Can we talk about the silver platter teenager generation. I think it's because of social media, and I know when we were kids, they had commercials, but it just was a slower burn, like you had to have TV shows in between commercials. It wasn't like every minute of the day there was something for a kid to be obsessed about and want. And I ranted on TikTok about the ten year olds at Sephora, but I wanted to talk
about the teenagers at Sephora because I'm not kidding. A year and a half ago was the first time in my life I would ever have the cahonis to order a fifty dollars blush or lip gloss like it makes me sick. I today, I'm gonna have to talk to a therapist about the fact that I ordered a Stanley cup for thirty five dollars that has like a little
handle and it's supposed to not topple over. Because I know that like five below and everybody else have and TJ and everyone else have like five dollars versions of it, and yes they're knockoffs of it, so I should like want the original Aramas bag, I guess, but like, look at my assistant she has a Stanley cup. Danielle, a woman I work with, she has a Stanley cup, like women on a budget, working women at a back and look at them like, who the fuck do you guys
think you are having Stanley cup? You spend forty dollars on a cup and they're like they love their cup, they idolize their cup, they take care of their cup, they pet their cup. The ice they got, the whole fucking ice thing. The ice from last night is lasted till today. I'm like my ice and my shitty cup from TJ lasted till today too. It started years ago with the swell bottle, Like we understand the ice concept. Guess what Thermis did it too a long time ago.
And it'll stay hot you eating soup out of your Stanley cup. So anyway, these kids, can we go get Bubba? Can we get Starbucks? And then John Galla like they want everything and they want it now, and it's like it's just so fast. And I know I sound like the one who's like why we took a divorce and carriage to go to Target? Like I know, but like it's just a lot right now, that's still and the
teenager age is just silver platter. Anyway to begin with your life is the games and the practices and the schedule and the concert at school and the oh, I mean God. We serve at the pleasure of the teenagers, Serve at the pleasure of Britain happy, serve at the pleasure. I talked about this a little to Holly Madison, but I think we should talk about the rate of divorce and its connection to young people wanting so badly to be married. So there's so many different things to break
down here. The rate of divorce is high, it's over sixty percent. I think and think about the number of people that you know that are married divorced who are not happy. And I talk about how people who are in quote unquote traditional marriages do judge people in non traditional marriages. But I believe that non traditional is working because people are being honest about the fact that they are married to someone that is not them. They're not
married to a clone. That person has their own cultural beliefs, their own ideology, their own moral beliefs, their own business ethics and business style. Do they believe in horoscopes? They like to ski? Do they like a sunny vacation? What
about being strict, parenting indulgent. Two different people getting married means two different ideals, and so in many cases, two different people means two different previous spouses, two different sets of children, blending different ages like these are things that have to come together. So how do you make that work? It's often with non traditional Some people don't see each other every day. Some people don't have dinner together every night.
Some people travel a lot, some people have long distance relationships. Some people don't like their in laws, you know, some people have a disparity in income. There are millions different ways, And I've seen from Kurt Russell and Goldie Hahn, who for years weren't actually married, which would seem like something to judge, weren't legally married, that they sort of indicated that it works for them because they both are on different paths but have similar sensibilities about where those paths
are leading. And they never thought it was going to be one thing. It's a living and breathing organism that has highs and lows and ins and outs, and it ends up in a different place. Neil Patrick Harris I heard recently say something similar, and I think about the young generation that is marketed marriage marketed. We buy makeup because of marketing. We buy a Stanley cup because of marketing, We buy a brand of cottage cheese, or you know, go on a vacation or stay at a hotel, or
buy a shirt because of marketing. Why would we not be getting married because of marketing? Because you're marketed the dress? Oh, don't you want to pick out a dress? Don't you want to be doing the lace on the top or the big fairy princess. You're gonna get to be the star if you're not an actual star, you get to be the star, the bell of the ball. You get to be a princess. So how much how intoxicating is that you get a ring? You're gonna get a gorgeous ring.
What's it gonna be? Is a oval? Is it hard? Is it marquis? What are the side stones? That's a big thing that's exciting. You get to make your friends jealous. You've got prince charming, You get to like live this life and act as if you just have such an enviable life because you're getting married, and where are you going on your honeymoon? So all of this is marketed, And why wouldn't you want to buy it. You want to flip through the magazines. You get to out florals.
What are you gonna eat? What's the cake? Oh my god, it's all about you. Everyone's fawning over you. You get to have another party. You can have an engaging party. You can have a bridal shower. You can, you know, do so many different things and you you can. You're gonna get all these gifts, you get to register. This is
the stuff that we're marketed. And the problem is we spend more time thinking about the foreplay and the marketing than the actual main act, which is an actual marriage that you have your whole life to have if you choose to do it, and what does that entail? And how are you choosing? Are you choosing wisely? Are you spending enough time really thinking about the nuts and bolts, What the bench looks like when you're seventy five, if someone's sick, what the finances look like, what a divorce
god forbid looks like. It's a fact. You can't be a dummy. If sixty percent of business deals fail, which probably the numbers higher, doesn't it sound insane to not have a prenup? And isn't it something that you want to walk into really understand the terms you got to divorce, what happens, what's the child's situation going to be like, what about custody, what about religion, what about medicine, what
about college? What about you know, all that stuff. But the point is I think that the fairy tale is being marketed to young people and it's also relating to their motivation. Young women in particular want to bag a rich guy. They want a good looking but really they definitely would love someone to take care of them. It's a lot of young girls that really talk to each other about wanting to bag a rich guy. Now you
bag a rich guy, you give up power. If you don't have your own money, if you're not working, you give up power. You give up decision making, even in ways that aren't so tangible. The tangible ways are on where are you're going to go on a vacation. Yes, you're both going to weigh in on where you want to go on a vacation, and you'll have a lot more leverage in the beginning of the marriage when your husband isn't sick of you like you're sick of him. But ultimately he or she who makes the gold makes
the rules. You gonna buy a house, You're just gonna go buy a house on your own without having to ask your husband permission. You're gonna go buy a Rolex, or some vancleeve earrings, or a three hundred and fifty dollars facial treatment or something without asking permission. No, because they who make the gold make the rules. And what if you don't love your in laws, you don't want to like hang out with them for a whole weekend, or you don't want them to just stop by all
the time. Yes, that's not related to money. But if your in laws know that your husband is supporting you, your in laws are going to use that as leverage too, because he supports you. So then therefore you have to go along with the program, their program. So don't be so quick to think that you meet a rich guy that you're taken care of and you're set for the rest of your life. To the things in life that people don't want to do anymore is run for president
or host an award show. Running for president sounds like the worst fucking job ever you have, like a drooling man who is you know, like a bull of oatmeal running the country. No, problem, and you've got Joe Coy up on stage basically being like, oh, you didn't like that one my writers wrote it, like throwing his own writers under the bus and then being trashed and made fun of. He did finish the fucking race. And then he's up there like a child at a recital being
like can I start over? Wait a second, saying like, wait a minute, I only got the gig ten years ago, like wha when I don't know why Joe Coy was hosting the Golden Globes. Respectfully, I know who he is. I saw one of his movies, and I don't know if he was at the level to be hosting the fucking Golden Globes. I really don't. I think I'm as equipped to host the Golden Globes as Joe Coy. And he shipped the bed. Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at
an awards show. Joe Coy shit the bed. Chelsea Hammler hosted a show and the ratings are down twenty percent. Sounds like a horrific gig. Call me. Let's talk about lab grown diamonds. Someone I work with was telling me that a lot of her friends have rings that don't seem like the size of rings that would be appropriate for them based on their economic status, which leads me to believe that these are lab grown diamonds. They're not cubrics or conia. I don't know what mousinite is exactly.
I thought that was a lab grown diamond. I think it's like a different thing. There's another thing, ziam in. I think there are these branded non diamonds. But a lab grown diamond is a diamond. It's just grown in a lab. So now that's significantly less expensive. It's still expensive, but like you're gonna get a four and a half
carrot lab grown diamond probably five six thousand dollars. You're gonna get a four and a half carrot, you know, not spectacular quality diamond, just good quality diamond for fifty thousand, So it's got to be it's costing ten percent. It sounds like, so this is like a serious thing to discuss.
And is this gonna be something where people are not gonna be buying diamonds anymore, they're only gonna be buying lab grown or is this gonna be like air mez where diamonds are still going to be elite and they're flourishing in you know, the Harry Winston and the Oscar Hayman and the graf worlds of brands, but also the dupes are flourishing as well. Like I don't think there's ever been a time that air Mez has been bigger
and Chanel's been bigger. But I also don't think there's ever been a time where dupes and replicas and fake bags have been as big. So I think both areas have exploded. And the question is is that up fronting and stunting? Is it fronting and stunting to have a five carrot a lab grown diamond when your fiance can really only afford a two carrot diamond? Do we go big or go home? Or do we want a two
carrot diamond? You know, I sit here, I'd want the paperwork, the gia I'm putting in my safe, a real diamond. It does mean something, because otherwise what does anything mean? What does anything mean? Why does anything need to be real anymore? So the question is is it would annoy you if you knew someone couldn't really afford the giant diamond that was on their hand, but they're wearing it
because they're fronting and stunting, and it's lab grown. It's one of those things that would really annoy girls about other girls, who would annoy the girls that have the real diamond because because it's like, you don't get to wear a T shirt that says, my diamond's real. This bitch over here hers is lab grown. Let me tell you about a little scandal it's going on over on TikTok. TikTok is its own planet, its own universe, its own world.
It has its own rules, its own laws, its own scandals, its own news stories, its own things that go on that you don't know about. It's a world. In that world, there's a man who owns a bronzer company, and Mikayla, who's a famous TikTok beauty influencer who has transcended and doing well on Instagram too. But she's a social media influencer and she's like the Oprah of beauty because she
can move a product. So she talked about this bronzer product, and this guy who owns a competing bronzer brand said that the brand she was talking about copied his brand. So allegedly she told him by text or phone or something that she was going to review his Bronzer brand in the next couple of days. He spent ten thousand dollars to make sure he had another product ahead of time, and she didn't review it, and he called her out.
How Michaela cost me ten thousand dollars And most of the internet is about like, it's not a binding contract, and so this is her business and there are nor guarantees. And while we understand you were preparing, you shouldn't have spent ahead of the brand. And it really was an interesting conversation because you know, she gets so many different products. She might not have known what she was even agreeing to. She might have a team who disagrees with her choice
to do that. She might have a competing product she's supposed to promote, or she may not actually like his product and doesn't want to diss him on top of his product being copied. There are a thousand different reasons why she might not have posted about it. But she didn't post about it, and he's claiming she cost him ten thousand dollars. He cost himself ten thousand dollars. He wrote a ten thousand dollars check and got bullish. He was bullish in the market versus just letting her video
come out. She could have said she hated the product. By the way, anything can happen in a courtroom, so it's just funny that. But he also may have just been in the queue and she wasn't gonna talk about it for months. She might just have a lot of things to talk about because she probably gets one hundred boxes a week. I get products, and seven months later
I'll first talk about something. So I just found it to be a very interesting thing because it's sort of like giving entitlement and like I'm gonna spend ten thousand dollars, My whole life's gonna change. Mikayla's gonna talk about me, and therefore it's her fault that she didn't like. That is such fucking gaslighting. She didn't, she didn't, She said she was gonna talk about it, and by the way,
I fucking changed my mind. Maybe I don't like the product, maybe I don't like you changed her fucking mind, And even gonna happen in business, do not rely on anyone else.