Meghan and Harry OSTRACIZED, Amanda Peet's Star Treatment, and Hoda Kotb's Sloppy Journalism

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Use code nerve at checkout for 15% off. Joining us now is none other than Kinsey Scofield. Most of the must subscribe Kinsey Scofield unfiltered on YouTube. It has been a very busy week for Meghan Markle

and a very bad one at that. And Kinsey is here to dissect it all Kinsey. Welcome back to the nerve. - Markle Sparkle, 2026. - It was her astrologer, was it not?

Who said, "This is your year kid." You've got a bad few years, but this is your year to shine.

Okay, first of all, it's not just Netflix.

It stumps them allegedly, reportedly. Even their neighbors in Montecito want nothing to do with the gruesome to some. This report from the New York Post was published on March 23rd by Maris Siggler,

the headline Meghan Markle and Prince Harry getting the cold shoulder from their Montecito neighbors a quick little bite from the piece. A source tells Page Six that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Montecito California neighbors are over it.

It's not hate as a source, it's just a growing awareness. I mean, you wouldn't think they're really smart. People living in Montecito, they've a lot of money, they would have picked up on this from day one, but it's been apparently

a growing awareness, the quote continues, that their takers with a zero self-awareness, everyone is exhausted by them, another source. They are avoiding them neighbors of the two of them. No one wants to be seen with them, Kenzie.

- Yeah, I mean, that's facts, no one wants to be seen with them. We've seen how Meghan strategically tries to have our photo taken or creates a viral moment with Gwinneth Paltrow. I mean, she pursues these moments,

she pursues pictures with celebrities. And we haven't seen that in quite some time. We've not seen a celebrity willing to have their photograph taken with her. - But I also think that we've heard over the years

Can I, oh, thank you. Thank you for letting me use your vacation home.

“Do you mind if I borrow your private jet to get there?”

I mean, they ask and ask and relentlessly ask for more with zero shame. And I'm wondering if this is a product of that. Just people being like, I'm tired of sharing my house, with you, I'm tired of sharing my private jet with you.

And what do you offer me in return? Absolutely nothing. - It's such a great point, Kenzie, because I think even of she would not shoot what was supposed to be a very personal show

about being a lifestyle guru. And how to be the consummate hostess and make people feel warm and invited and well fed and well taken care of into one's home. And she wouldn't even do it in her own house.

She borrowed, she borrowed a neighbor's home, a neighbor's kitchen. And I guarantee you she did not give them a day rate for filming in in in set house. And those people had to relocate.

I'm sure they had to move out and go find some place else

“to say, I'm sure these are people with multiple residences.”

But that is not the point. She is a taker. I call them both takers and destroyers. And this goes to what's going on over at Netflix because she's supposed to be a creator,

a content creator over at Netflix. But Netflix is done with them, because Netflix has taken at least-- they've taken hits in the millions and millions and millions of dollars over this boondoggle.

I mean, it's their own fault. Again, now I'm going to go back just a little bit here to this New York Post headline, March 21st. Markle left Netflix, quote, millions of dollars in the whole with severed as everdeal.

Again, I call it a sever, quote, meaning Netflix. They never saw a return.

They never-- not only that, Netflix was

saddled with a reported per variety, $10 million worth of as ever March, which they shipped back to Harry and Meghan. And basically, we're like, this is your problem now. You wear house, your own expense.

“Sarah Nathan, in her piece for the New York Post, writes,”

she talked to a source who said, meanwhile, quote, there are a lot of people, meaning at Netflix, who really did not enjoy working with Meghan on with love. This is a staffer at Netflix, adding, quote, there is no love lost between meni at Netflix and Markle

and her and Harry's archwell production company. This is my favorite part. This is my favorite part, Markle herself. Brace yourself, trouble makers, has said she found making the show tough.

It's a year. This is Markle's quote. It's a year of learns. Her favorite bastardization makes-- she makes her sound like she is an MBA.

You sound like an asshole, sister. It's a year of learns. And then she went on.

She said this at October's Fortune's Most Powerful Women

Summit. She said, Kinsey and I quote, eight episodes for two seasons. It's a lot of work, listen, sister. The nerve rounded 100 episodes in less than a year. You want to talk about hard work.

She is so full of shit. The gall to get up at Fortune's. First of all, they're so stupid for inviting her. They all think any clicks are good clicks. Clicks are clicks.

But like, she's up. This is her part of her problem. I mean, she has no talent. She does not have an original thought in that very mediocre brain of hers.

But she sits there and she says eight episodes-- Oh, two years, God. You know, I really broke a sweat with that shit. You know, you're fucking lucky. Not only did she get a platform from the likes of Spotify

and then Lemonada, but they shoveled millions of dollars her way, millions of dollars. And she's going to sit there and say, eight episodes, it was so much work.

And she was saying that ultimately,

she was going to pivot to digital content. And we've seen zero of that. And like, what do you think digital means? Well, no, she was saying she was going to go into microcontent, which is exactly what I said when I saw

a very first episode of With Love Megan. I was like, this could be a 60 second video on TikTok. This is not true. An hour-long program. And she's not even doing that.

I mean, she's not even giving us quick recipes, using these products that she's trying to show on Instagram. So I mean, what does she do all day long? Obviously, not a lot because she's not even creating that content. That was just an excuse.

She was saying, oh, no, but that was tough work. So we've decided to pivot into digital content. And now we sit around and wait months later

I mean, I do think that that variety article

“says what we've been all saying for a long time.”

She lacks creativity. She lacks the ability to collaborate. She doesn't know what the hell she's doing. And it's cost Netflix a significant amount of money. And the royal family must be sitting back thinking,

thank God, she's no longer our problem. Because she would have been creating those problems insisting that she was the smartest person in the room within Kensington Palace. And they would have been pulling their hair out.

And she would have been wasting their resources. I mean, I don't know if I'm allowed to repeat this, but I do know that there is a charity in London that she was working with. She hated the pictures that she, first of all,

she insisted on a very expensive photographer. She hated the pictures that they taken of her. She wanted a brand new photographer. She wanted brand new photographs. Now, wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars

of this charity's resources when she was a working royal. And that would have been 100 examples. We would be talking about today if she was still a member of the British royal family. She isn't the smartest person in the room.

And she wastes people's time and money because she's a big blanket in it.

- You know what else the problem is, too, Kenzie?

A couple of things, one to your point about why she's not doing these micro digital pieces for TikTok, whatever. She can't because she's incapable of being pithy. I mean, she's just tried to watch an episode

of With Love Megan, tried to watch her articulate a single thought. She can't do it.

“And you know why I think part of it is she's not that bright.”

She's not funny. You have to be smart to be funny. You absolutely, as sense of humor, I think is a key sign of intelligence. But I think she's always also thinking ahead

to how she's going to sound and how she's going to look and what people are going to think about her. And it's that level of just constant like perceiveration about herself and her image that keeps her from being at all personable,

at all relatable, at all somebody you would want to watch. And so for this reason, Netflix was in a real bind against their own fault. I do not feel sorry for them. I do not feel sorry for any corporation

that pumps this shit into our cultural bloodstream. You know, take that loss and learn your lesson. She's not even a person you could put talented people around and really build something. Like let's say just for the sake of argument,

she was somebody who listened and could take constructive criticism and direction and had a little humility. She lacks any of the just raw material

“that you need to create someone people want to watch.”

- In to your point, I think that if she or even a little bit self-deprecating, she thinks she is. She thinks she is. I'm trying to think of like an episode of an instance

where she thought she was like, making fun of herself. - I think she told Bloomberg maybe that I'm not perfect. No, no, no, it was Harper's bizarre. She was like, I'm not perfect.

I make mistakes. And it was a snappy in the way she says it. But then she doesn't go into any of the mistakes she's made,

which is crucial to actually look like you are self-aware.

You need to give us some examples of failure, but she never admits failure. But I think when you're self-deprecating, it is easier to have a sense of humor. But you're right.

Like if she dropped something and the dog jumped down and liked it, it wouldn't be a laugh-out loud moment. There would be panic across her face and she'd be like, "We gotta do it again, we gotta do it again." And she's just not capable of like the word

that she loves to repeat like authentic joy. You know, there's just no authenticity there. There's no real joy. And she did absolutely in the cut, talk about the bachelor producer in her head,

or on her shoulder that walked her through that interview. So you're right about how she's just so anal about everything. - What a incredible metaphor or allegory, really, given what's going on with the bachelor, to your points about the Harper's Bizarre piece.

You know, first of all, I do think she drugged that dog

while shooting with Love Megan in that kitchen, because I don't know a dog who, I've yet to meet a dog who is not food motivated. - Okay. - And that dog was like just dosing in his dog bed

in a kitchen where there was a lot of cooking and a lot of activity. And new people coming in and dogs want to run to a new person and sniff and make see if they're a threat, protect their owner unless the stalk doesn't give a shit

about his owner, 'cause you know, she's awful. But that Harper's Bizarre, the Harper's Bizarre piece excuse me where she says, "Oh yeah, I'm making mistakes." I mean, it's the same one where she drove in a motorcade in a luxury SUV vehicle to a bunch of under-privileged girls

at the LeBreighett Harpits in L.A. did like a cameo and then left, and then had the journalist meet her. Out again, a baro townhouse in New York City

bellow, Megan, Duchess of Sussex

“when it seemed there was nobody else in the house,”

but Megan. - No, it's so awkward. - It's Netflix, that's the kind of footage you need. But they're too crowded by those two. - Yeah, that's exactly what we want to see.

We want to see that chaos. But what we're seeing is somebody that is trying to be a Duchess and is despite quitting that job, trying to reinforce that she is this Disney princess. And we're not buying it.

We watch, she's a wrecking ball. She's a bull in a china shop. - She's a African American. She's also an American and we just, we don't take to it, you know?

You can, there are people who will be forever more royal than people of the royal blood. I mean, you could say that about Katherine Princess of Wales. She conducts herself far more like a royal of the blood than many members you and I could name right now.

- Yeah, absolutely. - I'll start with Camilla. - I would just point to Andrew. - Oh, that was a very extreme example, yes. - So let's look at this bathroom video

that Megan posted to her Instagram.

“You know, oh, first can we look at the pregnant belly?”

We're gonna talk about this with Mark. Bowden, as well, our beloved Mark Bowden. Who I know will call this trophy behavior. Here is Megan on the red carpet for a charity gala. The Alliance for Children's Rights.

She's proving to us that A. She does have a friend in the world. - Yeah. - 'Cause she's all over her friend who is pregnant and wearing a skin tight dress to show off her baby bump. And Megan's got her hand all over this woman's pregnant belly.

And it's so creepy. She's moving it. She's rubbing it. It's up and down, Kenzie. - Yeah, I mean, this is a friend that she is a friendship.

She established through Trevor Engelsen, Kelly. And Kelly does appear. - Here, Andrew Trevor is.

- That's Megan's first husband, allegedly.

- Is that the husband who she informed she wanted to divorce by FedExing back her engagement and wedding rings? - Yes, Daniel's note. - After burning every single photo and VHS tape

of their wedding in Jamaica where everybody could smoke a blunt. There was, there was pot at every single table for you at their wedding. - So royal.

- I know, she's so classy. - So classy. - Hey, let's talk also about classy. Have you and I talked about this on the air for getting, have we talked about the solid,

“the major solid that Trevor did her after that in dignity?”

- Where there was a alleged book of past lovers that... - You won't say it all, say it. Next diary. Go ahead.

- There was, Megan was clearing, asked a friend to clear out some of her, Megan asked a friend to clear out her storage unit and some of her things allegedly allegedly in LA when she was moving to London to be with Harry

and a friend found an old diary that had some lists in it and some achievements in that friend allegedly called Trevor and said, "Look, guess what I found. "What could I, what should I do with this? "I know what a tabloid would love it

"and Trevor being the gentleman and good guy that he is, "who had been ignored by Megan for years at this point "completely ghosted, somehow says bring it to me. "Let me have it, gets his hands on it. "Messages Megan and says I have this."

And all of a sudden she's willing to communicate with him and she instructs him to hand this over to someone else or to put it in some of the United States embassy. (laughing) Anyway, he takes care of what could have been

an extremely problematic scenario for Megan allegedly, allegedly, but it's an example of what a good human he was. And I mean, we know that because he has yet to say a bad thing about her, he has plenty that he could say. The people around him, even Spencer Pratt,

who's running for mayor in LA right now,

front of his, was like, "Megan was always

"quant trying to climb the social ladder. "She tried to use Trevor to do that as well. "She thought Trevor was going to help her career "and when he didn't, when she secured suits on her own, "she thought, I don't need you anymore.

"And I'm gonna use my fame now "to date more famous people "and to try to elevate myself through, dating these other people "and ultimately she devastated Trevor

"who was just ridiculously in love with her and smitten with her." And so, I don't know how we got on the Trevor train, but here we go. - Well, Trevor touched a bullet. Trevor touched a bullet. I have only heard very good things about him.

I have heard from people who know him

He will not talk that is a classy guy.

I'm gonna give Megan a pro tip. - Yeah. - I'm going to guess that the friend, who she deputized, to go clear out her storage unit, again, a take her. You know, I'm gonna get, we live in the iPhone era.

I'm gonna guess a few little photos were taken. - Oh! - I said book for historical purposes.

“I'm gonna guess, and I think if she wants to take a lesson”

from this, which she will not, she will not. She might want to reconsider how she treats people. - Mm-hm. - Yeah. - You might be incentivizing them to air your dirty, filthy, fucking laundry.

Our last thing to look at is this video that she posted

to, I believe, to her Instagram.

It's now on TikTok of Megan. It looks like the same gala you probably would know on the top of your head, could they? Okay, so she goes to the restroom because she is a mere mortal and like the rest of us, she needs bathroom breaks.

You wouldn't know it. I mean, she acts like she's, she's, she's so elevated that bodily functions are beneath her. She goes into this restroom and she, look at how whimsical she is, she walks in and the women who are taking care

of the restroom and who, you know, hands you, your lovely towel to dry your hands and ask, would you like a mint? And you know, Megan has no cash on her. She's not tipping these women.

“She walks in and they're performing for her.”

They want to impress her and they're doing a dance party.

These women who are lucky if they clear eight bucks an hour at a gala like this. And here's Megan, just laughing with her, with her hand to her chest and just practically collapses. She's so whimsical.

She fight, like this is weird, funny stuff. Like this just happens everywhere. She goes, she's magic with her fairy dust. Oh my God. Yeah, so this is conveniently recorded by the way.

I mean, like if, okay, if this happens to you, cute story, but the fact that Kelly, the pregnant woman, who's carrying, you know, a she got a lot going on, conveniently has got herself on out to capture this magic moment with Megan. And then it's conveniently distributed to entertainment tonight,

now that Axis Holly would have gone rest in peace. Entertainment tonight seems to be coming for entertainment tonight. Good, good. Put that one in the ground too. Megan Markle seems to be funneling her bullshit

to entertain it tonight because don't forget, it's just a few days ago, where someone had the audacity to ask for Jack Quaid on a red carpet for entertainment tonight. Oh, is it to work with Megan Markle? And he dodged the question like a pro.

He was like, actually, I'm in the movie with, and then he reads off the leads and talks about how much fun they had, completely ignores the Megan Markle question. Entertainment tonight uploads it saying, Jack Quaid had so much fun with Megan Markle.

Lye, I don't know who is, who Megan Markle is sending Jacks to over there. But this is entertainment tonight redistributing this bullshit video. And again, you're so right, they're trying to prove Megan is a girl's girl. Megan so much fun, look at Megan in participating in a TikTok dance. This is all a PR stunt.

This is a desperate attempt to change the narrative that this woman is not so completely toxic and everyone can't stand her. And that's the truth. I live in the city, no one wants to work with her.

The god bless Jack Quaid, no one likes Megan Markle. And apparently they're having to engage the help, which is fine. God love them. But you're being used by Megan Markle, who's getting paid. God knows how much for these women to meet her and take a selfie with her and Australia.

Not worth it. You're so right, by the way, about like I didn't even think about. I'm like, who is taking this video? This is like totally spontaneous video. You're right, it's Kelly, the very pregnant friend who, like,

“you know, when you're that pregnant, you have to go to the bathroom all the time.”

It's agony. So she's taken, and by the way, what fancy gala in a five star hotel have you ever attended Kinsey, where you walk into the restroom? And they've got a boom box in there so that the staff can dance and jyrate. But she, this is someone who jyrated herself and twerked while allegedly

reportedly pregnant in a labor and delivery room thinks this is how she's like an alien. She's like, this is not how humans behave. And it is as stage and stiff as that world series video, remember? Here I come, here I come, here I come. And he's like, what's happening?

It's just like, and Kinsey also, I'm just going to say she said I live in the city. She means LA. She lives and works there and she knows she knows what that town really thinks of her. My last quote for your thoughts, Kinsey, before we have to spit a due. For the moment, Tom Bauer, who I know you love, has a new book out about these two.

And Tom Sikes asked Tom Bauer, like, listen, is there a path back for these two to the royal family?

“Tom Bauer said no for Meghan and Meghan doesn't even want it.”

Meghan wants to be a celebrity in Montesito. She will die trying. But for Harry, oh, this is Harry he thinks maybe. He thinks they can contain Harry, kind of like a like an oil spill. Like the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

They can somehow contain his emotional and psychological garbage. But of Meghan, I want your thoughts on this devastating quote, it's so good. Bauer says it is only a recipe for more and more sensational danger. Were they to take Meghan back? She doesn't want it, neither want another party wants it.

Because Meghan Bauer says would always look for a way to complain.

She can't be satisfied, she can't. No, and she, her objective in life in the last six years has been to undermine the Prince and Princess of Wales. And that would be so catastrophic.

“I think you might be wrong and I think you're going to agree with me when you hear me say this.”

Meghan will be famous because she's going to divorce Prince Harry. She's going to write a book about what a toxic, sick mental nut case he is. And she's going to reposition herself on all the talk shows. It won't work about about how she's the victim again. And it won't work.

You know, I have to disagree with you here, kids.

No, because here's what I think she, she already is famous.

But there is a difference between being famous and being culturally relevant. Yeah, yeah, she is, she is not the latter and she never will be. And just as we hear at the nerve predict that when her father dies, she's going to accuse him of sexual abuse. It's the thing that the mainstream media will not say. We all know it's true and we all know it will be a lie just my opinion.

When she does pen the divorce memoir and Harry wake up because that vanity fair cover story last summer called American Oscillars had it had good reporting that she was secretly shopping a divorce memoir around major publishers without his knowledge. Wake the fuck up. Yeah. She's going to claim that he abused her, that he was a drunk, that he was a drug addict, that the children weren't danger, that she did everything she could,

that she is both the victim and the hero here. And now don't we all have to reconsider what we think of her because she suffered in silence for so long to which I say none of us are going to buy it. Give it a shot. We're not going to, but we know that today's show will.

“And that's why the nervous here, okay? That's why the nervous here.”

You know, as frustrated as I get with the mainstream media, it's like how much do I really want them to change because like the nerve has our lane wide open. So like leave it to us.

Leave it to us, Kinsey. We love having you. You look amazing. We hope you have an incredible

weekend. I know you've got a very exciting week coming up. I hope you enjoy it. And we will talk to you soon. Thank you. Also it's my birthday. Oh and I forgot I meant to say that to you. I know it's your birthday. I love you talking about this. I get so worked up about Megan Markle. She's such a black cloud. This is what it does to me. It impedes my vision for an actual friend who is an actual day of consequence. Happy birthday Kinsey. The troublemakers all wish you

all the best and many more. I love you so much. Bye. Love you too. Bye bye. That's it with Kinsey. And the latest on the gruesome to some coming up troublemaker feedback are in a very special gift from one of our favorites in New Zealand. You know who I've I speak, who I've where I've I speak. We will be back in a minute. troublemakers are banks caching your interest checks while you are buried in debt.

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Our beloved Paul from New Zealand. Mail the nerve. A gift. On the occasion of our 100th

“episode. And he sent this card which I'm going to hold up and we will also show full screen.”

Thank you Maureen and team nerve. Look at this Paul. I couldn't I just couldn't love you guys more. It says Maureen congrats Paul and Pam from New Zealand. February 2026. He put in stills from our teaser trailer that dropped like in March of 2025 and said inside that the 100th episode is the best time for a new dot dot dot and then sent me a lovely gift which I'm going to keep

private but was basically like go treat yourself. And when I say that the nerve has the absolute best

best community going. It's stuff like that that just you know Paul so thoughtful. So heartfelt. Don't make me I'm not crying. Are you crying? I'm not crying. Okay. A talk speaking of not crying. This from troublemaker Linda the header. Hoda gets to play the devoted friend. And this goes to her attempt to squeeze a couple of tears out while Savannah got three sat across from her and basically spoke about how destroyed she is since her mother went missing 53 days ago today.

We're going to have a lot to say about that. We're going to have a lot to say about that.

“Oh, it's 54 days. I believe it's 53 or 54. Forgive me.”

Subject forward the other man Michael Bergen's memoir of his lengthy relationship with Carolyn Bessette which blood into her marriage to JFK Junior which we have been reading from here at the nerve almost every week and I have been hearing from so many of you guys who are like this book is unavailable. Why isn't it available anymore? And Amazon, like I'm seeing it going used for like $3,000 my library doesn't carry it. Guess what? Guess what? I got an email last night from a

troublemaker who said marine. It's now available on Kindle. I went right to Amazon low and behold. You can now download the other man for like $9.99 on on Amazon's Kindle. I highly recommend every troublemaker does this. Okay. Let's get this book also on the New York Times Besseller list and send a message to the culture that we want the truth. Not the bullshit. Okay. Here's another related email from troublemaker Rebecca Dear marine. I thought I would just check on Amazon

to see if Michael Bergen's book might be available. It is going to be released. Mark your

“calendars troublemakers on June 23rd, 2026 in four formats good for Michael Bergen. I think we should”

all support him and let me tell you there is no better be treated than Michael Bergen's the other man. Trouble maker Rebecca says she believes the nerve is responsible for this. I believe it too. And I'm the last person to give myself any kind of credit. But hey, there's nothing we can't do people, right? Timothy Shamalam and Ding Dong getting denied and Oscar. The other man getting re-released, not just in Kindle but in four formats. What can't we do? Dear marine, this is from

a troublemaker named E. I love you just saying it's cast not casted. I got spanked a little bit by you guys, deservedly. So I was talking to Rob about the casting of some show. I don't know if it was asked not or something else and I was saying this is why they cast her or casted her. I didn't know the proper term. But a few of you said it's cast not casted and I thank you because I also struggle. I struggle mightily with a new word in the lexicon which is screenshot. Now there is the

noun screenshot as in that is a screenshot of something and then there is screenshot it which is

and I feel like why can't screenshot? Like I screenshot that. But I kind of also get it because

one of my betting wars is, you know, and I'm sorry if you're among the people who do it. It's a very common thing. People I love do it all the time who say I text instead of I text it. It's I text it. It's past. Text is the noun or the verb but text it is the pat. Like once you write the text and send it you text it somebody, you know, I could go on all day. Okay, anyway. This is from trouble maker Heather and this is the short film and she writes don't interrupt me and she's

“got like a pink teddy bear wearing I believe a Howard's mini hoodie coming into the frame as she's”

got asked not on audio book up on her screen and I just died I died like the effort taken to send

this stuff into the nerve. We never take it for granted. Love you. Love you trouble maker Heather. Okay

this is from trouble maker Robin she said she liked asked not a lot because she found it not to be a rehash of things already in the universe like so many Kennedy books are. It's just a rehash of a rehash of a rehash. It's barely reheated slump. Now, ooh, exotic. This trouble maker was reading it while on a trans Atlantic cruise. I would sit on deck reading and reading and reveling in the book it was windy and my was bend oh I love this portmanteau meaning ex-husband was bend suggested

I take the cover off so it wouldn't flap and be annoying and I shouted no I want people to see what I am reading everyone talks about books it's a two week journey lots of great conversation I love this and she's going to read American Predator next she says she's going away in May

“and finds Israel keys fascinating Robin I think you will not be disappointed with American Predator.”

I think you will not be disappointed let me know let me know. Hi Mori and last week's episode so we get emails from a trouble maker named David in San Diego and his last name he shares a last name with a publishing legend a magazine magazine editor who is a legend and I don't think it's the same guy who I um it's another story for another time okay last week's episode of love story exit strategy had a real who's afraid of Virginia will vibe I agree but trouble maker David says and I

also agree these two are no Liz and Dick in the movie Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are all in on revealing each other's flaws cut by cut with dialogue as sharp as a knife in love

“story they have done better to resurrect sandy Dennis and George Seagull in holograms as the”

lingering dinner guests and in um but in Virginia wolf they're actually like hostages like they keep trying to figure out a way to get out of there and they then they realize that part of this

is all for show for them you know if you haven't seen it avail yourself it's amazing

better yet David writes since they are already taking creative license it would have been interesting so brilliant do have cousin Anthony and Carolyn's new bestie Carol to add some drama I couldn't agree more trouble maker I'm not gonna say your name you haven't given me permission you know who you are bell burden and her insufferable entitled memoir of being an affluent idiot when she married a narcissist needs the wood shipper treatment please please please put the white hot nerve

glare on her especially now that there's a film deal with fellow New York neppo guinea and whisperings that she is another Amy Griffin would you guys like me to slice and dice bell burdens memoir which in some in substance is about a rich New York city socialite and during COVID her has been came home one day instead I wanted to force that's the book she got a book deal she got a ton of glowing coverage media elsewhere among celebrities now it's gonna be a movie I'm happy to do it if you

guys want it just let me know morey this is from trouble maker may I say your name I'm not going to say asking please do not let Lindsay Vaughn get away with this Lindsay Vaughn is on it looks like

in a vanglorious stunt for the ages and bill from Brooklyn was right he said to me from the

“very beginning this whole thing is all about her need for fame and validation there is nothing”

heroic about what she's doing in fact she's stealing a slot from a kid who really worked their heart out for it for years she stole it and he's totally right we're gonna get him back on very soon

this trouble maker adds very salient point that Lindsay Vaughn's selfishness put first responders

in harms way if she ever competes again because she's making noise about it can you believe that she's fucking delusional uh and is stranded on a mountain they need to leave her there to fend for herself and figure it out yeah give Lindsay like the hundred and twenty seven days treatment um okay morning trouble maker rich a comment of a frequent sorry a frequent contributor to the nerve make hoda speaking with savanna make sense i'm going to in in in like in the way that we can

you know what i mean rich and why he asks is hoda making those sounds after each damn sentence savanna says oh rich no no she doesn't wall savanna is speaking and we're gonna get into it trust me um moreyane this is trouble maker to race i love that name thank you for the awesome

recommendation of the 1955 classic movie excuse me marty finally got around to viewing loved it oh

to race this makes me so happy if you have not seen the classic film marty with Ernest Borginine

“you must you must written by patty chiaf's gate dear morin i've been with you since episode one”

thank you it's trouble maker from Louisiana no name needed you got it trouble maker um she says to me that at first the foul language really bothered me as time passed however this trouble maker found that it became freeing i have now adopted it she writes as a tool to maneuver through menopause a good fuck off once in a while is deeply cleansing yes it is isn't it's deeply cathartic and there are so many things in people in the culture that deserve it no other two words will do

sometimes you know what i'm saying moreyane thank you so much for reading my email on your show on Tuesday and recommending the careless love biography about Elvis trustly you are welcome i cannot recommend that book highly enough i am really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on epic

“after you go and see the movie may i share trouble maker that i went yesterday i looked at my”

phone after an appointment in the city and was like oh it's playing at this theater over in time square walked over got to the kiosk and it was nowhere to be found and i asked an employee i said hey what's up and they said oh yeah it's gone so i'm like why why is it in like real time on my phone as playing here as a matinee and but you're telling me it's not here and she goes well yeah it's been a month i mean that's a good run for a movie and i'm like this is where we're at i mean

this thing was shot for i max you know it's like i was so heartbroken i'm still gonna try to see it but like i i can't believe you know it's like it's becoming a pilgrimage you know it's like an epic journey just to see bad's lyrman's epic Elvis Presley in concert um trouble maker

Lisa continues your conversation on Wednesday's nerve at night with rob shooter was so powerful

my heart aches for Justin Bieber same same same with rob we we talked about it you can see it in Justin's face and especially in his eyes how his light has been extinguished and his soul destroyed by those monsters in the music industry and it's it it just spirals out it's the entertainment industry on the whole um i can't bear to see clips of him when he first started out and how excited and naive he was how could anyone harm a child we don't know what happened to

Justin i'm just gonna put that disclaimer in we don't know but you know rob and i were talking about um Justin's confrontation caught on camera with usher at Beyoncé's post Oscar party and you know Beyoncé could look no further than her husband jazzy who was in business with ditty for quite some time you want to tell me nobody new hi morine this is Nancy your troublemaker from Tennessee i am interested in the today show gossip what do you hear about Carson daily and

Dylan drier we are getting to it my friend Carson seems to genuinely care about savanna is this

thanks we're all very much of like minds here she also loves loves loves christ staple tin um and she

“also she is also not alone among troublemakers for recommending me over to the steel drivers um”

christeng with them from 2005 to 2010 his voice in this band um oh she's saying that what i'm missing in his voice and she's right i didn't i didn't pick up on the blue grass roots and she is right she says they're best song in her opinion if it hadn't been for love we'll be listening to it as soon as i'm done here um okay oh she also read ask not and says this is salient i'm gobsmacked at the lack of morals and empathy i am in rn and have mostly held director positions in jails

prisons and mental hospitals i thought i had heard it all that is the point okay just a couple of

more because i have um marlene's gonna yell at me she's gonna yell at me for going over uh

“vis-a-vis the batch laureate getting yanked and i'm just gonna say i just saw a report before”

coming on to talk to you guys that abc might be reconsidering and abc might just decide to do a heavy edit and air this season and you know what i'm thinking it's not just the loss and advertising revenue but they've seen that this is this is a tender box and it's getting a lot of clicks and likes and in in our culture there's no such thing as bad attention there's just attention

so the nerve is gonna keep our boot on the neck of abc you know what air it we dare you we

fucking dare you air it air it linear tv is dying anyway you tube is exploding air it you fucking psychopaths high mooring i got drunk one night at a bar this is a child abuser we saw her hurl one trouble maker email me she said that those metal chairs the tailor Frankie Paul hurled at her then boyfriend or husband with her baby on a couch i'm talking like a two-year-old to me that's a baby uh and and hit that child the husband alleges uh they were seven pounds each

child abuser you psychopaths at abc go ahead air it hi and oh this this this email goes to the mainstream media including the New York Times and others calling calling what we all saw in that video of domestic abuse of savage domestic abuse and encounter and encounter that was an attack hi mooring this is from trouble maker Tim i got drunk one night at a bar and came home with a black eye my wife asked me what happened

and i told her i had an encounter an encounter she asked so i confessed that it was an encounter with another drunk guy's fist but that i was just minding my own business having an innocent chat with his wife while he was in the little boys room i can report from the field that none of this bullshit actually works my wife didn't buy any of it words and honesty do matter keep your feedback coming keep it coming you guys email me please at mooring at devilmaker

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and um it's pegged to an illness and um we're going to talk about this because illness is sort of

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we are back so late last week this popped into my algorithm and I really it stopped me it made me

stop and click on it and really look at it so I could absorb what this is now I have spoken about this a little bit before David Remnick who runs the New Yorker is a very elegant refined learned well spoken guy who I also really like because he comes from like an average background in New Jersey he wasn't one of these sort of trust fund kids who likes you know he's he's a product of the meritocracy but he is in charge of the New Yorker and has been for years and you know

“he took it over from Tina Brown and I think Tina Brown is among the most genius editors of”

the modern age and if you haven't read her vanity fair diaries read them I'm hoping she does publish her New Yorker diaries but when she took over the New Yorker there was a lot of pearl clutching you know among the chattering class like Tina's gonna tabloid it tabloid eyes it you know Tina brought in Rosanne Barr to guess at it an issue like Tina's bringing in like you know what she wants the rooms who like watch her is and you know what I mean and then she let Tina Brown

is who she is okay she and she makes no she makes no apologies for that David Remnick was installed as the new editor and he was supposed to bring back the sort of more gentle New Yorker of the Wallace Shons of the you know and it's like he's a star fucker too you know the New Yorker should be publishing real writers who need the exposure not the Jesse Eisenbergs of the world or the Lena Dunnems of the world and now Amanda Pete Amanda Pete got a huge chunk of real estate in the

New Yorker we're gonna show a full screen of this here she is I printed it out it's called my season of Adevan is there create a core more basic amongst a segment of the privilege middle-aged white women of LA in New York City she's from New York City she now is in LA she you know she she went to Colombia her mother's a psycho analyst she came from you know privileged background she's married to one half of the brain trust behind the HBO adaptation of game of

thrones you see where I'm going there's an audio version of this piece that is read by her best friend

and Ryan Murphy Pat Sarah Palson the summon substance okay let me allow me to read you the first

line of this this like eight page feature in the New Yorker Amanda Pete's first line if you're to listen in the timestamp it tells you it takes 27 minutes to listen who's got if you want 27 minutes of my time you better be given something really good I mean really effing good first line of Amanda Pete's piece for the New Yorker personal essay quote I told my mom everything even when I gave my first blow job again I reference Tina Brown and Rose Ambar now I'm going to summarize this piece for you

and a lot of means her husband's got game of thrones money okay they're getting the best treatment

“the best care money can buy she gets diagnosed with breast cancer I'm very sorry about that I truly am”

she is diagnosed with a very treatable kind of breast cancer that was caught very early stage one that's the story there is no larger point to Amanda's essay there is no original insight there is nothing unique about it I am sorry to say this is an all to common issue facing Gen X people are living longer just because they're living longer you know that means that means they're

often sicker in their 80s and their 90s they're getting catastrophic illnesses and modern medicine

keeps them alive sometimes for far too long when the kinder thing to do would be to let them go so it's known as the sandwich generation where you've got a generation like Gen X now mid-age older parents who need a lot of care they're trying to raise their own children and now that they're in middle age they are at risk for the kinds of cancers that often show up you know just about almost every guy is going to get prostate cancer at some point you know it's very

treatable some people live with it forever without really getting it treated this piece belongs in people magazine at best as an interview Amanda Pete and it's a breast cancer journey now everything's it's not a diagnosis it's a journey she's been making the media rounds and we're going to listen to some of this and you know listen she's saying that she wrote this piece with no objective or goal she just wanted to write it it was therapeutic in order to get an assignment

“like this at the New Yorker it takes effort you have to give them a writing sample one would think”

you're working with an editor I'm going to bet this thing went through five to ten drafts I'm going to bet her husband had eyes if not edits on this piece if not some rewrites

it's a big deal to have your first piece of writing which as far as I'm aware this is her first piece

of prose published in the effing New Yorker I think her goal is a book deal I think her goal is like you know seven figure book deal all right so Amanda first she's also out publicizing and that the timing of this is no accident because she's also starring in season two of your friends and neighbors playing John Ham's ex-wife we we took John Ham to the witch had the very debut episode of the nerve in all girl I should say you would all correct me

rightly so we're going to look at Amanda telling ET about her piece and the point of it here we go I want to commend you on your beautiful beautifully written New Yorker essay right there she's talking to a quote unquote entertainment reporter named Cassie Deloria who is about as as exciting as lukewarm milk and as much of a presence on camera and she says I want to congratulate you on your beautiful and beautifully written essay it's neither of those

things it's pretty pedestrian again I'm very sorry that she's been through these traumas

“they are extremely commonplace and unless you know if you want to read something about like”

someone who is diagnosed with cancer and has real wisdom to impart read a book called when breath becomes air it was written by a brilliant young doctor who was diagnosed with incurable I believe it was lung cancer that book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for months that is not as a gem and I recommended it to my father when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer he read it and loved it in fact he gave it to his wonderful oncologist who you know because he wrote about it

from both the POV of a brilliant doctor whose mind was going to be applied to curing the most difficult diseases and then becoming diagnosed with a disease that was not only

worth reading or my friend my dear friend Susanna Kahalen who wrote an incredible medical memoir

“called Brain on Fire not only did she come through a rare autoimmune disease that could have”

killed her or at the very least had her sent to a mental institution but she wrote about it with such a originality and heart and humanity that that book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list forever it is since sold over 1 million copies I'm sorry Amanda Pete that this happened to you but that does not make you a writer it doesn't it doesn't mean that like we need to read an essay that's like and then this happened and then this happened and then this happened there is zero

insight here it has no place in the New Yorker none now Cassie is going to ask Amanda if she and her co-star Olivia Munn her co-star on your friends and neighbors got even closer than she presumed Cassie I mean they already were because they both have had breast cancer here we go like Olivia Munn as well sharing her story it's so important to help others and you guys are doing just that with your platform has she been a source of support for you yes totally beautiful women

supporting each other in the hardest of times and it's so beautiful to see Cassie you're a moron you're on another failing entertainment show that is just really a hand job in the guys of an entertainment show she's sitting there editorializing oh beautiful women supporting other

“beautiful women it's so beautiful to see that's what we call in the trade a word wrap you're not”

supposed to use the same word twice in a piece especially close together anyway Amanda here's

what I saw here's what I saw are you did this bring you even closer to to Olivia and and Amanda

goes oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes you know what our good friend Mark Boden would be saying about that the head is saying the head is telling the truth that's a no that's no it's it's a it's a great experiment try it some time try to say yes while shaking your head now it's harder than you think she's not close to Olivia Monde they probably don't even like each other okay um just because two people have a version of the same illness there are a million different kinds of breast cancers

Olivia's was a different kind that resulted in her getting a double misdeculated very young age that

“is a real trauma real real trauma um but you know I uh someone who would know so I'll just keep my”

source extremely vague told me this was back when Olivia was first really becoming famous

that um and she's not that famous but you know what I mean she was getting she wanted to be a celebrity told me that Olivia would throw her own grandmother under the bus if it meant she could get famous okay then Amanda went over to the today show with Hoda and oh my god you guys when I'm telling you we're coming at Hoda with both barrels oh my god we're next week is a lot we've got like we have so much good stuff in store for you next week I can't even um and we've got some Easter eggs in today's

show by the way for the many you know um so anyway Amanda went over to the today show where she's both promoting her breast cancer journey slash essay in the New Yorker and season two of the highly mediocre Apple TV series rich people with problems your friends and neighbors um Hoda is gonna ask her okay first Hoda is she sitting there with Craig so um Amanda doesn't get the esteem of just a one-on-one with Craig who's the top who bought there at least for now

Savannah's coming back everybody's sweating it out um so he's with Hoda and Hoda leans in like the star fucker she is you know Hoda is just levitating over at studio one a she did not want to be home with her little girls she did not this is where she wants to be interviewing celebrities and trying to be friend them and get them into her joy one-on-one tent so Hoda leans in and says to Amanda how we've all speaking for us all speak for yourself

do not speak for me please how we've all been waiting with baby breath for Amanda Pete to quote come back to film by which she means proper cinema I died you guys I died let's watch it we'll talk about it on the backends by the way we've been waiting for you to come back to film we've been waiting for you here but also ten years so this had to be a good one for you to come back ten years yeah I was

okay this is my favorite thing when celebrities go you know someone told me it was ten years they

“bean count everything it's the same thing when a celebrity goes yeah you know I mean I woke up at”

10 a.m. and it was my mom who called me and said you know what you've been nominated for an Oscar that alarm is set they are up all night they can't sleep they're up early in the morning they've got that broadcast on they've got someone keeping them like a personal assistant if their name gets red we can capture the completely organic surprise we're you know then what it says so it really had to be a good project to get you back to film you know Amanda says yeah I was devastated to

here it's been that long which means she would have given an eye tooth to be back in film but but

but um hold it says it had to be a really good film to bring you back right so tell us what was it

about this project that brought you back to film I'll tell you what it was hold it it's a movie

“and it's a paycheck that's it that's it and that's all it's about um in Amanda's words this”

uh unique piece of cinema is about quote a rich Brooklyn mom who's having an affair again I don't think you can get more basic than that it's like it's a cultural cancer you know not to make light of cancer but it really is a disease it's like we're blanketed with this bullshit rich ladies with problems that a lot of money and access can solve now Hoda is gonna get into the disease part of this interview so we have to shift we have to shift our body language our tone

and tenor we have to raise our eyebrows look concerned we're gonna bring ourselves into it but

only so much only so much and um we're gonna you know we're gonna try to just we're you know we're gonna empathize now you know so Hoda is and again I'm telling you these questions these all these questions were cleared with Amanda's publicist even though Amanda wrote a personal essay all about it for the New Yorker you know we had to clear these questions anyway here we go you actually just you revealed something a little while ago that you are now you are you have

a few days ago and what made you decide you wanted to talk about that publicly even in that essay you know I didn't really have an agenda I just just neither of my parents are religious so I wondered if it was kind of because my parents were in hospice at the time and maybe it was kind of a way to just kind of cope and and contain what was insanity this kind of intersection of all of these big life moments so yeah but I didn't have a plan I don't know what she means I

truly don't and I don't believe that she didn't have a plan I think she does want a book deal or she wants to start a podcast I think she wants to get another revenue stream going and to be culturally relevant I do there's just no other reason to publicize it like that unless you're unless your real goal is you're like I want to help other women I want to make sure that like everyone's getting their mammograms I want to I'm going to start a foundation for women you do

not have the means that I have I'm going to you know the kind of breast cancer I have is she's going to say this it's an understudied one it's a rare one and those are what they call the orphan

“diseases you know it's a rare one and so it needs a lot of funding and like that's what we're”

going to do my husband's got Game of Thrones money we can call up anybody we know billionaires that's what's that you know her husband's related to like Mark Benioff who's like a major major effing player in the financial world David Benioff it's not that it's not I I had no agenda and if it was really just an active catharsis you write it down and you throw it in a drawer you leave it in like your your own files on your computer that's it that's it this isn't that

sorry here's how does follow up when you hear the words press cancer and I mean it happened to me a while ago but I do know the feeling of hearing the words but now I feel like it's sort of different you know that there is a clear path forward how does a real moron and I'm going to continue to bang the drum over here at the nerve to just be anchored off that set I mean there are a lot of morons over there Chanel is a moron um Jenna Bush Hager is a moron um Craig is not he's got

something going on not my favorite but he's got something going on owls not a moron I have heard he's handsy I will say that uh and uh it's about a certainly not a moron but hold us it's there and

I feel like with she and she goes like this I feel like with breast cancer now like there's a way

“forward this is extremely dangerous messaging and I'm going to tell you why NBC because she's giving”

women out there a license to be like you know what I'll put my mammogram off for another year

you know what I may be at the age that like they're recommending it but it feels early to me and

“I don't have a family history not all breast cancer is the same and there are some forms of breast”

cancer that are very resistant to treatment and that are deadly and that kill women so shut your fucking mouth hoda shut it that's it that's it for your fried edition of the nerve

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