Just B Rant: Sacrificial Celebrities

were just like, oh my god, thank God. It's like there's a new carcass to go get ripped apart. The maggots have gone over to a new carcass. So who will be next? Oh, well, Russell brand is next. That's a serious, very very serious offense. Jimmy Fallon needs to send all of us, all of us an edible arrangement made of precious gemstones, because all of us made his scandal really nearly invisible. And Andy Cohen and Bravo also should send all of us a bakery basket. But I

think they're gonna come around the bend. From what I understand, there's more common that way. So I don't think they should start writing their Christmas cards just yet. And everyone I just mentioned needs to send Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey the Lobster and the Caviar are the month club close the carnival, shut the rides. The prize has been given out. Game over Mike dropped story in film at eleven.

Not only has the entire entertainment industry, the music industry, the media and branding industry closed for the day, the NFL is basically changing its name to the National Fan League, that is National Taylors Swift Fan League. It's over. I mean, she's got to be the goat. She's the Tom Brady of music of girlfriends. I heard Paul, my fiance said he was on Watch What Happens Live with Ramona and then he used to be on a dating show talking

about fallen upstairs, talk about stocks soaring. I mean, I think Taylor Swift has spiked this guy, Travis Kelsey stock, more than Kim Kardashian spiked Chris Humphrey stock. I know it's going to be controversial because men and women are arguing saying that this guy is a major football player and she didn't put him on the map, but that's fake news. She put him on the map. She put him on every single map. Okay, there was no map.

She wrote the map. She decided where all of the geography was going to be located on the map, and she decided to pick him up like a small toy inside a qua machine at an arcade and put him on the map. And I was on the map. So football and music have intersected. Game over. Oprah and The Rock got in trouble for their video about Hawaii. I think them living there made it challenging because it was a glaring reminder of what they have and what the

people don't have. It's such a juxtaposition. I think that you can't see, touch, or feel their relief efforts, you don't understand them. This also happened with Mila and Ashton, by the way, with the Ukraine efforts. They had a third party that they wanted everyone to donate to, and they sat just like they do together in this video and got a lot of people to donate to Ukraine.

And I'll tell you my partner Michael was like you gotta find a way to get some of their money because the guys that they're donating to, they're not controlling the money. It's a third party. And I think he said that those guys were tech guys. They're not guys that have disaster relief experience. So it gets tricky when you know that someone's don someone's asking you to donate, and then millions come in and then you're donating somewhere else.

How can you control exactly where and how it's being distributed. There needs to be transparency. It happened years ago with a woman with the Australia fires where she raised a ton of money and the money, some of it, I believe, had to be refunded because it was all going to this one place that can't accommodate that kind of money. So just because you get a big gofund me going and it's really public and it's great how much you've raised, which is valiant and admirable, the hardest part is not

raising the money. That's just asking people for money. And the more famous you are and the better your hashtag is and the better your picture of a koala during a fire is, the more money you'll raise. That's what being famous is. The real challenge is where is the money going? So the problem is that then Oprah and The Rock they're wealthy, and so it looked like they were asking other people to donate. And while they donated I think ten million either together, I don't think separately.

I don't remember. It just seemed like a drop in the bucket, and it was just something that hit wrong about them asking others to donate. Which I'm wealthy and I ask others to donate, so there's something about the way that they do it. I'm not a billionaire, but

still that bothered people. And I believe it was like this machine that you could go up to and it just didn't feel like you could see it, touch it, feel it, and it didn't feel like Oprah giving blankets at shelters was landing in the same way as it would have if you felt that she was really involved and it was really transparent. I think that that was glossed over. I think people were just mad because she's rich and they're poor and they were asked to donate.

But I think there's more to it. I think that people like when there's transparency, when you're saying Okay, this is what we aim to raise. This is exactly what we're doing with it. This is what we need it for. This is what we're running up against. This is what we're bumping up against. These are the challenges. This is what they said at the embassy. This is what the citizens are saying. This is how many people this much

money feeds. This is a crisis kit for a family that has rice and solar power and a backpack and school supplies. This is what happened. This is we weren't able to do this, so we have to do something else. This is exactly where it's going. And then people were also investigating the five oh one C three where it was going, and they were saying that people have six figure salaries. Let's just get something straight. People at five oh one C three's do often have salaries and sometimes

six figure salaries, and that's okay. You want them to run a good five oh one C three, be strong. One hundred percent goes to the effort, because I chose that to be the model. That's what I said to my five oh one C three partner when I partnered, saying I can't have any gray area with my people if they donate, they have to know it's one hundred percent. But my partner's five oh one C three and he has a salary. Because these people, whether it's Oprah's charity

or you know, a trusted charity. I'm sure there are some charities. I've seen people staying at the same regis at Hurricane Harvey, and it's not great. If I go travel for relief, I pay for it myself. But what I'm saying is they have salaries. They work like eighteen hour days, and they work like six days a week, and they don't really take vacations, and they really just this is a life. So people that work in disaster relief, this is their whole life. They dedicate their whole life.

And you want to look on I think it's there are different ones that like rate charities, Charity Finder. There's another one too. They're like there are ratings and they look at these five oh one c threes and they show you the percentage that goes actually to the effort,

and you know where that salary and overhead is. And you know, if you have a very low percentage in overhead, it's totally justifiable that somebody would have a salary and often, like we have billionaire partners that will donate to be strong some of their donations, and then they'll say, we're donating some of our money to the five OHO one C three because we know that, let's say ninety six percent, not one hundred percent is going to the effort, but

we're okay with the four percent because we want we know that they're running a business, like nobody can run a business, even if it's a not for profit business, without paying people, without having a nice building, without having nice offices. And I think that that's a mistake for people to just blindly judge a charity based on the fact that people have a salary and they do incredible work. They're not making millions of dollars. If they are, then

there's a problem and people have gotten caught. And by the way, study your your charities. Look into where every dollar goes. Look there are line items. You can see all of it. And most of the big ones have a lot of red tape, have a lot of overhead. There's a lot of money. You're just you gotta you gotta go chase the numbers, you gotta follow the money, and you gotta look it up. But I just think that all these things converged in the Oprah and Rock moment.

It just wasn't executed properly. It didn't land well. And I'm sure they did have good intentions. It just there was something about that that machine. There was something also about the mob on TikTok. They're relentless, and it just it was the execution. It wasn't the effort or the idea. It just reminded people of the money they have and the land they have. And it's the haves and the

have nots. It's the down navvy upstairs, downstairs really too close for comfort that you're seeing that visual things have the land that didn't