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I will be your host today, Emily Simpson and Shane.

And Shane.

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Today, I'm excited about the episode today because there's just a lot of things going on.

You know, in my news source with in my news source, which is what, which is Instagram.

Yes.

I realize every basic aspect of my life where like I find new things to incorporate into my life. They all come from Instagram basically. Every complex part of your life too. It's like, I follow fitness influencers. So I'm like, oh, those are workouts I'm going to do. They came from Instagram. I'm like, this is what a husband should do. Yes. I send Shane. I send Shane Instagram reels all the time about husbands and how they should treat their wives and

children. And anyway, so basically my life revolves around what I see on Instagram, which is probably

sad. But anyway, let's get into, we have in the past, we've done, I think, two maybe more

full episodes on Blake lively and Justin Baldoni, which was huge when I first came out. So if you guys have not listened to those episodes, I would suggest go back and listen to him because we do a really good job of just simplifying what is going on, what she's suing him for, breaking it down. But then we took a step away because I don't know, I just kind of got, I was just kind of over all of it didn't it kind of fizzle out a little bit too like it kind of plateaued out there wasn't a whole lot of activity at least publicly I feel like the content creators were just like jumping on it and you know every little thing that came forward they were talking about but let's just do a little bit because So Blake lively has retained, she has a new attorney,

because she's going to trial soon. You know they're slated to go to trial this May.

Why does she have a new attorney? She has retained prominent attorney Sigrid McCauley to represent

her in her upcoming trial against Justin Baldoni. McCauley is a managing partner at Boys Schiller

Flexner and is known for previously representing sex trafficking victims connected to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

She has also represented Lively's publicist. This was Leslie Sloan. We talked about Leslie Sloan back in past episodes after Baldoni named Sloan in a countersuit accusing her of orchestrating a smear

campaign. And if you guys remember all those claims that Justin Baldoni had against the

publicist and against New York Times, those were all dismissed. In a statement to the cut,

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