Maid From Manhattan: Monday, June 29th, 2026

The Toast

A lively Monday episode of The Toast features host Jackson Clodden and celebrity chef Ben Sofer discussing summer heat, museum mishaps, golf drama, and binge-watching 'Love Island' with sharp commentary on relationships

Key takeaways

• Heat in Manhattan makes city life unbearable

Transcript preview

Good morning, girlies, it's the toast. It's Jackson Clodden, where you're host. It's Jackson Clodden, where you're host. It's your favorite show, the fast five things you need to know. We'll start your day off swirly, it's the toast. I sound amazing. Welcome back to the toast and happy Monday. Hope everybody had an amazing weekend. is sort of this mysterious figure who we've been dying to get on the podcast. I think a lot of people weren't expecting you to be the co-host when they knew Jackie was going to be out today. Yeah, that's right. It's very elusive, celebrity chef, my husband, Ben Sofer. Hey Swirley, how you doing? I'm doing excellent on this warm morning. How are you darling? It's so warm in Manhattan. I'm so unhappy, I'm so warm in Manhattan. I'm so unhappy. I'm trigger is heat. When I get overheated like I'm not okay and the fact that it is so hot and people are not respecting air conditioning as much as I need them to it is such an unpleasant way I cannot wait for swirly summer to begin I gotta get out of the city the city is like 15 degrees hotter than all the suburbs I'm gonna say and the city is 15 degrees hotter well really 7 degrees hotter than the actual temperature you ask Alexa how hot is it today Alexa it's 75 but feels like 82 That feels like seven degrees moisture. Okay? It's the heat of people of buildings of subways like it's just fucking insufferable It's really disgusting we went to the natural history museum this weekend We did which is really my favorite place on earth and let me tell you I think you were too warm So we went last weekend and it was so magical It was it was freezing It was and it was kind of empty it was just like a really beautiful afternoon It was seeing the magic of the museum through the eyes of children like it was So this weekend we tried to recreate it plus it was raining so we were like okay great in indoor activity We were obviously not the only people who thought that because not only was the museum is so packed We dressed really warm like We dressed warm that was a mistake we put Ruby and pants. I was in a sweatshirt and leggings because it was so fucking cold inside the Oh my God it was so fucking hot. Let me tell you it was at least a magical experience I've had in my life So you know I am always dressed for warm weather. Yeah I'm just of the museum was unnecessary. It's the middle of the summer. Not all of us can have our legs out on a podcast. Okay by the way. Some of us are just like held to a higher beauty standard. Doesn't it doesn't have to be legs? So you're like you couldn't have worn a t-shirt to the museum? You couldn't have worn a t-shirt to the museum? You couldn't have worn a t-shirt to the museum? You couldn't have worn a, by the most annoying, when we hopped. 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We're going to I'm wonderful. Yeah. Anything new you want to update everyone on the last time we were here was somewhat recently wow Jack has been taking a lot of days off I really I really don't know I have a small rash I have a small rash on my back that we're monitoring we are you know I haven't seen it today should we see you want to show it's you want to show it's I haven't checked on it's Saturday it's a small rash we'll go on Saturday kind of like a huge ass a huge ass Oh and you're ladies you can use your imagination and let me just tell you something that I've already told you once today your flies open by the way I don't think I think it's a I don't think that I pulled it up when you told me all right now that's let's see if it comes down we watched golf yesterday kind of big news we always cover golf here on the toast because Jackie watches that show full swing so she really knows a lot about I wonder if she knows about haveland yes the haveland yes the havelond has the tournament picked the tournament the tournament picked up this morning it might have we might have we might have we should Scotty is just so unbelievably clutch. He is like the tiger of our era. He is really just so head and shoulders leaps and bounds better than the other players. We looked at each other and we said, Scotty, Scotty's gonna make that put. And guess what fucking happened? Scotty made that put? Forced to playoff, there was a rain delay, it got too dark. So they were resuming this morning. And of course we're talking about the Travelers Championship. Oh yeah, you guys. You guys. You guys don't know travelers. Cup, the Travelers Championship? I think it's the Travelers. I don't know if it's Cup or Championship. Yeah, but Victor Havlons is an ice guy. Actually, I don't know if he's a nice guy. I think he's Finnish. Men like you, whether he's and I left Finland. They start at nine. So we'll be getting live updates. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. I really don't know, though. I'm making that. this weekend because Ben and I have been doing this thing where we turn our phones off for like 25 hours over the courts of Chabad it's been really lovely it's something Ben started that he was annoying about until I then joined him and it's like you know what I understand why you were being patronizing because we're definitely living in the physical world while others are living in the metaphysical correct and so we played so many games we played all the time. We played so like during class instead of taking notes you would like a grid and you would make 25 boxes like you would drive five lines and then five lines and if you guys know what I'm talking about like you whatever it's hard to explain what's easy to explain is that I am much better than her at this game she taught me the game and then I did the game blind and I got 24 out of 25 and then a little bit later I got a 25 out of 25 which she's been chasing she's been chasing she's been chasing that high and she hasn't got it I wasn't going to bring up that we also played majong and like I want majong and like I want a million times and like I want a million times If there's a world series of Madjong ever put on E-S-B-N like you're gonna put in for the purse you're gonna enter throw in that 10-grand and maybe you're gonna win and by the way if you don't place you can't come home because you play an incredible amount of Madjong I actually play a lot yes and I play with like a lot of like people who play like somewhat frequently but in terms of like the really good Madjong players I'm not that you think that you think you think you think you think you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're golf with bad golfers. You meet them at where they're at. I meet them at where they're at. Because it's like of course I'm going to beat you. Yeah. Bozo loser. You I think you need to start playing with more competitive players. Perhaps a little bit older. I think your group is too young. So I know that like the older women like everyone's mothers who play play very competitively they play for money. But I like beaten the best so I don't want to play with people who are better than me. So you'd pond. Okay, okay that's good. Yeah, that's good. How were the good guys? The good guys are good. The good guys are great. Yeah, the show is really just like firing on all the cylinders. It's really funny. Like really funny. Like really funny. We're having a great time doing it. Mm-hmm. I don't really know what else I can update you on doing a lot of cooking. My God. A lot of cooking. We have a lot of secret projects. We have a lot of them involved. We have a lot of them does not. We have a secret projects going. We have. We have a secret projects going. We have. We have a lot of big. BSP. So that's fun, big secret projects. And you can still get the skinny spurts at Target. Should we dive into the stories? We should. Yeah, there, so we watch Love Island. We also watched a movie, which is so crazy for us, that we're going to talk all about in the Fast Five stories that you do need to know. And I just want to remind everyone that today's episode is one of two that we are releasing this week. Tomorrow's episode will be the final episode of the week as we go into the holiday weekend and and we will be back a week from today so tomorrow there is an episode Jackie will be back a regular swirly episode and then we are taking the rest of the week off I just want to remind you guys you can prepare yourselves and don't worry on Thursday there is a new episode of new episode of good guys in case you're missing your your swirletude okay do you think how would you define swirletude like a little gay oh okay so I guess like male swirletude how would you define Swirlitude use it in a sentence I think that Galinda has great Swirlitude I actually don't agree we were listening to the Tony from wicked today so Glinda's on your mind I actually don't think Galinda has Swirlitude Do you think Nessa Rose has Swirlotude? Absolutely? Lutely not Well I would say that the polar opposite of Nesarose is Galinda so how can both of them not have Swirlitude? Because Swirlitude is so unique? so special that yeah not everyone has it. Would you say that the wizard has swirleitude? Fuck no. Would you say that Madame Marble has swirleitude? Definitely not. If I were to say anyone in Wicked who has swirleitude. Galinda? Like I guess. Obviously. That's only because she wears pink and swirleitude. Yes it's about aesthetics but it's really about what's on the inside. Understood. And like Galinda like left her friend alone, like today today today today today. die and become the villain even though she knew the truth. That's not very swirly. I understand. Actually no. I would argue that nobody in Wicked at Schis University has swirleitude. Mm-hmm. Because at the end of the day, swirleitude is about being true to oneself. What celebrities do you think have swirle attitude? I mean that's a whole other podcast, my friend. Top two. Okay, I'm not letting this go. How about that? Oh, top two celebrities? Probably two celebrities. 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