It Just BLEW UP !!
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Summary
Ryan Reynolds' takeover of It Ends With Us is complete, and now we have all the answers to why and how. Plus, why did Blake Lively keep popping up in different locations in New York last week? And why is she doing so? And who is she working with? Plus, a new report from Rob Shooter on why Blake s carefully staged comeback tour is all about the photos, not the questions.
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At this point, Ryan Reynolds' takeover of It Ends With Us was complete.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Sashley Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. I'm finally over the jet lag and I
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feel great. This week is going to be amazing and I'll keep you updated on everything that happens
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And right now, it seems like they're just living their life
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like nothing happened and there's no consequences for them.
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kept popping up in different locations in New York last week.
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She went to the Fendi event in a store, such a random thing, like a celebration of the baguette
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bag last week. And also she went to a jewelry store. And now we know the reason why. Her new
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strategy is so obvious. This is really interesting. Also in this episode, I wanted to go through more
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of that article that I mentioned last week as well, where this amazing reporter has gone through
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the timeline of events and done so much research to find out how Ryan Reynolds hijacked It Ends
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with Us and why he did it and how he used Blake Lively, his wife, to help him do it. So now we
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have all the answers to why and how. This is truly, truly disturbing. Also, I have to mention
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that I will start talking about other things as well this week. One of the guests that I will
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have here on my show hopefully if we make it work is Dean Guzman. He has helped free so many beagles
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from test laboratories in the U.S. and now he's facing 31 years in prison and he has agreed to
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come on here and talk about it. Such an important case and something really close to my heart which
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is of course animal rights. I am such a dog lover as you know I have my little dog as well
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And my heart bleeds every time I hear about any cruelty against animals.
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Also this week, I'll do a deep dive into the Rebel Wilson case.
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One of the defamation lawsuits against Rebel Wilson was just over a few weeks ago.
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But we're still waiting for the judge to do a ruling on that.
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But there's so much more in that case that's coming up.
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There's so many similarities to that case and to Blake Lively's case.
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So yes, get ready for a week with a lot of different content.
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Anyways, before I start, a big congratulations to Jennifer Abel, Justin Valdoni's publicist.
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She just received the PR Strategist of the Year Award.
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I'm so happy to hear that her new company, RWA Communication, is so successful.
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And I bet you this really infuriates Leslie Sloan, Blake Loyalist, publicist, and also
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Stephanie Jones, who is currently in a legal feud with Jennifer Abel. As you know, Jennifer Abel,
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it was her phone that ended up in the New York Times with those text messages that were leaked
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there. So it's so amazing to see that she's still trusted in the industry and she just received this
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award. So congratulations to Jennifer Abel. Okay, so let's look at this report from Rob Shooter.
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This is quite interesting and it makes so much sense to me.
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He's saying Blake Lively's carefully staged comeback tour
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Blake Lively is carefully orchestrating her Hollywood comeback.
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An insider said every appearance is part of a calculated image reset
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designed to keep the focus on glamour, not controversy.
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And Rob Shooter is saying here that sources have told him
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that Blake has been selectively attending intimate, tightly controlled events with approved
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photographers and limited press access while steering clear of live interviews or unpredictable
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media questions. That didn't even cross my mind, but of course that is why she's going to these
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small events. There are no journalists there asking her questions. There are pre-approved
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photographers who only take photos of her that will end up in some magazine articles saying,
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look at Blake Wively's style. Doesn't she look amazing? And it really worked because a lot of
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these photos, as you've seen on Instagram and on all these like fashion magazines, there are
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pictures of Blake Wively from these events. An insider is saying, hey, Blake knows exactly how
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powerful a perfect photograph can be. A stunning image creates conversation without creating risk.
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photos don't ask different follow-up questions so true according to sources the strategy quietly
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kicked off at this year's Met Gala where Blake dazzled in couture dominated social media and
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generated massive buzz all while avoiding substantive press interviews as you know
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she only did one interview and where she said that oh I'm so shy and my kids drew on this bag
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and that was probably pre-approved and she didn't answer any questions about anything else and no
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journalist had any access to her and if any of the paparazzis knew about her whereabouts when she was
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going to these stores of course they would have shouted a question at her and of course no matter
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if she would have answered it or not they would have made a story about it and this is how she's
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avoiding that but still gets press coverage about her looks and her fashion another insider is
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saying here the mission is very deliberate they want audiences talking about how incredible she
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looks not revisiting old narratives well they're not succeeding in that yet because i think most
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of the conversations that i've seen online has been about this old narrative that she's trying
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to cover up now the thing is it's working in traditional media but social media is not eating
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it up and social media is all that matters these days something again that blake lively forgets
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and here they have some other source from some friends or something i don't know what that means
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but it says friends say blake believes public opinion in hollywood can shift quickly when stars
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flood the culture with aspirational fashion moments viral images and carefully curated
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public appearances. Still not everyone is convinced the makeover strategy alone will
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fully work. I hope not but I would not be surprised if she keeps doing these appearances to just
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flood the internet with just fluff pieces about what she's wearing and I just hope that people
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will keep the momentum up about this so no one forgets what she actually did. But as you know
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something I also reported on is how she is trying to rebuild her image through her social media.
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Now it's all about kindness and lifting other women up. And in her free time, she goes to store
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openings to show off herself in different outfits, smiling, being so nice and polite to everyone
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there. So yeah, let's see what she's going to be up to this week. Anyways, let's talk more about
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this article because this is so fascinating. This is such an amazing job done by this journalist
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Eumonia Dyke. That is not her real name or his real name. I'm calling this person a her just
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for the sake of it. I don't know if it is a woman or a man. This person does not want her identity
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revealed for probably obvious reasons. She has a lot of knowledge from the industry and a lot of
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inside info here. So I'm not going to speculate in who this person is. I've seen some content
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creators do that, but I think it's much better to just leave that alone. I went into a fraction
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of this article last week when I spoke about how Ryan Reynolds used Ezra Hudson, Blake Lively's,
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one of Blake Lively's main attorneys, to use this Me Too law to their advantage because she knew a
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lot about this law. Right now I will go more into details on how Ryan Reynolds step by step took
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over the movie. The pressure he put on Justin Baldoni through his wife by first using guilt
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and then using fear to get everything where he wanted it. But he made one major mistake which
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I will get into later. So according to this reporter the rewrite of the script started one
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and a half months before they started shooting the film so that was in April of 2023 they started
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shooting in May 2023 as you know and then they shot for some months and then there was a little
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break because of the writer's strike and Blake Lively didn't return right after the writer's
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strike was over she returned after the new year of 2024 which also makes total sense now why she
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waited another extra month. So on April 6, 2023, Baldoni sent Lively an updated version of the
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Wayfair script. And the next day, Baldoni received text messages from Lively asking for permission to
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make edits in the script. She said in a text, you okay if I play around with some of the dialogue
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to give her a bit more agency and fund and send to you? And continued, we can use some, all or none
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of it. I just don't want to step on any toes. So as this reporter keeps saying in this article,
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these text messages that Blake Lively sent to Justin Baldoni about script edits came from her
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originally, but Ryan Reynolds was the person behind all of it. As some people have picked
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up on the internet, there's a lot of similarities to the text messages from Blake Lively to Justin
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Baldoni, as we've seen in some of the leaked text messages or the text messages that we saw
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in Discovery from Ryan Reynolds to other people in the industry. And some people believe that he
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actually wrote the text for Blake as well. And the journalist here is pointing out how
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Ryan Reynolds wrote a text to Warren Zavala, his agent. And in the text, he wrote as he was Blake
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Lively saying what a mean girl I am and he bites my lip talking about Justin Baldoni as Blake Lively
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and they say here that Zavala his agent didn't even react to it that he was role-playing so maybe
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that's something that he usually does and they also point out here that in Blake Lively's PGA
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letter that she also or they also assume that Ryan Reynolds wrote he also referred to maximum
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effort as my company, as my production company. A little slip up from Ryan Reynolds there,
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forgetting that he was actually supposed to be Blake Lively in those PGA letter or in that long
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PGA letter that went on for pages and pages and pages. Okay, so then we jump to April 8th. This
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is when Blake receives the first changes to the rooftop scene. And this is also when he receives
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the text message where Blake Lively says that I'm flirty and yummy, a ball buster, and my love
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language is spicy and playful, bold, never with teeth. Remember that? She sent to Baldoni. Then
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already the next day, Baldoni receives another text from Blake saying that, asking him what he
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thought of the changes that she made to the rooftop scene. And he responded in a voice note that we
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also heard that he likes it and you know he will try to implement her changes he didn't want to
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object to everything because he wanted to be on the good side of her but at the same time he's
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being reluctant to put all these changes in the script and as you know when you've seen some of
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the changes I've showed them here on my channel a lot of the changes that Ryan Reynolds made
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made no sense whatsoever and belonged in a Deadpool movie and not in a movie about DV and
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of course Justin Baldoni flagged that and thought you know this conversation does belong in this
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kind of movie. Then we jump to April 12th and Blake Lively invites Justin over to her penthouse
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and guess who's there Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds and this is of course when Taylor Swift
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tells Justin that he should go for Blake Lively's version of the rooftop scene and she loves it so
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much and at the same meeting Ryan Reynolds was praising his wife as well his wife's writing which
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we now know that he obviously wrote. And as you know, this is when we saw those text messages
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between Taylor Swift and Blake, when she calls him a doofus director and a clown, and if she can
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be so kind as a friend to help her push him into accepting her writing. On that same day,
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Ryan Reynolds texted Liz Plank, Justin Baldoni's co-host for his podcast. They were still working
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together on the podcast and we've seen those text messages and ryan is asking you know what's wrong
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with justin there's something off with him and liz plank agrees at the same time wayfair parties
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has sent blake lively her contract and as you know she never signed it but she did get paid on the
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same day justin accepts some of these rooftop changes he said send me the changes again and
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I'll look at them and later in that same day Blake sent more suggestions to Justin about more changes
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in the script this time it was about Lily's mother Jenny Bloom I've read those text messages here and
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Blake kept wanting to change things up and she kept arguing with herself and then she just stopped
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around 10 p.m it says here the same night and nothing came out of that so now Justin started
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responding to Blake saying, I need to run this by Christy Hall, the real script writer. I can't
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just keep making changes to the script without involving her. She's hired to do this job. And
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then Justin started sharing this with other people, sending them text messages saying that
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he's worried that she's trying to take control over everything. And then he sends this message
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to Blake saying, I was working on the rooftop scene today. I really love what you did. It really
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does help a lot makes it so much more fun and interesting and I would have felt that way without
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Ryan and Taylor he says so he's acknowledging at this point that Blake is using Ryan and Taylor
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to pressure him here and the fact that he actually mentioned Taylor that set Ryan and Blake off even
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more so three hours after that Blake sent him that infamous dragon text I have dragons just you
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watch yourself they're also mentioning Sean Levy in that text message one of Ryan Reynolds
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close collaborators and as you know he also called Justin Baldon we haven't heard that phone
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conversation we maybe never will but telling him how to actually act with Blake Lively and how to
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maneuver her basically helping Ryan Reynolds with this master plan also a lot of people have
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speculated if that text message actually came from Ryan Reynolds and I believe it does because we've
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seen so many times that he is such a Game of Thrones fan. And I don't believe Blake Lively
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actually watched the show. She hadn't watched the show when she did an interview with Age of Adeline
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and one of her co-stars was in Game of Thrones and she admitted she hadn't watched it. But Ryan
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Reynolds has been outspoken about what a big fan he is of the show and that's why he added in
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Kaleishi and the dragons in the text message that he sent to Justin. So now where he had control over
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the script, the next step for Ryan Reynolds was to take control over the production itself. As this
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reporter is saying, Reynolds would have to transform himself from the thief of the project to its
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savior and Baldoni from the rightful owner to the villain. That's why he hit Baldoni where it hurt
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him the most, his commitment to gender equality. So then we get to the new chapter of Ryan Reynolds
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takeover strategy where he weaponizes Blake Lively's gender. And this is where all those
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SH claims comes in. Of course, he knew about the Man Enough podcast and the books that Justin
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Baldoni had released. And he knew that this is what would hurt Justin Baldoni the most. And this
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is also what he would fear the most. So now his new strategy was to make Justin Baldoni feel guilt
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that he wasn't treating a woman, his wife, the right way.
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And after he had implemented all these things to make Justin Baldoni feel guilty for not
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that's lisa.com code 60 okay so let's jump back into it so for ryan and lively to make sure
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that justin baldoni would implement their changes to the scripts or to ryan's changes on the script
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they needed to make sure that he felt enough pressure to do so and that is when the fat
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shaming came in so on april 23rd as you know justin baldoni got in touch with don saladino
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Blake Lively's trainer that she recommended for him to use and Justin asked in confidence about
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Blake's weight and as you know Justin had a back issue and he was worried about her safety and his
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own safety and that's why he asked that question and of course Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds used
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that against him. So on April 25th of 2023 Blake invited Justin to discuss some script notes to
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her penthouse in New York. And guess who was there to berate Justin for five hours? Ryan Reynolds.
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Justin has explained this in text messages how traumatizing that was for him when Ryan was
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basically yelling at him non-stop for five hours. And remember, this was before they even started
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shooting the movie. So at this point, Justin was just apologizing, although he didn't understand
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what he had done wrong and at the same meeting Blake and Ryan kept mentioning that they could
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also find a new actress for the movie but the fact was they had already paid her so they knew
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that that was impossible. They couldn't just stop the entire production and find a new actress and
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of course they also had responsibilities for Sony. After that meeting Blake Lively sent a text
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message saying, I had a three-hour meeting with him today. He got it loud and clear. He audibly
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sobbed, she said. So there was the guilt. She concluded in that text message, this man is
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terrified of women. So there was the fear, as this reporter is saying again, Ryan used first guilt
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and then fear to get Justin Baldoni where he wanted him. So then the shooting starts on May 15
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of 2023. And Blake and Ryan kept making daily changes to the script. And this is also when
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the new plan got into action, when they started implementing the fair in Justin Baldoni. And on
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June 13, Blake starts asking about access to the dailies. You know, the dailies is the raw footage
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that they shoot every single day. So of course, Ryan wanted to have control over everything,
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over every shoot also to see if they had actually implemented his changes in the script. Justin
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wasn't too keen on this sharing the dailies with one of the actresses in the movie that is not a
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normal thing to do so he resisted doing that and again a month later she keeps asking about the
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dailies and then there's a text message between Blake and her agent Warren Zavala on August 29
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so two months later, that she's so furious and she's so frustrated that Baldoni refuses
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to give her the dailies. To Warren, she said, his entire sales pitch is how collaborative he is and
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how much he values women. They're all clowns. I have my HR report ready also for your info.
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Because Baldoni was resisting, Ryan Reynolds needed to put more pressure on him. And this
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is when they started twisting those little things that happen on sets into fabricated misdeeds and
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this is when the sh comes in so at this time they were working on new laws in california
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the me too law as we now know as 47.1 that law was still not in effect at this time as you know
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the production shut down i think it was in august or september of 2023 and most productions started
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again in November, December of the same year. At that point, this law was not in effect. But the
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governor in California, Gavin Newsom, had signed it on October 10th. So people knew that this law
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was about to take effect. As you know, Blake and Ryan's attorney, Ezra Hudson, was very well aware
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of this and she knew exactly how to take advantage of this law. Then on November 9th during the
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strike Blake Lively sent this 17-point list to Baldoni and the Wayfair parties demanding all
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these changes of things that basically had not happened but it seemed like from that 17-point
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list that there was a lot of S-aged and very inappropriate behavior going on on the set.
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That same day, the strike ended, the writer's strike ended.
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And the same day, a few hours later, Ryan Reynolds announced that Deadpool and Wolverine would resume filming around Thanksgiving.
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And later on that day, at 2 p.m., Blake Lively's representative emailed the 17-point list to the Wayfair parties.
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They had a busy day, the two of them, that day.
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So obviously, Ryan Reynolds had spent so much time plotting this during the strike.
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This is when he had time to sit down and figure out the rest of this play to take over the movie.
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So, of course, the Wayfair parties were completely shocked on Blake Lively's list and her demands.
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I won't come back to shooting unless you implement all of this and you sign this list of 17 points.
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And, of course, that terrified Sony because they spent so much money or they put so much money into this movie.
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So they also put pressure on Wayfair parties to sign the deal.
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with Blake so she could come back and work again. At the same time, they had to agree to send over
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the dailies and all the creative materials that Blake Lively demanded. And so the Wayfair party
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sent over the entire script again on November 11th. And then Ryan Reynolds was off to rewrite
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the entire script. Already on December 6th, the first email came from Blake when she made changes
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again to the script and then Blake sent email after email after email with changes and as the
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reporter is saying here no one knew at that time that it was Ryan Reynolds writing all these changes
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the Wayfair parties didn't know that either the only reason we know that is because Blake Lively
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told a reporter that on the red carpet as you know she bragged about her husband actually wrote that
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scene and that was a huge mistake but as this reporter is pointing out here it's so obvious
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now that we know we can see Ryan Reynolds signature all over the script I've gone through some of the
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changes some of those that Deadpool language that he used in the script and this reporter is pointing
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out one thing specifically saying using the word husk fuck which is a term used by people who likes
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to do those things with hairy, hairy people in their hairy areas.
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And that same term is also used in the Deadpool movie.
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And it's so obvious why Justin didn't like that term to be used in a movie about DV.
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And this is also not a phrase that is very commonly used.
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And then on December 15th, Blake Lively's representative
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sent an updated version of that 17 point list that they already agreed to. So why would they
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send an updated version of the list? And here they're mentioning a text message from Boldoni
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when he said, everyone knows how I feel about all this and how angry I am at the system. It's so
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broken. It's letting Blake take over a film and rewrite a movie we spent years developing.
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I've come to terms with the fact that the only way out is through. I'm waving the white flag
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in submitting. I'm going to give her 98% of what she wants. I'm sure none of us have the energy to
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fight anymore. At this point, Ryan Reynolds' takeover of It Ends With Us was complete. He knew
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that if Baldonio the Wayfair put up any resistance to the next stages of the takeover, Lively could
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threaten to go public with accusations of SH. Then should Wafair sue Lively for defamation
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to counter those accusations Lively would have immunity under section 47.1 so Ryan knew that he
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could get away with this so they're saying here that when Lively sent that 17 point list the first
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time on November 9th she actually said that she could return to sets already on December 5th of
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2023. Then the Wayfair parties finally agreed and still Blake's team pushed for the start date for
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her to come back on December 11th. So at first the Wayfair parties resisted signing this list
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and when they did, Lively's team pushed for her to come back later on on December 11th and that
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meant another month of delay, another month of losing money for the Wayfair parties and for Sony.
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Finally, it says here on November 22nd, the Wayfair parties agreed to the list and they signed it.
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And when they did that, Blake's team said she won't be available now until January of 2024.
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And that is when the Me Too law started taking effect.
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On December 27th, Justin Baldoni received a text message from Blake saying,
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Come to my penthouse on January 4th because I have some things to discuss with you before I come back on set.
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He was not informed what that meeting was about.
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But instead, as you know, of talking about the next stages of filming,
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Blake Lively kept reading up this list that they already had seen of the 17 points.
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And as you know, one of the Sony reps was also there.
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And she was so shocked that this was actually the theme of that meeting
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because she was also under the impression that they were just going to talk about
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the rest of the shoot. But this was part of the next trap. This is where Ryan Reynolds attacked
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Justin Baldoni, demanding an apology from him. According to Jamie Heast, who was also there,
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Justin didn't apologize at that time. He was just so baffled. He was so in shock by what actually
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had happened. For him to be pressured like that, to apologize for all these things that actually
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hadn't happened and at the same time he was pressured to sign this and take accountability
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for it because that's what Ryan Reynolds needed him to do. He needed him to apologize and take
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accountability for it because then they had that evidence to use against him that he admitted to
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these things. If he admitted to this list that would mean legal liability for Justin. As we
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learned later, this list was, of course, used in the lawsuits as an example of him admitting guilt.
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During that meeting, Ryan demanded this in writing from Justin, by the way, so that he could have
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this evidence there and show that, hey, he admitted to doing all these things. So, of course, they
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needed a fresh signature on this list dated after the Me Too law had taken into effect. Although
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Justin never apologized in that meeting. Blake and Ryan now have evidence and eyewitnesses that
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this meeting actually happened at this date. So this could have been the perfect heist for Ryan
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Reynolds but then he got caught. This was so thoroughly planned from Blake and from Ryan
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and how Ryan was using his wife to take over this film and she agreed to it. So he was working
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behind the scenes while she was making sure to turn the entire cast and crew as many as she could
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against him. And Ryan also knew if any of this would become public that Blake had actually lied
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and she had hijacked the movie it wouldn't get back to him because he had covered all his tracks
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perfectly. He was just the supportive husband in the background. The reporter here is pointing out
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that it's unclear who made the decision for Blake
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because he's such a narcissist. I'm not sure if it was a mistake from Blake or if it was all
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planned out. But until that point, everything went as planned. I will get more into the rest
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of this article later this week as well, because it's so fascinating. Now when we're putting all
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these little pieces together, it makes so much sense of what actually happened. And I think it
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really needs to be out there and this journalist has done such an amazing job putting this all
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together I've had so many questions myself on how and why this happened but reading this now
00:32:52.580
and knowing who Ryan Reynolds really is now that makes all of this make so much sense to me
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anyways that's it for me today that was a long episode but I really wanted to tell this story
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so everyone understand what really went on behind the scenes
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I can't believe Justin Baldoni is still standing,
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what he has gone through, what his family has gone through,
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after all of this happened and then being sued the way that they did.
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I mean, they all deserve all the success coming their way
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because I believe in karma and I hope you do too.
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I really hope you enjoy this episode and please keep sending me tips of other stories you want me
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