WEBVTT - The TikTok Ban, Dior Bags, Fires... January has been a LOT. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:18.599 So let's talk about the TikTok ellipse as I've named it, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.720 that happened that most people know about. So from the 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.960 very beginning, I've explained that TikTok is a different planet, 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:32.600 and many people visit that planet. Some people have tertiary 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.480 residence is there, secondary residence is there to stop by 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:42.320 as a tourist. It's a different planet. But I have 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.520 permanent residency there. I live there. I live on Instagram too, 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.599 But I would almost say my primary residence is on 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:56.600 TikTok because yeah, I would say my primary residence is 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.240 on it. Yeah, my primary residence is. I'm actually thinking 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.520 about this seriously, like TikTok is my Hampton's house, where 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.280 it's where I feel the most comfortable and at home. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.039 But I do my day to day operations in my 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:15.160 suburban house, So I would say TikTok is kind of 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.600 where my heart is. So let me explain the differences 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:23.520 between Instagram and TikTok once and for all accurately, because 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:28.040 it's a big conversation. As many of you know, there 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:32.559 wash a TikTok band that went into effect this past weekend. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.680 I'm going to get into that and what that experience 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.240 was like because that experience was like something happens on 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.640 another planet that most people don't understand, but if you 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.080 live on that planet, you understand what went down. So 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.640 before I get into what went down on the planet 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.720 of talk when it crashed, I will explain to you 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:55.600 that here is the difference between Instagram and TikTok. Instagram 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:00.559 is like the Marriotte lobby, where many people are wearing 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.720 name tags, people have personalities, people are attractive, people are 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.280 talking about things they should be talking about. Some people 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.080 say some mistakes and say something they shouldn't, but overall, 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.480 there is a decorum and there are some guard rails 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.280 to what is going on on Instagram, and there's what 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.000 you should do and what you shouldn't do. And I'm 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.240 sorry to my Instagram people because I do have dual 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.640 residency and I live there and I love you. But 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.480 Instagram has way more judgmental people. They would be way 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.720 more There are a bunch of Karens over on TikTok, 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.239 but people would say there are way more Karens on Instagram, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.960 and Instagram is extremely judgmental. They don't give you a 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.960 lot of breathing room. You do something stupid they make 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:44.600 you feel feel like a fool. And TikTok so if 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.520 Instagram is a bunch of people with name tags on 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:52.160 doing what they're mostly supposed to do in an organized 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:58.919 formatted timeline manner, TikTok is the after party upstairs where 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.440 people are taking their clothes off. Someone has tassels on 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.840 their titties. Someone's definitely made a full of themselves, said 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.959 something stupid. Someone else has applauded them for saying that's 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.640 something stupid. Even though in the mainstream it would not work. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.520 Instagram is where mainstream media lives. There is not a 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.520 lot of conspiracy theory there. There was not a lot 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.320 of talk about my d or bags. The pandemic was 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.520 discussed there, but in a more let's regurgitate from the 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:29.280 multiple news stations manner, and TikTok is citizens journalism. Individuals 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.760 are reporters. Now. When I first got on TikTok, I thought, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.359 what the hell this random person is holding a microphone 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.440 thinking they report the news, And once I lived on 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.840 this planet longer, I realized, who the hell is the 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.720 dummy on the mainstream channel also regurgitating and reporting the news? 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.920 What is that person? A wizard that person definitely went 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.320 to MIT and fought in wars and worked for NASA 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.240 and has been a mother and a daughter and a 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.800 man and a transgender person, and I like, so that's 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.119 just a person. It's just a person. The same way 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.560 that I could be a pubists today, with all due 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.040 respect to publicists that I love and mind Joel Fritzo. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.120 If I wanted to, I today could decide to be 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.000 a publicist, a marketing executive. I could decide to be 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.320 a lot of things. So people decided they were going 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.640 to report the news, and they are very thorough. Some 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.320 are just monkeys that just say things and spread false news, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.440 but that happens on the mainstream media too. Some are 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.080 really knowledgeable. I could think of very specific ones that 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.719 are very knowledgeable. They know what they're talking about, like 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.560 they actually have done their research, which is frankly all 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.960 that mainstream journalists do. In addition, you can talk about 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.839 things ad nauseum for TikTok and you can find a 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.320 community that wants to keep hearing it. If I keep 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.760 talking about relief work on Instagram, I will start to 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.480 lose followers and views will go down. That can happen 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.839 on TikTok too, But I can find a pocket in 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.400 that algorithm where everybody wants to talk about relief work, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.160 and the only thing they're upset about is what's not 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.599 happening in North Carolina right now? Or what is happening 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.440 in the fires, or how did the fire start? Or 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.680 what are the drones? They are the doorb or oh 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.440 my god, there's a while, Mark Burkin, or I'm an 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.479 asshole and I want to go show you my brand 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.120 new four four hundred thousand dollar Rolls Royce and we're 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.080 gonna fly to Thailand to go buy an air mes bag. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.000 And you're gonna go with that person or this one 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.839 guy who like just every day flexes how expensive his 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.560 cars are, his homes are. Whatever. You find your you 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.800 find your way, you find your place, and sometimes you 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.240 meet people that aren't from your place and you find 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.440 them interesting. I follow twenty something year olds and laugh 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.000 at what they're doing. I don't really do that on Instagram. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.000 I'm like following more on twenty two year olds that 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.600 do dumb dances that my daughter isn't even following, Like 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.680 I just get a kick out of it. And the 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.880 reason it's a community and a family is, like you 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.920 really there were people. So this is this, this really 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.560 popped off during the pandemic. Okay, So apps like Cameo 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.400 popped off during the pandemic because people couldn't see each 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.279 other and they were sending messages. Apps like TikTok popped 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.240 off because people home and they felt like they were 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.719 with other people. I only regret that I wasn't earlier 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.919 because I would have felt that lack of loneliness. You 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.760 had a whole group of people that you were hanging 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.920 out with every day during the pandemic. Inside joke. Everything 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.560 on TikTok is an inside joke. Everything is a hyperfixation, 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.520 Like if I put like the wrong sea, if I 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.039 didn't put everything bagel seasoning or capers or parmesan or 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.440 something on something that it should have been, like, people 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.960 would fucking go crazy, Like if you rinse your chicken 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.159 and you're not supposed to. The hyperfixations are real, Like 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.120 I could sit in front of a jar of candy 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.800 and just be completely unhinged and talk about it, or 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.440 froth coffee. I can go viral and like have like 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.400 people obsessed with and only making coffee every day like me, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.280 or eating chicken salad like me. Like, it's completely insane 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.200 and it's one inside joke. So when you and your 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.920 friends beat the shit out of a joke that you're 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.320 the only people that understand and no one else understands, 0:06:54.960 --> 0:07:00.720 that's what the fuck it is. So after the pandemic, 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.760 people were people who are ready were insular. You welcome me, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.320 became more insular. The pandemic ended and they were given 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.400 license to be home, and now they had these new friends. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.080 They didn't have to work as hard to go be 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.280 social or meet people. People who were super social were home, 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.800 and they were like starving and clinging on to the 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:24.400 other people that also were home. People created businesses. People 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.040 were vulnerable. People were scared, so they shared ups. Guys 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.280 became stars. Nurses became people with ten million followers that 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.400 make millions of dollars a year, like or hundreds of 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.880 thousands of dollars a year. I don't know what people 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.160 actually make besides you know, I don't know what people 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.840 make besides like mainstream influencers and people learned things. My 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.480 daughter was coming up with all these using socks to 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.400 curl her hair and doing all these things, and I'm like, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.040 were you learning all this sewing? And it wasn't just 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.760 the dances, and Instagram is more corporate. Like Instagram is 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.440 where like we're going to put up two feed posts 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:02.280 a week, two re we should be doing a slider 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.120 that goes on feed. But that chaotic little thing can 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.080 go on stories. But like any fucking piece of spaghetti, 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.880 you could burp and stick it on TikTok and it 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.360 could get ten million views. And you could produce a 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.640 feature film with Martin Scorsese and it could get three 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.240 views on TikTok. Like they are not snobs, they don't 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.240 give a fuck like and they don't let outsiders in. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.000 So one time, Whinney Cummings was like, they accepted you. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.840 I'm like, what are you talking about? Because a long 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.080 time ago they accepted Lizzo and then she got canceled 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.040 and they really didn't she I haven't seen her in 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.160 a long time. And I don't know where Jason Derulo is. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.480 He's been massive on that app and he never got canceled, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.800 but I just don't see him. And it used to 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.240 be that there was one community. Now there are all 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.760 these different planets. I happened to walk into the Beauty 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.000 Planet because I was just trying to fuck around and 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.280 learn how to do my makeup, not realizing that there 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.560 was a whole beauty world on YouTube and that that 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.080 was like a thing. I thought I invented the wheel 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.760 and I was in that room, but I didn't realize 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.560 there was that room. There was then the food room 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.600 where that girl with the seaweed and the salmon lived, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.880 and then there's like an organizing room, and a home 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.839 to core room, and like all a steakroom right now, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.880 Like there are all these different rooms and you can 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.880 switch rooms and you can curate who's in your room, 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.760 and Instagram is trying to do that and reels are 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.160 trying to do that, but somehow it's just not vibing 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.079 so much so that after a twelve hour TikTok Lips 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.640 blackout shutdown of twenty twenty five, the deck has been 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.760 shuffled and people are coming back and they feel like 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.440 something's different because the snow globe got shaken, and therefore, 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.560 you page, the stuff that comes through to you is 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.280 no longer what you took years to curate. Like you've 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.520 curated exactly what you want to see and who you 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.000 want to talk to, and you have the same people 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.400 in your comments, and you always get more, but like 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.720 you're in an inside joke. Now I'm watching Josh Richards 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.080 do do fuck boys way house dances, which doesn't mean 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.880 anything to you. It's like the young kids that started 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.240 TikTok and so like we are all like, wait, it's different. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.439 So that's how I can explain to you how Instagram 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.360 is different because a nuance can shave something, so people 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.559 don't like the vibes over there. And when the TikTok 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.240 shut down for twelve hours, everybody ran to my page 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.720 and my team started just posting like slamming content because 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.240 they were like children that wanted to be hugged. And 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.079 it sounds insane, but like in many ways, I'm an 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.200 aunt and a sister and a mother to some of 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.880 these young kids. They've asked me business advice. I've helped them, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.120 They've asked me about their weight like products, like I've 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.000 kind of been there for some of them because I 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.000 do provide a different type of wisdom. I'm providing very 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:38.480 serious but digestible business wisdom, very serious but digestible philanthropy wisdom, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.200 very not serious beauty wisdom. But then they'll always be 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.000 infused some version of like something that they can understand 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.440 or I can crystallize what's going on with a talk 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.719 a talk sound that's going viral and like how long 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.520 it will last and why not to buy into it 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.400 and intellectual property. I've helped them with and organizing their 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.000 house and affordable design, and you know, that's just what 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.600 goes on there. So I'm the good news is when 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.319 you keep washing your hair with the same shampoo, you 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:08.599 should shake it up because then it will get a 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.800 little more body. And we all got comfortable on TikTok. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.000 While I have a good community on Instagram and I 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.040 love Instagram, you got comfortable over there, and a lot 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.320 of people like the Alex Earls and the people that 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.360 make a lot of money over there, were very worried 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.839 when TikTok was going to shut down. I was not 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.000 worried when TikTok was going to shut down from like 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.080 a business or what do I do every day to 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.400 you know that sort of thing perspective, meaning some people 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.480 were worried about their businesses. Spencer Pratt was in a 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.560 free fall because he just became TikTok famous a week 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.800 ago because his house burnt down, and now he felt 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.480 like he got a taste and it was going away, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.599 so they were really really down. I was emotionally unhinged 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:50.400 because I like the community and I like comedy. So 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.360 for me, it's a self expression. I get to express 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.080 myself and do very stupid things and be very flawed 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.280 and unhinged, and there it's like my Saturday Night Life. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.280 I've never been able to host Saturday Night Live or 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.920 even be on it except for the multiple times they 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.120 mentioned me. So TikTok is my television show. It's my 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.240 Saturday Night Live. It's why I never went back to TV. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.920 I get to be myself and I just connect with 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.000 this medium and I built a community there, which takes 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.880 a really long time. So TikTok is the land of 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:27.480 the misfit toys, TikTok is the rescue dogs. Instagram is 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.720 where the breeder dogs live. So I hope that makes 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.000 sense to you, and many of you were going to 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.880 have an interesting time and started to see what really 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.000 unhinged Bethany is like. As you know, all the ex 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.360 pats and the TikTok refugees started to fly in and 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.600 now they're flying back, and a lot some of them 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.120 got on red note this weird Chinese app that you 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.240 literally have to speak Mandarin to fully understand it. People 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:55.000 were like going through People were exchange students over there 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.240 because they were worried that they weren't going to have TikTok, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.600 and it was like a TikTok knockoff. And there's some 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.719 other I'm like, I don't know what it's called, like 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.160 bright Side or something. I can't remember, but it was 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.520 a moment, And then I'm gonna get into the actual 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.400 moment in time, the historical pop cultural moment, the TikTok 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.760 shut down of twenty twenty five. They all describe it 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:22.320 as crashing out, and I was an unhinged, crashing out warrior, 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.560 like I was there to the bitter end, in fact, 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:29.320 in the most iconic and epic thing that's ever happened 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:30.960 to me on that app, And many people are saying 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.520 it's the most iconic and epic thing they've ever witnessed 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.400 on the app. When it was crashing out slowly, like 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.160 not slowly, meaning it crashed out pretty quickly, but like 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:45.439 each of us was dissolving. Spencer Pratt with Heidi, Alex 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.280 Earle and myself were all on a live and one 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.760 by one we just started to each fade. They faded 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.400 because it was my live and then the people were 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.960 crying and freaking out in the in the comments, and 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.679 then I faded, and then they were talking to each 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.160 other like, wait, is it over? And you saw that 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.440 sign that just said it was over. And we all 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.319 thought that this world that we had all made these 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:09.000 connections on, like I know nurses from Staten Island, I 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.000 know hairdressers, I know people that don't pizza stores like I, 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.720 and you think I don't know them, Like I've invited 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.240 them to some of my events. I plan to have 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.640 a party for them. They've supported me. They're good human beings. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.240 And when we were crashing out, we were crashing out 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.440 and I was just un hinge, and I was drinking 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:31.080 this cannabis drink and just being honest, and I wasn't 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.680 saying I mean. The funny thing about it is on TikTok, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.240 so many people shared things that weren't true. I would 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.360 never have anything to share that wasn't true because I've 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.800 never shared anything on TikTok that wasn't true. So a 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.400 lot of people were like, oh, I didn't really mean 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:48.040 it when I said this scare was good or this 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.160 workout I don't really do or I've never really been there, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.280 I've never done that. So but I was crashing out 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.360 and it was like a disconnection. It was like we 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.480 were all sinking on the Titanic and it was going under. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.840 And for those of you who are on Instagram will 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.640 say like, oh my god, like get a life, like 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.760 it's social media app or any of you who will 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.200 say that, I've raised millions of dollars on social media, 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.800 both on Instagram and on TikTok. I've been able to 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.240 convey things about lawsuits and business that I could never 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.200 have conveyed anywhere else. I went through my mother dying, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.560 not fully, but like a little bit like dipped in 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.400 and out and dating and a little bit of a 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.680 breakup on TikTok and Instagram. Like social media, if used 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.920 for good not evil, is a very powerful medium, and 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.440 if you're a homebody like myself, it certainly is a 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.960 powerful social medium. But for many people, the mainstream media 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.720 thinks it was because of the business that was going 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.880 to be lost, and that is an aspect, and some 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:48.560 people have left their businesses and do have a career 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.920 there and make money and monetize who they actually are 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.520 because they left their jobs. And many major businesses make 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.320 millions and millions of dollars, and that was all real. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.640 But the people that were crashing out, the people that 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.080 were crying, and we're not thinking really primarily of their money. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.840 They were thinking of the connection. They were thinking of 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.920 their people. They were thinking of their friends, their family. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.600 They were thinking of the beautiful disaster. They were thinking 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.760 of the land of misfit toys. They were thinking of 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.560 not coloring within the lines. They were thinking of being 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.960 at the after party upstairs like a lunatic and not 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:38.320 being in the lobby of the Marriotte with a lanyard on. Well, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.000 the month of January has been pretty boring. We really 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.840 need something to happen. There's just not a lot going on. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:54.720 Let's review. There was a cyber truck alleged bomb incident 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.400 in Vegas. There was another incident like that in New Orleans. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:03.720 There were like seven plane either crashes or failures or 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:07.239 something in one week before right before Christmas, so and 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.200 then right after there was like intense fog. There were 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.359 there were and still are drones which I've renamed Diora 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:17.600 bags everywhere. But I had been told that people would 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.879 stop paying attention to them because so many other crazy 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.680 things were going to happen. Now do I know how? 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.320 And why? No, I'm not. I'm not a fucking genius, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.399 nor am I a mind reader, nor am I a 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.439 fortune teller. And I keep saying that we are all 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.960 ants because whatever anything is, we're not going to be 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.439 the ones to know it. We'll be told what we 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.120 need to know. It's like you sit the fuck down, 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.280 You sit at the kids say well, we'll call you. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:42.399 Do not speak unless spoken to, and so then after 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.359 the doora bags, then it was the California fires. Then 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.919 there's an uprising because of North Carolina because they're not 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.320 getting the love and the attention and the media that 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.000 the California fires are getting. And I went there to 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:57.000 do relief work and I'm a zombie. I'm so exhausted. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.720 The people there are so traumatized. They are zombies different reasons. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.399 And then we came back, and then there was the 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.080 TikTok ban, and then there were the hostages discussed, and 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:12.160 now there's an inauguration. It's fucking January twentieth. It feels 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.639 like January ninety ninth. It feels like it's been five 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.200 months in this week, it's been this month has been 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.359 five months long. I am so tired. My week started. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:27.440 I went to La. I flew there, went to the way. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.680 What did I do? I flew there, woke up, went 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:35.159 to the warehouse, got the warehouse organized, had started to 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.720 raise money already, so now I had raised probably at 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.200 that point like probably one to two million dollars. Continued 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.159 to raise money, wrote all sort of the copy for 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.240 everything we were going to portray in what we were 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:51.040 going to say about this disaster. Did multiple press outlets 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.600 in La. While there, I think I did Extra and 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:58.399 NBC and Spectrum and something else. And then went on 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.119 multiple missions, actually living boxes and cash cards and meeting 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.439 people and it was so tragic and so sad, but 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.919 really making a difference in helping. Then going to the 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.159 second mission in a church and doing a big speech 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.200 and speaking to everyone about it. Then deciding I'm getting 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:14.880 on a red eye because I want to be there 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.159 with my daughter for breakfast and after school. So I 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.240 get on a red eye. Sleep three hours on the 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.680 red eye because I'm so activated and wound up. Get 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.439 off the red eye, sleep an hour Cebrian right before school, 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.440 give her a kiss, don't drive her that day because 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.200 I'm a zombie. Get organized the whole day. Because the 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:31.760 reason I wanted to take the Red Eye was to 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.440 like have one night in my house. I like to nest. 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:35.960 I don't like to go one place to the next. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:37.800 I like to get back to the base, even if 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.480 it's inconvenient, even if it takes longer. I like to 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.120 get back to the base. And sadly, as an influencer, 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:44.920 the amount of shit I get sent that I don't 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.800 even want takes a full time job, and getting back 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.320 to the base to go through it and tell everyone 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.159 where it's going to go and what we're doing with that? 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.520 Are we shooting it? And then the next morning woke up. 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.480 I think it was like five o'clock five one day, 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.840 six o'clock one day, and I had to do morning shows. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.800 Oh no, that's not true. I did the opening of 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.600 the Nasdaq Bell. I rang the opening of the Nasdaq bell, 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.280 something that people would wait their entire lives to do. 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.720 That one thing that is like slotted in on that 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.360 day because afterwards I had either like CNN or NBC. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.119 I had like two news news outlets that day to do. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.679 Then went home to be with Brinn for dinner. No, 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.320 that's not true. Then went back to the city, had 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.239 dinner with two people. Don't know why I would ever 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:29.320 do that, but had dinner. Then woke up the next 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.159 morning at five o'clock in the morning to get up 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.560 and to do Gail King, and I believe we did 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:38.080 one other thing. We did Access Hollywood right after Gail King. Yes, 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.360 Gail King into Access Hollywood. But wait, there's more. Then 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:43.440 I left, came home. I had to go through whatever 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.520 I had to go through with business, do my normal life, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.960 my normal business. Then I woke up the next day 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.280 and had to go to a volleyball tournament for two days, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:55.879 screaming auditoriums, ballrooms, drive to one and a half hours 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:57.840 on the way there to Hartford, and then drove back 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.320 in a snowstorm two and a half hour or some 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.440 of it being ten miles an hour, skidded a little bit, 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.320 like literally in full panic because I wanted to go 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.440