of uncomfortable in my mouth.
Wait, you mean when you're lying like face down with the head injury, they have you on like a breathing machine or wait, I.
Don't know, no, no, in the hospital, in the oh yeah, yes, when I'm in the car, they have me with the machine on my face, laying there and inventing.
A machine that you breathe into so that doesn't look like you're breathing.
I'm sorry, my back.
That doesn't.
Until I invent it.
Shark tank. Did you and Snoop ever cross paths?
We didn't.
But my mom, who was in the dressing room the whole time, was right next to him in his dressing room the whole time, smelling all kinds of contact hie getting the contact high, enjoying, enjoying her afternoon.
With the baby. But no, I never got to meet him because we never worked on this. Yeah, I gather anything.
Yeah, yeah, did you know that it was?
I mean, it is kind of obvious but did you know it was based a little bit on the Kim Kardashian Kanye kind of.
Begin wait what it is, Well, just.
The whisper and Orlando like leaving his concert. It was like Kanye being like family, like leaving the show when she was in Paris.
Yes, and like the concept of like the concept of like the of celebrities, like giving away too much information on social media and then getting like, you know, attacked or whatever.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah, so that's like the characters are clearly based on Jay Z and Beyonce as well, Like there's multiple multiple cases here.
Yeah.
Yeah, I do remember being very impressed.
I don't know if you watch the episode closely, when they go into our house. The set design, they had the art department make these eight foot tall portraits of Orlando and I that are so beautiful. So I would pause and watch the episode again and look in the background. They're like these old eighteen hundreds looking portraits of the two of us, and I just wish.
I could have taken one home.
I thought that was really cool that they spent the attention to detail in the set design of our house.
They should have that you take one home.
Yeah, And also we did a photo shoot so they can have pictures in the house of us. So there's a picture above our bed of him behind me holding our pregnant my pregnant belly.
So we did a photo shoot where I put a belly on. Wow, we do.
So there's like fun little things like that. If you just look around in the house.
Oh yeah, I love it because that's definitely part of pop stardom.
Is you got shrines to yourself all over the house. I feel like, yep, yep.
They pay attention to every detail.
Yeah.
Well, with our little online research, you went to Beverly Hills High School?
I did, Yes, I was the president student body president of Beverly Hills High School.
Ex excuse me, political royalty.
Thank you very much, thank you for the acknowledgement.
What was that like? Did you have outside lockers? Were your lockers outside like on TV?
No, they were inside a lot of the campus. It gives you space to walk outside. So lunchtime, everyone sits out on this like a big grassy lawn, kind of like and clueless.
I don't know if you remember them walking around outside. Our high school was kind of like that.
Certainly, kids had a lot of fancy nice cars, you know, like for their sixteenth birthday they were getting BMW's.
Did not have a car. My parents did not buy me a car, but that was happening.
But it was a pretty multicultural school, and I really liked it because there was a public school, whereas you know, a lot of the really really rich kids and famous kids, they all their parents all put them in private schools.
So I still had like a.
It's still as a kind of I don't know, it's Kent's hard to say normal, but like as normal as you could be.
Yeah, we're like, are a lot of kids in the business like doing acting at the school, Like they let you out to go do No.
Not a lot.
No, it certainly is not uncommon. I mean that it happens. There was no you know, issues I was in when I was in high school. I was doing modeling and commercial acting just for fun on the side. And I didn't miss school very much for it because I could do auditions after school.
But if I booked something, I'd miss a day or whatever. It was never an issue. And there were there were some.
Other kids doing that, but not a lot, and certainly not a lot of kids with parents that were acting because again, those people put their kids in private school. But but a lot of people work in the industry. A lot of the parents work in the industry in other ways. I mean, that's what we do here in Los Angeles.
Yeah, not to You've mentioned your parents, And one of my favorite parts of this podcast is when I'm just researching people and I have this like, oh my god moment, I cannot believe your dad is Shadow Stevens. I like have been watching you on stuff forever and like never
put it together. I mean, if people don't know, like legendary DJ, host of American Top forty, definitely listened to him when I was a kid, like he is to me when you're like thinking of a like a hey, this is the DJ guy, Like that's your dad, Like he's just like that's amazing, classic DJ, Like that's so nuts. Like and then your mom is a model. So it feels like you kind of were like a little bit
biz adjacent. But it sounds like they kind of wanted to keep you not humble, but like they wanted to keep you normal.
The public schools a great school. I mean we lived in Beverly Hills. It was not like, you know, we weren't slumming.
It or anything.
No, exactly, but you know you're not like going to you know, you're not going to private You're not getting a car.
You know.
I did private school through sixth grade and then my parents were like, you're going to public school. But uh yeah they were. They certainly were not handing me anything. There was no like nepotism, pulling of cards to get me anywhere in my career whatsoever. The very practical people were. You know, you know how the business works. You're on top one day and then you're waiting for someone to
call you for two years. So my parents were like, if you want to do this, like save your money, and they would teach me like how to stay grounded in all of it because it's the very volatile industry.
So yeah, yeah, grounded is the word I was looking for before when I saw Humble.
I mean ground yeah, yeah, a little grounded, yeah yeah yeah yeah.
So you have done like when you look at your IMDb, it's like comedies all over the place, and then now you're on this show called Run the World on Stars and correct me if I'm wrong. The Internet says season two is coming out May twenty six, so like very soon.
Yeah, my son's birthday, by the way.
Will wow, we'll be having to run the world themed two year old birthday party for a premiere.
But do you shoot that in New York? Yeah?
What's the story with that? Is that comedy? Is that like more dramaedy? Like what's the.
It's a half hour show, but I guess it could lean into dramaedy a little bit. It shoots in New York,
it takes place in Harlem. The new season is kind of just picking up where we left off with the first season, where it's about about the friendship of these women and the support that they have for one another, and they have a healthy relationship with their black women who are thriving essentially and support being supportive, good girlfriends to each other, because we do need a little bit more of like watching black people being vulnerable and also
killing it in their careers and in their relationships, just showing the other sides of being a black woman. So yeah, the new season's a lot of fun. I just watched the first two episodes last week and I'm really really excited for people to see it.
Yes, amazing. Yeah, And I would love to talk.
We always like to ask couples that are both actors. You and your husband do audition tapes together? Are you reading lines together? And are you fighting as you do it?
That is a very good question.
So yes, we do make self tapes together here in the room that I'm standing in. Actually this is our guest room, and we are really good partners with it. Actually we don't give each other too many notes. I think he knows better than to give me notes unless I ask, I give unsolicited notes.
Probably. I try to preface it with would you like an idea I have?
And he'll be like, yeah, sure, and then he'll probably argue with me why it's a stupid idea. But but we do do it together, and we've got a little system going, and it works well for us, thank god, because I don't know what we would do otherwise. Every once in a while he'll go to a service and have these guys help them do it if we just can't get the kids out of the house or whatever, or we can't schedule it otherwise.
But we do a good job together.
That's good to you. That's yeah.
I'm over it, though, and I'd really like to just go back in rooms and audition in front of humans.
That's what we keep hearing.
Yeah, yeah, that's why I moved to I moved to La December twenty nineteen, and I want audition for.
The people, meet the people, and then.
The universe said no, no, no.
But it happens.
And then did you guys you met on set of Greek and then did you wait or was it like, did you keep it secret?
Was it? Did everyone know?
So the show was a little bit of life imitating art because our characters on the show were secretly seeing each other. So I the show for people who don't know what it is.
We were.
It was a sorority show, and I was I think the president of the sorority at the time in.
The show, and we experience.
I do have experience, so that you know, they obviously thought of me for this part. So we get a guy to help clean the house or something. He's like the I can't remember what there's a term for it. But he came in to work in the house and then he and I have a fling with each other, but it's secret because I'm like sleeping with the help. So utairs, Yeah, a little up to a little downtown abbey.
So he uh and I were like secretly seeing each other in the show and literally at the same time, we're kind of starting to do that in real life. So we met on the show, and within two weeks we were seeing each other. I mean it was really quick. So we kind of kept it on the d L. Like we were all really close friends on that show because we were all in our early twenties and it was like the first big thing we've done together. So it was super close knit group of people, so it's
hard to keep a secret. But we kind of didn't really talk about it because we didn't want anyone to be like, oh, it's a showmance and like blow it up into something that's gonna be ridiculous and everyone's talking about it, So we waited to make sure that we really were actually like seriously dating, which also took like
two weeks. It was very quick, and we went to our makeup artists on the show's birthday party together and that's how we like, oh that was the show, kind of are coming out like, Okay, everyone that you probably already know, but like we're dating.
Love it, yeah, and now you guys are basically Dallas and Snake right like in real life. That's very your very similar dynamic, very similar.
You know, huge mega stars.
No, it's nice to we're both in the business though, because we kind of understand what each other's jobs are and there's no like jealousy when someone's gone for a while or working with someone who's like super sexy or whatever.
You know, we understand what it takes to do this.
Gotcha, who's been the sexiest co star?
Oh, that's a good question. Let me think about that.
I mean, I didn't work opposite him, but like Channing's pretty sexy that he was fun to work with.
But you know that one we didn't like work together or anything like that.
My husband did an independent movie once with this really beautiful actress and they had to have a sex scene. And I just chose to not think about it too.
Much because I watch it and I don't think.
I don't think I ever watched the movie. I'm not like too jealous, but like, I don't need to see that. I did make a huge mistake once I did. I did this little movie and I was working with.
Oh my god, name just went out of my brain. Brian Greenberg.
Oh yo, he's he's a crush of mine. He's in the movie Prime.
Yes, exactly.
So he's very, very cute, and my character like hooks up with him. But I invited my husband to set one day and I was like, come and hang out because we were filming in Glendale, like down the street. And I get and he gets there finally during the day and we're about to start shooting the scene where I start to hook up with him, and he's got his hand on my pants and stuff. Andy's like, why did you invite me? Why why am I here right now?
He's like, I am so sorry. I did not know we were about to shoot this when you got here. But my husband's not he's not like scared, he's not mad. But he made Brian so uncomfortable because Brian Bryan kept going up to my husband and be like, I'm sorry, man, I'm so sorry, Like you know, this is like just part They're just this is in the script. I'm so sorry, And Andy's like, I'm not mad at you, you're doing
your I'm gonna go. I'm gonna leave so that you don't feel weird and I don't need to watch this and this is weird for everybody.
So he didn't stay around for long.
There's an intimacy coordinator standing with a clipboard two feet away.
How sexy? Can it? R? Right? I want to watch this now.
Well, the movie is called The Kitchen. Okay, oh wait, you shall look it up. Okay, the Kitchen, the kitchen where the whole movie basically takes place in the kitchen at a party, at a house party.
Okay.
Oh oh, that's really a great idea.
Yeah.
So just following all the different people coming out in and out of the party and the relationships they have with each other, it's it's quite funny.
I love it. I love that because that's where everyone hangs out at a party.
Oh.
I also really wanted to ask you what it was like to be an American girl doll.
Oh my god, that was so funny that they asked me to do that. I was like, hell, yeah, I have them. I gave them to my daughters. I still had them, and I had Addie, So to be Addie was epic. That was a really fun day. That was a really funny, funny sketch.
I just went to the store for the first time with my friend's daughter.
It's really cool in there.
Wait where is it.
It's in New York.
I was just sitting New York bo there's like nineties dolls now, and so there's blow up furniture and pizza hut and like nineties stuff. So it's wow, yeah, that's hilarious.
Like I saw that, I go, I thought they were colonial, and she's like, we're old.
They're different now, they're different now. I know.
The coolest one when we were kids was Molly. She was like the most current and she was still like nineteen fifties or something.
Yeah.
Yeah, So I'm glad you liked that. I think.
Yeah, I can't wait to get in to Run in the World. I'm going to catch up before the second season.
I have no fun.
I don't know I want to. I'm going to catch up before the second season. I want to watch.
Oh please, it's a good time. It's a good watch.
I love friendship.
It's all about friendship.
Honest.
It feels like it's like a Sex in the City, like like living single kind of like fun modern.
That's exactly what it is, and is the is it fashion forward?
Very very fair.
It's the same costume designer as Sex in the City.
Really fields, yeah, oh wow, oh my god. Yeah, so you come for the fashion too?
Was a major city. Yeah, and so this is like, oh, oh my god.
Yeah, okay, then you need to watch this show is for you. It's amazing. She's incredible.
She's eighty years old and has the stamina of someone who's in her thirties and has so much creativity still. And then Tracy Alcox was working with her, and he's also a brilliant Yeah, because brilliant taste and they're just so creative. There's always like too many accessories and then we have to pare it down because that was like a glove and a hat and.
You know, of the moments.
But she did a great job of really creating each character. Just like Sex and the City, you can identify almost by their clothes without looking at their heads, like you know who's wearing what, and that characters are.
Like that too.
We've got our own identities and you can really see that in our in our costumes.
It's cool.
Thank you so much, Thank you so much. Amy.
I'm so glad to talk to you guys. It was a lot of fun.
What a little angel. She was so great.
Her dad being Shadow Stevens is like so wild to me. I feel like she was downplaying it, but he was like a big deal. He was a Hollywood square.
Listen, she's beautiful, she's talented, and she's kind and she.
Was a great pick. She was a great pick for that role. I'm like, you know, like just the beautiful hair, the beautiful the beautiful.
Face, the beauty well.
And it's like the best start of an episode of all time. I would say, there's never been such a fake out with SVU as this. Yeah, and I really appreciate it. Yeah, the trickery of it all and the choreo and the like gun dances.
Yeah, but it's snoop. I mean, overall, great episode.
I was like when I was looking up some of the reddits about this episode trying to see what people were saying about it, because I was really trying to like dig deep into like what it was based on, like because some people were like, oh, it's just jay Z and Beyonce, and then some people brought up the Kardashian things. I was really trying to see if there was anything else, like if there had ever been maybe two rappers where one of them had attacked another one's
girlfriend as a revenge thing. Like I was just looking into it, and people were pissed that Snoop didn't get enough screen time. They were like, this was billed as a Snoop Dog episode because they were obviously playing it up on the commercials in real time, and he was not an it for very long.
But he did great.
Wait, I just watched something funny with I mean, when is Snoop not creating funny things first to watch? But I swear I just watched something viral that was making me laugh. But is my memory that bad? What's happened to me?
I don't know. Maybe well, maybe it was just like an Instagram video that you that you popped on.
It was I gotta get off the internet. I have to to get off the internet. I worked on a rain match for Snoop. I don't know if I've said this on the podcast, but I worked for when they did this. They did. Netflix has this thing called Laughing.
It's like the like a anniversary of the laugh in the show that like made Goldie Hawn a success and stuff.
It had Lisa and Walter.
It had all these people in it, and I'm in it nine months pregnant with Rosie. But I also wrote on it for a day or two, and I got to write this sketch with Michael Rappaport and Snoop and it.
Was like the High News.
It was like them doing like a little weekend update basically, but like all about weed stuff and Snoop was smoking weed the whole time.
It was crazy.
I mean, he's an icon, he's an idol. I'm obsessed with him. Yeah, I don't. I don't know what else to say.
Are you a rapaport guy? Are you a rap?
Do you like him because he likes the Housewives? But sometimes I think he turns people off?
He does. I I'm I'm into it.
I worked on with him, I was on Lights Out with him, and my thing is I love everyone that loves the Housewives. I love how passionate he and his opinions. I just don't like when I think Jerry O'Connell does this more. I don't like when men feel like they're so special and cool because they like something that women like. Yeah, Like, it doesn't make you difference. It's like, yeah, you like a good thing, but it's this where men who love
Bravo and you're not cooler. It's like, I don't know why you think you deserve a pat in the back because you like something that women like, and I mean, that's what he wants. I don't think. I don't you know, I don't think. But that's that's my own internal I.
Know what you're saying.
But I do feel like our beloved Christmas party friend Jerry O'Connell, I do think he does that a little bit more than than the other guy does. But yeah, anyway, post mortem of this raps sport, like him and Sheena text and stuff.
Yes on, watch what happened? Like he is texting. He's in it also, you know, is it a chip on my shoulder? But like people who just do out of the blue are like.
I'm gonna do comedy.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's a little all right, but people love them whatever. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, speaking of people who turned into stand up comedy. When I'm in Phoenix doing stand up this month, Anisha from Family Karma will be opening the shows.
Amazing. I wish I hang with her.
I wish I could come early and see and oh it's oh, you're staying, You're going after us? Yeah, I can't stay because I have these fucking kids I got to look after.
I would love if you ditched your kids for for for me and Anesia.
Yeah, we'll see.
Let's see other weeks going. Maybe if I can change my flight, that would.
Be fun to be in pool. Let's be in a pool.
Yeah, because my flight out of Tempe, you guys is at like five am.
It's not good. What did I learn this episode? Post mortem?
Baby?
Celebrities are people too, Yes, Like obviously they have money and privilege and cool stuff. But at the end of the day, like we all know as humans, those things don't always equal happiness or like ease, or that things don't affect you, or because she's a millionaire being attacked at gunpoint, it doesn't affect.
Her as much, you know.
Right, Like I think that we're in this like age of social media and fame where people are just like they completely forget that these people are people like Kim Kardashian, Like some people say she's like responsible for the downfall of the culture. I mean, people dislike her for a lot of different reasons. She did flaun her wealth a lot at that time, Like she was like, I don't know if she's the smartest person on the planet whatever.
Nothing justifies her feeling like she was going to die and that she was never going to see her kids again and that she was her sister was going to find her dead body.
I mean, like we shouldn't.
I don't think anyone should ever be wishing trauma on people like this, and like we'll we'll link to it.
But like the.
Interview with the thief, he was just so heartless and was like, oh, I'm sure she's traumatized.
Oh I'm sure.
Yeah, yeah, probably definitely traumatized, Like he did not care at all, but probably I guess because he knew he wasn't gonna physically hurt her. But but I also think that I'm I'm I'm glad that Kim Kardashian like saw had perspective on it and was like, I don't do x y Z anymore. I don't flawn, I don't keep real shit on me, I don't ever post in real time.
I kind of like the fact that she's like this was supposed to happen to me, where she could have just like been on a full victim tour where she is a victim, absolutely, but she could have just milked it and been like feel bad for me everybody I'm a like, But instead she was like this changed my life, Like this changed how I behave, and like maybe that's for the better. I mean, not that it happened, but
like that's something semi good came out of it. I'm not trying to say it's good that it happened, of course, I'm just saying it's like a silver.
Lineer, and multiple things can be true, Like they could be culture vultures and not pay them like they could be they can do bad things and be doing bad stuff. But I don't I have a theory that like with celebrities, they're obviously rich and powerful, they really aren't compared to the people that really run this country and these mega
industries and these horrific like owners of companies. But the celebs, it's easy to go h the Hollywood elite, and they're kind of a shield for the true rich horror shows that exist.
And I think it's like on purpose.
I think Hollywood people are like martyrs and like used as scapegoats for the actual evil people.
That's yeah, But you can see where a lot of people. You can see where Kim Kardashian is spending her money. You can see where like Beyonce is probably spending her money like she just actually bought I think one of the most expensive houses in California. But you can't see what the like, nobody's really paying attention to what like the Koch Brothers are spending their money on.
And like they're more evil, you know what I mean?
Like, yeah, that is true, and it's like these people are creating entertainment, music, fashion, whatever. Who like maybe they're void of any good human qualities, but like they are creating something that is for enjoyment and the money and they're doing a job. And then yeah, you think about these people on Epstein's Island and yeah, he's got were.
Like pharmaceutical the family that just was like living off of people's like addictions to opioids, you know.
And they get know what, we never are like talking about the top five hundred wealthy business people and the people that are you know, moving their factories overseas and exploiting labor and maybe Kardashian businesses are doing that, like I don't know where good American jeans are being made. But it's like but it is like, you know, we as a culture like so mad at like what these rich actors. It's like they are pushed into the line with Yeah, the evils are hidden so that's yeah, my lits.
I just believe that when people want to like talk, they're just the most front facing wealthy people. They're not the ones that are the worst, Like for sure.
Yeah, they're not lobbying for oil.
I mean these CEOs making two hundred and fifty million dollars a year, Like, I hate them more.
Yeah, I hope that guy's not posting where he is on Snapchat because I'm gonna find out.
No, but I hate that Kim Kardashian fucked with Marilyn Monroe's dress, Like I might never get over that. I think that's ludicrous. It's like it's museum. What are we doing here?
I can't believe it was allowed. I really can't believe it was allowed. Well, because Ripley's owned it. It wasn't like the Smithsonian.
It was like Ripley's making a buck, yes, or Planet Hollywood.
It was like someone silly owned it. Well, I can't believe we just.
Went on a whole thing about celebrities or people too. I'm really embarrassed.
That's what we learned, Pleasa. That's one lesson we learned. Celebrities are people too. You can't put them to tour you can't rob them, and you can't.
I hate myself. I really can't believe this just happened. On our podcast, we cover such horrific crimes. Well, this was a little bit of a more. This was a little bit of a lighter episode. I mean, it's about a rat beef. It's like, no one gets sexually assaulted. Like, it's very little. It was a little bit of a lighter episode.
So I think we can take a minute and say celebrities are people too, if we want.
I know.
Yeah, Well, I mean we're not. We're not redoing it, We're not retaking it.
This is waout hearing.
That's the thing, guys. Sometimes it's like cut print, it's done. We can't do anything. But and listen, I do have a name drop. It would be wild if I didn't mention it right here.
But I did not meet him. I did not see him.
But I did hear that Kanye was at the Comedy Store and he was watching my set on Saturday night.
So do without what you will.
But maybe I did another plus for the Jewish community for him.
Yes, break him down one Jew at a time. Yes, I like that.
I like that was the funniest I'm sorry when I woke up and he was like, honestly, I don't hate Jews anymore because of Jonah Hill and twenty two Jump Street, Like, I.
Wait that happened. Oh you didn't.
Oh I can't believe you missed this. That's why I'm like laughing about it. So a few months ago, you know, Kanye obviously did bad things about Jews and like that Nazis are kind of chill, like give Nazis a chance. But then he made a giant post that he loved Jonah Hill so much in this.
Movie that he takes it back. I take it all back.
He's like, my bad ruined my I've lost millions and millions of dollars. I've opened season on the Jewish community basically for hate and shit on the internet. But you know what, Jonah's my guy.
I take it back. Okay.
So Kanye posted and then when this is from TMZ, So March twenty ninth, twenty twenty three, is when he posted about it.
And I'm sure Jonah Hill was on Cloud nine.
So Kanye wrote, watching Jonah Hill in twenty one Jump Street made me like Jewish people again, know what should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people. No Christian can be labeled anti Sime. Knowing Jesus is Jewish is a Jew. Thank you, Jonah Hill.
I love you. I can't believe you didn't see this. I did not see this.
I think by at this point I had like turned off, turned down the volume on, like the full Kanye. But this is like, this is basic reasoning that a ten year old would know, Like just because a person with brown hair was mean to you, you can't be mad at all people with brown hair, Like this is like a crazy like I don't know, I do. He has mental illness. So I'm not gonna elaborate on this, but but that was I'm glad this thing.
I'm glad Lisa's on the list. It's Jonah Hill, Lisa trigger Well. We don't know a thing.
The just my friends that were clear said that he seemed to enjoy it. But I don't know any more information. But listen, do do I It's no secret I love Hollywood.
I love show business.
I was raised on movies, TV and US Weekly and Entertainment Tonight, and I'm thrilled.
I'm thrilled it's huge for you. I love it. I love it.
I hope he calls you and asks you to collab on some weird project for him.
I don't know what I would even say to him. I don't know if I want to me him. But I just love when I can tell my parents about a celebrity that they would know.
They know who Kanye is. My mom does not know who Kanye is. You're right, this is more for the niece and nephews. I gotta put it in the niece nephew group chat. I think, yeah, he's gonna win me some points. Yeah, my mom would be like, who is that? Like I think I've heard of it, Like she would not know who that is?
Really?
Yeah, okay, well, but that's my mom is very I mean, she's shut off. I think from a lot of if it's not like a mystery series on Netflix or Master or Dairy Girls or Dairy Girls. She loves that shit. I love Jarry Girls. Oh my god, Oh I forgot I have like five more episodes that to watch. Okay, let's get to what would Sister Peg do. This is our weekly segment where we direct you guys towards an organization or a blog or a article or something to
give you more information about what we covered in today's episode. Obviously, there's no like charities for feuding rappers or celebrities that get robbed. So I want to point you to a video that I referenced in my research that Ice made Ripvice. I think they've completely gone under, but they do amazing journalistic work and have for a long time, and they did this. It's like, it's like a twenty minute video called using Snapchat to rob Influencers and it's very interesting.
In the video, Tiered Dondie highlights how criminals have sought out robbing influencers based on their social media activity. She interviews victims and the criminals themselves to highlight the motives behind the crimes.
And it's just interesting.
If you liked what we talked about today, so we will put the link in our show notes and it will be up on our Instagram the day that this episode comes out in our stories that will be saved forever in WWSPD Highlight and that will be yeah, and it's also over advice if you just want to google it.
But that's that. Thank you so much for that.
While you were talking, was I texting in our scandaval group.
Chat, I was I felt it well that lalla clip. Okay.
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