Speaker 1: I've seen some rumbling, some press about Jennifer Aniston cover gorgeous,
Speaker 1: looking amazing. Uh, admittedly jas yoga fifty times a week,
Speaker 1: the water, the working out, hadn't had a baby, you know,
Speaker 1: loves the Fountain of Youth and the famous salad and
Speaker 1: all that. Nicole Ki had been known for a lot
Speaker 1: of plastic surgery, but took it down. Amazing actress, beautiful woman,
Speaker 1: great on and everything she's doing, she's extraordinary, really wonderful.
Speaker 1: UM and j L you know, icon legend, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So it's funny because I had Paulina Poruskova on my
Speaker 1: podcast and she said, there's no real representation of women
Speaker 1: between the ages of j Lo and Betty Betty White,
Speaker 1: meaning everybody looks like they stop aging at Jl's age.
Speaker 1: I think she means in like popular culture. I don't
Speaker 1: think she means in the middle of the country. I
Speaker 1: think she means that. UM. And I guess someone said
Speaker 1: to me that when the Golden Girls, the age that
Speaker 1: they started was j Lo's age. So there are covers
Speaker 1: of j Lo, Nicole Kimman, and Jennifer Anderson at the
Speaker 1: same time. And this is fifty three, and this is
Speaker 1: what fifty something looks like and this is being in
Speaker 1: your fifties and we all know. So I want to
Speaker 1: talk about it because people, it provokes people, it sort
Speaker 1: of triggers them. So here's the thing. They've all had
Speaker 1: plastic surgery, no problem, no problem. I will have plastic surgery.
Speaker 1: I have had a lift. They've all been filtered extreme
Speaker 1: I no problem. I was filtered on my I Heart
Speaker 1: podcast poster. I saw it. I posted about it like
Speaker 1: I didn't do it. I didn't filter it, and they
Speaker 1: didn't either. But there's a level of how filters something
Speaker 1: can be. I've seen something and said to my publicist
Speaker 1: and said publicists and said, I look like I have
Speaker 1: a Bethany mask on. So they've all been totally filtered.
Speaker 1: The women have you know, extensions and had plastic surgery
Speaker 1: and everything going on. So where's the line for women.
Speaker 1: It's not Nicole Kidman's responsibility to make Jane in ce
Speaker 1: Caucus feel better. It's not her responsibility. Is it her
Speaker 1: responsibility to admit plastic surgery, filtering, face tuning all the
Speaker 1: ship because I've seen a lot of this, and you know,
Speaker 1: someone like when Stefani verily, very heavily face tuned and filtered.
Speaker 1: I actually don't even know the answer. I want to
Speaker 1: know where the line is. For me. I just roll
Speaker 1: with it. I just said, this is what my face
Speaker 1: looks like. I know it's not that cute, but I'm
Speaker 1: not speaking to perfection. I'm speaking to Jane from so
Speaker 1: Caucus and saying, girl, don't feel so freaking bad. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what I look like. I've done the plastic
Speaker 1: surgery tour. I might do something. The least I can
Speaker 1: do for you is tell you that goddamn truth. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's not. Maybe they don't owe you anything. Go get
Speaker 1: plastic surgery, lie about it, do whatever you want. It's
Speaker 1: no one's responsibility, you know what. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's no one's just sponsibility. Jennifer Lopez did not sign
Speaker 1: a contract with me saying I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: I had plastic surgery. I'm gonna tell you if I've
Speaker 1: been filtered, I'm gonna say. But maybe saying this is fifty,
Speaker 1: Maybe that's where the line is. Don't say this is fifty,
Speaker 1: this is my fifty. Maybe don't participate in articles about that.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's where the line is. There's got to be
Speaker 1: some line about these celebrities, alluding to it being natural
Speaker 1: in any way, to it being about eating salmon and
Speaker 1: drinking water, to it being about don't drink like you
Speaker 1: could not drink for the rest of your life. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna look like the cover of whatever magazine the
Speaker 1: j lo is are right now. I could promise you that,
Speaker 1: so you can meditate as much as you want. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna look like Jennifer Onison on the cover of
Speaker 1: the magazine because you have not been. You know, you
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to say. You don't know
Speaker 1: how hard it is to do that filtering too, Like
Speaker 1: I tried to do it one day for for a
Speaker 1: post to be dramatic. It was not that easy because
Speaker 1: I looked distorted, and you gotta go do it like
Speaker 1: tiny little bits. So where's the line? So I know
Speaker 1: where it is and I know the answer hashtag I
Speaker 1: know at all. If a magazine is portraying perfection in
Speaker 1: a fifty something you're old that you believe is not accurate,
Speaker 1: and that makes you feel bad about yourself, and that
Speaker 1: puts pressure on you, and it makes you look in
Speaker 1: the mirror and think I look like shop and I
Speaker 1: don't look like that, even though you intellectually know that
Speaker 1: that's not what you should be looking like. But emotionally
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You intellectually know you shouldn't have a
Speaker 1: piece of chocolate. When your hand grabs for the chocolate cake,
Speaker 1: it's your body. It's your emotions that want it. It's
Speaker 1: your cravings. It doesn't matter that you intellectually would rather
Speaker 1: not eat that, or rather not eat the funnel cakes
Speaker 1: or the fried chicken, even if you're trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: dipped in ranch. Your body wants that. Your emotions, your
Speaker 1: hormones want it. You intellectually know that that picture is
Speaker 1: not representing the truth. It is not in a cool
Speaker 1: kidment or Jennifer Anison or j Low's responsibility to make
Speaker 1: you feel better. It is not for them to tell
Speaker 1: you the truth about what they're doing. They can do
Speaker 1: whatever the funk they want. It is your responsibility to
Speaker 1: not buy the product, not the brand that they're selling,
Speaker 1: if you don't like it, not the magazine that's publishing it.
Speaker 1: The magazine is the outlet. The outlet is distributing the merchandise.
Speaker 1: The merchandise is the magazine is. The person is The
Speaker 1: idea is the dream is the aspiration. It is the
Speaker 1: media outlet that is, and it is the media outlets
Speaker 1: write to distribute whatever they want. You have the power.
Speaker 1: You are the consumer. It is your choice to not
Speaker 1: consume something, your choice to not buy something, your choice
Speaker 1: to not unfollow something, your choice to not follow somebody
Speaker 1: who's filtering themselves within an inch of their lives, and
Speaker 1: your choice to follow them. But you can't complain about
Speaker 1: it if you don't like it because you don't believe it,
Speaker 1: don't fucking buy it, don't consume it, and I have
Speaker 1: I keep saying it, but it goes gotta keep going
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper, whether funk. Are you mad at Jennifer
Speaker 1: Lopez for filtering ourselves? I could filter myself too. I
Speaker 1: could go get head to tell full body plastic surgery.
Speaker 1: It's the lying about it you don't like. But even still,
Speaker 1: it's not your business. I can filter myself. It's my business.
Speaker 1: You don't have to buy it. You don't have to
Speaker 1: like me, you don't have to follow me if I
Speaker 1: do that. If I choose to do plastic surgery and
Speaker 1: I'm honest with you about it, you get to choose
Speaker 1: whether you think I've sold out, whether you hate me
Speaker 1: as a result of it, whether it makes you feel
Speaker 1: bad about yourself what I'm doing, or if you like
Speaker 1: that I'm just telling you about. Somebody else can have
Speaker 1: a big, mega yacht and you know, drink champagne out
Speaker 1: of their faucet, and I can choose to watch it
Speaker 1: or talk to them about it if I'm mad at
Speaker 1: them doing that, they don't have to associate with them.
Speaker 1: I could choose to watch looks goods on mass and shows.
Speaker 1: I could choose to buy as many rams bags as
Speaker 1: I want. If I start to flaunt it makes you
Speaker 1: feel bad about yourself. You don't have to follow me,
Speaker 1: which I wouldn't do because I want a good relationship
Speaker 1: with you. I don't want to do and not even that,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that to you. I relate
Speaker 1: to you. I don't want to make you feel bad
Speaker 1: about yourself by me. I don't want to be up
Speaker 1: here and you down there. And that's what a lot
Speaker 1: of these celebrities and these publications are doing. They're up here,
Speaker 1: we're down there. But don't don't don't engage in it,
Speaker 1: don't invest in it, don't buy it. What we don't
Speaker 1: realize is the power that we have. I was not
Speaker 1: able to distribute almost three million dollars in worldwide aid
Speaker 1: to save people's lives because I did it because I
Speaker 1: am you know, have a following. I was able to
Speaker 1: do it because each of you have a voice and
Speaker 1: power and the dollar and come came together and freaking
Speaker 1: funneled that money through to give it to those people.
Speaker 1: It was you. You have more power than you think.
Speaker 1: You have the power to not buy, to not follow,
Speaker 1: to not like, to block, to do it. It bothers
Speaker 1: you think if it's rational, and you know, think about it.
Speaker 1: So when we say, oh, they shouldn't be putting this
Speaker 1: stuff out, and I've been wrong too, what am I
Speaker 1: talking about? If the caves are peddling the ship about
Speaker 1: lips and extensions and the product that we're pushing, it's
Speaker 1: not their fault and it's not the media's fault. They're selling,
Speaker 1: they're making money. The drug dealers not gonna stop making money.
Speaker 1: The magazines are gonna stop making money if you're not buying.
Speaker 1: They got no drugs to sell. So stop the faucet,
Speaker 1: stop feeding the beast. Rants on kids being bored, Okay,
Speaker 1: so kids are gonna be bored. You don't have a nanny,
Speaker 1: you don't have child's care. It sounds, but oh, we'll
Speaker 1: do this. Sometimes you don't do an activity, Okay, we
Speaker 1: did it. We I skated for an hour and a half,
Speaker 1: or we went sledding for an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: Now you're home. They don't amnesia. They don't remember you
Speaker 1: took them yesterday. You took them to an aquarium, you
Speaker 1: took them to sled They don't remember. There's so many
Speaker 1: fucking hours in a day, God forbid. They get up early.
Speaker 1: And because we activate these kids so much, and we
Speaker 1: do things with them because we wanted to be such
Speaker 1: great parents. And there are actual statistics that working moms
Speaker 1: spend less time with their kids than moms in the
Speaker 1: fifties that were home all day because they smoked a cigarette,
Speaker 1: put on their picked up the telephone with the coyly cord,
Speaker 1: had a glass of wine, and let them run out
Speaker 1: into the yard and with the mittens into the nights,
Speaker 1: onto the bicycle, out into the streets, onto the pogo stick,
Speaker 1: Go with God, do whatever you have to do, rob
Speaker 1: a bank, beat somebody up. I don't give a funk.
Speaker 1: I'll see you at five o'clock for dinner. Like that's
Speaker 1: what parenting was like then. Now parenting is used her in,
Speaker 1: use your inside voice and show and feelings and and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be there. I'm gonna be with you all day,
Speaker 1: every day, because I feel guilty as a parent if
Speaker 1: I'm not with you twenty fours a motherfucking day. So
Speaker 1: these kids, they don't remember you did anything with them.
Speaker 1: They don't remember you baked cookies together. They don't remember
Speaker 1: you bought them holiday pajamas. They don't remember you snuggle.
Speaker 1: They don't remember your Netflix. They don't remember you bought
Speaker 1: them a puppy. They don't remember you sled. They don't
Speaker 1: remember the movies. They don't rememb remember. They don't remember
Speaker 1: the aquarium or the bouncy gym, or the trampoline, or
Speaker 1: the zip line, or the mall or the go karts,
Speaker 1: or the holiday shopping or seeing Santa or the arcade,
Speaker 1: or doing play dates or organizing the play dates. They
Speaker 1: don't remember. They don't remember their iPad, They don't remember
Speaker 1: the trampoline. They don't remember the zip line you put
Speaker 1: in your own fucking house, or the pool last summer.
Speaker 1: They don't remember. And they don't care. You have a basement,
Speaker 1: Do you have any games down there? They don't remember.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter candy, they don't remember, bowling, they don't
Speaker 1: remember Hibachi, Mexican night, Taco Tuesdays. They don't fucking remember.
Speaker 1: So it's a new goddamn day. And you know what
Speaker 1: I say to my daughter when it's a new day. Oh,
Speaker 1: then you took him out to breakfast? We want to
Speaker 1: Can we go for hot chocolate? Can we go five scream?
Speaker 1: Be a special memory? Can we go see yeah? Can
Speaker 1: we go sledding? They don't remember. They don't remember the
Speaker 1: short term memory loss. So you know, I say sometimes, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta work pretending what if you have to work,
Speaker 1: you're evil. That's what the pandemic did for us. You
Speaker 1: have to fucking work. It's not a free for all
Speaker 1: all day. What we're doing an hour of work and
Speaker 1: then we're doing the three legged race for the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Like that's what working was. That's what schooling was. Brim
Speaker 1: would tell her teacher, I have to go give my
Speaker 1: dogs medicine so she could get out a class. I
Speaker 1: don't see you bringing your dogs to school this year,
Speaker 1: Like everything is a scam. It was all a scam.
Speaker 1: So now we have to work and it doesn't count.
Speaker 1: I have to do my podcast. I'll pay penance for
Speaker 1: the rest of my life. So what you have to
Speaker 1: tell your kids in a very passive, aggressive voices, you
Speaker 1: have a life that nobody else has. Okay, look around.
Speaker 1: You will tell your kids about what you see in
Speaker 1: relief work and who has less. And you'll do that,
Speaker 1: and you'll be a broken marcord. They're not even listening
Speaker 1: because you've said it so many damn times. And what
Speaker 1: you will say is it's okay to be bored. Well
Speaker 1: I was bored, great, soothe yourself. There are some kids
Speaker 1: who just sit it home all day. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: want to sit at want to sit my daughter tries
Speaker 1: to bribe me or or do you know, well, I
Speaker 1: don't like sitting in front of the t V. Old
Speaker 1: because she's not a TV kid. She's not a device kid.
Speaker 1: Of I literally have an amazing kid. She doesn't, she reads,
Speaker 1: she doesn't. She just wants to go outside and do
Speaker 1: crafts and do activities. She has an art room, lucky her.
Speaker 1: But something like, well, I'm not a person who's going
Speaker 1: to just sit in front of the TV. All day, well, good, good,
Speaker 1: soothe yourself, entertain yourself, tell a story to yourself, make
Speaker 1: yourself something, do a craft, jump outside on the trampoline,
Speaker 1: go search for reindeer, do bird watching. Be bored. The
Speaker 1: whole reason for me, this rant, for this rant, The
Speaker 1: only reason for this rant is be bored. We were kids,
Speaker 1: We were bored. We were bored a lot. That's why
Speaker 1: we can be alone. That's why we can soothe ourselves.
Speaker 1: That's why we don't need to fill every fucking tile
Speaker 1: with cock of entertainment, like there can't be any missing cracks.
Speaker 1: That's how we what's how we are. Everything is to
Speaker 1: be a goddamn entertainment. And then you feel guilty. Remember
Speaker 1: the end of the summer. Oh, we never do. We
Speaker 1: never went week board and we never did this year.
Speaker 1: You have some sort of bucket list. I'm the guiltiest
Speaker 1: of all because I love the activities more than the kids.
Speaker 1: We haven't gone to Gingerbread University, which I've graduated from.
Speaker 1: Many times I've gone back to school like Rodney Dangerfield
Speaker 1: to Gingerbread University. Oh, it's it's for me. A lot
Speaker 1: of it's for me too, because we get to feel
Speaker 1: better about ourselves. Don't feel bad about working, don't feel
Speaker 1: bad about telling your kids to go out in the
Speaker 1: backyard and make a snowman. Just SINIGHTI yellow snow and
Speaker 1: be bored. It's okay to be bored. That's how we
Speaker 1: learned to be alone.