Why I Still Listen To R. Kelly and Michael Jackson | Ep. 60

So a lot of people ask me what types of music I like, especially when I work out in the morning, I'm always posting on Instagram my morning workouts. And the truth is, I have an eclectic taste when it comes to music, but I gotta be honest, I listen to a lot of Michael Jackson, because who doesn't love Michael Jackson's music? Hey pretty baby with the high heels on. Yeah, you wanna dance to that right now. If you listen to it right now, that nice beat in the background. Which brings us to the question of the day, guys. Should we throw out the art with the artist? I'm gonna give you guys my opinion on that. Plus, quick little update for you, the Cambridge Dictionary has officially changed the definition of man and woman. Yep, all that and more today, coming up on Candice Owens. ♪ I'm starting with the man in the mirror. ♪ Yeah, I know you love that song, it's cool. You wanna sing the rest of the lyrics. I have to admit, I grew up on Michael Jackson's music. This is like a big thing in black households in particular. I feel, and by the way, I know you're gonna say, oh Candice, I grew up differently, don't discriminate. A lot of white people in the 80s grew up with a lot of Madonna's music, her entire catalog. She's a disaster today. I grew up with Michael Jackson's music in a black household. We watched the Michael Jackson movie about his upbringing and his terrible father. So he meant a lot, and also his music is free and his dancing is just fantastic, was fantastic. And so this brings us to the question of whether or not we should separate the art from the artist. And I was thinking about this because I do. I do separate the art from the artist. I still listen to Michael Jackson, despite the fact that he had a bunch of charges brought against him before his death. And people immediately think, when you have any charges or when you get into trouble, we should be dumping all of his music. This tends to be the way that people think today about a lot of people. In fact, a couple of years ago, as I was finishing up my college degree, we had to write a paper. The professor wanted us to weigh in on Kevin Spacey. And we had to give our opinion and create a sound argument for whether or not we should throw out Kevin Spacey's art, meaning all of his movies. Should Netflix get rid of all of his movies? Should they all come together and say, no more Kevin Spacey, because of all of the allegations against him? And by the way, the allegations are plentiful. I'm gonna take you through some of them. It's been alleged that Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance on somebody, the last name Rapp, when he was just 14 years old. An anonymous man also accused Spacey of grooming him when he was 17 years old. Justin Dawes claimed that Spacey gave him alcohol and played gay pornography when he was just 16 years old. An anonymous American filmmaker said that Spacey sexually harassed him on a movie set. Filmmaker Tony Montana said Spacey quote-unquote grabbed my whole package at a Los Angeles bar. British bartender Chris Nixon claimed that Spacey quote-unquote grabbed my penis during an after party. So yes, a lot of men, and there are more, have come forward and basically said this guy is a creep and it's been an abuse of power. And this is what our professor wanted us to debate, whether or not that means we should throw out all of his movies. And I argued in favor of keeping all of Kevin Spacey's movies and the entire catalog of all of his work on Netflix and every other application because the truth is is that if you punished Kevin Spacey, I mean what a slippery slope we would have. I think a bigger question would be would there be any art remaining if we judged all of the artists based on their actions? But also the slope is slippery because then you penalize other people that had nothing to do with it. How many other actors were involved in Kevin Spacey's movies? What about the producers, the interns that were on the sets, the other actresses that were involved in these movies, the writers who received awards because they wrote amazing things, right? You're gonna punish all of those people because you want to condemn, rightfully condemn Kevin Spacey and his actions? I don't know if that really sits right with me. The answer is that it doesn't. At least I argued that in a paper. And these aren't the only two people that this debate keeps coming up with, R. Kelly in particular. Now I'm gonna be honest, I did not watch the documentary pertaining to R. Kelly, and I've heard that it is absolutely hideous. I also know that a lot of the women that were in that documentary who made allegations are now going back on their words and saying that they were told to say certain things. But I think there's been a consensus that R. Kelly is at least kind of very guilty in terms of his actions against young women. And he was sentenced to 30 years in prison in July of 2022 following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Stemming from his efforts over the years to use his fame to ensnare victims that he sexually abused. Now, over the weekend, because my phone was on shuffle, my music was on shuffle, an old R. Kelly song came up. It was a duet between him and Celine Dion. I listened to it. At no point while I was listening to this music did I think, oh, I should stop listening to it because R. Kelly is a really bad person. It was just a really beautiful duet that they did that sort of actually made me nostalgic because I was younger when it came out and it made me think about my childhood. And there is something special about music that it brings you back to the place where you actually were when you first heard that song. Maybe the person you were dating when you were thinking of that song when it first came out, that there's something very beautiful about music. You don't really think about the artist ever actually when you're listening to their music. You somehow apply that music into your own life. And you go, oh yeah, that reminds me of when I was in high school and we were drinking underage and we were all outside. A lot of old country music brings me back to those moments. And so, no, I didn't cut away from it. I listened to the entire song and I enjoyed it. By the way, in case you haven't seen this, and this is also why the topic has been on my mind pertaining to Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, the World Jewish Congress recently came out and urged the music streaming platforms, Apple Music and Spotify, to remove Ye's music catalogs from their platforms due to his anti-Semitic remarks. The World Jewish Congress president, his name is Ronald Lauder, wrote a letter that both companies continuing to offer West's music on their platform means that they are profiting off of Jewish hate. And so he wants the entire catalog removed. And I thought, that is absolutely the wrong answer. Of course that's the wrong answer. If you yourself do not want to listen to Ye's music, you have every right to remove his catalog. I've done that to certain artists. I never want to hear their music ever again, right? Usually because of some horrible political perspectives that they had and I've never listened to their music in the first place, but you can tell your Apple catalog that you don't want to hear it as it shuffles through and suggests music to you, right? But the idea that other people shouldn't have the option to hear the music, the idea that there should be any organization that should establish who we have a right to transact with, what music we have a right to listen to, no, I always go back to the individual. We have to have the ability to discern by ourselves and to make individual opinions and to say, I as an individual no longer want to listen to R. Kelly. And the truth is, by the way, he's recently released a new album from prison, which is suspect to me. The truth is that I wouldn't listen to R. Kelly's new music because of his charges. But his old music feels like a piece of my childhood. So yeah, I can transform. That maybe is a very nuanced opinion. Yeah, I listened to it in the past, but I wouldn't listen to it going forward. That's my perspective, right? There's a lot of, by the way, Alec Baldwin. Alec Baldwin actually killed somebody. And it's absolutely despicable that he hasn't faced any charges because of this. And it really is a sign of his remarkable privilege. But if I was watching an old film and Alec Baldwin was in it, I wouldn't suddenly turn it off. I don't think I would. No, in fact, I'm pretty sure recently I watched a film and I went, I didn't even realize Alec Baldwin was in this. And it was an old film and I just allowed it to play. Same can be said, by the way, for a lot of people who are feeling rightfully passionate against Balenciaga. I will never purchase a Balenciaga product in the future. That is just the truth. But I own a pair of sweatpants from Balenciaga and I don't see the reason why I would just throw them in the garbage. They were actually expensive. I'd rather give them away than to throw them into the garbage because I paid for that product. But yeah, now Balenciaga to me is something that I wouldn't purchase into the future. So anyways, I'm having this conversation because I do think that when we start saying that we should just no longer just completely associate the art with the artist, I think the slope gets very slippery. And I think that it penalizes people that are around that person who have nothing to do with them. Kanye wrote a lot of Beyonce's music. Does Beyonce get punished now because of things that Kanye West said? That doesn't really seem right. Alec Baldwin has been in so many movies with so many actresses and so many great directors and musicians involved in those films. Do we penalize them? I don't think it's the right solution. I think we, again, should be able to make those decisions on an individual basis. And yeah, I'm starting with the man in the mirror. It's just, it's a banger and it's gonna stay on my phone. And that's all I have to say about that. I really hope you can skip this ad. 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Sam Brinton has been fired after his multiple luggage theft charges. And the Post reached out to the agency for comment, and the agency actually came back and said, we don't normally comment on issues pertaining to personnel. But yes, I think it was actually too much pressure. It's the most ridiculous scandal ever, obviously, because, like I said, if we had just obviously discriminated against somebody who looks crazy, you know, if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. If it looks like a crazy person and it acts like a crazy person, it probably is, in fact, a crazy person. And for some reason, as our society keeps wanting to aspire to some idea where we just accept everything, it's just all about acceptance, and we should accept everybody, and we should no longer discriminate against anything. And as I told you guys earlier this week, I discriminate, it's important that we continue to discriminate against crazy people, especially crazy people that are receiving our tax dollars. So goodbye to Sam Brinton. My director had a good joke, he decided that Sam Brinton was too much baggage for the Department of Energy. So there you go, a nice Sam Brinton joke. Moving on, you guys, I can believe this has happened. Something that has driven me crazy, I don't know if you guys have noticed this as well, just in terms of the websites that I normally read, they are starting to use the desired pronouns of individuals, right? So I'll be reading an article, and rather than saying Sam Brinton, they'll say they said, referring to Sam Brinton, which is completely ridiculous because you should say he said, right? And that's how it starts. It's a small corrosion. It means that we start getting on our knees for the crazy people. And this should not be allowed. You should not work for any organization that is telling you that you have to use pronouns like they, them, zims, or zees, or whatever it is, whatever people are calling themselves. I don't like it whatsoever. It's happening, and it's even worse, guys. Cambridge Dictionary has officially changed the definition of man and woman. They've got an update. We knew that this was coming, and it has officially arrived. The definition of a woman now states an adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth. I'm sorry, what? You just actually eradicated women. You just said, you're no longer, there's nothing different or special about you. Now a person can put on heels and say they're a woman, and they're the exact same person as you. Where on earth are the feminists? The feminists that were, where are the people that showed up at the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, right, and told us that him being confirmed would set women's rights back? The Yale University that busts down to all the women who are screaming outside of the courthouse that were interrupting his confirmation process? Where are all of those rabid women now? Where are they? Are they going to be marching at Cambridge University, presumably? Are they, wherever the dictionary comes together, whatever printing press is taking care of the Cambridge University dictionary, are they going to be marching and saying, no, actually, this is the erasure of women? It's actually here, feminists, that moment that was bubbling up when you kept talking about the patriarchy, but you called everything a patriarchy, and it was a ghost that you were chasing? Well, guess what? Now the ghost is actualized. It's actualized. They have decided that you are no longer special, and that a man can put on a pair of heels and some pantyhose and some lipstick, which is, of course, just a caricature of what it means to be a woman, and they can decide that they are you. They did it. The men won this. If you're talking about the invisible patriarchy, it's transgenderism, okay? It is men believing that they are women, openly mocking women by frolicking in the woods in heels and going on a TikTok and being awarded awards that should go to actual women. These are people that are essentially in Halloween costumes, right, who have maybe watched Clueless on reruns for too long and decided that this is what all women must act like, and therefore, I'm now a woman because I'm wearing a wig, and I'm saying, like, totally, like, cool. Like, oh my God, I'm, like, afraid of bugs. Like, whatever. Yeah, they won. So I am just asking, where are all of the feminists at? Let me guess, you're not gonna say anything because you were never actually feminists at all. In fact, everything that you ever fought for, in fact, helped men when you told women to take off their clothes to be seen. Do you think men have a problem with that? Do you think men care about taking a woman and saying, I'm just gonna be naked, it's freedom? Yeah, I think they're cool with you having your boobs out. That tends to be okay with men. They don't care about that. When you said, oh, it's about sexual freedom and women can have tons of partners. Yeah, I think men were cool with that. Yeah, they're happy to sleep with you and have no further relations with you. Feminists who were fighting for that. Oh, it's all about my boobs being out and me being able to sleep with who I want, just like a man. And then when you guys fought for, women should go to work too. Yeah, I think men were cool with that. You just earning money and allowing men to sit on the couch. Yeah, I think that was something that you guys fought for that they thought was pretty chill. Yeah, and then, of course, you guys got on board with the transgender. The transgender is actually a perfect way to say it. I misspoke there, but yeah, the transgender you guys got on board with. Everybody can be a woman. Now, the definition of what it means to be a woman is gone. It's been edited, which means the women no longer exist. So kudos to all of you feminists who are probably going to be quiet now because everything that you have ever fought for is exactly this moment. If you owe back taxes to the IRS or have unfiled returns, now is the time to take action. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act is funding $80 billion to the IRS. The government is weaponizing the IRS by hiring 87,000 more agents. This plan will boost tax collections against the American people like we've never seen before. Tax Network USA is an A-plus rated tax firm ready to fight for you. Their attorneys and tax professionals have saved over $500 million in back taxes, and they can help you quickly settle your tax issue regardless of how complex it may be. Click the link in the description or visit taxnetworkusa.com slash Candace. That's taxnetworkusa.com slash Candace to learn more. Moving on from this story, I've been noticing this weird thing. That weird thing are people that are losing their jobs for ridiculous reasons. I guess I should call this bizarre hills to die on, right? If you're like, I'm gonna die on this hill, it shouldn't be something that is just so pointedly ridiculous. And there are two stories where people have, in fact, died on weird hills. So there was a Pennsylvania school board treasurer who openly said that there was an excellent candidate for president of the school board, but she wouldn't vote for him because he was a cis white male. You guys know the truth, right? Obviously, everyone's talking about racism everywhere except for where it is, right? Just like the trans agenda. Everybody's talking about the erasure of women everywhere except for where it actually is. And this is a similar story in the exact same vein. We talk about racism, but we refuse to talk about it as it pertains to white straight men, who I think are treated hideously in society. There's something wrong with you if you're white and you're straight and you're a male. So you better problematize yourself by saying that you're gay or that you're trans or something like that. Well, this woman just came right out and said it. She's like, you would be perfect for this job, but for the fact that you are white. Take a listen to her in her own words. Having said that, I believe that Mr. DeLeo would make an excellent president. However, I feel that electing the only cis white male on this board, president of this district, sends the wrong message to our community. A message that is contrary to what we as a board have been trying to accomplish. I think that it's important that we practice what we preach and that our words have strength when they are spoken, whether we speak them from the neighborhood sidewalks or from behind these tables. Mrs. Stainback has done an exemplary job as president these last few months, and the strength of her performance has earned her my vote tonight. You know what I like so much about that clip is that she can tell she really worked on that. Like she thought this was her MLK moment. She thought this was like her MLK, I have a dream speech. She's like, I think it's important that we practice what we preach. And what we preach is racism. And I'm going to explain to you why I'm going to do a racist thing and judge him by the color of his skin and by his gender, and instead vote for somebody else, even though he is overqualified and he should be the person. And so, yeah, she voted for Ms. Stainback over Mr. Delia. Mr. Delia, by the way, is a father of three who previously served as an area school director and during previous races had the backing of area Democrats eight to one. And then this woman realized that he was white. And of course, after she gave this, I have a dream that people should be more racist speech, people were rightfully upset and they called her sexist and racist and called it a tirade, which is in fact what it was, even though it sounded nice, it's just a racist attack on this man. And they called for her to resign. And guess what? She did. So that woman's name is Jennifer Sollett, by the way, Jennifer Sollett. That was a very weird pill to die on. And I bet that that speech will haunt you. And it is funny that you took time to write it. Moving on, this is even crazier. I saw a story, I just went, wow, this person has fully lost their mind. Could you imagine a debate that divided the town about a Christmas tree going up in a library? Could you just imagine that? It's so ridiculous. I can't even imagine now that people are like, no, we cannot put up Christmas trees because they're offensive. This is where we've been at for the last, I feel like since Obama was in office and he was like, we shouldn't say Merry Christmas, it's offensive. It's like, why can't we say Merry Christmas? I don't understand this. If you're somebody who grew up without Christmas, do you really care? It's like when I see a menorah, I'm not offended. I'm not like, oh my God, but I don't get eight days of Hanukkah. I'm so offended that you just would put a menorah up in the woods. I don't care. There are people that have a lot of significance for them. If you are Jewish or Christians, Christmas has a lot of significance. I don't care if you celebrate Kwanzaa, kind of, because it's not really a real holiday, but whatever it is that makes you happy in the holiday season, let it live, right? And this is how I feel about Christmas trees. Well, in Massachusetts, a Christmas tree going up at a library caused a lots of drama for a woman named Diane Loud, right? And she basically said that it was offensive. And then somebody else at the library named Lisa Desmond said, no, this is not offensive. This is Christmas. And I feel like you're canceling Christmas and we should be allowed to have a Christmas tree. And then Diane Loud lost her effing mind is the only way that I can say it. She lost her mind and started yelling at Lisa. She referred to her as a selfish effing B-TCH on Facebook and accused her of putting the lives of the library staff in danger because she complained about the tree not going up, which led to the library being harassed. And you want to know what else she said? This is what she said, quote, I'm not even kidding. For a tree, for a mother effing tree, you have put people's lives in a lot of danger, a lot of danger. Is this what you think your magic sky daddy wants? Wow, she's referring to God as a magic sky daddy. Yeah, this woman just hates Christians. This is just obviously, I don't know if there is a word for being anti-Christian, anti-Christianism maybe. And she clearly hates Christmas. She hates Christians. And she has decided to refer to God as magic sky daddy. By the way, sounds nice, magic sky daddy. Yeah, I do believe in the magic sky daddy. I like my magic sky daddy and I believe in him and I pray to him. So if that makes you good, if you hate Christians and you're going, ooh, look at you and your magic sky daddy, I'm chill with that, you know what I mean? God bless your soul, honestly. Obviously this went viral and she wrote, by the way, I hope the fact that you who claim to believe in Christ and Christmas or whatever happy horses that you're trying to hide behind are the least gracious, most hateful, most disgusting trash in the world. In closing, I would like to add a F-U, F-U-C, she actually wrote it out, you pieces of trash. I hate each and every one of you and I do wish great suffering on you. You are a terrible, terrible people and you did it all because you didn't get your way. You are despicable. Yeah, that is some anti-Christianism if I've ever heard anti-Christianism. I can't imagine, by the way, if this person was working at a library. There's a lot of kids at libraries. Can you imagine this person with a quiet rage like this just being like, you're all pieces of trash. You're Christmas trees. Dashing through the snow. I hate Santa. I'm gonna beat him up. I'm gonna punch him straight in the face. I'm just happy that she's been removed from the premises and yes, she has lost her job or quit or resigned. I don't know what happened here, but I do think that once you go on a rant about Magic Sky Daddy, it's over. And I just wanna say this to you, Diane Loud. This was a weird hill for you to die on and I'm gonna say something that's really gonna annoy you. I'm gonna pray for you. 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I view discrimination as hating or disliking someone for their skin color, religion, political beliefs, medical choices. In other words, the discrimination is based on preconceived ideas or agenda perpetuated upon us by society, family, friends, et cetera. We have certainly seen much of this and it seems to be getting worse. I believe love is the answer, always has been, always will be, love one another and we shall have peace. That's all I have to say about that. Love you, Candace. I love you too, Linda. And I do like calling it personal discernment, but that feels like a euphemism for me because I do discriminate. And if it's based on disliking someone for their political beliefs or medical choices, et cetera, yeah, I discriminate. If you put up on Instagram, just got my fourth booster, I think you're an idiot. And I know that you and I would not be friends and I just think that you're not a smart individual. So yeah, that would be a medical choice that you made. I discriminate if you are purple haired based on appearances you have here, not liking someone. Like when I see someone that looks like those old school trolls and they have like fire red hair and they've got those huge, their earlobes are expanded because they have those earrings in that make them super big. And they, I don't know, I just go, liberal. It's a liberal and I don't like it. So yeah, I actually do discriminate against people on those bases. I don't discriminate against people because of their skin color or their religion. But I do also believe firmly, and I can maybe do this another day, that stereotypes, by the way, have been proven to be real. Stereotypes don't come from nowhere, right? So you can have exceptions to rules, but stereotypes come from nowhere. It's like the idea that if you see a Korean that they're probably good in math. Yeah, people in Korea have the best math, mathematicians in the world, right? They're, as a country, in terms of mathematics, they are excelling. They are the number one nation for math, right? Their children are passing these tests way more often than people in America are. So yeah, these stereotypes don't come from nowhere. And people can have, just give me a vibe right off of the bat, and I use my personal discernment or my discrimination to say, I don't wanna be around that person. So call it what you will, but I love you too, Linda. Next comment is from John. John says, a man sat next to me on the subway recently. I've learned to be on the alert at all times. He gave me the heebie-jeebies, so I moved away. Not even a minute later, he was up punching windows, kicking people, and generally being violent and threatening. He was a big guy, the kind that could kill you with one blow. I shudder to think what would have happened if I had not listened to my gut. It wasn't long ago I would have stayed next to him so as to not hurt his feelings or look discriminatory, and that's exactly right. People do this consciously. They're like, oh, it must be my unconscious bias that makes me not perhaps want to be next to this person who is maybe just homeless and going through a bad time and talking to himself, and so I should go up to this person and I should offer this person money or something and have a conversation, and it's like, okay, well, sometimes you'll end up dead if you do that, right? So your unconscious bias, these terms that people use to describe the fact that you are built with a system that gives you a gut instinct, right? You are able to exercise that discernment, to use a word, but something is telling you your bells are going off that something's wrong with this person, and it's not because they're homeless. It's because they're maybe talking to themselves, right? Sometimes people just have a look in their eyes. They look crazy, and I don't want to be around them, and people will say, oh, maybe they're just hard on their luck, all this stuff. As I said, you can do that. I'm gonna get up just like this person did and move away from the person into the next car, as I did many times, all the way throughout New York City where there is just a high population of crazy, especially in the subways, where I'm like, mm, especially if I'm alone at night. I mean, I could go into a whole story about what happened with me and a homeless guy in an Apple one time at the subway station, but I won't do it today, because I want to get to more of your comments. This person is Betty Smith, and she is commenting regarding the Kim Klacik lawsuit. As you guys know, Kim Klacik sued me for $20 million, and she lost, really decisively so. She has to now pay me $115,000. Betty Smith says, I am so glad that you called Kim Klacik out. I saw her ad and fell for it, too. Wow, what a fraudster. How did you think that she would get away with this? People would eventually find out about her shady past or perhaps present. Thanks, Candace. The truth is, I don't think people would have found out if I did not bring it to the forefront, and it was incredible. We all fell for this video, and I think it's because you want to believe that no person would, I don't know, deceive so many people. Like, how do you sleep at night? If you're taking money from well-meaning individuals who are giving you this money because they believe in you, even when they don't have it, that was what was so frustrating about it. It was, you know, throughout COVID, the end of her campaign in 2020, and people were hard on their luck at that time because of lockdowns, and they were going, I'll give you $5, $10, $15, and it amassed an $8.3 million campaign fund for her. And you would think, and by the way, I want to be clear, because I know a lot of people commented and said, it's okay, I was only a stripper in the past. I don't have a problem with strippers. In case you missed it, it was a stripper that came forward and gave me all of the information. She's openly, but she talks about the fact that she's a stripper. If she wants to change her life, if that's a part of your story, that's great. But when you are still involved in that strip club, and when your husband manages that strip club, as it said on the address book, if he was a manager of a club, and that is what the stripper told me, and you're running on family values, that's problematic for me, and people deserve to know that truth. The next comment is regarding my bunny slippers. You may have seen this, in case you haven't. Somebody had bunny slippers, and I wore them because they're really comfortable, and because it means that I'm walking on the bunnies, and I hate bunnies, and I just think bunnies are creepy. If it's dark out, their eyes glow in a way that lets me know that they guard the underworld, and I want nothing to do with them. Samira Delilah Rose says, you have the blessing of many followers and the opportunity to share anything with the world, and this deliberate, unethical, unnecessary hate toward innocent life, if even in jest, is disgraceful, disturbing, and demonic. Please do some prayer. This is not like the level-headed, smart, stoically, integrity-driven Candace that we admire. Animals are not here to be slandered. We should be protecting and respecting them, allergies or not. Sorry, Samira, I think they are of the devil, and I think also you should lighten up just a little bit, just a tiny little bit. No bunnies died in the making of those slippers, but I would wear a bunny hat. I do actually think I do have some fur made of bunny. I just don't like bunnies. I don't know what to tell you. I'm sorry I'm letting you down. I don't like the little creatures. They're weird-looking, and I'm deathly allergic to them, so I'm sorry. Next comment from Sweet Pieces, she says, I've always been terrified of bunnies. Always look like they're plotting the extermination of humankind while looking sweet and fluffy. Don't trust them at all. You're my girl. You are my girl. That's how I feel. I'm just like, mm. Going back to that gut instinct, I'm like, bunnies? Uh-uh-uh, it was a good marketing campaign. I get it. I totally get it. Bugs Bunny, everyone liked Bugs. Lola Bunny, she was cute. And it was a marketing campaign, but really, they are demonic. And I'd like to apologize again to Samara for telling the truth. All I can do is tell the truth. Using the internet without ExpressVPN is like taking a phone call on speaker in public. 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