John Moore on the Blake Lively / Justin Baldini controversy

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above 15 seconds. That's all it takes to completely change everything. I'm so sorry. Time to talk to John Moore, John. That's a clip of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in a movie called It Ends With Us. And those two are involved in a real mess, a real legal war is only beginning with those two. What's going on there?

Well, that's the question I found myself wondering this week. I'm sure you have seen as I have all these accounts of these two people being in dispute, all kinds of lawsuits. And I keep thinking, I don't even know what this is about. But blank lively says that Justin Baldoni sexually abused her while she was shooting while they were shooting. It ends with us.

he says that he's been slandered and uh... he's actually suing the new york times for get this two hundred and fifty million dollars he says it was a total slime job put together against him at a bunch of publicists but the allegation is that when he was caught

you know, in a compromising position, he got a whole bunch of publicists to gang up on Blake Lively. And all of this I find really bizarre because I don't know why anybody would pick a fight with Blake Lively in the first place. She's married to one of the most powerful guys in show business these days, Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, absolutely. Keeping her on that. You know what my wife Lorena is keeping her eye on, John, when I go to bed early, because I've been doing the morning show for the last couple of weeks, she's been watching one episode a night of the second season of Squid Game, and she says she's loving it.

She's loving it. So everybody is loving it, apparently. Squid Game Season 2 is a smash for Netflix. For those not familiar with the show, it's a Korean show where it's about a show, actually. And competitors are actually killed as part of it. And they're all in this huge bid to be the last person standing and win the money. The show was released on Boxing Day, Ken. It's number one in 90.

two countries and they've already greenlit a season three. Well, not surprised. Yeah, hugely popular. What's the latest on Meghan Markle? She back online? Well, she posted a video of herself prancing on the beach and writing 2025 or 2025 in the sand. And now it looks like she's finally going ahead with a TV show for Netflix. It's going to be a lifestyle show. And apparently it will, quote, blend practical how-tos with candid conversation.

In the pilot, she harvests honey and ice is a cake. And she says, we're not in the pursuit of perfection. We're in the pursuit of joy. And so it's very much in the Martha Stewart and maybe a slight bit into the Gwyneth-Paul Troe pocket. I'm not sure if it's going to work. I find it remarkable how Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were like the glamour couple and they were the future of Netflix and the future of American British entertainment. And then everybody just turned on them.

and threw in with the royals. One last one before I let you go. Apparently there's this guy who put together a thread of predictions that were made about 2025, but he did this back in 1925.

Well, he didn't, it's, he went through newspapers and did image captures from 1925. But yeah, his name is Paul Freire, and he's at the University of Calgary. So they said in 1925 by 2025, we would live wirelessly. Humans would live 250 years. Okay, maybe not.

I love this one. Giant airplanes will fly 50 people at a time between London and Paris in a matter of hours. Smoking will be a thing in the past, which is kind of an interesting prediction, because back in the 20s, smoking was sophisticated. And how about this? Books will be printed on nickel leaves that are capable of holding 30,000 pages. So I guess if you want to be sort of a futurist, you could say that's a computer chip. All right. I'm looking into the future, and you're coming back Monday morning. How's that?

I am. John, have a great weekend. You too. You too.