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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Hoda Kotb’s Bogus Self-Help Venture, New Disturbing Diddy Testimony, and Meghan Markle's Business Flops
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Maureen unloads on Hoda Kotb’s lame attempt to pimp the super basic concept of finding joy through the launch of her new and unoriginal self-help app. She also takes us through the latest vile details coming out of the Diddy trial, adding more layers to his seemingly endless list of depravities. And then Maureen is joined by entertainment reporter, Kinsey Scholfield, and together they break down Meghan Markle's phony facade, highlighting her ongoing failure to launch. Masa Chips: Use code MAUREEN for 25% off your first order! Scan the QR code or visit MASAChips.com/MAUREEN Firecracker Farm: Visit https://firecracker.FARM & enter code THENERVE at checkout for a special discount! Pique: Use code THENERVE for 20% off your order plus a FREE frother & glass beaker with this exclusive link - https://piquelife.com/THENERVE
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Maureen
Hey, everyone. Welcome to your Friday edition of the Nerve. And my God, do we have a banger of a show for you today. A banger? First, we are going to take our troublemaking wrecking ball to one of the worst offenders out there. Now, this individual just four months ago promised to go away, but now this person is back in our faces hawking a bunch of absolute bullshit. It's wellness. It's self help. It's promising you everything but immortality. And it's absolute garbage from an absolute know nothing. We also have some more bombshell updates from the Diddy trial with more celebrity names included in witness testimony, along with some ridiculousness and our unique time together listener email. Plus my friend, the amazing Kinsey Schofield of the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered channel, where I am lucky enough to appear regularly, is going to join us here to talk some great setbacks for Meghan Markle. You know, we don't wish others ill, but there's karmic justice. And I think we. 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And an added bonus is that the beef tallow makes the chips much more satiating, which means you're going to full, you're going to rather feel full faster and you're going to feel full for longer. So you won't find yourself uncontrollably binging and you know, in the next hour or so. So masa chips. Masa chips are beloved by tens of thousands of customers and they've been endorsed by industry leading health and nutrition experts like Ben Greenfield and Gary Brecke. Ready to give Masa a try? Go to masachips.com Maureen and use code Maureen for 25% off your first order. That's masachips.com Maureen code Maureen for 25% off any your first order troublemakers. I saw this the other morning and I immediately began taking notes because I knew I was coming right here to discuss this with all of you post haste. Hoda Kot be okay for those of you who are in other countries and are likely blessedly unfamiliar, I am sure you do know the type. I am sure you encounter this type of on some of your morning shows. Okay. This woman was a co host on the Today show which is one of the three once huge, once dominant now increasingly irrelevant morning shows on American network television. I'm not saying this to be mean, but it's the truth. And she's asking for it because she's in our face trying to. Trying to sell us some bullshit. She's one of the dumbest people to ever luck into this very coveted overpaid gig. She's no astronaut, okay? Let's put it that way. And she got the job. And this is very important because her predecessor, Matt Lauer, was a known sex pest who got me to around the time of Harvey and was, in my opinion, my opinion, very credibly accused of rape. Like a violent, violent rape in the workplace that reportedly allegedly sent a woman to the hospital. Okay? Like the kind of violations that involved him reportedly allegedly having a secret button installed on the underside of his desk so he could lock women in his office before they had any idea what might be about to happen. And if you want to tell me that nobody knew somebody had installed that button, okay, There was work done in Matt Lauer's office. Somebody signed off on that. Now, Matt Lauer, by the way, is someone that Katie Couric, that other Today show scourge turned podcaster, defended in her memoir, the one where she's barefoot on the COVID And this, by the way, is a theme the barefoot morning show host. Because Hoda, in her new announcement, is also shot on her couch barefoot. She's also shot in the new People magazine. She be fouls the COVID with her bare feet. Nobody wants to see your bare feet. It doesn't make you relatable. Put them away. Okay? So anyway, Hoda announced that she was quitting the Today show months ago, and she left finally in January. Now, her stated reason was that she's 60 years old. She is a single mother of two young adopted daughters, ages 6 and 8. And she has finally realized the important things in life, namely that time with your young children is fleeting and it's unrecoverable. And so she was stepping out of the spotlight to be a great mom. Now, let's talk the real reason. Okay, this is our real talk about fake people. The real reason, I suspect, is that Hoda was facing a major salary cut by NBC execs to a paycheck that was not reflective of her skill set, which, again, I find very limited at best. It's limited. Now, reports vary, but Hoda Kopi was either pulling in seven to $8 million a year or as much as $20 million a year, a figure I frankly find hard to believe. But, you know, those are the reports. And finally, someone at NBC got the smelling salts under their nose and was like, what are we paying this moron to for? Like, why are we giving her this amount of money? She's reading from a teleprompter and she's talking to, like, B list celebrities about self actualizing, you know, so a pay cut was coming. She was told this was imminent, and she left, reportedly, reportedly. Now, I knew. I knew in my bones that this absence from the culture would not last. Because where else is a basic bitch like Hoda Kopi going to get the regular dopamine hits, the regular shots to the arteries that she got on the Today show where she was mingling with celebrities and getting her professional hair and makeup done and having tourists lose their. Outside the glass walls of the Today show at the mere glimpse of the great Hoda Kopi, okay? School runs in suburbia were never going to cut it, okay? So now, four months later, she's back. She's back already. Back on the Today show, set back on the fourth hour of Today with her pal Jenna, you know, back on the. She's on the COVID of People. We'll get to that. Okay? What does she have to offer us? What could have incited this sudden. I mean, I don't think since Tom Brady we've seen a quicker exit from retirement. So Hoda's back with an app. An app. Now she tells us that this is not just any app, okay? Because we're not doing Today show and People magazine if it's just some regular janky app, okay? So she's back doing her little media tour, and she went back to the Today show where everybody's like, oh, we're all friends. Chummy, chummy, kissy, kissy. Trust me, it is a snake pit. A snake pit. And there are no antidotes for the venom that comes out of the people who inhabit these shows, okay? And it was great to see some of whom. Hoda's. Hoda's. She's marketing Joy. Okay? We're going to get to it. But, you know, the bitterness seeped through it. She couldn't hide it. And I love this. I love this for her. Now, her. Her. Her app, her Joy 101 app. This is what she called it, which is like, it's as basic as she is. Joy 101. Joy 101. Okay? Now this is content that is quote, unquote curated. This is the word she uses on the. On the art, on the homepage for her app. And that's. That's. That Word is always a tell for me. It's always a huge red flag because that's a word that dumb people use to make themselves sound smart, okay? Instead of just saying it's collected or even. You want to be a little fancy, say, aggregated, but no curated cure. Now we're like. We're like an art world person, you know, we're very rarefied. We're curating things. Okay? So Hoda's curating the ship for you. Okay? Okay. And if you buy that, you know, so this is snake oil. This is snake oil. And she has now slotted herself firmly into a world that we at the Nerve are dedicated to destroying. Okay? It's my own personal death star, this stuff, and I'm taking it down, and you're all going to take it down with me. So, okay, this is her premise. She ostensibly leaves morning television to focus on her small children, one of whom, she tells us in this little media tour, has type 1 diabetes. You know, and I. I don't know this family, but I doubt that that child wants that out into the world, okay? I doubt that child wants to enter every future classroom or sporting event or gym class with everybody freaking knowing that she's got type 1 diabetes, okay? And the. And the thing that Hoda's telling us is that that diagnosis really just shook her to her core. That diagnosis really reoriented her priorities, you know, so much so that she's building a business from the ground up. Remind you of anybody out west in Montecito? We'll get there. Don't worry. So let's take a look at Hoda on the Today show Mothership with Savannah Guthrie. These two are giving each other an epic tongue bath. It's like over the Mensa level conversations they claim to have been having with each other on the regular.
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Hoda Kotb
Watch this that we had daily that I miss, like, to my core, were such a building block for what I'm building now, because it is. It's find out what you love. That's really what I've been seeking, too.
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Maureen
What the fuck does that mean? I'm serious. What the actual fuck is she talking about? What? Give me a specific anything. Give me. Give me a tiny tether to hang my intellectual hat on. She can't fucking do it. But it gets better. It gets better, okay? And again, as stated, these are not nice people. I have it on good authority from multiple sources that they're complete bitches. They're complete bitches. And you have to. Really? Is it that surprising that Hoda, off screen, would Be kind of a miserable person. No, because it's always the people who are telling you how happy they are and how joyful they are and successful and self actualized they are. You know, it's always the opposite with these people. Again, it's my Buddha rule. You see a Buddha in someone's front yard, run, run. Okay? So then they air this pre produced package. You guys are gonna die. You're gonna die. It looks like it was shot in Hota's home, which has a lot of white furniture, which is again, highly suspect. You have small children and you have white furniture. It's a fun home. Fun home for kids. Okay? But my favorite, my favorite tell that we are, we will see is that she has bookshelves without books, okay? Bookshelves without books. I am sorry, but I refuse. I refuse to take any kind of advice from someone who doesn't read books. It's like John Waters had that great advice years ago. He said, if you go home with somebody and you see they don't have books in their house, leave wise advice, okay? So listen to Hoda talk about having what I consider truly an outsized reaction in a. In a breath work class.
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Hoda Kotb
In the middle of this breathing class, I exploded into tears and I literally freaked out. But I also felt clarity and calm and energy. Like I felt clear.
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Maureen
Do you know what other cult uses the word clear? And trust me, Hoda wants to be your cult leader. She wants your adoration and she wants your money and she wants you in her freaking pyramid scheme. I think it's a pyramid scheme. Just my opinion, okay? Scientology, they love the word clear. Going clear. Okay? Now if you are having that kind of a reaction in a breath work class, which is something rich people with way too much time on their hands and way too much disposable income will do, they'll go, take a breath work class. If you're bursting into tears, something is deeply wrong with you. Something is deeply amiss, okay? You should be seeking professional help, not telling people to listen to your bullshit, okay? And by the way, her crew hates her. And you could tell because look at how they shot her. Look at how they let her appear in that promo reel with no makeup. The lighting is shitty, the angle is terrible. She looks like she's like 90 years old. They fucking hate her. Okay, moving on. Here's the. Here's a bit of the so called wisdom that she feels compelled to impart to us.
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Hoda Kotb
Listen, when you quiet the noise around, you can think and you can hear yourself.
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Maureen
Wow. When it's Quiet. You can think. It's Seneca. You know, it's fucking Aristotle over here. Okay, okay. Next, she's discovered meditation. And I quote, this is Hoda. I thought people who meditated just had free time. They do. They do. They do. You fucking idiot. Next, she says, I became a seeker. I'm someone who is looking, looking, looking. The wave I'm riding right now is magical for me. The narcissism, the nars. I wonder how her kids feel about this wave. I really do. Because there's nothing like having your mother publicly proclaim for months on end on national television that she needs to go home and spend time with you because you're. You're the priorities. And she gets home, and within, let's be generous, 16 weeks, she's like, I'm bored. Just my opinion. You kids are boring me. This is not for me. Like, go hang out with a nanny. We never hear about the help, but, you know. Okay, so next up, she's going to talk about this very contradiction. You know, for. For someone like Hoda who might say I'm too cynical. You know, I really. I should. I should cut her some slack. Listen to her explanation for this.
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Hoda Kotb
I mean, now my kids are like, I don't care because I get to bear witness to their life.
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Maureen
What the fuck do you mean you get to bear witness to their life? You're their parent. That's, like, called parenting. Okay? Bearing witness again. All these, like, these fancy terms, like, like, they. They don't mean anything. They're spoken by. They're spoken by fake people. Fake people talk like this. It's fake people who talk like this, okay? And by the way, the Today show has always, like, in the past several years, really, it's real. It is really a hate watch for me. I watch it because, like, I need to know this stuff and report back to you and send up the flares when we're in an emergency situation, as we are right now. But the Today show cast, to me, it's like, do you know that band the Arcade fire? There's like 80 members of the Arcade Fire. I could never figure out how they made any money. The Today show is like the Arcade Fire. They have like five hosts sitting on the set interviewing like one C list actor you've never heard of or one bullshit, like, gift guide expert or like one financial. Financial expert. Like. And the advice is always incredibly insulting. It's like, you know what you should do? You should pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of every month. You should do that. You know what else is a good idea? You should have a 401k. That's the kind of advice they're, like, dishing out over there. Okay? So, yeah, I think Hoda really absorbed a lot of, like, intellectual proprietary knowledge that. That's worth going to her website for. Okay? So then off she went to the fourth hour of the Today Show. Now, she used to host this Today show with the fourth hour with the equally insufferable Jenna Bush Hager, who is also a Nepo baby. Okay? She's the granddaughter of George Bush, and then she is the daughter of hw. Do I have that right? George W. Sorry, it's HW And George W. Okay, whatever. Now, Hoda used to be the big cheese, and Jenna was like the. The baby who came in, and Hoda ran the show. And you knew the status because Hoda would walk out and she would be on the right, and Jenna would be on her left, and it was Hoda who. Who had announced, like, hey, everybody, today is like, Friday, May 30, and, you know, we're talking today about this. And then Hoda would take the right chair and Hoda would lead off the discussion. And my, how the tables have turned the indignities that Hoda has had to swallow in promoting her Joy 101 app. So Jenna walks out on the right, and she's got Hoda on the left, and she's clasping her by the shoulder so tightly, like you would think that it was like Hamas leading a hostage out to the Red Cross. Jen is making sure that Hoda is not going to make a break for it and try to upstage her. This is Janice fucking Show now. Get it? Hoda. So they walk out to the table, and Jen is the one saying, today's date and today, whatever. And they sit down, and then Hoda. Hoda couldn't help herself, okay? She had a remark about not sitting. Being seated in the right fucking chair. Okay? Watch this. This is your seat now. I moved over. I can't remember why, but I did still. Okay? So I'm telling you, it's joy all over the place, right? We're not noticing, like, the tiny things. We're not noticing things about status. We're not noticing that, like, you know, you're just a guest now. You know, you're just showing your, like, any other huckster. No, you know, okay, so now People magazine, okay? She's on the COVID here. Her two small kids again, I do not think children this small should be up for public consumption, you know, If I'm in America's living room every weekday, nobody's seeing my kids. It's not happening, okay? But, you know, here we are. It's a whole exclamation point. New exclamation point. Hoda, exclamation point. Oh, my God, she's 60 and she has yet another fucking incarnation. Trust me, okay? This is the same as the old Hoda, because there's nobody in there. There's nobody home. Nobody's in there. She's still talking the same gibberish that she was always talking with Jenna Bush Hager about finding your authentic self and taking up space, which was the name of her podcast, by the way. I don't even know if she is that garbage anymore. And just leaning into like, as she ever was, okay? There's no specifics ever to be found in this garbage language. It's just, just a bunch of self help platitudes, okay? And you know, again, not for nothing, but if she was really so happy, she really had this secret to a happy life, you know, she wouldn't be seeking out the nearest television camera with the force of a heat seeking missile, okay? She'd be hanging out with those kids in anonymity, you know, or she'd just be writing a book. Write a book. Write a book while they're at school. See them in the morning. See them in the. Do a podcast from your house, you know, while they're at school. But no, no, no, no, no. We have to be a media mogul, okay? Let's keep going, because again, it is our collective mission, the troublemakers, to destroy this stuff that is so, so toxic. It's so unfair, because it's aimed particularly. I mean, it's aimed at men too, but they are really speaking the lingua franca of women, okay? And it's aimed at women who are struggling, whether it's financially or professionally or emotionally. And Hoda is incredibly privileged, but she never talks about all the help that she has, the vast riches that allow her to sit around for months on end, the nannies, the gardeners, the housekeepers, the private cars and drivers, all of which I'm sure she has, you know, so she's out there shilling the shit to the average woman at the cost of 69. 96. 99 per month or $99 annually. And. And what do you get for that? I'm going to show you. I'm going to fucking show you. Watch this. But it feels like right now you're living in a truth. Yeah, that feels so illuminating.
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Hoda Kotb
Yes, yes, yes.
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Maureen
Talk about what that, like, is. I. First of all, how could she even talk about what that is? Because I don't even know what that question is. I don't know what the fuck that question is. You're living in a truth that feels so illuminate like this. Living in truth or a truth or my truth or your truth. There's a truth, okay? There's a tr. We're not living in Rashomon. There's a truth, okay? And if you're just living your life and being a decent person. That's the answer. That's it. It's that simple. Be a decent person. Try not to hurt people, okay? Anyway, moving on. We've got more to say. This brain trust is going to continue. Let's go.
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Hoda Kotb
A lot of things kind of came to light. And I think it comes when you reach a point in your life where you're like, where am I gonna fix my gaze? Like, where is my energy and my love gonna flow to in this moment? And you know that I wanted to spend more time with my kids. And there are many reasons for that. We wanna catch all the moments. We don't wanna miss anything.
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Maureen
Okay, so again, she's talking about having. I'm sparing you. It goes on and on because there's a lot of verbosity to cover up the lack of actual thought or, like, actual genuine, like, emotion. Because she's lying to you. I'm telling you right now. Just my opinion. She's full of shit. She's talking about having this Eureka moment about why she needs to leave the Today Show. I mean, again, like, it's morning television, you know? One of the greatest insults ever leveled against Barbara Walters, the late Barbara Walters, was that the most dangerous place on planet Earth was between Barbara Walters and a television camera. And I'm telling you, it's the same for fucking Hoda Kopi, okay? She's talking about having this Eureka moment when her daughter was hospitalized. Hospitalized, this little kid. And how Hoda, not her kid, but Hoda found the bravery, the valiance to not put all of her worry on this sick child. But she's going to talk all about it on television again. Okay, great. Nice mothering. I think it's great. I think it's great. Just my opinion. Tell me if this makes any sense to you, because I don't think I'm missing a trick here, and I don't think you guys are either. And I truly wonder where this woman got her seed money. Like, what venture capitalist listens to this utter banality of a trite excuse for a human being, and said, you know what? I'd love to shove millions of dollars into this. I would sooner burn it than give it to Hoda. Okay? I would. Now we're going to take a look at her homepage for this great new endeavor, Joy101. Okay, let's look at the. It's called welcome to the Universe of Joy. The universe. Okay? So in her intro on. On this. On this web page, you know, it's. She's taking us on her journey because everything's a journey I maintain and will till I go to my grave. That the only journey any of us take is from point A to point B. Okay, this word I blame Bachelor nation. Moving on. So. So Hoda says, quote and I quote, okay? It's all very valuable utterances. So here I am in my 60s. I'm stepping into this incredible chapter. Again, the verbiage. I'm stepping into this incredible chapter. We're always stepping. There's always a chapter. I don't know how you can step into a chapter. It feels like a mixed metaphor to me. But, you know, what do I know? And I feel so incredibly joyful, and it feels great. Again, we're just repeating ourselves. We're, you know, we're happy. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. You know, a casual Hoda. There's no professional hair or makeup. There's professional hair and makeup. There's professional lighting. And she's just talking about, you know, reaching this chat. She's entering this new chapter. And it's a. It's an interesting choice of words because, again, look at those bookshelves. There's not a book to be found on those bookshelves. Okay, don't speak of chapters if you don't read chapter books. I don't think you do. I don't think you do. Okay. Finally, we're going to let Hoda have the last word. And then I'm gonna. We'll move on to more, frankly, just engaging stuff like the Diddy trial. Okay, let's look at this.
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Hoda Kotb
But I realize, like, there's something here. So I was thinking, like, where could I put all this stuff together?
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Kinsey Schofield
Yes.
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Hoda Kotb
And share it.
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Maureen
Yeah.
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Hoda Kotb
And so I was thinking, let's make something. Let's make something. And we called it Joy 101.
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Maureen
I'm obsessed with it.
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Hoda Kotb
Joy101.com Joy 101 the app.
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It's so weird.
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Maureen
It's like.
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Hoda Kotb
But we've been talking about it and.
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Maureen
Talking about it and working on it.
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Hoda Kotb
And working really hard and to be able to work from your home. And the thing about it is, it's simple. Cause I was like, this stuff's so woo woo. I don't want to go near it. And all of a sudden I was like, no, it's not like. It's just like, it gives you clarity and energy, too.
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Maureen
It's meditation. It's all of the things that help with sleep. Sleep. It's all the things we know. Nobody's sleeping. You know, here's the.
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Hoda Kotb
Here's the truth. Everybody's exhausted.
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Maureen
Yes. Everybody is tired.
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Hoda Kotb
Everybody wants a break.
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Maureen
Yeah, Hoda, everybody would like a break from you. You told us you were leaving. Please take your joy. Take your breath, work and your meditation and your prayer and your joy 101. I can't believe it. She sounds like a simpleton. She sounds like those kids in class you just feel so sorry for, like they're never gonna get it. You know, like, just take it all. Take your and leave. Okay? Oh, and by the way, Hoda also announced on this little tour, 30 Rock, she's not getting the Kelly. She didn't say, I'm not getting it, okay? She said, I'm not going to be taking over the Kelly Clarkson show, which is like a. A monster hit, okay? She said she's not going to be taking that over when Kelly leaves. Despite all these weird, random, sudden reports that NBC was just dying. You know, they were thinking, could we possibly get Hoda Kopi to do it? Like, and I was, I just kept reading these and I'm like, this source is fudgeing Hoda Kopi. Nobody misses this woman, okay? But, you know, again, just my opinion. I don't know. But anyway, so Hoda. She's not getting it. She's not getting it. She's not getting that. So now we're doing our little app and, like, good luck with that. Like, if you don't spend your money on this stuff, okay, I want it to tank because this stuff needs to, again, be eradicated from the cult culture. She's a huckster and she's a loser. She's a loser. If you want to read a little bit more on this, I columned on it over at the Daily Mail. You know, it's good for a laugh. Okay, next up, we've got celebrity scandal. We've got the latest in the Diddy trial, and we've got your mail. Father's Day is coming up fast. And if you are eyeing another tie or another gas station gift card, you're not really giving it your all. Let's just be honest, okay? You're not. You just stop right there, okay? You can do better. And the father in your life should really get something better, don't you agree? I think we all, I think we're all on the same page. So I'm going to put you onto something that actually delivers. You may have heard Megan Kelly talking about it or Joe Rogan. And now you're going to hear about it from me. It's Firecracker Farm. Okay? This isn't a mass produced flavorless filler. This is handcrafted and genuinely special flavor. Incredible packaging. I showed it to you guys the other day. It's really thoughtful, it's really masculine, it's really elegant. It's black, it's sturdy. It's not like Meghan Markle's packaging that falls apart in your hands. You know, you get it and it's got some weight to it and some substance. And you, you know, the dad who gets this gift is going to be like, wow, like this person really loves me. This person gave it some thought. Okay, here's the deal. They don't make a lot of this stuff. When it's gone, it's gone. So Father's Day is around the corner and you know the chances it's going to sell out are very, very high. So what you need to do is go to Firecracker Farm. Hot salt. This isn't just seasoning. It is a stainless steel grinder. It's so elegant, it's so cool. It's really modern looking and it's pop packed with these coarse sea salt flakes. And it's got this perfect blend of hot peppers. So what you the result is this like really bold, savory, like elevation of everything. You put it on, you put on steak, you put on eggs, you put on veggies, put it on whatever you want, you know, and they've got different heat levels too, so you can match his taste. This, my friends, is not a last minute Amazon panic buy which we all can see from a mile away. We all know when we get them, we're like, all right, it was the last minute. This gift is thoughtful, this gift is unique. And this gift is unforgettable. Okay? But you need to act now. Go to Firecracker Dot Farm. Yes, dot farm, F A, R M and use code. The nerve for a special discount. You're welcome. Okay? Now go get that dad in your life, something he will actually use and love.
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Maureen
We are back and I have lots of updates for you. But first up, Diddy. Okay, we are coming to the close of week three, and we had a woman named Mia, this seems to be a fake name, a sort of pseudonym, testifying on Thursday. Now, she is another alleged victim. Per the live updates reported by the New York Post, Mia and Cassie, Ventura and Diddy were on a trip in Parrot Cay in 2012. And Mia says she was awoken by Cassie one night and she was. Cassie was, quote, running and screaming. Mia testified that Ventura said to her, you got to help me. He's going to kill me. Meaning who? Diddy, who was then going by Puff Daddy. And then Mia said she never reported to the cops any of these incidents. She. She witnessed multiple with Diddy because, quote, I thought he was above the police. Okay, that means that she thought that. I interpret it as she thought he had deep connections to the cops and not just the nypd. I'm going to guess lapd, Miami pd, You know, wherever he was most constantly throwing these freak offs. It seems that people in that world knew the level of danger, frankly, that he posed. Now, what also came up in testimony? Prince. The late, great prince who hosted an exclusive party. It was probably after an award show or something. But anyway, Mia and Cassie snuck out. They. They snuck out. I guess they were living with Combs at the time. And what also came up in testimony was that any of the women who lived in his residences, like his staff, his assistants, what have you, were told by Diddy, per testimony, that they were not permitted to lock their bedroom doors. Okay. And as a woman, there are few things more chilling. That is a man telling you he owns you, okay? And if he wants to do something to you, he's going to do it. Meanwhile, all the men who worked for Diddy and who were in his employ, who lived there, were allowed to lock their doors. I believe one of them at least had, like, a deadbolt, and another had, like, surveillance cameras and maybe weapons. I mean, they all knew, okay? So anyway, Mia and Cassie go to this Prince party, and Combs catches wind of this. And you can imagine, he rushes over there. He finds Cassie at this party. He throws her to the floor. And it was Prince's bodyguards who got Diddy off of Cassie. Okay? There was more testimony from Mia that she tried to stop another Cassie beating. Diddy had, like, thrown her. It was another one of, like, throwing across the bed. We saw an image provided by the Feds of a deep gash above Cassie's eyebrow. Like a deep gash. And so Mia says she tried to intervene, but Diddy, quote, he threw me against the wall so quick and so easily. I realized we were in real danger. This is. This is really terrifying stuff. There, there. There was more testimony that he had beaten. I don't know if it was Mia or another woman really, really viciously in inside of his closet metaphor of all metaphors. Because word in the hip hop community, lo, these many years is that Sean Combs is really a gay man and would explain all that rage towards women. But that he beat. It might have been his assistant, Capricorn Clark. These names are just like, crazy. Anyway, the Post was reporting that she testified. I guess this was on Tuesday because this is their Wednesday edition that she. He took her to Central park in the dead of night. And that is a terrifying place to be. New York is not what it once was. Trust me. On her first day working for Combs, reading from this article, Clark said he took her to a deserted Central park after dark and threatened to kill her over her links to his rival, Suge Knight, who managed Death Row Records, who's also, I believe, still behind bars. A very, very dangerous guy. Suge Knight. He told, she told the jury that Diddy said to her, if anything happened vis a vis Suge Knight, he would have to kill me. Also, after Diddy found some valuable jewelry going missing while Clark had transported them, she testified that one of his henchmen came to her home and, quote, brought her to the empty midtown. I don't know what building this is an empty midtown building where a heavyset man chain smoking cigarettes and drinking black coffee. I mean, it's right out of the mafia. Like, Sean Combs has seen too many episodes of the Sopranos. So this guy, smoking and drinking black coffee, greets her on the sixth floor. He said, this is her testimony. If you fail this test, this polygraph test as to whether you stole this stuff or not, they're going to throw you in the east river, okay? Now, according to this report, Combs is hearing this testimony in court, and he's shaking his head. He's just a guy with a Bible. He doesn't know how the fuck he got here. Clark described the wise guy threat, leaving her, quote, petrified. I was told I was not going to be able to leave until they got to the bottom of this. So she's being. Her life has been threatened directly, and she's supposed to take a polygraph test which measures the truthfulness of what you're saying by your blood pressure, by your heartbeat. The other stuff that came out, Capricorn Clark also testified that Sean Diddy Combs again threatened to kill Kid Cudi. And he came to her apartment, where he had apparently never been before, with a gun in his hand. He was livid because Cudi was also dating Cassie. And he said, quote, get dressed. We're going to kill this N word. She says, he'd never come over to my house the entire time. I don't him. I'd never seen him with a weapon. Do I believe that? I don't know. And then she had. Her testimony was very strange, if I recall correctly. He had this enormous gun. He's like, you're coming with me. You're coming with me to kill this guy. She has to get in the vehicle with him. But I believe, according to her testimony, he made her sit on his lap with the gun. It's. It's all very, very strange. And then there. This is my favorite detail. Okay? These details. It's all in the details. So, you know, the. The alleged firebombing, the Molotov cocktail that was tossed into Kid Cudi's Porsche. The problem with that failed complete. That was supposed to really just go up like a firebomb. Apparently what was used was a silk handkerchief. And, you know, just note to Diddy for the next time when you're gonna hurl a Molotov cocktail. Silk is not your material because it doesn't catch fire. You know, you want something flammable. This is what happens when you enter the 1%. Because you're not. You're not like fucking shopping at H and M anymore. And you're not buying materials that are synthetic and highly flammable. You know, you're. You're at the Hermes of the world and, you know, you lose touch. You lose touch. So, you know. Anyway. Okay, we have an update on the Macron face shove, which, you know, I can't get over this thing. And I didn't realize at first. And then it was pointed out to me that it wasn't just one disembodied hand of his pedophile wife coming at him again. She was 40, he was 15. She was a teacher. He was a student at the same school. She had a child who was one of his classmates. Pedophile wasn't just one hand, but it was two it was two. And we got a lip reader to tell us what Brigitte, who is, I think 70 now, said to her much. Oh, she's 72, said to her much younger husband. She said, stay away, you loser. Okay, again, as I said, Edward Alby. This is not. These people are crazy. Okay? Brad Pitt is on the COVID of GQ magazine. Someone online said he looks like an old fisherman. Like an old. Like it. Just like he kind of does. Like, he kind of does, I believe. I don't have firsthand knowledge, but I do believe he recently, within the past year or so, had a facelift. It's a really good one. It's a really good one because he looks tight but not overly so, and he looks refreshed, but, like, he still has wrinkles and he's still. You know, he looks great. Now I can never look at Brad Pitt the same way again. I used to love him, but I read Angelina Jolie's complaint about what went down on that plane, and I believe her, you know, and it was brutal. Like, it was terrifying. And, you know, I don't believe it was the first time. Brad Pitt probably did that, because, again, when you're doing stuff on a plane, ask the Macrons, in front of, like, people staffing that plane, you've done it before. He was allegedly Brad Pitt pouring beer over Angie as she was hiding under a blanket with one of the kids. And he allegedly, according to Angie, grabbed her, I believe, by the throat and, like, threw her up a. Against a bathroom wall. And like, one of the kids tried to jump on him to get her, to get him off of her. And then, like, he threw one of the kids off and he called. Another kid is looking like a school shooter. I mean, you know, anyway, Brad Pitt is. He survived it. He survived it all. And he remains kind of beloved. But he. He addressed this with GQ for the first time about, you know, the. The divorce, which was. You know, the. The coverage was like. It was the equivalent of, you know, Pearl harbor or 9, 11. You know, that. I remember when we broke the news, I was working at the New York Post, and I looked at the Daily Mail at the time, and their font was like a world war had broken out. Like, Angie, divorces, you know, whatever. Anyway, they've resolved this divorce after eight years, I think, at least. Was it a big deal? Brad Pitt has asked. I mean, you know, you're in litigation for eight years, and you're fighting for custody of your minor children, and your reputation and your career is on the line. Seems like it would be a big deal. But Prad Pitt's cool, man. He's cool. He's too cool for that. He says no quote. No, I don't think it was that major of a thing. Just something coming to fruition. Smart. He's smart. He's the word fruition. Legally. Yeah, we know that's what litigation is. It's a legal process. Anyway. Okay, that's enough of Brad. We also have Lindsay Lohan. You know this. The segment we did recently on these female celebrities who say that their beauty secrets are water and sleep and nutrition and meditation. As we just discussed, Hoda. At least Hoda's not giving us her beauty secrets. Wonder why. You know, she's saying that after years of what we all saw, which looked like hardcore drug and alcohol abuse, and we all saw her rotted teeth, the kind of teeth that usually only manifest in someone that young if they're doing stuff seriously, hard drugs like meth ruins teeth. I'm not saying that's what she was doing, but I'm just saying meth ruins teeth. And then she got a brand new smile. And whoever did that work did pretty good work, I will say. But now she's back and she's looking better than ever and she's being asked about how she's. How this glow up has. Has come to be. And you know what she says? Diet. Diet. Quote, my skin changed after having my son. It got really sensitive. That's what really made me change my whole routine and diet and everything. She cited green juice. She cited ice cold water. Pickled beets. That's a new one. I haven't heard pickled beets before. That's what she's doing. Anyway. Okay, to cap this little thing off, it's Glennon Doyle, another one we just took to the woodshed with her. She's a grown woman with a baby voice who has no, no, no known experience in human psychology, no education to that effect, who is another self appointed self help guru. She's got another bullshit book out. She recently went on Monica Lewinsky's pod podcast, excuse me. And blathered about her identities. And by the way, as discussed with Link Lauren in the most recent show, I think Monica Lewinsky and her podcast Reclaiming does not really have a space in the culture. I mean, her thing is about reclaiming your identity when it's stolen from you. What happened to Monica Lewinsky happened over 30 years ago. You need to bring us something new. Okay, stay. Stay all you want, but bring us something new instead. She's bringing us this. Watch again if you think Hoda is a moron. Oh my fucking God. Watch this. So not too long ago, a friend sent me a gift in the form of an astrologist who came to my house. And my whole life I've been very connected to my Pisces identity. Okay? It's like, no matter what went wrong, I was like, well, I'm a Pisces. Possibly check my email. I can't possibly call you back. I can't do taxes. I'm a Pisces. Like, I just. Mm. This freaking astrologist comes and tells me, I'm gonna tell you something that might be a little jarring, and that is because you were born at 5:21 on March 21st. Not a Pisces, you're an Aries. Oh my God. It's like Mariska Hargitay finding out that the man who raised her isn't her biological father. Like, years and years later, it's like Jack Nicholson finding out that the woman he thought was his mother was actually his aunt or his grandmother and the woman he thought was his sister was his mother. Like, that's the kind of stuff that will shake you to your foundation. But, you know, Glennon Doyle, again, you want to take advice for her caveat mtor. Okay, we're going to get to audience emails now. Our favorite part at least my favorite part. Okay, I have this email from a guy named Mike. He says, this is amazing, Maureen. Your show has now become my favorite first listen in a growing list of podcasts. It has become a regimen for stress detox. I love this. I'm so happy to hear this. Okay, Mike would like as. As a fellow self identified troublemaker. That's the only way any of us are identifying around here. Okay? As troublemakers, I would like to throw another insufferable celebrity in your path. Please do, Mike. Pedro Pascal has begun polluting his social. Mike's social media news feeds with constant virtue signaling. He is like a woke superbug for which there is no cure. His constant lamenting that we shouldn't hate or fear immigrants was so condescending at the Cannes Film Festival. Well, Pedro, I am also a first generation immigrant and my father fled Greece while it was in the midst of a communist civil war where my family was always in danger. My family was so poor that my grandfather cast off my dad at 16 to make money in the US so his sisters wouldn't wind up as prostitutes. And they literally had a fucking tree growing in the middle of their farmhouse, which is real poverty. But poor Pedro at the Con Film Festival, protectively and vulnerably clutches his chest as if he was sexually abused by an ICE agent. Mike, you are a natural born writer sexually abused by an ICE agent. I love you. Jill T. She's writing from Ireland. In Ireland, the arts and the love of literature runs in our blood. We rank among the highest across the globe in terms of literary capabilities and literacy. It's clear you are of Irish descent. Thank you. If my name didn't tip you off, my foul mouth might. Okay. She talks about instilling a love of reading in her daughter, who is now, like, in the top 5% at Dublin University. Good for you, Jill. You need to start recommending books. Maureen, I certainly trust your opinion, and I think others will, too. I. As. As promised, we will get there. I'm. I'm working on it, I promise you. Okay. This is another woman named Anna. I. You know, you saying to me you have Irish roots. I often joke that babies here in Ireland can swear before they talk properly. Only an Irishman can make an almost totally expletive riddled sentence make it still make sense. And you know, I'm eager to see the Bono doc on Apple this weekend. I'm a fan. I can't help it. Also, some of you pointed out to me that Bono does have a Nepo baby. Her name is Eve Hewson. She's an actress. I don't include her in that. I'm sorry. I think she's very talented. I think she would have gotten there anyway. Okay. Sarah writes. This is. We got a lot of feedback to the sex. And I got so much feedback to that Sex and the City segment we did and that SJP segment we did. And I think it was a catharsis for many of us. Okay. We all really do feel the same way. I remember reading somewhere, this is Sarah, that Kim Cattrall not only complained about SJP's nasty attitude on that set, but that SJP, now this is alleged, would also refuse to let Kim cover up during intimate scenes while sitting there. Jessica Parker always got to wear a bra. Yeah, that's true. On another note, I loved your comment on Diddy's burka last week. I couldn't stop laughing when you asked your colleague from the Daily Mail if a naked, oiled up Diddy who entered a sex party with a burka on had a bejeweled burka or if he was a minimalist. I thought so, too. I just hit my hanging fireplace. That's what that is. If you can't See it? That's what you just heard. Okay. Sex in the City, you really nailed it. I thought you might appreciate. This is from Georgiana. What a beautiful name. I thought you might appreciate this bit of trivia or outrage. The season two subway posters for and Just like that were designed to mirror the Last supper with SJP in the Jesus position. Oh, my God, I believe it. Fiona Katz, your show is a breath of fresh air in this topsy turvy world we inhabit. Uh, I love your judicious, judicious use of expletives. Thank you. I too, was mad about Christopher Hitchens. A great love. I feel sure he would have wanted to be friends with you. That is one of the kindest things anyone has ever said to me. Loved Christopher Hitchens. Maureen, this is from Sarah. I just stocked your resume and you wrote for Sassy. I did. I was like a teenage intern. I was such a fan of that magazine. I would wait eagerly every month for it to come to my house in suburban Long island and I would like, save parts of it and read it piecemeal. And then I, I, I loved it so much, I just cold called them one day or I wrote them a letter and I said, I want to come intern for you guys. I got a call like a month later and they were like, want to come in? And I went and I started working there and I loved it. And it was such a formative experience for me. This woman goes on to say, sarah, I was a Sassy super fan. I got so, so many good recommendations from Christina Kelly, who was really my first, most important mentor. I felt like such a cool kid getting the in from everyone in New York City. Me too. And it was Christina Kelly, the genius behind Cute Band Alert. Not for nothing. Okay, Joe Christian, if this is your real name, it's a good one. Love your show and mastery of the English language. Thank you. Congratulations on being an astronaut. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm curious of something. When you do your show, you glance to the left a lot. What's over there? Just my thoughts. You know, it's a tick. I'm trying to get rid of it, but I'm usually searching for a thought. Okay. Hi, Maureen, this is Holly. I love the podcast and all of the troublemakers. Do you suppose the Nasty JLO performance, which we talked about on the last episode. I think we talked about it with Link. Maybe not. Anyway, the Nasty JLO performance at the AMAs was really her gaslighting everyone to say, this is my version of a Diddy Party freak off. It's okay, everyone is doing it. Great theory. Remember JLO was involved with Diddy romantically for a substantial amount of time and was with him the night of that nightclub shooting where a woman got shot in the face. Okay, A woman got shot in the face and JLO and Diddy got arrested and somebody else took the fall. I will always believe this. The hip hop community knows it's true. Allegedly someone else took the fall and JLO was arrested and she demanded that the cops go get her cuticle cream. Okay? That's the kind of piece of shit she is now. I called that desperate performance she gave at the AMAs the other night a career in his death rattle. One of you troublemakers corrected me. You said really? It's more akin to a death jiggle. You're right, you're right. This is from Martina. I hate self help and pretty much follow Oscar Wilde's advice that the best thing you can do with advice is to pass it on. Also love Oscar Wilde. Your comment you run as soon as you see somebody has put a Buddha in their yard is genius. I have found it to be the ultimate red flag for control freaks and or psychological messes. This I have found in my experience is extremely true. Another one, Sex in the City Tina Marketing luxury products to women falsely leads them to believe that getting ahead with the right handbag is a thing and it causes financial suicide or instability. That is not supporting women. It is not what is hanging off your arm, it is what's placed between your ears that supports opportunities for self reliance and freedom. I could not agree more. And that is all the time we have for your emails this week. Keep them coming to me. I am reading them all. The whole team is on top of everything. As far as you guys, what you want to hear, what you want to see, what you want us to cover. And also remember like subscribe and tell those in your life about the nerve. The faster we grow, the faster we can keep coming at you with new content. And reach me anytime, any hour of the day. 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Maureen
Welcome back to the Nerve. I am so excited for this next guest. This is her second appearance. It was her first was a huge hit. Of course it was. How could it not be? It's my friend Kinsey Schofield of Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered. And she is joining us to talk about all the latest disasters spun his wins, the FA or the failures that are being spun as Meghan Markle would insufferably say as learns. This is a new word they're trying to inject into the lexicon. Kinsey, welcome. Oh look how pretty you look in your pink blouse. Thanks for joining us.
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Kinsey Schofield
On the Nerve the your hatred for Megan's use of learns and learnings is what I live for. I when I Read that in that article. I immediately shot it over to you and was like, she's. She knows you hate it and she. Yet she continues.
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Maureen
Yeah, it's like it's her kink, right? No matter. That excuse skews. Oh, my God. Skews. Like, I was up all night. Which. We have enough skus. Do we have enough skus? Well, I guess she didn't have enough skews because she completely ran out of merchandise. And she. As she says in this. I mean, we'll get to the Fast Company piece, which is really just a. I don't know why they even ran that piece. But I want to get to you first because you. I want to get to this with you first. You just texted me a little bit ago about having a source who told you about one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. We all adore her. And a little ask that came her way via one Meghan Markle.
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Kinsey Schofield
Yes. And we talk about this a lot. We found out that Taylor Swift turned down Meghan Markle for the Archetypes podcast. I believe Vanity Fair told us that Beyonce turned down Meghan Markle for what was. What did beyond. Was it archetypes, too? And I found. And so over the weekend, the Daily Mail confirmed that Megan is expected to get a season three of With Love Meghan. And the reason I believe that is because I had a source reach out to me and tell me that Dolly Parton was approached about appearing on an episode of With Love Megan in making a cameo. And her team was livid because, no, they don't want to risk Dolly's epic Q score, her popularity by associating with Meghan Markle. And they knew that this ask was just to give Megan Markle credibility in this lifestyle space, a space that Dolly does have a lot of credibility. And whether you're mixing up some of her cake B better or whatever, Dolly is not only incredibly popular and loved by the general public, but she also is somebody that can float around within these different spaces. Is she a country music artist? Is she going to sell me a cute sweater? I. I don't care. I'm going to buy it because I love Dolly. And her team really feel like Megan was trying to take advantage of her popularity. And so. Absolutely not. No, they did not make time for Dolly to appear on With Love Megan.
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Maureen
You know what's so interesting about Dolly Parton? And she talks about this a lot. You know, I think she. She always says, like, it takes a lot of money to look this cheap, you know, and she's got the fake nails and the fake hair and all of that. But she's so authentic, or at least she comes across as so completely authentic and so completely herself. And it would just. It would be like a spontaneous combustion combustion of, like, good versus evil. I think if Dolly were to enter a fake kitchen with a fake. I think she's a fake royal, you know, and making some fake food and pretending that they're great friends. I just. I don't think Dolly should have to suffer in that way. She's given us so much over the years. And I love, too, that, you know, the Dolly thing. What was the other thing that occurred to me about that? I mean, it's such a strange. Like, I just don't think that that's in Megan's wheelhouse at all. Like, do you think she's, like, really a fan of Dolly Parton's music? Do you think she has any clue about this woman's life story? And also, her husband just recently passed away. I mean, there's. Have some decorum, you know, I think.
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Kinsey Schofield
That the objective was to use some of Dolly's star power. We've spoken before in the past about how she really struggled to secure star power for her podcast, which was evident. I mean, that I hadn't heard of half of the women that appeared on Confessions of a Female Founder. And she really lacked the. The idea that season two's big star is Chrissy Teigen, who just got her hair and hair implants. What. What did she have done her. Her forehead line taken down? She needs an exorcism. She needs to leave the forehead alone. There are bigger things to accomplish with Chrissy Teigen, but the fact that the biggest name she could get for season two was Chrissy Teigen for With Love Megan. I think it's all about trying to find likable celebrities so that you assume Megan is, like, that person that she's standing next to. And the reality is it's Chrissy Teigen. That's all that they can get. Bullies attract other bullies.
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Maureen
That's the thing. It's like, why not really think this through? Like, Chrissy Teigen, you know, is known for having told a young starlet to go kill herself multiple times, both on the open Internet and in private direct messages. You know, she's a piece of shit, and she's always shoving her freak show in our face. You know, oh, look, I got my, like, forehead lowered. Who cares what you did, you know, Fix the outside all you want. It's never going to mask Your ugly, ugly inside. And this is somebody who Meghan Markle thinks is. It's appropriate to have on a show called With Love Megan. I cannot believe it's gotten a season three, but at least it might be keeping me employed, as in my side gig as an actress, you know, I don't know. So, yeah, I wanted to talk to you about the podcast, too, because it just ended this week. It had its finale. You would think a finale would just be a blowout. Must listen to episode. And it landed with a thud. It's a. If a tree falls, you know, if Meghan Markle releases a podcast, does it really make a sound? Does. Was Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx, which, you know, no longer dominates the shapewear foundational space. And she, as you pointed out, Kinsey. It took her a year to produce eight episodes. I just want to say, for the team at the Nerve, you know, this is episode 12. We've. This is month two. Okay. We grind it out. We work hard for you. And Megan is sitting there waiting for the phone call, I guess, from Lemonada about whether she's getting a season two. Yes.
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Kinsey Schofield
And this is suspicious to me because they announced this so prematurely. So why wouldn't you just announce a season two if it's already something you're talking about? You announced over a year before the podcast was available that you had partnered, and they promised us multiple podcasts, and she was able to produce eight episodes of one podcast. And then when it came to With Love Megan Season 2, before the. The headlines had stopped, even stopped about how horrific this show was. And I do believe this was a strategy. But before the headlines had even stopped about what a terrible program it was, Meghan was doing a victory lap on Instagram to announce season two coming of With Love Meghan. So we've seen her try to stop negative press with, you know, a surprise. I'm going to. I got a season two. Where is that here? And if she thinks this Fast Company profile is positive press, the kind of positive press she usually tries to manipulate us with, I. I digress like that. No, girl, we need to have her come to Jesus. Because I think that that was a.
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Maureen
Horrible profile, that Fast Company profile. Okay. In it, I'm so. We were just texting about it, so I'm very, very grateful to have the opportunity to, like, again have a true catharsis with you. Because again, she spoke about her learns, which in the real world are called mistakes. Made some big mistakes. And number one is you didn't have enough merchandise to fulfill the Orders that were placed, I believe, I believe those numbers were artificially compressed. Like she kept a lot back so that she could turn around and say, look what it, look, it's sold out. You know, and it didn't. And then she says, we don't know if we're going to restock. What. Help me make sense of this. Is this a business or is it not? What kind of business is like maybe we'll restock. It would be like you. Or maybe like maybe we'll do another episode. I don't know.
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Kinsey Schofield
Yeah, it will. So they, it's like she's talking directly to her critics. And Harry and Meghan do this a lot through the media because they are obsessed. Their Google alerts are live. They have burner accounts. I know for a fact they have burner accounts on social media where they follow conversations about them. So, you know, it's like she's talking directly to her critics in this. And I don't know how you find the schmuck at Fast Company to do your bidding, but this is all one sided. Nothing's challenged whatsoever. And there's a paragraph that says the easiest thing to do would have been to simply restock the product. Maureen, that would have been too easy, which would have likely sold out quickly. Again, you know, this is just basically Megan's version of events. But instead Megan wants to take a step back, gather data from the launch and figure out exactly what, as ever could be. She says she's planning to announce new products in the first quarter of 2026. You've had five years since stepping down as a working member of the British royal family. You've had one when it comes to as ever. American Riviera Orchard was announced over a year ago, so. Years ago. So, so you, you've had plenty of time to determine what as ever or what your brand is going to be. She's just making excuses and trying to hide her failures. And it, it disappoints me that someone like Fast Company would play a role in that. But she's just making excuses for, for not being able to meet expectation.
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Maureen
Well, you know, I just think Kinsey as ever, she doesn't really want to do the work. Like the work doesn't light her up in the way that I think. You know, your show lights you up. You can tell like you're so, you're so always like just ready to go. You're just ready to go. And she, you know, again, like, I don't know what kind of executive would say that it's Acceptable for Megan to go, you know what I want to do. This said, no business person ever said, no entrepreneur ever. Like, I would love, I wish for Mark Cuban's final episode of Shark Tank. They had made it like a special with the Duchess, and the Duchess would have to stay in the Shark Tank and go through all of her failed business ventures and like, hear it from them, like just be taken to the woodshed. Because, no, there's not a single entrepreneur on the planet who would be like, you know, it's a great idea. I should absolutely not capitalize on momentum. You know, we live in such a fast moving culture that, that you, you have like a nanosecond to get whatever it is you want in front of people's faces. And they're either going to take it or they're not, but they're going to move on. You know, that's how quickly the cycle moves. And she's like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take my learns and my data points and I'm going to go back to my mansion and I'm going to see what they're telling me and then I'm going to conceive, like, what my brand should be. If your brand is out there, your, your brand should have an identity, and it does not. And I, I just think it's so deeply reflective of, of its founder, Meghan Markle, who I truly believe there is no there there. She has no identity, therefore her product lines have no real identity.
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Kinsey Schofield
Well, you saw the headlines over the weekend about their, their new royal court that they've tried to build in Montecito. They've got these 11 employees, all white, by the way. If you want to talk unconscious bias, they've got 11 new white people that are there to rehabilitate their image. That's the ultimate objective. And that's what Meghan Markle's saying here in this interview. Rebrand another rebrand. Constant reinvention breeds skepticism. One minute she's a podcast host, the next a lifestyle guru. Is she writing children's books today? Is she the greatest expert on JAM ever? Reinvention isn't inherently bad, but without follow through or success in one domain, it starts to look like failing, not versatility. And this inconsistency makes it hard for anyone to invest emotionally or financially in her ventures. You know, we talked about the podcast a little bit. It was you that pointed out to me the way that she almost gives up when it comes to the podcast. There's interest in a second season of Confessions of a Female Founder. And many female founders have approached her to be a guest on the series. Of course they have. But Megan is now involved in such a wide range of projects, she's sure to find some way to tell her story. That is Megan's out. That's Megan saying, But if I don't. If I don't continue to do the podcast, I didn't need to anyway.
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Maureen
I mean, it's a great theory. You know, it's a great theory. It just. I don't know where she's going to get her dopamine hits because she needs to be in front of a camera. Like, tell me your theory as to why Netflix would give her a season three.
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Kinsey Schofield
I think that there is, you know, we've heard the famous line, no, no, PR is bad pr. And I think that that's the way that Netflix looks at her. But I do think she is a liability. And I do think that both Harry and Meghan are liabilities. They're not very honest people. And, you know, there's, at some point we're going to stop wanting to look at the train wreck. I don't think that the. There's sustainability in their terrible decisions. Obviously, that's what interests us. It's not because they have anything to say. It's not because they are so charitable that we're just fascinated by them or whatever. We're watching a train wreck. And I just don't see this, you know, the, the law in the long run, how valuable is that and how long is that going to keep us engaged?
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Maureen
You know that thing about the Fast Company article? She's always trying to include anecdotes that make her seem like a loving mother. And, you know, my personal theory is if you have to do that, you're probably not. You know, it all feels very performative. She's talking about how she. She makes sure we know that her. So it's sort of a. It's been pointed out to me that, you know, she did this right around the same time that I think Prince Catherine, Princess of Wales, posted a photo of George, who had lost a tooth. Oh, Louis.
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Kinsey Schofield
Louis had two front teeth missing.
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Maureen
Louis had two. Thank you. He had two front teeth missing. And so now Megan's coming along with her anecdote about her child who just lost his first tooth. And she's such a great mom. She put money under the pillow. And he was so excited that the tooth fairy had come that he Woke up at 2 in the morning, which I do not believe kids get up that early on Christmas Eve. But they do not get up that. They just don't. They don't care that much about the tooth fairy. You know, you're not getting it done. It's not a big deal. So anyway, she goes, he. He came and he woke me up. First of all, I don't believe. I believe she's got like a bouncer outside her bedroom door. Frankly, I think it's. It's an exclusive nightclub and children are not allowed. And I'm implying nothing other than that I don't think she's a very hands on mother. Just my opinion. Anyway, so Archie, tell us.
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Kinsey Schofield
She has a nanny.
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Maureen
Right? Right. So, you know, she. This kid somehow finds his way to his mother, God forbid, and he wakes her up and she's like, you know, I had meetings the next day. I had a very big day ahead of me. But, you know, I chose. She. I think this is the literal verbiage and it's. It's so telling. I chose to cuddle with him anyway. So this is a choice, not just a reflexive action like most mothers cuddle their kids when they come, you know, So I chose to cuddle him. And you know, it's those mom moments that really make me a better. A better founder, a better business person.
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Kinsey Schofield
Like, are you like a better person, a better human?
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Maureen
Yeah. Yeah, those moms.
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Kinsey Schofield
I have one question about the tooth fairy. Does, does the money that she leaves under Archie's pillow have her. Has his grandfather's face on it, you know, that does. Is that how he knows what his grandpa looks like? Because otherwise he has no clue what his grandfather looks like.
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Maureen
I'm hoping that's savage. I love it. I love it. Is it American money? Is it? Does it? Does it. Is there anything resembling Queen Elizabeth's face? Do they have old currency? You know, that's such a great question, you know, but you know what it is? You know what? I'm gonna tell you what it is. The tooth fairy writes in calligraphy. And the tooth fairy also sends emails as well that, you know, they're gonna have thousands to write through. And I think that this kid was like, what the fuck is this? Anyway, the other thing that you pointed out to me, and which I am eternally grateful to you for because I'd somehow missed it, is apparently we've got evidence that Megan, who I believe is in my comment section and yours under fake names to your burner thing, because I can tell, I can tell she's purchased bots.
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Kinsey Schofield
Yeah. This is a story that is Circulating on a lot, a lot of the royal watching accounts. So they're watching Megan's followers, like, grow and quickly drop. And sometimes if the, if Instagram's algorithm sees that you're purchasing fake followers, they will automatically go in and clean house. But just to watch some of these royal followers, their screen recording and seeing all of these accounts that are clearly fake accounts, it's, it's unbelievable. I have said for a while, I can't believe she hasn't matched the same number she had for the Tig. And so I think that it would be intentional because it does look bizarre, right, that she had so many more followers before she married Prince Harry.
- [76:04]
Maureen
Yeah. And you know, it's, it goes to her keeping her comments turned off on her Instagram account. It goes to, you know, when the New York Times ran a very lengthy, flattering profile of Megan in the kitchen with her mother, Doria. And you know, we're mentioning another aunt like Jeanette, who I'd never heard of. But anyway, when the, the digital version of that, the Times turned the comments off. And I just think they're such cowards. They're such cowards, like, turn. Let's, let's, let's get, let's do this. Let's get in there. Let's like have it out, like. But they know how heated she is and they're gonna hide behind. Well, you know, she's biracial and it probably. We can't, we can't let the, you know, this self selecting group of people who read the New York Times who are like the woker, Roddy, you know, they turned the comments off for that. And that to me says just everything about how universally disliked she is.
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Kinsey Schofield
Yeah. And we're going to continue to see that because she is such a control freak when it comes to her brand. And it's. You and I both know it's not going the way she wants it to go. It's going south.
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Maureen
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But it's, it's, it's, it's some of the best free entertainment out there, you know? So I guess you and I will both see Ms. Markle in the Duchess, Ms. Sussex in the comment section.
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Kinsey Schofield
We absolutely will. And you're right. I think I've seen her quite a few times.
- [77:29]
Maureen
Yeah, me too. So. Hi.
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Kinsey Schofield
Hey. Hey, Megan.
- [77:33]
Maureen
Hey, Megan. Have us over, have us over for some tea and some, some jam. And you know, I'll bring several outfit changes. Kinsey, I know you will too.
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Kinsey Schofield
Yeah, absolutely. With feathers.
- [77:45]
Maureen
Feathers, boas, what have you. The works well. Thank you again as always for coming on the Nerve. We love having you and I will talk to you soon.
- [77:53]
Kinsey Schofield
Thank you.
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Maureen
Next up, we've got some very interesting news for you guys. You know, we have been dropping these mini nerves on the weekends, typically on Saturdays around 10am but this weekend we have something special planned for you. We are going to drop a large nerve, a full size nerve that is going to be some of the best, most interesting stuff we've done thus far on YouTube on Saturday and then it's going to be available. You know, we've heard your sort of complaints like oh, we want to be able to access the mini nerve, but it's not like in podcast form. But on Sunday it's going to drop in podcast form on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. So you will have that for your weekend. I hope you love it. I think you will. And we will see you back here next Tuesday on the Nerve, where you will never guess what we're about to say next.
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