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Brett Cooper
Well, guys, Trump and Elon have kicked off Pride Month with the gayest breakup of all time. Simone Biles is showing her privilege. And don't worry, Blake Lively has picked new dragons to fight on her behalf. All right, guys, so while I was on tour last week, Trump and Elon got into the biggest fight, the biggest feud of possibly our generation. I don't know if our generation is the right way to say it, but at least on X, like, this is the biggest feud in Twitter X history, for sure. Now, I am recording this episode on Saturday. I talked about this a bunch at my last two shows in Huntsville and Atlanta. So you guys are kind of getting the recap here. It does seem like everything has kind of died down and the dust has settled. But don't worry, we're still gonna get into it. But before we dive into that, make sure that you follow our podcast page and rate the show if you're enjoying it. And as a reminder, I am on tour right now. We just had our Huntsville and Atlanta dates. I am heading off to Florida and Texas in the next couple of weeks. You guys do not wanna miss this. It is a super fun live version of my show with a Q and A plus I get to meet you guys at. So if you've not bought tickets yet, you can go to BrettCooper.com to get all of that information. I hope I get to meet you guys all out on the road. All right, so this entire feud that has taken over social media and not just the right wing, but basically just politics in general, all started with what we were talking about last week in regards to the big, beautiful bill. And I saw some comments under that video where people were saying, like, brett, nothing's gonna happen between them. This is not suspicious at all. He is just a special government employee. His time is up after 130 days. Which is true. That was true. However, that contract could have been extended, and it certainly wasn't. It seemed like Trump decided, you know what? I think Elon's time here is finished. Allegedly. Tensions had been brewing over the past couple of months over this bill overspending, and it all came to a head on X last week. So, as we had talked about, it was Elon's last day. He gave that interview saying that, you know, a bill could be big and beautiful, but couldn't be both at the same time. And I said in that episode that it looked like he was holding back, like there was so much that he wanted to say. And, oh, boy, that could not be more true because it felt like, the moment he walked out of the White House, he logged onto X and he just let all of his feelings out. I mean, his first tweet was basically like, who let this happen? It was all capital letters. The man was basically just rage posting for 24 hours. And it really reached a head when he came out and he said that, guys, Americans who the reason why the Epstein files have not been released is because Donald Trump is in them. And all hell broke loose after that. I mean, people were screaming at each other. People were coming out in his defense saying, yes, we knew that Trump was never going to actually slash the deficit and get us economically back on track. Other people were saying that Elon was betraying him. All of this was happening. Trump was posting on Truth Social, and then everything just went quiet. Trump got back to work. He stopped posting on X. And Elon, over the past 24 hours, has quietly been deleting all of those posts, including the one about Epstein. So what does all of this tell us now? First of all, I don't think what we just saw was the greatest thing for America. Now, obviously, I think that Elon Musk is a very principled individual. He was brought in to do one job, and that was to make the government efficient, to save money, to slash the deficit, to, you know, get spending under control. That was his one job. Basically. He cares about that, and he cares about free speech.
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Simone Biles
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Brett Cooper
And Trump, understandably, he does have to play the political game. Now, do I like the fact that the big, beautiful bill is going to increase our deficit by $5 trillion? Of course not. No. Americans like that. And I also, on principle, don't love bills that have about 50 million things crammed in them at once, because I feel like that doesn't actually give Congress the time to work through all of that and actually understand what they're signing. But still, Trump is playing a political game. You know, this is the art of the deal. I'm going to try to trust that, even though I don't like economically what this is doing, even with the tax cuts. But. But these two men, they have very different motives right now, and they were going at each other, but that kind of fighting is just not good for our country. However, there are people out there that think that this was staged, this was totally planned. Apparently, Trump has done that before. There have been fall guys in order to get things done, to create a mess in the media. I don't know if I completely believe that, but that is a theory that is on social media right now. Who knows? All we know is that it is kind of quiet at the moment. And Trump, to his credit, does seem to be taking the high road. Like in this situation when there were attacks being slew at him and things going back and forth online, he was basically staying on track. Like just 12 hours ago, before I sat down to film this, he was on Air Force One and somebody asked him about Elon and he was like, I'm not even thinking about him at all. I wish him the best, but I'm too busy working on China and Iran and all of these other things. So, yeah, I'm not even concerning myself with him. Which honestly was the biggest mic drop moment of all. Because if Donald Trump is not even giving you the time of day, if he is now tired of truth socialing about you, you kind of know that you have lost. And maybe that was all real. Maybe Elon is going to cool off in Texas at SpaceX or wherever he's doing. I know that they just like created a Tesla town over there. Or whether this was all a plan to get him out, I have no idea. But I do know that Trump took the high road and he is back to work for Americans. So hopefully everything turns out all right and MAGA and the right can just get back on track and move on from this. Now, speaking of Twitter feuds, as this one was, you know, slowing as it subsided, another one was coming up through the rubble because you cannot last 24 hours on x without some new scandal popping up. And this one was between none other than my friend Riley Gaines and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles. So in case you missed it, last Friday, my friend Riley called out a high school whose softball team won a state championship with a transgender pitcher. And this was her post. She said, comments off lol to be expected when your star player is a boy. Now, what she said is just a fact. She didn't say anything rude, anything accusatory. She's just saying, hey, they know they're about to get ratioed because this is certifiably insane what you're doing. So they turned off the comments and that is what they always do. She simply stated a fact. Now, Simone Biles was apparently sitting on X scrolling, wanting to get involved. And so she responded to Riley's factual post with this. She said, riley Gaines, you're truly sick. All of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category in all sports, but instead you bully them. One thing's for sure, no one in sports is safe with you around. I mean, like, in what world is any of that accurate? Number one, Riley is not bullying anyone. She has never bullied anyone. She is always incredibly graceful. She's strong, she's to the point, she's very direct, she's factual, but she's always graceful. She doesn't bully anyone. And she certainly was not bullying anyone in that tweet. And to say that no one is safe in sports with Riley Gaines around. I'm sorry, I think the parents of Concerned daughters, I think the young women who have been impacted by all of Riley's work would beg to differ. Simone Biles, and I would love to say that your legacy is going to be one of uplifting young women and young female gymnasts like yourself. But unfortunately, if you continue down this path and you decide that this is the hill you want to die on, that legacy might not be so secure after all. But this entire post from her was especially ironic because Riley has never said that she wants trans people to be out of sports completely, like I think most people in the world would be in favor of a separate category. We just don't want women's sports in our private spaces to be infringed upon. We want those to remain private and intimate and safe and secure. That is literally the bare minimum. That is all we are asking for. But Simone doesn't understand that or she doesn't want to understand that. She just wanted to get involved, have some rage baiting, win some brownie points with the left wing basically in the media and say that Riley Gaines is a bully. She just wanted to rip into Riley personally to make herself feel good, which she continued to do in her follow up tweet. So after she posted that about Riley being a bully and a sore loser, she tweeted this bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male Riley Gaines. Now you guys need to know that this is incredibly ironic coming from Simone Biles, who was literally built a brand around herself about body positivity. She has starred in multiple body positivity campaigns based on the fact that as a child she was bullied for looking like a boy, for having muscles like a boy, for being built like a boy, not being feminine enough. And then she turns around and says the exact same thing to Riley Gaines. Now also, it is just purely hysterical because Riley is five. Five. Now Simone Biles is five. So I think everyone looks like a man, looks like a huge person to her. Riley Gaines is five' five. She's just as muscular as you are. You just wanted another way to attack her again to make yourself feel better. And just because Riley is 7 inches taller than you does not mean that she will be able to compete against a man. If she is going to compete against a man, she's gonna need to maximize her health with Marek Health. And Merrick Health is the premier health optimization platform empowering you to maximize your health thanks to expert personalized guidance that you will have in your back pocket. 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Just go to marekhealth.com and use my code cooper at checkout. That is M A R E K merrickhealth.com with code cooper for 10% off. So basically what I am seeing in this entire situation is that Simone can dish it out, but she can't take it because again, she had this entire brand around herself based on body positivity. And the entire thing is so sad to see because again, Simone Biles has been a role model to so many women. She is an incredible gymnast, an incredible athlete. People love her, they look up to her. And her taking the stand is so incredibly disappointing. Especially given the fact that she intimately knows what it is like to be around predatory men in athletics, AKA Larry Nassar, which to her credit, Riley promptly brought up in another tweet. She said all of the horrific sexual abuse Simone Biles witnessed and spoke out against caused by one man, yet believes that women should be forced to strip naked in front of men to validate the man's feelings. You know how many gold medals you'd have if your inclusive dream came true? Zero. Now, if you do not Know the story of Larry Nassar. Larry Nassar was the doctor for the women's US Olympic team. And from the years of 1996 to 2014, he sexually assaulted and abused over two young women. His story is the largest sex abuse scandal in sports history. He had years and years of documented abuse, filming himself molesting these young women. He was in the possession of child pornography. 37,000 videos. And this is a man who Simone Biles directly had contact with, who she says sexually abused her. In fact, she testified in court against him. So, again, she knows what it is like to have a grown adult man in your private space, to cross your boundaries repeatedly. That is what Riley Gaines experienced in the locker room. It's not the fact that she was a sore loser because she lost race. It's the fact that, yes, it is ridiculous that she had to compete against a biological man, but it's the fact that she had to strip down naked in a locker room with somebody that she was not comfortable with. And you're saying that that's ridiculous, that she does not have grounds to say anything, that she's actually a bully when this is what you had to say when testifying against your abuser. Take a listen.
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Simone Biles
I am also a survivor of sexual abuse. And I believe, without a doubt, that the circumstances that led to my abuse and allowed it to continue are directly the result of the fact that the organizations created by Congress to oversee and protect me as an athlete, USA Gymnastics, and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, failed to do their jobs. I don't want another young gymnast, Olympic athlete, or any individual to experience the horror that I and hundreds of others have endured before, during and continuing to this day in the week. To be clear, I blame Larry Nassar. And I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse.
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Brett Cooper
I mean, the entire Larry Nassar story is heartbreaking. I remember watching all of this unfold in 2018 and being so impressed with Simone, being so impressed with Ali Reisner. I believe that was another Olympian who testified against him. Being so impressed with their bravery and the courage with which they spoke and faced him. And now when other young women are saying, we have faced similar uncomfortable situations, we have faced similar abuse, we are trying to stop this. When they are also saying, we need the organizations to change and protect us, you're then turning your back on them. Not just turning your back, but instead you are attacking them in the exact same way that you have complained about being attacked. It is completely ridiculous. It is completely out of line, and it is so utterly hypocritical. No wonder the only people coming to your defense are the opinion writers at USA Today who published this whole piece saying, oh, my goodness, Simone Biles is so amazing. She came to the defense of trans people. No, she didn't. She just attacked Riley Gaines. That's literally all she did. She actually kind of advocated for what a lot of us are advocating for, which is a separate category. But you're ignoring that because you like the fact that she piled onto somebody that you all hate, because that's really what this all goes back to. But in regards to Simone, everything that she is saying, it is coming from such a privileged point of view. The point of view of somebody who's already gone through it, who's finished competing. It is also completely out of touch based on her own experiences that we just talked about. But again, that is a very common left wing trope. I mean, support things that go against your own interest or support things that go against the interest of young people who were like you, the next generation, that you should be fighting for and advocating for. And the only reason you can convince yourself to do that is because it's socially and politically advantageous and it makes you. You feel good. It makes you feel holier than thou. It makes you win progressive brownie points, whatever it is. And that is exactly what we're seeing. But it's not 2020 anymore. It's not 2021. It's not even 2022 anymore. It's 2025. We are done. The majority of Americans have the opinion that men should not be playing in women's sports. This is not a bigoted opinion. This is not a controversial point of view. This is the common sense majority of Americans on both sides. Sides. This is what we believe because it prioritizes safety. It prioritizes biological reality and the safety of women. And if you can't see that because you are so blinded by progressive politics and Instagram infographics and hatred of a girl named Riley Gaines, then I'm sorry, I can't help you. And I know that you're sitting in your house patting yourself on the back, thinking that you are so progressive, that you are being so feminist, when that is actually the exact opposite of what you are doing. Kind of like how feminist Alex Cooper believes that the messages that she's giving to women are incredibly healthy and empowering, when they are actually the exact opposite. Because if feminism was going to truly be about equality and uplifting women and making sure that they are safe and protected, neither of these Things would be going on right now, but unfortunately it's 2025. So here we are. Now, the Alex Cooper story is a wild one. So if you don't know Alex Cooper, that is the host of Call Her Daddy, which is probably the most prolific female sex podcast of our generation. And it really is a sex podcast she has tried to rebrand over the past couple of years, but her past has always caught up to her intentionally and unintentionally because really, she cannot get away from her original brand because her entire MO from the beginning has been her sex life. She has built an entire media empire, an entire brand based on exploiting men that she was dating in the name of feminism and then teaching women that actually everything that she was doing was incredibly healthy and incredibly empowering. She did this instead of holding men to a higher standard or encouraging women to be better. No, in fact, she actually encouraged everyone to just be worse. And she encouraged women to use men for their own gain to fight the patriarchy. Now, in one article from a couple of years ago, the conservator put it well, and they said that Cooper on Call Her Daddy and her guests had fully subscribed to the flavor of feminism, declaring not merely that men are pigs, but with a mobilizing spirit that men are pigs. So let's be pigs, too. The instructions and often gross tutorials provided by Mid 20s Cooper were rooted in the idea that most romance involves an unavoidable misogyny in which men manipulate and exploit women, leaving them confused, hurt and embittered. So it's not just sexually perverse empowerment, it's also man hating empowerment. They go on and they say they call her Daddy's solution. Harden up, get cold, ghost him first, block him first. Seek your own fleeting physicality and detach intimacy. It's what all men do. So let's do it back. I mean, this is so. I could just do an entire episode on how this is so unhealthy on so many levels. Because not only are you teaching women something that is so detrimental to our spirits and to our bodies and to our safety, but you are also fueling a hatred and a disgust towards men. You are saying they are all so awful, the only way to combat how terrible they are is just to be awful back. But I'm sorry, Alex Cooper, unfortunately, two wrongs do not make a right. Two wrongs do not make a healthy, happy society. And Alex, I think as you have gotten older and you've matured, you've started to learn that. Because as she's gotten older, her life and her outlook have completely changed. Shockingly, she met a man. She realized that not all men are bad. She fell in love. She said that she knew she wanted to marry him the moment that she met him. And she decided that actually this was not a guy that she wanted to exploit. And you know what? Like, genuinely, guys, I know that I'm doing this whole, like, tirade about her. I've made fun of call her daddy. Like, genuinely, I am happy for Alex Cooper. She seems very in love. They seem like a great couple. That's amazing. But the sad part is, even though she has changed her perspective, obviously because she found this man and she got married, she continues to tell women to chase this false sense of empowerment. So much so that when she got engaged a couple of years ago, she didn't even want to tell her audience. She waited six weeks to tell them because she was so scared that they were going to believe that she had betrayed them. She waited over six weeks. She didn't even tell them about the seriousness of the relationship for over three years. And when she finally made the announcement, when she finally sat down to do a straight to camera podcast interview, she started it off by saying, I owe you an explanation. Because she knew that she had completely turned her back on what she had been preaching to them for five plus years. Because a wholesome, more traditional, happy, healthy marriage and stable relationship did not fit the lifestyle that she had been pushing on all of these young women for years. And instead of fully rebranding or dedicating herself to talking about how amazing this is and how she was wrong and how she changed, she just started to hide behind her myriad of celebrity interviews and she stopped letting people into her life. Until last week when she finally did another sit down solo episode. This episode was about her and her husband's decision on whether or not to have children right now. And she spent this entire straight to camera episode talking about how last summer after they got married and they were so in love, they were so excited and they decided to start trying to have a baby right away. They were talking about baby names. They were planning on how to decorate a nursery. They were converting an office to be ready to be a nursery, kind of like I'm doing right now. Until she decided that actually she didn't want to have kids right now because instead she wanted to continue being selfish. And selfish is the key word. That is not something that I am putting on her. That is something that she literally said in her episode. She really said the quiet part out loud. And Honestly, I kind of have to respect her for admitting it so openly. This is what she said.
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Alex Cooper
I want to grind at work and I want to be selfish a little longer. I want to enjoy what I've worked so hard for. I want to go on a weekend trip with my husband and and have no responsibilities after the longest work week. I want to throw unwell parties after a million meetings that week, get on a plane and go fly and have drinks with the daddy gang. I sit here and say that I want to wait a little longer, but knows, right? Like, no life is perfect or ever goes as planned. And I pray to God I can even get pregnant when I start trying.
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Brett Cooper
Everything about this is so sad. And guys, you should have seen her Instagram after she released this episode. Thousands of women reposting clips of the saying, you're speaking to my soul. This is so empowering. This is exactly how I feel. Thank you for giving me permission to be selfish, to live a life with no response. But all of these women in their late 20s and early 30s jumping on board with this. And she's saying that the reason why she's not ready to have kids yet is because she wants to grind a little longer. I don't know what other money she wants to make. She had like a $60 million Spotify deal. She had like $120 million from Sirius XM. She also podcasts a couple times a week and works from home. Like, you have the ability to do all of that if you want to and bring a child into the world because of your massive amounts of wealth. But really, what it comes down to, what she focused on in that clip that we all just watched, was the fact that she wants to have no responsibility. She wants to be able to go out and throw these massive parties for her huge audience where she gets blackout drunk and then plasters it all over social media. Who has been able to convince her that this is something that is worth chasing. And obviously, I'm not gonna sit here and shame women for not being able to have kids or choosing not to have kids because you obviously can live a full life without being a mother. But if this is what you're chasing in spite of that, when the depth of what you are wanting to pursue is nights out with your husband and parties with thousands of you don't know and just making 100 more million dollars, that will never fulfill you. And yes, that is selfish. So I'm glad that she said the quiet part out loud. Now it's so interesting, because I think she knows that this is superficial because she started out the podcast by saying, like, I was feeling so selfish because of this, and then I was feeling guilty because all of it. And then I realized that women are made to feel guilty for making a decision. Like me. We are made to feel bad about being selfish. And I am not going to let that happen to me because that is like some arm of the patriarchy. I will not be made to feel bad about putting myself first. Like, that's really not what's happening here. Maybe what you were feeling wasn't men or the patriarchy or society, but really you were just feeling the weight of your own selfishness and the natural consequences of where you are deciding to put your priorities. I'm not here to tell you what you should prioritize, but there will be consequences. There are consequences in waiting to have children. Possibly that you might not be able to conceive, possibly that what you are chasing will not actually provide you with deep fulfillment. There are also consequences to having a baby, especially when you have a very big career, because, yes, it does change your life. It changes how you work and what your responsibilities look like, but it also provides a depth to your life and you understand what those responsibilities will look like when you choose to bring that life into the world. Like, all of this is a fact. It's not society doing this to you because you are a woman. So do not try to pawn off your decision as some kind of feminist rallying cry for your audience, because that's not what it is. You are teaching them a lie. Now, I know that I just spent like 10 minutes ranting about that, but that wasn't even the main point that I wanted to dive into, because there was another part of this episode. Guys, it was just so, so crazy because while she was walking through this whole decision, this whole journey of, you know, going to have a baby, not gonna have a baby, I'm gonna be selfish, I wanna party, all of that stuff. She quietly dropped in there. How difficult it was for her to try to get off birth control because obviously she and her husband Matt were wanting to have a baby. They said, yes, let's go ahead and try. She got off of birth control, and after being on it for over a decade, her body obviously had a reaction. And she talks about that here.
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Alex Cooper
For me, when I first went off the pill, at first everything seemed fine. I started to experience extreme vertigo and dizziness. The new hormonal fluctuations were just so intense and really affecting me. I would be in interviews, about to pass out. I would pass out in the shower, I just felt so out of control with what was happening to my body. I could tell something wasn't right. All of the questions any woman would start to think were running through my head. I'm fucking Googling everything. Obviously the biggest one being like, am I fertile? And will I even be able to get pregnant?
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Brett Cooper
And this was the part of her episode that really stopped me in my tracks, because I've heard the whole girl boss tirade before. I've heard the whole, like, I want to go party and have no responsibilities. Like, that's normal right now. But this really struck a chord because of how genuinely sad it was. Like, Alex and her audience, they cannot live the life that she promotes. The, you know, decade of sleeping around and the Gluck, Gluck 9000, whatever it is, and sleep with men like men sleep with women. Like, whatever it is. They can't do that without being on birth control. And yet the physical consequences of being on the pill for that long, the physical consequences of choices like that are rarely talked about. This is the first time that she's dipping her toe into this idea that maybe what she was promoting was not just emotionally and spiritually unhealthy, but was also physically damaging her and everyone who took her advice. Because what Alex is feeling in this whole detox process is her body trying to work normally. Because in over a decade, her hormones have not operated naturally. They have been chemically changed and altered to keep her from being able to get pregnant so that she can live the life that she was promoting online. And unfortunately, like we were just talking about, everything has consequences, and those consequences have not been talked about. They are excused. They are blamed on men, whatever it is. But there are real consequences to the lifestyle that you choose to live, especially as a young woman in your childbearing years. And obviously, understandably, the last thing that Alex Cooper wants to do is admit that she, you know, has led a whole generation of women down a path that possibly is very, very unhealthy. So instead, she just continues to double down. And you will never be able to convince me that what she is doing is positive. 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And in her lawsuit, she was trying to have her cake and eat it too. She wanted to claim and allege emotional distress without actually having to prove that she had any emotional stress. And the judge came to Baldoni's defense and basically slapped it out of Blake Lively and basically said, no, you now do not even get to allege emotional distress if you are not willing to show that this actually happened. So now you have to to withdraw. You will not even be allowed to touch emotional distress in the rest of this lawsuit. Also, her dragon, her bestie, Taylor Swift. I mean, lips sealed, she is not coming to her defense. And so Blake, needless to say, has been flailing. So she has turned to her last support system. She has turned to what remains of the MeToo movement. She has turned to none other than the nonprofits who very quickly rallied and got into line and got involved in the loss. This recent headline reads, blake Lively slams Justin Baldoni for abandoning his message of listening to women. Guys, we are right back to 2017 MeToo era. So in a statement given to Us Weekly, Blake's team, her legal team, said, quote, 19 leading survivors and organizations devoted to women's rights, children's rights, and domestic violence have now signed on to four separate amicus briefs. And an amicus brief is a letter that is sent to the court on behalf of the somebody that is in a lawsuit. They are not involved in the lawsuit, but they are saying, we have a vested interest in this and we want you to hear our expert opinion. So all of these organizations, they are now backing Blake. They signed on to these four briefs to say, Justin Baldoni is the worst. We are the experts on domestic violence and MeToo and survivors. And we're backing Blake Lively. So that is what is happening here. All of them are united in opposing Justin Baldoni's attempt to dismantle a law designed by protect women who speak up simply to protect himself rather than defend his case on the facts. Baldoni is now contradicting years of his own public Persona. This is where it really gets nefarious. Abandoning the message of his MeToo, YouTubes, podcasts, TED talks and interviews where he once upon a time urged men to listen to the women in your life, to hold their anguish and actually believe them, even if what they are saying is against you. These women and organizations are sounding the alarm about his darvo tactics, which, if you don't know, is deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. And this is a common acronym used to describe a pattern of abusive behavior. And so that is what they are saying Justin Baldoni is doing here. Not that he is defending himself against defamation and baseless attacks and everything that is going on in the media, but that he is actually pointing it back on her because that is what abusers do. The irony of this is that this is the exact reason why the MeToo movement lost any credibility in the first place. Because of this idea that you have to believe all women. Like, unfortunately, in real time, that is what Baldoni is learning. He is learning that everything that he promoted falls flat when the allegations are possibly false. Because here you have a man that kind of, to his fault, always pushed his audience, push women and men to believe all women, to always stand up for women. He was such a feminist guy, like, literally, we talked about this in our first ever episode that we did about him, that his entire brand was about to feminism. And now, after years of being a strong advocate for women in the MeToo movement, he is now on the other side of it. And Blake and her team, they are happily, happily throwing that in his face to make him look like he is some kind of villain, instead of being the victim here, being a guy who was just genuinely, I think, trying to stand up for women and do the right thing. Because that is what was being told to him at the time. Like, that is what you need to do. And they're saying that this was some kind of sinister move when I and most people online believe that, no, this is just him facing the consequences of this entirely blown out of proportion, honestly sinister movement that turned women against men and made men the villain in every single situation. Now, unfortunately for Blake, most people on social media have immediately seen through all of this. They are not swayed by the amicus briefs. They're like, okay, yeah, there's another PR tactic. She had a loss last week. She's coming back swinging. Nobody cares. I mean, we'll see if the judge cares, if the jury cares. But in the court of public opinion, everyone is done. And really, Blake Lively and her team. Team should have stopped there. But no, because in the midst of all of this happening this week, somebody on her team had the bright idea to, you know, let's just start releasing new hair care products for your hairline. Let's do some collaborations with influencers. That is really gonna change everything. And unfortunately, it didn't, because, again, the Gordon public opinion has made up their minds about Blake Lively. So on Thursday, the way that this all went down, there's an influencer. She's based in New York. She has a twin sister. She's, like, known for her hair. Her name is is Danielle Flong. She posted a video of Blake doing her hair, which is something that Blake does for her hair care line. She's always at these events. She comes, and she basically just, like, tousles your hair like. Like, you know, like, Blake Lively's hair. It's always, like, insane like this. And this is what her products are supposed to give you. And so she goes to all of these influencer events, and she just sprays them, and she just, like, goes like this. That is what happened on Thursday with Danielle. And almost immediately, the Internet lit up. Number one, because her hair looked terrible, and it looked like she had just gotten out of bed. But secondly, because they couldn't believe that Danielle was working with Blake Lively. Here is one Daily Mail headline from right after this, Blake Lively fiercely slammed over her beauty brand's latest PR move. Again, the timing could not have been more worse. And yes, that video, that collaboration with Danielle ended up being deleted, probably because of comments like this. One person said, let's be on the right side of history, girls, please. And somebody else said, this is my favorite. Blake is looking for new friends after Taylor kicked her to the curb. So instead, she is paying influencers to make their hair look like a rat's nest. That is how she's gonna make friends back. But again, it didn't stop there, because within 24 hours of that whole fiasco, Blake decided to try again. And another influencer, also named Danielle, posted a video of Blake randomly showing up to her pilates class and being very nice to her. And then randomly, that same influencer just so happened to be going to a hair care event with Blake's brand Blake Brown and they commented this under her video later that day. Thanks so much for coming to celebrate the launch of our Hair and Body mists. Core memory for sure. So they're not only doing these collaborations with influencers trying to win back trust in the public and on social media, but they are actively releasing new products with her hair care line. They're also releasing products in her non alcoholic drink line. Like all of this is happening at once. Maybe she needs money to pay the bills. I have no idea what's going on. But guys, it is not working. And who knows, maybe Blake did just decide to take a Pilates class that morning and she ran into this girl and just happened to invite her and it was all, you know, totally coincidental and honky dory. But we do know that her team has been and is actively being accused of paying influencers to be on her side and talk positively about her. So I'm just saying this entire thing is just a little weird, especially coming on the tails of the hits that she was facing legally last week. And so to Blake Lively, I would give the same advice that I've been giving to Meghan Markle. Maybe you should just shut up. Maybe you should go home. You should work on your flower arrangements. You've been posting about making flowers at home. Just focus on that. Stop all of this. Because every single step you take just gets blown up in your face. And I think people would like you a lot more if you would just zip it, go home, be with your kids and stop giving us things to be angry about because you just can't stop making missteps. So that is all I have for you guys today. Trump and Elon turned X into a burn book. Simone Biles forgot what team she's on and should be on. And Alex Cooper unfortunately learned that you do have to make sacrifices in order to become a mother and have a baby. Guys, this is all just peak modern womanhood. It is tearing down other women. It is chasing power over purpose and calling it all liberation and feminism. Meanwhile, Riley Gaines seems to be the only one in this episode who is holding the line. And that is why they can't stand her. Thanks for watching guys. And until next time, make sure that you are staying sharp and staying sane and stay staying away from feminism.