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Chapter 1: Why is this podcast series significant to Candace Owens?
All right, guys. Happy Monday. Sorry we are running a few minutes late. There are so many pieces when you're doing these series that you just want to make sure that you dot your I's and cross your T's. So sometimes we take a couple of extra minutes to get everything going. But as always, I promise you it will be well worth the wait. And I am so excited to bring forth this series.
I've already explained to you why it's so special to me, mainly because the Me Too movement, I believe, has... become an evil manifestation, and I have three sons. So let's jump right into it. Welcome to episode one of Harvey Speaks. All right, guys, so where should we begin? I'm thinking that we should begin with the theater kid archetype, okay?
Because if there's one thing that I've realized throughout my career in politics and in the media, it's that there is this theater kid archetype that exists. It's real. People who dedicate a large portion of their lives to the pursuit of the camera, wanting to make it in Hollywood, wanting to make it as an actor or an actress. Maybe you start as a drama kid, right?
I'm not sure, I'm not certain, and I will take your guys' opinions on this, that that thirst ever dies within them. And of course, I'm generalizing here, but I find that when I come across these people, now that we're older, they seem to forever be on a quest to the back of their minds for their big break. Like it could still happen even if they're in their 30s, their 40s, their 50s, their 60s.
And so the question then becomes what happens to these individuals when it never arrives? Okay, I want you to think about that. What happens if there's a woman who spends a decade or even more of her life trying to make it in Hollywood only to realize that she's failed?
Maybe she was even that girl who, before she left her hometown, quietly mocked in the back of her mind the unambitious other women, right? The girls from her hometown who married off at the age of 20 and then they immediately started having families. Maybe in her youth she mocked them because, you know, she knew that she had something special. She was going to make it.
She was leaving her hometown. And I think about that because... Interestingly enough, in my first book, I wrote an entire chapter about a friend that I used to have who was exactly that sort of an individual. And I spoke about her because she was an aspiring actress in Brooklyn and we met interning and just kind of chose different paths in our life.
I was kind of just wanting to get myself out of student loan debt, willing to take any and every job. And she was just sort of this free spirit. She described herself as a free spirit and she came from another country and it was all about attending the right parties, meeting the right directors. She was just so much cooler than me.
She was so much cooler than me and more confident than me and she was gorgeous. She was prettier than me. And for a while, it seemed to be working for her. Men fell at her feet. She got these small acting gigs that she wanted. And then as we grew older... And obviously in Hollywood, older is even when you're young. She stopped getting those small roles.
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Chapter 2: What is the 'theater kid' archetype in Hollywood?
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This sort of behavior is normalized and accepted for decades in this industry.
Decades, she said. And it was, of course, then this very big watershed moment that was going to bring down Harvey Weinstein. Goodness, you guys, he was arguably the most powerful man in Hollywood. And now we had upwards of 100 women who were claiming that they had been sexually abused, harassed or even raped, which is why he's in prison today. But I got to tell you something right away.
That list, that long list of women who found the cameras and spoke out and said that things happened and you don't really remember whether or not he denied it, that list significantly dwindled by the time we got into the courtroom. And then even when we were in the courtroom, it dwindled even more. And I'll tell you why.
This is one of the very many compelling aspects of this case, how they were able to sort through the women who were just outright lying, meaning women who had definitively never even slept with Harvey Weinstein, some women who he alleges he never even met. from the women who had, at the very least, been intimate with him, okay? I'll tell you why.
Because, of course, when people realize that someone's going down, if you were a struggling person who wanted to make a quick buck and you knew that this empire was going to crash, you might be willing to come in for a quick payday. And what better way to do that? You could just cry and cry and then describe something terrible that happened. Your honor...
He made me fondle his testicles, you know, tears streaming down your face. And these sorts of moments happened, and Harvey's lawyers would give each other a look, a knowing smirk, a high five, realizing that, yeah, no one's going to believe this woman. And I'll tell you why. The answer to that is because Harvey Weinstein didn't have any testicles. He doesn't have any testicles.
I told you guys this is a strange tale with many twists and turns, and this is just one of them. But what became a crucial element of the Harvey Weinstein case, something that Harvey probably had considered a curse when it happened to him back in 1999, wound up being something of a blessing to his very many court proceedings. I want you to check out this headline, okay?
It reads, Harvey Weinstein's abnormal testicles are key focus of final arguments in trial. I am not kidding. This is real. And I'll tell you, the story goes that back in 1999, Harvey Weinstein was diagnosed with something known as Fournier's gangrene, okay? It is extremely rare, but a life-threatening infection that impacts the genitals. with a rapid tissue destruction.
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