you wanna be desired! yearned for! loved! (normal) – ep. 174

Emotionally Online

The episode navigates through a blend of biting celebrity gossip and profound emotional reflection. The hosts discuss the viral rumors surro

Key takeaways

• Channing Tatum is rumored to be behind the 'Bidness Nanya' Instagram account used for celebrity commentary.
• Ed Sheeran faced backlash for a 'skin-themed' ketchup collaboration and perceived silence on Palestinian humanitarian issues.

Main topics

• Channing Tatum's burner account
• Ed Sheeran/Heinz Ed Chup controversy

Notable quotes

I have to take it to my grave that I am Bidness Nanya and I've blamed it on Channing Tatum somehow.

Conclusion

A poignant episode that moves from lighthearted internet drama to a he

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) For many of us, going further isn't a choice. It's a feeling we can't ignore. Because ambition has a way of outgrowing where it began. Turning dreams into direction. Every journey brings us closer to the life we imagine. So, where will your journey take you? Etihad. Beyond Borders. Speaker 3 (0:30) so obsessed with the fact that that 100 % was Channing Tatum. Speaker 2 (0:34) You know what I also love though is I love to imagine that that's not him and that Bidness Nanya is sitting out there in the world. Some now are being like, oh my God, I've done something brilliant and fantastic. I've Speaker 3 (0:45) done Speaker 2 (0:45) something amazing. And I can't even tell anyone about this. Right. I have to take it to my grave that I am Bidness Nanya and I've blamed it on Channing Tatum somehow. Speaker 3 (0:55) Someone has like stepped into the mind of Channing Tatum so effectively that they were able to like create a burner account that seems like it is exactly him and exactly his voice. But they're just a brilliant mastermind. I love that idea. I love that possibility. I Speaker 2 (1:09) love Speaker 3 (1:09) either Speaker 2 (1:09) possibility. Either way, business Nanya, one of the best things to happen this year. You're obviously invited. So call me back. I love you. Speaker 2 (1:33) What's up you guys and welcome back to Emotionally Online, the weekly storm party for heart-to-hearts and hot gossip hosted by yours truly, the one and only Maddie Drossbeck, co-hosted. It's Meg Ruoco. Sweet as sucrose, I'm the co-host. You know what else is sweet as sucrose? Tell me. Edchup. What y'all know about Edchup? Pause. Real ones know what Ed Speaker 3 (1:57) Chup is. Speaker 2 (1:58) What Speaker 3 (1:58) the hell are you talking Speaker 2 (1:58) about? I actually did not know what Ed Chup was until a couple days ago. Okay, fake fan. When it was brought to my attention that at some point Ed Sheeran did a collab with Heinz Ketchup to make Ed Chup, which was a bottle of ketchup that used Ed's skin as the bottle, like his tattoos. Let me show it to you. It's the most fucked up thing I've ever witnessed in my life. Well, you know, he stands up for what he believes in. And it's Ed Chubb. It's fucking awesome. Two worst sounds could not have been produced in the world. Ed Chubb. Here's my thing. Ed Sheeran wants to protect his image so bad that he cannot say the words Free Palestine. Okay? But what he can do is this absolute abomination. Speaker 2 (2:51) Why? Why would anyone want to, number one, why is anyone wanting like Ed Ketchup, Ed Chup? That to me, especially when the bottle is his skin, seems to imply that he is also in the bottle. We can't keep saying Ed Chup. Ed Chup is crazy. Yes, Speaker 3 (3:06) what this is implying is that we have skinned Ed Sheeran and put Speaker 2 (3:10) his Speaker 3 (3:11) body soup in the ketchup bottle. I Speaker 2 (3:14) don't know why he agreed to do this, but I do find it so funny that this. He said yes to this. This was Speaker 3 (3:21) cool to him. This was totally in the clear for him. He said, oh, Ed Chop. Ed Chop, of course. That sounds awesome. My Speaker 2 (3:29) image, clean as hell. Ed Chop, come on. Speaker 3 (3:32) Ed Speaker 2 (3:32) Chop? Everyone loves Ed Chop. That shit was flying off the shelves, okay? My image, pristine, squeaky clean. We cannot possibly. Say Free Palestine. We can't. What about my Ed Chup sponsorship? Speaker 3 (3:44) What about my Speaker 2 (3:45) Ed Chup? What about my Ed Chup collab? Who has a bottle of Ed Chup sitting in the back of their pantry? Is it a collector's Speaker 3 (3:51) item? Is it just regular ketchup that you use? Speaker 2 (3:54) How long was Ed Chup in production? How Speaker 3 (3:57) many bottles were made? Speaker 2 (3:58) Okay. These are good questions. Thank you. Let's find out. It appears that there were 150 bottles made. That's such a little amount. 150. collectors bottles i don't even know if that's an amount that like you would order for one singular grocery store it was for their 150th birthday and the whole concept came to life because ed reached out to them via instagram dm and said he had an idea Speaker 2 (4:31) That. Speaker 3 (4:32) There's been a lot of news about Ed Sheeran lately. This is in 2019. How did we miss this? This is one of the worst things I've heard about Ed Sheeran. The Speaker 2 (4:43) idea of like, imagine you're a brand owner. Iconic product. You've done quite well for yourself. Heinz ketchup. Okay. Yeah. Ed Sheeran DMs you and is like, buddy, I got an idea. I got an idea. You put my skin. I want to see my pores on a bottle of Heinz ketchup. For the 150th anniversary of your ketchup. For some reason. Speaker 3 (5:06) You guys are going to love this. This one's for all my fans. I know you've been asking for this. Edchup. Okay, wait. This is huge. He won't say free Palestine at a concert, but will he say Edchup? Will he say Edchup? Hashtag say Edchup. Speaker 2 (5:23) Hashtag say Edchup. And apparently it's... being environmentally monitored as a part of the Heinz UK marketing archive where it can be made available to researchers or for exhibition purposes. Speaker 3 (5:37) That sounds bad. Speaker 2 (5:40) I'm a researcher and I need it. And we would like to request. For my own purposes, I Speaker 3 (5:46) would like the bottle of Ed Speaker 2 (5:47) Shub. We would like to request an edge up, please. So Britain. What are we going to do about that, America? Which were you keeping up with the updates on the Ed Sheeran of it all? What happened after we spoke last week? Speaker 3 (6:01) OK, I did see something about him reading an apology off of a teleprompter and then breaking down after reading the televised the teleprompter apology and apologizing for the apology Speaker 2 (6:14) that. he read and crying about what a hard week he's had yeah Speaker 3 (6:19) his Speaker 2 (6:19) whole band left him all of the openers dropped out he's up there by himself and he's acting like he has fought a war and ended up alone he's like i've just been through so much this week yeah Speaker 3 (6:31) you know who's had it the hardest in all of this ed sheeran ed sheeran Speaker 2 (6:34) is totally the one who's been Speaker 3 (6:36) hit the Speaker 2 (6:37) hardest Speaker 3 (6:37) in Speaker 2 (6:37) the Speaker 3 (6:37) palestinian genocide you know who's had it the hardest ed Speaker 2 (6:40) sheeran for sure ed Speaker 3 (6:41) sheeran everyone's Speaker 2 (6:42) been saying that Speaker 1 (6:47) Well, Speaker 3 (6:47) I'm like, how they say she's in the class. How could you possibly look at your life and your circumstances and look at the world around you and see how every single person that you care about in your life is. responding to you Speaker 2 (7:04) and be like no i'm on the right side of history here he's he's suffering from brain poison from eating ed chuck yeah Speaker 3 (7:11) you Speaker 2 (7:11) can't even blame him for what he's done ed Speaker 3 (7:13) chuck gave him Speaker 2 (7:14) brain rot it's like the um the pink sauce that went around on tiktok that's basically what ed sharon and heinz did yeah Speaker 3 (7:19) he made his own dubai chocolate right he has botulism his brain is swollen from all the ed chuck Speaker 3 (7:32) Ed, I'm sorry you've had such a hard week. Such Speaker 2 (7:35) a Speaker 3 (7:35) hard week for Ed. Maybe they'll Speaker 2 (7:37) make another 150 bottles of Ed Chubb. Speaker 3 (7:40) Yeah. And maybe, I don't know, I guess some use that $400 million net worth of yours to read a fucking book for once. Speaker 2 (7:49) It could be big. Speaker 3 (7:50) Could Speaker 2 (7:50) be huge. Could be big. And then I saw something about Macklemore. was encouraging Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft to match his donation to Palestine and then they put out a statement basically being like yes we're donating funds to the area which certainly means Israel. Oh 100 % which certainly doesn't mean Palestine. 100%. Speaker 3 (8:19) Cool. Cool, Speaker 2 (8:20) Robert Kraft. Cool, Ed Sheeran. Of all the dicks you could suck, Robert Kraft's the one you're going to die Speaker 3 (8:27) on? I'm just like, man, what amount of money do people get to where all of their morals just fly out the window? Is it the first hundred million that makes people go... Fuck it. Speaker 2 (8:41) Honestly, I think about this all the time because I'm like, you guys know you're going to die someday, right? Speaker 3 (8:45) That's how I feel. Speaker 2 (8:47) So why the hell does it matter? Do you think having infinite money is more important than being a good person? That's my question. Speaker 3 (8:53) This makes Speaker 2 (8:53) literally no sense. Speaker 3 (8:55) You have more money than God already. You're going to die someday. You're not going to be here. You will have been nothing. You will be completely gone. And what will you have left Speaker 2 (9:05) the world with? Speaker 3 (9:05) It's so... It's so like patriarchy brain rot because these men think that they're immortal and that they can literally like defy the laws of nature because they have a certain amount of money. And in thinking that way, they think that they can just like do whatever they want forever because they think that they're never going to die. It's ridiculous. Like I Speaker 2 (9:31) just. Yeah. Aren't Speaker 3 (9:32) you embarrassed? Bring back shame. Bring back shame. You should be. I know that like he is actively getting shamed by everyone, but like, but Speaker 2 (9:40) he's not. Feel Speaker 3 (9:40) it. Right. Speaker 2 (9:41) He's not internalizing it in the way that he should. He literally just. And he's like, everyone's being mean to me this week. Oh, I'm being bullied. Oh, I'm being internet bullied. Hmm. Hmm. This stinks. I'm having the worst week ever. Again, it's like, I don't know why. I think so many of these celebrities, they get like PR pilled and they think that they have to. The best way to respond to these types of things is to read off a teleprompter and say like whatever these most brand safe people want them to say. Yeah. They want them to say something that appeals to people with money, not appealing to the fans. No. Speaker 3 (10:23) Because Speaker 2 (10:23) if you were going to say something that was going to appeal to the fans, you wouldn't have to read off anything. Right. If you were going to. speak to the fans you'd speak earnestly from your heart you wouldn't have had to script anything or write it down it's scripted and written down because you're trying to appeal to um the stadium owners to the people that fund your tours and whatever else like yeah this is for advertisers well Speaker 3 (10:45) i appreciate that in all this macklemore has been continuing to like continuing to kind of like point the spotlight back to right aid in gaza in Speaker 2 (10:55) all of the times Ed Sheeran has taken this and turned it back on like, oh, woe is me. Yes. Malcolm Moore has done literally the exact opposite, Speaker 3 (11:03) which I really appreciate because I think that Ed is now using this as a. Speaker 3 (11:10) PR tactic because for better or worse, he is currently in the spotlight in a way that he has not been for the better part of a decade. And you can tell that like Macklemore isn't about that shit. He's like, I didn't do this so that like it could be a big PR scandal about like me and make myself look great. Like this is something that I genuinely believe in. And by the way, like this is what we should be focusing on. We shouldn't be focusing on the fact that like Ed Sheeran feels sad. I don't give a fuck that Ed Sheeran feels sad. Speaker 2 (11:43) Yeah. This whole thing is so silly. He could never Speaker 3 (11:48) make music again and never have to work another day in his life. It wouldn't matter. Speaker 2 (11:52) I was talking about this on the post show last week because I was like, I kind of don't like all of Ed Sheeran's defenders and whoever. And part of what Ed Sheeran said in his response back to Macklemore was talking about all of the people that depend on him and how he was put in such a hard position because there's... It's not only just him, it's all of the people that work on the tour. The band, the lighting, the sound technicians, whoever else. There's a whole bunch of people that rely on this tour. Sure. And you have so much money that you would have been able to cut the tour short and give all of these people a nice stipend to help buffer while they find more work. to make a point and to stand moral ground that means literally anything. Yeah. Instead you chose to do nothing at all and then make up a bunch of bullshit excuses, um, to bend the knee to Robert Kraft, a billionaire with Epstein ties. So awesome choice, Ed. Really, really Speaker 3 (13:00) awesome. Really cool. Speaker 3 (13:02) You're so tough. Well. Losers. I never thought that the world would be run by such losers. Speaker 2 (13:09) I know. You Speaker 3 (13:10) know what I mean? It's like you watch Lord of the Rings when you're a kid and you're like, one day the Speaker 2 (13:14) world will be run Speaker 3 (13:15) by Aragorn. And Speaker 2 (13:16) then Speaker 3 (13:16) you grow up and you're like, oh no, it's like Robert Kraft. It's some fucking old guy in an ill-fitting suit with more money than any person ever has ever had in the world. Right. And who is most certainly a pedophile saying. Macklemore actually can't perform in my stadium. That's who's running the world. Speaker 2 (13:36) Yeah, when I was younger, I definitely thought there was going to be cooler people in power than this. These are like dweebs. These are such Speaker 3 (13:44) dweebs and twerps. The world is run by dweebs and twerps? While there's Speaker 2 (13:49) the dweeb and twerp convention happening in New York this week. Speaker 3 (13:53) Well, this is why Mamdani, like, people love Mamdani, because he is not a dweeb, nor is he a twerp. The one pocket of joy we have. We'll count on that. Speaker 2 (14:03) Zoran Mamdani. Speaker 3 (14:04) Zoran. And the 50 gay mayors parading around New York. You know who Speaker 2