Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren Zema coming to you from an
Speaker 1: undisclosed location for a very well, I think it's a
Speaker 1: very important reason. This week we.
Speaker 2: Are taking our annual Chris Harrison Birthday trip. And we
Speaker 2: I say annual trip because we kind of do a
Speaker 2: trip for your birthday every year. And also it's not
Speaker 2: just a day, it's a week. Which look, I'm not
Speaker 2: mad at it because one thing I've learned in dating you,
Speaker 2: babe is Chris Harrison is from a family that really
Speaker 2: celebrates birthdays, and I didn't. I mean, my family celebrated
Speaker 2: my birthday, but growing up, my birthday was very close
Speaker 2: to Thanksgiving, so it was kind of like still is
Speaker 2: by the way, have I had one take?
Speaker 3: But yeah, so it was like, oh, Lauren, everybody's already together.
Speaker 3: We had turkey and here's a cake for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's you know, obviously, you know our daughter's birthday,
Speaker 1: Taylor is December twenty first, Christmas. We have a rule.
Speaker 1: You have to separate. You can't do oh this is
Speaker 1: your birthday, Christmas present, your turkey birthday.
Speaker 3: That doesn't work, sir, Christmas present.
Speaker 1: That's why he was always wonderful. To have a July
Speaker 1: birthday Me and Mick Jagger, who I'm BFFs with, both
Speaker 1: on the twenty sixth, and it's exactly half the year.
Speaker 2: Well, happy birthday, Chris Harrison July twenty sixth, and we
Speaker 2: do a full birthday.
Speaker 1: Week before that though, we had a great event at
Speaker 1: our house. As people probably know, both our kids go
Speaker 1: to TCU. We have a senior and now a sophomore,
Speaker 1: which is hard to believe, but we were asked by
Speaker 1: the folks at TCU if we would host the local
Speaker 1: Austin Welcome to TCU for all the incoming freshmen, and
Speaker 1: so all the kids from around the Greater Austin round
Speaker 1: Rock Bernie area came to our house for a little
Speaker 1: mixer and it was really cool.
Speaker 3: It was wonderful.
Speaker 2: Look, we had sixty five seventy people at my house
Speaker 2: our house.
Speaker 3: Was I overwhelmed, No, not at all? Was it.
Speaker 2: Everything was great. My mom came into help, which was awesome.
Speaker 2: And you're so good with my mom because you are
Speaker 2: like when my mom's great at parties, but she's very
Speaker 2: the captain of the ship. And I got to give
Speaker 2: Chris Harrison credit. You are so good at just being
Speaker 2: first mate. You let her tell you what to do,
Speaker 2: You let her organize an order, and even if you
Speaker 2: know an ideas maybe not great, you kind of just
Speaker 2: let it ride until she realizes it herself. And I
Speaker 2: think that's a lesson that comes with maturity. Correct me
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong, tell me if you were like that
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 1: But I think it's there is a learned skill to
Speaker 1: take second chair, even when you think, say it's your
Speaker 1: house and you know you want it to be your
Speaker 1: domain or whatever, learning that this is how she speaks
Speaker 1: her love. This is her love language, taking care of us, cooking,
Speaker 1: creating things and being in the kitchen and all that.
Speaker 1: And so instead of, you know, maybe when you're younger,
Speaker 1: taking a fence to how people act at your house.
Speaker 1: And I know it's difficult when family comes into town
Speaker 1: because they're in your space and all that, but maybe
Speaker 1: just see try and take a step back. What are
Speaker 1: they really saying? And your mom kind of like my mom,
Speaker 1: that's their love language. And so it means a lot
Speaker 1: to me that she loves you so much that she
Speaker 1: wanted to come into town. But it definitely is something
Speaker 1: that I had to learn from experience, and you know,
Speaker 1: when you're younger, you're like, oh, my mom or my
Speaker 1: dad or my brother drives me crazy because.
Speaker 2: They're trying to control me always in my business. But
Speaker 2: you're right if you can see what's really motivating them,
Speaker 2: and they're not being motivated by control, they're being motivated
Speaker 2: by a need to be needed.
Speaker 1: By wanting to find space in your life. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: they really don't have me. I can already see it
Speaker 1: with my kids. I don't fill the same space that
Speaker 1: I used to because they don't need me like that
Speaker 1: because I did my job. So they grow, they become independent,
Speaker 1: and then you long for that, so you have to
Speaker 1: find different ways to get it.
Speaker 2: Well, when you think about the longevity of that, I mean,
Speaker 2: we always want people to bounce back quickly, but the
Speaker 2: reality is you've been a parent for eighteen year years
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden they had to college
Speaker 2: and you're supposed to not need to be needed anymore.
Speaker 2: And it was great though, because everyone was so lovely.
Speaker 2: I mean, neither of us nor my mom went to TCU,
Speaker 2: but my mom even said, Wow, all those TCU parents
Speaker 2: and kids were so great. The kids were awesome, and
Speaker 2: it was really wonderful to see. Actually, one of the
Speaker 2: other parents said to me, well, you know what's great
Speaker 2: about this this kids can connect on social media now,
Speaker 2: but events like this actually kind of make them hang
Speaker 2: out in person. And it's so cool that the school
Speaker 2: does different gathering so the kids can get to know
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: So it was awesome and it was good to see
Speaker 1: the parents actually nervous. The parents are just as nervous
Speaker 1: as the kids. But two hours after this party.
Speaker 2: Ended, listen, we raged and I had Afternoon Suarez.
Speaker 1: We had a wardrobe change, we went from purple to pink,
Speaker 1: and we went to Barbie.
Speaker 3: We should have started this podcast with Hi Barbie.
Speaker 1: I ken, wait, no, that was me. We did a
Speaker 1: pod about this last week about Oppenheimer coming out, the
Speaker 1: three hour Christopher Nolan thriller and then the Greta Gerwig
Speaker 1: comedy very much the Barbie movie heartfelt comedy, and I
Speaker 1: kind of made the proclamation that a rising tide will
Speaker 1: lift all boats, and that is what happened at the
Speaker 1: box office. They both were massive successes.
Speaker 2: And I am so happy to see it because I
Speaker 2: think I'd actually pulled back a little bit on reading
Speaker 2: the headlines because when this whole Oppenheimer Barbie thing first happened.
Speaker 2: The headlines were about the movies being pitted against each other,
Speaker 2: like there's this big history of Christopher Nolan always opens
Speaker 2: his movies on the same weekend in July. But for Oppenheimer,
Speaker 2: he switched studios and his old studios, Warner Brothers decides
Speaker 2: they're going to open Barbie on Chris Nolan's weekend, and
Speaker 2: it was sort of perceived as this slight and it
Speaker 2: became a competitive thing, which movie is going to do better?
Speaker 3: What was so great?
Speaker 2: And I don't know if I sound crazy, but can
Speaker 2: we all take a lesson from Barbenheimer when these two
Speaker 2: movies came together, when the narrative became about, oh do
Speaker 2: the double features. See Oppenheimer in the morning, Barbie in
Speaker 2: the afternoon, We're black and pink.
Speaker 3: They both did great.
Speaker 2: Like I actually read that Oppenheimer benefited a little bit
Speaker 2: because some Barbie showings were sold out.
Speaker 1: Oh funny.
Speaker 2: I think because people had heard about Barbenheimer and all
Speaker 2: this press and they thought, oh, well, let's just go
Speaker 2: see Oppenheimer and.
Speaker 1: So but I think a lot of people, like myself,
Speaker 1: I'm going to see both. I have not seen Oppenheimer
Speaker 1: yet we didn't have time because we left on this trip,
Speaker 1: but I will see both. We just chose because our
Speaker 1: daughter was in town. We saw Barbie first.
Speaker 3: Hsen, Babe, you were surrounded by the ladies, and I.
Speaker 1: Got to give I had such a good dyey. I
Speaker 1: went with four ladies and in four Barbies and four barbies,
Speaker 1: and we all got dressed up.
Speaker 3: Yep, Chris wore pink. He had a pink shirt that
Speaker 3: had roses on it. So it was very apropos that,
Speaker 3: very on brand.
Speaker 2: I was seeing on on social media that some people,
Speaker 2: like some younger people were saying, wow, so cool to
Speaker 2: have like two big movies in one weekend, and then older.
Speaker 3: People are like, this is how it used to be.
Speaker 2: So I hope it was a resurgence to the eventizing
Speaker 2: of movies.
Speaker 1: Like our theater was packed packed, and people.
Speaker 2: Were wearing pink, and people used to like I remember
Speaker 2: when the Star Wars prequels came out, people dressed up
Speaker 2: like they were wearing.
Speaker 3: They brought lightsabers to the theater.
Speaker 1: And even though it didn't do as good, but people
Speaker 1: were there for Barbie, people were there for Oppenheimer. People
Speaker 1: were still going to mission impossible. So it was packed
Speaker 1: all around, which was great. It was just nice to
Speaker 1: have so many great fun movies out. You had choices again.
Speaker 2: And it was nice to do something together and to
Speaker 2: realize that by these two movies kind of playing into
Speaker 2: each other. And look, here's how Hollywood's gonna work. Studios
Speaker 2: and pr people are going to try to recreate the
Speaker 2: Barbenheimer effect in the marketing moment. And you can't like,
Speaker 2: this was a viral happenstance thing, but what it was
Speaker 2: born out of. This happenstance was born out of Tom Cruise,
Speaker 2: Margot Robbie and other and the people.
Speaker 3: Involved in these movies.
Speaker 2: They would post on social media, Hey, I just bought
Speaker 2: my ticket for Oppenheimer. I bought my ticket for Barbie.
Speaker 2: And they literally did that because they want the box office.
Speaker 3: To do well.
Speaker 2: And so it is this good overall lesson of when
Speaker 2: you operate from a place of supporting.
Speaker 3: Each other, everybody does better.
Speaker 2: And I think it's it's a good thing to note
Speaker 2: in a very what continues to be a very tumultuous
Speaker 2: time in our country.
Speaker 1: I read something today that was really interesting that things
Speaker 1: change with a surprising success. More so than they do
Speaker 1: a big flop. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 1: in the industry, if there's a big flop, it'll change
Speaker 1: the industry, like, Okay, no more of those action movies,
Speaker 1: or no more of those thrilled whatever and so. But
Speaker 1: this person was saying that a surprise success is even
Speaker 1: more of a game changer. And what that means, hopefully
Speaker 1: is that. And I'm not poo pooing on these because
Speaker 1: I do like them, but sequels too long running movies
Speaker 1: like a Mission Impossible, like Indiana Jones, the Marvel, DC,
Speaker 1: all the superhero movies, that is what everyone's been leaning
Speaker 1: into for god ten years now.
Speaker 3: I think we're burnt out. I do.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I love those movies to Iron Man
Speaker 2: and some of the Avengers movies and all that. They're great,
Speaker 2: they're funny, they're action packed. But I think we're burnt out.
Speaker 2: I think we've reached the tipping point.
Speaker 1: No longer do I feel like if I miss this
Speaker 1: Marvel movie or DC movie, whatever, I'm really going to
Speaker 1: be lost.
Speaker 3: In fact, I feel like I can't watch all of them.
Speaker 2: I can't keep up with it because they also started
Speaker 2: doing you've got to see the TV shows that are
Speaker 2: on the streamers to know what's happening in the next movie.
Speaker 2: I can't consume all this. We've reached burnout, and I
Speaker 2: think the quality of the movies is getting worse. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll be honest. I like taichoidt, I like Chris Hemsworth,
Speaker 2: but I saw the most recent thour it wasn't as
Speaker 2: good as the ones in the past.
Speaker 1: There's a movie and again I don't I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to dog it, but there's a movie coming out that
Speaker 1: we saw Blue Beetle. We saw the ads for it,
Speaker 1: the trailer, and I'm like, oh man.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm like, I've never heard of this superhero
Speaker 2: we're at this point, but.
Speaker 1: It's Spider Man. It's the story of Spider Man, except
Speaker 1: it's a beatle.
Speaker 2: I do hope that what studios take away from this
Speaker 2: is that original, interesting movies do well. Because let's point
Speaker 2: something out here. Now that the numbers are in, everybody's saying, oh,
Speaker 2: this is for Greta Gerwig, for example, this is the
Speaker 2: biggest opening ever for a female director, or for Chris Nolan,
Speaker 2: this is his biggest opening ever. This is the reality
Speaker 2: the box office amidst all the talk about how movies
Speaker 2: are dying just powered to it's I'm quoting Variety here,
Speaker 2: fourth biggest weekend in history, all of history.
Speaker 1: So this was the foorth essentially two and a half,
Speaker 1: well four decent films on the radar right now if
Speaker 1: you include Mission Impossible and Sound of Freedom along with
Speaker 1: Oppenheimer and Barbie.
Speaker 2: But these weren't superhero movies. These weren't franchise movies. I
Speaker 2: saw a quote from somebody at Warner Brothers who said,
Speaker 2: this shows the power of Barbie. Yes, but please don't
Speaker 2: start inundating us with movies based on every single toy
Speaker 2: we ever grew up with. I think what it shows
Speaker 2: is that people want to get back to that time
Speaker 2: where movies touch them, where they laughed. I mean I
Speaker 2: cried in Barbie. So many people say they cried at
Speaker 2: the end where they walked away thinking about the movie
Speaker 2: I miss. You know, I think about movies I grew
Speaker 2: up with. I still quote those movies, movies of the
Speaker 2: past decade or so. I can't think of many that
Speaker 2: I walk around quoting or rewatching all the time.
Speaker 1: And I know there is politics involved in everything we
Speaker 1: do these days, and there are opinions that controversy. It's just,
Speaker 1: you know, with Oppenheimer, there's plenty of it. With Barbie,
Speaker 1: I saw plenty of it. I'll tell you I went.
Speaker 1: Not only was I not offended, I just I had
Speaker 1: a great time. I laughed. Look, not everything hit the mark,
Speaker 1: but this is her take on it. And I loved
Speaker 1: historically how they brought in kind of the old canceled
Speaker 1: or discontinued Barbie's and they threw some historical moments from
Speaker 1: mattel In. I liked it. I'm sorry, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say the same thing probably about Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, for anybody who was saying I will give
Speaker 2: my opinion. I think there were some people who said
Speaker 2: Barbie is anti man, you know, and then that's played
Speaker 2: up in the media because they need clickbait headlines. But
Speaker 2: if you see it, no, I don't think it's anti
Speaker 2: man at all. In fact, what it is is anti
Speaker 2: putting people in a box.
Speaker 3: It says that we are more than our gender whoever
Speaker 3: we are.
Speaker 2: We are human and we should know who we are
Speaker 2: and what we want to make in this world. And
Speaker 2: that shouldn't be defined by labels. It should be defined
Speaker 2: by you as a human being and we all have
Speaker 2: that same human experience.
Speaker 3: So that's what I took away from the movie.
Speaker 1: I agree, and I went into it going, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: look out for this because I had heard about it.
Speaker 1: Not only was I not offended, I was I laughed,
Speaker 1: I was impressed. I enjoyed it. I love sharing it
Speaker 1: with my daughter, who came out with her own opinions
Speaker 1: of it and took a lot of different things away
Speaker 1: from it, and it was a great family experience. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the movie, go to the theater.
Speaker 3: All right. With that, I will say bye.
Speaker 1: Ken, Bye Barbie. Oh before you go. We do have
Speaker 1: this very interesting story that we're going to continue on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break. Miranda Lambert was hosting
Speaker 1: a concert. She was giving a concert in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Stop the show in the middle of it to really
Speaker 1: kind of verbally undress these women who are taking selfies
Speaker 1: in the middle of her show. Now to paint a picture,
Speaker 1: because this is a podcast and we're not watching, we're listening.
Speaker 1: It's not your typical concert where everybody was standing in
Speaker 1: a stadium.
Speaker 3: Vegas has these intimate shows. You're seated at tables, old school, yeah.
Speaker 1: And they were standing up and it was like five
Speaker 1: or six of them and this thing. At first there
Speaker 1: was a lot of applause and everybody was in for it.
Speaker 1: Then the tables and the tide turned against Miranda Lambert.
Speaker 1: And that's where things are going to get interesting because
Speaker 1: on the other side of the break, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk to Adella, one of the ladies who was there,
Speaker 1: the lady who posted the picture.
Speaker 2: Well, and this has come up again because now people
Speaker 2: have started making t shirts about the moment. Because Miranda's
Speaker 2: tour is continuing, so taking pictures at a concerts, the
Speaker 2: debate continues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so Miranda got kind of you know, it
Speaker 1: was very interesting, and I want to talk to Adela
Speaker 1: because she was so she took the pictures, she posted
Speaker 1: these pictures. I know she has her opinions, but Llo,
Speaker 1: cool Jay has come out and he's like, Miranda, get
Speaker 1: over it. Parker McCollum, up and coming superstar and Country
Speaker 1: has defended Miranda Lambert and said, no, no, these ladies
Speaker 1: were up, they had the flash going, they were doing
Speaker 1: a full on photo shoots. There's a lot of opinions
Speaker 1: that go both ways. But I want to talk to
Speaker 1: the source, and we have chased her down. She's going
Speaker 1: to join us right after this. We talked about it
Speaker 1: right before for the break, the big story that came
Speaker 1: out of Las Vegas and the Miranda Lambert concert and
Speaker 1: the women that were taking a selfie? Was it good?
Speaker 1: Was it bad? Are you for it? Are you against it?
Speaker 1: This has really become a thing. So I had our
Speaker 1: incredible producer Kendall, let's go to the source. She chased
Speaker 1: down Adela, who joins us now from Las Vegas, who
Speaker 1: was the woman really at the center of this whole controversy. Adela,
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for being here. I truly
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 4: Oh happy to be here.
Speaker 1: What has this last week been like for you.
Speaker 4: It's been very busy. I had to be highly organized
Speaker 4: managing personal life and some interviews here and.
Speaker 1: There, crazy people chasing you out of the woodwork to
Speaker 1: talk to you about this moment that happened at Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and I explained just full disclosure before the break before
Speaker 1: I got to you. This isn't your typical We're at
Speaker 1: a concert, at a bar, or at a stadium where
Speaker 1: everybody's up screaming. You're sitting at tables typically right the
Speaker 1: cocktail tables.
Speaker 4: No, the theater at Planet Hollywood holds. I actually had
Speaker 4: to look up the capacity. It holds seven thousand people.
Speaker 4: And first you have the pet which is right around
Speaker 4: the stage. Then you have two rows of VIP benches
Speaker 4: with tables, and those rows are more like cocktail tables.
Speaker 4: They also give you complimentary champagne. And behind the two
Speaker 4: rows of VIP then it's the main seating, which is
Speaker 4: more like a regular concerts.
Speaker 1: I actually hosted Miss America there for many years. I
Speaker 1: remember that theater very well, but it looked like you
Speaker 1: guys were in that VIP area.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 1: Yes, kudos by the way to forget those tickets and
Speaker 1: the bottom service.
Speaker 4: Very lucky. I believe I bought them right when the
Speaker 4: concert dates were announced, and as soon as they went
Speaker 4: on sale, I was on ticket Master buying the tickets.
Speaker 1: Because you're so you're a Miranda Lambert fan.
Speaker 4: I love for music. Also, my husband and I like
Speaker 4: to go to almost virtually every concert. We can get
Speaker 4: tickets too, because Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of
Speaker 4: the world, so we enjoy going out on weekends.
Speaker 1: So you're at the Miranda Lambert concert, you have the
Speaker 1: VIP ticket, You're sitting there presumably your husband's there is
Speaker 1: that who was taking the picture?
Speaker 4: No, my husband happened to be out of town, so
Speaker 4: I decided to invite some of my girlfriends and making
Speaker 4: a girls' night.
Speaker 1: So it's girls night, and that's who we see in
Speaker 1: the picture with you that was put up on Instagram
Speaker 1: and then taking around the world. Really, so tell me
Speaker 1: from your perspective what happened.
Speaker 4: The concert start is the typical Saturday night fun Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: The energy is starting to get really high in the theater.
Speaker 4: People all throughout the theater are standing up or sometimes dancing,
Speaker 4: taking pictures and videos, and me and my other friends
Speaker 4: are doing the exact same thing everybody else is doing everywhere.
Speaker 4: We are having a great time. And suddenly, at some
Speaker 4: point during the concert, as we are trying to take
Speaker 4: a group picture and people are right next to us,
Speaker 4: you're taking a selfie video. But suddenly the concert stops.
Speaker 4: Me and my friends are being called out and we
Speaker 4: are being told to set down.
Speaker 1: It was so instead of a picture, what you thought
Speaker 1: you were going to take a picture, the person pressed
Speaker 1: video so instantly the light came on. Is that why
Speaker 1: the light was on?
Speaker 4: I believe we took the picture with a friend's phone,
Speaker 4: and I believe she turned the flash on because the
Speaker 4: concert started. We were trying to take a group picture
Speaker 4: of all us ladies, but the lighting was not very good,
Speaker 4: and I think she realized we had to use the
Speaker 4: flash to take a good group picture.
Speaker 1: So you're taking a picture, I think you, and you're
Speaker 1: at four or five other girlfriends. The flash is on,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, when did you realize Miranda
Speaker 1: Lambert is on stage talking to you.
Speaker 4: As we are turning and we're just about to sit down,
Speaker 4: we realized, oh, the concert has stopped, and this is
Speaker 4: because me and my friends did something.
Speaker 1: And what was that moment of realization?
Speaker 4: Like for you, anybody will get ready in the face.
Speaker 4: You have to have very tough skin not to feel embarrassed.
Speaker 4: And after a couple of seconds passed, I was trying
Speaker 4: to clear my mind, and I thought, the last time
Speaker 4: I was told to sit down is when I was
Speaker 4: in school and the teacher told me to sit down
Speaker 4: because me and my friends did something that annoyed her.
Speaker 1: What was and I don't even know if you remember
Speaker 1: this because it probably happened so quick, But what do
Speaker 1: you remember as the reaction from the crowd when she
Speaker 1: was saying that where because I've heard and seen different
Speaker 1: videos and some people were applauding. Some people didn't like
Speaker 1: it and left. So, in your mind, what was the
Speaker 1: reaction when Miranda Lambert told you to sit down?
Speaker 4: I think because everything happened pretty quickly, and the energy
Speaker 4: was so high in the theater leading to that moment,
Speaker 4: and people were just cheering. I think people were cheering
Speaker 4: just because Miranda Lambert was speaking. They're just trying to
Speaker 4: have a good time. Some people were realizing what's happening,
Speaker 4: and some people left after. Obviously, every the concert did stop.
Speaker 4: I did try to look a little bit around everybody
Speaker 4: that sat down. Everybody did stop taking pictures. I felt
Speaker 4: that we were just singled out. I felt like she
Speaker 4: was just bothered by everybody taking pictures and videos. Just
Speaker 4: I couldn't understand why we were singled out.
Speaker 1: Did she overreact in your opinion? Was it a bit much?
Speaker 4: Yes, I've been I've been to so many concerts in
Speaker 4: that very theater, and I mean there's thousands and thousands
Speaker 4: of pictures and videos taken. I have never seen a
Speaker 4: reaction like that. Ever.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's because of your location of how
Speaker 1: close you all were to the stage. You were in
Speaker 1: her eyesight, I guess, and the flash was going off.
Speaker 1: Do you think that was it?
Speaker 4: I guess because we were writing the center and writing
Speaker 4: the front was easier to make an example out of us.
Speaker 4: That would be my guess. I don't know exactly what
Speaker 4: she was thinking, and I know there's a lot of
Speaker 4: talk about the flash. I have tried really hard for
Speaker 4: the last week to see if there's truly no flash
Speaker 4: palace in that theater. I've been to concerts before and
Speaker 4: I've never heard the no flash policy being announced. I
Speaker 4: also have tickets in the next couple of weeks to
Speaker 4: Kelly Clarkson in that very theater, and I looked on
Speaker 4: my tickets to see does he say no flash? And
Speaker 4: I haven't found anywhere it says no flash. I even
Speaker 4: googled the name of the theater no flash policy. I
Speaker 4: couldn't find it anywhere. If there is, I have not
Speaker 4: seen it.
Speaker 1: Do you, as you look back on it, do you
Speaker 1: regret it at all? Is there anything you would have
Speaker 1: changed from your perspective?
Speaker 4: If I was to regret something, everybody else in that
Speaker 4: venue would have to regret taking pictures and videos, so
Speaker 4: I don't see what there's to regret.
Speaker 1: This was my take when I saw it. When I
Speaker 1: saw Miranda Lambert speak out and there was instant applause,
Speaker 1: and like you said, when you were at a concert
Speaker 1: and the performer starts speaking, everyone just kind of starts yelling.
Speaker 1: I think she was emboldened by that and like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to keep going. And I think she probably, if
Speaker 1: she would admit it now, may have gone a little
Speaker 1: further than she even anticipated because she thought she was
Speaker 1: riding this kind of wave of energy. But then people
Speaker 1: started kind of turning on her, and that was the
Speaker 1: interesting thing. And people left the show. I saw a
Speaker 1: video of people leaving. I think your friends may have
Speaker 1: even left, Is that right?
Speaker 4: Yes, two of my friends got up and left. Two
Speaker 4: of my other friends were nicer. They said we're going
Speaker 4: to the ladies room. But me and one other friend
Speaker 4: we stayed until the end. But the concert was about
Speaker 4: to be over anyway, very.
Speaker 1: You know one of the I think it would have
Speaker 1: been great if Miranda had somehow sent security out to
Speaker 1: you guys after the show and said, hey, stick around.
Speaker 1: Miranda wanted to say hi to you, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just think like, look, I know she did what
Speaker 1: she felt was right, but I think it just would
Speaker 1: have been a good pro move afterwards and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you ladies, stick around, let's take a picture. I think
Speaker 1: it would have fixed it would have solved everything.
Speaker 4: It would have been nice. But I have learned that
Speaker 4: she has done this in the past. She got annoyed
Speaker 4: by audience members ticking pictures. So I think just something
Speaker 4: in her she just doesn't like pictures and videos taken
Speaker 4: during her concert. And that's okay. She doesn't like that.
Speaker 4: Bruno Marsh doesn't like it. He made me and my
Speaker 4: husband lack our phones in pouches. He makes everyone in
Speaker 4: the audience lacks their phone in pouches, and the audience complies,
Speaker 4: you're okay with that. As I said that before, nobody
Speaker 4: goes to a concert wanting to annoy the performer. We
Speaker 4: just want to have a great time.
Speaker 1: You know, I did see one guy, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you are just as surprised as everybody of how this
Speaker 1: is taken on a life of its own. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's amazing how much this has really circled the globe
Speaker 1: and become a thing.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, And I ask myself exactly why maybe because
Speaker 4: there's this contrast between there's a celebrities performing on stage
Speaker 4: and unfortunately fans through stuff at them. And then here's
Speaker 4: the one instance when fans want to have a memory
Speaker 4: of this great concert. We have such amazing seats and
Speaker 4: we want to have in the background in between us.
Speaker 4: It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to do that.
Speaker 4: And she gets upset by that when it's absolutely a
Speaker 4: great compliment that we want to have a picture with her.
Speaker 1: I saw someone, you know, some guy, and this is
Speaker 1: what happened. Some guy goes I put it on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Of course, I flew to Vegas just to take this
Speaker 1: selfie at a Randa Lambert concert. And I'm like, guys,
Speaker 1: come now, you just have these people copycat. They're trying
Speaker 1: to go to her into stuff, and it's become a
Speaker 1: whole thing. And so hopefully that part will stop for
Speaker 1: you as you go to many more concerts and you
Speaker 1: and your husband go to shows and stuff, will it
Speaker 1: change you at all? Like WI, will you be more cautious?
Speaker 1: Will you think twice before taking pictures from now on? No?
Speaker 4: Again, I'm only what everybody else does in the whole audience,
Speaker 4: taking I'll give you an example. One of the best
Speaker 4: concerts I went to in that theater is the Backstreet
Speaker 4: Boys concert and I believe in twenty nineteen, and I
Speaker 4: have videos on my phone from that concert, and I
Speaker 4: still watch those videos and I still look at those
Speaker 4: pictures because they are such great memories.
Speaker 1: If you could say something to Miranda Lambert, if she
Speaker 1: was listening to this now, what would you want to
Speaker 1: say to her?
Speaker 4: She just has to decide if she likes pictures, if
Speaker 4: she likes videos, or maybe she doesn't like pictures and
Speaker 4: videos during one song. She just has to figure out
Speaker 4: what's the policy she wants for her concerts and let
Speaker 4: her fans know and we will comply.
Speaker 1: Couldn't say it better myself, Adela, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the time.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you, having a great day.
Speaker 1: And enjoy all the shows coming up in Vegas.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So there you go. You know one of the women
Speaker 1: that were at the center of this Miranda Lambert controversy,
Speaker 1: and it was interesting to hear her take. She stands
Speaker 1: behind everything she did and would do it again. Be
Speaker 1: interesting to know where you fall in this is Miranda
Speaker 1: Lambert in the right here to demand that respect at
Speaker 1: her shows and to say what she said and do
Speaker 1: what she did in that moment and call out fans
Speaker 1: or was she out of line? And were these people
Speaker 1: well within their right to sit there in those VIP seats,
Speaker 1: get that bottle service and take the pictures. I think
Speaker 1: the interesting thing about this and why it has created
Speaker 1: such controversy is everybody has a very strong opinion, but
Speaker 1: it's not all the same. Some people are team Miranda,
Speaker 1: some are team Adela and her crew. So let us
Speaker 1: know where you land. Leave us a little comment and
Speaker 1: appreciate it very much. It has been a very busy week,
Speaker 1: a lot of great things. The theater is hopping with
Speaker 1: the Barbenheimer weekend, the Miranda Lambert controversy, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: we had a chance to talk about all of it.
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