'Hot Bench’ Judges React to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s ‘Fascinating’ Legal Battle

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00:00Yeah, I mean, look, when you're filing a lawsuit like that and you're picking a number, you really

00:05are just starting out with a number from thin air. You know, no one's actually calculated the

00:09specific damages. And Justin Baldoni's lawyer, Brian Friedman, is a smart guy. He's a strategic

00:16attorney. And he said he's been through this before. And I think they wanted the sticker

00:20shock value of the $400 million. That would seem to me, even if he does recover, to be an unlikely

00:26amount for him to actually recover. But I think they were sending a message saying, you know,

00:31this is how bad what she did is. It's a $400 million problem.

00:37I'm waiting to see more receipts come out. I mean, Justin Baldoni's team releasing that

00:42unedited footage of that one clip and having watched the movie now and now piecing it together

00:50and comparing it to the words in her complaint. I'm kind of not really seeing things, but I'm

00:55going to wait and see how this thing plays out. And this is, I think, a perfect example of,

00:59you know, how we read things on the paper sometimes and we're like, oh gosh, this person is...

01:03Correct.

01:04You know, because I think that's, yeah, that's what we thought initially. And then we saw

01:07something else and we're like, wait a second. And then we see the receipts and then we see the video

01:11and it's such an evolving process. This is going to be a fascinating one.

01:15I think it will be fascinating. I saw the movie.

01:17Saw the movie.

01:18And I thought it was a great movie.

01:19It was.

01:20It was a good message. And I thought it was done very well.

01:24Yeah. But I think what this is all going to turn on are the actual

01:30unedited versions of the scenes that are an issue. I think that's going to be very important

01:37for the judge and jury to see.

01:39Yeah. They're not. They're not.

01:41They won't, but yes. Yes, they should. Because I think there is so much more to come in this one

01:48that, you know, you could change your mind every two minutes. Every time someone says something,

01:52you could change your mind. So I'm withholding judgment. I have some

01:56strong opinions that are starting to form. Yeah.

01:58But I think we don't know yet.

01:59I say whatever happens in a courtroom is probably the best reality TV you could get.

02:04These are real people with real problems, relatable problems. And so I think our viewers

02:10can see themselves in our litigants because they can very easily find themselves in a courtroom

02:16with the same issues. So.

02:17And that's why it's so compelling that we have only real cases,

02:21because, you know, sometimes people will say, my God, how did you find these people?

02:25This must be made up. Right. And no, the truth is stranger than fiction.

02:28Yeah. And the uniqueness about the show is that it's just not one judge rendering a verdict.

02:35You're getting to hear why we come to a conclusion and whether we can have a

02:41consensus together and what's our rationale. So I think that makes it a little bit more

02:47intriguing because it gives us an opportunity perhaps to educate and test our views with each

02:53other and to entertain the boss. Yes.