EXCLUSIVE： Taylor Swift Will Be Deposed. ｜ Candace Ep 150
Summary
A protection order was filed and agreed to last night by all parties and they re just waiting for the judge to sign off on it and I can tell you right now that depositions are coming. Also, in the wildest, most pathetic, most dishonest and cowardly response ever to the Becoming Brigitte series, President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron have their goons come out and say that they never received my letter back to them with my 21 questions.
Transcript
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All right, guys. Happy Friday. I have a major scoop for you. This is going to be a fun Friday because it's regarding Taylor Swift and the Lively lawsuit, which is just I'm obsessed with it. I am so sorry.
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Basically, a protection order was filed and agreed to last night by all parties. They're just waiting for the judge to sign off on it. And I can tell you right now that depositions are coming. It is a fact, an absolute fact.
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Also, in the wildest, most pathetic, most dishonest and cowardly response ever to the Becoming Brigitte series, President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron have their goons coming out and saying that they never received my letter back to them.
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My letter back to them with the 21 questions, which they replied to with the preservation order. Absolutely insane.
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What can I say other than Brigitte Macron has got some balls? Welcome back to Candace.
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All right, guys. Taylor Swift. She is getting to post. It is happening. It is happening. Everybody stay calm. Okay.
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So yesterday, as I mentioned, yesterday evening, again, at 11.02 p.m., I don't know why Blake Lively's team likes to file these things late in the day, knowing that I'm monitoring things and I can't stay up that late.
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But they filed a protective order and I at first looked at it and I thought that they had done this by themselves.
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But actually, it looks like it was agreed to by both parties to protect some of the things that may come up in discovery and through all of these subpoenas.
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Because now my lawyer told me that this is actually pretty standard.
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My poor lawyer, who I call all the time asking questions about this case, and he tells me that I'm not a party of the case at all, but he's got to give me legal advice anyways.
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This is a pretty standard thing that happens in commercial cases.
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And it's really just a measure that's used to protect business interests.
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So I'm giving you guys a really bad analogy here.
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But let's say I'm in court and I'm fighting with Chase Bank about something.
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And all of this is obviously public and we move together for the judge to seal certain aspects because we don't need those things to become public fodder.
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So maybe it's like my account statements, like why does the public need to know if I'm waking up every day and buying Starbucks coffee?
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Whatever it is, it's just irrelevant to the public.
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They're trying to say, OK, there might be some things that come out that are not relevant to the public.
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But the language here in this protection order I found to be very interesting.
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And at first it made me think instantly of Taylor Swift.
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I'm calling this like the Taylor Swift clause in the protection order.
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It says the person producing any given discovery material may designate it as confidential or attorney's eyes only.
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Only such portion of such material, the public disclosure of which is either restricted by law or will cause harm to the business,
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commercial, financial or personal interests of the producing person and or a third party, including high profile individuals to whom a duty of confidentiality is owed.
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I don't know why we owe these high profile people confidentiality.
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And that consists of a previously non-disclosed financial information, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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So I'm thinking this means like we're not going to be able to read these Taylor Swift text messages.
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We're not going to be able to read or they're going to like seal her deposition.
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Turns out I am completely wrong because I have it on very good authority that Taylor Swift is going to get subpoenaed and she is going to be deposed and she is up first.
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They have heard the public pleas and essentially we're just we're going to get it.
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First and foremost, with my non-legal expertise, as I have said from the very beginning, smartest possible move for Justin Baldoni's team to make.
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I wasn't sure they were going to do it because Brian Friedman was asked about it by Harvey Levin on TMZ.
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And I'm going, what do you mean you don't know?
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That would be like the very first thing I would do.
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I would depose Taylor Swift against Blake Lively, because first and foremost, no matter how you feel about Taylor Swift, you have to recognize and respect the fact that she is a machine.
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In other words, Blake and Ryan will wind up fighting a real dragon.
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OK, a real dragon that has an army of teenagers that are behind her.
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And it is my professional opinion that she was very much involved.
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She was involved in this circumstance and that currently her team is lying to the public.
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I kept saying they are clearly lying to the public and trying to signal to Justin Baldoni's team like, look, we have nothing to do with this.
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They claimed to TMZ in one article that she only met Justin once and it was briefly.
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And essentially, she was startled because the meeting was supposed to be over at Blake's apartment.
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And then she arrived and Justin Baldoni was there.
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And then they painted this narrative like Taylor was just really nice.
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And because she thought this is Blake's boss and she was being really kind, had a brief discussion and never spoke to him again.
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And we just know objectively that that is not true.
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OK, we know objectively that is not true because both Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, despite this contentious fight, have agreed on the fact that Taylor Swift was involved in this film.
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OK, they just have agreed on that without knowing that this fight was coming when everything was all good in the hood and Blake Lively was using her name.
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So I'm going to jog your memory just so you understand how many points she's involved in, how many times she could be subject to having to answer questions about maybe giving text messages pertaining to, first and foremost, the casting of young Lily Bloom, otherwise known as the actress Isabella Ferrer.
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Remember, she said this on the red carpet premiere.
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I hear that Taylor may have had some influence in getting.
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I don't even know if I'm meant to be saying it, but I'm saying it.
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Yeah, she was a helpful part of the process of the audition, which I found out later after I got it.
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And Justin Baldoni confirmed this in an interview.
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But listen to his language, OK, because it sounds like he's maybe seen Taylor Swift more than at that one time at the apartment in which she was, quote unquote, startled and never spoke to him again, according to the PR teams.
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She told me Taylor Swift helped her get the role, like signed off on.
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Well, I had brought in I was casting and I and I had actually brought in and showed her casting tape to Blake and Taylor.
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Were you supposed to believe that happened in a couple of minutes at the apartment when she apparently just said, hi, bye.
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He then said, oh, let me show you the casting tapes for Lily Bloom.
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And again, this is because Tree is trying to protect her client.
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That is the job of a PR person, which is try to signal to the public that she wants nothing to do with it so that she doesn't have to get pulled into this.
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Now, we should also be reminded that Taylor Swift also allegedly got the lead composer on the film.
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And the guy under him, allegedly, for personal reasons, we were told by this anonymous Reddit post, which came out way before any of this broke in the public.
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And yet everything this person has said has now fact checked true.
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So they were alleging that Taylor Swift came in there and was like, if you want to use my song, My Tears Ricochet, which they did, again, showing that she was very involved in this film, then you can't have these guys as the composers.
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And we saw that Brian, whereas Brian Taylor is friends with Justin Baldoni and he's worked with him in the past and that he had written a score for this movie.
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And they have not explicitly denied that, despite the fact that all the podcasters and TikTokers are speaking about that.
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There has not been this denial from Taylor Swift's camp.
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OK, we went over how odd the It Ends With Us credits were.
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And now we're just mocking him everywhere, mocking Justin Baldoni everywhere.
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Now, you might say, oh, well, it's because her song was used.
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Well, we found out from that Reddit post that it was more than that.
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They had a sit down with Bradley Cooper, which is why he's mentioned in the It Ends With Us credits, because they had this like celebrity screening of Blake Lively's cut.
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But then it was the person said it was like her cut was problematic.
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So they brought in Taylor Swift's videographer or Taylor Swift's music video makers to help with the edit.
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Well, then I noticed that in the It Ends With Us credits, there is a person named Stefania Dulowski.
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So I was looking up everybody on this list, like a psycho.
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And she's a photographer who previously worked with Taylor Swift, not just Taylor Swift, but also Blake Lively.
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She has a list of every music video she's worked on.
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And this is Taylor Swift's song, I Bet You Think About Me.
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You see it lists Shane Reed and also Blake Lively.
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And the person that did the edits was this Stefania.
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And they clearly brought on Stefania, Taylor Swift's team, to come in and get involved in this movie.
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Okay, so you don't get to now go, oh, I had nothing.
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I just one little run in here with Justin Baldoni.
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Then you have the fact that Blake Lively herself admitted during an August 2024 panel.
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And they did this stop, I guess, really to appeal to influencers and speak about the movie.
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And she just flat out spells out the fact that Taylor Swift was involved every step of the way with this film.
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There were a lot of calls made for a lot of songs in this movie.
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Honestly, like this movie, I think that like when you see it, it feels like a big, beautiful summer movie.
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So there were a lot of favors and a lot of begging.
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And I mean, honestly, she was with me on this experience the whole time, all throughout it.
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So, yeah, she was, you know, she's a person who shows up for you.
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And I'm so grateful to have that love and that support.
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But yeah, there were other people, too, that I had to call and beg.
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So if somebody has a dictionary, I would love to find the definition of that.
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It's really interesting when you consider really the thrust of this lawsuit.
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And you can only imagine the things that she's allowed to say.
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If Justin had ever said that, if he was like, I don't take no for an answer.
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Can somebody show me what it looks like in a dictionary?
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They would have made a big stink about it, particularly in their filings.
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So she's just saying right there, Taylor Swift's been involved since the beginning,
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you know, every step of the way, more than just the song that she gave us.
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It's believable because, as I pointed out, we have been so focused on that text message
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about the dragons and Khaleesi because it's wacky and it's weird and it's crazy and it's unstable.
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But what's also compelling is that the very first time that Ryan Reynolds and Justin Baldoni
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speak via text message, when they first are introduced to each other, Ryan Reynolds immediately
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OK, she's the only person they're blurring out in this lawsuit.
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And then he says, Justin Baldoni, some of the greatest creative decisions I've made are,
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The acting is a small piece of a pretty astounding patchwork quilt of creativity.
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And I remind you, she was coming out of that relationship with Joe Alwyn and she was spending
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a lot of time with them at the beginning of her Eros tour.
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It's what she likes to do when she gets out of relationships.
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She likes to girl squad, get photographed by paparazzi.
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And I would just imagine she needed something to play with.
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And it ends with us ended up being what she decided to play with.
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Then, of course, the most obvious thing is that Ryan uses Taylor Swift's strategy of dropping
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Easter eggs all over social media, all over the Deadpool movie, all over the It Ends With
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Us credits, all over the Deadpool credits to take all of these digs at Justin Baldoni again,
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which makes all of us not believe that she was actually sexually harassed.
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Rather, they were moving to try to squeeze her and to eventually just have Blake replace
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Justin Baldoni as the director on the film, you know, by playing this part of I'm a victim.
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And we are going to be able to read that deposition, you know, because there's there's
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And you can't say, well, I don't want to be deposed because I'm Taylor Swift.
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And there might be something in there that shows that I'm a liar.
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This is a this is a PR crisis for Taylor Swift.
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And I'm going to tell you why that interests me.
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OK, it interests me because this moment is super interesting for the left and the right
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because and I was having this call with Taylor Lorenz, formerly of The Washington Post, this
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morning, and she was asking me specifically about this lawsuit.
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And why is it that it seems that it's bringing together the left and the right?
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And I sort of said to her, well, actually, at least for me, I have been on this Me Too
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thing for a very long time because I recognize that it was becoming a business strategy.
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But I think that something fractured for people that were on the left with the Amber Heard
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And they didn't forget that they didn't forget what Amber Heard said to them and then what
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they watched throughout the hearings and her kind of just completely forgetting the
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We got to read her messages and we kind of up close got to see how the press can just
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I'm not saying that everything that Johnny Depp did was great in this relationship.
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I mean, both of them were admitting to doing drugs on the stand, but it definitely they
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I think that fracturing was good because it allowed us to all go.
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Let's pause and actually think and consider that maybe we're not being told the truth
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And I have known for years, OK, trust me when I tell you, I know enough people in Hollywood
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that Taylor Swift is considered a very shrewd businesswoman.
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She's gotten away with a lot of things because truly and don't don't kill me, Swifties.
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But it's because of this empire of teenage girls.
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It's because I have to say, don't kill me, Swifties, when I share some facts with you.
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And it's funny because I said to you the timing of this book, I wrote an entire chapter on
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And I was kind of going back to what was that moment when I was no longer on the Taylor
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And I still, like I said in my Instagram stories today, I'm going to bop to London Boy
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But in 2019, I was like, I'm good off of Taylor Swift because her and I are the same age and
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And when I saw her do that move against Scooter Braun, something in me broke.
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And so I wanted to kind of jog your memory about that really quickly before we get to
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Leslie Sloan PR's move, because I'm really interested to hear what Swifties have to say
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about this with new information and with time and with you guys getting older.
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I don't know why I'm assuming everybody's a teenager that is a Swiftie.
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But the point being is that you're kind of growing up and you're sort of starting to
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see these strategies that can be used when you revisit that situation and you learn more
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So again, this book has not been published yet.
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I'm literally showing you the manuscript from my Microsoft Word document.
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And I shouldn't be showing you this because why would I show you this?
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I'm going to pull it up here on my laptop, gang.
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So I write in my book, before unpacking this incredible event, this is between her and
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Scooter Braun, it's important to at first note that Taylor Swift does not represent a
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In fact, if Taylor had never become famous, she would have had to settle with just being
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Taylor Swift grew up on an idyllic Christmas tree farm in West Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Her father, Scott Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother was a marketing
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It's important to note that both her parents had careers, which would have rendered them
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They hired their daughter, a talent manager, at the age of 12, and Scott relocated to Merrill
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Lynch's Nashville office so that Taylor could pursue her career in music two years later.
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Suffice it to say that when record executive Scott Borchetta approached her family to sign
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their daughter in 2005, Taylor was well represented.
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So well represented, in fact, that her financially savvy father purchased a 3% stake in Borchetta's
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new company, Big Machine Records, under which Taylor Swift was signed.
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Naturally, there would have been a fleet of lawyers involved from both sides to close the
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Of course, neither Scott Swift nor Scott Borchetta could have ever predicted Taylor's future
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They simply agreed to what they both thought was fair at that time.
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Borchetta took a chance on an unknown Taylor Swift, and that risk paid off until Taylor
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decided that it somehow wasn't fair 14 years later.
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Taylor decided that she would relitigate her business deal through the tactic which had
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always served her, manipulating the emotions of her fans who she could assume knew nothing
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At the heart of the matter was a man named Scooter Braun who had recently just purchased Big
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Through his perfectly, it was through this perfectly legal business transaction, he had acquired
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the masters to the music catalog that Taylor Swift had created while under the label.
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For definition's sake, a master was effectively an original recording.
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Whoever therefore owns the master recording controls the destiny of the song.
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Should any person or company wish to use that song in a TV advert, a fee must be paid to
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Okay, so then I get into, like, clearly Taylor Swift leaves Big Machine Records, she goes
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with Universal, and she posts this Tumblr post, this notorious Tumblr post, when Scooter
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What people didn't know that was going on in the background was that Taylor Swift, just
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in her mind, had had this huge fight with Kanye West over the famous music video and
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Kim Kardashian, and she associated Scooter Braun with Kanye West as, like, his
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And the reality is he actually wasn't his manager, because I did the due diligence on
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this book at the time that that famous music video was posted.
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She considered him to be Team Kanye and just didn't want him to buy the masters.
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But she never told the public that her dad owned a piece of the company.
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I was like, this is the most wildly manipulative thing to pretend that this isn't a normal business
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It's like he bought a house and something was built into the house.
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And he's like, OK, well, I'm buying this house.
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And then Taylor Swift takes the Tumblr and she's like, I sat next to that pool and I
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And it's like, girl, I don't care what your memories are here.
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Like, I don't I had nothing to do with the deal that you and your dad or your dad and
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You're not the only person here under this record label.
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Anyways, getting just just showing you the beginning of her Tumblr post that she posted
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because I just remember, again, her and I have the same age.
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Instead, I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and earn one
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album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in.
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I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the
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I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past music that I wrote on my bedroom
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floor and videos that I dreamed up and paid for from the money that I earned playing in
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Why do you know that your dad was literally there's only there were only five people.
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So this just this entire thing was just not plausible.
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And then she did in a second maneuver, she posts this other Tumblr posts, which is an
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And again, relies on people not knowing business to call out this lie.
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Guys, it's been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me
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with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year's ceremony.
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I've been planning to perform a medley of my hits through the decade on the show.
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Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I'm not allowed to perform my old
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songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I'm allowed
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For those of you that don't understand what a master recording is, they can't it has nothing
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It's literally just what you already recorded and that we own.
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So it's on the album and you could say, you can't play this exact album, like My Tears
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And again, people who don't know business or know the ins and outs of music would have
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accepted this, which is why I just say at the bottom of this post, and the thing that
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bothered me about this was because I remember at the time Scooter Braun's wife pleading publicly
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with her not to do this because their kids were getting death threats because her army
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They were so angry because they believed that she was this perfect victim.
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And then the story ends, by the way, if you want to pull this up back to that post, Skylar.
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First, I said everything about this appeal to her fan base is despicable.
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Even the title, Don't Know What Else To Do, is absurd.
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Working it out via normal contract negotiations would be a start.
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Second, don't try and emotionally manipulate your fan base to ruin people's lives.
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Words and phrases such as tyrannical, wrong, be a good little girl and shut up.
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The entire appeal was just like, help me, help me.
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Not like I'm a billionaire and I have access to the most powerful marketing team in the
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I can, to some extent, I would have agreed with her if she had done it on more honest
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terms and said like, you know, when you're a young artist and you sign and she says like,
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And you're kind of would have done things differently.
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And you realize how hard you're working and you feel like, you know, your celebrity has
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Like that would have been the cool adult thing to do rather than to pretend like you were
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Her dad got paid $15 million when they got sold.
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And then a couple of months later, Scooter Braun resold it because it was just a normal
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And it was more about her hatred of Kanye West at that time.
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And I from that moment on in 2009, I just like just saw her for this, like kind of saw
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this maneuver of if you can control the press, if you can control the narrative, then you
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can take down people and you can get what you want.
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And the craziest part of the story is actually the fact that Taylor Swift now makes double
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Her fans are behind her like you re-record your stuff and we'll buy that.
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And she never told her fans, but I still own the percentage of, you know, what my dad
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It actually was an incredibly financially savvy and I will say actually a brilliant Machiavellian
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scheme to magnify her money, magnify her ownership while keeping her young fan base kind
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And so when I look at this situation with what's happening with Blake and she's doing
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kind of that same maneuver of saying, like, I've been used, I really just don't buy it
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I'm exhausted with that narrative that she's used every single time.
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You have done things in your life that are wrong.
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OK, relationship wise, business relationship wise.
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And you can't keep doing this because you've done a good job of kind of curating your brand
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OK, and so what I can expect and this is what I'm again, I'm guessing this here is that they
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And this might be the reason that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds fold, because what matters
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to them in a narcissistic world is the friendship with Taylor Swift.
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That's the only thing that can actually impact them.
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They like being able to tell people like Taylor Swift is our friend.
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And if they think that that's going to be removed from their lives, then they might go, OK, I don't
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Let's issue a statement and let's settle this thing.
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That's that is my again, that is totally my own prognostication.
00:26:35.200
But my guess is going to be because I've seen her move.
00:26:37.820
She's shutting down this friendship ASAP because she doesn't want people to have access to those
00:26:42.360
And I don't think it's going to be a nice girl.
00:26:44.220
I don't think you're going to get a sweet girl who would have never done this to Justin
00:26:48.340
I think the public is going to be very, very surprised when they meet the very media savvy,
00:26:54.120
very capable, very business savvy Taylor Swift.
00:26:59.940
Now, that's tree, by the way, with the red hair.
00:27:09.560
And like I said, no matter what happens, I'm still bopping London boy.
00:27:14.280
And there's some more songs, too, that my daughter likes off of the Lover album.
00:27:19.660
I'll just be like, listen, I don't believe anything you're saying.
00:27:28.900
But just to remind you, Leslie Sloan PR is the PR firm that reps Blake and Ryan Reynolds.
00:27:34.040
And they have repped them for years, like close to a decade.
00:27:38.460
And their attorney, who is Sigrid McCauley, the one that represented Epstein's victims,
00:27:45.060
the one that made a fool of herself in the hearing by just trying to use a girl power
00:27:51.400
My they should not be in this because they run an all girl firm.
00:27:55.960
Well, she's now filed a motion for them to be dismissed from Justin Baldoni's lawsuit.
00:28:00.460
Plus, they want all of their attorney fees covered in what's known as an anti slap motion.
00:28:06.140
Anti slap basically meaning that if you bring about a defamation lawsuit and there is no
00:28:11.600
grounds for that lawsuit, then they can charge you the attorney fees.
00:28:15.800
And so every state has different laws pertaining to anti slap.
00:28:18.760
They're asking for their attorney fees to be covered.
00:28:21.900
And their reason, in case you're wondering in this filing, this again went in yesterday
00:28:27.220
They're saying, well, they opened this up by saying, well, Justin Baldoni once said that
00:28:36.240
They wrote this quote, Justin Baldoni has spent years profiting off the feminist and
00:28:41.760
hashtag me to movements, peddling books, podcasts, TED talks and more using slogans about believing
00:28:48.320
survivors, ending victim blaming and promoting informed consent.
00:28:53.720
His conduct in this dispute is therefore sheer hypocrisy.
00:29:01.760
He said things close to a decade ago that we should believe women when he was in a TEDx
00:29:07.700
And I said something and I want to be believed.
00:29:14.960
And then we move from this like feminist strategy to this unbelievable dip in IQ altogether.
00:29:23.900
Baldoni does not deny the lion's share of misconduct for which he is accused.
00:29:28.420
Instead, he tries to contextualize his behavior and suggest that Ms. Lively asked for it.
00:29:38.660
For instance, Mr. Baldoni responds to Ms. Lively's allegation that Baldoni and Heath invaded
00:29:44.740
her trailer uninvited while she was undressed, included when she was breastfeeding her infant
00:29:49.700
child by publishing a text message where Ms. Lively invited Baldoni to her trailer.
00:29:55.600
Yeah, that's that's kind of some important context.
00:29:59.860
What are you accusing him of providing the context that lets us know that she's lying?
00:30:04.060
They're like, how dare he interrupt her narrative where she says that he barged into the trailer
00:30:09.680
by then including a text message which proves that he was actually invited into the trailer?
00:30:19.600
So unwise, it's the nicest way I can say it, like whoever put this together is not a very
00:30:28.260
How dare he contextualize our out of context statements?
00:30:31.920
Yeah, that's kind of important to contextualize everything that you guys have said.
00:30:35.980
And when they did that, it made the public understand that your your clients are playing
00:30:43.140
Then they go on and they accuse him of like, you know, predatory behavior.
00:30:48.340
He and his team used every weapon in their arsenal blame to embarrass and to silence.
00:30:53.060
And then they go back to that initial CRD complaint of trying to put things out of context.
00:30:58.640
They say their crisis PR manager who promised to, quote unquote, bury Ms. Lively and, quote
00:31:11.080
And then when you actually see the full context, as presented by Brian Friedman, you realize
00:31:15.420
this is a nasty game of PR and they plucked and choose what they wanted to create their
00:31:21.600
Now, they also go on to say that they want to be dropped from this lawsuit because there's
00:31:28.020
They say that there is no evidence of defamation.
00:31:30.780
And I'm going to tell you guys right away that I do not think that the judge is going to
00:31:34.980
allow them to be dismissed because it's just a really weak filing, first and foremost,
00:31:39.620
that does nothing to make, if I'm the judge, make me think that they weren't involved in
00:31:45.820
There's also going to be some limited discovery involved in that circumstance.
00:31:49.500
And given the fact that Leslie Sloan PR, as I said, has represented Ryan and Blake for
00:31:54.580
almost a decade, it's just not likely that it was not them that was shopping around those
00:32:02.120
articles that we saw during the premiere time when all these articles were premiering that
00:32:07.720
were coming out about Justin Baldoni saying the cast didn't like him and saying that Blake
00:32:14.080
They have a strong contact, Leslie Sloan PR at TMZ.
00:32:17.920
Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, she felt kissing scene lingered too long, feels he fat shamed
00:32:23.260
So we were getting an early preview of the CRD complaint in TMZ.
00:32:28.320
Who would have dropped that in TMZ if not her own PR firm?
00:32:32.120
Like, that's just obviously that's coming from them.
00:32:34.920
It was also People magazine that says it ends with us.
00:32:43.800
Who had access to the cast that would have dropped the cast that would have dropped that
00:32:52.240
And I want to just blatantly call out the absolute BS on the claim that Leslie Sloan is
00:32:59.880
saying that she did not get involved with her clients until August 8th.
00:33:13.100
Ms. Sloan did not speak to the press about Baldoni until August 8th when she responded
00:33:17.920
to a press inquiry about a story that Baldoni's team had planted days, if not weeks earlier.
00:33:24.020
Maybe you didn't directly speak to the press, Leslie.
00:33:28.340
Maybe you had one of your younger junior people on the team speak to the press, but you are
00:33:34.300
not going to make the public believe that you were not involved until August 8th.
00:33:42.680
Again, relying on the public to not understand how PR works.
00:33:46.240
We are obviously not going to accept that you didn't get involved until August 8th, but
00:33:58.340
And in the midst of an absolute firestorm, we're supposed to think that you just weren't
00:34:02.420
speaking to them or dealing with the press at all or your firm was not doing with the
00:34:08.780
It's also highly unlikely that they were not involved when Jennifer Abel's phone got taken
00:34:14.740
Remember that Jennifer Abel was the one who left Stephanie Jones PR and then joined kind
00:34:19.940
of the new PR and took Justin Baldoni with her.
00:34:23.860
She got her phone taken away from Stephanie Jones.
00:34:26.060
That was kind of the basis of a New York Times story.
00:34:28.740
Text messages that they forced her to hand over her phone and then they found and emails
00:34:35.200
There's no chance that Ryan and Reynolds and Leslie Sloan did not speak before that.
00:34:41.020
Now, I want to show you this before we move on from this, because I think this is
00:34:45.500
I think, and again, this is fully opinion, that Ryan Reynolds engaged this psychopath
00:34:51.480
in trying to, once they had made the decision to go to the New York Times, which they had
00:34:56.000
been threatening to do behind the scenes, apparently, that he tried to essentially create an alibi
00:35:01.200
for himself and for Leslie Sloan PR because it's a very weird text message exchange that
00:35:07.420
Allegedly, this text message that took place between her and Ryan Reynolds took place on
00:35:21.440
Just checking in to tell you that I'm thinking about you, B and the family.
00:35:29.980
This is the craziest thing I've ever witnessed in my life, but it will be resolved.
00:35:35.240
Let me tell you right away what is wrong with that message on August 13th.
00:35:45.000
With anyone who's already admitted in her filing, she's saying she got involved.
00:35:48.560
She didn't speak to the press directly until August 9th.
00:35:51.760
But you're telling me that this is after Kirsten Flaw's video had dropped.
00:36:08.020
The only excuse for this would be you had a new number.
00:36:12.720
In which case, she would have started with, hey, it's Les, new number.
00:36:16.500
And he probably would have checked to make sure it was, in fact, Les to make sure it was
00:36:20.820
But why does she start this text with, hi, it's Les?
00:36:25.140
Then they go on and they say this is another exchange that they had.
00:36:36.120
And you're constantly in fire, especially when you're a firestorm.
00:36:39.900
They're like, the New Yorker is running a piece saying that you're Adolf Hitler.
00:36:53.200
Watch this next message that's next to it that Ryan allegedly sent.
00:36:57.760
They're using this as proof that they had nothing to do with the storm.
00:37:02.280
On the right-hand side there, Ryan says, in perfect language.
00:37:06.760
Now, we know he's crazy, so this makes me uncomfortable.
00:37:11.120
It's imperative we stay silent on everything and speak to nobody.
00:37:16.120
As I mentioned in Denmark before Blake's premiere, to not talk to anyone about any of these attacks on Blake.
00:37:23.460
Just making sure you haven't done that at any point, question mark.
00:37:32.860
But the only thing to do is to remain quiet for now.
00:37:35.960
So they're introducing this as a message that Ryan sent, okay, in August, in mid-August to Leslie Sloan PR as proof that they had nothing to do with everything that was leaking.
00:37:48.300
Pull that text back up because it's just, no one texts like this.
00:37:51.240
Don't forget that I also told you in Denmark back in August not to say anything.
00:37:57.880
There's no record of that, so I'm creating it right here in this message.
00:38:02.580
Do not talk to anyone about any of these attacks on Blake.
00:38:12.500
Don't do the thing that we're definitely doing, but we need to now create a trail that says that we didn't do it.
00:38:25.120
It is giving, we're making a decision to go crazy.
00:38:30.200
And it's even crazier when you consider that he's saying, don't say anything after he's created the movie, Deadpool, and he has said everything.
00:38:39.700
Ryan has said everything that he could possibly say in the public sphere.
00:38:58.580
Remember when I also said let's not do anything at the premiere in Denmark?
00:39:03.420
Guys, guys, it smells like an alibi and it was dumb.
00:39:08.840
If you want to do an alibi, Leslie, don't start with Hyatt's les.
00:39:16.100
I keep saying this, guys, if you give me a budget, I can help you.
00:39:22.560
Don't put me in the new Deadpool movie that's coming out and make petty little jokes.
00:39:27.400
You're just being, you guys aren't being very smart right now.
00:39:30.680
You're the narcissist that believes in his own magic.
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OK, so yesterday we wrapped the Becoming Brigitte series and obviously it's everywhere.
00:42:06.780
OK, and there's just no way that they're not going to be questioned about it.
00:42:10.240
Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron are getting questions about it.
00:42:15.680
Everything they do now is being touched with people calling them, calling Brigitte, Jean-Michel,
00:42:22.580
The AFP, so essentially the French AP, went out to Mrs. Macron or whoever is in charge of
00:42:31.020
Mrs. Macron's PR and asked them about the Becoming Brigitte series.
00:42:36.580
And Brigitte Macron's lawyer, whose name, the French lawyer, OK, because they have the
00:42:40.400
American team, they're the ones that served me at my house, OK, they got us a letter and
00:42:46.460
then my legal team replied to them with 21 questions.
00:42:50.980
And now their lawyer in France, a woman named Jean Anaki, is she first confirmed they asked
00:42:56.500
like, are these like excerpts that Candace showed on her show real?
00:43:00.960
And they confirmed that the excerpts from the letters that I addressed on my show and published
00:43:07.660
are, quote, indeed, a reproduction of a letter from the American lawyer of the Macron couple.
00:43:17.260
He points out, however, I realize it's Jean, not Jean.
00:43:23.340
He points out, however, that the list of questions allegedly sent by Candace Owens in return
00:43:35.300
OK, then they go on to say, quote, Candace Owens's interventions are just unfounded statements
00:43:40.580
to convince people who are already convinced by this delusional thesis.
00:43:51.320
What does the statement, it was not received by the interested party.
00:43:57.240
Are you saying that Brigitte McCrone and Emanuel never received the 21 questions back?
00:44:01.200
Because let me tell you something, that's a lie, my friends.
00:44:07.720
But listen, if you're lying about your entire gender, what's it to you to lie via your lawyer
00:44:15.020
We weren't trying to send letters and guess who your lawyer was.
00:44:18.280
You admit, yes, the American law firm got the letter to me.
00:44:22.520
Not only did we respond to you via email, OK, we gave you the 21 questions, which we can
00:44:28.120
pull up via email, but we then got a response from you.
00:44:33.560
We got a response from you in the form of a preservation order that you sent us.
00:44:40.300
We read the entire preservation order on our show to show people that you refused to answer
00:44:46.820
So are you now trying to pretend that your American law firm, a big American D.C.
00:44:51.580
law firm, just went rogue, that they received a response?
00:44:54.780
You spent money to write 100 pages to me, have it delivered to my home.
00:44:58.320
And when they got a response, they just didn't tell you.
00:45:00.380
They were like, no, we're not going to tell you what they are.
00:45:02.540
If you are alleging that, can you explain also who's running your Twitter account?
00:45:05.680
Because not only did I send you the letter, I mean, with the 21 questions, not only did you
00:45:10.900
respond with a preservation order, but then I tweeted you the 21 questions.
00:45:15.940
I said, we sent our reply to at Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte yesterday.
00:45:20.440
We included specific questions for them to answer before we released our full investigative
00:45:29.040
We said, if we get basic answers, did you give birth to three children?
00:45:46.860
They did not answer these 21 questions on Twitter.
00:45:52.220
Okay, again, I tweeted and I was making jokes and I was dropping 50 cent.
00:45:57.460
I got 21 questions and they all about us tagging Emmanuel Macron every single time being like,
00:46:11.440
And they're saying they just they just the interested parties just never received it.
00:46:18.220
Are you like allowed to lie in France as the president?
00:46:22.180
You can just say whatever you want, just make stuff up.
00:46:24.520
Like I said, Brigitte, you've got balls, my man.
00:46:28.300
You've got balls to just have your lawyer come out and say that you never got the 21 questions.
00:46:35.220
When you lie about who you are, who you are, your identity, there is no lie in your life
00:46:47.720
You're like, oh, well, I've been lying about my gender my entire life.
00:46:50.380
I've been lying about my, you know, my friends.
00:46:53.980
I've been lying about my relationship with this man when I met him.
00:46:57.760
Why would it what do I feel towards lying and pretending that my American lawyers were
00:47:02.280
just so out of pocket and suddenly went rogue and didn't deliver to me an email, which was
00:47:08.140
then tweeted at me and I was being mocked with the dissent music.
00:47:22.320
It is Brigitte's fault because you groomed him.
00:47:27.080
And so I take it that you're not going to file that lawsuit, that heavy threat, which
00:47:31.080
makes it even crazier because that you're saying if you didn't get my 21 questions, where's
00:47:38.340
You must have had you've had all this runway and you waited until the series concluded and
00:47:42.960
now you're pretending you didn't get the questions.
00:47:52.320
Whoever they may be, the liars are getting exposed.
00:47:56.740
What has been done in the dark seems to be being revealed in the light.
00:48:04.000
So I'm just going to sit back and see what happens with this couple and sit back and see
00:48:12.960
I have deluded myself into believing that I am a part of this lawsuit.
00:48:17.800
Blake Lively can delude herself into believing that she was sexually harassed by Justin Baldoni.
00:48:23.240
I can delude myself into believing that I am a party to this lawsuit.
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Thank you guys very much for understanding that and for supporting me through this delusion.
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00:50:04.740
I would love to see what so many people think about that interview.
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My husband is probably watching and going, why did you do that?
00:50:28.460
I just want to do hoodrat things on the internet with my friends.
00:50:33.160
And also, I want to tell you that I promised that I was going to unveil the new investigative series today.
00:50:40.900
We have one little legal hiccup that I have to deal with.
00:50:52.400
I made a promise and did not deliver on it because my lawyers came in.
00:50:57.700
You know, if it's got to be a legal team, it's got to be my husband.
00:51:00.440
And they're like, no, you can wait one weekend to say who it is.
00:51:03.100
We just need to make sure that we are dotting our I's and crossing our T's so that you don't end up in prison.
00:51:08.320
Anyways, keep sending me your guesses all weekend.
00:51:17.180
Talia writes, the way I cackled and ran straight to watch this episode.
00:51:31.780
I'm like, wow, the more we cover her, we can just get deeper into her music.
00:51:39.460
We're having, obviously, you can see we're having way too much fun.
00:51:42.560
Helda writes, I absolutely appreciate the type of person that you are.
00:51:59.340
And the reason, just so you guys know, because I know the media said terrible things about
00:52:05.300
I just always in my head just thought it was weird that we were pretending that we might
00:52:09.320
not one day have sons who have to live in that environment.
00:52:11.720
Like we, like Justin Baldoni was definitely born from a woman.
00:52:14.520
And like, if you can imagine your son going through something like that, and it's because
00:52:18.800
we've created an environment where we should just like believe women, that always scared
00:52:25.400
So, you know, I am glad that I just said, listen, we should not believe women or men,
00:52:30.440
but we should believe facts when they are presented.
00:52:32.580
Both people are convinced, both sexes are capable of lying, obviously.
00:52:38.620
Dahlia writes, the roof scene had me squirming.
00:53:05.780
Ben writes, can as please do an episode on Catholic emancipation in Ireland.
00:53:10.240
The government failed to include it as a date to remember in 2029.
00:53:14.780
In 1829, it gave Catholics basic human rights and led to our independence, but not a word
00:53:21.800
So that's actually very ironic because I just happened to watch Braveheart.
00:53:26.060
I know that's not like obviously Ireland, but I watched Braveheart over the weekend and
00:53:30.360
I just kind of got very fired up about Catholicism.
00:53:34.020
And yes, okay, we have to do more episodes on Catholicism around the world and what's happening.
00:53:39.360
And that will be definitely more in our longer pieces.
00:53:44.780
Sydney writes, Candice, I dipped my toes into your content with the yay interview, but have
00:53:49.420
gone fully into the deep end with the Brigitte series.
00:53:58.700
I know we're chasing our husbands and we're tackling them and we're forcing them to, you
00:54:03.560
know, learn all this information against their will.
00:54:07.860
I feel they've had their Roman Empire, like since the Roman Empire and they talk about it
00:54:23.680
My wife forced me to do this against my will and I'm here now.
00:54:26.240
And I want to say this, fellas, we are very happy to have you here on this journey.
00:54:34.660
I don't think there's anything else that I have to mention other than the E. Michael