You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality C Podcast. I’m your host reality. Steve. Thank you all for tuning in on this Friday. A good episode four. Today we’re gonna go over a total brain fart that I had in yesterday’s podcast with Jen Sturger and in yesterday’s open for both the Daily Roundup and Jen’s podcast.
I attended the Katy Perry concert last night. I will give my review of that. Eva does a post show interview from Survivor all five finalists, gave a post show interview to media outlets. The ones I read were their interviews with Dalton Ross. Couple thoughts on those. And Megan Fox is pregnant again with MG K’s kid and I’m scratching my head about it.
We’ll get to all that momentarily. Alright, episode number 4 44 yesterday. I hope you took the time to listen to Jen Serger on the podcast and. I don’t know what I was thinking. I clearly thought her and I were having a conversation about this particular topic after we recorded, or maybe even before. But in both yesterday’s daily roundup and in my open of yesterday’s episode 4 44, I said, Hey, there’s two things I want you to know.
Number one, give Jen some love. Leave a message on her Instagram account and because I know she’s got it going through it this week, even though she’s getting a lot of positive feedback, you know, reliving something like this, she definitely gets some PTSD from it. And then the other thing I said, and I spent probably two or three minutes on, was to tell everybody that the guy who betrayed her and ran the story back in 2010 on Deadspin a j DeRio, had since apologized to her in 2018.
For some reason, that whole story about how Jen was working and she still does work, great work in LA with foster dogs. AJ’s fiance at the time looked her up and then basically was looking to foster a dog, and it was through Jen and, and AJ found out who it was, gave her a heads up, all that stuff. You heard her tell the story yesterday.
For some reason I totally forgot. That Jen told that story on the podcast. For some reason I thought she, her and I were just talking about that when I was asking about AJ and how did it all come about. So I told it to you twice on the daily roundup and in the open, and yet there it was, right in the podcast.
So, again, I, I, I did see quite a few comments sent to Jen. And she’s getting a lot of love from this, not necessarily my interview, but just from being on the documentary. I really would go check it out if I were you because it’s really, really enlightening and it’s one of the negative comments that I saw her get was basically, get over it.
A guy sent you a dick pic, big deal. It’s not like he. You know, RU paid you or sexually assaulted you, you know, that was their take. And it’s like, well, clearly this person didn’t watch the documentary and they’re just reading headlines basically. But it wasn’t even about that. Yeah. Getting a dick pic unsolicited from a guy that you’ve never spoken to or met in your life or never even talked to is very creepy.
However, that’s not Jen’s story. Jen’s story is more about, look at the way it was handled. Look at the way that I was completely dismissed by the public, by my peers, by other women because of the way I looked. It’s essentially what it came down to because she looked the way she looked clearly. Nobody could possibly take her seriously, that she did nothing to provoke Brett Favre from hitting on her.
She did nothing. Yet so many people, I mean that clip in the documentary of Craig Carton on the radio show basically saying, what? You were selling sex, so a football player hit on you. You were selling sex. Get over it, essentially. Big deal. And it’s like, by the way, Craig Carton is still on the air. He did serve some time in jail for gambling, embezzlement, or running some sort of Ponzi scheme or something.
But he’s back on the air. He’s on television still. Like, I hope that guy’s bearing his head between his legs after this documentary came out. I don’t even know if he’s addressed it, but boy does he sound like a misogynistic pig in that three second clip they showed in the documentary, but that was the prevailing thought around her when this happened.
Oh, of course. She gave him, she gave up her pictures to Deadspin because she wanted to be famous. Really? If somebody wants to be famous for that, for being the woman that was sexually harassed by an NFL player, that’s what she wants to be famous for. It just doesn’t make any sense. And I know that obviously people have that takeout there.
It is few and far between. I will say that she’s getting a lot more support, but in 2010, no. It’s like, why are we looking at Jen’s possible actions in this, which was nothing versus, Hey, what about the behavior of the married man who’s a star football player? But because he’s Brett Favre and he does what he does, and at the time he was beloved by the media and beloved by the fans, he just gets a free pass.
He gets a free pass to act like a total creep because look, he didn’t commit a crime. Sending an unsolicited dick pic is just creepy. It’s rude. It could probably hurt your marriage if your wife had any balls, but he didn’t commit a crime. So the NFL, finding him $50,000 was a joke because you compare that to probably what the guy makes.
Yeah, it was a joke. But he can’t go to jail. He can’t be arrested. So what would’ve been the punishment? What should have been the punishment back then? I think he should have been suspended. I don’t know how many games are I, I, I can’t put a, a game amount on this, but he definitely should have been suspended by the league and he got a $50,000 fine, which basically is like a nickel to you and me.
That clearly was not the penalty he deserved for what he did. Because he ruined a woman’s life and I, there’s only so much you can do at this point. I mean, she’s not looking to Brett Favre is serving his karma right now because he continued the poor behavior. You saw the whole thing. We didn’t even talk, Janet and I didn’t even talk about what’s going on with him now and stealing money from the welfare department in Mississippi so he could buy and build a volleyball court at Southern Mississippi for his daughter.
Getting caught once again, sending texts that basically implicate him. He still claims to this day, I had no idea where we were getting the money from and where it was. I mean, if you buy that, if you buy that after this guy’s past, I don’t know what to tell you. But Jen’s story is not about a dick pic.
Jen’s story is about. What the hell were we doing as a society? Immediately turning our back on her and making her the fall person and making her the bad guy in all this. What? It’s just sad all around. I’m glad that Jen’s story is now out on the national platform. The truth was out there, the truth was told.
Of course, you’re gonna have people that don’t believe her, but. I think those people have more issues with themselves than they do with her. I think anybody that just immediately jumps to the take of, well, I don’t believe it. There’s no way. She didn’t send Brett that stuff, or she didn’t respond, or she wasn’t flirting back again, if you say that and you don’t know the facts of the case, you’re just, yeah, you’re allowed to have an opinion, but your opinion’s allowed to be flat out wrong and that if that is your opinion of this, you’re wrong and.
My question would be why does your mind immediately jump to that? Why does it have to be, there’s no way she didn’t converse with him and she didn’t flirt back, and she, why does your mind immediately go there as opposed to, oh, of course it’s a professional athlete. All professional athletes think they’re invincible.
All professional athletes think they can get away with anything. Why doesn’t it go there? As opposed to immediately making Jen the bad person in this story and this narrative that people had of her. And it’s just, you look at it and the story, I mean, men during this time basically hijacked her story and turned it into tabloid clickbait and I mean essentially derailed her entire life for quite a few years.
So, as I said, I’m proud to be her friend. I’m glad she did the documentary. There have been people knocking down her door for years trying to get her to talk about this, but she felt very comfortable with the director and as she should have. ’cause I thought that was a great, great documentary and it did show a side of Brett that shows you how popular he was at the time.
And as I said on the podcast yesterday, I really think. First off, this happens in 2025. Way more people immediately will side with the woman, but you still have, it all depends on who the guy is. If it’s a guy that’s not well liked, way more people will support the woman. If it’s one of the best players in any particular sport and he’s well liked by the public and this comes out again, it would probably turn into, oh, she’s just looking to be famous.
And unfortunately, I don’t know, as a country, if we’ve grown since then. I think people tend to believe women more now, but when pieces of shit like Laura Owens pull what they do, it’s like we can’t immediately just believe everyone. It’s a case by case basis, but I think people are more sympathetic to a woman right off the bat.
In cases like this, you don’t immediately say 100000% without seeing any evidence. I automatically believe them, but. I think people will lend a little bit more of an ear and an eye to a situation like Jen if it popped up in 2025 versus what they did in 2010 where they absolutely destroyed her.
