You all know you're a secretary to your kids. The other day, I get off a flight and I had booked a weekend that I wasn't gonna go visit Paul, my fiancee, because we had to be here. Brent had a party, a kids party about Mitzvah party, and she has to go. And it's the outfits and it's the whole thing. And she's pretty chill. She'll do her own makeup, her own hair. I see kids getting their hair done all the ship. She's totally totally chill, cute, age appropriate dress.
I'm so lucky in that apartment. But then she tells me she's going to the movies. That can she go to the movies on Friday? And then can she has to go to the movies? We have to change And she said she wasn't going to the Botto miz fun. She wanted could we go to go visit Paul? And he has his own plans in his own goddamn life. And I found myself. I found myself as if it's like a speaking engagement or I'm doing the Today's Show, or I'm talking about relief work on Fox or whatever
it is. I'm talking in circles. I'm like looking at my assistant, like you need an assistant for your kids. I'm like her, I'm like, we have to change Friday because Saturday, and now we're gonna go here and she wants to go there and we're not doing about Mitzvah, but that's gonna happen. And then Paul said his kids had a thing going on, and I'm circulating with his kids and what's going on with that schedule of their
sports and my daughter's sports. And then she has a movie and we're not going to the party, and then it changed the whole weekend. I would have been in the Hamptons, but now instead I'm not in the Hamptons and I'm in Connecticut because we're not going to the fucking going to the bat mitzpun She's doing a movie because she's got her own social schedule. I'm like, I am a secretary, Like I couldn't believe it. I was
a secretary with a a typewriter and a headset. Like they used to make fun on Saturday, like hello, welcome to that, and you have that or Carol Bonetta thing, you have this line out coming off a hair coll caller moving that moving moving those chords. I'm using my hands furiously moving those little chords on a switchboard. I was a switchboard operator. And then I said to Brian.
I said to my child, Hi, I have a life too, okay, because she was like, wait, well, I want to go to the movie right after school, but then after that, if you could come get me, I'm like, oh, five o'clock traffic coming from the city going to Connecticut. So you t me to go in the fucking eye of the storm two and a half hours where should normally be forty minutes. No problem, I am a life too. Now you have to live in the city. You booked something on a Friday and rush our traffic. No, you're
moving there. Get a job, rent an apartment, hire a secretary. Whoever you're going to the movie with. Let him you're his problem. Now it's a it's a little tween, Dave. Tell him to rent you an apartment, or you can move into his house. Three boys and girls can live together and happy harmony. Harmony. You you listen, you're a tween. You're becoming a young woman. It's an arranged marriage. Um, you're not coming home at five o'clock in rough rush hour traffic. So I don't care how we do this
goddamn thing, but that's what's happening. You're not going or you're moving there. Make a choice, fucking secretary, you live there now. I was like, I found myself, go to change this, go to that. We gotta do this, we need the outfit, can't the bub And I was like, wait, what, I have a life too, well, why can't we do with this? And they always want to give you the They now work in the calendar, you know, scheduling that.
Why can't you just do that? Well, I know I'm gonna explain myself to you and the rest of my staff. I have to do this Today show on Monday, so we can't do that that way. I have this on Friday. I have a podcast. I have a life too, girl, but I don't. And you know, we don't have a life. So that's also a fucking scam. We don't have a life because our whole life is spent book in their god damn activities and everything that go with it. Oh
my god, a sport. I need the short choice, I need the kneepads, I need this, play dates, I need that this, I need that that and then we go into the next thing. What's the next thing? Then the birthday party, and the car trip and this and the homecoming and the Halloween and the costumes and the bake sales, and we're secretaries. You know you are, you know yourself.
If you're doing a good job, you feel like a switchboard secretary the family and X of the family that I used to discuss a lot on here, I am not discussing because I'm on a cleanse. I'm not feeding any beasts that I don't want to go in the media sphere. So I'm not feeding those beasts. It will be hard. I already feel lighter and brighter, my skin feels better, I feel healthier. It's a detox. I will be not following anything overly filtered or talking about the
beasts that we put into power. But we feed the beasts, and then the beast becomes so powerful, and then they say something or do something and it really bothers us and we wonder why. And it wouldn't have been such a big powerful statement if we didn't keep feeding the beasts. So I'm not feeding the beasts. I am not talking about some of the things I used to talk about because I don't want to be feel toxic by feeding
the beast. I need you to know that when I watch television or movies, I look at their homes like i'll, i'll, we'll be what we could be watching Yellowstone or that three, the prequel to which is actually I like it. It's long, and I like long winded shows that like a drag out because I need them to drag out, because I want them to last. But they don't pay off right away. You have to be patient. But they're all like horses on the prairie, like covered wagons, and I just keep
thinking about how dirty they are. I'm preoccupied about how every inch of their body, all the crevices are dirty, and how even when they wash in like a river or stream, they're closes are like then still dirty clothes and I can't and like how the trimming of the hair and the nails, like it's almost obsessive. I'm literally cringing and scratching myself right now, like the cuticles. I
think about it. And when I watched TV shows, I'll think about the clutter and the behind and the desk, and like their apartment in the way they live and how messy it is, and even real people, when real people are on zooms, I'm like, that is disorganized. I'm not enjoying this. I have a hard time watching movies
without thinking about people's disorder, clutter, and filth. I've realized that in shopping with a lot of us, and particularly with online shopping, and particularly with social media, we're buying to buy, and it's like eating to eat. You ever just snack, and you're buying crappy You're eating crappy junk food. We're watching crappy television. You're like, it's not satisfying, it's not making you feel better. We're absorbing crappy social media.
We're absorbing crappy TV and absorbing crappy news about crappy people, and you just don't feel good after it. You feel a little gross, and you feel like you have a headache from looking at your phone. Or you're buying ship then you look at your closet. You have too much crap. It's the same thing with food. It's like when you're eating just to eat, eat something good. Let's start consuming good.
Let's start That's what I've talked about, like doing a cleanse of garbage and all these beasts and these people that don't deserve attention. Let's consume only good food if we can, and we can, Let's also only buy what we really need and what's really good. It's a quality
versus quantity model. And let's only consume quality media versus quantity. Like, let's not just be like doom scrolling and just like looking at stuff and then going into the Lincoln bio and then reading about it and its gossip about some garbage person whose garbage life you don't really care about, you know, Let's try to shift it and instead of just saying how much we don't like it, let's change the conversation and be on a cleanse and consume and
buy and watch and read only things that are good and that are good for us. So that means and I'm also doing an eight o'clock tech cleanse, and I'm limiting my time on social media. I want to do a cleanse where we're reducing the toxic where were I want to do a cleanse where we're reducing the media toxins in our bodies. The things we're consuming and reading and caring about and posting and sharing and commenting on.
I want to reduce those toxins, and I want to reduce the toxins and what we like and what we think about and what we give air, and I want to only buy good and try to try to do better in the way that we eat. I want to put it all. It's just a good move in the right direction, because we're all a little toxic right now, noticing it around every single medium, and we have to take it down much