Candace - Ian Carroll Unleashed! | Private Equity, Big Pharma, And The Diddy Trial | Candace Ep 184

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

Ian Carroll hosts his first episode of Candace by discussing Candace's crazy experience with the hospital after the birth of her son Roman, Trump going after big pharma, the Diddy trial, and a scandal that started at kids birthday parties at Urban Air Adventure Parks which led to one mom spending the last three years fighting against a multibillion dollar private equity machine. Follow Ian Carroll here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCCgpGpylCfrJIV-RwA_L7tg 00:00 - Start. 00:57 - The story of Tiffany & Unleashed Brands. 27:56 - Candace's hospital story. 29:27 - The Diddy Trial. 36:03 - Trump's new executive order goes after Big Pharma. 39:16 - The Macron "baggie" controversy. GNO.LAND Learn more at http://www.gno.land Pure Talk Make the switch today at http://www.PureTalk.com/Owens Take Lean Go to https://takelean.com and use the promo code CANDACE20 to get 20% off! Disclaimer: Results vary. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease and is not a substitute for care from a healthcare provider. Candace Official Website: https://candaceowens.com Candace Merch: https://shop.candaceowens.com Candace on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/Pp5VZiLXbq Candace on Spotify: https://t.co/16pMuADXuT Candace on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/RealCandaceO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Frills delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC Optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. Welcome back to Candice, everyone. My name is Ian Carroll, and welcome to the first episode where I'll be filling in for Candice while she spends time with baby Roman. Later on, we'll have updates on Candice and baby Roman and a crazy story of her hospital being evil. Also, Trump goes after Big Pharma, Diddy starts his trial and claims the freak-offs were all consensual, and the internet is losing its mind over Macron and his buddies allegedly getting caught with a baggie of coke. But first, a scandal that started at kids' birthday parties at Urban Air Adventure Parks is blowing up in a massive way.

And one mom who spent the last three years fighting against a multi-billion dollar private equity monster is about to top of the whole house of cards. All that and more right now on Candace. So imagine you're a mom or a dad and you want to take your kids to the adventure park for a fun day, maybe a birthday party, right? That's where today's story starts with a young girl, seven years old, being taken by her parents to Urban Air Adventure Park. And they were expecting just a normal day. They were expecting a wonderful day with their kid. And if you've ever been to Urban Air, you would know that there's all kinds of crazy things for the kids to do. And theoretically, their staff kind of help and keep them safe, help and run the rides. And this little girl teed up to get on one of the most popular rides at Urban Air. We have video from that day.

Ready? Go! You got it? Now this is called the Skyrider attraction, and it's going to play a big part in today's story. But I just wanted to jump in really quickly and give you a disclaimer that the next part of this clip is pretty traumatic, and it doesn't show anything extremely graphic. But if you're a parent or you have young kids, this is going to be very hard to watch and listen to because they were not expecting their day to go like this. Are you okay? Somebody call 911 now! So, that little girl unfortunately suffered a punctured lung, a traumatic brain injury, broken bones, and permanent disability, including learning deficits, hearing loss,

and her injuries are still uncertain and sustained to this day. They have been in secret arbitration up until right now. And this is just one poor little girl's story at Urban Air. But unfortunately, it is very much not the only story like this. And today, I wanted to tell you a story about Urban Air because Urban Air is a very small piece of a very big picture. And it starts with a man named Michael Browning. In 2011, he founds this company called Urban Air. And it's an adventure park, right? And he's growing Urban Air Adventure Parks, you know, with the goal of being a big shot like his dad, I would presume.

He eventually in 2018 gets a whole bunch of private equity funding and expands his business rapidly all around the United States from 45 parks at the time up well over 100. They initially got investment from Ross Perot's private equity firm, MPK Partners. And they took them from just a small business in the Indianapolis area to a nationwide chain. And they started franchising. Franchising allowed Michael Browning Jr. to expand this business out and allow other people to buy into his franchise and to have urban Airs opening all around the country and to have those businesses opened by local people that wanted to change their lives and their community by starting a business and buying into the Urban Air franchise. This is the story of franchising, and it is the bedrock of the American economy in a lot of ways,

because it's a fundamental way that people start a business and not only change their own lives and their family's lives, but also elevate their community. Franchising, unfortunately, has taken a pretty dark turn in the last 10 years. And we are going to come back to that theme over and over and over again throughout this story. Because as Urban Air expanded, lawsuits started to flood in because of the way that things were being done. And Michael Browning has had some choice words that are posted on his website to say about those lawsuits. But as we dig this story open, you'll see that Michael Browning's words are, well, I'll just read them for you. Quote, this is not a franchise where I'm

sitting back at my desk in some ivory tower and collecting royalties and teaching you a theory. I'm in the trenches, experiencing what the franchisees are experiencing. That is huge for our core and our motto. Right on, Michael. Good to know. It's also good to know that, let's just say we have documentation that seems to imply that that Skyrider attraction, that zipline type of thing that that poor girl fell off of, that was not originally created by Urban Air. Jr., shall we say, filed patents after signing a confidentiality agreement with the original company that founded it, Leap of Faith Adventures. If you search the internet for Leap of Faith Adventures today, you will find just about nothing because Leap of Faith Adventures no longer exists. And that's another dig for another time. But let's just say that the emails, correspondences, and documentation that we have kind of implies what might have happened to Leap of Faith Adventures. Because

when you're founding a national chain of adventure parks, you need all kinds of cool rides and attractions and stuff for the kids to do, like rock walls and zip lines and crazy trampolines spin around tumblers and stuff like that. And it sounds pretty dangerous because it can be, right? And when you take your kid out to a park like that, you're expecting them to be providing the safety so that your kids can have a fun, safe time out. Once Michael Browning Jr. had expanded his empire of trampoline and adventure parks all around the nation, he realized that he was onto something and he could expand and do even more. So following a trend that is rampant in private equity right now, in 2021, Browning decided to scale up following a hot new trend in private equity

that gets referred to as platforms, where they will buy up different companies that are in the same niche, in the same sector, so that if you wanted to fix up your house, they've got AC people, they've got cleaning people, they've got painting people. This is just one example, but it happens in all sorts of different areas of our economy. And Michael Browning Jr. decided that he was going to take on the niche that was all things children. Why not apply the private equity playbook of cutting costs, streamlining businesses, and maximizing profits to all businesses' children? So that's what he did. And he bought up a number of businesses in rapid succession with backing from his private equity buddies, including Sylvan Learning Centers, Water Wings, Snapology, XP League, Class 101, Premier Martial Arts, and The Little Gym. But

among all brands, it has 1,200 locations across the country and serves 25 million children a year. It generates $1.1 billion in annual revenue. Michael Browning Jr. seems to be doing pretty good. But problems started to arise as they acquired each of these companies. And they didn't start with the Little Gym, but our story starts at the Little Gym today. Founded originally by Robin West and Robin McCoy. And I just want to show you their faces because I get the feeling we'll come back to them in the future. But the story really comes to a head when Tiffany Cianci enters the picture. And Tiffany Cianci bought into this franchise as a mom that was doing other business and wanted to spend more time with her kids around 2017. And so she thought that buying

one of these franchises would be a great service to her community and a great way to spend more time with her kids because her kids could attend the little gym. And if you've not been to the little gym, it's a space for children of all types, but particularly targeted children that have special types of needs, whether that be auditory, sensory, learning, cognitive, whatever. It's a gym for all types of children to do gymnastics and learn through physical movement. And Tiffany Cianci really found her passion there. We're going to be drawing from news reporting and articles that have reported on Tiffany's story over the last three years, as it has gotten crazy. And just recently, it's gone to a whole new level as cases against Urban Air and the parent company, Unleashed Brands, have moved from secret arbitration into public court,

as well as since Tiffany Cianci and several other insiders have decided that enough is enough and it's time to come clean. Cianci started back in 2017 and all was gravy. It was a wonderful time and a wonderful business for her to run. And she was very successful at it. But then right around the buyout with Unleashed Brands, corporate came down to her and said, hey, we have this new advising partner and they're gonna help us with this new stuff. And they were presented as though

they were just going to advise them. Slowly, little by little, it became apparent to Cianci and the rest of the staff that this was not an advisor, this was a buyout. And the buyout was Unleashed Brands. And the advisor they were speaking to was Michael Browning Jr. himself. Suffice it to say that Cianci and many of the other franchise owners were uncomfortable with the various changes that were being made. The

types of changes that would separate the people running these gyms from their clients. Things like call centers, where when a parent calls with a concern about their child, they get a person in a call center halfway across the country instead of the actual with a concern about their child, they get a person in a call center halfway across the country, instead of the actual teachers that work with their child every day. You can see how that could be a little bit of an issue when you're dealing with special needs kids

doing gymnastics, but that's not really how private equity plays. So Cianci organized her fellow franchise owners into an association, sort of like a union, to push back against the changes and to stand up for the franchisee rights. Just to clarify, a franchisee is the person that founded the small business,

the owner of the franchise. The franchisor is the big boys, the corporates, Michael Browning Jr., in this case. Over the next three years and to this day, Unleashed Brands took Tiffany Cianci through legal... Can I say hell? Yeah, you can say hell. Cool. Over the next three years, Unleashed Brands took Tiffany Cianci through legal hell, dragging her into hundreds of thousands of debt, through untold emotional and financial hardships, through the most insane

journey of just outright unethical, unlawful lawfare. This is not unique to Tiffany or unique to Unleashed Brands or unique to The Little Gym. Franchises are all across America and they are all kinds of businesses that support a huge sector of our economy. And franchises in particular are in the crosshairs of private equity today because they can be so incredibly profitable for reasons that we will go into. Suffice it to say, when you are outsourcing so much of your business cost, debt, and the actual running of your day-to-day business to individual people, to families and small business owners, you can offload a lot of risk and a lot of the hardship and just suck all the money up to the top. Tiffany has been in arbitration,

which is a secret court system where all the rules work differently, all the judges work differently, everything is for profit and everything is secret by definition. She's been in arbitration for the last three years, and we have now got information through her and others that there are many, many other people. We're talking hundreds of other people in arbitration just with Unleashed Brands, let alone with other private equity and other corporations around the world. The big picture problem with this whole story is not just that private equity is buying up and taking advantage of small businesses, not just that private equity is applying the private equity playbook to these businesses that are focused on kids, mind you, but that those practices that private equity uses are inherently counter to safety. Tiffany gave this quote to the New York Times. That might be okay when you're cleaning a dryer vent,

but it's not when you're throwing around a four-month-old and you need them to be safe. Ms. Sianci said, he was moving faster than we would need to get to know the business, referring to the changes happening at the little gym. And the key word there is safe. And as the clip that we opened the segment shows,

safety is obviously not the first thing on the mind of Unleashed Brands and of Urban Air. But that is just one video. And there are many other videos from Urban Air. Again, we are going to blur out the most sensitive parts of these videos, but we just wanted to get you a sense of what you can find just on YouTube if you go searching for this type of stuff. feet from the zip line. The accident happened in September at Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in Lakeland. An investigation by the Florida Department of Agriculture found the boy's harness was not properly secured at the time of the incident. Urban Air says the employees involved in the incident don't work there anymore and others have been retrained. So there's examples

of kids falling, but there's also examples of adults and parents getting hurt. In the next video, a mom almost died in front of her own daughter at their birthday party. The video is shocking. A mom is hanging by her neck, helpless, as she finds herself trapped on an indoor zipline. Time is running out. She's in real danger of choking to death. It happened after she says the harness apparently came loose and slipped around her neck. It seemed as if they put the harness incorrectly.

Instead of strapping it under my arms, it seemed as if they strapped it up here. She suffered rope burns and bruises around her neck. Evelyn Rapier is now suing the park, alleging negligence and improper maintenance of the ride. And so when things like this happen, the park gets sued, which is owned by a small business owner, but they're just trying to comply with corporate. Corporate, Unleashed Brands, pushes all responsibility down onto the park and anything else that they can't wash away gets filed away into secret arbitration. And you agree to secret arbitration when you sign your kid in at the park when you sign those waivers. Because if you didn't know, almost every waiver you sign these days, whether you're going to the rock climbing gym or you're signing up for some swimming lesson or you're just buying a washing machine, almost all of those waivers include what's called an arbitration agreement. And that is where you agree to waive your rights to court

and instead agree to settle in arbitration, which is essentially secret court where the judges are all for sale. We're gonna get into arbitration way more in coming episodes, but suffice to say that it's a great way to cover up all sorts of nefarious stuff if you don't want the public to know. You might have noticed too that the woman in that video

made purposeful note that the harness didn't seem to be put on correctly. And that's because these rides are not staffed correctly because A, Urban Air hires children under the age of 18, 16, 17 year olds, and you would think that you'd need a couple of them to staff these rides. But there's documentation that seems to show that, quote, Michael discussed reducing the number of attendants from two to one on the Skyrider attraction, stating that eliminating an employee from an attraction can save a park $10,000 per year. That very same weekend in Ahwatukee, the Skyrider attraction had one employee working when a major accident occurred. In LOFA's opinion, this short-term cost segmentality is a major concern. You might notice LOFA is Leap of Faith Adventures. The company that I had mentioned

had originally designed this ride. The company that I had mentioned, it appeared that maybe Unleashed Brands and Michael Browning Jr. might've done something nefarious to take that patent and that attraction from Leap of Faith Adventures. And now Leap of Faith Adventures is unfortunately no more. But this document, as well as several others that we have, are actually from when Leap of Faith Adventures took them to court because they were not okay with what was being done with their rides, the ways they were being set up, the ways they were being run, and they made specific claims about what was going on. That's not to mention that there's evidence that seems to suggest, both human testimony as well as email testimony, that Unleashed Brands was flying in Chinese

nationals to put together their adventure parks because it was cheaper than paying American labor. You know, doesn't really strike me as the kind of thing that's safe when you're putting together all sorts of rides and dangerous equipment that children are going to be playing on, but it is cheaper. I'll give them that. So what Tiffany Cianci and all of the other franchisees at the little gym have been through has been horrendous. It has been a multi-year process of intimidation and of coercion and of very complicated changes to their businesses that do not benefit them or their children. At least that's how they see it. But there's a darker and deeper side of the story. And that's when you start to realize that private equity is a team. It's a club. And they are all friends together. and None of them really want the boat to be rocked

And so when tiffany started rocking the boat when tiffany stood up to these people and organized With her other franchisees and then when she wouldn't go away and be silenced They decided that they were going to make an example out of her And they have done a number of things over the years Things that are almost unspeakable. And we don't have time to speak of all of them because there are so many. But perhaps the most unspeakable or at least the most inhumane that was done to Tiffany was captured in court during one of her depositions. And I'm going to let her speak for herself,

but I do want you to know that this is going to be hard to watch, especially if you're a mother. But this is what happened to Tiffany Cianci. You might also say that there are very likely instances of significant emotional distress related to somebody trying to expedite me having an abortion the day I lost my daughter.

Are you seeking that here in this case? I would say yes. And again, are you talking to the recent miscarriage where the parties worked with you to reschedule your deposition? Worked with me? You tried to depose me in labor. You tried to depose me while I was in bed bleeding. I had contractions two minutes apart.

So no, I would not say you worked with me. I would say it was vulgar and inhuman. I was copied on the emails where you asked that I be compelled. I was copied on the email where you asked that I make sure that I had the fastest abortion possible when my doctor's note said that I was Catholic and meeting with my priest to avoid it. I was certainly copied when you said, you, Ms. Sixkiller, said that you thought that me bleeding baseball-sized, baseball-sized blood clots

and having contractions two minutes apart wouldn't be too stressful for me in that state, and you thought I should be deposed for 18 hours. This is two weeks later, and I am still having contractions, and I am sitting here so that I don't have to see you again. So, yes, I would say I was copied, and it was harmful. We would have moved the hearing date out further to see you again. So yes, I would say I was copied and it was harmful. We would have moved the hearing date out further to further accommodate you. So I apologize. No, no, no, that's not true. That is not true. When you found out I lost my baby within 30 minutes of getting the note, 30 minutes of getting the note, you said you wanted me

produced for deposition in labor pre-surgery. I'm going to move to strike. And then you said that you wanted him to order me to have the fastest available procedure in the state of Maryland. And if you'd been in court, you would have been referred for disciplinary action. But we're in arbitration. So here we are. And yes, it was a damage emotionally to me. And I think I I'm pretty sure you're a mom, it would have been emotionally damaging to you. So that's where we wound up. All because Michael Browning Jr.

wanted to be a big boy like his daddy and run a giant empire of children's focused franchises. And when those franchises spoke up and said that this is not how you run a toddler gym, this is not how you run a martial arts academy, they stomped down. The problem was they stomped down on the wrong woman. And Tiffany Cianci would not give up and would not die.

And she is still fighting to this day. And by the way, those email chains that she mentioned, yeah, we got them and they're all right there. And yes, they do clearly say exactly what Tiffany was alleging on that stand in that deposition. And a running theme throughout this whole thing will be that when you're in arbitration, let's just say there's not really consequences for lying as long as you're on the team of the big boys there's not really consequences for your lawyers not following the law for the judges not following the law because it's all a system for profit and it's all being paid for and one team has millions and millions and millions of dollars to throw at the lawsuit and the other team is

guaranteed to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt until they can't fight anymore and are forced to give up and give in. But Tiffany took to TikTok a few years ago, and I found her story way back then, early on, and she has been fighting ever since. And she's fought all alone for much of it. But eventually, she grew a little bit of support and a little bit more and a little bit more, and she's won enough of her cases, including a defamation suit by now, that now there's all of this new documentation coming out. Almost everything that we've shown today has never been out before. And there is way more where that came from. And there are way more people involved in this thing ready to talk about it because this goes not just all across Unleashed

Brands and throughout many of their businesses, but this goes well beyond Unleashed Brands out into the entire private equity world. Because when you give billionaire businesses like these private equity monsters sort of a free reign to stomp all over the little guy, you better believe they're going to take that opportunity and run all the way to the bank with it. And they've been running to the bank with it for so long that let's just say the little guys have had enough. So that is where Tiffany stands today. She is currently in court and there's a lot more to talk about as far as what's going on there.

But we just heard just recently that one of these secret arbitrations, because all of these cases of children getting hurt, falling off of rides at the adventure park, as well as Tiffany's entire case in secret arbitration about her toddler, Jim, all of it's in secret. Until just recently. And so. All these guys. The team. Over at Unleashed Brands. Michael Browning Sr. Who is not just daddy. He's on some of those filings. Norman Leon. Michael Browning Jr.

Laura Sixkiller. Steven Polozola. All these guys that are written on all these forms. That are involved in all these depositions. That are on these cases. They're going to come back up. And we're just going to look at what they did. And what they're doing. And see why would you do that? Because ultimately you should stay away from our toddlers and you

should stay away from our little chimps. And we want our kids to grow up in a place where they can be treated like children and not like numbers for profit. So that's the start of that story for now. That's all we got for today. Before we get to an update about Candice and the hospital and how it all went with baby Roman, I want to tell you about our first sponsor, GNO Land. If you're into the world of computer programming, you need to check out my friends at gno.land. GNO is a distributed multi-user virtual computer implemented on top of the blockchain so that every operation occurs in a predestined way. User program code and memory states are made tamper-proof

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Candace gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby boy, Roman. Could not be happier for her. We're all feeling so good. She is doing well. I just talked to her earlier. Baby Roman is doing great. And they are back from the hospital. But there was a funny incident after the hospital

because Candace, naturally, after he had a healthy baby and she was feeling great, she left. before the recommended 48 hour uh holding time not sure why they need you to stay there for 48 hours and take all their little medicines and get all the ointments that they prescribe obviously she did not give baby Roman all these you know shots like hepatitis b vitamin k is it from itis and all these things. Department of Child Services shows up at her house doing a more or less a wellness visit, asking her all sorts of questions. Why did you leave the hospital early?

And she wanted to clarify when she was communicating the story to us that the person that visited was perfectly nice and just doing their job, but they were doing the job of going out and more or less pressuring mothers into you should have gotten these things and why are you leaving? And it just is a part of this whole pharmaceutical medical

complex cartel of pressuring people into getting the drugs, getting the shots, getting the vaccines. And Candace obviously being based was like, no thanks. Bye. I'm doing great. Go away. So Candace will be back at some point to give us updates, to tell us how she's doing. She'll like, no, thanks. Bye. I'm doing great. Go away. So Candace will be back at some point to give us updates, to tell us how she's doing. She'll jump into the show from time to time while she's on leave, but she's doing awesome. And she says hi to all of you. So next on to the DITI trial. Yesterday, the DITI trial got underway to a slightly late start. The jury got sworn in, opening statements were read, a funny anecdote where the prosecution struck seven black jurors and the defense was trying to call them racist. And it became this

whole thing. Ultimately, the judge sustained their motion to strike those jurors. You know, I'm not trying to make a comment on that. I just thought it was funny the way that it got reported on. But then it turned out that victim three, unknown, we don't know who it is, but victim three apparently is missing. Um, just a few weeks ago, victim three came forward or didn't, didn't come forward, but said that they were willing to testify in the trial. Um, and though we don't know who it is, it's obviously was important to the case because they were going to put victim three on the stand.

And then just before this all came together and before Diddy took the stand, victim three apparently was out of communication and we do not know where they are. My thought immediately went to the girl Allie that is sharing all this salacious stuff. I went and looked her up and she's still posting on TikTok, it's not her. So I don't know what to make of it.

I don't know who victim three is. I'm sure we can all come up with some crazy conspiracy theories about what's going on there. Diddy's side is hoping for a mistrial just because they don't have one of their witnesses. That is extremely unlikely, but it is possibly going to cause some delays and it might actually impact the ability to prosecute Diddy. I presume that Diddy is pulling out all the stops as we've heard reportings of private investigators looking into people and people being pressured or influenced

by his family members and just all sorts of shady, shady, shady, shady, shady. And it's Diddy. So what did you expect? It's also worth noting that Maureen Comey, the daughter of James Comey, is on the prosecution team. She also recently served as the lead prosecutor for Ghislaine Maxwell. So it's just a funny small club of people up here. And ultimately, that's what I really want to talk about here is that as you might expect, nothing really seems like it's going to come out of this. And that's because this is not the case that we were all hoping for them to try. We got on this case. I mean, if you've been really following it since Cassie and before, yeah, there's a lot going on here. But when the Lil Rod lawsuit dropped and most of us kind of caught wind of Diddy and what was going on, the case was that Lil Rod's lawsuit seemed to imply and allege that this was a sexual blackmail

operation and that all of Diddy's homes were wired up with secret cameras recording everything that happened and that Lucy and Grange and universal music group were named in that lawsuit originally except then they mysteriously disappeared off the lawsuit no answers as to why um that was the lawyer for lil rod that took them off saying that there was no evidence that they were involved i'm sure that it was just a big mistake that they got named in the first place, despite the fact that in the evidence in the testimony or in the allegations in it, like documented, it clearly says that Lucy and Grange was at the parties, that Lucy and Grange had every reason to know what was happening at the parties, that he had

private visits with Diddy in the evenings at his home where they disappear into his room for extended periods of time. But, you know, when you're the big boy at the top, you don't get looked into. You don't take the stand. You don't get the dirt on you. And when I was talking to the team earlier, they made me aware that I did not even know

that there's a whole backstory on Lucien Grange and his big daddy. And, oh boy, is that another dig for another day. that I did not even know that there's a whole backstory on Lucien Grange and his big daddy. And oh boy, is that another dig for another day. But I just wanted to point out that the more the Diddy trials progressed, the more they seem to depart from what was actually really being shown and suspicious in the first place, which was what seemed to be a trafficking ring with what seemed to be blackmail involved, with what absolutely for sure was this, shall we say, the ex-head of security of Michael Jackson somehow becoming the head of security for a trafficking operation, a blackmail ring, for drugs, for whatever he's doing for Diddy. Everything about this operation stank, not to mention the property he had on the border of

Mexico. So I'm not too optimistic about what's going to come out of the Diddy trial itself, but I am hoping that we'll at least see some dirt thrown on some other celebrities, some cracks open up in other parts of the industry that hopefully will, let's just say, tip over a few dominoes because there's a lot of dominoes ready to fall. And it's worth noting, too, that it's not just the Lil Rod lawsuit that has made these allegations. These allegations are widespread in the industry, both from people that have worked alongside Diddy in the music world, as well as from bodyguards like Gene Deal. Most of those girls, especially if they like mixed drinks,

you understand, they see the bottles when they open them. And they're trying to keep their eyes on it because they don't want to get no kind of drugs put in their system. But what they don't understand is in the orange juice and it's in the cranberry juice. They didn't put the pills and the stuff in there, the roofies, the ecstasy, the ease, all whatever they, they put it in the juice. Yeah, but they don't put it in the baby oil. Don't you worry about it. So that's the ditty story for now. You're going to think I'm

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And this is something that Trump has referenced before, but it has never really gotten, he never was able to get it through. And there you can see at the bottom of the first paragraph, communicate most favored nation price targets to pharmaceutical manufacturers to bring prices for American patients in line with comparably developed nations. Now, when Trump put out a true social post about this just the other day, he said, we're going to bring the prices down to the lowest of any nation there is, meaning that if in Zimbabwe they're paying a dollar per pill, then in America we pay only a dollar per pill, whatever the lowest price around the world is.

That language has been modified a little bit so that in the actual executive order, now Americans are mandated apparently to, we get to pay whatever the lowest price of any other developed nation, which is awesome because right now we're getting grifted so hard. Right now, Americans are paying more than just about any

other nation in the world, often by multiples of two, five, or even 10x what other countries are paying for the exact same products. Also, in section four, he seems to enable direct-to-consumer sales from the pharmaceutical manufacturers at the most favored nation price, which is really interesting because, I mean, let's just say I've never been there. I'm no pharmaceutical expert, but from what I'm reading there, that seems to be very much a death blow to a vast portion of pharma's profits.

And, I mean, I don't know what to make of that other than extreme optimism, because that's not all. He also was going after the PBMs, the Pharmacy Benefit Managers. He ordered RFK to facilitate programs for pharma manufacturers to sell direct consumers at the best nation price. If you're not familiar, these PBMs, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, they're companies that manage prescription drug benefits and health insurers and employers. And they just kind of like middleman in between the whole system.

And they just take a huge cut out from the middle, like an insanely huge cut. PBMs are over a trillion dollars a year in combined revenue, according to an FTC report, I think from last year, maybe from 2023 um so i mean a lot's going on here and i'm sure that a lot of people far smarter than me will have all kinds of takes but i'd be surprised if anyone has any take that is not positive because i mean we all love big pharma right so anyways speaking of again, a couple of the big boys got caught allegedly with a little baggie of drugs. But is that really the story that's going on here? I'm sure you've seen by now, I mean, if you have an ex-account, you've definitely seen. And if you

don't have an ex-account, you've still probably seen Macron just squirreling away the little bag of whiteness on his table and all that stuff that's been taken over the internet and everyone's making funny memes and AI videos of them dancing and whatever else. And yeah, he grabs his little bag and sleuths it away. But like, let's just, let's just pump the brakes for a second here, guys. It, it might be a tissue, guys. It might be a tissue. It really might be a tissue. And maybe it's a bag of drugs, like a really big bag of drugs, just so that's a lot of drugs. And just on the, like, maybe, but regardless, even if it's a bag of drugs or it's a tissue, you can argue about that all day long. And yeah, it's a funny of drugs or it's a tissue you can argue about that all day long and yeah it's a funny scandal whatever but um that's emmanuel macron and if you don't recall um he's married to a dude and in case you're not up to date on the story and all the other implications of that story

there's a whole series that candace owens made on this very youtube channel that you could watch yourself and you might learn all about how emmanuel macron married his um much much much older teacher that uh was not always a woman and might have even possibly one day been in his very same family that seems a lot more scandalous than world leaders doing cocaine, which I'm sure they probably all do. And they might even all do right before the media comes into the room to do interviews with them. We've all seen the images or the videos of Zelensky and Ardern just going all sniffly sniffly. We've seen it and I'm sure it's happening. But ultimately, the scandal is that he's married to a dude

and that that implies all sorts of other things that we want answers to. So yeah, that's the story about the drugs. It's fun, but let's be real. It kind of feels like a distraction, guys. Let's keep our eyes on the bigger prize, like the Illuminati controlling the world through a crazy, I'm sorry, I'm kidding, I'm kidding,

I'm kidding. Anyways, that's about it for our episode today. I think that about wraps us up. I really appreciate you guys coming to hang out. I really appreciate the whole team bringing me in and welcoming me to the studio. I cannot wait to learn from them, to learn from all the crazy rabbit holes that they've been down and to share them all with you. If you haven't already remembered, please like the video, share the video, subscribe to the channel. And I'll make sure that Candice Comes and pops in to say hi before too long

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