WEBVTT - Shady Highlight: Did Robyn Become "LulaRich?"

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<v Speaker 1>Are you beinging anything recently? Okay, So I need to

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<v Speaker 1>find something new because I just recently bended. I might

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<v Speaker 1>be a little late, I'm beinging. I just ben Lula

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<v Speaker 1>Rich you did, okay to watch it? No, I think

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<v Speaker 1>I told you to watch it? Okay, okay, okay. So

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<v Speaker 1>it was I found it so entertaining interesting because of

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<v Speaker 1>a personal connection. So when I lived in the first

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<v Speaker 1>town house, okay, I used to look out my back

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<v Speaker 1>window and in the house across the street, across the alley,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's like the garage is like backed up

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<v Speaker 1>to each other. I could see through this woman's garage

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<v Speaker 1>that she had, like like it was her garage, but

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<v Speaker 1>it looked like a store, right, Okay, So wait, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>so Lula Rich before I tell a story about the

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<v Speaker 1>lady Lula Riche is a documentary about the company Lula Row,

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<v Speaker 1>which pretty much is a multi level marketing company that

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<v Speaker 1>sells leggings. Right, so leggings printed like so they like

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<v Speaker 1>with all these crazy prints. They're really soft. They're like

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<v Speaker 1>one size kind of fits all or like certain you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, like um really soft. And they have

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<v Speaker 1>all these crazy prints, crazy prints, and and and they

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<v Speaker 1>blew up like their business like blew up exponentially. So

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<v Speaker 1>they have all these people, mostly white ladies, across the

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<v Speaker 1>country signing up paying thousands of dollars to get all

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<v Speaker 1>this Lula Row inventory and to host the party. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>you host a party, people come, they buy stuff, You

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<v Speaker 1>buy more inventory pots. Okay, but it's like it was

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<v Speaker 1>like a straight Ponzi scheme, right, well, it started, it went.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it was good. While it was good, I

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<v Speaker 1>think they grew too fast and too big and then

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<v Speaker 1>it and then it imploded. So Robin is always trying

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<v Speaker 1>to get people to benefeit the down. They knew exactly

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<v Speaker 1>what they were doing and they were there too. Um

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<v Speaker 1>we have a celebrity guest here and he's looking through

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<v Speaker 1>the window. His name one High One, and um, I

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<v Speaker 1>think he's just come home from work, and U one

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<v Speaker 1>is We always love one. We love seeing him. Okay. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>back to the story, it was a straight pin it was.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a straight and way. It was straight. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>I'm familiar with multi level marketing companies. I've signed up for,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, to sell jewelry with Tracy Lynn jewelry and

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<v Speaker 1>stuff like that. So I think you know, when it

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<v Speaker 1>goes good, it goes good. And I think they just

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<v Speaker 1>I think they started off with good intentions and they

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<v Speaker 1>just got way into over their head. Like I think

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<v Speaker 1>the wife had good intentions that husband, and he was

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<v Speaker 1>like I'm trying. He was like, I don't care it. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>go ahead, So let me tell you a story about

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<v Speaker 1>the lady behind me. Okay. So I would literally like

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<v Speaker 1>look out my back window and I could see through

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<v Speaker 1>her garage just like lit those little small windows in

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<v Speaker 1>the garages, right, and I could see it was like

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<v Speaker 1>literally she had the ring light, she had carpet and

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<v Speaker 1>sofa and shelving. It literally looked like a store. And

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<v Speaker 1>then racks, you know, of all these leggings everywhere, right,

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm like, what the hell is going away? Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>And then I could see her like, you know, talking

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<v Speaker 1>to a camera holding the leggings up, and she was

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<v Speaker 1>doing her Facebook stuff, right, so, doing her Facebook live

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<v Speaker 1>selling the leggings and stuff. And so you know, one

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<v Speaker 1>day I was talking to her like what is going

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<v Speaker 1>on here? And let me tell you this woman had

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<v Speaker 1>five kids, quit her job to sell Lulu row in

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<v Speaker 1>her garage and she was just try how much money

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<v Speaker 1>she was making off of these leggings. I even bought

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<v Speaker 1>a couple from her because they were really soft. They

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<v Speaker 1>felt good. Did yours have bananas on them? Or stars?

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<v Speaker 1>Or I mean that the prints on these leggings are

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<v Speaker 1>more horrible and I had I had a few prints,

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<v Speaker 1>but they also had some solid so I got like

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<v Speaker 1>a solid black solid like light blue, and then I

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<v Speaker 1>got like a couple of prints, but I think that

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<v Speaker 1>were the prints. Like once and I was like, WHOA,

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<v Speaker 1>that'so much. And that was the whole scheme of it.

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<v Speaker 1>Like they would make a print and they would only

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<v Speaker 1>make a certain number, so you're like searching for that print,

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<v Speaker 1>but you're searching for like elephants or I don't know, lizards. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it was crazy they made it seeing I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>it was there like they played a whole mind trickery.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I don't want to like y'all just need to

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<v Speaker 1>watch it and just be amazed by like how it

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<v Speaker 1>almost it felt very cultish. It felt like they were brainwashed.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm telling you, when I watched that document so

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<v Speaker 1>like so pretty much, you know it was great people

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<v Speaker 1>making all this money. They were like, um, the Lula

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<v Speaker 1>Roe company encouraged people to you know, buy designer bags

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<v Speaker 1>and nice cars to kind of show off like, oh

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<v Speaker 1>what selling Lula Row can do for you? So um,

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<v Speaker 1>so then you know, start everything started going to ship.

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<v Speaker 1>They've been indicted press the late the couple it's a

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<v Speaker 1>married couple that that owned the company and run a company.

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<v Speaker 1>They have been indicted right right they went to travel something.

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<v Speaker 1>I will say, the business still exists. I did google?

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<v Speaker 1>Did you end up googling? So they still have a

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<v Speaker 1>website and they still exist. So um, you know, they

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<v Speaker 1>ended up having supply issues. They were, you know, starting

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<v Speaker 1>to steal people's design, like their their designers felt overwhelmed

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<v Speaker 1>because they've had to like get out so much, so

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<v Speaker 1>much stuff. Then they really started I don't see, let

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<v Speaker 1>me stop giving away everything when I do want to say,

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<v Speaker 1>I swear one of those people they featured on the

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<v Speaker 1>show complaining was my neighbor. I swear it was her.

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<v Speaker 1>I swear. I can't believe it. I swear it was her.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, and then so I feel bad. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>she really quit her job to sell that stuff, and

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<v Speaker 1>clearly it didn't end up well for her. No, it

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<v Speaker 1>didn't end up well for any The majority of the

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<v Speaker 1>people and they were making money. They Okay, so the

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<v Speaker 1>owners are making billions in the billions and everybody else.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, if it's a tear, you know, the top

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<v Speaker 1>people are getting the most of the money. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you get in early, you're making like a hundred thousand

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<v Speaker 1>dollars a month at least, just off of like the

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<v Speaker 1>people under you. But so and it's the second tier there,

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<v Speaker 1>they were making like millions. So they they started focusing

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<v Speaker 1>on recruiting salespeople. And that's where things got really bad

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<v Speaker 1>because it's like they had all these sales people and

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<v Speaker 1>then that's when the quality of the product, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>just slipped away and they got with the product. That's

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<v Speaker 1>not how the quality slipped away. Okay, Okay, we're not

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<v Speaker 1>gonna just watch it, but just know that one of

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<v Speaker 1>those ladies complaining on Facebook was my neighbor. It was

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<v Speaker 1>so fascinating to watch though her do that, and I

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<v Speaker 1>almost contemplated signing up to sell it. I would have.

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<v Speaker 1>I would have tried selling you some legons. So I

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<v Speaker 1>do not want like because the next the next like

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<v Speaker 1>artwork will be like a picture of our faces on

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<v Speaker 1>the legs, right, or it'll be like r h p

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<v Speaker 1>all over it, little cherry blessing, so I thought about it. Ye.

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