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Imagine living in a country where you
can be stripped of your rights at any
time by corporations, your boss, the
government, or any old millionaire or
billionaire that wants to. They can
steal from you, maim your son, sexually
assault your daughter, murder your
parents and your pet, and you have no
right to take them to court. Instead,
you have to go to a secret court where
you are guaranteed to lose. And not only
that, you will also be bankrupted and
have everything you own taken from you
in the process. Name that country. Is it
China, Russia, Iran? No, my friends. I
am in fact talking about America today
in 2025. And I am not being hyperbolic.
Today, I am going to tell you many
stories of how regular people suffered
each of those crimes and learned the
hard way that everything I just said is
true for nearly every single regular
American today, including you. Because
today we're talking about America's
secret court system and it's called
forced arbitration. Welcome back to
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Candace.
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America has a secret court system, an
entirely parallel justice system
designed by and for mega corporations,
billionaires, and private equity firms.
Most Americans have probably only
vaguely heard of arbitration. Most of us
don't have any experience with it or
really know what it means or how it
works. Remember that list of salacious
scary crimes that I made just a minute
ago? I chose that list very specifically
because today I am going to share
specific examples of those exact crimes
committed against Americans who wound up
with the exact outcome that I described.
Normally you would expect the
perpetrator of crimes like rape, murder,
theft or battery to be caught and
arrested by police, lose a trial in a
court of law and go to jail or prison.
And if a regular person commits those
crimes, that's probably what would
happen. But if the people who rule the
world commit such a crime, that's not
how it works. They have a special court
system where the judges are not legally
required to follow the law, nor are the
attorneys. Judges are openly paid by
your offender for doing their job and
paid quite handsomely, I might add. And
you are bound to secrecy. You can't talk
about it. And the world will never learn
that this happens to more than a million
Americans every year. When I say people
who rule the world, you might think I
mean the Illuminati or the Rothschilds
or something. And so you just need to
steer clear of a small handful of evil
super villains. And you should steer
clear of them, too. But that's not who
I'm referring to. I'm talking about
corporations and private equity. And you
might not know it, but you've already
agreed to this. You've already signed
your rights away over and over every
time you click agree to terms of
service. And most of us have clicked
that a lot of times. The average
American household with two teenage
children has currently agreed to about
160 arbitration agreements. If you take
your kids to a birthday party, there's
an arbitration agreement. Sign them up
for swim lessons, arbitration agreement.
Went to a concert, arbitration
agreement. Martial arts classes,
arbitration agreement. Got a massage,
arbitration agreement. Bought a washing
machine, rented a house, got a job, took
an Uber, went to the hospital, all have
arbitration agreements. Heck, most
people's cell phones alone include more
than 20 arbitration agreements, one for
each app you download. And speaking of
apps, I want to start today with a story
about Uber. And I'll let Tiffany, who we
met in my first episode on Candace,
explain what happened with Uber last
year. If I told you that ordering a
burger or a pizza on a food delivery app
could cost you to forfeit your
constitutionally protected rights, would
you believe me? Well, my friends, I'm
here to show you how Uber is proving to
the world today that Disney walked so
that they could run you over with a
truck, literally. And there's not a damn
thing you can do about it. Let's get
into it. It was just a couple of months
ago that the entire world became enraged
when we learned that Disney was trying
to stop a man from suing them in court
when his wife was wrongfully killed in a
terrible incident involving an allergy
at one of their restaurants. And they
claimed the reason he had no right to go
to court was because years before he had
signed up for a trial for Disney Plus.
Now, neither you nor I would ever have
thought that signing up for a trial for
a TV watching program would somehow not
keep us safe in a park where we go on
rides that have physical threats. But
that is exactly what Disney alleged and
what they were arguing in court.
Throughout the Disney debacle, I went on
a series of podcasts and interviews
where people were saying there's no way
this can happen. and the law would never
allow it. And I said, I actually think
it's going to happen. And even if it
doesn't happen in this case, it's not
going to be long before we see the next
major case. Well, my friends, it is
here. My friends, let me introduce you
to Georgia and John McKiny. Now, Georgia
and John were sitting in the backseat of
an Uber when it ran a red light and
t-boned another vehicle back in March of
2022.
Their injuries were horrific with
Georgia sustaining cervical and lumbar
spine fractures, rib fractures,
herniations, traumatic injuries in her
abdomen, her pelvic floor, and John
suffering a fractured sternum, fractures
to his left arm, his wrist. They both
had severe whiplash, and a host of other
serious injuries. It was more than a
year before Georgia could work. They
racked up massive medical bills, and
eventually got an attorney who sued the
driver and Uber on their behalf. Now,
what came next was Uber trying to force
the couple into forced arbitration,
citing a terms of services click wrapped
box they had checked apparently when
they ordered a pizza years earlier.
Except they said, "We never ordered a
pizza. Our 12-year-old daughter did. We
never signed or checked any box. Our
12-year-old daughter did." And so,
originally the the trial court said,
"You're right. This does not have to go
to arbitration. We are letting this
proceed to trial." However, Uber
appealed that decision and the judges
agreed with the company that its terms
of service were enforcable and forced
them back to
arbitration. We'll get into other
examples of how corporations and private
equity will go to ridiculous lengths to
trap you into arbitration agreements
that you never agreed to later, but
every single one of these agreements is
you signing away your rights to due
process in a court of law. And it's
becoming so popular these days among
corporations and private equity who are
buying up so many different parts of our
world that now more and more as an
American you have rights only if you
stay in your house and don't go out to
do anything. Except all the things in
your house tend to come with arbitration
agreements too. And more and more
arbitration agreements are being
included in lease contracts themselves.
So be sure that nothing goes wrong
inside your house either or you'll wind
up in secret court anyways. And if you
do happen to wind up in arbitration,
just know that an American is more
likely to be struck by lightning than
win a monetary award in forced
arbitration against a corporation.
That's a real stat. More Americans are
struck by lightning each year than win
monetary awards and arbitration against
corporations. So, let me tell you a
story and we'll check off our first
crime from our list earlier, sexual
assault. In 2017, Buzzfeed News ran a
story about more than 180 women who had
been sexually assaulted while receiving
massages at the nation's largest massage
chain, Massage Envy. They have more than
12,200 locations across the US. When you
check in for your massage, you sign
their terms and conditions. You don't
actually read them, but if you did, you
would see that they include a forced
arbitration clause where you agree to
settle any claims or disputes against
Massage Envy in secret arbitration. Some
of the stories that have eventually come
out are horrible, and I'm not going to
read them to you. You can pause and do
so if you wish. And although Massage
Envy makes great corporate PR statements
like quote, "Massage Envy is committed
to promoting a safe environment for
members, guests, and service providers
at each of our,200 franchise locations
nationwide. We urge anyone that
experiences anything other than a safe,
quality massage to report it immediately
to the franchise location so that it can
be investigated. Notice that they don't
say police. In many of the cases, there
are allegations therapists were allowed
to remain employed or were shuffled to
another Massage Envy location.
Fortunately, tragically, there were
eventually so many individual cases of
sexual assault that some of the women
started to break their silence and the
news started to pick up the story. But
despite all that breaking in 2017,
Massage Envy continues to face this same
problem. Or maybe we should call it a
feature. In 2022, one of these instances
actually led to an arrest and a trial in
court after a woman was raped and
contracted herpes. Once she came
forward, they found out other women had
been assaulted by the same therapist and
he had continued to work at Massage
Envy. So, it may seem like the justice
system prevailed and they got the guy.
No. In one instance, in one specific
county, a couple women were lucky enough
to find some amount of legal recourse.
The other 180 or quite likely more
cases, not so much. And we don't even
have any understanding of how many the
total number might be because of forced
arbitration agreements that everyone's
signing when they check in for their
massage. Not to mention that 90% of
women never even report sexual assault
because they think for whatever reason
that no one will believe them. This is
just one example. Now, take into account
that more than half of women in the
workplace are subject to forced
arbitration clauses in their employment
contract, and you start to get a sense
of how much sexual assault is hidden in
secret courts every year. That's not to
mention the staggering number of cases
that are silenced before they're even
brought because plaintiffs rightly
realize that they have virtually no
chance of winning and will be bankrupted
in the process of fighting. and you have
virtually no chance of winning because
arbitration is not like regular court.
It's a for-profit racket where the rules
are explicitly written so that there are
no rules. I think it's pertinent at the
outset here to show you where the secret
court system comes from in the first
place. This is directly from the US code
and this is just the first page of many
that define arbitration. But I'm just
going to read some of this text so you
can get a sense for what we're working
with here. Quote, "Maritime transactions
as herein defined means charter parties,
bills of lading of water carriers,
agreements relating to warfage,
supplies, furnished vessels or repairs
to vessels, collisions, or any other
matters in foreign commerce which if the
subject of controversy would be embraced
with an admiral jurisdiction, etc." Yes,
if that language sounds outdated, that's
because it is. The FAA, Federal
Arbitration Act, was first enacted in
1925. Don't even get me started on the
commerce clause in the Constitution,
which is the basis for the government
allowing themselves all up in your
business all over the place.
The ACLU said, quote, "Arbit also lacks
critical procedural safeguards, for
example, permitting access to evidence
from the other side that can be the key
to proving your claims, particularly in
discrimination cases, which often hinge
on how the employer has treated other
employees. The arbitrators may or may
not be lawyers and may or may not be
trained in resolving discrimination
cases. Results are secret, helping
companies evade public accountability.
The outcome is binding and there is
generally no right to an appeal. Note
how it says the arbitrators may or may
not be lawyers, as in the judges in
these secret courts may or may not even
be familiar with the law, let alone
required to enforce them. You will find
lots of propaganda and glowing
descriptions on arbitration that claim
arbitrators are totally upright and
follow the law, but that is patently
untrue. Hence why you have on average
about a 50-50 chance of winning in court
and more like a 6% chance of winning in
arbitration. This is how Duke Law put
it. Arbitration tribunals set their own
rules and they are typically not bound
by the procedural formalities employed
by courts, nor are they always bound to
follow the substantive laws that govern
traditional court systems. Nonetheless,
primary law and decisions handed down by
other arbitrators deciding similar
issues can be important sources of
persuasive authority in resolving issues
sent to
arbitration. Here's an example of a
source that looks authoritative,
representing arbitration as quick and
painless, but that's a lie. That's how
they want it to look from the outside,
so it seems like it's no big deal to
sign these contracts. Tiffany Ciance's
arbitrations lasted a total of 11 days
of hearings, but the proceedings took 2
years. The big guys know that they can
drag arbitrations out for months and
months to bleed you dry while you pay
your attorneys and arbitrators tens of
thousands of dollars per week. Tiffany's
arbitrator was $27,000 per week, give or
take. So, I wouldn't imagine that these
arbitrators are all that sad when a case
drags out because that's their paycheck.
Plus, you have to pay a lawyer to be
there. No record is made of the hearing,
and arbitrators make a legally binding
decision for which they are required to
give zero legal reasoning. And whether
they followed the law or not, whether
they saw substantive or even any
evidence or not, whether you were
treated fairly or not, no one will ever
know because there is usually little or
no documentation, and you are barred
from talking about it. But wait, it gets
better. When you go to arbitration, you
and your opponent go through a process
of selecting an arbitrator from those
available in your jurisdiction. The big
guys know how to game the selection
process to land you with the most
expensive arbitrator available. Usually,
this often tends to be the one they are
familiar with and have a good
relationship with because they've
usually worked with that arbitrator many
times before. Then you have to pay them
to rule in favor of the corporation or
private equity firm you're up against
94% of the time. Yes, you heard that
right. You are required to pay your
judge, who is not a judge, an hourly
rate for the privilege of a secret court
where there are no laws and you have no
rights. This is an example of the resume
sheet of one of the arbitrators Tiffany
got stuck with. Scroll down to the
bottom of the sheet and you see the part
that matters, compensation. This woman
cost Tiffany $500 per hour of
arbitration. Oh yeah, plus an hourly
rate for pre and post arbitration
services, plus any travel expenses,
calls, reviews, filings, everything
costs you more money. That totaled out
to about 27,000 per week. And this went
on for years. Doesn't matter if Tiffany
is innocent. Doesn't matter if the other
side obviously does not have merit.
Doesn't matter if the other side
blatantly lies in court. Doesn't matter
if the entire scheme is obviously
Orwellian. If those women who were
assaulted in massage envy want the
privilege of the right to some form of
pretend justice, they have to pay an
hourly fee to receive it. And the costs
add up. But remember, even after you pay
all that, your chances of winning,
regardless of the merit of your case,
are minuscule. In 5 years, from 2014 to
2018, only 6% of cases arbitrated with
the two biggest arbitration services in
America ruled in favor of the little
guy. Even though in general the little
guy is only there because they were
clearly wronged by the big guy. In those
5 years, nearly 1,000 AT&T customers
attempted to arbitrate against AT&T for
more than $440 million in damages. Just
17 were successful, and they were only
awarded a total of
$376,000. That's less than 2%. The other
983 or so people just had the privilege
of lining the pockets of their
arbitrators and the corporate lawyers
they work with to defend the rich and
powerful. But it gets worse still
because the arbitration industry, and it
is an industry, is a monopoly. A new
lawsuit was just filed last week
claiming that approximately 94% of the
market share is owned by just one
company, the American Arbitration
Association. The next biggest company
owns just 6%. And all other competitors
combined represent
0.00003% of the market. It's a giant
monopoly ruled by just one company. So
it's no wonder the industry is so
corrupt. There are entire industries
like telecoms and credit reporting
agencies that work exclusively with the
American Arbitration Association, this
juggernaut in charge of this monopoly.
So, it's essentially this one company,
AAA, a cartel running the entire
arbitration industry. And so, to
Stephanie Stevens, who filed this
lawsuit, Godspeed. We'll be behind you
every step of the way as you do your
best to bust this cartel. And because
the industry is so monopolized, the
corruption is baked in from the bottom.
Typically, these arbitrators will only
see you, a regular person, once. They'll
see the big boys, these private equity
firms and mega corporations and big law
firms that represent all of them over
and over and over again. And they form
quite cozy relationships. That's because
these arbitrators tend to make
significantly more as arbitrators than
they ever did as judges. At least they
do if they get picked for all these
arbitrations, right? I mean, $500 an
hour is not bad. And if the private
equity firms and corporations don't like
them, they can strike them. So the
paychecks of these arbitrators over time
become directly reliant on being
favorable to their repeat clients. And
their repeat clients are private equity
and corporations. You're just there to
chip in to their next paycheck briefly
while you're bankrupted for the illusion
of having rights. That's also not to
mention that they all have conflicts of
interest in every direction. For
example, Tiffany Siance just got served
another lawsuit last week based on a
different woman's case against Unleash
Brands and Michael Browning Jr. in
another state, which she is not a party
to. That's blatantly illegal, but it's a
story for another time. This is the
disclosure of conflicts made in that
case for her arbitrator, Alan Harris.
Alan Harris, who used to work at the
same law firm and with the lawyers used
by Unleash Brands in the same law office
as Norman Leon, the lawyer that she is
fighting against. So imagine sitting
down in secret court against Michael
Browning Jr. and your judge is the
former coworker of his lawyers and is
paid to be there by him and by you. and
he regularly takes cases for Unleash
Brands against people just like you and
he will continue to take them in the
future. Don't worry, everything's fine,
guys. Patty, the woman being attacked by
Unleash Brands in this case, filed an
objection, but that's really just a
formality. She's forced to go before a
judge, an arbitrator, who is former
colleague of the people taking her down,
who also sees other cases and thereby
relies on a salary from the people
taking her down. But don't worry because
as Harris says that quote will not
affect my ability to serve as a neutral,
unbiased, impartial, and fair
arbitrator. So anyways, back to our
list. We already spoke last week about
children suffering broken bones, broken
spines, fractured skulls, traumatic
brain injuries. One toddler was scalped
at Urban Air theme parks. Most of these
cases were forced into arbitration. The
only ones that weren't were lucky enough
to be attending urban air with someone
other than a parent and thus their
arbitration agreement was a lot harder
to enforce. But now let's talk about
nursing homes and hospitals. In 2011,
the Carile Group, one of the nation's
largest private equity firms, bought HCR
Manorare, one of the biggest nursing
home chains. And in 2018, the Washington
Post published this bombshell about what
that meant for residents. quote, "A
disabled man who had long, dirty
fingernails told them he was tended to
once in a blue moon. The bedside call
buttons were so poorly staffed that some
residents regularly soiled themselves
while waiting for help to the bathroom.
A woman dying of uterine cancer was left
on a bedpan for so long that she
bruised. One man had been dosed with so
many opioids that he had to be rushed to
a hospital, according to the inspection
reports. During an undersupervised bus
trip to church, one staff member was
escorting six patients who could not
walk without help. A resident flipped
backwards on a wheelchair ramp and
suffered a brain hemorrhage. When a
nurse's aid, who should have had a
helper, was trying to lift a parapolgic
woman, the woman fell and fractured her
hip, her head landing on the floor
beneath her roommate's bed. Over that
period, the yearly numbers of health
code violations at company nursing homes
rose from 1584 to almost 2,000. The
number of citations increased for, among
other things, neither preventing nor
treating bed sores, medication errors,
not providing proper care for people who
need special services such as
injections, colostomies, and prosthesis,
and not assisting patients with eating
and personal hygiene. The rise in health
code violations at the chain began after
Carile and investors completed a 2011
financial deal that extracted $1.3
billion from the company for investors,
but also saddled the chain with what
proved to be untenable financial
obligations. According to interviews and
financial documents, under the terms of
the deal, HCR Manorare sold nearly all
of the real estate in its nursing home
empire and then agreed to pay rent to
the new owners. The National Bureau of
Economic Research calculated that over
the 12 years of their study, private
equity ownership of nursing homes were
responsible for
22,500 additional deaths due to cost
cutting and mismanagement. Health
Affairs released a study this year that
found that surgery patients in private
equity owned hospitals are 42% more
likely to die.
42%. Those admitted to hospitals owned
by private equity were an astonishing
25% more likely to get hospitalacquired
conditions. mainly due to falls or
central line associated bloodstream
infections. This is what happens when
businesses that are explicitly and only
profit driven move into sectors like
healthcare, elder care, and children's
services. It's one thing to focus on the
bottom line in banking. It's an entirely
different thing to focus on the bottom
line at the toddler gym or the hospital.
And in case you were wondering, yes,
hospitals and nursing homes do have
arbitration clauses that force you to
sign away, often without knowing it,
your right to sue for medical
malpractice when these things happen.
The trend that private equity is always
at the forefront of. But it's not just
medical malpractice in hospitals and
nursing homes, because private equity is
also buying up the veterinary clinics.
quote, "With too few employees to
transport animals that died in stores,
carcasses allegedly piled up in PetSmart
freezers across the country." One
employee shared a photo that she said
was filled with 2 months worth of dead
animals. Another employee said their
store had a freezer with 10 months. A
third said that for lack of time, she
would simply throw bodies away.
Sometimes I was doing it weekly because
we didn't have staff to take a vet trip
to properly dispose of them. So I was
instructed to dispose of them
myself. Since 2017, private equity firms
have spent $45 billion on the industry.
KKR bought Petv Vet and JAB acquired
National Veterinary Associates while
Shore Capital and Warberg Pinkis
invested in Mission Veterinary Partners
and Bond Vet respectively. Some of these
practices names may be familiar to you,
but most may not be. When individual
offices are sold to private equity
firms, they often retain their old
names. It can be nearly impossible to
know which vets are private equity
owned. But don't let the obscure names
confuse you. About a quarter of general
veterary practices are now owned by
large corporations, including private
equity firms, while about 3/4 of
specialty practices like emergency and
surgery care are. Finally, firms are
tremendously successful at avoiding
legal consequences for their actions. A
problem compounded in the veterinary
industry where clients can recover
little if anything, for the death of
their pets. This encourages a certain
callousness towards workers and
customers as firms know that little will
happen to them if something goes wrong.
Private equity firms can profit even
when their companies decline, their
customers suffer, and your pet dies. And
they didn't go into it in this article,
but if you're not reading between the
lines there yet, the ways those firms
avoid legal consequences that the nation
isn't elaborating on here, arbitration
is a huge part of that. Because you'd
better believe that you've got
arbitration clauses at the vet. Now,
these days, some corporations are even
trying to make an arbitration agreement
transfer over to other parts of their
business, as was attempted by Disney
when a parent died in their park and
they tried to enforce the arbitration
agreement their child had agreed to on
their home TV's Disney Plus account. Our
opening segment about Uber was another
example. In this example here, Wells
Fargo was caught opening sham accounts
in their customers names, often forging
signatures to do so, then claimed that
they forced arbitration agreements from
the real accounts covered these fake
accounts. That's not justice. That's
insane. The American Association for
Justice really summed it up best when
they said, "Forced arbitration has never
been about efficiency or justice. Its
one true goal is, always has been, and
always will be corporate immunity. And
now it's time to get a little deeper
into all the crazy things that Michael
Browning Jr. has used arbitration to do.
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our story about Michael Browning Jr.,
his dream to be a big shot, and his
willingness to do just about anything to
get there. Because in order for you to
really understand the insanity that is
forced arbitration and why we need to do
something about it, it's not enough to
know that you have signed up for this
madness, it's important to know what is
done to regular Americans in these
secret courts and what they could do to
you. We left off last time with the
story of Michael Browning Jr. founding
his business by cannibalizing leap of
faith adventures and forcing Grice into
years of litigation that eventually
bankrupted him. But at that point,
Michael Browning Jr. and his lead
council, Steven Polizola, were just
getting warmed up. So today, we're going
to do a speedrun of how Tiffany Ciance
wound up giving that testimony that we
watched on day one.
You tried to depose me in labor. You
tried to depose me while I was in bed
bleeding.
And I say we're going to speedrun it
partly because there are so many evil
things they are on record doing that we
don't have time for all of it. But
mostly because I want to get all the way
to the part where they hired a felon
with over 80 convictions to forge
documents, intimidate Tiffany, and win a
$2.3 million settlement from her without
her even knowing she had a court date.
And disclaimer, we are going to skip
over a lot of crimes. A lot of lying on
record under oath on the part of Polzola
and Brownie Junior's lawyers. A lot of
heinous stuff right now because a lot of
it is almost unbelievable until you get
a better sense of just how far these
people are willing to go. And by the end
of the story, you'll understand with
documentation that arbitrators are in no
way required to follow the law. That
becomes even more problematic when you
remember that 94% of the industry is
ruled by just this single for-profit
company, AAA. So, now we're going to
rewind to the beginning of Tiffany's
story. Michael Browning Jr. did what he
did to Leap of Faith to transform Urban
Air from a trampoline park into a
worldclass adventure park. And if you
haven't seen our episode about that yet,
there's a link in the description. You
can go check it out after this video.
Now armed with his new private equity
backers, Sidler Equity Partners, Michael
Browning Jr. decided to build a
platform. Since the private equity model
works so well for hospitals, nursing
homes, veterinary clinics, why not go
after the next most vulnerable
population,
children? Why not buy up a family of
franchises that offer education and
enrichment to children and squeeze them
all for all they're worth? What could go
wrong? And seeing as co had just
devastated small businesses all across
the country, it was the perfect time to
buy. And Michael Browning Jr. went on a
spending spree. He acquired Premier
Martial Arts, a martial arts studio that
catered specifically to veterans buying
into the franchise. Class 101 College
Planning, XP League, Snapology, Water
Wing Swim School, Silven Learning that
had never fully recovered from a child
porn scandal that was successfully kept
out of the public eye. Yes, you heard
that right. and of course the little
gym. Now, we could write a whole episode
about what happened at each of those
other businesses, but today we're going
to focus on the little gym because it is
the little gym that will be his
downfall. And that downfall is happening
right now. And it's because of Tiffany
Ciance. Tiffany had bought into the
franchise in 2017 because she wanted to
work where she could give back to her
community and also spend more time with
her kids. The Little Gym, though open to
everyone, is specifically tailored to
help special needs kids thrive through
movement and music. And Tiffany loved
it. Fast forward to CO and Tiffany
suffered one of the longest
governmentmandated shutdowns of anywhere
in the United
States. Fortunately, she had a
supportive landlord who told her
explicitly not to pay rent while she was
closed down. And the little gym, who is
not yet owned by Michael Browning, also
told franchises not to pay their dues
during the shutdown either. I mentioned
that because it will come back later. In
October of 2021, they are told they have
some new people coming on to help advise
them and they have their first group
call with Michael Browning Jr. They're
not told that he's buying the company.
He's just presented as an adviser. And
things get pretty weird pretty fast.
and I'm committed to casting more vision
and and working with your fearless
leader on this, but this is the
direction of the company and we're not
changing our direction. And so I'm
asking you to join us in this journey
and also if this journey is not for you
then I'm happy to have my team help you
exit the system. But from this day
forward, we need unity. And if we find
that we have people either trying to
create disunityity or are not supporting
the vision and the mission, we will help
you exit. Uh because we have so many
amazing things to accomplish and such an
amazing journey ahead that we're just
not going to uh put up with some of the
things that we have been putting up with
lately. Those days are over.
Oh man, Michael Browning Jr. was born
for this. But anyways, when it is
finally announced that Unleash Brands,
Michael Browning Jr.'s Umbrella
Corporation, has bought the little gym,
the changes start rolling in fast. And
at first, presented as harmless little
changes, just standard operating
procedure. There are several, but the
two we're going to focus on are a new
call center they will be all forced to
use and pay for and a new agreement. An
agreement is basically the contract that
governs payments to Michael Browning Jr.
It dictates when, how, and why he can
take money from these small business
owners. It's really important. And
traditionally, they pay only 8% of the
revenue in royalties. That's it. Having
learned his lesson from what he did to
Leap of Faith Adventures, though,
Michael Browning Jr. knows to play it
cool this time. What he doesn't know is
that he's messing with the wrong mom.
Tiffany's husband is a federal attorney,
and Tiffany's pretty dang sharp, too.
And they notice immediately that the new
contract is a death sentence to their
small business. It changes a lot of
things, like this little change that
they hope no one would really notice.
The simple way to put it is whereas they
used to pay only corporate royalties of
up to 8% of the revenue, this new
contract would allow Michael Browning
Jr. to add any fees he dreamed up and
the contract would become subject to
change. Plus, as you can see near the
bottom, if you try to get out of the
contract in the future, they'll kick you
out and take your gym. All sounds a lot
like what happened with Gar Price and
Leap of Faith's agreement with Urban
Air. This was made doubly sketchy by,
among other bad ideas, the call center
that Michael Browning Jr. wanted them
all to sign up for and pay to build and
to staff. Because, you see, if you're a
parent and you signed your special needs
toddler up for toddler gymnastics, you
would probably have to call that gym
from time to time with questions about,
I don't know, the schedule, the
curriculum, the incident involving your
child yesterday, all kinds of stuff. It
should seem obvious that if an underpaid
teenager in a call center four states
away picked up the phone when you
called, that would be problematic to say
the least. But despite all the
franchises loud protests, Michael
Browning Jr. insisted on this call
center. And quickly, the warm suggestion
of the call center turned into what
sounded an awful lot more like threats
and coercions.
Strangely, the contract for the call
center contained a hidden clause that
said it superseded their franchise
agreement. So now both the new agreement
and this GLT agreement are both subject
to change and yet somehow they will also
supersede your franchise agreement which
is the basis of your entire contract
with the parent company. That's an
agreement that you negotiate for months
with your lawyers present. These are
documents that these franchises were
being pressured to sign on the spot on
Zoom calls under threat and coercion. So
Tiffany immediately knew that this was
wrong and after the first four
franchises had been coerced into signing
it under duress, she organized all of
the franchises to stand up to Michael
Browning and refused to sign it. And she
got the first four signatures vacated,
i.e. cancelled, because they had been
signed under duress. This document
became the battle line. And then,
strangely, all the little gym owners
started receiving a ton of calls at odd
hours over spring break from Unleashed
Brance. The calls seemed random and
tended to be during times when they were
closed. And when asked, the caller said
they were just testing the phone lines.
Tiffany smelled what was really going
on, though, and she called it out in
this phone call. Happy hands. Thank you
for calling a little gem. How may I
assist you? Hello, this is Hannah with
Unleash Brands. I'm just calling to test
the phone lines. Hope you have a
wonderful day. Hannah. Hannah, please go
hang out. Sure. You're calling over and
over again to test my phone lines, but
I've never had a problem with my phone
ever. Why are you really calling? Are
you testing us or are you testing phone
lines?
Um, with that, I am literally just given
this as a project. I don't
know. I'm just But why would you call
over? I mean, first of all, we're
supposed to be closed right now. We're
not even supposed to be open. Why would
you call after working hours?
I wish like are you at least checking
people's hours when you're calling to
test if we're answering the phones
because we're on spring break. We're not
even open this week. I just happen to be
here working. My kids are here playing.
But most gyms are closed this week for
spring break. We all follow school
district schedules.
Okay. So, like I just I'm hoping you
guys are at least looking to see your
calling when we're actually supposed to
be here.
Okay. Because I'm sure this is all doing
a great thing for them. I'm sure they're
trying to stack the deck so they can
force us to take the call center, but
none of us want it. We like talking to
our
customers. Like I this sucks. It sucks.
What you guys are doing still shady. It
sucks. And I know that's not your fault.
It's got nothing to do with you, I'm
sure. But it's creating so much
hostility in the ownership community.
You'll notice in this case that there is
so much evidence that we have attained
because Tiffany Siance collected so much
evidence. And that's because she
expected that she might have to go to
court over this. But I just want you to
remember throughout all of this
presentation that almost all of this
evidence was never admitted because she
wasn't in court. She was in secret
arbitration where the arbitrator can
decide if he wants to hear your evidence
or not. So just keep that in mind. But
anyways, seeing what Michael Browning
Jr. was up to, Tiffany organized a
franchisee association, like a union, so
they could all bargain together with
Unleash Brands. And at this point, they
were naively thinking that they could
negotiate a compromise and everything
could turn out all right. But in the
meantime, those who had signed the new
AC contract got a surprise. Suddenly, in
November of 2021, they added tech fees
to be paid to Unleash Brands. Then in
March of 2022, it was royalty fees and
ad fees as well. May it became royalty
fees, marketing fees, tech fees, and oh
yeah, maybe also a conference fees and
some unspecified one-time charges. No
big deal. This is the new private equity
model. You make money off of exploiting
your franchisee small business owners,
not off of helping them run successful
businesses. Meanwhile, the franchises
who had been tricked into signing the
call center agreement were hit with a
bill to build the thing and pay to staff
it themselves. The franchises started to
get the picture. And as Tiffany started
organizing them and hiring a lawyer to
bargain against Unleash Brands, she was
fired. In order to fire her, they had to
fabricate complex reasons that had to do
with payment defaults during co because
she had near 100% customer ratings by
basically all metrics. But seeing as her
husband is a patent and trademark
attorney, as soon as they fired her, she
knew to take down all of her Little Gym
branding immediately. So, they couldn't
get her for trademark violations or
anything else. And she attempted to file
an injunction against Unleash Brands,
but she was double crossed by her lawyer
in a way that would need its own whole
episode. And we'll probably do that
episode at some point later. But Norman
Leon, one of Unleash's attorneys, jumped
in and said, "Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Don't take your trademark branding down
yet. Let's mediate and resolve this. No
need to startle your customers. Surely,
we can come to a resolution here. Worth
noting that at this time, Tiffany had a
broken ankle and foot and was in a boot
with crutches. She had broken her foot,
saving an autistic kid from falling off
a balance beam. That is a true story. So
anyways, Tiffany put back up her
branding and then Norman Leon as soon as
she did sent private investigators
undercover to her gym to take photos of
it with little gym branding up later to
be used in court to claim that she'd
violated their trademarks. You can see
here, quote, "But despite this
affirmation, secret shopper visits on
June 23rd, June 24th, and June 27th
confirmed that defendants continued to
operate da da da da da." And there are
some photos that those private
investigators took. In July of 2022,
Unleash filed for a permanent injunction
against Tiffany in open court. They lost
every single motion in this case over
the course of months. Then right before
the final ruling, which Unleash Brands
was going to lose, they moved to dismiss
the case that they had brought. Tiffany
knew what that meant. It meant they were
going to then take it into arbitration
where they could shop for a friendly
arbitrator that would rule in their
favor. And she objected to dismissing
it. Michael Browning Jr. and his lawyers
had had the benefit of a long court
cases worth of discovery, which is way
more robust in open court than it is in
arbitration. They had bled of
approximately $80,000 and they
successfully got the case that they had
brought and were losing dismissed. All
that money that Tiffany had spent went
down the drain for nothing. And then
what did they do? They took it to
arbitration where the arbitrator
admitted all their evidence and largely
didn't even allow Tiffany to bring her
evidence that they were lying. Yes, you
are hearing that right. Many, many times
throughout her arbitrations, unleashed
lawyers would lie on the stand and
Tiffany would have clear documentation
in her hands that would clearly show
that they are lying and the arbitrator
would not permit her to show that
evidence that was already there in the
courtroom in her hands. Some of that
evidence is what we are referring to has
been shown in this video, but so much
more of the details we've had to skip
over. We already showed you how much
Tiffany was paying for her arbitrator
per hour for the privilege of not having
her constitutional right to a fair
trial. When they brought it to
arbitration, they added a litany of new
charges against Tiffany and they started
the monetary draining process all over
again. This has become something of a
strategy for Unleash Brands. They did
the same thing to the family of a
toddler who was scalped in an accident
at one of their parks. They litigated in
open court for 465 days before trying to
dismiss the case and flush all that
money down the drain in order to open a
case in arbitration against them.
However, fortunately, that boy's family
appealed it up to the superior court,
which eventually held that the case had
to stay in open court. Anyways,
Tiffany's arbitration lasted over a
year. It cost her anywhere from $500 to
$600,000. They brought 11 claims against
her. Most were ultimately dismissed.
Tiffany won on defamation that unleashed
had defamed her because they claimed she
was calling her customers cwords and
b-words to their faces. This one's a
crazy rabbit hole. Real quick, the
evidence they produced was a photo taken
by one of Tiffany's former employees of
an online comment which they alleged
showed Tiffany saying these things to
her customers. Apparently, Tiffany had
left her Facebook open at the gym on a
day when no one else was in the building
and this employee just happened to see
it. Forget the fact that Tiffany had
been paying that girl's phone bills
since co out of the goodness of her
heart and had her whole iCloud backed up
to Tiffany's phones, showing that she
was off at college that week taking
photos with her friends. or the fact
that she had the work schedule of the
girl showing that she was not scheduled
that week, or the photo she had of
herself in the gym that day playing with
kids, or the text messages from that
employee saying she had finals that week
and needed the whole week off. Long
story short, it was a doctorred photo of
a madeup message thread or comment, and
the former employee seemed to get a new
car and cash infusion into her life
right after she testified. Who knows
where it came from, but that's the sort
of conduct that permeated the case.
Fortunately, the arbitrator had no
choice but to rule in Tiffany's favor on
that defamation. Unleash Brands won on
the breach of contract. They claimed
that Tiffany had breached her contract
years ago when she hadn't paid royalties
way back during co despite the fact that
she had been told at the time not to.
When Michael Browning had bought the
company, they had tried to coers her
into signing this new AC contract by
holding these back fees over her head
and saying they would offer her a
payment plan only if she signed it.
Instead, she took out a huge loan on her
house and paid them all down at once.
You can see in the bottom right corner
the total amount paid is
$30,1605. But somehow the arbitrators
still ruled nearly a year after she had
paid them and Unleash Brands had
accepted that payment that this was a
breach of contract and grounds to fire
her over. Even though at the time many
other franchises were still paying those
same fees off. Tiffany was the only
franchisee ever punished for not paying
royalties during co when they had all
been told not to. And in order to win
legal fees from Tiffany, the rules
stated that Unleashed had to win one
more count than her. So, they needed
another win and the arbitrator
miraculously ruled in favor of Unleash
Brands over trade dress, meaning that
Tiffany's new gym looked too much like a
little gym. But there's some important
context here briefly. Tiffany's husband
specializes in patent and trademark. The
law is very specific. You have to file
specifically for trade dress protection
if you want to be able to bring this
claim against someone. And the little
gym has never filed for trade dress
protection. Furthermore, it's extremely
difficult to get trade dress protection
because it's designed to protect very
specific like packaging trademarks or
the entire branding of a business that
sells a service. It it's very technical
and very specific and you have to have
filed for it, which they never had. And
again, I remind you that arbitrators are
not required to follow the law. Ruling
for unleash brands in trade dress
violation that they didn't have
protection for would be like Microsoft
suing you for using an Android phone.
It's nonsensical. There's not even a
frame of reference. And it sounds
impossible, but Unleash Brands was just
getting warmed up because during the
arbitration that lasted over a year,
Tiffany started talking to the press. An
article came out in the Washingtonian,
the Franchise Times, and the New York
Times ran a Sunday cover story on her.
And oh boy, did that make Michael
Browning Jr. big mad. That's where we
wound up with this whole email chain
where unleash lawyers coerced Tiffany
into having an abortion under threat of
lawfare. And we won't go into all of it,
but today, let's just zoom in on one or
two emails from Laura Sixkiller, Michael
Browning Jr.'s lawyer, and see what she
had to say.
quote, "We respectfully ask that we see
all available dates for the procedures,
abortions, so that we can be assured
that they have selected the earliest
date feasible. This procedure has been
being discussed with Mrs. Yiance since
January 5th, 25 days ago. If it can be
scheduled this week, it should be. Given
she had her deposition scheduled, she
should have a clear
calendar." I'm not going to read the
whole text up top of this email. You can
if you want, but I want to draw your
attention to the note in red at the
bottom. That's not in the original
email. It's a note added from Tiffany
onto this email to give some context
here. So, in Tiffany's words, quote,
Laura Sixkiller stated that if I failed
to continue producing by end of day or
if I failed to schedule the abortion
procedure by end of day, she would file
a sanctions motion. These motions cost
more than $10,000 to defend, and a loss
on one can result in tens of thousands
in legal penalties. We were out of money
and we had stated so because we I had
been out of work all month. Laura
Sixkiller, Michael Browning's attorney,
repeatedly asked Tiffany to produce
financial documents that she knew only
Tiffany could acquire while she was
losing her baby. This forced Tiffany to
get up out of bed while bleeding and
drive to the bank, which she did. This
is how we wind up with footage from
Tiffany's deposition weeks after an
abortion she didn't want in which her
body reacted badly and she suffered a
rare complication which caused her body
to stay in labor for weeks after the
procedure. She was still in labor and
having contractions while on the stand
and testifying in this clip. You thought
that me bleeding baseball sized
baseball-sized blood clots and having
contractions 2 minutes apart wouldn't be
too stressful for me in that state. And
you thought I should be deposed for 18
hours.
And that pretty much brings us up to
where they hired a felon who is
currently out on parole and awall to
forge documents or at least to allegedly
forge documents. Although we are
skipping the part where Michael Browning
Jr. tried to send Tiffany and her
husband both to prison because she was
volunteering to teach kids music classes
during all this and he had a non-compete
agreement saying she wasn't allowed to
work in toddler gyms for 2 years. Yes,
Michael Browning Jr. wanted to send a
mom and dad with young children both to
prison for the crime of volunteering to
teach kids music classes. And yes, I
said her husband too because as they
argued, he failed to control his wife
and so he was also guilty. This charge
was obviously an empty threat. A judge
would have to be as brain dead and evil
as Michael Browning Jr. to grant such a
charge. But they tried. But anyways, at
the end when the arbitration was
finished, there is a short waiting
period before it's affirmed in court.
and it becomes a mandate by law and the
parties of the arbitration have to abide
by that ruling after that. Michael
Browning Jr. didn't want any chance of
Tiffany appealing or challenging the
ruling. So, just by coincidence, they
happened to hire the only process server
in the state with over 80 prior
convictions, the vast majority of which
were for fraud and forging documents.
I'm not kidding. This is his wrap sheet.
Oh, yeah. He also had one prior for
animal abuse, a few for evading police
custody, lying to police, using forgery
and furtherance of other crimes. While
we were digging around to film this
episode, we even found a video on
YouTube about Joe Horton that was just
too funny. Check this out. Frank McGrath
has spent more than a decade building
his business. His Papa Lock franchise
has won awards for customer service. So
to see someone messing with his
reputation is very tough to take. See,
after everything we've built here over
the years, and uh to have someone just
discredit the name is just atrocious.
But that someone is no stranger. Mr.
Horton, haven't you learned your lesson?
You've already been to court for this.
It's Joe Horton, a Pasadena locksmith
we've been monitoring for months. The
attorney general knows him well,
charging him with overcharging
customers. But Frank knows Joe, too. He
says he trained Horton on how to be a
locksmith. It'd be nice to say that we
never hired him and never met him, but
uh unfortunately that's not the
circumstance. McGrath says Horton worked
for him for two years between 2004 and
2006. He eventually quit after Frank
says he called Joe out for jacking up
prices against policy. Horton moved out
of state and went off their radar for a
couple of years. But when he returned
and opened his own locksmith business,
the McGraths were shocked when
complaints started rolling into their
office. I started getting calls on this.
They got calls because Horton is now
tied to McGrath's business through the
internet. If you Google Pasadena and
Locksmith, Papa Lock comes up, but it's
Horton's phone number.
Bro literally stole the identity of a
locksmithing company and then used it to
defraud a bunch of people. Wow.
Anyways, here are three examples of
forged documents certifying that he had
served documents to Tiffany Ciance and
her husband when he hadn't. In some
cases where he would later describe
talking to her on her front porch when
she was clocked in at work at the time.
And here are letters mailed to the
incorrect address so that just by
chance, Tiffany would not know she
needed to appear in court to defend
herself at the most critical part in the
trial when it is ruled on in court. It's
just a coincidence that this is the guy
that they hired for this part of the
story when their law firm DLA Piper has
their own process server in house. Let
me say that again. They have their own
guy that they normally pay to go serve
people documents, but then for these
ones, just those ones, they decide to go
hire this
dude.
Right? So, to summarize how insane this
is, suddenly, despite having been
serving Tiffany at her real address all
the way up till now, they just
accidentally mailed all the notices of
this part of this hearing to the wrong
address.
Whoopsies. Meaning that Tiffany never
received notice that they were about to
rule on her case in court. She never
received a summon to court, but a whole
bunch of forged documents made it to
court, making it appear as though she
had been served and received notice and
just chosen not to show. It's a miracle
that Tiffany ever even figured out what
they had done and found out who this guy
is and found his wrap sheet and was
eventually able to appeal the ruling and
keep fighting. They did this to one of
the other moms who was a little gym
owner who they are litigating against
right now also because she stood up for
Tiffany and the franchises. This is the
shipping label for the same types of
documents at the end of that woman's
arbitration, just like in Tiffany's. And
that address is not her address. It's a
feature, not a bug. They do it at this
specific point in the proceedings
because this isn't just any old hearing.
This is where the arbitration becomes
law. And Tiffany or this other woman,
Patricia, are supposed to argue what the
damages will be. In Tiffany's case,
because she didn't show up to defend
herself because she didn't know she
needed to, she wound up having to pay
all of Unleash Brand's legal fees to
date. That totaled out to about $2.3
million. And it's not like Unleashed
couldn't afford their legal fees. They
were the ones that drew it out so long
and made it all so expensive. They were
the ones who brought the case in the
first place. No, the point was to take
everything that Tiffany owned, and they
did. Because Tiffany didn't find out
what had happened until way later, and
she didn't uncover who this serial felon
was until later. And in the meantime,
Michael Browning Jr. got his ruling,
seized Tiffany's bank accounts, and put
a lean on her house, thinking that he'd
finally won. But Michael Browning Jr.
messed with the wrong mom because
Tiffany's still fighting to this day.
Michael Browning Jr. and his lawyers
just filed a new case against her days
after our first episode came out, which
is awfully coincidental timing. if you
ask me. So, Michael, since I know you're
watching, and seeing as you don't seem
to understand how this works, let me
explain it to you. You're digging your
hole deeper. You don't seem to grasp who
Tiffany is. I've had the privilege of
getting to know her over the last year
as I've been working on this story. And
if Tiffany is one thing, she's a
fighter. She's the fiercest mom you're
ever going to meet. And that is a force
that no amount of money, no amount of
lawfare, no amount of persecution is
ever going to defeat. And you had your
day in your secret court system where
the deck was stacked in your favor and
you could get away with just about
anything you could dream up. But now
we're in a different court, the court of
public opinion. And while your secret
arbitration courts may have been okay
with what you've done, I thought we'd
share your paper trail with your
customers, with your franchises, and
perhaps most importantly with your
private equity buddies and the
International Franchise Association.
Something tells me they won't be so
thrilled about the unwanted spotlight
that you're shining on the whole scheme.
I'm sure that plenty of you folks at the
IFA are watching, too. And don't worry,
we'll probably wind up doing an episode
all about you two soon enough because oh
boy, do we have receipts. But
ultimately, the most horrible part of
this whole story is that this is just
Tiffany's story. And she's far from the
only one. Over a million disputes are
settled in arbitration per year in
America. And you'd better believe that
other people are getting similar
treatment. You might get the same
treatment yourself someday, too. if you
have an accident at a birthday party or
get in the wrong Uber or put your
parents in the wrong nursing home or
rent from the wrong property manager
because America is already slipping
away. Our rights are already slipping
away. Our justice system is already
being replaced by secret courts and most
of us are too distracted by our Twitter
and Instagram feeds to even notice. You
guys have been sharing some wild stories
in the comments, and we're about to get
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let's read some of your comments from
our previous episodes because they are
awesome. Zeppelin Pots says, "Man, it's
been years since I seen real
investigative journalism." Great job,
Porn Stash. Thanks,
bro. The True Spiracy says, "Did I care
about the Baldonian Blake saga prior to
Candice?" No. Do I care now? Absolutely.
We stand with cousin Baldoni. Did I care
about what Leap of Faith versus Urban
Air was doing in their little spoiled
brat prior to Ian? No. Do I care now?
Absolutely. We are coming for you, Jr.
Love the vibe. That's exactly how I
feel. Jackie Wheeler says, "I noticed
Urban Air has their comments on social
media turned off. That means they fear
the public backlash. You're making a
difference." Yeah, if you go and scroll
their public social media feeds, you'll
notice some pretty funny things about
how many comments apparently exist, how
many comments actually exist, and which
ones have made it through the blocks.
That's all I'll say. Juliana Dryden
says, "My husband and I work for Urban
Air on and off for five plus years.
Wouldn't recommend any parent risk their
child's safety there. Can't wait to see
this episode." Yeah, we've gotten a lot
of testimonials about Urban Air in the
comments. You can scroll them for
yourself. I think we have one or two
more coming up
here. Income Serge says, "I worked in
the industry FEC for 5 years and
periphery and peripherally sold to
Michael Browning Jr. He was known among
vendors as an absolute a-hole, a
nightmare client and was to be avoided
at all costs. One of Urban Airirs,
Unleash Brands' franchises, contacted my
company to buy an attraction, and
Michael sent our company a stern a stern
cease and desist letter, even though we
simply replied to the franchisees
inquiry. This guy was a piece of work
and walked around trade shows like he
was God's gift to the industry. I hope
he gets what he deserves. That's crazy,
dude. Thanks for sharing your
experience. One shower thought said, "I
work in patent law. This is all so
illegal. He could win big time if he
finds a patent attorney willing to do
pro bono. Most large firms have a quota.
They try to reach for pro bono. Hey,
that's about uh episodes from last time
when we were talking about what he did
to Leap of Faith Adventures. I'd be very
curious for any attorneys out there to
comment on this episode about what you
just saw. Just saying. Jennifer Slatten
says they are doing this with hospitals.
Private equity buys a hospital, makes
them sell their land and the hospital,
and then they lease it back at
exorbitant rental rates and bankrupt the
hospital. Yeah, funny that. We just
talked about hospitals. Jennifer is on
top of
it. Delina Young says, "My son used to
work for Urban Air in Florida. He was a
manager and said, "This business is so
dang unsafe and finally had to quit
because of the amount of children who
got hurt daily and the place never fixed
or replaced damaged, unsafe equipment."
He said it was horrible and will not
allow his child to go to one. Yeah,
dang. Straight. That's the thing about
these crazy adventure parks is that they
have all these crazy rides and they're
designed to be like dangerous crazy
experiences and if they're not staffed
correctly or built correctly or
maintained correctly, you're like
literally sending your child into a
giant meat grinder.
Allegedly, the true spiracy says, "Sigh
remove shrimp from cart. Did I ever care
where my food came from?" No. Will I now
make conscious decisions when shopping
for anything? Absolutely. Thank you,
Ian, for shedding light on these
horrendous topics, giving the invisible
ones a voice. The shrimp spiracy was
crazy. I had no idea what I was walking
into when we started that episode. And
by the end, the shrimp slavery
conspiracy is like one of my all-time
favorite most evil conspiracies on the
planet. Definitely check that episode
out if you haven't already seen
it. Influence fashion says, "I am
Burmese. Slavery in Thailand is real.
Burmese people are suffering most
because of their immigration status in
Thailand and difficult to get help.
Thank you for shedding light for the
cruelty of fishing industry in Thailand.
Thank you for your comment. It's it's
really humbling. It's important to note
that like I laugh a lot during these
episodes because sometimes you have to
laugh through how tragic these are, but
the ultimate reality is that these are
humans suffering on the other end of
these stories. These are kids getting
hurt. These are actual people being sold
into slavery. And so it's really
meaningful to hear from people like this
that can actually speak to the
difference that speaking about this can
make. And I wish the best for that guy
or girl. Simone Barton says, "My husband
is a chemist whose job was once to test
baby food and formula for heavy metals.
Mamas, do yourself a favor and breast
milk if you can and buy the baby food
blender kits and make your own. Yes, if
you haven't seen what we did about baby
food last time, oh boy, they are
poisoning your babies.
Nuna
Bint Nuna Bitnes says, "Candice
consistently ahead of the curve. Gets
the one person who could keep my
attention when she takes time off for
her baby." Brilliant. Thank you, Nuna.
To be clear, there's lots of great
people out here in this industry. I'm
just another dude. But it is humbling to
have this opportunity and it means a lot
to be able to live up to some of your
expectations. Try my best, working hard
to do crazy digs, and to keep y'all
having fun while Candace takes good care
of Baby Roman, who by the way, we did
see today. Baby Roman is awesome. He's
very little. He's very cute and he's
doing great. So is Candace. She'll
obviously be giving you lots more
updates as these weeks go on. And
finally, Gdub says, "Ian, I have to say
I was hesitant from what I've heard on
media about you, but they're all wrong.
You're chill, down to earth, and
hardworking. Love to see people like you
start to get the credit they deserve for
all the hard work you've been doing. I'm
now going to start following you, too.
Keep it up, champ." Thanks, man. Uh
people like me get a lot of things said
about us on the internet in every
direction. I am both owned by Qar and by
Israel. I'm now a cabalist. All the
things in between. The truth of the
matter is that I am literally just a
dude who has done this all on my own
with no team until now. I mean, I've
worked with lots of great people. I've
met so many wonderful people in the
industry and I would not be where I am
without people like Candace Owens being
supportive and being awesome. But
ultimately, it's you guys, the fans back
at home that are just so cool to work
for, to work with. Um, so it's really
humbling to get comments like that. I
appreciate it. But anyways, that's our
show for today. We'll pick back up later
this week. Um, don't forget to like this
video. Don't forget to subscribe to
Candace's channel. Mine is linked in the
description below if you want to connect
with Tiffany. We'll also link something
of hers down below. Um, share this with
all of your friends so they can all know
what's going on, so they don't get
sucked into these traps as well. and
stay safe. It's a dangerous world out
there. Have a great night, friends, and
we'll see you tomorrow.
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