Nick DiPaolo is a standup comic, stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and all-around funny man. He's been in the public eye for years, but it's only recently that he's been recognized as one of the funniest people in the world. He joins Jemele to discuss what it means to be a comedian, why he doesn't drink alcohol, and why he's proud to be an American.
00:01:39.000It's our first day where we're not doing Free Mug Club Month anymore, so you get to watch the rest of the hour show, of course, well, actually only on Mug Club, not necessarily on Rumble.
00:02:18.000So, for the first time in American history, I would say there are some things that... Still proud to be American.
00:02:24.000You know, remember when Michelle Obama said for the first time in her life when her husband was proud to be... She was proud to be an American when her husband became president?
00:06:42.000This is, by the way, before being overturned in the Tennessee federal court, the law banned adult cabaret entertainment where minors might be attending.
00:06:49.000So that's what she's protesting, is bringing out a bunch of drag queens to her show to try and talk to them.
00:06:54.000Yeah, scantily clad men acting like women is appropriate for children and she feels that she needs to protest.
00:07:00.000And do you notice she put all the fat ones right at the front of the line?
00:08:01.000No, and look, when Taylor Swift goes out and undulates in something that's barely covering her body, I'm like, look, I don't want girls to see that.
00:08:07.000Why'd you use Taylor Swift as an example?
00:08:32.000But I wouldn't like that for them anyway, so why is it something?
00:08:35.000It's at strip clubs. It's that simple.
00:08:44.000By the way, I don't know if, in case you're wondering how important it is to LGBTQA, the gay event in Florida, I think it was in Florida, I don't know, there was a Pride event on Friday, it was across the country, but they were cancelled when kids could not be there.
00:08:57.000They were like, ah, kids can't be here?
00:11:11.000Mental, physical disabilities, that makes sense, and then also LGBTQI+.
00:11:17.000So these are protected persons who will not be detained at the border, and unsurprising, of course, are the new images now emerging from the border today.
00:11:24.000What you see is, I mean, it's a pandemic.
00:12:58.000Okay, so not only do we have open borders, pretty much, but now we have really double super, super extra, double secret borders if you're LGBTQAI+.
00:13:07.000And again, we're joking about the fact that litmus tests, how do you know?
00:13:10.000You don't think you're going to have some people, you don't think El Chapo's going to put on some lipstick and a wig?
00:13:16.000We have you, the average American, who is not part of the 0.5% of the population, who has to deal with the economy, who has to deal with skyrocketing crime in major cities.
00:13:23.000We have 50 million fentanyl-laced pills, right, that have just made it across the border.
00:13:28.00010,000 pounds of powdered fentanyl was seized just last year.
00:13:31.000Border encounters have gone up 257% since 2020.
00:13:34.00060% of unaccompanied minors are caught by cartels, are forced into child porn, are forced into drug trafficking, sex trafficking.
00:13:40.000But instead, the government decides what's most important is to make sure that the backup dancers for Lizzo's drag show Let me ask you, at a certain point is it conspiratorial to say this government wants it to get so bad for you that you react?
00:17:18.000So Reuters posted that that video was a big deal and then they posted it with a caption.
00:17:22.000Cheering, flag-waving crowds gather in Tokyo for the first full pride parade in four years celebrating advances in LGBTQ rights but demanding Japan join other advanced nations in legally recognizing same-sex marriage.
00:17:34.000Here's the thing, there are a few fast facts that you need to know.
00:17:36.000The Pride Parade in Japan, no one really actually cares about it, okay?
00:17:39.000So, in New York, for example, the attendance was 5 million.
00:17:43.000Those are the people who are left in that city, who haven't been killed.
00:21:59.000But while you're watching on YouTube, head on over to Rumble where none of this matters because there's a YouTube dumb button which we always have to use.
00:22:06.000God only knows how the strikes take place on YouTube.
00:22:10.000This is something that I think all of us can agree.
00:22:14.000I've always been proud to be American.
00:22:15.000But again, that is changing a little bit because we no longer I guess sort of I should say the focal point is no longer what's made America America.
00:22:26.000There's far more focus on equity, on browbeating ourselves in a public arena, than there is on actually being proud of our country and what made our country great.
00:22:34.000We should be exporting values like democracy, you know, representative constitutional republics.
00:22:39.000We should be exporting values like human rights, which the military may or may not have done effectively.
00:22:44.000But you can't even argue that that's the attempt at this point.
00:22:47.000So to give you an idea, I think we have some clips here.
00:22:49.000The United States, like Democrats, they're trying to now rebuild the rest of the world in their own image.
00:22:56.000To reinvigorate our leadership on the LGBTQI issues and do it internationally.
00:23:04.000You know, we'll ensure diplomacy and foreign assistance are working to promote the rights of those individuals included by combating criminalization and protecting LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers.
00:25:10.000That's why your children are being targeted, and now they're at the first step.
00:25:13.000So in the country right now, it's to involve children.
00:25:16.000In places like Japan, where they clearly won't do that, or places abroad, now they're going through the earlier phase of the rainbow flag, and then it'll be the gay marriage, and then it'll go down.
00:25:25.000Did you ever think it would get this far?
00:25:27.000slopes covered in astroglide too and kids need to be able to transition or
00:25:30.000you'll take the children away from their parents which is what we're seeing in
00:25:33.000places like Washington State. Did you ever think it would get this far? Did you
00:25:36.000ever think we would get to the point where there are states in the United
00:25:39.000States that will remove children from their parents if they don't put them on
00:25:42.000puberty lockers or perform a sex change at six, seven, eight years old? Yeah and I
00:25:46.000don't think it was by accident that they were carrying Mickey Mouse gay pride
00:25:50.000placards in that video that we saw at the very beginning.
00:25:53.000But look, you joked around about this, or Nick did.
00:25:55.000I preferred them when they were bombing us.
00:25:57.000People said, well, oh, we cut off their oil supply and so they felt threatened.
00:26:01.000If we're exporting something that will destroy their families, if we're exporting something that will destroy their culture, that is far, far worse.
00:26:33.000This doesn't work here in the United States because the people who wanted to spread truth, freedom the American way, are military people who joined up.
00:26:39.000I'm not saying people at the Pentagon all share these values, but certainly a lot of people joining the forces, right, joining the military.
00:26:45.000Well, we've been having a recruiting shortage for a very long time.
00:26:48.000Just in 2022, they fell short by 15,000.
00:29:49.000This is something I'm constantly reminded of because Republicans, Conservatives were really upset.
00:29:53.000I still would be, but I feel this way in reverse.
00:29:56.000You heard me kind of touch on it earlier, but for those of you who are kind of new, younger viewers, you may not remember Michelle Obama saying this after her wife became president.
00:31:11.000Do you feel that way sometimes, where you see what's going on, what we try and spread, and you go, you know, I'm kind of ashamed of at least a portion of what this country has become?
00:31:18.000Yeah, especially with the military aspect, which is more on the international scene.
00:31:26.000I don't know what I was watching, but they put up the recruitment of, it was an ad for the Russians?
00:31:30.000Yeah, the Russian military in the United States.
00:31:33.000Compared to, yeah, I feel a little, and like you said, flying the rainbow, I don't, I don't, somebody has to explain to me why that's the thing we're using, the cudgel we're using, why the far left is using it to get where they want to go.
00:31:48.000I guess it's part of these separate Yeah, it's a family, but it's also clever, because a lot of people don't realize, what is America's, and I mean this, as far as our commodities, what's our biggest export?
00:32:04.000I grew up in Canada, where people used to bitch about the United States, right, because they had an inferiority complex.
00:32:08.000And they would go home, use their electricity, use their microwave, turn on their light bulb, maybe watch their television set like Seinfeld, or the Simpsons, and then bitch about America.
00:32:18.000The left understands, and Andrew Breitbart talked about this, how everything else is upstream or downstream.
00:32:22.000I always forget which way is appropriate from culture.
00:32:25.000And now the left says, we are going to export a culture exclusively in our image because it's really hard to be this far off the beam when you're the world's superpower if everyone else isn't on board.
00:34:11.000She believes that the government now, and this is a call to action, and again, we'll kind of make the case here so you understand, just the size of the barrel of the gun that you are staring down right now.
00:34:20.000They want to export a specific set of cultural values.
00:34:22.000They want to import specific people, right?
00:34:41.000I believe that when it comes to broadcast television, like Fox News, these are subject to federal law, federal regulation, in terms of what's allowed on air and what isn't.
00:38:05.000And the White House Press Secretary, now a host, who's hosting AOC, nothing wrong there, called for censorship, referring to it as Spotify because she's an idiot, but in case you've forgotten.
00:38:16.000Disclaimer, it's a positive step, but we want every platform to continue doing more to call out misinformation and misinformation while also uplifting accurate information.
00:38:26.000Our hope is that all major tech platforms and all major news sources, for that matter, be responsible and be vigilant to ensure the American people have access to accurate information on something as significant as COVID-19.
00:38:38.000And by the way, in case you've forgotten, the accurate information was banning anyone who said that it could have leaked from a lab, as opposed to a Wuhan market.
00:39:03.000Which, by the way, is a complete about-face because when she was working in California, she wanted to keep inmates in prison longer to act as slave labor for the government beyond their sentencing.
00:39:12.000Yeah, and look, she knew at the time that every single one of the tech companies was going to do her bidding.
00:39:16.000Compare that to Elon Musk taking over Twitter and now trolling his detractors by giving them a blue checkmark And you're right, they go right to MSNBC after they work.
00:39:26.000come out and go, no, I didn't pay the $8. I promise. It's reverse virtue signaling. I know it's fantastic.
00:39:33.000It's like the mark of the anti-beast. Yeah. He's like, here's your blue check mark. No,
00:39:38.000no, I didn't pay for it. I swear I'm complicit with the government.
00:39:42.000And you're right. They, you know, they go right to MSNBC after they work. They,
00:40:53.000Should she be censored for when there were violent protests across this country, calling for more, but more importantly, clapping like she's a cast member in I Am Sam?
00:42:35.000So do not get it twisted and think that, oh, this is something that has not never happened before and then this is so terrible and where are we and these savages and all of that.
00:42:46.000I wish the Democrats would play that game to 10% of the levels that the Republicans do until the Democrats stop rolling over for this and saying, well, we're not going to dirty our hands.
00:43:46.000You think the Founding Fathers would have stood for this?
00:43:48.000Think about what the Boston Tea Party was.
00:43:50.000They dumped one of the most valuable commodities in the world into the harbor as a screw you because you wanted to put a tax on their breakfast beverage and this was pre-energy drink.
00:44:05.000People's lives were being destroyed at the moment that Don Lemon is chuckling about, don't get it twisted like this has never happened before.
00:44:12.000Yes, protests and riots have happened.
00:46:36.000How do you think that someone like Alex Jones gets removed from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Twitter in the same day?
00:46:44.000How do you think it happens that all of a sudden it's released as far as the warning on YouTube, on Facebook, on Instagram the same day where, okay, now you can say it may be leaked in a lab.
00:46:56.000They want to accuse you of violence when disagreeing with them.
00:46:59.000It's very broad with a punishment that's very specific.
00:47:12.000If you want a civil war, what you do is you silence half the country, you other them, you make sure that the rest of the country never actually hears their own point of view, you never engage in an actual conversation, and then you say, I don't know how we came to this boiling point.
00:47:25.000It's a very, very dangerous time in history when you think of where we are and what it is that they're specifically doing.
00:47:32.000Yeah, well, and especially when you say that the other side is calling for violence and you completely ignore the times when you're actually either calling for violence.
00:47:41.000I think what frustrated us about that moment was that's when we needed politicians to tamp this down.
00:47:46.000We needed people because a lot of those comments were in the late spring, early summer, when these things were really just getting going and really starting to be a problem.
00:47:53.000And I was having conversations with my wife about make sure you have a gun.
00:48:22.000So what happens is when they're violent, there's no call to end violent voices.
00:48:26.000And now once that's gone away for a little bit because, you know, they won an election, they go, okay, now let's eliminate voices of disagreement.
00:49:03.000Don't tell them to come knock on our door because it could get violent.
00:49:07.000Do people forget that they burned down a church like a month before that?
00:49:10.000Remember they burned down the church and they were trying to kick in the barricade at the White House?
00:49:14.000Rand Paul barely got out of there and almost got assaulted on the way out.
00:49:18.000This came to their door and they said, oh my gosh, we have to be careful.
00:49:20.000Somebody please say something to calm the crowd.
00:49:23.000The minute that it wasn't on their doorstep, they were like, oh, say whatever you want, guys, this is just part of how democracy works.
00:49:28.000Yeah, they mocked Donald Trump as Bunker Boy because he didn't want to be shot.
00:49:33.000The people in government and the people in media that say this type of insightful crap on the left, they don't have to experience the consequences of their policies.
00:49:44.000They're living in gated communities and, you know, it's the old story of Eureka history.
00:50:16.000When we talk about equity, the only way to enforce equity through the government, right, not equality, equity, is to punish those who have lived their lives responsibly.
00:50:23.000And that's why the American Dream is dying, because this brings us to another story.
00:50:27.000If you have good credit, you want to buy a house, well right now you're screwed!
00:50:29.000That brings us to an edition of Gerald Knows Things.
00:50:51.000You looked like one of the guys during Nixon that was being questioned.
00:50:56.000It's like Ehrlichman and one of those guys.
00:51:00.000There's a new, I don't know if you've been following, a new federal housing rule.
00:51:03.000And by the way, we talked about how the student loan forgiveness is one of the greatest wealth transfers to, funny enough, wealthy Americans, young wealthy white bitches in American history.
00:51:12.000Right now, there's a new federal housing rule that will redistribute wealth, but what it'll do, it'll punish you if you've lived your life in a disciplined way.
00:51:20.000If you're a homebuyer with good credit, you're now going to have to pay higher mortgages to subsidize high-risk borrowers.
00:51:26.000It's almost like we've lived this before.
00:51:31.000I get the idea of the campaign promise to get the rich to pay their fair share.
00:51:36.000But aren't there going to be a lot of folks in the middle class who have just been responsible and have good credit who are going to also be caught up in this?
00:51:46.000Yeah, it's like a penalty for good credit and putting a high down payment.
00:51:50.000I'm refinancing two of my properties, no offense, but if I do it before August, then I won't get hit with that $40.
00:51:57.000My problem with the $40 isn't the amount, it is whether this is the best way to redistribute wealth and close the housing gap in America.
00:52:04.000So, let me set this up and then Gerald, of course, knows things.
00:52:07.000So, the rule will require buyers with 630 or more credit scores to pay $40 more per month on a $400,000 loan in order to subsidize people who have a lower score.
00:52:18.000Yeah, so basically you're going to have to pay higher fees.
00:52:21.000Happiest, by the way, most happy about these new regulations is this guy.
00:54:09.000I'm being punished if I want to buy a house.
00:54:11.000I did everything right, and I'm being punished when I know that my brother, who's the asshole dropout deadbeat, is going to receive every single government benefit.
00:54:26.000Right, and by the way, it was $40 per month for 30 years that you will be paying this if you take the average time.
00:54:35.000Unless you refinance, and then of course it could just be the rest of your life that you're paying all of this money.
00:54:39.000And by the way, that $400,000, you're like, oh, well that's a lot of home.
00:54:43.000Not in California, not in New York, not in Connecticut, not in these other places.
00:54:47.000It's not a lot of home, and so if you pay for a home that's $500,000, $600,000, $800,000, it's more money!
00:54:51.000Nick had a point about this certain run-through.
00:54:53.000What's next if you have a perfect driving record?
00:54:58.000You know, they're gonna slap a 7% tax on us so the people that are carjacking us can get their own car without having to shoot us in the head?
00:55:06.000They're gonna jack you with an Amex Platinum.
00:55:25.000And look, I know Nick gets uncomfortable with compliments, but you have always been known, because a lot of comedians blow their money, having been responsible with money.
00:56:31.000It's about encouraging and leveraging and pressuring banks and society at large to provide loans to people who will not be able to pay them back. That's
00:56:41.000never heard us in the past. That's never heard us in the past. Something about Barney Frank's
00:56:45.000basement. So 20% on a house this is $80,000 is what people will have to save and with this economy,
00:56:52.000with Joe Biden's economy, with inflation, all the extra stuff they're having to pay every single
00:56:56.000month for the normal household goods to live, foods and services, that adds up and by the way it's
00:57:01.000$14,400 over the life of that loan but that's not the real cost.
00:57:06.000If you'd taken that $40 and paid it towards principal every single month because of how they calculate interest and do it for so long, I guarantee you it would probably be closer to $28,000.
00:57:15.000That's an estimate because we don't have an agent.
00:57:17.000That's an estimate because I'm doing the math on the top of my head, but just paying down your mortgage.
00:57:21.000But look, I understand that this all sounds really, really bad, and if it sounds stupid to you, you just have to remember that credit scores are actually racist.
00:57:29.000But leaving rent payments out of the formula isn't just stupid, it's racist.
00:57:33.000Because while rent payments don't count toward your credit score, mortgage payments do.
00:57:38.000And guess who's more likely to have mortgages?
00:58:50.000So I thought there'd be a few more late paymills.
00:58:51.000Oh, it's the first of the month, you know.
00:58:53.000Of course the Chinese have better credit scores because their parents and grandparents from the old country, you know, the whole credit score thing was going on before they got here.
00:59:03.000And if they shake your piggy bank and it sounds empty, they jam piano keys into your neck.
00:59:08.000By the way, and the average black credit score gets 677.
00:59:11.000That number's important because all they have to do is accidentally pay their credit card on time for about, I don't know, four months, and they're all of a sudden in that category of 680 or higher.
00:59:46.000So subsidizing these loans will make it easier for minorities to buy homes, right?
00:59:49.000We just talked about that a little bit, but according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson, the rule will increase pricing support for purchasers borrowing limited, I'm sorry, purchase borrowers limited by income or by wealth, right?
01:00:03.000In September 2022, Bank of America launched a similar initiative.
01:00:07.000Let's just title it Give Money Away to People Who Will Never Give It Back.
01:01:06.000So look, their program, Bank of America, I gotta think like the executives at Bank of America are like, we got in trouble for doing this on our own and now they're telling us to do it again?
01:02:11.000The subprime meltdown was the sharp increase in high-risk mortgages that went into default beginning in 2007, contributing to the most severe worldwide, I'll add that to the quote, recession in decades.
01:03:30.000Socialist herself, Elizabeth Warren, said they need to be deemed too big to fail so that that way we can have our claws in and we can regulate them and hopefully, you know, at that point, of course, rebuild the world in our image with these ESG scores.
01:03:41.000Too big to fail Only screws you and the country if the government is what deems too big to fail.
01:03:54.000Because you're not going to pay it back and we're in the business of being paid back and you're not going to pay it, we're not going to make any money.
01:03:58.000But then when the government says, you better give them that loan.
01:05:19.000It's just, it reveals what they're trying to do, and if you guys think that bankers are bad, the federal government trying to appease a voting bloc will always do things that are far worse than bankers can even contemplate.
01:05:32.000Who would think that the same people who demand that the Japanese embassy fly the rainbow flag might not have your best interests at heart as it comes to home loans?
01:05:41.000I mean, I hate to connect it all together, but stop being a crazy conspiracy theorist.
01:05:46.000This has been Gerald Knows Things, though we kind of stepped on him.
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