The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

King Charles' Top Aide Steps Down, Jared Leto's Multiple Accusers, & Rosie O'Donnell's Tirade

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Maureen Callahan is joined by “Hot Mics” host Billy Bush for this week's celebrity roundup, including another shift in the Royal Kingdom with reports of King Charles' top aide retiring his post, Princ...

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Here's Teddy making his way through the streets of New York and into my chair...

not your chair, I love you my man, but it's not your chair that is courtesy of Trouble

Maker Jessica Cardosa. Hello and welcome to the nerve. Hello and welcome to your Friday

edition of the nerve, I am your host, Morgan Callan. We have a full roster of fresh, cultural, criminal offenses today. We welcome back a much requested fellow Trouble Maker who made his debut appearance about four to five weeks ago and immediately you guys are like, when is he coming back, when is he coming back, he is back, he is back. We are going to begin with the latest

tectonic power shifts within the British royal family, one of King Charles's top aids,

one of his right hand men is stepping down and he says he's just retiring, but he's only 59 years old, he's known as the Wasp and the real reason that the Wasp is allegedly reportedly stepping down

is in opposition of and a complete reputation of what is known within the palace walls,

within King Charles's offices, as Operation Thaw. The King reportedly allegedly wants to welcome Harry back with open arms. The Wasp, we will tell you his real name, is against it. As of course, is Prince William. Billy's gonna talk to us all about it. Oh, I let it slip. It's Billy Bush. Billy Bush is here. And Billy is, you know, I'm going to apologize in advance. I'm still struggling with a bit of a cold. So if I do have a bit of a coughing spasm, please just bear with me.

It's pretty much under control. We are also going to talk about Rosio Donald. We got anonymous, an anonymous troublemaker sent the nerve some super exclusive audio of Rosio Donald working

out her return to the United States. She's been living in self-imposed exile in Ireland for

political reasons. But now she wants back in because there's a lot of money to be made. And she misses being really famous. Let's get real. Also, in ALIS actor, it's the subject of a bombshell BBC documentary with accusations that should level him. The nerve will be all over it. Tuna stuff to talk with Billy about. And then we've got trouble maker art and feedback. And then we have an exclusive update, exclusive to the nerve with a source who came directly to us and said

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Welcome back to the nerve. The much requested Billy Bush, post of the must subscribe podcast,

Hot mics.

almost front to back. And today, Billy, we've got a whole slate of offenders to go through with you.

Okay. First up, Prince Harry and the Duchess of Despair and Endless Grievous. Now,

since the nerve covered Megan's Master Chef Australia appearance, which I do want to talk to you about. This story is advancing rapidly. King Charles is top aid. This is a report published in people, which, you know, this is, again, the Sussexes preferred outlet. Top aid dubbed The Wasp by Prince Harry and Spare is stepping down. Now, the reports are that this top aid whose given name is Sir Clive Alderton, who has worked for the Royal Household for 20 years. He is 59 years old,

which is young to be citing retirement as your official reason for departure. He also played a massive role in supporting King Charles as he prepared to ascend to the throne. We all saw Charles during that coordination. And to say he looked, conflicted at best is generous. Alderton is reported Billy to be vehemently opposed to what is known in the palace as Operation Thaw. Operation Thaw is King Charles's plan to work Harry and Megan

back into the royal fold. Alderton thinks this is a huge mistake reportedly. He is among there's Tom Sykes in the Daily Beast is reporting there is a division in the palace. There are the doves who are fine with it, who think this is a smart play and there are the Hawks led by Sir Clive, who think this is a monumental mistake and a grave threat to the future of the monarchy. What do you think, Billy? I think I love the name The Wasp. I know. When I think of The Wasp,

I think of a well-heeled person from, you know, somewhere New England who, you know,

doesn't spend a lot of money. He's tight with their cash. That's what I think about when I think.

But this guy, I think Harry described him as, he was a link charming and arrogant bowl of

jazzy energy. Like, as ever with Harry, he's always got to get a ship in. What is that?

That's some problem. The guy, this is the guy trying to get you back in, you know? But he sits on the committee that oversees security and who gets what and they always see on Ravik? He's on Ravik and so, you know, they're supposed to review for someone of Harry's statue once a year to decide if they get security of any kind. They haven't looked at Harry in seven years. I think, you know, I don't think there's any love loss between The Wasp and Harry,

because he's not looking out for Harry and Harry wants some damn security.

All right, excuse me, no, no, no. I'm completely, completely screw that up. This little

cold I have is working. It's on me. No, you're right. The Wasp does not want Harry back at all. But it seems that when Harry wrote Spare, the way he described him, he was hedging his bets a little bit. I just think it's remarkable if The Wasp is stepping down. With that says to me, is The Wasp sees which way the wind is blowing and it looks like Charles is going to get his way. And Harry and Megan will be welcomed back. They may not be working,

Royals, but they'll be welcomed back. And The Wasp, imagine The Wasp is so he cares so much that the fallout continues, that the King does not reunite with his parents son. He's such a

purist, that he's willing to leave his incredible job at the right hand of The King in order to keep

Harry at bay. I mean, don't you sort of go with The King on this one, the fact that The Wasp feels so strongly about it is, I don't know, it's a bit surprising. I mean, Megan, you know, she's annoying. No question about it. But, but after all, that's father's son here, Wasp. Well, father's son, okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to hold up, which I read every week. Some of their reporting remains impeccable. This week's cover of The National Enquirer,

Harry blows $60 million fortune and he's staring down the barrel of a $63 million legal bill for the court case he just lost against the publisher of The Daily Mail and he's staring down. And he's staring down on top of that bill. The judge is going to rule how much of the the mail's publishers legal costs. Harry and his cohort have to cover. He is, he is up against it. I find it interesting that he and Megan are so willing to make nice at this moment in time.

I think he's always, well, listen, what's Harry's goal all along has been to ...

and needed to, to abide by what his wife wants, which is to have the royal title and to cut

all kinds of deals over here, living as Royals in America successfully. She has, she can't stand

the blowback that that's received. But that's what she wants. And if Harry can make it work both

ways, you know, he's going to continue to try and do it. The one I think resisting him way more than his father is William. William is like, "F, no, dude. I have given my life. You know what this is. You don't get to have your cake and need it, too. I think if it was me and my brother, as much as I love him, I'd kind of be pissed too." I'm like, no, you don't get to run around as a royal and cashier on all kinds of deals as a royal and not, you know, give up what the, and not

sacrifice for the gig. So I think that's where the real bitterness is as for, you know, the King, he's 77 years old, he's getting older. I just want to lovely moment, I'm sure, it doesn't want bitterness with his son. Billy, I didn't realize you were this much of a sentimentalist.

You know, I am. I think of the old guy. I mean, I was super tight with my dad,

shit, if I had a falling out with my dad, if he thought, when he, when he died, if he was not good with me or I wasn't with him, it would destroy me. Everything else in my life would mean nothing. You know, then if I had a falling out of my parents, you know, this guy, it may come down to one of the other. You know, maybe not. Listen, I think that what, what, the timing of this, okay, let's just review very quickly what went down this week, Megan, or late last week, Megan posted to Instagram,

something that I think was an obscenity, Harry and the children on what looked like their way to visit Diana's grave. And William is reportedly apoplectic with rage. There is nothing and no one, these two will not monetize. And that also seemed to be my interpretation, a bit of an F.U.

to King Charles, who we had ladies see on the show last week. Her reporting was that when Harry

and the children went to meet with King Charles, the children for the first time in years,

Megan was made to wait out in the hallway. Along. Right. So that was the King and the, and the palace thing to her. We tolerate you at best. You called us someone high up in our ranks a racist. We have not forgotten that you'll sit outside and not because of the color of your skin, but because you trashed us publicly. This is really a proxy war. Is it not like it's for really it? The future of the monarchy. Who will determine it? Ultimately it has to be William.

Right. It's absolutely William and William a cannot stand, Megan, and he cannot stand his brother for falling for Megan and for taking him away. I guarantee you, if Harry were to separate, get divorced from Megan, he would be welcome back by father and son like that. She would be the scapegoat. They'd blame her and everything would be good. They want Harry and English people. I mean, I was over there when the queen died. I flew right away when I was working at extra

and covered that whole thing and it was, you know, the ascension of Charles was right after it. They were almost preparing for two things at once and everyone I spoke to loved all the British folk loved Harry. They lust still love Harry. They're mad at Harry, but forgiveness will be quick and swift. It's her. It's all her. And every person I chatted with in the street, I did tons of MOS stuff. All their bitterness is directed at Megan. Every bit of it. You think William will

forgive 100%. He'll be mad at his brother, but he'll say finally the right thing happened, but not if they stay together. I mean, if Harry's with Megan, I don't think there's a chance of that. All their iris directed at Megan. So we will move on to Oprah attempting to rewrite her personal history regarding the explosive Harry and Megan interview in 2021. We're going to show this clip and then we want your reaction Billy, as to what you think,

Oprah's up to here. Okay. I was just trying to carefully go through everything that had come

up in the past. I've always valued independence. I've always been outspoken, especially about

Women's rights.

for women to use their voice and then I was silent. Were you silent or were you silenced? The latter. Okay. Very nice. I don't think I've done it since. I don't know where the heck of that came from. It came from her. I wanted to be clear. She just did it. Was she silenced?

Were people telling her not to talk? Were people that? That's why I said that. I said it

for clarification because I didn't want later to hear, well, it wasn't that. It really was that I was silenced. They wouldn't let me talk. So it was all for clarification. Am I not wrong that she went like, I thought Megan just said, well, I was silenced and she did a very subtle one of these and then Oprah goes silenced or silenced and then she did it and she goes, where did they get that? You got it from Megan. About five seconds ago, she did it.

And then you did it. But what was interesting is I felt like I felt like Megan was saying, I've supported women forever. Everybody knows how much I've stood up for women and their voices and I want them to be heard and blah, blah, blah, like so many people others. So many others say, I love, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then she says, and then all of a sudden I was silenced.

I'm so she was upset with herself like or her audience. Her people are wondering, why are you silent?

In this incredible moment, I was silent and then Oprah goes silent or silenced. And Megan goes, ooh, that's a better one. Yeah, that one. I'll take that one. I was silenced. It's so much like she was making a different point. Oprah comes in with this amazingly beautiful opportunity for it to be something else and she takes it. So right for the racist queen, metaphorical hand over Megan's mouth and says, I'll show you. It's your great point, by the way,

none of us had ever heard of this woman before she got with Harry. Who about us looked at her

as some kind of feminist leader? I've always, you know that. I've spoken about I've stood for women

my whole life. We just said you five seconds ago. Yeah, I'm going to start saying that, by the way.

I think that's kind of a great move. I think I'm going to be like, well, everybody knows that

I have, you know, fought hard for people, all over the starvation and in Africa and what I've done for cancer, everybody knows that. Oh, they don't. I know. But the other thing too is Oprah's like trying to read, this is not the conversation and it never has been regarding this interview. This interview was like, Oprah sat there and let them propaganda ties and didn't have a single follow-up question to challenge this bullshit narrative that we all saw was bullshit.

Yeah, I mean, that's, you know, that's Oprah's brand. I mean, we saw Oprah did the first

interview with Amy Griffin and, you know, I have, which I watched in its entirety. And there is no challenge to obvious questions, you know, head scratchers that don't add up and she wants everyone to have a good experience. It's that if you want, I mean, it's the number one platform for, you know, a pleasurable experience without much questioning. Especially if you're a female claiming any kind of victimhood. Oh, for sure. You've come to the right place. Oprah's destroying her legacy and

the nerve, oh, light it at the right time, onto another public menace, Rosie O'Donnell. It's back. A public menace. He's coming back. There's a lot happening. She too. What are the government people magazine? She's threatening to return to New York City. Oh, yeah. The nerve got some exclusive audio from stand-up she did earlier this week. And Billy, don't you know, she is still on, she's perseverating on one person. And again, whether you like the guy or not

voted for the guy or not, I find this hilarious. Here we go. You read it again 20 years later and I still live run free and then collapsing bring it to you. You're only a threat to humanity, but on everything you fear allowed woman, a queer woman, a mother who tells the truth, you're everything that's wrong with America. And on everything you hate about what's still right with it. And you want to revoke my citizenship? Well, go ahead and

try taking job free with a standard free. I'm not yours to silence. I never was.

It went viral and which shocked me because I didn't understand, but people were like, she had such class in decorum. She didn't go down in the mud with him. She stayed above the fray. And I'm so glad that I chose that. Unlike the first thing I thought on which was

Me a puppet.

so she's hosting Jimmy Kimmelive for a weekend August. And she told Entertainment Weekly that she

is, in fact, probably looking to return to daytime talk. Well, she's got the new face lift.

She looks fantastic. She's uh, she's ready to go. She fixed this. She said it was this that hung down like that. The Joll, so she's got that. Donald Trump and Rosio Donald have uh, it's actually a beautiful relationship. It's a perfect relationship. They have benefited so much off each other. I mean, Trump let set the tone in August 15th that he didn't give a shit when he was interviewed,

but you know, but when Megan Kelly was the moderator that very first debate. And he said the

Rosio line. And now we're by this of the Rosio line. Oh, is this coming out party? Megan Kelly was ready for your your boss. Your buddy was ready for Trump and 15 other candidates and everyone's laughing at Donald Trump. And he said, you know, you've said this about women that you've called them dogs. You've called them pigs. You've called women. You're very much anti woman. He goes, well, they'd be fair. Really, it was only rosy. And the whole place goes crazy. And they're laughing

like mad and Trump realizes, oh, shit, I can get away with this in politics too. Oh, my God, here we go. And he was off to the races and what everybody thought was a joke. I think rosy was his trial balloon. So really what I'm saying is rosy gets credit for Donald Trump's brand being acceptable as president of the United States. She's done more for him than he could every he couldn't repay her. And he's done a lot for her. I mean, you know, she's still making jokes

about him and she's still exploiting the relationship. So she might write them all the way to to late night television. If she's if she's real, although from what I'm hearing Jimmy Kimmel's got some heat right now. And most of Colbert's viewers have gone to him. So he might be in a good

renegotiating position. Yeah, apparently that's what I've been reading, too, that ABC is now begging

him to stay. Yeah, I mean, you know, that was one of the great standoffs of all time, Morin. I mean, it really was. Who's side were you on in that billy? Did you have a side? You know, I was I was in the Kimmel side. And I don't love everything he does, you know, but I was on his side, mostly on the free speech side, a great. And, you know, the fact that people stood up for Jimmy when Disney seemed too weak to do so at a principle themselves. It's the viewers. It's the unsubscribers

from Disney plus that sent a message right back to Disney where they should have always been.

Nothing, Kimmel said, I mean, nothing Kimmel said was was reprehensible. And most of it was true. But boy, it was an opportunity to sack the guy and try to get rid of him. And it really let him know where he stood. Let me tell you something. If those people didn't unsubscribe, Jimmy probably would have, they would have caved to all those affiliate stations. And he would have been gone. And now he's stronger than ever. And the viewers made it that way. And the unsubscribers

made it that way. This guy can do anything over there. So he'll get a lot of dough if he wants it.

It's incredible. Just to the rosy Trump origin story, I believe, didn't she,

not that I'm blaming anybody here. But was it the inciting event, her doing that carer flip on the view? Yeah. And Barbara Walters was like, stop that. Don't do that. And she was like, no, this is how he is. Now he talks and that got it going, Billy. So one of the bits that rosy did that was sent to me by this anonymous troublemaker from her recent standup. She told this to 60 minutes Australia, which we played on a nerve about six months ago. It's

hilarious. And I believe it's true. And I kind of really do love rosy. Oh, because she is like, she's an Irish Catholic freak show from Long Island. Like, you know, she just, she can't help

herself. She says, um, when when it looked like Trump was going to win for the second time,

or he had just been elected. She's scheduled and Billy, she's scheduled an emergency appointment with her psychotherapist. You and I talked therapy the last time you were here. And her therapist said to her, she said, I cannot deal. I cannot deal. He has been elected again. It's Armageddon. Her therapist says to her rosy, it is time for you and I to make a plan. We're going to get you out of the United States. Now, this is hilarious to me because rosy talks about it. Like,

It's a seal team six op.

by a plane ticket. Get an Airbnb or a five star hotel room to your desired location, which was

Ireland. And hang out there until you find a place to your liking. What's the, what's the issue? But she had an emergency session with her psychotherapist. It was too triggering. There's so many celebrities. By the way, Jimmy, come on one of them, you know, threatening to move to Italy.

Alec Baldwin many years ago, threatening to move to Canada. None of them did it. You have to

hand it to rosy. You just at least, you got to give it to her. She backed it up. She's the only one who bitch and wind and said, I'm so triggered. I'm going to do this. And she's the only one who did.

Remember when Trump was sitting with the Prime Minister of Ireland and he was, you know, he loves

to do those impromptu, you know, live press conferences. Yeah, sitting there and he goes, "The dummy." You know, he had rosy over there. Rosy in the guy's like, "Rosy, who? Rosy, those rosy adults. She's your problem now. But you get a keeper." I just thought, "Oh, my God, Erie is with the Prime Minister of Ireland today." And you're stuck with her. These two, I mean, they have to have each other, right? I mean, they can't quit each other. They're broke

back mountain. I was just about to say that. The rest of us can see there in love. Totally.

Okay. I didn't love with the media. Oh, yeah. Of course, you know, would be top of that heap.

Yeah, she's he mess her Prime antagonist. I mean, there's got to be some Freudian shit going on there. Yeah. Okay. Ryan Reynolds, Psycho-Arsenist, Ryan Reynolds made a surprise of appearance at San Diego Comic Con. This is via entertainment weekly. It's been covered by people. He posted about it on Instagram. Ryan Reynolds has revealed that he didn't just attend the weeklong weekend long fan convention to beg for a role in Avengers Doomsday that I find

all of this so interesting. He also wanted to get the full fanboy experience of walking the floor with his fellow cosplayers. So Ryan, Psycho-Arsenist, Ryan, who the culture is rejecting in just overwhelmingly dressed up anonymously in an all denim dead pool costume, which he called Jean Pool. And I just find anything has a pool. Everything. Everything. He's trying so hard with everything. Everything. And he clearly clearly needs to remain a beloved movie star. My theory of the

cases, that ship has sailed. My man, we don't want you. We have seen behind the curtain. You're fucking monster. Your wife is a monster. And you are a psycho-Arsenist who is yet to apologize for setting your elementary school on fire when you were 10 years old. And later, joking, once you were famous, that you hoped that some other quote unquote poor smock wasn't doing time for your crime. Is he done? Because that crowd at Comic Con, I don't even know if they know he's married

to Blake Lively, they just know he's the deadpool guy. And they're like, oh my god, it's deadpool. Like, you know, in my mind, no dude, you trashed your agent. You literally took Warren Zavala

and threw him under a bus in the worst way after the accident. How did he do that?

Ficed his credibility for you. You threw him under the bus. You threatened everybody in town. You bullied people, fired people, everything for your wife. All this unforgivable shit. I spoke to one of the executive producers on, on, it ends with us who had to deal with him all the time said absolutely the worst guy. He is a leverager. He's a bully. All these things. And yet I see the crowd of nerds applauding deadpool is, oh my god, maybe he's going to make an

appearance in in in the Avengers Doomsday movie with Robert Downey and everybody else. And then he already announced another deadpool is coming all in one stroke. And the guys like, I don't know. I don't think they look beyond the character. He may be just fine. He may be rocking on with his business. Her, I don't think so. Wait, Billy, just to go back for a moment. How did he how did Brian Reynolds throw his agent under the bus? Warren Zavala was his agent and he all their text messages

between Warren is a William Morris agent. Reynolds was his client and all, you know, all their text messages were released. And he got Warren Zavala like, oh, you know, so and so over its

Sony is a real suck up loser.

trashing everyone and sucking up to Ryan saying, oh, you're totally right. Ryan, I mean, just just

impuned himself in the worst way for his client, Ryan. Right. Then guess what Ryan did to thank him

fired the guy when things weren't going as well after he completely undressed in front of him and showed I've got no humility here. No dignity. Ryan still fired him. I mean, we're those, we're those among the emails where there's this great email that got released in discovery where Ryan was having a major epic tantrum. And he was like, listen, you guys need to be throwing the building at this problem. My wife landed a jumbo jet on a dime. He wrote that. He literally wrote that. Like she was

a solid solid burger. Yeah. With this stupid bullshit B movie, you know, about domestic violence

that she's using to hawk her aircare line. Listen, whatever she demanded or asked of her husband in her tantrum, that dude delivered. I mean, that guy, you know, you would think he would be a

heavy price for his role and all of this. But in the day, you know, there are more, I think,

curious, sleuth-minded type consumers of Blake Lively's brand than there are in, you know, Ryan has 16 year old boys who are, you know, and Marvel, you know, superhero nerds who drive his brand. So, in the end, you know, I think she suffers way more than him and he may not suffer at all. I'm getting a taste that was seeing him out there on that floor with that those kids all cheering for him and super psych to see Deadpool and his jeans in his Canadian Tuxedo. I don't know.

I didn't, I mean, if, if everyone else is like that room, then he's fine. You know, it else surprised me because this really was kind of his quote unquote audition to be welcomed back into the Marvel universe was Robert Downey Jr on that stage. And listen, I get it, he was going to tell you, Jr was an outcast forever because of his drug problem. But like Robert Downey Jr's up there trying to try to mid-wife this return to the culture by guy who is proven to have zero

scruples. This guy will throw anybody under the fucking bus. You know, it's a similar vibe. What was the, number the SNL 50th anniversary, someone else's on this stage was it Amy Poler maybe who was like, and some of us, I have a question and then Ryan did that sort of stunt from the audience, right where he was like, like anything interesting happened lately. You've heard me think, yeah, it was that. Yeah, I can't really, you know, sort of like a joking roundabout reference to the

shit that they were in. And that did not play. That did, that did not work because that room is not full of superhero fans. Exactly right. Dead viewers, you know, exactly right. Yeah, he may be okay in his, in his base operations. Well, the nerve will do what we can to write this. Okay, Jared Leto, this broke early Wednesday morning. This is a BBC documentary. And when the BBC when the British media goes after you, you best believe you are in real trouble. Because their

defamation laws are always slanted in favor of the subject of reporting. It's far more stringent

than in America. So the BBC dropped a preview of this documentary about Jared Leto's accusers. They've got four women who are alleging sexual assault or impropriety against Jared Leto, we're going to take a look at a bit of this trailer. And then we're going to talk about the fall out. Here we go. Alex was a modeling London in 2013. She was 19 when she was invited to see a 30 seconds to Mars show through her modeling agency. After the show, an assistant invited Alex

to an after show party at a hotel. When she got there, Leto was alone. He was fully worn at the time. Then I'm sat there and saying, okay, well, my phone is dying, so I can't really get home from here. So I ask him if he has a phone charger. No, I don't. Okay, I also don't have any cash left. Could I get some cash to get a cab home? No, I don't have any cash. I was sat on the shares

along. Kind of thing. So I was kind of like thinking to myself, could I just sleep here?

Alex says that Leto threatened to sexually assault her while she was asleep. I ask him,

Can I just sleep here then?

you're going to wake up with a **** in your ass. Isabel, not her real name, said she met Leto at her

job in Las Vegas when she was 17. He was thirsty. He asked to hang out after her shift and meet

at his motel. I didn't think much of it. I just was like, oh, he's still getting ready and we're going to meet up there in the mirror. I'm going to go out afterwards. That is really good, it's hard. Instead, she says Las os sexually assaulted her. I don't think I ever touristently,

ever blamed him. I always blamed me. And there we see the graphic of the Cairo on despite repeated

attempts to contact Jared Leto. He has not responded to the allegations, put to him by the BBC. That changed very quickly on Wednesday morning when this dropped a statement that went live on deadline at 825 AM. Leto denying the accusations, quote, I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false. Billy, I'm just going to

point to a report published by my former colleague Chris Wilson. Jared Leto likes him young. The

then 33 year old recon for a dream actor has become infamous over at the Maritime Hotel for calling and texting some of his underage objects of desire several times a day. Girls from IMG elite next and women modeling agencies. He is constantly texting these other 16 and 17 year old girls. Billy, you have been doing this for a long time. I'm sure you have heard many stories about Jared Leto as have I. Not only that, but personal ones. I mean, I've got a very, very close friend

who's daughter was 16 years old and with four of them get an invite from a promoter type. There's

always a private number or there's an invite, you know, from a third party saying Jared's

having a party come over and told me to my face that when she was 16 years old, she and three friends are in a party and there's tons of girls all that age and Jared and a few of his much older friends. So his proclivities, you know, for young girls has been one of those things has been around forever. You know, sort of like a mad-law or a Harvey Weinstein where there's rumors forever. They're just clouds of like, you hear it, you hear it. And then what is that moment? What is

that bell weather moment that makes it actionable and it becomes something big? In this case, it might be the BBC documentary, but, you know, in June of 2025, a year ago, air mail did the cult of Leto, a huge expose on this exact problem. But it didn't seem to get Gucci to drop him as there, you know, I mean, who looks more beautiful and addressed than Jared Leto? I mean, sometimes Harry Styles, but, you know, he's a big face for them. Nothing happened there. And now you got

these women. You got the, you know, the woman who said she was 17 in a dingy motel in Vegas. She's in a Vegas, she alleges, she's in her Vegas store. Jared and his buddies come in, shows him around. He's like, hey, let's meet up later like to go out and she's like, okay, and she shows up to the motel. Here's the guy that can buy a room at the fourth season. It's like a dirty motel on the strip. Has her in. He's in the shower. I'm, you know, invites her in. Something inappropriate. She says

happens in there. Whatever then he gets out of the motel. Looks both ways, right? Left to see if anyone's coming gets her out. And that's it. Bye-bye. We're not going out. You came over to do that. There's a bunch of these women on record here. And I just think, you know, this is obviously where there's smoke. There's fire. I mean, come on. They did a lot in order

SVU and with a Jared avatar. Do you remember that? Really? He was like, yeah, he was like, yeah,

yeah, yeah. And it was also like, I'm glad his conduct is creating great content for Hollywood. But, you know, this is what you call come up. This is right. And you know, what you just said

about Gucci refusing to drop him. They had hypocrisy. First of all, the world of high fashion is so filthy

and dirty. Remember Denmark and that Balenciaga ad that was very, that it was literally an ad promoting pedophilia. It was like children around stuffed animals that were dressed in bondage gear. And he's now a Gucci. And just if I may, Kate Moss caught so much shit. She got dropped by every major

Fashion house when she was photographed doing cocaine in a recording studio w...

or he was there, whatever. She was with Pete Dogardy of the Libertines. Oh my god, a super model in a

recording studio doing cocaine. Shock of all shockers. Everybody clutch their pearls. And she suffered for that. This guy doing what he's been doing. Low these many years reportedly allegedly. And he's untouchable. Like, where are we? There's a girl named Eta who alleges that he repeatedly, you know, explicit phone calls to her suggesting on one of them that they have sex. She's 16 years old at the time. It's 2014. He approached her outside the modeling agency. She alleges and invited her

to his Oscar party. Text me. He said there were so she's texting. Wow, this is cool. It's Jared Letta. She gets a call from a private number. Did you get the job? It's me. Oh my god, you deserve

the job. Oh, you should have gotten it. You're such a beautiful model. That's okay. And then it turns to,

you know, do you have any kinks? Are you a virgin? Can you use as a word that rhymes with shirt? That's like a sexual act. Can you? And I'm just like, oh my god. Then lawyers sent NDAs and she shows in the documentary. This is the NDA right here that was sent to me by Jared Letta's lawyer. I didn't sign it. But you can see like this let it, this relationship between you and Jared is can confidential. I mean, you're talking to a 16 year old.

Crazyness. The allegation. I mean, there's just no way there's so many people in here. This is like, you know, sorry, Mr. Cosby, but 72 women do not come together as a group and say, let's take down the old comic. Same with Harvey, you know, big misunderstanding. Final story. I love this story.

It is a palette cleanser for us, Billy. Heroic teen lifeguard, 16 year old boy, who saved a

10 year old from pounding California's surf. It is now revealed that he also rescued others that day. We're going to take a look at this video, which has gone viral in America. He's been lotted by the White House and he's receiving an invitation to receive the highest civilian honor. Let's take a look. They go under. This looks like a title wave. It's so enormous. That's a nasty riptide.

Right. That if you've ever been in one of those, you know that the poll out into the ocean is 10 times stronger than the wave that's crashing onto the shore to put it to pull you in. His name is Ryder Williams. He's 16 and he refused to let go of that boy.

He said he knew if he would let go that the boy would be dead. Finally, others come to try to

aid this rescue and they do get him out. This is remarkable. This is this is a story that just reaffirms your faith in humanity. And it also to me, Billy, you know, as someone who grew up on the beach. There are days when the life guards are just like, "Nobody's going in." Like, "Why was anybody at the ocean?" No kidding. It's also a message that crazy, you know, over, over left wing libbies that, you know, we need our strong men. We need our strong men in the

lifeguard share, you know, in many places. Do not diminish the importance of the powerful, strong

man because that guy is maybe 16 but, you know, what a dude, what a dude and it took him and every ounce of his strength to pull that kid out of the water. What a wonderful story. I mean, imagine being in that situation because, you know, a light went on in his head. It had to the opportunity to say to yourself, it's either me or him. This is too daunting. I got to let the kid go and save myself and then he knew probably I can't live with myself if I let go of this other person.

That's humanity. That's the interconnectedness of human beings. I can't live with myself if I let

this person I've never seen before in my life go. What a call to duty. Jesus, what a moment.

What a moment. What a perfect encapsulation of the best of us of the best of America. This kid is 16 years old and you watch that footage. Do you know how hard it must have been to maintain his grip on that kid in the ocean? Oh, I've been the water, the slipperyness, like the mental control to not panic with waves the size of skyscrapers coming at you. I've been that kid. I've

Been in the car.

embarrassingly in my early 30s. Can happen to anybody. I was caught and there's a Mexican lifeguard. I was in Kabul and a Mexican lifeguard who was that guy and saved my ass stuck in the rift. I was not coming out by myself and then it took five other guys to come down and

help him and I believe it was in page six. You could do a deep dive because I remember page six writing.

Billy Bush was screaming like a little girl. Oh my god. I remember this and the guests of the hotel were all looking out and there I was like I yelled to my wife Sydney at the time. Get the fucking guard and she runs up, gets the lifeguard. He comes down with a ring and there's like guy and he's pulling and pulling and then he swims out there and oh my god. That guy saved my life. I went back up into my room. I found my wallet. I dumped it on him. I said say if I had any more

I'd give it to you. This is everything. Jesus Christ. Thank you. Save. Wow. Oh my life. Wow. Billy. I got to find that article in page six. They were brutal to me. Page six can really be brutal. It wasn't the one and only time that they was one of many. Well, look at you now, Billy.

Look at me now. You're watching my next question. Why is page six so silent on the Amy Griffin story?

Why, Daily Man? This is like right up their alley. Socialite doing the wrong. You know,

this is their dead silent other than the one piece they ran the week before that basically

came from her publicist. What is going on? This is a great question. I'm so glad you're calling for, like, ask her. Why is there such silence around this? This is, this is wheelhouse stuff for them. It's such a great question and it's why your podcast exists, why the nerve exists. I mean, nobody else is touching what I think is a major, freaking scandal. I think this is criminal if she is accused this man who is who seems to be completely innocent, a violent

repeated child to rape. Are you kidding me? And, and, oh my God, you and I talked about this. I think on your show Hot Mikes last week because the post where I worked for longer than I would care to admit. You know, and just, like, did me so dirty. They were like, oh, Morgan Callahan

was the first to say, hey, something doesn't out up here, but that's just her opinion. It was like,

no, no, this was a very well thought out argument that I was making on the nerve. And I just thought that was pretty low in classes of them. You know, but that's, you know, this is me too. I mean, if this was, like, a tensly Mortimer or some other, like, high society type of person, and they were caught, like, ripping or plagiarizing or whatever, unless all allegations, by the way, nothing's proven at this point. But something like that, which is silenced the a list and brought

out all the a list to, you know, to, to build it up. And now there's just total silenced from Rickets. Billy, I'll tell you a little newsroom story and the trouble makers about how this

shit really works. Do you remember, again, I believe an SVU was done on this in a law and order,

do you remember, long before the Harvey, like, explosion, the expose in the New York Times, a few years prior that a model in New York City, a young model had gone to the NYPD and said, Harvey Weinstein attempted to assault me. And the NYPD took that very seriously and they wired her up and they put her back into a meeting with Harvey. And he was going, just coming to the room, just coming to the room, I swear, I'm sorry about what happened last time I won't do it again. I was

out of my mind, out of my mind. And the NYPD felt they had enough to arrest and charge Harvey. And the New York Post went on a smear campaign against this model. Who is this model? Where she come from? She even born in America? She trying to use Harvey to get a job. We all know how the casting couch works. What did we have heard this about Harvey before? On and on and on until until the day dropped it. Okay, that was the work of the New York Post. At the time,

the editor-in-chief of the New York Post, not revealed to the readers of the New York Post, Call Allen, was like this with Harvey. They used to party together all the time. You know what I'm saying?

I wonder, I don't know. I mean, there are husbands of very, very powerful guy, very rich.

Billionaire, no, I don't know who owns New York. I just think, I think it's a glare. It's a question

Where they're asking.

Well, I love that you're staying on it. And we at the nerve are going to stay on it as well.

It's time for like my monthly incantation to the real Mr. Mason, who God, I really hope just

fucking hits her with a major fucking defamation lawsuit. Major, everybody knows he is. Wonder why he hasn't. Just like I wonder why she hasn't sued the New York Times. I wonder why. I mean, enough people know this story about this guy. I wonder why he hasn't either, though. Come on. I know. I know. Unless he's been, you know, silenced with it. I would kill. Someone said something like that about me. I would kill.

Scorts to earth, burn you to the ground. Billy. Big love. Thank you for coming on the nerve and forgetting it out with me with my beginning coughing fit. Really appreciate it. Here at

Callahan Auto. Oh, yeah. Where's your Callahan Auto Parts T? I guess you're stuck for my next

appearance. Okay. Tell me what. Always well. See ya. Thanks to Billy Bush as always what a

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How Holly wood is not quite yet getting the memo, but they seem to be dialed in more to come. This is from Paul from New Zealand. Paul also gives us Megan Markle on the set of master chef Australia in a cone of silence. And then he gave us yours truly and lady sea delivering bombshell news at the nerve. Love it, love it, love it, Paul. He also writes that they have just posted a new weekly Paul from New Zealand artworks post, which includes many more pieces for

Paul's troublemakers. The troublemakers rather all of a nerve troublemakers who are following Paul at his sub stack. So go to Paul's sub stack. It is called, I've got it right here, Paul from New Zealand. It's his sub stack and I am a very content subscriber. I love it. He is prolific as I'll get out. Okay. I've gotten this email from many a troublemaker Amanda Knox on Bill Mars, club, random podcast. Two of your faves in one. I hope you're aware and get right on it. The people in the

comments are eating it up. You know we're on it, troublemaker. This is a fellow marine troublemaker marine. Now this is a doozy. This one is so good. Settle in my friends. A troublemaker from West Chester's perspective, privilege, accountability, and the sunny Austin narrative. I will not use your name as requested. I will call you troublemaker F. This is a woman. I live in the same community where sunny Austin resided before selling her purchase New York estate and my children are close

in age to hers. Well, I did not have a personal relationship with the family. I am familiar with the community and believe an important perspective has been missing from some of her previous public

Comments.

particularly her son were unsafe here. Those remarks have been especially difficult for

long time residents, including families of color who have lived in this community for years and who do not recognize the portrayal of the town as one defined by exclusion or hostility. You know we often talk about nominative determinism here at the nerve. Hosting is adjacent to hostile hostility. Continuing on from troublemaker F's incredibly illuminating and entertaining email. I love troublemaker feedback. The narrative, so sunny, suddenly suddenly used to go on

the view all the time and I think she did this when they moved to New Rochelle. I don't know if

she did it in purchase but she would go to the local police department the precinct and she would say, "Hey, I'm sunny, Austin. I'm TV's sunny, Austin of the view," someone's substance. I'm TV's sunny, Austin. And I am the mother of a son and he is not white. I'm not white. He is not white. I just

want you to know if you see him jogging, do not arrest or shoot him. So she was basically telling

America that she felt her son's life was immortal danger simply by living in these very well-to-do sophisticated, often very liberal on cliffs. Trouble-maker F continues the narrative of danger and isolation presented publicly does not reflect the broader reality of this community for years,

families of color, including professional athletes, physicians, executives, and other professionals

myself included as I am Boricua, like Ms. Austin, have lived here, raised children here, participated in local institutions and become fully integrated into the fabric of the town. In contrast,

the Austin family remained largely separate from community life and did not appear to participate

in many of the local events, institutions or activities that have traditionally brought residents together. The Austin's misleading portrayal of life in Westchester County, paradoxically exists alongside the reality of their significant privilege. The Metro North trespassing incident involving 24-year-old Gabriel Huston,

resulting in his mother's sunny Austin, a lighting on the scene, and saying, "I'm a former federal

prosecutor. He's a Harvard grad. He teaches fourth grade geometry, kids in the south Bronx, four kids. Look at us. The Metro North trespassing incident merely put a spotlight on how her privilege and status have been used to advocate for her children for years. Again, just this troublemaker's report upcoming often out of public view, notwithstanding her repeated public condemnations of privilege as we all witnessed when Sunny Austin spoke with police during the

incident. She repeatedly referenced her son's Harvard education, making his Harvard pedigree central to the conversation. Harvard is an impressive credential, but Gabriel's own linked in profile, which we went in on a very recent nerve. We went over it like crime scene in and of itself. This troublemaker continues his linkedin profile raises questions about the qualifications behind Gabriel's admission. It highlights his 1440 SAT score, which is a strong

score generally, but below the typical range reported for Harvard admits. It is well-known the college admissions, particularly at a school-like Harvard, our course holistic and consider many factors beyond test scores. However, the great point, troublemaker F, Gabriel's linked in profile contains little reference to the academic achievements major awards athletic accomplishments or other distinguishing extracurricular accomplishments often associated with highly selective college

applicants, interesting, moreover, Gabriel's 2021 Ivy Day Instagram video, documenting his Harvard acceptance also provides insight into how the achievement was publicly framed we are going to show it here.

As the acceptance letter was revealed, Dr.

"This is really what your mother has been working for," and Gabriel, your mother did it,

directing recognition toward his wife. My opinion, the malignant narcissist here,

excuse me, rather than solely celebrating their son's quote-unquote accomplishment. That moment raises serious questions about the role of Sonny Hastin's influence, resources, networks, and, yes, privilege in Gabriel's admissions to Harvard.

Questions remain as to why Gabriel chose to enter a restricted industrial area in the first place.

Indeed, they do. This is one of the all-time great troublemaker emails. Keep your feedback coming. I'm going to truncate this. My voice is going. Email me at [email protected], find me on Instagram.

Morine Callahan writer, coming up an exclusive nerve update on a criminal, cultural,

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Trouble makers, when we say that you are everywhere, you are everywhere. Not long after, we did our original piece on bell burden. Your humble troublemaker and sheath was contacted by someone on the inside. From the other side, who had a lot to say, and I am here to give the culture and update on the real bell burden augmented by some nerve original reporting here we go. I love this. If you need more proof, if the culture needs more proof,

I am not sure when the mainstream media is going to catch on to this shit. Let's hope they never

do. I have said before, leave this lane clear for the nerve. You know how there is like an HOV lane on most major American highways. Only two or more passengers can go in this lane to sort of keep traffic moving. It is a lane of one. It is a lane of one belonging to the nerve speeding through celebrity bullshit. Okay. Now, this source comes from inside the world of bells, X, husband who in her memoir strangers, propped up by the likes of Oprah Winfrey,

Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Palcho, etc. claims that she was completely left penniless in the dark financially and atleast ends by her evil hedge fund husband who was cheating on her and left her for another woman. Now, even this source who is admittedly sympathetic to Bell's ex-husband admits, yes, he cheated. Did he leave her in a bad way by which I mean, could he have exited the marriage more gracefully than he did? Yes, did he make mistakes leaving? Yes,

He did.

is she trying to destroy his reputation and potentially his career? Yes, and yes, yes, and yes,

it's not like this stuff. There's a reason Bell burden was among the murderers rose, seated on the day as for the nerves inaugural roast of one Oprah Winfrey. Okay, Bell is among, and as I say, there are many ways to commit murder. It doesn't have to be physical. You can commit reputational murder. You can try to commit career homicide many ways. Bell had a place of honor among Oprah's other two rich famous white blonde female memoirists, Amy Griffin of the tell,

who the nerve has questioned, I believe quite legitimately, as to the veracity of her story,

claiming to have been raped multiple times violently and statistically by a teacher known to all in

that school who she gave the pseudonym, Mr. Mason, and Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote in her most recent memoir of her plot, which she came very close to her own self-report, close to executing to murder her then-girlfriend by giving her an overdose of pills that were not her regular chemo medication, and then smothering her to death with a pillow when she was unconscious. Yes, I said chemo medication. The girlfriend was dying of cancer. She just wasn't dying enough quickly,

quickly enough rather for Elizabeth. Bell burdened place of honor writing about how she was left

hanging by this evil hedge fund ex-husband, and she had no idea what she was going to do for money.

She had no idea what was in her prenapped. He controlled everything. She was just the- she was just the good, beautiful, wife, stay at home, mom. What did she do? You know, as discussed, you know, as if I were the editor, I would have had, I have something to say about this book's editor, it's coming. It does not typically read as a credible version of events when one person is the complete victim. Just look at Meghan Markle, and the adversary is completely evil. I mean,

save a truly heinous criminal act, like a truly heinous criminal violent act, you know, talking emotional violence among adults. Now, our source tells the nerve that the ex-husband has not spoken out on his own because he made a vow to keep quiet for the sake of the children. He is also a fiduciary, which means he has legal obligations to his clients.

But this is important. What I say, Bell, is attempting to commit just my opinion reputational

career homicide by saying in the pages of a book that is published by one of the big five, and then is like just pushed into the bloodstream, the cultural bloodstream, by the celebrity industrial complex, and by the likes of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, et cetera, as legitimate. And she's saying, my ex-husband did me wrong financially, like he really left me in the lurch. Like, I didn't know what I like, that can cause extreme damage to somebody who does

who works in finance for a living. If I'm a power player, if I've got a ton of money with this guy, and I read a memoir, he's easily identifiable. And if I'm in that world, I already know who he is, and she is, you know what I'm saying? And he's being accused of screwing over his ex-wife, the mother of his children financially. Do I want to keep my money with a guy like that? No, no. Now, Bell writes among other details meant to pull at the heartstrings of non-multime

millionaires of generational wealth, who are descended, excuse me, from standard oil money, as Bell is, that I also think she's a Vanderbilt, that during COVID, when they went into lockdown, it was just the family. Mind you, they had a massive try back a loft,

Multi-million dollars worth, and then they had a retreat on Martha's Vineyard.

Bell left out, it was, it was later reported in the New Yorker Expoze, excuse me, the New Yorker Expoze, that that house comes with a private beach front, and the key to that private beach front is worth $400,000, and that in the divorce, the ex-husband gave her the Martha's vineyard house,

the Tribeca loft, I believe, and the key to the Martha's vineyard beach front worth $400,000,

I can think of many women who would be thrilled to walk away from a divorce with dependent children with a lump sum of $400,000, with child support to come, and the husband also covering medical, dental, extracurriculars, tuition, private school tuition, which Bell had, but she wrote in the beginning, "Oh, you know, it's just us and locked down, and you know, here I am, like just sweeping the floor, and making sandwiches, and just doing my wifely duty, you know, cleaning the toilets,

some in substance, you know, while he's off living his high-flying life as a financier, and this source said to me, "I'm sure that Bell's fans would love to know about her full-time Brazilian housekeeper." Who, you know, perhaps was left and locked down herself,

maybe those first two weeks, but the heavy implication I was given was that Bell did not write

out COVID without a full household staff. Perhaps in contravention of all those instructions the rest of us were getting. I don't know. Now, we have a new character to introduce here

who has a connection, a very important one, both to Bell and to Amy Griffin, Whitney Frick.

Whitney is the vice president, editor-in-chief, and publisher of Dial Press. Whitney is responsible for both Bell burdens, strangers, and Amy Griffin's The Tal. And Whitney still has a job. Here's a little thumbnail profile in case you're wondering why Whitney still has a job. Guess what? She's a member of the same club. The nerve went and looked up Whitney's New York

Times wedding announcement. Whitney's wedding announcement in the New York Times was published April 22nd 2012. Married in Central Park. I'm reading from said announcement.

The bride's mother and her father Ford see Frick the second live in Denver. Mr. Frick is the

managing editor of BBC Research and Consulting, an economic market and policy research firm. The bride is a great granddaughter of Ford see Frick who is the third commissioner of major league baseball from 1951 to 1965 that is a very long tenure and the president of the National League from 1934 to 1951 that is a very long tenure. The nerve emailed Whitney on Friday June 2nd at 12 p.m. To ask about questions surrounding strangers, questions surrounding the

town, the nerve emailed again at 12 30 p.m. following up with Whitney's boss Andy Ward who's the executive vice president publisher for Random House. Dial press is underneath the umbrella of Random House. No response. Fair enough Fridays. It's summer Fridays in publishing but people

this high up are never off email. You can't be. Not at that level. The nerve followed up with both

of them on Monday June 15th at 9 15 a.m. Andy Ward has an out-of-office message for that week. We followed up with them both again on June 30th still no answer.

Wonder why. Wonder why. Now the key premise of Bell's book is that she knew nothing of their

finances or about her own finances in general to which I said in our original coverage here on the nerve. It's bullshit just my opinion because when you come from the kind of generational wealth that Bell burden comes from, by the way, the husband does not come from money. The husband

Is a self-made success story.

wealth what you have are in army of accountants and lawyers and money managers who have eyes on

your bank accounts and investments from the time of your birth. You get quarterly statements.

You are your accountants see where all of your money is going. What you're spending. You know what I mean it's bullshit. But if you're an average just average woman in America struggling to raise your kids and work a job or pay your bill like that might sound like feasible to you like oh my god like her husband's a money manager like at the top-top level and he left her and she knew nothing is bullshit okay. Much as the Kennedy family for a well-over century has had an outside office

located in Manhattan that manages the money for all of the relevant Kennedy's. The trusts,

the investments, the disbursements, what have you? Bell burden. The burden family has much the same.

You can find this firm on LinkedIn. The William AM burden and co-LP. That company listed as an investment banking firm in New York. They have between 11 and 50 employees. The address is listed as 805 third avenue in New York City. We have been reliably informed that that is the office

that handles Bell's 63 million dollar fortune. Now is all of that money liquid. Of course not

does Bell burden have a 63 million dollar cushion independent of whatever her husband made during that marriage did her husband leave with any of that money? Yes and no. That is her money. Yes 63 million did her husband take any of it when he left no team nerve called that number. It's not in service quote unquote Bell's attorney of many many years was also Brooke Aster's attorney. Brooke Aster was the number one socialite slash philanthropist in New York City. Brooke Aster

kept the New York public library running the bulk of her adult life. Brooke Aster's former

attorney also Bell's attorney was named Henry Christians in the third. He died in 2017.

I'm reading a little bit from his New York Times obituary which notes by the way I found this fascinating that Henry's father was a new mismetist. That is a word you don't hear every day. I love it. It says so much about this story. Henry's father. Henry was Bell's lawyer. Brooke Aster's lawyer. His father was a new mismetist and if you don't know what that means, you shouldn't. That's a word that is barely barely used. I had to look it up.

It's an analyst of the historical, cultural, economic, and physical characteristics of money how fascinating. Here we go with Henry quote the author of International Estate Planning published in 1992. Mr. Christianson was the president of the International Academy of Trust and to state law. He taught at New York University and advised the Treasury Department and other agencies on tax provisions related to offshore trust and combating the financing of terrorism.

Meet Bell burdens attorney. Bell, she's a fawn in the woods. Now, when the nerve got this thing going as we did with Amy Griffin, I'm not saying Amy Griffin

has done this, but Bell, our source has reason to believe and inform the nerve and I believe it

that she hired a crisis PR firm. Again, the nerve moves the culture. The nerve moves the culture. In the wake of the nerve segment on Bell burden, you may have seen a lot of comments sections flooded with remarks such as, "So what?" Her fans don't care if her book is fake.

Her fans don't care if her story is a lie or if she's embellishing it.

say. She's helping women. That came allegedly reportedly from a crisis PR firm. And I believe

it because to say like this idea that her fans don't care if her book is fake, she's claiming

her memoir is a heartfelt, hard one lesson of profound suffering that she has put out into the world to help others. If you tell me that's a lie, I've got a real problem with it. Secondly, if you think as a consumer or someone who believed your tale of woe, that I wouldn't care that you lied to me and in my estimation stole money from me and time for me that I wouldn't care that you think I'm a fucking moron. And I hate you doubly for it. Oh my God, these things drive

me nuts. The problem with Bell burden in my estimation, just my estimation. She may have been born into generational wealth. She may have lived a life of access and privilege that most of us can

only ever dream of. But her real problem is that she is unhappy. And do you know why? I think she's

unhappy because she's not special. And I think the act of writing this book and getting it published and having it like promoted by the likes of Oprah who like Bell was practically levitating out of her chair when she was sitting across from Oprah. She was elated to be there. Now she feels special. Now she feels she's been differentiated and individuated in the culture and she likes it. She likes being famous. Hey, if she had to get there on a lie, no big deal. And as discussed, you know,

Oprah Winfrey took James Rye out to the wood shed on her show years and years ago. He had

published a quote unquote memoir called a million little pieces. And in it, it later came out that

he had greatly exaggerated his drug addiction, what have you. And then Oprah called him back onto the show to dream him a new asshole and say, how dare you lie to me and to my audience and to America at large and secure and and and apologize and and and and and and and get down on your knees and give yourself 40 lashes. But you know, with Bell, the bell burdens of the world. Oh, Oprah's give a shit. Now there are very, very few instances in which I would say the morning of

a dog on social media is for cynical reputational purposes. But I think that we here at the nerve

have built enough of the case against Bell burden and her philosophical, commercial grossness that we can safely say she probably did because again, this was not long after the nerves piece on her segment on her posted June 9th, 2026 Charles Blue Davis. He was the very best. I don't know how we will go on without him broken heart emoji. I am very sorry for the loss of Bell's dog. But I think it's interesting that she felt she had to publicize this on Instagram. I think it's convenient. Three weeks

later, she posted about getting a new dog on her Instagram July 1st, 2026, introducing Buttercup Blue Bronson burden named after the next hero player Jalen Bronson. It's a lot of working class coding going on there, continuing from Bell's caption, healing broken hearts, wherever she goes,

followed by four blue hearts. And then finally, this Instagram post, which I did not need this source to

elucidate. But this is really hurtful to the husband and to his reputation. Because we are reliably informed that the husband, when he moved out of the house, moved a block away in New York City, moved out of the loft, moved a block away so that the kids could have access to him. But Bell, in posting her daughter's graduation, by the way, the daughter graduated from ethical culture, fields in school in New York. It's in a elite high school, and you know who else is

an alumnus? Gabriel Hauston. Gabriel Hauston of a I'm a former federal prosecutor. This kid, this 24-year-old grown man who dwarves me, he went to Harvard. He teaches blank fourth graders in

Blank the South Bronx.

beautiful, brilliant, brave girl graduating, brave girl. I've loved these four years of high school,

just you and me and Chucky, early mornings and late nights watching you grow into the extraordinary

young woman you are today. The salient phrase here just you and me. Exizing her husband, exizing this daughter's father, and putting it on Instagram, high-jacking, which should be one of her daughter's happiest days, and to this point, biggest achievement, graduating high school, just you and me. Let's make this about my revenge, my rage, and my resentment,

getting back at your father. Bell, burden. Keep it coming. Stick around in the culture. You clearly

love being famous. The nerve is always watching. That does it for our Friday edition of

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