Shannon Sharpe Out At ESPN. I Taylor Swift Subpoena Incoming. ｜ Candace Ep 182
Summary
It's the last solo episode of the podcast with me, Candice, as I'm going on maternity leave. In this episode, I talk about Shannon Sharp's exit from ESPN, the Blake Lively Lawsuit, GQ's new hit piece on the women's sphere, and the Iran War.
Transcript
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All right, you guys, today is sadly the last solo episode of the podcast, meaning this is the last show with just me hosting.
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Next week, I will have one more joint goodbye episode with Ian Carroll, so definitely look out for that.
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What do I have for you guys today? There's so many things that we should be talking about in the world.
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First and foremost, Shannon Sharp is officially out at ESPN, as we predicted yesterday would likely happen.
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So his earlier words toward me are not, in fact, aging well.
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Also, Jojo Siwa is apparently no longer a lesbian, so her earlier words toward me are not aging well.
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Definitely have some final updates for you guys in the Blake Lively lawsuit.
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Subpoenas are, in fact, incoming, plus some lawsuit changes are coming as well.
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And we should also talk about the war that is pending very briefly.
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Iran, that is something that you should know before I go on maternity leave.
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Quote, let's talk about flower sprinkles, because I think it speaks to the tiny moments of joy
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that are so effortless and just create a little bit of magic.
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Was it A, my toddler daughter this morning asking me to bake cupcakes?
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Or was it D, Katy Perry, who was totally baked, coming down from that blue origin high?
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I'm going to have my producer drop that poll in right now on YouTube to see if you guys can guess it.
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A, my toddler, B, Meghan Markle, C, Blake Lively or D, Katy Perry.
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You have no idea how much happens between when I wake up and the show.
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There are so many people working on hit pieces on me at every hour of the day.
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Me, Brett Cooper are apparently colluding or didn't know, take over the woman's sphere or something.
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The title of the article is Now Comes the Woman's Sphere.
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The anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican.
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I don't know if that is how you guys would sum up my podcast, me yelling at you to be thin, fertile and Republican.
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And then simultaneously, GQ is working on a hit piece.
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Jared Holt, one of these Israeli media assassin type people, is working on a biographical hit piece.
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They hit us with like 15 questions this morning.
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It's like, can we find any lie in her background?
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They're like, we noticed you said once that you dropped out of college because of student loans.
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But then later that you finished college, we could find no.
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I'm just so not perfect that everything out there you can find.
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They're like, you said you worked in private equity.
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We can't find the name of the firm you worked at for four years.
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And I'm just glad that we're moving towards a place where we just don't care anymore with the media rights.
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And I actually kind of find them to be quite pleasant and funny these days, to be honest with you.
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I got to tell you, deep down, I wasn't so sure is what I would say back in 2000, 2015 to 16, was it when Hillary Clinton was running?
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And everybody was like blaring out this message.
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And I just kind of quietly sat back and said, I don't know about that.
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And they are doing and saying a lot of female things.
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And so I just am wondering if other ladies are feeling so certain about this future that we are barreling toward that is female.
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Because there's a lot of things that we're saying, maybe too much.
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I'm one of those people that actually runs my own social media accounts, which isn't like nobody does that.
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And I was reading your YouTube comments, and I was convinced that this commenter was lying when she wrote this on YouTube.
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Remarkable wrote, the last time Candace spoke about this Katy Perry mission, and she showed one of the articles written about it, I think before the trip took place, and the women were going on about how they were bringing glam to space.
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But there in the article, it said that one of the women wanted to make sure that her hairstyle would survive no gravity, so she went to Dubai and went skydiving to test out her hairdo and was happy to see that it would survive her little space trip.
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Again, I just assumed this was just a random person trolling, and I just briefly checked, and it turns out that that commenter was not lying at all.
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The space ladies, the spice ladies, space ladies, gave an interview to Elle magazine, and it is true.
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Alicia Bowe and Amanda Nyen, I don't know how to say her last name.
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They actually said this in an interview to Elle.
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They said, quote, the all-female crew of the New Shepard said they plan to be glamorous in space and not to be ashamed about it.
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They said, quote, I think it's so important for people to see us like that.
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The dichotomy of engineers and scientists and then beauty and fashion, because we contain multitudes.
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I'm going to be wearing lipstick, Bowe said, that she took the hairstyle she plans to wear on the flight on a test run skydiving in Dubai, saying, quote, I also wanted to test out my hair and make sure that it was okay.
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Space is going to finally be glam, added Katy Perry.
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That's just, I can't believe that was actually said in an interview, and they're surprised that there has been so much backlash.
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I don't even know if that's what Hillary Clinton had in mind.
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I just know that there's a lot happening in female land.
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I woke up this morning, and I had a text message from Brett Cooper.
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She randomly chose violence and decided to send me this wonderful excerpt, which was taken from Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People Summit, because they have that, I guess, apparently.
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They invite everybody who's so powerful and brave and fierce.
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So this event, as you can imagine, is billed as all of the top bosses, the lady bosses, the male bosses, the people that are the most futuristic, female-ist people ever.
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And so naturally, Meghan Markle was there, and she was being interviewed by Jessica Sibley, who was the CEO of Time.
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And they had a pretty important discussion, but I'm going to first see how you guys voted, because it was indeed Meghan Markle.
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The sprinkle lady, the CEOs, this is how they were speaking.
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And they decided to have her on stage to speak about flower sprinkles, and it wasn't my daughter.
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It should have been my daughter, but it wasn't my daughter who said this.
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You would think, it's like a little fairy, if I could just be tossing them around all the time.
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The obsession that has come with flower sprinkles, I was not expecting.
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Explain to this audience who might not have watched the show yet.
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So, I just, it sounds so, of all things to be talking about for Time 100, let's talk about flower sprinkles.
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But let's, because I think it speaks to the tiny moments of joy that are so effortless,
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and just create a little bit of magic that we're all craving in our everyday.
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They're tiny little flower petals that are dried.
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The level of charm that you find people have when they see these tiny little dried petals
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is something I can't fully wrap my head around, but I appreciate that there is a love for the detail
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and the small level of delight that can be added.
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So, take flower sprinkles really as an analogy and think about what you could do in your everyday life
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that can just have a little splash of magic on unexpected moments.
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I genuinely am aspiring to be that rich in life.
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I want to be that rich in life where, like, my day comes down to magic and flower sprinkles
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because it's like, it is kind of like the lifestyle of my toddler, my two-year-old,
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where, like, nothing, everything's free, everything's perfect, everything's amazing,
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and so you can just focus on rainbows and sprinkles and colors and say,
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Anyways, we know also on that 100-time most influential list was Blake Lively.
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We discussed this a few days ago, and I have long made the argument that she should have been included.
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She's been incredibly influential this year, definitely influential for my podcast,
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many other people's podcasts, not in the ways, perhaps, that she had imagined.
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But she, the sham lawsuit really was a piece of her finest work.
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We obviously covered that extensively earlier this week,
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essentially finding a way to get around due process in a very creative way
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by filing a fake lawsuit, giving it to a friend lawyer,
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having that friend lawyer demand text messages that you wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
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A judge would not have likely approved for Jennifer Abel's phone to have been stolen,
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but they were creative and stole an employee's phone.
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Well, I can tell you guys an update on that is this is now going to change the nature of a lot
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of these lawsuits because internet sleuths have unearthed that lawsuit.
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Like I said, I'm wondering if it's going to rise to the level of criminality,
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but it's definitely going to transform the lawsuits against the New York Times and against
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Stephanie Jones, and those filings are going to be imminent,
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so you can expect those tomorrow. And the subpoenas, you've probably seen in the news
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that subpoenas are in fact going out to Hugh Jackman. Thank you. I did not say Hugh Hefman.
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I'm so proud of myself. To Hugh Jackman and to Taylor Swift. And I love it. I really do feel
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like 2025 has just been this game of karma, and a lot of people are being exposed for who they actually
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are. People that were kind of put on a high pedestal. Taylor Swift's subpoena is supposed
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to be going out next week, so likely won't hear about it until the week after that. But I just think
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the public is going to be completely shattered. Their image of Taylor Swift is going to be shattered
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once these tech messages become public, because I have never bought the good girl thing that she
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pitches. I've just heard way too many things about her in Hollywood. I've heard way too many things
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about her team. And the victimhood thing is something that she kind of got addicted to when
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she saw how much adoration she received after Kanye jumped on stage and took her trophy. And then
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people were kind of were like, oh my God, this poor victim. And she kind of got addicted to the victim
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narrative. That's what I'm told. It's going to get very interesting. I wanted to also quickly in just
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another celebrity update land, mention the fact that I've never really understood why so many
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celebrities hate me. I don't feel like I'm doing anything wrong. I have had a long line of beef
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with a lot of celebrities who I'm generally rooting for. I want to be clear. It's just that I don't buy
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a lot of the Hollywood acts and I can see through them. And there's no greater example of that than
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the beef that transpired between me and JoJo Siwa back when I was working for the Daily Wire. Now,
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I want to say this. I lovingly started it by suggesting that JoJo Siwa was just a little bit lost,
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and I didn't believe that she was a lesbian. I said, I watched this little girl on Dance Moms.
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She was incredibly talented. I enjoyed watching her. She obviously had the it factor. People go to
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Hollywood and they lose a little bit of themselves. And it seemed to me that she was quite injured and
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lashing out. And so I guess, like I said, I lovingly started it by saying that, you know,
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I have this theory that this is why we need to bring back cigarettes. When we were kids back in the
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80s, I grew up in the 90s, but in the 80s, a lot of people smoked cigarettes, right? And I think
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adolescence, as I have said many times, is a natural phase for children to go through. It's
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a natural phase to want to be nothing like your parents and to experiment with doing bad things.
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Once upon a time, people had cigarettes and they smoked cigarettes in high school.
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Now we have transformed into a world where people can like change their, experiment with their gender
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and, you know, say that there are all these sorts of letters that they are and I'm actually
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LB, whatever it is. But typically it's just like I'm in an adolescent phase and I'm crying for
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attention. And I felt in my heart and in my soul that that was the situation with Jojo Siwa when
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she was like being a lesbian too hard. Like she just every time she spoke, it was about being a
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lesbian. It would be weird if every time I spoke, I was just, I want you guys to know how straight I
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am, like how heterosexual. I am so heterosexual. I am just the most heterosexual person.
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And you'd probably go, why do I feel like she's not heterosexual? That's how I felt about Jojo
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Siwa. And she didn't like that. Here's a clip of what I said about Jojo Siwa very quickly and I'll
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show you how she responded. I don't believe Jojo Siwa is a lesbian, by the way. I want to state that
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very clearly. I do believe that she's desperate for attention. And she got on X and this is how she
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replied to me. And this episode, again, this was about, I don't know, April 2023. So this was two years
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ago. She wrote, I haven't watched the video yet, but if it has anything to do with your
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caption, respectfully back the F off. I said, is she lying about being a lesbian? Okay, cool.
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Well, we are one step closer to Jojo Siwa and admitting that I was right because here,
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here's also a clip of her saying that she would never speak to me because of this infraction.
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Five people that I will not be having on Jojo Siwa now. Candace Owens, I think it's pretty
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self-explanatory. Her and I do not fuck with each other. She wasn't going after me. She was going
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after a whole community of people and that's not okay. All I did was say that I didn't believe
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that she was a lesbian and it looks like I'm correct. Here is the headline in the Daily Mail.
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Jojo Siwa says she has realized she is not a lesbian. It's just fantastic. It ages well.
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So my episodes does age well. And the reason why this transpired, the backstory is now she's on
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Celebrity Big Brother, which is a show in the UK. And apparently she's flirting with a guy.
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And I've got a guy that she's flirting with, a flirty friendship with some guy named Chris Hughes.
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So she has to redefine her sexuality and pretend that, well, I'm not a lesbian. I'm queer,
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which is all encompassing. I can be anything that I want at any time. And so that's what she's
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I've always told myself I'm a lesbian, but I think you think being here, I've realized,
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oh no, I'm not lesbian. I'm queer. And I think that's really cool. I'm switching letters.
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All roads lead to Candace, Jojo Siwa. All roads lead to Candace. We'll sit down one day when you
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realize that you're, you know, you were just going through an adolescent phase. Anyways,
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I find that to be kind of annoying, right? And I think in general, when I think about why I cringe a
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little bit when people say the future is female is because I think as a woman, we suffer a lot
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with analysis paralysis, right? We don't do well when there are too many options. Our brains kind
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of want all of them. That's kind of my show. I kind of just talk about everything, politics,
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pop culture, history, psychology. And everybody knows what happens when women go into Target
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and we swear we're getting just one thing. And then we leave Target and we have like kayaks and
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canoes and we were just supposed to get soap, you know? So I'm not saying I don't want the future
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to be female. I'm just saying that we should think about the future maybe being something
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else. And I'm going to vote African. I'm feeling African. I want the future to be African. I would
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love, I would pay any sum of money to have the guy, the notorious man who sat down in 2012
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in Uganda. Remember that Ugandan interview? If you have not seen it, this is the greatest
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interview that's ever happened from 2012 on a morning news show known as the Morning
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Breeze in Uganda, where he legitimately in Africa, because it's just different there.
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And they look at us and just think Americans have lost their minds. They just got too many
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options. They just everyone's crazy. They can't so many options. They can't think straight.
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They're buying kayaks at Target. We don't have so many options. And so we're thinking straighter
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and things make more sense. Anyways, this African broadcaster was interviewing a woman who identified
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as a lesbian. And it's still the greatest bit of TV that you will ever watch in your life.
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We bring in the studio this morning, one of the gay rights activists, Mr. Should I call
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you Mr.? Pepe Julian Onzima. Thank you for coming in.
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You are transgender. And you're gay rights activists and an outspoken lesbian? Homosexual?
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Sorry. It's just transgender? A lesbian? How can I describe you? Homosexual?
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Homosexual? I want the black pope. This is what's going to happen. It's going to be the
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African Inquisition. And that guy is going to go around houses and he's just going to
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be... Why are you gay? You are gay. Sentencing just like that. Transgender? Homosexual? How can
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I describe you? Okay? That's what I'm rooting for. I'm rooting for the African Inquisition.
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And I would pay, when I say any sum of money, to watch him interview Jojo Siwa and have her
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explain to him that she's now queer and not lesbian. I mean, I would crawl over broken glass
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to make that happen. And that's all I'm going to do in terms of updating you guys on what's
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would say. Very, very fast. Mr. Shannon Sharp. He is officially out at ESPN. We said yesterday that
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this was likely to happen because with these sorts of contracts, you know, millions and millions of
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dollars, they can and usually do include a morality clause, which, as I explained yesterday, just means
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just be a decent human being in your personal life, too, and don't bring the company any embarrassment,
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meaning like, you know, don't be caught at a strip club smacking booty cheeks that are $25,000 per
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cheek. And he wasn't at a strip club, but he was his tech messages had been revealed. And it's quite
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embarrassing for ESPN. So he used to be on first take and now they are putting that on ice. Now,
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tempting for me, obviously, given the fact that despite me never meeting this man and having done
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absolutely nothing to this man, he truly had a moment of glee and happiness and encouraged people
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not to work with or speak to me when I got fired from Daily Wire last year. Literally, we are talking
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about almost exactly a year ago, which is insane, just over a year ago, reminding you of what Shannon
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Sharp said as he was dancing on my grave. Candace has given y'all her blood to kiss for two decades
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in a moment. What are they doing? They can't fire me. They can't fire me. The hell you say? Now look at her.
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Tempting. That's how it started. I mean, imagine just cheersing. Like, cheers to Candace being fired.
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She did nothing to us, did nothing to us at all, never said anything about us. Yeah, that was how
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it started. This is how it's going. Here's the NBC headline. He is stepping down from ESPN in the
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wake of a sexual assault lawsuit. Now, I think first and foremost, this really is a lesson not to take
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any amount of pleasure and glee in the suffering of people, especially people who you don't know and
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have never wronged you. That's just a very strange thing to do. Like, I don't know why we would be
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celebrating people suffering. That's not something we clink glasses to. And like I said, it seems
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especially egregious when nothing, no one's done anything to you. But there is some accidental
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hilarity in this situation. And I, and by the way, I don't take any, like, I obviously have given you
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my opinion on this. I do not think that the rape element is true. I do think that he has been behaving
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sloppily. And so that has caught up with him. And I understand ESPN's decision here. But the
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accidental hilarity that happened in this situation is that how it's, it's the manner in which Shannon
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chose to make the announcement regarding CNN. So he took a screenshot of a text message, which
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clearly had to have been written by someone else, maybe his lawyer or his PR team. It wasn't written
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by him. And then he shared it onto X. So people were laughing at him going, you're not supposed to
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share. You're supposed to make it sound like it actually was written by you. Here's what he wrote
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when he shared the news. He said, my statement is found here. And this is the truth. The relationship in
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question was 100% consensual. At this juncture, I am electing to step aside temporarily for my ESPN
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duties. I will be devoting this time to my family and responding and dealing with these false and
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disruptive allegations set against me. I plan to return to ESPN at the start of the NFL preseason.
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I sincerely appreciate the overwhelming and ongoing support I have received from my family, fans,
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friends, and colleagues. Shannon Sharp. Okay, not the whole truth. You always have to kind of read in
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between the lines with these statements. PR people, lawyers are involved. They're trying to kind
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massage the situation and make it look the best that it can possibly look given the circumstances.
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Well, Deadline, which tends to have a major in on sports-related drama, is reporting that,
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whether or not Sharp returns to first take in subsequent weeks is TBD, but also whether or not
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he returns at all is TBD. And they instantly heard from an ESPN spokesperson who told Deadline this.
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They said, quote, this is a serious situation and we agree with Shannon's decision to step away.
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So it appears the truth is that Shannon Sharp essentially quit before he was fired. He wanted
00:25:09.740
to avoid people kind of laughing at him or saying he was fired and also kind of have a little more
00:25:15.140
control over his own destiny. But this was likely they were going to say to him, look, it's been too
00:25:20.320
much. You were caught in the act on Instagram by accident. Now we've got these messages. We don't know
00:25:26.180
how much more she has. We kind of want to save ourselves the embarrassment of any more things
00:25:30.740
that are happening. And it's just you don't want any employee that's doing that much and taking
00:25:34.680
away from the company. So that makes sense to me. It makes all sense to me. Again, I don't wish him
00:25:39.420
bad. I wish that I hope that he finds happiness. I don't particularly take him to be a happy or a
00:25:45.400
well-rounded person. And I think his behavior illustrates that his behavior in privacy, but also in
00:25:51.700
public, the way that he treats people on his podcast, you have to not be happy and whole to
00:25:56.980
just enjoy and take joy in other people's suffering. So, you know, if you're a fan of Shannon Sharp,
00:26:02.920
pray for Shannon Sharp. That is easy as that. I do want to also get to something very serious
00:26:08.800
because we're not going to have this podcast. And obviously, the Zionists are just very happy for a
00:26:13.940
few weeks to get a break here. And it's because I have obviously very much exposed to you guys things
00:26:19.000
that are very important. And I just think that people always think freedom is a guarantee and
00:26:23.660
that it could never happen in America. We have no memory of slavery. We have no memory of us not
00:26:29.400
having the ability to express ourselves. And these things can happen overnight. And then very quickly,
00:26:34.640
you can have all your freedoms taken away. And that's kind of, by the way, the lesson of 9-11.
00:26:38.160
You don't even you have no memory of freedom when it comes to the time of going to the airport and
00:26:44.760
being able to just like walk through. Like you see these movies where people like getting off the
00:26:48.600
plane and people are holding signs for them. That used to be America. We used to be more free.
00:26:53.560
And then we got governed post 9-11. And it's really important to recognize that we are kind of facing
00:26:59.480
one of these crises again. It's why I've been really pressing my thumb on making people to understand,
00:27:04.660
helping people understand that all of these rabid claims of anti-Semitism are trying to distract you
00:27:09.180
from the fact that we are losing a lot of our freedoms to this unholy alliance that we have
00:27:14.320
with Israel and our politicians being blackmailed and bought by them. And, you know, so much
00:27:18.460
evidence of that over the years, never getting the Epstein files, JFK files. I mean, it's all a
00:27:23.280
nonsense. And there have been journalists that have been so brave on the left and the right in exposing
00:27:30.080
this. And I don't think there's been anyone more brave than Glenn Greenwald. He is absolutely
00:27:35.600
fantastic. If you're looking for something or someone to watch while I am gone to know about
00:27:39.400
what is happening in the world, Glenn Greenwald's system update is what I watch. And what's funny
00:27:44.540
is we're on opposite side of the political aisles. And I just he's honest and he tells people the
00:27:49.680
truth and stands up to Israel. He really does. And I wanted to show you this because what is
00:27:55.560
happening, obviously, is this war in Iran has been planned for a very long time. I was saying this
00:28:00.060
years ago, if you look at my old content, that Israel wants war with Iran, Bibi Netanyahu wants,
00:28:04.760
Bibi Netanyahu gets. And so right now they're playing this game of pretending once again that
00:28:09.760
there's like weapons of mass destruction. It's literally Iraq 2.0 weapons of mass destruction.
00:28:15.020
But in reality, what they want is a regime change. And your children are going to have to fight these
00:28:21.120
wars or suffer these consequences, depending on how old they are. This is a time where we get to revisit
00:28:25.800
9-11, right? What are their lessons learned? That the neocons and the war state, they perpetually
00:28:31.580
lie to us about everything to get us to comply with it. And we should be resisting it. And Glenn
00:28:37.680
Greenwald just kind of breaks down what's actually happening behind the scenes where they don't
00:28:42.800
really want peace. They're not really concerned about armament. They just want a regime change
00:28:47.400
in Iran because what Israel wants, Israel gets. Take a listen.
00:28:51.220
One of the points Dan Caldwell made is that Trump absolutely is committed to the diplomatic resolution.
00:28:58.700
He does not want to cast aside the possibility of diplomacy in pursuit of war, even though people
00:29:06.140
like Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham, all the usual suspects, Mike Walz, Mark Rubio are encouraging that.
00:29:13.000
He's saying, I think we can do a deal that will result in assurances that Iran will not get a nuclear
00:29:18.760
weapon. And a lot of the hardest core neocons, the most fanatical Israel loyalists are going insane
00:29:25.220
because the idea of stopping Iran's nuclear program is the pretext. What these people want is a change
00:29:35.380
in the regime in Iran. They want to go back to installing the Shah of Iran's monarchy that they
00:29:45.000
reinstalled back in 1954. And the Shah of Iran's son thinks he's the legitimate ruler of Iran.
00:29:51.760
They want to put him back into office. Dan Caldwell called him the ultimate fail son.
00:29:59.040
You may remember the Iraq war, the exact same strategies. They had a bunch of like Iraqi exiles
00:30:04.260
who had no connection to the Iraqi people, hadn't lived there for 40 years. People like Ahmed Shemaldi,
00:30:08.840
Shemaldi, who was going to float in and govern Iraq once they got rid of Saddam as a U.S. puppet,
00:30:17.960
a puppet of neocons, a puppet of Israel, just like the Shah of Iran was. That is still their plan.
00:30:22.300
That is the real goal, to scare Americans about Iran's nuclear program as a pretext for changing the regime
00:30:29.260
of Iran. Here's Mark Dubowitz from one of the most neoconservative think tanks in Washington,
00:30:34.640
giving up the game because he's scared that Trump is going to succeed in diplomacy. He says,
00:30:39.920
quote, the Islamic Republic is weaker than ever, hated by most Iranians, meaning we're going to
00:30:45.200
be welcomed as liberators. Same thing we heard in Iraq. Hammered by the IDF and Mossad, its terror
00:30:50.280
armies, air defenses, missile production capabilities are in ruins. Never a better time to dismantle its
00:30:57.340
new program and finish off the regime. Will another POTUS blink? Meaning, will Trump be too scared to
00:31:05.000
send Americans to go die for a regime change war in Iran, notwithstanding the utter and complete and
00:31:12.240
total failure of regime change wars in the Middle East over the last 25 years, at least failure from
00:31:17.820
the American perspective, not necessarily from the Israeli one? No, it's been remarkably successful
00:31:24.140
from the Israeli perspective. America becomes more dilapidated. We are essentially a slave colony
00:31:29.280
to Israel. They've just been extending their territory, spending money because they're protected
00:31:34.340
under AIPAC and allowed to be able to do that to influence the conversations and to smear anybody
00:31:39.100
that is starting to realize that and waking up and asking meaningful questions about this strange
00:31:44.180
relationship that we have, where they're abusive to us. They openly mock us. They openly say that they
00:31:49.800
use anti-Semitism as a weapon to control us. They openly say that people who stand up to them are
00:31:55.140
going to face consequences. I mean, these are Bibi Netanyahu's own words, that they can control
00:32:00.420
speech in America. And America is something that can be manipulated easily with money. And you got to
00:32:06.720
wake up to this because I am telling you that freedom is precious and I am not liking what I'm seeing
00:32:12.000
happening on college campuses. I've spoken out. I've used my platform as much as I can to illustrate
00:32:17.620
how despicable it is and how honestly sadistic and psychopathic it is that we are being told that
00:32:23.860
having any feeling about dead children and women who they're planning to build hotels on their bodies,
00:32:30.120
us having any shred of moral decency and upset about that somehow makes us monstrous and
00:32:36.380
anti-Semitic. Palestinians are Semitic. And I just want you to always know, as I state,
00:32:41.300
if you think you are defending people that won't do those same things to you, like when you defend
00:32:45.620
people that are capable of that level of insanity and manipulation and murder and distress and then
00:32:52.660
gaslighting for you going, oh my gosh, this is sad. Why are 20,000 kids dead? And you think that
00:32:57.780
you're going to be protected for defending them. You are out of your mind. That's like you being the
00:33:01.740
lowest member of a gang and thinking that the people at the top won't kill you quickly.
00:33:06.840
It's a nonsense. It's why I was never interested in being in a gang growing up. You're not protected
00:33:11.140
when you're in a gang. OK. And so I just want to state that and tell you guys to look out for all
00:33:16.240
of these stories because they are encroaching on free speech in America. And that has been a joint
00:33:20.560
effort from Republicans and Democrats. The Trump administration is cracking down on speech on
00:33:25.820
college campuses. It's been hypocritical to what they have promised us in the past. And it is because
00:33:30.740
of this relationship with so many neocons who have infiltrated the MAGA movement, which is why I have no
00:33:35.980
use for Republican versus Democrat anymore. It's like you fight for freedom or you don't fight for
00:33:40.260
freedom. So I'm either your ally if you're fighting for freedom or your foe. And I hope
00:33:46.100
that I've encouraged you guys to pursue these conversations and to follow the people that
00:33:51.660
are brave enough to have them. And I guess I'd list Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, definitely Dave Smith,
00:33:59.780
who are speaking about the Israel conversation. It's the most pertinent one I would say for us to
00:34:04.820
have right now. So stay awake and do not support people that are telling you that this Iran war
00:34:10.140
is necessary. Our lives will get worse. Bibi Netanyahu and Israeli lives will get better and
00:34:14.980
they will still call you anti-Semitic at the end of the day. All right, guys, want to read some of
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Okay. Comments yesterday. It was really, it was so funny to see kind of the mood shift because I said
00:36:39.700
earlier I had done an episode on Jordan Peterson and people, I think also, I don't know, people just
00:36:46.400
weren't ready to talk about his X feed, which has been weird for a long time. But yesterday,
00:36:50.320
there were so many comments that were really thoughtful and spoke about, I want to say,
00:36:54.600
correctly said that you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. His original series that he
00:37:02.340
did on YouTube that transformed so many people's lives, like those lectures when he was just a
00:37:05.900
teacher sitting down speaking about various topics, do not throw that baby out with the
00:37:10.060
bathwater. The 12 Rules for Life book that changed so many people's lives. People should still buy that
00:37:15.540
book, you know, and people obviously shouldn't feel any animosity towards him and should pray for him.
00:37:21.840
But even though you recognize, I mean, it's even greater, you know, you were able to change your
00:37:25.140
life around and become somebody better. Like I said, you don't want to kick somebody with when
00:37:29.580
they're down. You want to call them out because they need to be called out and they have to own up
00:37:32.560
to their crap and clean their own rum. But we obviously all want to root for Jordan Peterson to get
00:37:37.940
better. This one user wrote, I feel like Jordan Peterson is an easy guy to psychoanalyze. He's
00:37:44.960
deeply attached to his ego, his idea of himself as a highly intelligent, eloquent prophet who bridges
00:37:51.800
the ivory tower intelligentsia and the common man. Everything he does is a performance to uphold that
00:37:57.460
idea. He speaks not because he believes what he's saying, but because he adores how he thinks he's
00:38:01.280
being perceived. Even when he finished his tweet about the Lord's name in vain and wrote truly no worse
00:38:06.900
crime. He doesn't believe that. Not for two seconds does he think that crime is particularly
00:38:10.780
bad compared to rape or murder. He just adores his idea of himself as an intellectual who understands
00:38:16.820
these things so deeply that he sees things that we can't. I love this comment and I want to remove
00:38:22.740
it actually from Jordan Peterson because I think it speaks to how we all feel about the academic class
00:38:27.300
in general, that they just perceive themselves. They do just like to hear themselves speak. And that was
00:38:32.640
kind of why I said people are gravitating more towards the Theo Bonds and the Joe
00:38:36.720
Rogan's because they almost enjoy not being relatable. Like there is this hierarchy of like
00:38:44.060
when they experience all the same hardships that we experience, they're somehow better and there's
00:38:47.840
like a deeper layer that you guys just don't understand and can't see because you're not
00:38:51.760
educated. And I would say that the same about Sam Harris. He does that all the time. And even when
00:38:57.040
they're proven to be patently wrong on a variety of topics, they still have to uphold this idea of
00:39:03.640
themselves as above everybody else. Right. So it's like they get into a car accident, you get into a
00:39:09.180
car accident. Well, well, theirs was a different kind of car accident. And you're just not you don't
00:39:12.740
understand the nature of why when they did it, it was totally different. It's like, dude, just be human.
00:39:18.460
You know, just be human. We are all so tired of it. I'm so tired of hearing from the academia. I wish it
00:39:25.980
would honestly just go away. Anyway, some more comments that we have today. Tracy writes,
00:39:30.980
enjoy your maternity leave and a beautiful bundle that you're bringing into the world. We will be
00:39:35.040
waiting for your return. I will be waiting as well, guys. I am definitely going to miss you.
00:39:39.340
This feels like my daily therapy. I get to speak to you about a variety of topics.
00:39:42.820
Beth writes, speaking of so many questions, what are the lyrics in your promo? When will the Harvey
00:39:47.780
series return? Approximate return date. I will have time to catch up on all your episodes since I just
00:39:52.340
found you in January. Ooh, I'll recommend some for you. A Michael Jackson episode. Definitely go and
00:39:58.220
watch the NASA episode. Join the book clubs. I'm going to keep that up. On Friday, we will have
00:40:02.840
the next book club meeting, which is tomorrow. Tomorrow at 6 o'clock p.m. Eastern will be the
00:40:07.480
next book club meeting. I do not know about the return date because I don't know when the baby's
00:40:12.140
going to come. And I hope that I have another really easy birth. I've had three easy births so
00:40:16.620
far, but you never know. So I can't give an approximate return date just yet, but I'll definitely be
00:40:22.040
updating you guys kind of sporadically, although I'll mostly be offline. The lyrics are from Kanye's
00:40:29.900
Stars song. I hope he's bright and brave and strong. That is what it is saying. And the Harvey
00:40:37.900
series, we will likely be dropping an episode of me speaking to Harvey. So that should also be
00:40:45.120
happening while I'm on maternity leave. It's looking like 90% yes to that. Brina writes,
00:40:51.240
why does the interview with Meghan Markle in that clip remind me of the interviews by
00:40:54.840
Caesar on the Hunger Games series? Because it is. It's kind of just like let them eat cake.
00:41:02.600
May the odds be forever in our favor. I love it. I love it. I don't know. I love people who
00:41:09.600
are just living that high, flying that high, and just really enjoying sprinkles. It's why I just
00:41:17.260
love hanging out with my daughter. It's just everything is just so sparkly for her. I want
00:41:21.940
to keep her in a little sparkly show. Cynthia Person writes, Candice, please make a shirt and hat that
00:41:26.800
says Crisis King and put your name on it. We have that on our website. It's at CandiceOwns.com. You can
00:41:31.280
buy merch. You can buy Crisis King merch. We sell that already. Brian writes, please interview Justin
00:41:36.600
Bieber, Candice. I would love to make that happen. And I will see if I can make that happen. I think
00:41:41.780
when he is ready to have that discussion, he has a lot of people who would like to sit down with him
00:41:46.820
and he can definitely trust me to do a good job with that. Kay Conrad writes, I would love to know
00:41:51.940
your thought process on how you chose Catholicism over Orthodoxy in your studies. I know it's a personal
00:41:57.120
journey and I want to respect that. I do have a lot of questions for you. Yeah, you know, Catholics and
00:42:01.400
the Orthodoxy themselves like brothers and sisters that had an unfortunate fight.
00:42:06.600
And I was drawn toward both of them for a lot of variety of reasons, realizing that neither one
00:42:11.840
of them were kind of updating themselves with the times. I found that when it came to defending the
00:42:17.720
faith in general, they were just unmoved. You know, like they're the most staunch defenders of
00:42:23.720
Christ is King. They were when that whole debacle was happening a couple of years ago. But beyond,
00:42:29.040
just like over the years, they're just unmoved. And you realize that they're tethered by truth,
00:42:33.080
not by the times. To kind of get into that, like I said a couple episodes ago, I feel not equipped
00:42:41.200
to have that discussion. Like I feel very vulnerable on the topic of religion because I'm just starting
00:42:45.740
this process and there's so much to learn. I mean, this is the history of mankind that we're
00:42:51.560
speaking about. And there are people like my husband who had that interest, just kind of came out of the
00:42:57.240
womb and just had questions about God and grew up in a very faithful household and then decided to study
00:43:01.920
theology at Oxford. And I just, he has so much on me in terms of just the time, the development,
00:43:09.140
the thought process. And that's why I kind of, he's obviously not just a leader of our home,
00:43:14.920
but the spiritual leader of our home. And I'm still grappling with all of these questions. And
00:43:19.000
I still have questions about the Catholic faith that I work through with a priest and with him.
00:43:23.660
Um, and so I would just like to be more fully formed because when you already have a platform,
00:43:30.380
they don't, there's no grace. You know, if you say something wrong, oh my gosh, she said something,
00:43:36.460
it's not, it's not according to Catholic doctrine or something like that. I just don't want to let
00:43:39.820
people down and, or she's totally wrong about what she said or what she learned about the Orthodox.
00:43:44.420
I just don't want to let anybody down and I want to be ready for that conversation. So I know that God
00:43:48.280
will put it in my heart when that time is right. Um, we have Misty. She writes, I wonder if the
00:43:54.740
paparazzi were established in response to the morality clause. I seem to make the point that
00:44:00.140
they seem to make that point in Hollywood Babylon, I believe. That's very interesting. Um,
00:44:08.500
that's very interesting. I think you're actually right about that. I do think that, you know,
00:44:14.940
that the paparazzi are basically used. They can always create a scandal surrounding somebody. And
00:44:19.140
we did also speak about how with, um, Britney Spears, they had hired paparazzi and they had
00:44:25.920
intentionally broken her car down. Essentially they can make anyone look crazy by using paparazzi.
00:44:31.520
And, um, if they want to take over your business, they want to get rid of you, or you are about to
00:44:35.880
come out and say something, they definitely use the press to control a lot of celebrities. But
00:44:40.960
we'll get more into that as we cover Hollywood Babylon. As I said, we have the book club
00:44:44.420
tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern. So, and I will be maintaining the book club, by the way, this
00:44:50.920
entire time that, um, I'm on maternity leave because it's very easy. That's what I like to
00:44:54.680
do on maternity leave is read and I can always just put the baby on me. So if you've not joined
00:44:59.280
the book club, please do. The books are super interesting that we are reading. Hollywood Babylon
00:45:04.560
just started. You still have time to get it tomorrow at 6 p.m. You can just have it overnighted
00:45:08.780
and it's a very short book. And beyond that, we'll be reading The Assault on Truth. Don't worry
00:45:13.680
for you guys who can't find that book. We're actually getting a bunch shipped to us so we
00:45:18.100
can sell them right on the website direct to you and it will be a lot cheaper. Um, anyways,
00:45:22.280
I'm trying to think if there's anything else that, like I said, Ian will have one more episode
00:45:25.380
next week. And so you guys can, I'm trying to make that happen live so that you guys can
00:45:31.140
ask us questions. And if there's anything else I can think of in summation, before I get
00:45:35.720
back from maternity leave, I will have it for you when me and Ian Carroll sit down because
00:45:39.020
he will be part-time taking over the show beginning in early May. So look forward to
00:45:44.800
that. It's going to be very sad, guys. Don't cry for me, Argentina. Actually, the only sentence
00:45:53.220
I know from that song, but I don't want you guys to cry. I'm not crying. You're crying.
00:45:56.740
We're all crying. Anyways, you guys, we will see you on Monday.