January 10, 2025 • 52 mins
Join Summer Helene and Bear Fiorda on Behind the Scenes as they chat with Lauren Powers, a powerhouse in entertainment known for her work as a model, actress, author, and motivational speaker. Discover her inspiring journey and how she empowers others through her many talents!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
Welcome to behind the Scenes for You're half assed entertainment
news with no bullshit with our hosts, The Baroness and
Bear Fjorda, only on Talk four Media.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Gooday today, guys. Welcome to Behind the Scenes, also known
as Influenza Central. We are Influenza Central, Kimmy, I think
you'll have to put those back where they work for
today and figure it out next time. We love behind.
We have our behind the scenes going where you can
kind of see what's going on and everything else in
the background. And I'm so far in the foreground. Bell
looks like a midget next to me, okay, but not
(01:01):
part of like the sexy porno kind of midgets.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, I'm not coming in with a pizza box half
my body size. No disappointed, I am I am so
pink right now. So I have the flu very sick.
My daughter is sick, My Alexis is sick, and so
in solidarity we are wearing pajamas with each other.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
He's wearing pajamass. I can get dressed. I put makeup
on sort of and you help power may you powder on?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You did great?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
We are both bright pink. I'm this gorgeous shade of fusha.
I've got tape on my nose because i can't breathe.
It's going so good.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Wait, tape because you can't breathe. No, I could tape,
would hinder it? Firstsh No, I bashed my nose. So
I'm trying to keep their ways open. Got it and puffy,
and I'm tired. I need to get a hold of
Renaissance MD. They did my chemical peel, not my chemical
my laser peel. I need to get a hold of
them and be like, what can you do for this?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You know they have, you know, basically make me pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
They have this device that you attached to your nose
and it pulls and poles and it sits like a
band right here and it just pulls you in your
nostrils apart.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, I gave alexis one of those for her birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is it magnetized ers just sit there and released like
uh vixen there.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Neither it sticks to the nose and pulls on the
skin anyway. So long story shot, they're in the box.
You can have like we have a bunch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
There are ways, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Don't look at me that with your broken nose. Get
renaissance some day. You can help you love the little
snort as it comes.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
In if you Yeah, I gotta get renaissance some day
to make me look pretty just because I look and
then shout out by the way tiny bubbles hansel And and
Palm Springs, California and Tossled Maine. They are going to
be fixing my hair out because I was sick. I
was like, oh, I can put some highlights in myself.
I bought one of those highlighting caps, pulled things through.
I now look like a tiger. So I'm going to
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get my hair fixed at Toussled, Maine. And Bellamy does
all my extensions and stuff, and so I was I've
got to call them and be like, Hi, I screwed
up my hair. Can you give me extensions that match
my tiger stripes?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The tiger stripes is a good look. It's in right now.
Right are people all about their eighties and seventies looks?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh, that's why I was like, changed so fast. I
don't know I miss out.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Tiny Bubbles used to do it and does a great
job on my hair. But Tossled Maine is going to
come in and fix what I did, so I don't
have to admit it to Tiny Bubbles.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
That's very very nice. If you're shout out to.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Tosslen that's my sister in law. By the way, it's
still sponsored. No, no, no, she is. So I'm saying
that's why I like usually you hear about tiny Bubbles.
They do my hair. Well, my sister in law owns
Tossled Maine and she's coming in.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
To fix it.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
So she's coming in to fix what I broke.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, speaking of fixing metaphorical fires, what do you think
of the actual fires going down in Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, it's every I'm Australian, I'm used to everything burning.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, you guys had the worst fire that was it
twenty twenty three or a whole country, continent, whatever you
guys are, was that.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Every single year? Every Christmas everything's on fire. I am
sorry for Los Angeles. I have a hair stuck to
the tape on my nose and it's wiggling, driving me crazy.
I can see it.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Saying I'm sorry for Los Angeles and then diving into
a hair on your nose.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
It's distracting the hell out of me. As far as
if you can see it, as far as Los Angeles goes,
I don't know what to say. It's horrifying. The loss
of homes. I know everyone's like, well, nobody died, but
losing your home is horrifying.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Two people have died confirmed.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Okay, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, No, I'm telling you, like, I'm shocked that the other
people are just saying that out there.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the loss of life. But
more than that, when you look at a loss of life,
loss of property, I mean, it's it's horrifying. Especially with
housing prices in Los Angeles. You pull your whole life
into it and it tears your part. I mean, it's
really Jimmy, would you delete that and restarted because of
(05:04):
moving that around? Please?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Which ime out the behind the scenes, they got a
shot off where we live and we try not to
encourage stalkers, because I have something like thirty restraining orders
for people that decided was But how many restraining orders
were huh the course, I wasn't even close.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You're single handedly supporting that, the Riverside County course. No.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
So I started as a Victoria's Secret model. So a
lot of these go way back, it's not the more
recent ones are only in the last few years. A
couple that decided, you know, God said we were supposed
to be together. There was one guy. There was one guy.
He really really freaked me out. Bear actually came and
stayed and slept in front of my door on an
air mattress. It got that bad.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, well, you know, I will do it again if
it ever calls, if the need ever arises.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Okay, you can get out of my bed and go
to them.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Guys that do you? What's the need?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I want? I want you out of my bags. I'm
mad at you.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's not a need as a one, that's a Santa
Claus kind of one. You may not be on a
good list.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I don't feel good.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You know, essentially, if one thousand buildings have already burned
down in Los Angeles, how do you think that's going
to impact the filming world too, Like, I'm sure some
of the people in the industry are hit. I'm sure
some of the locations were lost the years we're used.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
For we look, I'm going to say Hollywood Hills. Yeah,
it's going to hit us. I'm going to say this
in the most straightforward way. I can. I make more
money than most people. I have more privileges in what
I do. I have a more unique and interesting life.
There is a reason everyone wants to work in Hollywood. Yes,
(06:37):
it sucks for people in the entertainment industry who will hustle.
We'll figure ourselves out. It's terrible, but we will. And
in those areas you have insurance, your fire insurance, flood insurance,
that sort of thing. Unless my people, yeah, unless you
were stay from I'm more worried not about the people
in Hollywood. I'm more worried about the people that aren't.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I mean for me, you know, I know, it's okay,
it sucks. But a couple of films and I'm fine.
A couple of TV shows and I'm fine. Some product placement,
I'm fine. Okay, I need some cash. We'll pull some
sponsors on the show, like it's it's like you you
can go pick up a fight we have. Yes, I
work very, very hard for my job. For sure, I
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work a minimum of twelve hours. My average is eighteen
hours a day. It is a ridiculous amount, but I'm
well compensated. That's not the same for everyone. I don't
and I don't want to pretend that you know people
in my industry. It's like when I hear influencers, who
is that Mikayla Chick? You don't know how hard it is,
(07:45):
blah blah blah. I'm like, dude, we are in the
luckiest industry in the world. Like, granted I'm film, not
an influencer, but I watch you, I watch your boss,
your butt. You for sure work hard, but you aren't
working factory level hard. You aren't even working McDonald's level hard.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm going to say it like this, the job can
be as strenuous. I want to make I one hundred
percent have a more physically demanding job than most people do.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
By nature, because I'm about the influence upon of.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Course, I'm just gonna say this too, because even with fighting,
you can kind of apply it the same way. If
my gym burns down, I can go to another gym.
If someone's employment office burns down, they can't just pick
up the next day and go to a different office
and start working there. They're they're out of a job.
It's gone. They have to get figured out.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I'm talking about what that. Mikayla Chick said.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh yeah, I find the same way to influence I.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Being an influencer. You're an influencer. You have millions and
millions of followers. You I mean, you're not great at
monetizing that part. I really need to speak with your
managers and agents and they've got to monetize you more.
You do need to find an agent, but you need
like the you have millions and millions of followers. Your
job isn't harder than somebody working a nine to five,
(08:56):
for sure. No articulate the the fighting part. Yes, it
is because what you do to be an influencer is
physically demanding. But when I see like this, Mikayla Chick, like,
try it for one day. It's that hard and blah
blah blah, And I have meetings and I have that.
I'm like, bitch, I do that all the time. I'd
like to remind everyone every time we use bad language,
we give money to the Boys and Girls Club of America,
(09:19):
the Humane Slide of America and free em a mate.
We swear because we care.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's it's all.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I do not feel well and I should not use
that language. But essentially it's not. It's just not that easy.
If not, you know, it's not that easy to turn
around and be like, I don't know how she did it.
I wouldn't have the goal like I. You know, I
didn't grow up wealthy, but I grew up very privileged.
I you know, my family is an old family. We're titled.
(09:45):
My dad was in the service. I certainly didn't grow
up poor, and so it's that moment of for one moment,
I would never think that I could have gotten where
I have without the advantages that I've had. My title
helps more than anyone knows. And in Bear's case, if
he didn't have a mom who busted her butt to
(10:07):
make sure he stayed in martial arts, who.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Then I wouldn't have the same career right now that
I do. But I think that's what I was. That's
what I meant to say. I should say this way
is I had even in the physically demanding aspect of
my job. I've the opportunity to pick up anywhere else.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Wait, you can do your job for anywhere. We're sitting
in our living room right now doing this show, and
we do it from hotel rooms, we do it from
where if we go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But for someone who doesn't have that opportunity immediately, regardless
of how physical their job is, makes their job harder
to maintain in hours because we can pick it up anywhere.
So again, when it comes to people who may be
an influencer's upset that they are getting hate or whatever,
so they panic and yell, well, this is hard. You
don't understand, like.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
The mccais, she got hate because she said it was hard,
because everyone's like because she was talking about how hard
it is to be an influencer, and she's like venting
to her audience. They're not watching you to vent, they're
watching you to do makeup. Nobody watches this show to,
you know, learn about the intricacy of knitting. They watch it.
It's behind the scenes on Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And no one cares about how hard your life. If
you're going to be a public image, you're going to
do something great public figure. I mean, if you're going
to be a public figure, no one cares about your feelings,
unless for some reason, you're a channel that is solely
based on how you feel. People follow you for that.
No one cares about how you feel about something. They
care what they come there to see. If you're a
(11:23):
woodworking person, no one wants to see you crying about
something that happened unfortunately in your life. In the world
and politics, they want to see your woodwork. That's it.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They do want to see. They do want to see authenticity.
They do want to see a glimpse in. But it's
the same problem that the Duchess of Sussex is having
right now. Is she trying to present an image that
isn't her. She is trying to make people feel bad
for her. And you know, blessed Prince Harry. But when
(11:53):
you see him and her sitting on Oprah, there's a
reason they scrub this from the internet, talking about oh
my daddy cut me off. I'm like, you're forty He's
getting nothing after that, he's like forty five. It's those
moments you people are older than me. I've been on
my own since I was sixteen. What are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
They keep figuring it out. Though they had the polo show,
Megan's Got Her.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
They're selling off of the royal titles. And I'm not
going to slide that people take meetings with me because
of my title. I'm a baroness. I'm not going to
knock that. But you have to put up. It's kind
of a put up or shut up moment. And people
are watching, you know, the Duchess of Sussex with Mindy
Kaylin going well, here's how you you know you do this,
And what she's trying to do is aspirational content, very
(12:37):
twenty ten, and you can tell she's kind of stuck
in twenty ten. She has no idea what the world
wants to watch. Now everyone's broke. It's the same same
problem with Mikayla, Like, don't sit there and bitch about
how how hard your job is when you're making millions
of dollars and people are starving, don't bitch about you know,
don't try and do an esthetically pleasing, ass inspirational show
(13:01):
when Los Angeles is on fire, when we had people
run down on New Year's Eve, now is not the time.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, but they also.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'm looking in the comments. Sorry, yeh at mew we
know someone who lost their home, their office and their
kids house. Oh my god. Shout out to Jana lul
yanokovas she is Bears manager, one of my closest friends
and favorite people. I've been avoiding her, so I didn't
give her the bibonic plague.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I miss her well serious week.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
But apparently every someone lost I mean that's horrifying. They
lost everything.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
People's lives are literally being burned down right now. So
as you said, don't go out there talking about how
fancy your new car is or how great your mansion,
which is funny. If your channel is based around showing
off stuff like that, I think that's still okay.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
It's not that you can't want I like you, and
she's I can miss you more. I'm sorry. It was
like I haven't seen her in days, weeks, months, it's
been years. But basically, if you're built on the flex,
yeah you're genuinely built on the flex, that's fine, but
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you have to offer more than that. You saw it
with Travis Scott and Kylie Jenna. Should we take my
plan on yours? And that was kind of the point
that the internet turned.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I wouldn't put that out there. Quite frankly, that's
not great.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
You see people you know it was. I like Galgado
and bless her. She's a good person.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
She is.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I'm not sliding her. But after the imagined thing, during
the pandemic, people really pushed back. They were not loving
people telling them how to live. I certainly, you know,
I'm lucky my first house, my uncle helped me get right,
my first car. I've had family met like I didn't
have to, I didn't have to struggle. I've had my
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own struggles in my position. I've had my own struggles,
and that was when I was an adult. When I
was sixteen, I was on my own, I was working,
but I was a victorious Secret Models. So I've had
I've been very, very fortunate in my life. In Bear's case,
you had support from your mom. She he opened a
business with her, a nonprofit when he was eighteen. That
(15:16):
I did, and so shout out to freem.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
A mate one of the charities against.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
We've had a lot of support in our lives. Not
many people have that, and influencers especially, I think, need
to stay in touch with their audience. Speaking of we
have an influencer on the show, I like influencers. They're
my favorite people. Hustlers. Influencers are hustlers more.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Than influencer, bodybuilder, entertainment industry person. I mean, hey, welcome
to the shows Lauren Power, doctor doctor Powers.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And let me tell you. If you don't call a
doctor a smack women, they do.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
I thank you so funny.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
You guys are too much. Sorry, don't well somewhere. That's
it's not good. A lot of people are sick right now.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's not I'm not. I don't worry. I shared. I
gave it with most of my team.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I guess it.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Gave it to Bear. I didn't keep it to myself.
I was generous.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
You're very generous.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I was just gonna say, they're thrilled. They called me
a lot of words that start with F. They were thrilled.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Well, you can't give it to me because I'm on
the screen.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
So that was that was very sick.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Now, can you tell everyone a little about yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
A little?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
How long does the show go?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Take your time?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Well?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Speaking of the fires, I was a former firefighter as
a firefighter engineer here.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
And then but there was a big lawsuit.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
They did want to hire some women and it was
a big deal, Like I changed the way they hi
females across the nation with this big lawsuit with three women.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It was crazy. So my heart goes out for those guys.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Big congratulations on that, and thank you. I love I
love women that open doors. That's yes, we may change.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yeah, no woman would have to go through what I did.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
As far as the discrimination for a gender discrimination, it
was crazy. This was back in two thousand, So yeah,
we've made change across the country. They have to have
a female on the board human resources. Oral interviews have
to be taped and it was kind of a big
deal back in the day.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
But so I would be out on the lines.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Right now, not sitting here in my home hanging out
with you guys, if I was still.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
On the department. But God had a bigger plan for me.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
So it's all it's all good, But I really my
heart bleeds for what's going on.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Man. This is just in it's insane. There's a lot of.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Stories trying to call it act of God. So they're
trying to get out of pain. A lot of the
insurance companies are now trying to call it act of God.
I'm like, what is the point of fire? Insurance. It's
not like a media hit the house.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Exactly what insurance never wants to pay. I owned a
huge wedding company in Laguna Beach and during the El
Nino storms, the whole location slid into the ocean. And
again they said act of God because of the rains,
and there's nothing we could do about it. Insurance. That's
why there are billions of dollar companies. And it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
That shocks me because in my brain is like, why
would you ever pay for something like flood insurance? How
often our floods going to occur that don't have something
related to nature? That just these things don't make sense
to me, to anybody like you said, this is the
whole money making industry.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, isn't everything right?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
That's why that CEO is all about the money without
the money, about the money. I like that those perfect
perfect timing with the problems.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
My props. I love my props.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
But I think people are getting really sick of the
insurance companies and everything we had. That guy Luigi, after
having to go through all that with his back, went
and shot. Not that I'm encouraging people to be clear,
not an okay way to handle things, but he went
and shot the head of the pharmaceutical company and the
not pharmaceutical, the insurance company. And rather than people being
(19:23):
outraged left right, everyone is just like yes because everyone
knows someone that you know didn't get covered or didn't
get taken care of. So I think the insurance companies
are kind of starting to feel that pinch. It did
cause a back push with Blue clock Cross Blue Shields,
who was like, maybe we won't restrict anesthetic.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Good.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
It's like it was. It was a weird situation.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Though in Hollywood you have to admit, yeah, industry and
there's just so much I mean, the p Didty stuff,
I mean that can.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Go on and on forever, but it's really happening.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You know.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
There was some conversations with firefighters trying to save the
Getty Museum because the underground tunnels for human trafficking.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
They try to save that.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
And when firefighters going, we can't prioritize what buildings we're
going to say based on that. Like, there's a lot
of crazy stuff going on. And I'm sure you guys are, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It's been it's been weird. They're like, no, how about
we just save you know, people, it's not a high.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Bar, high bar, but imagine that, right, So.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
That's great interesting when you find kind of the oligarch
types moving in contrast with people like firefighters, soldiers. It's
very difficult to get people, I want to say, people
with integrity or honorable men and women to go along with,
you know, dishonorable things. Once you kind of hit that wall,
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you're seeing it now. It's it's very very interesting. One
of the things I know, the LAPD we're helping get
some of the people away from the fire areas, and
they were getting pressure from some of the higher ups
like check and see if these people have warrants or
if they hear legally, and the cops like dude, we're
just getting them out, Like we're not stopping for this ship.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I have time for that.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yeah, come on, We've got to get that. It's really
interesting to see how people are coming together. America does
impress me that way. That is something I like about
your country.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Thank you Australia herself.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Speaking of impressive things to come out of this country. Yes,
how did you find yourself in the entertainment world? Obviously
you're a firefighter for a period of time.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
But that's a bit of Yeah, that's a bit of
a leap.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What made the leap, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Well, actually because I got discriminated for not being strong enough,
and so I had a trainer that just got me
like completely out archie for what was going on in
our town. That I went to the Olympia in Las Vegas,
which is one of the large as fitness competitions in
the world, just walking around as a spectator. Got discovered
(22:05):
there literally by a casting director found me.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
He started interviewing, interviewing me.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Right on the floor with thousands of people there, and
from there I just was shipped off to Chicago.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I went on some talk shows. You probably remember Jenny Jones.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Back in the Yeah, Yeah, So they flew me out
to be on Jenny Jones. It was too buff to
get a date, and I brought another friend of mine
and we just like stole the show.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
It was the number one of the season.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
And from that then it was on the internet as
this famous bodybuilder and literally my career just went crazy.
And then I became like literally Hollywood's go to girl
for in the music industry as far as the videos,
starting with working with Lady Gada and Beyonce, just to
name a few right off the top. That was a
huge thing to talk about behind the scenes, that was
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crazy filming that particular video. It was the telephone for
your audience. That was the big iconic one with her
and Beyonce to other and she was like, I had
a little They did a fake tattoo on my arm
and it said lady. So I'm with her and I'm like,
look at my tattoo and she didn't look at it.
So I grab her and I'm like, no, look at it.
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She's like, oh, okay, cool, and then then she got
connected to me and I ended up staying with her
the entire shoe, which was you know, music videos go
eighteen twenty hours insane. But yeah, I never went to
the green room where Mager kept trying to get me
to go sit in the agreement with all the other
cast members, and she wouldn't have it.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
She was hanging out at me.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
She's like I like you, and I'm like, yeah, I
know you do, and then she's like, no, I really
like you.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
I threw her in the jail, smacked her ass so hard.
She like loved it. She jumps on the bars and she's.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Like YouTube won't air this or no, MTV won't air this,
but YouTube will. And we did this whole thing together,
and then she ended up picking me to do another
side scene with her, so we spent like three hours
together just her and Eye and the the camera crew
and the director and stuff. It was just crazy, it
was It was a lot of fun. But there I
got to work with, you know, Jennifer Lopez. I've worked
with Katy Perry a few times. I was on the
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MTV Awards with her, all kinds of stuff until Nicki Minaj,
who never showed up a rehearsal, kicked us off her
set right an hour before we go film live and
changed the entire set ended up forgetting her words live.
I'm like, ha, it's just like she's not a favorite
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with crew, let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wow, I'm a little bit shocked. I'm a little bit
shocked to someone. I said, I'm a little bit shocked
with someone who would be of that. You know, you
always get the bad stories and all the super famous
person's like a big old asshole, and you never want
to meet your your idols because they're never who you
want to be. I wouldn't think that in the world
where you have to rely on other people to get
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your job done, which is what you guys do. You
have to rely on other people. They want to be
such an ass to those people they help you do.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Not usually the super famous one that are assholes. It's
the ones that are either massively on the down swing
or want to pretend. The super famous. Nicki Minaj is
an exception. Mostly people like Gaga or Beyonce or they
got there because they can get on with people.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Isn't They're having a good time with it all, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, they're having fun, they enjoy their job. I'm sorry
she did that to you. She's no for behaving like that.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
That's not Yeah it was.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Yeah, she doesn't have the best reputation, but yeah it
kind of sucked because, I mean, we've rehearsed all day
for the Big Finale with Katy Perry was the host
that year, and she it came down to where we
were upstaging her in her little solo part literally because
we're all you know too. There was a fitness girl
from Canada and myself and they had this little golden
mate bikinis with still lettos and this basketball thing. When
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the set turned, it was all gold glitter, and gold basketball.
She took it all out, threw us out and just
stood there by herself.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Really, And Katie is so cute that she's like, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. That's not my world, that's her No.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
No, She's like, took grab my phone and we took
selfies together. In fact, it's in my book. She was
super sweet. She's like, we'll work together. I promise, and
I'm like, check, this is the third time I've had
something happen with you, Like, what's your deal?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
With Katie, it's kind of funny.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
But work with Jlo was fun though she was cool.
She's like, that's when wish she was with a Ron.
I wasn't even castid to be in this one scene
with the Mary Garron. It was her medicine music video
and all the models were getting ready and I'm like, oh,
I want to be in that set. I went to
the director, please please Lays and she's like, you.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Really want to be in that?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I'm like yeah, because I didn't even get to see
Jlo right because I had this whole muscle scene before
in the morning and I wrapped and I'm like, I
don't want to go because she she had this little
string bikini, like literally, it was like threads.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
She's come, She's.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Like, will you wear this?
Speaker 6 (26:48):
And I'm like, are you crazy? I would ate pizza
and ice cream last night. She's like, please, lace, lace,
Will you wear this for us?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
It was like nothing, and I'm like, only if I
get to pictures with Jennifer and she's like, nobody gets
pictures with j Lo and.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Oh wow, yeah for real that.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I'm like, you can't even look at her all of
those things.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
And I'm like, well, like I said, if you want
me to wear that, I'm getting my photo. So she goes,
stick around, I'll see what I can do. Well, after
she put me in that scene with this Mary around
and all the models and.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Stuff, I was an awesome So.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
I'm just getting there hanging out. I'm like, oh my god,
how's your feet? I mean, we were just chatting it.
She was super cool with me, but all the models
ran away. No one was allowed to look at her,
all these crazy little rules being on set with her.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
But I just jump up.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
I'm like, it's your turn to get a picture with me.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
She's looking at and.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
I'm like, yeah, I've got you know, I've heard a
Katie Gaga, let it know. It gets Zellia tied for Hudson,
just to name a few, and she's like, Okay, just
don't post it.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
I'm like, it's not my first time. But then I'm like,
I want it for my book. Which is this?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That was? That was?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I'm sitting I'm looking at it. I'm trying to figure
out how to segue into a book. I like that.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
There it is.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Yeah, beneath the Muscle unless your Inner Champ in the
book with number one in eleven countries.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
The best seller. Yeah, congratulations. By the way, that is incredible.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Thank you, in ninety eight categories and at the time
I did even know they had ninety eight categories.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
But yeah, so that was fun.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
But I've got the pictures there a picture with Katie
and I that she just grabbed, grabbed the phone. It
took a little selfie and Jennifer where she she's in
here somewhere. So yeah, just behind the scenes stuff. It's fun.
But simply all those kind of things. Justin Bieber I
did his yummie video or I'm feeding him throughout the video.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And an industry Oh yeah, street Stable, Well you've done
so much in the industry. What do you want to
do long term? Like, where do you want to go
from here? Because you've done, you've met everyone, You've done
a little bit of everything. What is your long term?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Well that's kind of wild because I mean I was
getting casted in these videos as a you know, fitness
model and in bikinis, and I was literally in my
fifties now in my sixties, and I'm still getting casted.
I just did Julia Michael's music video that just came
out called Evan and a Bikini with the Weights, And
I don't even really bodybuild anymore. But like you said,
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starts behind the scenes step. I still get those get
those jobs, which is exciting. So I want to just
keep working to be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Wait, you said sixties.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Yeah, botox, baby botox.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like, I don't know who did it that I need?
Whoever did you to do me? Now?
Speaker 6 (29:31):
I will share later.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I mean, sorry, I sidetracked. So you've done it, you're
best selling. Well, so you've been from music videos. Tell
that you've done everything. What do you want to do?
What she's done everything?
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Yeah, I'm coming out in Ben Affleck's new movie that
Count in two. That should be a pretty big deal.
I think that's schedule to come out in April, and
that was fun. I just liked, you know, tapping industry.
Go to work some fun and then I come back.
I live in Orange County, not in La thank God,
literally fire.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
But just keep going.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
I'm an entrepreneur right now.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
I'm doing promotions for Health and Wealth Exposed.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I've got a big one coming up.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
I have another flyer right here for Abundant Abundant Life Expo.
So my whole thing is just giving back to the community,
putting all my friends together, the relationships I built over
the years in health and wealth, and a lot of
it's for the Kingdom. So I'm working with Pedrodeo's team
right now, who's doing a thirty one day Wisdom Challenge
online which he has one hundred and twenty five thousand
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people that joined.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
It's pretty good, yeah, to build money.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
Health and just health and wealth, because without either one,
I mean, where are we at without your health? What
is all this wealth? Doesn't matter? Like you, like you
don't even feel well right now?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, I got plenty of money, but I have lupus,
So it's kind of that I'm.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
There, you go. So the two are very, very connected.
I consider myself an expert on both sides of it,
you know, because I put my whole life into that, right,
So I just want to keep going, you guys, to
answer that question. Just you know, my expos are a
lot of fun. But my passion is golfing and pickleball.
Right now, you can find me on the court.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
What is pickle I keep hearing about pickleb What is pickleball?
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Oh my gosh, it's the fastest scoring sport, like in
the world. It's crazy. It's between tennis and table tennis.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
So you're on a court you.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Normally play with doubles and it's a smaller paddle with
a like a plastic ball with holes in it, and
it's like strategy, it's competitive. I don't know, it's just
a lot.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Of money, but I kind of gotta ask. I've got
to ask, as a ball enthusiast, why can I buy
a rap for tennis ball for fifteen dollars but I
got to spend two hundred on pickleball paddle? I don't
get it. Popular The only answer.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Hey, let's get real, right, you don't have to there's
paddles on Amazon now, you know, you can buy a
couple with cover its balls, all different prices. It's all
marketing really like it really is. It's just getting out
and plane is a big deal. More time on the
court is how you get better. And I'm just really
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enjoying it. There's a tournament tomorrow. I got my first
gold medal where I play. That was kind of fun
with my.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Enthusiasts. That's awesome, congratulations.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Yeah, it was fun. It's it's called the Village Games.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
It's kind of like a mini Olympics where where I
play golf and pickleball and all the things, and here
in Laguna, and this is a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
We smoked.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
The last one was I dressed my partner.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
We had a little twin Outfit's all how you look
right in the mindset?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, I'm like I was new.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
I was a pretty new player and my first tournament,
I'm like, you know what we need to play?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Well, here's a question, can you like you went tennis outfits? Like,
how do you dress?
Speaker 7 (33:15):
Well? We did, and we had little skirts with shorts underneath,
pickle ball tank top and a little gold pickleball necklace
and it said pickleball with all the colors on it.
Just we just looked super cueless, but that way, I
dressed both of us like twins because he was my
partner and we're like team intimidation, and it really totally
worked this other They didn't even know what to do.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
We were just like, survey, we want eleven.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
To one the last Yeah, you muld have murdered.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
It because they didn't even know what to what was happening.
And we're really not that good to be transparent, at
least at that time. But it was again, it was
the attitude, the mindset. These are things we have coached
other people along the way. It's just it's all about
your passion, mindset and attitude really and in my case,
giving all the glory of God and just keep rocking.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
You know, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
It's the old adage. If you think you can or
you think you can't, you're right, you.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Know, either way, right either way you yeah, you can
make yourself right and just about anything.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
So I'm like, we're going to smoke this. She was nervous,
you know, because we didn't know.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
It was our first one, but we're planning another one
in April, so I'm excited. There's a yeah, pick a
ball of golf is kind of my passion right now,
and just you know, when I get cast in things
and I'll drive up to Hollywood do the deal and
then come back to my little sanctuary that I built
here for myself.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Absolutely, you know this is going to be kind of
a hard This is a very varying question. We're going
off left field here real quick. But you mentioned all
glory to God, and I hear, especially when you hear
people talk about who are not in the entertainment world,
they kind of view you guys like these fake lizard
people sent up here by Satan to take over the
world and like and murder our children. So how do
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you kind of relate that, Like you're a person of faith, clearly,
how do you kind of take it for those people
who talk or think so ill of you in the
entertainment world.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
I've tried to keep it separate up until now because
now it's just so apparent what's happening, how evil our
world has become, and the division and all that started
with the elections and all that.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Kind of stuff. I just trying to keep it separate
because again.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
I'm I want to work so right we all know,
you know, we got to kind of play the game
a little bit, but now, I mean, I've been on
set with the show Physical on Apple. I remember we
were watching some sermons on my phone and we had
a whole crowd of people that you know when we're
in holding watching it.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
And everybody's like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
And then by the end of the shoot, for the
end of the whole week, it would ended up just
being one other gual myself. And it's just like either
it either you're attract attracted to it or or you're
reflected by it. And by the way, I don't judge,
it's not my job to judge. But I had a
little weight, you know. I even have my cross my
heart on here. I have the Bible that's in this
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little necklace. When people ask that I can, I'll say
and either they want to hear more or they don't.
And this I don't carry either way. But attached to
the results, I'm just not. It's not it's not my position.
I have my beliefs and I live my life the
way I do for him, and if they don't want to,
that's that's on them. It doesn't make any sense. Like
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I went on a TV show, My Strange Addiction on TLC.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
It was a crazy show.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Like yeah, I got castid before it even aired, so
I was one of the first people and the directors
like talking to me. He's like, well, we got to
do this in this and I'm like no, no, no,
I said, I'll do it if I can tell my
own story, my way.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
You guys, don't you know, go sideways on me because.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
It's reality TV, right and yeah yeah, you know for sensationalism,
and so that you said, well, we'll have to get
back on you with you. We have to check with
the network and da da da. And then they call
me back like two weeks later and they said okay,
They said, okay that you can do this. We just
need you to follow a little bit of the menu
like the whole series, because I'm like, I'm not crazy
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with these you know.
Speaker 6 (37:17):
I don't eat my couch.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
The one I remember was eating gloss. Someone else was
sniffing gasoline. Like that was some some crazy things.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Mine was addicted to bodybuilding, which is hello, but I
make good TV.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
That's just the whole body building, Like this is so
addicted to it, you have to do It's like him
he goes to the gymaid hour of the day a.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Little bit exactly.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
It wasn't really an addiction, but you know it was
really you want to eat your couch right and then Yeah,
So we filmed that show and it was, you know,
it was very successful. It was a lot of fun
and they got to be you know, transparent tell My
Story and they were in my home and doing all
the things. They filmed me in the gym there, you know,
doing crazy workouts. It was we filmed it on one day,
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but it looked like a whole you know, I change
all my outfits, you know how we do. Yeah, anyways,
it was it was a pretty big deal when it
came to Tell My Story though.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
All the whole crew was in here, my family was here,
and I.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Remember the big light was on my face and just
sitting me, sitting in a chair, and he started asking
me these Steve questions and I really I couldn't talk.
I literally could not talk. I was so emotional. I
started crying. I'm like my makeup. I literally just got
up and I left.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
I just I just left my house, just freaking out.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
He's like texting me, He's like you need to come back,
and I'm like I not today, it's not happening.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
He's like Laureni.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
He goes, first of all, we can't pay you for
you if you don't finish the segment. And two, without
your story, there's no show, right So for whatever reason,
I slept on it. We went out on this shot.
They were filming us on this boat. My mom was there,
ended talking. We came back. He cleared the room, no
one was allowed to be in there, and it was
just him and I and I got through the story
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and it made really good TV. So twelve years later,
fast forward, after I've been saved, I got baptized in
the ocean. All these things were amazing. I said, I'm
going to use my platform and my voice for the Lord.
I literally said it on camera because it was kind
of like Jesus Revolution. I got baptized the same place
and it was all this thing with interview was just
amazing that it was pretty pretty, pretty awesome. But after
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I said that, two weeks later, again, I get a
call from a casting director. He goes, hey, you were
a fan favorite on our show twelve years ago. Was
my strange addiction. He goes, we're green lighting the project,
We're bringing it back and we want to feature where
are they now? And we picked you and I'm like, well,
where I'm at now as my walk with Jesus and
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the Lord.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
And that's that was it. It came right out of
my mouth. And he's like, again, well, we have to get.
Speaker 7 (39:59):
Approval from the network on that topic and all that.
And I said, well, then if I don't need the
exposure so I can't be transparent and authentic of where
I'm at, I don't want to.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
I won't do it.
Speaker 7 (40:09):
I don't need to do it right right, And so
they and again they called me back and they said, okay,
well we green lit your topic. They flew the whole
crew out from New York. We did this whole thing.
It was giant, it's aired, it was was pretty awesome.
So yeah, I'm really proud of that. I'm addiction to Jesus.
So they change it from addicted to bodybuilding to addicted
to Jesus again not eating.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
I'm like, so the two things that you've that you've
you've addicted to health, well a faith and health? You monster?
Speaker 2 (40:44):
How dare me? Like? Old?
Speaker 4 (40:49):
We work in Hollywood. If you want adds, we got them,
but you got health in Jesus.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Right, shame on me. Right, that's a bit.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Of a relief, like a bit of a bit of a reach.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I like it.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
It was fun and so those are things I like
to do. So to answer you again your question, bear
those are you know, to continue just telling you know,
documentary style stories. My life has been on TV probably
about I don't know, almost a dozen times now the
way from being on you true Hollywood, so that strange
addiction botched. Worked with the doctors, I've been with ru Paul.
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I've done all kinds of things, housewives, just whatever comes
my way if it fits.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
I like to work.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
I love the camera.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
We got to get a reality show on you like that?
That would be fun. We need to get a reality Yeah,
I've talked to the reality showing her. Please can you
set up a meeting? Sorry handle that which is yeah,
I'm on it. It was I doan.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
People have been saying that for me for years and
that's why, you know, I wrote the book for one.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
But I live a different life. I've chose different paths.
Speaker 7 (42:03):
You know, ride a Harley, I mean, I surf on
my head, I wait board and ski and you know,
visit this champion ten times, not one time, but ten times,
you know, bodybuilding heavyweight champion. I started at forty. I
won the same show at fifty. Then I started promoting shows.
I was guest posting all over the world. I'm judging
for the USA for Fitness World competitions. I hosted a
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world competition and here it at Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
I mean, my.
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Life is so crazy and fun and wild, but it's
all positive.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
So people Bravo.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Though I had already be with them when they were
trying to cast it for to be with the housewives,
to be tamor judges fitness trainer. They're like, you know what,
it came to it that you are too much. You
will outshine the housewives and yeah, you'll drown them and
it won't work. And I'm like, well, then give me
my own.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
They should have that's it, well they should have. You
would have been better sit with like Teresa Judas because
she's got the would have been like New Jersey. You
could have done New Jersey because they have a lot
of personality, the real housewives here in Orange Countant. I'm
not writing a.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
Very Have you seen the show with so insane? Oh yeah, yeah,
I again, I know them all. I watch it.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
I know I know the New Jersey cost That's who
we deal with mostly, Oh do you Yeah, I don't
deal a lot with the Orange County one.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
So Patti Stinger had them on from a Millionaire Matchmaker
actually got casted on that show. They pulled me off
a music video with Sean White at the time, who
was the director of director was friends with Patty.
Speaker 6 (43:42):
He let me go, like, I'm filming something.
Speaker 7 (43:44):
I had to run there do all this audition stuff
for a Millionaire Matchmaker and then come back to the
show and being the big celebration video. Pretty funny my show,
but it was to be with the New Jersey people
were there. It was a lesbian one to Rosie Okay, yeah, yes, And.
Speaker 6 (44:05):
I didn't know. I didn't really watch the show, so
I had no idea. She was asking me questions.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
Patty's like it says, here your barbie with biceps, What's
what makes you that? And I'm like, hello, have you
not seen me? And it just went viral, like yeah,
it was crazy. I use it on the commercials. And
then I had worked with Patty on a couple of
things and she came on Root Calls and offered me
my own mixer, and then she.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Got fired from all right, yeah okay.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Yeah, they Bravo dumped her on that.
Speaker 7 (44:34):
I know I need to contact her again though, because
I'm still single and I'd love to do a single
show like a matchmaker thing.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
We can set up a dating That'd be fun.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
Wouldn't that, because yeah, you could do that. She was
afraid of me though. What I did an interview was
a root Paul when he was as real. It was
called good work. He just did it for one season.
Speaker 7 (44:53):
They brought talent back from from watched when I was
unbatch with the past Surgeons, but Terry bro was on
there group Paul was in her interview with me, and
she came out and put the when I was in
here and make a the Drift Company.
Speaker 6 (45:08):
She's like, oh my god, Patty is terrified.
Speaker 7 (45:11):
Of you, and she goes she thinks you're gonna kill her,
and I'm like, oh, I said, I know why. It
was from my friend that we were on the same
show together. She ripped her apart, ripped her apart on
the national team nates that they used it right of
course in socialism, and.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
She walked off.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
She said, I'm gonna sue you and all got all
that she thought I was her. I'll tell her it's
not me. I'm the good one that she liked. I
was the Barbie.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
TV.
Speaker 6 (45:42):
Yeah, it's just it was. It was pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (45:44):
I would love to be on her show again. She
owes me because she was National TV. I have the
footage of her saying, Okay, Laura, we're gonna give you your
own mixer, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
Let's we're gonna set that make it happen. Then, Well,
what I find so interesting I I love that you're
talking to the audience about this, because you know I do.
I put together a lot of reality TV shows, and
now they're looking they're doing more and more authenticity is
what they're looking for. I have thirty shows that we're
(46:15):
thirty two Lexus Yellings, Yeah, that have been requested for
us for this year because and it used to be, like,
you know, I don't think people realize how much production
really goes into reality shows or how unreal reality shows are.
And now and now that they're looking for more authenticity,
(46:39):
people with personality are what we need because we're not
allowed to set it up like we used to We
used to just be like, all right, do all this.
Now it's a reality show. It's nothing real about reality
now there. Yes, she's like, I know, oh wow.
Speaker 7 (46:56):
I got another story for you, but.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
I change that. So they're looking for more authentic. So
you are perfect to head a show now because you've
got all that personality naturally, where before you used to
have to amp people up and dress it up and
kind of you know, make it up. Now it's it's different.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Tell me about the story. I want to hear the story.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (47:19):
So I did a director's reel for some other show.
They got ahold of it when the Botched was coming
out with the doctors on eating So they're calling me
and they wanted to cast me to get surgery this
on this Botch show.
Speaker 6 (47:33):
And I was not botched. Let's just start with that.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (47:36):
My mom's like, are you crazy? Do you know these
doctors they're amazing, they're on TV because she.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
Watched the rolls in.
Speaker 7 (47:42):
Orange County, which to both doctor you know, the husbands
were on both shows. And she's like, that's a gift.
You're doing it. Whatever they want to do.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
You do it.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
Take it.
Speaker 7 (47:51):
Yeah, So I get casted on that it was pretty crazy.
We did for five hundred hours of filming. Talk about
reality me like insane.
Speaker 6 (48:01):
They came down.
Speaker 7 (48:01):
They filmed me weightboarding with dolphins behind my sister's boat
and Dana point. They had me riding my Harley along
the beach. They had me rubbers ride into the car,
riding my bike home like all this footage interview is
my mom.
Speaker 6 (48:15):
She was actually my chosen sister.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
All these back story interviews made me do so much stuff,
so much work. Oh my gosh, you're spinning on the
table half naked like all the stuff that they do.
Speaker 6 (48:26):
Crazy.
Speaker 7 (48:26):
They didn't use one second of it. They completely switched
the narrative on me right before I was going into
surgery that I have the IVY in my arm. They
gave me the pill whatever to relax you. Film director
who became my friend because we worked together so much.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Comes in.
Speaker 7 (48:43):
She's like, Okay, Lauren, you've got to say this stuff.
We're not going to use it, but just the network
wants you to say, say you're doing steroids and da
da da da, And I'm like, but I'm not, hello,
I'm not competing and I'm going into surgery. For crying
out loud right right, and just say it, but we
won't use it.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
Okay, what would you say? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (49:03):
Where this is going.
Speaker 7 (49:04):
So I'm like, oh, yeah, I love ano R or something,
which is true. I still do no, no big secret.
And they turned the whole narrative, changed the entire segment
of my story all about doing big steroid use and
the doctors are talking about it while I'm under. They're
like doing surgery on my breast and on my neck.
(49:24):
I had double surgery eight and a half hours I'm
under and that's all they talked about.
Speaker 6 (49:29):
The whole story went that way and it wasn't even true.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
It made the Yeah, they made.
Speaker 7 (49:34):
The doctors look ridiculous because the brow comes in he goes, oh,
we got your blood work back and there's something wrong
with your I don't even know it was it heart or kidney, lung.
Speaker 6 (49:43):
Something it was.
Speaker 7 (49:44):
So it was all bullshit, right, It's just totally making
it up because it made them look stupid.
Speaker 6 (49:50):
You can't go into pre op.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
With saying that someone's on stairy like and with with
hot problems along crod.
Speaker 7 (49:56):
Like yeah, anything wrong with your blood work right, Oh,
you just can't do it. So made them look ridiculous
that they're operating on me anyway for eight and a
half hours for double surgery.
Speaker 6 (50:07):
Paul gave me a.
Speaker 7 (50:09):
Mini neckliff or like was a bonus free just for
TV versus again. And then they made my breast smaller
because I just had had him done. It cost me
twenty grand in my own money. Then they redid them
to make them smaller to be on the show because
Terry's like, they made me do like a psych test
and do all the stuff to go on. Yeah, right,
like call Ekg's I mean, I was just running around
(50:31):
doing all these crazy things i Q test like it
was crazy just to be a patient on the show.
So by the time I did all that, then he's like, well,
your breasts aren't botched, and I'm like, but I said,
I'm going on your show because.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
Yeah, yeah, we're doing this now.
Speaker 7 (50:48):
And so I'm telling with Terry and he loves the
cameras and h when I got along, right, he's always
bragging about his you know, fitness levels. We end up
our wrestling on the show, and that was it was
pretty funny. Yeah, So we came up with some narrative
again and to change the story that I want to
find a man, I have to look more feminine and sexy,
and so my breasts were smaller and just you know,
talk about reality TV.
Speaker 6 (51:08):
We just changed this whole narrative.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
It makes sense.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
Yeah, now we're so we've run out of time. I'd
love to have you on ver. Well, you're entertaining as hell.
Tell everyone where to find you on social media so
they go and follow you.
Speaker 7 (51:21):
Oh yeah, Instagram, Lauren Powers Official, look for the blue
check not the impostors. Laurenpowers dot com as my website
shows all the little video clips that we're talking about,
with all the music, you know, celebrities, it's all that
stuff's there. So just Laurenpowers dot Com is pretty simple.
And then all my icons and or to our the
websites are there to find me on social Facebook, Instagram,
(51:43):
off with all the things.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (51:44):
Yes, i'd love to have you on again. Your stories
are entertaining as hell from.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Buying just don't get me started.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
So I want you, That's what I'm like.
Speaker 6 (51:54):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4 (51:56):
I like it and I definitely want to talk to
you about a show. Thank you so so much of
joining us.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
I'm going, oh, likewise appreciate having you on today.
Speaker 4 (52:07):
Absolutely guys, thank you for joining us on behind the scenes.
We'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Good night.
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Speaker 4 (00:39):
Gooday today, guys. Welcome to Behind the Scenes, also known
as Influenza Central. We are Influenza Central, Kimmy, I think
you'll have to put those back where they work for
today and figure it out next time. We love behind.
We have our behind the scenes going where you can
kind of see what's going on and everything else in
the background. And I'm so far in the foreground. Bell
looks like a midget next to me, okay, but not
(01:01):
part of like the sexy porno kind of midgets.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, I'm not coming in with a pizza box half
my body size. No disappointed, I am I am so
pink right now. So I have the flu very sick.
My daughter is sick, My Alexis is sick, and so
in solidarity we are wearing pajamas with each other.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
He's wearing pajamass. I can get dressed. I put makeup
on sort of and you help power may you powder on?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You did great?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
We are both bright pink. I'm this gorgeous shade of fusha.
I've got tape on my nose because i can't breathe.
It's going so good.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Wait, tape because you can't breathe. No, I could tape,
would hinder it? Firstsh No, I bashed my nose. So
I'm trying to keep their ways open. Got it and puffy,
and I'm tired. I need to get a hold of
Renaissance MD. They did my chemical peel, not my chemical
my laser peel. I need to get a hold of
them and be like, what can you do for this?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You know they have, you know, basically make me pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
They have this device that you attached to your nose
and it pulls and poles and it sits like a
band right here and it just pulls you in your
nostrils apart.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, I gave alexis one of those for her birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is it magnetized ers just sit there and released like
uh vixen there.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Neither it sticks to the nose and pulls on the
skin anyway. So long story shot, they're in the box.
You can have like we have a bunch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
There are ways, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Don't look at me that with your broken nose. Get
renaissance some day. You can help you love the little
snort as it comes.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
In if you Yeah, I gotta get renaissance some day
to make me look pretty just because I look and
then shout out by the way tiny bubbles hansel And and
Palm Springs, California and Tossled Maine. They are going to
be fixing my hair out because I was sick. I
was like, oh, I can put some highlights in myself.
I bought one of those highlighting caps, pulled things through.
I now look like a tiger. So I'm going to
(03:03):
get my hair fixed at Toussled, Maine. And Bellamy does
all my extensions and stuff, and so I was I've
got to call them and be like, Hi, I screwed
up my hair. Can you give me extensions that match
my tiger stripes?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The tiger stripes is a good look. It's in right now.
Right are people all about their eighties and seventies looks?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh, that's why I was like, changed so fast. I
don't know I miss out.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Tiny Bubbles used to do it and does a great
job on my hair. But Tossled Maine is going to
come in and fix what I did, so I don't
have to admit it to Tiny Bubbles.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
That's very very nice. If you're shout out to.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Tosslen that's my sister in law. By the way, it's
still sponsored. No, no, no, she is. So I'm saying
that's why I like usually you hear about tiny Bubbles.
They do my hair. Well, my sister in law owns
Tossled Maine and she's coming in.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
To fix it.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
So she's coming in to fix what I broke.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, speaking of fixing metaphorical fires, what do you think
of the actual fires going down in Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, it's every I'm Australian, I'm used to everything burning.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, you guys had the worst fire that was it
twenty twenty three or a whole country, continent, whatever you
guys are, was that.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Every single year? Every Christmas everything's on fire. I am
sorry for Los Angeles. I have a hair stuck to
the tape on my nose and it's wiggling, driving me crazy.
I can see it.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Saying I'm sorry for Los Angeles and then diving into
a hair on your nose.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
It's distracting the hell out of me. As far as
if you can see it, as far as Los Angeles goes,
I don't know what to say. It's horrifying. The loss
of homes. I know everyone's like, well, nobody died, but
losing your home is horrifying.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Two people have died confirmed.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Okay, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, No, I'm telling you, like, I'm shocked that the other
people are just saying that out there.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the loss of life. But
more than that, when you look at a loss of life,
loss of property, I mean, it's it's horrifying. Especially with
housing prices in Los Angeles. You pull your whole life
into it and it tears your part. I mean, it's
really Jimmy, would you delete that and restarted because of
(05:04):
moving that around? Please?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Which ime out the behind the scenes, they got a
shot off where we live and we try not to
encourage stalkers, because I have something like thirty restraining orders
for people that decided was But how many restraining orders
were huh the course, I wasn't even close.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You're single handedly supporting that, the Riverside County course. No.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
So I started as a Victoria's Secret model. So a
lot of these go way back, it's not the more
recent ones are only in the last few years. A
couple that decided, you know, God said we were supposed
to be together. There was one guy. There was one guy.
He really really freaked me out. Bear actually came and
stayed and slept in front of my door on an
air mattress. It got that bad.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, well, you know, I will do it again if
it ever calls, if the need ever arises.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Okay, you can get out of my bed and go
to them.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Guys that do you? What's the need?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I want? I want you out of my bags. I'm
mad at you.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's not a need as a one, that's a Santa
Claus kind of one. You may not be on a
good list.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I don't feel good.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You know, essentially, if one thousand buildings have already burned
down in Los Angeles, how do you think that's going
to impact the filming world too, Like, I'm sure some
of the people in the industry are hit. I'm sure
some of the locations were lost the years we're used.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
For we look, I'm going to say Hollywood Hills. Yeah,
it's going to hit us. I'm going to say this
in the most straightforward way. I can. I make more
money than most people. I have more privileges in what
I do. I have a more unique and interesting life.
There is a reason everyone wants to work in Hollywood. Yes,
(06:37):
it sucks for people in the entertainment industry who will hustle.
We'll figure ourselves out. It's terrible, but we will. And
in those areas you have insurance, your fire insurance, flood insurance,
that sort of thing. Unless my people, yeah, unless you
were stay from I'm more worried not about the people
in Hollywood. I'm more worried about the people that aren't.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I mean for me, you know, I know, it's okay,
it sucks. But a couple of films and I'm fine.
A couple of TV shows and I'm fine. Some product placement,
I'm fine. Okay, I need some cash. We'll pull some
sponsors on the show, like it's it's like you you
can go pick up a fight we have. Yes, I
work very, very hard for my job. For sure, I
(07:23):
work a minimum of twelve hours. My average is eighteen
hours a day. It is a ridiculous amount, but I'm
well compensated. That's not the same for everyone. I don't
and I don't want to pretend that you know people
in my industry. It's like when I hear influencers, who
is that Mikayla Chick? You don't know how hard it is,
(07:45):
blah blah blah. I'm like, dude, we are in the
luckiest industry in the world. Like, granted I'm film, not
an influencer, but I watch you, I watch your boss,
your butt. You for sure work hard, but you aren't
working factory level hard. You aren't even working McDonald's level hard.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm going to say it like this, the job can
be as strenuous. I want to make I one hundred
percent have a more physically demanding job than most people do.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
By nature, because I'm about the influence upon of.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Course, I'm just gonna say this too, because even with fighting,
you can kind of apply it the same way. If
my gym burns down, I can go to another gym.
If someone's employment office burns down, they can't just pick
up the next day and go to a different office
and start working there. They're they're out of a job.
It's gone. They have to get figured out.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I'm talking about what that. Mikayla Chick said.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh yeah, I find the same way to influence I.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Being an influencer. You're an influencer. You have millions and
millions of followers. You I mean, you're not great at
monetizing that part. I really need to speak with your
managers and agents and they've got to monetize you more.
You do need to find an agent, but you need
like the you have millions and millions of followers. Your
job isn't harder than somebody working a nine to five,
(08:56):
for sure. No articulate the the fighting part. Yes, it
is because what you do to be an influencer is
physically demanding. But when I see like this, Mikayla Chick, like,
try it for one day. It's that hard and blah
blah blah, And I have meetings and I have that.
I'm like, bitch, I do that all the time. I'd
like to remind everyone every time we use bad language,
we give money to the Boys and Girls Club of America,
(09:19):
the Humane Slide of America and free em a mate.
We swear because we care.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's it's all.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I do not feel well and I should not use
that language. But essentially it's not. It's just not that easy.
If not, you know, it's not that easy to turn
around and be like, I don't know how she did it.
I wouldn't have the goal like I. You know, I
didn't grow up wealthy, but I grew up very privileged.
I you know, my family is an old family. We're titled.
(09:45):
My dad was in the service. I certainly didn't grow
up poor, and so it's that moment of for one moment,
I would never think that I could have gotten where
I have without the advantages that I've had. My title
helps more than anyone knows. And in Bear's case, if
he didn't have a mom who busted her butt to
(10:07):
make sure he stayed in martial arts, who.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Then I wouldn't have the same career right now that
I do. But I think that's what I was. That's
what I meant to say. I should say this way
is I had even in the physically demanding aspect of
my job. I've the opportunity to pick up anywhere else.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Wait, you can do your job for anywhere. We're sitting
in our living room right now doing this show, and
we do it from hotel rooms, we do it from
where if we go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But for someone who doesn't have that opportunity immediately, regardless
of how physical their job is, makes their job harder
to maintain in hours because we can pick it up anywhere.
So again, when it comes to people who may be
an influencer's upset that they are getting hate or whatever,
so they panic and yell, well, this is hard. You
don't understand, like.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
The mccais, she got hate because she said it was hard,
because everyone's like because she was talking about how hard
it is to be an influencer, and she's like venting
to her audience. They're not watching you to vent, they're
watching you to do makeup. Nobody watches this show to,
you know, learn about the intricacy of knitting. They watch it.
It's behind the scenes on Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And no one cares about how hard your life. If
you're going to be a public image, you're going to
do something great public figure. I mean, if you're going
to be a public figure, no one cares about your feelings,
unless for some reason, you're a channel that is solely
based on how you feel. People follow you for that.
No one cares about how you feel about something. They
care what they come there to see. If you're a
(11:23):
woodworking person, no one wants to see you crying about
something that happened unfortunately in your life. In the world
and politics, they want to see your woodwork. That's it.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They do want to see. They do want to see authenticity.
They do want to see a glimpse in. But it's
the same problem that the Duchess of Sussex is having
right now. Is she trying to present an image that
isn't her. She is trying to make people feel bad
for her. And you know, blessed Prince Harry. But when
(11:53):
you see him and her sitting on Oprah, there's a
reason they scrub this from the internet, talking about oh
my daddy cut me off. I'm like, you're forty He's
getting nothing after that, he's like forty five. It's those
moments you people are older than me. I've been on
my own since I was sixteen. What are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
They keep figuring it out. Though they had the polo show,
Megan's Got Her.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
They're selling off of the royal titles. And I'm not
going to slide that people take meetings with me because
of my title. I'm a baroness. I'm not going to
knock that. But you have to put up. It's kind
of a put up or shut up moment. And people
are watching, you know, the Duchess of Sussex with Mindy
Kaylin going well, here's how you you know you do this,
And what she's trying to do is aspirational content, very
(12:37):
twenty ten, and you can tell she's kind of stuck
in twenty ten. She has no idea what the world
wants to watch. Now everyone's broke. It's the same same
problem with Mikayla, Like, don't sit there and bitch about
how how hard your job is when you're making millions
of dollars and people are starving, don't bitch about you know,
don't try and do an esthetically pleasing, ass inspirational show
(13:01):
when Los Angeles is on fire, when we had people
run down on New Year's Eve, now is not the time.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, but they also.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'm looking in the comments. Sorry, yeh at mew we
know someone who lost their home, their office and their
kids house. Oh my god. Shout out to Jana lul
yanokovas she is Bears manager, one of my closest friends
and favorite people. I've been avoiding her, so I didn't
give her the bibonic plague.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I miss her well serious week.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
But apparently every someone lost I mean that's horrifying. They
lost everything.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
People's lives are literally being burned down right now. So
as you said, don't go out there talking about how
fancy your new car is or how great your mansion,
which is funny. If your channel is based around showing
off stuff like that, I think that's still okay.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
It's not that you can't want I like you, and
she's I can miss you more. I'm sorry. It was
like I haven't seen her in days, weeks, months, it's
been years. But basically, if you're built on the flex,
yeah you're genuinely built on the flex, that's fine, but
(14:08):
you have to offer more than that. You saw it
with Travis Scott and Kylie Jenna. Should we take my
plan on yours? And that was kind of the point
that the internet turned.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I wouldn't put that out there. Quite frankly, that's
not great.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
You see people you know it was. I like Galgado
and bless her. She's a good person.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
She is.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I'm not sliding her. But after the imagined thing, during
the pandemic, people really pushed back. They were not loving
people telling them how to live. I certainly, you know,
I'm lucky my first house, my uncle helped me get right,
my first car. I've had family met like I didn't
have to, I didn't have to struggle. I've had my
(14:53):
own struggles in my position. I've had my own struggles,
and that was when I was an adult. When I
was sixteen, I was on my own, I was working,
but I was a victorious Secret Models. So I've had
I've been very, very fortunate in my life. In Bear's case,
you had support from your mom. She he opened a
business with her, a nonprofit when he was eighteen. That
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I did, and so shout out to freem.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
A mate one of the charities against.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
We've had a lot of support in our lives. Not
many people have that, and influencers especially, I think, need
to stay in touch with their audience. Speaking of we
have an influencer on the show, I like influencers. They're
my favorite people. Hustlers. Influencers are hustlers more.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Than influencer, bodybuilder, entertainment industry person. I mean, hey, welcome
to the shows Lauren Power, doctor doctor Powers.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And let me tell you. If you don't call a
doctor a smack women, they do.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
I thank you so funny.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
You guys are too much. Sorry, don't well somewhere. That's
it's not good. A lot of people are sick right now.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's not I'm not. I don't worry. I shared. I
gave it with most of my team.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I guess it.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Gave it to Bear. I didn't keep it to myself.
I was generous.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
You're very generous.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I was just gonna say, they're thrilled. They called me
a lot of words that start with F. They were thrilled.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Well, you can't give it to me because I'm on
the screen.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
So that was that was very sick.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Now, can you tell everyone a little about yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
A little?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
How long does the show go?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Take your time?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Well?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Speaking of the fires, I was a former firefighter as
a firefighter engineer here.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
And then but there was a big lawsuit.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
They did want to hire some women and it was
a big deal, Like I changed the way they hi
females across the nation with this big lawsuit with three women.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It was crazy. So my heart goes out for those guys.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Big congratulations on that, and thank you. I love I
love women that open doors. That's yes, we may change.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yeah, no woman would have to go through what I did.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
As far as the discrimination for a gender discrimination, it
was crazy. This was back in two thousand, So yeah,
we've made change across the country. They have to have
a female on the board human resources. Oral interviews have
to be taped and it was kind of a big
deal back in the day.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
But so I would be out on the lines.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Right now, not sitting here in my home hanging out
with you guys, if I was still.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
On the department. But God had a bigger plan for me.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
So it's all it's all good, But I really my
heart bleeds for what's going on.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Man. This is just in it's insane. There's a lot of.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Stories trying to call it act of God. So they're
trying to get out of pain. A lot of the
insurance companies are now trying to call it act of God.
I'm like, what is the point of fire? Insurance. It's
not like a media hit the house.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Exactly what insurance never wants to pay. I owned a
huge wedding company in Laguna Beach and during the El
Nino storms, the whole location slid into the ocean. And
again they said act of God because of the rains,
and there's nothing we could do about it. Insurance. That's
why there are billions of dollar companies. And it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
That shocks me because in my brain is like, why
would you ever pay for something like flood insurance? How
often our floods going to occur that don't have something
related to nature? That just these things don't make sense
to me, to anybody like you said, this is the
whole money making industry.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, isn't everything right?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
That's why that CEO is all about the money without
the money, about the money. I like that those perfect
perfect timing with the problems.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
My props. I love my props.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
But I think people are getting really sick of the
insurance companies and everything we had. That guy Luigi, after
having to go through all that with his back, went
and shot. Not that I'm encouraging people to be clear,
not an okay way to handle things, but he went
and shot the head of the pharmaceutical company and the
not pharmaceutical, the insurance company. And rather than people being
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outraged left right, everyone is just like yes because everyone
knows someone that you know didn't get covered or didn't
get taken care of. So I think the insurance companies
are kind of starting to feel that pinch. It did
cause a back push with Blue clock Cross Blue Shields,
who was like, maybe we won't restrict anesthetic.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Good.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
It's like it was. It was a weird situation.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Though in Hollywood you have to admit, yeah, industry and
there's just so much I mean, the p Didty stuff,
I mean that can.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Go on and on forever, but it's really happening.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You know.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
There was some conversations with firefighters trying to save the
Getty Museum because the underground tunnels for human trafficking.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
They try to save that.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
And when firefighters going, we can't prioritize what buildings we're
going to say based on that. Like, there's a lot
of crazy stuff going on. And I'm sure you guys are, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It's been it's been weird. They're like, no, how about
we just save you know, people, it's not a high.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Bar, high bar, but imagine that, right, So.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
That's great interesting when you find kind of the oligarch
types moving in contrast with people like firefighters, soldiers. It's
very difficult to get people, I want to say, people
with integrity or honorable men and women to go along with,
you know, dishonorable things. Once you kind of hit that wall,
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you're seeing it now. It's it's very very interesting. One
of the things I know, the LAPD we're helping get
some of the people away from the fire areas, and
they were getting pressure from some of the higher ups
like check and see if these people have warrants or
if they hear legally, and the cops like dude, we're
just getting them out, Like we're not stopping for this ship.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I have time for that.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yeah, come on, We've got to get that. It's really
interesting to see how people are coming together. America does
impress me that way. That is something I like about
your country.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Thank you Australia herself.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Speaking of impressive things to come out of this country. Yes,
how did you find yourself in the entertainment world? Obviously
you're a firefighter for a period of time.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
But that's a bit of Yeah, that's a bit of
a leap.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What made the leap, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Well, actually because I got discriminated for not being strong enough,
and so I had a trainer that just got me
like completely out archie for what was going on in
our town. That I went to the Olympia in Las Vegas,
which is one of the large as fitness competitions in
the world, just walking around as a spectator. Got discovered
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there literally by a casting director found me.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
He started interviewing, interviewing me.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Right on the floor with thousands of people there, and
from there I just was shipped off to Chicago.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I went on some talk shows. You probably remember Jenny Jones.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Back in the Yeah, Yeah, So they flew me out
to be on Jenny Jones. It was too buff to
get a date, and I brought another friend of mine
and we just like stole the show.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
It was the number one of the season.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
And from that then it was on the internet as
this famous bodybuilder and literally my career just went crazy.
And then I became like literally Hollywood's go to girl
for in the music industry as far as the videos,
starting with working with Lady Gada and Beyonce, just to
name a few right off the top. That was a
huge thing to talk about behind the scenes, that was
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crazy filming that particular video. It was the telephone for
your audience. That was the big iconic one with her
and Beyonce to other and she was like, I had
a little They did a fake tattoo on my arm
and it said lady. So I'm with her and I'm like,
look at my tattoo and she didn't look at it.
So I grab her and I'm like, no, look at it.
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She's like, oh, okay, cool, and then then she got
connected to me and I ended up staying with her
the entire shoe, which was you know, music videos go
eighteen twenty hours insane. But yeah, I never went to
the green room where Mager kept trying to get me
to go sit in the agreement with all the other
cast members, and she wouldn't have it.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
She was hanging out at me.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
She's like I like you, and I'm like, yeah, I
know you do, and then she's like, no, I really
like you.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
I threw her in the jail, smacked her ass so hard.
She like loved it. She jumps on the bars and she's.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Like YouTube won't air this or no, MTV won't air this,
but YouTube will. And we did this whole thing together,
and then she ended up picking me to do another
side scene with her, so we spent like three hours
together just her and Eye and the the camera crew
and the director and stuff. It was just crazy, it
was It was a lot of fun. But there I
got to work with, you know, Jennifer Lopez. I've worked
with Katy Perry a few times. I was on the
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MTV Awards with her, all kinds of stuff until Nicki Minaj,
who never showed up a rehearsal, kicked us off her
set right an hour before we go film live and
changed the entire set ended up forgetting her words live.
I'm like, ha, it's just like she's not a favorite
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with crew, let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wow, I'm a little bit shocked. I'm a little bit
shocked to someone. I said, I'm a little bit shocked
with someone who would be of that. You know, you
always get the bad stories and all the super famous
person's like a big old asshole, and you never want
to meet your your idols because they're never who you
want to be. I wouldn't think that in the world
where you have to rely on other people to get
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your job done, which is what you guys do. You
have to rely on other people. They want to be
such an ass to those people they help you do.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Not usually the super famous one that are assholes. It's
the ones that are either massively on the down swing
or want to pretend. The super famous. Nicki Minaj is
an exception. Mostly people like Gaga or Beyonce or they
got there because they can get on with people.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Isn't They're having a good time with it all, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, they're having fun, they enjoy their job. I'm sorry
she did that to you. She's no for behaving like that.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
That's not Yeah it was.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Yeah, she doesn't have the best reputation, but yeah it
kind of sucked because, I mean, we've rehearsed all day
for the Big Finale with Katy Perry was the host
that year, and she it came down to where we
were upstaging her in her little solo part literally because
we're all you know too. There was a fitness girl
from Canada and myself and they had this little golden
mate bikinis with still lettos and this basketball thing. When
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the set turned, it was all gold glitter, and gold basketball.
She took it all out, threw us out and just
stood there by herself.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Really, And Katie is so cute that she's like, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. That's not my world, that's her No.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
No, She's like, took grab my phone and we took
selfies together. In fact, it's in my book. She was
super sweet. She's like, we'll work together. I promise, and
I'm like, check, this is the third time I've had
something happen with you, Like, what's your deal?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
With Katie, it's kind of funny.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
But work with Jlo was fun though she was cool.
She's like, that's when wish she was with a Ron.
I wasn't even castid to be in this one scene
with the Mary Garron. It was her medicine music video
and all the models were getting ready and I'm like, oh,
I want to be in that set. I went to
the director, please please Lays and she's like, you.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Really want to be in that?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I'm like yeah, because I didn't even get to see
Jlo right because I had this whole muscle scene before
in the morning and I wrapped and I'm like, I
don't want to go because she she had this little
string bikini, like literally, it was like threads.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
She's come, She's.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Like, will you wear this?
Speaker 6 (26:48):
And I'm like, are you crazy? I would ate pizza
and ice cream last night. She's like, please, lace, lace,
Will you wear this for us?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
It was like nothing, and I'm like, only if I
get to pictures with Jennifer and she's like, nobody gets
pictures with j Lo and.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Oh wow, yeah for real that.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I'm like, you can't even look at her all of
those things.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
And I'm like, well, like I said, if you want
me to wear that, I'm getting my photo. So she goes,
stick around, I'll see what I can do. Well, after
she put me in that scene with this Mary around
and all the models and.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Stuff, I was an awesome So.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
I'm just getting there hanging out. I'm like, oh my god,
how's your feet? I mean, we were just chatting it.
She was super cool with me, but all the models
ran away. No one was allowed to look at her,
all these crazy little rules being on set with her.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
But I just jump up.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
I'm like, it's your turn to get a picture with me.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
She's looking at and.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
I'm like, yeah, I've got you know, I've heard a
Katie Gaga, let it know. It gets Zellia tied for Hudson,
just to name a few, and she's like, Okay, just
don't post it.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
I'm like, it's not my first time. But then I'm like,
I want it for my book. Which is this?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That was? That was?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I'm sitting I'm looking at it. I'm trying to figure
out how to segue into a book. I like that.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
There it is.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Yeah, beneath the Muscle unless your Inner Champ in the
book with number one in eleven countries.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
The best seller. Yeah, congratulations. By the way, that is incredible.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Thank you, in ninety eight categories and at the time
I did even know they had ninety eight categories.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
But yeah, so that was fun.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
But I've got the pictures there a picture with Katie
and I that she just grabbed, grabbed the phone. It
took a little selfie and Jennifer where she she's in
here somewhere. So yeah, just behind the scenes stuff. It's fun.
But simply all those kind of things. Justin Bieber I
did his yummie video or I'm feeding him throughout the video.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And an industry Oh yeah, street Stable, Well you've done
so much in the industry. What do you want to
do long term? Like, where do you want to go
from here? Because you've done, you've met everyone, You've done
a little bit of everything. What is your long term?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Well that's kind of wild because I mean I was
getting casted in these videos as a you know, fitness
model and in bikinis, and I was literally in my
fifties now in my sixties, and I'm still getting casted.
I just did Julia Michael's music video that just came
out called Evan and a Bikini with the Weights, And
I don't even really bodybuild anymore. But like you said,
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starts behind the scenes step. I still get those get
those jobs, which is exciting. So I want to just
keep working to be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Wait, you said sixties.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Yeah, botox, baby botox.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like, I don't know who did it that I need?
Whoever did you to do me? Now?
Speaker 6 (29:31):
I will share later.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I mean, sorry, I sidetracked. So you've done it, you're
best selling. Well, so you've been from music videos. Tell
that you've done everything. What do you want to do?
What she's done everything?
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Yeah, I'm coming out in Ben Affleck's new movie that
Count in two. That should be a pretty big deal.
I think that's schedule to come out in April, and
that was fun. I just liked, you know, tapping industry.
Go to work some fun and then I come back.
I live in Orange County, not in La thank God,
literally fire.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
But just keep going.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
I'm an entrepreneur right now.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
I'm doing promotions for Health and Wealth Exposed.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I've got a big one coming up.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
I have another flyer right here for Abundant Abundant Life Expo.
So my whole thing is just giving back to the community,
putting all my friends together, the relationships I built over
the years in health and wealth, and a lot of
it's for the Kingdom. So I'm working with Pedrodeo's team
right now, who's doing a thirty one day Wisdom Challenge
online which he has one hundred and twenty five thousand
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people that joined.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
It's pretty good, yeah, to build money.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
Health and just health and wealth, because without either one,
I mean, where are we at without your health? What
is all this wealth? Doesn't matter? Like you, like you
don't even feel well right now?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, I got plenty of money, but I have lupus,
So it's kind of that I'm.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
There, you go. So the two are very, very connected.
I consider myself an expert on both sides of it,
you know, because I put my whole life into that, right,
So I just want to keep going, you guys, to
answer that question. Just you know, my expos are a
lot of fun. But my passion is golfing and pickleball.
Right now, you can find me on the court.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
What is pickle I keep hearing about pickleb What is pickleball?
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Oh my gosh, it's the fastest scoring sport, like in
the world. It's crazy. It's between tennis and table tennis.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
So you're on a court you.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Normally play with doubles and it's a smaller paddle with
a like a plastic ball with holes in it, and
it's like strategy, it's competitive. I don't know, it's just
a lot.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Of money, but I kind of gotta ask. I've got
to ask, as a ball enthusiast, why can I buy
a rap for tennis ball for fifteen dollars but I
got to spend two hundred on pickleball paddle? I don't
get it. Popular The only answer.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Hey, let's get real, right, you don't have to there's
paddles on Amazon now, you know, you can buy a
couple with cover its balls, all different prices. It's all
marketing really like it really is. It's just getting out
and plane is a big deal. More time on the
court is how you get better. And I'm just really
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enjoying it. There's a tournament tomorrow. I got my first
gold medal where I play. That was kind of fun
with my.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Enthusiasts. That's awesome, congratulations.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Yeah, it was fun. It's it's called the Village Games.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
It's kind of like a mini Olympics where where I
play golf and pickleball and all the things, and here
in Laguna, and this is a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
We smoked.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
The last one was I dressed my partner.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
We had a little twin Outfit's all how you look
right in the mindset?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, I'm like I was new.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
I was a pretty new player and my first tournament,
I'm like, you know what we need to play?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Well, here's a question, can you like you went tennis outfits? Like,
how do you dress?
Speaker 7 (33:15):
Well? We did, and we had little skirts with shorts underneath,
pickle ball tank top and a little gold pickleball necklace
and it said pickleball with all the colors on it.
Just we just looked super cueless, but that way, I
dressed both of us like twins because he was my
partner and we're like team intimidation, and it really totally
worked this other They didn't even know what to do.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
We were just like, survey, we want eleven.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
To one the last Yeah, you muld have murdered.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
It because they didn't even know what to what was happening.
And we're really not that good to be transparent, at
least at that time. But it was again, it was
the attitude, the mindset. These are things we have coached
other people along the way. It's just it's all about
your passion, mindset and attitude really and in my case,
giving all the glory of God and just keep rocking.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
You know, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
It's the old adage. If you think you can or
you think you can't, you're right, you.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Know, either way, right either way you yeah, you can
make yourself right and just about anything.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
So I'm like, we're going to smoke this. She was nervous,
you know, because we didn't know.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
It was our first one, but we're planning another one
in April, so I'm excited. There's a yeah, pick a
ball of golf is kind of my passion right now,
and just you know, when I get cast in things
and I'll drive up to Hollywood do the deal and
then come back to my little sanctuary that I built
here for myself.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Absolutely, you know this is going to be kind of
a hard This is a very varying question. We're going
off left field here real quick. But you mentioned all
glory to God, and I hear, especially when you hear
people talk about who are not in the entertainment world,
they kind of view you guys like these fake lizard
people sent up here by Satan to take over the
world and like and murder our children. So how do
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you kind of relate that, Like you're a person of faith, clearly,
how do you kind of take it for those people
who talk or think so ill of you in the
entertainment world.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
I've tried to keep it separate up until now because
now it's just so apparent what's happening, how evil our
world has become, and the division and all that started
with the elections and all that.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Kind of stuff. I just trying to keep it separate
because again.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
I'm I want to work so right we all know,
you know, we got to kind of play the game
a little bit, but now, I mean, I've been on
set with the show Physical on Apple. I remember we
were watching some sermons on my phone and we had
a whole crowd of people that you know when we're
in holding watching it.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
And everybody's like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
And then by the end of the shoot, for the
end of the whole week, it would ended up just
being one other gual myself. And it's just like either
it either you're attract attracted to it or or you're
reflected by it. And by the way, I don't judge,
it's not my job to judge. But I had a
little weight, you know. I even have my cross my
heart on here. I have the Bible that's in this
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little necklace. When people ask that I can, I'll say
and either they want to hear more or they don't.
And this I don't carry either way. But attached to
the results, I'm just not. It's not it's not my position.
I have my beliefs and I live my life the
way I do for him, and if they don't want to,
that's that's on them. It doesn't make any sense. Like
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I went on a TV show, My Strange Addiction on TLC.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
It was a crazy show.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Like yeah, I got castid before it even aired, so
I was one of the first people and the directors
like talking to me. He's like, well, we got to
do this in this and I'm like no, no, no,
I said, I'll do it if I can tell my
own story, my way.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
You guys, don't you know, go sideways on me because.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
It's reality TV, right and yeah yeah, you know for sensationalism,
and so that you said, well, we'll have to get
back on you with you. We have to check with
the network and da da da. And then they call
me back like two weeks later and they said okay,
They said, okay that you can do this. We just
need you to follow a little bit of the menu
like the whole series, because I'm like, I'm not crazy
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with these you know.
Speaker 6 (37:17):
I don't eat my couch.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
The one I remember was eating gloss. Someone else was
sniffing gasoline. Like that was some some crazy things.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Mine was addicted to bodybuilding, which is hello, but I
make good TV.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
That's just the whole body building, Like this is so
addicted to it, you have to do It's like him
he goes to the gymaid hour of the day a.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Little bit exactly.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
It wasn't really an addiction, but you know it was
really you want to eat your couch right and then Yeah,
So we filmed that show and it was, you know,
it was very successful. It was a lot of fun
and they got to be you know, transparent tell My
Story and they were in my home and doing all
the things. They filmed me in the gym there, you know,
doing crazy workouts. It was we filmed it on one day,
(38:07):
but it looked like a whole you know, I change
all my outfits, you know how we do. Yeah, anyways,
it was it was a pretty big deal when it
came to Tell My Story though.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
All the whole crew was in here, my family was here,
and I.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Remember the big light was on my face and just
sitting me, sitting in a chair, and he started asking
me these Steve questions and I really I couldn't talk.
I literally could not talk. I was so emotional. I
started crying. I'm like my makeup. I literally just got
up and I left.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
I just I just left my house, just freaking out.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
He's like texting me, He's like you need to come back,
and I'm like I not today, it's not happening.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
He's like Laureni.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
He goes, first of all, we can't pay you for
you if you don't finish the segment. And two, without
your story, there's no show, right So for whatever reason,
I slept on it. We went out on this shot.
They were filming us on this boat. My mom was there,
ended talking. We came back. He cleared the room, no
one was allowed to be in there, and it was
just him and I and I got through the story
(39:09):
and it made really good TV. So twelve years later,
fast forward, after I've been saved, I got baptized in
the ocean. All these things were amazing. I said, I'm
going to use my platform and my voice for the Lord.
I literally said it on camera because it was kind
of like Jesus Revolution. I got baptized the same place
and it was all this thing with interview was just
amazing that it was pretty pretty, pretty awesome. But after
(39:33):
I said that, two weeks later, again, I get a
call from a casting director. He goes, hey, you were
a fan favorite on our show twelve years ago. Was
my strange addiction. He goes, we're green lighting the project,
We're bringing it back and we want to feature where
are they now? And we picked you and I'm like, well,
where I'm at now as my walk with Jesus and
(39:54):
the Lord.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
And that's that was it. It came right out of
my mouth. And he's like, again, well, we have to get.
Speaker 7 (39:59):
Approval from the network on that topic and all that.
And I said, well, then if I don't need the
exposure so I can't be transparent and authentic of where
I'm at, I don't want to.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
I won't do it.
Speaker 7 (40:09):
I don't need to do it right right, And so
they and again they called me back and they said, okay,
well we green lit your topic. They flew the whole
crew out from New York. We did this whole thing.
It was giant, it's aired, it was was pretty awesome.
So yeah, I'm really proud of that. I'm addiction to Jesus.
So they change it from addicted to bodybuilding to addicted
to Jesus again not eating.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
I'm like, so the two things that you've that you've
you've addicted to health, well a faith and health? You monster?
Speaker 2 (40:44):
How dare me? Like? Old?
Speaker 4 (40:49):
We work in Hollywood. If you want adds, we got them,
but you got health in Jesus.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Right, shame on me. Right, that's a bit.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Of a relief, like a bit of a bit of a reach.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I like it.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
It was fun and so those are things I like
to do. So to answer you again your question, bear
those are you know, to continue just telling you know,
documentary style stories. My life has been on TV probably
about I don't know, almost a dozen times now the
way from being on you true Hollywood, so that strange
addiction botched. Worked with the doctors, I've been with ru Paul.
(41:27):
I've done all kinds of things, housewives, just whatever comes
my way if it fits.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
I like to work.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
I love the camera.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
We got to get a reality show on you like that?
That would be fun. We need to get a reality Yeah,
I've talked to the reality showing her. Please can you
set up a meeting? Sorry handle that which is yeah,
I'm on it. It was I doan.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
People have been saying that for me for years and
that's why, you know, I wrote the book for one.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
But I live a different life. I've chose different paths.
Speaker 7 (42:03):
You know, ride a Harley, I mean, I surf on
my head, I wait board and ski and you know,
visit this champion ten times, not one time, but ten times,
you know, bodybuilding heavyweight champion. I started at forty. I
won the same show at fifty. Then I started promoting shows.
I was guest posting all over the world. I'm judging
for the USA for Fitness World competitions. I hosted a
(42:24):
world competition and here it at Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
I mean, my.
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Life is so crazy and fun and wild, but it's
all positive.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
So people Bravo.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Though I had already be with them when they were
trying to cast it for to be with the housewives,
to be tamor judges fitness trainer. They're like, you know what,
it came to it that you are too much. You
will outshine the housewives and yeah, you'll drown them and
it won't work. And I'm like, well, then give me
my own.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
They should have that's it, well they should have. You
would have been better sit with like Teresa Judas because
she's got the would have been like New Jersey. You
could have done New Jersey because they have a lot
of personality, the real housewives here in Orange Countant. I'm
not writing a.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
Very Have you seen the show with so insane? Oh yeah, yeah,
I again, I know them all. I watch it.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
I know I know the New Jersey cost That's who
we deal with mostly, Oh do you Yeah, I don't
deal a lot with the Orange County one.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
So Patti Stinger had them on from a Millionaire Matchmaker
actually got casted on that show. They pulled me off
a music video with Sean White at the time, who
was the director of director was friends with Patty.
Speaker 6 (43:42):
He let me go, like, I'm filming something.
Speaker 7 (43:44):
I had to run there do all this audition stuff
for a Millionaire Matchmaker and then come back to the
show and being the big celebration video. Pretty funny my show,
but it was to be with the New Jersey people
were there. It was a lesbian one to Rosie Okay, yeah, yes, And.
Speaker 6 (44:05):
I didn't know. I didn't really watch the show, so
I had no idea. She was asking me questions.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
Patty's like it says, here your barbie with biceps, What's
what makes you that? And I'm like, hello, have you
not seen me? And it just went viral, like yeah,
it was crazy. I use it on the commercials. And
then I had worked with Patty on a couple of
things and she came on Root Calls and offered me
my own mixer, and then she.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Got fired from all right, yeah okay.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Yeah, they Bravo dumped her on that.
Speaker 7 (44:34):
I know I need to contact her again though, because
I'm still single and I'd love to do a single
show like a matchmaker thing.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
We can set up a dating That'd be fun.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
Wouldn't that, because yeah, you could do that. She was
afraid of me though. What I did an interview was
a root Paul when he was as real. It was
called good work. He just did it for one season.
Speaker 7 (44:53):
They brought talent back from from watched when I was
unbatch with the past Surgeons, but Terry bro was on
there group Paul was in her interview with me, and
she came out and put the when I was in
here and make a the Drift Company.
Speaker 6 (45:08):
She's like, oh my god, Patty is terrified.
Speaker 7 (45:11):
Of you, and she goes she thinks you're gonna kill her,
and I'm like, oh, I said, I know why. It
was from my friend that we were on the same
show together. She ripped her apart, ripped her apart on
the national team nates that they used it right of
course in socialism, and.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
She walked off.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
She said, I'm gonna sue you and all got all
that she thought I was her. I'll tell her it's
not me. I'm the good one that she liked. I
was the Barbie.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
TV.
Speaker 6 (45:42):
Yeah, it's just it was. It was pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (45:44):
I would love to be on her show again. She
owes me because she was National TV. I have the
footage of her saying, Okay, Laura, we're gonna give you your
own mixer, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
Let's we're gonna set that make it happen. Then, Well,
what I find so interesting I I love that you're
talking to the audience about this, because you know I do.
I put together a lot of reality TV shows, and
now they're looking they're doing more and more authenticity is
what they're looking for. I have thirty shows that we're
(46:15):
thirty two Lexus Yellings, Yeah, that have been requested for
us for this year because and it used to be, like,
you know, I don't think people realize how much production
really goes into reality shows or how unreal reality shows are.
And now and now that they're looking for more authenticity,
(46:39):
people with personality are what we need because we're not
allowed to set it up like we used to We
used to just be like, all right, do all this.
Now it's a reality show. It's nothing real about reality
now there. Yes, she's like, I know, oh wow.
Speaker 7 (46:56):
I got another story for you, but.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
I change that. So they're looking for more authentic. So
you are perfect to head a show now because you've
got all that personality naturally, where before you used to
have to amp people up and dress it up and
kind of you know, make it up. Now it's it's different.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Tell me about the story. I want to hear the story.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (47:19):
So I did a director's reel for some other show.
They got ahold of it when the Botched was coming
out with the doctors on eating So they're calling me
and they wanted to cast me to get surgery this
on this Botch show.
Speaker 6 (47:33):
And I was not botched. Let's just start with that.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (47:36):
My mom's like, are you crazy? Do you know these
doctors they're amazing, they're on TV because she.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
Watched the rolls in.
Speaker 7 (47:42):
Orange County, which to both doctor you know, the husbands
were on both shows. And she's like, that's a gift.
You're doing it. Whatever they want to do.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
You do it.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
Take it.
Speaker 7 (47:51):
Yeah, So I get casted on that it was pretty crazy.
We did for five hundred hours of filming. Talk about
reality me like insane.
Speaker 6 (48:01):
They came down.
Speaker 7 (48:01):
They filmed me weightboarding with dolphins behind my sister's boat
and Dana point. They had me riding my Harley along
the beach. They had me rubbers ride into the car,
riding my bike home like all this footage interview is
my mom.
Speaker 6 (48:15):
She was actually my chosen sister.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
All these back story interviews made me do so much stuff,
so much work. Oh my gosh, you're spinning on the
table half naked like all the stuff that they do.
Speaker 6 (48:26):
Crazy.
Speaker 7 (48:26):
They didn't use one second of it. They completely switched
the narrative on me right before I was going into
surgery that I have the IVY in my arm. They
gave me the pill whatever to relax you. Film director
who became my friend because we worked together so much.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Comes in.
Speaker 7 (48:43):
She's like, Okay, Lauren, you've got to say this stuff.
We're not going to use it, but just the network
wants you to say, say you're doing steroids and da
da da da, And I'm like, but I'm not, hello,
I'm not competing and I'm going into surgery. For crying
out loud right right, and just say it, but we
won't use it.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
Okay, what would you say? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (49:03):
Where this is going.
Speaker 7 (49:04):
So I'm like, oh, yeah, I love ano R or something,
which is true. I still do no, no big secret.
And they turned the whole narrative, changed the entire segment
of my story all about doing big steroid use and
the doctors are talking about it while I'm under. They're
like doing surgery on my breast and on my neck.
(49:24):
I had double surgery eight and a half hours I'm
under and that's all they talked about.
Speaker 6 (49:29):
The whole story went that way and it wasn't even true.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
It made the Yeah, they made.
Speaker 7 (49:34):
The doctors look ridiculous because the brow comes in he goes, oh,
we got your blood work back and there's something wrong
with your I don't even know it was it heart or kidney, lung.
Speaker 6 (49:43):
Something it was.
Speaker 7 (49:44):
So it was all bullshit, right, It's just totally making
it up because it made them look stupid.
Speaker 6 (49:50):
You can't go into pre op.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
With saying that someone's on stairy like and with with
hot problems along crod.
Speaker 7 (49:56):
Like yeah, anything wrong with your blood work right, Oh,
you just can't do it. So made them look ridiculous
that they're operating on me anyway for eight and a
half hours for double surgery.
Speaker 6 (50:07):
Paul gave me a.
Speaker 7 (50:09):
Mini neckliff or like was a bonus free just for
TV versus again. And then they made my breast smaller
because I just had had him done. It cost me
twenty grand in my own money. Then they redid them
to make them smaller to be on the show because
Terry's like, they made me do like a psych test
and do all the stuff to go on. Yeah, right,
like call Ekg's I mean, I was just running around
(50:31):
doing all these crazy things i Q test like it
was crazy just to be a patient on the show.
So by the time I did all that, then he's like, well,
your breasts aren't botched, and I'm like, but I said,
I'm going on your show because.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
Yeah, yeah, we're doing this now.
Speaker 7 (50:48):
And so I'm telling with Terry and he loves the
cameras and h when I got along, right, he's always
bragging about his you know, fitness levels. We end up
our wrestling on the show, and that was it was
pretty funny. Yeah, So we came up with some narrative
again and to change the story that I want to
find a man, I have to look more feminine and sexy,
and so my breasts were smaller and just you know,
talk about reality TV.
Speaker 6 (51:08):
We just changed this whole narrative.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
It makes sense.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
Yeah, now we're so we've run out of time. I'd
love to have you on ver. Well, you're entertaining as hell.
Tell everyone where to find you on social media so
they go and follow you.
Speaker 7 (51:21):
Oh yeah, Instagram, Lauren Powers Official, look for the blue
check not the impostors. Laurenpowers dot com as my website
shows all the little video clips that we're talking about,
with all the music, you know, celebrities, it's all that
stuff's there. So just Laurenpowers dot Com is pretty simple.
And then all my icons and or to our the
websites are there to find me on social Facebook, Instagram,
(51:43):
off with all the things.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (51:44):
Yes, i'd love to have you on again. Your stories
are entertaining as hell from.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Buying just don't get me started.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
So I want you, That's what I'm like.
Speaker 6 (51:54):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4 (51:56):
I like it and I definitely want to talk to
you about a show. Thank you so so much of
joining us.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
I'm going, oh, likewise appreciate having you on today.
Speaker 4 (52:07):
Absolutely guys, thank you for joining us on behind the scenes.
We'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Good night.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
This has been behind the scenes with the Baroness and
Bear Fjorda, only on talk for media.
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