Kendrick Halftime Show & How Reynolds/Lively Cancelled Themselves

Summary

Podcast Summary: Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh Episode: Kendrick Halftime Show & How Reynolds/Lively Cancelled Themselves
Release Date: February 12, 2025

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1. Introduction and Super Bowl Halftime Show Review

[00:00 - 02:18]

The episode kicks off with Andrew Schulz and his co-hosts discussing their impressions of the recent Super Bowl. While some express disappointment, notably Alexx Media who describes it as "the bottom five experience in my life" [00:06], the conversation quickly shifts to the halftime show.

• Andrew Schulz: "It was a phenomenal show." [01:56]
• Mark Gagnon and Alexx Media share positive views, highlighting the show's colorfulness and symbolism, particularly the use of red, white, and blue to represent the American flag.

2. Analyzing Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Performance

[02:19 - 08:55]

The hosts delve into Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance, discussing its reception among different audiences.

• Alexx Media: "I actually did like the halftime show." [01:43]
• They compare Lamar's approach to previous artists like Usher, noting that while Usher's performances aimed for universal appeal, Lamar focused on impressing his core fanbase.

Key points include:

• Kendrick's performance was "colorful" and "symbolic" but may not have resonated with casual viewers unfamiliar with his music.
• The discussion touches on the challenges rappers face in creating halftime shows that appeal beyond their existing fanbase.
• Comparisons are made to other major artists like Drake, Kanye West, and Travis Scott, debating who could successfully bridge the gap between niche and mainstream audiences.

3. Transition to Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Justin Baldoni Controversy

[08:56 - 17:44]

The conversation shifts dramatically towards a high-profile controversy involving Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Justin Baldoni. This segment covers alleged sexual harassment claims, lawsuits, and the ensuing media frenzy.

• Akash Singh: "Until recently, she seems like she's distancing herself." [36:09]
• The hosts discuss Justin Baldoni's allegations against Reynolds and Lively, including claims of a "smear campaign" intended to damage his reputation.

Notable moments:

• Mark Gagnon: "He'd have to just say no. He's going to support his wife no matter what." [11:02]
• Alexx Media and Akash Singh express skepticism about the allegations, suggesting manipulation and power dynamics at play.

4. Detailed Breakdown of the Allegations and Legal Battle

[17:45 - 65:05]

This lengthy segment provides an in-depth analysis of the unfolding legal battle between Justin Baldoni and the couple, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.

Key topics include:

• Textual Evidence: Leaked texts and voice memos are discussed, highlighting alleged inappropriate comments by Baldoni regarding Lively’s weight.
  • Andrew Schulz: "She got a baby, so she should be skinny after having a baby. But if I'm a lifter, I need to know what she weighs." [69:00]
• Hollywood Dynamics: The hosts examine how power, influence, and public perception influence the situation.
• Public Opinion and Media Influence: The role of media outlets like The New York Times and influencers like Candace Owens in shaping public opinion is debated.
  • Alexx Media: "If you're Gen Aviation, if you're Mint Mobile, if you're the fucking FX producers." [74:16]
• Legal Strategies: Discussions on potential lawsuits, settlements, and the impact on the careers of those involved.
  • Akash Singh: "Baldoni countersues Blake Lively and Reynolds for 400 million for defamation and libel and assassination of character." [94:02]

Quotes with Timestamps:

• Andrew Schulz: "You need an intimacy coordinator." [50:02]
• Alexx Media: "It was insane to me that we let these people go on with this fucking narrative." [101:55]
• Mark Gagnon: "They hiring a complete PR machine to destroy Blake. Live his career." [85:56]

5. Impact on Personal and Professional Lives

[65:06 - 107:56]

The controversy's repercussions on the personal relationships and professional careers of those involved are discussed.

• Andrew Schulz expresses empathy for Baldoni, contemplating his difficult position balancing professional obligations and personal integrity.
• Alexx Media and Mark Gagnon debate the ethics of the parties' actions, questioning motivations and sincerity.

Key Points:

• The potential long-term damage to Justin Baldoni’s career and reputation.
• Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s strategies to navigate the backlash.
• The role of powerful allies and public support in mitigating or exacerbating the situation.

6. Broader Reflections on Hollywood and Cancel Culture

[107:57 - 130:00]

In the concluding segments, the hosts reflect on the broader implications of the controversy, touching upon themes of power abuse, gender dynamics, and the effectiveness of the #MeToo movement.

• Akash Singh: "It's what sexual abusers will use. They say deny, attack, reverse victim, offender." [73:26]
• Alexx Media: Criticizes the response of celebrities and production companies, suggesting systemic issues within Hollywood’s handling of such allegations.

Final Thoughts:

• The podcast concludes with a critical view of how power and influence can manipulate narratives in Hollywood.
• The hosts advocate for accountability and transparency, emphasizing the need to listen to all sides before forming judgments.

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Notable Quotes:

• Andrew Schulz: "There have to be something that you get out of it to help the kids." [14:26]
• Mark Gagnon: "He couldn't keep eating. It was like a protein cereal pack every two hours." [01:05]
• Akash Singh: "And Blake, I'm going to start with you. Most of us, if we're lucky enough to run into a celebrity in public, we only have a few moments to." [85:22]
• Alexx Media: "It was a domestic violence movie." [86:28]

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Conclusion

In this episode of Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh, the hosts navigate from a critique of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show to an exhaustive discussion on a high-stakes Hollywood controversy involving Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Justin Baldoni. Through a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and critical analysis, they explore themes of power dynamics, media influence, and the complexities of public perception in the entertainment industry.

If you're interested in understanding the intertwining of celebrity culture, legal battles, and public narratives, this episode offers a detailed and unfiltered examination of these issues.

Transcript

[Andrew Schulz]

Hey, what's up, everybody? Welcome to flagrant. Listen, did you guys watch the super bowl?

[Akash Singh]

I heard about it, yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

You heard about it? Yeah. What did you guys think?

[Alexx Media]

Bottom five experience in my life.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, why?

[Alexx Media]

I watched it with my wife, who's from Philly, and all her family, who's from Philly.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, God.

[Alexx Media]

They made an ice cream cake for me.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

They said, fly, eagles, fly. And then it had an eagle on it and my face on the cake. And they're just chanting that stupid anthem, fly, eagle. I was like, oh, my God.

[Mark Gagnon]

I hope your wife bought it with your money, too.

[Akash Singh]

That makes it even better.

[Andrew Schulz]

What are the money? Is there other money I'm unaware of?

[Alexx Media]

Is there other money?

[Andrew Schulz]

Unknowns to me?

[Akash Singh]

Savings.

[Alexx Media]

Savings. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's saving? Be honest.

[Akash Singh]

Did you still eat the ice cream cake?

[Andrew Schulz]

Of course.

[Akash Singh]

My feelings. That's what I'm going do.

[Alexx Media]

Stay on my diet. Watching this game, though.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is your diet?

[Alexx Media]

Get fatter every year. That's my diet. That's my diet.

[Andrew Schulz]

There's been different versions of this diet. That's what I'm trying to understand.

[Alexx Media]

No, it's over, dude. That diet. I lost weight was too unsustainable.

[Andrew Schulz]

What was the diet about where Too unsustainable?

[Akash Singh]

He's losing too much weight. He was looking too good.

[Alexx Media]

I couldn't keep eating. It was like a protein cereal pack every two hours and then one real meal, and I ain't doing that for about a month.

[Andrew Schulz]

You came in, you were drinking sour patch kids beverages.

[Alexx Media]

I lost weight doing that.

[Andrew Schulz]

But there's no way.

[Alexx Media]

It was. It was a way. It's just all fake.

[Mark Gagnon]

He has to plant a special. A special taping. If he plans a special, then he loses.

[Alexx Media]

I will lose weight.

[Akash Singh]

Aosh was chugging these.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is like no tomorrow while he's telling us. Well, he's telling us. He's.

[Alexx Media]

Look at the nutrition fact.

[Mark Gagnon]

That's a juice diet right there. I respect it. Respect it.

[Andrew Schulz]

I respect it. Ow. Now, what did you think? What did you think of the halftime show?

[Mark Gagnon]

Phenomenal.

[Andrew Schulz]

You thought it was phenomenal.

[Alexx Media]

I actually. I actually did like the halftime show.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, me too. Yeah, I liked it.

[Mark Gagnon]

Why is it phenomenal?

[Andrew Schulz]

It was a phenomenal show. Yeah. Why am I aware? I'm trying to be objective here.

[Alexx Media]

You're not.

[Andrew Schulz]

Listen, obviously there's been a little bit of smoke or whatever. It's been a little bit of beef. But outside of that, I can look at a performance and I can say it was. It was good. It was colorful. Colorful.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, it was colorful color.

[Andrew Schulz]

They had a lot of symbolism.

[Alexx Media]

Red, white, and blue.

[Andrew Schulz]

I had to read a few days later what that meant, and it was, like, mind blowing.

[Akash Singh]

Really. What was. What did it symbolize?

[Andrew Schulz]

The American flag. Did you guys pick that up during it?

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

You did?

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Okay.

[Alexx Media]

When you saw.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, okay, okay. In all honesty, I thought. I thought it was. I thought it was all right. I thought it was all right.

[Mark Gagnon]

It was decent.

[Andrew Schulz]

I thought it was all right.

[Mark Gagnon]

It was decent. I wish he had better song selection, but he did perform a lot of his best hits when he performed with Dre in two Super Bowls ago.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, we just watched it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And he played, like, all those tracks that were popping at the time, so.

[Andrew Schulz]

He couldn't perform them again.

[Mark Gagnon]

He could have, but I don't think he wanted to.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah. I also think my general feeling on all super bowl halftime shows is if. And we said this, or if you like the artist, you like the halftime show, and if you don't, you don't Usher. We all like Usher. We were like, that was maybe the greatest halftime show ever. What was your family's group text during the Usher performance? Trashing it. I remember we talked about this on the. Your friends that didn't love Usher were trashing it. Very few.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't know any way to trash it. I didn't know anybody had trashed it. That was the greatest super bowl before it's ever seen.

[Alexx Media]

It's literally on record from a year ago. Just go back and watch.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

My feel didn't get it. They're like, who is this guy and what is he talking about?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, he's singing.

[Akash Singh]

They thought it was fine. They just have never heard the songs. Like Usher. For my fans, family, for French Canadians, yeah. It didn't cross over somehow.

[Alexx Media]

If you don't like the artist, you probably don't almost certainly don't like the performance. That's it.

[Andrew Schulz]

You're telling me that when your dad's running around gay bars in Paris, he didn't listen to any Usher songs?

[Alexx Media]

Freddie Mercury or whatever.

[Akash Singh]

Gay bars in Paris Ball.

[Andrew Schulz]

So hard. Okay.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

It is a tricky endeavor. Right. You need to have, like, be so universal that everybody knows the songs. There's, like, a handful of people that can do it.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And I guess to some people, Usher wasn't big enough, which is insane. Which is insane to us. But, you know, so who is big enough? Is Pitbull big enough?

[Alexx Media]

I don't think so. I think people trash. Dude. JLo and Shakira got trashed. Because people were like, what's JLo?

[Andrew Schulz]

It's Beyonce. Taylor Swift.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, People who are too big, who feel like they're too big to do it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Coldplay, Adele. Coldplay. What if you did like a black people like, medley? Medley? Yeah, yeah, la.

[Alexx Media]

I also think we brought up, you know, like Dr. Dre. They loved it in LA when he. But it's also Dr. Dre and Snoop in LA, so even if you're an out of town guy visiting la, you understand how hype this is.

[Andrew Schulz]

All right then. So to Kendrick's credit, like, instead of trying to win everybody over, do you just try to win your base?

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, he just did a show that was for his fans. It was a little. Did you see a little video of him just doing this after, like, we got. I think he got exactly what he wanted out of it. And he's always kind of been for his fans and that's it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Right. But it is a weird thing because it's not your show.

[Alexx Media]

It is weird.

[Andrew Schulz]

It is weird meaning that, like, when you do your show for your fans, like people are coming to your show to watch you do whatever you think. When you agree to go to the other people's show, those football players show, you are trying to do a show for everyone else. And I feel like speaking to some Kendrick fans that were let down. A lot of them said this. I didn't like the song choice. Like, they were making a lot of. I don't even want to call them excuses. They just had criticism about it. And I think the overall feeling was, hey, this is our guy. This is my guy. And I want the world to know why. I think he's so great. And I think a lot of people felt let down about that. Yeah, they, you know, this whole year they were like, I told you, he's the best. I've been riding with this dude for 10 years. Look, he took out Drake, he annihilated him, and he's about to do the super bowl. And I'mma prove to all of you why he's the best. And then to see people go, who is he? I don't know these songs. I don't even really know what he's saying. I don't understand what's happening. And he's not like jumping out of a cannon or doing something insane. Like, the choreography was cool, the videography was cool, but there wasn't any, like, wild Michael Jackson esque antics that could maybe help you cross over. And so I think that's where even Kendrick fans were a little bit Let down. They wanted to prove to the world that he's the best. And I don't think that that performance made the casuals go, yeah, he's the best.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Because.

[Alexx Media]

And I think to Alice Point, and none of us thought of this until we rewatched the. We were just re. Watching like, oh, he did a lot of these songs two, three years ago.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

So it's very recent history.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

So that's where I think it's a little tough. But I. I overall actually liked the performance. Everybody I was with liked it. So that's why when I got. I saw some of the texts I was getting and then I went online, I was like, oh, there's a lot. And then I just kind of clicked with me. Like, if Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I remember not giving a fuck about that halftime show. If you're a Tom Petty fan, that's awesome. Yeah, this was great.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Prince, people say, is the best ever. I liked Purple Rain, but I like the song.

[Akash Singh]

Looking back at a lot of the halftime shows, you kind of need one stadium anthem.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

You need like a big orchestral, like, shut down the thing. You don't even need music. Just let everyone sing type song to really win that.

[Andrew Schulz]

So that was the other thing we were saying is like, there are certain abilities that just cross over primally. Like, it doesn't matter how good you rap, it's not going to penetrate in the same way as like Adele singing.

[Alexx Media]

Adele singing Bruno Mars. Bruno not being a huge fan, watching that performance and being like, oh, if.

[Andrew Schulz]

You got pipes, bro, you could. You could win people over that don't even know who you are. That's why, like the national anthem, like, if you have some girl singing the.

[Akash Singh]

National anthem when Houston does a national anthem.

[Alexx Media]

I know. I remember being six years old or whatever watching. I didn't know who she was. And I remember being like, this is awesome.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Goosebumps. Yeah. So. But if you're a rapper, you don't have that.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's not part of your repertoire. So you could make the show extravagant and there are different versions of that. Or you could have a universal smash hit. Not Like Us is a universal smash hit. Yeah. Like, I was humming it the rest of the day.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's so catchy.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Outside of that, there was no other song that was universal smash hit. Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

And outside of non hip hop fans, no one knows.

[Andrew Schulz]

Not like that's another thing. It was. It's niche. It's like, this is. We were having this conversation the other day it's like Bad Bunny is the biggest artist in the world, right? Yeah. He can't do the Super Bowl.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

Don't you disrespect.

[Akash Singh]

Don't you disrespect.

[Mark Gagnon]

The amount of white people playing Bad Bunny's album right now. I think he could do the super bowl with this latest album, Chance. I think he could, Al.

[Alexx Media]

You know New York whites, they're half Puerto Rican.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah, bro, he just sold out.

[Alexx Media]

They just all like. You don't know. Toledo, Ohio, white people playing Bad Bunny. I will bet you a fucking.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's been a while since you've been on the road.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Playing Bad Money in Cleveland, there's going to be an issue.

[Akash Singh]

All right, all right.

[Andrew Schulz]

I just don't. I just don't think it's. It's not. It's not universal. You can be massive within groups, but the universality. Pitbull sells less tickets than Kendrick. More people know Pitbull songs across all genres.

[Akash Singh]

Flow Rider.

[Alexx Media]

You know Flow Riders.

[Andrew Schulz]

It sounds crazy. Can you bring a Flow Rider?

[Akash Singh]

Spotify, Unfortunately.

[Andrew Schulz]

No.

[Akash Singh]

No, no, no, no.

[Mark Gagnon]

I'll give you Pitbull, not Fluoride.

[Andrew Schulz]

Stop. It's not Hating you' hating because the name is stupid. But the music is incredible, bro.

[Akash Singh]

I mean, just in terms of bangers.

[Andrew Schulz]

Florida is a bigger artist than Kendrick Lamar. Wow. I'm just being honest with you. I'm just.

[Mark Gagnon]

I thought you said he wasn't gonna hate today.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's not hate. That's facts.

[Mark Gagnon]

That's hate.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's data. Look at Spotify, okay?

[Mark Gagnon]

Is fluoride even alive?

[Andrew Schulz]

It doesn't matter.

[Mark Gagnon]

He gets what I'm saying.

[Andrew Schulz]

Flow Rider is like one of them dancing Asians that wear the masks. Jabbawocki. Jabbawocki. It's like Blue Man Group. You could put a new son. They don't all look alike.

[Akash Singh]

Would you know what fluoride would look like? Be honest if you want.

[Andrew Schulz]

I do know. It's Burner Boy. A lot of people don't realize they're the same guy.

[Alexx Media]

They look so different. So different.

[Mark Gagnon]

It's exhibit.

[Andrew Schulz]

I think, actually that was Flow Rider.

[Akash Singh]

I think that might be Pimple. I don't know, to be honest with you.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's BBC. That's the beauty of it. You can mix and match it.

[Akash Singh]

It's an idea, bro. You can't kill an idea.

[Mark Gagnon]

I'm telling you, Rick Ross right there, he would win.

[Andrew Schulz]

Diesel ass, dude. Look at him in that black wife beater right there.

[Akash Singh]

Wait, what?

[Alexx Media]

That's not even no, that's not him.

[Akash Singh]

This one.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, bro, I'm telling you, he would shut it down.

[Mark Gagnon]

Oh, actually, I think that is, too.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

You thought it was Kevin Gates.

[Alexx Media]

Come on.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah, I did think.

[Akash Singh]

Come on, bro.

[Andrew Schulz]

Anyway, so who. Who can do well? Drake. Drake could do it.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, that's the reality.

[Alexx Media]

I don't know. I think, again, I don't know that he could. I'll tell you who could actually do it. Kanye. Oh, Kanye could actually do it. Actually do it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Kanye would have probably the most epic. It would be the last super bowl, but it would be the most epic Super Bowl. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

The last and greatest.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. They would stop the super bowl after that 100. Yeah. It would be over.

[Mark Gagnon]

Imagine putting an end to the super bowl halftime show.

[Andrew Schulz]

There would be no more super bowl halftime show. I don't think they would let black people even play in the super bowl after.

[Alexx Media]

But Kanye is the only rapper I can think of who can. Is stadium anthems. He understands the orchestra's coming in. Like you said. I don't know.

[Andrew Schulz]

Ten years, Travis Scott.

[Alexx Media]

Travis Scott.

[Andrew Schulz]

Ten years, Travis Scott.

[Alexx Media]

Travis Scott.

[Mark Gagnon]

But if Drake did all his collabs and he just brought out Brian. This person, that person.

[Alexx Media]

This person, then he does it.

[Akash Singh]

Drake.

[Alexx Media]

And that's one thing I will say. I wish Kendrick brought in collabs for sure.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

A Drake. If he brings in collabs. Yes, absolutely.

[Akash Singh]

So imagine.

[Andrew Schulz]

Imagine Wayne did it, right? And brought in the collabs. So imagine Wayne brings in Nikki, Wayne brings in Drake.

[Akash Singh]

Juvenile.

[Andrew Schulz]

Juvenile.

[Alexx Media]

Oh, my God. Juvenile.

[Mark Gagnon]

I still think it would have been one of those things only hip hop fans would have liked that everybody crossed over. That's the only one.

[Alexx Media]

But if it's in New York, Al that does help. Then the same way Dre and Snoop in LA went crazy. I think the issue from what I was seeing, some of the recent Wayne performances are not like what we know Wayne to be. We know Wayne is like peak Wayne.

[Mark Gagnon]

I'm just trying to think of who would get Mark's family to get excited, and I don't think of Kanye.

[Alexx Media]

Well, they would love Kanye, dude.

[Akash Singh]

They probably.

[Alexx Media]

They probably love Kanye now more than ever.

[Akash Singh]

He might need guards from us.

[Alexx Media]

I've seen Garth at the Super Bowl. I think he did. I think he did a couple. One of the Cowboys ones, I think. 95.

[Akash Singh]

I think it should be a residency. I think every. Garth again isn't that great. Like, when I was a kid, we.

[Andrew Schulz]

Got to go see Garth. We got to go see Garth.

[Akash Singh]

Right?

[Alexx Media]

I got no Problem.

[Andrew Schulz]

I need to see, like, a proper country now. What is that thing called? Stagecoach. Yes, but a stagecoach New country. It's more like pop country. Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

I mean, I think they have, like, legacy acts and stuff. I think it's just like, a. As a. It's an event for country lovers.

[Alexx Media]

Alan Jackson.

[Akash Singh]

Dash.

[Andrew Schulz]

Traditional country.

[Alexx Media]

Go see Alan Jackson.

[Mark Gagnon]

No idea who that is.

[Alexx Media]

I grew up in Texas.

[Akash Singh]

Of course I know.

[Mark Gagnon]

No, I said, I have no idea.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, I can't wait to show you more white stuff.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's the best. Doing white stuff. He jumped in the ocean the other day.

[Alexx Media]

Cold ocean.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

In the cold one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all the way.

[Mark Gagnon]

And I donated.

[Akash Singh]

Look, were you wearing socks?

[Andrew Schulz]

Do it for the kids.

[Mark Gagnon]

I love the kids. You guys know that.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's fire.

[Mark Gagnon]

I love the K.

[Akash Singh]

I will say.

[Andrew Schulz]

I just hate him. He's so hateable. We asked him a week ago. He's like, yeah, I'm gonna jump into cold water. We're like, okay, what are you donating to? He's like, you gotta donate for. Yeah. Bullied me into it.

[Akash Singh]

I was like, so, what kids, by.

[Andrew Schulz]

The way, did you donate?

[Mark Gagnon]

Make a wish.

[Andrew Schulz]

You make a wish? Yeah. Got it. Got it.

[Mark Gagnon]

And you just have to buy the.

[Andrew Schulz]

Hoodie and then it donates some money immediately.

[Mark Gagnon]

To make a wish, you gotta make it easy. There you go. Jump in some cold water. Y'all should come next year.

[Alexx Media]

I will never.

[Mark Gagnon]

Y'all some rich motherfuckers. Don't do any charity.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yo.

[Mark Gagnon]

Horrible people.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yo, how did this get on us? Yeah, yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

He was on me. I got up.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, no, that's a good point. We got to start being more charitable.

[Akash Singh]

We got to jump in the cold water.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah, but do we have to do the. Do we. Do we have to do, like, the physical?

[Alexx Media]

I go, I don't like charity all the time. My wife's bag collection in my house.

[Andrew Schulz]

Why is the. Why is the activity always associated with the charity? Why? Why.

[Alexx Media]

Why do you. Why can't you just give money?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, well, I just don't. I'm sure people have done jokes about this, but, like, why is it always, like, a race? Or why is it running into the water? Why? Why? There have to be something that you get out of it to help the kids. A little peculiar. Great point.

[Mark Gagnon]

Proof that you did a good thing.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, it's really. So you could say you did it on Instagram and people can't on you. Exactly, because they're on the guy that gave $20 to the, you know, kid who's going to die.

[Mark Gagnon]

40?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. You gave 40.

[Alexx Media]

40.

[Mark Gagnon]

I sent the kid to Disney World, bro.

[Andrew Schulz]

Bro.

[Akash Singh]

He got a.

[Mark Gagnon]

He got a pretzel.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm done.

[Mark Gagnon]

There we go.

[Akash Singh]

And you get to raise awareness.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Akash Singh]

You know, why are all these black guys jumping in the water? Because of makeover.

[Mark Gagnon]

It was just one. Just one this year, but I'm hoping for more next year.

[Andrew Schulz]

I thought you boys went with you.

[Mark Gagnon]

Oh, yeah, sure. 2.

[Andrew Schulz]

So when you're on. Okay, let me just ask this question.

[Mark Gagnon]

And I just want one black friend, Filipino fur. I need an United Nations.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay. Honest is honest question. Okay. You're at the polar bear thing. Okay.

[Akash Singh]

He is wearing a white.

[Andrew Schulz]

Bunch of white people. They're about to go in the ocean and you're on the beach. Is there any feeling of them going, like, I wouldn't. Is he going to just take our shit when we jump in? Just like. Were there any looks? Did they.

[Akash Singh]

Was there a tower? Like a nervous.

[Alexx Media]

If I was you.

[Mark Gagnon]

It's more of the medics start circling because they're like, is he going?

[Akash Singh]

Do we have a lifeguard on duty?

[Andrew Schulz]

I do notice the tide is coming in. I just want to let you know.

[Alexx Media]

Like, if you wanted 20 white people to kill a black person, the best thing they would do is let's get them in the wal water. It really even out the odds. I'd be nervous if I was you.

[Mark Gagnon]

Hey, I'm a strong one. You know, I make it out. Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Half Latina.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, it's nice. Puerto Rican. Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

Come on, man.

[Andrew Schulz]

Guys, Very cool announcement that I'm incredibly excited to make my new special. Life is going to be coming to Netflix March 4th.

[Alexx Media]

Let's go.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm very excited for you guys all to see it. Thank you to everybody who came out to the tour. It was. It was absolutely incredible. Every dream I ever had in comedy, that. That's what this tour was. And I'm proud of the special. So I would love it if you guys go to Netflix right now and hit that Remind me thing. Apparently that's really good and gets in front of tons of people's eyes. So you got, you know, maybe three weeks to do that. So go to Netflix. It's up there right now. You can hit that Remind me button and, you know, hopefully that helps. But. Yeah, let's run this up, man. Let's run this up to the moon.

[Alexx Media]

It is his best special and I. I'm obviously a fan. I'm gonna keep saying it. This is your best. I'm so proud of you. I cannot wait for them to see it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Thank you, man. Thank you guys so much, man. I really appreciate all the support. So go there. And then on March 4, we're watching as a family. Spread the word. Everybody yell it from the rooftops. Let's run it up now. Let's get back to the show.

[Alexx Media]

Also, guys, we got Brea next week. This is crazy. We sold out four shows, adding a fifth. Tickets are almost gone for that. We're trying to see if we can add a sixth. I don't know if we can. I want to keep adding, obviously, let as many of you guys see the show as possible, but buy your tickets now, because I don't know how much real estate there is in a given weekend. Also, the week after Zany's in Nashville, February 27th through March 1st. I don't think those tickets are selling out as fast, but I know those will go. So buy those. March 14th and 15th. This is important. I forgot I had shows in Tulsa. My bad. Tickets survive. Buy them, please. 21st and 22nd, Omaha, 28th and 29th, Columbus, and then the Tampa shows. Tickets are already low. April 11th and 12th. And I think we will add the 13th as well. But tickets are low for all the shows, so hurry up and buy those. Akash Singh.com. we're going to announce more soon, but in the meantime, I love y'all. Thank y'all so much. It's crazy how many of you guys are selling out these shows. I'm very grateful. I love you guys. Thank you.

[Akash Singh]

What's up, guys? World's shortest ad read. Baltimore. I'm going to be in the goobies joke house February 27th. I cannot wait to see you guys there. Also, New York City. I'm going to be doing my monthly show with Joey Avery on February 25th at Mary Lou. You can get those tickets on my Instagram. I will see you guys there. I cannot wait. Come hang out with me. I will say my family, in regards to the super bowl, they did say this, which is always interesting. They didn't know anything that was going on. They're like, who's Dre? Who's Kendrick? But they did say, I like seeing a Super bowl halftime show that wasn't sexually gratuitous, which I actually think is interesting. Point Sizzle came out dressed very appropriately. And, like, you watch with the whole family. There was no, like, overtones of, like.

[Andrew Schulz]

Her voice is incredible.

[Akash Singh]

Unbelievable.

[Alexx Media]

She killed that.

[Mark Gagnon]

Your family don't want to see a Jenna Jackson titty real quick. Oh, God, that's the best.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, here's a question. What did y'all think about the. This, the Serena Williams dancing?

[Alexx Media]

Oh, it was a good touch. Good touch. I think Drake has been taking a lot of shots at her and her husband, and I think she's just like, this guy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. What would you do if your girl wanted to do a dance on a diss song to one of her exes that you know has a huge dick bigger than yours? And it's proven because video came out of it. And then if you're a white guy.

[Alexx Media]

Married to a black girl, you've made your peace with that. If you're a white guy married to a black girl, you understand where you. It is what it is.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's fair. I'm okay with it. You've had enough black guys just walk by, you'd be like, yeah, you can't hear all that.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah, he's all glowed up now. You know he's slagged out.

[Akash Singh]

So, yeah, he's good.

[Alexx Media]

And if he's on me, she could easily just be like, nah. Whether it's true or not, she could be like, I don't like that he keeps taking shots at you. Fuck him. And then, you know, she has that out. Also, you're not telling Serena Williams what to do. I don't care who you are.

[Andrew Schulz]

But it's a 1 1/2 second cutaway during the halftime show where she's doing a seawalk. I feel like you're a billionaire. You're the greatest female tennis player in history. Like, why do you even need to be there?

[Akash Singh]

I wonder if there's a little part of her that's like, wait, I get to be in a NFL halftime show, like, for. At the Super Bowl?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And I don't have to do anything. I just get to show up.

[Mark Gagnon]

Also, you don't like pettiness.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, that's what I said.

[Andrew Schulz]

For me, that's not petty. That's like, hurt.

[Mark Gagnon]

No, that's petty.

[Andrew Schulz]

She wasn't like. She misses it.

[Mark Gagnon]

She wasn't at the end. She wasn't at the Pop out, though. She wasn't at the Pop out show.

[Andrew Schulz]

Right.

[Mark Gagnon]

So that's probably why.

[Alexx Media]

Here's also what I would say, the same thing that she. Athlete wise, female wise. There's no question she's the closest to Jordan.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

There's no part of you that ever forgives if you're like that.

[Akash Singh]

There's no part of you that forgives.

[Alexx Media]

There's no part of you that forgets. There's no part of you that allows that person to Win. I don't give a what it is. If Jordan's playing tic tac toe with you and you beat him once, I'm not forgetting this.

[Andrew Schulz]

So what's the best way to get Drake back if you're Serena?

[Alexx Media]

Super bowl halftime show. Literally, I guess figuratively. Not literally. You're dancing on his grave.

[Andrew Schulz]

Say you were 16 when you met. That's the only way to get Drake back. There's enough of those.

[Alexx Media]

Enough of those.

[Akash Singh]

There's none of those.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, that's an allegedly.

[Mark Gagnon]

That's an alleged, like, a star joke.

[Andrew Schulz]

He goes too far. Good point. That's a good point. That's a good point. That's a good point.

[Akash Singh]

Serena also has a perfect cover to be like, no, I didn't do it for the Drake that. I did it because I'm from Compton. I was just representing la like it was an LA experience.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, Yeah, I guess. But I still wouldn't want my wife doing that shit. Would you want your girl doing that? Like, your girl goes, yo, Crip Walk.

[Akash Singh]

No, it must Crip rock. I was like, who you been hanging with?

[Andrew Schulz]

I asked my wife to do it on the street. I've been singing that Glorilla song, Big G, L, O. She's walking around our apartment singing that song. I'm like, what happened to you? She's like, it's all over TikTok. I'm like, yes, what is the song? And then I go, can you see walk while she does? And her version of Seawalk. Oh, God, I bet it looks like doves. I go, see walk. She goes. She goes.

[Alexx Media]

Hey, guys, I got a good one.

[Akash Singh]

I got a good one.

[Alexx Media]

My wife is singing white women songs now, and I'm annoyed by that which Carpenter she loves.

[Akash Singh]

And I'm just like, what's happening?

[Andrew Schulz]

No, that girl's a problem, man.

[Alexx Media]

She's great, but it's too many of them. Yeah, she just knows all the white things now. Yeah, she likes Alex Earl. I'm like, this is too many of these.

[Akash Singh]

It's nice.

[Alexx Media]

Let's get back to the girl that shopped at Rainbow. My wife, she shopped at Rainbow. What happened to that girl?

[Andrew Schulz]

That Alex Earl girl is. Is, like, the thing to women right now.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's. Yeah, she's it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Should we start trying to, like, get dressed more? Yeah, like, get ready. Apparently. Yeah. Like, apparently, getting ready is like getting.

[Alexx Media]

Ready to not go to work. It's crazy.

[Andrew Schulz]

We out here building studios for all this, trying to have hot takes about, you know, topical issues. We could Just get ready and be trillionaires. Right? Like this girl got Carl's Jr. For life from getting ready. Yeah. And you know damn well she throws that Carl's Jr. There's no very nice girl. Very nice girl.

[Mark Gagnon]

I have no idea.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, she's a very nice girl and her. Her man is Braxton Barriers.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Plays for the Dolphins.

[Andrew Schulz]

Who's the man? Shout out Braxton. Yeah, yo, Braxton, bro.

[Akash Singh]

Also, you made a good point. You're like the fact that there's any only fans girls ever that take their clothes off for money when you.

[Andrew Schulz]

When you could put them on, you.

[Akash Singh]

Can make more crazy, right?

[Alexx Media]

Not everybody got a father.

[Mark Gagnon]

She's a singer or just to get ready with me girl.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, she's a get ready.

[Akash Singh]

She's one of the best at getting ready I've seen. Yeah, like she gets ready so good.

[Andrew Schulz]

You gotta watch her get ready. Can we get a video up of the get it ready?

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, let's get it ready.

[Mark Gagnon]

Let's put it in reverse and then just.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, but imagine. Imagine you're an only fans girl. That's a great point. Imagine you're an only fans girl and you're like getting naked and doing all these photo shoots and this girl is just putting on makeup and making millions of dollars.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah, she look a little blondie Bonnie Blue in her face.

[Alexx Media]

Well, Bonnie Blue's pretty. Bible's issues isn't her looks. It's the amount of dicks that go inside of her in a given hour.

[Mark Gagnon]

That is.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yo, that's a good point. That is true. That is a good point.

[Alexx Media]

Thousands of dicks in an hour is crazy.

[Akash Singh]

But like, I just love how she gets ready. Like she.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like.

[Akash Singh]

I don't know.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yo, I feel like you're being a little bit sarcastic right now. No. Are you being mean again?

[Akash Singh]

I'm not being mean.

[Mark Gagnon]

It sounds like he's being horny right now.

[Andrew Schulz]

Mark's wife went away. Me more horrible.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, I got no one to get ready with. I supposed to get ready with.

[Andrew Schulz]

How was freedom?

[Alexx Media]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Akash Singh]

It's honestly.

[Andrew Schulz]

You got two weeks.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, I got food poison on day two. So. Yeah, but you're back about this shit. I called it.

[Andrew Schulz]

You were pretty. Did you hear about this food poisoning?

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, yeah, I fumbled because I was like, look, I'm just. I'm not going to eat crazy. You know what I mean? We had extra chicken in the fridge.

[Alexx Media]

From you pre retarded the oven.

[Akash Singh]

Here's the crazy thing.

[Mark Gagnon]

You got to wash your chicken with soap.

[Akash Singh]

It was chicken. It Was right there. It was from three days ago. I was like, oh, that's fine. I ate the whole thing. Called my girl. She's like, what'd you eat for dinner? I was like, oh, I had the chicken you ordered. She was like, from a week ago. I was like, yeah. She was like, I ordered that seven days ago. She's like, you definitely should not eat that. I was like, babe, I'm not. That's chicken. What are we talking about?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And then woke up in the morning, threw up four times, called Dove, threw up on the phone with Dove. Dove starts throwing up. Contagious from across Manhattan. And then, yeah, I couldn't make it to the pod. So my apologies, but other than that, things have been great.

[Alexx Media]

How dare you?

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, other than that, I've been. I've been having a great time. Just. Yeah, My apartment is a disaster. The cat litter has not been cleaned out. And then the cat sitter snitched on cleaning lady.

[Alexx Media]

Baby, that's the move.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is the thing? What is the thing that you.

[Mark Gagnon]

Why you need a cat sitter if you're home?

[Akash Singh]

Because I left. I went to Florida for the weekend, and the cat sitter put in the group chat, like, yeah, everything's going great. The cat's doing awesome. The cat litter box had a ton of stuff for me.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, she was snitching.

[Akash Singh]

I was like, what the fuck? You have to say that?

[Alexx Media]

Text me privately.

[Akash Singh]

I forgot to do it on the last day. Regardless.

[Andrew Schulz]

So what is the thing you did the most now that you're a wife? How many days you wait? Or was it day one that you just sat on that toilet?

[Akash Singh]

No, you got an edge hour, dude.

[Alexx Media]

How many hours did you wait?

[Akash Singh]

No, you gotta edge. I edged for three, four days, and then.

[Andrew Schulz]

What do you mean you. Yeah, bro.

[Akash Singh]

You gotta edge.

[Andrew Schulz]

You never watch girls get ready for three.

[Akash Singh]

That's what I was doing. I was getting ready. I was getting ready and just edge.

[Mark Gagnon]

Psychopath.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I try to see how many I.

[Mark Gagnon]

Can get out in a day.

[Andrew Schulz]

We got records to break up. That's what I'm saying.

[Mark Gagnon]

I had a twelveer one day, bro.

[Andrew Schulz]

That was crazy. What? Yeah, 12. The Bonnie Boo. You can't judge Bonnie anymore, man. You can't judge.

[Mark Gagnon]

This was in my 20s. It was in my 20s.

[Akash Singh]

12.

[Andrew Schulz]

N. 12 is. No, that's.

[Alexx Media]

I did.

[Mark Gagnon]

That was my record.

[Alexx Media]

That's every hour.

[Andrew Schulz]

As much as you sleep. That's a lot.

[Alexx Media]

Yo, guys, I get it.

[Mark Gagnon]

I tried it. When I put. When I put my effort into something.

[Andrew Schulz]

When I put My mind.

[Akash Singh]

This is a real thing. Apparently team master six times dies of a heart attack.

[Alexx Media]

Real story.

[Akash Singh]

Of course it's a real story. It's from Punch News where I get all of my news. But yeah, so I only did 55 just to be safe.

[Andrew Schulz]

All right. We could talk about the super bowl, but it was, it was ass.

[Alexx Media]

It was the worst day of my life.

[Andrew Schulz]

It was. Yeah. It was the best day of Tom Brady's life.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

I think there's a lot of Brady stands out there. They were very happy.

[Alexx Media]

Oh so happy about.

[Andrew Schulz]

I saw Vala. He was so excited.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And yeah, it was interesting. I didn't think it was going to be that dominant.

[Alexx Media]

I did not either.

[Akash Singh]

So I didn't. Just briefly. Were the Eagles just that much better?

[Alexx Media]

Much better. Also here's what this one guy, Brian Balding, a very smart football guy. He's basically brought up that any. No matter how great a quarterback is, the way you normally pressure them is you send a blitz. Meaning you have your four linemen and then you send another guy to like put pressure on them. Any great quarterback will eat you up if you blitz. But if those front four linemen can cause hell for the quarterback. That's how the Giants, Brady, that's how the Bucks beat Mahomes and that's, that's how the Eagles dominated the Chiefs. The Chiefs weren't as good as they used to be.

[Andrew Schulz]

They were eating up that line.

[Alexx Media]

But Mahomes is still so good. But if you're four linemen, especially the, the left tackle on the Chiefs, which is maybe the most important lineman has been bad all year. And somehow they kept winning and getting away with it. And then the Eagles, their defensive ends are really good. Just, just, just single handedly that line, especially that position, destroyed the game.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

And Mahomes had no time to find anybody. And the rest of the team is not as good. So it's just a dominating, horrible day of my life. And that's just really God's way of telling me that plus Luca is like God, Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

You had a tough week.

[Alexx Media]

Week. You know, God has like an 8 billion-point plan, you know, and one of his points is this little fat Indian kid needs to get on Ozempic and stop watching so much sports. Really get his life together. Because the Luca trade we haven't talked about in public. I'm so broken for this. I've never seen an organization do this.

[Andrew Schulz]

How do you play with the Lakers? I didn't watch the game last night.

[Alexx Media]

It was fun. I Didn't. I didn't.

[Andrew Schulz]

I watched it. It was good.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, it was fun. He had a really great moment where LeBron's on a fast break.

[Andrew Schulz]

LeBron looks way younger. First game with Luca and he's on a fast break and Luca looks up court and sees him and literally, big smile, tosses it up to LeBron.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be.

[Andrew Schulz]

Aw, been watching that guy for 20 years and you get to throw him an alley. Oops. I mean, also, I was at the Knicks game and I was. It was Knicks, Lakers. It is so hard as a 41 year old man to not root for LeBron. Like, everything he did, I was like, get them young motherfuckers. Like, I was so excited for him. I couldn't believe it. Like, I would get up after sitting down and my knees would hurt, right? I'm sitting down and I'm drinking tequila and I would get up and I'd be like, oh, I can't celebrate that much. Like, it had to be a big play for me to get up. Right. And the Knicks were down the majority of the game. I think we were down 14. And we like hit some three. And I got up at one point, I was really excited and I got back down. I was like, that's all I'm getting up for the rest of the game. And I'm watching LeBron dunk from the dotted line.

[Akash Singh]

That sounds crazy. You went home to your wife. She's like, how was watching LeBron? You're like, Babe, my knees hurt, so. My knees. My knees are killing me.

[Andrew Schulz]

So I was like, yeah, I don't know. It's just. He had a triple double. Who did? LeBron in that game? LeBron. Yeah. I mean, he was just phenomenal. So it's. Yeah, I'm rooting for him. I'm rooting for him as an old man.

[Alexx Media]

I'm rooting for Luca. I'm rooting for LeBron.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm rooting for LeBron the way Chinese people rooted for Jeremy Lin.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, I don't feel representation in the league. And now that I see LeBron just dunking on people at 40, I'm like, I could do that with paddle. All things are possible. All things are possible. I need to be on whatever he's on.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, He's Barack for 40 year old men.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes. Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

I didn't know this was possible.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, it's just so amazing to. Amazing to see. I feel like such a piece of. When I come home from work and like, my daughter wants to run around, and I'm like, why don't we just stay in a playpen? I can control you in the playpen. And then I see LeBron just coming from the free throw line. Yeah, he's.

[Akash Singh]

He's Jackie Robinson of old guys. He really is, dude.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

He broke the age barrier. It's insane.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Not a lot of people yelling at him.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, I'm broken.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. It was crazy. It was also crazy to see, like, people root for Bright Bronnie when Bron. They were the whole Garden, notorious haters. Like, boo if you're bad at the national anthem. Like, in the middle, they're, like, yelling out this. They're cheering for Bronnie to come on. He comes on, hits a layup, and they go crazy. Yeah, I would think New York would maybe boo him.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah. I'm surprised about that if he's playing alone without LeBron booing him. Yeah, but it's. It's bigger than basketball. New Yorkers love family. It's, like, fast and furious.

[Andrew Schulz]

There is something about that, though.

[Alexx Media]

Like, he seems like a good kid, man. Like, he's playing well in the G League, so it's like. It's not like he sucks.

[Andrew Schulz]

And he's got the highest expectation of any player in history without the expectation of the skill. So, like, everybody goes, oh, Bronnie sucks. And then when he doesn't play amazing, they're like, he fucking sucks. It's like every, like, 90% of the players that are drafted. Doesn't matter if you're drafted number one or you're drafting number fucking 50. 50 suck.

[Alexx Media]

Yo. The difference between LeBron as a father and MJ as a father is crazy.

[Andrew Schulz]

MJ, stop. MJ. Now you talk about MJ, bro.

[Alexx Media]

MJ says in his hall of Fame, LeBron gets his kid in the league, puts him on his team. MJ in his hall of Fame speech is like, sucks to be y'all. You remember that part? I feel sorry for y'all.

[Andrew Schulz]

MJ was proud of his son when he was piping Pippen's ex wife.

[Akash Singh]

He did that for me.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes. That's.

[Alexx Media]

He don't care about you. He getting arrested, coked up, and MJ's like, like, ah, what you gonna do?

[Akash Singh]

LeBron really is MJ and LaVar Ball put into one guy. You know what I mean? Like, perfect dad, perfect player. Just, like, helping out his family.

[Alexx Media]

What a guy. Dude.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, it was cool to see.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, cool for y'all. I'm broken. I. I don't think I watch sports anymore.

[Andrew Schulz]

Really.

[Alexx Media]

It's over, dude. The Mavs rip my heart out. The Cowboys suck every year. The Eagles won the Super Bowl.

[Andrew Schulz]

Truly.

[Alexx Media]

It's just not. It's not for me anymore. I'm out. I'm out. I'll keep betting on it with steak.

[Akash Singh]

That's it.

[Alexx Media]

I'll do it with no heart invol.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I guess we only got. We only got basketball to gamble on.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

It's over now.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

I like Ben N Sports. I won my super bowl box.

[Andrew Schulz]

What? What, what was your box?

[Mark Gagnon]

02. Like, I won the final score in my super bowl box.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

It's fun, right?

[Akash Singh]

How does that work?

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

So basically you just get two numbers and that has to be the score at the end of the quarter. So if it's like 12 to 7.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Whoever had two seven ends up winning. And it's a. It's a fun way to like keep people interested in the game even if you don't have a team and play. Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

That's how bad the super held up.

[Alexx Media]

For quite some time.

[Andrew Schulz]

Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah, it's.

[Mark Gagnon]

I didn't even see when it happened. No, I had left.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

Cuz I think a score was like right at the end.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

I couldn't leave.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Stuck.

[Akash Singh]

Can we bet on Akash's happiness? Is that. Is that possible? On stake?

[Alexx Media]

Negative.

[Akash Singh]

I would take the over on him just being miserable forever.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Just watching sports talk.

[Alexx Media]

These young kids who are like, I support the players, they got it. My brother was saying that the team you all the time. LeBron is never going to let me down. The organization some who can't even run a casino properly when gambling is legal. He could buy your team and trade your best player. Gopher looking could do that.

[Andrew Schulz]

But that was Nico that did that. It wasn't.

[Alexx Media]

Nico did it. But the owner signed off and the owner said, hey, if you don't work hard, if you look at all the greats in our time, like Shaq, they worked hard. Shaq says all the time. I never worked hard. He's like, I didn't work out in the off season. I used the regular season to get in shape. So if your issue is you need to be in better shape, don't you shoot check. As the shining example. It just lets me know. You don't know anything. Apparently also if you say anything negative, like if you're wearing anything remotely negative, they kick you out of the stadium. They wouldn't show fans on the Jumbotron because they were so worried they were going to say negative. Things raised season ticket prices the two days after trading Luca by 61%. Like these guys are monsters. They're trash them.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wow.

[Alexx Media]

I don't care how much you support Israel. Leave my Mavericks alone. Let them be them. You know what I mean? Do whatever you got to do over there. Leave my basketball team. Don't turn it into gossip.

[Andrew Schulz]

The adelsons who own. That's fun. That's funny.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, they're big like Israel.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is the mavericks arena?

[Alexx Media]

Double ac.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is it called?

[Alexx Media]

The American airlines center.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, the American airlines center is your Gaza.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're leveling it, dude.

[Andrew Schulz]

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[Alexx Media]

Bet against the Mavs.

[Andrew Schulz]

Guys, now that we've made maintain our masculinity by talking about the super bowl, can we talk about what we actually want to talk about?

[Alexx Media]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Well, what if you could guess, what would it be?

[Alexx Media]

I know.

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, it just take a while guess.

[Alexx Media]

Guys, where are we?

[Akash Singh]

The Middle east?

[Andrew Schulz]

Almost. It's honestly, it's a conflict that's a.

[Akash Singh]

Much more interesting conflict.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, it's more complicated. It's far more complicated. And it's longer lasting. Yeah, yeah. What is it? What would you think?

[Alexx Media]

Al, you're an expert on this particular topic. It involves a white woman.

[Mark Gagnon]

Oh, little Taylor. Lil Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni. Y'all gotta be excited now.

[Andrew Schulz]

Come on.

[Mark Gagnon]

Finally. Let's start the pot.

[Akash Singh]

It was crazy because you guys were talking about it. I didn't really know anything about it. And I was sort of like, all right, let's see whatever this is. And then I got into it, and.

[Alexx Media]

You have the least white wife in this entire group. That's unbelievable. Yeah, she didn't know how I've been on it, yo.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, I explained it to her and everything.

[Andrew Schulz]

And I've been teaching my wife it might be a black thing I'm gonna like.

[Mark Gagnon]

Babe, you gotta sit right now.

[Akash Singh]

It did bring up a little gay fat boy in me, to be honest. I read all 500 pages of the amended complaint, as well as the important timeline of events that Justin Baldoni released on his website this morning.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, so. So Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds. Yeah. And Taylor Swift. Yep.

[Akash Singh]

Until recently. She seems like she's distancing herself. According to an inside source, which wasn't released at tmz this morning.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah, she's smart a lot.

[Akash Singh]

Allegedly.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, so where does this begin?

[Akash Singh]

Oh, my goodness.

[Alexx Media]

There's a book. It ends with us. My wife actually read the book before.

[Andrew Schulz]

Really? Yeah, my wife, too. No big deal.

[Alexx Media]

Really?

[Andrew Schulz]

Wait, your wife hasn't read Fourth Wing?

[Mark Gagnon]

Oh, I'm on that.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm a white woman. Finally. Okay, you guys let your wives read Fourth?

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, it's good.

[Mark Gagnon]

I'll check an audio book, but yeah, I'm on it.

[Andrew Schulz]

It is so fun.

[Mark Gagnon]

It's good.

[Alexx Media]

Dragon Ball. Give me a book.

[Andrew Schulz]

Write books for women, because once one is popular, every single woman devours that shit.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, Fourth Wing.

[Andrew Schulz]

It ends with us. I think there's another one I told you about. What's that? A Court of Thorn and roses was big bro.

[Akash Singh]

Outlander. Remember I told you about my girl. Read all of Outlander, which is the most insane show. It's about.

[Andrew Schulz]

TV show. It is.

[Akash Singh]

It's a TV show, but it was a book originally. And it's about a woman that goes back in time so that she can cheat on her husband, like, consensually.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Like, it's literally the whole thing is time travel is real. So she can, like, an old Scotsman and, like, justify cheating. That's the entire book. My wife's like, it's just amazing. It's like history.

[Mark Gagnon]

I need to time.

[Akash Singh]

I was like, it's not history.

[Alexx Media]

I love this concept.

[Akash Singh]

It is kind of fire. The first season goes so crazy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

Like, elon, what you doing? Make some time.

[Alexx Media]

If I could double the number of women I've had sex with.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah. And the first season goes so crazy. It starts in World War II, goes back to the Battle of Culloden, where the Scottish try to get independence. And then they also do the. The American. American Revolution in the same season.

[Alexx Media]

You said a lot of words, and.

[Mark Gagnon]

It'S a whole lot.

[Akash Singh]

It's history plus cheating. It's fire.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay.

[Akash Singh]

But anyway, so basically, they make this book, you guys.

[Alexx Media]

It ends with us.

[Akash Singh]

You guys.

[Alexx Media]

Read Justin Baldoni, who's an actor, hot guy, but he's, like, really big into, like, not.

[Andrew Schulz]

He's a stud. Yeah, he's a really handsome guy, but.

[Alexx Media]

He'S, like, very, like, what is masculinity? And I listened to a little podcast he did.

[Andrew Schulz]

Attractive people. I don't really listen when they talk. Yeah, I just object.

[Alexx Media]

I gave this one a chance, and I was actually impressed.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, really? You started listening to.

[Alexx Media]

I started listening in, like, 10 minutes before I was like, I need to see him.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I gotta Break out edge, dude.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah. But he's basically like, you know, what is masculinity? And, like, I think he's like, I don't like the term toxic masculinity. It's too, like, political. And masculinity is not toxic. So he's not like a complete cuck. He talks like an actor, was a little annoying, but he's like. I just think I like that angle, though. Yeah. He's like, man, if you have trauma, you should work through it, because most of the time you're with your girl, you could do a lot more damage to her. If you don't work through your trauma, then she could do.

[Andrew Schulz]

What was his trauma? Did he talk about that?

[Alexx Media]

No, I didn't listen.

[Akash Singh]

He does have some trauma.

[Andrew Schulz]

What's his. His trauma?

[Akash Singh]

So he was. He. He says he was sexually assaulted as a young man. Like, 20 years old.

[Andrew Schulz]

I get that, though.

[Akash Singh]

By an older. I think she was older. By a woman. And that's how he lost his virginity. And it was not really 20. Yeah. It wasn't really consensual. She kind of, like, coerced him into it, and then he felt guilty and has trauma from that. That's a part of.

[Mark Gagnon]

He was also introduced to porn at a young age. I think he was, like, 12 when he was introduced to porn. That's everybody.

[Akash Singh]

He had a porn addiction as well that he talked about that he recovered from.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is how you recover from it.

[Akash Singh]

Edging. So you just never come and you're not addicted.

[Andrew Schulz]

Fair enough.

[Mark Gagnon]

Wait, 12 times in a day. Is that a. Is that a problem?

[Andrew Schulz]

Serial killer, 12 times.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah, but that's my record, though.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

I was going for it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

That's the most I could do.

[Alexx Media]

But he. He gets to write this book, like, five years ago. Like, he is emailing the author, Colleen Hoover, like, hey, I. I'm starting this production company. I would love to make a book about this. I think it's important.

[Akash Singh]

He also made another movie, five Feet Apart. Remember that movie we watched on Airplane.

[Andrew Schulz]

He made five Feet Apart?

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. We were traveling to Russia. To Russia. Oh, and there was ball. Yes. We're traveling to Russia, and there's this movie, the. She has cystic fibrosis. Is that.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

So.

[Akash Singh]

And Sweet Life is that. Cody's in it.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't know what that is.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Akash Singh]

Cole Sprouse.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, Cole Sprouse. Yeah. With the long hair. He's kind of dreamy.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And a lot of hot guys.

[Akash Singh]

Okay.

[Andrew Schulz]

Don't think we're some ribs like you. No, no, no. But speaking of which, David said something insane. Show's become way too l. We need to talk about women back. Okay, bro.

[Akash Singh]

I was hanging with David, and literally Archer was hanging with us. And he leaves. And then David goes, bro, I swear to God, if I was a girl, I'd. I'd let Archer hit Yo.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yo, David.

[Akash Singh]

I like, bro.

[Alexx Media]

David.

[Andrew Schulz]

Facts, Arch. You can get it. You the Baldoni of the studio? Arch used to be Mark, but he fell off. I had a kid fell. Got that little hockey haircut. We see you Arch not wearing socks.

[Akash Singh]

Wait, what.

[Andrew Schulz]

Are you talking about? I never looked at his ankles. Whatever. My bad, my bad, my bad.

[Akash Singh]

So Baldoni gets the rights to this movie, right? And they start working out.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, we didn't talk about the cystic fibrosis.

[Akash Singh]

Keep going.

[Andrew Schulz]

We're watching this movie, and we're just watching whatever's on the screen. I look over and Al's watch this movie, and he turns to me, he goes, yo, ain't gonna lie. This movie is fire. Put this on. I go, all right. I put it on. It's just like rom com with people who can't be around each other. But you fall in love.

[Akash Singh]

There's no calm.

[Andrew Schulz]

Really, it's not even calm. It's just like a dramatic romantic Fault in our Stars.

[Alexx Media]

Which I've read.

[Andrew Schulz]

Exactly. Okay. Whoa. Yeah. Whoa. Okay.

[Alexx Media]

Fantastic.

[Andrew Schulz]

About like, an hour in, I look over, and Al is taking the blanket and he is blowing his nose.

[Alexx Media]

Disgusting.

[Andrew Schulz]

Because he is not crying on the plane. Blows his nose. He looks at me, he goes.

[Alexx Media]

Crazy, right?

[Andrew Schulz]

There we go.

[Akash Singh]

And you know it's coming. That's the crazy part.

[Andrew Schulz]

There's only two movies that made me cry on a plane like that.

[Alexx Media]

Blue by you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Blue by you. I didn't watch on my own screen. I watched.

[Akash Singh]

Is that the Bonnie Blue movie?

[Andrew Schulz]

No, stop it.

[Alexx Media]

Don't you dare.

[Andrew Schulz]

The director shout out, Justin Chong.

[Alexx Media]

Chong.

[Andrew Schulz]

Justin Chong. Okay, And. And I watched that on the screen next to me, and me. And the guy next to me cried. I didn't have any words. Me and the guy next to me were crying together. And it started like he was annoyed I was watching, and by then he was like, nah.

[Alexx Media]

This hit, right, dude, that is unbelievable. It gets you so bad.

[Andrew Schulz]

Out Justin. Shout out Justin. And what's it called? Song side.

[Alexx Media]

Left side. Strong side. Remember the Titans.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, remember the Titans. Also, Coco.

[Mark Gagnon]

Coco. Is that.

[Alexx Media]

Oh, Coco.

[Andrew Schulz]

I cry on land. I cry on anything on a plane. What's that? Lion Lion. What's lion?

[Mark Gagnon]

Is this some Jewish lion?

[Alexx Media]

It's a V. Patel movie. It's.

[Andrew Schulz]

I.

[Alexx Media]

It didn't make me cry, though.

[Mark Gagnon]

Watch on a plane.

[Akash Singh]

Why is the mic so low?

[Mark Gagnon]

I know.

[Alexx Media]

Bring the mic up.

[Andrew Schulz]

Lion.

[Akash Singh]

He's doing live Aid.

[Alexx Media]

Lion is fire. It's based on a true story. Story. Indian kid.

[Andrew Schulz]

Ain't nobody care.

[Akash Singh]

That's a good point.

[Alexx Media]

That's a good point.

[Akash Singh]

And then five feet apart is the other one you cried at.

[Andrew Schulz]

And then. But. Okay, back to this.

[Akash Singh]

On the way to Russia, they didn't listen to the country for being gay, and we had to go home.

[Andrew Schulz]

That was crazy. Yeah, that was. Remember when they asked us about that? Yeah. They were like, oh, you have a black friend who's very gay. He was crying in the movie the Putin played. How did you get around that, Al?

[Mark Gagnon]

I don't remember.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I don't remember this. Yeah, you don't remember a lot of our travels.

[Mark Gagnon]

No.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's so weird show blur, you know, Such a crazy blur.

[Akash Singh]

He makes that movie, all right. And he shows that to Colleen Hoover, and she's like, you're amazing. You're perfect for my. My book. And they go ahead, get into pre production for the movie. They get Sony to be the partner to actually make the movie come together. And then it's produced and directed by Justin Baldoni and his company, Wayfarer Studios. Coincidentally, it also is starring Justin Baldon.

[Andrew Schulz]

Fire. Does he play the abuser?

[Akash Singh]

Yes. And so the book. Could you explain, like, what you know about the book?

[Alexx Media]

This girl meets this guy in high school. She's from an abusive household. Like, wildly, violently abusive. This guy is, like, homeless. And then they form a friendship that turns into something more. They drift apart. College, whatever. They move, I guess. And then she falls in love with this guy who's, like, a nice guy. He seems nice, but he's a neurosurgeon. Neurosurgeon, Handsome, does all these things that are, like, kind of possessive. But she doesn't really catch the red flags early or whatever. They get married, have a kid. He becomes more abusive. He sexually assaults her at one point.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's Baldoni.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah. And they have a baby. And then at the end, the decision she makes. You should know this. I'm not spoiling anything. Is she leaves him. It ends with us. A cycle of abuse and violence that I grew up with.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm not gonna let my kids see this.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah, it's.

[Akash Singh]

It's a fairly dark movie.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, that seems pretty dark.

[Akash Singh]

There's romance, but it's pretty dark.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And so that's. That's important to note.

[Andrew Schulz]

We're supposed to believe that she left Baldoni. That's. Is that what we're.

[Alexx Media]

Funny. My wife was showing me tik toks after of a bunch of girls being like. A bunch of girls left the movie. Being like, leaving the movie, knowing I'd.

[Andrew Schulz]

Take him back beat a month. You get to walk around with him every day.

[Akash Singh]

Neurosurgeon.

[Andrew Schulz]

Neurosurgeon.

[Akash Singh]

So that's what the book is about. Which is important to note because it comes up later with all the backlash that Lively gets. So basically, Baldoni, Wayfair, and Sony approach Lively. They get her cast as the main character as Lily. So.

[Alexx Media]

Which in immediately my understanding, even my wife was like, I don't. She's like a fan of Gossip Girl and all that. She's like, I don't love this casting. She's a bit too old to play this girl in high school. And like. Or whatever, just like, it doesn't work. It doesn't work.

[Andrew Schulz]

But everybody feels that way.

[Alexx Media]

I guess.

[Andrew Schulz]

So.

[Alexx Media]

I guess a lot of fans are.

[Andrew Schulz]

I remember when Tom Hanks was cast Da Vinci Code.

[Alexx Media]

I was tight, but that haircut ruined that whole movie.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, it wasn't a haircut. It was like, when I was watching, I just imagined him being so handsome. Yeah, I imagine Richard Gere. Yeah, I read all those books. I read Angels and Demons. I read every one of those Dan Brown books.

[Akash Singh]

You're coming in hot.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Can I tell me, like, flaming hot magic comments.

[Alexx Media]

No, but I wasn't magic.

[Andrew Schulz]

I was furious.

[Alexx Media]

And then when he got cast, I was like, that's fire. But then that stupid haircut.

[Andrew Schulz]

The haircut was crazy. The haircut was crazy. Anyway.

[Alexx Media]

All right, anyway.

[Andrew Schulz]

But Hanks in, like, a tweed jacket, like, I don't. You know. But Richard here, on the other hand. Do you know what I mean? The guy was fighting. You got excited. Who'd you want him to be?

[Akash Singh]

Christian Bale or something?

[Andrew Schulz]

Like. Yeah, like a hot guy popping back.

[Alexx Media]

Then he American Psycho. But that's it. Anyway, go ahead.

[Mark Gagnon]

He had a body in America. Psycho, though, basically had a body.

[Akash Singh]

They started another one.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, you let him kill another one. You know what I'm saying? It is what it is.

[Mark Gagnon]

Murder me.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is why female serial killers. It could be the easiest job in the world. Right? Like, remember when that girl. What was her name? She killed? I. She killed, like, four. And it was like, all right. Like, we're supposed to be impressed by that.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Anyway. Go.

[Akash Singh]

So basically, they do the movie, start getting a pre production. Okay. Again, everything I'm about to say also is allegedly. There's lawsuits flying everywhere. I don't want to get embroiled.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's all allegedly.

[Akash Singh]

I'm also.

[Alexx Media]

Hey, embroil us, Mark.

[Akash Singh]

I'm trying to also be unbiased. Okay. Because if the allegations are true and Blake Lively was sexually harassed, that's bad.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

But if Baldoni's whole career is getting.

[Andrew Schulz]

Skewered, it could be worse. But it's bad. Worse. It's bad. It could be worse. It's bad. That's all I'm saying. Could be worse.

[Alexx Media]

Like I could be sexually harassing her. That's.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's worse. Yeah. And way worse.

[Akash Singh]

And, yeah, stereotypically sliding.

[Andrew Schulz]

You got a head. It is crazy. The last thing you see is big, beautiful eyes.

[Akash Singh]

Give me vagina, Give me vagina. And Bo.

[Andrew Schulz]

Give me some good sexual harassment. You learn back home. It's like that cat from Allison one. All right, go.

[Akash Singh]

So this is going into pre production.

[Andrew Schulz]

Right.

[Akash Singh]

And they're going back and forth. They have the script basically done, and then slowly, it seems like there's things that are coming up that are potentially ready flags. Now, there's also a piece of this that I think is very important. Blake Lively, prior to doing the movie, like, months before, just had her fourth child.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wow.

[Akash Singh]

So she just delivered a baby, and she's now raising a newborn while on the set, but also is recovering from nine months of pregnancy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Which I think is. I think is a big part of this. I think some people leave out. So they start getting into pre production, and then slowly she starts to kind of like, not be super easy to work with. It seems like, according to the text that Baldoni's released. So she has read the book, and that's a problem. And initially, and I don't know if she reads it later, but according to the text, into pre production, she hasn't read the book. She wants to just be living in the script and be married to the character.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah, actually, I like that.

[Andrew Schulz]

Can I be honest?

[Alexx Media]

Excuse to be lazy, yo.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's what I say to every movie when I don't want to read the whole script.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

I go, I just don't want to know what happens next because my character wouldn't know. I swear, that's the excuse I use every single time. I'm just too lazy to read it. And I'm not. I usually read it after, and I'm like, oh, that happened. Like, I didn't Even know I was gay in that mov TV show on Hulu. I showed up to the day and I had my hands on the wall and I was like, what the is this about? I'm just as surprised as you.

[Akash Singh]

You weren't annoyed when they were like, you're perfect for the role. Well, after the fact.

[Andrew Schulz]

Listen to his podcast or something. God.

[Akash Singh]

So, and then there's another thing that happens early on that's a little bit of a red, red flag. Baldoni is really, really strict on getting intimacy coordinator.

[Andrew Schulz]

He wants an intimacy coordinator.

[Akash Singh]

He wants an intimacy coordinator. This is someone that comes into the, into the production, that is able to supervise all the sex to make sure.

[Andrew Schulz]

Nobody feels uncomfortable and also to coordinate.

[Akash Singh]

The sex scenes so that they play more realistically and that they sort of can tap into the audience that they're trying to reach.

[Alexx Media]

Realistic and still safe. That's your whole job.

[Andrew Schulz]

Got it? Yeah. So, but if that was one of your mans, you could hire him and be like, yo, watch me work. Right? Like, like, how do we know that that person's a professional? And it's not like Joey, you know, tuba from New Jersey who's like, yo, make this shit. Like, do we know? Do we have a track record?

[Alexx Media]

So he says to Blake in texts, you can meet. There's an interview coordinator I love, would love for you to meet her and get your sign up before we move forward.

[Andrew Schulz]

Got it.

[Alexx Media]

She says, no, I'm good. We don't need to meet with this person now.

[Akash Singh]

She says, specifically, I'll meet with them once we start filming. But she declines it in pre production.

[Andrew Schulz]

Got it.

[Akash Singh]

And so some people look at this.

[Alexx Media]

And say, oh, she's lazy.

[Akash Singh]

She declined the. She's also working on other stuff. People say, oh, this is a mom.

[Andrew Schulz]

She got four kids. She just had a kid. Like, she don't have time to meet up with this intimacy coordinator. Also, she's not assuming anything crazy going to happen.

[Akash Singh]

So people are saying she's denying the industry.

[Alexx Media]

She's a white woman. She's always assuming something crazy, constantly searching for something crazy.

[Mark Gagnon]

And you're the lead of this. Like, you got to be all in.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Then other people say, no, she didn't decline the NC Corner. She just postponed it for the scenes that required like, you know, full on intimacy, birth, etc.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yep.

[Akash Singh]

So that's like the big note that everyone's pointing at. She declines it and then slowly addendums and changes to the script start to happen. So April 9, 2023, she starts having notes on the rooftop scene this is like an infamous scene where the two of them meet for the first time. And she wants to kind of like, change the script a little bit. She wants to, like, revise it. She does her version of the scene. It kind of changes up a bunch of stuff. Sends it to Baldoni and says, hey, I've revised it before she sends it. She also makes a statement where she goes, a lot of times on these movies, I will rewrite whole scenes. I will add stuff to the movie that gets added in, and I never get any credit. And sometimes I add stuff and people don't even want to hear it. Like, I'm intimately involved in the production. No one gives me the time of day. And that's really frustrating as like, an actor. And all the stuff that I've done thus far in Hollywood.

[Andrew Schulz]

You maybe didn't mention she's also a producer.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And he's a director.

[Alexx Media]

I think that's later.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, no, I think from the beginning, she's a producer. Yeah. I imagine if. If someone of her size that's stepping into a role in more independent film.

[Akash Singh]

So it's not just an actress wanting to change a scene. It's also someone with power over.

[Andrew Schulz]

Now, Dove, what are the rules in Hollywood about that? Is there, like, producer in name only or is there.

[Mark Gagnon]

No, I mean, if you're a producer, you have the rights to communicate with. She's powerful enough that she can speak up.

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, we got some producers on. On my special. Did have no right to do anything. We just kind of put them in there.

[Akash Singh]

But you're a little different than Baldoni turns out, hopefully.

[Andrew Schulz]

Hopefully in the right way.

[Akash Singh]

No, but Baldoni is very accommodating, and I'm confirming.

[Mark Gagnon]

And there can be a million eps.

[Andrew Schulz]

But as a producer. Producer, the ones that would actually win an Academy Award if it got to that point.

[Mark Gagnon]

I think you have four, five.

[Andrew Schulz]

Maybe she's a proper producer on this one. Okay.

[Akash Singh]

So he's like, yeah, yeah, you can send me over your.

[Andrew Schulz]

By the way, when I was talking about producers on the special, I'm just talking about Scooter Braun. Okay. That's the only one I'm talking about. Everybody else did a lot of work for it. And thank you very much. Scooter, that's for you. Okay. I didn't go to the Nova exhibit. So, Scooter, you get to the special. Yeah, my bad on that one. My bad on that one.

[Akash Singh]

But she makes changes and then sends it over to him. And then he basically responds. Responds this. And I also think it's worth noting that it seems like Baldoni is potentially on the spectrum a little. That he says stuff and does things that are so well intentioned but that come off weird.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay.

[Akash Singh]

And so he basically says, hey, I really appreciate your passion on this. This is awesome. I think realistically, the final version of this will probably be like a blend between, like, the original version and your version.

[Andrew Schulz]

That strikes you as someone on the spectrum.

[Alexx Media]

You think that al would work anything like that?

[Mark Gagnon]

So the way that I put it.

[Andrew Schulz]

In chat gbt, that doesn't seem like spectrum at all. That seems like high emot intelligence the.

[Akash Singh]

Way she interprets it.

[Andrew Schulz]

How do you.

[Alexx Media]

How do you pronounce the other AI?

[Andrew Schulz]

Shut the up. Talking right now. White man is talking. I needed that.

[Alexx Media]

Go, go, go, go.

[Akash Singh]

But so what did he call it?

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't know.

[Alexx Media]

I just want to hear him say.

[Andrew Schulz]

What'S the other chat GBT for? Like, history and stuff.

[Mark Gagnon]

I don't even know if Perplexity. I don't know this one. I swear I don't know this one.

[Akash Singh]

Go ahead.

[Alexx Media]

My bad.

[Mark Gagnon]

So I use the one.

[Akash Singh]

You could say she interprets it. Blake, hey, we're not going to use this, but I love your passion. I love that you're so, like, into this. But we're not going to really use this. That's the way she interprets it.

[Mark Gagnon]

Oh, I didn't know.

[Akash Singh]

So she's pissed off.

[Alexx Media]

See, I didn't sense.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, they do that, right? They do that, right? Don't they do that, like.

[Alexx Media]

Yes.

[Mark Gagnon]

He said one thing and she heard something.

[Andrew Schulz]

She heard a totally different.

[Alexx Media]

To find a way to make it negative.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Asshole. Ish.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Even when you have your best intentions and you try to accommodate their feelings.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

What about that Spectrum? Do you honestly.

[Akash Singh]

Well, there's a couple other things that come up a little bit later that are like.

[Andrew Schulz]

Did he know the exact train time? Times for arrivals?

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

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[Akash Singh]

After that, she invites Baldoni to meet at her apartment in New York City.

[Andrew Schulz]

She invites. Okay. Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And they're meeting at her apartment all the time to work on the script and the hash out scenes and do like regular production stuff.

[Andrew Schulz]

Got it.

[Akash Singh]

So when.

[Mark Gagnon]

Let's stop there. How would y'all feel if your wives.

[Alexx Media]

I ain't going.

[Mark Gagnon]

That's what I'm saying.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wait a minute. You ain't going. You were not invited. Your wife's getting piped out by Jensen. Boss, of course you're not there.

[Alexx Media]

I'm not ready.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm not going to beat. I'm putting my foot down. I'm going to go alone to this handsome guy.

[Mark Gagnon]

You're not the star of the movie.

[Alexx Media]

What was going, if I'm B. I'm not going. If I'm B. I'm not.

[Mark Gagnon]

I'm asking about, like, if your wives would start a movie and she's inviting over.

[Alexx Media]

You're not even doing the movie.

[Akash Singh]

What are you talking about?

[Andrew Schulz]

Thank you.

[Alexx Media]

You're not even doing the movie.

[Andrew Schulz]

You're a housewife.

[Alexx Media]

No, no, no. Be in a movie with an ugly guy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, fair enough.

[Alexx Media]

Ugly guys. By all means.

[Andrew Schulz]

There we go. Jonah Hill, come over. Workshop some.

[Mark Gagnon]

He's skinny now.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, now I feel bad. Now you made me feel bad. I thought we could all get on board on that. Yeah, he's like, duh, That's a good one.

[Mark Gagnon]

That's a good. He's skinny now. I said, you're skinny now.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, he.

[Andrew Schulz]

He was saying, now you're going too far. Now you go too far. You can't take the compliment of being skinny if you were never fat. Never. It's normal.

[Akash Singh]

It was normal.

[Mark Gagnon]

But, you know, like, when, like, fat people get skinny, you kind of got. Well, you got, like, post fat body.

[Andrew Schulz]

But when we were in Turkey, he couldn't buckle the life vest. He put on the life vest and it wouldn't buckle. He said, yo, yo, can you loosen it from the fat? Can you loosen it from the back? I was like, no, you're going to drown. You're fat.

[Akash Singh]

Why do you need a life vest? Yeah, you float. That's not a problem. So basically, Baldoni shows up to the. To the residence of Blake Lion Lively. And greeted at the door is Ryan Reynolds. He's very excited to see him. He's like, dude, we're so excited to work on this movie. Blake's been super obsessed with the script where this is gonna be great. They sit down and they go through the script. And then at that same meeting, all of a sudden, a, quote, mega celebrity walks in and is also talking about the rooftop scene that Blake had adjusted. And she's like, oh, my goodness. We love Blake's version of the rooftop scene. Everyone loves the way Blake did the rooftop scene.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, so putting a little pressure on Baldonin, though.

[Akash Singh]

Now, this mega superstar is not strictly named. I have notice in the timeline of events from Baldoni's website, there is actually an uncensored version. I don't know if it's on purpose or on accident, where they do say, Taylor, which we can presume is Taylor Swift, who is the godparent to Blake Lively's children.

[Andrew Schulz]

Son, we gotta send Mark's wife away more Often, the amount of detail, he is breaking this down.

[Alexx Media]

Absolutely.

[Akash Singh]

If anyone can diagnose autism, it's me. All right.

[Alexx Media]

He did a lot of reading while he was edging.

[Akash Singh]

That's what I was edging to.

[Andrew Schulz]

Hold on.

[Akash Singh]

You pop a couple zins are locked in. And so basically, there's a little bit of pressure being applied to Baldoni. It seems like everyone loves Taylor's or everyone loves Blake's version of it. And this is actually important to note, because later, Blake will admit that it was actually not her that rewrote the rooftop scene, that it was Ryan Reynolds that rewrote the rooftop scene, to which Sony and the screenwriters are like, well, we have to give Reynolds a credit on this. We're violating our sag like, union obligations is like, a huge nightmare. You can't say that. But she goes on and says it anyway. But regardless, in the moment. Moment. She says, I rewrote it. He leaves and is basically like, okay, this is kind of wild. That was on the 12th. All right? And then one second.

[Mark Gagnon]

Isn't that so manipulative? He goes. She goes to the guys, like, oh, no one ever takes me seriously when I, you know, offer suggestions. You're using that by saying, I rewrote this scene. Meanwhile, is your husband who rewrote the scene. Ooh, that's fucked up.

[Andrew Schulz]

Great point. So now she's playing into his identity of, I support women, I believe women, and we need to be better.

[Alexx Media]

And not playing victim with. No one ever takes me seriously. I work so hard. I'm such a creative person. You didn't even do nothing. You didn't read the book. You didn't rewrite the scene. What the did you do?

[Andrew Schulz]

It's a good tactic, though. Like, you know, that this guy doesn't want to tell a woman that's the producer of the movie and the lead that she can't have a say in it because it goes against his identity publicly. So you can manipulate him based on that. It's a good. It's a good idea.

[Mark Gagnon]

That mean it's not a nice thing to do?

[Andrew Schulz]

No, no, I'm not saying it's nice, but I can understand why she would go that way.

[Mark Gagnon]

Got you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay. Right? Because it'd be way harder if she was like, I'm the producer, and this is what I'm gonna put. He'd be like, no, I don't really want to do that. But if she goes, I'm a woman, and I've been in this business forever, and nobody ever takes me seriously, and Yada, yada, yada. Now he has to be like, well, yeah, yeah, I gotta say no. Kindly. I gotta say, it's gonna be a blend. Yeah, yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And I'm pretty sure it is at this point that he basically says something to the effect of like, hey, I loved your revision. Even without the cosign of Taylor and Ryan, like, you didn't even need to really bring them in. Like, your work so stands on its own. And I thought it was great. And then she, I believe at this point is when. This is when she sends the Khaleesi text that has now become famous, where she basically says, if you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you'll appreciate that I'm Khaleesi and like her, I happen to have a few dragons, for better or for worse, but usually for better because my dragons also protect those that I fight for. So really, we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.

[Alexx Media]

And I think she's talking about Taylor and Ryan Reynolds as her dragons.

[Andrew Schulz]

Now, the irony in this is that Khaleesi was pretty famous for like fucking the closest guy to her throughout the Game of Thrones. So I don't know if you really.

[Mark Gagnon]

Want to dies at the end.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay.

[Akash Singh]

And then I believe it's also around this point that he leaves her a voice note after she's sort of like expressing like, yeah, I didn't really like the way you responded to my original sort of addendum to the script. You kind of brush me off. Baldoni feels bad about it. They have this whole intervention kind of with like Taylor and everyone. And this is when I believe he leaves this voice note that has now become released to the public.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, yeah, I heard this is a.

[Akash Singh]

Whole seven minute thing. And just to give you a vibe, people also point to this to indicate how creepy Baldoni is, that he's sort of like manipulating her. Da, da, da, da, nah, nah.

[Andrew Schulz]

The first few go. Just do the first few seconds. It is two in the morning. Pause.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yo, take that sexy voice off, bro. Guilty Y. Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

Don't start no voice note to my wife with, it's 2 in the morning, I'm thinking about you. Stop, stop, nah, stop. That's quick. Wake you up. Pause again. Why are you breathing loud? He just. Goddamn voice note. Just get the information out. All right, Ryan, beating off to this voicemail. There's so much I want to say.

[Akash Singh]

To you, and I hope that we.

[Andrew Schulz]

Can FaceTime or see each other in person soon and get to talk more. But I'm just going to send you a few thoughts, and hopefully it's not going to be more than a few minutes, but that I don't have the best track record.

[Mark Gagnon]

I'm not a minute. I'm not a minute, man.

[Andrew Schulz]

This guy farting, bro. How you even pick up on that one?

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, he's got girl brain, bro. He gets it. Al understands voice memos.

[Andrew Schulz]

I want to start with an apology, man. I reading the second part of your message, my heart sank, and I'm really sorry. This guy for sure fell short, and you worked really hard on that and.

[Akash Singh]

The way you framed it and.

[Andrew Schulz]

How that made you feel. I just want to say thank you for sharing that with me.

[Akash Singh]

That he goes on to say, like, hey, I'm not a perfect person. I'm going to do better going forward, and I'm so sorry for the pain it caused you, and I'm really excited to collaborate on this project.

[Alexx Media]

Further.

[Andrew Schulz]

Way sexier, though. Way way.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah. Slightly sexier than I do.

[Mark Gagnon]

Don't leave my wife a voice. No sound like that.

[Alexx Media]

If I'm his wife, I'm tight. Like, why are you sending other bitches voice messages at 2 in the morning?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Have we spoken to his wife yet?

[Akash Singh]

I don't know.

[Andrew Schulz]

She came out supported.

[Akash Singh]

She's come out support of him, but she. She hasn't really been vocal in the whole saga, but she has obviously come out and supported.

[Mark Gagnon]

She's a keeper.

[Akash Singh]

So that's kind of where things are at right now.

[Andrew Schulz]

So he records this voice note. When does he start recording all the text and everything like that? Because that's a little bit fishy to.

[Akash Singh]

Me that he's actually the first person.

[Andrew Schulz]

That decides to record everything.

[Akash Singh]

So I think it comes up later that they're actually taking, like, metadata recordings where they're, like, downloading all the, like, PDFs and everything. But I think they have all the text correspondence from their entire Owens.

[Alexx Media]

At some point early in the filming when. When Blake Lively starts kicking up a fuss that someone. Justin Baldon's PR team, there's also, like, a PR thing that happens where, like, his original PR lady is like, are.

[Andrew Schulz]

We going to get into that, too?

[Akash Singh]

I mean, that's, like, all crazy.

[Alexx Media]

But they. At some point, they say, hey, this movie's filming in New Jersey. Y'all are all in New Jersey. You don't need her consent to record anything. Just record all of it. Keep track records of everything. They didn't go to New Jersey to do it or whatever. The movie's filming there.

[Andrew Schulz]

So it's like, because they were there.

[Alexx Media]

They could do it, do this, but just be safe.

[Andrew Schulz]

Got it. Okay. So something happened, and I want to know what that point was where he felt that Blake and maybe Ryan did not have his best interests at heart. And he's like, I need to start collecting information that is potentially protective for me and incriminating to them, you know?

[Alexx Media]

And I think it was probably the day after this. I think he sends that voice note. I think he's probably talking to.

[Andrew Schulz]

Didn't they try to buy the script for him or.

[Mark Gagnon]

I think that's coming, right.

[Akash Singh]

Oh, that's.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's later.

[Akash Singh]

Basically, the voice note comes out, and again, we're fast forwarding, but, like, people are using this. This basically acts as like a mirage or like a. Like an optical illusion. Like, if you think that this guy is a creep and a sexual harasser, you're like, obviously. If you assume he's just like a good, well intentioned, like, male feminist type dude, you're like, yeah, he's being so nice. Everything he's saying is good, but the way he's saying it.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, the voice is creepy, but the words are the right one.

[Akash Singh]

And everything he says, he's like, dude, I completely creepy.

[Mark Gagnon]

More like dreamy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, that's true. What he's saying. I don't believe it.

[Alexx Media]

Don't.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes. I've heard the rhetoric so much from people that I think are full of.

[Alexx Media]

That's. That was my initial issue with him. From what I've heard, he seems more sincere, but he does talk like that, which is like, I think an actor way of talking.

[Akash Singh]

There's an LA thing throughout all the text. If you read all the correspondence. The way that all of them talk to each other is sort of insufferable.

[Alexx Media]

Actors are insufferable people, and they think all their words carry such a weight, and they talk as if everything is a Shakespearean.

[Akash Singh]

I. I would give the earth to work with you again and the moon and the stars, like we are destined to.

[Andrew Schulz]

There's no disagreements, by the way. Like, when you're just, like, sitting on set, everybody's just talking the thing, complaining about the same thing and agreeing and then moving on, all being fake.

[Akash Singh]

Nice.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is the most. Oh, it's awful. It is. It's like the antithesis of a podcast where we just sit here and disagree with each other. Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

But the difference is that we actually like each other and then we argue in front of people, whereas these people don't really like each other. And they're all so nice.

[Andrew Schulz]

Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100.

[Akash Singh]

So the next phase that happens, like, escalates things. Crazy. So that happened on April 14, 2023. April 22, like a week later, Baldoni goes in the. In the movie, in the script. In the original script, there's a scene where his character lifts up her character, like, picks her up. And Baldoni has a bad back. He's had many back surgeries. He has, like, a bulging disc in his back.

[Alexx Media]

He got that. Luigi.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, he's just been blowing out. Or he's got his back and it's like a whole thing. Right. So he goes to blown up.

[Andrew Schulz]

What did you mean by that?

[Akash Singh]

I don't know if actually he's got.

[Andrew Schulz]

His back because you've been saying the facts for the last, like, 20 minutes per perfectly. And then you just said something like that about Valdoni.

[Akash Singh]

What do you mean?

[Andrew Schulz]

So what did you mean when you said that?

[Akash Singh]

No, I meant he was blowing out backs.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

You gotta buy back from putting too much work in.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

You put too much work, which is. That's a red flag. You have such a good back.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

The only good part of it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay. All right.

[Akash Singh]

And basically, he goes to the personal trainer and says something to the effect of, hey, I want to avoid injury. So how much would you estimate Blake Lively weighs? Ballpark? Just as a fruit, as a collection of fruits. If you had a guess, it's like 10 watermelons. What are we talking? Right. He goes to the guy and says, how much does she weigh? And it's not really stated what the personal trainer responds with. But basically this comment gets back to Blake Lively, and she's pissed and offended and. And thinks that it's completely inappropriate to be asking about the actress's weight as, like, the director or as an actor, which, again, again, he's playing both. So you gotta ask.

[Andrew Schulz]

You can't lift her. Right.

[Mark Gagnon]

He doesn't want to be embarrassed.

[Akash Singh]

What if she.

[Mark Gagnon]

You know.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, I'm just saying, like, if you have to ask, it's because you're concerned. Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And if. Then you got to change that. You got to rewrite it. Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

So that becomes a problem. Okay. That happens on April 22nd. Yeah. Now, how much.

[Andrew Schulz]

How much do you think she weighed? Because she's not small.

[Mark Gagnon]

Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, she was a model at one point.

[Alexx Media]

Tall lady.

[Mark Gagnon]

She looked tall. Tall. How tall is she?

[Akash Singh]

I don't know how tall she is.

[Alexx Media]

5, 9, 5, 10, probably.

[Andrew Schulz]

So she's probably around, like, a buck.

[Alexx Media]

50 tall as Albert Tends to be probably.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

So she's what, like a buck fifty? So he's got a deadlift. A buck fifty with a bad back.

[Mark Gagnon]

Damn.

[Andrew Schulz]

What?

[Mark Gagnon]

Is that how you put 150 on her?

[Andrew Schulz]

Is that. Is that a lot? She's 5 10. Yeah. I feel like that's a good amount of.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah, but they don't eat. She's probably like 120.

[Alexx Media]

No chance. She's 5 10.

[Andrew Schulz]

20 at 5 10.

[Mark Gagnon]

No. I don't know.

[Akash Singh]

So, again, this is like some spectrum thing where it's like, okay, you're asking. You want to do the right thing. You have a bad back, you want to make sure you can do the scene properly. And also you don't want to make her feel bad if he goes to lift her and then his back is fucked up and he's like, oh, it's.

[Andrew Schulz]

Not you, it's me. He's really treating her as an equal. And she's like, treat me as a woman. You know what I mean? Like, treat me as a woman in Hollywood. Don't treat me as an actor. Treat me as a woman who is concerned about my weight because I just had a baby. I put on some weight. I'm working out every single day. Now you're going to my trainer like, yo, she got the weight down yet? Because I got to lift this chick. And you're concerned. Yeah, I think you got to just lift her or put her on an apple box. What do they do with Tom Holland? Whatever they do with Tom Holland.

[Akash Singh]

Just do that with back brace or something. Yeah, there's got to be a way.

[Andrew Schulz]

What do they do to make the cameras not move? Gimbal.

[Akash Singh]

Gimbal. Gimbal.

[Andrew Schulz]

What if you did that? What if you just attached a harness like Wicked.

[Akash Singh]

You could do like Wicked and make or fly to find gravity. There's got to be a way.

[Andrew Schulz]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

So apparently, I think they ended up working and rehearsing with, like, a body double while they're, like, trying to get the scene worked out. And then three days later, according again, this is to Baldoni's sort of online testimony of, like, evidence he's putting out that he's summoned to Lively's penthouse in New York, where he's greeted by Reynolds, who swore at Baldoni, accused him of fat shaming, quote, how dare you ask about my wife's weight? What is wrong with you? The tone from Reynolds and Lively was so aggressive that Baldoni felt he had no choice but again, to offer complete. Offer, repeat, repeated apologies and for what was a good Faith, reasonable question to the trainer, not Lively, and demanded that Beldoni Reynolds demanded that they remove the lift scene completely. Now, later, Lively claims that the lift scene was never in. In the movie. It's not in the movie currently.

[Alexx Media]

I'm pretty sure it's in the book, so it'd be in the movie.

[Akash Singh]

But they said that it was never even in the script. There is versions of the script that have it in there. They say it was removed in the edit again, yada, yada, yada. So that is, I think, where things really kind of start to. To turn. Okay.

[Mark Gagnon]

And I think that is when they started recording everything.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

After this argument.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Now he's like, now he's concerned that they could paint him in a certain way. You could use sexism against him.

[Akash Singh]

And that is. His brand is like, I love. I'm a male feminist. I love women.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And then I'm fat shaming women on my.

[Alexx Media]

And Ryan Reynolds, much more powerful than me. Taylor Swift, much more powerful.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

And her whole thing is taking down men.

[Andrew Schulz]

All she has to tweet out is, yo, this director was super creepy. He was like, let him know how much I weighed.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Now it's worth noting that up. And that at this point, Lively had already expressed concern over her body. She's already told him, like, hey, I want to be, like, in shape. I really treat this.

[Alexx Media]

That's how I know this got fat.

[Andrew Schulz]

She had a baby. She had a baby.

[Alexx Media]

She should. She should be skinny after having a baby. But if I'm a lifter, I need.

[Andrew Schulz]

To know what she weighs.

[Akash Singh]

But she's already expressed, hey, I feel sort of insecure with my. My figure. And he assures her over and over, don't worry, we're going to make you look amazing. Don't even worry about this. This should be the last thing in your mind. You're a great mom. Don't even worry about it.

[Alexx Media]

I think he says shit like, your body's beautiful or something like that.

[Akash Singh]

He says like, yeah, you.

[Andrew Schulz]

You're great.

[Akash Singh]

Like, don't even worry. I don't know if he says specifically beautiful. He might have.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

But basically he's assuring her it's fine. And then later is asking about her weight to the personal trainer.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Some people see that as an infringement and some tow.

[Andrew Schulz]

Some type of lifting in the air scene. It's not like Dirty Dancing or anything like that. Right.

[Mark Gagnon]

Like, maybe it had that type of significance.

[Akash Singh]

Maybe. Never read the book. I can't say you read the book, Akash.

[Alexx Media]

No. But My wife did.

[Akash Singh]

And by osmosis.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah. And I think it's like, the idea of him is, like, he's very masculine, protective, made her feel protected probably before everything. And, like, that's part of the whole. Like, this guy's just like this hot, masculine doctor.

[Akash Singh]

He believes it adds to the story that he's a strong, powerful guy, and that's the way that he subverts her in order to abuse her later. So he thinks it's integral to the story. That shows that he's dominant over her. He's able to move her around.

[Andrew Schulz]

Got it.

[Mark Gagnon]

So why the train is snitch, though? It's a bro code, bro.

[Andrew Schulz]

Not even. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I guess it should be, but at the same time, it's like you'll just say anything to curry favor to the people that are paying him.

[Mark Gagnon]

Gotcha.

[Akash Singh]

In this same meeting, Lively tells Baldoni that if he can't get on board with how she works, she has, quote, two weeks to recast her. He knows it's impossible to recast her at this point. They're already in pre production, wardrobe's already getting bought, and he's like, I'll work with however you want to work. You got it? Now, this kind of tips the scales, pun intended, towards the side of. Of her gaining more power over the whole production. And then the wardrobe thing becomes another big issue.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

So basically, the first day of principal photography, they capture her wardrobe. Apparently, she's doing, like, all of her own wardrobe. She's, like, dressing herself.

[Alexx Media]

They already spent all this money, and.

[Akash Singh]

There'S, like, a whole issue with the money. The money thing is crazy. Like, they have a budget allocated, like, half a million dollars or something like that. She's spent like 650,000. Again, some people say that's completely normal and that they should return stuff and shrink down the budget later. Other people saying that she's being gratuitous with the spending and is not worried about the budget that's getting put up. But again, this becomes another point of contention where they're talking to her about the wardrobe stuff. Also, when the pictures leak of the wardrobe. Wardrobe, everyone hates it. All the fans of the book are like, this is not what the girl looks like in the book.

[Alexx Media]

She's also wearing, like, two pairs of pants and like that. It's like, who the dresses?

[Akash Singh]

Like this. So, like, this is an actual message that they even put in the group chat to discuss her wardrobe. They're like, this is not how she looks. And this is from two years ago. And all the comments are like, this is atrocious.

[Mark Gagnon]

That's $600 sounds. That's a thrift shop in fucking Williamsburg right there.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah. So that's adding to everything. Right?

[Mark Gagnon]

But she didn't read the book, so she doesn't know how to character dresses.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

So this is now getting black backlash. Sony's talking about it. Everyone's, like, now concerned with the casting and the wardrobe. It's, like, just causing problems on the set. And then basically right around this time, there's the writer strike, and so the Writers Guild is basically on strike. And now there's, like, picketing going on at all the production days. And then on May 29, right before they stopped filming officially, Wayfarer was made aware that Lively had place calls to Sony to share grievances. So here are a couple grievances. One, Baldoni made a comment about her looking sexy on set in regards to her wardrobe that the character Lily was wearing. Apparently she was also shown pornography, is how it was sort of described in the press. But then in this complaint to Sony that she was shown a birth video. And then lastly, she shared that one of the assistant directors wanted to replace her, like, get her out of there. So Baldoni has responses to all of these grievances. Do you want to hear those or this? This is just where it's at right now. Baldoni says that, like, the birth video thing was like a non issue. Like, there's a birth scene. And they asked her like, hey, do you want to see a picture of one of the other producers home birth? And she was like, oh, let me finish eating. And he, like, had it on his phone but never showed her. And it was completely consensual. And it was not pornography. It was just video of birth. The. The sexy comment. Because Blake Lively was talking about how she wants the character to be sexy. She says it throughout the text. She's like, I want the character to be sexy. I want the character to be sexy.

[Andrew Schulz]

And then he goes, you look sexy.

[Akash Singh]

And then in one of the scenes, she's wearing, like, a onesie with a coat on. And he goes, oh, take the coat off. Because, like, it'll make the character, like, more sexy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay.

[Akash Singh]

She interprets that as like, what the fuck is this guy doing? He's like, leaving me voicemails. He's like, this is like, he's such. Such a creep. And now he's telling me I should be sexy. Da, da, da, da.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And then the directors, the ads that are asking to replace her, the ads end up Getting removed. And Baldoni's like, yeah, they were causing trouble on the set. They wanted to recast lively. I said, you guys gotta go. And so that's where things stand. And then on the 14th, they go on strike. And so production stops. And then it's in this whole time that again, power starts to shift.

[Andrew Schulz]

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[Akash Singh]

And I think it's right around this time that, like, there's kind of a standoff. No one really knows what's going to happen. They resume shooting in January and she comes back with a list of non negotiables. So even more stuff that now she's flagging to everyone, Sony, everyone involved. And the non negotiables are everything from the stuff we read before, but like, they're more egregious. I can go through them one by one. But basically, he's basically saying, like, these are. We're not.

[Alexx Media]

I'm not coming back to film unless y'all give me these things.

[Akash Singh]

And so we need an all hands meeting. I need access to the dailies, I need access to script revisions. I need people to not be walking in my trailer while I'm breastfeeding. Because you guys walked in and you were trying to, you know, see me breastfeeding. Which later she says in text, like, I know you weren't trying to like cop a look, but it made me uncomfortable.

[Alexx Media]

I think she actually invited him. She said, I'm breastfeeding.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, exactly.

[Andrew Schulz]

He released that text precisely.

[Akash Singh]

So he releases that to show like it wasn't really a problem, that there was one time where multiple people walked in and then they kind of like turned away and it wasn't really an issue. Again, he said, she said, what I'm.

[Andrew Schulz]

Seeing on the Internet is a lot of accusations from her. And then him delivering, as the Internet says, says, receipts. Yes, right. And I think that. And then Candace organized all this stuff brilliantly. Yeah. Shout out Candace Owens, the most feared person on the Internet. Once again. Candace, if we mention you on this podcast, we won. No problem. We want no problems. Debo, Debo, no problems. Okay? We think you're doing amazing work with this just Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively situation. Okay? Maybe this is some great work with what's happened with politics in France. Outside of that, we're not speaking on it. And we want no problems. Okay? Okay. We got our white Candace right here.

[Akash Singh]

And he's gonna go, yeah, I'm a man. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Tell us what's going on.

[Akash Singh]

So basically, the shooting resumes in January.

[Andrew Schulz]

Who's the president of France married to Mark?

[Akash Singh]

Not his dad.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, Just making sure.

[Akash Singh]

A woman. A woman, right.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't even know how Candace is on that. I know a little bit about you. Don't know how wild it got.

[Mark Gagnon]

Oh, really?

[Andrew Schulz]

Candice said that the press. Now, not only was McCrone's wife a man as well, she's now alleging that Macron's wife is actually Macron's dad. What? You know, I believe you. Some people think, hey, we believe you over here, Candace.

[Mark Gagnon]

Just keep that energy open.

[Andrew Schulz]

Talk about that. Everything's bad over there. Anyway, go on.

[Akash Singh]

So she's got all these demands. They kind of capitulate against the advice of some of the other producers. They're like, yo, stop giving her all this power. And so she's just gaining more and more power. I want addendums to the script. Da, da, da, da.

[Andrew Schulz]

And give me the drama, give me the gossip. Okay. Give me the Perez Hilton.

[Akash Singh]

Okay, I gotta pull up one more time. So this is when things.

[Mark Gagnon]

Get your Baldonio.

[Akash Singh]

Oh, and this is. This is where things go a little wild. January 4th, Baldoni, another one of the executives from Wayfair, a Sony executive, and an A list producer. Producer that was brought in by Lively and Reynolds meet at her apartment. It was January 4th. As the team prepared the production binders on. They have the production binders on hand and basically Reynolds then starts berating Baldoni, demanding that he apologize to Lively for the actions that either had never occurred or had been grossly mischaracterized. Baldoni resists apologizing for things he had not done, which further enraged Reynolds. Again, this comes from Baldoni's testimony here on his website. Everyone, including the new producer, the Lively, have requested to join the Production and the Sony executives, they quote that they had never seen anything like this happen in their productions or have never seen an executive or director spoken to in such a manner during a meeting. Later, the Sony representative shared that they often reflected on the meeting, regretted not intervening to stop Reynolds tirade against Baldoni.

[Andrew Schulz]

So now Reynolds is involved. Yeah, he's talking that shit.

[Akash Singh]

And tensions are rising. So everyone's pissed off. They somehow complete the filming and then it's basically in the aftermath of the edit that everything just gets. So they're now fighting over the final cut of the film and they're doing pre promo where they're like filming all this stuff before the trailer's announced. Baldon is not involved in any of it. So they hire Reynolds Co. To do a lot of the production stuff. So now it's like the whole cast, it's Blake Lively, it's everyone else in the movie, it's the book writer, the author, and Baldon is not involved in any of it. Which is very strange that the director and like the other co lead is not involved in the film. So film gets released and then they're basically like, okay, who's going to do the final edit? Baldoni has his version. But then Blake Lively has gained so much power over the production. She's like, I want to do an edit. And then she slowly creeps in. She's like, I just want to sit with you while you edit it. And then she goes, actually, I want to work on it alone with my own editor. And the producers are like, don't do it, don't do it. Baldoni capitulates. He's like, okay, fine, you can do your version, I'll do my version. Let's test both of them and then whichever one gets a higher end.

[Alexx Media]

I think that was Sony's solution.

[Andrew Schulz]

That'll does better. It doesn't matter. They go with Blake's.

[Akash Singh]

Precisely.

[Andrew Schulz]

And Blake, I think used some like Taylor leverage with a song or something like that.

[Akash Singh]

So she's now saying like, oh, we're going to have Taylor in, we're going to have Taylor's song on the thing, but she only wants to be in my edit. And it's like a whole back and forth. Apparently she's adding stuff in from Baldoni's edit, but claiming that it's still her edit. It's like a.

[Alexx Media]

They don't let Baldoni's side see the edit at all.

[Akash Singh]

It's a shit show. So now they do a bunch of press with Adam. This comes out the movie's Release released Crushes Movie crushes, but 25 million.

[Andrew Schulz]

Made $350 million.

[Alexx Media]

But people were annoyed before we found out any of this at just, like, how she was marketing the film where they're doing, like, funny ads. They're doing funny ads where, like, Ryan Reynolds is jealous of her love interest in the movie and, like, talking about his ass and how nice it is. So it's like, if you're doing.

[Andrew Schulz]

They're treating it like a rom com.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And it's not a rom com at all.

[Alexx Media]

And it's like, it's a domestic violence movie. And Blake Lively's promoting a haircare line and making a big point to wear, like, florals. Talk about the fashion. And Ryan, I mean, Justin Baldoni, it seems when he talks about the movie, seems to be about abuse. Like, why do men do this? This is what the point of the movie is, etc.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I mean, do you think now he has a better understanding of why men be women? Like, do you. Do you think. Do you think going through this process, he's just like, I get it. Actually, I understand. I didn't understand it before, but now after knowing the Dragon Lady, I see what some.

[Akash Singh]

A sequel, it's called. It starts with us.

[Alexx Media]

It starts with you.

[Akash Singh]

So this is. This is one of the press things that happened that sets people off and they're like, dude, this is a book about domestic violence. This is how you respond.

[Andrew Schulz]

Jump into this.

[Akash Singh]

And Blake, I'm going to start with you. Most of us, if we're lucky enough to run into a celebrity in public, we only have a few moments to.

[Alexx Media]

Maybe speak with you guys. But for people who see this movie.

[Akash Singh]

Who relate to the topics of this movie on a deeply personal level, they're really going to want to talk to you. This movie is going to affect people, and they're going to want to tell you about their lives. So if someone understands the themes of this movie, comes across you in public.

[Andrew Schulz]

Want to really talk to you.

[Akash Singh]

About this, how would you recommend they go about it?

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, asking for, like, my address or my phone number or, like, my location share?

[Akash Singh]

I could just location share you. And then we could. I'm just Social Security number. I'm a Virgo.

[Andrew Schulz]

So I'm like, are we talking logistics? Are we talking emotionally?

[Akash Singh]

People pointed out to be like, I mean, he asked you a pretty genuine question. How should people talk about domestic violence? And then she makes a joke about it, ostensibly, is how people perceive this.

[Mark Gagnon]

They calling this the JLO era. That's crazy.

[Alexx Media]

But I remember again, My wife was into this. She liked the book. She was talking about this shit too. She's like, it's weird. How's it being promoted? She didn't like the movie. She walked out being like, we don't need to see it again. And my wife will rewatch anything she likes at all. She saw Wicked twice the week it came out. I want to watch it. The third time this. She was like, we're good. You don't need to watch it.

[Akash Singh]

Another short excerpt that adds to the.

[Andrew Schulz]

Fire with us is in theaters now. So grab your friends, wear your florals, and head out to see it.

[Akash Singh]

And people are like, why are you talking about, like, grabbing your friends and wearing florals? Da, da, da. Like, this seems inappropriate now, to Blake's defense, she's like, this is supposed to be a movie about triumph, about overcoming domestic violence. I don't want this to be painting women as victims again.

[Andrew Schulz]

I also think, like, once you create a narrative, you know, she's got what, 20 years in the business? Like, it's so easy to do that with us. We talk two hours a fucking week on a podcast. If you want to paint us in one way, you can grab a 30 second clip and make us look bad. Right? So I think you can do that with her. I don't think they're looking through every interview that she's done to show how seriously she takes film and.

[Alexx Media]

No, Yeah, I just, I just remember before any Baldoni stuff came out, people were like, what is she doing? Why is she promoting a hair care line? Yeah, what's going on? That narrative existed before.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, Yeah. I just feel like once the Internet decides that they don't like something, they just search for proof and then execute. Now, she could have. This could be justified. She could have been a huge bitch in this production and try to take it with him and use Reynolds power and money and thinking that, like, Baldoni doesn't have that same support, which it seems like he does from Wayfair or whatever. So maybe they thought that they could just take the movie, get the rights, make 300 million on this one, do the prequel or the sequel, whatever it is, make another 600 million on that one. Now they got the next billion dollar Twilight franchise. Yeah, they probably thought they could do it. And maybe she didn't like the guy. So they're like, you know what? Fuck this guy. He's kind of a dick. I don't care if we destroy his character. If we can get this billion dollar.

[Akash Singh]

Franchise, that's possible and to contribute to it, Right around this time, a different journalist released another interview where Blake Lively is shown to be a quote. This is the one that went super viral. Again, this is associated with a different film. This is cafe society. And this woman releases this sort of unannounced, unprovoked. She just puts it out there. The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit interviewing forever.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's on your little bump. Congrats on your little bump. What about my bump? Oh, she's trying to save it. You've got two nice ones and these. They are kind of bumps, aren't they? No, not. Who's the girl? Who's the girl with her?

[Akash Singh]

I don't know her.

[Alexx Media]

Dawn girl. I forget her name. She's gone.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't know. But like, I've been that person. Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Were you just trying to be like, oh, this is awkward.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like trying to do anything. Somebody says something mean and you're like, I just need to cover the dead air. Like, yeah, that's what that was. Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Oh, 100%. And so they kind of salvage it. Then in this film specifically, this is not. Obviously it ends with us. She asked about the wardrobe, which is apparently super important to the movie. Did you guys love wearing those kind.

[Alexx Media]

Of clothes that you.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And you know, working in digital. Wants to talk about the clothes, but I wonder if they would ask the.

[Akash Singh]

Men about the clothes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, God, I love Jesse's. That's what I'm saying.

[Akash Singh]

His.

[Andrew Schulz]

His wardrobe is beautiful looking as a girl.

[Akash Singh]

High waisted pants.

[Andrew Schulz]

I wish men wore high waisted pants. Still.

[Mark Gagnon]

The father with his.

[Andrew Schulz]

With his, his tank top.

[Mark Gagnon]

They had beef before this. Yeah. Like something seems off.

[Akash Singh]

They go on to talk for another like two or three minutes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, did they have beef with the interviewer?

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, apparently this is not disclosed.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm saying, like, did the interviewer review one of her movies five years ago and said she's horrible and she looks.

[Mark Gagnon]

Like she's been on the list now?

[Andrew Schulz]

It's like, because that's the thing. I think a lot of times, like you assume that celebrities don't look at what people say about them. Oh, they look at all of that.

[Akash Singh]

These messages will prove that. They're looking at everything. They're posting random girls tick tocks. Like, did you see what this girl said? Yeah, she's saying this about this.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Like some girl with like a thousand likes on a TikTok.

[Andrew Schulz]

Do you remember the first celeb that responded to you on Twitter when Twitter first came out?

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Who was it?

[Alexx Media]

Push a T. Push a T. Do.

[Mark Gagnon]

You remember I wasn't on Twitter early?

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, I got Michael K. Williams from the Wire.

[Akash Singh]

Fuck.

[Mark Gagnon]

What's his name on the Wire?

[Andrew Schulz]

Omar.

[Mark Gagnon]

Omar.

[Andrew Schulz]

Omar.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

In that moment, because I just tweeted something. I was like, oh, we need the prequel to the Wire, the Omar years. And then he responded like, that's. That's a great idea. And then that moment, I was like, holy shit. I'm having a conversation with, like, a famous. This is insane. But there's another part of me that's going, holy shit. They read everything. They read everything about themselves. So, yeah, she's. If. If we know that they read everything she's looked at. Oh, God, they're probably melting right now.

[Akash Singh]

And then the New York Times drops the article saying that Baldoni orchestrated a smear campaign to, quote, bury Blake Lively. The New York Times article is bad. Doesn't look good for. For Baldoni at all. And there's pretty crazy lines in here. It says, baldoni wants to make sure that we can bury Blake Lively. Apparen. Baldoni's PR says, you know, that we can bury anyone. And then there's other messages that are in there where, like, they show an article that shows them in the Daily Mail that's slandering Blake Lively's character. And the PR people are talking to each other, Baldoni's people, and they're saying, like, hey, you did a great job with this one. And then they're responding, saying, that's why you hired me. I'm the best in the biz. And this is all put into the New York Times article. And everyone's like, oh, they hired a complete PR machine to destroy Blake. Live his career. This looks crazy. And if he's not guilty, why is he hiring a whole PR team to try to protect his character?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Now he's come out with all these receipts saying that these texts were completely taken out of context. That. Like, for example, with the. That one situation where he. She's saying, wow, you did a great job with this. They're all responding that there is a natural narrative against Blake Lively that's brewing and that they're just monitoring it, and so they're just seeing what the narrative is so that he can put out a press release to assess what the sentiment online is.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And so that. What they're claiming that they're doing. So when they see this article that's slandering Blake Lively, she goes sarcastically, hey, you get a good job with this one. I don't know how we're getting so Lucky with this, but you killed it with this one. And she goes, yeah, that's why you hired me. And puts emojis in there that show that sarcastic.

[Andrew Schulz]

So Blake Lively is like Drake.

[Alexx Media]

You could say white woman.

[Andrew Schulz]

No. Like, there's a successful PR campaign that is waged against him. And she's basically like, it's got to be bots. It's got to be orchestrated. It can't be. There's no way that people really feel this way about me. This has got to be orchestrated by some higher power.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably just organic.

[Andrew Schulz]

Maybe that's how the people feel. Maybe people given this information are reacting according to what. How we all would act. Right?

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And so again, if you read the New York Times article, you'll be like, oh, this Baldoni guy's crazy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Like, there's article. There's notes in there where, like, his PR people are like, this is going to be completely untraceable. The Times alleged that Ms. Nathan Baldoni's PR person floated proposals to hire contractors to dominate social media through, quote, full social account takedowns, by starting threads of theories and generally working to change the narrative. All of this is untraceable.

[Andrew Schulz]

What women do we believe? Like, which version of Blake do we believe? Because according to Blake, that's why I'm on Justin's side. I believe that woman when she says, yo, come in. It's fine. I'm just pumping. It's totally cool. I believed her when she said that.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't believe her after the fact when she's trying to get the rights to the movie.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah. And Suam, I believe when she said, I got dragons.

[Andrew Schulz]

Threatening Justin Baldon and using the Me Too movement against him. I believe that.

[Akash Singh]

Now, this is all from Baldoni that's being released. So you're believing just his side?

[Andrew Schulz]

No, I'm believing the text.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm believing what she says.

[Mark Gagnon]

Her words.

[Akash Singh]

That's true.

[Alexx Media]

She has not released counter text messages either.

[Andrew Schulz]

So you're saying we got to stop believing all women? I mean, right?

[Alexx Media]

I've been waiting for this day.

[Andrew Schulz]

You were believing them. Finally.

[Alexx Media]

Oh, boy. You were. I was pretending.

[Akash Singh]

Believe some. You know, I think that's a fair. That's a fair position.

[Andrew Schulz]

Believe the last thing a woman says. I think that's. That's what the movement really. Okay. Believe the last thing a woman says.

[Akash Singh]

So now Baldoni counters the New York Times, or rather just sues New York Times for 250 million. Blake Lively now officially sues. After that, Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment.

[Andrew Schulz]

Civilly or criminally?

[Akash Singh]

I believe criminally. And it's going to be taken to the New York federal court.

[Andrew Schulz]

They don't want that. No, I tell you, they got to drop this. I mean, they got to drop this. Just lick their wounds, put out a new deadpool.

[Akash Singh]

Baldoni countersues Blake Lively and Reynolds for 400 million for defamation and libel and assassination of character and all that shit. Trying to destroy his reputation. And then. Then they release.

[Andrew Schulz]

Imagine, Ryan Reynolds loses all of his mint mobile money because Justin Baldoni couldn't lift up his w. Imagine. Imagine that. Imagine they got to sell the house. They got to sell the apartment in Tribeca. And when you're explaining to the four kids, it's like, well, yeah, your mom put on a few pounds after the last pregnancy, and this guy has a back injury. He couldn't lift her up, and your mom went batshit crazy. So that's what this really comes down to right now.

[Alexx Media]

Is that a private school in Tribeca or public school in Midtown East?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Oh, dude.

[Akash Singh]

So now people are saying, like, oh, this is. They're calling it Darvo. This is what sexual abusers will use. They say, deny, attack, reverse victim, offender. Oh, boy. This is what Baldoni is doing, allegedly, is that he's the aggressor, but now he's flipping it and reversing it, using this tactic.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's her fault.

[Akash Singh]

Is that now he's the. He's the victim and that she's the aggressor.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And no one knows what to believe. That she says in her criminal complaint, which, again, there's a whole bunch of fucking bureaucracy with this. But she says in the criminal complaint that during one of the scenes where they're slow dancing, there's no audio. He's, like, caressing her. He's, like, touching her lips. He's trying to kiss her. She feels uncomfortable. She doesn't want it to happen.

[Andrew Schulz]

Then they dropped the clip.

[Akash Singh]

And then they dropped the clip with audio, which Nolan knew at that time, at least that there was audio. We can watch some of it again. This is another, like. Like, cultural mirage where depending on what you believe, what you see.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't think there's any mirage here.

[Alexx Media]

And you keep giving these hoes too much credit. I'm gonna say I'm not with this. A sexist podcast. He gotta hear it out.

[Mark Gagnon]

Baldoni bunch on, son. He knows what time it is.

[Andrew Schulz]

She got to be six feet tall, bro. There's no way. Yeah, I don't know, bro. I got to see that in the script, man, I got to. I don't like all that improv. Like, if I'm Ryan Reynolds, I don't think I'm into that.

[Akash Singh]

So she's suggesting, hey, we. We should be talking. We should be talking right now. And he's like, oh, I think it's more romantic if we just look at each other. Almost kissing is also good.

[Mark Gagnon]

And she agrees.

[Akash Singh]

And she says, but we're still talking.

[Alexx Media]

I mean, it's a movie with people falling in love.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

If you're Ryan Reynolds, you. Nothing is going to happen.

[Akash Singh]

But at this point, I'm pretty sure they hate each other.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Alexx Media]

Oh, that's what they allege the allegations are. They hate each other.

[Akash Singh]

At this point in the film, I don't know the exact date that this scene happens. I'm going to lower the audience.

[Mark Gagnon]

She's a good actor.

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, I believe it.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

All right, so where are we?

[Akash Singh]

They come out with this and say, this is proof that no sexual misconduct occurred, that everything's being talked about. Multiple people are there. There is no intim coordinator, which they say Lively turned down. Lively said, I didn't turn it down. I just didn't need it for this scene. Because in the script, there's no intimacy. It's just us dancing. Lively's team says, this is absolute proof that this guy was being sexually inappropriate on set, that he was abusing his power as the director and the producer to have a sexual moment with the lead that he's also the co. Lead with. And then that's basically where it stands. If people are like, hey, what does it mean? He puts out the voice recording at this point where people are like, see, this is more proof. And then there's a trial date that's set.

[Andrew Schulz]

All right, so now we. We. Now we can have fun with this.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Do we feel up to.

[Alexx Media]

That was a lot.

[Andrew Schulz]

That was a lot.

[Akash Singh]

It was a lot.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, I can't believe you actually did all that research. I'm going to be very impressed. That was amaz. That was amazing.

[Alexx Media]

Let's cut 80%.

[Andrew Schulz]

Why don't you tell me a little. You did the right thing. You did the right thing.

[Alexx Media]

You absolutely did the right thing. You were great. You were fantastic.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, yeah. You need. You need another one of these. You need to keep moving. Okay. Wow. That was a lot. And you know what? You didn't. In a way that was so diplomatic. I'm like, you know, like, he kind of made arguments from both sides and everything. It was like, really, it was.

[Mark Gagnon]

You should have been more Candace with it. And just pick a side.

[Andrew Schulz]

Tell the story who's really a man. That's what I need. Like, this is why Candace wins. You know what I mean? Like, her retention throughout that story is going to the roof. And ours is like, oh, but it's so gray. Like, no, we don't want gray. I need the strong, bold, bold colors. Yes. Yeah, I don't know now I actually. Oh, man.

[Alexx Media]

I know.

[Andrew Schulz]

All right, tell us.

[Alexx Media]

Hey, the second a white woman in Hollywood is talking about sexual harassment, I'm skeptical.

[Mark Gagnon]

Oh, my God.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, okay. Keep going. Keep going. What?

[Alexx Media]

Just because they subscribe to the New Yorker, I gotta pretend I believe these hoes?

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't. I don't.

[Alexx Media]

I don't trust them.

[Andrew Schulz]

Tell us.

[Akash Singh]

Tell us. Tell us what?

[Alexx Media]

None of this seems like it's a fucking movie where they fall in love and you expect us to have a platonic dancing scene?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Alexx Media]

Are we doing a movie or not? You're an actress. You would be uncomfortable with your wife doing it. She's not an actress. You don't. She's not signing up for that. You'd be like, what the fuck you hugging this guy for? If your wife is an actress, the day you meet, you met on a fucking movie. Ryan Reynolds. What do you think she was doing? That's why to me, if there's a.

[Andrew Schulz]

Love scene, I feel uncomfortable with the daddy daughter dancing My wedding.

[Akash Singh]

I'm daddy.

[Andrew Schulz]

I said back it up.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, back it up. Nah, it's gotta be the chicken dance or something. Cute song.

[Alexx Media]

Just in general, I think if you've grown up around actual abuse and you see people calling certain abuse, you're like, what are you talking about? If you know actual sexual assault victims, and then they start saying, oh, this is sexual assault. It's very obvious. Because he mentions his wife a minute in first of all. Or like, whatever. It's so obvious what's happening. No, it's not.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

This is not sexual assault. And painting. This is sexual assault is insane to me.

[Andrew Schulz]

So they're like, all abuse matters. And you're like, just yours.

[Alexx Media]

Correct.

[Andrew Schulz]

I was uncomfortable.

[Alexx Media]

And abuse. You were uncomfortable. You would know they Fuck. I heard two fucking. I heard 20 minutes of an audiobook. They fucked in those 20 minutes. What did you think was going to happen? Were you not going to be uncomfortable with that? Maybe you should have had an intimacy coordinator the whole fucking time. It's insane to me that we let these people go on with this fucking narrative. And we're like, oh, my God. See, he's sniffing her. Of course, bitch. You're going to be cheek to cheek. It's a dance where you fall in love. What do you think? This is supposed to be good people. I'm not dancing like that. I'm not doing this movie. I'm not handsome enough to be a lead in anything.

[Akash Singh]

You're right.

[Alexx Media]

Thousand percent dog.

[Akash Singh]

People also point out, like, why would he. This guy that has a Hollywood career, sexually harass a woman who comes from, like, a legacy family that's not like, young in the scene. She's not like a fringe character. She's the co lead and a producer.

[Mark Gagnon]

And of course, according to him, she's fat.

[Andrew Schulz]

You can't do both. You gotta go to your trainer. Like, yo, how much it's not sexual harassment. It could be harassment. That is another thing that. Have we spoken about that? Like, it could be harassment, but adding sexual. You don't know my intentions. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Alexx Media]

You know what I mean?

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, if you just were like, hey, I felt harassed by you talking about my weight, that's fine. But you're assuming I wanna fuck you, which is arrogant. I'm Justin Baldo.

[Mark Gagnon]

I think one of the texts he put out, he's like, I'm not even attracted to.

[Andrew Schulz]

That is. That is. What is it called? That is a little bit of. What is it? Presumptuous. That is presumptuous of you to assume sexual harassment.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Now, does sexual harassment mean how you feel? Like, do you feel sexualized and then it just means sexual harassment? Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Like, if you comment about my feet, that's sexual harassment.

[Andrew Schulz]

But I mean that way.

[Akash Singh]

Okay, yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

If I'm talking about your feet, I.

[Mark Gagnon]

Mean that you made Arthur uncomfortable. Arthur.

[Andrew Schulz]

Arthur.

[Akash Singh]

Arthur is crazy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Arthur.

[Alexx Media]

Archer.

[Mark Gagnon]

Archer.

[Andrew Schulz]

He's been here for a year.

[Alexx Media]

It's close enough.

[Andrew Schulz]

Get him your heart right now. Get him your heart right now.

[Akash Singh]

You can lift Archer.

[Mark Gagnon]

Then Ma's gonna have to blur it out and stuff. He's been saving my ass, I realize. Appreciate that.

[Akash Singh]

People also point out that in this scene, she makes comments about his nose, which he's publicly talked about being insecure about.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And she's like, yeah, yeah. Don't be too sideways.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, that's my thing. Like, add a certain level of good looking, you're not allowed to talk about yours. Yeah. Like, you could be insecure, but you don't want to complain about them. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, if you're. The guy's handsome and you got a big nose, which is awesome. And girls love it, they Think it's so hot and it gets them so wet.

[Mark Gagnon]

You just listed all the other stuff.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's why she had to wear two pairs of pants. Because that big nose, one pair is going to soak it up immediately. Right. So you need that second pair just in case.

[Akash Singh]

That's sexual harassment. Noses are very sexual.

[Andrew Schulz]

Noses are. I mean, greatest men in history have huge noses.

[Akash Singh]

That's true.

[Andrew Schulz]

You know that for a fact?

[Alexx Media]

I know it did.

[Andrew Schulz]

You know why Hitler made his mustache so small? Make. His nose was big. He didn't have a big nose. That is true.

[Akash Singh]

Why did he?

[Andrew Schulz]

Why? Why? Because. Why?

[Akash Singh]

He was ashamed how small his nose was.

[Andrew Schulz]

You're saying dudes have big noses. I just want to point that out.

[Mark Gagnon]

That was such a way to.

[Andrew Schulz]

Take your heart back. Take your heart back from him.

[Alexx Media]

You know, it might be just the first time a guy hadn't been into her in a long time. She's also insecure about. This is a beautiful girl. He's like, one of the most beautiful women.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Like, widely acknowledged. And then this. This hot guy. You had your fourth kid. You're probably a little insecure. And then this hot guy is like, I'm not into you. What are you talking about? Very much in love with my wife. Who the are you? That might have driven her crazy.

[Mark Gagnon]

And she's reading online all everybody's saying, yo, you're too old to play this part.

[Andrew Schulz]

That is a little bit. How old is a girl supposed to be in the movie? I don't know.

[Alexx Media]

20S, I think. Mid 20s, I believe. Mid. Young to mid 20s.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. That is something that happens when you're in your 30s. Like, you think you look 20s still.

[Mark Gagnon]

I still think I fit in the club.

[Andrew Schulz]

And then I just hide in the corner.

[Alexx Media]

I'm like, damn, you can find out.

[Andrew Schulz]

I was walking down the street with my wife, and I saw, like, a group of young girls, and I was like, yo, how old do you think those girls are? And my W was like, oh, they're in college. I was like, that's what they look. That's. I thought they were like, middle school or something.

[Akash Singh]

That's crazy.

[Andrew Schulz]

So we fell off, but we still think we look 27.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, do you think, like, do you think you could play a character who's 27?

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I believe it.

[Mark Gagnon]

You could tell, right by my voice.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, I'm just saying change your voice at all.

[Alexx Media]

How do you think you look for 41?

[Akash Singh]

28?

[Alexx Media]

41. You're black. For a black dude, you look 41.

[Akash Singh]

No, that's a combo.

[Alexx Media]

It's a different scale.

[Mark Gagnon]

So how cannot.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, that means he looks horrible.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. For a black guy, he should look much younger.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, you're saying Alex bad.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

You think so?

[Andrew Schulz]

Take off your hat.

[Mark Gagnon]

No, I'll do that.

[Andrew Schulz]

Why are you doing that? I need an enemy coordinator.

[Akash Singh]

I feel uncomfortable seeing else forehead.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't.

[Akash Singh]

I don't want to.

[Andrew Schulz]

Can I see that? Can I see your forehead?

[Alexx Media]

No.

[Andrew Schulz]

Why not?

[Mark Gagnon]

I don't have a cut. I don't feel comfortable. You're making me uncomfortable.

[Andrew Schulz]

Am I making. All right.

[Mark Gagnon]

The lead is 23 in the book.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. And she's 35.

[Alexx Media]

I mean, what are we doing, dude?

[Akash Singh]

And then on top of that, she's dressing older. It seems like. So, like, the character's already. Like, the character's 40.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Why do we. Why do you think that this is such a huge story? Why do you think that people care so much about this?

[Alexx Media]

I think it really captured a lot of men felt very angry. Angry by the Me Too movement. I actually truly wasn't. All jokes aside, I'm not that guy. But they love this story because it's a. It's the woman seemingly. It's proof being.

[Akash Singh]

Here's an example.

[Alexx Media]

Proof that they're all not. Now you have to believe any of it. So they just glom onto it and they run with it. And I think that's the reason the right wing is really eating this story up. Candace and Ben Shapiro doing this story is wild.

[Akash Singh]

It also proves.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, but they're. I mean, like, Ben is just gonna do the story about whatever the most popular thing is. Like, he did a story on Wicked. No, he's.

[Mark Gagnon]

He's doing it because he sees Candace, his numbers, and he's like, oh, oh.

[Andrew Schulz]

We got to eat 50,000 people on live.

[Alexx Media]

Doug. Candace on YouTube. Oh, Candace.

[Andrew Schulz]

I believe.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't need to hear Ben Shapiro talk about. What is this?

[Mark Gagnon]

You don't want to hear him sing WP again.

[Akash Singh]

It also proves, like, the Hollywood elites are bad people.

[Alexx Media]

Oh, that's true as well.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's what I'm trying to say. Like, what are the. What are the little, like, tent poles? Like, what are the things this is touching on? I definitely think it's this feeling that the. The MeToo movement was kind of use as a weapon.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Right. So that definitely is going to rub some people the wrong way. Maybe there is some Hollywood here, but where is.

[Mark Gagnon]

He didn't even touch on any of the Taylor stuff.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's also just people with power taking Advantage of people who are essentially powerless. I don't know if I look at Justin Bell as powerless, but what's interesting is here's this guy who exemplifies the like, the fake male feminist that all these right wing dudes have hated. Right. The liberal or whatever like that. Now all of a sudden, because he's being taken advantage by this MeToo system.

[Alexx Media]

He'S there, he's our guy.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't even want to say their hero, but he's the person that they want to defend. Yeah. It's kind of an interesting thing. You defend the exact guy you hate.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah, yeah.

[Akash Singh]

Because you hate someone else more.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yep.

[Akash Singh]

You see these people that are like, oh, fake woke. And like they want everyone to be happy and they want equity and they're donating to brown people in different countries. And then the second someone fucks with their money, they're coming forward, they're slandering him, they're taking his name, they're running through the dirt.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

You know what's really telling? The fact that Taylor Swift distanced herself from her. This is a friend of 10 years.

[Andrew Schulz]

And miss godparent on one of the kids.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

Taylor's like, oh, believe women, everything. Like, I remember she came to like Kesha's defense and like gave her like 250,000 when that guy, like the producer smacked a butt or something like that.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

So the. This your best friend.

[Andrew Schulz]

You don't even know if that's what happened.

[Alexx Media]

I thought saying it was legit and you're just like, ass slap me.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's a little ass.

[Akash Singh]

At least. At least. At least normally sounds crazy.

[Mark Gagnon]

Like, normally Taylor would come to someone's another woman's defense who's claiming sexual.

[Andrew Schulz]

But the fact that she's stepping aside side is telling.

[Akash Singh]

And everyone was like, very conspiracy theory. And they're like, oh, Taylor's gonna be the super bowl and Blake lab's gonna be right next to her and she's gonna show that like, that's her girl and that they're riding together.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

And she wasn't there.

[Andrew Schulz]

All right, so if you're Blake, if you're Blake and Ryan, how do you get out of this? If you're Ryan, you're a billion dollar business, right? I don't know what Blake's career is right now, but if you're Ryan, you are a billion dollar business, Right. Obviously you're getting phone calls from Marvel, Sony, all these different production companies you're involved in. You got the football team out there, like everybody that you're making money with. And you are the. The celebrity CEO. Right. Like, he's decided I'm going to be the CEO of Mint.

[Alexx Media]

Or mine is touch, dude. Everything he touches but blows up.

[Andrew Schulz]

But it's not just, like, touching and move on. You are the ambassador.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

So as your stock goes down, so does the stock of these companies you represent.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's the gift and the curse.

[Akash Singh]

But a man is not a career alone. A man is a career in a family. And now he's pot committed to his wife. He can't just let his wife drown.

[Andrew Schulz]

Now you got to separate himself. Yeah, he got it. He got to separate him. He's like, I'm taking some time away.

[Mark Gagnon]

From you might have to do that.

[Akash Singh]

But a tough spot, because if he rides with Blake, it's possible he could tank his career. But if he distance himself, then it's possible he could lose his family.

[Andrew Schulz]

So what do you do? Do you h. What do you do if they're. If you're there?

[Alexx Media]

We have an all deck, all hands on deck meeting at the house. Blake, shut up. There's another project out there. You can have your acting career somewhere else. We're letting this go for now. There's a building.

[Andrew Schulz]

I think Ryan wants the project. You know what I think you could do? I bet you.

[Alexx Media]

Oh, that's interesting.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, I think he wants it, of course, but he ain't getting it. I bet you they could call Baldoni. My assumption is Baldoni really wants to be seen as the good guy who cares about women and wants to change the image of, like, masculinity or whatever it is.

[Mark Gagnon]

A gosh that exists. There are guys that care about women in the world. Just.

[Alexx Media]

You ain't one of them.

[Andrew Schulz]

I love him.

[Akash Singh]

I love.

[Andrew Schulz]

We know.

[Alexx Media]

Drop him off at the clinic and go. Go get a coney. Talking about.

[Andrew Schulz]

I bet you. I bet you. They could pull Baldoni aside and say, listen, we want to publicly apologize. Is there any way you can help us save face here? We'll drop the lawsuit. We want to say that there's, like, misinterpretations. You get to be the good guy. But is there a way that we could not be so bad? And you get to be the hero here. You get to be the person that forgives and doesn't understand. And there was misinterpretation, and you understand why she felt certain ways. But we apologize. Apologize, and we completely vindicate you. And then we come together and we even make the next movie. But I bet he cares so much about his Image that he would drop everything.

[Mark Gagnon]

I don't 100 disagree.

[Andrew Schulz]

Definitely not.

[Mark Gagnon]

He got that billionaire backing him. He's like, let's go to war. My case is so strong.

[Alexx Media]

Like, yeah, if you're not giving me $100 million that apology, what are you offering me the good guy role that I already seemingly have? Yeah, you're gonna. Hey, we're gonna make you seem good. It's like me telling you, hey, man, if we had a beat beef, imagine I came to you like, hey, man, I'll help you sell some comedy tickets. You just be that. You'd be like, I'm already selling arena. I need you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

You offering me.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, but I care less about public perception than Justin B. Yeah, but I'm.

[Alexx Media]

Saying, like, the public perception's already on his side.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's true.

[Alexx Media]

So you're offering him something he already has in a way that, like, some comic comes to you, he's like, I'll help you sell out msg. You'd be like, that is true.

[Andrew Schulz]

But while you're done it. While you're. He's not radioactive because the. The. The people think he's a good guy, but it's not settled in court yet, so. So I don't know if he's getting work. And there's that saying in Hollywood, right? You could either work or you could sue. And I wonder if he's like, I want to get back to work and I want to get back to making movies, but, you know, I can't make a movie because no studio is going to fund a movie while this court case is held up. So I literally cannot work. I cannot make money. I can't even use all this positive press that I got because this court case. And they're going to string this on as long as they possibly can. And they got big bank, right? Baldoni got some big backers, but I don't know how much money he actually has, how much he wants to spend on court fees. So I wonder if they caught him like, yo, we're going to squash this all. You get to be the hero. But we need you to just make her and me not look horrible. It was some misinterpretation. Let's move forward. Let's make another movie. This is our.

[Alexx Media]

Can I tell you my.

[Akash Singh]

The suit is also levied not only against Baldoni. I'm pretty sure it's levied against the production company and the other billionaire producers.

[Alexx Media]

The Blake Lively lawsuit.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, that law.

[Alexx Media]

So here's what I was going to say.

[Andrew Schulz]

And they're friends with the other people producing movies, and they're going to go, do you really want to make a movie with this guy? He made this girl feel uncomfortable.

[Akash Singh]

Comfortable.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is what I'm saying. This is a web. This is not an individual situation. Like, all these producers are going to look at him, and right now he's the hero of the Internet. And, you know, Candace has got his back, and all these girls on Tick Tock have got his back for this month. They're gonna have a new story that they care about next month, but that lawsuit is going to still be going. I wonder if there's a conversation behind closed doors where they just go, you get to be the hero. We will apologize. We'll say we misinterpreted things and we're. And it was up. And there's things that we. We wish we could have changed, but now we see it from your side, and there's some sort of reconciliation, and we move on, and everybody gets to work.

[Akash Singh]

What's tricky is that they already tried to force him to put out an apology, so they wrote an apology for him. When they had all the producers, who was they?

[Andrew Schulz]

So when.

[Akash Singh]

When Reynolds was yelling at him, they gave him an apology and they said, you got to put this out. We wrote it, and it says, there's been problems on the set. I take accountability. That's what it means to be man enough. Quoting his podcast name. Yeah, and, you know, it's my fault and there's misunderstandings, but everything's good. So they tried to get him to do an apology, and he said, no.

[Andrew Schulz]

I. I don't think he got to apologize. I think that he's just got to go. I see where they went wrong, and I really appreciate their apology. I don't think that they're bad people. They misinterpret some things. I think now they understand where things are coming from. But I think it's best that we all kind of move on. And then we made a great movie that people love. Let's make more. Let's continue to work. Because he doesn't want to be four years not working, because people will forget about this movie. Remember, memories are short. Four years from now, when he wants to make a new thing, people are gonna go, thank God. Justin Baldon. Here's why.

[Alexx Media]

Here's where I still have the rights.

[Mark Gagnon]

He still has the rights to either their sequel, the prequels, whatever you want.

[Andrew Schulz]

If a producer's not gonna put 25 million up for you to make the.

[Alexx Media]

Movie, the production company's got his back.

[Akash Singh]

The agency isn't gonna put actors in that movie.

[Andrew Schulz]

The agencies might not put the. And the actors might be friends. I'm telling you, it's like, yes, it makes sense on the surface what you guys are saying, but did you see how quickly Blake got the feminist chick that hosts the podcast with him? They know each other. They do a podc. They're friends. She knows who he is intimately. And at the idea of a better opportunity, she immediately went with the. This is a girl who built her whole identity online around being a feminist. Immediately throws this guy down the river for the people she doesn't even fucking know because they're more powerful and offer more.

[Alexx Media]

Here's what I would say.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm just saying, if that's some podcast host going to do it, you don't think some fledgling actors in Hollywood would also do it in a heartbeat.

[Alexx Media]

So here's what I.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's why the whole cat. Real quick. That's why the whole cast was supporting Ryan and Blake. It wasn't. I don't think it's because they 100% believed they were right. They believed that their future salvation was in Ryan and Blake's hands and in the studios that support them and not this independent.

[Akash Singh]

But that was before the text.

[Alexx Media]

Settling.

[Andrew Schulz]

True.

[Alexx Media]

If you're settling, you better attach a big number to that settlement. Or, like, if you're, whatever, apologizing, I need some money. Also, the saying, you can sue or you can work. I do believe that the second they sued him, they put him in a position where it's like, all right, well, my only way out is to countersue. But since I'm suing, I have to ask for such a. An enormous amount of money. I never have to work again because I'm probably not going to work after this. And then there's also. There's a One great scene in the Office.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Where, like, the main character, Michael Scott, is trying to, like, negotiate with the company that he works for. Mike. Mike, whatever, Mifflin. And they're like, you know, you don't have time. I know what's going to happen. You can't sustain in your business. You can't. Whatever. And then he says, essentially, listen, I don't. I don't. I just have to wait you out. I just have to wait you out. I don't need to win anything. I don't need to make business. I just got to wait you. If I'm Blake, if I'm Justin Baldoni, I say to Blake and Ryan, you don't think I can win this lawsuit. I don't think you can lose any more than you're already losing. Your public perception is being tanked, and I think that drives you way more crazy and hurts your net worth way more than it hurts mine. I just got to wait you out.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

So if you're going to give me 100 million, cool.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wayfair got to wait you out, not Justin. And at what point does Wayfair go, all right, bro, like, I had your back, but now we're five years into this lawsuit. I've done 50 million in lawyer fees. We still haven't gotten anywhere.

[Mark Gagnon]

No, but if they. If they sued the billionaire also, that motherfucker got empty, like, endless pockets.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

He's going to.

[Alexx Media]

Blake don't have endless pockets. Who's your backer? Because if it's your backer versus my backer, if your backers. You. I promise my backer can. Big bang. Gonna take a little bit.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

This is so many lawsuits.

[Mark Gagnon]

And if he wins, that is the ultimate victory. That is Goliath. And whatever the guy is, I got. I'm on a roll, guys. I didn't sleep.

[Andrew Schulz]

I get. I know. I get what you're saying. I 100 get what you're saying.

[Mark Gagnon]

Always root for the underdog.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I get what you're saying. I think the people root for it. I do think that you underestimate people's attention spans with things, and I think the people are eventually just going to stop caring about this. Like, they stop caring about any trending topic. There's going to be a new thing. And then when the people stop caring, who's in the advantageous position?

[Akash Singh]

I think Baldoni.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Akash Singh]

I think six months from now, let's say nothing changes, and it's just a stalemate waiting for court. I think people go. And they go, oh, yeah, Wasn't Blake.

[Andrew Schulz]

Lively a like, who got more.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yep.

[Akash Singh]

I think that's what the average person.

[Andrew Schulz]

But I. If I'm Ryan and. And Blake, I'm like. Like, there's no way. I'm assuming there's no way they win this lawsuit. Right. So the only thing they can do is stretch it out to the point where, like, there's a settle or people decide to go their own way. Right. Because it seems with the information out there, they can't win a court data set.

[Mark Gagnon]

They can't push it back.

[Andrew Schulz]

They don't want to go to court.

[Mark Gagnon]

But that's what I'm saying. So it's like, it's going to get settled sometime before March of next year.

[Alexx Media]

So you can settle, but you're going to have to cut a big check when you. You can't just say, hey, we'll apologize in a song. If I'm Baldoni, I'm like, you can apologize.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's.

[Alexx Media]

That's great. I need 100 M's. Otherwise you're out.

[Andrew Schulz]

They pay any money, it's over for them. That's the thing. If.

[Alexx Media]

But the terms of settlement don't get released or that could be part of the.

[Andrew Schulz]

That always gets.

[Akash Singh]

Also Baldoni's lawyers making their life hell. He's saying, like, oh, Taylor Swift was involved in casting, which is what one of the actors said. So now Taylor Swift is involved with the music, and she was a production. Oh, okay. She helped rewrite one of the scenes. We got to depose her. And now they're. He's trying to leverage that. Which is why Taylor's now saying, like, I wasn't really involved.

[Andrew Schulz]

Or he's trying to make everybody around. Around them's life miserable so that they start putting pressure on Ryan and Blake and go, yo, get me the out of this. Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

If you're Gen Aviation, if you're Mint Mobile, if you're the fucking FX producers. Welcome to Wrexham or whatever it's called. Rob McElhenny. Who does this? Are you not looking at them like, what the are y'all doing? Baldoni's guys are saying, hey, fight the good fight. We got your back. Their guys are saying our net worth is tanking because of you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

What the are you doing?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

I just think that's a bigger deal than I can't only.

[Andrew Schulz]

The only cards that they have to play are reconciliation with Baldoni and playing into his ego and the old. The only thing they can do right now, it seems like.

[Mark Gagnon]

And a lot of money.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Mark Gagnon]

You got him dropped from his agency. Like, he's already tainted in Hollywood.

[Alexx Media]

And that's what they're alleging is Ryan Reynolds had already been putting pressure on WME to drop Baldoni. And if you are wme, you're going to want to side with Ryan Reynolds the second that article drops. All right, fine. Now we got reason. Let's go. You're out.

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, this is a. It's a tough thing if you're an. If you're an agency. You like that check that Ryan gives you every single.

[Alexx Media]

Exactly.

[Akash Singh]

You're making more money for you than Baldoni.

[Andrew Schulz]

Way more money than Baldoni.

[Alexx Media]

W me for that either. So that's what you do.

[Andrew Schulz]

All of those people like, how Many people are PAC committed to Ryan Reynolds. How many people are going to fight tooth and nail to make sure he doesn't lose this lawsuit? And Baldoni has to decide if he thinks it's winnable. Knowing this many people are trying to take him out.

[Akash Singh]

But Baldoni is in such an advantageous position, which is why also this is such a big story because all the texts are leaked. It's just feeding the fucking gossip sites for generations.

[Alexx Media]

WWE doesn't back you. They'll drop you at any. They'll drop anybody at any point. Any agency will drop anyone.

[Andrew Schulz]

Baldoni needs to. To donate millions of dollars to whatever cause Candace Owens cares the most about. Because the.

[Akash Singh]

What.

[Andrew Schulz]

What she has done.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

To shift the online narrative about this.

[Alexx Media]

Well, it was already there, but she. Yeah, she definitely.

[Andrew Schulz]

I think she organized it.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And she just made it like it was there and it was kind of fractured and like, some people believe this. And I would ask people, I'd always ask, like, Emma's friends, how do you feel about this? Who do you think? Or whatever. Once Candace started putting those things out, it was a unanimous decision immediately from every person I asked. And I know they only want watched 3 minutes of tick Tock, but it was unanimous. Like, I don't think my wife has ever watched Candace before. Right. So dumb of her. Candace, by the way. No, but like. And then the first thing she referenced when she was talking about this is. Yeah, I was watching the Candace break this whole thing down. It was. It's crazy. It's interesting. Yeah. I think the. I don't know if, like, if. What would you do if you're Ryan and Blake?

[Alexx Media]

I would, I would drop.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yo, drop it to me.

[Alexx Media]

Whatever you need. And if I'm thinking of the pressure they must be going through again, you're worth upwards of a billion dollars. Even if you're not there, you're getting there. Yeah, this ain't worth it. What are we doing? It was a cute movie. Get out of here. We're getting out while the getting is good.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

I would have never taken it this far.

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, it depends on what they. What they have. It depends what their hand is. You know what I mean? Like, Baldoni just showed it. He's like, yo, I got, you know, two kings. They're playing blackjack. It's like, maybe they got an ace. Like, you don't know. So you just got to wait. And then if they fold, then it's like, yeah, they. They were bluffing. And if they go to court, then they're like, no, we think we got.

[Alexx Media]

Inclined to believe if you had an ace and you. You have. You're losing that much. You play your ace.

[Mark Gagnon]

Y.

[Alexx Media]

You show your hand call.

[Akash Singh]

Do you want to put it in the court of public opinion to let it then get potentially thrown out in court, or do you just wait till the court date? We're going to sit on it because we know we're going to win in court.

[Alexx Media]

I mean, that's fine. That's a year from now. You're.

[Andrew Schulz]

What happens to Ryan Reynolds if they lose? I don't think much.

[Akash Singh]

I think Reynolds will be okay. Yeah, I think Reynolds will be okay.

[Andrew Schulz]

Blake.

[Mark Gagnon]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Cuz Reynolds can hide behind. Listen, I was supporting my wife. My wife was telling me she's feeling uncomfortable, blah, blah, bl. Blah, blah. I gotta go do this. She says she doesn't like this guy, so I'm gonna make fun of him in my movies. I got her back no matter what. I'm a supportive husband. You know, I would have liked if maybe there was a little bit more transparency about what actually happens, but I gotta support my wife. I think that we can get behind him on that 100, and I think she gotta take that on the chin.

[Alexx Media]

To your earlier point, you need Candace to get behind. Candace right now is doing a number on Ryan Reynolds. She's the one saying he's. I think he's behind all of this. He's the one driving it. He was inside insecure. He was jealous.

[Andrew Schulz]

Well, to save Ryan, Blake got to take the hit.

[Akash Singh]

Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

Blake gotta be like, he wasn't part of this. I did this all myself, you know, Like, I felt. I. Maybe I. I misinterpret some things. Clearly, I up. I was in an emotional state. I just had a kid. You know, I didn't have my brain with me. And, you know, Ryan was just trying to be a good, supportive husband. I up and, you know, we take accountability for this entirely. And then Ryan just gotta be like, listen, I'm gonna support. Support my wife no matter what. You know, obviously we wish things went differently, but I, you know, it's my family and I gotta support it. I. I think dudes could be like, all right. Like, yeah, I've had to support my wife through some dumb. You know, it ain't cost me 400 million, but they might be able to get out of this. But Blake got to take the whole thing on a chin.

[Alexx Media]

You know how you say pick your battles?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

I didn't understand that until I got married. And this is Gettysburg dying on this one. Yo, I'm dying on this. We divorcing or you're. You're taking us on?

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, yeah, you're taking.

[Alexx Media]

All chips is on you.

[Andrew Schulz]

But that is a way out. That is an interesting way out. Blake takes it all in the chin.

[Mark Gagnon]

They still got to pay him, though. Still got to pay him.

[Alexx Media]

But it will save you a lot.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

In the end.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. All right, guys, well, listen, you know, clearly that. That's what you all wanted to know, right? That's what everybody wanted to know exactly what was going on with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni and Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift. So we delivered that to you, okay? This was for you. This is not for us. Obviously, we have no interest in this at all. Okay? Obviously, it's not dominating our lives. Our wives, our fiances do not care about this at all. We've not been discussing this at home. We discuss it here. For you.

[Alexx Media]

I have no personal investment.

[Andrew Schulz]

Zero.

[Alexx Media]

Zero interest.

[Andrew Schulz]

Zero interest at all. Okay? These are things that we do for you because we love you. Okay? And we have, you know, we have more. We have more to discuss. What else do we have to discuss?

[Akash Singh]

You have a US Aid being a CIA soft power in order to take over the world.

[Andrew Schulz]

When did we stop trying to take. When did we stop being confident? Confident about taking over the world?

[Akash Singh]

Yeah, we got very cute about it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Like, why are we embarrassed about that? I think Afghanistan, because we stopped at that point.

[Alexx Media]

Vietnam.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's the thing.

[Alexx Media]

It was a one, two.

[Andrew Schulz]

But you're not going to take over the world by doing, like, the trans plays in Iraq.

[Akash Singh]

Or is that the perfect way?

[Andrew Schulz]

Is that. Is that the whole reason why we're building up the trans movement here in America?

[Akash Singh]

So some people.

[Andrew Schulz]

Why does it destabilize? What does it do?

[Alexx Media]

That's what some Russian guy said that like, you remember that clip with that Russian guy saying, like, this is how you destabilize America.

[Andrew Schulz]

Just make everything trans.

[Alexx Media]

Yeah. You just cause a lot of, like, identity politics issues and stuff like that. Have you ever seen that clip you guys clip, right? Yeah, it's like a famous YouTube clip of some guy from like 25 years ago or 30 years ago being like, this is how you would cause instability in a place like the US you make it all internal, have them fighting about things that don't matter.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Alexx Media]

Like identity politics. And that would cause enough stability, and.

[Akash Singh]

Then you fund the minority power, and then you create a need for American imperialism to be present in the country. Because now there's this culture war that's stoked Ah. Or maybe they're just trying to help artists in a disenfranchised country.

[Andrew Schulz]

I feel like that might be a too.

[Akash Singh]

We'll figure it out on Patreon.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, we'll probably figure it out. Patreon.com flagrant. We'll see you guys over there. Peace.