A 7-year-old girl was on a skyrider ride at Urban Air Adventure Park when she was thrown from the ride and seriously injured. The company is now in the middle of a massive legal battle with the girl s family, and it s a story you don t want to miss.
00:00:32.240My name is Ian Carroll, and welcome to the first episode where I'll be filling in for Candace while she spends time with baby Roman.
00:00:37.940Later on, we'll have updates on Candace and baby Roman, and a crazy story of her hospital being evil.
00:00:43.520Also, Trump goes after Big Pharma, Diddy starts his trial, and claims the freak-offs were all consensual,
00:00:49.240and the internet is losing its mind over Macron and his buddies allegedly getting caught with a baggie of Coke.
00:00:54.960But first, a scandal that started at kids' birthday parties at urban air adventure parks is blowing up in a massive way.
00:01:02.680And one mom who spent the last three years fighting against a multi-billion dollar private equity monster is about to top with a whole house of cards.
00:01:10.900All that and more right now on Candace.
00:01:13.760So imagine you're a mom or a dad, and you want to take your kids to the adventure park for a fun day, maybe a birthday party, right?
00:01:35.620Um, that's where today's story starts, with a young girl, seven years old, being taken by her parents to Urban Air Adventure Park.
00:01:44.180And they were expecting just a normal day.
00:01:47.560They were expecting a wonderful day with their kid.
00:01:50.040And if you've ever been to Urban Air, you would know that there's all kinds of crazy things for the kids to do.
00:01:55.600And theoretically, their staff kind of help and keep them safe, help them run the rides.
00:01:59.880And this little girl teed up to get on one of the most popular rides at Urban Air.
00:02:21.180Now, this is called the Skyrider attraction, and it's going to play a big part in today's story.
00:02:28.280But I just wanted to jump in really quickly and give you a disclaimer that the next part of this clip is pretty traumatic.
00:02:34.080And it doesn't show anything extremely graphic.
00:02:36.340But if you're a parent or you have young kids, this is going to be very hard to watch and listen to because they were not expecting their day to go like this.
00:03:00.980So, that little girl unfortunately suffered a punctured lung, a traumatic brain injury, broken bones, and permanent disability, including learning deficits, hearing loss.
00:03:12.020And her injuries are still uncertain and sustained to this day.
00:03:16.680They have been in secret arbitration up until right now.
00:03:23.220And this is just one poor little girl's story at Urban Air.
00:03:28.280But unfortunately, it is very much not the only story like this.
00:03:33.740And today, I wanted to tell you a story about Urban Air, because Urban Air is a very small piece of a very big picture.
00:03:43.220And it starts with a man named Michael Browning.
00:03:47.400Michael Browning is the son of, let's just say, a very wealthy man, also named Michael Browning,
00:03:55.240who is famous in the Indianapolis real estate development scene, and the founder and chief partner of Browning.
00:04:03.220But his son, you know, Michael Browning Jr., grows up in this lifestyle and wants to, you know, be like dad, I presume, and be a big shot.
00:04:13.020And so, after founding a couple of companies, in 2011, he founds this company called Urban Air.
00:06:22.540It's also good to know that, let's just say we have documentation that seems to imply that that SkyRider attraction, that zipline type of thing that that poor girl fell off of, that was not originally created by Urban Air.
00:06:38.600And there's documentation that seems to imply that, in fact, Michael Browning Jr., shall we say, filed patents after signing a confidentiality agreement with the original company that founded it, Leap of Faith Adventures.
00:06:53.580If you search the internet for Leap of Faith Adventures today, you will find just about nothing because Leap of Faith Adventures no longer exists.
00:07:02.900And that's another dig for another time.
00:07:05.300But let's just say that the emails, correspondences, and documentation that we have kind of implies what might have happened to Leap of Faith Adventures.
00:07:13.840Because when you're founding a national chain of adventure parks, you need all kinds of cool rides and attractions and stuff for the kids to do, like rock walls and ziplines and crazy trampolines spin around tumblers and stuff like that.
00:07:27.160And it sounds pretty dangerous because it can be, right?
00:07:30.020And when you take your kid out to a park like that, you're expecting them to be providing the safety so that your kids can have a fun, safe time out.
00:07:39.380Once Michael Browning Jr. had expanded his empire of trampoline and adventure parks all around the nation, he realized that he was on to something and he could expand and do even more.
00:07:50.280So following a trend that is rampant in private equity right now, in 2021, Browning decided to scale up following a hot new trend in private equity that gets referred to as platforms where they will buy up different companies that are in the same niche, in the same sector.
00:08:07.280So that if you wanted to fix up your house, they've got AC people, they've got cleaning people, they've got painting people.
00:08:16.000This is just one example, but it happens in all sorts of different areas of our economy.
00:08:19.760And Michael Browning Jr. decided that he was going to take on the niche that was all things children.
00:08:28.700Why not apply the private equity playbook of cutting costs, streamlining businesses, and maximizing profits to all businesses' children?
00:08:41.700And he bought up a number of businesses in rapid succession with backing from his private equity buddies, including Sylvan Learning Centers, Waterwing, Snapology, XP League, Class 101, Premier Martial Arts, and The Little Gym.
00:08:55.420But among all brands, it has 1,200 locations across the country and serves 25 million children a year.
00:09:01.360It generates 1.1 billion in annual revenue.
00:09:05.260Michael Browning Jr. seems to be doing pretty good.
00:09:07.520But problems started to arise as they acquired each of these companies.
00:09:13.060And they didn't start with The Little Gym, but our story starts at The Little Gym today.
00:09:17.740Founded originally by Robin West and Robin McCoy.
00:09:20.580And I just want to show you their faces because I get the feeling we'll come back to them in the future.
00:09:25.700But the story really comes to a head when Tiffany Cianci enters the picture.
00:09:30.360And Tiffany Cianci bought into this franchise as a mom that was doing other business
00:09:35.860and wanted to spend more time with her kids around 2017.
00:09:39.360And so she thought that buying one of these franchises would be a great service to her community
00:09:43.580and a great way to spend more time with her kids because her kids could attend The Little Gym.
00:09:48.120And if you've not been to The Little Gym, it's a space for children of all types,
00:09:52.880but particularly targeted children that have special types of needs, whether that be auditory, sensory, learning, cognitive, whatever.
00:09:58.540It's a gym for all types of children to do gymnastics and learn through physical movement.
00:10:04.760And Tiffany Cianci really found her passion there.
00:10:06.860We're going to be drawing from news reporting and articles that have reported on Tiffany's story over the last three years
00:30:15.240Ultimately, the judge sustained their motion to strike those jurors.
00:30:18.800You know, I'm not trying to make a comment on that.
00:30:20.620I just thought it was funny the way that it got reported on.
00:30:22.460But then it turned out that victim three, unknown, we don't know who it is, but victim three apparently is missing.
00:30:32.020Just a few weeks ago, victim three came forward or didn't didn't come forward, but said that they were willing to testify in the trial.
00:30:39.200And though we don't know who it is, it obviously was important to the case because they were going to put victim three on the stand.
00:30:45.320And then just before this all came together and before Diddy took the stand, victim three apparently was out of communication and we do not know where they are.
00:30:53.340My thought immediately went to the girl Allie that is sharing all the salacious stuff.
00:30:58.440I went and looked her up and she's still posting on TikTok is not her.
00:31:05.340I'm sure we can all come up with some crazy conspiracy theories about what's going on there.
00:31:09.640Diddy's side is hoping for a mistrial just because they don't have one of their witnesses.
00:31:13.320That is extremely unlikely, but it is possibly going to cause some delays and it might actually impact the ability to prosecute Diddy.
00:31:20.480I presume that Diddy is pulling out all the stops as we've heard reportings of private investigators looking into people and people being pressured or influenced by his family members and just all sorts of shady, shady, shady, shady, shady.
00:31:35.120It's also worth noting that Maureen Comey, the daughter of James Comey, is on the prosecution team.
00:31:40.900She also recently served as the lead prosecutor for Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:31:44.940So it's just a funny small club of people up here.
00:31:47.300And ultimately, that's what I really want to talk about here is that, as you might expect, nothing really seems like it's going to come out of this.
00:31:55.020And that's because this is not the case that we were all hoping for them to try.
00:32:02.120I mean, if you've been really following it since Cassie and before, yeah, there's a lot going on here.
00:32:06.540But when the Lil Rod lawsuit dropped and most of us kind of caught wind of Diddy and what was going on, the case was that Lil Rod's lawsuit seemed to imply and allege that this was a sexual blackmail operation and that all of Diddy's homes were wired up with secret cameras recording everything that happened.
00:32:24.600And that Lucian Grange and Universal Music Group were named in that lawsuit originally, except then they mysteriously disappeared off the lawsuit.
00:32:38.600That was the lawyer for Lil Rod that took them off saying that there was no evidence that they were involved.
00:32:45.640I'm sure that it was just a big mistake that they got named in the first place, despite the fact that in the evidence in the testimony or in the.
00:32:54.160But allegations in it, like documented, it clearly says that Lucian Grange was at the parties, that Lucian Grange had every reason to know what was happening at the parties, that he had private visits with Diddy in the evenings at his home where they disappear into his room for extended periods of time.
00:33:10.540But, you know, when you're the big boy at the top, you don't get looked into.
00:33:18.480And when I was talking to the team earlier, they made me aware that I did not even know that there's a whole backstory on Lucian Grange and his big daddy.
00:33:28.320And oh boy, is that another dig for another day.
00:33:31.240But I just wanted to point out that the more the Diddy trials progressed, the more they seemed to depart from what was actually really being shown and suspicious in the first place, which was what seemed to be a trafficking ring with what seemed to be blackmail involved.
00:33:48.080With what's absolutely for sure was this, shall we say, the ex-head of security of Michael Jackson somehow becoming the head of security for a trafficking operation, a blackmail ring for drugs or whatever he's doing for Diddy.
00:34:03.680Everything about this operation stank, not to mention the property he had on the border of Mexico.
00:34:10.140So I'm not too optimistic about what's going to come out of the Diddy trial itself.
00:34:16.020But I am hoping that we'll at least see some dirt thrown on some other celebrities, some cracks open up in other parts of the industry that hopefully will, let's just say, tip over a few dominoes because there's a lot of dominoes ready to fall.
00:34:31.480And it's worth noting, too, that it's not just the Little Rod lawsuit that has made these allegations.
00:34:37.080These allegations are widespread in the industry, both from people that have worked alongside Diddy in the music world, as well as from bodyguards like Gene Deal.
00:34:45.660Most of those girls, especially if they like mixed drinks, you understand, they see the bottles when they open them and they trying to keep their eyes on because they don't want to get no kind of drugs put in their system.
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00:36:33.640Donald Trump is coming out hot after Big Pharma.
00:36:37.800And he's, you know, had some rhetoric and he's had some stuff to say about pricing for a while.
00:36:41.420But he just recently dropped a new executive order that, as far as I can tell, is like a silver bullet against Big Pharma that is going to take away a huge amount of their revenue stream as well as a kneecap, an entire shadow industry that is the PBMs that just siphons money out from in between as a middleman in the pharma world.
00:37:04.120It is now on the White House website officially, today's executive order.
00:37:08.240And if you read in Section 5, it details specifically what it calls most favored nation price targets.
00:37:16.020And this is something that Trump has referenced before, but it has never really gotten, he never was able to get it through.
00:37:20.660And there you can see at the bottom of the first paragraph, communicate most favored nation price targets to pharmaceutical manufacturers to bring prices for American patients in line with comparably developed nations.
00:37:34.200Now, when Trump put out a true social post about this just the other day, he said, we're going to bring the prices down to the lowest of any nation there is.
00:37:42.080Meaning that if in Zimbabwe, they're paying a dollar per pill, then in America, we pay only a dollar per pill, whatever the lowest price around the world is.
00:37:51.040That language has been modified a little bit so that in the actual executive order, now Americans are mandated apparently to, we get to pay whatever the lowest price of any other developed nation.
00:38:01.780Which is awesome because right now, we're getting grifted so hard.
00:38:06.020Right now, Americans are paying more than just about any other nation in the world, often by multiples of 2, 5, or even 10x what other countries are paying for the exact same products.
00:38:15.460Also, in section 4, he seems to enable direct-to-consumer sales from the pharmaceutical manufacturers at the most favored nation price.
00:38:26.800Which is really interesting because, I mean, let's just say I've never been there, I'm no pharmaceutical expert.
00:38:35.200But from what I'm reading there, that seems to be very much a death blow to a vast portion of pharma's profits.
00:38:43.260And, I mean, I don't know what to make of that other than extreme optimism.
00:38:49.000If you're not familiar, these PBMs, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, they're companies that manage prescription drug benefits and health insurers and employers.
00:39:12.120And they just kind of, like, middleman in between the whole system.
00:39:15.840And they just take a huge cut out from the middle.
00:39:59.980I mean, if you have an X account, you've definitely seen.
00:40:03.180And if you don't have an X account, you've still probably seen Macron just squirreling away the little bag of whiteness on his table and all that stuff that's been taken over the Internet.
00:40:13.180And everyone's making funny memes and AI videos of them dancing and whatever else.
00:40:17.920And, yeah, he grabs his little bag and sleuths it away.
00:40:20.900But, like, let's just pump the brakes for a second here, guys.
00:40:52.080And if you don't recall, he's married to a dude.
00:40:58.620And in case you're not up to date on the story and all the other implications of that story, there's a whole series that Candace Owens made on this very YouTube channel that you could watch yourself.
00:41:10.640And you might learn all about how Emmanuel Macron married his much, much, much older teacher that was not always a woman and might have even possibly one day been in his very same family.
00:41:25.760That seems a lot more scandalous than world leaders doing cocaine, which I'm sure they probably all do.
00:41:34.260And they might even all do right before the media comes into their room to do interviews with them.
00:41:39.160And we've all seen the images or the videos of Zelensky and Ardern just going all sniffly, sniffly.
00:41:48.240We've seen it, and I'm sure it's happening.
00:41:50.580But ultimately, the scandal is that he's married to a dude and that that implies all sorts of other things that we want answers to.
00:42:02.040So, yeah, that's the story about the drugs.