Blake Lively has been named one of Time Magazine s 100 Most Influential People in 2025, Roseanne Barr accuses me of being funded by Qatar, and more. Also, Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sanchez have made history.
00:00:00.000All right, you guys, happy Thursday. I'm so sorry that we were off air yesterday. I can definitely explain why. Anyways, what did I miss? Well, apparently Blake Lively made the time list for most influential people in the universe. Okay, we'll talk about that. Also, there was a very girly space mission. Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sanchez, they made history. They entered a male-dominated sphere and instantly started nagging when they got back.
00:00:25.960We should talk about it because it is absolutely hilarious. And lastly, Roseanne Barr. Yes, that Roseanne Barr is accusing me of being funded by Qatar, and she is openly stating that she's going to knock me the F out if she sees me.
00:00:40.840Just a typical day in my life. Welcome back to Candace.
00:00:55.960First and foremost, regarding yesterday, just so you guys know what happened, this is exactly what happened. I woke up wide awake at 3 o'clock in the morning, was not feeling great, and the first thing that came to my mind was that I desperately needed to organize my son's closets.
00:01:12.420Like, there was nothing more important to me than having the time to organize color-coded my son's closets, my multiple son's closets. And that's what I did. And I think this is called a nesting phase of pregnancy. I actually have never had it before. A lot of women describe it. They get on their hands and their knees, and they start scrubbing right before they go into labor or something. And I just really felt that nothing was more important than me organizing. And so I took a day off to organize those closets. They look fantastic.
00:01:39.860I will say, the only thing that's previously happened that's been remotely even close to that was when I had my first child. I had this sense of dread that my husband was going to die. It was totally crazy, like leading up to labor. And I did not want him to leave the house. I basically became, I was just his captor. It was very scary.
00:01:59.600And one morning I woke up, and he had left the house. It was when we were living in D.C. because he went to go for a run. And I just was boo-hoo crying on the bed when he came home. And I was just like, where'd you go? You could have died. You could have been eaten by a wild boar.
00:02:16.200He was like, this is D.C. There are no wild boars. But I was crying hysterically. I don't know. I just thought that he was going to die no matter anywhere he went. And my sister went through it, too. So I know that it's happened to other women where you essentially just make your husband stay really close to you and joined at your hip.
00:02:31.400So I was going through one of those crazy spells. This time I did not capture my husband and leave him in a room, but I did have to do some cleaning. So that's the truth.
00:02:41.420Anyways, what did I miss? Well, you guys were tagging me in some breaking news that Blake Lively has somehow made Time Magazine's list for the 100 Most Influential People in 2025.
00:02:53.440Here is the headline. In Time Magazine, there's a write-up, and she is described as a risk taker. You can see at the bottom there, it says, by Sherilyn Ifill.
00:03:05.500Now, oddly, what's very strange about this, this placement in the 2025 Time Most Influential list, is that to justify this placement, they reached out to that woman, Sherilyn.
00:03:17.580She used to work for the NAACP. And the reason why she's made this list is because of a financial contribution that Blake and her husband made to the NAACP back in 2019.
00:03:30.440I'm not kidding. Right. So back during that time frame, Sherilyn Ifill served as the seventh president and director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
00:03:42.360So we're talking money. OK. And here is what she had to say about Blake, according to that time write-up.
00:03:47.840She said, quote, I don't know the Blake Lively of the red carpet or the Met Gala. I never watched Gossip Girl.
00:03:54.500The Blake Lively I know is a philanthropist and a student of our country's most intractable problems.
00:04:01.060She and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, reached out in 2019 to make a contribution to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
00:04:07.960I had been getting a few of these calls as our work fighting against voter suppression and police brutality was receiving national attention.
00:04:15.680I'm always curious about the kind of research that famous people do before they make that cold call to offer their support.
00:04:22.160The ones that I have remained in a relationship with are those who, like Blake, really did their homework.
00:04:27.840I admired immediately her curiosity and her sincere work to understand the conditions that shaped this country.
00:04:32.880I remember an early conversation in which she expressed frustration that so much of our nation's history was not a part of the instruction that she had received as a student.
00:04:43.240Her commitment to filling those gaps and becoming the most fully informed and prepared citizen is what I appreciate most about her.
00:05:13.260She has revealed this lovely picture of herself in the Time magazine and she writes,
00:05:18.580it's an honor to be acknowledged on the Time 100 list for 2025 to be written about by the great Sherilyn Ifill is not something I take lightly.
00:06:03.020I love this so much because she deserves this.
00:06:05.580One way or another, you have to admit that Blake Lively is indeed influential.
00:06:10.040OK, you have to respect the monumental level of PR that is taking place here.
00:06:14.900The monumental level of PR, which is being achieved here.
00:06:19.240Because if all else fails and people don't like you, you just kind of find a minority, preferably a black person, to tell the world how amazing you are.
00:06:26.420And that is very clearly the strategy that is being employed here.
00:06:30.120Because why else would something that took place in 2019, meaning Blake Lively gave a donation to the NAACP in 2019.
00:06:39.900Why would that somebody give me a valid reason?
00:06:42.480Why would that earn her a spot on a list in 2025?
00:06:49.240The answer is because the public relations team that is employing strategies right now from yesteryear have engaged the NAACP.
00:06:57.920And we're like, remember, remember that donation that we gave you?
00:07:00.640And speaking of yesteryear, this is even funnier.
00:07:02.640If you're wondering why it is that Blake and Ryan decided to give money to the NAACP in 2019, it certainly wasn't because she was getting deep on the issues.
00:07:12.880And Sutherland was like, oh, as Sherilyn describes it, I just hate that my upbringing, I didn't learn real black history.
00:07:19.220I just right now want to get involved with this legal defense fund.
00:08:38.920And suddenly, because white people are walking around eggshells, there was this massive backlash that happened because the Internet police were like,
00:08:47.280excuse me, did you say something positive about a black person?
00:08:52.260Well, let me just dig through your entire life.
00:08:54.000And they had found out that the couple had committed an underreported racist offense.
00:09:00.340He and Blake decided to get married at the Boone Plantation in South Carolina.
00:09:27.860Scroll down here, Skylar, if you can, because I'm just going to if you can make it bigger, because my eyesight is so bad right now.
00:09:33.120But it says Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds said he and his wife are deeply and unreservedly sorry for holding their 2012 wedding ceremony at a South Carolina plantation.
00:09:46.340He says it's impossible to reconcile, Reynolds told Fast Company in a profile published on Tuesday.
00:09:52.920What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest.
00:09:57.240What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy.
00:10:01.480And so they were in this little like they needed good PR.
00:10:05.940And so what happened was they decided it says the move was criticized at the time.
00:10:11.400You know, he came under renewed scrutiny in 2018 after Reynolds tweeted his support of Black Panther, the first superhero movie to feature a majority black cast.
00:11:39.000Well, I think she's a net positive in 2025.
00:11:43.040If she wants to tweet pretty pictures of her in a magazine, I am with it.
00:11:47.480In other lady news, we have to speak about this Blue Origin space mission.
00:11:52.680OK, because, ah, women, sometimes we can just be such women.
00:11:56.780You know, it's like we're crying out of bed because our husband goes for a run and we think he's going to just be taken out in the middle of D.C.
00:12:04.440By some hogs that don't live in D.C., you know.
00:12:07.760And this is kind of what this mission was because it was just really annoying in all the ways I didn't want it to be annoying.
00:12:14.160So just to give you guys the facts, on April 14th, Jeff Bezos, you know, he has the private spaceflight startup, which is called Blue Origin.
00:12:23.580And they decided to launch six well-known women into space.
00:12:28.820Here's a picture of the ladies that are going to space.
00:12:31.940Looks like it could be the cover of a Spice Girls album.
00:13:08.020It was Gail King, former NASA scientist, Aisha Bowe, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, soon to be wife and journalist, research scientists, Amanda Nugent and Katy Perry.
00:13:21.800So you're going to have a pop star in there.
00:13:23.340Plus film producer Carrie Ann Flynn is there.
00:13:26.220And they promoted this as the first all women spaceflight because the only other time that a woman went to space, the first was Soviet Union cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
00:13:39.460She made a solo trip back in 1963 and she spent three days in space.
00:13:44.060She circled the Earth 48 times and then she landed herself as a feminist icon.
00:13:49.760So they were kind of trying to redo this thing, redo this historic moment.
00:13:53.260And they're like, we're just going to have so many celebrities and activists.
00:13:56.580We're going to launch them into space.
00:13:58.580And then they just made it super girly.
00:14:00.900Like, OK, but like, what about the fashion?
00:14:03.340The Lauren Sanchez got together and decided to design the Blue Origin suits in collaboration with Oscar de la Renta because, like, they have money.
00:14:12.400So they got the creative directors of Oscar de la Renta to design these fantastic suits that were tailored to their bodies because these aren't your regular astronauts.
00:31:53.140But I think when she got fired for being a Jew hater and she is a Jew hater on every level and from medieval times with her blood libel bulls**t and all that stuff.
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