The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Meghan And Harry’s Bizarre Outings, Taylor Swift's Blake Diss, And Glennon Doyle's Self-Help Scam
Tue, 13 May 2025
Maureen rips into Meghan Markle's Beyoncé concert cheap seats and exposes Harry aimlessly wondering around London. She also takes shots at Taylor Swift’s mean girl takedown of Blake Lively and mercilessly deconstructs the useless advice from self-proclaimed, self-help guru wannabe, Glennon Doyle.
Chapter 1: Why did Meghan Markle attend a Beyoncé concert in the cheap seats?
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That's DeltaRescue.org. Okay, you guys. we talked about this last week like so we're now in week two almost since that disastrous Prince Harry interview with the BBC he lost a major court case he sat in front of a reporter for the BBC and he basically walked right up to alleging that the British royal family wants to kill him
Meghan and probably his two innocent young children, but also that he would love to get back in. He would love to get back in, but he also just needs all of the security that this latest court ruling once again denied him, okay? Because he's not a working royal anymore by his own decision, okay? So the British taxpayers aren't gonna pay for this. And he's so, so important.
So this was a humiliation. And if you go and look at that interview on YouTube, you can see, I mean, the whole demeanor, his comportment, the way he's talking, like his mouth is like even smaller than usual. He can't get the words out. He is just completely, he uses the word devastated. He says, I'm devastated. That is a man who is fully emasculated if you ask me. Okay, so what does Megan do?
When things go wrong, like really, really wrong, like really, really, really bad, Meghan does this. She puts on this face and everything's great. Everything's great. In fact, things are better than they were before Harry's latest fuck up, okay? So she took to Instagram where her likes and comments seem to be permanently disabled.
to brag about having been at Beyonce's show the night before with that man, Harry, remember, never forget, that man who loves me so much. So of course, now this is a carousel, right? Because we have to experience like all of her emotions and her winning, her constant winning. So she begins this post in the most banal, cliched way possible, okay?
She begins this post with the following three words. About last night. Like, everybody uses that. Like, it should be, like, whoever runs Instagrams, you know, it's not Mark Zuckerberg, but whoever, like, that should just be banned. About last night. It's not cute anymore. It's not funny. Whatever. Okay.
So, of course, she uses the most hackneyed, trite things she can because she has not, as I've said, an original freaking thought in her head. So, first, we're going to see Meghan standing at the Beyonce show. And I think in this one, she might be wearing Harry's hat. Yeah. Okay, she's wearing, now the hat is going to come into play later.
Now look at, first of all, I want you to take this all in because every single thing is telling us something. And I want you to think about the ways in which she thinks she's showing us she and Harry are winning, but she's actually showing us that they are not. losing as ever. Okay. So that's that image. This is the next image.
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Chapter 2: What is the controversy surrounding Prince Harry's recent actions?
She thinks she's like the cool royal, the American easy breezy California cool royal with a wellness brand or a food brand. Like Gwyneth, like she's not cool. Okay, there is zero about that hat
and everything else about in that instagram post that is cool and you know i'm not saying cool is the cost of entry for everything it's certainly not but authenticity sure as is and you know what runs on a dual track with authenticity often you're cool okay because you don't really give a and her problem is she gives way too much of a hence that post now
look at the caption because she then says like, thanks to Beyonce and team for a wonderful night. Okay. So this caption, what's not in this caption is telling us everything. Okay. First of all, look at where they're seated. They're not in a VIP box. Okay. This isn't Oprah with her astronaut friend in bedazzled blue jeans, Gail in a VIP section at Beyonce show. Okay.
So she got tickets either on StubHub or, or someone called someone in Beyonce's camp and they were like, okay, just throw her a bone. But they're up there, okay? They're like in the mid section of this tour, which by the way is flopping all over the place. So it's not like it's a hard ticket to get, okay? Then she says, thanks to Beyonce and her team for a great night.
She doesn't say, thanks to Beyonce for hooking us up. Thanks to Beyonce's team for making sure H and I, or that man and I, had everything at our fingertips and didn't want for a moment. We had a personal concierge. I had a personal bathroom. She's not saying any of that, okay? So she's trying to make it seem like she and H are like...
super tight with Beyonce and Jay and her, and like, think ahead, okay, Megan? Think ahead for once. The Diddy trial is underway in New York City as we speak. I think Jay, Z, Jay, Jay-Z, whatever, I think he's got a few concerns, okay? So maybe you don't wanna be adjacent to them. Maybe you don't. Okay, so they try to put this happy face on this, but then Sunday, Sunday, you guys,
This still photo emerges of Harry who has just finished whining. Okay. Look at this photo. He is in London on his own. This looks like morning light to me, early morning light, a ring camera. He's got, he's on his cell phone and a ring camera has caught him buzzing someone's townhouse. The trash cans in the background.
There's one for recycling, it looks like, and one for trash, but they're trash cans. Again, I miss Andy Warhol deeply. This is like one of the best celebrity photos. It's an abundance of riches.
So this guy who just got finished moaning to the world that he needs 24-7, like Mossad-level security when he goes to the UK because he's that important, is caught wandering around a London neighborhood alone In what looks like, frankly, last night's suit, knocking on random doors, there is no security anywhere in sight, anywhere. So which is it, Harry?
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Chapter 3: What happened in the Blake Lively and Taylor Swift lawsuit?
She sees my friend constantly and just blanks my friend, okay? And just, it costs one nothing to nod and smile and say a friendly hello to people that you encounter in a workspace, okay? And it actually makes for a really nice workspace because then like everybody feels good about themselves as they should.
Okay, so, you know, it goes right to the self-help thing we're gonna tackle later in the show. It's like, beware of people who talk like that because they're typically the exact opposite. I mean, when I see someone who's got like a Buddha in their yard, I run, okay? It's like yoga teachers, they're all screwed up.
Hilaria Baldwin, Exhibit A. You know, they say shrinks are like the people you would never want to be related to because like they're really the most screwed up. There's truth to that. Okay, so... Moving on there. I came across this story in the wall street journal the other day. And I thought to myself, like we are, you know, there's a lot of talk about there. Will there be a civil war?
Like we'll read America split apart from like blue America, but like really it's going to come down to the ultra wealthy continuing to shove, shove their lifestyle and their, their copious amounts of disposable income in our faces. Okay. So I came across. this new trend that is being done without irony, with a lot of seriousness. It's called fridgescaping. What is fridgescaping, you ask?
Fridgescaping involves you or really your help, okay, the people who do your shopping, going to like the gourmet, you know, grocery store where like, you know, four sticks of butter. I don't think you eat butter because like poor people eat butter, like fat people eat butter, but like that costs like $35, but you're also paying for the packaging because
packaging is so beautiful and then all of it comes home and then the refrigerator gets art directed okay so that you can impress who i don't know but i i will say again not to make everything about the real housewives but the patient zero of this trend in my estimation is yolanda hadid former real housewife of beverly hills mother of supermodels gigi and bella who debuted on her show now typically the flex for these women to show how wealthy they are how wealthy their husbands are
uh, is to walk into a scene with like an obscene, like Birkin bags are obscenely expensive. They're like a hundred grand. And, uh, you know, you walk in with one and you're basically saying like, you're swinging your husband's big dick around. Yolanda outdid them all because she, she introduced, it was like a character. It was like a friend of her all glass refrigerator, all glass refrigerator.
floor to ceiling that was artfully arrayed with like produce. It looks like there's like maybe champagne in there and it's spotless and there's not even a fingerprint on it. Okay. That's how you know real wealth. Okay. And of course it didn't work. It doesn't refrigerate anything. Like I think there's a refrigerator behind that. But that to me, I thought, okay, we've broken a sound barrier here.
So now there are these, you've got to see these pictures from this journal article. I'm not even going to name them. the people who own these refrigerators, because I think that they're scourges of society. Normally I'd name and shame, but I can't, I can't. So look at this fridge is the theme. The owner tells the journal is the great Gatsby fridge.
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Chapter 4: How did Glennon Doyle become a self-help scam?
Chapter 5: Why was The Real Housewives of New York City cancelled?
Only blacks and minorities belong to gangs? Okay. Anyway, this piece of advice is, you know, for shit. It's like, he says, even if there is like an apocalyptic scenario floating in your heads where like bad guys roam a collapsed society, even then I doubt that a firearm would help. Like, I think a firearm would help. Okay. Another question.
I see many older Northern Europeans retiring to countries like Portugal or Mexico. Is it fair to enjoy? Is it fair to enjoy a different country's sun? It's all of our sun. Okay, we all enjoy the sun. It's one planet. A different country's sun and cheaper living in retirement, or is this a new sweet form of colonialism? I died, I died. Another question, this one in the style section.
My friend travels to exotic places and she's proud of it. But when she works her travels into group texts, it sounds as if she is gloating. On a group text about a proposed lunch date, she replied that she would be at the North Pole then. I once had a roommate who left a voicemail that our entire friend group mocked for weeks.
Her outgoing voicemail, this was before cell phones, was, I'm in Asia for the next three weeks. We were all like, okay, fine. You're a fucking asshole. Okay. She replied she would be at the North Pole then. Can I stop her before she alienates people? Trust me, she's alienated a lot of people. She's clearly alienated you. And yeah, just tell her she sounds like an asshole.
And you know, she wants to like remain a productive member of polite society and get invitations to lunch. Maybe just cool it on the humble brags. Okay. Write to me for advice. I could give it to you straight. Okay. And by the way, I think all of those questions are real, but I'm going to bring you some more that are like, often a lot of these questions outlets make up these questions.
Don't ask me how I know, but I know. Okay. Now on Friday's show, I'm very excited for this. I'm getting the book tomorrow and we're going to dive into a very scandalous new showbiz memoir that's making all kinds of headlines. And to my mind, everyone who's writing these headlines is a dope because these headlines are exactly what this person wants. Okay. This headline,
quote unquote author, I'm sure this person had a ghostwriter, I think has cleverly moved everybody in the media's eyes over here, and they should be over here. And that's what we're gonna talk about, okay? This is one of the most famous, powerful, ultra wealthy titans of tech and show business. So this is gonna be good.
And we're also going to explore, which I have been waiting for, finally, the fallout. So Bruce Willis, you know, he's battling something called aphasia. It's a form of dementia. And as somebody who has firsthand experience with a parent who has dementia, this is one of the cruelest ways to go because it robs you of your dignity. And you cannot buy that.
There's no getting that back once a disease like this begins to steal your soul, basically. So Bruce Willis's second much younger wife, Emma, has written a memoir all about this. And she's couching it as a memoir about the caregivers and the loved ones. But trust me, We're going to get into that. It's not about that. It's about her. It's about her. So we'll get into that. Okay.
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Chapter 6: What is the story behind Luann de Lesseps' rise to fame?
Chapter 7: Who is Leo Grillo and what is Delta Rescue?
Otherwise, we need a back entrance, et cetera, et cetera. So when she's shot out like with regular people at like a regular mid-priced American suburban restaurant, that is a message that she is sending, which is like, I'm innocent. I didn't do anything. Now, I just want to get to one other thing vis-a-vis Taylor, because, you know, Taylor Swift, you don't get to be this famous this long.
mount the most successful, profitable, global musical tour in history, in history, without gunning for it big time, okay? So I have dug out for you guys, this email that her father Scott wrote. Okay, it's 20 years old, so she's 35 now, so she was around 15 years old when Scott Swift wrote this lengthy email. And you can go look it up.
It's part of a legitimate lawsuit that was brought against them by Taylor's former manager, a guy named Daniel, I don't think I'm pronounced Dimtro, D-Y-M, anyway. This email is like for days. I'm dying. Okay, so he starts out, Dan, bear with me. I need to vent. Okay, now he starts by saying, we are getting to a very important time in Taylor's career.
And to keep in mind, quote, I am not quite the idiot that Andrea portrays me to be. Andrea is Taylor's mom, Scott's now ex-wife. um now he says my clients do not want to hear how much stress i am under or what i have done or how much time i have spent copying videotapes and sending them out when taylor was 11. okay these people were hustling um he says taylor will define your life's work Okay.
He goes on to say, now he's a financial advisor and he's bragging a lot about the money he makes for people and why like he needs to be taken seriously because he makes a lot of money for a lot of people. Who has made every single client listen to Taylor's latest song before we went over their financial plans? Are you kidding me?
If my financial planner says, hey, you got to listen to my kids demo tape before we can like address your very real concern. Like I'm like parachuting out of there immediately. Okay. Now we're getting into the martyrdom part of this email. Okay. Now keep in mind that remember when it was rumored that the Olsen twins were
had there was like a third Olsen who like the Olsen parents kept in the basement. because they were like malformed or something. And you know, it wasn't true, but Taylor has a brother named Austin and we never hear about Austin and we never see Austin. And I kind of think this may be Austin's choice, or he just got the message from his parents and Taylor that like, he's a total afterthought.
And if Taylor needs an organ someday, they'll call you back into this picture, but otherwise you can stay away. Okay, this is Scott. Who gets to go to New York, New England, and every cool appearance? Not dad. Can't fix hair. Dad talks too much. Who pays for trips to New York? Dad.
Who makes sure and takes days off to make sure that whether it was Radio Disney, Brit's Camp, I'm guessing that's Britney Spears, or any event that we had stuff to give away, CDs, Frisbees, headshots, who even thought to put that stuff together?
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