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Speaker 1:
[00:00] It's your Daily Dose of Dana. Welcome to the show. Thanks for being here. It is Tuesday, Thursday. It's Thursday, April 23rd. We're nearing the end of the week. It's been a long week. It feels like a week that won't ever get to Friday. If anyone else is there with me, at least we've got sun though. At least it's a gorgeous day here in Los Angeles. I hope it's nice wherever you guys are. I've already had such a full morning. I've done a million things. I went to the market, Target, my kid's school, which is about like 20 minutes away, and another errand, and the gym. All this morning, what I didn't do was run 100 miles on a treadmill like a woman did. There is a woman, and I can't remember where she lives, but she, I posted it on my stories last night. She has won the, whatever, the record, the award for running 100 miles straight on a treadmill in under 13 hours. Excuse me? Excuse me, how? Excuse me, what? Excuse me, what? I've never felt more lazy, and then I just opened a bag of chips. How is everyone doing? Let's get into the show. Let's get into everything. Yeah, all right, let's go. Make sure to subscribe and like the feed as you're listening. Join me here every single Monday through Friday with Pop Culture Reports. It's your Daily Dose of Dana. Welcome. Okay, you guys, I got my Botox yesterday. I feel so much better. It hasn't really fully kicked in yet, but I just feel more alive. I feel like I've lost about six years of my life, but then, then, liquid came in the Amazon package today. My own glasses strap. Now, I've officially hit grandma status. Don't tell me these aren't cute though. That's like, it's kind of like cool grandma, right? Cute grandma. But I feel like I have hit grandma status because I constantly need to have my glasses. I cannot see small things. I can't see small writing if I'm looking at the back of a prescription bottle or a medicine or even just like ingredients sometimes, or usually it's like supplements, things like that. I can't see anything. It's crazy. With the phone, I'll take a picture of it and then zoom into it. I don't know if any of you guys have ever tried that trick. Yeah, but that's where I am in life. Got my Botox, but my eyes are still aging. These are 45 almost year old eyes. Welcome. Welcome to Aging 101. It's real fun, real fun, especially here in Los Angeles. RJ says, if you think it's cute, that's all that matters. I actually don't think they're that cute. I mean, they're cute. They are, but they're necessary. I can never remember where the glasses are. Well, we got to get into some stuff. There's some breaking Blake Lively trial stuff that just came out. I don't know the details. All I know is that from the group text I just saw, the MSJ was denied and most likely, he won't grant the MJOP. This is the judge also. Most likely, we are going to trial with the Blake and Justin Baldoni trial. It feels like that's kind of the only way where it's headed. I have no plan on going. I just don't think it's worth it or necessary for me. I will cover it from here, but no, I mean, I wish more than anything it was on TV, but my kids, I need to be here for my kids. And it's just not worth it for me to hopefully go and maybe be able to sit in the courtroom for five seconds, you know what I mean, for one day or whatever. I'd rather cover it here based on everyone else's reporting. So we'll definitely be doing that. The day that we don't have to talk about Blake Lively, counting down. Let's get into a couple of other things. Today's going to be an interesting day. Nothing like, there's not crazy groundbreaking news, but it's a lot of fun news, a lot of fun updates about TV shows. I don't know if you-

Speaker 2:
[05:14] Wow, the TV world has been loving.

Speaker 3:
[05:17] Lena Dunham is planning a girls movie.

Speaker 1:
[05:19] Do you guys hear this?

Speaker 2:
[05:21] It's coming in June.

Speaker 1:
[05:22] Stop.

Speaker 3:
[05:22] Did you catch the June 3 opening scene at CinemaCon?

Speaker 1:
[05:25] It got a great response. What did I say? Please be quiet. What was that? I want my, it's not an A-L-E-X-A. It's not because I don't have one in here. It's for the fire. It's the Amazon Fire Cube. Wait, this actually reminds me. Do you think I can change the accent on my Fire Cube to Brittany Carr, right? So she's like, hey, Donna, tonight, you're going to Day Nite with Lance. So I think the Valley was on yesterday, and when I tell you, it didn't even cross my mind to listen to it, had no interest whatsoever. That's where we are with the Valley, zero interest whatsoever. I'll do it, I'll watch it, but I'm not interested. But I haven't watched it yet. Okay. Let's get into some of this new, this is exciting like TV stuff. There's some good stuff that's happening. Hulu had its Get Real event yesterday. I don't know if you guys saw it all over the Internet. That's what I did. It's interesting. Hulu is really coming for Bravo's neck. Bravo still has some of those big hits, but Hulu really does have some big hitters that are almost taking over, if I can be honest, taking over the energy from Bravo a lot. They had this Hulu Get Real event yesterday. What it was, was just basically a place where press and advertisers probably could get together and see what the new shows for Hulu are going to be, and what the new slate of stars, etc. Hulu is ABC and all of the things. So it does seem a little bit fun. Very awkward in their presentations. Let's go to the Hulu Instagram account. I don't know if they posted all the presentations, but I saw some other people posting some of the presentations, and they were so, honestly, so uncomfortable. But a bunch of new shows are coming out. So let's get into some of these. The first is that I think is fascinating, is this one. So this is called Million Dollar Nannies. Freeform looks to have a connection back with Hulu, and I'm actually interested about that. Freeform used to be around forever ago, and then it became, or it was ABC Family, and then it became Freeform. So I'm surprised that that's back. But there's Million Dollar Nannies, which looks cute. I think they're nannies on, I don't know if there's a trailer yet, but it is a nanny. It's like a group of nannies that are taking care of, obviously, very, very rich people. I don't exactly know where they are, but here's the thing that people are going to say like, how could you do a show about nannies that's so invasive? These are actors. They're not actors, they're nannies, but they want to be famous. They're not like career nannies. If you sign up for a reality show, no matter what you do in life, you're not anything but a fame whore. That's honestly the truth. No offense, reality stars, but I can never look at a reality star, like an actual reality star, not like Ryan Serhant, just say. Ryan Serhant is an example of someone that is a real estate agent first, reality star second. But there's so many other people out there that I just look at them and I'm like, you've lost me. You've lost me 100%. You are just a reality star. Okay, then we have, you know, Kardashians. They're still trying to push the Kardashians, although the one new show that they talked about yesterday was Courtney, I'm sorry, Chloe, who's my favorite Kardashian. She is producing, executive producing a new show about her friends. Guys, I, there's nothing about a Courtney, a Khloe Kardashian produced show about her friends that interests me whatsoever. It just doesn't. Let's see if she posts anything about it. I like her, but I have no interest in watching her friends. Do you? She's not going to be on it. Did she not even post about it? That would be funny. Here we go. It's called The Girls and it's for Hulu. It basically is just essentially a show about their friends, the girls. Okay. Not really interested in that. Now, one that I am super interested in is Stassi's new show. Stassi had a show in development at Hulu for years. It used to be called Stassi Says, and now they changed the name and they're calling it House of Stassi. It actually looks really cute. It's like a mix between her personal life and maybe her friends, her family, etc. I don't really know if it's anything but just like a Rachel Zoe project type of show where you just see her doing her work, etc. Let's watch the trailer of Stassi Says from the Hulu Instagram.

Speaker 4:
[11:08] I'm a mom, a wife, a sister, a friend, some would say an influencer, others would call me mother.

Speaker 3:
[11:16] We have to have each other's backs.

Speaker 4:
[11:18] I'm a 1950s housewife.

Speaker 5:
[11:20] I have my apron on, you come over, and I can have a beer. I don't do that.

Speaker 1:
[11:26] You kind of sound like an ungrateful wench.

Speaker 3:
[11:28] You hit me all winter.

Speaker 5:
[11:30] People will be like, that girl's pretty.

Speaker 4:
[11:32] Who is this bitch?

Speaker 3:
[11:33] House of Stassi, July 29th on Freeform, and next day on Hulu.

Speaker 1:
[11:38] What do you guys think about that? I mean, I will say, I really pray to God that it doesn't ruin her family. That's all I can say about that. Stassi is such a good win. She's such a good TV star. She's so watchable. She's so likable, even when she's not being likable. But I just worry. I worry about putting your whole family on a reality show. And then also when you kind of put it out that, Bow, my husband, is a stay at home dad, or I am the breadwinner and he's a stay at home dad, that never actually connects to happiness in a marriage at the end of the day. No man, I don't care who you are, and tell me if I'm old school Patty Stanger vibes for this, but what man is going to be happy being portrayed as not the contributor to the family, like not the prime contributor to the family. I just don't necessarily think it bodes healthy. I think some men are okay with it, ultimately if they have to be, but aren't happy, right? Like Rachel Zoe's husband. Rachel Zoe's husband was the second in command in that marriage. We had Rachel Zoe on top and then the husband right behind. And I feel like it sets you up for a dynamic that is just not positive. It's just not happy and positive. Like for, I think women, okay, I'm going to sound like 1950s. But I think a lot of women want their husbands to take care of them, whether it's a little bit or a lot of it. But some women are completely okay with their men taking a backseat. Amanda Francis. A lot of you guys are saying that in the comments about Amanda Francis. You know, I watched an Amanda Francis. You know, I like Amanda Francis, right? Like I've shared that with you guys. I don't think she's perfect. I think there's a lot of issues there. But Amanda Francis to me is actually like a compelling person to watch. She is, she lives like an interesting life. I would pick her over Sutton, for example, a million times over on Real Houses of Beverly Hills in terms of interesting, in terms of fascinating, in terms of different and not scared of opening up and just being herself. But she posted a real last night. This is a good little time to show you, which I think she's trying desperately to lift her husband up because she probably, unknowingly put him down so many times in the season, and it does come up in the reunion. I saw a little clip of that. It will come up in the reunion where basically, they ask, why do you always put down your husband? Because she constantly is like, I paid for this house. I make more money than my husband makes. I do this. I do that. I do this. But I just think that it's possible she didn't really know how bad it sounded until you listen to it back. I bet if I was on a TV show, a reality show, I would probably hate everything I did, and be shocked that I said half of the things. Last night, she posted this one little reel of her asking her husband to help her. I don't know. I didn't hate it. I just think that there's something likable about her. I can't tell. Let's watch.

Speaker 6:
[15:16] 11.15 at night, and you're going to come with me to come downstairs and tell Eddie that a piece of art that I bought in the Jose del Cabo when Kanan was a baby, so over three years ago, that I need to open the crate with the piece of art and hang it in my office tonight, and so I need him to help me. Do you know that art that I bought in Cabo three and a half years ago?

Speaker 1:
[15:39] I like her wallpaper.

Speaker 6:
[15:41] My first modular menu office.

Speaker 7:
[15:43] We can go through it?

Speaker 6:
[15:44] Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 5:
[15:47] You have parmé.

Speaker 6:
[15:48] What's a parmé?

Speaker 7:
[15:50] A tray.

Speaker 6:
[15:50] What's the tray?

Speaker 5:
[15:51] The dinner that I was being raised in and hadn't done.

Speaker 6:
[15:53] You haven't cleaned up the dinner yet? Watch the movie, we need an extra. I thought he cleaned up from dinner while he was doing baths.

Speaker 1:
[16:07] And then she goes on to have him hang it, and she's telling him he's such an amazing man and this and that. And I'm like, okay, she's backpedaling, I think. She's backpedaling from the whole season of not really building him up. I think men get resentful after that. And listen, maybe not every man, but my man would. Lance, 1,000 percent would. Okay, so that's the Stassi show. I'm very excited to watch that. I hope it's good and I hope it's not completely produced and fake and all of the things, which you know what, it honestly may be. Let's see, what else happened? Oh, okay. Well, two huge pieces of news that happened last night, and that is Sierra Miller and Maura Higgins, but really, Sierra Miller getting announced as the lead of Dancing with the Stars. And actually, I do want to talk about Sierra in just a minute, so I'm going to put her on a hold because I want to go into like a little bit of her path and how this is all kind of working out and how it could have gone so wrong, but it's going so right. I have such respect for Sierra. But then, so okay, so we had the Dancing with the Stars announcement. Maura, I don't really care for. I'm sorry, I just don't have like such an obsession with Maura Higgins, like some other people do. I just find her to be okay. Like I would have been stoked if Rob was on Dancing with the Stars, right? That to me would have been really exciting. Okay, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Let's get into this because I find this to be really odd for a couple of reasons. But basically yesterday at the event, they had the- I'm trying to pull up the clip that I saw. Was it? I don't remember who posted it now. Let me just search one more person. Was it Spilsesh that posted it on her Instagram? Okay, yes, she has all the clips. So Spilsesh, I'm going to pull up her Instagram. So Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is not only resuming cameras, and they're picking up cameras. I said that yesterday. A few of them were out there speaking. It was Macy, Layla, Jesse, and then the blonde one that I can never remember her name, the one with the deep Miranda. Some of them are just forgettable. And they announced, oh, Maddie's here, that they're going to do Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Orange County style. We have thoughts. If you are like me, you have thoughts. So, first of all, let me share with you guys when they announced it. Right here.

Speaker 2:
[19:09] Friends, we'd like to introduce one of them, just so happens to be my sister. Maybe they can answer this question a little bit better than I can.

Speaker 7:
[19:18] That's right. Mom Talk is expanding and heading west. I'm so excited to introduce you guys to the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Orange County. Yeah, baby.

Speaker 1:
[19:38] These are the new girls.

Speaker 7:
[19:39] Chandler Higginson, Ashley Keith, Madison Potempo, and Macy's sister, Macaulda Crone.

Speaker 1:
[19:48] Okay. The comments all over Spill Sesh is we didn't ask for this. Who chose to do this? This is so insane. This is so ridiculous. Well, I also think just like any other network, when you have a successful franchise, you're going to push it out. You're going to try to get more people. You're going to try to get additional names, additional franchises. It makes sense that they're trying to do what Real Housewives did. The problem here is that these girls are not Mormon. So we need to just change the name of the show. It should just be Secret Lives of Wives, right? That to me feels like the more interesting or the better way to pull this off. People Magazine did a little video about who these girls are. I hate to say it, but I actually really don't know some of them. Maybe I'm just too old. I don't know some of these girls. But here we go. Let's meet the cast. Meet the cast of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Orange County. A lot of you guys follow some of them. I'm going to mute it because we don't need it. That's Aspen Ovard. Don't know anything about her. Bobby Althoff, that's a crazy get. Avery Woods, I know her. Madison Bantempo, I know her name. Salome Andrea, no. McCall DePran is Macy's sister. Ashley Pease, don't know her. Chandler Higginson, don't know her. They're not Mormon. Maybe one of them is Mormon. But when you're starting to call a show Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and then you don't put Mormons on them, it's not like I think the original Secret Lives of Mormon Wives are so Mormon, but it's stupid. Just call them wives. Just call them Secret Lives of Influencer Wives. That's what they are. They all have millions of followers. All they do is just post content. So interesting and I think about this really fast. I went to an Asian market yesterday, one of the best Asian markets here in Los Angeles. It's so cool. I love going to any ethnic grocery store. I love going to Persian markets. I love going to Israeli markets. I love going to Asian markets, et cetera. I was walking around, I was buying all this fresh seafood and sushi and whatever. I thought to myself, if I was in that mindset, I would never be here without filming it. I would come in here to film it. I would be like, come with me as we go to the Asian market. Then we'd walk into the store and I'd be like, got to get that. What's this ramen? What's this? I love this. This is the drink that I drank when I was in Japan that one time on a brand trip. I would be doing all of that. Instead, I just put my book on my ear and I just shocked. I thought to myself, how exhausting to be an influencer and never feel like you can just do. You have to document everything. Here's another example. Today's show is really off the chains, off the glasses chains. Here's another example. Oh my God, Secret Lives of Jewish Wives would be my favorite show. Why can't we get one of those? Get me on that show. I'm like, I would never want to be an influencer. Ooh, I never want to be on a reality show. This is what I think is really interesting. I'll never forget. Do you guys feel like we're just hanging out as friends? Speaking of, by the way, if you want to just hang out as friends, tonight at 4:30 PM Pacific Time, 7:30 PM Eastern Time, we're doing a happy hour over on Patreon, on Zoom. We will just be able to hang out like friends, and then you guys can tell me everything you want to talk about. There was an influencer. Don't know her name. Her post hit my feed randomly. A few weeks back, where she wakes up in the morning and she realizes, and I'm sorry if you're going to get squirmish hairy, guys, that her dog pooped all over her bed. We've been there before. It is horrendous to wake up in these kinds of situations. She wakes up and she sees it, and the first thing she's doing, it's still dark in her room. She hasn't even turned on the light. She has no idea. The first thing she's doing is filming it. She's like, like her eye mask is still on. She's like, what is this? Oh my God. And then she films turning on the light. Oh my God. Oh my God. And she's filming the whole thing. Then we find out that the dog went to the bathroom all over one of her blankies. It was a blanket that she had when she was a kid. This is a 40 some year old woman. And her hair, the hair of the blanket is, I mean, the blanket is just shreds at this point. It's been 40 years. And she starts hysterically crying. She's filming herself hysterically crying over it. Doesn't even know how to handle it. Freaking out, goes to the bathroom, starts washing it, but she's bawling crying because, and her husband comes in and he's like, are you okay? And she's like, no, I've never watched this blanket my entire life. This blanket has never been washed. She's filming all of this, by the way. She's filming herself wash this blanket. Then she's filming all of the disgusting, and when I tell you, black water is coming out of this blanket. And she's like, it's the smell of the blanket.

Speaker 5:
[25:34] It's the smell.

Speaker 3:
[25:36] I just like, I love that smell.

Speaker 1:
[25:39] It's my comfort zone. And she's cleaning it all out, cleaning it all out. And it's black water. And she's been sleeping with this thing in between her and her husband since she met him. Okay. And she's hysterically crying. And I thought to myself, the fact that you chose to wake up in the morning and turn on your camera when you smelled poop in your dog, in your bed with dogs is exactly what's wrong with the world. Because this morning, I woke up, Dylan woke up, Dylan sleeps with Rigley. I'm about to throw Rigley under the freaking bus right now. Rigley sleeps in Dylan's room, my son. His alarm goes off and all I hear is like, Mom, what? I go in his room. Okay. Rigley had a bad night, a very, very bad night. Some sort of digestion explosion happened in Rigley's room, in Dylan's room last night. I can't tell you what I'm going through at 6.15 this morning on my hands and knees cleaning. The last thing I thought to do was pull out my phone and record it. Not one part of me was like, oh, my audience needs to see this. That's psychotic behavior. If you guys see that blank, I'm going to find that blank of video and post it somewhere so that you guys can see what I was talking about. It was wild. It was embarrassing and wild. Okay. Let's move on. Astro says she may have had a traumatic childhood, probably her only sense of safety, the blanket. Well, I slept with a stuffed animal who still sleeps on my bed, scooter, but I've washed scooter. Like 40 years is a wild time to not wash a blanket. That's actually like, it's disease ridden at that point, I think. I don't know. Okay. Oh, my God. Christina says, Dana, my daughter's cat peed on her the other day while sleeping. Animals are, animals are a problem. I love animals, but maybe they just shouldn't sleep on our beds anymore. I don't have an animal on my bed except Lance. I do have Lance, but he doesn't poop in bed. I told you this week's episode was going to be crazy. Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Orange County came and it's a lost cause to me. I'll watch it, but I don't know if I'll like it. Now, Avery Woods is one that I do know. I know her because she had some drama. She's always, I feel like involved in drama, but she was friends with the girl Emily Kaiser, who I talked about a few months back, who so tragically lost her son to a drowning accident in her backyard, a preventable drowning accident. Emily and Avery were really close at the time, and Avery went, I believe, to the service for her son or something, and then came back and was wearing a necklace that said Emily's son's name on it. And since then, I don't think Emily follows her anymore. She was so upset at her. She felt like she ruined their relationship for clicks. You know what I mean? Okay, so I'll watch it just to kind of review it. Now, Taylor Frankie-Paul has walked herself away from social media, allegedly. I mean, I haven't even checked. That's how much I care about Taylor Frankie-Paul. But apparently, she vanishes from social media after revealing struggles of mental health amid her legal scandal. So it says that she quietly stepped back from social media. It must have been just yesterday or whatever, just yesterday, I saw a post of hers on Instagram. So this part is a little confusing to me. Did she just post and then just pull away? I think that all of the press around Secret Lives and all the stuff happening with Hulu and the fact that she's not in the mix and not part of it. Yeah, I mean, interesting. I think that maybe it's kind of hitting her everything she's lost with this. But just yesterday, last night, I was doing my puzzle and I opened up Instagram. I saw a post from her. So I guess something happened late last night. I don't know. Maybe, God knows with her. I hope she never comes back to Hulu. I hope, I mean, Bachelorette or Secret Lives. And I'm sorry for those of you that want to see her on the Bachelorette and are interested. I don't have any interest. I find her to be an incredible red flag. Both her and Dakota should not be on TV anymore. Like, I don't want my kids watching those people on TV. And no one should want their daughters watching those people on TV. Like, no matter how much healing you've done, it's not enough yet. It's too soon to have like all the healing in the world that you, I think, can be on TV anymore, right now. That's my feeling. Okay. So, let me think, did anything big other than that happen last night? I'm sure some other stuff, but nothing like of major importance. I want to talk about Sierra and then we have other stories. Sierra Miller. Okay. Sierra is doing Dancing with the Stars, which is in the books, the best move that she could possibly do. She is on the Ariana path. She's on the Ariana Maddox Train to Stardom. In fact, she's so on the Ariana Maddox Train to Stardom, that she even is appearing with Ariana in a reel that they just posted, I think last night, this morning, of Sonic. Here, let me show it to you. Sonic is like the reality star brand. I don't know, they're always in with any reality star. But this is them posting a little video. That's kind of okay, but I mean, they're adorable.

Speaker 5:
[31:57] Oh, anything new to talk about?

Speaker 7:
[32:01] No, nothing, no updates from me.

Speaker 5:
[32:04] Nothing, nada, really?

Speaker 7:
[32:06] No, honestly, life has been pretty chill.

Speaker 5:
[32:08] That's actually so refreshing to hear because I feel like I kind of thought that, you know, like things were like, No, no, no. I've been on social media. I've been honestly just drinking my new frozen Sonic Refreshers. So I love that energy. Let's sift to that.

Speaker 1:
[32:25] Sift to that. Okay, number one, they could have done so much more with that ad. It is very, very strange that Sonic paid all of that money for Ariana and Ciara to do a real together, a commercial together, and they didn't give them a better script. What? That's so weird. Other than that, it's a very cute ad. Although the entire thing I can see right now is the fact that I don't think they're drinking real drinks. You guys tell me. It looks like they're drinking props, right? That's all I could focus on the entire time. Let's watch it again. Look at their drinks. Especially Ciara's. I'm going to mute it. Especially Ciara's. She's shaking it all around and it's not moving. That's not a real drink, is it? I think it's fake. But I'm very happy for her, honestly. This is her announcement that she's doing Dancing with the Stars. She's clicking off a list that says prioritizing myself, taking risks, and then she says, Dancing with the Stars.

Speaker 3:
[33:43] See you in the ballroom.

Speaker 1:
[33:48] I find it so cute that she's not wearing any makeup in that video, and she feels very much authentically who she is. I don't find Sierra to be putting anything on. I was talking to Molly about this this morning, that she clearly has had a really good team. Give her advice. She's not speaking too much. She did that one glamour article, which probably paid her a ton of money. She did the, she's done, let's see, since it happened, she's done a few ads. She did Sephora, HBO Max. I don't even know. Yeah, it looks like she probably worked for them for the Euphoria premiere. She's done a couple of premieres. Of course, she did the glamour. Then she did this random ad Nuuly. I don't even know what Nuuly is, but they must have paid her a gazillion dollars to get in there right now because it's so random. Then of course, now she's doing Sonic. She's getting these ads. She's doing everything right. She, to me, I was told by a very close friend of mine who shall not be named, his name is Zach Peter, that she is completely irrelevant. I disagree 1000 percent. I think that she is stunning and she's come alive this season. Had it not been this season, I think I would have said maybe the same, that she's a little bit of a boring person. This season, she has so come into her own. I feel like I know who she is. I feel like I know her backstory. I feel like I know what breaks her, what makes her. We've seen her be vulnerable. We've seen her be a good friend. We've seen her. I just think that she is such a star. I hate to put it on Paige because Paige and her were so close, but Paige being in that house really diminished Ciara. I don't know if it was intentional or not or what, but Paige being there made Ciara much less of a person than what we're seeing now without Paige. Being friends with Mia and being in that house, we're getting so much more. Now, Bay Beach just said something very interesting, saying Ariana was born too. That's what I said something about that too. What made Ariana relevant, what made Ariana a star was Scandival. Before Scandival, no one cared about Ariana. People talked about Lala, people talked about Stassi when she was on the show. Even Katie Maloney was a bigger star than Ariana. Ariana was just like a forgettable character. She was like a ho-hum, bored, sad, introverted personality on the show. People would talk about Sheena even more. But Scandival happened and Ariana came out of her shell and she became so alive. If Ariana was boring before and then Scandival happened, and she may still be boring, it doesn't matter, but she is such a get. Like people want to watch Ariana and I think people want to watch Sierra and so that's how I feel about that. And I'm a fan of hers. I actually like the more I watch this season, I just really like her story. I like her story, I like her drive, I like her personality, I like her. And I love Mia and I've said that before. Mia is the star of the stars, literally of new casting. Whoever cast Mia on the new season of Summer House deserves a raise. She is phenomenal. She's a phenomenal addition because I care about her story and her backstory and her life and her mom. And I like, I want to see more of Mia. Now, let's get into the Summer House reunion, which is being shot right now as we speak. And I find this to be fascinating because we got pictures of them coming in. I don't know why we're not getting video, but we've got pictures of the cast walking in. It's like they're treating it insane, actually, if you think about it. Hold on. Let me just find the pictures that I just saw. Oh, what? There's so much. Oh, maybe I was on the wrong page. It's virtual reality, that's what it is. Okay, so Amanda, there's Amanda Petula. I can't imagine what Amanda is experiencing walking into this. Amanda is, if you guys could caption each of these pictures, let's do that, okay? So caption what Amanda is thinking right now. Amanda is probably saying, Kyle, she's probably like, Kyle, can you fix this? That's what Amanda is saying. Here is freaking West, which by the way, I can't look at West without feeling like I need to take a shower, okay? You guys are funny. She is bracing for impact. She's shitting her pants. Gwen says, I don't think Amanda cares. She has zero self-awareness. Interesting. Lynn thinks she's terrified. I think that West looks and feels so dirty these days, it's wild. The more I see him, the more I feel nauseous. There is no way. I think a big part of Amanda and Kyle's relationship, probably what she really liked about it was the fact that he did protect her. He took care of her. At least we know this from the relationship, from them talking about it. Amanda's energy is very sit on the couch all night, get stoned, chill. I can see her doing a lot of door dash, cuddling with the dogs. Kyle was a wake up early workout, no matter how much he partied and drank. This guy always wakes up early. He works out. He's a hustler. He started his business. He works his ass off. You know he does and he DJs now. He's working constantly 24-7. He may also be drinking constantly 24-7, but he is working, working, working, working, working. That was a big issue in their marriage from the very beginning. If you used to watch Summer House, you would see that he would say to her, I wish you were a little bit more productive. It's not like, you need to work out. Amanda has the banging body. It's not like he felt like she needed to exercise or something. But I think it's really hard when you're in a marriage, when your energies don't match each other. Do you have that in your marriages, if you guys are in relationships or marriages, where one is a super, super go, go, go, go, go person, the other one is a super, super, super relaxed, never wants to do anything person. If you have that in your marriage, they say opposites attract and they say you can balance each other out. I personally do not think that it bodes for a very easy relationship long term. If you don't have something that you can meet in the middle on, because for me, Lance used to be more of the Amanda vibe before kids, and when we were younger, and it would bother me so much because I'm such a doer and a goer, and it's hard for me to just sit. As we've gotten older, I find myself a little bit more relaxed in him. He feels like he's a little bit more of a hustler, doer, goer, and it's almost like we met in the middle. We both love to relax and we both love to work hard. We both work out, we both wake up at early times. We both started our businesses. I just think that there's something very nice about sharing that with a partner and being on the same track, or else one tends to get a little resentful. Look at me trying to have marriage advice today as if I'm the queen. But look, RJ says that's me and my husband opposite energy, married 30 years. I think as long as you accept who the person is, and don't try to change them. Because if you do try to change them and you're not accepting of who they are, I think that you're going to end up being angry a lot of your marriage. If you're marrying someone who has a certain energy, certain vibe, certain morning, like they're an early morning person or a night owl, whatever, you have to just know that it's not going to change and you have to be okay with that. That's how I feel. Maybe West and Amanda really connect over this, because I have a feeling that he seems like Amanda vibe, like chill, go out, have drinks, chill. I did see a video, this one girl posted. I hate when I'm trying to remember who posted something that I just watched. But Kyle, she said, posted a video of West in February, and she said it's still on his page, so maybe I can find it. West has a massive white powdered nose in this video. Yeah, it's here. We're going to watch it together. I wish I could find the video of the girl who talked about it. This is a February video, and of course, it's from the summer. Can we watch this for a second? I'm going to keep it on mute because I don't know. It's probably loud music, but I'm going to keep this on mute. Just I'll pause it when I get to West. Does it not pause and get tighter on West? Or maybe she just paused it and then tightened it on it. Okay. Of course, the play thing is right in front of it. I'm gonna undo it. You know what I'll do. Hold on, I'm gonna take a little screenshot, and we're gonna watch this together. This guy has a big chunk of, I think, powdered sugar on his nose, if you know what I mean. I don't like KJ's grill also while I'm here. Okay. Opening up the picture. And now we're gonna watch it. We're gonna look at it together. We're doing some investigative reporting is what we're doing. That's white powder, right? I mean, and it's not just in this angle because he's like moving his head. It very much clearly looks like residue from something. So this is who, it's wild that that's out there, right?

Speaker 3:
[46:20] He's gross, he's gross.

Speaker 1:
[46:24] Now, let's go back to the pictures of them showing back up to the reunion. So of course, we have Wes looking haggard, and I keep thinking that he wants to come on and be combative. That's his goal. Alex, thank you so much for the super chat. Is it because I found the white powder? That's so nice. Is it to add to my fund? I am scared of drugs like that. I've never touched them. I don't judge if you do, but I am scared of them. There we have Kyle Cook who looks so good these days. Just being honest, Kyle looks so nice. He looks clean. Carl looks like a mess. No, Carl really does look like, how am I going to get through today? He's got a gym bag. He's got 15 bags with him. Jesse looks wrecked. Mia looks beautiful and amazing and wonderful. I love Misa Mia. Here we have KJ who sadly, as much as I like KJ, I feel like he's gotten really comfortable in the last few days, being like taking advantage of being in this Wes Mandoval story. And I love it so much, to be honest. I feel like he's a little too big for his britches. And then we have this one, which maybe is the worst of them all. Just kidding. Not really. So they're shooting the reunion right now. And we got a reunion seating chart. So in case you're wondering how they're sitting at this reunion, let me show you and tell me if you guys think that their seating chart makes sense to you. To me, it does. It's exactly what I would think it would be. So we have Andy in the middle. We have on one side, Sierra, next to Kyle, next to Lindsay, next to Mia, next to Bailey, and then randomly we have Ben there. Then on the other couch, we have Amanda next to West, next to Carl, next to Jesse, next to KJ, Dara, and then random-ass Levi who has been in one scene of this entire show and for some reason is on the couch. Oh my God, Jesse commented and said, Carl got his wish and is fully in the mix. That's actually funny. Carl is in the mix. Good for them, good luck to them. I honestly don't know. I think it's going to be a very interesting day of reunion shooting. When are they going to be able to air it? I don't know how many more episodes we have of Summer House, but it's going to happen soon. I can't wait for that day. Can't wait for that day. Okay. We haven't seen Sierra come in, which is also a little weird. Like did Sierra get special entrance? Wait, isn't that weird? Why didn't they get her on camera? She probably was like hiding. She don't want to be seen. Okay. Let's get into, what do I want to talk about? Alex Cooper. The Alex Cooper, Alex thing, it's still going on. It doesn't stop. It really is wild. I think that the drama now is about her husband. This is actually kind of crazy. It started obviously with Alex vs. Alex and then now there's a new article that came out for Bloomberg that said that the husband is actually the problem. Then DuMois posted a blind, not a blind, but like an anonymous email where someone came in and said that Matt Kaplan is absolutely an issue. He's absolutely a problem. It makes me think, if I can be honest, it makes me think like do you think that this entire fight was because of the husband? It says, Alex Cooper's nasty husband, Matt Kaplan, this is in quotes, shit on his employees during an uncomfortable interview. Says, a social media user who claims she was up for the director of events position at Unwell a year and a half ago, went to TikTok to share her experience of what it was like interviewing for their production company. I think so many people love making every story about them, but Courtney Babin alleged that things took a turn for the worst during her final interview for the role, which she claims was a solo chat with Matt Kaplan. She says in this, I walk up to meet him and immediately it was weird. He looked me up and down, like my hair, my makeup, my outfit. I was in a blazer and pants and it was weird. It says once inside Kaplan's massive office, she claimed the couch was so uncomfortable and low to the ground with the businessman opting to sit in a chair that was leveled above her. Power balance was weird and he wasn't making eye contact with me. He was looking straight past me fixing his hair. She compared their alleged conversation to the first night dating, like a first date line of questioning. He allegedly inquired about her upbringing, her college experience and her parents, which she didn't take kindly. She says, I push back on answering what my parents do for a living. What relevancy does that have to do to this interview that is super inappropriate? Why does that matter? She claimed that the producer that led to the producer to shit on everyone at the company except Alex Cooper. She says that he said, Everyone who works here is a stupid nepo baby. They are rich. They don't care. They have no work ethic. They are lazy. He looked unimpressed with the whole situation. It was just nasty. It was awful. Then she said that the interaction left her so uncomfortable and so upset and wondered if Cooper was aware of how Kaplan acted at work. People say, don't meet your idols because this woman who I looked up to for so long. The fact a man is sitting behind this being so judgy and nasty just talking portly about what she built, it was by far the most inappropriate situation I've ever been in. Then she didn't get the job, she contacted human resources about what happened, but it was ignored. Here's the thing, is that I think you have to take these kinds of words a little bit with a grain of salt only because it does feel a little bit like this is when it rains, it pours energy and people are like, oh my God, this is my time that I can just attack and go all in and just say everything I want to say about them because they're the unpopular ones on the Internet right now. Why didn't this girl make this TikTok a week ago? Three weeks ago, six weeks ago, why did the Bloomberg article have to come out for her to do it? That to me kind of bugs me a little bit. Chicago, thank you for the super chat. Love you, Donna. I rarely am able to catch a live. Your mods are the best. Yes, they are. You and Zach need your own reality show. Well, Zach is filming his reality show, and I was on there, and that was enough for me. But I do think that people are really jumping on the I hate Alex Cooper and her husband chain right now or train. I think her husband may be a dick. I actually could 100 percent believe that. I feel bad for her because she's getting thrown under the bus also, but I do believe that if you marry someone, again, this episode should just be called Love and Marriage. If you marry someone who is a complete ass, and then you put them in charge of your company with your name all over it, where you're the face of it, and he treats people with little to no respect, and he's mean to people, it bodes bad on you, but that's also your choice. Alex Cooper, maybe Matt Kaplan is the reason Alex is where she is. I don't know, but I just don't personally feel that if Lance, for example, was like the CEO of Daily Dose of Dana and treated all my employees like a piece of shit, it would make me feel like, oh my God, this really reflects badly on me. This is going to be an interesting thing to see what happens, and more people are probably going to start to come out. Oh, so this is another super chat. Thank you, Alex. Oh my gosh. Your second super chat about West. There's so much fentanyl in blow if they're lazy and metabolizes slower than Coke. My husband is recovered and works with people trying to get sober. They all test high for fentanyl when they come for Coke problems. Yeah. That reminds me. Did you guys see that article about, it was like a page 6 article about the Hulk Hogan documentary? Hulk Hogan has a new documentary series, I guess, coming out in Netflix, on Netflix. Let's see if there's even a trailer. I know that Hulk Hogan is very polarizing. There's a lot of you that really don't like Hulk Hogan because of his political beliefs, and that's fine. I'm okay with that. I don't care. But the point is that he's dead, sadly, and I guess in this new show, they really, in this documentary, they talk about all of these things about him that no one really knew. And I'll go again. Fentanyl. And one of them is that he took Fentanyl, like so much of it, which by the way, had no idea that you could like casually do that. I thought one little iota of it can kill you. So I'm so shocked by this and it worries me how he talks about this. And it's, you know, it's okay. But he did die though. But he reveals shocking amount of Fentanyl use in his final interview. He said he was taking the most Fentanyl his doctors had ever seen a human being take to manage so much pain at the end of his wrestling career. He says he was taking 80 milligram Fentanols two in the morning, stuffing them under my gums. And then he took 300 milligram patches of Fentanol on his legs, and they gave me 6, 1500 milligram Fentanol lollipops to eat. Why is that in lollipops even? That's wild. Am I insane that I thought Fentanol kills you? I really hope that we… My biggest fear is my kids. Oh my god. You know, this is like a PSA. There's something out there called… I think it's called Krakao. K-A-R-A-C-K-O-W. Hold on. No. Kraken? No. It's a drink. I really wish I could find it. Now I actually don't know what it is called. Thank god. But it's a drink that apparently you could buy at 7-Eleven. Like I don't know if it still is there, but you could buy it at 7-Eleven. And it's an energy drink. I'm pretty sure it's just an energy drink. And it is insanely Kraken energy drink. Yeah, I'm right. Okay, this is, and I'm sharing this with you guys, just because in case you have kids that are, is it Kratom? You guys are saying Kratom? I think it's Kraken. But maybe I'm right, wrong. Hold on.

Speaker 6:
[59:46] Kratom energy.

Speaker 1:
[59:52] Yeah, this is it, Kratom. You guys are right. I'm telling you this, if you have kids who are like teenagers and they, and you find this in their use or whatever, this is so dangerous. I know someone who has a son. This is what it looks like. It's like one of those little liquid shocks, shots. Mayo Clinic says it's unsafe and ineffective. People say that it lifts mood and boosts energy, but there's so many issues with it. One person that I know has a son who is a teenager, and this was a kid that was perfectly high-functioning, good grades, sports, good kid, and became addicted to these drinks and it ruined his life. He is in rehab now for the second time. He stopped everything he was doing. It completely took over his life. This is a teen, like he was 15. Okay, so highly, highly recommend that you do not allow your kids to ever drink that and you don't drink it. I mean, what could it possibly be made out of? It is... Um, God, it doesn't even say what it is. It just says that if it's in low doses, it's used for energy focus. The problem is so many people take it in high dosage, and it becomes so incredibly addictive. I actually don't know, oh, it's like Mitragynin, 7-OH, like random shit. Keep them away from your kids and from you. Very, very scared, scary. Um, oh, it's pronounced kratom, kratom, C-R-A-T-O-M, or it's K-R-A-T-O-M, something, yeah. K-R-A-T-O-M is pronounced kratom. Absolutely dangerous. Please keep it away from your kids. Um, okay. Next. Um, how did I get there? Wes Pasta used? That's probably how. You know, it's funny, Page Six even has an article about it on their website now about Wes and his nose. He's a mess. Wes is a mess. And I don't think that he's going to be back next season. And I just don't know how in the world he comes back next season. I think his reality career is over because of this. He'll do like House of Villains. That's what he's going to. He's on the Tom Sandoval pack, which is just a mess. Last story. We've been talking about the Diana Russini and Mike Vrabel affair. This is My Sports Balls with Dana. Pictures were released today by Page Six and it shows Mike and Diana canoodling in a bar together in 2020. These two have had a long-term something. Whether it was an affair or whether it was a hookup and then a stopping hooking up and then a starting hooking up, there are videos and pictures of them kissing in 2020. How devastated would you be if you were Mike Vrabel's wife? It's awful, okay, so basically, he just came out and spoke about the fact that he's had to have some serious, thank you for becoming a member, Mexican Barbie, welcome to the show. I think this is really interesting. So obviously, they were caught having this affair recently. They were caught with private cameras in some sort of like beautiful resort that's couples only. Then, she resigns because what she does is it's a conflict. You cannot report on the NFL and be hooking up with one of the coaches. So she resigns. He then speaks in a press conference. We talked about it the other day where he was like, I've had to have some long conversations with my family, some difficult conversations with my family. Then you find out that it wasn't like, we hooked up once this year. No, they have been together for six years. Maybe not the entire time, but they were. Why is this so shady, you guys? Because, well, first, let me tell you about it, but also it says they were all over each other at a secluded bar. They were all over together at a secluded bar in New York City six years before they were caught holding hands and hugging in Arizona Resort. This is March 11th, 2020. They were like ground zero of COVID. It says they sat close to each other while conversing at a bar at one point appearing to share a kiss. They were kissing and they were all over each other. He had a ring on. At the time the photos were snapped, he was already married to his wife, but Diana Russini just was engaged. She was engaged and she had just started. She married her Shake Shack executive husband, Kevin, six months after this picture was taken. Each has two kids with their respective partners. They were very close to each other. Her legs were in between his legs. They were definitely flirty, flirty, flirty all over the place. Now, here's the worst part about this. I'm laughing, but it's so bad, you guys. Someone found an old ex-post that Diana Russini wrote in May of 2021, which is she got married and then immediately had the baby. Check this out. She writes this, keep looking at my almost four-day-old son Michael while trying to figure out who are the best Michaels to ever play and coach in the NFL.

Speaker 5:
[66:18] Awkward.

Speaker 1:
[66:21] Awkward. And this is, this was a comment that was left on August 11th, 2021. And that's her ma'am. Lynn says her husband needs to take some DNA tests on his kid, on his kids for real. They've been having an affair for over five years. He's going to have to resign. I don't think there's a way, and you guys tell me if you think I'm wrong. I don't think there's a way that he cannot resign now. What do you think? It's one thing to be caught one time, and it's another thing to be having a long-term affair. And for years and years and years and years, they were hooking up. The woman that was reporting on his games, I think, is bad. Bird Norf says his owner is Bob Craft. He doesn't give a shit. Well, he may have to give a shit. This is kind of a massive story. And the Patriots' owner may look the other way. Look at these being all sporty. The Patriots' owner may look the other way. But will the fans? And it's not just the fans, it's the fans' wives, right? The fans' wives, but the NFL doesn't care about affairs with men, I guess, just women. Okay, just a reminder, you guys, Patreon happy hour in four hours. Four hours from now, go over there, join Patreon, The Overdosed here, and we can talk all the smack and have so much fun, and chat and do all that. Thank you so much to all of the super chats and the new members. Today was a fun episode. I appreciate you being here. Even when we have nothing big going on in the world, we always have something going on on Daily Dose of Dana. I'll talk to you guys later. Love you. Bye.