Meghan Markle Refuses to Bow, George Clooney Out-of-Touch, and Woke Nike Hits Rock Bottom

0:00Well, my friends, welcome back to Spot on with Link Lauren, a show where we're going to break down the calamities of Hollywood, the circus of Washington DC, and everything in between. I hope you had an amazing Labor Day weekend. I'm currently in Dallas at the RNC midterm convention. This is the first time the Republican Party has ever done a midterm convention. It might be the first one in history ever. So be sure you're following along on my social media to see what's going on. I'll be posting a lot. It might be amazing. We'll have to see what happens. But today we have so many hot topics to get into. OK, we have an entire royal update. King Charles a couple days ago, he put out a statement about Harry and Megan and their roles in the royal family, because people have been clamoring and saying, are you going to let them back in? Are you going to let them crawl back to daddy war bucks after shaking you and crapping on you for six or seven years? Accusing the family of racism and everything in between. Are you just going to let them back in? It sounds like King Charles is not going to be doing that at this time.

1:03So we have his complete statement. We have some other updates on their move to the UK, because all of this is unfolding in real time. And then another story we have to get into Nike, Nike, the iconic brand, just do it. Nike has now dropped from the S&P 100. So Nike's financial standing has really plummeted because they've decided to prioritize people like Dylan Mulbany, Colin Kaepernick, and others. And they've gone woke and like a lot of brands that have gone woke, they've now gone broke. So we're going to break all of that down. We have all the details of the minutia on Nike. And then we have this very interesting story about George Clooney. So George Clooney is someone we have covered a lot because he sort of embodies the sort of out of touch, elite Hollywood celebrity. Right. This is a guy who considers himself a real political activist, not just an actor. He sees himself as sort of a Robert De Niro, a Jane Fonda. But every time he opens his mouth, he doesn't see the hypocrisies. And so we have some clips from some speeches he's given recently that have gone viral all over the internet.

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3:09That's promo code link at take lean.com. Well, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of scam a lot must be spiraling this morning because King Charles sent out a letter. He sent guidance. And this was obtained by the BBC basically saying they are not going to be working members of the royal family. Let me read you the statement. The charitable work of the Duke and Duchess is a personal matter for them, both an undertaken in their private capacity. It is well known that in January 2020, the Duke and Duchess stepped down from undertaking representative duties on behalf of the sovereign. And they're no longer working members of the royal family. So there we have it folks. And this was also sent out to Harry's team as well as the government, military and Lord lieutenants. It also says that Meghan cannot use her HRH title. Harry cannot use his title as well that they are private citizens with commercial and charitable interest. Thank you King Charles. Thank you for putting your foot down because you can't allow these

4:12two little scammers and grifters to come back in and portray themselves as working members of the royal family. They basically have nothing to do with the royal family anymore. They can move. They can purchase a house and the cotswolds. They can try and crash events like they crash card ashy and parties. But in all for all intents and purposes, they are not working members of the royal family. When they go out and do events, they don't represent the interest of the sovereign. They don't represent the interest of King Charles. Nor should they. If you do a sit down interview with Oprah and you accuse your family of racism, if you say that they drove you to want to take your life, if they ruined your mental health, even though you're a grown ass woman, you don't get to come crawling back. Now, it'll be interesting to see if King Charles, if this sticks, right? We know he's put out the statement because there's probably pressure internally. There's pressure from other members of the family. There's probably pressure from palace staff to put out a statement to the press and let people know they are not working members of the family. They can move back to the UK.

5:13They can try to couch themselves as members of the royal family and portray themselves as very important with all this pomp and circumstance. But they're basically still private citizens. Now, where I want King Charles to really put his foot down, number one, Megan still uses her titles to sell her jams, jellies and wickless candles, right? They use those titles everywhere they go. I think it's time to strip the titles. I don't think King Charles is going to do that because he has a soft spot for his son. He doesn't want to ruffle any feathers, but I think it would be nice if King Charles just stripped the titles. They should not be in line for the throne any more. It's William, Catherine, George Charlotte, Louis. Those are the senior members of the family. Harry and Megan are a sort of clown circus side show. I mean, these are people who crash card Ashy and parties. This is a woman who is selling wickless candles. This is a woman who is doing reality shows. These are very unserious people, right? Prince Harry was writing about his torture and his tell all books spare. So now that they want to come back, they want to come crawling back.

6:16We've all had friends like that. We've all had family like that where you do me dirty once. Maybe I forgive you. You do me dirty a hundred times. I'm going to have to cut you out of my life. I don't care if we share blood. If we share lineage, I don't care if we used to be best friends and used to be close past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior. And so if Harry and Megan have been scammers and they've lied and they've talked about private conversations over and over, you can't just let them crawl back into the family. And so it'll be interesting to see if King Charles continues to put his foot down. But we have some other stories that are interesting. This is a story on how William and Catherine planned to deal with Megan Markle and Harry. So according to page six, Prince William and Catherine allegedly planned to continue to ignore Prince Harry and Megan Markle. Here's a quote, a friend recently told the Daily Mail, it makes no difference if Harry and Megan are in Oxford, sure, California are Tim Buck too. William and Catherine will continue their lives of public service. They intend to lead by example. This is what I've been saying. Since the day they announced they were going back to the UK, they were

7:19moving back after saying they would never take their kids after saying they could never raise them in the UK. It's not safe. They had security concerns as soon as they need money, as soon as Hollywood is officially done with them, Netflix is done with them. They go crawling and slinking back to the royals. They are going to try to create a competing royal press corps, a royal court with William and Catherine. Harry and Megan, they want to go out there and have their own press, their own paparazzi, their own journalists to cover them. They want to see, hey, can we get on the cover of the newspapers today on the cover of the magazines? How can we upstage William and Catherine? And if you don't think these are conversations that are being had, if you don't think there's intention here for all of this, then you're living under a rock and you're living in fantasy land. You don't move back to the UK and start portraying yourselves as working members of the royal family. If you're not trying to be in direct competition to William and Catherine, right? These are people you really haven't seen much over the last six years, except for maybe a funeral here and there, maybe a wedding.

8:20I don't even know if they've seen each other two or three times. That might be it. So they are going back because they know trying to upstage them, which won't work, showing up at events. It will be a way to get into the press because Harry and Megan really have nothing else. All they are sort of fame, hungry, grifters. They have no cards left to play, except maybe using the children for press and attention. Archie and Lily, they're going to have to show them a little bit more. But they are going to probably try and upstage William and Catherine. If they have a big event, let's say Catherine is going to meet with a girl school or a charity or Williams going to do something. Mark my words. They will be over there trying to compete, taking their own photographer, taking their own press. And then what's happening is, as we've already started to see, they are reporters who are being very nice to Harry and Megan who are throwing William and Catherine under the bus because they want access. And this happens all the time in journalism. It has happens all the time in media. People will be nice and friendly because they want to be able to cover you.

9:22They want inside scoops. They want little inside quotes. They want to be able to cover you at events. And so I think some of these, you know, poperatsy agencies and some of these news organizations in the UK are quietly building relationships with Megan Markle and Prince Harry behind the scenes because they know, even if they don't like them or respect them because of what they've done to the crown, they know those pictures will sell. They know they will get clicks and they know budding up to Megan Markle. You'll get some exclusives, right? You'll get to cover her first big event in the UK. So it'll be interesting to see, but all of these positive articles that are starting to come out from people who've always despised them. I think it's just a game of access. Now we have another story here. This is from radar online, a real legitimate source. So the appala source claims Megan is prepared to be civil and she recognizes that rebuilding a relationship with Catherine would make life enormously easier for everyone. What she will not do is arrive back and written, bow her head and accept

10:23that everything that went wrong was somehow her fault. And Megan's mind reconciliation has to involve movement and acknowledgement from both sides. So apparently Megan Markle, she's still refusing to bow and curtsy. She doesn't want to do any of that. She doesn't want to follow the protocol and will remind you she has made fun of royal protocols for years. I think she called it medieval times, game of thrones. We have a clip from her documentary where she's making fun of curtsy and let's take a look. I remember in the car and driving up and he's you know how to curtsy, right? And I just thought it was a joke. This is a big deal. I mean, Americans will understand this. We have medieval times, dinner and tournament. It was like that. Like I curtsy it as though I was like, pleasure to meet you, your majesty. The way Prince Harry just sat there and let her degrade and

11:23denigrate his entire family lineage and all of the traditions of the royal family is absolutely disgusting. And it shows why he's just a big beta male pushover, right? Prince Harry to me is just as complicit as Megan Markle in the destruction of their brand and the way they've hated on the royal family for years. Because if your wife goes out there and accuses your family of racism and all of these things and you sit by and you let it happen, that's on you. If your wife sits there and makes fun of curtsy and bowing, which happens in many other countries as well with members of their royal families, if you allow that to happen, you're just as complicit. And so a lot of the time we give Megan Markle hate and we hold her accountable and we hold her feet to the fire, which is our job. It's my job to sit here and do that. But Prince Harry, he's just as much there. He is sitting there and allowing this to happen. And I find a few things hypocritical, ironic about this. So Megan Markle acts like she didn't know she had to curtsy in the royal family. This is a woman who as a kid went on tours of Buckingham Palace.

12:27We've shown you pictures before of she and friends outside the palace. This is a woman who allegedly studied the royal family. There are old interviews where she talks about when she rather date Harry or William someday. So now she's acting like, oh my God, I had to curtsy. I didn't know I was going to have to curtsy. Hello, you bird brain. This is how bad of an actress she is. And this is why her career has never taken off in Hollywood because she's sitting there going, I didn't know I had to curtsy in the royal family. Sweetheart, she was probably at home reading every book about the royals. She was watching every documentary. There are pictures of her outside Buckingham Palace. As I've told you guys before, when Megan Markle tries to act like I barely knew who Harry was before I met him. I just wanted to know, is he nice? That is a bunch of buffoonery and Tom Foulery and Malarkey and Bologna. Okay. Megan Markle has taken a guided tour through his house. You can't take a guided tour through a man's house as a teenager and then act like you don't know who he is. Okay.

13:27If you've been on a guided tour of Buckingham Palace, you don't get to act surprised when you have to curtsy. This is a woman to give her credit. She is a social climber. She's a manifestor. She did work her way into the royal family, which she wanted her whole life in my opinion. And then she sabotaged it and it went crashing and crumbling down to the ground because she got too big for her bridges. I also think it's interesting. She acts like she's above curtsy. This is a woman who is doing to stitos commercials. This is a woman who was giving an oral transaction in a car on 902. Oh no, we have clips of that we can put up on the screen. This is a woman who was a briefcase girl on deal or no deal. This is a woman who wore a little tiny, tiny dress on deal or no deal and opened briefcases. And she's acting like she doesn't want a curtsy for the fricking queen of England. This is. I can't breathe. If I were a member of the royal family, if they wanted me to curtsy, cartwheel,

14:30round off, stop drop in, roll, bow to the ground and kiss the floor, I would do it. Okay. And these are folks who took Meghan Markle from de-list fame from basically obscurity and they made her a household name with a very expensive royal wedding, gave her places to live, gave her security, fame, attention, all the things she wanted her entire life. They embraced her mom, Doria, Doria came running in with the piercings and the yoga mats. Everything was hunky Doria. It still wasn't good enough for Meghan Markle. So when she says she didn't know she had to curtsy, that's a bunch of BS. And to act like you're above curtsy, when you've probably done much worse to get rolls and Hollywood, sorry, I'm just calling a flag on the play. I don't even really know what that means, but I think it's a sports term. And also my screen doesn't want to cooperate either. Maybe there's a ghost in the room. Okay. Now this last point we have to discuss is something I have talked about for months and months and months. And y'all know I have my crystal ball. When it comes to Meghan Markle, I'm a little bit psychic because I've been

15:33around enough grifters and scammers to be able to predict their next moves. Right? It's not that I'm actually psychic. I can just see what someone would do if they are a scammer because when you've been around politics and media, you can just read these people to a T and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are very much archetypes. And so Prince Harry, according to the Daily Mail, has begun approaching Princess Diana's old friends to take part in a film about her. He is going to make a movie about his late mother Princess Diana. Of course, next year is the 30th anniversary of her passing. Inside us believe Harry is trying to use Diana and the Spencer brand and name to divide himself from the House of Windsor. Let's not forget who Harry spent time with when he was here in July. It was Diana's family at Althrope. This is what I've been telling y'all since probably last year. Harry has gone back to the UK. He's reconnecting with her family. He's trying to weasel back in with King Charles. I feel they are going to do a documentary. For the 30th anniversary of Princess Diana's passing.

16:35I just see it in the tea leaves because they've tried everything else, right? They're going to come out with a Meghan Markle Princess Diana candle like a candle and a wind like a candle and a wind. They're going to play that Elton John song candle and the wind. She's going to sell her wickless candles. I have it over there sitting on my desk. That's what they're going to do. They are going to try to capitalize on Princess Diana. Now, if Prince William doesn't partake in the documentary, which he should not, Harry is going to paint him as not a team player as a mean brother who doesn't support him. Because Harry always tries to find a way to play the victim card, right? Harry is a perpetual victim, but mark my words. Mark my words. We will very likely see a documentary about Princess Diana from Harry and Meghan and it's rich coming from Meghan because she never met the woman. OK, you never met this woman in your life and you know she's going to be in that documentary. She's already posting pictures of the kids at their ancestral burial ground, right at the family plot.

17:37She's posting pictures of the kids on Instagram, which we knew was going to happen. Also, I called that one the children of the corn, those pictures from behind. Mark my words. They might wait. They might wait to put Archie and Lily in the 30th anniversary documentary with Diana. If you remember, we can maybe even find the picture. There's a picture of Archie, Meghan's holding Archie and their next to a portrait of Diana. She's already trying to insert the kids in there, even though she never met Diana, the kids have never met Diana. But Meghan Markle knows Diana is beloved. And so trying to sort of ingratiate herself and her image into sort of user is probably a way to get press and attention now. We have to read a little bit of viewer mail from our last few episodes about Harry and Meghan Markle. Before we move on to some other hot topics, I didn't want to skip over and not do this viewer mail. So this is from Maryland Scott. Is Markle going to order the teachers and other children to bow to her children and call them by titles?

18:40It'll be interesting to see how the kids are treated at the school. I hope the teachers don't give them any special treatment. They should not. They are not members of the royal family. Archie and Lily, I don't even think they know they're in the royal family because they've been living on a compound like children of the corn. So this is from a nanny of many. This is down to the spoiled behaviors of Harry and Meghan. Harry is nothing anymore. A nobody. This is Harry just spitting out his pacifier and Markle making demands to be difficult. Interesting. This is from Nicole for Lazo. King Charles needs to toughen up and strip them of their bloody titles now for God's sake. Harry needs to learn to either shut his treacherous mouth or suffer the consequences. Well, I agree with you. And it sounds like from this statement, King Charles is trying to put his foot down. Now, I think this is more about the press and the palo staff than it's actually about Prince Harry. The King Charles has said they're not working members of the family. Now, does that mean they're going to be excluded from Christmas and other big events? I don't think so. I think King Charles is going to try to include them and brush things under the rug into the royal family's credit.

19:46They are able to move through scandals, right? I think in King Charles mind, he probably believes, well, he survived scandals. He watched his mother survive scandals. Maybe they can just let them back in. But I hope someone pulls King Charles to the side and shows him the public polling of how unpopular Harry and Meghan are. No one respects those two little hucksters. OK, our last comment here, we have to read from viewer mail. This is par for the course for abusers. They cause all the harm and demand you make it right with them. And it's wild that he expects William to go anywhere near Harry and Meghan. They are actually dangerous. So I think this is about Prince Harry apparently still wanting an apology and Meghan Markle wanting apologies from William and Catherine and the royal family. I don't know what they want apologies for. Like I told you guys last time, it's like someone punching you in the face and then saying, well, you stepped in front of my fist, right? Harry and Meghan are the ones who are kicking up dirt and kicking up trouble.

20:47Now they have the balls and the audacity to say that they want an apology and apology for what? Having everything handed to you on a silver platter, all you had to do was sit there and eat crumpets and scones and go to ribbon cuttings. And then you turn around and you shank your family. So I really appreciate this comment. We have a quick 60 second ad and then we are back to talk about Nike, George Clooney and a few other hot topics. Life insurance. We all know we need it, but we keep putting it off because it feels complicated, expensive or like something that can wait. Stop waiting. Take care of it today with select quote. And just 15 minutes high quality coverage can be secured to fit any life and budget. Here is what makes select quote different. Their licensed insurance agents work for the consumer, not the insurance companies. They compare options across multiple trusted carriers to find the right coverage at the absolute lowest price. Unlike other brokers who push policies that pay them the most, select quote agents actually shop around with nearly 40 years of experience and over two million families helped.

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22:54Now, I am not shocked by this because I grew up with Nike. Nike was the brand everyone wanted Nike shoes. Everyone wanted Nike athletic gear and athletic wear. But now they've gone woke and they've gone broke. We saw this with Bud Light. When Bud Light straight from their core competencies and they hired Dylan Mulvaney, who was a man in a dress, really looked like a man in dress at the time, they lost so much money. They lost billions and billions of dollars because people did not want to be preached to. They didn't want to support a company that hired someone for a sponsorship that had mocked women. And so when you see Nike hire the same person, Dylan Mulvaney, you can't act surprised that your market cap has come down, that you're no longer in the S&P 100. We actually have clips here. You can see Dylan Mulvaney doing a sponsorship with Nike and it's not just Nike. It's Nike women. So this is really a slap in the face to women across the country because they don't feel that someone who identified as a guy just a few years ago and made videos mocking women, mocking the female experience.

23:58They don't feel that's the best representative for them. Call me crazy, but they just don't think Dylan Mulvaney is the best representation for women and it's a slap in the face. So Nike, this was strike number one. This was a very, very big deal. This show that the folks sitting around in the marketing room and we pulled up a picture of the marketing team. It's all a bunch of white, liberal, affluent women, which basically is the last group that thinks any of this stuff is interesting. The marketing team, they thought this was great. Same with Bud Light, you had a woman who made a dumbass decision and thought, oh, let's hire Dylan Mulvaney to promote a beer company. It did not pan out. And I didn't even blame Dylan Mulvaney so much for the Bud Light thing. Dylan was just taking a sponsorship. It's Bud Light. That's straight. It's Bud Light that made the mistake they should have never, ever, ever hired Dylan Mulvaney. So Nike, I'm not shocked to see this. Nike also used to work with big athletes who are so patriotic, who love our country, who blood, red, white, and blue. Nike now works with Colin Kaepernick.

24:59Colin Kaepernick, I don't think he loves this country. For 10 years, he has complained, in bitched, in moaned about how he is oppressed apparently and how black people are oppressed in this country. That is not what I hear from other black people. In fact, they don't like that Colin Kaepernick goes out here and plays the victim card and read this statement here. Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. Sir, go throw the football, go throw the football and shut up. We don't need all of this from you. And it's like the NFL is going woke. The WNBA has gone woke. Nike, there's a reason these brands continue to lose money. Nike also did a huge pride collection. They've been doing all these pride collections. I don't know why Nike needs a pride collection. This is the B true pride. Yeah, here we have. We also have a picture of a shoe they did with a rainbow flag. As a gay man, I don't even want these rainbow shoes. They don't look good. They're ugly. You've got this sort of like holographic thing on the side and then all these horrible, you know,

26:01rainbow, whatever this is on the back, whenever happened to the good old fashioned rainbow flag. Now they've thrown in all these different colors and different lines and jags and zigzags. Nike, what are you doing? This is another calamity. I think doing any of these pride collections, hiring Colin Kaepernick, hiring Dylan Mulvaney. That is the quickest way, the quickest way to drop in market cap to lose customers. People just aren't betting on Nike as a brand anymore, right? They're just not betting on Nike. They're betting on Adidas. They're betting on other companies because Nike has shown us they care about DEI, ESG, virtue signaling, and less about making really great products. Now we have to talk about the WNBA. So the WNBA commissioner, Kathy Inglbert, is retiring at the end of the calendar year. Now I am happy that she's retiring, but I think this is a coward's move, right? This is a coward's way out because this is someone who held a meeting a couple of weeks ago to try to define what a woman is. They were trying to figure out who was eligible to play in the WNBA.

27:04And I guess they didn't realize that the W stands for woman. Okay, it stands for women and Kathy Inglbert, Englbert refuses to come out there to the microphones and just say that. If you can't come out and say the WNBA is for women, then you should be stepping down. But that's why she's doing this because she's a coward and she's a scaredy cat who won't defend women. Now this retirement announcement comes after a full year of controversy in the WNBA, including Indiana fever, Sophie Cunningham's comments about trans athletes, Sophie Cunningham, she's a rock star, she's incredible. She was hurt a few weeks ago by a player named Dijonet who I believe hit her on purpose, then went to the locker room and tweeted white privilege. And so Kathy Inglbert, she's done nothing. Kathy Inglbert is a wimp, she's a beta, she won't support women and she won't defend women's sports. The WNBA is for women and I'll also point this out. They have been trying to make the WNBA hot and relevant for years.

28:06They've been trying to get the American people interested and it's very tough. It's tough to get the American people interested in the WNBA. Kathy Inglbert, one way she could show, hey, you can trust us, you can come to our games. One way she could do that is to just come out to the cameras and say, if you are a man, if you have men's chromosomes, you cannot participate. But she doesn't have the balls to say that. And I guess nobody on the entire committee does. And so it'll be interesting to see who they hire next as their commissioner. Now that Kathy Inglbert is leaving, is it going to be someone who defends women? I don't think so. I'm not holding my breath. But we have a quick 60 second ad and then we are back with our final story about George Clooney. So don't go any. Follows almost here and it's time to start. Colostrum is the first milk, rich in bioactive, like immunoglobulins and growth factors. It's your immune system's front line for cold and flu season. Cowboy colostrum offers the highest quality bovine colostrum.

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30:09Well, this week we are crowning George Clooney, utter calamity of the week. He gets the honor of wearing the crown this week because he is an utter calamity. He was at the Venice Film Festival and I guess his hypocrisy knows no bound. Like a typical rich Hollywood celebrity like Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, George Clooney loves to go out there and pretend he's this real political activist, this social justice warrior. He talks about people in power, people with wealth and how they're out to get us. Hello, you're at the Venice Film Festival. You're worth about a billion dollars. Your wife, she's wearing earrings that cost $149,000 and a Cartier bracelet that's $225,000 and you're winning an award. So I don't think you're the voice of working class Americans. I don't think you're the voice of the forgotten men and women of this country. But he wasn't going to waste an opportunity going up to the microphone to virtue signal. Let's roll that clip. Living through a moment in time where people in charge, people with the most money are telling us to fear one another, fear one another.

31:12But we know better than that. Because history does teach us a lesson. Teach us something. The first people that authoritarian's tried to shut down are not politicians. They're journalists who ask questions. They're the artists who refuse simple answers. The filmmakers, writers, actively, they can eat. We've had some other difficult times, but this is one of them. There's a great word, cacastocracy, which is a country run by the least qualified people. I think maybe we have a cacastocracy right now. So I guess he was doing word of the day. I guess cacastocracy was George Clooney's word of the day. Maybe he was sitting and reading at the source when he was on the john this morning. I don't know, but I don't need to hear about the state of our country from George Clooney, who's over in Venice, his wife's wearing almost a million dollars worth of clothing and jewelry. He's worth a billion bucks. They're in late coma half the time. And he's supposed to talk about the United States government and how the American people feel.

32:14If you have valid concerns and criticisms, let's hear them. But the sort of generalities and platitudes, I'm not that interested in. And so I have a few points I want to go through here. Number one, he talks about people in power silencing the media and silencing journalists. Who has been silenced in our country, right? We have the first amendment. We have free speech. You want to talk about silencing journalists. There were journalists who are threatened. They were told they were going to lose access during the Biden administration. There were journalists who were scared to report on the fact that Joe Biden was in serious decline. His health was not great. He was barely seen around the White House. There were journalists who would not report those things because they did not want to lose access. They didn't want to have their credentials pulled. So that to me is authoritarian. Authoritarian was during the pandemic, shutting down people's accounts, shutting down conservatives, losing their platforms. If they even question public health policy, that was authoritarian. But George Clooney had no problem with any of that, right?

33:14George Clooney is all fine with surveillance and authoritarianism as long as it coincides with the democratic administration. And the number two, he says our country is a cacostocracy or a living in a cacostocracy, which he goes on to explain means there are dumb people in power. The country is being run by dumb people. Was Kamala Harris and Mensa? Kamala Harris who could barely form a coherent sentence. She said it like she'd taken 12 trips to the mini bar. The woman slurs her way through every single speech. That's who you thought should be president. You're here to say that the country's not being run by smart people. Who were the smart people you supported last time? Are you that smart? Are you that bright? I don't think you're in a position to opine on who is smart, on who is intelligent. These actors need to realize you guys are beloved because you're in great films. People love the characters that you play. They love your movies, your iconic. You're from an era of Hollywood where we actually had big stars, right? The last kind of era.

34:15Now we don't have them so much. I think George Clooney needs to realize you yourself as George Clooney are not beloved. People aren't following you to hear what you have to say about politics and culture. They like you because you put on makeup and outfits and play characters and you get lost in a role and you take people on a dramatic journey. That's what Robert De Niro has forgotten. That's what Jane Fonda has forgotten for a long time. And so George Clooney, I think he needs to go back to the drawing board. You can't sit there with your publicist, your agent in Venice, wearing millions of dollars of jewelry and clothing, living in mansions and fabulous homes around the world. You can't sit there and then talk about people in power and people with wealth, being oppressive and how they're entitled and authoritarian. That is social justice warrior behavior. And so George Clooney, you look like a clown, you look like a fool. You should basically be George Clooney. We should start calling him George Clooney. But that concludes this episode of Spot on with Link Lauren.

35:16I'm glad we could go through these hot topics, some serious and some not so much. I'm glad we could also do a big royal update because there's been a lot coming out about them. But as for you guys, thanks so much for tuning in. I love you. I'm always so grateful. And if you're watching the show alone, I'm thinking of you so you're not actually alone. And be sure and follow along on my social media because I post a lot there throughout the week. So we will see you on the next one. Bye.