What's Going On With Ariana Grande! ft Olivia - H3 Show #295

**Ethan Klein** (0:06)
Hello, everybody, welcome to the H3 show. Coming at you live from Los Angeles, California.
The date, what is the date? It's August 12th, let's go, 2026 Hello. Today, we have a very special episode planned for you guys today, for your pleasure, sponsored by Omaha Steaks.
Love me, good old Juicers Steak, y'all. And co-hosted, joined by our very own, with a very special cameo, returned cameo, it is Olivia Love. Oh my God.

**Olivia** (0:44)
Thank you for having me.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:47)
Thank you for having me, you guys.

**Ethan Klein** (0:49)
Wow, the excitement. It's electric in here. Oh, it's so nice to hear that song again.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:56)
Oh, Olivia.

**Jubilee** (1:01)
I feel beautiful.

**Ethan Klein** (1:03)
So nice to have you back. Thank you. Checking in with everybody. Everybody's here. I missed the first two episodes this week. Sorry about that. I was feeling under the weather. I want to be extra cautious because I wanted to be in tip top shape for today.

**Olivia** (1:15)
Oh, thank you.

**Ethan Klein** (1:17)
How are you? I'm good. How are you?

**Jubilee** (1:20)
Good.

**Ethan Klein** (1:20)
Good. It's so nice to see you. Nice to see you.

**Olivia** (1:23)
You guys asked me, we were like, wait, Olivia, does Ariana Grande have a new boyfriend?

**Jubilee** (1:28)
Yeah.

**Olivia** (1:28)
And I was like, I have, don't hold on you guys, like I have the answers. Did you guys know she came out with an album last week?

**Ethan Klein** (1:34)
Literally no.

**Olivia** (1:35)
Oh my God.

**Ethan Klein** (1:36)
What is it called?

**SPEAKER_7** (1:37)
It's called Petal.

**Ethan Klein** (1:39)
Petal?

**Olivia** (1:40)
Petal.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:40)
That's how she says it.

**Olivia** (1:42)
It's petal, like for a flower, but she pronounces it petal.

**Ethan Klein** (1:45)
So it's actually petal, not like a play on words, like pet.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:48)
No.

**Olivia** (1:49)
No, it's like the flower, like petal.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:50)
That's pretty.

**Ethan Klein** (1:51)
That's so pretty.

**Olivia** (1:51)
It is pretty. We're going to be talking about some of the songs.

**Ethan Klein** (1:54)
Okay.

**Olivia** (1:54)
Yeah, I did actually before we get started. I wanted to, I wrote something down because I wanted to say it the right way.
So I just, I will read that before we begin. Please, yes. Okay. So first of all, thank you so much for having me.
Before we start, I want to acknowledge that there is a separate and very serious conversation happening right now about Ariana Grande, people's bodies, people's mental health, the potential implications of that conversation for young girls and the broader culture around celebrity bodies and talking about that in general. I also want to say that I do not feel that I can meaningfully or responsibly contribute to that conversation right now. I am totally unqualified. All of us are totally unqualified to talk about that, especially when so much of what is being talked about right now involves someone's health in real time. It makes me sad, and I really just hope that Ariana is okay. Ethan, ask me what happened with SpongeBob and who Ariana's new boyfriend is. I feel much more comfortable giving you those answers. Those answers, we can talk about. We can acknowledge the seriousness of that conversation and the way that the public talks about women while also having a separate conversation about her very public and quite frankly, very messy romantic life.

**Ethan Klein** (3:09)
It is what it is.

**Olivia** (3:11)
It's been documented on Twitter, online. It's a separate thing that is going on. So, where am I?
Here we are. And we will do this all with love and care, as we always, obviously.

**Jubilee** (3:24)
Always and only.

**Olivia** (3:25)
Everybody knows I'm an Arianator. I love Ariana Grande. I am also aware that sometimes people make that, sometimes things happen and we're going to be talking about everything.

**Jubilee** (3:36)
We know.

**Olivia** (3:37)
I never want anyone to feel unrepresented. We will, we will take it a relationship at a time because today I made the book of love.

**Ethan Klein** (3:48)
Wow. Excitement.

**Olivia** (3:49)
All I have to say, so that doesn't mean that the other conversation isn't important. It is so important.
I think that there will be a time and a place to talk about all of that. The larger cultural implications, the way we talk about women's bodies in general, when and if we should be talking about women's bodies, and what young people absorb from all of those conversations and consuming everything. Just not today. So, for today, I'm just gonna really hope that Ariana Grande is okay. And for today, I'm gonna talk about her ex-boyfriends.