Will Witt and Amal Ekpunobi join host Alex Blumberg on the show to talk about the latest in the War on Vaxxing crisis in California and why we should all be vaccinated. Will also talks about his new book, "How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies," and why he thinks the Statue of Liberty should be replaced.
00:09:37.460And when you go and do these ride-alongs and you meet these police officers, you meet human beings who have lives and families and ambitions and dreams and goals.
00:09:46.400And the mainstream media wouldn't want anybody to see any of that.
00:09:50.000Yeah, and you guys talked to that young boxer girl who has to go to a boarding school, I think it was.
00:09:55.280Probably the craziest thing that I remember from that video is saying that people would rather call in sick to their jobs
00:10:02.680rather than ask one of the gang members to move their car that's blocking them in.
00:10:17.040And we went there, and this is a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood.
00:10:20.140But you drive through the neighborhood, and you'll see nothing but black people out on the streets partying, playing loud music, doing drugs.
00:10:27.640And it's because they're in a gang war and a race war in this area.
00:10:31.520So the gangs come, and they inhabit these neighborhoods where these Hispanic people live and don't allow them to leave their houses.
00:10:38.340Their children can't play in their yards.
00:10:40.260A story that was told that didn't get put in the vlog is that there are actually families who will come outside of their apartments or their duplex
00:10:48.240and pour bleach on their front doorstep so that the gang members do not feel inclined to stay there, so that the smell sort of drives them away.
00:10:55.880And this is happening in all of these neighborhoods in South Central.
00:11:28.280People in Los Angeles, you can basically get out of a prison with no bail or get out of a thing.
00:11:34.580And that's absolutely horrible that people can just commit crimes and then have no accountability.
00:11:39.080I talk about this all the time on my show that one of the biggest problems that we have in this country is that there is no accountability,
00:11:44.840whether it's for the individual, whether it's for the government, whether it's for society as a whole.
00:11:49.340I mean people just don't have to be accountable for their actions anymore.
00:11:52.260So then people will continuously mess up and do the wrong things until you make people feel like,
00:11:57.480hey, you commit a crime, you do something horrible, you're actually going to be in trouble for this and have to take responsibility.
00:13:42.220And really, if you distill it down and look to your local government, look to your school board, look to your sheriff, look to your county officials.
00:13:49.000They are the ones who are truly behind the legislation and the policy that is affecting your day to day life.
00:13:53.960So always look at the bottom of the ladder.
00:13:56.340Look at your local government and see what can be done there, because that's what's going to create tangible change in your community.
00:15:11.400They won't even look on the website that is telling them that they need to wear masks and get these vaccines and all these different things.
00:15:17.340I mean, when you look at the data and look at what has happened in this country and around the world, you will find that there have been cheap and good solutions for saving lives when it comes to COVID.
00:15:28.120And so now we have all these people who have been fooled into thinking the vaccine mandates and 10 boosters and getting the shot whenever you feel a little sad is essentially the way forward.
00:15:37.820And that's what people are pushing for nowadays.
00:16:00.000Well, to that point, do you think people are still getting their information from like the same sources on or are they getting any sources on this at all on vaccination rates, hospitalizations?
00:16:09.780The hospitalization rates for vaccines are almost identical in some places like Israel and here in Canada, Australia.
00:16:17.280It's been the other direction, even though their numbers are small.
00:16:20.020Do you think people are, you know, going out and looking for more information?
00:16:23.780Are they getting the same information or how do you feel about that?
00:16:27.360Oh, there's definitely people on our side of the aisle and I think free thinkers and classic liberals who are hopefully looking into this and getting more information and being skeptical of what the elites and these self-promoted experts are telling us.
00:16:43.240I can't tell you how many young people I meet who just get all of their information from the leftists that they follow on Twitter and they just go along with that.
00:16:50.200Or they're simply going off of word of mouth and their best friend told them that you need to get vaccinated and wear a mask or you're a bigot who doesn't care about grandmothers.
00:16:58.960It's just become a sort of cultural norm to not have any sort of skepticism, not question the hierarchy, not question the elites and go along with everything that they've said.
00:17:08.960And it's because we've sort of deviated from individualism in this country.
00:17:12.300So now everybody's acting as this sort of collective that looks up to this administration or the CDC or Dr.
00:17:19.060Fauci and just takes what they say at its value and doesn't question it whatsoever.
00:17:24.140And I don't know when that spirit died in this country, but you should certainly view anything, especially stuff that has to do with health and medical treatment with a great degree of skepticism.
00:17:34.360But it's certainly not happening for young people.
00:17:36.600They're just going along with the narrative.
00:17:37.940There was that one kid in the video who said, first, not directly to you, Will, but right after he said you were selfish right to your face for not being vaccinated on the campus.
00:17:49.600I imagine he thought you were possibly in the process of killing him without a mask.
00:17:57.180Yeah, no, we can all we can all sleep easy knowing that he did not die from me being around him without a mask on, unvaccinated.
00:18:04.460But truly, yeah, actually, that that conversation devolved into something that was a lot more things that we couldn't really put into the video where we got into a huge discussion about things.
00:18:14.640I mean, this is the thing that blows my mind the most about it is that so many of these people on the left, the left is supposedly like the anti big business party there.
00:18:23.260It's like how much can you really say that you're a rebel when you are supporting the same people who are mandating things and making money hand over fist that you don't have a choice in taking?
00:18:35.240How can you say you're a rebel when you side with those people?
00:18:37.980So this whole like leftist rebellion against the big system like that is dead.
00:18:43.200That is no longer around in this country.
00:18:45.060People would much rather like Amla was saying, it's much easier to be a part of the majority, to be a part of the herd.
00:18:50.760If you don't have to think for yourself and you can leave it up to someone else to do that for you, then you're going to be a content person in many ways.
00:18:59.120Even if you're not a happy person, you can be content.
00:19:01.780And for most people, content, contentness and mediocrity is good enough for their lives.
00:19:06.620Do you guys think there's been the slippery but slow slope into what, you know, children believe?
00:19:13.720I guess even college age students at this point, I think it's kind of sad that people are supposed to be adults, can't really think for themselves on mass.
00:19:20.920But do you think it's been a slow graduation to where it is now where you can't even say anything out of the norm?
00:19:26.440Forget saying, you know, Kanye sucks or Travis Scott is evil.
00:19:30.020Do you think it's basically, you know, a group thing collective in schools now where it's all assumed facts, whether it's the vaccine is the greatest thing in the world or Trump is evil?
00:19:40.720Do you think it's just all do they do you think they've been having conversations about it or is this just all assumed facts or like watching the view, but in real life day to day?
00:19:51.540I think that there are still times where there are a lot of young people going to, say, a public school or something and their parents taught them about Trump or Christianity or something like that.
00:20:02.060And, yeah, they might be in some ways a pariah with some people that they know.
00:20:05.280But I don't think I don't think we're in a totalitarian state or anything like that.
00:20:09.520I want to talk about a recent video of Amal, as I saw about trans ideology, where she's going off about that.
00:20:15.360And personally, I think conservatives have lost ground on this debate and they basically conceded the idea that this isn't, you know, that it is reality.
00:20:25.040There's no longer the discussion that it's not reality and you're not basically adhering to somebody's fantasy.
00:20:30.920And I wanted to talk about a quote that I wrote down from yours.
00:20:34.940It said, affirmation of this identity is very harmful to mental health.
00:20:41.280I mean, I do have my gripes with the conservative movement when it comes to transgenderism, because I don't think they are having the discussions that need to be had and they're not having it in a way that is compassionate towards the transgender community.
00:20:52.020I think we need to recognize that they are the people who identify with the transgender community truly identify with this.
00:20:58.000They are truly experiencing body dysmorphia or they have been convinced of experiencing that.
00:21:02.620But what you do by simply blindly affirming what they are and what gender they choose to be is you're actually harming these young people and adults and whoever is part of this community.
00:21:13.360The rates of suicide within the transgender community, one of the smallest demographics of our population, are exponentially high when compared to other demographics.
00:21:25.820Clearly, our blind affirmation and our subscription to puberty blockers and hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery, that treatment is not working.
00:21:34.760Because looking at the studies, which there are very few that have been done and very few that have been done long term, that sort of affirmation, especially clinical and medical affirmation, is not changing the rates of attempted and successful suicide.
00:21:47.300So if you truly care about trans people, if you are truly compassionate for the struggle that they are going through with their identity and who they believe themselves to be, you should look at treatment forms that are not having them killing themselves and committing suicide at the rate that they are doing currently.
00:22:02.980Clearly, what you're doing is not working.
00:22:04.500And we're hearing stories of teenagers that are going into clinics and expressing body dysmorphia and undergoing hormone therapy within a couple of months of expressing that confusion.
00:23:15.700They are weak and will not go and talk about it because they're scared of what other people are going to think about them.
00:23:20.060This is why the Republican Party in America is essentially dead, because they are weak and cater to the left whatever they want them to do.
00:23:28.680The people who are in the GOP in America care more about what the New York Times says about them, cares more about what the Washington Post says about them, than what they're actually doing to help their constituents, the people who put them into office.
00:23:40.580So, you know, all of these people who won't talk about it and dance around the issue, it's because you're weak.
00:23:46.460And I am asking you right now that if you say you're a conservative and you believe in these things, stop being weak and actually stand up for the truth.
00:23:54.540Stand up for what you know is right and say what is actually real.
00:23:57.560Otherwise, we just keep losing more and more ground to the left.
00:24:20.920Speaking of, you know, the culture getting away and being weak, the Thomas Jefferson statue in New York City Hall is being taken down or was just taken down.
00:24:55.040I don't think people are quite as aware of how pervasive these problems are.
00:24:58.860I know the wokeism in America has generally been growing, at least from what I've seen working on the left to being on the conservative side now.
00:25:08.020America looks totally different from the America that it was five years ago.
00:25:11.500And if we don't put a halt to this and start talking about it and teaching our history and teaching rightful history to Americans, it's not going to solve anything.
00:25:21.460There is a KGB defector by the name of Yuri Bezmenov that I encourage everybody to look up and listen to because he stipulated that ideological subversion, sort of deviating from reality and changing everybody's perception of what's real, started back in the 1960s here in America.
00:25:36.360We've completely educated a full generation since then.
00:25:40.180So it's going to take, you know, deviating back to our true American values, our true history.
00:26:32.020So my advice to people who are in these places that are incredibly blue, especially the people who are struggling, which there are many in California, is to leave.
00:26:55.300There comes a point when it is too late for a certain place, right?
00:26:58.620If you are in some some battle hundreds of years ago and you lose a fortress and you don't have the men to retake it, you don't stupidly stay and fight.
00:27:07.200You go back to another battleground or to another safe hold to regather your troops, right?
00:27:13.700To say that we just need to stay and fight for something that is dead makes no sense to me.
00:27:18.520So, granted, Amal and I are still here.
00:27:20.780We're figuring out plans and trying to see what what can happen in the future.
00:27:24.480You know, I'm not saying you need to leave right now and get it like immediately.
00:27:27.940But but think about it, because there comes a time when evil is too pervasive and too deep that that you as an individual can no longer be surrounded by that.
00:27:37.320It is toxic waste to be surrounded by so much of this stuff in California.
00:27:41.280I will add, though, yeah, don't don't be confused into the point that Will made about Texas being blue, the the woke ism and the left ism and that sort of organizing that grassroots organizing, which the left is fantastic at.
00:27:53.440I know because I did it is happening in all those great states, too.
00:28:00.040I came from a leftist organization in Florida, and that organization has only grown since I've left it.
00:28:04.340So it's going to be happening everywhere.
00:28:07.560And I think if you are in a state that is not supporting your values, the most important thing you can do in the short term is build a small community of people that do or find a local government that does support your values, because at least that is something to find solace in and find community in.
00:28:22.440I think part of the blame is the media's willingness to push things blatantly in one direction.
00:28:28.200And what I'm talking about is the Rittenhouse case and without even getting into the specifics, they were able to get away with literally lying about laws that are on the books for a year.
00:28:38.800They're able to get away with narratives.
00:28:40.780I think it was the Telegraph in the UK that said he shot three black people and then CNN only after it looks like they're going to get sued and he's acquitted.
00:28:49.740Are they now backpedaling and starting to inject facts?
00:28:53.160Oh, it turns out that this is what actually happened.
00:28:55.140Do you think there's going to be any progression towards media accountability where, you know, they're not basically strangling the American viewer into thinking one way?
00:29:06.020Do you think there's going to be any blowback?
00:29:07.460Because I remember back in the day and really dating myself here, it seemed like after an election, if some certain journalists got it wrong, they were gone.
00:29:16.580You know, but once Trump got elected, they couldn't really admit they were wrong.
00:29:19.660Do you think we sort of sort of gear back towards that?
00:29:22.360Or are they just so dug in now, you guys, that they're never, ever going to turn it around?
00:29:59.040I mean, the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who has special interests.
00:30:03.060I mean, you really think that's going to turn around because they got a couple of facts wrong that don't really matter and no one's going to hold them accountable?
00:30:09.260No, they are either going to continue to do what they do to an even greater degree because they can or they are going to absolutely implode and destroy themselves.
00:30:23.520I think I think they'll they will try in the short term to sort of fix up or at least get a few more conservative or, you know, at least free thinking people on their shows.
00:30:34.800I know that what we'll see hopefully is some legal processes after Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted and he will come and sue them.
00:30:42.060And once they feel it legally, maybe that'll happen.
00:30:44.160And I've read today that MSNBC is reconsidering having Joy Reid as one of their hosts because she gets such extreme reactions and, you know, their their ratings are tanking.
00:30:53.840So something is going to have to change.
00:30:55.440And like Will said, it's either they they shape up or they completely are destroyed.
00:32:56.640Plus, we have Will and Amla live that is growing, growing, growing.
00:33:00.260And we're doing that every single weekday at 2.30 Pacific, 5.30 Eastern on PragerU's YouTube and Facebook.
00:33:06.220And we're on all the different podcast platforms.
00:33:08.520But we're also working on a show for me, and I'll give you just a little bit of insight into it.
00:33:14.660It's going to be every episode looking into a different social issue.
00:33:18.680So transgenderism, systemic racism, feminism, and debunking as many of the leftist myths and lies that we can in a short period of time each episode.
00:33:28.400So really what I'm focusing on is armoring people, trying to reach young people who are like me, radical leftists, and waking them up through my experience and talking about my transformation.
00:33:38.720So that show will be coming up the bend very soon.
00:33:42.480Well, I'm very happy with everything you guys put out.
00:33:46.880I think the Wills, the Amlas, even the Vince Dows, the John Doyles, you guys are saying important things, I think.
00:33:53.460And especially for younger people, it's very important to have you guys talking about these issues every day live when I'm on my treadmill watching you guys.