Speaker 1: Suzanne Sommers has passed away. She's been on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I've met her several times. She had such a sweet
Speaker 1: and nice soul. I really liked her. I loved her stories.
Speaker 1: She told me that she was married to the love
Speaker 1: of her life. They were best friends. They were together
Speaker 1: all the time. They work together. He must be so
Speaker 1: broken hearted. I am so sorry. They're family people. Just
Speaker 1: rest in peace. And you know what I think of
Speaker 1: Susanne Summers now, because she's very inspiring because she's, you know, blonde,
Speaker 1: and she played the dits, but she's not the dits.
Speaker 1: She fought when it was not popular, something I definitely
Speaker 1: relate to. She was courageous when it was really scary
Speaker 1: to have an opinion. She fought against. It's interesting because
Speaker 1: of the strike right now, sag Aftra, what was happening
Speaker 1: was she John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt very popular on
Speaker 1: the cover of TV Guide. They were so major. Their
Speaker 1: show Three's Company was huge, but they weren't really making
Speaker 1: a lot of money, which happens with a lot of
Speaker 1: housewives and a lot of shows. They weren't really making
Speaker 1: a lot of money, but they were plastered everywhere. I
Speaker 1: think they were even like Time magazine or like major magazines,
Speaker 1: maybe Newsweek, And she said to them, stand with me,
Speaker 1: because they're making so much money on us and we're
Speaker 1: not making money, you know. And they said they were
Speaker 1: going to stand with her, and they didn't, and she
Speaker 1: ended up being alone. This happens all the time, you know,
Speaker 1: think about the Reality reckoning. This happens all the time,
Speaker 1: and where someone's too early, like she was too early,
Speaker 1: and she got fired for standing up for herself. The
Speaker 1: two of them folded because they wanted to work. It's
Speaker 1: very very relatable right now during the strike, during the
Speaker 1: Reality reckoning, because they wanted to work. And she really
Speaker 1: had an impact on the entertainment industry. I mean, she
Speaker 1: was one of the first people to fight for residuals
Speaker 1: and to fight when it was unpopular, and she still
Speaker 1: up and she also was very successful because people didn't
Speaker 1: take her seriously. Kelly Rippa reminded me of her in
Speaker 1: the sense that she's like this, you know, small, cute,
Speaker 1: little pixie doll, but she packs a punch. And Suzanne
Speaker 1: Summers did too. She packs a punch like she had
Speaker 1: to deal in a man's world and fight for what's right.
Speaker 1: And I just always think of her, and I think
Speaker 1: Kelly Rippa because that's what Kelly Rippa has had to
Speaker 1: deal with, you know. And also them not seeing you coming,
Speaker 1: silent assassins that they don't see you coming, which is great.
Speaker 1: It's unassuming, like I'm like a big dragon that they
Speaker 1: see outside. I tell to a lot of people that
Speaker 1: I know, like be the sniper from the side. So
Speaker 1: here's what's going on with the war effort. If you
Speaker 1: read or watch social media, there is no war. There's
Speaker 1: just Taylor Swift, pumpkin spice lattes and lipgloss, and there
Speaker 1: has to be a time to use your platform. Be
Speaker 1: Strong has done over three hundred million dollars worldwide, and
Speaker 1: I reiterate that. I say that that because I don't
Speaker 1: think people really understand that that's a massive number for
Speaker 1: a lean, efficient, small operation like hours to execute. Now,
Speaker 1: when there's a hurricane or a tornado or a storm,
Speaker 1: or even an outlier like a ppe crisis, you're kind
Speaker 1: of waiting for the end. And a hurricane has an end,
Speaker 1: and then you're dealing with the aftermath, and an earthquake has
Speaker 1: an end, you're dealing with the aftermath. A war is
Speaker 1: very anxiety producing because you don't know where the end is.
Speaker 1: There may be no end in sight. Layer that with politics,
Speaker 1: Layer that with religion, Layer that with loss, exhaustion, propaganda, visuals,
Speaker 1: and just overall hate. And we're already in a time
Speaker 1: where there's been so much going on. There's been so
Speaker 1: many disasters, there's been a pandemic. It is just a
Speaker 1: very heated time. Politics has never been so divisive, so
Speaker 1: everything's at a fever pitch. And when I've set out
Speaker 1: to do this, it was preserving human life. It was
Speaker 1: in a disaster for us to provide aid. Now there's
Speaker 1: a lot that goes with that. There's a lot of corruption,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of being transparent. Because people are donating
Speaker 1: their money, you're trying to explain to them how you're
Speaker 1: using the money, where it's going. The difference between money
Speaker 1: which is donated and usually goes to cash cards, which
Speaker 1: is not really applicable here right now, and aid is
Speaker 1: donated year round in our warehouse, but some aid is
Speaker 1: donated and allocated to Israel. You can't just decide we're
Speaker 1: taking Israel aid and send it to Palestine. You can't.
Speaker 1: There're just a million things that people don't know that
Speaker 1: decide to be experts in my comments, which is really
Speaker 1: annoying and just waste a fucking time. And also it's
Speaker 1: get off your fucking ass and do something, use your anger,
Speaker 1: use your opinion, and do something. Everybody gets to be
Speaker 1: a hero pounding their chest in my comments. And I'm
Speaker 1: not scared and I'm not backing down. But when we
Speaker 1: responded to Israel, we raised a million dollars and we
Speaker 1: sent aid to Israel, a lot of people got really
Speaker 1: mad that that's where the disaster and war started. Now
Speaker 1: there's a crisis in Gaza. Many Jewish people, most Jewish
Speaker 1: people are very compassionate and are just thinking about the
Speaker 1: forty percent of children. There is human suffering. And everyone
Speaker 1: who is against us giving aid to anyone in Goza
Speaker 1: or coming out of Gaza, which is the goal, is
Speaker 1: trolling me and fighting with each other. They're saying, I'm
Speaker 1: giving aid to Hamas. Stop just stop, I'm not giving
Speaker 1: aid to Hamas. We work with un partners, we work
Speaker 1: with the military, we work with local philanthropic organizations. We
Speaker 1: have done this in Poland and Ukraine. This is what
Speaker 1: we do. We have a warehouse, a massive warehouse in
Speaker 1: Egypt that we're prepping. We are not fucking around, okay,
Speaker 1: and we know what we're doing. And I went down
Speaker 1: to my warehouse to show the magnitude tense mattresses aid
Speaker 1: for anything you could possibly imagine, thousands and thousands of
Speaker 1: square feet of aid were This is not my first
Speaker 1: rodeo anymore. I'm not begging for flip flops. You know,
Speaker 1: after Hurricane Harvey. This is years later. I've been all
Speaker 1: around the world. So understand that we will not be
Speaker 1: giving aid to Hamas. We have trucks waiting, and we
Speaker 1: will be very strategic about where aid goes. That is
Speaker 1: not we're not handing money to people because that could
Speaker 1: go to Hamas. We know what we're doing. So just
Speaker 1: stop focusing on things that don't matter. And most importantly,
Speaker 1: most importantly, the b Strong website has three ways to donate.
Speaker 1: You can donate to Israeli relief. Your money, anything that
Speaker 1: you donate goes to Israeli relief. You could donate to
Speaker 1: Palestinian relief. You could donate to just overall human suffering.
Speaker 1: You don't care if there are babies, women, children suffering,
Speaker 1: that's where you want to donate. Elderly so it is
Speaker 1: set up so everybody can feel safe and can have
Speaker 1: their own beliefs. But this is very tricky and very different,
Speaker 1: and I'm the only public person that I see in
Speaker 1: the entertainment industry who's speaking up because everybody's terrified. It's insane.