Meghan Markle's Documentary FLOPS, Brad Pitt's Forfeits Sobriety, and WNBA Can't Define Woman

Summary

Spot On with Link Lauren — Episode Summary
Episode Title: Meghan Markle's Documentary FLOPS, Brad Pitt's Forfeits Sobriety, and WNBA Can't Define Woman
Date: August 12, 2026
Host: Link Lauren

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Spot On with Link Lauren" serves up sharp, candid commentary on the latest cultural and political controversies, focusing on Meghan Markle’s new documentary flop, Brad Pitt’s return to drinking, chaos in the WNBA regarding gender definitions, and recent revelations around Dr. Fauci and vaccine side effects. Link brings his trademark wit and unfiltered opinions, tackling issues of celebrity, race, addiction, women’s rights, and public trust with humor and a distinct edge.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Meghan Markle’s “Cookie Queens” Documentary Bombs

[04:37–11:45]

• Box Office Disaster: Meghan Markle’s latest film, a documentary on Girl Scouts selling cookies titled "Cookie Queens," performed abysmally, earning only $327,000 across 446 screens, ranking five spots behind "Cat Video Fest 2026" ([05:16]).
• Public Reaction: Link jokes, “This film is not doing well. It is abysmal… It was five spots behind cat video. Rather watch videos of cats than tune in to watch a Girl Scout documentary.”
• Critiques: The documentary is called "boring," “a reality show ramble” and misses the mark by not releasing during cookie season ([07:32]). Variety and reviewers note it doesn’t chronicle the rise of Girl Scout cookies as a cultural phenomenon.
• Link’s Take: He speculates Markle is “scraping the bottom of the barrel,” experiencing “arrested development”—stuck reliving her childhood.
• Safety and Parental Involvement: Link raises concerns about children selling door-to-door in today’s world, and the undue burden placed on parents, likening school and extracurricular projects to parent homework ([09:16]).
• Memorable Quote: “I would rather bear crawl across a football field of broken beer bottles… than watch that in my life.” — Link ([07:32])

2. Brad Pitt’s Forfeit of Sobriety

[11:45–16:50]

• Context: Brad Pitt, previously seven years sober following his divorce and family turmoil with Angelina Jolie, is now drinking again in moderation, as confirmed during a recent interview ([12:45]).
• Link’s Perspective: While empathetic, Link expresses concern: “If you're someone who's been sober and now you're not, and you're drinking during an interview, that's probably not the best idea.”
• Hollywood Patterns: Noting Pitt’s vulnerability about his past suicidal thoughts, Link broadens the topic to the tortured genius trope pervasive in Hollywood, referencing tragic losses like Philip Seymour Hoffman and Heath Ledger ([14:50]).
• Notable Quote: Brad Pitt allegedly told an interviewer, “The pain was so oppressive… I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head and it felt like relief.” — ([13:20])
• Addiction in Society: Link acknowledges the universality of addiction and extends hope and solidarity to those struggling, urging: “Call your sponsors as soon as you're done with this episode.”
• Brad Pitt’s Personal Life: Remarks on his relationship with much younger girlfriend Inez de Ramon, lacing jokes about her name.

3. WNBA: Gender Definition Crisis and Sophie Cunningham Controversy

[18:44–23:29]

• Issue Overview: The WNBA is embroiled in heated debate over the definition of “woman,” with the possibility of male athletes joining the league. (“The WNBA can’t even define what a woman is… If you don't know what a woman is in 2026, you've got bigger fish to fry.” — Link, [00:56])
• Sophie Cunningham Targeted: Cunningham is criticized for speaking out against male inclusion in women’s sports, triggering an incident where opposing player Dijonay attacks her on court.
• Racial Double Standards: After her ejection, Dijonay tweets “WHITE PRIVILEGE” in all caps, prompting Link to note, “If Sophie Cunningham had tweeted ‘black privilege,’ she’d be kicked out of the league.” ([20:35])
• Further Critique: Link calls out hypocrisy and performance: “Isn't Dijonay wearing fake blonde hair and lashes? Isn't she cosplaying a white woman? What's not clicking here?” ([21:10])
• The State of the WNBA: The league is characterized as a “calamity” and “circus,” with ongoing PR struggles and an inability to attract substantial public attention despite attempts to address progressive issues.
• Notable Quote: “The commissioners… are women [yet] the people fighting to keep men in women’s sports are women… There’s no one who hates women more than other women.” ([18:54])

4. Fauci’s Vaccine Texts: Alleged Cover-Up on Miscarriage Data

[24:09–28:54]

• Breaking News: Newly revealed text messages allegedly show Dr. Anthony Fauci was aware in January 2021 of potential miscarriages linked to COVID-19 vaccination during early pregnancy but did not make this risk public.
• Contradictory Public Statements: Link plays a historical Fauci clip, in which he states there are “no red flags” for pregnant women being vaccinated, contradicting the private warning in his text ([26:18]).
• Host’s Outrage: “He’s taking our money, saying one thing behind the scenes and then… lying and putting people’s lives in danger.” — Link ([27:30])
• Implications: There may be grounds for legal action by women, especially those who suffered miscarriages post-vaccination. Link speculates on the potential for lawsuits and condemns the broader culture of governmental and pharmaceutical “obfuscation.”
• Provocative Quote: “Maybe there is a level of population control. Maybe because Fauci is an egomaniac, maybe he's a sociomaniac path, maybe he needs the death penalty, I don't know.” ([28:30])

5. Listener Mail & Wrap-Up

[33:03–End]

• BlackBerry Spread Taste Test: Link revisits feedback from his previous episode’s Meghan Markle’s jam taste test, reacting comically to suggestions that he compare luxury jams from Highgrove or Buckingham Palace, and to comments about opening packages with a “horror movie defensive weapon.”
• Royal Family Reflections: Audience comments highlight skepticism around Markle’s public image and past, wryly referencing her “underground history” and attempts at race-based branding. Link offers further anecdotes and tongue-in-cheek warnings (e.g., about the dangers of roadhead during car trips — [35:24]).
• Viewer Solidarity: The mailbag segment underscores a communal skepticism of Meghan Markle, a preference for Martha Stewart’s “street cred,” and a general enjoyment of Link’s irreverent humor.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Meghan Markle’s Documentary:
  “I would rather go on Survivor than watch that in my life.” ([07:32])
• On Brad Pitt’s Struggles:
  “The pain was so oppressive that I wasn't going to act on this, but I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head and it felt like relief.” — Brad Pitt, as recounted by Link ([13:20])
• On WNBA’s Gender Crisis:
  “Did they not realize that The W in WNBA stands for women? Y’all must not be in Mensa.” ([18:54])
• On Double Standards in Sports:
  “If Sophie Cunningham had tweeted black privilege, she would have been kicked out of the league… She’s got blood in her mouth. She’s injured. She’s in pain. Look at that fall. That’s going to leave a mark.” ([21:40])
• On Fauci’s Alleged Misconduct:
  “He's taking our money saying one thing behind the scenes and then going out on camera and lying and putting people's lives in danger.” ([27:30])
• Listener Comment Highlight:
  “If I had to pick between Martha Stewart and Meghan Markle, Martha Stewart’s winning that fight. Martha Stewart has street cred.” ([36:10])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:32] — Episode opening and rundown of topics
• [04:37] — Meghan Markle’s “Cookie Queens” documentary flops
• [11:45] — Brad Pitt’s sobriety and family drama
• [18:44] — WNBA’s gender definition crisis, Sophie Cunningham attacked
• [24:09] — Dr. Fauci’s texts and vaccine/miscarriage controversy
• [33:03] — Listener mail and commentary recap

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Final Takeaway

Link Lauren delivers another punchy, opinionated roundup of trending news and celebrity sagas, pulling no punches on film failures, personal failings, policy hypocrisy, and the state of modern feminism in sports. The episode is fast-paced, humorous, and unafraid to court controversy – making it a prime listen for those who want pop culture analysis with a critical (and comedic) edge.

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My hope is over the course of this episode, you have a little bit of a reprieve, a respite from anything going on in your lives. I was reading through some comments last night and the night before, before I went to bed. And so many of you are dealing with things, whether it's grief or loss or breakups or maybe you've been home alone a lot the last few weeks and you tune in to our show to get a little bit of entertainment. And so I want to make sure I deliver the best for you. And today we have an incredible range of hot topics. Of course, we're going to talk about Meghan Markle's new Girl Scout documentary. Here we have a picture of her as a Girl Scout growing up. That was a few noses ago. I'm kidding. Anyway, we're going to talk about Meghan Markle's new Girl Scout documentary. It's flopping at the box office. Turns out there's not a huge hunger or Market for a documentary about girls going around selling boxes of cookies. I love the Girl Scouts. My mom was a girl Scout. I hear about it all the time. I still hear about it decades later. But we will be breaking that down. Apparently the numbers are so abysmal. They're breaking records, but in a bad way. And then Brad Pitt is off the wagon again a little bit. He says he's drinking in moderation. He's back drinking again and we've been covering him in his sobriety for the last few months on this show. So I don't know, he watches, but he's like, listen, guys, I am back drinking. He's dating a much younger woman. We're going to talk about sobriety addiction. Everybody has dealt with that in their families. And so there's some folks, I think, who can drink in moderation. Maybe Brad Pitt is one of them. Time will tell. Then we're also going to discuss the WNBA and Sophie Cunningham. We're going to do a full update on this. I've been covering it on social media, if you follow me. On Instagram and X, the drama continues to unfold because the WNBA can't even define what a woman is. The W stands for woman. And they're sitting here, you know, scratching their asses going, what is, what is the wnba? How do we define woman? How do we define it in these terms? If you don't know what a woman is in 2026, you've got bigger fish to fry. And we're also going to talk about, I think, the attack on Sophie Cunningham. There's a double standard there when it comes to race, when it comes to equity. What happened the other day, the way she got hit and attacked during the game and there were no repercussions, no real penalties to Dijonay, who did that to her. Listen, guys, I'm trying my hardest to talk about sports here. I'm like Dijonay. Whatever happened to like Susan and Sally Dijonay? Mayonnaise? Anyway, we're going to break down everything going on with the WNBA and then to round out the show, we have some new text messages that came out about Dr. Fauci. Apparently some of the data they knew about miscarriages and women and the effects on women's health. Health. 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Well, we've been talking for weeks how there's such a shortage of good films to go see and this has not changed that whatsoever. Megan Markle has dropped a Girl Scout docum winery in theaters and apparently it is bombing at the box office. Okay, it's bombing so much it might as well be in the Strait of Hormuz. This film is not doing well. It is abysmal. It's called Cookie Queens. It's the new project from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Delusion. They apparently produced and really put all of their energy and time and money into this. And the documentary follows Girl Scouts selling cookies to raise money over a six week period. We have a clip up on the screen now. It made a total of $327,000 from 446 screens and opened at number 15, which was five. Five spots behind Cat Video Fest 2026, which was a 70 minute theatrical compilation of the Internet's best cat video. So let me break that down for you and put that into English. Basically, Meghan Markle's new movie did so poorly, it was five spots behind cat video. Rather watch videos of cats than tune in to watch a Girl Scout documentary. Now I actually want to play a clip and react to it. I haven't even seen this, so let's take a look.

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We usually start with a snack and a friendship circle. I met my best friends while selling Girl Scout cookies. I want to be the top seller.

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You have to beat your sisters according to the numbers. We're not doing so well.

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We can't stop now.

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That was so boring, so bored. I would rather watch paint dry. I would rather bear crawl across a football field of broken beer bottles. Okay. I would rather go on Survivor than watch that in my life. Also, from the way Megan and Harry's finances have been, she might have to go door to door selling things. Maybe she can work for Mary Kay, watch Meghan Markle. Meghan Markle goes from the palace and being royalty to selling Mary Kay door to door. But no, she might have to sell some cookies door to door Meghan Markle. Because from what we've heard, they've got this huge, massive lawsuit and they've got to pay all this money. And that's probably why they're now weaseling their way back into King Charles life and back into the royal family. Now, the documentary was not released at the height of Girl Scout cooking season, which may have boosted the views. It missed the window. That would have made it relevant. Yeah, they probably should have thought about that. You know what I'm saying? Maybe release the Girl Scout documentary when people are back in school and actually selling cookies. Variety said the documentary was too much of a reality show ramble and also complained that the documentary didn't focus on how Girl Scout cookies rose in prominence over the years. Here's my thing with the Girl Scouts and I was a Boy Scout. I came pretty close to my Eagle Scout. But then I became a theater kid and got bored, which you can tell. Recovering theater kid. My thing with the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts is this because we had to sell popcorn and sell different things. In this day and age, in this climate, I wouldn't even want the kids going door to door and ringing strangers, doorbells and knocking. Even if they're in a group, I don't want the kids standing outside of grocery stores. You just have Too many freaks in this day and age. And everybody's looking for a viral moment. And people are just so angry all the time and aggressive. And you never know, people might be on drugs, they might be on pills, they might be on God knows what. And you've got little girls going door to door trying to sell cookies. So that's number one, I would not let the girls go door to door selling the cookies. Then number two, I feel like the parents usually have to pay the price or they have to do the brunt of the work. Like when these girls have to go out and sell Girl Scout cookies, the parents are having to do that. It's like when teachers give these big projects for kids to do. You know, they have to make a diorama, they have to do a book report. Very often nowadays the parent has to sit there at the kitchen table. It becomes homework for the parent. And then the parents are competitive with each other, right? Like this soccer mom is going to compete with this soccer mom to see whose daughter can sell the most cookies. I know for me, I was so bad at selling the popcorn because I just didn't feel like doing it. I was like, my, my journey in life is not going door to door and selling popcorn in fourth grade. I'm just not going to do it. And I remember the day before we had to turn in, how much we had sold. I was begging my mom and my dad, can you please, can you please just buy some of the popcorn? So it looks like I did something. Can you buy some of the popcorn? But this is what Meghan Markle has decided people want to see. Then you can tell she's really at the bottom of the barrel scraping like she is at the bottom of the barrel scraping because she went from being British royalty. She left. She did a six part Netflix docu series, then she's done two seasons of a reality cooking show. But it wasn't really a cooking show. She was like moving pretzels from one bag to another and it was like she was in an insane asylum doing arts and crafts like Girl Interrupted. But nonetheless, she's now decided to do a Girl Scout documentary. I think what we're dealing with here, honestly, is a little bit of Arrested Development. I think Meghan Markle is still stuck as that little girl. You can even see in the way she interacts with people. I think she really has Arrested Development and that's maybe why she wants to relive her glory days of being a Girl Scout. Because she hasn't had a lot of success since so the last thing I'll say is this. When it comes to the girl Scouts, if any, you know, Girl scout moms or grandmas are out there watching, how come whenever the girl scouts come to my house, they're out of thin mints? Okay? I want thin mints. So all these girl Scouts out in these streets knocking on the doors, y' all need to understand we need more thin mints. Okay? So get it together. But that basically is all we have to say about Meghan Markle in this film. I also heard they might be doing a documentary or a film on the Afghanistan war. So they're doing girl Scouts and the Afghanistan war. These are really, you know, frenetic, frantic people. But when you have nothing else going on, I do wish the girl scouts well. But we got to move on to Brad Pitt because apparently, apparently he's drinking again. Now, for weeks on this show, we have talked about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and all these kids that they adopted from Timbuktu and all these countries I've never heard of, they have been dropping the last name Pit. They apparently just want to go by Jolie. They don't want to use Brad Pitt's last name. They don't like him as a father. I feel like Angelina Jolie is the one turning the screws. Now, I've said many a time, was Brad Pitt father of the year?

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We've all seen the stories about a fight on a plane, a bad incident. But it did seem, according to past interviews from 2016 and 17, he had turned his life around. He'd gotten sober. He'd done a 12 step program. He really tried to make his life better. And I feel like these kids, maybe they aren't giving him a second chance. Well, Brad Pitt, apparently he's decided to start drinking again after seven years. So he first revealed he was sober and joined a 12 step program back in 2019. This is before COVID He said I had taken things as far as I could take it. So I removed my drinking privilege. Now his sobriety has come up after he offered the interviewer some wine during their sit down at his home. And I think the interviewer was like, what are we doing? I thought you were sober. I thought so much of your brand was that you were sober. Now we're drinking wine. I think it's a little dangerous. I'm gonna be honest. If you're someone who's been sober and now you're not, and you're drinking during an interview, that's probably not the best idea. But after revealing he's no longer sober, Brad Pitt explained he can have a few glasses of wine, but he can't have a lot. Later in the interview, he revealed he felt suicidal while navigating a period of family stuff while he was married to Angelina Jolie. I mean, listen, being married to Angelina Jolie, Mrs. UNICEF, we are the world who thinks she's gonna save mankind. That would almost drive anyone to drink. I could understand any man. It's almost like living with AOC or living with the Kardashians. Like half the men who date the Kardashians, they end up either turning into women, turning to drugs. Right? There's something going on on the compound when it comes to Angelina. I almost give Brad Pitt a little bit of grace. How could you not be reaching for a bottle when you're in that house with 10, 000 screaming kids and nannies and chefs and Angelina, you know, walking around with a vial of blood on her neck, you know, doing all her we are the world, we are the children. Anyway, apparently Brad Pitt, during the interview, he did not want to delve deeper into the topic. He just kept saying, it's family stuff, I want to leave it at that. It's obviously he's aware that some of his kids won't talk to him and that they're filing petitions to drop his last name. His kids even took out ads in the newspaper in Los Angeles to try and drop his last name, which apparently is part of the protocol. But let me read you this last quote from him. The pain was so oppressive that I wasn't going to act on this, but I could feel, I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head and it felt like relief. That's vulnerable. That is very, very vulnerable. But when it comes to being an artist, someone like Brad Pitt, who's at the top of his game as an actor, he's, I think either won an Academy Award or he's just really been at the top of his game for decades. Those artists are going to have tortured souls in a way. They're gonna have darkness. It's what makes them great on screen. It's what lets them escape into a character. And so I think that's why we see so often in Hollywood actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman, who are so incredibly talented, and others, they turn to drugs, they turn to alcohol. Like Heath led some of the greatest legends we have lost in the film industry. And I wish they were still around. But it's sort of a double edged sword, right, that sort of volatility and maybe their demons are a negative, but they also make them better at their job. They make them more compelling on screen. And so I just pray for the best for Brad Pitt. I hope he's doing well. I will say he's also dating a younger woman, Brad Pitt. He's dating some young woman. I think her name is like Inez de Ramon or Inaz de Ramona or something. And so he's dating this younger woman. He probably wants to go out with her and drink and be jubilant and carry on. I will say with a name like Ines de Ramon, you better be good in bed. Like, there are some names where it's like, you know, Svetslana Zamoshkova. It's like, you better be able to do cartwheels on that thing. You better be able to spin around. You better put those legs behind your head twice. With a name like Inez de Ramon, I feel like Brad Pitt has nothing to complain about. It's even like, you know the name Destiny. And Chastity, you will never meet a bigger whore than a girl named Chastity. I'm just being honest. So Inez de Ramon. Ramon. I hope she and Brad are having a good time. I will say there's not a person watching this who hasn't dealt with addiction in their families, who hasn't seen someone try to get sober, who's seen someone who is sober. There might be alcoholics watching this right now. Shout out to all the alcoholics watching. Call your sponsors as soon as you're done with this episode. But, no, there are people who almost everyone has addiction in their family. And so I have empathy, I have sympathy for Brad Pitt and I just hope he's in a good place. And I hope if you're struggling with demons as well, that you can find the help, help that you need. We're going to pay some bills. We have a really quick ad, and then we are right back. Everybody's talking about weight loss injections because the results are so dramatic. They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing appetite. So what if you're looking to lose weight but not interested in painful weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of those intense side effects. That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called Lean. And the results are remarkable. 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Well, if you follow me on social media, you know I have been fired up about the wnba. The WNBA is an utter calamity, okay? I have been posting and tweeting and tiktoking and talking about this because even though I know nothing about sports, I know common sense. I know right from wrong, right? This isn't even a political issue. The fact that the WNBA wants to allow men to play in their league, did they not realize that The W&WNBA stands for women? Okay? Y' all must not be in Mensa. Y' all must not be geniuses. But this speaks to what I've said for a long time, right? The commissioners, the people at the top of the WNBA are women. Right? The people fighting to keep men in women's sports are women. And so I've contended for a long time, there's no one who hates women more than other women and girls. That's just the truth. That's what we're seeing right here. Because if y' all have to have a meeting at the WNBA to try and decide how to define a woman in 2026, y' all just hate women. And that's what the feminist movement has become, right? The feminist movement was all about equal rights, women's liberation. Now the feminist Movement has come so full circle. Basically, they want men to come in and beat them up, take their jobs, leer at them in the locker rooms. That's what the feminists are fighting for. And it's just so insane. It's so insane. And past generations of women would think this is crazy. I remember I talked to my aunt a couple of days ago, who's in her 80s, and I said, if someone had told you when you were in high school or college or you were a kid that someday they'd be fighting to have men and women's sports, would you believe it? She's like, no, we would think it was crazy. Now, the reason a lot of this has come up is because WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, she's a legend. She's gorgeous. She's stunning. She made some very mild remarks that let us know women's sports are for women. She doesn't want to compete against a man. It wouldn't be fair. We have seen girls get brain damage, miss out on trophies and scholarships because they were forced to compete against. Against men. Okay? This is asinine and insane. I feel like everyone has dropped acid. And so Sophie Cunningham, she's been at the forefront of this issue, and she's become a real hero figure, all because she wants common sense. Well, that has made her a target, right? That has put a target on her back. The knives are out for Sophie Cunningham. And this past weekend, what went totally viral? A player on the opposing team. Her name is Dijonay. We have a video here. Dijonay's mayonnaise hollandaise. Okay. I don't know whatever happened to the name, Like Susan, Sally, Tom, Dick, and Harry. But anyway, Dijonay decided to attack Sophie during a game. This is very obvious that it was deliberate, in my opinion. Very, very obvious, the way she comes and she hits her. So then she was ejected from the game. Dijonay got ejected from the game. And we'll let this play one more time. Dijonay goes to the locker room and she tweets in all caps, white privilege, and tags the team. Okay? And then she tries to say later, this isn't about race. It's not political. Right? After being ejected, minutes after she tweets white privilege. Was she dropped on her head as a child? Did she not? Was she deprived of something? I don't understand what's going on here. Have we dropped acid? Is she okay tweeting white privilege after you were ejected from the game? If Sophie Cunningham had been ejected from the game and tweeted black privilege, she would have been kicked out of the league. You know what I'm saying? She would have been just totally suspended for weeks and months on end, never to be seen again. And what I find so ironic, Dijonay is saying white privilege. She's mad at this beautiful white girl for speaking up and having common sense. Isn't Dijonay wearing a white wig? Let's pull this back up. Okay? Let's pull the video back up of the fight. Isn't Dijonay wearing fake blonde hair and lashes? Isn't she cosplaying a white woman? What's not clicking here? What's not clicking here? But I just think of the shoe were on the other foot. Okay. If Sophie Cunningham were also black, I don't think Dijonay would have done this. So I do think it's a racial element. I do think the attack was racially motivated. And then Sophie Cunningham, she's got blood in her mouth. She's injured. She's in pain. Look at that fall. That's going to leave a mark. That was intentional. And we know it was intentional because you went to the locker room and you then tweeted white privilege. And so the wnba, they've got to get it together. They've got to get it together. They're a hot mess. I was speaking to someone over the weekend also who's pretty high up with the NBA, and he was saying, basically, they've tried for years to get people interested in the wnba and it is very tough. You've got Caitlin Clark, a few others. No one is that interested. They can put money into advertising and financing. It's very tough to get Americans interested in the wnba. And so now you have all these eyes on you.

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You can't come down on the right side of history. You can't come down and just say, you know what? We want women's sports to be for women. We don't want to deal with this nonsense. Right. Can't you just defend women's spaces? We also have here, I want to read you. This is Dijonay's post. She did after the fact. She said, I've never once claimed that the assessment of the foul was white privilege. That was your assumption. Try exercising your critical thinking skills. I know you studied psychology. Furthermore, I'm the last thing from ignorant when it comes to speec speaking on white privilege. Do your research on that one. I actually went to school to educate myself on this exact subject. I was going to say something really bad. I won't. I would never use that term as a rhetorical weapon, knowing the historical and social weight it holds without having the proper evidence to substantiate it. Okay, so it seems like she had chat GPT. Work up a little post for her. My issue with Dijonay, Hollandaise, Mayonnaise. You tweeted white privilege. And then you say, I never once claimed it was white privilege, you bird brain biotch. If you tweet white privilege, how are you going to be mad at the press for thinking that maybe there's a racial element? She said, I never claimed it was white privilege. That was your assumption. Well, we assume that because you were tweeting from the locker room three minutes later that it was a white privilege call, which didn't even make sense in the moment. But we just kind of let it slide because we're like, listen, she's got maybe a single digit IQ here. Maybe all the wig glue has soaked into her scalp. I don't know. I'm really not one to talk with products seeping into your scalp. But anyway, I do hope the WNBA gets it together. I really have had a fun time covering it, though, because it's almost just a circus at this point. It's a total circus. And then you have these men. Maybe we have some of this here. You have some of these men now who are saying that they are going to try out for the WNBA. These men who are like 6 foot 10 and 7ft tall, they're like, well, listen, if y' all say men can play in the wnba, we're going to come do it. And so they're going to hold their feet to the fire. We still don't know what's come of the WNBA commissioner meeting. They were supposed to have a meeting to discuss how to define a woman. We've heard nothing of that. And so the wnba, they might need to just pack it up. They might need to pack it up. But we're going to move on to another hot topic now. We have to talk about Dr. Fauci. I think it's time for him to be strung up in the town square. I'm not holding my breath that any justice will be brought. Maybe at the state level, maybe we can find some way. But I do think he's just going to get away with his crimes and his lying to the public. And something that really caught a lot of attention the last few days. There were text messages from Fauci's phone that they uncovered where he had spoken about how he knew that the vaccine could be associated with miscarriages. Let me read you a little bit about this. I asked around a bit more, and another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Fauci wrote, since many people have significant cytokine storm and fever after the second dose, this could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester. And so we have the text up on the screen. You can see January 2021. This is when a lot of the vaccines are being rolled out at the beginning of 2021. And so Fauci was aware that women could miscarry because of the effects of the vaccine, and he decided to push this under the rug to obfuscate the truth. And so many of us, we saw women in our lives have fertility issues after getting the vaccine miscarry themselves, and we were told we were liars. People were. Were deplatformed for even bringing that up. Now the pendulum has swung and we can discuss all of these things because basically everything we thought turned out to be true. And I want to play you guys this clip from February, just a little bit after this text was sent, where Fauci gives a statement about pregnant women being perfectly fine with no red flags. Let's take a look at that clip. Since the EUA and under the EUA, approximately 20,000 pregnant women have been vaccinated with no red flags, as we say. And this is being monitored by the CDC and the FDA. So either Dr. Fauci has amnesia or some type of cognitive issue, or he's intentionally lying to the public. And I think it's the latter. I think he wanted to push as much of this pharmaceutical product as he could. Go out there, get the shots, they're perfectly fine. Even though so many people, so many people actually think African American folks were the ones raising the issue a lot. They said this was really rushed out, you guys rushed out a very questionable product very quickly. Taxpayer funded for the most part. And now you're lying to us about the repercussions and about the ramifications. And so it's such a slap in the face to the women who did have miscarriages during COVID and thought, what the hell just happened? Or why did this happen? And so we're now seeing text messages where he was aware of this. And the reason it's so egregious is that he's saying one thing in private, in writing, as a member of the government, the highest paid person in the United States government. He had the highest salary, more than the president, more than anyone in the US Government that we pay for. He's taking our money saying One thing behind the scenes and then going out on camera and lying and putting people's lives in danger. And people, they deserve to have informed consent. They, they deserve to have an informed opinion and a take on the vaccines that they had, had all the information available that he knew privately. Maybe they wouldn't have done it. Maybe they would have said, you know what, I'm not going to do it while I'm pregnant or while I'm trying to have a kid. And so I do think some of these women I've seen online are trying to band together for a form of a class action lawsuit or they really want to take bouchie to task. I think there might be a lawsuit here if you're being told by a public official one thing. Now we have text. He's saying the opposite in private. I hope these women do have some justice. There'll be no justice for their children who they lost during the pandemic. But it's really sad that we were told we were liars, we were idiots, we were misinformed, we were malinformed. That was a word they were using a lot. And everything we believe to be true ended up being true. So now, months later, the Biden White House's chief medical advisor also said tens and tens of thousands of women who have been followed by the CDC who have been vaccinated when they were pregnant. There's no indication whatsoever that there's any increase of adverse issues in pregnant women who was vaccinated compared to a pregnant woman who wasn't vaccinated. A little bit of improper English here. It's pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated. So we're being told by the CDC under Biden, pregnant women should get vaccinated. And then in private, Fauci's texts say, well, they could miscarry, they could have really bad reactions. Why were people not given that information to make a good choice? It's because maybe there is a level of population control. Maybe because Fauci is an egomaniac, maybe he's a sociomaniac path, maybe he needs the death penalty, I don't know. That's for y' all to decide. But I'm not holding my breath that we will have justice. 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To round out the show, we have to read some viewer mail and viewer comments from our last episode on Monday. Monday, you guys had a lot to say about my taste test when I tried Meghan Markle's new BlackBerry spread, which I told y' all was also her nickname in high school. I'm kidding. But the BlackBerry spread, it wasn't terrible. It wasn't great. It was meh. It was fine. You're paying luxury prices. But you guys had a lot to say, so I want to read you some of these comments. So hangry transplant said link. You should also taste test jams from Highgrove in Buckingham Palace. They are cheaper and they look higher quality, quality. So we've looked into this last night. I'm looking into shipping and ordering some of these jams from King Charles Collection from Buckingham Palace. Maybe we can do a full taste test and compare those to Smucker's as well and compare those to as ever, almost like Meghan Markle's Wickless Candle. People are like, you need to get the candles from Highgrove and try those and see what those are like. And so let me read you this. This comment seems to be about what I was saying in the last episode where they basically tried to tell Queen Elizabeth that Meghan Markle was this huge star. She's this huge Hollywood star and it's like, sweetie, she was in a Tostitos commercial and then she was in the 90210 reboot giving an oral transaction in a car, if you know what I mean. So let me read you this. The late Queen Elizabeth already knew of Meghan Markle's underground history before he even introduced her. It was damage control from then and still now. I do think there was a lot of damage control. I think the Royal Family was like, let's overlook the fact that she was a briefcase girl on Deal or no Deal. Let's overlook the fact she has pictures of her tits on the Internet. Let's try and overlook the fact that she was giving a blowjob in a car. Meghan Markle, classy Southern California girl. And the thing with Meghan Markle too, when she joined the Royal Family, I feel like she couldn't really figure out what she wanted her race to be because she started doing a lot of self tanner and bronzer as soon as she started trying to play the race card and leaning into sort of her black roots. But everyone who knew her from childhood, they were like, we don't even remember her being black. And then even her agent, her agent was in a documentary, her acting agent, who I don't think was very successful, but what did he have to work with? Her agent even said he didn't know she was black. He thought she was just a sun kissed California girl, allegedly. And so it is interesting, I think there was a lot of damage control, a lot of shenanigans going on when she joined the Royal Family. And the last thing I'll say that I forgot to say in the last Episode when she has her head down and that guy's lap in the car performing, you know, a Lewinsky type of act. That is not a good idea, okay? No one should try that at home, okay? If you think it's sexy, you're out on the open road on the highway. You're on a road trip at night. Night. What if the guy slams on the brakes? What if you get rear ended and she clamps down? Now you're in a Lorena Bobbitt situation. You know what I'm saying? You might be screeching and screaming for the rooftops, okay? So never a good idea, okay, to get down and put your head in a guy's lap while the car is driving. Okay? Because what if you get into an accident? All right, this comment. Oh, this is about me opening the box, I guess, and the knife that I used in our last episode link. I love your horror movie defensive weapon that you used to open that package. Package. I want to be on your team during the zombie apocalypse. You would do just fine. All you'd have to do is imagine that every zombie is trying to feed you Meghan's marmalade. We all saw what happened. When I tried Meghan Markle's orange marmalade, it made me gag. It made me choke. And I dated in New York City for years, so I've had worse in my mouth. Sorry if my mom's Bible study is watching, but, yeah, no, I wanted to just use a big dramatic knife in the last episode. I thought it would be funny. But no. During the zombie apocalypse. I'm sorry, sweetheart. I don't know. Your name is Pat. Patty. Patty Rotondo. I don't think you want to be with me during the zombie apocalypse. Because when it comes to fight or flight, I am a flight person. Right? I am not going to be here, like, if there's a purge. If we have a Hunger Game situation, I'm not the type to stay and fight. I will fly and flee the coop. Okay? Get out of there. Okay. All right, here we go. This is about Meghan Markle's team allegedly saying Martha Stewart was confused. This is from Black Irish Blonde. Blonde? Maybe this is Dijonay from the wnba. Black Irish Blonde. This is Dijonay. Is this confused statement meant to imply that Martha Stewart, because of her age, is showing some sort of dementia? Back off, Megan. You will not win this fight. I. I will agree with that statement. Like I told you guys last week, if I had to pick between Martha Stewart and Meghan Markle, Martha Stewart's winning that fight. Martha Stewart has street cred. She's been to prison. She like smokes blunts with Snoop Dogg and all these rappers in Hollywood. Now, like Martha Ste is gangster. So I would put my money on her any day of the week. I think Meghan Markle is really making a lot of enemies in the industry. She either has enemies or people just don't care anymore. All right, let's look at some more of these. So this is from 891Henry. He said the worst part of being a proven chronic liar like Megan is that even if someone lies about you, people will believe them and not you. It doesn't sound like Martha said anything damaging, but even if she did, I go with Martha over Megan in any day. Well, sounds like it's a resounding Martha Stewart. All our money is on Martha Stewart. But that concludes our mail about Megan and Martha and Harry from the last episode. I can't wait to read your comments from today. But as for this episode, we have come to an end. I love all of you. Thanks for tuning in. We will be back on Monday but you can find me on social media in the interim. Please be well. I can't wait to read everything you have to say. We will see you on the next one. Bye. The snack wrap plus Caesar sauce equals extra crispy chicken Caesary greatness. Sounds delicious. Caesar sauce at McDonald's for a limited time.