(cheering)
Today is a very big day here at Wendy.
It's a day that I've been waiting for, Dee Barnes is here.
(cheering)
She's upstairs in her dressing room getting ready,
her daughters are someplace in the audience,
I've never seen them.
Dee has got a very, Dee is a legend in hip-hop.
And I beg of you to stay around, she's gonna sit
on the couch and we're gonna have a great conversation.
(cheering)
So, TIME Magazine's--
TIME Magazine is out with their annual list of
100 most influential people of 2019,
and a lot of people you know are on the list.
And some that you don't that you might
think should be there.
(audience exclaims)
Well, that's the problem with lists,
you can't include everybody.
So, for those you don't make the list,
don't be offended, there's always next year.
(audience laughing)
Providing you keep your influence up.
All right so this year, Taylor Swift, duh!
You know, yeah, The Rock, you see Sandra Oh,
you see Nancy Pelosi, you see Gayle King,
congratulations, Gayle.
They all made the cut.
(cheering)
But, whenever you have to make a list, there will always
be people who complain about those not on it.
This year, it's a particular category.
People are upset because there are no
rappers on the list this year.
And so I said, okay, all right,
well Cardi B, and Kendrick Lamar, and Jay-Z
have been recognized in the past,
if you're still influential,
you can also be on the list again.
And so you can be on this as many times.
You know, but Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, and Jay-Z
don't need to be on it this year,
so who in the rap community do you think
should be on this list?
(audience shouting names)
Okay, I hear Nispy.
I hear Nipsy, but you know what?
Magazines take some time to print.
I love magazines, but that's why a lot of
people just go online for it.
This list probably took a while to compile.
Nipsy just passed away, so maybe he didn't make the cut
because he just passed away.
Maybe he'll be on next year's list.
So I don't agree with this year's only because I think that
TIME Magazine, it was probably printed.
So Nipsy, I do agree that he should be on it
for next year's, so that's a given.
(cheering)
All right.
So I came up with two names immediately and
then I was exhausted to think more after, and if you have to
think that much, then maybe the
people aren't so influential.
I thought of Meek Mill. Meek Mill should be on the list.
I'll tell you why, I'll tell you why.
(cheering)
When you think of this list for TIME Magazine,
which is a grown people's magazine,
it's not a millennial magazine, right?
You got people of all ages, particularly those who are,
I would say 35 and up.
35 all the way 'till dead read TIME Magazine.
So when you think of influential,
you have to think of somebody who's going to
impress that 60 year old.
And the 16 year old.
All right?
Meek Mill, he's all about, you know, the prison reform,
he brought a lot of attention to us, for those of us who,
well you, I knew who Meek was, you know.
But for those of you who didn't know who Meek Mill was,
you know who he is now.
He did his prison time, he's out of prison,
he's influential in the rap community.
Still makes modern music so the kids still love him.
But for us adults, with kids who we're trying to raise,
particularly sons, Black sons, who, and you know,
the prison reform regarding drugs and things like that,
he shed a whole new light
on something that is very important.
I think that Meek Mill was overlooked,
he's not on the list this year.
(applause)
Meek, if you keep up your influence,
you'll be on it next year, but there's no excuse, to me,
that he shouldn't have been on it this year.
Now,
(applause)
and the Migos, why not?
They make great music, a lot of older people,
you might not know the Migos to know them individually,
but you know them as a group.
You might not know the title of their songs,
but you do know them when you hear them.
People love the Migos.
And, individually in the Migos,
you get Blac Chyna's baby's father, Carly's baby's--
I'm sorry.
You get Cardi B's baby's father Travis Scott,
who's influential in his own way.
(audience groaning)
You don't, oh wait, clap if you disagree with me.
Oh you don't disagree, okay.
Well, that's why you put the Migos on there,
and then individually you can single them out and say,
"Yeah, Travis Scott, he's influential."
He--
You're thinking of Offset.
Offset, sorry.
(laughter)
(applause)
But, sorry it's early,
but I stick by what I say.
I think that the Migos should be there,
and Offset has been a game changer himself,
but the Migos should absolutely be on there as a group.
And yes, some people say, Travis Scott.
I don't know Travis Scott for being influential
to anything but the millennials.
So you're leaving out the older set,
Travis Scott is very influential with the millennials,
you know, he's the father to Kylie Jenner's baby.
I wonder what his cover shot would look like.
(laughter)
That?
Anyway, no, I don't think Travis, clap if you think
Travis Scott should be on there?
(some clapping)
Very few, to none.
(laughter)
You all,
let's talk about Britney Spears.
(audience groaning)
It's not good.
It's not good at all.
And, I've got my opinion.
I don't know for fact, but I'll give you my opinion loosely.
Britney Spears everybody, as you know, we've talked about
this on Hot Topic, they're saying that she's being held
in a mental facility for mental wellness check,
but now they say she's being held against her will.
(audience exclaims)
Well, we were all led to believe when last we talked
about this, that she put a pause on her Vegas residency,
and that was because, you know,
she was dealing with her father.
Her father had a ruptured colon, or spleen,
or something like that.
Her father and Britney, Britney and her father,
they get along very well.
He is the head of her estate and everything
having to do with Britney's money, and overseeing people
who book Britney for things,
and making sure that the doctors have her
on the right medication, and making sure that her,
his daughter is good.
Lynn, and the father Jamie, got divorced years ago.
This is her mom, Lynn.
They do get along for the purpose of their children,
and, you know, family functions,
but he's moved on with his life, he's remarried.
Lynn is dating, and moved on with her life,
but in my heart of hearts I do believe that this is one
of the rare instances in show business where I don't think
the parents are after their kid's money.
And I don't think that the parents, I don't.
I don't.
I don't.
And even with the Vegas residency, I think, you know,
Britney does love to perform for you, her Britney beehive.
She does love to perform for you, and I thought that Vegas
was a great choice for her 'cause her kids were able to,
they're old enough now to be in school, her boys.
And they're able to be in a stable school where they don't
have to go from school, to school, to school.
You know, they got the whole top floor
of whatever posh hotel, she's got all of her handlers around
her, all she's gotta do is take the elevator down,
perform, and go back upstairs, take her meds, and rest,
and have a proper diet which is definitely a part of the
inner workings of you body.
Although, Britney still loves Cheetos
and a lot of junk food.
(laughter)
That's the only thing, I mean you laugh, but anybody who
knows a little bit more about taking care of yourself,
what you eat is really, directly connected to how you feel,
(applause)
and how you appear.
All right, and this all happened on April third,
when she posted, Britney actually posted
that she was checking into a mental facility
for some "me time."
And I thought that was really nice and transparent for her,
for her fans to know that, you know,
her residency was on pause so don't buy the tickets now,
but, you know, you'll buy them.
And we all sympathize with Britney.
And at that time, her father was very sick.
He is now back to being, well I guess you're always sick
when you have something ruptured,
but he's back to functioning.
Well yesterday,
an anonymous caller who claimed to be
somebody who used to work with Britney on the legal team,
left the host of The Britney Gram Podcast,
now if you're a real Britnista,
you've heard of this podcast,
it's hosted by a couple of girls who are super Britney fans.
And they do the, "Oh my god" talk.
(laughter)
They do that talk, but also they love her so much,
they feel that they know more about Britney than us,
but they're just two girls.
Well this podcast caught the attention of this insider
who used to be on Britney's legal team.
And he left a message, listen very closely, and take a look,
and then we'll talk.
Go ahead.
Britney has been in the mental facility
since mid-January. The statement yesterday said that she
entered last week, that is not true.
There is no end particularly in sight for this stay at this
mental facility to end.
She did not want to go from what I understand,
this was not a decision she made.
At all.
(audience exclaims)
Did he sound not credible to you?
He sounded credible, he didn't sound like he was talking,
you know, out of his mind.
Listen, this is the same fellow who just a couple of weeks
ago, quit the entire Britney camp.
He quit.
(audience exclaims)
Now when you get fired, sometimes you say you quit,
so maybe he was fired.
We don't know.
We don't know who this gentleman is,
but he did not like the, according to him, he did not like
the direction Britney's camp was leading her and could not
be a party to it, so he quit.
(audience exclaims)
Said that Britney allegedly stopped taking her meds.
(audience exclaims)
So her dad Jamie was the one who canceled the Vegas show.
Jamie was begging Britney, please take your medication,
you know, so that you can function, it'll level you out.
There's nothing shameful about admitting that you have to
function in life off of taking medication.
That goes for you, that goes for Britney,
that goes for anybody.
(applause)
There's nothing shameful about that.
But when you don't take your medication, you become harmful
to society, yourself, your children, your family, and
allegedly this is when Jamie, her dad,
forced her to go into that facility in January.
My opinion?
I believe, again, that the,
I believe that the mother and father have Britney's interest
at heart, I don't believe that they're after her money.
(applause)
I believe that,
if this is some sort of rouse that her sister,
Jamie Lynn Spears, who stays out of the spotlight,
but has children herself, I believe she's married,
she's in a family way and she lives down south,
she quit show business, remember she wanted to be a big
songstress as well, she quit, had the babies,
looked at business through her sister's eyes and said,
"not for me," Lynn said.
I think that Lynn would have spoken out, Jamie Lynn.
But her mom, Lynn, is doing something really telling.
She liked several comments online
that are alleging that Britney's
being held against her will.
(audience exclaims)
Eve over on The Talk, wore a Free Britney t-shirt yesterday.
(audience exclaims)
People are getting behind this movement, Free Britney,
but, Britney can't be free if Britney is not taking
her meds and if she's a danger to herself.
(applause)
If the rumors are true, do you think the family needs
to speak out?
It would be the right thing to do, but I said no.
And I'll tell you why, because I think that the people who
are really behind the Britney movement are, you know,
young people who really love and revere Britney and
might not quite understand
what it means to be mentally ill and never able to walk
amongst society again.
And there are people like that, and we know this.
Whether you read about them, whether they're in your family,
people who literally can't function amongst the rest of us,
and with Britney's money, what if they do have her in a
place that she'll be for the rest of her life?
(audience exclaims)
And this place because of the money,
those are very expensive places.
Very secluded someplace where she gets the best treatment
ever, but she will never be paparazzi'd unless they have a
very long lense.
And they're really, you know you'd be a real jerks paparazzi
if you did that, like violating Britney.
Personally speaking, I don't know what the truth is,
but what this looks like is, you may never see Britney
walk amongst us again.
(audience exclaims)
They might have to give you your ticket money back, and
also buy her out of her Vegas residency.
That's one great thing about having a lot of money.
And they will have her in this place
for the rest of her life.
She's got this boyfriend who's been in her life
for a few years, remember they were in People Magazine,
she came out with, that she loves him.
The boy treats her kids, her boys,
this man treats her kids
like her, the surrogate dad.
And he hasn't spoken out.
Now you can say he's being paid off, or you can say that he
is sympathetic to what truly,
truly is going on with Britney.
Kevin Federline, the father of the boys,
gets along with Britney's family, he's moved on,
he has kids of his own, he's married, Kevin Federline.
Kevin Federline hasn't said a word.
(laughter)
No, it's not funny.
It's not funny because, you know, you want somebody to
speak out and say Britney is away for the rest of her life,
like tell the truth,
but I don't think her true fans will understand that.
And there'll be mayhem in the streets.
It's just terrible, let's move along.
Just terrible.
(applause)
Thank you.
Were you here yesterday?
Do you remember, I was talking to you about Dina Lohan?
Getting, well okay, the boyfriend that she met online
and she only FaceTimed, they've been together for five years
but they've never seen each other in person?
From here down, they've never seen each other in person,
if you know what I'm saying?
And they never met and she was doing this while she was in
the Big Brother house, and the Big Brother housemates were
like, Dina you are out of your mind.
You're still young, you're still viable,
why are you doing this?
And this man, is an opportunist, Dina.
He's an opportunist.
Well, guess what happened since yesterday's Hot Topics?
(audience exclaims)
(laughter)
Dina is back with the boyfriend.
(audience exclaims)
That she never met.
(laughter)
Yesterday I was telling you that they broke up,
and today, I guess overnight she had a change of heart.
(laughter)
In my mind, I like to think Hot Topics influences the world.
(applause)
Hey...
Hey People Magazine,
just saying.
Anyway, the guy's name is Jesse.
And he calls TMZ a lot.
(laughter)
Well, he gave the update to TMZ, they're back together.
And he's planning on presenting her
with the engagement ring.
Now I don't know that this is the exact engagement ring,
but it is a pretty blue box which means it's pretty pricey.
The engagement ring, the engagement ring.
Oh, oh we can't show it?
No, uh-uh.
What, it was too expensive to show?
Too expensive, probably more expensive than the ring.
(laughter)
All right, so I'll describe it to you,
we're on a budget here.
(laughter)
The ring looked to be about five carats, it was round.
Just a plain, classic ring.
Yeah, so anyway, he said that recently Dina sent him a
package to woo him.
(laughter)
And I guessed it correctly, I did not wanna be involved,
but we're involved.
(laughter)
The package was a Wendy gift package including,
(audience exclaims)
(applause)
swag from our show including, a Wendy robe,
which is very plush by the way, you can get one too if you
go to wendyshow.com and then look this way.
A Wendy mug, and some other swag from the show.
(applause)
You know what?
You know I don't like weddings, I don't wanna go,
I'll send you a gift from afar, but this would be a wedding,
this would be a wedding that I would go to,
as a matter of fact, if Dina,
if in fact you are going to
accept his hand in marriage, look check him out during the
engagement 'cause frankly I don't trust Jesse.
I'm just gonna be real, I don't trust Jesse.
I think that this is nuts.
If you all are looking for a reality show together,
together, you guys are not interesting enough to watch on
a reality show.
You're not, I'm just being real.
You're not, even if Lindsay did come over,
you're not that interesting.
I think that Dina is viable enough to find love on her own.
This guy seems like an opportunist.
But if, by chance, you do get married, then how about,
how about we make that a contest where one of you is my
guest and, only if Dina and Jesse allow that.
And then we bring the Wendy cameras.
(cheering)
Let's make a scene of it!
Why not?
(cheering continues)
Hey, look, that's it for Hot Topics, but we've got more
great show for you.
The legendary hip hop pioneer reporter, Dee Barnes, is here!
But up next, it's time for Celebrity Look-alikes!
So, grab a snack, and come on back!
(cheering)
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