all right you guys happy Tuesday and yes let's go i am so excited you guys have no idea how badly I needed this win i needed this win today because yesterday I was crying in my bedroom over trapped infant gas i mean I was deep in the postpartum trenches of emotion with no foreseeable end in sight and then my luck turned on a dime you guys it is here it is happening ladies and gentlemen it appears that Blake Lively has dropped two of her claims and I'll tell you about the rest of them so welcome back to Candace [Applause] [Music] What can I say other than yesterday was a day i just had a day you know what I mean tears streaking down my cheeks i was Kim K crying you know for those of you who have not had children yet or don't plan on having children the first few weeks of having an infant truly difficult and one of the difficult things is that they are not able like their stomachs are not formed yet and so sometimes gas can get trapped and they're in excruciating pain and they're screaming and my son Roman sweet little Roman was crying screaming in pain for three hours we called it got so bad I called the pediatrician and the pediatrician's like "Well you know there's nothing you can do." So what did I do i just started crying i just started boohoo crying i just want this end nothing is good and then suddenly there was relief if you've never cried over infant flatulence good for you might not be relatable but I was like "Thank you thank you this is over and then within 20 minutes I get a text message and I mean things are just looking up it's like a storm and suddenly the clouds have cleared and the sun is shining through the text message reads and also yeah Blake Lively is dropping two of her claims against Justin Baldon i was like "Yes we are so back." I said to Roman who is completely passed out and has no idea what's going on but that that was the person I was with and I was so excited to read the article obviously big news blake Lively has abandoned two of the claims against him the claims that are pertaining to infliction of emotional distress which means we are close ladies and gentlemen we are inching ever closer closer to the inevitable end of this lawsuit because that solitary allegation right the emotional distress infliction of emotional distress was perhaps the most consistent claim of her entire suit okay I'm going to remind you by the way about those initial claims because we are now very many moons away from the initial filings many filings away from that initial filing of hers in New York so I'm going to tell you what happened in the beginning Blake listed 13 causes of action against Wayfairer Studios many of which included Jennifer Ael that was uh the PR woman formerly of Jones Work and Melissa Nathan who is the crisis PR woman so if I said to you right now just going back and revisiting that initial lawsuit filing if I said to you right now "Hey what's up guys it's Tuesday let's play a drinking game." Every time Blake Lively uses the word suffer or mental anguish in this lawsuit emotional distress in this lawsuit take a shot i'm not kidding you would die okay you would die you would be dead by 600 p.m eastern so let's not play that game i'm just going to tell you the answer in this initial filing Blake Lively uses the term or just uses the word rather suffer 31 times 31 times the word suffer or suffering some variation of the word suffer she uses the word emotional 30 times and distress 18 times throughout this filing more specifically in the initial 13 causes of action she refers to her anguished and emotional state in 10 of the claims so in 10 of the 13 claims she refers to herself as being anguished and in an emotional state and she specifically asks the jury the jury down the line to grant her punitive damages because of that emotional state because she was so emotionally distressed she needs money okay and I'm just going to give you here are the 13 claims in case you don't remember them why would you remember them um here they are and I'm going to go through the language here that she repeats in each of these claims um we have the first cause of action which she lists as being sexual harassment which is in violation of Title 7 and she says that she was discriminated against in violation of Title 7 she was subjected to harassment and creating a hostile work environment on the basis of her sex and gender she goes on to say that she has suffered and continues to suffer substantial damages including but not limited to severe emotional distress and pain humiliation embarrassment belittlement frustration and mental anguish and is therefore entitled to an award of punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial okay second cause of action that was for retaliation and violation of of title 7 uh she claims that it was an unlawful employment practice for any employer to discriminate against an employee because she opposed their practices that were forbidden under title 7 so she goes on to again state that claim over and over again that this created a hostile work environment and because of that hostile work environment she has suffered and continues to suffer substant substantial damages including but not limited to severe emotional distress pain humiliation embarrassment a little bit frustration again okay and you have the third cause of action and she mentions it again the exact same language she wants those damages to be proven at a time in trial in the fourth cause of action she lists it again that she continues to suffer substantial damages including but not limited to severe emotional distress pain and humiliation the fifth cause of action this was retaliation in violation of the Californian labor code she again repeats that she suffered and therefore must be paid for her severe emotional distress and pain in the sixth cause of action she lists it again she's accusing them of failure to investigate and prevent the alleged harassment but of course because she lived through that she wants them to pay for the severe emotional distress now I will say it is not mentioned in the seventh cause of action it is not mentioned in the eighth cause of action and it is not mentioned in the ninth cause of action uh Skyler if you go back to the list of the actions I can just show them like so it's not mentioned in three of the 13 causes of action 7 8 and nine she does not say that she was emotionally distressed and therefore deserving of money but then she jumps right back into it in 10 and 11 now these are the most notable ones cuz she's just dropped these okay the intentional infliction of emotional distress that's the 10th cause of action and the 11th cause of action which is negligence uh because of their negligence she was they inflicted emotional distress upon her she has now dropped those two claims okay then in the 12th cause of action she once again uh substantiates that she has she's a survivor and she has suffered and continues to suffer from grief and anxiety as a result of the near overnight change in her public in the public sentiment towards her and then finally in that 13th cause of action she again says that she has suffered emotional distress and humiliation and shame and okay you get it i'm going through this so that you understand how many times she has said that she has been emotionally distressed so why is she suddenly abandoning those two most pertinent claims okay those two claims where it just outright spells that she was they inflicted upon her all this emotional distress and the answer is simple it's obvious it's what I said was coming all along it's because of the phase of discovery okay Baldon's team obviously are preparing for this lawsuit she's asking for money she's asking for these damages she is saying that she has she's been so agrieved the language is so strong i mean it gets it's a very dramatic lawsuit i mean even if you read number the 10th cause of action she says and she's accusing this Jennifer Ael of engaging in extreme and outrageous conduct toward Miss Lively the conduct was so extreme as to exceed all bounds of that usually tolerated in a civilized community you understand how strong that language is she's saying the conduct was so outrageous and so extreme that a civilized community would say this has just been it it has gone beyond the bounds of what we deem to be civilized that's how much suffering she has lived through and now she's going "Okay I don't I don't want to say that anymore as it pertains to these two claims because suddenly Baldon's team is saying "Okay let's see your medical records duh duh you're so emotional you can't get out of bed you're sick you can't eat can't sleep you know let's go through and see if you were seeing a psychiatrist at that time a therapist at that time maybe a doctor prescribed you some Xanax to deal presumably with all of that anxiety that a civilized society would just be like "Oh my we've never seen anything like this this is outside of the bounds of everything that we have seen we've seen murderers and killers but what she's living through here this bad PR." Yeah no this is this is the worst thing we've ever seen yeah show Show us this and they uh filed a motion since they asked her to submit that to them tell us who your doctors are we will obviously file um for a HIPPO release she says "No dice i'm not signing a HIPPO privacy release." And so team Baldon goes "What do you mean you're not going to file a release you obviously have to prove your claims." So they go to the judge they go to Judge Leman and they file this motion um essentially saying that they want the judge to compel her to sign a HIPPA privacy release you know sign this and you will then be compelled to share this information blake Lively's team then comes back and indicates okay no no no we're just going to drop claims 10 and claims 11 all together so you no longer need us to sign that release but we're we're going to drop that without prejudice meaning we can come back and we can refile this at a later time probably when we're outside of the discovery window and Balon Baldon team said no dice to this okay they went to the judge and said that is ridiculous okay she's only agreeing to drop the claims uh meaning that she has a right to refile these claims in the future no please please force her hand here this isn't fair so obviously Blake Lively's team does what they always do and they accuse them of engaging in a publicity stunt saying they don't need this they want the motion to be completely squashed they do not want the medical records to be compelled and they would like all of this to be dismissed and Judge Leman has just come back and they have very he has very much decided in favor of team Baldoni he's effectively saying via an order which we can pull this up and you can see the language on this which he has stamped that he's not going to compel her at this time to sign the HIPPO privacy release granted that he fully expects her to therefore drop all claims of emotional distress okay he is committing right here that if Blake Lively does not go through with dropping the claims of emotional distress he is not going to allow her to present any evidence of her alleged emotional distress throughout the trial you know he will tell the jury "We're not allowing this evidence whatsoever." So this is a major major win for team Baldon because throughout this entire case as we just went through that means they've effectively butchered their entire lawsuit so I'm thinking if if your team Paul Doni how are you going to respond to this i was curious to see how their team would try to spin this as anything but a major loss in the right direction for us we're all rooting for for team Baldoni and remarkably Lively's lawyers Ezra Hudson and Mike Gotautle came out and said that the reason they're dropping some of these claims is that they are just quote unquote streamlining and focusing her case i'm not kidding like we're dropping these claims uh because we're just streamlining and focusing uh on other elements of this case here's the full statement because I want you to see how ridiculous this is it reads "Once again this is a routine part of a litigation process that is being used as a press stunt." Okay let me stop you right there they think we're so stupid that they want us to believe that a routine part of a litigation process is to drop pieces of your litigation so you you filed this and then you said "Never mind we're going to drop this because that's just routine people just want to waste money on lawyers they want to waste the judge's time they want to file all of these claims only to therefore drop it routine part of the process he goes on to say "We are doing what trial lawyers do preparing our case for trial by streamlining and focusing it they are doing what they do desperately seeking another tired round of tabloid coverage the Baldoni Wayfairer strategy of filing retaliatory claims has exposed them to expansive new damages claims under the California law rendering certain of Miss Lively's original claims no longer necessary miss Lively continues to allege emotional distress as part of numerous other claims in her lawsuit such as sexual harassment and retaliation and massive additional compensatory damages on all of her claims okay so again I want you to know they think that we're stupid by saying "Well what about the other claims that say something about her emotional distress that shows that we're serious about it?" No it shows that you don't think that we have the capability to read the lawsuit okay Mike Godly we're not that stupid i want you to know that Mike knows fully well that they now cannot win punitive damages for the emotional distress claims that are mentioned in the remaining 11 causes of action but he's going to leave it because he's it would look ridiculous if they completely amended their complaint it would essentially just be a major win for the Baloni team to trump it so instead what they're doing is they're saying "Well we still have it in the 11 other claims but it's irrelevant they can't win it." But the other claims hold other allegations that they could in theory still win damages on so let me be super clear on what I'm saying because I can just show you so it's so that it makes more sense just looking at this first cause of action ready it's for sexual harassment in violation of title 7 like we said so Blake's team if you look at 234 point 234 here they say as a direct foreseeable and proximate result of this unlawful and discriminatory conduct we have suffered and continue to suffer sub substantial damages including but not limited to severe emotional distress they know they can't win that but that's not the only claim they're making go down to 236 in 236 it says that defendants in it ends with it ends with in defendants of it ends with us movie LLC in Wayfairer intentionally violated Ms lively's rights under under title 7 with malice or reckless indifference and as a result are liable for punitive damages so that's that's a separate claim and they're saying we can get punitive damages under this claim even though we're likely not going to win 234 so they're just trying to save face here publicly by not butchering the entire lawsuit but this is a major major loss in fact if I'm looking at this I'm going what's actually left of this lawsuit if you're removing emotional distress what is actually left and what's left is the ability for them to prove that there was some sort of a coordinated PR campaign essentially they can attach that alleged coordinated campaign PR campaign against Blake Lively to lost earnings like she lost reputation now she can no longer be booked for movies and were able to prove that Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Ael coordinated with Wayfairer Studios to make the public hate Blake Lively that's the only like meat and bones of the case that's remaining and thus far and we're pretty far along now here she hasn't produced a single shred of evidence to that effect this was just her paranoia this whole lawsuit was her being paranoid because she's so narcissistic that she could not believe that the public legitimately did not like her behavior and so she cooked up in her paranoid head along with her psychopath husband allegedly allegedly he's a psychopath i'm saying allegedly a sociopath whatever's going on they cooked up this idea that it had to have been coming from PR agents that had to have been coming from Justin Baldon that he intentionally wanted to sink her reputation and in the process sink his own investment in the movie which is pointedly ridiculous so they are now going to have to try to make the shadows on the wall real that seems like a pretty steep climb and as I said I think we are inching ever closer to having this lawsuit being completely dropped but I don't I don't know what's what they're doing here i guess listening to their lawyers who are are just trying to make the bills go up right just racking up the costs here which is what lawyers sometimes do if you let lawyers leave them alone they will keep lawyering and they realize that this client her and Ryan have unlimited money effectively unlimited money to keep going through this charade they're going to tell "No we can file this we can do that." And they're just trying I think at this point get as much money as they can because a good lawyer will tell them "You can't win this this is this is pretty lost." And on top of that not only going to lose this in the actual court you're also going to lose this in the court of public opinion which is your entire reputation is is being sunk what are you doing here try to save face but now they're too far gone uh by the way in addition to that somebody I think it was actually Skyler pointed out to me skyler my producer pointed out to me that a lawyer who used to work for the Taylor Swift law firm remember Venal LLC has now stepped in her name is Ellen S gafalo she worked at Venal LLP Pardon a limited liability partnership um and she was one of Swift's former legal representatives from 2018 to 2021 she has now joined Baldon's council she is now team Wayfairer in this lawsuit and she said that she was compelled to join the case quote after reviewing its circumstances feeling strongly that an injustice was unfolding and that her participation could make a meaningful difference do you realize what's happening here now that could just be coincidental or it could be Scott Swift and Taylor kind of still saying what they need to say while keeping their hands clean cuz that's that's a move right she used to work for Taylor Swift now she's working for team Baldoni in a normal circumstance if if Taylor Swift really felt that Blake Lively had endured this harassment her best friend uh to whom she is the godmother of her children Taylor Swift would have called the law she's obvious got a lot of power probably making tons of money off of her and said you know this can't happen this would be ridiculous don't let this happen she could make a phone call this is kind of the writing's on the wall here taylor Swift is definitely team Baldoni and this lawyer is making a statement that I think you can really attach to the entire atmosphere and mood of Team Swift who feels that they almost you know got rad over the coals here because they were effectively threatened allegedly being threatened to support Blake Lively publicly and if you have to threaten your friends to support you it's probably because you aren't telling the truth now I gotta tell you I do not want them to drop this lawsuit anymore because we're getting it's every day it's just giving us a little bit more and I unless they do the full Miaulpa I just really want Justin Baldoni to be delivered a full win and Steve Sorrow just a full and complete win because what tends to happen is people forget and I think that this is the game that they're playing they want people to get fatigued they want people to get fatigued with the headlines fatigued with the filings so that nobody's paying attention anymore to how hideous what they attempted to do to Justin Baldoni was that happens we We all deal with this it's like we're we're very apathetic we have a culture it's so ADHD right we're constantly being distracted something else is going on we're outraged about something else we move to something else and go "Okay I don't want to talk about this anymore." And it allows bad guys to win right bad guys have a pretty good stamina when it comes to evil i will tell you that have lived through these things they have a pretty good stamina when it comes to evil and they rely on the public to move on and that's why in a case like this when you have just like a perfect act of evil that was committed against a guy as nice as Justin Baldoni you have to stay on it and you have to keep applying the pressure publicly and so we're seeing this through till the very end but I want to let you know we are two down 11 to go 11 claims causes of action to go before we deliver justice for Justin Baldoni before I uh also get into some of your comments I do want to tell you that something that made me laugh so hard today completely switching gears onto another topic obviously going back to the Breijgit slap and everything that's happening to Emanuel Mcronone and Breijit there are uh there's a team PSG i'm going to have to look up i am you guys know I know nothing about we call it soccer they call it football i don't follow sports at all but there are two players on the PSG team and um that's the Parisian team the Parisian the Paris St germaine soccer team um and they are their names are Ashraf Hakeim and Lucas Hernandez and Breijg is sort of going down the line shaking hands with the team and somebody caught this moment where these two players um Ash Rafakeim and Lucas Hernandez are looking at Brit in a way that suggests that they have seen my series about Breijit Mcronone they're definitely asking some questions with their faces look at this clip look at these two so good look at them slow it down yeah you can see the slow motion they are just looking like are you that wig m kind of looking a little sideways and so this clip has gone absolutely viral online i was being tagged in it over and over again i want to let you guys know that I saw it and I laughed at it and there's so much on so much going on behind the scenes i do intend to do a becoming Breijgit season 2 because like I said we left a lot on the table and a lot has happened since they made that ill- fated decision for them to send me a letter to my home while I was seven or eight months pregnant and I just I have to tell you I have to tell everybody what has gone on and it's going to you're just going to be shocked you're just not going to believe what I tell you you're going to think I'm making it up and I promise you I am not making these things up um so stay tuned because Becoming Breit season 2 is going to be arriving when I'm officially back from maternity leave not just popping in for fun stories all right I also want to throw it to my sponsors of today's episode Gold Co because you may have heard that Rhonda Santis signed a bill that would recognize gold and silver as legal tender in the state of Florida exempting them from sales tax yeah that law is set to take effect on July 1st 2026 pending ratification by the state legislature now now why did he do this well Governor Dantis explained it by saying quote "This is our ability to give you the financial freedom to be able to protect yourself against the declining value of a dollar." 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Um I think the answer to that is Skyler says yes you can watch all the older episodes so there is your answer if you join then yes you can watch the older episodes of the book club which we have kept up throughout maternity leave it's it's fantastic i just have to tell you the stuff that we're covering which I can't cover on the show necessarily like we are deep in the trenches on conspiracy theories like we're just like sitting in there reading things going back into history understanding what's being covered uh a lot of it uh referring to the occult i'm assuming that you've probably read the first book and you see where it's headed but yes you can join and you can watch older episodes okay catholic mom of five writes I guess Ryan Reynolds recently is backing away and blaming Blake for everything i agree with you Kenneth so I think he was the fire behind it all i haven't read that anywhere obviously I haven't really been that engaged in the news new cycle on maternity leave it would be so fitting if Ryan is now backing away and blaming Blake because as we have diagnosed him um and we we've just seen his behavior over the years and he's self admitted to his own behavior he never takes responsibility for anything that he does there's always somebody else to blame somebody did something that was wrong and yeah he's taking a pretty big beating publicly because no one really realized that he was this vicious people just thought he was being funny and that he was only cosplaying as a jerk and it turns out that he actually is a jerk um and so yeah I could see him being angry and lashing out and blaming Blake and everyone else probably his PR team his lawyers everyone and I think he definitely would be the fire that is keeping all of this moving okay ble McKay writes "This is silly at this point and why won't she just drop it and admit that she lied?" I don't know too far in she's maybe praying that the judge drops it so she can go "Oh this is you know justice was not served here you know the judge dropped this case and that's very sad maybe she's waiting for him to to come back and and and drop the case that's the only logical conclusion I can come to." I think in the beginning they were pretty high up on their imaginary dragons you know and she really thought that she could force Taylor Swift's hand and anything irrespective of whether it's fact or fiction if it has the power of Taylor Swift behind it it's going to have a lasting effect right we've covered that in previous episodes and when that failed what do we say that was in like February when their relationship ended after the alleged threat uh Scott Swift is the person making that allegation i I I trust that he would not say that if it wasn't true but yeah I I think that since then things became a bit more bleak february things really heated up and now they're just too far in and they're going to spend a lot of money a lot of money here uh and lose their entire reputations or what is left of the reputations which is virtually nothing there's nothing left vogzy writes "Candice network with Ian." Oh guys I do not want to have a network i absolutely love having Ian i would I wish he lived nearby i know some of you guys were saying you and Ian should do an episode every Friday i would commit to that 100% with you guys if you lived nearby i I really do believe in especially in this new age of media that independence is power and I never want to have somebody feel that they're beholden to my ideas and I never want my ideas to beholden to be beholden to somebody else's and I want to be able to have the freedom to say what I want to say without a system of checks and balances and having to run up to the boss you know I like that my husband's my boss right now that works for me you know and I think with Ian I want to encourage him and everybody else to to be independent and to do what we're doing already we're already teaming up working together like I said if he lived nearby I would make it a permanent fixture and I'm glad that you guys are enjoying his work so much he's doing he's tremendous at all the deep dives and I think he's great i've been uh following him on TikTok and he started in the grocery aisles and now he's here you know Virginia writes "I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the Diddy trial go back and watch that me and Ian did an episode I think it was about 10 days ago maybe maybe less um uncovering all of the dogs that were not barking and we were very clear or I was very clear about what my take was on it he was very clear on what his take was on it if you guys pivot over to YouTube and sometimes you think you can't see my videos pivot over to the live um tablet the live tab so if you go to videos you won't see it but then there's like the live tab and that's where all of our shows are because we do this live every day this is not pre-recorded uh Rafie TV writes "I hope you know how many Muslims love you." Yes I obviously since I have spoken out and gone through a lot for speaking out over what's happening in Gaza uh I a lot of Muslims have reached out and have said how much it meant a lot of people who maybe were previously unsure about me and I hope that my values are coming across clearer now uh yeah I I really appreciate that anonymous writes "Call me a Scott Swifty." Yep that's what I told you i'm a Scott Swifty i ain't a Taylor Swifty yet but I am a Scott Swifty i I love me a savage parent alyssa writes "I said that about Ryan Reynolds weeks ago Candace you read my super chat on live on it i knew he was going to throw her under the bus." You did i do remember reading that super chat live and I I think I said the same thing which is that would be his character and everything that we have seen he is definitely not going to be a person who accepts responsibility for or or consequences of his own action all right guys again reminding you you can pre-order Making Him a Sandwich on our website you can also get our anti-feminist merch on our website as we gear up for this book launch i am going to say I'll see you in a week and a half but I'm sure there's going to be some more news that I want to pop in on some light news uh and you know just picture me if you're missing me picture me crying over baby flatulence you know and and and hopefully it will bring a smile to your face that's what I've been doing i just want to be honest it's not glamorous it's not pretty uh but it is the most rewarding job that I have being a mom so I'll see you guys in a week and a half [Music]