Speaker 1: Mention it all the reality reckoning. So there have been
Speaker 1: many headlines and stories about this reality reckoning that I started,
Speaker 1: and people are wondering, why is she doing that? Is
Speaker 1: she biting the hand that feeds her? She had this platform.
Speaker 1: Isn't this what everybody signs up for? What is she doing?
Speaker 1: So I'm going to explain to you the full and
Speaker 1: real story about what I'm doing and why and how
Speaker 1: it evolved and how we got here today. So mention
Speaker 1: it all the reality reckoning. So I have heard about
Speaker 1: the writers strike, the actor strike, and I just off
Speaker 1: the cough posted a video saying why aren't reality stars
Speaker 1: on strike and that we should have a union because
Speaker 1: I know that my content is all over the world
Speaker 1: that I did fifteen years ago, before I ever knew
Speaker 1: that there would be a peak cockstreamer or any streamers
Speaker 1: or gifts or memes or anything YouTube clips, social media.
Speaker 1: I go to Australia and I'll see my entire body
Speaker 1: on the back of buses promoting shows for Hey You Australia,
Speaker 1: which I never even knew existed because it didn't exist.
Speaker 1: So we signed our lives away, not realizing where it
Speaker 1: would be distributed for decades to come and people say, well,
Speaker 1: this is what you sign up for, and it is
Speaker 1: what we signed up for then, but we did not
Speaker 1: know what the world would become, and we did not
Speaker 1: know that there would be streamers. And this is effectively
Speaker 1: what actors are fighting for. And people say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you guys don't have talent and you're not actors, and
Speaker 1: that's what people are really paying for. And with the
Speaker 1: writers and actors strike, now reality stars are being relied upon,
Speaker 1: just like the last strike, to provide all of the content.
Speaker 1: So now it's going to be a gold rush for
Speaker 1: reality talent and they're being exploited without compensation. Now many
Speaker 1: people sign up for it and are happy to be
Speaker 1: treated poorly because they just want the fame. But does
Speaker 1: that make it right? And many people I've come to
Speaker 1: learn have horrific stories that are yes, also abusive and illegal,
Speaker 1: but they're scared because they've ruined their lives and reputations
Speaker 1: through this medium and the only way to go back
Speaker 1: and make a living is through this toxic medium. So
Speaker 1: it's like chasing the dragon, and this medium gets them
Speaker 1: back in to constantly try to clear their name. So
Speaker 1: people say that I'm biting the hand that feeds me
Speaker 1: by bringing this up, when in fact I fed myself.
Speaker 1: Andy Cohen didn't want me on the Housewives, and most
Speaker 1: housewives and reality talent gets discarded by the side of
Speaker 1: the road and is not successful like I am. I
Speaker 1: was always an entrepreneur. I was always someone who could
Speaker 1: figure out a way to make a living. And since
Speaker 1: being on reality television, I've done hundreds of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars in relief work. Without reality televison, I've done an
Speaker 1: amazing job at making a lot more money and being
Speaker 1: more successful since reality television. And yes, it did give
Speaker 1: me a platform, but it gave many people a platform,
Speaker 1: and no one has had the same experience as I
Speaker 1: am have, so I created my own success. Yes, they
Speaker 1: gave me a platform. Yes I am grateful that I
Speaker 1: got that platform, but I also fed them because they
Speaker 1: were able to get a different caliber of talent who
Speaker 1: all wanted to be successful entrepreneurs since me, I created
Speaker 1: the model for using it as a vehicle to promote
Speaker 1: a product, and my product was made fun of in
Speaker 1: the beginning because of an ugly logo and because of
Speaker 1: arguments with other people. It can go both ways. I
Speaker 1: fought through and I made it successful, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: a double edged sword, so let's put that to the side.
Speaker 1: I'm just answering the fact that biting the hand that
Speaker 1: feeds me. When I made a post saying why don't
Speaker 1: we have a union, it exploded and everyone agreed with me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking about anything legal. I didn't know anyone
Speaker 1: would come out of the woodwork. I was speaking for
Speaker 1: myself and saying my content has been exploited. And it
Speaker 1: made me then think of all the other people who
Speaker 1: I had heard about who or I've seen whose lives
Speaker 1: were ruined. People who are on The Bachelor who said
Speaker 1: something inappropriate that ruins their life and they got paid
Speaker 1: nothing and they can never get a job again. Or
Speaker 1: people on The Housewives that are called horrendous names, or
Speaker 1: whose kids get bullied, or whose businesses get shut down,
Speaker 1: or who get fired. Those people were exploited and the
Speaker 1: episodes still air and they get no compensation. I first
Speaker 1: thought of my personal experience, because that's what I have,
Speaker 1: But then I started thinking about all the other people.
Speaker 1: So all I did was say something, And once I
Speaker 1: said something, all these people came out of the woodwork,
Speaker 1: and people who are interviewers were saying to me, do
Speaker 1: you know how the Supernanny was exploited or Caitlin Bristow
Speaker 1: was exploited or all these different people. I hadn't even
Speaker 1: thought of it. Then my messages were blowing up and
Speaker 1: all these people were coming out, and I thought, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Wow, people really have been exploited in ways
Speaker 1: I didn't even think of. There are examples that I
Speaker 1: knew of where there was a big cover up by
Speaker 1: the network on this boat incident that we were on,
Speaker 1: where it was very dangerous and there were only two
Speaker 1: life vests and it was definitely a liability, and the
Speaker 1: production company and the network had meetings and investigations trying
Speaker 1: to cover their own ass. Okay, no one died like
Speaker 1: that was fine. We didn't press charges and nobody would
Speaker 1: press charges because they all were still part of the machine,
Speaker 1: still working as part of the machine. And that happened
Speaker 1: in the Harvey Weinstein scandal. People were still working in
Speaker 1: the machine and didn't open up their mouths until it
Speaker 1: became so big that they could not open their mouths.
Speaker 1: Gwyneth Paltrow was the first person to give it really
Speaker 1: credibility from a macro perspective from a very successful, respected
Speaker 1: actress that really took it to the next level. So
Speaker 1: people who are making money off of the machine won't
Speaker 1: speak out again. It happens. It happened in people making
Speaker 1: money off of opioids, It's happened in many different industries.
Speaker 1: It's not like the minute I say something, people are
Speaker 1: going to give up their fame or their show that's
Speaker 1: paying them, even if it's not the right pay, or
Speaker 1: even if they're not being treated right. So now I
Speaker 1: said something, and people who had been discarded and whose
Speaker 1: lives had been ruined started reaching out to me. So
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, but even before that, I went online
Speaker 1: and said, these are ten terms that I think would
Speaker 1: be fair. This is before it became illegal practices that
Speaker 1: I was being made aware of. I was just saying,
Speaker 1: these are terms based on compensation for exploitation. It wasn't
Speaker 1: about illegal practices, it wasn't about abuse. It was just
Speaker 1: about that this group of people risk their jobs, their reputations,
Speaker 1: and here are terms. So of course no one's going
Speaker 1: to respond to my terms. Of course, Bravo or a
Speaker 1: network isn't going to reach out to me and say, hey, well,
Speaker 1: respond to your terms. They don't need to. And I
Speaker 1: saw them get noticeably more silent. And I saw Andy
Speaker 1: Cohen and watch What Happens Live be a little more
Speaker 1: sensitive and a little more watered down and sanitized. And
Speaker 1: I watched people get nervous. But to what end? I
Speaker 1: reached out to one lawyer because I wanted someone to
Speaker 1: sort of write up in a formalized way what I
Speaker 1: had voiced in these ten terms that I did on
Speaker 1: TikTok and Instagram. I wanted there to be a reason
Speaker 1: that a network would respond. So in other words, people
Speaker 1: won't usually respond unless they get a legal letter than
Speaker 1: they're required to respond. So I wanted a lawyer to
Speaker 1: memorialize a jumping off point with these terms that I
Speaker 1: set on social media to send to networks, so that
Speaker 1: they would possibly respond like to send to like a
Speaker 1: Bravo and they would respond to my terms as a
Speaker 1: jumping off point and say, this is a good idea.
Speaker 1: We do agree with you. People are being utilized and
Speaker 1: exploited and we're using their content and we've never given
Speaker 1: them a dime of the merchandise, and we've said that
Speaker 1: the Bethany clause means we take a piece of their
Speaker 1: business to the end of time, and I just wanted
Speaker 1: something in writing. But what happened was when this lawyer
Speaker 1: got involved and I had all of these people who
Speaker 1: had started reaching out to me about different forms of
Speaker 1: abuse and workplace violations, it opened Pandora's box. The lawyer
Speaker 1: couldn't believe the influx of complaints and abuse, so then
Speaker 1: they the lawyer, Brian Friedman, brought on another lawyer, Garrigos,
Speaker 1: Mark Garrigos, who has represented many people in different class
Speaker 1: action lawsuits. So Brian Friedman has represented many people wronged
Speaker 1: in entertainment lawsuits, like whether it's Gabrielle Union or they
Speaker 1: rep and Megan Kelly, and Mark Arragos has represented other people.
Speaker 1: And many of you will have a problem with some
Speaker 1: of the people that they've represented. You may hate it,
Speaker 1: but they are lawyers and they represent that's their job.
Speaker 1: They represent different types of cases. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: they're not good lawyers. It doesn't mean that they're bad people.
Speaker 1: You are just saying that you don't like some of
Speaker 1: the people that they've represented, which is fair, But that
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the fact that the two
Speaker 1: of these powerhouse lawyers got involved because there were valid
Speaker 1: cases here. So now it became something bigger. So they
Speaker 1: announced a big statement and they put Bravo on notice,
Speaker 1: an NBC, which is one hundred and eighty million dollar company,
Speaker 1: they put them on notice saying, hold all this footage,
Speaker 1: hold all this documentation, because these are things that we
Speaker 1: as lawyers have found. This is not my lawsuit. This
Speaker 1: is not Bethany suing anyone. This is not Bethany saying
Speaker 1: that anything happened to her. So this was just opening
Speaker 1: Pandora's box. The person who recommended me and referred me
Speaker 1: to these lawyers, to Brian Friedman, are want the most
Speaker 1: powerful people in Hollywood, because Hollywood noticed, and even the
Speaker 1: entertainment industry and agencies, those people that represent many of
Speaker 1: these reality people, many of the production companies, many of
Speaker 1: the people. They recommended me to these lawyers because they
Speaker 1: agreed with me that there should be a union and
Speaker 1: that the exploitation is that this business is fraught with exploitation.
Speaker 1: So think about that. The very people that make a
Speaker 1: percentage off of the production companies and the talent in
Speaker 1: this multi now billion dollar sphere of reality television recommended
Speaker 1: me to these lawyers because they know that there needs
Speaker 1: to be an end to this exploitation, that the line
Speaker 1: has been crossed. So they also agreed that there should
Speaker 1: be some sort of a union. So on a parallel
Speaker 1: path from all of these lawsuits and Bravo being put
Speaker 1: on notice, we get the SAG after a union reaches
Speaker 1: out to me and agrees that there's been exploitation and
Speaker 1: agrees that NBC and Bravo have been exploiting talent and
Speaker 1: that they want to work towards fair practices for this talent.
Speaker 1: Many of this talent that wants to stay there right
Speaker 1: now because they want to make the money. They need
Speaker 1: the income, and they don't want to bite the hand
Speaker 1: that is currently feeding them. So those people who won't
Speaker 1: speak up, as much as it would be courageous for
Speaker 1: them to speak up, I understand why they won't publicly
Speaker 1: speak up because they want to make money. So when people,
Speaker 1: when other members of the Housewives franchise come out in
Speaker 1: defense saying I'm biting the hand feed that fed me
Speaker 1: and why would I do this A they're being pushed
Speaker 1: forward by Bravo PR because the Bravo PR machine is
Speaker 1: on full tilt now because there's a massive, massive literary
Speaker 1: piece coming out in a credible publication in a few months.
Speaker 1: This is a credible publication and there are major, major
Speaker 1: pieces coming out. So the Bravo pr machine is at work,
Speaker 1: and they want to get some of their successful workhorses
Speaker 1: that are currently employed by them to say things like
Speaker 1: Bethany's biting the hand that fed her. That's ridiculous. Yes,
Speaker 1: this medium was good to me. Yes, this vehicle paid me.
Speaker 1: I did not know about a lot of these violations.
Speaker 1: And I did not know about this stuff because I'm
Speaker 1: a smart person that would have never tolerated this. And
Speaker 1: I had a lot of power because I brought in ratings,
Speaker 1: because when I left Bravo, the ratings dropped them. When
Speaker 1: I came back, they went back to where they were,
Speaker 1: to the tune of about a million and a half years.
Speaker 1: So Bravo is not going to mess around with me,
Speaker 1: nor is a production company. But there are weaker talent
Speaker 1: that have been discarded, and the way that they go
Speaker 1: back every year is because in their personal lives, their
Speaker 1: real lives, their reputation has been destroyed. They have nowhere
Speaker 1: else to go. And the way that Bravo gets talent
Speaker 1: to come back every year, and the production companies get
Speaker 1: talent to come back every year after they've been abused
Speaker 1: and discarded is by saying to them, you get to
Speaker 1: change the narrative. You get to come back this time
Speaker 1: and you get to set the record straight. So they
Speaker 1: beat you down and then they they're saying, you get
Speaker 1: to build yourself back up. Because the name of the
Speaker 1: game of this forum of reality television is I've always
Speaker 1: said it's a zero sum game. Someone is always winning
Speaker 1: and someone is always losing. So if you're winning, you're
Speaker 1: on top of the world making all this money. So
Speaker 1: there's a recent pr thing saying that I pitched a
Speaker 1: show to Bravo a few months ago, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, now I'm realizing the grotesque and horrible treatment,
Speaker 1: the brutal treatment. The facts are because page six posts
Speaker 1: something that they just heard and just throw it up.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter tomorrow they can post something different. The
Speaker 1: facts are, and I have all the receipts and my
Speaker 1: lawyers have all the receipts that over. About two years ago,
Speaker 1: I was in Nantucket and I pitched a project to
Speaker 1: a production company called Pop. A man named Matt Anderson
Speaker 1: he worked on He produced Miami Real Housewives, Atlanta and
Speaker 1: married to medicine, and I pitched him on Bethany. The
Speaker 1: next chapter, me being in Connecticut and the people around me.
Speaker 1: I had spoken to Andy Cohen and pitched it to him.
Speaker 1: He loved it. We did a beach walk. He loved it.
Speaker 1: And Bravo was interested in and Bravo basically said to
Speaker 1: Matt at pop, go flush us out, go develop it.
Speaker 1: So they started sending me women to be around me,
Speaker 1: and only one hundred times did I say to them,
Speaker 1: I don't want this to be a housewives. I don't
Speaker 1: like that culture. This has to be anything but housewives.
Speaker 1: I don't want this to be housewives. They kept saying
Speaker 1: to me, it will not be housewives, but lo and
Speaker 1: behold they were casting all these different women. We kept
Speaker 1: flushing it out. I was producing it. It was my concept.
Speaker 1: It also involved this podcast narrating it. And it was
Speaker 1: this whole concept that started between eighteen months and two
Speaker 1: years ago. I have every receipt from my lawyers. We
Speaker 1: were about to be at the signing point, like in
Speaker 1: April and May, and I had been punting it so
Speaker 1: much so that the production company kept saying that I
Speaker 1: had been punting it, and my lawyers didn't like the
Speaker 1: production company's practices because they had been casting people and
Speaker 1: developing the show, and they they wouldn't give us the
Speaker 1: materials that they had been casting. And it was my
Speaker 1: concept that I pitched them about a group of people
Speaker 1: in Connecticut who was I surrounding myself with in my
Speaker 1: next chapter in Connecticut. But the types of women they
Speaker 1: were casting made me worry that it was getting a
Speaker 1: little housewivesy, and they've produced a lot of housewives and
Speaker 1: I started getting cagy and didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: Someone reached out to me from the Bravo sphere and
Speaker 1: said to me that the production company Pop and Matt Anderson,
Speaker 1: my partners, had produced Married to Medicine, and that they
Speaker 1: had allegedly stolen the show Married to Medicine from a
Speaker 1: cast member. I don't know who the cast member is.
Speaker 1: I don't know the story, but they had been stealing.
Speaker 1: They had stolen the show allegedly, and things that had
Speaker 1: been going on in the interaction and in the deal
Speaker 1: negotiating between myself and this production company were making me
Speaker 1: feel worried that they were going to try to do
Speaker 1: this Connecticut ensemble show without me, which was a concept
Speaker 1: that I pitched Andy that I pitched them, and they
Speaker 1: were to try to get cute and figure out another
Speaker 1: way to do it and call it something different, but
Speaker 1: still do it in Connecticut because they had spent time
Speaker 1: and money flushing it out, and I didn't like the
Speaker 1: way it felt, and it really was like bullseye. I
Speaker 1: felt like they were going to steal the show. And
Speaker 1: this other person said to me, while they stole Married
Speaker 1: to Medicine. And then I found out that it resulted
Speaker 1: in a massive lawsuit and a settlement. So I called
Speaker 1: my lawyer at Grubman and said, I don't want to
Speaker 1: do it, pull the plug on the show. I just
Speaker 1: don't want to do it. So that was in like
Speaker 1: April May. So today page six was trying to paint
Speaker 1: a picture where like just months ago, I was pitching
Speaker 1: a show about Connecticut and all of a sudden, now
Speaker 1: I think the practices are grotesque. I was pitching a
Speaker 1: show eighteen months two years ago, and now it was
Speaker 1: getting to contract stage and this production company was really
Speaker 1: selling it to Bravo, and I pulled the plug at
Speaker 1: the last minute. And I believe they're probably still trying
Speaker 1: to do it. And this is the production company that
Speaker 1: was in a conflict about stealing a show. So that's
Speaker 1: what that latest page six is about. And that's why
Speaker 1: it's great to have your own voice, your own platform,
Speaker 1: your own podcast, because I get to flush this all out.
Speaker 1: Now you're seeing Bravo scramble and water things down and
Speaker 1: wash things down by different articles. Like I said of House,
Speaker 1: I've saying I'm biting the hand that feeds me, and
Speaker 1: people pitching this story about I was pitching Bravo and
Speaker 1: isn't that convenient? But what's really going on is they
Speaker 1: are very nervous. There are sub lawsuits going on as well.
Speaker 1: The Morocco Ultimate Girls Trip is also currently a big
Speaker 1: source of conflict for Bravo. Brandy Glanville and Carolyn both
Speaker 1: have two sides to the story about an alleged sexual assault.
Speaker 1: Brandy has information about herself being told to act a
Speaker 1: certain way. Caroline also has taken up legal representation. There
Speaker 1: are two sides to that story, and Bravo has coincidentally
Speaker 1: just completely shelved that project. In addition, Watch What Happens
Speaker 1: Live has become very watered down. It seems like Bravo
Speaker 1: is on full alert and they have been extremely responsive
Speaker 1: and nervous about this pending lawsuit from many people in
Speaker 1: the Bravo sphere via these lawyers that I brought in
Speaker 1: about a union at about residuals. So Pandora's box has
Speaker 1: been opened as far as the union goes. I have
Speaker 1: a very important meeting this week with the union and
Speaker 1: that should move forward to hopefully protect these people. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot swirling. I just wanted to say to
Speaker 1: you directly. Oh. In addition, people have been speculating why
Speaker 1: am I doing this? Am I starting my own network?
Speaker 1: Am I representing talent? The answer is no. I literally,
Speaker 1: off the cuff, made a comment about the fact that
Speaker 1: reality stars should be part of a union because of
Speaker 1: exploitation without compensation. That evolved into terms that I thought
Speaker 1: would be fair, which evolved into a big Hollywood, big
Speaker 1: way giving me the name of a lawyer to try
Speaker 1: to get a response on those terms, which evolved into
Speaker 1: probably over one hundred reality stars reaching out to me
Speaker 1: about them being violated, abused, and exploited without compensation, ruining
Speaker 1: their lives. It evolved into a lawsuit from many of
Speaker 1: the Bravo talent exposing practices that I did not realize.
Speaker 1: Bravo was complicit in. And I would like you to
Speaker 1: know that I've known Andy Cohen for years and we
Speaker 1: always have been colleagues. Now, I was one of his
Speaker 1: favorites as a housewife, and he always enjoyed me, and
Speaker 1: I always enjoyed him. But we weren't quote unquot good friends.
Speaker 1: And I mean that to say that I met his
Speaker 1: son once or twice. Every time he's come over my
Speaker 1: house where I've come over his, we've been talking about
Speaker 1: the industry and the business and housewives, and we've both
Speaker 1: always had an agenda in the relationship with one another.
Speaker 1: I have never really clearly been able to view him
Speaker 1: and his business practices without him being in some sort
Speaker 1: of employer adjacent role, meaning he's not my direct employer.
Speaker 1: But there have been projects that I've pitched him. There
Speaker 1: have been negotiations that I've done with him about being
Speaker 1: on the Housewives, about coming back to the Housewives, about
Speaker 1: different projects that he's pitched me, and that I've pitched
Speaker 1: him about what I come back for Ultimate Girls trip.
Speaker 1: I always had a foot in that door. So my
Speaker 1: relationship with Andy was connected to business at all times.
Speaker 1: From the minute I met him. It was always connected
Speaker 1: to business, but it was some of the I knew
Speaker 1: through business who I was also friendly with when I
Speaker 1: left the Housewives, and I had the highest rated series
Speaker 1: premiere in Bravo history for my spinoff. I was invited
Speaker 1: to his Christmas party, but only one time in one year,
Speaker 1: and I've never been invited back. So when you say
Speaker 1: everyone thought we were really good friends, we were friendly,
Speaker 1: but we were show business friends. We were colleagues, and
Speaker 1: we both always had an agenda. And there's been a dance.
Speaker 1: And when I came out with Rewives, it's the first
Speaker 1: time that I saw him publicly speak out against it,
Speaker 1: which was ludicrous because Rewives is about is a podcast
Speaker 1: about a machine that I helped to create, and I
Speaker 1: don't exploit that. I'm not exploiting those people. Some people
Speaker 1: have said, oh, why would I keep my rewives podcast
Speaker 1: when I'm in the middle of this big reality reckoning.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling people to watch the episodes. I'm not
Speaker 1: trashing anyone, I'm not exploiting anyone. I'm simply using a
Speaker 1: show as a vehicle to talk about human issues with
Speaker 1: non Bravo talent. So that's asked an answered. Everyone's trying
Speaker 1: to come for me with some sort of agenda based thing,
Speaker 1: and I'm right here, you can ask me any questions.
Speaker 1: So Andy publicly denounced Rewives, and then it backfired on
Speaker 1: him because it was in every publication for weeks and
Speaker 1: my podcast Rewives went into the top five and has
Speaker 1: been an outrageous success to the tune of millions of downloads.
Speaker 1: So that backfired so much so that they asked me
Speaker 1: to come on watch What Happens Live. When Watch What
Speaker 1: Happens Live hadn't wanted me to be on, but the
Speaker 1: fans were asking so much about it that they had
Speaker 1: me go on. I thought we were going on in
Speaker 1: a normal, friendly capacity, so I went on there and
Speaker 1: the public spoke there was an ambush. My daughter was
Speaker 1: with me. She was really sad, to be honest, it
Speaker 1: really hurt her. She thought we were going on to
Speaker 1: be on a show, and she was like, why were
Speaker 1: they so mean to you? And truthfully, I believe that
Speaker 1: I kept the peace there and I went onto that
Speaker 1: show and allowed myself to be ambushed because the door
Speaker 1: was still a little bit always open. Would I ever
Speaker 1: go back? And why burn a bridge and shut a
Speaker 1: door even though you know you're not going back? Why
Speaker 1: scorch that kingdom if you know you might go back.
Speaker 1: What if everything goes to shitt and you just want
Speaker 1: the paycheck for going on one of those trips or
Speaker 1: something that you've been invited on. And now I'm at
Speaker 1: a point where like, no, there's no number to put
Speaker 1: me on one of those trips because I didn't realize a
Speaker 1: lot of behind the scenes, I really have noticed that
Speaker 1: it's evolved into being something disgusting and toxic that I
Speaker 1: was fully part of. I admit that I was part
Speaker 1: of it. I was part of the machine. I was
Speaker 1: the golden child, the shining example of the machine. I'm
Speaker 1: not hiding behind any of my ayes. I've said negative
Speaker 1: things to people on the show, et cetera, And the
Speaker 1: truth is I don't hold any of the people accountable
Speaker 1: on the shows. That's what they were trained to do.
Speaker 1: If you ever saw Game of Thrones, the Unsullied are
Speaker 1: trained warriors. Whether it doesn't matter whether it's Erica Jane
Speaker 1: or Lisa Rinna or Luanne de les Seppe or Kelly
Speaker 1: Bensimone or Bethany Frankel or Ramona Singer, all of these
Speaker 1: people have been seen doing horrible things on these shows
Speaker 1: that they haven't been seen doing off those shows for
Speaker 1: many of these cases, because they are trained for ratings.
Speaker 1: What are the people on vander Pump Rules trained for ratings?
Speaker 1: You do something bad, and you do something negative, you
Speaker 1: are rewarded for that behavior. You fall off the wagon,
Speaker 1: the cameras fly in, you get a divorce, yay, you
Speaker 1: go bankrupt, wonderful, You're going to jail. Bring the cameras in.
Speaker 1: The line has gotten blurred from when I started, and
Speaker 1: diff diferent things were what was focused on. The more
Speaker 1: that this medium, in this genre has celebrated things that
Speaker 1: are terrible, the more they've made more and more money
Speaker 1: for honoring and highlighting workplace violations, emotional abuse, sexual exploitation,
Speaker 1: and we just keep digesting it because it's what keeps
Speaker 1: being served to us, and no one has stopped it.
Speaker 1: And I understand it's ratings. What happened on vander Pump's
Speaker 1: Rules when they got up to like millions of viewers
Speaker 1: for what for a cheating scandal on a show fueled
Speaker 1: by alcohol with bartenders and band members, none of them
Speaker 1: that are married, and an affair became the biggest thing,
Speaker 1: and somebody won and somebody lost and the worse it gets,
Speaker 1: the better it is for the pockets of Bravo. So
Speaker 1: at some point the music will have to stop, you know,
Speaker 1: because people and you will say, they signed up for this,
Speaker 1: they signed up for this. Okay, these people signed up
Speaker 1: for it. They signed up for what they didn't even know.
Speaker 1: And every year they're rewarded for bad behavior, and every year,
Speaker 1: the deeper they get into it, they can't work anywhere else.
Speaker 1: They've ruined their reputation. Housewives are women in their fifties
Speaker 1: and sixties who often do terrible things. They can't work
Speaker 1: anywhere else, they've ruined their reputations. And yes they got
Speaker 1: a second chance, and yes they weren't in the workforce,
Speaker 1: and it's amazing that they were able to make money,
Speaker 1: but it's not something that's widely respected. It's something that
Speaker 1: is compensated. But like Porner, it's not widely respected. So
Speaker 1: this world of salacious reality television has definitely pushed the envelope,
Speaker 1: and myself included and many of you. Things will develop.
Speaker 1: You're going to see things you did not know. You're
Speaker 1: going to see things more clearly and start to think
Speaker 1: about what you're consuming and how dirty you felt after
Speaker 1: consuming it because the football keeps moving, and these shows
Speaker 1: are not designed for conflict resolution. They're designed for conflict conflict,
Speaker 1: and they're not designed to punish someone if they do
Speaker 1: something wrong. So this has not been something that was
Speaker 1: like a grand plan. I opened up Pandora's box and
Speaker 1: now I can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Speaker 1: And I'm on this path, and it's definitely slightly scary,
Speaker 1: like in the back of my mind, because things like this,
Speaker 1: you will during times like this, you will make enemies
Speaker 1: and it won't be popular. And the sheep are definitely
Speaker 1: not gonna like when someone breaks out, especially someone who
Speaker 1: is so successful. But I have a beautiful daughter to
Speaker 1: think about what she consumes in her future. I have
Speaker 1: a good relationship, I have a very successful business. I
Speaker 1: have a thriving bank account, and I don't have to
Speaker 1: put up with things that I don't think are right
Speaker 1: for other people in society. And I get to be
Speaker 1: cause driven and it doesn't matter if people hate me
Speaker 1: or cancel me, because I'm okay. Nobody has anything that
Speaker 1: I want. It's why I have my own YouTube series
Speaker 1: content to the people. It's why I don't go back
Speaker 1: to network television. I don't want someone else controlling my content.
Speaker 1: My story, my life, and my YouTube series and my
Speaker 1: podcast get more views and listens and more downloads than
Speaker 1: network television now. So people have the freedom to use
Speaker 1: their voice, and it takes courage. So I'm mentioning it
Speaker 1: all and not letting all these little choppy publications decide
Speaker 1: to tell you the story. That's the true story, that's
Speaker 1: the mention it all story, and it is still developing
Speaker 1: and you're going to see a lot of explosive things
Speaker 1: coming out that are going to surprise you, and it's
Speaker 1: going to be something different every day, every week. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to frame this entire story ahead of time
Speaker 1: so you know it all from here and it will
Speaker 1: evolve and it will change. Thank you for listening. Stay
Speaker 1: tuned for more