00:00:38.000Some very big white pills out of the Trump administration this morning, particularly North Korea and the economy.
00:00:44.000We're not going to spend too much time on that because, of course, we have to talk about the much more serious white pill, the much more serious matter, which is Kanye West's new album, Yay.
00:00:57.000And we will be having on a special mystery guest to discuss with us the new album, if it's good, if it's bad, the best tracks, what are the influences.
00:01:18.000And, you know, I told people this morning, like way earlier this morning, I don't even, the days are so long.
00:01:25.000You know, when I wake up early or if I don't sleep, it just feels like the day is endless.
00:01:30.000It feels like early in the day was a week ago.
00:01:35.000For so long, when I was in college and a little bit after, Basically, in the afternoon every day, I would wake up at like noon, one o'clock, two o'clock, and go to bed in the evening.
00:01:44.000And to me, it just felt like that was a standard day.
00:01:47.000So it's like you wake up at 8 a.m. or you wake up at 7 a.m. or earlier, and it just feels like you've been awake forever.
00:01:55.000You've been awake since the beginning of time.
00:01:58.000So, like a million hours ago, I tweeted out and I said, Look, listen to the album so you could join the conversation because we'll be talking about the album.
00:02:07.000We want to hear your takes on Discord.
00:02:09.000And people are like, Oh, No, no thanks.
00:02:19.000I said, if you want to talk about the album, then of course, you know, you got to listen to it so you could join the conversation about the album.
00:02:27.000If you don't want to, I'm not going to make you.
00:02:44.000The last three albums have been very polarizing, and so we're going to hear opinion from both sides.
00:02:49.000I know myself, I stayed up all night listening to it on repeat, trying to find it, and also working on some other things.
00:02:58.000And I have to say, at first, I listened to it and I loved it in the initial playthrough, and then I listened to it again and I said, I hate this.
00:04:57.000And in a way, it was almost refreshing that this happened because these are two countries that have been.
00:05:03.000Hostile, like bitter enemies for half a century.
00:05:07.000And so the idea that one day everything changes, now we're going to be friends, we're going to meet each other halfway, not even meet each other halfway, North Korea is going to meet us all the way over here where we are, which is denuclearization, complete, irreversible, verifiable.
00:05:23.000And so that North Korea came out first and said, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
00:05:29.000Yeah, this is not going to work so much.
00:05:31.000To me, in a way, that was actually kind of.
00:05:34.000I think it was expected and it was refreshing that we could kind of see that someone's going to break the tension.
00:05:39.000That Trump responded in the way that he did, actually sealed the deal and made sure that the summit would be on.
00:05:45.000And since the letter, you saw North Korea adopt a much more conciliatory tone, where the Wednesday before the letter was written, which was last Thursday, they called Mike Pence politically stupid and they had this very provocative rhetoric.
00:06:00.000The same day as the letter, they come out with a big, long statement about how.
00:06:05.000Trump is a bold leader, and they still want to have the summit.
00:06:22.000But he met and discussed with Kim Jong-chol, who is the top North Korean envoy, in an 80-minute meeting where that envoy delivered to him a letter written by Kim Jong-un.
00:06:35.000And the media was all over Trump because he said, Oh, I appreciate it.
00:06:40.000Without having read the letter first, which is, I thought, funny and basically human because he literally just received the letter and, you know, then he had to give a press conference.
00:06:48.000So he met with him, he got the letter from Kim Jong Un, and then he announced that the summit is back on for June the 12th in Singapore.
00:07:14.000And This is simply to say we always have to go back and look at what was said before, not because it's like, oh, Nick was right about everything, although I am.
00:07:24.000The point is to say we have to reevaluate our narratives about the administration in the sense that we don't know exactly what Trump is thinking.
00:07:34.000We don't know exactly what his strategy is.
00:07:37.000Only Trump knows what his strategy is, what he's thinking.
00:07:40.000A very few select people even know what's going on in the White House, what the dynamics are, who's really in control.
00:07:47.000Talk about issues, when we talk about current events, we're using a narrative about Trump to explain things that are happening.
00:07:55.000So, for example, we look at the omnibus spending bill, or we look at the DACA deal, which eventually culminated in the Goodlot bill, which was DACA amnesty in exchange for border security, which is the wall, an end to chain migration, and an end to the diversity visa lottery system.
00:08:16.000And because we don't know what Trump's thinking, and we see events that are dissonant with what we expect versus what we see, in the sense that Trump has promised some things.
00:08:26.000And of course, things fall a little bit short sometimes, or there are setbacks.
00:08:31.000We have to use narratives to fill in the gaps, basically.
00:08:34.000We have to have a story about the Trump administration to kind of align how all these details fit together.
00:08:40.000So, one of the narratives, as you may well know, the black pill narrative, is that Trump has sold out, or the deep state has blackmail material on Trump, or Trump has been a shield from the start.
00:08:58.000Trump is not willing or able to carry out the promises that he laid out in the election.
00:09:04.000For some reason, whether it's that there are some external forces at play, or if he's just not that good of a person, or he was never that good of a person, for whatever reason, the narrative is Trump cannot accomplish these goals, or he does not have the political will, or he's not trying.
00:09:20.000And so, this is the kind of narrative that you hear during the serious strike, which says Trump has betrayed us.
00:09:26.000It wasn't that there's a different rationale here, it wasn't that there's a good faith reason for this.
00:09:32.000To carry out some promise somewhere else, it was a betrayal.
00:09:36.000And either it was the deep state or he's a neocon, whatever it is, but he is now decidedly against his stated promise of non intervention because he's now bombing Syria.
00:09:48.000And this means a prelude to a bigger war in Syria.
00:09:52.000If he sold out with the missile strike, that means he will sell out down the road.
00:09:56.000It will escalate, it will snowball into something bigger.
00:10:13.000And then the other narrative, my narrative, the Bill Mitchell narrative, we might call it, or the Nick Fuentes narrative, the Bill Mitchell Jr. narrative, is that Trump is trying his best to get these things done, but that there are severe restrictions and limitations on that.
00:10:29.000And the Congress, in his ability to move the bureaucracy as one man with very little help, and also these very creative and indirect stratagems that he often uses to negotiate in a public way.
00:10:41.000So, this is the narrative that explains the North Korea summit, the Syria strike, and all the rest in a way that the Black Pill narrative also orients the same facts and the same events.
00:10:51.000And it's important to look back on our predictions and our reactions, not to say, well, I was right and you were wrong and I'm smart and you're dumb.
00:11:02.000But the reason is to say if we're to evaluate Trump's present and future behavior, if we're to forecast what's going to happen in the North Korea summit, if we're to forecast how he might handle immigration, It behooves us to say, do the facts moving forward conform more to one theory or to the other?
00:11:20.000If the North Korea summit was canceled one day, but put back together within a week, and it was obviously strategy, it was obviously a game, and it was so clearly an indirect, creative, and a very public negotiation, like my narrative suggests, if it conforms to that theory, then we have reason to believe that Trump is working to carry out his promises, and therefore on other issues in the future, we can count on the same logic.
00:11:47.000And it discounts the idea that Trump has sold out and that, you know, if he was really a warmonger, would you see this put together within a week?
00:11:54.000And all that bombastic rhetoric about we don't care about this summit and, you know, whatever, we're done doing diplomacy with North Korea, all the rest.
00:12:05.000Would that be overturned so quickly if that was the case, if John Bolton was in control and he was sabotaging affairs?
00:12:13.000And then additionally, if North Korea was turned off because of John Bolton, would they come back so quickly?
00:12:29.000I think Trump's the best guy to do it.
00:12:31.000But more broadly, what this turnaround tells us in the last week and in such a naked and explicit negotiating tactic is that Trump is probably playing chess most of the time.
00:12:49.000Which you just have to love watching the journalists, who I hate, reporting on this stuff, whether it's CNN or any of the major networks, because there's just simply no disputing the fact that the economic numbers are crazy good.
00:13:04.000It came out today that unemployment is 3.8%, which is the lowest level in 18 years.
00:13:10.000Wages have risen 2.7%, which is a great thing.
00:13:14.000You know, wages haven't risen for like 25 years, where you've had all this economic growth and.
00:13:22.000This is a popular talking point by Bernie Sanders and some of the more democratic type populists that the people, the middle class, the working class, are not seeing the fruits or the gains of that economic growth.
00:13:34.000Because, of course, we've seen great strides in GDP growth and urbanization and all that kind of thing.
00:13:45.000And there are, I think, good counter arguments.
00:13:47.000Thomas Sowell talks about the fact that if you track individual flesh and blood people, As they move up from young working people to middle class professionals in their later ages to when they build some kind of wealth and have equity, you could see that, well, you know, wages might not be rising, but there still is mobility.
00:14:05.000Nevertheless, it's a great thing when we see that wages are rising.
00:14:08.000One of the biggest problems with immigration is that it drives down wages.
00:14:14.000You know, you have only so many low skilled jobs that are, you know, factory jobs, manufacturing jobs, retail jobs, whatever it is.
00:14:24.000There's only so many of these bottom rung jobs for people to get on the ladder and start climbing up, to start moving up and have some economic mobility.
00:14:35.000There's only so many Americans that can take them.
00:14:38.000When you introduce millions upon millions of people in such an uncontrolled fashion, increasing the labor pool, what happens is the supply of labor goes up.
00:14:47.000When there's so many people to choose from, corporations don't have to compete for the labor.
00:14:52.000They can offer whatever, they can offer pennies, they can offer a pittance.
00:14:57.000Because, of course, there are tons more people than there are jobs.
00:15:00.000So the people are climbing over each other, tripping over each other, trying to get a very limited and shrinking pool of jobs when there's tons of people and the already finite amount of jobs are being shipped overseas.
00:15:12.000So you have more people and a lot less jobs.
00:15:15.000The supply of people goes up and therefore the cost of labor goes down.
00:15:22.000Now, what happens when you have a booming economy, deregulation, lower taxes, you have an expansion of businesses?
00:15:27.000You shut down the border so there's a lot less immigration, is of course this trend reverses.
00:15:32.000And when you have 3.8% unemployment, when you have unemployment dropping to such a low level, what happens is the opposite effect.
00:15:40.000There are more jobs, there becomes more jobs than there are people.
00:15:45.000And then because corporations are bidding against each other for a very limited pool of labor, they have to start raising their wages and say, oh, well, we need this limited labor, so we'll offer you $10.20 or we'll offer you $10.30.
00:16:02.000And that's why you see that wages are rising when unemployment gets to this kind of level, which is all the numbers are really great.
00:16:08.000There was a net increase of 223,000 jobs in the economy, and all these numbers to say are spectacular.
00:16:15.000And it just goes to show, I think, more profoundly, the idea here is what were we told throughout the election and before the election?
00:16:23.000It was if Trump gets elected, it won't just be like another party wins and it'll be a little bit different.
00:16:30.000The prediction was that the world would end tomorrow.
00:16:34.000The prediction was that the stock market would go like this and we would enter immediately into a recession after the election.
00:16:42.000And forget even the stock market, all the economic indicators would collapse.
00:16:47.000And not only did we not see that, not only was it, you know, mediocre, like let's say, what if it was just mediocre?
00:16:52.000Even then, that would be a big thing compared to what the left was saying, but it's never been better.
00:16:59.000You know, you've never had this kind of unemployment numbers, never had this kind of economic growth, or at least not in a long time, not in the Obama economy.
00:17:08.000So a very great thing, very big white pills.
00:17:11.000And of course, the economy stuff, we can always say, oh, you know, and people do.
00:17:18.000The economy's doing good, but the white race is still dying, brother.
00:17:22.000And, you know, to a degree, that's true in the sense that immigration is our biggest problem.
00:17:28.000And that seems to be the one that there is the least amount of follow through.
00:17:32.000In fairness, that's because the Congress and the courts have done everything in their power to restrict Trump's ability to maneuver there in the sense that the Congress won't appropriate the money for the wall.
00:17:44.000The courts tie up every executive order he puts up there.
00:17:48.000So, That's the one issue where there's just unprecedented resistance.
00:17:52.000So we understand why the follow through on immigration hasn't been, has left something to be desired.
00:17:58.000But nevertheless, you could say that's the most important issue.
00:18:01.000There's not a lot being done about it, but you have to think of the bigger picture.
00:18:04.000Economy might not be your number one issue, but it is for just about the majority of Americans.
00:18:11.000You look at any poll on what's the, why did you come out and vote for X candidate or Y candidate?
00:18:18.000What was the deciding, Issue that changed your vote.
00:18:30.000And so that's to say that in 2018, if we have a great economy, this suppresses the blue wave and it gets Republicans to turn out.
00:18:38.000And you might think, oh, the Republican Party sucks and all this.
00:18:41.000If we secure these majorities for the next two years, we have a much better shot at getting the rest of the things through the legislature than if we have a Democratic Congress.
00:18:50.000If that happens, I mean, forget about it.
00:20:07.000You want to be the first to know about that.
00:20:09.000Remember, you got to join the mailing list on NicholasJFuentes.com.
00:20:13.000And we've had over, well over 2,000 people now join on to it.
00:20:18.000So it's growing very quickly, very fast.
00:20:21.000And we're excited because it really is going to feel like a relaunch.
00:20:25.000We're going to come, I think June 18th is right around when you're going to see a lot of things happening.
00:20:31.000That's when a lot of new content in short form, new long form content, you're going to see some other things.
00:20:38.000Towards the middle of the month, you're going to see really basically a relaunch of the show in a very big way.
00:20:43.000A lot of things are going to change, I think, for the better.
00:20:46.000And so, if you want to get the updates on when that's going to happen, how that's going to happen, where you can find it, NicholasJFuentes.com.
00:24:27.000The strategy that we are opting for in the 2018 elections is to talk about things that people have never heard about, that people don't care about.
00:25:24.000When do they learn the lesson that we have to do things, maybe that we are not totally in love with, but to get institutional power?
00:25:30.000For a movement that talks so much about we care about power, we want power, and they're the people least willing to do what it takes to get there, right?
00:25:40.000Ryan says, America first is not Israel first.
00:25:46.000I think the problem is most people, they're not openly Israel first.
00:25:51.000You know, like Ben Shapiro, that was one of the first arguments I got into with him on Twitter I said, and I suggested you have a dual loyalty.
00:25:59.000That was really when I got red pilled on some questions and some issues as I said, well, you know, the numbers just don't add up here.
00:26:07.000We're giving all this money to Israel and.
00:26:10.000We're doing all these different things for Israel.
00:28:10.000But the idea that you have unlimited tries and what you do next is not contingent on what you did before is, I think, that's the biggest problem with it.
00:28:19.000As if somebody like Paul Nealon can go out there and say outrageous things and they are not baggage on anybody else who tries to bring up similar issues.
00:28:30.000Every time we have a failure like that go out and make us look bad and look stupid and look just absolutely retarded, this creates problems for people down the road.
00:28:40.000So, in theory, yes, as many people saying new and exciting ideas as possible is a good thing.
00:28:48.000But in practice, when people go out and do that, they give our ideas a bad reputation, they give them a bad name.
00:28:55.000It makes it a lot more difficult for people to go out and promulgate them.
00:29:18.000But nevertheless, that they carried that branding forward was huge.
00:29:23.000That they were saying, oh, Miley Yiannopoulos was alt right, it allowed some very dissident views to kind of sneak in under the radar like a Trojan horse.
00:29:31.000And so that was much better, in my estimation, for.
00:29:35.000The spread of those ideas when you had Jared Taylor on the Gavin McGinnis show, or, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
00:29:41.000Then when you have this ghettoized movement where it's obscure, it's all just fringe, whack jobs, people who have nothing to lose.
00:29:50.000You know, to build the movement, we want lawyers, doctors, rich people, people with money, people with power.
00:29:54.000Are these people that are going to say, you know what, I'll get behind some asshole who's willing to just autistically yell about Jews?
00:30:00.000Yeah, yeah, I'll put everything on the line for a mediocre IQ person to talk about an issue they barely understand.
00:30:29.000You know, people are, I'm a lawyer with money and connections.
00:30:32.000I'm the kind of person you want in your political movement.
00:30:35.000Am I going to put it all on the line, my reputation, for like a sub average IQ person who barely understands what they're talking about, who's just throwing?
00:31:46.000I mean, if you want some sort of credibility, some credentials for why I can speak on Kanye and stuff, I mean, I'm a producer, I've always been into music.
00:31:55.000But obviously, I know Nick because of politics and stuff.
00:32:40.000He streamed it on this app called Wave.
00:32:42.000He live streamed a live viewing party in Wyoming where he flew in journalists and celebrities and other rappers, people featured on the album.
00:32:59.000Give us your initial reaction to it because I know I had and I told everybody my initial reaction was very good, and then I thought it was bad, but then I thought it was really good, and it was kind of all over the place.
00:33:10.000You can hear a lot of influences in it, but what are your first takeaways from the new album, Yay?
00:33:16.000I thought it was good from the beginning.
00:34:32.000And to me, it was kind of like this, this like, It was everything that was wrong with Yeezus and everything that was wrong with Life of Pablo.
00:34:40.000Now, don't get me wrong, I like that song, but it was overproduced.
00:34:45.000It was these self indulgent, kind of weird artistic things going on there.
00:34:51.000And my second playthrough of this album, Yay, I said, oh no, this whole album is like that.
00:36:21.000It was interesting about this one because I feel like you could see almost everything in it in the sense that at first, like at first, I heard some of the early reviews and people said it's just like old Kanye, which for people that aren't initiated, old Kanye is like his original sound, which is these soul songs that he used to sample in college dropout, late registration, and graduation.
00:36:45.000He sampled a lot of old soul songs sped up, and it was a very soulful sound.
00:37:22.000But the samples weren't quite the same as the old Kanye.
00:37:25.000The samples were, I think, much more closer to Yeezus, much more closer to beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, much more closer to Pablo, but done, I think, in a much more tasteful way.
00:37:37.000And you bring up Dark Twisted Fantasy, for example, you hear the guitar on Ghost Town, and it sounds exactly like.
00:37:43.000What was the song we were talking about?
00:38:43.000And it's interesting because I know that kind of sound like that.
00:38:48.000Because it is kind of like a big difference between the first half and the latter half.
00:38:53.000I feel like Yeezus, Life of Pablo, and Yee represent.
00:38:57.000Maybe like a new triumvirate, maybe like a new as late registration, college dropout, and graduation were a set.
00:39:06.000I feel like these three were very similar in terms of tone, in terms of style and production.
00:39:11.000I feel like this was maybe when he finally figured it out.
00:39:14.000I feel like, you know, and I like the last two albums, don't get me wrong, but this was, I think, the first one that was universally got critical acclaim.
00:39:51.000Like with Life of Pablo, you had all this weird shit in there.
00:39:54.000Like you had the Silver Surfer thing, and you had, you know, Father Stretch My Hands Part Two, which was basically just the Panda song, but like a little bit different.
00:40:38.000It definitely does have a good, it's like professional, you know?
00:40:43.000Like with Life of Pablo, the big thing was that he had delayed the release of it for months, and there was all this is it going to be named this?
00:40:51.000You know, there's all kinds of controversy and confusion, and it was just sloppy, I felt.
00:40:57.000And there was, I don't know, kind of something cool about that, maybe because he went in and changed it up afterwards, and at first it was only available on title, so I had to have title for like a minute.
00:41:57.000I think it would be kind of fun to look it up to see where the albums, like how they are reflections of things that happened in his life because there's got to be some truth to it.
00:42:26.000It was that old, you know, soulful Kanye song.
00:42:29.000But then once his mom died, that's when it really took a turn.
00:42:33.000And we've kind of been, it feels in many ways like a great celebration because his mom died like 10 years ago.
00:42:40.000And it was like we went through hell with Kanye through 808s, through Dark Twisted Fantasy, through Yeezes, through Life of Pablo, where you could see this was a man who had issues.
00:42:50.000This was a guy who was really struggling, he was sad.
00:42:53.000Mom was very important in his life, as they are in all of our lives.
00:44:04.000I think he was a lot like Donald Trump in terms of personality, just kind of like this archetype of the jerk.
00:44:11.000Which I think is something that is kind of like the unsung hero in 2018.
00:44:16.000Because you got to imagine, like, today is the beginning of pride, you know, and we see every day with the pedophilia and the abortion.
00:44:24.000Like, we live in this global homo world.
00:44:27.000And I feel like if people like you in the world, if you're like mainstream and journalists like you and like most people like you and you're like, you know, tasteful and corporations like you, I feel like you can't really be that good of a person.
00:45:06.000And you're not giving me a lot to work with here.
00:45:09.000But yeah, no, it was interesting because with the political thing going on, I saw a lot of the reviews.
00:45:17.000After the album came out, a lot of the reviews were positive, like this morning, which is funny because before it was even streaming, people had reviews up of it.
00:45:25.000But all the reviews were basically positive people saying, This is great, you know, there's nothing to complain about, all the rest.
00:45:31.000The only nasty reviews were from like women, black people, libs, and they were like, Oh, like we can't forget that Kanye's a Trump supporter and blah, blah.
00:45:41.000And it's just funny to me how Kanye could go on and say all this crazy stuff, but, and this is really, I think, a testament to how talented the guy is.
00:46:31.000I think it was Pushatee, but I think it was rumored that Pushatee said that his album was going to be super political and it was going to reveal a lot about how conservative he is and stuff.
00:46:42.000And there wasn't that much of that in there.
00:46:44.000I know he has a collaborative album coming out with Kid Cudi, right?
00:47:01.000Well, and it's funny too because people said that all the political stuff was like him trying to sell his album, you know, which doesn't make any sense.
00:47:09.000Because, in my opinion, I was talking to all my normie friends, barely anybody knew the stream was happening.
00:47:17.000Nobody knew what the details were about what it was called, what the artwork was, when it was going to be on the streaming services.
00:47:24.000There wasn't like a big ad campaign or like a big music video, you know.
00:47:28.000So, to me, I think that just goes to show that he's genuine, he's legit.
00:48:01.000You know, we waited two and a half years for 23 minutes, and it's like, It's a very good 23 minutes, but I would have liked a little bit longer.
00:48:16.000That's like, they only named the track list like this morning and it changed a couple of times, but it's like, I thought about killing you.
00:49:39.000Well, what he said in the first song is he said, and this is crucial because I listened to it like a million times.
00:49:45.000He said the best thoughts or the brightest thoughts are often next to the darkest thoughts.
00:49:52.000And I think what he was trying to convey, because for people who haven't heard, he said, and I just summarized, he said, I love myself more than I love you.
00:51:01.000That's the one thing I admire about Kim because, you know, I never was a.
00:51:05.000I don't like the Kardashians generally, but the one thing I admire about her, which really changed my opinion, is that she sticks by her man and she defends him.
00:51:12.000You know, when Taylor Swift went after him, she defended him.
00:51:15.000When the press came after him, she defended him.
00:51:47.000You know, like you look at Trump or Kanye and just anybody really, where it's like a controversial male and people try and play the wife off of it.
00:51:55.000Like, oh, well, what's the wife going to say?
00:51:57.000What does the family think about this?
00:52:15.000So he can't, in a certain respect, he has an obligation, I think, to something greater than, oh, well, you know, my wife's going to be mad that I sang this.
00:52:23.000Or, you know, could you imagine if, like, Donald Trump was like, oh, I can't say this in my campaign because my wife will get mad.
00:53:46.000Like, to me, it's like if I started a very ambitious, like, show, like, let's say I started my America First show, and it was like, we're going to talk about the synthesis of, like, traditionalism and blah, blah.
00:53:59.000And then towards the middle, it just tapered off into, like, something that I was familiar with, something I was comfortable with, something you've heard before.
00:54:05.000If it was like, we're going to explore a whole new area.
00:54:08.000And then towards the middle, it was like, did you know that Israel stole our nuclear secrets in the USS Liverpool?
00:54:13.000It's just, like, kind of, it was just lazy to me.
00:54:16.000It was like, It was like, we're working all night.
00:56:40.000You, I'm always complaining about, or I say Yikes is my favorite on this album, and I'm complaining there's not enough like bangers and trap kind of stuff.
00:58:13.000In my experience, people who criticize Yeezus or who really, really don't like Yeezus say that it's too crude, it's just way too aggressive, and it doesn't feel good to listen to.
00:59:02.000It actually took me a long time to like Yeezus because when it first came out, I was in like what was it, like middle school or something, and uh, and I liked obviously Black Skinhead was a great song, and that was probably the most normie friendly song.
00:59:16.000Um, but then I listened to like I Am a God and On Sight and some of these other ones, and I really maybe I was too immature at the time.
00:59:24.000But I was like, I just don't understand how anybody could enjoy this because, like you said, it is such a crude and just kind of loud and maybe a nasty sound.
00:59:34.000But over time, I came to appreciate it in a way.
00:59:37.000It took me a long time, but I eventually got around to it.
01:06:24.000The internet's busiest music fag, you know, where it's like, oh, you know, I'm listening to all these different records and records, you know, I listen to the hits.
01:06:32.000That's, you know, And every now and again, I'll Shazam something from the radio, but that's the extent of it.
01:06:40.000Have you seen that video where he's talking about the podcast he did with Sam?
01:07:15.000It's like, you know, it sucks when people know your content, I guess.
01:07:21.000Because it's like people that you like don't like you in return.
01:07:25.000And it's like, it sucks because, you know, it's not like you wake up one day and you stop liking what they do, but, you know, it's kind of cucked if you like Sam Hyde.
01:07:38.000And it's, I love his stuff, but sometimes I'm watching him like, am I being cucked because he doesn't like me personally, but I enjoy his content?
01:07:46.000What gives you the impression that he doesn't like you?
01:10:52.000And instead of just directing me, like, hey, just take the expressway home, it was like, take this weird, just go through McKinley Park or somewhere around there.
01:12:16.000You know, but if you know absolutely no music theory, you don't know what a major, minor scale is, chord progression, stuff like that, rhythms, how to read music.
01:12:47.000And it was, It sucked too because it was, that's a bigger instrument.
01:12:50.000I mean, it's not huge, but compared to smaller ones, I guess bigger things are bigger than smaller things.
01:12:55.000But, you know, we would do marching band, and you'd have flute players and clarinet players, and it's like one pound to carry around a flute.
01:13:04.000But I would have to carry around the euphonium.
01:13:06.000The tuba player would get the sousaphone, so they get to put it on their shoulder, and the French horn players would get a special horn.
01:13:13.000And it was like euphonium was just like the hell zone, where it was too small to get a bigger thing to, like, drape over your shoulder.
01:13:21.000Or a modest instrument and too big to be comfortable.
01:13:25.000So it was just the worst of both worlds.
01:13:29.000I think, other than tenor drums, like the quad drums and maybe bass, bass five, bass drum five, the lowest one, I think that's the hardest to carry.
01:13:37.000But have you, tenor drums are so heavy.
01:19:58.000Haven't been calling in because I'm always at the gym listening to the show, but this week I was playing Fallout instead because I just definitely bought, didn't pirate it the DLC, so it's.
01:22:26.000Um, the Kanye album was good, I thought.
01:22:29.000Obviously, you thought so as well, but I don't think it was as good as the Push a T album, which kind of disappointed to hear that you weren't much of a big fan of that one.
01:22:39.000Yeah, you know, I only listened to it once or twice.
01:22:42.000I didn't really invest too much in it.
01:22:45.000Is this the drug thing or like, you know, he talks about selling coke a lot or is content the sound what is it for you?
01:22:52.000It's nothing particular about the lyrics.
01:22:54.000It's just to me, the personality is very central to it.
01:22:59.000Like, I don't know how even to describe, but it's like, to me, when Kanye makes an album, it's like an event.
01:23:06.000And it's interesting, it's new, and it's different.
01:23:09.000To me, like, when Kanye puts out music, whether it's good or bad, it's nothing really like anything else that anybody's making.
01:23:17.000With Push It T, the sounds that he comes up with, it's like, it's good.
01:23:21.000Like, I would listen to it in the background while I'm playing, like, Fortnite.
01:23:24.000And I listened to it a couple of times.
01:23:26.000And if it came on the radio, I'd listen to it.
01:23:28.000But I can't really just get behind it in the same way that I can.
01:23:32.000With Kanye, it's like I'm invested in the person.
01:24:47.000But, um, I think I like about Push a T is that Push a T, like, definitely goes like part.
01:24:53.000And I'm a big fan of like the mid 2000s, like Houston stuff and Southern rap when like Southern rap was like what everyone was listening to.
01:25:02.000And that has a very like more intense sound than, um, now.
01:25:08.000So I think that's why I like the Push a T more.
01:27:04.000Um, yeah, and um, what was I gonna say?
01:27:09.000Uh, oh, one thing that I thought was funny because uh, Pride Month is just starting, and then uh, all those weird pedos are are back on Twitter now, apparently.
01:27:20.000You know, that line in Violent Crimes, the last song when uh, he's like talking to it's like warnings and stuff because he has a daughter now and he's got to look out for her.
01:27:30.000When he goes, I know there's pervs all on the net.
01:27:32.000Yeah, I was just like, Yeah, dude, me too.
01:27:39.000Well, and you know, it's you're so right about um, that's that song Ghost Town in particular.
01:27:45.000Where if you listen to, I think it's Hell of a Life, towards the end of it, the the guitar that comes in towards the end of that song, and I know exactly what you mean.
01:27:55.000I got the same vibe, and that song was that throwbacks like beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
01:28:01.000And I'm driving down the highway, blasting that, and it's just epic.
01:28:06.000Where it's just, I mean, that was the kind of thing I was talking about the first track, where you could have had this big crescendo, this big moment where, I mean, that song just smacks when, you know, the guitar comes in.
01:29:30.000One thing I wanted to say, though, and I was thinking about it because, um, one of my favorite songs on my beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy is, um, is uh, god.
01:29:43.000Of course, I'm forgetting it right now.
01:30:07.000Like, it's different than what, like, I just think it's interesting how, like, Kanye went into, like, Wyoming, you know, to kind of, like, get away from everything to make this album.
01:30:16.000And Bonnie there, like his first album that I think was a masterpiece, he did the same thing.
01:33:58.000We'll have babies in tubes that way, and we'll genetically engineer the ubermensch.
01:34:05.000Finally, finally, an answer to the female question.
01:34:10.000But I'm thinking, let me know what you think of this.
01:34:12.000My idea was we have female outreach week on the show, we have women week on the show, and we'll have a different woman every night.
01:34:20.000And at first, I said, you know, we'll talk and it'll be, you know, just different women.
01:34:24.000But then I said, let's get a little ambitious here.
01:34:27.000I said, instead of just having them on for like a usual live stream, what if they came on and they did a talent portion, you know, like juggling or a musical instrument?
01:34:37.000Then they did like a monologue, you know, they answered questions, maybe a QA.
01:36:22.000Yeah, I always, whenever I see women, I'll just post this one picture I have of somebody doing a PowerPoint, and it's like the PowerPoint says, Women are subhuman animals, deficient in intelligence, and damned to hell.
01:36:44.000Another great meme I came up with was women are Jewish constructs designed in secret underground Jewish factories overseen by Netanyahu, and they're made.
01:36:56.000From the skin of dead Palestinian children?
01:39:39.000They're really, I mean, it's like effortless for him.
01:39:42.000I don't think, I don't think boomers understand this.
01:39:45.000You know, old people always get on my case about Kanye.
01:39:47.000They're like, we don't like this rap business, and you know, Kanye and Kim and you know, celebrities and all that, but it's good, it's good stuff.
01:40:28.000Most of the songs on all the albums are huge winners.
01:40:31.000And so, in that way, there's just like nobody who has like that record where it's like, it's like, it's like if you play WWE, SmackDown vs. Raw, you know, when they give a ranking for a superstar where it's like one out of 100?
01:41:20.000And it was, you know, despite all the hatred, it's funny because if Kanye produces something that does not completely revolutionize everything and isn't unquestionably the best album of the year, But still a great album.
01:41:35.000If Life of Pablo is the worst album, you know, you've got no problems, right?
01:41:40.000I mean, you look at other artists where they have a bad album and it's, forget about it, it's shit.
01:41:45.000But his bad album, you know, the, and I'm not even going to say it's bad, but the album that people say is not as good as the others is still an exceptional album.
01:41:52.000So, I mean, that says it all right there.
01:41:59.000So, what do you, I've kind of had this theory about how I don't really like how some people on the right, they kind of ignore like environmental issues just for like, I don't know why they just ignore it.
01:42:12.000But I kind of see it from a traditionalist perspective where it's like, you know, God gave us this great earth.
01:42:18.000And, you know, as good stewards of, you know, the earth that God gave us, we need to take care of it.
01:42:24.000But what I just hate is like all these, you know, crazy lefties are like saying, oh, well, you got to give up your cars and stop falling.
01:42:31.000Flying planes to save the earth, or else we'll have mass floods and locusts flying in.
01:42:41.000That is kind of a big problem, that's the same issue with capitalism, where the left has legitimate critiques of what's going on with industry, with all these other things.
01:42:53.000The environment is, you know, it's a shame that we forfeited that to the left because it's legitimate.
01:42:59.000But for the right, in this weird, like, Attempt to own the Libs.
01:43:04.000We've said, like, yeah, we want to destroy the earth to own the Libs.
01:43:08.000Yeah, we don't care if we bulldoze a forest or a jungle or, you know, whatever to make the way for a big development.
01:43:16.000It's about oil or it's about, you know, industry.
01:43:20.000And I understand that's, you know, a little bit of a caricature, but in many cases it is true that there's just not this care for the environment.
01:43:35.000Even forget about the earth for a second and just think what it does that you have just chemicals in the air all the time, chemicals in the water all the time.
01:43:42.000I mean, you think that doesn't have an effect.
01:43:47.000And that's a big part where I think this new right wing is kind of rising, where like an Alex Jones cares about health and about the environment.
01:43:57.000And I think a lot of right wing, like identitarians, care about the community, the environment, and those kinds of things.
01:44:04.000And when you're looking at it from that kind of a traditional lens, It's a part of a holistic worldview.
01:44:08.000Whereas with the right, it's just not even close to it, it's not in there because that's not factored into the GDP, of course.
01:44:16.000Yeah, because I'm from Kansas and I actually went out to Montana recently for a conference with Perk.
01:44:22.000They're an environmentalist group based out of Montana.
01:44:25.000And what was just so amazing to me was when I was flying in.
01:44:28.000I mean, when you fly in, you go over all these mountains.
01:44:32.000And then when you land, like you're at the airport and on the runway, you're just surrounded by all these mountains and all this nature.
01:44:38.000I'm just like thinking to myself, this is a really conservative state, and they are all gung ho about the environment out here and like being outdoorsmen and like, you know, being people from the soil.
01:44:49.000And I just don't get how conservatives have a big like base in like the rural areas.
01:44:55.000I don't get why this isn't more of like something we like, you know, like run on and like champion.
01:45:00.000I mean, because like we're a lot, most conservatives are from these areas.
01:45:03.000I just don't get why the up tops just kind of ignore it in favor of other stuff.
01:46:43.000I'll be saying it next week, you know, when people are watching the show again.
01:46:47.000But just to give you a heads up, Monday through Friday, the 11th through the 15th.
01:46:51.000So, not next week, but the following week, I won't be here, you know, but that's all right.
01:46:57.000It's been months, it's been six months since I took a week off.
01:47:02.000Literally six months since I took more than a few days.
01:47:06.000And it's time needed to readjust, reorient.
01:47:09.000Like I said, big things are coming, so I'm going to need that period to get some things together.
01:47:14.000But that's going to do it for us on the show tonight.
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