Speaker 1: Can we talk about the silver platter teenager generation. I
Speaker 1: think it's because of social media, and I know when
Speaker 1: we were kids, they had commercials, but it just was
Speaker 1: a slower burn, like you had to have TV shows
Speaker 1: in between commercials. It wasn't like every minute of the
Speaker 1: day there was something for a kid to be obsessed
Speaker 1: about and want. And I ranted on TikTok about the
Speaker 1: ten year olds at Sephora, but I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about the teenagers at Sephora because I'm not kidding. A
Speaker 1: year and a half ago was the first time in
Speaker 1: my life I would ever have the cahonis to order
Speaker 1: a fifty dollars blush or lip gloss like it makes
Speaker 1: me sick. I today, I'm gonna have to talk to
Speaker 1: a therapist about the fact that I ordered a Stanley
Speaker 1: cup for thirty five dollars that has like a little
Speaker 1: handle and it's supposed to not topple over. Because I
Speaker 1: know that like five below and everybody else have and
Speaker 1: TJ and everyone else have like five dollars versions of it,
Speaker 1: and yes they're knockoffs of it, so I should like
Speaker 1: want the original Aramas bag, I guess, but like, look
Speaker 1: at my assistant she has a Stanley cup. Danielle, a
Speaker 1: woman I work with, she has a Stanley cup, like
Speaker 1: women on a budget, working women at a back and
Speaker 1: look at them like, who the fuck do you guys
Speaker 1: think you are having Stanley cup? You spend forty dollars
Speaker 1: on a cup and they're like they love their cup,
Speaker 1: they idolize their cup, they take care of their cup,
Speaker 1: they pet their cup. The ice they got, the whole
Speaker 1: fucking ice thing. The ice from last night is lasted
Speaker 1: till today. I'm like my ice and my shitty cup
Speaker 1: from TJ lasted till today too. It started years ago
Speaker 1: with the swell bottle, Like we understand the ice concept.
Speaker 1: Guess what Thermis did it too a long time ago.
Speaker 1: And it'll stay hot you eating soup out of your
Speaker 1: Stanley cup. So anyway, these kids, can we go get Bubba?
Speaker 1: Can we get Starbucks? And then John Galla like they
Speaker 1: want everything and they want it now, and it's like
Speaker 1: it's just so fast. And I know I sound like
Speaker 1: the one who's like why we took a divorce and
Speaker 1: carriage to go to Target? Like I know, but like
Speaker 1: it's just a lot right now, that's still and the
Speaker 1: teenager age is just silver platter. Anyway to begin with
Speaker 1: your life is the games and the practices and the
Speaker 1: schedule and the concert at school and the oh, I
Speaker 1: mean God. We serve at the pleasure of the teenagers,
Speaker 1: Serve at the pleasure of Britain happy, serve at the pleasure.
Speaker 1: I talked about this a little to Holly Madison, but
Speaker 1: I think we should talk about the rate of divorce
Speaker 1: and its connection to young people wanting so badly to
Speaker 1: be married. So there's so many different things to break
Speaker 1: down here. The rate of divorce is high, it's over
Speaker 1: sixty percent. I think and think about the number of
Speaker 1: people that you know that are married divorced who are
Speaker 1: not happy. And I talk about how people who are
Speaker 1: in quote unquote traditional marriages do judge people in non
Speaker 1: traditional marriages. But I believe that non traditional is working
Speaker 1: because people are being honest about the fact that they
Speaker 1: are married to someone that is not them. They're not
Speaker 1: married to a clone. That person has their own cultural beliefs,
Speaker 1: their own ideology, their own moral beliefs, their own business
Speaker 1: ethics and business style. Do they believe in horoscopes? They
Speaker 1: like to ski? Do they like a sunny vacation? What
Speaker 1: about being strict, parenting indulgent. Two different people getting married
Speaker 1: means two different ideals, and so in many cases, two
Speaker 1: different people means two different previous spouses, two different sets
Speaker 1: of children, blending different ages like these are things that
Speaker 1: have to come together. So how do you make that work?
Speaker 1: It's often with non traditional Some people don't see each
Speaker 1: other every day. Some people don't have dinner together every night.
Speaker 1: Some people travel a lot, some people have long distance relationships.
Speaker 1: Some people don't like their in laws, you know, some
Speaker 1: people have a disparity in income. There are millions different ways,
Speaker 1: And I've seen from Kurt Russell and Goldie Hahn, who
Speaker 1: for years weren't actually married, which would seem like something
Speaker 1: to judge, weren't legally married, that they sort of indicated
Speaker 1: that it works for them because they both are on
Speaker 1: different paths but have similar sensibilities about where those paths
Speaker 1: are leading. And they never thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be one thing. It's a living and breathing organism that
Speaker 1: has highs and lows and ins and outs, and it
Speaker 1: ends up in a different place. Neil Patrick Harris I
Speaker 1: heard recently say something similar, and I think about the
Speaker 1: young generation that is marketed marriage marketed. We buy makeup
Speaker 1: because of marketing. We buy a Stanley cup because of marketing,
Speaker 1: We buy a brand of cottage cheese, or you know,
Speaker 1: go on a vacation or stay at a hotel, or
Speaker 1: buy a shirt because of marketing. Why would we not
Speaker 1: be getting married because of marketing? Because you're marketed the dress? Oh,
Speaker 1: don't you want to pick out a dress? Don't you
Speaker 1: want to be doing the lace on the top or
Speaker 1: the big fairy princess. You're gonna get to be the
Speaker 1: star if you're not an actual star, you get to
Speaker 1: be the star, the bell of the ball. You get
Speaker 1: to be a princess. So how much how intoxicating is
Speaker 1: that you get a ring? You're gonna get a gorgeous ring.
Speaker 1: What's it gonna be? Is a oval? Is it hard?
Speaker 1: Is it marquis? What are the side stones? That's a
Speaker 1: big thing that's exciting. You get to make your friends jealous.
Speaker 1: You've got prince charming, You get to like live this
Speaker 1: life and act as if you just have such an
Speaker 1: enviable life because you're getting married, and where are you
Speaker 1: going on your honeymoon? So all of this is marketed,
Speaker 1: And why wouldn't you want to buy it. You want
Speaker 1: to flip through the magazines. You get to out florals.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna eat? What's the cake? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's all about you. Everyone's fawning over you. You get to
Speaker 1: have another party. You can have an engaging party. You
Speaker 1: can have a bridal shower. You can, you know, do
Speaker 1: so many different things and you you can. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get all these gifts, you get to register. This is
Speaker 1: the stuff that we're marketed. And the problem is we
Speaker 1: spend more time thinking about the foreplay and the marketing
Speaker 1: than the actual main act, which is an actual marriage
Speaker 1: that you have your whole life to have if you
Speaker 1: choose to do it, and what does that entail? And
Speaker 1: how are you choosing? Are you choosing wisely? Are you
Speaker 1: spending enough time really thinking about the nuts and bolts,
Speaker 1: What the bench looks like when you're seventy five, if
Speaker 1: someone's sick, what the finances look like, what a divorce
Speaker 1: god forbid looks like. It's a fact. You can't be
Speaker 1: a dummy. If sixty percent of business deals fail, which
Speaker 1: probably the numbers higher, doesn't it sound insane to not
Speaker 1: have a prenup? And isn't it something that you want
Speaker 1: to walk into really understand the terms you got to divorce,
Speaker 1: what happens, what's the child's situation going to be like,
Speaker 1: what about custody, what about religion, what about medicine, what
Speaker 1: about college? What about you know, all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: the point is I think that the fairy tale is
Speaker 1: being marketed to young people and it's also relating to
Speaker 1: their motivation. Young women in particular want to bag a
Speaker 1: rich guy. They want a good looking but really they
Speaker 1: definitely would love someone to take care of them. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of young girls that really talk to each
Speaker 1: other about wanting to bag a rich guy. Now you
Speaker 1: bag a rich guy, you give up power. If you
Speaker 1: don't have your own money, if you're not working, you
Speaker 1: give up power. You give up decision making, even in
Speaker 1: ways that aren't so tangible. The tangible ways are on
Speaker 1: where are you're going to go on a vacation. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're both going to weigh in on where you want
Speaker 1: to go on a vacation, and you'll have a lot
Speaker 1: more leverage in the beginning of the marriage when your
Speaker 1: husband isn't sick of you like you're sick of him.
Speaker 1: But ultimately he or she who makes the gold makes
Speaker 1: the rules. You gonna buy a house, You're just gonna
Speaker 1: go buy a house on your own without having to
Speaker 1: ask your husband permission. You're gonna go buy a Rolex,
Speaker 1: or some vancleeve earrings, or a three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars facial treatment or something without asking permission. No, because
Speaker 1: they who make the gold make the rules. And what
Speaker 1: if you don't love your in laws, you don't want
Speaker 1: to like hang out with them for a whole weekend,
Speaker 1: or you don't want them to just stop by all
Speaker 1: the time. Yes, that's not related to money. But if
Speaker 1: your in laws know that your husband is supporting you,
Speaker 1: your in laws are going to use that as leverage too,
Speaker 1: because he supports you. So then therefore you have to
Speaker 1: go along with the program, their program. So don't be
Speaker 1: so quick to think that you meet a rich guy
Speaker 1: that you're taken care of and you're set for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life. To the things in life that
Speaker 1: people don't want to do anymore is run for president
Speaker 1: or host an award show. Running for president sounds like
Speaker 1: the worst fucking job ever you have, like a drooling
Speaker 1: man who is you know, like a bull of oatmeal
Speaker 1: running the country. No, problem, and you've got Joe Coy
Speaker 1: up on stage basically being like, oh, you didn't like
Speaker 1: that one my writers wrote it, like throwing his own
Speaker 1: writers under the bus and then being trashed and made
Speaker 1: fun of. He did finish the fucking race. And then
Speaker 1: he's up there like a child at a recital being
Speaker 1: like can I start over? Wait a second, saying like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I only got the gig ten years ago,
Speaker 1: like wha when I don't know why Joe Coy was
Speaker 1: hosting the Golden Globes. Respectfully, I know who he is.
Speaker 1: I saw one of his movies, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if he was at the level to be hosting the
Speaker 1: fucking Golden Globes. I really don't. I think I'm as
Speaker 1: equipped to host the Golden Globes as Joe Coy. And
Speaker 1: he shipped the bed. Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at
Speaker 1: an awards show. Joe Coy shit the bed. Chelsea Hammler
Speaker 1: hosted a show and the ratings are down twenty percent.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a horrific gig. Call me. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: lab grown diamonds. Someone I work with was telling me
Speaker 1: that a lot of her friends have rings that don't
Speaker 1: seem like the size of rings that would be appropriate
Speaker 1: for them based on their economic status, which leads me
Speaker 1: to believe that these are lab grown diamonds. They're not
Speaker 1: cubrics or conia. I don't know what mousinite is exactly.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a lab grown diamond. I think
Speaker 1: it's like a different thing. There's another thing, ziam in.
Speaker 1: I think there are these branded non diamonds. But a
Speaker 1: lab grown diamond is a diamond. It's just grown in
Speaker 1: a lab. So now that's significantly less expensive. It's still expensive,
Speaker 1: but like you're gonna get a four and a half
Speaker 1: carrot lab grown diamond probably five six thousand dollars. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get a four and a half carrot, you know,
Speaker 1: not spectacular quality diamond, just good quality diamond for fifty thousand,
Speaker 1: So it's got to be it's costing ten percent. It
Speaker 1: sounds like, so this is like a serious thing to discuss.
Speaker 1: And is this gonna be something where people are not
Speaker 1: gonna be buying diamonds anymore, they're only gonna be buying
Speaker 1: lab grown or is this gonna be like air mez
Speaker 1: where diamonds are still going to be elite and they're
Speaker 1: flourishing in you know, the Harry Winston and the Oscar
Speaker 1: Hayman and the graf worlds of brands, but also the
Speaker 1: dupes are flourishing as well. Like I don't think there's
Speaker 1: ever been a time that air Mez has been bigger
Speaker 1: and Chanel's been bigger. But I also don't think there's
Speaker 1: ever been a time where dupes and replicas and fake
Speaker 1: bags have been as big. So I think both areas
Speaker 1: have exploded. And the question is is that up fronting
Speaker 1: and stunting? Is it fronting and stunting to have a
Speaker 1: five carrot a lab grown diamond when your fiance can
Speaker 1: really only afford a two carrot diamond? Do we go
Speaker 1: big or go home? Or do we want a two
Speaker 1: carrot diamond? You know, I sit here, I'd want the paperwork,
Speaker 1: the gia I'm putting in my safe, a real diamond.
Speaker 1: It does mean something, because otherwise what does anything mean?
Speaker 1: What does anything mean? Why does anything need to be
Speaker 1: real anymore? So the question is is it would annoy
Speaker 1: you if you knew someone couldn't really afford the giant
Speaker 1: diamond that was on their hand, but they're wearing it
Speaker 1: because they're fronting and stunting, and it's lab grown. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things that would really annoy girls about
Speaker 1: other girls, who would annoy the girls that have the
Speaker 1: real diamond because because it's like, you don't get to
Speaker 1: wear a T shirt that says, my diamond's real. This
Speaker 1: bitch over here hers is lab grown. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you about a little scandal it's going on over on TikTok.
Speaker 1: TikTok is its own planet, its own universe, its own world.
Speaker 1: It has its own rules, its own laws, its own scandals,
Speaker 1: its own news stories, its own things that go on
Speaker 1: that you don't know about. It's a world. In that world,
Speaker 1: there's a man who owns a bronzer company, and Mikayla,
Speaker 1: who's a famous TikTok beauty influencer who has transcended and
Speaker 1: doing well on Instagram too. But she's a social media
Speaker 1: influencer and she's like the Oprah of beauty because she
Speaker 1: can move a product. So she talked about this bronzer product,
Speaker 1: and this guy who owns a competing bronzer brand said
Speaker 1: that the brand she was talking about copied his brand.
Speaker 1: So allegedly she told him by text or phone or
Speaker 1: something that she was going to review his Bronzer brand
Speaker 1: in the next couple of days. He spent ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to make sure he had another product ahead of time,
Speaker 1: and she didn't review it, and he called her out.
Speaker 1: How Michaela cost me ten thousand dollars And most of
Speaker 1: the internet is about like, it's not a binding contract,
Speaker 1: and so this is her business and there are nor guarantees.
Speaker 1: And while we understand you were preparing, you shouldn't have
Speaker 1: spent ahead of the brand. And it really was an
Speaker 1: interesting conversation because you know, she gets so many different products.
Speaker 1: She might not have known what she was even agreeing to.
Speaker 1: She might have a team who disagrees with her choice
Speaker 1: to do that. She might have a competing product she's
Speaker 1: supposed to promote, or she may not actually like his
Speaker 1: product and doesn't want to diss him on top of
Speaker 1: his product being copied. There are a thousand different reasons
Speaker 1: why she might not have posted about it. But she
Speaker 1: didn't post about it, and he's claiming she cost him
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. He cost himself ten thousand dollars. He
Speaker 1: wrote a ten thousand dollars check and got bullish. He
Speaker 1: was bullish in the market versus just letting her video
Speaker 1: come out. She could have said she hated the product.
Speaker 1: By the way, anything can happen in a courtroom, so
Speaker 1: it's just funny that. But he also may have just
Speaker 1: been in the queue and she wasn't gonna talk about
Speaker 1: it for months. She might just have a lot of
Speaker 1: things to talk about because she probably gets one hundred
Speaker 1: boxes a week. I get products, and seven months later
Speaker 1: I'll first talk about something. So I just found it
Speaker 1: to be a very interesting thing because it's sort of
Speaker 1: like giving entitlement and like I'm gonna spend ten thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: My whole life's gonna change. Mikayla's gonna talk about me,
Speaker 1: and therefore it's her fault that she didn't like. That
Speaker 1: is such fucking gaslighting. She didn't, she didn't, She said
Speaker 1: she was gonna talk about it, and by the way,
Speaker 1: I fucking changed my mind. Maybe I don't like the product,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't like you changed her fucking mind, And
Speaker 1: even gonna happen in business, do not rely on anyone else.