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Speaker 2: So the Internet creates its own narrative and story, as

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Speaker 2: Housewives with Rachel Zoe, who I recently spoke about on

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Speaker 2: just sort of misrepresented.

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Speaker 1: But I don't care.

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Speaker 2: If I open my mouth, it's getting written about and

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Speaker 2: the headline is going to create the story and it's

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Speaker 2: clickbait and people will hate and I don't care, all right,

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Speaker 2: but I'll tell you the matter, so we could talk

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Speaker 2: about it as just a conversation that I am absolutely

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Speaker 2: qualified and an expert on discussing. Okay, So Rachel Zoe

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Speaker 1: She has two children.

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Speaker 2: One looks young like I'm not good at that, but

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Speaker 2: one looks like eighth or ninth. Okay, but they're children,

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Speaker 2: and they're on The Housewives. I was on The Housewives,

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Speaker 2: Speak to a talent that you are valuable enough that

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Speaker 2: when I had no levelge coming onto the Housewives, I

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Speaker 1: So I was saying, what do you think?

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Speaker 2: And he was like, we'll talk about it later, and

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, what do you mean and he's like,

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Speaker 2: And this is the job that every housewife that has

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Speaker 2: having Bella and Gigi Hadid and their mom Bidiam and

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Speaker 1: This is a fact.

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Speaker 2: But the judge had previously dismissed the case, saying that

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Speaker 2: So it's a whole mixed story. Okay, so this could

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Speaker 2: And I don't know why, but I'm invested in Tom Brady.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why. He gets a lot of shit

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Speaker 2: So like I'm gonna say, I'm team Tom, not Againstjoselle.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I know her. She will have to

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Speaker 2: she's Jewish, which I don't think Tom Brady's dated a

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Speaker 2: She seems attractive, like seems smart. I don't know a lot,

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Speaker 2: it might have said like activist or something. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: Like she stands for something. I don't know what, but

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Speaker 2: who's like he was the peacock in that relationship, and

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Speaker 2: date Tom Brady, you are a partial peacock. You date

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Speaker 2: is successful. Scooter Braun is with Scarlet Johanson and most

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Speaker 1: Like he's a business guy.

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Speaker 2: I've messaged him before, I've watched his social media, like

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Speaker 2: I've been interested in him.

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Speaker 1: I met him once.

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Speaker 2: He did Allan a favor and put Justin Bieber on

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Speaker 2: my talk show. But like Scooter bron is Scooter Braun

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Speaker 2: and fucking your ex, possibly dating or being linked to Tom.

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Speaker 1: Brady is gonna leave a fucking mark.

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Speaker 2: Stocks rise when you are linked to Tom Brady. Stocks rise,

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Speaker 2: n stocks rise when you're linked to Scarlet. But for

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Speaker 2: some reason, I don't know why the Scooter stock is

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't make the rules.

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Speaker 2: I know that Tom was like for one second, was

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Speaker 2: he maybe linked? Why don't say Scarlett Johansson, Who the

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Speaker 2: fuck's wrong with me? Not Scarlett Johanson, Sidney Sweeney, scratch

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Speaker 2: And I think she was like linked to Tom Brady,

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Speaker 2: but it was fake news. I think it was at

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Speaker 2: But again, you get linked to Tom Brady and stocks rise,

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Speaker 2: stock rises. It's just not the same when someone has

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Speaker 2: called you the goat, stocks are going to rise. So

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Speaker 2: I like him with a Jewish woman. I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why, just because it's different. I like

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Speaker 2: him with a woman in her late thirties. I think

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Speaker 2: it's age of probes. I like him with a smart woman.

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Speaker 2: I like him with a smart woman. He's a successful quarterback,

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Speaker 2: and as I've said previously on this show, that's a

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Speaker 2: smart position. You need to be smart, you need to

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Speaker 2: be a thinker. He needs to be with someone smart.

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Speaker 2: So that's what I have to say about.

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Speaker 3: That water faster,