Speaker 1: A couple of things to discuss today. Love is Blind
Speaker 1: has been deemed a legal workplace, James Kennedy has been
Speaker 1: arrested for domestic violence, and the reality reckoning that I
Speaker 1: started is rumbling and starting all over again. It's bubbling.
Speaker 1: What do I mean? First, let's discuss Love is Blind.
Speaker 1: Love is Blind is a very popular show, and people
Speaker 1: on that show have claimed that the way that they've
Speaker 1: been treated compensated, and the workplace conditions there have been
Speaker 1: nothing short of cruel, torturous, and definitely illegal. Why is
Speaker 1: this relevant to me? Because I started the reality reckoning
Speaker 1: during the strike, the talent and writer strike, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't intentional. I just mentioned that reality talent is exploited
Speaker 1: ad nauseum and that they're the ones that get called
Speaker 1: upon when quote unquote real actors are on strike and
Speaker 1: reality talent doesn't have a script or anybody else's words
Speaker 1: to read. They're just being themselves. And some people have
Speaker 1: burkins and diamonds and reap the benefits. Most of those
Speaker 1: people don't actually have that money. They're actually fronting and
Speaker 1: stunting for television. But that's a separate matter. But for
Speaker 1: every one wealthy housewife who made it out the top
Speaker 1: of the pyramid. There are twenty five discarded Brandy Glanville's
Speaker 1: people on other shows that you guys think are on savory,
Speaker 1: characters you don't like. Let's say Danielle Staub, She's like
Speaker 1: trashy to you. You know, Brandy's a mess. Whatever. The
Speaker 1: bottom line is, there are people who have messaged me
Speaker 1: saying that they never signed a release for their pregnancy
Speaker 1: to be shown on television, that producers abused them, that
Speaker 1: they were silenced. There are people like Brandy Glanville who
Speaker 1: got caught up in this like sexual assault situation in
Speaker 1: Morocco in an episode and a season that will never
Speaker 1: see the light of day. Why because it's murky, because
Speaker 1: Caroline is suing, because Brandy's suing, because they both work
Speaker 1: in this tox success pool where the top wants bad behavior.
Speaker 1: Was because bad behavior rates. The same thing happens on
Speaker 1: Love is Blind, The same thing happens on Jersey Shore,
Speaker 1: the same thing happens everywhere. Why is this relevant to
Speaker 1: the reality reckoning? Because I went to sag Aftra to
Speaker 1: say the following reality television Housewives vander Pump Rules Love
Speaker 1: is Blind below deck, where somebody climbed on top of
Speaker 1: a girl and assaulted her, and a makeup artist from
Speaker 1: that show said it wasn't the first time, and she
Speaker 1: filed complaints. Everything gets buried. Why because these areas of entertainment,
Speaker 1: This entire area of entertainment has talent being paid as
Speaker 1: independent contractors. So the way that brav Oh, Netflix, Streamers, Networks,
Speaker 1: MTV pay talent is as independent contractors. Why because it
Speaker 1: means that they can't file claims. It means they're not
Speaker 1: real employees. It means that they get in trouble. They
Speaker 1: sign these NDAs and these confidentiality agreements that say that
Speaker 1: if there's racism, abuse, if they're pushed to drink, if
Speaker 1: they're put in a strange sexual situation. Remember Tamra's son
Speaker 1: like cornering Gretchen in a bathroom and her telling him
Speaker 1: to get off her, and producer's not stopping it. When
Speaker 1: Tamra and another house I said, we're gonna get her
Speaker 1: naked wasted. Remember below deck, the guy climbing on top
Speaker 1: of the girl. Yes, the captain was lovely and intervened
Speaker 1: in that, but we didn't know that had happened before.
Speaker 1: Remember vander Pump rules, many members of the cast whispering
Speaker 1: and saying that James Kennedy has a history of domestic violence.
Speaker 1: Rachel referred to it on my podcast. So there is
Speaker 1: I there is an alleged physical abuse. There's a physical
Speaker 1: abuse allegation with Kristen and James. Yes, and people say
Speaker 1: something was cut out of And I've gotten people that
Speaker 1: have called me about other incidents related to that. And
Speaker 1: you think that a spinoff is good hush money for
Speaker 1: someone who was fired for like a racist an alleged
Speaker 1: racist act.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she was in relation with Stassy and
Speaker 2: they both got fired at the same time. But I
Speaker 2: do believe what she has said about James. I know
Speaker 2: James Is. I've seen him be a violent person, so
Speaker 2: I have no doubt that what she's saying is true.
Speaker 2: I hope that one day it will come to light
Speaker 2: and there will be justice.
Speaker 1: But people had been silenced, and people had been rewarded
Speaker 1: with spinoff shows, and people had been discouraged from talking.
Speaker 1: And people don't have claims because they're paid as independent contractors.
Speaker 1: They're not employees, so they can't go to HR in
Speaker 1: the way that a normal person would in their office.
Speaker 1: So Tom is a is a partner in these bars.
Speaker 2: Yes he is.
Speaker 1: So he profits off of the marketing that the show provides,
Speaker 1: and then Bravo profits off of the sales, and everybody
Speaker 1: was going into these bars. Is he a producer?
Speaker 2: He's not technically a producer. He's been on the series
Speaker 2: from day one, season one. H there. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I'm even able to disclose this information, but he did.
Speaker 2: He did tell me during negotiations for season eleven that
Speaker 2: he was offered a producer credit for season eleven. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: so I think he was being rewarded for the scandalal
Speaker 2: of it all.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know, it sounds like everyone. It sounds like
Speaker 1: Lisa vander Pump is profiting, Bravo's profiting, Tom is profiting,
Speaker 1: Arianna is profiting. So and you're in a deficit, you're
Speaker 1: in debt. Is Lisa vander Pump in a position to
Speaker 1: protect you? Guys? Within this place you're working, like, are
Speaker 1: you supposed to feel like someone's there to protect you,
Speaker 1: that there's someone to go to, a supervisor, a manager,
Speaker 1: a boss.
Speaker 2: There really isn't anybody that's a safe place to go to.
Speaker 2: I don't think that anybody on that show has my
Speaker 2: best interest at heart, So it's hard for me to
Speaker 2: be so trusting like I once was.
Speaker 1: And people have spent Kristen has a spinoff. She was
Speaker 1: fired years ago and now she's back and she has
Speaker 1: a spinoff coming right, Yes, So you kind of get
Speaker 1: sucked in and you'll do whatever it is because you
Speaker 1: want to get a spinoff and you want your bar
Speaker 1: to succeed. So it sounds logical that people would play
Speaker 1: the game because take a few punches, you're making money.
Speaker 2: You're selling your soul essentially, and this past season really
Speaker 2: did feel like the first season where I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I am selling my soul. And it's
Speaker 2: interesting that you mentioned Kristen because Kristin was just starting
Speaker 2: to talk about her tumultuous relationship with James and what
Speaker 2: happened behind closed doors, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: she's presented with this spinoff, which I believe is a
Speaker 2: way to silence her, to keep that under wraps so
Speaker 2: that the longevity of vander Pump Rules can continue.
Speaker 1: And I've been on the phone with producers who have
Speaker 1: said to me, with any luck, lu amb will start
Speaker 1: drinking again. After being sober mentioning Derinda's drinking, saying, hopefully
Speaker 1: she'll have a couple of martinis, something crazy will happen.
Speaker 1: The upside down is what reality television is. Reality television
Speaker 1: is the upside down. Bad behavior is not only allowed,
Speaker 1: it is encouraged. It is rewarded. Ask Heidi and Spencer
Speaker 1: if it's rewarded. Ask Heidi and Spencer if Spencer kicking
Speaker 1: Heidi out of his car was rewarded with a burken
Speaker 1: Ask Spencer. So, what I'm saying to you is I
Speaker 1: went to SAG after it to say, because they don't
Speaker 1: understand reality TV. Nobody I've been on fifteen reality shows.
Speaker 1: I said to them, what you don't understand is this
Speaker 1: is a workplace. You have to be there on time.
Speaker 1: You have to do what they tell you to do.
Speaker 1: You have to go on trips they tell you to
Speaker 1: go on. You have to bye by their hours. You're
Speaker 1: not allowed to take other jobs. This comes first. You
Speaker 1: sign a contract saying so, but no one cares about
Speaker 1: your lunch, how long you're working, if you're cold, what
Speaker 1: the conditions are. And certainly, when a producer crawls into
Speaker 1: a jacuzzi with a talent member, that talent member is
Speaker 1: told by another producer, don't say anything, it will be
Speaker 1: bad for them. When there's racism on a show which
Speaker 1: Nini had a racism claim, it's brushed under the rug
Speaker 1: and people look down upon her for saying that. If
Speaker 1: Leah McSweeney says that drinking was encouraged when she's sober,
Speaker 1: because people don't like her, they don't want to believe that,
Speaker 1: and they believe that all reality TV is just a
Speaker 1: bunch of dumpster fire, trashy train wrecks, no matter how
Speaker 1: much lipstick they put on an airm me as they wear.
Speaker 1: But the truth is there's still human beings. So even
Speaker 1: if you think Danielle Staub is an unsavory character, is
Speaker 1: her coworker allowed to call her multiple times a prostitution horror?
Speaker 1: And his Bravo khn then allowed to have that be
Speaker 1: a section of this conference that they monetize and market,
Speaker 1: thus bullying someone. Let's say that she was a girl
Speaker 1: who was promiscuous. Is it okay for someone to repeatedly
Speaker 1: call her a prostitution horror? Is it okay? On a
Speaker 1: reunion for Rachel Lewis the most hated woman in America.
Speaker 1: She cheated on some scumbag on television with a bunch
Speaker 1: of scumbags that are drunk all day working in a
Speaker 1: bar on a reality show. She cheated on one of them.
Speaker 1: Everybody's cheated on everybody. You hate her. Mazo Arianna is
Speaker 1: the princess. Rachel's ursula, the bad witch and watch the
Speaker 1: road just come out of the floorboards. Now on vander
Speaker 1: Pump rules that that show is discontinued because James Kennedy
Speaker 1: was a thoroughbred that made it rain. He's charming, he's entertaining.
Speaker 1: People like him, and it was widely known with production,
Speaker 1: with Lisa vander Pump and with the network that he
Speaker 1: is believed to be an abuser by everyone on the show.
Speaker 1: But he's charismatic, charming, he's a DJ, he's entertaining, and
Speaker 1: he makes it rain. And never did it rain more
Speaker 1: than during scandival. So now what happens. Rachel is the
Speaker 1: most hated woman in America. She goes on the reunion,
Speaker 1: Andy Cohen. I'm not sure if it was on the
Speaker 1: reunion or elsewhere. I think it was elsewhere. He comments
Speaker 1: in public as her employer. Call it whatever you want,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you what it is because I know
Speaker 1: how the machinations work in that underbelly of that beast.
Speaker 1: No one knows better. And I have a code, And
Speaker 1: no matter how much I talk about this, because I
Speaker 1: do not have a personal ripe with Andy co like
Speaker 1: this is not I have all the receipts, I have
Speaker 1: all the texts I've ever had from Andy Cohen, and
Speaker 1: I don't rat anyone out and I never share anything
Speaker 1: anyone's shared with me. So I can just tell you,
Speaker 1: as a viewer that Andy Cohen talked about what medication
Speaker 1: Rachel Lewis was on. I thought to myself, how can
Speaker 1: he talk about what medication? He speculates that she's on
Speaker 1: it and asked her she on something? Was she on something?
Speaker 1: Is your employer allowed to ask if you're on something?
Speaker 1: They're not legal employees, why because they're paid as independent contractors.
Speaker 1: Why so they can't have any claim against anything that
Speaker 1: would normally be prohibited in a workplace. You can't call
Speaker 1: Jane an Hr and tell her someone is encouraging that
Speaker 1: I drink. Someone is telling me not to speak about
Speaker 1: this thing I just saw. My boss just sent me
Speaker 1: a graphic sexual video. He says he's kidding, but I
Speaker 1: don't find it appropriate. This is not the landscape for that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now it's the weird wild wild West upside down?
Speaker 1: What is it? It's not a workplace? Why do we
Speaker 1: have to go to work? It is a workplace? Why
Speaker 1: is Why am I witnessing racism or excited when somebody
Speaker 1: you know, sexually intimidates someone else. Why is Rachel Lewis
Speaker 1: the most hated woman in America? Why is she repeatedly
Speaker 1: being verbally abused on television to the point where she
Speaker 1: walks off and seems off and sedated, and the host
Speaker 1: Andy and Lisa vander Pump sit by while Andy says
Speaker 1: to her, wait, come back. Why is that allowed in
Speaker 1: a workplace? So now Love is Blind has been deemed
Speaker 1: a workplace. And when I went to SAG after I
Speaker 1: tried to explain to them, I did explain to them
Speaker 1: what this is. I said, listen, this is a workplace.
Speaker 1: But bad behavior is encouraged. It's just not categorized because
Speaker 1: of the way that people are paid. Aka a loophole.
Speaker 1: So now the reality reckoning, which people at Bravo con
Speaker 1: have said, Wait, whatever happened to Bethany's reality reckoning? Like
Speaker 1: laughing it off? You know, creating a legal sweep is
Speaker 1: not like making ramen. And I, like I said, am
Speaker 1: not suing anyone. I have no legal claim. But when
Speaker 1: I said something, people reached out to me, and I thought,
Speaker 1: wait a second, this is an interesting thing. The people
Speaker 1: at the top make all this money justing, and every
Speaker 1: night it's about who look the worst at the party,
Speaker 1: who's the rudest, who's the thirstiest, who has the ugliest house.
Speaker 1: Like it's disgusting, it's actually disgusting, And the reason three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people are watching New York is because they
Speaker 1: know it's disgusting. We can pretend that with streaming and
Speaker 1: plus five and all this shit, but they are scrambling
Speaker 1: over there because it is disgusting. And women fighting in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and the word housewives, which is like
Speaker 1: an archaic leave it to beaver term in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: while we try to pretend we're in a post me
Speaker 1: to environment, is ridiculous and absurd. You know this stuff
Speaker 1: is not this is like it's like, it's like aged,
Speaker 1: and so we can market it as women supporting women,
Speaker 1: and they do a token charity scene every twenty five episodes,
Speaker 1: but it's disgusting and it is a workplace, and it
Speaker 1: hasn't been treated as such. And so the Land of
Speaker 1: the wounded lost toys that nobody likes, like Rachel and
Speaker 1: Danielle and Brandy and Leah. They just may have a
Speaker 1: case Niani, et cetera. They just may have a case
Speaker 1: because they were literally discarded. They can't work, Brandy's disfigured,
Speaker 1: Danielle can't afford her rent. I mean, it's tragic. So
Speaker 1: not everybody is at the top. And the people who
Speaker 1: are at the top, who have been quoted, I've never
Speaker 1: experienced anything like that. They're all on the take. They're
Speaker 1: all making money, and they've been rewarded greatly for being good,
Speaker 1: obedient protectors of the realm, and they continue to make
Speaker 1: more money and they get to be the stars because
Speaker 1: competitive people like me, who are the best at the
Speaker 1: job are out of the way. So the crop has thinned.
Speaker 1: And anyone who says different is being paid by this
Speaker 1: realm or wants to be paid by this realm. And
Speaker 1: why do I not care that I'm burning the bridge?
Speaker 1: There is no bridge. There is there's no bridge. Bravo
Speaker 1: is bedrock. It is archaic dinosaur land, okay, And every
Speaker 1: dog has its day, and nobody gets out without paying
Speaker 1: the bill, and the reality reckoning is real. And you
Speaker 1: could call Brian Friedman and Mark Garregos, those lawyers that
Speaker 1: took on all these cases pro bono, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: probably get major settlements for a lot of these people
Speaker 1: because people are scrambling, and yes, people are afraid of
Speaker 1: being canceled, and yes, every dog has its day. But
Speaker 1: the reason Bravocon didn't exist is not because of some
Speaker 1: bullshit excuse any more than the reason Morocco didn't air.
Speaker 1: It's because they have blood on their hands and it's dirty.
Speaker 1: And Van der Pump rules probably went away because everybody
Speaker 1: knows that James Kennedy had some muck around him and
Speaker 1: now they're all coming out and speaking. So James Kennedy
Speaker 1: getting arrested for domestic abuse has everything to do with
Speaker 1: Love is Blind being a legal workplace, which has everything
Speaker 1: to do with reality reckoning, which is entirely real. So
Speaker 1: sometimes we're too early. Sometimes people were too early to
Speaker 1: talk about me too. Somebody had something happened with Danny
Speaker 1: Masterson or Harvey Weinstein or Diddy or Russell Simmons or
Speaker 1: any of these guys. They were too early. They couldn't
Speaker 1: say anything. They were afraid they look crazy. These guys
Speaker 1: were gods and kings. And I walked up to Ted
Speaker 1: Sarandos at a party in Malibu to ask him to
Speaker 1: proactively speak to his team he had heard about the
Speaker 1: reality reckoning. I later called my lawyers to tell them
Speaker 1: that I had spoken to him, and they were like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, they're like the biggest on the list because
Speaker 1: of this love is Blind stuff. So he put me
Speaker 1: on with his head people, and I said, hey, proactively,
Speaker 1: why don't you get involved with me and I'll explain
Speaker 1: to you what goes down and you can be ahead
Speaker 1: of it and you can say, we're aligning with this
Speaker 1: reality reckoning. We want to course correct, we want to
Speaker 1: do things right. And I said, and I would make
Speaker 1: you guys look like heroes. They basically acted like nothing
Speaker 1: was wrong. They said, there is nothing there, there's nothing
Speaker 1: going on. They completely blew me off. They completely took
Speaker 1: the obligatory call just because I walked right up to
Speaker 1: Ted Sarandos and sort of made it happen. And they
Speaker 1: ignored me. And why is Bravo bedrock? Why are these
Speaker 1: reality shows bad rock to me? Because we have social media,
Speaker 1: I have you, I have this. I don't need to
Speaker 1: go and let a bunch of suits. You don't know
Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on with real people. Tell
Speaker 1: me what's going to We're not gonna work. Wait six
Speaker 1: months to get at green light, shoot it for six months,
Speaker 1: edit it for four months, do an archaic press tour
Speaker 1: on archaic talk shows. Then wait to see what everybody
Speaker 1: thinks after two years. Fuck that same day, James Kennedy
Speaker 1: just got arrested. We're talking about it now. Love is
Speaker 1: Blind just got deemed illegal workplace. We're talking about it
Speaker 1: now because trust and believe, Bravo and the rest of
Speaker 1: reality TV will all be a legal workplace. And you
Speaker 1: can already see the scrambling. Everyone tells me from production
Speaker 1: and every show that the Reality reckoning shook the core.
Speaker 1: They don't allow excessive drinking. How are your feelings, Let's
Speaker 1: talk to someone. Do you want to talk to a therapist?
Speaker 1: Touchy feely, We're here if you need us. We just
Speaker 1: want to make sure you have a work life balance.
Speaker 1: We just want to make sure our talent is taken
Speaker 1: care of and everybody's happy. We're really making changes. We're
Speaker 1: you know, on watch what happens live. It's like, how
Speaker 1: did that make you feel? Like? There's definitely been a rint,
Speaker 1: but the past damage still exists and the fact remains
Speaker 1: that it is a workplace. Reality television stars are exploited
Speaker 1: and many want that, and yes, many know what they're
Speaker 1: signing up for. I agree, but what's done is done.
Speaker 1: Everything in the dark comes to light, and this is
Speaker 1: a come uppance. And when Rachel was on my podcast,
Speaker 1: she told me she was early too. She made fun
Speaker 1: of hated, came on my show, hated. She did get
Speaker 1: back about half of her audience because she was completely despised,
Speaker 1: but made fun of all the time trolled, and she
Speaker 1: said she basically alluded to and told me that like
Speaker 1: kind of like that Kristen knew and that it was known,
Speaker 1: and she didn't want to go all the way on
Speaker 1: the domestic violence. Again, people feel like they're too soon.
Speaker 1: She didn't want to go too far. We talked off camera.
Speaker 1: I will not divulge anything she told me, but I
Speaker 1: will tell you that she will now say she didn't
Speaker 1: want to go too far. She didn't know she was
Speaker 1: in so deep, meaning she was doing three episodes of me.
Speaker 1: We didn't know it would be that long, but we
Speaker 1: talked for so long. She had been in hiding for
Speaker 1: three months at a mental health facility, and she really
Speaker 1: just didn't know how deep to go, and I certainly
Speaker 1: didn't push her. And she told me that other members
Speaker 1: of the cast all know. She also told me that
Speaker 1: the people who knew got spinoffs, got different shows, and
Speaker 1: now we can't prove that. She said that people that
Speaker 1: got fired for racism got asked back, like you know,
Speaker 1: she said, there were a lot of people that knew this.
Speaker 1: So what happens is it's not popular to say certain things,
Speaker 1: and then one day something makes sense and something lands
Speaker 1: and all worlds collide and then it's okay to say.
Speaker 1: So even me, I've been quiet. I haven't said anything
Speaker 1: but on this day with what happened with love is.
Speaker 1: But I just need you to understand that for all
Speaker 1: of these years, reality television has not been treated as
Speaker 1: a workplace because of a loophole. So people have been silenced, threatened,
Speaker 1: discouraged from speaking their truth. They have been completely nutered
Speaker 1: in having any claims. They have not been allowed to
Speaker 1: say when they feel violated, triggered, uncomfortable, abused, emotionally abused,
Speaker 1: in fact, they say that the opposite has been the case.
Speaker 1: It has been encouraged that they're emotionally abused, It has
Speaker 1: been encouraged that they break their sobriety. It has been celebrated,
Speaker 1: which it has to me when other people break their sobriety.
Speaker 1: It is the upside down. That's what the reality reckoning
Speaker 1: was about. And yeah, these things don't happen overnight, and
Speaker 1: no zero claims, not suing anyone, make zero dollars. All
Speaker 1: I have done is burn a bridge that is going
Speaker 1: to go up in a burst of flames anyway,