1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: Suzanne Sommers has passed away. She's been on the podcast. 2 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: I've met her several times. She had such a sweet 3 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: and nice soul. I really liked her. I loved her stories. 4 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: She told me that she was married to the love 5 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: of her life. They were best friends. They were together 6 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: all the time. They work together. He must be so 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: broken hearted. I am so sorry. They're family people. Just 8 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: rest in peace. And you know what I think of 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: Susanne Summers now, because she's very inspiring because she's, you know, blonde, 10 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: and she played the dits, but she's not the dits. 11 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: She fought when it was not popular, something I definitely 12 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: relate to. She was courageous when it was really scary 13 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: to have an opinion. She fought against. It's interesting because 14 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: of the strike right now, sag Aftra, what was happening 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: was she John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt very popular on 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: the cover of TV Guide. They were so major. Their 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: show Three's Company was huge, but they weren't really making 18 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: a lot of money, which happens with a lot of 19 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: housewives and a lot of shows. They weren't really making 20 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: a lot of money, but they were plastered everywhere. I 21 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: think they were even like Time magazine or like major magazines, 22 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: maybe Newsweek, And she said to them, stand with me, 23 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: because they're making so much money on us and we're 24 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: not making money, you know. And they said they were 25 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: going to stand with her, and they didn't, and she 26 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 1: ended up being alone. This happens all the time, you know, 27 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: think about the Reality reckoning. This happens all the time, 28 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: and where someone's too early, like she was too early, 29 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: and she got fired for standing up for herself. The 30 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: two of them folded because they wanted to work. It's 31 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: very very relatable right now during the strike, during the 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: Reality reckoning, because they wanted to work. And she really 33 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: had an impact on the entertainment industry. I mean, she 34 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: was one of the first people to fight for residuals 35 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: and to fight when it was unpopular, and she still 36 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: up and she also was very successful because people didn't 37 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: take her seriously. Kelly Rippa reminded me of her in 38 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: the sense that she's like this, you know, small, cute, 39 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: little pixie doll, but she packs a punch. And Suzanne 40 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: Summers did too. She packs a punch like she had 41 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: to deal in a man's world and fight for what's right. 42 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: And I just always think of her, and I think 43 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: Kelly Rippa because that's what Kelly Rippa has had to 44 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: deal with, you know. And also them not seeing you coming, 45 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: silent assassins that they don't see you coming, which is great. 46 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: It's unassuming, like I'm like a big dragon that they 47 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: see outside. I tell to a lot of people that 48 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: I know, like be the sniper from the side. So 49 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: here's what's going on with the war effort. If you 50 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: read or watch social media, there is no war. There's 51 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: just Taylor Swift, pumpkin spice lattes and lipgloss, and there 52 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: has to be a time to use your platform. Be 53 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: Strong has done over three hundred million dollars worldwide, and 54 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,839 Speaker 1: I reiterate that. I say that that because I don't 55 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: think people really understand that that's a massive number for 56 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: a lean, efficient, small operation like hours to execute. Now, 57 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: when there's a hurricane or a tornado or a storm, 58 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: or even an outlier like a ppe crisis, you're kind 59 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,519 Speaker 1: of waiting for the end. And a hurricane has an end, 60 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: and then you're dealing with the aftermath, and an earthquake has 61 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: an end, you're dealing with the aftermath. A war is 62 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: very anxiety producing because you don't know where the end is. 63 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: There may be no end in sight. Layer that with politics, 64 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:41,559 Speaker 1: Layer that with religion, Layer that with loss, exhaustion, propaganda, visuals, 65 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: and just overall hate. And we're already in a time 66 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: where there's been so much going on. There's been so 67 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: many disasters, there's been a pandemic. It is just a 68 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: very heated time. Politics has never been so divisive, so 69 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: everything's at a fever pitch. And when I've set out 70 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: to do this, it was preserving human life. It was 71 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: in a disaster for us to provide aid. Now there's 72 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: a lot that goes with that. There's a lot of corruption, 73 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: there's a lot of being transparent. Because people are donating 74 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: their money, you're trying to explain to them how you're 75 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: using the money, where it's going. The difference between money 76 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: which is donated and usually goes to cash cards, which 77 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: is not really applicable here right now, and aid is 78 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: donated year round in our warehouse, but some aid is 79 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: donated and allocated to Israel. You can't just decide we're 80 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: taking Israel aid and send it to Palestine. You can't. 81 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: There're just a million things that people don't know that 82 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: decide to be experts in my comments, which is really 83 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: annoying and just waste a fucking time. And also it's 84 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: get off your fucking ass and do something, use your anger, 85 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: use your opinion, and do something. Everybody gets to be 86 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: a hero pounding their chest in my comments. And I'm 87 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: not scared and I'm not backing down. But when we 88 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: responded to Israel, we raised a million dollars and we 89 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: sent aid to Israel, a lot of people got really 90 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: mad that that's where the disaster and war started. Now 91 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: there's a crisis in Gaza. Many Jewish people, most Jewish 92 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: people are very compassionate and are just thinking about the 93 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: forty percent of children. There is human suffering. And everyone 94 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: who is against us giving aid to anyone in Goza 95 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: or coming out of Gaza, which is the goal, is 96 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: trolling me and fighting with each other. They're saying, I'm 97 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: giving aid to Hamas. Stop just stop, I'm not giving 98 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: aid to Hamas. We work with un partners, we work 99 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: with the military, we work with local philanthropic organizations. We 100 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: have done this in Poland and Ukraine. This is what 101 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: we do. We have a warehouse, a massive warehouse in 102 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: Egypt that we're prepping. We are not fucking around, okay, 103 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: and we know what we're doing. And I went down 104 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: to my warehouse to show the magnitude tense mattresses aid 105 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: for anything you could possibly imagine, thousands and thousands of 106 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: square feet of aid were This is not my first 107 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: rodeo anymore. I'm not begging for flip flops. You know, 108 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: after Hurricane Harvey. This is years later. I've been all 109 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: around the world. So understand that we will not be 110 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: giving aid to Hamas. We have trucks waiting, and we 111 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: will be very strategic about where aid goes. That is 112 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: not we're not handing money to people because that could 113 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: go to Hamas. We know what we're doing. So just 114 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: stop focusing on things that don't matter. And most importantly, 115 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: most importantly, the b Strong website has three ways to donate. 116 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: You can donate to Israeli relief. Your money, anything that 117 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: you donate goes to Israeli relief. You could donate to 118 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: Palestinian relief. You could donate to just overall human suffering. 119 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: You don't care if there are babies, women, children suffering, 120 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: that's where you want to donate. Elderly so it is 121 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: set up so everybody can feel safe and can have 122 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: their own beliefs. But this is very tricky and very different, 123 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: and I'm the only public person that I see in 124 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: the entertainment industry who's speaking up because everybody's terrified. It's insane.