Comedian Ryan Higa talks about his life growing up in the 70s and 80s, and how he got into drugs and alcohol. He also talks about how he almost died in a car crash, and why we should be worried about the future of our generation.
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00:01:13.000And I'm left with basically a giant milkshake, like a big thing with a straw.
00:01:18.000So by the time I got to the train station, I was hammered.
00:01:22.000And riding a bike, the two hardest things, no, the three, no, the four, the four hardest things to do when you're hammered is have sex, fight, type, and ride a bike.
00:01:35.000I attempted three of the four, no, two of the four yesterday, and oh boy, I went careening off a parked car as though Bigfoot threw me.
00:01:45.000Imagine you really annoyed Bigfoot, and you were in the way, like he was trying to get to his kids, and you were saying, no, no, no, no, Bigfoot, no, no, no, no.
00:01:53.000Imagine what he'd do to you, how he'd just sort of throw you on the ground.
00:02:10.000Because for two hours, two hours, my trusty sidekick, Ryan Katsu Rivera, a man who was half Puerto Rican and half Japanese, fiddled with the soundboard trying to understand why there was an echo coming from the speakers.
00:02:29.000Two hours later, two hours later, this show's 42 minutes.
00:02:35.000We could have done two shows in that time.
00:02:37.000Two hours later, he goes, oh, wait a minute.
00:02:40.000I was playing video games, you know, little games that little kids play.
00:02:43.000I was playing video games, and I plugged in the TV to the speaker.
00:06:48.000My mug, you know, my get off my lawn mug, it's useless now.
00:06:52.000I don't think they thought this through.
00:06:56.000All the porcelain and paper thought they were.
00:06:58.000They're sitting there doing due diligence with all these accountants and everything, working on the map, but not one person said, hey, we have a climate change problem in this country, and we have to worry about our carbon footprint.
00:07:07.000We can't burn that many business cards.
00:08:13.000Because I would kiss her, love her, kiss her shoulder, and there'd be those, and I'd go, and then her belly, everything else, and her arms.
00:09:45.000By the way, speaking of the New York Post, I know a lot of you at home remember yesterday's episode where we said, hey, physics has been defied.
00:10:53.000Target Teresa caught, what does it say?
00:10:56.000Target Teresa caught on video harassing black customers.
00:11:00.000So when you first read that, you go, this, oh my God, there's some racist woman at Target, and she's going up to black women and yelling at them.
00:12:53.000So I think they have really lowest common denominator.
00:12:57.000They're easy to refute liberal stuff to kind of appease the left enough, but then there's a nugget of, wait a second, that's not, this isn't a win for liberals or SJWs at all.
00:13:09.000In there, so that way you could just combat it easily if you're half Japanese.
00:13:14.000But trust me, why are you speaking Chinese?
00:13:16.000I don't understand a word you're saying right now.
00:14:25.000She's just started writing regularly for the New York Post.
00:14:28.000This is the kind of columnist who's putting that kind of crap on the front page.
00:14:33.000Does she look fair and balanced to you?
00:14:35.000Or does she look like she may have a slight feminist bias?
00:14:39.000Anyway, this all sounds like silly banter, but that's the way we do this show.
00:14:44.000You think we're just two guys hanging out, but we have a point.
00:14:46.000And the point is that Apple, this is the first story, banning hate.
00:14:56.000So Tim Cook just had a seminar at ADL, an ADL-sponsored event.
00:15:01.000The Anti-Defamation League is exactly like the SPLC, in that they have been infiltrated by social justice warriors, and they now are hate groups.
00:16:00.000They can say Jew stuff, N-words, homophobia.
00:16:04.000I'm going to let, just total and utter free speech.
00:16:06.000And it doesn't work because you start getting these anti-Semites, these Nazis, and everything you write, they go, yeah, that's the Jews, the Jews, the Jews.
00:16:14.000And then people go, well, I'm not going there.
00:16:26.000I'm not saying those people don't have the right to go talk somewhere else.
00:16:30.000But the other problem is when you have a monopoly like this, like Twitter does and like Google does, you have to be very wary of what you define as hate.
00:16:41.000Let's go to the video and that link, and you'll hear Tim Cook just saying all this random banter, just platitudes about how we have to love and we can't hate.
00:19:15.000Everything bad can be traced back to Jews.
00:19:17.000Those are the two most important components of being alt-right.
00:19:24.000Now, alt-light is an insult the alt-right gives to people who don't Have those sentiments.
00:19:30.000So when they see someone like me say, I don't care what race you are, well, you just have to promote Western values, they go, you're a cuck, you're alt-light.
00:19:38.000If you're chickening out of the racist stuff and the anti-Semitic stuff, you're alt-light, right?
00:19:44.000Alt-light is just, it's a derogatory term.
00:19:48.000You can call me alt-light, I don't care.
00:19:50.000But the more correct term is new right.
00:19:51.000And new right is just like libertarian, neocon, paleocon, just a normal conservative who wants minimal government and tends to be pretty socially liberal.
00:20:00.000So in many ways, they are the opposite of each other.
00:20:04.000But the ADL in the guide lumps them both together.
00:20:08.000And it says, alt-right versus alt-light.
00:20:10.000And instead of saying they're the opposite, it has them in this long column.
00:20:13.000So you've got David Duke and Richard Spencer and all the bad guys, right?
00:24:53.000So anyway, what happened when you Googled Trump and Fox News?
00:24:55.000Well, there's only three articles that popped up in the first three pages, and the rest of them are articles about Trump's relationship with Fox News and Fox News, how they cover Trump.
00:26:01.000There's a rumor going around that Boston was having a Nazi rally.
00:26:04.000I think 10,000 people showed up to stop it.
00:26:07.000Now, it wasn't a Nazi rally, it was that Indian guy who invented email talking about free speech.
00:26:12.000But just the attendance alone, doesn't that show you that we don't have a problem in this country when 10,000 people show up on a rumor that there might be a racist there?
00:26:20.000Anyway, so Charlottesville happened, and then according to them, Trump said, those guys are good guys.
00:26:26.000Now, he said there was bad guys on both sides, there was good guys on both sides.
00:26:30.000There was journalists there, there was people that were there out of curiosity, there was people who were duped who were there that thought it was about statues, because that was the initial pitch.
00:26:39.000I was one of the only ones savvy enough to suss it out months in advance that it was going to be a Nazi thing.
00:26:44.000Anyway, I'm just getting back to the liberal narrative.
00:26:47.000And so after that, when Trump said Nazis are cool, then all these millions and millions and millions of racists, they became emboldened.
00:26:56.000And now they could say the N-word and be anti-Semitic and homophobic and all that stuff.
00:29:32.000Putting down people you don't agree with is about as un-American as you can get.
00:29:37.000Rigorous debate, honest discussion, open exchange of ideas, that's the American way.
00:29:42.000But free thinking and speech are threatened today by a group with a sweet-sounding name that conceals a nefarious purpose.
00:29:50.000This group is called the Southern Poverty Law Center or SPLC.
00:29:54.000Originally founded as a civil rights law firm in 1971, the SPLC reinvented itself in the mid-80s as a political attack group.
00:30:03.000Every year now, it produces a new list of people and charities it claims are extremists and haters.
00:30:09.000Aided by double coverage from the establishment media, the SPLC's hate list has become a weapon for taking individuals and groups they disagree with and tarring them with ugly associations.
00:30:21.000The SPLC employs a two-pronged strategy.
00:30:24.000First, find a handful of crazies with barely any followers, no address, and no staff, and blow them up into a dangerous movement.
00:30:32.000Proof that there are neo-Nazis lurking everywhere.
00:30:35.000On their notorious hate map, the SPLC lists 917 separate hate groups in the U.S. No one has even heard of more than a handful of them.
00:30:44.000The second strategy of the SPLC is to undermine legitimate political voices that they oppose by associating them with extremists like the KKK.
00:30:52.000Take the charity known as the Alliance Defending Freedom.
00:30:59.000Well, the ADF has a network of 3,000 attorneys from all across the U.S. who've donated more than a million volunteer hours in defense of religious liberty.
00:34:14.000The next thing you know, big government, big tech, the far left, they start scrambling for power.
00:34:20.000And now someone who doesn't want a single gay man, meaning a man who's just by himself, a lonely gay person, to adopt a kid, she can't bank, and she can't have a website.
00:34:32.000Now there are two brilliant articles that summarize what I'm saying today.
00:34:37.000One of them is in the New York Post, and it's called, No, There's No Trump-Fueled Surge in Anti-Semitism.
00:34:46.000He put this out right after the synagogue shooting, so it was pretty brave of him at such an uncomfortable time to say this, calm down, everyone.
00:35:16.000It's inflated because it includes 163 bomb threats to Jewish community centers and other institutions in the first months of the Trump presidency.
00:35:43.000Now, I don't know if he was doing this to make it look like anti-Semitism was on the rise, or maybe he went nuts and became an anti-Semite or something, but it was not indicative of a pattern.
00:35:56.000Greenblatt, a staffer in the Clinton and Obama administrations, who has pursued an anti-Trump agenda at the ADL, never apologized, but instead doubled down on the air by patting the group's stats with these threats, which accounted for 8% of the anti-Semitic incidents.
00:36:09.000And they do things like, there'll be a guy in Puerto Rico who made a fake-looking bomb and threw it into a gay bar.
00:36:16.000That'll be seen as white supremacist, this Puerto Rican guy.
00:36:21.000So yeah, this ADL, the one where we have Tim Cook defining how we can use the internet, is the same one that's lying and taking a prank call and making it this huge Nazi surge fueled by Trump.
00:36:33.000So that's the first article you got to sort of have bookmarked to send to people whenever this comes up.
00:36:38.000And it's called There's No Trump-Fueled Surge in Anti-Semitism.
00:37:02.000And he just, he goes through this ADL study, and he talks about how deeply flawed it is.
00:37:07.000For example, although the Post acknowledges that the Las Vegas shooters' motivations are still unknown, the GTD had no problem categorizing the murder of 58 people as an anti-government extremist.
00:37:18.000And it takes these sort of assumptions to get in the vicinity of a surge in right-wing terrorism.
00:37:24.000So they took the Vegas shooting, which we have no idea what's going on.
00:37:27.000I've heard weird conspiracy theories about it being Muslim-related.
00:38:01.000Then there is the matter of inconsistently defining terrorism.
00:38:04.000If throwing a rock through the window of an Islamic center is an act of right-wing terrorism, why isn't it an act of left-wing terrorism for anti-capitalists, Antifa, to throw rocks through the window of a business in Oregon?
00:38:16.000Surely both fall under the description of terror, which the GTD defines as the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor seeking to attain political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation.
00:38:46.000If they can scare everyone, the same fear-mongering that's been very profitable for the ADL and the SPLC, if they can spread that to the entire country, then they can win the election in 2020 and say, we rescued you from the Nazis.