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[01:02] Hey, my friends, welcome back to Spot On with Link Lauren. If this is your first time tuning in, buckle up. I hope you have a sense of humor. We have a lot to discuss today, okay? We are going to give you an update on everything happening with Meghan Markle, the Queen, the Royals. We're going to break down all of that. Also, Michael Jackson's new movie has been panned and canned by critics, okay? The movie does not have good reviews, but it's apparently supposed to make 150 or 200 million this weekend from the box office. So the reviews don't seem to matter that much. I love Michael Jackson's music. I might go and watch the movie myself and report back, but I'm going to give you everything from the premiere. Okay, Janet Jackson did not show up. Paris Jackson, Michael's daughter, did not show up. Latoya Jackson, of course, showed up to the premiere of the movie because she would show up to the opening of an envelope. So we're going to break all that down. Kamala Harris also has a new accent. Okay, Kamala Harris has unveiled a new accent. There are a few things you can count on in life, right? Taxes, the sun coming up in the morning, and Kamala unveiling a new accent. So we are going to give you that and so much more. I also have to give you an update. So on the last episode, I told you they are doing construction outside my house. They are redoing the road. So if you hear some construction noises, and I said, you know, I'm going to go out there with some ice cold lemonade, maybe a muffin basket, a low cut top, get to know, get to know the workers. So I took your advice. I did not do any of that. Some of you said that I should go take them a six pack of beer or some cold beer. They might appreciate that more. So I did not do any of that. But when I was leaving and pulling out of the driveway, I spoke with some of them. They should be done in a few days. Apparently they really know how to lay down that pipe. They really know how to lay it down and get it done quick. So shout out to the workers outside my house. I also have to ask you guys, how do we feel about the tennis sweater? The tennis sweater has made a return. The last time I wore this tennis sweater was September 7th, going to the US Open with President Trump. Now, I know nothing about sports. I know absolutely nothing about sports, but I am a situational dresser. And we'll put the pictures up on the screen. This tennis sweater was a little controversial. Some people loved it. Some people hated it. But nonetheless, it has made a return. You know, spring is here. It's April. It's almost May. I'm going to wear the tennis sweater and have a good time. One thing I remember from the US Open, I did not know who either of the players were, but I was rooting for the ginger. I remember I was rooting for the ginger, and to my recollection, he lost. Okay, I also remember one thing about going to a tennis match. It gets real quiet. Everybody gets silent and quiet, I guess, before they serve. I did not know that. Okay. I did not know that I was eating my chicken fingers, my fries, but nonetheless, the tennis sweater has made a return. But I'm so excited to dive into all of these topics. We got to pay some bills really quickly. We have a very, very quick ad, and then we are back. Go grab your cereal box and check the ingredients. Refined sugar, artificial dyes, chemicals you can't even pronounce. That's not real food. That's engineered. That's why you should consider switching to Lovebird cereal. Their cereal contains just seven real ingredients, all listed directly on the front of the box. Stuff like buckwheat, cassava, coconut honey, coconut sugar, vanilla and sea salt. It's organic, grain free, gluten free, and even supports gut health with prebiotic fiber. No refined sugar, no fake natural flavors. None of those sweeteners that mess with your cravings. Plus it's third party tested, glyphosate free and family owned. With 20% of profits going to fight childhood cancer, that's a company worth supporting as they battle the big food giants. Personally, my favorite flavor is strawberry. Ready to take back your breakfast, go to lovebirdfoods.com/link and use code LINK for 25% off your first order. You can also find Lovebird cereals at Walmart, Whole Foods, Sprouts and other major retailers nationwide. Lovebird cereal, join the real food revolution and take back our country's health from big food box by box. I want to start off today's episode by discussing Queen Elizabeth II. Okay, yesterday was her 100th birthday. May she rest in peace. And she is someone I've always been fascinated by because she ascended the throne at 25 years old. We've got some great pictures we're going to put up on the screen of her throughout her life. And no matter how you feel about the Royals, I know some of you guys are like, we don't care about Meghan Markle. We don't care about the Royals. We don't care about any of this. But let me tell you why I care. Because there are so few traditions left in society. I love the pomp. I love the circumstance. And I also just love the Queen so much because she's one of the few world leaders who really took her people through so many different eras and generations. I was thinking yesterday, when she took the throne at age 25, age 25, right? Television had not evolved into what it is today. The iPod definitely not invented. The iPhone not invented. Jet travel was still evolving. Women's voting rights were still evolving over there. And so it's interesting. She was able to take her people through war and strife and liberation and all different types of social movements. And she cared herself with such grace and such dignity. And that's one of the reasons I love the Queen so much. And may she rest in peace. And I imagine it's a hard day, of course, for her children and for her grandchildren and for so many people in the country, because she was this huge figure. There will never be anyone else like Queen Elizabeth II. And I don't think anyone else like Prince William should try to fill her shoes, right? He's gonna forge his own path when he's king. King Charles is forging his own path with what time he has left. And so I don't think anyone should try to emulate exactly what the Queen did, but take some bits and pieces of her grace and her elegance. And someone over here, someone over here in the United States who absolutely loves the Queen as much as I do, is President Trump. President Trump really, really revered the Queen and her leadership. And there's actually a new book out with this great quote. So this is Susan Page's book, The Queen and Her Presidents, The Hidden Hand That Shaped History. And I want to read you this quick quote. This is from President Trump. She was there for so many decades and she literally never made a mistake. And if you think about it, I mean, everyone was making mistakes around her, but she never made a mistake. So one thing I love about this is, he's open and honest about the fact that she knew what to do. Every single time there is an issue, she knew how to move her people forward and stay there and gain their respect. And she understood, right? She was in a fractured environment. There are some people who did not love the crown, who did not love the monarchy. That's still the case today. But she was able to shepherd and herald her people through all of these different generations and eras. And it's one thing I love about President Trump, the way he also loves the royal families. There's also this story. Apparently President Trump's mom sat him down in front of the television as a little kid to watch the king, the queen's coronation when she was 25 years old. And so his whole entire life, he's probably had that memory. And so President Trump loves the royals. They're coming over to the US next week. King Charles and Queen Camilla are coming over to see President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump. There's going to be a state visit, a state dinner. It's going to be incredible. So I'm super excited for them to come over here. Now, two people who I hope never, ever get near the White House, we have to talk about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So Meghan Markle, we just want to give you some quick updates on last episode, everything going on with her candle. Let me get the candle. We remember the candle. OK, so Meghan Markle, as we told you last time, she is selling $64 candles using her children's name, likeness and titles. So when she left the royal family, I thought the understanding was they were not going to dine out on their titles. OK, they weren't going to use their titles time and time again to ingratiate themselves, to make money. This is very Kardashian-esque. OK, Meghan Kardashian Markle, because the public has lost interest in her, she's now using her children to gain fame and notoriety and sell these new candles. And there's a reporting in the New York Post, there's actually this quote from the New York Post, palace sources and insiders are now speaking up saying, this is just ridiculous, this is a new low, the Queen is rolling over in her grave. This is a quote. One palace source called the sales pitch an outrageous use of their titles and noted, the late Queen Elizabeth II never intended for the Sussex family to make money off the HRH titles, his or her royal highness. In fact, it's why the Duke and Duchess famously agreed never to use those titles in public after stepping down as working royals back in 2020. That's what I thought the understanding was. You're not going to use your titles. And my hope is when Prince William gets in there, he can strip them of their titles, at least from the line of succession, right? Why should we have little kids in line for the throne who don't even know they're royals? They're sequestered over at the compound in Montecito. They don't know they're royals. And so it's interesting now to see these palace insiders and people starting to speak out from the UK saying, this is really bad. This is really bad. It's a new low. It's selling candles using your kids' royal titles. I hope the candles have wicks because as y'all know, mine did not. Now, the last thing we have to discuss as it pertains to Meghan Markle, this is in the Daily Mail, is reported in many, many other places. Meghan Markle, she used her trip to meet Bondi Beach survivors in Australia to make money off of her outfits. So basically she was doing what a lot of influencers do. You wear an outfit, okay? You go out there, you wear an outfit, and then you put it up on a website for 15% off, 20% off, if you use a code or something like that. And so Meghan Markle, after meeting with Bondi Beach survivors, she was allegedly selling this outfit with an app that she's an investor in. Well, she got a lot of backlash and rightfully so. People said, you're using a tragedy, a shooting, a horrific, violent terrorist attack to sell an outfit. Okay, this is very broke behavior. And there's also new reporting on the fact that their finances are in shambles. Dan Wooten's been reporting on this. I was on his show yesterday. This is not good, right? These are not people who seem to be financially secure and stable. You're using your kids' titles to sell candles. You're selling an outfit you wore to meet survivors of a tragedy. It's so disgusting. And the more I look at these videos also, there are no crowds. Okay, there are absolutely no crowds. So let me read you a little bit about what is going on. So the outfit totaling around $2,000 was posted for sale immediately after the visit, with Markle earning a reported 10 to 25% commission. Critics slammed it as commercializing tragedy and the strongest example yet of monetizing royal status. Prince Harry appeared on the original sales page, which was later replaced with a toned down image of Markle alone. So apparently they're still selling the outfit. Okay, they're still selling the outfit, but they're trying to distance it from the Bondi beach shooting in Australia. Why can't you just call it a day? Do you need that many nickels and dimes and pennies and quarters? You need money that desperately. Do we have to start a GoFundMe for Meghan Markle? Do we have to start a GoFundMe for Meghan Kardashian Markle so she stops using her kids' titles and selling outfits she wore to meet survivors? And what a slap in the face. What a slap in the face to all of these survivors, but there were no crowds for them in Australia. That's basically our royal roundup for the day. Before we go off of this Meghan Markle topic, I have to tell you guys, back in 2023, I also went to Australia, okay? It was an incredible trip. It was beautiful. Such a blessing to visit Australia and New Zealand. And I have this video, okay, of me visiting the Sydney Royal Opera House. As you can see, maybe Meghan Markle shouldn't feel bad because there were no crowds in the street for me either. Okay, there were no crowds or paparazzi or fanfare when I was down there in Sydney, Australia. So Meghan Markle, if you're feeling bad about yourself, join the club. Shout out to everybody down under who watches us in Australia. Shout out to the folks in New Zealand. We absolutely love you, but we got to move on to another hot topic. Well, there might be a job opening in Calabasas, California. Kylie Jenner is allegedly being sued by her housekeeper, Angelica Vasquez. Okay, I would not want to be cleaning that house, okay? God gave his battles to his strongest soldiers and fighters. God bless Angelica Vasquez. Okay, I don't know how you would even clean up the Kardashians' homes, okay? Before those women had laser hair removal, there would probably be so much hair in the drains, you'd be fighting for your life. So I'm kind of on Angelica Vasquez's side, and let me read you what she is suing Kylie Jenner for. So her accusations are this. Failing to address staff bullying and complaints, her claims include unpaid wages, over time, and unreimbursed expenses, allegedly required to work at Timothy Chalamet's home without proper pay, hostile work environment, including aggressive incidents. Okay. This is a new level of rich, okay? You gotta give it to Kylie Jenner. You know you're rich when you bring your housekeeper to your new boyfriend's home. Like when you travel with your housekeeper for a hookup and a one night stand, that's like when you're going to a guy's house, you're like, listen, my housekeeper is coming too. If I'm gonna sleep over in your bed and at your home, which is probably a lot smaller than mine, I'm bringing my housekeeper. I might bring a team of housekeepers. I might bring the entire staff, okay, the Justice League over there, but she allegedly had to work at Timothy Chalamet's home without proper pay. Now I would love to know, and maybe it'll come out in court, what is the going rate for Kylie Jenner's housekeeper, right? If you are Kylie Jenner's housekeeper, what is your salary? Like maybe I've chosen the wrong career. I could go be Kylie Jenner's housekeeper and retire in six months. Like the house is so big, you might not even see the housekeeper half the time. She's in there, you know, dusting and working and doing her thing. And so shout out to anybody who is a housekeeper. Shout out to those of you who have family and friends who are housekeepers. My favorite housekeeper of all time, okay, is from the show Will and Grace. There was a character Rosario, I believe her name was Rosario on Will and Grace. And she was kind of the moody, sassy housekeeper who really put Karen in her place. So unless you've watched Will and Grace, you don't know what I'm talking about. But Angelica Vasquez, let me read you a little bit more. So she claimed she was subjected to bullying, discrimination and harassment by other staff members working at Kylie's home. She claims she was mocked for her accent, religion, she was Catholic and Salvadorian background, given the hardest tasks and publicly humiliated. The alleged treatment caused anxiety, PTSD symptoms and led her to quit. Okay, I'm gonna be really objective with you here. Do I think the housekeeper really has anxiety and PTSD from working at Kylie Jenner's compound? Probably not, although who knows? Okay, who knows? Maybe it's like an escape room. You're like trying to find your way out. You know, maybe it's a house of horrors. But do I think she really has PTSD? No. Okay, shout out and God bless our soldiers and those who put their lives on the line. Those are the folks I think about when I think about PTSD. I think about folks who've been in really horrific relationships and who have trauma. I don't think, in my opinion, her housekeeper has a lot of PTSD. But then again, okay, Kylie Jenner has got money and the housekeeper, she might be litigious and her family is like, listen, file a little lawsuit against Kylie Jenner. She'll probably pay you so it doesn't go to court. She'll throw you a check, maybe a couple grand, maybe she'll throw a million dollars to make it go away. Because the last thing the Kardashians want is to go to court, a public court hearing with press and attention and have their housekeeper get up on the witness stand. Kim Kardashian, I'm thinking now, this isn't in the notes, Kim Kardashian would definitely not want her housekeepers going up on the stand to testify in public. Okay, having Kanye and all the comings and goings of that household, Khloe, Khloe Kardashian, she was with Lamar, they were allegedly drugs in the house and all types of chaos. So I think the last thing, might need some dusting in here. The last thing the Kardashians want is their housekeepers going to court. Okay, so I could see Kylie Jenner making this go away, but I'm just going to circle back to one thing. I find it so funny. The housekeeper is alleging she had to go clean Timothy's home, that's when you really love someone. When you're rich and you love someone, you send that housekeeper down the street to your boyfriend's house. You're like, listen, Angelica, you got to go clean my boyfriend's toilets. You got to go dust and clean his house and then come back over here. Now, it is unfortunate that she probably, you know, wasn't paying her what she needed and the woman she's seeking, what is she seeking? Financial damages for emotional distress and unpaid wages, punitive damages, legal fees and additional compensation. So she's coming for the whole kit and caboodle. Okay, we'll be monitoring this story. I want to see how things end up with Angelica Vasquez. I don't intend on having her on the podcast. Okay, I'm not that desperate, okay, for views, to be honest, but shout out to Angelica. Do I think she really needs this lawsuit and has PTSD? No, I don't, in my opinion. But is it entertaining? Yes, it is entertaining. And I would love to hear some of the stories. I think you could do a reality show. Listen, okay, I might have to call my, I might have to call the lawyer and trademark this. You could do a reality show or some type of special with celebrity housekeepers. You could get Kylie Jenner's housekeeper, Kim Kardashian, Ben Affleck, oh, Jennifer Lopez. You know Jennifer Lopez's housekeeper has seen some things. I mean, Jennifer Lopez probably beats the crap out of her housekeepers, okay? I'm kidding, kidding. Don't sue me, Jenny from the block, but she is Jenny from the block, okay? So sometimes, sometimes that Bronx comes out. Shout out to Jennifer. So I think you could do Jennifer Lopez's housekeeper. You could have a few other celebrities, Charlie Sheen. Could you imagine Charlie Sheen's housekeeper? The stories he or she could tell. If the walls could talk, if the swifters could talk, the vacuum could talk. I mean, coming into Charlie Sheen's house in the morning as the housekeeper, you're probably like, oh God, oh God, oh God, tiger blood. So anyway, I think you could do a whole special and a whole entire show with all of the famous housekeepers and then maybe they can retire off of that. I would actually pay some type of streamers, some type of special to hear all of these stories like an old school opera. Could y'all imagine? Oprah's Housekeeper? If Oprah's Housekeeper speaks out, what has Oprah's Housekeeper seen? Okay, besides Gail's brassiere on the nightstand. No, I'm kidding. It's a joke. It's a joke. They're straight. So no, I think Oprah's Housekeeper would also have some interesting stories as well. So I want Oprah's Housekeeper. Okay. Jennifer Lopez, Charlie Sheen, Oprah, Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian. You put those housekeepers on camera, let them talk for an hour. You could sell that like pay-per-view from UFC. That could be like a UFC pay-per-view fight. Okay. Battle of the housekeepers. Let them talk. Let them tell their stories. I'm sure they're all under non-disclosure agreements. I'm sure they're all under NDAs and cannot speak. But if this does go to court, anytime you go to court, I don't care if they say it's closed press and closed court, what have you. The stories are gonna leak. So I imagine Kylie Jenner will be settling. So because I'm not Kylie Jenner, we gotta pay some bills really quickly. We have a 60 second ad and then we are back with Ask Link. We are returning with Ask Link. It has been several months and I've been collecting so many questions from you guys. Okay, anonymously, I'm not gonna out anybody, but we've been collecting questions and comments from all the videos and my direct messages on Instagram and X. We're gonna have a meaty segment of Ask Link. So be right back. Everybody's talking about weight loss injections because the results are so dramatic. They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing appetite. 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[23:20] It is officially time for Ask Link. I want to preface this by saying, okay, I love all of your messages and comments and questions. I love our community, whether you're 18, whether you're 98, whether you've been here a long time, whether you're a new viewer, I love all your questions. But I have to say this, okay, I am an expert on nothing, but I have opinions on everything. So take my life advice with a grain of salt, okay? If I give you relationship advice, take it with a grain of salt, okay? I don't want to get sued like Kylie Jenner's housekeeper is suing her, okay? You know what I'm saying? But let's start. So we have a ton of questions. I want to start with number one, okay. My husband recently confided in me that while he was on a work trip, he hooked up with a woman he met at a conference. He said it was a one time thing and that they have not contacted each other since. It's unlikely they will see each other again, but I feel betrayed. My sister thinks I should leave him, but I've already invested six years married for three. Okay, there's no question there, but I think I understand what you're asking. So I understand why your sister wants you to leave this guy. He cheated on you. How can you trust him again? You feel betrayed. These are all normal human emotions. Okay. But I also got to ask some follow up questions. Is your sister single? Is she happy? Has she had guys betray her before? I am not the friend who tells my girlfriends the second they get betrayed, pack up, throw everything in a bag and get out of there. I think that's sometimes the knee jerk reaction in marriages and relationships. You're going to pack up and leave, right? I did that years ago in a relationship. I was going to pack up and leave because I found out he did something. And then I stuck around because I'm like, look, we already prepaid this vacation. So let me go on this vacation. I'm not the one to tell you, pack up immediately and hightail it out of there. I think if you've invested six years, if he's never going to see this woman again, and you really believe that, you believe he's not going to see the woman again, that it was transactional sex, it was totally betrayal, totally betrayal, I'm not denying that. But if you went to a conference, he had fun for 15 minutes and he's never going to see the woman again, I don't know. I think it's worth a conversation. I don't know if you have kids, I don't know what's going on. I don't know how your families are intertwined, but I am telling you right now, I think it's worth really sitting down, having a conversation and just do what I do sometimes. Okay, tell yourself it never happened and move on. Just be like, that never happened, we're moving on, tabula rasa, blank slate. And I know that's not the advice that these other relationship people would give you. They would say, you need to leave, file for divorce, he's a tramp in a trailer, don't trust him. But I just think so many women jump and they leave the relationship, they're not set up financially, they don't have an apartment to go to, they think their friends are gonna be there. All their best girlfriends though, sometimes those girlfriends scatter and you really need them. You go to stay with a girlfriend after a week, she's like, can you just go back to your husband, please? Can you go back to your husband? I'm sick of you being here. So I think sometimes you gotta be either more methodical or just have a conversation and choose to move forward. If you are willing to throw six years away because of something he did at a conference, I respect that as well, but I do think it's worth a con bow. Good luck. Okay, next question. Hi, big fan of the show. I've gotten my mom and stepmom watching you now. Thank you. It's the one thing they agree on. Do you actually think Prince William will strip Harry of his title someday? I don't know if I see it happening. So here's what I would recommend to Prince William. If I'm thinking in terms of PR, communications, public relations, when Prince William becomes king and ascends the throne and Catherine is the queen and they're beautiful and they're in power and it's everything that they should be, I think what Prince William should do is come out with an announcement that they are going to strip several people of either their titles or even just removing them from the line of succession, right? He could say, listen, we're going to shrink the monarchy. It's going to be the economic decision for us. It's going to be the best decision moving forward. It's going to be the best use of tax dollars. So I think that's what the queen, excuse me, that's what the king should do, Prince William, when he ascends the throne someday. He could say, I'm going to remove Harry, Meghan, their kids. I'm going to remove also some more of the side characters as well. So if you do maybe 8, 9, 10 people, a lot of these ancillary royals we don't cover every day, if you do it in one fell swoop, it's not as targeted like I'm removing Prince Harry, I'm removing Meghan Markle. That's what I would do. But I think we got to do something about the titles, right? I know I keep belaboring the point. When this woman now is using her kids' titles to sell products and they're not even old enough to drive, they're not old enough to read or write, you know, most of these kids. And so Archie and Lilybeth, she's using their titles. I think that's a new low and it's something the Queen never ever would have stood for. Okay, next question. This is from a man. Okay, shout out to the men watching. So she says it as a joke at family dinners, but it's every single time. My mother-in-law keeps calling me temporary. My wife laughs it off and says that's just how her mom is. How many times am I expected to smile through the disrespect before I become the villain? Ooh. Mother-in-laws are tricky. I think there's no in-between. I've seen this in relationships. Mother-in-law either loves and worships you and welcomes you into the family, or she is cold and she hates you forever, right? There's a reason they make movies about mother-in-laws, right? Wasn't there that movie Monster-in-Law? And so there's a reason, right? I think it's either hot or cold, but I think it's your spouse's responsibility to lay down the law and say, listen, this is who I've chosen, this is who I love, and you can either get it together, get in line, or we're going to have to spend less time with you, which we don't want to do. We love you and want to spend time with you. But I sometimes think more truth is told in jest. So if your mother-in-law is joking and saying, oh, you're temporary, you're temporary, she's laughing it off and you're all laughing it off. To me, I don't think it's that funny. I think it's emasculating. I think it's denigrating to the man for the mother-in-law to say that. I see so many women who unfortunately denigrate and emasculate their husbands and mistreat them. And then they wonder why their husbands aren't nice to them, why their husbands stray and step outside of the marriage. And so I'm not victim blaming and not blaming the women overall, but I'm just saying you have to be careful because men are sometimes more fragile than you realize, right? Men are very reactive creatures. I can say this because I am one. And so if you continue to allow your husband to be emasculated and denigrated by his mother-in-law, you're going to have problems in the relationship. He's going to go tell his female coworker about the horrible family dinner you guys had. He's going to go to the bar, tell the beautiful bartender about what happened. One, two, skip a few. Whoopsie, whoopsie, they're having sex. So I think you got to be careful tearing down your men and emasculating them. But I got to get some water, okay? That last question made me a little... Next question, you guys, let's see. Can you say one nice thing about Kim Kardashian? Yes, I think I can say one nice thing about Kim Kardashian. So obviously, this is a woman we discovered on her back with a sex tape. We're not beating around the bush on that one, okay? Someone was beating around the bush, but it was on the sex tape. So we're not beating around the bush. She did build an empire with her mother, Kris Jenner, off of that tape and built generational wealth for her entire family. And so for that, I gave her kudos. I do think Kim Kardashian has been detrimental for women's body image. In the beginning, she was curvy and she had curves, and they said, this is great for women because she's curvy, right? She's not a stick thin, you know, Olsen twin. Great, early 2000s. But then over time, the Kardashians chased so many trends, right? First, big asses are in, and then everybody's on ozempic, and then everybody's skinny, and then they're getting big lips, and then the Kardashians are allegedly dissolving the big lips that they just got. And so I think some women who are more impressionable, they look up to this, especially young girls, and they think, I'm going to tweak and change and chase the trend, and why don't I look like that? Well, they don't even look like that. They've got filters and editing and everything, you know, under the sun that they use. And so I don't think it's a net positive for women's body images, a body image. I think it's actually pretty detrimental, but Kim Kardashian, she's built a big business. And I will say, even though she picks bad guys, I thought Kanye was a horrific partner. She did try to protect him. She could have gone a lot harder on Kanye and the public because he was the father of their children. It seems like she let a lot of things slide. But then again, would Kim have gone out with Kanye West if he worked at the gas station? You know what I'm saying? If he was Kanye Johnson from the gas station, shout out to everybody at the gas station. Shout out to everybody at Bucky's. We love you. But would she have gone out with him if he was a normal guy? No, I think Kim liked the fact that Kanye was very famous, edgy, interesting, and she could elevate herself. Okay, few more questions here. These are fun. I'm so glad we're doing Ask Link, you guys. Okay. Okay, I work in marketing, where everyone assumes we all think the same. I keep my opinions to myself, but when politics come up, I'm expected to nod along. I'm conservative in a liberal office. Do I stay quiet for peace and to get a promotion, or do I speak up and risk becoming that guy? I'm going to be honest, you guys, I would be quiet. I would be quiet. And maybe if the environment is untenable, okay? If the environment is untenable and everybody's super liberal and you just can't work with them, that's one thing and look for new employment. But I would not rock the boat, right? Get that promotion, save your money, get that 401K. You just got to be quiet during the nine to five. You guys don't need to talk politics anyway at work. You know what I'm saying? And so I would just be quiet, not along, you know, say what they want to, tell them what they want to hear. So you can make that money, support your family and then look for new employment. But I wouldn't try to be the guy or girl in the office on a crusade, right? To be the one conservative in the office. I've been in environments before where, you know, I'm surrounded by people who are much more to the left, right? And I'm a more right of center, more independent minded. And so they'll say, how can you support this? And how can you not support that? How can you hang out with that person? And you just got to pick your battles, right? And you'll get very fatigued. If you become that guy in the office, you'll become very fatigued and you don't want, you won't want to go to work. You'll always be in a battle and a fight. And some of these liberals can be very militant. Okay. They see anyone who's conservative as a threat to democracy. And so I'd keep your mouth shut. Okay. Last question. I'm 57 and single and I honestly don't know how dating is supposed to work at this age. Well, you came to the right place. Maybe. I was married for over 20 years and have been divorced for a while now. My kids are grown. I have a good life, good friends, and I'm happy overall, but I do miss having someone. The problem is dating now feels different than the last time I was single. Everything is apps and texting. And men who seem emotionally unavailable or are chasing women 20 years younger. Well, tell me how you really feel. Let them put it out there. I still feel young, attractive and like I have a lot to offer, but sometimes it feels like women over 50 are expected to just give up on that part of life. Am I being unrealistic, wanting love again, or is there actually hope out there? Honey, eternal optimist, there is hope out there. If you try to knock on one door and it doesn't open, that's not the right door. You keep opening those doors. And if the door doesn't open, you get a sledgehammer and boom boom, fi fi fo fum. Of course, there is hope out there. I just saw an article as well. I saw an article, I think it was in the New York Times. It was an opinion piece. So many young men want women who are older, who have experience, maybe women who are past childbearing age, right? That's a thing. Men sometimes say, I don't want kids, and they date women who also don't want kids and are past that part of their life. And so I do definitely think there's hope out there for you. There's so many single men who also want to go out with you, but you got to put yourself in the right place. You know, so many of my girlfriends, they'll say, I haven't met someone, I can't meet a guy, I don't know how to date. Have you gone out to a bar? Have you joined a gym? Have you gone to a workout class? Have you gone to a restaurant with your friends, you know, during happy hour? You got to put yourself in some of these places and you're going to have to be uncomfortable. You're going to be uncomfortable. Dating is awkward, uncomfortable. When you are getting to know someone, okay, it is not easy. It is not easy. You're going to feel weird sometimes. Okay, you're going to feel out of place. Am I saying the right thing? You're going to be nervous and anxious. But if you meet the right person, it's all worth it. So my advice to you, I'd go to the gym. Go to a gym, okay, where you think that the clientele might skew a little bit older. Go to the YMCA, go to the YMCA. Go to the gym. You don't have to work out that hard. Okay, you don't have to work out that hard. Just act like you're working out, okay? Mingle, get to know people, get on the machine next to someone. Men are hunters, okay? They're hunters and gatherers. So if you go and you're just there, then a man is probably going to come up and approach you. You know what I'm saying? Men, if they still have that testosterone in that drive, it's the animal kingdom, they're going to come up and approach you. And so put yourself in those situations. If you have one friend, even if it's someone you don't like that much, just try and get a girlfriend to go out to a bar with you, okay, whether you drink or not. Find some friend, you can ditch them later, okay? If you're someone who doesn't have tons of friends, find someone, though, to go out to a bar, happy hour, a bar that skews a little bit older, classy, has that older clientele, and then maybe you can meet someone, right? You said that you're 57 years old, go out there, start talking, put yourself out there, have open body language, okay? Nine times out of 10, when women don't get approached, it's not because of the way they look, it's not because of their hair, their makeup, their shoes. I think women overthink all of that. It's because they don't seem to have open body language when we're out at a bar. Now, I'm not saying you should be going, come and ask me out, please approach me. I'm not saying you should wear a sign. I am open for business. But, okay, if you go out, have some open body language, you know what I'm saying? Be friendly, be avuncular, be, you know, having a good time out with your girlfriends. That's the way guys are going to approach you because you might be standing here kind of nervous with your drink. Hold on, I'm going to use Meghan Markle's candle. You're standing here with your drink, with your cocktail. No guys are coming up to talk to you. The girl down the bar with the snaggletooth who hasn't seen the inside of a gym in 200 years, guys are running up to her because she's saying, hey, hey, hey, open body language. She's looking around, she's smiling, she's making eye contact. So that would be my advice. Don't shy away from the apps. If you join Match or any type of website to meet a guy, just be upfront, put on there, I'm coming out of a relationship, I'm terrible at this. You know, have a conversation, say listen, I am terrible at this internet dating. And they'll probably say, you know what? I hate it too. And that can be your conversation starter. But that concludes this episode of Ask Link. I can't wait to read more of your comments. And then I also can't wait to read your comments because I know all of y'all are going to chime in on the advice I just gave and the people who wrote in. So I can't wait to read all that. We got to pay some bills really quickly. 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Speaker 3:
[41:08] Well, the Michael Jackson biopic is officially out. It's called Michael. Very creative name. So the movie Michael, it has been panned by critics. Okay. Many critics have said it's horrible. They're giving it one star, half a star, but it doesn't seem to matter because apparently it's supposed to do $150, $200 million opening weekend. I think people want to go hear the music. They know it's going to be a little, you know, soap opera lifetime-esque. We're not going to see the real nitty gritty of Michael Jackson, right? With this movie. We're not going to see everything. You know, you're not going to see Joe Jackson pummeling him too hard or anything like that, right? This is going to be a more sanitized cinematic version, but it's been slammed by many critics, but I don't care. I love the music. I want to go and see him moonwalk. I want to see the story and just have a good time. And so biopics are really in right now. We have the trailer up on the screen so you can see. Apparently, he's being played by his nephew. One of his family members is playing him in the film. So that's great. They're keeping it all in the family. And they had the premiere the other night. So they did a premiere the other night. Almost everyone showed up except Paris Jackson we cannot find at the premiere. And also Janet Jackson was notably absent from the movie and didn't have anything to do with the movie. And I don't blame Janet Jackson or Paris Jackson because they probably, you know, don't want to relive all of that. They have their own version of their truth and who they knew, right? They knew Michael, they have their own version of what they experienced with him. Janet more so than Paris Jackson, she was quite young. But I can understand protecting your peace and not wanting to go open up old wounds and traumas because Michael Jackson was so beloved and died so publicly. But I am happy for the family. I think some of the family, let's be honest, they're not in the best place financially. Doing this big Michael Jackson movie, it will reignite interest in the Jackson brand, in the Jackson estate, the intellectual property surrounding the entire Jackson family. So I see that that'll be good. But we have a clip actually of Latoya Jackson discussing how her sister Janet kindly declined. Let's take a look.

Speaker 2:
[43:14] Did you miss not having Janet in the movie?

Speaker 8:
[43:18] I wish everybody was in the movie.

Speaker 1:
[43:21] Did you try to convince her and say, let's do it?

Speaker 8:
[43:23] Well, she was asked and she kindly declined. So you have to respect your wishes.

Speaker 3:
[43:30] So Latoya Jackson, I just have to tell you guys, she is my favorite member of the Jackson family, because she's not taken herself too seriously. She knows she's not Michael. She knows she's not Janet. She knows she's not Jermaine. She knows she's not Rebi. Which one was Rebi? So there are a lot of Jacksons. There aren't many Jackson as Kardashians, okay? There are a lot of them. It's a big family. But Latoya Jackson, she doesn't take herself too seriously. She's down for a good time. I love her laugh. She has a ridiculous high-pitched laugh, okay? I think most of the family members do. Latoya Jackson, she's skinny. She's there. She's having a good time. She's my favorite member of the family. I wanna read you a little bit more. So Paris Jackson actually put the film down. Michael Jackson's daughter, she's the one with all the tattoos, she's had some struggles of her own in her personal life, which is understandable. How could she not with everything she's experienced in the public and losing her father so publicly? And so Paris Jackson, she actually put the film down. We have a quick clip of her explaining her reasoning. Take a look.

Speaker 9:
[44:29] The thing about these biopics is there is Hollywood. So this is, it's fantasy land. It's not real, but it's sold to you as real. And a lot of sugar coated, like, the narrative is being controlled. And there's a lot of inaccuracy and there's a lot of just full blown lies. And at the end of the day, like, that doesn't really fly with me. I don't really like dishonesty. I spoke up, I wasn't heard, I f***ed off. That's it.

Speaker 3:
[45:01] So Paris Jackson, she explains, of course, this is going to be a watered down version. But Hollywood is not going to make a rough and tumble version of Michael Jackson, right? They're not going to show drugs or partying, if he was doing any of that. But they're not going to show that. And let the man rest in peace. He's not here to defend himself. And so I understand making a feel good family movie. People want to be able to take their kids and grandkids to go see the Michael Jackson movie. I will say, we pulled up the Rotten Tomatoes score. It was not good. It debuted with 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's not great. Okay, 27% review is not excellent. But like I said, I don't think it matters. I think people love Michael. They love the music. They're not going there to see some award winning Oscar dramatic performance. They're going to have a good time, relive some of the things they maybe had forgotten from the past. And you know, eat some popcorn and get out of there. So the early reviews don't seem to be affecting things. Like I said, they're heading for $150 million global opening according to Deadline. The last thing I'll say about the film, I've seen pretty much all of the biopics recently. I saw Rocket Man on Elton John. I saw Bohemian Rhapsody on Freddie Mercury and Queen. These movies, of course, were a more Disney version of their lives. I remember with Sacha Baron Cohen doing the Freddie Mercury movie, he pulled out of the film because he said Brian May and the folks from Queen wanted to do a cleaned up version and he wanted to do the more nitty gritty. He pulled out of the film and Rami Malek ended up playing Freddie Mercury. This has always been a push and pull. How do we honor their legacy, give people a little bit of edge, but we also got to keep a little bit of the sheen and keep it clean so families can go see these films. The one thing I'm concerned about with Michael Jackson, he was known for his dancing. You can do all the CGI and AI and special effects. He was known for moonwalking and being a once in a generation talent and incredible dancer with rhythm. So I don't know any actor who can really come close. Like Bohemian Rhapsody, you could get the teeth. You could perform Freddie Mercury's mannerisms. Elton John, he sits at the piano. He's a legend. He's incredible. But you could do that Liberace, hey, out to the audience thing. With Michael Jackson, you gotta have someone who can really dance. And so I'll be watching this film with a fine tooth column. Looking at the clips, it doesn't look terrible. It doesn't look like the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. So I'll be going and watching the film, getting my popcorn, getting my little Coca-Cola with a lot of ice and sitting there in my recliner in the theater and watching. Now before we go, I want to end with a story about Kamala Harris, Ms. Kamalamity Cabernet Kamala. So she is back doing the speaking circuit because she probably wants to run in 2028. So she's going and speaking on a lot of these events and she's kind of teasing the fact that she's going to run, you know, she kind of wants your vote, she can't say that. So she was speaking at the Power Rising event. This was a black leadership summit hosted by the Roots, I believe. She was speaking there and she unveiled a new accent. I guess she was pandering to the crowd. Take a look and tell me what you think.

Speaker 10:
[48:12] I think it's okay for us to be a bit transactional too. And to say I'm going to get mine also. And so don't count on me to be a voter and be the backbone of the Democratic Party. Because it is my value system and my ethics and my sense of civic duty and responsibility. So that you look at me and say, oh, they're going to vote.

Speaker 3:
[48:42] So of course, Kamala Harris is pandering there. I'm going to get mine. I'm going to do this. Kamala Harris thinks she's half black, married to a white man. She lives in a bougie gated community, right? But when she gets in front of these black crowds, she always speaks a little bit differently. And to her credit, Kamala, Hillary Clinton also did the same thing when she said she had hot sauce in her purse. But this is what the Democrat Party does and she's actually touching on this. What's interesting, she doesn't think what she's saying applies to her. She does the same stuff every couple of years. Every time there is an election, she's a Democratic elite who goes out there to pander for votes with empty promises, right? So Kamala Harris, she basically said that it's okay to be a little transactional. Don't count on me for a vote. But this is what her party has been doing. Every four years, the Democrats go through South Carolina, they count on the black vote and black voters to propel them to get the nomination. That's what they do. They promise them all of these things and then they don't deliver. But Kamala Harris acting like she's not a part of that. You're a part of the swamp. You're a part of the system. That's what a lot of politicians do. They go and they do empty promises on the campaign trail. And then when they get into office, hey, you might be left holding the bag. Doesn't always end up happening. And so for Kamala Harris, I think she should run in 2028 because it'll be very entertaining. I want her to run in 2028 because it'll be entertaining, it'll be incredible, it'll create a lot of viral moments for us to discuss, but no open bar is safe, okay? When she's on the road campaigning, no open bar is safe. There's not enough liquor north of the Mason-Dixon line for Kamala Harris, but we wish her well in her new accents and her new pandering. But I just find it ironic that she can't see what she's projecting is actually a confession of her own behavior. Every accusation is a confession from these elite Democrats. And she's the same person who goes out there with empty promises, right? The border was supposed to be secure, she opened the border. Crime is supposed to come down, she was the strong attorney general. Crime went up in a lot of major cities. And so Kamala Harris, we will be keeping tabs on you. Well, my friends, thank you so much for tuning in to Spot On with Link Lauren. I can't wait to read all of your comments. We will be back on Monday. And you can find me on social media throughout the week at IamLink on Instagram. Let's link Lauren on X. It'll all be down below. I'm always running my mouth and posting on there and reading your feedback, reading your replies, your comments. I love you. Be well. If you're with family this coming weekend, I hope you have a great time. If you're going to spend the weekend alone, I'm also thinking of you. So thank you for tuning in. We will see you on Monday. Bye.

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