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There was a hearing yesterday in the parallel lawsuit between the PR company that Justin Baldoni hired to smear Stephanie Jones and one of her former employees, Jennifer Abel. And it turns out, one of those employees, Katie Case, is lying.
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this really shady tactic that they're using in the media right now.
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I'm Jashti Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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but Stephanie Jones, the PR company that Justin Baldoni hired
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and one of their former employees, Jennifer Abel.
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But still, Blake felt the need to send four lawyers into that hearing.
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Anyways, the reason for the hearing is that somebody is lying.
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Melissa Nathan, who was the PR specialist that Justin Baldoni hired,
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of being a part of a smear campaign against Stephanie Jones.
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And yesterday, Taylor Swift was mentioned in the hearing as well.
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that Blake and Ryan is trying to get away with.
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Some internet slew out there found out this really shady tactic
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we now know that Blake and Ryan originally lied
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There is an article where the story is very different
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Okay, so let's start with this hearing that was yesterday.
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This was a hearing in the Stephanie Jones versus Jennifer Abel case.
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Blake Lively wants to have access to information from that case
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so she can discredit Melissa Nathan in her case.
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But the players here are really Stephanie Jones,
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who owns a PR company and her previous employee, Jennifer Abel.
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So this hearing is basically about how Stephanie Jones feels
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that she was defamed or smeared by her former employee.
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So another one of Stephanie Jones' former employees called Katie Case
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who is a crisis manager who's also hired by Justin Baldoni.
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So Stephanie Jones has accused Melissa Nathan for being a part of creating a smear website against her.
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There was a website called Stephanie Jones Lies or something like that.
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But on this website, people who had worked with Stephanie Jones
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told their stories about how their experiences were with her.
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And as you know, there's been articles written about Stephanie Jones and her unethical methods
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and how she has gone after her former clients when they leave her trying to smear them.
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Anyway, so the reason again for this meeting is because Melissa Nathan said in her testimony
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that she never asked Katie Case to write a website to smear Stephanie Jones.
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Katie Case says that she was asked by Melissa Nathan to create this website.
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The owner of Tag, which is the company that Melissa Nathan started,
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which is also the company that Katie Case went to join after leaving Stephanie Jones,
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is owned by Scooter Braun, who also used to be represented by Stephanie Jones.
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Why would Katie Case lie and say that Melissa Nathan was the one who asked her to do the website?
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One of the reasons could be that she's afraid of Stephanie Jones
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So she's going to say that, oh, I just did it on behalf of someone else.
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Also, another reason for Katie Case to not tell the truth there
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is because she doesn't want to get dragged into this lawsuit and become a defendant herself.
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Also, if Melissa Nathan had admitted that she was behind that website
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to smear someone, that would have looked really bad in the Justin Baldoni lawsuit
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because then they would be like, hey, look what she did there.
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And that's exactly the reason why Blake Lively's attorneys are so interested in this.
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Also, I find it interesting why Stephanie Jones also didn't just sue Tag and Scooter Braun here.
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Because also, he had a fallout with Stephanie Jones during that whole Taylor Swift drama.
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Because during the Taylor Swift drama, when she was fighting for her masters,
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Stephanie Jones was representing Scooter Braun.
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And they had a fallout because Stephanie Jones allegedly went after Taylor Swift on social media
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and tried to smear her and Scooter Braun didn't like that.
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But anyways, that also gives Scooter Braun a reason to create this website.
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And a lot of other clients of Stephanie Jones who really doesn't like her.
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A lot of people came out in an article, the Business Insider did, about Stephanie Jones
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and explained their horrific experiences with her.
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Another thing here is that if you create a website about someone
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and you only put out people's experiences and opinions about that person,
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Does it have to be a lie to be called smearing?
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Or can you just say that I had a terrible experience with this person?
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Anyways, now, of course, Stephanie Jones' attorneys wants to get to the bottom of this.
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And they want more documentation from Katie Case.
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They want to serve her a broader subpoena to get more information.
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And then Kevin Fritz, who was there representing Wayfair parties,
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Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel, Justin Baldoni and everyone,
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he said, why should they get the opportunity to get more subpoenas thrown out there
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while we were trying to subpoena Taylor Swift and you told us no, it was too late.
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So then why should they be able to get a late subpoena?
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So now we have to see what the judge agrees to here.
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If he agrees to give them the opportunity to start to serve another subpoena,
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then he could risk a lot of other asks for more subpoenas from all parties here.
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And some of the players are involved in so many areas.
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As you might also know, this Rebel Wilson lawsuit that I haven't really spoken about much
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here on my channel yet, but I will get into that.
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Melissa Nathan is also involved in that lawsuit.
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That lawsuit with Rebel Wilson and her former producer of a movie
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and the actress in the movie is so complicated and so insane
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that it has a lot of the same patterns as we've seen in this lawsuit.
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I will try to get into that in details in the next couple of weeks.
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Anyways, let's get into the new tactic here of Blake and Ryan
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and how they're trying to save their image from all the negative press
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that came from Justin Baldoni's motion for summary judgment.
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Remember, he filed a lot of new evidence a couple of weeks ago
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and it was everywhere that Ryan Reynolds was the angry husband
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and Blake Lively improvised a kiss on Justin Baldoni on the set of It Ends With Us.
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And now they are really trying to control the narrative as usual.
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And they're also trying some new tricks to try and control Google and SEO.
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So all credit here goes to Katie Inc. K, which I'll leave a link to below
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But she figured out something really fascinating.
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First, I just wanted to go through this article a little bit
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because it says that Blake Lively stocks up for Thanksgiving
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So there are paparazzi pictures of Blake Lively going shopping at Trader Joe's.
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Trader Joe's, if you don't live in America, is a grocery store where you get really good prices.
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Anyways, you would not expect to see an A-lister, as they call her here, shopping at Trader Joe's.
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And keep in mind, when you watch these pictures of her with two bags from Trader Joe's,
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Who goes shopping for Thanksgiving and brings back two bags when you have four children?
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And she called the paparazzi to tell them, hey, I'm going to Trader Joe's here.
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So she obviously want us to see her in this light as a regular person.
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Remember those articles they used to have in some of those glossy magazines
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where they said, celebrities, they're just like us.
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the actress who was recently accused of improvising an unscripted kiss
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kept a low profile as she ran errands at Trader Joe's.
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While browsing the aisles, the Gossip Girl star 38 looked cozy in a chunky top-knit cardigan,
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distressed patchwork jeans, a white beanie, and tan UGG boots.
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They're actually mentioning here that she was accused of improvised kissing.
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And I thought, okay, this might be a little balanced reporting.
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That was until I realized what they're actually doing here.
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Then the article continues to say that Reynolds was most recently seen last week
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while speaking at the Wall Street Journal CMO Council Summit in New York City.
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Then he said some interesting things that made another article in People magazine
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First, let's see what Katie noticed about that article in the Daily Mail.
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I'm going to specifically point out this Daily Mail article that says,
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Blake Lively stocks up for Thanksgiving with Trader Joe Faber.
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And it looks like a fairly harmless title, right?
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It says, Blake Lively vicious Justin Baldoni kiss.
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So when you are searching for Blake Lively and unscripted kiss, this article will come up.
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And you're like, oh, she's just shopping at Trader Joe's.
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She's just a wholesome person and a down-to-earth person.
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So they are burying this scandal by flooding with positive articles
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and using the same keywords for those positive articles.
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So that's what comes up when you're searching for Blake Lively scandals.
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thinking like we need to rank higher when people are searching for that kiss
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and we need something positive to pop up when people are searching for that.
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The thing is, no tabloid accidentally just changes the URL of an article.
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but they just published another article last week,
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds escape from Justin Baldoni's legal war revealed.
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So this article is about basically how they go to Rexham to get some peace
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because people really don't care about celebrities there.
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And there's some quotes from a friend of their,
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And he's saying what they love about coming to Rexham is that no one there gives a 2S about their fame.
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What they care about is whether he'll buy them a new center back.
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So this article also has those keywords of the legal feud with Justin Baldoni.
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this article will come up and you see Blake and Ryan as a unity,
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and as victims who have to escape all these legal drama and how they just want to be normal,
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just like you and me and not be recognized and be able to live their life in peace.
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They're not like the aggressors here, obviously.
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And Ryan Reynolds did the same thing this morning when he published a reel or a video on Instagram
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because now they are co-owners of Team Australia in the SailGP Catamaran Racing.
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So, of course, that is going to be picked up by the media.
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And that in that story, they will also mention the lawsuit,
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meaning that when people are searching for the lawsuit,
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stories like that will pop up and you'll be like,
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oh, and he's with Hugh Jackman and everyone loves Hugh Jackman.
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But, you know, he's been using Wrexham a lot as well
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to try to get the attention away from what's really happening here.
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Funny how TMZ picked up that story from Trader Joe's.
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Blake Lively, it ends with Trader Joe's dot dot dot legal bills piling up.
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So they were trying to make it look like Blake and Ryan now can't afford to go to Whole Foods
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or Air One or whatever, all these expensive grocery stores here in L.A.
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or in Connecticut where they are because of their legal bills,
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Again, they're just victims here and they have to spend all this money
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because Blake Lively has been S-aged and retaliated against.
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So, OK, so let's get back to what Ryan Reynolds recently said.
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He was interviewed on stage for the Wall Street Journal CMO Council Summit in New York.
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I'm screwed if people start agreeing with me because I'm the boss or something,
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They don't say this producer's movie flopped or this director's movie flopped.
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I'd like to be the architect of my own demise or success, he says.
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He's basically saying that I own my mistakes when they happen.
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Reynolds added that now he feels more comfortable taking control
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OK, when I go outside, I get pats on the back and it's a selfie parade.
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So he's only showing this to his kids to give them a great upbringing like down to earth
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and like, hey, I'm daddy, such a people pleaser here.
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He says, I've learned lately to make sure to talk about the failures
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and how that is literally the base and ingredient for everything else.
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OK, Ryan Reynolds wants to talk about his failures.
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So on the surface, this article is like, OK, it's a business article about his business decisions
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But underneath it, it really portrays him as a boss that everyone wants to work with
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because he's so self-aware, he's so open-minded and he's so respected.
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I feel this is a little bit of a dig towards Justin Baldoni as well.
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And as now we know Ryan Reynolds and how his brain works, he cannot miss, he will not miss
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And this is like, you know, I take responsibility for my mistakes.
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You refuse to do that on the movie of all the mistakes that you did and also all the mistakes
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Look, this is what a good leader looks like and behaves like, unlike some other directors
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All of what he's saying here is basically supporting Blake's narrative as well.
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Yeah, so every time you read an article about this mess, just try to put some critical glasses
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on and think, what do they want from this article?
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OK, thank you, Edith, for sending me this article.
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As you remember, if you watched my episode yesterday, I spoke about Blake and Ryan's plantation
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wedding and how they said in this article on E! News that they just saw this plantation
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on Pinterest and they didn't really know the history behind it.
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And that's why they just decided to have their wedding there.
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And then afterwards, they were like, oh, no, it got some really disturbing history to this
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Anyways, Edith sent me this article in People Magazine, where it actually says that Blake
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The actress, 25 at that point, quietly traveled to Charleston a few weeks prior to the big day
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to survey historic Bone Hall Plantation, the site on her 9th of September wedding to actor
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So basically, they lied when they said that they just saw this place on Pinterest.
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And this article also points out how secret everything was surrounding this.
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Nearly everyone involved in the nuptials was asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, including
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the parents of the children's choir from the local First Baptist Church who performed during
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the ceremony, and cell phones were confiscated from guests before being returned after the
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They really didn't want anyone to know that they were getting married at this plantation,
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So yes, thank you, Edith, so much for sending me this.
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Also, before I go, I remember this photo actually is just a reminder that also Amanda sent me.
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This is a picture of Blake Lively from Disneyland in 2023 that she posted on her Instagram, and
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And she even has in the caption that she's pumping in Disneyland.
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And as we know, she made such a big deal about it.
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If anyone entered her trailer while she was pumping, she accused, as you know, she accused
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Jamie Heath of knocking on her door while she was pumping, and she said, you can come in.
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And afterwards, she accused him of having eye contact.
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And she said that she didn't even think that he was trying to have a coop at her breast
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or whatever, if they were even beer or if she was pumping the way she did in Disneyland.
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But apparently, she was pumping all over the set.
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Witnesses had said that she was very open about pumping.
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And as you remember, she sent even a text to Justin Baldoni when he was asking if they
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So, yeah, another contradiction in Blake Lively's world.
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