r/gingershottakes

*Apologies for the typos 😑

If you all don't already know I have PhD in Girls Next Door and Girls Next Level so this breakdown is full of sassy commentary and calling out Holly’s BS.

*This episode was literally recorded four months ago. For context, they reference Tana and Trish hoping to book a Vegas show so this was before they even announced their disastrous show.
They are filming in a bed at the Wynn after Tana was unbanned and they talk about eating a pickle pizza. (The pickle pizza has been on my mind for months and it sounds so good and I am bummed I couldn't get one the last time I was in Vegas)

*They talk about the Vegas climate and Tana compliments Holly's skin. Holly attributes it to sunscreen use and growing up in Alaska (Holly’s skin looks great because she has regular laser treatments, Botox, filler, neck lift, and lower facelift. Sunscreen is important but let's not act like this is normal.)

*Holly talks about losing her Rolex at Circus Circus while staying there to explore some closed-off “haunted”
part of the hotel ( This story is so
Strange and doesn't really make sense)

*Tana brings up Zak Bagans, Holly’s ex and favorite subject to talk about. They talk about his lame museum. Holly brings up Zak talking shit about her to girls he “cheated” with. He told one girl that Holly was obsessed with him and wouldn't accept that their relationship was over. He said he felt sorry for her and insinuated that she was “handicapped” ( Zak is gross
but Holly IS straight up obsessed with him. If you all don't know the lore. They have been broken up for years at this point.He would never publicly claim her, never even met her kids, and acted like an all-around fuckboy for years yet Holly still stayed with him despite being in her mid forties and arguably having enough life experience to know better. She talks about him every single week on her podcast despite having a new relationship with an equally douchey guy. At this point it is giving mentally unhinged)

*Holly talks about her ex and her kids' names which are Rainbow and Forest. Says she originally wanted to name her son Dragon (I am all for weird names but Dragon is horrible)

*They talk about Holly's true crime
show. ( Holly loves to make money off of vulnerable women just like Hef)

*Holly brings up Criss Angel and says her kids went to one of his shows and thought he was lame. She says she is scared for the day they find out that she dated him ( Holly’s favorite subject is talking about most of her exes. She dated Criss Angel
for 6 months 20! Years ago and still regularly talks shit about him. If I dated Criss Angel I would do everything in my power to make people forget about that horrible decision)

*Tana talks about men who want to f**k their moms ( really don't need to hear about this topic again)

*Holly talks about her decision to leave the mansion and she has a new story now. For years she has said that she decided to leave Hef when IVF didn't work out. Now she is saying that her final straw was Hef asking Kendra to sit closer to him at movie night and getting pissed when she didn't want to because he “loved the drama” (Holly is a pathological liar. It's funny that Tana claims to be such a fan and close
Friend of Holly’s but always seems
Clueless to her Playboy origin story)

*Holly talks about her other obsession, Crystal Harris, Hef’s widow, and her campaign to stop Hef’s scrapbooks full of nudes from being made public. Holly is mad because Crystal is getting credit for doing something that Holly thought of first. ( Holly and Bridget are horrible to Crystal weekly on their podcast. They call her “Krusty” and display the worst mean-girl bully behavior.)

*Holly talks about her beef with Kendra and blames it on the producer of their shows ( Holly is always a victim. Never takes any responsibility for the shit storms she causes and then pretends like she doesn't know why nobody ever likes her)

*They talk about Vegas shows and Holly says her favorites are Carrot Top and the empire strips back ( you would have to pay me to go to a Carrot Top show)

*Holly talks about her new podcast which consists of her interviewing “biohacking” grifters, strippers, and super young OF/BOP house girls ( This is why Holly sucks as a human. She has spent decades talking about the trauma she endured being a young sugar baby at the Playboy mansion and the stigma that has followed her around. Yet she promotes seeking arrangements and fangirls over teenage OF models. Glamorizing and promoting the same system she claims traumatized her.)

This is the worst podcast opener I have ever encountered. I do not want to diminish the absolute absurdity of this BS statement by summarizing it so I have included it in its entirety. She literally put DELAYED in the episode title as well which is diabolical!!!

“This episode of Brand Safe has been delayed due to the birthday of our prized employee, Kyle Barber. Nothing happens without Kyle Barber. Literally, nothing happens without him.

If we didn't have Kyle Barber, this podcast would be shot on a blender and edited with a toe. We hope wherever you are, you are celebrating Kyle Barber. Seriously, sorry it's late, but like who was gonna edit it?

You know what I mean? It's just, it's Kyle or no one, you guys, and he only gets one day off a year. Like, it's just like, it's the one day, and I'm like, it's here now, and we love you guys, and we hope you had an amazing Labor Day weekend, and we are very, very sorry for the delay to all of our Brand Safers, and we will see you next weekend.”

(Wow, so much deflection on Kyle for her poor planning and production. Take responsibility, Tana. A truthful statement should be “ Sorry this week's episode is late. I cannot stick to a schedule and refuse to hire professionals that will help me stick to a schedule. I purposely hire people who will enable my unprofessional and self-destructive behavior because it is easier than doing the work to overcome my trauma and take accountability for my actions. Nothing is ever my fault and I will stoop so low as to use my employee's birthday as an excuse for my poor time management that resulted in my work being submitted late. Sorry im not sorry about it! )

*Birkins! They talk about their Birkins and Isabella's bday (So relatable)

*Isabella suggests they start a channel
Called moookbang because they love to
Eat and moo at each other (I am not mad about this idea )

* Tana's dad would lie to Isabella's parents when she would spend the night at her house and say they would be staying in (So fucked up of any parent to act like this.)

* Isabella's mom started dating a pastor who was a cop (yikes!)

*Tana was a youth leader at church (wow)
Isabella lied to her parents and said she was becoming a youth leader at church with Tana and her mom figured it out because Isabella’s mom went to the church they didn't know her (this was a funny teen story)

*Tana asks Isabella what she remembers of Tana’s household. Isabella would bring food to Tana’s mom to make sure she was eating. They talk about the time Tana’s dad threw a barstool and Isabella threw it back at him. (dark)

*Tana talks about her success before she was 18 on YouTube and was making enough money to rent a townhouse in Las Vegas and Tana's mother lived with them. Because Tana wasn't 18 her parent still had control over her bank accounts and would constantly cut off access to her own money as a form of control. Tana’s mom would chain-smoke in the townhouse and refuse to go on the balcony (This is wild. Tana’s parents suck)

*Isabella and Tana had a falling out in 2019 and did not live together or talk to each other. (It sounds like typical teenage friend drama that happens when you are roommates.)

*Isabella calls out Tana for never wearing socks when they were younger and how she wouldn't let her borrow her shoes (Literally, how did it take multiple people to convince Tana to finally wear socks with shoes?! Does she not have a sense of smell?)

*Tana says that she and Isabella both have OCD, PMD, anxiety, and Depression. Tana says their neurons were shot from them drinking 6 shots of espresso daily.(every week there is a new diagnosis to blame her bad behavior on)

*Tana talks about one of her first exes who was controlling

*They yap about typical teen shenanigans they got into.

*Tana tangents about how they have overcome so much and how amazing they are to have survived (Listen, I am not negating anyone's childhood trauma but at a time when children are not surviving until their teens due to genocide it feels gross to act like they have overcome insurmountable circumstances to survive)

*There were a lot of the same tanaisms
In this episode, I don't feel like going over them because they are topics that have been talked about to death. Anxiety, frontal lobe, influencers influencing, narcissistic parents, growth etc

************ SA Trigger warning ******************
Lots of talk about SA throughout this recap!

*Holly starts the episode with a preface that the first part of the slumber party aired before the interview, and the second part after to address

*H and B talk about Buffy’s pictorial and they both liked the ‘in the Buffy’ title better (Of course they like the worse version better)

*H is so curious about when the qualudes started appearing and they both put their detective hats on to think of people they could ask about it but realize that anybody who was there at that time is dead or hates them from that time

*They talk about the girlfriend that Katie said was trying to hook up with her. H says this girlfriend tried to do that with her the first time she went up to the bedroom but told her to “fake the f*ck” and she would explain later ( I am resentful I
Had to type that out)

*They are both downright giddy that they found out the curfew origin story (🙄)

*H says that Mary told her Hef’s wife was having an affair with a security guard and tried to blackmail him over it (This doesn't make sense. How would she blackmail
Hef about her own affair? Hef made it no secret that his first marriage ended because she cheated on him (🙄) so why would this one have been any different? H just loves to rag on the other women before or after her)

*Then of course she has to bring up Crystal again because all roads lead to Crystal!! H brings up Crystal’s book and how she wrote about dating a guy from the Bachelor franchise and then says “Well, in her book she didn't say she was dating him; she just said they went to an innocent lunch” and Hef got blackmailed with this information and says Crystal blamed it on Izabella in an Instagram story later because Izabella was working in PR at the time. (Why is chilling obsessed with stories about blackmailing Hef?!)

*H says Izabella wrote a book that was so nasty about Holly. H tells a story about “someone showing her a tweet” years ago that Izabella tweeted she was at the spa and heard Holly had just been there and was sad they didn't cross paths like they were old friends. H says Izabella was nasty about her again when her book came out because she was jealous that Holly's book was more successful (Sure Hollin, that is the reason. Or maybe it is because you were super nasty about her in your book)

*B thought it was interesting that Katie did baton twirling and pageants just like she did when she was growing up (Pretty normal things for girls who end up in Playboy actually)

********** Second Part***********

*They talk about B’s TMZ tour. B talked about the spooky stuff and I just don't care to recap it because I am not into her “ghost hunting” BS

*B is flummoxed at how polarizing the episode is. She says half the people hated it and half the people think it is the best work they have ever done (The only reason it was polarizing was that Katie was unhinged and sharing extremely controversial/offensive stuff and Holly’s shit editing skills that made)

*B complains that so many people ask for episodes with Tea but then Katie spills the tea and people are offended (B is so obtuse. People want tea not horrific stories of SA with no warning and choppy editing and weird rambling. The episode could have been a huge success if they edited out the SA story, the underage stripping story, and stuck with the parts of the interview where Katie was coherent)

*H asks what the line is between someone telling their story that has details about other people. H says there is no perfect answer ( Well, you can start with not outing someone's SA and including the victim's name and identifying details. Treat serious content and victims with care and protection. It is actually simple)

*H whines that people complain when interviews are bland so how can she win (umm, you could work on your interviewing skills. Come up with better questions that can help a guest reflect on their time at the mansion in an insightful but tasteful way. Keep B out of the interview with her timeline and ‘hold on we will get to it later’; stop
Burning every bridge with interesting people will make them inclined to come on your podcast.)

*They talk about Katie’s Howard stern interview. B is confused about how she even got to be on The Stern show and says her interview was one of the reasons that girlfriends like B were unsure if the girlfriends actually slept with Hef (Sure, B)

*H says she was always too scared to go on The Stern show because he would not hold back asking questions (smart of her; he would have eaten her alive)

*Holly “kinda forgot trigger warning existed because all that is on my for you Page is rape related” (What the fuck kind of explanation is this?!? I forgot people were sensitive about rape because all I hear about is rape? Same old Hollin, never gonna own up to a mistake)

*Then she relates it to the Cornell case and a news story about a woman being SA’d on a plane and only getting a $100 voucher. Holly seems annoyed that she has to say this and then gives a half-hearted apology for posting without a warning. ( Those two cases have nothing to do with this. Why can't she just own her mistake? Always passing the buck and acting like she is the victim. I don't care if the SA victim was a mean girl or a saint, she should not have been exposed like that.)

*B says she was kind of shocked when Katie talked about getting in to stripping when She was underage but is glad that Katie had positive feelings about because a lot of women view it as a thing that negatively affected their lives. (This is a baffling take. Anyone who is happy they became a stripper at 17 is definitely still in some kind of trauma. The conditions Katie described working in were horrible in addition to the fact that she was still a child. The fact that B thinks it's all good as long as Katie says it's all good is wild)

*B thought it was funny that the Bentley twins drove Bentleys, and of course H has to bring up Crystal, again! They talk about Hef buying Crystal a used Bentley from her music producer and H says someone even showed her the check Hef used to pay for Crystal's Bentley and she has a picture of it on her phone. ( They are such weirdos!! Why would anyone care about this and why do they care about it? And who the hell saved the check?!)

*B talks about people being upset about Katie talking shit about Honda Civics and wants everyone to know that they don't always agree with guests' opinions and B totally likes Honda Civics ( lol ok B we will make a note of this)

*H reads some Patreon members' comments that were critical of the episode and it is deflect, deflect, deflect
-She can't control what guests say
-Katie rambled a lot and she had to do a lot of editing
-Guests aren't paid so they don't want to offend or talk shit about them (right)
-Her weird cuts were because she had to put commercials in the episode
-They were laughing during the laser segment because it was a weird tangent that went nowhere and she had to cut a lot out and by the time they got to the end she left in she couldn't hold her laughter in any longer. (Just edit the whole part out then! It literally didn't even make sense with the portions you left in and you are being rude AF by including a shot of you laughing AT your guest. How does she not get that?)

*H defends her decision to title the episode ‘Spilling Tea’ because what was she going to do title it ‘SA story’ (There are literally infinite alternative titles that would have been more appropriate.)

*H is jealous because Lorraine Nicholson is making a movie about the mansion starring Lily Rose deep and Holly's script/movie about her book has been going nowhere for the past 10 years (lol I'm sorry but this is funny)

*Back to Crystal! They talk about Crystal's new Patreon and podcast trailer. H says she saw the Claire interview teaser and thinks that it's “interesting” They are annoyed about Crystal putting her content behind a paywall because she talk shit about them having a paywall, ( wasn't Crystal saying that she would be down to be interviewed by them/come on the pod but wouldnt want to have it behind a paywall/used for their paywall content?) they are pissed she had a dog bday party after talking shit about dog bday parties, H thinks Crystal is acting like she is the first person to have a playboy podcast.

*H says she is drained from doing her other podcast. (The one where she interviews a stripper on stage at a strip club with her second clickbait headline about SA in one week. What a record! There is nothing wrong with being a stripper but I just think the stage of a strip club or as H called it a “Gentlemans” club isnt the place to talk about SA. Her guest is very open about the Sexual harassment and somewhat dangerous situations she has encountered working as a stripper. Something is really wrong in Holly’s head)

*H says she just can't seem to get away from SA stories and felt she had to do an episode to raise awareness about it. H says she normally likes to keep the topics on the lighter side for her other pod (For sure, she just loves to explore and promote the light-hearted pipeline of exploited child to teenage OF model. So cute and fun!)

*Talks about her guest being a volunteer Sexual Assault advocate which is great and makes me wonder if her guest was aware of H and B outing a victim on their pod

**********SA Trigger warning***********

*H does one of her signature abrupt transitions and asks B if she told her the story about someone she knows, allegedly on WhatsApp group chat that was sending sex videos “ and he said one of them was of me” B seems genuinely shocked and is like what?

*H talks about how she has hinted before about someone she used to date, and says we probably know who she is talking about who she suspected might be filming her during sex without her consent. H says she has talked to other women he has hooked up with who say he filmed them during sex but they didn't care because they were in a relationship with him and she says other women he has hooked up with have also said they have the same suspicion for the same reasons as H. H also says that she knows people who used to be friends with her ex and he would show the friend videos of him having sex with women and it was filmed the same way H thinks she was filmed. This friend also said he saw on the ex’s phone a WhatsApp group chat where he was sending sex videos. H said she talked to a police officer and he said there is nothing that can be done without the video but then she talked to somebody in the legal field who said there is probably more you can do than that. “Especially if there is a witness who said she saw the videos” (she switches the gender pronoun of the witness from male to female here. Not sure what that was about) and says she would like to see a hard drive searched. (This is a traumatic and sick story. If this is all true I hope she will pursue charges to prevent other women from being victims of this creep.)

Whew! That was a lot to get down.

*Tana starts the episode talking about how different her first sober anniversary is versus her second sober anniversary.

*Says she is sober from alcohol, cocaine, and mdma but she still smokes weed

*She says sober glow is wearing off because it isn't as new and exciting

* She realizes she has been searching for dopamine her whole life and that when she “isn't fixing everyone and everything” around her she is on an insatiable quest for dopamine ( what has she ever fixed for anyone?!?)

*Her therapist had her sit there for 7 min and do nothing. She said it was profound and made her realize she needs to sit with herself but she feels selfish for choosing herself right now (get the fuck out of here with that)

*She has a real mother Theresa moment and says that her purpose in life is to help people and says she is stopped by people saying she saved their lives daily

*Makoa makes a cameo in the pod and says he is very proud of Tana (cute)

*She talks about being in her agoraphobia era because she didn't want to go to events like Alix Earle's premiere (Having agoraphobia and not wanting to go to a lame influencer's premiere are two different things)

*Tana and Ty went to the Miley Cyrus event and said Miley said something profound to her and Ty that they are going to get matching tattoos of it but she says she doesn't want to share it and wants to keep it to herself (Nobody cares)

*Tana says she is going to start going to AA because she wants to learn as much as she can about sobriety. Tana says she had a three-week period this year when she was “had a little three week period this year where she was smoking a ton of weed” to numb out (This is a step in the right direction. Let's see if she actually does it)

*The Adderall must have kicked in because she ends the episode and does the outro but then comes back because she went on TikTok and watched the I hate people I love people video. (Girl, please stop acting like such a tweaker)

*More tangenting about how far she has come and how much of a mess she used to be. She talks about how awful she had been to her earlier assistants and forced them to party with her. Says her assistant Meg has no idea how bad she used to be (We are just going to act like you didn't assault Makoa, threaten to unalive yourself, and call the police because you weren't given opiates? Mmmkay)

*Tana just wants her past toxic behavior to inspire people now to show how far you can come. (True inspirational people don't sit around talking about how much they want to inspire people.)

*She goes on a tangent about how she is so hyper aware of never wanting to come off as full of herself and out of touch (you are failing miserably at this ) and that she has always put everyone else before herself and never just sat with herself( Tana, be so for real. When have you ever put anyone before yourself?? Like, you put your addiction and toxic behavior before self love but you have not been neglecting yourself because you have been talking care of other people's physical and emotional needs. So laughably out of touch)

I hope you all enjoyed this bonkers BS breakdown. Please follow my sub it you want more sassy content!

It was in the news this week that Zak bought the underground bunker house in Las Vegas. I just saw a clip that Holly on TikTok posted of a tour she took of this house. Lately, she has been continually bringing up the fact that she believes he was recording their sexual encounters without her consent which is a form of SA. I am not doubting her claims but I wonder what her motive is in trying to tie herself to his real estate purchase?

*Tana starts the episode in her Southern accent and then stops because she said the top comment is always negative when she is doing a Southern accent (kudos for taking notes)

*It wouldn't be a BS episode without Tana's hypochondriac complaining. Says she is having a midlife crisis ( Enough with this trope. She needs to get a hobby)

*They are in Texas for Tana's show at Texas Christian University. Tana talks about being in Texas and her irrational fear of bugs (I feel seen right now ngl)

*More boring complaining about traveling woes(Nobody wants to hear you bitch about travel delays. It's unbearable enough when it happens in our lives and we don't need to hear about yours)

* It's the mental health Olympics and Tana is going for gold! She says Imari is so lucky because he doesn't have all of the mental Health struggles as she does and he has “only had one panic attack” (Maybe it's because he doesn't have the privilege of acting crazy because he is a man of color and not a multi-millionaire)

*Imari says he doesn't take life too seriously and Tana makes a comment about Imari not being great in an emergency because he doesn't take it seriously and uses the example of him not calling 911 during the “road rage” incident from a few months ago ( Imari doesn't use 911 as their personal security and medical hotline like you do. Justice for Imari)

*They are going to Bucees after the episode and I am seething with jealousy!! Bucees is amazing and I wish they had them on the West Coast.

*OMG they brought up my other favorite Southern place. Rudy’s!!! My mouth is literally watering typing this. (Bucees and amazing BBQ are the only things the South does better than the West Coast.)

*They talk about cheating in past relationships and Imari talks about someone he dated that lived in Texas, and he cheated on Imari. Tana says she is grateful Brad cheated on her because she wouldn't have left the relationship otherwise

*Tana and Imari tease a new project they are working on. Says it will be comedy-based ( Imari, you're in danger girl. Tana doesn't have a great track record of working with friends and I hope this doesn't blow up their friendship)

*Apparently Tana's family moved to Texas for a year when she was in grade school. Tana talks about her “Texas Tani” video (I just saw this and it was so funny. It's sad because the wealth and privilege really ruined her sense of humor)

Hope you all enjoyed the bonkers BS breakdown!

*They met at Austin Mahomes ' Valentine's party. Alexis had seen her out at a club two weeks prior but didn't have any business cards so she made sure the next time she ran into Tana she had a card. A mutual introduced them and when the mutual dropped that Alexis had done Paris Hilton’s glam Tana was interested

*Tana was the first celebrity client that she took solo. Alexis was super nervous and tells a cute story about how she was so
nervous, and Tana was the first client she had who wouldn't stop moving so the eyeliner wing kept getting bigger and bigger but Tana loved it.

*Tana asks Alexis if she can tell her something and says that she “Shot up [Mounjaro] yesterday and it is so fierce” ( I am really tired of the ‘Tana- sh*tt*Ng- her- pants- because-glp1” trope)

*Alexis is from Missouri and moved
to LA when she was 18 to go
To
Makeup school

*Alexis started assisting Ash K Holm
The first time she worked with Ash was Ariana Grande's music video for ‘God is a woman’ She got to assist for Ariana, The Kardashians, Lisa Rinna, and Avril Lavigne.

*Tana asks what the Kardashians are like in real life and the first thing Alexis says is they are always on time Tana says they are mogging her ( When the Kardashians are making you look bad you know you have a problem)

*Alexis branched out on her own after a year and a half but ended up going back
to assisting Ash during COVID because she needed the money. She eventually went totally solo and Kris Jenner was her first-ever celebrity. Had to sign a major NDA

*Alexis was trying to build her client base and told Tana she would give her a free
Glam for each new client she referred her to. Her first refferal was Demi lovato (swag)

*Alexis started touring with Avril Lavigne. Says she loved touring when she was young. Spills the tea that she lost her virginity on a tour bus to a drummer but not Avril’s drummer (That is some crazy tea)

*They talk about going to the Justin Bieber concert
-Justin kept smoking cigars and abandoning them. Alexis then busts out a cigar stub that was smoked by JB; they say if they smoked it they would be Eskimo sisters with Hailey
-They got paparazzied after the event
Getting asked if Justin was still in there
-They went to the after party that was like 15 people. They bleep out some of the tea and say they won't speak on it
-Tana says she wants to get matching Justin Bieber tattoos and then they talk about their cringe-ass cheek tattoos. Tana’s is ‘Young AF’ and Alexis’ is ‘Stay Sick’ (I couldn't stop laughing at how truly horrible these are. Talk about a tattoo
Nightmare)

*They talk about Coachella. Alexis went through a breakup right before Coachella, and so she went alone.

*Tana talks about how much shit Alexis has had to deal with having her as a client. Mentions when she wanted to dress as Carol Baskins from ‘Tiger King’ and Alexis killed the look (Ok friends, someone drop a pic of this look in the comments. I am so booked and busy this week and every spare minute is typing this recap)

*Tana is actually asking some good interview questions about how she felt in the beginning of her career and what challenges she faced etc

*Tana talks about her time living in David Dobrik's house and says that was the craziest period she was Alexis’ client. She would schedule glam but not want to get out of bed so would let her assistants get glam instead. They talk about the horrible lashes Tana used to rock and how Alexis finally talked her into doing a more natural lash (she did the Lord's work getting Tana off those muppet lashes)

*Tana asks Alexis to give some
Alexis Oakley makeup tips for the listeners. Alexis says she layers multiple setting sprays; Tana says one she uses smells like a hand job (I hate this 😑) The rest of the tips aren't really tips but brand plugs and I'm not wasting time typing them.

Hope you all enjoyed this tame BS breakdown! Please join my sub if you want more sassy content. I will definitely be covering Brooke’s new pod!

*Brooke talks about how it has been. Hard for her to start a podcast and how it is hard to podcast alone

*She gives a Sparks Notes (Brooke referencing Sparks Notes is hilariously millennial and I can say that because I am
a millennial) life update. Talks about how her life has done a 180 from living downtown LA, podcasting and touring to living in the valley, (marrying a creep), being unemployed, and losing her grandmother (sad)

*Talks about her wedding and decision to elope at the Santa Barbara courthouse, her wedding look, jewelry, hair. Talks about the online hate she got for her wedding hairstyle. Her stylist wouldn't do a middle part and her stylist wouldn't give her a middle part and gave her a deep side part. People were saying it was giving ROTC and they did a funny Photoshop of an ROTC officer over Brooke during this part

*VMA’s
-She loved all of the negative attention she got for her rehearsal dinner party and wedding looks so she decided she would wear an ugly outfit to the VMA’s to get more attention
-Originally she was going to wear a different uglier dress and showed a pic of a big feathered frock that she decided to pass on
-Considered wearing the Skims Bush underwear but the Bush underwear was sold out
-Wore tiny underwear and was worried her labia would show and she would be compared to Lady Gaga's meat dress (although lewd this was funny and it's this kind of quick wit where Brooke shines)
-Again a hair stylist gave her a different slicked-back look than her reference photo but she never feels comfortable speaking up (I feel seen with this comment! I have such trouble speaking up about things like that in the moment)
-She made it on the worst dressed list but it didn't feel good about it

*CBS/Big Brother
-She has been obsessed with Big Brother for years (checks out)
-Says nobody loves Big Brother as she does
-She got a call to come be on an episode of Big Brother and got to be in a competition and attend a live eviction
-She ended up winning the game and got to meet Julie Chen

*Brooke talks about her vision for BF and wants it to be a bit more serious than canceled but wants it to be funny. She kind of rambles about ideas for the pod like taking calls and having guests on. Says she has been enjoying making friends who aren't co-workers.

*********Ginger’s Hot Take**********

Overall I thought this was a decent debut episode. Brooke can be genuinely funny and witty in a way that is self-deprecating without being obnoxious. The moments when she pokes fun at herself and isn't afraid to look dumb are great.
However, her deep insecurity and people-pleasing tendencies could be her downfall. She talked a lot about her fears of people not liking her content and highlighted a lot of negative feedback she has received for things in the past. Being open and real about these fears can be relatable but focusing on them too much as I felt she did during this episode can be a turn-off. Influencers make millions of dollars a year off marketing to their following which is made up of stans and haters. Just like any job there are good and bad things. You might have an unfair boss who plays favorites; you might work with co-workers you don't gel with but focusing so much on the bad/hard part of your job while making millions of dollars a year is just not a good look. Save the rant for your therapist and friends because trying to get the feedback and support you want from your collective viewers will never be what you want.

I don't watch reality TV anymore but I don't mind hearing her recaps of the CBS shows.

I think interviews could be her time to shine. It will be interesting to see who she brings on.

I also have a hard time hearing about her creepy husband and cannot put aside what I know of his past to believe they have a good marriage or that he is a good person

What did you all think of this episode? If you like my sassy recap please join my sub!