WEBVTT 00:07.355 --> 00:35.427 [SPEAKER_01]: Six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six 00:35.987 --> 00:41.152 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't know their solo pop for your guy, but don't worry, DJ Jaguar will be back with me next week. 00:41.392 --> 00:47.479 [SPEAKER_01]: He's had himself a busy month, so I've had to hold down the fort, so I hope you've enjoyed the solo cast action for you. 00:47.699 --> 00:59.831 [SPEAKER_01]: And I've been wanting to do this episode actually all year, because last year, those of you who have been long following our guy sections might remember, I actually... For the first time ever dice-sected in a ward show, 01:00.051 --> 01:20.368 [SPEAKER_01]: Under the theme of guy watches the VMAs for the very first time in over 15 years So that was a subject of last year's VMAs episode which I can't say this year because I watched last year's Now I didn't know what to expect when I covered last year's VMAs but it actually turned out to be one of my favorite episodes of the year So I thought hey, let's run it back. 01:20.648 --> 01:26.453 [SPEAKER_01]: Just says a slight different variation for your DJs Just didn't mix it, throw it back and 01:27.013 --> 01:28.193 [SPEAKER_01]: That's sick, dude. 01:28.514 --> 01:35.196 [SPEAKER_01]: Not to the success of last year's VMAs episode, I considered doing other award shows throughout the year, but none of them really interested me. 01:35.376 --> 01:38.157 [SPEAKER_01]: There's something about the VMAs with the potential chaos. 01:38.257 --> 01:41.158 [SPEAKER_01]: It's root to modern and throwback pop culture. 01:41.578 --> 01:44.980 [SPEAKER_01]: And it tends to just have a little bit more fun moments and performances. 01:45.160 --> 01:45.900 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're doing it again. 01:46.160 --> 02:14.538 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, when I covered this last year, I opened up the episode by doing a deep dive about the history of the VMAs and broke it down at a five arrows and the importance to pop culture and MTV is a whole so if you want to hear my thorough breakdown of the arrows of MTV go back and check out my episode a year ago of the 2025 VMAs so I'm not going to do that again, but I will say the ironic thing about when I put that episode up is I did not even realize it, but a month or two later they actually shut down MTV for good. 02:14.838 --> 02:43.229 [SPEAKER_01]: Which honestly got a need to be put down because it's just been like a cycle of ridiculousness Literally for like six years straight now and was a shell of itself for the last ten fifteen years But I do appreciate that the show lives on through this award show even though MTV does not because I think it's important for MTV to have some kind of presentation to keep its legacy alive And we could still point to a show that represents the history of this show and that network and that being said it might be officially dead now But I have a crazy prediction. 02:43.489 --> 02:43.969 [SPEAKER_01]: I think 02:44.449 --> 02:47.752 [SPEAKER_01]: MTV is gonna come back anytime soon. 02:48.093 --> 02:49.814 [SPEAKER_01]: We need to sweep that last decade on the rug. 02:49.954 --> 03:02.866 [SPEAKER_01]: Let it lie dead for a while and be properly missed But I do think there will come a time when it's realized that there's something seriously missing in the music industry and In pop culture and one day they will realize that that thing is MTV 03:03.647 --> 03:09.468 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who they are, but they who make these things happen will realize it's time to bring it back. 03:09.728 --> 03:22.331 [SPEAKER_01]: And with a proper presentation, programming, platform, and creative minds behind it, I think it will come back one day and make that pop culture impact that we have all sorely been missing in the music industry for well over a decade now. 03:22.571 --> 03:27.332 [SPEAKER_01]: It's had that impact on the business before and I think it will have that impact once again. 03:27.912 --> 03:34.183 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember I said this, we'll have MTV again in some form or another, and it will be awesome. 03:34.664 --> 03:41.194 [SPEAKER_01]: But until then, it lives on through the video music awards, which thanks to CBS, is not dead. 03:41.910 --> 03:46.934 [SPEAKER_01]: So let's go ahead and get into it and describe your 2026 MTV VMAs. 03:47.094 --> 03:56.921 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, one thing I did last year that I'm gonna keep going this time is there will inevitably be artists, performers, presentationers, spread the better way to say that. 03:57.161 --> 04:01.204 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess you can prep say presenters, but I already said presentationers, I like that one better, who I'm not gonna know. 04:01.384 --> 04:10.051 [SPEAKER_01]: So whenever I name an artist that I've not yet seen, I'm not gonna lament on the whole, I don't know who this person is, I'm simply just gonna play this sound. 04:10.691 --> 04:11.372 [SPEAKER_01]: And then I'll let you know. 04:11.552 --> 04:12.173 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who they are. 04:12.193 --> 04:19.321 [SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to make a big deal out of that moving on so the show opens with Madonna Get used to seeing her tonight. 04:19.481 --> 04:27.430 [SPEAKER_01]: It's good to see your back have not seen her in I don't know over a decade extra theatrical opening where she's behind a glass wall with water dripping down 04:27.870 --> 04:49.680 [SPEAKER_01]: And they got like these zombies all around riding on the ground and she's sitting on the piano with her open crutch Madonna pose Which something somebody pointed out to me 15 years ago when she released like a spread of photos like for an album She was releasing that's really like her pose here go to she loves to kind of have the legs open trying to do an Or badass thing and ever since that was pointed out to me a long time ago. 04:49.801 --> 04:50.301 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't 04:51.001 --> 04:52.002 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't not notice it. 04:52.042 --> 04:53.683 [SPEAKER_01]: That's her favorite pose. 04:53.723 --> 05:01.148 [SPEAKER_01]: So she's doing that on top of a piano with Sabrina Carpenter playing the piano and they do a nice little duet. 05:28.891 --> 05:30.672 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a solid little opener to kick things off. 05:30.852 --> 05:38.538 [SPEAKER_01]: They do look like they could be related, but I'm not trying to be mean, but when you do put the ages together, if they were related, she'd probably be a grandma. 05:38.638 --> 05:41.400 [SPEAKER_01]: But that being said, I'm gonna look great. 05:41.640 --> 05:45.462 [SPEAKER_01]: She can still perform, still gets away with the Madonna outfits that she wears. 05:45.542 --> 05:49.225 [SPEAKER_01]: They both bring that Viby stage presence to it, and I'm feeling it. 05:49.385 --> 05:50.526 [SPEAKER_01]: Strong way to kick off the show. 05:50.706 --> 05:56.391 [SPEAKER_01]: So eventually mid performance Madonna gets brought to the table by the camera woman dancers. 05:56.411 --> 05:57.571 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that sounds weird. 05:57.772 --> 06:17.287 [SPEAKER_01]: They got their dancer outfits and they have cameras and they eventually pick her up and she's like fighting it like their zombies grabbing her and she's like no don't take me there they throw around a table and the table just starts getting wheeled around the stage around these white gothic choir people and she's doing these weird awkward body movements that I suppose you could pass off as dancing. 06:17.467 --> 06:18.048 [SPEAKER_01]: Where does it is? 06:18.088 --> 06:30.041 [SPEAKER_01]: It works, but then they wheel out a row of johns straight up bathroom stalls and then out one of them stalls pops Charlie xcx and her and Madonna Then are performing together. 06:30.081 --> 06:35.568 [SPEAKER_01]: They take turns like going in and out of the stall like one of them takes over on the mic And then the other one will pop out again. 06:35.588 --> 06:37.270 [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you forgot I was on stage. 06:37.310 --> 06:38.331 [SPEAKER_05]: Guess what I'm here bitch 06:39.313 --> 06:47.179 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there might be a few camios among the dancers here because there was a few times they had like close-ups of some of these like dancers like coming on stage. 06:47.279 --> 06:47.619 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. 06:47.779 --> 06:53.163 [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, solid number to open the show Madonna is back and she's teamed up with Sabrina and Charlie. 06:53.423 --> 06:58.627 [SPEAKER_01]: Solid vintage MTV meets what MTV would be if it were still alive today. 06:58.887 --> 07:03.070 [SPEAKER_01]: Now let's give this show a proper open and the stage is a bit more low key than last years. 07:03.110 --> 07:07.314 [SPEAKER_01]: It's more just like the giant mood man shooting over the crowd and up towards the ceiling. 07:07.414 --> 07:14.740 [SPEAKER_01]: The stages are mostly dark for now, but we will soon learn that there's a whole lot more stage presentation behind those gentle walls. 07:18.408 --> 07:22.189 [SPEAKER_01]: Just you wait, but the Moonman's prominent love that they keep that imagery going. 07:22.349 --> 07:26.711 [SPEAKER_01]: It looks cool, because it's also the size of a Weener Schnitzel. 07:27.191 --> 07:29.592 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know the ones with the red roof. 07:29.652 --> 07:33.853 [SPEAKER_01]: I like to determine units of measurement by how they stack up against Weener Schnitzel. 07:33.973 --> 07:35.534 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a small church, I don't know. 07:35.914 --> 07:36.894 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a big Moonman. 07:37.315 --> 07:38.035 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's move on. 07:38.435 --> 07:40.436 [SPEAKER_01]: Snoop Dogg is your host. 07:40.776 --> 07:43.297 [SPEAKER_01]: He gives a kind of a standard Snoop jog intro. 07:43.617 --> 07:45.077 [SPEAKER_01]: Says one thing for sure. 07:47.778 --> 07:48.839 [SPEAKER_01]: I think you're right about that's new. 07:48.979 --> 07:52.301 [SPEAKER_01]: He says he'd only host the show if it was in L.A. 07:52.521 --> 07:54.102 [SPEAKER_01]: So they moved the show to L.A. 07:54.342 --> 07:56.644 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that he has that kind of power, but I'll go with it. 07:56.804 --> 08:01.467 [SPEAKER_01]: He says he's gonna give that sticky achy to the winners, but for everyone else, look under your seat. 08:01.747 --> 08:02.727 [SPEAKER_10]: Just the winners though. 08:03.308 --> 08:03.948 [SPEAKER_10]: Just the winners. 08:04.248 --> 08:06.250 [SPEAKER_10]: But everybody else, look onto your seat. 08:08.871 --> 08:09.932 [SPEAKER_10]: There should be nothing there. 08:12.028 --> 08:14.009 [SPEAKER_01]: We are in the grandpa Snoop phase. 08:14.309 --> 08:16.270 [SPEAKER_01]: He's just dead jokes 101 with it. 08:16.390 --> 08:18.951 [SPEAKER_01]: Then he starts just calling out the names of the artists that are here tonight. 08:18.971 --> 08:23.633 [SPEAKER_01]: Looking for that standard MTV pop, you know, Snoop knows how to get a pop out of the crowd. 08:23.753 --> 08:25.653 [SPEAKER_01]: Then he does a fucking knock-knock joke. 08:31.693 --> 08:32.593 [SPEAKER_01]: I know you'd like that. 08:32.974 --> 08:34.314 [SPEAKER_01]: Goofy Grandpa Snoop! 08:34.534 --> 08:36.695 [SPEAKER_01]: Your master of ceremonies today, ladies and gentlemen. 08:37.115 --> 08:39.296 [SPEAKER_01]: He introduced Teyana Taylor. 08:39.536 --> 08:41.657 [SPEAKER_01]: I gotta say, every time I ever see Teyana Taylor. 08:41.737 --> 08:43.838 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, she looks like fucking storm. 08:44.178 --> 08:47.519 [SPEAKER_01]: Just in action, figure, level, shape, tip of the cap tour. 08:47.659 --> 08:49.640 [SPEAKER_01]: And she introduces Best Pop. 08:50.340 --> 08:51.141 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the name of the award. 08:51.281 --> 08:54.324 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if that's for a song that it doesn't matter. 08:54.524 --> 08:54.885 [SPEAKER_01]: Who cares? 08:54.945 --> 09:09.680 [SPEAKER_01]: nominees are Taylor Swift, Charlie XX, Tate McCray, somebody named Lisa, Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carbender, and Olivia Redrigo, all the people you to assume would be nominated for Best Pop Award, and then somebody named Lisa. 09:10.080 --> 09:11.381 [SPEAKER_01]: And the winner is Lisa. 09:13.777 --> 09:17.203 [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, so this is someone I'm gonna need to know, I guess, probably. 09:17.463 --> 09:27.741 [SPEAKER_01]: Either way, props Elise as she gives a very tear-eyed speech, so I guess it's nice that someone who this word actually means something to is winning it, so, you know, I'll give her a little golf club to that. 09:28.117 --> 09:34.800 [SPEAKER_01]: And we get a ad for the best new artists saying that you the fans get to vote who wins new artists. 09:35.040 --> 09:42.323 [SPEAKER_01]: It will be either Bellicay, Cortis, Ciena Spiro, yeah, I don't know, I guess I don't own new artists this year. 09:42.483 --> 09:43.784 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, this is how you learn. 09:43.904 --> 09:46.925 [SPEAKER_01]: This is how Ryan learns about new artists in the industry. 09:47.045 --> 09:53.953 [SPEAKER_01]: Then Snoop introduces Ray and says he's one of her biggest fans and always throws at music on while he's blazing something amazing. 09:54.213 --> 09:57.136 [SPEAKER_01]: I question if he actually used that fan, but let him have it. 09:57.336 --> 10:00.279 [SPEAKER_01]: Ray gives a performance surrounded by six violinists. 10:00.580 --> 10:05.285 [SPEAKER_01]: The song is giving Disney Princess hitting her come to glory moment vibes. 10:05.445 --> 10:11.766 [SPEAKER_01]: Then she loses her giant white fur coat to reveal a glamorous red dress to match her pin-up style hair. 10:12.006 --> 10:13.867 [SPEAKER_01]: And she starts singing, where is my husband? 10:13.967 --> 10:16.587 [SPEAKER_01]: She got her backup singers and backup band on the stage. 10:16.607 --> 10:18.207 [SPEAKER_01]: Whole lotta horns back there. 10:18.327 --> 10:22.028 [SPEAKER_01]: Real 70's soul diva energy coming out of this performance. 10:42.955 --> 10:49.379 [SPEAKER_01]: Good classic style showing, then we get Paris Hilton coming out dressed like a Roman statue princess. 10:49.580 --> 10:51.761 [SPEAKER_01]: And I gotta say nobody stands like Paris. 10:52.121 --> 10:56.904 [SPEAKER_01]: She does that, shifted to one side, statue s, pre Madonna pose that she does, you know. 10:56.924 --> 11:01.247 [SPEAKER_01]: And then even shifts to the other side in her trademark Paris stands as she introduces Bruno 11:02.268 --> 11:13.392 [SPEAKER_01]: And then out comes Bruno to perform dance with me and Bruno is dressed like a rhinestone cowboy who you'd see Dolan out show flyers outside a high-end liquor cigar store. 11:13.692 --> 11:23.215 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it have like his whole sales pitch ready In which every sentence magically rhymes at the end he'd be a showman salesman and dressed like that You know it you might even get you to go to the show. 11:23.375 --> 11:30.478 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll take the flyer at the very least, you know I'm talking about you probably see somebody like that around like Nashville and I've never even been in Nashville But I could just tell 11:30.898 --> 11:34.280 [SPEAKER_01]: One of those barkers on the street trying to bring street folk into the show. 11:34.540 --> 11:41.945 [SPEAKER_01]: Now this is more of the ballad style of Bruno performance, where he plays the guitar throughout, always flexing his talent somehow. 11:42.365 --> 11:48.569 [SPEAKER_01]: It kind of feels like a song he would do like midpoint in the middle of one of his concert shows, you know, it's a change up the vibe. 11:49.129 --> 11:53.272 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's fine, I've seen better from Bruno, but always puts on a great show. 12:00.797 --> 12:02.666 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. 12:09.757 --> 12:20.763 [SPEAKER_01]: The curtain drops on and before the final note of his song, which I thought was weird, but unfortunately in the camera is also they have one on the other side, but the crowd and they get to see that part. 12:21.003 --> 12:24.025 [SPEAKER_01]: Then we got a dolly tribute, it's done really cool. 12:24.185 --> 12:37.753 [SPEAKER_01]: It appears to be like a hologram of dolly, but it can't really tell if the hologram are just a really high-quality screen, and dolly gives a little monologue ahead of one of her songs and then she starts singing, I will always love you. 12:37.973 --> 12:42.596 [SPEAKER_01]: just the quality of the video because it's clearly sort of like old footage. 12:42.856 --> 12:46.779 [SPEAKER_01]: But it looks really cool, and you know, it's always great to see Dolly, rest in peace. 12:47.119 --> 12:54.484 [SPEAKER_01]: Just one of the all-time great chillments in the history of music, so it was a cool visual, and then as she's singing, I will always love you. 12:54.764 --> 13:04.631 [SPEAKER_01]: Casey Musgrave appears on stage, and she takes over and starts singing with her, and now she's performing it live, and it's just her and a grand piano, and it's beautiful, 13:07.359 --> 13:10.761 [SPEAKER_03]: I wish a lot's and lots of happiness But you know what? 13:10.781 --> 13:13.563 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm above all this I wish you love Oh and I will always love you 13:39.000 --> 13:47.684 [SPEAKER_01]: Excellent tribute to Dolly and then Dolly comes back up on the screen in the background and when the screen goes away Like you don't even see a screen there. 13:47.724 --> 13:54.747 [SPEAKER_01]: It's honestly very impressive production high quality screen really huge And then as soon as the picture goes away, it just looks like nothing's there. 13:54.767 --> 14:05.252 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how they do it But if they were gonna do it for someone I'm glad they did it for Dolly and it was nice to see a solid Dolly tribute in middle of our VMA show 14:06.132 --> 14:10.234 [SPEAKER_01]: Then Snoop dogs back on stage and he does the old. 14:10.594 --> 14:12.535 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you love Dolly, make some noise. 14:13.535 --> 14:16.496 [SPEAKER_01]: I said, if you love Dolly, make some noise. 14:16.777 --> 14:29.842 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just got to say, when it comes to people trying to hype up the crowd, I've always been a bit of a disdain for whenever people do the I said and then they just repeat the same thing and you're just kind of like twist in the arm or the people. 14:29.862 --> 14:31.643 [SPEAKER_08]: All right, all right, well, we got to. 14:32.883 --> 14:34.465 [SPEAKER_01]: I got a fucking, all right. 14:34.806 --> 14:36.348 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll make noise this time for you. 14:37.269 --> 14:39.192 [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, yeah, everybody loves dolly. 14:39.212 --> 14:43.978 [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think we needed to go for the cheap pop crowd noise on that, but it's Grandpa Snoop. 14:44.579 --> 14:45.841 [SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be more where that came from. 14:46.482 --> 14:49.726 [SPEAKER_01]: And he introduces Sierra Miller. 14:50.567 --> 14:59.315 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who this is, but, eh, she is wearing sort of a brown leather mocha-chain number. 14:59.635 --> 15:00.756 [SPEAKER_01]: It looks pretty fantastic. 15:01.016 --> 15:03.559 [SPEAKER_01]: We need to look into who this whole Sierra Miller character is. 15:04.119 --> 15:08.123 [SPEAKER_01]: And she is out here to introduce Shabuzie featuring Gunna. 15:08.563 --> 15:11.604 [SPEAKER_01]: And they got a full old western bar set up. 15:11.684 --> 15:14.065 [SPEAKER_01]: It's got a real live music video look to it. 15:14.305 --> 15:17.307 [SPEAKER_01]: They got like the old western vixins running around. 15:17.327 --> 15:20.148 [SPEAKER_01]: They got the bar fights, you know, people playing cards. 15:20.268 --> 15:26.670 [SPEAKER_01]: This feels like one of those old western shows you'd see it like not very far back in the day, or maybe even in the current day, I don't know. 15:26.730 --> 15:31.672 [SPEAKER_01]: So Bozi is really cornered a specific market in the music industry. 15:31.712 --> 15:33.313 [SPEAKER_01]: And that is right for the taking here. 15:33.713 --> 15:36.294 [SPEAKER_01]: The best way to describe it is Black Western. 15:36.515 --> 15:40.977 [SPEAKER_01]: He's got a very signature sound that you know there's a strong base for. 15:40.997 --> 15:46.080 [SPEAKER_01]: I gotta say he hits the corner of where rap and country meet as good as anyone out there. 15:46.300 --> 15:48.281 [SPEAKER_01]: And I barely actually even know how to use work. 15:48.321 --> 15:53.784 [SPEAKER_01]: I just know a few songs, but he's got the voice and the stylings that knock that corner out of the park. 16:13.964 --> 16:25.870 [SPEAKER_01]: Gonna suddenly comes out of a smoking wagon and next thing you know the whole bar is like on fire You really props for the full stage set up on this one it literally looks like the top of the bars I'm like people are now right in out of there like you know the 16:27.270 --> 16:29.391 [SPEAKER_01]: of Chibuzi and Gunna, they're just killing it. 16:29.672 --> 16:32.713 [SPEAKER_01]: Solid performance, especially with the stage production. 16:32.773 --> 16:37.176 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the kind of performance that the MTVMAs are here to present. 16:37.496 --> 16:43.560 [SPEAKER_01]: Tip of the Western cowboy hat that I am not wearing because I do not own Tushabuzi. 16:43.820 --> 16:47.582 [SPEAKER_01]: Then we get May and David Korin Sweat. 16:48.282 --> 17:14.227 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know these people but I'm getting a shitty reality show about a husband wife that I never heard of vibes from him feels like something to be on aiming They come out to introduce the award for Best Collaboration in the Noms are Shakira and Bernaboy Teyana Taylor and Lucky Day Pink Panthers and Zara Larsen Kendrick and Pusha T Madana and Sabrina and French Montana and Max B Oh, that's jam. 17:14.527 --> 17:15.207 [SPEAKER_05]: I like that one. 17:15.228 --> 17:17.568 [SPEAKER_01]: Matter of fact run that one for two seconds because they're not gonna win 17:18.509 --> 17:19.970 [SPEAKER_08]: You ready to shake the asses? 17:21.391 --> 17:28.176 [SPEAKER_08]: I went deaf for the bitch Three gasses Ever since you left me More money, more money 17:36.428 --> 17:45.813 [SPEAKER_01]: Salajim as far as castles concerned be main boat that matters to me now the winner is Madonna and Sabrina Madonna's back out here now. 17:45.833 --> 18:02.903 [SPEAKER_01]: She got her corset look on and the mic is a way too high for them because it turns out both these ladies are Very short individuals and it reminds me of last year when Ariana won the best artist award and the microphone was way too high And she was trying to give like a poetic speech giving real deep thoughts on the whole time her 18:03.343 --> 18:06.104 [SPEAKER_01]: neck was cranked back because the mic was way too high. 18:06.124 --> 18:09.126 [SPEAKER_01]: Apparently there's no stage hand on in or they could like lower for anything. 18:09.626 --> 18:11.767 [SPEAKER_01]: And then I noticed it automatically lowered. 18:11.827 --> 18:13.408 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, alright good to learn from Lester. 18:13.588 --> 18:17.490 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what a quality production team should do with the CBS budget. 18:17.590 --> 18:23.573 [SPEAKER_01]: Then Madonna calls out Sabrina's team for not getting back to her when she reached out to them for a collab. 18:23.803 --> 18:26.364 [SPEAKER_09]: Everybody who knows me knows how impatient I am. 18:27.265 --> 18:40.612 [SPEAKER_09]: And when five days passed and I still didn't get connected with Sabrina and didn't hear back from her about whether she wanted to do a song with me, five days, I DMed her. 18:41.833 --> 18:42.033 [SPEAKER_09]: Yep. 18:43.614 --> 18:46.716 [SPEAKER_09]: And this is a true story. 18:46.756 --> 18:47.676 [SPEAKER_09]: She answered me back. 18:48.437 --> 18:51.178 [SPEAKER_09]: And I don't know, within weeks, we were in the studio together. 18:51.198 --> 18:52.099 [SPEAKER_09]: I was fabulous. 18:53.195 --> 18:55.176 [SPEAKER_01]: And Sabrina is knocked back by this. 18:55.196 --> 18:56.616 [SPEAKER_01]: She was not ready to be called out. 18:56.776 --> 19:04.438 [SPEAKER_01]: The whole time Madonna's talking here, like I just get five from Sabrina, like she does not know what Madonna's gonna say next, but she is frightened. 19:04.658 --> 19:08.920 [SPEAKER_01]: And then she feels the need to defend her team says they're shooting themselves in the back right now. 19:09.100 --> 19:10.980 [SPEAKER_00]: My team replies just so everybody knows. 19:11.020 --> 19:13.601 [SPEAKER_00]: They do respond to people, but I respond faster. 19:13.681 --> 19:16.242 [SPEAKER_00]: So direct line to me is always the best way to get in contact. 19:17.395 --> 19:37.563 [SPEAKER_01]: Which I don't think she wants to put out there because I think that's the whole reason of having a team Is that so you don't have everybody reaching out to them directly not a good look for the the PR of Sabrina's team back there But Madonna she rolls to the beat of her own drum she probably feels like if Madonna reaches out to you respond she will clown your whole team 19:37.783 --> 20:00.820 [SPEAKER_01]: Then they don't really know how to end the speech to just kind of Peter out and someone down just says they're just gonna go back and have a drink Moving on then suddenly there's this mini promo that says half-time at the VMAs featuring Warren Zeders starts now and this dude who I'm assuming is Warren Zeders All since something he takes off his jacket and then he just walks off and that's it 20:01.260 --> 20:18.207 [SPEAKER_01]: Me literally don't hear or see anything of this Warren Zeta's fella again the rest of the night so I don't know that was snoops back out And he says let's keep the party going for the ninth time tonight and he introduces Tyler who looks adorable Fantastic she introduces Lisa. 20:18.387 --> 20:18.767 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay 20:19.644 --> 20:20.105 [SPEAKER_01]: There we go! 20:20.285 --> 20:23.328 [SPEAKER_01]: Now I can learn a little thing or two about this, Lisa figure over here. 20:23.388 --> 20:29.816 [SPEAKER_01]: So she puts on a performance and I'm gonna describe this girl as a cross between K-pop and hip-pop. 20:30.136 --> 20:33.460 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if hip-pop is a term or if I just invented it. 20:34.101 --> 20:36.684 [SPEAKER_01]: Trademark that bitch because you know hip-pop when you see it. 20:36.804 --> 20:38.286 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not quite hip-hop, hip-hop. 20:38.466 --> 20:39.447 [SPEAKER_01]: It straddles the line. 20:39.627 --> 20:52.794 [SPEAKER_01]: She's one of those real sass performers who sleazy step with fierceness and then does like fake punches and he's like she's beating up her backup dancers and not on an aggressive way, but sort of like, oh, my first bitch, oh, it's break. 20:53.514 --> 21:01.139 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, throw it in and she does move this way and then another one comes and she does like a snap mirror takeout and they just go flying, you know, and then she does her next move. 21:01.179 --> 21:03.300 [SPEAKER_01]: One of those, you've seen it a hundred times. 21:03.560 --> 21:05.281 [SPEAKER_01]: Good fierce set from this one. 21:21.080 --> 21:24.061 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll say I'm not like a huge fan of the song, but I totally get it. 21:24.442 --> 21:29.004 [SPEAKER_01]: This girl is 2026, and she commands stage presence. 21:29.244 --> 21:35.787 [SPEAKER_01]: Suddenly she's sitting on the front of this trolley-like prop, and I got this red tunnel that suddenly appears on the screen behind her. 21:35.867 --> 21:40.349 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, the screen popping up out of nowhere in the background, awesome effect tonight. 21:40.489 --> 21:44.331 [SPEAKER_01]: Just so as Lisa worldwide, written on her get up three different times. 21:44.671 --> 21:45.812 [SPEAKER_01]: That's called Branding Folks. 21:46.179 --> 21:47.980 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what running through the VMAs is all about. 21:48.340 --> 21:52.262 [SPEAKER_01]: You come out of it with new artists that you learn about and you're like, all right, Lisa is a thing. 21:52.402 --> 21:56.363 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a reason she won Best Pop or whatever award she won, I forgot. 21:56.483 --> 21:57.444 [SPEAKER_01]: Feel like it was Best Pop there. 21:57.464 --> 21:59.345 [SPEAKER_01]: They've only given it like two awards over. 21:59.405 --> 22:00.845 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's one I remember. 22:01.045 --> 22:06.608 [SPEAKER_01]: Then out comes Chuck D. And he starts to introduce a tribute to 22:07.228 --> 22:07.769 [SPEAKER_01]: Nirvana. 22:07.969 --> 22:13.815 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the OG bands in, I'd say, MTV's PK Day of the early 90s. 22:14.256 --> 22:23.746 [SPEAKER_01]: One of those bands that I think MTV really helped put on the map almost to a detriment of what ultimately happened to the band because I don't know that they loved the attention that MTV gave them. 22:23.946 --> 22:26.709 [SPEAKER_01]: But they were the platform that really let the world know. 22:26.769 --> 22:27.010 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey. 22:27.350 --> 22:28.430 [SPEAKER_01]: Seattle Grunge is here. 22:28.671 --> 22:33.352 [SPEAKER_01]: You need to recognize it and Chuck D gives a great honoring speech to them. 22:33.512 --> 22:41.936 [SPEAKER_01]: He discusses how their complete originality became almost formulaic in the music industry as they introduced a whole new era of music. 22:42.096 --> 22:44.677 [SPEAKER_01]: They mentioned that they never chased accolades but tonight. 22:45.197 --> 23:00.775 [SPEAKER_01]: They're getting the video van guard award and then they play this really nice video package that covered the background of some of the most iconic videos And it's narrating throughout it's not really narrated, but they keep cutting to this like deep rooted interview with Kurt Cobain himself And it was really cool see Kurt 23:00.995 --> 23:17.486 [SPEAKER_01]: talk about how perfect he thought some of these videos turned out and like what he loved about it because I just feel like so often over the years we've just sort of seen the press I'm not interested any of this version of Kurt and to see him sort of beaming about the work they created and the team that 23:17.786 --> 23:25.690 [SPEAKER_01]: helped them create it and how proud he was of some of these videos that they were able to put together and really create the vision that he had in his mind and like put it out there. 23:25.810 --> 23:36.294 [SPEAKER_01]: So very cool to see that and then the three remaining members of Nirvana come out to accept the word and the guitar player immediately lights up a sig as soon as they get on stage. 23:36.434 --> 23:40.336 [SPEAKER_01]: Like we're not out up there for more than like three seconds and maybe he's like, this is what I do. 23:40.656 --> 23:44.678 [SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, cool to see Nirvana get honored definitely a legacy band and the 23:46.599 --> 23:51.363 [SPEAKER_01]: And we get a Duncan spice latte commercial where Rachel Dratch is playing multiple characters. 23:51.403 --> 23:54.025 [SPEAKER_05]: There's a little reference to Debbie Downer, her SNL character. 23:54.045 --> 24:01.351 [SPEAKER_01]: But then Rachel comes out on stage with Emma Button, who has aged maybe two years since I last saw her in the Spice Girls Days? 24:01.451 --> 24:02.252 [SPEAKER_01]: Looks fantastic. 24:02.512 --> 24:08.978 [SPEAKER_01]: And Rachel says, look at me just hanging out here with baby spice to which Emma responds, and look at me hanging out with Rachel douche. 24:09.815 --> 24:10.976 [SPEAKER_01]: Ouch, it's okay. 24:10.996 --> 24:11.677 [SPEAKER_01]: She's a comedian. 24:11.717 --> 24:13.158 [SPEAKER_01]: She's used to the depreciation. 24:13.298 --> 24:23.946 [SPEAKER_01]: She doesn't really correct her name And then Rachel tries a little comedic bit with her, but Emma doesn't do comedy and just sort of yes Sands everything she says and kind of leaves Rachel hanging and left to pick up the pieces on it It's okay. 24:23.966 --> 24:24.526 [SPEAKER_01]: She's a comedian. 24:24.547 --> 24:25.587 [SPEAKER_01]: She's used to the depreciation 24:26.628 --> 24:28.088 [SPEAKER_01]: And they introduced artists in the year. 24:28.469 --> 24:32.070 [SPEAKER_01]: The Noms are Sabrina Carpenter Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande. 24:32.090 --> 24:35.550 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like we just did a category with these exact Noms already. 24:35.691 --> 24:36.351 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, here's anyone. 24:36.951 --> 24:40.292 [SPEAKER_01]: Morgan Wallen, Madonna, again for artists in the year. 24:40.632 --> 24:44.193 [SPEAKER_01]: And Bruno Mars, and Madonna wins again. 24:45.189 --> 25:03.585 [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, come on out with this show is starting to feel like a make a wish tribute show to the veteran Like really Madonna's the artist of the year has anybody even heard Madonna songs not even just this year But like in the past ten years is getting all over Diggas made all the worse that Madonna I'm really the best at thank you speeches. 25:03.765 --> 25:10.611 [SPEAKER_01]: She opens by saying she'd like to thank her fingers because she can always count on them No further context is given. 25:11.551 --> 25:13.153 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, because you can count on your fingers and 25:13.455 --> 25:14.775 [SPEAKER_05]: Did she just give a dead joke? 25:14.795 --> 25:15.456 [SPEAKER_05]: Was that what that was? 25:15.476 --> 25:22.017 [SPEAKER_01]: I went to only flew over my head when I heard it the first time and now as I read it back I'm like, oh, either way the crowd didn't get it, it didn't laugh. 25:22.157 --> 25:31.720 [SPEAKER_01]: And then she starts telling a long-winded story about how the first VMA, she lost her shoe and her manager, set her career was over and she did a terrible job. 25:31.960 --> 25:35.881 [SPEAKER_01]: Cut to a shot of pink panthers, looking absolutely bored in the crowd. 25:35.901 --> 25:41.503 [SPEAKER_01]: And then she starts going on to trash that manager, but she can't really finish the thoughts so she just kind of moves on. 25:41.763 --> 25:45.404 [SPEAKER_01]: Then we're introduced to two people from the show, Off Campus. 25:45.684 --> 25:45.944 [SPEAKER_05]: Huh? 25:46.104 --> 25:52.327 [SPEAKER_01]: Elabrite, and Belmont, Carnelly, and they introduce Ciena Spiro. 25:52.667 --> 25:55.788 [SPEAKER_01]: And she's performing on top of a giant record player. 25:55.848 --> 26:00.569 [SPEAKER_01]: She's dressed like sort of a Roman warrior, but different kind of Roman warrior than Paris was. 26:00.629 --> 26:04.171 [SPEAKER_01]: She's more like in legit shield armor, ready for battle. 26:04.331 --> 26:08.472 [SPEAKER_01]: As long as only minimal movement is needed because nothing will not hold up on the field of battle. 26:08.532 --> 26:09.133 [SPEAKER_01]: She looks great though. 26:09.253 --> 26:13.279 [SPEAKER_01]: Paris was more dressed like the Roman princess who's just there to pose for statue carvings. 26:13.559 --> 26:20.629 [SPEAKER_01]: Sienna is a pretty great singer, but I don't know this song or she is, but she kind of got like a neo-sold classic jazz R&B style. 26:20.749 --> 26:23.633 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine like Amy Winehouse meets Nora Jones. 26:23.653 --> 26:24.614 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that makes sense. 26:24.834 --> 26:25.215 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. 26:25.395 --> 26:28.858 [SPEAKER_01]: and Snoop is back out and then he brings out Dakota Johnson. 26:28.878 --> 26:33.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Dakota Johnson gives a fluffy intro for Taylor Swift. 26:33.501 --> 26:37.223 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine your mind what a fluffy Dakota Johnson intro about Taylor Swift would sound like. 26:37.704 --> 26:38.324 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it is. 26:38.644 --> 26:43.668 [SPEAKER_01]: Bigging up, Taylor is directing and do a full video package honoring her as a director. 26:43.948 --> 26:50.752 [SPEAKER_01]: and all these people who have been casted for videos are talking her up and at one point this girl says, I always know her edits are gonna be fire. 26:51.172 --> 26:52.233 [SPEAKER_01]: I was just like, hey, what? 26:52.593 --> 26:54.054 [SPEAKER_05]: Sorry, isn't that it or myself? 26:54.374 --> 26:58.516 [SPEAKER_01]: I did a question of Taylor's the one that's going in there cutting yet it's, but that's all right. 26:58.677 --> 27:05.661 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Taylor's moment and they introduce the first ever artist director honor to Taylor Swift. 27:05.981 --> 27:08.642 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just gonna say they're gonna introduce a directing category 27:10.063 --> 27:24.278 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'll be honest, this video package really taught me a whole side of tailage directing that I was not aware of, and I think that that was the point that we're trying to hammer home, seem like she's quite skilled at that craft, but to introduce a directing category for Taylor Swift is a little bit. 27:25.090 --> 27:28.613 [SPEAKER_06]: It's probably some great directors over the years that are like, oh fuck, it's serious, I'm TV. 27:29.393 --> 27:40.320 [SPEAKER_01]: Taylor's in the building, we got to honor her current interests, and her current interests are to introduce her brand new music video, Patient Zero, starring Dakota, and Colin Ferrell. 27:40.541 --> 27:44.924 [SPEAKER_01]: I'd say the VMAs are a weird place to debut a whole new video, but yeah, and then just play the whole video. 27:45.104 --> 27:49.947 [SPEAKER_01]: It starts with Dakota and a graveyard, and she's staring at a grave, and then Taylor comes out of nowhere. 27:50.327 --> 27:58.990 [SPEAKER_01]: right over his shoulder and asked her if she wants the party with someone who might know about the devil on his shoulder under his halo and sounds better when Taylor sings it 28:09.977 --> 28:13.099 [SPEAKER_01]: But I thought it was funny the way she just popped out of nowhere on the middle of a graveyard. 28:13.339 --> 28:22.643 [SPEAKER_01]: Videos very artistic and essentially treats breaking up like experiencing a death, it seems, and Taylor assures her that she's patient zero of these kind of activities. 28:23.004 --> 28:26.205 [SPEAKER_01]: I also got to say Taylor is the queen of the mid-song dialogue. 28:26.525 --> 28:27.906 [SPEAKER_01]: Does anybody do it like her? 28:28.106 --> 28:29.207 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a really kind of a thing. 28:30.047 --> 28:31.148 [SPEAKER_01]: And I gotta say she's pretty good at it. 28:31.628 --> 28:32.168 [SPEAKER_01]: I actually get it. 28:32.388 --> 28:33.349 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why people love it. 28:37.187 --> 28:38.228 [SPEAKER_07]: So let's get into it. 28:38.728 --> 28:46.495 [SPEAKER_07]: I know, he charmed your family and friends, and you thought it's cousin loves you, but it's cousin loves out everybody else loves him. 28:46.515 --> 28:47.697 [SPEAKER_07]: Uh-huh. 28:49.178 --> 28:53.722 [SPEAKER_07]: I know, it seems like he's shine so bright, but he's bathing in your respect. 28:54.368 --> 28:56.850 [SPEAKER_01]: Other than that, sounds like a pretty standard Taylor song. 28:57.130 --> 28:59.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Take that for what it is, if you love Taylor, probably like this song. 28:59.932 --> 29:05.676 [SPEAKER_01]: I think the general story of the video is Taylor used to be with Colin before Dakota is. 29:05.796 --> 29:13.762 [SPEAKER_01]: But then mysteriously died, and now Dakota is dealing with the trauma wroughts upon by Colin Farrell. 29:14.062 --> 29:16.444 [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe that's why Taylor's patient zero in the scenario. 29:16.504 --> 29:16.844 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. 29:17.264 --> 29:18.785 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch of yourself and then get back to me. 29:19.166 --> 29:20.967 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me know what you read on the video is. 29:21.427 --> 29:28.714 [SPEAKER_01]: And then Charlie XCX is out here with Troy Sivan and they are here to introduce best dance. 29:28.994 --> 29:34.119 [SPEAKER_01]: I gotta say Troy is dressed up like a little urchin boy from Germany or perhaps Norway. 29:34.439 --> 29:37.242 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, some sort of throwback Euro fashion. 29:37.522 --> 29:42.847 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not one to be the judge of any kind of throwback Euro fashion, just thought it pointed out. 29:43.107 --> 29:49.328 [SPEAKER_01]: Got like a waist wrap girdle thing going on with like the drawstring up the middle of the chest I don't describe fashion well. 29:49.529 --> 29:50.129 [SPEAKER_01]: I do my best. 29:50.169 --> 30:08.373 [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you appreciate it The noms for best dance are lady Gaga and douchey beba rexa got to see me be back in the mix slater Harry Styles pink pantherus take my cray and Madonna fuck me dude my Donna fucking wins again Seriously 30:09.355 --> 30:12.243 [SPEAKER_01]: You've got pink panthers in the crowd looking bored as hell. 30:12.483 --> 30:13.466 [SPEAKER_01]: I know she's there. 30:13.706 --> 30:16.494 [SPEAKER_01]: Did Madonna need this that she really, like, what's, what's gone on here? 30:16.861 --> 30:19.544 [SPEAKER_05]: You're gonna give me down a best dance video in 2026. 30:19.664 --> 30:22.627 [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to give me down a prop tonight after I saw her the first performance. 30:22.647 --> 30:26.851 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, she looks great, still perform, but like you guys are really laying this thing on thick, man. 30:27.091 --> 30:31.015 [SPEAKER_01]: Like does Madonna know somebody that murdered someone at MTV? 30:31.236 --> 30:35.660 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that why they're still putting her over and after I had all these years, suddenly they got Madonna out here. 30:36.000 --> 30:38.703 [SPEAKER_01]: Actin' like she is the heart and soul of the music industry in 2026. 30:39.644 --> 30:40.744 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, bring her back up. 30:40.784 --> 30:42.025 [SPEAKER_01]: Madonna comes back on stage. 30:42.085 --> 30:43.685 [SPEAKER_01]: She looks tired at this point. 30:44.125 --> 30:47.306 [SPEAKER_01]: Not doing her Madonna stretch like she did in the onset of the show. 30:47.506 --> 30:49.506 [SPEAKER_01]: And she pulls something out of her ass. 30:50.406 --> 30:51.207 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what it is. 30:51.727 --> 30:54.867 [SPEAKER_01]: Madonna says, I'm tired of that being up my ass. 30:55.408 --> 30:59.469 [SPEAKER_09]: First of all, I just want to get this thing out of my ass. 31:00.109 --> 31:02.589 [SPEAKER_09]: It's just spinning here all night. 31:03.489 --> 31:05.410 [SPEAKER_09]: It was like, I can party in the park. 31:07.552 --> 31:09.734 [SPEAKER_09]: I, why are you guys so far away? 31:10.495 --> 31:13.157 [SPEAKER_01]: Look, my dad is not a comedian and he's doing that land. 31:13.738 --> 31:15.640 [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, she's not used to the depreciation. 31:16.080 --> 31:24.347 [SPEAKER_01]: Then she doesn't really know what to do, so she brings Charlie and whatever, Jeremy, Nerchin boy, do it over to stand with her. 31:24.788 --> 31:26.629 [SPEAKER_01]: And then says, you guys didn't get my joke. 31:26.950 --> 31:29.872 [SPEAKER_01]: This has a real, I'm trying to be funny, but it's not funny vibe going on. 31:30.293 --> 31:33.816 [SPEAKER_01]: And then she actually asks, what is this award for? 31:34.752 --> 31:38.254 [SPEAKER_09]: I'm kind of unclear what this award is for. 31:38.274 --> 31:39.454 [SPEAKER_09]: I guess it's for the short film. 31:39.935 --> 31:44.037 [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, hold on, I don't this confessing to the film. 31:44.057 --> 31:52.521 [SPEAKER_09]: OK. Well, I feel good surrounded by people who like to dance, Charlie and Troy and... 31:55.923 --> 31:59.051 [SPEAKER_09]: You guys didn't get my joke, did you about the laser at my ass, did you get it? 32:00.154 --> 32:02.540 [SPEAKER_09]: It was up here all night and I took it out. 32:02.560 --> 32:02.701 [SPEAKER_09]: Anyway. 32:06.420 --> 32:10.903 [SPEAKER_01]: She loses her train of thought again, starts asking everyone who loves dance to stand up. 32:11.203 --> 32:14.525 [SPEAKER_01]: She is certainly not used to having time parameters when she talks. 32:14.925 --> 32:19.608 [SPEAKER_01]: And that works, just fine heard and I because she does not have any time parameters here. 32:20.068 --> 32:21.749 [SPEAKER_01]: So she just kind of peeders out again. 32:21.769 --> 32:26.932 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not like she hasn't had three other times to give this whole award speech thing of shots and I don't know anything. 32:27.440 --> 32:28.621 [SPEAKER_01]: And we move on again. 32:29.141 --> 32:31.462 [SPEAKER_01]: See you when you win the next award, Madonna. 32:31.683 --> 32:35.145 [SPEAKER_01]: Then a guy with a cowboy hat and a face mask is out next. 32:35.505 --> 32:38.747 [SPEAKER_01]: And the announcer says he is Orville Pekko. 32:39.087 --> 32:45.771 [SPEAKER_01]: He looks like the guy who shows up for his first Orgy party, but it wasn't sure what the vibe was, so he just threw everything at the wall. 32:46.351 --> 32:55.894 [SPEAKER_01]: leather pants, fringy leather jacket, big old cowboy hat, a zoro face mask, and a Spencer's gift t-shirt with a big heart on it that just says cool. 32:57.054 --> 33:01.375 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if there's more text to the shirt, the jacket's mostly covering up the print on it. 33:01.615 --> 33:09.297 [SPEAKER_01]: He bigs up George Michael and introduces a medley of performances in tribute of Mr. Michael. 33:09.478 --> 33:13.299 [SPEAKER_01]: So first out to perform is somber, who is a guy I learned about 33:14.719 --> 33:16.260 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he owns a shirt. 33:16.500 --> 33:23.623 [SPEAKER_01]: He does own a tiny leather jacket, appears to be of the B-Bop and Rock City collections shout out some energy turtle fans out there. 33:23.903 --> 33:26.484 [SPEAKER_01]: And he performs faith and father figure. 33:26.884 --> 33:29.966 [SPEAKER_01]: Then Ray comes out and sings another George song. 33:30.026 --> 33:32.927 [SPEAKER_01]: It kind of feels like they're recycling people on the show a little bit aren't they? 33:33.267 --> 33:42.491 [SPEAKER_01]: Like on the surface, I wanna give him props on the star power because a lot of big heavy-hitter names on there but I do feel like maybe the roster talent isn't that deep because they brought Ray back out. 33:42.571 --> 33:44.052 [SPEAKER_01]: They've given Madonna every award. 33:44.752 --> 33:52.896 [SPEAKER_01]: and then Teddy Swim sings careless whisper and as always the real MVP of the song is dude laying down the sacks. 34:05.983 --> 34:06.543 [SPEAKER_01]: Crushing it. 34:06.884 --> 34:10.906 [SPEAKER_01]: But I will say that Teddy's rendition of it is enough of his own style while 34:15.963 --> 34:38.085 [SPEAKER_04]: Don't lie, a wish that we could lose this ground Maybe it's better this way We heard it turn away, the things we want to say You turn them, spin them so good, it gets a Turn them, spin them, spin them, spin them Hey, man, please, man 34:41.578 --> 34:47.861 [SPEAKER_04]: You'll take me with a heart that won't ring on For what's the easy to pretend I'm going to be with you 34:50.411 --> 34:59.040 [SPEAKER_01]: Teddy's also got this haircut thing going on where he just left the back rolling hard while the other three quarters of the head are living in Buzzland. 34:59.260 --> 35:03.765 [SPEAKER_01]: Bold strategy but anybody that sees Teddy's whims knows he lives on bold island. 35:03.945 --> 35:11.874 [SPEAKER_01]: And then Adam Lambert is here to sing freedom and he's got these other three people coming out there that kind of helping him sing like jumping with some lyrics here and there. 35:12.034 --> 35:27.158 [SPEAKER_01]: I'd be like I'm supposed to know who they are, but uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no 35:27.238 --> 35:31.361 [SPEAKER_01]: This award is apparently voted by the fans, so I think we're safe from Madonna on this one. 35:31.461 --> 35:36.605 [SPEAKER_01]: And as I mentioned earlier, I'm gonna use our Belicae Hortis and Sienna Spiro. 35:36.945 --> 35:40.548 [SPEAKER_01]: Sienna wins and she does that, oh my god, I'm shocked thing. 35:41.008 --> 35:44.531 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, come on, they're only three people nominated and you were the only one to perform here tonight. 35:44.671 --> 35:46.572 [SPEAKER_01]: Keep talking about how heavy the trophy is. 35:46.732 --> 35:50.335 [SPEAKER_01]: I will say it seems like this award means a lot to her, so it's always good to say. 35:50.515 --> 35:54.658 [SPEAKER_01]: Like Madonna literally felt like she was bored of the whole thing in her last acceptance speech. 35:54.718 --> 36:00.959 [SPEAKER_01]: Then we got some guy named Brandon Slanard and Jeff Prope from Survivor, out next. 36:01.679 --> 36:11.181 [SPEAKER_01]: And can I just say MTV has always been awesome, I just will wacking the most random people together out there that could be relevant from literally any era and make you go wait, what? 36:12.181 --> 36:12.421 [UNKNOWN]: Why? 36:13.322 --> 36:13.942 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, sure. 36:14.162 --> 36:20.663 [SPEAKER_01]: Like it could be now introducing Anthony Kiddus and Yako Smyrnaugh. 36:21.367 --> 36:27.492 [SPEAKER_01]: Please welcome to the stage, Susan Lucci, and Chad Ocho Sinko. 36:28.253 --> 36:32.297 [SPEAKER_01]: Give it up for Chris Jericho, and Snookie. 36:32.937 --> 36:34.919 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody puts presenters together like MTV. 36:35.219 --> 36:42.786 [SPEAKER_01]: They introduce generation and young Lee who are apparently here to perform a song that's never been performed on live television. 36:42.906 --> 36:46.027 [SPEAKER_01]: And this guy ain't really walks to the stage from the back. 36:46.367 --> 36:49.248 [SPEAKER_01]: He looks like he's just gotten a scrap just like a loose tie. 36:49.268 --> 36:50.729 [SPEAKER_01]: Looks like he's a little blood on his shirt. 36:50.849 --> 36:56.151 [SPEAKER_01]: He grabs the moonman, then walks out on the stage, holds it up, and fucking shatters it to the ground. 36:56.411 --> 36:57.551 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's guys moody. 36:57.832 --> 37:07.075 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he gets in there and he's just surrounded by a bunch of preppy-looking white dudes dressed like their members of an esteemed academy with their little suit and ties going on. 37:07.335 --> 37:14.358 [SPEAKER_01]: And they do these volatile movements all around him while he just stands in the middle, singing his lyrics as he eats an ice cream cone. 37:14.498 --> 37:22.102 [SPEAKER_01]: Which kind of gives away that he's not actually singing live, but I respect the needs to look stone cold chill via ice cream cone. 37:22.322 --> 37:25.564 [SPEAKER_01]: And all these guys around him are just doing super chaotic moves. 37:25.724 --> 37:29.946 [SPEAKER_01]: And as wild as they are moves are around him, it's actually very clean corio. 37:30.166 --> 37:31.867 [SPEAKER_01]: It actually makes for a very cool performance. 37:53.279 --> 37:59.943 [SPEAKER_01]: But then the song just stops suddenly and he walks up to the camera and spits the ice cream into the camera's face. 38:00.564 --> 38:02.105 [SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, this dude's got some hedge. 38:02.545 --> 38:05.827 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's here to remind you, angry dudes can eat ice cream too. 38:06.428 --> 38:09.610 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just though probably spit it in your face before the ice cream's over. 38:10.350 --> 38:15.052 [SPEAKER_01]: Snoop's back out, and he's here to introduce video of the year. 38:15.392 --> 38:23.795 [SPEAKER_01]: We finally made it y'all, reached the Grand Finale, and the nominees are Ariana Grande, who I've not seen here once, don't think she's gonna win. 38:23.915 --> 38:24.655 [SPEAKER_01]: Bruno Mars! 38:24.995 --> 38:25.915 [SPEAKER_01]: Taylor Swift! 38:26.196 --> 38:27.016 [SPEAKER_01]: Generation! 38:27.136 --> 38:32.438 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, the angry fella got a nom on Sabrina Carpenter, and La Tana! 38:33.678 --> 38:34.899 [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, she's gonna be nominated. 38:35.239 --> 38:38.460 [SPEAKER_01]: However, this time Taylor wins. 38:38.681 --> 38:42.763 [SPEAKER_01]: She was not gonna show up to the show and their self gets shut out by Madonna. 38:42.923 --> 38:44.143 [SPEAKER_01]: She was not gonna let that happen. 38:44.163 --> 38:45.624 [SPEAKER_01]: Her team wasn't gonna let that happen. 38:45.684 --> 38:47.405 [SPEAKER_01]: CBS wasn't gonna let that happen. 38:47.485 --> 38:50.426 [SPEAKER_01]: And even MTV, as much of a chub as they have from Madonna. 38:50.606 --> 38:52.487 [SPEAKER_01]: For life, what's not gonna let that happen? 38:52.607 --> 38:59.671 [SPEAKER_01]: So Taylor, she brings her bright, excitable energy up to the stage, and then continues to go on about how she's so in a directing now. 38:59.871 --> 39:18.084 [SPEAKER_01]: Gives a shout out to the ultimate show girl, Dalai Parton, gives a very nice tribute to her, and makes special mention of Dalai's ability to tell stories in her songs, and said it was like watching music video in your head anytime you listen to a Dalai song, and that she handled all with such gratitude and grace. 39:18.564 --> 39:20.707 [SPEAKER_01]: Very well said, Tay, I agree. 39:20.988 --> 39:25.755 [SPEAKER_01]: And Snoop closed it out by saying, show love, spread love, give love. 39:25.976 --> 39:29.822 [SPEAKER_01]: Those are all kind of the same thing, but I hear you big Snoop rock-out. 39:30.042 --> 39:32.626 [SPEAKER_01]: And then close it out with, you don't gotta go home. 39:33.007 --> 39:33.588 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you do. 39:34.043 --> 39:34.984 [SPEAKER_05]: Grandpa Snoop! 39:35.324 --> 39:36.065 [SPEAKER_01]: Getting them again. 39:36.606 --> 39:40.830 [SPEAKER_01]: And that closes the 2026 CBS VMAs. 39:41.210 --> 39:42.731 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, final thoughts. 39:43.032 --> 39:46.135 [SPEAKER_01]: The VMAs these days really seem to be about two main things. 39:46.275 --> 39:50.099 [SPEAKER_01]: Honoring the legends and giving the rub to the up and cumbers as it should be. 39:50.579 --> 39:57.624 [SPEAKER_01]: It also provides a good stage for artists to give a performance to remember, which is really I think what the show was made for in the beginning, you know what you think about it. 39:57.745 --> 40:04.309 [SPEAKER_01]: There's not so many stages in the world to see in a given year, you know that could be presented on a platform as big as this. 40:04.490 --> 40:07.552 [SPEAKER_01]: Nowadays we got the Super Bowl halftime show, we got Coachella. 40:07.732 --> 40:14.699 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a few of the other major award shows like the Oscars and the Grammys, but I feel like they'll tend to be more classically organized musical performance. 40:14.939 --> 40:24.388 [SPEAKER_01]: With this stage's production and set design, they can really put on a show that turns some heads and puts some of these artists on the mat and gives a performance that will always remember. 40:24.888 --> 40:27.090 [SPEAKER_01]: Shout to Shibuze for taking advantage of that. 40:27.270 --> 40:31.054 [SPEAKER_01]: And of course Sabrina, who always puts on a full production killer show. 40:31.154 --> 40:35.118 [SPEAKER_01]: Along with Madonna and Charlie as well, we're also great as they perform alongside her. 40:35.278 --> 40:44.506 [SPEAKER_01]: And speaking of which is way too much Madonna on the show, I would have appreciated if they wanted to feature her in an honorary sense, you know, kind of like it did Moriah last year. 40:44.646 --> 40:49.691 [SPEAKER_01]: She certainly earned it, but they ultimately treated her like she was the top pop star of the year of 2026. 40:49.791 --> 40:54.215 [SPEAKER_01]: And like I said earlier, who even knew Madonna had new music this year? 40:54.495 --> 40:58.777 [SPEAKER_01]: That being said, she still looks great and can put on a hell of a performance still, so I'll let it go! 40:59.117 --> 41:00.178 [SPEAKER_01]: You do you, MTV. 41:00.578 --> 41:03.239 [SPEAKER_01]: It was actually very great to see Madonna again. 41:03.419 --> 41:04.019 [SPEAKER_01]: She looks awesome. 41:04.099 --> 41:06.441 [SPEAKER_01]: She looks like she could still go 12 rounds. 41:06.581 --> 41:07.301 [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever that means. 41:07.741 --> 41:08.021 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 41:08.401 --> 41:11.383 [SPEAKER_01]: She did Peter out in the last couple victory speeches there. 41:11.923 --> 41:13.063 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll say 9 rounds. 41:13.303 --> 41:16.704 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm besides if it wasn't her, it would have just been one of the other pop-series that always wins awards. 41:16.804 --> 41:17.885 [SPEAKER_01]: So look at the fuck. 41:18.225 --> 41:22.306 [SPEAKER_01]: But all around pretty good show feels like it used a little bit more comedy in it. 41:22.566 --> 41:25.267 [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, no comedy, no controversy, no shocking moments. 41:25.447 --> 41:29.748 [SPEAKER_01]: A real shell of what the VMAs was back in its heyday, but that's to be expected. 41:30.268 --> 41:31.929 [SPEAKER_01]: It is 2026 after all. 41:32.169 --> 41:35.990 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just glad that MTV still lives on in some form. 41:36.210 --> 41:39.011 [SPEAKER_01]: Because then, we can keep the legacy of the show alive. 41:39.091 --> 41:40.731 [SPEAKER_01]: And we can talk about the years past. 41:40.771 --> 41:41.592 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's important. 41:41.792 --> 41:43.472 [SPEAKER_01]: Ultimate effect in pop culture. 41:43.812 --> 41:45.413 [SPEAKER_01]: But I think I've circled the drain. 41:45.773 --> 41:50.014 [SPEAKER_01]: Long enough, because we're the 2026 VMAs. 41:50.454 --> 41:53.615 [SPEAKER_01]: We will be back to dissect music next week. 41:54.076 --> 41:56.256 [SPEAKER_01]: For now, it's DJ Castle. 41:56.496 --> 41:56.896 [SPEAKER_01]: Same. 41:57.597 --> 41:58.697 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't gotta go home. 41:59.477 --> 42:01.438 [SPEAKER_01]: There you do. 42:01.458 --> 42:01.758 [SPEAKER_05]: Maybe.