On this week's episode of Captain Morgan's Weird Faces, the crew talks about the latest in the Blake Lively Baldoni case, why Bernie Sanders is still alive, and the weirdest thing John F. Kennedy Jr. has ever said.
00:09:22.000No more money for PBS! No, no, no, no!
00:09:24.000No more funding for, by the way, The Usual Suspects.
00:09:27.000In case you were wondering how far we've gone, like, if you wanted the Founding Fathers and people said, this is what the Founding Fathers would have wanted it.
00:09:32.000You think they were going, yeah, okay, right.
00:09:34.000Hold on, I think we're talking about taxation without representation.
00:09:55.000We're going to get some great professionals.
00:09:57.000I'm going to be chairman of it, and we're going to make sure that it's good and it's not going to be woke.
00:10:02.000These attacks on drag are being revealed attacks on trans people, and they want to classify trans people living their authentic lives as them doing drag.
00:10:11.000We really need to be here today, show up, and stand up for trans and drag rights.
00:10:16.000Now, I know that you were distracted in the foreground by Abomination Gomez-Adams, but if you can actually grab a screen, that's not even the worst person in that frame.
00:10:58.000It's like, you know, you're okay if you take out the krill, but not if you kill all the great whites, though I'm okay with it because I don't think we need any more.
00:11:04.000The point is, the left is basically unhappy with any kind of change unless it's status quo and more money, but they have to deal with it.
00:12:40.000So yesterday, Donald Trump killed the New York City congestion pricing program and Can we have a, Hochul, there was a tweet from her, a post from her.
00:13:07.000It's about their hatred of anything that comes from the right or Trump.
00:13:12.000They are blinded by it, and what more proof do you need that defending this and the IRS... How is Hochul, how is the Democrat Party going to try and make...
00:13:24.000How are they going to try and make Republicans out to seem like country club wealthy elite when they are the ones defending the IRS and congestion pricing?
00:14:08.000Maybe they can make another one, only a good one.
00:14:10.000Actually, to give you an idea just how much New Yorkers hate congestion pricing, there are people who found workarounds, of course, as there was congestion pricing.
00:18:17.000Before we get to Zelensky, which is obviously a big deal, the media is, of course, in an absolute tailspin over Donald Trump calling Zelensky a dictator.
00:18:26.000We'll fact check some of what President Trump said.
00:18:29.000But before that, you know that I have disliked this person for a very long time.
00:18:34.000Going back to whatever it is, 2014, 2015, when everyone was focusing on Hillary Clinton, I said, no, no, no, we're actually going to focus on Bernie Sanders on this show because he was the movement candidate.
00:18:43.000People believed that for some reason he was my God authentic.
00:18:49.000It's the same tired old talking points, but there's new context.
00:18:52.000It's really hard for Bernie Sanders to defend his policies.
00:18:56.000On behalf of the people in the face of what is going on, comment below if the veil's been lifted a little bit that even the most populist progressive leftists like Bernie Sanders, you acknowledge they have no leg to stand on, and we'll go through it point by point.
00:20:42.000You mean like the people who elected a president in spite of media interference, in spite of government interference, in spite of prosecutorial misconduct?
00:20:51.000Or do you mean like the grassroots, like the Tea Party that wasn't funded from the top down in opposition to Barack Obama and your party decided to audit those people?
00:23:21.000Not to mention, the big tech censorship of Trump and conservatives.
00:23:27.000Zuck even acknowledged the coercion, and now he wants to apologize for it, while at the same time, of course, his constituents, or I guess his proxies, fund giant leftist organizations.
00:23:37.000Of course, we have the Twitter files, revelations, we've been demonetized on YouTube, so pretty much everything except for Fox and X. And by the way, Fox isn't all that right-wing, especially when you know what's going on with it right now.
00:24:03.000I know, if we look at Bernie's policy, it's more funding for NBR, PBS, more regulation.
00:24:09.000Effectively, the same solution from the left as they have on everything right now, which is status quo, do the exact same thing, only more money, more money, more money.
00:26:41.000And he gets increasingly aggravated, like he has to fit this in.
00:26:44.000It's like he wants to claim to be a populist, but then can't help but touch on the most elite talking point that couldn't be more out of touch with the average American public.
00:26:53.000And that, of course, brings us to his claim on climate change, where he then says, oh, and by the way, we're losing our struggle against the climate crisis!
00:27:05.000an existential threat to the future of the planet!
00:28:38.000That and along with, of course, subsidizing more green energy, which, of course, invariably ends up running itself into the ground, bankrupting itself.
00:28:44.000I can give you examples like cylindra or solar or wind.
00:28:47.000Effectively, the solution from Bernie Sanders is exactly the same thing.
00:29:32.000He calculates the tip to the penny of 18%.
00:29:36.000He's the least generous member of our public servants you can picture.
00:29:42.000So here's the next claim that he makes.
00:29:43.000Again, you can go and read all of it at The Guardian.
00:29:45.000I just think he's a perfect whipping post and he puts himself out there and people on the left still actually, my God, believe in Bernie Sanders.
00:29:51.000He said, Today the three major oligarchs, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg are worth $905 billion!
00:30:03.000That is more wealth than the bottom half of American society!
00:30:36.000And sometimes you'll have a wider gap, but you'll have less poverty.
00:30:40.000So if you have a wider gap, but there are far more people in middle class or upper middle class income scenarios, that's better than having a smaller gap and everyone is relatively poor.
00:30:51.000So I don't even agree with the premise, but let's go through this.
00:31:19.000But also BlackRock, Vanguard, you know, these giant companies who you deem too big to fail, you and Elizabeth Warren, your socialist brethren, sister in Papa, and whatever it is that she calls herself today is one 100th Cherokee, less than me.
00:31:33.000Let's also remember $700,000, while there was a $1.8 billion, sorry, trillion, trillion, $1.8 trillion wealth transfer.
00:31:41.000700,000 small businesses closed during the pandemic.
00:31:44.000Again, this is something that you supported, of course, because it was a big government program.
00:32:09.000The solution, of course, is more of the same from Bernie Sanders and maybe some higher taxes, which, of course, favors these giant corporations who can absorb them, not the 700,000 small businesses that close.
00:32:20.000Effectively, the solution from the left is the status quo.
00:32:24.000only more money money money money money money money he then goes on to say this is where he starts getting really pious his claim *Sigh* It is absurd, unjust, and inhumane!
00:32:57.000Because Bernie Sanders, when he's talking about people who need money or wealth, he's really talking about what government redistributes because he doesn't believe in wealth created by private businesses.
00:33:07.000The truth is that the exact opposite is true.
00:33:10.000If you look at entitlements, which tell a very clear story, just in 2024, over $4 trillion, or 60% of the federal budget, was spent on entitlement programs.
00:33:19.000So again, what is the solution here when he is saying that new wealth is being created goes to people who need it?
00:33:26.000I don't believe that we should have government-engineered transfers of wealth to the giant companies too big to fail, to the Bezos' to the Zuckerbergs, you know, the people who you preferred for a very long period of time.
00:33:38.000But again, the solution from Bernie Sanders to fix the wealth disparity in this country is $4 trillion isn't enough.
00:33:45.000More, more, status quo, Department of Education, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, entitlement program, Section 8 housing, exactly what we've done, status quo, nothing different, only more money.
00:37:11.000The point is, if we can't get rid of that from Snap, you can't cut anything.
00:37:14.000If we can't look at a two-plus trillion dollar, not adjusted for inflation, cost with the Department of Education, worse test scores in both math and reading, then you can't declare anything to be a failure of government.
00:37:28.000If you can't look at COVID policy and say $1.8 trillion in wealth transfer to the top billionaires, you can't examine government policy and ever deem it to be a failure.
00:37:40.000For crying out loud, 70,000 new employees were added to the IRS under Biden.
00:37:44.000Donald Trump, from what I understand, just cut 6,000.
00:38:06.000It'll be approximately exactly what tax season was before Biden arbitrarily added 70,000 new employees.
00:38:14.000You know, every single year ever before that.
00:38:20.000And maybe a little bit better because, you know, we only took out six.
00:38:25.000All Bernie Sanders, and he is emblematic of the progressive left, just some of them are better at lying to you.
00:38:30.000They point out problems, ignore that they created it, blame the right, try and scare you, demand bigger government, status quo on every single thing.
00:38:40.000Every single thing is status quo, change nothing, and more money.
00:38:44.000No wonder they have to actually defend the IRS. Money, money, money, money!
00:39:24.000I mean, could there be anything more unpopular than defending the IRS? You'd be better off defending the SS! Half of his stuff would be better if the immigration policy was better in this country.
00:39:35.000And by the way, some of the stuff that he mentioned, I thought Obamacare was supposed to fix.
00:39:54.000What the left, they occupy as far as voters, are the extreme ends of the bell curve.
00:39:59.000You get to a certain point where the super billionaires, with one exception, Elon Musk, you go through it, you go Bill Gates, you go Zuckerberg, you go Bezos, and I get that these people are out for their own self-preservation right now, but historically they have been rabidly left.
00:40:12.000And then you go to the poor, and I mean the poor who don't contribute anything, 47%, you know, Americans, I think now it's 43%, pay nothing in federal income taxes.
00:41:01.000We are going to treat you as a prideless human being who is perfectly content with taking from Americans who do have self-respect and work and go out and support their families.
00:41:41.000Every now and then I get a buck double or go to Baja Fresh because if I filled out a receipt for one of the fajita burritos, I'd get $2.50 off the next one.
00:41:47.000That would be once every couple of weeks.
00:42:23.000I think we should live in a society Where you should be.
00:42:27.000If you are a grown, able-bodied adult, and you have not supported yourself or your family for several years, let alone half a decade or a decade, we have lifetime welfare recipients, you should be ashamed.
00:44:46.000Just like, by the way, Russia banned Rumble.
00:44:48.000Which is funny because other countries wanted to ban Rumble because they allow Russia Today to still have a channel on Rumble, but they clearly pissed Russia off enough where Russia banned Rumble, so that's what free speech does.
00:45:35.000We understand that it goes from Russia.
00:45:39.000We understand this and we have evidence that these numbers are about to be dealt with between America and Russia.
00:45:50.000Unfortunately, President Trump with great power to him as a leader of the nation, which we very much consider American nation, which we always support, unfortunately, lives in this disinformation.
00:46:06.000I think the United States helped Putin to leave from the isolation.
00:46:15.000Okay, so I guess it's Donald Trump's fault.
00:46:53.000He said, think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Vladimir Zelensky, talked the United States of America into spending $350 billion to go into a war.
00:48:27.000But then you also have a man who banned the entire platform and the primary platform of the current sitting president because he criticized him.
00:48:36.000And people take the truth social to criticize Zelensky.
00:48:40.000I can say Russia banning Rumble, that's bad.
00:49:45.000Someone who would talk with Putin, but if you actually look at the sanctions, there's a reason that Russia didn't act up.
00:49:50.000And so, you have people right now who agree that Zelensky acts at least dictator-like, and then, of course, there are the detractors who think that Donald Trump is worse than Putin himself.
00:50:29.000What we are witnessing is not America.
00:50:31.000First, we are witnessing America in retreat.
00:50:35.000Yesterday, we witnessed an extremely sad moment in American history.
00:50:42.000We saw the President of the United States aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy.
00:52:17.000The stories coming out of Ukraine are atrocious of what's going on with the Russian military, but this is where we are.
00:52:22.000Do you want another generation of men to die and nothing to change?
00:52:26.000This is like World War I where the battle lines, nothing changed.
00:52:29.000So unless you're willing to send troops, which everybody has basically said no to, you should get the war to be done as quickly as possible.
00:53:28.000Can you objectively look at it and say, like, ah, all right.
00:53:32.000Zelensky doesn't seem to be handling this quite well, and it's also a really dumb move to go out in media and bitch about Donald Trump.
00:53:39.000That's the worst way to deal with him.
00:53:41.000If you were to create a blueprint on the worst way to deal with Donald Trump, it would be exactly what he's doing, and it's the nation whose money you need the most.
00:53:48.000When I think of the head of the KGB, I don't think of a comedian.
00:55:24.000When budget cuts happen, what happens is the people in these departments, they cut the forward-facing services first so that you feel bad for them.
00:55:30.000In other words, the cuts don't end up going to the officers with these quarters or people who are out there who are advisors or no-bid contracts.
00:55:40.000They end up taking away rations from troops, like the last place that you actually should cut.
00:55:44.000That's why you have people having to pay for their own body armor or bed sheets.
00:55:48.000We're making cuts, and that's where they go first.
00:56:59.000And I don't remember who I saw make this, but the Donbass region, the region that the Russians occupy right now, has historically always voted for the most pro-Russia candidate in the elections in Ukraine.
00:57:08.000That's always been a thorn in the Ukrainian side because it ends up with elections that actually put people in power that are pro-Russia, pro-unification or at least working with Russia.
00:57:19.000Why wouldn't Zelensky, to preserve Ukraine, why wouldn't he at this point go...
00:57:23.000Okay, maybe I am willing to entertain talks that get rid of that voting bloc from our country so we won't have any more pro-Russian, or at least not nearly as many as they do right now.
00:57:33.000Something interesting is happening right now.
00:57:35.000Is he really just saying Ukraine is this line in the sand?
00:57:38.000Or is he saying Ukraine as a people, as a language, as a culture, which Russia has spent the last hundred plus years trying to stamp out, literally, we can preserve it better if we have a little bit less territory in the Donbass region?
00:57:53.000I don't understand some of the games that are going on right now, because it doesn't look like Zelensky is willing to take a good deal, stop the war, and have a legitimate Ukraine where you don't really have to worry about pro-Russia sentiment.
00:58:05.000Well, here's exactly what he wants to.
00:58:06.000Because let me ask you this, if you have pro-Russians, in other words, if they're given the choice, they vote for pro-Russian representation, right, in that area, what does Zelensky do if he has that Donbass region?
00:59:30.000It stays fizzy like two days later if you leave it in the fridge.
00:59:33.000So this is kind of a latest iteration of Me Too and elites in Hollywood and crummy lawyers getting involved, but it does have ramifications.
00:59:43.000So let's take a look, for those who have missed it, a brief montage before we bring on a half-patient lawyer.
00:59:48.000For its star, Blake Lively, it should have been a dream come true.
00:59:51.000The mainstream success that she'd been chasing for years that would finally elevate her into the ranks of the Hollywood A-lists.
00:59:58.000Unfortunately, that dream soon turned into a nightmare of multi-million dollar lawsuits and bitter PR warfare that would destroy careers and pull in some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
01:00:08.000Actor-director Justin Baldoni is now suing his former co-star Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, seeking more than $400 million in damages.
01:00:21.000Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds filed an amended version of their complaint.
01:00:29.000Eva Pilgrim has the details, including claims that other women on set raised concerns about Justin Baldoni.
01:01:16.000Is it where you actually have people call in?
01:01:19.000Real Americans with Real Legal Issues call in anonymously.
01:01:23.000Myself and my co-host, Walter Attorneys, and do stand-up, and then we have comedians and third chair, and we have other guests as well, but we're really helping people who wouldn't have access to the legal system to talk through their issues.
01:01:33.000We'll help them find attorneys, so we're not actually representing them, but we're going through their legal issues and laughing along the way.
01:03:02.000Her and her husband together worth over a half billion dollars and getting every single thing that she wants the entire time.
01:03:09.000And then when there's a backlash over how she promotes the movie, the fact that she was flippant about domestic violence, and that public backlash is what drove her to go file a complaint, file a lawsuit.
01:03:22.000And now we've got multiple lawsuits, hundreds of millions of dollars on both sides are being asked for.
01:03:47.000She literally grabs a chain that pulls her to the bottom of the ocean where Great White can't catch her and then last minute she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Great White, I got you, bitch.
01:04:26.000Not everyone gets to go through the receipts.
01:04:29.000An accusation made is enough to destroy someone's career.
01:04:31.000I think that she wasn't so much thinking through all of the legal challenges, the proceedings.
01:04:37.000She knew that the PR battle was just as big as the legal battle.
01:04:41.000I mean, you have plenty of people who don't realize.
01:04:42.000You just have plenty of cases out there where women have gone out publicly and claimed domestic abuse.
01:04:46.000And then under oath said, well, no, that never happened.
01:04:49.000You can say one thing publicly and say one thing in court.
01:04:52.000Well, sometimes it's direct, sometimes it's insinuated, but either way, it's not the story that actually comes out in the legal pleadings, much less with the evidence.
01:05:00.000And here, after the very first lawsuit that was filed, that Blake Lively filed, the response by Baldoni's counterclaim, or really it was a separate lawsuit and now they're combined, was, let's show the receipts.
01:05:12.000Half of it is just text message, text message, text message, sewing where the evidence that Lively was referring to was selectively edited in order to change the meaning of the communications to make Baldoni look bad.
01:05:24.000And it's like, look, if you've got to selectively edit the evidence in the beginning, it's generally not going to get better.
01:06:15.000They were like, we read 40 pages and then we're just going to rely on the rest of you to read it.
01:06:19.000And it's like, no, no, you've got to actually dig into it.
01:06:22.000If you want to know the truth, but her actions have demonstrated, I'm going to get out there first, I'm going to destroy this guy, and then let's just see if he falls over.
01:06:32.000Like he did, actually, during the course of the movie.
01:06:34.000Well, yeah, I have some of her demands right here.
01:06:36.000Well, I mean, she demanded, okay, to do her own wardrobe.
01:06:41.000She commissioned her own cut of the film from the editor of Deadpool.
01:06:45.000She demanded and received an executive producer and PGA credit.
01:06:48.000And keep in mind, Baldoni is, like, he actually got the rights to this movie in 2019, and Blake Lively didn't sign on until 2023. He was, I know he was a director as well, too, right?
01:06:57.000He had at least two movies before that, yeah.
01:07:05.000Yeah, it was $25 million and it made $3 something million.
01:07:08.000And she filed a sexual harassment suit against Baldoni.
01:07:12.000We'll get into the text and everything because you always wonder, where's the turnover point where you love this guy and it's, oh, buddy, buddy, you're friends too, he's a monster.
01:07:21.000Well, the problem is then some video came out, Baldoni, from a specific instance where she talked about, I was made uncomfortable.