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Brett Cooper
So if you guys have watched the show for a while now, then you probably know that I like patterns when I look for things on social media to cover on the show. I like seeing repetition. I like seeing things bubbling up in a grassroots way. And I think I've talked about my, like, chat that I have with myself before where I just send myself stories and posts From X and TikToks and all these things that I know are somehow kind of connected, but I'm waiting for the stories to come together. And today we have yet another pattern that I have been noticing on social media and more specifically in celebrity culture. And that pattern would be celebrities and influencers demanding privacy and then berating us for not respecting their boundaries and privacy and then doing the exact opposite and never, ever, ever getting out of our faces. And I am sure because you all are very smart individuals, you know the person that has inspired this episode right now, today, obviously, that would be my good old friend Meghan Markle. Even though Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, or Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, as she's wanting us all to call her now, even though she left the Royal Family, even though they have led the charge on their Privacy World Tour, they are far from the only public figure who has done this charade, has done this dance of the privacy and the no, I don't want privacy. And pay attention to me. They're not paying attention to me. Even though I want privacy. They've fallen into this hypocritical trap of begging for one thing and then doing another. And basically the public is done. We're saying we're tired. We're seeing through it. We don't care anymore. And that is what we're witnessing with the response of Meghan's new show on Netflix. And like we talked about last month with celebrities and celebrity culture, we are simply unwilling, as a society and culture to play their mind games anymore. We are tapped out. We've seen through the facade. We've, you know, the veil has been pulled back and we're just done. We're seeing hypocrisy for what it is. And we also need to talk about fame in general and how fame drives people to act this way in what we all, as normal individuals, can learn from it. And to help tell this story and round out this idea, I called up one of the most prolific tabloid reporters and celebrity biographers from the last couple of decades, who, guys, I think you will just adore, because he is hysterical. But before we get into this story, if you want ad free Episodes and a weekly advice video for me called Dear Brett. And, guys, I want to let you know that this is the last week that you can order my exclusive launch merch. This is the merch that we just created for the launch of the Brett Cooper Show. It was always gonna be limited, so we are closing out the sale. So if you have not gotten shirts like this or the hats that are behind me on my beautiful set right now, this is your last opportunity. It is linked below in the description and on that sweet little. So obviously, because I promised you this on social media, if you don't follow me on Instagram, I was posting this on my story. We need to start with Megan. She just released a new show on Netflix. I think it's called With Love, Megan. Like the ending of a letter. And it is truly, truly terrible, genuinely. And I like fluff shows like that. I like lifestyle shows. I like kind of cooking and hosting shows. I love reality tv. You guys know that. That's why I like politics, because it reminds me of reality tv. But this guy's. It was so boring, and it is being received terribly. Here are just a couple of the headlines. This is from Time magazine. This is not even a tabloid that hates Meghan Markle. This is Time magazine. And they said Netflix's With Love, Meghan is a royal primer on entertaining. That couldn't be more boring. This next one is from the Telegraph, and they said that the Duchess of Sussex's new Netflix series is an exercise in narcissism, filled with extravagant brunches, celebrity pals, and business plugs. And this last one is from Fox News, and they wrote Meghan Markle's Netflix show inauthentic to depicts Duchess as a cringy Stepford wife. And as you can see, the critiques are coming from everywhere, from all sides of political aisle, from Telegraph to Fox News to Time magazine. And number one, they are addressing the utter lack of entertainment, the fact that the show is just undeniably boring. And we're just kind of asking, why is this even a thing in the first place? And the second thing that they're calling out is the utter lack of authenticity. And then from the audience's perspective, we're all sitting here confused because this is never something that we wanted. This is not something that we asked for. We don't need another show like this. We certainly don't need it from Meghan Markle. This wasn't coming from Netflix knowing that they need to fill this niche, that they have a hole and that they need a New lifestyle, right? It wasn't coming from audiences going like, we need a new Martha Stewart, we need Meghan Markle. No, it is coming from Meghan herself. It is coming from Meghan and her innate desire to further her brand, to further her fame. And people, these audiences, me, all of us could smell that from a mile away. And so this is the point when I want to bring in my friend Ian Halperin, who is a well known Canadian investigative journalist, tabloid reporter and biographer. And guys, he had some choice words that I think you all will love. Just listen to his take.
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Ian Halperin
I think it's just too much smoke and mirror with Meghan and Harry now. I think people have really got tired of them. Essentially what they're trying to do is keep reinventing themselves. She's too over saturated. And she claims she doesn't even want to be in the spotlight. Let me tell you, she would literally vomit every day if there weren't headlines about her. She loves seeing her name in the headlines.
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Brett Cooper
And so basically, the point that Ian is making, that I am making, that I think we all are making and understand, is that because of the world's perception and experience with Megan and Harry and their shenanigans over the last four years, this show was basically doomed from the start. And it was always just a medium to keep Megan in the spotlight. Nothing else. Like, again, when you watch this show, guys, there is no reason for it. I mean, guys, the public jury is out on this issue. They have made up their minds about Meghan Markle. Like, not even a prayer will save her. But a prayer might save you. This Lent season with Hallow. Hallow is the number one prayer app in the world. And right now you can join their Lent prayer challenge. Lent, if you didn't know, is the 40 day period leading up to Good Friday and Easter that is filled with prayer, fasting, almsgiving, sacrifice and surrender. It's a great way to grow your relationship with God. 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There is not a single conversation of substance in the entire first episode or the second episode with her best friend, Mindy Kaling. They literally talk like they do not know each other. Even, like her friend in the first episode even makes a joke when they're. When they're sitting down to eat their cake and talk about their lovely day at her ranch, which isn't her ranch. It's a set. He goes, oh, this is so beautiful. Is it fake? I feel like that was him, like, winking at the audience, being like, literally, guys, none of this is real. I'm not even her friend. Like, it was just so, so weird. She's making foods that she obviously doesn't really know how to make, and she's keeping bees that obviously she doesn't even keep because she has to have a beekeeper there to show her how to do it. It's this weird dichotomy, really. Okay, this is my thesis on the entire show. There is no point for Megan to be doing the show because she is not an expert on any of this, and yet she is painted as the expert. She has all of her friends come in, and she's teaching them how to hoe. She's teaching Mindy Kaling how to assemble a platter of fruit into a rainbow to make kids at a birthday party happy, when you could easily find that on Pinterest. Like, she's not doing anything revolutionary, but they're painting her as an expert. But simultaneously, the entire premise is that she's like, I'm just learning as I'm going, and I'm just a human and I'm doing all these things. And, oh, these bees, they kind of scare me. And I still need the beekeeper to do it. I've never made these bees want candles before. Then why are you teaching people how to do it? Literally, it makes no sense. They're talking out of both sides of their mouth. And so the entire time that you're watching it, you're just like, why? That's the main question here. Why. Why was this produced? Why are we watching it? And what is the point? Like, I was about to kind of say, the only thing that she's an expert on is Megan. But I don't even think she's an expert on Megan either because to host a reality show or a show that is about you and your life and your interests, you kind of have to know yourself and know what you're good at and know who your actual friends are and what your strengths are. And I feel like after years of playing characters, of being an actress and of playing this role as a royal, like, I don't know if Megan has ever figured out who Megan actually is. I think she's very concerned with how the public perceives her and who she wants to be, and that's all she's focusing on. And again, we can sniff that out from a mile away. So, again, the question is, why was this even created in the first place? And so, because of all of these problems, everything that I've said in this entire rant, because I did the very generous thing and watched the show for you guys, because of all of this, Ian and I both really see no future for the show beyond this first season.
- [09:33]
Ian Halperin
I don't think it has a chance of surviving. I think if there's any justice, it's going to, you know, just sink quickly, and Netflix will move on to the next best thing. Meghan Markle, to, you know, the. The TV industry is a disgrace. It's lowering the values. It's lowering the brand of Netflix, and it's wasting all of our time.
- [10:00]
Brett Cooper
This conversation doesn't necessarily feel too productive, and enough people have been piling on and giving their own opinions. You can go on TikTok and you will probably. We see 2 million videos of people giving their takes and breaking down why the show is so ridiculous. You've heard my take we don't need to talk about this anymore. And really, I think that the conversation should be broader. This conversation is actually about an unrelenting need for fame, where that comes from and what it actually does to people. And Ian, with all of his experience with celebrities, did not mince words as he broke this down.
- [10:27]
Ian Halperin
After having covered so many celebrities in my career, most of them, I found, were deprived of attention in grade four. And that's why they went into the public, you know, seeking public attention. I respect artists, great artists. We've seen when it started with Charlie Chaplin and Sir Lawrence Olivier and even Gene Hackman who passed recently. I mean, these were real artists committed to their crafts and couldn't. Did not put the headlines first above fame. But in Meghan Markle's case, it's complete reverse. It's fame and then whatever.
- [11:05]
Brett Cooper
I mean, where was the lie? We see this every day with celebrities, especially with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. I mean, they continuously show up in front of our faces, and we're dealing with the same issue every single time. And this is especially relevant and hilarious with Harry and Meghan, because when they left the Royal Family, as we all know by now, they repeatedly said that their boundaries had been crossed, that they wanted a life of privacy. They wanted a quiet life with their family behind closed doors in Montecito, that they would have a private personal life. And, guys, even though this is something that we all watched unfold in 2020 and 2021, this is now something that the media has desperately tried to bury and cover up to protect Meghan Markle and Prince Harry from critiques. Just read a couple of these headlines. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle respond to claims that they wanted privacy amid release of Netflix docuseries. That was in 2022. It's from BBC. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say they didn't step back over privacy concerns. This one's from BuzzFeed. Harry and Meghan have never wanted privacy. They wanted control. Well, then you should have said that in 2021. You should not have said that you wanted privacy. But unfortunately for them, and fortunately for us, the Internet does, in fact, live forever. So just so we are all on the same page in 2021, in their bombshell, very private interview with Oprah, they also talked about wanting privacy and wanting a private life for the sake of their mental health. As they were leaving the Royal Family, they were making all of their statements. They talked about how even royals should have privacy and should be able to have boundaries, which, you know, I agree with. And then in his memoir, Spare, that literally broke the Internet for a myriad of terrible reasons, which I'm sure you guys remember, Harry even wrote about a desire for privacy in that. And the thing is, their desire for privacy, that is totally fine and respectable. I can completely understand that. I can empathize with that. I think the world would understand somebody actually taking a step back and saying, this is not the life that we want for our kids. This is not the life that we want for each other. We're going to step away. And if they actually did it, we would be fine with it. But where they went wrong was being anything but private. Because it's not just that the press has continued to hound them and cover them, but they themselves have been in front of our faces with docu series and bombshell interviews with Oprah and Meghan's podcasts and her lifestyle brands and memoirs and speaking tours and all of the different things. So I'm sorry, but no wonder normal audiences are gonna be done. No wonder they are going to scoff at your place plight. You're oh I'm such a victim. I have no privacy, but please watch my doggies. Your people are done. Like, we genuinely have just had enough with the constant victimhood while simultaneously contributing to your own problem and your own plight as you parade around in front of us and the media, especially with something that is so fake and contrived and inauthentic as this new Netflix show. Like, did she actually believe genuinely that this charade would work? Like, how does she not get it after all these years? Is she sick? Marek Health could help her figure that out. And Marek Health could do the same for you if you want. Stop guessing and start optimizing your health. You need Merik Health. Merrick Health is the premier health optimization platform empowering you to maximize your health thanks to personalized expert guidance in your back pocket. Merik Health offers cutting edge diagnostic labs. Guys, I'm talking like 4050 pages all about your body. Personalized coaching, expert clinical oversight. 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Meghan Markle and I often see critiques online from commenters and Meghan Markle Stans that, you know, we don't shame people like the Kardashians or other influencers for creating self serving businesses or TV shows or podcasts and being focusing on themselves. The difference in my eyes, what I would say to all of those Meghan Stans is that the difference is that those influencers, they're not being hypocritical in how they presented themselves. Like, they're very upfront with the fact that they're like, yeah, this is all about me. I'm creating this. This is great. I want to be famous. I want to be an influencer. They're not lying about any of that. And we're like, great, glad you're being honest. We will support you because this is a cool brand. We like your thing. We like your schtick with Megan. There's all of these weird lies in the victimhood and the hypocrisy. And again, because of the culture of celebrity and everything we've learned, we're just done. The other difference in my eyes is with work ethic and strategy, which Ian also pointed out specifically in regards to the Kardashians, who he has also covered extensively. He even wrote a book about them. And this is what he had to say.
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Ian Halperin
They're the godmothers of social media. Did they have any talent? Absolutely not. But they knew how to manipulate the media better than anyone. Without the Kim Kardashian, I don't think there would be social media the way it is today. And they worked hard. People don't realize how hard the Kardashians worked. They might not have had talent and they'd be the first people to admit it. They're the first people to ever conquer Hollywood without, quote, unquote, any real talent, but they were insatiable marketers.
- [16:59]
Brett Cooper
I actually really appreciate Ian saying all of that about the Kardashians, because obviously I have my qualms with that whole family. I think a lot of people in society do. I think they've kind of lost their hold on culture in recent years. And obviously I believe that they contributed a lot of harmful messages and ideas about young women to young women. So I have those feelings about them. But he's not wrong. They're really not too talented. But they worked their asses off to make us all think that they were very important. And they were not ashamed to say, we want to be famous. We're going to have an entire reality TV show about us. We're going to have cameras in our faces for over a decade. We're going to let all of you into our lives. We're not going to beg for privacy. Except, you know, Kylie Jenner wanting to hide her pregnancy, which was totally fine. They have welcomed us all into their homes. They've been unabashed about all of it. And I think you can kind of respect that and you can respect the hustle. But with Megan, like, basically all of the pieces that you would need to achieve success in this weird industry, in this field, she lacks from genuine talent to drive to the strategy. And people can tell, again, we're sniffing out literally everything that should be the theme of this entire episode. And to be fair, because I don't want this just to be a Pile on Megan episode, she is far from the only public figure who has played this little mind game. And again, not to beat a dead horse, because I feel like we've talked about this a lot recently, but this is kind of similar to what we saw with Elon Musk's most recent baby mama, Ashley St. Clair. But basically with that story, she publicly came out. She publicly demanded privacy. And then literally within hours of making that first post, she had the New York Post at her home doing an entire story on her, an exclusive, doing a whole photo shoot of her in her very Ritzy apartment in, like, sexy attire. And then from there has had multiple articles, has given quotes to basically every single tabloid about the situation. Trying to reach Elon, trying to get attention from us and from Elon. It's just a mess. Another example that I think you guys would all enjoy is Dylan Mulvaney, my old friend. I have not talked about Dylan in so long, it feels like, you know, I haven't even really followed Dylan recently. Like, Dylan seems to be out in California, just doing Dylan, having a time. I have literally no idea what's going on in Dylan's life. And that actually kind of seems to be the problem that we haven't been paying attention because suddenly Dylan has burst back on the scene with a new memoir that's coming out and an attempt at a stand up comedy career. However, the stand up comedy career really did not last long. I think that Dylan did literally one show and it did not go well. I think the book is coming out soon, so maybe there will be a tour that is in conjunction with that. But actually, guys, even though Dylan is releasing a memoir that all of us are apparently supposed to buy, and that Dylan is doing stand up comedy that we all should buy tickets to, actually, Dylan just wants privacy. Dylan just wants a private life for once. Literally, guys, that is what was printed in the New York Times. Dylan Mulvaney dreams of privacy, really. But also, here is an entire profile in the New York Times about me and a photo shoot inside my house. And yes, again, please buy my memoir and learn all about my life and my transition from the last couple of years that you guys have also seen on social media. Because I literally documented my life every single day for multiple years. Like, come on, like the charades. Like, just be honest and consistent. It is 2025. People wanting to be famous is not shocking. People blowing up and becoming viral on social media and becoming influencers is not shocking. That happens every single day. You can just say that you want to be famous, and honestly, I think more people would be on board and kind of respect that. But apparently these people think that you can't say that because just a couple of weeks after that Dylan Bulvedi profile, Casey Anthony. And yes, it is the same Casey Anthony who was tried and later acquitted in her daughter's murder, which to this day is an incredibly controversial case where most people don't actually believe that this mother is innocent. But, you know, all that aside, this is not a true crime podcast. I'm not trying to get into that. That's just what the Internet is saying, well, after doing God knows what for the last decade since that trial, Casey Anthony was so inspired, maybe I should say enraged by Trump's presidency and everything that he has done this first month in office, that she decided to make a TikTok to create a new public profile and create a substack so that she could become, just wait, an LGBTQ and women's rights activist and hopefully make some change in the world since she has been in the legal field for the last decade. Yeah, that's because you were accused of murder. That is why you are in the legal field. She also said that this was how she was going to reintroduce herself to the public and hopefully build a career. So again, she is literally becoming public. She is saying she is going to build this into a career. This is going to be great for her. But even though, even though she's doing all of that, even though she made this very huge TikTok that literally got over 100 million views across all of these different platforms, even though she's creating a substack and wants everybody to subscribe to it, she's going to make all of these videos. She still wants her privacy. Take a listen. I feel that it's important that I use this platform that was thrust upon me and now look at as a blessing, as opposed to the curse that it has been since 2008. You really didn't have a platform until you made this video. Like you had kind of gone off into oblivion. You are thrusting it upon yourself. They're not going to be edited most of the time. They're not going to be short. But I am proverbially standing in the light embracing this piece, still going to keep my privacy intact. So you will get very comfortable with my car and I will explain in great detail why it's so important for people to protect their privacy. It's not just important to public figures, it's even more important to private individuals. And so that is why I am going to become a public facing brand. That is why I'm going to build a career as an LGBTQ and women's rights activist. I mean, guys, it quite possibly is the most nauseating and self important video I have ever seen. And not just because I think that her social justice causes are ridiculous. As somebody on the right who obviously feels that way, it is because her entire premise is just ridiculous. And clearly everyone agreed because the right laughed at her. Obviously they were like, ha, look at you Democrats. This is what you got. You got Casey Anthony, we get RFK Jr. And you get Casey Anthony. And to their credit, the people on the left immediately rejected her. They were like, oh no, no, this is not gonna help us win. We do not want you crazy lady. We do not want you on your side. You are not helping us. And within 48 hours, she deleted her video off of TikTok. So actually, Casey Anthony, you are going to get the privacy that you so desperately wanted, even though again, you were making a whole public profile and reintroducing yourself doing the whole thing. Now I want to go back to what I just said about that self aggrandizing self importance. And I think that that term is really important as we go through all of these stories and we talk about this broader issue because it's relevant in every single case that we have just discussed from Megan to Casey Anthony. Because it is this prevailing idea that these individuals have, that we need them, that we are desperate to hear from them, that they are so important that we can't live without these people, that we are hanging on to every word when really, in all honesty, we don't care. Like the world keeps spinning. As Ian summarized here, they basically have.
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Ian Halperin
This drug of fame and they just can't let go. They think the world can't live without them. The world doesn't really depend on one individual. That's we're just here to make it better for the next generation and that's it. And to put in the good energy we can. And with these celebrities, they just can't get enough.
- [24:13]
Brett Cooper
And guys, this cycle, this self importance like that screws with people's head. When you walk through the world thinking that you are the most important person, that everything revolves around you, that is not healthy. And this is why fame in general, just as a fact, as an idea, as a way of living and being, that is why it is such a dangerous game. Like it destroys people who become famous too young, it ruins those who chase it just for the sake of fame itself and for money and power. And these days, with all of our access through social media and reality TV and you know, citizen journalists, whatever it may be, it can, as a celebrity or an influencer, completely destroy your relationship with the audience that pays your bills, that watches your videos or your content on a daily basis. And that really, in my opinion, is the reckoning that we are seeing now. It is people utterly rejecting Casey Anthony within 48 hours of her posting that ridiculous video. It is people going on X and saying, dylan Mulvaney, you literally showed us your daily life for over an entire year. We don't believe that you want privacy. And this is just ridiculous. They're saying, meghan Markle, you have been lying to us about what you actually want in order to garner our sympathy, to turn that into views and purchases and supporting your businesses so that you don't have to be part of the royal family. Like people are just seeing through all of it. And I really wanted to hear Ian's take on this, especially as somebody who has been following and investigating and studying celebrities and artists for years. And when I asked this question, he brought up two examples and two case studies that I think you guys will really love. The first was Michael Jackson, who he wrote a best selling biography on and he later directed an entire film on and on Michael Jackson. He said this.
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Ian Halperin
The one thing I learned about him was how humble he was and how present he was when he met anyone. It was like you were the most important person in the room. The mistake Michael made, which I think is very important to mention, is that he failed to surround himself with solid people. The people around them were essentially vultures and they didn't care about his well being. They cared more about his money. And that's why he's dead. I mean, this should have never happened.
- [26:21]
Brett Cooper
And so really the point that he's making with this anecdote about Michael Jackson is that it isn't just about your quest for fame and your motivations and your drive, but also the drive of the people that you choose to surround yourself with. And while none of us are Michael Jackson level of famous, we will never be Michael Jackson level of famous. I don't know if anyone will ever get there again. I think Taylor Swift is getting close, but I mean, he is just unmatched, even though we are not him. I think that is a really important lesson for all of us as human beings to hear and understand. You always have to be considering who are the people in your circle. Do they actually have your best interests at heart? Do they make you a better person? Do they make you reflect on your choices and be self aware in the way that you're walking through the world? Do they protect you? And if the answer to any of those questions is no, then you have to take responsibility for yourself and leave and find better people. And in hearing the story, I wish that that had happened for Michael Jackson. I wish that that had happened for a lot of people who have clearly fallen prey to this idea that the people that you surround yourself with doesn't matter. Now this next example that Ian brought up, we're kind of continuing with an obviously important theme of humility, Ian brought up an unnamed blockbuster friend of his who seems to have cracked the code to success and fame. Take a listen.
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Ian Halperin
One of the most powerful Hollywood actors, and still going today, who's a personal friend before noon every day, he would make sure he did one random act of kindness. It could be helping an old lady cross the street. It could be carrying somebody's groceries. And he lives seven days a week by that ethos. He has to do an act of kindness before he starts his day before noon.
- [27:59]
Brett Cooper
So, guys, at the end of the day, what we can take from all of these stories, from this idea of fame, from Meghan's ridiculous new show, is that it really is about your intentions and what drives you through the world. Is it fame or money or attention or power? Or is it your craft and doing something in service of the world, of making the people around you better, of leaving the world a better place than you found it? And I'll just say, personally, I have been around a few of those famous people who fall in that former bucket, who do it all for money and power. And some are arguably able to hide it well. They convince even the most astute audiences that they are in it for virtue and goodness. But that facade, guys, it will always break and crack and be exposed. But, you know, some people can't even hide it from the jump. They don't even have a facade to begin with. And I think that is what we have watched unfold with Meghan and Harry. They have never had the facade and they have never been able to build one back up, because we all knew this was a sham from the beginning. It was never about privacy. It was about garnering sympathy to then further attention and fame with love. Megan was never about teaching Netflix audiences and her friends how to host and make rainbow fruit trays. It was a vanity show that was objectively poorly done. And she should fire all of the producers and advisers and marketers who allowed this to air because it was so objectively bad. But you know what? I'm kind of glad that it did air. I'm glad we're all able to see it and laugh at it and comment on it and analyze it, because this was just another nail in the coffin. It is another wake up opportunity for audiences who are becoming more and more astute in sniffing out bullshit, in this search for genuine goodness and authenticity in their content and in the people that they follow. And I am so glad that that is happening, that that is what we are all searching for, because our world could use a lot more of that.