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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman was grilled over the pair’s dueling lawsuits at length in a new interview on Matt Belloni’s The Town podcast Thursday, during which the host suggested he was “spreading unflattering information about Blake Lively” in their “s--t show” of a case,