Hey, babies, what's up?
We're going to talk about the Met Gala.
Met Gala. All things Met Gala.
I know so much about the mayor.
He knows nothing, which is great, because then I get to talk more.
I know how it is.
I lived in New York. That's about it. Yeah.
So the Met Gala is this gala thing, right?
That raises millions of dollars to essentially protect
historical pieces of costume.
I didn't even know that. Yeah.
Getting together.
It's $35,000 a ticket.
Did you know that?
And I don't know if the.
Whole thing says that you're in touch with society,
like having a $35,000 ticket to wear a stupid dress.
OK, so I would imagine that there's probably
one side of the argument that's like, look, this is actually important.
It's like, I don't know exactly why it's important.
Other than it's an initiative to preserve clothing, but if it was.
They're preserving clothing like that.
Yeah, I think it's it's a historical sort of philanthropic event.
Where does the money go to exactly?
I believe it probably goes to the Met.
But see, this is the problem with not knowing every single fact of something.
And I'm going to get better at this is that I know how much the tickets are.
I know that it that that is geared towards preserving extremely important costumes,
which I find ironic because when we're talking about so many people
using their money, if they're not being sponsored
by the designers that are
representing them in their clothing, that would mean that some of the younger
people like Jenna Ortega, it was like babies first met for her.
I remember meeting her with a Disney campaign
I did a couple of Christmases ago and man is she grown and she's such a sweetie.
And to see her on the Met, I can't imagine that she's like
spending $35,000 a ticket to go.
Why can't you imagine her doing that?
Because it seems like a bad investment.
I mean, unless, like, what do you think?
Do you think that's a bad investment for like a Disney kid that's coming
out of their Disney, you know, fame?
And then she just did this crazy 24 movie or something that was like, I'm called X.
I mean, so you're saying it's not like that
she doesn't have the much, probably has the money.
You're just saying what you don't you know her
and you think she wouldn't spend money on a ticket.
You think they're giving her a ticket for free, is it you're saying?
Yeah, I'm not quite clear on what the policies are.
If they gift the tickets to the celebrity, who.
Else goes or they're not celebrities going?
Well, there. Must be a percentage of people.
Just like rich. Non celebrities, right? Yeah.
Well, God knows the stories there, but it's a matter of, like, very wealthy
people in the in in surrounding, you know, wanting to be philanthropic to the arts.
But it's also, I mean, let's let's not get it twisted.
People are trying to sit next to Kim Kardashian.
So like Kim Kardashian went with I saw this Pete Davidson.
Oh, yeah. That's like a big thing. Is this the first thing that actually.
I want to I want to get my $0.02 on that.
I wanted to pull up the Kim Kardashian body language.
Can you just pull up a video of like Kim Kardashian walking along the red carpet
with Pete Davidson?
We're going to get the male and female perspective
of the way that he is walking her because I think he's actually really.
I don't care. But yes, you do. And you don't.
I mean, you can still give a perspective on Sam. Sure.
So, first of all, most importantly, Kim Kardashian on Reddit
was suspected of going and getting this Marilyn Monroe dress.
And the people were correct.
She got that dress. She got a lock.
Did you know this of Marilyn Monroe's hair?
They gave it to her.
Yeah. She was so excited about it.
I guess she had to lose a bunch of weight to fit into the dress.
But I also am very plugged into the whole, like, tick tock world.
And there is one lady who is a vintage collector.
Her entire brand is somebody who loves vintage
clothing and vintage ways of doing her hair.
Like she uses like like very authentic,
historically accurate ways of presenting herself as a pinup girl.
Right.
So when she saw a video of the way that they were taking care of the dress,
her heart was broken.
Granted, like, I think they had gloves on, like they were told
that they had to wear gloves and they were pulling her dress up,
but it was stored on like a wooden hanger
and they were like scraping the rhinestones.
So this was the content that this vintage historian was was talking about.
And so I don't know what they did to to make sure that that dress was intact.
But the entirety of this philanthropic event is to raise money to
to keep dresses like that intact.
So I find that ironic.
He's like helping her up the stairs.
So that seems like a nice thing.
But look at. Yeah, look at the way he's like very tall, right?
And so he's got sunglasses on, which I guess is like a new thing.
I've seen Haley Barbour do it.
I mean, people were doing that back in the day. Not really. That was.
I wear my sunglasses at. Night on the red carpet.
On the red carpet. You wear it.
Let me say something about red carpets from my perspective,
because I've walked them.
First of all, stupid.
I just got to say, don't enjoy them at all.
Walking a red carpet when there's a lot of other stuff
going on just feels a little out of touch.
Oh, you think.
Like, to me, the Met Gala for me, every time I see this pop up
every year, I think, you know, sans the one year of it,
I it gives me a pit in my stomach.
Like I've done nice stuff. I've been to galas.
I've helped raise money for.
Stupid like the Marine Corps Ball. IV stuff.
And beyond that, I've done crazy. Crazy.
You mean I've well, before you and with you,
I've been to some pretty intense galas raising.
It's true.
Many, many millions of dollars. OK, but
those events
were less focused on the people being seen,
and they were more it was more private about raising money for different causes.
So people would go there.
They pay a lot of money for these seats, and then you'd know directly
where that money went.
And it wasn't necessarily about getting all these pictures some of them.
There were a few to me that always felt like a little just a little gross.
Well, and also.
Like when you go to like a regular gala, but the focus of it when you're at
the gala is to stop and to listen to people speak on why you're there.
Right.
The reason you're there is to be philanthropic for a purpose.
I'm not quite sure that you're going to have like Kim and her family.
And I mean, granted, she's very intelligent, unbelievably intelligent.
Like some people think she's not.
I think a lot of people are starting
to understand that she is not just from a brand.
Yeah. Everything is like this, but in.
A really hard time embracing that she is a sex icon.
Right.
She that's why she fully did the whole Marilyn Monroe thing.
Right.
But she's also a little iconoclastic because she is so intelligent.
And it's like we've seen this with Paris Hilton with that fake voice that she does.
But yet she's like ruling the NFT game right now.
It's just because you're hot doesn't mean you're not smart.
Well, absolutely correct.
So props to her for really embracing that.
Probably better issue.
You know, my issue isn't with with Kim Kardashian.
My issue is with truly the perception of the ME ego
serving mindset that it just
look, it's a very bad look at a very uncertain time.
We're about to head into an economic depression like how would.
You say.
Obviously we know what's going on with Russia and Ukraine
next year, probably we're going to head into a depression.
This would be my best guesstimation.
I'm not a soothsayer, but this is probably this is probably where we're headed
right now at an uncertain time.
We're inflation is so high.
We've got a lot going on internationally.
It's scary. So let me. Ask you this.
It doesn't seem right it doesn't seem like the move to
to for everybody to be taking these pictures
and doing this stuff and granted, I feel like some people think
it's an escape from that.
Maybe that's maybe that's the upside, right?
Maybe that's the upside of it.
You have. To come at it from a set and we don't bring our.
Way. We don't want all doom and gloom all the time.
Like I get I get that for sure. Yeah.
But the theme of it was the Gilded Age.
Like, I mean, just not a good look.
So the Michael essentially isn't doing a good enough job of displaying
the good that it does to a larger community.
I think people are confused quite like the Oscars
you know, for filmmakers, people who both went to film school, here we are.
And we used to be in love with cinema
and knowing that cinema is, is, is struggling.
I mean, in so many different ways.
Seeing the Oscars portrays cinema, it's just not adding up anymore.
Like, we don't even watch the Oscars anymore.
And this year, we certainly missed a doozy.
Or maybe I'll watch watching.
Maybe that was maybe that was the whole ploy all along.
And when I know this might get me to.
Watch this Oscars, I hope that was it.
Wasn't.
At the same time I think there was a lot of more tick
tock influencers that were actually
like gifted tickets to let go and get the word out about Oscars.
We're in a very odd time when it comes to media and branding.
And I think I think we've already said what we needed to say.
Do you like I mean, do you like the Met Gala?
Are you asking me?
Yeah, no, I like no, I'm not asking.
I mean, I am asking you to participate.
You like in the comments.
I'm I'm very curious what people think about this.
Are they into the escape of it all or think it's. Asinine, right?
Are you abs how many people are abstaining from watching the Oscars?
Watching, Michaela, maybe they're not even you can't.
Even watch it, right?
Isn't it just a bunch of pictures that people post or you?
I don't know.
Consciously, I think some people are abstaining,
but I think it becomes a point when you're like,
this isn't even important for me
to even see I'm just going to look at the pictures.
Do you enjoy, like looking at pictures and seeing the dresses?
I don't.
OK, so Tom Brown caught my eye recently at this recent fashion show.
That he did.
And if I showed you this fashion, you would be like
and by the way, he was represented a lot, but not his cooler
stuff was represented at the Met Gala where it was like this, like crazy,
like I stuff I've never even seen before.
And to me, that was more impressive when it comes to fashion
than the actual Met gala.
And the theme of the Met Gala, I don't know.
It's more about branding.
Like this crazy thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But that's cool, man. Oui. We oui.
OK, I get why people would want to see that because.
This is what it's like if you're a really they're like,
do the craziest thing possible. Like the other.
The other year they had like, I think it was camp or something,
and some of those were
the most coolest things I've seen when it was when it was giving
these people who are otherwise very brand heavy celebrities,
the, the agency to really embrace fashion
what's happening with these themes from year to year
is that it's actually becoming more politicized
where they're like, well, I will wear Marilyn Monroe's dress because that means
that I am an icon and I can afford to wear that dress.
So we are loading it up in the wrong way
rather than bringing light to what fashion is meant to celebrate fashion.
It's becoming way more politicized.
I mean, I see it.
I see it.
And I think celebrities, we're better than you.
Like, let's just what it seems like to me.
I think it's like that's. Going to wear in this.
I don't even know what's happening here.
I think dude. Will.
Turn left.
But it is fashion and it is it is what it is.
And it's art, though. You can't deny that that's artistic.
OK, OK.
So if it's just that if I'm watching people dress up in funny ass costumes,
I'd watch that one but I want to see them then fake sumo fight
and knock each other out of the ring.
Well, dude, if the Met Gala had people dressing up
and and actually knocking each other out of rings or cage fighting,
I mean, that's, that's my solution to this whole thing.
I think we need as long as the money goes to a good cause.
We need an entire YouTube channel just for Brandon watching
fashion shows because his reactions are priceless.
Fashion show. Fashion show.
Fashion show.
At lunch, we are we
we obviously have a lot of thoughts on Met Gala.
What are your thoughts on it and where do you think that it could
get better?
And helping people understand the importance of fashion
and maybe reframe the conversation of celebrity.
See tomorrow.