September 13, 2019 • 10 mins
A Hollywood Outsider EXTRA: Why Jodi feels bad for actress Felicity Huffman today. 🤔
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Murphy saman Jody after the show as our Friday
the Thirteenth podcast. I don't know if that makes a difference, right,
We're not doing anything superstill, what's going to go wrong?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
It depends on how you look at it.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Harvest moon is going to be gorgeous. And I
saw a headline I didn't read further, but it's going
to be thirteen years from now before we ever have
a Harvest Moon and a Friday the thirteenth on the
same day ever again, So that's.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Kind of wait, how many years thirteen?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Dump dump dum?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, have you guys noticed is it true that there
are not thirteenth for the thirteenth floors on buildings? I
can't remember the last time I was in an elevator
and it's skipped thirteen. I was like, look, there's no
thirteenth floor.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
In any place, in any building I've been in like that? Correct,
I don't know that's house. Just say, I'll never be
in a building. I've never been in a building yet
that has a thirteenth floor.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You're right, I don't think about it very often. Well,
and I guess you know I noticed it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Technically speaking, they do have a thirteenth floor. It's just
they refuse to technology, right, it goes from twelve to fourteen.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That lets you know how in this superstition is in
our culture. If you are building a building and constructing
it and putting elevator buttons in and you are a
part of the crew and you are not going to
call it the thirteenth floor, Yes, that is ingrained. That
is the superstition that goes beyond just folklore. It's crazy
(01:19):
to me. Let's move to something else that's going on today,
Actress Philip I want to talk about this more in depth.
We did it in the Hollywood Outsider. Actress Felicity Huffman
is being sentenced today. She's the first parent to be
sentenced in the college admission scandal, which they're calling varsity Blues.
I don't know why we have to make everything so cute.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
See yeah, especially the media names everything since it was
at USC and there's nothing blue in USC Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So she's the first one to be sentenced, and of
course her her attorneys are going to be asking, hey,
can we do you know community service robation not prison,
community service and fine of twenty thousand. The Feds are
recommending a month in prison, then twelve months, a full
year of supervised you know prob I guess, yeah, watching
(02:11):
her ankle, bracelet or whatever, and then twenty thousand dollars.
So we'll see what happens. About the time you're hearing this,
this may have already come down, but I was saying
in the Hollywood Outsider, and I really believe it's true.
The saddest part of all of this to me is
this letter that she wrote to the judge, and she
bared her soul in this letter trying to explain why
(02:31):
she did what she did. And she explained in the
letter that she just wanted to give her daughter every advantage.
And the hardest part of it, though, now, is that
her relationship with her daughter is broken because the daughter
was like, why would you do this? Why did you
not believe in me? And I'm thinking out that really hurts.
(02:51):
That is if she she probably would do the jail time,
if she could reconcile with her daughter over this, well
you know it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But do you do you believe that or do you
think she can? Like as Hollywood script writer, No.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I do believe that's she's a in this. She's a mother.
She's not an actress. This is serious, so.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I don't remember. Her daughter was not aware that all
this was going on.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Right, Her daughter was not aware, and she just wanted
to give us some advantages by paying this money for
the SAT exam.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
To fifteen dollars to have her daughter's SAT scores or.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Answers corrected so that her score would be boosted's. And
that is so interesting to me, Like when this, yeah,
we'll probably get a movie. I'm not as interested in
a movie as I will be in a documentary when
this is all over, because not and not about the
who did what and who knew it was wrong, It's
about you know that that fine line in parenting. You're
(03:45):
always near a line in parenting, whether it's like because
it is your job to help your children become adults citizens.
It's your job to help them. So when they have
a tough project, it is not your job to do
the project that would be crossing the line. It is
your job to help maybe talk to them about okay,
put yourself on a schedule and here's an idea, and
(04:09):
then lee and let them do it. But so many
parents don't know where that line is.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's tough though, because you want to do everything you
can for your child, so sometimes you forget that your
role is really to what you're talking about, is our
real job as parents is to create independent to teach
independence and so that when they're of age they can
go do their own thing. But and it's not justifying
any of this because obviously what she did was the
wrong thing to do.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
She has once you're sending money, that's wrong. You know
that that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right, So my question then becomes, you know, is that
really you know what it was? Or was it some
other motivation? Motivation? Is it? You know it was there's
an opportunity and because I've got the money, I can.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Do it, or I was in this school?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Right? Was it about her? Or was it about the daughter?
I just and again I don't know her. So that's
that's the question.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But it's interesting because the and we're a parent, we're
parents Murphy to teenage girls now, and you realize that
along this whole hate to over use the word journey
of being a parent, when they come into this world,
they can't do anything for themselves. Babies can't even hold
their heads up when they come into this world. So
you're when you are slammed into parenting. And I was.
(05:25):
I had never even babysat, and then we had Taylor,
and I instant became a mother. It became very nat
It was natural to me right off the bat, and
so that was great. It's like, thank you God, Oh
I can do this and so but you do everything
for them, and you think, Okay, this is what parenting is.
My life is completely being swallowed up. But because I'm
taking care of a human being. But as they grow
(05:46):
and it gets older, you have to change that or
you're not going to have a human being who's fit
for society. You cannot do everything for them.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
They're going to be dependent on everybody for everything.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And it's so weird when you watch it, when you
see people, look, we're all doing wrong. I'm sure I
have done things with my kids that people have watched
and thought, mmmm, that's a mistake, you know. But when
you see something happening and you don't say anything, You
don't say, hey, maybe you shouldn't be fixing her plate
(06:18):
for her at twelve years old. Yeah, like, let's let
her order for herself at a restaurant. You want to
say those things. It's the most delicate territory. You don't
do it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Okay, well I'll step in there and say that I
still fix my kids plates.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
But really, Sam, but to me, that's you caring for them.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, it's not all you can't do it, because there
are times when I'm doing something else at the same time.
It's like, look, food's ready, your plate's there, fix your plate.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, that's different.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But then there's other times where it's like, hey, this
is what I made, you know, and I fix everybody's plate,
and you know here.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You got to you as a host.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And I guess that's just the way I feel. But
to me, this is like totally gone over the top.
I mean, it's different than helping your kid with a
school history project. It is oh, it is bucks to
get you get your kid great sat shows.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, it's obviously way stepping over a line and thinking
that no one would ever know. That's the deal. That's
why all these parents are going down. It's not just
the actors and actresses that you've heard about. This is
a big, big scandal. This the consultant, Rick Singer. He's
the one he paid. He was the one they paid
all the money to and he's the one that's fold
and said, Okay, here's what happens. I'll give up everybody.
(07:26):
He's the biggest rat in history, you think, well one
of them anyway. Just it's I don't know, Sometimes a
story means so much more to me. I read more
into it, and that's what I read into it. She
crossed a line, and all parents end up crossing it.
But if you constantly cross lines with what you do
(07:48):
for them versus what you let them do for themselves,
you're not creating a human being that's gonna be able
to stand on their own two feet. And maybe this
kid would have if this had never come out, and
this rat would have never said, okay, all these people
are paying me money and you got me. This child
may have gone to this university and graduated and believed
(08:09):
in herself and thought it was great, and you know,
who knows whether any harm would have come from it, yeah,
you know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Or it could have been the other way around.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You know, she may have never gotten it, or she
would have never.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Been able to achieve, you know, on her own.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And that's okay, though she would have achieved something on
her own, right.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
But my point, that's another reason. It's just not a
good idea because it's it's not representative of what she
can do. Yeah, so you know, I mean, if if
you go in with a score of whatever, one hundred
and the best you can do is an is an
eighty because you really don't understand it, then you know,
no professor, no guidance person, no one is going to
be able to put you in the correct place for
(08:47):
where you should be. In other words, that team that
coaches you through college, that teaches you and puts you
in the correct classes at the correct time, all of
that's thrown off by faking it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Because you got in the wrong way. It's funny to me.
I don't know why this is my perception. Maybe the
letter worked. The letter that Felicity Huffman wrote to the
judge worked on me, and I thought, oh man, she's
devastated that she did this to her daughter and she's willing.
But because she did, she was the first one to go, yeah, guilty,
I did it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah. She's taken a whole different route than Lord Roy Laughlin.
I mean Laury Laughlin denying the whole time.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And lur Laughlin face say, doesn't believe she did anything wrong,
but she lives in that world of and to me
my perception, I don't know Lori Laughlin. I don't believe
she's aunt Becky, not for one second. I'll tell you
that no way. I it seems almost that her motivation
was more about status. My daughters have to be at USC,
(09:43):
so let's crew team them in. That's what it seems
like on the outside. That's based on nothing, because I
don't know anything about her either. But you know, they
live in a very different world than most of us
can understand. To them, and they buy everything.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I mean we're talking about like us doing science projects
or parents doing that stuff. I think of all the
stuff that they have the ability to do in that life. Yeah,
in the Hollywood lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Everything's a phone call away.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, phone call and a little money take you walk in.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And you get the table you want at a restaurant
just because of who you are. So that becomes part
of their psyche. That's why they'll make an example of
these these sentencings and these indictments or whatever is going
to come down, they will be made an example of
to prove that you cannot buy your way into things.
You know, they really will. Anyway, I just want to
say that I thought I think she's probably in a
(10:35):
self impost hell right now with her daughter, Felisay Huffman. Yeah,
missed any part of the show. Y'all at Murphysamon Jody
dot com
It's Murphy saman Jody after the show as our Friday
the Thirteenth podcast. I don't know if that makes a difference, right,
We're not doing anything superstill, what's going to go wrong?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
It depends on how you look at it.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Harvest moon is going to be gorgeous. And I
saw a headline I didn't read further, but it's going
to be thirteen years from now before we ever have
a Harvest Moon and a Friday the thirteenth on the
same day ever again, So that's.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Kind of wait, how many years thirteen?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Dump dump dum?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, have you guys noticed is it true that there
are not thirteenth for the thirteenth floors on buildings? I
can't remember the last time I was in an elevator
and it's skipped thirteen. I was like, look, there's no
thirteenth floor.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
In any place, in any building I've been in like that? Correct,
I don't know that's house. Just say, I'll never be
in a building. I've never been in a building yet
that has a thirteenth floor.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You're right, I don't think about it very often. Well,
and I guess you know I noticed it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Technically speaking, they do have a thirteenth floor. It's just
they refuse to technology, right, it goes from twelve to fourteen.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That lets you know how in this superstition is in
our culture. If you are building a building and constructing
it and putting elevator buttons in and you are a
part of the crew and you are not going to
call it the thirteenth floor, Yes, that is ingrained. That
is the superstition that goes beyond just folklore. It's crazy
(01:19):
to me. Let's move to something else that's going on today,
Actress Philip I want to talk about this more in depth.
We did it in the Hollywood Outsider. Actress Felicity Huffman
is being sentenced today. She's the first parent to be
sentenced in the college admission scandal, which they're calling varsity Blues.
I don't know why we have to make everything so cute.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
See yeah, especially the media names everything since it was
at USC and there's nothing blue in USC Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So she's the first one to be sentenced, and of
course her her attorneys are going to be asking, hey,
can we do you know community service robation not prison,
community service and fine of twenty thousand. The Feds are
recommending a month in prison, then twelve months, a full
year of supervised you know prob I guess, yeah, watching
(02:11):
her ankle, bracelet or whatever, and then twenty thousand dollars.
So we'll see what happens. About the time you're hearing this,
this may have already come down, but I was saying
in the Hollywood Outsider, and I really believe it's true.
The saddest part of all of this to me is
this letter that she wrote to the judge, and she
bared her soul in this letter trying to explain why
(02:31):
she did what she did. And she explained in the
letter that she just wanted to give her daughter every advantage.
And the hardest part of it, though, now, is that
her relationship with her daughter is broken because the daughter
was like, why would you do this? Why did you
not believe in me? And I'm thinking out that really hurts.
(02:51):
That is if she she probably would do the jail time,
if she could reconcile with her daughter over this, well
you know it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But do you do you believe that or do you
think she can? Like as Hollywood script writer, No.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I do believe that's she's a in this. She's a mother.
She's not an actress. This is serious, so.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I don't remember. Her daughter was not aware that all
this was going on.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Right, Her daughter was not aware, and she just wanted
to give us some advantages by paying this money for
the SAT exam.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
To fifteen dollars to have her daughter's SAT scores or.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Answers corrected so that her score would be boosted's. And
that is so interesting to me, Like when this, yeah,
we'll probably get a movie. I'm not as interested in
a movie as I will be in a documentary when
this is all over, because not and not about the
who did what and who knew it was wrong, It's
about you know that that fine line in parenting. You're
(03:45):
always near a line in parenting, whether it's like because
it is your job to help your children become adults citizens.
It's your job to help them. So when they have
a tough project, it is not your job to do
the project that would be crossing the line. It is
your job to help maybe talk to them about okay,
put yourself on a schedule and here's an idea, and
(04:09):
then lee and let them do it. But so many
parents don't know where that line is.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's tough though, because you want to do everything you
can for your child, so sometimes you forget that your
role is really to what you're talking about, is our
real job as parents is to create independent to teach
independence and so that when they're of age they can
go do their own thing. But and it's not justifying
any of this because obviously what she did was the
wrong thing to do.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
She has once you're sending money, that's wrong. You know
that that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right, So my question then becomes, you know, is that
really you know what it was? Or was it some
other motivation? Motivation? Is it? You know it was there's
an opportunity and because I've got the money, I can.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Do it, or I was in this school?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Right? Was it about her? Or was it about the daughter?
I just and again I don't know her. So that's
that's the question.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But it's interesting because the and we're a parent, we're
parents Murphy to teenage girls now, and you realize that
along this whole hate to over use the word journey
of being a parent, when they come into this world,
they can't do anything for themselves. Babies can't even hold
their heads up when they come into this world. So
you're when you are slammed into parenting. And I was.
(05:25):
I had never even babysat, and then we had Taylor,
and I instant became a mother. It became very nat
It was natural to me right off the bat, and
so that was great. It's like, thank you God, Oh
I can do this and so but you do everything
for them, and you think, Okay, this is what parenting is.
My life is completely being swallowed up. But because I'm
taking care of a human being. But as they grow
(05:46):
and it gets older, you have to change that or
you're not going to have a human being who's fit
for society. You cannot do everything for them.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
They're going to be dependent on everybody for everything.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And it's so weird when you watch it, when you
see people, look, we're all doing wrong. I'm sure I
have done things with my kids that people have watched
and thought, mmmm, that's a mistake, you know. But when
you see something happening and you don't say anything, You
don't say, hey, maybe you shouldn't be fixing her plate
(06:18):
for her at twelve years old. Yeah, like, let's let
her order for herself at a restaurant. You want to
say those things. It's the most delicate territory. You don't
do it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Okay, well I'll step in there and say that I
still fix my kids plates.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
But really, Sam, but to me, that's you caring for them.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, it's not all you can't do it, because there
are times when I'm doing something else at the same time.
It's like, look, food's ready, your plate's there, fix your plate.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, that's different.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But then there's other times where it's like, hey, this
is what I made, you know, and I fix everybody's plate,
and you know here.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You got to you as a host.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And I guess that's just the way I feel. But
to me, this is like totally gone over the top.
I mean, it's different than helping your kid with a
school history project. It is oh, it is bucks to
get you get your kid great sat shows.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, it's obviously way stepping over a line and thinking
that no one would ever know. That's the deal. That's
why all these parents are going down. It's not just
the actors and actresses that you've heard about. This is
a big, big scandal. This the consultant, Rick Singer. He's
the one he paid. He was the one they paid
all the money to and he's the one that's fold
and said, Okay, here's what happens. I'll give up everybody.
(07:26):
He's the biggest rat in history, you think, well one
of them anyway. Just it's I don't know, Sometimes a
story means so much more to me. I read more
into it, and that's what I read into it. She
crossed a line, and all parents end up crossing it.
But if you constantly cross lines with what you do
(07:48):
for them versus what you let them do for themselves,
you're not creating a human being that's gonna be able
to stand on their own two feet. And maybe this
kid would have if this had never come out, and
this rat would have never said, okay, all these people
are paying me money and you got me. This child
may have gone to this university and graduated and believed
(08:09):
in herself and thought it was great, and you know,
who knows whether any harm would have come from it, yeah,
you know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Or it could have been the other way around.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You know, she may have never gotten it, or she
would have never.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Been able to achieve, you know, on her own.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And that's okay, though she would have achieved something on
her own, right.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
But my point, that's another reason. It's just not a
good idea because it's it's not representative of what she
can do. Yeah, so you know, I mean, if if
you go in with a score of whatever, one hundred
and the best you can do is an is an
eighty because you really don't understand it, then you know,
no professor, no guidance person, no one is going to
be able to put you in the correct place for
(08:47):
where you should be. In other words, that team that
coaches you through college, that teaches you and puts you
in the correct classes at the correct time, all of
that's thrown off by faking it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Because you got in the wrong way. It's funny to me.
I don't know why this is my perception. Maybe the
letter worked. The letter that Felicity Huffman wrote to the
judge worked on me, and I thought, oh man, she's
devastated that she did this to her daughter and she's willing.
But because she did, she was the first one to go, yeah, guilty,
I did it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah. She's taken a whole different route than Lord Roy Laughlin.
I mean Laury Laughlin denying the whole time.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And lur Laughlin face say, doesn't believe she did anything wrong,
but she lives in that world of and to me
my perception, I don't know Lori Laughlin. I don't believe
she's aunt Becky, not for one second. I'll tell you
that no way. I it seems almost that her motivation
was more about status. My daughters have to be at USC,
(09:43):
so let's crew team them in. That's what it seems
like on the outside. That's based on nothing, because I
don't know anything about her either. But you know, they
live in a very different world than most of us
can understand. To them, and they buy everything.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I mean we're talking about like us doing science projects
or parents doing that stuff. I think of all the
stuff that they have the ability to do in that life. Yeah,
in the Hollywood lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Everything's a phone call away.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, phone call and a little money take you walk in.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And you get the table you want at a restaurant
just because of who you are. So that becomes part
of their psyche. That's why they'll make an example of
these these sentencings and these indictments or whatever is going
to come down, they will be made an example of
to prove that you cannot buy your way into things.
You know, they really will. Anyway, I just want to
say that I thought I think she's probably in a
(10:35):
self impost hell right now with her daughter, Felisay Huffman. Yeah,
missed any part of the show. Y'all at Murphysamon Jody
dot com
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