Candace Candace has a major scoop about Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds newest legal plan. Plus, Ari Emanuel, their powerful agent, has now spoken on their behalf on the Freakonomics podcast, and great news for anti-vaccinationists because RFK Jr. has been confirmed, making it the dawn of a new era.
00:00:00.000All right, you guys, happy Friday. Happy Valentine's Day for all you lovers out there. I should have worn pink or something, but I did not.
00:00:07.660Anyways, there will be a mix up today of politics and culture, I promise.
00:00:11.260First and foremost, I should tell you that I have a major scoop regarding Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, their newest legal plan or something that they were attempting.
00:00:18.820Plus, in case you missed it, Ari Emanuel, that's their powerful agent over at WME, has now spoken on their behalf on the Freakonomics podcast or the Freakonomics radio show.
00:00:30.180And great news for us, quote unquote, anti-vaxxers, because RFK Jr. just got confirmed, which makes it the dawn of a new era.
00:00:38.540I'm just so excited. I really am just so excited. It's already a great start to the year.
00:00:43.140And we have to get to J.D. Vance as well, because he just gave an incredibly courageous speech in front of the Munich conference.
00:00:49.420So I think the best political speech in my recent memory. Let's jump right in. Welcome back to Candace.
00:01:00.000Okay, Liz Plank. This is very interesting. So in case you're forgetting who she is, Liz Plank
00:01:15.640was the co-host of the Man Enough podcast alongside Justin Baldoni. And then as soon as Blake Lively filed
00:01:24.500her complaint, Liz Plank was out. Instantly said she quit, you know, a show of support and solidarity
00:01:31.420with Blake after everything dropped. And people began looking into it. And particularly there was
00:01:36.840this TikToker, Steph with the Deets, who had showed that perhaps the reason that motivated her to get
00:01:42.920on the side of Blake Lively without actually looking into anything or at least speaking to her
00:01:48.160co-host and hearing his side of things may have been what we have discovered since, a repeat sort of
00:01:55.140Ryan Reynolds psychopathic strategy of essentially love bombing people, giving them roles they don't
00:02:01.140deserve in places that they don't belong and basically pretending to be the best, most amazing
00:02:06.080friend because the person that they're targeting and the person that they want to isolate is a
00:02:10.320person like Justin Baldoni who's connected to that individual. It's all about isolation. And so Liz
00:02:15.260Plank was a perfect person for them to go after because first and foremost, if you don't know anything
00:02:19.800about her, I had never heard her name before the scandal. She's kind of branded herself as like the
00:02:24.580ultimate feminist. You know, she is also Canadian and everything that she does, like I think she majored
00:02:30.260in women's studies at McGill University and she's very carefully done work as a big supporter of
00:02:38.080gender equality, right? So if you're thinking that you're going to go down this route as Blake Lively
00:02:42.560did, it would be a perfect person to kind of butter up and say, oh my gosh, you're never going to
00:02:48.060believe what I lived through on set, which is actually captured on camera and was really nothing.
00:02:52.940But the other element of this is when we recognize that Ryan Reynolds, and this is Steph with the
00:02:57.960Dietz again, had put her in this program, this documentary called Welcome to Wrexham, essentially.
00:03:04.420I think it's in like its fourth season and it's Ryan Reynolds and Rob, I'm going to say his last name
00:03:09.540wrong, McKelney, who are essentially documenting the rise of this sports team that we know Ryan
00:03:16.760Reynolds owns a portion of. And so he flew her out to be a part of this series. I did not actually,
00:03:24.900because Steph with the Dietz didn't show it. See the clip. I did not see what her expertise were
00:03:30.600that were required for her to participate in this documentary. And ladies and gentlemen,
00:03:35.980just buckle up. This is amazing. If you really want to get into how psychotic Ryan Reynolds is,
00:03:40.200the fact that he cast her as an expert for this will really clarify that for you. Okay. I'm thinking,
00:03:46.600oh, it's got to be something important. No, she appeared as an expert to deliver to audiences
00:03:54.580what a, well, the definition of a bromance is. Take a listen.
00:04:02.540The definition of the word bromance is, is just, it's a platonic relationship between two men.
00:04:09.300There's no female equivalent to the term bromance. The female equivalent is friends.
00:04:13.840And so the fact that we need a term to describe two men going out to dinner, I think is very
00:04:21.540revealing about what men are allowed or are not allowed to do and how much self-policing there is
00:04:27.840when it comes to their relationships with other men. So bromance is almost this permission for men
00:04:34.060to connect and to show love to each other because it's like a, it's like a joke.
00:04:39.740There you have it, ladies and gents. That's, that's likely why she sold out Justin Baljoni.
00:04:50.120An amazing opportunity. I mean, how did Ryan Reynolds even approach her for that?
00:04:54.420How, when he, in his mind, he's like, I just got to make up something because I don't really have
00:04:57.380anything for her and, uh, but we need her on our side. And so he probably flew her out private to
00:05:01.940the UK for that. He probably said, and overpaid her, well, we can pay you a hundred thousand dollars
00:05:07.280if you could be our expert. Yeah, I could get that approved, a budget approved a hundred K for
00:05:10.920you to speak on the expertise of the bromance culture and, um, the significance when you weigh
00:05:17.020it against women and their French. What, what? Like literally, if you need proof that he was just
00:05:23.120making stuff up and giving people positions, that's it right there. Okay. I just need to show
00:05:27.840you guys that before I even got into the scoop. So you remember last episode when we were speaking
00:05:31.720about this, I showed you also Marcos, who's another TikToker who essentially got his video
00:05:37.760banned because he had received a tip that the Reynolds family was lobbying Jenny Slate to join
00:05:44.800as a plaintiff. And Jenny Slate was pushing back on that. And he had heard from somebody in the orbit
00:05:50.120that was true. Well, I similarly heard, and I will say to protect myself, allegedly, allegedly,
00:05:55.520allegedly, but I don't know why I'm protecting myself because I do kind of want to be involved in
00:05:58.740this lawsuit. I'm doing a lot here to be involved in this lawsuit. Uh, but I heard on very good
00:06:04.680authority that the same was done to Liz Plank. Okay. So they primed her, got her as an expert of
00:06:11.520bromance, sorry, serious expert of bromances, put her on the show. She's a perfect candidate. She's
00:06:18.000a feminist. And then they tried to pull the me too button. She instantly took their side, jumped off of
00:06:23.340the podcast with him, made a statement. And then they basically asked her to join in
00:06:28.620as a plaintiff. And what I was told was like, Jenny Slate said, hell no. Her and her people
00:06:34.880have obviously gone through everything, have read the lawsuits like a fuller picture rather than just
00:06:40.440Blake's emotions. And they do not want to go anywhere near this with a 10 foot pole. And so they
00:06:47.180are behind the scenes, not just lobbying. Allegedly, Jenny Slate, also Liz Plank, they are literally
00:06:52.520looking for any individual that will jump on board and solidify her statements that Justin Baldoni is
00:06:59.540a creep and they are routinely and continually coming up dry because that's what happens when
00:07:04.780you lie. Speaking of people who just lie, let's talk about Ari Emanuel. Okay. Now you may have missed
00:07:10.220this. Ari Emanuel is a very powerful guy. He is, you could argue, the most powerful person in Hollywood.
00:07:16.160Okay. He is the CEO of WME. That is the agency that is involved in this lawsuit. Obviously the
00:07:23.380agency that instantly dropped Justin Baldoni when she filed her complaints initially, the CRD complaint
00:07:29.760in Los Angeles. And essentially, I did not know this. He is actually Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
00:07:36.980agent. So they are his clients. You have the CEO, chairman of WME and Endeavor, and these are his clients.
00:07:43.180So Ari Emanuel decided to appear on the Freakonomics radio podcast show. The episode has not dropped.
00:07:51.600It played on the radio and it's already broken in the press, but we could not pull the clips yet
00:07:55.680because they had not yet put it up on their podcast. It's due later today. And he discussed what was
00:08:00.360going on with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. And I'm going to quote you what he said, the various
00:08:06.300quotes. He said, quote, I am a ride or die and they're good people. I've known Ryan and Blake for over a
00:08:12.400decade. They're really incredible people. In Hollywood, they have been incredibly successful.
00:08:17.720People work with them. They've never had any bad mojo out there or treated people badly.
00:08:23.400They are charitable. We help them with their foundation. They've given tons of money away.
00:08:29.060He also said, quote, she felt Blake, Blake felt that she was not being protected. She complained.
00:08:34.240And then these people tried to go after her. They should stop. They're still trying to do it.
00:08:38.460They should stop. If what is alleged in her lawsuit that what happened on social media is true,
00:08:43.300just because she complained to the studio that things were unhealthy on set and that he was
00:08:47.660director and this man was a producer and they did to her what is being alleged, they're really bad
00:08:53.200people. He then said, quote, social media is a really good thing at times because it lets people,
00:08:58.060stars connect with their fans. But Baldoni and Heath used it in an evil way. If that's true,
00:09:03.160we just have to be cognizant that social media can ruin people and they should no longer be out there
00:09:08.740intimidating people using social media now and trying to hurt them and abusing them. Baldoni's
00:09:14.820team should just stop since they think they're innocent and let the process play itself out.
00:09:21.140Lastly, he said this, and this is my favorite part of his quotations. He says,
00:09:25.020I mean, it is an effed up bad situation. What Baloni, Baldoni, whatever his name is, is doing.
00:09:33.600And then when the host who was speaking with him, who's Steven Dubner, points out that Baldoni used
00:09:40.340to be on the WME roster, Ari shoots back until I fired him. Oh, Ari's so powerful. Big bad until I
00:09:49.560fired him. Amazing. He's so powerful, guys, and he's so cool that he doesn't even remember his name.
00:09:54.300It's Baloni, Baldoni, whatever your name is, kid. Ha ha ha ha. Ari, starry, farry, whatever your name
00:10:00.600is, kid. Ha ha ha. I don't understand how they do not understand why we do not like them. This is
00:10:06.760exactly, I mean, just the idea of not even being, having the decent enough respect to say his name,
00:10:13.620Justin Baldoni. He has obviously read through all the messages, but he's just going to come out here
00:10:18.040and say they're good people because they give money to charity. And I do believe this is what
00:10:22.640celebrities do. They're terrible human beings. They show up on red carpets like the Amphar Gala
00:10:28.180in their expensive wear to be seen, to be photographed, and they give away a million
00:10:32.540dollars. And then guess what, guys? That's it. That's their indulgence. That's it. You got to
00:10:36.480just accept that they're good people. They gave half a million dollars to charity this year.
00:10:40.640So that doesn't matter how they're treating other people. Okay, then, guys, well, Ari Emanuel is the
00:10:44.660most powerful guy in Hollywood, and he has spoken out. So I guess case closed. As long as Ryan and
00:10:49.460Blake are being nice to billionaires, right? Why are we upset? Do you hear that? Oh, they're
00:10:55.920probably also nice to Oprah, I'd imagine, and Mark Zuckerberg. And hey, obviously, they've been
00:11:02.280in front of Taylor Swift for 10 years. So clearly, if you have enough money, which Ari Emanuel does,
00:11:08.100Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds will be nice to you. So what exactly is the problem here? All your
00:11:13.620little mom sleuths, everybody following this case and reading the messages and seeing how horrific
00:11:17.480they are, reading the messages they sent, okay? Not imagining how they treated them. Being able to
00:11:23.500read the messages, being able to see how they were speaking to people behind the scenes, calling
00:11:29.380herself, oh, I could just have very powerful people ruin your life. I've got dragons. So yeah, I guess
00:11:35.600we're supposed to just accept what Ari Emanuel says because they think we're stupid, okay? People in
00:11:41.580Hollywood think people like you and I are stupid. We're too stupid to recognize that what he is
00:11:47.920doing, clearly, for all you guys, we're just a bunch of midwits, is protecting a business asset,
00:11:53.760okay? He makes millions off of them. He wants them to be successful because he collects millions off of
00:12:00.360them. That's what it means to be an agent. You sign deals, I take a piece of it. He does not want
00:12:05.100their brand to die because it hurts his pockets. But he's trying to pitch it to you another way because
00:12:09.340he thinks, again, you're a bunch of midwits, okay? So let's get into who Ari Emanuel is in general.
00:12:15.240Per Bloomberg, he has a personal net worth of at least $1 billion. He also owns TKO Stakeholdings,
00:12:21.960which has both the UFC and the WWE under its umbrella. Interesting story, by the way. I think
00:12:28.080he's got to be a guy who likes me, too, because Endeavor did a deal with UFC. I mean, did a deal with
00:12:33.800WWE and the McMahon family owned it forever? Suddenly, Vince McMahon gets Me Too'd and he
00:12:40.780sells off a bunch of his stake to Endeavor, which made Ari certainly a lot richer. So I don't know.
00:12:45.340Maybe this is just a repeat strategy in Hollywood. I've long suspected that the Me Too movement was
00:12:50.540actually being authored by men behind the scenes, and now I'm interested in that, and we'll get to
00:12:54.900that later, okay? He is the CEO, as I mentioned, of the Endeavor Talent Agency, which is the multi-billion
00:13:01.960talent agency, which has subsidiaries, including Wall Group, Art Plus Commerce, M2M, the model
00:13:10.160management firm that you've heard of, IMG Models, that represents Gigi Hadid, Giselle Bunchen.
00:13:16.020Last year, it was reported that he took home $64.9 million, okay? He enjoys a $65 million pay package
00:13:27.520as the CEO of the TKO group. And don't even get me started on his brother, Rahm Emanuel, who
00:13:32.900bankrupted Chicago. Absolute crook. He should be in prison. And then there's his other brother,
00:13:37.500Ezekiel, known as Zeke. Zeke? Geek? Leek? Were we rhyming, Ari? Whatever his name is, okay? He's a
00:13:43.840pharmaceutical lobbyist who was on the COVID-19 advisory board. So, you know, like, stay at home,
00:13:49.620save lives, let grandma die alone, trust the science. And essentially, Ari's picking up the same
00:13:54.580thing. He wants you to simply trust the science when it comes to Blake and Ryan. He wants you to
00:13:59.140accept that Blake and Ryan are always kind to billionaires. So I want you to remember that.
00:14:05.260The next time that you are thinking about this and you are reading their own words and understanding
00:14:10.620what they said, I want you to stop yourself and say, but I bet they've been really nice to Jeff
00:14:15.940Bezos. It sounds like they're really nice to Gigi Hadid. And I'm sure Blake Lively would be really
00:14:21.500sweet to someone like Gisele Bundchen. So what's the big deal? Seriously, guys, these billionaires
00:14:26.380are just not like us at all. Essentially, they believe that they are in a class of society in
00:14:31.640which it is perfectly permissible to align yourselves with evil people so long as it earns
00:14:37.420you revenue. Because that's what Ari Emanuel is saying. Like, these people, they're great. They
00:14:40.880earn me revenue. I'm richer than them, so they're nice to me. And the rest of you need to booger
00:14:44.980off because these are my assets. That's what he's saying. Which is why I think it's fine for us,
00:14:50.840if you want to listen to him, to completely ignore the fact that something I reported on my
00:14:55.260Instagram stories yesterday, that there are people who are speaking out about how they have
00:14:59.480been abused, which he just doesn't see it anymore. He doesn't see it anywhere. Social media is a bad
00:15:03.080thing sometimes, he says, because then people can get around us. We control the Hollywood reporter.
00:15:09.180We can control Deadline. We can control the New York Times. But man, those moms on Insta,
00:15:14.680what are they doing? They're snooping and they're finding stuff like what we found when we came
00:15:19.280across Barbara Zeman. Now, who is Barbara Zeman? She was the fourth assistant director for A Simple
00:15:24.400Favor, the first movie, the first installment of the film, with Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.
00:15:29.620And the actor who played Blake's husband in that film is reprising his role in the second film,
00:15:35.760which is due to drop any day. And it's this guy named, an actor named Henry Golding.
00:15:40.740So he posted a promotional poster for the film on his Instagram, which is another simple favor.
00:15:45.340It's coming out. And Barbara, the former fourth assistant director, wrote this. She wrote,
00:15:53.280I worked with you on the first one. My experience with everyone was absolutely amazing, except
00:15:58.360for a certain someone who is the reason I quit being an AD. Guess who that person is? I wish you
00:16:04.780all the best with this, though. So she posted that. Internet sleuths caught it. It started circulating.
00:16:09.080And then a bunch of people were commenting, essentially, like asking her to expand more
00:16:14.600on what happened, offering her support. And then six days later, she replied in the comment section
00:16:19.500and she wrote, thanks for the kindness. I want to avoid attention around this. But I will say,
00:16:25.060referring to Blake, she was cruel to many. I know I cried my way home many nights because you try so
00:16:31.320hard to please someone who is never pleased and puts you down constantly. I can't believe it's
00:16:36.000actually getting back at her. Karma is real. And this obviously blew up partially because I shared
00:16:42.140it. Other people shared it. And now she has disappeared from the platform because it's made
00:16:46.400the news of people speaking about their experience with her. As many people have come out and spoken
00:16:50.840about their various experiences with Blake Lively. And again, we are reading the text messages
00:16:56.460ourselves. But don't believe your own eyes. Don't listen to Barbara because you're not rich enough.
00:17:02.480Okay. Ari Emanuel wants you to know they give money to charity. Could you give a million dollars to
00:17:07.540to an AIDS foundation or to a hurricane relief? All right, then book her off, guys. This is how
00:17:13.820Hollywood thinks of the little people. Also, don't listen to Blake, even in her own words,
00:17:19.560because like we covered last week, she has openly admitted that she does exactly what Justin
00:17:24.720Baldoni's team accuses her of, pretending that she's just going to be an actress. And then she
00:17:29.800intentionally takes over movies. Also, if she doesn't get what she wants, or if somebody is
00:17:35.380cast that she doesn't like, she's openly admitted that she poisons the whole cast against people.
00:17:40.280That's what she admitted back in 2009, at least, in a Glamour Magazine article, which she was on the
00:17:45.460cover. I remember this, guys. I'm telling you, I was working at Glamour Magazine when I told you
00:17:50.160that she was the cover shoot and that my boss that I was working for said she was awful and she was the
00:17:55.920rudest person that she ever worked for. This was the cover of the magazine. Take it to the bank.
00:18:00.280I worked at Glamour when this magazine was happening. OK, so she was initially upset.
00:18:05.980This is a quote. This is a quote from her. She was initially upset that Penn Badgley, who became
00:18:09.460her future boyfriend, got hired for the role. She said in the magazine, quote, at first, I was so
00:18:14.340upset that they hired him. I actually poisoned the whole cast against him. But then they noticed
00:18:18.780that he wasn't a jerk and was actually really nice, charming person. Almost immediately,
00:18:23.640I realized that, too. But it took me about a week to admit it. So Blakey no likey. Then Blakey's
00:18:30.960going to go after you and poison the whole cast against you. And now she's got the money and the
00:18:34.100resources to poison the cast around you, including people on an unrelated podcast to her life to fly
00:18:41.340out to the UK to offer some really sound, sage opinion and advice and expertise on the topic of
00:18:50.400bromances. I hope she writes a book. I really do hope Liz Plank writes a book so I can fully
00:18:57.040understand what exactly a bromance is and how I should weigh it against my female friendships.
00:19:03.520Anyways, trust the science, like I said, because she's really nice to billionaires. And the most
00:19:07.600egregious update, by the way, in this lawsuit, it was egregious to me. I was I was like personally
00:19:12.140offended by this when I saw this. I was freaking out. OK, essentially how you should perceive this
00:19:17.880is Blake Lively is now openly admitting that she did not have a shred of evidence when she conspired
00:19:24.800to ruin Justin Baldoni's entire life. OK, why do we know that? Because of a subpoena. That information
00:19:32.180came to the public in the form of a subpoena on Wednesday. In case you missed it, her and Ryan
00:19:36.600Reynolds lawyers sent a subpoena to three phone carriers, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile seeking records
00:19:43.920pertaining to Baldoni, producer Jamie Heath and, of course, the billionaire Wayfarer Studios
00:19:49.340co-founder Steve Sarowitz. OK, now the subpoenas also are are against the publicists that are
00:19:57.320involved, Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan. Not entirely unusual to subpoena messages, by the
00:20:02.760way, pertaining to a lawsuit. That's actually totally normal. If you think that there are some
00:20:07.200messages, it's a limited scope that you get. I've been involved in this. You give them forward and
00:20:11.740it allows them to look for a piece of evidence that they insist is in there, whatever. But this
00:20:17.080is not what they're doing. They're not. This is not a limited scope subpoena. This is what a
00:20:21.840spokesperson for Lively said. They said, quote, phone records belonging to all of the individual
00:20:26.920defendants will expose the full web of individuals who were involved in the smear campaign against
00:20:31.960Ms. Lively. Such records will provide critical and irrefutable evidence not only about who,
00:20:36.980but also about when, where and how their retaliation plan came together and operated.
00:20:41.740So you're thinking, wow, they must have a smoking gun in there. And then Brian Friedman drops this.
00:20:47.000OK, basically, they are asking not just for messages pertaining to this lawsuit, like said that they
00:20:54.160know that they're looking for a conversation between so and so and so and so on this week,
00:20:58.340on this day. They are seeking all calls, text and location data, everything in their phone stretching
00:21:06.920back two and a half years. They want everything, every message they've ever sent.
00:21:12.440OK, Brian Friedman said, quote, this massive phishing expedition demonstrates that they are
00:21:17.820desperately seeking any factual base, a basis for their provably false claims. They will find none.
00:21:23.900OK, you don't ask for every message in someone's entire phone spanning back two and a half years.
00:21:30.280Like I was I was personally offended when I heard this, because I think what they're relying on is,
00:21:35.040again, people in the public to be stupid and think that that's normal. Of course, it's not normal.
00:21:39.120You know what you would find? Basically, you could paint any person in the entire world
00:21:43.840as a bad person if you had access to two and a half years of out of context messages.
00:21:51.220I would be painted as the most racist person in the entire world.
00:21:55.440The amount of times that I send racist messages to my sisters, like literally like every day,
00:22:00.360I'm like, stop doing that. Stop. Stop being black. Wake up. Stop being black out of context.
00:22:05.880Oh, my God. The headline would read Candace Owens told her sister stop being black.
00:22:10.100Why would she say this? How could she do this?
00:22:11.780I send terrible messages, horrific messages to my girlfriends, joking, funny messages,
00:22:17.300Savannah, redneck messages. Mark, I lean into the media stereotype of me being anti-Semitic.
00:22:23.340I send Jewish jokes to Mark. Could you imagine you just get access to everything
00:22:27.240and you could just throw it into a lawsuit out of context and someone has to defend themselves
00:22:31.060of like, oh, yeah, no, no, I don't hate black people. That's just me talking to my little sister.
00:22:35.440That's how we speak to each other. That's how we show love. That's what they're asking for.
00:22:38.920I've got like photos of my kids thighs sent to my husband, sent to a pediatrician. Like,
00:22:46.520is that a rash? Is it eczema? Like, you're not getting you have no right to ask for two
00:22:51.540and a half years of every single message sent from somebody's phone. That is absurd. It is
00:22:57.060ridiculous. And again, it relies on fundamental stupidity. OK, you believe the public is fundamentally
00:23:03.160stupid. So I think the game they were playing is they were going to request this. Obviously,
00:23:07.680they're going to hit back hard. Like, first off, the PR people, Melissa, Nathan, who else is on the
00:23:13.680PR side? They didn't even join this lawsuit. They didn't even come on until August as crisis PR.
00:23:20.760Why on earth would they give you two and a half years of messages when they weren't even representing
00:23:24.640this individual until the very end of this when things went down?
00:23:28.280Oh, I know because you want everything so you can paint people as horrific people out of context.
00:23:34.000So I say the best response to this is actually I strangely feel that two and a half years of
00:23:38.320Justin Baldoni's messages are going to be really nice. Do you kind of agree? I feel like it's going
00:23:41.720to be so annoying and he's going to be so painfully nice for two and a half years. And I'm just going
00:23:46.240to give him a noogies. OK, but like fair gate. Let him have it. Actually, Brian Friedman,
00:23:50.800as long as you get to have two and a half years of every single message that Blake and Ryan have ever
00:23:55.640sent because I would love to have two and a half years of messages between Blake and Taylor Swift
00:24:00.600because there is something there. My instinct tells me I just know she's doing the abracadabra
00:24:05.440magic trick and she's going to go away because she knows the public is like onto her. She's very
00:24:09.840close. Icarus knows when it's flying too close to the sun. OK, Taylor Swift, Icarus knows she's like,
00:24:15.520oh, she's coming down. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Let's bring you back up. I want two and a half
00:24:18.940years of your messages. Play the game. That's what I think. I say play it because I actually have full
00:24:23.580faith that Justin Baldoni is not texting his sister racist stuff like I do all the time to
00:24:29.500my sisters, both of them, actually, all the time. I really do. It's terrible. Anyways, we will keep
00:24:33.840you updated on that. But I also want to tell you that we were able to confirm at least one of the
00:24:38.160posts that Colleen Hoover deleted from her Instagram since returning a couple of days ago.
00:24:43.780Essentially, she had reposted onto her main page a message that was written and shared on December 22nd.
00:24:51.080So two days after Blake Lively filed her federal complaint in court, actually, sorry, her CRD
00:24:58.420complaint in Los Angeles, her Sisterhood of the Lively Pants friends, actresses, America Ferreira,
00:25:07.720Amber Rose, Tamlin and Alexis Bledel, I think is her name. I hope I'm saying that correctly.
00:25:14.020Anyways, they were her co-stars in a 2005 film and they have maintained their friendship over years.
00:25:18.700They penned this long letter of support, essentially saying that, quote, as Blake's friends and
00:25:24.980sisters for over 20 years, we stand with her in solidarity as she fights back against the
00:25:29.960reported campaign. Throughout the filming of It Ends With Us, we saw her summon the courage to ask
00:25:35.120for a safe workplace for herself and colleagues on set. And we are appalled to read the evidence of
00:25:40.440premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice. OK, blah, blah, blah. You get you get
00:25:46.840the point there. Like they're just like and Colleen Hoover saw this and she decided to repost it onto
00:25:53.400her Instagram. And this is what she included as the caption underneath the post. She wrote,
00:26:00.000I thought this note was beautiful and I was going to share it in my stories like I shared my post about
00:26:04.960Blake in my stories yesterday. I wanted to show support, but I had anxiety thinking of putting my
00:26:10.600post about Blake in my feed and sending myself into a mental spiral from the inevitable comments.
00:26:15.820They can be vile. And over the last year or two, there's been a huge shift in my attitude towards
00:26:20.700social media. She then goes on to say, but this statement from these women and Blake's ability to
00:26:25.760refuse to sit down and be buried has been nothing short of inspiring. Seeing these three women stand
00:26:32.720up for their pride when they know good and well they're going to be ripped apart by the people who
00:26:36.580choose not to accept or read the receipts is inspiring. I am done being afraid to post in fear of the
00:26:42.340comment section hurting my reputation. I do not care about my future legacy. I never have. I care
00:26:46.900about the people who are currently in my life, who I love and know and trust. And I care about the
00:26:51.620readers who have supported me along the way and who reach out daily to ask where I've been and why I
00:26:56.220haven't released a book in years. The answer is simple. We have become a cruel society of judges who
00:27:01.840expect perfection, blah, blah, blah. So she makes a very strong statement and you can now say it was
00:27:08.680against Justin Baldoni. She reposted not only what the Sisters of the Traveling Pants, whatever it's
00:27:14.720called, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants wrote, but she also includes her own sentiment and uses that
00:27:20.320phrase implying that Justin orchestrated this campaign to bury Blake Lively. And so I'm going to
00:27:28.340say this. Colleen Hoover needs to come out and offer a full-throated apology to Justin Baldoni.
00:27:33.740She does. There's no way around this. There's no escaping this. There's no deleting posts
00:27:37.800and pretending that didn't happen. You need to take accountability, okay? You didn't allow him
00:27:42.380to respond. You didn't allow him to answer. He was the person who brought your book to life
00:27:46.260and you loved him. You wanted him to play this role. You obviously had a good experience with him
00:27:51.800and you let all of that change because you got a little dizzy-eyed when you saw A-listers
00:27:57.340that were pumping you with love. The public, by the way, will be incredibly understandable when you
00:28:02.740say that I believed her. Okay, fine. I get that. You're allowed to, upon first instinct,
00:28:08.600not be able to perceive the level of evil in Hollywood. I get that. You're new to the town
00:28:13.200and you don't understand how these people work. And like I said, I do believe that Me Too has been
00:28:17.780weaponized in the industry by people like Ari Emanuel who just want to take over people's businesses,
00:28:23.220okay? And I think they encourage this sort of stuff. And I think maybe Ari Emanuel sees himself in
00:28:27.660Ryan Reynolds, right? Hungry, willing to do whatever it is, taking over movies, putting credits
00:28:32.600of things that they didn't do, things that they didn't create, and in the process kind of creating
00:28:38.240an empire for yourself. But the reality is, Colleen Hoover, is that you fell for it, you made a strong
00:28:43.140statement, and you hurt this person and you hurt his family. And his kids will have to grow up one day
00:28:47.900to read that, a person who wanted nothing more other than to bring your vision to life, the vision of
00:28:53.560your readers to life, really, what they saw when they read this book. So you got to put on your
00:28:58.700big girl pants and you got to apologize, okay? That's all I'm going to say about that topic.
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00:30:58.340All right, guys. First thing I want to do, by the way, is issue a correction. Yesterday,
00:31:02.460for those of you, the millions of you that are following the Becoming Brigitte series,
00:31:05.920it was brought to our attention that we accidentally put up a photo of the wrong David Rothschild when we
00:31:11.520were covering the connections of Emmanuel Macron and who put him into power. We showed this photo
00:31:17.100of David Mayer de Rothschild, who is actually like an artist environmentalist. He is in the family,
00:31:22.580obviously. His father is Evelyn de Rothschild. But the correct photo that we should have shown