Speaker 1: So everyone bought into the Golden Bachelor. I didn't watch it.
Speaker 1: I had one of the suitors on this podcast. But
Speaker 1: I've always taken issue with the fact that on the Bachelor,
Speaker 1: on the Bachelorette, you have people from different socioeconomic backgrounds,
Speaker 1: you have people from different political beliefs, religion just like
Speaker 1: the world. Of course, yes, but then you concentrate in
Speaker 1: this pressure cooker of alcohol and the bubble they call it,
Speaker 1: and then you give people these extraordinary circumstances, like you
Speaker 1: put two people together on the top of a mountain
Speaker 1: on amazing helicopter. They go hang gliding, they go skydiving,
Speaker 1: whatever it is that they do, but it is not
Speaker 1: reality and fantasy.
Speaker 2: They even have a fantasy suite.
Speaker 1: So people are expected to base a relationship which is
Speaker 1: all about reality. Like reality hits in life when you
Speaker 1: have to pay bills, when God forbid, you have a
Speaker 1: sick child, when someone is sick, when there's a death,
Speaker 1: when you have a mortgage, when you know, when the
Speaker 1: shit hits the fan, when you're cleaning up baby vomit,
Speaker 1: when in laws are coming, things like that, that's real life.
Speaker 1: When someone loses their job and you have this show
Speaker 1: that's based all in fantasy and hype, and having been
Speaker 1: on reality television, I know how much that experience can
Speaker 1: influence your decisions.
Speaker 2: You also are aware, acutely aware that.
Speaker 1: There's an audience watching you can it could be real,
Speaker 1: but it's only real based on what's going on, which
Speaker 1: is not real. And I think that the world has
Speaker 1: to start getting clued into the fact that divorce is
Speaker 1: at an astronomical rate because no one's living in reality.
Speaker 2: That's why I talk about prenups.
Speaker 1: That's why I talk about marriage being a business, divorce
Speaker 1: being a business, lawyers being for profit, people not discussing
Speaker 1: things that really matter, People that are very educated and
Speaker 1: successful being scared to ask a partner for a prenup,
Speaker 1: as if there's something wrong with it. But everybody's just
Speaker 1: leaning into the big dress and the ring and the
Speaker 1: fairy tale and all that, and everybody. We have to
Speaker 1: start educating our children on what really goes on, like
Speaker 1: a show should be talking about religious differences. Are you
Speaker 1: open to therapy? What would happen if you got a divorce,
Speaker 1: What would happen in custody?
Speaker 2: Do you want your kids to go to public or
Speaker 2: private school?
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you believe about strict religion, What kind
Speaker 1: of vacations do you like to go on? Where are
Speaker 1: you on education? Where are you on politics? Like people
Speaker 1: need to start getting their shit together. And it affects
Speaker 1: girls watching thinking that that's how our relationship should be
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a fantasy. They're leaning into
Speaker 1: the marketing, the neo layne ring, the verau Wang dress,
Speaker 1: the vacation that's you know, that's amazing and marketed. If
Speaker 1: anybody spent nearly as much time focusing on what really
Speaker 1: happens in a marriage, in a divorce, in a prenup,
Speaker 1: in all of it, in the pressure, in the money
Speaker 1: that people spend on these weddings, Like, that's what needs
Speaker 1: to be discussed. And it's not cute and it's not sexy,
Speaker 1: but it's reality. So next time you see people just
Speaker 1: getting engaged flipping through the magazines, tell them that they
Speaker 1: have to be educated on marital law. In the state
Speaker 1: that you live in, I was in a ten year
Speaker 1: divorce process millions and millions of dollars. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter whether you're rich or you're poor. You're a victim
Speaker 1: to the system. So the minute you sign the dotted
Speaker 1: line and sign a contract. With marriage, think about the
Speaker 1: fact that it's not all that it's marketed up to be. So,
Speaker 1: just like with going to college, some people don't go
Speaker 1: to college anymore because they're thinking about if they want
Speaker 1: several hundred thousand dollars in debt.
Speaker 2: It's their decision.
Speaker 1: You may want to go to college, you may want
Speaker 1: to be a doctor, you may want to be a lawyer.
Speaker 1: You may just want to go to college. That's your right,
Speaker 1: of course it is. It could be a beautiful experience,
Speaker 1: but think about it. You have to think about it
Speaker 1: because you may not want to be in debt college debt,
Speaker 1: student loan debt forever. So think about getting married because
Speaker 1: you may not want If fifty sixty percent of people
Speaker 1: end up in divorce, I would not invest in that business.
Speaker 1: The most ironic and interesting thing is that Kevin O'Leary
Speaker 1: always refers to relationships in a business way, and I
Speaker 1: used to think of a callous He'd ask me about
Speaker 1: something and he'd say, I don't know if i'd take
Speaker 1: that deal. I wouldn't do that deal about a relationship.
Speaker 1: He asks questions like, oh, you know, did you sign
Speaker 1: a prenup? Would you sign a prenup.
Speaker 2: What is he paying? What are you paying?
Speaker 1: It's not sexy because you know what he realizes, it's
Speaker 1: a fucking business.
Speaker 2: So you know what he's right. Decide whether or not
Speaker 2: you would take that deal.
Speaker 1: But on Shark Deech, we would not invest in something
Speaker 1: that had a sixty percent chance of failing. So you're
Speaker 1: investing in a romantic business that has a fifty to
Speaker 1: sixty percent chance in failing. You may as well get
Speaker 1: educated and stop watching this fantasy television, or just know
Speaker 1: that it's complete bullshit that two people that are raised
Speaker 1: a nurse and a landscaper as parents. Living modest means
Speaker 1: that when you go to a mountaintop in Greece and
Speaker 1: everything's paid for and you don't have to think about
Speaker 1: a bill, think about religion, think about therapy, think about
Speaker 1: anything besides getting late and looking cute. Of course, you're
Speaker 1: gonna make bad decisions, so get your shit together when
Speaker 1: it comes to relationships. Life is not a fantasy suite.
Speaker 1: Life is a reality suite. If someone is a devout
Speaker 1: spiritual person, they meditate for weeks on end at silent retreats.
Speaker 2: They are a monk. They have tea with the Dali Lama.
Speaker 1: They're not hanging out with Ben Affleck, j Loo and
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian because I think Kim Kardashian is a lovely person,
Speaker 1: a hard worker and a beautiful girl, but she's not
Speaker 1: who I go to if I'm a spiritual being. And
Speaker 1: Jal is the hardest working woman in entertainment. And I
Speaker 1: love Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in this amazing era
Speaker 1: of theirs. But I just would say that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: look to my spiritual leaders to be hanging out with
Speaker 1: a list celebrities on the met Gallus steps. I would think, like,
Speaker 1: why aren't you, you know, in India studying your spiritual craft.
Speaker 1: So I'm calling bullshit, But what was your first clue