
Hollywood is melting down, and Link Lauren is calling it out. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are reportedly losing A-list allies as Meghan faces backlash over sharing photos of Princess Lilibet while campaigning against online harm to children. Kris Jenner gets dragged for flaunting a $22 Erewhon smoothie and luxury lifestyle as Los Angeles struggles with homelessness. Plus, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the latest James Bond casting drama ignite a massive debate over Hollywood, identity politics, and modern casting choices. Also: John Travolta’s shocking Cannes transformation, Alex Cooper’s pregnancy announcement sparks hypocrisy accusations, and Whitney Cummings explains how motherhood changed her politics. Lightstim: Upgrade your skincare routine with the medical-grade technology dermatologists trust and save 10% by using code LINK at https://LightStim.com Shopify: Launch your dream business with Shopify. Sign up for your $1/month trial at https://Shopify.com...
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How are we all doing? If this is your first time tuning in, we are coming to you raw, unscripted, unfiltered. I have a lot to say today. Okay. I feel like our community on here. I was thinking about this over the weekend. We're like the Last of the Mohicans or something. We're like that last civilization that is still somewhat normal. We're over here looking at at the news, thinking everyone's gone crazy, everything's ridiculous. You guys look like clowns, and it's my job just to hold up a mirror to society and say, hello. Remember when we all used to be normal? Remember before there were 10,000 different genders? Remember when Caitlyn was Bruce? Anyway, we have a lot to discuss today. Of course, we are going to do a Meghan Markle update. She went over to Geneva, Switzerland, to give a speech on bullying and children and cyberbullying. Not a lot of people showed up. We're going to discuss this. Not a lot of people showed up. Okay, I've been in elevators with more people. I've been in Ubers with more people. I've had more people in my bed. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm actually the most boring person. That was a joke, mom, if you're watching. But it's a pretty dire situation here. And when you juxtapose this to Princess Catherine over in Italy. Oh, you know, Meghan Markle is smashing plates and Montecito. So she went to go speak at this bullying convention. We will get into that a little Bit later on in the show, she also posted this weird picture of her daughter on the floor in the closet. I didn't really understand what was going on with that. She's back to posting her weird, bizarre pictures. You know, she only posts her kids from behind, sort of like Children of the Corn. Like they've never left the compound. The Hills have Eyes too, the remix. So we'll be breaking all of that down with Meghan Markle, Kris Jenner. Kris Jenner, woman of the people. Okay? She has come out with a new smoothie at the most expensive grocery store in the country. One of the most expensive grocery stores. She has dropped a smoothie. Here she is looking kind of like a dude douchebag. I'm gonna be honest. Sorry, excuse my French, but she looks a little bit, a little bit like a douchebag. But we're gonna break this down because this has caused a lot of backlash. Most Americans are just trying to pay their mortgage, pay for their homes, pay for healthcare. And she decided to go to a grocery store and put on an apron and cosplay. Like she was a working class American. And on the way over there, I guess she drove by homeless people in her Rolls Royce Intense doing meth and heroin. So we'll be breaking all of that down. We're also going to talk about John Travolta, someone we've never discussed on this show, but we're going to talk about John Travolta because he also went viral over the weekend. He's unveiled what I believe is a new face. He looks pulled and yanked. He's doing a lot of berets. We're going to talk about why I think this went viral. And then we're going to juxtapose this as well with everything going on in Hollywood today. So Hollywood is doing a remake of the Odyssey, Okay. You know, the epic by Homer, the Odyssey. They're doing a remake. And that's also caused a lot of backlash because they're casting trans people and black people and characters that used to be white. And I don't understand, okay, why Hollywood is so hell bent in shoving all of this DEI into historic films. Why don't you guys write some new films? And one of the franchises they're also trying to ruin is James Bond. Okay? So this also went viral over the weekend. Apparently there's a campaign to hire a trans and non binary James Bond. James Bond is a hot, straight British white guy, okay. Who fights crime. He fights crime and he looks dapper doing it. Unless the next James Bond Looks something like this. You guys are just going to burn the franchise to the ground. So we have all of this to discuss and more today. 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But I think it's a little ironic to have Meghan Markle come speak at an event for bullying when she's one of the biggest bullies. In my opinion, it's like having Bernie Madoff go speak at a convention on finance. He's going to speak at an economics convention. You know, it's like having Osama bin Laden you know, win a humanitarian award. Why is Meghan Markle speaking at an event for bullying? She's the bully. She's literally the biggest bully. You can even see her face sometimes when she has to interact with someone who's poor. She's, like, disgusted. She looks disgusted. Having to hug people who don't live in massive mansions in Montecito like her. She seems absolutely disgusted. But here she is giving a speech. There was not a big crowd. There was not a big crowd. As I've said, I've been in elevators with more people. I've been in Ubers with more people than this. I've, you know, she thought she was going to have a big crowd, turn out like Catherine. In Italy, when you're a real member of the royal family, like Princess Catherine and William and King Charles. Camilla. Oh, the streets are packed. It's like Michael Jackson came to town. People are throwing roses. Remember Catherine, they had the baby. They're like, please kiss my baby. In Italy, they're like, regio Emilia, kiss my baby. So Catherine is over there in Italy, like, getting a Princess Diana level reception. Meghan Markle shows up. It's crickets. I think I actually saw a rat scurry across the ground during Meghan Markle's speech. I could have been dreaming. I thought I saw a rat or a mouse scurry across her feet. It was that dire. It's that dire. But Meghan Markle hasn't caught on to the fact no one cares anymore. Why would the people in Geneva, Switzerland, on their weekend, on their days off from work, want to go hear you speak about bullying? But she's doing this in tandem with the World Health Organization. I didn't even know the World Health Organization was still around. We're still listening to them after the pandemonium back in 2020 when they got everything wrong. We're still. We're still working with the World Health Organization. But she was over there. And at least if she bought Prince Harry, I think some people would have shown up. If she had Prince Harry with her, I think a few people would have come. Some girls would have come, and that would have been nice. But Meghan Markle, it was a pretty sad situation. Now, something else Meghan Markle went viral for over the weekend, she posted another bizarre picture of her daughter, Lily Bet. And I know you guys hate when I say the name Lilibet. We'll call her Lily. She posted this weird picture getting ready to leave for the event on cyberbullying. And the whole event was about protecting Your kids from social media. And I guess she doesn't see the hypocrisy that she's posting her kid on social media on a dirty floor in a closet. And as someone who spent the first half of my life in a closet, no judgment, but I don't understand what's going on in this damn photo. Okay. I love how she's trying to show off that she has this Giorgio Armani coat. She's trying to show off her designer clothes, the house. To me, I'm going to be honest, it seems dated. The style of the home seems dated. But why are the kids always in these weird, creepy pictures taken from behind? Their hair is always a different length in the pictures. And Meghan Markle, you're going to an event to protect children from the Internet. Look, look. These kids, when they open their family album, someday we put a compilation together of all kids picture she posted. They're faceless. They're faceless. So when the kids look at their family album, someday, they're just going to be pictures of them from behind. Like, is this what the family album is going to look like? I don't get it. I really don't understand what the hell is going on. And these are kids who are in line for the throne. I don't think they should be. But they're still in the line of succession. There could be a horrific force majeure. And these kids are somehow living in the castle. And we've never seen their faces. We've never seen their faces either. There's something she doesn't like that she's embarrassed of. I don't think it's about protecting the children at all. I don't think it's about protecting the children. Here she is. She always makes sure that she posts pictures of herself with the kids, hugging them and taking them to Disney World. I think Meghan Markle, what she's doing in her kind of psychotic way when she posts Lily Bet on the floor in the closet or them at Disneyland or. Or them with Doria, her mother, I feel like she's setting herself up to get custody in the divorce. I think Meghan Markle knows if they get divorced, it's going to be a dicey situation because they're royalty. Are they going to have to go back to London? Is she going to be able to keep them? Is she going to be able to pimp them out and make money off of them like, you know, Kris Jenner? I don't know. I think the reason she's posting more pictures of the kids, albeit creepy Children of the Corn Hills have Eyes pictures. I don't know if they've ever left the compound, but I think she's posting pictures to build her case. This is also sort of giving me Branched Davidian vibes. Okay, I don't know, maybe Megan Markle's the new David Koresh, but this is giving me Branch Davidian vibes. Like the kids live on the compound. They don't really know the world outside the compound. The only world they go to is Disneyland. These kids are going to grow up someday and be so darn confused. As I've told you before, I will say it and say it again till the cows come home. I think these kids are going to turn 18, they're going to go on Google, figure out their fricking royalty, and they're going to be pissed. If I found out my parents had been keeping me locked in the house like frickin Gypsy Rose Blanchard not telling me I'm a royal. If I found that out, I could have been over in the castle eating crumpets and scones with my cousins. Oh, I'd be so pissed. I'd never talk to my parents again. I never talked to them. What do you mean? I'm here in the house. This dusty, antiquated home with Megan's little booty shorts, tramping around. I could have been in the castle with people throwing flowers in the street. The best. The best castle I've gotten to see is the castle at Disneyland with germs and dirt and grime and people eating turkey legs. That's the only castle these kids have gotten to live in. So I don't know. I think they're gonna be pissed. The last thing we have to discuss about Megan Markle. I guess the Girl Scout documentary didn't do so well. The Girl Scout documentary was a flop. And now she's decided to make an Afghanistan war documentary. Let me read you this. So People magazine reports that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are developing Netflix war film based on the memoir no Way Out. The searing true story of men under siege. The story follows a British army unit trapped under heavy Taliban attack during the 2006 Battle of Musa Kala in Afghanistan. The movie is being produced through their company, Archwell Productions with Bridge of Spies writer Matt Charman. Da da da da da. Harry's own military experience in Afghanistan is expected to bring authenticity to the project. I understand he served. You guys know I love our veterans. I love our men and women in uniform. If we didn't have the people in uniform. I wouldn't be able to sit here under the First Amendment and run my mouth like I do on this camera. So I wake up every single day with gratitude for the people who are much braver than I am. But this just seems really frenetic. It seems like a lot of jumping around. Like, how do you go from a Girl Scout documentary last month to now Meghan Markle is doing a war documentary. It's just, where's the through line here? And I know she's run through about 50,000 different PR people, communications people. Guys, there's a lot. There's dust flying up off my jacket. I feel like I'm living in Meghan Markle's closet. There's a lot of dust flying around. But no, she's run through every communications person, every PR person. Anyone would tell her, okay, pick something and double down on it, triple down on it. Nurture that product, nurture that. Okay, maybe your candles will actually have wicks. If you do that, maybe your candle will actually have a wick. My wickless candle is over there. I don't want to get up and go get it. But her candles don't have wicks. Her businesses are an utter calamity. She's posting weird sultry videos like this to try and I guess generate some attention or find a new husband. But the thing is, also, if I'm just going to be honest, okay, I hate to be a. But that's why you guys tuned in. Listen, Meghan Markle, my thing with her, she probably would love to find a billionaire husband. Like she'd love to marry some oligarch. Someone with like hundreds of billions of dollars. You know, she's over there slumming it with Prince Harry. They're like whoring themselves out and crashing Kardashian parties and, you know, selling jams, jellies and dog biscuits. She would love to marry someone with just gazillions of dollars. But the thing is, those guys, nine times out of ten, they want to date like 19 year old Russian hookers. They're not looking to date an almost 50 year old ex duchess who's been married how many times now? Who's been married how many times? So I think she's kind of digging and barking up the wrong tree. But Meghan Markle, we wish you well. I might have to tune in to the war documentary or the war film just to see how it was produced. But we've got to move on to some other hot top. Now, speaking of pimping out your kids, we have to talk about Kris Jenner, the matriarch of the Kardashian clan. As I tell you guys all the time, the devil works hard, but Kris Jenner works harder. Now she has a new grift. Okay, this went viral. So viral. And it's gotten a lot of backlash. Kris Jenner is selling a $22 smoothie at Erewhon. Now, Erewhon is apparently this fancy, fancy grocery store they have in California. They don't have them in most other parts of the country, but they're in California. And when I did my research, there were folks who said, this is the most expensive grocery store you can go to. So Kris Jenner, she's selling a $22 smoothie, and she stopped by the grocery store to put on an apron and a name tag and pretend that she's a working class American. So she rolled up in her Rolls Royce with her private security and her diamonds on and her $100,000 facelift. She spent more on that face than some people will make in a year. Just going to be honest. And most people will make in a year. So she rolls up and puts on an apron to pretend that she works at a GR. This is all the elites have left. Okay? Number one, a $22 smoothie. With tax and tip and travel, you're looking at about $30, maybe more than $30. And your time and energy for a smoothie. There better be diamonds in that smoothie. I better drink that smoothie and wake up like the frickin A fountain of youth. She's probably out here trying to tell people that smoothie is why she looks so refreshed. No, no, no. It's Dr. Steven Levine in New York City on the Upper east side. So she goes to this grocery store to pretend that she's a blue collar, working class American making minimum wage. This is all her people have left. The elites have nothing. They literally have nothing left. There's no party they haven't been to. There's no handbags she can't buy. There's no shopping spree she can't go on, no yacht she hasn't been on. They can't get that dopamine anymore. Anymore. Their dopamine, their serotonin receptors, they're burnt out. The only fun they have anymore, these elites is going to the grocery store and pretending to be a working class American, pretending to play dress up and work at a grocery store. And you can see her walking out of the store with what I believe is a $200,000 handbag. She is wearing A very rare Hermes Birkin bag to go to the grocery store and pretend that she's a minimum wage worker, okay? If I walked into that grocery store, I don't care if it's Kris Jenner. I don't care if she's got diamonds and security and camera crews. I'd be like, can you wrap up two filets, some Mac and cheese? Oh, make sure you weigh it. Don't. Don't have your thumb down when you're weighing it, sister. I wouldn't give a rat's ass that Kris Jenner is in there, but this is all she has left. And mind you, in California, she probably drove by homeless encampments on the way to do this stunt. She probably drove by tents of hobos and homeless people and meth heads and needles and crack all over the ground. This is what she drove by Kane. Her Rolls Royce and her $200,000 handbag and $100,000 facelift and diamonds and jewelry to go pedal an overpriced smoothie. This is it. This is why people hate the elites. This is why people hate celebrities. This entire story is a microcosm of the wealth disparity in our country. And you guys know I'm a capitalist. She earned the money. She pimped her kids out. But at a certain point, at a certain point, y' all are just playing in our faces, okay? I don't know anybody. I don't know anybody. Tell me if. Tell me if you disagree in the comments. I don't know anyone who's going to go pay $22 for a Kris Jenner smoothie, number one. And I don't know anyone who finds this interesting or funny or exciting. Don't you know the workers in the grocery store who probably are living with three roommates, you know, behind on car payments? They're standing off to the side going, really? We gotta wait for Kris Jenner to film her kind of silly, you know, Internet videos and reality show making a smoothie. And then she puts flowers in the smoothie like Meghan Markle with her flower sprinkles. Do these rich women think that we want flowers in all of our food? We don't. We literally don't want flowers in our food. I've never seen a meal. I've never gotten a meal and said, you know what? This needs to be. It really needs some flowers. It just really needs flowers. But I'm over this. I'm over Kris Jenner. I will say she must have a diamond uterus, okay? She didn't birth not Just one hoe, two hoes, three hoes. She birthed five women who are willing to sell themselves out on camera. They will film themselves having sex, giving birth, going through divorces. I mean, she even had her ex husband filming himself turning into a woman. You know, there's nothing off limits, so you almost got to give it to Kris Jenner. She's got one child, the son, who's not a. Not a full winner, but five out of six ain't bad. And now they got the grandkids and the next generation. Look, look, look. You see the camera crew there? She does not know her way around the kitchen. This woman has a personal chef, personal trainer, assistants. She doesn't even know how to work that blender. Look, Wait, wait for it. It's the on button. Okay, they found the on button, but no, we're all over this. We're over this. And in the backdrop of her going and filming this stunt, her daughter, Kylie Jenner is being sued by multiple maids and housekeepers for abuse and mistreatment. Okay, We've talked about it on the show. So she's driving by homeless people in her Rolls Royce to go film this stunt, okay? And play dress up. Her daughter is being sued by the maid and the housekeeper for abuse and mistreatment. It's all an utter calamity. The last thing I will say, my mom actually pointed this out. So shout out to her. I think Kris Jenner is copying Donald Trump. She is copying President Trump. President Trump was the first one to put on the apron and go work at McDonald's. Remember, he went to go work at McDonald's during the campaign that felt authentic. There's something about Donald Trump where he seems authentic in any situation because he's just himself. Kris Jenner selling an overpriced smoothie while homeless people are outside walking around like zombies. You couldn't have more of a split screen of where we are in our country and especially where Los Angeles and California are right now and how they're in dire need of new leadership. Starting something new, especially a business, is so hard. So much work goes into this thing that you're not entirely sure will work out. 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Okay, so John Travolta, I think that's why he went viral over the weekend. 30 million views this video got of him on the red carpet. He's wearing a beret. I believe he's there with his daughter. But the reason this went viral, many of us believe he's had some fresh plastic surgery. Okay, John Travolta, he's 72 years old. That face looks tight. It's like his plastic surgeon stepped on the back of his neck and went, yank, staple, staple, staple, yank, stitch, stitch, stitch. And I give John Travolta credit where credit is due. He is a legend. I don't know what's going on with all of these berets. He must have ordered berets in about 20 different colors. I don't know if they're hiding some of the surgery scars or I don't know if he's hiding the top of his head, but he's really doing this sort of beret look. I feel like I need like a really long cigarette and a bat and a baguette. How do you say baguette? Well, you just said it. So John Travolta, he's a star. He went viral over the weekend. And everybody's just fallen in love with him again. Because I think when you look at the stars in Hollywood now, like, who do we have? Timothy Chalamet. That's it. We have Timothy Chalamet, who's like a scrawny, anemic looking little vampire. No Alpha there. No Alpha. So this gives me Saturday night Fever. It brings me back to Grease Lightning. I'm so happy to see John Travolta still out there and thriving. And there's something about seeing a real star. When a real star steps onto the carpet, you recognize it. Because a lot of the kids these days, they're influencers. They don't really love the craft. They're in it to do some brand deals and move on to the next. So shout out to John Travolta. This went viral. Some folks have said he's unrecognizable. They pointed out that he has dyed facial hair. Everybody's happy to see him. We're just happy to have some stars. Now he's in Cannes for the premiere of his film Propeller One Way Night Coach. What kind of a name is that for a film? Anyway, he's walking the carpet with his daughter Ella Blue, who also stars in the film. And he received a surprise honorary award during the festival. And he became emotional as he called the recognition beyond the Oscar. So shout out to John Travolta now. A film that I don't think will be winning any Oscars is the Odyssey. This is by director Christopher Nolan. This has also gotten a lot of attention over the weekend because Elon Musk has called the director out. So let me read you what is going on. So Christopher Nolan is facing major online backlash because of his casting decisions. Christopher Nolan, for some reason, wants to cast Elliot Page as Achilles ghost. Now, Brad Pitt was in the original, apparently, I never saw the original. How are you going to go from Brad Pitt to Elliot Page, a transgender scrawny little actor? Okay. And that's not me being divisive. It's not me being a jerk. It's just a fact. Like, I don't think I would be playing Achilles or anything like that. Like, how are you going to have Elliot Page? Okay, now they're going to have Lupita Nyong' o as Helen of Troy because he wants to do a race swap situation. Zendaya as Athena. And Travis Scott, a rapper, is also going to be in the film. If the shoe were on the other foot. Let me just be honest here, okay? If we were doing a remake of the color Purple. And we put a bunch of white women in the film. There would be riots in the street, okay? People would be out there with pitchforks. They'd be burning down businesses because it would be called racist. But this is what Hollywood is doing because they have so few ideas. They're taking all of these historical films, they're doing a bunch of remakes, and now they're shoving all of their DEI and diversity crap into those films, all right? And the thing about Hollywood is this. They view the world as Los Angeles and New York, and they fly over the rest of the country and look down on the rest of us, okay? They view LA, NY and Miami. That's it. People don't want to go to the theaters and watch any of this crap. There's a reason every time we try to find a movie to watch at home, we watch something we've already seen before. We watch a classic because of all of this dei and we have the trailer for this movie we'll put up on the screen. I don't really care. I don't even need to see the trailer because I'm not going to go and watch this film. I'm not going to go and watch this film. Now people are upset. They say Helen of Troy was not black. Helen of Troy historically was not black. But this is what Hollywood is going to do, right? But imagine if we did a film on Rosa Parks and we cast Sydney Sweeney. Imagine doing a film on Rosa Parks and casting Sydney Sweeney. Now, I want to show you this post people have posted on the Internet, right? This is Ryan Gosling as Barack Obama. This is Hannibal Lecter as Nelson Mandela. We have Viggo Mortensen from 12 Years a Slave. We have Muhammad Ali. White, you have Martin Luther King Jr. Also white. You have Christian Bale playing Obama. I think I should go audition for the new Martin Luther King Jr. Film. At this point, it doesn't matter. Race doesn't matter. Historical accuracy doesn't matter anymore in Hollywood. And one of the reasons for this is because the Academy Awards have implemented all of these new rules that make it nearly impossible to have historic accuracy. And we have the rules that we'll put up on the screen. Right? Let me read you a little bit about what's going on on. Okay? So at least 30% of all actors not submitted for Oscar consideration are from at least two underrepresented groups, which may include women, racial or ethnic groups, lgbtq, people with cognitive or physical disabilities who are deaf or hard of hearing. The main storyline or subject matter, the main Storyline, theme or narrative of the film is centered on an underrepresented group. Women, racial or ethnic groups, lgbtq, people with cognitive or physical disabilities. Now, as someone who is gay, I don't think LGBT is underrepresented. I see gay people in every single film. I don't think racial or ethnic groups are underrepresented. Almost every single film now is about race. Every single film, they are checking boxes and shoving as many different races as they can in. It's like the United Nations. It's like the United Nations. So there's a reason Hollywood is dying. Another film franchise Hollywood is about to ruin is James Bond. Okay, so they are doing a remake of James Bond. They are casting. Now when I think of James Bond, we'll put the guys up on the screen. I think of Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan. I wasn't even really sold on Daniel Craig. I wasn't sold on Daniel Craig. But some people, they liked Daniel Craig, so we'll give him a pass. James Bond to me is a straight, white, handsome, masculine British man. But there are some folks pushing to hire a transgender or non binary actor to play the next James Bond. And this is actually from the headline, right? This is from the headline. These are some of the actors they said should play the next James Bond on the Internet. I'm here to tell you, we cannot have a trans or non binary James Bond. They can't be stopping off at the clinic to pick up their hormones on the way to fight crime. They're not going to like get a sex change right before a big fight scene. We don't have time for it. We don't have the energy. None of these men, question mark men on the screen are giving me James Bond. When women in gays go to see James Bond, we need to feel like he could protect us and then like he could throw us on the bed and ravage us like a fat kid at an all you can eat buffet. That is what we need to believe when we watch James Bond. And the men, the straight men who go and watch James Bond and the straight men watching the show, all 12 of you, I love you. I know you will agree with me. You need to feel like you could be James Bond. You need to feel like, oh, that could be me. I could fight crime. I could protect my family and protect my people. None of these people give me James Bond. None of them. So if y' all ruin that franchise, good frickin luck. Good frickin luck. But this is how crazy Hollywood has gone. And I Think we need to get some financing to sort of give them a taste of their own medicine. Like I said, you could do a movie on Rosa Parks and cast Sydney Sweeney. You could do, you could do, you know, historical films and just give them a taste of their own medicine. Because if you switch the races, people aren't going to have that. But for some reason they can take historically white characters and do black actors. And we're just supposed to think that this is normal. Being historically accurate is not racist. It's not transphobic. What I think is actually racist, to be honest. And I'm going to call Hollywood out on this. The fact that you guys would rather shove black actors into pre existing narratives and historical films instead of just writing new intellectual property, it's because you guys have no original ideas. You have so few ideas for black men and women in Hollywood that you're just going to put them into old films that have already been made. Write some new films. My thing is this. If there's this campaign to do some trans bond. Trans Bond. Write a movie for trans people. If you want to do a trans action film, okay, they can be out in the street fighting crime with their mastectomy scars and call it a day. But don't ruin James Bond for the rest of us and don't ruin the franchise. And so my message to the casting directors is this. I'm expecting greatness. I believe you'll come through and be great. But don't give me a scrawny Timothee Chalamet kind of guy. Give me like alpha male who looks like he drinks raw milk. That's what I want. Okay, Aaron Taylor Johnson. There are a few other actors who I think have that sort of masculine alpha male energy. That's who we need for James Bond. You guys can also write me in the comments. Who do you think should play the next James Bond? Who was your favorite James Bond? I don't think a lot of you are going to say Daniel Craig, but we got to move on to some more Hot Topics this spring. If you want real results. Better gut health, glowing skin, stronger hair and steady energy, start with colostrum. When your gut is balanced, everything else improves. Today's sponsor, Cowboy Colostrum offers premium bovine colostrum sourced entirely from American grass fed cows and made in the usa. 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So Alex Cooper announced over the weekend that she and her husband, Matt Kaplan, are expecting their first child. They posted these cute little pictures with her baby bump. She's like, look at me, I'm a cute little mommy. Look at my bump. That's what they did over the weekend and it went very viral. A lot of people had things to say about it. So I decided to respond and chime in because I see her as a total hypocrite. I think she's been detrimental to young girls and women. She preaches to millions of women. Okay, a horrific message. Here's what I had to say. My tweet, I think, has almost 5 million views. I said she tells her audience to be promiscuous and have sex with strangers. Meanwhile, she's living the white picket fence dream with a traditional family. She needs the young girls who follow her to stay single and immature. Otherwise her entire business model collapses. She's a fraud. And I stand by everything I said. And the fact that this got so much traction means so many women and men agree with me. This is a girl, okay, who has gone on her podcast every single week and told young women men are trash, cheat or be cheated on, have anal sex on a one night stand. Yes, that is something she has said on her podcast to young women. She's also taught girls how to give B L O W jobs. I don't want to say the word because my mom's Bible study is watching, but blow jobs, okay? She teaches young women how to give those on her show, okay? And if you don't know what I'm talking about, it's that thing we do when we really want diamonds. For all the men watching, it's those things you get the first six months of a relationship that start to dry out very quickly. They're those things you get the first six months that you never see again after you buy her the ring. No, but she basically talks about sex and every nook and cranny of her body. And some believe this is sort of a feminist female empowerment kind of podcast. You're a fraud. You want your young girls to stay out there drinking and partying and being promiscuous and having all kinds of sex and contracting God knows what, mind you. You're in a nice home with a husband building a nuclear family. But if your audience grows up, okay, if they grow up and they mature, they're not going to be tuning into you anymore. There's your entire business model. And here's my thing. Nobody's perfect. I haven't made perfect decisions in my life. We've all kissed a couple of frogs and had some fun. The difference is she's made hundreds of millions of dollars trying to preach this horrific detri mental message to young women. And now she pops up like, oh, look at me with my little baby bump. I'm such a skinny little mom. So you knew you were trying for a kid. You've been pregnant for months and months and months, still going out there and telling young women to live a lifestyle like this. Absolutely not. You are a fraud, okay? Practice what you preach. And my hope is if I'm being optimistic, my hope is this will inspire young women to say, oh, oh, she is married with a nice home life and a child. Maybe I should aspire to that. Maybe I should aspire to have the nuclear family because the birth rates are at an all time low. We are not having enough children here in our society. And it's not like my gay ass is helping, I'll admit that. But we're not having enough children to even keep up with the evolutionary needs of modern times. So the birth rates are at an all time low. She has spent 10 years on the Internet telling women to do all types of things except get married and settle down and have kids. And so hopefully some of her audience will grow up with her. Hopefully this will be a change in her. But I just think it's wild. It gives you whiplash. A few weeks ago, she's talking about sex and promiscuity and all types of behavior, all right? And then now she's trying to be little trad wife with the white picket fence and the little baby belly in the maternity shoot. So I'm just going to call up the hypocrisy here. Let me see if I have anything else to say. I will say this. One thing I've seen is that, that once women do get married, have a kid, settle down a little bit, they become a little bit more conservative. They drop a lot of that Liberal sort of 3.0 feminism. And we saw that with Whitney Cummings. Actually, Whitney Cummings, she's a female comic known for being kind of raunchy and boisterous and off color. She's spoken about the fact that once she had her kid, she did become a little more conservative. I think when women have children, they go, oh, wait, what are you teaching in schools? Why? Why is the doctor asking my toddler what gender he is? Do I need to buy a gun? What protections do I have? What rights do I have if my kid says they were born in the wrong body and I don't transition them? Can the state just take my child like they can in Minnesota? So I think there are a lot of women who, once they have a kid, that maternal and primal instinct kicks in and they drop a lot of that crap. Okay, maybe that's just the circle of life nowadays, but I think, Alex Cooper, to go online and tell millions of young women to live that kind of lifestyle when you're married, at home and trying for a baby and turning into this trad wife, let's be honest, it's a bunch of bs. It's a bunch of bs, buffoonery, tomfoolery and malarkey. And I have no problem calling you out for it. Well, my friends, thanks so much for tuning in to Spot on with link Lauren. We had a jam packed show. I can't wait to read all of your comments. One thing about the show, it's not a one way street. I read everything you guys write me on social media, on X, on Instagram, here on YouTube in the comments. 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Title: Meghan Markle Creeps While Kris Jenner Goes Blue Collar
Date: May 18, 2026
Host: Link Lauren (by MK Media)
This episode is a rapid-fire commentary on celebrity culture and current events, anchored in Link Lauren’s signature, unfiltered and humorous style. The focus is on the latest antics of Meghan Markle and Kris Jenner, the state of Hollywood, DEI controversies in film, and unexpected virality from John Travolta—all with pointed critiques, societal observations, and a touch of sociopolitical skepticism.
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“Why is Meghan Markle speaking at an event for bullying? She’s the bully. She’s literally the biggest bully.” — Link Lauren (16:49)
Timestamp: 16:30–23:30
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“These kids are going to turn 18, go on Google, figure out they’re royalty, and they’re going to be pissed… The best castle I’ve gotten to see is at Disneyland with germs and dirt and grime.” — Link Lauren (24:43)
Timestamp: 23:35–31:55
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“With tax and tip and travel, you’re looking at about $30… There better be diamonds in that smoothie. I better drink that smoothie and wake up like the frickin’ fountain of youth. She’s probably out here trying to tell people that smoothie is why she looks so refreshed. No, no, no—it’s Dr. Steven Levine in New York City.” — Link Lauren (33:31)
Timestamp: 32:00–37:20
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“If we were doing a remake of The Color Purple and we put a bunch of white women in the film, there would be riots in the street… But this is what Hollywood is doing because they have so few ideas.” — Link Lauren (40:17)
“Don’t give me a scrawny Timothee Chalamet kind of guy. Give me an alpha male who looks like he drinks raw milk—that’s what I want.” — Link Lauren (48:23)
Timestamp: 38:00–51:00
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“His plastic surgeon stepped on the back of his neck and went, yank, staple, staple, staple, yank, stitch, stitch, stitch.” — Link Lauren (38:15)
Timestamp: 37:25–39:10
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“You want your young girls to stay out there drinking and partying and being promiscuous and having all kinds of sex and contracting God knows what—meanwhile you’re in a nice home with a husband building a nuclear family. If your audience grows up… your entire business model collapses.” — Link Lauren (54:27)
Timestamp: 53:49–58:50
| Segment | Start | End | Topic | |-----------------------|---------|---------|---------------------------------------------| | Meghan Markle Update | 16:30 | 31:55 | Geneva speech, social media, documentaries | | Kris Jenner Smoothie | 32:00 | 37:20 | Blue-collar cosplay at Erewhon | | John Travolta | 37:25 | 39:10 | Plastic surgery and Cannes appearance | | Hollywood & DEI | 38:00 | 51:00 | Odyssey remake, James Bond, casting issues | | Alex Cooper | 53:49 | 58:50 | Call Her Daddy, baby news, hypocrisy |
This summary captures all major discussion points, key moments, and recurring themes, preserving Link Lauren’s distinctive tone for newcomers and longtime fans alike.