Welcome to the Twenty Third episode of Rapaport's Reality! Starring Kebe & Michael Rapaport. This is the reality television podcast that the whole reality world has been waiting for. The Rapaport's are here to discuss: Surviving Heat Anxiety, Visiting The West Village, Fall Wardrobe, seeing Adam Sandler at a Grocery Store in LA, Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck Get Divorced 2.0, JLO Needs To Drop The Doubt, Jax & Brittany Get Divorced, Tom Girardi Found Guilty & a whole lotta mo'! This episode is not to be missed!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
She's got it. Wake up now and know that she is.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You want to speak to Jennifer, I guess what would
you need to talk to her?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I need to say that everything that she does know,
she still has this little click doubt about herself that
she needs to drop it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
She needs to.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Drop the doubt. It's a self doubt that she has.
The self doubt is what is pushing her to keep going.
If that's what it is, keep going because you want
to keep going. There's still something she needs to prove.
All these men she picked, they're all broken in the
same way, and she ain't gonna fix it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
There's not enough love to fix it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
She's picking broken because she thinks her broken. She has
the love to fix it. She has the elixir and
her love to fix it, and I'm here to say
she doesn't have.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
That should be her next song, Alixer in My Love
sh it could be and it could be a ballad
and banger.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
She needs to look in the mirror and look go
like motherfucker j Low and I need to She's not
in the same way. It's this is like this is
like an affirmation to get somewhere without substance of why
the why.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Haktua.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yes, I'm gonna stick with that because I like it.
I'm like it's growing on me.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's it's the summer of Hoktua that grows everywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That meme is everywhere. I saw a funny one the other.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Day between her and the Love Island people. Oh man,
we are plugged into what's going on with the youth.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So haktua hawk to it to you.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
My name is Michael Rappaport, and I am Kiev Rapaport,
and this is Rapaport's reality.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We are cooking.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
We are coming to the end of the summer, a
couple more weeks of the official uh summer being over.
I hope everybody's having a great summer.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I am surviving my heat anxiety.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's chilled out. Last couple of days, it hasn't been
too bad.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It was bad today. I wore like a amish outfit today.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Was it really bad today?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Walking and I was talking about swamp ass?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You had it?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I mean, boh, I know, I had a I had
a barrel of sweat going down my back today.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I was concerned you were out and about in the streets.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I was.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I was all the way down in the west Village.
It's nice down there. West Village is good, really really nice.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
A lot of restaurants, a lot of restaurants.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The West Village is dope, it's really great.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, why do we live all the way up here.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Because you get tired of them? I mean, West Village
is no. The West Village is pretty sick.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's really sick.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You could pull it off.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, but I like being near the park. But anyway, it's.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They don't have Central Park.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But you know, September stays hot, so let's not graduate
from the heat yet. We usually have a usually until
Halloween is when it starts.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, that's when we were in September.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It's hot. October you get to start wearing.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Although I got a new pair of Row boots that
I can't wait to rock right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Talked about the Row on this.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I podcast, My little sock boots. I think I could
rock them now with a skirt and it should be okay.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The Roll is Kate and Ashley's.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Kate and Kate and Ashley Olsen Twins, the Wonder Twins,
and a lot of people still don't know about the Row.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I'm sure like the younger people know about the Row,
but the Row.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Why I shouldn't even know about the Row? So expensive?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's expensive, but it's dope. The Row. Their clothes are good.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, they fit good, timeless, beautiful, they last.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Long, they're made well.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
They're overpriced beyond it's ridiculous. It is overpriced.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's very small, Like I think their clientele is very niche.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, niche.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
But gee, you never would have thought because like they
you know, people would have thought they were like corny
or like, you know, tacky or like the two girls
from h Full House like what they they're branding.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The Row and they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Men, if you're.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Listening, you want to get you your girl something, girls,
if you want to get your guys something, if you
want to get yourself a gift, you don't know the Row.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And they make for big guys, by the way, because
every time I bought for you, it's like you off
the rack, Like it's hard. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, the Row is dope.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah they're great anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So I can't wait for it to cool down so
I could wear my few things that I got that
are fall like.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But you you know what I was thinking this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You don't go out the house like I'll go out
of the house where anything I know, like in the summer,
I don't give a.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Fuck, I know, and you get so mad at me
when I go.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But let's go and you're like, hey, you turn, where
are you going? You? You at least make yourself look presentable.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
If I feel like living in New York, you should
like you're always walking, You're always.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
When it's in LA.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I never did that because you go out the door
and get right in your car, and and then that's
a horrible thing when you walk in to like CVS
or Trader Joe's and you're like, hi, we had to
ring up Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, well la LA is like that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
LA is like when you go into a CVS right
a Trader Joy Juice place, you'll see somebody you know,
or you'll see Adam Sandler. Like literally, I remember one
time I saw with my kids. It wasn't even that late.
It was like at nine o'clock at night. We had
just gone to see an Adam Sandler movie. What was
(05:29):
that movie where he played like the Israeli shut time
no Zolhar And literally that day earlier in the day
and then we had went and got ice cream that
evening and.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Boom, you saw him in the movie and then saw.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Him the same day in a supermarket.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Wow, Like I say, eight nine o'clock, and my kids
were bugging.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now that's meta.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
They were tripped out because they had they had seen
him in a bunch of movies. But they literally we
literally were Zohar all day. We were Zohar was a
fun Adam Sandler movie. And Darry what I was bugging
because I was like, yeah, it was just a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Did you say anything to him?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I was like, yo, we just went to go see
the Sohan Zoharhan and he did the accent for them
and they were just how many walk And he was like, yeah,
I'll see you guys walked, but like they were like stunned.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's in the la moment. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
But that's what it's like. So be prepared.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
If you're in a supermarket in California, I know people
would be like, I've been in supermarket in California. I
never seen fucking Adam Sandon. Well just keep looking anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Huge week.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I almost wanted to call this an emergency Rappaports Rally podcast,
but we were scheduled to go and we almost fired
up the microphones. The other day when Ben and j
Loo announced their official divorce, uh Jlo announced it officially.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Well she has.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
She filed the fish on their two year anniverses.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
August twentieth, the date she made a statement with that.
I'll say I like her style, so it's pretty.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Strong and we have been tracking this. I believe Kibi.
You said that. I so rarely.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I so rarely say your name because sometimes you'll say Mike,
and I'm like, I just say who.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You don't like it, I say, Babe. When I say
when I call you we Mike, You're like, don't do.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
To get my attention.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I know, But Babe, you said on this podcast that
you didn't think they would make it to Christmas and
they didn't get out of the summer.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
No, I mean, listen, you don't even cleo a fortune.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I hate that you do that to me. You always
say Cleo. First of all, I can't stand that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Because I do have an intuitive quality about me, and
I'm usually very right.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
That's true. I want to you know, and you you don't.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Everybody in my life says that it's true about me,
except for.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You, babe.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
In regards to I think you do have that. But
in regards to Ben and j Low.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
They could have made it right up into the left.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Suther, who's ninety one, who probably doesn't know who Ben
or Jlo is, he could have if he had a picture,
he could be do you think these people are going
to make it to Christmas?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He would have said, hellmu he.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Saw the one scene where he slams the door.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
When they get to make it the next year, I know,
I know, Listen, it's still sad.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's still I'm still sad about it.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I listen. I like both of them. I don't like
to see the end of any relationships. They have tried
and tried and tried. And j Lo is the Elizabeth
Taylor of her generation, and Ben Affleck has tried and tried.
And I have enormous respect for both of them as artists.
(08:42):
And I want to see people win. I want to
see people. And they have so much success. They seem
like they love love, and they both got away from
their last relationships. I can't even keep track of food.
Who was Jennifer wid before Ben Affleck? The last time
a rod right, they were engaged, right and then.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Man, I saw it's something in the magazine I think
was People magazine. They went over all of her rings
that she's got. You know, I don't know if she
gave them back, but I think this was her most
expensive ring.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
How much was it? Ten ten million dollar ring?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Green diamond that is super super rare.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Wow? Who does she got ring from a.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Rod a rod ben ben earlier?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
The pink diamond, the pink and I shouldn't know that.
I only know that because Instagram.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
She's got one from the bartender guy.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
She kept that bartender's ring. I don't know if she
kept it her.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
She needs to give the bartender back his ring. I
don't care what he did to her. Come on, man,
what's the dancer? The dancer is at that the bartender
are the two separate people? I think the dancer and
the bartender, but they look like they could be right, they're.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Similar looks and Mark Anthony right. She gets rings, she gets,
she gets.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We don't be fooled by the rocks that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
She gets for real.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
So do you feel sad? Do you feel mad? I mean,
we've been tracking it. We have been tracking this since
we started this podcast. I don't know how many episodes
we are in Now we're cooking so much. Now we
don't even count the episodes. We said, after a certain point,
you don't say episode whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Right, you know what, babe, I've caught a couple. I
said this before, I talked about before. I'm so enamored
and so fascinated by j Lo only because I have
a little insight when she was a fly girl and
I was friends with one of her makeup artists, and
she was so determined to be famous even as a flygirl.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Okay, she got the fame.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
She got the fame, and she would talk about it,
and I want to say, don't quote me that she
would look in the mirror as she was doing it,
and she would do formations. She was very big into
affirmations while she was getting her makeup done.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Like a.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, she was like, I am a star, I'm a star.
She's very determined about what she wanted.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
She has it. But now I see these like I
showed you.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
One the other day of a paparazzi getting her coming
out with an ice cream cone. It's got as I know,
but then she's like, get back up, but get away,
back up, you know. But then it's like there's some
idea that they call the paparazzi.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Because they can't imagine that I was really because she's
in the Hampton's, Baby.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
These people every star is in the Hampton's. Right, Well,
why do you go to the Hampton?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So anyway, my point is that there's an edge to
her that is a little like a little bronx.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I have to say, I am extremely recognizable, yes, and
I am nowhere near as recognizable as Jennifer Lopez or
Ben Affleck.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Ben Affleck is also my height. He's not hiding, he's
giving up wearing hats. He's just like, fuck it, can
remember you used to wear hats? Yeah, yeah, the hats
don't work. Yeah, I don't want to wear a hat
like Leonardo's like, I'm wearing a hat. Yeah, he's on
the COVID masks. He's trying. But Ben Affleck has been
famous and in the limelight for thirty years. Jennifer Lopez
(12:21):
famous in the line light for almost thirty years.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It has got to be I get.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It, But you're you're not understanding where I'm trying to
go with this.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
But they're hunting them.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
They're not just like, yo, I'm a fan, like that's
my interaction ninety nine point nine percent of the time
if there's a camera, like I don't even know, Like
we're not in those areas, but like to be hunted
for photographs.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Four seven for thirty years.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
When you're with your kids, when you're at your highest high,
your lowest low, when you're getting ice cream, when you've
just had a fight, who knows what. When your your
daughter's being a paint in the ass, your son's being
a paint in the ass, when your ex wife is
being this, your ex husband, both of them, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Gotta be just I think, gotta be alone. But don't
go to the Hamptons.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yes, stay out of those places.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But what I'm trying to say is that we've seen
her because I loved her on American Idol and how
a vulnerable she was and so kind and sweet to
kids with dreams, and she it's almost like she saw
herself and everyone with a dream.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
She's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But when I see her like go off like that,
like Bronx New York, Jenny from the Block, the girl
who would have dated P Diddy, Because I'm always like,
why the fuck was she with him? I think to myself,
why were you with Ben Affleck, Like, what was the
white boy gonna do? What was the Catholic white boy
gonna do for you?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Like, I don't know what they had in common.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I'm saying that to say, this might not be the
worst thing for her not to be with him, because
if he wasn't down for this lifestyle, because that's what
I think what it came down to. I think it
came down to, like, based on the documentary, her still
wanting to be in the limelight and not being done
with this life and him being okay with sort of
the back seat that he takes, you know, like the
big gulp and the sick rats and like not dressing
(14:01):
up and not showing up on every red carpet, and
like he didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Like all that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They just weren't meant in that way.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It was this old and like and I think it's
okay for her. I still think that, right, love is
out there for her, you know what, I don't know,
but it's gotta be some baller baller baller dude.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
She's got to let go. She'll be like some guy
from Greece.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Or something, tech billionaire oil barren guy that's just like
about about it about it, you know the.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Exactly somebody likes that.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
She don't think she was. She wants to do somebody
who's cool, and.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I think it's necessarily cool. Young. I just don't think
she'll click with somebody like that.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Why because she hasn't clicked She's Mark Anthony.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
She's got to do a different She's picking these broken dudes.
These these guys all have something broken about them. She's
got to wake up now and know that she is.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Do you want to speak to Jennifer? Like, yes, you
what would you to talk to her?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I need to say that everything is she does know
she's Jill has this little click doubt about herself that
she needs to drop it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
She needs to drop the doubt. It's a self doubt
that she has. The self doubt is what is pushing
her to keep going. That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Keep going because you want to keep going. There's still
something she needs to prove. All these men she picked,
they're all broken in the same way. And she ain't
gonna fix it. There's not enough love to fix it.
She's picking broken because she thinks her broken.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
She has the love to fix it.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
She has the elixir and her love to fix it,
and I'm here to say she doesn't.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Have that should be her next song alixir in my
love shit. It could be a bad and it could
be a balance and a banger.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
She needs to look in the mirror and go like
motherfucking j Lo and I need.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
To say so. Not in the same way.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's this is like, this is like an affirmation to
get somewhere without substance of why the why you know,
I used to this is what I think about myself.
I when we were together, we were young. I used
to want to be famous because I wanted to get
attention because I didn't get it in my childhood or
I want I thought if I could be famous, then
(16:11):
I could help the world. This bullshit. You can help
the world without being famous. You got where you wanted.
We started at the same time because you really wanted it.
I would be looking at you and you'd be like,
this one really wants this shit. I wanted it for
the wrong reasons. So what I'm saying is like, you know,
once I did the work, I went to therapist, I
was like, I don't give a fuck. I love myself.
(16:31):
So she needs to go back to the basics.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
For the question question. I mean they just split up.
It's been a few months. Obviously there was a soft
split up, and then she did the divorce.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Apparently April they split up.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
By the way, so Ben is allegedly dating Robert F.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Kennedy's daughter. Ben's going to be.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Out in about oh immediately.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's different with a woman. It's different with Jennifer Lopez.
When do you think Jennifer Lopez will be seen with
another man? Do you think she'll be seen with another
man before the end of twenty twenty four? Cleo, I mean, Kibi,
you're thinking about this. Yeah, I am, you're thinking about this.
I don't think she's gonna be well.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I don't because she's acutely aware of how the world
is looking at her. This is the first time in
her career. I mean, she's been through hell. I mean,
think about all the racism shit she went through and
all the body shaming shit she she's been through.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Hell.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's got to be exhausting for her. I think if
she's smart and she's like, yeah, I think you were right.
I think she needs to reinvent herself. If she's smart,
she get rid of everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Benny included all of her her people.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
She needs a brand newster first, probably you did you
management new pr got lost them and.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
They can say friends, but she just needs a whole
new thing.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Or she shifts them to sort of executives.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes, and they're executive and they run maybe the production company.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But in terms of like.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I'm not trying to get anybody out of a job.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
No, no, no, no, I found that there's that one.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Not that they're listening now. Only think that Bennie Medine
is like what are Keebi and Mike say? And then
all those motherfuckers they're trying to fucking kick me out.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
But remember the publicist I found on TikTok, the young
c black girl who came up.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
She's she's a girl. She's got good ideas.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
She's not even a pro.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
No, no, she's not pro, but she's smart. She's putting
her ideas out there. A lot of people were tagging
j Lo saying like, these are great ideas for your career.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I agree with them anyway. I wish you're the best.
I'm a huge j Loo fan. I love her.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I wish I could talk to her. I would be
her main hype girl. I didn't even go last night
with her.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Do you think that she's going to do another documentary?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Please don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
If you do another one, Jennifer, make it when you're
seventy five. You can't do another one about the making
of or the comeback of the insurgence of.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
No, You're You're fifty.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
No, a person shouldn't have three documentaries about themselves at fifty.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Madonna did one. Yeah, and it was a dope. It
wasn't even so much a documentary was a it was
a movie. I mean it was a documentary truth or Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
That was a dope film, a dope filmmaker, and it
had a style and it captured a time and that
was it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It was kind of her.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Backstory and how she got there, but it wasn't this
life and times and anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
So we wish them well. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I can't say enough about the transformation. Is Ben Affleck
the director. I was talking the other day about Air
If you haven't seen Air, directed by Ben Affleck, starring
Matt Damon, about the sort of evolution of Nike and
how Nike signed Michael Jordan against all odds and you're like,
(19:37):
what do you mean, against all odds. At the time,
Nike was a nowhere brand. Anyway, it's a great film.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That's a great movie.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Film, and he directed it. And they directed that movie
in twenty three days. And the thing that's so impressive
about him directing that movie in twenty three days you have.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
To know clearly what you're doing clearly.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So guys really really brilliant.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I fucked with Benn Affleck ahead and I rooted for
a j Lo.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It's a bummer it didn't work out, But I think
there's something great on the horizon for both of them.
I hope that this time goes smoothly for them and
they're both okay.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Now, we don't normally get the kind of juice that
we have to take you behind the scenes, the way
the way the magic works, the way.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
The sausage is made.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
And I know a lot of people are listening going, oh, oh,
are they gonna tell us how the sausage is made?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Are they gonna Are they gonna.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Tell us about how the magic happens for rap ports reality,
I know people are like, oh shit, they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I didn't think they would do it.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
But the way the sausage is made.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Is that we do our soft pre production meeting me
and Kibi.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Five minutes before, five minutes before.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Or a few days before, like when we finish this episode.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
If something crazy happens, we're like, yo, we got to
make sure we get to talk about that next week.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
We take our notes and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
But today, as of the recording of this podcast, obviously
the Jennifer Lopez thing has been brewing for months and
then it was finally announced, but also sad, and I
almost feel genuinely more sad for Jackson Brittany Britney Yea
from Vanderpum Rules Britney from The Valley, and Jax Taylor
(21:31):
aka the Number One Guy.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
They have their little son, Cruse I believe his name is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
She has filed for divorce allegedly, And I'm not happy
about this.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I know.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Listen, No, I hate divorce. I hate it, especially when
there's a little kid.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I hate that you were divorced before me.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I mean, I'm glad that we're together, but it bothers
me right, Like, I don't like anybody to be divorced.
Those two being with a little kid like that, and
and CRUs and I think he has learning disability and
he's got some special things about him. It was on
the show he needs his parents and hopefully they're going
to be smart enough to do co parenting.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Right. But the writing was on the wall, Babe, that
this guy was not.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The writing was on the wall for years after days.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
After season after season, and we've talked, we've fawned, I've
done videos.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I fuck with Jackson.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I mean, he's more your number one guy than probably anybody.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But I root for him.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I know, I talk about it like because, yeah, he
was a dick on the show when he was younger,
and that's what we saw on the show, and yes,
he was just.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Always always root for the underdog. I mean, you root
for fucking Travis Bickell and taxi driver.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You're like, I get it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
But I have a soft spot for all those people
because even if they're the quote unquote bad guy or
the dick or the asshole or the bad girl on
the show, at the end of the day, I want
to see them grow out of that, especially somebody like that,
especially when it comes to marriage and a kid, like
I'm like, yo, I've had fun, you know, laughing and
with your pain and you you're cheating and your scandals
(23:09):
on that stuff, but like now you're a little older,
like I.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Want to see him win.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yes, I agree.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We respect our reality TV stars.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yes, we respect the fact that they entertain us so
much that we want to see them.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
With their real lives, like I and I really want
his real life to be successful. And it's it's really sad,
but part of me thinks that he knew that he
wasn't capable of this marriage. Yes and so, and that way,
I'm relieved for him and for her because she's still young.
(23:42):
She can have a second chance. You've had one. A
lot of people I know have had second, third chances.
There's still time for her to find a great partner
in life, one that will love her son, and same
for Jack. So to me, there's still hope. I just
don't like where they were going.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
You know, the Valley is a terrible place to be single.
It's hot.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
You talk about hot guys. If you've never been to
the Valley in California.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The valley with the sports bar is a terrible place
to be.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's what I'm saying. Like the Valley in general, I've
never lived in the Valley.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I was single in the valley, so I know, I know,
you know, and I'm Sherman Oaks was exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It was really pathetic.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
And it's hot as ship, and it's hot in August,
and it's hot in January, and it's hot in February.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Babe, I walked Tammy and I walked to a bar
and I wore a wig.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That's how desperate I was.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Why did you think was gonna happen from there? In
the week?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I wore like a short like Lisa rennerwig to a
bar senior Frids in the valley on Ventura Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It was pathetic.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Your friends, senior friends and my senior friends senior like
seen your friends, see your friends.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Does it still exists?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
It was hot, that's why. On the way home I
that ship off. Temmy remembers, yeah, we it being single
in the valley.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It ain't good.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh gosh, thank god, thank you Baruksham that those days
are over.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh my goodness, it was. I don't wish that on anybody.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
No, no, I don't like I know, I get it.
I understand.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Maybe it's different now. Maybe it's different now, maybe it
has more life to it.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
No, it ain't the valley. It's definitely a family place.
It's definitely a family place. It's definitely better than it
was in the nineties and two thousands. It is built
on more, but it's still the valley, and I love
the valley, no disrespect. The valley is such an epicenter.
For those of you who don't know, California Capital of pornography.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It's is it still it used to be?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
It was, and I think there was a rule, but
it's it's where all the studios are. So like, if
you're a show business person, like the valley, like Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, they're all there. Yeah, Like, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Where dreams are made, yes, and dreams are don't come
to true.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It don't come true, right, And when you're a young actor,
it's where apartments used to be cheaper.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It was like the thing like so yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I remember driving down the valley with my Thomas guide
looking for auditions and it Ventura Boulevart in you know
that Laurel Canyon area studio city, and it looked like
a dreamland. And I thought, I am going to make
it here. This is going to be the place. And
it was beautiful out not quite as hot as it. Yeah,
(26:25):
but anyway, so.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I hope that Brittany and Jack's wow. I feel they're
both coming back to the show, right.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Speaking of the show, they just wrapped filming on the
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which is an excellent program.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I hear it's gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
And today, moments before we picked up these mics, I
got texts after texts, I got DM after DM announcing
that Erica james ex husband Tom Girardi, who is eighty five.
This case has been going on for probably about four
(27:10):
or five.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Five years, definitely four at least.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Four years more.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Yeah, yeah, was found guilty of fraud and scamming and
fraud of his clients. And if you don't know, I'm
sure everybody knows this, but Tom Girardi was a big, big, big,
big time lawyer. His biggest case was the film that
was made into the movie by Julia Roberts.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
To Julia Roberts, film was.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Called the film Aaron Brockovich which she did she win
an oscar or she got not.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
It doesn't nominated.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
But it was a big hit.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
And I think there was some oscar stuff and Tom
Girardi was the male in that film, and Aaron Brockovich
was a big case and Tom Girardi was a big
time lawyer at one point considered one of the biggest lawyers,
and he would get money for victims. And it's turns
out that Tom Girardi wasn't paying the victims their money,
(28:04):
and he was borrowing from this person and using from
this person. And Erica Jane the great Erica Jane. We
love Erica Jane.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
They were married, and.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
The whole fucking thing has fallen down. And we found
out that the whole fucking thing has fallen out moments.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Before before this.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yes, and yes, Juliette Roberts did win for Best Actress.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
She won Best Actress, Yes she did. Yeah, this is
anything is possible.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
This is sad that the legacy of charm Girardi's career
is ends up in a best winning performance by Julia Roberts.
You know that's gonna be the legacy to his career.
That it falls on a movie that is being played by.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Julia ro Robbers, So they're gonna put her on deposition.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'm just saying, like, this guy ends up being like
a crazy, lying, scamming.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
We saw this coming, we saw coming.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I don't know, Jane, I don't know that this doesn't
implicate her, because if he scammed, I didn't read the
full article on the La Times.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
She wasn't mentioned.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
She wasn't mentioned.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
But I do believe that earlier on, remember in the
last season when she had to give the ear rings.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Back, but then she got him back.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Then she got him back.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Right. The whole thing was did she know?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Because she was obviously our listeners, yeah you know this,
But the whole question is did she know? Did she know?
How much did she know? Was she a part of it?
Was there money being put in her account?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And but still the thing is is if he's implicated
and he's actually spending the money, isn't it true that
that money was spent on her? Does she ever have
to give the stuff back? But I think when she
moved all that stuff that was bought in the house,
they had to.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
They had picassos and they collected that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Mona, did you get her her pocasso?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I think?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Or yeah, something he gave then it was yes, yes,
you're right, it was a coffeemaker.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Man. What is wrong with people? What is wrong? I
don't get it.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
And I mean he's eighty five. He seems like he
has dementia. He doesn't seem like he's faking it. He
doesn't seem like he's doing the Uh. There was a
mobster that would walk around. He was clearly faking that
he had dementia. But he's being sentenced in December. If
he makes it to December, yeah, he's hanging on for
dear life.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
He's hanging on for dear Yes. I mean, I do
think he definitely has dementia. But you know, you can
live quite quite a bit of time with dementia. I
don't know how long he had it before he went
into the home, right, but I think let's see what happens,
because he could end up in a little time in jail.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
If he actually makes it to December sixth, and they
sentenced in December sixth, he will die in jail. Yeah,
one hundred And it's just sad. It's sad.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
The victims were scammed.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Scammed.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I mean, he took advantage emotionally and financially of the
most vulnerable of the vulnerable plane accident victims of people.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
With burn victims. I mean shit, a terrible dude, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Also, not only that everybody in his life, he took
advantage of the person he was married to like this.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That's like wild.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
When someone does some shit like that like that is
you know, And I don't think that person ever thinks
about the consequences of their actions at all. Of course,
even to this day and now with Dimension, I'm sure
he doesn't even remember.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But it's sad all around.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
It's sad for Erica to have to even think about
that part of her life having ended like that, because
think about when she first came on the show, she.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Was really pretty proud of that guy.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
In that marriage, and until the scene where remember when
he was talking, excuse me, Erica, excuse me, he geared
the shit out of me.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Excuse me, I'm speaking, Yeah, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah. That was spooky.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Yeah, So right then I knew she didn't have it
made with that whole lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
That was fucking whack. But anyway, so that's big.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
News, and that's really big news.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
And speaking of scammers, we mentioned, I think an episode
ago or two episodes ago, we watched a very fun, entertaining,
extremely frustrating scammer documentary on Netflix called Dirty Pop about
the guy Lou Pearlman.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
You might know the name, you might not know the name.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Lou Pelman is the guy who essentially created No not essentially,
he created and Sync and the Backstreet Boy. Yep, he
gave justin Timberlake. There would be no bringing Sexy.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Back Nah without Lou Prolman.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And pretty Lou is what they called him.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Why they called him that, We'll never know because there
was nothing pretty about that fat fuck.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
He was ridiculous looking.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
And also he had a very cringe quality about him
that I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
He All these young boys were enamored by this man.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
It was it was like Uncle Lou. He never accused
of sexual style.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I know he looked like it. He looked like Uncle
Lou the pedo. He really did.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
He looked Yeah, he really needs a piece of shit.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
He's a piece of it.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
But he's fascinating because he I didn't know this about him.
With the blimps he got from some Russian guy.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
He brought in the blimps before.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
He was doing boy bands. He was this is in
the eighties and the nineties. He was buying, renting them out, blimp.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Blimps, blims with the messages across the Yeah, I found
that fascinating because you know, growing up at the beach,
you would see the sign going across.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
In the song the ice Cube song, if you see
on the blimp ice cubes of pimp, that was from
Scarface when he says, oh yeah, that's the story was
from so Louke Peerlman was renting those blimps and then
it was never proven, but his blimps would.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
All crash and then he would get.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
The insurance money gammer from day one, the babe, it's
not that he was nice, it was that they knew
he was a billionaire, millionaire type of dude.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
And that's what creeps me out about people. It's like,
when you.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Know someone has a ton of money, they become better looking, smarter, wiser,
blah blah.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I never fall for that because when you're a big,
old sloppy dude with a like a fupa and a
piss bag, and you got weird glasses and you look
sweaty all the time, I don't care how much money
you have, you're creep he When you want to hang
around the little guys, charm young guys and like you're
hugging them all the time and.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Like you're weird, like you're you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I just didn't buy the whole thing. I was like,
look at this guy, he was asexual. Member In the end,
he's like anyway, I don't want to spoil it, but
everybody should watch this because I think it's fascinating, especially
people who grew up with boy bands. I was never
a big boy band girl.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
But I mean, I did I ever tell you? Did
I ever tell you that I saw in Sync performing
Dodger Stadium? No at the way. This is when Justin
was about to leave, and I went to go see
them because I ran into Joey Fatone, Joey fat One, Yeah,
on the plane, and he was so nice and he
(35:00):
was like a New York guy and he lived in Florida,
but he was a New York guy.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
He's like, you know, and he was like, come to
my show.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Down, and I was like, all right, bet, I'll come
just to go see it. Yeah, And I couldn't fucking
believe what I saw because they killed.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
They're so talented, right.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Dodger Stadium and Justin Timberlake did a solo set and
I was like.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
He should go on his own. Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I think it was.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I don't know the timeline, but you were like, Yo,
this guy is fucking he can do it.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
He had Dodger Stadium on lock and so I saw
them perform, which I'm glad I saw them before because
I remember being like, Yo, there was like sixty thousand people.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
In there and he that's crazy, babe.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah, So I saw them perform. Anyway, it's a good
time to me. The one thing we're not going to
give spoilers, but it is a spoiler. This fucking guy,
Lou pelman U, Sweet Lou, Pretty Lou Pearlman. He had
the longest running scam fraud of anybody in the history
of am for longer than Burn, longer than Thomas Girardi,
(36:04):
longer than all of them. Yes, the longest scam Friday
he was borrowing from this person and stealing from that
personally in that Pink and then he was on the
Lamb and he was in like Mexico or his Spain,
and he had another boy band, Protege, where he was
just fucking people.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Overicious of everybody. So I wouldn't they wouldn't work with me.
I'm like, what is this guy about? Like, I just
think you know me, babe, I'm always like that.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
But and he wasn't just music business scamming then every everybody.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Like the buildings, the buildings, and.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
No, I didn't sync and Backstreet Boys was that was
just the tip of the tippany. He did the normal
music ship to them, but it was beyond that that
he was scamming. And he wind up dying in jail.
Another spoiler alert. But I'm sure, uh people verted. But
it's well worth the watch.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
It's really well done.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, it's well done.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
It's three episodes a dirty pop on Netflix. And of
course we have football season coming, which.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
I'm excited about every year.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
You look at me like so doubtful.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I told you, because I told you.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I'm excited with The Hard Knocks because it's it runs
through the whole season, which makes me very excited to
watch the season. And as long as we stay away
from a lot of watching with red Zone, Like I
just can't watch the screen. I know you're doing fantasy.
I just can't do it. I'll go in the other room.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
But I'm excited for football season. I'm excited for your
fan if you're drafted or you went away and you
did your draft.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
And we have Salt Lake City coming on the eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
By the way, Mary Cosby has gotten her her snowflake.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
She's coming. She's a snowbowl.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I think, is it a snowball.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
She's back on as a permanent friend here and not
a friend anymore.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
She's back.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
They need her, but she's back, which is gonna be
really interesting.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Let's hope she participates.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
And maybe the fact that she didn't totally participate is
because she was just a friend before.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
No. I think that she's so wacky and so good.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
I feel like they give her carte blanche to just
be there, just show up common she.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
She's on the cover now and she's she's a permanent
fixture and right where she ought to be in respective little.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Lull right now because the summer's coming to an end.
So the on launch shows the last couple of weeks
of August. We're coming down from our love island.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Our love island.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
You know, we don't have that obsession right now. We're
missing the the love Island binge, the vander pump, sort
of like in your veins.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
We love, We love Dubai, we love the OC you know,
we're in it.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
But it's different.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
It's different.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
It's so like those are our like side chicks that
we're needing, like an addiction, something to replace the tilenti
and the kettle corn.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
We need some juice. We need some juice.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Some juice.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Anyway, tell a friend to tell a friend and subscribe,
rate and review if you have not already subscribed.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, that helps.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Refriend and reviewed. What I think is one of the best.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
And this is a big, big It is a thick
space pop culture reality TV.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Uh, everybody has one.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Everybody has one like us know only one, like there's
only one rapp Reports. So tell a friend to tell
a friend about Wrappaports Reality and we will see.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
You like clockwork next next week. Love you babe, I
Love you, babe.
She's got it. Wake up now and know that she is.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You want to speak to Jennifer, I guess what would
you need to talk to her?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I need to say that everything that she does know,
she still has this little click doubt about herself that
she needs to drop it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
She needs to.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Drop the doubt. It's a self doubt that she has.
The self doubt is what is pushing her to keep going.
If that's what it is, keep going because you want
to keep going. There's still something she needs to prove.
All these men she picked, they're all broken in the
same way, and she ain't gonna fix it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
There's not enough love to fix it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
She's picking broken because she thinks her broken. She has
the love to fix it. She has the elixir and
her love to fix it, and I'm here to say
she doesn't have.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
That should be her next song, Alixer in My Love
sh it could be and it could be a ballad
and banger.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
She needs to look in the mirror and look go
like motherfucker j Low and I need to She's not
in the same way. It's this is like this is
like an affirmation to get somewhere without substance of why
the why.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Haktua.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yes, I'm gonna stick with that because I like it.
I'm like it's growing on me.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's it's the summer of Hoktua that grows everywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That meme is everywhere. I saw a funny one the other.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Day between her and the Love Island people. Oh man,
we are plugged into what's going on with the youth.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So haktua hawk to it to you.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
My name is Michael Rappaport, and I am Kiev Rapaport,
and this is Rapaport's reality.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We are cooking.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
We are coming to the end of the summer, a
couple more weeks of the official uh summer being over.
I hope everybody's having a great summer.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I am surviving my heat anxiety.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's chilled out. Last couple of days, it hasn't been
too bad.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It was bad today. I wore like a amish outfit today.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Was it really bad today?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Walking and I was talking about swamp ass?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You had it?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I mean, boh, I know, I had a I had
a barrel of sweat going down my back today.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I was concerned you were out and about in the streets.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I was.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I was all the way down in the west Village.
It's nice down there. West Village is good, really really nice.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
A lot of restaurants, a lot of restaurants.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The West Village is dope, it's really great.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, why do we live all the way up here.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Because you get tired of them? I mean, West Village
is no. The West Village is pretty sick.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's really sick.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You could pull it off.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, but I like being near the park. But anyway, it's.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They don't have Central Park.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But you know, September stays hot, so let's not graduate
from the heat yet. We usually have a usually until
Halloween is when it starts.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, that's when we were in September.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It's hot. October you get to start wearing.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Although I got a new pair of Row boots that
I can't wait to rock right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Talked about the Row on this.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I podcast, My little sock boots. I think I could
rock them now with a skirt and it should be okay.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The Roll is Kate and Ashley's.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Kate and Kate and Ashley Olsen Twins, the Wonder Twins,
and a lot of people still don't know about the Row.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I'm sure like the younger people know about the Row,
but the Row.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Why I shouldn't even know about the Row? So expensive?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's expensive, but it's dope. The Row. Their clothes are good.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, they fit good, timeless, beautiful, they last.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Long, they're made well.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
They're overpriced beyond it's ridiculous. It is overpriced.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's very small, Like I think their clientele is very niche.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, niche.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
But gee, you never would have thought because like they
you know, people would have thought they were like corny
or like, you know, tacky or like the two girls
from h Full House like what they they're branding.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The Row and they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Men, if you're.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Listening, you want to get you your girl something, girls,
if you want to get your guys something, if you
want to get yourself a gift, you don't know the Row.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And they make for big guys, by the way, because
every time I bought for you, it's like you off
the rack, Like it's hard. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, the Row is dope.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah they're great anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So I can't wait for it to cool down so
I could wear my few things that I got that
are fall like.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But you you know what I was thinking this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You don't go out the house like I'll go out
of the house where anything I know, like in the summer,
I don't give a.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Fuck, I know, and you get so mad at me
when I go.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But let's go and you're like, hey, you turn, where
are you going? You? You at least make yourself look presentable.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
If I feel like living in New York, you should
like you're always walking, You're always.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
When it's in LA.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I never did that because you go out the door
and get right in your car, and and then that's
a horrible thing when you walk in to like CVS
or Trader Joe's and you're like, hi, we had to
ring up Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, well la LA is like that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
LA is like when you go into a CVS right
a Trader Joy Juice place, you'll see somebody you know,
or you'll see Adam Sandler. Like literally, I remember one
time I saw with my kids. It wasn't even that late.
It was like at nine o'clock at night. We had
just gone to see an Adam Sandler movie. What was
(05:29):
that movie where he played like the Israeli shut time
no Zolhar And literally that day earlier in the day
and then we had went and got ice cream that
evening and.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Boom, you saw him in the movie and then saw.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Him the same day in a supermarket.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Wow, Like I say, eight nine o'clock, and my kids
were bugging.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now that's meta.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
They were tripped out because they had they had seen
him in a bunch of movies. But they literally we
literally were Zohar all day. We were Zohar was a
fun Adam Sandler movie. And Darry what I was bugging
because I was like, yeah, it was just a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Did you say anything to him?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I was like, yo, we just went to go see
the Sohan Zoharhan and he did the accent for them
and they were just how many walk And he was like, yeah,
I'll see you guys walked, but like they were like stunned.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's in the la moment. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
But that's what it's like. So be prepared.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
If you're in a supermarket in California, I know people
would be like, I've been in supermarket in California. I
never seen fucking Adam Sandon. Well just keep looking anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Huge week.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I almost wanted to call this an emergency Rappaports Rally podcast,
but we were scheduled to go and we almost fired
up the microphones. The other day when Ben and j
Loo announced their official divorce, uh Jlo announced it officially.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Well she has.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
She filed the fish on their two year anniverses.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
August twentieth, the date she made a statement with that.
I'll say I like her style, so it's pretty.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Strong and we have been tracking this. I believe Kibi.
You said that. I so rarely.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I so rarely say your name because sometimes you'll say Mike,
and I'm like, I just say who.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You don't like it, I say, Babe. When I say
when I call you we Mike, You're like, don't do.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
To get my attention.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I know, But Babe, you said on this podcast that
you didn't think they would make it to Christmas and
they didn't get out of the summer.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
No, I mean, listen, you don't even cleo a fortune.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I hate that you do that to me. You always
say Cleo. First of all, I can't stand that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Because I do have an intuitive quality about me, and
I'm usually very right.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
That's true. I want to you know, and you you don't.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Everybody in my life says that it's true about me,
except for.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You, babe.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
In regards to I think you do have that. But
in regards to Ben and j Low.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
They could have made it right up into the left.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Suther, who's ninety one, who probably doesn't know who Ben
or Jlo is, he could have if he had a picture,
he could be do you think these people are going
to make it to Christmas?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He would have said, hellmu he.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Saw the one scene where he slams the door.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
When they get to make it the next year, I know,
I know, Listen, it's still sad.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's still I'm still sad about it.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I listen. I like both of them. I don't like
to see the end of any relationships. They have tried
and tried and tried. And j Lo is the Elizabeth
Taylor of her generation, and Ben Affleck has tried and tried.
And I have enormous respect for both of them as artists.
(08:42):
And I want to see people win. I want to
see people. And they have so much success. They seem
like they love love, and they both got away from
their last relationships. I can't even keep track of food.
Who was Jennifer wid before Ben Affleck? The last time
a rod right, they were engaged, right and then.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Man, I saw it's something in the magazine I think
was People magazine. They went over all of her rings
that she's got. You know, I don't know if she
gave them back, but I think this was her most
expensive ring.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
How much was it? Ten ten million dollar ring?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Green diamond that is super super rare.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Wow? Who does she got ring from a.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Rod a rod ben ben earlier?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
The pink diamond, the pink and I shouldn't know that.
I only know that because Instagram.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
She's got one from the bartender guy.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
She kept that bartender's ring. I don't know if she
kept it her.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
She needs to give the bartender back his ring. I
don't care what he did to her. Come on, man,
what's the dancer? The dancer is at that the bartender
are the two separate people? I think the dancer and
the bartender, but they look like they could be right, they're.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Similar looks and Mark Anthony right. She gets rings, she gets,
she gets.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We don't be fooled by the rocks that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
She gets for real.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
So do you feel sad? Do you feel mad? I mean,
we've been tracking it. We have been tracking this since
we started this podcast. I don't know how many episodes
we are in Now we're cooking so much. Now we
don't even count the episodes. We said, after a certain point,
you don't say episode whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Right, you know what, babe, I've caught a couple. I
said this before, I talked about before. I'm so enamored
and so fascinated by j Lo only because I have
a little insight when she was a fly girl and
I was friends with one of her makeup artists, and
she was so determined to be famous even as a flygirl.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Okay, she got the fame.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
She got the fame, and she would talk about it,
and I want to say, don't quote me that she
would look in the mirror as she was doing it,
and she would do formations. She was very big into
affirmations while she was getting her makeup done.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Like a.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, she was like, I am a star, I'm a star.
She's very determined about what she wanted.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
She has it. But now I see these like I
showed you.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
One the other day of a paparazzi getting her coming
out with an ice cream cone. It's got as I know,
but then she's like, get back up, but get away,
back up, you know. But then it's like there's some
idea that they call the paparazzi.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Because they can't imagine that I was really because she's
in the Hampton's, Baby.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
These people every star is in the Hampton's. Right, Well,
why do you go to the Hampton?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So anyway, my point is that there's an edge to
her that is a little like a little bronx.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I have to say, I am extremely recognizable, yes, and
I am nowhere near as recognizable as Jennifer Lopez or
Ben Affleck.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Ben Affleck is also my height. He's not hiding, he's
giving up wearing hats. He's just like, fuck it, can
remember you used to wear hats? Yeah, yeah, the hats
don't work. Yeah, I don't want to wear a hat
like Leonardo's like, I'm wearing a hat. Yeah, he's on
the COVID masks. He's trying. But Ben Affleck has been
famous and in the limelight for thirty years. Jennifer Lopez
(12:21):
famous in the line light for almost thirty years.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It has got to be I get.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It, But you're you're not understanding where I'm trying to
go with this.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
But they're hunting them.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
They're not just like, yo, I'm a fan, like that's
my interaction ninety nine point nine percent of the time
if there's a camera, like I don't even know, Like
we're not in those areas, but like to be hunted
for photographs.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Four seven for thirty years.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
When you're with your kids, when you're at your highest high,
your lowest low, when you're getting ice cream, when you've
just had a fight, who knows what. When your your
daughter's being a paint in the ass, your son's being
a paint in the ass, when your ex wife is
being this, your ex husband, both of them, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Gotta be just I think, gotta be alone. But don't
go to the Hamptons.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yes, stay out of those places.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But what I'm trying to say is that we've seen
her because I loved her on American Idol and how
a vulnerable she was and so kind and sweet to
kids with dreams, and she it's almost like she saw
herself and everyone with a dream.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
She's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But when I see her like go off like that,
like Bronx New York, Jenny from the Block, the girl
who would have dated P Diddy, Because I'm always like,
why the fuck was she with him? I think to myself,
why were you with Ben Affleck, Like, what was the
white boy gonna do? What was the Catholic white boy
gonna do for you?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Like, I don't know what they had in common.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I'm saying that to say, this might not be the
worst thing for her not to be with him, because
if he wasn't down for this lifestyle, because that's what
I think what it came down to. I think it
came down to, like, based on the documentary, her still
wanting to be in the limelight and not being done
with this life and him being okay with sort of
the back seat that he takes, you know, like the
big gulp and the sick rats and like not dressing
(14:01):
up and not showing up on every red carpet, and
like he didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Like all that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They just weren't meant in that way.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It was this old and like and I think it's
okay for her. I still think that, right, love is
out there for her, you know what, I don't know,
but it's gotta be some baller baller baller dude.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
She's got to let go. She'll be like some guy
from Greece.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Or something, tech billionaire oil barren guy that's just like
about about it about it, you know the.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Exactly somebody likes that.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
She don't think she was. She wants to do somebody
who's cool, and.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I think it's necessarily cool. Young. I just don't think
she'll click with somebody like that.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Why because she hasn't clicked She's Mark Anthony.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
She's got to do a different She's picking these broken dudes.
These these guys all have something broken about them. She's
got to wake up now and know that she is.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Do you want to speak to Jennifer? Like, yes, you
what would you to talk to her?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I need to say that everything is she does know
she's Jill has this little click doubt about herself that
she needs to drop it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
She needs to drop the doubt. It's a self doubt
that she has. The self doubt is what is pushing
her to keep going. That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Keep going because you want to keep going. There's still
something she needs to prove. All these men she picked,
they're all broken in the same way. And she ain't
gonna fix it. There's not enough love to fix it.
She's picking broken because she thinks her broken.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
She has the love to fix it.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
She has the elixir and her love to fix it,
and I'm here to say she doesn't.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Have that should be her next song alixir in my
love shit. It could be a bad and it could
be a balance and a banger.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
She needs to look in the mirror and go like
motherfucking j Lo and I need.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
To say so. Not in the same way.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's this is like, this is like an affirmation to
get somewhere without substance of why the why you know,
I used to this is what I think about myself.
I when we were together, we were young. I used
to want to be famous because I wanted to get
attention because I didn't get it in my childhood or
I want I thought if I could be famous, then
(16:11):
I could help the world. This bullshit. You can help
the world without being famous. You got where you wanted.
We started at the same time because you really wanted it.
I would be looking at you and you'd be like,
this one really wants this shit. I wanted it for
the wrong reasons. So what I'm saying is like, you know,
once I did the work, I went to therapist, I
was like, I don't give a fuck. I love myself.
(16:31):
So she needs to go back to the basics.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
For the question question. I mean they just split up.
It's been a few months. Obviously there was a soft
split up, and then she did the divorce.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Apparently April they split up.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
By the way, so Ben is allegedly dating Robert F.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Kennedy's daughter. Ben's going to be.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Out in about oh immediately.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's different with a woman. It's different with Jennifer Lopez.
When do you think Jennifer Lopez will be seen with
another man? Do you think she'll be seen with another
man before the end of twenty twenty four? Cleo, I mean, Kibi,
you're thinking about this. Yeah, I am, you're thinking about this.
I don't think she's gonna be well.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I don't because she's acutely aware of how the world
is looking at her. This is the first time in
her career. I mean, she's been through hell. I mean,
think about all the racism shit she went through and
all the body shaming shit she she's been through.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Hell.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's got to be exhausting for her. I think if
she's smart and she's like, yeah, I think you were right.
I think she needs to reinvent herself. If she's smart,
she get rid of everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Benny included all of her her people.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
She needs a brand newster first, probably you did you
management new pr got lost them and.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
They can say friends, but she just needs a whole
new thing.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Or she shifts them to sort of executives.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes, and they're executive and they run maybe the production company.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But in terms of like.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I'm not trying to get anybody out of a job.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
No, no, no, no, I found that there's that one.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Not that they're listening now. Only think that Bennie Medine
is like what are Keebi and Mike say? And then
all those motherfuckers they're trying to fucking kick me out.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
But remember the publicist I found on TikTok, the young
c black girl who came up.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
She's she's a girl. She's got good ideas.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
She's not even a pro.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
No, no, she's not pro, but she's smart. She's putting
her ideas out there. A lot of people were tagging
j Lo saying like, these are great ideas for your career.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I agree with them anyway. I wish you're the best.
I'm a huge j Loo fan. I love her.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I wish I could talk to her. I would be
her main hype girl. I didn't even go last night
with her.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Do you think that she's going to do another documentary?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Please don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
If you do another one, Jennifer, make it when you're
seventy five. You can't do another one about the making
of or the comeback of the insurgence of.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
No, You're You're fifty.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
No, a person shouldn't have three documentaries about themselves at fifty.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Madonna did one. Yeah, and it was a dope. It
wasn't even so much a documentary was a it was
a movie. I mean it was a documentary truth or Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
That was a dope film, a dope filmmaker, and it
had a style and it captured a time and that
was it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It was kind of her.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Backstory and how she got there, but it wasn't this
life and times and anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
So we wish them well. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I can't say enough about the transformation. Is Ben Affleck
the director. I was talking the other day about Air
If you haven't seen Air, directed by Ben Affleck, starring
Matt Damon, about the sort of evolution of Nike and
how Nike signed Michael Jordan against all odds and you're like,
(19:37):
what do you mean, against all odds. At the time,
Nike was a nowhere brand. Anyway, it's a great film.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That's a great movie.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Film, and he directed it. And they directed that movie
in twenty three days. And the thing that's so impressive
about him directing that movie in twenty three days you have.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
To know clearly what you're doing clearly.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So guys really really brilliant.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I fucked with Benn Affleck ahead and I rooted for
a j Lo.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It's a bummer it didn't work out, But I think
there's something great on the horizon for both of them.
I hope that this time goes smoothly for them and
they're both okay.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Now, we don't normally get the kind of juice that
we have to take you behind the scenes, the way
the way the magic works, the way.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
The sausage is made.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
And I know a lot of people are listening going, oh, oh,
are they gonna tell us how the sausage is made?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Are they gonna Are they gonna.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Tell us about how the magic happens for rap ports reality,
I know people are like, oh shit, they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I didn't think they would do it.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
But the way the sausage is made.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Is that we do our soft pre production meeting me
and Kibi.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Five minutes before, five minutes before.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Or a few days before, like when we finish this episode.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
If something crazy happens, we're like, yo, we got to
make sure we get to talk about that next week.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
We take our notes and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
But today, as of the recording of this podcast, obviously
the Jennifer Lopez thing has been brewing for months and
then it was finally announced, but also sad, and I
almost feel genuinely more sad for Jackson Brittany Britney Yea
from Vanderpum Rules Britney from The Valley, and Jax Taylor
(21:31):
aka the Number One Guy.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
They have their little son, Cruse I believe his name is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
She has filed for divorce allegedly, And I'm not happy
about this.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I know.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Listen, No, I hate divorce. I hate it, especially when
there's a little kid.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I hate that you were divorced before me.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I mean, I'm glad that we're together, but it bothers
me right, Like, I don't like anybody to be divorced.
Those two being with a little kid like that, and
and CRUs and I think he has learning disability and
he's got some special things about him. It was on
the show he needs his parents and hopefully they're going
to be smart enough to do co parenting.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Right. But the writing was on the wall, Babe, that
this guy was not.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The writing was on the wall for years after days.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
After season after season, and we've talked, we've fawned, I've
done videos.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I fuck with Jackson.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I mean, he's more your number one guy than probably anybody.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But I root for him.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I know, I talk about it like because, yeah, he
was a dick on the show when he was younger,
and that's what we saw on the show, and yes,
he was just.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Always always root for the underdog. I mean, you root
for fucking Travis Bickell and taxi driver.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You're like, I get it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
But I have a soft spot for all those people
because even if they're the quote unquote bad guy or
the dick or the asshole or the bad girl on
the show, at the end of the day, I want
to see them grow out of that, especially somebody like that,
especially when it comes to marriage and a kid, like
I'm like, yo, I've had fun, you know, laughing and
with your pain and you you're cheating and your scandals
(23:09):
on that stuff, but like now you're a little older,
like I.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Want to see him win.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yes, I agree.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We respect our reality TV stars.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yes, we respect the fact that they entertain us so
much that we want to see them.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
With their real lives, like I and I really want
his real life to be successful. And it's it's really sad,
but part of me thinks that he knew that he
wasn't capable of this marriage. Yes and so, and that way,
I'm relieved for him and for her because she's still young.
(23:42):
She can have a second chance. You've had one. A
lot of people I know have had second, third chances.
There's still time for her to find a great partner
in life, one that will love her son, and same
for Jack. So to me, there's still hope. I just
don't like where they were going.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
You know, the Valley is a terrible place to be single.
It's hot.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
You talk about hot guys. If you've never been to
the Valley in California.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The valley with the sports bar is a terrible place
to be.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's what I'm saying. Like the Valley in general, I've
never lived in the Valley.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I was single in the valley, so I know, I know,
you know, and I'm Sherman Oaks was exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It was really pathetic.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
And it's hot as ship, and it's hot in August,
and it's hot in January, and it's hot in February.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Babe, I walked Tammy and I walked to a bar
and I wore a wig.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That's how desperate I was.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Why did you think was gonna happen from there? In
the week?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I wore like a short like Lisa rennerwig to a
bar senior Frids in the valley on Ventura Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It was pathetic.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Your friends, senior friends and my senior friends senior like
seen your friends, see your friends.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Does it still exists?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
It was hot, that's why. On the way home I
that ship off. Temmy remembers, yeah, we it being single
in the valley.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It ain't good.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh gosh, thank god, thank you Baruksham that those days
are over.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh my goodness, it was. I don't wish that on anybody.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
No, no, I don't like I know, I get it.
I understand.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Maybe it's different now. Maybe it's different now, maybe it
has more life to it.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
No, it ain't the valley. It's definitely a family place.
It's definitely a family place. It's definitely better than it
was in the nineties and two thousands. It is built
on more, but it's still the valley, and I love
the valley, no disrespect. The valley is such an epicenter.
For those of you who don't know, California Capital of pornography.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It's is it still it used to be?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
It was, and I think there was a rule, but
it's it's where all the studios are. So like, if
you're a show business person, like the valley, like Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, they're all there. Yeah, Like, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Where dreams are made, yes, and dreams are don't come
to true.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It don't come true, right, And when you're a young actor,
it's where apartments used to be cheaper.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It was like the thing like so yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I remember driving down the valley with my Thomas guide
looking for auditions and it Ventura Boulevart in you know
that Laurel Canyon area studio city, and it looked like
a dreamland. And I thought, I am going to make
it here. This is going to be the place. And
it was beautiful out not quite as hot as it. Yeah,
(26:25):
but anyway, so.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I hope that Brittany and Jack's wow. I feel they're
both coming back to the show, right.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Speaking of the show, they just wrapped filming on the
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which is an excellent program.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I hear it's gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
And today, moments before we picked up these mics, I
got texts after texts, I got DM after DM announcing
that Erica james ex husband Tom Girardi, who is eighty five.
This case has been going on for probably about four
(27:10):
or five.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Five years, definitely four at least.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Four years more.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Yeah, yeah, was found guilty of fraud and scamming and
fraud of his clients. And if you don't know, I'm
sure everybody knows this, but Tom Girardi was a big, big, big,
big time lawyer. His biggest case was the film that
was made into the movie by Julia Roberts.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
To Julia Roberts, film was.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Called the film Aaron Brockovich which she did she win
an oscar or she got not.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
It doesn't nominated.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
But it was a big hit.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
And I think there was some oscar stuff and Tom
Girardi was the male in that film, and Aaron Brockovich
was a big case and Tom Girardi was a big
time lawyer at one point considered one of the biggest lawyers,
and he would get money for victims. And it's turns
out that Tom Girardi wasn't paying the victims their money,
(28:04):
and he was borrowing from this person and using from
this person. And Erica Jane the great Erica Jane. We
love Erica Jane.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
They were married, and.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
The whole fucking thing has fallen down. And we found
out that the whole fucking thing has fallen out moments.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Before before this.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yes, and yes, Juliette Roberts did win for Best Actress.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
She won Best Actress, Yes she did. Yeah, this is
anything is possible.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
This is sad that the legacy of charm Girardi's career
is ends up in a best winning performance by Julia Roberts.
You know that's gonna be the legacy to his career.
That it falls on a movie that is being played by.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Julia ro Robbers, So they're gonna put her on deposition.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'm just saying, like, this guy ends up being like
a crazy, lying, scamming.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
We saw this coming, we saw coming.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I don't know, Jane, I don't know that this doesn't
implicate her, because if he scammed, I didn't read the
full article on the La Times.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
She wasn't mentioned.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
She wasn't mentioned.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
But I do believe that earlier on, remember in the
last season when she had to give the ear rings.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Back, but then she got him back.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Then she got him back.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Right. The whole thing was did she know?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Because she was obviously our listeners, yeah you know this,
But the whole question is did she know? Did she know?
How much did she know? Was she a part of it?
Was there money being put in her account?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And but still the thing is is if he's implicated
and he's actually spending the money, isn't it true that
that money was spent on her? Does she ever have
to give the stuff back? But I think when she
moved all that stuff that was bought in the house,
they had to.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
They had picassos and they collected that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Mona, did you get her her pocasso?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I think?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Or yeah, something he gave then it was yes, yes,
you're right, it was a coffeemaker.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Man. What is wrong with people? What is wrong? I
don't get it.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
And I mean he's eighty five. He seems like he
has dementia. He doesn't seem like he's faking it. He
doesn't seem like he's doing the Uh. There was a
mobster that would walk around. He was clearly faking that
he had dementia. But he's being sentenced in December. If
he makes it to December, yeah, he's hanging on for
dear life.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
He's hanging on for dear Yes. I mean, I do
think he definitely has dementia. But you know, you can
live quite quite a bit of time with dementia. I
don't know how long he had it before he went
into the home, right, but I think let's see what happens,
because he could end up in a little time in jail.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
If he actually makes it to December sixth, and they
sentenced in December sixth, he will die in jail. Yeah,
one hundred And it's just sad. It's sad.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
The victims were scammed.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Scammed.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I mean, he took advantage emotionally and financially of the
most vulnerable of the vulnerable plane accident victims of people.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
With burn victims. I mean shit, a terrible dude, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Also, not only that everybody in his life, he took
advantage of the person he was married to like this.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That's like wild.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
When someone does some shit like that like that is
you know, And I don't think that person ever thinks
about the consequences of their actions at all. Of course,
even to this day and now with Dimension, I'm sure
he doesn't even remember.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But it's sad all around.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
It's sad for Erica to have to even think about
that part of her life having ended like that, because
think about when she first came on the show, she.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Was really pretty proud of that guy.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
In that marriage, and until the scene where remember when
he was talking, excuse me, Erica, excuse me, he geared
the shit out of me.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Excuse me, I'm speaking, Yeah, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah. That was spooky.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Yeah, So right then I knew she didn't have it
made with that whole lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
That was fucking whack. But anyway, so that's big.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
News, and that's really big news.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
And speaking of scammers, we mentioned, I think an episode
ago or two episodes ago, we watched a very fun, entertaining,
extremely frustrating scammer documentary on Netflix called Dirty Pop about
the guy Lou Pearlman.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
You might know the name, you might not know the name.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Lou Pelman is the guy who essentially created No not essentially,
he created and Sync and the Backstreet Boy. Yep, he
gave justin Timberlake. There would be no bringing Sexy.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Back Nah without Lou Prolman.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And pretty Lou is what they called him.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Why they called him that, We'll never know because there
was nothing pretty about that fat fuck.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
He was ridiculous looking.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
And also he had a very cringe quality about him
that I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
He All these young boys were enamored by this man.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
It was it was like Uncle Lou. He never accused
of sexual style.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I know he looked like it. He looked like Uncle
Lou the pedo. He really did.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
He looked Yeah, he really needs a piece of shit.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
He's a piece of it.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
But he's fascinating because he I didn't know this about him.
With the blimps he got from some Russian guy.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
He brought in the blimps before.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
He was doing boy bands. He was this is in
the eighties and the nineties. He was buying, renting them out, blimp.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Blimps, blims with the messages across the Yeah, I found
that fascinating because you know, growing up at the beach,
you would see the sign going across.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
In the song the ice Cube song, if you see
on the blimp ice cubes of pimp, that was from
Scarface when he says, oh yeah, that's the story was
from so Louke Peerlman was renting those blimps and then
it was never proven, but his blimps would.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
All crash and then he would get.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
The insurance money gammer from day one, the babe, it's
not that he was nice, it was that they knew
he was a billionaire, millionaire type of dude.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
And that's what creeps me out about people. It's like,
when you.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Know someone has a ton of money, they become better looking, smarter, wiser,
blah blah.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I never fall for that because when you're a big,
old sloppy dude with a like a fupa and a
piss bag, and you got weird glasses and you look
sweaty all the time, I don't care how much money
you have, you're creep he When you want to hang
around the little guys, charm young guys and like you're
hugging them all the time and.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Like you're weird, like you're you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I just didn't buy the whole thing. I was like,
look at this guy, he was asexual. Member In the end,
he's like anyway, I don't want to spoil it, but
everybody should watch this because I think it's fascinating, especially
people who grew up with boy bands. I was never
a big boy band girl.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
But I mean, I did I ever tell you? Did
I ever tell you that I saw in Sync performing
Dodger Stadium? No at the way. This is when Justin
was about to leave, and I went to go see
them because I ran into Joey Fatone, Joey fat One, Yeah,
on the plane, and he was so nice and he
(35:00):
was like a New York guy and he lived in Florida,
but he was a New York guy.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
He's like, you know, and he was like, come to
my show.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Down, and I was like, all right, bet, I'll come
just to go see it. Yeah, And I couldn't fucking
believe what I saw because they killed.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
They're so talented, right.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Dodger Stadium and Justin Timberlake did a solo set and
I was like.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
He should go on his own. Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I think it was.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I don't know the timeline, but you were like, Yo,
this guy is fucking he can do it.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
He had Dodger Stadium on lock and so I saw
them perform, which I'm glad I saw them before because
I remember being like, Yo, there was like sixty thousand people.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
In there and he that's crazy, babe.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah, So I saw them perform. Anyway, it's a good
time to me. The one thing we're not going to
give spoilers, but it is a spoiler. This fucking guy,
Lou pelman U, Sweet Lou, Pretty Lou Pearlman. He had
the longest running scam fraud of anybody in the history
of am for longer than Burn, longer than Thomas Girardi,
(36:04):
longer than all of them. Yes, the longest scam Friday
he was borrowing from this person and stealing from that
personally in that Pink and then he was on the
Lamb and he was in like Mexico or his Spain,
and he had another boy band, Protege, where he was
just fucking people.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Overicious of everybody. So I wouldn't they wouldn't work with me.
I'm like, what is this guy about? Like, I just
think you know me, babe, I'm always like that.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
But and he wasn't just music business scamming then every everybody.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Like the buildings, the buildings, and.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
No, I didn't sync and Backstreet Boys was that was
just the tip of the tippany. He did the normal
music ship to them, but it was beyond that that
he was scamming. And he wind up dying in jail.
Another spoiler alert. But I'm sure, uh people verted. But
it's well worth the watch.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
It's really well done.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, it's well done.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
It's three episodes a dirty pop on Netflix. And of
course we have football season coming, which.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
I'm excited about every year.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
You look at me like so doubtful.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I told you, because I told you.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I'm excited with The Hard Knocks because it's it runs
through the whole season, which makes me very excited to
watch the season. And as long as we stay away
from a lot of watching with red Zone, Like I
just can't watch the screen. I know you're doing fantasy.
I just can't do it. I'll go in the other room.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
But I'm excited for football season. I'm excited for your
fan if you're drafted or you went away and you
did your draft.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
And we have Salt Lake City coming on the eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
By the way, Mary Cosby has gotten her her snowflake.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
She's coming. She's a snowbowl.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I think, is it a snowball.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
She's back on as a permanent friend here and not
a friend anymore.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
She's back.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
They need her, but she's back, which is gonna be
really interesting.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Let's hope she participates.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
And maybe the fact that she didn't totally participate is
because she was just a friend before.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
No. I think that she's so wacky and so good.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
I feel like they give her carte blanche to just
be there, just show up common she.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
She's on the cover now and she's she's a permanent
fixture and right where she ought to be in respective little.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Lull right now because the summer's coming to an end.
So the on launch shows the last couple of weeks
of August. We're coming down from our love island.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Our love island.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
You know, we don't have that obsession right now. We're
missing the the love Island binge, the vander pump, sort
of like in your veins.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
We love, We love Dubai, we love the OC you know,
we're in it.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
But it's different.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
It's different.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
It's so like those are our like side chicks that
we're needing, like an addiction, something to replace the tilenti
and the kettle corn.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
We need some juice. We need some juice.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Some juice.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Anyway, tell a friend to tell a friend and subscribe,
rate and review if you have not already subscribed.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, that helps.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Refriend and reviewed. What I think is one of the best.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
And this is a big, big It is a thick
space pop culture reality TV.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Uh, everybody has one.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Everybody has one like us know only one, like there's
only one rapp Reports. So tell a friend to tell
a friend about Wrappaports Reality and we will see.
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You like clockwork next next week. Love you babe, I
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