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00:13:40.020But the purpose of showing you that clip is to essentially paint a picture to you of why somebody like Shapiro, Nick Shapiro, who Blake and Ryan have hired, might want to be launching a crisis PR firm after they leave the CIA.
00:13:54.740And he did hold on to his former security clearances.
00:13:58.320Now, he no longer holds on to those clearances because guess what?
00:14:01.860He lied to the public in a rather egregious way.
00:14:04.620He was one of the 51, one of the 51 former senior intelligence agents who signed that letter to gaslight us all in 2020, claiming that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation, which was just retrospectively an insane lie.
00:14:21.620And then when that lie eventually fell apart, he had his clearance revoked.
00:14:25.320Again, I'm reading this from the Variety article.
00:14:27.920It says, quote, Shapiro is not without controversy.
00:14:30.680He was one of the group of 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed the widely cited and subsequently criticized 2020 open letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop, quote, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
00:14:46.340And that, my friends, is exactly why Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have hired him, because he has proven that he is willing to lie without flinching, that he will straight up lie to protect his clients.
00:15:01.840And he has proven successful under that model because there are many people who took their word for it and thought, OK, this gaslight, this this this laptop, nothing in this is real, just long enough for it not to impact any election.
00:15:13.460Like maybe there are some people who would have voted differently.
00:15:19.340It tells us what what we should know about his character, which is essentially that he has no morals.
00:15:24.520And so this is a terrible look for Blake and Ryan Reynolds.
00:15:27.700But these two seem to be very intent on making every wrong move, in my opinion, like they truly believe they are too rich and too connected to have to face any responsibility for their lives.
00:15:39.900They're just going to hire people who are more immoral than them to handle it, to just make it go away.
00:15:46.020So it's now extremely, by the way, interesting to me that I suddenly got contacted at the same time by both New York magazine and their sister publication, The Cut, by their senior writers, which I told you about yesterday.
00:15:59.000And one of the most blatant hit pieces to happen to me, I would say actually this whole year, it was pretty blatant, rather egregious.
00:16:08.000And I told you guys about this yesterday, but I want to expand upon it because more information has come to the forefront.
00:16:12.960The writer, E.J. Dixon, contacted us under the guise of an agreement pretending that she was just interested in how my podcasts have gone viral on the Blake Lively situation.
00:16:22.780And so I agreed to this phone call because I don't really care about the smearing and libeling anymore.
00:16:28.080I think everyone left and right is kind of waking up and we're fracturing our trust with the mainstream media.
00:16:32.740But then the conversation got really weird.
00:16:35.020So first, I want you to I just want to read this sentence that came out of it to show you how dishonest she was.
00:16:43.380She's talking about my past extreme views that have led people to disavow me.
00:16:48.660She writes on her live streams and her social media, she has equated the Jewish religious practice of Kabbalah with pedophilia, nodded to medieval Blythe level conspiracy theory that Jews ritualistically slaughter Christian children.
00:17:04.900And has referred to some of the historically documented atrocities of the Holocaust, such as Joseph Mengele's experiments on twins as bizarre propaganda.
00:17:13.960So she writes that. And it's fascinating that she included like she asked me these questions and I gave her such concrete answers to debunk these lies in the media.
00:17:22.840And she chose not to publish it because her job was to smear me, not to clarify any of the smears that haven't written about me.
00:17:28.600But that part about the Kabbalah, the Kabbalah was really interesting because on the phone call, she suddenly gets very weird.
00:17:34.080And she's like, I read on the ADL's website. I couldn't find a source for it, but I read that you think Judaism is for pedophiles.
00:17:43.520And I said, you couldn't find a source for it because I've never said that.
00:17:46.080I was like, that would be foolish. Absolutely foolish. I'm Christian.
00:17:48.860What is the what are the first five books of the Bible? It's Judaism.
00:17:52.060I was like, of course, I never said that. And she said, so do you think they mischaracterized your statements?
00:17:56.200I said, no, I think they outright lied.
00:17:58.600And then she starts asking me about the she's like, what about the Kabbalah?
00:18:03.060And I said, well, I can clarify for you what statements I did make and I can give you the names of the authors, the Jewish authors that I read.
00:18:11.140I was referring to Sigmund Freud, who created all of these like sex theories regarding children.
00:18:16.760And I read two books. I read a book by David Bacon, who is a formerly he's he is passed away now.
00:18:22.620But he was a Jewish professor who taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago.
00:18:27.880And he wrote a book about Jew about Sigmund Freud and the Jewish mystical tradition.
00:18:32.880And then I told her, and more importantly, is this Jewish Harvard graduate, Jeffrey Mam, saying his middle name wrong, Moussaif Masson, who wrote this really incredible book that is a part of our book club.
00:18:45.620We're going to read it this year called The Assault on Truth, Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory.
00:18:50.080And I said, no one, in my view, has more authority to speak on Sigmund Freud than this guy because he was hired as the assistant director, soon to become the director of Sigmund Freud Archive Center.
00:19:02.860He worked with Sigmund Freud's daughter.
00:19:06.080And while he was working at that center, he learned German so that he could read Sigmund Freud's notes that had never been released to the public.
00:19:12.160And he basically discovers, while reading this note, that Sigmund Freud had created these theories not because he actually believed that children were attracted to their parents, but because he was covering for pedophiles.
00:19:23.320Like, these children were actually being assaulted by their parents.
00:19:27.760I literally said, here's the book, here's the author, and here are the people that have connected those dots for me, and I think we need to go back and discuss Sigmund Freud.
00:19:34.500And she didn't include any of that in the article.
00:19:36.200She just republishes the lies, which is amazing, but it's going to get even more amazing.
00:19:41.240So then I'm like, you know, I'm pregnant, okay?
00:19:43.700And I decided that I had time to just kind of obsessively, all I like to do is research, research this writer, because why would you just outright smear me when you could have just clarified what I was speaking about and included what I said?
00:19:57.100And I find this article, you guys, of what really perturbed her about this Sigmund Freud thing.
00:20:04.260And it's an article that she has published, she had previously published, regarding her childhood friend who was convicted as a child molester.
00:20:13.740And I'm going to read from it directly, because I think this is really important for all of us to recognize who are the people that are in control.
00:20:22.000So she's publishing an article saying, my views are just so contemptible, and here's what she thinks, here's what she still thinks.
00:20:29.480And now I'm going to read you her views.
00:20:31.500This is a first-person article that she published in Cashmere magazine.
00:20:36.240She wrote a few months ago, upon looking at a former elementary school photo and doing a cursory Google search of former classmates,
00:20:44.240I discovered that a former childhood friend of mine, who I'll call Sam, a boy that I hadn't spoken to in more than 10 years,
00:20:49.720a boy who used to zip to school on his Razor scooter every morning, a boy who went to my bat mitzvah,
00:20:58.060Partly out of morbid curiosity and partly out of an attempt to reconcile the floppy-haired boy that I once wrote NSYNC parody lyrics with,
00:21:06.800and the person that he turned out to be, I spent many late nights combing through his court documents.
00:21:11.380I learned that he had molested his half-sister, a girl I remembered as a baby in her pretty mother's stroller on multiple occasions.
00:21:18.360I learned that he was part of a child-porn file-sharing community, and that the feds busted him at his mom's house.
00:21:24.800He is currently serving a five-year sentence at a penitentiary in Texas.
00:21:29.660The rest of this article is not spent speaking about his victims or speaking about his sister.
00:21:35.040It's then spent trying to convince the readers, and I'm going to read it verbatim because I don't need to take her out of context here,
00:21:39.640that the problem is that we aren't trying to find solutions for him, for the person who molested a child and victimized other children via child pornography.
00:21:50.020The article is entitled, Could Child Sex Robots Cure Pedophilia?
00:21:54.860Like, robots that look like children that would allow pedophiles to get out their frustrations.
00:22:00.180She, what I thought about earlier this week about Sam, when I came across a Forbes piece about child sex robots
00:22:07.260and how they could potentially be used as a therapeutic tool or an outlet for pedophile sexual desires.
00:22:14.560She then quotes a person named Ron Arkin, who's the director of a tech lab,
00:22:19.320who says that childlike robots could be used for pedophiles the way that methadone is used to treat drug addicts.
00:22:24.920She then, going back into her first person, says,
00:22:27.340in recommending that this future technology be used in a controlled research setting,
00:22:32.220Arkin's cautiousness is understandable, given how quick our society is to demonize pedophiles,
00:22:37.460as well as demonize those who suggest any mode of treatment for them short of execution.
00:26:54.300This is actually published in The Cut.
00:26:56.120E.J. Dixon found herself with the libido of a teenage boy, including a desire to watch hardcore pornography,
00:27:02.480the kind of terrifying gangbangs that she'd never seen or saw before.
00:27:06.840And by the way, this is the tip of the iceberg, because I just thought it was just too gross to keep going through the stuff that she promotes
00:27:39.620This is the morality that guides the people that write hit pieces.
00:27:44.360So whether they work for the CIA and they have no problem lying, whether they work for one of the CIA's satellite publishers and they have no issues lying,
00:27:54.400what they share in common is, in my view, just immorality.
00:27:58.920Like they are just happy to do and say whatever and feel nothing.
00:28:03.560And they always have this perverse relationship with the truth.
00:28:09.300Like they feel they root for the bad guy.
00:28:11.280Anyway, again, nowhere in this piece she talked about his little sister again.
00:28:14.780It's just like I feel really sad for Sam, not his little sister that he molested.
00:28:21.200Anyways, you guys, we have obtained the audio of Ari Emanuel, which we're going to get to.
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00:30:42.180Okay, first we should cover this update in the Blake Lively lawsuit.
00:30:45.740So you will remember, I think it was last week, we covered this absurd subpoena that was filed by Blake Lively's team.
00:30:52.060They were asking for basically every text message and every phone call for every person that they are suing, dating back two and a half years.
00:31:07.580Why would they file something that no court would ever grant in a million years?
00:31:12.360And I said, probably because, you can literally go back, I predicted this.
00:31:17.700I said, probably they are going to do this because they think the public is stupid.
00:31:22.780And so when the judge come back and says no, they're going to go to the press and they're going to say,
00:31:26.640why doesn't Justin Baldoni want to give us every single communication and text message that he's ever had for the last two and a half years?
00:32:42.860You're looking for stuff so you can embarrass them, so you can know things about them.
00:32:46.880I would never in a million years be like, yeah, you can subpoena every single text message
00:32:51.460that I have with my sisters and my friends and my husband and whoever it is.
00:32:55.860Anyways, I'll take you through the judge's ruling because it is actually a kind of a split ruling,
00:33:03.340obviously very much in the favor of Justin Baldoni.
00:33:05.580But I'll tell you this so that you know what happens next.
00:33:08.500So Judge Lehman writes, Wayfarer Studios, Justin Baldoni and Jamie Heath moved to quash the subpoenas
00:33:15.160issued to their cellular providers, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.
00:33:19.740For the reasons following, the motion is granted in part and denied in part.
00:33:25.080Lively served the subpoenas on February 12th, 2025.
00:33:29.240The subpoenas requested all documents concerning ingoing and outgoing calls or text messages
00:33:34.780related to telephone numbers belonging to Wayfarer parties and related individuals
00:33:39.460within the time period of December 1st, 2022 to the present, included but not limited to call logs,
00:33:46.640text logs, data logs and cell site location information.
00:33:50.680She wants to know even where you were when you sent the text to your doctor about the rash on your child's buttocks.
00:33:57.780Like that's what they essentially were asking for.
00:33:59.720OK, now the telephone numbers of the Wayfarer parties and related individuals are identified in the subpoenas.
00:34:07.360Then they say that what happens next was that on February 14th, the Wayfarer parties obviously came back and said no.
00:34:13.060They moved to squash it and they said because what you're asking for is, quote, overly broad and invasive.
00:34:19.180So the court then ordered that they both meet and say come back with something logical that you can agree to after the after the parties conferred,
00:34:25.620Lively agreed to remove all documents and to remove the request for location locational data
00:34:31.980and to clarify that the subpoenas seek only call logs and text logs that reflect non-content and numerical information regarding ingoing and outgoing text messages.
00:34:43.800The Wayfarer parties then came back and said, no, they shouldn't even have a right to that because some people are not involved at all in this lawsuit.
00:34:50.940Why don't you just request basically the numbers of people that are our communications?
00:34:57.260But why would you have third parties? Why would you be able to see what's going on between them?
00:35:01.620And so the judge came back and he said, yeah, they objected to the fact of the phone numbers with for anyone with whom that they converse with.
00:35:10.400Lively argued that the purpose of those subpoenas is to lead to admissible admissible evidence regarding communications,
00:35:16.380not only for the defendants, but among the larger network of individuals who perpetuated the untraceable campaign against Ms. Lively.
00:35:25.380Now, the judge came back and he said that the court must weigh the relevance of the probative value of the documents that were being sought against the privacy interests.
00:35:33.520And he felt that the subpoenas of the Wayfarer parties phone records, even as Blake Lively had modified the request, did not meet those standards that they were.
00:35:45.240The request was overly intrusive and disproportionate to the needs of the case.
00:35:49.260And here's where it gets funny, because he says this.
00:35:51.300He says, even though Lively has narrowed her request to exclude the content of calls or messages, the phone records themselves will still contain sensitive information regarding doctors, psychologists or even acquaintances.
00:36:06.840Lively has identified no means to segregate those numbers that may have some relevance to her case from numbers that would have no relevance to her case.
00:36:16.140She mainly argues that the subpoenas will help her identify the larger network of individuals who perpetuated this campaign against her.
00:36:24.200But according to Lively's own complaint, this negative campaign did not begin until August of 2024.
00:36:30.160And then he cites her own filings and says, ma'am, you filed a lawsuit saying, quotes, that the beginning of the plan to destroy Lively's reputation began in August of 2024.
00:36:41.560Now you're requesting to see everything dating back from 2022.
00:36:47.240He writes, it is therefore unclear how communications to and from wayfarer parties in 2022 would reveal individuals who participated in the campaign.
00:36:57.620That is the kindest way that a judge can say to you that your lawyers are stupid.
00:37:03.820And he's like, your lawyers are really stupid because you guys started this lawsuit and you said that this campaign began in August of 2024.
00:37:12.720And now you're suddenly asking me to see text messages dating back 2022.
00:37:17.100You are not able to hold a logical thought.
00:37:25.300You can now, you can, however, and this is where he grants them the request.
00:37:28.820You can, however, receive the communications regarding not just wayfarer parties, but potentially third parties they were communicating with from that time of August 2024 going forward.
00:37:40.280So they're basically going to get four months of messages from August 2024 until December in 2020 of messages, including third parties.
00:37:49.400They felt that that was relevant, that she could, in fact, see who they're texting and who those individuals who they potentially could have been coordinating with that are not parties to the suit, as long as it is people that are mentioned in the suit.
00:38:04.140So she's mentioned some third party individuals, like she mentioned Jed Wallace.
00:38:08.300He was not actually a party to the suit.
00:38:10.460Well, she will be able now to receive his messages for four months to be able to see if phone calls took place for four months.
00:38:18.220And, of course, they did because they hired him.
00:38:21.040So I don't know what they're going to be able to discern from those communications, but he has granted that order.
00:38:25.740So it's really a positive movement, I would say, obviously, for Justin Baldoni's team.
00:38:30.380They basically got everything they wanted, and they're just going to have to, which they were willing to do, comply with a limited scope subpoena.
00:38:39.060Okay, now we have to get to this leaked audio of Ari Emanuel and Freakonomics.
00:38:42.940Remember we showed you, I think it was yesterday, how they pretended that something happened with the audio.
00:38:49.060I now understand why it is that they did not want this audio to see the light of day.
00:38:55.320And you're going to hear something that Ari Emanuel says that is going to be extremely problematic for his clients, who he's, quote unquote, ride or die for.
00:39:05.420And, yeah, it's definitely going into the lawsuit.
00:39:10.240It definitely proves the point that Justin Baldoni was hurt financially by what Blake Lively did with the rumors and colluding with The New York Times that he lost money and he lost opportunity.
00:55:24.920He's lucky it wasn't me in there, because I promise you, if I was in there and he was talking to me like that for taking money from the mouths of my family,
00:55:33.080my family's out there, they can't put gas in their tank, and you're over here coming here in your sweatpants.
00:57:56.980Elon Musk isn't taking billions of dollars away from the taxpayer.
00:58:00.740Do you understand the difference here?
00:58:02.540And listen, if you guys in Europe, because you guys love this war so much because you have an aging population that's still high on what I would refer to as Cold War propaganda.
00:58:13.240Like, these are the kids, this boomer generation that grew up and like in the way that we had fire drills, you got to think about this.
00:59:31.160But the American people are tired of it.
00:59:32.840And I have to tell you, we are tired of being the pocketbook to the world, especially while our countries are in deterioration.
00:59:39.380When we look around and we have all of these issues and we can't even get, like, you know, things to look nice, the streets to look clean everywhere.
01:00:03.480He tweeted, we had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today.
01:00:06.640Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure.
01:00:10.980It's amazing what comes out through emotion.
01:00:12.640And I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for peace if America is involved because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.
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01:03:15.080We started this in mid-June of last year and we had 1.3 million and now we're at 4 million.
01:03:20.280And I am so grateful to all of you guys for making this happen.
01:03:23.880That was, I mean, that was, it wasn't even a goal that we had and we absolutely smashed that anyways.
01:03:28.940And that's the first time I've ever had 4 million subs on YouTube.
01:03:31.540Never even had that on my prior channel at a prior network.
01:03:35.340Brittany writes, that was what you said.
01:03:38.320Congrats on 4 million subs and I can't wait to get sucked into another web of craziness starting on Monday.
01:03:42.540Thank you for making all of us conspiracy theorists, quote unquote.
01:03:45.020Christina writes, Candice, what do you think is going on with the stringing along of the release of the Epstein files?
01:03:50.500I'm a bit disappointed and I find it slightly alarming of the promises being made and the promises not being kept.
01:03:55.840I gave my take on this yesterday, Christina.
01:03:57.700If you go back and watch it in the comments or I think we actually covered it, but we're never going to see it because too many powerful people are involved in it.
01:04:05.020And also it implicates Israel and we never see any files that could potentially implicate Israel.
01:04:24.880This is why someone as creepy and weird as EJ writes these sorts of articles, because now we have a way to get around the mainstream media.
01:04:48.160Here's how we can patch that and fix it.
01:04:49.820And I just think the era, that's what you want to call it, of people looking up to reporters as if they're honest and truthful and non-biased is just completely over.
01:05:01.360Right and left, we know that that is just not the circumstance and that it's going to require us to start thinking critically and to continue to think critically, even about the people that you follow like me.
01:05:10.220Like just back check stuff yourself, make sure everything is real.
01:05:14.440And yeah, I think that's all that we can really offer.
01:05:16.660I'm equally as excited to embark on the Harvey journey beginning next week.