Candace Owens - EXCLUSIVE： Taylor Swift Will Be Deposed. ｜ Candace Ep 150

00:00:00.000 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.

00:00:10.580 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.

00:00:24.360 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.

00:00:40.500 My letter back to them with the 21 questions, which they replied to with the preservation order. Absolutely insane. 0.83

00:00:46.300 What can I say other than Brigitte Macron has got some balls? Welcome back to Candace. 1.00

00:00:54.360 All right, guys. Taylor Swift. She is getting to post. It is happening. It is happening. Everybody stay calm. Okay.

00:01:11.780 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.

00:01:22.360 But they filed a protective order and I at first looked at it and I thought that they had done this by themselves.

00:01:27.480 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.

00:01:35.300 Because now my lawyer told me that this is actually pretty standard.

00:01:38.420 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.

00:01:46.500 This is a pretty standard thing that happens in commercial cases.

00:01:49.520 And it's really just a measure that's used to protect business interests.

00:01:52.820 So I'm giving you guys a really bad analogy here.

00:01:55.280 But let's say I'm in court and I'm fighting with Chase Bank about something.

00:01:58.380 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.

00:02:07.560 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?

00:02:14.200 Whatever it is, it's just irrelevant to the public.

00:02:16.920 And so that's what they're doing.

00:02:18.760 They're trying to say, OK, there might be some things that come out that are not relevant to the public.

00:02:23.160 But the language here in this protection order I found to be very interesting.

00:02:26.860 And at first it made me think instantly of Taylor Swift.

00:02:30.280 So we're going to pull this up.

00:02:31.340 I'm calling this like the Taylor Swift clause in the protection order.

00:02:34.740 It says the person producing any given discovery material may designate it as confidential or attorney's eyes only.

00:02:43.900 Only such portion of such material, the public disclosure of which is either restricted by law or will cause harm to the business,

00:02:51.360 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.

00:03:02.960 I don't know why they are.

00:03:04.760 I don't know why we owe these high profile people confidentiality.

00:03:09.160 And that consists of a previously non-disclosed financial information, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:03:14.640 OK, you get it.

00:03:15.400 So I'm thinking this means like we're not going to be able to read these Taylor Swift text messages.

00:03:20.460 We're not going to be able to read or they're going to like seal her deposition. 0.99

00:03:23.800 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.

00:03:33.260 They want her first.

00:03:34.760 They have heard the public pleas and essentially we're just we're going to get it.

00:03:38.960 We are finally going to get what we want.

00:03:40.420 And this is a very, very, very big deal.

00:03:43.760 And I'll tell you why.

00:03:44.980 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.

00:03:54.000 I've said deposer.

00:03:55.320 I wasn't sure they were going to do it because Brian Friedman was asked about it by Harvey Levin on TMZ.

00:04:01.560 And he said, well, we don't know.

00:04:02.720 We'll see which way this case goes.

00:04:04.040 And I'm going, what do you mean you don't know?

00:04:05.600 That would be like the very first thing I would do.

00:04:07.440 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.

00:04:18.380 OK, she is an absolute machine. 1.00

00:04:20.260 She will do everything to protect her image.

00:04:23.320 In other words, Blake and Ryan will wind up fighting a real dragon.

00:04:27.180 OK, a real dragon that has an army of teenagers that are behind her. 1.00

00:04:31.300 And it is my professional opinion that she was very much involved.

00:04:37.580 She was involved in this circumstance and that currently her team is lying to the public.

00:04:42.040 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.

00:04:49.860 We're not friends with her anymore.

00:04:51.420 We don't even like her.

00:04:52.440 We don't even know her.

00:04:53.580 We can't believe she said this.

00:04:55.520 They were running articles.

00:04:57.260 She feels used.

00:04:58.660 She feels abused.

00:05:00.340 They claimed to TMZ in one article that she only met Justin once and it was briefly.

00:05:07.260 And essentially, she was startled because the meeting was supposed to be over at Blake's apartment.

00:05:12.120 And then she arrived and Justin Baldoni was there.

00:05:15.340 And then they painted this narrative like Taylor was just really nice.

00:05:18.800 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.

00:05:26.120 And we just know objectively that that is not true.

00:05:29.640 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.

00:05:40.500 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.

00:05:47.760 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.

00:06:06.940 Remember, she said this on the red carpet premiere.

00:06:11.340 I hear that Taylor may have had some influence in getting.

00:06:14.320 Yes, she did.

00:06:15.740 Yeah, I know.

00:06:16.300 I don't even know if I'm meant to be saying it, but I'm saying it.

00:06:18.520 Yeah, she was a helpful part of the process of the audition, which I found out later after I got it.

00:06:23.960 And that rocks my world.

00:06:25.880 Yeah, I yeah, I have no words.

00:06:28.920 And Justin Baldoni confirmed this in an interview.

00:06:33.280 He said that this happened.

00:06:34.460 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.

00:06:47.740 Take a listen.

00:06:49.140 She told me Taylor Swift helped her get the role, like signed off on.

00:06:53.360 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.

00:07:01.860 And they were both like, yes, her.

00:07:03.680 And that's a that's that's a true story.

00:07:06.020 But she just blew me away.

00:07:07.620 She just blew me away in the audition. 1.00

00:07:11.180 OK, so she he showed the casting tape.

00:07:13.580 Did all that happen in a couple of minutes?

00:07:15.900 Were you supposed to believe that happened in a couple of minutes at the apartment when she apparently just said, hi, bye.

00:07:21.500 Nice to meet you, boss.

00:07:22.600 He then said, oh, let me show you the casting tapes for Lily Bloom.

00:07:26.280 More going on there.

00:07:27.280 OK, they're lying to the public.

00:07:29.040 And again, this is because Tree is trying to protect her client. 0.63

00:07:31.880 The right thing to do, by the way, the right.

00:07:34.500 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. 0.98

00:07:42.120 Now, we should also be reminded that Taylor Swift also allegedly got the lead composer on the film.

00:07:47.760 Brian Tyler fired.

00:07:49.440 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.

00:07:58.540 And no one believed the person at the time.

00:08:00.600 And yet everything this person has said has now fact checked true.

00:08:05.340 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.

00:08:18.820 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.

00:08:28.460 For whatever reason, his music was not used.

00:08:31.420 So where there is smoke, there is fire.

00:08:33.360 And they have not explicitly denied that, despite the fact that all the podcasters and TikTokers are speaking about that.

00:08:39.700 There has not been this denial from Taylor Swift's camp.

00:08:43.240 Then there's this.

00:08:44.300 OK, we went over how odd the It Ends With Us credits were.

00:08:48.180 I sexually harassed.

00:08:49.460 And now we're just mocking him everywhere, mocking Justin Baldoni everywhere.

00:08:53.500 But she thanks Taylor Swift.

00:08:54.900 So bingo.

00:08:55.720 Obviously, she was involved.

00:08:57.200 Now, you might say, oh, well, it's because her song was used.

00:09:00.200 Well, we found out from that Reddit post that it was more than that.

00:09:03.380 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.

00:09:14.720 But then it was the person said it was like her cut was problematic.

00:09:17.240 So they brought in Taylor Swift's videographer or Taylor Swift's music video makers to help with the edit.

00:09:24.740 Well, then I noticed that in the It Ends With Us credits, there is a person named Stefania Dulowski.

00:09:30.920 And I had not scooped this before. 0.80

00:09:33.480 So I was looking up everybody on this list, like a psycho.

00:09:36.980 And I was like, who's Stefania Dulowski?

00:09:39.180 It turns out that she is an editor.

00:09:40.840 She's a director.

00:09:41.420 And she's a photographer who previously worked with Taylor Swift, not just Taylor Swift, but also Blake Lively.

00:09:48.860 This is from Stefania Dulowski's website.

00:09:51.080 She has a list of every music video she's worked on.

00:09:54.580 And this is Taylor Swift's song, I Bet You Think About Me.

00:09:58.040 You see it lists Shane Reed and also Blake Lively.

00:10:01.560 This is Blake Lively in her directorial debut.

00:10:04.780 This was back in November of 2021.

00:10:06.940 So she directed Taylor Swift's video.

00:10:09.220 And the person that did the edits was this Stefania.

00:10:11.600 And they clearly brought on Stefania, Taylor Swift's team, to come in and get involved in this movie. 1.00

00:10:17.240 Okay, so you don't get to now go, oh, I had nothing.

00:10:20.540 I just one little run in here with Justin Baldoni.

00:10:23.560 I have nothing else to do with anything.

00:10:25.720 Okay.

00:10:26.800 Then you have the fact that Blake Lively herself admitted during an August 2024 panel.

00:10:33.020 They're doing all of these promos.

00:10:34.740 They're on the promotional tour.

00:10:36.620 And they did this stop, I guess, really to appeal to influencers and speak about the movie.

00:10:42.700 And she just flat out spells out the fact that Taylor Swift was involved every step of the way with this film.

00:10:51.460 Take a listen.

00:10:52.620 Was it exciting?

00:10:53.800 Did you have to make some calls?

00:10:56.040 There were a lot of calls made for a lot of songs in this movie.

00:10:59.300 Honestly, like this movie, I think that like when you see it, it feels like a big, beautiful summer movie.

00:11:04.800 But like we didn't have any budget.

00:11:07.340 So there were a lot of favors and a lot of begging.

00:11:11.140 And I mean, honestly, she was with me on this experience the whole time, all throughout it.

00:11:19.420 So like she really lived this with me.

00:11:21.640 So, yeah, she was, you know, she's a person who shows up for you.

00:11:25.840 And I'm so grateful to have that love and that support.

00:11:29.100 But yeah, there were other people, too, that I had to call and beg.

00:11:33.420 And people that said no.

00:11:35.480 But I don't know what that means.

00:11:37.420 So if somebody has a dictionary, I would love to find the definition of that.

00:11:42.620 It's so confusing to me.

00:11:45.600 It's really interesting when you consider really the thrust of this lawsuit.

00:11:48.900 And you can only imagine the things that she's allowed to say.

00:11:51.740 If Justin had ever said that, if he was like, I don't take no for an answer.

00:11:55.660 Can somebody show me what it looks like in a dictionary?

00:11:57.320 I don't listen when I'm told no.

00:11:59.320 They would have made a big stink about it, particularly in their filings.

00:12:03.720 But all of that's believable, by the way.

00:12:05.520 So she's just saying right there, Taylor Swift's been involved since the beginning,

00:12:08.940 you know, every step of the way, more than just the song that she gave us.

00:12:11.960 It's believable because, as I pointed out, we have been so focused on that text message

00:12:16.840 about the dragons and Khaleesi because it's wacky and it's weird and it's crazy and it's unstable.

00:12:22.680 But what's also compelling is that the very first time that Ryan Reynolds and Justin Baldoni

00:12:28.820 speak via text message, when they first are introduced to each other, Ryan Reynolds immediately

00:12:33.880 name drops Taylor Swift.

00:12:36.140 OK, she's the only person they're blurring out in this lawsuit.

00:12:38.660 So I'm going to remind you of this.

00:12:40.040 This is important.

00:12:41.220 He is basically saying how great Blake is.

00:12:43.880 And then he says, Justin Baldoni, some of the greatest creative decisions I've made are,

00:12:48.660 in fact, Blake, the same goes for Taylor.

00:12:51.940 The acting is a small piece of a pretty astounding patchwork quilt of creativity.

00:12:57.400 So he name drops her right away.

00:13:00.320 And I remind you, she was coming out of that relationship with Joe Alwyn and she was spending

00:13:03.680 a lot of time with them at the beginning of her Eros tour.

00:13:06.740 She was being pictured with them.

00:13:07.880 It's what she likes to do when she gets out of relationships. 0.98

00:13:09.940 She likes to girl squad, get photographed by paparazzi. 1.00

00:13:13.340 And I would just imagine she needed something to play with.

00:13:15.940 And it ends with us ended up being what she decided to play with.

00:13:20.260 Then, of course, the most obvious thing is that Ryan uses Taylor Swift's strategy of dropping

00:13:26.880 Easter eggs all over social media, all over the Deadpool movie, all over the It Ends With

00:13:32.420 Us credits, all over the Deadpool credits to take all of these digs at Justin Baldoni again,

00:13:37.580 which makes all of us not believe that she was actually sexually harassed.

00:13:41.000 Rather, they were moving to try to squeeze her and to eventually just have Blake replace

00:13:46.660 Justin Baldoni as the director on the film, you know, by playing this part of I'm a victim.

00:13:52.020 This is whether you want to admit it or not.

00:13:54.020 This is Taylor Swift's M.O. 0.99

00:13:55.740 So she is screwed. 0.99

00:13:56.920 She's up first on their people to depose. 1.00

00:13:59.640 And we are going to be able to read that deposition, you know, because there's there's

00:14:03.180 nothing proprietary there.

00:14:04.280 We don't need her accounts.

00:14:05.360 And you can't say, well, I don't want to be deposed because I'm Taylor Swift.

00:14:08.380 And there might be something in there that shows that I'm a liar.

00:14:10.680 You can't do that.

00:14:11.560 This is a this is a PR crisis for Taylor Swift.

00:14:15.100 And I'm going to tell you why that interests me.

00:14:16.780 OK, it interests me because this moment is super interesting for the left and the right

00:14:21.800 because and I was having this call with Taylor Lorenz, formerly of The Washington Post, this

00:14:27.660 morning, and she was asking me specifically about this lawsuit.

00:14:30.920 And why is it that it seems that it's bringing together the left and the right?

00:14:35.460 And I sort of said to her, well, actually, at least for me, I have been on this Me Too

00:14:40.400 thing for a very long time because I recognize that it was becoming a business strategy.

00:14:43.940 But I think that something fractured for people that were on the left with the Amber Heard

00:14:48.700 lawsuit.

00:14:49.100 And they didn't forget that they didn't forget what Amber Heard said to them and then what

00:14:52.960 they watched throughout the hearings and her kind of just completely forgetting the

00:14:59.480 fact that she had abused Johnny.

00:15:01.700 We got to read her messages and we kind of up close got to see how the press can just

00:15:06.560 completely take down a man.

00:15:08.880 I'm not saying that everything that Johnny Depp did was great in this relationship.

00:15:12.160 I mean, both of them were admitting to doing drugs on the stand, but it definitely they

00:15:17.260 just chose the woman in this.

00:15:19.040 And so many details were left out.

00:15:20.360 And I think it was a good moment.

00:15:21.860 I think that fracturing was good because it allowed us to all go.

00:15:25.480 Let's pause and actually think and consider that maybe we're not being told the truth

00:15:29.260 and that maybe sometimes women do lie. 1.00

00:15:31.460 And I have known for years, OK, trust me when I tell you, I know enough people in Hollywood

00:15:36.400 that Taylor Swift is considered a very shrewd businesswoman.

00:15:40.820 She's gotten away with a lot of things because truly and don't don't kill me, Swifties.

00:15:45.380 But it's because of this empire of teenage girls. 1.00

00:15:48.560 It's because I have to say, don't kill me, Swifties, when I share some facts with you.

00:15:53.800 And it's funny because I said to you the timing of this book, I wrote an entire chapter on

00:15:58.580 Taylor Swift's brand of feminism.

00:16:00.240 And I was kind of going back to what was that moment when I was no longer on the Taylor

00:16:05.100 Swift train?

00:16:06.880 And I was like, I can enjoy her music.

00:16:08.680 I can enjoy the artist.

00:16:10.060 And I still, like I said in my Instagram stories today, I'm going to bop to London Boy

00:16:14.560 forever.

00:16:15.200 Like, it's totally fine.

00:16:16.460 I can genuinely appreciate.

00:16:18.400 It brings me back nostalgia.

00:16:20.200 Some of the albums, I'm the same age as her.

00:16:22.080 But in 2019, I was like, I'm good off of Taylor Swift because her and I are the same age and

00:16:27.840 we're both involved in business.

00:16:29.200 And when I saw her do that move against Scooter Braun, something in me broke.

00:16:34.020 And so I wanted to kind of jog your memory about that really quickly before we get to

00:16:37.460 Leslie Sloan PR's move, because I'm really interested to hear what Swifties have to say

00:16:41.480 about this with new information and with time and with you guys getting older.

00:16:45.200 I don't know why I'm assuming everybody's a teenager that is a Swiftie.

00:16:47.900 But the point being is that you're kind of growing up and you're sort of starting to

00:16:51.580 see these strategies that can be used when you revisit that situation and you learn more

00:16:57.140 facts about it, if it at all disturbs you.

00:16:59.300 So again, this book has not been published yet.

00:17:00.820 I'm literally showing you the manuscript from my Microsoft Word document.

00:17:05.180 You can buy the book.

00:17:06.580 And I shouldn't be showing you this because why would I show you this?

00:17:09.040 But I think it's important.

00:17:10.640 So here we go.

00:17:11.420 We can bring this up.

00:17:12.500 I'm going to pull it up here on my laptop, gang.

00:17:14.620 So I write in my book, before unpacking this incredible event, this is between her and

00:17:19.800 Scooter Braun, it's important to at first note that Taylor Swift does not represent a

00:17:23.940 rags to riches Hollywood story.

00:17:26.280 In fact, if Taylor had never become famous, she would have had to settle with just being

00:17:30.480 wealthy.

00:17:31.460 Taylor Swift grew up on an idyllic Christmas tree farm in West Reading, Pennsylvania.

00:17:35.600 Her father, Scott Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother was a marketing

00:17:40.160 executive for a financial fund.

00:17:41.720 It's important to note that both her parents had careers, which would have rendered them

00:17:46.260 financially savvy.

00:17:47.640 They hired their daughter, a talent manager, at the age of 12, and Scott relocated to Merrill

00:17:55.240 Lynch's Nashville office so that Taylor could pursue her career in music two years later. 0.91

00:18:00.600 Suffice it to say that when record executive Scott Borchetta approached her family to sign

00:18:05.360 their daughter in 2005, Taylor was well represented.

00:18:08.400 So well represented, in fact, that her financially savvy father purchased a 3% stake in Borchetta's

00:18:16.220 new company, Big Machine Records, under which Taylor Swift was signed.

00:18:20.820 Naturally, there would have been a fleet of lawyers involved from both sides to close the

00:18:24.560 deal.

00:18:24.840 Of course, neither Scott Swift nor Scott Borchetta could have ever predicted Taylor's future

00:18:29.500 success when they orchestrated that deal.

00:18:31.360 They simply agreed to what they both thought was fair at that time.

00:18:34.940 Borchetta took a chance on an unknown Taylor Swift, and that risk paid off until Taylor

00:18:40.600 decided that it somehow wasn't fair 14 years later.

00:18:43.900 Taylor decided that she would relitigate her business deal through the tactic which had

00:18:47.260 always served her, manipulating the emotions of her fans who she could assume knew nothing

00:18:52.100 about business.

00:18:53.480 At the heart of the matter was a man named Scooter Braun who had recently just purchased Big

00:18:57.680 Machine Records through his holding company.

00:19:00.660 Through his perfectly, it was through this perfectly legal business transaction, he had acquired

00:19:05.920 the masters to the music catalog that Taylor Swift had created while under the label.

00:19:11.700 For definition's sake, a master was effectively an original recording.

00:19:15.380 Whoever therefore owns the master recording controls the destiny of the song.

00:19:19.420 Should any person or company wish to use that song in a TV advert, a fee must be paid to

00:19:24.180 the owner of the master.

00:19:25.660 Okay, so then I get into, like, clearly Taylor Swift leaves Big Machine Records, she goes

00:19:30.760 with Universal, and she posts this Tumblr post, this notorious Tumblr post, when Scooter 0.99

00:19:38.380 Braun acquires the company.

00:19:39.780 What people didn't know that was going on in the background was that Taylor Swift, just

00:19:43.080 in her mind, had had this huge fight with Kanye West over the famous music video and

00:19:48.280 Kim Kardashian, and she associated Scooter Braun with Kanye West as, like, his

00:19:53.900 manager.

00:19:54.580 And the reality is he actually wasn't his manager, because I did the due diligence on

00:19:57.660 this book at the time that that famous music video was posted.

00:20:01.280 So she just didn't like him.

00:20:02.860 She considered him to be Team Kanye and just didn't want him to buy the masters.

00:20:07.400 But she never told the public that her dad owned a piece of the company.

00:20:11.100 This drives me.

00:20:11.860 I was like, this is the most wildly manipulative thing to pretend that this isn't a normal business

00:20:17.580 transaction.

00:20:18.140 It's like he bought a house and something was built into the house.

00:20:22.480 And he's like, OK, well, I'm buying this house.

00:20:25.180 I'm buying it.

00:20:25.860 It comes to the pool.

00:20:26.800 And then Taylor Swift takes the Tumblr and she's like, I sat next to that pool and I

00:20:31.120 wrote my songs.

00:20:31.920 And it's like, girl, I don't care what your memories are here.

00:20:34.300 I'm just buying a company.

00:20:35.880 Like, I don't I had nothing to do with the deal that you and your dad or your dad and

00:20:40.940 Borchetta orchestrated.

00:20:41.980 You're not the only person here under this record label.

00:20:45.240 Anyways, getting just just showing you the beginning of her Tumblr post that she posted

00:20:49.420 because I just remember, again, her and I have the same age.

00:20:52.900 I was like, this is insane.

00:20:54.160 She wrote for years.

00:20:55.720 I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work.

00:20:58.880 Instead, I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and earn one

00:21:04.280 album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in.

00:21:08.040 I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the

00:21:12.680 label, thereby selling me and my future.

00:21:15.720 I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past music that I wrote on my bedroom

00:21:20.320 floor and videos that I dreamed up and paid for from the money that I earned playing in

00:21:26.020 bars, then clubs and arenas, then stadiums.

00:21:28.940 You pleaded for a chance to own your work.

00:21:31.700 Did you talk to your dad?

00:21:33.500 Why do you know that your dad was literally there's only there were only five people.

00:21:38.560 that were a part of this business.

00:21:40.920 And one of these people was her father.

00:21:43.800 So this just this entire thing was just not plausible.

00:21:46.580 And then she did in a second maneuver, she posts this other Tumblr posts, which is an 0.98

00:21:52.140 objective lie, guys.

00:21:53.340 It's an objective lie.

00:21:54.360 And again, relies on people not knowing business to call out this lie.

00:21:58.540 It was about the AMAs.

00:21:59.720 She wrote this.

00:22:00.720 Guys, it's been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me

00:22:06.420 with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year's ceremony.

00:22:09.840 I've been planning to perform a medley of my hits through the decade on the show.

00:22:13.740 Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I'm not allowed to perform my old

00:22:17.700 songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I'm allowed

00:22:22.420 to next year.

00:22:23.200 So this is just an objective lie.

00:22:25.420 For those of you that don't understand what a master recording is, they can't it has nothing

00:22:29.540 to do with you live performing something.

00:22:31.500 It's literally just what you already recorded and that we own.

00:22:35.220 Right.

00:22:35.580 So it's on the album and you could say, you can't play this exact album, like My Tears

00:22:42.020 Ricochet in the It Ends With Us movie.

00:22:43.920 They could have stopped that, right?

00:22:45.540 The exact copy.

00:22:46.760 It has to be an exact copy.

00:22:48.300 That is what the master is.

00:22:49.700 It has nothing to do with live recording.

00:22:52.260 And again, people who don't know business or know the ins and outs of music would have

00:22:55.760 accepted this, which is why I just say at the bottom of this post, and the thing that

00:22:59.780 bothered me about this was because I remember at the time Scooter Braun's wife pleading publicly

00:23:05.280 with her not to do this because their kids were getting death threats because her army

00:23:08.600 of fans were just so angry.

00:23:12.180 They were so angry because they believed that she was this perfect victim.

00:23:15.220 And then the story ends, by the way, if you want to pull this up back to that post, Skylar.

00:23:20.160 First, I said everything about this appeal to her fan base is despicable.

00:23:23.580 Even the title, Don't Know What Else To Do, is absurd.

00:23:26.760 You don't know what else to do?

00:23:28.140 Working it out via normal contract negotiations would be a start.

00:23:31.400 Second, don't try and emotionally manipulate your fan base to ruin people's lives. 0.85

00:23:35.840 Words and phrases such as tyrannical, wrong, be a good little girl and shut up.

00:23:40.820 The entire appeal was just like, help me, help me.

00:23:44.340 I don't know what to do.

00:23:45.040 Not like I'm a billionaire and I have access to the most powerful marketing team in the

00:23:49.480 world. 0.97

00:23:50.400 And yeah, it sucks, by the way. 0.93

00:23:52.300 I can, to some extent, I would have agreed with her if she had done it on more honest 0.94

00:23:56.980 terms and said like, you know, when you're a young artist and you sign and she says like,

00:24:01.600 you know, obviously my dad had control.

00:24:03.700 I didn't.

00:24:04.580 And you're kind of would have done things differently.

00:24:06.640 And you realize how hard you're working and you feel like, you know, your celebrity has

00:24:11.380 outgrown that contract.

00:24:12.540 It's really frustrating.

00:24:14.100 That would have been cool.

00:24:14.880 Like that would have been the cool adult thing to do rather than to pretend like you were

00:24:18.640 a total victim.

00:24:19.360 And the story ends and it never got told.

00:24:22.760 Her dad got paid $15 million when they got sold.

00:24:26.740 And then a couple of months later, Scooter Braun resold it because it was just a normal

00:24:31.060 business transaction.

00:24:31.900 And it was more about her hatred of Kanye West at that time.

00:24:35.400 And I from that moment on in 2009, I just like just saw her for this, like kind of saw

00:24:40.880 this maneuver of if you can control the press, if you can control the narrative, then you

00:24:46.020 can take down people and you can get what you want.

00:24:48.180 And the craziest part of the story is actually the fact that Taylor Swift now makes double

00:24:52.500 the money.

00:24:53.340 So then she recorded everything.

00:24:54.660 Her fans are behind her like you re-record your stuff and we'll buy that.

00:24:58.300 And she never told her fans, but I still own the percentage of, you know, what my dad

00:25:02.360 orchestrated at the beginning.

00:25:03.480 So she's making money both ways. 1.00

00:25:04.720 It actually was an incredibly financially savvy and I will say actually a brilliant Machiavellian

00:25:09.980 scheme to magnify her money, magnify her ownership while keeping her young fan base kind 0.99

00:25:17.660 of emotionally swayed.

00:25:18.920 And I felt I felt that it was so wrong.

00:25:20.760 And so when I look at this situation with what's happening with Blake and she's doing

00:25:24.460 kind of that same maneuver of saying, like, I've been used, I really just don't buy it

00:25:28.600 and I'm tired of it.

00:25:30.300 I'm exhausted with that narrative that she's used every single time.

00:25:33.820 And she's 30, going to be 36 this year.

00:25:37.600 OK, you're smart.

00:25:39.180 You are capable.

00:25:40.460 You have done things in your life that are wrong.

00:25:42.660 OK, relationship wise, business relationship wise.

00:25:46.540 And you can't keep doing this because you've done a good job of kind of curating your brand

00:25:51.160 as a helpless little girl.

00:25:52.400 It's just wrong.

00:25:53.460 OK, and so what I can expect and this is what I'm again, I'm guessing this here is that they

00:26:00.900 are now done with Blake Lively.

00:26:02.780 I think that that's real.

00:26:03.700 I don't think that this is fake anymore.

00:26:05.500 And this might be the reason that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds fold, because what matters

00:26:12.320 to them in a narcissistic world is the friendship with Taylor Swift.

00:26:15.600 That's the only thing that can actually impact them.

00:26:17.200 They like that access to power.

00:26:18.500 They like being able to tell people like Taylor Swift is our friend.

00:26:21.580 She's our dragon. 0.99

00:26:22.240 And if they think that that's going to be removed from their lives, then they might go, OK, I don't

00:26:27.460 want to do this lawsuit.

00:26:28.280 Let's issue a statement and let's settle this thing.

00:26:29.940 That's that is my again, that is totally my own prognostication.

00:26:34.200 Who knows?

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 1.00

00:26:42.060 messages.

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

00:26:47.780 Baldoni.

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.

00:26:58.260 That's my that's my point.

00:26:59.940 Now, that's tree, by the way, with the red hair.

00:27:02.000 And listen, I respect them both.

00:27:03.700 They've killed it.

00:27:04.420 They've they've killed her brand.

00:27:06.320 They've killed stories.

00:27:07.640 They've persuaded the masses.

00:27:09.560 And like I said, no matter what happens, I'm still bopping London boy.

00:27:13.000 It's a great song.

00:27:14.280 And there's some more songs, too, that my daughter likes off of the Lover album.

00:27:18.500 I'll probably be at her concert.

00:27:19.660 I'll just be like, listen, I don't believe anything you're saying.

00:27:21.160 But like Lover is a good album.

00:27:22.900 You know what I'm saying?

00:27:24.200 In other news, by the way, Leslie Sloan PR.

00:27:27.280 And I forgot to bring up the chart for you.

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.

00:27:37.820 OK.

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 1.00

00:27:50.700 strategy. 0.74

00:27:51.400 My they should not be in this because they run an all girl firm. 1.00

00:27:55.120 What?

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. 0.83

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

00:28:26.340 as well.

00:28:27.220 They're saying, well, they opened this up by saying, well, Justin Baldoni once said that

00:28:31.140 he believed women.

00:28:32.700 I'm not kidding.

00:28:33.640 They're they're doing the feminist thing. 1.00

00:28:35.240 This has been their whole strategy.

00:28:36.240 They wrote this quote, Justin Baldoni has spent years profiting off the feminist and 1.00

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.

00:28:58.060 Like I'm just so shocked by this. 0.72

00:28:59.880 This is like I'm a girl.

00:29:01.760 He said things close to a decade ago that we should believe women when he was in a TEDx

00:29:07.360 stage.

00:29:07.700 And I said something and I want to be believed.

00:29:09.960 So get me out of here.

00:29:11.320 I don't want to be here anymore.

00:29:13.140 It's just it's crazy.

00:29:14.960 And then we move from this like feminist strategy to this unbelievable dip in IQ altogether. 1.00

00:29:21.040 This is a real statement from their filing.

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.

00:29:34.940 Then they give an example.

00:29:36.520 You can see in the bottom notes there.

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?

00:30:14.600 Like what lawyer put this in here?

00:30:16.840 That is truly just unwise.

00:30:19.600 So unwise, it's the nicest way I can say it, like whoever put this together is not a very

00:30:25.260 intelligent lawyer.

00:30:27.200 That is your defense.

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

00:30:41.460 a very nasty game.

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

00:31:03.920 unquote, destroy her life.

00:31:05.480 They have since debunked that so many times.

00:31:08.000 This was the New York Times hook.

00:31:09.360 We're going to bury her. 1.00

00:31:10.320 We're going to destroy her. 0.97

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

00:31:20.200 own narrative narrative.

00:31:21.600 Now, they also go on to say that they want to be dropped from this lawsuit because there's

00:31:26.680 no evidence of extortion.

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

00:31:45.420 this.

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

00:32:11.740 thought he was a creep.

00:32:12.660 Remember this TMZ article?

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

00:32:23.040 her.

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? 0.77

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.

00:32:38.020 Justin Baldoni's clash goes past Blake Lively.

00:32:41.240 The cast will have nothing to do with him.

00:32:43.800 Who had access to the cast that would have dropped the cast that would have dropped that

00:32:48.940 in People magazine?

00:32:50.320 They then go on.

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.

00:33:05.220 OK, that's from the filing.

00:33:06.880 She did not get involved until August 8th.

00:33:09.780 Look at that.

00:33:11.980 Completely crazy.

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.

00:33:37.960 You would have been involved all year.

00:33:39.400 OK, you're both of your clients.

00:33:40.800 Ryan and Blake had movies.

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

00:33:51.400 Deadpool had premiered the month earlier.

00:33:54.180 It Ends With Us had premiered.

00:33:55.840 What was it?

00:33:56.380 August 3rd or maybe on August 8th.

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

00:34:06.740 press at all.

00:34:07.560 LOL.

00:34:08.780 It's also highly unlikely that they were not involved when Jennifer Abel's phone got taken

00:34:14.360 away.

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

00:34:33.940 that were out of context.

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

00:34:44.300 insane.

00:34:45.500 I think, and again, this is fully opinion, that Ryan Reynolds engaged this psychopath 0.70

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

00:35:06.780 she drops.

00:35:07.420 Allegedly, this text message that took place between her and Ryan Reynolds took place on

00:35:11.840 August 13th.

00:35:14.300 August 13th.

00:35:15.280 Okay.

00:35:16.580 Let's pull it up.

00:35:17.380 This is from the filing yesterday.

00:35:19.320 Leslie says, hi, it's Les.

00:35:21.440 Just checking in to tell you that I'm thinking about you, B and the family.

00:35:26.360 Hugs to all XX.

00:35:28.540 Ryan then says, thank you.

00:35:29.980 This is the craziest thing I've ever witnessed in my life, but it will be resolved.

00:35:34.600 Okay.

00:35:35.240 Let me tell you right away what is wrong with that message on August 13th.

00:35:38.720 Why is she saying, hi, it's Les?

00:35:43.160 Who starts a text message with like that?

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.

00:35:50.600 I don't even believe that.

00:35:51.760 But you're telling me that this is after Kirsten Flaw's video had dropped.

00:35:55.920 Everything's going insane.

00:35:57.280 He's had Deadpool.

00:35:58.540 You're starting a message with, hi, it's Les.

00:36:01.420 You don't have his number.

00:36:03.180 You don't have Ryan Reynolds.

00:36:04.260 He's been your client for a decade.

00:36:06.480 You don't have his number.

00:36:08.020 The only excuse for this would be you had a new number.

00:36:11.640 You got 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

00:36:19.860 a new number or something.

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.

00:36:27.740 And this is very weird.

00:36:28.760 Again, Ryan's way too formal.

00:36:30.820 I'm telling you right now, I have a PR person.

00:36:32.740 You are the most informal with your PR person.

00:36:35.080 My guy's Mitchell.

00:36:36.120 And you're constantly in fire, especially when you're a firestorm.

00:36:39.180 Like, they call you up.

00:36:39.900 They're like, the New Yorker is running a piece saying that you're Adolf Hitler.

00:36:44.280 You're not like, hi, hi, it's Mitchell.

00:36:47.440 I would like to.

00:36:48.400 I'm like, what the heck?

00:36:49.440 What's going on?

00:36:50.080 This is crazy.

00:36:50.780 This is, we have to stop.

00:36:51.920 This is insane.

00:36:52.620 This is not true.

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. 0.60

00:37:08.620 It's like serial killer vibes. 0.90

00:37:09.620 Thanks for sending.

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.

00:37:26.720 I think this is sweet, Bart said.

00:37:30.640 I think this is sweet that Bart said this.

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.

00:38:07.400 Wink, wink.

00:38:08.340 Hi, it's Les.

00:38:10.040 Hey, Les.

00:38:10.840 It's me, Ryan.

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.

00:38:20.160 You feel what I'm saying?

00:38:21.520 You're definitely feeling the same, right?

00:38:22.520 This is like, it's giving alibi.

00:38:25.120 It is giving, we're making a decision to go crazy.

00:38:28.300 I'm trying, he's trying to buy his company.

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.

00:38:44.320 Like, he is petty betty, okay?

00:38:47.080 Petty betty everywhere, all over the internet. 1.00

00:38:49.920 I'm Deadpool in the credits.

00:38:51.700 Now he's, hello, this is Ryan.

00:38:55.000 Let's not do anything and be really mature.

00:38:58.580 Remember when I also said let's not do anything at the premiere in Denmark? 0.98

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. 0.85

00:39:13.700 Don't start with Hyatt's les.

00:39:14.980 You got to, I can help you.

00:39:16.100 I keep saying this, guys, if you give me a budget, I can help you.

00:39:20.120 Call me, Ryan, call me, okay?

00:39:22.560 Don't put me in the new Deadpool movie that's coming out and make petty little jokes.

00:39:26.700 I can help you.

00:39:27.400 You're just being, you guys aren't being very smart right now.

00:39:29.540 I know you're the magician. 0.92

00:39:30.680 You're the narcissist that believes in his own magic.

00:39:32.440 And you thought you definitely orchestrated this weird alibi thing that you're doing,

00:39:37.040 but it was a bad idea.

00:39:38.740 I know you can't see yourself because you think you're untouchable, but you've been touched,

00:39:42.540 my friend.

00:39:43.360 You've been touched.

00:39:44.000 Hi, it's me, Candice.

00:39:46.640 Please don't do anything.

00:39:48.860 All right, guys, don't do anything.

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00:42:01.700 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.

00:42:12.620 They're trying to play it all cool.

00:42:14.140 Their comments are being inundated.

00:42:15.680 Everything they do now is being touched with people calling them, calling Brigitte, Jean-Michel,

00:42:20.480 Trogneau.

00:42:21.520 And so this is amazing.

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.

00:43:14.840 So they're admitting, yes, that was us.

00:43:16.400 We sent the letter.

00:43:17.260 He points out, however, I realize it's Jean, not Jean.

00:43:20.740 It's a guy.

00:43:21.740 The lawyer's name is Jean Anaki.

00:43:23.340 He points out, however, that the list of questions allegedly sent by Candace Owens in return

00:43:28.980 was never received by interested parties.

00:43:33.840 What does that mean?

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.

00:43:45.260 If there are still any, he insists.

00:43:48.000 Scroll back up.

00:43:49.020 Like, literally, what does that mean?

00:43:51.320 What does the statement, it was not received by the interested party.

00:43:55.660 It's like you're saying nothing there.

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.

00:44:04.280 That is a lie.

00:44:05.400 And we know it's a lie. 0.57

00:44:06.280 It's an insane lie.

00:44:07.720 But listen, if you're lying about your entire gender, what's it to you to lie via your lawyer

00:44:11.880 about receiving it?

00:44:13.180 You made contact with me.

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.

00:44:38.960 And we went over that preservation order.

00:44:40.300 We read the entire preservation order on our show to show people that you refused to answer

00:44:46.040 the 21 questions.

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

00:45:26.240 piece on Brigitte.

00:45:27.200 Again, we were doing the right thing here.

00:45:29.040 We said, if we get basic answers, did you give birth to three children?

00:45:33.460 We'll put it in the series.

00:45:35.020 We have no interest in lying.

00:45:37.640 And look at the date on this.

00:45:38.460 We did this before we started the series.

00:45:42.460 Straightforward yes or no questions.

00:45:44.440 I look forward to a straightforward response.

00:45:46.860 They did not answer these 21 questions on Twitter.

00:45:50.120 I then tweeted again.

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,

00:46:03.560 girl, it's easy to love me now.

00:46:06.720 Would you love me if I was down and out?

00:46:08.620 Please just answer my 21 questions.

00:46:11.440 And they're saying they just they just the interested parties just never received it.

00:46:16.840 What what goes on in France?

00:46:18.220 Are you like allowed to lie in France as the president?

00:46:20.560 Is this like legal in France?

00:46:22.180 You can just say whatever you want, just make stuff up. 0.97

00:46:24.520 Like I said, Brigitte, you've got balls, my man. 0.52

00:46:28.300 You've got balls to just have your lawyer come out and say that you never got the 21 questions. 0.90

00:46:33.860 But here's the thing. 0.86

00:46:34.620 That's the problem.

00:46:35.220 When you lie about who you are, who you are, your identity, there is no lie in your life

00:46:44.040 that you won't tell.

00:46:45.300 But that's got to feel like nothing.

00:46:46.620 Like pretending you didn't get it.

00:46:47.720 You're like, oh, well, I've been lying about my gender my entire life. 0.81

00:46:50.380 I've been lying about my, you know, my friends.

00:46:52.760 I've been lying about everything.

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.

00:47:11.600 I'm just feels like nothing.

00:47:12.280 I'll just lie.

00:47:13.360 You're just lying.

00:47:14.420 And so this is just who they are.

00:47:16.180 This couple absolutely must step down. 0.98

00:47:18.480 They just have to step down.

00:47:19.920 They are terrible human beings.

00:47:21.300 It's not Emmanuel Macron's fault.

00:47:22.320 It is Brigitte's fault because you groomed him.

00:47:24.960 You groomed Emmanuel Macron.

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

00:47:33.780 your lawsuit?

00:47:34.900 Where's your lawsuit, Brigitte?

00:47:37.280 When are you going to drop it?

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.

00:47:45.820 Wild.

00:47:46.760 Absolutely wild.

00:47:47.440 But like I said, we're in this weird.

00:47:49.500 I like 2025.

00:47:51.000 Liars are being experienced.

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.

00:48:02.020 Sunlight being the best disinfectant.

00:48:04.000 So I'm just going to sit back and see what happens with this couple and sit back and see

00:48:08.100 what happens to Blake Lively.

00:48:09.440 I'm lying.

00:48:10.240 I am not sitting back.

00:48:11.340 I am active.

00:48:12.220 I am involved.

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.

00:48:27.580 Thank you guys very much for understanding that and for supporting me through this delusion.

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00:49:40.680 Now, I want to let you guys know I have an interview that is going up today for subscribers

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00:50:10.620 I think it's hurting men, especially.

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00:50:22.900 I read you a little tidbit.

00:50:23.940 My husband is probably watching and going, why did you do that?

00:50:26.680 I'm sorry, honey.

00:50:27.500 I just do things.

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.

00:50:43.880 And so I was like so gung-ho about that.

00:50:46.620 I loved all of your guesses.

00:50:48.240 I promise you on Monday we will announce it.

00:50:51.080 So that is my bad.

00:50:52.400 I made a promise and did not deliver on it because my lawyers came in.

00:50:56.260 And somebody's got to keep me straight.

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.

00:51:10.280 And we will be announcing that on Monday.

00:51:13.780 Getting into your comments.

00:51:14.880 Let's see what you guys have for me today.

00:51:17.180 Talia writes, the way I cackled and ran straight to watch this episode.

00:51:20.900 These thumbnails deserve Emmys, Candice. 1.00

00:51:22.980 Also, that 21 questions line cackling.

00:51:25.840 Thank you so much.

00:51:26.620 Yeah, we have a fun time with thumbnails.

00:51:28.000 Today was me.

00:51:28.900 Thank you very much.

00:51:29.600 There's a Taylor Swift song for everything.

00:51:31.260 It's great.

00:51:31.780 I'm like, wow, the more we cover her, we can just get deeper into her music.

00:51:34.700 It's just so funny.

00:51:36.000 Wanda says, Candice is my only news source.

00:51:38.620 Thank you so much.

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.

00:51:45.560 It takes a lot to be poised.

00:51:47.840 Keep on keeping on.

00:51:49.160 Thank you so much.

00:51:50.540 Eddie writes, caught the Candice crush.

00:51:52.380 You are amazing.

00:51:53.020 God bless you.

00:51:53.660 Thank you for saying things that matter.

00:51:55.180 The truth.

00:51:55.960 You know what you're doing.

00:51:56.720 And I am here for every minute of it.

00:51:58.540 Thank you so much.

00:51:59.340 And the reason, just so you guys know, because I know the media said terrible things about

00:52:03.520 me when I didn't support the Me Too movement.

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 1.00

00:52:22.360 me.

00:52:22.760 And that was before I had any sons.

00:52:24.360 And now I've got three.

00:52:25.400 So, you know, I am glad that I just said, listen, we should not believe women or men, 1.00

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. 1.00

00:52:38.620 Dahlia writes, the roof scene had me squirming.

00:52:41.380 Haha, you're a neurosurgeon, bit.

00:52:43.180 Pure cringe.

00:52:44.020 And her outfits were absolutely hideous. 0.85

00:52:45.960 Ryan probably forced Balagi to file the suit.

00:52:50.160 I totally agree that Ryan was behind a lot.

00:52:53.880 And those messages still make me nervous.

00:52:56.420 Look at his face.

00:52:57.040 He scares me.

00:52:58.340 I can't explain it.

00:52:59.000 I'm so afraid of Ryan.

00:53:01.240 He's going to come for me.

00:53:02.720 He's going to come for my whole life.

00:53:04.400 Can't believe it.

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

00:53:20.360 on it.

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.

00:53:42.320 So thanks for putting that on my radar.

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.

00:53:52.260 The Blake versus Justin is my Roman Empire.

00:53:54.420 Thank you for your hard work.

00:53:55.720 And it's allowed to be our Roman Empire. 0.91

00:53:57.840 I want to say that.

00:53:58.700 I know we're chasing our husbands and we're tackling them and we're forcing them to, you 0.99

00:54:03.560 know, learn all this information against their will.

00:54:06.940 But it's our right.

00:54:07.860 I feel they've had their Roman Empire, like since the Roman Empire and they talk about it

00:54:12.360 and they think about it all the time.

00:54:13.960 And we're allowed to do that.

00:54:15.220 Okay.

00:54:15.460 They might not think it's important.

00:54:17.120 It is important.

00:54:18.160 So I just want carry on ladies. 1.00

00:54:20.380 And now we've gotten them.

00:54:21.200 I see men in the comments like, I'm here.

00:54:23.160 I'm here now.

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.

00:54:29.960 We are going to rescue Justin Baldoni.

00:54:32.540 All right, guys, we will see you on Monday.

00:54:34.660 I don't think there's anything else that I have to mention other than the E. Michael

00:54:38.080 Jones interview going up today.

00:54:39.780 Other than that, yeah, have a great weekend.

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