Pardon My Take sides with Jordon Hudson, rips Airbnbs

It started as a mild opinion pitched as a bold one: hotels are fine, actually. Then the hosts piled on.

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The complaints will sound familiar to anyone who has rented a house lately. You pay a cleaning fee and still get a list of chores before checkout. You check in through a lockbox. You get a $25 Target Brooklyn Bridge painting on the wall, chairs held together with staples, and furniture that should come with a posted weight limit. Saying 'hotels are just fine' is about as safe as a hot take gets, and that's the joke. At some point a lot of people did the math and found the house wasn't the better deal anymore.

The Airbnb gripes also lined up with this week's real Airbnb story. Jordon Hudson, Belichick's ex-girlfriend, has filed a lawsuit over the Ring camera footage of a shirtless Belichick walking out of a rental in Winthrop, Massachusetts. She rented the place for 4 nights in June 2023, before anyone knew the 2 of them were together, and the video got onto social media that November.

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'Our queen' is a long-running PMT bit about Hudson, and the show has taken plenty of shots at her over the years. So when the guys say they're on her side here, they mean it about halfway. Still, the details in the filing make it an easy side to take. According to the suit, one of the hosts texted Hudson the video, and Hudson asked for it to be deleted after she checked out. The host said they'd take it off Ring but warned that 'videos are never totally deleted,' and admitted to sending it 'to a few people initially wondering is this him.'

There's one technicality the tweet skips. Hudson isn't actually suing Airbnb. The defendants are the property owners, Elise McDevitt and Craig Nolan. Airbnb isn't named, Pablo Torre isn't named even though the hosts reportedly gave him another video, and Belichick isn't a plaintiff. The suit says the leak exposed a relationship the couple had deliberately kept private.

That's where the 2 halves of the PMT segment meet. Airbnb's selling point was that a rental felt more personal than a hotel. Now it comes with homework, wobbly chairs, and maybe a doorbell camera that sends you to the whole internet. Hotels have their problems, but the front desk isn't texting your checkout video around. Watch how the hosts respond in court. Until then, PMT has made its choice, and it's the Marriott.