Comedian Gerald Allen joins Jemele to discuss Kanye West's recent appearance on Alex Jones' radio show, Elon Musk's new Tesla Model Y, and how insane Kanye West is. Plus, the crew talks about a penis nosed owl update, a woman who was offered assistance by the government to fight climate change, and more.
00:06:43.000Distance vision with LASIK for the... Deal.
00:06:46.000But now they can do the whole bionic eye thing with the new lens, so... I don't know if I'm there yet, but I did do the laser thing and everybody's like, a laser in your eyes?
00:07:35.000I don't really have a mustache or a unibrow though.
00:07:39.000But anyway, my body just does this thing naturally where it like grows hair and then I don't do anything about it because there's no rule saying that you have to.
00:08:18.000You're wearing a shirt that shows off that particular area of the body and then you're complaining that people notice that you're like, hey!
00:09:51.000On Friday night, Elon Musk dropped a slew of files that showed Democrats directly colluding with Twitter to censor information they didn't like.
00:13:03.000And then he's like, no, you're like part of a hybrid project that's from a dystopian movie that we've watched where most people didn't survive, but you finally did.
00:16:22.000It's the two O things above the O. The umlaut.
00:16:25.000In French, it's an accent aigu, which means it goes A instead of E. In English, it's an I don't give a damn.
00:16:31.000Yeah, there's a great document called American Movie where the guy calls the movie Coven, but he puts an umlaut over the O, and one of the actresses is like, well, so it's Coven.
00:16:39.000And he's like, no, it's Coven, like witch.
00:16:40.000He goes, yeah, but you put an umlaut over the O, so it's Coven.
00:16:44.000You've been waiting to use that reference.
00:16:49.000That's the only reason I know what an umlaut is.
00:16:50.000What do you think I learned in school?
00:16:55.000And if you're wondering about Ye's Obama comments, we've actually obtained an unedited photo that the former president doesn't want you to see.
00:17:52.000Even if we love you, if you're not kind of doing some things that you should be doing, like speaking out on protests or something like that, then we're going to call you out just a little bit on that.
00:18:00.000And so that's why we're covering these things.
00:18:02.000He depends on a lot of his profit to come from China.
00:18:04.000So is it a surprise that he's been a little silent on things that are happening?
00:18:09.000Yeah, well, in January, Telsa even opened a showroom in, uh, somebody else say that.
00:24:24.000I do want to see Elon speak out a little bit about the protests.
00:24:26.000I don't think he's mentioned it at all yet.
00:24:29.000And this is a bit of a failing, right?
00:24:30.000Because there's some protests over what's going on there, especially as it relates to production and COVID policies and people being put in internment camps and people being potentially killed or not rescued in fires, sorry.
00:24:41.000People being welded into their apartments.
00:24:42.000Like, it's probably one of those things that we should comment on, even if you have business interests there.
00:25:19.000But this is one of the biggest issues in the world that every single major corporation that we've talked about, including the NBA, is silent on and actually silencing people, fining coaches for talking about it, removing fans that were talking about Hong Kong and held up signs.
00:25:32.000Somebody just needs to stand up and say, this is bad.
00:28:01.000Well, what's amazing is there's an outfit that, I don't know what you call it, I'm trying, an outfit that Kim Kardashian's wearing where she's wearing all black with a face mask and all that.
00:28:12.000That's what Kanye's wearing on the Alex Jones interview.
00:29:13.000So, uh, Demi, uh, Giversiagla... He's the, he's the, uh, Balenciaga creative designer, uh, who came up with the Kids Bondage Bear campaign.
00:29:24.000I don't know if you guys remember that.
00:29:26.000He apologized for it by saying it was inappropriate to have kids promote objects that had nothing to do with them.
00:38:28.000Well, his name starts with a familiar name.
00:38:31.000Mohammed Javad Montazeri, where he said the morality police was abolished by the same authorities who installed it.
00:38:39.000So that's what they took and ran with and basically thought, okay, well Iran is taking some positive steps here and they're going to abolish the morality police.
00:38:46.000The only problem is It's not true, right?
00:38:48.000Here's the actual full quote from the Iranian attorney general.
00:38:52.000The morality police has nothing to do with the judiciary system,
00:38:56.000the same source that created it in the past from the same place it has shut down.
00:39:00.000Of course, the judiciary system will continue its surveillance of social behaviors across society.
00:39:05.000In the same sentence, he basically said, yes, yes, from that same source,
00:39:10.000it kind of shut down, but they're going to continue to monitor your behavior across society.
00:39:24.000We covered something, and I don't know that we have it in here, but maybe if, you know, Control Room, if you guys can find something on this.
00:39:30.000Do you remember when the rock climber, we, we, climber, not rock climber,
00:44:56.000Saudi Arabia they would absolutely go after, but Iran, for some reason, that seems to be a bit of a bridge too far.
00:45:01.000Hit the like button, by the way, if you like us, and do not like, so we've already covered Hitler and the Nazis, but hit the like button if you don't like Iranian oppression of their citizens, maybe, and killing people for not wearing a hijab.
00:45:13.000Yeah, go ahead, hit the like button if you don't like Iranian citizens being murdered.
00:47:53.000The don't blow you up plate, just in case people want to blow you up.
00:47:56.000Guarantee that was somebody in Detroit who was like, there's got to be a way to stop these things from completely exploding.
00:48:01.000Yeah, well, so they also, the New York Times, they also ran a puff piece on him that same week, and just so you know, Soleimani was directly- A puff piece on a torturer?
00:48:09.000A torturer, yeah, well, and he was also directly responsible for the deaths of Americans in Iraq, right?
00:48:14.000And this was also known information at the time, so it's not like we just unearthed this nowhere.
00:48:19.000Oh, great, so how did they fluff it up for us to make it palatable?
00:50:17.000I hate the fact that you get even pundits like that, though, who are like, well, you know, I don't want to crap on their culture of, you know, murdering a woman who won't wear a silly hat.
00:50:30.000Like, when you're talking about, you know, foreign policy, I understand that there is a bit of a game that you have to play to try to affect change.
00:50:37.000Back regimes into corners sometimes and they can become more violent, especially against their own citizens.
00:50:42.000But I don't hold out any hope that that's actually what's going on with this administration because Biden and Obama were the people who did the deal with Iran in the first place to give them cash all over the place.
00:50:53.000I don't think that they are actually going to push back and they're saying, well, We're just playing the long game.
00:50:59.000Joe, you've been in office for about 50-ish years now, right?
00:51:02.000You took a little bit of a break because you guys couldn't win.
00:51:05.000And you had every opportunity as Vice President of the United States to affect change in Iran and support the Iranian people.
00:51:11.000They've been protesting for a very long time in Iran at different points.
00:51:15.000And the United States hasn't stood up and said, you know what, we back the people of Iran nearly enough.
00:51:19.000I guarantee you right now, if President Trump was in office, and this was going on, it wouldn't be that kind of
00:52:18.000Why is one exceptional and one will never advance?
00:52:21.000And it's just, you know, use these opportunities to show the difference, the huge difference between what this American experiment is and these people that are living in the seventh century.
00:52:31.000Well, and it's so easy to almost talk about now because everything is so, I don't know, it's so watered down, you're so used to hearing such painful things, but like, this is a human being, this is a woman who did absolutely nothing wrong.
00:53:20.000And like, this is a- I just hate- I find it so disgusting that you would kill a human being over facewear, and we're still living in a time where, like, we're talking to you on the internet right now, surrounded by, you know, microphones, and there's- Guys building electric cars, and this culture's still like, oh, she's not wearing a face mask even though she did what we asked her to do.
00:54:45.000I'm done trying to appease regimes that we hate.
00:54:48.000And this includes Saudi Arabia, by the way.
00:54:50.000This includes Qatar and places like that.
00:54:52.000I'm not a big fan of throwing gay people off of buildings and seeing if they can fly for the thousandth time just to see if we could prove the point, okay?
00:54:58.000I'm also not a fan of throwing death and human suffering at constructing stadiums so that you can host a World Cup.
00:55:05.000Six thousand plus people, I think, have died during the construction of those stadiums.
00:55:09.000I'm just saying, let's stop playing like we like these cultures.
00:55:14.000Let's just call them out when they need to be called out, and let's just support their citizens when they yearn for freedom!
00:55:20.000And if you think you're liberal or have any idea of what that actually meant at one time, you certainly don't support the murder of somebody under these ridiculous dictatorships.
00:57:11.000Well, it's 174,000 degrees there, so... That's... I know a lot of people that have been stationed in the Middle East, and several people have said, God doesn't want you to live there.
00:59:59.000She needed a chairlift to go up the stairs, and instead- Fresh out!
01:00:05.000They were like, look, we can't really get you a chair right now, we can murder you.
01:00:11.000For Christine Gauthier, the fight to get a wheelchair lift in her home has been an uphill battle.
01:00:17.000I have to crawl down the stairs on my butt with the wheelchair in front of me to be able to access my house.
01:00:27.000While pleading her case to a Veterans Affairs case manager over the phone in 2019, she was told something that would leave her feeling shocked.
01:00:35.000If things are so hard at this point and you just can't keep going on, then you know we can assist you with aid to die.
01:03:44.000Oh, boy, Canada, you guys are something.
01:03:48.000But here's a gal that served her country and needs some help, as opposed to the people at Walmart that use the electric chairs because they're lazy.
01:04:35.000I did see one guy that ran out of battery charge.
01:04:37.000If you jump on him like Super Mario Brothers, a bunch of chocolate coins come out.
01:04:46.000If you're going around Walmart because you're morbidly obese, no offense, I like them curvy too, but if you're going around a Walmart in one of those using a reaching stick to get your groceries, maybe you need a call from the Canadian government.
01:05:45.000Yeah, look, I personally am one of the few people, and I'm sure a lot of people will be mad, but I'm fine if you are in massive amounts of pain and that is your choice.
01:06:33.000It's it's it's kind of like, yeah, it's kind of like the what do you call when they put you on death row and they shoot you with the lethal injection?
01:06:40.000Yeah, it looks like that, except it took way longer.
01:08:09.000Well, I put a clip up on my, uh, I hate to say it, TikTok, but I got one a couple of weeks ago where I was like, Hey, what, what are those?
01:08:15.000Uh, the guy was crutches and I didn't know they were.
01:08:17.000And I go, Oh, did you break something?
01:08:27.000And I go, okay, so I guess your compliment taking skills are handicapped as well.
01:08:33.000And fortunately, he was a fan of the show, so it was fun, but I'm like, I'm gonna just go ahead and walk my way out of this, you know, because I can walk.
01:08:42.000And it's so fun, because like, Prouder fans get it.
01:08:44.000You know, they laugh and he's enjoying it and loving it and stuff, so it was fun to play with.
01:08:48.000But I honestly didn't know what it was.
01:08:51.000And it turned out to be a sketch of a heckler who was a burn victim.