In this episode of Thick & Thin, we discuss sexual assault, rape, and sexual harassment in the workplace, and how we treat victims of sexual assault and harassment. We also discuss the Bill O'Reilly and Harvey Weinstein scandals, and what we should do in the wake of all the other sexual assault cases that have come to light in the past year, and why we should not be so quick to convict the innocent in these cases. We also talk about rape and sexual assault in general, and whether or not we should be so hard on the guilty when it comes to the ones who are actually responsible for the crimes they commit, and who should be held accountable for the consequences of those crimes. Also, we talk about masturbation and porn, and the perils of masturbating in front of someone you're in a sexual relationship with. And we discuss why we shouldn't be too hard on people who masturbate in front or in bed with someone you are in a romantic relationship. Thank you to our sponsor Budweiser for sponsoring this episode. We really appreciate the support we've gotten so far, and we're looking forward to seeing you in the future episodes. We'll be looking out for your feedback, so we can keep making the podcast better and better! Please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast, and spread the word to your friends and family about this podcast! Please don't forget to tell us what you think of it! we'll be listening to this podcast in the next week! Timestamps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 34. 35. 36. 33. Intro Music: "Thank You" Intro: "Goodbye" by Ian McKamey (feat. , "I'll See You Soon (featuring ) & Other Music: ) & (Music: "I'm Not Yours Truly by Jeffree Starz and "Good Morning by Squeals) Music by Ian Dorsch ( ) & Other?
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00:00:02.000The year was, I think, 1992, and I was asleep next to a lady.
00:00:09.000There was a bunch of us crashing in a house in Vancouver, and I was asleep next to a lady, and I guess I had acquired an erection in my sleep.
00:01:43.000That was a rude hijinx, a rude prank, and that's how I feel about the rape.
00:01:49.000So, with all these cases, I think we tend to lump them all together as, you know, there's rape, there's people taking advantage of people sexually.
00:01:58.000Uh, and I think that trivializes the real victims.
00:02:01.000If I were to say I have been raped and cite that case, then the real cases now pale in comparison, because I'm talking about some rude behavior, some poor sportsmanship on my female friend's side, and lumping it in with someone who, you know, has someone jump out with a knife.
00:02:22.000And I can prove it, too, that it's less serious, because I never thought of it again.
00:02:29.000If you were to rape a woman, even masturbate in front of her like Harvey Weinstein did, the next time a guy is with her and that kind of an act comes up, bing!
00:02:37.000That's going to trigger a memory, and she's going to remember Harvey Weinstein, and then that ruins the genuinely romantic moment that she was having with a dude.
00:04:02.000And then you have Bill O'Reilly paying out $32 million.
00:04:07.000Can someone explain that to me please?
00:04:10.000I guess the mentality is he's rich, it's just his insurance company paying, or it's just Fox News, so they have to be hit with something that's physically painful to them.
00:04:22.000Now, if the punishment is a punch, and you're an 80-pound hemophiliac, that's not the same as when you're Hulk Hogan.
00:04:30.000So, with Hulk Hogan, they want to deliver 10 punches, and with the 80-pound hemophiliac, they want to deliver a flick.
00:04:37.000So the rationale is, we had to make it 32 million in order for the punishment to be felt.
00:04:43.000But I say, eh, that's not really how the law works.
00:04:47.000The law is what you suffered, not how much suffering you can... God, my vocabulary sucks today.
00:04:55.000Not how much suffering you can enforce.
00:05:00.000Like if you're a carpenter and someone is negligent and runs over your hand with their bicycle and breaks two of your fingers and you were making $80,000 a year as a carpenter and you didn't work for six months, the person who screwed up owes you $40,000.
00:06:06.000And that is, you allowed for a sexual environment in the workforce.
00:06:09.000And that gets taken by these liberal lunatics who will go and just imply anything
00:06:16.000Is sexual harassment like they'll say They'll say I heard of a case once where this guy was in trouble because he had a picture of a woman in a bikini on his desk I Can see that so he did he have porn on his desk that could be weird You know you walk into a guy's office, and there's just naked spread beavers all over his walls like hustler I could see that being a problem but in this case it was a picture of his wife and
00:06:42.000Now, it's now a sexually charged environment if there's someone with their wife on their desk?
00:06:53.000And, if you lived in Times Square, if you work in Times Square, there's tons of Victoria's Secret billboards around there.
00:07:00.000So that could be visible out of your office window.
00:07:03.000So this guy would have to turn the picture of his wife in her bikini face down, while out the window next to his head, there's Victoria's Secret catalogs.
00:07:13.000So it gets into this nebulous area of where you draw the line, and I'm going to answer that at the end.
00:07:19.000This isn't just going to be a giant interrogative.
00:07:20.000That's our job as storytellers, as book writers, as journalists, as entertainers, is you need an ending.
00:07:27.000I remember I edited Leslie Arfin's book, Dear Diary, and at the end she just went, so what's the moral of the story?
00:10:29.000David Cross, when he was single, unattractive guy.
00:10:32.000Probably a, as he put it, as he said himself, he sort of circled his finger around his face and he goes, they're certainly not coming for this.
00:10:39.000When I asked him if his fame was what was getting him chicks.
00:10:43.000Johnny Knoxville, I've seen women line up.
00:10:45.000Now, I've had this my whole life, I'm afraid.
00:11:48.000And I think, you know, there's rough sex, especially here in New York.
00:11:55.000And I think men who do that, and I was one of them back in my single days, we sort of go into it because it's a fantasy that women have to be dominated.
00:12:59.000She's coming home after a fun night partying and there's a guy, a Puerto Rican guy, waiting in her lobby.
00:13:06.000This is on South 5th and Bedford in Williamsburg.
00:13:09.000So it's one of those areas that's not quite gentrified.
00:13:11.000In fact, I think the Dominicans have taken it over from the Puerto Ricans.
00:13:16.000Puerto Ricans came to Williamsburg and they were already Americans so they didn't really have to struggle.
00:13:21.000They just went on welfare because there was no stigma there and dealt coke.
00:13:24.000The Dominicans, who aren't legal Americans, come here and go, wait a minute, you're not dealing cocaine with enthusiasm and there's millions of dollars in it?
00:13:34.000So they get up there with their gang, DDP, Dominicans Don't Play, and their machetes and they start hacking Puerto Ricans to bits and they take over the Puerto Rican cocaine trade.
00:13:46.000Which was run by the Kings at the time, the Latin Kings.
00:13:49.000So anyway, South Fifth is one of those Dominican streets that can't really get gentrified because the Dominican gangs run it.
00:13:56.000And we went to some fun speakeasies there, all-night parties where Dominicans just opened a disco in their apartment, in the basement.
00:15:32.000It was still very dangerous in the early 2000s.
00:15:35.000Anyway, so this friend of mine, she is coming home.
00:15:39.000And this Puerto Rican jumps her in the lobby of her Brownstone, stabs her.
00:15:44.000And then she gets so freaked out that she faints.
00:15:48.000And she doesn't know if she was raped.
00:15:51.000So she had to have a rape kit, and she wasn't allowed to drink all summer because she was on AIDS medicine, just in case you have AIDS medicine.
00:15:58.000And she joked about it a little bit, but she didn't want to talk about it, and she certainly didn't carry a mattress around campus.
00:16:04.000Now every time I think of real rape, I think of her.
00:16:07.000And for me to say rape, or for someone who had their butt grabbed to say rape,
00:16:45.000We're the first ones that had a black woman win an Oscar and Marlon Brando wouldn't come and get his Oscar until an Indian got it and blah, blah, blah.
00:16:52.000We're out of touch from the ignorance and the losers and the rednecks.
00:16:55.000And we're in touch with peace and justice and equality.
00:19:11.000So maybe it started out with that with Weinstein, but then absolute power becomes absolutely corrupt and He started taking advantage of more and more and more women Until he was just in over said I think he's still to this day.
00:19:27.000He did what a week of sexual rehab and
00:19:38.000And it is, it is joyous watching him suffer, but we have to still be very skeptical of all these other cases and make sure we don't have kangaroo courts.
00:21:11.000I'm gonna get revenge on all you people.
00:21:12.000And I think it's possible he died of a heart attack from the stress of all this.
00:21:16.000I think that might be why Breitbart died.
00:21:19.000Remember Andrew Breitbart was being sued by that woman, forget her name, look it up Dave.
00:21:23.000There was that woman who sued him for taking a quote out of context.
00:21:28.000Now her quote was that she gives grants to farmers and she said she's more, she's less likely to give a grant to a white farmer than a black farmer.
00:21:44.000She's more likely to give a grant to a black farmer, and then later on in the same speech, she goes, but that's my own bias, and I have to overcome that.
00:21:53.000And Breitbart's point was, yes, I'd neglected to include that second part, but imagine a white person said, I'm prejudiced towards black people, and then later said, but that's something I need to get over.
00:24:32.000A record label wants to get its chick numbers up, so they have to give jobs to women.
00:24:38.000Women aren't great at a lot of stuff, especially a dog-eat-dog world like the music industry.
00:24:42.000So the labels would say, here, you work in marketing, which just means here's a budget, here's $300,000, go buy a bunch of $5,000 magazine ads with it.
00:25:51.000I was driving my son to practice, and this guy was crossing, not at a crosswalk, and he sort of beckons me like, go, go, go, go, because I had slowed down to let him cross, and I just snapped.
00:26:01.000I just go, oh, just cross the fucking road!
00:26:07.000I shouldn't be telling you this because it's like, it's like James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause when they call him chicken and he just goes ballistic.
00:29:14.000Wouldn't that be awesome if she was a three?
00:29:17.000And he eventually, by the way, had the charge reneged, but it took years and tons of legal crap.
00:29:24.000And her argument and her prosecutor's argument, her lawyer's argument was it shouldn't matter what his intentions were.
00:29:31.000It's that she experienced sexual harassment that matters.
00:29:35.000Now there is a dangerous legal territory if I've ever heard one.
00:29:38.000Now how people feel in the age of triggering, and this is 10 years before the age of triggering, but in the age of triggering, now just how you interpret things counts as guilty?
00:29:49.000Well, I'm sure I'm seen as... I just saw, we just showed the other day on Get Off My Lawn, the show, we showed a college student who said, your very existence is offensive.
00:30:04.000Your very existence is a hate crime, she was saying to someone who was at a college Republicans meeting who wasn't even a Republican, they were Democrat.
00:30:11.000So don't start saying how things are interpreted count as truth, because these interpreters have lost their minds.
00:30:19.000But I read an article about this where the author was saying, you know what, let's just abolish the whole concept of sexual harassment at work.
00:30:28.000If you're a guy, a boss, who grabs woman's asses, they're going to quit.
00:30:35.000There's not more than one job in the world, and that guy's not going to last very long.
00:30:39.000You know, I saw that movie 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin recently about this disgusting sexist boss, and I watched it and went, eh, he's not that bad.
00:33:26.000Oh, by the way, that reminds me of another thing.
00:33:29.000Let's not forget in all this that there are plenty of men who want to beat up rapists.
00:33:34.000And there's plenty of women who tell them not to.
00:33:36.000I've talked to cops, by the way, who will break up a domestic as some guy's beating the crap out of his wife.
00:33:40.000And then as he arrests the guy, she starts attacking the cop because she didn't want him to intervene.
00:33:48.000And I had a friend who was some guy basically said screw me or you're fired and I said I want to go kill him and she begged and pleaded with me not to as a female friend because she said it'll ruin my career and I don't want you to.
00:35:30.000And he said, what are you talking about?
00:35:33.000And then he started panicking and he did what I would do if I was accused of this and he pulled out his phone and he goes, let's call her right now.
00:35:43.000I thought, hmm, you don't see a lot of rapists saying, let's call her right now.
00:35:50.000This is looking pretty good for him and pretty bad for her.
00:35:54.000And then when she found out she was super mad at us for bothering him.
00:35:58.000And I realized, it sounds like you're lying.
00:36:00.000And by the way, I don't want to trivialize rape allegations, but it's worth mentioning fake ones on behalf of real victims.
00:36:10.000And I tweet, I got in trouble, actually from Leslie too, the girl I was talking about, I got in trouble a long time ago for saying every guy I know that's been involved in a domestic was the victim of some c-word trying to ruin his life.
00:36:25.000And people, that made people really mad, especially feminists.
00:36:56.000But he still had to go to court for a year, probably spent $100,000, lost his guns.
00:37:00.000Had to go to rehab, had to go to anger management, all tens of thousands of dollars adding up to a hundred for something that he hadn't done wrong.
00:37:07.000In fact, when the police showed up to get him, they had just come back from the Apple Store where they had each bought new phones.
00:38:58.000Now, this is his version of events, but I haven't heard it contradicted by her.
00:39:03.000And he's begged her to take him to court.
00:39:06.000A lot of these guys want to go to court so they can have actual allegations, but what these women do is they just send out the rumor with a carrier pigeon, and that rumor becomes fact, and now these guys' lives are ruined.
00:39:17.000So, she sends a picture of herself with her legs all bruised up,
00:39:21.000And she says, I was just getting out of an abusive relationship.
00:39:25.000Now that becomes Kale Hartman, because that was her ex-boyfriend.
00:39:27.000He then becomes a rapist, and his life is over.
00:40:04.000He lives the life of Anthony Weiner, having done nothing wrong.
00:40:06.000Well, how'd you get the bruises on her legs, Gavin?
00:40:09.000I've heard a recording of this, and in the recording, if he would just release this to everyone, everyone would see that he's innocent.
00:40:15.000And I honestly believe this woman, she sees an abusive relationship as, for example, her saying, uh, uh, my dad, uh, I'm intimidated by my dad, I don't feel like I lived up to his expectations.
00:40:27.000And then later on in the fight, the boyfriend says,
00:40:31.000You're just mad because you don't live up to your dad's expectations.
00:40:33.000Now, that's a petty move where you've used something someone told you in confidence and then brought it into a fight.
00:40:42.000And I think young women today would count that as being in an abusive relationship.
00:40:47.000But us 47-year-olds, we read that and we go, oh, he beat the crap out of you for not having a sandwich ready on time, for not getting you a beer.
00:40:56.000So it's a generation gap, too, with a lot of this stuff.
00:40:58.000When I hear rape, I think of Ski Mask, Bush's, Knife.
00:41:02.000I don't think of a rough night of tomfoolery where something went into the different spot.
00:41:09.000So they were wrestling one night, is the story, and they got in sort of a physical altercation.
00:41:15.000They were both drunk, and I've fought drunk women before, and they think they can beat you up.
00:41:18.000So you spend half the time sort of holding their wrists going, calm down, calm down.
00:41:22.000So he was holding her legs down as she was kicking him, and she got bruises all over her legs.
00:41:32.000It looks like someone was sitting there pounding her legs, which
00:41:34.000Have you ever heard of a domestic abuse where some guy comes home, his dinner isn't ready, and he gets down on his knees and starts punching her legs?
00:41:40.000Like she's naming five breakfast cereals?
00:43:18.000And then this other woman, Kimberlo, said he raped her.
00:43:21.000And they both got together on, I think, Good Morning America or something, wearing little sort of sweater vests and pencil skirts and sitting with their knees close together saying, Yes, I was raped.
00:44:00.000Luckily, it's the digital age, and Dove had photographs of the so-called rape where this woman was clearly enjoying herself, so Kimberle lost that case.
00:44:10.000I helped make these photographs public, and I never would have done that, by the way, if they hadn't drawn first blood and appeared on Good Morning America saying they're being raped.
00:44:19.000And then the other one, Irina Morales, we find out that after she was fired from American Apparel for being useless, she was still sending him flirtatious texts, herself naked, penetrating herself, saying, I want to be your sex slave.
00:44:32.000I want to perform an act on your back area.
00:44:36.000I don't know how to say this in a TV-friendly way, podcast-friendly way, radio-friendly way.
00:44:44.000And what really bothered me, by the way, about her emails, I felt I had to have a shower after I did the research for this article, too.
00:44:50.000She had Frederick Douglass as a quote at the bottom of her emails as a signature.
00:44:55.000And this is after she's saying, I want to be your slave and then prosecuting him for the lie that she was a slave with Frederick Douglass, the key player in the abolitionist movement, as her signature.
00:45:07.000I mean, the audacity of these stupid millennials is just downright disgusting.
00:45:14.000And he paid them $40,000, which seems to be the common figure they pay on these things, $40,000, or at least it was when I was researching it.
00:45:22.000Then the next one goes, repeated alleged sex offender or reported to have blah, blah, blah.
00:45:27.000So once it happens once or twice, you can keep adding to it.
00:45:30.000Now, I think the Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein numbers don't include that.
00:46:19.000And even Anna Wintour's daughter, I don't even know if she has one, but if Anna Wintour's daughter was a sphere or looked like Megan McCarthy or any of those women, actually any woman from Ghostbusters, if Anna Wintour's daughter looked like any of the female Ghostbusters, there's no way in hell she's going to be on the cover of Vogue.
00:47:01.000So the idea that all you had to do was have sex with Terry to get into a fashion magazine is ridiculous.
00:47:07.000And this chick Jamie Peck with these really tacky sort of 90s tattoos, the idea of her getting in vogue is just not plausible.
00:47:15.000So she was clearly just going for attention.
00:47:17.000And New York Magazine did a big article on it and they noticed when they were looking at the pictures of Jamie that she had about 12 different hairdos in them.
00:50:03.000My dad was dancing at an office party once, and someone made a joke about him being bald, which he is.
00:50:10.000Can you believe how blessed I am, by the way, with these gorgeous locks?
00:50:14.000I mean, Justin Theroux, Jennifer Aniston's husband, once said to me, I am brutally jealous of you for about a quarter of an inch down, and then I stop.
00:50:22.000Meaning, from the top to a quarter of an inch, he's jealous of me, and then my brain is there, and then he stops being jealous immediately.
00:50:29.000But my dad was not blessed with these gorgeous locks.
00:50:46.000But he was dancing at an office party back when he worked at Prior Data Sciences and someone made a joke about him being bald and he was dancing with a female friend of the family and
00:52:12.000So in a photo, his hand's going to end up on your ass.
00:52:16.000He's probably not doing it on purpose.
00:52:18.000Now, there was an actress recently, uh, dig up her name, Dave, who claimed that he sexually harassed her with lewd jokes and then molested her.
00:52:30.000He was only a mere 89 when this happened.
00:55:09.000When you think what she gained, I think she sued MTV, I don't know, maybe she got 40 grand.
00:55:14.000So you got that little extra boost that year, you probably partied a little more, went out to dinner more, and you ruined a guy's life for a lie.
00:55:22.000What he actually said was, wow, they really do make you look like a prostitute.
00:55:56.000Another example of an innocent dude, Donald Trump.
00:56:01.000I won't go over this too much because we've been over it way too much but the joke in the bus was clearly a joke and it was about real groupies and what they let you get away with.
00:56:11.000That somehow became when Trump gets into office you may grab women's genitalia on a whim.
00:57:38.000And in his monologue with Billy Bush, which, by the way, could have been a lie, too.
00:57:43.000That's a big, tall, famous guy talking to a short, famous guy, wanting them to have a good rapport.
00:57:48.000So he demeaned himself and called himself, I believe, a faggot, a pussy, and said, I bought her a bunch of furniture and she shut me down.
00:57:55.000That, him, that's him, that's what us, us big guys do around little guys.
00:57:59.000And I say us, I mean like, if I was being interviewed by someone who didn't have my kind of reputation, I would want to demean myself to put us on an equal playing field so we could get along better.
00:58:13.000Um, and I think that's what he was doing there.
00:58:15.000He was saying, I'm a loser, I'm a faggot, let's hang out.
00:58:18.000Don't, don't be uncomfortable around me, let's make this a good interview.
00:58:21.000And that's the thing about being private.
00:58:24.000It's none of anyone's business because if you take all my private conversations out of context, you don't know the background there.
00:58:31.000You don't know if it's an inside joke.
00:58:33.000You don't know what I was trying to do.
00:58:35.000You know, maybe the guy who donated to the anti-gay marriage thing is a gay who doesn't want gays to be normalized and likes that they can't get married.
00:58:42.000Maybe the sex is better when you're taboo and he doesn't want gays to be mainstreamed.
01:01:07.000So she says, he controlled everything I did.
01:01:11.000I wasn't allowed to have my own phone or my own credit card.
01:01:13.000He decided who my friends were, read through my private emails, restricted my access to social media, regulated everything I ate.
01:01:19.000He berated me and yelled at me, telling me that I was a joke, that all the people that came to our shows were only interested in his instrumentals, and that I was running the band.
01:01:52.000These feminists have given us homework assignments with every case here, and the problem with Kangaroo Court is, I pay my taxes for someone else to deal with this.
01:02:00.000I'm happy to get involved any way I can, but it's not- I'm not a lawyer.
01:02:05.000And so you present me all this flimsy evidence, and I've got to go through, and now I want to talk to your friends, now I want to talk to his friends, now I want to talk to the tour manager.
01:02:13.000I gotta- I gotta quit my job, I gotta leave my family, just to know if this one case is true.
01:02:49.000But it also isn't really indicative of a sexual predator.
01:02:52.000It's indicative of a guy who did really raunchy, weird sex acts.
01:02:56.000His photography brought raunchy New York to high fashion.
01:03:00.000So you'd have a woman barfing or something in Yves Saint Laurent, and that had never really been done before, and he was sort of anti-Photoshop, like you'd have a zit on a woman's butt that you normally would never see, especially in high fashion mags.
01:03:12.000But the culture back then was all our friends were dying of heroin overdoses.
01:03:43.000So when you employ, you know, 2017 standards on early 2000 punk rock New York City photography, Ryan McGinley, blue chip photographer, gay dude, I bet if you looked a lot of his old pictures you'd see naked guys having sex and you could, you could, if Ryan McGinley, I just thought of this right now, if Ryan McGinley was a straight white male you could easily
01:04:07.000frame a huge case about how kids were forced to have sex on tour.
01:04:12.000He had these vacations where he'd follow people with cameras and they were encouraged to have sex acts with each other.
01:04:18.000This is true in the sense that he did do these photo shoots.
01:04:22.000It's not true in the sense that implying they were coerced.
01:05:08.000People from New Orleans are real sensitive about people thinking they can do their accent.
01:05:13.000So if I did my terrible Cajun accent and made it an instruction video on YouTube... First of all, when you do a Cajun accent, you have to relax your mouth.
01:05:24.000And you have to talk like a from the bayou, yeah.
01:05:26.000Can you imagine how many down likes you would have?
01:05:30.000Oh my god, the comments would be molten lava.
01:08:52.000When he gets his makeup on, look at him on screen.
01:08:54.000He has a weird, it looks like a skin-colored crayon, labia, peach.
01:09:00.000And men, my age, his age, we have blotches and stubble and we don't look like peaches.
01:09:07.000And I don't think, there's not this push for men my age to have a uniform skin tone.
01:09:13.000It's not something people are aching for.
01:09:16.000You know, if there's a 22-year-old girl and it's an important date night and she's got a huge, pustulant red dot on her cheek, she wants to cover that with makeup.
01:09:27.000Or, back in the 90s, when the Sony cameras weren't good at filtering out light, and you had to have huge, giant lights above you, people would sweat.
01:09:39.000So they needed makeup to absorb the sweat so they didn't look like Nathan Thrum, that Martin Short character where he's sweating to death.
01:10:08.000I'll probably do a sketch of them on the show, because there's 15 jokes I've been saying since birth that always do well.
01:10:14.000Like, for example, when I'm done at a dinner and I really loved it and I cleaned my plate bare, I'll hand it to the waitress and go, I can't finish this.
01:10:39.000And then I say, at least my OB-GYN has the courtesy to warm the forceps up with a hot towel first.
01:10:46.000That always gets a laugh from chicks because they're impressed that I know about OB-GYN or it's funny to hear me talk like I go to a gynecologist.
01:10:54.000So, that got a laugh, and then I got drunk with the attention, and I said the following, which I'm not proud of.
01:11:00.000I said, ooh, I can feel my cunt lips crawling up into my body here!
01:11:12.000Totally get Fox banning me because monetarily they're looking at probably a $250,000 suit if they leave me in the building because the makeup artist could say I felt unsafe and then they kept having this horrible sexual predator come back to the studio and say his horrible vagina words in my face and
01:11:33.000And now this is someone who warned a company that they feel unsafe, and then that woman was still under duress in an unsafe position.
01:11:43.000So they probably thought, let's just get her to another floor, get Gavin out of here, and then they won't have a case, because we can say, we tried.
01:11:54.000But it just shows that this is the downside of this kangaroo court climate we have.
01:11:59.000And I remember when I worked at Rebel,
01:12:02.000Anything went they had zero HR, and this is sorry before rebel media was rebel media It was called Sun News, and it was a like a mini Fox it had Three studios that about 50 desks, and it was that sort of up up a floor and down a floor You know like an elevated sort of a three steps kind of thing.
01:12:19.000It was a beautiful office Wonderful everyone there was cool, and there was no HR, and you could do any joke you wanted and
01:12:52.000Whenever I talk to young pretty girls, my first instinct is, let's get you hooked up and breeding, because I'm obviously not going to sleep with her.
01:13:02.000Now that could be construed in modern HR as sexual harassment, but it wasn't there because it isn't.
01:13:07.000And I did this one joke I would regularly do, that you do when there's no HR.
01:13:11.000I would undo my belt and my pants, so they were totally loose, and then I'd be holding them with just like my, the heel of my palm of my hand or something, and I would come up and go, hi, okay, on this meeting on Thursday, what I want to do is, and then I would let my pants fall.
01:13:26.000Now, I'm not letting my bare ass be exposed or anything, I just have my underwear on, but I pretend I was brutally embarrassed, and I go, God damn it!
01:14:37.000You know, at Vice, I took off all my clothes and put someone's phone in my buttcheeks and then put it back on the receiver and then four days later sent them a picture so they could see that.
01:14:46.000That's probably a brutal crime right now.
01:14:48.000That guy, by the way, just beat me up.
01:15:01.000But I remember we had a meeting at Rebel and we were, it was everyone involved and we all flew up to Toronto and I sat down and I said, basically I just said to you right now, but how much I enjoy working in a place with no HR.
01:15:13.000And then I sat down after I've done my little talk and learned the meeting was to announce we have an HR!
01:15:20.000But, in Rebel's defense, they get investors, and the investors go, okay, what's this?
01:15:28.000Oh, they throw urine at Lauren Southern, one of the reporters, and the investor goes, no, thank you.
01:15:33.000I don't want to get sued and lose all my equity.
01:15:36.000So you have to end up, we live in a culture where you have to get an HR in order for investors to feel like their money's in a safe place, which is ridiculous.
01:15:45.000And it's not fun, and it turns everyone into pariahs.
01:16:51.000If some guy molests you and is a rapist or a sexual predator and you accept money for that, not only are you being a prostitute, but you're letting this criminal free!
01:17:48.000Especially when you're flirting with him after the fact.
01:17:50.000To which, by the way, she goes, there's no perfect victims.
01:17:54.000Oh yeah, you were flirting with him because you were scared he was going to beat you up.
01:17:56.000Is that why you were inviting him to parties?
01:17:59.000No, she clearly made up this story because she was mad about getting dumped and she trivialized all the other rapes for that.
01:18:04.000And we should have known that when she said, I was going to go to the police, but they made me feel unsafe.
01:18:09.000So I'm just going to sue the school, make this about Title IX, and drag a mattress around.
01:18:14.000Thereby trivializing my friend who was stabbed so hard she fainted and had to take AIDS medication on the off chance she had been raped against her will.
01:18:25.000Not that anyone gets raped with their will.
01:18:32.000We have a long history of trial and error with these kind of cases.
01:18:37.000And I'm starting to see something different when I see all this.
01:18:41.000When I see everything from the guilty, the Weinstein, the Cosby, the Toback, the Ailes, to the innocent, to the four-year-old boy in Texas, in Waco, Texas, who was punished with an in-school suspension for, uh, because a teacher accused him of sexual harassment.
01:19:00.000To John Solosky in the University of Georgia, to my friends, Kumia Hartman, Charney Richardson, Paul Nungesser, who sued Mattress Girl, George Bush Sr., Casey Affleck.
01:19:12.000All of these cases have a common thread here.
01:19:15.000And that thread is, when we stray from the law that we've all worked on together,
01:19:19.000We've all democratically come up with these parameters based on the Magna Carta.
01:19:25.000The backbone of our civilized society is based on these laws we came up with together.
01:19:30.000When you abandon that and you say, no, I'm going to go with mob rule, rumor, kangaroo courts, I'm going to go back to the days of the primitives, the savages, pre-pagan basically, I'm going to go back to cave people and just do mob rules.
01:20:31.000And to those of you who would like to get away with raping women and writing checks, I'd like you to stop doing that and also, while you're at it, get off my lawn.