Conversations With Maria Menounos

It’s Friday and we fooled them again—with an RGF that’s part eulogy, part therapy session, and part fuzzy puppet plot twist. We talk a genius who never called himself one. Lyrics like dreams, novels that never saw daylight, and a mind too big for the boxes the world built. He listened, he loved, and he never knew how much he mattered. We talk bricks—the emotional kind. The weight of perfection, shame, and all the stories that said, “not good enough.” We carried them. So did he. Maybe it’s time we stop. We talk functional mental patients—our tribe of all-in mental patients. If you say yes before you know what you’re saying yes to, welcome. You’re one of us. We talk puppet ladies at fan meetups, finger-smashing contractor chaos, and the unexpected healing that comes from demolition, dinner with the locals, and venting to a wheelbarrow. We talk legacy, letting go, and why it’s not about the likes (unless we’re in 3D). Post the thing. Say the words. Set down a brick. You don’t need to carry it anymore. Happ