Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - June 30, 2026


Amir Odom on Leaving the LGBTQ Movement, Identity Politics, and Keeping Life Private ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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Amir Odom is a YouTube personality with nearly a million subscribers. He has a unique perspective on identity politics and identity politics in general. In this episode, he talks about his views on the LGBTQ+ community and why he doesn t feel represented in the gay community.

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00:00:34 It's the last day of Pride Month.
00:00:37 Are you tired?
00:00:37 I'm tired.
00:00:38 My guest today is tired.
00:00:40 And he really shouldn't be because he's technically top of the oppression totem pole. 1.00
00:00:45 He's a black gay man. 0.92
00:00:47 Today we're talking to Amir. 0.65
00:00:49 He is just fantastic.
00:00:51 He's got his own YouTube channel.
00:00:52 Nearly a million subscribers you guys can go over and subscribe to Amir Odom.
00:00:56 very excited for all things blm identity politics and his hot take that would surely get him
00:01:03 canceled and more listen here hey guys i'm headed to dc this week for the great american state fair
00:01:10 i cannot wait i'm going to be doing a live podcast and a meet and greet at 3 30 p.m at the fox news
00:01:16 booth this is at 12th and madison please come and see me i can't wait to see you guys hopefully see
00:01:21 you soon well amir thanks for joining the riley gain show nonetheless on the very last day of pride
00:01:29 month i've got to ask you what do you make of the current state of the lgbtq plus plus plus plus
00:01:39 plus movement and do you associate with that community i think the current state of it is
00:01:46 a hot mess it's a hot mess express there's a lot of different things going on out there
00:01:49 a lot of things that i don't stand for hence why i don't really feel represented or stand with the
00:01:54 lgbtq community maybe 15 years ago if you asked me was like sure possibly but now knowing that
00:02:01 the community honestly just stands for trans kids trans women in sports drag queens in front of 0.96
00:02:08 children and just just debauchery out in the streets no i don't really stand for that um and 0.75
00:02:14 it's that what it's become give us a little background on you um because you're one of
00:02:19 these figures who honestly i admire a lot because i feel like in today's like current state of of
00:02:27 social media influencers if you will uh you're very much put into a box of you're either this
00:02:34 maga influencer or you're a crazy leftist but you're someone who represents you know you you
00:02:40 really don't have to be either of those things. So, so give us a little background on you and 0.53
00:02:45 maybe where you are on the political spectrum. Yeah. Thank you. So right now I would say I'm
00:02:50 pretty much center right, politically homeless. So you would say, uh, started making content
00:02:56 online around 2020, YouTube around 2023. We're almost at a million subs, which is just blows
00:03:01 my mind. Um, but yeah, I mean, growing up, obviously I'm black, but I'm also gay. And
00:03:07 always told that i have to be this like raging democrat that white people hate me that i'm 0.94
00:03:12 gonna die living in america and it wasn't until i started thinking for myself and looking at 0.53
00:03:17 different videos online and exploring different topics and ideas where i discovered i'm more than 0.74
00:03:22 that i discovered black people aren't just getting like i honestly thought like 10 000 black kids are
00:03:27 getting shot and armed by the cops every year 10 000 whole time any number 10 to 20 which is still
00:03:32 bad but like it's not to the extent of what I was told and then the whole gay side I mean
00:03:38 I've always known I was gay but they tried to block me in this box of I have to fit into the
00:03:45 LGBTQ community on top of oh I'm black I have to fit into the black community and lock myself in
00:03:49 this ideological box of what a black guy and a gay guy is supposed to be and the more I've grown 0.93
00:03:55 up the more I realize that I don't have to fall into that nobody does and you're allowed to just
00:04:00 be yourself. You're allowed to just have sane point of views and be chill. And I've learned
00:04:06 throughout making this content online on YouTube, you have the mass community out there of writing
00:04:11 people that feel the same way. I have a large following of Black Americans that feel like
00:04:16 they don't have to lock themselves into this having a Black card, being a Democrat, 0.95
00:04:20 and hating white people, and have a large gay audience that says, hey, I don't feel represented 0.97
00:04:25 in the gay community. I feel like the modern LGBTQ community is taking away our rights, 0.95
00:04:29 is really sending us down a dark path. 1.00
00:04:32 And I'm just here to highlight the perspectives
00:04:34 that aren't really shown the most.
00:04:36 You know, it feels relevant to talk about,
00:04:39 given that it's been national news
00:04:42 over the past few weeks,
00:04:43 is the Carmelo Anthony case.
00:04:46 And some of the discussion that we have seen online
00:04:48 from African Americans
00:04:50 about what the ruling was, the verdict.
00:04:54 What do you make of that?
00:04:55 I mean, it seems like to me,
00:04:57 obviously as a white person,
00:04:58 uh, you know, outside looking into, to the online discussion here, it almost appears as if there's
00:05:04 a faction of society that, that like wants to be oppressed, which I think is a super weird,
00:05:11 you know, position to be in where you almost want to be marginalized. You want to be the victim
00:05:16 and it, maybe it makes sense because when you're, you know, oppressed, it's better than being the
00:05:21 oppressor because you're actually owed something. But, but I'd love to hear your perspective
00:05:25 specifically surrounding the Carmelo Anthony discussion.
00:05:28 There's a lot of Black people out there that, you know,
00:05:31 if you aren't oppressed, 1.00
00:05:33 then your whole worldview is destructive, so to say.
00:05:35 So when I see the crowds of people outside that hearing
00:05:39 and they're crying and they're angry,
00:05:41 I understand it a little bit because I was there,
00:05:44 especially back in 2016, 2017, March and BLM.
00:05:47 I was crying in the streets
00:05:48 because I was literally under psychosis.
00:05:50 Like, I was brainwashed by the media, 0.99
00:05:52 by, you know, mainstream liberal black celebrities 0.85
00:05:56 that I was a victim 0.87
00:05:58 and that everything's to blame for white people and slavery
00:06:01 and that's that.
00:06:03 So there are people that are trapped
00:06:05 into this mental state of where I'm always being oppressed,
00:06:07 I'm always nothing,
00:06:09 and they locked themselves in that box.
00:06:11 But in regards to the whole Carmelo
00:06:13 and everything that happened there,
00:06:15 it is wrong that he got stabbed.
00:06:18 I'm glad the guy's going to jail. 1.00
00:06:19 I just think that what I've seen from the black community is they're, one, it irritates me that they have this amount of energy for this one case where a black kid stabbed a white kid and the black kid goes to jail. 1.00
00:06:37 They're so angry about it, but that literally happens every single day in Chicago and it's crickets. 0.99
00:06:43 Like they don't acknowledge any type of black on black crime ever.
00:06:46 but i have seen that people are more so upset at the
00:06:51 how he's in jail but there's other cases where they're like for example the rick chow case i
00:07:00 don't know if you've been familiar with that um this asian guy that chased a black guy out his
00:07:04 gas station shot him in the back like 150 yards down the street and he got away scot-free there's 0.83
00:07:09 black people that are more upset and like throwing the blame somewhere else when reality didn't seem 0.98
00:07:14 to lick the citrus for what it is and it was wrong you can't just go up and stab somebody no 0.98
00:07:19 matter what he said no matter how they're fighting what they're doing you don't do that so i don't
00:07:25 know it's just it's sad to see how loud they are over something that happens every single day in
00:07:30 our own communities yeah what do you make of i don't feel like i've heard much about you know
00:07:36 the current state of blm as an organization right obviously back in 2020 2021 uh this was an
00:07:44 organization that that you know profited i think is the right word to use off of the the death of
00:07:51 george floyd do you know where the organization is now do we know who's if anyone is still benefiting
00:07:57 from this because i i can certainly recall headlines where you know some of the the people
00:08:02 who head up the organization they were living in like 14 15 million dollar mansions you know so
00:08:08 so what's the current state of blm do you know they're out there scamming the black folk for
00:08:12 their money the current state of it i would say it's dormant um it came out a little bit for the
00:08:16 carmel anthony situation i think we're going to see it a lot more when it comes to this next
00:08:20 presidential race because you know they only pop up when someone's gonna be running for president
00:08:24 something's gonna happen they're gonna come out they'll be marching the street tearing down the
00:08:28 cities and it'll be interesting to see them pop out again because i do know from 2020 to now
00:08:36 i mean it's nine day difference within black community and how many black people have woken 0.72
00:08:42 up to understand and know that blm was a scam i mean the rapper little yachty talks about how
00:08:48 blm was a scam when they're just stealing money so i think the organization is dormant i think 0.64
00:08:52 people are still rooting and tooting behind this whole black lives matter we're all in they gotta 0.64
00:08:56 help your black car support black people but i'm very curious to see if something else major were
00:09:02 to happen would it have the same effect as george foy did um i don't think it would but right now
00:09:08 i'd say yeah it's just dormant until something happens unfortunately do you think that president
00:09:16 trump resonates well with with black voters especially those who you know are relatively
00:09:23 tuned in and they don't have to know everything that's going on politically i don't think as
00:09:27 human beings we were actually even designed to keep up with everything going on but they watch
00:09:32 the press conferences they see president trump whether you like him or not he is funny and like
00:09:37 he's very charismatic and he says what's on his mind like do you think that resonates
00:09:42 yeah and i think it always have like if you look at how many times donald trump is referenced in
00:09:48 rap music especially during his like when he was doing the apprentice and he was like the hot shot
00:09:53 man like that just so many rap songs about donald trump and the black community loving donald trump
00:09:58 it wasn't really until that charlottesville when they're like oh just good people on both sides 0.62
00:10:04 which that whole scam debacle that really took down how most black people feel about trump but
00:10:11 off the bat yeah there's a lot of people who resonate with them because of how real he is
00:10:15 how authentic and brash trump is that resonates with a lot of people in the black community and
00:10:20 they vibe with that nowadays i don't really know to the note that's a whole another topic of like
00:10:26 the support for trump but all in all yeah like that type of boss energy like don't really care
00:10:33 like i'm coming here say what i want to say yeah that resonates a lot i am curious being center
00:10:39 right what are some of the things that whether it be president trump or this administration or or
00:10:45 the conservative party in general what are some of the things that maybe have disappointed you or
00:10:50 or leave you more leaning to the center as opposed to like full-fledged conservative yeah i would say
00:10:57 more so honestly maybe some of the religious things like i'm all for you you know practicing
00:11:05 religion doing that living as you may but really enacting certain things um and then some of the
00:11:11 gay rights issues like i personally i'm it's a gay man i think it's okay for gay people to adopt
00:11:17 when there are children just sitting in a foster home.
00:11:20 Now, surrogacy, IVF, that's a whole other topic.
00:11:23 And I know there's a lot of people who are even against that for a straight couple.
00:11:26 So I'll leave that there.
00:11:28 But specifically, like, if a gay couple wants to adopt some kids
00:11:32 and get them out the foster care system, I think that's completely fine.
00:11:36 There's some ways that I think drugs have been mishandled
00:11:43 and the way our society looks at them.
00:11:44 And it's really bad.
00:11:45 Like, for example, weed, um, I think it's unfortunate how, like, commercialized it has become.
00:11:52 And I was like, oh, I'm a stoner.
00:11:53 When in reality, there's so many healthy benefits to it.
00:11:57 And if we lean down that route more, that would have been cool. 0.57
00:12:00 Um, being center-right mainly is more so on the religious stuff, the gay stuff. 0.68
00:12:06 And, yeah, that's about it.
00:12:08 But I feel like, for the most part, I'm just someone that, like, I want my guns,
00:12:12 all my freedom to raise kids and i want a border and like i'm just chilling you know it's when you
00:12:19 put it that way it sounds like the bare minimum you know like just let me live in peace and and
00:12:25 with the freedoms that our our us military members fought for the bare minimum i have a clip i want
00:12:32 to show you um let's play it really quick they provided zero dollars to deal with the ongoing
00:12:39 genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.
00:12:43 This is abhorrent.
00:12:46 Okay, Loki, she kind of ate that up.
00:12:48 Like, did not stutter, did not look at her notes.
00:12:51 Like, it looked as if she had been practicing that for weeks.
00:12:55 Do you know, before, if you don't, I'm going to tell you,
00:12:58 do you know what MMIWG stands for? 0.96
00:13:03 M-M-mer... 0.92
00:13:05 I'm gay. 0.92
00:13:06 This is sad.
00:13:07 This is sad. 0.95
00:13:08 M-mer... 1.00
00:13:09 missing missing missing tell me what is it missing and murdered indigenous women and girls 0.80
00:13:18 when i saw this i i had to look it up because again i'm like what is mmiwg
00:13:24 to us like there were other letters there were two q's in there i had to look it up so it stands
00:13:29 for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls and two spirit lesbian gay bisexual
00:13:33 transgender queer questioning intersex and asexual so i'm thinking about this for a second i'm like
00:13:39 wait why are we adding murdered people to the lgbtq community like literally why is being 0.83
00:13:48 murdered now a queer identity um so i guess my question for you is why do they keep adding 0.96
00:13:53 letters if there's a plus sign at the end like isn't that what the plus sign is for they keep 0.95
00:14:00 adding letters because i personally feel like they're bored and they don't want to dry up all
00:14:06 the money and the funds and they just need donations to keep coming in so they need need
00:14:11 to come up with more excuses because in large part i think gay gay rights in this country gay 0.74
00:14:16 people the lgb lesbian gay um buys they were fine after gay marriage we see on all the charts uh
00:14:24 respect for gay people was going up more people relaxed it was chill we're just like normal but 0.61
00:14:30 these non-profits really a goal of a non-profit is to dissolve itself you're solving a problem
00:14:34 and then you're dissolving like you're paying attention to it raising awareness and then boom
00:14:38 the end goal hopefully your mission solved complete now when you go to these lgbtq orgs
00:14:46 whether it's glenson glad whatever it may be you see trans issues you see queer issues you see
00:14:52 identity issues it has nothing to do with the gay community and that's just how there's finessing
00:14:59 it and getting more money and all these terms and when i read that mmi lg asia tvqv the skilled
00:15:06 squad community that whole acronym i'm sitting here like it's just murdered people i guess we
00:15:13 should be paying attention like the mission what they're trying to do is it wrong like you need to
00:15:17 pay attention to murdered people but why is it a hyper focus on the type of person that is murdered
00:15:21 yeah just focus on murdered people yeah no so many questions when i saw that um but but it seems as
00:15:30 if it's at a point too where even their own side can't really keep up even the people who are like
00:15:36 the most bought in and who really believe those things advocate for those things you know even
00:15:40 elected officials who represent those things it seems as if even they can't keep up uh we saw a
00:15:46 video actually of scott weiner who is yes i just saw that yesterday crazy right like he's one of 0.50
00:15:52 the most if not the most pro-trans he's openly gay like like probably the most far left state
00:16:00 representative in the entire country for sure now the potential you know would be pelosi uh but even
00:16:05 still i mean he was like eaten by his own at a a san francisco trans pride march because he wasn't
00:16:13 parroting enough of the pro-Palestine talking points as a Jewish man so do you feel like there's
00:16:18 a faction of whether it be the LGBTQ plus community or maybe just I guess the extreme far left or
00:16:26 maybe it exists on both sides I'd love to hear your take that is willing to eat its own if they're not
00:16:32 bought fully in no discrepancies no disagreements on any topic ever yeah um you definitely do see
00:16:39 a faction of this on both sides but it's ironic to hear it come from the left that is constantly
00:16:46 screaming inclusivity diversity love inclusion when that they're everything but that they're 0.93
00:16:52 all for diversity representation oh you're black cool you're light-skinned cool you're gay you're
00:16:58 queer you're trans it's awesome but when it comes to diversity of thought when it comes to different
00:17:03 ideas they don't stand for that this literally just happened to me on sunday on sunday
00:17:08 um with my friends we're researching different things about adoption and i come across these
00:17:13 gay dads they're very chill they seem moderate just like living their life they're like oh we
00:17:18 didn't want to do ivf or surrogacy we just want to adopt you know get some kids out of foster care
00:17:22 whatever we're talking about that um we're talking about different hobbies that we have we both live
00:17:26 down here in the south whatever it may be we're just chatting and then i go back to message them
00:17:31 rather they blocked me they blocked me on everything i was like what did i do and what
00:17:38 they had like three accounts i messaged one account i was like what happened they're like 0.61
00:17:41 oh we saw your youtube account and you're just extremely homophobic transphobic and we don't 0.96
00:17:47 stand for that so like homophobic as a gay man hello i'm saying you're like you're the one 0.98
00:17:52 talking about the country's too divided but you're actively doing the dividing you don't want to hear 0.99
00:17:56 me out you're a truth be told you're a white gay man telling me a black gay man that i deserve to 0.98
00:18:05 be silenced because of my views when it's you would think you'd be the first one to hype me up 0.97
00:18:09 like you're all for this diversity and stuff until I start speaking different I want to speak how you
00:18:14 want me to speak and literally on my gay playlist on my um YouTube where I talk all there's all
00:18:20 these gay videos I have an interview with Blair White who's a trans person I'm like there's trans 0.99
00:18:26 people that talk about these same issues but they're like well they're not the right type of 0.99
00:18:29 trans they're like self-hating trans you're a self-hating gay I'm like you can't win so yeah 0.98
00:18:34 There's this type of people on the left that eats their own constantly. 1.00
00:18:37 And that's what's pushing people more to the right.
00:18:41 Like, if you're going to tell somebody, if you're going to say somebody is in the middle,
00:18:45 they're moderate, they're chilling, and they say, hey, I'm cool with trans adults. 0.70
00:18:50 You do you. 1.00
00:18:51 I don't agree with it, but like, whatever.
00:18:54 But when it comes to the kids, maybe let's leave them alone.
00:18:57 And the left wants to call them transphobic for that, homophobic for that.
00:19:01 They're just going to stand in that. 0.94
00:19:02 Well, I guess, okay, I guess I am transphobic if I don't want to mutilate little children. I guess I am homophobic then. So they're actively creating the hate that they don't want. And it's so backwards to me. 0.98
00:19:13 i'm sitting here listening to this and i've been thinking over the past i mean i guess few years
00:19:19 now but it's it's almost as if like is there a solution for those people though the people who
00:19:27 i mean who are so quick to block you i mean to just cut off communication they don't want to
00:19:31 hear you out they don't want to listen to anything you have to say they're not willing to watch your
00:19:34 videos it's almost as if they don't want to know the truth they want to keep living in oblivion or
00:19:39 or you know just naive to the world around them like is there an antidote for that or do you think
00:19:44 like like where do we i guess go from there or i guess where we are currently where the division
00:19:50 is so stark i think what it's going to take is more people to get canceled by their own because
00:19:59 they're the ones that's being pushed over like well i have no friends let me just look up these
00:20:03 things what they're telling me i'm so hateful about um there's that route and more celebrities
00:20:08 more mainstream people coming out and like saying these types of things so when little yachty boldly
00:20:15 it was on the quenland blackwell cooking show and a little lot yachty was like a bill in the scam 0.62
00:20:20 those little things like that send more black people down like oh is it a scam little yachty
00:20:25 said it was a scam oh my gosh and then when you have somebody like scott weiner who just had a
00:20:31 rude awakening wake up call like i felt a little bad for him like he's like about to start crying
00:20:35 Like, he's like, oh my gosh, I've done so much for this community, and now they're canceling me. 0.97
00:20:39 Someone like him is going to be thinking, like, damn, this has gone too far.
00:20:43 I think that side of people, it's growing slowly. 0.97
00:20:48 It is, but I see how fast my YouTube channel is growing.
00:20:51 I see how, like, the comments I'm reading from these people, like, oh, I thought I was alone.
00:20:56 Like, you're putting thoughts to words I didn't say, or like, you know, I, yeah, I just thought I was alone.
00:21:01 And that whole side of people that are acknowledging how crazy the love has become, they're coming out. And it's slowly but surely, but I think it's going to need a lot of help from more mainstream outlets, mainstream celebrities, and people just having more honest conversations and more the delusion being highlighted.
00:21:20 no i agree with you um and and i i do think we're starting to slowly see that change right
00:21:26 you have like nikki minaj you had spencer pratt who ran for for mayor in la and all of these are
00:21:31 little things or maybe big things that can ultimately lead to to real and lasting cultural
00:21:38 or social change yeah one thing i wanted to ask you about something that i've noticed about your
00:21:43 page is correct me if i'm wrong but you tend to keep a lot of your private life you know off
00:21:49 of social media or your personal life more, more private. Um, I've noticed you don't show much of
00:21:56 your like romantic life online. Tell me about that because when I first saw this, um, well,
00:22:02 first of all, it's what we've kind of implemented with our daughter, um, for several, several
00:22:06 reasons, but I'd, I'd love to hear, you know, your thoughts on this and why you do it.
00:22:11 Yeah. I just think, you know, keep your private life private. Um, I try to model it just like
00:22:15 Beyonce a little bit in that she only, like, I feel like Beyonce and I feel like it's pretty
00:22:25 much her is the only celebrity that is still just her music. Like you hear maybe little tiny blips
00:22:36 of her political views and her concerts. For the most part, even her fan base is like, yo,
00:22:42 you don't post anything you don't talk to us you don't tell about your music coming out
00:22:46 it's only just the music so for me you're getting my content you're getting my thoughts and i'm
00:22:52 dipping i don't post anything on top of social media i don't talk about my vacations i don't
00:22:56 talk about love life i don't talk about anything because i like to keep that side of life just
00:23:00 private now my memberships i get a little more glimpse into my life a little bit and little
00:23:07 trips that i'm on little vlogs but for the most part yeah i just keep it private because the
00:23:11 And it's crazy. It is crazy. And I like the peace that it brings of just not having everything
00:23:20 online. Now, nothing is to say when I'm out in public, people don't meet who I'm with or the
00:23:24 friends that we don't sit here and talk. Yeah, if I'm in public, I'm all for it. But as far as
00:23:29 making content online and putting it out there, there's something special to me about reserving
00:23:36 some things of your life for your life. And it doesn't make you fake. It doesn't make you two
00:23:41 face is literally just that you follow me because of my thoughts you follow me because of the content
00:23:46 that I make yes you want to build that more personal tie to me but keyword personal I keep
00:23:52 it personal like in the day I ever um adopt a kid like no one's ever gonna know find out who knows
00:24:00 I have one now like no one would ever know I mean people still forget that they don't even think
00:24:07 like oh wait i'm here married oh my gosh i didn't even know that i'm like yeah and kudos to some
00:24:11 people some people still think i'm straight which i don't know how that happens but some people even
00:24:15 go to the extent of that and yeah it's just nice just having it private and just keeping some
00:24:20 things to yourself i feel like as someone who like creates content followers not not even speaking
00:24:30 for myself or maybe this isn't what you feel but just watching other people online like i don't
00:24:36 know if you are on tiktok and you follow um what's her name michaela neguera do you know i'm talking
00:24:41 about she's like the makeup girl well she's talks about her divorce and everything but i read the
00:24:46 comments and people feel as if they're like owed that like they feel like they're entitled to her
00:24:50 personal private life um and so what do you make of these like parasocial relationships nowadays 1.00
00:24:58 i realized that we were absolutely doomed as a society when sydney sweeney was able to sell her
00:25:04 bath water out in like a matter of seconds um but not just that like i feel like if you reveal
00:25:11 and post parts of your life that you choose on social then people demand access to all of it
00:25:17 there's no privacy there's nothing that's off limits everything is fair game there's just like
00:25:21 this sense of entitlement i feel it depends i've seen it depends on what you're posting it depends
00:25:30 on what you're talking about and this fear that you're in so for example if
00:25:34 i mean the main thing i could think about is for example beyonce has a pair of twins
00:25:42 the boy is always at home the boys have maybe two pictures of the boy out there
00:25:48 the girl she's always out at events with her big sister with her dad or her mom like they're always
00:25:52 out doing something and people feel like they're owed to see what the boy's up to like where's the
00:25:57 other twin how come he doesn't get the same spotlight and it's because he doesn't want that
00:26:00 um i think the parasocial relationships they're a blessing and a curse on one end is super fun
00:26:07 building this community um i've have youtubers that i've been watching since i was in middle
00:26:13 school and i'm like yo i like kind of know you like it's crazy watching grow up and watch your
00:26:18 path and watch you grow but on the other end you don't know them you don't know me you don't know
00:26:24 And so, it can get a little uncomfortable in certain spaces.
00:26:29 I always tell people, if you see me in public, just tell me.
00:26:31 Just say hi.
00:26:33 But when I go online, I go on my Instagram DMs,
00:26:35 and I get a picture of myself eating dinner or out and about,
00:26:38 I'm like, okay, that's, come on.
00:26:42 But the people that feel like they're owed something,
00:26:46 if I'm putting myself in their shoes,
00:26:48 I see it for a split second,
00:26:50 because at the end of the day,
00:26:52 day we only have an income because of the people that watch us that's right so they feel a little
00:26:58 power in that and like well you know I'm the one that does this but at the end of the day too you
00:27:03 are one follower like you could unfollow me and my whole life's not gonna crumble down so I'm not
00:27:08 owed to give you every little aspect about my life it's not you don't need that unless I've
00:27:15 been teasing it and like I've been giving you a little bit of access to my life and I feel like
00:27:21 you i owe you all of it no even then but it is interesting it's weird it is odd what do you make
00:27:28 of james charles a hot mess express i've talked about him on the show before specifically the
00:27:34 whole like spirit airlines like debacle that he got into with one of his followers demanding money
00:27:42 he went online said she was lazy whatever whatever what do you make of james charles i think his
00:27:47 delivery on that story we're talking about like not james charles as like the person and influence
00:27:52 and all his all his conspiracies but all his like all the alleged controversies just the spirit
00:27:59 airlines uh thing that happened his delivery was wrong but he was like kind of low-key right
00:28:06 but you don't know if for those that listening that aren't really familiar basically
00:28:10 the whole spirits airlines obviously went under a lot of people lost their jobs and this woman
00:28:15 that wasn't even following James Charles just hit him up and was like, hey, here's my GoFundMe 1.00
00:28:20 or like, I need money. Give me money, please. And James popped off because he's tired of people
00:28:25 coming into DMs asking for money. And as a creator, like I get them all the time.
00:28:31 I get GoFundMe links all the time. I get the soft stories all the time. And
00:28:35 if that was the case, I would just turn into GoFundMe. If you really want to give money,
00:28:41 you can go to GoFundMe website and you can just donate to random people.
00:28:45 And my page, as much as I hate telling people no and I feel bad,
00:28:49 I can't dedicate every single time of my life
00:28:53 to just promoting these GoFundMe pages
00:28:56 and this stop story, this stop story, help this person,
00:28:58 help this person, I would run dry.
00:29:01 I just would.
00:29:02 The same thing can be applied to America
00:29:06 as far as us having a legal border
00:29:09 and a legal right to becoming a citizen. 1.00
00:29:11 We can't be the person to take in everybody from the planet 0.89
00:29:14 because we'd be taking in everybody. 0.97
00:29:17 If you're making $30,000 in the United States,
00:29:20 you're in the top 1% of the entire world.
00:29:23 So we can't take in every single person
00:29:26 and give them a new life.
00:29:27 Otherwise, we wouldn't be who we are today.
00:29:29 I wouldn't be who I am today
00:29:30 if my only content is sitting here promoting GoFundMe links.
00:29:34 Like, I'm sorry.
00:29:35 And I get you're subscribed to me.
00:29:38 I get you feel like I owe you something, but I don't.
00:29:41 but I still give back all the time, randomly.
00:29:45 I'll see someone like a comment.
00:29:48 I'll be a little nosy.
00:29:49 You know, sometimes I'm bored on the couch
00:29:50 and I'll tap through their page.
00:29:51 I'm actually just had a baby.
00:29:52 Boom, I'm gonna buy something for their registry.
00:29:54 Oh, Christmas is coming up.
00:29:56 Oh my gosh, like this woman, her family, they're so cute.
00:29:58 I mean, like buy them a Switch. 0.57
00:30:00 I'll do stuff like that all the time,
00:30:02 but that's like on my account.
00:30:03 But if you come in my DMs,
00:30:05 kind of insinuating demand for something,
00:30:07 I don't owe you that.
00:30:08 What about you?
00:30:09 no i'm i'm right there with you i absolutely agreed with his take there and i think again
00:30:16 maybe it's because you and i see it all the time so maybe we have a different perspective than those
00:30:21 who who don't but my entire like especially if you go to instagram you go to like the spam part
00:30:26 yes it's just folder and it's the same thing where i would i would love it's teachers who
00:30:32 are reaching out about the registry they're about to start their kindergarten class like i would
00:30:35 love to help fulfill every dream you have but it's impossible to do but i agree his delivery
00:30:41 i think especially just with the platform that he has the followers that he has
00:30:45 yeah i was shocked that he even posted it initially what did you think was going to be
00:30:50 the response when you're lazy go get a job and it's like okay james calm down no i will say in
00:30:56 the year 2026 there's no reason to be broke i will tell you this right now i think the easiest
00:31:03 way to get money is go ahead. I don't care how much debt you in, credit score, nothing. Find you
00:31:09 a way to lease a car, lease a cheap car, preferably like lease, like maybe a Tesla Model 3. That way
00:31:17 you save on gas money and then boom, take that car immediately sign up for DoorDash and Uber Eats
00:31:23 and Postmates and do that 12 hours a day. Build your little safety in that pocket. Boom, go find
00:31:29 a different job but still do the side hustle then boom find another job easy like there's ways to
00:31:35 scale up out of a problem but like to just sit here and beg influencers no yeah no agreed okay
00:31:40 last thing for you what's your hot take that you feel like would get you canceled hot take that i
00:31:47 think would get me canceled i'll tell you mine um i said on the internet that i hated mashed potatoes
00:31:52 and it was like world war three pause like i love mashed potatoes and the chunky ones with the
00:31:58 little bit of the potatoes like i'll i'll just gag thinking about it so good i guess my hot take
00:32:03 would be i dip my cookies in water and oh you do do that yeah for years like i've been doing this
00:32:09 since i was six years old i did my cookies in water and ate my cereal with water honey bunches
00:32:13 of oats with a water and some crushed ice gas and if you really want to bust it down go ghetto style
00:32:19 you get you a bowl of hot cocoa puffs get your cocoa puffs um get it with water eat the cocoa
00:32:27 puffs and take that leftover water juice the chocolate juice microwave it put a little sugar
00:32:31 in it and they have high chocolate gas honestly it's innovative it's innovative like a little diy
00:32:38 hack i think i could get behind maybe the second part of that but that would force me to then like
00:32:44 eat cocoa puffs with water and that is a criminal offense like we need president trump to sign an
00:32:49 executive order right now first off you're made of water and quite literally you most of your life
00:32:56 been spent in water that's a good so dipping a cookie in water less calories it still tastes
00:33:03 good it don't there's a negative it doesn't negate any taste of the cookie it's gas i'm gonna send
00:33:08 you some i'm gonna get i'm gonna send you some delivery cookies to your house you know i thought
00:33:13 being bloated after every meal was normal uh it's not once i really focused on changing my gut
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00:35:37 Well, if my listeners audience was on the verge of going to your YouTube and subscribing,
00:35:44 maybe they won't now. Although I'm kidding. They definitely should get a mere two million.
00:35:48 We're super grateful for you. So thanks for being one of those voices that's
00:35:52 that's just real and authentic um because in today's cultural climate uh those are really
00:36:00 rare so thanks for for being bold and i'll tell you i get so much love uh for you on my page like
00:36:07 i've commentated on you quite a bit when you come to talk about the trans issues and trans sports
00:36:11 and it's like oh my gosh i love her i love her get on the channel get on channel and so we'll
00:36:15 have to bring down the channel too and they would fall over they would kill over come on well you
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00:36:23 Thank you so much.
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