Speaker 1: So the election conversation continues. Celebrities are dead silent. I
Speaker 1: don't know why people go out on a limit make
Speaker 1: these grandiose statements about moving fleeing the country. And it
Speaker 1: occurred to me yesterday, I thought the combined social media
Speaker 1: followers of the people that supported Kamala is two billion plus.
Speaker 1: Now that is global, and there is some overlap. So
Speaker 1: let's cut it in half. Let's call it a billion plus.
Speaker 1: And you could say that half of the country votes
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million people, but really five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand votes decide the election. So now you're talking about
Speaker 1: over a billion and pressions not to mention media impressions
Speaker 1: not to mention the entire cast of the view CNN.
Speaker 1: And yes, I know there is media on the other side,
Speaker 1: but most of the entertainment vehicles are pro Democrat, pro Kamala.
Speaker 1: If you've ever been in the entertainment industry or any
Speaker 1: sort of media coming out of LA, it's all pro Democrat.
Speaker 1: So what we learned, undeniably is that it's a flex
Speaker 1: it's spinning wheels, it's useless, and it's a poor use
Speaker 1: of advertising dollars to use celebrities, and it seems disingenuous.
Speaker 1: So Cardi b you could see it's getting to her.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez is notably silent. And I have nothing against
Speaker 1: these people. I'm not really talking about them. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the effort. And it seems and I know she
Speaker 1: pulled it together in a couple of months, so you
Speaker 1: got to.
Speaker 2: Give her the credit for that. The view did give
Speaker 2: her the credit for that.
Speaker 1: It's just that it's not not only that it may
Speaker 1: not work, it's that it may deter So it's like
Speaker 1: using an advertising or marketing tactic strategy that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: and it feels like a course correction and a reset.
Speaker 1: And someone would say, well, if Trump could get all
Speaker 1: the celebrities, he would have done it too, and that's correct,
Speaker 1: and that it wouldn't have worked for him either. I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's some celebrity like Scott Bao that's been aligned
Speaker 1: with him for years or Kid Rock, I guess it
Speaker 1: seems authentic because they have been pro Trump for years.
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan seems pro Trump, Tim Dillon, you know, but
Speaker 1: when you're talking about someone that the day before the election,
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez comes out crying for Kamala when We've never
Speaker 1: heard her talk about Kamala. It doesn't land and think
Speaker 1: about the power that Taylor Swift has, like her endorsing
Speaker 1: Kamala was such a big disruptive moment. George Clooney being
Speaker 1: a big Democrat is such a big impactful moment, so
Speaker 1: everyone thinks. But it's the self importance, the sanctimoniousness, and
Speaker 1: the out of touches of Hollywood and industry that really
Speaker 1: believes its own bullshit. It really does. And I know
Speaker 1: this because I've seen in relief work the celebrities that
Speaker 1: talk the loudest and complain the most and get on
Speaker 1: social media and talk about a disaster, they donate the least.
Speaker 1: It's very There are very few celebrities that put their
Speaker 1: money where their mouth is. Billy Joel would be one
Speaker 1: of them that would be one of the only ones
Speaker 1: that donates in a significant way. I can think of
Speaker 1: a celebrity that actually is on the Kamala supporting list
Speaker 1: that asked me to do things and send ppe to
Speaker 1: people and called me for a million things, and this
Speaker 1: person donated fifty thousand. I think of another person that
Speaker 1: got involved, big name a list person and just asking
Speaker 1: and pulling focus and wanting special attention and wanting, you know,
Speaker 1: to get a lot of attention for the work that
Speaker 1: they were doing. And they donated I think it was
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand dollars like the like I said, Billy Joel
Speaker 1: and Matthew McConaughey and his wife, they've gotten very involved.
Speaker 1: They put their money where their mouth is. So and also,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, when you go on Fox News, money
Speaker 1: flies in. You go on it's CNN.
Speaker 2: It doesn't. I don't know what that means. It doesn't.
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you that I know the numbers.
Speaker 1: So when there have been times when I've said to
Speaker 1: my partner, oh God, if I go on Fox News,
Speaker 1: they're gonna kill me, right, He's like, Bethany, that's where
Speaker 1: the money really comes in, because he's looking at the
Speaker 1: sheet and I'm like, fuck it.
Speaker 2: You know, you know.
Speaker 1: And And the thing is, I've said that it was
Speaker 1: like hard to tell an opinion. I said, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take credit for being the first one to bring up
Speaker 1: the celebrity thing. Not now, but when Hillary Clinton took
Speaker 1: a picture with Chris Jenner the day before the election.
Speaker 1: I've talked about that during the past year. Think about
Speaker 1: me and my position and how difficult it is to
Speaker 1: open my fucking mouth because you get killed. So I
Speaker 1: posted a picture of myself with Hillary Clinton when I
Speaker 1: had her on my podcast Lose Time, one thousand followers.
Speaker 1: I talked about Trump conceding the election, lose ten thousand followers,
Speaker 1: to talk about Israel, lose ten thousand followers.
Speaker 2: Gaza, you're helping both.
Speaker 1: You lose ten thousand followers, Like, it's not easy to
Speaker 1: open your mouth, and yet what am I going to
Speaker 1: be a bubblegum swilling person who never has an opinion?
Speaker 1: But then why would I be put in this position?
Speaker 1: You know, And it's not that easy to vocalize your
Speaker 1: opinion because you get killed. But you got to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to do it. And I went and
Speaker 1: I was on Alex Cooper call her Daddy. I think
Speaker 1: she's great. I think she's smart. I think she's on
Speaker 1: the pulse. I think she has an impact. I think
Speaker 1: it's great. So I was there and I met her husband.
Speaker 1: Great team. I think his name is Matt. They're a
Speaker 1: great team. You can tell that, like he's the man
Speaker 1: behind the woman. They're a great partnership. And he said,
Speaker 1: you know, we got called we said we'd interview both
Speaker 1: what we got called and we're going to interview the
Speaker 1: vice president or we just did, or we're going to
Speaker 1: And I thought, that's great. Of course, that's amazing. Good
Speaker 1: for you, like to talk to either of them is amazing.
Speaker 1: Tim Dillon, a friend of mine, talked to Vance, all
Speaker 1: of it's great, that's a gain. You'll have a relationship
Speaker 1: with this person. It's just a great conversation. Like, and
Speaker 1: everyone's having different conversations. I said, And this doesn't mean
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean, Kama is an impressive woman, she said,
Speaker 1: an impressive career, and it was not easy to pull
Speaker 1: this thing together in a short period of time. And
Speaker 1: you don't have to, like, it doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a zero sum game. You don't have to like bully
Speaker 1: somebody because they lost or because you voted for them,
Speaker 1: you didn't vote for them, Like you're not gonna not
Speaker 1: be impressed by a woman who got themselves to the
Speaker 1: position where they're running for president of the United States,
Speaker 1: no matter what it is.
Speaker 2: And it's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: It's NonStop, it's not sleep like, let's not act like
Speaker 1: everybody could do it. And Trump makes a lot of
Speaker 1: stupid mistakes too, and he you know, he didn't make
Speaker 1: a comment about that Puerto Rico comment. And I think
Speaker 1: Megan Kelly was right in saying that it was a
Speaker 1: bro fest at his rally. Both things can be true.
Speaker 1: You can have an opinion like don't you have two
Speaker 1: friends that you like and you can say something positive
Speaker 1: and negative.
Speaker 2: About both of them. So I said.
Speaker 1: Publicly, I did not think Kamala stuck the landing on
Speaker 1: call her Daddy and in doing it, and timing is everything.
Speaker 1: Her first big public interview was call her Daddy.
Speaker 2: I love Alex. I think it's great that she did it.
Speaker 1: She's a gangster, I thought it said, Hi, I want
Speaker 1: to be cool, I want attention. I want to get
Speaker 1: this vote. But people now are so they're so in
Speaker 1: tune to nuance. It's why Blake Lively was getting canceled
Speaker 1: for going on a red carpet talking about florals and
Speaker 1: selling hair care and alcohol in a domestic violence event
Speaker 1: that might have worked before. People just take celebrities and
Speaker 1: their handlers and what they push forward as at face value.
Speaker 1: Social media and authenticity has changed this. Sorry, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: You can't just go as Kamala Harris sit down and
Speaker 1: call her daddy and have everybody think that that's like
Speaker 1: natural or that like that's going to do it. It's
Speaker 1: just people wanted to hear something different. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that if she said something different it would have worked.
Speaker 1: You know, there could be a million reasons. Trump is
Speaker 1: more disruptive to begin with, and he's more intelligenic. Like him,
Speaker 1: hate him. It's not that she's not a press savvy.
Speaker 1: It's just we're in a world where disruption and polarization
Speaker 1: happens to sell in cases. I can't explain it, but
Speaker 1: it's a fact. Years ago, when Hillary was running against Trump,
Speaker 1: I was on a New York Times panel and I
Speaker 1: was sitting with Dennis, my ex, at a restaurant, and
Speaker 1: I said, I thought he was gonna win because he's disruptive,
Speaker 1: and he's running a reality show that the mainstream media
Speaker 1: can't look away from. They can't take their eyes off
Speaker 1: the train wreck. And he's getting more impressions. Therefore he's
Speaker 1: more famous. Therefore someone's going into a booth. They're going
Speaker 1: to vote for him. They've heard of him, they've heard
Speaker 1: of his buildings, they've you know, not the people hadn't
Speaker 1: heard of Hillary, but he was like a celebrity. He
Speaker 1: was on the Apprentice, he had like an audience. There
Speaker 1: are a million reasons why things work. And Kamala though,
Speaker 1: coming in with like a last ditch effort, and she
Speaker 1: had everything going against her too, because she did have
Speaker 1: to cram for the exam, so all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the first seat she sits in is Alex Cooper, call
Speaker 1: her daddy, and you're like, okay, but it just feels like,
Speaker 1: let's get on meet the press, Let's get on something legit,
Speaker 1: you know, let's not just try to get the cool vote.
Speaker 1: And it did seem like a lot like the Kamala
Speaker 1: Mamala on SNL. And yes, Trump was doing it too,
Speaker 1: Yes he was doing it too with Joe Rogan and
Speaker 1: with Theo Vaughn And I know, I'm it just wasn't
Speaker 1: he seems more like a.
Speaker 2: You know, like a mainstream entertainment that's just more him.
Speaker 1: It just it just I don't know why it didn't land.
Speaker 1: It just didn't land to me. And also it read
Speaker 1: wanting to align with celebrities. And the question isn't whether
Speaker 1: or not it helped. The question is whether it hurt,
Speaker 1: Like I was shocked to see cannas Owen's chiming into
Speaker 1: my post saying that she believes that it deters. Now
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, you don't like Candace Owens, so you
Speaker 1: like Megan Kelly, you don't like or you know, Anderson Cooper,
Speaker 1: Andy Cohen.
Speaker 2: This is not a party thing.
Speaker 1: This is just the discussion on marketing, business, human behavior
Speaker 1: and being allowed to have an opinion. And now everybody's
Speaker 1: super quiet on the Democratic side because they're you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a great week, and celebrities aren't speaking out,
Speaker 1: and it's just so extreme. And you know, I also
Speaker 1: said I didn't like the menu.
Speaker 2: With the election. I got in trouble for that too. Well,
Speaker 2: tough shit. You have to pick.
Speaker 1: I know you have to pick. I know you have
Speaker 1: to vote, and you have to pick. You're allowed to
Speaker 1: have not liked the lobster or the stake on this menu.
Speaker 1: You may not have liked this election. You may not
Speaker 1: have liked the choices. You may be very pro Kamala
Speaker 1: you because you know, you may be very pro Trump.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It matters what works, what doesn't, and what's going on
Speaker 1: in society now, and certainly celebrity and the mainstream liberal
Speaker 1: media does not possess the power that it believes that
Speaker 1: it did, and they were showing the data of this
Speaker 1: election is fascinating watching people in small rural counties that
Speaker 1: had not voted since the eighteen hundreds coming out to
Speaker 1: vote for Trump. Why, Like what is the reason? That's
Speaker 1: what a big company would do if they were analyzing sales.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of you know, you can't just
Speaker 1: water board, and you never can do a fight with someone,
Speaker 1: and like they just want to keep shoveling their opinion
Speaker 1: down your throat. That's what many people have been doing
Speaker 1: during this election, shoveling your opinion. Won't listen, won't have
Speaker 1: a conversation, and it's like they have they think like
Speaker 1: if they close their eyes, that they're closing their eyes
Speaker 1: and you can't see them, you know, And it's just
Speaker 1: like what, be open minded, be open eyed, figure out
Speaker 1: what has been going on. People have been so nasty.
Speaker 1: I lost so many followers just from having an opinion,
Speaker 1: just from saying like this is what I think, Like
Speaker 1: this is what I observe.
Speaker 2: What the hell do I know? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to have an opinion. So everybody's been now
Speaker 1: praising me millions of views. Thank you for saying what
Speaker 1: you said. I didn't say much. I just said celebrities
Speaker 1: don't have the power. Also, sorry if it's unpopular, But
Speaker 1: from every person who has over one hundred million followers,
Speaker 1: they're mostly bought and bots. These aren't real engaged followers.
Speaker 1: So we're looking at data and making people more famous
Speaker 1: than they actually are. How engaged are the followers? Like,
Speaker 1: what's really going on? The whole thing is about connectivity.
Speaker 1: How are you connecting with your audience? Do you know
Speaker 1: your audience? You having a real conversation or you're just
Speaker 1: pushing what.
Speaker 2: You want on them?
Speaker 1: And again, it's the age of authenticity, it's the age
Speaker 1: of citizens journalism. It's the age of listening to what
Speaker 1: people want. And it's not easy to have an opinion.
Speaker 1: It's impossible. You get completely destroyed and it's very scary.
Speaker 1: And believe me, people around me have been like, shut up,
Speaker 1: don't say anything.
Speaker 2: You don't need to talk about the election. The day after,
Speaker 2: like what am I gonna do? Who am I?
Speaker 1: Why do I have a daughter? Why was I born?
Speaker 1: Why was I successful? I can only talk about and
Speaker 1: I watch all these Fredi cats. They'll only talk about
Speaker 1: Miss Scaa or like you know, they're just terrified. I
Speaker 1: get why they're afraid. I refuse to be afraid. I
Speaker 1: would when I started doing this podcast. I remember I said,
Speaker 1: I checked my balance.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. Everybody I know is so afraid
Speaker 1: of celebrities. Why they're not doing it. No celebrities doing
Speaker 1: anything for me. No celebrities paying my bills, no celebrities
Speaker 1: donating to my charity, No celebrities gives a shit about me.
Speaker 2: No celebrities coming on here.
Speaker 1: You guys, more people listen when we have just like
Speaker 1: me talking about fucking tuna fish than having someone famous.
Speaker 1: You guys don't care, which says a lot too. I've
Speaker 1: had really famous to be people on here. Me talking
Speaker 1: about the election does better than me having Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 1: or Hillary Clinton on here. Think about it that you
Speaker 1: just don't care and you reflect a real audience. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I check my balance, I'm good. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing with Chanel. People went crazy and the
Speaker 1: biggest views millions, no how many hundreds of millions of
Speaker 1: views on my Chanelle content. Why because Chanel is like
Speaker 1: a celebrity, Who's ass? All these celebrities do kiss tagging Chanelle,
Speaker 1: ho pick me let Chanelle, see me. Channel doesn't give
Speaker 1: a fuck about any of us. Chanell did let me in.
Speaker 1: Chanell doesn't care if I tag them. They're not sending
Speaker 1: me a free dress or free clothes. They don't want me.
Speaker 1: They want to call Kidnean wearing Chanel. They don't want
Speaker 1: Bethany Frankel wearing Chanelle. So who Why the fuck am
Speaker 1: I protecting Chanell? Why am I protecting celebrities? Why am
Speaker 1: I kissing the ass of anybody? You're not paying my rent?
Speaker 1: It's free game. So this election showed everyone that they're
Speaker 1: in the upside down and it really stifled a lot
Speaker 1: of people. And if you ever watched the Housewives episode
Speaker 1: on the election, there was a woman on my show
Speaker 1: and she was acting like a only happening to her
Speaker 1: the stress. She was too stressed, she has to stay home.
Speaker 1: Like it was like you know when you talk to
Speaker 1: someone they asked like they're more tired than anyone else
Speaker 1: another mom, Like they're just more tired. They're going through
Speaker 1: a different experience, like this is a different election.
Speaker 2: They get two.
Speaker 1: Votes, I only get a half a vote. It's an elitism.
Speaker 1: It's a I'm smarter, I had a better job, I'm richer,
Speaker 1: I have better teeth, I have a better house. It's
Speaker 1: the belittling of middle America and the low income class.
Speaker 1: And Trump is a rich, possibly billionaire with goldlyf faucets
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, and he's not a minority, he's
Speaker 1: not a woman, he's not black. For whatever reason, he
Speaker 1: spoke to the person who lives in a trailer in
Speaker 1: a rural community, for whatever reason. You got to think
Speaker 1: about what the reason is he spoke to him. Obama
Speaker 1: went out and spoke to black men, and they didn't
Speaker 1: like the way he spoke to them, as if he
Speaker 1: was the authority of who they had to vote on.
Speaker 1: He came and he told them what to do, and
Speaker 1: they didn't like it. So not unlike a celebrity that
Speaker 1: didn't land either. This was the upside down. Obama is
Speaker 1: beloved in many ways, and certainly by black men and women,
Speaker 1: as is Michelle. I think if she had run, she
Speaker 1: probably would have won. But Obama is beloved by many.
Speaker 1: He came in, he's a black man. He spoke to
Speaker 1: black man. We need to get them voting, and they
Speaker 1: he repelled them, not unlike celebrities. I think George Clooney,
Speaker 1: all the celebrities and Obama did the campaign a disservice.
Speaker 1: I said what I said. I don't care if it's popular.
Speaker 1: Obama is not paying my rent either any more than
Speaker 1: Trump is so popular or unpopular. I no longer can care.
Speaker 1: That's why I was given this platform, and you would
Speaker 1: be surprised. And I voted differently each time. Okay, who
Speaker 1: I vote for is my business, and also you don't
Speaker 1: know who I voted for. You don't, and it's my business,
Speaker 1: not because yes, it provokes people and makes them fight
Speaker 1: in my comments, but because I vote. I've voted differently
Speaker 1: at different times based on what's going on, but also
Speaker 1: because it is my business and it's your business. And
Speaker 1: you've shown that it's not a safe space for someone
Speaker 1: to talk about who they vote.
Speaker 2: For either way.
Speaker 1: When I tell you, if I help Israel and Gaza both,
Speaker 1: if I send money to any person who's suffering, I
Speaker 1: lose ten thousand followers if I talk about Kamala and
Speaker 1: something she did negative, and if I lose ten thousand
Speaker 1: followers if I talk about Trump something he did that
Speaker 1: I think is negative. I lose ten thousand followers if
Speaker 1: I say I'm going on Fox, I lose ten thousand followers.
Speaker 1: If I say I'm going on CNN, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: And you'd say I'm getting them back.
Speaker 2: But it's both.
Speaker 1: It's polarizing, and you know what, until there's a safe
Speaker 1: space to speak, and habot sometimes you don't know until
Speaker 1: you're going in that window. And hab sometimes you change
Speaker 1: your mind one week to the next. And I were texting,
Speaker 1: I had things to say about what I thought about Kamala.
Speaker 1: He said he was advising her and he had a
Speaker 1: lot to say to me, and I had a lot
Speaker 1: to say to him too. I texted him yesterday to
Speaker 1: say sorry, I know you worked really hard. He hasn't responded.
Speaker 1: It's the first time he hasn't responded to me in years,
Speaker 1: So he might be upset with me because of some
Speaker 1: of the things I've said about celebrities. You know, but again,
Speaker 1: I love Mark Cuban and he's smart and we have
Speaker 1: a good relationship. But he's not paying my rent either.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I have to have my own grown ass opinion. I
Speaker 1: really do. And by the way, it's why some people
Speaker 1: are a little bit afraid of me sometimes, I've heard
Speaker 1: because their stay just don't know what I'm going to say.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that's what I think.
Speaker 1: I said, what I said, and godspeed bye.
Speaker 2: Got to do to take out the Tan