Blake Lively VS Justin Baldoni： The Revenge of #MeToo ｜ Candace Ep 128
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Candace Cameron Bure gives her thoughts on the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Day lawsuit, and why you should care. Plus, President Zelensky has a sit down with none other than Lex Friedman to discuss why she's spending all of your hard-earned cash.
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All right, you guys, it is Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Day.
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Finally, finally, finally, I've been teasing that all week.
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And let me just say to all the women out there that are watching,
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no matter what you do in life, you never, ever, ever go full Amber Heard.
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Plus, later on in the show, we're going to discuss President Zelensky,
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America's welfare queen, who has been spending all of your hard-earned cash.
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He apparently was able to make time to sit down with none other than Lex Friedman for a
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And I'm going to give you my perspective on that interview.
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And I'll tell you guys whether or not I have had a change of heart about President Zelensky.
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The conclusion here, I have said this since before, long before this ever broke out between
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her and Justin Baldoni, that we have to compartmentalize.
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So no matter what happens in this lawsuit, no matter who wins in the end, do not let it
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distract you from the fact that she has proven herself not to be a kind person, okay?
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And that's largely due to the fact that she is a modern feminist, which means that she
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And so she has to create struggle where there just isn't any, okay?
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She has a track record of being difficult to work with, well-established before Justin
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We had already recapped this in an earlier episode from last year, but from Anna Kendrick,
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pardon, to Armie Hammer, who got fired from Gossip Girl because he said during a dinner that
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Primarily, people don't like to work with Blake Lively.
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I can also tell you personally, back when I was an intern at Glamour Magazine working under
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an editor, she said the most difficult person that she has ever worked with and the rudest
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person that she had ever worked with was Blake Lively, who got the cover of Glamour at some
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And so people just know this behind the scenes.
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You should just know that she is a bit of a brat, okay?
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I will say also regarding Blake Lively, I just saw her coming.
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Going back to what I said yesterday on the show about how my brain works, I always just
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I gave you guys that men in black analogy, that example, rather, when Will Smith randomly
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shoots the eight-year-old while every other agent is shooting all of the aliens in the
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My brain works like that regarding Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds when I just recognize that
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they do things and say things that let me know, that signal to me that they are up on
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their high horses and that they potentially treat people very badly and that really they're
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One time while speaking to a reporter, Blake Lively said that her and Ryan Reynolds refer
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to bugs and animals as she and her as opposed to he and him to their young daughter because
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Another circumstance that made me see right through Ryan Reynolds and the kind of person
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that he is was when, despite being friends with Joe Alwyn, who dated Taylor Swift for
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five years, she's best friends with Blake Lively, he actually became friends with Joe Alwyn
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And then Taylor Swift snapped her fingers, broke up with him, and the headline ran that,
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you know, she went to dinner and got photographed with Blake and Ryan.
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And then immediately after the dinner, Ryan and Blake and two other of her friends, the
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Haim sisters and Gigi Hadid, all staged a mass unfollowing of Joe Alwyn like they were
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Like, I mean, like you can still follow your pal Joe Alwyn.
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That's not how people conduct themselves in a divorce.
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And to go get pictured before you do it, to show him I'm teen girl, pathetic, and also
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Anyways, getting back to the Justin Baldani thing, things sort of reach an inflection
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While she was promoting the movie, It Ends With Us, co-starring, like I said, Justin Baldani.
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He's not as A-list as her, as you would say, because she hangs out with Taylor Swift all
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But we did become aware that there was a feud between the two and that they positively hated
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one another because they were promoting this film and these articles started leaking, really
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initially not in Justin's favor at first, basically saying that he had been inappropriate
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on TMZ, saying that he asked her about her weight and because he had to lift her for a
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And when the public began to look into this, they actually ended up siding against
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It was because they didn't like the way she was answering questions on the red carpet
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And Blake Lively was like promoting her hair products and they just thought it was a bit
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And then the thing that really sent the internet a storm was when they dug into her past interviews
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and realized that Blake Lively is, well, not a very kind person as feminists are not allowed
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to be because they always just have to be a feminist.
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And apparently that means being mean to people that are interviewing you.
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And it was this clip that set the internet on fire of her being interviewed by Kirstie Flaw.
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Are these, they are kind of bumps, aren't they?
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Now, to remind you, aside from being weird, because she's saying something about her bump,
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But obviously, she's offended because she's a feminist.
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It was a, I think that was The Age of Adelaine, whatever it was called.
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So the outfits were kind of amazing as these, like, period pieces tend to have really good outfits.
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And the woman, God forbid, asked her a question about the character and the character's outfits.
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Do you guys love wearing those kind of clothes that you...
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Everyone wants to talk about the clothes, but I wonder if they would ask the men about the clothes.
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Corey's wardrobe was, of course, those high-waisted pants.
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That's just modern feminism on steroids where they just can't even think straight because
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they're perpetually offended and they're remarkably unlikable.
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So the internet started pulling out these clips and suddenly there were these headlines
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and people were just very upset with Blake Lively and started stringing together her pattern, okay?
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So her reputation, you could say, last year completely tanked.
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And it didn't seem like it was going to be salvageable because that's how the internet works.
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Once they start to see who you are, they don't tend to forgive you.
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But then suddenly, okay, right before Christmas on December 20th,
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Blake Lively filed a complaint against Justin Baldoni and others in California claiming sexual harassment.
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She alleged that Justin Baldoni and producer Jamie Heath had really poor behavior on set
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and that they organized that smear campaign against her during the promotion of the film
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and that that campaign caused her grief, fear, trauma, and extreme anxiety.
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And also that Baldoni was sort of a creep that he had, quote,
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inserted improvised gratuitous sexual content and or scenes, which involves nudity, into the film,
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including for an underage character in highly unsettling ways, okay?
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Now, I want to make something very clear to you.
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She filed a complaint at first, not a lawsuit, okay?
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So on December 20th, she had filed a complaint with the Californian Civil Rights Department,
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alleging all of that stress and a hostile work environment, okay?
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But what's interesting is despite filing this complaint, and despite this complaint supposed to be by California law,
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it was supposed to be completely private, unless somebody, after they had investigated it,
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maybe filed an FOIA, they could have gotten a hold of it.
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She files it on December 20th, and lo and behold, on the 21st, the day after,
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somehow the New York Times gets a hold of it, okay?
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A private complaint should have remained private.
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Suddenly, the New York Times gets a hold of it, and they run the complaint in its entirety the day after
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with an accompanying article, which was published the day after that on December 22nd.
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So within 48 hours, the New York Times got it, published it, and ran this headline,
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We Can Bury Anyone Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.
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You can see it says, private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively
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after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of It Ends With Us.
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Okay, so you can imagine the public sees this, and people are reading it.
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The New York Times is basically burying Justin Baldoni in this.
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They're saying they're releasing private emails between him and his PR team,
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and private emails amongst just the PR team, basically saying, as they quote,
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And, of course, just what Blake Lively would have expected, instantly Hollywood floods in.
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Amber Heard comes out of the woodwork and gives a statement,
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which I feel like after allegedly pooping on Johnny Depp's bed,
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she should maybe always sit this one out, but she didn't.
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But actually, quite remarkably, the internet for the first time had a bit of pause,
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and one of the things that they had a bit of pause about was why did she not file a lawsuit?
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If this is all true, why did Blake Lively not file a lawsuit?
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And instead, kind of went to a civil rights private thing and then gave it to the New York Times.
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I mean, they're alleging she gave it to the New York Times.
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I don't know who else could have given it to the New York Times.
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I don't think Justin Baldoni or anyone on his team gave it to her.
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And they started to ask the question, was this actually just a way to salvage her reputation?
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But I want to show you what is in this lawsuit because it's super interesting, okay?
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So like I said, the entire point of this lawsuit, when you read through it, and I did,
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basically just makes Justin Baldoni sound like a massive perv.
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He's just like some super turned on dude all the time who can't stop talking about pornography.
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And he was trying to get, basically, Blake Lively into these compromising positions
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because I guess maybe he just wanted to see her naked.
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And so they have, and I'm going to read you this directly from a lawsuit,
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to add insult to injury, Mr. Heath, that's the other director,
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and started playing a video of a fully nude woman with her legs spread apart.
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Ms. Lively thought that he was showing her pornography and she stopped him.
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Mr. Heath explained that the video was his wife giving birth.
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Ms. Lively was alarmed and asked Mr. Heath if his wife knew that he was sharing the video,
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to which he replied, she isn't weird about this stuff.
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As if Ms. Lively was weird for not welcoming it.
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Ms. Lively and her assistant excused themselves,
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stunned that Mr. Heath had shown them a nude video.
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So when that was transcribed by the New York Times,
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they kind of made it sound like he literally was just showing her pornographic images.
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And they didn't kind of give you the context that actually what they were debating was
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how they should film a birthing scene that Blake Lively was in.
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And he was trying to say, and I guess in this, I have not seen the film,
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And as you know, for us crunchy moms who follow this on the internet,
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this is like supposed to be this majestic moment.
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And I guess he was trying to say to her, like, this is how I want this scene to run.
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And she's now telling the public that essentially she thought that she was being shown pornography on a phone.
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And I have to say in the myriad of topics, in the myriad of categories, rather,
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of pornography that are on the internet, you know,
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we do the annual list of the top five things people are searching for on Pornhub
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Never in my life have I heard of a category of women giving birth.
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That doesn't tend to be a thing that turns men on,
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that they would describe as pornographic, right?
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That doesn't tend to be something that you hear.
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In fact, it's almost the opposite when you get men,
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young men who are completely immature and are like,
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that's my worst nightmare, the idea of my wife giving birth
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And so I just felt like that was wildly manipulative.
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the civil complaint goes on to allege that there was also this sort of sexualization
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in terms of her breastfeeding, or at least that's what you get
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when they say that the disturbing conduct allegedly continued while filming
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with Lively accusing Baldoni and Heath of entering her trailer uninvited
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including when she was breastfeeding her infant child, the complaint alleges.
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The complaint further states that Baldoni improvised physical intimacy
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that had not been rehearsed, choreographed, or discussed with Ms. Lively
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So there's supposed to be a person there while you are shooting these intimate scenes
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that says, okay, making sure that everybody's comfortable,
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And this is where she gets into a bit of a contradiction when I went through the lawsuit
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because she is all at once trying to tell us that she's maybe so irresistibly hot,
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or maybe she's not so hot, but he thinks she's enough, that he wants to be with her,
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that he's using scenes to improvise and to kiss her too long.
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And like, you know, obviously he is doing this because he's just addicted to pornography.
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She talks about him speaking about his pornography addiction in the past.
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And the website, I mean, the lawsuit literally reads,
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Mr. Baldoni chose to let the camera roll and have them perform a scene,
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Instead, he spoke to Ms. Lively out of character as himself.
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At one point, he leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck
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None of this was done remotely in character or based on any dialogue in the script,
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and nothing needed to be said because, again, there was no sound.
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And Mr. Baldoni was caressing Mr. Lively with his mouth in a way that had nothing to do with their roles.
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But Ms. Lively later objected to this behavior.
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Mr. Baldoni's response was, I'm not even attracted to you.
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But then she completely flips later on in the lawsuit where she says that he made her feel ugly,
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old, and fat, that he stormed into her room with tears in his eyes
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and said that people on the internet think that she looks old and that she looks fat.
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And so she goes on to also accuse him of harassment for going to her trainer and asking
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It says Mr. Baldoni routinely degraded Ms. Lively for finding back channel ways of criticizing her body
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A few weeks before filming began and less than four months after Ms. Lively had given birth to her fourth
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child, Ms. Lively was humiliated to learn that Mr. Baldoni secretly calls her fitness trainer
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without her knowledge or permission and implied that he wanted her to lose weight within two weeks.
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So I'm just saying, this is me reading the lawsuit.
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I'm like, okay, so is he, so he just wants to breathe on you and kiss you and caress you
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because you're so hot or he's just such a freak?
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Or also is he just disgusted by you and making you feel old and ugly and fat?
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I mean, I have some instant red flags when I read this lawsuit, but it was this last piece
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that made me go, okay, you are being wildly manipulative and I am now ready for this to
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It reads, Mr. Baldoni inserted improvised, gratuitous sexual content and or scenes involving nudity
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into the film, including for an underage character in highly unsettling ways.
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So I read that and I'm like, okay, now we're inching towards, oh, this guy, even young girls,
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underage character, he's doing this even to young women on set.
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And then I read the comments that were beneath this article and someone pointed out to me
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that that was manipulative language because while it says underage character, okay, the
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actress that played the underage character is not underage at all.
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So the protagonist of this film, it used to be a book, it's been adapted into a film, is
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So Blake Lively plays the older Lily Bloom and another actress plays the younger Lily Bloom.
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So that's the underage character, which is played by Isabella Ferrer, but Isabella Ferrer
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So just by putting that in the lawsuit and knowing that not everybody has seen this film,
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not everybody has read the book, and even if they have, they don't know how old Isabella
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Ferrer is, it was a way to make it sound like Justin Baldoni, again, was this huge creep.
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And when I found that out, I said, okay, she's playing a very interesting game.
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There was also weird lawsuit moments where she also said that she felt anxiety because he
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told her that he could speak to dead people and that he could, that he could reach her
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Hollywood people are just, they just have too much.
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But again, she's, she's trying to compound and be like, I just, I was just a mess and
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Anyways, like I said, initially the Hollywood public took her side, but I think everybody
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is still a little PTSD from the Amber Heard turd and they're going, okay, I'm just going
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to wait and actually see how this thing plays out.
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Because then Justin Baldoni responded in a very big way to this lawsuit.
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11 days later, on December 31st, Justin Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit, okay, against
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And let me tell you, he fully brought some receipts by releasing personal text messages
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between him and Blake Lively that painted an entirely different picture.
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And he basically is saying the New York Times intentionally picked and choose, pick and chose
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certain emails without providing their full context.
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Like in one email, she's trying to say that they inserted and planted this article, which
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said that her career was over, but they left out the portions of the email, which made
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And that what actually happened was that he hired a PR crisis team because Blake Lively
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was being such a monster and dropping these things in the press.
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And so they were planning to go to battle if she kept going, but they never actually ended
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up having to go to battle because the public ended up hating her based on her old interviews.
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And they have proof that they had nothing to do with that article happening.
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And so they were just laughing behind the scenes at like, oh, well, I guess I did a great
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People are seeing through Blake Lively all by themselves.
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And we haven't actually had to counter anything that she said.
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Also countering another allegation that he was actually invited into Blake Lively's trailer.
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He dropped the text message receipts while she was breastfeeding.
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He attached a screenshot of a conversation in which she said to him, I'm pumping in my trailer
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He responded to her copy eating with the crew and I will head that way.
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So if you signal to someone, and by the way, for every woman, it's different.
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I've seen women that are out in public and will just pop out both of their breasts and
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feed their twins like in the middle of a restaurant.
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Other people, obviously I have worked through, now this is going to be a fourth child.
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And when I am in my room back when I was working at Daily Wire and I was breastfeeding my son,
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if he was latched and I could throw a blanket over myself, I didn't care.
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But if you're signaling to your co-star that it's okay to come in the trailer while you're
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pumping or breastfeeding, why is he going to then understand that on a different occasion,
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you're actually completely uncomfortable with him doing that.
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And so to misrepresent that relationship, I think, is what has Justin Baldoni's team
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They also obviously came back regarding the birthing pornography and called the video rather
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a deeply personal one with no sexual overtone, obviously.
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And they said that her trying to frame that video of the director's wife as pornography is
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emblematic of the lengths to which Lively and her collaborators are willing to go to
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Like I said, I've never heard of someone describing a birthing video, a woman giving birth as pornography.
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And I want to show you these clips because they are hitting back hard.
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And I'll tell you this, after the public then kept saying, why did you not file an actual
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Blake Lively then moved 11 days later to file a lawsuit.
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So now she has filed a lawsuit and I don't think she ever wanted to do this.
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I think she genuinely wanted this to be a PR move and she wanted to leak it to the New
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She thought the public would take her side with no questions asked.
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And instead, the public is saying, no, we have a few questions here.
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And Justin Baldoni is going all the way to the wall on this.
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His lawyer is already giving interviews explaining just how nasty her team has played this.
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And here's some of the things that he had to say.
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First, he says there used to never be a sexual claim.
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There never was a sexual claim until she went to that civil rights office.
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There was actually no allegation of sexual harassment until the lawsuit was filed.
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I mean, that that's when the allegations of sexual harassment came up.
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Well, there was a 17 point memo that you referenced.
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But I mean, in terms of the public, she raised them in the 17 point memo.
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They had agreed to 17 points that they would agree that there were simple points that everybody would go back and she would return to work.
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There's a signed document saying they work things out.
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In the actual lawsuit itself, it says everything went fine from then on.
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So, you know, and the question really is, why was crisis PR brought in?
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Crisis PR was brought in because there were negative stories about Justin that were being leaked to the media, not about sexual harassment.
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There were negative stories about Justin being brought in saying no one likes him.
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He's been a problem on set, you know, stories like that.
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And crisis PR was brought in to say this won't be good for the film.
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Crisis PR was also brought in because there were negative stories about Blake Lively, not that Justin created, but that existed out there.
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I mean, you know, fans and media can be brutal.
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They go back and look and say, what interviews have you given before?
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How are you promoting the film in a way where you're promoting your hair care products and in a way that's not true and genuine as far as domestic violence is concerned?
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And all through the text messages, you'll see over and over and over again him saying, I don't want to hurt her.
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I can say that's what I also found problematic.
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And you should actually go watch that entire interview that he gave to Megyn Kelly.
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But they left out some very crucial vindicating text messages with Justin Baldani being concerned about not wanting to hurt her, but also trying to protect himself when he saw that he was being smeared as this person.
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Now, I don't know if Justin Baldani is a good guy.
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I think the majority of people that are in Hollywood are not great people.
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But after reading through the messages that were in context, there is no question in my mind that the New York Times is going to be in very big trouble for libeling, intentionally libeling, very easy emails that they could have presented to the public that showed that the PR people were joking and laughing about the fact that this was happening to her because they view her to be a bad person.
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But they were not planting these articles in any way, shape or form.
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And when you remove that context and try to make it sound like Justin was involved in that, and not that he simply said, I want to protect myself, I don't want to hurt her, but I want to protect myself.
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Who leaked within 24 hours the New York Times being able to have something to the entire public?
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Obviously, it had to it had to have come from Blake Lively's orbit.
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But I also show you why I do believe, and I'm making a guess here, people were very anti-me when I said Amber Heard was going to lose.
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I just have a way about reading women when it comes to these sorts of things.
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And I knew that Amber Heard was not being entirely honest about the Johnny Depp stuff.
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And everyone was like, oh, she's got a bruise on her cheek.
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I just said, mm, doesn't register me as correct.
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His wife, Vanessa, former ex-wife, Vanessa Paradise, was coming out in support of him.
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Despite having a long marriage, wouldn't she have recognized that he liked to punch women in the face?
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Everything just registered to me as very wrong about that.
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I'm going to say the same thing about Blake Lively.
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I don't think this is going to be good for her.
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And this lawyer's language in terms of saying when people see all the text messages, they are going to realize who the real Blake Lively is, is a strong vote for me.
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A strong vote that the public, in the end, is going to recognize that Blake Lively was being manipulative.
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And I'll let you listen to what Brian said about those text messages.
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And unlike any case that I've handled in my entire career, it's the one case we're going to put every single text message, every single document, everything on a website for everyone in the public to read, come to their own conclusions.
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And they can determine whether or not there was sexual harassment here, there was a smear campaign, or there was retaliation.
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Because we have proof and receipts that absolutely and unequivocally show this is not true.
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I think Blake Lively legitimately did not believe, I think, when she had all that bad press happening, she could not fathom that people didn't like her.
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I think she truly believed that Justin Baldoni was behind it.
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I don't think she did this to create a narrative.
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I think she saw it and said, this has to be him.
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And so I think to counter that bad PR, and she saw her reputation going down, she decided to play what she thought was an equally nasty PR game by filing this lawsuit in the Civil Rights Court, never with the intention of ever having to then take it to the real courts.
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And the public then said, wait a second, are you playing a PR game rather than Justin Baldoni?
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And now she had to back that up by really filing it in court.
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And what's going to happen is now the entire public is going to see what happened, who was leaking stuff to who.
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And like I said, my money is on Blake Lively being wrong.
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I think she is 100% wrong if it doesn't make him a good guy, doesn't make Justin Baldoni a great guy.
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I know nothing about him, and I hate 90% of Hollywood.
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But in this circumstance, I just think he's going to win the lawsuit.
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And I think New York Times, based on what I have seen of the what I would describe as doctored correspondences, doctoring it by not giving people the full correspondences, is going to end up having to settle this lawsuit and paying Justin Baldoni, as well as the PR women that are listed in this lawsuit, paying them out for misrepresenting what they actually said.
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I actually, I want to see what the chat says about this because I have some instincts.
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Lex Friedman, if you guys are not familiar with him, is a podcaster and his backstory is just strange.
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He graduates from Drexel University with a PhD in his dad's department.
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His brother graduated from the same department.
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This guy apparently while working on his PhD starts a podcast and every big name in the entire world has been on this podcast.
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And I guess I could believe that if there was a draw.
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What I mean by that is, you know, we talk about the it factor.
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We don't know what the it factor is, but we know when we see it.
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Lex Friedman would be like the opposite of the it factor.
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It is very hard to listen to a Lex Friedman podcast.
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He has a very monotonous voice and talks like this.
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And somehow let me tell you the names that have been on his on his podcast, right?
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Javier Malay, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and recently President Zelensky.
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Now, people believe that Lex Friedman works for the CIA.
00:33:12.640
Obviously, the CIA has we know this via Project Mockingbird, Operation Mockingbird, that they have people that they just create fame for.
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They make them famous, you know, allegedly also people like Anderson Cooper, who was a CIA intern.
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And the idea of doing that is to promote things that the state wants.
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We all kind of think they're the same organization.
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He did do his Ph.D. thesis under a former IDF minister or somebody who works for the IDF who went to Tel Aviv University.
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And he blocks everyone that calls him CIA or Mossad, which is also interesting.
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His backstory just doesn't make any sense, you guys.
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Like I said, if he was some remarkable talent and I'd be like, oh, I know I kind of get it, why everyone's going on his podcast.
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It's just it's too boring for me to listen to him.
00:34:05.560
So President Zelensky, OK, our welfare baby mama, we're paying for his lifestyle.
00:34:13.820
We're paying for this once upon a time who everybody, including The New York Times, acknowledged was a corrupt oligarch, decided to make time from this very busy war.
00:34:24.660
You know, he's always wearing the military fatigue to remind you to get to work and support his war, that he had three hours available to sit down with Lex Friedman.
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Now, I want you to weigh the press response when Tucker Carlson went over to interview Vladimir Putin.
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Now, that's what signaled to me that Tucker Carlson is not a plant, right?
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Because if you are, they'd be like, yes, sit down with him because you're going to give us our narrative.
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Lex Friedman promoted everywhere by the people that I trust least.
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He's sitting down with Zelensky because the press keeps trying to turn him into a hero.
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And what we're watching, in my view, is two bad faith actors that are trying to sanitize what is happening in that region.
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Lex Friedman always plays the role of we need more love and more conversation.
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I'll talk to anyone, but it's not hard to talk to anyone when you seem to be speaking to people that I'm pretty sure are just kind of like ruling the world.
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I mean, I think he even sat down with BB Netanyahu.
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This guy, this podcaster, just booking these people out of nowhere.
00:35:22.660
So, yeah, I'm going to show you a couple of clips from their conversation.
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First and foremost, the weirdest thing about this that I caught is Lex Friedman inviting Zelensky over to Texas to have a barbecue,
00:35:33.560
but saying that this would be the third time that they met with one another.
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Well, when you come and visit me in Texas as a guest for the third time.
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How about you, my friend Joe Rogan and I will go get some Texas barbecue together.
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Do you have a couple of spare billion sitting around from the American taxpayers you've just been funneling money from?
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You are not selling this to the American tax paper.
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I thought this would change my heart against him, and it actually hasn't.
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And he basically alleges throughout this interview that, you know, why would I want to compromise with Vladimir Putin?
00:36:40.760
He says he just thinks Putin, which has obviously been the state-sanctioned opinion for people who don't bother to read Putin's speeches.
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You cannot rely on the West to tell you what's going on.
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You need to read what the West is saying and what the East is saying and then rely on your discernment, truly.
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And Zelensky is trying to pull the old Putin crazy.
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Putin crazy didn't seem to be crazy and out of control during that Tucker Carlson interview that they all freaked out about, right?
00:37:10.880
He seemed to have a very good memory of history and to explain his position, whether you feel he told the truth or not.
00:37:18.040
Seeming like a crazy wild man was not what people took away from that interview, but that's what Zelensky is trying to say to us.
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So take a listen to him explaining why he just can't imagine compromising with Vladimir Putin.
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Unfortunately, the reality is that a compromise is needed in order to reach an agreement.
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When you're understanding the fact that he is no in jail after all the murders, he is not in jail assuming all the murders,
00:37:42.600
and no one in the world is able to put him in his place, send him to prison, do you think this is a small compromise?
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This is not a small compromise, and to forgive him will not be a small compromise.
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We cannot get into the head and soul of a person who lost their family.
00:38:16.060
And they simply took away the most precious thing from you, will you ask?
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Who ruined your life before going to rip their head off?
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You will say, oh, well, then there are no questions.
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No, no, no, you will go f***ing hell and bite their head off.
00:38:37.020
Someone in the comments just said, Canis is too pregnant for Zelensky.
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He literally was an actor on a TV series and then became the president, and he's acting there.
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And while he's trying to tell us, Putin killed people's family, yet you are literally sending
00:38:55.580
an entire generation of Ukrainian Christians to the meat grinder in a war that you know you can't win.
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I see you as a murderer and the worst kind of murderer because you're taking our tax dollars to do it.
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And then finally, we have this clip of basically them discussing how peace can be achieved in that region.
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Will there ever be a day when the Ukrainian people forgive the Russian people and both peoples will travel back and forth again
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and marry each other, rekindle and form friendships?
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I think history has long answered this question.
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And again, after every devastating war, one generation, one country recognizes that it is, was an aggressor.
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And it comes to realize, this is impossible to forgive.
00:40:16.420
This is precisely the kind of education they've had in Germany for many years, even though these children had nothing to do with it.
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And not all of them were participants of Nazi Germany's war against, essentially against the world.
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We just got to get, we got to get out of this propaganda.
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We just, we just literally have to get out of this.
00:40:55.100
You're feeling persuaded to send more billions?
00:40:56.420
He's feeling persuaded to get back to work and give him more money because he's telling you, he's even saying, like, this is like, look what's going on.
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You know, I have no idea how I got into this propaganda.
00:41:08.300
It wasn't because NATO was expanding into Putin's territory after assurances that we would never expand NATO one inch eastward.
00:41:16.280
Don't you see how much emotion and emoting that I'm doing?
00:41:26.000
I see a man who's mass murdering Christians and a media that is trying to soft sell him to us.
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Truly, correctly stated, I am too pregnant to buy into Zelensky's BS.
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Anyways, you guys, before we get into your comments, I do want to very quickly give you some good news.
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There's like maybe four good people in Hollywood that are decent human beings.
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And I really loved, I love finding, I love coming across them.
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This is an old clip, but I'm only bringing it up because Tom Holland just announced his engagement to Zendaya.
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And I think that their relationship has been healthy and wholesome, which you rarely see in Hollywood.
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And the reason why I like Tom Holland is because he's a rare example of a young person in Hollywood who is not drinking and doing drugs.
00:42:15.120
And he is speaking about why he stopped drinking at such a young age.
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And so let's just listen to him explain why for him he realized that drinking was not it.
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I didn't one day wake up and say, I'm giving up drinking.
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I just, like many Brits, had had a very, very boozy December, Christmas time.
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And all I could think about was having a drink.
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I just was like, wow, maybe, maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing.
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So I sort of decided to punish myself and say, I'll do February as well.
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If I can do two months off, then I can prove to myself I don't have a problem.
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I felt like I couldn't go to the pub and have a lime soda.
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And I started to really worry that maybe I had an alcohol problem.
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So I decided that I would wait until my birthday, which is June 1st.
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I said to myself, if I can do six months without alcohol,
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then I can prove to myself that I don't have a problem.
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And by the time I had got to June 1st, I was the happiest I've ever been in my life.
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Like I said, you never see that ever in Hollywood.
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You never see people speaking about that because it's always so cool to be pictured with a glass of wine.
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And so congratulations to him and Zendaya on their engagement.
00:43:58.280
I am excited about that because he just seems like a good person.
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You don't normally see that light in the eyes of people that are in Hollywood.
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Certainly not when they're young do they give up the booze.
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It's usually when they're much older and they've kind of ruined tons of things and ruined tons of people.
00:44:15.980
All right, let's hear what you guys are thinking about Justin.
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Can you run a poll right now, Skylar, in the live chat and say who they think will win this lawsuit,
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The question that we are asking is who will win the lawsuit, Justin Baldoni or Blake Lively?
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But of those 2,200 votes, 92% believe that Justin Baldoni is going to win.
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Keep the poll running as we go through comments.
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That means just 8% believe that Blake Lively is going to win.
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All right, guys, what do you have for me today?
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What are you guys saying in the comments section?
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My list of trust across all media, mainstream, and independent is down to maybe three whole people.
00:46:09.900
And I, too, am too pregnant for Zelensky, right?
00:46:13.320
I don't even know what's happened, but you just see it and you're like, you're a fraud.
00:46:23.720
And I'm watching that and I'm going, this all is very fake.
00:46:29.320
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Noelle naturally writes, I feel bad for Colleen Hoover.
00:46:47.620
That is the author of the It Ends With Us book.
00:46:50.760
Scandalous, shady stuff going down in her first movie.
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Hopefully, Blake Lively will do the right thing, but she won't want to eat her own words.
00:46:59.360
It's probably created, they say there's no such thing as bad press and it's probably created so
00:47:03.820
much press about the movie that it was more successful than it would have been because
00:47:07.820
People wanted to see if it translated on screen.
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And I am interested to see what Blake Lively will do.
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I don't think she wants to go through with this lawsuit.
00:47:20.900
When a lawyer is saying, we're dropping every text message, that means they're feeling good
00:47:27.660
Black Panther writes, where can I find online articles about vaccines?
00:47:32.200
I think I told you guys this, but we are bringing a shot in the dark back this month.
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We were hoping it was going to be at the beginning of the month and we're trying to
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get this platform just right and make sure that everything is perfect for you guys.
00:47:45.420
And we always link all of the articles after we go through all the vaccines.
00:47:54.440
Motherbird writes, friend went to high school with Blake, said she was not a nice person
00:48:05.840
And now she's got a husband who's a puppy dog and can't even tell her, you know, no,
00:48:09.580
which I, my husband, if I ever went to him and I was like, can you unfollow?
00:48:16.260
We're both in our 36, but could you unfollow him to show him?
00:48:20.660
I know you're friends with him, but he would just be like, you're a child.
00:48:25.440
Obviously, I'm not going to walk and get a photograph and then unfollow someone.
00:48:33.140
And it is, yes, typical mean girl feminist stuff.
00:48:36.400
Sarah Jones writes, I like the Tom Holland clip.
00:48:38.380
I went back over your DW podcast over Christmas and I really loved and got something from that
00:48:43.700
article that you found called something like why I stopped drinking.
00:48:46.920
Yeah, that was a really powerful article that moved in my life.
00:48:49.700
As many of you already know, I'm not a big drinker and not just because I'm pregnant all
00:48:53.600
the time, but it just, I feel the way that Tom Holland does.
00:49:02.600
And I've not, in terms of binge drinking, I haven't done that in years, but I mean, having
00:49:06.940
a glass of wine here and there, I probably, I say average, maybe drinking wine three times
00:49:17.480
And Marie writes, I am not a Lex fan, but the third meeting reference was likely because
00:49:22.880
Lex was trying to convince Zelensky to meet him and Putin in the middle of the ocean the
00:49:32.780
When I heard it, when he said for a third time, I thought he meant you come down to Texas
00:49:37.420
for a third time, but maybe I missed the correct context of that.
00:49:41.000
So I'm glad that you were able to write that and to clarify.
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Tomorrow, we're going to get into the America First movement because I feel like it's been
00:50:10.100
a little bit infiltrated and I have a lot of questions about, I know everyone's like,
00:50:13.480
rah, rah, rah, Greenland and Panama, but I just feel like there's something bubbling
00:50:19.580
And like, we are maybe all barreling toward some agenda that we're not seeing.
00:50:24.820
And I just, I'd like to pump the brakes a bit and, and really recognize what is happening,
00:50:29.840
who the players are, and to ask a very important question, has our movement been infiltrated?