Candace Owens - June 03, 2025


DROPPED! Blake Lively Withdraws Part of Her Lawsuit! ｜ Candace Ep 193


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Candace breaks down the latest development in the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni Lawsuit and how it could have changed the outcome of the case. Candace talks about how her luck turned on a dime when she received a text message from her attorney telling her to drop two of her claims against Baldoni.

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00:00:30.260 All right, you guys. Happy Tuesday. And yes, let's go.
00:00:34.280 I am so excited. You guys have no idea how badly I needed this win.
00:00:38.420 I needed this win today.
00:00:39.560 Because yesterday, I was crying in my bedroom over trapped infant gas.
00:00:44.680 I mean, I was deep in the postpartum trenches of emotion with no foreseeable end in sight.
00:00:49.600 And then my luck turned on a dime, you guys.
00:00:52.820 It is here. It is happening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:00:55.900 It appears that Blake Lively has dropped two of her claims.
00:00:58.780 And I'll tell you about the rest of them.
00:01:00.860 So welcome back to Candace. 0.70
00:01:01.960 What can I say other than yesterday was a day?
00:01:19.140 I just had a day. You know what I mean?
00:01:21.940 Tears streaking down my cheeks.
00:01:23.740 I was Kim K crying.
00:01:25.120 You know, for those of you who have not had children yet or don't plan on having children,
00:01:31.880 the first few weeks of having an infant, truly difficult.
00:01:34.560 And one of the difficult things is that they are not able, like their stomachs are not formed yet.
00:01:39.480 And so sometimes gas can get trapped and they're in excruciating pain and they're screaming.
00:01:44.300 And my son, Roman, sweet little Roman, was crying, screaming in pain for three hours.
00:01:49.980 It got so bad.
00:01:50.720 And I called the pediatrician and the pediatrician's like, well, you know, there's nothing you can do.
00:01:53.500 So what did I do?
00:01:54.280 I just started crying.
00:01:55.400 I just started boo-hoo crying.
00:01:57.440 Oh, does this want this end?
00:01:58.920 Nothing is good.
00:02:00.660 And then suddenly there was relief.
00:02:02.600 If you've never cried over infant flatulence, good for you.
00:02:05.300 Might not be relatable.
00:02:06.600 But I was like, thank you.
00:02:08.080 Thank you.
00:02:09.020 This is over.
00:02:10.040 And then within 20 minutes, I get a text message.
00:02:12.600 And I mean, things are just looking up.
00:02:13.620 It's like a storm.
00:02:14.660 And suddenly the clouds have cleared and the sun is shining through.
00:02:18.360 The text message reads.
00:02:19.620 And also, yeah, Blake Lively is dropping two of her claims against Justin Baldoni.
00:02:25.800 I was like, yes, we are so back.
00:02:27.680 I said to Roman, who was completely passed out and has no idea what's going on.
00:02:31.460 But that was the person I was with.
00:02:33.880 And I was so excited to read the article, obviously.
00:02:36.240 Big news, Blake Lively has abandoned two of the claims against him, the claims that are
00:02:41.540 pertaining to infliction of emotional distress, which means we are close, ladies and gentlemen,
00:02:48.120 we are inching ever closer to the inevitable end of this lawsuit because that solitary
00:02:54.280 allegation, right, the emotional distress, infliction of emotional distress was perhaps
00:02:59.640 the most consistent claim of her entire suit.
00:03:03.380 OK, I'm going to remind you, by the way, about those initial claims, because
00:03:06.060 we are now very many moons away from the initial filings, many filings away from that initial
00:03:13.520 filing of hers in New York.
00:03:15.080 So I'm going to tell you what happened in the beginning.
00:03:17.180 Blake listed 13 causes of action against Wayfarer Studios, many of which included Jennifer Abel.
00:03:25.500 That was the PR woman formerly of Jones work and Melissa Nathan, who is the crisis PR woman.
00:03:32.960 So if I said to you right now, just going back and revisiting that initial lawsuit filing, if I said to you right now, hey, what's up, guys?
00:03:39.540 It's Tuesday. Let's play a drinking game.
00:03:41.700 Every time Blake Lively uses the word suffer or mental anguish in this lawsuit, emotional distress in this lawsuit, take a shot.
00:03:51.440 I'm not kidding. You would die.
00:03:53.700 OK, you would die. You would be dead by 6 p.m. Eastern. 1.00
00:03:56.640 So let's not play that game. I'm just going to tell you the answer.
00:03:58.980 In this initial filing, Blake Lively uses the term or just uses the word rather suffer 31 times, 31 times the word suffer or suffering, some variation of the word suffer.
00:04:12.120 She uses the word emotional 30 times and distress 18 times throughout this filing.
00:04:18.720 More specifically, in the initial 13 causes of action, she refers to her anguished and emotional state in 10 of the claims.
00:04:28.700 So in 10 of the 13 claims, she refers to herself as being anguished and in an emotional state.
00:04:33.580 And she specifically asks the jury, the jury down the line, to grant her punitive damages because of that emotional state, because she was so emotionally distressed.
00:04:43.820 She needs money. OK, and I'm just going to give you here are the 13 claims.
00:04:47.580 In case you don't remember them, why would you remember them?
00:04:50.140 Here they are. And I'm going to go through the language here that she repeats in each of these claims.
00:04:56.320 We have the first cause of action, which she lists as being sexual harassment, which is in violation of Title VII.
00:05:04.800 And she says that she was discriminated against in violation of Title VII.
00:05:09.380 She was subjected to harassment and creating a hostile work environment on the basis of her sex and gender.
00:05:16.860 She goes on to say that she has suffered and continues to suffer substantial damages, including but not limited to severe emotional distress and pain, humiliation, embarrassment, belittlement, frustration and mental anguish.
00:05:32.420 And is therefore entitled to an award of punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial.
00:05:39.980 OK, second cause of action that was for retaliation in violation of Title VII.
00:05:44.740 She claims it was an unlawful employment practice for any employer to discriminate against an employee because she opposed their practices that were forbidden under Title VII.
00:05:55.420 So she goes on to again state that claim over and over again that this created a hostile work environment.
00:06:02.060 And because of that hostile work environment, she has suffered and continues to suffer substantial damages, including but not limited to severe emotional distress, pain, humiliation, embarrassment, belittlement, frustration again.
00:06:13.220 OK, and you have the third cause of action.
00:06:15.800 She mentions it again.
00:06:17.620 Exact same language.
00:06:19.120 She wants those damages to be proven at a time in trial.
00:06:23.600 In the fourth cause of action, she lists it again that she continues to suffer substantial damages, including but not limited to severe emotional distress, pain and humiliation.
00:06:35.800 The fifth cause of action, this was retaliation in violation of the Californian Labor Code.
00:06:41.660 She again repeats that she suffered and therefore must be paid for her severe emotional distress and pain.
00:06:49.240 In the sixth cause of action, she lists it again.
00:06:53.400 She's accusing them of failure to investigate and prevent the alleged harassment.
00:06:58.860 But of course, because she lived through that, she wants them to pay for the severe emotional distress.
00:07:04.100 Now, I will say it is not mentioned in the seventh cause of action.
00:07:08.140 It is not mentioned in the eighth cause of action.
00:07:11.280 And it is not mentioned in the ninth cause of action.
00:07:14.760 Skylar, if you go back to the list of the actions, I can just show them.
00:07:17.600 Like, so it's not mentioned in three of the 13 causes of action, seven, eight and nine.
00:07:24.880 She does not say that she was emotionally distressed and therefore deserving of money.
00:07:29.600 Then she jumps right back into it in 10 and 11. 0.96
00:07:32.620 Now, these are the most notable ones because she's just dropped these.
00:07:35.400 OK, the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
00:07:38.620 That's the 10th cause of action.
00:07:40.040 And the 11th cause of action, which is negligence, because of their negligence, she was they inflicted emotional distress upon her.
00:07:49.140 She has now dropped those two claims.
00:07:51.980 OK, then in the 12th cause of action, once again, substantiates that she has she's a survivor and she has suffered and continues to suffer from grief and anxiety.
00:08:03.640 As a result of the near overnight change in her public and the public sentiment towards her.
00:08:10.000 And then finally, in that 13th cause of action, she again says that she has suffered emotional distress and humiliation and shame.
00:08:16.320 And OK, you get it.
00:08:18.260 I'm going through this so that you understand how many times she has said that she has been emotionally distressed.
00:08:25.440 So why is she suddenly abandoning those two most pertinent claims?
00:08:30.480 OK, those two claims where it just outright spells that she was they inflicted upon her all this emotional distress.
00:08:37.660 And the answer is simple.
00:08:38.480 It's obvious.
00:08:39.040 It's what I said was coming all along.
00:08:40.580 It's because of the phase of discovery.
00:08:44.280 OK, Baldoni's team, obviously, are preparing for this lawsuit.
00:08:47.660 She's asking for money. 1.00
00:08:48.960 She's asking for these damages. 1.00
00:08:50.620 She is saying that she has she's been so aggrieved.
00:08:53.460 The language is so strong.
00:08:55.180 I mean, it gets it's a very dramatic lawsuit.
00:08:59.660 I mean, even if you read number the 10th cause of action, she says and she's accusing this Jennifer Abel of engaging in extreme and outrageous conduct toward Ms. Lively.
00:09:11.680 The conduct was so extreme as to exceed all bounds of that usually tolerated in a civilized community.
00:09:20.620 That's not strong at languages.
00:09:21.760 She's saying the conduct was so outrageous and so extreme that a civilized community would say this has just been it has gone beyond the bounds of what we deem to be civilized.
00:09:33.760 That's how much suffering she has lived through.
00:09:35.380 And now she's going, OK, I don't I don't want to say that anymore as it pertains to these two claims, because suddenly Baldoni's team is saying, OK, let's see your medical records.
00:09:46.080 Duh, duh. 0.71
00:09:47.480 You're so emotional.
00:09:49.600 You can't get out of bed.
00:09:51.000 You're sick.
00:09:51.560 You can't eat.
00:09:52.020 You can't sleep.
00:09:53.420 You know, let's go through and see if you were seeing a psychiatrist at that time, a therapist at that time.
00:09:59.580 Maybe a doctor prescribed you some Xanax to deal presumably with all of that anxiety that a civilized society would just be like, oh, my.
00:10:08.500 We've never seen anything like this.
00:10:10.060 This is outside of the bounds of everything that we have seen.
00:10:12.200 We've seen murderers and killers.
00:10:13.720 But what she's living through here, this bad PR.
00:10:16.940 Yeah, no, this is this is the worst thing we've ever seen.
00:10:19.700 Yeah.
00:10:20.120 Show us this.
00:10:21.040 And they filed a motion since they asked her to submit that to them.
00:10:26.140 Tell us who your doctors are.
00:10:27.320 We will obviously file for a HIPAA release.
00:10:30.460 She says, no, Dice, I'm not signing a HIPAA privacy release.
00:10:35.040 And so team Baldoni goes, what do you mean you're not going to file a release?
00:10:38.000 You obviously have to prove your claims.
00:10:40.240 So they go to the judge.
00:10:41.200 They go to Judge Lehman and they file this motion, essentially saying that they want the judge to compel her to sign a HIPAA privacy release.
00:10:50.640 You know, sign this and you will then be compelled to share this information.
00:10:55.620 Blake Lively's team then comes back and indicates, OK, no, no, no, no.
00:10:59.440 We're just going to drop claims 10 and claims 11 altogether.
00:11:04.440 So you no longer need us to sign that release.
00:11:07.700 But we're going to drop that without prejudice, meaning we can come back and we can refile this at a later time, probably when we're outside of the discovery window.
00:11:18.120 And Baldoni's team said no dice to this.
00:11:20.340 OK, they went to the judge and said that is ridiculous.
00:11:23.380 OK, she's only agreeing to drop the claims, meaning that she has a right to refile these claims in the future.
00:11:30.220 No, please, please force her hand here.
00:11:32.380 This isn't fair.
00:11:32.980 So obviously, Blake Lively's team does what they always do, and they accuse them of engaging in a publicity stunt, saying they don't need this.
00:11:40.960 They want the motion to be completely squashed.
00:11:45.340 They do not want the medical records to be compelled.
00:11:48.520 And they would like all of this to be dismissed.
00:11:50.600 And Judge Lehman has just come back and they have very he is very much decided in favor of Team Baldoni.
00:11:55.040 He's effectively saying via an order, which we can pull this up and you can see the language on this, which he has stamped.
00:12:01.960 And he's not going to compel her at this time to sign the HIPAA privacy release, granted that he fully expects her to therefore drop all claims of emotional distress.
00:12:15.080 OK, he is committing right here that if Blake Lively does not go through with dropping the claims of emotional distress, he is not going to allow her to present any evidence of her alleged emotional distress throughout the trial.
00:12:28.260 You know, he will tell the jury, we're not allowing this evidence whatsoever.
00:12:31.640 So this is a major, major win for Team Baldoni, because throughout this entire case, as we just went through, I mean, they've effectively butchered their entire lawsuit.
00:12:43.080 So I'm thinking, if you're Team Baldoni, how are you going to respond to this?
00:12:46.640 I was curious to see how their team would try to spin this as anything but a major loss in the right direction for us.
00:12:54.360 We're all rooting for Team Baldoni. And remarkably, Lively's lawyers, Ezra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, came out and said that the reason they're dropping some of these claims is that they are just, quote unquote, streamlining and focusing her case.
00:13:11.860 I'm not kidding. Like, we're dropping these claims because we're just streamlining and focusing on other elements of this case.
00:13:19.060 Here's the full statement, because I want you to see how ridiculous this is.
00:13:21.520 It reads, once again, this is a routine part of a litigation process that is being used as a press stunt.
00:13:29.360 OK, let me stop you right there. They think we're so stupid that they want us to believe that a routine part of a litigation process is to drop pieces of your litigation. 0.78
00:13:38.360 So you filed this and then you said, never mind, we're going to drop this because that's just routine. 0.99
00:13:43.420 People just want to waste money on lawyers. They want to waste the judge's time. 0.99
00:13:47.420 They want to file all of these claims only to therefore drop it. Routine part of the process.
00:13:52.840 He goes on to say, we are doing what trial lawyers do, preparing our case for trial by streamlining and focusing it.
00:14:01.120 They are doing what they do, desperately seeking another tired round of tabloid coverage.
00:14:05.860 The Baldoni Wayfarer strategy of filing retaliatory claims has exposed them to expansive new damages claims under the Californian law, rendering certain of Ms. Lively's original claims no longer necessary.
00:14:20.500 Ms. Lively continues to allege emotional distress as part of numerous other claims in her lawsuit, such as sexual harassment and retaliation and massive additional compensatory damages on all of her claims.
00:14:33.240 Okay, so again, I want you to know they think that we're stupid by saying, well, what about the other claims that say something about her emotional distress that shows that we're serious about it?
00:14:44.660 No, it shows that you don't think that we have the capability to read the lawsuit. 0.97
00:14:49.060 Okay, Mike Gottlieb, we're not that stupid. I want you to know that. 0.98
00:14:52.820 Mike knows fully well that they now cannot win punitive damages for the emotional distress claims that are mentioned in the remaining 11 causes of action.
00:15:01.880 But he's going to leave it because it would look ridiculous if they completely amended their complaint.
00:15:07.880 It would essentially just be a major win for the Baldoni team to trump it.
00:15:12.680 So instead, what they're doing is they're saying, well, we still have it in the 11 other claims, but it's irrelevant.
00:15:17.660 They can't win it. But the other claims hold other allegations that they could, in theory, still win damages on.
00:15:24.560 So let me be super clear on what I'm saying because I can just show you so that it makes more sense.
00:15:28.320 Just looking at this first cause of action, ready, it's for sexual harassment in violation of Title VII, like we said.
00:15:35.220 So Blake's team, if you look at 234, point 234 here, they say, as a direct, foreseeable, and proximate result of this unlawful and discriminatory conduct,
00:15:46.500 we have suffered and continue to suffer substantial damages, including but not limited to severe emotional distress.
00:15:53.540 They know they can't win that. But that's not the only claim they're making. Go down to 236.
00:15:57.960 In 236, it says that defendants of It Ends With Us movie LLC and Wayfarer intentionally violated Ms. Lively's rights under Title VII with malice or reckless indifference,
00:16:15.540 and as a result, are liable for punitive damages.
00:16:18.140 So that's a separate claim. And they're saying we can get punitive damages under this claim, even though we're likely not going to win 234.
00:16:23.960 So they're just trying to save face here publicly by not butchering the entire lawsuit.
00:16:28.720 But this is a major, major loss. In fact, if I'm looking at this, I'm going, what's actually left of this lawsuit?
00:16:33.880 If you're removing emotional distress, what is actually left?
00:16:37.440 And what's left is the ability for them to prove that there was some sort of a coordinated PR campaign.
00:16:45.300 Essentially, they can attach that alleged coordinated campaign PR campaign against Blake Lively to lost earnings like she lost reputation.
00:16:54.040 Now she can no longer be booked for movies and were able to prove that Melissa, Nathan and Jennifer Abel coordinated with Wayfarer Studios to make the public hate Blake Lively.
00:17:04.620 That's the only like meat and bones of the case that's remaining.
00:17:09.220 And thus far, and we're pretty far along now here, she hasn't produced a single shred of evidence to that effect.
00:17:17.240 This was just her paranoia. This whole lawsuit was her being paranoid because she's so narcissistic that she could not believe that the public legitimately did not like her behavior. 0.52
00:17:27.360 And so she cooked up in her paranoid head, along with her psychopath husband, allegedly, allegedly, psychopath, I'm saying allegedly, a sociopath, whatever's going on. 0.91
00:17:36.300 They cooked up this idea that it had to have been coming from PR agents and had to have been coming from Justin Baldoni, that he intentionally wanted to sink her reputation and in the process, sink his own investment in the movie, which is poignantly ridiculous.
00:17:51.220 So they are now going to have to try to make the shadows on the wall real.
00:17:56.420 That seems like a pretty steep climb. And as I said, I think we are inching ever closer to having this lawsuit being completely dropped.
00:18:06.180 But I don't know what they're doing here. I guess listening to their lawyers who are just trying to make the bills go up, right, just racking up the costs here, which is what lawyers sometimes do.
00:18:16.780 If you let lawyers leave them alone, they will keep lawyering. And they realize that this client, her and Ryan, have unlimited money, effectively unlimited money to keep going through this charade.
00:18:28.580 So they're going to tell, no, we can file this. We can do that. And they're just trying, I think, at this point, get as much money as they can, because a good lawyer will tell them, you can't win this.
00:18:35.860 This is this is pretty lost. And on top of that, not only going to lose this in the actual court, you're also going to lose this in the court of public opinion, which is your entire reputation is being sunk.
00:18:46.640 What are you doing here? Try to save face. But now they're too far gone.
00:18:49.580 By the way, in addition to that, somebody I think it was actually Skylar pointed out to me, Skylar, my producer, pointed out to me that a lawyer who used to work for the Taylor Swift law firm, member Venable LLC, has now stepped in.
00:19:05.640 Her name is Ellen S. Garofalo. She worked at Venable LLP, pardon, a limited liability partnership, and she was one of Swift's former legal representatives from 2018 to 2021.
00:19:20.320 She has now joined Baldoni's counsel. She is now team Wayfarer in this lawsuit.
00:19:27.120 And she said that she was compelled to join the case, quote, after reviewing its circumstances, feeling strongly that an injustice was unfolding and that her participation could make a meaningful difference.
00:19:41.760 So you realize what's happening here now that could just be coincidental or it could be Scott Swift and Taylor kind of still saying what they need to say while keeping their hands clean.
00:19:53.320 Because that's that's a move, right? She used to work for Taylor Swift. Now she's working for Team Baldoni in a normal circumstance.
00:19:59.620 If Taylor Swift really felt that Blake Lively had endured this harassment, her best friend to whom she is the godmother of her children, Taylor Swift would have called the law.
00:20:11.420 She's got a lot of power. They're probably making tons of money off of her and said, you know, this can't happen. This would be ridiculous. Don't let this happen. She can make a phone call. 0.98
00:20:18.460 Now, this is kind of the writings on the wall here. Taylor Swift is definitely Team Baldoni.
00:20:24.440 And this lawyer is making a statement that I think you can really attach to the entire atmosphere and mood of Team Swift, who feels that they almost, you know, got raked over the coals here because they were effectively threatened, allegedly being threatened to support Blake Lively publicly.
00:20:40.420 And if you have to threaten your friends to support you, it's probably because you aren't telling the truth.
00:20:45.720 Now, I got to tell you, I do not want them to drop this lawsuit anymore because we're getting it every day.
00:20:52.400 It's just giving us a little bit more. And I unless they do the full mea culpa, I just really want Justin Baldoni to be delivered a full win.
00:21:00.700 And Steve Sarwitz, just a full and complete win, because what tends to happen is people forget.
00:21:05.920 And I think that this is the game that they're playing. They want people to get fatigued.
00:21:08.780 They want people to get fatigued with the headlines, fatigued with the filings so that nobody's paying attention anymore to how hideous what they attempted to do to Justin Baldoni was.
00:21:18.180 That happens. We all deal with this. It's like we're very apathetic. We have a culture.
00:21:22.320 It's so ADHD, right? We're constantly being distracted.
00:21:26.080 Something else is going on. We're outraged about something else.
00:21:28.500 We move to something else and go, OK, I don't talk about this anymore. And it allows bad guys to win.
00:21:33.520 Right. Bad guys have a pretty good stamina when it comes to evil.
00:21:36.860 I will tell you that I've lived through these things.
00:21:38.560 They have a pretty good stamina when it comes to evil and they rely on the public to move on.
00:21:42.440 And that's why in a case like this, when you have just like a perfect act of evil that was committed against a guy as nice as Justin Baldoni,
00:21:50.440 you have to stay on it and you have to keep applying the pressure publicly.
00:21:54.180 And so we're seeing this through till the very end.
00:21:57.120 I want to let you know we are two down, 11 to go, 11 claims, causes of action to go before we deliver justice for Justin Baldoni.
00:22:09.400 Before I also get into some of your comments, I do want to tell you that something that made me laugh so hard today,
00:22:16.100 completely switching gears onto another topic, obviously, going back to the Brigitte slap and everything that's happening to Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte.
00:22:24.800 There are there's a team PSG. I'm going to have to look up.
00:22:27.880 I am. You guys know I know nothing about we call it soccer.
00:22:30.900 They call it football. I don't follow sports at all.
00:22:32.700 But there are two players on the PSG team and that's the Parisian team, the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team.
00:22:41.080 And their their names are Ashraf Hakimi and Lucas Hernandez.
00:22:47.460 And Brigitte is sort of going down the line, shaking hands with the team.
00:22:52.640 And somebody caught this moment where these two players, Ashraf Hakimi and Lucas Hernandez,
00:22:58.260 are looking at Brigitte in a way that suggests that they have seen my series about Brigitte Macron.
00:23:04.620 They're definitely asking some questions with their faces.
00:23:07.880 Look at this clip. Look at these two.
00:23:10.420 So good.
00:23:12.400 Look at them. Slow it down.
00:23:14.460 Yeah, you can see the slow motion.
00:23:15.980 They are just looking like, are you?
00:23:20.700 That wig kind of looking a little sideways.
00:23:25.200 And so this clip has gone absolutely viral online.
00:23:28.340 I was being tagged in it over and over again.
00:23:30.040 I want to let you guys know that I saw it and I laughed at it.
00:23:32.840 And there's so much on so much going on behind the scenes.
00:23:35.760 I do intend to do a Becoming Brigitte season two, because, like I said, we left a lot on the table.
00:23:42.360 And a lot has happened since they made that ill fated decision for them to send me a letter to my home while I was seven or eight months pregnant.
00:23:51.960 And I just I have to tell you, I have to tell everybody what has gone on.
00:23:55.260 And it's going to you're just going to be shocked.
00:23:57.240 You're just not going to believe what I tell you.
00:23:59.120 You're going to think I'm making it up.
00:23:59.980 And I promise you, I am not making these things up.
00:24:03.340 So stay tuned, because Becoming Brigitte season two is going to be arriving when I'm officially back from maternity leave, not just popping in for fun stories.
00:24:13.300 All right.
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00:24:25.080 Yeah, that law is set to take effect on July 1st, 2026, pending ratification by the state legislature.
00:24:31.940 Now, now, why did he do this?
00:24:32.980 Well, Governor DeSantis explained it by saying, quote, this is our ability to give you the financial freedom to be able to protect yourself against the declining value of a dollar.
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00:26:21.640 Okay, I am dying to see what you people are thinking.
00:26:25.480 Okay, I'm going to jump into the comments section because, again, these are our shorter episodes as I'm visiting on a maternity leave.
00:26:31.180 But I do want to remind you that you can pre-order my second book.
00:26:34.580 Finally, the sophomore book is here.
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00:26:37.300 Just head to CandiceOwens.com.
00:26:40.060 And while you're there, by the way, you can subscribe and watch the viral Harvey interview, me speaking to Harvey Weinstein.
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00:26:57.640 All right, what are your guys' thoughts?
00:26:58.820 What are some topics, by the way, that are on your minds as well?
00:27:02.180 Jumping into the first comment from Catalina.
00:27:04.760 She says,
00:27:05.060 Hi, Candice.
00:27:05.660 I was wondering if I join the book club now, if I have access to everything I missed before I joined.
00:27:12.020 And I think the answer to that is, Skylar says, yes, you can watch all the older episodes.
00:27:18.800 So there is your answer.
00:27:20.120 If you join, then yes, you can watch the older episodes of the book club, which we have kept up throughout maternity leave.
00:27:25.400 It's fantastic.
00:27:27.260 I just have to tell you.
00:27:27.860 The stuff that we're covering, which I can't cover on the show necessarily, we are deep in the trenches on conspiracy theories.
00:27:33.300 Like, we're just, like, sitting in there, reading things, going back into history, understanding what's being covered, a lot of it referring to the occult.
00:27:41.900 I'm assuming that you've probably read the first book and you see where it's headed.
00:27:45.160 But, yes, you can join and you can watch older episodes.
00:27:48.740 Okay, CatholicMomOfFive writes,
00:27:51.160 I guess Ryan Reynolds recently is backing away and blaming Blake for everything.
00:27:56.460 I agree with you, Candice, so I think he was the fire behind it all.
00:28:00.120 I haven't read that anywhere.
00:28:01.280 Obviously, I haven't really been that engaged in the news cycle on maternity leave.
00:28:06.020 It would be so fitting if Ryan is now backing away and blaming Blake because, as we have diagnosed him, and we've just seen his behavior over the years, and he's self-admitted to his own behavior, he never takes responsibility for anything that he does.
00:28:21.740 There's always somebody else to blame.
00:28:23.220 Somebody did something that was wrong.
00:28:24.640 And, yeah, he's taking a pretty big beating publicly because no one really realized that he was this vicious. 1.00
00:28:32.320 People just thought he was being funny and that he was only cosplaying as a jerk, and it turns out that he actually is a jerk. 0.99
00:28:38.860 And so, yeah, I could see him being angry and lashing out and blaming Blake and everyone else, probably his PR team, his lawyers, everyone. 0.99
00:28:46.240 And I think he definitely would be the fire that is keeping all of this moving.
00:28:51.300 Okay, Bleema Kay writes,
00:28:52.220 This is silly at this point, and why won't she just drop it and admit that she lied?
00:28:57.180 I don't know. 0.93
00:28:58.360 Too far in?
00:29:00.140 She's maybe praying that the judge drops it so she can go, oh, this is, you know, justice was not served here.
00:29:05.780 You know, the judge dropped this case, and that's very sad.
00:29:10.580 Maybe she's waiting for him to come back and drop the case.
00:29:14.400 That's the only logical conclusion I can come to.
00:29:17.200 I think in the beginning, they were pretty high up on their imaginary dragons, you know?
00:29:23.240 And she really thought that she could force Taylor Swift's hand, and anything, irrespective of whether it's fact or fiction, if it has the power of Taylor Swift behind it, it's going to have a lasting effect, right?
00:29:33.440 We've covered that in previous episodes.
00:29:35.020 And when that failed, what did we say?
00:29:36.720 That was in, like, February when their relationship ended after the alleged threat.
00:29:42.000 Scott Swift is the person making that allegation.
00:29:44.200 I trust that he would not say that if it wasn't true.
00:29:47.120 But, yeah, I think that since then, things became a bit more bleak.
00:29:50.680 February, things really heated up, and now they're just too far in.
00:29:54.720 And they're going to spend a lot of money, a lot of money here, and lose their entire reputations or what is left of their reputations, which is virtually nothing.
00:30:04.080 There's nothing left.
00:30:05.880 Voxy writes, Candace Network with Ian.
00:30:09.040 Oh, guys, I do not want to have a network.
00:30:11.380 I absolutely love having Ian.
00:30:14.200 I wish he lived nearby.
00:30:16.080 I know some of you guys were saying you and Ian should do an episode every Friday.
00:30:18.780 I would commit to that 100% with you guys if you live nearby.
00:30:21.220 I really do believe in, especially in this new age of media, that independence is power.
00:30:27.260 And I never want to have somebody feel that they're beholden to my ideas.
00:30:34.080 I never want my ideas to be beholden to somebody else's.
00:30:37.920 And I want to be able to have the freedom to say what I want to say without a system of checks and balances and having to run up to the boss.
00:30:42.840 You know, I like that my husband's my boss right now.
00:30:45.560 That works for me, you know, and I think with Ian, I want to encourage him and everybody else to be independent and to do what we're doing already.
00:30:53.920 We're already teaming up, working together.
00:30:55.560 Like I said, if you live nearby, I would make it a permanent fixture.
00:30:58.300 And I'm glad that you guys are enjoying his work so much.
00:31:00.820 He's doing he's tremendous at all the deep dives.
00:31:02.560 And I think he's great.
00:31:03.900 I've been following him on TikTok and he started in the grocery aisles and now he's here.
00:31:08.360 You know, Virginia writes, I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the Diddy trial.
00:31:11.880 Go back and watch that.
00:31:13.260 Me and Ian did an episode.
00:31:14.320 I think it was about 10 days ago, maybe maybe less uncovering all of the dogs that were not barking.
00:31:20.500 And we were very clear or I was very clear about what my take was on it.
00:31:23.600 He was very clear on what his take was on it.
00:31:25.280 If you guys pivot over to YouTube and sometimes you think you can't see my videos, pivot over to the live tablet, the live tab.
00:31:33.100 So if you go to videos, you won't see it.
00:31:34.500 But then there's like the live tab.
00:31:36.360 And that's where all of our shows are because we do this live every day.
00:31:39.700 This is not prerecorded.
00:31:41.680 Rafi TV writes, I hope you know how many Muslims love you.
00:31:45.160 Yes, I obviously since I have spoken out and gone through a lot for speaking out over what's happening in Gaza.
00:31:52.580 A lot of Muslims have reached out and have said how much it meant.
00:31:56.760 A lot of people who maybe were previously unsure about me.
00:31:59.600 And I hope that my values are coming across clearer now.
00:32:03.180 Yeah, I really appreciate that.
00:32:05.280 Anonymous writes, call me a Scott Swifty.
00:32:07.460 Yep, that's what I told you.
00:32:08.520 I'm a Scott Swifty.
00:32:09.420 I ain't a Taylor Swifty yet, but I am a Scott Swifty.
00:32:11.820 I love me a savage parent.
00:32:13.640 Alyssa writes, I said that about Ryan Reynolds weeks ago, Candace.
00:32:16.860 You read my super chat on live on it.
00:32:19.240 I knew he was going to throw her under the bus. 0.95
00:32:21.540 You did.
00:32:22.020 I do remember reading that super chat live, and I think I said the same thing, which is that would be his character.
00:32:28.940 And everything that we have seen, he's definitely not going to be a person who accepts responsibility or consequences of his own action.
00:32:36.460 All right, guys.
00:32:36.960 Again, reminding you, you can preorder Make Him a Sandwich on our website.
00:32:39.860 You could also get our anti-feminist merch on our website as we gear up for this book launch. 1.00
00:32:44.120 I am going to say I'll see you in a week and a half, but I'm sure there's going to be some more news that I want to pop in on, some light news.
00:32:51.520 And, you know, just picture me, if you're missing me, picture me crying over baby flatulence, you know, and hopefully it will bring a smile to your face.
00:33:01.180 That's what I've been doing.
00:33:01.960 I just want to be honest.
00:33:02.720 It's not glamorous.
00:33:03.580 It's not pretty.
00:33:04.180 But it is the most rewarding job that I have being a mom.
00:33:07.340 So I'll see you guys in a week and a half.