The Megyn Kelly Show - Most Bizarre Met Gala Moments, Why Blake Lively Settled, and CRAZY New JP Morgan Exec Story Details, with Red Scare | Ep. 1310

Episode Date: May 5, 2026

Megyn Kelly breaks down the most ridiculous and bizarre Met Gala moments, featuring Madonna, Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, black "trans" quadriplegic "model" with cerebral palsy, Lauren Sanchez Bezos' alar...ming face, and more, then Megyn talks about the Blake Lively settlement with Justin Baldoni, the key detail that Lively received zero money, what happens next with Lively and her career, and more. Then Red Scare hosts Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova join to discuss the shocking new details about the male accuser in the JP Morgan female exec story, the revelations that he once told his employer his father died when he's still alive, the wildest Met Gala moments, why Nick Fuentes remains popular, the truth about his offensive commentary, and more.   More from Red Scare: https://open.spotify.com/show/2uux6PcmzX2FPxfGyeeFOc   DailyLook: https://dailylook.com to take your style quiz and use code MEGYN for 50% off your first order. Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.com Brooklyn Bedding: Upgrade your sleep with Brooklyn Bedding—Visit https://brooklynbedding.com and use promo code MEGYN for 30% off sitewide! Relief Factor: Try the 3-Week QuickStart for just $19.95 at https://ReliefFactor.com or call 800-4-RELIEF.     Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKelly Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow  Find out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to The Megan Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Channel 111 every weekday at New East. Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, a massive show for you today, including our take on the settlement between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni that broke yesterday afternoon shortly after we went off the air. I've got a lot of thoughts on this. I'm pretty sure I know exactly why it happened. And I have a prediction. Things are only going to get worse for Blake Lively from here. And we'll walk you through why. But first, last night was the 2026 Met Gala, where out-of-touch elites get to show off their bizarre fashion choices, often with hidden messaging for us peons to ponder. This year's theme was costume art. It's basically a dress code of fashion is art. Don't understand it? No one does. You're not supposed to. It's just supposed to make them feel better than you and you feel dumb. You don't get to understand high fashion. You just have to be subjected to it and ideally envy all of them. You're busy, but let me tell you about Daily Look. It is the number one highest rated premium personal styling service for women. Daily Look is a game changer, ladies. You get your own dedicated personal stylist to curate a box of clothes based on your body shape preferences and lifestyle. I mean a real personal stylist, not an algorithm, not a bot. And you get the same stylist every time to build continuity, and she's going to get used to what you like and what didn't work the last time and so on.
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Starting point is 00:02:20 Once again, that's Dailylook.com for 50% off and make sure you use our promo code Megan so they know that we sent you. One last time, Dailylook.com promo code M-E-G-Y-N. There are so many choices to highlight and mock this year. It was very hard to know where to start, but we will begin with the 67-year-old Madonna, okay, who ditched her signature blonde curls and lingerie in favor of a more gothic, witchy, shipwrecked look. Look at her. At least she has clothes on. The ship on her head had a scarf so long it needed its own payroll.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Seven people carried it. seven to carry the train from the ship on her head. She was also carrying a horn instrument for some reason. I don't know why. It's, again, it's not for you to understand. It's just to confuse you. And ideally for you to feel dumb because you don't get it because you're not Madonna or Anna Winter. We're going to get right to probably the worst, the absolute word.
Starting point is 00:03:29 I mean, honestly, like, just when you think, Lena Dunham cannot get any homelier. She shows up at the Met Gala after a seven-year absence from the public eye, a seven-year delightful absence. And she's shaved off her eyebrows and seems to have gained even more weight. Not only that, but her enormous shins and calves are covered in some sort of weird marks. She's got obviously some sort of a skin condition. They don't appear to be bruises.
Starting point is 00:03:58 It's like, I don't know, weird little warts or more. moles or like, I have no idea what's going on. But in addition to her other obvious problem, she appears to have some sort of a skin condition on these very large legs. She's got calves that look like thighs. I'm sorry, she's the one leaning into her obesity. We're just being subjected to it. She did embrace the year's theme in the form of a red feathered and sequined Valentino gown. And again, shaved off her eyebrows. literally looks good on no one. Stop doing that women of America. It's amazing because you had, and I'll get to Nicole Kimman in a second, but Nicole Kidman showed up in Red Sequence and was,
Starting point is 00:04:43 of course, stunning, but I have some thoughts on her. And then this was like, you know, like if Nicole Kidman, it was like an angelic figure, this was like demonic. I mean, bleed and dumb. She looked like a stuffed sausage in the thing. It was just so unflattering. A corpulent lady can look decent. It is not like that is not possible. She just chose to assault us visually with his gown, which looks like something my housekeeper uses on my kitchen pantry shelves. Just look at it. She can't even make it up the stairs. I don't know if that's because of her size, her being out of shape or her dress, which, you know, went down. low. Maybe it gave her like the little geisha legs. I have no idea. I didn't really mean to say
Starting point is 00:05:37 little legs because that's not what we were seeing. But Lena Dunham, I forgive you. But it was tough for me to get there. Model Heidi Klum made a fool of herself. She loves a good costume. But this look was apparently inspired. Look at this. Look at this. I don't actually know what's going on here. It had something to do with the Acropolis and like one of the hand maidens of the Acropolis. I'm not sure what that means. I was recently at the Acropolis, and I don't remember anybody who looks like that anywhere. Like, look at her.
Starting point is 00:06:17 She looks kind of like a white version of the Statue of Liberty. So she told Vogue that after getting inspired by the 1846 sculpture veiled vestal, she wanted to, quote, become her. And so she transformed herself into a living stone sculpture. She told Vogue, I look hard, but I'm soft. It's foam and latex. You don't look recognizable, which, I mean, you know, it's kind of, it defeats the point of what Anna Wintour wants, which is for all of us to be noticing that the A-level celebrities and how fashionable they are.
Starting point is 00:06:55 I think that's probably, I just answered my own question. No offense to Heidi Klum. She seems like a nice person, but she is not an alias celebrity. she'll show up to the opening of an envelope. She's basically in every singing reality show as just, you know, your basic good-looking guest. I mean, honestly, she's not really even a star. So I guess it makes sense to go completely unrecognizable. One of the most criticized looks of the night was former astronaut Katie Perry.
Starting point is 00:07:21 She chose a rather unconventional look, though it was kind of a cheat from Kim Kardashian's look a couple of years ago. she was sporting a white Stella McCartney gown with a long train, a face full of metal. It's like a full metal mask. I mean, honestly, Kim Kardashian did this a couple years ago where she had a mask that hit her face. Like, do you really want to be following a Kardashian on the style choices? Like, you know, but maybe she does because she's, you know, good friends with Lauren Sanchez, who is good friends with all the Kardashians. So it's possible she doesn't find that shameful. She had matching white gloves for the face mask. The gloves were, of course, six-fingered. Was that a nod to her treason trip to outer space and what she saw? Did she see aliens
Starting point is 00:08:09 during her 12-minute trip up and back down? Have you been? Okay. People magazine reports that the weird mask was a nod to Perry's public performance as art. It was a nod, you see. Here she is on the steps leading in. And it was designed to be, quote, a literal and symbolic reflection that invites the observer to consider that their perception of others can mirror their own internal world and conversely masked truth. It's a long way of saying, stop writing mean things about me. I'm an absolutely lovely person. And I don't want to be bullied for allegedly shoving my vaj in some unsuspecting young woman's face to the point where the woman vomited and a criminal investigation into me is now underway in Australia. That's okay? That's your issues reflecting on you from my mask.
Starting point is 00:09:03 Actress Sarah Paulson, this is, she was the AOC of this year's Met Gala. She wore a dollar bill mask made out of leather to reflect the 1% being blinded by money. Fucking, are you kidding me? This woman's worth reportedly over $12 million. I guarantee you it's more like $30 million she's worth. The designer said the collection was a reflection of the greed and corruption that comes with extreme power. The Met Gala costs roughly $100,000 per person.
Starting point is 00:09:34 If you were to buy a table, it's $350,000. So just stop with the lectures on elitism and wealth from the people who attend this thing. The stars don't pay. You get invited, you know, by Anna or by somebody who bought a table. Anna has to approve those too. So like if you're Estee Lauder and you swoop in and buy a table, for $350,000, you can't just invite who you want. Anna Wintour has to tell you who from your company can come. What self-respecting businessman would agree to this? Grow a pair. Honestly, it's like so
Starting point is 00:10:08 humiliating. So in any event, they still want to lecture us on money. Okay, you're at the Met Gala. Get a clue. Also sporting a blindfolded look, actress Rachel Zegler, you know, the woke Snow White. She was in the 2002 live action remake for Disney. She decided Snow woke was, Snow woke. Yeah, that's what she should have been called. It wasn't woke enough. Calling the original, quote, extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power. Look at her bizarre movements with her arms in her mouth. Look at this. What even is this? I don't really know what she's doing. She's in an outfit that she says was inspired by the 1833 painting the execution of Lady Jane Gray. Gray was beheaded by Queen Mary
Starting point is 00:10:58 the first. I wish she's just like she's blindfolded because they're going to chop her head off. Okay. Some of her fans believe that this was a reference to her own encounter with cancel culture and how she was wrongfully scapegoated. For being a fucking annoying person, how is she wrongfully scapegoat? Like she, she is annoying and we all called her out on it. Then there was the very bizarre. This guy's so freaky and bizarre. I won't listen to his songs. Like very few people, when their songs come on the radio,
Starting point is 00:11:29 I'll make an active effort to press, you know, forward or rewind or skip. This guy's one of them because he's so creepy and disturbing and obsessed with the sexualization of children in some imagery, devils. His own enormous, he makes Lena Dunham look like Twiggy. And that's 35.
Starting point is 00:11:51 year old British pop star Sam Smith. He's disgusting. He describes himself as non-binary. He goes by they, them, of course. So he naturally shut up wearing a dress, an embellished black gown weighing 52 pounds. And let me tell you something. He didn't need any extra pounds put on him. Okay. His coat was adorned with over 230,000 crystals and beads, hand-placed by a team of 45 artisans over 800 hours of work. Imagine, imagine, like, having to work on one of these gowns and thinking, oh my God, who am I getting? Am I getting Nicole Kidman? You know, am I getting like Zendaya? No, you're getting the fat they, them, Sam Smith.
Starting point is 00:12:33 Devil Worshipper. Oh my God. Now, this is Hunter Schaefer. Hunter is a 27-year-old man dressing up as a woman for the red carpet. Schaefer is an actor on the HBO show, Euphoria. He showed up in a prodig gown inspired by a painting of a nine-year-old girl. Why is a man showing up to the Met Gala depicting a little girl? You're fucking sick.
Starting point is 00:13:02 Okay? You're sick. Sam Smith is sick. Anna Wintor is sick. And by the way, Lauren Sanchez Bezos as an honorary chair of this event, which you paid $10 million to be, are you okay with this? Like, do you actually sanction a grown man showing up dressed as a single-digit girl? Fuck these people.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Honestly, they're so out of touch. Anna Wintour, the 76-year-old Anna Wintner, you're good with this? Is that art to you, the exploitation of little girls by grown-ass men? What part of high fashion are we not getting here? Because we don't want any part of it. Then there were the moments that we're supposed to just, like, witness, but not say anything about. this one's truly bizarre.
Starting point is 00:13:46 Everyone's like talking about it, but they don't want to actually say what they're thinking. This is Aaron Rose Phillip. Phillips being lauded as making history at the Met Gala for being, and this is not a joke. The first African-American transgender model with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair, no less, to attend the event. I mean, like, is she a lesbian? That's, I think that's the only thing she's missing. Is she a lesbian? It's like, this is like, okay, we all know what they're doing here.
Starting point is 00:14:17 She was born in Antigua, raised in the U.S. She's 25 years old. Is she or he? I don't know. I don't know. It's a trans person. I have no idea what the natural sex is. And as you know, I like to go by normal, like natural biological pronouns.
Starting point is 00:14:35 But I got to be honest, I have no idea what they are here. This person was signed by elite model management in 2018. This person has been featured on the cover of Vogue. Billboard Chris on X, who we love, who stands up to the trans mania like nobody else, writing quote, the trans industry never found a person they will not use and abuse
Starting point is 00:14:54 for profit and propaganda. They'll even give cross-sex hormones to a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. I can't. Okay. This is, it's ridiculous. Okay. We also had to endure the women
Starting point is 00:15:09 who will go to extreme lengths to never age. I'm talking extreme. 76-year-old Vera Wang showed up, dressed as a 10-year-old boy. I think that was her costume. I'm a 10-year-old boy. I mean, I have a 12-year-old boy,
Starting point is 00:15:25 so I know what the torsos of young boys look like. And this is it. Absolutely no breasts. Absolutely no waist. Just a rectangular torso. This is before a young boy's shoulders have grown outward. And that's what she looks like.
Starting point is 00:15:41 She looks like a pencil. Straight up and down. Just a pencil made of lead. Absolutely no curves. I guess she's just the middle of the pencil. The tip top would be curved, her head. But she looks terrible. Honestly, she's got a little, like a, it looks like a chest binder, except she has no breasts really to bind. Vera Wang is flat chested. That's fine. She's leaning in. I guess this is the new thing. We're supposed to lean in to the super flat chested look. It's gross. I'm sorry, it's gross. Her hair is bleach blonde. She's like all skin, skin and bones with one arm and a puffy black sleeve. Move on, Vera, move on. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Lauren Sanchez Bezos, I have to be honest, I expected more. I thought at least she'd have some like sort of big fashion statement that we would be like, oh, okay, you know, cool, whatever. No, this is, she got to warn this anywhere. This is so boring. It's like a blue dress with, it's, you know, it's not topless. It's, you know, strapless. It's got a V to show off her enormous fake breasts.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Okay. That's what she shows everywhere. She's very, very proud of her massive fake bust. I mean, it's not like something we can't all have. Literally, just pay your doctor. And you can have her size, triple, whatever breasts. It's not hard. But she, too, seemed to be desperately trying to look like a Kardashian,
Starting point is 00:17:08 but I've got to be honest, not as good. Not as good. But let me tell you something, the real problem, Lauren Sanchez-Bezos. I got to call her Lauren Sanchez-Bezos now. I mean, honestly, I don't understand. Like, you're a 55-year-old woman, 56, who changes her name at that point. Okay, but she, here's the problem with her. It's not the dress, which was a bore.
Starting point is 00:17:28 It is the face. She is so pulled and prodded. She looks, Doug called it like an alien. I mean, which is perfect, given what she did without a space. look how pulled and prodded she is. The cheeks, sister, I'm going to do you, you have all the money in the world, and I know that you can correct this. You go to your, not your surgeon, you clearly have the wrong one.
Starting point is 00:17:53 Go to a good, go to a New York surgeon. Get out of Miami and L.A. Because they've gone, they've done wrong by you. You go, you tell them you want that filler out of your face. You tell them you want that filler out of your life. lips. You tell them they've done something to your eyes that's making you look cross-eyed. I don't know what it is, but you look cross-eyed now. You never looked cross-eyed before. At least, I don't have a long history of studying your face, but in your younger pictures,
Starting point is 00:18:22 you do not look cross-eyed. You then find a way to cover up some of your large forehead. And then you ease up on the Botox unless you've had a forehead lift and it's no longer movable. Like, I get it. I have Botox. I'm going to show you right here. Look, here's me back. on camera. You get it. I have the Botox, but I can do this. I can lift my eyebrows and I can lower them. It's not huge. I can do it enough. But that's because I say to the derm, I want some movement. I don't want to be frozen. Lauren, my friend, that's what you need to tell your doc. I want some movement. Take out the filler. And if you have a big saggy face when you've gotten your filler taken out of your lips and your weird cheeks, everyone's starting to look Asian. They're putting so much filler
Starting point is 00:19:08 and whatever in their face. They're all starting to have squinty eyes and look Asian, which is fine if you're Asian, but she's not. She's Latina, Latins. So if everything is saggy, then you can get the Chris Jenner facelift, which would serve you much better than what you are doing. All right? She's worth $280 billion now through marriage. She's never publicly confirmed whether she's undergone any procedures, she doesn't have to. It's fine. It's not technically any of our business, whether she has or hasn't, but, you know, we're allowed to speculate. And, like, online, people are saying she has more plastic in her face than a Tupperware factory. That's how it looks to me, too. It's just, it's too much, okay? I'm going to go through
Starting point is 00:19:59 a couple more. Stand by. Take a look at this one. woman Chloe Mal. Chloe Mal. She is the new head of editorial content at Bogue. You would be forgiven if you did not know that this person is basically the new Anna Wintor. Look at this frumpy orange tangerine who dared to walk on the Met Gout. Look at her posture. Young girls everywhere. Okay, young girls everywhere. Look at this posture. This is no way to present yourself to the world. Shoulders back, people, stand tall as erect as possible toward the ceiling. You put your shoulders back, you lower them down, you elongate your neck and your head. Ideally always, but certainly when you are at the Met Gala. She is instead forward-shouldered. She's like eliminated her
Starting point is 00:20:57 neck as a body part. She's kind of looking over her shoulder. She looks a little troll-like. She's got rounded trapezius making her look hunchbacked and ogre-like. And on top of all that, she's wearing a hideous. It's not even really orange-eyed. It's like more tangerine of a dress that does not look like art at all. It doesn't look like art. Now, a word, a couple of other words. You've got Nicole Kidman, who showed up in all red sequence with a lot of fairs.
Starting point is 00:21:34 feathers in the middle of her dress. It was reportedly by Chanel, and she looks stunning because Nicole Kidman is, of course, taking care of herself as she ages. She's in her low 60s now, I think 62. And she's got the long, long, long, long, blonde extensions down below the butt and the huge, huge, huge red feathers around the waist. And her figure is spectacular and she's spectacular. And she's a genuine Hollywood A-lister. And that will complete the list of Hollywood A-listers who were at the Met Gala. Like, I'm just going to tell you, there weren't many others. So I just want to say, she looked great, she looks stunning, I love the dress.
Starting point is 00:22:10 I don't know that it matched the fashion is art theme. That didn't look like art to me. Just look like a dress that she looked amazing in. Same for Margot Robbie. Boring! You look so boring. Your hair was boring. Your dress was boring.
Starting point is 00:22:28 Your pose was boring. And you were boring. And that's, unfortunately. in it because, you know, you too can look stunning, but you chose not to. Zoe Kravitz, too, some black lace number. Boring, boring, boring. I didn't find it interesting at all. But almost no Hollywood A-listers. I guess Margot Roppies also a Hollywood A-lister. But none of the big stars, honestly, like, where were the big stars? Apparently they tried to move Heaven and Earth to get Merrill Streep to co-chair the event because she's, of course,
Starting point is 00:22:59 in the Devil Wears product and the Devil Wears Product, too, which just hit just hit theaters, portraying a woman called Miranda Priestley, but it's obviously Anna Wintour. And they begged her. They begged her to come to the Met Gala. And she'd get the full Anna treatment and the, you know, red carpet. And to her credit, Meryl Street was like, oh, hell no, I have zero desire to do this. I don't want to go. I don't want to dress up. I don't want to rub elbows with these people. It's a no. And it was very interesting because this year you had a bunch of stars who showed up, the Daily Mail was pointing this out, without their male counterparts. Zendaya was there without Harry Stiles, to whom she just got, no, wait, was it, yeah, yeah, yeah, right?
Starting point is 00:23:42 No. No, it was Zoe, Zoe Kravitz. She was there without Harry Stiles. And Katie Perry was there without Justin Trudeau. And Kylie Jenner was there without Timothy Shalomey. Here's Zoe Krav. It's boring, boring. It looks like something I put on on Halloween, just hand out Kennedy, the kids. Justin Bieber wasn't there, but Haley Bieber, Haley Baldwin Bieber, his wife was.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Like the guys basically said no. And Timothy Shalamee, who's dating Kendall Jenner, he was down the road at the Knicks game. The men are over it. They are over it. And good for them because nine times out of ten, if you're a man and you show up at this thing in costume, like on point when it comes to the style, you look like a flaming home. homosexual, which most of them aren't, so it's a problem, right? If you are, hey, do you do you? But like, if you are a straight man, like a Justin Bieber, you don't really want to show up gay, have everybody speculating for days just how gay you are because you were a very gay outfit, which all of these designers are. And they work out there weird gay fantasies
Starting point is 00:24:46 on these male actors or singers who show up. So I applaud those guys for not going. And as a result, their female counterparts just showed up, walked to the red carpet. That was it. that's what it's all about. But the genuine A-list Hollywood talent wasn't there and hasn't been there in years. There was no Brad Pitt. There was no Leo. There was no Tom Cruise. There was no Robert Downey Jr. There was no Liam Neeson. There was no Dwayne the Rock Johnson. There was no Will Smith. There was no Denzel. Like those people do not attend this thing. It is now much more. Like the C-listers who you're like, what do I know, Sarah Paulson, I can't think of one movie I know her from. I know she was dating the woman, who's the woman from,
Starting point is 00:25:36 I don't know. It's the David E. Kelly series, the practice, who played a judge. Holland Taylor, thank you, Steve. Okay, oh, I guess the rock was there. Okay, we got one. We got one big male. Literally, a very large male. But my point, you got my point. You know, it's like, you really got a Look, you got to really squint your eyes. Is there anyone? Anyone who I recognize? Who's there? Like, who are the fashion leaders of tomorrow?
Starting point is 00:26:07 I don't know. I don't think they were there. I think it's the girls on Instagram who are showing us how to style an outfit. I think those are the ones that most normal Americans are actually looking to if they want a fashion tip. They're certainly not going with Katie Perry's weird mask on the face situation. And Anna Winter, by the way, you looked gross. I don't know what you were wearing. It was very ugly.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Some green monstrosity. It didn't work. It wasn't flattering to you. She's very, very anti-black gowns and black clothing. Well, I mean, it might have served you well. I don't know if you made a good choice in wearing what you wore. So I don't know. I think it's a fail.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Where was Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Sandra Bullock? I don't know. Instead, we got people I had to look up and people like Heidi Klum. Of course, there were the Kardashians. Kim Kardashian was there. Kendall Jenner, as I think I mentioned, and the other one. Kylie. Kylie Jenner is the one who's with Timothy Shalame.
Starting point is 00:27:11 I always screw them up. I'm going to tell you the truth. I thought these three look great. This is Kendall. She's the supermodel. That's stunning. When she puts her arms out, it makes enormous wings, and she looks great. this woman looks great in anything.
Starting point is 00:27:25 She's had many, many plastic surgeries. So if you are a very homely person sitting at home thinking there's no hope for you, you totally should feel inspired. But like if you had a few surgeries, you could look like her. Because trust me, she looked nothing like this when she was 13, 14, 14, 15. We all watched her in keeping up with the Kardashians. But she looks stunning now. And I thought the fashion was gorgeous.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Kim had on this pointy, like, orange latex number. I thought she looked great. I thought she looked stunning. Her body looked great. her hair look great and she looked great. And Kylie, the one who's dating Shalameh, looked awesome too. I loved her outfit. It was weird.
Starting point is 00:28:00 It was like latex with the pointy, Kylie with the pointy boobs and there was even a belly button situation going on there. With like a train on the bottom that looked like it was almost falling off of her. So that was kind of sensual, but not inappropriate, which is, you know, the Kardashians can go inappropriate. And they didn't. I have to say, I would definitely put all three of them on my best dressed look. And the mom, Chris Jenner wore a kimono. She looked good. I liked her outfit.
Starting point is 00:28:25 So for once, I'm giving a thumbs up to the Kardashian four. The other sister, Courtney, never shows up. And then there's another sister, too. There's two sisters. They never come up. There's Kim. She looks great. I mean, I thought she looks stunning.
Starting point is 00:28:38 Let's hope they stayed out of the bathroom and the dry humping, like I saw the last time. I was at the Met Gala. For those of you wondering, when you go into the Met Gala, it's really all about that walk on the red carpet or to, night. It was the green carpet. That's kind of it. That's what the event's all about. You walk up at, they treat everybody who's not a celebrity, like, you know, the people who paid to be at those tables, like they're nothing. I mean, it's really shameful. Like those poor people, like the people who have no public name, run up those stairs and shame because no one's interested in them. Even though they look fantastic, they've done it up with like, no one cares if you're not like Beyonce, whatever.
Starting point is 00:29:16 You go in, you mill about, you look at the displays in the museum, you're looking at the celebs, you're taking selfies, even though you're technically not supposed to, but everybody does. And then you sit down for dinner that most people don't eat because no one eats when they're in these gowns. And then you move to like an area for dancing when I was there. I can't remember who was there the first year, but the weekend was there the second year. They had some good entertainment there this year, but nobody really dances because they're in these enormous high heels. Like, I can't. It's all just about a photo op. It's not about actually bonding with anybody, getting to know anybody. It's a photo op. It's a massive PR event. Oh, I forgot to mention the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena.
Starting point is 00:30:02 Venus, total bore. I put her in the category with Margot Robbie. The swing and a miss. It looked utterly boring. I don't remember anything about your dress. There was some lace, I think, on your head. Serena, I don't remember what you wore last night, but your outfit for the night before was dreadful. It was back on the red sequence theme, and it went all the way up her ass. I saw total ass of Serena Williams, which, you know, it's a lot. And the dress was cut all the way up to show ass and a rather large leg. And it was just inappropriate. Okay, it was inappropriate.
Starting point is 00:30:33 She's too old to be this needy. That's generally my takeaway with these people who are older and show so much skin. Like, I really hope that... Serena's younger than I am, but I really hope that when I'm like Madonna's age in my 60s or Vera Wang's age 76, I am not that needy. I do not need someone to see my fully naked torso
Starting point is 00:30:56 or ass here in Serena's case in order for me to feel sexy or good about myself. That's, like, this is just not... It doesn't work with a huge, long, blonde wig. Of course. All right. It ended with a return to the Met Gala here. Blake Lively making her very first Met Gala appearance since 2022.
Starting point is 00:31:23 And on the same day, she reached a settlement in her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, his studios, over the film it ends with us. Lively telling Vogue, quote, I haven't been to the Mets since giving birth to my fourth child. Every year I am a different version of myself than the last. So to be able to stand in the version of myself that I am today, who talks like that? To be able to stand in the version of myself that I am today? And all the experiences I have had in strength and confidence is important to me. These are lies.
Starting point is 00:31:55 No one who actually feels strong and confident talks about themselves like that. I sit here at the anchor desk in my strength and confidence to bring you the news. Nobody talks like this. Like, she's just trying to give you the adjectives she wants you to repeat about her because she has not those things. I mean, I said this to you many times, but like the six foot seven center doesn't tell you how tall he is. If somebody is telling you the adjectives they are in this way, it is an ultimate, ultimate tell that they don't feel those things about themselves.
Starting point is 00:32:31 So she does not feel strong. She feels weak. She does not feel confident. she is, she has, suffers from a lack of confidence, which seems very obvious because she's a bully. And that's how all bullies are. None of them has confidence or feel strength. That's why they have to behave like that to make them feel those things for a moment or two. And she is a bully.
Starting point is 00:32:52 And I have a lot of thoughts on this settlement, why it came about and why it had to happen and some new reporting on exactly what changed hands to make this life. lawsuit go away, and we will talk about that right after this quick, quick break. Don't go away. Our sponsor, the Electronic Payments Coalition, says Washington politicians are always getting in your wallet and that now they're messing with your credit card. They say your credit card and the security it offers are under attack, and that Senators Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall want to change the nation's payment system to benefit corporate megastores like Walmart and Target at the expense of everyday Americans. Credit cards. Credit cards.
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Starting point is 00:34:29 to the bitter end. And a bitter end it was indeed. I want to take you back before we kick this off to what Brian Friedman, who represented Justin Baldoni, to what he said to me back in January 2025, right after this thing was filed. He's a friend. He's also my own personal attorney, and he will make your life very unpleasant if you come after me. But that's an aside. He came on the show, and he talked about what was going to happen in this litigation. You remember what happened was Blake Lively, just as a quick primer. She started in this movie. it ends with us with Justin Baldoni. He had purchased the rights to that Colleen Hoover novel.
Starting point is 00:35:12 It was his film. He agreed with Blake Lively that she would star in it. And she agreed to that just to be the star, not the co-writer, not the co-director. She had an executive producer credit, but that's meaningless. It's just like a vanity plate. And when she did the movie, she started to complain that he was allegedly doing things inappropriate on the set, that she felt like he was writing in sex scenes that weren't there and other allegations. and they took a break during COVID.
Starting point is 00:35:38 And when they came back, she wanted him to sign this long rider of all the things he promised he would not do. Like, go into her dressing room unannounced, as she claimed had allegedly been done with him. We would later learn that she invited him into the dressing room while she was breastfeeding something she would complain about in the lawsuit. Even though she said, I'm breastfeeding. And he said, oh, I can come later. She said, no, come now. Okay. There was such a list of those things where if you just heard her half of it, you were like, oh, God, he's terrible.
Starting point is 00:36:04 And then you heard the other half of it. It was like, oh, wow, she's terrible for misleading me in this way. So she filed that, she filed first a complaint with the California Human Rights Department. And then somehow, I mean, gee, who knows, it wound up in the New York Times. I have no idea how the New York Times got wind of her super confidential complaint with the California Human Rights Division. But lo and behold, the New York Times, they're good scoopers, and they found out. Shortly thereafter, we had cross lawsuits. She sued Baldoni and Wayfarer and Justin's.
Starting point is 00:36:35 PR team, claiming that they had unleashed that she'd been discriminated against sexually harassed and then that they had retaliated against her when she complained with the California Human Rights Division and with them internally. And he cross-claimed against her to for defamation of character and so on and so forth. The litigation proceeded. He was very aggressive in his defense and very aggressive in his PR thanks to his lawyer, Brian Friedman, who, let me tell you, has been through this a time or two. I mean, his representation of me in my battle with NBC was one of the first huge litigations that he'd handled that was equally big on the PR front battle and on the legal battle.
Starting point is 00:37:17 And Brian is equally gifted at both. And he understood in this case, and he's handled so many in between. But he understood in this case that both were going to be equally necessary here. In fact, the truth is the PR battle was even more important in this lawsuit. So we spoke to him weeks after the New York Times article dropped on this program, and he made a prediction about how this was going to go for Blake lively. I think it's not too. What's your prediction of where things go from here? I mean, you know, my prediction is that this is going to get worse and worse for Blake lively.
Starting point is 00:37:54 And the reason it's going to get worse and worse is people are going to be more comfortable telling the truth. And what this is about is really the truth. And she's put Jamie Heath and Justin Baldoni in this position of being called sexual predators, sexual harassers. They have no choice but to go all the way. No choice. So, you know, we're going to go all the way. And the unique thing, again, in this case, is going to be we're going to put every single text message out there.
Starting point is 00:38:27 We're going to put every email out there. we're going to put every document out there that's relevant to the case, not something that's disrespectful or otherwise would embarrass Ms. Lively, because that's not what we want to do. But we want to make sure that people have the facts and people can make their own determinations as to what happened. And that would prove to be devastating to Blake Lively. It's the reason she settled because they never relented. They kept confronting her, via the media with the truth about her behavior toward Justin Baldoni and toward the press
Starting point is 00:39:05 and toward others and all the things she did that made everyone loathe her. And it was devastating for her. Her reputation is in tatters. It is in ruins. Thanks to her. They put out a joint statement and I want to read you the joint statement and take you through it from a legal perspective. Okay. Is it remarkable? It is a huge accomplishment for the Baldonie defense team. It reads as follows. A joint statement, okay, so they're both, all of them, signing on to this. The end product, the movie, it ends with us, is a source of pride to all of us who work to bring it to life. Raising awareness and making a meaningful impact in the lives of domestic violence survivors and all survivors is a goal that we stand
Starting point is 00:39:49 behind. Okay, generic. Go see our movie. It was a good one. Then we get to the meat of it. We acknowledge the process presented challenges and recognize concerns raised by Ms. Lively deserved to be heard. Now, I'm going to guarantee, I haven't talked to Brian. I guarantee you that that line there was the subject of about 200 revisions back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, right? I can feel it getting watered down and watered down and watered down from like, Blake lively had righteous claims that she was correct to bring.
Starting point is 00:40:27 Unfortunately, they were thrown out by a judge and whatever. This is the best she could do. Whatever. I'm sure it sounded much more favorable to Blake lively when it was first drafted. Instead, we wind up with the process of making the movie presented challenges, and we recognized concerns raised by lively deserve to be heard. So good. I mean, honestly, every defense lawyer out there is like,
Starting point is 00:40:50 That's excellent. It's the best you could ever hope for. We remain firmly committed to workplaces free of improprieties and unproductive environments. There is nothing, nothing in here about sexual harassment. Nothing. Or retaliation. Just workplaces free of improprieties and unproductive environments. You could be talking about people who leave early and who are lazy on the set.
Starting point is 00:41:17 That does not in any way suggest any sex. harassment, never mind retaliation. It is as anodyne a statement as you could get. It is our sincere hope that this brings closure and allows all involved to move forward constructively and in peace. That's Team Blake saying, please don't hurt us anymore, Brian Friedman. But you're the one who started this. Including a respectful environment online. That's a message for all of us. stop saying nasty things about Blake lively. Well, I hate to break it to you, Team Blake, but I didn't sign a settlement agreement,
Starting point is 00:41:56 and I'm totally free and emboldened to say whatever I want about you, including that you're a liar. You're a liar and your legal team are a bunch of liars. Remember when you subpoenaed me in this case trying to get my documents on you? This happened. They subpoenaed me, my company, and trying to do that. tried to come out after my documents that my team and I put together before we covered her on this show, before we interviewed Brian Friedman on this show.
Starting point is 00:42:28 They actually had the gall to ask for my attorney-client communications between me and my lawyer, thinking we had nothing better to discuss than Blake lively. And I told her to pound sand. I hired a lawyer, outside lawyer, because Brian was handling this case. I didn't want him to have to be conflicted. And the lawyer went in, objected, and they lost. they were forced to stand down. And then she had the nerve when she was forced to stand down to come out and say, we never subpoenaed Megan Kelly, which was a lie. I can show you the document with my name on it,
Starting point is 00:42:57 asking for my documents. I had to hire a lawyer and go in the court and defend it. And I won. So I know they're liars. And I know they're liars from the complaint that they filed against Justin, which Brian bit by bit undermined with proof, with proof that she had taken things out of context, that she was determined to paint herself as a victim. I'm telling you, this woman, Blake lively, I think she has Munchausens. If one word of what she alleged was sincere in her head, she has Munchausens. Or like, she tries to make something bad happen to her. She, like, insists that she has to be a victim because, like, something terrible has happened to her.
Starting point is 00:43:32 It's, like, some form of Munchausens. And either that or she used to Sibald-Face liar who made the whole thing up because she understood that she was suffering PR-wise, thanks to her own bad deeds. And she wanted somebody to blame it on. She wanted someone to blame it on. The Daily Mail today, I want to give credit words to it. I think it's the Daily Mail, not the Post, but is reporting not $1. Exchange Tans.
Starting point is 00:44:02 Not $1. TMZ also has it. Not $1. He didn't pay her one red cent. Can you believe that? That is a total and complete victory for him with this anodyne statement. and she dismisses all charges, it is a complete and total win for Justin Baldoni. And it is a complete and total surrender by Blake lively and admission that she had no claims.
Starting point is 00:44:34 She won't be forced to do it publicly. She was allowed to save face by just saying, oh, we settled it and give this statement. You know, we both agree on appropriate workplaces. Now she's going to run around and she's going to try to paint herself as like, I can't talk about it because of an NDA. but like, you know, wink, wink, we care about workplaces. And I care about women. I deeply care.
Starting point is 00:44:54 And the press is going to let her get away with that, but the public is not. And this is where I want to offer a free PR lesson to Blake lively, to Megan Markle, another person who wasn't at the Met Gala, even though her good friends, the Kardashians, were all there and very tight with the co-chair. Lauren Sanchez Bezos couldn't quite manage to get an invite for that loser. But both women need the same lesson, and I am just the gal to provide it. When you come under withering attack by the media, which happens to virtually every public figure at one point or another in his or her life, there is only one play. Be quiet and take it. I know you can go out there and you can complain. You can fight. You can fight.
Starting point is 00:45:47 back, it's fine to correct the record if somebody's saying, you know, what you stole from a bank, it's fine for you to say that is not true. Ideally, without too much emotion, you can correct the record. But don't make a huge deal out of it. Don't call additional attention to the terrible things being said about you, right? Like, whatever, at least let time pass, you know, ideally months before you get out there and subtly say something about it. Because it only calls more attention to the negative thing that's being said about you. And on top of that, Americans don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear it.
Starting point is 00:46:27 They don't care about your PR problems. Blake lively, you're married to Ryan Reynolds. He's reportedly worth $400 million. You yourself reportedly earned $21 million in the eight years preceding the filing of this lawsuit, according to those involved in the case. So you're earning, what, $4 million and change? per film. That's not bad for you. You're really not that talented. You're really just the gossip girl actress. Your life is grand. You have four wonderful children. You live at some huge mansion,
Starting point is 00:46:58 I think, up in Bedford, New York or someplace in the sort of hills of Connecticut. You're doing great. Shut up. You got your liquor company. You got your hair company. Shut the fuck up about your bad PR, which amounted to like a month's worth of negative articles, which he didn't even generate. But honestly, even if he had, shut up. We don't care. America has its own problems. And they look like real problems, not your stupid problems. I had bad things said about me in the Daily Mail or the New York Post. Oh, cry me a river. You ruined your own reputation by telegraphing to the world that you could not take a rhetorical punch in the face, that you were so thin-skinned you had to run and file a lawsuit.
Starting point is 00:47:47 of that try to ruin a man with less power than you. It's one thing for a bully to take on someone of equal or greater power. It's almost impossible, actually, to be dubbed a bully in those circumstances. If you have equal or the other person has greater power than you, you're not bullying them at all. That wasn't the case here. She and her dragons, Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds, her best friend and her husband, and Blake herself had way more power than Justin Baldoni, and she was determined to ruin his life to dub him as a me-toer, as a sexual predator, to misrepresent his emails, his behavior on set, that of his partners from Wayfarer, and she did not care at all. She just wanted to cloak herself in fake Me Too glory.
Starting point is 00:48:32 She was a Me Too stolen valor thief. And had she just taken it, had she let us beat her up for her, admittedly, well, I mean, not admitted by her, but the rest of us admit, terrible behavior in her interview. with that Nordic journalist. I like your baby, but too. Why do they always ask us about her fashion? Were they ask that of the man? I'm Parker Posey, you're awful too.
Starting point is 00:48:54 Had she just taken it? Because she would have realized shit, I was bad there. I should have just, I mishandled that. And ideally issued an apology to that young woman. Had she come out and said, you know what, some of my tone around the promo of a domestic violence movie,
Starting point is 00:49:08 it may have been off. Let me explain it to you in an interview. We actually thought maybe that was the better way to promote it. but now having seen it, I understand how it was perceived as incensed. Whatever. You could have handled it like that. But instead, you filed a lawsuit and you tried to viciously ruin a man's life. And for that, we do not forgive you.
Starting point is 00:49:26 You haven't sought forgiveness. You don't seem sorrowful or regretful at all. In fact, I believe you'd do it again. So now you'll have to live with the consequences of calling attention to your own bad behavior, the reasons people disliked you, which got amplified the strife end effect times 2000, everyone's seen these terrible clips of you, whereas they wouldn't have before. It would have been a small one-month deal at most. You're the one who made it an unforgettable two-year saga for all of us. And you've ruined your career. No director wants to work with you.
Starting point is 00:49:59 They know you're going to do this to them. They know you're a nightmare. That you're a terrorist. That's what the Sony executive, who was responsible for putting this movie out, called you, a terrorist. If the Sony guy's going to say that, if you're going to do this to Justin Baldoni, They've seen your out of context allegations and so on. No one is going to want to work with you. Your box office poison. You did the same thing to yourself that Megan Markle did to herself. Justin Baldoni will emerge from this smelling like a rose.
Starting point is 00:50:29 He looks victimized by you and like someone who decided not to take it lying down, who hired himself a very good lawyer, who was able to out you for exactly what you are. So you will not move on and sail off into the sunset with great movie roles or in high demand in Hollywood. You've reached the apex of your career. And you look, your life is still great. You have your great husband. You have your kids. You have your multimillion dollar estates.
Starting point is 00:50:59 Enjoy them. Be quiet. Reflect. Try to learn. And maybe at some point in the future come out and do the mea culpa. You owe us all. but most importantly, you owe Justin. There is something refreshing about a company that focuses on integrity and hard work.
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Starting point is 00:52:44 This is a wild story and the update is crazy. Joining me in the studio are the hosts of the Red Scare podcast, Anna Kachian and Dasha Necrossova. Ladies, welcome back. Thank you. So good to have you both. It's great to be here. We're just joking in the break that there's a lot's happened since the last time you
Starting point is 00:53:03 were here. Yeah, in all of our lives. Okay, before we start on the JP Morgan thing, because I've got a lot of thoughts, and I know you do too, let me ask you about our first two stories. today. Did you watch any of the Met Gala last night? We sure did. Thoughts on the fashions and those in attendance?
Starting point is 00:53:20 My favorite looks were Hunter Schaefer, Zoe Kravitz, and almost Kendall Jenner. I loved the dress, but her and Kylie both did the skim's nipple pro-thing. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:34 And rough to something, yeah. It's like promo. They're really cooking up a promo campaign. You're probably right. And they're going to make a million bucks. Yeah. They do. Everything they touches, they touch turns to millions. Yeah, though, I guess Kylie was wearing Shiparelli. Am I saying that correctly?
Starting point is 00:53:48 Down below. Kendall was wearing Gap Studio by Zach Bosen. Oh, really? It was a new megal. With the wings, I thought that was actually very cool. The dress was fantastic. I like that. Zoe Kravitz, though, I thought she looked boring.
Starting point is 00:54:03 It was like a black lace dress that I would wear on Halloween. But she's so lovely. I don't know. All right. You're just rooting for her. And it was like goth princess. They took the neckline of the original. design down. What did you make of Lina Dunham, girls? I loved it.
Starting point is 00:54:18 What did you love about it? Just she's being herself, like unapologetically herself. She came in. It's like an explosion of sequence. Well, I love that she came up in there with like her ingrown hair scar and her burn marks on her. Is that what that is? The ingrown hairs on the legs? She's got there's blemishes.
Starting point is 00:54:41 but she's owning it. But the legs, you don't get blumishes on your legs? What, there's marks all over her legs that are very weird. I don't know what happened to her. She's a troubled person. Oh, so they could be burns? No, there's probably, who knows? I don't know either.
Starting point is 00:54:54 But, I mean, maybe she's just a clutz, and they are tiny bruises, but there were a lot of them. And I found the whole thing very disturbing. I just, I don't think anybody wants to see that. I think it's so cool to accessorize with your skin problems because we spend all this time, like, minimizing them. Yes. You want to show them off. Yeah. Hell no.
Starting point is 00:55:12 I'm against it. You know, she and Nicole Kidman were doing kind of a similar look, like secrets and feathers, bright red. And I think even though Nicole Kidman has like 20 years on her and is like a great Hollywood beauty, Lena kind of mugged. Because she looked so out there. So you're saying Lena Dunham wore it better. Yes. Oh, wow. People are going to hate it.
Starting point is 00:55:33 I thought Nicole Kimmer was kind of like, okay, it's fine. She looked like she was in an episode of White Christmas. Yeah. You know, like at the end, like, okay. But what was special about it? You know, like, what was... I mean, there was a lot of looks like that. And, like, the theme, I think, ever since they tried to do camp and, like, no one could
Starting point is 00:55:49 understand it. They've made it more and more. This year it was... Fashion is art. Yeah. Whatever that means. The dressed body, they kept saying, which is, like, basically the bare minimum. Oh, did they actually say what?
Starting point is 00:56:02 They kept saying, yeah. This year... It's about the dressed body. And I was like, well, they all certainly dressed their body. Isn't that what all fashion is, the dress body? And then you... You always have a rena shake, shank, whatever her name is. She's always naked.
Starting point is 00:56:15 Yeah, I guess this time she was doing like the Greco-Roman sculptural torso thing. It didn't really hit for me. But, you know, as well, she pointed out. Whatever the occasion. Yeah. Well, you can't play. I know. But celebs are so dumb that they have to make the instructions really fullproof.
Starting point is 00:56:32 And then they still manage to botch it every single time. So this theme was so vague and open-ended. Like, I really loved Hunter Schaefer's look because it was inspired by Gustav Klimt, like Vienna Secession. But you can't have a theme like that. I don't know what Hunter Schaefer is. She's a famous transgender. Oh. One euphoria.
Starting point is 00:56:56 Was that the, oh, sorry. You probably can't clock her. That's why. Yeah. She did cover this person. No, I think she shouldn't have looked. He should not be dressed like a nine-year-old girl. I mean, ever.
Starting point is 00:57:07 That's the fantasy. Ew. So gross. No, I object on behalf of nine-year-a girls everywhere. No, it's a no. It's a reference. Yeah, but it's an offensive one. Look, I'm done with like the woke trans, the one wheelchair-bound transgender, cerebral palsy.
Starting point is 00:57:28 There were like four other boxes. That person signed with, what, elite models? Yeah, well, my question is if you're gay, black, trans. Have cerebral palsy. Do all those things cancel each other out? so that you become like the most desirable woman on the planet. Yes. The most privileged actually.
Starting point is 00:57:44 There she is right. The most exactly right. It's like that episode of modern family when the two gay guys are trying to get their daughter, their adopted Asian daughter into school. And they're like, we got this made. You know, we're gay. We have an Asian daughter. She's adopted.
Starting point is 00:57:58 And then in comes lesbians, one of whom is black. They're like, oh, shit. Damn. Yeah, she outprivileges everybody. They had the midget. But I guess she works for Vogue. She's the Dwarf. The Dwarf, sorry.
Starting point is 00:58:14 I can't. The dwarf. Can we put the Dwarf? Somebody posted the following. Who ate Melissa McCarthy? Or someone put Melissa McCarthy in the dryer. She shrunk. Like, what's happening here?
Starting point is 00:58:33 Why does she look so much like Melissa McCarthy only in miniature? It's very strange. I'm not sure. what's happening with the with the waving well what's really lacking ever since drone rivers died rest in peace is like no one now the met gala is just they have the most banal commentary no one takes them to desk for anything um who is it who wore like the dollar bill but sarah paulson ridiculous bill over her eyes and it's like is that so celebs are just getting away with too much yeah it's a comment on the elite on the 1% how rich they are
Starting point is 00:59:09 They're blinded by her tens of millions. Lauren Sanchez, yeah. So she, but she can, she can comment on it. Yeah, exactly. You're at an event being hosted by Lauren Sanchez. But you're there under protest? Yeah. Is that what you're trying to tell us?
Starting point is 00:59:20 But there was less of that. There was no like AOC taxed the rich dress. There was, it felt more, I feel like we're healing a little bit. Okay. If only we could return actual celebrities to the Met Gala, then we'd be all healed up. I was a little disappointed. The Zoran, Mamdani, and Ramadouaji declined the invitation because he, could have played up to you saw a lot of like south indian heritage stuff going on yeah and she has
Starting point is 00:59:44 such an art historical face she's like oh yeah it would have been a great thing for her she looks disturbingly disturbingly like the man accusing the woman at jac borgant they looked like the same person i'm sorry i know that there are memes online in which they've used AI to actually superimpose his face over hers but the actual faces look disturbingly similar but i credit him for not going because I think it's bullshit for AOC or Sarah Paulson to show up. Be like, I'm here, but it's under protest. Good for him for being like, no, I don't believe in that. Goodbye.
Starting point is 01:00:18 And his messaging, yeah, he's staying on task. Yeah. He's not going to get distracted with the gala. I appreciate that. I mean, I don't really want him to stay on task because he's ruining New York. But I appreciate the moral consistency of it. Exactly. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:32 Okay. So now, no, what do we make of the Baldoni lively settlement? The word is that she just, like this week, hired this very heavy hitting litigation firm to try to telegraph to him, oh, I'm going to trial. Like, I'll do it. And not surprisingly, his lawyer, Brian Friedman and team were not intimidated by that at all. Like, he's an actual litigator who tries cases all the time. He's like, great, whoever you want. But the truth is she could not let this case go to trial.
Starting point is 01:01:02 She could not let him cross-examine her. She could not take the stand. she was about to actually become Amber Heard. And she had no choice, but to act like she wanted to try the case all the way up until the end. And then basically her case got gutted by the judge three weeks ago
Starting point is 01:01:16 when he threw out all the sexual harassment claims and left her only with one tiny slice of it. And by the way, Baldoni was released from the case when the judge issued that. So the only defendants left were Wayfarer, his company. And the PR firm that they alleged was part of a retaliation campaign against her by allegedly pushing for bad press.
Starting point is 01:01:37 And his defense was going to be they never actually did plant the bad press. He hired them to get a game plan ready and they were absolutely prepared to do it. But they didn't have to. Because she did it to herself. Well, right. And that, I believe that now more than ever because she folded. Well, she must have, she was at the Met Gala. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:57 Hated her love. So she must have anticipated being available. Yes. She looked like an orange sherbur. like a big sherbert, you know, that used to get in this when you were a kid with the three different flavors in there. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:09 It was very weathering heights. A movie I also hated. It's lazy to just do the long train. Yeah. And then she snapped at the little male valets who were supposed to flay it out. The Daily Mail has this. Look, there's a moment here.
Starting point is 01:02:25 Look, look, here she goes. She's like, no. I want it on it. Oh, put it back down. She just can't, yeah. Get out of her own way. She needs the PR firm. See, this is why I can never be a celab, not because I have a poor work ethic and suck at promoting
Starting point is 01:02:41 myself. It's because I could never be pictured on camera, snap. Like, don't these people think of how it's going to look because they're being photographed and filmed all the time. Yes, especially when your problem is people think you're a bully. Yeah. And a bully of like lesser empowered men. Right?
Starting point is 01:02:59 So what does she do? That's not the way it's supposed to be. I don't know what she said, but that's my own dialogue. superimposed over her. I don't, I think she meant to appear like, here's me and all my glory. I'm back. I've put this terrible thing behind me. And it's just not going to be that easy. I mean, I just don't think the American public is that forgiving. I think they're very angry at her. I don't even know what this case is about. Really? Yeah. What about you? You're in the biz. Not anymore. You got pushed out. But I think I saw her giving like an interview on the Vogue live
Starting point is 01:03:33 stream where she claimed she was shy. Oh, God. Which seems, I feel like, yeah, people can sense that she's disingenuous. But I think she'll continue to have a career because she's people ultimately, even though we have mixed feelings about divas, they end up prospering. Diva is one thing. Mariah Carey is a diva. I think J-Lo is a diva.
Starting point is 01:03:56 You don't have to be talented to be a diva. Sometimes they're bullies. That's different. Bully. Mariah is not a bully. A J-Lo is not reportedly that much of a bully. Is she? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:04:09 I'm not going to slander about it. I don't know. Well, anyway, but what Blake Gladly's known for now as being a bully, which is people don't like. They really don't like that. It's not relatable. Like every character she plays, you're going to be like,
Starting point is 01:04:24 who did she torture on that set? You know, somebody with lesser power. So I don't like her chances. The optics aren't great, yeah. They're not. but I feel like she's in so deep. She has no other choice than to dig her heels in and like own her reputation.
Starting point is 01:04:40 Oh, interesting. I don't think she's aware of what the reputation is. I think she's going to go out there and continue playing the fake me too card. Last year at the time 100, she got up there and gave his big speech about how her mother was allegedly a sexual assault victim. Wow. And it was like, okay, this feels inappropriate because it's your mom's story, but okay. And it was clearly an attempt to like glam on, you know, like, that's basically the same thing as it happening to me. See, I get it.
Starting point is 01:05:08 Victimized by association. Yeah. So she, like, that's a year after she'd filed the lawsuit. Well, not a year, but it was a month after. And she'd been taking a beating already in the press and she still hadn't learned this isn't going well. So I just don't think she's that bright. If I was her, I would say, because the Baldoni movie was about domestic abuse that ends with us. I would say that I was so deep in. character that I got confused, that I was so inhabited the role. Oh, I like that. That I thought he was abusing me because I just, you know, I could go to that place with her. I mean, I just, I would like to watch her try to spin it at a minimum. That's what I would, that's what I would try to do. All right. By the way, why is there no fallout for Parker Posey, who was equally bitchy in that one clip with the, with a Nordic journalist. Do you ever, you know that? Parker Posey. Yes, wait, we have it. Look, I'm going to show you. Well, actresses have bad days. La.
Starting point is 01:05:59 Yeah. This is from 2016. It was when they were promoting the Woody Alley Film Cafe Society. And this is one of the things that brought such bad vibes toward Blake. She was so nasty to this sweet. I think she's a Swedish journalist. Some place up there, Sweden, Norway. And she is not pregnant. But Blake lively, which you can't see in this clip, but was known, Blake Live is eight months pregnant in this clip. So she did what most journalists will do when there's something very prominent about your guest. And you make a passing reference to it just to get it out of the way. wait for the audience and move on and watch what happened. First of all, congrats on your little bump. Congrats on your little bump. What about my bump? You've got two nice ones. These, they are kind of bumps, aren't they? No, not bumps.
Starting point is 01:06:48 The lovely lady lumps. Check it out. Thank you. Thank you. You like the movie? Are you a Woody Allen fan? I love most of his movies. And this one was so visually amazing.
Starting point is 01:06:59 Yeah, it's gorgeous. Did you guys love wearing those kind of clothes that you... Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, working in digital... Never one wants to talk about the clothes, but I wonder if they would ask the men about the clothes. I would. I love Jesse's suits and how he...
Starting point is 01:07:12 That's what I'm saying. His wardrobe was beautiful. I know. He's so great. He's so great. I would wish men wore high-waisted pants. I know. I would wish men wore high-waisted pants like that still.
Starting point is 01:07:22 Me too. Or their father with his tank top in bed. It's so good. Yeah. It's not just the women that... that have the close. I feel like the women get the conversation, but it's like,
Starting point is 01:07:33 yeah. Okay. Parker innocent. She's being diplomatic and quirk. She's trying to kind of say phase. What year is this? It looks like it's from 2000. 16, but it didn't.
Starting point is 01:07:45 What happened was Kejirsti, however you pronounce it. She did, her company, her, whatever she works for in Norway, they did put it out at the time.
Starting point is 01:07:55 And then when she saw, it ends with us and some of like the back and forth around her, like the buzz around Blake, she's like, I'm re-releasing that clip. And she actually said at the time, I'm leaving this business. It's a disgusting business. I hate it. I hate the people in it.
Starting point is 01:08:11 Like, I'm just sick of this BS. And she had had trouble getting pregnant. So she really didn't appreciate the, like your baby bump, you know. So she left the business because an actress is a huge bitch to her. I think it was just like one of the many straws, you know, like, I can't stand these people. Yeah. I mean, you've had to deal with these people. people like
Starting point is 01:08:29 but nothing bothers you I'm not a great fan of journalists either and they've been they've treated me worse than actresses to be honest present company accepted except for you yeah yeah I don't I feel like the press is the worst
Starting point is 01:08:42 but Hollywood's not much better and speaking of which you we were laughing that since I last saw you technically got cancelled because you you committed the same sin as Tucker Carlson and he's coming on tomorrow I've got all the canceled people
Starting point is 01:08:55 because of Nick Quint days on the show this week because you had the to Marity to interview him Thursday. Tucker's coming out of it. Yeah. So, and people were very, very angry because you're not allowed to like him because he's got this very racist strain when it comes to blacks and Jews and women and so on, racist, bigoted, whatever you want to call it.
Starting point is 01:09:17 But he's got this other strain that is interesting. And so, but you're not allowed to say that. You can't even acknowledge it and you definitely can't interview it. Dasha, didn't anybody tell you that? Well, I saw, yeah, I saw Tucker say that he, regrets it. And I actually also regret Tucker interviewing him because we had Plentazahn a month before and it wasn't, no one cared. I wasn't in trouble at all. And then when Tucker had him on, I'm just kidding that. But that's when the cascade of like denouncing started. And then somebody
Starting point is 01:09:49 went back and dug up your old interview? Well, one person was especially upset. That person was me. No, and the Hollywood reporter, there was that one guy who had been waging this crusade against me. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I get it. I get why he's like a no-no person by like the liberal establishment wouldn't want you to talk to him. I don't. I think it's totally hypocritical. When I was reading the remarks that Tucker made in his New York Times interview where he talks about who he regretted having Fuentes on. And to me, it was kind of like sour grapes. even though I agreed with like other parts of the interview because he says the reason he regrets it is because it was a distraction from these other bigger issues. The problems that are facing us are primarily economic, not like demographic in nature. And I think he regrets it because, you know, let's face it, Nick Fuentes is much more popular among younger people. He really owned Tucker. He'll own anybody. And it's his moment now.
Starting point is 01:10:50 He's ascendant. But I don't find anything controversial about even his most controversial. controversial remarks because they're very clearly meant as a half joke and it's irrelevant whether he believes them or not. And I think that the liberal media is totally like complicit in it because they are fascinated by him much like they were fascinated by Donald Trump. And they want to keep him in the news because it feeds clicked. Yeah, yeah. And they always describe him as far right, which I'm like, I'm not sure that's right, but I understand why they're doing it. Well, they can inflate it.
Starting point is 01:11:20 They also, yeah, but before we had him on our show, there were two articles. in the New York Times about him. One was about like Groyper's in the Magga movement, which isn't really like the nuances of how he even feels about Trump are kind of irrelevant. They just really needed someone, yeah. He's blackpilled. He's not red and he's not blue.
Starting point is 01:11:42 No. I mean, my issue with him and the reason that I was, had concerns about having him on our show was that I felt that he was kind of met an impediment to the health and future of the MAGA movement and was brought in or brought himself in. I don't think he's even like controlled or owned by anyone. I think it is organic momentum. Yeah, I don't believe either.
Starting point is 01:12:09 What has haters say. But, you know, he's a talented broadcaster. And I liked him personally. But my concern was always that he was brought into or he brought himself into like kind of sever or take the piss out of that movement, which ended. up kind of doing it to themselves a little bit. Yeah, but it's like the same thing, you know, it's the same thing as with Trump, with like Trump derangement syndrome where the media
Starting point is 01:12:33 loves these guys, they feed off of them. And then, of course, they act all like, shocked and outraged when someone else who's not on their team entertains them or interviews them. And, you know, by the end of that, New York Times interview, the
Starting point is 01:12:49 reporter was like positively haranguing Tucker about Fuentes. She was very focused on the Fuentes issue. Tucker definitely regrets it. I think it's because he just blew up so much in his face and he wasn't worth it for him. I think he sort of thought he might be able to breach Fuentes in a way that might be helpful for the conservative movement. I think that's what Tucker thought. And that didn't happen. And the bomb blew up in his face. And he was like, And I caught a total stray. Yeah, yeah. He's like, this wasn't worth it. But I actually did, I had my team pull this together. This isn't because of you. And,
Starting point is 01:13:25 defending Fuentes at all. I just want it, I always say when we talk about him, because I do feel the need to accurately represent him, he, there's no question he's a very talented broadcaster. And he's predicted a lot of things happening in the political sphere correctly. But there's also no question that he says things that are extremely racist, anti-Semitic and misogynistic regularly. So I actually, just to show the audience, because I constantly make this reference and I don't actually put up, here's just some of what I'm talking. about here in Sot 17. We're already a non-white country.
Starting point is 01:13:59 Get a grip. Get real, bro. This is already, we already live in Mogadishu. We already live in Islamabad. Have you been outside L.A., Chicago, New York. We live in nigger hell. And that's just what, and you know, it is. Because everybody tells me you can't keep saying the N-word on the show.
Starting point is 01:14:21 They're like, you can't, you've got to stop saying. You gotta stop saying N-word faggot. I'm like, but it's so funny. Saying free Palestine, bro, free America. One of these third world niggers gonna say that? Because when I see 50 million illegal spicks and apologies for the slur, see, I can say that one because I'm Mexican. It's not all, you don't just get called the Mexican white nationalist.
Starting point is 01:14:45 You also get to be racist against Mexicans. We're all in favor of a fat race mixer who's married to a jeet who named his son Vivek. that's a reference to J.D. and Usha there at the end. Yeah, that is, it is shocking. Shocking. Yeah. Are you being facetious? I genuinely do find that shocking. No, no, it's extreme, certainly. But it's, you know, in the, like, for people who watch his show, it's all in the context of, like, a stream. And it's like, I can't see a world in which any of that is not offensive. Like, I, I mean, it's meant to be offensive. Yeah. He's meant to be offensive. I mean, but I think he's also, like, revolting against, um, the, um, environment of like decorum and politas and like these arbitrary like moral pities that were put in place by the Democrats, the liberals. And yet in his
Starting point is 01:15:35 like enclosed space of his show with his audience, he's obviously totally offensive and no holds barred. But kind of the most offensive thing about him is that once his reputation started to get rehabilitated, he started walking back a lot of these remarks. Did he? Yeah. Like now he's he likes
Starting point is 01:15:55 to go on a stream or wherever in claiming that he's not racist or he has no hate in his heart. Did he use to say I'm racist? Well, I mean, I would, I believe him because we've all said crazy outrageous things on our shows for. Yes, but there's what we say, which is politically incorrect and doesn't like necessarily kow to the woke left. And then there's the N word over and over and that J word for Indians. And, you know, take your pick. Like I, and I can even give you the point that like, it's strange how much energy.
Starting point is 01:16:25 we've put behind, in particular, the N-word. We've empowered that word well beyond what we should because it's just we've given it too much power to hurt black Americans. You know what I mean? It's like I wish we would disempower that word, but we haven't. And so to hear like that, like a white man cannot be the one to
Starting point is 01:16:42 disempower that word. That has to be done, if at all, by black Americans. And it's just like, why do it? Why be that provocative? Because he's also saying, you know, he's talking about blacks in the inner city in a way that, groups them all and you know he's got racial stereotypes he's got female stereotypes i mean all the things
Starting point is 01:17:00 that would lead any rational person to think you are racist you're sexist and you're definitely anti-semitic he's a racist guy he's he's really he's offensive yeah i don't think yeah i wouldn't argue with that yeah so that's so interesting to me but you just don't care of it like you you still just want to talk to him i mean at the time he was doing all he was going on a whole podcast circuit. He, you know, it seems, I felt that the Overton window had shifted in terms of like, he didn't say things like that on our show.
Starting point is 01:17:30 You know, he didn't say things like that on Tucker. Yes. Well, I... The things he says in the confines of his stream, it's his stream. I think this guy was probably so... I don't endorse it. It was so debanked and de-platformed that he felt comfortable doing that because he probably felt there was no way back. And, you know, now that he's...
Starting point is 01:17:46 And Chirretero throttled him in the crib. Yes, Ben Shapiro did throttle him in the crib. That's true. And he was canceled and put on the no-fly list for some reason when he was very, very young. I mean, that'll have a way of radicalizing people. But I had my team pull this yesterday. I don't know if you guys, I didn't even tell you, I might use it today. But Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes interviewed the Grand Wizard of the KKK in his hat, in his little outfit with his pointy hat.
Starting point is 01:18:15 So it actually is a time-honored tradition amongst those who do interviews for a living to talk to the most controversial people in the world. Why wouldn't you? The differences, Mike Wallace grilled him, you know, and like, held him to a cat. I mean, we pushed back. I talked about, you know, I said, I don't think the jury is as like cohesive, you know, obviously there's left-wing Jews and right-wing Jews and they have different interests. And, you know, we pushed back on him, but we don't take this, like, hysterical tone. Look, there it is. There it is. And the SPLC finance. Yeah, exactly. Yes, you'll see paid for that half.
Starting point is 01:18:56 And everybody from Nome Chalmsky to Glenn Greenwald, all these, like, you know, Glenn had them on. It used to be the norm that liberal Jewish pundits and journalists defended freedom of speech and said, you know, you can talk to anyone. That was always the idea. So now you have, like, I think, you know, Tucker called it, called it, called it childish and morally. repulsive and it is because you have this like double standard this hypocritical thing in place where you can't talk to these people under any circumstances but yet the liberal media wants to talk about them. Talk about them. But wait, but like I can talk to them but yeah, you have this like
Starting point is 01:19:39 scolding hysteria. Yes. Well, that's why I don't want to interview him because I have no interest in doing the, you know, playing him that soundbite. Yeah. And having him explain out like I just, I have no appetite for it whatsoever. And I don't think I could do an interview with. him without raising all the stuff he says. Well, did you see Pierce Morgan? Yes, and I thought it was pointless. I love peers, but I thought it was pointless. It made peers just so out of touch.
Starting point is 01:20:01 Well, it's like, then if all these things are deal breakers for you, as they are for me, then don't interview him. Then don't platform them, don't promote him. You know, everybody feels differently about it. But I have to be honest, I care about, like, sexism if it's in the extreme. Like, I interview a lot of people who come in this show who are sexist. I have to be honest, I'm not going to name them, but who I know have views of, you know, the modern American woman that I do not share at all.
Starting point is 01:20:25 It doesn't bother. Like, I don't care. And I don't feel the need to bring it up every time they're on and make those the stakes of the discussion. I don't know. I find them kind of interesting. But then when I think about, like, would a black journalist ever want Nick Fuentes gaining purchase in the mainstream or a black listener or viewer, want that
Starting point is 01:20:46 guy getting purchased in the mainstream when you, you know, he's, he's saying that word over and over. Like, he doesn't demonize all blacks from what I understand on his show. Yeah. I think he's a friend of the blacks. I don't think he has, like, deep hate in his heart. How about the Jews, though? Well, you know, even the Jews.
Starting point is 01:21:04 He says some of his best friends are Jewish. Many such cases. I don't know. I don't, I have to be honest, I feel like on this guy, I've got one hand tied behind my back because I don't watch Nick Fuentes. I just know what others tell me. And Victor Davis Hanson was the one who first told me that he uses the end. all the time so I had my team go back and check and sure enough he does not just that yeah he does and
Starting point is 01:21:26 and I feel like he has upper limited himself by doing that you know yeah definitely you know he like karma comes for everyone he's going to have to pay for that down the line I'm sure he's aware of you already have um you know we caught a lot of flack for having him on because people felt that we had softballed him and I don't think that we did that at all we did in fact push back on him but like it would have been a totally different and less effective interview if we had come in hot, you know, scolding and accusing. You would have gotten nothing from him. Yeah. Yeah, he would have clammed right up. Well, that's actually Tucker's own defense for his interview of Ted Cruz. He says the reason he was very tough on Ted Cruz and not Nick Fuentes is because he was basically called an anti-Semite
Starting point is 01:22:08 by Ted Cruz seven minutes in and didn't really get things off on a good note. Yeah. Well, I understand. You guys do something different on your show. You're not confrontational. It does seem like you'll talk to anybody and your whole thing to me now having known you guys for a while seems to be non-judgment you're just kind of like I mean we passed I mean yeah you've got opinions yeah but you're not I wouldn't describe you as judgmental of really anybody you're just kind of like we're judgmentally non-judgmental and I am a free speech absolutist yeah and I you know think nick is interesting yes right that's your sin yeah that's what that's what got you canceled in Hollywood right so your agency dumped you?
Starting point is 01:22:50 Does that mean no more work ever? Like nobody will hire me? I don't know. I think we'll see. Maybe you'll self-produce your next project. I think that's what Blake lively is going to have to do. Maybe Mel Gibson could get in touch with me. I know he's had some trouble.
Starting point is 01:23:09 Yes. I mean, the whole institutional landscape is changing so rapidly. And, yeah, there's a crisis of faith in every institution. nobody really like believes in Hollywood anymore except for like Hollywood's down pretty bad it's true you see that with the MetGala too by the way when people you know are debating the theme and whether people executed it faithfully it's like well the Mac gala hasn't been an A-list event for at least a decade now it's a D-list event yeah I know it's
Starting point is 01:23:40 embarrassing there's a reason Meryl Streep is like it's a no again okay let's stand by when we come back we're going to do the JPMorgan update, which is crazy. Now this guy's back. He's filed, he's refiled his lawsuit and he's submitted, not one, but two affidavits from third parties allegedly supporting his allegations against this gal. We'll take it up next. Don't go away. When it comes to supplements, there are two things that matter most. It has to work, and it has to be something you can trust. Both are absolutely essential, and that is why I want to tell you about Relief Factor. Relief Factor has been endorsed by hosts for over a decade. That's more than 10 years of trusted voices helping people get out of pain
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Starting point is 01:25:50 and we've got to dig into the J.P. Morgan lawsuit because it's back. So the plaintiff has been outed, even though he tried to go under John Doe. His name is Chiraya Rana, and he is suing J.P. Morgan and its executive Lorna Hajdini, claiming that she made his life a living hell while he was at J.P. Morgan, that she sexually harassed him, threatened him, held his bonus over his head in order to make him give her oral sex and have sex with her in order to make him allow her to perform oral sex on him while he allegedly cried the whole time.
Starting point is 01:26:29 He claims she roofied him? Yeah. How do you have sex of the root? How do you have ruby and Viagra? Also Viagra. Did they? I don't think that's no or. I agree.
Starting point is 01:26:40 I think this is one of the problems of his claims. I think roofied means roofied. Yeah. Right? I don't think like, so what? Like he was passed out. When you're roofied, you can't lift your arms and legs. Your appendages can't move.
Starting point is 01:26:52 Right. So just the Viagra goes just right to that one appendage. Just like the one is at attention. Yeah. And she's having fun with it while he's completely passed out. I don't think so. That doesn't seem. It's not adding on.
Starting point is 01:27:04 No, it sounds farce. This is such a heartwarming feel good story, though. Why? Well, after all the friction and chaos of the last few news cycles, it's nice to have something that's like purely a meme back in the news. And it's also funny because it's like actually like an epic media battle between our last two remaining papers of record, which are like the Daily Mail and the New York Post. The Daily Mail broke the story and then the New York Post debunked it.
Starting point is 01:27:32 Yes. And they're like really feuding over the scrap. And it's also obviously a reverse me too. It's a reverse me too. I know it's got it all. Yeah. So two things now. It has come out that he.
Starting point is 01:27:46 he pretended his dad was dead to get bereavement leave from J.P. Morgan, but the dad is alive and well and spoke to the New York Post this weekend. Okay, so we must point out this man, in addition to the allegations of the complaint, which make this clear, has got some serious credibility problems. There he is with his parents. His dad, this is, I guess recent, but his dad is definitely alive. Notwithstanding what he told J.P. Morgan, which is that he's dead and he needed a bereavement leave. And I guess his defense to this is, well, I needed to write my complaint. I needed time to work on my complaint. And I couldn't say that. So I said, my dad is dead, which, why don't you just do it in your spare time? That's what evenings and weekends are for. I know. Right? He probably wasn't very good at his job.
Starting point is 01:28:30 No. And this is like so immigrant kid filling out college admissions essay where like, this is my sad immigrant story. And also my mom has cancer. It's just like, Nick Fuent has totally vindicated about his, with his screeds on immigration because it's like different honor code. Though to their credit, when they interviewed the dad, he said, my son, he's a good boy, great kid. Well, what's he going to say? They don't throw their own family members under the bus. Yeah, I appreciate that. It's fine.
Starting point is 01:29:00 That's what I'm here for. Okay, but notwithstanding that very bad piece of PR for this plaintiff, it emerges as he refiles his complaint, which was withdrawn for, quote, corrections, that he's got alleged. witnesses to Lorna's supposed bad behavior. And I'll go through a couple of them. They're anonymous as far as we know, but they have details and quotes and described alleged encounters between this guy, Chiraya Rana and Lorna over the relevant time frame. Okay, in his new filing, one alleged witness, who appears to be a family friend of his,
Starting point is 01:29:38 says he was staying at an apartment while visiting New York City and was woken up. This is the witness. by Hedini's drunken antics in the middle of the night. The other anonymous affirmation, seemingly from the owner of the apartment where the family friend was staying, right? So you've got one of his friends and you've got somebody who owns the apartment in which... And she's there? Okay. Claims that he saw Hedgdini kissing Rana's neck on the street sometime during summer of 2024.
Starting point is 01:30:07 Now, that doesn't show harassment if it's true. It shows maybe they had a relationship of some sort. and then says in September of 2024, she, the owner of the apartment, overheard them entering the apartment building, recalling Houdini, saying something that sounded like, I own you, Brownie! This is a theme.
Starting point is 01:30:26 All of the dialogue that he has in his complaint to me reads exactly like what a very nerdy Indian guy who never had any social life or girlfriend would imagine it would sound like if somebody were harassing him or if people were leaving him voicemails, like, okay, brown boy. It's a total male
Starting point is 01:30:44 fantasy of female desire, but also like through this cultural. With a racial, psychosexual element. Right? I mean, like, he wants it to be true that she's like threatening to ruin his life and like stomping on his bowls and her stilettos or whatever. Like,
Starting point is 01:31:00 even when the original story broke and I was reading some of the dialogue and you know, she was like fondling her breasts and referring to them as canon. No woman. No matter how like assertive. or high-tier, high-powered, like working in a man's world ever would use that word. No, ever. Ever.
Starting point is 01:31:18 That is fan fiction. It just doesn't make any sense because, like, women all want to feel small and submissive in the context of, like, a sexual scenario. And even the small percentage of women out there who might have, like, you know, dominant sexual proclivities, they still don't talk like that. No. And I also take issue with the notion that she forced oral sex. on him and he cried the whole time. Bullshit. That did not happen. I don't believe one word of that.
Starting point is 01:31:48 But okay, I digress. It's not for me because I'm not the jury. Okay, so back to the legal filing. The witness who said he was a family friend and came for a visit in this apartment with Shirayurana. This is dad. Who knows? Says it was September 13th, 2024 or thereabouts. This guy attended a concert, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn with his brother. During the concert, my brother and I walked around to different parts of the venue. At one point, I spotted, redacted, sitting with a group. I think they mean the guy. I was apparently one or two seating sections away from him at the time.
Starting point is 01:32:24 I observed a woman sitting next to him. Yeah, it's the two of them. The woman was very handsy, gals, with this woman putting her hands on his lap, back, legs, and lap again. In addition, she put her face very close to and to his, I guess, and appeared to be speaking into his ear. He sat facing forward. He did not look comfortable with the situation because I did not know the woman. I did not stop by to say hello. Then later, this is the same witness, September of 2024, same month. I was visiting New York. I stayed at his apartment. When visiting New York, I sometimes stay there. Okay, let's see. On that night, I had plans to go out for drinks
Starting point is 01:33:04 together. However, when it became late, I went to sleep on the couch in the living room. In the middle of the night, I was awoken by the sound of a woman who was clearly intoxicated. I'm speaking very loudly. I should have you read this. You're the actress. Surely after, redacted entered the apartment with the woman. He's talking about these two. He asked the woman to please be quiet, but she loudly refused and said she would not be quiet. He later told me that the woman was Lorna Hajdini, a woman with whom he worked.
Starting point is 01:33:35 He and Mrs. Hodgini, Ms. Ajdini, went into the bedroom and I attempted to go back to sleep. A short while later, I was awoken by Ms. Houdini, who was completely naked. Naked, I say. Ms. Hedjdeen sat on the couch and lit a cigarette. It's possible. I can see it. Yeah, I mean, I can see it. Yeah. She then asked me to come into the bedroom with her. This is the third party witness and join them. I told her no. She again said, come join, come join. I again told her, no. She then said, you know, I own what's his name. So you'd better come join. I continued to say no. Eventually, Ms. Haddini got up from the couch and went back into the bedroom and closed the door. Through the door, short distance away, I could hear arguing and I could hear him loudly pleading with her to stop, to leave.
Starting point is 01:34:27 And I heard him say, no, no, no, you have to leave. I'm not going to do this. Please stop. She's already naked. and he's saying all this, okay, it became quiet. Then sometimes later, sometimes later she came out of the bedroom, left the apartment a few moments after that. He came out of the apartment in a state of shock and embarrassment. He then told me about how she constantly harassed him and had forced him to engage in sexual behavior with her on a number of occasions. He told me she had frequently said things to him like, I'm in charge of you and I will get what I need from you. And if you don't comply, there will be trouble at the OK corral. He told me that this had been a big problem going on in his life for some time.
Starting point is 01:35:05 In later conversations, he reiterated his concern that she was blackmailing him, forcing him to engage in sexual acts and also to provide help with her career and that she constantly threatened to harm his career if he did not. Although he was not comfortable explaining the specifics of his experiences with her, I recall him telling me she had shown him naked pictures of herself. He also told me on the night in September when I was staying there, she had sexually assaulted him in the bedroom. That's basically it. I don't believe one word of it. Not one. Not one, right? Would any man, let alone a man who's involved in a lawsuit to not shoot down the opportunity to like Eiffel Tower a naked woman with his buddy?
Starting point is 01:35:48 I doubt it. Wait, what's the Eiffel Tower? When she beckoned him into the bedroom. It's a, she's a, yeah. Is it a threesome? Yeah. Yeah. Why is an Eiffel Tower mean a threesome?
Starting point is 01:35:58 It's a style of, sorry I said that. Because the way an Eiffel Tower is shaped. Oh, I sort of get it. I could draw it for you. We don't need to. We'll talk later. Yeah, it seems totally fake, but I just, I guess my question is like, what, what's the purpose? And did he really think he could get away with this?
Starting point is 01:36:22 I guess maybe he thought she would just, maybe they did have some, though I doubt that also, honestly, that they had some kind of relationship, that she would be so ashamed that she would sort of want it settled. She would just pay. Yeah. Yeah. Who do you think that this person is? Because if this, you know, if he's making this up, he has now two witnesses who are willing to lie under oath. Uh-huh. Or maybe he's making them up to these, like their family friends, cousins, clanish tribe.
Starting point is 01:36:52 He's a girlfriend in Canada. Yeah. And I'm thinking that they probably did have an affair, you know, usual, like kind of like Eric Swalwell and his former staff. Yeah, because he had to have had some leverage. I doubt he made this up entirely out of whole cloth, but who knows? My thinking is because all of the details are so kind of fantastic and humiliating. and with the wishful, the wishful fantasy of this dominant woman.
Starting point is 01:37:25 It's possible that he could just be lying whole cloth because he has a humiliation fetish. But even to admit any of this already would be so humiliating, but maybe that's the goal. Here's what I want to know. If any of this is true, why didn't he provide the evidence of it to J.P. Morgan
Starting point is 01:37:39 when they investigated it? Nothing. They say he provided nothing. She gave full cooperation that she gave her cell phone over. She gave all of her email record. She gave everything saying this is a lot of, lie and he gave nothing and was conveniently unavailable to deal with them. Okay.
Starting point is 01:37:54 So it's fake. Yeah. Maybe he's just, maybe it's just the humiliation. At most. And he's just after chasing that. He also, it has come out, went on one of those legal websites 10 months before this. Yes. I saw this.
Starting point is 01:38:09 You know, like it wasn't legal film, but it was one of those type of, you know, and he plugged in all these details that kind of dovetail this lawsuit except he described his harasser as a he and a man and said he was with Morgan Stanley, not J.P. Morgan Chase. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Now, it's possible, I could argue that one both ways. He had details that did, that didn't jive. Like, is your harasser this Lorna or is it he? Did this happen to you at J.P. Morgan Chase or at Morgan Stanley? He's worked at like multiple banks over the past 10 years, which is also sketchy, in my opinion. And, but I could also argue it that maybe this helps his credit. ability because he went on a legal website and was looking for legal advice on what to do with
Starting point is 01:38:54 alleged harassment he was undergoing. Or maybe he knew in advance that he would be playing the long game. Did the legal website not advise him to report the evidence to? They connected him with a lawyer. And I don't know whether that's his lawyer. Okay. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 01:39:11 So who knows? More will be revealed, I guess. All these months later. Okay. Then secondly, in the time we have left, there's a second witness. I've lived in a one-minute apartment here. This guy sometimes visits my apartment with a family friend. At some point, I had conversations with him.
Starting point is 01:39:26 He mentioned an issue he was having with a woman at work who was harassing him and trying to blackmail him. He was not comfortable telling me details, but kept saying this woman was making his life hell. I told him I wanted to see what this person looked like, and he showed me a profile picture. I believe it was Lorna. Around dusk, I was leaving my apartment one day. I saw her standing across the street at the intersection. Oh, no, not her. this guy. He appeared to be waiting for the light to change to cross toward my apartment. He was with a woman. I recognized her to be
Starting point is 01:39:51 Miss Houdini. While they stood there, this woman are standing very close to him. She had her face in his neck and appeared to be kissing his neck. I also saw her grab his. She grabbed his rear end. His head was turned away from the woman. He did not appear interested in the woman. And I did not see him reciprocate in any way. Again, this just sounds like... I mean, just look at him. Yeah, why would a girl like that go for a guy like him? And she's very good looking. She's pretty and provided the cell phone. Like, that's what a truth teller does. Maybe this guy will prove us all wrong and he will... That would be interesting. Produce some... It would be hilarious. Right? Some silver bullet proof.
Starting point is 01:40:26 Yeah, she's so cute. I know. She's adorable. And she's currently getting her reputation ruined by this guy because he tried to go anonymous, but he used her name at every turn. Right. And where is his fish had wife in all of this? Yes.
Starting point is 01:40:39 There's so many apartments. That's right. That's a good question. Where is the wife? That's right. If she's at the apartment's a lot of. soliciting his friends for threesome's like, where is the wife? That is a very good question.
Starting point is 01:40:52 He keeps like a batch for a bad to cheat on his wife? Yes. This is a very relevant question. Thank you for asking that because that has not been cleared up. I think you may have just cracked the case. That may be the key detail that does it. Well, we'll continue to follow the saga because we want to know what happens. So far, I think this is complete bullshit and I'm entirely on her side.
Starting point is 01:41:12 Open-minded to being proven wrong, however. Okay. We are back to. Tomorrow with, how about this for a turn? Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. We're looking forward to that and much, much more. We'll see you then. Thanks for listening to The Megan Kelly Show.
Starting point is 01:41:29 No BS, no agenda, and no fear.

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