Maureen Callahan
Appearances
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
In a bitter, bitter, expensive lawsuit, Baldoni's countersuing Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for $400 million, which is, I believe, what he thinks their estimated net worth is. And the trial is tentatively set for March 2026.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
I think Blake Lively is suffering mightily right now, and the collateral fallout is affecting not just her husband, Ryan Reynolds, but her so-called dragon, her BFF, Taylor Swift, who it's reported has been taking a step back from her friendship with Blake because she doesn't want any of this runoff affecting her career. Justin's team has been very smart in what they're leaking and when.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
They leaked footage of the two of them while filming a scene, rehearsing a scene in which they were dancing very closely. And Justin had his mic on. And so they're working out how they're going to do this scene. Justin is saying, I think we should be kissing. And Blake says, no, I think we should be talking. I think that's even more intimate. And Justin says, okay.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
So that sort of takes some wind out of her sails. They also released another lengthy voice memo that Justin had sent to Blake in which he's phrasing her to the high heavens and saying he has let her down by not taking all of her notes and she's so brilliant and so smart and he's going to do everything he can to make her happy. Again,
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
A counter-narrative to Lively's claims that he was doing everything possible to sabotage her and make her feel unsafe on that set. So I think right now, Baldoni's team is in the power position, but that of course could shift in another few days.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
This is such a great question, Megan, because if you think about it, the damage has already been done to her. I don't know what director, because think about it, there are like five female directors working in Hollywood today.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
what male director is going to put himself and his career and reputation at risk by working with Blake Lively, who launched this all out assault on a guy who is not as well capitalized as she and Ryan are, who doesn't have the reputation, the lengthy career, you know, Who on earth would risk it? And I have to wonder why she did it.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
Because like you said, it could have just been, you know, a thing where they butted heads, they didn't see eye to eye, but they each walked away clean to do their next project. I have a theory and it is just my own theory and supposition that something went on between these two. And perhaps it was an unrequited... crush on Blake's part and Justin didn't respond in kind.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
Perhaps they did in some way have a physical relationship outside of the filming and that went south. There's something about this that just feels way too intense, way too personal that I think that the real undergirding, the real story is why, why she did this.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
I kind of read them as flirty. And even the text messages between Justin and Ryan Reynolds. If anybody listening wants to get a taste of what it's like to deal with Hollywood people, this is it. And it's really quite vile because they're just mooning over each other. I mean, they've just met and Ryan's like, hasn't responded to Justin's text for two weeks. And then he replies and he says-
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
I happen to adore you, Justin, period. It's like, buy me dinner first before you start talking to me like this. It's disgusting. And Justin and Blake are having a very, very familiar texting relationship. Whether they were that familiar, whether it was this sort of hastened intimacy because they were working so closely together so quickly, who knows?
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
But now I don't think there's any slight that's not going to be weaponized. I just read... an item yesterday that Blake Lively blew a good chunk of the movie's budget on her wardrobe. I mean, this is how petty we're going to get. I love it, but it is the strangest Hollywood war. I'm going to say it's maybe the biggest one since Brad versus Angie.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
Oh, well, Megan, first of all, when I said Brad v. Angie, I meant like when they divorced, when they separated. And it was like the bombshells were going off. He was abusive. She was like out of her mind. Like this will be the thing that shows the strength of their marriage because I'm very cynical about.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
So I really do believe that if this blowback against Blake gets to be too much, Ryan's going to cut her loose. I think that Ryan Reynolds has his eyes firmly set on becoming a billionaire, and I believe he'll get there.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
And I don't think he's going to stand for his reputation getting muddied in all of this, even though he's already in it with these lawsuits and all of these text messages and these documents. And he was famously brought in by Blake to write a whole scene in the movie and be some sort of- unpaid advisor.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
Sure. So about a month ago, the New York Times ran a blockbuster, I think, 4,000-word piece in which Blake Lively was alleging her writer-director co-star, forgive me, I'm not sure if he was the writer, Justin Baldoni, on their film It Ends With Us, had subjected her to almost ritualistic sexual harassment attacks.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
So I think that's really where you're going to see the strength of this countersuit against Justin, if it really does sort of crater their marriage.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
Yeah, I think there is. I think, you know, it seems as though perhaps they didn't do their full due diligence. I think it sort of was probably seen initially as a strength, but is now a liability that I forget how many bylines were on that piece, but one, Megan Toohey said, was one half of the team at the Times that broke the Harvey Weinstein story and became synonymous with Me Too.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
They wrote a book, they made a lot of money off of it. And I think that the Times is already struggling in many ways reputationally, and this does not help. If I recall correctly, I could be mistaken, so forgive me. But if I recall correctly, I think they went to Baldoni's team and gave them two hours to respond to that laundry list of accusations. So if that's true, it's not a great look.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
important in terms of where we are and where we're going. I agree with you, the Aziz Ansari thing was ridiculous. If that allegation had come out maybe a year later, his career would not have been destroyed. I think we are now seeing a pendulum swing back towards sanity. where just because a woman says a man did something to her, it's not automatically received as gospel.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
That the man does get a chance to tell his side of the story and back it up with documents, receipts, screenshots, texts, voicemail. Certainly helps when you have movie footage. So I think this is going to be an interesting case in terms of
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
You know, I'll be amazed if it gets there because I would think saner heads would prevail and both sides should really just drop it and walk away. Justin Baldoni's lawyer has already said he's pretty much bankrupted by this financially and emotionally. I don't know what good it does for Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds to have this be the headline of their careers for the next calendar year.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
And that's just to start it. So I think it'll be interesting to see if it ever really comes to fruition. And if there is some sort of settlement reached, who pays who? This is really, it's Hollywood writ large, right? The egotism, the narcissism, the ridiculous sums of money, the victimization, the weaponization, perhaps, we don't know yet, but perhaps of Me Too.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
And that she suffered so greatly, it was a concerted effort in which he involved multiple people to not only harass her while filming, but then once the movie was about to be released, orchestrated an online smear campaign against her.
Morning Wire
It Ends With Us...In Court | 2.8.25
A couple of weeks later, Baldoni's lawyer, Brian Friedman, filed a countersuit in which he alleged that the text messages obtained by the New York Times had been selectively edited. And they sort of threw open their document dump, which seemed to absolve Justin of many of the things that Lively has been claiming. Nonetheless, these two are now locked
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Maria Shriver has newly reinvented herself, I'm gonna say over the past decade, as a real Christian woman of faith.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Enough of him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
enough of him enough this is another thing he does he just says the same thing like over and over and over because he really doesn't have anything to say number one as per news reports he was not invited okay that's why he's boycotting it number two can we please look at a photo of jack with his mommy at the met gala a few years ago you guys look at the dress that caroline kennedy is wearing
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Now, I am sure, I can't prove it, I don't have the actual receipts, but I am sure that Anna Wintour put her in that dress because every attendee has to have their look approved by Anna. And so, first of all, that's how, like, grubby Caroline Kennedy and her kid are. They're, like, willing to have Anna Wintour tell them what they can and cannot wear. I mean, she's political royalty, don't you know?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Secondly, look at this. She looks like a Japanese cake exploded... She actually looks like a couch exploded. It's sort of like the version of Kim K's dress when she went with Kanye that first year. This is an epic troll. This is an epic, epic troll.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And her date is her layabout, useless, nepo baby son, who not for nothing was hired by Anna Wintour over the summer to be Vogue's political correspondent. And look at the tongue bathing he got for this. I believe, did Annie Leibovitz shoot this? It was somebody big. We're looking at Jack. on the floor in what looks like a newsroom next to a xerox machine rolling around in xeroxes of his own face
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
whose difficulties in life now have imbued her with so much wisdom and experience that her job is now to teach all of us how to become better people and really self-actualized, again, whatever that means, but this is the garbage language that we are infected with in this current culture. Maria Shriver, and this loops into this new book,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
He proceeded, I think he maybe wrote one or two columns by which I mean, I know how this works. I've seen it all. I see it all the time. These celebrities get these bylines, but what they do is they call an editor, they talk to an editor and an editor puts them into a cogent piece of writing that is semi-publishable.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And he instead went on Instagram and let's watch him explain to us why he feels the need to go live.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
what's up well i wanted to show you that amount of footage because it ratifies my earlier point that all he does is repeat stuff there's no actual content or original thought behind it i'm going live i'm going live it's important to go live i think live is growing it's important to grow what what what are you talking about why are you clogging up my goddamn feed with your bullshit
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
You're not bright. You're not talented. You have nothing to offer except your name, which, sir, frankly, is in the toilet. Why don't you go get a job and be a productive member of society instead of talking like a child to an audience that you think adores you? Oh, by the way, I love this for him. Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing him for an online troll, and it couldn't happen to a better guy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And I hope Alan Dershowitz takes this kid for whatever he's worth, which we all know is mommy's money. Next up, before we go to break, I want to remind you guys that, listen, I've been getting, I read all the emails, all the DMs. I'm responding to as many of them as I can as quickly as I can.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And God bless you because this is a problem so many people, including Jack Schlossberg, would love to have.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger, the mega movie star of the 80s, there was nobody bigger, maybe Sly Stallone, he had an affair. I'm going to say actually a relationship because it went on for about 10 years with the Schwarzenegger slash Shriver household maid. That affair resulted in a child. who was kept a secret for about 10 to 15 years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
This child spent a lot of time in Arnold and Maria's home among Arnold and Maria's four children, one of whom, Patrick Schwarzenegger, starred in the White Lotus. For my money, by the way, one of the best performances on the whole show. Oh, I also saw Jason Isaacs at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Very small guy, like shorter than I am. I'm 5'7". He was like maybe 5'5", and like real thin.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
But anyway, So the kids grow up with this other child in their home often, and this child, we're going to show you a picture of him, is the spitting image of Arnold Schwarzenegger, okay? So Maria Shriver would have us believe that the wool was pulled over her eyes for about 15 years, that she had no idea that this could have been
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
a child fathered by her own husband, who, by the way, open secret in Hollywood. I remember reading about this as a kid in like Premier Magazine and Movieline Magazine. This was back when magazines really mattered and they like really delivered the goods.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And it was reported often in there, not only that Arnold was a serial womanizer, but that he was really creepy with women on sets and way too handsy. And he definitely would have been me too'd. You're telling me that if I'm like a kid in suburban Long Island and I know about this, that Maria Shriver doesn't know about it? Not buying it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
When the LA wildfires broke out and then news broke the really important stuff that Ben Affleck dropped everything, raced over to Jen Garner's house, scooped her and the kids up and spirited them off to safety, I thought to myself, how is JLo reacting to this news? It cannot be well. My second thought is I need to call Bill and talk to him about this because he, like me, loves to dive in
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
to the human psychology behind these people who otherwise present themselves as so perfect and rich and powerful and um ben affleck is one of our favorite talking points since he is out promoting his new movie the accountant too i thought what better time to bring in bill and uh talk some ben affleck and other celebrity news so welcome bill and thank you for doing the show
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Thanks, Bill. Thank you. Oh, my God. So first, I want to start off by showing the audience Ben Affleck's greatest hits. First, we're going to look at the... This is one of the greatest paparazzi photos ever taken. And were Andy Warhol still alive, this would be a silkscreen print that would go for millions of Christies. The...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Maria Shriver doesn't know that this kid who's a carbon copy of her distinct looking husband with a jaw that like, come on. You don't, okay, fine, whatever. The story breaks. Maria, shocked, taking to her bed, her fainting couch. Can't believe it. By the way, she grew up a Kennedy, okay? This is what these men do. They treat their women like shit. They have affairs. They sire other kids.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
paparazzi photo of a fed up Jennifer Garner in Ray-Bans, I think they're Ray-Bans, driving Ben Affleck to rehab, and he makes her stop for Jack in the Box or fast food. She can't even look at him. She is so disgusted. pushing the bag of food in his face while looking down, this shot said everything about their relationship.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
As we know, Ben went on to marry the quote unquote love of his life, Jennifer Lopez, who They were engaged 20 years ago. They like to say the media broke them up. What really broke them up was Ben went to a strip club while he was shooting a movie in Canada. And I will never forget the details of this story because I remember it was like my... JFK assassination moment.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I was on the beach reading the National Enquirer. It was this story about Ben at a strip club with his castmates who included Christian Slater. They were partying. He performed a sex act on a stripper in the club in front of everybody. They all went back to the mansion where they were staying. somebody walked by a bathroom at some point and saw one of the strippers shaving Christian Slater's back.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And I was like, these are the details that really make a story sing, you know? So let's take a look at J-Lo and Ben, maybe in the first flush of their newly rekindled romance, they're newlyweds, they're on the red carpet, strutting their stuff, showing how happy they are. Let's take a look at some of those moments in recent memory.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
So right now we're looking at, I believe this is one of Jen's premieres. So look at him get in her face. Look at like, he's a big guy. This guy's like 6'3", I think. And it's her night and he's getting in her face. It's like, yeah, you can see the name of the movie. It's the mother, I think that was hers. Here we are at the Grammys. Oh, I love this one. Ben, his best grumpy face is on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
They don't know the cameras are on them. And she basically elbows him and is like, hey, Look alive. Okay, this is her crowd, not his. This is her work event. He needs to show up and support her, and he's being such a pill. By the way, whenever it's one of Ben's events, he's always on. Okay, now we're walking to the car. This is towards the end of the relationship, and you're gonna see why.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
He opens the car door for Jen, Jennifer Garner. Sorry, J-Lo, I get confused. Okay, she steps inside, very daintily steps inside. Watch the slam, the arm, the arm like flies up. It's the most epic fuck you. He knows the cameras are there. He sees them. He's talking to the paparazzi at the end of that clip. And that ladies is what it's like to date Ben Affleck. Bill, your thoughts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Well, I mean, it was like 4am, you know, I mean, imagine what it was like there, but like, that's like who exactly like, Hey, want to shave my back? Like that stripper was earning her money that night. Okay. Anyway, go on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
showing so much contempt for a woman who made an entire documentary about how much she loves him. Like that's the thing, like don't date Ben Affleck. There was this great story. Well, okay, before we get into the latest quotes from some insiders who had some really juicy stuff to share with the New York Post, I wanna go back to this clip of Ben Affleck on Howard Stern.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Sometimes they leave women for dead. She's shocked, guys, shocked to her bones. She's a big Christian. All we see whenever Joseph Baena, that's the name of the child, he's now an adult that Arnold had with the housekeeper. And to Arnold's credit, he has been a present and loving father to this kid. You know, Maria reportedly, allegedly has iced this kid out, okay? This kid is not welcome.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
because now he's trying to win back Jennifer Garner. He has been leaking that he would take her back in a heartbeat if she would have him. This woman is in a seven year relationship with another man. But this was Ben on Stern about like two years ago talking about why he had such a problem with alcohol.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
So, Bill. You've been married for a while now. You're coming up on your 12 year anniversary. So congratulations on that. Let's say, God forbid, you split up with your wife. Would you tell anyone, let alone Howard Stern, that your lovely wife drove you to drink?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
That's why he's so fascinating, because I am also a fan of his. Like, I may sound like I'm not, but I am. For a long time, I had a huge shame crush on Ben Affleck. But he, like one of my, so I love The Town. I think that's an incredible movie. I thought he did an incredible job with Argo. I love that movie. He also did one of the greatest DVD commentaries of all time for Armageddon.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And it was so funny, and you can see how this guy would be such a sparkling conversationalist. He displayed, like, self-awareness and self-deprecation, and he pointed something out that is painfully obvious about a movie that kind of put him on the map as a matinee idol, shows he has intelligence, and then he does stuff like this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
person in the relationship the one without the power so that was a public display of it may look like she's running things but i'm tired of her crap and and here it is for everybody to see yes yes i want to i want to read this quote before we go into our theory as to why ben cut and run so quickly with j-lo because his usual ammo is to uh force the woman in his life into leaving him by treating her like um so this is a quote from
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
someone who knows Affleck in this, it was this incredible story in the New York Post. It was like a Sunday, great juicy read. Quote, the dirty secret is that he, Ben, he's the diva. He's the one who likes attention and calls the paps and manipulates women. He love bombs you. And once he's got you, he gets bored and leaves. It's cruel. And anyone who remembers what he did.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
So this guy, again, we're promoting a movie and he loves, his favorite thing is to love to run around and say, I have no idea why everybody's so fascinated with my private life. Like nothing, nothing to see here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Ana de Armas, this up and coming starlet at the time, she's building a nice career for herself, left him and he had one of his children, by the way, again, we all know what their children look like. I shouldn't really know what they look like, I think. He had one of his children take a life-size cardboard cutout of Ana de Armas and dump it in his trash containers in full view of the paparazzi.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
All of the siblings, the half siblings, whatever, They're all adults now. And by the way, one of her daughters, Katherine Schwarzenegger, who sort of pedals in this lifestyle, self-help, wellness bullshit, is married to Chris Pratt, who prides himself on being a big Christian. I ask you, what is Christian about icing out this kid who is here through no fault? This is not his fault.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
nothing to see here um okay so the ditty of it all because we're going to get into ditty as well share your theory bill as to why ben affleck chose a moment in which um jennifer lopez was in europe to flee the 65 million dollar marital home in the metaphorical dead of night and move into a 20 million dollar rental closer to who else jen garner um to
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I couldn't agree with you more. I think that because it's so goes against his normal way, as we just spoke about of exiting a relationship, like he got the F out of there. He and he never does that. And then so in this new GQ interview, he's on the cover, this cover story, and he's like super like they've sort of made him look like kind of a Bob Evans super producer Hollywood type.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
The first question in this profile is speaking of tabloids, the FBI visited your house and he gives this like lengthy run on explanation, which has two different reasons as to why the FBI showed up at his personal residence and none of it really makes any sense. And I think there's probably only one reason the feds would show up at Ben Affleck's house with everything that's going on. Am I crazy?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I mean... Oh, my God. That was amazing. That was amazing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
That is amazing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
That affair, that relationship, that is not his fault. Why is he iced out of being around The Paragons of Virtue and Christianity, Maria Shriver. This is why I didn't want to spend money on her book, you guys. But I did it because it is for a greater good. We're going to take her apart as she should be.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
You know, she gets such like velvet glove treatment because as we all know, regrettably, because they cannot stop banging on about it. Her best friend is Oprah Winfrey, you know? And she had a big career, by the way, in media. She was a quote unquote journalist. And I have a personal anecdote to share at the end of this bit.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
You guys are, I don't know if it's gonna shock you, but when it happened to me, I was kind of shocked. So she's got this book out and it's a book of poetry. Okay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
the base price for this book you got you buy it in a bookstore which i encourage because you know amazon gets enough of our money 30 bucks you're buying it in canada 39.99 this book is very small and by i mean physically small okay that means that the publisher is trying to scam you by making it look like it has more pages than an actual standard size book would okay it's a book of her poetry and i'm gonna read just a little bit of it to you because i love you and i would never torture you like this
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
You're going to gag, okay? Don't drink anything while you're listening to this segment. You're going to gag. So she gives us a little bit in the beginning and a little bit in the end of like actual prose we can read. And she opens with reflections. The first line, I am Maria. No shit, lady. Your picture's on the cover. Your book is called I Am Maria. And you're...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Name is on the bottom as the author. Okay. She tells us that searching for the authentic Maria, uncovering, discovering, and recovering her garbage to fill up space has been a challenge for me all my life. For decades, I couldn't see her because I was looking for myself in all the wrong places. What is this? You may be wondering what on earth took me so long to see these truths.
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Trust me, I've asked myself that question a million times. I now understand I couldn't have known these truths until I learned them and I couldn't have learned them until I lived them and I couldn't have lived them until I had to. She's sounding like Mel Robbins, another total and complete moron who is out there shilling snake oil to the women of America.
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And I really hate this because it's all so inauthentic and none of it's true. I've ripped many of these poems out of a place of fear, shame, confusion, and darkness. Okay, this scandal happened, I'm going to say it was at least 20 years ago. So I think she's very late to this party.
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Now she gives us a little bit of an origin story in case we don't know that she's a Kennedy, because trust me, these Kennedys never let any of us forget that they're Kennedys, though they probably should. You see, she begins, which is so cloying. It's a way of trying to establish relatability with the reader.
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And it always puts me off when people say, you see, because it's a tell to me that they think that they are so above the rest of us that they need to bring themselves down to earth in order to converse with us, even though we are the ones putting money in said pocket. I grew up in a big competitive Irish Catholic family where you didn't sit around and talk about your feelings.
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So Maria Shriver, you may have seen her on our little media tour. She has a new book out, which I finally bought. I was having trouble bringing myself to put money in her pocket, but it's for a greater good. So this is the book. It's called I Am Maria, Maria Shriver, number one New York Times bestselling author.
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You went out into the world and had an impact. The bar was set high and I mean really high. We know, we know in the tons of biographies, historical accounts, magazine articles, documentaries, memoirs that have been published since the assassination of JFK in 1963. We know. You don't have to tell us. Please don't tell us. Just spare us. Just assume. You know what?
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Just give us our dignity and assume that we all have a modicum of intelligence and know who you are. That's why you got this book deal. That's why you got your own publishing imprint. That's why you get on the Today Show and all manner of of public national platforms to sell your garbage. Okay. Fast forward to 2003 and kapow! Exclamation point.
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My movie star husband abruptly decided he wanted to run for governor of California. Wait, what? You gotta be kidding me. Okay.
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When Arnold Schwarzenegger, again, known womanizer, known social climber, everybody knew as early as the 80s that he had his eye on the White House, on finding a way to get around or add an amendment to the Constitution which would allow foreign-born people to run for president of the United States. Everybody knew that this was this guy's ultimate goal.
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What better way than at that time to marry a prominent Kennedy? We all knew it. Maybe Maria really did delude herself. I don't know. She goes on to tell us more Mel Robbins stuff about living her authentic life, blah, blah, blah. Let's flash forward to a poem, shall we? This poem is called Dallas. Guess what it's about? The word pulls the trigger that is really poor choice of language.
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Rips through my house like the wind. Dallas, why did you forsake us? Why did you let that happen? Why did you? Where were you? This is garbage, garbage, garbage, okay? Now, we get to a poem called Rejection, which I'm guessing is about Arnold. You know what I'm talking about. Don't play naive. Don't pretend you didn't know. Don't pretend it didn't cut.
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Face it, that familiar feeling of rejection, it cuts, it makes you wince. Edna St. Vincent Millay, this is not. And by the way, in the introduction to her book, she tells us that she's done talking about her marriage. And you won't find any real details about it here. Again, what are we all doing here? Either talk about the marriage and put it on the page and tell your story or don't.
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But don't be a tease, Maria. You know, everybody learns that. Like everybody hates a tease. So I'm going to tell you my little Maria Shriver story, which is that in 2019, I had published a book for the same publisher that publishes Maria Shriver. It's Viking. And it was called American Predator. It was a true crime story. Immediately hit the New York Times bestseller list.
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It outperformed their expectations and it makes them still to this day a ton of money. They said to me, whatever you want to write about next, we will publish it. We don't care, you know, because all they could see was dollar signs. I said, great, here's my next book. Guess what it was? Ask Not, which is the book that came out last summer.
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And in fact, to my great dismay, I saw in this weekend's book review, it has debuted at number one on the New York Times list. And that was the inciting event. I said, I've got to talk to you guys about this, and we've got to take it apart. So, you know, Maria Shriver... I'm gonna give you my blanket objections to her, and then we can go in and really dig in piece by piece.
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Kennedy book about all the Kennedy women that family has like fucked with and destroyed.
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um my publisher went radio silent for a good few months which is a very very it's like a no-no in that world you don't do that you can really screw with an author's career doing that because suddenly everybody thinks that i'm a problem that the author's the problem if a publishing house doesn't want to go near a book an author that has just sold them a ton of books there's got to be a major issue right um she maria thinks in this book this guy brian hart who is the publisher of
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I said house, right? Brian was my publisher. I thought he loved me until word got back to me that Viking had likely passed. I'm going to say likely, allegedly passed because they were getting in bed with Maria Shriver and giving her her own imprint and they didn't want to upset her delicate sensibilities.
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To which I said, that's a bunch of bullshit because Maria Shriver likes to call herself a journalist and any journalist worth their salt would never want to trample on anyone's first amendment right to express themselves in the pages of a book or their ideas, no matter how confrontational or upsetting. I also had a fellow author decline to give me a blurb for the book saying that the
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this person, I will not gender this person, was too afraid of upsetting Maria Shriver, which to me, I was like, are you kidding? Upset Maria Shriver, who cares? So that will lead us to Jack Schlossberg. I've been dying to do this for a very long time, and I'm so happy this platform has afforded me this, and it is my fervent hope that this winds up in Jack Schlossberg's Instagram feed, because...
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He went after me personally a couple of months ago after I wrote a story, a column for the Daily Mail in which I basically said, why isn't Caroline Kennedy coming to get her son? Because his social media accounts and his trolling of people who are really far more accomplished and intelligent than he is.
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By the way, this is a 32-year-old man who has no real job and spends his days filming himself for Instagram. And I mean, it's like, it's almost, I'm not saying he is, but it's like watching somebody who's like bipolar and in a manic phase and they can't stop.
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doing something like posting posting posting and they speak in ways that actually make zero sense even though he'll remind you more than once he's been to harvard twice you guys twice and it's not like he's a legacy or anything um but anyway he went after me personally after i wrote a column basically saying this is the kind of kennedy that the family used to like lobotomize and hide
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Ask not, read about Rosemary. And anyway, he's out there making an absolute ass of himself. There was a story in page six that I just loved. And it basically said that, Jack, JFK's grandson, is doing more harm to the Kennedy name than the rest of them combined. That's coming from Kennedy family members. And that says a lot.
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Again, when you're talking about a family that has unalived women who were inconvenient, left someone to drown or die. She didn't drown. She suffocated in three feet of water. That says a lot. He then went on to social media and started calling me names. Okay, like it's going to take more than that, Jack. It's going to take more than that, Jack, calling me names.
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I'll repeat it for you because he thought it was witty. He called me Maureen Vagine. I guess he thought my name rhymes with like a female body part that by definition should be something we mock and laugh about, which, you know, by the way, I've never understood that. I've never frankly understood why the P word, the word pussy is supposed to be sort of a put down in the culture.
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I mean, women give birth, you know, we are incredibly powerful because of that.
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bodily part that men don't possess so you know you anyway jack's been on instagram for a couple of reasons number one he is loudly taking a very uh brave determined stance uh we're not talking israel versus palestine we're talking the met gala and he is telling us that he is boycotting the met gala and you can watch a little bit of this from his instagram
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It's important to me to stay relatable. I love to elevate a guest's visit. Microwave popcorn. You plop it right in there. It's so simple. Only the lazy people don't do this. Put it in a paper bag. Here we go. It's right behind you. Oh, my god. You did it.
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They're spectacular. And then I just, and then I just dump them. I died when I saw the first clip of it is a longer one than what you just saw there. I was with Abby we cried we were so hard that you guys are going to love tomorrow show and I can't wait to bring it to you so we'll see them.
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Well, we must have stumbled into some bad luck because Dylan Mulvaney is back. I thought we left Dylan Mulvaney behind in 2023. The last time Dylan Mulvaney was famous, Joe Biden was still president, and honestly, he might have still known what day it was. But Dylan Mulvaney is back in the news, and you'll never guess why.
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Dylan Mulvaney is cosplaying Melania Trump's New Year's Eve outfit from about six months ago. That's what Dylan Mulvaney is doing. Honestly, Dylan, you don't look that great. Now, at first, I had no idea how Dylan Mulvaney ended up with Melania Trump's Versace dress from New Year's Eve. I thought, you know what?
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Maybe Melania Trump and her amazing, iconic stylist, Hervé Pierre, left it in a donation bin that Dylan Mulvaney went to rummage through like a little raccoon. That was my first guess. theory. My second theory was this.
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Maybe Melania Trump, she's having so much fun on New Year's Eve at Mar-a-Lago, she goes up and tosses the dress off the tower at Mar-a-Lago into the bushes and Dylan Mulvaney, like a little raccoon, takes the dress and runs off with it. But turns out that is not the case. Donatella Versace herself
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sent Dylan Mulvaney this iconic dress that our wonderful, beautiful First Lady Melania Trump wore back on New Year's Eve. Now, we have a picture of Donatella Versace. It's going to make you gag. Let's put it up right now. So when we look at this picture at first, I'm just gonna call it like I see it. That's why you guys come here. We are kicking the show off with a bang.
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We've got Dylan Mulvaney, Donatella Versace. When I look at this picture, I can't tell who's transgender. I can't tell who's had more plastic surgery. Honestly, Dylan Mulvaney has had facial feminization surgery, gender transition surgery, hormones, Botox, you name it, and still looks like more of a woman than Donatella Versace, who is slowly morphing into Mickey Rourke. I
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I don't think Donatella is going to be sending me clothes after this episode, but nonetheless, who cares? I'll also say this. Dylan Mulvaney is not good for any brand. The fastest way to tank your brand is to have Dylan Mulvaney endorse it. We saw that with Bud Light, right? They sent Dylan Mulvaney all of these cans with his face on it, and immediately the stock started to plummet.
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But I'm the type of person, because I call it like I see it, because I'm fair, I actually somewhat defended Dylan Mulvaney and the Bud Light scandal, and let me tell you why. This is one of my first big viral videos. Some of you who've been with me for years, you might remember this. So Dylan Mulvaney was getting lambasted, raked over the coals for this Bud Light scandal.
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And I said, you know what? Bud Light, they're the ones who strayed from their core competencies. Bud Light, they're the ones who decided to send all these cans to a man in a dress who mocks women for a living because that's what Dylan Mulvaney does. That's how Dylan Mulvaney became famous. He was posting these videos saying, I chipped a nail. I'm having a bad day. I must be a girl.
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This is what womanhood is like. My life has been so enriched by the strong women within it. There are strong, incredible women producing the show right now behind the camera. I can tell you, Dylan Mulvaney knows absolutely nothing about womanhood if he thinks it's makeup, lipstick, hair extensions, and dresses. That has nothing to do with real womanhood. I was raised by a strong, independent woman.
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I can tell you that right now. Dylan Mulvaney is a joke. But Bud Light, they sent Dylan the cans. All Dylan was doing was collecting a check, doing a brand deal like every other influencer. Now, Bud Light, most of the people who drink Bud Light, they are not transgender. They are not men in dresses. They are not cringe-worthy influencers.
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But some dumbass at Bud Light thought it would be a good idea to send Dylan Mulvaney those cans. I actually think Versace, this liberal, elite, high-fashion institution, sending dresses to Dylan Mulvaney makes a little bit more sense. But what I don't understand is this. Donatella Versace, she could send clothes to angel moms, warrior moms, school teachers.
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Some of you out there would love to have a hair and makeup session, have someone come and bring you a fancy thousand dollar dress to put on for the day and go to a fabulous event. But Donatella Versace, she is telling you where her priorities lie, right? She doesn't care about the forgotten men and women of this country. She cares about this transgender influencer who makes a mockery of women
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every single day and then wants to cry and play the victim. That's what Dylan Mulvaney does, right? Dylan Mulvaney tries to say, oh my God, everyone's so mean to me. Everyone's so harsh on me. Dylan, you have become rich and famous because you put a dress on. All right. People would love to do that. I wish I didn't have to work that hard.
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In my next life, we can all come back as Dylan Mulvaney and become rich and famous for doing absolutely nothing. Now, Dylan Mulvaney, he was praised by his fashion. He had think pieces written on him in Vogue.
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But if you're a Republican, if you're a conservative, if you're a real woman who happens to be an independent and goes against the left wing doctrine, you are going to get attacked by the fashion elites. And that's what they did to First Lady Melania Trump just a few months ago in January in Vogue. They decided to denigrate her official white fashion.
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House portrait where she looks strong, she looks incredible, she looks like she's ready to take on the world. But Vogue, they really had a problem with this. We have a quote right here from the journalist Hannah Jackson. Let me read it to you. She said, Trump looked more like she was guest starring on an episode of The Apprentice than assuming the role of First Lady of the United States.
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Trump's clothing certainly didn't help the boardroom pastiche. The choice to wear a tuxedo as opposed to a blazer or blouse made Trump look more like a freelance magician than a public servant.
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It's perhaps unsurprising that a woman who lived in a gold-encrusted penthouse whose fame is so intertwined with a reality television empire would refuse to abandon theatrics when faced with 248 years of tradition. So this journalist, Hannah Jackson, let's put her up on the screen, right? Let's put Hannah Jackson up on the screen.
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She has made a living tearing down beautiful conservative women who care about the children in our country. That's what Melania Trump is doing. She has the Take It Down Act. She's doing tons of incredible things, right?
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And the fashion literati, all of these liberals like Hannah Jackson who live in their walk-up apartments in Bushwick and are miserable and just want to tear down anybody they don't like, what they don't understand is this. If Melania Trump had a D next to her name, they would love her. The same thing with Usha Vance, right?
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The fact that Usha Vance happens to be a Republican, she happens to be married to J.D. Vance, they are going to tear her down because all of these people, they want to preach feminism and acceptance and lifting women up. They want to preach about Roe v. Wade and whine about the Dobbs decision.
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But when it actually comes to uplifting women who have an R next to their name and happen to be Republicans, conservatives, MAGA, even independents, no, no, no, no, no. They have no room for those women. And objectively... objectively speaking, I say this as a gay man, I can be objective, if we look at Jill Biden, Michelle Obama, and Melania Trump.
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Melania Trump is the most stunning first lady we've had in decades, okay? I don't care what you want to say, everybody. You can act like keyboard warriors. Melania Trump is the most stunning first lady we've had in decades. I also have to point out, Vogue used to love Melania Trump before she was first lady, before her husband got into presidential politics as a Republican.
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They would put Melania on the cover of Vogue. Now, they're never going to put her on the cover of Vogue as first lady, which I think is an atrocity. Jill Biden has been on the cover of Vogue three times, and she looks like a streetwalker in her fishnet leggings and her leather skirts. That woman... Jill Biden, you look like a streetwalker on Houston Street. I'm going to be nice.
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I'm going to be cordial. It's our first ever episode. I'm going to have some decorum. We're here on Megyn Kelly's network. I'm going to have some decorum. I will also say Michelle Obama, she's been on the cover of Vogue three times herself, and she looks like an utter calamity half the time. I don't know who is styling Michelle Obama. Maybe it's Stevie Wonder.
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But the fact that she's been on the cover of Vogue three times is crazy. And Melania has never been on the cover of Vogue once. once as first lady. So all of these liberal fashion literati folks who sit in their penthouse apartments, they can continue to tear down conservative women all they want. But Trump won the popular vote. He won 77 million votes from Americans.
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That's about half the country. Kamala Harris, she got her ass handed to her. She lost every single swing state. President Trump won the House the Senate, the Electoral College. So all of these folks, they can turn their backs on half the country. They can denigrate half the women in this country. But even from a capitalistic standpoint, I don't understand what Vogue is doing.
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Why are you tearing down conservative women when you could be giving them a shot? Usha Vance, she's an Indian American. She's the first Hindu second lady. If she had a D next to her name, if Usha Vance were a Democrat, they would have loved her, but that's why people aren't buying Vogue. That's why these magazines are going out of fashion, going out of style and shutting down.
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So to conclude and bring it all home, Melania Trump, she wears a dress on New Year's Eve. She is attacked. She's raked over the coals. They say her outfit is too scandalous. Why is she wearing that as first lady? Vogue drags her. They say she's a freelance magician. They say she's boardroom pastiche. Okay, that's what they say about Melania Trump.
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Dylan Mulvaney, a man, puts on the same dress and is praised by the fashion literati. Dylan Mulvaney puts on the exact same dress like when you order it online versus when it arrives in the mail. Dylan Mulvaney looks like the Alibaba, Timu, Wish version of Melania Trump. Dylan, you wish. You wish you had the fashion wherewithal of Melania Trump. You don't. You tried. Better luck next time.
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But Dylan Mulvaney puts on the exact same dress and is praised. Vogue is saying Dylan looks incredible. They say Dylan Mulvaney is opening doors for women. That's how far the feminist movement has come on the left. A man in a dress with balls. I don't know. Maybe he doesn't have balls anymore. We'll have to check in and get back to you on that one. But Dylan Mulvaney, a man...
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is opening doors for women and breaking down barriers for women for putting on a $1,000 dress and going out to a fancy highfalutin event. All of you liberals are out of touch. You're cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Like I said in the intro, I wish you well.
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We're now in week two, almost, since that disastrous Prince Harry interview with the BBC. He lost a major court case. He sat in front of a reporter for the BBC and he basically walked right up to alleging that the British Royal family wants to kill him Meghan and probably his two innocent young children, but also that he would love to get back in.
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He would love to get back in, but he also just needs all of the security that this latest court ruling once again denied him, okay? Because he's not a working royal anymore by his own decision, okay? So the British taxpayers aren't going to pay for this. And he's so, so important. So this was a humiliation.
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And if you go and look at that interview on YouTube, you can see, I mean, the whole demeanor, his comportment, the way he's talking, like his mouth is like even smaller than usual. He can't get the words out. He is just completely, he uses the word devastated. He says, I'm devastated. That is a man who is fully emasculated if you ask me. Okay, so what does Megan do?
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When things go wrong, like really, really wrong, like really, really, really bad, Meghan does this. She puts on this face and everything's great. Everything's great. In fact, things are better than they were before Harry's latest fuck up, okay? So she took to Instagram where her likes and comments seem to be permanently disabled.
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to brag about having been at beyonce's show the night before with that man harry remember never forget that man who loves me so much so of course now this is a carousel right because we have to experience like all of her emotions and and her winning her constant winning so she begins this post in the most banal, cliched way possible, okay? She begins this post with the following three words.
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about last night. Like everybody uses that. Like it should be like, like whoever runs Instagrams, you know, it's not Mark Zuckerberg, but whoever, like that should just be banned about last night. It's not cute anymore. It's not funny, whatever. Okay. So of course she uses the most hackneyed trite things she can because she has not, as I've said, an original freaking thought in her head.
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So first we're going to see Megan and standing at the Beyonce show. And I think in this one, she might be wearing Harry's hat. Yeah. Okay. She's wearing, now the hat is going to come into play later. Now look at, first of all, I want you to take this all in because every single thing is telling us something.
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And I want you to think about the ways in which she thinks she's showing us she and Harry are winning, but she's actually showing us that they are winning. losing as ever. Okay. So that's that image. This is the next image. And this was also put, this was like the center photo on page six over the weekend in the Sunday paper. Look at just, just, just, I mean, look at the smiles. Okay.
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They're having the best time. Next, we're going to look at Megan dancing at the Beyonce show because you know, she's not just,
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a royal in exile she's like a cool royal in exile so she's dancing she's letting loose she's letting her hair down oh my god you guys she can't dance he can't dance like she's barely moving for like it's like taylor you know taylor swift can't dance so like they usually make her just walk on stage like just like she's a supermodel like she walks over here and then she walks over there like megan is like
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barely barely like she's like a robot she's like she's like dancing like a robot okay then next in her carousel we see harry kissing megan on the cheek because what is he doing if he's not showing that he's constantly A supplicant he's the help he has to show that she is the adored one and that's, by the way, and stark contrast to.
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The two of them in New York City, a couple of weeks ago at the time 100 summit, where she exited their vehicle and he went to grab her hand and she just like. I have a stranger to hug. Get away from me. Pee on. You disgust me. Okay, next. Megan with Friends. Again, who are these people? Like, I don't recognize any of them from the Netflix show, With Love, Megan.
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Like, where's Daniel, the makeup artist? Where's Mindy Kaling? Who are these no names that I don't notice? Okay, again. they're not she's not with celebrities okay these i don't know who these people are and then we're going to take a look at okay here is is this video of beyonce and megan clapping together how did i can this be right no they're not together of course not
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Megan's just having a moment okay and then let's see there's another picture of her and Harry it's a selfie nobody cares the hat is what I want to get to the hat so the hat she was wearing which we are informed was Harry's you guys look at this thing okay she's got stenciled inside the brim of the hat on the underside of the brim of the hat which would be again Harry's Archie
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in all capital letters, like block letters underneath that Lily, all block letters. And underneath that, my love, my love, not Megan, but you know, hearkening to the Jamie Carlina interview that she did like two weeks ago where she sighed theatrically because there's no other kind of Megan Markle sigh, but a theatrical sigh.
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That man, you know, and she's telling us he comes in after she has torn herself away from her two children for a moment of respite. And she goes into an adjoining room where she now misses them so much. She has to start scrolling through her phone to look at photos of them, even though they're in the next room. And Harry walks in and he says, my love, can't you just give yourself a break?
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So, you know, and okay, what this hat shows is not only i think harry's balls i think she like weighted them down with like some concrete per the sopranos and like threw them in a body of water and they're gone that's it this guy's fully emasculated and that's her showing us the way she's got control of him and how much he adores her and it also shows us that megan is not
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what she purports to be and so badly wants to be. She thinks she's like the cool Royal, the American easy breezy, California, cool Royal with a wellness brand or a food brand. Like when it's like, she's not cool. Okay. There is zero about that hat and everything else about in that Instagram post that is cool. And you know, I'm not saying cool is the,
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cost of entry for everything it's certainly not but authenticity sure as fuck is and you know what runs on a dual track with authenticity often you're cool okay because you don't really give a shit and her problem is she gives way too much of a shit hence that post now
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look at the caption because she then says like thanks to beyonce and team for a wonderful night okay so this caption what's not in this caption is telling us everything okay first of all look at where they're seated they're not in a vip box okay this isn't oprah with her astronaut friend in bedazzled blue jeans gail in a vip section at beyonce's show okay so she got tickets either on stubhub
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or someone called someone in Beyonce's camp and they were like, okay, just throw her a bone. But they're up there, okay? They're like in the mid section of this tour, which by the way is flopping all over the place. So it's not like it's a hard ticket to get, okay? Then she says, thanks to Beyonce and her team for a great night. She doesn't say, thanks to Beyonce for hooking us up.
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thanks to beyonce's team for making sure h and i or that man and i had everything at our fingertips and didn't want for a month we had a personal concierge i had a personal bathroom she's not saying any of that okay so she's trying to make it seem like she and h are like super tight with Beyonce and Jay and her, and like, think ahead, okay, Megan? Think ahead for once.
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The Diddy trial is underway in New York City as we speak. I think Jay, Z, Jay, Jay Z, whatever, I think he's got a few concerns, okay? So maybe you don't want to be adjacent to them. Maybe you don't. Okay, so they try to put this happy face on this, but then Sunday, Sunday, you guys, This still photo emerges of Harry who has just finished whining. Okay. Look at this photo.
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He is in London on his own. This looks like morning light to me, early morning light, a ring camera. He's got, he's on his cell phone and a ring camera has caught him buzzing someone's townhouse. The trash cans in the background. There's one for recycling, it looks like, and one for trash, but they're trash cans. Again, I miss Andy Warhol deeply. This is like one of the best celebrity photos.
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It's an abundance of riches. So this guy who just got finished moaning to the world that he needs 24-7, like Mossad-level security when he goes to the UK because he's that important, is caught wandering around a London neighborhood alone
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in what looks like frankly last night's suit knocking on random doors there is no security anywhere in sight anywhere so which is it harry now the official line that came out and i don't think it was like from harry per se but like his camp was that he was merely looking for a friend of his and his wife who used who lived in that neighborhood and that was the last known address he had for them and so
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Clearly, if this story is true, which I doubt, and we'll get into why, I think that the only other explanation would be like, these two left no forwarding address for him, okay? Location unknown. They're in the equivalent of the aristocracy's witness protection program from Harry and his terrible wife, Meghan.
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Now, I don't believe that story is true because I saw a lot of online speculation that this is behavior that will say a hard partier.
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would exhibit and um as i disclosed once when i was on megan kelly's show like i've never done hard drugs in my life i'm i was maybe offered cocaine twice in my life and i was like i don't want it thank you and by the way like friends of mine later told me it's a great thing you never tried it because you probably would have loved it because all cocaine makes you want to do is talk
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And I love to talk, as you know. So I probably would have wound up in rehab more than once. Anyway, this speculation online, which kind of tracks to me, is that he had a long, long night with people who were kind of party buddies who he didn't really know well. But for the purposes of that evening, they had a lot of commonalities. And then he woke up somewhere and wasn't quite sure where he was.
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but he left something behind it obviously wasn't his cell phone because he's on it but he left something behind but so why not just call Megan because he can't because he's up yet again so he can't call Megan can't call his daddy can't call his brother or his sister-in-law he can't really call any friends because he doesn't know where the they are because they've
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exited stage left years ago I wonder who he really is trying to call anyway, so he left something behind, and you know his dignity is the least of it. Now I would like to get to another news dump they call it like a Friday news dump when.
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An outlet, a politician, a movie star announces something they hope will get buried as everybody just turns to their weekend and goes about their lives as we should. But this one really affected me deeply. And I'm actually not being sarcastic because I am a deep, deep, deep abiding fan of the original Real Housewives of New York City. which has given us so much over the years.
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But on Friday, Bravo announced that they are canceling what we fans call Roni. Now, the last two to three seasons, it was the reboot. It was only two seasons, no great loss. Of course they should have canceled it. It was terrible. They remade it. They fired the original cast.
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huge mistake in my opinion after george floyd was murdered and everything was seen through a different lens and you know they brought in a black housewife who's like was taking them up to harlem and giving them lessons in african-american history that is not the show okay that is not the show so they tried to reboot it with like all these very stiff women who were not part of the same social circle there were no stakes like high stakes
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And, and these are, you know, things we're revisiting on this show is like actual friendship breakups are high stakes. And these women, the OGs of Roni were all real friends before they ever started shooting. Like most of like they had known each other for decades.
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So when cameras get involved and stardom gets involved and money gets involved and friendships begin to fracture and marriages begin to fracture, like now we're talking like this is real conflict. So I would like to pay tribute, if I may, to, and again, she wound up in Sunday's New York Post, as she should. She is a true star. One Countess Luanne de Lesseps. This woman is a legend.
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We were introduced to her We were introduced to her, lo those many years ago, she was a nurse or a nurse practitioner from Connecticut who had happened to marry like a minor royal. I mean, these titles at this point, they're like honorary titles. They don't really mean anything. He was a count. I don't even remember what country he's from.
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But so she went by the countess on like the Upper East Side and like out in the Hamptons. It was like, you couldn't call her Luann. She was the countess, okay? You know, by season three, the count has left her for a younger woman. It's all over page six. They've got to sell the house in the Hamptons. She has what she calls an estate sale. That's what wealthy people call, it's a tag sale.
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Okay, she was getting rid of her stuff. She needed the money. She had to move in with another real housewife, but she has given us so much over the years. Okay, now post her divorce, she was dating around and like, as she should, like she had no shame. She was like sex positive before that was even a thing in the culture. So watch Luann.
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just expertly defang these two other uptight, much younger housewives because they're all on vacation. And Luann went out after they went home, got drunk, picked up a guy, brought him home. And these other two are like, how dare you party on vacation? Watch this. So be cool. Don't be all like uncool. Okay, right there, a meme. A meme was born, a star was born, okay?
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Next, again, I love Luann for this. You know, alcohol takes many a housewife down and Luann will have her struggles after, you know, in the years after this moment.
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But when I saw this, I thought, you know, when you first are becoming friends with people or you're dating somebody and like they have one too many, like that is like the moment where you know you're in or you're out because like there are two kinds of drunks in the world. Happy drunks and mean drunks. And that is when the true person comes out, okay?
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Luann, I am happy to report, was a happy drunk. Watch this. Oh my God, Luann, are you okay? You fell in the bushes? Luann has drunkenly fallen in the bushes and she looks like a freaking supermodel doing it, okay? Goals, goals. Okay, next.
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So then Luann goes on to marry this guy named Tom, who has been spotted by every housewife and every friend of a housewife out in the wilds of upper New York City, most usually at the Regency Bar in Manhattan, making out with women who were not his fiancee, Luann,
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but she goes ahead with the marriage then the marriage falls apart like within a year she's humiliated she begins drinking to cope she gets arrested it's epic i i can only tell you go back and watch like treat yourself okay so here she is having been humiliated on a global scale coming back to the show i've been traveling i've been to prison and i just want to be close to home
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I've been traveling. I've been to prison. I just want to be close to home. You know, that was the best thing that ever happened to her because she rebirthed herself as a legit cabaret star. And if you want a lesson, you know, Meghan Markle could take a lesson in like getting back up after you have fallen down repeatedly in public. Take a lesson, okay? Get some humility. It'll never happen.
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But like, I would just like to say, Luann, we love you still. And I maintain hope that Bravo figures out a way to bring back a lot of those originals because they are unbelievable. they are unparalleled. Okay. Next, I want to go to this thing that's been leaking in the news that, so Kelly Clarkson is apparently done with her talk show. It's too grueling. She doesn't want to do it anymore. Fine.
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Now there are all these leaks that like, who's going to get the job? Hoda Kotb, who recently flounced out of the Today Show, fourth hour with Jenna, cushiest job on television, except you got to talk to Jenna, which is like, pulling teeth because she's not that bright.
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But, you know, they gave Hoda like a month long farewell and like that, like, I kind of feel like that's kind of a fuck you because like you build that person up to basically you're saying to them, no one can replace you, Hoda. Well, guess what? Anybody can replace Hoda. Like, And they did. They replaced her.
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So now she's stuck, like, up in Westchester or somewhere, like, taking her kids to school. And, like, it's boring. It's boring. She's in her 60s. So I think these leaks are coming from Camp Hoda, who has nothing to say except stuff, like, again, with Jamie Carlina. I'm on a different cosmic plane with Jamie Kern Lima. That's all she talked about. Her podcast is called Making Space.
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Okay, so you know it's just like intellectually vapid and totally void. And who's going to hire Hoda for this time slot? She's a good 20 years older than Kelly Clarkson. She can't have like any kind of conversation that's beyond like woo-woo, self-affirming bullshit. I don't see it happening. Now...
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Taylor Swift has been dragged into this Blake Lively lawsuit, and she got word last week that she is going to be subpoenaed by Justin Baldoni, who Blake Lively, her former best friend, and Blake's husband, Ryan Reynolds, are trying to take down. Okay, they are trying to take this guy down. And guess what his legal team does? They're like, well, fuck you. We're subpoenaing Taylor Swift.
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So Taylor Swift's lawyers issued, like,
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like a like a very lengthy statement and i will spare you the legalese it's i'll just get to the taylor part of it which is the 13 year old mean girl part of it which is like i'm so betrayed i'm so betrayed by blake lively i'm like devastated i can't believe she would do this to me i had nothing to do with this i'm completely floored her words i've been exploited oh my god okay so then taylor and her
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rumored fiance, Travis Kelsey, were spotted and photographed out at a Mother's Day lunch for Travis's mom. And when I tell you like people like Taylor Swift, get photographed when they want to be photographed. Okay. And when people like Taylor Swift want to go out and have a meal in complete privacy, they have people. And it's not even just like an assistant.
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It's like a chief of fucking staff who calls like the restaurant and says, so-and-so is coming in. We need a private room. And like, if she wants to be shot,
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she's gonna be shot by paparazzi otherwise we need a back entrance etc etc so when she's shot out like with regular people at like a regular mid-priced american suburban restaurant that is a message that she is sending which is like i'm innocent i didn't do anything now i just want to get to one other thing vis-a-vis taylor because you know taylor swift you don't get to be this famous this long
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mount the most successful profitable global musical tour in history in history uh without gunning for it big time okay so i have dug out for you guys this email that her father Scott wrote. Okay, it's 20 years old, so she's 35 now, so she was around 15 years old when Scott Swift wrote this lengthy email. And you can go look it up.
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It's part of a legitimate lawsuit that was brought against them by Taylor's former manager, a guy named Daniel, I don't think I'm pronounced Dimtro, D-Y-M, anyway. This email is like for days. I'm dying. Okay, so he starts out, Dan, bear with me. I need to vent. Okay, now he starts by saying, we are getting to a very important time in Taylor's career.
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And to keep in mind, quote, I am not quite the idiot that Andrea portrays me to be. Andrea is Taylor's mom, Scott's now ex-wife. Now, he says, my clients do not want to hear how much stress I am under or what I have done or how much time I have spent copying videotapes and sending them out when Taylor was 11. Okay, these people were hustling. He says, Taylor will define your life's work.
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Okay, he goes on to say, now he's a financial advisor and he's bragging a lot about the money he makes for people and why like he needs to be taken seriously because he makes a lot of money for a lot of people. Who has made every single client listen to Taylor's latest song before we went over their financial plans? Are you kidding me?
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If my financial planner says, hey, you gotta listen to my kids demo tape before we can like address your very real concern. Like I'm like parachuting out of there immediately. Okay, now we're getting into the martyrdom part of this email. Okay, now keep in mind, that remember when it was rumored that the Olsen twins had, there was like a third Olsen who like the Olsen parents kept in the basement.
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because they were like malformed or something. And you know, it wasn't true, but Taylor has a brother named Austin and we never hear about Austin and we never see Austin. And I kind of think this may be Austin's choice, or he just got the message from his parents and Taylor that like, he's a total afterthought.
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And if Taylor needs an organ someday, they'll call you back into this picture, but otherwise you can stay away. Okay, this is Scott. Who gets to go to New York, New England, and every cool appearance? Not dad. Can't fix hair. Dad talks too much. Who pays for trips to New York? Dad.
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Who makes sure and takes days off to make sure that whether it was Radio Disney, Brit's Camp, I'm guessing that's Britney Spears, or any event that we had stuff to give away, CDs, Frisbees, headshots, who even thought to put that stuff together?
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who blew up 500 beach balls on the roof for radio disney this sounds like hell dad quote we are go it's brittany we are going to brittany's camp but you and austin can't come that sounds like he's putting those words in the wife of his in the in sorry in the mouth of his ex-wife andrea we are going to brittany's camp but you and austin can't come okay This email is unbelievable.
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Who gets to babysit Austin? I guess that's Scott. Scott's got to sit with the ringer of these two kids, not the star. Who at the last minute has to find some place to print CDs? You got it, dad. Who funds the whole process but does not get to come to the dance? Dad, oh my effing God. He says further, as a financial planner, is it fair to Austin that Taylor is taking her half of the estate now
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Probably not, but no problem because everybody in the Swift family is involved in making Taylor Swift fucking happen.
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She's been practicing in her mirror, right? All these things she's going to say and these, like, dialogues she's going to have with her guests. Honey, honey. Oh, this is, like, her bedside blooms for Daniel, who's, like, probably sleeping in the garage. That must be discussed.
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Daniel, who, first of all, that was really incredible that they showed her taking store-bought pretzels and decanting them into another plastic bag. First of all, isn't she a great environmentalist? Why are we using and reusing so much plastic? Good point. Then she gives us the ineffable tip that when you tie a knot, always be sure you put a bow on that shit. And then Daniel does show up.
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Poor Daniel. Poor Daniel. And she doesn't know if he likes to lifelong friend of decades, the before, during and after, as she says, right? Doesn't know if he likes tomatoes. Right. Doesn't know that he's left-handed. He's her makeup artist. What hand is he using? What is his dominant hand? And then what was the third thing she didn't?
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Oh, he's, she says, I'm going to, you know, I love to send all my guests home with stuff. You always go home with stuff. He says, listen, I live in New York city. I don't have counter space in my kitchen. She doesn't know that she's never been to his apartment.
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Okay, drama. I'm into it. It was the one paparazzi on a bicycle. Right. Remember? Right. And she's going to Harry, just be calm. It's going to be okay. Right, right. Ten minutes. On a Vespa. Underground garage. He was on a Vespa. On a Vespa. Oh, sorry.
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It was black. Yes. It was like the kind of thing you would just throw out as toxic waste.
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Do you believe there were 80 crew members? If there were, what the hell kind of budget is Netflix paying for this bullshit show? Seriously. And by the way, not for nothing, I have seen people online. There are her defenders, whether they are paid bots. I don't know. But people saying, why can't you just leave her alone? She's just trying to make an entertaining cooking show, whatever.
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To which I say, I pay for my Netflix subscription, which is going into her pocket. Right. So I do get to judge it. I get to judge it as harshly as I want. Yeah. And that's why they also have those little buttons on the screen. Thumbs up, thumbs down. Do you like it? Do you not like it? So we can all go to town on this as we should.
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Yeah.
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Yes. Now, if I can just circle back for one second to the Rachel Maddow thing, because I was listening to you talk about this and I was dying. Because she had previously lived in the West Village in Michael Stipe's old apartment, which she turned around and sold for a lot of money. Then she bought this place, which I did not know until listening to you, was on the east side of Central Park.
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So you know what is interesting about those buildings, and I'm sure you do, on the east side of the park, the way they get around non-discrimination laws is they make potential buyers show that they can put down 75% of the purchase price. I didn't know that, actually. So if you're buying, say, a 20 million dollar place, you have to have 17 million that you can lay out immediately.
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And that's how they keep the undesirables out. Not that Rachel would ever admit that she lives in such a place. Right. Where perhaps a black family that could only put down 50 percent could never be shown the door.
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Not bad enough to kick in, as you said, a measly 2 million. That's it. Just do like a what Tom Brady? Yeah, that's it. Take some of it. I don't need it. Just lower the 25 to 23.
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Oh, you're so funny. Oh, it was, it was an inglorious morning. I was in my pajamas with like my eighth cup of coffee, really gutting it out and taking notes as you do. I take them analog on like an actual notepad. There were so many contradictions. Okay. So my favorite moment, and I do think the most telling it was in the Mindy episode. And it was the moment where
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Mindy is playing along with Megan's oft-told, much-debunked origin story that she was this poor little latchkey kid in the slums of Los Angeles, coming home from school every day, eating her sad little fast food on a tray table. Right. Well, she's watching Jeopardy, mind you. So she may be watching TV, but she's watching Jeopardy. She's smart. She's smart.
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She's not writing, you know, feminist manifestos to soap companies. That's part of a class project, not an auto-generated thing. She does mention later. Never forget. Never forget. So we're not walking through landmines here like Diana.
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Right. Mindy says to her, you know, I just don't think that anybody really realizes Meghan Markle ate Jack in the box. And you watch Meghan tense up right up and the micro expressions and the jaw sets and the eyes go black. And her shoulders rise up and she goes, you know, it's so funny. And she's like chopping something. So it's like dangerous. You know, it's so funny you say that.
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So funny you say that because you know what? I'm Sussex now. I'm Sussex. Oh, my God. It was like a soap opera moment.
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Very weird. Oh, and what follows that is she goes, our little family name. Right. Yet another dig at the Royals that gave her that title.
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This is the thing that I love too because, you know, the thing about manners when you're a kid and they're teaching you manners, the line is always like they are for you to go out into the world, but they're really also for other people. It's so you learn how to make other people feel welcome and comfortable and never ashamed or humiliated or hurt. Like that was a dagger.
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That's a guest in her fake house. She was mad. On her face.
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fucking fake show you know who dared to call her Megan Markle the name we all regrettably know her by right and now it's Dutch oh by the way I don't know if you saw this probably not but she was on Drew Barrymore yesterday oh yes we saw you watched yeah I saw the clips I saw a little bit I couldn't I couldn't gut it out again I could not gut it out but there's this moment where
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drew they're cooking they're behind a thing and megan's rolling some garbage with her hands and drew proudly brings out this um blown up black and white photo of herself at like age seven it's very sweet it's et steven spielberg and george lucas drew there was she's got this little stuffy the stuffed animal i don't know if it was et or not and she's presenting it to diana a very young princess diana
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And she's showing this, like, this was such a meaningful moment for me. Of course it was. And Megan, instead of going, what a life you've had, like, tell me what that moment was like for you. What was Diana like? You know, she goes... Oh, how sweet. I'll have to tell H about it. Oh, God. So already she's like levitating herself above this conversation.
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It's not Harry, it's H. It's my H. I'll tell him that. We're separate over here. And by the way, presumably, isn't your husband watching this show and cheering you on? Yeah, right. Your big launch. Right. He's not doing anything else. You're going to have to relay this to him? Right.
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She doesn't. She's not interested. She's interested insofar as you can help her realize whatever thing she's trying to manifest in any given moment. Basically, I love the premise of this show, which is I'm going to show you how to make a happy, warm, loving home after I have successfully severed my husband's ties from his entire family. Right.
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After I have successfully severed every single tie, save my mother from my own family of origin. Who better? Who better to teach one how to create a loving, warm home? I loved the thing with Mindy where they're. Oh, my God. She's she goes. We are planning a children's party.
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Children are not around. No children. Three. She's got two. They're presumably other children in Montecito. No children are around, you know, because they're unpredictable and messy. I guess. Right. It's annoying to her. And she says to Mindy, I don't know. Again, great friends. I don't know if you go all out for your children's birthday parties or not. Mindy goes, the woman I hire does. Okay.
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Right. Very relatable. Right. Very relatable. And then there's something where, what was the other thing with Mindy that was just like so wild? I couldn't believe it. But it's a similar thing. There was the balloon arch. Oh, and then they'd have a wardrobe change into their sundresses. Because that's how we all do when we get together. We have several outfits for our time together. Exactly.
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For like different times of day with different settings and different... food stuff. So I suppose that we're having, they, they dress in these sundresses and they go out to Megan's little garden shack.
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I could only, it's so funny you say that. I could only think of how much money Netflix spent on licensing this music. There's so much freaking Motown in this thing. It's like, oh, come and get your love is like the final, like really? It's like when you watch, one of the things that always irked me the most about The Devil Wears Prada was that the music cues were so literal.
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They're always telling you what to think. Like the moment where Andy's walking down the street in Manhattan at night debating whether she can throw Emily under the bus to go to Paris. It's like the song that's playing is I Can't Sleep. Oh, I never noticed that. If you watch it again, you'll never see it the same way.
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And I felt the same way about this, where the music was doing all the heavy lifting. Who sings, ah, sugar, sugar. Oh, yeah, Love and Spoonful or something.
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No kidding. No kidding. I feel the same way about my niece and her burgeoning basketball career. Her dream is to be a WNBA star and she's like killing it. And you just, you see this potential and you see this life force and you see this talent that they lean into. Yeah. And it's just, I think it's always a testament to
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Right. And fry. Right. Roll in some breadcrumbs and you're done. Right. That's if you're not buying them pre-made because that's even easier. The thing about that show too is, okay, I think it was episode two again, or no, it was episode one. It was with Daniel. Or Daniel. May he rest. Who, she's making some sort of Italian dish.
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I'm sure the Italian in you would find this very- I pass no judgment on cooking. Oh, really? Okay, fair enough. But, you know, it's like, she's got this Le Creuset white pot, right? Which, by the way, Mindy made the rookie error of calling it Le Creuset. Right. Is it foyer or foyer?
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You'll be tossed out if you, you know, so, and, and Megan, of course had to correct her, which is another thing you don't do. You don't correct your guests pronunciation of something. Either way, that would be a nice thing. Like whatever, who cares? Right. But no. And, and Mindy was like, Oh, well, some of us have been to Europe. Like she got a couple of digs in.
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Um, but the, so it's this white, like crusade and there is not a splatter of anything on anything that, Like, everything is immaculate. And she's in the all-white outfit. And she's in the all-white, and she's not really wearing an apron, and there is—nothing is spilled. Nothing is mistakenly put anywhere, and it just goes to the absolute, utter artifice of this woman. I just think—
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I think, you know, the last time we talked about her, I said, I do think there's something very dark about her. And I think that this reaction, I mean, we're laughing about it because a lot of it is funny. But the reaction that a lot of us are having, which is a complete and utter recoil, is I do think this sort of built-in evolutionary response to somebody who does not seem quite right.
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Like I look at her and I think to myself, only my opinion, this is a dangerous person. I don't like her.
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Great parenting, a great system of people who love them around them, great educational systems that like really lift these girls up and how lucky that these girls are. aren't suffering so many of the slings and arrows you've been talking about for so long. Do you know what I mean?
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Like whom? She is so full of shit. That platter, by the way, is like half the size of your desk. It's like a football field for a child. It's enormous. And, you know, sticky little kids do not keep things orderly. As a matter of course, they do not. This is my other favorite thing. Speaking of how much free time does she have? Because she has the kind of free time that would make me.
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Enter intensive therapy. I didn't know where that was going. She talks about, she's sitting down at a desk and she's making out her menu for the big party that she's going to have. It all feels very Real Housewives. Like the final episode.
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She got an A minus in penmanship. She's clearly not over it. We're not doing straight A's all the way. It's an epic fail. She's handlining in soft pencil lines in her notebook instead of buying a notebook. And you can buy a very expensive notebook. Go buy a Smithson. Spend $400 on that line notebook. But no, she's got to line it herself. Again, what kind of time do you have?
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Then she's doing that... infuriating calligraphy. I know. Was she 12? I know. You know, I took a calligraphy class when I was 12. It was a way to kill some time. I didn't think it was going to be a life skill I would take into middle age. And then she's writing, she's saying, this is a no fuss. She literally says, Megan, this is a no fuss menu.
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It's within the reach of anybody. As she writes, like,
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whole wheat toast with estate honey estate honey honey from her goddamn estate she's obsessed with her honey but she's obsessed that she's growing it on an estate in a manner that we can't see because we're just the great unwashed who are tuning in to supposedly you know just royal ourselves in envy and and feeling like failures because we don't have many scissors that's the
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To deploy with our huge freaking basket in our backyard garden that looks like Central fucking Park.
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You might get a little skin, a little blood in there. It makes it taste better. What? You know how that goes.
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On? You can do it.
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Look away. I would love to see you add like a little cooking something to your programming and like put it up against Meghan Markle.
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Okay. First of all, to your point about you've done it all, why do you have to give these people and these little people more gifts? Right.
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That's 100% correct, but you're not a malignant narcissist who needs to have other mommies marvel that you then put together this other gift bag that Meghan Markle thinks is going to form a core memory of, like, miniature garden tools, crap from China, basically.
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And what's better for small people than little sticks of things that are sweet, that are sharp, that you can just shove in your mouth or in your eye or God knows what? Yes.
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Lights out. She's out of her mind. I know. Oh my God, this was the other thing about like the... Anyway, there was so much going on, but it had to do with the parties and the kids and her with Mindy and... Oh, oh, oh, it was her talk. So there's much talk in this about... Um, you know, I think it had to do with a vase she was working on or something.
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Oh, Maureen. Something killed your vibe. Did you watch all episodes of this? No, no, no. I will go hard in the paint when it's necessary. Yeah, I know you will. But this... OK, so I woke up at 5 a.m. when it dropped. It dropped to begin streaming it. And Megan, I within 10 minutes, I fell asleep. It was so boring.
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It's like, you know, broken things, broken things are worth something, Megan. Oh God. Broken things. Sometimes they're better for being broken. And then when you repair them, you see a beauty in a different way or they're making a cake. Oh, that was episode one. Beautiful on the inside. She's pretty on the inside.
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Don't just love Megan Sussex, excuse me, for her physical appearance, but appreciate everything that she goes through internally for all of us. She's beautiful. On the inside where it counts.
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Yes.
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Whatever the catch all is that the pastry, whatever she's making. She seems like the most fun mom, don't you think? Oh God. You could see her like, it's fine.
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It was it's the it's like you can I would sooner you really offend me or just like I love a bad watch. I love a good bad watch. This is not that this is really grueling to get through. Yeah. So I did episodes one, episode two, and episode eight. I did one, two, three, and four, my friend. So I can fill in some of the blanks. You're a little bit ahead of me. For me...
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You go to Grubhub. Yes, exactly. Go to Grubhub. This is maybe the only authentic thing that she has let slip, which is that the help does everything. Yes. The nannies that we do not see much is on. There are some parallels, by the way, with the Baldwin's reality show. Yes. You know, we'll get to.
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You know, but like the nannies we don't see are the ones rousing these children, feeding these children, getting them dressed, taking them to school. Do you remember? Was it like New York magazine? I forget which profile it was where Megan made this very big show about picking up Archie from school. Yes.
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Yes. Except she sent the driver out of the car to give it to you. You don't go near a homeless person. You're not Megan Sussex and go in your actual homeless person.
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The killer moment, and this is being discussed online quite a bit, was the Mindy Kaling episode. Oh, and the snapback?
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So my favorite thing in those clips is when she's talking to Drew and she's got this patented expression down, which is like, the eyebrows go up, the eyes go up. We're just sort of talking in terms of hope and optimism. But I'm also telling you something that's so fucking obvious that I think you're all stupid for not getting that family members show up for each other, however you do it.
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You don't have to pack a thin little book. When you're flying private, by the way, it's not like she's lugging luggage overhead in that little tiny cabin. My favorite story that came out right before this Netflix shit show dropped was that WME's Ari Emanuel had dropped her. He was done with her. And apparently it was because she threw yet another fit Yes.
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This is all reportedly that his staff hadn't come up with decks and plans for her new shows. Right. They were all supposed to do the conceptualizing, the execution of the vision, what the show was going to look like, what it was going to be about the very premise of it. It's not what an agent does. Like she doesn't want to do it. And thirdly, I saw that clip.
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of the Drew Barrymore show in real time. And I was watching the audience response, the faces of the women in the audience. This was a multi-ethnic group, white women, black women, middle-aged. And every time they cut to them after Megan issued another Beaumont, their faces were like, what the fuck?
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Yeah. Right. The only soul we're getting is the Motown soundtrack. Everything else is Anglo-Saxon white American culture. It's WASP. It's one percentage privilege. That's it. That's all she is.
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She. Hillary. Told us she was from Spain. Alec Baldwin used to go on like Letterman, Kimmel all the time and be like, you know, my wife is from Spain. That's right. Like this conferred some sort of specialness on them. And he would imitate her with a Spanish accent. With a Spanish accent.
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So I want to know, like if I'm producing this show and I'm giving Alec Baldwin income that he so badly needs because he's uninsurable at this point.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I want the answers. I want to know, Alec, when did you learn that your wife was really a white woman from Boston? Was it with the rest of us? Very privileged Tony school. Right. Was it with the rest of us when we learned it? Because there's a moment in episode one or maybe two where they're doing a confessional on the couch and Hillary's always barefoot. It's very creepy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I don't want to see your bare feet. I guess she thinks it makes her relatable. She's talking and she starts talking at a fast clip and she's rolling her R's and doing that stuff and he doesn't even look at her. He looks in her direction and he says to her, you are speaking English in a Spanish cadence and I need you to slow it down because that is always very perilous for me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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There's so much in that statement. Right. That is just like, holy crap. All the kids have Spanish names.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
Alec Baldwin seems like, I mean, it's definitely like a filet-a-do, but he just seems like he's trapped. Like the eye bags are like down to here. Like they're down to here. He's telling a story about in his 20s, he was like rooming with some friend who had a cat. He had this extremely allergic reaction to the cat, wound up in the emergency room. He told this to Hilaria.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The next day she comes home with four cats. cats. What? Four cats, Megan. And he's telling the story and the reaction shot, which is a closeup of her. She's like smirking and looking in the camera. Whoa. It's extreme. There's a very dark, dark, twisted dynamic going on. Right. And aside from the children, they have seven children. They have eight pets. Oh, my God.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
So they're living in a duplex in Manhattan, five bedrooms, seven children, four cats, four dogs, at least two nannies, and the two of them, that's 19 people. That is a five-star hotel for migrants in New York, right? Yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
You know, she lives for those roadside pressers. Yeah. Do you remember right after the shooting and they were like holed up in Vermont and there was this press pack? That was problematic. And Alec and Hillary got out of the car and Alec had his iPhone like this. He was surreptitiously recording all the media. And Hillary...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
got herself into like high dungeon and she was like castigating this media. Like, let's be real. She married Alec Baldwin because of the fame and the money. She can't be famous on her own. She has nothing to offer much like Meghan Markle, right? It's very like dual track. Yep. she starts jutting her jaw out and self-righteously yelling at them going, say her name. Her name is Helena.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Say her name. Say her. I'm sorry. Your husband's the one who shot this poor woman. So shut up. It's not our fault. And he turns to her and he says, would you just stop it? Like, I'm going to talk to them. This is my press conference. This is my moment.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
Yeah, I think it's 100% a rehabilitation show, by the way, using their minor children who have really no say in making their lives, their very emotionally chaotic lives, public. The little that we are seeing of their elder daughter, Carmen, who Alec helpfully tells us is his do-over for Ireland. Oh, my God. And yelling at her in that infamous voicemail. Thoughtless little pig. She was 11.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
She missed his phone call. She was a thoughtless little, a rude, thoughtless little pig. But Carmen's his do-over. So this is all very emotionally healthy. I will never forget the interview he gave to George Stephanopoulos. Yep. And he sat there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Which, by the way, the FBI and every ballistics expert will tell you, like, that gun does not get fired without pulling the trigger. Oh, by the way, in this show, the other thing that they pathologize that's hilarious, hilarious is mouthpiece. He is, he is... She tells us he has severe OCD. You're telling me this guy has severe OCD and he didn't open that fucking gun. I don't buy it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
Like I had real OCD when I was a kid. Like I know what that's like. And it's out of your control. And it's often very much a response of trying to make like an emotionally chaotic situation. Like maybe your parents are out of control emotionally as mine often were. It's a magical kind of thinking way of trying to make sure everything is okay. You have order.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
You have order and you have some sort of control. And if you really have that level of OCD, you are double checking everything. Not just the lid of a garbage can. But like a firearm. But a gun with other people in close proximity. And he goes on George Stephanopoulos and then says, by the way, his friend from the Hamptons never disclosed. Then says to him, you know what?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
She's the one who told me to point the trigger at her. She's the one who, sorry, the gun. The gun, yeah. She said, right at her, like, what was I to do? That's what she told me. So I did it. Like, actors don't run their own sets. Like, they're not rage egomaniacs. And he was an EP on the whole production as well.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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A production, by the way, that had seen his entire crew walk off the set over safety concerns that had been launched multiple times. So he is so full of it. What were the symptoms of your OCD? I'm fascinated. It would be like thinking anything from I have a bad thought and that means something bad is going to happen. You can't get off the thought? Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like it can circle or like I have to check that the oven is off like at least five times before I leave the kitchen. Otherwise, there's going to be a fire that like I could have prevented. Like it's a lot of taking on... responsibilities or catastrophizing things that just aren't real, but you're so trying to, again, like make sure nothing bad happens.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And it's strange for a little kid to feel like the onus is on them, right? Did you just grow out of it, Maureen, or- No, I, I had, I had it, it lessened, it would then get worse. And then I went to a therapist who prescribed me like a very low dose of like anti-anxiety meds and those work. Wow. And I'll be on them for the rest of my life.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
That resolved all that way of thinking. It quiets it immensely. Like it's almost never there. And I actually went off of them. Like I did the thing they say never to do, where like you run out of your pills and you're like, Oh, I think I'm all right. And I'll do it. And like within two months, these like catastrophic thoughts, like I was having these intrusive thoughts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I was like, this isn't me. Wow. Like this isn't me. And then the light bulb goes off. Yes. And you're like, I have to do it. And so now I, but I'm also not a little kid anymore either. Right. And I can look back at my childhood and be like, I understand the origin. It's very funny.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I don't think he would mind me saying this, but like I would, as a young adult, I disclosed this to my sibling who was like, yeah, me too. Well, you know, it can be inherited. Can it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
You know, it's funny. I think more people have it than not. I think a lot of people don't talk about it because it feels like you're a smart person. Why are you sort of subjected to this completely illogical thing? When I watched the David Beckham documentary, he's got it really bad. Yes. Really bad. He's meticulous about everything. Like even down to like the length of a candle wick.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like it's very, you know, and it's kind of, it feels like a double-edged sword. It's like maybe he doesn't treat it. So I don't know what he does, if he does anything, but maybe he feels that that level of obsessiveness is also partly responsible for his incredible success, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
Wow. I know. So dumb. So that's interesting, though, that you never feel anxiety, really. Never anxiety.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. How does stress then manifest for you? How do you know when you're stressed out or you're possibly approaching, maybe like you've been working a stretch that's super hard, like the election cycle, I would imagine, right? What's the thing that signals to you, oh, I got to stop?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Really? Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, I know. I know. I can still relate to that. I mean, obviously not something ever that high profile, but the idea of, feeling almost consumed by something and having the knowledge that like super ego in you going, this is bad for you. Why are you allowing this outside thing to control and define who you are? And you know, it can have deleterious effects, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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to physically and you got to, but you have to feel it. Like that's the only way you kind of have to just feel all of those horrible, ugly emotions.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, 100%. Right. I loved. So my favorite was first we meet, it almost looked like a 70s sitcom, like opening credits when they like freeze frame a person. And it's like, you know, Dana Plato is Kimberly on different strokes. And it was like Mindy Kaling. And it was actress Mindy. comma, producer, comma, friend, period. Oh God. All in capital letters, like actress, producer.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
It's like rewiring your brain, basically, like your thought patterns, trying to interrupt a thought pattern that's destructive. Someone is in your life that is causing you agita. You can't really do anything about it. The thing, though, about like saying I would never say to somebody, never mention that person to me again.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They're dead to me because I feel like there's so much energy involved in that. Yeah. Right? It's a lot. It's a lot of energy. Now I'm going to have all this coming back, maybe like so-and-so said, what? Like I'm dead to that. Like I prefer the emotional version of the Irish goodbye, which is the slow fade. Like I will fade you out of my life and you won't really realize it until it's too late.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
And I find that... And it also allows for a little bit of thought to like sort of process, is this a person I really want out of my life? Or in a limited way, is there something I do get from this relationship or not? But I typically will do like a complete slow fade.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
How about you? That's interesting because I think, and I've realized this since I was like a kid and my mom had such great, she had such high emotional intelligence. She was so good with stuff like this. And sometimes I'll be like, what would she say to me in any moment? Because you get to this age and you still deal with mean girl stuff. You really do. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
But I think for me, I think friendship breakups can be worse than romantic breakups. They can be way more devastating. And I don't know if it's because women tend to share so much of ourselves with each other. When you have a really close, intimate friend. I mean, I have friends who I cannot imagine being out of my life.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
you know, and the longer they've been in my life, the more important they become to me because you can't replace those friends. You can't replace that kind of institutional knowledge of each other, you know, so.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
Like I think the bulk of Americans know who Mindy Kaling is for better or for worse. Yes, they do. And then she comes in and I kind of like, I don't really care for Mindy Kaling personally. She's a bit much. She's a bit much. She comes in and she's like overdone. She's like wearing night makeup for day. She had tons of jewelry on, some bling.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
The idea that you would have a friend who would drop you because of what you think politically. I know. Like, first of all, you could say the one thing you could never say about you, Megan, is that you are not extremely bright. So you would like how could you have a friend who wouldn't be like this person thinks differently than I do, but I have to respect where she's coming from.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She thinks things through. She reads. She pays attention. She cares. She gives a shit. By the way, one of the few voices out in the wilderness defending girls and women at this very moment. Do you know that's not I that is to say. I would agree with you. I would take that and be like, how good of a friend was that to me? How good of a friend was that to me?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
It's good information to have, very good information to have. And I say this to other people when- Their friends disappoint them. Like, well, you have some new information. Like, don't forget it. Don't sort of dismiss it because it's inconvenient. Just pocket it away. Like you never know when it might come back to you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I certainly know, you know, there's a part of Long Island that I spend a lot of time in. And, you know, it was my therapist who said it to me because I couldn't understand it. I was like, why are these people so rude to me? Like they partly want to be friends with me and they partly just want to make me feel like shit all the time. And they'll never let me all the way in.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And she said, it's because of where you work. Right. And I was like, no, it can't be.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And she was like, no, I think it is. And I realized she was right. And that was great information to have. Yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
All the jewelry, the Valentino denim ensemble with like the gold. It all felt very garish and try hard. Yep. So she was immediately kind of like on the back foot because Megan's there in her quiet luxury.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
And those people are as it, you know, how they say the average American has maybe three to five good friends. And in that cohort, maybe two are true confidants. And that's definitely true for me, you know, and watching the, by the way, watching the Meghan Markle show,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I literally thought to myself, how lucky am I that I have a sister-in-law who I love so much and who I know, if I ever had a rift with my brother, would do everything in her power to repair it, not make it worse. And she has become one of my true core people. And they're invaluable, like you just said, where you can share the things that keep you up at night or your health stuff.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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or your deepest anxieties about something, and you know they're not going to play into those. They're going to help you out of them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
It's joyful. To scoop a little bit of that jam in advance. But I feel joyful. I can't wait. Just in case you didn't know, I feel joyful.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
There was a juxtaposition there. You're right. And then Mindy says to Megan, she starts asking her to break down her ensemble. So Megan's like, Zara pants. Woman of the people. Mindy's like, no. No. No way. Now, Laura Piana sweater, which, you know, average base price is $1,300 for Laura Piana. Right. Then just a Jenny Kane sweater on top of that sweater. And that base price is about $395.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
I think they seem to be soft launching their divorce. I mean, if it were the opposite and all of these rumors are flying, wouldn't they make a concerted effort to be seen together? Or just absolutely issue a statement and saying there's no truth to these rumors. I kind of think maybe they're not even sure or maybe one wants it more than the other. You know? She didn't go to the inauguration.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
She did not go to the inauguration. She never gave a really credible, solid reason why she wasn't at Jimmy Carter's funeral. That to me is the... Previous engagement. Previous engagement. What? Now, let's say... I'm trying to think how a publicist would spin it or a crisis manager. Let's say she had had some plastic surgery and Jimmy Carter happened to die during her recovery. Could you not say...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
that then Mindy goes she makes the mistake of what you of what I don't think any malignant narcissist ever takes well which is if you try to praise them too much it backfires like Mindy goes you know you have to talk to me about your fashion is one of my favorite things about you like I'll see you in something and I'll run to the Max Mara website and it's sold out and Megan is opening the refrigerator door and you can see this mixture on her face of like utter disdain and contempt and
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Health reasons. Yeah. And leave it at that. And most people will respect that. That's right. Go near it. But she didn't even say that, which made it seem a very petty, vengeful move on her part.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's Cringe Netflix Show, Bizarre Baldwins Reality Show, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1021
So clearly staffers put all this together. Okay. And also, can we ask the lawyer in you to parse these statements? Because, okay, let's take Barack, for example. You still take my breath away. How? Right. With your fucking anger, with your complete inability to just get with the program and show up. At the inauguration, so I don't have to walk in like a lonely soldier. Exactly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then tell people you're mad because I was laughing with Donald Trump. Right. Maybe you're taking my breath away for that reason. Interesting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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count on for what you're you're my rock always have been always will be in what way like the person who weighs you down right are you weighing me down in the ocean are you the immovable rock around all that we all have to move around like your ambition is the immovable rock and we are the waves crashing against it maybe it's that i
The Megyn Kelly Show
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for that sentiment. And then false humility. Like, oh, me? You follow me? You mean when I'm walking around Montecito in 80 degree weather with my full-on wool Max Mara floor-length coat? You're trying to copy me?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This was awkward AF. So awkward. And I began to really feel... sympathy for Mindy Kaling because she was doing such a heavy lift. Yeah. You know, I felt like watching this whole thing play out was really interesting in terms of realizing, I don't think Meghan Markle really has any friends. No, she doesn't.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You don't have a chicknick table to feed your chickens. Did you catch that?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Literally, Megan, she has a chicken coop. And she talks, so she brings out, I don't mean to get off Mindy, but she brings out to feed them a thick disk of ice. The chickens? Oh, yeah. And inside that disk are frozen organic vegetables, which she then puts down for them so that their yolk, she tells us, will be that much more golden. Oh my gosh. And nutritious.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then the camera pans to a miniature picnic table. It looks like something that would go in a child's dollhouse on the ground. And she says, don't laugh at me. That is my chicknick table where I put food for the chickens. Okay. In this economy. Right.
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Of course she does. Sure. She looks like it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Okay. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Maureen, I died. Oh, my God. Megan, it's like this is a window into the tiny little brain at work. The absolute not just inauthenticity, but like you want to talk about a lack of original thought and just being totally basic, what they would call a basic bitch. Basic. Like the opening scene of the show. Like you think, OK. The opening scene of this show should be a knockout, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It should make me want to know what's coming next. What is she going to do next? What is she going to say next? She's strolling out to her beehive where she's clearly never been before. She's wearing half the bee outfit. It is clear she's never been. You're right. She's wearing half a bee outfit, not a full bee outfit, okay?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Because you have to show off the skinny jean, and then she's got the dangling tendrils visible behind the bee screen. And her beekeeper, who seems like kind of an interesting guy, like he's definitely quirky. You have to be quirky if you're around bees all day. They open up the honeycomb, and she goes... Busy bees. See? See? Now, this is what she's been practicing, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Good. I like this a lot. You know why? Because false claims like this set back every true legitimate claim against especially a powerful, rich man. And she is doing no favors to her sisterhood. None. And I was thinking the same thing. Like, This woman isn't playing chess. What is she thinking? I don't know. Her story is not going to hold up. It is not. So she is risking.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, people know who she is already. She is risking her name being public, her likeness being public, her children being exposed to this, her marriage, which survived this so far. Her professional reputation. What is she thinking? I'm glad that they're like putting the screws to this one. I really am. This is really what they should have done when she came back asking for money.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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True. And I was surprised he stood by Kavanaugh. I really was. The thing, too, about him opting to make those payments, I think people need to remember back in 2017 what the climate was like. All you had to do was raise an eyebrow in the direction of a man you call problematic, and he's out. He's too much of a liability. Remember how many men got flushed out of media? Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Remember the shitty men in MediaList that was circulated? That was just some random woman behind a computer screen who named all of these men without any... evidence whatsoever that they did what she claimed and it went around and it was taken as gospel in media circles. I mean, these are people's lives and reputations.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So I think that their pushback with the money is the real thing because now she's, now she's going to be thinking, well, what am I going to do? Am I going to, am I going to lose my home?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Am I going to lose everything over this?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. And I mean, just the level of inconsistencies in her self-report to the police saying that she had been drugged when she's seen by multiple people and on surveillance camera walking upright. She's not altered in any way whatsoever. I mean, again, like I really I loathe when. Women come forward with what are clearly false accusations.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It is so damaging, not just to the people that you're falsely accusing. It's damaging to a larger culture that has just begun to understand how complicated and unusually victims of sexual assault can behave in the aftermath. We came so far with Harvey Weinstein. We really did. This kind of stuff puts us back. It's dangerous.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's so cynical. I find the timing so strange. Like, something happened during... having sex with her husband. Like the husband was on her. You know it. Yes. You know it. And her story was falling apart. And in order to make it make sense, she had to accuse him of raping her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She had to accuse him of drugging her, of being a passive victim of this hot, famous dude she was following around all night like a puppy dog. Okay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Doubtless written by some Ivy League grad with soft hands who has never seen anything resembling combat, let alone military service. Okay, sure. That's disgusting. And the one thing I'll say about Pete Hegseth too is that You know, I read the op-ed that he wrote in his defense in the journal the other day, and I thought it was really good.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He talks about being an advocate for his fellow service members who, when you get home and you try going through a VA system, it is a nightmare. Yep. He doesn't ever brag about his exploits. I don't know what he did or didn't do. I don't really know what he saw or didn't see, which says to me he saw a lot.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I heard that episode of The Daily. I don't listen often, but I listened to that one. And that shocked me. I was like, okay, this is a corporate media that's trying to write itself and Post-election, because everybody sees what's going on over at MSNBC. I don't even think Joe and Mika were on this morning.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I'm listening to this with my jaw open. Oh my God, they're giving a sympathetic take on a guy who served in combat who got two distinctly different orders from higher ups.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Shoot to kill, let them go, no matter what kind of threat you think they pose, and who put himself in harm's way to protect his younger service members who were about to ruin their lives if they made the wrong move while fighting to stay alive. That is a guy too laud. And I wonder where the rest of the media is in not following the Daily's example of covering this guy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She doesn't need your protection. She's good. Right. It's just amazing how they're going to town on this guy, like absolute freaking town. And we are hearing. Crickets about Hunter Biden. Yeah. It's just like, oh, of course, his dad, you know, I was watching. I do this to myself. I'm a masochist, Megan. I don't know why I was listening. I had the view on the other morning. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, sometimes it's fun. Sometimes it is fun. And they so whoopee that Charlemagne, the God was on. And he was talking, as he often does, actual common sense. And he was saying, this pardon stinks to high heaven. The average person charged with half of these crimes would find themselves behind bars. Let's get real. And Whoopi got in like high dungeon.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And she was like, you know, when she gets into her sort of like, I'm a sage, elderly black woman. I'm going to lay it down. Yes. And so she's like, he just happened to change his mind. This is what happened. I know this for a fact. You know this for a fact. Do you read? Really? Do you read or do you just rely on those blue cards those producers give you?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Because NBC News reported two people in the room with Biden when Hunter was convicted back in June said that Biden said, I'm going to tell the American people I never will, but I'm going to do it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Who was the other one? Mike? Mike Hunt. Seymour Butts. Yes, yes. They were all on the list. They're calling Moe's Bar over at the Simpsons, like asking for Seymour Butts. Yeah. This is the brain trust at The View.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, that's the real crime.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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OK, several things to your very good point. You will often see, especially in New York, if you're like a white collar worker going to your job at like nine in the morning, you will see the blue collar guys who work night shifts at the bodega getting their six pack of beer and their cigarettes because that is their afternoon. Yeah, they are knocking off for the day and they are wiped out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Number two, didn't Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper, don't they get lauded for being smart?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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smashed on air every new year's eve and like the liberal crowd oh it's so funny it makes them so personable we love it andy cohen andy cohen gets shit faced and oh look there they are doing shots doing shots there they are the team was ready for this yes but that's fine you see they're not going to like i that's fine because i guess they're not going to be sex sec def
The Megyn Kelly Show
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below all standards. Also, I'm sorry, I love the idea of fellow journalists calling out another journalist for drinking. It's one of the most hard drinking professions that exists. There was a satellite office at the New York Post, Fox News, 1211 called Langan's Bar. Langan's, yes. That's where everybody went and drank themselves into oblivion.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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There was a famous post columnist named Steve Dunleavy who who would file his copy from the bar. And when he retired after being passed out too many places publicly, they etched his face into glass at the bar, like he was a religious deity. So spare me the moral indignation that while shooting St. Patrick's day coverage, that your correspondent maybe took a swig of beer. Stop it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I added the last part. There's nothing like the left continuing to not learn its lesson by taking things wholly out of context and offering a hot take on Twitter. That is disgusting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She's so stupid. An idiot that was born doubtless after September 11th, did not live through it, and has grown up in a culture where everyone's just posting thirst traps all the time. This is her entire frame of reference.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think it would be an incredibly powerful swerve for one of these female senators to step forward and say enough, enough with demonizing a guy like this who does want to serve and wants to disrupt. That's the problem. He wants to disrupt. I don't think the establishment wants him disrupting a goddamn thing. That's the real problem.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But this is we are in a new era where people want to feel like their leaders are in it for them. And if one of these women women stood up and said, I'm with him like these these allegations are baseless. This is this is nothing but a witch hunt to stop Trump from appointing those who he would like. I think that would be amazing. But it will never happen.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, 100%. And, you know, as we've often seen, when it's a legitimate claim where one emerges, usually another follows pretty quickly and then another. And you get a sort of chorus that sort of builds up and the accounts tend to be similar. This is not Bill Cosby. This is not that. Yeah. This is not that. Good point.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I would love to put some meat on that bone. I mean, listen, I am not a fan of RFK Jr., as you well know. Nor really any Kennedy. Um, yeah, no, I mean, I, I, someday I would love to do a, like a five minute dive with you into Jack Schlossberg's Instagram, because I don't know if you follow him. Caroline Kennedy. Yeah. Yeah. The grandson of JFK. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Who was Vogue's political correspondent this election cycle, which consisted of him asking like Doug Emhoff, does he consider ketchup like a sauce or a condiment? Like this was the level of discourse. I kid you not. Um, but his RFK jr. Second wife, he, he really, he tormented her psychologically, cut her off financially. He was parading around with Cheryl Hines. He moved her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He moved the two of them into a house that was like a thousand yards from the house he had made with Mary mother of three or four of his children. She committed suicide after her suicide. He went on a press tour, uh, just destroying her legacy. He buried her with great fanfare and the Kennedy family plot up in Massachusetts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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One week later, he secretly in the dead of night had her exhumed, buried alone on the side of a hill. I mean, if you want, if they want to get into character, then get into character with someone like that. But I also agree with you that if they take down Pete and,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This is going to be a real, this is where it's really going to get interesting because Trump is not going to take kindly to having his nominees summarily dismissed one by one by all these hypocrites on the Hill who all have their own bodies buried somewhere. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Who would trust these so-called intelligence experts who told us that the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian hoax, who provided us really via Hillary Clinton with the so-called Steele dossier that said Trump was a Russian asset? Who would believe any of this? Who would believe an infrastructure and an establishment that tells us after lockdown... We made it up. We made up six feet apart.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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We didn't know what we were doing. Like, we don't really know. Like, are you kidding me? Who would trust any of these people? And, you know, to your point, I respect where you come from on RFK Jr. because I do like the idea of disruptors in these spaces. Mm-hmm. Big pharma, big health. I mean, we're seeing it in the reaction to this assassination of this healthcare executive.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, we ought to talk about that next.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I agree completely. And I think, well, there are two things. I was listening to you yesterday, and your point about if Pete Hegseth is the next sacrificial lamb, what will happen when RFK Jr. 's turn comes up? Oh, boy. Right? Secondly, the way the mainstream media has been reporting upon this allegation of sexual assault is disgusting, right? I listened to you take it apart.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I too had read that thing front to back. I love things on paper. Police reports, depositions, the color and the detail you get is so vital. And what struck me so much about that that claim by that woman was she sort of was protesting a little bit too much in her text messages. Oh, Pete Hegseth, do you know who this guy is? I don't know who he is. All the women here are going crazy over him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So I am obsessed with this case. I have been following it extremely closely. I get the trial transcripts every day. I am pulling for Daniel Penny so hard. Now, what is salient here is that Jordan Neely was out of his mind on K2, a powerful synthetic drug that they can't even quantify how much was in his bloodstream.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The ME testified that she was pressured to classify this death a homicide basically before she had finished the autopsy. This is just like George Floyd. And again, anyone who hasn't seen The Fall of Minneapolis, avail yourself. Because it is such a... It puts... in perspective, just how much the media lies to us.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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My sister-in-law is the court reporter on this case, and she is convinced that part of the problem the jury is having coming to a verdict is because there are protesters outside that courthouse every day screaming that Daniel Penny is a racist, that this was a lynching. Daniel Penny took him down and
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He definitively, the defense did an expert job at this, medically did not cause him to die of a chokehold. That is not what killed Jordan Neely. It was the drugs, it was the state he was worked up in, and it was a sickling disease that he had. All three of these things combined to cause his death. He tried to get up at three minutes and 19 seconds into this chokehold. He moved with such force.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Penny's underneath Neely on the subway floor. He exerted himself with so much force that he lifted Penny, a 6'1 former Marine, off of the floor. A personal anecdote about this. My brother is an interesting guy. He works in sanitation in New York and his job is such that he has to deal with the CEOs of like multi-billion dollar companies like MLB, top hospitals, you name it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And he also has to deal with his workforce, which is composed primarily of ex-felons and He will routinely say the jobs I offer are the only ones in America where you can earn six figures and be illiterate. He gets... A guy comes into his office and says, your driver out there is in the parking lot going crazy out of his mind on PCP. 26-year-old kid. Not super strong. Not super tall. Cops come.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It took 12 cops to get this guy down to the ground. 12 and half an hour. And my brother Bill said... This is the thing. When you take down a guy like that, fueled by that kind of drug that gives you superhuman power, you cannot let them back up. They will kill you. They will kill you. And this is stuff that I think the average person sitting at home has no knowledge of.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I read the testimony of the passengers on that train. A host of races, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, teenage girl, a senior brand manager at Nike, all daily subway riders said they were sure they were going to die that day. That Jordan Neely was that terrifying. Mm-hmm. So I think this is an easy acquittal, but this is a case that is fueled not by justice. It's Alvin Bragg.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's been racialized. This were black on black, white on white. Daniel Penny wouldn't be here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, he's on Fox News, Fox News. Like, okay, a little bit of fame. She's inserting herself into... his attempts to come onto this other woman who wants nothing to do with him. And she's sort of triangulating and trying to become the woman who he selects to go home with. She inserts herself so much that she, he says, she wound up in my hotel room. I mean, there she was.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Felt super sympathetic towards this guy. What's missing in that account? The victim was an 87-year-old Asian man, a beloved college professor, survivor of the Korean War. The perp, the guy who killed him, that passive language kills me. He fell as a result of the fall. He died. He was murdered for $300. He took out of an ATM by a middle-aged black man.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She had the gall to go to the victim's family and say, are you interested in a little premise called restorative justice? Oh my God. Restorative justice. So this guy gets, I think he got maybe 10 years. He probably would have gotten life. So she's perfectly willing to extend that kind of sympathy and do that kind of background check when it's, I suppose, a Black person committing a crime.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But Daniel Penny... I swear to God, Megan, the first responders didn't want to touch Jordan Neely. Right. They wouldn't give him CPR. No. Because they didn't want to put their mouths on his. He was so filthy. He reeked. He was obviously diseased. The responding officer said, my guys aren't getting hep C over this. Right. That's what he said. Who could blame them?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Daniel Penny put his hands on him. Daniel Penny held him down. Daniel Penny endured that stink and that risk of disease to protect his fellow passengers. And the real, real after effect of this case is going to be who on earth would ever get in between innocent people and a threat like that again?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But even the fact that this has gone to trial, I think, would cause most people to think twice. Yeah, I think you're right. Why would you risk losing everything, going bankrupt, losing any shot at another job, reputationally smeared? There are subway cars that are now outfitted where normally ads would be. White type against a black background. This car is where someone was lynched. Oh, my Lord.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Seriously? Mm-hmm. I haven't been on the New York City subways in a while. I saw it online. I was on the subway last week, but I saw it and I thought, of course. And what... Where is the mayor who has said, pretty much, this case should not even be happening? I know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I think the detail that really stuck out for me, and I think what, aside from trying to cover this up from her husband down the hall with the kids, After the interlude takes place and Pete completes the act, the act on her stomach. This is graphic, but this is what it is. This is where we're at. He grabs a towel and he tosses it to her and says, you can clean that up.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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If only the DA really cared about the spirit of the law and the letter of the law the way these jurors clearly are trying to do. But I think people are human and I think that they are influenced by the protesters outside. I think they're influenced by this notion that a white man took a black man down and his life was expendable. That's the way it's been covered in much of the mainstream media.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He's your friendly neighborhood Michael Jackson impersonator who just happened to have been arrested. For trying to abduct a seven-year-old girl in broad daylight on the streets of Queens, you never read about that. That's right. You never read about that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Let him go. How do you know? Are you a medical professional? Are you EMT, which took 20 minutes to get there? Cops took 12. OK, that was Daniel Penny intervening. That 67 year old woman assaulted by Jordan Neely. He broke her nose and her orbital bone. He was on a list that the city keeps of the top 50 most dangerous mentally ill victims. homeless people, or should I say unhoused?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This is, again, this is stuff that you're not reading about or hearing about. It is a one-sided narrative and it's far more complicated than that. Jordan Neely didn't just happen to fall through the cracks. This is a systemic failure. It's like a systemic organ failure. Like New York City is dying. Like sepsis. Exactly. And this is the result. This isn't Daniel Penny's fault.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that I think was the insult that broke her. I think that broke her. I think that was like, oh, oh, I was just used. I was just, I was just a warm body. I was the one left at the end of the night. That whole thing front to back stinks to high heaven.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This is the fault of people who are paid far too much to do far too little.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Deny. Depose. Delay, I think. Delay, maybe that's what it is. I know this book that was written in 2010, which is basically like- Deny, defend, depose.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, she's sick. She'll say anything for clicks, anything. So it's nice to see her circling the drain to her inevitable, complete irrelevance. It's interesting. So are you guys watching Day of the Jackal? No. You should. It's amazing. What's it on? It's on Paramount Plus or Peacock. It's on Peacock. Dang. And it's a, it's a remake of a 73 film. Eddie Redmayne play. It's like incredibly stylish.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And he plays this really stylish assassin. And the first 20 minutes, he's like, he's a sniper. Like it's incredible. Anyway, this reminds me of that. And I'm seeing much of the same reaction online, which, you know, social media is a cesspool. It is also our id. And people are talking about like the hot assassin. And oh, it's like they took him down. Like it had to be done.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like the healthcare industry, they're such vultures. And I think the reaction to this is really telling us a lot. And this sort of circles back to the whole RFK Jr. thing. People are sick of their life and death decisions being made by faceless bureaucrats or paper pushers in offices. You try to get somebody on the line at one of these companies. Oh, forget it. You can't.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So unless you're a one percenter... who's up in like the Beyonce suite, you are at the mercy of some guy who's going to tell you it costs them 10 cents less for you to travel two hours more to go see a doctor you don't even like to get denied medication you might really need. This is sort of the larger thing that's happening. I mean, I think it's terrible what happened to this guy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I can't believe he didn't have security. I can't believe his schedule was made that public. He had death threats against him. You know, now all of these health companies are taking down the images of their executives in the wake of this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, 100%. I mean, that was the thing I thought. Like, you must know that, Helton. That was up the street from your old workplace. Yeah, a couple blocks. We used to have Christmas parties there, you know? Like, broad daylight, 6.45 a.m., the gunman was seen... milling around, just letting other people walk right past him. He was just waiting for his target.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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There are surveillance cameras everywhere. I can't believe an execution like this took place on the streets of New York City.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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100%. And so this rape allegation and that he paid her money to go away, which... You know, the whole thing is just, it's so dispiriting because I do wish we had better choices. You know, it seems that positions like this, positions of extreme power, do they tend to attract a certain kind of male who is a bit reckless in their personal life, who has an ego that needs to be fed to this degree?
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I know. The idea that anyone could just so easily be targeted this way. It's, And the lack of humanity is what's striking. But I think you're right. I think that the swiftness, it's partly social media, which just sort of allows people to anonymously voice their darkest impulses and thoughts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And on the other hand, the lack of daylight between shock and outrage and grief that a father of two could be slain like this And the perpetrator could get away so easily. There's, there's no daylight between that. And like, they had it coming. You can only push people too, too far. You push them too far. See what blue cross did. They backed off. Why do you think they backed off?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Not because they give a shit about their clients. They did it because they're afraid for themselves, you know? And I, I'm dying to know the motive. I'm dying to know the motive that, so you said, okay, the gun was purchased in Connecticut. That's a good looking guy. That's a guy who looks like he probably comes from a little bit of money. He's probably ex-military.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He knew exactly what to do and how to do it. I wonder if he's American. I wonder if he got out of the country within hours or how quickly NYPD was able to get facial recognition up at all the ports, all the airports, all the throughways.
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I think it's a different thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I actually think they know that more parents than not are not on board with this stuff. And that's why they don't alert the parents. They're just going to do the indoctrination on their own. They believe in the moral validity of this. You were talking about this yesterday, this case that's before SCOTUS. And I'm reading coverage yesterday in the New York Times that's talking about how medically
The Megyn Kelly Show
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valid it is to give children cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. To say nothing of, so in Irreversible Damage, another must read, Abigail Schreier talks about even the lower level interventions, like the kids who are like, get me a breast binder, at least just get me a breast binder. I'm developing, I'm self-conscious. The long-term damage that those very painful devices inflict on kids.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They call these things like, the names are so amorphous and they're meant to sound... vague and harmless, right? Among these drugs is a drug called Lupron. That is a drug they give to women who have breast cancer. That is a very, very powerful drug. You're going to give that to a child? Are you kidding me? That is medical malpractice.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I'm so glad whoever got this video got it to you because people need to be really informed. I mean, I've, I've had the beginnings of conversations with people who I consider smart, well-read and they're like, what's the big deal about trans? What's the big deal? It's a big deal.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Not yet. You know, I don't know whether it was you or someone else I was listening to, but the thing that's so pernicious about this is that there is no more confusing time than childhood, puberty, and adolescence. It is confusing. It is often terrifying. I know as a kid, when I started going through it, I wasn't ready for it. I didn't want it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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For girls in particular, the way that boys and men start to look at you is maybe something you're not ready for. If I had had this stuff pumped into my head at that age by people I considered authority figures who knew what the F they were talking about, I don't know what would have gone through my head about what I needed or what I didn't need.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And to your point, and this goes also right back to kind of the healthcare thing we were talking about. These people are creating permanent patients. They will spend the rest of their lives going bankrupt.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I know because I mean, how, how, how can one monetize oneself without attention? Right. Right. Right. How do you get the a hundred million dollar deal from Netflix? How does Tyler Perry know where to send his private jet to come get you? I love this us weekly conversation at the New York times deal book summit. What is this entrepreneur of nothing?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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We're so over him. It's so true. So remember David Petraeus pushed out over that Rolling Stone expose because he cheated on his wife? Yeah, with his biographer. With his biographer, who he called a mentee. And the thing that I take away is I hate the fact that mentee is in the lexicon now. The proper word is protege. And everyone has mentee. But regardless...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This guy who has never generated a dollar for his own benefit or edification, what does he know about making deals and making money? He's there because he's a celebrity, because we're all the trolls. We're all circling the bodies. We all know the divorce is imminent.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This is someone, I've said it before, there's on a rental car office she won't walk through to collect a meaningless award to get her photo taken next to her husband, the beta royal. Things are not well in Montecito. I'm just calling it now. It's on my card for 2025. Oh, you say this is the year they divorced. It's in my celebrity death pool, this marriage, for sure.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They're going away of Bennifer.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Also watch their new Netflix documentary dropping next week on Polo. A sport America cares little to nothing about at all. Sure. And Netflix was apparently very upset because they thought it was going to sort of be the Harry and Meghan reality show. And it's not. They made, like, Nacho Figueras. I don't ever say his last name right. No, don't know him. Of course you don't. Why would you?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Nobody knows who this guy is. He's Harry's famous Argentinian polo player friend. Oh, God. And do you know how long it took David freaking Beckham to break through in the United States? It took him like 20 years to become like a major star. Yeah. They like, he and Victoria sort of, um, buddied up to Tom Cruise for a little while.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And, you know, finally they have like the name recognition they had in the, nobody gives a shit about Polo. No. But, you know, they, oh, uh, oh, oh, oh. And the next year is, um, Megan's, um, we have to make popcorn. Megan's Netflix show about decorating. Oh my God. And friendship. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She's like Kamala. And you've made this comparison more than once. In much the same way, when that drunk Kamala video leaked. The best. My heart broke because I was off that week and I would have taken that thing apart like a pinata. But I thought to myself, she doesn't have a soul in her corner. Nobody roots for her. Everybody around her can't stand her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Because if there were one, they would have taken her by the scruff of the neck and said, no. Yes. We're not releasing this. No, sister. We're going to wait until you sober up. Exactly. And it's the same with Meghan Markle. She cannot find anyone to work for her because she chases everyone away with her bullying and her temper tantrums and her 4 a.m. emails.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Petraeus was like a five-star general and he was the one everybody thought was going to crack Iraq and Afghanistan. And he, he had to be thrown on the pyre because he cheated on his wife, you know? So listen, I agree. We were so cute back then. I know. Were we adorable? Yeah, we were adorable. It,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yes, I don't think that we should be holding whether someone cheats on their spouse as a marker of are they a great leader. More presidents than not have cheated on their spouses. FDR cheated on his wife. Yes. But I do think... It's the trail of just sexual predation that sticks with some of these guys. I don't think that Pete Hegseth is in that realm. I do wish.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think he's done a great job fighting back this week. I kind of wish he would dial back the Jesus Christ stuff. I do. I think it's trying too hard. I think it smacks of trying too hard. Does it not strike you as authentic? Not really. Oh, fascinating. I think he believes it, but I think, you know, what would your mother say if you brought a guy like that home?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She'd be like, a leopard doesn't change its spots. My mom would be like, he's gorgeous. Well, he's Gorgeous. He is. He's a really good looking guy. And Timothy Olyphant should play him in the made for TV movie when this is all wrapped up.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, it's the Jesus stuff. Okay. So what I think, what's striking me strange about that is I would, I think a middle lane approach would be more, would seem more authentic, which is I made some mistakes. I really did. I have been working hard. I believe I have become a better man, a better father, a better husband. No one is perfect. Please, you cannot beat me up more than I've beaten myself up.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Something like that. You know, but like a sudden rightward turn.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, I think it might just be a personal thing with me. I have found, you know, I'm the product of like 12 years of Catholic school, and I have found the more that people invoke Christ, you know, vocally and often as their personal savior, the way... It's usually indicative of something else going on. They can be the least Christian. Exactly, like the spy the lie thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They can be the least Christian people and the most rigid and the most un-understanding of gray areas. And so that's where for me, I kind of feel like it's maybe he doesn't intend it this way, certainly given the benefit of the doubt that it's genuine, but it can feel a bit like shorthand. Like, trust me now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I have religion. I found faith. Trust me now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's a little strong.
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Interesting. Interesting. And you also have to wonder, like, at what point is she just trying to placate him? Right. I love the freak offs. Like, does she? You know, it's like putting an emoji at the end of something. You're just like, whatever. But, you know, the other thing is she got with him. I think she was 19 and he was maybe 30. Very well established.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Immediately a power dynamic right there. She's bringing he's bringing her into this world. There was there was that little bit of testimony that I thought was really salient that he brought Britney Spears to her birthday party when they first were dating. That was like a flex. He at one point made her shave her head. There are images of her with like half of her head shaved.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And she's such a beautiful woman. It doesn't impede her beauty at all. But I think it was a way of him trying to strip her of that power she had, her own beauty. And then the other thing we were reminded of this week was Wendy Williams saying long ago, everyone in the hip hop community knows Sean Combs is gay. Makes sense. This is what he thinks of women. He's such a misogynist.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He beats the shit out of them on the regular and that he tried to have her fired or successfully had her fired from a gig. And I mean, that's the kind of level of power he was trying to execute all over the place, like trying to take somebody's livelihood because, you know, I mean, do we have that?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, I think that clip is really interesting because it takes a lot to trip Wendy Williams up. I mean, this is a woman who would get on TV five days a week, much as you do, and speak extemporaneously, you know? And this is her world. She's been in it forever. And Sean Combs, you can tell she's, in my opinion, that she's taking that as a not-so-thinly-veiled threat, okay? Mm-hmm.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You've got your life back now. You've got your job back now. I allowed that for you. Oh, your 16 year old son is backstage.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You can't tell me she didn't know the stories about Usher, a 14 year old Usher who was fed to him for at least a year in that townhouse who later told Rolling Stone that he would walk around that townhouse and peek through bedroom doors that were left open and see orgies happening. You know, the depravity. And you can't... You know, we're all watching Justin Bieber decline before our very eyes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And, you know, he issued a statement or his people issued a statement this week that said he is not a victim. Please leave him alone. But, you know, I think we're all looking at what seems to be the severity of the collateral damage. And, you know... We'll see what else comes out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, when stuff like this happens and people begin, I'm amazed that Cassie feels emboldened enough at like nearly nine months pregnant, knowing this guy. The feds, he tried to get bail three times and every judge said, no, he is a danger to potential witnesses.
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Jodie Foster, maybe.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh yeah. And I actually would never have assumed that Combs was alone. He may have been standing alone, but I would assume he's got guys all over that room or like cameras all over that room. My other question. So first of all, I was talking to the Daily Mail reporter who's in that courtroom every day. And when the the apology came up, I said, well, did Sean Combs offer to pay him back? No.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Class does not exist with this guy on any level. You know, I'm sorry I blew up your car, but I'm not going to give you the money. OK. Right. But, you know, the other thing is sort of like. The Kid Cudi stuff is just remarkable to me. Again, I can't believe this guy is testifying. I can't believe he's not afraid. And I can't believe that, like, Usher's name came in this week.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think there are many other people who are very worried about their names. Coming in, you know, I go back to this LeBron video that was a Zoom between him and Diddy and Diddy's on the top panel and LeBron's on the bottom. And LeBron is saying, ain't no party like a Diddy party. And they're all laughing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, the amount of people who knew and, you know, to your point, the last time we talked about it, like perhaps it's just normalized in that world. Like it's a sex party. It's a sex and drug party and stuff gets crazy and that's it. But I find it hard to like the way Wendy Williams blanched. You just said, oh, I met your kid backstage. And she, you know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I can't wait. Our Fridays together are the most fun.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, thank you. I have been getting a glow up. I will say, you know, I've been introduced to extensions.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I couldn't agree with you more. I mean, I think one of the things we're coming to terms with as a culture and we're really maturing in terms of understanding the nuances of victims of domestic violence is that there is no perfect victim. There is no you. There is no perfect victim. And. The level, the violence with which he assaulted her, you know, going for the head so often.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He was trying to disfigure her. He was trying to mar her beauty. And that video that we all saw of him kicking her in that hotel elevator bank slash hallway. That to me is a woman who's been there so many times before she went limp. She was like a possum. She went like, she shaped herself like a C to cover her internal organs. She was just going to take it as best as she could.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They're the best. Except, like, I have to take them out at night because my hair is so damaged from going platinum.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I don't know if it becomes kidnapping once she's trying to leave.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Good. I thought so. And then you're not telling me that he's done this to her and there aren't a legion of women out there. He's also done this to guys like this. Don't do it to just one person. And that says to me, there are many women out there who are still far too afraid of Diddy to file a civil suit. Or to raise their hand and say, if you want me for prosecution, I'll testify.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, if you even just think about the humiliation that's involved and how regularly Sean Combs had been beating Cassie in front of other people that he thought nothing of beating her in a public space. Those elevators could have opened at any time.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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When that security guard shows up on that new footage that we've just seen, and I was listening to you talk about, because I didn't realize this, and it was so enlightening. So I'm like, okay, so a A third party saw this and what happened? What happened? And I believe it was the same security guy who was told we don't do anything about this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And he took video on his own phone of the video because he kind of knew it would disappear.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The dog. You fucked with somebody's dog. Yeah. You terrified a dog, you know? Like, you're garbage. And the other thing about the Cassie stuff is, um... And, you know, the idea that it's implausible at best to believe that there aren't other female victims out there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, there's always been—so Al B. Shore, who is sort of a rapper who is involved in this because he was involved with Kim Porter, Diddy's ex, who had several children with him, has a book coming out in September. Yeah. And there's always been speculation that Kim Porter's premature death at like 35 or 45 from pneumonia was extremely suspicious.
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Like a lot of eyebrows in the hip hop community have been raised. I am extremely suspicious of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Absolutely. It's no, it's no accident that after Biggie's death, And Diddy back then was going by Puffy and he was always sort of the sidekick, the producer trying to get in the frame as the star. Once Biggie died, who becomes the torchbearer? It's Diddy who becomes the new hip hop star. It's Diddy who begins like cannibalizing what little is left of the existing Biggie Smalls recordings.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's Diddy. And he made his bones on the back of a far more talented rapper. He just did. And I believe, I believe Biggie Smalls, his mother died within the past year or two, but I think she always had questions about that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, the last time we were talking about this and you, you, you made a really great point that the kind of fame, first of all, the music industry isn't like, like, like the film industry, it can be incredibly predatory because you're dealing with people, you know, the, the biggest sample size of the, of the wannabes are the people who would give an organ for it. Okay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They want it at no matter the cost. They, you know, And but you said something about the kind of charisma and star power that is unique to a famous musician, a live performer. And they're becoming more and more rare just because of the way the music industry is sort of, you know, auto tune. Yeah. Yeah. And like the way they come up now, like they don't come up the way they used to.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And so the huge, huge stars like a Diddy, you know, who, who will now be in ruination for the rest of his life. But, you know, I remember being like back when I worked at MTV as like a baby being at like this after party and, I like a very small New York city, downtown club. And there, and the room in the back, that was like the quote VIP, very, very small. And he walked in.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And when I tell you the gravitational pull in that room shifted, I mean, you could feel it before you even saw who came in. There is something about them. That is just, I don't know if it's because they perform live and they develop an a connection with like an organism of a hundred thousand people in a stadium. That is a unique gift.
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Yes. And even his, I believe PA, his personal assistant was brutalized for, Diddy sent him to go to Whole Foods. I just, I love the details, right? Like the quotidian details where you're like, oh, Diddy's like shopping at Whole Foods or buying baby oil in bulk at Costco. Right. Like the sort of pedestrian things that, you know, you or I might engage in.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And to make every person in that arena feel a connection with you, that, that is, that, that's power. That's power. And you can see when, in thinking about how depraved, Diddy became, you know, I, I, this was always my question with Harvey in the beginning. And I ask every guy I knew, like he could have anybody he wants for the most part. you know, favor trade, whatever. Why rape? Why violence?
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Yeah. And they would say your, your baseline level of address, like you start topping out and you need more, you need more and more depravity to get a dopamine hit.
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And he said, go get me a gallon, a gallon of some kind of ionized water. I don't know. They didn't have a gallon in stock. So he comes back with two half gallons equaling one gallon. But he was savage for that because he wanted the one. So it's like those details. But this week has seen so many great characters. Like my favorite was the Punisher. Yeah, you're right. The the sex worker.
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Well, I'm glad that you do. They all also helped come up with the name. There was a lot of discussion, very lively, and it was really fun. And yeah, they all like it. And, you know, it's like this show is so much fun on so many levels and it's so much fun to do it. And it's the same thing when I'm with you.
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Like every time I come on your show, you know, we finish a conversation and I turn, I'm like, that was an hour. It feels like 15 minutes.
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And it feels the same way doing The Nerve. It feels like 15 minutes. And if I just want 15 more and 15, you know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And my favorite feedback, which is so truly humbling, is like... people who write and say, you know, I moved to, I moved to a new town and I feel lonely. I don't have friends, but like I tune into your channel and I look at you talking to me. It's like a FaceTime with a friend, you know, it's like that kind of stuff where it's like, it just feels very communal.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And like, we're all having, we're all seeing the same thing. And we're all like now just being able to say like, yeah, this is all nuts. This is all nuts.
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Jennifer Aniston, one of the most beloved celebrities in the country. She does it too. She lies about it from an InStyle magazine article in 2024. Oh, Jen, you know, she just like drinks a lot of water and she gets a lot of rest and she eats really well. She eats really clean. Okay. I'm going to tell you guys firsthand that I have, I know a doctor.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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who recently worked with somebody very close to Jennifer Aniston, that Jennifer Aniston recently had what is called a bilateral relationship. what's it called? It's a bilateral, like lower facelift. So they go in with cameras on both sides, like under the cheekbones and they go in and they just lift here. They just lift here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And what it winds up doing is it winds up stretching the mouth out like that. And you can't reverse it. And, and it's, it's a bad procedure to have done no matter who you are, no matter what your bone structure is, because it's not working with the rest of the face. We have to try that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Okay, the sex worker who is dressed like something out of a Marvel comic, like an S&M Marvel comic, right? Like the mask with the spikes on it and then like this and that. And he's got, he's published, it's self-published, a book called Freezer Meat.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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No, especially like the space between your nose and your- Kylie Jenner. Kylie Jenner. Lauren Sanchez. Oh. Lauren Sanchez. I don't know. She needs to step away. Step away from the needles. There was a picture of her in Paris that was published recently that was horrifying because it gets to the point where they do so much pulling and stretching and filler and Botox.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I feel like they lose any sort of tissue and you just see skin on bones.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I don't know what that is, but my doctor friend who can diagnose this stuff a mile away is always sort of like that. So that thing that Jen Aniston had, she said- Allegedly. Allegedly had, is not reversible. There's no doctor you can go to now. Allegedly, remember when Demi Moore did that catwalk? It was horrifying. Horrifying. And her face was like a mask.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It was like for Balenciaga or something like that. Yes, and she looked like an alien. So my doctor friend told me, I thought that was misdone filler. It was a botched facelift. And she said, everybody in their community knows the doctor in New York City, allegedly, who did that to her, and knows the doctor in New York City, allegedly, who fixed it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, my God. Or like wear a bathing suit that doesn't have like a matronly skirt. Right. Or like, you know, the boy shorts now only, I guess.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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That is a bridge too far. I love it. And in that segment, I closed with my favorite example of recent years, which was Giselle Burke, Giselle Burka. Giselle Bündchen in a burqa outside her, a burqa head to toe, burqa outside her plastic surgeon's office in Paris. Yes. Okay. And then five years later, you know, she issues all these like cookbooks and like, you know, I'm so pure. Everything's pure.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And the feds had the front and back cover in full color of the illoat. Like, it's like wild stuff's going on. And so the Punisher, who I need to start following on Instagram. Right, right. He needs to become part of our life. Definitely. So he's talking about, his book Freezer Meat was about erectile dysfunction.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I ride horses and it's just the sun and my athleticism. And it's not.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's not, it's such a line of bullshit they sell to women. And I hate it. It makes, it's designed to make us all feel terrible about ourselves.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Born that way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They can do amazing things with lasers these days. I had a recent laser, I'm going to say maybe six months ago. And I was like, I have a pretty high pain tolerance. And this thing, this was killing me. They were like, well, next time we could give you Valium. I was like, you should have started with that. Yeah, right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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No, and I think you have to go to a doctor. I love my derm because she's like... If you want something and I think it's too much or wrong for you, I'm going to say no. And I'm going to say no again. And you can go to somebody else, you know, because I do think you can, once you start, it's like when you're renovating a house, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Once you start seeing what's wrong and got corrected, all you can see sometimes are imperfections, you know, and your skin is like, so like, I'm like kind of in awe of like how you're, you know, and I love that you're open about it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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lasers and extensions and like all this stuff like yes I will say well done filler like I have gotten filler under my eyes for maybe the past five years and it can if it's done well it can really correct like if you're beginning to feel like you're losing a hollowed out a little bit but the side effect of it is that you don't really need concealer anymore oh It gets rid of the dark circles.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Now you're talking me into it. Wait, does it hurt to get needles in that? Not really, no. You just get numbed up. And you wait 30 minutes and you have an artist. That's such a sensitive area. She's a genius. What can I say? Dr. Jessica Weiser in Soho.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And he had trouble performing for Diddy and Cassie and Diddy, who he first comfort the first encounter incomes, this like oiled up black man naked, except for a burka. Like it's these details where you're like, what, what's going on in these hotels? Like, it's kind of funny. Like there's something like his dignity, whatever dignity Sean Combs may have had remain is being stripped away.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They work great. And I also love, I love like my aging goals are women who age gracefully. Like, I don't know if you've watched Emily in Paris.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Okay. There's this older French actress who's on that show. She is so stylish and she is so cool. And she's so obviously in her mid fifties, she has lines. Her skin is, is kind of sagging, but she has so much confidence and so much style. You're just like, I want to be her. I want to be that person.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I don't want to be the person who looked like it came from a wind tunnel, you know, when I'm like 60 years old, like I don't want that. No.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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There's an elegance in not doing that to yourself. It's a level. It's, it's, it's a, it shows a level of self-confidence and it shows like, we all want to look, most of us really want to look our best, but like it shows, it also shows a sense of humility. You know, time comes for us all.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Age comes for us all, you know, and you could be Jane Fonda and you could go out in a wig allegedly and pull your face back, but you're still 80, 85, you know, like we all know that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like with every single witness who gets on that stand, you know?
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100%.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This is one of the few times I feel ashamed to be an American. These are Americans, Bulgarians, parading through Paris. I read they went to a restaurant called Lafayette. and they ordered a bunch of, like, gross American food that was probably not on the menu.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Just to call back to the Diddy thing, one of the most disgusting details to come out this week, he prefers his burgers with applesauce on them. Ew. I know. Ew.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's disgusting. Who came up with that? That is not a thing. For him, it is. It's disgusting. But anyway, these two, that image of Bezos slapping, like, that reminded me of the Jenny from the Block video. Remember Ben Affleck on the boat slapping? Oh, my gosh, yes. Like, and I think they're trying to reenact this...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But my main theory about Lauren Sanchez is I think she is paying a very high price to become the next Mrs. Jeff Bezos. I do not think this is fun at all. I think she has to keep her body in a certain condition. I think she has to have a certain number of surgeries. I think she has to look a certain way. My opinion, just my opinion... It is Jeff Bezos' Revenge of the Nerds, Small Dude Syndrome.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like, I have a pneumatic sex doll. Totally. And I parade her around, and she does what I want. And that visual right there, I'm smacking her bottom.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yes, I agree with you 100%.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's not going well. I have, uh, two Scott Pelley observations. And then I'd like to say something about Gail. Um, Scott Pelley once, uh, assailed a page six reporter who dared to talk to him back when I was supposed on the red carpet, he was on a red carpet. He was doing interviews. I believe he had just been canned as anchor nightly news anchor. And they had the temerity to ask him about that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And he's, he spat, he fairly spat at them like, uh, you wouldn't last two minutes inside the halls of CBS news. And I'm like, Scott Pelley wouldn't last two minutes inside the New York post newsroom. I promise you. Okay. And then my other thing about Scott Pelley is, you know, he's on 60 minutes now and he taught, he's always talking like with lockjaw. Yes.
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And then he does this and then he takes his glasses and he'll put them on like this. And then after he asks the question, he takes them off. He writes it like this. It's like William Hurt and broadcast.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's very cathartic to get that out. Very cathartic. And then, so Gail, I feel like Gail is to CBS News what Don Lemon was to CNN. And I knew Don Lemon was over before he began tanking. Do you remember that image of him on a red carpet during Fashion Week? It was right around COVID. I'm sure I blocked it out. He's on a red carpet. There are photographers like in a semicircle.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He's standing there in like a $5,000 suit with like a $10,000 coat caped over him. And he's showing his hands like this and all the rings on his fingers. Ew. And I was like, this guy thinks he's a major star and CNN is the backdrop rather than you're the journalist and that is your outlet. And Gail's right now in the same level of delusion.
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She's the star and CBS is just lucky to have her, my opinion.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Get the fuck out. David Muir, who, by the way, you know, like Mariah Carey is only ever shot from one side. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, and he's that way. Oh, he's that way. No, he sits at the anchor desk like this. And he never moves. He's like a statue. And then what's great is when he has to parachute into a war zone or a natural disaster, you better fucking get him from inside. It doesn't matter how many dead bodies are in the background. No. And bring my waist cinchers. Oh, right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Doesn't he? Good job. That's exactly what I want to hear as I'm going out into the world and about to embark on my life. And it should be the most optimistic, hopeful time. And those are like, I'll say this, like my my commencement speech speaker, you may be surprised, was Cornel West. And I freaking loved his speech.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He was so great and it was so joyful. And he was like, you're going out into the world and it's like all yours. And like, it was just amazing. You know, it was so inspirational and he really captivated everybody. And this is like, okay, there's no free speech. You're talking to kids who are running college campuses as they see fit. You want a tentafada? Have it. What is he talking about?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yes. And some of the more harrowing testimony I think came from Cassie's mother. who got on the stand and said, Sean Combs personally called her. He could have had one of his henchmen do it, but he personally called her and said, if you don't give me $20,000, I am going to release a sex tape of your daughter. This woman is not for money.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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For that matter, where was Scott Pelley and his ilk as all of this stuff we're learning about now when the press was either complicit in or very happy to be told everything's fine here vis-a-vis Joe Biden. Right. Nothing to see here. Now we're learning in that Jake Tapper book, Hunter Biden was one of the people making crucial decisions. Right. Like that was a punchline.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, who do you think it is behind the scenes? Like Hunter, that degenerate? Yeah, it was. It was Hunter and Jill.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yes. You know, it's so galling that, OK, there's she and Joe went on The View like two weeks ago and they knew this book was coming out. So, you know, Joe's trying to shore up his legacy as one of the greatest presidents ever and losing his train of thought as he does. So he's like, you know. Right. And Jill's grabbing him going, well, let me just tell you that he was working 24 hours a day.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She had to refinance her house to get $20,000, which for Sean Combs is like... Change in the couch cushions.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And, you know, he's reading his briefing books and he's taking phone calls and I'm in bed with my novel. But there he is. And he's, you know, and it's all a lie. We all know it's a lie. You know, and then, of course, they make the announcement about the cancer diagnosis, like two days before the Tapper book is like officially published.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But most of the media has seen it and like is talking about it. And it's so interesting. disgustingly cynical. And then, so The View, after they allow this Pravda-esque display at their table, and they're happy to do it because they're all Team Joe, right? Team Jill, Team Dr. Jill.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So Bob Iger, reportedly, and then the head of ABC News have a come-to-Jesus meeting with them, the hosts of The View, this brain trust. And they say, listen, you gotta back off this anti-Trump stuff. Like, it's boring. You're dividing, you're losing half of the country, more than half, Knock it off. And so Ana Navarro, who there's not a name she doesn't love to drop.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She and Sonny Hostin are always like elbowing each other who's closer to, you know. So unattractive. She says, I won't do it. I will not. I don't care if you're Bob Iger. I don't care. I will not. I'm going to stay. So she's probably.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I, I, you know, it's a hate watch for me at best, but I, I, I can barely gut it out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He's running around with like hundreds of thousands of dollars so he can pay people off at these hotels, right? She had to refinance her house, which takes months to do. And so she's living in fear that her daughter will be humiliated in this way by this monster who then takes the $20,000 from her. Takes it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, like that's a kind of sadism that is so, I mean, he is psychologically such a sick, sick, sick guy. And, you know, I heard your coverage of it earlier this week, like whether or not he's found guilty, he's done. He's done.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I became a princess. I moved into a cat. Maureen! Sorry, sorry, sorry. It's, you know, it's a lot. I just, I can't... absorb the enormity of your life. I don't even know how you put this. Maybe you should put the drink down so you could pay better attention.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's been a while and I kind of feel like it might be time for an outfit change. I think we should both change this time. Part of our love language. Yes, that's exactly right. I could use a break anyway, so this is perfect timing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, this is really what I'm comfortable in most of the time. I prefer to come home after a long day and just slip into something a little bit more elevated, if you will.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Let's go. I think this is a very relatable thing that you're doing here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Not bad. Not bad. Not bad.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I am so happy I could come and help you in pursuit of joy elevation and perfection. I was wondering, wondering, wondering if you were going to use the black tie look that we did. Yes, we had to. My recollection of that was somehow Strudwick jumping in the pool and you going out in the black tie look.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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so her stupid series has her changing outfits every two minutes like one does when one has a friend over exactly like when and especially like one does when one's trying to prove how relatable they are yes you know that you're not constantly switching in and out of trying to sort of one up each other with your look your look that megan did not understand the that word allegedly but yeah no that's what you do and i think that uh you know it was a day megan it
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Do you have any children? What is your backstory? What is your wiki thumbnail?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And by the way, I only want to talk about myself. I only want to talk about you. As we discussed last time, you would ask a question and I would sort of try to jump in while retaining my dignity and you would just cut me off and move on to some other thing that you were beautifully executing. And by the way, can we talk about trying the one-pot pasta? Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. I thought it was good.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Nor would they want to. I mean, and then finally Strudwick getting the cocktail. We drank like five glasses. I know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So important. As I've predicted, once these kids hit 18, they are moving to the East Coast, if not out of the country. Could be back to the UK entirely. Or could be back to the UK entirely. Exactly. You know, and it was the whole thing too. She was saying on one of the other shows, you know, I write them emails every night. Yeah. So that, so 365, I can't do the math. 365 days times 18. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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How many emails is that? Like they're going to have the time to go through that. No.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then, of course, there's I leave the room from them. We don't ever talk about the help, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I leave the room just to take a moment for myself into the other room. And then I miss them so much that rather than go back into the other room, I scroll on my phone. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Clearly she does. And also I'm curious as to how she was going to give said speeches with a baby on her hip when Prince Harry has said the reason they left was largely to keep their children completely out of the public eye.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
There was so much going on, like when you're slinging allegedly baseless accusations of racism against two of the most famous monarchs on the planet. You know, there's a lot going on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
Oh, if I were one of Bill Belichick's kids, just me, just my opinion, I would be concerned for his physical safety. I really would. I mean, we know he runs around like a slob as part of his flex, but this is all so inelegant. It is so unbecoming of a man who had that legacy. Yeah. And it's the shaft. Oh, my God.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
100%, although I do think she's running the show. And to a new report that just came up, apparently Jordan is being excised from Polite Society on Nantucket this summer. Oh, Nantucket. This may take yet another turn. We don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
I think there's no question about that. As for Kid Cudi, it's sort of like, you know, she played me. OK, well, you're a grown man, you know, and you're in like a very flashy, fast moving industry. I'm sure she wasn't like your one and only. Sorry. OK. And then the testimony he gave about Sean Combs blowing up his Porsche.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
So months later, they have a summit, Diddy and Cudi, okay? The summit was at the Soho House in L.A., Okay. Where everyone has their big. So it's after, after you blow up my luxury vehicle, let's meet for a cocktail at the Soho house. You know, so how bad is it? You know, how bad is it now?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
I believe that the prosecution is putting on a witness much as the prosecution did in the Harvey case round one. which went to speaking to how victims of sexual violence or domestic violence often are in love with their abuser.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
And I'll never forget the details in Cassie's lawsuit, her civil filing against Diddy, which went to, there were two incredibly violent things. One, he had her get breast implants in LA. Oh, that's right. And the day after, he was like, I don't like the way these look. And he took her back to the surgeon and said, remove them and put in different ones.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
And the surgeon said, I can't, she needs to heal first. And this surgeon then said, like, Diddy made him fear for his life and he did it. He did it. And then the other one was after they left some awards event, he began stomping her face in the back of an SUV and the driver slash bodyguard tried to intervene. And he was like, if I recall correctly, basically, I'll kill you if you don't back off.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
This is my woman and I'll do what I want with her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
I think they knew what he was capable of. Right, right. That's the better question. Yeah. Like what was he capable of? I mean, I think, you know, from a legal aspect, I'm really interested in your thoughts because, you know, what I love is that the prosecution has video and you can't lie your way out of video. Okay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
And the jury seeing those still photos of the freak offs and two members, at least visibly recoiled. And it takes a lot for a New York jury to be disgusted. It's true. Um, What do you think the prosecution is building towards? Do you think they are building towards interstate sex trafficking? Because other than that, like, yes, he's disgusting, but he's not on trial for domestic violence.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Diddy Enablers Exposed, Legacy Media Hacks, and Meghan's "Working Mom" Narrative, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1079
There's some, Maureen, we are not living a big life. Okay. There's a lot. Like I just love one invitation to a sex party. Just one.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
I was like Gayle King to summon us to like a little summit for the brave souls that we are. And I just thank God for you too, Megan and Sarah, because frankly, I'm phasing people out of my life who have not been.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
Well, Megan, let's be fair. I mean, I'm hearing it for both of us. You know, we're a two hander. We're a team. You know, like I would I would like to be getting my SAG card imminently. I think I deserve it. And, you know, now we've added astronaut to our resume. I mean, what can't we do?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
I know, because I caught that drop of water in my eyeball.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
I can agree with you more. And I really, you know, to Mark's point that LaGuardia is now the equivalent of Cape Canaveral, I think a plaque should be placed on that tarmac. MK, me, Sarah. the contributions we have made to womankind and feminism.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
And yeah, not for nothing, like keeping your glam intact, going through 15 major parabolic arcs in which I personally slammed into the ceiling, into the walls, into the floor. I defy a man to do it. I just, I defy a man to do it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
Yeah. A hundred percent. I mean, the thing about the laughter, like I couldn't stop laughing. It was so wild. I felt like we were all babies, you know, like real babies. Like what are these limbs? What do they do? Like, how do I get from point A to point B? Like some force is like picking me up and now I'm being slammed back down.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
And like, I was just praying to myself that like, we didn't actually hurt each other, you know, because we were all just like colliding constantly. It was the wildest, wildest experience. It was the most fun, and you're so right. Those guys couldn't even laugh and enjoy it. It's so freaking weird.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
Incredible. What an honor. And I would just like to add, I was on such a time crunch. I did not get to have my spacesuit tailored, nor did I get to order the same kind of boots that you and Sarah were wearing, which I was very jealous of because they were like a slim line, but chunky boot with like a tread and a really nice heel. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
I mean, potential new merch.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
I think it's such a wonderful world. Should we sing a little bit? I don't see shades of blue, trees of green.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
Did I mention how proud I am of me? You know, you tend to do that. I forgot for one second, but yes, yes, you are. I know, I know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michelle Obama's New White House Complaints, and "Blonde Origin" Premieres, with Mike Rowe and the MK Media Hosts | Ep. 1063
Um, I literally have tears coming out of my, like, I just, I had no idea what this was going to look like piece together. I think that having Mark and Link as the brave journalists covering and quite frankly, acknowledging exactly what we did, how we did it, how brave we are. Not for nothing. My updo stayed intact throughout 15 weightless parabolic arcs. I would like some recognition for that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It looks like a photo shoot. That beekeeper thing with the sun hitting you and this beatific look on your face. Here it is again. Oh, my God.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It was, I mean, it was really easy to play straight man to you because the absurdity, like, again, you didn't even have to take it up a level. Like we were just doing what she was doing on the show. That's right. Like when you were like, I'm going to, first of all, this is how much I adore you. Yeah. I bought you store-bought pretzels, right? Like, it's like, that's just funny.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Of course, yeah. You sort of berate them for not slicing things properly or getting ice together. Or my favorite bit was the faucets and the water. And like, you were criticizing the way I was like... turning the faucet on. First, you helped yourself without asking me. I told, I told Jake who was running the cat. I was like, you left for a minute. I was like, don't tell Megan.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I'm getting a glass of water. Don't tell her I'm in her cabinet. She's method right now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Okay. There's nothing you can't do, I know, I know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Are you going to hurt yourself? I'm going to be fine. This is how I... This is how I interchange. Oh! Oh, there you go. Like I've been doing it my whole life. I never doubted you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Here we go, yes. Megan, tell me where you got that gorgeous bracelet. It's Megan.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Like that?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Okay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
We're gonna get rid of the little Lipton signs. Can I ask you, is there a reason you're not using British tea, but American tea? I've got an issue with the Brits.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
You may have read about it. Just to make it extra special.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
This is sort of the history of our friendship. I do all the heavy lifting. Here she comes. Here she comes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Someone put too much water in the mixer. Someone got left alone in the kitchen for another costume change. Not to worry.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
sum and substance of coming to Megan's house for fun. You're going to eat dog food, and you're going to like it. Come. Good job. OK, that's it. Your dogs are so well-behaved.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I am dying. I was, like, doubled over in tears. I'm on my second tissue. We're both fixing our makeup during the video. Oh, my God. I mean, also, Strudwick really, I think, the secret weapon of that entire bit. Because Megan's dog, I believe she probably sedated that dog. Yeah. He sat perfectly in his little perfect doggy bed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And Strudwick was like, what didn't make the cut, and I hope you show online or something, is Strudwick escaping to the pool. Oh, yeah. And we're in our black tie. That's right. In the middle of the day. And you had to run out. Yes. In your sequined gorgeous gown. Like trying to get Strudwick out of the pool while the sun tea is still brewing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And I was like, your pool guy must think you have lost your mind.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
You know, we got those at the mail. I should have brought them for you. You would die. Hers? Yeah. Okay. So they come in this, they come in... I guess the packaging for her crepe mix, maybe? Or the shortbread, whatever. The crepe mix, which she tells us, by the way, is French style. Thanks so much. Because crepes are actually a French invention. They are, by definition, French style, Megan.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And then there's this little cellophane baggie. Now, as you and I have previously discussed, I've never consumed street drugs. I know people who have, and it looks like a little drug baggie. It's so cheap. And inside are these like flakes, these multicolored flakes that you would never go. Those are fruit petals. Those are lovely little fruit petals.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
They look like hard pieces of lint, like that you would pull out of the dryer. You're better off with sprinkles. And also, until you went, so we were, I was deputized, thank you, Megan, to pick the flowers, the hydrangea petals off, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Before we put them in the plastic ice tray. You said, look at the label. What does that label say to you? What does that label say to you? Just like a nun. What does that label say to you? And it said non-edible, which by the way, whenever I purchase flowers, I never think like, should I look and see if this is an edible item? Should I eat these? this way? Should I eat these?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Oh no, these I can't eat. Those I can't eat. Can I eat the peonies maybe?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It was hard labor and I was actually surprised. I thought it was maybe sort of a threat that would not be made good. The fruit platter almost killed me. Yeah. Fruit platter almost did me in. I was like, are we done? Is this it? We were not. No. We were not. But yeah. We were exhausted by the end of that. I mean, fruit was slipping out of our hands. Yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
You were berating me for washing fruit too hard. Like you were really channeling her. I was method.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Drinking champagne with just constantly piling fruit in, which we both acknowledge was actually pretty good. Yeah. We're going to give her that one. I'll give her that one. But really just guzzling, guzzling, guzzling because it was partly in character and we're in fur for day. Like we really took it up.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And then when it was all over, just sitting and like having a moment to take all of our hard work in. Yes. We really, we really, really, really worked hard that day.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Yes. That's why I serve champagne liberally. And why I kept topping you off to try to, like, blunt some of that mean energy coming my way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Maureen, welcome back. You know, Megan, I've said this to you before, and I mean it, truly. I do not know what I've done to deserve you. I really, really don't. Oh, Maureen. And you... That was your idea, by the way. I'm just going to give you full credit for it, to do the Meghan Markle spoof show. And we got, I think, to act out a lot of our frustration.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Now...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I look like an 80-year-old. I look like I have a form of dwarfism.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Ew. Oh my God. Ew. Oh my God. But this is like, this would be you at like, that would be me at maybe two. This would be you. I feel like it's six maybe.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I love this. I love that. It's very Meghan Markle with your hair. falling right into the food that you're creating. That's right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It was very cathartic.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
She deserves it, and I think the... The real loss is really only going to be Meghan Markle's because, as we've discussed before, she has zero sense of humor. And if she could laugh at herself at all, she might really, really see the humor in that. And especially the interpersonal dynamics that she has with her great friends who come over.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
So the line that killed me was when I asked you about your mini brainstorms of decanting and repackaging in multiple plastic containers. And you said... and I'm guessing you have like in the next wave of our friendship, I'll try to explain it to you. Like you could unpack the microaggressions in that one statement for days. It's like, there were so many things that were just flying by my head.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Megan just cut me right off. She was really good at asking me a barbed question, like an insult, right? Oh, I love you. I know all your weak spots. Let me go right here. And then I try to answer in a way that will recover some dignity, and you just cut me right off. No way. On to your next, you know, back to you, back to you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And I think we are absorbing a lot of communal energy. Yes. Because the response, just even to the trailer that you put up last night, has been like a huge catharsis. They're with us. They're with us. Everyone's with us.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
You're kidding me. We've been renewed. Oh, my God. Well, of course, we're still great, right? The people have spoken. I mean, you are great. I'm all right. But you're, you listen, it's your show.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Okay. I've been dying to talk to you about this because I was on, I was commuting on the train and listening to episode one.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Okay. So I did, I think I did too. Again, you're always overachieving. I mean, even listening, like even when we were talking about the Netflix show, I said, I watched these following episodes. There were three in total. You go, I did four. Great. You got to commit when it comes to this woman. You're going to fall behind. I know. I'm doing my best. That mountain gets harder to climb every time.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It's painstaking. That first episode struck me. Okay, she's got the founder of Bumble on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Now, I would never have been able to tell you her name. No, still can't. Right. So again, where's the Gwyneths of the world, right? Where are the real starry, starry founders? Yep. This entire episode, it was like watching a toothless child try to eat some oatmeal. It was just like conversations about intentionality, making space, giving oneself permission to love oneself.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Tell me how any of this is applicable to building an actual business.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Well, so the Whitney, the Bumblewoman episode was notable for a couple of things, but one was, so Whitney goes to Megan, do you mind if I tell the story about you? The Ireland story. Can I tell that story? Like it's this really private, sacred piece of information. Megan goes, oh yeah, yeah, of course you can tell that story. So they had just met.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And by the way, the way they met was like Megan invited her and her husband over for a New Year's Eve party. which is really like how you get to like forge, you know, some intimate bonding when you're having people over for a huge holiday party, whatever. She goes, okay, so I'm in the airport in Ireland and I go into, you know, one of those, like, what do you call them? Like a newsstand?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Lord.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And I said to myself, how does this woman deal with all of this attention? oh my God, how does she manage it? And it was just like, Megan was just like, I know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you. Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you. Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
this is the nerve when ben affleck moves out of the 65 million dollar marital home he shared with j-lo in the metaphorical dead of night while she's off in europe we're going to analyze it like the collapse of the roman empire when megan markle drops yet another mediocre show or podcast we're going to take it all apart like a pinata We'll also be covering true crime in real time.
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Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you. Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I think you're 100% right. This is only her third episode. I can't think of anybody I would go to for advice less than Michelle Obama. She really doesn't know what she's talking about. First of all, she loves to tell us she hated Barack for a good decade. Yes. Okay. Please teach me how to have a successful relationship with someone that you clearly respect and admire.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Every time she's on the air, it's like, I'm dragging this ball of dead weight behind me. His name, Barack Obama. He's bringing me down. I'm trying to elevate myself with like these things on my head. It looks like Mickey Mouse. It's Like the two ears up there. These two big balls on the left and the right of her head. Like what kind of midlife crisis is she in the throes of right now? No.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
That's what it looks like. Like the back of a stegosaurus. I think that her... Do you remember Meghan McCain used to go on The View with those? Yeah. And everybody's theory was that her styling team, like her glam squad, must be working out some animus towards her. Because anyone else would be like, no, no, no, not for today. Not a good idea.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And she's also, Michelle, so she's constantly hitting that wound of like, are we divorcing? Don't be gossiping about us. I'm just trying to be an independent woman over here. I hate my husband, but I love my husband, but you know. When she's not doing that, so her brother is her podcast co-host. She's constantly berating him. Like every episode, you didn't tell me you were having marital problems.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Like he has to explain to her a million freaking times, hey, I was trying to work out my marriage. And if they did work out and I told you what the problems were, you would hold a grudge against my wife for the rest of your days. Which is real. We all know it. We all know. Nobody holds a grudge like Michelle Obama.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I think that's a very unhealthy position to take or to advise other people to gut it out for 10 years of misery. I mean, first of all, what that would do to you physically alone. I would never want to sign up for that. And secondly... Does she not realize that by talking shit about her partner of decades, first black president of the United States, she's talking shit about herself.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Lady, you chose him. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
He made her famous. And aside from the lawyer, she didn't she get like didn't Valerie Jarrett give Michelle Obama like a no show administrative job at a Chicago hospital like 600 K a year while they were all getting ready. They were all grooming Barack to be president. Right. That young of an age, the Chicago political apparatus knew this guy could go to the White House. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
So they were like, let's take care of him and let's take care of the wife and like, let's make sure everything's seamless. I also really do think the root of her rage is that he is a natural star. He was born with many gifts that through self-esteem and great education, he allowed himself to cultivate. He allowed himself to achieve greatness. She grinds it out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
She's grinding it out on this podcast. You listen to this podcast. You're like, why am I listening to this woman bitch and moan and complain? I've got better things to do with my free time. And you know what else is very clear?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
She can deliver it. And you know what else? So Barack, I think he got his oratorical skills from the churches. You know, he gets a lot of that. Robert Wright. Yeah, that cadence and that way of bringing a crowd up and then taking them down. She, I think...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
prior to Harvey and the clink, I think he was hooking her up with like the Meryl Streep's or her acting coach or whoever, and getting her really like, you know, up there at that level. But you're absolutely right because whatever charisma she's able to display at like a DNC speech, she can't do it in the confines of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
That's incredible. And that's, you know, we were doing a dress rehearsal yesterday for The Nerve and we were saying, you know, this is like, this is the place where you can't get canceled. This is not what we're here for. That's right. Yeah. And I love the name, by the way, The Nerve. Thank you. It's so clever.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Well, thank you for those kind words. And yes, I always want to come at something from a different angle, just like you do. And it's not like it's that hard for me. It's just like I get tired of hearing the same people parrot the same talking points or the same observations when I'm thinking differently. And instead of going, I should shut that off because like I think differently.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I want to express that because I think and suspect that more people than not feel the way I do. They just can't say it because now it's not the thing you say. Because they don't have the nerve. Exactly. But that's with Michelle Obama. That's it. There is not an original thought rattling around in that head. She's having conversations that like tweenagers have. Yes. It's so boring.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Nobody's watching it. It's so boring.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Well, it's apt right now because I am more nervous than I've ever been in my entire life. I am having physiological, but I will be ready to go in that chair next week. I'm working it out a little bit. That makes it even more fun for us to watch. Oh yeah, sure. We're not used to seeing you nervous.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It's still not going to make her anything less than Oprah's best friend. Number one. Number two, journeys. It's not a ride. It's a journey. I mean, I thought journey was also now a diminution of sorts. Like, isn't journey something we apply to the new season of The Bachelor? It's like it's a journey. It's self-help. It's back to self-help. We're on a journey.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Third, my favorite thing is, so her outrage... is in direct disproportion to actual space flight, right? Which this is not. This is like a vanity project. And you know it's bad when other celebrities come out and mock you. Like that almost... Celebrity on celebrity violence almost never happens. But we're witnessing it right now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
She goes... I think she was talking to Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet and she, you know, clapping back at her trolls and critics. She says, I mean, the unmitigated comic. And she goes... When you go to space, when you take that, then you come back and you talk to me about it. You tell me the magnitude of it. Once you, me, the little people, like, oh, anybody can do this?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
All you have to do is be wealthy or famous enough to befriend Jeff Bezos and his sex doll blow-up fiance. Make sure that when you go up there, you can have full glam, that Gail's wig, alleged, is affixed. Yes. That the fake eyelashes aren't falling off in zero gravity.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Don't float off on their own. That Katy Perry, I've read, spent more time looking at the camera with her daisy for her daughter than outside at the moon.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Well, what about when, was it Lauren Sanchez? They were recording themselves going, girl power, girl, like, don't make me be ashamed of my gender, okay? So cringe. Going, oh my God, you guys, look, we're seeing the moon. Like, guess what? We all see the moon just fine down here. Have you seen the moon rise? Great.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Did Katy Perry ever leave the lens? I don't think so. She's really trying to move tickets, which is not happening. It's just like it's like this is like end times kind of like, you know, the rich and the famous going up on a joyride into space. Like space colonization is a really serious thing. You know, like it's the future of humanity. Like every visionary will tell you that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Every futurist will tell you that. And these three are up there taking selfies and spouting inanities such as take up space. Something Meghan Markle would say, take up space, but you're in outer space. Like comparing yourself to Alan Shepard, comparing yourself to heroes who, when they first went into space, weren't sure they were going to like just disintegrate up there. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Astronaut. You're not an astronaut. You're not an astronaut. You're not an astronaut. You cannot be anything you want, despite what this culture tells you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Have you been to Epcot Center? Give me your Yelp review when you come back, okay? So have I. Should we get some stripes? Should we get some like laurels? I mean, I can't.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Exactly. What does that tell you? And are they your friends? And it doesn't help your sinking morning show, which is like circling the drain. Why are there no questions, by the way, as to how an alleged journalist can be so close with others?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
one of our foremost billionaires and take a joyride into space and not ask any critical questions or do this in any way that resembles something approaching journalism.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Oh, my God. Women have been in space. Men have been in space. Dogs have been in space. Monkeys. Monkeys have been in space. Much of this earthbound... William Shatner. William Shatner. William Shatner has been to space. I think he made less of a deal out of it. Martha Stewart's been space-esque. She's been to space. Like...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
we're not like, and I also thought like, I think Gayle King is having some weird crisis because did you see those images of her before she got on? And she was so nervous. She was like in tears.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Oh yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
But you're still in space and like it's still like a new form of I always I often think of like people who started traveling by airplane almost as soon as commercial aviation was invented. That's ballsy. That's ballsy. Right. And I think this is kind of ballsy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
And I kind of think the demeanor and the behavior of these ridiculous people, notwithstanding, like I thought it was I'm like, I'm sure Oprah got that invite to go up with Gail because they're like this. And Oprah said no. Well, you know, she was there. She was on the ground with the Kardashians. Right. With the Kardashians. Nothing frivolous. Nothing. Nothing frivolous about this. No.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
But I also suspect that Kris Jenner said no. I think there were lesser tier known people on that flight. And I often also wonder, like, so Katy Perry's in this cohort. Like, what do she and Orlando Bloom have in common with Jeff Bezos? Like what are those four getting up to together that has forged such tight knit, because like it can't be intellect.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
That's who she, but again, choosing to befriend.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It's perfect. Yeah. I love it. I love the continued implosion, the hypocrisies. You know, apparently democracy is dying, but God damn it, AOC and Bernie are going to fly private or first class. Don't you dare put them back in coach with the rest of us.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I love these sort of self-appointed... First of all, I also just love that, like, people are talking about AOC as the future of the Democratic Party. I really think it would have happened by now. Like, her message is very... It's very specific. It's very niche. It's not realistic. That's what James Carville is saying. He's like, we tried the Bernie thing twice and failed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Yeah, it's not going to work. And then people see this and everybody who pays the slightest bit of attention knows that AOC's origin story is completely false. She is a very well-off girl from like Westchester, New York, had a great education.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
This is the kind of, again, like when people can barely make their weekly grocery runs without trying to rob Peter to pay Paul in their own bank accounts, you see this stuff and you immediately tune out. I cannot believe a word you're saying.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
If you have to tell people that you're inspirational, you're not.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Well, we never hear her talk about student loans, do we?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
So her parents clearly financed that four-year ride. Right. The only thing that really shocks me about that little clip you played is that she didn't code switch into her working class Latina accent, which working people love nothing more than when you pander to them. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
You can start from nothing and build your way up through dint of hard work, determination, fair amount of luck, but really you can do or become anything you want. And she's spouting the message that this country is stacked against you. And that you are fated to be nothing or to be less than the things to which you aspire. I don't get why the Dems think that this is a winning message.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
In her mind, it makes her special because she that's the one thing that she that I think that's the one part of her bio that she thinks gives her bona fides with the working class. I waitress. She makes it sound like she was in some hellhole dive bar. It would be like you telling the telemarketers story like you're in a third world call center. You know what I mean? Like I worked retail.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Like I don't, it's not a badge of honor. It's like what you do when you're a certain age and you have only certain, you have no experience. You've got only certain jobs open to you. You take them. That's it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It's so good to see you thank you so much for having me to your beautiful incredible Kitchen this whole thing. I'm so glad to be renewing our lifelong friendship me too. I haven't heard from you in forever. I wondered what happened You know the kids. Did I do something?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
My look.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Yes. This is just... They're re-victimizing him all over again. They're making the victim the perpetrator, the aggressor. They're going to racialize this. And maybe there is a racial component. I don't know. But we never come at things truthfully anymore.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Jam. No kidding. There's a huge market. Huge. I never saw you as really a jam person. But we know each other so well. I mean, that's what I mean. Like we know each other so well and still this takes me by surprise. That's what I mean. It's almost done. Only 32 seconds more.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It's okay, it's not expensive like your clothes are.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
So now what's important is to make sure that there's a bow on everything which is going to have to do a little cutting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
They're spectacular how yeah, you bought those you think what did you go and buy them in the store.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Could you? Of course, yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Could you open a bit more? Okay. And then I just dump it. Where are you getting all these mini brainstorms? I'm so impressed by this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
It's just so fun sharing my love language with my friends. Yes, yes. I mean, this is what friendship is all about, really. This special time of bonding and me asking you lots of questions about yourself. Right. Because you really come alive when you talk about yourself, Megan.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I don't know if we're supposed to maybe mention your marriage, which seems like the love story of all love stories, really.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Right. The most important thing. And friendship. Yes. Friendship. Yes, yes. Where would we be without her? friends and I have my pretzels is yet another token of the high esteem in which you hold me it's super high rate, OK could not be higher. I'm crying. I'm crying. I'm laughing so hard. I have not seen any of that. That day flew, by the way. It flew. And we had not talked before.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
There was no script. I didn't even have like a scene breakdown of anything. Nothing. Just walked in cold. And I don't know whether to be proud of us or feel sorry for us that we are so well versed in what Meghan Markle or her supplicant would say at any given moment that we could just ad lib all day long. Yeah. And the cocktails helped a lot. Those were real.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
Well, I told you after that... To me, like my inner child really came out. My inner child who spent 12 years being tormented by nuns in Catholic school. Right. So the instinct is just defer and run the other way. Right. So that's all I had to do with you is just defer, defer, defer and get out of there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
I'm Sussex now. Snap at any moment, like turn on the charm just a little bit or like, but I did tell you, you were slightly terrifying that day. You were very, very, very good as Meghan Markle. Uh, I, I, I I'm dying.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
First of all, right. If you don't think she can do the job, why are you picking her for your VP? Right. So insurance policy. Exactly. His insurance policy. And it's also, it goes to why DEI is falling apart all over the place right now. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
And secondly, what I remember Pelosi saying, because remember when she was doing the rounds and she was going well, if Joe thinks she's the best, then she's the best. She's the best choice. Like she wouldn't say it. Nancy Pelosi with like her whole sort of like, it's really time to go. Every time I see her interviewed, she's got like a dirty tissue clumping in her hands.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
Like, you know what I mean? It's like, just go, just go. Yeah, go.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
But to the Kamala thing, what I remember Pelosi saying was like, oh, she's smarter than you think because she spent that Sunday in which she told the American people her first question to Joe when he called was, are you sure? Are you sure you're going to drop out? She hung up the phone and she started whipping calls. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
I know how mentally compromised you've been all this time. You know, again, she knows where a lot of those bodies are buried as well. And she, I think, also knew that in this sort of strategic warfare that is this game, it would be Biden's ultimate FU to Obama, who never thought Biden had what it took in the first place. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
It's the biggest political story of the last 20 years, I think. I really do. And I don't understand how, as a reporter, you could just shy away from it. I mean, again, if this were a Republican, I mean, all the gloves would be off. You know, he would have been 25th Amendmented or forced to resign. And the whole thing, too, about letting him play out his term as though, well, we owe it to him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
I know. I'm sorry. He works for us. Right. It's not the other way around. We don't owe him anything. We don't owe him anything. You got all the money from selling out, you know, national security. This is how much, though, I think people have Biden fatigue.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
Like those photos that came out of Biden and Hunter with those Chinese businessmen where he had said multiple times, I never facilitated a meeting. I was never present at a meeting. Right. but like nobody cares. It's just like, just go, just go take your dirty money and your dirty family and go.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
Nobody cares. The vintage Corvette that Biden loves to brag about the when the fires were raging. I mean, they're still ongoing, but when they were raging. And Biden finally showed his face and said, I've got one piece of good news. You know, my son lives here and it looks like his house is still standing. Like, oh, you mean that like Malibu beachfront house that like his sugar daddy paid for?
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
Like, are you kidding me? I mean, I would love to also know how Nancy Pelosi got so rich.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
That's just true. In his defense. So, I mean, we got to give him some grace.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I just wish for one, someone would just give it right back. Like this is related and then we'll go right back to this. But the other day at the Hegseth hearing, and you covered this when the, I forget which Congressman or Senator said, Hey, how many of you have shown up on the floor drunk to cast a vote? Like while they're going on with like, have you cheated on your wife?
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Like how many of them are cheating on like, it's a bastion of moral authority out of here. Right. So anyway, Lawrence O'Donnell interview was also, he's such a blowhard. He's such an insufferable, overfed blowhard. Like he begins the interview by saying, you know, when you were giving your farewell address the other night from the Oval, I was, I was right there.
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I was sitting right there with your family. And I was looking at you. It's like, he has to let us know he was in the room before we can begin with this bullshit proceeding. You're very important. Thank you. You're so important. You're on your way out the door. Your network is failing. Great. Okay. Enjoy your time in the sun. But it really goes like Biden is part Irish or largely Irish.
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And it's like completely counter to the notion of the Irish goodbye. Yes. She's like my favorite thing to do, which is like you just sneak out. Nobody knows you left. You don't have to go through the whole rigmarole, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I would love that for him.
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How is that Elon Musk's fault? If you have a job you can't handle, like Biden can't literally handle being president, I... The hypocrisy, okay? So it was Biden's administration that went to Facebook and said, that laptop, Hunter laptop, that's a Russian plant. It's fake news. They're the ones, Twitter-
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disabled the new york post account because the post was the only one reporting on it and it was fake news fake news fake news it's a media that's been in lockstep with him and has been censoring stuff that they don't quite like you know so spare me yeah bear me is this because mark zuckerberg grew his hair out and said he's getting rid of dei and censorship that's what he's and now he's part of the oligarchy right that keeps the little man down and from getting a job right what
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Right. No. Oh, Megan, the searching. What? Like he was like nodding off. Yes. Almost like a junkie, like nodding off and then like springing back up and like the eyes casting about for the word. And then the like phrase that connects to the thought. But the thought got lost.
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I don't understand that. I thought maybe you got it because I got lost early on. I have nothing to add. I can't be helpful. Did he say like Barack used to say to me when I was a kid?
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And he also spoke about Bo in the present tense right there. I mean, I blame Jill Biden.
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Oh, 100%. But I also would not rule out Biden's malignant narcissism and egotism. And I think, you know, this will sound crass, but I truly think it's true. The only thing keeping him alive at this point is presidential power and access to the money and the celebrities and all of it. And the glory he gets from reading the news coverage of his administration, which mirrors back to him.
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It's exactly why like he wasn't believing Chuck Schumer because apparently his team was only supposed to give him good news.
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the hand gestures are getting even bigger. They are. She looks like she's signing ASL, like some press conference for a governor, you know, like get out. And by the way, it's not like you would ever know that a major American city is being burned to the ground. Like it looks like it's been hit by a nuclear bomb. Yeah. You would never know. No.
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These people are like congratulating themselves on the way out the door.
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And I don't know if you played the soundbite from her the other day telling Californians what to do, which was like, it was totally inane. We did not play it. Do we have it? We'll find out. Okay. It was basically like- Oh, we did? Oh yeah, we did play. Okay. You did? Yeah. It was basically like, be safe and listen to announcements. Do what you can.
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It's like, it's very, you are so right with your Meghan Markle comparison, like the verbosity, like all the words deployed to say nothing. Oh, with nothing.
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I did. I thought, wow, I definitely now think my theory that Netflix was the one to pull the plug on her show. And it wasn't her idea or her unilateral decision because had it been, she would have been like, now's the time I go to ground. Nobody needs to see me in this devastation.
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Yeah, I've got my most concerned face on while reportedly that woman she was hugging was a member of her own team.
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Yeah. She saw a camera. She doubled back and it was time for a hug with a concerned face. You know, the baseball cap lid just high enough so we can see everything. Just high enough. Just high enough. I saw footage of her also at like donating like bags of clothes, like cut a check for I know.
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Again, like failing to ever learn a lesson, read a room. Like, okay, you got called disaster tourists. Take it. Take the hit. First of all, it's true. Good for Justine Bateman. Why'd you go to Uvalde if you're not? Please. That was the most disgusting thing. The most like if there's there's certain people when they do something, I think to myself, I will never put another penny in their pocket.
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Right. Alicia Keys, her pro Hamas posts. Totally what she denied. I said never again. Not a penny in her pocket. These people are disgusting. And so they, they feel that we need to know that they are offended by this again, while LA is burning and people are going to be left with nothing. And these people are going to be screwed. Like they have no insurance, the federal government.
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It's very exciting. It's very exciting. And you just shared with me that it's moved indoors.
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Like if you try to get help from them, good luck. It's designed to break you.
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Well, she said in her post, they're all so slippery. She's like... By the way, I didn't start this GoFundMe, so don't blame me. I'm just like being a good person and putting it out there for my brother-in-law who lost like $60,000 worth of musical equipment. Like cry me a river. You lost your instruments. They should have been insured for one. I don't care. So she goes, we're asking for $60,000.
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Oh, and if you don't like it, kindly F off. No one's forcing you to do anything, which is not the point. And I cannot tell you how gratifying it was to go through all these sort of comments from people who were like, Mandy Moore, like, I thought you were like a decent person. Like, fuck you. Right. Like you make, she made 23 million reportedly just from this is us alone. That's much.
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She doesn't have to work another day in her life. She could replace that $60,000 worth of musical. Easily. I bet her couch cost her that. Exactly, her custom-made couch. Even Gwyneth Paltrow isn't doing this stuff.
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That's saying something.
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And that's not the feels like, you know, when you go on your phone and you're like, check the feels like the real thing. No. And it would be, I don't think that's ever happened before.
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Totally what they were doing. I mean, I loved Prince, but one of my favorite things about him, which I learned after he died, was the extent of his charitable donations and how involved he was with programs for underprivileged youth. You never knew it. It was the same with George Michael. You never knew it.
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It goes to one of my favorite sayings, which is, if you do something good for someone else and more than those two people know about it, you did it for the wrong reason.
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First of all, I've been listening to your coverage about this and the line you had the other day about, well, I might die, but at least I'm in the presence of what?
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Hey, I was actually at the bank yesterday and next to me at the teller was a firefighter and they were talking about this. He and the teller were talking about this and he said... this is the thing about why we are wary of female firefighters.
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He said, we're afraid that they might lose their courage in an emergency, like to run into a burning building with all of that stuff on you, like trying to get people out. I think men who do it are crazy, wonderfully crazy. I'm too afraid. Yes. So the,
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But also, you know, this sort of ties into Biden because I'm looking at what's going on in California and seeing Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, who is wearing this insufferable smile on her face at all times. Yes. And this fire chief. And it's like there is no such thing as accountability anymore. as shame anymore.
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It seems the worse of a job you do, the better you give yourself on a performance ranking. You're like, you think you're doing a five when the public thinks you're doing a zero, when all evidence to the contrary exists, such as your entire town burning to the ground.
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So, I mean, this is tangential, but, um, I was looking at an episode the other night of only murders in the building and cast as an NYPD detective is an obese black woman. And I'm thinking to myself, would she really pass the physical fitness requirement to be a police officer?
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Yes. Yeah. Yes. But like that's, that's the, that's the messaging we're getting in the mirroring. We're getting like, this is supposed to be like a thing where you don't even realize for a second, like, no, that doesn't fit. Yeah. That doesn't apply. Right. The real, it should not apply. Right.
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And this is one of the things that we were supposed to have learned from Afghanistan and Iraq when, you know, an all-volunteer army, very few American men and women really looking to join that fight after a while. And the army and the military had no choice but to lower standards. So they were letting in people who either physically couldn't do it, intellectually didn't have the capabilities.
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You know, I mean, this is a very long tail we're dealing with.
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100%. And you also have to think, you know, if you are a young man thinking of joining up, like they're thinking, who's going to be in my foxhole? Is it going to be a DEI hire? Who's going to try to drag me out behind like an assault or not? You know, I mean, it's, it's such a practical, again, common sense thing. And finally, now we're having these grownup discussions about it because it's,
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They're not going to like my jacket that I'm wearing. The trick is you say it's vintage, buy vintage, came to you through a dead family member, you're recycling, you're upcycling. Right. Yeah. This one already gave its life.
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over the past four, eight, 12 years to do so is to be a racist, is to be a bigot, is to be one of my favorite epithets, an ableist.
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An ableist. I'm an ableist when it comes to our armed forces. I am. Likewise, you know? So I just, I'm gratified by everything that's sort of happening. And I think what's going to happen in LA is a complete flushing out of this toxicity. Like Gavin Newsom is done. Yep. Karen Bass, I mean, holy. Like, when she was being interrogated, like, after deplaning, but before they, like, let her off.
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By the Sky News reporter? And she's looking at the ground and her eyebrows are knitting as he's asking questions. And I was literally thinking to myself, like, is she, like, functionally a moron?
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Yeah. I just, I don't know how we as Americans could turn our backs on the hardworking people who are really going to suffer. I don't know how the federal government just leaves them to it. To me, it's as bad as FEMA people being told to ignore homes with Trump stakes in them.
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You stick with these leaders. They are suffering for it. And I do think they're going to learn their lesson.
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And you know what the actual truth of it is? And I learned this a long time ago. If you go to buy fake fur, quote unquote fake fur, often it's made from real fur. Oh, really? And the manufacturers just try to sort of dupe you into thinking you're not wearing real fur. Oh. But nothing will get through real fur. You won't feel it.
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No. And you know what else is really... I shouldn't be shocked because it's CNN. But I was glued to that coverage and I read everything I could about it. And instead of CNN really going down the rabbit hole of how Biden was able to do this, despite every top general telling him not to do it. Despite every top advisor telling him this is not the way, he went ahead and did it.
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And people died and babies were thrown over barbed wire fences to U.S. servicemen. The desperation, we left American conspirators behind. We told them, we will protect you. And when push came to shove, we were like, we're out. Sorry, every man for himself.
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And it was these ex-military guys, I don't know if Zachary is ex or still, but who took it upon themselves, many remotely from America, to organize people, to organize former Navy SEALs to get these poor people out. But CNN instead thought the better story was, oh, one of these guys is trying to line his pockets. Like, that kind of tells you where their weather vane is.
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Right. And Wolf Blitzer getting kicked out of primetime and he's getting a morning show. Like what 67 year old is like 76, I think 76. I'd love to get up at 4 a.m., 5 a.m.
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It's, oh, my God, Ted Knight on the Mary Tyler Moore show. That's that. Like, more insane than this woman giving him this little placard, whatever, and is him holding on to it. Right. Like, imagine how many times he's moved offices and told some assistant, like, you got to get that. Don't leave that behind. I'll fire you. Get my sign.
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Like, he's going to take it home and have it framed when he retires.
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Set your DVR. California only.
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Oh my God. Speaking of just, can I say, you know, you, you often say this thing that Roger Ailes told you, which is watch with the sound off and see if you can tell what the story is. The LA wildfires breaking out on Wednesday morning. Is it Abby Phillip? Who's the morning person?
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Because she was doing a remote interview with somebody in the field in California and she had her phone in the shot and she was like this. What? It was like she was online shopping while she was getting this, like, incoming dispatch, like, we're burning to the ground over here and there's no water and no one's coming.
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Do you know who that reminds me of too? Who? Selena Gomez, who's been on this huge press tour. She's in that movie, that transgender musical. Oh, yeah. Which I refuse to see. Right. I mean, who's going to watch that? No one's going to watch that. But she has the flattest affect. Like she's been doing this press tour like it's her best year ever.
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And she sounds like she's on like medication for like treatment resistant depression.
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Well, listen, I don't think you need to justify this to anybody. Okay. I really don't. Apparently I do. Be like Meghan Markle. Stand in your power. Stand in your truth.
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Okay. I had a different take while reading this indictment, which is a ride. Like when I got to the part with the duffel bag and I'm like, and the women, the women, and I'm like, okay, when does the wife come in? There's a wife here somewhere. She comes in later in the narrative.
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But I was thinking like, I would bet a guy with this level of intellect and a guy who probably likes to take on risky cases, like has a need for some kind of adrenaline like this. Oh. And like in his off time, this is relaxing to him to maybe like literally bet the house, you know? Yeah. To like literally owe people money who would break your legs or kill a loved one if you don't pay up.
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Like there was a part in the indictment where he hired, he was going to play like a super high stakes game. Like if you saw the movie Molly's Game, like you know what these rooms are like. Yeah. And he hired this two professional poker players to watch film or basically game out.
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his opponents in a game, the way the mistakes they made, like sort of break down their psyches, then read the mistakes that he made. It was like game film, like a Tom Brady, you know?
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A lot. And, and the amount of like, and the, and the hubris to like go to a bank and be like, give me a $4 million loan while he's got an outstanding $10 million personal loan from somebody else in Beverly Hills. Like I, this case to me is so reminiscent of the ongoing Tom Girardi, Erica Jane scandal. Explain who that is. So Erica Jane is a cast member of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
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One of the best of the franchise. Yeah. She was a much younger trophy wife to a very famous criminal attorney named and civil attorney, I believe, Tom Girardi, who was most known as the lawyer who litigated for Aaron Brockovich. Oh. So he had that going for him. And he was held in high esteem, and he moved with all the movers and shakers. Turns out, for decades, he had been fleecing his clients.
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So he would represent, he represented the widows and orphans of, like, one of the biggest plane crashes in recent memory. Fleeced them.
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And he pled dementia at a very crucial time in this case. Oh, you don't know what you're missing. I need to get more involved in the Real Housewives drama. The lawyer in you. I know. Some of the best TV ever. Meanwhile, his wife is saying, well, I didn't know anything and I'm not giving up all the jewelry he gave me with that dirty money. Widows and orphans, I don't care. Be damned.
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Widows and orphans, be damned. There's a great Hulu documentary. I think it's called The Housewife and the Hustler. Oh. And they interviewed one of them. Into it. It's amazing. They interviewed one of the victims that he fleeced. I'm going to say quote unquote fleeced. This guy was burned nearly beyond recognition. That he is still alive is a miracle.
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He stole the millions and millions this guy was awarded. Oh, wow. And there were women and there were... I mean, like everything. So that's this to me. Like my...
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He really does feed off that energy. He really does. And it's like, it's also what a great, because we were just talking before going on air that like I'm going to cover it with like the regular rank and file press corps. And I was dreading being on that riser in that freezing cold weather. It's such a commonsensical thing to do.
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100%. But my God. Well, you know, the other thing about that was, oh, my favorite part of that was, so apparently one of the women had her lawyer go to this guy and say, listen, you got to pay us some money for her to keep quiet. And he said, don't bother. I owe so and so 10. I have so many debts. You never see the money. Like, do what you want. Like, I can't. I'm not.
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This is too small time for me.
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I'm too. Well, forget even about the crime. Think about like how, like when you were starting out in your career or like any of us starting out and like, you know, unpaid bills or outstanding student loan debt can literally keep you up at night. Like decent people are like, oh my God, how am I going to pay this? Yes.
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And this guy's like, I'm just going to take a duffel bag and I'm going to cross national boundaries. And I'm going to have like, he had like an offshore account, like in Mauritania, like just what, like, this is like, I want, I want the like scripted and unscripted version.
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And it sort of sets the tone for this like incoming administration, which is people just want common sense to rule the day. That's a good point.
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Not that guy. The height of respectability.
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Right, no, but that's why it's such a great story. And it goes to sort of just like the world we live in right now, where it's like everything you see on social media is actually not what's going on in a person's actual life. You know that story about the- the Hamptons like mom fluencer whose husband committed suicide. So she was all, she had this like account. She was like an influencer.
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She was like bragging about her Hamptons lifestyle funded by her husband who was like a multimillionaire. Turns out this guy was pulling a similar shell game, uh, like in the weeks before his death, was like begging people for money to like plug holes. And they were finally like, we can't. You're untrustworthy. He killed himself in the garage. Turns out he left them penniless.
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Like she had like $8,000 in the account. Like it's this kind of thing. It's like this... the disconnect between what people present themselves to be and what they actually are. And it's endlessly fascinating, really.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I find this fascinating. I have been theorizing for months that something is up in this marriage because she was traveling alone over the summer. Not alone. She was traveling with billionaires, which is how they roll now. But he was nowhere to be found, you know? And... I don't know. They always sort of sold this great love story.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And the way she's talking about him on the Jennifer Hudson show, it was kind of like a distant family member. Pretty lackluster. He's working a lot. And then he's working a lot. And also he happens to be working a lot.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, right. Like I bagged a big one, I guess. I don't know. And she's so... You know, the whole sort of, like, this self-help empire she's built for herself, you know, with her books and her, like, journals and everything. It's just, it all feels very... grubby to me. And for her, you know, this country made her a very wealthy woman.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This country made her a very wealthy woman, a very privileged woman. And she can't get out of bed to, I mean, these people fly private. You're not taking more than a day to go to Jimmy Carter's funeral. She had a scheduling conflict, Maureen. Listen, if that scheduling conflict had any import, that conflict would have been detailed. She had a scheduling conflict where,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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helping with whatever, whatever, whatever. She's, you know, whatever.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They will wheel the machine to you. Yes. Okay. So, and I also think that now that these rumors have been sort of circulating and there's been speculation in the media about what is going on, there hasn't been a denial. Hmm. Wouldn't you issue a denial if you're a prominent, mega powerful couple like that? Your brand is so intertwined.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But if you did not like that, that there's marital trouble or that he's having an affair with Jennifer Aniston, which is just crazy. That would be amazing. That would be, I mean, like, who would you pick for Barack? Like for wife number two? I mean, I would pick a man. Ah! That's my favorite thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I remember when there was this like doorstopper biography of Barack Obama that came out several years ago. Right. And the New York Times reviewed it and basically said nothing to see here. And then I read somewhere else. The big takeaway was Barack crushing hard on like his male college professor.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. And was like, could I live as a gay man? Cause I really dig this guy. Like there's nothing to see here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This lawsuit is incredible. It has it all. I can't believe neither side is, like, giving in. They're, like, digging in further. It feels like a very twisted rom-com to me. Like, the hatred on both sides is so intense, it makes you wonder if there was, like, a deep attraction that whether it was consummated or not... Very interesting. Like, if somebody sort of...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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really is doing something that's like aggravating or trying to get in your way professionally, whatever. If you don't really care about them, you just try to get around them. Yes. You don't try to go through them or like work it out with them. You have your assistant or your agent deal with it if you're in Hollywood. Yeah, you just, whatever. But like these two are like in it. They are in it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And it's like, I think it's extremely strange. I want to know more about the presence of Taylor Swift, who sort of leads this like mean girl clique. There was a thing happening over the summer that the Daily Mail reported on where there were other female artists such as Billie Eilish who were releasing albums in the, in the sort of tailwinds of her last release. I forget what it was called.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I'm just so oversaturated with Taylor Swift. But anyway, she was manipulating all of her new releases to keep these women from hitting number one. It was just a ploy to keep them from, and Billie Eilish's people were like, that's what's happening. That's what's happening.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And it's, it's really shitty for someone who claims to be a champion of fellow women and female artists to be doing like, let someone else have it. Like let someone, you know, No. So this is who she runs with. And that tells me everything. And like, I just to sit there and have your husband bully your director. Yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, like if you don't, if you don't like this, have the balls to do it yourself. Right. Like don't have your husband throw his weight around with your husband.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And in your penthouse, like on your home turf, like using your wealth as leverage. Right. Like showing off. And your friend Taylor. And your friend Taylor, who's like, what is she doing there? Is she just like scrolling Instagram? One of my dragons. Like that is just wild.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think, you know, he'll learn a lot from this, you know, and hopefully, you know, and it's wonderful that we're in this era we're in right now where like people don't automatically take the woman's. account of what happened.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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My favorite part of what I've read of this suit so far is that Blake Lively did not even read the book that the movie was based on. Correct. And we're not talking War and Peace. This is a book that's probably written at a second-grade reading level.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then she wanted to... She, like... ixnayed all of the wardrobe choices. Because when you're making a movie about a poor woman who's suffering from domestic violence, you want her to look like she has money. Right. That Blake said. That's what she did. She looks like she has money and she's dressing in florals and then she's going on this press tour
The Megyn Kelly Show
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pushing her liquor line and her hair care line because that's what women who are trying to escape with their lives are worried about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And just establish a little rapport, just a little friendly rapport. Like, is that too much to do? Like, this is part of why you're getting paid millions and millions of dollars. The press tour is part of that pay package. Right. You have to show up with a smile on your face and be polite to people who are not lobbying, you know, difficult questions at you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
Like that is weird.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Because he had to lift her in a scene.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
This is also because like they have all the power. This guy, it was his first movie. He was on like one show before this. He bought the rights to this mega selling book and has, I believe, the rights to the sequel. And I think that's something else they're fighting over. Yes. Because the studio definitely wants a sequel because this movie did really well.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
So, I mean, first, we're going to get the reality version of this playing out. And I can't wait. I can't wait for the suit into oblivion. You're definitely not going to see the two of them starring in a sequel.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The most surprising thing in that account to me is the detail that Schumer was driven and did not fly private like so many of our politicians do. I would suspect that that conversation was even more pointed. That to me feels like a very polite version because it's easy to forget. It wasn't all that long ago. how stubbornly Biden was hanging on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
And I really believe that whether it was Schumer, Pelosi, the both of them basically said, we're going to bury you. Yes. We know where the bodies are buried. Like it's going to get very ugly if you don't voluntarily bury Pull the plug. You have until date certain to do so. That's what I think went down. Like, I'm dying to read the really bloody, savage Roman Empire version of this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
Agreed, agreed. And also, so two things. One, I want the Jill Biden story. I want the full unabridged Kitty Kelly National Enquirer version of all the machinations going on. I want to know... Why we are now being subject by this very same media that claims to have learned its lesson to the longest goodbye in modern American history to one of the worst presidents.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like this feels like the breakup that will not end. Like America broke up with him after that debate. And then we made it really final after the election, which really was like Biden 2.0 with Harris. Like I forgot it was Harris actually, because I keep thinking like we left you. We don't want to litigate this relationship anymore.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Megyn Kelly Show
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so barry diller has been making the rounds and he's about 83 years old he is one of the most long time power brokers in hollywood and tech he is one of the most wealthy powerful and i'm gonna say it controlling men in these worlds okay now he's been in a power marriage to the fashion designer diane von furstenberg four decades now, okay? So he's got this memoir, it's called Who Knew?
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And I find this title ironic and funny in ways he may not be particularly aware of, okay? Because this is his media tour, okay? Hey, I'm 83 years old and I finally feel, in this climate for real, I finally feel comfortable enough to come out as a gay man.
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I mean, everybody on the planet, like, either has a non-binary kid or they're, like, getting transgender surgery or, you know, like, they're pansexual. Just ask Lily Gladstone. Check our last couple of episodes for that. Or they're in full-blown relationships with, like, the Eiffel Tower or the Berlin Wall. But now, finally, Barry Diller can do it, okay? He can come out as a gay man.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Now, the twist to this story is... He also claims, straight face, no pun intended, to be madly in love with his wife, Diane, with whom he has lots and lots of hot sex, okay?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Okay, note the moment where he takes a sip of water. It's like that's a little bit of a towel. That's a little bit of like a security blanket. I'm going to cover my mouth. I'm going to shut my mouth around something because I don't know what might come out of it. I cannot believe this reporter took this seriously. I know these are puff pieces for CBS Sunday Morning.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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which is all about, you know, celebrity puffery and like happy stories, but let's get real. Okay, one of the smartest, most brilliant titans of industry is sitting there and saying to this reporter, hey, there's nothing mutually exclusive with me saying I am a gay man and also saying, I am madly in love with my wife with whom I have sex all the time.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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That is the very definition of mutually exclusive, okay? I don't know what happens to these reporters when they sit in front of these people who are spewing this garbage. Now, I just would like to say again, as a kid on Long Island whose parents let my third parent be page six, and I love them for it, I mean, at 10 years old, I was reading all about the Velvet Mafia, okay?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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everybody who was in the velvet mafia and what they were up to now for those of you who may not know it was a group of closeted gay men who were very powerful one was barry diller the other was david geffen the music mogul who dated cher and then the third was the fashion designer calvin klein who married kelly klein like in the 80s or the 90s i think when he was trying to go public and he needed a beard and we're going to circle back to this at the end of the show with carolyn beset talk
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So, you know, the idea that the mainstream media is, like, treating this disclosure as breaking news is not only ridiculous to me, it's pathetic, and this is why they are dying, because this is exactly what Barry Diller wants them to write about. And he's acting like he's giving them a big gift with this, okay? This is what I think is going on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Barry Diller is 83 years old, and he is looking down the barrel of his legacy. And what is that going to be, right? And what is the first line of his obit going to be? And do you know what he would like to have completely unmentioned and unforgotten? Sorry, forgotten. Okay, I won't forget it, but forgotten would be his vile vile.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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violent treatment of subordinates over the years this guy is a beast okay he's a beast and you would not want to be alone in four walls with him i think just my opinion because he is really formidable and i'm gonna get to a lawsuit that he inserted himself into and the threats he made vis-a-vis that
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The Megyn Kelly Show
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So let's take a look at this book excerpt from the friendly book that has little Barry Diller, just a kid from Long Island who made it. Who knew? Who knew? Okay. This is a little bit of an acknowledgement that maybe he had some sharp elbows in some business dealings. Quote, Sometimes the staff would ask, is it commercial?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I'm sure by the way, it took every bit of like just guts these people had to ever question Barry Diller ever. Because as he goes on to say, quote, and I would brutalize them Brutalize, that's a very strong word. I would brutalize them because rather than using their instincts, he's calling them dumb, the people he hired, he's calling them dumb.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They were trying to predict the public's appetite, which I said then and say now over and over again, simply is impossible. I'm sorry, we live in a world that is dictated by like an Orwellian algorithm that totally predicts our appetites. We live with phones that overhear everything we say and push ads. Like, I swear to God, sometimes I think my phone is reading my mind.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like, I think it's melded with me in the most sinister ways possible. So that's a bunch of bullshit, okay? Now, Barry Diller once allegedly, allegedly, through a VHS tape, and that's how long these accusations go back, okay? I mean, we are in the paleolithic age of like VHS physical tapes that went into VCRs at an underling, okay?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He missed, but that tape was thrown with so much force that Diller put a hole in the wall with it, okay? Now, to the lawsuit, and this is just one that we know of. I'm gonna guess this is sort of, you know, this is Barry Diller. He also allegedly threatened to destroy an employee who blew the whistle about an alleged sexual assault by Diller's right-hand man at Tinder, okay?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So this is according to a, I'm gonna hold it up, a 2021 report in the Daily Mail. Diller, regarding this whistleblower, who was reporting a sexual assault, okay? This is serious shit. quote, threatened to go after this whistleblower for everything he has, his parents have, and anyone he knows has, end quote, if this guy didn't drop the matter entirely. Everything this guy's parents have?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, do you know, like Barry Diller would be, I think, the C-suite version of Again, just my opinion, but in terms of ruthlessness, and like, if you don't do what I want, I will either kill you, Diddy, allegedly, physically, or Barry Diller, I'll wipe you out financially and reputationally, and you'll wind up living in a homeless shelter.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, Barry Diller, Sean Combs, two sides maybe of the same coin. But you know, just the takeaway remains, the takeaway remains that Barry Diller is just your cuddly old gay man who's married to a woman, who he just has lots of enthusiastic sex with all the time, but he's gay. Okay, got it. By the way, This sort of legacy play reminds me a lot of Scott Rudin, okay?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Another Hollywood super producer who's back on a redemption tour. Guess who like rolled out the red carpet for him recently? I think it was the New York Times, okay? Now this guy, he was canceled. I mean, he started selling off like, high-end artwork and high-end real estate. Okay. He was canceled for a pattern of seriously abusing underlings. Okay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He once allegedly, allegedly put one of, I mean, we're talking like PAs, like personal assistants. Like these are the people who like are starting in the, they're very young. They have very little experience. And those are the ones who that monsters like these go after. Okay. They're the soft targets. He allegedly put one in the hospital. Okay.
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And this isn't like from overwork, like the poor kids, like in the financial industry who are working like 150 hours a week and like dropped out at their desks. This isn't that, okay? One of my other favorite Scott Rudin stories has one of his terrified assistants who like can't do it anymore.
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So they're sitting in the back of a car, you know, he's got a driver, Rudin, and they're hurtling down like a major New York highway, like a major artery. And this assistant says to Scott, like, I have to tell you, like, today is my last day. And Scott Rudin, according to this story, this alleged version of events, turns to this terrified assistant and says,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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your last moment is now, and throws this kid out of the car on the side of, again, a major, major highway. Now, I do have to say, as far as dialogue goes, that is killer, okay? That's not Michelle Obama saying to Barack after Barack says, you know, vis-a-vis the recent death of her mother, well, you're up next. Michelle saying,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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you're up next i mean that is a great rejoinder that i will give that to scott rudin your last moment is now is is really great now i would like to share a little of my own scott rudin story
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So when this stuff started breaking and it was kind of, it was like after Harvey was sort of outed and all those bombshells were coming out and like people were now feeling like, oh, they could tell their stories and they wouldn't be exiled from like working in Hollywood or on Broadway or media, what have you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I was deputized by my editor to write a story about Scott Rudin, which is how I know, like off the top of my head, the stuff I just told you. And, um, So there was a guy who worked at the New York Post. He was like the theater critic, but he was just like a little too cozy with these people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like he would, he would brag, like he would write a book and he would brag and he would be like, yeah, you know, I finished my book up at like Andrew Lloyd Webber's estate in like Mallorca or whatever. And I'm like, how can you call yourself like a critic and like, let me be taking these favors from these people? Like it,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Anyway, so this story, like we're putting it to bed, you know, it's about to go online and it's like late on a Friday night and I get a call from this guy, my colleague, my then colleague. And again, like not subtle. Like I thought he would surely be a little bit more skilled at this kind of thing, but investigative journalism was clearly not his forte.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He calls me and he's at like a nearby bar and he goes, hey, you know who I just happened to be having a drink with right now? Scott Rudin. So I'm like, thanks, asshole. You told him? He already heard I was doing it, I'm sure. But you're calling me with Scott Rudin next to you? Whose side are you on? The newsbreakers and the troublemakers are these assholes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So then he says to me, you know, why don't you just send that story over my way? Why don't you just email it to me? And this way, Scott can read it. I shit you not. this way Scott can read it and tell you if there are any errors in there, like any mistakes. And I'm like, yeah, you know, what we do professionally, as you should know, is we go to these people and we ask them for comment.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Like, we're fucking journalists. We know how to do this stuff. What we don't do is gift wrap a story and give it to the subject of said story that, by the way, has a bunch of terrified people feeling emboldened enough to tell their stories, but don't use my name, keep the identifying details a secret, and hand it to Scott effing Rudin, okay? Fuck you!
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Okay, now, speaking of other wealthy, powerful, famous Hollywood men who have all these deep reservoirs of rage, Sean Penn, never change. Again, these guys, they never change. He's going viral and he's making a lot of headlines for this podcast interview he just did with Louis Theroux. Is it Louis or Louis? I don't know. I don't really care.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So we begin today's edition of The Nerve with the Diddy Trial, which is unfolding here in New York City. We are in day five. It's taking place in federal court. And here are the key things to know. And some of this stuff, I have to warn you, it's extremely graphic. So if you're sensitive to gory details or you have little ones around, you might want to skip ahead.
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And he's related, by the way, to the insufferable Justin Theroux of the shoe polish black hair. And like when he used to be with Jennifer Aniston, I don't think they were ever legally married, which I think was very shrewd on her part. But like he would always be photographed like with Jen Aniston.
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And like back when they were palling around with Howard Stern and like, you know, they'd be in like Cabo in Mexico, like sunning themselves. And Justin was just too cool. He's the opposite of cool. But like he thinks he's so cool. He's too cool for like a bathing suit, like bathing trunks. So he would always be sunning his hairless body. You know, he's waxed head to toe with like,
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black denim cut-off shorts that were skin-tight and belted, okay? Like, died a million deaths, okay? So anyway, the headlines that Sean Penn is making, again, like, I think the media is picking up the wrong headline. It's the wrong offense. They're like, Sean Penn dared to say he would work with Woody Allen again in a heartbeat. I mean, who cares? This scandal is really old.
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Okay, who gives a shit, okay? What's really offensive here is the way he talks about Madonna, his first wife, who finally left him. We're going to revisit this, OK? We're digging in the crates for the real shit. assaulting her not once, allegedly, but twice, okay? Now, Madonna has never, ever talked shit about Sean Penn.
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In fact, way, way, way later, like in 2015, she would say, he never laid a hand on me. I don't buy it, okay? I don't buy it. But she has only ever spoken of him glowingly. Okay, take a look at how Sean talks to this Thoreau guy about Madonna.
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Okay, so that's Sean on Madonna, that the whole marriage was an epic mistake and, you know, they mistook what was a great first date. He's basically saying great sex for like, you know, a real connection. Fuck you. Okay, here's Madonna, a very young, beautiful Madonna.
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Okay, so I went and pulled up for you guys this Daily Beast piece that was published. I'm trying to think. I'll find it. But it's about Sean Penn's what they call the Daily Beast horrifying history of alleged abuse. Now, here's the good stuff, which is, I mean, like the really terrible stuff that Sean Penn has skated on forever.
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You know, a quote, Penn was extremely violent toward his ex-wife Madonna when the two were married in the 1980s. Once in June 1987, he allegedly caused the pop superstar to be hospitalized and after hitting her across the head with a baseball bat. Okay, it doesn't say whether the bat was wooden or metal, which I think is a salient detail.
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But Madonna remained protective of her husband and refused to press charges since Penn was already facing 60 days in jail for assaulting a film extra. Again, these guys go after women and they go after guys with no power, okay? film extra, Sean, pick on someone your own fucking size, okay? Then things got even uglier on December 28th, 1989, that's two years later, okay?
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Right after Christmas, according to a police report filed by Madonna, Penn scaled their Malibu home that afternoon, found Madonna alone in her bedroom, and told her that he owned her, quote, lock, stock, and barrel, according to reports, quote, when she told him she was leaving the house, he tried to bind her hands with an electric lamp and cord. I remember reading this at the time.
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I remember these details about the electric lamp and the cord, okay? Continuing on, screaming and afraid, Madonna fled from the bedroom. What followed was a nine hour ordeal, which left her deeply shaken. This nine hour ordeal, Penn, I'm continuing to read from this report, chased her into the living room, caught her. Okay, so she's running for the door.
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Now there's a new extended version of the video that shows Sean Combs beating Cassie violently in a Los Angeles hotel. It was the Intercontinental Hotel in 2016. This was shown in court this week and it was released to the media. Let's take a look at it. So she's walking. She's walking like she's really, really trying. Here he goes. He catches her and he grabs her and he's dragging her.
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caught her, like he grabbed her, he probably threw her to the floor, just my supposition, bound her to a chair with heavy twine. Then he threatened to cut off her hair. Okay, he's gonna assault her beauty. That's her power, okay? Continuing, he allegedly, quote, smacked and roughed up Madonna while she was tied to a chair.
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And then he left for a few hours to buy more booze, leaving his then wife bound and gagged. Imagine, this is one of the most powerful, all pop stars, media stars on the planet. And this is, believe me, trust. It's the source of his rage. So a few hours elapse. She's tied up for hours, gagged, okay? So she's probably having trouble breathing. She's panicked. No food, no water.
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When is he coming back? Is he coming back? Is he going to come back and kill her, okay? Continuing to read, only to return and continue terrorizing her. He only agreed to untie her after, quote, she agreed to perform a degrading sex act on him. And then she fled the house, got in her car, and raced to the sheriff's office, eventually stumbling inside.
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I hardly recognized her as Madonna, Lieutenant Bill McSweeney said at the time. She was weeping, her lip was bleeding, and she had obviously been struck. Penn was charged with felony domestic assault, but Madonna told the DA to drop the charges against him as so many
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battered women do and in 2015 she denied that that whole thing ever happened but you know i'm sorry you can't erase that shit you can't okay so now and again what kind of interviewer is louis thoreau he's not he's a star fucker okay because you contradict that stuff with some real facts like i just gave you guys here's sean talking about his history of assaulting the paparazzi
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I have several thoughts, OK? So first of all, I think the police, and I'm assuming this is LAPD because Sean lives in LA, know Sean Penn a little bit too well. And I don't think they're too kindly disposed to go help him out for anything, OK? This is a guy who shot at the helicopters who were hovering over the outdoor wedding that Sean and Madonna were having on a huge Malibu estate.
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Like, pick something. If you don't want the paparazzi there and you're marrying the most famous woman on the planet, which she was then, maybe don't do it outside, you fucking asshole. But, you know, poor Sean. You know, maybe don't become such a star fucker or, you know, such a celebrity that you then say, well, the paparazzi follow me around all the time.
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Do you know who one of the most famous actresses on the planet is? Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, same. These women know how to disappear when they want to, okay? They know how to get around without hordes of paparazzi following them around. Sean Penn loves to bang on about how smart he is and, you know, how, like, D.C.
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and like presidents should really be deploying him to solve major international crises and national crises. Like, remember, New Orleans, he went down there. Haiti, he went over there. Then he went and met with El Chapo, you know, like the Mexican drug lord that like had even like, you know,
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america's counter-terrorism people frankly or terrified of you know sean penn loves to insert because he's trying to prove he's smart right like he likes to go on bill maher and talk about he's friends with bill mark he's like you know he's smart i mean i think if you're really smart you can figure something so elemental as not getting shot by the paparazzi out but what do i know okay now
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Two other weird celebrity stories that came out this week that, again, I think we need to discuss. Bruce Willis is like another, he's like a peer of Sean's, just in terms of fame, the era in which they were real movie stars. Now, as we discussed last week, Bruce Willis has aphasia, okay? It's a form of dementia. Obviously, it's terrible. he has this much younger wife named Emma.
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And she's kind of the second wife or third wife that a Hollywood guy gets, you know, as they age, like the wives get younger, but they get less attractive. Like she's not like as attractive as Demi Moore. So anyway, she has a new memoir coming out and it's all about her journey, her journey, taking care of her older husband.
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Like she thought she was in it with like a really rich, famous Hollywood celebrity, but you know, he gets aphasia. So she's got to like, what is she going to do with herself? She likes to pop up on the Today Show often, you know, from time to time, I'll say. And, you know, give us updates on her husband's declining condition and how, most importantly, she's coping with it. So take a look at this.
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Now we see what looks like a security guard.
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Do you want to talk garbage language? Okay. First of all, Hoda's a fucking moron. Okay. My mother has dementia and I can tell you there is zero joy in this journey. Okay. This journey sucks. And I frankly hope and wish for something else to take her out more quickly because this is agonizing for her. Okay. And I don't think about myself in this scenario. Okay. I think about her.
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talking to sean combs who's wrapped in just a towel so that which to me is extremely extremely telling okay that's another pair of eyes on this okay now just just a side note new york still does not allow television cameras in federal court and i do not understand why you know these trials they're all of our business all of our business i believe that just my opinion
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So, Hoda, can you find ways to celebrate joy in this journey? And as discussed last week, too, she's a total bitch, according to my friend. And then Emma's sitting there, and she's talking about the joy of what is. What kind of garbage language is that? You know, I'm sure she's talking to Mel Robbins all the time. So anyway, her book is coming out in September.
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It's called, of course it's called this, An Unexpected Journey. An unexpected journey. How trite. Now there are reports of a huge family rift that are coming to the surface. And this is huge because this means it has, in my opinion, the stamp of approval of Demi Moore, who is having a renaissance right now. And everybody loves Demi, okay?
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So apparently Demi and the three daughters that she shares with Bruce are not happy about this book. And this is big because this goes all against Brandt Willis, right? you know, slash more, which is all about showing this big blended happy family, you know, that the two kids that Bruce has with Emma, like they're all, they're all a big happy family and now it's not true and we all can see it.
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These are the quotes coming out of Camp Demi Moore and Demi's kids. Quote, nobody's feeling good about it, meaning Emma's book. People understand that Emma's grief and that her experience might be able to help others in similar situations. That's being generous if the joy of what is is the most this moron has to offer us, okay?
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Continuing on, but using Bruce's name to sell a book while he's still battling aphasia and dementia at home with the family. I could not agree more. I could not agree more. Your dignity, I think, aside from your health, is your most prized possession. You can't put a price on it.
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And this woman's out there just throwing Bruce's remaining dignities on the pyre so she can get some media hits on like today and fucking access Hollywood. And maybe you buy her book in bulk so she can hit the New York Times bestseller list. Like, fuck off. Okay, final celebrity overshare of today. And this one is, I've never heard a celebrity overshare like this. And I am going to include in this
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the Riley Keough disclosure in completing her mother, Lisa Marie Presley's memoir. So Lisa Marie, daughter of Elvis Presley, that after her brother died, Riley's brother, Lisa's son, Ben, died of a shotgun wound to the head, a suicide. Lisa Marie had his body waxed up, I forget what they call, embalmed, had his embalmed body,
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transported back to her casita where he stayed for a month and where she would go visit him every day, okay? This one tops that, I think, okay? Ashley Judd is out promoting this two-part documentary on the family, the Judds, the mother, Naomi, and Ashley, who is the actress, and then Wynonna, who was part of the Judds with Naomi.
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So they have this documentary, and as we know, Naomi battled mental illness for much of her life, and she eventually took her own life. And, you know, we've all been made very familiar through interviews and memoirs and what have you.
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And frankly, tabloid reports, I mean, I read them all the time, you know, arrests, drug and alcohol addictions, morbid obesity, mental illness, childhood, sexual trauma, you know, you name it, they've suffered it, okay? And you would think that would be enough for us to know about. Okay, that's actually more than I would care to know about like your family issues, okay?
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But no, there's more, there is more. And, you know, Ashley, I think is enjoying, another round in the spotlight because she's not really booking much work. So we need some media hits and we need some pages in us weekly. And I brought this for you because when I read it on the train, I was like, I got to talk to you guys about it.
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In this documentary, she talks about the day her mother died, the day her mother took her life. And she says she went over to the house, Naomi begged her to come over, and she was talking about how she didn't want to be on the planet anymore, and Ashley thought she had talked her down, and then left the house, came back later, and found her mother, I believe it was in her own bedroom,
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Now, Naomi Judd took her own life with a shotgun blast to the head. Again, this is very unusual for women to kill themselves this way. It's a very violent way to go. Ashley, again, I was mystified by this, but I thought, you know, maybe it's cathartic. I don't know. These people live in a very weird world where like, if you don't do it on camera, does it even matter?
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But from what I've read and what I've seen thus far, I believe Sean Combs is a very dangerous man, an extremely dangerous man. And what's going on in here, we all have a right to see and hear it, okay? Now, Cassie testified that she was often drugged up for these freak-offs that she says she was often forced to participate in more than once when having her period.
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So she sat down with Diane Sawyer in 2002 and talked about finding her mother and the effect that it had on her. And I thought, okay, well, you know, there were no details and maybe this is it. And like, she's gotten it out and this is her version of a catharsis and we'll never revisit this again. I was wrong, okay? Anytime I let my cynicism down,
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vis-a-vis celebrities, I am 99% of the time proven wrong. So now Ashley is telling us that she called 911 after she found her mother bleeding from the self-inflicted, self-inflicted, forgive me, gunshot wound. And she says, I'm reading from the Us Weekly story. Okay, quote, well, the story says after 911 was called, Ashley held her mom for a half an hour.
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Her mother was still alive for half an hour. Telling her, it's okay, it's okay. I've seen how much you've been suffering. And then when Naomi died, so this really is what this is sounding like, right? That Naomi blew half of her head off, but was still alive. And you can only imagine this scene, this vignette. And it's like everything, once you know it, you can't unknow it.
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Why do I need to know this stuff? Why do we need to know this stuff? I have to say, with Ashley Judd and with Emma Willis, I feel like this is very sick stuff. This is really sick. you are stripping, you are taking, you are stealing the remaining bit of dignity that Bruce Willis has, that her dead mother has. You're stealing their dignity and why are you doing it?
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And I was thinking about this before coming to talk to you guys about this today. And it's all of a piece with what we've been discussing with Michelle Obama and Meghan Markle and Hilaria Baldwin, Hilaria Baldwin. It seems like there's a lot of rage
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towards the true talents in the family like the real stars the real Legends you know and this is all just you know they think that they're they're maybe winning in the moment and it's giving them a dopamine hit but in the long run these people these women it's all women doing this you they're really just debasing themselves. They're really debasing themselves, you know?
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So Ashley and Emma, to you, I would say all of this media attention, it's not the win that you think it is, okay? Next up, we're gonna lighten things up, okay? We've got some more Kennedy family drama, a little story from me about Ryan Murphy, and best of all, your emails. I'm going to talk to you about a dog named Delta and a hero named Leo, Leo Grillo.
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Now, Leo came across a very sick, starving, shaking Doberman while on a road trip. And he pulled over and he rescued that Doberman and took him home and named him Delta. Now, Delta, of course, was just one of many animals that needed our help and do need our help, and this all inspired Leo to start Delta Rescue. It's the largest no-kill, care for life animal sanctuary in the world.
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Delta Rescue has rescued thousands of dogs, cats, and horses from the wilderness, and they provide their animals with shelter, love, safety, and a home. This dedication and everlasting love for animals is Leo's mission and Leo's legacy. Now Delta Rescue relies solely on contributions from people like us. People like us who are more on the animal side than the human side, correct?
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So if you want caring for these animals to be part of your legacy, speak with your estate planner because there are tax saving estate planning benefits here too. So you can grow your estate while letting your love for animals live well into the future. Check out the estate planning tab on their website to learn more and to speak with an advisor. We all call dog man's best friend for a reason.
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Here's what she said in court on the stand. Sean would expect it. I don't think anyone wants to do that. Of course not. But what is really interesting here is the distancing language that she is still using. She says, I don't think anybody wants to do that. She's not saying, I didn't want to do that. I never wanted to do that. I can't believe I had to do that or did that.
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And if you don't, I don't want to know you, okay? So you can help those who need it most. Visit deltarescue.org today to learn more. That's deltarescue.org.
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so ryan murphy made headlines this week with the announcement that he cast naomi watts as jackie kennedy uh in his forthcoming miniseries american love story about the romance and marriage uh between jfk jr and carolyn beset now i have several thoughts on this Nothing against Naomi Watts. I think she's a great actress. I think she's super stylish.
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I love how she's aging and not shooting her face up with Botox and getting like multiple facelifts like every other actress on the planet. But I have to say, I don't think this is a good casting move. I don't see in any way the resemblance. And you know, I'm surprised because Naomi Watts, kind of made a misstep in playing Princess Diana, and, like, she got really bad reviews for it.
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And she's a great actress, so you know it's bad when, like, she can't pull that off. I don't even think they ever put that movie in theaters. I think it went direct to streaming.
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So, you know, I don't like it, but, you know, this is Ryan Murphy, and he has his pets, and I think Naomi is now one of his pets, and he likes to cast them over and over, whether they're right for a part or not, and it's how we all got stuck with Sarah Paulson, okay? So... Think about it, okay? And also the actress playing Carolyn Bessette Kennedy looks nothing like her either, okay?
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And Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was a very distinctive looking woman, very distinctive, you know? And as for JFK Jr., the casting, it doesn't really matter because JFK Jr. is, as someone who wrote the book, Ask Not, the Kennedys and the women they destroyed, he is the least interesting, frankly, of the three, okay? Jackie and Carolyn, far more interesting.
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Now, I want to tell you my little story about Ryan Murphy. So last summer, after Ask Not came out, we got a call, meaning like my agent and I got a call. You know, we got offers from multiple people who are interested in buying the rights to the book and optioning it so they could turn it into a series or a docu-series, whatever. And one of them was Ryan Murphy.
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And they put me on a Zoom with not Ryan, who for undisclosed reasons, you know, was so dying to talk to me, but just couldn't. This is the kind of, hyperbole that you get when you're dealing with like Hollywood, not all, but many. It's like, they'll come to you. They come at you fast and hard. They're like, you're like, buy me dinner first.
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They're like, you're the greatest fucking thing since like air conditioning was invented. Okay. I got to get, I got to get in bed with you. Okay. We got to make this happen. I haven't, I haven't seen genius like this since fucking Albert Einstein. Okay. Like your, but I couldn't put your book down. Then you later find out they never read the book. They never do, you know? And, um,
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So I was put on a Zoom with his number two, who frankly did seem a little terrified of Ryan, who was like off on a yacht somewhere. And, you know, we really want to do this. It's really perfect for us, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, you sit there and you're like, I kind of got the verbal gang bang, you know? And then we got off the phone.
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I got off the Zoom with him. And then like right away, their offer,
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on paper landed in my inbox which was surprising because it usually doesn't happen that immediately and that was again like coming on fast and strong and being like we're really serious like we want this property and we've already gone to our overlords at Disney and like gotten the money and gotten this deal done now what happens is you take that and it's par for the course
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that that is the opening salvo. Like you're entering into a good faith negotiation. And we had other interested parties. And so as we do, we said, okay, we would like to counter for the following things and the following amount of money. And again, I didn't hear anything for like a couple of weeks. And my agent called and was like, I felt like maybe not,
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Okay, that's somebody who has really begun trying to separate and compartmentalize this part of her life, you know, and she clearly doesn't really want to go back there. And she's like eight and a half months pregnant on the stand. You know, she's going on to say that male sex workers that were hired for these freak offs would urinate on her.
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really wanting to share this news because it's not great, but it wasn't her fault. She goes, yeah, Ryan's dropped out. He's not interested anymore. And I said, what? Like, this never happens. Okay, this is considered extremely poor form. This never happens. I said, what do you mean he just dropped out? And she said, he just dropped out. Like, he won't play ball. He won't respond. And I
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I've asked around because like, I've never heard of this happening either. And I said, do you think he just couldn't believe we had the gall, like the fucking temerity to be like, nice opening bid. Like we'd like to counter. And she said, yeah.
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And I was like, well, fuck that guy, you know, because like, I don't want to be in business with somebody like that, you know, who, by the way, not every Ryan Murphy production is a masterpiece. Okay. Not every Ryan Murphy production is like the OJ Simpson trial, you know, whatever it was called made in America was the doc. It's fantastic. far superior. But, you know, I was like, wow.
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And then my second question was, I literally said to my agent, like, what are you here? Like, what kind of drugs is he on? Because this feels like drug addict behavior to me. Not saying he is, I'm just saying it feels very schizophrenic. So, and then I was talking to another friend of mine who also happens to write books.
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And she told me that the same thing happened to her, you know, but she did wind up like letting Ryan Murphy option her book. And he sat on it for years and was constantly promising every year. Oh, your your book's top of my list. That's that's the next one. And then it never was. And like he sat on it so long that it lost all momentum and nobody cares about it anymore.
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And so, you know, I think I really dodged a bullet. But that's just a little bit of like how that kind of scene works. And it's not it's not nearly as exciting as you think it is. Like literally any time someone's like, oh, someone from, you know, you're just like, do i have to like they can just email it to me anyway okay now we are getting to Mail, okay, from you guys. Listener, mail.
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I am so excited to do this, okay, because I think we're having a bit of a mind melt. Okay, this is an email from someone who just signs off. It's Kevin. Hi, Maureen. I have been loving the show so far. Thank you, Kevin. I definitely think your brother, Bill from Brooklyn, should be on as much as you want to have him on the show. He reminds me of myself.
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Bill is also developing a contingent of female fans who, you know, express disappointment that he is very happily married. So, you know, but enjoy him. Okay, on the show, that is. I also think that you should have the tearing apart of the advice columnist as a regular segment. And I agree, I think it's really funny.
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Now, also as a 49-year-old man, Kevin says, I wanted to say I appreciate the mean girl segment. Kevin goes on to say he's part of a group of people on Facebook. It's a movie discussion group. But any time he offers any opinion that is lightly politically conservative, he gets a lot of mean, nasty pushback. OK, and it's cruel. He uses the word cruel. It hurt.
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He's a 49 year old man and this hurts him. So Kevin says the mean girls thing can happen regardless of age and gender, unfortunately. And so, anyway, please keep exposing those people. You got it, Kevin. That's what we're here for. Doing it all day long. Okay. Now, this is another email about Mean Girls stuff. And this letter is signed merely a viewer from Sweden.
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Okay, that's what Sean Combs thinks about women, by the way. And if you think that's too harsh, sometimes Combs would urinate in Cassie's mouth. Okay, this is the testimony Cassie gave to federal prosecutor Emily Johnson, who asked Cassie, did you ever consent to this? Cassie said, no. There was no conversation. It was a turn on for him, so it happened.
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And, like, it's kind of mind-blowing. People are watching us in other countries. And I'm totally humbled by this. Okay. So, in regard to Mean Girls and Meghan Markle, one and the same, my opinion. Okay.
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she writes that there are so many similar behaviors between what's being reported about prince harry's wife i love that we should just call her prince harry's wife from now on and adult mean girls in the office i've been subjected to personally being singled out and targeted by such a person in the workplace finding yourself suddenly the one an adult mean girl has her sights on in the office can really do a number on you and viewer from sweden as you signed off i can relate and let me tell you that when i was
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Hey everyone, welcome back to The Nerve, your home for celebrity gossip, true crime, and real talk about fake people. I am your host, Maureen Callahan, and we have such an incredible Friday show for all of The Nerve troublemakers out there today.
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starting out at the New York Post, I will not name this person, and it's a kindness that, frankly, she doesn't deserve. But I wound up working for this woman who, you know, hired me, and I was warned by more than one person to not do it. Don't do it. Don't go work for this person. And I did. And when I tell you that I was tormented within an inch of my life.
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I would be made to work like till two or three in the morning, multiple nights in a row. I would be berated. I would be yelled at. I would find myself like just like in tears in her office, like I'm not a crier. I'm not, I'm not like that. I like, I have a pretty tough shell.
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Like I can take a lot, but the humiliation and the bullying and the gaslighting, you know, and it was so bad that like these experienced, these older men who were very experienced newsroom veterans would make it a point to walk by her office whenever I was in there, it was glass walls. and poke their heads in and be like, is everything okay in here? Everything okay in here?
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I later outsmarted her and outed her as the bully she was, and she eventually got ding, ding, ding, down, down, down the totem pole until they forced her out and gave her a going away party that was doubled as a real humiliation for her. On her way out the door, she asked me to have a private meeting. I almost had a trauma response to it. But I went, because I knew it was going to happen.
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And like all bullies, she was just doing a little housekeeping on the way out the door, making sure that I wouldn't talk shit about her. I regret certain things that I did, all this kind of passive language. I just let her get away with it. I was like, you know what? It's gonna come back to her someday.
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If she's listening and watching, you consider this right now, like I knew exactly what you were doing and why you were doing with it. And I don't forgive, you know? I don't carry a grudge. I don't carry this with me daily, but you're a piece of shit and you knew it.
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And by the way, I later found out from one of my best friends who I made while working there, this is the really creepy part, that she would say to one of my best friends, often I'm sure after yet another abuse session, don't you think Maureen is really pretty? Don't you think that she's really pretty?
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And I was like, oh my God, there was like probably a psychosexual component to this that I was completely unaware of. And that creeps me out even further because stuff was going on in this woman's sick mind, just my opinion.
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you know but you know you live you learned you know i probably that experience did teach me a lot as i did say to her that wasn't a lie but she's a piece of anyway okay from another viewer uh listener harry's crown jewels i this is mike i am not a psychologist but i did a deep dive into harry's psyche upon seeing your coverage of him knocking on random doors in london
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I love this forthcoming theory. He is seeking his lost manhood, his lost crown jewels. I wish I can shout to him that his testicles are most likely tucked away like gems in one of Meghan's handcrafted lavender sachets, sachets rather, sorry, with a big handwritten H on her custom printed stationery. I happen to tour, I think they're at the bottom of a body of water somewhere, but...
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you know, tomato, tomato. I happened to tour Windsor Castle after they got married and would happily fill in as the spare, being served gin and tonics and finger sandwiches while reading my Kindle. Not a bad life, I agree with you, Mike. Okay, female friendships. This is from Jill.
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She says that throughout my life, before I was married especially, I had many strong female friendships, but the fights and fallouts with women always hurt more than any breakup with a man. Now I'm left with almost no female friends. Most of the men I dated, I was glad to be rid of. Understand, sympathize completely with you. But with women, it was different. Now I agree.
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There is not a whole lot of control you have with two men standing over you peeing. I thought it was obvious. I don't want to do it. Okay? This is, she went on to say, there was one instance in which Combs urinated in her mouth so profusely that Cassie testified, quote, I was choking.
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She says her theory is that the pattern she noticed was that Many of my worst conflicts were with women who didn't have brothers. Having a brother growing up makes a difference. It teaches you how to argue, forgive and move on. These women often couldn't let go of an issue, which we are seeing right now with Michelle Obama, who did grow up with a brother.
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But, you know, we're seeing this in real time. I frankly think her brother is terrified of her. OK, now she says that her first friendship breakup was in the sixth grade. Same Jill. It ended in a humiliating fight. Same Jill, surrounded by a circle of classmates outside the schoolyard. Mine did not, but like everybody knew about it. That moment left a lasting mark and I remember it vividly.
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Same, okay. Jill goes on to say the following wise sage words. As we grow older, we should recognize that a true female friend is a gift. We shouldn't be so quick to cut ties over misunderstandings or emotions that should pass. Friendship later that should pass rather excuse me. Friendship later in life is just as important as family. I could not agree with you more. Okay.
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Two more really quick ones. There is one, this might be my favorite subject line of recent days. Sexual attraction to mountains, okay? A reference to our conversation about our friend who was climbing mountains like a crazy person. So first again, this person who signed off, I'm sorry, I've lost your last page, but you know who you are.
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First of all, took the time to acknowledge my greatness as an astronaut. Now, thank you, sir. Okay, now the JFK Jr. stuff, he is reminding me of a couple of interviews. And you know, this falls into the Ryan Murphy thing, which, you know, by the way, I'm just gonna say to Ryan Murphy, if I see stuff that is proprietary to my book that you tried to option and then decided not to,
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and it's in your project, there's going to be a problem, okay? He said that he recalled seeing a 42-year-old man after JFK Jr. crashed that plane, fatally killing, fatally, killing is redundant, the fatal crash that killed him, his wife, and his sister-in-law. A 42-year-old man at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, was interviewed in a newspaper.
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said that he had been a licensed pilot since age 15 before he was even licensed to drive a car. He arrived at Teterboro planning to fly to Nantucket the night he saw JFK Jr., this was the night of the crash, doing a flight check of his plane while hobbling around on crutches. True.
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this 42-year-old pilot with 27 years experience as a licensed pilot looked at the weather charts and decided not to fly to Nantucket that night, even as he saw JFK Jr. get into his plane and take off. And that guy went home and turned on CNN, and, you know, the rest is history, okay? And oh, that was Joe from Delaware. Thank you, Joe from Delaware. I loved your email.
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And our final one for today, and I think this is a great email, and I think we should all brainstorm. Hi, Maureen. Another great episode of The Nerve. Thank you. Thanks. Legit following, growing. Thank you. Thanks to you guys, really. Her question, is there a collective name for viewers of The Nerve? I think this is a great question.
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Most YouTube channels with a big following give their viewers a collective name. So we could call ourselves that. Like she mentions Heather McDonald, the comedian who's got a Juicy Scoop YouTube channel and her viewers are called Juicy Scoopers. So I think this is a great idea. I mean, I kind of thought, like, when I read this email, I thought, well, like, I'm not really great at this stuff.
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It takes me a long time. So anyway, I'm going to deputize you guys. Like, give me some suggestions. What should we be calling ourselves?
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now the defense is going to put up the argument and and has laid the groundwork like look yeah sean combs he's a deviant you know you may not find what he's doing palatable you know but it's his sex life and if everybody's a willing participant you know that's not criminal behavior this testimony that she is giving in open court eight and a half months pregnant she and her husband alex fine have two other children
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and I think that's enough homework really I think this was a really packed episode it's a great Friday episode right we covered a lot we covered the gamut um now we will see you next Tuesday but I also want to know that uh I want to let you know rather that we are constantly hearing and reading your feedback and we know you guys are loving the mini nerves and the drops on the weekend
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And we've got another one for you this weekend. So keep your eyes out for it. I think it's something we've never done before. It's a way we've come at celebrity and pop culture in a way we've never done before. And we've got this trio. We've got an actress, director, producer. We've got a chef and we've got an author. and each one is bonkers in its own special way.
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We will see you back here when we see you at The Nerve, where you'll never guess what we're about to say next.
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I can only imagine the insane amount of stress she's under and her fear that she's gonna be provoked into early labor. Name me a woman who would sit in open court and testify to such degrading, humiliating acts visited upon her, especially against this guy who seems extremely dangerous and be making it up. Like what is she possibly, she's already gotten her payday.
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He gave her $20 million to drop the lawsuit she filed in November, 2023. Remember the same month that Naomi Campbell threw Sean Combs a lavish 50th birthday party in London, okay? We also learned that Sean Combs filled an inflatable pool with baby oil.
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this was in a hotel room i live in fear that i have stayed in a hotel room that sean combs once threw a freak off in okay it's closed now but he used to use the grammar c park hotel at least once for this stuff okay so we also learned that cassie as she testified to us suffered great physical deleterious
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side effects, diseases, her oral health was terrible because Sean Combs would have her perform with people who had been lubed up. And so all this stuff is like in her mouth. And she had UTIs multiple times. Almost every woman I know has had a UTI at some point, but she had them so often and they are brutal. They are so painful. Like that Cipro stopped working for her.
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She had gastrointestinal issues from all this copious sex with all these strangers who were like, it's enough. It's enough for today. Okay. I think that Sean Combs is in a lot of trouble. Okay. And this is part of the reason why. His defense team asked the judge in this case to disallow Cassie from walking up to the stand because she is so visibly pregnant.
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first up we're getting into the ditty trial which has seen explosive testimony and crazy developments this week plus we have a menendez brothers update the latest on the blake taylor justin baldoni scandal plus celebrity over shares for days then we've got a little book stuff and i hear you guys asking for more book coverage so we are definitely working on that
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And their argument, I guess, is that that could be prejudicial to the jury, that her being a pregnant woman might evoke some sympathy. And by the way, the judge denied this, but this goes to the hypocrisy of it. This is as Sean Combs sits there in court with his Bible, okay? His Bible. Like, try to be a little... Subtle just a little bit.
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Okay, and he's making heart symbols with his hands Okay, so and he sits there and like this gray sweater, you know, he's just looking like your friendly neighborhood Accountant, you know this thug. Are you kidding me? Okay meanwhile He's got his children in this courthouse. Okay, they're older. They're like teenagers, maybe, or early 20s. But why are his children here?
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Why are they listening to this stuff? You know, I'm looking at that. If I'm a juror, which I would never be, I just couldn't do it with this guy. But... if I'm a juror, I'm not looking at that as like, oh wow, you know, Sean Combs, like his family really, these kids look traumatized by the way, okay? These kids really believe in him so much that they showed up in court to support him.
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I'm thinking what kind of sick fuck has his kids show up in court and listen to this stuff and be aware of what their father was getting up to when he was probably never home. OK, now the daughters left during some of the more graphic testimony in the Cassie stuff, but truly they should not be there at all. And by the way, Diddy's mother
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is treating this trial like it's her own personal catwalk like she's rocking up in this like extravagant what i assume is a wig it's a big curly fluffy blonde wig and she's got her movie star sunglasses on and she's wearing her animal prints you know this is not the time or the place okay but i guess we're getting a glimpse into you know the combs family dynamics as it were
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Now, a final note, and truly the icing on this shit cake. On Wednesday, the jurors were shown still photos from some of these freak-offs. And according to reports, several jurors physically recoiled. one female juror actually like turned her head to the side to look away. Just to underscore, this jury panel is composed of hardened New Yorkers, okay? They have seen it all.
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And I guarantee every single one of them, as have I, has seen since COVID at least one homeless person openly masturbating on the street, on the subway. Okay, we see a lot. Okay, so if they're disgusted, it's not looking great for Sean Combs, okay? A related update, Chris Brown was just arrested again, this time in the UK for a 2023 attack against a promoter in a nightclub.
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Chris Brown allegedly smashed a bottle of tequila over this guy's head, then began kicking and punching him. Now, do you remember Rihanna and the beating she took at his hands and how she went back? Guys like this don't change, and I hope that the jury is considering this stuff because the Cassie testimony is complicated, okay? She was with him for 10 years.
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She did keep going back, and she did love him. So it's nuanced. It's not black and white. Now, we have another brief update. The Menendez brothers, okay, they got their resentencing trial this week. And their lawyer said they're going to move very quickly to get these guys out.
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I would just like to remind everybody, including the either brainwashed or the psychologically very unwell members of the Menendez clan and Kitty Menendez, the mother, they're all arguing for these two to be let out. Okay, they paid their dues. I would like to just remind us all This was a premeditated crime. These two planned it for at least a week.
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And what is rapidly becoming my favorite Friday bit of all, your emails. So I think most of us have come to the realization that we want to spend our money with and on brands that frankly align with our values. So that's why I want to talk to you guys about Nimi Skincare. This is a company that is built on the principles of faith, family, and freedom.
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You know, they purchased the firearms, the rifles, I believe, at least a week before. When the investigators showed up at the crime scene, their father's brain fell out of his skull. Mother's face blasted off. They had a fake alibi and they said the cops should have arrested them that very night and they couldn't believe that they didn't.
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So I'm sure that these two, if they do get out, will be a great addition to society. And now for some lighter celebrity true crime, it's Taylor Swift versus Blake Lively. And this is getting good. Okay, you guys, this is getting good. Now look at these two, okay? They loved to pose in these provocative, like, you know, are we lovers?
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Maybe, you know, Blake owns Taylor, you know, Blake made Taylor godmother to like at least three of her four children, which I have said before,
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feels gratuitous okay don't be such a star fucker um now taylor apparently was told to brace her team was told to brace for a subpoena from justin baldoni's legal team and she's pissed okay she seems pissed sounds like she's pissed i think she's pissed so leaking from taytay's camp this week was the grievous grave accusation that blake lively attempted to blackmail taylor okay
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that Blake Lively said, if you don't support me in me bringing this case, And all these accusations that seem to be falling apart, like, you know, just like confetti out of a pinata. If you, Taylor Swift, don't back me, I'm going to leak private texts between you and I. And these apparently go back decades, okay?
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So Blake's basically saying, hey, Taylor, I know where a lot of your bodies are buried, and I'm going to exhume them if you don't get on my train, okay? This is getting so great. I cannot wait for the next development in this. All three of these people, not nearly as smart as they think they are. Okay.
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Up next, we have a showbiz titan whose sexual disclosures are bonkers, and they are so cynical, and we're going to just slice and dice it, like, you know, minor surgery, okay? And then we've got some movie star mayhem, and one of country music's most famous family's with an overshare for the ages.
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And by the way, this is a woman who loves to be very political and she only puts like democratic women on the cover of Vogue, okay? She did put Melania on the cover when she was marrying Trump, but now that she's in the White House, no go zone. But if you wanna call anybody a dictator,
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it ain't trump it's anna okay secondly this event the theme was black dandyism okay this is a woke adjacent event by a woman who was editor-in-chief of vogue took three years to put a black model on the cover of vogue you know who that was naomi campbell we're gonna get back to her after george floyd and black lives matter anna immediately wrote a cover your ass open letter my opinion
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open letter saying the vogue really needed to do better in hiring people of color to work for her rather than the spawn the nepo babies of celebrities and titans of industry uh that she typically has i don't think it's gotten better over there i'm just saying i haven't heard anything you know change and then sec thirdly thirdly andre leontali who was her sidekick
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and who worked for her and actually knew his fashion history for many, many years. And then she suddenly dumped him out of nowhere. She was like, you are persona non grata. This guy wound up living out the rest of his days. He's now dead in poverty in upstate New York. You know, there were very few fashion people who came through for him. And that's how this is the point.
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The fashion world is ugly. And it's mean. It is mean, okay? These are not happy people. These are not happy people. And they get off on trying to make you and me feel like shit about ourselves so we can go buy stuff we don't need. Now, there was a bunch of celebrities, there were, excuse me, let me conjugate properly. There were a bunch of celebrities missing in action last night.
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And we're going to go through that and we're going to talk about why. First, though, I would like to introduce our guest, Kinsey Schofield, the incomparable. There is no one better when it comes to royals, celebrity, even fashion. She can do it all. I'm also lucky enough to call her one of my friends. Welcome, Kinsey, for your first appearance on The Nerve. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.
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I mean, 45 is approaching like a psychotherapy treatment, which I kind of think the mainstream media is now providing for Harry. He's just sort of venting. So this interview, which I also columned on for the Daily Mail yesterday, this thing is a doozy, okay? This is Princess Diana sitting down with Panorama, okay? saying that Charles is not up for the top job doozy of an interview.
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Well, thank you. We're very honored to have you. So, okay, I want to go through this clown car at the Met Gala last night. First up is Lisa from Blackpink having a moment. She's also a White Lotus person. She showed up on the red carpet. It's the pantsless look, which has been sticking with us for quite a while. Now, on the face of it, all right, fine, whatever. She can pull it off.
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Let's take a closer look at the crotch of this ensemble. Okay, so Kinsey, when we look at this outfit more closely, we see on the crotch what looks to be, I shit you not, the face of Rosa Parks. Did you catch this?
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I mean, this is what I think. Just my opinion. As I said, Anna Wintour controls everything. Everything. I think this is a nudge. I think this is a wink. I think this is a bit of contempt thrown our way. She had to throw a black-themed event with an all-black hosting committee. And I'm going to say, I don't think she liked having to do it. Really? I don't think she did. I don't think she did.
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Because I don't know how you take the face of a revered American icon... who helped bring segregation to an end by getting arrested for refusing to move her seat on a bus to go sit in the quote unquote black section and allowing some starlet. I mean, I know black pink is huge, but this woman is trying to make it in Hollywood. This is a very important event for those reasons.
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And I mean, that's a very limited reason to be there. And she wears like kind of a saint on her crotch.
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Do you think she would have gotten away with George Floyd's face on her crotch?
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Oh, absolutely not. She would never even dare it.
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I mean, you know, what did her styling team do to her? What did Anna Wintour allegedly do to her? Let's take a look at ASAP Rocky. who is Rihanna's partner, father of her two children. And he just recently beat a gun charge. And look at what he showed up in last night. Okay, Kins, do you catch the umbrella? Yes. So it's a gun. It's meant to look like a gun. I'm not saying it's an actual gun.
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But again, what do you make of this kind of messaging?
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Yes.
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no and it kind of makes you wonder like what is the what is the the the conflict right between anna and her her need to uh be the arbiter of high fashion all things high fashion it's black dandyism okay it's it's it's a rarefied theme and then you have
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your guests, you know, a guy who just beat a gun charge, which in my opinion, he was very lucky to beat that rap, double down by showing up with an umbrella that's mocked up to look like a gun. Is this funny? I don't think it's funny. I don't think it's funny. Now, I want to go to Pusha T, and he's a hip-hop star. His name, Pusha, is a play on drug pusher, allegedly, and the suit he showed up in.
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So we're going to take it apart. piece by piece. Um, now Harry may be the spare as he titled his memoir. He may now be fifth, I believe in line for the British throne. So it's never going to happen. He may be, uh, no longer on speaking terms with his family of origin, their choice, not his, but he wants us to know, and I shit you not that, uh,
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Let's take a look at this. So full-length again from far away. Cher would say in Clueless, it's kind of a Monet, right? You look far away and it looks fantastic. And then you get a close-up look and it's a hot mess because I heard, this was the conversation on LL Cool J's Sirius XM hip hop channel this afternoon. They were talking about his suit jacket looking like cocaine dust.
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Yes. I mean, that's what the hip hop community is saying. You know, don't come at me. And like they said it and it clicked. I was like, that's exactly right. OK, so next I want to go to this guy has been on my last nerve for weeks now. Walton Goggins. of the White Lotus showed up in this.
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For those of you who are listening and can't see it, he's wearing a black and white, like it's a full length skirt. It's got like panels, and he's got one hand on his hip. Like he is just killing it. He's Walt Goggins and you're not. Are you secure enough in your masculinity to wear a floor-length skirt? Kinsey, your thoughts, please.
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That, by the way, that if he's the substitute teacher, he's the one that all the parents are calling about at the end of that day. Okay, I want to take a look at, so again, this is not a political event. We're making no political statements. We're endorsing nobody. Kamala Harris makes her Met Gala debut in this. Oh. None too subtle, Kinsey. It's a black and white dress.
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Three quarters of it is black and a quarter of it is white. Not that she's saying anything. But I find this a none too subtle nod to perhaps racial unity.
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It doesn't even look expensive to your point. Like, it looks like something you would get at like, I don't know, like a dress barn, like it's a mother of the bride, like, you know, and like, could you imagine being seated next to her and her, like maybe four drinks in just, just, just supposition.
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I'm not saying anything and talking about, you know, the American people being an optimistic people and her hopes. and our dreams and our ambitions and then like going into the voice with the hand gestures. And where's Dougie? Is he like assaulting another woman somewhere, allegedly? Why isn't he on her arm? That's a great question. Okay. Next is, I want to look at one of my favorites.
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I've loved this guy forever. And if you want to talk black dandyism, I think he's been long been the epitome. Andre 3000 of outcast one half of outcast, who is one of the most stylish men on the planet. He showed up. I think this is his Bjork moment. Remember when Bjork went to the Oscars in a swan dress?
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I think it's Bjork adjacent. Let's take a look at Andre 3000. Okay. You guys, he's got a piano on his back. A piano on it. Like, I'm dying. I'm kind of dying. I kind of love this. Am I crazy, Kinsey?
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Irrelevant to the royals, though he may be, when it comes to whose life is more in danger, who is number one on the threat list, who people want allegedly to see grave harm come to, if not outright death, it's Harry. Harry's number one. He's number one, and he's kind of reveling in it. So let's look at this.
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I love it. I couldn't agree with you more, and frankly, I thought he should have been on the committee. Yes. He's got a real sense of humor, and as you said, his personality is just shining through. And it also shows that he doesn't take these assholes seriously either. Okay, I want to go to Gigi Hadid's gown, which I think might be more controversial or less than I think, actually.
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But let's take a look at Gigi, who showed up last night in this gorgeous... custom gold gown. Now to me, she looks beautiful. Okay. But to me, this is like an Oscars dress. This is not a dress that says anything about black dandyism. Kinsey, what do you think?
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Yeah.
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that is such an excellent point and that hadn't occurred to me but i think you're right and i was watching gigi get interviewed on um the red carpet last night and i always feel bad for her because i remember when she was like an aspiring model like her mom her momager yolanda hadid was pushing her into it and this was when yolanda was on the real housewives of beverly hills and so this i'll never forget yolanda's getting wheeled in to get her breast implants removed
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which is the moment you can see in David Foster's eyes. He's consulting with the divorce lawyer. And Gigi calls, and she's on a shoot, and she says to her mother, Yolanda, I am so hungry. I am starving. And Yolanda says, I want you to eat an almond. one and eat it very slowly. And that's how the phrase almond mom entered the lexicon.
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So when you see Gigi, this poor thing, like her eyes are dead on the red carpet. Her voice is dead on the red carpet. Of course it is. But she's giving like basically a Wikipedia entry on how this gold gown has anything to do with like black designers. Like if you have to give a Wikipedia entry, like you've kind of failed at the assignment in my opinion. Yeah.
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Okay, another favorite, another favorite, Whoopi Goldberg of The View is in attendance. Let's take a look at her look. Okay, I feel like Whoopi was done a disservice here. And, you know, I'm going to say I think she's been pretty open about taking the jab. She's lost a lot of weight.
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Now, I love this also for her, for Whoopi getting an invitation to the Met, because anybody who, like, takes a minute to look at The View – knows this woman shows up on set, on air. This is the respect she shows us, the viewing audience, that pays her enormous multi-million dollar paycheck. I believe she makes 10 mil a year. She shows up wearing things I wouldn't scrub the tub in. Yeah.
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Like, you know? So so but she takes a Met Gala invite. So that's strange. And then she's like her entire body is. Do you remember? I think Christian Siriano dressed her for the Oscars one year and she actually looked really beautiful.
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I mean, if you saw her from a distance or from the back, you would never go, that's Whoopi Goldberg, who otherwise has very distinctive features, like the long cornrows. Her face is incredibly distinctive. She emits like an energy that's like incredibly distinctive, also allegedly redolent of gas and marijuana.
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So I don't know, maybe that was like the reason for the coat, like sort of maybe contain the odor within. That could be. Thank you for reminding me of that. Never forget. Never forget. Okay. Next up is, I'm kind of fascinated by this person. I think her name is Mihaela. She's a star of industry, which first season, very spotty, trying a little too hard.
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But as the show progresses, it's a fantastic show. So she used to go by two names. Now she just goes by one. I think she wants to be the new Zendaya. From what I've read, she's kind of like a little bit above her skis in terms of where she thinks she's at. But this is what she showed up to at the Met Gala last night.
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I think those knee-high or above-the-knee boots are like Timbaland boots, Timberland boots. Not Timbaland, the producer, but Timberland boots. And then she's got this really interesting silhouette that the shoulders are highly exaggerated. It's almost swallowing her. You know what she looks like?
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Welcome to The Nerve. I am Maureen Callahan. If I may say so myself, I think we have a banger of a show for you today. I am dressed in black, in high-necked black. with some Upper East Side pearls because I am in mourning for the culture, but I know you're gonna help me get through it. So coming up, we have incredible guests.
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Okay, so aside from the late Queen Elizabeth II, may she rest, Harry's number one, so he's good at something, okay? He can do something. He may be getting kicked off of charities, at least one that we know of, but, you know, he's not a failure. He's not a fuck-up. Uh, okay. So then he says, um, security, the British Royal family has been using Again, this is free. He's out there panhandling.
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You know, at the end of Beetlejuice, when Beetlejuice goes to purgatory and everybody's got a shrunken head, that's what she looks like.
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Great point. Somebody did do something right. And that's the whole point of this dog and pony show, which is that you show up and you dress like elaborately. And no matter how ridiculous you have to look, if you are kind of on the bubble and it gets you noticed and talked about, it's okay if everybody laughs at you because now we know your name and maybe you book like a bigger job.
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So I guess good for her. Good for her team. Well done. Okay. Ms. Diana Ross, who, by the way, I had an Uber driver last week who picked me up. I was having this great lunch at Harry Cipriani in the Sherry Netherland Hotel. And he picks me up and he says, does Ms. Ross still live here? I said, who, what? He goes, Diana Ross, does she still live here?
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I said, first of all, I don't mean any disrespect because she's so quiet. I forgot she was still with us. A legend forgot she was, but I was like, sir, I have no idea. Like, do I look like an encyclopedia? But he said, oh, I used to pick her up all the time. And anyway, so Diana Ross shows up last night in this. Let's take a look at it.
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Okay, Kinsey, I'm going to hand this one to you because I know what you're going to say. This is my gift to you. What does this remind you of?
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I knew that's what you're going to say. You're so right. Same thing occurred to me, right? You can't even see her. And I believe Rihanna did that first, right? That huge train that covered all the steps. And then last night she debuted. There she is. And it's in white. I mean, it kind of shows you like the torch really has been passed and Rihanna is the queen.
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She's the queen of soul, of hip hop, of R&B. I don't think she's made a record in forever. Her makeup line has made her a billionaire, so good for her. And what I love about Rihanna too is the minute she stopped being an active pop star, she began eating food. And she looks very happy now. And so last night she debuted what looks like a baby bump.
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So baby number three with A$AP Rocky is on the way. Again, another one I just hope has a very good lawyer in her corner. I don't see that relationship ending well.
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Yes, and always a good alibi, okay? Keep a good alibi. And then the final guy I want to talk to you about, because this is going to transition into our next segment, is Sean Diddy Combs. who was absent last night and who previously had comported himself on the red carpet at the Met Gala thusly.
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So this first image, he is taking a seat on the steps, lounging with the sole of his Christian Louboutin shoe on. Evident. That is a flex. That is to say this shoe cost $5,000. And I run this show, okay? It's not Anna. It's me. I'm the king, okay? This next look, Kinsey, tell me what you think. Did he again add another Met Gala? Looking like a Jedi Sith Lord.
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yeah to me it's it's ruffles it's up to his neck in god now we know what and to me it's sort of like he's showing us exactly who he is it's like in my opinion evil personified well you know i worked with him i didn't have a problem with him but i have been horrified by everything that's come out so i i'm looking forward to your coverage Well, thank you, Kinsey.
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And thank you so much for joining and talking a little smack about some of these most ridiculous people. And I hope you will come back. I will. I will. Thank you so much. Adore you. Thanks, Kinsey. Same to you. Bye. Bye. And you guys, before we go right into this next segment, I want to go into the people who were not at the Met Gala last night.
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And a lot of these people, a lot of these A-listers dropped out last minute, okay? Last minute. And if you don't think this has anything to do with Diddy, I'm going to convince you. Number one, LeBron James, who was the host, okay, the co-host with Anna Wintour. LeBron James, who said the only way he would miss the Met Gala was if the Lakers continued on, And by the way, guess what?
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I thought he was worth like $40 million, right? Security is being used by, allegedly, the British royal family as leverage, and you'll never guess to what end. Like, what it is the British royal family wants out of him and Meghan. Take a look.
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The Lakers lost the other night, so they're done for the season. There's absolutely no reason for him to have met. Guess who missed it? LeBron. Guess who once had wonderful things to say about Diddy, such as this.
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Ain't no party like a Diddy party. Now, as we all know, these freak-offs would happen after big events like this. You're telling me LeBron has no idea? You're telling me that Anna Wintour has no idea? Okay, moving on to Naomi Campbell, who once dated Diddy. No show last night, up until the last effing minute. It was like, is Naomi coming? Is she not coming?
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She's only the biggest black supermodel on the planet. She's only the one most known for throwing cell phones at the help. Is she gonna show up? She did not. Now she also has had alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. In November, 2023, Naomi threw Diddy a lavish 53rd birthday party in London. Very exclusive, very, you know, she, she, whatever.
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November, 2023 was also the same month that Cassie filed her lawsuit against Diddy alleging no shortage of personal horrors visited upon her. Also not in attendance, Anna's pet Blake Lively, not there. Ryan Reynolds, her husband, not there. Could this have anything to do with a certain lawsuit that she's brought that has now made her rapidly persona non grata?
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in celeb circles perhaps just saying i find this very interesting also not there taylor swift and travis kelsey taylor swift keeping her distance from blake lively i believe taylor swift is now also keeping her distance from anybody who has anything to do with diddy sarah jessica parker goes every year and not only does she go every year she takes the assignment very seriously She brings it.
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She always looks incredible. She always looks entirely original. She's sudden no-show, guys, sudden no-show. Oprah, no-show. Black dandyism, Oprah's going to miss out on this crap with her ozempic body. Well, she's not there. And finally, and I think most intriguingly, J.Lo is not there. Last year, J.Lo used the Met Gala to show us how great she was doing in the aftermath of Ben Affleck
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fleeing in the dead of freaking night after an alleged visit from the feds. J-Lo, not at the Met Gala. So up next, we are going to dive into the Diddy trial with my next guest, who is one of the greatest criminal defense attorneys in the country, Tom Knuff. And also, as you know, but just a friendly reminder, I want to hear your thoughts on this.
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welcome back joining me now to discuss i i think the trial of the year if potentially not this century i think this thing is going to dwarf harvey weinstein is criminal defense attorney thomas knuff now tom represented daniel penny a young new yorker a marine a veteran but you know marine is always a marine in A negligent homicide case here in New York City that garnered national attention.
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And trust me when I tell you that as far as the media was concerned and many keen-eyed observers, Daniel Penny was walking a tightrope. And Tom and his team got justice for Daniel Penny. Today, we are talking Diddy. Jury selection has begun in a New York City courtroom on Monday in this trial. They began with a pool of 150 potential jurors who are currently being winnowed down as we speak.
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And the number one question that these jurors are being asked is, are you willing to watch videos of these freak-offs? Now, here's the evidence that has been submitted to the court of public opinion thus far. The Cassie Hotel video of Diddy brutally, savagely beating this woman, his then girlfriend, as she attempted to escape a freak off. This is in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
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And what we are looking at She's putting on her shoes. This is what kind of a rush she's in. She's at the elevator bank. She's pressed the down button. Here comes Diddy in a towel, only a towel. He throws her to the ground and he starts kicking her. And if you look at her, you can see she has been here many times before because she has just gone limp. She's dead. She's playing possum.
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She's trying to protect her organs, her internal organs. And then he grabs her by the arm or the hair down the hall. Now, this was caught on hotel security cam footage. This is what this guy does in public, okay? Imagine what he does in private. The next thing we're going to look at is Diddy with a very young, a tenderly young Justin Bieber. Take a look.
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We have my friend and like entertainment slash royal reporter, nonpareil, Kinsey Schofield. She will be joining me shortly to discuss everything about the Met Gala and it is a stew. It is going to be very rich and fun. And then later, I'll be diving into the latest developments in the Diddy trial.
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Okay. I think we all are witnessing Justin Bieber decompensate in real time. And I think we all know why. Um, Okay, next up is this Stern interview, this interview that Usher gave to Howard Stern in 2016 in which Usher spoke about being sent to go live with Diddy as a 13-year-old to be mentored and groomed into a pop star. Watch this.
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Okay, first of all, at the top of that interview, Usher said he was 13, not 14. Usher is currently 46. That means these events happened over 30 years ago, which means that this has been going on for decades and everybody's known. Trust me, everybody in the industry knows about this.
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Usher also gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he said, quote, this is a 2004 interview, quote, there was always girls around. You'd open a door and see somebody doing it or several people in a room having an orgy. Okay? He's a teenager. Lastly, one of Diddy's attorneys, his name is Anthony Rico. This guy is a hardened New York City criminal defense attorney.
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He withdrew ahead of the trial, maybe like a month ago. He went to the judge and he said, quote, under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as a counsel for Sean Combs. He asked to be let off this case immediately. Typically, there is a protocol. There are steps you have to go through. You can't just cut and run right away. Guess what? In this case, the judge said, go with God.
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You're off. You're done. Now, I took a look at Rico's past client list. And when I tell you you're never going to guess who this man defended, not once but twice, you're going to fall off your chair, okay? Let's take a look at this. So what we're looking at is a side-by-side of Sean Diddy Combs and Osama bin Laden, okay?
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Anthony Rico represented Osama bin Laden and his conspirators in not one, my friends, but two cases, in the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center and in a 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy. Okay, this guy went to the mat for bin Laden twice, but he cannot serve as Diddy's criminal attorney. That is a bridge too far. Tom. First of all, welcome to The Nerve.
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Thank you so much for coming on the show. We are honored to have you. Please tell me how a New York City defense attorney gets to leave so fast without going through the proper required steps of recusing oneself from a criminal case.
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I mean, I'm going to say, Tom, the way Page Six reported it, it didn't seem as sort of like dry and uninteresting as like, I have a conflict with like someone on the process. It sounded like, holy shit, I have seen into the gates of hell. This guy is worse than the worst terrorist in modern history. And you got to cut me loose, man, because like I'm afraid for my safety. Just my supposition.
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I think it's wild. I think this means we're in for a ride, like a ride. Okay. So then last week it was reported that Diddy denied a plea deal. I think if I'm correct, it was the same thing with Harvey. Now I have a theory.
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Okay, so I'm a little confused as to what exactly his point is here. You know, when King Charles was then Prince Charles and those two flounced out of the British royal family. And they basically said, do it our way. This is what we want to do. And the queen in her infinite wisdom said, sorry, it doesn't work that way. Can't be half in, half out.
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And I'm wondering if you have seen this, where this is only my opinion, I'm not saying it's yours or anybody else's, that with guys like this, who have this amount of money, this amount of fame, this amount of power, and who are used to calling the shots, and who maybe interpret, maybe, I'm being extremely generous here, say an act of rape, right?
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So an act of, sort of like, well, this person wanted it, they're lucky to be with me, right? Like maybe this is a little bit of, you know, a game. Why don't guys like this ever take plea deals?
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Wait, it would be less enticing to take a deal that would maybe be 15 years than to roll the dice. I mean, we've seen video evidence that, I mean, the public is repulsed by him. I personally think he'll get convicted and he'll never see the light of day again. What is the mentality instead of taking 15, be done and out, he's young enough, or roll the dice with a life sentence?
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Can't be merging Sussex crap all over the worldwide web and also be working for the British populace, for the citizenry and for the reputation of the nation. Doesn't work that way. So Harry neglects to mention that his father paid for his and Meghan's security for the first year they went to America. He paid for it.
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you know maybe you roll the dice so it was also reported that Diddy has added an eighth defense lawyer to his team how many lawyers would a client facing these very specific damaging potentially again going away for life how many lawyers would a client like this typically need or hire and why
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I was just going to say that O.J. only had like three, right? Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, Tom, I'm thinking, okay, I'm thinking, okay, in terms of if I'm on the jury and which I would not want to be on this jury, honestly. I would fear for my life. So to those brave souls who are doing it, like really, we owe them a lot. But if I saw one defendant with eight or more attorneys, I would think this guy's guilty. Like, let's just call it a day.
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I mean, it could boomerang on him, right?
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Yes, absolutely.
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Yeah, even Harvey, who I'll tell my Harvey story someday, but even he had like one of his main lawyers was was a woman and he did that intentionally. OK, I'm just I don't I don't know for a fact, but I'm just saying I know I know our legal team very well.
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Now you would think that Charles was just the worst father in the world, but so we're going to, we're going to omit that inconvenient truth. And then we're going to imply that the Royal family needs to basically hold itself hostage with security so that if you wanted to leave,
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So I want to talk to you a bit about the defense strategy as has been leaked slash reported that we know of thus far.
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And I think all reasonable people can agree, but I would just like to get the ratification of a seasoned, brilliant defense attorney such as yourself that when the feds bring an indictment against you, it is time to get your affairs in order because they win like 99% of the cases they bring.
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Fascinating. So the jury is, a potential juror is having these questions read in a rather clinical manner, right? Yes. By a third party who is, you know, obviously there to adjudicate. And so that's fascinating. So I want to, okay, before I run out of time with you, Tom, I want to do sort of a lightning round of the defense strategy as we now know it. These are very early days.
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So, you know, we're going to get better material, I'm sure. Okay. Number one, as to the...
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my language excuse me ton of baby oil that the feds confiscated from diddy's residence baby oil that he was alleged to have used in the commission of these crimes during these freak-offs which were allegedly laced with a narcotic drug that knocked out his alleged victim so he and his cohorts could have their way with said victims his defense attorneys are going to argue that just like all of us who go to costco he likes to buy in bulk
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you will never get security should you leave even though all harry needs to do truly i don't know if this if this interviewer was falling asleep as he's speaking to her because i know this so this interviewer for the bbc should know this all these two need to do is send a message within a certain amount of time in advance to say, hey, we're going to be in the UK on date certain.
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Right, but to get back to the baby oil... what would you, what would your defense be? Like he buys in bulk. Right, right. So what would you say to that?
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Sure, sure, sure.
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Well, this is part two of the defense approach, which is he simply has an alternative lifestyle and it can use a potential juror be open to that.
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i love this oh my god you're brilliant okay the third and final one tom is he is going his lawyers are planning to argue that at the time of the commission of these crimes he had like a diminished mental capacity i believe that those are the words diminished mental capacity so that he didn't understand if these are crimes that he was committing crimes but if you're
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quote-unquote crime spree has lasted, say, three decades. Can a defense team prove that this guy was at the top of his game, ran the world of hip-hop, but had diminished capacity for over 30 years in this single area?
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Is that coercive?
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Please provide security. Done. Dusted. Not a problem. But if we're not raging in the public square, what is the point of our existence? Now, in this next clip, Harry, and we're inching up to some truly disgusting stuff. As we know, the king is battling cancer. Catherine, Princess of Wales, is in remission from cancer. And Harry has sort of a new outlook on life, I believe. Take a look.
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Yeah, I agree with you. That's a tough sell. But hey, I can't wait to watch this trial unfold. It's going to go through at least midsummer. Again, I think it's one for the ages. And I'm so happy and grateful that you came on the show and elucidated so many things for us and explained. And I hope you will come back. Thank you, Tom Knuff.
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Great having you. And just a quick coda to that conversation with Tom, a bunch of celebrities' names have already begun to surface in this very, very, very early part of the Diddy trial. We're only in jury selection, okay? These are the names that came out, and by the way, The judge said the number of names that are going to come out are going to be like this. She compared it.
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She compared this portion of the trial to the Lord of the Rings books that are like doorstoppers, okay? So there are a lot of people going to ground right now. And as said in that earlier segment, those people who didn't show up at the Met Gala last night, I think... I think they might be very worried. Okay, the names thus far that have come up. Kanye, shock of all shockers, okay?
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Kanye's name came up, Kid Cudi, who told the New York Times, the New York Times, that Sean Combs threw a Molotov cocktail in his car and blew it up because they were both interested in the same woman, okay? michael b jordan the actor the young actor michael b jordan now this guy's only been famous for i think maybe five to seven years and it kind of took me aback
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but I was talking to Bill from Brooklyn about it last night. And he said, well, imagine like you're newly famous and a super famous guy like Diddy says, hey, why don't you come in? Like, why don't you come into my life? Why don't you come into some of my parties? Come hang out. Let me introduce you to some people. Let me hook you up.
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And you as, you know, a newly minted celebrity might be thinking, well, this guy has to be safe because he's ultra famous, right? So what's a safer place? Well, think michael might be about to find out the opposite might be often the case okay this one really took me by surprise mike myers mike myers the canadian nerd former snl star austin powers is Now involved, apparently, in the Diddy trial.
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And again, this one took me by surprise, but as Bill from Brooklyn said to me, you know all those SNL people are freaks, allegedly. And I said, you know what? I got to hand it to you. So he'll be back soon anyway, because we'll be diving into a lot of this stuff.
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um and i think i don't know where else we could leave it you know this is this has been an amazing week we're back on friday another great show planned for you we've already got many things underway um and i'm looking forward to seeing you then on the nerf where you will never guess what we are about to say next
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Okay, but he's been going anyway. Like he hasn't been, as far as I know, he's getting no invitations extended. You know, he's booking all these court dates and suing the pants off of everybody. But he goes to the UK. Okay, now let's go to this in which he implies heavily.
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And by the way, there is a Venn diagram between the Met Gala and Sean Diddy Combs and conspirators, alleged conspirators within. That kicked off Monday here in New York City. So an incredible defense attorney, like this guy is a national profile and you're going to love him. Tom Cunniff is going to join us.
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that the British royal family had something to do with his mother, Princess Diana's untimely death, and that he lives in fear of such a thing happening again to, well, you can guess. Take a look.
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Who do you think that is?
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He's a big tease, just like his wife. Okay, and then so the final thought of Harry is him talking about wanting to reconcile with the family that he thinks probably killed Diana, would like to see grave harm come to him and his wife, but he would love to get back in. Take a look.
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Harry, let me try to get your head on straight. Your father will not talk to you for multiple reasons, okay? One of which is you are doing to him what you and Meghan did to a 99-year-old Prince Philip when he was on his deathbed and you two went over to Oprah and screamed racism. The royal family is racist.
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Oh, and by the way, Meghan was suicidal, but the royal family said you cannot get mental help. You're doing what you did when the beloved queen was dying of bone cancer, which is an extremely painful way to go. You announced that you were writing a CD tell-all. My opinion, CD, see me, tell all about life in the royal family, airing out all the dirty laundry.
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And then your wife gave this rage-filled interview to the cut in which she said, guess what? I didn't sign an NDA. Okay, lovely. And now you are back.
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breaching what little privacy the king has which goes to his own health and his own cancer battle and you're saying i don't know how long he has left you are vile you are vile and if you don't think that when william becomes king he's going to strip you of your titles and the world will cheer that you're out of your mind now to cap this little
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Whatever off that these two are up to, let's take a look again at what Meghan Markle had to say about the state of the Sussex's relationship and their current frame of mind, current vibe on her insufferable baby.
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So they've got breathing space from the royal family that Harry is whinging and moaning that he wants back into. And also they're now in a honeymoon phase, although Harry says they are running for their lives. Which is it? It literally cannot be both. Okay, enough of those two.
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Coming up after the break, Kinsey Schofield joins me for some Met Gala gossip, disasters, and a really interesting way in to talk about Diddy. We'll be right back. I am going to talk to you about a guy named Leo Grillo. Now Leo was on a road trip and he found a Doberman. Like this dog was on the verge of death, severely underweight, clearly suffering deeply.
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But first, first, we added this to the show at the last minute because we need to discuss Prince Harry's latest interview. He sat down with the BBC. He lost a major court case in the UK. Long story short, he's like, hey, UK taxpayers, pay for my security and my wife's security and my kids' security any and every time we come to the UK.
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So Leo rescued that dog and named him Delta. Now Delta, of course, was just one of many animals that needed and need our help. And that inspired Leo to start Delta Rescue, which is the largest no kill care for life animal sanctuary in the world. They have rescued thousands of dogs, cats, and horses from the wilderness. And they provide these animals with shelter, love, safety, and a home.
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This dedication and everlasting love to animals is Leo's mission and legacy. Delta Rescue relies solely on contributions from people like us. And if you want caring for these animals to be part of your legacy, speak with your estate planner because there are tax saving estate benefits too. So you can grow your estate while letting your love for animals live well into the future.
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Check out the estate planning tab on their website and learn more. Maybe speak with an advisor because we call dogs man's best friends for a reason. Now it's our turn to help those who need it the most. So please visit DeltaRescue.org today to learn more. That's DeltaRescue.org. Hey, it's Maureen. Welcome back to The Nerve.
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So last night in New York City was the Met Gala, thrown every year by Anna Wintour on what is known as the first Monday in May, because it is the first Monday in May. And just like the DC Correspondents Dinner I told you guys about last week, it's over. Okay, it's done.
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Now, before we get into this pathetic, vulgar, disgusting display, let's set the table with some greatest hits of the past few years. And I would like to begin with one of my personal favorites. Beyonce's sister Solange beating the shit out of Jay-Z in an elevator after a Met Gala after party at what was then the Boom Boom Room at the Standard Hotel. This is amazing. Solange is just
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kicking him and throwing punches. And Jay is just standing there taking it. There's a bodyguard who's got Solange by the arms. Like he's, he's got her like wrapped up and Beyonce is just standing there, like not moving. As I said to you last week, kind of a, kind of a mute person. ineffective person. And you get the impression she has seen this before. Okay.
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Now in 2013, Gwyneth Paltrow gave an extremely candid interview. I mean, no matter how you feel about Gwyneth, this is one of those moments where we can all love her. And she said the following about her attendance at that year's Met Gala, 2013.
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I absolutely believe her because these things, the Met Gala, the DC Correspondents Dinner, the Oscars, they all look like you would die to get in, right? Trust me, once you got through those doors, you would die to get right back out. As Amy Schumer told us,
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The Shadow of Diddy Loomed Over the Met Gala, Plus Prince Harry's Performative Whining and Lying
And the court said, sorry, sir, you closed that door a long time ago. You're no longer a working royal. Leave us out of this, please. And so in a grieved Harry, and really, is there any other kind of Harry? said to the BBC, why don't you come on over and I'll give you a 10-minute sit-down. He gave them a 30-minute sit-down.
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The Shadow of Diddy Loomed Over the Met Gala, Plus Prince Harry's Performative Whining and Lying
So that was Amy Schumer being extremely candid, and I love her for it. I had the same experience at the D.C. Correspondents' Dinner last week. I left early. It was that bad, okay? So these things are over now. I just want to say a quick word about Anna Wintour, who has been governing – nay, I'm sorry. I would call her terrorist-adjacent. Now, this is a joke, and it's my opinion.
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The Shadow of Diddy Loomed Over the Met Gala, Plus Prince Harry's Performative Whining and Lying
But Anna Wintour has been running this thing – forever. Okay. And to get in, you have to have, first of all, you have to be approved by Anna to get in. You then, if you're bringing a guest, all of your guests have to be approved by Anna. Anna either dresses you or you have to run by Anna what you are wearing. Okay. So this is like She is just a dictator, okay?
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And in fact, it never made sense to me how the other three women who really had stuff going on and were interesting and smart and just, you know, knew how to get their money, they'd have nothing to do with this loser. Nothing. Okay? Anyway, of course, it's the show. It's the Sarah Jessica Parker show. And what does Charlotte do? She winds up giving Carrie the money. She gives her the ring. Okay.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
The next season, we've had zero emotional growth. Okay? In fact, I would call it a regression. Now, as her friend Miranda is struggling mightily as a new single mother while juggling her ultra demanding job as a partner in a top Manhattan law firm, she's got a sleepless infant. She barely has time to shower.
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Carrie calls her early in the morning to bitch and moan over her book review in the New York Times, which by the way, if you get a book review in the New York Times, whether it's good or bad, it's a win, okay?
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So Miranda makes the mistake of taking this call, and then she briefly falls asleep during the call because Carrie is just bitching and moaning about, does Miranda think that she's a bad writer or that she's a bad person? And what does this all mean for Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie? And Miranda finally snaps and says, you know what? Some of us have real fucking problems.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And again, that would have been a relationship-ending fight. But how does this resolve? Miranda basically apologizes for snapping at her and congratulates her on her review and goes off to work with her sad, sad corporate suit and her greasy hair because she's too exhausted to even take a shower. Okay, now to Mr. Big. Twice in this series, not once, twice.
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He is making a huge geographic move and he does not tell Carrie, okay? Early in the season, in the original show, Sex and the City, it was to Paris. Towards the end of the show, original Sex and the City, it was to California, okay? To Napa Valley, which was the moment that one of the worst puns ever was committed on this show. I will not repeat it.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
He says that most wrinkle products are nothing more than overpriced moisturizers and some might even do more harm than good. So that's why Dr. Lakey stepped away from traditional treatments and developed something completely different. And this is a simple at-home method that's getting major attention.
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Now I believe that this was the writer's room, the writers trying to tell Sarah Jessica Parker that Mr. Big was not that into her character. But again, my own theory of the case, SJP will not be denied. So this is treated as though they're going to have this last great romantic weekend together before circumstance.
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It's like Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton in Reds before they're parted by forces beyond their control. This guy can't run fast enough away from her. But the show, I think in a very sick way is determined to present this as a grand love story. And I think it's really sick. I think it's really sick. You know, Mr. Big was originally written as the ultimate toxic bachelor.
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And the show and the character, it would have been so much more interesting if they had stuck to that premise. And Carrie should have been well rid of him, I'm gonna say by season three, at the latest, okay? Now we're moving on to And Just Like That, which premieres, the first episode begins streaming tomorrow. Now, I am convinced that HBO renews this shit show because it gets eyeballs.
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It doesn't matter if it's a hate watch. I think most of us are hate watching it. Eyeballs are eyeballs, okay? The reviews are not good. They're never good. So this show has become a bunch of old women. And this is no slight against... Older women, we're all going to get there someday, but they are spiritually, philosophically, they are old.
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They are old, and they're trying to make it in a woke world, in a woke New York City. And the show...
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you know it did used to have some glamour and some levity and some you know it was sort of this aspirational watch in some ways and it's it's lost all of it all of it and by the way i have it on very good authority that sjp was furious that the third sex in the city movie never materialized because the second was such a bomb it was such a bomb
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And her plan for the third one, her and Michael Patrick King, the showrunner, was they were going to kill off Mr. Big in the third movie. So they got to do it in season one. They got to do it in season one of And Just Like That. And in comes, aside from Carrie, which again, I give her in terms of tenure, in terms of in terms of like a stubbornness in the culture, she wins, she wins.
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But a close second, like just a blink of an eye close second is Che Diaz, okay? This was the self-identified, non-binary, queer, weed smoking, obnoxious, swaggering, non-funny podcast host and comedian who doesn't do standup. Instead she does what they call comedy concerts. I have never in my life heard this phrase ever. I'm a lifelong New Yorker. I've never heard this phrase.
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His clients call it the age rewinder method because it can visibly smooth the look of wrinkles in under two minutes. Dr. Lakey describes it almost as like Photoshop for your face and says that you might be shocked at how easy it is to use. So to share this breakthrough, he's released a free video that walks you through the method step-by-step, no signups, no interruptions.
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And all of her material, all of Che's material is about how cool she is and how if you don't like her and think she's fucking awesome, it's your problem. And then we always cut to the audience and Carrie and her friends and they're all laughing hysterically. Like they're all doubled over. Like they're watching the reincarnation of George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Joan Rivers all in one. Okay.
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Now, the insufferable Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda and who ran for governor of New York not too long ago, this shows you how delusional she is. Delulu. She reportedly made it a condition of coming back for the reboot that she could do to Miranda what she did in her own life, which was leave a clearly long-suffering husband for a woman.
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Okay, now we've got a bunch of new language in In Just Like That. The new vocabulary, streaming series, pronouns, phone charger. I mean, every time like an actress says it, you're like, oh wow. Like they're like, we're really in the 21st century. We're really in the year 2020. I asked for a phone charger. I'm young, I'm young. And then a bunch of all gender bathrooms.
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They're always in like in the back prominently displayed. We've also got a bunch of new black cast members and Asian cast member. They have zero tether to the original characters. Don't call it tokenism. We're calling it woke. Now, for those of you who haven't yet seen And Just Like That, I have a real treat for you. This guy's a fellow troublemaker. I'm telling you right now.
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His name is Jimmy Fowley, and he also writes for SNL, at least according to his Instagram, which I take for Bible and verse. So during lockdown, he made these amazing parodies of Carrie Bradshaw. You know, like just parachuting her into a global pandemic and her not getting it, like her refusing to get it. Okay. And they went viral. They were hilarious.
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And he's back with a new reel for the new season of And Just Like That. And trust me when I tell you, he has SJP's ticks and tricks down. Take a look at this.
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What kills me is like the stuff he does with the hair. And like, I'm just overly made up coquette. Like, I'm like 62. I'm just a coquette. And I'm like as hip as ever. And yeah, like my career is on fire. I'm a guest on someone else.
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die i die i die for him okay um and next take a look at key parodies this was uh season one episode one of and just like that carrie is a is a third party on a podcast like she's a tryout by the way this podcast takes live calls from viewers like it's an old-timey radio show like they still don't know what they're doing um but but watch this
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I mean, I know this was talked about, again, discussed rather in Reddit threads and in viewer threads, but she had time to call 911. Like he's like dying and struggling to breathe and clearly having a heart attack. And she's just... like emoting all over the place. But that is Carrie, and that is SJP in a nutshell.
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They are too consumed with how they're coming across in any given moment, even if it's her beloved husband's death, to call for help, okay? And by the way, not long after that, Mr. Big in real life, Chris Noth, was metooed, as I think Mr. Big would have been. He was accused of rape by more than one woman, Quite the metaphor, OK?
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And this video has already gone viral with over 2.3 million views and thousands of glowing reviews. One said, I've tried everything and this is the only thing that actually worked. I look years younger. If you want to see what everyone is talking about, just go to bhmd1.com slash nerve or click the link in the description. If it works for you, Dr. Lakey has one simple request to please share it.
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Among this show's other crimes, briefly, the character assassination of Kim Cattrall's Samantha, who I believe, just my opinion, my theory, was the target of SJP's seething jealousy because Kim took what could have easily been a OneNote character. She was written as just an old school floozy. I mean, really, Samantha was a gay man in female form.
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But Kim turned her into a very nuanced, smart, sensitive, successful, multi-layered character. She was the deepest of the bunch. And so what did SJP and the writers do? But they had Samantha get breast cancer. So she had to have like a shaved head for like a good portion of the show and sweat profusely. They marred her beauty.
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And then after she recovered, Samantha had the gall to gain like five pounds, like the horror. And they make fun of it. They make fun of it on screen. And then they explained away Kim's very wise and self-protective, I think, decision to steer clear of this shit show by accusing Samantha of using Carrie for money and clout. It was always the other way around, always the other way around, okay?
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Again, Aiden is back. He was back last season for this reboot. coming back this season for more punishment. Here, eat your shit, okay? As discussed, he would never. Finally, SJP gets to kill off Mr. Big, and then as she's doing her funeral best, her funeral, I got tripped up, her funeral best, another character vocally calls her at the funeral, quote, our Jackie Kennedy.
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That is sacrilege, and I'm not fucking around. That is sacrilege. Also, Willie Garson, I think I'm saying his name right, he was the actor who played Carrie's gay BFF, Stanford, who really just doubled as her handbag. He was dying of cancer while filming season one, and I watched the scene with my jaw open. I couldn't believe what they did to him.
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This team, spearheaded by Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica Parker, do a restaurant scene, and where do they put Willie Garson? but he's sitting at the table in a chair and his back is to a swinging set of doors that lead into the kitchen. And what are those doors doing but continuously slamming into Willie Garson's back? The guy is dying of cancer. They are vile people.
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Okay, now do I know if they knew he had cancer? I don't know. I'm gonna think they did, insurance reasons alone, but regardless, it was disgusting, okay? And then finally, we are all being held hostage by Sarah Jessica Parker's refusal to let this character, who she clearly sees as her fabulous alter ego, go gently into that good night. I mean, she's got... beer goggles on for days. Okay.
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She clearly sees Carrie as beautiful, ageless, witty, glamorous, stylish, and all around great friend and girlfriend who no man, again, no man can resist. I'm here to say it is the opposite. It's all very baby Jane. It's like there is a definite subtext of just absolute
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creepiness in in the inability to see this and by the way I just want to mention this one thing Sarah Jessica Parker was on the Today Show like a month or so ago and she was asked if there was a single decision just one decision a single decision that Carrie Bradshaw made that she thought was a mistake and Sarah Jessica Parker sat there and she goes no
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No, no, I mean, I just, those are off the top of my head, okay? Finally, this brain trust gave us Che Diaz, who was introduced to us as someone who smokes in elevators, okay, human garbage, who got a minor high at Biggs' funeral, who talks in her podcast about masturbating at Yankee Stadium. That is a crime.
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Okay, homeless people get away with it in New York City, as discussed, but, you know, someone who looks middle class and, you know, at a family event, no less, okay? She performs a sex act on Miranda in Carrie's kitchen while Carrie is in the bed recovering from, like, surgery, and she's, like, peeing the bed. How far this show has fallen. It's, like, The mind reels, okay?
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And then, of course, calling herself a comic. Now, Che Diaz, the audience revolted against Che in season one. And what did Michael Patrick King do but give an interview to say that his own audience was too dumb, too bigoted to get Che? This is what he told Variety in 2002 after fans carpet bombed the internet with their repulsion.
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Michael Patrick King, quote, one of my burning passions about season two is Che. He said this after the season one finale. I want to show the dimension of Che that people didn't see for whatever reason, because they were blinded out of fear or terror. Terror? You're talking to New Yorkers who lived through 9-11, OK? Che Diaz was just a loser.
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Let's help more people feel confident in their skin. Sex and the City. Now, like, every...
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But he goes on to say, I want to show more of Che rather than less of Che. Like, comma, really?
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it's always a great move to insult your audience always a great move but you know and by the i'm gonna say his overlords at hbo clearly got the message because che is out for season three instead we're getting rosie o'donnell lyle menendez's bff and patty lupone who just gave a bonkers interview to the new yorker and i'm gonna hope to get to this with link because i know he's a recovering theater child okay
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But anyway, to wrap this up, we are going to say good riddance to bad rubbish. Here is our farewell to Che Diaz. Have we all ever been so happy to collectively see the back of a fictional character? I think not. I think not. Again, a huge catharsis. I am so glad to have gotten that off of my chest.
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It's been building up for years, and now I have you guys to talk to about it, so thank you for that. Up next, we have a bunch of celebrity updates coming your way. Like, they're coming in right now. It's crazy, okay? Back in a minute. Father's Day is coming up, and if you're eyeing another tie or a gas station gift card, what are you, a savage? Stop.
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young woman in new york city when this originally aired i watched it i watched it every sunday it was part of that hbo lineup it was like unbeatable it was sopranos night it was sex in the city there was always something else who remembers what that was um but i'm going to say that unlike most every young woman in new york city i was a hate watcher i was a hate watcher now before we get to carrie bradshaw and the actress who plays her
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Hey, and welcome to a special Wednesday edition of The Nerve. We are back after the long holiday weekend. I hope you all had a nice, relaxing break from causing trouble because we have so much stuff for you today. It's ridiculous, okay? To mark the return of the hate watch of, I believe, the decade, the sex in the city is
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Now go get him something he will actually use and love. Welcome back to The Nerve. It's book club time. You guys have been asking for like book clubs, book recommendations, things we'll talk about. And I seriously will be bringing this stuff to you guys. And, you know, we'll be talking about books in the culture, not just like self-help stuff or celebrity memoir.
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But, you know, our inaugural book, I guess like it's unofficial or informal, but it's born of necessity because the Diddy Trial is now in week three. in downtown New York right here. And once the feds submitted as evidence, this amazing book called Freezer Meat, it's actually called In Search of Freezer Meat. And it was authored by one punisher,
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Um, he is a sex worker here in New York who dresses up like a BDSM, you know, with like spikes and leather and masks, but apparently he's really just a teddy bear at heart. Um, he, he kind of is like, I don't think he had the best life. Okay. I don't think you wind up in sex work if you've had the best life, but, um,
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It's basically, it's a book trying to help other men who might be suffering from erectile dysfunction. The Cliff Notes version of it is one sentence. He says, get a penile implant. I would not take medical advice from this dude, but that's what he says. Okay. He opens his first chapter. Oh, my God. The stuff I could bookmark. Okay. The Introduction.
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Again, this is a little bit graphic, so I'm just warning you right now. Introduction is called Our Cocks, Ourselves. Why do dicks loom so large in our imagination? Well, he's going to tell you, but it's not really very poetic. And then he's got some thoughts on toxic masculinity. Now, he's also got a chapter called Chapter three. Chapter three, Unshaming Your Shaft.
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I mean, he does kind of have a bit of a way with words. I wonder if he had some help with this. Anyway, you know, what came up in trial, the reason this book is salient, is he had serviced Cassie and Diddy between like eight to 12 times, I think. And he...
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Sarah Jessica Parker. I just want to say that I think this show has done an enormous amount of damage to generations of young girls and women, okay? And not just because of the toxic romantic relationship that was at the center of this entire six season run and that was framed as like the love story of the ages. It was really quite a sick relationship and we'll get into that.
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Part of his testimony was, I mean, it's all very on theme, on brand, like he couldn't perform because getting directed by Diddy, he felt he found it really uncomfortable. And there's the feds say that Cassie and Diddy are disguised in this book. They're here. And I think I found where they are. And, you know, there are too many people in this room.
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Like they show up, if they are the couple in this book, in this portion of the book, Diddy and Cassie show up and Diddy's like, I'm gonna pay you a lot of money to watch you have sex with, in the book, he says his wife. I think it's Cassie. And the Punisher has two male friends there from childhood. And he's like, oh, I'm so sorry. They're just about to leave.
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And Diddy's like, again, if it's Diddy, if it's Diddy. He's like, no, the more the merrier. So now the Punisher's all fucked up in the head because he doesn't want to have sex in front of his two childhood friends. Who would?
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so anyway the punisher describes this phenomenon as basically cuckolding which is when a man who can't perform gets his jollies by watching another man perform with his girlfriend or wife and he's basically telling us that john combs is impotent and of course because like as
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others have been testifying and as the entire hip-hop community has known forever sean combs is allegedly a gay man you know so it all makes sense okay next up i saw this over the weekend and i freak i was so infuriated and i know you guys will share this with me
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So, you know, on the mini-nerve that dropped over the weekend, Bill from Brooklyn and I talked about Caitlin Clark and all the shit she's catching in the WNBA and how the league refuses to stand up for her. Watch Brittany Griner. Brittany Griner, courtside. See, you can read her lips very clearly, and I don't think it's an accident. See what she says about Caitlin Clark.
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Brittany Griner, who this country... pushed up to the top of like the organ donation list. Okay. She was, she was arrested in Russia because she smuggled weed in like an idiot. Like she smuggled weed in and she got arrested. And you know, Paul Whelan had been sitting in a, in a Russian prison for like 15 years, but who gets to the top of the list of get her the fuck out? Brittany Griner.
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And you want to know why? Because she's let's just say it for what it is, she's a black lesbian basketball player, okay? She sits there and she has the temerity to call Caitlin Clarke a quote, trash fucking white girl. You would think that she would have a little more humility for this country and what was done for her and the hero's welcome she got.
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You know, her getting out meant somebody else didn't get out. She's a piece of shit. I'm just saying it. She's a piece of shit. And the WNBA should be ashamed of itself. If that was a white player calling a black player a racial epithet, they'd be let go. They would lose all of their sponsorships. Who are we kidding? Meanwhile, over at the French Open, it's tennis time. I love tennis.
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And Rafa Nadal, one of the absolute greats of the sport, one of the absolute just living legends. It was his farewell, his send-off. These are always very emotional for these guys. And you know who showed up? Look at this. Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray.
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the big three and rafa makes four i mean when they say the big three it's usually rafa federer and djokovic but you know andy murray is there too but look at this collegiality and look at this respect you know tennis is a sport one of the reasons i love it is because they prize sportsmanship so greatly and when you see something like that you know four guys in the world who know what it's like
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And they bond over it rather than like call each other names and trash talk and shit talk and try to injure them on purpose so their career will be over. You know, it gives one hope. You know, the WNBA could take some notes. Just saying. Okay, some quick hits. David Duchovny. 64 years old.
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It was announced this weekend he married a 31-year-old woman he met while she was working at his favorite, like, juicery, which I didn't know was a word now. But anyway, she was working at his favorite juicery. He married her. Okay, great. Good for you. I think she's probably the same age as his daughter. Okay. Justin Bieber.
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But I cannot tell you, especially working in media, how many young female transplants to New York City I would meet over the years. I would be embarrassed for them overhearing these conversations. This was back when people really went into offices. Like overhearing these conversations in which they would, without a shred of irony, without so much as a wink,
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We learned this week that the most hurtful insult he could hurl at his wife, Hailey Bieber, You'll never make the cover of Vogue. Again, Edward Albee levels of arguing, of ranketuring. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf up there? Okay. Meghan Markle, we learned this week, had... talked herself right out of a Vogue cover, an American Vogue cover, no less, which is the most coveted of all.
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You know, it was reported on page six this week, I also ripped it out for you, that she made so many crazy demands. Oh, this was even... Edward Enefel, this was for British Vogue, sorry, not American Vogue. It was British Vogue. She gave them so many demands, which was basically, I want to control everything. I want to select the cover image. I want to select all the photos inside.
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sequel, reboot, whatever you want to call it, and just like that, which premieres tomorrow night, we're going to discuss at length my... I'm actually just going to offer a ton of evidence as to my position that Carrie Bradshaw is the worst. She is the worst character, male, female, non-binary, gender fluid, ever committed to the screen.
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I want to approve all of the copy. I want to approve, like, you don't get it. Nobody gets that. Nobody, you know, first ladies have sat for Vogue. They don't get it. either but megan ever as ever snatching defeat from the jaws of victory she also sat for a profile with fast company now i get that these outlets just want clicks you know i guess at any cost but is it really worth it
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She sat with Fast Company and she gives this bullshit interview about her podcast, which is not doing well. She talks about the Fast Company piece says she has had more than 800,000 downloads since its April launch. You know what else launched in April? The Nerve. And over the weekend, we passed 10 million views. I mean, but Meghan Markle rates a profile in Fast Company. I mean, get out of here.
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Okay, anyway, she said that... When Archie woke up to tell her that the Tooth Fairy had left, she makes sure she knows. She makes sure that we know that it was Megan herself who put the money under Archie's pillow, not the help. Okay. He woke her up to tell her what had happened at two in the morning. What kid wakes up at two in the morning? For the Tooth Fairy, nobody does.
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You know, you're getting like five bucks tops, not a lot of money. I had a lot of business meetings the next morning, Megan says, but I still... I still chose to cuddle with him the rest of the night. Those mom moments energize me to be a better founder, a better employer, a better boss. Okay, okay, sure. That's why people have fled in tears from your employee, okay?
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She goes on to say she may or may not be replenishing her as ever supply of foodstuffs. that have sold out. She goes on to say that she may or may not be doing a season two of her podcast. I'm going to guess Lemonade is going to make that decision for her, and it's going to be a no. The finale was Tuesday. Nobody cared. Nobody cares.
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If I had to write a resume, Megan says, I don't know what I would call myself. I know what I would call you, a failure.
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all right and in that vein j-lo's performance at the american music awards more colloquially known as the amas i didn't even know this thing was back the last time it aired i think was 2002. here she is making out with every dancer on stage male female again non-binary whatever she's making out with everybody and this is the mark of a and now she's like wrapping her legs around like
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This is when you know a career is in its death rattle, okay? She's nearly 60, you guys. This is not dignified. And I get rock and roll is its own thing, but she's not really rock and roll. She's always been an auto-tuned, at best, my opinion, vocals rumored to have been done by others lo these many years. She's not a singer. This is not... This was painful, this was painful.
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be talking quite seriously about whether they were a Carrie or they were a Samantha or a Miranda. I mean, nobody ever wanted to be a Charlotte. And they all thought it was really cute. It was like, aren't I just so whimsical? I spend my meager salary because working in media, especially when you are starting out, you are like poverty level paycheck.
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And it's why I'm only devoting like a tiny blip to it because it's not even worth talking about. Okay, coming up, another troublemaker and frankly, a sense maker, okay? It's MK Media's one and only Link Lauren, who will be joining me. And I cannot wait, I have so much to get into with him. But in the meantime, just another friendly reminder, you know how much I love getting your emails.
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We are back with the one and only Link Loren. He is the host of the new show, Spot On. He is my fellow MK Media troublemaker, deliverer of all things scandalous and unintentionally hilarious. And he is joining us to talk. We've got a laundry list I'm dying to get to you about. So thank you, Link, for coming on.
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Oh my God, are you kidding? I was listening to your show this morning and dying, dying laughing. You are so funny. Thank you. And congrats on your show as well. And also for the wonderful job you did, how right you did by We Astronauts in reporting during Blonde Origin. Can I just say...
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So they would blow what little money they had on like designer shoes. And I knew more than one.
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Well, Link, it was a heroic effort. And, you know, it was not as heroic as going into space with extensions and false eyelashes and keeping that shit tight. But it was a close second, okay? Yes. Now, the first thing I want to talk to you about is this amazing footage of Emmanuel Macron getting face shoved by his wife. Like they're about to deplane.
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And it's like, you couldn't direct this as like a feature better. The framing, the staging, the arm, like the disembodied arm just coming out of like the left and pushing him back. And he's like, he doesn't even realize people are watching. And then he realizes people are watching and he tries to recover his dignity. We're doing it in slow-mo now. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay.
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And now, of course, the statement, the official statement is they were bickering. No, they were joking. It's just, you know, a little marital spat. Give me your thoughts, please.
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who would store them in the oven and think it was cute that they were using their oven to store shoes rather than to cook meals that would save them a ton of money instead of going out and spending a ton of money eating at restaurants or buying Cosmopolitans, which was the drink that that show popularized. And those things are like diabetes in a glass. Just saying.
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Well, imagine how comfortable she is doing that to him.
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She did it in front of people. That is not, I would venture to guess, just my opinion, the first time that that has happened.
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Well, you know, Link, the thing that always surprises me, and I think should be mentioned every time they are discussed, is that she is, I believe I am protected in saying this, but in my opinion, she's a pedophile. She was a 40-year-old teacher married with three children, one of whom was one of Emmanuel Macron's classmates. He was 15. Mm-hmm. And she began, they say, a relationship, an affair.
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This is abuse. That is abuse. And this is not, there is no way this is a healthy relationship. It has never been a healthy relationship. She is a child abuser. And everybody says it, if it were any other country but France, people would be horrified.
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I would... I couldn't agree with you more. I couldn't agree with you more. Now, Kamala Harris spoke at an Australian real estate conference on Sunday. And by the way, I heard from our listeners and viewers in Australia going like, do you guys know about this in the States? Because we're all like over here agog. Like, this was your vice, this was who they were running for president.
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So I don't know what kind of paycheck she took. I don't know what her expertise in real estate is, frankly. These tickets to attend were between $600 and $1,600 approximately. Wow. Also speaking there was one Mauricio... If you know, you know Maurice Umansky from The Real Housewives, right? You know, of Beverly Hills. Okay, so now at least he's a realtor, okay?
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He may have stolen Rick Hilton's client base, allegedly, but at least he's a realtor. So Kamala says, among the other words salad, I think that one must be humble, but to aspire to be humble would be quite inauthentic if one understands that just, I mean, there's so much that is magnificent and awe-inspiring about this world and its people. Oh my God. Oh my God. Nothing has gotten better. Nothing.
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Link, you have worked in politics. What would you say to a patient like this who appears to me to be terminal?
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I know personally at least one woman young woman, maybe early thirties, who bankrupted herself trying to keep up with these sophisticates that she was trying to run with. Okay. This show was in many ways a cancer and the malignant tumor that cannot and will not be excised is one Carrie Bradshaw. There are entire Reddit threads devoted to Carrie and her singular brand of awfulness.
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Right. I mean, I also think the takeaway is she just doesn't want to do the work. She's lazy. The stories have always been she doesn't read the briefing books and then she throws them at her staff because she doesn't have the answers.
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It must be a pretty, pretty powerful liver because, you know, she's just rocking and rolling all over the free world. Now, I want to talk to you. There were two pieces this week that I loved. One in the New York Times. This was a very, very lengthy weekend piece about the Democrats trying to figure out
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what's going wrong in their party and how they've lost the working class while the New York Post reports that they are doing so while convening in five-star venues and flying private. Link, diagnose, please.
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Yes, and the thing that Bill Clinton had too was he could talk to the average American voter, the average working man. He related, I feel your pain. I feel your pain. Four simple words. I'm gonna get to Hillary in one quick second, but I saw this and I thought there was nobody better than you to speak to about this.
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So I don't know if you saw the New York Times front page on Saturday, but you know, there was this horrific assassination of a Jewish couple, a young Jewish couple,
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he was he was about to propose to her to be married and um they were shot by a pro-palestinian pro-hamas anti-semitic in my opinion uh nut job okay so these the the slain couple you're on leshinsky 30 and sarah milgram 26 working for peace look that the new york times headline i you not reads attack complicates pro-palestinian movement
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not murder, assassination of two Jewish people working for peace. This complicates the pro-Palestinian movement. They're not even mentioned by name until paragraph three. Link, again, please help me make sense of this.
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Yeah, it all, you know, you think the Times would have learned from their refusal to really cover the Holocaust for a very long time. And we're seeing history repeat itself over and again, legacy media wonders why it's in its death throes. That is exhibit A.
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They don't. I think that they are ruled by their newsroom, and it's not the other way around. They don't have control of their newsroom. Frankly, you know, it's crazy to me that because these people are such true believers and compare Trump to Hitler, but they're pro-Hamas. I don't understand it. I don't understand it.
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The lying, the unrepentant cheating, the malignant narcissism. I use malignant twice, but there you go. The shallowness, the superficiality, the squealing, the squealing. It's like Sarah Jessica Parker must think this is an adorable trait in a middle-aged now senior woman.
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I truly, it is an intellectual moral rot that will be studied for decades to come. Okay, Hillary Clinton... who she keeps giving speeches and talking and like going on media, doing media hits. And like, I don't understand why she's so irrelevant. She's so irrelevant. And again, you want to look at someone to blame for Donald Trump. Look at Hillary Clinton. She got you here. Okay.
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But the left still props are up. What advice do you have the first female president of the United States?
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eliminates every woman on the other side of the aisle says the woman who according to all reports was an enthusiastic part of the so-called nuts and sluts campaign to discredit every woman who bill clinton either had an affair with or who came forward and said he sexually assaulted me or harassed me or in the case of juanita broderick he raped me a claim i have always believed who went all in
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in trying to dismantle the life and reputation of Monica Lewinsky. Her husband, I'm sorry, was an enthusiastic and willing partner in that. I will not ever take advice on feminism, let alone be castigated as someone who is a slave to the patriarchy by Hillary freaking Clinton.
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Tell me your thoughts on Monica Lewinsky.
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Yeah, no, I get that completely. And I don't disagree with anything you just said. I think where my sympathy for her comes in is she was kind of used as like a Trojan horse just to impeach him. And I can't imagine what it would be like at that very tender age to,
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all of it adds up to who i believe is the most insufferable character ever save a new one they brought in and we're gonna memorialize that character in a moment but really in terms of you're talking tenure you're talking length of time on screens in the culture carrie bradshaw the most insufferable character ever to be foul premium cable and now streaming
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have your sex life, like every encounter you had with him, detailed in the pages of the New York Times, you know, the Star Report was such a salacious piece of, you know, kind of start that whole thing.
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Linda Tripp, that whole thing, you know, and she said at the time she was suicidal and I believe it, you know, I don't know how you, you know, if this had happened during social media, I don't, every major late night talk show host was making fun of of her, of Monica Lewinsky, and not Bill. Like Bill was like, you know, the stud. He was the swordsman, the coxswain, whatever.
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Where I do have a problem now is she's in the podcast lane. And she's got this podcast called Reclaiming and you hear the ads and it's like, I'm reclaiming what happened to me. It's like, it was 30 years ago. I think you need a new way into the culture if you want to remain in the public eye, which I think she enjoys. Right.
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Agreed. I actually think you're dead on with that. You have changed my thinking. Yes, you're right. She would have been, you know, like a Lizzo of the political world, right?
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I know it was such a simpler time than Link though, you know, and she was lonely and, but you're so right about Linda Tripp. I would have ID'd her too as nothing but trouble. That is a woman who is seething with rage over many things.
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Speaking of women who are seething with rage, especially on the left, I cannot get enough of this clip, and we're going to play it. And I know you talked about it, but I need to talk about it with you. Okay? I need to have a catharsis with you, Link Lauren.
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Michelle Obama on Amy Poehler's podcast expressing absolute wonderment and rage as to why her daughters will not listen to her.
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First of all, Amy Poehler sitting there laughing at everything this woman is saying, which I find horrifying. Like, I'm Michelle Obama, which she says more than once. Okay, lady, you're Michelle Obama. You know, your kids don't want to listen to you. It's kind of a normal dynamic.
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And by the way, if you talk behind closed doors, anything like the way you speak in public on podcasts, I'd run the other way too.
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I'm going to lay it out to you like I'm a prosecutor because I like to prosecute things. In my mind, I'm a prosecutor. Okay. I believe that Carrie's true horrific nature really comes to the surface in season four. And this is after she begs and nags and harangues Aiden, you know, the furniture maker, the guy who makes things with his hands. He's a good, honest, simple guy.
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Yes.
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What are these girls doing? Like, you're so right about that. Every time I see them...
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I think everything you're saying is dead on. It's not mean, it's true. Like if you, Michelle Obama, are going to tell me that I should spend my money and my free time buying your bullshit, it better be worth something. And I'm sorry, but you're right. Those two girls are not huge successes and there's no shortage of people who would have helped them get there.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
You know, Malia, we covered this on The Nerve like a week or so ago, but she's been accused by a filmmaker of plagiarizing this Nike ad that she did. Now, other... viewers, listeners of The Nerve pointed out to me that was actually probably a copy of The Color Purple, a movie I've never seen. It's a hole in my pop culture knowledge. I apologize.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
But that is to say that, you know, she had these internships Malia did with like Lena Dunham and Donald Glover and Harvey Weinstein, who, again, you cannot tell me the Obamas had not heard about. If I heard about Harvey, they heard about Harvey. Okay? Right. And you know, and you can't tell me she can't get a meeting with Ted Sarandos. I mean, Netflix is giving the Obamas what? 120 million bucks?
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Exactly. For their higher ground productions and nobody watches, nobody watches this shit. And yet Michelle Obama sits there like she's on a throne, like on a throne. And we should all be listening to her. And like Kamala Harris, she's got nothing to say. What does she have to say except gripe about her life?
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Yeah, 100%. You're so right. I mean, those kids that I knew back in my college days and my early working days, most of them, not all, but most of them lacked a work ethic. And the one who I knew and was friends with who had a work ethic and had a shit ton of talent went by a fake name.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And then when we all found out that he was the scion of this extremely wealthy, powerful family, I didn't even believe it. I was like, that's not true. But you know what I mean? So I think there's this inverse relationship often.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
He just wants to get married, have some kids and just, you know, order KFC. That's it. She cheated on Aiden relentlessly, okay? And she lost his dog while doing so. Shades, by the way, of JFK Jr., who got Daryl Hannah's dog killed when he took that dog out for a walk and got distracted with his own bullshit. It's in the book. Ask not. Anyway.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And I think you're 100% right. And so in honor of your... You know, I know you refer to yourself as a recovering theater kid. I do. Patti LuPone gave this bonkers interview to The New Yorker. And basically, she says that, you know, she's going to be on the new season of In Just Like That. I don't know if you have thoughts on that, but I want to hear.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
This image is just... It is, she's crazy. And she says, basically, this is how people used to talk about my mom, who could be a very difficult person. Oh, that's just Patty. That's people throwing their hands up. They're not even gonna fucking deal with you, okay? She says, so she tells this story. She tells many stories.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
She talks a lot of shit, but she brings up, she's like this big hockey fanatic. She goes to New York Rangers games all the time. And there's a former New York Ranger named Ron Duguay, who this writer calls a curly-haired Adonis, Ron DeGay. I always thought Henrik Lundqvist was the best-looking hockey player ever. But anyway, and there were rumors that they were dating, he and Patty, at one point.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And she says, no, they were never dating. And he's now dating Sarah Palin. And she says in this interview, Patti LuPone, they're perfect for each other. They're two of the stupidest human beings on the face of the earth. Then she paused, open quote. How do you say stupid without saying stupid? He's a box of bricks. What does this New Yorker reporter do?
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
He feels the need to go to Ron Duguay and say, hey, Patti LuPone said you're dumber than a box of bricks. Do you have a response to that? Do you? And Ron Duguay goes, wow, that's hurtful. Like, correct. And then he says, I can't imagine living my life being so hateful that way.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Well, for the record, Patty maintains that she did not ever date Ron Duguay. She does come across like a dipsomaniac who's constantly in search of sherry, which I defy you. Do you know anybody who drinks sherry? Who drinks sherry? But to your point, yes. Give me your and just like that predictions because I've hate watched both seasons. We are now freed from the shackles of one Che Diaz.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Yeah.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
I mean, he was accused of rape. He's not been prosecuted, just saying.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
You know, let the mouse go. Sutton's track. But I will say this. We just did a whole thing at the top of the show on Sex and the City and Just Like That and Carrie Bradshaw as one of the worst characters ever committed to premium cable, now streaming. And I do think, you know, they had to kill Mr. Big because they had nowhere else to go with her story.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
So, but Aiden does get back with her, again, because in Sex and the City World, a show which I believe Sarah Jessica Parker has been the executive producer on lo these many years, no man, no man can resist Carrie slash SJP. Lose the dog. Cheat. Lie. Lie about smoking. Lie about being back with your toxic ex. Humiliate the guy all over town. He's going to take you back.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And I always thought the Mr. Big thing was a toxic relationship front to back. He would be married by now to a 22-year-old influencer, okay? Yeah. Not Carrie Bradshaw. And what was the other thing? He'd be married to me. He'd be married to you. Yeah, no, I mean, I just think you're so right.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
The whole thing about like they'd be rolling around town with like this multicultural cohort and Charlotte's kid would be a trans or non-binary.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
I don't think so. But Link, do you subscribe to the theory that Mr. Big could have had a shot if Carrie had just called 911 instead of emoting all over the place when she found him on the floor of the bathroom?
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
It's a mess and I will be watching as soon as it drops on HBO Max tomorrow night. Will you?
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
I agree with you. Well, we'll circle back after you've watched and discuss.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Oh, my God. You love an emotionally unavailable man. That used to be my type all the time.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, I'm so grateful that you have come on the show and I would love to discuss further the all of this stuff, the actual people, the I am Michelle Obama's next major utterance, which is going to be one for the ages, I'm sure. And, you know, the new season just like that.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Link. That is it for today, but we will see you all back here on Friday at the nerve where you will never guess what we're about to say next.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
He's going to take you back. And then when he finally does take her back and invites her to spend summer weekends at his cabin upstate, does Carrie have the money for a second residence, rented or owned, to summer? She does not. But she goes upstate to his cabin, and all she does, all she does is bitch and moan that it is not the Four Seasons.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Okay, a raccoon winds up in the window and she squeals and shrieks and she's dropping things and she's slamming pots and pans and she can't take it. And then she invites Mr. Big, the guy, the titan, the hedge funder, who she was cheating on Aiden with, she invites him up to the cabin without telling Aiden. So he's got to stand there and greet the guy who cuckolded him all those many years, okay?
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Next, we have a bunch of celebrity news and scandal, of course, what we at The Nerve call real talk about fake people. And MK Media's own Link Lauren will be joining us to talk news, politics, and culture as only he can. Also, you guys, it arrived. freezer meat by the Punisher, a key witness in the Diddy trial. We'll be talking about that. I read it for you, okay? It didn't take very long.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And then when they finally have like a fist fight, like a rolling on the ground fist fight, because of course these two strapping, gorgeous, handsome men would be fighting it out over this loser, you know, this spoiled, shallow, insecure, just asshole, you know, but they're fighting over Carrie because they're really fighting over Sarah Jessica Parker. Just my opinion. Okay.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Now for the other gaping hole in this, what passes for this show's logic, um, Um, Mr. Big would have had at best a couple of one night stands with Carrie Bradshaw and then been done with her. He would have been dating a 22 year old supermodel. Okay. Now sex in the city originally aired before Instagram, before there was such a thing as influencers, but that's, we're in that world now.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And that's exactly who a hedge fund Titan like Mr. Big would be with. He would be on his fourth wife by now. He would probably be having his fifth kid just to placate the young wife. He would have a ton of other kids from affairs or marriages with various other women. And he would be outed on page six as like a complete Lothario, if not Me Too'd. Okay, I think Mr. Big would have been Me Too'd.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
If I were in that writer's room, I mean, I could come up with a million different scenarios that are far more fascinating than the extremely unlikely event that Mr. Big marries an age-appropriate woman. Okay, who just cannot really keep up her end of the conversation. She can't. She only ever talks about herself. Have you noticed this? It's excruciating. Okay, episode 12, season four.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Carrie accepts Aiden's marriage proposal. even though she's not in love with him, okay? She's still in love with Mr. Big, the guy who has made it known throughout the show's entire existence, if you look at it through a logical lens, that he's just not that into her.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
So by episode 16 of this season, she has broken Aiden's heart yet again, just humiliated and destroyed this guy who was building their life together on his well-earned dime. But you know, he'll come back again in the reboot. He will come back because again, no man can resist Carrie slash SJP. And when they break up, she is shocked, Carrie, shocked that Aiden has the gall to demand
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
that she pay him back, the money that he spent buying her apartment for the two of them, okay? Money she doesn't have because like one of her friends did the math for her and explained to her, oh, you spent $40,000 on shoes, literally. That's why you don't have the down payment. Shoes, like cars, they're a depreciating asset. The minute you wear them, you can't return them.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Okay, so what does Carrie do? And again, this goes to my argument that this show really was poison for generations of girls and women. So this idiot, and I'm sorry, you cannot make it in New York if you're this stupid. You can't. You could live in an outer borough. Like this version of Carrie, she could live in Queens, you know, but Manhattan, no, no, no, no. She goes to a bank. She's this stupid.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
She thinks it's cute. Does she think it's cute? The bank manager or whoever she's talking to, the associate, says to her, you know what? Here's what you've got in the bank. Less than $2,000. Checking and savings combined. Do you have a 401k? No, I doubt she even knows what a 401k is. Does she have any kind of assets? Any kind of... real estate, stocks, bonds, anything at all.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Carrie says, no, but I was named New York's best columnist over Pete Hamill. And this is another thing she does that drives me crazy. It's a Carrie thing. It's an SJP thing. She talks in a baby voice. And when shit gets real, She defaults to the baby voice because she thinks it makes her sound cute, I guess. And like people would want to feel protective of her.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And actually, it just makes you want to jump into the screen and throttle her neck with your bare hands. OK, so then she's denied. And by the way, when she knows this denial is coming, she takes a look at the bank teller, the bank person's hand. It's a woman. And she notices she's not wearing a wedding ring.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
And she goes, you know, I'm sure you know, as a single woman, it's really hard to, you know. Fuck off. Okay, fuck off. So then we cut back to Carrie in her apartment. And even though she's been told she's probably going to be homeless, she can't get a bank loan. She's got nowhere to go with this.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
misery of her own making, she's writing her stupid column, her shitty fucking column, which always had, like, the worst puns. And it always began with, I couldn't help but wonder. I seriously think in that writer's room at HBO when they were talking about this reboot, I couldn't help but wonder was probably a potential working title. I couldn't help but wonder.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
When you're 35 years old, you should have moved on from such... Banalities, okay. So she begins this column. I'm quoting from this column. This is the voiceover. Here I was.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
It's like written at like a second grade level with, though it's very explicit. So, you know, okay. Anyway, as that female flounder, Meghan Markle would say, let's go, let's go. We've heard it all before that wrinkle creams are the secret to looking younger, but according to Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon, Dr. John Lakey, that is not the case.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
35 year old single woman with no financial security but many life experiences behind me did that mean nothing yeah in terms of qualifying for a mortgage that's a big yeah you entitled continuing on carrie writing her column after all heartbreak and breakups are the hardest kind of work so shouldn't there be some sort of credit for enduring them
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
no no that's just life that's just life that's what all of us go through okay so in that same episode carrie then self-righteously marches herself over to her friend charlotte's apartment Charlotte, who is going through an excruciating divorce and who in that divorce has been fairly given, I mean, it's justice for Charlotte.
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Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
She got this great, like classic Park Avenue, classic six, what they call them on Park Avenue. They're incredibly valuable and beautiful apartments. And she's infuriated that Charlotte, who is equally heartbroken, but Carrie can't see that. Charlotte's got money and Carrie needs money. And Charlotte's going to give Carrie $40,000 for her down payment. She's rich. What's the fucking problem? Okay.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
Watch this clip. This is when I completely was lost to the character of Carrie Bradshaw forever.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sex and the City Poisoned a Generation of Women, Michelle Obama's Ego, and Hillary's Phony Feminism
I just want to say that Charlotte owes Carrie zero explanation about anything, especially the solace she's taking in wearing her beautiful engagement ring. And that, you know, if this were the real world, if this were the real world, Charlotte, that would have been a friendship-ending fight. That would have been a friendship-ending fight.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Bill Maher Uses Diddy to Blame the Victims, "And Just Like That" Premiere Flop, and Frenemy Tactics
It was incredible when we did Big Little Lies, how we would sit around all the women and talk about each one of us had very specific experiences. There was a range of experiences, but there wasn't a woman there that hadn't been affected by abuse. Not one of those women. And it's why we decided to make this show.
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Bill Maher Uses Diddy to Blame the Victims, "And Just Like That" Premiere Flop, and Frenemy Tactics
And I'm hard-pressed to find any group of women where you can't say, it happened to my sister, it happened to my mom, I saw this.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
So when he breaks through on Justified, great show, Boyd Crowder, one of the greatest antiheroes of all time, he's got really bad teeth. He still can't afford good teeth. He's basically wearing the equivalent of dentures. It's like an overbite. It's like obvious they're fake teeth, but they're not good fake teeth.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Now, in the wake of the White Lotus or in the run-up to the White Lotus, I was looking very closely and he's had his teeth done again. And they look a lot better. They're not perfect, but they look a lot more like they fit his face, like they fit inside his mouth. Is anybody making fun of Walt Goggins' teeth? Anyone at all? Because I don't see it happening.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Instead, he's being held up as a new sex symbol and the guy will not exit stage left. I think this guy... is a real piece of shit. And, you know, sir, you get what you give. And I think karma is going to come hard for you. I really, really do. Oh, and before I forget. So this guy, again, humble beginnings finally catches the break of a lifetime in the HBO show.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Gail, to you I say, I too have now added astronaut to my resume. You may feel free to call me directly if you're feeling lonely or DM me if you want to talk about the rigors of becoming such a legend in your own time.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Every actor would sell an organ to be on. Trust me. this is what's going on in hollywood right now mike white calls you pick up and you say where am i going for how long if i have to like miss a major life event no prob so walt goggins sits with the new york times to talk about his favorite things you guys are going to die okay die one of my favorite things drinking wine by the fireplace
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
You may have seen this fireplace in the Architectural Digest Instagram reel in which Walt gives a tour of his house in upstate New York. He says, this fireplace is 100 years old and the centerpiece of this living room that is hosted Edna St. Vincent Millay. I'm jumping out of this plane right now.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Um, my, I've never even heard of this and trust me, like I read a lot and I like nice things too, but I've never heard of this. My Bezzera BZ10 espresso machine. Uh, okay. Whatever. The Corner by Luzberg. Who is this person? I don't know. Okay. A used pair of APC jeans. For those of you who might not know, it's a French label.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And in France, they consider APC the equivalent of the Gap, which is such a joke because at the Gap, you can get a pair of good denim jeans for like 30 bucks. At APC, cost of entry for a pair of jeans is like $300. Okay. I just can't seem to penetrate. What kind of word is this? Penetrate loose-fitting jeans in the year 2025? What are you talking about? I don't understand.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
These APCs are a raw denim pair that they've sold for a very long time. The trick is you never wash them. That is disgusting. Wash your jeans. You go in the ocean with them and they turn into the perfect color. Have you ever tried swimming in denim jeans? You're going to sink to the bottom of the ocean like Virginia Woolf, okay? Committing suicide.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Office Scene, again, another label I've never heard of, and I have a shopping problem. So again, I'm just saying, not that I'm the arbiter, but I kind of am. Office Scene Creative Loafers, that's O-F-F-I-C-I-N-E. As one gets older, Walt tells us, you begin to see really who you are and who it is that you want to emulate and how you want to move through the world.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I guess that means you like to tease an alleged ex about her most tender, raw, soft spot online, kind sir. And I had this image of Gianni Agnelli in my head, okay? How many people in America really are looking at Gianni, even know who Gianni Agnelli is? I love Italy. Now we're off into like another thought. I don't know. I mean, Gianni Agnelli was Italian, but whatever. I love Italy.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And I also would just like to say that in my roughly 30 minutes of intense training to take this little joy ride, I learned a very interesting fact that I had not known before, that there are only 600 and maybe 63 astronauts in the scope of human history. And 23,000 people out of a planet of 7 billion have taken a joyride to achieve weightlessness.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I love that sundowner style with a Campari spritz at five and a little apricot. Patera V, whatever, a black Dior classic suit. One piece of advice that my father gave me is again, we grew up in real profound poverty. According to him, I would rather have one shirt that costs $250 than five shirts that cost $50. Not everybody has that luxury, okay? People have to go to work.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
They have to show up in more than one shirt. It's about quality, he tells us, and saving your money and being patient. A cast iron skillet and fryer. I also perfected french fries, he tells us. He's a regular Meghan Markle, who we're going to come to later. I'm going to spare you that recipe. My brass cocktail shaker.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Walt, I have a cocktail or a glass of wine every night transitioning, word of the decade, transitioning from work to my civilian life. That spring-summer cocktail is a different kind of joy. For that, you use citrus more often than not. Citrus, by the way, he tells us has to be shaken, not stirred.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Kimberlyn Brown Jewelry, my wife and I, he tells us, we'll see for how much longer, buy jewelry sparingly, things that we feel are classic and transcend style. We came across this woman's jewelry at a shop down in Soho, which if you've been to Soho in New York City recently, it's like millionaire's row. Okay.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
You cannot buy something in Soho for less than like $500, like a single item, especially jewelry. I became obsessed with it. Each one feels like an heirloom, like something you can pass down to generations to wear, like a Patek Philippe, however you say that. My super 73 electric bikes, last and not least.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
One of the most enjoyable things in my life is driving down dirt roads in the summer and fall with my son. I grew up riding motorcycles, but I wasn't really able to introduce that to my son-in-law. I think his son is like 10. Why is your kid riding motorcycles? Have we all not seen Pax Jolie, son of Angelina and Brad, riding around on like his motorbike?
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I think he's gotten into three major crashes and the kid doesn't even wear a helmet. Can your son just not ride a bicycle like every other 10 year old in suburbia? No, he's Walt Goggins' son. He's got to be cool. He's got to be on a motorcycle. I thought this was something that we could share together, Walt says, and teach him how to ride responsibly. I'll never forget that first day we went out.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
It was the first fancy word coming. He's smart. He's an actor, but he's smart. It was the first time that he was truly autonomous as a human being, as opposed to what? A household pet? A plant? He is a human being. You birthed him. Whatever. You sired him. Your wife birthed him. Anyway, That's enough of Walton Goggins. I hope never to revisit this guy again.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Okay, next up, we are going to talk Maria Shriver's new self-help book of poetry and Jack Schlossberg's bold stance on boycotting the Met Gala. I think you might know what my theory about that is. We will see you in a few. I'm going to tell you a story about a guy named Leo Grillo. A hero, really.
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While on a road trip, Leo came across a Doberman that was severely underweight, clearly in pain and struggling. So Leo rescued that Doberman and named him Delta. You know where this is going. Delta was just one of many animals that needed help, which inspired Leo to start Delta Rescue, the largest no-kill care for life animal sanctuary in the world.
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They've rescued thousands of dogs, cats, and horses from the wilderness, and they provide their animals with shelter, love, safety, and a home. This dedication and everlasting love to animals is Leo's mission and legacy. And Delta Rescue relies solely on contributions from people like us who love animals and want only for them to have the absolute best.
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Check out the estate planning tab on their website to learn more and speak with an advisor. We call a dog our best friends for a reason. You can help those who need it the most. So please, visit DeltaRescue.org today to learn more. That's DeltaRescue.org. Welcome back to The Nerve. We are going to get into Caroline Kennedy's son, Jack, in a few moments.
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So Gail, let me put it in parlance you might understand. I see you. I acknowledge you. I celebrate your greatness and I stand in your truth. Truly, I salute you. You have it all coming, every single bit.
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But first, I need to talk to you guys about Maria Shriver. I need to really just vent because I think a lot of us are feeling the same feelings and we may not be able to put names to them, but together we're going to get through it. So Maria Shriver, you may have seen her on our little media tour. She has a new book out, which I finally bought.
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I was having trouble bringing myself to put money in her pocket, but, you know, it's for a greater good. Okay, so this is the book. It's called I Am Maria. Maria Shriver, number one New York Times bestselling author. And in fact, to my great dismay, I saw in this weekend's book review, it has debuted at number one on the New York Times list. And that was the inciting event.
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I said, I've got to talk to you guys about this, and we've got to take it apart. So, you know, Maria Shriver... I'm gonna give you my blanket objections to her, and then we can go in and really dig in piece by piece. Maria Shriver has newly reinvented herself, I'm gonna say over the past decade, as a real Christian woman of faith.
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whose difficulties in life now have imbued her with so much wisdom and experience that her job is now to teach all of us how to become better people and really self-actualized. Again, whatever that means, but this is the garbage language that we are infected with in this current culture. Maria Shriver, and this loops into this new book,
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Her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the mega movie star of the 80s, there was nobody bigger, maybe Sly Stallone, he had an affair. I'm going to say actually a relationship because it went on for about 10 years with the Schwarzenegger slash Shriver household maid. That affair resulted in a child being who was kept a secret for about 10 to 15 years.
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This child spent a lot of time in Arnold and Maria's home among Arnold and Maria's four children, one of whom, Patrick Schwarzenegger, starred in the White Lotus. For my money, by the way, one of the best performances on the whole show. Oh, I also saw Jason Isaacs at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Very small guy, like shorter than I am. I'm 5'7". He was like maybe 5'5", and like real thin.
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And by the way, I couldn't be happier to hear that your morning show, which is terrible, has been tanking in the ratings and has shed about 1.9 million viewers since you've been bragging about this disgusting, obscene, vulgar trip into outer space. Love you.
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But anyway, so the kids grow up with this other child in their home often and this child we're going to show you a picture of him is the spitting image of arnold schwarzenegger okay so maria shriver would have us believe that the wool was pulled over her eyes for about 15 years that she had no idea that this could have been
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a child fathered by her own husband who by the way open secret in hollywood i remember reading about this as a kid in like premiere magazine and movie line magazine this was back when magazines really mattered and they like really delivered the goods and it was reported often in there not only that arnold was a serial womanizer but that he was really creepy with women on sets and way too handsy and he definitely would have been metooed
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you're telling me that if I'm like a kid in suburban Long Island and I know about this that Maria Shriver doesn't know about it not buying it Maria Shriver doesn't know that this kid who's a carbon copy of her distinct looking husband with a jaw that like come on you you don't okay fine whatever the story breaks Maria shocked, taking to her bed, her fainting couch. Can't believe it.
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By the way, she grew up at Kennedy. Okay. This is what these men do. They treat their women like shit. They have affairs. They sire other kids. Sometimes they leave women for dead. She's shocked. Guys shocked to her bones. She's a big Christian. All we see, whenever Joseph Baena, that's the name of the child, he's now an adult that Arnold had with the housekeeper.
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And to Arnold's credit, he has been a present and loving father to this kid. You know, Maria reportedly, allegedly has iced this kid out, okay? This kid is not welcome. All of the siblings, the half siblings, whatever, They're all adults now.
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And by the way, one of her daughters, Katherine Schwarzenegger, who sort of peddles in this lifestyle, self-help wellness bullshit, is married to Chris Pratt, who prides himself on being a big Christian. I ask you, what is Christian about icing out this kid who is here through no fault? This is not his fault. That affair, that relationship, that is not his fault. Why is he iced out?
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of being around the paragons of virtue and christianity maria shriver this is why i didn't want to spend money on her book you guys but i did it because it is for a greater good we're going to take her apart as she should be you know she gets such like velvet glove treatment because as we all know regrettably because they cannot stop banging on about it her best friend is oprah winfrey you know
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And she had a big career, by the way, in media. She was a quote unquote journalist. And I have a personal anecdote to share at the end of this bit. You guys are, I don't know if it's gonna shock you, but when it happened to me, I was kind of shocked. So she's got this book out and it's a book of poetry, okay?
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the base price for this book you got you buy in a bookstore which i encourage because you know amazon gets enough of our money 30 bucks you're buying it in canada 39.99 this book is very small and but i mean physically small okay that means that the publisher is trying to scam you by making it look like it has more pages than an actual standard size book would okay it's a book of her poetry and i'm gonna read just a little bit of it to you because i love you and i would never torture you like this
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now let's talk a little bit about the white house correspondence dinner which happened this weekend an event that i have been to now three times or maybe two and a half and i will explain so what you see and what is sold to you on you know the showbiz gossip shows like the extras the access hollywoods or like on cnn or whatever news channel of your choice
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you're going to gag. Okay. You're don't drink anything while you're listening to this segment. You're going to gag. So she gives us a little bit in the beginning and a little bit in the end of like actual prose we can read. And she opens with reflections. The first line, I am Maria. No shit lady. Your picture's on the cover. Your book is called I am Maria and you're
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Name is on the bottom as the author. Okay. She tells us that searching for the authentic Maria, uncovering, discovering, and recovering her garbage to fill up space has been a challenge for me all my life. For decades, I couldn't see her because I was looking for myself in all the wrong places. What is this? You may be wondering what on earth took me so long to see these truths.
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Trust me, I've asked myself that question a million times. I now understand I couldn't have known these truths until I learned them and I couldn't have learned them until I lived them and I couldn't have lived them until I had to. She's sounding like Mel Robbins, another total and complete moron who is out there shilling snake oil to the women of America.
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And I really hate this because it's all so inauthentic and none of it's true. I've ripped many of these poems out of a place of fear, shame, confusion, and darkness. Okay, this scandal happened, I'm going to say it was at least 20 years ago. So I think she's very late to this party.
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Now she gives us a little bit of an origin story in case we don't know that she's a Kennedy, because trust me, these Kennedys never let any of us forget that they're Kennedys, though they probably should. You see, she begins, which is so cloying. It's a way of trying to establish relatability with the reader.
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And it always puts me off when people say, you see, because it's a tell to me that they think that they are so above the rest of us that they need to bring themselves down to earth in order to converse with us, even though we are the ones putting money in said pocket. I grew up in a big competitive Irish Catholic family where you didn't sit around and talk about your feelings.
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Hello and welcome to The Nerve. I'm Maureen Callahan. We have such an incredible show for you today. We've got Jack Schlossberg's Boycott of the Met Gala, as if anyone cares, but there's reason to dive into this, I promise. We've got his relative Maria Shriver's new self-help book,
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You went out into the world and had an impact. The bar was set high and I mean really high. We know, we know in the tons of biographies, historical accounts, magazine articles, documentaries, memoirs that have been published since the assassination of JFK in 1963, We know. You don't have to tell us. Please don't tell us. Just spare us. Just assume. You know what?
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Just give us our dignity and assume that we all have a modicum of intelligence and know who you are. That's why you got this book deal. That's why you got your own publishing imprint. That's why you get on the Today Show and all manner of public national platforms to sell your garbage. Okay, fast forward to 2003 and kapow! Exclamation point.
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My movie star husband abruptly decided he wanted to run for governor of California. Wait, what? You gotta be kidding me. Okay.
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When Arnold Schwarzenegger, again, known womanizer, known social climber, everybody knew as early as the 80s that he had his eye on the White House, on finding a way to get around or add an amendment to the Constitution which would allow foreign-born people to run for president of the United States. Everybody knew that this was this guy's ultimate goal.
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What better way than at that time to marry a prominent Kennedy? We all knew it. Maybe Maria really did delude herself. I don't know. She goes on to tell us more Mel Robbins stuff about living her authentic life, blah, blah, blah. Let's flash forward to a poem, shall we? This poem is called Dallas. Guess what it's about? The word pulls the trigger. That is really poor choice of language.
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Rips through my house like the wind. Dallas, why did you forsake us? Why did you let that happen? Why did you? Where were you? This is garbage, garbage, garbage. Okay. Now, we get to a poem called Rejection, which I'm guessing is about Arnold. You know what I'm talking about. Don't play naive. Don't pretend you didn't know. Don't pretend it didn't cut.
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Face it, that familiar feeling of rejection, it cuts, it makes you wince. Edna St. Vincent Millay, this is not. And by the way, in the introduction to her book, she tells us that she's done talking about her marriage, and you won't find any real details about it here. Again, what are we all doing here? Either talk about the marriage or and put it on the page and tell your story or don't.
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They will depict this as one of the most exclusive, glamorous, elite events of the year. Trust me when I tell you, nothing could be further from the truth. So I'm going to give you a little recap with some personal anecdotes and gossip. My first year was in 2023. That was the year reality, fellow reality TV show lovers will understand this. It was the year of Scandaval.
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But don't be a tease, Maria. You know, everybody learns that, like everybody hates a tease. So I'm gonna tell you my little Maria Shriver story, which is that in 2019, I had published a book for the same publisher that publishes Maria Shriver, it's Viking. And it was called American Predator. It was a true crime story. Immediately hit the New York Times bestseller list.
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It outperformed their expectations and it makes them still to this day a ton of money. They said to me, whatever you want to write about next, we will publish it. We don't care, you know, because all they could see was dollar signs. I said, great, here's my next book. Guess what it was? Ask Not, which is the book that came out last summer.
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Kennedy book about all the Kennedy women that family has like fucked with and destroyed. Um, my publisher went radio silent for a good few months, which is a very, very, it's like a no-no in that world. You don't do that. You can really screw with an author's career doing that because suddenly everybody thinks that I'm a problem, that the author's the problem.
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If a publishing house doesn't want to go near a book, an author that has just sold them a ton of books, there's got to be a major issue, right? Um, she, Maria thinks in this book, this guy, Brian Hart, who is the publisher, of said house, right? Brian was my publisher. I thought he loved me until word got back to me that Viking had likely passed.
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I'm going to say likely, allegedly passed because they were getting in bed with Maria Shriver and giving her her own imprint and they didn't want to upset her delicate sensibilities.
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To which I said, that's a bunch of bullshit because Maria Shriver likes to call herself a journalist and any journalist worth their salt would never want to trample on anyone's First Amendment right to express themselves in the pages of a book or their ideas, no matter how confrontational or upsetting. I also had a fellow author decline to give me a blurb for the book saying that the
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this person, I will not gender this person, was too afraid of upsetting Maria Shriver, which to me, I was like, are you kidding? Upset Maria Shriver, who cares? So that will lead us to Jack Schlossberg. I've been dying to do this for a very long time, and I'm so happy this platform has afforded me this, and it is my fervent hope that this winds up in Jack Schlossberg's Instagram feed, because...
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book which we're also going to take apart we've got even more on megan markle and i promise you this is you're gonna die because i'm taking i'm just not even gonna spoil it for you we've got walton goggins from the white lotus who really has it coming so we are tackling a ton of stuff today But before we get into all of that, I would like to talk a little bit about what I did a few days ago.
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He went after me personally a couple of months ago after I wrote a story, a column for the Daily Mail in which I basically said, why isn't Caroline Kennedy coming to get her son? Because his social media accounts and his trolling of people who are really far more accomplished and intelligent than he is.
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By the way, this is a 32-year-old man who has no real job and spends his days filming himself for Instagram. And I mean, it's like, it's almost, I'm not saying he is, but it's like watching somebody who's like bipolar and in a manic phase and they can't stop.
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doing something like posting posting posting and they speak in ways that actually make zero sense even though he'll remind you more than once he's been to Harvard twice you guys twice and it's not like he's a legacy or anything but anyway he went after me personally after I wrote a column basically saying this is the kind of Kennedy that the family used to like lobotomize and hide
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Ask not, read about Rosemary. And anyway, he's out there making an absolute ass of himself. There was a story in page six that I just loved. And it basically said that Jack, JFK's grandson, is doing more harm to the Kennedy name than the rest of them combined. That's coming from Kennedy family members. And that says a lot.
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Again, when you're talking about a family that has unalived women who were inconvenient, left someone to drown or die. She didn't drown. She suffocated in three feet of water. That says a lot. He then went on to social media and started calling me names. It's going to take more than that, Jack. It's going to take more than that, Jack, calling me names.
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I'll repeat it for you because he thought it was witty. He called me Maureen Vagine. I guess he thought my name rhymes with like a female body part that by definition should be something we mock and laugh about, which, you know, by the way, I've never understood that. I've never frankly understood why the P word, the word pussy is supposed to be sort of a put down in the culture.
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I mean, women give birth, you know, we are incredibly powerful because of that.
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It was the year that Vanderpump Rules broke through that little genre bubble it was in, the Bravoverse, as it's called, and straight into America's collective vein. It was just jacked into our veins constantly. Yeah.
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bodily part that men don't possess so you know you anyway jack's been on instagram for a couple of reasons number one he is loudly taking a very uh brave determined stance uh we're not talking israel versus palestine we're talking the met gala and he is telling us that he is boycotting the met gala and you can watch a little bit of this from his instagram
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Enough of him. Enough of him. Enough. This is another thing he does. He just says the same thing like over and over and over because he really doesn't have anything to say. Number one, as per news reports, he was not invited, okay? That's why he's boycotting it. Number two, can we please look at a photo of Jack with his mommy at the Met Gala a few years ago?
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You guys, look at the dress that Caroline Kennedy is wearing. Now, I am sure, I can't prove it, I don't have the actual receipts, but I am sure that Anna Wintour put her in that dress because every attendee has to have their look approved by Anna. And so, first of all, that's how, like, grubby Caroline Kennedy and her kid are.
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They're, like, willing to have Anna Wintour tell them what they can and cannot wear. I mean, she's political royalty, don't you know? Secondly, look at this. She looks like a Japanese cake-exploded... She actually looks like a couch exploded. It's sort of like the version of Kim K's dress when she went with Kanye that first year. This is an epic troll. This is an epic, epic troll.
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And her date is her layabout, useless, nepo baby son, who not for nothing was hired by Anna Wintour over the summer to be Vogue's political correspondent. And look at the tongue bathing he got for this. I believe, did Annie Leibovitz shoot this? It was somebody big. We're looking at Jack. on the floor in what looks like a newsroom next to a Xerox machine, rolling around in Xeroxes of his own face.
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He proceeded, I think he maybe wrote one or two columns by which I mean, I know how this works. I've seen it all. I see it all the time. These celebrities get these bylines, but what they do is they call an editor. They talk to an editor and an editor puts them into a cogent piece of writing that is semi-publishable.
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Our guests that year were Lisa Vanderpump, the sort of Doyenne of the show, and Ariana Maddox, who was depicted, and if you do a rewatch, you'll see that I'm right, wrongly depicted as the wronged woman who had just suffered humiliation after humiliation. So those two were guests of the Daily Mail, where I call them twice a week. They were our guests at our table.
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And he instead went on Instagram and let's watch him explain to us why he feels the need to go live.
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Well, I wanted to show you that amount of footage because it ratifies my earlier point that all he does is repeat stuff. There's no actual content or original thought behind it. I'm going live. I'm going live. It's important to go live. I think live is growing. It's important to grow. What are you talking about? Why are you clogging up my goddamn feed with your bullshit? You're not bright.
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You're not talented. You have nothing to offer except your name, which, sir, frankly, is in the toilet. Why don't you go get a job and be a productive member of society instead of talking like a child to an audience that you think adores you? Oh, by the way, I love this for him. Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing him for an online troll, and it couldn't happen to a better guy.
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And I hope Alan Dershowitz takes this kid for whatever he's worth, which we all know is mommy's money. next up before we go to break i want to remind you guys that listen i've been getting i read all the emails all the dms i'm responding to as many of them as i can as quickly as i can and god bless you because this is a problem so many people including jock schlossberg would love to have so just
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A friendly reminder, always know, I do want to hear from you. I want your feedback. We're going to do a follow up to the Mean Girls segment we did last week because I've gotten so many personal stories from so many of you telling me your own sort of harrowing accounts with Mean Girls. And many of you are like well into middle age, which was the entire point of that piece.
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So I'm so happy that landed with you. And I also want to hear subjects you want us to cover or revisit, things that you think we might really need to know about. So email me. I am Maureen at DevilMayCareMedia.com. And we will be sharing some of the best ones. And they're all great. So that's kind of a heavy lift. But we're going to be sharing some of the best ones soon.
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And these tables cost, like, again, it's like an obscene amount of money. It's like 25 or 35,000 to buy a table. So these are coveted seats. And if you get invited, the deal is you come to play. Now, next to our table, sat the family of Evan Gershkovich. And if you recall, Evan was the young, I think he was like 28 years old, Wall Street Journal reporter.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
You know, she's got her own podcast going, which is falling down the ratings chart as we speak, but she went on with her very, very, very dear friend. who has her own podcast, which I had never heard of before. And upon listening to this, I realized there was a reason why, and I will never listen again. But in terms of comic value, you guys, this thing is unparalleled.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I actually found myself weird. I guess it was kind of like a hate listen. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Okay, so this woman founded a company you may be familiar with. It's called It Cosmetics IT. And she wound up selling it for like a lot of money to L'Oreal, which she goes on about in this episode. And I'm sparing you that part because whatever, who cares?
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Take your money, sit on it, go home, enjoy yourself. But, you know, Megan moved to Montecito and now they're really good friends and they like to sit around on her rocking chairs together. And they like to be in their cozies and they wear no makeup because they're just so authentic. And they have a glass of wine.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I guess it's like wine o'clock in Montecito and all the working moms just like get together and chat. But they be there for each other and all that garbage. And this woman, I'll talk to you about her voice after we listen. Listen to this initial introduction of the show, which I had to share the... I was like, I don't know where to cut this because you're going to hear this like...
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
This woman who's hosting the show, she reminds you of her name like every other sentence. And she reminds you that Oprah knows who she is like every other sentence and how wonderful she is. So of course, it's like a true meeting of the minds with Meghan Markle because that's all you do, right? You just gas each other up.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And the music underneath it, it's like we have been let into a room where living saints abide. It's practically religious. Listen to this and watch.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
He was in Russia, covering Russia for the journal. He was abducted by Putin's like secret intelligence agency thrown into a Russian prison. He was fated to spend the rest of his life there, okay? Joe Biden's president, he's there. Colin Jost is hosting. His wife, Scarlett Johansson, is there. Keri Russell from The Diplomat is there. Linda Carter, Wonder Woman, is there. It's a very starry evening.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
OK. The prove it game that Megan talks about. Have we not heard all of this language and syntax and what passes for actual thoughtful conversation in like every interview Megan gives? Oh, you got to prove yourself and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. If you're not in the prove it game, why do you have deals with Netflix, Spotify, Lemonada, publishing houses?
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Why are you going on Oprah, justifying your existence and what you did and leveling all of these... garbage claims in my estimation about what if you're not in the prove it game megan what are we doing here okay uh secondly they're not wearing makeup i beg to differ megan markle to me looks like she's just not wearing bronzer which she likes to apply sometimes with like a heavy hand
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I think she's wearing the no makeup makeup look. And Jamie Kern Lima, her little lap dog, tells us she's not wearing makeup either. I'm sorry, lady. You are, in my estimation, wearing blush. Now, later in the episode, she will tell us she has rosacea, which is flaring up because she's so freaking excited to be talking to Meghan Markle.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
But I don't know anybody whose rosacea has ever presented as two completely symmetrical, completely in-tone girls. Shades of blush on one's cheek. Okay. Now, Jamie tells us 10 minutes into this podcast that through Meghan Markle's actions, which as far as I can tell are putting flour sprinkles, which are supposedly inedible, on cookies and jarring preserves, that she's changing lives.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Changing lives. Never forget. Um, now we go into, you know, Megan, she will talk about her childhood and I think highly suspicious ways. We only have got like, she's, she tells us she's about to come up on her seven year anniversary, which means we've known her now for almost 10 years. Okay. We've been living through this long global nightmare for 10 years.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
We hear, we always hear about the tray that like the dinner tray story, right? She, she's eating like TV dinners because she was so neglected as a kid, but she was watching Jeopardy. So we know she's like highly intelligent and that she has issues with some of her grades in school as an elementary school kid. Okay, this is it. This is all she gives us, but it's telling us something about her.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
So let's listen to her talking about a childhood report card that she recently discovered as if they're not in like a special fucking box she got at the container store marked report cards.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
She's a great runner if someone's chasing her, like the British royal family. Actually, that didn't entail running. That just, I think, entailed calling Tyler Perry and asking for his private jet. But you guys, okay, the beginning of that clip where she's like... Oh my God, oh my God. It's so inauthentic. This is why she was never gonna be more than like a D-list actress on a basic cable show.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
The one thing she is dying to sell to us is relatability. The one thing she's dying for more than anything is for us to love her and want to be like her. And she can't get it across the finish line. And all of this is exhibit A as to why. And by the way, Jamie sitting there petting her, like that's a professional hairstylist who did that job. I'm telling you right now, it absolutely is.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Trust me when I tell you That Evan Gershkovich's family, which should have been the sole focus of this night, nobody gave a shit. The only people anybody wanted to see was Lisa Vanderpump and Ariana. And LVP won by a mile, by the way. So she's sitting next to me or a seat away. Before the event even begins, there is a line on either side of this woman's shoulders saying,
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
So stop it with this. We're just sitting in our living room, in our cozies, barefoot, spilling our secrets and emanating girl power and making your lives better. Okay. Moving on, we are going to the beginnings of, again, the world has waited, right? The beginnings of the nicknames that Meghan and Harry have for each other.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Now, I don't really know or care that he calls her M. Frankly, I don't believe it. I think he probably is calling for help at this point, but we are learning how she came to call him as she does in every single interview, because she has to remind us that she has a proximity to him that none of us have. Who wants it, lady? None of us. H, here's the origin story of that.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I love nicknames. I wish I could share the particulars of this story, but what passes for conversation there, that utter banality, reminded me of a good friend of mine who found himself at a private dinner with those two. Okay? Okay. They are ridiculous. And conversating is like moving a boulder up a mountain. It is impossible. There is no there there.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And by the way, as we are just doing each other's hair and having some mom wine and mom time, let's not talk about the bullying allegations against Meghan that have never really gone away. Let's not talk about Dr. Sophie Chandaka leaving Harry's beloved charity formed in memory of his mother.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And as a black woman leveling these accusations against Harry and Meghan for bullying, she can't be taken down by those two because she's a woman of color. So Meghan can't play the race card. And by the way, she's not talking to us weekly. She's talking to the Financial Times. That's how you know this woman means business.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And Jason Nuff, who used to work for William and Kate, has also been on record saying those two were bullies. They bullied two palace staffers out of a job.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
But instead, we're hearing Meghan tell her friend Jamie or Jamie talk about Meghan and telling us that Meghan, by wearing a brand of jeans, I'm not making this up, I'm not exaggerating or editing for comic effect, that Meghan, by wearing a brand of jeans, has gotten women out of human trafficking. Okay. We also hear from Megan, I love a handwritten note. She saves them all.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
The banality is, I'm at a loss for words, which is a rare thing. Okay, now these two purveyors of privacy, these two people who bang, bang, bang the drum about their privacy, they need their privacy, the headlines are too much, Megan almost became suicidal, she wanted to kill herself. First of all, let's take a look at, we're getting closer, you guys.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
to seeing the children because we've got merch to move and things are not going well. So let's take a look at this little reel that Megan dropped on Instagram yesterday morning.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I have two theories. One, I think that's a voiceover artist, like, you know, a Pamela Adlon, like the ones who's, you know, their specialty is doing kids because it sounds a little too, like, oh, that's so beautiful. By the way, it's eerily reminiscent of her interviewer's voice, of Jamie Lynn's voice. Jamie Lynn talks like this, and what I love are grown women who talk like this.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
deep, deep, deep to the back of the room. This room is the size of like a football field. And all Lisa did the entire time, and I loved her for it. She was a great guest, very entertaining. She would put her hair like this and move her head to the left. And selfie, then she would silently move her head to the right like this. Selfie, selfie, selfie.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Like, they just injected some helium and everything's like... Okay, there's that. And I have a theory, and you guys, I realize this may sound unkind, but I think we are all among friends here, and there's truth to it. This is nothing to do with actual children who really should... This is about Meghan. These children, if she really fled the royal family because she wanted her children...
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
to grow up in a life that did not require media attention. What she is doing is not the truth. And here is what I think about Meghan, because I think she's a malignant narcissist who is a truly terrible person. And you're going to hear proof of this in the next clip. If Meghan Markle thought her children were as beautiful as she is, we'd see their faces.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Okay, let's hear all about the very private letter that Harry wrote about Meghan that they're going to share on this podcast.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
This went public? This went public. This is a woman who wrote a letter to her father. And this came out in a court battle that I believe she launched. And part of those communiques were to one of her media people. about word choice in said letter, personal, allegedly private to her father, Thomas. And there was a part of the communications where she said, you know, I never really called him daddy.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I know I'm calling him that in the letter, but I think I should keep it because if this letter leaks, which I think it's going to, okay. So she's really writing it for public consumption. She's going to pretend it's private. And then when it becomes public, she's going to feign outrage and sadness at yet another betrayal, another dagger in the heart.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
But when it becomes public, I feel that the word daddy, I believe these were her exact words, will really pull at the heartstrings. You will never convince America
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
the brits are on to you america's on to you the world at large is onto you you're never going to convince anyone that you're authentic who actually authored that letter that just got read i think one megan markle was standing right there with harry she probably had her calligrapher's pen and she's writing like harry again find your balls wherever they are find them you're writing a letter that's just all about how much you admire your wife by the way sans specifics which i love that says to me that he's checked out
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Um, next Megan is going to tell us, this is the last one and it is, no, actually there's one more. Okay. Uh, she's going to tell us about what she is doing for her children so that her children, when they grow up, will be in awe of how amazing their mother was.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
When it was over, she said to me, that took a lot of energy. And you know what? I'm sure it did. Ariana Maddox, on the other hand. So LVP and Ariana did not speak to each other at all. And I found that interesting. And Ariana, this was her the whole night on her phone, on her phone, texting, Instagramming on her phone. hardly engaging with us at all.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
So Megan is telling us that just about every night she's writing letters to her children and
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
so that when they're older and they let's be real they hate her they hate her they can't get away fast enough they're changing their names they're going to schools under assumed identities and uh they're gonna get jobs on the east coast um if not out of the country so that they have a viable excuse for seeing her maybe once a year um that so when they grow up and they open these letters or perhaps you know in the event of her untimely death which you know she probably
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
fantasizes about becoming a new Diana because there was another thing that she says in this podcast, which is that she was having a conversation with someone who informed her that her future had been written before she was ever born. Okay. You know, it was basically saying that she, her fate had been predetermined. She was born for greatness.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And she answers like an asshole, like a Hollywood asshole using verbiage that only rich Hollywood assholes use. She's like, Well, could I, like, I didn't get the specifics of that deal memo. Can I, like, redline that? Which is, like, it's what you do.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
You give your lawyer something to look at, and he makes these red lines in the document to say, like, we'd like to strike this out or we'd like to add this into the deal. Like, the average person has no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Jesus Christ. Are you redlining these notes to your kids? So anyway, so they can grow up and be in awe of her, and it's all...
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
just the worst and by the way as for this grand love story that she's telling with harry and how they had to name each other h and m because they were dating in secret and they weren't i guess whatsapp wasn't available back then so they couldn't write each other's names out it's not like harry and megan
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
are such unique names that the world is going to explode with joy when they find out these two have gotten together, this brain trust that's going to change the world. Look at Meghan last week in New York City with her husband, who she, I love that, that man loves me so, again, that phrasing, that man loves, that man, that's a diminution, okay? He's a royal prince of the blood.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
That man loves me so much. Look at Harry attempting to take Meghan by the hand as she's sauntering her way in to the Time 100 summit where she had no business at all speaking. Oh, oh, she's reaching for a stranger to hug and he has to take his hand away in humiliation.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Like a sports, like a key moment at like a Wimbledon game, we are going to, or perhaps the Zapruder film, we're going to rewind that in slow motion just to take another look at this cutting rejection of her own husband. Oh my God. Oh, and he puts his hands in his pockets. It's just... I mean, he may as well be the help at this point, right? He's the help. He's the help. She's the hustler.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I think I asked her, so she and LVP had gone on a private tour of the White House that afternoon. And I said, oh, how was it? And it was like, the light goes on and she's like doing a confessional for reality TV. She's like, amazing. That my friends was the entire answer. You got a private tour of the White House. You saw the Lincoln bedroom.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
She's the Maven. She's the mover and shaker. She's the brains of this organization. I can't wait to see what she does next. I know we're all feeling the same way. Anyway, I felt like that was a really strong way to end the show. I hope you agree. Again, email me, maureen at devilmaycaremedia.com. Tell us what you think. Thank you all for joining today, for all of your feedback.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And I hope to see you back here on Friday on The Nerve, where you will never guess what we are about to say next.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
You saw things the average American on a tour doesn't see. Amazing. Okay. Initially, I thought she was on her phone because maybe she felt outclassed and unmatched in this room full of very serious people who do a very serious thing for a living. And I'm using quotation marks because I'm winking at you. But then I realized later, no. She thought she was just too good to talk to the rest of us.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
So she was a total asshole. So flash forward to last year. Our guests at our table, I guess an attempt to sort of maybe replicate that buzz of the LVP era, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright, whose marriage we are now seeing unraveling on the new season of The Valley. It's incredibly dark. Now, Jax Taylor was, again, one of my shame crushes, season one of Vanderpump Rules.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Very good-looking guy, very charismatic, but he is a guy who is a womanizer. He just admitted to a 20-year coke problem. The Valley is inching up to alleging that he possibly has abused Britney. These two show up. They're already separated, but they show up. After the event, we're all at, like, the hotel bar drinking.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
As you guys know, I am hardly one to talk myself up, but I have been expanding my resume. As you know, I am now an actress. I have appeared in a short film called With Love, Megan. That's Megan with a Y. And a new trailer has dropped from your friend and mine, Megan Kelly. In which we, you know, I can't spoil anything.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Jax comes over to me and one of the other Daily Mail women, starts talking, and I'm like, okay, let's see. Like, let's see what's going on upstairs. Like, I should have said to myself, you know, Maureen, this is really a rhetorical question. He's expressing the, like, just utter wonderment that we can turn around news stories quickly. I mean, this is the job.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Like, we turn around news stories quickly like any media outlet worth its salt. And I say to him, well, you know, what you do also requires very quick turnaround and responses to things. And he says, well, what do you mean? Like we shoot our show and our show already shot. And it's like in the canon.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I said, no, what I mean is as the show airs in real time, you get tons of viewer feedback immediately on Reddit, on viewer threads, on podcasts, on all of these things. And then you guys reply in real time, either on social media or, you know, it's a whole ecosystem. Now, when I said the word ecosystem,
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I literally said to myself in my head, Maureen, this guy does not know what the word ecosystem means. Abort, abort, abort. And I slowly turned my chair around as somebody else approached and began talking to him and exited that conversation. This year, President Trump was not in attendance. There were no real stars there. There were no real stars there. Like it's kind of over.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Like it's kind of over. I, you know, if you listen to Megyn Kelly's show on Monday, she was recounting my recounting to her of what it was like, which is basically you're introduced to somebody who is semi-important, and the introduction is meant to be like, hey, you guys should know each other. It might be helpful down the line.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
The entire experience of talking to anybody at an event like this, most people, not all, but I'm going to say 99% of them, you're trying to talk to them as a human being would, and they are looking around anywhere but you because there's got to be somebody more important in this room who they can certainly give their attention to, right?
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I mean, this happened to me twice, and the second time it happened to me, I literally said to myself, fuck this, I'm out of here, and I left. So I'm going to name a name because he's kind of a sort of a new star in the media world.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
One Scott Jennings, who over on CNN is sort of like, you know, the media, the left-leaning media will, you know, take him to the woodshed because he's a conservative offering his thoughts on CNN and conservative media. He's kind of like a new
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
object of obsession and love because he takes all those hits so hard but he keeps coming back and he's putting people in their place okay i get introduced to this guy fine perfectly hello how are you nice to see you i run into him again about 10 minutes later and i say to him scott and i'm standing i'm standing right there Completely blanks me.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Completely blanks me because what does he need me for? Apparently nothing. He's a big hotshot at CNN. His life is on fire. Why speak to the likes of me? That is what this thing is like. And I want to use this as a moment to transition into all of the bullshit that we're constantly fed about people who are rich, famous, powerful, having a moment.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
For those of you who've watched White Lotus or Justified or The Righteous Gemstones and are a fan of Walton Goggins, who is carpet bombing the culture right now, Please, sir, please take your leave. This guy is so in love with himself. He is on the cover of Cultured Mag. Take a look at it. He's wearing like banana boat, like Speedo shirtless.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
He's like an unlikely sex symbol, but he's having his time. He just posted something insufferable on Instagram that I saw this morning. He's recording an album. Of course he is. He did a GQ profile, a cover profile in which, you know, with this guy who was considered sort of an actor's actor, there was a no-go zone for him, for anyone who was interviewing him.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And that was the death of his first wife, which, you know, only fairly recently did he acknowledge, yes, that was a suicide. But now we're talking about it. And it reminds me a lot of when Joaquin Phoenix was dying to get that Oscar. Dying for it. And, you know, a former no-go zone for him was the death of his brother, River Phoenix, which was tragic. A tragic drug overdose on a sidewalk in L.A.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
outside Johnny Depp's nightclub, the Viper Room. And... Joaquin watched it happen and couldn't save his brother, a true trauma. You know, but you get to a point and then things shift and you can commodify anything. I have two things I'd like to say about Walt Goggins.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
This is really Megan's story to tell, but I want to address one Gayle King directly. Gayle, you are out banging the drum in front of any media outlet that will have you about what an inspiration you are now that you have been to outer space. and how nobody can relate to you now that you've been to outer space and how nobody is allowed to talk to you anymore unless you've been to outer space.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
One, right before The White Lotus premiered, he wrote this gushing post on Instagram to his wife and child saying how he couldn't bear to tear himself away from them for the length of this shoot, which was infamously like six or seven months in Thailand. And, you know, how they're like basically his other right arm, his limb, his organs, whatever.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
I read that and I thought to myself, this guy cheated. This guy cheated on set. This guy cheated on location.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
now he and his co-star amy lou wood who was adorable seeming did a great performance um they had a sex scene in the second episode that was one of the most intimate explicit sex scenes i've ever seen and it actually i am far from approved but it made me uncomfortable watching it i thought i shouldn't be seeing this and it made me look at him in a new light it made me look at mike white in a new light because and i just thought to myself these two are actually having an affair in real life because
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
There is no actor on the planet right now in the wake of Me Too and intimacy coordinators who could not go to their director and say, I'm not comfortable with this. I don't want to do it. I'm not doing it. Figure something out. Do a workaround. Get a body double. But this was, you could see it was them.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
It was absolutely them engaged in this most intimate act that if I am Walt Goggins' wife, doors are locked, your shit's on the lawn, and I've got the best sharkiest shark of a lawyer in town. So then, they clearly had some kind of falling out because like eighth graders, Walt unfollowed her. I'm guessing the wife caught wind of this.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
And then when Amy Liu was mocked in an SNL parody of the white Lotus called the white POTUS for her teeth, for her overbite, which frankly I found endearing. And I found a breath of fresh air in this world in which everybody who can afford 10 grand in plane tickets and doctor fees is is flying to Turkey for the worst veneers I've ever seen.
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Like those bright chiclets, the teeth that are all like the same exact size and the same exact volume. It's like nature doesn't work like that. Like don't go to Turkey. If you want veneers, save up and go see a specialist in the United States, okay? So...
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walt we see amy lou in the press photos of her papa she says it's extremely hurtful it made her cry and this is the one time i will side with a young actress because teeth are very very often an indicator of class if you have bad teeth into adulthood it means you probably grew up in poverty or with parents who were so distracted with their own stuff that they couldn't attend to you to make sure you had like
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
a healthy orthodontic situation going on in your mouth. And this goes beyond, like, you know, looks and superficiality. What goes on in your mouth affects everything that goes on in your body, okay? An ecosystem, to use a word that Jax Taylor is probably still Googling. So he posts underneath
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Walton Goggins’ False Public Image, and Meghan Markle’s Inability to Be Relatable
Something regarding on Instagram, I forget the exact post, forgive me, but it was something like somebody going, oh, that was amazing, the mocking of Amy Liu's overbite. And Walt's posts...
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ha capital h capital a exclamation points classy sir really classy coming from a guy per his own oft-told origin story grew up dirt poor who according to his own origin story lost the bulk of his upper teeth in some kind of sporting accident like i think he caught a ball to the face He could only afford dentures.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
He says to her, it's not fun to work with people that aren't fun, like him, I guess. He also says that he's a firm subscriber to the no assholes policy, because if you're on that list of being an asshole, you're not getting calls. Not for nothing, but Tina Fey,
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admitted in her book bossy pants and she's spoken about this in interviews you can google them you'll find them that she was a mean girl in high school this is another topic we're gonna get to later in the show mean girls and i always wondered about people like her like Kirsten Wiig, who sort of like helped Jon Hamm enter that SNL little clique, that comedy world.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
And my theory about them is that they were never the homecoming queens. They were the comedy nerd girls who kind of didn't fit in. And a guy like Jon Hamm comes along and pays them some attention. and their knees buckle. They can't believe it. They can't believe a guy this hot would look twice at them. And so they're doing dirty work for him, in my opinion.
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You can't tell me they don't know about this. If I know about it, they have to know about it. And now we all know about it. There's another thing I want to And this goes to who in Hollywood is a protected class? Who in Hollywood will be kick summarily kicked out and never hired again? And who is just sort of considered like kind of a bad boy?
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This is also the New York Times Magazine very recently. Bill Murray, who's out promoting a movie with Naomi Watts called The Friend. It's based on an incredible book by an author named Sigrid Nunez. If you've never heard of it, I suggest you look into it. It's basically a semi-autobiographical novel. A friend of hers died and left her his dog.
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And it's this very unusual, non-cliched, non-sentimental, really beautiful love story. And so Bill Murray was promoting this movie with Naomi Watts on Watch What Happens Live like a week or so ago. I watched it in real time. My jaw hit the floor. Look at this.
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so i watched that broadcast of watch what happens live in real time and i am convinced that bravo and nbc universal went in and cleaned that clip up because i distinctly recall a wide shot in which i saw bill murray take an unwitting, unsuspecting Naomi Watts.
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He put one hand on top of her head, he put the other hand under her jaw and he kept her head immobile and he dragged her over to him and planted a kiss square on her mouth and it was lengthy. It lasted for quite a bit. And what did Andy Cohen do? He sat there and he laughed. He laughed, he thought it was funny. And when Bill Murray finally released Naomi Watts,
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
I'm completely mortified. Anyway, I have since gotten it together. I can assure you. And I think we should just get into it. So the first person I would like to take aim at in our very first show is one Jon Hamm. And this segment, I promise you, you're never going to forget what you hear.
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she you could tell she was kind of in shock and you know she's got to play the game right bill murray looks straight at the camera and gives it a thumbs up A thumbs up. This New York Times Magazine piece, by the way, I mean, where did I mark it? He talks about basically like kind of being an asshole, you know? And like he's had assault accusations leveled at him before.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
He's not a guy you want to get angry. So, but he gets away with this. Like everybody gives him, why? Because like Bill Murray's cool? Because he's funny? Because he's kind of like irascible? He gets a pass for this? If I'm Naomi Watts, I would never work with him again. And I would maybe consider pressing charges. I don't know.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
But I want to circle back one more time to Jon Hamm because there's something else about him that I find particularly despicable. And there's a kind of guy who does this and gets off on it. He was with his girlfriend, Jennifer Westfeld, for about 18 years. And when they got together, he was the struggling one and she was the one who had a little bit more success.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
She's a screenwriter, an actress, a director. She would put him in her movies. She made a semi-autobiographical movie called, I think it's called Friends with Kids. And it was sort of informed by her life with Jon Hamm, who would give all these interviews talking about how he wasn't like a marriage guy. He didn't want to have kids. He had a lot of trauma in his past.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
And what does he do when Mad Men comes to an end? he dumps Jennifer Westfeld. I mean, they said it was mutual, but I think we can all fairly read the tea leaves on that one. He gets with a minor actress on Mad Men, practically an extra, right? So someone whose talent level is never going to eclipse his. She's half his age.
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He marries her and he starts giving interviews about how he thinks he wants children now, which I'm sure Jennifer Westfeld is so happy she sacrificed so much of her own dreams and life ambitions for that piece of shit. And finally, in fairness to Jon Hamm, which I think is more than he deserves, he did address these
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accusations this reporting of the fraternity hazing that nearly killed a kid a kid by the way who went on to become a doctor and a lawyer okay and he specializes in what do you think medical malpractice okay that guy is a true contributing member of society what did john ham become a celebrity are you kidding me john ham told esquire in i think 2015
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of the allegations quote i wouldn't say it's accurate everything about that is sensationalized not a denial i was accused of these things i don't ellipses it's so hard to get into i don't want to give it any more breath not a denial it was a bummer of a thing that happened break that apart a bummer a bummer is like you go to the surf shop and they're out of your favorite like you know
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oil or whatever this is not a bummer this is not a summer bummer this is a vicious assault on a defenseless kid you bullied bullied and bullied him because he wanted to be cool like you a bummer of a thing that happened it didn't happen john you did it
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
you assaulted somebody i was caught up he continues i was caught up poor me i i i me me me i was caught up in a big situation a stupid kid in a stupid situation a bummer i moved on from it well i don't think that mark allen sanders will probably ever move on from it from the trauma from whatever lasting medical damage that you inflicted on him this guy is lucky he escaped with his life and john ham gets to go sit on jimmy fallon
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He is everywhere right now because he's got a show on Apple called Your Friends and Neighbors and it's number one. I don't know if it's like number one all over or if it's just number one in drama, but it's doing really well. It's already been renewed and he just did SNL to promote it. Let's take a little bit of a look at that.
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and laugh it up about what a cool guy he is. Fuck that guy. OK, segment one, we're done. And we're going to move on in the next segment to a really deep dive on mean girls in adulthood. Let me tell you a story about a guy named Leo Grillo. While on a road trip, Leo came across a Doberman. This dog was severely underweight and clearly in trouble. Leo rescued that Doberman and named him Delta.
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Sadly, Delta was just one of far too many animals that needed help, which inspired Leo to start Delta Rescue, the largest no-kill care-for-life animal sanctuary in the world. They've rescued thousands of dogs, cats, and horses from the wilderness, and they provide their animals with shelter, love, safety, and a home. This dedication and everlasting love to animals is Leo's mission and legacy.
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Check out the estate planning tab on their website to learn more and speak with an advisor. We call dogs man's best friend and woman's best friend for a reason. You can help those who need it most. So please visit DeltaRescue.org today to learn more. That's DeltaRescue.org. Welcome back to The Nerve. So let's talk about mean girls. Mean girls in adulthood.
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which i find endlessly fascinating and has been sort of in the culture very recently um there are a couple of main examples that occur to me and i'll bet to you guys too um the first is a story that has had real legs and because it's a mean girls friendship thing and a real friendship breakup i think that this is why people are still talking about it it is the epic
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Final episode of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion, which saw Garcelle Beauvoir, who is a fan favorite and in my estimation, one of the greatest ever to do it. sitting on the couch next to her actual friend on and off the show, Sutton Strach. And she is betrayed in real time by Sutton, who is so desperate for these terrible viperish women to like her.
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and accept her into their clique, that you watch her turn on Garcelle and you watch Garcelle's expression register this in real time, how she is being iced out of the show and out of the friend group.
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So that's exhibit A of what mean girls
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do in the sort of stages of ejection the minute garcelle said nobody's even smiled at me all day the concerned faces come right up um really oh you mean all of you who have been icing this woman out are now suddenly concerned and saddened by this expression of feeling just cut out completely i'm shocked okay here's stage two i was smiling when i first got here
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
And that's how you can tell that her emotion is genuine because you see her mouth begin to collapse, which is sort of the first stage when you're about to lose control and begin openly crying and you don't want to cry. So you're really trying to fight it. And you know, Andy Cohen, of course, leaning in and saying, well, it's not okay.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
Well, the whole entire point of you being there is to behave like this. led by the ringleader, Andy Cohen himself, who, trust me, does not like women. I love your channel. I watch it all the time. He does not like women. Third and final stage of mean girl expulsion is here.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
What's unfair, though? Okay, so now they're all convening and saying they don't understand why this woman is so upset. And that last statement by Sutton Strack, the blonde woman in the ball gown, who said, She knows Garcelle better than anybody on that cast. She just wants to be one of them so badly. And trust me, next season, if she comes back, she will be eaten alive and she deserves it.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
So joining me now is Dr. Erin Foster, who is an expert in this kind of aggression. Thank you, Dr. Erin Foster, for joining us. Thank you, Maureen.
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Okay, number one, he was looking at his own Wikipedia, which I would bet there's a big part of that Wikipedia that he would love to have just deleted. But he doesn't mention that. Instead, he's congratulating himself on being so freaking awesome. He's Jon Hamm and you're not. Are you as impressed with Jon Hamm as Jon Hamm is? I don't know that you could be.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
So I've been thinking about this a lot because, you know, there was what we just saw, this most recent season of The White Lotus, expertly depicted among a group of three lifelong friends, middle-aged, successful, beautiful, accomplished, fit, wealthy, all of it. tearing each other down in the subtlest ways possible, but they were pointed and mean.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
And then of course, you know, I have a goddaughter who's 11 who's going through this. I talk to her about the psychodynamics of sixth grade all the time. And the one thing I never say to her is it gets better, because it doesn't. If anything, it just gets worse and more subtle. So tell me why this persists in adulthood.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
Exactly. And I completely understand that psychology. But, you know, I think one of the things I struggle with is just because somebody is struggling with their own insecurities, their own childhood trauma, it does not give you license to behave like an asshole.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
Take a look at him on his good friend Jimmy Fallon's show last week.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
So in the days leading up to our conversation, I've really been giving this so much thought. I read the sort of Rosetta Stone of books on this topic, which is Queen Bees and Wannabes. by Rosalind Wiseman, and that was actually Tina Fey's basis for the movie Mean Girls. Are you sensing a thread here, guys?
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
And the one thing that book did not answer was the question that I really have, which is, where is this rooted in? You know, it has to be more macro than any one specific childhood trauma or attachment issues or fear of not having power control, wanting to be liked, wanting to be Queen Bee. And I really think
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
Hello and welcome. Welcome to The Nerve. I'm Maureen Callahan. I'm your host. It's episode one. So I want to tell you a little bit about what to expect. This is a non-safe space. This is a space where we are going to talk about all of the things in pop culture, celebrity scandal, crime.
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And I'm curious as to your thoughts, it must be rooted in evolution when there was a time when women had to compete with each other for very limited resources and those resources being men who could hunt, kill, father, provide, protect. But we are long past that now. And in fact, we are in an era where it's made even worse because of social media. That's right.
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Yeah, which my favorite aggression on social media is the post of everyone's hanging out without you. Everyone and your friend. And I've heard this story so many times, all generations of women. So again, talk to me about why this persists when honestly, we all know better.
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The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
I think all of us have been wrong about Jon Hamm for a very long time. You know, when he first burst on the scene with Mad Men, I mean, everyone, myself included, had a huge crush on this guy. And he sort of really kind of came in and was like a throwback to a very old school kind of masculinity. And even today, he still kind of has it.
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Or is it just that your kink is being mean to people that you – feel have something you don't and you can't take it out on yourself or you'd rather not, so you're gonna take it out on that person. I wanna share with you a personal anecdote from my adulthood, which again, this is why I never tell my goddaughter it's gonna get better. So this was around the height of COVID.
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the height of lockdown and everybody sort of had their pods because you had to have some sort of social connection to get through it intact and i had a neighbor invite me to a little outdoor dinner that she was going to host and i really wasn't comfortable with it and i said i'll think about it i don't really know i was the next day i went to go pick up my phone to text my regrets
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And she texted me and said, you know, one of my friends, she blamed it on one of her friends. She's not comfortable with too big of a group. So you're not invited anymore. You're disinvited. I had never gotten a message like that in my entire life. It was literally like, just to be clear, don't come. And I was surprised how much it made me upset.
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Like I almost like I could feel tears like springing up. And it's not because I particularly liked this person. It was kind of a friendship of convenience, but it was more that somebody could be so cruel at the height of a freaking pandemic. Then the next day she finds me on this little road we live on. She's chasing me. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
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You know, that was so-and-so's fault. She was the one who said you couldn't come. I said, oh, you mean your friend who went to a party out in East Hampton where people with COVID knowingly showed up and she's worried about like infection? I said, did she get her COVID test before she came to your house? Oh, no.
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You know, and in that moment, I was like, this is just too limited and sad of a person for me to even really give a shit about. But the act of being so deliberately cruel was,
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was the thing that transcended everything for me and i couldn't believe it a middle-aged woman behaving like this um so that's just a little bit of bruising from my own personal experience but what's like the worst you've heard or has happened to you in terms of um female aggression in adulthood oh wow female aggression in adulthood first you know
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books fashion music you name it we're covering it um we're gonna kick off today with an incredible little reported story involving an a-list star who you will never look at the same way again i to my mind think this guy is worse than harvey weinstein and that says a lot because i think harvey weinstein's a pretty bad guy um and i also just wanted to take a moment to thank everybody who sent me messages
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You know, he's really in stark contrast to like the Timothée Chalamet's and those like fey, twee little guys who don't quite read as, I think, traditionally masculine, fair, whatever. But I would also like to say this before we get into the scandal that he has successfully ridden out and hidden lo these many years.
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Well, thank you for those kind words. Trust me, I survived intact, and that person did me a huge favor. But when do you know, Dr. Aaron, when it's time to try to have a conversation with a friend who you feel has really done something hurtful and it feels deliberate, it feels like a little bit of a shiv?
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And how do you know when it's time to just remove oneself from either that friendship or that specific friend group?
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You know, I feel like it's so easy to say that. I think, you know, when most women are confronted with a decision like that, you know, you really have to parse it out in your, first of all, I think you have to just calm down and get to the point where the emotions have subsided and you can begin to think a little bit logically.
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Like you said, evaluate the length of the friendship, the depth of the friendship, you know, the importance of it. Because I do think, and I think a lot of women feel this way. I certainly do. A friendship breakup, a best friendship breakup, can be as devastating, if not more so, than the breakup of a romantic relationship. Can you talk to that?
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Having just acted myself in a short little film called With Love, Meghan, that's Meghan with a Y, in which Megyn Kelly portrayed a Meghan Markle adjacent character. in which I portrayed a Mindy Kaling adjacent character, one who displayed really just fear and servility and felt like a hostage throughout the whole thing. You know, we've gotten some really nice notices.
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Before I let you go, I want to ask you, what would you advise? You know, it's one thing for women to sort of hash this out. And, you know, we have we've been through adolescence. Our brains are fully formed now.
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what would you advise you tell a child in your life, be it your daughter, a niece, a godchild, who is dealing with this stuff day in and day out at school, where the alliances shift by the minute? What would you say to a kid who is struggling with this stuff?
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Absolutely. And those are the conversations that I have with my goddaughter, you know, what's going on at that kid's home. It's always something not great, you know, but that said, it doesn't really do anything to lessen the emotional impact of like being the kid who's left out. And this is a kid who, by the way, has everything going for her.
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She's not what you would consider somebody who would be an easy target. She's not a soft target. And it doesn't really do anything still to ameliorate the actual physical, emotional just hurt of being the one who's left out of the party, who's off the invite list, who somebody moves away from at the lunch table. Like what would you tell a kid in those moments?
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Like here's your best coping mechanism. Here's what you do at the lunch table when someone moves away, for example.
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So revenge isn't on your list.
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Let the punishment fit the crime. Interesting. I like it. I like it. It's got some teeth. Because a bully responds to strength. Exactly. Exactly right. Exactly right. I couldn't agree with you more. Yes. Well, Dr. Aaron, thank you so much for coming on and talking about this. I think this is a conversation that will be ongoing. Everyone email me at Maureen at Devil May Care Media.
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Tell me what you think. Tell me your experiences. Tell me what more you'd like to hear on this and other topics. I will be reading all of them very eagerly and avidly. Thanks again to Dr. Aaron. And on the other side of this break, we are going to have, speaking of friends, one of my closest friends who I am so excited to bring on the nerve and introduce all of you to, Susanna Cahalan.
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We've heard the words Emmy and Oscar banded about. So I say that just to tell you that I think I now can legitimately criticize another actor's skill set. And I'm going to tell you that I think Jon Hamm is a very limited actor.
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So take the time to prioritize your sleep and prioritize you. Visit CozyEarth.com and start sleeping better with Cozy Earth today. That's CozyEarth.com. Welcome back to The Nerve. I couldn't have hoped for a better guest for my first episode than my wonderful, beautiful, dear friend, Susanna Cahalan. She is the author of the million plus bestselling memoir, Brain on Fire.
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Not many writers can say they've sold over a million copies of, by the way, what was her first book, a memoir. It's been translated into like a bazillion languages. It has changed the face of modern medicine and the way women and girls are treated because of Susanna's case. And she's got a fascinating new book out, which we're gonna all talk about.
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On the off chance that you don't know Susanna's story, Charlize Theron made a movie out of it. And we're going to take a look at a little bit of the trailer and it's going to set you up and you're going to fall in love with Susanna as much as everyone who knows her does.
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he only ever displays barely concealed rage okay he's got one speed that is it mad men rage bridesmaids he's a douche the town he's playing an fbi agent he's the good guy he still manages to make that guy a douche now he's in the show called your friends and neighbors in which he's also playing yet again a douche and In the first episode, this shocks me. I think he's played for laughs.
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No, no, God, no.
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So I rewatched that this morning and Susanna, like, I got emotional. I still get very emotional about your, and I know like you have moved on. You have a beautiful family. You married Steven. One of the most Googled questions about you. Did Susanna marry Steven? Who is such a good sport about that movie. I remember watching it when you got the link to the rough cut and poor Steven sat there.
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There was a scene where he's playing guitar to you naked. That never happened. And he's like, that never happened.
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He's such a good sport. And now you guys have three beautiful children and your book has truly, I mean, you have given talks about this all over the world. It really has changed modern medicine and the ways in which I think doctors and physicians now look at girls and women who come in because you, had a very rare autoimmune disease.
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You were only the 217th person in the world to be diagnosed with it. You were on the verge of being sent off to a psychiatric institution to live out what would have been the rest of your days. Talk about how you think this book in particular in your story, the woman who presents as quote unquote hysterical can no longer be minimized that way.
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Oh, 100% to your book. And, you know, it's not as though a misdiagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis is no big deal. Like, it can kill you. Yeah. It can rob you even if they didn't, if they hadn't caught yours in time, if Dr. Najjar, who has become world famous because of Brain on Fire, hadn't caught yours, you could have been left with severe deficits.
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I didn't find it very funny. He assaults his daughter's boyfriend. Watch.
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And that women would be either, you know, you're a witch, you're burned at the stake, you know, like all of these things. The book is also, so my origin story with you and our friendship, I didn't know you before you were sick. I didn't know you when you were sick. I knew you after you got better. You came back. We were both working at the New York Post.
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You wound up sitting at the desk next to me. Yes. And I knew you when you were writing the book, but I didn't know the Susanna before.
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susanna i know is you know you're one of if i have a real dilemma you're one of the first people i go to because you're very wise you're very smart you're very sensitive you also i think and i really want to get into this with you because it leads into the acid queen i feel like you are i asked you this once you're a rationalist you are but you also have a deep connection to
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like the spirit world to what I think are other dimensions, really. You have a real openness to it. And I wonder, do you think had you not, quote unquote, lost your mind, like it wasn't there for a month, that you would have emerged with this kind of openness to things that are unexplained?
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And then, the ham character makes good on his promise. I knew you were going to be here.
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I remember, so you were one of my first calls after I had what I can only describe as, I couldn't call it that at the time. I have come to think of it, well, I'll just set it up. I called you about, I think it was the day after my dad died.
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what did you do oh my god i told you to stop calling me so he punches this 20 year old kid in the genitals and then in the following episode he runs into this kid again and instead of saying thanks for not pressing charges thanks for not suing me civilly this is what he says well i hope there's no lasting damage and more importantly i hope there's no hard feelings okay let's talk about lasting damage
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and uh you know i had been very very close to him but the last year of his life he was particularly difficult and we did not have the greatest connection uh and um i was staying at my childhood home with my dog and um in the middle of the night i jackknifed out of bed when i heard like a boom, like it was a boom. It was the front door of the house had been kicked in.
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It had hit the wall so violently. And I said to myself, there are two men in this house and I might die tonight. And I just hope it's fast. And I sat there and I did the thing that people do in horror movies that you think you would never do, right? I'm like, do I call 911? They're going to think I'm stupid if I'm like overreacting. Like, do I go downstairs? I went to the top of the staircase.
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I looked down there. The door was closed. I went downstairs. Nobody was in the house. I went back upstairs. The dog was asleep. My dog, by the way, my guard dog, he alerts like 10 minutes before someone shows up. That's Teddy Van Halen, okay? Named after Eddie Van Halen, the rock god. He shares coloring and some wild man tendencies. Oh, 100%. But this dog, he is so on alert.
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I think he's like the dog on the Bin Laden raid. Like, don't come unannounced to the house. So anyway, I go back upstairs and I surprise the shit out of myself by saying this thing out loud. You can go over to the other side. You should go all the way over to the other side. It's okay. We are all going to be okay.
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And I called you and I told you this and I said, I think it was probably an auditory hallucination of some. And you said, Maureen, no, like I know you have your beliefs, but you need to be open to this. Maybe being your dad, like making a sound on his way out the door.
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Oh my God, right? Oh my God. So I got back after like a week away after we buried him, which by the way, we buried him in a military veteran's cemetery that's not very far from where I live. And my dad was like a lifelong drinker of Budweiser in a can. And I got back to my house and there was a crushed can of Budweiser
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in my otherwise well manicured front yard like there was like there was no construction going on i don't drink beer that much like there was no way i don't have it in my house and i i took a picture and i did send it to you because i was like this is this is wild and we've had some other winks and nods um but you have um also helped humble me and open me up to the idea that um guess what i don't know everything i think that's the thing i think it's the humility part right not knowing
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you know being open to it yes and this so this brings us to your new book the acid queen which i'm going to hold up right here this book is incredible it is the true story of a woman named rosemary woodruff leary she was married to timothy leary who was like the guru of the counterculture in the 60s she was beautiful vibrant smart and she really ran the show otherwise forgotten to history until you found her susannah
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The people who make cameos in this book include John Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Black Panthers. There's a jailbreak that Rosemary masterminds. Uma Thurman's mother, Winona Ryder. I could go on. Talk to me about Rosemary and her connection to other worlds and other dimensions.
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And what really roots this book is this enormous love story between her and Timothy Leary, who was one of the most famous men in America at the time, one of the most wanted by the feds. They wind up fleeing to Algeria at one point. It's like, it's wild, like romance. And it's also like a really bad romance.
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When Jon Hamm was a frat boy at the University of Texas at Austin, he was the alleged ringleader of a fraternity hazing so savage, he nearly killed a kid, okay? And we're gonna go through the victim interview that was conducted in the wake of this frat hazing The victim is named Mark, Mark Allen Sanders.
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Like I know you probably think she did get a lot out of that relationship and I think so too, but I think he was a bad guy. I'm harder than you are on Tim Leary. I don't like him, but Rosemary liked him and that's what's important.
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Yeah. I had the same thing with Jackie and Jack Kennedy. Like I had to see Jack through Jackie's eyes. It wouldn't work if not. It doesn't work if not. Like you kind of have to figure out a way to fall in love with them. Yes.
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But when I was going back through your book the other night, I had forgotten this and I probably trauma blocked it out of my mind because he did something to her that was such a betrayal. He used love letters to try to convince her to take the rap for him. Talk about that.
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It was such an ultimate betrayal. And you guys, The Acid Queen is out today. Please go and buy it. Order Susanna's book and read it and enjoy it as much as I did. You have never read a story like this, and we need more writers in the world like Susanna. So support her and buy her book. Now, Rosemary, this story takes yet another incredible turn.
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She decides to go underground, which I don't even know if in today's social media world people even have a concept of what that is to do. I mean, you basically
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just vacate yourself and you vacate your life and you vacate planet Earth and you're nowhere to be found and you're living under an alias and you live in fear that anybody might figure out who you are and turn you in and your life will be over. I mean, talk a little bit about how long Rosemary stayed underground and the toll that that took on her.
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And I think to the loneliness, and I think that's why this story is so resonant and poignant and moving and also just unbelievable. Again, you've got to get the book, The Ass of Queen. It's out today. But I think all of us who are still kind of crawling out of the trauma that was COVID lockdown have a real true understanding of the toll that isolation is.
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from other human beings, from being seen by other human beings, what that really does to you.
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And, you know, by the way, that was not the end of the love story between Timothy Leary and Rosemary Leary. You would think that betrayal would have done it, but it's not. And you should get the book and find out exactly what happened and how. Susanna, I love you so much. Thank you so much for coming on my first show.
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I'm so excited for you and your new book. And I can't again, the acid queen, go get it. Um, thanks Susanna. And thanks to all of you guys for listening. We will be back on Friday with episode two. We are just getting started. We will see you next time on the nerve where you will never guess what we're about to say next.
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And he begins by telling the investigators that he arrived to this frat hazing and one John Han, his name is misspelled in this transcript, which I have every reason to believe is real. Here is the top sheet of this private investigation. So his name in the transcript is spelled with an H instead of just J-O-N. Jon Hamm tells him to settle in because it is going to be a very long night.
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The first challenge that this pledge was supposed to complete was to know all of what Jon Hamm called his bullshit. And the bullshit included his nicknames. one of which was MC Hammer. And because this kid, Mark, could not come up with the proper nicknames, he said, he gets mad, meaning Jon Hamm. And I mean, really mad. And he grabs us both.
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So now Jon Hamm has grabbed two pledges by either side, one arm here and one arm here. So think of the strength that that takes So he marches these two little pledges upstairs where they meet two other frat boys who have a paddle. And this isn't like a ping pong paddle. This is what the victim describes as a two-handed wooden paddle that was at least a foot long. So that's solid wood.
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over the past few days after hearing how nervous I was on Megyn Kelly's show last Friday. I saw them all, I read them. They really have helped me a lot. I was so preoccupied after leaving Megyn's studio and I've been doing her show in that studio for, I'm gonna say like a couple of years now.
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They begin to beat Mark Sanders. He says very hard rearing back. These aren't love taps. He's hitting me left-handed. I'm on my, so he's everywhere. He's on his right side. He's on his left side. Then at a, at a given point, John Hamm, again, according to this transcript takes the paddle and the victim describes John Hamm rearing back and he hits me right over my right kidney.
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I mean, square over it, good, solid hit. And that stood me up. So now this guy is like dying over where he's been hitting the kidney. He says, I'm hurting bad. I mean, being hit right where the kidney is, it's killing me. This was not the end for Mark. Next comes sawing in which two of the brothers allegedly pulled up his underwear from inside his pants, Mark's pants. This is what he said.
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The more they pulled, the way they were pulling was one would be pulling up. They were pulling like it was sawing and it was hurting and it hurt. He doesn't even know how long they continue doing that. Now we get to John Hamm, who is described as an officer of the fraternity. Mark says that Jon Hamm was quote with me all night, never left me.
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So then Jon Hamm and the group lead me downstairs to the quote unquote pit. And this is like a sort of dirty, super confined space. And Mark is ordered to get in the dirt, and begin forcibly doing pushups. Okay. His, his kidney is so damaged. Like he can barely breathe. Now he's got to do pushups.
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Jon Hamm, according to this transcript and another frat boy quote, they were actually pushing my face to get in the dirt. He told me to get my face in the dirt. And then all the pledges are taken out of there, except me. I'm left in there with Jon Hamm with who I believe is a true sadist. Jon Hamm is gonna try to do cleanup on aisle nine. Trust me, you're not gonna like it.
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So this pledge, Mark, brutally beaten, is trying to get up and walk out with the other pledges, just get out of that pit. And Jon Hamm says to him, stay where you are. You're not going anywhere. It's not over yet for you. Next up, If you've ever heard of somebody doing this, I would like to meet you because I've never heard of anything this savage. So now Mark is with Jon Hamm. Okay.
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So I know how to get from point A to point B. And I was walking out of the studio, back to the car, the lovely driver who was taking me home I had my head down. I was so consumed with my own nerves and preoccupations. I walked straight into a branch, a knotty, thick tree branch. I get to the car door. This driver's like, you're bleeding. I'm like, are you serious? I pull out my compact.
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He's hearing other guys that are around me because they are so close, but he's really disoriented clearly at this point, Mark is. Somebody's walking on his back, okay? Forcible pushups, face in the dirt, walking on his back.
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then this is where we pick up quote i'm told to stand up so i get up on my knees again obviously he can't even stand up and this is when john ham pulls out a lighter and he puts his lighter on and i was wearing designer jeans name redacted and i have this loop on the front and he took the lighter and caught that on fire question this was john ham Mark, yeah, and my head is down.
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I mean, my chin is in the chest at this point. I see him light the lighter and put it to my pants. Did he say anything when he did that? Question. Mark. Yeah. He said something. I don't remember what it was. I tried to put out the fire immediately. Question. With your hand. Mark. Yeah. With my hand. But he knocked my hands away. Question. John Hamm knocked your hands. Mark. Yes.
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John Hamm knocked my hand away. And I was kind of panicking because I was wearing a cotton t-shirt. He could feel the heat. I actually tried to put it out with my hand. This is Mark again. And he, Jon Hamm, wouldn't let me. He made me blow it out with my mouth. So the fire is put out, but Jon Hamm's not done. Now he's picked up a hammer.
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And I'll say it's Jon Hamm, Mark says, because he was the one wearing a dark overcoat and I could see in the arm, the hammer and this dark overcoat. So Jon Hamm takes that hammer claw, hooks it under Mark Sanders genitals and drags him around the room for about a solid minute. Let's talk about lasting damage because this guy barely escaped with his life.
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He tells the investigators when he sits down with them weeks later that he's been to the doctor. He has a broken back. His spine is fractured. His doctor has told him he may lose his right kidney. He has extreme trauma. My kidney spasms and it re bruises itself. This is Mark. And he told me it was from being hit right over it, the kidney.
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can remember feeling being hit hard right over this oh he was also beaten with a broomstick i forgot that part right over my rib cage whenever i breathe my lung actually can't go all the way because it's pinned between my ribcage from i assume it was beaten down some beaten into me He's got ligament damage, cartilage damage, artery, vein, nerve damage. His rib cage is bruised severely.
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If you've ever had rib cage pain, if you've ever broken a rib or had surgery, you know what that's like. He's worried that he's going to lose his kidney. The whole right side of my body, Mark tells them, is swollen severely. He has tried to give me medication to stop the swelling on my back, but it doesn't work. It doesn't help. Another pledge who survived that night said in his statement,
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that he was so scared, even though he lives three hours away, that he was so scared to return to Austin because, quote, he doesn't know to what extent they, Jon Hamm and his frat brothers, will go to get even for reporting this crime. Now, if I remember this correctly, because I remember reading about it when it first came out, and nobody really covered it.
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It didn't really get picked up, and I could never understand why. People have been canceled for a lot less. I mean, Kevin Spacey right now is selling off every piece of real estate he's ever purchased during his long and storied career. As far as I know, he has never been convicted of rape. He has never been criminally convicted in a court of law in America.
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I think he got convicted of something in the UK. But, you know, really, he was kind of a pig and he was gross and he was handsy. He didn't do anything approaching this, as far as I know. Kevin Spacey can't get hired. Alec Baldwin is making a movie in Italy right now, okay? He just finished a reality show that was an attempt to clean up his image.
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I'm like, my entire upper face is just bleeding. I can't even see the source of the bleed. You know, like your head, you get the tiniest laceration and it's just like a geyser is gushing. Like I get in the back of the car. I'm like, sir, I'm so sorry. I'm not going to get blood anywhere, but I am bleeding out. He says, do you want to go back? And I was like, absolutely not.
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He shot and killed a woman on a set that he ran that saw the bulk of the crew members walk out the day of the shooting over firearm safety concerns. But because Jon Hamm looks like this, By the way, this is the new interview magazine. He's interviewed by his good friend, Tina Fey, in which they just tongue bathe each other.
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But she's doing all these really serious interviews about what she did to prep for this cover. And I would just like to say to Salma, you might want to take a seat. I don't know if this is, again, the victory lap you should be taking, because it wasn't that long ago that Sports Illustrated included Gayle King.
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in their swimsuit issue i think it was last year you know and this was well before she was an astronaut so i'm just saying the bar has been consistently lowered vis-a-vis this swimsuit issue which used to be you know it was like it's not what it was anyway listen to selma talking about this most momentous life event this most momentous achievement
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As I said, when hardened New York City jurors recoil in disgust, and again, we live among rats, like huge, enormous urban super rats that fear nothing and no one. Raccoons, same. And homeless people openly masturbating. And... This is what phases a New York City jury. Diddy is in real trouble, okay? He is in real shit.
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First of all, how jealous is Larry Baldwin right now? I was going to work out, but then I didn't work out because, you know, I have nothing but time because my husband is worth $40 billion and owns the world. But I didn't work out, you know, so I just and then it got closer and then I put some ankle weights on around the house and I stomped around the house and I didn't work out.
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But like, look at me on the cover. She looks. like she's half her age. And you're not telling me this woman doesn't restrict her dieting. I mean, her calorie counts. She diets for sure. You're not telling me she doesn't work out like a fiend. And she looks like that, by the way, because she is married to one of the world's richest men. She's married to a man named Francois-Henri Pinot.
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He's 62 years old. He owns Keurig, which rivals only LVMH in terms of luxury holdings, okay? Her husband owns Gucci, YSL, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta. He has a considerable stake in the Hollywood powerhouse agency, CAA. So are you wondering, like I am, how Salma Hayek got this offer out of the blue from – Sports Illustrated, I mean, it's not like she's a mover in the culture anymore. She's not.
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I don't know what she does all day. She's on Instagram. That's what she does all day, where she has...
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25 million followers and i do not believe that she has 25 actual million followers i believe her husband it's just my opinion purchased a bunch of bots or you know invented a bunch of fake people you know hacked in somehow with ai i do not believe for a second that 25 million people on this planet give a what salma hayek is up to on any given day and by the way this perfect life that she's shoving in everybody's face and this is where we're really getting into it
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Because this is what the nerve is here to push back against. People like this telling people like us that we could look like them and sound like them and be as healthy as they are and have the marriages they have. And they're all so happy and everything's great. And we just need to switch our mindset and manifest it. You know, it's all such bullshit. Salma Hayek has successfully buried this.
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But when she was dating... Her husband, Francois Henry, he was also dating. And these are the ones we know about because these guys, they always have their hands in multiple pies. Trust me. Trust me. Linda Evangelista, the supermodel. Before she had got breast cancer and had to take drugs and she gained a lot of weight.
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And she's, she swelled up and, you know, the fashion industry was revolted by her. And then finally they kind of got the note, the note from the culture that was like, that's really fucked up. This woman has breast cancer. He's like, yeah, she once said we don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day, but you know, we've moved on bygones.
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And so I believe it was, it was either British Vogue or Vogue Italia, but I think it was British Vogue that said, yeah,
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linda we welcome you back come back on the cover and they put her like a tight beauty shot like a really tight beauty shot and they wrapped her her skull in bandages as if she had had a facelift and that way they pulled her face back and tried to make it slimmer i mean that's how up the fashion industry is okay that was supposed to be a win for her and a welcome back from them and they her on that cover and they laughed about it
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So anyway, there was overlap with Salma Hayek and Linda Evangelista and Salma, quote unquote, one, Linda had a child with, with, Francois Henri Pinot or Henri Francois, however you say it, they had a child together and Salah gutted it out. And I believe she got pregnant not long after. I'm not 100% on that chronology, but I know that that is the general gist of it.
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So this woman is out there wanting you to think she's winning. I would bet, just my opinion, I would bet this guy has other love children out there, okay? Now, she also likes to tell us her beauty secrets. And I saw this on one of the entertainment shows the other day, and I almost fell out of my chair. I was like, you've got to be kidding me. She says that her beauty secrets, she's 58 years old.
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And never forget that one of his defense lawyers parachuted out of this case weeks ago, and that guy defended Osama bin Laden in U.S. federal court not once but twice, okay? Anyway, here is how we know Diddy is done. Whether he's found guilty or not, I tend to think he will be. But let's say he gets off, right? Portraits of words. Let's say he is exonerated, acquitted, found not guilty.
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Okay, she looks like she's 30. Her beauty secrets are meditation, joy. This isn't the word of the decade. I don't know what it is. And drinking water. Okay, those are lies. She may do the following things, but they're not responsible for the way she looks. She has had a facelift, I can tell you. She's had a facelift.
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Nobody gets out of aging and gravity's effects without their neck beginning to sag, without jowls coming on. This woman's face, it's great. Great work. I will give her that. But she is also getting Botox. She is also getting filler. She also has extensions. She's getting laser. She's getting it all. Okay. They are lying to you. Don't believe it.
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Jennifer Aniston, one of the most beloved celebrities in the country. She does it too. She lies about it. Here she is from an InStyle magazine article in 2024. Well, this was her derm basically saying the same thing. Oh, Jen, you know, she just like drinks a lot of water and she gets a lot of rest and she eats really well. She eats really clean.
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Okay, I'm gonna tell you guys firsthand that I have, I know a doctor who recently worked with somebody very close to Jennifer Aniston. If Jennifer Aniston or any of her friends are listening, You might not want to keep going. This person said to my doctor friend, do you think that it's hopeless regarding Jen's recent work?
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Now, this doctor told me, did not treat her, but can ID stuff a mile away, that Jennifer Aniston recently had what is called a bilateral disease. Uh, what's it called? It's a bilateral, like lower facelift. So they go in with cameras on both sides, like under the cheekbones. And they, I think Kyle Richards from Beverly Hills had one too, and they go in and they just lift here. They just lift here.
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And what it winds up doing is it winds up stretching the mouth out like that. And you can't reverse it. And it's a bad procedure to have done, no matter who you are, no matter what your bone structure is, because it's not working with the rest of the face. It doesn't take into account like the musculature and the structure and the tissues of the entire face. And so these women wind up, you know,
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they wind up really doing more harm to themselves than if they had let themselves just age gracefully, and it really bums me out. Now, Victoria Beckham, another one. Per Vogue, she said, tips to steal from Victoria Beckham's skincare routine. She likes to do a mask, and at the end of a day, oh, I have it on my phone, excuse me.
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I took a screen grab for you guys because I had to quote from it directly. So it really comes down to her end of the day ritual. Okay. And that end of day ritual involves quote. Oh, because she doesn't have a ton of free time on her hands. She's a mother and a business owner. And we never talk about the help, right? We never talk about the help. Quote, Epsom salts are good in a bath. No shit.
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Most of the time, I usually shower because she doesn't even have the time to take a bath. Wow. She told this to Into the Gloss. I've got a really nice big stone bath in my bathroom. I'm really comfortable in it, but I never have time to be honest with you. Whoa, she really doesn't have time to shower. Okay, but I thought we had time to shower because we can't bathe. Whatever.
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She says, if I can get in bed at a reasonable time, And I've put a face mask on and I'm reading my Kindle. That's a luxury for me. So that's how she stays youthfully glowing. And my favorite example of all, my favorite example of all, Gisele Bundchen, per Allure in 2020. And I quote, these are her beauty secrets.
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Self-care is so important and a lot of people feel they don't have time to make themselves a priority. like you and me who work for a living and have life admin stuff and like family members who need help and all that shit. Okay. Therefore, so skin, she says, is a reflection of overall health and wellness. Two different things.
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Therefore, she's committed to drinking lots of water every day and practicing meditation each morning. Quote, I believe that outer beauty is a reflection of your inner balance and peace. End quote. Never forget. This is like my serious voice. This is like, I am your mother and I am taking you to task. Never forget this paparazzi photo taken of Giselle in Paris. She is in a burqa. Okay.
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Check out this first meme posted by his arch nemesis, 50 Cent. And not for nothing, 50 Cent is one of the very few prominent rappers, Eminem aside, to openly acknowledge that everybody knew about Puffy as he was once known. Take a look at this.
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She is covered head to toe in like the beekeeper outfit that Islamic fundamentalist men make women wear. Okay. And so she's head to toe in a burka. We can only see her hands photographed outside her plastic surgeon's office in Paris in 2015, five years before she gave that interview with her tips of meditating in nature and drinking water.
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And this is somebody who I believe per reports had had a lot of work done before that. When these models get in front of your face, they've typically had a fair amount of work done. I mean, we all know that, sorry, not Gigi, Bella Hadid basically bought herself a new face. Google the before and after. It's a new face.
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And to that end, I just want to say that these lies that these older celebrities are telling have led to a very very sick society and is it any wonder that these younger celebrities coming up these like gen z celebrities are totally and they in turn are their peers who are looking up to them their cohort you know the kids who are on social media They're buying new faces, okay?
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They're just buying new faces. And then they're founding these cosmetic companies, which are becoming very profitable. And somehow kids are forgetting that these girls weren't born like this. They were at the plastic surgeon's office getting sliced and diced and hacked up. Look at Kylie Jenner before...
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plastic surgery and after her plastic surgery that is an entirely different face she has a cosmetics company now she started with lip kits okay look at her old lips her old lips are barely existent now they're like super puffy and and lush you know that that company is rumored to be worth a reported or it made her worth rather a reported 900 million dollars
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That in my opinion is a company based on a lie. And we live in a world where like authenticity is supposed to be like the most valuable thing. I don't understand how these businesses thrive. Now look at Hailey Bieber before and after. Again, that is a completely different face. I'm not even gonna go through everything I think she's had done. It's like everything. It's like a head transplant, okay?
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Hailey Bieber, according to the Standard in May 2020, quote, I never touched my face. I never touched my face. Well, somebody touched your face. I think a lot of people touched your face.
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Now, Page Six has recently reported that Hailey Bieber has tapped JP Morgan Chase to explore the sale of her cosmetics line, Road Beauty, which is expected to potentially sell for a billion dollars, all based on lies. Now, I'm going to go to another repeat offender, but this time I'm gonna come at you from another angle you're not gonna see coming, okay? So this is Michelle Obama.
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who we've been on because of her podcasts and her bleedings and her moanings and her bitchings and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I think she thinks this makes it relatable. It does not. But so this weekend it was announced that, and the timing is highly suspicious. I'm just going to say it. And I can say this because I lost my father to cancer. I've known many people who have had cancer.
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It is very personal for me.
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and i consider it a sacred subject and this is why i'm going to say it i think this timing is highly suspicious okay there are all these books out there about the cover-up regarding joe by like even the democrats are like yeah it's true we all it was a huge cover-up everybody covered up his mental decline so the biden's this weekend on the eve of this of a real bombshell book coming out so guess what joe biden
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Okay, for those of you who are listening, this is Sean Combs riding on the back of a motorcycle driven by Jeffrey Epstein, hands gripped lovingly around Epstein's midsection. These two are living their best lives, and they take off into the sky on said motorcycle like E.T. in the movie with Elliot.
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has stage, like the Gleason score is nine, prostate cancer. Gleason score is nine, so it's spread to his bones. Now, every man, and I learned this when my dad was going through prostate cancer. Another kind of cancer got him. But we learned this 40 years ago.
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Just about every man is going to get prostate cancer, and they start screening you annually at 40, and they can catch it early, and you can live with it, and it's highly treatable, if not curable. And so the idea that a president who's got A cohort of doctors for every single body part would never have been screened for prostate cancer annually is fucking wild.
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Okay, so Michelle Obama is the lone party leader who did not tweet out her sympathies. She simply retweeted her dead weight of a husband, Barack's. sympathies that he put out on X. I always say tweeted. We all know what we're talking about. She just retweeted that. That was the most she was going to do. And I kind of love it because Michelle hates the Bidens. She hates them.
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And she hates them because Hunter Biden treated one of her best friends, Kathleen Buell, who was Hunter's first wife. I won't get into the sordidness. We don't have the time. I wish I could. But anyway, she fucking hates them. And I will tell you something. This is an authentic Michelle Obama that I can get behind. I think some of these women just need to lean into their inner bitch. Just do it.
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I like it. I like this for Michelle Obama.
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okay finally we're going to end this segment on someone far less consequential but she is in the culture and she refuses to leave even though she has to what i can discern no talent i discern nothing people are like oh she's really funny on social media for a while that was her talent until i'm gonna end with with the until now she has injected herself into the news cycle yet again to let us know that she has quit quitting drinking
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This is an ABC News report, okay, you guys? This is an ABC News report. And the headline is Chrissy Teigen shares emotional update. The adjectives are important. On her journey. It's always a journey. Everything's a fucking journey. On her journey with alcohol. Now, the update is Chrissy is basically like you guys always.
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I went sober and but I'm not sober anymore and I don't know why I can't not be sober. But again, these are people with so much money. You know, you get a direct you get direct help. You get one on one treatment. You get someone to move into your house. You get them if it's that bad. If it's that bad, I don't really think it's that bad. But what do I know?
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OK, now this is a woman who narrowly escaped getting canceled for good because, you know, she was so funny on social media. And I think this really all this praise got into her head and it came out that she had bullied. And this is a theme we're going to come to the come back to this at the end of the show. She had bullied a starlet named Courtney Stodden. And this was like pre-Me Too.
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This was before people were really, you know, hyper attuned to predators. And this young girl was married to this like 50 something year old guy. And it was very, very creepy. And so Courtney Stodden in an interview with The Daily Beast in May 2021
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revealed that Chrissy Teigen wouldn't just publicly tweet about her wanting to take, quote, a dirt nap, but, Courtney said, Chrissy Teigen would privately DM her. This is from the interview that Stoddard gave The Daily Beast. She says she would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself. Things like, I can't wait for you to die. And guess what? Chrissy Teigen never denied it.
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In fact, she took accountability for it. She admitted, I won't say she took accountability for it. She admitted it. And then she said in what I think is a BS social media post that she was so lucky to be called out because she was so lucky to have the opportunity to become a better person.
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You know, the only thing that's missing is like it's night and we're up against like a full moon, you know, like a harvest moon. Okay, you think it can't get any better? Take a look at this one, also posted by 50 Cent on his account over the weekend.
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I think if you're the kind of person who tells anybody else, whether you know them or not, to go kill themselves, you are garbage. Okay? You are a piece of shit, and I hate Chrissy Teigen, and I hate her husband, John Legend. That's not even his last name. He gave it to himself, and that tells you all you need to know about those two. Okay?
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Anyway, next up, we have a deep dive on some media messiness, and we're going to start it off with another self-appointed self-help guru who... They all have it coming. We'll get to it. And then we have Nepo Babies, which is going to be so fun because we're going to do it like nobody else does it. And our first moment of nirvana.
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And it came with these, you can't see them, but there's stuff on the top. And somebody said to me, it looks like a Meghan Markle drink. It looks like somebody put inedible flowers in your matcha. And I don't even really like it that much, but I'm drinking it because I think there's caffeine in here. I don't know.
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anyway okay i wonder what a wellness expert would have to say about that i'm going to talk to you guys about somebody who's being touted to you sans any bona fides as an expert and they're telling you to buy her book and i'm telling you not to okay her name is amy larocca and i know this name because she's been a writer for new york magazine for like the past 20 years and she covered fashion
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Here's Diddy in an orange jumpsuit behind bars, holding hands with an inmate, and putting himself down to bed by slugging a bottle of Johnson & Johnson's baby oil. I mean, whoever put those together is a genius, okay? That is where Diddy is in the culture. He is a complete joke that is also utterly repugnant. And I'm glad that we can at least
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She didn't cover health. She didn't cover science. She covered fashion, but she's got a book out and it's called, I'm so angry, I'm like shaking. It's called How to Be Well. The subtitle is Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time.
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Plus, we expose yet another wellness grift, and what responsibility the august, and I'm winking at you, New York Times bears for this and other major infractions that just all go to the death of legacy media. We saw a big resignation today at CBS News, okay? Plus, we are taking apart three major nepo babies with their own product, or lack thereof. Plus we have a collective nickname.
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Now, the caption to this article says, in the New York Times, which this is a through line for this segment, she maintains that it's quote, incredibly dangerous to live in a society that treats health like a luxury product.
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Okay, this is again, these wealthy women talking to other wealthy or well-off women about how dangerous it is to treat wellness like it's a luxury product, which is exactly what they are selling.
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they are not talking to women who of no means or little means who are lucky if they can eat you know a serving of vegetables or fruits with every meal you know they're talking to women who have so much disposable income and free time that they're debating between a lymphatic drainage massage or a five mile run or a weekend at canyon ranch or should they go to thailand it's that okay now um
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We are told that this conversation, it's an interview, but it's a convo, took place over a matcha latte, I'm sleeping with the enemy here, and an iced green tea. It's been edited for length and clarity. Okay. This question, at this point, I'm not even reading this question. Amy says, sometimes you see this with wellness when you go into these new medical practices. These are like med spas, okay?
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They're like people who get trained to shoot. Don't go to those people. Don't. Okay, you're like, am I at a spa, a gym, a boutique hotel? Am I at the doctor? Am I in a Kate Hudson movie? This woman got a book deal. She says that recreational wellness, which is a phrase I've never heard of, Amy says it's a diversion. I exercise a lot. Part of it's for recreation. Part of it's for actual health.
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I used to do my red light stuff. I guess that means she has a mask that's like one of those red lights. They sell for... anywhere from like $350 to like $12,000. And my dermatologist who is a genius and does, she does a lot of famous faces. She says they're bullshit. Don't buy them. Go get real laser treatments in a dermatologist's office. I do it and I love it. And I drink my collagen.
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Again, scientifically, any doctor will tell you drinking collagen is bullshit. It doesn't do anything. Your body can't absorb collagen. And that's something else that Jennifer Aniston said. you know, is a paid promoter of, you know, drinking collagen, putting those, that collagen supplement and you're, it's bullshit. Okay.
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And then going into pharmacies with lots of beautiful overpriced skincare products can really make you feel cared for and costed. It can feel really nice, exclamation point. That's what Amy tells us. She's not telling us, Here are the things that you can buy over the counter that will actually do stuff. And here are the things that won't do jack shit. They just make you feel good.
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Like that Augustinus Badener stuff that all these women are paying $1,000 for, for like a skinny little tube. Bullshit. Doesn't do anything. I guess they like the upsell. Retin-A works. Okay. I've been on that stuff since I was 20. I started very young. Get some Retin-A and... Get someone to tell you how to use it. And vitamin C serum. Those are the two. And sunscreen. That's it. That's it.
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Anything else, you're just enjoying yourself anyway. So fuck Amy LaRocca. Don't buy her book. Don't listen to her. Now, over the weekend, I came across a piece that I also really, I was like, I got to talk to you guys about it. we're talking about why legacy media is dying. Like why we're all congregating here in the digital lane and legacy media is like, how do we get eyeballs again?
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So the New York, New York magazine ran a huge piece on the New York times opinion section. And this is a doozy. And it's even if you don't think you're into this stuff, this is really, really fun. So there's a huge group class photo. And right here is Maureen Dowd who, you know, The time to hang it up was many, many moons ago.
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She does really flippant superficial columns once a week, and she basically makes some rhymes, and she alludes to three things, like Othello, Macbeth, or the Star Wars trilogy. And then she'll do really rhymes she thinks are cute, but they're not. She'll be like... The lion Bidens are in hiding. She thinks it's funny. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing.
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laugh about this in some way because there truly is no other way to get through what is sure to be a very lengthy, disgusting trial. Oh, and by the way, guess whose name came up today? Usher, one of Diddy's alleged victims or a witness to one of Diddy's beatdowns of the women in his life. I believe this was a woman from Danity Kane who said that she witnessed Diddy beating Cassie?
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So anyway, there's a new person in charge of the opinion section called Kathleen Kingsbury. And OK, this is everything that's wrong. Everything that's wrong.
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so this she took she took the reins after james bennett was fired unceremoniously publicly and very humiliatingly from the new york times because he dared to run an op-ed by senator tom cotton called send in the troops and in that op-ed cotton was saying hey America's biggest cities are on fire post George Floyd. There's rioting, looting, burning in the streets, and this cannot go on.
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We may have to send in the National Guard. And oh, my God, the woke karate at the New York Times were like, this cannot stand. We are going to quit, which I would say quit. I can find people to fill your jobs in a heartbeat. These are glamour jobs, by the way. Some of these nepo babies that we're going to talk about, these are the places they get to intern because it's so desirable.
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And these jobs are in such short, short supply. But, you know, like cowards, they all caved to these kids who came out of the Ivy League. They wouldn't know difficulty if it came around the corner in the form of a masturbating homeless man approaching them. Okay, so... Kingsburg's big accomplishments, we are told. Okay, big accomplishments at the New York Times.
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She commissioned a piece on Asian American women who were named after Connie Chung. Like, we're supposed to think this is amazing. She then... commissioned a story, a coming out story by the son of a pastor. Know who did it first and did it best? Mike fucking White. Look into it, okay? Anyway, that's just catnip. That's like New York Times, like whatever.
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And then she recently got, New York Magazine tells us, a hard to get sit down with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Hard to get. new york times all right whatever um okay now we are told she is 46 years old and she likes to keep a low profile um and uh she is um this is this is this is this anecdote i died when i read this anecdote i died okay
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the interviewer notes that Kingsbury is wearing black trousers, a black blouse, a black belt, python print kitten heels that expose the flower tattoo she has on top of her foot. It's such a cliche. This is such... She's not Gen X. She's 46. Does that count as Gen X? Well, she's right underneath it. This is a cliche. She got it when she lived in New Zealand in college.
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She comes from big, big money, by the way. She comes from the kind of money that it doesn't matter if you get fired from your job. She's playing it so cautious. I don't know why she doesn't have more actual zeal and edge to her. She can just tell everybody to fuck off. Okay. She goes, this is what she says to the interviewer.
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The tattoo, which you know is probably like this, you know, from a distance it could probably be mistaken for a mole.
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Open quote, I would be lying if I didn't tell you it is the result of a long, this is a lot of verbiage, the result of a long, instead of saying I got drunk and I got a tattoo, the result of a long evening of drinking and I'm quite certain that my parents would still have something to say about this. Why does she care what her parents think? She's a 46-year-old woman.
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I asked her if she considered the tattoo off-brand. Kingsbury is an Upper West Side mother of two. And she says, well, I made the decision when I was 20. But you've kept it, I noted. She lowered her voice to a whisper. I'm also just afraid of getting it removed. Okay, this is the kind of edgy, provocative leader that the New York Times has running their opinion section.
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She told her new staff the day that James Bennett resigned, forced out, let's just call it what it was. Okay, my opinion forced out. She sent the opinion staff a note saying that anybody who felt triggered by anything, whether it was a headline or a photo or a photo caption, text her immediately.
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The New York Post would have feasted on the carcasses of these people, like the young girls in yellow jackets, okay? This piece notes that Pamela Paul was fired. When Pamela Paul left, that one hit me because she was the only person, and I couldn't figure out how she was getting it done, in those opinion pages, who was writing critically about this trans mania
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and the medicalization and the surgeries that are being performed on minor children. And she was the only person banging that drum and doing interviews with doctors who were like, this is insanity. We are mutilating our youth and we are robbing them of the chance of any kind of meaningful sex life when they get older or the ability to have children. And she got fired.
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And you know what they say, they have the temerity to say in this piece, that it was because of her performance review. Are you kidding me? She was one of the best they had, okay, the best. And then I'm just going to say the last little detail that we get in this piece that just killed me because this is so New York Times insufferable.
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Well, apparently so did Usher. Allegedly, apparently so did Usher. So it's getting real. It's getting real. Okay. All right. So now for another update from last week's show, Barry Diller, who we covered last week as the 83-year-old tech slash media mogul who has found it
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She had a eureka moment, and it had to do with, you know, a lot of major newspapers did not endorse anyone in the election, okay, which was their way of not endorsing Kamala. They all knew. They all knew. I'm just going to say it. And the New York Times, you know, she was Kathleen Kingsbury's tough woman running opinion. She was catching shit from her own employees.
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And rather than telling them that she runs the show and they need to get in line, she has this eureka moment. I'm not even going to tell you what it is. It's not even worth it. But check this out. The idea came together quickly as the drama of this moment. Oh, my God. As Kingsbury was leaving Pilates class on a Saturday morning, she wrote a script on her walk time.
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on her walk home, showered, grabbed her son from ballet class and dragged him to work, bribing him along the way with a Wendy's Frosty. I guess the Wendy's Frosty is meant to humanize her and make her sound like, you know, a normal person who has a kid who is at ballet class, who's a boy who probably would rather be doing, I don't know what else, but okay.
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Anyway, if you want any greater example of why the New York Times is dying, I don't have one for you right now. I think it's pretty great. Up next, we are going to take a look at three specific insufferable nepo babies. But first, my troublemakers, this is my gentle reminder for you to email me. I am Maureen at DevilMayCareMedia.com.
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You know I'm reading them all, even if I can't answer every single one because I'm writing the show half the time. You know, I'm reading them all, and I'm reading all the DMs, and I'm in the YouTube threads keeping up with what you guys think and want. So keep coming at me and let me know what you want us to cover and what you want us to expand upon or revisit.
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Again, that's Maureen at DevilMayCareMedia.com. Back in a minute. We've all heard it before, wrinkle creams are the secret to looking younger. But according to Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon, Dr. John Lakey, that's just not true anymore. He says most wrinkle products are, quote, nothing more than overpriced moisturizers, and some might even do more harm than good.
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Hey, welcome to the nerve. I am Maureen Callahan. I am your host and I am so happy that we are all back together because we have an incredible mix of stuff for you today. Okay. We've got even more celebrity bullshit. What we at the nerve call real talk about fake people
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So that's why Dr. Lakey stepped away from traditional treatments and developed something completely different, a simple at-home method that's getting major attention. His clients call it the age rewinder method because it can visibly smooth the look of wrinkles in under two minutes. Dr. Lakey describes it as almost like Photoshop for your face.
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And he says you might be shocked at how easy it is to use. Now to share this breakthrough, he's released a free video that walks you through the methods step by step. No signups, no interruptions. And this video has already gone viral with over 2.3 million views and thousands of glowing reviews. One viewer said, I've tried everything and this is the only thing that actually worked.
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I looked years younger. Do you want to see what everyone's talking about? Just go to bhmd1.com slash nerve or click the link in the description. If it works for you, Dr. Lakey has one simple request. Please share it. Let's help more people feel confident in their skin. Now is the time to delve into the world of Nepo babies.
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now a welcoming enough climate for him to come out as a gay man his book is out tomorrow and his wife diane von furstenberg with whom he has lots of hot enthusiastic sex posted this uh little note of support to instagram i guess doubling down on this wild in my opinion lie you know i don't know how these two things can be true at the same time Diane, Available Tomorrow, Barry's book, who knew?
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And I've been thinking about this a lot because it's been a thing in the culture for a little while now. And, you know, the defense that celebrities will offer vis-a-vis their offspring is like, hey, like, A plumber's kid usually, like if they become a plumber, it's like no big deal. Or if a doctor's kid enters the medical profession, it's no big deal. Yeah, that's right.
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The problem with this, and I'm going to get into specifics, is that these people are taking up resources and opportunities that other more deserving people are, as a result, missing out on, frankly. So first up... I'm going to bring you, and I'm introducing it this way for a reason.
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Because if you wiki him by one of his two names, what will come up on the home Google page underneath his name is Julianne Moore's son. So Julianne Moore's son has just released a video. I don't know if it's first album or what, I don't care. He's just released a video and I came across this on Julianne Moore's Instagram account last night and she should not be doing this. Okay.
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I'm sure she's a lovely person. I saw her on the street once in New York city. She's even more gorgeous and tall in person, but I'm sure she's nice, but like, don't do this. Don't use your fame to help your son. Okay. Have your son make it on his own. It's the only way. It's the only way he's going to have any legitimacy, but no, no, no. We've now been introduced. Now his real name is
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government name is Caleb Freundlich, but he goes by Caleb Moore. And why does he do that? Because Julianne Moore is the famous one in that marriage, okay? Let's take a quick look at his new music video. He's walking out of frame and now we're seeing the directed by credits and then the EP credits and then director, assistant of photography, colorist, editor, production assistants.
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I mean, this thing had the crew, a size of a, of an independent film, you know, most struggling musicians don't have that. I don't see anything that's particularly powerful about his voice or his music. He sounds like, you know, a slowed down version of Wilco, you know, it doesn't sound that great. And, And he also had, he got per, again, I found this, I went on his Instagram.
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He got a big story in Billboard magazine, which, you know, again, most struggling musicians would kill for. And then he had a launch party at some townhouse in New York. that was like above some kind of venue. And at this, I'm trying to find it, but I can't find it. I'll just tell you at this, at this listening party were people like Billy Crudup and, you know, all of his mommy's famous friends.
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And they're all cheering on this highly mediocre individual who, again, He's not good, and this is not helping him, and it's not helping the culture. Make him grind it out and work. Do you know that Bono has a kid who's in a band in New York? I couldn't tell you the name of the band. They're probably not very good, but I don't see his kid popping up on Bono's social media.
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I could be wrong, but I don't see it. Next, we have someone who goes by EA Hanks. I believe her first name is Elizabeth. She's the daughter of Tom Hanks. And this is the entire reason, my friends, why this woman has a published book that has just came out. It's called The Ten. Nobody's buying it. I checked on Amazon. Nobody's buying it. And now this book is not very well written. It's not.
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And I think she had a lot of help. And it's ostensibly about growing up with a mother who is mentally ill and kind of abusive. You know, she says... I think there's no blame really cast on the father, who's a major movie star. Surprise. You know, they were divorced.
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There's lots of heart emojis strung throughout this with like prayer hands. Prayer hands, oh my God. Okay, for more than five years I've watched him write it. I think that's a lie. I think he had a ghostwriter. I think he sat down, did some interviews and somebody else put this book together. Okay, he cannot run all the companies he runs and write a book. I can promise you that.
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Tom Hanks has successfully scrubbed this, but he did leave his first wife, Elizabeth's mother, for Rita Wilson when they were shooting a film called Volunteers back in the 80s. My deep reading of Premiere magazine and movie line as a child really does come in handy. Anyway, so there's no anger about that. But I'm going to – before I get into –
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So this book is about a solo trip she took across America to reckon with her childhood and herself. But really, that just sounds like the framework she used to sell the book. Like, well, who cares about your shitty childhood? Fine, your father's Tom Hanks. Who cares? Oh, you know what I'll do? I'll get in a car and I'll just drive across the country and that'll be the framework.
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Somebody bought it. This book advance that she got... Somebody else missed out on their book deal. A better writer with no connections, no famous family missed out on a book deal. We missed out on a writer who maybe is now going to give up because not selling your book is a real heartbreak and you feel like it's the marketplace telling you, you suck. You suck. Nobody cares what you have to say.
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Now, she took this book and she has inserted white privilege into the book. And she has worked at, by the way, no shortage of media outlets. Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, The Guardian, New York Times, WAPO. She's 43 years old. I think I would have heard of her by now if she was a good writer, okay? Usually they make it by about 43. And also, her author photo is for shit. Like, I'm sorry.
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Her parents, her father and stepfather are famous. Like, where's the redness corrector? Where's the redness corrector? Okay? Like, get a makeup artist to do your hair and makeup for your fucking author photo. Show your readers some respect. Anyway, I got to this extract and I died. I wish I could say that the overwhelming whiteness of my life had not left its mark on me, but of course it did.
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Whiteness, like money, shows its privilege by hardly ever being discussed. All we do is discuss this. All we do is discuss this. I was raised to believe that racism is easy to identify because it's so hateful. My own racism is the product of ignorance. But what does that matter to the people I've hurt with clueless and edgy joke, a blithe comment?
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I started driving east because it was part of my book deal. No, I started driving east because I don't want to be ignorant anymore. Okay. And you know what else I have to say about Elizabeth A. Hanks? A good friend of mine told me this directly, was in the room having the conversation. She was bragging her first book. She goes, I sold out the 92nd Street. Why? I don't know how I did it.
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Yeah, I know how you fucking did it. You did it because your father got roped into having the conversation with you, and people came to see your dad, not you. Okay? Answered it for you. Finally, we have Apple Martin, Gwyneth...
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Gwyneth's daughter, daughter of Chris Martin as well, in a huge spread in Interview Magazine saying nothing of import, except she's telling us that she's at Vanderbilt as a law, history, and society major, and she's taking theater on the side. Here she is wearing a pair of $700 Prada sunglasses. But she's going to go into show business.
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She goes on, for 50 years, I have watched him live it, a formidable, adventurous, successful life, exclamation point. Thank you, Barry, for the person you are, for the magic you created. I mean, I guess that's one way to put it. Blah, blah, blah. I love you. I respect you. I admire you. It has been a long, beautiful journey I shared with you as your lover, your friend, and your wife.
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She said she wants to be a lawyer because she just wants to help people. Okay, here's what I'm going to tell you about Apple Martin. She has been the subject of very, very stubborn, persistent, years-long rumors that she was kicked out of a very, very prestigious school in LA called the Harvard Westlake School for allegedly bullying a classmate to near suicide, okay?
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her mother has never denied that and nor has she i don't think anybody's frankly had the balls to ever ask them but you know a lot of stuff for what it's worth went around about apple being a mean girl at her little debutante ball in paris and gwyneth issued a state well someone close to gwyneth paltrow so schmaltrow um
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issued a statement to the Daily Mail saying, quote, Apple's more playful and fun, and she's really a total girl's girl. Beware anybody who says they're a girl's girl. Real girl's girls never say that. They just are. You can sense it, okay? This source close to Gwyneth goes on to characterize, I'm quoting, to characterize her, meaning Apple, as a mean girl is totally untrue.
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If you have to deny it like that, I think it's true. Okay. That was very cathartic. Really cathartic. Okay. We're going to be back with a new segment that we are calling Nirvana. And this one, I promise you, it's like all good stuff. I am so happy about this one. We are talking about a play called Oh Mary. Now this thing, I saw this in January. I'd been dying to see it.
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And I don't know why I waited so long. It's up for several Tonys and it is a tight 80 minute play front to back. I have never laughed so hard. I can't remember the last time I saw something this original and funny. It actually made me jealous in like a good way. I was like, this is an original mind. wow, what I would give for like an opening into this mind.
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It's written by a guy, he goes by they, them pronouns, but you know, it's award season and we are, he's been nominated for best actor. So, you know. But anyway, and the genius of it is that it's a drag performance. So Cole Escola plays Mary Todd Lincoln, and he plays Mary Todd Lincoln as a drunk, probably a borderline, a sufferer of borderline personality disorder.
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We're going to do a segment on it. And she neither knows nor cares that a civil war is raging outside the walls of the White House. She just wants to be a cabaret star. That's it. We're going to show you a few little bits from this play. You're going to love it as much as I do, I think. Okay, take a look at this.
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Okay, now. Again, Abe, President Abraham Lincoln makes another attempt to explain to his wife that it would not look great that half the country wants him dead for his wife to be hot footing it around the country in nightclubs doing her cabaret act. Take a look at this.
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Okay, we get it. We get it. You guys are doubling down. Great. Um, by the way, David Geffen, Barry's fellow velvet mafia club member announced in a Friday or Saturday news dump that he is divorcing his 32 year old personal trainer husband with whom he has no prenup. I mean, literally these people, books, sexualities are just acquisitions for these guys. They really are.
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Okay. Next, there is one more bit that, and then I'm going to explain to you why I showed you these in particular. Take a look at this part of the play.
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now the New York Times they did a little piece on Cole this Sunday as well and they so Cole left the show for a minute you know he had been doing it forever it started like off off Broadway and the brilliance of the show is that like none of it was focus grouped he didn't have big money producers saying you've got to take this in you've got to leave that out so it's really wild it goes places that you just like you're doubled over in laughter you can't believe somebody said it it's very much a nerve show and
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And so they brought in other actors, and then the box office just went down like this. They had to bring him back. So it's getting this new life as it should. So if you're in New York or you're coming to New York, make it a point to see this play. See this play before you see anything else. This is not a paid endorsement. I just love this play. I love this guy. I love their mind.
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those clips show that this is the level of detail. They workshopped the wig, like the wig as they went from off, off Broadway to off to Broadway began getting bigger and bigger and it moves more and the hoop skirt, the same bigger and bigger.
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So the flouncing and the hysterics and the temper tantrums, they become like increasingly comic because like the curls are bigger and like it's a whole thing. I mean, I just loved this thing and I've told everyone in my life to go see it. And I have not had anything but a rave yet. And I hope you will trust me with that. So that's our first Nirvana. And I think it's a great little recurring thing.
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That is our show for today. I cannot wait to see you here on Friday. We are currently working up a great show. We have a guest coming on that I know you guys love because you've told me. And we've got a ton of topics that we're winnowing down right now. So... We will see you back here on the Friday edition of The Nerve, where you will never guess what we are about to say next.
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And I'm guessing he caught the sugar baby cheating or something because why not just stick it out? He's like as old as Methuselah. Geffen, that is. Okay. Now, to one of our repeat offenders, we're also going to make this a recurring category, okay? Because we have our favorites, and Meghan Markle's one of them.
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Now, when I saw this over the weekend, I thought immediately of you guys, of the troublemakers. And I thought to myself... There is no better metaphor, and there never will be, I can say it right now, for Meghan Markle and her endless attempts to succeed at anything, whether it's jams or podcasts or just trying to make us like her.
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Okay, now before I play this, I want you to always keep this in mind because we will use this clip as just a nonverbal cue to For disaster, okay, Meghan Markle is the ship in this scenario, and we are the immovable object, okay? Watch this. For those who are...
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listening this is the mexican navy ship crashing into the brooklyn bridge okay megan's the ship we a much put upon populace are the brooklyn bridge who is just not having it okay we're gonna break you Try to keep moving. Go ahead. We just took the wind out of your sails. I mean, there's a million jokes. They write themselves. Okay.
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So Megan, you know, we did see that incredible meme last week of Harry knocking on doors and captured by a ring cam in London, looking like last night's party went, you know, really hard. And, you know, the trash cans in the back of him. So anyway, Megan needs to prove to us that she's still winning. She's winning all over the place. So Monday morning, she posts this.
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And it has to do with her seven-year wedding anniversary. And is it a photo of Harry? No. Is it a photo of them on their wedding day looking so in love and besotted and the future is so bright before them? No, it's her freaking vision board. Okay, this is her post to... ostensibly, Harry, but really to us, it says seven years of marriage, a lifetime of stories.
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Again, one way to put it, you know, you guys have been married seven years. The lifetimes belong to those senior royals that you have, you know, talked a bunch of shit about and caused agony in their remaining days. My opinion. Then she goes on, thanks to all of you,
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and then in parentheses, whether by our side or from afar, end parens, who have loved and supported us throughout our love story, we appreciate you. What kind of like... lame, vague. Why are we all, this is not the Academy Awards. It's your wedding anniversary. It's a day that's important only to you.
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for our group now. I was reading and listening to you all since we asked for your feedback. So is the whole team. And it seems that everyone has settled on troublemakers. So that's what we're going to be going forward. We are the troublemakers. And we've got a new segment we're introducing. We're going to call this our moment of Nirvana. like nirvana, but nirvana.
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And, you know, I think it's, I think it's extremely telling that she used her vision board because we've all read the stories that Meghan Markle, even though she claimed to have no idea who the Royal family was, the British Royal family period, even though there's a photo of her that was taken by a friend of her sitting on a fence outside Buckingham palace at like 12 years old. Um,
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She allegedly had a vision board in which Harry was the center. And she was sort of, as they say today, manifesting this destiny that she wanted to, you know, realize, which is, you know, marry Harry and, you know, have her life and reputation in the crapper. I suppose. Now we got another one on Sunday preceding this. Okay. So this is what Megan is cooking up all weekend.
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This is what she's doing with her time is like cooking up these ridiculous social media posts. Okay. So let's look at this. It's a real, is this really what she used as the, she used LL Cool J's doing it.
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as the as the soundtrack for this flower arranging story i mean that's a song about like it's just a song about like having sex all night long like it's it's right there but that's her with her flowers by the way walking like with those maddening again there's not a woman in this woman's corner because those pants those like palazzo pants they're like wide-legged they're supposed to be on trend but she looks ridiculous in them
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they're always sweeping the floor. And she's got her hands full with these flowers. I don't understand how she has yet to trip and like break her neck with these floor sweeping pants that are just, you know, what they're doing is like they're accruing dirt and dust and insects and whatever's out there. And that's what she's trailing back into the house.
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Again, would you take domestic advice from this woman? I would not. Now these posts again come as, you know, cause we're winning, even though we have yet another report. And this one I believe is from the British Royal veteran reporter, Katie Nicholl, that Her Majesty, the Queen Elizabeth, before Meghan had even married into the family, had to personally rebuke her, had to personally scold her
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for the way Meghan was speaking to the caterers, or I don't know if they were palace staff or this was an outside contract, but she was doing a tasting for the wedding, okay? And a tasting for the wedding is like, you taste it, you tell them what you like about it, what you don't like about it. I'm sure Meghan would use the phrase like flavor profile, just something really insufferable.
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And then you get to a happy ending, you get to what you want, okay? So... Per the New York Post, Meghan, quote, got quite upset with the caterers, saying that the dish was, this is a direct quote, meant to be vegan and macrobiotic. Okay, I saw no evidence of veganism or macrobiotic dieting in With Love, Megan. But then again, I could only gut it out through like two and a half episodes.
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So maybe I missed something. And also macrobiotic is so 1997. Okay, that's what Gwyneth Paltrow and Demi Moore were banging on back then. They've all since abandoned that stuff. So anyway, she's throwing a fit over this and the queen has to come to her directly. This is how bad it was, how dire. It wasn't a foot soldier. It wasn't a chief of staff. It wasn't even William.
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It was the queen who had to say, hey, Megan, we don't talk to people like that in this family, okay? We don't do it. Did that do anything to humble our Duchess? Apparently not. So we are now also getting the breaking news update that none other than Gwyneth Paltrow says she is now developing a quote-unquote text friendship with our Duchess.
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So I believe she told People Magazine this, as we reported in an outlet called New Daily. they haven't had FaceTime, even though they're Montecito neighbors, okay? So... Whatever. Gwyneth shared, I love it when they go, Gwyneth shared, you know, it's a gift that she's giving us this little tidbit of info. Quote, we have a text for friendship so far. I've been traveling quite a bit. Okay.
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And in that segment, I'm going to talk to you about something that I love and want to share with all of you because I think you will love it too. So all of that is to come, but first, okay, let's get into this latest in the diddy trial, okay? So we are now in week two of this thing. And as we discussed last week, it is not looking good for him.
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And then she addressed the rumors that she and Megan are rivals because they're both sort of in the same space, this lifestyle slash wellness slash food space. And then Gwyneth said, I don't like that when people try to pit me women against each other. Now, I know firsthand from people who know Gwyneth very well and have for a long time. And these are people who actually enjoy aspects of Gwyneth.
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They do, but she is a mean, mean, mean girl. She is mean. Okay. So I don't buy it when she's like, I support every woman and I support, I don't buy it for a second, you know, but it actually come to think of it, maybe this is a friendship that is meant to be, you know, Gwyneth's mean, Megan's mean.
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Together, they might really, you know, it's kind of like like will either repel strongly or attract strongly. And so I don't know. I don't know what this burgeoning friendship has in store for us. But I will say that Gwyneth's own daughter, Apple, apparently doesn't fall far from the tree. And by the way, you guys, do you think she realized that when she was naming her?
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Do you think that she thought, oh, someday when Apple's older, and I wonder if Gwyneth did for Apple what Megan's doing for her kids, which is writing emails to them every day so that when they turn 18, they can go to her and say, Oh, my God, you loved us. So how much did you love us? Right. You know, do you think she realized back then that this would be a pun that people would use? Right.
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Well, Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Right. She's like beautiful, like her mommy. And she's talented, like her mom. Like, it's like it's a narcissistic callback. Right. It's just a theory, so we'll have more on Apple. Trust me, we're going to have a lot more. You're going to love it. You're never going to guess what it is either.
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Okay, moving on to Salma Hayek, who has been on this media tour. She did this lengthy red carpet tour, and you would think it would be for an AIDS gala or a huge charity event, but it's not. It's for her Sports Illustrated cover, the swimsuit issue. So this is a woman who used to gun for Oscars, and she's married to a billionaire, and we'll get into that.
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This is The Nerve. When Ben Affleck moves out of the $65 million marital home he shared with JLo in the metaphorical dead of night while she's off in Europe, we're going to analyze it like the collapse of the Roman Empire. When Meghan Markle drops yet another mediocre show or podcast, we're going to take it all apart like a pinata. We'll also be covering true crime in real time.
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Diddy, Luigi Mangione, Brian Koberger, all those trials and what they say about America. We're your home for all things pop culture, including fashion, TV, movies, books, social media, and the new health and wellness space targeted particularly at women. I'm Maureen Callahan, and I have been studying this stuff forever.
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but for the purposes of that evening they had a lot of commonalities and then he woke up somewhere and wasn't quite sure where he was but he left something behind it obviously wasn't his cell phone because he's on it but he left something behind but so why not just call megan because he can't because he's up yet again so he can't call megan can't call his daddy can't call his brother or his sister-in-law
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He can't really call any friends because he doesn't know where the fuck they are because they've all exited stage left years ago. I wonder who he really is trying to call anyway. So he left something behind and his dignity is the least of it. Now, I would like to get to another news dump. They call it like a Friday news dump when
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An outlet, a politician, a movie star announces something they hope will get buried as everybody just turns to their weekend and goes about their lives as we should. But this one really affected me deeply. And I'm actually not being sarcastic because I am a deep, deep, deep abiding fan of the original Real Housewives of New York City. which has given us so much over the years.
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But on Friday, Bravo announced that they are canceling what we fans call Roni. Now, the last two to three seasons, it was the reboot. It was only two seasons, no great loss. Of course they should have canceled it. It was terrible. They remade it. They fired the original cast. Huge mistake in my opinion.
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And I think we're all of like minds with what's going on with, you know, a couple of delinquent royals and maybe like one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. And, you know, maybe like a couple of movie stars who really have it coming.
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After George Floyd was murdered and everything was seen through a different lens and they brought in a black housewife who was taking them up to Harlem and giving them lessons in African-American history, that is not the show, okay? That is not the show. So they tried to reboot it with all these very stiff women who were not part of the same social circle. There were no stakes, like high stakes.
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And, and these are, you know, things we're revisiting on this show is like actual friendship breakups are high stakes. And these women, the OGs of Roni were all real friends before they ever started shooting. Like most of like they had known each other for decades.
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So when cameras get involved and stardom gets involved and money gets involved and friendships begin to fracture and marriages begin to fracture, like now we're talking like this is real conflict. So I would like to pay tribute, if I may, to, and again, she wound up in Sunday's New York Post, as she should. She is a true star. One Countess Luanne de Lesseps. This woman is a legend.
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We were introduced to her We were introduced to her, lo those many years ago, she was a nurse or a nurse practitioner from Connecticut who had happened to marry like a minor royal. I mean, these titles at this point, they're like honorary titles. They don't really mean anything. He was a count. I don't even remember what country he's from.
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But so she went by the Countess on like the Upper East Side and like out in the Hamptons. It was like, you couldn't call her Luann. She was the Countess. Okay. You know, by season three, the Countess left her for a younger woman. It's all over page six. They've got to sell the house in the Hamptons. She has what she calls an estate sale. That's what wealthy people call, it's a tag sale.
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Okay, she was getting rid of her stuff. She needed the money. She had to move in with another real housewife, but she has given us so much over the years. Okay, now post her divorce, she was dating around and like, as she should, like she had no shame. She was like sex positive before that was even a thing in the culture. So watch Luann.
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And then we're going to talk about this weird trend that's developing among like people who would otherwise consider themselves like extremely smart because they have a lot of money. So they're smart and what they're doing with themselves. And then we're going to talk about this self-help guru, yet another one who's out there hawking an overpriced book.
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just expertly defang these two other uptight much younger housewives because they're all on vacation and Luann went out after they went home got drunk picked up a guy brought him home and these other two are like how dare you party on vacation watch this so be cool don't be all Like, uncool. OK, right there, a meme. A meme was born. A star was born, OK? Next, again, I love Luann for this.
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You know, alcohol takes many a housewife down. And Luann will have her struggles after, you know, in the years after this moment. But when I saw this, I thought, you know, when you first are becoming friends with people or you're dating somebody and, like, they have one too many,
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like that is like the moment where you know you're in or you're out because like there are two kinds of drunks in the world happy drunks and mean drunks and that is when the true person comes out okay luanne i am happy to report was a happy drunk watch this oh my god Luann has drunkenly fallen in the bushes and she looks like a freaking supermodel doing it, okay? Goals, goals. Okay, next.
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So then Luann goes on to marry this guy named Tom, who has been spotted by every housewife and every friend of a housewife out in the wilds of upper New York City, usually at the Regency Bar in Manhattan, making out with women who were not his fiancee, Luann, But she goes ahead with the marriage. Then the marriage falls apart, like, within a year. She's humiliated. She begins drinking to cope.
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She gets arrested. It's epic. I can only tell you, go back and watch. Like, treat yourself. Okay, so here she is, having been humiliated on a global scale, coming back to the show.
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I've been traveling. I've been to prison. I just want to be close to home. You know, that was the best thing that ever happened to her because she rebirthed herself as a legit cabaret star. And if you want a lesson, you know, Meghan Markle could take a lesson in like getting back up after you have fallen down repeatedly in public. Take a lesson, okay? Get some humility. It'll never happen.
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But like, I would just like to say, Luann, we love you still. And I maintain hope that Bravo figures out a way to bring back a lot of those originals because they are unbelievable. They are unparalleled. Okay. Next, I want to go to this thing that's been leaking in the news that, so Kelly Clarkson is apparently done with her talk show. It's too grueling. She doesn't want to do it anymore. Fine.
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Now there are all these leaks that like, who's going to get the job? Hoda Kotb, who recently flounced out of the Today Show, Fourth Hour with Jenna, cushiest job on television, except you got to talk to Jenna, which is like, pulling teeth because she's not that bright. But, you know, they gave Hoda, like, a month-long farewell.
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And, like, I kind of feel like that's kind of a fuck you because, like, you build that person up to basically you're saying to them, no one can replace you, Hoda. Well, guess what? Anybody can replace Hoda. And they did. They replaced her. So now she's stuck, like, up in Westchester or somewhere, like, taking her kids to school. And, like, it's boring. It's boring. She's in her 60s.
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And if you thought Mel Robbins was a doozy, I can best this for you, okay? I'm really earning my keep with you guys, trust me. So we are going to begin our action-packed celebrity segment with a couple that you can probably guess who these people are, but I don't know that you caught everything they got up to this weekend. So we're going to begin with them in one moment.
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So I think these leaks are coming from Camp Hoda, right? who has nothing to say except stuff like, again, with Jamie Kern Lima. I'm on a different cosmic plane with Jamie Kern Lima. That's all she talked about. Her podcast is called Making Space. Okay, so you know it's just like intellectually vapid and totally void. And who's going to hire Hoda for this time slot?
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She's a good 20 years older than Kelly Clarkson.
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she can't have like any kind of conversation that's beyond like woo woo self-affirming i don't see it happening now taylor swift has been dragged into this blake lively lawsuit and she got word last week that she is going to be subpoenaed by justin baldoni who blake lively her former best friend and blake's husband ryan reynolds are trying to take down okay they are trying to Take this guy down.
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And guess what his legal team does? They're like, well, fuck you. We're subpoenaing Taylor Swift. So Taylor Swift's lawyers issued like a very lengthy statement, and I will spare you the legalese. I'll just get to the Taylor part of it, which is the 13 year old mean girl part of it, which is like, I'm so betrayed. I'm so betrayed by Blake Lively. I'm like devastated.
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I can't believe she would do this to me. I had nothing to do with this. I'm completely floored. Her words, I've been exploited. Oh my God. Okay. So then Taylor and her boyfriend, rumored fiance, Travis Kelsey were spotted and photographed out at a mother's day lunch for Travis's mom. Uh, and when I tell you like people like Taylor Swift, uh, get photographed when they want to be photographed.
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Okay. And when people like Taylor Swift want to go out and have a meal in complete privacy, they have people. And it's not even just like an assistant. It's like a chief of fucking staff who calls like the restaurant and says, so-and-so is coming in. We need a private room. And like, if she wants to be shot, She's going to be shot by paparazzi.
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Otherwise, we need a back entrance, et cetera, et cetera. So when she's shot out like with regular people at like a regular mid-priced American suburban restaurant, that is a message that she is sending, which is like, I'm innocent. I didn't do anything. Now, I just want to get to one other thing vis-a-vis Taylor, because, you know, Taylor Swift, you don't get to be this famous this long.
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mount the most successful, profitable, global musical tour in history, in history, without gunning for it big time, okay? So I have dug out for you guys, this email that her father Scott wrote. Okay, it's 20 years old, so she's 35 now, so she was around 15 years old when Scott Swift wrote this lengthy email. And you can go look it up.
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It's part of a legitimate lawsuit that was brought against them by Taylor's former manager, a guy named Daniel, I don't think I'm pronounced Dimtro, D-Y-M, anyway. This email is like for days. I'm dying. Okay, so he starts out, Dan, bear with me. I need to vent. Okay, now he starts by saying, we are getting to a very important time in Taylor's career.
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And to keep in mind, quote, I am not quite the idiot that Andrea portrays me to be. Andrea is Taylor's mom, Scott's now ex-wife. um now he says my clients do not want to hear how much stress i am under or what i have done or how much time i have spent copying videotapes and sending them out when taylor was 11. okay these people were hustling um he says taylor will define your life's work Okay.
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He goes on to say, now he's a financial advisor and he's bragging a lot about the money he makes for people and why like he needs to be taken seriously because he makes a lot of money for a lot of people. Who has made every single client listen to Taylor's latest song before we went over their financial plans? Are you kidding me?
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If my financial planner says, hey, you got to listen to my kids demo tape before we can like address your very real concern. Like I'm like parachuting out of there immediately. Okay. Now we're getting into the martyrdom part of this email. Okay. Now keep in mind that remember when it was rumored that the Olsen twins were
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had there was like a third Olsen who like the Olsen parents kept in the basement. because they were like malformed or something. And you know, it wasn't true, but Taylor has a brother named Austin and we never hear about Austin and we never see Austin. And I kind of think this may be Austin's choice, or he just got the message from his parents and Taylor that like, he's a total afterthought.
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I'm gonna talk for a minute about a guy named Leo Grillo. And really he's a hero. He was on a road trip and he came across a really, really frail, sick, weak Doberman. And you know, Dobermans are usually very, very proud, strong animals. And this guy was really clearly in trouble. So Leo rescued that Doberman and he named him Delta.
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And if Taylor needs an organ someday, they'll call you back into this picture, but otherwise you can stay away. Okay, this is Scott. Who gets to go to New York, New England, and every cool appearance? Not dad. Can't fix hair. Dad talks too much. Who pays for trips to New York? Dad.
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Who makes sure and takes days off to make sure that whether it was Radio Disney, Brit's Camp, I'm guessing that's Britney Spears, or any event that we had stuff to give away, CDs, Frisbees, headshots, who even thought to put that stuff together?
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who blew up 500 beach balls on the roof for radio disney this sounds like hell dad quote we are go it's brittany we are going to brittany's camp but you and austin can't come that sounds like he's putting those words in the wife of his in the in sorry in the mouth of his ex-wife andrea we are going to britney's camp but you and austin can't come okay This email is unbelievable.
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Who gets to babysit Austin? I guess that's Scott. Scott's got to sit with the ringer of these two kids, not the star. Who, at the last minute, has to find some place to print CDs? You got it, dad. Who funds the whole process but does not get to come to the dance? Dad, oh my effing God. He says, further, as a financial planner, is it fair to Austin that Taylor is taking her half of the estate now?
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Probably not, but no problem because everybody in the Swift family is involved in making Taylor Swift fucking happen. Okay. So just remember that as this case goes forth and Taylor Swift puts on her best awards face, getting her eight millionth Grammy going, who me? Who me? I got a subpoena. Who me? Okay. Remember she's a mean girl. Blake's a mean girl. Just my opinion.
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And if I may quote another legendary New York City housewife and just a warning to Scott or any member of the Swift family in the future, in the words of New York legend Dorinda Medley, say it, forget it, write it, regret it. That is advice that I would take any day of the week. We will be right back.
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So after going viral for rejecting woke marketing, Nimi became a rallying point for those of us who've had enough, okay? Thousands of women said, finally, skincare that also reflects what I believe. And as for the products, I mean, they're incredible.
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So if you, like me, are tired of giving your money to companies that don't respect your values, just make the switch. Support American Made and choose skincare that is on track with who you are. So choose Nemi Skincare, where modern skincare meets timeless values. Welcome back to the nerve.
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I just want to circle back for one quick moment because I meant to tell you guys something about Hoda Kopi, who, you know, makes her whole, her whole persona is like, I'm just, I'm like your best friend. Okay. And like, I want to talk to you about like intentionality and getting some of that in your life. I fucking hate that word. What is that word?
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Now, of course, Delta was and is just one of many, many animals that need our help. And that's what inspired Leo to start Delta Rescue, which is the largest no kill care for life animal sanctuary in the world. They have rescued thousands of dogs, cats, and horses from the wilderness, and they provide their animals with shelter, love, safety, and a home.
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Just like, think out what you want to do and do it. Okay, intentionality, finding joy, making space, being your most authentic self. Okay, so I have a friend, a very good friend, who often works at 30 Rock, is up there all the time at various shows, Today Show, SNL, whatever. He's up there all the time. long time ago told me that of all the people up there, Hoda's a big bitch, okay?
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She sees my friend constantly and just blanks my friend, okay? And just, it costs one nothing to nod and smile and say a friendly hello to people that you encounter in a workspace, okay? And it actually makes for a really nice workspace because then like everybody feels good about themselves as they should.
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Okay, so, you know, it goes right to the self-help thing we're gonna tackle later in the show. It's like, beware of people who talk like that because they're typically the exact opposite. I mean, when I see someone who's got like a Buddha in their yard, I run, okay? It's like yoga teachers, they're all screwed up.
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Hilaria Baldwin, Exhibit A. You know, they say shrinks are like the people you would never want to be related to because like they're really the most screwed up. There's truth to that. Okay, so... Moving on there. I came across this story in the wall street journal the other day. And I thought to myself, like we are, you know, there's a lot of talk about there. Will there be a civil war?
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Like we'll read America split apart from like blue America, but like really it's going to come down to the ultra wealthy continuing to shove, shove their lifestyle and their, their copious amounts of disposable income in our faces. Okay. So I came across. this new trend that is being done without irony, with a lot of seriousness. It's called fridgescaping. What is fridgescaping, you ask?
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Fridgescaping involves you or really your help, okay, the people who do your shopping, going to like the gourmet, you know, grocery store where like, you know, four sticks of butter. I don't think you eat butter because like poor people eat butter, like fat people eat butter, but like that costs like $35, but you're also paying for the packaging because
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packaging is so beautiful and then all of it comes home and then the refrigerator gets art directed okay so that you can impress who i don't know but i i will say again not to make everything about the real housewives but the patient zero of this trend in my estimation is yolanda hadid former real housewife of beverly hills mother of supermodels gigi and bella who debuted on her show now typically the flex for these women to show how wealthy they are how wealthy their husbands are
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uh, is to walk into a scene with like an obscene, like Birkin bags are obscenely expensive. They're like a hundred grand. And, uh, you know, you walk in with one and you're basically saying like, you're swinging your husband's big dick around. Yolanda outdid them all because she, she introduced, it was like a character. It was like a friend of her all glass refrigerator, all glass refrigerator.
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floor to ceiling that was artfully arrayed with like produce. It looks like there's like maybe champagne in there and it's spotless and there's not even a fingerprint on it. Okay. That's how you know real wealth. Okay. And of course it didn't work. It doesn't refrigerate anything. Like I think there's a refrigerator behind that. But that to me, I thought, okay, we've broken a sound barrier here.
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So now there are these, you've got to see these pictures from this journal article. I'm not even going to name them. the people who own these refrigerators, because I think that they're scourges of society. Normally I'd name and shame, but I can't, I can't. So look at this fridge is the theme. The owner tells the journal is the great Gatsby fridge.
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And if you notice, they have moved in an art deco lamp. Okay, so it looks like it's wireless. So I guess they had it rewired or redone as like a battery operated lamp. And then next to that, it looks like this giant, like what are those things that you like put perfume in that like, I forget what they're called. When I was little, I was really obsessed with them.
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But it looks like that, but it also looks like body lotion. It's like, it's basically let's jam everything into our refrigerator that has nothing to do with actual food or actual eating. Like we're just going to show how rich we are. It's going to be like a little playground. And by the way, if you really want to go whole hog with this thing, you need to have like a sub-zero fridge. Okay.
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Like the sub-zero fridges that have like the glass panel. like the kind that Nancy Pelosi showed all of us during lockdown, which she thought made her relatable, her like retrieving her like gallon of ice cream or her pint of ice cream from her subzero fridge. And everybody was like, Hey lady, you're talking to us from like a kitchen that houses a $20,000 refrigerator. Okay. Like fuck off.
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So the next one is, um, This owner has done a Pee-Wee's Playhouse-inspired fridge. Okay, look at this, you guys. Now, there's a Santa Claus in there. Every item of food, some of it you can't tell if it's food or not. One looks like a Mrs. Potato Head. Some of it's bedazzled. There's a bedazzled banana in there. And there are, again, googly eyes all over the place.
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Okay, if I live on this person's block and I've got small children there going nowhere near this house, nowhere near it, okay. Now, moving on, in a similar vein, I've been dying to talk to you guys about this, and I think we can do this as a recurring segment if you like it as much as I do.
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One of my favorite hate reads over the weekend is to go into the New York Times, the magazine style section, even the work section. They have no shortage of advice columns, and everybody who's writing these advice columns, they're terrible at their job because, A, they are fucking earnest. they are all woke and they are stupid, okay? And so are the questions.
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So this one recently in the ethicist in the New York Times Magazine, My husband and I are Democrats. Shocked. You're writing into the New York Times for advice. Okay. We live in a large left-leaning city. Shocked. Okay. The New York Times demographic.
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Considering the current political climate in the United States and deepening concerns that it will only get worse, code for Trump is destroying democracy and it's going to be a last of us scenario. My husband wants to purchase a gun for safety reasons. I think guns are evil. Should I go against my own beliefs?
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Now, this reminds me of, I was listening to this podcast a few months ago and it's hosted by these two women and one's in New York and one's on the West coast in LA. And the one in LA says, oh my God, I got spanked by my husband for a recent show. And I can't talk about this anymore because I mentioned that he wants to get a gun because apparently the neighborhood in which they live,
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gangs were were closing in they were encroaching on this neighborhood gang violent gang activity was encroaching on this neighborhood and the husband said I want to get a gun and she talked about it on the podcast and all of her reasons for not wanting to get a gun and she said her husband spanked her not for talking about that but wait for it because they are a white couple
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they have white privilege and they can't talk about gangs or gang violence or the kind of gang violence that is making them feel so unsafe in their home. And they have a child that the husband wants to get a gun. So she can't talk about that because you have to be black or a minority to talk about gangs and gang violence, which isn't that also racist? Like, are you saying only blacks
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Only blacks and minorities belong to gangs? Okay. Anyway, this piece of advice is, you know, for shit. It's like, he says, even if there is like an apocalyptic scenario floating in your heads where like bad guys roam a collapsed society, even then I doubt that a firearm would help. Like, I think a firearm would help. Okay. Another question.
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I see many older Northern Europeans retiring to countries like Portugal or Mexico. Is it fair to enjoy? Is it fair to enjoy a different country's sun? It's all of our sun. Okay, we all enjoy the sun. It's one planet. A different country's sun and cheaper living in retirement, or is this a new sweet form of colonialism? I died, I died. Another question, this one in the style section.
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My friend travels to exotic places and she's proud of it. But when she works her travels into group texts, it sounds as if she is gloating. On a group text about a proposed lunch date, she replied that she would be at the North Pole then. I once had a roommate who left a voicemail that our entire friend group mocked for weeks.
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Her outgoing voicemail, this was before cell phones, was, I'm in Asia for the next three weeks. We were all like, okay, fine. You're a fucking asshole. Okay. She replied she would be at the North Pole then. Can I stop her before she alienates people? Trust me, she's alienated a lot of people. She's clearly alienated you. And yeah, just tell her she sounds like an asshole.
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And you know, she wants to like remain a productive member of polite society and get invitations to lunch. Maybe just cool it on the humble brags. Okay. Write to me for advice. I could give it to you straight. Okay. And by the way, I think all of those questions are real, but I'm going to bring you some more that are like, often a lot of these questions outlets make up these questions.
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Don't ask me how I know, but I know. Okay. Now on Friday's show, I'm very excited for this. I'm getting the book tomorrow and we're going to dive into a very scandalous new showbiz memoir that's making all kinds of headlines. And to my mind, everyone who's writing these headlines is a dope because these headlines are exactly what this person wants. Okay. This headline,
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quote unquote author, I'm sure this person had a ghostwriter, I think has cleverly moved everybody in the media's eyes over here, and they should be over here. And that's what we're gonna talk about, okay? This is one of the most famous, powerful, ultra wealthy titans of tech and show business. So this is gonna be good.
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And we're also going to explore, which I have been waiting for, finally, the fallout. So Bruce Willis, you know, he's battling something called aphasia. It's a form of dementia. And as somebody who has firsthand experience with a parent who has dementia, this is one of the cruelest ways to go because it robs you of your dignity. And you cannot buy that.
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There's no getting that back once a disease like this begins to steal your soul, basically. So Bruce Willis's second much younger wife, Emma, has written a memoir all about this. And she's couching it as a memoir about the caregivers and the loved ones. But trust me, We're going to get into that. It's not about that. It's about her. It's about her. So we'll get into that. Okay.
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And I have also two happy little updates for all my nerve troublemakers. Okay. After we covered Maria Shriver's memoir, and I'm not going to say there's a causal effect. I'd love to think so, but who knows her book. dropped off the New York Times bestseller list. Sorry, in my excitement, I hit the microphone. I mean, it just plummeted off. So yes, okay, yes.
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I think we're having a little bit of an effect on the culture. And as for Hilaria's book, I know you probably all saw that.
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Instagram thing she posted that demented Instagram thing where she's like crossing the street in like broad daylight in New York City and she's wearing like a tight little nightclub dress and she's really stiffly holding her book the wrong way like her arm looks like it's like been like it's like been dislocated and like but here's the book cover okay and so that was hilarious but I stopped in my local bookstore on the east end of Long Island which I love it's this little place called Bookhampton it's really sweet
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And their whole thing is, like, they are aggressive when it comes to promoting local authors. It doesn't matter if you're rich and famous. It doesn't matter if you have no money and your book was published by, like, a tiny little imprint. Like, they will promote you and, like, put you, like, front and center in the store, and they'll, like, they're great.
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But now Hilaria and Alec, this is also their bookstore, okay, because they live in Amagansett. This store is on Main Street in East Hampton, and, like, I walked in on Sunday and to my great surprise, but also just real happiness, her book was on like the bottom shelf, like the bottom, bottom shelf. Like it wasn't in your eyeline. It wasn't on the top of the shelves.
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It wasn't, I mean, like they did everything except like really just like put it in the back. with like all the remainders. Like they have to do it. But you know, and this is a real humiliation for her. Don't think it's not because like, this is where Bill Clinton goes to shop in the summer. Okay.
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And like, I think Bill's a pig and all of that, but like he's Bill Clinton and he reads and he writes books and he, he shops in there. And like, that's what those people think of Hilaria. Okay. That's what they think of Alec too. This is my next gentle reminder. I know you guys don't need it because you do email me and I love it. And I'm trying to respond to every single one.
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And if I don't, if I can't, like, please know, like I'm reading them and I am appreciating them. And you guys are the freaking best because the only criticism I'm getting is over my eye makeup. which, you know, we're experimenting, okay? But I hear you, I hear you.
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So specifically, I would love to hear more of your stories about mean girl experiences that can be contemporaneous, and I can use that word with you guys because you're freaking smart, or they can be like from your childhood and still scarring you. But we're going to keep talking about this and how to deal with specific conflicts, and you're not going to get like a New York Times answer.
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The name, if you're not super familiar, she probably does ring a bell because Oprah helped midwife this woman into America's living rooms and bookstores, okay? I think when Oprah dies, She may not be meeting the maker she thinks she's going to make, okay? She's done a lot of bad stuff and this is one of them. So this new book is called, We Can Do Hard Things and I ordered it, okay?
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I got it and I can already tell when I opened the box, the Amazon box, I had to get it on Amazon. I was like, I can tell this book is crap because it looks like a workbook.
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okay um and it the title is called we can do hard things and there are three authors okay i thought glennon doyle was a master of self-help you know we could do hard things apparently she can't she needs two other writers and um by the way that those writers are her wife abby we're gonna get into that and her sister amanda and by the way like this book it's not even like a written book okay so it costs i think 34
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It's 34 bucks in the US, it's 45 bucks in Canada, okay? Now you open this book and even the paper stock feels cheap. I'm like a real fiend about paper stock. My dad delivered paper for a living, it's a weird thing. But anyway, and you look at the people, so there are a list of names arranged in like a very,
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fake artsy way, and these are the names of the people whose previous thoughts and utterances they have repurposed, i.e. copied, for this book, okay? I'll give you a quick list. Former First Lady Michelle Obama, okay? Which, I mean, we're all watching her meltdown in real time. Who's taking advice from this woman? The Waffles and Moji alum, as the New York Post called her, Michelle Obama.
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Okay, Bazoma St. John. Okay, another Real Housewife who just joined Beverly Hills this year and who apparently has been turfed out of C-suites all over America and gives a bunch of self-help talks for a lot of money. And from what I saw, she's talking a bunch of garbage, okay? Former Vice President Kamala Harris, queen of garbage word salad.
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Gabrielle Union, who made the most headlines of her life seven years ago, I am not exaggerating, you can go look it up, for revealing that she enjoys a sexual practice with her husband, the NBA star Dwayne Wade, who I believe was caught cheating on her before they were married and maybe had a baby with that woman, but Gabrielle still went in on it.
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She talked about some horseplay she likes to get up to in the bum area. Okay. I will spare you. It was truly disgusting. I can't believe she recovered from it. Melissa McCarthy, Dan Levy. Why am I taking advice from these people? Okay. Now here is Glennon's origin story. I'm going to give you the thumbnail sketch just so you know where I'm coming from with this.
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Meghan and probably his two innocent young children, but also that he would love to get back in. He would love to get back in, but he also just needs all of the security that this latest court ruling once again denied him, okay? Because he's not a working royal anymore by his own decision, okay? So the British taxpayers aren't gonna pay for this. And he's so, so important.
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She began years and years ago with a blog called Momastery, okay, a play on monastery. So you know exactly how she feels about being a mother, right, okay? Now, I went to go revisit this because I actually went to visit it, okay? Revisit implies I had read it. I had never read it before. Now, this thing is gone, okay? Mysteriously, it's been scrubbed from the internet.
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But in her monastery incarnation, Glennon was a self-identified Christian wife and mother raising three children. Now, off of that blog, she got a book deal. And that book was called Carry On Warrior. It's kind of a humble title. Look at this. It's ridiculous. So that book was all about faith. and the importance of being authentic. I mean, authenticity, again, discussed and dismissed.
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Okay, so I'm sure you can guess where this is going to go, right? In 2016, Glennon publishes another memoir. Again, we're having, we're like in midlife maybe, okay? That's a short life. These are a lot of memoirs to be coming out, okay? Like you better be living the kind of life of like, frankly, a Gayle King, okay? You're an astronaut, you're whatever. So this book is called Love Warrior.
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And love, oh, the heart is on fire. And it's like three quarters empty. So this cover art is hardly subtle. And we have the Oprah imprimatur, the literal stamp of approval on that cover. Okay, this book is all about Glennon leaving her husband. And she left her husband.
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for a woman, and not just any woman, but a soccer star named Abby, sorry, Abby Wambach, who then leaves her partner to be with Glennon. I mean, do I have the chronology 100% straight? Whatever. They were both with other people and they both left those partners to be together. So of course, Oprah picks this bullshit for her book club. Now, per Amazon, Love Warrior is, quote,
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The journey of Glennon's self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage. The implosion of her marriage. This woman, again, passive language, okay? Watch out for people who employ passive language and always make themselves the victims, okay? These are the red flags of a textbook narcissist. Not saying Glennon is, I'm just saying, okay?
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So Abby and Glennon met on one of Glennon's book tour stops. where I guess she speaks and gives these like garbage speeches, my opinion about how to actualize yourself. Okay, now Glennon Doyle, per her own self disclosures, has battled the following.
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settle in it's a list bulimia drugs depression anorexia alcoholism and as a teenager spend time in a mental hospital now i judge none of that okay we all have our struggles in life i judge none of it I do, however, judge her for telling us that she can judge our problems and fix them, and she's going to do it for profit. She's going to do it to line her pockets, okay?
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In 2016, she had 7 million people following her blog and social media posts. You know what that equals? That equals Glennon and Abby now living in a $6.5 million house in Hermosa Beach, California, as per last reports. Now it gets better because we have an audio visual component, which I love because you can never lie your way out of audio or video.
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And that may come back to bite me someday, but hopefully not. Okay. We're a non-safe space. So let's take a look at Glennon and Abby's appearance on one of them. I don't understand this podcast. Is it my generation? No, but do I like to think I keep an open mind and I'm really judging things on like quality and quantity and not like, generational differences? I do. Okay. Call her daddy eludes me.
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So this was a humiliation. And if you go and look at that interview on YouTube, you can see, I mean, the whole demeanor, his comportment, the way he's talking, like his mouth is like even smaller than usual. He can't get the words out. He is just completely, he uses the word devastated. He says, I'm devastated. That is a man who is fully emasculated if you ask me. Okay, so what does Megan do?
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Everything about it eludes me. Okay. Alex Cooper is the host of this show. We're mainly talking about relationships and sex. Fine. But
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alex presents like um again like kind of a beetle juice shrunken head like she's always in an oversized hoodie and her hands are like always like inside the hoodie sleeves like this like i'm like kind of i kind of need like my security blanket like i'm a baby and then her manicured hands are always out like this and she's always just kind of like
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in a baseball cap and she's talking to her daddy gang and she's giving all like every time before she interviews somebody it's like oh my god i bow down i bow down i bow down to you like and but there are never any specifics about like why alex admires any given guest on her show so much none okay so anyway glennon shares a recurring character already she shares an insufferable trait with our friend and fellow podcaster jamie kern lima
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She's got the baby voice. Again, like I'm not taking advice from a grown woman who talks like this. I refuse, okay? Now, of course, Glennon and Abby have a bunch, not one, which would be like statistically in the realm of like what goes on in life, okay? What we know of what composes the population. No, they've got a bunch of quote unquote queer kids as Abby told daddy host Alex Cooper.
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OK, so anyway, let's look at this first exchange on of Glennon and Abby on Call Her Daddy.
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Okay, I've got two things. I've got multiple things, but two, okay. Abby, like so many people today says all of the sudden, okay. It's all of a sudden, okay. I want this corrected in the lexicon post haste. I don't know when it happened. I don't know how it happened, but I hear it all the time and it drives the inner grammarian in me nuts, okay.
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Secondly, Glennon sits there and says, after Abby talks about the book, being about the implosion of her marriage and how to heal from that. Glennon with her hand over, again, sign of a liar, hand over the map, hand over the map. That's how it was being sold all over the place. As again, I say this just so you guys know I'm legit with this. I write books, okay? I write books for big publishers.
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And when they're getting ready to release your book, Like six months prior, you are having meetings with editors, with sales and marketing, with publicity, and they're talking about how they're selling your book. And you know how they're talking about selling your book? Based on the contents of said book. So Glennon's out there saying, oh my God, I wouldn't have sold it that way.
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That's how they sold it. That's how they sold it. That's not what I, that was like, that's a lie, okay? That is a lie, a lie. Okay. Next Abby gives us a very interesting piece of information. She says, um, you know, so Glennon obviously left her husband for, for Abby and Abby says that she has a pattern of falling for straight women who get with her for a while.
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And then they inevitably go back to being straight. Okay. I don't think this is going to work out well for Abby. Okay. So let's listen to Glennon talk about how she came to leave her husband and decide to go with Abby.
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When things go wrong, like really, really wrong, like really, really, really bad, Meghan does this. She puts on this face and everything's great. Everything's great. In fact, things are better than they were before Harry's latest fuck up, okay? So she took to Instagram where her likes and comments seem to be permanently disabled.
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okay so this woman who is positing herself as a self-help guru okay the women of america especially should take advice from her for a price has a therapist this shitty okay she's a therapist this shitty and she's in far enough with this therapist talking about one of the most consequential decisions anyone could ever make whether to stay in a marriage or leave it And that's the advice.
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I mean, that therapist should go work for the fucking New York Times. Okay. Now, I also realized while that was playing, I had a little like smudge on my cheek. I hope you guys didn't see that the whole time. I'm very embarrassed, but I got rid of it. Okay. Let's take a look at some of the advice in this piece of shit book. Okay.
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um now in the intro she tells us the three of them i'm sorry it's glenn and it's abby it's amanda um that two things they they have gleaned uh nay divined from writing books speaking to people doing podcasts and emailing each other and also conducting late night frantic texts like again how emotionally stable are you if you are a middle-aged woman and you're constantly exchanging frantic late night texts with people okay two things become thrillingly clear one
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we are not alone okay what okay two we do not have to stay lost there are answers uh okay i i fail to see what unique
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insightful wisdom you have to impart to the rest of us and that podcast that call your daddy appearance by the way it was front to back like teenage garbage like that like there was no discussion of the book what's in the book or the advice that's being offered and and i think i know why because there's like nothing in here there's literally like nothing in here i'm looking at another thing i flagged okay again like they are they a lot of this but look at this like they're just taking up
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pages by like using a lot of white space and different size fonts and they're like rewriting other people's right like this is a martha beck quote i don't know who martha beck is but this is her quote and and there's like a huge heart in the middle of this again like this is like a journal that like a fourth grader would keep um uh allow your longing so like allow yourself to long for stuff like okay like uh the only real map of our lives is in our yearning oh this is one of my favorite phrases too of the modern age you can sit in it
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You can sit in it. Instead of just thinking about something and letting it roll around in your head, now we're sitting in it, okay? We're holding space, we're standing in our truth, and we're sitting in it. In this book, I am sitting in a bunch of bullshit, okay? I am sitting in a bunch of bullshit. How will I know what to do? Not through Glennon fucking Doyle. Here's another piece of wisdom.
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She quotes herself. That's how you know you're in the presence of a real narcissist, just my opinion. You're quoting yourself. Your body is not your masterpiece. Your life is. I guess this goes to her body dysmorphia or whatever. And then she finishes up. She talks about getting into painting, I guess, as a way to get out of her head.
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And then the profundity at the bottom of this is, I just want to paint. want to burn this book. I won't burn books because I revere books too much, but I want to burn this thing. This thing is a piece of garbage, okay? I want the nerve and this entire community to do our best to eradicate these frauds who have zero expertise. They have zero credentials in psychology, psychiatry, or human behavior.
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and who often have very, very problematic, contradictory backstories while telling us that they are the most authentic people around. They are not, okay? In my opinion, they are the exact opposite and they know nothing more than you or I do. And in fact, I'm pretty confident in saying that you and I know a hell of a lot more, okay?
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to brag about having been at Beyonce's show the night before with that man, Harry, remember, never forget, that man who loves me so much. So of course, now this is a carousel, right? Because we have to experience like all of her emotions and her winning, her constant winning. So she begins this post in the most banal, cliched way possible, okay?
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This is a new segment, one that we're going to call Last Effing Nerve, okay? Last Effing Nerve, and we have to revisit this guy again. I'm sorry, because he's in our faces yet again. This weekend, Walt Goggins, okay? This guy, this insufferable guy, hosted SNL, okay? And we all had to go on this, again, journey with him, this journey with him. Let's look at his intro on SNL this weekend.
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And I want you to know that we at The Nerve are... very, very deeply keeping track of your feedback, your emails, your DMs, your responses, conversational threads on YouTube. We see you. And I saw you this weekend encouraging each other and saying, hey, you guys, let's make sure we get Maureen to 100,000. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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So I guess he's proving he can laugh at himself, even though he really, really brutally made fun of his co-star and alleged former fling, Amy LeWood, for her teeth. I mean, Amy LeWood didn't find that funny. She cried in public about it and he doubled down. So I have no use for this guy whatsoever, okay? Now on his co-star, Michelle Monaghan, his co-star in the White Lotus,
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She posted a carousel on Insta, I think Monday morning, because she went to the show and she went to the after party. And this is what he's doing in her iPhone camera.
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You know, this is a guy, like, that is literally the metaphor for where Walton Goggins is right now. There's a camera anywhere. He's going to shove his fucking face in front of it, get really close, and overdo it like a theater kid on Ritalin, okay? It is time to please leave. Just get out of our faces for one hot minute. I don't like this guy.
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lastly vis-a-vis walton goggins i would just like to um display this little page out of us weekly the most recent us weekly the loose talk segment where they just use a quote from a celebrity and um they they asked for his response on whether people are ever star struck by him and walt replied yes i'm walton goggins something tells me he's not kidding anyway That is it for today.
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And hopefully that is it for Walt. And that is it for Glennon. And that is it for, well, Taylor's going to be fun. And the Diddy trial is going to be fun. And we are right now working on our Friday show for you. We are going to be back here with guns blazing and teeth bared. So we cannot wait to see you all back here on Friday at the nerve where you will never guess what we're about to say next.
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She begins this post with the following three words. About last night. Like, everybody uses that. Like, it should be, like, whoever runs Instagrams, you know, it's not Mark Zuckerberg, but whoever, like, that should just be banned. About last night. It's not cute anymore. It's not funny. Whatever. Okay.
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So, of course, she uses the most hackneyed, trite things she can because she has not, as I've said, an original freaking thought in her head. So, first, we're going to see Meghan standing at the Beyonce show. And I think in this one, she might be wearing Harry's hat. Yeah. Okay, she's wearing, now the hat is going to come into play later.
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Now look at, first of all, I want you to take this all in because every single thing is telling us something. And I want you to think about the ways in which she thinks she's showing us she and Harry are winning, but she's actually showing us that they are not. losing as ever. Okay. So that's that image. This is the next image.
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And this was also put, this was like the center photo on page six over the weekend in the Sunday paper. Look at just, just, just, I mean, look at the smiles. Okay. They're having the best time. Next, we're going to look at Megan dancing at the Beyonce show because, you know, she's not just, um,
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a royal in exile she's like a cool royal in exile so she's dancing she's letting loose she's letting her hair down oh my god you guys she can't dance he can't dance like she's barely moving for like it's like taylor you know taylor swift can't dance so like they usually make her just walk on stage like just like she's a supermodel like she walks over here and then she walks over there like megan is like
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Barely, barely, like she's like a robot. She's like dancing like a robot. Okay, then next in her carousel, we see Harry kissing Meghan on the cheek because what is he doing if he's not showing that he's constantly... a supplicant, he's the help. He has to show that she is the adored one.
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And that's, by the way, in stark contrast to the two of them in New York City a couple of weeks ago at the Time 100 Summit, where she exited their vehicle and he went to grab her hand and she just like, I have a stranger to hug. Get away from me. Pee on. You disgust me. Okay, next. Megan with Friends. Again, who are these people?
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Like, I don't recognize any of them from the Netflix show With Love, Megan. Like, where's Daniel, the makeup artist? Where's Mindy Kaling? Who are these no-names that I don't notice? Okay, again. They're not, she's not with celebrities. Okay. These, I don't know who these people are. And then we're going to take a look at, okay, here is, is this video of Beyonce and Megan clapping together?
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No, they're not together. Of course not. Megan's just having a moment. Okay. And then let's see. There's another picture of her and Harry. It's a selfie. Nobody cares. The hat is what I want to get to the hat. So the hat she was wearing, which we are informed was Harry's. You guys look at this thing. Okay.
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She's got stenciled inside the brim of the hat on the underside of the brim of the hat, which would be again, Harry's Archie. in all capital letters, like block letters underneath that lily, all block letters.
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And underneath that, my love, my love, not Megan, but you know, hearkening to the Jamie Carlina interview that she did like two weeks ago where she sighed theatrically because there's no other kind of Megan Markle sigh, but a theatrical sigh. That man, you know. And she's telling us he comes in after she has torn herself away from her two children for a moment of respite.
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I think we're building something really special here. I think we're building a great community here. And the only thing I can say is thank you again and let's keep it going because the faster we continue to grow, the faster we can get you the extra content that you guys want. So thank you.
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And she goes into an adjoining room where she now misses them so much, she has to start scrolling through her phone to look at photos of them, even though they're in the next room. And Harry walks in and he says, my love, can't you just give yourself a break? So, you know, and okay, what this hat shows is not only...
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I think Harry's balls, I think she like weighted them down with like some concrete per the Sopranos and like threw them in a body of water and they're gone. That's it. This guy's fully emasculated and that's her showing us the way she's got control of him and how much he adores her. And it also shows us that Meghan is not what she purports to be and so badly wants to be.
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She thinks she's like the cool royal, the American easy breezy California cool royal with a wellness brand or a food brand. Like Gwyneth, like she's not cool. Okay, there is zero about that hat
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and everything else about in that instagram post that is cool and you know i'm not saying cool is the cost of entry for everything it's certainly not but authenticity sure as is and you know what runs on a dual track with authenticity often you're cool okay because you don't really give a and her problem is she gives way too much of a hence that post now
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look at the caption because she then says like, thanks to Beyonce and team for a wonderful night. Okay. So this caption, what's not in this caption is telling us everything. Okay. First of all, look at where they're seated. They're not in a VIP box. Okay. This isn't Oprah with her astronaut friend in bedazzled blue jeans, Gail in a VIP section at Beyonce show. Okay.
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So she got tickets either on StubHub or, or someone called someone in Beyonce's camp and they were like, okay, just throw her a bone. But they're up there, okay? They're like in the mid section of this tour, which by the way is flopping all over the place. So it's not like it's a hard ticket to get, okay? Then she says, thanks to Beyonce and her team for a great night.
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She doesn't say, thanks to Beyonce for hooking us up. Thanks to Beyonce's team for making sure H and I, or that man and I, had everything at our fingertips and didn't want for a moment. We had a personal concierge. I had a personal bathroom. She's not saying any of that, okay? So she's trying to make it seem like she and H are like...
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super tight with Beyonce and Jay and her, and like, think ahead, okay, Megan? Think ahead for once. The Diddy trial is underway in New York City as we speak. I think Jay, Z, Jay, Jay-Z, whatever, I think he's got a few concerns, okay? So maybe you don't wanna be adjacent to them. Maybe you don't. Okay, so they try to put this happy face on this, but then Sunday, Sunday, you guys,
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This still photo emerges of Harry who has just finished whining. Okay. Look at this photo. He is in London on his own. This looks like morning light to me, early morning light, a ring camera. He's got, he's on his cell phone and a ring camera has caught him buzzing someone's townhouse. The trash cans in the background.
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And this whole weekend, I was just dying to get back in on Tuesday to give you this loaded up, I mean, stuff was happening all weekend long, crazy stuff, wild stuff, stuff that I'm watching. And I'm saying, I have to talk to you guys about it. We've got like a huge, we're gonna start with like a bunch of just celebrity nonsense.
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There's one for recycling, it looks like, and one for trash, but they're trash cans. Again, I miss Andy Warhol deeply. This is like one of the best celebrity photos. It's an abundance of riches.
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So this guy who just got finished moaning to the world that he needs 24-7, like Mossad-level security when he goes to the UK because he's that important, is caught wandering around a London neighborhood alone In what looks like, frankly, last night's suit, knocking on random doors, there is no security anywhere in sight, anywhere. So which is it, Harry?
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Now, the official line that came out, and I don't think it was, like, from Harry per se, but, like, his camp, was that he was merely looking for a friend of his and his wife who lived in that neighborhood, and that was the last known address he had for them. And so...
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Clearly, if this story is true, which I doubt, and we'll get into why, I think that the only other explanation would be like, these two left no forwarding address for him, okay? Location unknown. They're in the equivalent of the aristocracy's witness protection program from Harry and his terrible wife, Meghan.
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Now, I don't believe that story is true because I saw a lot of online speculation that this is behavior that will say a hard partier. would exhibit. And as I disclosed once when I was on Megyn Kelly's show, I've never done hard drugs in my life. I was maybe offered cocaine twice in my life. And I was like, I don't want it. Thank you.
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And by the way, friends of mine later told me it's a great thing you never tried it because you probably would have loved it because all cocaine makes you want to do is talk. And I love to talk, as you know. So I probably would have wound up in rehab like more than once.
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Anyway, this speculation online, which kind of tracks to me, is that like he had a long, long night with people who were kind of party buddies who he didn't really know well.
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And she mentions that she's in agony in the lobby of their apartment building, and she's trying to get Alec's attention because this is the few times that the nannies, the maids, the drivers, the assistants, the doormen will come to be mentioned. Otherwise, we pretend we're doing it all ourselves. And so she says that she's dying to get into a vehicle and be driven post haste to the hospital.
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Now, Alex, she says, was taking calls and responding to emails like he's rolling calls, like he's like a super producer, like nothing else matters while his wife is in labor. And she says like she's being coy here. She's not being an honest broker. Now I know that it was his way of dealing with stress, but at the time it really pissed me off and I didn't hesitate to tell him.
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So she's so unimpressed that her husband is rich and famous. She can take him down. Our driver and assistant spoke up. Alec, they said, this needs to wait. Okay, so Rafa is born. And he comes out and like the umbilical cord is wrapped around his neck, she tells us, and he's blue and he's gasping and he's fine. You know, this does happen. He is fine.
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Everybody saw it for what it was like an attempt for Alec and his fame, hoary, hungry wife. looking to rehab their reputations after Alec shot a 42-year-old cinematographer named Helena Hutchins accidentally, fatally, on the set of Rust, leaving her husband left to raise their young son alone. But you know what?
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I mean, she tells a very highly dramatic story about this, but that he needed to go to the NICU. Okay. The baby needed to go, the infant, the newborn needed to go to the NICU. She writes this. Alec had to return to work because of his role in a play in the Hamptons. Okay, I can promise you this. Alec Baldwin wasn't doing Broadway. He didn't have a contract.
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And even if he did have a contract, like I am sure he had an out clause that if his wife or soon to be born child had a medical emergency, the understudy could come in, okay? But in this telling of the story, Alec has to go back out to the Hamptons. He has to drive. And if this is the summer, which it is, it's June 17th. Okay. It's after Labor Day.
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I can tell you firsthand, you're looking at a three hour drive one way. If you're lucky, it can go as long as four. But Alec has to go back out to the Hamptons where he's in some shitty play. And trust me, the theaters out there are small. Okay, you're holding maybe a few hundred people. And we don't even know the name of this play. That's how we know it's for shit.
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And so she's got to deal with a sick baby in the NICU. She says, I fumed that my husband wasn't by my side as she takes the baby home from the NICU three days later in an Uber. An Uber. I mean, she's trash like the rest of us now. And fumed that my husband wasn't by my side while also knowing that contractually he had no choice.
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If he truly contractually had no choice, he needs a better entertainment lawyer, okay? Now, the other thing I'm going to show you about this book, which my friends, you are going to die. There are lots of like family photos in here, loving photos in here. There is a two-page spread of this monstrosity, okay?
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These are all thumbnail sketches because Hilaria clearly couldn't pick just one or two to highlight of her doing sexualized yoga poses in often inopportune, inappropriate places. with barely nothing on. So here's what she's saying to us. My interpretation of this little artwork, I'm a freak in the sheets, and that's how I got Alec Baldwin to marry me, okay?
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Before we wrap this up, never forget, this generation's Zapruder moment. Here it is just for you.
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How you say cucumber? Hilaria, how do you say adios? I'm wearing my devil horns again today for you guys. Okay. I know that they are divisive. Some of you love them. Some of you, they annoy you, but I like them and I think that they're appropriate for what we are about to do, which is we are going to take apart the Instagram accounts of Three celebrities.
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Well, okay, I'll say two are celebrities and one is kind of a prominent author, but she's verified on social media, so I guess that counts. All right, okay? Okay, so we are going to begin with one of my favorite within girls, Lena Dunham. Okay. Now she really hasn't done anything big since her HBO show girls went off the air, you know, and that was like a buzzy coastal phenomenon.
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I don't really know if it translated to middle America. I don't really know what it did in view in ratings because HBO doesn't release that stuff. So we just sort of know her for being foisted upon us by Judd Apatow and her parents and rich and famous art world friends. And I believe her mother and father are neighbors with Meryl Streep, like in Connecticut. They're very wealthy people.
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They have like a big, like loft downtown in downtown New York city and Tribeca, which is one of the most expensive places you could live here. And then they have this house in Connecticut and whatever. Okay. So Lena is, Has been, I think, working out a lot of stuff on her Instagram account. Okay. Now she just turned 39.
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Um, when she was in her girls, like the height of her fame there, you know, Anna Wintour put her in Vogue. She may have been on the cover. I don't recall, but you know, Lena had to lose a lot of weight and she started posting like. photos and reels of her training with her personal trainer and, you know, getting herself into shape and how she loved it and how empowering it was.
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Rust came out this week too because we all have to see Alec fucking Baldwin's brilliance on the screen. I would have had that movie burned. I don't even think they use actual film anymore, do they? However they shot it, I would have burned it. Okay. So Hilaria is now out on her book tour. And she's talking about many, many things. Nobody's really asking about the Spanish thing. I would give...
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She's all the words. Okay. Well, she has since become morbidly obese. And I mean like medically morbidly obese. She is far too young for this. And what she's doing is posting images of herself, photos and reels on Instagram all the time. And this is exactly what she used to do on girls, right? She would get naked on that show and engage in like, you know,
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weird sometimes degrading sexual acts and she has tattoos like all over her body and like listen tattoo yourself all you want but get good tattoos these tattoos are so ugly like it's like she's trying to make herself as ugly as possible i think there are a lot of issues going on up there And as morbidly obese as possible, I'm just going to say it.
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And then she shoves her body in our faces and very much like Oprah, then yells at us for not wanting to see this. Okay. This is evolutionary stuff. We want to see nice things. Okay. So take a look at one of Lena's most recent reels. Okay, here she is among pigs, cuddling a pig, stuffed into a bathing suit at a place she tells us is Pig Island. And that is where she's vacationing.
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And it's not a joke. I think there's a real Pig Island. I've never heard of this, okay? Now, I'm going to give you a little primer on why I hate Lena Dunham. And I mean, I hate her. I fucking hate her, okay? She wrote about... like shoving pebbles in her little sister's vagina. I wrote a column about this like a while ago about her. I wrote it in 2017.
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She also said in her book, she wrote this about her little sister, Grace, Basically, she wrote, quote, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying. She wrote about, this is me in the column, she wrote about masturbating in bed next to Grace and that she'd once pulled apart Grace's legs to find, oh, she found pebbles up there, whatever.
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Okay, so that's who we're dealing with. Now, Lena's sister, Grace, and I think that Lena's sister had a lot of trouble getting attention in that family. Okay, the father is like, an outre outsider artist whose work is extremely sexually explicit and kind of perverse. It's like perverse. Like, I think he would agree. And it makes me wonder what went on in that house, frankly. Okay.
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Her mother is like a lesser known artist, but her medium is like dollhouses. okay like again like wonder what's going on in that house lena has like she's she's a talented writer as far as we can tell like she's got an original mind and she's smart and she's letting herself become really sick. That kind of obesity comes with a ton of comorbidities. So Lena's sister has to get attention somehow.
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So what does she do? I'm sure you can guess. In 2019, she came out as trans. Now, but if you're a member of the Dunham family, the story Dunhams of New York City, you write about this quote unquote journey in the pages of the New Yorker. David Remnick, Also another star fucker. I don't understand why these people like Jesse Eisenberg getting bylines in the New York or Lena, whatever. Okay.
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Now also in my sort of, if I'm a prosecutor and I'm telling you why Lena Dunham should be ejected from polite society, This woman in that book, not that kind of girl, falsely accused an easily identifiable male Oberlin, sorry, classmate of rape, okay? He was called Barry. Everybody figured out who Barry was. He was getting in trouble at his job. She had to fucking retract that shit.
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give like an organ you can do without or like even just like you know i'd give an appendix maybe like i would undergo surgery to have a moment to sit down with hilaria and really bring some questions that america would like answers to okay so she goes on the today's show and she's asked about the rust shooting and she says quote sometimes bad things happen Okay. Sometimes a bad thing happens.
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Accusing somebody falsely of rape top of sexually violating your little sister I mean we are dealing with a very sick person here in my opinion now she will not be stopped okay there is no humiliation she can suffer no sort of you know punishment that the culture can meet out that will stop Lena Dunham from being Lena Dunham so next is
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A young woman, who is not just any young woman, but she was the daughter of an actor named Harold, I believe he pronounced his name, Perrineau. And if you know this guy, I believe he was on The Wire. He, I think, was definitely on Oz. Very well-respected actor. So that's his daughter. And she accused a guy named Murray Miller, who was a writer on Girls.
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raping her now what does the great feminist Lena Dunham do with her girls collaborator Jenny Connor they write an open letter saying that this young woman who is accusing their writer of raping her was lying okay the woman who lied about an Oberlin classmate being a rapist is now telling a woman who was raped that I'm I believe was raped, that she's lying, okay?
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Now, I went to go pull that open letter up for you guys, but guess what? It has been scrubbed from the internet, okay? And I'm going to quote a little bit from that letter because I did quote from it in this column. I guess I had the foresight. So this was how the letter begins. Or how it went in part.
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While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases that are misreported every year. Fuck Lena Dunham, okay? And the worst of all, the worst. she gave away her rescue dog, okay? You treat animals like they're just objects to be disposed of, you're dead to me, okay?
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Now, then Lena's karma began sort of like coming back around because she seemed to get simultaneously dumped by Taylor Swift. Now, when Taylor Swift was girl squatting it all over America circa this era, like 2017, and she was bringing out all her leggy supermodels on stage during her tours. I mean, to what end? I have no idea.
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Like if I'm paying to go see a rock show or a pop concert, like I don't care who you, I don't want to see you bring out a line of your friends so I can what applaud. at like this, this, this like string of objects you've collected. Like, Oh my God, Gigi Hadid's on stage. Like why is Gigi Hadid on stage with you? Anyway, so she would bring them out.
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And then at the tail, at the end, at the end of like the frame, it would be like dumpy little Lena Dunham, like homely little Lena Dunham. So Taylor was like definitely knifing her. Now that was, I'm sure because Taylor's longtime friend, producer and collaborator Jack Antonoff was dating Lena at the time.
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And I always kind of side-eyed that because Jack Antonoff came up in pretty exclusive New York City circles. And you know what? His date to the prom was freaking Scarlett Johansson, okay? So I was like, Jack is probably really working his way up the music industry by... having to, frankly, sleep with Lena Dunham. And the guy paid his dues. Okay, he paid his fucking dues.
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But Jack dumped Lena, and not long after that, fairly soon after, he married Andy McDowell's actress daughter, the young, gorgeous actress Margaret Qualley. Okay. who most recently starred in The Substance. And they had this big, fancy wedding. And who was like a guest of honor? Taylor fucking Swift. Okay. So Lena seemed to go way downhill, like immediately, like the downhill slide. It was hard.
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It was fast. She became what we're seeing at right now. And she's trying to provoke yet another reaction, any reaction that she can get. And I mean, I guess in a way she succeeded, but I think it's a Pyrrhic victory. And by the way, the little cherry on this Sunday is her production company, You'll never guess what she called it. Good thing going. She thinks she's got a good thing going. Okay.
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Now, our second person celebrity, this is the chef I was talking about. It wasn't until, you know, I was doing my real diligent reading for you guys, by which I mean I was leafing through the tabloids. And I came upon this item that I said, that's right.
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Like a bad thing happening is like you get a parking ticket when you thought you were like in the clear. Okay. A bad thing is like your Amazon package didn't come on time. Okay. This verbiage does not rise to the level of a young woman, a young wife and mother losing her life. Okay. So right away, I mean, again, like it's not happening.
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So Rachel Ray, the chef who kind of really doubled down during lockdown and was like making all these videos, all this content from her home has like disappeared. Like she's vanished. And according to this report, she and her husband, John, who according to
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long ago, tabloid reports, had a real problem with, allegedly, he was a very frequent flyer at like New York's, you know, most underground S&M clubs. And he liked some practices that you know, the gross, the gross. I won't, I won't. But anyway, they're still together. Apparently she really loves him. And you know, what's a little S and M among friends.
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But she and he have reportedly relocated to Italy and everybody's like, where's Rachel Ray? Like she had an empire at one time, right? She had a talk show. I believe she had the blessing of Martha Stewart, which is really hard to get. She had a magazine. She had this kind of empire. And she was very relatable. Well, Rachel Ray has resurfaced on Instagram. And you guys, things are not well.
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Okay, take a look at this.
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Okay, she seems drunk. I'm just going to say it. She seems drunk. fucking plastered okay that and that looks like day drinking to me okay she has gained um an amount of weight that does not seem healthy and she's doubling down I don't know what a suiza burger is but I do know that she's name dropping in this video and when people name drop it makes me very uncomfortable
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because it makes me think that they are really, it actually tells me that they are really deeply insecure. And you can be famous and be really insecure. A lot of famous people are. And so like you're telling me that I should think highly of you based not because of what you bring to the table as a person, but because of like who you know. I don't give a shit who you know. I don't know them.
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They could be shitty people. You know, fucking Dave Grohl cheated on his wife, had a lengthy relationship with what seems to be a quote unquote groupie. I mean, they say she's a music fan. I guess groupie is no longer politically correct. And had a baby with her. Okay. He's not a great guy. Okay. Not a great guy. Anyway.
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Lastly, and I've been dying to get to this with you because this woman is one of my bet noirs. Her name is Jessica Knowles. She is a writer. She writes books and she writes novels and they do well and they sell and they're commercial and good for her. Make your money. Make your name. But she has a very, very, very, very high opinion of herself.
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And I was scrolling through her Instagram, and we're going to go through some of this together. She wrote a book famously called Luckiest Girl Alive, and it was turned, I believe, again, during COVID, into a Netflix film with Mila Kunis, who is married to, I think, Ashton Kutcher, is shaking in his boots right now, as did he's on trial, just my opinion. And this movie was based on Jessica's novel.
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I hope Hilaria is enjoying this moment in the sun because I do think we are well and truly done with her. Now, I'm going to show you the book. It's called Manual Not Included. And again, this book is smaller than The Let Them Theory. And we talked about the physical size of The Let Them Theory as being so small. It's like the publisher is trying to trick you that this is an actual book.
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which was, I believe, her debut and came out in, well, I forget what year, but this is an email that she wrote to her agent or editor, it looks like her agent, in 2013. And if you look at the email, I'm reading from my phone, she writes, these are her first lines, Okay. Here are the first 66 pages of the next great American novel. Okay.
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I'm going to tell you that any writer worth their salt shits themselves when they have to send their rough draft, their first pass out to anybody to look at. I don't care who it is. It's your agent. It's your editor. It's like your best friend who you know is going to take it to their grave. Because Stephen King will say this. Every great writer has said this. Ernest Hemingway has said this.
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Your first draft is for shit, okay? It is going to suck. It is going to be so painful to look at. And this asshole is going, I've just written this. The 66 pages of the next great American novel. You're not going to believe fucking reading here. It also reminds me of Gillian Flynn, who wrote Gone Girl. And, you know, that I think was published back in 2012.
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And, you know, it became this runaway sensation. Sometimes you have lightning in a bottle. You hit a moment in the culture, a nerve, if you will. She has yet to write another novel. book, okay? She's written some screenplays, but she has yet to write another book. And I think she is terrified to write another book because it probably will never replicate the success of Gone Girl.
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So she's kind of a coward, but she does these interviews. And I wanted to like her because she used to be like a reporter at Entertainment Weekly, you know, grinding it out in her day job. And she seemed like a cool person, but she gives these interviews and she's talking about this book that has yet to materialize, lo, these many years later. And she'll say shit like,
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I have the best first line that has ever been written in the English fucking language. Like I'm not exaggerating. And she says that stuff and I'm like, you know what? You're an asshole and you're not that great of a writer because really good writers think that they suck. Okay. The next in this Jessica Knoll scroll is a screenshot that she took and posted of her
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piece in the New York times that she wrote after luckiest girl alive, which is about a young woman who comes to New York city to reinvent herself in the media world. But the secret that she's hiding was that she had survived a group sexual assault as a, I believe a high school or college girl. And in her essay for the New York times, she revealed that that was based on her own experience.
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Now, as I said on the Friday show, anytime I drop my cynicism about celebrities, it comes back to bite me. Okay, so I... I'm not going to say it, we're simpatico, right? We understand each other. So here she's writing about the caption as she's celebrating the 10 year anniversary of this most consequential book.
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She writes in her Instagram post, okay, one year later on the eve of my paperback publication, I wrote an essay for the New York Times. Oh, no, sorry. I wrote an essay for Lena Dunham's newsletter claiming the sexual assault at the center of my fiction debut as my own. I think that's interesting language. I'm just saying. Now, she said, so the New York Times picked it up.
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I could not believe this made mainstream news. Today's show, the New York Times, Perez Hilton? Question mark, exclamation point, exclamation point. Like Perez Hilton is the guy who got famous for his internet gossip blog where he would take a photo of a celebrity and draw a childish picture of like a penis going into their mouth. But she's fucking thrilled that Perez Hilton picked this up. Um,
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This thing is really tiny and it's really slim. I think there's six chapters in here. That for me was like a chapter book when I was in the fifth grade. So this is already insulting. Now look at the narcissism as well, because we've got Hilaria and Alec on the cover. And this is a trick I learned in magazines. It's not like a trick, but it's an insight when I used to work at magazines.
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My story was my ghost, the book was my exorcism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then, okay, then Lena Dunham, the following email is Lena Dunham, an email from Lena to Jessica Knoll that reads, forget J-Law, meaning Jennifer Lawrence, it's Jess Law now in all caps. And then underneath that is this email that Jessica sent to Lena.
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Now, she explains, Jessica, in this Facebook scroll, the Lena Dunham email is informing me that my essay, my, capital M, capital Y, beat Jennifer Lawrence's essay in page views. Okay. My essay about my group sexual assault and deep abiding trauma. Fuck you, Jayla. I beat your fucking essay in page views. Are we fucking sick or what? Okay.
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Next, we go to the coda, the final post in Jessica Knoll's carousel. This looks like what I believe is her child, which she had via surrogate and like, the craziest people on social media, you know, these women who have babies via surrogate, which like I'm all for, okay. You want a baby, you get a baby, however you have to do it, like all for it.
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there are women who have the surrogate give birth and then they get in a hospital gown and they put like a fucking hospital ID wrist on and they crawl into the hospital bed with the baby as if they're the ones who gave birth. Jessica Knowles fucking did that, okay? That's when I knew like this woman's well and truly like divorced from reality.
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Anyway, the final thing, look at this, you guys, look at this. This is what could be her child, I think is, but anyway, it is a, it's like a two-year-old Kissing the movie poster for Luckiest Girl Alive. Again, if this is her child, she is kissing the movie poster that is the fictionalized version of the gang rape that Jessica Knowles says she survived as a young woman. Okay.
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I truly don't know what the fuck this is. You know, I actually do know this is like, hey, you guys, I'm rich and famous and everybody needs to see how great I'm doing. And, you know, I can't even. But and I'm really smart, right, because I'm really successful. So I must be really smart. But she is doing this shit with her kid. I don't I don't get it. OK, that's it. That's it. That's all for today.
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I gave you everything I had. I got a parachute out. The next thing we need to talk about Caitlin Clark. Okay. The WNBA phenom last weekend. Now I don't really follow the WNBA. I used to follow the Knicks. We'll get to the Knicks in a minute. Um, but Caitlin Clark, Once again, on the court is aggressed – I kind of love this word, aggressed – by Angel Reese. Caitlyn is white.
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She is a once – she's the biggest star the league has ever seen in its 29-year history. LeBron James will tell you as much. Ain't no party like a diddy party, but he also loves Caitlyn. Okay. Okay. And, you know, Tom Brady is a fan. She's got fans all over.
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Like, the creme de la creme are fans of Caitlyn Clark, not Angel Reese, who is a black player, same age, came out of the NCAA at the same time, and Angel Reese hates Caitlyn Clark. Let's take a look at this footage from last Saturday's game.
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When you look at something, be it like a layout or a book cover, the eye naturally wants to go left first. So... Guess who's the star on the left of this cover? It's Hilaria Baldwin. Okay. Not for nothing, there's a shit ton of photos inside this book. And typically when an author is on the cover of their book, usually a celebrity's face will be on the cover of their memoir.
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Now, Bill, talk to us about what's going on vis-a-vis Caitlyn, Angel Reese, and the WNBA's utter refusal to deal with the harassment, aggression, and frankly, the attempts to injure Caitlyn Clark to the point that her career will be over by many, frankly, a black player.
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And he's another big fan of hers.
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I mean, we know it, we know it now. I mean, Dave Portnoy came out and said, Angel hates her and not in a basketball way.
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Okay.
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well, listen, your Knicks are breaking your heart. I tried to stick it out through the game knowing I was going to talk to you. And, you know, what did they do? They blew it in the overtime. They had a huge lead and they blew it. And it's like going back to a toxic ex, everybody who's in it with the Knicks. But to this point, we were talking about the Knicks and Caitlin and Angel Reese.
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And, you know, I was saying... so Spike Lee, who's been like a decades long fixture in celebrity row courtside at Knicks games, you know, maybe he's mellowed. I don't know, but Spike Lee, there was never a racially charged incident that he did not love to insert himself into. And he's awfully quiet about this. I don't think he thinks that like Caitlin Clark is the problem here is what I'm saying.
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I'm not saying it is, but the WNBA's refusal to take this seriously, this sustained harassment of their star player, okay? They said they're opening an investigation in the aftermath of that game and that incident into racism against Angel Reese. Are you kidding me?
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This is not that, trust me. You will not see an author photo because like it's deemed a little too much. It's deemed a little tasteless. Okay. Guess who also has an author photo? Like she's made up She's giving her best Zoolander. So she starts out with this story. She's out there humiliating Alec Baldwin now. Now he got something in on their reality show. And before I get into her
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Well, she also posted something to TikTok saying, white girl trying to fade, something like that.
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Well, I think that's Angel Reese telling us that that's her problem with Caitlin Clark. I think that that's what she's telling us. And you said something really, I thought, brilliant the other night because you love to go to Knicks games. I mean, you're sitting them out because these are expensively ridiculous, but ridiculously expensive. But, you know, at Knicks games, it's like,
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you know, and New Yorkers are like, you know, very confrontational people. But when you go to a Knicks game, it's like every one of every different race, socioeconomic, you know, whatever, they're shoulder to shoulder at these games.
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That's not what it is. It's jealousy because Caitlyn's a star and Angel will never be a star. And Caitlyn is beloved by like the 1% of athletes. in any sport and Angel is not. And you see this a lot in tennis too. Like, you know, those, those like one-on-one sports where it's like the rivalries go very deep. Like Chrissy Everett had one.
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I forget, I forget who, was it Martina, her antagonist and like John McEnroe. And I think it was beyond Borg. And then later in life, they become great friends. They become incredible because they're the only people who know what that was like. And I, I love those stories. Okay. I have a little bit of time left with you for our mini nerve. I have two, two, people I want to get to you about.
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hey welcome to a special weekend edition of the nerve this is something we have never done before but um we want to give you guys all the content we possibly can and we hear you that you're loving the weekend stuff and we are loving providing it for you we love it so usually what we do is is the mini nerve where it's you know sort of bonus content it runs about 20 minutes not this weekend okay this weekend we're giving you a special
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Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift is busy burning her friendship with Blake Lively to the ground right now, making sure that we all know she wishes they had never met, and I'm sure is the subject of the forthcoming album. Travis Kelsey, who seems to be on, like, Get Your Shit Together, orders from his organization. I don't even know who he plays for.
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This is how out of the loop I am with sports, but he has dropped a ton of weight. I bet you he's on the jab. Just my opinion. He has a terrible new haircut. He's got some facial hair and he was just recently photographed. His back waxing is not going well. I mean, it looks like it's, it looks like, It looks like a westernmost state, like a Nevada or something on his back in hair form.
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Bill, what's going on there? And how many men do you think do have to get their backs waxed?
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What kind of esthetician is he going to? His girlfriend is a billionaire. Get someone in your house to do it and invest in a full-length mirror and, you know, check that stuff out.
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vile, I think, disclosure of something that is, I'm sure, very sensitive and personal to Alec Baldwin. And trust me, I don't feel sympathy for Alec Baldwin, but I don't like bullies. Alec, in a confessional on their reality show, sort of lets the mask flip a little bit. Like, watch this.
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Maybe, maybe it's too painful for him. Maybe the big tough quarterback, you know, we women, we get waxed within an inch of our lives and I'll tell you it's painful and we are tough. Okay. Maybe he can't take it, you know? Okay. My last celebrity I want to go in on you with is she's going to become part of our lives. I'm telling you right now, it's Violet Affleck.
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the college age daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, who recently wrote a college paper. I believe she's at Harvard. She's at Harvard or Yale. And it was about, I guess it was in some way class inequality. So her story in her academic paper was that she had a fight with her mother
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for putting them all in a five-star hotel in Beverly Hills, I believe I have the geography right, while LA burned to the ground. And she said her issue with her mother was that this felt like a very corporatist, materialistic move, to which I say, well, kid, if you want to go outside and like rough it in the LA wildfires, go right ahead. Please give me your thoughts.
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mix up, mash up of like the best of the nerve so far. You know, three distinct segments that, you know, maybe you missed an episode or you didn't hear a certain thing. You know, we had a little technical glitch on Wednesday and the episode went up later. Blame the French, okay? Just blame the French. But, you know, that episode is up now and you guys will have this to hopefully hold you over.
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Yale, I think. Yeah.
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Apparently they tried this. I don't know if we talked about this when it happened like six months ago maybe, Violet Affleck spoke at like a community board hearing in Los Angeles, masked up, still wearing the mask saying she wanted to mandate mask wearing in that community. And apparently, you know, Ben and Jen later somehow leaked that they did not agree with it and didn't want her to do that.
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And I just think we're looking at a manifestation. I mean, talk about white privilege, you know, a phrase I hate, but like you're literally your, your, your mother and father have banded together. As we know, JLo was throwing, you know, glassware across her $65 million mansion when Ben went to scoop her up. but scoop them up and probably took them to the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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I mean, are Ben Affleck and Jen Garner gonna stay in a Holiday Inn? I think not, okay? Does Violet Affleck really wanna stay in a Holiday Inn? I think not. But she has the temerity to say, I told my mother. This is wrong. We should not be staying at the Beverly Hills hotel where I can get an $80 McCarthy salad or go down to the diner and get a milkshake whipped up post haste. This is wrong.
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And we should be with poor people. I don't what, what?
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I couldn't agree with you more. I can't wait for the memoir that one of these three children will inevitably write. I remain fascinated by Ben Affleck and a fan, but his kid is of age now and she's making noise and she wants to be noticed and it's up for public discussion. There's no putting that genie back in that bottle. Oh my God. That was amazing. That was amazing. I hope you agree.
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And I hope that we will see you back at the nerve on Tuesday, where you will never guess what we are about to say next.
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You guys, I died. Like I am levitating over my body and I am looking down at myself and saying, did I really see and hear what I just saw and heard? Alec Baldwin, as she's going la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Again, this is a white woman from Boston
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who told america and then alec went on all manner of late night talk shows and repeated this clearly believing it that his wife was spanish from spain okay it's not that she like pretends like she's got this spanish accent when she's not it's like she told us she came over here from spain and much like megan markle she had no idea like alec baldwin i don't i don't what do i want to do with like a famous rich celebrity i don't know whatever
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And by the way, Alec Baldwin, say what you will about him, he is a smart guy. And the way he strung that sentence together, and if you notice the contempt, he doesn't even make eye contact with her. He's looking down and away, and he's got his arm up as if to say, like, don't even get near me, lady, okay? So, you know, I really went above and beyond for you guys because I didn't just get the book.
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I also got the audio book because I wanted to hear the – you know, what we all know is going to come. She's going to slip into that fucking Spanish accent when she's narrating her piece of shit book. So listen to this.
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Okay. One of the curious things about living in public figurelandia. Okay. So she's got that like over the end where you sort of like, she's like, she's doing it. She's like rolling right into the Spanish line, you know? And she's like, you know what happens when you become a public figure as if she wasn't Velcroed to Alec Baldwin's arm.
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at every award ceremony until she landed this big fish, as if she wasn't spending pre-COVID time on her social media as she's churning out child after child. Trust me, I grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood. I know families who had seven to 12 kids, and it was like every year there was another kid showing up. You know who wound up parenting those kids? It really wasn't the parents.
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It was the older kids. she's she's got all of these kids who need all of this attention and a husband who's got an anger problem and she's busy posting videos of and photos of herself contorting her body into highly sexualized yoga poses while she's barely wearing anything and she says
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you know what happens to you passive language when you become passive language a member of what she calls like this carnival you know this amusement park known as public figurelandia that she was bound and determined to insert herself into and become famous though she lacks any kind of talent or any kind of actual thing to say or to share with us. Like, you got to be fucking kidding me.
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I mean, there's stories in this book of her running for her life from the paparazzi. You know, this is a woman who like, she dresses up to go out and go get coffee in New York. You know, she and Alec live in a very, very nice building. I'm sure they have an espresso maker. I'm sure they have like a $12,000 Breville coffee maker, but she's got to pull on like
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skin tight leather pants and like a big fur hat and like big sunglasses and trot herself out in front of the paparazzi and be like, look at me. Oh, don't look at me, but look at me. Okay. So I did not listen to the whole audio book because, you know, I am not a masochist and I know you wouldn't want me to suffer, but there was a moment almost 20 minutes in where she talks about how she identifies.
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And I almost spit my coffee out. Listen to this.
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The Baldwins' Swan Song, Rachael Ray's Bizarro Blathering, and The WNBA's Shameful Behavior
Okay. She very much identifies as a Capricorn. Listen, I like astrology as much as the next person, but you know, in today's world, when people say I identify as it's typically like non-binary, you know, I'm transgender, I'm gender fluid. Like I identify as a Capricorn. Like, okay. We know the intellect is like, it's we're at a like, okay.
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So here it is. our very first full edition of The Nerve on a weekend. Enjoy. We are going to talk about Hilaria Baldwin. I can't roll my Rs. I used to be able to. I had like six years of Spanish. I lost it all, like they say you will if you don't speak it all the time. So this bilingual thing she's using as her latest excuse doesn't really hold water, but we'll get into that.
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And she basically says, like, my love language is, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but it's caring. I mean, I'm sorry, I think your love language is Spanglish. And as far as that wanting to make sure that other people feel good, you know, the implication being she puts everybody else last. Sorry, I slipped it up. That's what I meant.
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But, like, she's basically implying, like, she puts everybody else first, and then she puts herself last, which we all know is a bunch of bullshit. Okay, so she in this book – You know, the ground has shifted at Casa Baldwin.
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And once upon a time, Alec had the power because Alec was the super famous, well-respected, wealthy movie star with like a $30 million house in the Hamptons and, you know, a multimillion dollar duplex apartment in Manhattan. And we also have heard he allegedly has a separate unit in that building that he uses solely for himself. It is off-limits. to the other members of his family.
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The Baldwins' Swan Song, Rachael Ray's Bizarro Blathering, and The WNBA's Shameful Behavior
But now that Alec escaped by the skin of his teeth from those charges in the shooting of Helena Hutchins in New Mexico, So the case can never be brought again. So he's in the free and clear, but he spent so much money on his defense and he was unemployable during that time. And he's really kind of unemployable now. He was just fired. I think from the match game.
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I mean, the parlance is like, we didn't renew his contract. That's code for it. They fired him. They replaced him with Martin short, like another one I wish would kind of take a step back. But anyway, so the ground has shifted now because like Alec, has no leverage. Hilaria has all the leverage. He cannot divorce her.
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There was a Radar online report the other day that had Alec expressing so much unhappiness and contemplating leaving the marriage, but I don't think he ever really can. It's cheaper to keep her. He can't afford divorce attorneys. He can't afford palimony for seven, eight, nine kids, however many kids they have.
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can't afford you know to be supporting hilaria and all those kids you know like to the in the manner to which they've become accustomed so he's stuck okay so that's alec baldwin's karma that's his punishment i think it's kind of the same as prison you know um but so she is now taking this moment
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The Baldwins' Swan Song, Rachael Ray's Bizarro Blathering, and The WNBA's Shameful Behavior
to humiliate Alec because I think she's got a lot of rage for him, just like Michelle has rage for Barack, just like Meghan has rage for Harry. The men are the stars. These women are nothing without them, okay? They have tried and failed at many ventures, and they are nothing without these marriages to these guys who actually have talent. So what is Larry going to do?
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The Baldwins' Swan Song, Rachael Ray's Bizarro Blathering, and The WNBA's Shameful Behavior
But she's going to make him fucking pay in the pages of a book. And on red carpets where she berates him for daring to speak while she's about to like utter some piece of shit that we all need to hear. Okay, so she's talking about in this book. Okay, we're on page 22. So it's like we're moving kind of at the speed of light. And she has just moved in with Alec. They're going to get married.
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She knows it's coming. By the way, she says she doesn't even want to ring. And then he sends her to Cartier with some friends. And she's like, you know what? I was like, give me a big fucking ring. Okay, so he...
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has her come move in and he says to her my house is your house i want you to make it your own i want you to to feel comfortable and she says okay what i'd really like to do is start cleaning up because she tells us like he's a hoarder and you guys did i not say this like the last show or the the show before that that like my theory was that they're hoarders they hoard children they hoard animals they hoard staff like they hoard um but in this version of events it's alec who's the hoarder and it's aleria always a silent h remember who's the sane one and so she says
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She got to the house. I get a $30 million house in Amagansett in the Hamptons. And she was like, oh my God, like he has all of this food that's expired. And she says in the book, quote, it's on page 21, like for a decade or almost two. Okay. That is a disturbed person. If you have food that's 20 years, I mean, you're talking about an episode of hoarders on A&E. Um,
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So she is now on a book tour. She wrote this book that I will show you. I saved you time, I saved you money, but I am going to bring you some real entertainment with this one. As we know, the Baldwin's reality show has been an epic failure. not just in terms of ratings, but like reputationally, like nobody wanted to watch it.
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So she says to him, I'm going to tackle the pantry. I'm going to clean this thing out. And he says, okay, but I do have some rules. I compost, which is, you know, like a rich person's way of saying, like, I just put it in the ground or I put it in some soil and I think it's going to like fertilize. And it really, amateurs can never do it.
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But she says that not only had she never heard of composting before, I guess because they don't do it in Spain, that really what he said to her is like, you need to take each item outside one by one. and you need to deposit said food in my grass. So she writes, as you might imagine, the smell of expired food is bad.
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I had to open all these cans and jars and walk outside with each individual one and pour it out, then rinse it all and recycle it properly.
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then she tells us i'm not a big drinker which i always think anybody who says that is like they probably are and she says particularly in the daytime again that qualifier says to me so she probably is but in an attempt to deal with the stench i opened a bottle of wine that afternoon sure that's going to help that's going to help with some oncoming nausea most people would be like let me slug some pepto
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or have some ginger ale and some saltines, but she's drinking wine, which is highly acidic, but okay. I spent the day reading expiration dates, opening cans and jars, and then emptying, she said this already, emptying and rinsing them, and then drinking. I don't know if alcohol helped, but Alec comes home. She's cleared all the shelves. There's only three remaining products, quote,
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Again, that's a humiliation, okay? She goes on. He's very particular about his things, and sometimes he kind of hoards stuff. She says he's a hoarder. She's telling us this. Like, sorry, this is not your story to tell. It's your husband, but it's not your story to tell. Okay, so now she tells us another story, and really this does make Alec look terrible, and I do think he's a terrible guy.
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But, like, your children will read this one day, okay, or they will download the audio book and be like, why is mommy speaking with a Spanish accent? And again, okay, so she's going into labor with their son, Rafa.
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She talks to her brother and they're not lighting the world on fire with these conversations because neither one of them are really that bright or really that interesting or original. So we have to get some eyeballs, we have to generate some headlines. And so Michelle has now been appearing on other people's podcasts.
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Oh, 100%. And I think the Meghan Markle analogy is completely correct. I think we're seeing it now. Hilaria Baldwin is becoming much more aggressive against her husband because she's got the leverage now. It's cheaper to keep her. He can't divorce her. These cases have bankrupted him. So she's out there talking. She's spilling all of his personal secrets.
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I'm going to get into this book she just wrote. But she's spilling all of his personal secrets and snapping at him on red carpets and basically saying, I run this show. People are interested in me, not you. And just like those other two, she has not an original thought in her head. She has absolutely nothing to say. She has nothing to offer.
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She is in deep rage that she is well-known only because of the marriage she made. And I think really resents the person she decided to marry. And with Michelle and Meghan Markle, and hilarious unusual because the bulk of the media is still pretending like she didn't tell us she was from Spain. She just likes to adopt a Spanish accent. Greatest story ever. Greatest story ever.
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But there's something about these two women in particular, rich beyond their wildest dreams. They got a level of fame they never would have gotten on their own. And...
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i don't i don't know how uh i don't know what is going on in there you know i think there are people who will never let themselves be happy and i think there are people who are comfortable in a state of grievance and martyrdom and rage
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to promote said podcast, which I think is called IMO, in my opinion, which is a terrible name. It tells me nothing. And frankly, after hearing Michelle bang on about her misery lo these many months, I don't really want to hear your opinion, Michelle. Sorry, I don't. So she goes on this guy Jay Shetty's show. And if you don't know Jay Shetty, he is this very striking looking guy.
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Right, and so I think this is just one long tease. I think she wants out. I think he would be happy to be done with her, okay? Yes. Is he paying his penance for becoming the first black president and seeming to be a kind of decent guy? Is he paying his penance because Michelle isn't as great as he is and she never will be, so he's just going to suck it up?
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Is he going to let her be the one to file? I just find this, I've never seen... such deep loathing on the public state i was i was trying to think of any other famous person who's gone through a divorce i mean i don't think since woody and mia frankly it's been something like this disgusting you know like have your dignity i mean other than someone who's a sworn enemy of yours
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He has these piercing blue eyes. He is something of a self-help guru. He probably clogs up your algorithm on Instagram and he married Ben and J-Lo 2.0. And that did not work out so well. So anyway, Michelle goes on Jay's podcast and she uses a very interesting word to describe what is going on in her life right now. Take a look.
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You're right.
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Right.
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No, that is absolutely the point. And when I heard you the other day taking this apart where she was bitching about having to buy her own groceries while she was living for free in the White House, a staff that was paid for. I didn't even know prior to her latest bitch sesh that the first lady has her own plane and that it's called Bright Star. Neither did I. Right.
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The balls on her. No pun intended. You know, I'm just saying like the nerve, the nerve to say I had to pay for my groceries like all of us do. Is she paying for like gas and electric in the White House? I doubt it.
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Is she paying for the pool guy to clean the in-house White House pool or the bowling alley or the screening room where they have movie stars come and get first run pictures of whatever they want to see? No, no and no. Right. No.
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He really does. Like every time he dares to gently contradict her, she'll be like, nope, that's not the way it happened. And he'll be like, you're right. You're right. Yes.
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But like, you should just figure it out. She totally did. She also criticized him and men in general for the way they interpersonally relate, right? Like if they have a friendship conflict, men among men, they just sort of hash it out. They forget it. It's a bygone. It is never revisited. They never exhumed that grievance. And she's saying she thinks that's the wrong way to go in life.
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Because Michelle, the master of grievances, likes to hash that shit out. She likes to beat that carcass further into the ground and she will not let go. And you have to have like a multi-day summit and then revisit that maybe months down the road. And she's saying that's the healthy way to be?
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And he will not take the bait. He will not allow himself to be debased this way. Like he's kind of gray rocking it. He's not responding to any of it. And he does strike me fundamentally as an optimistic person. He strikes me as somebody who really enjoys life. And like, he's not going to get down in the mud with this. And I think you're right.
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I think his lack of response is sending her into a further and further rage spiral because she can't get what she wants. Any attention is better than no attention. And it goes to her husband. It goes to her flailing podcast. She's got nothing to offer us anymore.
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100%. And in that vein, I wanted to know your thoughts about the bonkers BBC interview that Harry gave this week or last Friday, but it's got legs for days, in which he says two things that do not go together. He implies that the British royal family had something to do with Diana's death.
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that they would like to see grievous harm, we know what that means, come to Harry and Meghan and their two small, innocent children, and also that he would love to get back in. Would love nothing more than to get back in.
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Hello, and welcome to the Friday edition of The Nerve. I am Maureen Callahan. I am wearing for you today my Shut Your Mouth t-shirt. Maybe you should hold your tongue and think quietly about whether you should continue that thought t-shirt, and you're going to see why in our first big discussion, which you're going to love having, I think. Okay, so coming up, we have another great show today.
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Michelle Obama used the word transitioning. She used the word transitioning, which in this culture... for quite some time has meant only one thing, okay? And that means we are going from one gender to the other. Now, I think this is an epic attempt to generate some headlines that Michelle will no doubt take issue with, okay? She's going to be in moral high dungeon by Monday. Okay, trust me.
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it's it's it's you're so right about that sort of arrested behavior you know i think william one of the healthiest things he did part of him falling in love with catherine princess of wales i really think had to do with her family of origin and they were intact and they were loving and they seemed to have a very healthy emotional sort of relationship amongst all of all of them and he was very attracted to that
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And I think he found that normalcy and that groundedness and the things that, you know, he was maybe lacking given his birthright. And Harry, meanwhile, was just left to stew in it. And I think the thing, too, that you're saying is so right on and it's so perverse because like in that BBC interview, he was bragging that like on the on the threat hit list, he's number one. Yeah, right, sure.
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I would not be bragging about that. If a government agency came to me and said, you know what, Maureen, suddenly, for whatever reason, you're like at the top of the list of people who are going to be like in grave danger, I would be like, let me not- Now that you're an astronaut. Let me not publicize that, right? Like that doesn't seem bright. Right.
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Feel sorry for me. incredible such a great point and like let's say even a family member happened to be in Buckingham Palace it's like you could conceivably never see them okay you've got like 85 rooms and staff and foot soldiers and it's all going to be fine um I wanted to ask you the Diddy trial we are in day four it's it's happening in New York City they are still winnowing down this jury pool
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And the judge in the case said that the celebrity names that are documented and submitted to the court are like this thick. He compared it to the Lord of the Rings book. Okay, so have you heard about some of the celebrity names that have come out?
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I mean, I have an even more sinister thought.
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There is no way this was, if I know this stuff, she knows this stuff, her team knows this stuff. She knows that there is a cohort of people on the internet who refer to Michelle their words, not mine, as Big Mike, okay? This cohort has long theorized that Michelle was not born a biological female, okay? So trust me when I tell you, she knows what the word transitioning is going to do.
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Yeah. Or intimidated her to the point that she fled for her life.
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Can I just get back to the Met bathroom for a moment? Yeah. The important part of this story. Yes. So pity's in, pity, diddy, is it pity, whatever. Pity works. dry humping a Kardashian as other Kardashian siblings are in there watching. And smoking. That is so disgusting. Yeah. Like the smoking is less disgusting than like your siblings watching you engage in a sexual act. It's so gross.
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Well, look, it's like the Met, you can't smoke in the Met.
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Harvey might get away with it, but the other aspect of the defense strategy that I love is, hey, like he loves to buy baby oil in bulk. Like, you know, everybody loves a bargain. Everybody loves to go to Costco.
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Yeah, right? Like who doesn't live to buy like 12 bounties select a size? You know, why not knock that out?
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Are you not having enough sex parties, Megan?
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Well, I was anticipating something a little spicier, I will tell you. But, you know, I made do with Doug's delicious cocktails. Right. Here's your cocktail and your baby oil. See you in 20 minutes. I'm easy. I'm easy. You know, I can hang. I'm a good hang, I think. Yeah.
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And so I guess the question then is like, so for my last question vis-a-vis Diddy is the celebrity names thus far that has shocked me is Mike Myers. Oh yeah. Mike, what is Mike Myers doing running with Diddy and his crew? Like this nerdy white comic Canadian? Like what's, what is that?
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Number two, she says in this interview, she's now kind of at loose ends and is in therapy. I would suggest a new therapist, okay? I don't think this one is working for you. She's at loose ends now that her kids have launched I mean, have they? We're going to get to that. So she no longer needs to worry about her words, what the kids need from me, what Barack needs from me.
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Interesting, interesting.
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We have the one and only Megyn Kelly. your friend and mine. She will be here and we are going to talk about stuff you'll never see coming. And I promise you we are not going to bang on about becoming newly minted astronauts like a certain insufferable morning show host slash Oprah appendage.
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Next thing you know, you've got a subpoena and you got to like lay out big bucks for a criminal defense attorney and potentially another identity in another state. It's all fun and games until that point. Exactly. It's all fun and games. Well, thank you, Megan, for coming on The Nerve and for dishing with us. That Met Gala story, like you could dine out on that forever, the bathroom thing.
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And I just, you know, I love you. And thank you for all of your support and all of your help as we get our baby show off the ground.
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I think what Barack needs from you, Michelle, is to quit dragging his name and reputation through the public square as the worst husband ever. The husband who made you a multimillionaire, who put you in the White House, who put you in the history books. Okay. Leave Barack alone, okay? And then she says she doesn't need to worry about what the country needs from me.
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It's all happening, Megan. It's all happening. I will see you next time, perhaps in outer space, perhaps on Terra Firma. I was going to say, one could even make the case. You're inspirational. You know, one could. But I would say, you know, it was your brainchild, so you are the inspiration, and I am the gale to your Oprah.
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You should be. You should be. All right, MK, I'll see you later. Good to see you. See you soon. Good to see you. Bye. Thank you again to Megyn Kelly, bringing lots of gossip to the nerve. And of course, remember to get your daily dose of Megyn on AM Update with Megyn Kelly. I start my day every day with it. You get this great roundup of all the things that are in the news.
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the stuff that you need to know. It's a great way to start your day and feel like super informed and ready to go. And then of course the Megyn Kelly show, which can be found on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And it really is some of the most intriguing, unusual, original thought provoking conversation around. Okay.
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So up next, we are going to talk about the new reboot of what not to wear.
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i can't wait to get into this with you guys um but before we go to break a quick reminder that i want to hear what you have to say as you know so send me an email send me your thoughts your questions your comments what you'd like to see us cover i am maureen devilmaycaremedia.com and be sure to like and subscribe to the nerve because we should just keep growing this community of like-minded truth seekers and troublemakers
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It is all happening. We will be back in a minute. So I'm going to talk to you about a guy, a hero really, named Leo Grillo, who was on a road trip and came across a severely underweight, struggling, in pain Doberman. Leo scooped this guy up and named him Delta. And sadly, As we all know, Delta is just one of many animals that need help.
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Well, Delta now is, you know, fine, but there's so many others who need our help. And that inspired Leo to start Delta Rescue, which is the largest no kill care for life animal sanctuary in the world. Okay. They have rescued thousands of dogs, cats, and even horses. from the wilderness and they provide their animals with shelter and love and safety and most importantly, a safe and loving home.
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So it's this kind of dedication and everlasting love to animals that is Leo's mission and it's his legacy. Now, Delta Rescue relies solely on contributions from people like us who love animals, I think, frankly, more than we love ourselves.
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Okay, first of all, the hubris of this woman. First of all, she bitched and moaned about how awful it was to be the first lady, how awful it was for the media to give her a daily tongue bath about how she was the best, most glamorous, most substantial and consequential first lady since, frankly, Jacqueline Kennedy, which, shame on you, okay? Jackie Kennedy is in a class of her own.
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And, you know, they would take somebody who was nominated by their family members or their friends, you know, which was basically saying, I think this person is ugly and dresses like shit. And like, can you try to help this tragic charity case? and then they would try to judge this person up, okay? Hair, makeup, but mainly the clothes. Okay, so a month ago, though, I came upon a marathon.
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It was like a lazy Sunday. There was a marathon of old What Not to Wear episodes, and in re-watching these, I realized something profound, which is that I had been watching it through the real filter all along. Like, I thought Stacey and Clinton were, like, good guys, but...
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i realized that stacy and clinton are me like mean like really really mean like to the point of making their quote-unquote collaborators that's what they call them but like really it's more of like a hostage situation you know these poor young girls and women just like crying over stacy and clinton's criticism of their of okay so here's what we're gonna do we're going to take a look
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It's on video, okay? Can't lie your way out of video. We're gonna take a look at how these two treated a young woman named Courtney. And by the way, the gimmick with this show, as discussed, is that they are unsuspecting. Courtney was told she was getting a free trip to New York and going to get free tickets to a Broadway show.
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She suddenly gets a producer showing up in her hotel room who's like, hey, you know what? Everyone in your life thinks you look like crap, and so you're going to come with us. So the clear message is everyone in your life has ambushed you, pretty much, okay? Not everyone, but mostly everyone. So these people are already absorbing, like, a really hurtful message from their nearest and dearest.
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And then in come Stacey and Clinton, who have, like, appointed themselves, like, mini Anna Wintours. Okay, so let's take a look at Courtney.
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Courtney of Guns and Ammo is going in the trash. I mean, at the end of the day, they're just clothes. So far, it's fine. So she begins crying, and of course she does, because these two insufferable East Coast snobs say, oh, you look like you came out of the back pages of Field and Stream. What's wrong with Field and Stream? Oh, you look like you're guns and ammo.
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That is one of the worst things an East Coast liberal could level at anybody. And by the way, these two used a lot of coded language when they were talking about Courtney, who had told them that she is a hunter. She is a country music fan, and she is a motorcyclist from Orlando, Florida. Okay, so already they're like, you are a backwater hick who is hopeless.
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Okay, so Stacey and Clinton, they're already just looking way, way down at her. And remember how I was telling you in the last show about how mean and unhappy people in the fashion industry are? Not all of them, but most of them are. So Clinton Kelly wrote a book called, I have it, I Hate Everyone. except you. And by the way, he's got one blurb on this book.
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So now she's sort of free of this encumbrance, right? It's like a flex. It's a humble brag. Like, I don't have to worry about what the country needs from me. Well, you know, Michelle, The country could have used your appearance at Jimmy Carter's funeral. I think a president whose post-presidency every American could look to and say, that guy was a decent guy.
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Like he couldn't even get like his friends in like the TV world to blurb him. Clearly everybody hates Clinton. He wrote about his 10 year falling out with Stacey London. They didn't speak at all because he thought she needed too much attention.
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okay stacy blocked him on x even though i rarely wanted attention that's the truth if you care to believe it that kind of doubling down tells you that's a lie i found myself continually annoyed that she did uh and there was a part of me that would be just fine if i never saw her again for the rest of my life what are you 12 and then he goes on to say Like, it's a complete non sequitur.
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The show made me rich, so that's nice. You know, fuck you. Okay, fuck you. And not for nothing, Clinton Kelly is a gay man, and Stacey just came out herself a few years ago, so I suspect that these two have their own self-loathing that they are projecting onto these poor women.
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Okay, now let's take a look at the episode I was telling you about, the one I stumbled upon, and I realized I'd been watching this show all wrong. Here's Tristan.
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She is, they are so mean to her. He did call her trash. I'm sorry. You walked right up to calling her trash. And then you say, no, I didn't, but I'm telling you, you look cheap. You know what's adjacent to cheap? You look like a whore. You look like a streetwalker, okay? We all know what this conversation really is. First of all, in the book, he talks about his husband being a doctor.
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I didn't come across the psychologist part of that, that he's a psychologist. Very interesting that he married a psychologist. I bet you that psychologist spends all day long managing Clinton and his moods. And so Clinton says to us, you can't have love without hate.
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Sir, I beg to differ. I would say not only that you can, I would go so far as to say that you should. I mean, it's actually the only way to love people. Okay, I hate self-help people. I hate them. Anyway, they brought this woman, Tristan, to tears. And they couldn't understand that she was resisting their dictates because they were making her feel like shit about herself.
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Why would she listen to them? Okay, so justice for Tristan. Now, let's take a look at the new softer Stacey and Clinton in a show it's airing on Prime that they call Wear Whatever the F You Want. Now, trust me when I tell you, this is not the answer, okay?
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Some people do need style guidance, but the way to get them there isn't to let them pick a bunch of stuff, as they do on the show, that doesn't work for them and doesn't look good on them or doesn't fit them, and then pat them on the head and give them a participation trophy.
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Now, the one thing I will say is an improvement is that these two did ditch their makeup artist, Carmen D. And I am sure that Carmen D is a lovely person, but Carmen D made every single woman up on this show in the exact same way. In the makeup Carmen D wears every day, it never changed. It was always like the pastel eyeshadow, the glowy face, the pink lip gloss.
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Maybe not the best president, but a decent, God-fearing guy who really cared about his community. And unlike you and your husband, retired from public life, When they left the White House, they didn't go around hat in hand going, hey, Netflix, you want to give me like 30 mil? Hey, like Simon & Schuster or whoever their publisher was, want to give us a $60 million joint book deal? Okay.
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And like one size color palette does not fit all women. Okay, lady, everybody's got different pigmentation. You know, but with every reveal, Carmody was like, I'm fucking Leonardo da Vinci. Look at your fucking face. Okay, anyway, let's look at Stacey and Clinton's latest victim, who is a young mother named Jessica. Now her challenge is that she is on the smaller side.
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She's like really diminutive. She's short and she's a baby face, but she wants to present as a grown, sophisticated woman. So let's take a look at what happens to Jessica. Okay, we are looking at her in five outfits that Stacey and Clinton allowed her to put herself in. And then Stacey and Clinton helped like judge these outfits even further, okay? They helped accessorize.
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And let me tell you, this is uniformly terrible. If you look at that pink dress, it doesn't fit her. Like she needs foundation underwear, she does. She looks terrible in these things. That blue dress, they started like loading on the accessories. You know, and they gave her like a cheap handbag and a cheap pair of sunglasses and like everything looked like it came off of Timu.
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You know, but we're in a post woke Stacey and Clinton world, right? Where everyone who participates on the show, they're beautiful, they're stylish. We're embracing body positivity. I may have gone a little bit too far with that. So Jessica has a best friend who comes on the show to be her moral support.
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And we will show you a look at Jessica's best friend who, okay, when I tell you that Stacey and Clinton tried to mask their horror, they could not believe that this dainty woman on their show shows up with a best friend who happens to be like, I believe it's like medically morbidly obese.
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And her hair is the kind of like difficult corkscrew curl that like you really need to have a lot of money so you can hire people. to sort of help tame that stuff. Okay, so she clearly isn't a woman of means. But Stacey and Clinton are like, holy fucking shit. Like, we've got a live one. Like, this person doesn't belong on this set.
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And they're, like, trying to be very polite and professional and just pretend they're not noticing what she looks like. And at one point, the producers put this woman, like, behind a plant. It's unbelievable. Okay, and then...
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stacy and clinton asked jessica who are your style icons right who would you most like to emulate with your new wardrobe and when this woman says to them like genuinely and like without any god like she means it she loves paris hilton and she loves kristin cavallari and she wants to look like them and those two are like this they're like
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they're still snobs okay they're still snobs at heart so you know they sort of like i think that's why they kind of gave up and like abandoned their mission midway through because they were like again this woman has no taste and you know ultimately they're repulsed okay they're repulsed by jessica they're repulsed by her taste level her style icons, her best friend.
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These two are the same people they were when they were bullying poor and unattractive women on their last show. So don't fall for it. And, you know, in the sort of self-help realm that they try to sort of be adjacent to, my pro tip, is don't take advice of any kind from people who, in my opinion, just my opinion, are this damaged. So truly, wear whatever the fuck you want, indeed.
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And that is it for today, our Friday edition of The Nerve. I'm wishing you great spring weekend. And because you guys responded so strongly to our bonus weekend content last weekend, we are dropping yet another new bite for you this weekend. So keep an eye out, keep an ear out, and we will see you back here next Tuesday on The Nerve, where you will never guess what we are about to say next.
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And also, what the country also needs from you, and I think your husband could have used from you, is not leaking that you were fat.
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fuming because your husband dared to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump and that by the way at Jimmy Carter's funeral you were also seething because your husband sat next to Donald Trump and laughed it up and basically telegraphed to the country that nobody thinks this guy is going to destroy democracy or is really a racist
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that they were engaged in what is, you know, textbook political warfare. When the dust settles and the election is over, we all just come together and try to make sure the next president is a success. Okay. I also want to note that in their coverage of Michelle's latest, you know, whatever utterances, the New York Post called her, okay, she's the former first lady,
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They called her the Waffles and Moji alum, and I almost fell off my chair laughing because that's one of those Netflix shows that she produces, along with Lest We Forget, a show that Netflix tried to bury, that Michelle Obama produced and was the face of, a reality dating show called Later Daters, okay? Like older people looking for love, Later Daters.
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Okay, this is what this woman is doing with her life. So, you know, shut it. She also revealed that after her beloved mother died one year ago this May, she was 86 years old. So she had a good long life. Barack joked to Michelle. This is what Michelle says Barack joked to her. Barack allegedly said, you're up next. You're up next. Okay, let's listen to Michelle relay this and see how she does it.
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Wow. That's like Edward Albee level stuff. That's like who's afraid of Virginia Woolf. Like she really has quite the retort there. I'm sure he was joking. I'm sure it was a little bit of black humor. You know, Barack Obama lost his mother when he was on the verge of getting elected. No, his grandmother, his mother died a long time ago.
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His beloved grandmother who practically raised him died right before he was elected. She didn't get to see that. And I'm sure he would have loved for her to have seen that. So, you know, I can't. Okay, so I want to get to Malia Obama, the elder of the two Obama girls, who has been trying to get a Hollywood career off the ground for quite some time.
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And then we will take a look at, you and I that is, at a classic reality TV makeover show that has come back as a woke adjacent, body positive, non-binary, judgment-free zone. It is the what not to wear redo as a fashion, as we discussed the other day, is such an accepting place. Okay, first, we need to talk about Michelle Obama.
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And, you know, when Michelle said in that earlier clip that, you know, the kids are launched and I said, are they? I don't necessarily know that they are because Malia is involved in a bit of a plagiarism scandal. I think you can apply plagiarism to anything. anything that extends beyond, say, the written word.
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So there was this filmmaker who had a short film premiere at Sundance last year, and Malia has just directed, I'm going to use this in quotes because it's my suspicion that she had a lot of help, or maybe she didn't, because these two things are extremely similar. First, we're going to look at a clip from the Sundance film. It's called Grace.
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Now, I think that this filmmaker, she has a point. I think she's got a good case. I also don't understand what patty cake on a porch has to do with Nike. Just go for it. I don't understand that at all. And not for nothing, this is the first time I've seen that ad. I absorb a fair amount of television. So, you know, maybe Nike isn't so happy with what the final product was.
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A few notes about Malia and the Obamas and this insufferability that is just, they're spewing our way. Malia interned for Harvey Weinstein, okay, before the trial, long before this shit hit the fan. So you can't tell me, again, I'm just a regular person in New York working. Okay, I work in the media, but we all knew about Harvey Weinstein. We all knew.
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You cannot tell me that Barack and Michelle Obama did not know. Malia then interned for Lena Dunham. Okay, Malia was 17 years old and she was working for Lena Dunham.
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on the set of the very explicit hbo show girls okay we're gonna get into lena a bit in another show but lena told howard stern that malia was an angel there was no way they were gonna have her go get their coffee for them i mean why not like make this kid grind it out and like earn her stripes and know what it's like to work her way up from the bottom and she also told vf that uh in 2017 she told them in 2017 the mac when malia was working for her
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The Secret Service kept her from her own bathroom because, you know, Malia was in there. Okay. And then she went to work for Donald Glover, you know, who's, like, got this dual career as, like, Childish Gambino, the rapper, who I think he has since retired. And he was the auteur behind Atlanta, in my estimation, a very highly overrated show. And so he – and she was in his writer's room, okay?
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And I'm just going to say she has had access to, like, some very powerful – Hollywood people. So Donald Glover recently said on a red carpet within the past couple of years on hiring Malia as a writer, she's just like an amazingly talented person. She's really focused and she's working really hard and he thought she was going to go on to be a great success. Okay, Malia Obama is now 26.
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She's been working in the industry for nearly 10 years. She's super connected. She wants a meeting with Ted Sarandos over at Netflix. Done. Bob Iger. Done. Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of the hugest Democratic donors in the country. Done. I think we just would have seen a flash of greatness by now. My friends, Brand Obama seems to be in free fall.
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We need to talk about Michelle Obama and one of the most epic, sustained midlife crises happening in the public square in quite some time. Okay, so she gave an interview the other day. You know, she's got this new podcast, and in promoting this podcast, which I – do not think is doing well.
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I am beyond honored and so excited to have Megyn Kelly, my fellow astronaut, expanding her resume as an actress, a producer, like what can't this woman do, is now a guest on The Nerve. Look at this. Thank you, MK, for coming on the show. I so appreciate it.
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i love it too i love it too and i have been dying to talk to you about michelle obama's ongoing midlife meltdown like her as you put it her stegosaurus hairdos the um the utterance the other day she says she's transitioning i i mean i think we both know what she's trying to do by using that word yeah i mean what do you make of all of this like what's going on in that psyche
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100%. I mean, well, for one thing, the transitioning thing struck me so strangely because this is the third rail on the left, right? Like the people who call, you know, Michelle Obama knows this, that like online there's a cohort of people that call her Big Mike.
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And who maintain that she is a dude, okay? That's what they maintain. I'm just saying. That's right. And so she's very cynically using this word. And then she's going to turn around and be like, how dare you interpret it that way? That is such a disgusting misreading of everything I'm saying. I go high when they go low, right? But she's going low.
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This is just incredible stuff. There's a woman, another pseudonym, Jane, who is allegedly another sexual assault victim of Sean Combs, who began her testimony yesterday afternoon.
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Thank you, Kayla, for giving us all of the scoop from what is going on inside that courtroom. It's also really, you know, it's important to know, for me, I find it dispiriting, it's not surprising, that there are men who are just showing up, fans of Sean Combs, to cheer him on and call all of these women who I'm sure are petrified to testify, you know, liars. So, you know... But thank you.
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And I am sure that we will be speaking again. And everybody who's listening to this and listening to Kayla go over to her podcast at the mail, The Trial of Diddy, to get all of your details. Thanks again, Kayla. Thanks, Maureen. You know, before we let this go, I just want to give two quick updates.
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A guy named Sean Deering gave an interview to People magazine, and he's one of the sex workers that Cassie and Diddy had hired. You know, and again, I'm using the sort of technicalities of it. You know, it's unclear whether she was under duress at the time, if this was a part of the relationship where she was into it. I don't know. But this guy is really like he's really good.
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He looks like David Beckham, you know, between him and the Punisher, like clearly Sean Combs was splashing out. for the creme de la creme of male sex workers. And again, I think this tells us something about Sean Diddy Combs. I really do.
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Anyway, Sean Deering gave this interview and then he said something like, you know, he thought Cassie was a decent person and he got very concerned for her because whenever Diddy would leave the room, when Sean would go to ask Cassie a question, she would say, no, no, you have to wait till he comes back before I can speak to you. Um,
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You know, so that gives a lot of credence to to what Cassie is alleging here. Also, the Punisher, you know, we all went through his book doing great. This is great for him. He's doing the podcast rounds. He's doing the media circuit. His book is like zooming up the Amazon charts. You know, people are going to emerge from this, I think, a little bit better than when they went into it.
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He pulls her up after, again, 10 to 15 seconds of dangling her off a 17-story balcony and flings her into the outdoor furniture. Now, Bill Maher might say that, you know, it's just the cost of doing business in the music industry, but Kayla and I are going to talk about it with the seriousness it deserves. This woman also testified that rumor around...
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But I also I want to end this. I want to end this segment with a video that has surfaced of Sean Combs with Cassie. This is years and years and years ago. I don't have the exact date, but it's early on in her career. I think this was after she performed on BET, and he's decided that he's gonna offer his critique. Take a look.
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For those of you who might not know, like whack is an old school hip hop term. People don't really throw it around anymore, but it means like she fucked up. She sucked. She was really bad. He said, you know, she's not at the level of a bad boy performer, but you know, we'll get her there. And to the Bill Mars of the world, and we're going to get there too. We have a lot to discuss there.
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That is exactly how an abuser starts off grooming their prey, right? You gas them up a little bit and then you slide the knife in with an insult meant to really level you like that's what she wanted more than anything. She wanted to be a performer. He's leveling her. And then in the back end, he's saying, but we're going to bring her up to our level.
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So he's like making you feel special while also. making you feel completely humiliated. He's doing that on camera for a reason. And she has to sit there and take it and smile. Like it's not affecting her. Like it's not making her question every single life decision she's made up until this point. And how many people are going to see this? That's what they do. Okay.
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That's just a tiny glimpse into that world. Up next, we are going to get into you guys and your response to to this Bill Maher bit that we did the other day on our last show, taking him to the woodshed for what he dared to say about victims of domestic violence. Then we'll be reading your other mail. We'll be back in a minute.
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It's handcrafted. It's genuinely special seasoning. The packaging is so cool and so thoughtful and the flavor is so multi-layered. And yes, it's a real family-run business and that alone makes it worth supporting. But here's the deal. They don't make tons of this stuff. So when it's gone, it's gone. And with Father's Day around the corner, it's going to sell out. So the move is...
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It is a thoughtful, unique, and unforgettable gift, but you need to act now. Go to firecracker.farm, yes, .farm with an F, and use code THENERV for a special discount. You're welcome. Now go and get him something he'll actually use and love. We are back.
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Now, before we get to Bill Maher and audience email, we also got a huge, huge response to the season three coverage, the coverage we gave to the season three premiere of In Just Like That. And, you know, the way we all sort of talked about the elderly, osteoarthritic-looking, young, whimsical coquette that is Sarah Jessica Parker.
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And that episode also contained a graphic warning, a mutual phone mass masturbation session and Rosie O'Donnell in bed with Cynthia Nixon. We were all shaken to our core, our very foundations, but we rise, we rise. So here are some of the best comments and emails from the comment section. Kim Cattrall made the best decision of her career to not join the show.
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We have all ratified that many times over. I agree with you. The Rosie Nunn character is another example of the contempt Hollywood has for the Catholic community. Agreed. And Just Like That is a vulgar and inhumane show. Agreed. It really, quoting what we said at The Nerve the other day, it really exists as a shrine to the ego of one Sarah Jessica Parker. Spot on.
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This circle was that Diddy had skinned a rival's dog, Kayla. Oh, and by the way, we have to start off with the first thing, which is the judge gave Diddy a big fat smackdown today in court or yesterday in court. Yeah, please tell us all about that.
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Please keep critiquing Sex and the City. This is also fascinating to me and I cannot get enough. You've got it. You got it, troublemakers. We hear you loud and clear. We will stay on this. Episode two. See you back here next week for that. Okay, now, Bill Maher.
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In the last episode, we started off the show with what I thought was something that had to be said, which is namely that Bill Maher is a complete misogynistic pig. And he went and did this op-ed on Real Time last week in which he essentially blamed victims of domestic violence who are disproportionately female.
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I've heard from men as well who suffered, trust me, and survived, but disproportionately female. And he basically said, you know, If you don't leave after the first time, like it's this cut and dry, then it's all on you. It's all on you. And by the way, I know a lot of you ladies out there, you just, you know, like you'll take it if you can get some fame and money out of it.
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You know, just like, all right, I'm just going to calm myself down. So anyway, you know, we're a baby show. We are a baby show. But I will say that we have not received... Such overwhelming feedback, this powerful, this moving, this personal, upsetting and inspiring. And 100% of it all, we are all on the same page. We are all on the same page that Bill Maher is awful for saying what he said.
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And he owes everyone a huge apology, huge. Now, as many of you pointed out in your emails and comments, And this is I'm really glad that you did. Often the most difficult time, the most dangerous time for a woman attempting to get out of a violent relationship is when she decides to leave. OK, Bill, that's when she is in mortal danger. That's when her children are in the most danger.
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And studies have shown that it takes most women between six and eight attempts to get out. And that's with their lives intact and their children alive. And even then, the psychological and emotional scars never go away. So again, fuck you, Bill Maher. Now, before I get to your emails, I was reminded of this story, and I'm going to tell it briefly because it's so salient.
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this piece of shit named Chad Dorman. And I pulled the news coverage and look at him. He's, he's crying because a judge sentenced him to life for murdering his three sons. Okay. He was sentenced in 2024, August 3rd of last year. Um, According to the bill of particulars on June 15th, 2023, Chad Doerman returned home from work early and requested that his three sons and wife join him for a nap.
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After they had laid down on the bed, he opened his gun safe. He retrieved his rifle. His son Hunter was four, shot him twice, killed him. Stepdaughter in the house had been watching television. She ran into the room. She witnessed the first shots. She ran after Clayton. Seven-year-old boy told him to keep running.
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Doherman chased this little boy into a nearby field, shot him from behind, and again, point blank in the head. Carried the body back to the house's yard. Then he goes for the three-year-old kid. Stepdaughter scooped this child up, escaped to the road. Doherman followed her, aimed the rifle at her. He ran out of ammo. he then either refi re re re re armed or whatever.
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He, he shot this little boy in the head and he discharged his rifle nine times. Uh, and he laid all the boys out in the front yard, uh, waiting for the cops. Um, so this guy had a record, guess what? Domestic violence. Okay. And, um, And everybody in the neighborhood knew. They said this guy was angry all the time, treated his family poorly. That's polite legalese for, you know.
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Now, this is how complicated and... Frankly, you know, you better be a specialist in this stuff if you're going to open your mouth, Bill. OK, because the stepdaughter, the stepdaughter who tried to save the lives of these little boys who ran with them into fields away from her stepfather, who was firing a rifle at them, spoke at the sentencing. And this is what she said.
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You gave me an amazing life and I will forever be grateful for the memories and the time you spent with me. I don't think I will ever be able to hate you. I will forever hold on to the memories I had with you and the boys because those are all happy memories and those were the best times. You were the best dad I could ever have asked for. If you don't think that these guys
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know exactly how to manipulate and to groom and to keep women and girls on the back foot, never knowing what's coming, whether it's love and affection or a vicious beating to within an inch of their lives or sexual assaults and rapes and then shooting little kids. You know, there's another case that's just come to light, too. And, you know, if Bill Maher is smart, keep his mouth shut.
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I'm going to read some of your emails and I'm keeping you all and identifying Those will not be spoken by me. Uh, Subject line, finally, Bill Maher is a pig. I listened to the Girls Next Level podcast. It's two of the former playmates, girlfriends of Hugh Hefner, excuse me. They call Bill the fourth girl next door because he was always at the Playboy mansion and is in way too many of their pics.
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So Hugh Hefner was another creeper who insisted on women using baby oil. In summary, Bill Maher is a misogynist who hides behind his liberalism, just like Howard Stern. Agreed. Regarding Bill Maher, my father started abusing my mother before my twin sister and I were born. Bill Maher's comments are a form of abuse themselves. It would have been more in his line to say something to the abusers.
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Agreed. As many abusers do, though. Not saying he is. I'm just reading some feedback. He went for the soft target. Shame on him. Agreed. Writing from the UK. She listens on her way driving home. I'm not aware of who he is. That's the cruelest cut to a Bill Maher, not knowing who the fuck he is. But the fact that this man is able to go onto U.S.
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television, and Brits don't get this because we have complete First Amendment freedom of speech, and spout this complete fucking nonsense about abused women is unbelievable to me. Who on earth is actually putting this into the TV schedule? Troublemakers, now is the time. Don't bombard HBO and Bill and his reps with your outrage and demand an apology. Demand an apology.
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What do you know during what testimony and what was being said that Sean Combs had the gall? Again, this to me is a criminal mind at work. We don't follow rules. We're in federal court. We don't follow rules. Had the gall to look over at that jury not once but twice and nod strenuously, definitively. Yeah.
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And if you won't, demand a suspension. Demand a fine. This man sounds as if he is a danger to women everywhere. I am in the very fortunate position of not having experienced such abuse, but I absolutely understand that many of these poor souls are unable to simply pack up and leave for a myriad of reasons. How fucking dare he even speak about this? Hi, Maureen.
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I've always suspected that Bill Maher hated the whole Me Too era. He can't swallow humble pie about women's rights without regurgitating some of his bullshit back at us, and us includes men and boys. This guy writing to me. In your nerve episode troublemaker comments, there are several mentions that Bill Maher uses a laugh track. He does. He's got what they call sweeteners in there.
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And it's usually that guy who's always going, yeah, during his live monologue. And when you listen closely, there are female laughing voices featured in the laugh track as well. Because who else would laugh at Bill Maher's sexist, misogynistic, misplaced diatribe? Our sons and daughters don't need to be poisoned by his shit. Signed, troublemaker number one. Bill Maher.
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When you say he must have known about Weinstein, almost guaranteed, since his good friend Seth MacFarlane did the joke at the Oscars nominations announcement in 2013. We can even look at what he did when, quote, everyone knew. The Times article dropped on Thursday, October 5th, 2017. Troublemaker, I will take your word for it, but I do believe it was around that time in 2017.
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Hey, and welcome to the Friday edition of The Nerve. We have an incredible show for you guys today. Diddy Trial is going into week five. Today is the wrap-up of week four. We have Daily Mail reporter Kayla Brantley, who has been covering this case since the very beginning, is going to be joining us in just a moment. We have a Bill Maher follow-up, which, I mean,
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Marr had a show the next night. Silence, not one word. Of course, SNL followed suit, and that's when Lorne Michaels gave his famous excuse, it's a New York thing. This is an infestation in the culture. These old men, these old men who stand up for the likes of Harvey fucking Weinstein. Sean Puffy Combs, are you fucking kidding me? Maureen, emotional psychological abuse is far worse than beatings.
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I heal pretty quickly from broken bones. Someone who would know, okay? Just saying. But after 50 years, I am still working on healing the psychological abuse. I was convinced that his anger was my fault. That is what they do to you. If I adjusted my attitude a little bit, she was convinced we would be okay. No need to strike me. No need to strike me.
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I got out of it and survived only to choose another abuser 30 years later. I am strong. I am very intelligent. But it was explained to me that we are drawn to that which is familiar to us. Different is scary. Truer words. Even good different can be very scary to choose. Maureen, I was in an abusive marriage for three years. I was too scared to leave him until my friends at work saw the bruises.
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I had two babies and if it was not for my friends and family, I probably still would be in that relationship or dead. His mother was the Bill Maher of that relationship. After I left him over the abuse, she called me and asked if I was PMSing. Thank you for doing the show.
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Maybe there is a woman out there who is in an abusive relationship and she will get the courage to leave like my friends and family gave me. I'm sure, hearing all of these testimonials, which are incredible. Finally, from a woman who writes... I understand why the women and girls growing up didn't want to sleep with a young Bill Maher.
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They sensed he was a complete abusive asshole, a supposition with which I agree. I grew up in an abusive household. He has no clue, as you mentioned, of the psychological mindfuck that you experience from abuse. The self-esteem, the shame that you lose from these people is so huge. It changes your personality, your body, and your nervous system. It changes you forever." The fear overwhelms you.
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If there is karma, Bill Maher will be born into a woman's body in another life. He will then be beaten out of at all levels of abuse and he will deserve it. I love that email. I love it. Finally, we troublemakers are going to enact the best kind of revenge, excuse me, against Bill Maher.
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So there's this amazing comic that I was just recently introduced to, not like personally, but, you know, shown. And he's named Kyle Dunnigan. And this guy does a dead on Bill Maher, like so dead on that Bill Maher. And I've done my research. So don't come at me, Bill Maher. You got bigger problems as it is anyway. So Bill Maher claims to have no idea who this guy is. Like none.
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And it doesn't even bother him that someone's out there doing these impressions. But Kyle knows and we all know that Bill Maher knows who he is and that he hates this guy. He hates Kyle. So I'm going to show you two clips. And these are a real treat. And you've got to watch them. You've got to tune into this part of the show.
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If you're listening, do yourself a favor because Kyle not only nails the smarm, but he nails the contempt. And Bill Maher's contempt has a real musicality to it. You know, it's got real ups and downs. Okay, this guy is a fucking genius. Here's his Bill Maher waiting for his quote-unquote black hooker at Christmastime. His words, not mine. Watch.
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That's great. That's great. So now we're going to move on to Bill. Kyle, as Bill, rather, reading to children. Now, of course, the underlying joke is we all know Bill Maher hates children. But this is also, Kyle really captures Bill's belief that he is forever the smartest guy in his television studio. Watch this.
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I have tears in my eyes. It was so freaking funny. So I hope that puts a little pep in Bill's step hours before he goes to do his next live broadcast of real time. And again, I hope you troublemakers mobilize and
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bombard hbo and bill maher with the thoughts that you uh shared with me because uh he needs some consequences i'm not saying we should cancel people i don't really love cancel culture and i don't really believe in it but he should suffer and he needs to apologize which is the hardest thing for guys like him we're gonna make him pay Now, you know, I love all of your incredible feedback.
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It's, you know, we are really, really, again, like the personal stuff that you guys are sharing, both in comments and with me in emails, it just goes to this incredible group of people that we are building together. So please keep, keep writing me, keep emailing me. I am at, I'm Maureen at devilmaycaremedia.com.
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Now, it's important to note here that that's a tactic, you know, to have a female defense attorney really go hard against a female witness who's hostile, who's testifying against you. From what I was reading of what happened during her testimony, it was they were breaking apart a bit more. her credibility in terms of, Hey, weren't you on a shit ton of drugs when this happened?
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I do it about twice a month and I just did it on Wednesday. And we thought between the both of us that we had hit every note there was to hit in the Meghan Markle saga. And then on Wednesday, what shows up in all of our algorithms, all of our Instagram feeds, but one Meghan Markle
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in allegedly a labor and delivery room with her loser of a husband pregnant and twerking to allegedly induce labor i saw this and i sent an emergency 911 text to kinsey and i said would you please I know you're so busy, but would you please join us at The Nerve to please talk about this? Kinsey is here, and we are the Justice League. We convene when it matters, when it's most important.
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Before we start, though, let's just watch this moment of zen from South Park. Okay. For those of you who are listening, that was the cartoon Megan and Harry scene. holding their placards, their protesting signs, saying, we want privacy, we want privacy, okay? And then we've got the twerking video. So we're going to take a look at this together. Back to back. Back to back.
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Kinsey, I don't know about you, but for me, you know, this is a very lengthy video. And for me, the moment where, I mean, she's like... She starts off slow and then she really begins to feel herself. You can tell. And, you know, this most sacred moment. And he's coming into frame like a fucking moron, you know, in and out, in and out. Like he's just he can only be there on the edges.
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And he looks like a frog. This is not cool. And she's like spreading her legs and jamming her. ass backwards. Please help me, Kinsey.
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Hey, don't you like, like, aren't you misremembering Sean Combs? You know, there are hotel receipts, which I could, you could blow a hole in this really, but there are hotel receipts showing him at like the Trump international and you've got him in LA. Yeah.
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I think the objective is exact. I think it's a huge F you to the Royal family, because as you said, it's so distinctly unroyal. It's not even like, here's like something that maybe feels a little bit too intimate that we're sharing. You know, it's, it's like, you know, if it, if it were Megan post late post birth, whatever, um, it's actually, to me, it's the equivalent of the deep mocking curtsy.
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I mean, it's a million times worse, but the deep mocking curtsy that Meghan gave while her sad excuse for a husband sat blithely by, idly by, I should say, not blithe. He looked pained, but he sat there idly by while she made fun of his grandmother, who, as you said, gave her life in service, a job she never wanted and she didn't ask for, but she took it because she really had,
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a deep abiding respect for what the monarchy is and represents and as you said you know that reminds me with the reporting out of the palace was that when she was informed what they had named their daughter that queen elizabeth who is not given as many brits are not to self-pity said they have taken the only thing that was entirely mine Right.
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That's the excuse. I'm honoring my daughter. Like It's just all about you. I mean, first of all, there's a lot of online chatter as to the veracity of a lot of this. Like, was she even pregnant during this time? Was it a surrogate? Like, how is she allowed in what is meant to seem to us a labor and delivery room wearing her street clothes and her jewelry? You know, I've had medical professionals.
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Diana's jewelry. Great catch, Kinsey. You don't miss a trick. You don't miss a trick. Like, what do you think? What do you think?
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So Kinsey, was she operating like, because this is stuff that most of us regular people in the world really aren't aware of. Was this woman operating like a high-end birthing facility that's like private?
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And we don't know the particulars.
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So, you know, this, we, we touched on this, I think on your show the other day, but we know it's bad now. Like we know that things are, yes, there is ode to desperation. You know, that's the, that's the mushroom cloud around these two. It's so desperate.
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And I was thinking, you know, on Wednesday when this dropped and it, you know, of course all the entertainment shows picked it up and they're running it like it's normal and like it's cute. And like, that's why we here at The Nerve, to say no, to push back, to say this is a bunch of, this is freaky shit. And it's completely an F you to the royal family.
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And it's, I mean, Charles will not strip these titles, but I now think there is zero question. William is going to strip these titles immediately. It will be his first order of business. Please, we're begging you. We are, we are begging you. Know that you're friends in America.
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find these two utterly distasteful and we see exactly what they're doing and we don't find them charming and we don't find them cute. We don't find them subversive. We find them repellent. And now we're seeing the children. Okay. Again, the children who we were never meant to see.
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This is why we had to flee in the dead of night on Tyler Perry's private jet, which by the way, Megan in her bonus episode of her podcast with Beyonce's mom, Tina Knowles, you and I discussed that plenty. So we won't revisit it here. But those two have a little sidebar where they're like, you know what makes a day better? Tyler Perry and his chat. Just saying, isn't it great?
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They're mewling to each other. There's Megan Mules. She's a mewler. She's a mewler. And so now we're seeing the faces. We're beginning to see more of the faces. Like, they're still somewhat obscured, but she posted a photo the other day of Lily. Megan, of course, cradling. Megan's the real star. But we're seeing a good three-quarters of her face.
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You know, and Harry with one of the babies as an infant. You know, I thought that the children were utterly off-limits. Utterly, utterly, completely off-limits. But now... Kinsey, why?
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write these art directed photos.
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I mean, these are photos that are like art directed within an inch of their lives, you know, black and white, not like, it's almost like they're sort of rebranding as Kennedy assets, you know, these nautical photos we're on boats, we're barefoot, we're on islands, we're, you know, and I just think that she's, you know, there's also a theory that she dropped that twerking video.
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to seem much more relatable and down-to-earth, in part because Brooke Shields has gone viral. They were having a conversation at South by Southwest, like a moderated panel or whatever, and Megan once again launched into this intolerable, insufferable origin story. We all know it, Megan. We all know it.
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And as Kinsey just said, it wasn't an auto-generated spark of genius by you, the burgeoning rebel feminist. This was a class... Simon, the whole class wrote to Procter and Gamble. Okay. And anyway, on and on she goes and she's losing the audience and Brooke Shields pipes up and says, Hey, you know what's funny? When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute and the whole crowd laughs.
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Finally, like the air has been punctured in that bubble. And there's a theory that that's why Megan wants to seem, you know, down to earth relatable. She can have fun. She's a fun girl.
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I mean, do they have video of him entering and exiting during this time period?
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Don't give people ideas. If you really are that afraid, don't give people ideas. You fucking moron. These two are such losers. They are such losers. And they're the only two who don't know it. You know, we still have not heard if Megan's getting a season two of that podcast from Lemonada. despite bagging Beyonce's mom, who she made sure to tell us, you know, who made that call?
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It was really something, and we're all going to discuss it. And there is some levity to be found here, okay? Trust me. We've got feedback on our And Just Like That recap slash group trauma bond. And the one and only Kinsey Schofield will be joining us to talk about that video, that twerking video, okay? But first, we are getting into it with Diddy and the Diddy Trial. Welcome, Kayla.
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Beyonce's mom made the call to Meghan. It wasn't the other way around. Is that true? I don't know. But she's always got to slide that stuff in. You know, there's no moment of elevating herself that she will not fail to take. And she doesn't realize it makes her look worse, not better.
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Now, before I let you go, because you've been very generous, my fellow Justice League warrior, you sent over this amazing report that
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that um the same day as the historic king's birthday parade the trooping the color this charles is in the fight of his life he's got an undisclosed kind of cancer that you know has has seemingly you know been affecting him that the whatever treatment he's getting he's he bowed out of a couple of things anyway so this is going to be a very very very important day for king and country
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Megan is going to be honored at an LA gala on the same day.
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And to your point, Kinsey, and to my point about what losers they are, Charles is in Canada reinforcing its importance to the British Empire. And those two go to China, which is, you know, one of our greatest enemies that is seeking. We just arrested two spies here who were trying, it looks like, to commit agricultural terrorism. They go to China.
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Kayla, if the defense, well, the defense has yet. It's not their turn right now. It's the prosecution. But would the defense, if they had said video, would they not just show it during this woman's testimony to counter her claims?
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I couldn't agree with you more. I think that's, I think, I don't know. I don't, I know no better place to leave it for the very time being. Kinsey, my friend, I thank you. I thank you for joining me for this emergency discussion. I think we all feel a lot better. Thank you. I love you. Love you too. Bye. See you soon. Okay. So before we wrap this all up, two things, one,
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This is how much we love you. You got a mini nerve this weekend. It's a good one. I'm very excited about it. I was laughing out loud putting some of this together. I think you guys are going to love it. But to wrap up our Duchess and her latest self-induced humiliation, twerking while about to give birth, allegedly, we're going to toss to this nerve fixture. Now, remember...
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In this video, Megan is the ship that just keeps moving towards certain disaster. And we, all of us, the troublemakers, are the immovable object, the bridge, into which she repeatedly crashes and burns. Here it is just for you guys. It's coming apart, the Brooklyn Bridge. has taken this ship apart and it keeps going as if nothing's happened. Well, that never ceases to be amusing really.
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And, uh, that's it for our Friday edition of the nerve, but you know, as stated earlier, we've got another, we've got a mini nerve coming. We are, we will see you on YouTube, uh, Saturday around 10 AM. That's our regular coffee date. It's on YouTube, not pods yet. So be sure to check in there and, uh, Have a great weekend.
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I can't wait to see you all back here next week at The Nerve, where you will never guess what we're about to say next.
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Yeah, because, you know, there was visual evidence submitted in court of her bruises. She had a bruise on her leg that was, from what I've read, the size of a softball. Oh, yeah.
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it this is so interesting when i was reading about the defense saying well we've got him booked at the trump international in new york city and we've got room service orders and text messages i'm thinking so what like if half of this stuff is true this guy's a criminal mastermind and he's just got some like low-level employee hanging out there under his name like by the way i love this suit even in frank black like that's the name of the lead singer of the pixies and it makes me think like
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Is Sean Combs a Pixies fan? Like, does he have a secret alt rocker inside? I mean, does he he contains multitudes, I suppose. But, you know, this woman also again, like I tend to believe these women. I don't I don't know how you feel, Kayla, but like if I have to get up and testify against Sean Combs, a man who more than one person has said that guy threatened my life.
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that guy threatened my family members, if I ever said anything, I would be terrified. There's no amount of money any lawsuit could possibly bring me that would make that worth it to me. She said on the stand, right?
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I mean, I'm sure she still lives with chronic pain to this day. And, of course, the psychological trauma. He dangled her off, allegedly, a 17-story high balcony, which is a very favored tactic among a certain segment of the hip-hop community. Suge Knight used to do this, too. And when those rumors first began surfacing, I mean, this was like the baby days of the internet.
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It was kind of like, that is so wild. Could that possibly be true? And, you know, we later learned it was pretty true. Yeah, you see it in movies. You see it in movies. You see it in, like, the mafia does it. It's a very... You know, there's this case that's about to blow up in New York City.
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Like, we're just beginning to learn the details, but this crypto guy was held hostage for, like, two weeks in, like, a $28 million downtown mansion, and he was dangled over a spiral staircase that looks like it probably was about 17 stories up. Like, it's the same kind of tactic. Um... So what was her demeanor when the defense was finished with her?
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Thank you for joining us at The Nerve. Thank you, Maureen. Always happy to be here. So I would like to start with you with this bombshell testimony on Wednesday by a woman named Brianna. Banna's her nickname, Bongolin. She's a close friend of Cassie Ventura's. She testified that in September 2016, she was staying with Cassie at her L.A. apartment. Sean Combs shows up. Bongolin asks him to leave.
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Kayla, can you talk a little bit about the testimony of someone named Mia?
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I read that she testified that he... once yelled at her for, she was tasked with counting the money in his safe. I forget where in the world this was. And that she was doing it too slowly. And he said to her, wait, I have the quote right here. He said to her, you better learn to walk on water like Jesus did, bitch. Then he ordered her out of his sight.
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She said the highs were really high, but the lows were really, really low. This is unbelievable. So she's testifying. These women who are testifying, Kayla, under pseudonyms, are they required physically to be in the courtroom where he can see them?
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when she was describing, tell me if I'm right, when she was describing being dangled off a balcony, allegedly, her testimony, that Diddy was also looking over at the jury and they were all expressionless.
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He responds by chasing Bongolin out to the balcony. He comes up from behind her. He lifts her up. This woman's 5'1". She weighs 100 pounds, soaking wet. He dangles her off the balcony for a good 10 to 15 seconds, yelling at her the whole time. I believe saying something like, I know what the fuck you did. He's 5'10 and weighs 190 pounds, reportedly. This woman...
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This is, yeah, yeah. I mean... We're going to get to this later in the show, but while I have you here, I wanted to ask you, too, what you know about. So the prosecution filed into evidence under seal about 10 sex videos involving Cassie Ventura.
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What do you know about potentially what they may contain, how many people may be involved in those freak offs and whether the jury is going to see parts or all of those videos?
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Yeah, I remember reading that about that testimony the other day and thinking, wow, this is going to be like really dry stuff for the jury to get through.
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But how important it is, you know, he's alleging these are cheap fakes, deep fakes, AI, you know, but it's not 50 Cent having fun, you know, with some like AI videos of Sean Combs with Jeffrey Epstein or slugging some baby oil before he beds down in a federal penitentiary. What do you know, Kayla, before I let you go? Because I know you have to go. I thank you so much for your time today.
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care because I get to bear witness to their life. What the fuck do you mean you get to bear witness to their life? You're their parent. That's like called parenting. Okay. Bearing witness. Again, all these like these fancy terms like Like, they don't mean anything. They're spoken by fake people. Fake people talk like this. It's fake people who talk like this, okay?
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And by the way, the Today Show has always, like, in the past several years, really, it is really a hate watch for me. I watch it because, like, I need to know this stuff and report back to you and send up the flares when we're in an emergency situation as we are right now. But the Today Show cast, to me, it's like, do you know that band, The Arcade Fire? There's like 80 members of The Arcade Fire.
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I could never figure out how they made any money. The Today Show is like The Arcade Fire. They have like five hosts sitting on the set interviewing like one C-list actor you've never heard of or one...
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bullshit like gift guide expert or like one finance financial expert like and the advice is always incredibly insulting it's like you know what you should do um you should pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of every month you should do that you know what else is a good idea you should have a 401k that's the kind of advice they're like dishing out over there okay so yeah i think hoda really absorbed a lot of like
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intellectual, proprietary knowledge that's worth going to her website for. Okay. So then off she went to the fourth hour of the Today Show. Now, she used to host this Today Show with the fourth hour with the equally insufferable Jenna Bush Hager, who is also a Nepo baby. Okay. She's the granddaughter of... George Bush. And then she is the daughter of H.W. Do I have that right?
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George W. Sorry, it's H.W. and George W. OK, whatever. Now, Hoda used to be the big cheese and Jenna was like the baby who came in and Hoda ran the show. And you knew the status because Hoda would walk out and she would be on the right and Jenna would be on her left. And it was Hoda who would announce like, hey, everybody, today is like Friday. Friday, May 30th.
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And, you know, we're talking today about this. And then Hoda would take the right chair and Hoda would lead off the discussion. And my, how the tables have turned. The indignities that Hoda has had to swallow in promoting her Joy 101 app. So Jenna walks out on the right, and she's got Hoda on the left, and she's clasping her by the shoulder so tightly.
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Like, you would think that it was like Hamas leading a hostage out to the Red Cross. Jenna's making sure that Hoda's not going to make a break for it and try to upstage her. This is Jenna's fucking show now. Get it, Hoda? So they walk out to the table, and Jenna's the one saying, today's date and today, whatever. And they sit down. And then Hoda, Hoda couldn't help herself, okay?
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She had a remark about not sitting, being seated in the right fucking chair. Okay, watch this.
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Okay, so I'm telling you, it's joy all over the place, right? We're not noticing like the tiny things. We're not noticing things about status. We're not noticing that like, you know, you're just a guest now. You know, you're just chilling your shit like any other huckster, you know? Okay. So now, People Magazine, okay, she's on the cover here, her two small kids.
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Again, I do not think children this small should be up for public consumption. You know, if I'm in America's living room every weekday, nobody's seeing my kids. It's not happening, okay? But, you know, here we are. It's a... Whole exclamation point. New exclamation point. Hoda exclamation point. Oh, my God. She's 60 and she has yet another fucking incarnation. Trust me.
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OK, this is the same as the old Hoda because there's nobody in there. There's nobody home. Nobody's in there. She's still talking the same gibberish that she was always talking with Jenna Bush Hager about finding your authentic self and taking up space, which was the name of her podcast, by the way. I don't even know if she is that garbage anymore and just leaning into shit like as she ever was.
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Okay. There's no specifics ever to be found in this garbage language. It's just just a bunch of self-help platitudes. Okay. And, you know, again, not for nothing, but if she was really so happy, if she really had this secret to a happy life, you know, she wouldn't be seeking out the nearest television camera with the force of a heat-seeking missile, okay?
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She'd be hanging out with those kids in anonymity, you know, or she'd just be writing a book. Write a book. Write a book while they're at school. See them in the morning. Do a podcast from your house, you know, while they're at school. But no, no, no, no, no. We have to be a media mogul. Okay. Okay. Let's keep going because again, it is our collective mission.
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The troublemakers to destroy this stuff that is so, so toxic, it's so unfair because it's aimed particular. I mean, it's aimed at men, too, but they are really speaking the lingua franca of women. OK, and it's aimed at women who are struggling, whether it's financially or professionally or emotionally. And Hoda is incredibly privileged.
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But she never talks about all the help that she has, the vast riches that allow her to sit around for months on end, the nannies, the gardeners, the housekeepers, the private cars and drivers, all of which I'm sure she has. So she's out there shilling the shit to the average woman at the cost of $16.99 per month or $99 annually. And what do you get for that? I'm going to show you.
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I'm going to fucking show you.
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Talk about what that like is. First of all, how could she even talk about what that is? Because I don't even know what that question is. I don't know what the fuck that question is. You're living in a truth that feels so illuminating. This living in truth shit or a truth or my truth or your truth, there's a truth, okay? We're not living in fucking Rashomon. There's a truth, okay?
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And if you're just living your life and being a decent person, that's the answer. That's it. It's that simple. Be a decent person. Try not to hurt people, okay? Anyway, moving on. We've got more to say.
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So again, she's talking about having, I'm sparing you. It goes on and on because there's a lot of verbosity to cover up the lack of actual thought or like actual genuine like emotion. Cause she's lying to you. I'm telling you right now, just my opinion. She's full of shit. She's talking about having this Eureka moment about why she needs to leave the Today Show.
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I mean, again, like it's morning television. You know, one of the greatest insults ever leveled against Barbara Walters, the late Barbara Walters was that the most dangerous place on planet Earth was between Barbara Walters and a television camera. And I'm telling you, it's the same for fucking Hoda Kotb.
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OK, she's talking about having this eureka moment when her daughter was hospitalized, hospitalized, this little kid and how Hoda, not her kid, but Hoda found the bravery, the valiance to not put all of her worry on the sick child. But she's going to talk all about it on television again. OK, great. Nice mothering. I think it's great. I think it's great. Just my opinion.
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Tell me if this makes any sense to you, because I don't think I'm missing a trick here. And I don't think you guys are either. And I truly wonder where this woman got her seed money. Like what venture capitalist listens to this utter banality of a trite excuse for a human being and said, you know what? I'd love to shove millions of dollars into this. I would sooner burn it than give it to Hoda.
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OK, I would. Now we're going to take a look at her home page. for this great new endeavor, Joy 101. Okay. Let's look at the, it's called Welcome to the Universe of Joy. The universe. Okay. So in her intro on this webpage, you know, it's, she's taking us on her journey because everything's a fucking journey.
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I maintain and will till I go to my grave that the only journey any of us take is from point A to point B. OK, this word I blame Bachelor Nation moving on. So so Hoda says, quote, and I quote, OK, it's all very valuable utterances. So here I am in my 60s. I'm stepping into this incredible chapter. Again, the verbiage. I'm stepping into this incredible chapter. We're always stepping.
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There's always a chapter. I don't know how you can step into a chapter. It feels like a mixed metaphor to me. But, you know, what do I know? And I feel so incredibly joyful. And it feels great. Again, we're just repeating ourselves. We're happy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. You know, a casual...
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hoda there's no professional hair and makeup there's professional hair and makeup there's professional lighting and she's just talking about you know reaching this chat she's entering this new chapter and it's a it's an interesting choice of words because again look at those bookshelves there's not a book to be found on those bookshelves okay don't speak of chapters if you don't read chapter books i don't think you do i don't think you do okay
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Finally, we're going to let Hoda have the last word. And then I'm going to we'll move on to to more, frankly, just engaging stuff like the Diddy trial.
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Yeah, Hoda, everybody would like a break from you. You told us you were leaving. Please, take your fucking joy, take your fucking breath work and your meditation and your prayer and your joy 101, I can't believe it. She sounds like a simpleton. She sounds like those kids in class you just feel sorry for. Like they're never gonna get it, you know?
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Like just take it all, take your bullshit and leave, okay? Oh, and by the way, Hoda also announced on this little tour of 30 Rock, she's not getting the Kelly. She didn't say, I'm not getting it. Okay. She said, I'm not going to be taking over the Kelly Clarkson show, which is like a monster hit. Okay. She said, she's not going to be taking that over when Kelly leaves.
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Despite all these weird, random, sudden reports that NBC was just dying. You know, they were thinking, could we possibly get Hoda Kotb to do it? And I just kept reading these and I'm like, this source is fucking Hoda Kotb. Nobody misses this woman. OK, but, you know, again, just my opinion. I don't know. But anyway, so Hoda, she's not getting it. She's not getting it. She's not getting that.
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So now we're doing our little fucking app and like, good luck with that. Like, if you don't spend your money on this stuff, OK, I want it to tank because this stuff needs to, again, be eradicated from the culture. She's a huckster and she's a loser. She's a loser. If you want to read a little bit more on this, I columned on it over at the Daily Mail, you know. It's good for a laugh. Okay.
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This person gave it some thought, okay? Here's the deal. They don't make a lot of this stuff. When it's gone, it's gone. So Father's Day is around the corner. And, you know, the chances it's going to sell out are very, very high. So what you need to do is go to firecrackerfarm.com. This isn't just seasoning. It is a stainless steel grinder. It's so elegant. It's so cool.
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Go to firecracker.farm, yes, .farm, F-A-R-M, and use code The Nerve for a special discount. You're welcome, okay? Now go get that dad in your life something he will actually use and love. We are back, and I have lots of updates for you, but first up, Diddy.
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Okay, we are coming to the close of week three, and we had a woman named Mia, this seems to be a fake name, a sort of pseudonym, testifying on Thursday. Now, she is another alleged victim. Per the live updates reported by the New York Post,
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mia and cassie ventura and diddy were on a trip in parrot k in 2012 and mia says she was awoken by cassie one night and she was cassie was quote running and screaming mia testified that ventura said to her you gotta help me he's gonna kill me meaning Diddy, who was then going by Puff Daddy. And then Mia said she never reported to the cops any of these incidents.
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She witnessed multiple with Diddy because, quote, I thought he was above the police. OK, that means that she thought that I interpret it as she thought he had deep connections to the cops and not just the NYPD. I'm going to guess LAPD, Miami PD, you know, wherever he was most involved. constantly throwing these freak offs.
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It seems that people in that world knew the level of danger, frankly, that he posed. Now, what also came up in testimony, Prince, the late great Prince, who hosted an exclusive party. It was probably after an award show or something. But anyway, Mia and Cassie snuck out. They snuck out. I guess they were living with Combs at the time.
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Hey everyone, welcome to your Friday edition of The Nerve. And my God, do we have a banger of a show for you today. A banger. First, we are going to take our troublemaking wrecking ball to one of the worst offenders out there. Now this individual, just four months ago, promised to go away. But now this person is back in our faces, hawking a bunch of absolute bullshit.
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And what also came up in testimony was that any of the women who lived in his residences, like his staff, his assistants, what have you, were told by Diddy per testimony that they were not permitted to lock their bedroom doors. Okay. And as a woman, there are few things more chilling. That is a man telling you he owns you. Okay? And if he wants to do something to you, he's going to do it.
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Meanwhile, all the men who worked for Diddy and who were in his employ, who lived there, were allowed to lock their doors. I believe one of them at least had like a deadbolt and another had like surveillance cameras and maybe weapons. I mean, they all knew. Okay? So anyway, Mia and Cassie go to this prince party and Combs catches wind of this. And you can imagine... He rushes over there.
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He finds Cassie at this party. He throws her to the floor. And it was Prince's bodyguards who got Diddy off of Cassie. Okay? There was more testimony from Mia. that she tried to stop another Cassie beating. Diddy had like thrown her. It was another one of like throwing across the bed. We saw an image provided by the feds of a deep gash above Cassie's eyebrow, like a deep gash.
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And so Mia says she tried to intervene, but Diddy, quote, he threw me against the wall so quick and so easily, I realized we were in real danger. This is really terrifying stuff. There was more testimony that he had beaten, I don't know if it was Mia or another woman, really, really viciously inside of his closet. Metaphor of all metaphors, because...
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Word in the hip-hop community lo these many years is that Sean Combs is really a gay man and would explain all that rage towards women, but that he beat – it might have been his assistant, Capricorn Clark. These names are just like crazy. Anyway, the Post was reporting that she testified – I guess this was on Tuesday because this is their Wednesday edition – that she – he took her –
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to Central Park in the dead of night, and that is a terrifying place to be. New York is not what it once was, trust me.
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On her first day working for Combs, reading from this article, Clark said he took her to a deserted Central Park after dark and threatened to kill her over her links to his rival Suge Knight, who managed Death Row Records, who's also, I believe, still behind bars, a very, very dangerous guy, Suge Knight. She told the jury that Diddy said to her,
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If anything happened vis-a-vis Suge Knight, he would have to kill me. Also, after Diddy found some valuable jewelry going missing while Clark had transported them, she testified that one of his henchmen...
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came to her home and, quote, brought her to the empty Midtown – I don't know what building this is – an empty Midtown building where a heavyset man, chain-smoking cigarettes and drinking black coffee – I mean, it's right out of the Mafia. Like, Sean Combs has seen too many episodes of The Sopranos. So this guy, smoking and drinking black coffee, greets her on the sixth floor.
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He said – this is her testimony – If you fail this test, this polygraph test as to whether you stole this stuff or not, they're going to throw you in the East River, okay? Now, according to this report, Combs is hearing this testimony in court and he's shaking his head. He's just a guy with a Bible. He doesn't know how the fuck he got here.
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Clark described the wise guy threat leaving her, quote, petrified. I was told I was not going to be able to leave until they got to the bottom of this. So her life has been threatened directly, and she's supposed to take a polygraph test, which measures the truthfulness of what you're saying by your fucking blood pressure, by your heartbeat.
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The other stuff that came out, Capricorn Clark also testified that Sean Diddy Combs, again, threatened to kill Kid Cudi, and he... came to her apartment where he had apparently never been before with a gun in his hand. He was livid because Cuddy was also dating Cassie. And he said, quote, get dressed. We're going to kill this N-word.
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She says, he'd never come over to my house the entire time I'd known him. I'd never seen him with a weapon. Do I believe that? I don't know. Yeah. And then her testimony was very strange. If I recall correctly, he had this enormous gun. He's like, you're coming with me. You're coming with me to kill this guy. She has to get in the vehicle with him. But I believe, according to her testimony...
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He made her sit on his lap with the gun. It's it's all very, very strange. And then there this is my favorite detail. OK, these details, it's all in the details. So, you know, the the alleged firebombing, the Molotov cocktail that was tossed into Kid Cudi's Porsche was. The problem with that failed complete. That was supposed to really just go up like a firebomb.
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Apparently what was used was a silk handkerchief. And, you know, just note to Diddy for the next time. When you're going to hurl a Molotov cocktail, silk is not your material because it doesn't catch fire. You know, you want something flammable.
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This is what happens when you enter the 1% because you're not like fucking shopping at H&M anymore and you're not buying materials that are synthetic and highly flammable. You know, you're at the Hermes's of the world and, you know, you lose touch. You lose touch. So, you know. Anyway, OK, we have an update on the Macron face shove, which, you know, I can't get over this thing.
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And I didn't realize at first. And then it was pointed out to me that it wasn't just one disembodied hand of his pedophile wife coming at him. Again, she was 40. He was 15. She was a teacher. He was a student at the same school. She had a child who was one of his classmates, pedophile. Wasn't just one hand, but it was two. It was two.
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Again, as I said, Edward Albee, this is not – these people are fucking crazy. Okay. Brad Pitt is on the cover of GQ magazine. Someone online said he looks like an old fisherman, like an old – like he kind of does. Like he kind of does. I believe – I don't have firsthand knowledge, but I do believe he recently, within the past year or so, had a facelift. It's a really good one.
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It's a really good one because he looks tight, but not overly so. And he looks refreshed, but like he still has wrinkles and he still, you know, he looks great. Now I can never look at Brad Pitt the same way again. I used to love him, but I read Angelina Jolie's complaint about what went down on that plane. And I believe her, you know, and it was brutal. Like it was terrifying. And, you know,
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I don't believe it was the first time Brad Pitt probably did that. Because again, when you're doing stuff on a plane, ask the McCrombs in front of people, staffing that plane. You've done it before. He was allegedly, Brad Pitt, pouring beer over Angie as she was hiding under a blanket with one of the kids.
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And he allegedly, according to Angie, grabbed her, I believe, by the throat and threw her up against a bathroom wall. And one of the kids tried to jump on him.
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to get her to get him off of her and then like he threw one of the kids off and he called another kid is looking like a school shooter I mean you know anyway Brad Pitt is he survived it he survived it all and he remains kind of beloved but he he addressed this with GQ for the first time about you know the uh the divorce which was you know the coverage was like um
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It was the equivalent of, you know, Pearl Harbor or 9-11. You know, I remember when we broke the news, I was working at the New York Post and I looked at the Daily Mail at the time and their font was like a world war had broken out. Like Angie divorces, you know, whatever. Anyway, they've resolved this divorce after eight years, I think, at least. Was it a big deal? Brad Pitt is asked.
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I mean, you know, you're in litigation for eight years and you're fighting for custody of your minor children and your reputation and your career is on the line. Seems like it would be a big deal, but Brad Pitt's cool, man. He's cool. He's too cool for that. He says, no, quote, no. I don't think it was that major of a thing. Just something coming to fruition. Smart. He's smart.
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He used the word fruition legally. Yeah, we know. That's what litigation is. It's a legal process. Anyway, okay, that's enough of Brad. We also have Lindsay Lohan.
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You know, the segment we did recently on these female celebrities who say that their beauty secrets are water and sleep and nutrition and meditation, as we just discussed Hoda, at least Hoda's not giving us her beauty secrets, wonder why, you know,
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I saw this the other morning and I immediately began taking notes because I knew I was coming right here to discuss this with all of you post-haste. Hoda Kotb, okay? For those of you who are in other countries and are likely blessedly unfamiliar, I am sure you do know the type. I am sure you encounter this type on some of your morning shows, okay?
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She's saying that after years of what we all saw, which looked like hardcore drug and alcohol abuse, and we all saw her rotted teeth, the kind of teeth that usually only manifest in someone that young if they're doing seriously hard drugs, like meth ruins teeth. I'm not saying that's what she was doing, but I'm just saying meth ruins teeth. And then she got a brand new smile.
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And whoever did that work did pretty good work, I will say. But now she's back and she's looking better than ever. And she's being asked about how this glow up has come to be. And you know what she says? Diet. Diet. Diet. Quote, my skin changed after having my son. It got really sensitive. That's what really made me change my whole routine and diet and everything. She cited green juice.
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She cited ice cold water. Pickled beets. That's a new one. I haven't heard pickled beets before. That's what she's doing. Anyway, okay. To cap this little thing off, it's Glennon Doyle. Another one we just took to the woodshed with her. She's a grown woman with a baby voice who has no...
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No, no known experience in human psychology, no education to that effect, who is another self-appointed self-help guru. She's got another bullshit book out. She recently went on Monica Lewinsky's podcast, excuse me, and blathered. about her identities.
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And by the way, as discussed with Link Lauren in the most recent show, I think Monica Lewinsky and her podcast Reclaiming does not really have a space in the culture. I mean, her thing is about reclaiming your identity when it's stolen from you. What happened to Monica Lewinsky happened over 30 years ago. You need to bring us something new, okay? Stay, stay all you want, but bring us something new.
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Instead, she's bringing us this watch. Again, if you think Hoda is a moron, oh my fucking God, watch this.
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Possibly check my email. I can't possibly call you back. I can't do taxes. I'm a Pisces.
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Oh, my God. It's like Mariska Hargitay finding out that the man who raised her isn't her biological father, like years and years later. It's like Jack Nicholson finding out that the woman he thought was his mother was actually his aunt or his grandmother. And the woman he thought was his sister was his mother. Like, that's the kind of stuff that will shake you to your foundation.
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But, you know, Glennon Doyle. Again, you want to take advice for her. Caveat emptor. Okay, we're going to get to audience emails now. Our favorite part, at least my favorite part. Okay, I have this email from a guy named Mike. He says, this is amazing. Maureen, your show has now become my first listen in a growing list of podcasts. It has become a regimen for stress detox. I love this.
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I'm so happy to hear this. Okay. Mike would like, as a fellow self-identified troublemaker, that's the only way any of us are identifying around here, okay, as troublemakers. I would like to throw another insufferable celebrity in your path. Please do, Mike. Pedro Pascal has begun polluting Mike's social media news feeds with constant virtue signaling.
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He is like a woke superbug for which there is no cure. His constant lamenting that we shouldn't hate or fear immigrants was so condescending at the Cannes Film Festival. Well, Pedro, I am also a first-generation immigrant, and my father fled Greece while it was in the midst of a communist civil war where my family was always in danger. My family was so poor.
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This woman was a co-host on the Today Show, which is one of the three once huge, once dominant, now increasingly irrelevant morning shows on American network television. I'm not saying this to be mean, but it's the truth. And she's asking for it because she's in our face trying to try and sell us some bullshit. She's one of the dumbest people to ever look into this very coveted, overpaid gig.
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that my grandfather cast off my dad at 16 to make money in the U.S. so his sisters wouldn't wind up as prostitutes. And they literally had a fucking tree growing in the middle of their farmhouse, which is real poverty. But poor Pedro at the Cannes Film Festival protectively and vulnerably clutches his chest as if he was sexually abused by an ICE agent.
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Mike, you are a natural born writer sexually abused by an ICE agent. I love you.
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jill t uh she's writing from ireland in ireland the arts and the love of literature runs in our blood we rank among the highest across the globe in terms of literary capabilities and literacy it's clear you are of irish descent thank you if my name didn't tip you off my foul mouth might okay she talks about instilling a love of reading in her daughter who is now like in the top five percent at dublin university good for you jill
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You need to start recommending books, Maureen. I certainly trust your opinion, and I think others will too. As promised, we will get there. I'm working on it. I promise you. Okay, this is another woman named Anna. You know, saying to me, you have Irish roots. I often joke that babies here in Ireland can swear before they talk properly.
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Only an Irishman can make an almost totally expletive riddled sentence Make it still make sense. And I'm eager to see the Bono doc on Apple this weekend. I'm a fan. I can't help it. Also, some of you pointed out to me that Bono does have a nepo baby. Her name is Eve Hewson. She's an actress. I don't include her in that. I'm sorry. I think she's very talented.
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I think she would have gotten there anyway. Okay. Sarah writes, we got a lot of feedback to the sex. I got so much feedback to that sex in the city segment we did and that SJP segment we did. And I think it was a catharsis for many of us. Okay, we all really do feel the same way.
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I remember reading somewhere, this is Sarah, that Kim Cattrall not only complained about SJP's nasty attitude on that set, but that SJP, now this is alleged, would also refuse to let Kim cover up during intimate scenes while Sarah Jessica Parker always got to wear a bra. Yeah, that's true. On another note, I loved your comment on Diddy's burka last week.
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I couldn't stop laughing when you asked your colleague from the Daily Mail if a naked, oiled-up Diddy who entered a sex party with a burka on had a bejeweled burka or if he was a minimalist. I thought so too. I just hit my hanging fireplace. That's what that is. If you can't see it, that's what you just heard. Okay. Sex in the City. You really nailed it.
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I thought you might appreciate... This is from Georgiana. What a beautiful name. I thought you might appreciate this bit of trivia or outrage. The season two Subway posters for And Just Like That were designed to mirror The Last Supper with SJP in the Jesus position. Oh my God. I believe it. Fiona Katz. Your show is a breath of fresh air in this topsy-turvy world we inhabit.
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I love your judicious use of expletives. Thank you. I, too, was mad about Christopher Hitchens. A great love. I feel sure he would have wanted to be friends with you. That is one of the kindest things anyone has ever said to me. Loved Christopher Hitchens. Maureen. This is from Sarah. I just stalked your resume and you wrote for Sassy. I did. I was like a teenage intern.
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I was such a fan of that magazine. I would wait eagerly every month for it to come to my house in suburban Long Island. And I would like save parts of it and read it piecemeal. And then I. I loved it so much. I just cold called them one day or I wrote them a letter and I said, I want to come intern for you guys. I got a call like a month later and they were like, want to come in?
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And I went and I started working there and I loved it. And it was such a formative experience for me. This woman goes on to say, Sarah, I was a sassy super fan. I got so many good recommendations from Christina Kelly, who was fantastic.
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really my first most important mentor um i felt like such a cool kid getting the in from everyone in new york city me too and it was christina kelly the genius behind cute band alert not for nothing okay um joe christian if this is your real name it's a good one um love your show and mastery of the english language thank you congratulations on being an astronaut thank you thank you
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I'm curious of something. When you do your show, you glance to the left a lot. What's over there? Just my thoughts. You know, it's a tick. I'm trying to get rid of it. But I'm usually searching for a thought. Okay. Hi, Maureen. This is Holly. I love the podcast and all of the troublemakers.
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She's no astronaut. OK, let's put it that way. And she got the job. And this is very important because her predecessor, Matt Lauer, was a known sex pest who got me to around the time of Harvey and was, in my opinion, My opinion, very credibly accused of rape. Like a violent, violent rape in the workplace that reportedly, allegedly, sent a woman to the hospital.
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Do you suppose the nasty J-Lo performance, which we talked about on the last episode, I think we talked about it with Link. Maybe not. Anyway, the nasty J-Lo performance at the AMAs was really her gaslighting everyone to say, this is my version of a ditty party freak off. It's okay. Everyone is doing it. Great theory. Remember, J-Lo was...
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involved with Diddy romantically for a substantial amount of time and was with him the night of that nightclub shooting where a woman got shot in the face. Okay. A woman got shot in the face and JLo and Diddy got arrested and somebody else took the fall. I will always believe this. The hip hop community knows it's true.
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Allegedly someone else took the fall and JLo was arrested and she demanded that the cops go get her cuticle cream. Okay. That's the kind of piece of shit she is. Now I call that desperate performance. She gave at the AMAs the other night, a career in this death rattle. One of you troublemakers, corrected me. You said, really, it's more akin to a death jiggle. You're right. You're right.
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This is from Martina. I hate self-help and pretty much follow Oscar Wilde's advice that the best thing you can do with advice is to pass it on. Also love Oscar Wilde. Your comment that you run as soon as you see somebody has put a Buddha in their yard is genius. I have found it to be the ultimate red flag for control freaks and or psychological messes.
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This I have found in my experience is extremely funny. Another one, Sex in the City, Tina, marketing luxury products to women falsely leads them to believe that getting ahead with the right handbag is a thing and it causes financial suicide or instability that is not supporting women. It is not what is hanging off your arm.
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It is what's placed between your ears that supports opportunities for self-reliance and freedom. I could not agree more. And that is all the time we have for your emails this week. keep them coming to me. I am reading them all. The whole team is on top of everything as far as you guys, what you want to hear, what you want to see, what you want us to cover.
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And also remember, like, subscribe, and tell those in your life about The Nerve. The faster we grow, the faster we can keep coming at you with new content. And reach me anytime. Any hour of the day. I'm like Meghan Markle with a six-year-old missing a tooth, you know? Come, come, come. Talk to me. Maureen at devilmaycaremedia.com.
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OK, like the kind of violations that involved him reportedly, allegedly having a secret button installed on the underside of his desk so he could lock women in his office before they had any idea what might be about to happen. And if you want to tell me that nobody knew somebody had installed that button. OK, there was work done in Matt Lauer's office. Somebody signed off on that.
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Again, that's peaklife.com slash thenerve. Welcome back to The Nerve. I am so excited for this next guest. This is her second appearance. Her first was a huge hit. Of course it was. How could it not be? It's my friend Kinsey Schofield of Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered. And she is joining us to talk about all the latest disasters spun as winds or the failures that...
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are being spun, as Meghan Markle would insufferably say, as learns. This is a new word they're trying to inject into the lexicon. Kinsey, welcome. Oh, look how pretty you look in your pink blouse. Thanks for joining us on The Nerve.
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It's wellness, it's self-help, it's promising you everything but immortality, and it's absolute garbage from an absolute know-nothing. We also have some more bombshell updates from the Diddy trial with more celebrity names included in witness testimony, along with some ridiculousness and our unique time together listener email.
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Yeah. It's like, it's her kink, right? No matter what. That is skews. Skews. Skews. Oh my God. Skews. Like I was up all night. Do we have enough skews? Do we have enough skews? Well, I guess she didn't have enough skews because she completely ran out of merchandise. And she, as she says in this, I mean, we'll get to the Fast Company piece, which is really just a
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I don't know why they even ran that piece, but I want to get to you first because you, I want to get to this with you first. You just texted me a little bit ago about having a source who told you about one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. We all adore her. And a little ask that came her way via one Meghan Markle.
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You know what's so interesting about Dolly Parton? And she talks about this a lot. I think she always says it takes a lot of money to look this cheap. And she's got the fake nails and the fake hair and all of that, but she's so authentic, or at least she comes across as so completely authentic and so completely herself.
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And it would be like a spontaneous combustion of good versus evil, I think, if Dolly were to enter A fake kitchen with a fake – I think she's a fake royal, you know, and making some fake food and pretending that they're great friends. I just – I don't think Dolly should have to suffer in that way. She's given us so much over the years. And I love, too, that, you know, the Dolly thing was –
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Who's the other thing that occurred to me about that? I mean, it's such a strange, like, I just don't think that that's in Megan's wheelhouse at all. Like, do you think she's like really a fan of Dolly Parton's music? Do you think she has any clue about this woman's life story? And also her husband just recently passed away. I mean, there's have some decorum, you know?
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Now, Matt Lauer, by the way, is someone that Katie Couric, that other Today Show scourge turned podcaster, defended in her memoir, the one where she's barefoot on the cover. And this, by the way, is a theme, the barefoot morning show host, because Hoda, in her new announcement, is also shot on her couch barefoot. She's also shot in the new People magazine. She befouls the cover with her bare feet.
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That's the thing. It's like, why not really think this through? Chrissy Teigen is known for having told a young starlet to go kill herself multiple times, both on the open internet and in private direct messages. She's a piece of shit, and she's always shoving her freak show in our face constantly. You know, oh, look, I got my like forehead lowered. Who cares what you did?
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You know, fix the outside all you want. It's never going to mask your ugly, ugly inside. And this is somebody who Meghan Markle thinks is it's appropriate to have on a show called With Love, Meghan. I cannot believe it's gotten a season three, but at least it might be keeping me employed in my side gig as an actress. You know, I don't know.
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So, yeah, I wanted to talk to you about the podcast, too, because it just ended this week. It had its finale. You would think a finale would just be a blowout, must-listen-to episode, and it landed with a thud. If a tree falls, you know, if Meghan Markle releases a podcast, does it really make a sound? Does it? It was Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx.
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which no longer dominates the shapewear foundational space. And she, as you pointed out, Kinsey, it took her a year to produce eight episodes. I just want to say for the team at The Nerve, this is episode 12. This is month two, okay? We grind it out. We work hard for you. And Megan is sitting there waiting for the phone call, I guess, from Lemonada about whether she's getting a season two.
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That Fast Company profile. Okay. In it, we were just texting about it. So I'm very, very grateful to have the opportunity to like, again, have a true catharsis with you. Because again, she spoke about her learns, which in the real world are called mistakes. Made some big mistakes. And number one is you didn't have enough merchandise to fulfill the orders that were placed.
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Nobody wants to see your bare feet. It doesn't make you relatable. Put them away. Okay, so anyway, Hoda announced that she was quitting the Today Show months ago, and she left finally in January. Now, her stated reason was that she's 60 years old. She is a single mother of two young adopted daughters, ages six and eight.
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I believe those numbers were artificially compressed. Like she kept a lot back so that she could turn around and say, look what, look, it's old out, you know, and it didn't. And then she says, we don't know if we're going to restock. What, help me make sense of this. Is this a business or is it not? What kind of business is like, maybe we'll restock?
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It would be like you or me being like, maybe we'll do another episode. I don't know. I don't know.
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Well, you know, I just think Kinsey as ever, she doesn't really want to do the work. Like the work doesn't light her up in the way that I think, you know, your show lights you up. You can tell like you're so engaged. You're so always like just ready to go. You're just ready to go. And she, you know, again, like I don't know what kind of executive would say that it's acceptable for Megan to go.
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You know what I want to do? This said no business person ever said no entrepreneur ever. Like I would love, I wish for Mark Cuban's final episode of shark tank. They had made it like a special with the Duchess and the Duchess would have to stay in the shark tank and go through all of her failed business ventures and like hear it from them.
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Like just be taken to the woodshed because no, there's not a single entrepreneur on the planet who would be like, you know, it's a great idea. I should absolutely not capitalize on momentum. You know, we live in such a fast moving culture that you have like a nanosecond to get whatever it is you want in front of people's faces.
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And they're either going to take it or they're not, but they're going to move on. You know, that's how quickly the cycle moves. And she's like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take my learns and my data points and I'm going to go back to my mansion and I'm going to see what they're telling me. And then I'm going to conceive like what my brand should be. If your brand is out there,
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Your brand should have an identity and it does not. And I just think it's so deeply reflective of its founder, Meghan Markle, who I truly believe there is no there there. She has no identity. Therefore, her product lines have no real identity.
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And she has finally realized the important things in life, namely the time with your young children is fleeting and it's unrecoverable. And so she was stepping out of the spotlight to be a great mom. Now, let's talk the real reason, okay? This is our real talk about fake people. The real reason, I suspect, is that Hoda was facing a major salary cut.
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I mean, it's a great theory. You know, it's a great theory. It just, I don't know where she's going to get her dopamine hits because she needs to be in front of a camera. Like, tell me your theory as to why Netflix would give her a season three.
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You know, that thing about the Fast Company article, she's always trying to include anecdotes that make her seem like a loving mother. And, you know, my personal theory is if you have to do that, you're probably not. You know, it all feels very performative.
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She's talking about how she makes sure we know that her... So it's been pointed out to me that, you know, she did this right around the same time that I think Prince... Catherine, Princess of Wales, posted a photo of George who had lost a tooth. Oh, Louis. Louis had two front teeth missing. Louis had two. Thank you. He had two front teeth missing.
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And so now Megan's coming along with her anecdote about her child who just lost his first tooth. And she's such a great mom. She put money under the pillow. And he was so excited that the tooth fairy had come that he woke up at two in the morning, which I do not believe.
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Kids get up that early on Christmas Eve, but they do not get up that they just don't they don't care that much about the tooth fairy. You know, you're not getting it done. It's not a big deal. So anyway, she goes, he came and he woke me up. First of all, I don't believe I believe she's got like a bouncer outside her bedroom door.
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Frankly, I think it's an exclusive nightclub and children are not allowed. And I'm implying nothing other than that. I don't think she's a very hands on mother. Just my opinion.
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Right, right. So, you know, this kid somehow finds his way to his mother, God forbid. And he wakes her up and she's like, you know, I had meetings the next day. I had a very big day ahead of me. But, you know, I chose, I think this is the literal verbiage and it's so telling. I chose to cuddle with him anyway.
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So this is a choice, not just a reflexive action, like most mothers cuddle their kids when they come, you know. So I chose to cuddle him. And, you know, it's those mom moments that really make me a better, a better founder, a better business person. Better person, a better human. Yeah, yeah.
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by NBC execs to a paycheck that was not reflective of her skill set, which again, I find very limited. At best, it's limited. Now, reports vary, but Hoda Kotb was either pulling in seven to eight million dollars a year or as much as $20 million a year, a figure I frankly find hard to believe, but, you know, those are the reports.
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I love it. I love it. Is it American money? Is there anything resembling Queen Elizabeth's face? Do they have old currency? That's such a great question. But you know what it is? I'm going to tell you what it is. The Tooth Fairy writes in calligraphy. And the tooth fairy also sends emails as well that, you know, they're going to have thousands to write through.
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And I think that this kid was like, what the fuck is this? Anyway, the other thing that you pointed out to me and which I am eternally grateful to you for, because I'd somehow missed it is apparently we've got evidence that Megan, who I believe is in my comment section and yours under fake names to your burner thing, because I can tell, I can tell she's purchased bots. Yeah.
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Yeah. And, you know, it goes to her keeping her comments turned off on her Instagram account. It goes to, you know, when the New York Times ran a very lengthy, flattering profile of Meghan in the kitchen with her mother, Doria. Yeah. And, you know, we're mentioning another aunt, like Jeanette, who I'd never heard of. But anyway, when the digital version of that, the Times turned the comments off.
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And I just think they're such cowards. They're such cowards. Like, let's do this.
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let's get in there let's like have it out like but they know how hated she is and they're gonna hide behind well you know she's biracial and it probably can't we can't let the you know the self-selecting group of people who read the New York Times who are like the woke karate you know they turn the comments off for that and that to me says just everything about how universally disliked she is
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But it's it's it's it's some of the best free entertainment out there, you know. So I guess you and I will both see Ms. Markle in the Duchess, Ms. Sussex in the comment section. So we absolutely will. And you're right. I think I've seen her quite a few times. Yeah, me too. So hi. Hey, Megan. Hey, Megan. Have us over. Have us over for some tea and some jam.
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And, you know, I'll bring several outfit changes, Kinsey. I know you will too. Yeah, absolutely. With feathers. Feathers, boas, what have you, the works. Well, thank you again, as always, for coming on The Nerve. We love having you and I will talk to you soon. Thank you. Next up, we've got some very interesting news for you guys.
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You know, we have been dropping these mini nerves on the weekends, typically on Saturdays around 10 a.m. But this weekend, we have something special planned for you. We are going to drop a large nerve, a full-size nerve that is going to be some of the best, most interesting stuff we've done thus far on YouTube on Saturday. And then it's going to be available online.
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You know, we've heard your sort of complaints like, oh, we want to be able to access the mini nerve, but it's not like in podcast form. But on Sunday, it's going to drop in podcast form on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. So you will have that for your weekend. I hope you love it. I think you will.
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And finally, someone at NBC got the smelling salts under their nose and was like, what are we paying this moron for? Like, why are we giving her this amount of money? She's reading from a teleprompter, and she's talking to, like, B-list celebrities about self-actualizing, you know? So a pay cut was coming. She was told this was imminent, and she left, reportedly, reportedly.
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And we will see you back here next Tuesday on the nerve where you will never guess what we're about to say next.
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Now, I knew, I knew in my bones that this absence from the culture would not last. Because where else is a basic bitch like Hoda Kopi going to get the regular dopamine hits, the regular shots to the...
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arteries that she got on the Today Show where she was mingling with celebrities and getting her professional hair and makeup done and having tourists lose their shit outside the glass walls of the Today Show at the mere glimpse of the great Hoda Kotb. Okay, school runs in suburbia were never going to cut it. Okay, so now four months later, she's back. She's back already.
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Back on the Today Show set, back on the fourth hour of Today with her pal Jenna, you know, back on the cover of People. We'll get to that. Okay, what does she have to offer us? What could have incited this sudden, I mean, I don't think since Tom Brady, we've seen a quicker, you know, exit from retirement. So hold us back with an app.
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app now she tells us that this is not just any app okay because we're not doing today show and people magazine if it's just some regular janky app okay so she's back doing her little media tour and she went back to the today show where everybody's like oh we're all friends chummy chummy kissy kissy trust me it is a snake pit
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a snake pit and there are no um antidotes for the venom that comes out of the people who inhabit these shows okay and um it was great to see some of hoda's hoda's she's marketing joy okay we're gonna get to it but you know the bitterness seeped through it she couldn't hide it and i love this i love this for her now her her her app her joy 101 app this is what she called it which is like
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Plus, my friend, the amazing Kinsey Schofield of the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered channel, where I am lucky enough to appear regularly, is going to join us here to talk today. Some great setbacks for Meghan Markle. You know, we don't wish others ill, but there's karmic justice, and I think we're all down with it. I think we all get with it, okay? So all of that coming up.
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It's as basic as she is. Joy 101. Joy 101. Okay. Now this is content that is quote unquote curated. This is the word she uses on the art, on the homepage for her app. And that word is always a tell for me. It's always a huge red flag because that's a word that dumb people use to make themselves sound smart. Okay.
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Instead of just saying it's collected or even you want to be a little fancy, say aggregated, but no curated. Now we're like an art world person. You know, we're very rarefied. We're curating things. Okay. So Hoda's curating this shit for you. Okay. And if you buy that, you know. So this is snake oil. This is snake oil.
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And she has now slotted herself firmly into a world that we at The Nerve are dedicated to destroying. Okay. It's my own personal death star, this stuff. And I'm taking it down and you're all going to take it down with me. So, okay. This is her premise. She ostensibly leaves morning television to focus on her small children, one of whom she tells us
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this little media tour has type 1 diabetes you know and i i don't know this family but i doubt that that child wants that out into the world okay i doubt that child wants to enter every future classroom or sporting event or gym class with everybody freaking knowing that she's got type 1 diabetes okay and and the and the thing that hoda's telling us is that that diagnosis
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really just shook her to her core. That diagnosis really reoriented her priorities, you know, so much so that she's building a business from the ground up. Remind you of anybody out West in Montecito? We'll get there. Don't worry. So let's take a look at Hoda on the Today Show Mothership with Savannah Guthrie. These two are giving each other an epic tongue bath.
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It's like over the Mensa level conversations they claim to have been having with each other on the regular.
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What the fuck does that mean? I'm serious. What the actual fuck is she talking about? Give me a specific, anything. Give me a tiny tether to hang my intellectual hat on. She can't fucking do it, but it gets better. It gets better, okay? And again, as stated, these are not nice people. You know, I have it on good authority from multiple sources that they're complete bitches.
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They're complete bitches. And you know, you have to really... Is it that surprising that Hoda offscreen would be kind of a miserable person? No, because it's always the people who are telling you how happy they are and how joyful they are and successful and self-actualized they are. You know, it's always the opposite with these people. Again, it's my Buddha rule.
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You see a Buddha in someone's front yard, run, run, okay? So then they air this pre-produced package. You guys are going to die. You're going to die. It looks like it was shot in Hoda's home, which has a lot of white furniture, which is again, highly suspect. You have small children and you have white furniture. It's a fun home, fun home for kids. Okay.
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But my favorite, my favorite tell that we are, we will see is that she has bookshelves without books. Okay. Okay. bookshelves without books. I am sorry, but I refuse, I refuse to take any kind of advice from someone who doesn't read books. It's like John Waters had that great advice years ago. He said, if you go home with somebody and you see they don't have books in their house, leave.
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Wise advice. Okay. So listen to Hoda talk about having what I consider truly an outsized reaction in a breathwork class.
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Do you know what other cult uses the word clear? And trust me, Hoda, Hoda wants to be your cult leader. She wants your adoration and she wants your money and she wants you in her freaking pyramid scheme. I think it's a pyramid scheme. Just my opinion. Okay. Scientology. They love the word clear going clear. Okay. Now, if you are having that kind of a reaction in a breathwork class,
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which is something rich people with way too much time on their hands and way too much disposable income will do. They'll go take a breathwork class. If you're bursting into tears, something is deeply wrong.
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with you something is deeply amiss okay you should be seeking professional help not telling people to listen to your bullshit okay and by the way her crew fucking hates her and you could tell because look at how they shot her look at how they let her appear in that promo reel with no makeup the lighting is shitty the angle is terrible she looks like she's like 90 years old they fucking hate her okay moving on
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Here's a bit of the so-called wisdom that she feels compelled to impart to us.
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Wow, when it's quiet, you can think. It's Seneca, you know? It's fucking Aristotle over here, okay? Okay, next. She's discovered meditation. And I quote, this is Hoda. I thought people who meditated just had free time. They do. They do. They do. You fucking idiot. Next, she says, I became a seeker. I'm someone who is looking, looking, looking. The wave I'm riding right now is magical for me.
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The narcissism. I wonder how her kids feel about this wave. I really do. Because there's nothing like having your mother publicly proclaim for months on national television that she needs to go home and spend time with you because you're the priorities. And she gets home, and within, let's be generous, 16 weeks, she's like, I'm fucking bored. Just my opinion. You kids are boring me.
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This is not for me. Like, go hang out with the nanny. We never hear about the help, but, you know, okay. Yeah. So next up, she's going to talk about this very contradiction, you know, for someone like Hoda who might say, I'm too cynical. You know, I really, I should cut her some slack. Listen to her explanation for this. I mean, now my kids are like...
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Listen to the banality, the platitudes she's positing in this book that, by the way, she's charging $29.99 for a hardcover. And she's on tour right now, by the way. She's hitting New York City in a few weeks. I might go. The lowest ticket, $500. Biggest ticket, $1,500. If I'm paying $1,500 to see somebody speak, it better be Jesus Christ himself coming down from heaven. Okay. Here we go.
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Mel Robbins, the wit and wisdom. The fact is, every human being is dealt a different hand in life. You don't say. Secondly, it's not about the hand you've been dealt. It's how you play it. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Here she goes. It's true. A lot of people have been dealt a quote luckier or quote more successful hand of cards. Let them.
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You will never be able to move forward in life, she says, I'm paraphrasing here now, I'm quoting, if you give all of your power to this stupid and toxic habit of comparing yourself to other people. Stop it. Now, after we finish this part of the book by saying some people are just really lucky, again, are you kidding me? Why am I spending money? Why am I spending my time reading this book?
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I have to say... When you see somebody who has something you want, it could be a material thing. It could be a quality they have. It could be sort of a ineffable thing they've got. The way I tend to look at stuff like that is that's alerting me that there is something I maybe would like to have or develop that I hadn't been in tune with before.
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And that's a nice little nudge to see what I can do to make my life a little bit happier. That is a much more healthy way, I think, to frame it.
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Now, before we move on, I just have to say, this woman who also had a very, she had a failed talk show in 2019, and you don't really see this in her algorithm or her Instagram, which by the way, she prefers to show us photos of, and I weep for humanity, truly, These are images of women who have tattooed Let Them on their bodies because I guess it's too difficult to remember.
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It's the equivalent of like somebody who has a tattoo that says breathe. It's an involuntary reaction. It keeps you going. You don't have to think about it. Why do you have to tattoo it on your body? So anyway, she had this failed talk show. We never really talk about the show.
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And in it, it was in 2019, and she again posited herself as somebody who was going to be America's shrink and help us with, you know, anyone who couldn't afford, let's say, a shrink. She was gonna be your therapist on television. Now, I'm just gonna read you some sample talk show titles. Men Being Catfished, The Mel Robbins Show. I Killed My Ex in Self-Defense, The Mel Robbins Show.
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Confronting the Father I Never Knew I Had. Okay, this is Jerry Springer. This is not high-end self-help. So I'm circling back now to Sawyer, the daughter, who worked on this book. You know,
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Uh, so if you haven't had an introduction to her, oh, by the way, before we even get into that, I have an update for you from the last show. And it is a Jon Hamm update because apparently he did not love what we had to say about him. Surprise, surprise.
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Mel expresses a lot of anger towards Sawyer, and she kind of I think my interpretation is she knifes her a little bit in this book, and I don't quite understand why, but I am loving the lack of self-awareness here on display. So she is talking about she talks about being horrible, a horrible person. She literally writes the words, I was a complete bitch. You know what happened?
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She had three couples in a friend group with her and her husband and the other three couples split off and formed their own friend group and expelled Mel and Chris. So I get, again, I think we're getting an indication that Mel can be kind of difficult interpersonally. And she starts talking about like, her kids in this book and in ways that I think like, did her kids like sign off on this?
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Were they okay? So Sawyer, again, Sawyer, I see you. I acknowledge you. And I think we're all with you. This is Mel. I have watched our oldest daughter, Sawyer, engage in this type of comparison and torture herself for years. She is hyper fixated on her younger sister, Kendall, who has a completely different body type, bone structure, metabolism, and athletic abilities.
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To top it off, Kendall was born with an amazing singing voice and perfect pitch. Sawyer cannot change this. Holy crap. Okay, we go on. I've watched with so much sadness in my heart, in my, I, me, my, we're gonna do a segment on difficult mothers, trust me. I've watched with so much sadness in my heart at how miserable Sawyer makes herself. Dear Lord, and I can't save her.
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What, the great Mel Robbins can't save her own daughter? I thought you had all the answers. What's going on over there in Casa Robbins? going on to quote I can't stop her from engaging in this kind of comparison and no amount of complimenting or reassurance is going to change her behavior she must choose to change this for herself oh my God I feel like she is very very
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antagonistic towards this daughter who must possess qualities that Mel just burns up with envy over. Here she acknowledges Sawyer in the back of the book. Sawyer, my brilliant daughter, co-conspirator, co-researcher, co-writer, and co-pilot. Again, name is not on the book. You swore you would never, in all caps, work for your mother, and here we are. Well. Here we all are.
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so in the wake of that segment the daily mail where i call them twice a week reached out to john ham and they called so a young reporter called john ham's cell phone directly now who among you answers an unidentified number on your cell phone Jon Hamm does, proving my point that I don't think he's very bright.
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And I think we can conclude safely that Mel Robbins really deserves none of your time, none of your money, and let her implement this theory in her own house, with her own family, where I truly do believe some stuff needs attending to. Love you, Sawyer. We'll be back with the deep dive on Josef. You know the secret to great days? Better nights. I sound like Meghan Markle doing that, don't I?
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Welcome back to The Nerve. Have you guys seen Lizzo recently? You know Lizzo who had been sued by like a bunch of her dancers? or terrible, what they say was abusive behavior and weight shaming, by the way, implied weight shaming. If you don't know about that, you might know Lizzo as the morbidly obese,
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hip hop star who loved telling America how much she loved being morbidly obese and how that was an actual healthy, viable lifestyle. And the rest of us could take our fat phobia and shove it. One of my favorite Instagram posts of recent memory is this post Lizzo threw up on her Instagram saying how much, again, she loved being fat. She loved it. Look at those roles.
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Look at the amount of weight she is. And this is somebody who performs for a living. Like when you're performing for two hours a night on a live stage, you have to have a ton of energy and athleticism and discipline. Can you like work on the treadmill? Can you like work out on the treadmill while singing and dancing? Like it's, you are an athlete.
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one would think anyway we heard a lot from lizzo about how much she loved being fat and now lizzo has suddenly dropped half her body weight it's gone and guess how she's telling us she did it Diet and exercise. And if you believe that, I know you don't believe that. I don't believe that. This reminded me of who I will call patient zero in this story. And I believe it's Star Jones who
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Audience members of a certain age will remember this. She was on The View. She was morbidly obese. She married a man of dubious heterosexuality. She used The View as a pump and dump to get sponsors for her wedding. This was an incredible era in The View. It really, really was. It was really fun to watch. Rosie O'Donnell, who we're going to be talking about later, was the lead host at the time.
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So Star Jones... takes an exit. She takes a bit of a sabbatical. She comes back like a month or two, half her body weight's gone. Half of her body weight is gone. So all of these bitches on The View are going to her, Star, how'd you really lose that weight? And Star's going, diet and exercise, diet and exercise. And the story was, because I went back and looked this up at the time,
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He picks up the phone and the Daily Mail reporter asks if he cares to comment on our explosive blow by blow, no pun intended, of his savage, what I believe to be a near fatal beating of a fraternity pledge when he was in college.
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star was dying because she was convinced that joy behar and rosie o'donnell were leaking to page six that she had gastric bypass surgery and i do believe at one point it was either rosie or joy i think it was rosie who said the this lie that star jones is peddling their words not mine uh
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That she lost weight this way is a bunch of horseshit, and it's a very dangerous, hypocritical message to be giving the women of America. Now, again, this is coming from people who work on The View, so, you know, pot kettle. But Starr did later admit. that she had been lying and that she did lose the weight through gastric bypass.
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And this is all to say that I think we've all seen many celebrities who we all suspect are taking the jab. They won't admit it or they lie about it like Oprah did. And then they admit that they did it. I mean, my own theory is about prominent people who are taking the jab. Michelle Obama, who has suddenly lost, again, half her body weight.
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Kelly Clarkson, I think has admitted it, but she had a stubborn problem for years and suddenly the pounds have fallen off. Meghan Markle. who looks like she has the metabolism of a 15-year-old suddenly after two kids and she's well into middle age. I suspect she might be on it.
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John Goodman, Kathy Bates, like people we've seen in the public eye for years and years and years, and they're being very quiet about it. And the messaging that we're all getting is that Ozepic's really okay to take and we should be taking it.
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Oprah Winfrey did not one but two primetime specials on Ozempic after she was forced to admit that, yes, indeed, this was despite having so much personal wealth that she has access to the best dietitians, nutritionists, chefs, trainers. She could hire a minder.
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The way like people who are struggling with their own sobriety have somebody with them at all times to sort of keep them on the straight and narrow. She could hire a minder if her food issues are that severe. Instead, she's taking the jab. Now, I loved the Oprah advertorials for this, the GLP-1s, and I particularly loved episode two when she had Busy Phillips on.
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And the first clip I'm gonna play of Busy Phillips, you're gonna die.
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and busy took it upon herself to apologize on behalf of america for making oprah feel bad about her weight do not apologize for me busy phillips okay because i'm not sorry because i have a theory about this entire thing so anyway let's listen to busy talk to oprah and to us the american people about how she is an expert on weight and weight struggles
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john ham tells the daily mail he was offended to have been contacted by a lowly reporter who are you calling the professionally handsome john ham in the middle of the day um so he says to the reporter i think you should call my rep who are you this is inappropriate it's a very odd choice for you to call me i'd say it's a very odd choice to like beat someone so severely they nearly lose a kidney but
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Okay, let's take that apart. Busy Phillips opens up by saying, I come from a place of celebrity. To which I would say, I think Busy Phillips, you're overestimating just how famous you are. Not many people know who you are. Not many people care. That's your problem. It's not your weight. And by the way, don't bitch about being judged by your weight when you're an actress.
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That's part of the job description. Sorry, if you don't like it, leave. So you go on this Oprah special.
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i think oprah invited her because she did some like video that went viral you know it was just sort of she was just about people judging women for their weight she's not very bright this will i'm sure shock you she's not very bright because at one point oprah's talking to her and asking her why she thinks that
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women judge women and men judge women for weight and Busy Phillips goes, you know, I just, I don't know. I mean, there's just like, I mean, there's so many other things to talk about. I mean, look at all the atrocities going on in the world. This is not a first rate mind. Okay. Not a first rate mind.
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Then she tells, she tells Oprah, like, so she's clearly very nervous and she cannot believe she is in the presence of the great and good Oprah Winfrey because her voice is shaking and her pitch is extremely high and she's giving Oprah,
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credit for bringing such foreign concepts as meditation which i guarantee is a practice as old as humanity itself but no oprah brought meditation into america's living rooms it's like that time when gwyneth said that she went to like a fancy yoga studio and told the girl working the counter like you wouldn't have a job if it weren't for me i brought yoga to the masses
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I think many Indian yoga masters would beg to differ. But again, just my opinion. And then Busy gets into, she works herself into like this high self-righteous dungeon, right? She's telling Oprah, how bad she felt for Oprah on Oprah's one woman special, a primetime special on Ozempic.
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So Oprah's running the show and it was she who decided to display those magazines about her weight, which by the way, are meant to make us the bad guys, okay? Oprah Winfrey
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wanted to be on the cover of vogue magazine so badly that when anna wintour told her if she wanted it she had to drop like 80 pounds oprah did it oprah did it oprah did a whole special on her show when she first lost the weight i'm going to say she was maybe in her 30s at the time and she dragged out i kid you not a red wagon full of bags of fat
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to show us how much she had dropped so if you don't think that oprah winfrey has commodified her weight then she went and struck this huge deal with weight watchers and this was the crux of the thing right i think that was really the origination of those two prime time specials because suddenly oprah had dropped all this weight but she clearly hadn't done it through weight watchers she clearly hadn't done it through calorie counting and diet and exercise so now we have to pivot
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and we have to convince american women to take this drug which by the way we have zero long-term longitudinal studies on the side effects of this drug okay trust me i have a good friend whose partner is like a top doctor in a top new york city hospital and trust me when i tell you he will not let anyone in his life get on these things These are just some of the side effects.
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And not for nothing, we're still re-litigating the long-term effects and the short-term effects of the COVID vaccine, okay? We are going to be litigating that for years. We are going to be seeing deleterious health outcomes as a result of that vaccine for years. But the messaging we're getting
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everywhere and from Oprah, who really should be ashamed of herself, as well as 60 Minutes, which back in November ran an advertorial for Novo Nordisk, the company that invented this drug. It was an advertorial. I swear to you, there was not one. remotely critical question.
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You know, tomato, tomato. He continues, they are claims that have been around for years. No, I don't want to respond. That's not a denial. Again, back to being offended that this no-name nobody called Jon Hamm directly on his cell phone. Who do you think you are, Tina Fey? I'm a little bit offended that you called my personal line. That's why we have representatives, don't you know anything?
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This is malpractice, I think, journalistically, medically. OK, here are just some of the side effects that we know about. And listen to the wording that you'll find if you go look it up online like I did. Okay, pancreatitis, that is an extremely dangerous inflammation of the pancreas. A higher risk of thyroid cancer, just a little cancer.
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They call it, this side effect, they call it vision problems. Let me tell you something. No, I'm sorry, they call it vision changes, vision changes. Okay, if your vision changes, it does not change for the better, okay? It should be called vision problems, blindness. is one, acute kidney injury, which they call kidney problems. Acute kidney injury sounds worse, right? Because it is.
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gallbladder issues, tachycardia, low blood sugar, violent vomiting, projectile vomiting, diarrhea so bad people cannot leave their homes, constipation, fatigue, weakness, sagging, ozempic butt, ozempic feet, facial sagging. These are just some of the things we know about. Listen to Sharon Osbourne talk about her experience on Ozempic.
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My thoughts exactly, Bill Maher. What kind of geniuses in the lab came up with a wonder drug? You know, this reminds me of the Fen-Phen phenomenon in the 90s. Like everyone was taking this pill called Fen-Phen. It was kind of a black market off label drug. I knew people who took it. And it was later recalled because people were dying.
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But it was just like people love the idea that there's this magic bullet for weight loss. And I'm telling you, everything costs something. Sharon Osbourne in this next clip, you will see how gaunt she is. You're not going to believe it. She looks seriously unwell. And she basically talks about her weight. She's having trouble. She stopped taking it. She can't put weight back on.
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Okay, this is yet another side effect. She was dropping so much weight, she just stopped taking it. Some people, when they stop, they put the weight right back on, plus more. Other people, like Sharon, and I believe she's probably in a small cohort, but what do we know, because we have no studies, says that she...
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is the weight at which she at her at her roughest battle with cancer on chemotherapy this is what she where she's at right now take a listen to her i can't put on
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And that's the important thing. You had cancer. You know what it's like to have to put poison in your body to get rid of the cancer. You survived the cancer, but you want to look great. You want to look great. That's the important thing. So you're putting this thing in your body that might cause cancer again, but we look great. So let's bring in the lovely Marlena.
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Shades of Gayle King, I've been to space, you haven't. Talk to me about it when you come back. Okay, whatever. I'm loving this for Jon Hamm. I hope this sticks to him like Velcro and never goes away. I hope he continues to issue tone deaf, remorseless, non-denials about this
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who is one of our wonderful producers, because we were having a great conversation about this the other day, and I was expressing surprise that I'm now hearing about people sort of adjacent to my social circles, like people I'm acquainted with, I don't know well, who are now taking it, and people who I thought would be like above this.
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I heard about someone I know who is on it, who frankly, I don't think ever needed to be on it. And It really is shocking to me how this messaging is working and convincing people who I think are otherwise very smart and sophisticated to put this chemical in their bodies. Marlena, welcome to the Nerve On Air. How are you? Hi, I'm doing well. Great to be here.
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So Marlena, you were telling me something very interesting that... People who are taking Ozempic, we're talking about regular people in our social circles, not like A-list stars. You've heard they are also mixing it with Adderall.
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By the way, the idea that you would need to go on Ozempic is insane. You are a totally healthy fit. normal-sized woman. But this is, I think, the real danger, too, here. I mean, there are so many dangers and things we never hear about, like the lobbying that Novo Nordisk is doing in D.C., like the way that ads for this stuff can run on American TV, unfettered. Europe, they don't allow this stuff.
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They don't allow... pharmaceutical companies to market directly to who their consumers should be. By the way, ads that look like everybody's like singing in some sort of 2D musical, and they're so happy because they're lowering their A1C. I've never heard the phrase A1C more in my life. But the idea that like, this is the messaging we're getting now.
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horrific act he perpetrated and you know when i was reading all of these comments and my editor had emailed me about this um it reminded me of an interview this is a story kathy griffin told years ago i felt like i heard it on the howard stern show i could be wrong but we did find her recollection of being at a very intimate very starry a-list hollywood dinner
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And I think it's really screwing with body standards and body image. And I worry really for young girls who are coming of age now and who are being told this is what you want to look like.
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to send me emails and DMs encouraging me and reacting to the first show and telling them how much they really enjoyed it. It couldn't have gone better from our end either. And I'm so happy that we are back so quickly for you. We've got great topics today. One, we're going to talk about Ozempic.
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Right, correct. They've been seeding this idea that Ozempic is a miracle drug, a panacea that is going to cure possibly everything from Parkinson's to Alzheimer's, which makes me highly, highly suspicious. And the other thing I hate about this drug, and which makes me, again, highly suspicious, is they want customers for life.
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so if you want to keep all that weight off you got a microdose ozempic for the rest of your life risk of pancreatic or thyroid cancer be damned be very very suspicious of any drug company that is telling you they have a miracle drug i do not think this is going to end well thank you marlena for joining the chat and we will be back with bill from brooklyn
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welcome back to the nerve i am so excited about this next guest who i know you're going to love as much as i do he is actually my brother his name is bill he's from brooklyn he does not work in media he actually has a job a career that contributes to the wellness and well-being of society at large and uh he you're gonna hear him talk He has a very thick New York accent.
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years ago, and who walks in but Jon Hamm, who she knows from like comedy circles. He's kind of adjacent to her crowd. So he's not an unknown person to her. And she sees him walk in and he's shooting Mad Men. He's at the height of Mad Men fame. He's directing an episode. So he's high on this now because he's not just a mere actor. He's a director. He's an auteur.
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He sounds like he could break your legs. He probably could. He wouldn't, but he could. And the way I sort of want to set Bill up is to say this, and this is all true. When the LA wildfires broke out and then news broke the really important stuff that Ben Affleck dropped everything,
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raced over to Jen Garner's house, scooped her and the kids up and spirited them off to safety, I thought to myself, how is J-Lo reacting to this news? It cannot be well. My second thought is I need to call Bill and talk to him about this because he, like me, loves to dive in to the human psychology behind these people who otherwise present themselves as so perfect and rich and powerful.
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And Ben Affleck is one of our favorite talking points since he is out promoting his new movie, The Accountant 2. I thought, what better time to bring in Bill and talk some Ben Affleck and other celebrity news. So welcome, Bill, and thank you for doing the show.
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Thanks, Bill. Thank you. Oh, my God. So first, I want to start off by showing the audience Ben Affleck's greatest hits. First, we're going to look at the... This is one of the greatest paparazzi photos ever taken. And were Andy Warhol still alive, this would be a silkscreen print that would go for millions of Christies.
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paparazzi photo of a fed up jennifer garner in ray-bans i think they're ray-bans driving ben affleck to rehab and he makes her stop for jack in the box or fast food she can't even look at him she is so disgusted she's pushing the food, the bag of food in his face while looking down. This shot said everything about their relationship.
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As we know, Ben went on to marry the quote unquote love of his life, Jennifer Lopez, who They were engaged 20 years ago. They like to say the media broke them up. What really broke them up was Ben went to a strip club while he was shooting a movie in Canada. And I will never forget the details of this story because I remember it was like my... JFK assassination moment.
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I was on the beach reading the National Enquirer. It was this story about Ben at a strip club with his castmates who included Christian Slater. They were partying. He performed a sex act on a stripper in the club in front of everybody. They all went back to the mansion where they were staying. somebody walked by a bathroom at some point and saw one of the strippers shaving Christian Slater's back.
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And I was like, these are the details that really make a story sing, you know? So let's take a look at J-Lo and Ben, maybe in the first flush of their newly rekindled romance, they're newlyweds, they're on the red carpet, strutting their stuff, showing how happy they are. Let's take a look at some of those moments in recent memory.
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So right now we're looking at, I believe this is one of Jen's premieres. So look at him get in her face. Look at like, he's a big guy. This guy's like 6'3", I think. And it's her night and he's getting in her face. It's like, yeah, you can see the name of the movie. It's the mother, I think that was hers. Here we are at the Grammys. Oh, I love this one. Ben, his best grumpy face is on.
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They don't know the cameras are on them. And she basically elbows him and is like, hey, Look alive. Okay, this is her crowd, not his. This is her work event. He needs to show up and support her, and he is being such a pill. By the way, whenever it's one of Ben's events, he's always on. Okay, now we're walking to the car. This is towards the end of the relationship, and you're gonna see why.
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And he enters the room and her heart sinks because she has a good idea of what's coming next. So take a listen to Kathy Griffin on Jon Hamm.
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He opens the car door for Jen, Jennifer Garner. Sorry, J-Lo. I get confused. Okay, she steps inside, very daintily steps inside. Watch the slam. The arm, the arm like flies up. It's the most epic fuck you. He knows the cameras are there. He sees them. He's talking to the paparazzi at the end of that clip. And that, ladies, is what it's like to date Ben Affleck. Bill, your thoughts.
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showing so much contempt for a woman who made an entire documentary about how much she loves him. Like that's the thing, like don't date Ben Affleck. There was this great story. Well, okay, before we get into the latest quotes from some insiders who had some really juicy stuff to share with the New York Post, I wanna go back to this clip of Ben Affleck on Howard Stern.
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because now he's trying to win back Jennifer Garner. He has been leaking that he would take her back in a heartbeat if she would have him. This woman is in a seven year relationship with another man. But this was Ben on Stern about like two years ago talking about why he had such a problem with alcohol.
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So, Bill. you've been married for a while now um you're coming up on your 12-year anniversary so congratulations on that um let's say god forbid you split up with your wife would you tell anyone let alone howard stern that uh your lovely wife drove you to drink
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That's why he's so fascinating, because I am also a fan of his. Like, I may sound like I'm not, but I am. For a long time, I had a huge shame crush on Ben Affleck. But he, like, one of my, so I love The Town. I think that's an incredible movie. I thought he did an incredible job with Argo. I love that movie. He also did one of the greatest DVD commentaries of all time for Armageddon.
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And it was so funny, and you can see how this guy would be such a sparkling conversationalist. He displayed, like, self-awareness and self-deprecation, and he pointed something out that is painfully obvious about a movie that kind of put him on the map as a matinee idol, shows he has intelligence, and then he does stuff like this.
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Yes. Yes. I want to I want to read this quote before we go into our theory as to why Ben cut and run so quickly with JLo, because his usual MO is to force the woman in his life into leaving him by treating her like shit. So this is a quote from someone who knows Affleck in this, it was this incredible story in the New York Post. It was like a Sunday, great juicy read.
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Quote, the dirty secret is that he, Ben, he's the diva. He's the one who likes attention and calls the paps and manipulates women. He love bombs you. And once he's got you, he gets bored and leaves. It's cruel. And anyone who remembers what he did.
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So this guy, again, we're promoting a movie and he loves his favorite thing is to love to run around and say, I have no idea why everybody's so fascinated with my private life. Like nothing, nothing to see here.
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anadear moss this up-and-coming starlet at the time she's building a nice career for himself for herself left him and he had one of his children by the way again we all know what their children look like i i shouldn't really know what they look like i think he had one of his children take a life-size cardboard cutout of anadear moss and dump it in his trash containers in full view of the paparazzi
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nothing to see here um okay so the ditty of it all because we're going to get into ditty as well share your theory bill as to why ben affleck chose a moment in which um jennifer lopez was in europe to flee the 65 million dollar marital home in the metaphorical dead of night and move into a 20 million dollar rental closer to who else jen garner um to
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I couldn't agree with you more. I think that it, because it's so goes against his normal ways. We just spoke about of exiting a relationship. Like he got the F out of there. He, and he never does that. And then, so in this new, GQ interview, he's on the cover, this cover story, and he's like super like they've sort of made him look like kind of a Bob Evans super producer Hollywood type.
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The first question in this profile is speaking of tabloids, the FBI visited your house and he gives this like lengthy run on explanation, which has two different reasons as to why the FBI showed up at his personal residence
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and none of it really makes any sense um and i think there's probably only one reason the feds would show up at ben affleck's house with everything that's going on am i crazy my favorite part of that story was ben affleck had to call the fbi to find out why they were there i mean oh my god that was amazing that was amazing i don't know how one knows to call the fbi or how to get in contact with them i mean do you google them do you have a direct client i i don't know
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That is amazing. Now, to transition to the Diddy part of this, first of all, do you remember when J-Lo and Diddy were arrested in that nightclub shooting?
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watched the law and order episode about it oh my god it's one of the best ever it's one of the best ever they you know at the height of his arrest they were playing that thing on a loop like you could tune into like you know whatever channel runs at we tv or whatever or tbs but um my favorite anecdote from that night was uh so they have j-lo in a separate interrogation room and she says to the cops by the way like someone people have been shot like a woman got shot in the face
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This is why I've never liked J-Lo. She says one of many reasons. She goes to the cops, I need you to go out and get me some cuticle cream. My manicure's really taken a beating during this arrest.
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So the New York Times ran this huge front page story on Sunday. I don't know if it was this past Sunday. Sean Puffy Combs' Life Behind Bars. And no pun intended, this is a puff piece. This is a puff piece about how hard Sean Combs has it. in MDC, the Metropolitan Detention Center, which is one of the worst. And they have this power. First of all, there are two things worth noting.
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The jurors, prospective jurors are going to be asked if they will be willing to watch videos of these free coughs.
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lest we all need a reminder we've all seen the video of sean combs beating the out of cassie in a hotel hallway this is what this guy does in public imagine what he does in private we all know the story of kid cuddy his rival rapper saying that sean combs telling the new york times sean combs threw a molotov cocktail into his car to back him off of of a love interest that they both had um now the times has this really sympathetic graph two actually one
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Diddy has lost his jailhouse best friend, Sam Bankman Freed, the crypto fraudster who has been transferred to another prison. And secondly, the feds raided his or prosecutors raided his cell while he wasn't in it, which they're allowed to do, by the way. And that how wrong that was. But the.
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argument that they put forth in court was that they were getting word that sean combs was trying to intimidate witnesses allegedly from inside bill what do you make of that i first the whole let's feel bad for for diddy i i i just can't i don't know how anyone um
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That's right. The lawyer said, there's no way I can go forward on this case. None.
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Oh, my God. That's the funny. You're so freaking right. That is so funny. OK, I want to move on to our last topic, a favorite of yours and mine, Rosie O'Donnell, who is doing a series of interviews promoting this documentary that nobody's interested in. They want to talk to her about two things. One, she fled America for Ireland after Trump got elected, and she told The New York Times
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she said to her shrink if he wins i gotta go and uh my therapist said quote well let's make a real plan so she moves to ireland with one of her children who is both autistic and non-binary uh and then she talks about befriending lyle menendez who she says is the first straight man she's ever really fallen in love with. I guess the days of Tom Cruise crushing are over, well and truly.
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And that he makes her feel safe, Billy.
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So he wrote her a letter. He wrote her a letter back in the 90s because she has a habit of befriending people who wind up in a lot of trouble.
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that's a good question but remember like his father the father that he and he and his brother eric savagely murdered along with the mother never forget at this crime scene when uh the the the the cops came the investigators came jose's body his his brain fell out of his head kitty the mother was unrecognizable and and one of the brothers said i put i put the i put the
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Welcome to The Nerve. I'm Maureen Callahan. This is our second show. You can probably still hear a little bit in my voice. The nerves are still a little bit there, but I promise you they are actually transitioning into genuine excitement. We have an incredible show lined up for you today. And again, I just want to thank everybody who has been kind enough
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the gun right to her cheek and I blew her fucking face off. I'm paraphrasing, but that's what happened. And this was premeditated. They planned it for a week. They stacked up their alibis. They made a hysterical phone call to 911. The whole thing was premeditated. And Lyle, by the way, has just been caught recently cheating on his wife.
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while behind bars with a woman who was born the year they were married uh with an illicit cell phone that he's not supposed to have in prison so lyle remains a great guy and this is who rosie o'donnell is throwing her support behind to get him out of prison i i there was nobody else she could befriend um no support group that i mean parents of autistic children
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It's so funny you say that because how she and Lyle connected apparently was once she started taking Lyle's calls and they talk like all the time now. Lyle told her what a great idea it would be for her autistic non-binary child to get a dog that had been trained as an emotional service animal by felons.
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and lyle really wanted to to hook her up with this and then she went on to say it was a it was a great idea he gave her and that's exactly what she did god damn it and she made a documentary about it so let lyle menendez out yeah i mean listen i i just i it just all seems like clickbait right she's not she's no longer relevant she's leaving the country because of president trump i'm
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Yes, and by the way, I just want to say there was a press conference in the White House with Donald Trump and the prime minister of Ireland. It was in the Oval Office. And during this presser, a reporter named Brian Glenn with the news outlet Real America's Voice asked the prime minister of Ireland why he was allowing Ms.
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O'Donnell to move there when all she could do was, quote, bring unhappiness to the country.
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And I'm sure Trump's answer, I don't know what Trump said, but I'm sure it was great. Just like when Trump said that he was not going to cause any problems for Prince Harry because he had enough on his plate with Meghan Markle, who he said is terrible. And I thought, I don't... That was great, right? Like whatever side of the aisle you're on, we can all agree that Trump spoke the truth that day.
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Well, Bill, this has been an amazing chat. I'm so glad you have agreed to come on the show. I know this is not normally your wheelhouse, but you have agreed to become a recurring guest. And so you will be hearing from Bill from Brooklyn more often. And I thank all of you for joining me today on The Nerve, where you will never guess what we're about to say next.
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I love that anecdote because it ratifies everything we were just talking about on Monday and or Tuesday rather excuse me, and don't forget I also talked about the way in which he dumped I believe dumped they said it was mutual, I'm not buying it. his girlfriend of like 18 years who stood by him while he was struggling to make it, who sacrificed marriage and children because he didn't want them.
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And then he turns around and marries a woman half his age and starts talking publicly about how now he wants kids. Lovely. This is what Jon Hamm really thinks of women. Jon Hamm walked into that room and he couldn't believe that Jack Nicholson preferred to talk to Kathy Griffin than to talk to him.
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We're going to have a real conversation about Ozempic, not the conversation that you're probably overhearing like in tabloid media or among anybody you know who's on it. We're going to talk about what it really does to you and why it's so accessible and pervasive. And is it worth it? I'll bet you can guess, but we're going to do a deep dive on that. Also,
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He couldn't believe it, probably because Kathy Griffin can actually hold up her end of a conversation and has some natural wit. I think Jon Hamm's got none of those gifts. And so what does he do? He gets boozy. This is the other sort of line about Jon Hamm that's been rumored for quite a while, that he's like a mean drunk.
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So he's drunk, according to Kathy Griffin, and he's leaning into her ear and insulting her. And what does he think the biggest insult he can level against her? A, her Emmy's not real. Whatever that means. Whatever, Jon Hamm. And secondly, that she's old.
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that she's old are you freaking kidding me you know john ham age comes for us all and it's gonna come for you and you typically wind up with the face you deserve so enjoy being professionally handsome as long as you can because i don't think you're long for this world in terms of that stuff um great okay moving on we are going to get into our let them segment and this is one of those topics i think we're going to be revisiting quite a bit which is the sort of health and wellness and self-help
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stuff that is really primarily marketed to women often by women and the latest self-help guru to captivate the nation is a woman who before landing on this a theory that she calls the let them theory which i think is ridiculous and we will discuss why uh she had like 19 failed ventures uh she somehow wound up in eight hundred thousand dollars worth of debt
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She never tells us how or why I would love to know how one gets into $800,000 worth of debt. But now she thinks she's the one we should all be going to for advice. And guess who else has fallen for it? None other than your and my favorite person, Oprah Winfrey. Take a look.
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Wow, that is so true. Is Oprah even present for this conversation? I feel like that's like the replicant Oprah where you push a button and you get one of her patented responses like... Wow. Or that's so true. Like, is it, is it other people never stand in your way? Yes, they do. Of course they do. We've all had people stand in our way.
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You don't worry about what other people think when you're proud of yourself. Of course you do. What is this garbage? So, okay. This book, like, I think this book sold like, a slew of copies before it was even published. Like it was like on the New York Times bestseller list for weeks and weeks if it not still is.
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First, I want to show you guys this author photo because this author photo is like to die. Okay, look at this woman. Look at her freaking, she's looking up as if she's like a beatified saint and all she's spreading is joy and knowledge and she's blessing us all. So that's red flag number one. Number two, the let them theory, she's claiming initially that she had coined this.
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It's been around forever. Her origin story is that she thought this was a great idea when her daughter, Sawyer, who figures prominently in this story, told her to stop nagging one of the kids in the house about doing something. She just said, geez, mom, let them, let him do it. And that was, oh, Eureka, you know, a movement is born. Okay.
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My brother, Bill, who I call Bill from Brooklyn for the purposes of this show, is going to make his debut, his media debut. And I think you're going to love him as much as I do. We're going to talk Ben Affleck and more celebrity gossip. But we begin today with actually the biggest podcast in the country, according to Apple charts. If you are on Instagram,
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Sawyer also co-wrote the book with her mom, whose name is on the cover. It ain't Sawyer's, it's Mel's. Now in Mel's theory, I'm supposing her daughter should have just let her get away with that. But apparently the newer editions of the book do have Sawyer's name on the book jacket. Sawyer, get a good lawyer. Start now, start early, start young.
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Okay, so I'm gonna read you sort of samples from the let them theory. which is full of garbage. Chapter two is called Getting Started, Let Them and Let Me.
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And in this chapter, Mel Robbins shares a story that many people can relate to, I think it's happened to everybody, where she's harmlessly scrolling through social media one night, comes across photos of her friend group, realizes they're all on vacation without her. And they look amazing. They look like they're having the greatest time and she is extremely wounded.
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Now, if you're going to be any kind of self-help guru, I think you need to first acknowledge to your audience that social media is a lie, that most people are putting a highly edited and curated version of themselves out on social media. And if you believe that you're a moron, and I think that Mel Robbins is kind kind of a moron because she believes it. And then she goes on to say,
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I hadn't really spent time with them as a group in a long, long time. I hadn't invested in those individual friendships and I hadn't planned anything fun or reached out to them recently either. So these people are probably so fed up with Mel Robbins, who can probably talk only about herself, her marketing team, the multiple platforms she's building out, how she's become, this
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incredible figure that everybody just wants to go to for advice I mean I'm sure like presidents and prime ministers call her regularly uh and they were probably like you know let's just ditch her she's not really great and she lacks kind of the self-awareness to be like maybe I'm the asshole so anyway moving on she again this entire book the premise is let them and the premise is
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that if a friend group leaves you out of something and you're very hurt, let them. If your boyfriend is kind of being a jerk to you, let him. If your boss refuses to give you that promotion or that raise that you know you deserve, let him. The idea that this is a blanket policy that is applicable to any and every conflict in your life is so moronic.
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I'm sorry to use that word again, but it's so truly profoundly dumb. Like for one thing, I think that anger abides for a reason in the human race. I think it's an evolutionary adaptation. I think in the right moments, in the right doses, it can actually be healthy.
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it can alert you to something or someone who is not quite right this buddhist idea that she's sort of like repackaging and shilling that the only way to happiness is to somehow find a way within yourself to eradicate hurt feelings betrayals um anything that basically upsets you and is motivating you to look for change, I don't subscribe to it.
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I don't actually subscribe to that Buddhist theory that wants and desires are actually the root of all human misery. I think wants and desires, again, if you view them through the right lens, can be a very life-affirming thing. I mean, could you imagine hitting a plateau in life where you're like,
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done it all seen it all i have no goals i have no ambitions i've reached this plane of otherworldly existence where i don't desire anything and by the way this is going to loop into our future conversation about ozempic because that's one of the side effects that the drug companies don't really tell you about
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chapter what is this eight eight in a book that is just way too long this is the um the title which i love so she goes the right decision often feels wrong to which i wrote in my notes does it i don't think it does i mean we all have anxiety there's good anxiety there's bad anxiety but i think this is a very strange
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At any point in any given day, this woman has clogged up your feed like no other, I am sure. Her name is Mel Robbins. She has a book out. It's called The Let Them Theory. We're going to take this thing apart. If you've already spent money on it, I would request a refund. Uh, and the hugely popular theory that she's been selling, um, on multiple platforms though, these many months.
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idea to be putting forth to a bunch of people who follow you and believe that you do have some kind of access to wisdom that they do not and by the way mel robbins has no training in psychology in sociology in human behavior she doesn't know anything more than you and i do okay so
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What?
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Is it a, okay, so we have seen- I mean, was she at the freak-offs?
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There's a photo, yeah. No, no, no, I know you're not, Kayla, but we have seen, I've seen at least one photo of Sean Combs and his mother going in for a kiss, and they do not look like mother and son.
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Kayla, a 45-year-old man? I mean, not me. I don't know. I find it, I personally, and I think most people find it extremely, I mean, they're looking at each other lovingly and the eyes are closing and they're going in for a kiss on the lips. And it really looks very disturbing just to my mind.
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And, you know, when somebody becomes this depraved, you know, you sort of wonder like what was the root of it, you know? But I wonder too, if the other rooms were say taken up by people who belong to Diddy's army, You know, did he have surveillance cameras in those rooms recording these freak offs without the knowledge of the participants?
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So give me your post-traumatic stress disorder level on a scale of 1 to 10, now that you've been in there two weeks.
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Now I want to get to two other things before I have to let you go. My time with you is already flown and I do hope you'll come back because you're incredible and you're doing the Lord's work in that courtroom. I hope they give you a raise. Thank you.
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So Wendy Williams, I forget the way in which it came out today, but we were all reminded that Wendy had years ago said, I think on her show, that Sean Combs is gay and everyone in the hip hop community knows it.
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And that he also tried, I forget whether he tried and was successful or tried and failed, to get her fired, I think when she was at Hot 97, because she was talking some real talk about him, in my opinion.
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Ain't no party, like a ditty party.
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And this is what's driving me nuts too, because like nobody in the hip hop community is talking about this at all. Like at all, except for 50 Cent, who, by the way, his Instagram account is on fire, okay? And he has been floating this theory that there are supporters, quote unquote, of Diddy's outside the courthouse wearing t-shirts that say free Diddy.
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And 50 Cent is saying that Diddy's paying these people like 20 bucks an hour?
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So well-deserved. No one wants Kanye's support right now. A water seeks its own level. I love it. Yeah, I know. Well, Kanye just said that he's done with anti-Semitism and he's going to rehab. So, you know, I know, maybe.
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But maybe it's someone to have in your corner. I don't know. I mean, I think, okay. I know we're early into the trial, but before I let you go, if you were a betting woman, what do you think the chances are that Sean Combs is convicted on something?
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I think they're low.
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So Kayla, if they can prove, say, because this is how they got a former New York governor named Eliot Spitzer, who like took office and was like, I'm the new sheriff in town and I'm morally upright. And then it was like, well, he's trafficked a woman across state lines to pay for sex. And so he was done.
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Yes, we have to get into Kid Cudi's testimony. For any of the audience members who are not familiar, he was a fairly prominent rapper. And he and Diddy, I think they were fighting over Cassie. He had told this to the New York Times, but we got a lot more detail today, that his Porsche, which I believe is how you pronounce it. I'm not trying to be a pretentious asshole.
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If they can prove that Diddy transported sex workers across state lines, then does the prosecution have something of a slam dunk? Technical, though, it may feel.
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Well, I can't thank you enough for your time and your expertise. And I hope you have a Silkwood shower this weekend. And I will be talking to you soon. Thank you so much for joining us on The Nerve. Thank you, Maureen. Have a nice weekend. You too. Bye. Okay, now I hope we all can just sort of shake all of that off a little bit.
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I mean, we had to do it because this has been a wild week in federal court in downtown Manhattan. But we're going to do a palate cleanser, okay? So next up, you guys have said you like it, and I love it too. So we are going to do some more – comic readings of New York Times advice columnists, okay? And the questions, which are equally bonkers.
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And we have a little bit more for you in that segment as well. So back in a minute. We've all heard it before, wrinkle creams are the secret to looking younger. But according to Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon, Dr. John Lakey, that's just not true anymore. He says most wrinkle products are nothing more than overpriced moisturizers and some might even do more harm than good.
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And that's why Dr. Lakey stepped away from traditional treatments and developed something completely different, a simple at-home method that's getting major attention. His clients call it the age rewinder method because it can visibly smooth the look of wrinkles in under two minutes.
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Dr. Lakey describes it as almost like Photoshop for your face and says that you might be shocked at how easy it is to use. So to share this breakthrough, he's released a free video that walks you through the method step by step. No signups, no interruptions. And his video has already gone viral with over 2.3 million views and thousands of glowing reviews.
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One said, I've tried everything and this is the only thing that actually worked. I look years younger. If you want to see what everybody's talking about, just go to bhmdi1.com slash nerve or click the link in the description. And if it works for you, Dr. Lakey has one simple request to please share it and let's help more people feel confident in their skin. We are back.
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And as I promised, we've got some more ridiculous ridiculous advice questions written by ridiculous people into the new york times where even more ridiculous people posit themselves as experts and answer these questions so let's get into a few of these gems okay big day big big dream this is a social cue i'm getting married in two weeks and i'm really excited oh okay
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We have been planning this wedding for nine months. The fiance's brother is in the army, okay? Yesterday, he told my fiance, the brother told her future husband that his wife, should I assume it's a future husband? I probably shouldn't. Anyway, that his wife would not be joining him at the wedding. Last week, okay, this is the class issue part of it that's coming in.
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She auditioned to be a dancer for a professional football team and was offered the job. There's a game on our wedding day. I am shocked and hurt that she made this decision! I am also shocked that my future brother-in-law, who's in the army, supports his wife's choices. Even my future mother-in-law is making excuses for her, saying it's always been her dream. Should I accept her decision,
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I just think that's how it is pronounced, was blown up. Like, a Molotov cocktail. He was pretty sure Diddy had done it. And also, we got more detail, like, Diddy broke into the house and, like, locked up his dog. Like, please, Kayla, explain. Explain.
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or call her to tell her how disappointed i am now she wants the answer to be the latter okay and i am here to tell you lady that you are the in the scenario okay you are the his brother's in the army this woman has a dream and she realized it and maybe it's not yours i don't know are you splitting the atom she is on the way to realizing her. It's just self-actualizing, as it were. Let her.
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Let her send her best wishes and a nice gift and move on. You're not even going to realize she's not there. Who cares? Next question. The ethicist by someone who has three names. Okay. Question. I will be 65 early next year and eligible for a range of senior citizen discounts. Should I take them? Yes. Asked and answered. Next question. My grandchildren love playing Monopoly.
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The board game has become a great way to interact, blah, blah, blah. Oh, and a great way for them to see capitalism in all its imperfect glory. The problem, because these people always find a problem. This is where people who always find a problem congregate in the advice sections of the New York Times. Okay.
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One of the cards a player may draw when landing on community chest is bank error in your favor, collect $200. Right, as it ever has been.
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uh when we first started playing the game i removed the card from the set i did so because it taught the wrong lesson the proper thing to do when there is a bank error in your favor is to report it and return the money who the is raising these kids oh my god banks are like predatory sharks okay like do you know what they're trying do you look at your bank statement do you see what they charge you in monthly fees
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You know, if they're telling you they made an error in your favor, you take that win, you fucking idiot. Okay, final question, and then we go to audience email. We're visiting Paris for spring break. But we are embarrassed by America's far-right politics. Trump. They're embarrassed by Trump. My wife plans to wear a maple leaf pin to pass for a Canadian. This is like...
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You're a Jew in Nazi Germany and you're trying to pass as not a Jew. Oh my effing God. And wants me and the kids to wear one too. I worry that it would compromise our integrity. I think that took off a long time ago. And insult Parisians who discover the truth like they give a shit about you, okay? But the deception could make our trip more pleasant. What do you think?
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And the advice is to spare yourself having to pretend you know the words to O Canada. Nothing like a little American snobbery thrown in, even if it's a publication that hates most things America stands for. OK, now I'm going to read your emails and I'm going to start, by the way, with some of this comment, I believe, came on YouTube and it was so. freaking good. I pulled you out.
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Whoever you are, I love you. Okay. I love you. Maureen, you are divine. Thank you. Your mastery of foul language is nothing less than impressive. This touches me deeply. And I mean that it really does. I'm a Southern woman. We embrace foul language and we sound a bit, you know, whatever. You don't sound like low class, but when you say things like I shit you not, fuck you, Megan.
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And when speaking of Her Majesty the Late Queen, may she rest, you sound like a true Southern person with good foul language skills. You are a high-end New Yorker journalist with the cussing skills of a girl from a Southern trailer park, and I adore you. Keep it fucking real, homegirl. You got it. I love this email. Okay, next.
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There is something else we need from the nerve and I cannot do it alone. Asked and answered, my friend. We need an anti-woke movie rating system like we do for PG&R. I don't want to read suicide in a trigger warning because now I know what's going to happen in a film or show. Like, great point. I hate the movie rating system and I recommend a new one. This one begins.
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Trigger warnings for a trans kid. a snotty trans kid who insults everyone single dads with sassy kids agreed inept dads agreed biracial single parent families moms who think it's cute when their children curse back throuples girl bosses who go girl each other i agree with you okay Maureen, I am so glad you chose to speak on the topic of Nepo babies. I worked for many years in Washington.
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I was a senior fellow at AEI. I saw nepotism in action again and again. My father said to me once, you've done very well in your industry, especially considering I wasn't in it. That pretty well sums it up. Mark Falcoff. Thank you, Mark. Hi, Maureen.
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It may be funny or fun to track viewer ratings from the same weeks that Meghan Markle's podcast started and dived with a news article from Sky News attached and the Nerve podcast started and soared. And I love you. I love you. Okay. Hi, Maureen. I'm writing to congratulate you on your greatly perceptive expose. Well, thank you. Of the New York Times' morbid death rattle.
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We did that, I think, last episode. Especially on your brilliant praise for the wonderful Pamela Paul. Pamela and I have been email friends since before she left the Times. I believe this is true. You sound authentic. Your remarks about her were accurate. And while the Times should feel punched in the face by your words, they won't.
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Pamela will no doubt feel warmth on the off chance she didn't already know. I let her know about it, and I sent her to the 47-minute mark if she weren't already a fan. I'll bet she is now. I hope so. I love her. I admire her work so much, and she has an open invitation to come on the nerve whenever she wants. Hi, Maureen.
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Okay, my theory about why Michelle is bitching and moaning so much is because now that Barack is no longer running the country in his third term, he's around again, and he's driving her nuts. Great theory. Another one.
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if kamala had been elected markel would have for sure been itching for some sort of administration job or perhaps you would want to be an ambassador to some country thank the lord that won't be happening you know if that idiot caroline kennedy agreed could be an ambassador to two countries we apologize uh markel would have been going somewhere caroline couldn't even read the teleprompter each and every year at the kennedy center honors and it was the same words
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each time we in new york know she is a moron hi maureen do you think that a truly kind a-list celebrity exists if so then who i will say i know a couple of people who have met tom cruise loved him loved him um but i think this is a great thing like i'd love to hear from you guys in the wild who have ever had an encounter with or saw a celebrity and you know they lived up to it or not um this is your final email is about um
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Jessica Biel on The View. Her husband is still laying low after that embarrassing DUI or DWI, I forget which it was, that he got in Sag Harbor where everybody out in the Hamptons in the summer, they drive drunk. It's a lot of rich, entitled people who are like, fuck you. I won't do what you tell me. I own the planet. I'm a big star. They all drive drunk.
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Jessica is doing herself no favors showing up on The View. My guess, which we all share, trust me, we are all of like minds, is that 90% of humans who watch The View are hate watchers, of course. Jessica may pick up a few fans, but the emetic level of disgust, great word,
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Hey, welcome to the Friday edition of The Nerve. And here in the States, we are going into our first holiday weekend together. It's a milestone. I'm Maureen Callahan, your host, and I am here to serve you, to serve all of you troublemakers a fresh batch of scandal, sin, celebrity gossip, plus audience emails and what we call real talk about fake people.
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of even your house pets, as they look at the, well, okay, here she goes, that Jessica Biel said on The View, I'm just doing what I have to do to get out, I guess, of the house on time. I got, I guess, school drop off at 8.30. I got to get there. Stop the fucking presses, 8.30. Jesus, I worked construction for the last 25 years and we in the trades were on the job at Sunrise.
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Kayla, how did he know that it was Diddy who had broken in? And where is this house? Is this New Jersey? No, this was in Los Angeles. L.A.? Okay. So does this sort of go to the feds piecing together this multi-state criminal enterprise that's sort of the spine of their prosecution?
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I know many of you and you have my undying respect. Our wives were up as we left the house. And somehow, even without two nannies, landscapers, delivery boys, girls, cooks, illegal immigrant households, staff, you've got this. And the pool boy, she is probably porking.
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Allegedly, this is this viewer, we not only got to the job on time, we had conversations with people in gas stations who got up before we did. I could not have said any of this better than myself.
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couldn't have said it better myself sorry i tripped that up but you know what i'm saying and you guys are all brilliant and we're all like having a mind meld okay and you know as to um some other emails i've gotten from you especially off the backs of reading the new york times stuff If you want to ask me for advice, I'll give it to you straight. I'll give it to you quick.
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I'll give it to you painlessly. And you won't doubt where I'm coming from. Okay. We can make it a recurring segment. We could call it ask Maureen and, you know, just work up your nerve to ask me. Um, so as always email me with questions, with thoughts or feedback, I am Maureen at devil make care media.com.
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And remember to like subscribe and spread the word about the nerve because the faster we grow, the faster we can provide more of the content that you guys are asking for. Next up, I have two incredibly smart, incredibly cool, incredibly provocative guests who are going to join us for a discussion about whether all of the messaging we have been getting about having a cocktail
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being just a complete you're you're a degenerate and um you're an alcoholic and it's gonna kill you and get out of here you filthy just disgusting cretin um we have two people a medical doctor like a fancy super credentialed medical doctor an incredibly bright nimble Like this guy is so brilliant professor slash author and they get it. They get it.
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Again, that's peaklife.com slash thenerve. so i was bound and determined to bring you guys this conversation as we head into memorial day weekend and kick off the summer in traditional style with beach barbecues burgers and for those of you who partake beer wine cocktails spritzers whatever your drink of choice is
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But to listen to the scolds in the medical and governmental establishment, if you drink, you die, okay? Since 2023, the World Health Organization has warned that, quote, no level of alcohol is safe for our health. And the CDC has followed suit. And I quote, the CDC, even moderate drinking may increase your risk of death, and other alcohol-related harms compared to not drinking.
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The Mayo Clinic, drinking alcohol in any amount carries a health risk. Really? I mean, this may be the most Irish conversation I've ever had, but why now? Why these dictates that you can have none of it, none of it, okay? Here to help us critically take apart these new dictates, I'm so excited, these guests are incredible, Dr. Ken Mukamal, distinguished physician.
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He is also the associate chief for research in general medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. And he is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who has done extensive research on the health effects of alcohol consumption. Also joining us is Professor Edward Sligarland, author of Drunk, How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization.
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Edward is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, distinguished university scholar, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds appointments in departments of psychology, Asian studies. He's been educated at Princeton, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. So these two know what they're talking about.
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Now, I would like to start with Edward, who I was introduced to on an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience that aired about just about 10 months ago. Take a look at this clip. Do you use, you must use alcohol in writing.
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Don't give a fuck sauce. I mean, I think like if we troublemakers developed a signature cocktail, it would be called don't give a fuck sauce. Thank you, Edward and Dr. Ken for joining me today for this discussion. First, I would like to ask Dr. Ken, you study, we said that the health effects, but from what I've read of some of your writings, you point to potential health benefits from alcohol.
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And we're talking moderate. We're not talking heavy drinking. Can you sort of explain your findings and why it is you think we are now subject to these sort of blanket dictates that any amount of alcohol will eventually kill us?
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Really?
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Yes, and that's the messaging we got. That's the messaging we got prior to this new messaging from the World Health Organization et al. that told us, you know, at Blue Zones, the people who live to be 100, they're all having wine with lunch, you know, they're taking siestas, their stress levels are lower, they socialize more.
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And I find this, Dr., before I come to you, Edward, Dr. Ken, I find this so interesting because we have just come out of lockdown. I mean, this is like a blink of an eye. This was five years ago. And during that time, drinking in this country soared. No surprise, right? Drinking levels increased among the population. We are also now coming out of a lockdown where we have been told, guess what?
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We made a lot of this stuff up. We told you the vaccine was totally safe. There's a new study that just came out or a story that broke yesterday that the Biden administration was squelching vaccines data showing that the COVID vax was having major deleterious effects in some people, that it wasn't totally safe. They told us six feet apart was something they just made up.
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In New York, you had to be double vaxed to go anywhere or do anything. And so I feel like there's this complete tension between like a government that just, and a medical industrial complex that just told us 100% they knew for certain what we should all be doing to get through the pandemic. But now they're reversing on that, but now they know this about alcohol for sure.
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Yeah, I would love to see, frankly, the same messaging to your point about like distracted driving when it comes to this no out, like the amount of increased car accidents and deaths on the road because everybody's texting. Nobody can stay off their phone even at a red light. They have to distract themselves. And Edward, to this point, I wanted to ask you because I find your book fascinating.
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Your book is all about the evolutionary, like, basically, as soon as we split off from the Neanderthals and became fully formed humans, we've all been trying to figure out how to get fucked up, basically, right?
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Really?
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Well, you know, we see this once in a while with like bears breaking into like, you know, Suburbans and like finding the beer in the back. Yeah. So I wanted to ask you what you make.
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So my theory, my base level theory is as to why humans have always wanted to alter their consciousness, whether it be with alcohol or any other kind of drug is that we are the only animal as far as we know on the planet that knows we are going to die someday. And that everyone we love is going to die someday if we don't pre-decease them.
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And I think that's frankly a very heavy load to carry around on the daily. Like we all don't think of it all the time, but it's there. What do you make of my little, my thumbnail sketch of your book?
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After Cassie tells Kid Cudi that Diddy has been beating the shit out of her and then his Portia is blown up outside his L.A. home, these two decide to hold a summit at the Soho house? At the Soho house. And is it L.A. or New York, Kayla? L.A., of course. Okay. L.A. Soho house. Okay. Okay, so for those of you who may not know, Soho House is like, you know, five grand is like your initiation fee.
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Yeah, it's fascinating. I mean, in your book, you posit the theory that agriculture was actually an outgrowth of the lengths that early humans would go to to find ways to ferment beer or find some, you know, that they would walk miles and miles just to get that fix.
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Have either of you heard, so I've heard rumblings about this because I find this new movement so fascinating medically and culturally. From the medical standpoint, Dr. Ken, as you were saying, you know, I'm a woman, I go to the doctor every year and I get the same messaging vis-a-vis breast cancer. And frankly, I find it fascinating.
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offensive because I feel as though I am being told, if you have a cocktail and you get it, it's your fault. I told you. I told you.
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We also have a great segment about what we are now told. I think this is the perfect segment going into a big holiday weekend to kick off the summer. So we are now being told that the perils of drinking alcohol are so grave that even a single drop will kill you. Okay. Now these are warnings I have been skeptical of since they were leveled towards us. And you know, It may be the Irish in me, okay?
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What lobby is behind this? Because as I was getting to the rumblings I've read online, and I'm trying to investigate this because I find it fascinating. We are like 100 years later entering a new social medical prohibition almost. I mean, here in New York, there's a cocktail bar that opened that doesn't serve booze. Okay. It's insane to me. It's insane to me.
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And I've been hearing rumblings that there's a temperance, like a new temperance movement behind this that judges alcohol consumption as a moral failing.
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And, you know, you have to go through a whole approval process. I cannot believe Sean Diddy Combs was a member in good standing at the Soho House. Oh, well, it gets better. Maureen, it gets better.
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How are they getting such a foothold, Dr. Ken? Because I'll tell you, in New York City, I walk by any number of hospitals, and the number of medical professionals I see outside smoking – or who I can tell, tipple themselves. You know, it's like, there's a high rate of addiction in that world. Like, how is the, where are they getting their money?
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How is the temperance society affecting the medical industrial complex in this country?
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Edward, in your book, you know, you speak about some of the brilliant minds who, you know, one of my favorite quotes historically was Abe Lincoln, when General Ulysses S. Grant was turning the tide for him. And he was hearing that, well, he's a hardcore drunk. And Abe Lincoln said, well, I wish I knew what brand of whiskey he drank. I'd send him a barrel. I wish all my generals would.
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I would send all my generals a barrel. And some of our most brilliant minds from Aristotle to Winston Churchill, Vincent van Gogh, Even today, this is not booze, it's psychedelics. We think Elon Musk is very big on psychedelics.
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Have you found any studies that try to find correlation between people who are really quite brilliant and maybe don't fit inside heterodox or orthodoxy of thought boxes and alcohol consumption?
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Interesting. I would love to see more studies like that.
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What do you mean human subject approval? Like you mean from... To do a study, you have to get approval.
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But they've done tons of studies with LSD, right?
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But there's been enough in terms of psychopharmacology. You know, it's interesting to me because I just want to say two things. I know my time with you guys is sadly coming to an end, and I do hope you'll come back because I think this is going to be an ongoing discussion. To your point, there have been a lot of studies as well that willpower is a finite resource in human beings, and that goes to
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daily use of willpower. So as you said, you get up in the morning and you have your coffee and you get to work and you do your tasks and you pick up your kids and you're doing your errands and everything you're supposed to do. And by the end of the day, you're depleted.
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And as you say, Edward, in your book, most people do not opt as we are constantly told on Instagram by wellness influencers to go take a jog or do some meditation. They like to have a glass of wine. Could you please explain this in lay terms for those of us who are constantly being told we're failing if we have an evening cocktail?
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Oh my God. I mean, I just, I think that's so great. I think you're a hundred percent right. And Dr. Ken, to that point, that great point that Edward just made, why is the medical community right now in lockstep and unable to
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to have a nuanced mature conversation about some of the salutary effects of alcohol even if it's just making your day feel you've ended a day you've dealt with some stuff you feel a little bit lighter your stress level comes down why will the medical community in this moment not have that part of the discussion
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The fun. Yeah, absolutely.
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Thank you. Thank you both, Dr. Ken and Edward, for helping all of us go into this Memorial Day weekend a little bit lighter and not so panicked to crack open a cooler and, you know, have a beer with our barbecue as we welcome summer. Thank you both so much for being here and I do hope you'll come back.
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Wow. So I would imagine that would be... I mean, they both knew. Everybody knew. I mean, you know, that he told the New York Times that he confirmed that, you know, before... I believe it was before the feds ever brought these charges. I thought to myself, and just my opinion...
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Sadly, sadly, that does it for our Friday edition of The Nerve. Now, Even though we are going into a holiday weekend, I never forget about you troublemakers. So it is not the end. Okay. I'm going to see you this weekend. We are dropping another mini nerve on Saturday. And one of your favorites, because you've told me is joining. Okay.
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And we are going to be talking about a ton of stuff we normally don't talk about because this guest can talk about anything. So be sure to look for us this weekend. We are on YouTube. Okay. The mini nerve podcast. drops on YouTube and we will see you all back here next week.
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It'll be a Wednesday drop, not a Tuesday drop because we all do need a little bit of a break, but we will be back on Wednesday with a brand new nerve. And we cannot wait to see you back here then at the nerve where you will never guess what we are about to say next.
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Kid Cudi's taking his life in his hands by confirming this detail and saying, yeah, I think Sean Combs, I'm like 99% sure, Sean Combs threw a Molotov cocktail into my expensive luxury vehicle and blew it up outside my house.
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I'm assuming there was no offer on the part of Sean Combs to reimburse Kid Cudi for the cost of that vehicle. Like let's just say like base price blue book, you know, after so many years, like used, like let's take a few grand off, but no offer. Okay. I want to ask you also about a couple of details. The feds, well, first let's get to like one of the sexier things.
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And I'm going to show this to our audience because this picture, it looks like it came out of a superhero book for like,
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like like it's like a black superhero gang of like snm superheroes this is the punisher ah there he is the punisher as reprinted in the pages of the new york post this is one of the most amazing photos i've ever ever seen in my life so he was a sex worker hired by cassie and diddy and correct me if i'm wrong kayla i believe he testified that he was with them for eight to ten times
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He has written a book called freezer meat, which I promise my audience it's on the way. Okay. I tried to get Amazon to ship it expedited, no dice, but we'll be, we'll be getting into that next week. And he said that he often had trouble getting it up, frankly, because he felt creeped out by Sean Combs telling him what positions to take and what to do to Cassie.
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And I'm also curious, Kayla, whatever other color you can add plus, what are the faces of the jurors during this kind of testimony? Right.
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Really?
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Dirty Diddy Details Overload, Bogus Claims About Drinking Exposed, and Terrible Advice Columns
But the man was naked. I'm dying. This is Sean Combs, by the way, for everybody. Like, Sean Combs enters the room, okay, with a burqa. Is it adorned in any way? Like, I kind of picture, like, a bejeweled sort of semi-tiara going, just some sort of flair, but maybe just he was a minimalist.
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But we are going to have a smart, nuanced, challenging conversation about this with two experts who I am so excited to have on the show and I know you guys are going to love. But first, we are wrapping up week two of the Diddy trial here in Manhattan. And the past few days have seen bombshell after bombshell. So we have got an incredible, incredible expert to break all of this down.
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Whoa. You know, the Trump International that I had read that that figured prominently and that did he like to stay there? And, you know, Jay-Z name check that song very famously. The lyric was something like, I'm at the Trump International. Ask for me. Like, I didn't know it was such a big thing with the hip hop community. Yeah. Crazy.
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I live in fear that I have stayed in a hotel room where one of these free coughs happened, quite frankly. And I think a lot of Americans are feeling the same. Now, I also wanted to ask you, so the feds, there was more testimony this week or it was presented in court by the prosecution that Diddy was, it may have been the manager or the PA, like he was high all day, every day.
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He was on every kind of drug you could imagine. And also, aside from the drugs and the lube, the feds also picked up here and there some AR-15s.
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Was it like the stuff you would see on like Instagram, like from self-help people?
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Like you can manifest this, like you can manifest a gang bang at like say the Four Seasons, something like that.
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Potentially. I mean, who am I to, you know, he's a true artist. You know, who am I to, like, you know. But so the other thing is that, so Cassie's mother testified. Yes. I mean, I think all of these people are incredibly brave. Frankly, I would have been like the witness who vanished. I would have run the other way. But she testified that Sean called her and said, I've got...
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a sexually explicit video of your daughter. And if you don't wire me $20,000, I'm going to release it.
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Again, what, what are you seeing on the faces of the jury? Because that to me goes to his real sadism. Like Sean Combs doesn't need 20 grand. Okay. He's tormenting her mother psychologically and he's trying to torment her financially. And I believe she testified that she did send the money.
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Oh my God. So he was basically blackmailing her or bribing her into going back with him. Can you imagine the panic of this woman? Do you know how long it takes to refinance a home? It takes months. He's such a sick fuck. Now, to this point, tell me, are the kids still in the courtroom every day? Is his mother still showing up treating him like a catwalk every day?
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His sons are still showing up. I think a crisis manager told him to get those girls out of the courtroom. Frankly, I do. Um, what is the feeling in the courtroom at the end of all of this stuff? I mean, I know the judge is sort of cracking jokes. Like he cracked a joke to the jury, telling them to spend their weekend watching the Knicks avenge their game one loss. I mean, good luck.
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Kayla Brantley is a correspondent for the Daily Mail, where I call them twice a week. She's been in the courtroom since the beginning, and she is also the host of The Mail's incredible podcast, The Trials of Diddy. We are so happy to have her. Welcome, Kayla. Thanks for coming to The Nerve. Hey, Maureen. Thanks for having me.
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The Knicks always break everybody's heart, but like, how are, what is the vibe in the courtroom?
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I've also heard that he is being very chummy with members of the media, that he's like winking, nodding, greeting people. I would bet it sounds like a Harvey Weinstein-esque attempt to curry favor. The other thing about the trial that I find... fascinating. Who was it who testified?
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I think it was a personal assistant who said he was at, so before a freak off and again, like how many people knew, it seems like there was a small army, you know,
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Taking care of the logistics and making sure there was enough lubricant and baby oil and drugs and what have you, IV fluids, because these things would go on for days and they'd all pass out from the drugs or just exhaustion and they'd have to be refueled. And I don't think they were grub-hubbing it, right? No.
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And also here's a question that I really, before we get to the PA occurred to me, was he, was Sean Combs also renting out adjoining rooms? Because I can imagine being in a room next door and hearing this shit go on and I would be down at the front desk, like right quick.
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He had a big collab going with Kanye for a while, backed away slowly. So you're going to tell me that Jay and Beyonce know nothing about these freak-offs, that Gayle and Oprah know nothing about these freak-offs. Sure, sure, sure. Now, the worlds collide again because I saw, I'm going to say it was maybe last summer, Gail was touting, touting. Look at the exclusive I landed.
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How fucking great am I? I'm just like the greatest thing. I got Jay-Z to sit down with me for her stupid show, her stupid morning show. Again, it was like an interview. It was like, can I give you a hug? I'm just going to hug you, Jay. I'm just going to give you a hug. So Gail, this interview... is to market Jay-Z's own personal museum exhibit. I believe it was at the Brooklyn Museum.
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And his girlfriend, you know, who was born when Bill was about 49 years old. Do you remember that SNL skit that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did? It was a game show with, like,
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Sir, please take a seat. You get an exhibit after you die, okay? If you've ever been to the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, another one of my favorites, that museum, it's very small. It's actually very modest for such a legend, like a true artist who really saw some shit, okay? I bet you Johnny could have really given Jay-Z a run for his money in the outlaw. But it's really small.
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It's almost like one room. So Jay-Z is giving an interview to Gayle about his exhibit and how great he is and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And Gayle asks not one question with any teeth. And now when the Diddy trial starts, watch all of these people go to ground, okay? I mean, Gayle probably won't.
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She probably will just do what I would do, which is like call up Jeff Bezos and go back into space until the whole thing is over. Okay, moving on. I'm telling you, it's a packed day. I'm trying to like go through all of this, but not spare any relevant details. Hilaria Baldwin, okay? So she's got a book coming out next week.
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And trust me when I tell you, we're going to cover it in a way that no other media outlet is going to. You'll see the stuff on like, she'll do Extra, she'll do Access Hollywood, she'll do ET, you know, she'll get like kid glove treatment. We will not see anyone... this is what I would die for, okay?
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I'm begging for some of the guys that like access Hollywood to get some teeth because they love to talk to celebrities on red carpets and like pull out old photos or old clips of them and be like, oh my God, can you remember back then? Like when you were so young and green and like knew nothing, but like Harvey was telling you to come meet him in a five-star hotel suite alone.
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three men it was almost like jeopardy style set up and the game show was called meet your second wife and out walk like five-year-old girls and these men are horrified and the host is like i can assure you you will be marrying this girl in about 18 years so bill uh i just actually did a column on this for the daily mail
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Can you remember when you were that naive? I would die. I will send you, I will send whoever does this, like, an incredible gift, a gift you would never anticipate getting, if one of you will stop Hilaria on a red carpet and show her the following clip.
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How you say cucumber. So I wrote this infamous column for the New York Post at the time, and it wound up being our front page. And we had... Hilaria mocked up as like a toreador, like a bullfighter. And the head, the wood, they call it the wood, the headline was, it's all bull.
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And it was one of those columns that almost breaks the internet because we learned that Hilaria had been faking being a Spanish woman from Spain lo these many years. And in fact, she was a white woman named, I mean, I know Spaniards are white, but she's an American woman named Hillary Hayward Thomas from a very posh part of Boston.
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And my big question has always been, and nobody has ever asked Alec Baldwin this question. And again, you guys, like, who will be the one? Who will be the one to ask Alec the question, what did you know and when did you know it? Like, did you find out your wife was like really just like a regular person? unimpressive white woman from Boston before you married or at any point after?
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I don't think he did, you guys. I think he found out with the rest of us. Okay, anyway. So the Baldwins have been on this rehabilitation tour ever since Alec... his case was dismissed on a legal violation on the part of the prosecution. The prosecution really overplayed their hand.
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I thought they otherwise had a strong case that just my opinion, but Alec shot and killed a young cinematographer on that set named Helena Hutchins. She was 42. She was married. She had a small son and, um, Alec, uh, I guess I'm going to go in chronological order here. Um, so first he does this roadside press conference with Hilaria. It's like maybe a week after the shooting. And, uh,
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Watch as Hilaria tries to get in the shot, get in the frame, interject with her fake outrage over a woman. She probably has suspicions about her closeness to Alec Baldwin because you'll hear Alec say, I took her to dinner. I think you'll hear him say that in this thought. and then try to reemerge in the frame after Alec kicks her off the first. It's hilarious.
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Like, again, I don't know why SNL didn't parody it. I do know why they didn't parody it. It's because Alec is tight with Lorne Michaels, and Lorne has his pets, and, you know, you shoot a cinematographer while you're filming a movie, I guess you break a few eggs. Okay, so let's watch this.
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He sat with CBS Sunday Morning because he has a book out, and it's called The Art of Winning. And it's highly ironic given the epic fail that this interview is. And people seem to think there might be something wrong with Bill. I don't think there is, and I'll tell you why. But look at who's running this show.
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Excuse me. Excuse me. This is my presser. Okay, lady. I'm the one who shot and killed somebody who is a total innocent. I'm the one who's going to handle these Q and A's. I'm the professional here. Okay. So then this morning, I believe it was this morning. Hilaria reemerges on Instagram doing her favorite thing. Sexy solo yoga poses. Watch this.
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She's got her boobs hanging out and she's doing what looks like, it looks like she's wearing like denim cutoffs. Like again, any woman who's ever done yoga or Pilates, like you're not wearing cutoffs for various multiple, you're not. But this woman has everything hanging out Now you can smell the desperation.
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You can smell the flop sweat because their reality show, which just ended on TLC, which was meant to make them very lovable and relatable and using their children as kind of human shields. And like, I believe that they are hoarders. They hoard children. They just hoard. So that show is an epic failure.
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And I only watched, I think I only watched like the first episode or something, but you see something very disturbing in their dynamic. Now, look at this clip of Alec telling us about a potentially fatal allergy that he has and Hilaria's loving reaction to said allergy.
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Is that not one of the most fucked up things you've ever heard? He says to her, I have an extremely serious allergic reaction to cats. It sent me to the hospital. She comes home the next day with four cats. What is going on in this house? What the actual F is going on in this house? That reminded me, by the way, they are hoarders because they have like seven cats and four dogs or like vice versa.
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And then they've got like three nannies, like... And it's, you know, he lives in a duplex. He apparently reportedly, so he has this duplex in Manhattan in this really nice building on East 10th Street. It's like the building on East 10th Street. He reportedly keeps another apartment in that building just for himself. Okay, I can see why.
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He helpfully told us in that reality show that having all these other kids is kind of like a do-over for the terrible father he was, my words, not his, to his daughter, Ireland, which we will...
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talk about in one quick second um but i wanted to also mention that uh so rust has been released today this movie should never have seen the light of day it should it should have just been destroyed truly it should have been destroyed but no you know alec alec he's an actor he's an artist we have to see his incredible work in this shitty movie that the entire crew walked off of practically the entire crew
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over safety concerns. Okay, so that movie's out. Hilaria's got a book out next week. She has another book out already with her daughter, Carmen, who is 12 going on 22. She is highly parentified. She is made up and dressed up to look like a little... Like a woman, like she's, this child is, I think, I think highly sexualized. I don't like it. I think it's disgusting.
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I mean, this guy has been dealing with the media for the bulk of his adult life for longer than he's been. This is what he does. He knows how to sit and do an interview with, by the way, a velvet glove Sunday morning show that like 99% of their stories traffic and feel good stuff, okay? They're not breaking news over there.
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And there were, there's one other Alec clip, you know, he helpfully says on this reality show, that presumably his eldest child, Ireland, who he had with Kim Basinger, is going to see. Presumably she's going to see this, to see her father say, oh, well, now I get to do it right. And that was a botched job. That's what he's saying, basically. So imagine being the kid that's hearing this.
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That one was a botched job. Look at me over here. I'm covered in children. Never forget, we're going to revisit this together, never forget the voicemail that got leaked of Alec Baldwin. And I will spoil, I'm not going to spoil it for you, but I'll tell you who he's talking to after we hear it.
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to replay this message like like that poor kid wants to hear that message again okay i'm gonna straighten your ass out you would think this is a mammoth play that alec was in or you would think he was reaming out his agent or you know a a business partner like no this is like his daughter who he says However old you are, 11 or 12, however old you are.
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But look who's running the show in this interview and look at what Bill Belichick is wearing.
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Like, he doesn't know how old his own kid is, okay? And by the way, at this point, this was Alec's only child, okay? Rude, thoughtless little pig. Alec Baldwin is seriously wondering why his child does not want to pick up the phone when it's him calling. Do you think that this voicemail might be exhibit A as to why she was, I think, terrified of you?
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Maybe didn't want to take your call at 10 o'clock at night because she wouldn't be able to sleep after having what was surely a nightmarish conversation or interaction with you. I'm going to get on a plane and straighten your ass out. I mean, the rage within Alec Baldwin, trust me, it has not gone away. It has not gone away. He's trying to put on a friendly face.
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You know, the fact that he wound up killing a woman, frankly, it doesn't surprise me. He's known all over New York City. Like he's, I believe he's put like holes in the walls of like dressing rooms and like Broadway theaters. He's like assailed like baristas at Starbucks and called them like hissy queens. Like he's like gotten into like, you know, fights over like parking.
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I mean, I get parking in New York. It really is a bitch, but you know, whatever. That aside, like this guy is, Yeah, that's it for Alec. Please don't put money in his pocket or in Hilaria's. I promise you we will cover her book next week and you will love exactly how we're going to do it. I've been planning this out for a while.
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Okay, coming up, we are going to talk about celebrities and all the new sexualities that they're coming up with. and how they love to explain those to us, but they will never talk to us about because they're actually dating. And then I'm going to lay down the gauntlet and really posit a dare to this otherwise brave, bold, courageous community. That's next.
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Hello and welcome to the Friday edition of The Nerve. I am Maureen Callahan and we have such a packed show for you today. I think you're going to love every single bit as much as I am obsessed with them all. Coming up, we are going to zig where everyone else zags when it comes to the discussion of celebrities, clients, claiming bizarre sexual identities. We're past, we're long past non-binary.
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welcome back to the nerve where we are going to dive into um all these new sexualities that uh hollywood celebrities are developing in the lab like another kind of covid it's going to be infecting us all before you know it um so lily gladstone most people probably do not know this person okay she was in
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Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, and she starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. And all we heard during that press tour, and she got nominated for an Oscar for it, you know, Leo would sit next to her in almost every interview. He was like her emotional support celebrity. And he would sing this woman's praises to the high heavens.
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Like she was the best actress he'd ever worked with. And he'd worked with like Meryl Streep, but oh my God, Lily Gladstone. She's like another level of like just mind blowing talent. And how did she go undiscovered for so long? And the implication was that a Lily Gladstone would have gone undiscovered for so long because she was a, a native American, like from a reservation and,
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Because B she is not a stick thin, she's kind of overweight and C she's not what you would call a conventional beauty. I would like to add to this list that she has zero charisma and as much talent.
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so this woman's performance in killer killers of the flower moon which i watched and i actually really liked i thought it was better than the book um which is unusual uh so she is like sleepwalking through this entire performance this by the way is a woman who comes to suspect rightly that her husband is slowly poisoning her to death
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They have children together so that he and his white friends can, like, buy up everything, like, all this land that these Native Americans live on that's got oil in it. Okay, so she suspects her husband, who she's deeply in love with, is fatally poisoning her slowly, and her acting the entire movie is like this. It's like this. She has a deathbed scene.
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Okay. So the story that these two like to tell about how they met, they used to talk about it. I don't know why this is suddenly off limits again on a very, very friendly Sunday morning show was that they were on the same plane. Jordan was like a 20, 21 year old college student. Okay. You guys, she says she was reading a book called deductive logic. It was a college textbook and,
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This woman takes, like, four days or a week to die. Like... The energy she emits while dying in bed is the energy she emitted the whole movie, okay? So surprise, surprise, Lily Gladstone is having trouble booking other jobs, other roles. Nobody wants to hire this woman because she's not good at it, okay? She's in the wrong industry if you ask me.
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So she has this new independent movie out that nobody's going to go see and nobody cares about it. She sits down with a British newspaper. I will get the name. I forget what it was, but anyway. So you can tell the interviewer hates her already because she starts, or whoever wrote it, starts the piece quoting Lily saying this.
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I'm interesting and long-winded, admits Gladstone, who is neither falsely modest nor lacking in self-awareness. I believe she is lacking in a lot of self-awareness. So she goes on to say, now celebrities love to talk about this, as do the Oprahs and the Gales.
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know i mean the people who posit themselves is like our thinkers our foremost thinkers lived experience she tells us is the most important thing to what i say what other kind of experience is there it's baked into the word experience is something that you have okay now are you alive Yeah, you're alive if you're having an experience. What the fuck is lived experience?
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I want this phrase out of the lexicon. Okay, I'm not even gonna go finish that thought. Okay, now we get to the meat of this segment. Gladstone calls herself, quote, queer, quote, pansexual, quote, and straight. Okay, okay. I can't put a label on it, she says, even though she has three labels and I believe a fourth one is coming.
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Quote, one of the big things that tipped me to my queerness is that I don't have the draw to motherhood the way a lot of women have. What? What does one have to do with the other? Literally nothing. Like literally nothing. Uh, then she goes on to say she thought she might've been asexual because she has no attraction to anybody.
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And then she had a romantic attraction to everybody, but like, okay, it's one or the other lady. Okay. You either have no sexual attraction to anybody or you are sexually attracted to everybody, but it cannot be both. Like logically it just can't, but she's just going to keep running on. Cause you know, she's so smart. Uh,
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Then the word demisexual came into play where it's like, I don't feel sexual stirring at all unless I actually care about this person. Like that is not an unusual. An unusual feeling. So, but anyway, Lily Gladstone wants you to care. Oh, but by the way, she'll never tell you who she's dating and don't fucking ask because it's none of your business. Okay, moving on.
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Demi Lovato has readopted she, her pronouns because explaining they, them was tiring by Demi. Rebel Wilson to launch new fluid dating app, quote, I never thought I was 100% straight. So she's now married to a woman, by the way. So she is launching a new dating app called Fluid. You know, there used to be like three categories, straight, gay, or bisexual.
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I thought they covered the gamut, but apparently I was wrong. And this leads us to, you know, I just want to take a moment. You know, I think about like 0.0003% of the population before this sort of trans thing queerness thing exploded. And by queer, I just mean people who identify in new names that mean nothing. It's like 0.003% of people identify as trans.
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But the celebrity community, the A-list celebrity community seems to have a disproportionate number of children who identify as either trans or non-binary. And this seems really strange to me because you would think this would sort of be a blanket percentage across like the general population in America. But once again, celebrities are showing us that
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deductive effing logic bill what do you think this woman is with you for because you're you're connected via a soul explosion unlike any other you're old you're sloppy you look i'm not saying you are but you look like you might have a drinking problem and you are not fit you don't seem like a fun guy like you don't
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Anything the rest of us can do, they can do better. And I'm just going to run down a list of celebs who claim that they have children who are trans or another sex or non-binary. It's a long list. Robert De Niro's 25-year-old child just came out as trans. I think is planning to have an operation. I think that person should reconsider.
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J-Lo, her daughter, Emmy, who I think this kid, this is what I think is going on. I'm just going to give you my theory. Okay, this is what's going on. It is very, very hard for the children of malignant narcissists, again, just my opinion, who are obsessed with their own looks and fame and status and wealth and their own power coupling, who they're with, who's hot, who's not.
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it is very hard to get a minute of time booked in with mommy or daddy. And so the way you can get attention and the way you can differentiate yourself is to say, I think I might be another gender, or I think I might not be any gender, or I think I'd like to start transitioning. And instead of what seems to be
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the approach of taking that child to a very good psychotherapist and saying, we're going to talk this out all day long, but we're not going to medicalize you. And I'm certainly not going to put you on my social media. And I'm certainly not going to drag you with me to red carpet premieres or, you know, make sure the paps catch us together in like these offhand unguarded moments.
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So they understand that I am such an open-minded person. generous, truly wonderful parent. You know, we're going to deal with this privately and together. All that other stuff happens, okay? And also, you know that J-Lo does not want a beautiful daughter competing with her. You know it.
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This was always my theory as to why Shiloh Jolie, the eldest of the Jolie-Pitt kids, was put into boys' clothes at a very young age by, I believe it was Angie, the mastermind there. I don't think she wanted the competition. Like, you can't be prettier than mommy, okay? It's not happening.
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Andrew Cuomo's daughter, Michaela, listen, if Andrew Cuomo was your dad, that pig, that disgusting, filthy pig, in my opinion, you'd have some issues with your sexuality too, I think. Michael Jordan's kid, Megan Fox, Naomi Watts, and Liev Schreiber, Charlize Theron, who I believe announced to us all that she was informed by her kid that they were trans at the age of like four.
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Marsha Gay Harden, three, all three kids on some kind of sexual gender spectrum, okay? So suck it, Naomi Watts and Charlize Theron. Robert De Niro, I just said. Rosie O'Donnell, we talked about this last week. Now she's got a double threat because her kid Clay is not only non-binary but autistic. Oh, and by the way, their personal counselor, close friend, you know,
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patricidal, matricidal maniac, homicidal maniac, Lyle Menendez. Okay. So that, I mean, that's just a brief list I could go on, but I'm not going to because enough of that. So I would like to throw down a challenge. And before I do this, you know, I talked to you guys a little bit about like, I have this really cute little house out in
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this part of East Hampton that's like a kind of shaggier, cooler, artsier part. Like, and I thought, oh, this will be like a really nice place to just go and like decompress and like people out in this part probably aren't assholes. Well, let me tell you, I was disabused of that right quick.
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Like my first summer there, I was invited to this like cookout and it was full of all these like media people who had kind of been like turfed out of the media industry as like the industry contracted. I mean, now it's in its death throes. But they live for sightings of Katie Couric out in the wild. They all kind of worked for her.
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But it doesn't seem to occur, because they brag about it all the time, but it doesn't seem to occur to them that if Katie Couric thought they were really any good, they'd be working for her new media company, which they're not. So these are the kind of assholes I'm already dealing with. And I go to this cookout on the beach and this woman is talking. It's like this circle.
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and here's jordan sitting there shutting this down okay first of all if this story is true which i highly doubt she's a 20 year old college kid of limited means so either she's flying first class or belichick is flying in coach and he doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who's gonna fly coach
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Everybody's talking around a fire. It's a moonrise. It's like you'd vomit. So this movie comes up called Free Solo. It's an incredible documentary. I saw it like my jaw was on the floor. It's about... this guy who, and he's part of a community, they look for the hardest mountains in America to climb in the world.
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But we're not talking like mountains that slope, like these are mountains that are like this, like they're vertiginous, they're like straight up and down. And they climb these mountains with nothing. Like they have no ropes. They have no restraints. They have no harnesses. They have no like, you know, what like a paratrooper would call like a second, you know, safe thing. Like they have nothing.
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They're like, it's their hands, their sweaty hands and their feet. And if they slip and fall, they die. And I was talking, and the guy who was the star of the movie that they focused on, he has this girlfriend who's traveling around. She's stashed in the back of a van.
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And at one point he literally kind of says to her like, hey, if you're going to make me ever choose between the mountains and you, it's the mountains every time. So we're talking about this movie. And I say to this woman, I have a theory about that movie. And I think that guy has a paraphilia, by which I mean, I think he has a sexual attraction to mountains.
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And I think getting to the top of the mountain is his, let's call it his moment of arrival. So I think it's sexual for him because he didn't really seem to care about the girlfriend. He was obsessed with the mountains. Okay. When I tell you this woman turned to me, And she sneered. And my friends, this person is not clever, funny, smart, or attractive enough to get away with sneering at me, okay?
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She sneers and she goes, you know, Maureen, some people are just on the spectrum. And I'm like, yeah, I fucking know that. Okay. But not everybody's on the spectrum. Everybody's on the spectrum now. And I get always highly suspicious of that because I think that's often an excuse for people who are just assholes. Some people are just assholes. They're not on the spectrum.
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And secondly, I am offering you a theory that is way more interesting than that. And what do you have for me? A sneer. Okay. So that was the end of that little social experiment. Okay. So now on to my challenge. There is a kind of sexuality that I don't think you guys, any of these Hollywood stars know about.
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And I would like to throw down the gauntlet because I will applaud and would love to welcome on the nerve the first celebrity who I identify, self-identify as an objectum sexualis. What's that you say? Allow me to explain. An objectum sexualis is a person who has a sexual attraction and engages in sexual activity
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with objects now there was an amazing british documentary about this that came out several years ago and i think i was introduced to it like by the howard stern show and i quickly went and watched it front to back and then watched it again and it's about these people i mean they're clearly very damaged like they clearly have a lot of trauma but they fall in love with objects and like they marry them this doc is called i married the eiffel tower and um we're gonna take a look at it like let's let's look at the beginning of the stock you're gonna die i am a woman
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okay or or they were on a private jet and again how a college kid of limited means who was just busy with her head in a book called deductive logic rubbed shoulders with bill belichick on a private plane i mean i don't really know about that so um what also broke the other day i think it was yesterday or the day before uh bill's friends are so alarmed that they are staging an intervention
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I mean, that kind of plays like it's a satire. It's like a Christopher Guest parody. It's like a Rob Reiner spinal tap parody. It's not. These are real people who are talking about their love affairs, their deep romances, and wild sex lives with objects. Now, what's interesting to me... Okay, so we're going to move on to this next woman really quick. So she's an archer.
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in a relationship with not her arrow, but her bow, like her actual bow. But I guess it's got a double meaning, right? Because a bow is a B-U-A-O, someone you date. Okay, whatever. So this is her coach telling the camera or the producers, whatever, when she first came out to him as an objectus sexualis.
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You think? You think? It's funny, too. He wasn't like, oh, you just put your bow in your bed at night because you have this deep connection or it helps your performance. He understands immediately. She's like, no, I'm fucking my bow. Okay. So anyway, this woman, her name is Naisho, she then falls out of love with the bow and she leaves the bow for her new love, which is the Eiffel Tower.
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Take a look.
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So you're going to notice a pattern. This doc is on YouTube. Treat yourself this weekend. Okay, treat yourself. And then email me and tell me what you think. Maureen at devilmaycaremedia.com. So they fall in love. It's not like they just fall in love with the building down the road. Not that sucker. Not that layabout guy, that scrub with no job. No, they fall in love with...
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the most famous structures in the world, right? It's the Eiffel Tower, it's the Golden Gate Bridge, it's the Berlin Wall, or it is, as we are about to see in this next clip, the Empire State Building.
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The security guard gave me hell though. The security guard gave me hell though. You know, keep in mind, this is after September 11th. Okay. You cannot just like rub up against an iconic New York city skyscraper and not think that security, she's lucky she didn't get arrested. Okay. And she's like defiling, you know, one of the great structures in America, but you know, okay.
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So anyway, she tells us that prior to the empire state building, back when he was still around, she calls, She calls this structure a he, even though it was a dual structure, it was the Twin Towers. I mean, we all know what happened on September 11th. But prior to September 11th, she had been in a deep, loving sexual relationship with the Twin Towers. And here she explains that relationship.
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that they have to plan this very carefully because he's in really deep with this one. No shit. I mean, it also just came out that he has gifted this woman $8 million in real estate, okay? I hope this man had a vasectomy. I truly do. And Charles Barkley has gone public himself and said he's really worried about his friend, Bill.
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audience feedback some theorizing some gossip you guys have lived you've seen a lot okay so this email comes from someone who has a great theory it's ce donovan one you know who you are um who's a great theory about michelle obama's bitching and moaning on her new podcast um i'm wondering if she thinks it might have to do with michelle obama's mother dying fairly recently which i think is a really great theory
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I'm wondering if it is her mother's expectations and standards that Michelle is, quote, rebelling against. In addition, Michelle referenced this year as being the year that she's going to start living life on her own terms. Sounds to me, wink, that's in the email, sounds to me that this is something Emo is working on in therapy post her mom's death.
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Basically, I'm thinking that Emo's evolution, both psychologically and physically, might be tied to a late-in-life parental separation stage. This is fascinating, and I think you are on to something. I knew we had the smartest audience going. Hi, Maureen. This is from a fellow Irish woman named Kathleen Mahoney. I'm enjoying your new show and have always enjoyed you on Megyn Kelly.
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Thank you for that. One thing I feel reluctant to mention is the use of the Lord's name on the show. As a lifelong Catholic, it bothers me and I don't think it's necessary. I know you have issues with the church and I'm guessing the church traumatized you in some way. Kathleen, I can assure you I was not, as the Irish used to say, sexually interfered with as a child.
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Now, I want to make a note about this, the ripped, stained, ratty sweatshirt, which some people are like taking as kind of like a sign that mentally he might be losing it. You'll be happy to know that I consulted with Bill from Brooklyn last night, who can fill in all of my sports questions. knowledge gap.
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but I did witness a lot of corporal abuse and beating of small children, and I sort of parachuted out when I had a theology teacher tell our class, and I asked again, do you really mean what you're saying, that children who are stillbirths or miscarriages, they don't get a one-way pass to heaven, but they got to sit around and wait in purgatory because they weren't baptized.
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So I hope you stick with me, Kathleen, even though I do occasionally take the Lord's name in vain and have a potty mouth.
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um hi this is to the mean girl segment which is going to become sort of a recurring conversation on the show because it really landed with a lot of you guys um i went to an all girls catholic school totally relate my best friend mary was hijacked by christine a very rich girl who was pretty charismatic very sophisticated um and
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And she thinks that this girl, Christine, zeroed in on the friendship and went around to break it up. And she says, to this day, I do not really trust female friendships, which is sad in a way. And Catherine, oh, sorry, you signed this, Catherine. It came from a Mary Evan email, but it's Catherine. You know, I would encourage you to maybe...
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Find a good therapist and work through that because, listen, I'll tell you, I survived mean girl stuff. I have a very similar story in my own past, and it was brutal. It was brutal. But there are really good women out there who, you know, I have two extremely close female friends of many years, and I would be lost without them. Just know it's okay. I would encourage that. Hi, Maureen.
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This is from Thomas Green. Watching you at my gym on large screen. Okay. I'm still getting used to seeing myself on screen, but okay. Yikes. Cannot unsee that Walter Goggins in a Speedo. confidence or total lack of self-awareness. How about a gym membership, Walter? I love this. I love this email. He goes on to say, I had a gym in Columbus, Ohio back in the mid-70s.
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We're like into pansexuality and demisexuality and you're gonna enjoy this, trust me. We've got more on the woman of the decade, the legendary astronaut, Gayle King. she's getting some clapbacks and it's not doing anything to stop her obnoxious behavior.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, who we talked about on the last show, was there as a promoter after retiring from bodybuilding. He wanted to know what women I knew that were available for the weekend, okay? Everybody knew. Oh, Cynthia Berryman was one of at least two people, another one named Maria.
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One thing about Maria, I'll never forget when Arnold was governor of California, Maria used to park wherever she wanted and whenever she wanted to. She was caught, I believe, by TMZ tossing her tickets, this piece of entitled shit. And then here's another viewer who sent the screen grab of Maria that great Christian.
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And by the way, if you're a Christian, you think everybody's at the same level and you're not better than anybody else. Tossing her tickets. Thank you. Thank you, my friends. And if you'll notice, I'm back in the black blazer today. I like to call these my devil horns. So I wore them for Friday, just for you. Two notes.
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Our next show is going to drop Wednesday, not Tuesday for some stuff that's in the news cycle. And secondly, you know, normally this would be it for us, but we had so much great content that we are going to be dropping a fresh piece of meat for you. That's going to drop over the weekend. I think that you will love it and you won't want to miss it. So keep an eye out for it as always.
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Thank you for joining me today. I hope your Friday night is amazing, and I hope your weekend brings everything you want. I will see you next week on The Nerve, where you will never guess what we're about to say next.
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And he told me that Belichick is infamous for doing this and that it's his way of basically saying to people, fuck you, I'm better than you. I'm so much better and smarter and richer and more successful than you that I don't have to come to play dressed in an appropriate way.
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And not for nothing, but there are a lot of younger head coaches right now, Sean McVay, I believe being one of them, they show up on the field and they are like, They have their stuff together. They look tight. They look clean. They look crisp. I mean, he's got like this aerodynamic, Sean does, this like aerodynamic hair that's kind of like very David Beckham-y.
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You know, he always looks extremely well put together as he should. You're representing a multi-billion dollar organization. You're representing the NFL. Bill Belichick has always been an ass to the media. And, you know, so why change now?
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I suppose, even though you're trying to sell a book, now you're an author, you're an author, you're an astronaut, you know, depending on the day, he's an author now and he's trying to sell a book and to sell a book, first of all, to get, as I write books, like I can tell you, every single author would give their left arm and a kidney to get booked on CBS Sunday morning.
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That show moves books, number one. And number two, you're just going to get like a very high gloss, like kissy profile. Thirdly, more women than men buy books. Okay, so this guy needs to appeal to women out there who might buy the book for the men in their lives, their husbands, their boyfriends, their sons, whatever.
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What woman is going to be like, I want to put money in that guy's pocket so he can go put it in this 24-year-old insta-thoughts pocket? Like, no, thank you. I would like to also take a moment to salute, and I'm not being ironic, Tony DiCoppo. I love this guy. First of all, he's the guy doing the interview with Bill Belichick, knows how to ask a question.
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He sits next to Gayle King five days a week. Okay, so this guy has balls of steel. He's seen it all. He was also the only journalist that I can recall who when Ta-Nehisi Coates, the famous black intellectual that all the liberal media just adores, was doing his book tour a few months ago. He wrote a book on Israel versus Palestine in the wake of October 7th, the October 7th attacks on Israel.
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He admittedly said, look, I don't know nothing about this conflict. I'd never been. So he goes and he spends like four days in Israel. And he comes back and he writes a book comparing what's going on with Palestinians vis-a-vis Israel is akin to America and the Jim Crow South. And the media laps this garbage up. And what does Tony DeCoppo do? But he asks him some actual real questions.
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I believe Tony has an ex-wife and maybe two children who live in Israel, okay? So he asks him some actual confrontational questions, which is the job description of a journalist, not that Gayle King would know, because she's too busy going into space and then hooking up with Oprah platonically to go to a Beyonce show, which we're going to get to. But I salute you, Tony DiCoppo.
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By the way, Gayle King, as far as I understood it, did not stand up for Tony when he caught shit inside the walls of CBS News for doing his job. The other thing that does fascinate me about Tom Brady and Bill Belichick is that when Tom Brady left the New England Patriots... the speculation was okay. Like now we're gonna see who the true talent of that team was.
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And as promised, we've got viewer emails as well, which I'm so excited because like we've been emailing with each other quite a lot, but now we all get to sort of join in a much larger conversation. Okay, so first today, I'm going to kick it off with a story that has had legs for days. And when it comes to celebrity news and gossip and scandal, honestly, not a lot of them do.
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It was either Bill who made Tom, Tom who made Bill or the two of them together because how will one of these two replicate the success? Guess what? It's Tom Brady, okay? Tom Brady. Now, would I be surprised to learn that Tom Brady was dating a 24-year-old he, like, connected with on Raya, you know, that app, that celebrity dating app? I would not.
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I would be surprised if I heard about it because Tom Brady infamously keeps his shit tight, except for the one time, and again, I wish Andy Warhol were still with us, because if you want to talk about the pantheon... of celebrity, either paparazzi photos or photos that wind up on Instagram, even though they probably shouldn't have.
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It is this glorious image of Ben Affleck's former nanny, who he always has denied having an affair with, on a private plane with Ben and Tom Brady wearing all four of Tom Brady's Super Bowl rings. You guys, Jennifer Garner hung in that marriage as long as she could. And then I worked at the New York Post when we got this image and the newsroom practically exploded.
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And it takes a lot to like electrify, you know, bitter seasoned journalists. People were losing that, like brains were spilling out of hair. It was wild. Anyway, three days later, Jen Garner files for divorce. So again, Bill, get a lawyer, get a vasectomy, and don't rewrite your will for this one, okay? So next, we're going to go to Gail and Oprah.
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Now, I know I use this phrase quite a bit, but it really doesn't apply to that many people. I think there's a cohort, though, to which it really does apply in multiple scenarios, and that's celebrities. People who want to be famous this badly, and this famous, globally famous, the Gales, the Oprahs, the Meghan Markles, in my opinion, they have a very deep hole that will never be filled.
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So Gale has not taken the note from the culture The note being, we don't appreciate you going around and bragging about becoming an astronaut and how the only people now allowed to speak to you, I suppose Oprah's exempt from this and probably Tyler Perry, are people who have been to outer space because we are now a legend. Walking Among Us. I guess Beyonce qualifies as well.
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So these two do not take the note. They go to the Beyonce show the other night. And so Gail is posting all over her Instagram feed, like a 15 year old. Oh, look at me. I'm back to stay. I'm in the VIP box. Like Beyonce's tour, by the way, like a really vicious fight broke out in like the VIP room.
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at Beyonce's tour which sets the tone for her for this tour which I'm going to talk to you a bit about um there's another image of Gail with Oprah and Tyler Perry they're like all like lined up and you can see Gail is wearing I you not she's wearing a pair of bedazzled jeans who she should go on the new reboot of What Not to Wear because we're talking about disgusting people on the whole.
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And I opened this up on my laptop and was looking, you know when you get the Instagram post, it's like the photo and then like on the other side of the photo is like the comments. And my favorite comment that she somehow, one of her minions wasn't able to scrub in time, simply said, fuck you, Gayle. Whoever wrote that, it's like you are distilling Hemingway's essence. Less is more, right?
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But, you know, we're Friday now, and this story broke on Sunday. So it's important, obviously, and we deeply need to talk about it. Bill Belichick. the former New England Patriots coach, former other half of Tom Brady. I don't even know anything about football. I truly don't care about football. But I am riveted to this story, as all of you are, I'm sure.
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It's Hemingway-esque. It's a thing of beauty. So anyway, then she posts images or rather footage of Beyonce performing at the show. Now, I've never understood Beyonce's appeal. I do not think she is a genius artist. I'm sorry she's not. Can she sing? Yes. Can she put on a show? Yes. But I'll explain this all to you. So we see this footage of her. You guys look at what she's wearing. Look at this.
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First of all, her stylist fucking hates her. Those boots are like made of fur. They come up to like... almost her entire thigh length. Like they're almost at like the hem of her cutoff shorts. She's a cowboy now. I don't understand. Or a cowgirl. Why is a cowboy Carter? Why isn't a cowgirl Carter? I don't get it.
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So she's like, I am sure it is very difficult to lumber around the stage because Beyonce is not like the whippet thin young girl she was in Destiny's Child. And so she pushes that up. with I swear to God, just zero, zero like thought. Like again, like I'm supposed to listen to Gail deliver the news to me and kind of like influence the way I think.
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Guys, I have a couple of things to share about Beyonce. I have it on very good authority. I cannot disclose my source. This isn't Watergate, but it's close. I have it on very good authority that in her actual life behind the scenes, Beyonce is not the feminist warrior, badass, taking all the men to the... She's not. She's actually meek to the point of like mutism.
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You know, there's this thing called selective mutism, which I know because somebody I know had a child who had it. And...
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it's this sort of phenomenon where like they can speak like their vocal cords work everything's fine but they selectively go mute whenever they're sort of overwhelmed and um in her real life Beyonce's a selective mute okay she goes into business meetings and Jay-Z's doing all the talking uh or her lawyer's doing all the talking it's not a power move like she literally just doesn't have anything to say I don't think much is going on up there now to that point
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Diddy's trial kicks off next week, and we have such a special show lined up for you. We are going to be all over this thing. And I have a great guest. You guys are going to love this guest.
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Jay-Z historically has been very, very close to Sean Combs, to Diddy, who it just broke yesterday that he has refused a plea deal like I knew he would because malignant narcissists can never admit they did anything wrong. Now, Jay-Z has very successfully scrubbed his own problematic history. It gives you just a few bullet points.
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And by the way, I love Jay-Z's music, like his older stuff especially. Like front to back, I was a deep fanatic for his stuff. But that said, Jay-Z, Serious drug dealer. That's in his past. He's talked about that. Stabbed his own brother. He's talked about that. He stabbed a guy named Lance Un Rivera, who was a record producer. I believe this was a nightclub incident.
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He has successfully scrubbed that. He was in business with Sean Combs. And again, say what you will about Jay-Z. He's a very shrewd business guy. I love his mind for business. He was so close, so like decades, I think, of being in business with Diddy. And also, you know, Jay-Z does exhibit like some questionable choices in collaborators, be they business or artistic.
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Now he's been in a power marriage to the fashion designer, Diane von Furstenberg, uh, four decades now, okay? So he's got this memoir, it's called Who Knew? And I find this title ironic and funny in ways he may not be particularly aware of, okay? Because this is his media tour, okay?
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Hey, I'm 83 years old and I finally feel, in this climate for real, I finally feel comfortable enough to come out as a gay man. I mean, everybody on the planet either has a non-binary kid or they're getting transgender surgery or they're pansexual. Just ask Lily Gladstone. Check our last couple of episodes for that. Or they're in full-blown relationships with the Eiffel Tower or the Berlin Wall.
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But now, finally, Barry Diller can do it, okay? He can come out as a gay man. Now, the twist to this story is... He also claims, straight face, no pun intended, to be madly in love with his wife, Diane, with whom he has lots and lots of hot sex. Okay, I could not make this up.
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Okay, note the moment where he takes a sip of water. It's like that's a little bit of a towel. That's a little bit of like a security blanket. I'm going to cover my mouth. I'm going to shut my mouth around something because I don't know what might come out of it. I cannot believe this reporter took this seriously. I know these are puff pieces for CBS Sunday Morning.
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which is all about celebrity puffery and like happy stories, but let's get real. Okay, one of the smartest, most brilliant titans of industry is sitting there and saying to this reporter, hey, there's nothing mutually exclusive with me saying I am a gay man and also saying I am madly in love with my wife with whom I have sex all the time. That is the very definition of mutually exclusive.
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Okay, I don't know what happens to these reporters when they sit in front of these people who are spewing this garbage. Now, I just would like to say again, as a kid on Long Island whose parents let my third parent be page six, and I love them for it, I mean, at 10 years old, I was reading all about the Velvet Mafia, okay?
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everybody who was in the velvet mafia and what they were up to now for those of you who may not know it was a group of closeted gay men who were very powerful one was barry diller the other was david geffen the music mogul who dated cher and then the third was the fashion designer calvin klein who married kelly klein like in the 80s or the 90s i think when he was trying to go public and he needed a beard and we're going to circle back to this at the end of the show with carolyn beset talk
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So, you know, the idea that the mainstream media is like treating this disclosure as breaking news is not only ridiculous to me, it's pathetic. And this is why they are dying, because this is exactly what Barry Diller wants them to write about. This is and he's acting like he's giving them a big gift with this. OK, this is what I think is going on.
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Barry Diller is 83 years old, and he is looking down the barrel of his legacy. And what is that going to be, right? And what is the first line of his obit going to be? And do you know what he would like to have completely unmentioned and unforgotten? Sorry, forgotten. Okay, I won't forget it, but forgotten would be his vile voice. violent treatment of subordinates over the years.
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This guy is a beast, okay? He's a beast and you would not want to be alone in four walls with him. I think just my opinion because he is really formidable and I'm going to get to a lawsuit that he inserted himself into and the threats he made vis-a-vis that. So let's take a look at this book excerpt from the friendly book that has little Barry Diller, just a kid from Long Island who made it.
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Who knew? Who knew? Okay. This is a little bit of an acknowledgement that maybe he had some sharp elbows in some business dealings. Quote, Sometimes the staff would ask, is it commercial? I'm sure, by the way, it took every bit of just guts these people had to ever question Barry Diller, ever. Because, as he goes on to say, quote, and I would brutalize them. Brutalize, that's a very strong word.
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I would brutalize them because rather than using their instincts, he's calling them dumb, the people he hired, he's calling them dumb. They were trying to predict the public's appetite, which I said then and say now over and over again, simply is impossible. I'm sorry, we live in a world that is dictated by like an Orwellian algorithm that totally predicts our appetites.
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We live with phones that overhear everything we say and push ads. Like, I swear to God, sometimes I think my phone is reading my mind. Like, I think it's melded with me in the most sinister ways possible. So that's a bunch of bullshit, okay? Now, Barry Diller once allegedly, allegedly,
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through a vhs tape and that's how long these accusations go back okay i mean we are in the paleolithic age of like vhs physical tapes that went into vcrs at an underling okay he missed but that tape was thrown with so much force that diller put a hole in the wall with it okay now to the lawsuit and this is just one that we know of i'm going to guess this is sort of you know this is barry diller
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He also allegedly threatened to destroy an employee who blew the whistle about an alleged sexual assault by Diller's right-hand man at Tinder, okay? So this is according to a, I'm going to hold it up, a 2021 report in the Daily Mail. Diller, regarding this whistleblower, who was reporting a sexual assault, okay? This is serious shit.
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quote, threatened to go after this whistleblower for everything he has, his parents have, and anyone he knows has, end quote, if this guy didn't drop the matter entirely. Everything this guy's parents have? I mean, do you know, like Barry Diller would be, I think, the C-suite version of
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Again, just my opinion, but in terms of ruthlessness and like, if you don't do what I want, I will either kill you, Diddy, allegedly, physically, or Barry Diller, I'll wipe you out financially and reputationally, and you'll wind up living in a homeless shelter. You know, Barry Diller, Sean Combs, two sides maybe of the same coin.
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But you know, just the takeaway remains, the takeaway remains that Barry Diller is just your cuddly old gay man who's married to a woman, who he just has lots of enthusiastic sex with all the time, but he's gay. Okay, got it. By the way, This sort of legacy play reminds me a lot of Scott Rudin, okay? Another Hollywood super producer who's back on a redemption tour.
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So we begin today's edition of The Nerve with the Diddy Trial, which is unfolding here in New York City. We are in day five. It's taking place in federal court. And here are the key things to know. And some of this stuff, I have to warn you, it's extremely graphic. So if you're sensitive to gory details or you have little ones around, you might want to skip ahead.
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Guess who rolled out the red carpet for him recently? I think it was the New York Times, okay? Now this guy, he was canceled. I mean, he started selling off, high-end artwork and high-end real estate, okay? He was canceled for a pattern of seriously abusing underlings, okay?
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He once allegedly, allegedly put one of, I mean, we're talking like PAs, like personal assistants, like these are the people who like are starting in the, they're very young, they have very little experience and those are the ones that monsters like these go after, okay? They're the soft targets. He allegedly put one in the hospital, okay?
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And this isn't like from overwork, like the poor kids like in the financial industry who are working like 150 hours a week and like drop dead at their desks. This isn't that, okay? One of my other favorite Scott Rudin stories has one of his terrified assistants who like can't do it anymore.
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So they're sitting in the back of a car, you know, he's got a driver, Rudin, and they're hurtling down like a major New York highway, like a major artery. And this assistant says to Scott, like, I have to tell you, like, today is my last day.
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And Scott Rudin, according to this story, this alleged version of events, turns to this terrified assistant and says, your last moment is now, and throws this kid out of the car on the side of, again, a major, major highway. Now, I do have to say, as far as dialogue goes, that is killer, okay?
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That's not Michelle Obama saying to Barack after Barack says, you know, vis-a-vis the recent death of her mother, well, you're up next. Michelle saying, You're up next. I mean, that is a great rejoinder. I will give that to Scott Rudin. Your last moment is now is really great. Now, I would like to share a little of my own Scott Rudin story.
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So when this stuff started breaking and it was kind of, it was like after Harvey was sort of outed and all those bombshells were coming out and like people were now feeling like, oh, they could tell their stories and they wouldn't be exiled from like working in Hollywood or on Broadway or media, what have you.
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I was deputized by my editor to write a story about Scott Rudin, which is how I know like off the top of my head, the stuff I just told you. And, um, So there was a guy who worked at the New York Post. He was like the theater critic, but he was just like a little too cozy with these people.
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Like he would, he would brag, like he would write a book and he would brag and he would be like, yeah, you know, I finished my book up at like Andrew Lloyd Webber's estate in like Mallorca or whatever. And I'm like, how can you call yourself like a critic and like, let me be taking these favors from these people? Like it,
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Anyway, so this story, like we're putting it to bed, you know, it's about to go online and it's like late on a Friday night and I get a call from this guy, my colleague, my then colleague. And again, like not subtle. Like I thought he would surely be a little bit more skilled at this kind of thing, but investigative journalism was clearly not his forte.
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He calls me and he's at like a nearby bar and he goes, hey, you know who I just happened to be having a drink with right now? Scott Rudin. So I'm like, thanks, asshole. You told him? He already heard I was doing it, I'm sure. But you're calling me with Scott Rudin next to you? Whose side are you on? The newsbreakers and the troublemakers are these assholes.
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So then he says to me, why don't you just send that story over my way? Why don't you just email it to me? And this way, Scott can read it. I shit you not. this way Scott can read it and tell you if there are any errors in there, like any mistakes. And I'm like, yeah, you know, what we do professionally, as you should know, is we go to these people and we ask them for comment.
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Like we're fucking journalists. We know how to do this stuff. What we don't do is gift wrap a story and give it to the subject of said story that, by the way, has a bunch of terrified people feeling, you know, emboldened enough to like tell their stories. But don't use my name. You know, keep the identifying details a secret and hand it to Scott effing Rudin. OK, fuck you. OK, now.
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Now there's a new extended version of the video that shows Sean Combs beating Cassie violently in a Los Angeles hotel. It was the Intercontinental Hotel in 2016. This was shown in court this week and it was released to the media. Let's take a look at it. So she's walking. She's walking like she's really, really trying. Here he goes. He catches her and he grabs her and he's dragging her.
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Speaking of other wealthy, powerful, famous Hollywood men who have all these deep reservoirs of rage, Sean Penn never changed. Again, these guys, they never change. He's going viral and he's making a lot of headlines for this podcast interview he just did with Louis Thoreau. Is it Louis or Louie? I don't know. I don't really care.
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And he's related, by the way, to the insufferable Justin Thoreau of the shoe polish black hair And like when he used to be with Jennifer Aniston, I don't think they were ever legally married, which I think was very shrewd on her part. But like he would always be photographed like with Jen Aniston.
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And like back when they were palling around with Howard Stern and like, you know, they'd be in like Cabo in Mexico, like sunning themselves. And Justin was just too cool. He's the opposite of cool. But like he thinks he's so cool. He's too cool for like a bathing suit, like bathing trunks. So he would always be sunning his hairless body. You know, he's waxed head to toe with like,
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black denim cut-off shorts that were skin-tight and belted, okay? Like, died a million deaths, okay? So anyway, the headlines that Sean Penn is making, again, like, I think the media is picking up the wrong headline. It's the wrong offense. They're like, Sean Penn dared to say he would work with Woody Allen again in a heartbeat. I mean, who cares? This scandal is really old.
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Okay, who gives a shit, okay? What's really offensive here is the way he talks about Madonna, his first wife, who, you know, finally left him. We're going to revisit this. OK, we're digging in the crates for the real shit for assaulting her not once, allegedly, but twice, okay? Now, Madonna has never, ever talked shit about Sean Penn.
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In fact, way, way, way later, like in 2015, she would say, he never laid a hand on me. I don't buy it, okay? I don't buy it. But she has only ever spoken of him glowingly. Okay, take a look at how Sean talks to this Thoreau guy about Madonna, okay?
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Okay, so that's Sean on Madonna, that the whole marriage was an epic mistake and, you know, they mistook what was a great first date. He's basically saying great sex for, like, you know, a real connection. Fuck you. Okay, here's Madonna, a very young, beautiful Madonna.
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Okay, so I went and pulled up for you guys this Daily Beast piece that was published. I'm trying to think. I'll find it. But it's about Sean Penn's what they call the Daily Beast horrifying history of alleged abuse. Now, here's the good stuff, which is, I mean, like the really terrible stuff that Sean Penn has skated on forever.
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You know, a quote, Penn was extremely violent toward his ex-wife Madonna when the two were married in the 1980s. Once in June 1987, he allegedly caused the pop superstar to be hospitalized and after hitting her across the head with a baseball bat. Okay, it doesn't say whether the bat was wooden or metal, which I think is a salient detail.
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But Madonna remained protective of her husband and refused to press charges since Penn was already facing 60 days in jail for assaulting a film extra. Again, these guys go after women and they go after guys with no power, okay? A Film extra? Sean, pick on someone your own fucking size, okay? Then things got even uglier on December 28th, 1989. That's two years later, okay? Right after Christmas.
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According to a police report filed by Madonna, Penn scaled their Malibu home that afternoon, found Madonna alone in her bedroom, and told her that he owned her, quote, lock, stock, and barrel, according to reports, quote, when she told him she was leaving the house, he tried to bind her hands with an electric lamp and cord. I remember reading this at the time.
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I remember these details about the electric lamp and the cord, okay? Continuing on, screaming and afraid, Madonna fled from the bedroom. What followed was a nine hour ordeal, which left her deeply shaken. This nine hour ordeal, Penn, I'm continuing to read from this report, chased her into the living room, caught her. Okay, so she's running for the door.
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caught her, like he grabbed her, he probably threw her to the floor, just my supposition, bound her to a chair with heavy twine. Then he threatened to cut off her hair. Okay, he's gonna assault her beauty. That's her power, okay? Continuing, he allegedly, quote, smacked and roughed up Madonna while she was tied to a chair.
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And then he left for a few hours to buy more booze, leaving his then wife bound and gagged. Imagine, this is one of the most powerful, all pop stars, media stars on the planet. And this is, believe me, trust. It's the source of his rage. So a few hours elapse. She's tied up for hours, gagged, okay? So she's probably having trouble breathing. She's panicked. No food, no water.
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Now we see what looks like a security guard.
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When is he coming back? Is he coming back? Is he going to come back and kill her, okay? Continuing to read, only to return and continue terrorizing her. He only agreed to untie her after, quote, she agreed to perform a degrading sex act on him. And then she fled the house, got in her car, and raced to the sheriff's office, eventually stumbling inside.
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I hardly recognized her as Madonna, Lieutenant Bill McSweeney said at the time. She was weeping, her lip was bleeding, and she had obviously been struck. Penn was charged with felony domestic assault, but Madonna told the DA to drop the charges against him, as so many battered women do. And in 2015, she denied that that whole thing ever happened.
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talking to sean combs who's wrapped in just a towel so that which to me is extremely extremely telling okay that's another pair of eyes on this okay now just just a side note new york still does not allow television cameras in federal court and i do not understand why you know these trials they're all of our business all of our business i believe that just my opinion
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But, you know, I'm sorry, you can't erase that shit. You can't. Okay, so now... And again, what kind of interviewer is Louis Theroux? He's a star fucker, okay? Because you contradict that stuff with some real facts like I just gave you guys. Here's Sean talking about his history of assaulting the paparazzi.
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I have several thoughts, OK? So first of all, I think the police, and I'm assuming this is LAPD because Sean lives in LA, know Sean Penn a little bit too well. And I don't think they're too kindly disposed to go help him out for anything, OK? This is a guy who shot at the helicopters who were hovering over the outdoor wedding that Sean and Madonna were having on a huge Malibu estate.
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Like, pick something.
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you don't want the paparazzi there and you're marrying the most famous woman on the planet which she was then maybe don't do it outside you asshole but you know poor sean you know maybe don't become such a such a such a star or you know such a celebrity that you then say will the paparazzi follow me around all the time do you know who one of the most famous actresses on the planet is
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julia roberts meryl streep same these women know how to disappear when they want to okay they know how to get around without hordes of paparazzi following them around sean penn loves to bang on about how smart he is and you know how like D.C. and like presidents should really be deploying him to solve major international crises and national crises. Like, remember, New Orleans, he went down there.
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Haiti, he went over there. Then he went and met with El Chapo, you know, like the Mexican drug lord that like had even like, you know, America's counterterrorism people, frankly, are terrified of. You know, Sean Penn loves to insert himself because he's trying to prove he's smart, right?
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Like, he likes to go on Bill Maher and talk about he's friends with Bill Maher because, like, you know, he's smart. I mean, I think if you're really smart, you can figure something so elemental as not getting shot by the paparazzi out. But what do I know? Okay. Now,
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two other weird celebrity stories that came out this week that again i think we need to discuss um bruce willis is like another he's like a peer of sean's just in terms of fame the era in which they were real movie stars now as we discussed last week bruce willis has aphasia okay it's it's a form of dementia it's obviously it's terrible he has this much younger wife named Emma.
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And she's kind of the second wife or third wife that a Hollywood guy gets, you know, as they age, like the wives get younger, but they get less attractive. Like she's not like as attractive as Demi Moore. So anyway, she has a new memoir coming out and it's all about her journey, her journey, taking care of her older husband.
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Like she thought she was in it with like a really rich, famous Hollywood celebrity, but you know, he gets aphasia. So she's got to like, what is she going to do with herself? She likes to pop up on the Today Show often, you know, from time to time, I'll say. And, you know, give us updates on her husband's declining condition and how, most importantly, she's coping with it. So take a look at this.
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Do you want to talk garbage language? Okay. First of all, Hoda is a fucking moron. Okay. My mother has dementia and I can tell you there is zero joy in this journey. Okay. This journey sucks. And I, I, I, I frankly hope and wish for something else to take her out more quickly because this is agonizing for her. Okay. And I don't think about myself in this scenario. Okay. I think about her. So Hoda,
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but from what I've read and what I've seen thus far I believe Sean Combs is a very dangerous man an extremely dangerous man and what's going on in here we all have a right to see and hear it okay now Cassie testified that she was often drugged up for these freak-offs that she says she was often forced to participate in more than once when having her period
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Can you find ways to celebrate joy in this journey? And as discussed last week, too, she's a total bitch, according to my friend. And then Emma's sitting there, and she's talking about the joy of what is. What kind of garbage language is that? You know, I'm sure she's talking to Mel Robbins all the time. So anyway, her book is coming out in September.
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It's called, of course it's called this, An Unexpected Journey. An Unexpected Journey. How trite. Now, there are reports of a huge family rift. that are coming to the surface. And this is huge because this mean it has, in my opinion, the stamp of approval of Demi Moore, who is having a renaissance right now. And everybody loves Demi, okay?
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So apparently Demi and the three daughters that she shares with Bruce are not happy about this book. And this is big because this goes all against Brandt Willis, right? you know, slash more, which is all about showing this big blended happy family, you know, that the two kids that Bruce has with Emma, like they're all a big happy family and now it's not true and we all can see it.
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These are the quotes coming out of Camp Demi Moore and Demi's kids. Quote, nobody's feeling good about it, meaning Emma's book. People understand that Emma's grief and that her experience might be able to help others in similar situations. That's being generous if the joy of what is is the most this moron has to offer us, okay?
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Continuing on, but using Bruce's name to sell a book while he's still battling aphasia and dementia at home with the family. I could not agree more. I could not agree more. Your dignity, I think, aside from your health, is your most prized possession. You can't put a price on it.
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And this woman's out there just throwing Bruce's remaining dignities on the pyre so she can get some media hits on like Today and fucking Access Hollywood. And maybe you buy her book in bulk so she can hit the New York Times bestseller list. Like, fuck off. Okay, final celebrity overshare of today. And this one is, I've never heard a celebrity overshare like this.
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And I am going to include in this. the Riley Keough disclosure in completing her mother, Lisa Marie Presley's memoir. So Lisa Marie, daughter of Elvis Presley, that after Her brother died. Riley's brother, Lisa's son, Ben, died of a shotgun wound to the head, a suicide. Lisa Marie had his body, you know, waxed up. I forget what they call it. Embalmed. Had his embalmed body waxed.
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transported back to her casita where he stayed for a month and where she would go visit him every day. This one tops that, I think. Ashley Judd is out promoting this two-part documentary on the family, the Judds, the mother, Naomi, and Ashley, who is the actress, and then Wynonna, who was part of the Judds with Naomi.
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So they have this documentary, and as we know, Naomi battled mental illness for much of her life, and she eventually took her own life. And we've all been made very familiar through interviews and memoirs and what have you.
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And frankly, tabloid reports, I mean, I read them all the time, you know, arrests, drug and alcohol addictions, morbid obesity, mental illness, childhood, sexual trauma, you know, you name it, they've suffered it, okay? And you would think that would be enough for us to know about. Okay, that's actually more than I would care to know about like your family issues, okay? But no, there's more.
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There is more. And, you know, Ashley, I think, is enjoying... uh another round in the spotlight because she's not really booking much work um so we need some media hits and we need some pages in us weekly and i brought this for you because when i read it on the train i was like i got to talk to you guys about it
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In this documentary, she talks about the day her mother died, okay, the day her mother took her life. And she says she went over to the house, Naomi begged her to come over, and she was talking about how she didn't want to be on the planet anymore, and Ashley thought she had talked her down, and then left the house, came back later, and found her mother, I believe it was in her own bedroom.
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Here's what she said in court on the stand. Sean would expect it. I don't think anyone wants to do that. Of course not. But what is really interesting here is the distancing language that she is still using. She says, I don't think anybody wants to do that. She's not saying, I didn't want to do that. I never wanted to do that. I can't believe I had to do that or did that.
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Now, Naomi Judd took her own life with a shotgun blast to the head. Again, this is very unusual for women to kill themselves this way. It's a very violent way to go. Ashley, again, I was mystified by this, but I thought, you know, maybe it's cathartic. I don't know. These people live in a very weird world where like, if you don't do it on camera, does it even matter?
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So she sat down with Diane Sawyer in 2002 and talked about finding her mother and the effect that it had on her. And I thought, okay, well, you know, there were no details and maybe this is it. And like, she's gotten it out and this is her version of a catharsis and we'll never revisit this again. I was wrong, okay? Anytime I let my cynicism down,
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vis-a-vis celebrities, I am 99% of the time proven wrong. So now Ashley is telling us that she called 911 after she found her mother bleeding from the self-inflicted, self-inflicted, forgive me, gunshot wound. And she says, I'm reading from the Us Weekly story. Okay, quote, well, the story says, after 911 was called, Ashley held her mom for a half an hour.
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Her mother was still alive for half an hour. Telling her, it's okay, it's okay. I've seen how much you've been suffering. And then when Naomi died, so this really is what this is sounding like, right? That Naomi blew half of her head off, but was still alive. And you can only imagine this scene, this vignette. And you know, it's like everything. Once you know it, you can't unknow it.
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Like, why do I need to know this stuff? Why do we need to know this stuff? You know, I have to say, with Ashley Judd and with Emma Willis, like, I feel like this is very sick stuff. This is really sick. Like, you are stripping you are taking, you are stealing the remaining bit of dignity like that Bruce Willis has, that her dead mother has.
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Like you're stealing their dignity and why are you doing it? You know, and I was thinking about this before like coming to talk to you guys about this today. And it's like, it's all of a piece with what we've been discussing with Michelle Obama and Meghan Markle and Hilaria Baldwin, Hilaria Baldwin. Like it seems like there's a lot of rage towards,
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towards the true talents in the family, like the real stars, the real legends, you know. And this is all just, you know, they think that they're maybe winning in the moment and it's giving them a dopamine hit. But in the long run, these people, these women, it's all women doing this, you know. they're really just debasing themselves. They're really debasing themselves, you know?
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So Ashley and Emma, to you, I would say all of this media attention, it's not the win that you think it is, okay? Next up, we're gonna lighten things up, okay? We've got some more Kennedy family drama, a little story from me about Ryan Murphy, and best of all, your emails. I'm going to talk to you about a dog named Delta and a hero named Leo, Leo Grillo.
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Now, Leo came across a very sick, starving, shaking Doberman while on a road trip. And he pulled over and he rescued that Doberman and took him home and named him Delta. Now, Delta, of course, was just one of many animals that needed our help and do need our help, and this all inspired Leo to start Delta Rescue. It's the largest no-kill, care for life animal sanctuary in the world.
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Okay, that's somebody who has really begun trying to separate and compartmentalize this part of her life. And she clearly doesn't really want to go back there. And she's like eight and a half months pregnant on the stand. She's going on to say that male sex workers that were hired for these freak-offs would urinate on her. Okay, that's what Sean Combs thinks about women, by the way.
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Delta Rescue has rescued thousands of dogs, cats, and horses from the wilderness, and they provide their animals with shelter, love, safety, and a home. This dedication and everlasting love for animals is Leo's mission and Leo's legacy. Now Delta Rescue relies solely on contributions from people like us. People like us who are more on the animal side than the human side, correct?
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So if you want caring for these animals to be part of your legacy, speak with your estate planner because there are tax saving estate planning benefits here too. So you can grow your estate while letting your love for animals live well into the future Check out the estate planning tab on their website to learn more and to speak with an advisor. We all call dog man's best friend for a reason.
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And if you don't, I don't want to know you. Okay. So you can help those who need it most. Visit deltarescue.org today to learn more. That's deltarescue.org. So Ryan Murphy made headlines this week with the announcement that he cast Naomi Watts as Jackie Kennedy in his forthcoming miniseries American Love Story about the romance and marriage between JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
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Hey, everyone, welcome back to The Nerve, your home for celebrity gossip, true crime and real talk about fake people. I am your host, Maureen Callahan, and we have such an incredible Friday show for all of the nerve troublemakers out there today. First up, we're getting into the Diddy trial, which has seen explosive testimony and crazy developments this week.
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Plus we have a Menendez brothers update, the latest on the Blake Taylor, Justin Baldoni scandal, plus celebrity over shares for days. Then we've got a little book stuff and I hear you guys asking for more book coverage. So we are definitely working on that. And what is rapidly becoming my favorite Friday bit of all, your emails.
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Now, I have several thoughts on this. Nothing against Naomi Watts. I think she's a great actress. I think she's super stylish. I love how she's aging and not shooting her face up with Botox and getting multiple facelifts like every other actress on the planet. But I have to say, I don't think this is a good casting move. I don't see in any way the resemblance.
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And I'm surprised because Naomi Watts... kind of made a misstep in playing Princess Diana, and she got really bad reviews for it. And she's a great actress, so you know it's bad when she can't pull that off. I don't even think they ever put that movie in theaters. I think it went direct to streaming.
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So, you know, I don't like it, but, you know, this is Ryan Murphy, and he has his pets, and I think Naomi is now one of his pets, and he likes to cast them over and over, whether they're right for a part or not, and it's how we all got stuck with Sarah Paulson, okay? So... Think about it, okay? And also the actress playing Carolyn Bessette Kennedy looks nothing like her either, okay?
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And Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was a very distinctive looking woman, very distinctive, you know? And as for JFK Jr., the casting, it doesn't really matter because JFK Jr. is, as someone who wrote the book, Ask Not, the Kennedys and the women they destroyed, he is the least interesting, frankly, of the three, okay? Jackie and Carolyn, far more interesting.
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Now, I want to tell you my little story about Ryan Murphy. So last summer, after Ask Not came out, we got a call, meaning like my agent and I got a call. You know, we got offers from multiple people who are interested in buying the rights to the book and optioning it so they could turn it into a series or a docu-series, whatever. And one of them was Ryan Murphy.
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And they put me on a Zoom with not Ryan, who for undisclosed reasons, you know, was so dying to talk to me, but just couldn't. This is the kind of, hyperbole that you get when you're dealing with like Hollywood, not all, but many. It's like, they'll come to you. They come at you fast and hard. They're like, you're like, buy me dinner first.
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They're like, you're the greatest fucking thing since like air conditioning was invented. Okay. I got to get, I got to get in bed with you. Okay. We got to make this happen. I haven't, I haven't seen genius like this since fucking Albert Einstein. Okay. Like your, but I couldn't put your book down. Then you later find out they never read the book. They never do, you know? And, um,
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So I was put on a Zoom with his number two, who frankly did seem a little terrified of Ryan, who was like off on a yacht somewhere. And, you know, we really want to do this. It's really perfect for us. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, you sit there and you're like, I kind of got the verbal gang bang, you know? And then we got off the phone.
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I got off the Zoom with him. And then like right away,
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their offer on paper landed in my inbox which was surprising because it usually doesn't happen that immediately and that was again like coming on fast and strong and being like we're really serious like we want this property and we've already gone to our overlords at disney and like gotten the money and gotten this deal done now what happens is you take that and it's par for the course
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And if you think that's too harsh, sometimes Combs would urinate in Cassie's mouth. Okay, this is the testimony Cassie gave to federal prosecutor Emily Johnson, who asked Cassie, did you ever consent to this? Cassie said, no. There was no conversation. It was a turn-on for him, so it happened. There is not a whole lot of control you have with two men standing over you peeing.
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that that is the opening salvo. Like you're entering into a good faith negotiation. And we had other interested parties. And so as we do, we said, okay, we would like to counter for the following things and the following amount of money. And again, I didn't hear anything for like a couple of weeks. And my agent called and was like, I felt like maybe not
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really wanting to share this news because it's not great but it wasn't her fault she goes yeah um ryan's dropped out he's not interested anymore and i said what like this never happens okay this is considered extremely poor form this never happens i said what do you mean he just dropped out and she said he just dropped out like he won't play ball he won't respond and i
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I've asked around because like, I've never heard of this happening either. And I said, do you think he just couldn't believe we had the gall, like the fucking temerity to be like, nice opening bid. Like we'd like to counter. And she said, yeah.
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And I was like, well, fuck that guy, you know, because like, I don't want to be in business with somebody like that, you know, who, by the way, not every Ryan Murphy production is a masterpiece. Okay. Not every Ryan Murphy production is like the OJ Simpson trial, you know, whatever it was called made in America was the doc. It's, far superior, but you know, I, I was like, wow.
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And then my second question was, I literally said to my agent, like, what are you here? Like, what kind of drugs is he on? Because this feels like drug addicts behavior to me, not saying he is, I'm just saying it feels very schizophrenic. So, and then I was talking to another friend of mine who also happens to write books.
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And she told me that the same thing happened to her, you know, but she did wind up like letting Ryan Murphy option her book. And he sat on it for years. and was constantly promising every year, oh, your book's the top of my list, that's the next one. And then it never was. And like, he sat on it so long that it lost all momentum and nobody cares about it anymore.
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And so, you know, I think I really dodged a bullet, but that's just a little bit of like how that kind of scene works. And it's not nearly as exciting as you think it is. Like literally anytime someone's like, oh, someone from, you know, you're just like, do I have to? Like they can just email it to me. Anyway, okay.
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now we are getting to mail okay from you guys listener mail i am so excited to do this okay because i think we're i think we're having a bit of a mind melt okay this is an email from someone who just uh signs off as kevin hi maureen i have been loving the show so far thank you kevin um i definitely think your brother bill from brooklyn should be on as much as you want to have him on the show he reminds me of myself
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Bill is also developing a contingent of female fans who, you know, express disappointment that he is very happily married. So, you know, but enjoy him. Okay, on the show, that is. I also think that you should have the tearing apart of the advice columnist as a regular segment. And I agree. I think it's really funny.
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Now, also as a 49-year-old man, Kevin says, I wanted to say I appreciate the mean girl segment. Kevin goes on to say he's part of a group of people on Facebook. It's a movie discussion group. But any time he offers any opinion that is lightly politically conservative, he gets a lot of mean, nasty pushback. And it's cruel. He uses the word cruel. He's a 49-year-old man, and this hurts him.
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So Kevin says, the mean girls thing can happen regardless of age and gender, unfortunately. And so anyway, please keep exposing those people. You got it, Kevin. That's what we're here for, doing it all day long. OK, now this is another email about Mean Girls stuff. And this letter is signed merely a viewer from Sweden. And it's kind of mind blowing. People are watching us in other countries.
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And I'm totally humbled by this. OK, so in regard to Mean Girls and Meghan Markle, one and the same, my opinion. She writes that there are so many similar behaviors between what's being reported about Prince Harry's wife. I love that. We should just call her Prince Harry's wife from now on.
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And adult mean girls in the office, I've been subjected to personally being singled out and targeted by such a person in the workplace. Finding yourself suddenly the one an adult mean girl has her sights on in the office can really do a number on you. And viewer from Sweden, as you signed off, I can relate. And let me tell you that when I was
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I thought it was obvious. I don't want to do it. Okay? This is... She went on to say, there was one instance in which Combs urinated in her mouth so profusely that Cassie testified, quote, I was choking. Now, the defense is gonna put up the argument and has laid the groundwork like, look, yeah, Sean Combs, he's a deviant. You may not find what he's doing palatable, but it's his sex life.
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starting out at the New York Post, I will not name this person, and it's a kindness that, frankly, she doesn't deserve, but I wound up working for this woman who hired me, and I was warned by more than one person to not do it. Don't do it, don't go work for this person, and I did, and when I tell you that I was tormented within an inch of my life.
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I would be made to work like till two or three in the morning, multiple nights in a row. I would be berated. I would be yelled at. I would find myself like just like in tears in her office, like I'm not a crier. I'm not, I'm not like that. I like, I have a pretty tough shell.
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Like I can take a lot, but the humiliation and the bullying and the gaslighting, you know, and it was so bad that like these experienced, these older men who were very experienced newsroom veterans would make it a point to walk by her office whenever I was in there, it was glass walls. and poke their heads in and be like, is everything okay in here? Everything okay in here?
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I later outsmarted her and outed her as the bully she was. And she eventually got ding, ding, ding, down, down, down the totem pole until they forced her out. and gave her a going away party that was doubled as a real humiliation for her. On her way out the door, she asked me to have a private meeting. I almost had a trauma response to it.
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But I went, because I knew it was going to happen, and like all bullies. She was just doing a little housekeeping on the way out the door, like making sure that I wouldn't talk shit about her. I regret certain things that I did, all this kind of passive language. I just let her get away with it. I was like, you know what? It's gonna come back to her someday.
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If she's listening and watching, you consider this right now. Like I knew exactly what you were doing and why you were doing with it. And I don't forgive, you know, I don't carry a grudge. I don't carry this with me daily, but you're a piece of shit and you knew it.
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And by the way, I later found out from one of my best friends who I made while working there, this is the really creepy part, that she would say to one of my best friends, often I'm sure after yet another abuse session, don't you think Maureen is really pretty? Don't you think that she's really pretty?
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And I was like, oh my God, there was like probably a psychosexual component to this that I was completely unaware of. And that creeped me out even further because stuff was going on in this woman's sick mind, just my opinion.
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you know but you know you live you learned you know i probably that experience did teach me a lot as i did say to her that wasn't a lie but she's a piece of anyway okay from another viewer uh listener harry's crown jewels i this is mike i am not a psychologist but i did a deep dive into harry's psyche upon seeing your coverage of him knocking on random doors in london
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I love this forthcoming theory. He is seeking his lost manhood, his lost crown jewels. I wish I can shout to him that his testicles are most likely tucked away like gems in one of Meghan's handcrafted lavender sachets, sachets rather, sorry, with a big handwritten H on her custom printed stationery. I happen to tour, I think they're at the bottom of a body of water somewhere, but...
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You know, tomato, tomato. I happened to tour Windsor Castle after they got married and would happily fill in as the spare, being served gin and tonics and finger sandwiches while reading my Kindle. Not a bad life. I agree with you, Mike. Okay. Female friendships. This is from Jill. She says that throughout my life, before I was married especially, I had many strong female friendships.
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But the fights and fallouts with women always hurt more than any breakup with a man. Now, I'm left with almost no female friends. Most of the men I dated, I was glad to be rid of. Understand, sympathize completely with you. But with women, it was different. Now, I agree. She says her theory is that the pattern she noticed was that
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Many of my worst conflicts were with women who didn't have brothers. Having a brother growing up makes a difference. It teaches you how to argue, forgive and move on. These women often couldn't let go of an issue, which we are seeing right now with Michelle Obama, who did grow up with a brother. But, you know, we're seeing this in real time. I frankly think her brother is terrified of her.
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OK, now she says that her first friendship breakup was in the sixth grade. Same Jill. It ended in a humiliating fight. Same Jill, surrounded by a circle of classmates outside the schoolyard. Mine did not, but like everybody knew about it. That moment left a lasting mark and I remember it vividly. Same, okay. Jill goes on to say the following wise sage words.
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As we grow older, we should recognize that a true female friend is a gift. We shouldn't be so quick to cut ties over misunderstandings or emotions that should pass. Friendship later, that should pass rather, excuse me, friendship later in life is just as important as family. I could not agree with you more. Two more really quick ones. This might be my favorite subject line of recent days.
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Sexual attraction to mountains, okay? A reference to our conversation about our friend who was climbing mountains like a crazy person. So first, again, this person who signed off... I'm sorry. I've lost your last page, but you know who you are. First of all, took the time to acknowledge my greatness as an astronaut. Now, thank you, sir. Okay. Now, the JFK Jr.
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stuff, he is reminding me of a couple of interviews. And, you know, this falls into the Ryan Murphy thing, which, you know, by the way, I'm just going to say to Ryan Murphy, if I see stuff that is proprietary to my book that you tried to option and then decided not to, and it's in your project, there's going to be a problem, okay? He said that he recalled seeing a 42-year-old man after JFK Jr.
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And if everybody's a willing participant, that's not criminal behavior. This testimony that she is giving in open court, eight and a half months pregnant, she and her husband, Alex Fine, have two other children I can only imagine the insane amount of stress she's under and her fear that she's going to be provoked into early labor.
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crashed that plane, fatally killing, fatally, killing is redundant, the fatal crash that killed him, his wife, and his sister-in-law. A 42-year-old man at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, was interviewed in a newspaper. said that he had been a licensed pilot since age 15, before he was even licensed to drive a car.
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He arrived at Teterboro planning to fly to Nantucket the night he saw JFK Jr., this was the night of the crash, doing a flight check of his plane while hobbling around on crutches, true, uh, this 42-year-old pilot with 27 years experience as a licensed pilot looked at the weather charts and decided not to fly to Nantucket that night, even as he saw JFK Jr. get into his plane and take off.
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And that guy went home and turned on CNN, and, you know, the rest is history, okay? And oh, that was Joe from Delaware. Thank you, Joe from Delaware. I loved your email. And our final one for today, and I think this is a great email, and I think we should all brainstorm. Hi, Maureen.
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another great episode of the nerve thank you thanks legit following growing thank you thanks to you guys really her question is there a collective name for viewers of the nerve i think this is a great question most youtube channels with a big following give their viewers a collective name so we could call ourselves that like um she mentions heather mcdonald the comedian who's um got a juicy scoop youtube channel and her viewers are called juicy scoopers so um
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I think this is a great idea. I mean, I kind of thought, like, when I read this email, I thought, well, like, I'm not really great at this stuff. It takes me a long time. So anyway, I'm going to deputize you guys. Like, give me some suggestions. What should we be calling ourselves? And I think that's enough homework, really. I think this was a really packed episode.
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It's a great Friday episode, right? We covered a lot. We covered the gamut. Now, we will see you next Tuesday. But I also want to know that I want to let you know, rather, that we are constantly hearing and reading your feedback. And we know you guys are loving the mini nerves and the drops on the weekend.
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we've got another one for you this weekend so keep your eyes out for it i think it's really it's something we've never done before it's a way we've come at celebrity and pop culture in a way we've never done before and we've got this trio we've got an actress director producer we've got um a chef and we've got an author and each one is bonkers in its own special way.
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We will see you back here when we see you at The Nerve, where you'll never guess what we're about to say next.
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Name me a woman who would sit in open court and testify to such degrading, humiliating acts visited upon her, especially against this guy who seems extremely dangerous and be making it up. Like what is she possibly, she's already gotten her payday. He gave her $20 million to drop the lawsuit she filed in November, 2023.
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Remember the same month that Naomi Campbell threw Sean Combs a lavish 50th birthday party in London, okay? We also learned that Sean Combs filled an inflatable pool with baby oil. and this was in a hotel room. I live in fear that I have stayed in a hotel room that Sean Combs once threw a freak off in, okay?
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It's closed now, but he used to use the Gramercy Park Hotel at least once for this stuff, okay? So we also learned that Cassie, as she testified to us, suffered great physical, deleterious,
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side effects diseases she her oral health was was terrible because sean combs would have her perform with people who had been lubed up and so all this stuff is like in her mouth and she had utis multiple times almost every woman i know has had a uti at some point but she had them so often and they are brutal they are so painful
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like that cipro stopped working for her she had gastrointestinal issues from all this copious sex with all these strangers who are like it's enough it's enough for today okay i think that sean combs is in a lot of trouble okay and this is part of the reason why his defense team asked the judge in this case to disallow Cassie from walking up to the stand because she is so visibly pregnant.
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And their argument, I guess, is that that could be prejudicial to the jury, that her being a pregnant woman might evoke some sympathy. And by the way, the judge denied this, but this goes to the hypocrisy of it. This is as Sean Combs sits there in court with his Bible, okay, his Bible, like try to be a little, Subtle just a little bit.
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Okay, and he's making heart symbols with his hands Okay, so and he sits there and like this grace where you know, he's just looking like your friendly neighborhood Accountant, you know this thug. Are you kidding me? Okay meanwhile He's got his children in this courthouse. Okay, they're older. They're like teenagers maybe or early 20s. But why are his children here?
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Why are they listening to this stuff? You know, I'm looking at that. If I'm a juror, which I would never be, I just couldn't do it with this guy. But if I'm a juror, I'm not looking at that as like, oh, wow. You know, Sean Combs, like his family really these kids were traumatized, by the way. OK, these kids really believe in him so much that they showed up in court to support him.
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I'm thinking what kind of sick fuck has his kids show up in court? and listen to this stuff and be aware of what their father was getting up to when he was probably never home. Now, the daughters left during some of the more graphic testimony in the Cassie stuff, but truly, they should not be there at all. And by the way, Diddy's mother is treating this trial like it's her own personal catwalk.
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Like she's rocking up in this like extravagant, what I assume is a wig. It's a big, curly, fluffy, blonde wig. And she's got her movie star sunglasses on and she's wearing her animal prints. You know, this is not the time or the place, okay? But I guess we're getting a glimpse into, you know, the Combs family dynamics as it were. Now, a final note, and truly the icing on this shit cake.
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On Wednesday, the jurors were shown still photos from some of these freak-offs. And according to reports, several jurors physically recoiled. one female juror actually turned her head to the side to look away. Just to underscore, this jury panel is composed of hardened New Yorkers, OK? They have seen it all.
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And I guarantee every single one of them, as have I, has seen since COVID at least one homeless person openly masturbating on the street, on the subway. OK, we see a lot. OK, so if they're disgusted, it's not looking great for Sean Combs, OK? A related update, Chris Brown was just arrested again, this time in the UK for a 2023 attack against a promoter in a nightclub.
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Chris Brown allegedly smashed a bottle of tequila over this guy's head, then began kicking and punching him. Now, do you remember Rihanna and the beating she took at his hands and how she went back? Guys like this don't change, and I hope that the jury is considering this stuff because the Cassie testimony is complicated, okay? She was with him for 10 years.
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She did keep going back, and she did love him. So it's nuanced. It's not black and white. Now, we have another brief update. The Menendez brothers, okay, they got their resentencing trial this week. And their lawyer said they're going to move very quickly to get these guys out.
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I would just like to remind everybody, including the either brainwashed or the psychologically very unwell members of the Menendez clan and Kitty Menendez, the mother, they're all arguing for these two to be let out. Okay, they paid their dues. I would like to just remind us all, this was a premeditated crime. These two planned it for at least a week.
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You know, they purchased the firearms, the rifles, I believe, at least a week before. When the investigators showed up at the crime scene, their father's brain fell out of his skull. Mother's face blasted off. They had a fake alibi, and they said the cops should have arrested them that very night, and they couldn't believe that they didn't.
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So I'm sure that these two, if they do get out, will be a great addition to society. And now for some lighter celebrity true crime, it's Taylor Swift versus Blake Lively. And this is getting good. Okay. You guys, this is getting good. Now look at these two. Okay. They loved to pose in these provocative, like, you know, are we lovers?
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Maybe, you know, Blake owns Taylor, you know, Blake made Taylor godmother to like at least three or four children, which I have said before. Feels gratuitous, okay? Don't be such a star fucker. Now, Taylor apparently was told to brace. Her team was told to brace for a subpoena from Justin Baldoni's legal team, and she's pissed, okay? She seems pissed. Sounds like she's pissed.
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I think she's pissed. So leaking from Tay-Tay's camp this week was the grievous, grave accusation that Blake Lively attempted to blackmail Taylor, okay? that Blake Lively said, if you don't support me in me bringing this case,
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all these accusations that seem to be falling apart like you know just like confetti out of a piñata if you taylor swift don't back me i'm going to leak private texts between you and i and these apparently go back decades okay so blake's basically saying hey taylor i know where a lot of your bodies are buried and i'm going to exhume them if you don't get on my my train okay
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sean Penn's Violent Past Exposed, Disturbing Diddy Trial Details, And Barry Diller's PR Tour
This is getting so great. I cannot wait for the next development in this. All three of these people, not nearly as smart as they think they are. Okay. Up next, we have a showbiz titan whose sexual disclosures are bonkers and they are so cynical and we're going to just slice and dice it like, you know, minor surgery. Okay.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sean Penn's Violent Past Exposed, Disturbing Diddy Trial Details, And Barry Diller's PR Tour
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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sean Penn's Violent Past Exposed, Disturbing Diddy Trial Details, And Barry Diller's PR Tour
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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sean Penn's Violent Past Exposed, Disturbing Diddy Trial Details, And Barry Diller's PR Tour
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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sean Penn's Violent Past Exposed, Disturbing Diddy Trial Details, And Barry Diller's PR Tour
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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Sean Penn's Violent Past Exposed, Disturbing Diddy Trial Details, And Barry Diller's PR Tour
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