HATE TO BREAK IT TO YA with Jamie Kennedy

This week on Hate To Break It To Ya I sat down with Mercedes “MJ” Javid, and we had a lot to catch up on. We get into the world of Jeff Lewis and Chump Land, what happens when people fall out of a friend group, loyalty, getting “de-chumped,” and why some people walk away gracefully while others burn everything down on the way out.

MJ also opens up about someone dropping dime on her during the first Chump Con, and then we finally get into our own beef. We break down what happened between us on camera, where things went wrong, and why she believes being able to apologize, forgive and move forward is healthier than hanging onto resentment. We also talk about the early days of reality TV and Bravo, Shahs of Sunset, her real estate career, my ridiculous house hunt, where the whole Jeff Lewis universe is headed, and the new chapter she’s building for herself.

MJ and I can argue, laugh, go completely off the rails and somehow land on something real by the end of it. This was one of those conversations.

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About Mercedes “MJ” Javid:
Mercedes “MJ” Javid is a television personality and luxury real estate broker best known as an original cast member of Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset. She returned to the Bravo world with The Valley: Persian Style and is also entering a new chapter with her upcoming solo podcast, New Season.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 – MJ Does Her Makeup Live & The Cartier Bracelet Story
00:07:08 – How People Exit Friend Groups: Grace vs. Scorched Earth
00:12:55 – The Chump Con Incident: Someone Dropped Dime on MJ
00:20:11 – How MJ First Got Into Jeff's World & Their History on the Show
00:25:08 – Jamie and MJ's On-Air Beef: What Really Happened
00:39:47 – OG Bravo Wives, Paris Hilton, and the Birth of Reality TV
00:43:02 – The Apology: MJ Says Sorry and Means It
00:54:55 – Forgiveness Is Health
01:02:26 – The House Hunt: Elevator Houses, Freeway Studios & Finding Home
01:09:01 – Where Is Chump Land Headed? Jeff, Howard Stern, and the Future

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Back with another solo episode, and this one happened because I came home from the Laugh Factory way too fired up to go to sleep.

I went up on a Monday night, the set was going great, and then I tried one joke that completely changed the room. People started arguing, people started walking out, and at one point I actually offered an audience member $100 to leave. They didn't take it.

So I wanted to sit down and talk through what happened, why the joke hit such a nerve, and where comedy is right now when a room can go from laughing together to completely divided in a matter of seconds. I also get into what happened after the show, the conversation I had with the person I offended, and why I still think comedy has to be a place where we're allowed to push things, get uncomfortable, disagree, and hopefully still laugh.

This one got weird fast.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – I Just Got Back From the Laugh Factory
03:16 – The Set Was Going Great… Until It Wasn’t
07:48 – The Joke That Changed the Room
13:24 – I Offered an Audience Member $100 to Leave
20:56 – I Apologized, Hugged It Out… And She Still Wasn’t Happy
27:03 – Can We Still Joke About Everything?
31:25 – Watching the Actual Footage From the Show
37:44 – The Apology, the Hug & What Happened Next
46:10 – Final Thoughts on the Night
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This week on Hate To Break It To Ya I sat down with Flash Shelton — better known as The Squatter Hunter — to get inside one of the craziest loopholes in the housing system.

Flash breaks down how squatters and “deceptive tenants” use fake leases, tenant protections and civil law to stay in properties they don’t own — sometimes leaving homeowners stuck fighting for months just to get their own house back. We get into the worst states for it, why police often can’t simply remove someone, some of Flash’s wildest removal tactics, and the cases that pushed him into becoming The Squatter Hunter in the first place.

I also tell Flash about my own experience squatting in Los Feliz when I was a broke actor in the ’90s — and what I discovered after buying a house that had apparently been functioning as a full-blown commune.

Flash also talks about his A&E series Squatters, how his work went viral, and his push to change squatter laws around the country.

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About Flash Shelton:

Flash Shelton is the founder of Squatter Hunters LLC and star and executive producer of A&E’s Squatters. After dealing with squatters in his own family’s property, he began helping homeowners reclaim their homes and has since become one of the most recognizable voices pushing for squatter-law reform.

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Timestamps:

00:00 – How I Met The Squatter Hunter04:50 – How Flash Became The Squatter Hunter19:43 – The Worst States for Squatters28:26 – $130K and a Year to Get Their House Back31:19 – Who Are These Squatters?44:01 – My Own Squatting Story51:41 – The Commune I Found in My House1:00:27 – Flash’s Wildest Squatter Removal Tactics1:05:37 – The Hollywood Hills Squatter Case1:21:00 – Changing Squatter Laws Across America1:25:42 – How to Protect Your Property

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This week I’m back with another Worlds on Fire, and this one starts with restaurant stupidity and somehow ends with Coca-Cola, predictive programming, Apple, the end times and a conversation with Hayden Panettiere that I haven’t talked about before.
I start with one of my biggest restaurant pet peeves: people cleaning around your food while you’re still eating. If the restaurant is open, the kitchen is open — and I definitely don’t need somebody spraying chemicals three feet from my coffee. A Panda Express video sends me over the edge, and it brings back some memories from my own Red Lobster days when I first moved to Los Angeles.
Then things get heavier.
I get into the debate around Sophie Cunningham and women’s sports, why I think people are deliberately making a pretty basic disagreement more complicated than it needs to be, and why labeling somebody a “grifter” because you don’t like their opinion doesn’t actually answer the argument.
From there we get into abortion, the Coca-Cola custom-can controversy, predictive programming, the Twin Towers showing up over and over again in pop culture, and an Apple commercial that sent me down an entirely different rabbit hole. I’m not telling you what to believe. I’m showing you what I’m looking at and asking the same question I keep coming back to:
At what point do enough weird coincidences make you stop and say, “Okay… what the hell is going on?”
And at the end, I wanted to take a few minutes to remember Hayden Panettiere. I didn’t know Hayden well, but we crossed paths through the Scream world, and the last time I saw her at a convention she opened up to me about losing her brother and what she was going through. After hearing about her passing, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that conversation.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – The World Is on Fire
02:59 – My Starbucks Hall of Shame
05:02 – Stop Spraying Chemicals Around My Food
09:53 – This Panda Express Video Is Insane
13:43 – Sophie Cunningham & Women’s Sports
21:04 – When Disagreement Becomes a “Grift”
30:03 – Where I Actually Stand on Abortion
39:05 – The Coca-Cola Custom Can Rabbit Hole
47:04 – Predictive Programming & the Twin Towers
49:30 – Apple, 666 & the “Beast System”
53:55 – Are We Living Through Something Bigger?
54:09 – Remembering Hayden Panettiere
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This week on Hate To Break It To Ya I sat down with Dave Sheridan — the man behind Officer Doofy and the actual Ghostface killer in the original Scary Movie — and I have to say, this is one of those conversations where I barely had to do anything. Dave just goes. He's one of the few people who genuinely makes me laugh without trying, and this episode is proof of that.
We get into how Dave created Doofy, the strange road that brought him back for Scary Movie 6, and the original $15 vacuum prop that somehow became a piece of movie history. There are also some ridiculous convention stories, including the time that same vacuum helped knock out the power at an entire event in Scotland.
But a lot of this conversation is really about how much the business has changed — auditions, comedy, conventions, making your own projects, and what it takes to keep working when Hollywood doesn’t operate the way it used to. Dave is naturally one of the funniest people I know, so this one goes off the rails pretty quickly.

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About Dave Sheridan:
Dave Sheridan is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known for playing Special Officer Doofy in Scary Movie (2000) — a role he also performed as the physical Ghostface killer throughout the film. He got his start as an SNL intern, trained at The Second City in Chicago, and broke out with the MTV prank series Buzzkill in 1996, which predated Jackass and Tom Green. His other credits include Ghost World (2001), The Devil's Rejects, A Haunted House, A Haunted House 2, and the Glenn Danzig-directed Hellmask. He returned as Doofy and Ghostface in Scary Movie 6, which opened number one worldwide. He is a father of two and one of the most active figures on the horror convention circuit.

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00:00:00 – Intro & Catching Up with Dave
00:12:32 – Horror Cons, Skeet Ulrich & How Dave Got Into the Circuit
00:15:26 – The Original Scary Movie Vacuum & the $15 Prop Story
00:30:09 – The Scotland Convention Disaster
00:35:32 – How Dave Became Doofy in Scary Movie
00:43:44 – Hollywood Auditions, Three Kings & Office Space
00:54:39 – Scary Movie, the Wayans & Why Dave Disappeared from the Sequels
01:00:00 – Scary Movie 6, Marlon Wayans & Bringing Doofy Back
01:14:05 – Horror Con Economics, Doofy Dollars & Life on the Circuit
01:30:11 – How Hollywood Auditions Have Changed
01:42:22 – Scary Movie 6 Stories & Making Your Own Movies

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