In this episode, we talk about the latest in the ongoing case against Jussie Smollett, and why it s so important to have a lobby for the family. We also hear from the founder of the American Principals Project, Terry Shilling, and Seamus Coghlan, the creator of Freedom Tunes.
00:00:23.000We also have this BLM activist who's been indicted on 18 different felony charges for fraud, along with her husband, so we'll talk about that.
00:00:31.000Disney workers are going to be protesting the parental rights and education bill, which makes no sense.
00:00:35.000As it turns out, the majority of Americans actually support the content, the core of this bill.
00:00:40.000Of course, we also have stuff happening in Ukraine, so we'll be talking about that as well.
00:00:44.000Unfortunately, tonight Ian is sick and will not be joining us.
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00:04:16.000Court orders Jussie Smollett released from jail during his appeal after just six days in prison.
00:04:23.000Disgraced Empire actor Jussie Smollett will be released after serving just six days.
00:04:27.000Judges sided with his lawyers, who argued that he would be finished with his sentence before the appeals process was complete.
00:04:34.000He was sentenced to 150 days after being convicted of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for falsely reporting a racist and homophobic attack in 2019.
00:04:42.000Smollett could have served just 75 days with good behavior.
00:04:45.000He had been kept in psychiatric care in a restraint bed in the Cook County Jail.
00:05:23.000We have no idea what his motives are, but it sounded to me like it was at least possible that this is something a person who's planning on killing themselves would say if they were a complete egomaniac who wanted people to think that there was some kind of conspiracy behind it.
00:05:35.000There's something sociopathic about this guy.
00:05:37.000I mean, when you have someone that's able to literally, like, cry on demand and go into great detail about the entire hoax.
00:05:47.000And I think this is really tragic, this whole news story, right?
00:05:52.000The whole point of punishing these people is to show society what happens when you do something like this.
00:05:58.000And so, he gets out of jail now after six days.
00:06:01.000There's going to be a lot more hoaxes.
00:06:03.000And I think that might actually be deliberate on the left's part, right?
00:06:06.000Like, they don't want these hoaxes to go away.
00:06:10.000There was a tweet from, I think it was Matt Walsh, and he had a bunch of tweets from like him and Andy Ngo.
00:06:17.000And he was basically saying that he couldn't, you know, in almost every circumstance, these hate crimes where someone spray paints something, they turn out to be hoaxes.
00:06:25.000And then he shows this story in four parts, you know, quote tweets from Andy Ngo, him, and some other person.
00:06:31.000And you know, he says, I can't recall a single moment.
00:06:35.000It may have been Andy Ngo said this, in recent memory of one of these turning out to be real,
00:06:40.000someone responded with, you should pay attention because this happened at Emory and then post a
00:06:43.000link. And then Andy Ngo is like, the guy who did that was a black, the guy who wrote the graffiti
00:06:47.000and the racial slurs was actually a black guy. So I got to be honest. Yeah, the only, the only
00:06:54.000instance I can think of that was, was not a hoax was like some kids in New York use sidewalk chalk
00:07:03.000And it was like some little kids, so there was no real like direct attack on a store or a person.
00:07:09.000I'm like, no, I think that one was like actually, maybe I'm wrong about that.
00:07:13.000But there was that story I remember that was a former NFL player had a pizza shop and like a chicken shop and then they were they were doing really bad so he just ransacked them and spray-painted racial slurs and then you know.
00:07:25.000It happens and the thing about these little kids I remember in high school my friends would prank me by drawing swastikas on my notebook.
00:07:44.000They don't understand the gravity of the Holocaust and how terrible it was.
00:07:48.000And so they prank each other with that.
00:07:50.000It's usually either a really terrible prank from someone that's super immature or a total hoax where someone's trying to get more attention or get away with fraud.
00:07:58.000I think it's people just trying to get attention.
00:08:00.000How many churches have been vandalized?
00:08:03.000I mean, you've probably seen these stories, right?
00:08:04.000They'll put racial slurs in the parking lot and then it was just like, it was someone from the church backstaging a hoax.
00:08:12.000Yeah, no, I mean, it's disgusting stuff.
00:08:13.000I'm sure a couple years ago, you guys remember there was this story at Mizzou and within one of the bathroom stalls, someone had drawn a swastika using fecal matter.
00:08:22.000And we were told that this was a neo-Nazi attack.
00:08:25.000And so first of all, extremely unbalanced, mentally ill person to draw anything with fecal matter.
00:08:30.000But somebody who's actually a Nazi is not going to depict their sacred, cherished symbol with human crap.
00:08:40.000This is a hate crime It was very bizarre instead of like wow what a bizarre disgusting thing to do it was this is white supremacy Yeah, it's hard sometimes waking up and being like oh, that's the news again.
00:10:26.000I mean, and also, so I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with Brian Peck, but he was convicted, I believe, of raping a child, and he was brought back to work at Disney after he served his sentence.
00:10:40.000So yeah, ABC slash Disney hires convicted child molester Brian Peck to work on children's TV show one year after he's released from prison.
00:10:46.000So the idea that they're above hiring Jesse Smollett is... Yeah, that's true.
00:10:50.000And they gave, you know, was it Roman Polanski?
00:11:31.000He's repairing his marriage after that.
00:11:32.000That's why that's why sometimes that's why I say I wake up and I see the news and I'm just like, how about we go and talk about, you know, Donut Factory instead?
00:11:40.000Because it's it's it's just I'm sick of how do people believe this stuff at this point?
00:11:45.000How do how do we how do we sit back and allow these kind of things to happen?
00:11:49.000You know, it's just kind of mind-numbing.
00:11:50.000Yeah, well, you know Ian mentioned this the other day that I'd said to him the way I define elite is as a person who's never gonna face any consequences for their actions and we see that in the case of Jesse Smollett.
00:12:00.000He was sentenced but then he's let go after serving six days.
00:12:03.000So honestly, I guess those are more harsh consequences than a lot of other people we would consider elite would ever end up facing but we shouldn't be surprised that he's let go because what he did was try to forward the narrative that they're constantly trying to promote in the media.
00:12:55.000Well, this is hilarious because every single time anyone on the right points out that a person has done something terrible, the left goes, I thought you were against cancel culture, as if that's any kind of point against our argument that you shouldn't comb through someone's tweets from 12 years ago and then try to cancel them because they said men are men.
00:13:12.000That race car driver's dad, who's had the Edward in the 80s, and so sponsors canceled him.
00:13:20.000Some things should be canceled, right?
00:13:22.000Like there's a reason why we have laws in prison and like some things should have a stigma to them.
00:13:26.000Yeah, but I think the problem is it always comes back to this one issue where it's just, you know, institutions and even conservatives take these people seriously.
00:14:30.000They don't, they want us withdrawing from society and not participating, right?
00:14:36.000And I think that it's really important not to fall trap to that, but also to figure out
00:14:39.000how to not support them and give them legitimacy.
00:14:42.000Yeah, so it's interesting because I think you're right that they don't fall for it because
00:14:45.000to them it does not matter whether something is true or false.
00:14:47.000What matters is whether it maps under their ideological worldview because then in some subjective sense it's poetically true so it's okay for them to promote it and it forwards their goal which is overall good and noble.
00:14:57.000The people who fall for it are the conservatives who don't immediately say this sounds ridiculous and it's probably BS because we're afraid that there's some slight possibility that it's a true story and we don't want to be labeled racist the one time it may have actually happened.
00:16:30.000I think that you guys are underestimating how good of an actor Jesse is.
00:16:34.000He's just gonna slip into a new life somewhere, become a different person, and he's just gonna blend in wherever he is because he's so talented that way.
00:16:43.000And then there's gonna be some beloved celebrity 20 years from now who everyone worships and he's gonna go It was I all along!
00:18:03.000So they're, you know, they're giving him that penalty.
00:18:05.000The idea is there's something called the trial tax.
00:18:07.000You go to trial, you get a harsher penalty because the idea is really that you're wasting the court's time, so they punish you.
00:18:13.000But the idea is supposed to be that you haven't learned your lesson, so you need more time in jail.
00:18:18.000Well, and then, to put it cynically, the other idea is if we make people feel more afraid to go to trial, then we can just sentence people for crimes without actually having to give them their day in court.
00:20:33.000Or, I would always have them, they cut the corn off into a cup and mix it with mayonnaise, parmesan, and cayenne, and they had it to you, it was like a dollar.
00:20:44.000But only, like, they couldn't cross Cicero on the south side, because when you crossed... So this is the fascinating thing about the Midway area.
00:20:52.000From, like, Harlem to Cicero, which is a few miles, from 47th to, like, 63rd was a generally white Polish immigrant and, like, whiter area.
00:21:02.000When you crossed 47th to the north side, it was all black community, all black housing.
00:21:06.000When you crossed Cicero, it became all, like, Latino.
00:21:09.000So the city for some reason banned the Elotes guys from coming into our neighborhood,
00:21:13.000but they couldn't cross Cicero. And that was the weirdest thing to us because we were like,
00:21:18.000so the guys who sell corn who are Hispanic can stay in the Hispanic neighborhood,
00:21:22.000but we like the corn. We love those guys. They took it away from us.
00:21:27.000It's almost like they wanted the segregation in that city.
00:22:39.000It's like you were saying those words.
00:22:41.000But yeah, no, it's true that there are a lot of things from other cultures that can be sanctified, and people from different cultures are able to relate to each other.
00:22:48.000And part of the problem is because racial tensions are so high, and we have really stoked the flames of genuine hatred along ethnic lines, people are afraid not only to participate in other people's cultures, but to even engage in humor that might be targeted towards other groups, even in a more playful way.
00:23:05.000And I find it interesting because I think you see this happen sometimes.
00:23:09.000Every now and again, you'll meet that couple who make jokes about each other, but you can tell it's in like kind of a stabby sort of way.
00:23:16.000They're really being sort of, uh, crass and snide to each other and it's very painful for everyone who's there.
00:23:22.000But then you have some couples who can kind of poke fun at each other and it's really funny and everyone enjoys it.
00:23:27.000I think what happens is, as a relationship between two people or a group of people breaks down, humor goes from something which can be cherished and which is very endearing and helps bring them together, and it turns into something really insulting.
00:23:39.000And the same exact joke can be really funny coming from a person who you have a good relationship with, or really offensive coming from someone who you don't.
00:23:48.000And so I think breaking down racial relations, people ask why everything's so PC.
00:23:53.000I think a huge part of it is we just don't trust each other.
00:23:56.000I was just thinking about the cultural appropriation stuff and the protests.
00:24:00.000Remember that video where the girl at prom or whatever, she wore the... Chinese dress?
00:27:01.000We got the story from the New York Post.
00:27:03.000Boston social justice activist and husband scammed at least $185,000 from donors, so saith the feds.
00:27:12.000They're being hit with, I think it's 18 different charges, federal charges.
00:27:18.000They say a high-profile social justice activist in Boston and her husband used a non-profit they founded to scam at least $185,000 from donors who included a Black Lives Matter chapter and the local DA's office, federal authorities allege Monica Cannon Grant and Clark Grant allegedly treated their violence in Boston organization as a personal piggy bank to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon, summer vacation trip to Maryland.
00:27:43.000I heard that they were going to bubblegum shrimp.
00:27:45.000That was one of the things that was heavily reported.
00:27:48.000They're going to mention the following year she was named Best Social Justice Advocate by Boston Magazine and one of the Boston Globe's Bostonians of the Year.
00:27:58.000When will people stop falling for this stuff?
00:28:32.000NBC actually deceptively edited the phone call in order to make it sound like Zimmerman was describing Trayvon Martin as being up to no good because he was quote-unquote black.
00:28:42.000They asked him, what does he look like?
00:28:43.000He says he looks like he's up to no good.
00:28:45.000He's wearing a black hoodie, something along those lines, and they cut it together to say he looks like he's up to no good.
00:29:13.000It's just every single day there's a new lie and these people... Rittenhouse!
00:29:17.000Yeah, the whole thing, the entire thing was that, oh, he crossed state lines and he shouldn't have that gun.
00:29:21.000As soon as I saw the story, it was very obvious to me, and I think everyone who saw it, that this was a case of self-defense.
00:29:27.000But then they started muddying the waters by saying he had broken gun laws or crossed state lines and maybe he was looking for trouble.
00:29:33.000But not only could none of that be substantiated, I'm pretty sure they just made all of it up because it was so obvious that this kid was defending himself.
00:29:41.000And then what ends up happening is people go, well, because they've muddied the waters, now we have to wait for more answers before we can really be sure and take a side, and the story loses momentum.
00:29:50.000At a certain point, I just, you know, every few months I say something where I'm just like, It's all the same thing every day.
00:29:58.000We wake up, we have a new story, because I've been talking about these stories and criticizing the hoaxes going on seven or so years now.
00:30:08.000A little bit longer, but doing the actual YouTube stuff and the podcast stuff.
00:30:11.000And at a certain point, I'm kind of just like, what's the point of saying it if it doesn't change anything?
00:31:16.000Maybe, you know, what needs to happen is we're growing, we're building infrastructure, we're expanding, we're doing new shows, we're getting a new headquarters.
00:31:24.000And then I guess what really happens is in 10 or 15 years, these cable networks won't exist anymore.
00:32:34.000And I'm wondering if there's just cultural swings in terms of what people are interested in.
00:32:39.000And sitcoms have just, you know, there's too many options.
00:32:43.000So people are watching a bunch of different shows.
00:32:45.000And also, You know, back when this show was at its peak, we didn't have this plethora of content and we didn't have this plethora of streaming services.
00:32:56.000So what's happening is, it's not so much that people don't like the show, it's that over time, people start using technology and they start absorbing information in different ways.
00:33:04.000So the reason I bring this up is that I think it's entirely possible and likely that within 10 or 15 years, CNN just has nothing and they're gone.
00:33:12.000And then it doesn't matter that people believe them because there's nothing to believe anymore.
00:33:27.000You plug your brain right into the Neuralink and then Shim speaks directly into your mind.
00:33:31.000I think what's gonna end up happening too, unfortunately, and people are gonna have to be vigilant about this, is As you have mentioned, it's very easy to covertly fund people online, so I think there are going to be a lot of people who want to promote the establishment narrative who are going to be very well funded by people from within the establishment who traditionally would have just given their money to CNN or placed advertisements on their network.
00:33:52.000You see it on YouTube, the favorite channels.
00:33:56.000They're trying to prop up CNN so much to perpetuate all these lies.
00:34:00.000Are you guys familiar with Defiant Ls?
00:34:18.000And the next one is like Jussie Smollett's sentence to 100 days in jail for hate crime folks.
00:34:22.000And it's just like, yeah, you know, you shouldn't be listening to people who are... I'll tell you this, I can give him credit for being a bit skeptical, for sure, but it's like, at some point, you kind of just say, like, we know, or we should err on the side of that was BS.
00:34:37.000Yeah, well, the skepticism only ever runs in one direction.
00:34:40.000Every single time we hear an accusation of racial hatred, we're told if we don't buy into it, hook, line, and sinker, it's because we actually just hate black people and not that we want more evidence before we jump to a conclusion.
00:34:51.000But when it runs in the other direction, when it's a BLM activist or Jussie Smollett hoaxing or doing something illegal or corrupt, well then we need to stop and wait for the evidence and make sure that we have all the facts straight before we comment.
00:35:03.000I can think of one time there was a mass campaign with racist vandalism.
00:35:09.000It was carried out by a bunch of young white men.
00:35:11.000It was when those white supremacists put up those flyers everywhere saying it's okay to be white.
00:36:11.000It's not actually looking at specific ethnic backgrounds.
00:36:14.000So Irish people and other ethnicities, which were generally more Catholic, as a matter of fact, such as the Irish, the Italians, the Polish, were not considered white, even though we had white skin.
00:36:25.000So I see whiteness, quote unquote, as an identity, which has often been used to exclude Catholics.
00:36:31.000Well, that's not something I identify with.
00:36:32.000That's partially what the left critical race theorists argue.
00:36:35.000That whiteness is a political term and always has been, because there were white people who weren't white, and they actually argue now, Eastern Europeans aren't white.
00:36:42.000Like, Luke Rutkowski, blonde hair, blue eyes, they say is a person of color.
00:36:48.000In the United States, we have a very unique racial history as a result of slavery.
00:36:52.000Black people, unfortunately, lost a lot of their ethnic identity because they were brought over here forcibly and were not able to retain the information on what part of Africa they came from specifically.
00:37:02.000And I think that's become rejected onto people who we call white now, even though they would have considered themselves Irish, Polish, Italian, Dutch when they came over here.
00:37:10.000They're thrown into an analogous category of white, even though they're more or less Identifying or had identified until much more recently with their ethnic identity rather than their racial identity Yeah, this is exactly what but this is this is one of the arguments from the left that the reason why you know There's no issue with black pride or power is because they don't have an ethnic identity.
00:37:32.000They have a racial identity because of what you just described Yeah, whereas for a white person you could say you're proud of being Irish or Scottish or Ukrainian, but not white Yeah, but there's this kind of Mountain Valley fallacy, which they engage in, where they will try to say things like, we're only against white privilege in a system that places you on a pedestal simply because of your skin color.
00:37:51.000We're not actually talking about your skin color specifically.
00:38:03.000If whiteness is political, then a millionaire celebrity Who is propped up by the media and defended when he commits a hoax, and then still has activists getting his back.
00:39:01.000The ADL changed the definition of racism to be about something like racial dominance or something like that and then had to change it again like a week later and apologize because something happened in a Jewish community and they were like, oh, maybe we should have thought about what we were claiming because people started saying you couldn't be racist against Jewish people or something like that and then all of a sudden the ADL was like, we better revert our definition.
00:41:13.000It was a card game that was supposed to be, you know, it was for black people to play, and it was about black culture, and it asked questions like, what movie does every black person have in their collection?
00:41:23.000And I thought it was racist and I'm like, man, I, but a far be it for me.
00:41:27.000And it was, it was made and marketed by, you know, black people for black people.
00:42:18.000These individuals were forced to resign because they were pushing insane conspiracy theories about the Jewish people.
00:42:24.000Yeah, well, look, if you tell people that any time a group of people is successful, it's because they're stealing something from you, they're going to look at every successful group of people and say they're stealing something from us.
00:42:32.000I don't know why anyone thought that that would start and end with white people.
00:42:36.000Yeah, that's why I can't stand the, uh, just, like, the general anti-Semitic, like... So, anti-Semitism in general is annoying to me because it's the same CRT argument.
00:42:47.000A privileged group of people dominate.
00:43:09.000Well, and if you know, I have friends who are Orthodox Jews, and the reason that they have influence and that they are successful is because they have such a strong community.
00:43:27.000They help pay for each other's kids' tuition at school.
00:43:33.000I wish that Catholics had a community similar to that because it's so strong and it's admirable, really.
00:43:40.000I would get in there, honestly, though.
00:43:41.000I'm seeing it in a lot of places with Catholics.
00:43:45.000The annoying thing to me about antisemitism, be it from BLM or from white supremacist groups or whatever, It's like, right now in New York, we've had this ongoing problem where Hasidic Jews are being chased down and brutally beaten.
00:43:56.000And I'm just like, where is the great power structure to intervene and tell the police to actually deal with this hate that's happening on the streets?
00:44:10.000So I mean, it's like, you know, it's not Bill de Blasio anymore, but that dude is a far leftist who probably held all of these same insane beliefs.
00:44:17.000And so this idea that one group has privilege over the others.
00:44:21.000Yeah, sometimes some groups do, but I think the real issue is merit.
00:44:25.000Merit, drive, and a little bit of luck sprinkled on top.
00:44:59.000Family is why you love your country and why you go to war and you're willing to die in it so that your kids and your grandkids can have a good life.
00:45:32.000It's where there's, like, seven areas of the planet where people have a life expectancy that exceeds 100, or where there's, like, the highest propensity towards having people live over 100.
00:45:44.000And so some researchers went to these areas to figure out what do they have in common that may contribute to people living to be over 100.
00:45:51.000And there's some interesting things like they eat only till they're about 85% full.
00:45:59.000But one of the most interesting things is they all have a job.
00:46:03.000So they talked to this one, he's a Japanese guy, and he's like 102, and he's chopping wood.
00:46:08.000And they're like, why are you doing this?
00:46:10.000Shouldn't you be relaxing and be retired?
00:46:12.000And he's like, well, if I don't do it, who will?
00:46:15.000Someone's got to get the wood, and it was for his community and for his family.
00:46:18.000Community and family was another big part of it.
00:46:20.000They're very close-knit and tight-knit families and communities.
00:46:23.000And the reason he had to chop the wood was because he needed to make sure everybody had this available, and if he didn't, no one else would.
00:46:29.000I was also reading that The biggest spike in when deaths occur is right after retirement.
00:46:35.000So I think people need to understand how important purpose is in a human's life.
00:46:41.000Without purpose, people become dejected, depressed, and violent, like we see with so many young people these days.
00:46:47.000And with purpose, we see a lot of people living to be over 100 years old.
00:46:51.000And actually, there's a lot of studies that have come out over the last few decades that show the benefits of not just having children for your mental health down the road, but super old people, when they're around their grandkids a lot, their cognitive ability, they can reverse parts of dementia.
00:48:09.000And so then what happens is the old, you know, it stands to reason that Life evolves duty and purpose because those who have a sense of duty and purpose to each other are more likely to survive, more likely to have kids, and thus those traits are carried on into the future with us.
00:48:26.000Thus, family and community are extremely important.
00:48:29.000The other interesting thing, too, is I think purpose.
00:48:31.000You have to have a reason to do things to be alive.
00:48:34.000Otherwise, We're facing the rat utopia experiment in my opinion.
00:49:23.000And I would say, I mean, even beyond the sort of more materialistic Darwinian analysis, we can just say that human beings have deep spiritual needs.
00:49:30.000There's something about us that's very mysterious and difficult to understand.
00:49:33.000And when we're not contributing to something that we understand is greater than ourselves, we do start to fall apart.
00:49:43.000We've looked into this actually a lot on the economic side of things.
00:49:47.000And the funny thing is, you would think that having kids and getting married would put you further back in terms of how much money you're making.
00:50:32.000For people who, a long time ago, I'm not saying this to say that people should be religious, but certainly without religion, we can see people become listless.
00:50:42.000We used to have, you know, people had faith.
00:50:47.000You would go to church, and that meant you were with your community, you were communicating with each other, you were sort of synchronizing a lot of ways.
00:50:54.000It was a chance for the people who lived next to each other to talk about what was affecting them.
00:51:51.000Yeah, in a very strange way, the internet has actually alienated us from our own actual location.
00:51:56.000There's been something wonderful about the fact that it's given us access to people who are nowhere near us, but you stop forming social connections with the people who are right next to you.
00:53:35.000I'm sorry, like, when you're over 50% and your opponents are at 35%, imagine if Donald Trump had beaten Joe Biden by, you know, 51% to 35%.
00:53:47.000Like, so it's just the whole thing is skewed, the questions are skewed, but they had to at least admit it, that they were, that they're not.
00:53:56.000One of the crazy things is that 69% of Americans support the banning of Sputnik and RT, it appears.
00:54:03.000I mean that's kind of crazy to me. You should just watch that stuff knowing it's probably bunk, but
00:54:09.000see what they're telling people for sure. But I'm gonna try, I'm gonna see if I can find the uh the
00:54:13.000exact exact question here because it's funny the political poll question is not just a here we go
00:54:19.000instead of saying uh do you support the parental rights and education bill out of Florida?
00:54:27.000As you may know, the Florida Legislature has passed a bill, labeled by opponents as the Don't Say Gay Bill, limiting the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity to Florida school students.
00:54:35.000Some say that limiting these discussions will protect children from inappropriate classroom topics, while others say it will block important conversations about LGBTQ issues.
00:54:43.000To what extent do you support or oppose the following items in the bill?
00:54:46.000Banning the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade, Strong support is 37%, somewhat support is 13, and then
00:55:50.000Let me read you the question, reframed.
00:55:53.000As you may know, the Florida Legislature has passed a bill, labeled by opponents as the Don't Say Straight Bill, limiting the teaching of orientation and identity to Florida school students.
00:56:03.000Some say that limiting these discussions will protect children from inappropriate classroom topics, while others say it will block important conversations about traditional marriage issues.
00:56:11.000To what extent do you support or oppose the following items in the bill?
00:56:37.000There's like a super majority of Americans, and I know this is pretty radical, that the vast majority of Americans, they don't want to sexualize kids.
00:57:12.000Reddit, when it first started, one of the default subreddits getting a ton of attention was r slash atheism.
00:57:19.000That meant if you were a random regular person and went to Reddit, you would see posts from people about being atheists.
00:57:25.000So he made this cartoon where he basically mocked the idea because Reddit propped up a community that was just ragging on people for what they believed.
00:57:33.000And it's like, why, you know, why is that a thing?
00:58:02.000I lost my train of thought with my point, so you guys just start talking.
00:58:05.000Well, the big thing here is this stuff really is happening across the country.
00:58:10.000We did this video last week basically saying thank you to Governor DeSantis for protecting our kids from women like this in our kids' public schools.
00:58:21.000And it's this woman who started this sexy summer camp.
00:58:25.000And she's talking about, um, she's talking about how she's like, I encourage every kid, kids of all ages, all ages to, you know, basically abuse themselves.
00:58:37.000And she starts talking about how her nephews who started abusing themselves when they were toddlers, like going into this and it's like, guys, this is happening.
00:58:45.000Like there's a core, a coordinated effort to sexualize your kids and like break them.
00:58:50.000And so thank God, you know, I remember my point now.
00:58:53.000Basically, I brought that up because what the community was doing was making a whole bunch of people who didn't know a whole lot about religion just blindly be part of this hate mob against Christianity, but nothing else.
00:59:05.000And so, when you look at what's happening after the Don't Say Gay or whatever, there's a TikTok video where a guy is wearing a shirt with pride flags on it, and it's like, why do that?
00:59:40.000People are talking about COVID, and then one day, like a switch was flicked, it's Ukraine.
00:59:44.000Because they want to make sure the only thing you see is these stories and this information.
00:59:49.000This is why the Democrats called it Don't Say Gay.
00:59:51.000They want to make the argument, and then even Ben Shapiro walks into that trap.
00:59:55.000Ben Shapiro tweeted to Ted Lieu, this bill stops you from indoctrinating kids with your weird gender ideology or whatever, something that affects.
01:00:49.000Instead, the funny thing is, they still try and frame it in favor of the left's argument, and the majority of people actually still support the bill.
01:00:56.000It's really, it's gotta be depressing for them.
01:00:59.000No, I mean, think about all the levers of cultural influence that the left has here, right?
01:01:04.000Like, they've got the mainstream media, they've got Hollywood, they've got the music industry, corporate America, big tech, like, everything!
01:01:11.000Like, they control so many sources of information, and they still can't win on something like this.
01:01:16.000Well, I think maybe their power is faltering.
01:01:20.000You know, less and less people are interested in the lies.
01:01:22.000The lies have become more and more obvious.
01:01:24.000I think of it like they say that wealth lasts three generations.
01:01:29.000Someone works really, really hard and builds a big business, becomes a billionaire.
01:01:32.000Their son or daughter inherits it and then takes the company over and maintains it.
01:01:38.000So what happens is You know, the child of the entrepreneur was still taught the values of hard work, but was not someone who founded a company and could maintain that.
01:01:49.000Then they have kids who are taught to a certain degree the value of hard work, but certainly not how to start a company or even to maintain it.
01:01:55.000So by the third generation you see wealth start to fizzle out.
01:01:59.000I think of it similarly in terms to how the Democrats have institutional control and how the media is playing.
01:02:04.000It seems like, you know, two generations ago, media was strongly controlled by savvy marketers who were like keen on manipulating.
01:02:13.000Then their kids inherit it and they're like, keep the system up, keep it rolling, you know, CNN or whatever.
01:02:18.000Now we're on the third generation who are just like, I have no idea what's going on.
01:02:22.000And so they try doing the most outrageous and garbage propaganda that doesn't work and we're waking up to it.
01:02:27.000Well, it's interesting because one theme that has repeatedly come up as we've discussed the quote unquote, don't say gay bill is that if you're going to refer to it as an anti-grooming bill, it does, which would be great.
01:02:39.000And the left hears that young children below a certain age are not going to be discussing sexuality in the classroom when it would be wildly inappropriate.
01:02:46.000And they go, oh my goodness, but what about gay people?
01:02:50.000Instead of saying, look, this is a bill that is specifically set up to protect children from inappropriate discussions and also to ensure that parents are notified by certain things that the school district might otherwise try to keep from them, even though they have a right to know as parents.
01:03:01.000And all the left can think about is what about protecting the poor sweet gays?
01:03:27.000This is what you should be shooting for.
01:03:30.000I still have no problem with being like, we're not going to talk to preschoolers or third graders about, you know... About sexuality?
01:03:35.000Well, this is the bizarre thing, right?
01:03:37.000Imagine thinking you're going to get public opinion on your side.
01:03:41.000trying to fight a bill that says you can't talk to children below a certain age about sexuality with
01:03:46.000but then gay people won't be able to tell children about their sexuality when they're in preschool
01:03:52.000who like what world do they live in that they think the average person is going to hear that and go
01:03:55.000oh no oh my goodness. Seamus according to this poll at least we have around 34 percent of people
01:04:04.000who don't like that so you've got a third It's true.
01:04:08.000If we were to extrapolate the data, who are hearing this from Politico, probably for the first time, and saying, four-year-olds should be taught these things.
01:04:18.000You know, I thank goodness that I don't know anyone who would be in support of that, virtually.
01:04:22.000I mean, maybe I do know some people who are lefty, so I made friends with when I was younger, who, if I ask them about this in Reconnected, might say they support it, but... There's zombies.
01:05:28.000The one declaring gender modifications for minors to be child abuse, right?
01:05:32.000So, there are some disagreements on that, but guess what?
01:05:36.000He trolled the entire national news media into saying and letting Americans know that this is happening, gender modification for children are happening, and by the way, Republicans think it's child abuse.
01:05:46.000Something that like 80% of Americans actually agree on.
01:05:48.000We polled on this, and even like 60% of Democrats want to ban this stuff from my show.
01:06:01.000So how you, you know, we've got this battle.
01:06:04.000I think one of the core elements of the culture war is people who are discerning, who watch the news and seek out true information and try and fact check.
01:07:26.000Well, but that's the kind of thing that NPR would be incentivized against reporting on,
01:07:29.000which makes me more likely to trust them about it.
01:07:31.000Because their general interest is in promoting information that makes all of the COVID testing and vaccines, etc, sound better rather than worse.
01:07:39.000So if they're willing to say that, it's probably because they have something.
01:08:41.000there's like a complacency and a laziness like people don't want to deal with um really bad things right like we we end up like there's like a psychosis around that like when things are really bad we don't want to pay attention we just it's a human thing and that's why it always had there's a cycle to it Well, I'm curious.
01:09:00.000What would the NRA for families have to say about this and try to do about these problems?
01:09:44.000It's now just totally hedonistic and you're a weirdo if you have six kids.
01:09:51.000Have you seen the meme where it's like nine kids lined up and then the mom's pregnant and then there's a bunch of leftists saying this is disgusting and stuff like that?
01:10:01.000Well, it's so, but I mean, but that just shows their misanthropic hand.
01:10:09.000What they love is pleasure and engaging in pleasure.
01:10:11.000And they see other human beings existence is very inconvenient to them because that requires that they set themselves aside and make choices that are for the benefit of others.
01:10:36.000I don't know what you'd want to call it.
01:10:38.000There was the General Assembly, which was everyone gathered around and then the facilitators effectively controlled what could be said by who and when and how money was spent.
01:10:46.000But then you had a group of people who tried creating what's called the General Union.
01:10:50.000And these guys explained it to me that the way the union would work is that every tent at Occupy was a family that knew each other's interests, desires, and needs.
01:11:01.000And so a representative from each family would discuss with the larger group, instead of a group of random people all adhering to, perhaps, you know, the authority who facilitate the meetings.
01:11:09.000I thought it was interesting that their approach from it was, we're a family, we have needs amongst each other, we'll convey those needs to other families, and then ultimately see how that greatly, you know, but that was crushed.
01:11:21.000The general unit was basically wiped out of the park.
01:11:33.000The reality is, and Sheamus, you were talking about this earlier, like, we went decades without a, like, robust lobbying special interest group in D.C.
01:12:53.000So human beings have a natural desire to procreate, and it's very strange how over the past 50, 60 years or so that has been branded as sort of a strange, uniquely religious impulse.
01:13:08.000And people who are not Procreating or reproducing sexually try to find other ways to spread what they are to other people and so these woke activists They're essentially the byproduct of a society that has stopped seeing sex as something which is beautiful and unitive and procreative and can literally Create a human soul which will outlast the stars and the mountains and everything you've seen in this world
01:13:34.000Into something that's just there for me to get a little bit of pleasure out of and so what happens is people become Fundamentally restructured towards selfishness in pursuing hedonistic pleasure and because they're not procreating in the traditional way They have to make your children like them because that urge doesn't disappear.
01:13:54.000Maybe I think worse they're animals well, I think I think robots a better word than zombie for for a lot of people because There's something special with existence and life in general, and especially with human life.
01:14:06.000There's something special, there's unique, the human experience, the feelings that we have.
01:14:11.000But if you reduce everything to their mechanical functions, which is often what you'll see from, you know, the modern left, then there is no unique human experience.
01:14:24.000When in reality, I'll put it this way.
01:14:27.000There's a view among, you know, many atheists and more of the left that, you know, emotions are just, you know, response to stimuli to help, you know, propagate the species and all that.
01:14:41.000Humans have these reactions and all that really is, you know, that life is random.
01:15:38.000And he says, you know, I have seen things, you know, or he says a bunch of things, you know, like, that effectively are, life doesn't even matter.
01:15:47.000For, you know, tens of thousands of years, it has existed without life, and could you say it was not better off?
01:15:53.000What, what would human, you know, what good would Mars gain by having humans on it?
01:15:58.000And so, he can see the future, you know, in a certain sense.
01:16:02.000He tells the young woman who's with him that, you know, she'll leave crying.
01:16:06.000And he says, you keep telling me that I refuse to see, you know, your way, but you refuse to see the world my way.
01:16:14.000Because he wants her to perceive time and everything the way he does, so she can understand the sort of futility.
01:16:20.000So in the story, he then, you know, puts his hand on her head.
01:16:24.000She can then see past and future, but he can also see her past and future.
01:16:29.000And what he sees is that her mother was attacked by this other guy who tried to rape her.
01:16:36.000And she got beaten up by him, but someone came and stopped it.
01:16:39.000She then later went and met with this guy and had sex with him, and then got pregnant with this woman and gave birth to her.
01:16:46.000And that kind of shocks Dr. Manhattan, who's this very, you know, computeristic, like, methodical, lacking emotion.
01:16:53.000And then he says he was wrong, and he realized that, you know, he thought he had never seen a miracle before, but then he realized that in her, All of these random moments and all of this energy and all of these things that should not have come together, come together in such astronomical odds that you could only describe humans as that miracle.
01:17:15.000So what he was basically saying is like your mother, it is like out of all the billions of years, out of all of the different life forms that came and died, it comes down to your mother who loved a man she had every reason to hate and from it is just you.
01:17:29.000And all of those things forming this one moment could be described as a miracle.
01:17:35.000I love that way of thinking about it, that we are these unique entities that took billions of years to finally, you know, come to or however long you think that everything that was around us ultimately leads to this point.
01:17:47.000And it seems like the odds are astronomically, it's beyond comprehension.
01:17:52.000And that's something magnificent and unique and special.
01:17:55.000So the people who look at this and say, it's random, it's whatever, I'll be like, yo, winning the lottery is random, but boys, it's special when you do.
01:18:02.000Now, your life and your uniqueness is 100 billion times winning the lottery.
01:18:08.000And that's something truly special and unique.
01:18:10.000That's a really awesome way to think about it.
01:18:11.000A unique human being created by you is more astronomically at odds than winning the lottery.
01:18:22.000And I want to mention this because I'd be remiss not to correct myself, maybe I'm being pedantic here, but when I mentioned parents creating life or souls, you are collaborating with God in that creative process.
01:19:14.000And so they did another thing where they had an egg from the other spouse that didn't have the baby implanted into the other mother, and then they had it.
01:19:24.000But they would fight over which kid was cuter.
01:20:36.000Well, and I think there are some people who are not called to have children and that's fine It's okay for that lineage to end with you But if you are called to have children that that is a very beautiful thing That is a very beautiful thing to do and as I'm sort of mentioning earlier, you know You're collaborating with God in this creative process and of course he creates the soul but to be a parent and to have a child that That you are bringing into the world through his graces and the ability he's given you to do so is such a beautiful and profound thing.
01:21:02.000And yet as a culture, we don't just have an indifference towards it.
01:21:08.000And you know, too, you know, I was just mentioning how it's like, you know, having a child is like infinitely like at more at odds than winning the lottery.
01:21:15.000Like the uniqueness and the rarity of that is something truly special.
01:21:18.000I mean, and if you're really concerned about money and you'd rather buy the lottery ticket, just think about this.
01:21:51.000Well, this is the the world we're in now is that You we have two distinct visions of reality and it's very strange and this is why I often talk about transhumanism I don't know if you've read a lot of it, but clearly Those of us who are not talking about living in a digital world or having an internal identity or anything like that outside of, you know, ourselves, we live in base reality, I suppose.
01:22:17.000And then this other faction of people, they live in a digital or, you know, just a different version of reality.
01:22:25.000I wonder if the internet is helping create this sense of separate identity from your body because people now have a way to go online, especially now with VR, and create avatars, create facsimiles or representations of themselves.
01:22:41.000Whereas for the most of human civilization, you are your body.
01:22:45.000I mean, now we have people who exist in a different space where they engage in commerce and communications, but they create a different version of themselves for these spaces.
01:22:55.000Even different voices, if they end up speaking.
01:22:57.000Voice changers or otherwise, cartoon versions of themselves.
01:23:01.000What happens then when those people enter the metaverse?
01:23:03.000They will create whatever version of themselves they want, but for those of us that just maintain base reality, live here and carry on, we're gonna have families, we're gonna have kids, and we're just gonna be like, I'm just some dude here in blue jeans.
01:23:15.000I mean, we already see it very much so that people don't want to live in base reality, and what they're trying to do is take their own mental reality, their subjective experience of what the world is, and what their place should be in it, rather than what their place actually is, what they think it should be, and then they're trying to transform their bodies in accordance with that.
01:23:30.000That's the entirety of the transgender movement.
01:23:32.000Truth be told, I would love virtual reality.
01:23:37.000You know, when the new Elder Scrolls come out, I'm gonna put that VR on and I'm gonna be firing the bow and arrow at some dragons!
01:23:43.000But the interesting thing to me is that, you know, when I play these games, it's just like first person, it's your hands, and they're moving around.
01:25:39.000I think at this point the article is probably outdated, but I would say at this point we're seeing, with the metaverse and everything, most people are going to, they will beg for Neuralink.
01:25:51.000They will just be like, I don't care who's in charge, I don't care if you can erase my brain, I want to be a magic elf fighting a dragon more than anything, just get me out of this.
01:26:57.000Like, Christianity has a totally different understanding, which is that your soul and your body are intricately related, and once those two are separated, that's called death.
01:27:06.000And so I think, you know, if I'm an atheist and I hear about Neuralink and I hear about transgenderism or whatever, you're born in the wrong body, it actually kind of makes sense.
01:27:15.000Like, if there is no God and your consciousness can, like, be replicated and put onto a hard drive, like, why not?
01:27:22.000Like, you can technically have a copy of you living forever.
01:27:32.000So they're, you know, it's not necessarily mystical animals.
01:27:35.000For a lot of these people, they say they're like, you know, owls, you know, or whatever, or wolves, or they'll say they're like part owl, part cat, or things like that.
01:27:43.000But for some people, they think they're dragons.
01:27:45.000They think they're, you know, wyverns, or however you pronounce it.
01:27:49.000They think they're mystical creatures that don't even exist.
01:27:52.000And so that's why I think identity issues are well beyond just transgender.
01:27:57.000I think, we've been seeing this on the internet for a long time, people have, maybe narcissism or however you want to explain it, separated their internal self from their physical self.
01:28:09.000That to me I think is, maybe there's something within people that, you know, they can fathom the concept at some point, but you need some kind of catalyst to make it more pronounced, and I think the internet is that catalyst.
01:28:24.000An opportunity for people to enter a space where they can exist as something different, at least in facsimile.
01:28:30.000So, you know, right now, you can put on the Oculus, and I did this a while ago.
01:28:35.000Man, I'll tell you, during lockdown, when it first started, we were in Jersey, I went on my deck, I put on the Oculus, and I was on Google Maps, and I was walking around all these different places.
01:28:45.000Here's the crazy thing, before we even moved here, I went to Harper's Fair, and I like walked around to see what it was like, and go into the city and everything like that.
01:28:53.000But then there was also these chat rooms and they're really interesting where you can walk around and you can create a digital character for yourself and I make the joke that people walk around like carrots because there were some people that had like strange like rutabaga bodies like they wanted to be a rutabaga man and that's and for me I'm kind of just like Whenever I play these games, I have like a default avatar because I don't care about what this thing is.
01:30:17.000But people would always say to me, with all of these resources at their fingertips, if only I had money.
01:30:23.000People seem to think, if only I was Axe, then I would finally be happy, and I'm just like, if you're not happy with yourself, you know, you're not gonna find it chasing after some mythical dragon beast or, you know.
01:30:40.000If I, you know, when I play the, you know, when I use the Oculus, I don't really... It's fun, you know, and it's gonna be really fun when they create, you know, when they have better VR with haptic feedback.
01:30:50.000I don't know if I'd ever want to get Neuralink.
01:30:52.000But it is tempting to be able to play video games where you can actually like experience flight and stuff like that.
01:30:58.000But maybe the issue is there's too many people who are more weak-willed and would rather live in the fake reality where they can feel good all the time and they would wither away and die if they did.
01:31:07.000Yeah, I have a real aversion to it all.
01:31:11.000I really think that anytime you start to mess with your brain, the idea that someone could upload thoughts to your brain or download your thoughts, that's kind of freaky to me.
01:31:46.000He's coming out with a satellite phone that's hooked up to Starlink so he'll have a whole ecosystem and we don't even know does he have a payment processing system i mean i know he would help found paypal but that is pretty intense like you put one guy and then i don't know and then what's the other question like if he gets to mars is that his now
01:32:55.000Mike Rader says theory Joe Biden is not releasing the Migs to Ukraine because if he does, Putin releases blackmailed dirt on Hunter and the big guy receiving payment from the first lady of Moscow.
01:33:38.000Murph Try says Tim just wanted to let people know that there is a red flag law proposed for Kentucky, SB 278, and that 2A loving Kentuckians should contact their state reps to let their voice be heard.
01:34:02.000They're going to put him on a reality show and it's going to make money.
01:34:06.000I mean, we joked that we should do a short film called The Jussie Smollett Story, where we reenact cinematically like what happened and hire Jussie to do it.
01:34:15.000And it's funny because we joke because we know having Jussie in it would Yep.
01:35:43.000If you want to know our opinion on the Batman film, I mean I'm only speaking for myself here, but the arc is that Batman learns to use his platform responsibly.
01:36:00.000I thought so because at the end when he's talking, again spoilers, at the end when he's talking to the villains they go, I am vengeance, which is what he said, and he's been so irresponsible with his platform and what he's been doing in public, and he has to channel his celebrity in a productive way.
01:38:48.000Well, I'm excited for the stuff we're building.
01:38:50.000I thought you were going to say, I'm excited for it to hit the fan.
01:38:56.000The good news is, I think the patio that the truck drove over the other day, we're going to be able to, yeah, we can just clean it off.
01:39:02.000So we were worried because they just laid the epoxy and then pressing dirt into it would push it into the glue and you have to sand it off.
01:39:09.000But it looks like for now, we're not entirely sure.
01:39:12.000Some of it has come off, but not in the deepest area.
01:39:15.000So otherwise they got to sand the patio.
01:39:18.000Yeah, if you want a full-sized goat, my family used to have French Alpine goats, which were really good, really solid, adorable babies, and a lot of milk.
01:43:46.000I think Jussie is an egomaniac sociopath and that the reason he was screaming I'm not suicidal was because he was planning on killing himself so they had to restrain him to a bed with straps Because he would want to harm himself to create a legacy of that it was a conspiracy the whole time.
01:44:52.000Ian Crossland with a super chat saying, Seamus, please make O'Donald's in Freedom Tunes and make the O'Donald's worker an ethnic Irish guy.
01:44:59.000So, I don't know, he said ethical Irish guy.
01:45:13.000I was actually deciding whether or not I would malign an entire group of people based on their ethnicity, but before I could make that decision, Lydia did.
01:45:26.000I knew there was a reason I didn't trust her.
01:45:29.000So Ian is asking about O'Donald's, which harkens back to McDonald's, which I mean, it's possible that this particular McDonald family was Scottish, but MC is Irish, as the super chat above testifies from Ryan MC Cafferty.
01:47:42.000Buy what you gotta buy now before it's too late.
01:47:44.000much for the economic warfare, but you won't hear that in the mainstream media.
01:47:47.000Russia has a massive stockpile of gold, world abandoning USD as a reserve
01:47:52.000currency. Yep! Why would they do that? Buy what you gotta buy now before it's too
01:47:56.000late. Yep. Yeah. All right, let's grab some more.
01:48:00.000Padre Mortales says, Remember that by the Mexicans defeating the French, it helped prevent the French from helping the Confederacy, therefore helping the Union win the Civil War.
01:49:50.000So out of the 22 incubated we did, the first incubation, only 12 actually made it.
01:49:55.000Some of them appeared to not be fertilized and one of them stopped developing halfway through.
01:50:00.000My wife and I, to keep our kids busy during COVID, and also we were kind of worried the world's gonna fall apart, we got a bunch of chickens.
01:50:34.000So we have Roberto and Roberto Jr., and they have to be retired off to the boys' dormitory, which means they're gonna go off to other property and they're gonna live with all the boys, because you really just can't have all these babies that are being born, the boys, once they get to a certain age, off to the boys' dorm.
01:51:46.000Yeah, so we do like, we have cartoons in our vlog periodically, and some of them are just like, you know, the chickens doing chicken stuff.
01:53:03.000Yeah, so this is interesting because this is a little beyond my pay grade, but there's discussion over whether Russia was consecrated under John Paul II because there was a consecration of the world that we were sort of told was a consecration of Russia, but it's argued that to consecrate something is to set it aside.
01:57:42.000And after a while of playing the game, you're like, I would like to do things I can't normally do and have the game be easy, so you make yourself invincible, or you make yourself bigger, or you give yourself infinite weapons, but the game becomes boring fast.
01:57:55.000Because there is no game when you have access to anything and everything you want.
01:57:59.000So I wonder if what might actually happen is that when people go into the Metaverse, and they get to experience a virtual world where they can do anything, they say, this is boring.
01:58:08.000Well, isn't there a line like that in the original Matrix?
01:58:11.000Where he says something like, the original Matrix was blissful, but the human brain rejected it.
01:58:15.000They needed struggle, and conflict, and strife.
01:58:18.000Because when it was perfect, people just rejected it.
01:58:23.000I remember when I was a young'un, I discovered debug mode for Sonic the Hedgehog, that if you just pressed the controller certain ways, you could create whatever objects you want, and the game got very boring very quickly.
01:59:02.000Dude, when I was a youngin', let me tell you another youngin' story.
01:59:05.000I was competing in a high school film festival, and my name's been butchered really bad, but I got the announcer referring to me as Seamstress Copland when I won an award.
02:01:49.000You guys should definitely check out Freedom Tunes.
02:01:51.000They're gonna be releasing a cartoon tomorrow.
02:01:52.000I'm gonna describe it very dryly, but it's just basically on how World War 2 nostalgia is constantly being thrown at us over the years to encourage us to fight new wars, and we continually fall for it for whatever reason.