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Speaker 1: A couple of things to discuss today. Love is Blind

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Speaker 1: has been deemed a legal workplace, James Kennedy has been

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Speaker 1: arrested for domestic violence, and the reality reckoning that I

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Speaker 1: started is rumbling and starting all over again. It's bubbling.

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Speaker 1: What do I mean? First, let's discuss Love is Blind.

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Speaker 1: Love is Blind is a very popular show, and people

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Speaker 1: on that show have claimed that the way that they've

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Speaker 1: been treated compensated, and the workplace conditions there have been

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Speaker 1: nothing short of cruel, torturous, and definitely illegal. Why is

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Speaker 1: this relevant to me? Because I started the reality reckoning

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Speaker 1: during the strike, the talent and writer strike, and it

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Speaker 1: wasn't intentional. I just mentioned that reality talent is exploited

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Speaker 1: ad nauseum and that they're the ones that get called

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Speaker 1: upon when quote unquote real actors are on strike and

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Speaker 1: reality talent doesn't have a script or anybody else's words

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Speaker 1: to read. They're just being themselves. And some people have

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Speaker 1: burkins and diamonds and reap the benefits. Most of those

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Speaker 1: people don't actually have that money. They're actually fronting and

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Speaker 1: stunting for television. But that's a separate matter. But for

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Speaker 1: every one wealthy housewife who made it out the top

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Speaker 1: of the pyramid. There are twenty five discarded Brandy Glanville's

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Speaker 1: people on other shows that you guys think are on savory,

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Speaker 1: characters you don't like. Let's say Danielle Staub, She's like

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Speaker 1: trashy to you. You know, Brandy's a mess. Whatever. The

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Speaker 1: bottom line is, there are people who have messaged me

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Speaker 1: saying that they never signed a release for their pregnancy

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Speaker 1: to be shown on television, that producers abused them, that

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Speaker 1: they were silenced. There are people like Brandy Glanville who

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Speaker 1: got caught up in this like sexual assault situation in

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Speaker 1: Morocco in an episode and a season that will never

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Speaker 1: see the light of day. Why because it's murky, because

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Speaker 1: Caroline is suing, because Brandy's suing, because they both work

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Speaker 1: in this tox success pool where the top wants bad behavior.

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Speaker 1: Was because bad behavior rates. The same thing happens on

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Speaker 1: Love is Blind, The same thing happens on Jersey Shore,

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Speaker 1: the same thing happens everywhere. Why is this relevant to

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Speaker 1: the reality reckoning? Because I went to sag Aftra to

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Speaker 1: say the following reality television Housewives vander Pump Rules Love

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Speaker 1: is Blind below deck, where somebody climbed on top of

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Speaker 1: a girl and assaulted her, and a makeup artist from

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Speaker 1: that show said it wasn't the first time, and she

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Speaker 1: filed complaints. Everything gets buried. Why because these areas of entertainment,

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Speaker 1: This entire area of entertainment has talent being paid as

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Speaker 1: independent contractors. So the way that brav Oh, Netflix, Streamers, Networks,

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Speaker 1: MTV pay talent is as independent contractors. Why because it

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Speaker 1: means that they can't file claims. It means they're not

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Speaker 1: real employees. It means that they get in trouble. They

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Speaker 1: sign these NDAs and these confidentiality agreements that say that

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Speaker 1: if there's racism, abuse, if they're pushed to drink, if

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Speaker 1: they're put in a strange sexual situation. Remember Tamra's son

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Speaker 1: like cornering Gretchen in a bathroom and her telling him

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Speaker 1: Tamra and another house I said, we're gonna get her

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Speaker 1: naked wasted. Remember below deck, the guy climbing on top

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Speaker 1: of the girl. Yes, the captain was lovely and intervened

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Speaker 1: in that, but we didn't know that had happened before.

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Speaker 1: Remember vander Pump rules, many members of the cast whispering

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Speaker 1: and saying that James Kennedy has a history of domestic violence.

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Speaker 1: Rachel referred to it on my podcast. So there is

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Speaker 1: I there is an alleged physical abuse. There's a physical

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Speaker 1: abuse allegation with Kristen and James. Yes, and people say

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Speaker 1: you think that a spinoff is good hush money for

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Speaker 1: someone who was fired for like a racist an alleged

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she was in relation with Stassy and

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Speaker 2: they both got fired at the same time. But I

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Speaker 2: I have no doubt that what she's saying is true.

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Speaker 2: I hope that one day it will come to light

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Speaker 1: But people had been silenced, and people had been rewarded

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Speaker 1: with spinoff shows, and people had been discouraged from talking.

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Speaker 1: And people don't have claims because they're paid as independent contractors.

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Speaker 1: So Tom is a is a partner in these bars.

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Speaker 2: Yes he is.

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Speaker 1: So he profits off of the marketing that the show provides,

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Speaker 1: and then Bravo profits off of the sales, and everybody

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Speaker 1: was going into these bars. Is he a producer?

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Speaker 2: He's not technically a producer. He's been on the series

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Speaker 2: He did tell me during negotiations for season eleven that

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Speaker 2: he was offered a producer credit for season eleven. Oh okay,

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Speaker 2: so I think he was being rewarded for the scandalal

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Speaker 1: Wow, you know, it sounds like everyone. It sounds like

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Speaker 1: Lisa vander Pump is profiting, Bravo's profiting, Tom is profiting,

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Speaker 1: Arianna is profiting. So and you're in a deficit, you're

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Speaker 1: in debt. Is Lisa vander Pump in a position to

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Speaker 1: protect you? Guys? Within this place you're working, like, are

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Speaker 2: There really isn't anybody that's a safe place to go to.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that anybody on that show has my

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Speaker 1: And people have spent Kristen has a spinoff. She was

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Speaker 1: fired years ago and now she's back and she has

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Speaker 1: a spinoff coming right, Yes, So you kind of get

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Speaker 2: You're selling your soul essentially, and this past season really

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Speaker 2: oh my god, I am selling my soul. And it's

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Speaker 2: interesting that you mentioned Kristen because Kristin was just starting

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Speaker 2: to talk about her tumultuous relationship with James and what

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Speaker 2: she's presented with this spinoff, which I believe is a

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Speaker 2: that the longevity of vander Pump Rules can continue.

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Speaker 1: And I've been on the phone with producers who have

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Speaker 1: said to me, with any luck, lu amb will start

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Speaker 1: drinking again. After being sober mentioning Derinda's drinking, saying, hopefully

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Speaker 1: The upside down is what reality television is. Reality television

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Speaker 1: is the upside down. Bad behavior is not only allowed,

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Speaker 1: it is encouraged. It is rewarded. Ask Heidi and Spencer

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Speaker 1: if it's rewarded. Ask Heidi and Spencer if Spencer kicking

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Speaker 1: I said to them, what you don't understand is this

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Speaker 1: go on. You have to bye by their hours. You're

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Speaker 1: not allowed to take other jobs. This comes first. You

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Speaker 1: Leah McSweeney says that drinking was encouraged when she's sober,

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Speaker 1: But the truth is there's still human beings. So even

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Speaker 1: if you think Danielle Staub is an unsavory character, is

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Speaker 1: She cheated on some scumbag on television with a bunch

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Speaker 1: People like him, and it was widely known with production,

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Speaker 1: Andy Cohen. I'm not sure if it was on the

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Speaker 1: it and asked her she on something? Was she on something?

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Speaker 1: Is your employer allowed to ask if you're on something?

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Speaker 1: They're not legal employees, why because they're paid as independent contractors.

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Speaker 1: Why so they can't have any claim against anything that

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Speaker 1: would normally be prohibited in a workplace. You can't call

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Speaker 1: Jane an Hr and tell her someone is encouraging that

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Speaker 1: this thing I just saw. My boss just sent me

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Speaker 1: So now it's the weird wild wild West upside down?

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Speaker 1: What is it? It's not a workplace? Why do we

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Speaker 1: Andy and Lisa vander Pump sit by while Andy says

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Speaker 1: But bad behavior is encouraged. It's just not categorized because

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