Watch What Crappens - LuLaRich: I'm Very LuLaRich, LuLaBi**h!

Episode Date: September 17, 2021

Bravo left an empty night on the schedule this week, so we filled it with LuLaRich, a tale about culty ladies obsessed with leggings that smell like farts and make it look like bees are crawl...ing into their wombs. To each her own! This week's bonus is a Snap Judgement breakdown of the Great British Baking Show contestants. Find all of our premium bonus episodes at https://patreon.com/watchwhatcrappensSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, Prime members, you can listen to watch what crap ends at free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Get ready for a double load of Queen of Hearts. It's me, Jujubee, and I return to guide sexy singles through some ronchy blind dates. Cameras off. Voice only. Launching during pride. Queen of Hearts takes Miami by storm, with Daeders' Cuppe from Tampa Bayes, Just Chaz and Brittany Brave to name a few. Follow Queen of Hearts on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. But when you don't want to interrupt it, who can't swap? I think it's not there so much that's happened. Well, hello and welcome to Watch Looker Happens. The podcast for all that crap we just love to talk about on e-all-brows. I am Ronny Carom, and joining me today is the handsome, wonderful, delightful treat of a man, Ben Mandelka. Hello, Ben.
Starting point is 00:01:07 Hi, Ronnie. How's it going? Good, how are you doing? Well, I'm doing so well. I feel so comfortable as I said here in my beautiful Lulero leggings. Oh, yes, little hamburger coming at your vagina, John. I'm lying. I'm just in some generic gym shorts, everyone. Everybody, thank you for being here. I'll watch what crap ends. Today we're doing a crazy new kind of thing. It's called Lulalrit. Okay?
Starting point is 00:01:35 It's a show. It's a documentary out on Amazon. Wait, is it on Amazon? It's on Amazon. Amazon crime. Let's do the Amazon turned on. You may have stopped listening to me. Yeah, not a bravo show, but it's it feels very bravo with Jason Lula Rich is a documentary about Lula Roe.
Starting point is 00:01:53 You okay? Was that to Yan? Was that to Yan talking to you? She's giving me some lecture now. I don't know what I said to her to get that going but that was a full on monologue from her so luya lula rich is a documentary about lula row which uh... i had actually never heard of ronnie i somehow my life had never intersected with lula row i didn't know anyone who was hawking lula row or least if they were i didn't see it did you know anyone
Starting point is 00:02:24 uh... doing the Lularo thing? I didn't know anybody Hawking actual Lularo. I've known a lot of MLM people. I have heard of Lularo. Lularo's one of those things I would see all the time on Facebook from friends of friends posting stuff and I would just think white people, you know? And I am a white person, you know, I'm a half a white person,
Starting point is 00:02:45 but I still just look at that and think, you know, there are certain, it's like tigers, you know? Tigers might be hanging out just in the field and then just watching another tiger eat a squirrel and they're like, oh God, tigers, right? Am I right? I mean, are we something? And that's how I've just-
Starting point is 00:03:00 Yeah, I had never even heard of this, but I mean, that is classic me to just have a complete blind side to something that major that's happening But this documentary on Amazon Prime there will be recapping we're recapping the first episode of it. It's a four episode documentary is about Lularo this Legging and legging company or I guess Maxi dresses to
Starting point is 00:03:24 ML it's an MLM and apparently there's some scandal that I don't, so I don't know what happens. I don't know what happened with Luluru, I didn't do any research, so I don't know what's gonna happen. I'm excited for the journey. And that's what this, and you know what, by the way, Ronnie, it's so nice
Starting point is 00:03:41 to have a true crime documentary that's about leggings at last. Like finally we get leggings. I was, I'm so sick of actual murder. That's have something that's like come for you around the legs. Yeah, it's dark out there. The true true crime. God, I'm like up to my neck and eight. I love true crime and I'm listening to a podcast right now.
Starting point is 00:04:00 Well, it's called Suspect. I was gonna say serial but no, I started listening to that and it's like not about murder, I don't think. But this one suspect is a murder case, and then there's like some real life murder stuff that guy who now it looks like he killed his wife and son, and then hired another guy to come by and kill him so that his innocent son could get $10 million in life insurance, The Murtos.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Have you been following them? I have not, but that's like some North Carolina shit. That's like some Southern Charm or some Southern Charm shit, basically, where it's like this, you know, well to do family that was powerful and you better not mess with the Murtos. And they all kind of look like weird, Norman Rockwell faces, like they've got that kind of whiteness. And so I've been up to my ears and that,
Starting point is 00:04:53 and then there's another one where I got a girl who lives the van life, went off with her boyfriend, and then he came back without her, so another trying to figure out if he killed her. I mean, it's just so much that's gonna happen. Yeah, that's ripped out of today's headlines. The van life girl is missing that everyone. And then there was the Hollywood actress
Starting point is 00:05:09 that was missing, but I think she was found, okay, I don't know what actually happened to her. But the point is this, you know, we're all full of abductions and murders and crimes and people like Tom Gerardi stealing money from burn victims and what, what what Windows and orphans It's nice to have something that just focuses on leggings, you know Yes, it really is. It's nice to see somebody profit off widows and orphans for once
Starting point is 00:05:35 Rather than rob them, okay? It's like giving widows and orphans a chance to sell some leggings or bring some profit to them I guess I should say but also make profit off of nice because that's Louis the Rose to big circle of profits. Yeah, a highly patterned circle of profits. In the form of a max you dress in some leggings. Now I think that these this couple, so their name, their names are D. M. and Mark, okay, and they are very texicy even though she's from Florida, right? No, she's from California. She's from she's Yeah, she was raised in like Pasadena. She was I think from
Starting point is 00:06:12 Was he from Utah? There's like a whole lot of California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada overlap with this couple Like there's a lot of stuff that happens in those four states, which really tracks she looks like a younger Paula Dean to me. She's got just that kind of just jowly happiness about her where she's just overly happy, which you know, that means you're evil. Okay. Overly happy people. There's something wrong with them. And they do that thing where they're always holding each other's hands too tight. And they're just some positive and every answer
Starting point is 00:06:42 they, Lula Roe, what, you know what made us happy about Lula Roe was giving people a chance. You know who we wanna give a chance to? Mom's lovely moms. They're just, yeah, that's the vibe. She's definitely to me reads like a character that Angelian might have played in the 80s, you know? Well, no, 80s is when Angelian was still like
Starting point is 00:07:04 Vava Voo, man, Jillian. So maybe like later, no, 80s is when Angilian was still like Vava Voo, Angilian. So maybe like later, yeah, maybe later Angilian for sure. Yeah, a late Euron Angilian character, yes. Right. So Deanne is just the woman who wants to fluff the rug tassels. Like that's how it starts is we see like some good home goods furniture just sitting in the middle of a room and then we hear the couple talking off screen with the production company because This is another one of those production companies has tricked the fuckers into thinking that they're basically getting a digital pamphlet made of their lives
Starting point is 00:07:35 And then yeah, this is gonna help Lularo so much and then they end up making like a documentary about what monsters I'd trick some. But right now they're really excited for the production. The new thing, you know you're in for a terrible edit when production shows random moments of you before they're really rolling. They're rolling, but they're not really asking the questions yet. So any documentary that you see these days, the moment you see the subject, like scratching their neck or asking for a coffee or like asking for them to turn the air down a little bit, you're like, oh, you're going to be the villain, aren't you?
Starting point is 00:08:13 Because they always show these random, like, very real moments of someone sitting in a chair waiting to be questioned. And when they do that, it's like that person is going to get just like drag through the mud. And that's what happened. We got Tassel, Tassel fixing. And when they do that, it's like that person is gonna get just like drag through the mud. And that's what happened. We got Tassel, Tassel fixing. Tassel fixing. So they come sit down in the chairs and Deant takes Mark's hand very hard, like you can
Starting point is 00:08:34 tell, like just squeezing it. And they're smiling at us with really creepy sales people smile. The people that just will not leave you off the showroom, you know, leave you, let you get off that showroom floor. And they're very creepy 700 club people. And I'm like, just afraid they're gonna steal my Mimals money on late night TV and tell her that gay marriage is equivalent to people marrying goats.
Starting point is 00:08:56 They're just that kind of couple. Yeah, they're basically what D Simmons would have wound up as if she'd taken like one or two different business decisions. Well, actually, D Simmons was on the 700 Club, but that's how she sold her product. Yeah. I mean, D Simmons, I don't know if her stuff was an MLM or not, but I feel like she would be the one MLM that would just really just kill it. She would not allow it to fail. I think that even if there were a scam and the feds came for her, she would just really just kill it. Like she would not allow it to fail. I think that like even if the fed, if there were like a scam and the feds came for her,
Starting point is 00:09:27 she would just basically scare the feds away. Like I told you, you do not come up in here into hard-knock good morning, unless you are invited, sir. Good day to you. I'm just glad to hear that. I'm looking it up to see if it was an MLM. I'm not seeing anything saying that it was.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Cause now we try to make it an MLM, but unfortunately Deandra wouldn't have enough charisma to attract other people to her next level. You know, we wanted to have multi-level marketing, but Deandra hiked stairs, so she wanted one lift. And that's just how we had more of a rancher style company. He was supposed to be a pyramid scheme, but it turns out that the Andrade just never made it to Egypt. So we just sort of had to stick it in one office building.
Starting point is 00:10:12 That's not true, mother, I love to grab on the world, mother. I've been all over. I've eaten crickets in every goddamn country, mother. So we start with their story. They we get some background on them. And it's intercut with news stories. And an old guy who will probably take over Apple. That's kind of a, I didn't catch his name, did you, Ben?
Starting point is 00:10:34 The guy who's like against them. Oh, yeah, I wrote his name down as guy. I got, they didn't get anything. I wrote old guy. I wrote old guy. He is like a typical type from Apple, you know? Like he's not, he's not Steve Jobs. He's just old guy. He is like a tibetip type from Apple. You know, like he's not Steve Jobs. He's just that guy and you're like,
Starting point is 00:10:49 why is he mad today? And he's like, I'm not mad. I have a new phone. And wait, it gets even better. Yeah. He, well, I was just going to say that he later on is revealed to be an MLM expert, I believe. Oh God.
Starting point is 00:11:03 See, my early notes in the documentary are very big because I didn't know who anyone was. So everything was like, guy, girl, I have done something mom. I had achieved the dream. I almost felt like a real housewife. Other mom, my department alone was bringing in more than a million a day, easily.
Starting point is 00:11:17 Yeah, that's what it was. And that's recapping these shows. There's so many people and there's so much going on. So basically, we're getting a lot of news stories about Lularo like they sell clothes to independent retailers. Then we learn kind of how MLM's work, but in this case, it started with her buying cheap things and selling them more expensively, which is, you know, basic commerce. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:42 There's a lot of stuff going on. We see a woman saying that she sold breast milk to afford the startup cost for it and then- The fuck's in your breast milk? Okay, because we find out that it costs, it costs like five grand to even start with them. And she's saying, they're like, people are selling their breast milk.
Starting point is 00:11:59 What is in the breast milk that it selling so high? There are a lot of kinky people out there, okay? So, and then here's's like, this is funny. I wrote down beard. I'm not qualified to run the marketing department of a million dollar company, let alone a billion dollar company. And then I go round guy things are going to get strange. Okay. So beard is one of their fun and laws.
Starting point is 00:12:22 No, nephew. He wants a few. We wind up meeting him later. He's a nephew. Round guy, I still don't know who Round Guy is. Round guy. Okay, that's a guy who comes in later, and I think still hates Kelly Clarkson,
Starting point is 00:12:34 because he was traumatized, because she performed for one of their events. And that's just from a comment I read online. He's a guy who looks like the critic, that John Loveitz works in that cartoon. Yes. Yes. He's an odd fellow.
Starting point is 00:12:46 So yeah, people are selling their breast milk and we're finding out that this is huge. And we see private planes and like white people having disco parties on the plane and the round guy, no, the beard guy that you're talking about is just like dancing really awkwardly in all of these party scenes. It's that weird guy standing in the middle of the floor, swaying back and forth, just raising one arm. Yeah, you know he plays a lot of smash mouth in his free time, right? A lot of all-star, some body ones.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Like every time a commercial for Shrek comes on, he's like, yes! Yeah, he's played the song. Then we meet Roberta Blavins, who is one of the moms, who sells this stuff. And she's like, well, the aunt says, I got the weight loss surgery. So if you're interested, just let me know and I can hook you up.
Starting point is 00:13:35 And I'm not sure if we're supposed to really like the aunt for this or for supposed to hate her for this. But another lady is like, yeah, she said, my sister will drive you down to Tijuana and you can get the surgery and then you can fly home, which is like half a favor, right? Like, we'll fly you there. And then once you're in pain, you can figure it out. Yeah, then we'll fly you back. And then we're hearing that something else was going on. And we see people complaining about the leggings on social media that they like rip and fall apart. And
Starting point is 00:14:02 then we see actually Samantha B of all people making fun of the leggings on her show because there's like, there's clearly like no thought about where these patterns kind of land on the leggings. So there's one that looks like a penis that's coming out of the vagina one that looks like like a bug going into the couch. And then yeah, and then there's one that's a hamburger but the hamburger looks like a vagina on the vagina. And then I think goes, me as crawling up your couch. Yeah, and then there's one that's a hamburger, but the hamburger looks like a vagina, on the vagina. And then I think it was Roberta herself who's like the leggings were wet and stinky
Starting point is 00:14:31 and ruining the whole house. Yeah, she said the whole house smelled like dead fart leggings. Yeah. And then we see one of the guys who apparently worked for them in a training video going, I hear my inventory is stale? No, you're stale. I was like, who?
Starting point is 00:14:47 I think I was Mark who was yelling that. Mark was yelling that at someone, yeah. So then Roberta is like, you know, at one point, I looked around at all these ladies, we're all wearing the same thing, we all look just alike and I thought, uh oh, I'm an occult and then we hear Mark come back in with, your numbers aren't down, you're down!
Starting point is 00:15:06 He's like the Leon lock-in of them, all right? So then we see there's like mass delusion and dozens of lawsuits against Lula Roe and is there a pyramid scheme? And then we see someone crying because her family's in debt. And then we see a guy,
Starting point is 00:15:21 some like kind of a corporate one because clearly part of the organization goes, yeah, so we need to get away from being a pyramid skin. Okay. Yeah, which is always good advice. Always good for a friend of mine. And then we see one of these like victim people who's just sobbing on, you know,
Starting point is 00:15:36 I just feel like every story like this has this person who's like, oh, I feel like I feel my family. I feel my family and dead. Yes, am I supposed to tell you no? No, you didn't. Yes, you did, ma'am. Keep crying. Keep the camera on her.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Her pain feels delicious. It's called an MLM, okay, you fell for it. And then we see a video from a deposition and Dianne. Someone's asking a prosecutor probably is asking Dianne. You're the president, right? And she goes, well, they say I am. And you're also the co-CEO, she goes, I don't know. I'm like, I haven't even watched this.
Starting point is 00:16:14 We haven't even gotten into this. And I already know you're full of shit. Yes, and I'm already hooked, young Paul Adin, okay? I'm watching you. So yeah, a lot of this deposition is intercut throughout the video and it's funny because they come in both Really defensive but also acting really stupid whatever they're in trouble for we don't know yet But she's just acting dumb and Mark is like I'm in a suit and I'm angry and so he gets really angry And answers things very slowly like that's his that's how he gets out his anger. like, I will. You know what I'm going to do while I answer this question? I'm going to put on one of
Starting point is 00:16:50 those giant paper clips onto a piece of paper very slowly. You can wait. So then we wind up, we sort of like land in Corona, California, where the, where the, where the thought that headquarters are. Now, Corona, California, I have very limited experience with it, but I just know like at whatever experiences I've had with it have not been wonderful. It's sort of not the best place. So it's like, of course, they're in Corona. Like that just really matches perfectly.
Starting point is 00:17:24 Yeah, I have no Corona shade Like that just really matches perfectly. Yeah, I have no Corona shade here, because I don't know, but it looks like a bunch of beautiful hills and a lot of warehouses. That's all we know of it so far. So Mark, you know who Mark is, because he's already been described as someone who leads by reading from the book of Mormon, which is terrifying, and not just because it's Mormonism,
Starting point is 00:17:44 but because any religion, like get that the fuck out of my office, thanks. Because Jesus gave shit away for free. Like, there's no profit in that, you know what I mean? So Mark is like, you know, one of the ancient stoic philosophers, whatever his name is. Someone came in and said, someone is talking bad about you and he said well they must not know about me because well they filled the list all my flaws and so that's my approach to this whole thing with story tellers and that's how the business grew with old stories and it's nice to have someone here interested in the whole story so thank you for being here. And Ann says, every day, I'm astounded and full of gratitude
Starting point is 00:18:28 for what this business became. A business that makes leggings with butterflies on the couch. I'm just thankful. I cannot wait. So we get their story. The early 70s. She was raising seven kids going through divorce. What? Seven kids going through to what seven kids going through to
Starting point is 00:18:46 war is what the hell I need a backup to the backup Yeah, she has seven kids and she's like I'm going you know I'm going to buy the cheapest hamburger and a handful of fries and we're just gonna split them up I hated that I just hated that and one day I was waiting for an airplane ticket on standby And I got the last thing and I happened to sit next to Mark and he was just so funny and happy and positive and actually had a job. So we just clicked. And before I even said a word to her, there was something powerful there.
Starting point is 00:19:16 It's like, what says powerful? It's like some lady like running onto the plane to the standby seat. He's like, power. You know what I saw? A powerful woman in that middle seat. The way she ordered that Virgin Mary mix. Wow, power. So they have 90,000 children and grandchildren.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Like, they start listing the kids' names and it's like a clown car. I mean, this is too much people. This is what I talk about when I say stop littering the world with yourself. Okay, you want a litter? Go throw some coat cans on the street. Okay, don't drop your DNA everywhere. I'd rather sweep up the diet coat can. This is too much. Well, to be fair, they did litter the world with their children, but they also collected other people's litter
Starting point is 00:20:01 because they have like 14 kids and she already had seven and he had a bunch and then they adopted three kids from Romania and then all those kids themselves spawned and had a million children and then on top of that, Diane kept on adopting so then she met two brothers and adopted them and then she met someone and Anna and adopted her and then Anna then casually married one of the other brothers. So, so true the kids are actually married, but no blood relation just creepy. Guess what? I got 14 kids and two of them are married, but they're not blood related. I mean, it's a good story, and then I never, never understood why flowers in the attic was a horror story.
Starting point is 00:20:42 Anyway, I mean flowers are pretty to grow them in an attic. I mean, that's a damn miracle. If I flowers grown in the attic, I trademark that. Incess just best, only good things rhyme. To be fair, we all co-sign clueless. Okay, we all overfine with clueless. So they joke about that and then they tell us that they are members of the Mormon Church and, secularly, we're known as Mormons. And we believe we're living in the last days and we believe in self-reliance. I was like, wow, this is real apocalyptic shit here. It's like the apocalypse with like leggings on these.
Starting point is 00:21:20 We're in the last days, so why not get into leggings? Why not be comfortable? Am I right? Listen, if the rapture's going to happen, at least become fee in some leggings, right? Listen, you got to have lots of patterns that way Jesus knows to take you up to heaven. What's rapture without a good wrap? And peasant menas by lunar row coming soon. So, um, so, Deanne's father was born in Provo, Utah, and her ancestors were candy makers, which it's kind of funny, that's a funny phrase to say. I feel like when people talk about ancestors,
Starting point is 00:21:56 you say my ancestors were from like 400 years ago, I don't think like, I don't think of my ancestors as like candy makers or whatever, but their dream was to start a catering business, which led us to believe we could do anything, which is good for caterers for inspiring that kind of on a child. I want to do anything in the world, even starting a catering business. Even cooking things. Yeah, and what we've learned from Real House was the Salt Lake City is that when you are from Utah, we have to see clips of people coming over in wagons, okay? Yeah. So we see a lot of wagons and stuff, candy wagons I'm guessing.
Starting point is 00:22:41 And she says that she has a twin and her name is Diane and Mark goes, did you catch that? Diane and Diane. Yeah, my mother wasn't very creative. And my last name was Startup. And my dad would always say, it's like you start up your car. And it is. That's that is how it is.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Dean started. So yeah, because she was the 10th child of 11, by the way, we should mention. So there's just a lot of a lot of Christmas gifts, a lot of Christmas gifts. That's what I think too. Yeah, that's what I think. You need a part-time job just to go to Christmas every year. I know. So Mark, meanwhile, had a middle-class childhood and he, but he said he never considered having a job because it wasn't for him to answer to anyone else. And he goes, there's nothing worse than being flat broke. You know, I guess always dad, his dad was talking to someone. His dad, his dad offered his dad a job in a
Starting point is 00:23:35 mind. And the guy said, there's nothing worse than being flat broke. And that, the only thing that's worse than being flat broke is knowing I'll be making $420 a week for the rest of my life. And then Mark just starts to cry because it's an emotional, emotional memory. Because it's so rich. And D starts talking about how her mom was always working. And one day she came home with a suitcase of money and she's like, kids, like, I had a surprise and then she just started raining money down on their heads. And I, my question is, how many strippers came out of there?
Starting point is 00:24:07 I don't know what to say. Like, so she reenacted a scene from Indiesin proposal. So then we skipped to 1988 and she's gotten married and pregnant real quick. And she always would go to rodeo drive and wanted to get her kids those. And then she was at a swamp meet. And she saw all these dresses that were really cheap. And she was noticing they were the same dresses that she was seeing in all these fancy stores. They just were, you know, in a parking lot.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Yeah. And that's kind of her vibe. She loves a parking lot. Yeah, and that's kind of her vibe. She loves a parking lot fashion moment. So she basically bought them and then she started, she decided that she was going to throw a party for the guy who was making all these parking lot dresses. And she's like, I'm going to have a party and then the girls are going to come and they're going to buy the dresses, you know, and I'll get a cut, right? So she started throwing dress parties. And, you know, and she's like, you know the the dollar signs of excitement
Starting point is 00:25:08 We're starting to happen and she started thinking I can do this we can do after school dress parties So she starts doing all these dress parties in Arizona and Utah and Vegas Which you know like I feel like that really met tracks for Dianna like you look at Dianna You're like this is someone who likes to throw parties in Arizona, Utah and Vegas. Right, well, it's just the, the, the gumption, right? Like for somebody to be like, wow, I can sell these better. I'm gonna have parties and then I'm gonna have parties
Starting point is 00:25:38 in other states. And this was before Craigslist. You know what I mean? Yeah, like literally had to like find the newspaper people take out and add, you know, like whatever we say about her in the future, right now I'm just thinking kind of a badass. Although there is part of me that's like wait, something's being left out here because her whole personality is very salesy, right? Like, and then I saw some cheap dresses, and I said, let's have parties.
Starting point is 00:26:07 Well, you learn that from Amway at that time. You would learn that from Amway. So I thought it was weird that she was leaving all that stuff out because later she says that her parents were in Amway when she's being questioned in the deposition. And I'm like, why is that some weird secret? You know, like I don't need you to be the Benjamin, who invented the light bulb, not Benjamin Frank? You know, I mean,
Starting point is 00:26:29 it'd be the inventor of it. I don't know. It just felt like there was stuff missing. Mm. Yeah. So she said she did that for 27 years. And then one day her daughter said, could you make me a maxi dress? It was the Alexis Blinum. I'm a, does I call it? And Diane was like, next the NL, I'm making skirts. And I decided to make my, a maxi dress? It was the Alexis Blinum, I'm gonna just call it. And Diane was like, next thing I know, I'm making skirts, and I decided to make my maxi dresses with the dress party, and so then I started selling maxi skirts. So she then started selling all these maxi skirts, you know, which I love that, like rising to prominence
Starting point is 00:26:59 on the heels of the maxi skirts, right? Like that's how you do it. That's the American dream right there. Ride that maxi skirt to the bank. Hell yeah, girl. And then they started filling up all the bedrooms, then they started filling up their storage units. And she would call Mark and just say,
Starting point is 00:27:14 just go downtown and get whatever fabric you see this cheap. And so he would go and just get whatever really he could find. I guess in the garment district and come home with any cheap stuff. And they just, they just sew stuff in the craziest patterns, and everyone was like, oh my God, I love the craziness of it. Yeah, and actually one thing I thought was really cool is that he said that because it was just like
Starting point is 00:27:36 whatever he would find, you never really knew if that dress would ever be back, because he never knew if that fabric would be back. So I created this urgency that you had to get this dress because if you didn't, you might not ever see it again. Which I thought was like, that's actually really cool. That's really, really smart. It's time for commercial. It's time for a crap and commercial. Raising kids can be one of the greatest rewards of a parent's life. But come on, someday's
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Starting point is 00:28:35 And the next time you step on yet another stray Lego in the middle of the night, you'll feel less alone. So if you like to laugh with us as we talk about the hardest job in the world, listen to, I love my kid, but wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad free on the Amazon Music or Wondery app. So then in 2012, D met a girl named Brittany in Utah and Brittany had heard the buzz and so she called and she's like, what are these maxi dresses you're doing you crazy not show them to me drive your van I'll meet you on the side of the freeway so they did it and
Starting point is 00:29:10 Right there and the shoulder the freeway or wherever she was Britain. He just dove into that van And they have like a picture of a lady. I think they like recreated this moment They have a picture just sort of like you only see her legs poking out the back of a van I was like thanks for the illustration documentary. out the back of a van. I was like thanks for the illustration documentary. I wasn't sure exactly what it would look like. Well you never know. Dee could have been standing out there with an actual camera. That's true. Being like oh my god this girl really dove into the van. That's true. Dee probably did do that. Never I take it all back.
Starting point is 00:29:41 Yeah so that sound like her. Just like, I'm going to show this lady some, some Maxi skirts. I can't wait to take a picture of her reaction. Also, um, serial killers should probably take some notes like, oh, so this is how I get her in the trunk of my car. I got it. Put a bunch of Maxi skirts. Yeah. And D does this acting dumb thing through the whole thing, which is kind of ridiculous
Starting point is 00:30:06 because you can't be dumb and get to this level. So she does this dumb act and she's like, you know, I said, I called Mark and I said, what can I do to make this value bold to her? And he did the math in his head and then he said, if you sell it and she sells it for double that price, then she makes a double. And then I said, Brittany, you're going to buy it for this much and you're going to sell
Starting point is 00:30:30 it for this much. And then she did the math in her head. And it was, I mean, D is so impressed with people who can double things in their head. She loves, she loves squaring things. Right. She loves that. No, that's quite the refling things. What? Well, I guess doubling things is the same as squaring things if you're going from a base
Starting point is 00:30:52 of two, right? So I guess, I would say you're right. She's not a square, she's a doubler. She loves it multiple of two. So, so now we see number of retailers. One. So 2013, Mark and Deanna officially formed Lula Row and it's named after their first three granddaughters,
Starting point is 00:31:11 Lucy, Lola, and Monroe. And he, Mark tells us that when we stopped saying, how do I get what I need? And the conversation was, how do we help others make money? That's when the business started. That's where their growth came from. That's when we became what the world refers to as network marketing.
Starting point is 00:31:32 I'm like, okay, no, you still want the money for yourself. Please, don't act like this is for, you're trying to do it for everyone else. All right, so then we get the journalist. We meet a journalist who explains Jill, Jill the journalist, who explains this, but I would think because we meet a journalist who explains Jill, Jill the journalist, who explains this, but I would think because she's a journalist that she's anti this,
Starting point is 00:31:51 but she seems very into this as well. And she also has that kind of creepy, colty attitude about her as time goes on, like she smiles kind of weird in the camera. So I'm not really sure what her deal is to you, but she explains MLMs. And then the anti-MLM Tim Cook guy is like, well, officially it's income for selling products,
Starting point is 00:32:12 skincare, anti-aging. So, you know, we're basically learning about all of these things. Yeah, his name is Robert Fitzpatrick. This is where we learn his name. You know what this documentary really could have used? That awesome lady who is in all the cult documentaries from 2020, I forgot her name, but like literally every cult
Starting point is 00:32:27 documentary there, they're bringing this one lady who is like the cult expert who's like, okay, I'll let me tell you some about cults, okay? They program your brain and then they take over, okay? That's the real deal. Oh, so I was wrong about her amway experience. Oh, yes. Yes, no, I wasn't wrong. Okay, so they were back to the deposition and the producers asked when Mark learned what an MLM was and he's doing his angry silent paperclip thing now where he's like I'll answer this with a big paperclip and make you wait and they're like well, he says maybe 1982 my parents were amway people and then then they're like, D, you. And she's like, well, I tried Amway.
Starting point is 00:33:09 So she's being real fishy about this Amway thing. I guess she's trying to play dumb, like she had no idea what an MLM was or something. Yeah, and then we learn a little bit more about MLMs. You know, we learned about NutriLite, was the first one, which started M way and now like nowadays We have things like herbal life and arbonne and you know not for lazy moms things like that Yeah, so then we go to Tacoma and we're meeting Ashley and she's getting her makeup on
Starting point is 00:33:38 She's just real spitfire this Ashley. She's like, do I look good because I'm still single So if I'm gonna to be commemorated, I better be looking gorgeous. Okay. I started in 2013. I was the third retailer. So we find out that she was born in Hawaii, her husband's in the army. She saw a friend of a friend wearing a Maxi on Instagram and just had to have it. Where do I purchase one of these darling skirts? We see that on screen and I hope, I got, I really hope for Ashley to say that that was not her comment to the friend.
Starting point is 00:34:12 But poor Ashley, poor Ashley that she was like, you know, at that place in her life, she was like, I must have that maxi, I am going to message a stranger about her maxi skirt because I must have it right now I guess we've all sort of been in that position at some point in our life. We've all we've all been there But I just feel bad for Ashley that we've all we've all been there But I just feel bad for Ashley that that for her it was
Starting point is 00:34:38 I guess I don't know I think I'm just projecting my own issues on to Ashley You're starting to list all the things that you've contacted people about on Facebook. I'm like, wait a second, I'm probably a message people about Maxie Scourts myself. She's like, well, I couldn't find a way to purchase online. So I call Diane. Now there's a girl with guess what the word's gonna be. Gump, Shen as well.
Starting point is 00:34:59 Gonna go with Gump, Shen. That was a woman on a mission. I mean, like, she didn't just see a maxi skirt and I was like, oh, that's cute. She like, track down, she messaged a friend of a friend and then the friends like, oh yeah, something little row. And then she tracked down the CEO of the company to get that maxi skirt.
Starting point is 00:35:16 That reminds me. That's insane. Okay, your dress smells good. That's because you're chewing on so much gum sand. Okay. You know, it reminds me of when I was in high school and I decided I really wanted a bean bag chair and I didn't know where to get them.
Starting point is 00:35:29 So I called up, I think I've told this story before, but I called up Ethan Allen and which is funny because you would never get a bean bag chair from Ethan Allen, but I called up Ethan Allen and I was like, hi, do you have any bean bag chairs and like you've reached the corporate headquarters? I actually called Ethan Allen corporate. I'm not about beanbag chairs.
Starting point is 00:35:49 So I guess in many ways I have been in Ashley myself. Yeah, just really unsuccessful. I wasn't able to get to CEO level, but I did get to corporate with a really myopic question about beanbag chairs. Oh my gosh. So yeah, well well also she mentioned that she was pregnant. So you know, she sees something that looks that comfortable and she's like, she'll do whatever she can. Right. She's like, I don't just get it to me. So, DM, you know, got her on the phone and she said,
Starting point is 00:36:19 well, I told her there's no better opportunity than the one you're about to get. And she's like, well, yeah, but I'm just out of college and I'm pregnant. She's like, sounds good to me. Guess what I'm going to do. I'm going to come and help. And I hope you jump into the back of my car until I can only see your feet because I need a good picture for my wall, honey. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:40 So Dianne actually flew to Tacoma and taught Ashley how to like fold the maxi dresses and package them so people could see the patterns. I mean, I actually would be freaked out. If I called up and I was like, hey, I saw one of your maxi dresses online, how do I get it? Well, I'll tell you how to get it. I'm going to fly to your house. I'm going to fly to your house and give it to you. Then you can tell them from me. I'll be like, whoa, chill, bitch. Yeah, but that's why she's successful, right? So she's like, oh, I taught them all sorts of things. I taught them how to have music playing because it has to be upbeat. And I would tell them no refreshments
Starting point is 00:37:12 because these girls are always on the diet anyway. Yeah, and the goal was to make new money and make contacts. So now we meet Lindsey Wheeler and Lindsey called one day to ask about during the company. And Diane was like, she just says how there were more retailers that were like, I want to do that. I want to do that. I don't know. What is, why do we learn about Lindsay Wheeler? Does she ever come back? Is there any, why?
Starting point is 00:37:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah, because we're meeting them all now. And right now it just seems like, you know, it's like a bunch of moms who are telling their stories, but then we find out that some of them win against the company later. Like we start getting hints at in this of who's turning against the company. And basically, like who's the, who's siding with the opposition in this documentary?
Starting point is 00:37:58 So right now we don't really know, but we just start seeing numbers fly up on the screen because it starts spreading like wildfire right. So all these people want to do it and these, you know, these get all the same. You give us ten bucks, you sell them for twenty. And then Ashley says, well, look, it's not rocket science. It's pretty easy. Matt Dublin, God, did you double that in your head right now? Because that is something. You know, I knew it. You could have knocked me over with a feather the other day
Starting point is 00:38:27 when I walked into the supermarket and in terms of that, there was something called double mate gum. I mean, that's just beginning to muscle. I said, Mark, did you do that coming in your head? It's something. The journalist Jill is talking about how she came across it on Facebook from one of her friends And she's like, you know, thanks to social media
Starting point is 00:38:49 I could spy on these idiots and see what they're doing And it was promising women that if they invest enough time and effort and energy and money You can get a great payout now look I know that this this is supposed to be some evil company just from what I've read on Facebook Coltie or whatever people are calling it. So far, I have to say, not seeing anything wrong. Yeah. So far so good for us. So far like a pretty intrepid thing and, you know, like bright patterns, exciting.
Starting point is 00:39:18 Right. So far so good. So far so good. I can't wait for it to get evil. It's not quite evil yet. Yeah. So then we see a promo video of someone saying, I went and did this party and came home
Starting point is 00:39:30 and I handed Doug $300 in cash and he was like, what's this? And I was like, this is just what I earned selling 30 skirts at the skirt party and we looked at each other and we thought, this is something we might want to look into just because it could change our trajectory financially. Yes. Things that happened. And okay, because this was a huge year. Okay. So let me tell you what happened in 2024, guys. Okay.
Starting point is 00:39:58 There was a disappearance of the Malaysian airline jetliner. There was a spread of the Ebola virus. There was unrest in the Ukraine and Israel. Let me tell you what else happened, okay? Lou the row added leggings. Yeah, I'm stuck in a bowl of, stuck in. Okay. L leggings, that was a big turning point. So now we meet Lauren Covey Carson,
Starting point is 00:40:22 who looks exactly like someone named Lauren Covey Carson would. And she says, I didn't know much about the company. I was gifted a pair of leggings and they were super comfortable and super soft. And I was like, these are the best things I've literally ever felt in my life. And Roberta is like, well, I got leggings and I said, this is amazing! And then Stella says, God, they were buttery soft, stretched, perfectly fitted, I feel them, fucking love. My God leggings, right?
Starting point is 00:40:52 These women were hot for leggings. Now Stella, we know something went bad with Stella because she actually shows up dressed like a mortician. Everyone else is in their, you know, there are Lisa Rennadusters and their South Bay's tones, but Stella's like an all black and all buttoned up. I was like still still got done dirty with this company. That's all I know. Um, so D's on the TV talking about how she's basically doing a training video. So I think it's a zoom where she's like you just want you to understand how to talk about it.
Starting point is 00:41:23 Let him know they can make money. Mark do it in your head. Two times two. That's what I'm saying. Two times two. Mark. And then Lauren Covey tells us, I mean, it's just amazing. I mean, what's the catch?
Starting point is 00:41:36 I mean, and my friend said, there is no catch. You own the inventory and it's like a store in your home. There is no catch. I'm like, that is literally the catch. You own the inventory. That is the definition of the catch in this situation. Yeah, you've got shit all over your house. You have to purchase that stuff and then sell it
Starting point is 00:41:55 in order to get your money. Right, so they're talking about how with normal MLMs, you, everybody gets the same thing, right? So somebody selling diet shakes, everybody selling the same diet shakes, but these, because they were getting the different material for everything, everybody had different products.
Starting point is 00:42:11 So it became this thing where all of the retailers had to call each other and become kind of friends in a way, because they'd say, okay, I don't have that pattern, but you know, Lewand down the street might have them. Yeah, which I thought, again, I was like, that's actually really cool but you know, Louis and Beamble Street might have them. Yeah, which I thought, again, I was like, that's actually really cool, you know? So then we see another DN video that's like a motivational video,
Starting point is 00:42:31 I think to her retailers and she's like, you're important, you're very important to Mark and I for all that you do and for getting dressed and showing up, there's a lot of great things happening and we're the original, the OG, I just learned that, the OG, have you guys ever heard about that before? OG, it means original, it's original, that's so great. God, I love us.
Starting point is 00:42:49 Yeah, and she also does that thing where she talks, she wants to zoom, like, with her nose right in the camera hole. Where she's like, we believe in you. And you're like, whoa, D, back up with the nostrils babe, okay. Do you see how many nostrils, how many nostrils do I have? Two. That's right.
Starting point is 00:43:07 Double in your head, Mark. Two nostrils, that's a double of one nostril, okay? So then the number climbs to 500, Courtney and Texas or something. Hey girl, hey, hey girl, hey. Oh gosh, this is where we start seeing a lot of the lives because anybody who knows anybody who's done any kind of MLM, like they all get on and they're like,
Starting point is 00:43:31 hey guys, okay, hot, hot the end. Oh, hot, my eyes. And they just start saying the thing doing this. You guys, I'm having the best day of my life. Ever since I got these leggings. Anyone want to hear about them? How is your baby? How are they? Yeah, and so when I saw Courtney, I was like, this is a Ronnie Caremon impression. You like come to life right here. So she's like, I started with Lularo in the March of 2015
Starting point is 00:44:00 and within almost a year, I reached the highest status in the company. I was very high up in the food chain Perse and I got married right after college and we had three children and one that is like 12 years old now and So then surprise twins a lot of surprise twins in this movie by the way And so she basically she says that she started she joined a twins group on Facebook And that's how she found out about Lulero Yeah, I was in corporate America, wrestling up those ranks top of the food chain. I mean, let me tell you something in a food chain filled with corn and
Starting point is 00:44:32 potatoes, I was a big Mac huge. And so she decided that she was going to do this Lulero full time. And she's like in a perfect world who wouldn't want to be around their kids all day. I was like, really? No. No. Wow, man.
Starting point is 00:44:52 Wow. So then we see a promo video where it's like, you are beautiful, amazing, you are a smart, compassionate, confident, free. We are mothers building a community, making a difference through social retail. We are Lula Roe. And by the way, I don't think Ronnie,
Starting point is 00:45:10 we have talked about how hideous and terrible the Lula Roe logo is. It's like the strange, like, it's like this weird Photoshop or print shop, whatever experimentation where everything kind of looks like a crann that kind of like bent around, you know? I was like, what, this has to be revised.
Starting point is 00:45:32 Well, they did everything themselves. We learned towards the end. So it's like a lot's a clip art. Yeah, very clip art. Now, you know, I've said this a million times. I'm terrified if I go into work at a a place, and this is what they say. We're like one big family. Oh, God, just fucking kill me.
Starting point is 00:45:51 If I wanted to be around my family, I wouldn't be here. Okay? I'd be around my family. Let's not be like my family. How about that? So we find out that they all take all these vacation together. We see pictures of them all over the country together doing Lulu events or Lula events or whatever and big signs It's a dream big just keep dreaming big and
Starting point is 00:46:13 We get more of her stories about how she had to spend $5,000 and they were struggling and in debt and she was robbing Peter to pay Paul and at that point Peter was like bitch I'm broke. So I went to the credit union on my lunch break and asked for a loan and I came home a day and I told my honey about it and he said honey no company do you have to pay to sign up and I said trust me honey and now look at me. I got two words for you honey leg I got two words for you, honey. Leg, inns. Okay. You want to buy me married? Do you want to be married to a colonel of corn or a big man? I said. Listen, I'm getting out of this sucka-tash town and I'm going to be something.
Starting point is 00:46:56 This is a catastrophe. You know, Rhonda, do you remember when we were in Nashville, the first time we were in Nashville, we went to Opryland and we encountered a bunch of people who were part of an MLM that were there on like an MLM retreat. Yes. Could you imagine, was that you think that was Lula Roe? Could have been. It could have been.
Starting point is 00:47:17 We've seen a lot of those actually traveling and they are very similar. It was like we actually, actually like I don't I feel like we didn't really appreciate this moment enough that we crashed an MLM party like that was what happened. Yeah yeah they were having a party at Opriland at a bar and we walked in and just like and I think we actually did we even sit at a table with some of them and ask them like at one point yeah we were at one point yeah we were we were talking to one of them at the bar.
Starting point is 00:47:50 And he was like giving us some spiel about, like, you know, how our success is all in in us. And like he started giving us the whole spiel. And we're like, uh, are you a sales person? So he's like, Oh, yeah, you know, I wouldn't call it sales really. It's more bringing to the people And you know bringing happiness to the people We had I did one of these for air filters when I was younger
Starting point is 00:48:11 I think I told you about it and I got taught into going to like a civic center that I had to it was like a road trip And we had to go to this Rented civic center place and it was the craziest shit I've ever sat through with people like crying and the lady up on the stage was like I missed my sister's wedding to come to one of these and that is what you call comic men and then they showed on the big Megatron screen this lady getting out of a limo and you know living her best life because she she had so many people
Starting point is 00:48:44 selling water filters for her. That water filter lifestyle. I'm gonna, after this I'm gonna look on our Instagram because one of the highlights that we saved was about our trip to Opieland. Like all those stories when we were just like walking through there trying to figure out what was going on in this place. So my fingers are crossed that we have some of that MLA on that flashback or that highlight because that would make me very happy. So now we see a bunch of video clips of people at these events and Mark's telling us how he's just
Starting point is 00:49:15 doing it for the moms. He's just damn it for the moms. And we see a lady crying, giving a testimonial, saying, I'm just so blessed to be a part of this. Just remember, you're never alone. I just thought you poor damn thing. Look at yourself. You are literally alone in your closet.
Starting point is 00:49:33 Oh. Talking into the void. You poor thing. And then a lady with crazy fuzzball earrings, who's like, this is a sisterhood, and that's why I'm here. Cause it's the sisterhood of leggings. And literally a sisterhood of traveling pants.
Starting point is 00:49:53 Just one point that I was gonna say. That's a year. It is literally that. And we learned that people of faith start becoming really attracted to this business. I don't know if we really learn why that is. Maybe it's just because they're Deanna marker already like pretty mormony. And maybe that like that sort of like came through or just the buzz got out.
Starting point is 00:50:14 But people of faith are getting drawn to it. And Mark starts telling us, we have this army of women who are smart, passionate, beautiful, funny, educated. They want to do things in Deanna and goes, you're awesome. Here, express all that. Take your creativity, your passion for life. And here's a place that has pure meritocracy in the form of leggings. So then we meet Kenny, the VP of sales, I think.
Starting point is 00:50:46 And he's like, you know, they cry, they asked for our help. They wanted us to be a part of their success. Someone asked my dad, is strategy, oh Kenny's their son. Okay, so we, we started learning that the family took over this business, right? All the family joined this business. Right, because the business was getting too big
Starting point is 00:51:06 that they started needing help. And they're like, before they decided to go out to outside consultants, DM was like, wait a second. Let's talk to the kids. And so they had a family meeting and they like put out all the, but they wrote down like on a white board, all the positions they needed to be filled and basically asked the kids if they wanted to,
Starting point is 00:51:23 you know, take any of those positions. Right. And so Kenny starts crying and he's like they what do they do? They ask for our help. They wanted us to be part of their success. Someone asked my dad his ex strategy and he said death. They don't want to leave a legacy for just themselves. They want to give it to everybody They just want to be absorbed in the blessings. Oh my god this fucks a kid Someone Take a Zanax. I was like okay. What what there? There must be just so little going on in his life that is crying about this right now What there there must be just so little going on in his life that is crying about this right now
Starting point is 00:52:01 about this right now. What, there must be just so little going on in his life that he's crying about this right now. Yes, and this is when I started to be like, oh, okay, now I see where this is going, because like the one that I went to was just like a big crazy mechatured, you know? And I'm not criticizing anybody who goes to that or whatever. But when you bring a newbie into that,
Starting point is 00:52:20 it's like, what the hell is going on here? You know, everybody crying and sobbing all over each other. And you know, it's leggings, okay? Yeah. Yeah. A. Jesus pushed an Iraq out of the way so he can rise again. We're talking about leggings, people. Yeah. So, um, uh, now we meet Sam Schultz, who has Deans nephew. And I wrote down this quote, why did he say this? I have a little hole in my pants. I know, he's supposed to be like wacky. So he said he's a wacky one. He's like, oh, here I am, I'm Sam.
Starting point is 00:52:50 I'm super entertaining. I'll be sitting in front of a piano that I most likely don't play. But you got this, driving me first, I'm assured. Okay, I'm entertaining one. I'm a ham, got it. Yeah, he's the big ham, he goes, you know, there was always this kind of entertainment
Starting point is 00:53:03 social aspect to my family and they cut to him with like a guy singing milkshake. My milkshake brings all the girls to yard and then just like cuts away. I think I was quite a show man growing up and then they show him like holding the last note of bridge over troubled water and like a weird 80s outfit. You know this guy tried out for American Idol several times. Oh yeah. Several times. Yeah. Um, so he, in 2015, he was hired as a men's director and he didn't know what to expect, but he
Starting point is 00:53:32 knew he wanted to create something exciting. Because these are people who were in his age group, older millennials and he says, I would play stuff that's new and cool, but then I'd play stuff like TLC scrubs and they'd go wild. And then it comes to these ladies just with their arms in the air and their leggings and maxi skirts just like grinded their vaginas to the air while listening to N-sync. It's like maxi maxi dress prom. They were just losing their minds, you know. And Sam is saying how he starts catching on to like what their needs were.
Starting point is 00:54:06 And there was some event where they were going to present Diane with an award. I always think it's funny when the company that like she start, like it's her company and their company is going to give her the award. It's like, that seems to be odd. Like she's the boss. And so they're going to give her an award at one of these things.
Starting point is 00:54:19 And he's like, so Sam says he wanted a celebrity there who was like straight from everyone's sophomore year. So he gets Mario Lopez who's available and he goes, and way, way under budget, I'd like to add. And so, basically Mario was hired to stand at the end of a red carpet and take photos with 300 women, which by the way, that's a lot of people to take photos with.
Starting point is 00:54:41 So my hat is off to Mario Lopez. But it's a bit funny, because this is, I guess, but before Mario Lopez became kind of the current Mario Lopez, he's hosting everything and everywhere all the time. I just think it's funny that Mario Lopez was still a goddamn thirst bomb. It's like, he just never stopped. It's like, he was hosting extra.
Starting point is 00:55:01 I think it's hosting extra time. Yeah, I think this was during peak Mario Lopez time. Oh, wait, what year is your right? Because this is what he was hosting extra. I think it's hosting extra at the time. Yeah, I think this was during peak Mario Lopez time. Oh, wait, what year is your right? Because this is what he said, 2015. Yeah. Oh, yeah, so this was the current Mario Lopez. Sorry, sorry Mario Lopez, aficionados. I know you're best right now,
Starting point is 00:55:17 but you're gonna get through this. I mean, I would take a picture of Mario Lopez now. I mean, he's adorable. Supposed to be a total dirt bag, but adorable regardless. Yeah. So he's like. Supposed to be a total dirt bag, but adorable regardless. Yeah, so he's like, listen, we're not in the clothing business, we're in the people business.
Starting point is 00:55:31 Oh, just, just drown. Like, stop, stop talking like that, sir. Yeah, you are in the clothing business. You actually are. Cause by the way, don't say you're in the people business cause then everyone's in the people business, okay? Cause everyone's customers.
Starting point is 00:55:44 Especially with all this QAnon stuff going on all over the place, don't say you're in the people business because then everyone's in the people business, okay, because everyone's customers. Especially with all this QAnon stuff going on all over the place, okay? People already think we're shipping children through the Z gallery or whatever the fuck that scandal was. Okay, don't say that on the people business. So now we start seeing, so apparently after that video, that event with Mara Lopez, everyone shared it on Facebook. And then like the moms really,
Starting point is 00:56:04 the moms who weren't involved in Lula Roe were like, shit, I missed out on Mara Lopez. Everyone shared it on Facebook. And then like the moms really, the moms who weren't involved in Lula Roe were like, shit, I missed out on Mara Lopez. I am getting involved. And so they had like 11,000 signups. And we start seeing a montage of everyone's Facebook lives. And we see that this one mom, she's like, she goes, Hey, hey everyone, this is Mama Donna.
Starting point is 00:56:23 Let me tell you about leggings today. Hey girl, hey. Like, is mama don't let me tell you about lugging today. Hey girl Hey, oh my god mama Donna All of these were just so cringes right so And poor things you know because they're like out there doing their thing But we just all know these videos, you know, yeah I have to find you know them. We just all know these videos. So then Mark is telling us that it's like a grenade exploding and Sam who Sam That's the nephew. Oh, yeah, he's like it's like flying a plane while you're still building the plane and you don't know how the plane works and you're not a pilot And you also have vertigo. You don't know what the sky is
Starting point is 00:57:04 And you also have vertigo and you don't know what the sky is and you're not even We get it We get it. We get it. We get it. It's a corporate tornado for sure And you don't know what a tornado is like until you're inside a tornado Looking at the eyes of tornado like both of you. Why are you picking the most dangerous situations? I got it. I got it. I got it. It's like a corporate yogurt and you open it up and you're lactose intolerant. You don't even know how to hold a spoon. And on top of that, the yogurt's gone bad and it turns out it's orange juice in the first place. It's like, okay,
Starting point is 00:57:37 Sam, we got it. And then Mark is telling the deposition people. He's like, this is the greatest psychological experiment on Earth. Everyone gets a box of stuff. But what did you do with that box of stuff? Sounds like it's, it sounds like the premise for like a new saw movie or something like that. Like everyone gets a box. By the way, also in 2016, they made $70 million dollars. That is legitimately crazy. Legit 70 million dollars. A wow. That is great.
Starting point is 00:58:11 And then basically all the episode kind of comes to an end with Roberta. We're back to Roberta saying, it seemed too good to be true. And it was nailed it, nailed it. And then we see some stretch material being stretched too far and fraying apart. Yeah. And that was the end of the first episode.
Starting point is 00:58:32 So we're going to watch the other three and see what happens. I'm excited to find out what goes wrong. I mean, I think basically just that teaser of the leggings coming apart is a pretty good idea of what's in store for us. Yeah. pretty crazy. Love the show, gonna watch the rest. We probably won't do full recaps of the rest. We'll probably just watch it and talk about it. Yeah, because Brava's gonna be full up here in a couple of weeks, people. But we do have other really fun stuff coming up. This week's bonus episode is going to be a character breakdown for the Duke, great British Bake Off. We're gonna go through
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