Candace Owens - Inside The Elites’ Secret Courts Where You Have No Rights ｜ Candace Ep 190

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00:00:30.220 Imagine living in a country where you can be stripped of your rights at any time

00:00:34.020 by corporations, your boss, the government,

00:00:37.260 or any old millionaire or billionaire that wants to. 0.99

00:00:40.480 They can steal from you, maim your son, sexually assault your daughter, 1.00

00:00:44.260 murder your parents and your pet, 0.96

00:00:46.020 and you have no right to take them to court.

00:00:48.660 Instead, you have to go to a secret court where you are guaranteed to lose.

00:00:52.920 And not only that, you will also be bankrupted

00:00:55.400 and have everything you own taken from you in the process.

00:00:58.400 Name that country.

00:01:00.820 Is it China?

00:01:01.940 Russia? 0.61

00:01:02.980 Iran? 0.79

00:01:04.260 No, my friends.

00:01:05.760 I am, in fact, talking about America.

00:01:08.860 Today, in 2025.

00:01:10.440 And I am not being hyperbolic.

00:01:13.320 Today, I am going to tell you many stories of how regular people suffered each of those crimes

00:01:18.160 and learned the hard way that everything I just said is true for nearly every single regular American today,

00:01:25.080 including you.

00:01:26.300 Because today, we're talking about America's secret court system,

00:01:29.840 and it's called forced arbitration.

00:01:31.560 Welcome back to Candace.

00:01:48.100 America has a secret court system,

00:01:51.100 an entirely parallel justice system designed by and for megacorporations, billionaires, and private equity firms.

00:01:59.480 Most Americans have probably only vaguely heard of arbitration.

00:02:03.840 Most of us don't have any experience with it or really know what it means or how it works.

00:02:08.180 Remember that list of salacious, scary crimes that I made just a minute ago?

00:02:12.620 I chose that list very specifically because today I am going to share specific examples of those exact crimes

00:02:18.960 committed against Americans who wound up with the exact outcome that I described.

00:02:23.920 Normally, you would expect the perpetrator of crimes like rape, murder, theft, or battery

00:02:29.800 to be caught and arrested by police, lose a trial in a court of law, and go to jail or prison.

00:02:35.780 And if a regular person commits those crimes, that's probably what would happen.

00:02:40.240 But if the people who rule the world commit such a crime, that's not how it works.

00:02:44.740 When I say people who rule the world, you might think I mean the Illuminati or the Rothschilds or something.

00:03:12.100 And so you just need to steer clear of a small handful of evil supervillains.

00:03:16.580 And you should steer clear of them too.

00:03:18.240 But that's not who I'm referring to.

00:03:20.860 I'm talking about corporations and private equity.

00:03:23.620 And you might not know it, but you've already agreed to this.

00:03:26.780 You've already signed your rights away over and over every time you click agree to terms of service.

00:03:32.920 And most of us have clicked that a lot of times.

00:03:35.380 The average American household with two teenage children has currently agreed to about 160 arbitration agreements.

00:03:41.960 If you take your kids to a birthday party, there's an arbitration agreement.

00:03:45.840 Sign them up for swim lessons.

00:03:47.360 Arbitration agreement.

00:03:48.640 Went to a concert.

00:03:49.620 Arbitration agreement.

00:03:50.620 Martial arts classes.

00:03:51.600 Arbitration agreement.

00:03:52.580 Got a massage.

00:03:53.600 Arbitration agreement.

00:03:54.800 Bought a washing machine.

00:03:55.940 Rented a house.

00:03:56.640 Got a job.

00:03:57.340 Took an Uber.

00:03:58.240 Went to the hospital.

00:03:59.540 All have arbitration agreements.

00:04:01.540 Heck, most people's cell phones alone include more than 20 arbitration agreements.

00:04:07.280 One for each app you download.

00:04:09.080 And speaking of apps, I want to start today with a story about Uber.

00:04:12.920 And I'll let Tiffany Cianci, who we met in my first episode on Candace, explain what happened with Uber last year.

00:04:19.980 If I told you that ordering a burger or a pizza on a food delivery app could cost you to forfeit your constitutionally protected rights, would you believe me?

00:04:28.500 Well, my friends, I'm here to show you how Uber is proving to the world today that Disney walked so that they could run you over with a truck, literally.

00:04:38.380 And there's not a damn thing you could do about it.

00:04:40.680 Let's get into it.

00:04:42.340 It was just a couple of months ago that the entire world became enraged when we learned that Disney was trying to stop a man from suing them in court when his wife was wrongfully killed in a terrible incident involving an allergy at one of their restaurants.

00:04:57.060 And they claimed the reason he had no right to go to court was because years before he had signed up for a trial for Disney+.

00:05:04.680 Now, neither you nor I would ever have thought that signing up for a trial for a TV watching program would somehow not keep us safe in a park where we go on rides that have physical threats.

00:05:16.480 But that is exactly what Disney alleged and what they were arguing in court.

00:05:20.040 Throughout the Disney debacle, I went on a series of podcasts and interviews where people were saying, there's no way this can happen.

00:05:26.180 The law would never allow it.

00:05:27.360 And I said, I actually think it's going to happen.

00:05:29.680 And even if it doesn't happen in this case, it's not going to be long before we see the next major case.

00:05:34.300 Well, my friends, it is here.

00:05:36.660 My friends, let me introduce you to Georgia and John McKinty.

00:05:41.000 Now, Georgia and John were sitting in the backseat of an Uber when it ran a red light and T-boned another vehicle back in March of 2022.

00:05:48.460 Their injuries were horrific, with Georgia sustaining cervical and lumbar spine fractures, rib fractures, herniations, traumatic injuries in her abdomen, her pelvic floor, and John suffering a fractured sternum, fractures to his left arm, his wrist.

00:06:03.520 They both had severe whiplash and a host of other serious injuries.

00:06:07.560 It was more than a year before Georgia could work.

00:06:09.940 They racked up massive medical bills and eventually got an attorney who sued the driver and Uber on their behalf.

00:06:16.780 Now, what came next was Uber trying to force the couple into forced arbitration, citing Terms of Services' click-wrapped box they had checked, apparently, when they ordered a pizza years earlier.

00:06:29.280 Except they said, we never ordered a pizza.

00:06:31.560 Our 12-year-old daughter did.

00:06:33.200 We never signed or checked any box.

00:06:35.260 Our 12-year-old daughter did.

00:06:37.020 And so originally, the trial court said, you're right.

00:06:40.580 This does not have to go to arbitration.

00:06:42.300 We are letting this proceed to trial.

00:06:43.720 However, Uber appealed that decision and the judges agreed with the company that its Terms of Service were enforceable and forced them back to arbitration.

00:06:54.940 We'll get into other examples of how corporations and private equity will go to ridiculous lengths to trap you into arbitration agreements that you never agreed to later.

00:07:03.740 But every single one of these agreements is you signing away your rights to due process in a court of law.

00:07:09.580 And it's becoming so popular these days among corporations and private equity who are buying up so many different parts of our world that now, more and more, as an American, you have rights only if you stay in your house and don't go out to do anything.

00:07:23.020 Except all the things in your house tend to come with arbitration agreements, too.

00:07:26.880 And more and more arbitration agreements are being included in lease contracts themselves.

00:07:32.000 So be sure that nothing goes wrong inside your house either, or you'll wind up in secret court anyways.

00:07:38.120 And if you do happen to wind up in arbitration, just know that an American is more likely to be struck by lightning than win a monetary award in forced arbitration against a corporation.

00:07:47.700 That's a real stat.

00:07:49.600 More Americans are struck by lightning each year than win monetary awards in arbitration against corporations.

00:07:55.360 So let me tell you a story, and we'll check off our first crime from our list earlier, sexual assault.

00:08:03.100 In 2017, BuzzFeed News ran a story about more than 180 women who had been sexually assaulted while receiving massages at the nation's largest massage chain, Massage Envy.

00:08:13.520 They have more than 1,200 locations across the U.S.

00:08:17.160 When you check in for your massage, you sign their terms and conditions.

00:08:20.480 You don't actually read them, but if you did, you would see that they include a forced arbitration clause where you agree to settle any claims or disputes against Massage Envy in secret arbitration.

00:08:31.580 Some of the stories that have eventually come out are horrible, and I'm not going to read them to you.

00:08:37.000 You can pause and do so if you wish.

00:08:39.100 And although Massage Envy makes great corporate PR statements like, quote,

00:08:44.100 Massage Envy is committed to promoting a safe environment for members, guests, and service providers at each of our 1,200 franchise locations nationwide,

00:08:52.260 we urge anyone that experiences anything other than a safe, quality massage to report it immediately to the franchise location so that it can be investigated.

00:09:00.600 Notice that they don't say police.

00:09:02.680 In many of the cases, there are allegations therapists were allowed to remain employed or were shuffled to another Massage Envy location.

00:09:10.820 Fortunately, tragically, there were eventually so many individual cases of sexual assault that some of the women started to break their silence and the news started to pick up the story.

00:09:20.380 But, despite all that breaking in 2017, Massage Envy continues to face this same problem.

00:09:26.600 Or, maybe we should call it a feature.

00:09:28.760 In 2022, one of these instances actually led to an arrest and a trial in court after a woman was raped and contracted herpes.

00:09:37.100 Once she came forward, they found out other women had been assaulted by the same therapist and he had continued to work at Massage Envy.

00:09:43.880 So, it may seem like the justice system prevailed and they got the guy.

00:09:47.360 No.

00:09:48.140 In one instance, in one specific county, a couple women were lucky enough to find some amount of legal recourse. 1.00

00:09:54.400 The other 180 or quite likely more cases, not so much.

00:09:59.460 And we don't even have any understanding of how many the total number might be because of forced arbitration agreements that everyone's signing when they check in for their massage.

00:10:08.820 Not to mention that 90% of women never even report sexual assault because they think, for whatever reason, that no one will believe them.

00:10:17.680 This is just one example.

00:10:18.820 Now, take into account that more than half of women in the workplace are subject to forced arbitration clauses in their employment contract.

00:10:26.820 And you start to get a sense of how much sexual assault is hidden in secret courts every year.

00:10:32.180 That's not to mention the staggering number of cases that are silenced before they're even brought because plaintiffs rightly realize that they have virtually no chance of winning and will be bankrupted in the process of fighting.

00:10:44.740 And you have virtually no chance of winning because arbitration is not like regular court.

00:10:50.020 It's a for-profit racket where the rules are explicitly written so that there are no rules.

00:10:55.620 I think it's pertinent at the outset here to show you where this secret court system comes from in the first place.

00:11:02.200 This is directly from the U.S. Code, and this is just the first page of many that define arbitration.

00:11:07.920 But I'm just going to read some of this text so you can get a sense for what we're working with here.

00:11:11.660 Yes, if that language sounds outdated, that's because it is.

00:11:37.460 The FAA, Federal Arbitration Act, was first enacted in 1925.

00:11:43.000 Don't even get me started on the Commerce Clause in the Constitution, which is the basis for the government allowing themselves all up in your business all over the place.

00:11:52.220 The ACLU said,

00:11:53.700 Note how it says,

00:12:23.700 This is how Duke Law put it.

00:12:54.200 Arbitration tribunals set their own rules, and they are typically not bound by the procedural formalities employed by courts,

00:13:00.780 nor are they always bound to follow the substantive laws that govern traditional court systems.

00:13:05.600 Nonetheless, primary law and decisions handed down by other arbitrators deciding similar issues

00:13:10.480 can be important sources of persuasive authority in resolving issues sent to arbitration.

00:13:16.040 Here's an example of a source that looks authoritative, representing arbitration is quick and painless,

00:13:22.880 but that's a lie.

00:13:24.680 That's how they want it to look from the outside,

00:13:27.040 so it seems like it's no big deal to sign these contracts.

00:13:29.860 Tiffany Cianci's arbitrations lasted a total of 11 days of hearings, but the proceedings took two years. 0.84

00:13:36.640 The big guys know that they can drag arbitrations out for months and months to bleed you dry

00:13:43.420 while you pay your attorneys and arbitrators tens of thousands of dollars per week.

00:13:48.040 Tiffany's arbitrator was $27,000 per week, give or take.

00:13:52.040 So I wouldn't imagine that these arbitrators are all that sad when a case drags out,

00:13:57.120 because that's their paycheck.

00:13:58.940 Plus, you have to pay a lawyer to be there.

00:14:01.680 No record is made of the hearing, and arbitrators make a legally binding decision,

00:14:05.540 for which they are required to give zero legal reasoning.

00:14:08.780 And whether they followed the law or not,

00:14:10.860 whether they saw substantive or even any evidence or not,

00:14:14.580 whether you were treated fairly or not,

00:14:17.040 no one will ever know.

00:14:18.200 Because there is usually little or no documentation,

00:14:21.520 and you are barred from talking about it.

00:14:23.680 But wait, it gets better.

00:14:26.160 When you go to arbitration,

00:14:27.680 you and your opponent go through a process of selecting an arbitrator

00:14:30.920 from those available in your jurisdiction.

00:14:33.260 The big guys know how to game the selection process

00:14:35.980 to land you with the most expensive arbitrator available usually.

00:14:39.780 This often tends to be the one they are familiar with

00:14:42.140 and have a good relationship with,

00:14:43.740 because they've usually worked with that arbitrator many times before.

00:14:47.120 Or, then you have to pay them to rule in favor of the corporation

00:14:50.260 or private equity firm you're up against 94% of the time.

00:14:54.300 Yes, you heard that right.

00:14:55.720 You are required to pay your judge, who is not a judge,

00:15:00.060 an hourly rate for the privilege of a secret court

00:15:02.580 where there are no laws and you have no rights.

00:15:05.460 This is an example of the resume sheet

00:15:07.240 of one of the arbitrators Tiffany Cianci got stuck with.

00:15:10.760 Scroll down to the bottom of the sheet,

00:15:12.240 and you see the part that matters, compensation.

00:15:14.380 This woman cost Tiffany $500 per hour of arbitration. 1.00

00:15:19.480 Oh yeah, plus an hourly rate for pre- and post-arbitration services,

00:15:24.020 plus any travel expenses, calls, reviews, filings.

00:15:27.580 Everything costs you more money.

00:15:29.640 That totaled out to about $27,000 per week,

00:15:32.220 and this went on for years.

00:15:34.300 Doesn't matter if Tiffany is innocent.

00:15:36.240 Doesn't matter if the other side obviously does not have merit.

00:15:39.320 Doesn't matter if the other side blatantly lies in court.

00:15:41.800 Doesn't matter if the entire scheme is obviously Orwellian.

00:15:45.460 If those women who were assaulted in massage envy 1.00

00:15:47.880 want the privilege of the right to some form of pretend justice,

00:15:51.300 they have to pay an hourly fee to receive it.

00:15:54.000 And the costs add up.

00:15:55.880 But remember, even after you pay all that,

00:15:58.400 your chances of winning,

00:15:59.380 regardless of the merit of your case, are minuscule.

00:16:02.300 In five years, from 2014 to 2018,

00:16:04.760 only 6% of cases arbitrated

00:16:07.520 with the two biggest arbitration services in America

00:16:09.900 ruled in favor of the little guy.

00:16:12.160 Even though, in general, the little guy is only there

00:16:14.620 because they were clearly wronged by the big guy.

00:16:17.780 In those five years,

00:16:19.160 nearly 1,000 AT&T customers

00:16:21.180 attempted to arbitrate against AT&T

00:16:23.300 for more than $440 million in damages.

00:16:27.120 Just 17 were successful,

00:16:29.660 and they were only awarded a total of $376,000.

00:16:33.160 That's less than 2%.

00:16:34.960 The other 983 or so people

00:16:38.400 just had the privilege of lining the pockets

00:16:40.500 of their arbitrators and the corporate lawyers

00:16:42.700 they work with to defend the rich and powerful.

00:16:45.380 But it gets worse still.

00:16:47.460 Because the arbitration industry,

00:16:49.540 and it is an industry,

00:16:51.280 is a monopoly.

00:16:52.660 A new lawsuit was just filed last week

00:16:54.780 claiming that approximately 94% of the market share

00:16:57.920 is owned by just one company,

00:17:00.700 the American Arbitration Association.

00:17:02.540 The next biggest company owns just 6%,

00:17:05.460 and all other competitors combined

00:17:08.040 represent 0.0003% of the market.

00:17:13.920 It's a giant monopoly ruled by just one company,

00:17:17.300 so it's no wonder the industry is so corrupt.

00:17:21.040 There are entire industries like telecoms

00:17:23.280 and credit reporting agencies

00:17:24.420 that work exclusively with

00:17:26.580 the American Arbitration Association,

00:17:28.440 this juggernaut in charge of this monopoly.

00:17:30.460 So it's essentially this one company,

00:17:32.880 AAA, a cartel running the entire arbitration industry.

00:17:37.020 And so, to Stephanie Stevens,

00:17:39.820 who filed this lawsuit,

00:17:41.540 Godspeed.

00:17:42.560 We'll be behind you every step of the way

00:17:44.360 as you do your best to bust this cartel.

00:17:47.160 And because the industry is so monopolized,

00:17:49.600 the corruption is baked in from the bottom.

00:17:52.280 Typically, these arbitrators will only see you,

00:17:55.040 a regular person, once.

00:17:56.400 They'll see the big boys,

00:17:58.240 these private equity firms and megacorporations

00:18:00.320 and big law firms that represent all of them

00:18:02.820 over and over and over again.

00:18:05.540 And they form quite cozy relationships.

00:18:08.080 That's because these arbitrators

00:18:09.600 tend to make significantly more as arbitrators

00:18:12.680 than they ever did as judges.

00:18:14.880 At least, they do if they get picked

00:18:17.140 for all these arbitrations, right?

00:18:18.620 I mean, $500 an hour is not bad.

00:18:22.160 And if the private equity firms

00:18:23.860 and corporations don't like them,

00:18:25.960 they can strike them.

00:18:27.300 So the paychecks of these arbitrators,

00:18:29.100 over time, become directly reliant

00:18:31.300 on being favorable to their repeat clients.

00:18:34.240 And their repeat clients

00:18:35.340 are private equity and corporations.

00:18:38.300 You're just there to chip in

00:18:39.720 to their next paycheck briefly

00:18:41.040 while you're bankrupted

00:18:42.440 for the illusion of having rights.

00:18:44.920 That's also not to mention

00:18:46.340 that they all have conflicts of interest

00:18:48.340 in every direction.

00:18:49.720 For example, Tiffany Sianci

00:18:51.520 just got served another lawsuit last week

00:18:53.900 based on a different woman's case

00:18:55.580 against Unleashed Brands

00:18:56.620 and Michael Browning Jr.

00:18:57.760 in another state,

00:18:59.100 which she is not a party to.

00:19:00.400 That's blatantly illegal,

00:19:01.700 but it's a story for another time.

00:19:03.880 This is the disclosure of conflicts

00:19:05.620 made in that case

00:19:06.660 for her arbitrator, Alan Harris.

00:19:09.000 Alan Harris, who used to work

00:19:10.620 at the same law firm

00:19:11.960 and with the lawyers used by Unleashed Brands.

00:19:14.960 in the same law office

00:19:16.580 as Norman Leon,

00:19:17.760 the lawyer that she is fighting against.

00:19:19.900 So imagine sitting down

00:19:21.420 in secret court

00:19:22.240 against Michael Browning Jr.

00:19:23.680 and your judge

00:19:24.700 is the former co-worker

00:19:26.340 of his lawyers

00:19:27.500 and is paid to be there

00:19:29.000 by him and by you.

00:19:31.640 And he regularly takes cases

00:19:33.580 for Unleashed Brands

00:19:34.580 against people just like you

00:19:36.180 and he will continue

00:19:37.100 to take them in the future.

00:19:39.000 Don't worry,

00:19:40.300 everything's fine, guys.

00:19:43.020 Patty,

00:19:43.420 the woman being attacked

00:19:44.800 by Unleashed Brands

00:19:45.680 in this case

00:19:46.300 filed an objection.

00:19:47.920 But that's really

00:19:48.660 just a formality.

00:19:49.740 She's forced to go

00:19:50.560 before a judge,

00:19:51.720 an arbitrator,

00:19:52.520 who is former colleague

00:19:53.920 of the people taking her down,

00:19:55.280 who also sees other cases

00:19:56.720 and thereby relies

00:19:57.680 on his salary

00:19:58.300 from the people

00:19:58.980 taking her down.

00:20:00.160 But don't worry,

00:20:01.400 because as Harris says,

00:20:03.200 that, quote,

00:20:04.280 will not affect

00:20:05.400 my ability

00:20:06.040 to serve

00:20:06.680 as a neutral,

00:20:07.540 unbiased,

00:20:08.180 impartial,

00:20:08.760 and fair arbitrator.

00:20:10.100 So anyways,

00:20:11.300 back to our list.

00:20:12.120 We already spoke

00:20:13.560 last week

00:20:14.280 about children

00:20:14.900 suffering broken bones,

00:20:16.140 broken spines,

00:20:16.940 fractured skulls,

00:20:17.780 traumatic brain injuries.

00:20:19.160 One toddler was scalped

00:20:20.300 at Urban Air theme parks.

00:20:22.000 Most of these cases

00:20:22.880 were forced into arbitration.

00:20:24.440 The only ones

00:20:25.260 that weren't

00:20:25.680 were lucky enough

00:20:26.400 to be attending Urban Air

00:20:27.420 with someone

00:20:27.940 other than a parent,

00:20:29.320 and thus their arbitration

00:20:30.240 agreement was a lot

00:20:31.100 harder to enforce.

00:20:32.540 But now,

00:20:33.400 let's talk about

00:20:34.060 nursing homes

00:20:34.760 and hospitals.

00:20:36.360 In 2011,

00:20:38.180 the Carlyle Group,

00:20:39.180 one of the nation's

00:20:39.860 largest private equity firms,

00:20:41.420 bought HCR ManorCare,

00:20:43.260 one of the biggest

00:20:43.980 nursing home chains,

00:20:45.180 and in 2018,

00:20:46.280 the Washington Post

00:20:46.940 published this bombshell

00:20:48.180 about what that meant

00:20:49.480 for residents.

00:20:51.120 Quote,

00:20:51.840 A disabled man

00:20:52.960 who had long, 0.82

00:20:53.880 dirty fingernails

00:20:54.640 told them he was tended to

00:20:55.960 once in a blue moon.

00:20:57.500 The bedside call buttons

00:20:58.700 were so poorly staffed

00:21:00.120 that some residents

00:21:00.940 regularly soiled themselves

00:21:02.560 while waiting for help

00:21:03.640 to the bathroom.

00:21:04.680 A woman dying

00:21:05.500 of uterine cancer

00:21:06.660 was left on a bedpan

00:21:08.000 for so long

00:21:08.800 that she bruised.

00:21:10.440 One man had been dosed

00:21:11.620 with so many opioids

00:21:12.700 that he had to be rushed

00:21:13.820 to a hospital,

00:21:14.640 according to the

00:21:15.140 inspection reports.

00:21:16.460 During an undersupervised

00:21:17.600 bus trip to church,

00:21:19.000 one staff member

00:21:19.720 was escorting six patients

00:21:21.080 who could not walk

00:21:22.140 without help.

00:21:22.940 A resident flipped backwards

00:21:24.040 on a wheelchair ramp

00:21:25.020 and suffered a brain hemorrhage.

00:21:27.240 When a nurse's aide,

00:21:28.520 who should have had a helper,

00:21:29.720 was trying to lift

00:21:30.380 a paraplegic woman,

00:21:31.620 the woman fell 0.98

00:21:32.340 and fractured her hip,

00:21:33.560 her head landing on the floor 1.00

00:21:34.760 beneath her roommate's bed.

00:21:36.400 Over that period,

00:21:37.200 the yearly numbers

00:21:38.440 of health code violations

00:21:39.540 at company nursing homes

00:21:40.660 rose from 1,584

00:21:42.880 to almost 2,000.

00:21:44.780 The number of citations

00:21:45.800 increased for,

00:21:47.100 among other things,

00:21:48.280 neither preventing

00:21:49.000 nor treating bed sores,

00:21:50.760 medication errors,

00:21:51.840 not providing proper care

00:21:52.960 for people who need

00:21:53.820 special services

00:21:54.640 such as injections,

00:21:55.760 colostomies,

00:21:56.440 and prostheses, 0.96

00:21:57.480 and not assisting patients

00:21:58.620 with eating

00:21:59.120 and personal hygiene.

00:22:00.680 The rise in health code

00:22:02.080 violations at the chain

00:22:03.120 began after Carlyle

00:22:04.380 and investors

00:22:05.080 completed a 2011

00:22:06.580 financial deal

00:22:07.480 that extracted

00:22:08.040 $1.3 billion

00:22:09.240 from the company

00:22:10.700 for investors,

00:22:11.660 but also saddled

00:22:12.700 the chain

00:22:13.140 with what proved

00:22:14.160 to be untenable

00:22:15.300 financial obligations.

00:22:16.580 According to interviews

00:22:17.320 and financial documents,

00:22:18.580 under the terms

00:22:19.060 of the deal,

00:22:19.720 HCR ManorCare

00:22:20.700 sold nearly all

00:22:21.860 of the real estate

00:22:22.720 in its nursing home empire

00:22:24.960 and then agreed

00:22:25.800 to pay rent

00:22:26.500 to the new owners.

00:22:27.840 The National Bureau

00:22:29.020 of Economic Research

00:22:30.020 calculated

00:22:30.540 that over the 12 years

00:22:31.920 of their study,

00:22:32.680 private equity ownership

00:22:33.620 of nursing homes

00:22:34.560 were responsible

00:22:35.340 for 22,500 additional deaths

00:22:38.500 due to cost-cutting

00:22:39.680 and mismanagement.

00:22:41.180 Health Affairs

00:22:41.800 released a study this year

00:22:42.960 that found that

00:22:43.680 surgery patients

00:22:44.400 in private equity-owned hospitals

00:22:45.760 are 42% more likely to die.

00:22:48.680 42%!

00:22:50.480 Those admitted to hospitals

00:22:51.660 owned by private equity

00:22:52.700 were an astonishing 25%

00:22:54.520 more likely

00:22:55.180 to get hospital-acquired conditions

00:22:57.280 mainly due to falls

00:22:58.740 or central line-associated

00:23:00.300 bloodstream infections.

00:23:01.920 This is what happens

00:23:02.940 when businesses

00:23:03.740 that are explicitly

00:23:04.760 and only profit-driven

00:23:06.200 move into sectors

00:23:07.280 like health care,

00:23:08.500 elder care,

00:23:09.440 and children's services.

00:23:10.780 It's one thing

00:23:11.460 to focus on the bottom line

00:23:12.600 in banking.

00:23:13.500 It's an entirely different thing

00:23:15.080 to focus on the bottom line

00:23:16.460 at the toddler gym

00:23:17.700 or the hospital.

00:23:19.340 And in case you were wondering,

00:23:21.440 yes,

00:23:22.140 hospitals and nursing homes

00:23:23.440 do have arbitration clauses

00:23:24.760 that force you to sign away,

00:23:26.560 often without knowing it,

00:23:27.860 your right to sue

00:23:28.560 for medical malpractice

00:23:29.640 when these things happen.

00:23:30.500 The trend

00:23:31.400 that private equity

00:23:32.400 is always at the forefront of.

00:23:34.460 But it's not just

00:23:35.180 medical malpractice

00:23:36.040 in hospitals and nursing homes

00:23:37.340 because private equity

00:23:38.720 is also buying up

00:23:40.220 the veterinary clinics.

00:23:42.640 Quote,

00:23:42.900 With too few employees

00:23:44.660 to transport animals

00:23:45.880 that died in stores,

00:23:47.420 carcasses allegedly piled up

00:23:49.080 in PetSmart freezers

00:23:50.180 across the country.

00:23:51.540 One employee shared a photo

00:23:52.880 that she said

00:23:54.060 was filled with

00:23:54.980 two months' worth

00:23:55.920 of dead animals.

00:23:57.260 Another employee said

00:23:58.280 their store had a freezer

00:23:59.460 with 10 months.

00:24:01.040 A third said

00:24:02.160 that for lack of time,

00:24:03.600 she would simply

00:24:04.240 throw bodies away.

00:24:05.340 Sometimes I was doing it weekly

00:24:07.340 because we didn't have staff

00:24:08.600 to take a vet trip

00:24:09.480 to properly dispose of them,

00:24:10.980 so I was instructed

00:24:11.980 to dispose of them myself.

00:24:15.020 Since 2017,

00:24:16.720 private equity firms

00:24:17.500 have spent $45 billion

00:24:18.720 on the industry.

00:24:20.280 KKR bought PetVet

00:24:21.640 and JAB acquired

00:24:22.920 National Veterinary Associates,

00:24:24.680 while Shore Capital

00:24:25.620 and Warburg Pincus

00:24:26.640 invested in Mission

00:24:27.740 Veterinary Partners

00:24:28.580 and BondVet, respectively.

00:24:30.760 Some of these practices' names

00:24:32.100 may be familiar to you,

00:24:33.560 but most may not be.

00:24:35.080 When individual offices

00:24:36.060 are sold to private equity firms,

00:24:37.580 they often retain

00:24:38.640 their old names.

00:24:39.620 It can be nearly impossible

00:24:40.740 to know which vets

00:24:41.920 are private equity owned.

00:24:43.420 But don't let the obscure names

00:24:44.760 confuse you.

00:24:45.660 About a quarter

00:24:46.240 of general veterinary practices

00:24:47.480 are now owned

00:24:48.200 by large corporations,

00:24:49.380 including private equity firms,

00:24:50.560 while about three quarters

00:24:51.840 of specialty practices

00:24:52.800 like emergency

00:24:53.700 and surgery care are.

00:24:55.520 Finally,

00:24:56.540 firms are tremendously successful

00:24:57.900 at avoiding legal consequences

00:24:59.320 for their actions,

00:25:00.380 a problem compounded

00:25:01.500 in the veterinary industry

00:25:02.360 where clients can recover little,

00:25:04.160 if anything,

00:25:05.020 for the deaths of their pets.

00:25:06.420 This encourages

00:25:07.040 a certain callousness

00:25:08.340 towards workers and customers

00:25:09.580 as firms know

00:25:10.640 that little will happen to them

00:25:11.840 if something goes wrong.

00:25:13.120 Private equity firms

00:25:13.840 can profit

00:25:14.380 even when their companies decline,

00:25:16.640 their customers suffer,

00:25:17.840 and your pet dies.

00:25:19.580 And they didn't go into it

00:25:20.600 in this article,

00:25:21.480 but if you're not reading

00:25:22.260 between the lines there yet,

00:25:23.760 the ways those firms

00:25:24.740 avoid legal consequences

00:25:26.020 that the nation

00:25:26.760 isn't elaborating on here,

00:25:28.840 arbitration is a huge part of that

00:25:30.520 because you'd better believe

00:25:32.000 that you've got

00:25:32.820 arbitration clauses

00:25:33.720 at the vet now.

00:25:35.300 These days,

00:25:36.280 some corporations

00:25:37.020 are even trying to make

00:25:37.960 an arbitration agreement

00:25:38.860 transfer over

00:25:39.700 to other parts of their business,

00:25:41.240 as was attempted by Disney

00:25:42.720 when a parent died in their park

00:25:44.260 and they tried to enforce

00:25:45.520 the arbitration agreement

00:25:46.420 their child had agreed to

00:25:47.680 on their home TV's

00:25:48.920 Disney Plus account.

00:25:50.220 Our opening segment

00:25:51.140 about Uber

00:25:51.960 was another example.

00:25:53.480 In this example here,

00:25:55.020 Wells Fargo

00:25:55.640 was caught opening

00:25:56.580 sham accounts

00:25:57.380 in their customers' names,

00:25:58.920 often forging signatures

00:26:00.140 to do so,

00:26:01.200 then claimed that

00:26:02.260 they forced arbitration

00:26:03.220 agreements from the real accounts

00:26:04.680 covered these fake accounts.

00:26:06.880 That's not justice.

00:26:08.220 That's insane.

00:26:09.800 The American Association

00:26:10.700 for Justice

00:26:11.280 really summed it up best

00:26:12.560 when they said,

00:26:14.000 forced arbitration

00:26:14.780 has never been about

00:26:15.700 efficiency or justice.

00:26:17.660 Its one true goal is,

00:26:19.280 always has been,

00:26:20.520 and always will be,

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00:28:21.220 Now, let's continue

00:28:22.840 with our story

00:28:23.680 about Michael Browning Jr.,

00:28:25.440 his dream to be a big shot

00:28:26.880 and his willingness

00:28:27.700 to do just about anything

00:28:29.360 to get there.

00:28:30.460 Because in order for you

00:28:31.500 to really understand

00:28:32.640 the insanity

00:28:33.440 that is forced arbitration

00:28:34.940 and why we need

00:28:36.100 to do something about it,

00:28:37.280 it's not enough to know

00:28:38.320 that you have signed up

00:28:39.160 for this madness.

00:28:40.120 It's important to know

00:28:41.280 what is done

00:28:42.120 to regular Americans

00:28:43.220 in these secret courts

00:28:44.760 and what they could do

00:28:45.980 to you.

00:28:47.260 We left off last time

00:28:48.560 with the story

00:28:49.300 of Michael Browning Jr.

00:28:50.620 founding his business

00:28:51.380 by cannibalizing

00:28:52.560 Leap of Faith Adventures

00:28:53.620 and forcing Garth Price

00:28:55.100 into years of litigation

00:28:56.580 that eventually

00:28:57.340 bankrupted him.

00:28:58.400 But at that point,

00:28:59.420 Michael Browning Jr.

00:29:00.320 and his lead counsel,

00:29:01.380 Stephen Polizzola,

00:29:02.420 were just getting warmed up.

00:29:04.480 So today,

00:29:05.160 we're going to do

00:29:05.680 a speed run

00:29:06.360 of how Tiffany Sianci

00:29:07.540 wound up giving

00:29:08.300 that testimony

00:29:09.180 that we watched

00:29:10.120 on day one.

00:29:11.840 You tried to depose me

00:29:13.300 in labor.

00:29:14.640 You tried to depose me

00:29:16.260 while I was in bed

00:29:17.220 bleeding.

00:29:19.780 And I say

00:29:20.520 we're going to speed run it,

00:29:21.740 partly because

00:29:22.420 there are so many

00:29:23.300 evil things

00:29:23.940 they are on record doing

00:29:25.080 that we don't have time

00:29:26.300 for all of it.

00:29:27.280 But mostly

00:29:27.960 because I want to get

00:29:29.220 all the way to the part

00:29:30.300 where they hired a felon

00:29:31.420 with over 80 convictions

00:29:33.080 to forge documents,

00:29:34.480 intimidate Tiffany,

00:29:35.400 and win a $2.3 million

00:29:37.120 settlement from her

00:29:38.280 without her even knowing

00:29:39.480 she had a court date.

00:29:40.800 And disclaimer,

00:29:41.900 we are going to skip over

00:29:42.940 a lot of crimes,

00:29:44.640 a lot of lying on record

00:29:45.820 under oath

00:29:46.360 on the part of Polizzola

00:29:47.500 and Browning Jr.'s lawyers,

00:29:48.860 a lot of heinous stuff

00:29:50.160 right now,

00:29:50.800 because a lot of it

00:29:52.060 is almost unbelievable

00:29:53.380 until you get a better sense

00:29:54.920 of just how far

00:29:55.940 these people

00:29:56.460 are willing to go.

00:29:57.520 And by the end of this story,

00:29:58.900 you'll understand,

00:29:59.940 with documentation,

00:30:01.140 that arbitrators

00:30:02.040 are in no way

00:30:03.120 required to follow the law.

00:30:04.420 That becomes

00:30:05.200 even more problematic

00:30:06.380 when you remember

00:30:07.180 that 94% of the industry

00:30:08.800 is ruled by just

00:30:10.060 the single

00:30:10.680 for-profit company,

00:30:12.160 AAA.

00:30:12.900 So now,

00:30:13.920 we're going to rewind

00:30:14.880 to the beginning

00:30:15.480 of Tiffany's story.

00:30:17.040 Michael Browning Jr.

00:30:18.060 did what he did

00:30:18.840 to leap of faith,

00:30:19.840 to transform urban air 0.89

00:30:21.160 from a s*** trampoline park

00:30:22.600 into a world-class 0.66

00:30:23.620 adventure park.

00:30:24.500 And if you haven't seen

00:30:25.340 our episode about that yet,

00:30:27.020 there's a link in the description.

00:30:28.180 You can go check it out

00:30:28.920 after this video.

00:30:30.480 Now,

00:30:31.380 armed with his new

00:30:32.140 private equity backers,

00:30:33.300 Seidler Equity Partners,

00:30:35.100 Michael Browning Jr.

00:30:35.880 decided to build a platform.

00:30:38.160 Since the private equity model

00:30:39.240 works so well for hospitals,

00:30:41.180 nursing homes,

00:30:42.020 veterinary clinics,

00:30:43.320 why not go after

00:30:44.120 the next most vulnerable population?

00:30:46.460 Children.

00:30:47.780 Why not buy up

00:30:48.980 a family of franchises

00:30:50.340 that offer education

00:30:51.540 and enrichment to children

00:30:52.800 and squeeze them all

00:30:54.200 for all they're worth?

00:30:55.940 What could go wrong?

00:30:57.600 And seeing as COVID

00:30:58.660 had just devastated

00:31:00.200 small businesses

00:31:00.880 all across the country,

00:31:02.220 it was the perfect

00:31:03.120 time to buy

00:31:03.840 and Michael Browning Jr.

00:31:05.360 went on a spending spree.

00:31:06.940 He acquired

00:31:07.440 Premier Martial Arts,

00:31:08.700 a martial arts studio

00:31:09.520 that catered specifically

00:31:10.560 to veterans

00:31:11.120 buying into the franchise,

00:31:12.680 Class 101 College Planning,

00:31:14.300 XP League,

00:31:15.360 Snapology,

00:31:16.200 Water Wing Swim School,

00:31:17.320 Sylvan Learning,

00:31:18.380 that had never fully recovered

00:31:19.920 from a child porn scandal

00:31:21.020 that was successfully

00:31:21.780 kept out of the public eye.

00:31:23.340 Yes,

00:31:23.960 you heard that right.

00:31:25.560 And of course,

00:31:26.900 the little gym.

00:31:28.340 Now,

00:31:29.020 we could write

00:31:29.920 a whole episode

00:31:30.760 about what happened

00:31:31.640 at each of those

00:31:32.280 other businesses.

00:31:33.200 But today,

00:31:33.820 we're going to focus

00:31:34.340 on the little gym

00:31:35.020 because it is the little gym

00:31:36.520 that will be his downfall.

00:31:38.060 And that downfall

00:31:38.700 is happening right now.

00:31:40.240 And it's because

00:31:41.180 of Tiffany Cianci.

00:31:42.900 Tiffany had bought

00:31:43.620 into the franchise

00:31:44.260 in 2017

00:31:45.060 because she wanted

00:31:46.320 to work where she could

00:31:47.240 give back to her community

00:31:48.220 and also spend more time

00:31:49.380 with her kids.

00:31:50.660 The little gym,

00:31:51.700 though open to everyone,

00:31:52.780 is specifically tailored

00:31:54.060 to help special needs kids

00:31:55.880 thrive through movement

00:31:57.020 and music.

00:31:57.780 And Tiffany loved it.

00:31:59.500 Fast forward to COVID

00:32:00.960 and Tiffany suffered 1.00

00:32:01.840 one of the longest

00:32:02.520 government-mandated shutdowns

00:32:03.820 of anywhere

00:32:04.320 in the United States.

00:32:07.000 Fortunately,

00:32:07.900 she had a supportive landlord

00:32:09.000 who told her explicitly

00:32:10.300 not to pay rent

00:32:11.260 while she was closed down.

00:32:13.000 And the little gym,

00:32:14.320 who is not yet owned

00:32:15.120 by Michael Browning,

00:32:16.360 also told franchisees

00:32:17.740 not to pay their dues

00:32:19.060 during the shutdown either.

00:32:20.780 I mention that

00:32:21.600 because it will come back later.

00:32:23.600 In October of 2021,

00:32:25.060 they are told

00:32:25.720 they have some new people

00:32:26.740 coming on

00:32:27.520 to help advise them

00:32:28.600 and they have their

00:32:29.180 first group call

00:32:30.080 with Michael Browning Jr.

00:32:31.940 They're not told

00:32:32.580 that he's buying the company.

00:32:33.740 He's just presented

00:32:34.540 as an advisor

00:32:35.420 and things get pretty weird

00:32:37.340 pretty fast.

00:32:39.520 And I'm committed

00:32:40.760 to casting more vision

00:32:42.320 and working with

00:32:43.540 your fearless leader on this.

00:32:45.240 But this is the direction

00:32:47.100 of the company

00:32:47.760 and we're not changing

00:32:50.380 our direction.

00:32:51.880 And so I'm asking you

00:32:53.560 to join us in this journey.

00:32:54.860 And also,

00:32:56.260 if this journey

00:32:56.780 is not for you,

00:32:57.900 then I'm happy

00:32:58.800 to have my team

00:32:59.980 help you exit the system.

00:33:01.960 But from this day forward,

00:33:04.260 we need unity.

00:33:05.560 And if we find

00:33:06.380 that we have people

00:33:07.140 either trying to create disunity

00:33:08.960 or are not supporting

00:33:10.740 the vision and the mission,

00:33:12.320 we will help you exit.

00:33:14.180 Because we have

00:33:15.420 so many amazing things

00:33:16.760 to accomplish

00:33:17.280 and such an amazing journey ahead

00:33:19.120 that we're just not going

00:33:21.880 to put up with

00:33:23.860 some of the things

00:33:24.780 that we have been

00:33:25.540 putting up with lately,

00:33:26.700 those days are over.

00:33:30.400 Oh, man.

00:33:31.820 Michael Browning Jr.

00:33:32.700 was born for this.

00:33:34.400 But anyways,

00:33:35.460 when it is finally announced

00:33:37.120 that Unleashed Brands,

00:33:38.360 Michael Browning Jr.'s

00:33:39.300 Umbrella Corporation,

00:33:40.420 has bought the little gym,

00:33:42.520 the changes start rolling in fast.

00:33:44.800 And at first,

00:33:45.760 presented as harmless

00:33:46.940 little changes,

00:33:47.860 just standard operating procedure,

00:33:50.240 there are several,

00:33:50.940 but the two we're going

00:33:52.500 to focus on

00:33:53.240 are a new call center

00:33:54.760 they will be all forced

00:33:56.500 to use and pay for

00:33:58.080 and a new ACH agreement.

00:34:00.860 An ACH agreement

00:34:01.600 is basically the contract

00:34:02.800 that governs payments

00:34:03.920 to Michael Browning Jr.

00:34:05.080 It dictates when,

00:34:06.660 how,

00:34:07.060 and why he can take money

00:34:08.400 from these small business owners.

00:34:10.020 It's really important.

00:34:11.580 And traditionally,

00:34:12.360 they pay only 8%

00:34:13.900 of the revenue in royalties.

00:34:15.700 That's it.

00:34:16.940 Having learned his lesson

00:34:17.880 from what he did

00:34:18.420 to Leap of Faith Adventures,

00:34:19.660 though,

00:34:19.880 Michael Browning Jr.

00:34:21.160 knows to play it cool this time.

00:34:23.100 What he doesn't know

00:34:23.940 is that he's messing

00:34:25.140 with the wrong mom. 0.99

00:34:27.000 Tiffany's husband

00:34:27.640 is a federal attorney.

00:34:29.080 And Tiffany's pretty dang sharp too.

00:34:31.100 And they notice immediately

00:34:32.220 that the new contract

00:34:33.200 is a death sentence

00:34:34.200 to their small business.

00:34:35.360 It changes a lot of things.

00:34:37.820 Like this little change

00:34:38.880 that they hope

00:34:39.600 no one would really notice.

00:34:41.040 The simple way to put it

00:34:42.180 is whereas they used to pay

00:34:43.960 only corporate royalties

00:34:45.560 of up to 8%

00:34:46.440 of the revenue,

00:34:47.120 this new contract

00:34:48.720 would allow Michael Browning Jr.

00:34:50.340 to add any fees

00:34:51.500 he dreamed up

00:34:52.340 and the contract

00:34:53.260 would become subject

00:34:54.140 to change.

00:34:55.560 Plus,

00:34:56.000 as you can see

00:34:56.780 near the bottom,

00:34:57.740 if you try to get out

00:34:58.620 of the contract

00:34:59.140 in the future,

00:35:00.060 they'll kick you out

00:35:00.820 and take your gym.

00:35:02.060 All sounds a lot like

00:35:03.200 what happened

00:35:03.640 with Garth Price

00:35:04.400 and Leap of Faith's

00:35:05.300 agreement with Urban Air.

00:35:07.060 This was made doubly sketchy

00:35:08.780 by, among other bad ideas,

00:35:10.700 the call center

00:35:11.420 that Michael Browning Jr.

00:35:12.460 wanted them all

00:35:13.140 to sign up for

00:35:13.860 and pay to build

00:35:14.900 and to staff.

00:35:16.340 Because you see,

00:35:17.060 if you're a parent

00:35:17.920 and you signed

00:35:18.840 your special needs toddler

00:35:20.100 up for toddler gymnastics,

00:35:21.720 you would probably

00:35:22.500 have to call that gym

00:35:23.540 from time to time

00:35:24.420 with questions

00:35:25.320 about, I don't know,

00:35:26.480 the schedule,

00:35:27.480 the curriculum,

00:35:28.620 the incident involving

00:35:29.560 your child yesterday,

00:35:30.980 all kinds of stuff.

00:35:32.360 It should seem obvious

00:35:33.460 that if an underpaid teenager

00:35:35.120 in a call center

00:35:36.220 four states away

00:35:37.440 picked up the phone

00:35:38.440 when you called,

00:35:39.520 that would be problematic

00:35:40.380 to say the least.

00:35:42.060 But despite all

00:35:42.940 the franchisees'

00:35:43.980 loud protests,

00:35:45.280 Michael Browning Jr.

00:35:46.160 insisted on this call center.

00:35:48.000 And quickly,

00:35:48.780 the warm suggestion

00:35:49.960 of the call center

00:35:51.040 turned into what sounded

00:35:52.320 an awful lot more

00:35:53.540 like threats

00:35:54.660 and coercions.

00:35:56.440 Strangely,

00:35:57.420 the contract

00:35:57.920 for the call center

00:35:58.780 contained a hidden clause

00:36:00.120 that said it superseded

00:36:01.760 their franchise agreement.

00:36:03.260 So now,

00:36:03.960 both the new ACH agreement

00:36:05.660 and this GLT agreement

00:36:07.900 are both subject to change,

00:36:10.300 and yet somehow,

00:36:11.260 they will also supersede

00:36:13.460 your franchise agreement,

00:36:15.280 which is the basis

00:36:16.320 of your entire contract

00:36:17.620 with the parent company.

00:36:19.220 That's an agreement

00:36:19.960 that you negotiate

00:36:20.880 for months

00:36:21.620 with your lawyers present.

00:36:23.460 These are documents

00:36:24.420 that these franchisees

00:36:25.760 were being pressured

00:36:26.420 to sign on the spot

00:36:27.720 on Zoom calls

00:36:28.600 under threat and coercion.

00:36:30.480 So Tiffany immediately knew

00:36:32.140 that this was wrong,

00:36:33.100 and after the first four franchisees

00:36:34.760 had been coerced

00:36:35.560 into signing it under duress,

00:36:37.140 she organized

00:36:37.860 all of the franchisees

00:36:38.940 to stand up to Michael Browning

00:36:40.340 and refused to sign it.

00:36:42.120 And she got the first four signatures

00:36:43.620 vacated,

00:36:44.580 i.e. canceled,

00:36:45.680 because they had been signed

00:36:46.860 under duress.

00:36:47.800 This document

00:36:48.540 became the battle line.

00:36:50.240 And then strangely,

00:36:51.560 all the little gym owners

00:36:52.700 started receiving

00:36:53.540 a ton of calls

00:36:54.540 at odd hours

00:36:55.500 over spring break

00:36:56.440 from unleashed brands.

00:36:58.500 The calls seemed random

00:36:59.680 and tended to be during times

00:37:01.220 when they were closed,

00:37:02.380 and when asked,

00:37:03.540 the callers said

00:37:04.280 they were

00:37:04.700 just testing the phone lines.

00:37:07.420 Tiffany smelled

00:37:08.100 what was really going on,

00:37:09.220 though,

00:37:09.380 and she called it out

00:37:10.400 in this phone call.

00:37:11.880 Happy handstands

00:37:12.620 that you were cutting

00:37:13.040 a little, Jim.

00:37:13.580 How may I assist you?

00:37:15.220 Hello, this is Hannah

00:37:16.180 with Unleashed Brands.

00:37:17.020 I'm just calling

00:37:17.620 to test the phone lines.

00:37:18.660 Hope you have a wonderful night.

00:37:19.560 Hannah?

00:37:20.400 Hannah,

00:37:21.100 please don't hang out.

00:37:22.780 Sure.

00:37:23.420 You're calling over and over again

00:37:24.760 to test my phone lines,

00:37:25.980 but I've never had a problem

00:37:26.820 with my phone ever.

00:37:27.640 Why are you really calling?

00:37:28.700 Are you testing us

00:37:29.580 or are you testing phone lines?

00:37:30.760 With that,

00:37:34.300 I am literally

00:37:36.420 just giving this

00:37:37.340 as a project.

00:37:38.360 I don't know.

00:37:41.120 I mean,

00:37:41.360 I'm just going to...

00:37:41.780 But why would you call over...

00:37:43.180 I mean,

00:37:43.380 first of all,

00:37:43.760 we're supposed to be

00:37:44.220 closed right now.

00:37:44.900 We're not even supposed

00:37:45.420 to be open.

00:37:46.380 Why would you call

00:37:46.980 after working hours?

00:37:49.800 Like,

00:37:50.220 are you at least

00:37:50.680 checking people's hours

00:37:51.600 and you're calling

00:37:52.160 to test if we're

00:37:53.080 answering the phone?

00:37:55.180 Because we're on spring break.

00:37:56.340 We're not even open

00:37:56.940 this week.

00:37:57.480 I just happen to be

00:37:58.320 here working.

00:37:59.200 My kids are here playing.

00:38:01.060 But most gyms

00:38:01.940 are closed this week

00:38:02.900 for spring break.

00:38:04.060 We all follow

00:38:04.760 school district schedules.

00:38:06.960 Okay.

00:38:07.520 So, like,

00:38:07.820 I'm hoping you guys

00:38:09.000 are at least looking

00:38:09.720 to see your calling

00:38:10.560 when we're actually

00:38:11.220 supposed to be here.

00:38:13.560 Okay.

00:38:13.960 Because I'm sure

00:38:14.480 this is all doing

00:38:15.420 a great thing for them.

00:38:16.580 I'm sure they're trying

00:38:17.360 to stack the deck

00:38:18.140 so they can force us

00:38:18.920 to take the call center.

00:38:20.240 But none of us want it.

00:38:21.360 We like talking

00:38:21.940 to our customers.

00:38:24.640 Like, 1.00

00:38:24.960 this sucks. 1.00

00:38:26.380 It sucks. 1.00

00:38:26.840 You guys are doing 0.99

00:38:27.400 feels shady. 1.00

00:38:28.080 It sucks. 0.97

00:38:28.480 I know that's not your fault. 0.99

00:38:29.680 It's got nothing

00:38:30.080 to do with you,

00:38:30.560 I'm sure.

00:38:31.940 But it's creating

00:38:32.800 so much hostility

00:38:33.820 in the ownership community.

00:38:36.540 You'll notice

00:38:37.240 in this case

00:38:37.900 that there is

00:38:38.960 so much evidence

00:38:40.040 that we have attained

00:38:41.320 because Tiffany Sianci

00:38:42.800 collected so much evidence.

00:38:44.180 And that's because

00:38:44.860 she expected

00:38:45.880 that she might have

00:38:46.660 to go to court

00:38:47.180 over this.

00:38:48.060 But I just want you

00:38:49.240 to remember

00:38:49.640 throughout all

00:38:50.320 of this presentation

00:38:50.920 that almost all

00:38:52.500 of this evidence

00:38:53.060 was never admitted

00:38:54.060 because she wasn't

00:38:54.960 in court.

00:38:55.780 She was in secret

00:38:56.580 arbitration

00:38:57.200 where the arbitrator

00:38:58.140 can decide

00:38:58.800 if he wants

00:38:59.460 to hear your evidence

00:39:00.480 or not.

00:39:01.460 So just keep that

00:39:02.380 in mind.

00:39:03.540 But anyways,

00:39:04.580 seeing what Michael

00:39:05.260 Browning Jr.

00:39:05.840 was up to,

00:39:06.860 Tiffany organized

00:39:07.520 a franchisee association,

00:39:09.480 like a union,

00:39:10.540 so they could all

00:39:11.240 bargain together

00:39:11.840 with Unleashed Brands.

00:39:13.040 And at this point,

00:39:13.880 they were naively

00:39:14.500 thinking that they

00:39:15.300 could negotiate

00:39:15.900 a compromise

00:39:16.460 and everything

00:39:17.040 could turn out

00:39:17.700 all right.

00:39:18.620 But in the meantime,

00:39:20.160 those who had signed

00:39:21.140 the new ACH contract

00:39:22.500 got a surprise.

00:39:23.960 Suddenly,

00:39:24.540 in November of 2021,

00:39:26.120 they added tech fees

00:39:27.720 to be paid

00:39:28.540 to Unleashed Brands.

00:39:29.720 Then,

00:39:30.240 in March of 2022,

00:39:31.760 it was royalty fees

00:39:33.100 and ad fees as well.

00:39:35.440 May,

00:39:35.960 it became royalty fees,

00:39:37.280 marketing fees,

00:39:38.160 tech fees,

00:39:38.700 and oh yeah,

00:39:39.560 maybe also

00:39:40.160 conference fees

00:39:41.300 and some unspecified

00:39:42.640 one-time charges.

00:39:44.420 No big deal.

00:39:45.880 This is the new

00:39:46.680 private equity model.

00:39:47.960 You make money

00:39:48.480 off of exploiting

00:39:49.380 your franchisee

00:39:50.220 small business owners,

00:39:51.300 not off of helping

00:39:52.460 them run

00:39:52.860 successful businesses.

00:39:54.600 Meanwhile,

00:39:55.460 the franchisees

00:39:56.340 who had been tricked

00:39:56.980 into signing

00:39:57.440 the call center agreement

00:39:58.480 were hit with a bill

00:39:59.540 to build the thing

00:40:00.400 and pay to staff

00:40:01.280 it themselves.

00:40:02.560 The franchisees

00:40:03.680 started to get the picture

00:40:04.880 and as Tiffany

00:40:05.820 started organizing them

00:40:06.960 and hiring a lawyer

00:40:07.720 to bargain against

00:40:08.440 Unleashed Brands,

00:40:09.580 she was fired.

00:40:10.720 In order to fire her, 0.96

00:40:12.000 they had to fabricate

00:40:12.980 complex reasons

00:40:14.100 that had to do

00:40:14.780 with payment defaults

00:40:16.060 during COVID

00:40:16.620 because she had

00:40:17.800 near 100%

00:40:19.160 customer ratings

00:40:19.840 by basically all metrics.

00:40:21.480 But seeing as her

00:40:23.200 husband is a patent

00:40:23.940 and trademark attorney,

00:40:25.200 as soon as they

00:40:25.780 fired her, 0.98

00:40:26.640 she knew to take down 0.98

00:40:27.740 all of her

00:40:28.440 Little Jim branding

00:40:29.220 immediately.

00:40:30.800 So they couldn't get her

00:40:31.900 for trademark violations

00:40:32.980 or anything else.

00:40:34.300 And she attempted

00:40:34.920 to file an injunction

00:40:35.840 against Unleashed Brands,

00:40:37.140 but she was double-crossed

00:40:38.280 by her lawyer

00:40:38.820 in a way that would

00:40:39.620 need its own

00:40:40.360 whole episode

00:40:41.040 and we'll probably

00:40:41.880 do that episode

00:40:42.540 at some point later.

00:40:44.420 But Norman Leon,

00:40:45.660 one of Unleashed's

00:40:46.640 attorneys,

00:40:47.540 jumped in

00:40:48.060 and said,

00:40:48.500 wait, wait, wait, wait,

00:40:49.100 don't take your

00:40:50.260 trademark branding

00:40:51.120 down yet.

00:40:52.140 Let's mediate

00:40:52.840 and resolve this.

00:40:53.900 No need to

00:40:54.500 startle your customers.

00:40:55.760 Surely we can come

00:40:56.800 to a resolution here.

00:40:59.000 Worth noting

00:40:59.600 that at this time,

00:41:01.040 Tiffany had a broken 0.68

00:41:02.020 ankle and foot

00:41:02.980 and was in a boot

00:41:03.960 with crutches.

00:41:05.280 She had broken her foot,

00:41:06.440 saving an autistic kid

00:41:07.620 from falling off

00:41:08.420 a balance beam.

00:41:09.020 That is a true story.

00:41:10.620 So anyways,

00:41:11.940 Tiffany put back

00:41:12.680 up her branding

00:41:13.280 and then Norman Leon,

00:41:15.200 as soon as she did,

00:41:16.940 sent private investigators

00:41:18.140 undercover to her gym

00:41:19.720 to take photos of it

00:41:21.080 with Little Jim Branding up

00:41:22.420 later to be used in court

00:41:23.840 to claim that she'd 0.82

00:41:24.720 violated their trademarks.

00:41:26.040 You can see here,

00:41:27.300 quote,

00:41:27.980 but despite this affirmation,

00:41:29.720 secret shopper visits

00:41:30.640 on June 23rd,

00:41:31.740 June 24th,

00:41:32.480 and June 27th

00:41:33.340 confirmed that defendants

00:41:34.820 continued to operate

00:41:35.940 da da da da da da da da.

00:41:37.600 And there's some photos

00:41:38.480 that those private

00:41:39.320 investigators took.

00:41:41.020 In July of 2022,

00:41:42.700 Unleashed filed

00:41:43.320 for a permanent injunction

00:41:44.440 against Tiffany

00:41:45.220 in open court.

00:41:46.080 They lost every single

00:41:48.440 motion in this case

00:41:49.520 over the course of months.

00:41:51.840 Then,

00:41:52.660 right before the final ruling,

00:41:54.140 which Unleashed Brands

00:41:55.020 was going to lose,

00:41:56.680 they moved to dismiss

00:41:57.860 the case

00:41:58.700 that they had brought.

00:42:00.600 Tiffany knew

00:42:01.080 what that meant.

00:42:02.180 It meant they were going

00:42:03.160 to then take it

00:42:03.940 into arbitration

00:42:04.860 where they could shop

00:42:05.900 for a friendly arbitrator

00:42:07.040 that would rule

00:42:07.780 in their favor,

00:42:08.540 and she objected 0.87

00:42:09.400 to dismissing it.

00:42:10.800 Michael Browning Jr.

00:42:11.600 and his lawyers

00:42:12.220 had had the benefit

00:42:13.360 of a long court case's

00:42:14.900 worth of discovery,

00:42:16.080 which is way more robust

00:42:17.540 in open court

00:42:18.740 than it is in arbitration.

00:42:20.460 They had bled her 0.99

00:42:21.080 of approximately $80,000,

00:42:22.980 and they successfully

00:42:24.040 got the case

00:42:24.760 that they had brought

00:42:25.900 and were losing

00:42:26.980 dismissed.

00:42:28.040 All that money

00:42:28.720 that Tiffany had spent

00:42:29.580 went down the drain

00:42:30.560 for nothing.

00:42:31.640 And then,

00:42:32.480 what did they do?

00:42:33.640 They took it

00:42:34.340 to arbitration,

00:42:35.360 where the arbitrator

00:42:36.140 admitted all their evidence

00:42:37.320 and largely didn't

00:42:38.340 even allow Tiffany

00:42:39.040 to bring her evidence

00:42:39.940 that they were lying.

00:42:41.220 Yes,

00:42:41.540 you are hearing that right.

00:42:42.620 Many, many times

00:42:44.400 throughout her arbitrations,

00:42:45.920 unleashed lawyers

00:42:46.520 would lie on the stand

00:42:47.520 and Tiffany would have

00:42:48.700 clear documentation

00:42:49.620 in her hands

00:42:50.820 that would clearly show

00:42:52.260 that they are lying

00:42:53.140 and the arbitrator

00:42:54.180 would not permit her

00:42:54.980 to show that evidence.

00:42:56.300 That was already there

00:42:57.520 in the courtroom

00:42:58.520 in her hands.

00:42:59.920 Some of that evidence

00:43:00.780 is what we are referring to

00:43:01.960 has been shown

00:43:02.720 in this video,

00:43:03.560 but so much more

00:43:04.640 of the details

00:43:05.140 we've had to skip over.

00:43:06.720 We already showed you

00:43:07.900 how much Tiffany

00:43:08.660 was paying for her arbitrator

00:43:10.020 per hour

00:43:10.680 for the privilege

00:43:11.420 of not having

00:43:12.340 her constitutional right

00:43:13.460 to a fair trial.

00:43:15.000 When they brought it

00:43:15.500 to arbitration,

00:43:16.260 they added a litany

00:43:17.220 of new charges

00:43:17.880 against Tiffany

00:43:18.460 and they started

00:43:19.240 the monetary draining process

00:43:20.920 all over again.

00:43:22.680 This has become something

00:43:23.460 of a strategy

00:43:24.120 for Unleashed Brands.

00:43:25.640 They did the same thing

00:43:26.680 to the family

00:43:27.300 of a toddler

00:43:27.900 who was scalped

00:43:28.960 in an accident

00:43:29.720 at one of their parks.

00:43:31.180 They litigated

00:43:31.900 in open court

00:43:32.700 for 465 days

00:43:34.580 before trying

00:43:35.600 to dismiss the case

00:43:36.580 and flush all that money

00:43:37.960 down the drain

00:43:38.760 in order to open a case

00:43:40.120 in arbitration

00:43:40.820 against them.

00:43:41.520 However,

00:43:41.880 fortunately,

00:43:42.820 that boy's family

00:43:43.920 appealed it

00:43:44.680 up to the Superior Court

00:43:46.040 which eventually held

00:43:47.320 that the case

00:43:47.820 had to stay

00:43:48.480 in open court.

00:43:50.040 Anyways,

00:43:51.360 Tiffany's arbitration

00:43:52.280 lasted over a year.

00:43:53.920 It cost her anywhere

00:43:54.580 from $500,000

00:43:55.360 to $600,000.

00:43:56.760 They brought 11 claims

00:43:58.080 against her.

00:43:58.880 Most were ultimately dismissed.

00:44:00.660 Tiffany won

00:44:01.340 on defamation

00:44:02.060 that Unleashed

00:44:02.700 had defamed her

00:44:03.580 because they claimed

00:44:04.400 she was calling

00:44:05.180 her customers 0.99

00:44:05.900 C-words 0.90

00:44:06.800 and B-words

00:44:07.600 to their faces. 0.74

00:44:08.760 This one's a crazy

00:44:09.700 rabbit hole real quick.

00:44:11.360 The evidence

00:44:11.820 they produced

00:44:12.440 was a photo

00:44:13.280 taken by one

00:44:13.940 of Tiffany's

00:44:14.440 former employees

00:44:15.300 of an online comment

00:44:17.260 which they alleged

00:44:18.560 showed Tiffany

00:44:19.280 saying these things

00:44:20.520 to her customers.

00:44:22.840 Apparently,

00:44:23.700 Tiffany had left

00:44:24.280 her Facebook open

00:44:25.260 at the gym

00:44:26.100 on a day

00:44:26.560 when no one else

00:44:27.200 was in the building

00:44:27.860 and this employee

00:44:28.620 just happened to see it.

00:44:30.340 Forget the fact

00:44:31.000 that Tiffany

00:44:32.020 had been paying

00:44:32.760 that girl's phone bills 1.00

00:44:33.760 since COVID

00:44:34.380 out of the goodness

00:44:35.100 of her heart

00:44:35.740 and had her whole

00:44:37.040 iCloud backed up

00:44:38.080 Tiffany's phones

00:44:38.980 showing that she

00:44:40.520 was off at college

00:44:41.360 that week

00:44:41.860 taking photos

00:44:42.780 with her friends

00:44:43.620 or the fact

00:44:44.880 that she had

00:44:45.420 the work schedule

00:44:46.160 of the girl

00:44:47.080 showing that she

00:44:47.920 was not scheduled

00:44:48.580 that week

00:44:49.080 or the photos

00:44:50.120 she had of herself

00:44:51.220 in the gym

00:44:51.960 that day

00:44:52.460 playing with kids

00:44:53.500 or the text messages

00:44:55.140 from that employee

00:44:56.160 saying she had finals

00:44:57.200 that week

00:44:57.680 and needed the whole

00:44:58.620 week off.

00:44:59.640 Long story short,

00:45:00.940 it was a doctored photo

00:45:02.500 of a made-up

00:45:03.160 message thread

00:45:04.020 or comment

00:45:04.980 and the former

00:45:06.260 employee

00:45:06.800 seemed to get

00:45:07.560 a new car

00:45:08.160 and cash infusion

00:45:09.160 into her life

00:45:09.920 right after she testified.

00:45:12.020 Who knows where

00:45:12.860 it came from

00:45:13.480 but that's the sort

00:45:15.000 of conduct

00:45:15.520 that permeated

00:45:16.440 the case.

00:45:17.700 Fortunately,

00:45:18.640 the arbitrator

00:45:19.120 had no choice

00:45:19.940 but to rule

00:45:20.480 in Tiffany's favor

00:45:21.220 on that defamation.

00:45:23.160 Unleashed Brands

00:45:23.920 won on the breach

00:45:24.700 of contract.

00:45:25.480 They claimed that

00:45:26.040 Tiffany had breached

00:45:26.780 her contract

00:45:27.460 years ago

00:45:28.340 when she hadn't

00:45:28.940 paid royalties

00:45:29.580 way back during COVID

00:45:30.620 despite the fact

00:45:31.840 that she had been told

00:45:32.720 at the time

00:45:33.260 not to.

00:45:33.780 When Michael Browning

00:45:35.080 had bought the company,

00:45:36.260 they had tried to coerce

00:45:37.160 her into signing

00:45:37.660 this new ACH contract

00:45:38.960 by holding these

00:45:40.100 back fees over her head

00:45:41.500 and saying they would

00:45:42.480 offer her a payment plan

00:45:43.480 only if she signed it.

00:45:45.620 Instead,

00:45:46.380 she took out a huge loan

00:45:47.460 on her house

00:45:48.140 and paid them all

00:45:49.040 down at once.

00:45:50.100 You can see in the

00:45:50.680 bottom right corner

00:45:51.360 the total amount

00:45:52.200 paid is $30,160.05.

00:45:55.380 But somehow,

00:45:56.660 the arbitrator still ruled

00:45:57.860 nearly a year after

00:45:58.920 she had paid them

00:45:59.700 and Unleashed Brands

00:46:00.600 had accepted that payment

00:46:01.660 that this was a breach

00:46:02.740 of contract

00:46:03.420 and grounds

00:46:03.900 to fire her over 0.96

00:46:04.820 even though at the time

00:46:06.160 many other franchisees

00:46:07.900 were still paying

00:46:08.760 those same fees off.

00:46:10.600 Tiffany was the only

00:46:11.400 franchisee ever punished

00:46:12.940 for not paying royalties

00:46:13.900 during COVID

00:46:14.420 when they had all

00:46:15.520 been told not to.

00:46:16.920 And in order to win

00:46:18.020 legal fees from Tiffany,

00:46:19.440 the rules stated

00:46:20.360 that Unleashed

00:46:21.020 had to win

00:46:21.640 one more count

00:46:23.120 than her.

00:46:24.260 So,

00:46:24.900 they needed another win

00:46:26.320 and the arbitrator

00:46:27.560 miraculously ruled

00:46:29.180 in favor of Unleashed

00:46:29.960 Brands over trade dress 1.00

00:46:31.540 meaning that Tiffany's

00:46:32.880 new gym

00:46:33.320 looked too much

00:46:34.300 like a little gym

00:46:35.380 but there's some

00:46:36.300 important context here

00:46:37.400 briefly.

00:46:38.720 Tiffany's husband

00:46:39.480 specializes in patent

00:46:41.240 and trademark.

00:46:42.220 The law is very specific.

00:46:44.280 You have to file

00:46:45.020 specifically for

00:46:46.300 trade dress protection

00:46:47.580 if you want to be able

00:46:48.820 to bring this claim

00:46:49.780 against someone

00:46:50.480 and the little gym

00:46:51.500 has never filed

00:46:52.620 for trade dress protection.

00:46:53.940 Furthermore,

00:46:55.200 it's extremely difficult

00:46:56.600 to get trade dress protection

00:46:58.220 because it's designed

00:46:59.220 to protect

00:47:00.160 very specific

00:47:01.300 like packaging trademarks

00:47:03.240 or the entire branding

00:47:05.360 of a business

00:47:06.100 that sells a service.

00:47:07.160 It's very technical

00:47:08.200 and very specific

00:47:09.120 and you have to have

00:47:09.880 filed for it

00:47:10.520 which they never had.

00:47:12.280 And again,

00:47:13.060 I remind you

00:47:13.840 that arbitrators

00:47:14.920 are not required

00:47:16.020 to follow the law.

00:47:17.560 Ruling for Unleashed

00:47:18.260 Brands in trade dress 1.00

00:47:19.140 violation that they

00:47:20.120 didn't have protection for

00:47:21.300 would be like

00:47:22.080 Microsoft suing you

00:47:23.460 for using an Android phone.

00:47:25.040 It's nonsensical.

00:47:26.120 There's not even

00:47:26.880 a frame of reference

00:47:27.820 and it sounds impossible

00:47:29.160 but Unleashed Brands

00:47:31.020 was just getting warmed up

00:47:32.600 because during the arbitration

00:47:34.520 that lasted over a year,

00:47:36.540 Tiffany started talking 0.95

00:47:37.440 to the press.

00:47:38.660 An article came out

00:47:39.480 in the Washingtonian,

00:47:40.740 the Franchise Times,

00:47:41.740 and the New York Times

00:47:42.580 ran a Sunday cover story

00:47:44.040 on her.

00:47:44.880 And oh boy,

00:47:46.140 did that make

00:47:46.780 Michael Browning Jr.

00:47:48.360 big mad.

00:47:49.780 That's where we wound up

00:47:51.140 with this whole email chain

00:47:52.760 where Unleashed lawyers

00:47:53.960 coerced Tiffany 0.82

00:47:54.940 into having an abortion

00:47:55.900 under threat of lawfare.

00:47:57.720 And we won't go into all of it

00:47:59.060 but today,

00:47:59.740 let's just zoom in

00:48:00.620 on one or two emails

00:48:02.260 from Laura Sixkiller,

00:48:03.640 Michael Browning Jr.'s lawyer,

00:48:05.180 and see what she had to say.

00:48:07.340 Quote,

00:48:07.660 We respectfully ask

00:48:09.860 that we see all available dates

00:48:11.840 for the procedures

00:48:12.800 abortions

00:48:14.080 so that we can be assured

00:48:15.840 that they have selected

00:48:17.020 the earliest date feasible.

00:48:19.120 This procedure

00:48:19.680 has been being discussed

00:48:20.980 with Mrs. Yancey

00:48:21.960 since January 5th,

00:48:23.200 25 days ago.

00:48:24.500 If it can be scheduled

00:48:25.280 this week,

00:48:25.820 it should be.

00:48:26.760 Given she had her

00:48:27.560 deposition scheduled,

00:48:28.800 she should have

00:48:29.280 a clear calendar.

00:48:33.040 I'm not going to read

00:48:34.280 the whole text

00:48:35.060 up top of this email.

00:48:36.040 You can if you want,

00:48:37.160 but I want to draw

00:48:37.800 your attention to the note

00:48:39.000 in red at the bottom.

00:48:40.180 That's not in the original email.

00:48:41.540 It's a note added

00:48:42.500 from Tiffany

00:48:43.080 onto this email

00:48:44.360 to give some context here.

00:48:46.080 So,

00:48:46.500 in Tiffany's words,

00:48:47.700 quote,

00:48:48.740 Laura Sixkiller stated

00:48:49.980 that if I failed

00:48:50.920 to continue producing

00:48:51.780 by end of day

00:48:52.560 or if I failed

00:48:53.660 to schedule the abortion

00:48:54.520 procedure by end of day,

00:48:55.980 she would file

00:48:56.560 a sanctions motion.

00:48:58.340 These motions cost

00:48:59.220 more than $10,000

00:49:00.260 to defend

00:49:01.040 and a loss on one

00:49:02.360 can result in tens

00:49:03.340 of thousands

00:49:03.820 in legal penalties.

00:49:05.080 We were out of money

00:49:05.960 and we had stated so

00:49:07.240 because I had been

00:49:08.380 out of work all month.

00:49:10.420 Laura Sixkiller,

00:49:11.440 Michael Browning's attorney,

00:49:12.620 repeatedly asked Tiffany

00:49:13.800 to produce financial documents

00:49:15.180 that she knew

00:49:16.100 only Tiffany could acquire 1.00

00:49:17.360 while she was losing her baby.

00:49:19.380 This forced Tiffany

00:49:20.200 to get up out of bed

00:49:21.600 while bleeding

00:49:22.220 and drive to the bank,

00:49:23.540 which she did.

00:49:24.560 This is how we wind up

00:49:25.560 with footage

00:49:26.120 from Tiffany's deposition.

00:49:27.680 Weeks after an abortion

00:49:28.840 she didn't want 1.00

00:49:29.760 in which her body

00:49:30.520 reacted badly

00:49:31.440 and she suffered

00:49:32.120 a rare complication

00:49:33.300 which caused her body 1.00

00:49:34.560 to stay in labor

00:49:35.400 for weeks

00:49:36.120 after the procedure.

00:49:37.500 She was still in labor 0.98

00:49:38.560 and having contractions

00:49:39.740 while on the stand

00:49:41.060 and testifying

00:49:41.920 in this clip.

00:49:43.220 You thought

00:49:44.060 that me bleeding

00:49:44.940 baseball-sized,

00:49:46.900 baseball-sized blood clots

00:49:48.820 and having contractions

00:49:50.180 two minutes apart

00:49:51.100 wouldn't be too stressful

00:49:52.680 for me in that state

00:49:54.380 and you thought

00:49:55.080 I should be deposed

00:49:55.900 for 18 hours.

00:49:56.740 And that pretty much

00:49:59.700 brings us up

00:50:00.420 to where they hired

00:50:01.440 a felon

00:50:01.940 who is currently

00:50:03.100 out on parole

00:50:04.040 and AWOL

00:50:05.280 to forge documents

00:50:06.680 or at least

00:50:07.720 to allegedly

00:50:09.400 forge documents.

00:50:10.740 Although

00:50:11.300 we are skipping the part

00:50:12.700 where Michael Browning Jr.

00:50:14.100 tried to send Tiffany

00:50:14.980 and her husband

00:50:15.720 both to prison

00:50:16.700 because she was volunteering

00:50:17.860 to teach kids music classes

00:50:19.300 during all this

00:50:20.060 and he had a

00:50:21.060 non-compete agreement

00:50:22.040 saying she wasn't

00:50:23.320 allowed to work

00:50:23.960 in toddler gyms

00:50:24.780 for two years.

00:50:25.840 Yes,

00:50:26.140 Michael Browning Jr.

00:50:27.540 wanted to send

00:50:28.060 a mom and dad

00:50:28.980 with young children

00:50:30.140 both to prison

00:50:31.240 for the crime

00:50:32.160 of volunteering

00:50:32.880 to teach kids

00:50:33.620 music classes.

00:50:34.840 And yes,

00:50:35.380 I said her husband too

00:50:36.920 because as they argued

00:50:38.920 he failed to control

00:50:40.860 his wife

00:50:41.580 and so he was also guilty.

00:50:44.000 This charge was obviously

00:50:45.120 an empty threat.

00:50:46.120 A judge would have to be 1.00

00:50:47.200 as brain dead 1.00

00:50:47.960 and evil 0.99

00:50:48.540 as Michael Browning Jr.

00:50:49.700 to grant such a charge

00:50:50.620 but they tried.

00:50:52.220 But anyways,

00:50:53.420 at the end

00:50:54.020 when the arbitration

00:50:54.940 was finished

00:50:55.440 there is a short

00:50:56.480 waiting period

00:50:57.080 before it's affirmed

00:50:58.060 in court

00:50:58.480 and it becomes

00:50:59.480 a mandate

00:51:00.020 by law

00:51:00.780 and the parties

00:51:01.700 of the arbitration

00:51:02.360 have to abide

00:51:03.000 by that ruling

00:51:03.720 after that.

00:51:05.200 Michael Browning Jr.

00:51:06.220 didn't want

00:51:06.780 any chance

00:51:07.680 of Tiffany appealing

00:51:08.680 or challenging

00:51:09.480 the ruling.

00:51:10.580 So,

00:51:11.560 just by coincidence

00:51:12.980 they happened

00:51:14.200 to hire

00:51:14.740 the only process

00:51:16.020 server in the state

00:51:17.140 with over 80

00:51:18.380 prior convictions

00:51:19.460 the vast majority

00:51:20.680 of which

00:51:21.160 were for fraud

00:51:22.300 and forging documents.

00:51:24.020 I'm not kidding.

00:51:25.620 This is his rap sheet.

00:51:27.440 Oh yeah,

00:51:28.280 he also had one prior

00:51:29.540 for animal abuse,

00:51:30.960 a few for evading

00:51:31.720 police custody,

00:51:32.840 lying to police,

00:51:33.840 using forgery

00:51:34.580 and furtherance

00:51:35.160 of other crimes.

00:51:36.180 While we were digging

00:51:37.160 around to film

00:51:38.100 this episode,

00:51:38.800 we even found

00:51:39.440 a video on YouTube

00:51:40.480 about Joe Horton

00:51:41.980 that was just

00:51:43.020 too funny.

00:51:44.220 Check this out.

00:51:45.360 Frank McGrath

00:51:46.160 has spent more

00:51:46.760 than a decade

00:51:47.360 building his business.

00:51:48.980 His Pop-A-Lock franchise

00:51:50.280 has won awards

00:51:51.300 for customer service.

00:51:52.440 So to see someone

00:51:53.560 messing with his reputation

00:51:54.920 is very tough to take.

00:51:56.800 After everything

00:51:57.500 we've built here

00:51:58.240 over the years

00:51:58.980 and to have someone

00:52:00.300 just discredit the name

00:52:01.480 is just atrocious.

00:52:03.020 But that someone

00:52:03.820 is no stranger.

00:52:05.260 Mr. Horton,

00:52:05.760 haven't you learned

00:52:06.260 your lesson?

00:52:06.760 You've already been

00:52:07.260 to court for this.

00:52:08.420 It's Joe Horton,

00:52:09.560 a Pasadena locksmith

00:52:10.620 we've been monitoring

00:52:11.520 for months.

00:52:12.500 The Attorney General

00:52:13.440 knows him well,

00:52:14.300 charging him

00:52:14.840 with overcharging customers.

00:52:16.600 But Frank knows Joe too.

00:52:18.340 He says he trained Horton

00:52:19.420 on how to be a locksmith.

00:52:20.900 It would be nice

00:52:21.600 to say that we never

00:52:22.400 hired him

00:52:22.940 and never met him.

00:52:23.840 But unfortunately

00:52:25.140 that's not the circumstance.

00:52:26.480 McGrath says Horton

00:52:27.320 worked for him

00:52:28.060 for two years

00:52:28.740 between 2004 and 2006.

00:52:31.560 He eventually quit

00:52:32.420 after Frank says

00:52:33.300 he called Joe out

00:52:34.240 for jacking up

00:52:35.020 prices against policy.

00:52:36.740 Horton moved out of state

00:52:37.960 and went off their radar

00:52:39.040 for a couple of years.

00:52:40.400 But when he returned

00:52:41.340 and opened his own

00:52:42.380 locksmith business,

00:52:43.660 the McGraths were shocked

00:52:44.740 when complaints

00:52:45.420 started rolling

00:52:46.080 into their office.

00:52:47.420 I started getting

00:52:48.200 calls on this.

00:52:49.300 They got calls

00:52:50.180 because Horton

00:52:50.860 is now tied

00:52:51.680 to McGrath's business

00:52:52.640 through the internet.

00:52:53.860 If you Google

00:52:54.520 Pasadena and locksmith,

00:52:56.320 Pop-A-Lock comes up,

00:52:57.640 but it's Horton's

00:52:58.560 phone number.

00:53:01.140 Roe literally stole

00:53:02.300 the identity

00:53:02.940 of a locksmithing company

00:53:04.200 and then used it

00:53:05.340 to defraud

00:53:06.040 a bunch of people.

00:53:07.820 Wow.

00:53:09.300 Anyways,

00:53:10.540 here are three examples

00:53:11.840 of forged documents

00:53:12.960 certifying

00:53:13.780 that he had served

00:53:15.060 documents to

00:53:15.800 Tiffany Cianci

00:53:16.520 and her husband

00:53:17.300 when he hadn't.

00:53:19.080 In some cases,

00:53:20.040 where he would later

00:53:20.680 describe talking to her

00:53:21.740 on her front porch

00:53:22.800 when she was

00:53:23.580 clocked in at work

00:53:24.540 at the time.

00:53:25.720 And here are letters

00:53:26.620 mailed to the

00:53:27.560 incorrect address

00:53:28.700 so that,

00:53:29.560 just by chance,

00:53:30.760 Tiffany would not know

00:53:31.660 she needed to appear

00:53:32.420 in court

00:53:32.840 to defend herself 0.88

00:53:33.860 at the most critical

00:53:34.680 part in the trial

00:53:35.620 when it is ruled on

00:53:36.840 in court.

00:53:37.860 It's just a coincidence

00:53:39.040 that this is the guy

00:53:40.460 that they hired

00:53:41.320 for this part of the story

00:53:42.380 when their law firm,

00:53:43.880 DLA Piper,

00:53:45.020 has their own

00:53:45.720 process server

00:53:46.520 in-house.

00:53:47.840 Let me say that again.

00:53:49.100 They have their own guy

00:53:50.560 that they normally pay

00:53:51.720 to go serve people

00:53:52.520 documents.

00:53:53.520 But then,

00:53:54.580 for these ones,

00:53:56.100 just those ones,

00:53:57.940 they decide to go

00:53:58.820 hire this dude?

00:54:00.940 Right.

00:54:02.600 So to summarize

00:54:03.600 how insane this is,

00:54:05.460 suddenly,

00:54:06.500 despite having been

00:54:07.500 serving Tiffany

00:54:08.280 at her real address

00:54:09.540 all the way up

00:54:10.320 till now,

00:54:11.240 they just accidentally

00:54:12.360 mailed all the notices

00:54:13.680 of this part of

00:54:14.580 this hearing

00:54:15.460 to the wrong address.

00:54:17.520 Whoopsies.

00:54:19.280 Meaning,

00:54:20.500 that Tiffany

00:54:21.040 never received notice

00:54:22.180 that they were about

00:54:22.980 to rule on her case

00:54:23.880 in court.

00:54:24.740 She never received

00:54:25.580 a summons to court.

00:54:26.740 But a whole bunch

00:54:27.540 of forged documents

00:54:28.620 made it to court,

00:54:30.000 making it appear

00:54:30.720 as though she had been

00:54:31.520 served and received notice

00:54:33.180 and just chosen

00:54:34.260 not to show.

00:54:35.520 It's a miracle

00:54:36.160 that Tiffany

00:54:36.620 ever even figured out

00:54:37.740 what they had done

00:54:38.500 and found out

00:54:39.320 who this guy is

00:54:40.200 and found his rap sheet

00:54:41.360 and was eventually

00:54:42.140 able to appeal the ruling

00:54:43.200 and keep fighting.

00:54:44.300 They did this

00:54:44.900 to one of the other moms

00:54:46.000 who is a little gym owner

00:54:47.100 who they are litigating

00:54:48.120 against right now

00:54:49.100 also because she stood up

00:54:50.900 for Tiffany

00:54:51.340 and the franchisees.

00:54:52.940 This is the shipping label

00:54:54.260 for the same types

00:54:55.340 of documents

00:54:55.880 at the end of that

00:54:56.760 woman's arbitration 0.97

00:54:57.640 just like in Tiffany's

00:54:59.160 and that address

00:55:00.260 is not her address.

00:55:02.420 It's a feature,

00:55:03.420 not a bug.

00:55:04.820 They do it

00:55:05.660 at this specific point

00:55:06.840 in the proceedings

00:55:07.480 because this isn't

00:55:08.980 just any old hearing.

00:55:09.880 This is where

00:55:10.760 the arbitration

00:55:11.600 becomes law

00:55:12.520 and Tiffany

00:55:13.280 or this other woman

00:55:14.480 Patricia

00:55:14.880 are supposed to argue

00:55:16.380 what the damages

00:55:17.160 will be.

00:55:18.280 In Tiffany's case

00:55:19.000 because she didn't

00:55:20.040 show up to defend herself 0.99

00:55:21.000 because she didn't

00:55:21.780 know she needed to

00:55:22.580 she wound up

00:55:23.620 having to pay

00:55:24.260 all of Unleashed

00:55:25.560 Brand's legal fees

00:55:26.680 to date.

00:55:27.300 That totaled out

00:55:28.420 to about

00:55:29.080 2.3 million dollars

00:55:31.300 and it's not like

00:55:32.420 Unleashed couldn't

00:55:33.160 afford their legal fees.

00:55:34.600 They were the ones

00:55:35.360 that drew it out

00:55:35.940 so long

00:55:36.440 and made it all

00:55:37.060 so expensive.

00:55:38.160 They were the ones

00:55:38.660 who brought the case

00:55:39.340 in the first place.

00:55:40.500 No.

00:55:41.400 The point

00:55:41.920 was to take everything

00:55:43.160 that Tiffany owned

00:55:44.060 and they did

00:55:45.080 because Tiffany

00:55:46.140 didn't find out

00:55:46.720 what had happened

00:55:47.260 until way later

00:55:48.060 and she didn't uncover

00:55:49.140 who this serial felon

00:55:50.360 was until later

00:55:51.360 and in the meantime

00:55:52.540 Michael Browning Jr.

00:55:53.980 got his ruling

00:55:54.840 seized Tiffany's

00:55:55.960 bank accounts

00:55:56.540 and put a lien

00:55:57.300 on her house

00:55:57.920 thinking that he'd

00:55:59.120 finally won.

00:56:00.280 But Michael Browning Jr.

00:56:01.860 messed with the wrong mom 1.00

00:56:03.420 because Tiffany's

00:56:04.580 still fighting

00:56:05.200 to this day.

00:56:06.580 Michael Browning Jr.

00:56:07.380 and his lawyers

00:56:07.880 just filed

00:56:09.000 a new case

00:56:09.640 against her

00:56:10.060 days after

00:56:11.060 our first episode

00:56:12.020 came out

00:56:12.580 which is awfully

00:56:13.800 coincidental timing

00:56:14.980 if you ask me.

00:56:16.600 So Michael

00:56:17.600 since I know

00:56:19.040 you're watching

00:56:19.620 and seeing as you

00:56:20.780 don't seem to understand

00:56:21.680 how this works

00:56:22.500 let me explain it to you.

00:56:24.660 You're digging

00:56:25.460 your hole deeper. 0.73

00:56:26.980 You don't seem to grasp

00:56:28.120 who Tiffany Sianci is.

00:56:30.540 I've had the privilege

00:56:31.420 of getting to know her

00:56:32.320 over the last year

00:56:33.440 as I've been working

00:56:34.480 on this story

00:56:35.220 and if Tiffany

00:56:35.920 is one thing

00:56:36.860 she's a fighter. 1.00

00:56:38.340 She's the fiercest mom 0.75

00:56:39.440 you're ever going to meet

00:56:40.440 and that is a force

00:56:41.420 that no amount of money

00:56:42.620 no amount of lawfare

00:56:44.220 no amount of persecution

00:56:45.860 is ever going to defeat.

00:56:47.900 And you had your day

00:56:48.960 in your secret court system

00:56:50.320 where the deck

00:56:50.920 was stacked

00:56:51.440 in your favor

00:56:52.060 and you could get away

00:56:53.180 with just about anything

00:56:54.160 you could dream up.

00:56:55.260 But now

00:56:55.800 we're in a different court

00:56:57.100 the court

00:56:58.140 of public opinion.

00:56:59.760 And while

00:57:00.100 your secret arbitration courts

00:57:01.700 may have been okay

00:57:02.520 with what you've done

00:57:03.220 I thought we'd share

00:57:04.400 your paper trail

00:57:05.100 with your customers

00:57:06.280 with your franchisees

00:57:07.920 and perhaps most importantly

00:57:09.520 with your private equity buddies

00:57:11.100 and the International

00:57:12.220 Franchise Association.

00:57:14.100 Something tells me

00:57:15.180 they won't be so thrilled

00:57:16.640 about the unwanted spotlight

00:57:17.920 that you're shining

00:57:18.900 on the whole scheme.

00:57:21.580 I'm sure that plenty

00:57:22.660 of you folks

00:57:23.280 at the IFA

00:57:23.900 are watching too

00:57:24.700 and don't worry

00:57:25.520 we'll probably wind up

00:57:26.800 doing an episode

00:57:27.420 all about you two

00:57:28.560 soon enough

00:57:29.320 because oh boy

00:57:30.960 do we have receipts.

00:57:33.220 But ultimately

00:57:33.920 the most horrible part

00:57:35.580 of this whole story

00:57:36.580 is that this is just

00:57:37.820 Tiffany's story

00:57:38.740 and she's far

00:57:40.020 from the only one.

00:57:41.440 Over a million disputes

00:57:42.740 are settled

00:57:43.440 in arbitration

00:57:44.120 per year in America

00:57:45.240 and you'd better believe

00:57:46.680 that other people

00:57:47.580 are getting similar treatment.

00:57:49.320 You might get the same

00:57:50.260 treatment yourself

00:57:50.980 someday too

00:57:51.780 if you have an accident

00:57:53.040 at a birthday party

00:57:53.980 or get in the wrong Uber

00:57:55.400 or put your parents

00:57:56.440 in the wrong nursing home

00:57:57.620 or rent from

00:57:58.500 the wrong property manager

00:57:59.600 because America

00:58:00.920 is already slipping away.

00:58:02.660 Our rights

00:58:03.700 are already slipping away.

00:58:05.500 Our justice system

00:58:06.460 is already being replaced

00:58:07.880 by secret courts

00:58:09.160 and most of us

00:58:10.440 are too distracted

00:58:11.480 by our Twitter

00:58:12.160 and Instagram feeds

00:58:13.460 to even notice.

00:58:15.000 You guys have been sharing

00:58:16.300 some wild stories

00:58:17.880 in the comments

00:58:18.580 and we're about to get to that

00:58:19.760 right after I tell you

00:58:20.820 about American financing.

00:58:22.600 We're all feeling it.

00:58:24.320 Inflation is eating away

00:58:25.340 at everything.

00:58:26.300 Gas, groceries,

00:58:27.600 home repairs

00:58:28.160 and if you're a homeowner

00:58:29.460 you've probably thought

00:58:30.500 should I call

00:58:31.300 American financing

00:58:32.140 to refinance

00:58:33.060 and pay off

00:58:33.600 this credit card debt?

00:58:34.720 Then you second guess yourself

00:58:36.000 because of that low mortgage rate

00:58:37.280 you currently have.

00:58:38.320 Listen,

00:58:38.960 that low rate?

00:58:40.140 It's not saving you

00:58:41.020 if you're drowning

00:58:41.560 in credit card interest

00:58:42.440 at 25% or more.

00:58:43.900 That's the math

00:58:44.640 no one wants to face

00:58:45.580 but it's costing you thousands.

00:58:47.660 Here's the truth.

00:58:48.640 If you're only making

00:58:49.560 minimum payments

00:58:50.220 that debt will follow you

00:58:51.340 for years.

00:58:52.320 That's why people

00:58:52.900 are calling American financing

00:58:54.220 because they're saving customers

00:58:55.640 an average of $800 a month

00:58:57.260 by using their equity

00:58:58.340 to finally break free

00:58:59.560 from credit card debt.

00:59:00.860 You owe it to your family

00:59:01.860 to see what's possible.

00:59:03.060 No upfront fees

00:59:03.900 no pressure

00:59:04.600 it costs you nothing

00:59:05.620 to find out

00:59:06.200 what you could save

00:59:06.940 every month.

00:59:07.780 And if you start today

00:59:08.580 you may be able to delay

00:59:09.740 two mortgage payments.

00:59:11.160 Call American financing today

00:59:12.380 800-795-1210

00:59:14.620 that's 800-795-1210

00:59:17.100 or visit

00:59:18.000 americanfinancing.net

00:59:19.400 slash Owens.

00:59:20.780 And now

00:59:21.160 let's read some of your comments

00:59:22.280 from our previous episodes

00:59:23.520 because they are awesome.

00:59:26.160 Zeppelin Potts says

00:59:27.060 Man, it's been years

00:59:28.540 since I've seen

00:59:29.140 real investigative journalism.

00:59:30.720 Great job, Pornstash.

00:59:32.420 Thanks, bro.

00:59:34.600 The Truth Spiracy says

00:59:35.800 Did I care about

00:59:36.940 the Baldoni and Blake

00:59:37.900 soccer prior to Candace?

00:59:39.340 No.

00:59:40.200 Do I care now?

00:59:41.560 Absolutely.

00:59:42.440 We stand with cousin Baldoni.

00:59:44.420 Did I care about

00:59:45.200 what Leap for Faith

00:59:45.960 versus Urban Air was doing

00:59:47.280 and their little spoiled

00:59:48.020 brat prior to Ian?

00:59:49.480 No. 0.77

00:59:50.260 Do I care now?

00:59:51.600 Absolutely.

00:59:52.840 We are coming for you, JR.

00:59:54.800 Love the vibe.

00:59:55.640 That's exactly how I feel.

00:59:57.820 Jackie Wheeler says

00:59:59.080 I noticed Urban Air

01:00:00.160 has their comments

01:00:00.800 on social media turned off.

01:00:02.240 That means they fear

01:00:03.040 the public backlash.

01:00:04.260 You're making a difference.

01:00:05.540 Yeah, if you go and scroll

01:00:06.540 their public social media feeds,

01:00:08.680 you'll notice some pretty funny things

01:00:10.460 about how many comments

01:00:11.660 apparently exist,

01:00:12.960 how many comments

01:00:13.820 actually exist,

01:00:14.940 and which ones

01:00:16.100 have made it through

01:00:16.980 the blocks.

01:00:18.460 That's all I'll say.

01:00:20.520 Juliana Dryden says

01:00:21.640 My husband and I

01:00:22.600 worked for Urban Air

01:00:23.340 on and off

01:00:24.000 for five plus years.

01:00:25.040 Wouldn't recommend

01:00:25.920 any parent risk

01:00:26.780 their child's safety there.

01:00:28.020 Can't wait to see this episode.

01:00:29.680 Yeah, we've gotten

01:00:30.900 a lot of testimonials

01:00:32.420 about Urban Air

01:00:33.240 in the comments.

01:00:34.480 You can scroll them

01:00:35.100 for yourself.

01:00:35.600 I think we have one

01:00:36.080 or two more coming up here.

01:00:38.800 IncomeSerg says

01:00:39.620 I worked in the industry

01:00:41.240 FEC for five years

01:00:42.560 and peripherally sold

01:00:45.120 to Michael Browning Jr.

01:00:47.580 He was known among vendors

01:00:48.700 as an absolute a-hole,

01:00:50.240 a nightmare client,

01:00:51.600 and was to be avoided

01:00:52.500 at all costs.

01:00:53.900 One of Urban Air's,

01:00:54.880 Unleashed Brands' franchisees,

01:00:56.360 contacted my company

01:00:57.260 to buy an attraction

01:00:58.140 and Michael sent our company

01:00:59.640 a stern cease and desist letter,

01:01:02.800 even though we simply replied

01:01:04.140 to the franchisee's inquiry.

01:01:05.860 This guy was a piece of work

01:01:07.120 and walked around trade shows

01:01:08.480 like he was God's gift

01:01:09.600 to the industry.

01:01:10.840 I hope he gets

01:01:11.420 what he deserves.

01:01:12.540 That's crazy, dude.

01:01:14.100 Thanks for sharing

01:01:14.720 your experience.

01:01:16.200 One Shower Thought said

01:01:17.380 I work in patent law.

01:01:18.780 This is all so illegal.

01:01:20.260 He could win big time

01:01:21.580 if he finds a patent attorney

01:01:22.700 willing to do pro bono.

01:01:23.920 Most large firms have a quota.

01:01:25.420 They try to reach for pro bono.

01:01:26.860 Hey, that's about episodes

01:01:28.540 from last time

01:01:29.280 when we were talking about

01:01:30.080 what he did to

01:01:30.720 Leap of Faith Adventures.

01:01:32.200 I'd be very curious

01:01:33.240 for any attorneys out there

01:01:34.300 to comment on this episode

01:01:35.660 about what you just saw.

01:01:37.960 Just saying.

01:01:39.260 Jennifer Slattin says

01:01:40.120 they're doing this with hospitals.

01:01:41.960 Private Equity buys a hospital,

01:01:43.480 makes them sell their land

01:01:44.500 and the hospital,

01:01:45.380 and then they lease it back

01:01:46.680 at exorbitant rental rates

01:01:47.880 and bankrupt the hospital.

01:01:49.460 Yeah, funny that.

01:01:50.660 We just talked about hospitals.

01:01:52.300 Jennifer is on top of it.

01:01:54.840 Delina Young says

01:01:56.000 my son used to work

01:01:57.240 for Urban Air in Florida.

01:01:58.360 He was a manager

01:01:59.060 and said this business

01:02:00.060 is so dang unsafe

01:02:01.500 and finally had to quit

01:02:03.040 because of the amount of children

01:02:04.140 who got hurt daily

01:02:05.080 and the place never fixed

01:02:06.240 or replaced damaged

01:02:07.080 unsafe equipment.

01:02:08.180 He said it was horrible

01:02:09.000 and will not allow

01:02:09.920 his child to go to one.

01:02:11.580 Yeah, dang straight.

01:02:13.160 That's the thing

01:02:13.520 about these crazy adventure parks

01:02:14.680 is that they have

01:02:15.820 all these crazy rides

01:02:17.100 and they're designed

01:02:18.220 to be like

01:02:19.080 dangerous, crazy experiences

01:02:20.760 and if they're not

01:02:21.580 staffed correctly

01:02:22.960 or built correctly

01:02:24.080 or maintained correctly,

01:02:25.440 you're like literally

01:02:26.380 sending your child

01:02:27.300 into a giant meat grinder.

01:02:29.820 Allegedly.

01:02:32.020 The True Spiracy says

01:02:33.100 sigh.

01:02:34.420 Removes shrimp from cart.

01:02:36.180 Did I ever care

01:02:37.020 where my food came from?

01:02:38.160 No.

01:02:38.840 Will I now make

01:02:39.680 conscious decisions

01:02:40.400 when shopping for anything?

01:02:41.700 Absolutely.

01:02:42.220 Thank you, Ian,

01:02:43.440 for shedding light

01:02:44.060 on these horrendous topics

01:02:45.140 giving the Invisible Ones

01:02:46.280 a voice.

01:02:47.080 The Shrimp Spiracy

01:02:48.300 was crazy.

01:02:50.060 I had no idea

01:02:51.040 what I was walking into

01:02:51.940 when we started that episode

01:02:52.980 and by the end

01:02:54.280 the Shrimp Slavery Conspiracy

01:02:56.920 is like one of my

01:02:57.860 all-time favorite

01:02:59.160 most evil conspiracies

01:03:00.800 on the planet.

01:03:01.780 Definitely check that episode out

01:03:02.840 if you haven't already seen it.

01:03:05.300 Influence Fashion says

01:03:06.540 I am Burmese.

01:03:08.040 Slavery in Thailand

01:03:08.840 is real.

01:03:09.960 Burmese people

01:03:10.520 are suffering most

01:03:11.420 because of their immigration status

01:03:12.660 in Thailand

01:03:13.160 and difficult to get help.

01:03:14.540 Thank you for shedding light

01:03:15.480 for the cruelty

01:03:16.400 of fishing industry in Thailand.

01:03:18.500 Thank you for your comment.

01:03:20.120 It's really humbling.

01:03:21.400 It's important to note

01:03:22.140 that I laugh a lot

01:03:23.340 during these episodes

01:03:24.020 because sometimes

01:03:24.580 you have to laugh

01:03:25.460 through how tragic these are

01:03:26.740 but the ultimate reality

01:03:28.640 is that these are humans

01:03:29.700 suffering on the other end

01:03:30.700 of these stories.

01:03:31.300 These are kids getting hurt.

01:03:32.600 These are actual people

01:03:33.380 being sold into slavery

01:03:34.260 and so it's really meaningful

01:03:35.640 to hear from people like this

01:03:36.820 that can actually speak

01:03:38.260 to the difference

01:03:38.840 that speaking about this

01:03:40.140 can make

01:03:40.580 and I wish the best

01:03:41.620 for that guy

01:03:42.160 or girl.

01:03:43.980 Simone Barton says

01:03:45.120 My husband is a chemist

01:03:46.460 whose job was once

01:03:47.280 to test baby food

01:03:48.300 and formula

01:03:48.860 for heavy metals.

01:03:50.040 Mamas,

01:03:50.520 do yourself a favor

01:03:51.520 and breast milk

01:03:52.900 if you can

01:03:53.600 and buy the baby food

01:03:54.720 blender kits

01:03:55.300 and make your own.

01:03:56.480 Yes,

01:03:56.880 if you haven't seen

01:03:57.460 what we did

01:03:57.860 about baby food

01:03:58.640 last time

01:03:59.320 oh boy

01:04:00.540 they are poisoning

01:04:01.740 your babies.

01:04:02.660 Nunea Bintas 0.96

01:04:05.540 says Candace

01:04:08.580 consistently ahead

01:04:09.320 of the curve

01:04:09.780 gets the one person

01:04:10.920 who could keep my attention

01:04:12.120 when she takes time off

01:04:13.280 for her baby.

01:04:14.100 Brilliant.

01:04:14.900 Thank you Nunea.

01:04:16.360 To be clear

01:04:17.160 there's lots of great people

01:04:18.300 out here in this industry

01:04:19.020 I'm just another dude

01:04:19.960 but it is humbling

01:04:21.060 to have this opportunity

01:04:21.860 and it means a lot

01:04:22.640 to be able to live up

01:04:23.260 to some of your expectations

01:04:24.160 try my best

01:04:25.020 working hard

01:04:25.680 to do crazy digs

01:04:26.580 and to keep y'all

01:04:27.340 having fun

01:04:28.000 while Candace 0.53

01:04:28.920 takes good care

01:04:29.580 of baby Roman

01:04:30.180 who by the way

01:04:31.220 we did see today

01:04:32.280 baby Roman

01:04:33.020 is awesome

01:04:33.780 he's very little

01:04:34.620 he's very cute

01:04:35.740 and he's doing great

01:04:36.760 so is Candace

01:04:37.480 she'll obviously 0.97

01:04:38.340 be giving you

01:04:39.400 lots more updates

01:04:40.140 as these weeks go on

01:04:41.160 and finally

01:04:42.500 G-Dub says

01:04:43.680 Ian

01:04:44.460 I have to say

01:04:45.400 I was hesitant

01:04:46.080 from what I've heard

01:04:46.880 on media about you

01:04:47.840 but they're all wrong

01:04:48.840 you're chill

01:04:49.520 down to earth

01:04:50.400 and hard working

01:04:51.340 love to see people

01:04:52.060 like you

01:04:52.460 start to get the credit

01:04:53.220 they deserve

01:04:53.720 for all the hard work

01:04:54.740 you've been doing

01:04:55.280 I'm now gonna start

01:04:56.120 following you too

01:04:56.920 keep it up champ

01:04:57.880 thanks man

01:04:58.500 people like me

01:04:59.660 get a lot of things

01:05:00.800 said about us

01:05:01.440 on the internet

01:05:02.200 in every direction

01:05:03.700 I am both owned

01:05:04.660 by Qatar

01:05:05.180 and by Israel

01:05:06.400 I'm now a Kabbalist

01:05:08.080 all the things

01:05:09.220 in between

01:05:09.740 the truth of the matter

01:05:11.000 is that I am literally

01:05:11.860 just a dude

01:05:12.420 who has done this

01:05:13.240 all on my own

01:05:14.100 with no team

01:05:15.460 until now

01:05:16.120 I mean I've worked

01:05:16.740 with lots of great people

01:05:17.780 I've met so many

01:05:18.740 wonderful people

01:05:19.280 in the industry

01:05:19.760 and I would not be

01:05:20.800 where I am

01:05:21.300 without people

01:05:22.060 like Candace Owens

01:05:23.020 being supportive

01:05:23.900 and being awesome

01:05:24.680 but ultimately

01:05:25.660 it's you guys

01:05:26.580 the fans

01:05:27.180 back at home

01:05:27.860 that are just

01:05:28.520 so cool to work for

01:05:29.720 to work with

01:05:30.520 so it's really humbling

01:05:31.920 to get comments like that

01:05:32.760 I appreciate it

01:05:33.480 but anyways

01:05:34.680 that's our show for today

01:05:36.060 we'll pick back up

01:05:37.180 later this week

01:05:37.900 don't forget to like

01:05:39.060 this video

01:05:39.660 don't forget to subscribe

01:05:40.740 to Candace's channel

01:05:41.740 mine is linked

01:05:42.740 in the description below

01:05:44.160 if you want to connect

01:05:45.080 with Tiffany Sianci

01:05:45.780 we'll also link

01:05:46.460 something of hers

01:05:47.140 down below

01:05:47.800 share this with

01:05:49.300 all of your friends

01:05:49.940 so they can all know

01:05:50.800 what's going on 0.84

01:05:51.440 so they don't get sucked

01:05:52.480 into these traps as well

01:05:53.480 and stay safe

01:05:55.040 it's a dangerous world

01:05:55.900 out there

01:05:56.340 have a great night friends

01:05:57.960 and we'll see you tomorrow

01:05:59.060 we'll see you tomorrow

01:06:01.060 we'll see you tomorrow

01:06:02.460 you

Candace Owens - May 28, 2025

Inside The Elites’ Secret Courts Where You Have No Rights ｜ Candace Ep 190

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