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So Cardi B might just win the award for having the best celebrity trial court case ever. And I'm going to tell you why. Because unfortunately, I think I'm becoming a fan. Okay? So I know that was a lofty thing to say, especially in the era of Blake Lively and just Baldoni coming on the heels of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, obviously. We had the Gwyneth Paltrow ski case last year. There have been a lot of prolific celebrity court cases recently. And yet now this new one with Cardi B. Has fallen into my lap, and I fear that she might actually just take the cake. And it's not because this case is so riveting or so deep for whatever reason. It's simply because she is so freaking funny, and we need to talk about it. So, like I said, we have had a ton of celebrity court cases, and usually with these cases, even though they're funny and they go viral, there is something deeper here. And for example, with Justin Baldoni, with Blake Lively, Amber Heard Johnny Depp. The core issue of those cases was MeToo. That is what we're seeing with Blake Lively. That has, like, broken the conversation even more open than when it was broken open with Johnny Depp. But I honestly think that there is something that goes even deeper, and that is simply greed. It is a desire to destroy somebody's reputation for your own gain. It is a desire to make money off of their backs. And I think regardless of whether there is a social issue at play in any of these court cases, most of these trials that involve celebrities really goes back to that, especially when they're being sued by somebody who is not in the public eye. And that is what happened with Gwyneth Paltrow. She allegedly collided with a guy while she was skiing. I think in, like, Park City or something. He sued her. It was very dramatic. She came into court, and she was like, you can give me a dollar. Like, I literally don't care if I win. Like, this is just so ridiculous. And that is what is going on with Cardi B. But before we get into Cardi B, I do want to make the argument that that is also what happened with Amber Heard, and that that is also what happened with Blake Lively. Because, yes, Blake Lively is alleging that Justin Baldoni sexually harassed her. That, you know, the set of their movie was this awful, toxic place. But at the root of that, even though we are talking about MeToo and we're talking about how this is a big social issue, at the root of that is her desire, in my opinion, to Ruin a man's reputation because he did not allow her to take over his movie because she wanted to do that with her husband and the Internet and the public turned on her. And so now she is lashing out and she's trying to turn it into some huge trial and something that she can win. She's trying to meet to him through this. That is what I believe. I'm alleging that. I'm alleging that, Blake, I haven't been subpoenaed yet. Maybe I will be. Who knows? But at the root of it, I think that it's anger, it's greed, and it's wanting to destroy somebody's reputation for your own gain. And again, that is what is happening with Cardi B. So if you did not know, Cardi B. Is in the middle of a huge court case right now. She is being sued for $24 million. And, guys, this is so incredibly entertaining. So if you don't know the story, because I didn't when I first started seeing all of these clips. Cardi B, I believe she has three children now, or maybe she's pregnant with her third. Anyway, she has a couple of children, and when she was pregnant with her first child and she was going to the OB gyn, she did not want anybody to know that she was pregnant. Obviously, she is somebody in the public eye. She wanted to be able to announce it on her own time. So she had met with her OB and they had come to an agreement that the office would be shut down when she comes in. There wouldn't be any other patient. She would be able to come in, you know, not have to be dressed up, not have to be Cardi. She could just, like, go in, be a mom, do the ultrasounds, do the whole thing. Would not have to worry about anything. So imagine her surprise when one day she walks in to the OB GYN office and there's a security guard allegedly, allegedly standing there talking on the phone, sees Cardi walk by and goes, oh, my God, can you believe who's here? There's a celebrity here. Cardi B. Is here. And then pulls out her phone and starts filming, or gets off the phone and starts filming her, is what Cardi says. Cardi turns around because again, she's gone, you know, two lengths to keep her, you know, pregnancy from getting out, from, you know, this being talked about. She says, why are you filming me? Stop filming me. These two women get into a. What Cardi says is a verbal altercation. The security guard is alleging that it became physical and that Cardi attacked her and specifically scraped her face with her long ass nails and cut her face. Now, all of this allegedly happened in 2018. Now what is interesting, in my opinion, is that this security guard, even though she is suing her for $24 million for this altercation, she waited two years to sue her. What happened in those two years? I don't know. I'm just, maybe I'm just being a brat here. But did you go broke? Like, what happened? Like, why did you wait two years to sue for $24 million? Anyway, she waits two years, sues her. But then something even more interesting happens in 2022. She allegedly, the security guard finally goes to a plastic surgeon to deal with the scratch that she allegedly has from Cardi B's nails and allegedly has has to pay between 15 and 20 thousand dollars to get this scar worked on, healed, micro needled, whatever happened. And this plastic surgeon has now taken the stand in this case. So again, the timeline happens in 2018. She waits four years to go to this plastic surgeon to get this awful, awful scratch micro needled off of her face and she is suing cardi B for $24 million. So this is the testimony from that security guard. I'm going to read this to you. We'll put it on the screen here. So her name is Imani ellis. And again, $24 million, which is insane. $24 million because she's traumatized because of this altercation. Because allegedly she was trying to expose and film Cardi B when she did not want to be filmed when it was supposed to be private. She is dealing with ptsd. So she says, quote, she, she was like, she's talking about Cardi swearing F you, you fat ass. Something is what Cardi said. Allegedly. Expletive. I'm going to beat your ass. I'm going to get you fired. Racial slur. That's why you do security. Ella said, choking up as she recalled what she described as, quote, super traumatizing. Sorry, guys, the testimony, the text that I'm reading has all of the swear words blurred out, which is great, so that I'm not reading them to you guys and tainting your ears. But it made it difficult to read. Ellis, the security guard, also testified that Cardi B spat on her. When asked if Cardi B attempted to strike her physically, Ellis replied, she did. Ellis additionally claimed to have a facial cut from Cardi B's fingernails and testified that she dealt with anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress, insomnia and body shaming as a result. Insomnia, anxiety and post traumatic Stress from a verbal, possibly physical altercation with Cardi B that gave her a scar. Now, you might be interested in seeing this. This right here is the scar from Cardi B's nail. Where like, do I need glasses? What? What am I looking at? This is what they played in the courtroom. They were like, look here, look here. Here's the scar where I know that this is like a photo of a photo. But I'm sorry, for $24 million I should see like a gash the size of an ax in your cheek. If you are getting post traumatic stress, anxiety and insomnia from this, like, this is so incredibly ridiculous. This is almost as ridiculous as people fear mongering Gen Z and Millennials and saying that you will never be able to buy a home. Which you will be able to do with the help of my friends over at Fellowship Home Loans and Real talk guys, if you are waiting for the perfect time to buy a house, you might just miss it because that's. There is no perfect time or timeline for every person. And I get it. Prices keep climbing, the debt keeps stacking, the interest rates are insanely high. Boomers are not selling their homes and it often feels like you will just never catch up. But that is why I love and trust Fellowship Home Loans. The owners are Mike and Brian are guys that I know. 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Disclaimer Nationwide Mortgage Bankers DBA Fellowship Home Loans Equal Housing Lender NMLS Number 819382 okay, so back to the story. I think now you understand why I needed to talk about this because this case is so absurd and I feel like I should have talked about this at the top of the episode. You might be like, brett, why your bedroom again? Why are we in your bedroom so often these days? Okay, my child, I'm pregnant right now. This child was supposed to be here by now. Like, my maternity leave was supposed to start. I actually have like a full slate of pre recorded episodes. We're going to start on Labor Day today, Monday for you guys. I recorded them over the last couple of months. I think they're very interesting. They're like, well researched. Like deep dives into things, different cultural topics that I've been thinking about. Since we've been covering news recently, I wanted to do some, like, evergreen things. So I have those ready to go. But then I saw the clips from this trial and I started reading about the absurdity of this and I was like, oh, no, no, no, no. Since I am still pregnant and I am still waiting, sitting around in my house, we need to do this. But my team is already off. I was like, I do not need to make you guys drive all the way out here to film this. Like, I will sit down in front of my window when people talk about this. So we're just gonna push some of those paternity leave episodes until later because I'm still here and I am still pregnant anyway, so moving on, the other reason why I wanted to talk about this, Number one, because the case is absurd. Number two, because it's just another incredible example of the court system being used to take advantage of people. The other reason I wanted to talk about this is because the clips are so freaking hysterical. Like, I think that I love Cardi B now. Like, can I forgive her for wap? She'd wap, right? Yeah. I don't have pregnancy brain. Like, can I forgive her possibly. Like, I know she has this, like, long standing feud with Candace Owens. And you know, I love Candace, we're good friends. But like, Candace, today, I'm so sorry, but I do have to stand Cardi b. Like, you just have to see these clips. For example, they are talking, they have her on the witness stand and they start asking her questions about this altercation and about the security guard and this lawyer who, by the way, we're going to get into in a minute is just wild. The questions he is asking are crazy. He starts asking about the things that Cardi allegedly said to the security guard and he brings up her weight. He's like, you know, could you fight this girl? Like, what were you saying to her, like, how does her size comp to you? And just listen to this clip.