Just B Rant: Cut the Crap

But of the time, I'm a mom at home, like cleaning up pa and saying to Brin, please don't drink that smoothie on the couch because it's chocolate, and you know,

like the bullshit that other people go through. But I watch people and because it was Valentine's Day and showing everything they have and they've gotten, and I watched the bragging on social media, and I just want to know the line between bragging and flexing and like humble bragging, you know, like the amana jet hashtag blessed and the being sensitive like it was Valentine's Day and my fiance got me very very nice gifts and you would have

loved them if you follow me on social media. But I just I'm aware that that day now listen to this. That day Valentine's Day, I didn't realize I was getting my period. I had a lot going on at work. I was really not having a great day. It just was a ship day. You could have a bad day on Christmas. It may not be because you're alone or you're you could be single, you could be divorced, you could be getting a divorce, you could be depressed, you

could be cheating, you could be being cheated on. Whatever it is. And this doesn't have to only mean about Valentine's age just reminded me. But someone's going through something, and the last thing you want to see is someone who's in a good relationship, who's you know, getting amazing gifts. But even though I'm in an amazing relationship, which is sort of connected to that j Lo Ben resting bitch face he had, and he may be happy, he may

be miserable, like for that day or overall. You can't know. But like if I just post this amazing gift that Paul got me on Valentine's Day, what if it makes somebody else feel bad and it might be you know, I don't know how that could ever be good? Like, how is that aspirational. You're gonna work hard to try to meet someone who's gonna be prince charming, who's gonna get you a nice kid. Like it doesn't even track. And so these hashtag blessed or like the people do it,

so you know, you see how hard they work. I don't know, like I've showed some of my belongings as it pertains to getting scammed on a site, or as it pertains to something else, or if something's like are adjacent where this is made, and it's very friend and unique because it's made this way and only this year, Like that feels a little bit more like history. You know. I showed this Fendi bag that was a collaboration with Fendi and Tiffany, and I think that's interesting because that's

a business story too. It's a co branding collab story. So did Tiffany initiate it? Did Fendi initiate it? Somebody watching what I was saying um pointed at that they're owned by the same company. I guess they are. They owned by LVMH. I don't know, but then that makes some sense. So that's why it's a collaboration. It's at least, you know, showing something nice that has some sort of a backstory versus just being an asshole that's saying this

is like what I got. So I posted some pictures on Valentine's Day which were just like, you know, just me and Paul, just like living a life. I am happy, and I said, you know, I didn't have the best day, and also was aware that in the world there are like shootings and bad natural disasters and things going on. So it's like just to be like, this is the gorgeous, rich,

expensive thing that I got on this day. A. It's flexing. B. I wasn't having that grid of a day, because no gorgeous thing could make me have a good day if I'm just like having a feeling about my medical a medical situation or a parenting situation or whatever. So I just feel like social media could be so such a vacuum. And I was not in the best of spirits on

Valentine's Day. And while I'm in an amazing, healthy relationship with a beautiful human being, I didn't feel that that day, not because Paul did anything, because I was just in a fucking mood all day. And then I just leaned into just honestly and said let me do the Valentine picture and shovel and what I god or am or all the heart shaped fucking moments and pink sweaters I have. You know, I said, if you're alone or you're having a ship day or whatever, you are loved, you are

not alone like you feel alone, you feel single. But it's like a Hallmark holiday, and we can't all muster it up to do what we're supposed to or feel great, whether in or out of a relationship, on a hallmark holiday. And I think it's important with all these holidays social media, National fucking Pancake Day and National Don't be an Asshole Day, and every day is a goddamn day. It's teacher day, daughter day, dog day, puppy day, cookie day, chocolate chip day,

you know, lint on my sweater day. It's just endless days. So we have to be representing whatever that day is supposed to mean, you know. And I just don't think we should put so much pressure on ourselves. Some days you're just in a bad mood when I talk about something and it doesn't air that day on this podcast, it's because we're producing the podcast and we have certain days that things air, so it may seem like it's

a little out of date, but it doesn't matter. I'm not like a news reporter of like you know, this broke this morning, like you know, fucking bunker was was attacked in a in a country. It's basically just talking about a dynamic anyway. So if I talk about Ben and Jen at the Grammys four days later, I'm talking

about a dynamic. So I'm talking about Ben and Jen sitting and how you can't judge a couple by a moment at an event that neither of them may even want to be that night, or what if Jennifer was in a bad mood, or you know, they love each other, they hate each other. They just found out Mark Anthony had a baby, Like who knows so much going on? So the super Bowl, it's so funny the different ways that people watch the same thing. It's like a roor shack.

So I started watching Rihanna and it was like she seems sort of like put up, not put upon, but like this really relaxed, like all right, I'm here, I'm chill, and you know that could be her vibe. And there are men who go up there in a T shirt and jeans that just seem really relaxed because they're really cool. Uh and that could be their vibe and she Rihanna has a cooler than vibe. So being pregnant to I mean,

I wouldn't go, but she they don't get paid. I was gonna say, I'm making so much money, they don't get paid and it costs so much money, so they don't get paid. And I guess the spot is just seven million dollars right to have at the Super Bowl. Imagine the production value, and I think they have to pay for that, Like who's paying for all that? Well? Guess what? So anyway, Rihanna performed and I enjoyed the performance,

and I enjoy Rihanna. I don't know if like that outlandish electric performance is her number one skill set because when I saw her, it was around the same time as I saw Pink at the Barkley Center, and it was a different Pink was like so her guts were on the stage, like she left it all on the court, and Rihanna is not like that. But that's also a

different style. And Rihanna's music is amazing. And I enjoyed the performance, which is is great and it's been so viral, but The thing that people don't understand is there's a world where Rihanna did not want to perform with the super Bowl. She's pregnant, she doesn't want to deal with it. But Rihanna is like, listen, fenty is going to perform at the super Bowl. So I'll go up there and be the Rihanna that you need me to be, and I'll go up there and perform, but I'm going to

touch my face up with the fenty Compact. Oh and super Bowl you're going to fly, or fenty is going to fly, but super Bowl you're gonna get amazing tickets, and we're gonna have experiences around the super Bowl for all of my influencers that have fifteen twenty million Instagram followers and who are going to go viral because they're all going to go into a room draped with fenty makeup and fenty everything and they're going to do videos.

And they are young, so they don't realize how much money they would actually be paid to do something like this. But they don't need to be paid because they're twenty two years old. So they're twenty two to twenty four years old, and we're going to give them tickets to the Super Bowl and they get to see Rihanna at four years old, so sure they'll post videos. They don't give a ship. They get to get they get to flex,

and they get to get other brandy us. So we're gonna bring them here, and those other people are gonna

pay them when they do those branded sponsored posts. So we're gonna get hundreds of millions of dollars coming into this brand in an infotainment way because we somebody on our team, or somebody at Harvard, or somebody knows or Bethany Frankel knows that years ago when Michael Phelps was that the Olympics by the swimming pool wearing Beats headphones, which caught onto something before anybody else did because people can't wear branded clothing, and years ago at the Super Bowl,

jockeys and horses couldn't wear branded silks. But now Michael Phelps was at the Olympics and did hundreds of millions of dollars of free press for Beats, so we can find other ways into this thing. I'm going to perform with the Super Bowl for quote unquote free but fenty, which is where I really made my real money, and I think that's savage by fancy, that's I've made my real money. But this makeup thing is where I'm really That's where the bees, the billions, the bees, not m's

are coming from. Sure, I'm going to do the super Bowl, and if I'm a little casual, it doesn't really fucking matter because I don't make my music to make money anymore. My music is not the money maker, the dollar bill, dollar bills and throw it up, throw it up. Fenty makeup is throwing it up, not the music, So it doesn't really fucking matter. And not every musician has that kind of platform because j Lo just isn't going to have a world where influencers are coming to put some

brown shimmered body glow on. It's just not the world that Rihanna created. So Rihanna created fenty and was tied up and Goga has performed at the super Bowl, and believe me, from Gaga to Selena Gomez to whoever, this is gonna become another thing where the super Bowl is this vehicle to use to promote the other ship. And that's what that's why the makeup ship has become massive. But not everybody can succeed at it more. Fae is

a massive brand went out of business. Jacqueline Hills an amazing makeup artist I've found and has a good line that filed I guess chapter eleven or bankruptcy. And Addison Ray had a brand called Item and Sephora and it's no longer. And I think Scarlett Johansson has outset and I saw it and it's just fine, and now men

are getting into it. I think like Pharrell hasn't make a beauty line or a skin Caroline and Brad Pitt weird, and god knows who else, but it's all awkward and weird, and just like celebrity liquor brands, which I started particularly for women. Dude, he was before me, Acaroid but was before me. Sammy Hagar was before me. Uh and Danny DeVito was before me. And that's pretty much about it. And after me, everybody came in. And then that is a flood too that will be stopped. So celebrity beauty

brands will there'll be a stop. It's about to stop, like everybody who got in got in, and it will soon become crypto. It's just watch it's too much. And I have tried some fenty products it's totally totally fine. Some things are good, but you're watching these people sell and do these commercials and it's a very like glimmery, fun glitzy brand, which is so fun and exciting. Um Selena Gomez has a nice brand too, but drugstore will get you there. Uh. And I love I love Rihanna.

I think she's very talented. She was doing and also there's so much bullshit and beauty. Rihanna was recently doing a video about wipes and as she used to use wipes, but like, we really have to help take care of

the planet. Okay, fenty has so much plastic stuff coming out every single day and the little foam sponges that everybody just pretty much uses and then throws away, like, which is fine, all the beauty brands have it, but we can't start saying that we're going to take care of the planet when we have a brand that you

just use it and throw it away. I don't think it has those pop out, refill recyclable like beauty brand things like you just pop the blush out and then you buy a little insert and put it back in. I don't know why. Um, So that's a rant for sure. About the super Bowl and beauty and that the super Bowl was a massive Fenty commercial. So Fenty won the super Bowl because Fenty made more money than any of the players that won the super Bowl, and more money than Rihanna on music