Suzanne Sommers has passed away. She's been on the podcast. I've met her several times. She had such a sweet and nice soul. I really liked her. I loved her stories. She told me that she was married to the love of her life. They were best friends. They were together all the time. They work together. He must be so broken hearted. I am so sorry. They're family people. Just
rest in peace. And you know what I think of Susanne Summers now, because she's very inspiring because she's, you know, blonde, and she played the dits, but she's not the dits. She fought when it was not popular, something I definitely relate to. She was courageous when it was really scary to have an opinion. She fought against. It's interesting because of the strike right now, sag Aftra, what was happening was she John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt very popular on
the cover of TV Guide. They were so major. Their show Three's Company was huge, but they weren't really making a lot of money, which happens with a lot of housewives and a lot of shows. They weren't really making a lot of money, but they were plastered everywhere. I think they were even like Time magazine or like major magazines, maybe Newsweek, And she said to them, stand with me, because they're making so much money on us and we're
not making money, you know. And they said they were going to stand with her, and they didn't, and she ended up being alone. This happens all the time, you know, think about the Reality reckoning. This happens all the time, and where someone's too early, like she was too early, and she got fired for standing up for herself. The two of them folded because they wanted to work. It's very very relatable right now during the strike, during the
Reality reckoning, because they wanted to work. And she really had an impact on the entertainment industry. I mean, she was one of the first people to fight for residuals and to fight when it was unpopular, and she still up and she also was very successful because people didn't take her seriously. Kelly Rippa reminded me of her in the sense that she's like this, you know, small, cute, little pixie doll, but she packs a punch. And Suzanne
Summers did too. She packs a punch like she had to deal in a man's world and fight for what's right. And I just always think of her, and I think Kelly Rippa because that's what Kelly Rippa has had to deal with, you know. And also them not seeing you coming, silent assassins that they don't see you coming, which is great. It's unassuming, like I'm like a big dragon that they see outside. I tell to a lot of people that I know, like be the sniper from the side. So
here's what's going on with the war effort. If you read or watch social media, there is no war. There's just Taylor Swift, pumpkin spice lattes and lipgloss, and there has to be a time to use your platform. Be Strong has done over three hundred million dollars worldwide, and I reiterate that. I say that that because I don't think people really understand that that's a massive number for
a lean, efficient, small operation like hours to execute. Now, when there's a hurricane or a tornado or a storm, or even an outlier like a ppe crisis, you're kind of waiting for the end. And a hurricane has an end, and then you're dealing with the aftermath, and an earthquake has an end, you're dealing with the aftermath. A war is very anxiety producing because you don't know where the end is.
There may be no end in sight. Layer that with politics, Layer that with religion, Layer that with loss, exhaustion, propaganda, visuals, and just overall hate. And we're already in a time where there's been so much going on. There's been so many disasters, there's been a pandemic. It is just a very heated time. Politics has never been so divisive, so everything's at a fever pitch. And when I've set out to do this, it was preserving human life. It was
in a disaster for us to provide aid. Now there's a lot that goes with that. There's a lot of corruption, there's a lot of being transparent. Because people are donating their money, you're trying to explain to them how you're using the money, where it's going. The difference between money which is donated and usually goes to cash cards, which is not really applicable here right now, and aid is donated year round in our warehouse, but some aid is
donated and allocated to Israel. You can't just decide we're taking Israel aid and send it to Palestine. You can't. There're just a million things that people don't know that decide to be experts in my comments, which is really annoying and just waste a fucking time. And also it's get off your fucking ass and do something, use your anger, use your opinion, and do something. Everybody gets to be a hero pounding their chest in my comments. And I'm
not scared and I'm not backing down. But when we responded to Israel, we raised a million dollars and we sent aid to Israel, a lot of people got really mad that that's where the disaster and war started. Now there's a crisis in Gaza. Many Jewish people, most Jewish people are very compassionate and are just thinking about the forty percent of children. There is human suffering. And everyone who is against us giving aid to anyone in Goza or coming out of Gaza, which is the goal, is
trolling me and fighting with each other. They're saying, I'm giving aid to Hamas. Stop just stop, I'm not giving aid to Hamas. We work with un partners, we work with the military, we work with local philanthropic organizations. We have done this in Poland and Ukraine. This is what we do. We have a warehouse, a massive warehouse in Egypt that we're prepping. We are not fucking around, okay,
and we know what we're doing. And I went down to my warehouse to show the magnitude tense mattresses aid for anything you could possibly imagine, thousands and thousands of square feet of aid were This is not my first rodeo anymore. I'm not begging for flip flops. You know, after Hurricane Harvey. This is years later. I've been all around the world. So understand that we will not be giving aid to Hamas. We have trucks waiting, and we
will be very strategic about where aid goes. That is not we're not handing money to people because that could go to Hamas. We know what we're doing. So just stop focusing on things that don't matter. And most importantly, most importantly, the b Strong website has three ways to donate. You can donate to Israeli relief. Your money, anything that you donate goes to Israeli relief. You could donate to Palestinian relief. You could donate to just overall human suffering.
You don't care if there are babies, women, children suffering, that's where you want to donate. Elderly so it is set up so everybody can feel safe and can have their own beliefs. But this is very tricky and very different, and I'm the only public person that I see in the entertainment industry who's speaking up because everybody's terrified. It's insane.