WEBVTT - Chapter 9: The Game 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:07.400 I'm a freak like everybody else. I like to watch 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.760 people fuck. Sometimes it's funny to watch the dialogue. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.440 Sometimes it's just like, yeah, I want to whack off 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:17.200 and pop into porno. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:19.119 Kid rock. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.240 We watch all kinds of pornos on the tour bus. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:31.360 I really honestly enjoy masturbation and orgasms, and Corno helps 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:36.199 me to achieve that. Mark Hoppus Blink one two. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:38.519 Fuck it. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:39.920 I like porn. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.600 I don't give a fuck. I got a huge ass 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.360 collection about one hundred movies. I love fucking sex. I 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.479 like raunchy porn. The nastier, the better. Cocksucker ones are 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.800 fucking cool. Jonathan Davis Coorn. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.360 I came up with the idea I really want to 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.520 do an autobi biography. I have so many amazing stories, 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.560 and actually, to tell you the truth, I have a 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.160 lot of things that I need to get off my chest. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:31.319 Jenna Jamison, Welcome to jenal World. Welcome back to General World. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:37.680 I'm your host, Molly Lambert. This is episode nine the Game. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.920 By the early two thousands, DVD sales have permanently outpaced 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.440 videotapes and account for sixty five percent of total sales 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.600 of porn films. One of the last videotapes Jenna ever 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.520 helps sell is a two thousand and two tape called 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.919 strippers Ball that he promotes with Dennis Rodman on Howard 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:07.080 Stern's show. It's not a Jenna and Dennis Rodman sex tape. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.840 It's a tape of house parties around the world that 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.280 Rodman has thrown where female partygoers take their clothes off. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.919 Around the same time, Joe Francis's Girls Gone Wild tape 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:22.800 franchise takes off via constant infomercials. It's not exactly porn, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.240 but it's not really mainstream content either. It's part of 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:33.040 a new two thousands trend, extreme raunch culture. If porn 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:37.200 has previously always just mirrored American culture back to itself, 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.520 in the early two thousands, American culture is starting to 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:46.760 mirror back porn. Performing sexuality for a camera is no 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.640 longer just for actors. At the same time as American 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:55.920 culture is undergoing a conservative backlash post nine to eleven, television, music, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:02.639 and pop culture are becoming increasingly sex s obsessed. In Hollywood, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.040 Larry Flint's Hustler Store creates a porn Walk of Fame 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.799 to promote the adult industry whose biggest stars license signature 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.560 sex toys cast from their own body parts that the 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.560 Hustler store sells alongside t shirts and a juice bar. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.440 Like the famous star's handprints in front of Man's Chinese Theater, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.440 Larry Flint has porn stars leave their handprints and signatures 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.320 in concrete. Jenna is honored with a Hollywood Boulevard handprint 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.480 ceremony in two thousand and three, just like the Chinese 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.880 theater in tombs film Legends in concrete. It helps mythologize 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.080 the industry and invites a possibility that some alien civilization 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.640 will find Jenna's handprints and ask who was this ancient emperor. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.200 This is a special day for us at Hustler Hollywood, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.400 inducting Jenna Jameson as our latest star for the Porn 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.680 Walk of Fame. Larry Flint publisher. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.920 I was talking to Larry Flint and he said, when 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.840 you've been over to put your hands in the cement, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.560 make sure they get a really nice ash shot. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.279 Club Jenna continues to grow its business. In two thousand 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.240 and four, the company announces that Club Jenna has signed 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.120 its first contract girl, a blonde, blue eyed starlet from 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:30.000 Irvine named Crystal Steel, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jenna. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.360 In two thousand and four, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.480 perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. After singing the 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.039 lyric Gonna Have You Naked. By the end of this song, 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.640 Justin rips off part of Janet's outfit to reveal her 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.440 breast with a pasty sticker over her nipple. Later termed 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:52.880 a wardrobe malfunction, the incident is called Nipplegate and sets 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.160 off a big backlash to the raunchy porn influenced hypersexuality 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.400 of the late nineties and early two thousands. The FCC 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.240 finds CBS half a million bucks for showing Janet Jackson's 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.320 partially covered titty on live television, citing the impact it 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.920 could have on young minds, even though all babies ever 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:17.480 have seen a breast or two. The media firestorm over 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.400 the halftime show inspires three young computer engineers working at 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:26.040 PayPal to conceptualize a video sharing website where clips like 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:31.039 Nipplegate could instantly be spread online. Frustrated with these still 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.160 limited capacities of streaming video, they envision a new kind 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.640 of website where users could upload video clips as long 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:44.400 as thirty whole seconds. Jawad Kareem, Steve Chen, and Chad 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.200 Hurley want their new video site to be similar to 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.400 Hot or Not, a site where people upload pictures of 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.160 themselves to be rated on a one to ten scale 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.800 by strangers online. They call their new video clip site 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.520 tune In Hookup. They post to Craigslist ads soliciting hot 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.720 girls to post videos of themselves for one hundred dollars 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.839 a pop to drive traffic and imply the hot girls 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.520 are interested in hooking up with viewers. When they don't 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.359 get a lot of replies, they pivot to anyone being 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:20.159 able to upload any kind of videos. After raising cash 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.320 with venture capital firms, tune In Hookup officially launches on 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.839 Valentine's Day, two thousand and five under its new name YouTube. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.560 The first video on YouTube is of Kareem at the 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:39.599 San Diego Zoo titled Me at the Zoo. Facebook also 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.679 first launches as a website to rate women by looks. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.320 This is because the tech bro brain believes that there's 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:51.520 an algorithm that objectively determines attractiveness, while there are culturally 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.400 motivated norms for appearance. The fun thing about sexual attraction 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.360 in real life is that it's very subjective. Thinking that 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.560 beauty is mathematically objective is also why tech dweebs are 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:08.080 so susceptible to believing in stuff like eugenics. There's also 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.280 a huge difference between seeing visual images online and meeting 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:17.600 someone in real life. Factors like personality and pheromones matter too. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:23.960 Attraction is about more than just looks. When YouTube launches, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.760 older media companies aren't sure what to make of it 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.600 and don't believe it threatens their established model. But like 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.520 the shift from film to video, the move from TV 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.160 to the Internet allows fresh blood to get in the 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.520 door before the media's old guard catches up. The first 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.320 test balloon comes that December, when Saturday Night Live airs 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:49.239 what they term a digital short. SNL writer Adam McKay 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.480 sees which way the wind is blowing that internet video 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.960 sites like YouTube are SNL's great hope for tapping into 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.360 a new youth audience, away for the show's pre taped 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.000 video bits to have a digital after life after airing 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:08.040 on TV. The first SNL digital short is an absurdist 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.600 sketch called Lettuce, where Will Forte and Andy Samberg discuss 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.160 a friend's recent death while taking big bites out of 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.760 a head of lettuce. It's cut from SNL before airing. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.880 The second digital short is a comedy rap about two 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.400 gentlemen having a genteel Sunday afternoon in gentrified post sex 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.000 in the City, New York, called Lazy Sunday or the 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.480 Chronicles of Narnia Rap. It airs in December of two 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.040 thousand and five and is uploaded simultaneously by SNL onto 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:43.000 the iTunes store to buy. Despite the official iTunes upload, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.200 Lazy Sunday is rapidly bootlegged and emailed among friends in 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.640 horrendous quality, becoming one of the first documented viral video 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:57.880 hits a bridge between old media and new. On YouTube, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:02.079 where it's posted illegally, Lazy Sunday is watched over five 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:06.280 million times, making Saturday Night Live culturally relevant yet again, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.040 and boosting YouTube's web traffic that week by a record 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:14.480 eighty three percent. By February of the next year, NBC 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.920 Universal demands that YouTube take down all copyrighted SNL content, 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.080 including Lazy Sunday, so that viewers will have to watch 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.520 them on NBC's own official website instead, but it's already 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.480 way too late. Lazy Sunday is a gleaming nugget that 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.600 inspires a gold rush online. You can lay your stake 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.920 for free investing, talent, and time, but as with any 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.640 gold rush, there's no guarantee of striking it rich. Going 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.840 viral proves unpredictable, even for those with lots of resources. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.240 Lazy Sunday spawns a billion mining claims and a brief 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:56.280 influx of comedy video sites dedicated entirely to trying to 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.920 go viral online. What goes viral remains hard to predict, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.280 although certain viral trends recur, like joke songs and cute 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:12.240 animal videos. Meanwhile, Jenna Jamison goes on a Howard Stern 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.160 live broadcast from Las Vegas. She lounges on a bed 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.280 with her mic in a leather miniskirt, a sleeveless white 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.240 turtleneck with an American flag on it, and a leathern 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:27.120 newsboy cap, alongside comedian Joe Rogan, the host of NBC's 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:27.880 Fear Factor. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.840 Joe Rogan, by the way, has thirty DVDs of Jenna Jamison. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.000 At least I've masturbated to her a thousand times. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.520 At least he's working on a pornostar fear factor. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.920 If you refuse to take it in the face, you 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:43.959 will be eliminated. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.480 Joe, what are your three favorite Jenna movies? Your three 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:48.440 favorite titles? 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.480 I don't even read anything on the box. I just 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:52.800 popped that sucker in there. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.000 My favorite Jenna Jameson movie is that first one where 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:56.400 she's with. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.240 That old guy up and Comers. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.560 Yeah, that's my favorite because you look like you just 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.960 want to die having sex with him, and yet you 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:03.800 do it like a trooper. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:05.760 I am a good actress. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.479 Wicked Weapon, I'm having flashbacks. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.240 Tell me the plot of Wicked Weapon. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.880 She gets naked, she gives oral, she takes it in 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:14.320 the face. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:22.040 Annie Sprinkle is a first generation feminist porn star who 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.720 has asked what she thinks about the mainstreaming of porn 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.760 in the media over the decades she's been in the industry. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.960 What do I think of today's Jenna Jamison's Well, they're 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:39.360 better at business. They're making millions. That's a different kind 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.760 of political power. Annie Sprinkle, porn star. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.760 In two thousand and four, Howard Stern announces he will 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.280 be leaving terrestrial radio for a new gig on serious 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.600 satellite radio. Who offer him a five year, five hundred 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.000 million dollar contract. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.280 Am I bitter about the way regular radio is going out? 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:07.320 Not at all. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.559 Nothing can break your heart when you hate him that much. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:17.439 Fuck him, Okay, I'm a little bitter. Howard Stern, radio host. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.839 In the early two thousands. The publishing industry is also 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.080 starting to collapse, although everyone in it remains in a 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:32.480 deep denial about what is happening. The Internet is competing 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.960 with books and magazines for attention spans and winning because 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:40.840 it's free, which is cutting into traditional print ad revenue. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.679 Jenna is assigned a collaborator for her book, a writer 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.760 named Neil Strauss, who becomes notable for co writing celebrity 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:53.120 tell Alls. Neil Strauss is a pisces from Chicago who 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.080 climbs the ranks of publishing as it is peaking. One 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.240 final time, he moves to New York and edits for 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:04.880 critical theory publishers semiotext. In publishing, like porn, there was 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.480 once a well trod path into the industry. The way 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.040 to break into publishing was through low level jobs like 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.040 copy editing and fact checking. Strauss did both at the 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.400 Village Voice, part of a then robust print economy where 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.920 writers could learn the trade. Strauss moves up to the 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.840 majors as a New York Times music critic and a 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.400 contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he writes profiles of 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:33.280 a list cover stars like Madonna and Tom Cruise. Before 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.239 the invention of social media, magazine cover stories allowed celebrities 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.559 to offer the public limited access to an allegedly candid 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.319 and personal side of themselves. The magazines needed stars on 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.640 the cover to sell magazines, and stars needed publicity when 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:52.040 promoting their projects. In two thousand and one, Neil Strauss 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.840 co writes a hit book with Motley Crue called The 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:59.960 Dirt Confessions of the World's Most Notorious rock band, Motley Crue, 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.800 who are by then far enough away from their eighties 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.880 peak that they're willing to spill their crazy, groopy tales 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.200 and drug stories for an audience of hair metal nostalgists. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.559 Neil Strauss forms a narrative out of the crew's rambling stories. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.840 The centerpiece of the book, to me, is an anecdote 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.160 about breakfast burritos. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.240 We were always fucking other chicks at the studio and backstage. 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.240 We take Tommy Lee's van to a restaurant called Noggles 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.560 to buy these egg burritos then rub them on of 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.280 crosses to cover the smell of the girls. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.400 We just fucked, so I Dick's smell of eggs. We 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.360 tell our girlfriends, Oh, we dropped the burritos in our laps. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.360 The girlfriends thought, we're a bunch of clumsy slubs. We 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.800 never thought about going to the restroom and just washing 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.840 our digs. Vince Neil Motley Crue. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.880 I looked it up and Noggles is a fast food 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:57.200 chain that still exists, founded fittingly enough by Dick Noggle, 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.840 an original founder of local drive through Mexican Chaine Del Taco, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.920 my favorite fast food chain. The Dirt is published by 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.800 Reagan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing that puts out 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.400 a lot of blockbuster hit books in the early two thousands. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.720 The Reagan in Reagan Books is a controversial, high powered 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:25.120 business woman named Judith Reagan. When Jenna World returns, Judith 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:37.320 Reagan does battle with the press. Oh my god, welcome 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:38.760 back to general World. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.400 I'm an average American with a two minute attention spin 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.840 Judith Reagan, publisher. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.480 I swear you get in a cab with my sister 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.720 and you're on the most frightening ride of your life. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.640 Maureen Reagan, Judith's sister. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.440 Judith Reagan A LEO, is a New York publishing tycoon. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:13.440 A former tabloid writer turned editor, she ferried celebrity books 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.520 into print like Drew Barrymore's Little Girl Lost and Howard 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:21.320 Stern's Private Parts. She's given her own imprint at HarperCollins 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.880 called Reagan Books, where she both cashes in on the 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.400 celebrity industrial complex and puts out National Book Award nominees. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:34.880 Reagan is mega successful and mega controversial for her brash demeanor. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.480 By two thousand and four, Reagan Books dominates the New 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.280 York Times bestseller list and generates eighty million dollars in 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.840 profits a year. Judith Reagan also has a lot of 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.120 haters who think her focus on celebrity shock and raunch 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:56.000 is ruining the publishing world. Reagan doesn't give a fuck. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:59.000 They're snobs. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.000 Judith Reagan is such a figure of intrigue that in 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.359 two thousand and four, Vanity Fair publishes a hit piece 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.959 on her with quotes from former employees and ex boyfriends 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.320 to paint Reagan as vain, power obsessed and competitive to 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.639 a fault. It explains how she turned into the lydiatar 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:24.399 of books in the blunt talking, compulsively workaholic environment of 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:29.160 New York publishing in its final Golden era. Reagan's wild 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:34.359 ambitiousness stems from her childhood and class issues. She comes 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.560 from an East Coast middle class Catholic Irish Italian family. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.439 Her mother often criticizes Judith and makes her feel inferior. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.800 In return, Reagan pulls pranks, like shaping her mashed potatoes 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.919 into a penis. She attends Vasser on a scholarship and 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.359 develops a deep resentment for the easy living, rich girls 0:17:55.440 --> 0:18:00.600 that she encounters there. Despite her avowed revulsion for the rich, 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.000 she gets a rich boyfriend and they move into his parents' 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:08.240 Central Park West apartment. After graduation, he gets a job 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:13.760 in Boston and the couple relocates there together. Reagan gets 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.960 a secretarial job at Harvard and sees a print ad 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:21.879 scouting cub reporters for the tabloid The National Inquirer. Writing 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.320 for The Inquirer, she meets Saudi Arabian arms dealer Odd 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:31.479 non Koshogi, finance conman caa Asset, Berniekornfeld, and Ray Stark 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.639 a Sleezebag sixty super producer known for casting Barbara Streisand 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.960 in Funny Girl and making her a star. Streisand only 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:46.000 recently outed Ray Stark as a creepy letch in her autobiography. 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:50.639 Reagan briefly works on the Heraldo Talk Show, then becomes 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.520 a consultant at Simon and Schuster, where she brings her 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.560 tabloid honed knack for spotting what salacious material will move 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:02.200 the most product. She moves to Manhattan to start climbing 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.120 the skyscraper of success. 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.919 She's the highest functioning deranged person I've ever known. Anonymous 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.320 former friend of Judith Reagan. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:16.400 I have the biggest cock in the building. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.080 Just to note that some of these outrageous quotes from 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:29.359 Judith Reagan are alleged. Reagan makes enemies who dislike her assertive, confrontational, 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:34.040 interpersonal style, but she also works hard to land big fish. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.720 Coming to Madonna with an idea for a book of erotica, 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.200 Madonna takes the idea but cuts out Judith Reagan, taking 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:46.320 it to Warner Books instead. Judith is salty and says 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.520 Madonna went back on their handshake deal. 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:55.000 Sleazy and stupid. I wouldn't have minded if she'd sent 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:59.959 me a note, but she showed no graciousness, no manner. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.760 Madonna's team says the erotica book was Madonna's own idea, 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.640 conceived with her longtime collaborator, noted fashion photographer Stephen Miselle. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.840 The book, called Sex, is one hundred and twenty eight 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:19.280 pages of thirty four year old pop superstar Madonna, often naked, 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:25.159 with writing detailing her personal sexual fantasies. It was originally 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.479 going to be titled X, but then Spike Lee released 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.760 his nineteen ninety two Malcolm X biopic with an EX logo, 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.080 and so Madonna changed the name of the book to Sex. 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.320 Despite critical panning and late night roasting of Madonna as 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:45.960 a slutty narcissist, Sex is a huge bestseller. Critics say 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:50.879 it resembles pornographic magazines like Penthouse and Hustler. Some people 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.240 can't tell the difference between a naked woman who's objectified 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:58.240 for male consumption and a naked woman displaying herself because 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:03.520 she's super horny and in charge. Madonna's performance of sexuality 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:10.560 is camp for dancers like Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Jenna Jamison. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.600 The body is also an instrument for self expression and 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.520 using it can be a way of claiming your personal 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:22.000 sexual agency. This is called third wave or lipstick feminism, 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:26.119 and it was huge in the nineties. Sure, sexual power 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:29.440 only goes so far and can't compare to power conferred 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.560 by money or privilege. Sure it runs out when you 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:36.280 age out. And sure misogynists will never respect any woman 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.880 who publicly takes her clothes off, But they don't respect 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.760 women who keep their clothes on either, And also they 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:51.040 can choke. Judith Reagan says she personally talked Howard Stern 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.880 and Rush Limbaugh into writing best selling books. She calls 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:59.720 Limbaugh a gentleman, Stern a maniac, and her self neutral. 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.920 My position is not to take a position. I sell 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.720 books and allow people to have their say. It is 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.760 not my job to censor Howard Stern, although I have 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.720 to say it was very painful to sit there and 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.840 deal with the fact that he had some nasty things 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:20.000 to say about some of my friends. 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.440 In nineteen ninety four, Rupert Murdoch offers Reagan her own 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:29.200 personal imprint, where she continues to put out successful books. 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.000 She puts out a print ad that shows her lying 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.959 sexily and bad in a towel, reading a book and 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.560 staring down the camera with the tagline I love to 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:39.399 read in bad. 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.800 I didn't come up the traditional way, but I paid 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:49.000 my dues. I am a maverick, and people can't stand 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:53.120 other people's success. How dare I appear to have it all? 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:58.720 Believe me, it is just an appearance. I trade places 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:01.200 with just about any At this point. 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:08.479 Judith Reagan is an equal opportunity opportunist. She publishes Michael 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.920 Moore Sean Hannity, jingoistic post nine to eleven books praising 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:16.840 the war on terror, sports tell alls by baseballs Jose 0:23:17.000 --> 0:23:21.040 Conseco and wrestler Mick Foley, and three separate true crime 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:25.479 cash grabs about the Scott and Lacy Peterson case. Reagan 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:30.199 branches into the newly booming field of reality television. She 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.920 appears as a guest judge on Fox's The Swan, where 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:37.840 female contestants get full plastic surgery makeovers then have a 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:42.439 beauty contest, still the high water mark of dystopian reality TV. 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:46.439 She publishes a self help book based on The Swan 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:50.359 called The Swan Curriculum Create a Spectacular New You with 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:55.080 twelve life changing steps in twelve amazing weeks. There's buzz 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:58.760 that Judith Reagan could bring her big persona to television 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:02.359 full time, like Simon Cowell and Donald Trump. 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:08.320 Judith doesn't listen to anything or anybody. A man has 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:13.560 a golden gut, she goes with her golden vagina jeff 0:24:13.600 --> 0:24:15.800 Stone brand identity designer. 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:22.040 Reagan's critics say she's a tyrant. Judith loves to quote 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:26.400 her hero, General George Patten. In her home, she has 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:29.960 an enormous painting of her namesake, the Old Testament heroine 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:33.680 Judith who seduces and then beheads the general who laid 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:37.560 waste to her city. So you can see why Judith 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:43.639 Reagan sought out Jenna Jamison. They're both charismatic, aggressive, successful, 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:48.359 some might say machiavellian women navigating a culture where aggression 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:53.160 is championed in men and demonized in women. Judith Reagan's 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:57.200 always be closing bit is a protective shell. When she's 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:00.119 an Esquire's Women We Love column, she tells them about 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:02.439 a male colleague who jerks off in his office with 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:05.320 the door wide open as a display of his power 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:10.200 and unfire ability, to demonstrate that she's not bothered. Judith 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:12.920 Reagan takes one of the man Semen stained chairs as 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:17.280 a trophy for her own office. In two thousand and one, 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.159 there are rumors Judith as having an affair with married 0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:24.520 New York Police Commissioner Bernard Carrick, whose Reagan edited memoir 0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:28.199 is a nine to eleven era bestseller. They both deny it. 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:34.000 Bernard Carrick is eventually disgraced for, among other things, using 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:36.840 an apartment to have sexual trysts outside of his marriage 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:41.000 that was reserved for Ground zero workers. There are also 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:44.080 rumors that Reagan uses her in with Bernard Carrick and 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:48.359 the NYPD to have them run surveillance on and sometimes 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:49.960 read her enemy's homes. 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:55.879 I don't publish pornography. I publish smart books about sex. 0:25:56.680 --> 0:25:58.560 A lot of people try to imitate what I do, 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:06.119 but they don't do it well. 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.160 Now that sex talk is fully mainstreamed in culture. For, 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:10.679 among other reasons, the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky a 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:14.320 fair scandal necessitating the description of a cigar being inserted 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:17.200 into a woman's vagina, taken out and put in Bill 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:20.359 Clinton's mouth, and then Bill Clinton says m tastes good. 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:23.879 In The New York Times, Judith Reagan wants books to 0:26:23.960 --> 0:26:28.480 keep up Judith Reagan and her short attention span. No 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:32.040 publishing is competing with the Internet now, and so books 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:36.040 and magazines must try to adopt the Internet's qualities eye 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:42.040 catching graphics, tawdriness, and immense speed. Reagan Books is known 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:45.159 for its fast turnaround times, publishing books to cash in 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:49.520 on current events. The company bleeds employees who quit over 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:53.400 Reagan's managerial style. Few last longer than a year. 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:53.640 There. 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:58.240 Allegedly, Judith likes to call them cunts and gay slurs. 0:26:59.040 --> 0:27:05.040 She rules like a down through fear and intimidation. Judith 0:27:05.080 --> 0:27:07.800 tries to get a talk show slotted at Fox after 0:27:07.880 --> 0:27:10.600 our Senio leaves, and when she finds out she's not 0:27:10.680 --> 0:27:13.840 getting it, she allegedly screams at a Fox executive on 0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:16.200 the phone. 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:19.000 We all heard her screaming in her office. 0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:21.600