Nick DiPaolo joins Jemele to discuss his new comedy special, the Dalai Lama's pervert tendencies, and how to deal with people like Gavin Newsom. Plus, a call from Stevie Van Zandt to exterminate the Republican cockroaches.
00:03:41.000The leader of an inconsequential religion.
00:03:43.000And I know some of you are saying that's offensive.
00:03:44.000What I mean to say by inconsequential, don't misunderstand me, is that Tibetan Buddhism doesn't matter.
00:03:51.000Elon Musk destroyed... Stuck the landing!
00:03:54.000A reporter at the BBC with some leading questioning, and I think it's actually a master class in how to handle biased journalists.
00:04:03.000You know, I came up under the tutelage of Andrew Breitbart, and we'll show you some clips there, and actually how to deal with people like this in your own life.
00:05:03.000So you've got five times a week this, Nick DiPaolo, and of course we have other comedy specials, other series coming in, but let's introduce everyone who is here.
00:07:13.000And yes, we are the byproduct of our times.
00:07:16.000But hairy armpits are a hard pass, no matter how hard you try and sell them.
00:07:20.000I'm on a journey of growing out my armpit hair for the first time as a woman.
00:07:24.000And you know what I realized yesterday when talking to a guy?
00:07:27.000Is that these baddies are quality detectors.
00:07:30.000If a man said immediately no to me, and dismissed me, simply because of the fact that I have hair growing out of the skin of my elbows, that says the most.
00:10:54.000Yeah, we always think the Island of Lesbos looks like, we're like, oh, Island of Lesbos is like a fantasy, but really it's just a bunch of chicks who buy their plaid shirts at Orbis.
00:11:01.000To be fair, that music in the background was Kazakhistani.
00:13:38.000The Dalai Lama is a very playful human being, and we may see this in a weird, kind of gross, sexualized way, but this is about as sexual as a bowl of plain rice.
00:13:50.000There is nothing sexual or erotic happening in this encounter.
00:13:54.000Oh yeah, we have some sticky fried cock!
00:14:00.000I mean, talk about spreading COVID, guys.
00:14:31.000This is just, again, people, Dustin Hoffman got me tuned for telling dirty jokes on set 40 years ago.
00:14:36.000This guy's having minors suck his tongue and you're running interference?
00:14:40.000And they're looking for every single reason they can find to criticize Christians, and even criticize Jesus, and at some point try and memory all as though he was a historical figure, even though you've done that in the apologetic segment on Friday.
00:14:50.000Every single major historian agrees with it.
00:14:51.000The point is, it's silly, I'm sorry anyone who's into the Eastern religion mysticism, you are lost.
00:15:38.000The Dalai Lama is a fraud, by the way.
00:15:41.000He declared Steven Seagal to be some kind of incarnate of some kind of God, because Steven Seagal gave a bunch of money to some temple, right?
00:15:49.000When people bitch about Joel Osteen putting money in walls, for some reason they give a pass to the guy who literally said, oh, you'll give money, Steven Seagal.
00:15:55.000No problem, you can't fight and movie fraud.
00:17:38.000The Eastern Orthodox are not big fans of the Pope either, too.
00:17:40.000So, here's something, while we're talking about being observant, being enlightened, being detached, I do like that Elon Musk is detached from the Hollywood elite, the media elite.
00:17:51.000This is a problem with a lot of people in big tech.
00:17:53.000I don't know if you follow this story, but I've talked about the big tech entertainment media industrial complex, because people throw that out with the military industrial complex.
00:18:01.000They are one and the same, and so often the Zuckerbergs, so often the Jack Dorseys, the Susan Wojcicki's, the Mohans, they desperately want to be a part of the Cool Kids Club, and that's why it's this sort of incestuous relationship with journalists.
00:18:15.000Elon Musk is similar to Trump in this way, and he's not perfect.
00:18:18.000There have been issues with Twitter, believe me, that's not lost on me.
00:18:20.000But the spirit of him clearly reviling those in the media and understanding the tactics that they will use is of value.
00:18:28.000The last person who I witnessed who did it this well was Andrew Breitbart.
00:18:32.000That's the man on the wall right there.
00:18:35.000The first person to have ever taken any of my... I met him because he took one of my old stand-up videos and posted it back on Big Hollywood before it was Breitbart or anything.
00:18:42.000It was just bighollywood.breitbart.com and we became good friends.
00:18:45.000He understood the media because he was raised in Brentwood in Hollywood and he understood how to fight back.
00:21:13.000If someone is trying to argue in good faith, you can use a Socratic method and say, well, hold on a second, what do you mean by, you know, slightly sexist content?
00:21:22.000Now, if someone is arguing in good faith, and you can see this in Change My Mind, they'll go, well, what I mean is maybe things that might be denigrating women, maybe things that might be perpetuating stereotypes.
00:21:30.000And then, if you don't have a satisfactory answer, you can go down and say, well, what would be perpetuating a stereotype?
00:21:35.000If it's someone who's not arguing in good faith, They lie, and they say, oh, I don't know, it was someone else, right?
00:21:40.000They appeal to authority, maybe they use the appeal to authority fallacy, the ad populum fallacy.
00:21:43.000Well, most of people, other organizations, so asking them, using the Socratic method, gives you the opportunity to ensure that you understand, and they understand, whether you were arguing in good faith.
00:21:54.000And then if they aren't, that's where you keep it on that point.
00:22:05.000So Elon Musk knew, you know what, this isn't going to be productive no matter what, so I'm going to call out the first red herring here, and then you stick on it.
00:22:14.000You cannot have a productive conversation with someone who is perfectly fine lying.
00:22:20.000And another example of this that I wanted to point to is Andrew Breitbart did this when he was interviewed.
00:22:26.000And I don't remember at what point this was where he was being interviewed.
00:22:28.000The same thing happened when the Anthony Weiner scandal took place.
00:22:32.000But the man, rather than ask him about the relevant story, decides to ask Andrew Breitbart about his relationship with alcohol.
00:23:19.000I graduated 20 years ago and I'm admitting to my flaws the way that Barack Obama admitted that he did cocaine when he was in college.
00:23:28.000Would you ask Barack Obama in an interview with him, would it be one of the 10 questions you ask him, what's your current relationship with cocaine?
00:23:37.000Well, it's just you talked about it quite a bit.
00:24:05.000You allow them to answer for their claims, you ask for specifics, and then rather than just getting into minutiae, right, you drill them on that, and then you understand, well, we're not going to go anywhere productive, so let's go somewhere productive based on truth.
00:24:16.000Barack Obama was someone who did cocaine with, by the way, a convicted domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers.
00:24:21.000So, that is the way that you handle it.
00:24:23.000Watch these, watch these kinds of interviews, look for similar interviews, and take notes.
00:25:43.000But the point is that if you if you're giving anybody who's a public figure who's about to be a public figure in Hollywood or anywhere else advice is the press is not your friend, right?
00:25:54.000And you should always take an antagonistic position.
00:26:23.000Define your fair share, because I have to understand, you just stay on that point, because if he had answered the question in any other way, like, here's what we're doing to fight it, or whatever, it would have been CEO of Twitter declines to comment on how they will change the racist algorithms or the sexist posts.
00:26:39.000You can't go along with a false premise.
00:26:42.000You cannot have a conversation because, like you said, they will say, refuses to address
00:26:46.000sexism when he didn't define what it was.
00:26:48.000And then when it was put on him, it was, uh, I don't know.
00:26:51.000And this is why they won't do it with, of course, this is why former Vice President
00:26:55.000Joe Biden was in his basement instead of campaign.
00:26:58.000You can usually ignore the noise if you're an actor or something like that.
00:27:04.000But I think it's getting to the point where you can't ignore.
00:27:07.000If you let the press take control of the narrative completely without doing what Elon Musk does, then you're in trouble.
00:27:22.000There are people who do want to have a conversation in good faith.
00:27:24.000It's even, you know, when people come up and they'll ask for pictures and they say they're a fan, I have a series of questions that I ask to figure out really quickly if they're trolling.
00:27:33.000And it's usually about 70% friendly and 30% who are not.
00:30:37.000By the way, it's next week, it's the last free week of Mug Club, lottoscrowder.com.
00:30:42.000Until the 20th, and we may have something major happening here in the last week, I will let you know.
00:30:49.000I know that a lot of you are waiting to end the free month, but it's the only way we can bring on people like Nick, like Cal, and other folks.
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00:32:11.000So, Governor Gavin Newsom, and I use that term loosely, he has now spent the last couple of weeks, and if you haven't heard of this, you really need to know about it, because this is a push, right?
00:32:18.000It's sort of an extension of Beto O'Rourke, where they're trying to make a push into red states.
00:32:23.000The good news is, it backfires in a lot of ways, and we'll go through We'll go through how it backfires, but more importantly, how you can assist with the backfiring.
00:32:30.000For example, Texas, they said, was going to become more and more purple.
00:32:34.000And then you have the irony that the Latino vote here in Texas, and of course in Florida, has become more and more conservative because of how far the left has reached.
00:32:42.000So, they are now going on a red state tour, specifically Gavin Newsom.
00:32:46.000Largely the messaging is targeting, and you can disagree with me, you can comment below, my inference.
00:32:54.000So here he is making his case, whining about Republicans.
00:32:58.000Keep in mind, yes, he is from the hellhole that is California.
00:33:01.000There's something deep and serious that's happening across this country.
00:33:05.000All the progress the last half century has been rolled back in these states in real time, just the last few years.
00:33:12.000I don't think people fully understand the rights regression Individual liberties on civil rights, on voting rights, on the gerrymandering that's happening out here, on just the assault on the African-American community, the assault on the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans community.
00:33:27.000The number one issue of the day, it seems to be getting rid of the word Latinx in Arkansas, and number two, getting rid of drag shows.
00:34:32.000And yet we're so consumed respectfully by the spectacles in Washington that I as an American feel compelled as a governor to call that out and expose some of that in a more systemic way.
00:35:28.000I mean, forget all, and, and, and Whole Foods and all these other, the tax exodus from, from, uh, the tech exodus from, from San Francisco.
00:35:45.000So it's like, I'm not going to pay rent and they can't kick you out because it's basically, it's been almost permanent rent forgiveness in California.
00:35:50.000That might be another segment we should do.
00:35:52.000But if you are a law-buying citizen who sort of understands the agreement and actually obeys the law where you say, well, okay, I guess I can't afford this.
00:37:21.000We can't solve a problem without first identifying it.
00:37:24.000And the problem in our country right now is authoritarian leaders who are so hell-bent on gaining power and keeping it by whatever means necessary that they're directly attacking our freedoms in state after state.
00:37:36.000That's why I'm launching the Campaign for Democracy.
00:37:40.000We're going on the road to take the fight to states where freedom is most under attack.
00:38:13.000Was there also a vote from his constituents that he can go out to one of the most posh restaurants, a three-star Michelin restaurant in California, in Napa Valley, during the lockdown?
00:38:24.000I know, guys, but at least when I take my child to a toy store, I have the option of gender-neutral toys.
00:38:32.000Well, thank God for that, Brian, but this guy is priming for a presidential run, right?
00:38:35.000I spoke to one of his business partners many years ago in Napa, over some wine, and he's like, they have been preparing that guy from day one to run for president.
00:39:07.000What I really hope happens is that there is the first trans candidate on the Democratic Party side, please make this happen to me, that beats Gavin Newsom by a mile.
00:39:15.000Just let Michelle Obama run every one of the states.
00:39:20.000Don't you think they're priming Gavin Newsom to run against Trump?
00:39:22.000Don't you think that this is what's really going on?
00:42:22.000Eight of the top ten murder states, in terms of increase in murder rates, are all red states, by the way.
00:42:27.000Seven of the top ten dependent states are those same states, with lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, maternal mortality, some of the worst health outcomes in the country.
00:42:37.000If you look at their GDP rates, 60 plus percent of the GDP in this country are blue states.
00:42:56.000When you build your economy, for example, you build your economy on free enterprise and businesses go there, there's a delayed effect and we are seeing them leaving now.
00:43:03.000So it's important to look at the trend.
00:43:05.000California is one of the biggest states.
00:43:06.000California had the largest influx at one point.
00:43:08.000California and New York are the only states that have had some kind of shrinkage or complete stagnation.
00:46:51.000Most of them are in blue states, but some of them are in red states.
00:46:55.000Every single city that I just gave you, and I just gave you the numbers as far as the highest number of total murders and the highest murder rates, You have to look at the through line.
00:47:04.000I've talked about this with mass shootings.
00:47:07.000You can always make the prediction that if the shooter is stopped, they are stopped by someone with a gun.
00:47:12.000Themselves, a cop, or held at gunpoint.
00:47:14.000That is the 100% constant statistically.
00:47:17.000The 100% constant here is every single city is a leftist city run by a leftist mayor.
00:47:24.000And all of those cities are the perfect test tube Because they are unopposed Democrats.
00:48:32.000Newsom, to me, without, you try to be fair, but if you were to play, so if I, we were doing a sketch, and the character was, looked like Gavin Newsom with those veneers and that hair, and he was using his hands that symmetrically, you would say, that's a little much.
00:49:57.000And, look, let's be honest here, the life expectancy map that you look at very closely follows the racial makeup of the region.
00:50:03.000Now, of course, yes, when we're talking about African Americans, obesity is a problem, and they're also, even if you're not obese, there's a higher, unfortunately, genetic proclivity toward things like diabetes, toward insulin resistance, sickle cell.
00:50:16.000It's the same reason that Akkadian bloodlines, I found this out, there are certain genetic diseases that are hereditary to Akkadian bloodlines.
00:52:54.000But Gavin Newsom wants you to not know anything about the context and just think, oh, it's because of their policies, the oppressive regimes down here.
00:53:00.000You guys can't even keep people alive.
00:53:02.000And it's like, no, the Asians just chose to settle in New York and San Francisco.
00:53:17.000Uh, because if people are Asian, I've had plenty, I went to a school that was like almost 30 something percent Asian.
00:53:24.000The culture, and I would be around, I remember being around my friend, deaf kid, guy who's named Kevin, he was deaf and he couldn't hear and he was Asian, he already had an accent, so imagine like a really severe Chinese accent and he was deaf and nobody wanted to be his friend and I tried really hard.
00:53:37.000But I remember his parents telling his sister, like, you're getting chubby!
00:53:42.000You're getting, no, you can't have popsicles, you're getting too chubby.
00:55:05.000I would say this about the Asian, so if you look at ethnic Chinese in any culture, whether it's in West Africa, Malaysia, and they do not, they suffer from a lot of discrimination, they always excel.
00:55:18.000Because there are certain cultural traits like frugality, education, practice, and self-restriction.
00:55:25.000Jamming piano keys in your son's neck when he gets the wrong notes.
00:58:07.000A lot of Californians are asking that question, too.
00:58:12.000Over the weekend, he stopped in Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas, thousands of miles from the state he was elected to run.
00:58:19.000Steve Maviglio is a Democratic strategist and the former press secretary for Governor Gray Davis.
00:58:25.000A lot of people are criticizing for leaving the state and talking to 100 people in Arkansas when there's 6,000 people sleeping on the street at night in Sacramento alone.
00:59:45.000So, January 2023, oh no, actually I forgot this.
00:59:49.000The ex-San Francisco Fire Commissioner, by the way, was attacked by a homeless man with a crowbar, just to give you an idea as far as just San Francisco.
00:59:56.000Here we have a clip, there's no sound, you can start running it.
00:59:58.000This is the ex-San Francisco Fire Commissioner, which, you know, used to be there was kind of an unwritten rule, don't go after the fight, you know, you pull to the side of the road when the fire truck's going down.
01:02:44.000Between Los Angeles and largely San Francisco, Los Angeles, not San Diego as much, but between the years 2020 to 2022, they lost 500,000 residents.
01:03:33.000There is, and this is a question too that we always ask because I want you to leave these shows with some kinds of solutions.
01:03:41.000So on a policy level, sure, I can say this, but on a personal level, if you find yourself in a rut, And I mean this because California is in a rut.
01:03:49.000If you find yourself in a rut, you find yourself miserable, you find yourself waking up every day going, oh, I gotta do... Let me ask you.
01:03:55.000You clearly have been making... A rut is created typically from habitual decisions, right?
01:04:01.000A rut means something that is continuous.
01:04:03.000It's something that feels never-ending.
01:04:04.000That's why you have to make different decisions.
01:04:06.000So if you find yourself at this place like California, it's worse in every facet that you can measure.