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Blake Lively Is Time's Most Influential | Katy Perry Goes To Space | Candace Ep 178
Thu, 17 Apr 2025
Blake Lively makes the TIME list for most influential people in the universe, Roseanne Barr accuses me of being funded by Qatar, and Katie Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sanchez have a girly space mission. 00:00 - Start. 02:41 - Blake Lively on TIME’s most influential list. 11:47 - The Blue Origin space mission. 28:57 - Roseanne Barr threatens to knock me out. 36:50 - Comments. PaleoValley Get 20% off your order with promo code CANDACE at http://www.Paleovalley.com/Candace Tax Network USA Call 1(800)-958-1000 for a private, free consultation, or visit http://www.TNUSA.com/Candace Seven Weeks Coffee Save up to 25% with promo code 'CANDACE' at http://www.sevenweekscoffee.com/Candace American Financing Act today! Call 800-795-1210 or visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/owens NMLS 182334, http://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-795-1210, for details about credit costs and terms. Candace Official Website: https://candaceowens.com Candace Merch: https://shop.candaceowens.com Candace on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/Pp5VZiLXbq Candace on Spotify: https://t.co/16pMuADXuT Candace on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/RealCandaceO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why did Candace Owens take a day off and what did she share about her nesting phase?
Like there was nothing more important to me than having the time to organize color coded my son's closets, my multiple son's closets. And that's what I did. And I think this is called a nesting phase of pregnancy. I actually have never had it before. A lot of women describe it. They get on their hands and their knees and they start scrubbing right before they go into labor or something.
And I just really felt that nothing was more important than me organizing. And so I took a day off to organize those closets. They look fantastic. I will say this has the only thing that's previously happened that's been remotely even close to that was when I had my first child. I had this sense of dread that my husband was going to die. It was totally crazy, like leading up to labor.
And I did not want him to leave the house. I basically became I was just his captor. It was very scary. And one morning I woke up and he had left the house. It was when we were living in D.C. because he went to go for a run. And I just was boohoo crying on the bed when he came home. And I was just like, what? Where'd you go? You could have died. You could have been eaten by a wild boar.
He was like, this is D.C. There are no wild boars. But I was crying hysterically. I don't know. I just I just thought that he was going to die no matter anywhere he went. And that's my sister went through it, too. So I know that it's happened to other women where you essentially just make your husband stay really close to you and joined at your hip. So I was going through one of those crazy spells.
This time I did not die. capture my husband and leave him in a room, but I did have to do some cleaning. So that's the truth. Anyways, what did I miss? Well, you guys were tagging me in some breaking news that Blake Lively has somehow made Time Magazine's list for the 100 most influential people in 2025. Here is the headline.
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Chapter 2: Why is Blake Lively on TIME's 2025 Most Influential People list?
In Time Magazine, there's a write-up and she is described as a risk taker. You can see in the bottom there, it says by Sherilyn Ifill. Now, oddly, what's very strange about this, this placement in the 2025 Time Most Influential list, is that to justify this placement, they reached out to that woman, Sherilyn. She used to work for the NAACP.
And the reason why she's made this list is because of a financial contribution that Blake and her husband made to the NAACP back in 2019. I'm not kidding. Right. So back during that time frame, Sherilyn Ifill served as the seventh president and director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. So we're talking money. OK. And here is what she had to say about Blake.
According to that time write up, she said, quote, I don't know the Blake Lively of the red carpet or the Met Gala. I never watched Gossip Girl. Blake Lively, I know, is a philanthropist and a student of our country's most intractable problems. She and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, reached out in 2019 to make a contribution to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
I had been getting a few of these calls as our work fighting against voter suppression and police brutality was receiving national attention. I'm always curious about the kind of research that famous people do before they make that cold call to offer their support. The ones that I have remained in a relationship with are those who, like Blake, really did their homework.
I admired immediately her curiosity and her sincere work to understand the conditions that shape this country. I remember an early conversation in which she expressed frustration that so much of our nation's history was not a part of the instruction that she had received as a student.
Her commitment to filling those gaps and becoming the most fully informed and prepared citizen is what I appreciate most about her. Blake is a serious person. She's a risk taker and she's committed to moving this country forward for her children. And for mine. Wow. That is a glowing review about Blake Lively. Cannot deny what she is saying. It's powerful. I feel empowered by it.
Blake felt empowered by it. She replied. She said this openly on her Instagram. She's so shocked by this placement. She said, has revealed this lovely picture of herself in the Time magazine. And she writes, it's an honor to be acknowledged on the Time 100 list for 2025 to be written about by the great Sherilyn Ifill is not something I take lightly. Her work has shaped our nation, who she is.
as a human woman, mother leader, fighter, healer, empath, risk taker, and dream maker, everyone's a risk taker, has shaped my heart and also my stamina to never stop believing in a future that's better and safer for everyone. Thank you, time. And thank you, Sherilyn. beautiful. She says it's an honor. She is blown away. She's completely her 10 year old self.
She says it's blown away right now, but she's made this list. And so people were tagging me because they wanted to know my opinion of this. And I think it is fantastic. I love this. I love this for Blake. I love this so much because she deserves this. One way or another, you have to admit that Blake Lively is indeed influential.
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Chapter 3: What is the story behind Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' donation to the NAACP?
And that is very clearly the strategy that is being employed here, because why else would something that took place in 2019, meaning Blake Lively gave a donation to the NAACP in 2019, why would that, somebody give me valid reason, why would that earn her a spot on a list in 2025? Why?
The answer is because the public relations team that is employing strategies right now from yesteryear have engaged the NAACP. And we're like, remember that donation that we gave you? And speaking of yesteryear, this is even funnier. If you're wondering why it is that Blake and Ryan decided to give money to the NAACP in 2019...
It certainly wasn't because she was getting deep on the issues and suddenly was like, oh, as Sherilyn describes it, I just hate that my upbringing, I didn't learn real black history. I just right now want to get involved with this legal defense fund. Like, that's not what happened. It wasn't it wasn't just like suddenly thinking about her middle school experience and what was lacking. OK.
What happened in 2019 was that Blake and Ryan were once again in desperate need of good PR. And I will say this time it wasn't their fault, but they did it because it was a PR move. You might not remember, but, you know, 2018, 2019, 2020 society was pretty unbearable. Everything was racist. Didn't matter who it was, what it was. Didn't matter if it was somebody's hair that was just being braided.
And they were like, that's cultural appropriation. And then suddenly they were apologizing like, I am so sorry that I put my hair in these braids. I will do the work that needs to be done in order for me to recognize that these braids do not belong on my head. That was what we were living through in 2018 to 2020. And you had to constantly offer these non-apologies.
It was just not it was a fun time, I would imagine, to be white. So there was like the land before common sense. And what happened was Ryan Reynolds tweeted out his support for the movie Black Panthers. oh no, Mr. Reynolds, don't do it. He tweeted out his support. And so it's amazing, this all black cast.
And suddenly, because white people were walking around on eggshells, there was this massive backlash that happened because the internet police were like, excuse me, did you say something positive about a black person? Well, let me just dig through your entire life. And they had found out that the couple was, had committed an underreported racist offense.
He and Blake decided to get married at the Boone Plantation in South Carolina. That's where they got married. There's no slaves in that plantation right now, but, you know, it was all about history, the braids. Were there ever slaves here? Did bad stuff happen here? How dare you get married here? And people were outraged. And I'm not kidding. I'm showing you this headline from NBC News.
It says Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively apologize for plantation wedding. Now, this is published in 2020. Scroll down here, Skylar, if you can, because I'm just if you can make it bigger because my eyesight is so bad right now. But it says Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds said he and his wife. are deeply and unreservedly sorry for holding their 2012 wedding ceremony at a South Carolina plantation.
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Chapter 4: Who were the women involved in the Blue Origin all-women space mission?
You know, he came under renewed scrutiny in 2018 after Reynolds tweeted his support of Black Panther, the first superhero movie to feature a majority black cast. And he was accused of hypocrisy. So they were like, oh, my gosh, we're being called racist. What do we do? Well, we're rich. We're fabulously rich. We have money. And so they contacted the NAACP and wrote them a big check.
OK, that's what happened. That's the whole story. Everybody needed a black friend to make it through 2018. And so Blake and Ryan paid for some. And now they're seeing how far that investment has taken them. They're wondering if it has yielded them some profits, some PR profit five years later. And they hit, you know, so they're hitting up Sherilyn. We're like, look, we are in trouble again.
It worked last time. Could you just say some nice stuff? There's some nice stuff about us because you got you have higher social currency than we do because you work for the NAACP. And they were like, yeah, sure. So, yeah, I don't have an issue with this because it's a very obvious PR move. And that's exactly what they're doing. And we'll see if it works with the public.
And I want to say beyond that, in terms of her actions in 2025, I think she's influential. I think the Justin Baldoni case is incredibly influential. It's bad influential for her, good influential for society. allowing people to actually see how Hollywood operates. She's influencing the left and the right to come together and to demand justice for Justin Baldoni. I think that's wonderful.
I think she's a net positive in 2025. If she wants to tweet pretty pictures of her in a magazine, I am with it. In other lady news, we have to speak about this Blue Origin space mission, okay? Because, ah, women. Sometimes we can just be such women, you know? It's like we're crying on a bed because our husband goes for a run and we think he's going to just be taken out. in the middle of D.C.
by some hogs that don't live in D.C., you know? And this is kind of what this mission was because it was just really annoying in all the ways that I didn't want it to be annoying. So just to give you guys the facts, on April 14th, Jeff Bezos, you know, he has the private spaceflight startup, which is called Blue Origin. And they decided to launch six well-known women into space.
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Chapter 5: What made the Blue Origin space mission notably 'girly' and how was it received?
Here's a picture of the ladies that are going to space. Looks like it could be the cover of a Spice Girls album. I love it, okay? Now, the company decided to document the event with a live stream that was hosted by sportscaster Carissa Thompson. More ladies.
And they had celebrities, Kris Jenner, Orlando Bloom, Oprah Winfrey, that were watching from the ground because they wanted to get as much publicity as possible. Bezos, Jeff Bezos, escorted the crew to the capsule and then the rocket blasted into the sky. There was live audio inside the ship. One of the occupants could be heard screaming, oh, my goodness. OK, so who went to space?
It was Gail King, former NASA scientist, Aisha Boe. Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, soon-to-be wife and journalist, research scientist Amanda Nguyen, and Katy Perry. So you're going to have a pop star in there, plus film producer Carrie Ann Flynn is there.
And they promoted this as the first all-women space flight because the only other time that a woman went to space, the first was Soviet Union cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. She was the first woman in space to... She made a solo trip back in 1963 and she spent three days in space. She circled the Earth 48 times and then she landed herself as a feminist icon.
So they were kind of trying to redo this thing, redo this historic moment. And they're like, we're just going to have so many celebrities and activists. We're going to launch them into space. And then they just made it super girly. Like, OK, but like, what about the fashion?
Lauren Sanchez got together and decided to design the Blue Origin suits in collaboration with Oscar de la Renta because, like, they have money. So they got the creative directors of Oscar de la Renta to design these fantastic suits that were tailored to their bodies because these aren't your regular astronauts. These are hot astronauts. These are babes, okay?
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Chapter 6: How did the Kardashians contribute to the Blue Origin space mission experience?
When we do science, we make it hot and we make it girly. And they were very girly about the adventure, like, ah! This is a live look and listen of that space adventure.
Got it?
One, two, three. Taking up space.
Tamir. Tamir's in space.
Flynn, I got you. I got you, Flynn.
It's like essentially a TikTok party, right? It's like a girly sleepover party. We can come out of this. And of course, if you're doing anything girly and you're screaming, let's paint our nails, let's stay up late. Let's eat low-calorie snacks. You got to bring in the Kardashians, right? Because the Kardashians always have to be on hand if you want to be taken really seriously.
And this is really about science. You bring along Mama Jenner, you bring along Khloe Kardashian, and you bring along Kim Kardashian. And they were all on hand. They all surprised Lauren Sanchez. And they didn't just surprise her with like, hey, we're here for this amazing mission. They also decided to surprise her by bringing her a lavish, super expensive purse, right? Yeah, this is page six.
The Kardashians gifted Lauren Sanchez with an out of this world, get it? $7,000 purse after her Blue Origin spaceflight. Woo! Woo! It was a Judith Lever. You guys probably never heard of it. It's so expensive. Don't even think about it. You can't afford it. You can't touch this. It's out of this world. And Sanchez decided to share that on her Instagram stories.
And she wrote out of this world and tagged them. Oh, my gosh. Could you just imagine being this rich and this wonderful? This is the kind of wealth we all could aspire to. It's so relatable. This is exactly the direction that the space program needs to go into. And they decided to also nail onto the gift a luxury handbag label UFO Orbiter. That's what it's called, the UFO Orbiter bag.
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Chapter 7: How did Gayle King respond to the public's reaction to the all-women space flight?
Well, Lauren and Jeff, we're here to support our girlfriend and our friends. And I never thought that we'd be talking to you from a space launch, for sure. So this is a really unique experience. And we're just so honored to be here to support them and watch this amazing part of history. And I'm so proud of her.
And I just feel like all of the female astronauts that are going to go up today, it's such a big day in history. And it's so empowering, especially my daughter is seven. And just to see something like this.
You know, my daughter's only two and I didn't even share this with her. I feel ashamed of myself. She's so right. I just want my daughter to know that someday you can be launched with your super wealthy friends and you can get a $7,000 bag. You just have to know the right people and celebrities will be waiting for you on the ground when you get back.
And then we're going to tell people that you made history. We can just buy this. This is amazing. I just this is this is the kind of life lessons I want my daughter to learn. And if there's also another thing that she should learn with Mama Jenner on hand, because she's taught the world a lot over the years, it's that you should never miss a moment to market yourself and make money. Right.
So you're spending a little bit of money, $7,000. But what money could you be making while you're on this trip? How could you make this more about yourself? And Katy Perry did that. She decided to promote her Lifetimes tour. She's going on tour now. So she promoted it in space. Take a look. This is so girly. Oh, she's holding a little butterfly.
And if you zoom in on that little butterfly, it lists all of the songs. We see that she's going to sing on her Butterfly Lifetimes tour, Teenage Dream. Hot in your cold, yes and no. Woo! One, two, three. Girl power! Anyways, I'm very confused because then these girls landed and no one took them seriously. Yeah, it's crazy. That's obviously got to be sexism. It's crazy.
And so what Gayle King did when she saw that people were not taking them seriously and were not referring to them as astronauts, she did what women do best. She started complaining. She was just like, OK, we did something, got right into this male dominated space and we just ruined it. OK.
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Chapter 8: What controversies and accusations involving Roseanne Barr are mentioned?
And what she was upset about was the fact that so many articles were written and they were referring to it as a ride rather than referring to it as a very serious space mission. So here is Gayle King in an interview on Extra just sharing her upset about this.
We use space technology all the time, whether it's your GPS, whether it's your satellite. That doesn't just happen. Every time a flight goes up, they get some type of information. Two of the astronauts, I still have a hard time calling myself an astronaut, but two of the astronauts on board, one is a rocket scientist, one is an astrophysicist activist, were actually doing experiments.
But every time one of those goes up, you get some information that can be used for something else. I wish people would do more due diligence. And then my question is, have you all been to space? Have you been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and how they do, and then come back and say, this is a terrible thing. I don't like that people are calling it a ride.
You never see a man, a male astronaut, who's going up in space and they said, oh, he took a ride. We actually duplicated the route that Alan Shepard did. That's why this particular capsule is called the New Shepherd. We duplicated that route. No one said he took that ride. It's always referred to as a flight or a journey.
So I feel that that's a little disrespectful to what the mission was and what the work that Blue Origin does. I've had so many girls and women and some guys who are saying, well, I saw what you did. I'm thinking maybe I should reconsider. Maybe I could do this to the young girls in particular. But it's not just the young girls. We're also encouraging.
I mean, the boys look at it and see what women and young girls can do. So, you know, I know there are cranky Yankees. I know there are some haters. But I'm not going to let people steal my joy and steal the joy of what we did or what we accomplished that day. I'm just not going to let it in. I'm not.
No, don't let it. Don't don't let it upset you, Gail. You are an astronaut. OK, you are like totally legit astronaut. And what happened on that day was amazing. It took sleepover party to the next level. It was out of this world. I loved it. Like I loved every second of it. But as we all know, the patriarchy. Yeah. They have to ruin everything. They're just sexist and jealous and chauvinistic.
And there was nothing to critique about that journey. And they are not being taken seriously. They're not being taken like science people, like the periodic element at a periodic table of elements, you know, like chem people. whatever. And people like Matt Walsh, one of the most, I think, patriarchal monsters on the planet, had some choice words for Gayle King. Take a listen.
Have you all been to space? No, we haven't been to space, Gail, because we don't have a friend who's dating Jeff Bezos. Okay, we don't have a friend who's dating the guy who owns the rocket ship. She actually calls herself an astronaut. Gail, you can call yourself an astronaut in the same sense that my eight-year-old son can call himself an architect now. Because he builds stuff with Legos.
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