Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. How fascinating that Taylor Swift has not only
Speaker 1: moved the needle, but a seismic shift in the football
Speaker 1: world NFL and they're all happy to have her. Has
Speaker 1: there been somebody with this Has there been somebody with
Speaker 1: this level of impact in decades since the Beatles? And
Speaker 1: I say that because also she's beloved, so some people
Speaker 1: have a tremendous impact. But they're polarizing. I mean, she's beloved,
Speaker 1: and the NFL is about America, and she's America's sweetheart,
Speaker 1: and her going to the Kansas City Chiefs game and
Speaker 1: dating a football player that everyone is saying she has
Speaker 1: put on the map, every woman, that is, except for
Speaker 1: everyone who's a football fan. And it's very polarizing, and
Speaker 1: there's a big debate because men are getting pissed off
Speaker 1: that women are saying that Taylor put him on the map.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here fighting battles when I realized that
Speaker 1: he was and he is a successful football player, and
Speaker 1: football fans alike across America know that. But football is
Speaker 1: very American, Taylor is very American and very global. She
Speaker 1: is an international megastar. Her rise is stratospheric. So while
Speaker 1: It's a touching story that people say that Travis was
Speaker 1: a gargantuan football star because he won two Super Bowl rings.
Speaker 1: I get that, but Taylor Swift is next level shit. Well,
Speaker 1: NBC and Bravo have strengthened workplace conditions for talent, and
Speaker 1: a letter written by one of the heads at NBC,
Speaker 1: Francis Barrick, who used to be one of the heads
Speaker 1: of Bravo. She wrote a letter that was either leaked
Speaker 1: or that people just found. I think it might have
Speaker 1: been leaked, but said that they're going to strengthen their
Speaker 1: practices surrounding alcohol consumption workplace conditions. They said that as
Speaker 1: always people will meet with a psychologist before, during, and after.
Speaker 1: That's never been the case. No one's ever met with
Speaker 1: a psychologist before, during, or after. That has to be
Speaker 1: a new implemented policy. And I did hear that. I
Speaker 1: did hear from a very very good factual source that
Speaker 1: already on Housewives, they've really shifted the practices because of
Speaker 1: the reality reckoning. Now we get to different dumb dums
Speaker 1: in the Bravo sphere that are saying that alcohol was
Speaker 1: never forced on talent. First of all, the bravosphere is
Speaker 1: very big and there are many different types of shows.
Speaker 1: That's like saying that every single restaurant in New York
Speaker 1: City has the same policies, because there are so many
Speaker 1: different production companies and so many different budgets and so
Speaker 1: many different shows. So while Housewives is one big franchise
Speaker 1: and it seems like one big entity, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: a bunch of different individual franchises. Actually, the Housewives overall, well,
Speaker 1: the Housewives overall is a franchise and each city is
Speaker 1: a franchise e. So each city as a franchise ee,
Speaker 1: I e. Atlanta, Potomac, New York, and so on, Miami,
Speaker 1: they're franchisees. Each franchisee operates their business in a different manner.
Speaker 1: So one production company runs New York. They could be
Speaker 1: doing things one way, and they could be making their
Speaker 1: lattes one way, and another franchisee is running Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: it's an entirely different person with an entirely different budget,
Speaker 1: with entirely different circumstances in a different city, and they're
Speaker 1: running it differently. And every production company, and I've worked
Speaker 1: with many of them, runs their operation differently. So for
Speaker 1: the dumb dums saying that overall buy and large, they
Speaker 1: were never forced to drink. Well, they may never have
Speaker 1: been forced to drink. And no one's ever poured alcohol
Speaker 1: down anyone's throat that I've seen. But I have seen
Speaker 1: women drink eight to ten cocktails and the producers are
Speaker 1: right there ordering alcohol for every single night. And I've
Speaker 1: seen producers spare no expense at giving everybody the a
Speaker 1: la carte list of all the alcohol they want and
Speaker 1: never intervening in how much they drink. So, when you
Speaker 1: have people under very very stressful conditions, like cameras on
Speaker 1: for all hours of the day, like conflict, like verbal abuse,
Speaker 1: like arguing, like a medium that celebrates you're always winning
Speaker 1: in your always losing, meaning someone's always winning, someone's always losing,
Speaker 1: someone's always getting killed, someone's always being killed. So therefore,
Speaker 1: what sounds like a great idea grabbing a drink? Why
Speaker 1: you're activated, you are heightened, your nervous system is at
Speaker 1: a ten, your nerves are shot, and you're thirsty because
Speaker 1: you're dehydrated. So an alcoholic beverage always seems like a
Speaker 1: great idea, but is it? So? While the dumb dums
Speaker 1: want to say, yeah, no, alcohol wasn't forced on people
Speaker 1: it's something that is very much nurtured, welcomed, celebrated, honored,
Speaker 1: and also rewarded. You get wasted, you get fucked up,
Speaker 1: you do a crazy thing, the scene does well, the
Speaker 1: ratings are good, you get renewed like that's how the
Speaker 1: thing works. So don't fucking bullshit a bullshitter that ran
Speaker 1: the game better than anyone's ever run the game. So
Speaker 1: and I left twice. Anybody fired speaking on matters about
Speaker 1: the Housewives is disgruntled and probably doesn't even know how
Speaker 1: the real game works because they never had any real
Speaker 1: power or any kind of position. And I think it's
Speaker 1: to a I've applauded the fact that, by whatever means
Speaker 1: were necessary, that the Bravo sphere has put it into
Speaker 1: the universe that they're tightening up workplace conditions, because if
Speaker 1: there wasn't if everything I said didn't exist, why would
Speaker 1: there be a need to tighten it up. Because Bethany
Speaker 1: Frankel decided I had it was beside that I was
Speaker 1: forced to be reckoned with all of a sudden, Now
Speaker 1: a multi billion dollar public company is going to issue
Speaker 1: a letter and a public statement saying that they're going
Speaker 1: to change their policies on alcohol and workplace conditions because
Speaker 1: I said it, Yeah, there must have been a problem.
Speaker 1: I mustn't have made it up. So the reckoning is real,
Speaker 1: and it's not easy to ruffle feathers. It's really not
Speaker 1: easy to do the right thing. It's not easy to
Speaker 1: have a voice. And it's so much so that so
Speaker 1: far that I know of three reality talent personalities have
Speaker 1: come forward and wanted to publicly share their story with
Speaker 1: me on this podcast, and all three of them, all
Speaker 1: three of them have been blocked, banned, strongly discouraged from
Speaker 1: associating with me, saying that they will be unemployable if
Speaker 1: they align with the reality reckoning in any way. And
Speaker 1: I am the reckoning, So that's number one. Two production
Speaker 1: people have told me that they also have been told
Speaker 1: in no uncertain terms that they can't work with me
Speaker 1: or they won't work in the reality that's on the
Speaker 1: production side. So so far, it's been five people that in
Speaker 1: one way or another Bravo has said they cannot come
Speaker 1: on this show or they cannot work in any area
Speaker 1: of production with me. Now I don't care, because the
Speaker 1: people in power, meaning the people at studios, running agencies,
Speaker 1: running the industry, the people at SAG after the people
Speaker 1: in the media. They all know that I'm right, and
Speaker 1: they are all on the right side of history, and
Speaker 1: they all know that I'm doing the right thing. That
Speaker 1: are being moved around the board, and they're nervous because
Speaker 1: they don't want to fuck around with their livelihood. And
Speaker 1: it's not unlike any other industry when people are told
Speaker 1: to shut the fuck up and be quiet. You're a
Speaker 1: camera person, you are a sound person, you are a producer.
Speaker 1: You saw shit go down, but you need to work.
Speaker 1: In a time when there's a big strike and actors
Speaker 1: can't work and people on scripted programs can't work, you
Speaker 1: are grabbing every job you can. And even though you
Speaker 1: know it's fucked up and you're watching what's gone down,
Speaker 1: you don't want to fuck around the realm either, because
Speaker 1: it's providing you your meal ticket. And it's why Candy
Speaker 1: and Erica Jane and other people have said it doesn't
Speaker 1: affect them because they can handle themselves. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm sure people you know before me too, were walking
Speaker 1: around offices where people said nice tits, and these women said, oh,
Speaker 1: it didn't affect me because I can handle myself. I
Speaker 1: worked at the Today Show during that era before the
Speaker 1: Matt Lower fall out, I can handle myself. It didn't
Speaker 1: happen to me, so I'm not going to say anything
Speaker 1: because i don't want to lose my job. Well, that
Speaker 1: reckoning was real, Black Lives Matter was real, and the
Speaker 1: reality reckoning is real too. So those people making these
Speaker 1: big statements are basically just saying I want to protect
Speaker 1: my own paycheck and therefore I'm kissing the ring when
Speaker 1: they all know that everything I've said and everything that
Speaker 1: I'm doing is entirely correct. It just is correct. And
Speaker 1: I also want to bring up other people in the
Speaker 1: whole reality sphere that want to bring up my failures.
Speaker 1: So I've had many business failures. I've had show failures,
Speaker 1: I've had product failures, and I've had some failures that
Speaker 1: I'm glad were failures because I didn't want to do them.
Speaker 1: Those are the most fun failures, like the ones where
Speaker 1: are like you kind of get out of jail free
Speaker 1: because you don't have to continue with it. And I've
Speaker 1: had ones where I should want to do it and
Speaker 1: I've backed out where I've been making so much money,
Speaker 1: not on leaving reality TV. You're making so much money,
Speaker 1: but you want to back out, or you have a
Speaker 1: production deal, but you just don't want to do the
Speaker 1: things you're supposed to do, and you don't want to
Speaker 1: be partners with the person you're supposed to be partners with,
Speaker 1: so you find a way to get a loophole to
Speaker 1: get out of the deal. And without failures, you can't
Speaker 1: have success because failure. That's the case law for sick successes.
Speaker 1: The only way to succeed is by using all the
Speaker 1: examples of what you did wrong in your failures and
Speaker 1: what you did right in your successes, and using that
Speaker 1: in future cases. It's why I'm so successful but overall,
Speaker 1: and it happens a lot in the in the reality
Speaker 1: TV space where people want to comment and say that
Speaker 1: I've had so many failures. I have a podcast that
Speaker 1: has astronomical success, incredible downloads like next Level. I have
Speaker 1: a mocktail that's crushing it, a beautiful, gorgeous wine I created.
Speaker 1: I invented a category in cocktails. Every single low calorie
Speaker 1: cocktail that you see is because of me. Every ready
Speaker 1: to drink cocktail that you see is because of me.
Speaker 1: Every celebrity brand that's really successful in the cocktail space
Speaker 1: is because of me I have. I am more successful
Speaker 1: now than at my my top dollar day on Housewives.
Speaker 1: I make more money now than I ever have since
Speaker 1: the very beginning. So the reason for that is because
Speaker 1: of my failures. All of my failures have been sewn
Speaker 1: into this incredible success quilt. And you won't find a
Speaker 1: very successful entrepreneur who hasn't had so many failures. You know,
Speaker 1: Ask Mark Cuban, Ask Kim Kardashian, Ask any very successful person,
Speaker 1: any billionaire. They've had probably as many failures as successes.
Speaker 1: And it's part of it because when the stakes were
Speaker 1: not as high, they learned the lessons that when the
Speaker 1: stakes became high they could utilize. Kim Kardashian had a
Speaker 1: failed credit card and failed probably I think a hair
Speaker 1: product or tanning product, quick trim, diet. You know what,
Speaker 1: she didn't make those mistakes. Now we're in the big
Speaker 1: leagues with skims and with makeup, So fuck around with
Speaker 1: quick trim and fuck around with whatever tanning and credit
Speaker 1: card because now we're in the big leagues where she's
Speaker 1: playing with real, big girl billionaire money and you don't
Speaker 1: want to fuck now. But she has all the case
Speaker 1: law of all those years and all the case law
Speaker 1: of any failures, her sisters and her mother. I don't
Speaker 1: know where Kylie's swim is anymore. I don't know where
Speaker 1: Chris Jenner's cleaning products are. You know why it doesn't
Speaker 1: fucking matter because I know where Kylie's lip kit is,
Speaker 1: and so many housewives want to talk about my failures. Oh,
Speaker 1: she had a show that didn't get picked up. That's
Speaker 1: the reason for the reality reckoning. First of all, false,
Speaker 1: I walked away from the show. I had a show
Speaker 1: that Bravo wanted about the suburbs that I walked away from.
Speaker 1: It's all coming out. I have all the receipts, but
Speaker 1: I just want to illustrate that people run their mouths
Speaker 1: off and they don't know what they're talking about. And
Speaker 1: failure is critical to success. Just remember that when you
Speaker 1: feel like you're failing, and you feel like you're thinking
Speaker 1: about all the things you fucked up and did wrong,
Speaker 1: or even just one failure, and that that's going to
Speaker 1: define you, shift upside down. It's just case law. It's
Speaker 1: something that happened that is an amazing and valuable lesson,
Speaker 1: and whatever it was, it won't happen again. And whatever
Speaker 1: you learned during that experience, it won't happen again. And
Speaker 1: whatever happened during your successes, you'll make sure to double down.
Speaker 1: It's very important to embrace your failures and also to
Speaker 1: embrace others' failures too. Does it me and Anderson Cooper's
Speaker 1: not successful because he had a failed talk show? Does
Speaker 1: it mean he hasn't accomplished anything in his career? Does
Speaker 1: it mean anything that Kim Kardashian was working with quick trim?
Speaker 1: Does that mean anything today? I don't think. So you
Speaker 1: got to hit It takes a long time, and you
Speaker 1: got to kiss a lot of frogs before it becomes
Speaker 1: a prince. But only dummies call out other people's failures
Speaker 1: as if it defines them. The Sophie Turner and Joe
Speaker 1: Jonas drama is interesting. The mistake that we're all making
Speaker 1: is reading the media as if their tea leaves, as
Speaker 1: if they say anything. Because Joe Jonas said something about
Speaker 1: Sophie as a parent right now, First we thought, oh,
Speaker 1: she was an absentee parent. Then it became the Queen
Speaker 1: of the North is the queen, and he's really the
Speaker 1: absentee parent, and he's trying to paint turn a bad
Speaker 1: light as his PR team went first. Then it goes
Speaker 1: to she wants to take the kids to the UK
Speaker 1: because that was the deal that they have, and then
Speaker 1: it goes to he's illegally keeping them in States, and
Speaker 1: it's back and forth, and it's back and forth, and
Speaker 1: it's basically a terrible game because they will keep hitting
Speaker 1: the ball back and forth, like any divorce, like any
Speaker 1: non celebrity divorce, the ball keeps getting hit back and forth.
Speaker 1: The last person who hit it thought they got the
Speaker 1: last laugh. Then it comes back even stronger on the
Speaker 1: person who just hit it. You think you hit the ball,
Speaker 1: you got a clean shot. Fucking's going to come back
Speaker 1: and whack you in the face. It will go on.
Speaker 1: It's a breeding ground for gossip until the thing is
Speaker 1: locked and settled and shut down until everything is done,
Speaker 1: the divorce is final. This is how much money this
Speaker 1: person's paying, This is where the kids are gonna live now,
Speaker 1: and then everyone shut the fuck up. It's the muck
Speaker 1: right now, and the muck is terrible. The only thing
Speaker 1: I will say is the last time I've seen a
Speaker 1: situation where one parent wants to have the kids move
Speaker 1: to another country was with Kelly Rutherford and her ex husband,
Speaker 1: the woman from Gossip Girl, and in the beginning, everybody
Speaker 1: was really team Kelly and thought it was all Kelly,
Speaker 1: and he seemed like a monster because he had done
Speaker 1: something wrong or illegal or something with business, and she
Speaker 1: wanted the kids to be here. And we will never
Speaker 1: know the full details, but all we will know is
Speaker 1: that the kids were living in the US and somehow,
Speaker 1: somehow those children moved to France and Kelly Rutherford every
Speaker 1: week had to be on an airplane back and forth
Speaker 1: flying coach to see her kids because it was sucking
Speaker 1: up all of her money and she had spent all
Speaker 1: her money on lawyers trying to get her kids. And
Speaker 1: her kids live in France with the dad. So they
Speaker 1: took the kids away from a mother because of some
Speaker 1: fucking around that was going on. And I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was, but you cannot play around in matters
Speaker 1: of divorce. You can't get cute, you can't try to
Speaker 1: play to the court of public opinion like Kanye did,
Speaker 1: and you cannot fuck around with the real court. So
Speaker 1: the two of these, Sophie and Joe, are doing it
Speaker 1: wrong because it will only damage the whole situation. Then
Speaker 1: they both have to find a way to align, and
Speaker 1: it will be very challenging for her to get those
Speaker 1: kids moved to another country, even if that was some
Speaker 1: sort of an arrangement, because he can say that that
Speaker 1: arrangement was made because that he agreed that the kids
Speaker 1: would live in the UK, because he thought they were
Speaker 1: going to stay together, And like, there's just so many subplots.
Speaker 1: I've experienced it myself. Believe me, I've experienced it myself. Specifically,
Speaker 1: I was going to do a talk show in LA
Speaker 1: and the reason we didn't do the talk show in
Speaker 1: LA was because I think I think that there was
Speaker 1: a fear that then what if, the what if my
Speaker 1: daughter would then have to live in LA. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get into details about my own stuff right now,
Speaker 1: because it's not really about me. I'm just saying take
Speaker 1: it from someone who knows. The Sophie and Joe thing
Speaker 1: is a mess, and when you're dealing with international custody,
Speaker 1: it can get real gnarly. And just look at Kelly Rutherford.
Speaker 1: Look at Kelly Rutherford. She does not have custody of
Speaker 1: her children. They live in France and she lives in
Speaker 1: New York. That sounds like excruciating torture. So these two
Speaker 1: need to tread lightly because just because everybody on TikTok
Speaker 1: says you're a queen of the North or he's King
Speaker 1: of the South doesn't mean dog, doesn't mean shit. They
Speaker 1: just have to be quiet, tell their representatives to shut
Speaker 1: the fuck up, settle, and then they can make all
Speaker 1: their You knows, it's just got to try to keep
Speaker 1: everything private as possible as possible. It's so tempting, it's
Speaker 1: so tempting. It's just fuel. It's literally gasoline on the fire.
Speaker 1: Joe is saying, saying that it's misleading that he was
Speaker 1: withholding the daughter's passports. Yes, there are things that go on,
Speaker 1: like one year I'm supposed to hold the passports, another
Speaker 1: year my ex is supposed to hold the passports. That
Speaker 1: comes out in a custody agreement, who's holding the passports.
Speaker 1: Think about it. Say you've got a terrible contentious situation
Speaker 1: and you're just worried that the ex is gonna like
Speaker 1: not want you to make your flight and like pretend
Speaker 1: that they don't have the passports at the last minute,
Speaker 1: and you get anxiety about things you think you'd never
Speaker 1: get anxiety about passports or a tremendous source of anxiety,
Speaker 1: and the average person thinks, what the fuck? So no
Speaker 1: one's gonna keep the passports. I've had weeks go by
Speaker 1: where you're still emailing. Can I get the passports? Can
Speaker 1: I have the passport? Can I have her passport? You're
Speaker 1: just worried. It's like wanting to know where passports are
Speaker 1: is a very big thing. So he's saying it's misleading.
Speaker 1: Maybe for whatever reason, he was nervous that she was
Speaker 1: gonna take the passports and take the kids to the UK.
Speaker 1: I'm playing devil's advocate. I don't know either of them.
Speaker 1: I don't know the situation. I just know the dynamics
Speaker 1: that can exist. It's not easy, and everything sounds it's
Speaker 1: like a good idea when you're in love. And it's
Speaker 1: why you have to have a pre nup and a
Speaker 1: post nup if necessary. You've gotta get the shit organized.
Speaker 1: And everybody only focuses about the money and a prenup.
Speaker 1: It's always about the money. No one does a custody prenup. Okay, Joe,
Speaker 1: we have kids. What happens, Let's write the prenup now
Speaker 1: for the custody. Where would the kids live if we
Speaker 1: broke up. What kind of schools would the kids go
Speaker 1: to if we broke up? You know, that's why decision
Speaker 1: making is more important than custody time. Everybody in divorce
Speaker 1: thinks the custody time is the most important thing because
Speaker 1: the baby's young and you just want to be with
Speaker 1: your baby. That's not the important part. Your kid's thirteen
Speaker 1: is having emotional issues. Your kid's sixteen is doing drugs,
Speaker 1: your kid has anxiety, your kid has asthma. Can't live
Speaker 1: in an area where you can't breathe. One parent's gonna
Speaker 1: have to make a fucking decision. That's why decision making
Speaker 1: is most important. So it matters with Sophie and Joe
Speaker 1: is going to be who gets decision making. But decision
Speaker 1: making does not include what state or country a kid
Speaker 1: lives in. That's like a bigger custody issue. That's a
Speaker 1: major custody issue. That is not like you get decision
Speaker 1: making and you get to decide that the kid's now
Speaker 1: going to live in UK. Decision making means education, medical,
Speaker 1: like those types of decisions like will the kid go
Speaker 1: to camp? Religion is something too that has to be
Speaker 1: worked out in the beginning. You could be dating someone,
Speaker 1: you could be engaged with someone. It sounds great. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'll come with you to church sometimes. Yes, you can
Speaker 1: come with me to temple. Yay, And it's all cute.
Speaker 1: Because you're in love, you'll do anything. Then you're married.
Speaker 1: You don't want your kid to go to temple because
Speaker 1: you want them to raise Christian or you say it's
Speaker 1: okay that they were baptized Christian. That's okay, but you
Speaker 1: don't want your kid going to church every Sunday. Maybe
Speaker 1: you don't want that, maybe they don't want that. Maybe
Speaker 1: you want your kids to be able to go to
Speaker 1: the high holidays if they're Jewish. What are the things
Speaker 1: that matter? Lay this shit out ahead of time. It
Speaker 1: is not cute, it is not romantic, and it is
Speaker 1: not sexy, but it is entirely necessary. Otherwise, don't get married.