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00:10:02.380There are very different considerations that work here.
00:10:05.680What we need is not the boring guy who is the moderate.
00:10:10.140We need the effective anti-establishment guy who reassures Trump's strengths.
00:10:17.520Because, like it or not, it's very likely that Trump's going to be tied up in these legal proceedings and this or that.
00:10:24.800And so if Trump's bandwidth is diminished by whatever tricks that the regime has up its sleeve, we can't afford to have a Mike Pence type.
00:10:34.400We need a guy who's aligned with the Trump movement, who can carry it forward, who can go before an audience and make the same kind of strong case that Trump is capable of making.
00:10:44.800And so that's one of the chief reasons J.D. will be very powerful.
00:10:49.960Trump doesn't need to look at geographic diversity or any of this stuff.
00:10:56.800It's simply an issue of igniting enthusiasm for Trump.
00:11:02.220And the way you do that is the narrative.
00:11:04.320Trump's narrative is extremely compelling.
00:11:06.900J.D.'s narrative has been compelling from the very beginning.
00:11:10.220And people may not know that, but his narrative, the starting with Hillbilly Elegy, his biography recapitulates the logic behind why the Trump phenomenon was so popular in 2016.
00:11:26.400And so that's one of the other reasons he's a perfect fit for this role.
00:11:30.220And then the third reason, in terms of legacy, Trump's lived 10 lifetimes at least and accomplished so much in each of these 10 lifetimes.
00:11:41.680It's really hard to fully fathom how much he's done within his life, of course, capstoning with the presidency.
00:11:49.280The one thing remaining, though, even for someone as accomplished as Trump, it's not going to be complete unless he shores up his legacy,
00:11:58.040unless he is able to pass the torch to a next generation to continue and improve upon the MAGA movement.
00:12:07.540And among the viable VP candidates, J.D. is overwhelmingly the best choice for this.
00:12:14.720And, of course, on policy issues, he's already established himself as a leader in the Senate on foreign policy on Ukraine.
00:12:21.340He's indicated that while he's an anti-establishment candidate, he can navigate the nuances of politics.
00:12:29.360And I think he's done this very well on the abortion issue, which is going to be a major thing this election.
00:12:35.540So long story short, all things said and done, J.D. is absolutely the best choice for VP.
00:12:42.500And we really hope that that's the direction that Trump chooses to go in.
00:12:45.960Well, and as you mentioned, even though it is not one of your prerequisites, the geography,
00:12:53.960he actually is a good geographical pick because, as you say, the legacy of Hillbilly Elegy
00:12:58.700and essentially this this Appalachia slash Rust Belt background that he sits in.
00:13:04.900Look, if Trump's going to win, he's going to need one of the one of the three Rust Belt states.
00:13:11.760So that's either Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin.
00:13:14.880Now, Ohio, of course, geographically sits right at the heart of all three of those states,
00:13:20.140although because of its unique demographics, because it doesn't have the Acela Corridor like Pennsylvania does,
00:13:25.200which is where, of course, I'm from, that that Ohio never really had the issues that the Pennsylvania and the other states do.
00:13:33.720Ohio is solidly MAGA country, which is interesting, by the way, because for candidates other than Donald Trump,
00:13:39.540Ohio is not a reliably Republican state.
00:13:43.540This is largely due to demographics and largely due to the working class base.
00:13:47.800And so with J.D. Vance, you would have someone who can go to Michigan, who can go to Wisconsin,
00:13:52.460who could go to Western Pennsylvania and talk to the people there.
00:13:56.960Of course, you know, obviously right across the right across the river from Youngstown in Ohio,
00:14:02.600we could easily walk over to Pittsburgh and and write the same language, because this this really has been the the fundamental reason for the MAGA movement in the first place.
00:14:15.100It's really it's it's these areas. It is the hillbilly elegy story, isn't it?
00:14:22.120Absolutely. No, it's it's in perfect complementarity and consonants with the underlying logic behind the Trump phenomenon,
00:14:30.660not even just the Trump candidacy, but the Trump phenomenon that has irrevocably reshaped our political landscape
00:14:40.060to the chagrin of the establishment elements that, despite their disappointment, have largely accommodated this reality.
00:14:49.000For the most part, you see the nefarious elements on the right not maintain a never Trump stance,
00:14:56.100but instead try to reformulate and repackage their poison in the veneer of Trumpism, which is very dangerous.
00:15:06.800But that in itself is a concession to the enduring impact that Trump has had on American politics.
00:15:15.060And it also underscores the reason why we really need someone like J.D.
00:15:19.860who embodies the transformation and doesn't just kind of superficially pose as it for short term political gain.
00:15:28.400And I will say, you know, I'm so glad that Nikki Haley is out of the running.
00:15:33.260And I'd like to thank the swamp consultants who convinced her to go against Trump the way that she did,
00:15:42.620because I think if she had been a little bit smarter, she actually would have been seriously in the running.
00:15:48.940But her swamp consultants, despite themselves, perhaps inadvertently talked to her in a position where there's not going to be a Haley on the ticket.
00:16:00.740So I'd like to thank these consultants for their greed, which had the unintended effect of excluding Nikki Haley from the ticket.
00:16:39.280That's certainly an element that we want to shore up, and I would imagine there's no...
00:16:44.800Well, the name I threw out, actually, because if you're talking about Ohio, a native son of Ohio and current resident of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:17:12.740He clearly understands, you know, the essence of MAGA and the America First movement, and we haven't seen the last of him, or at least I certainly hope not, and I don't think we have.
00:17:22.080So I think that's a very interesting option.
00:17:26.460I also certainly wouldn't mind seeing Vivek in a very important cabinet role in the second Trump administration either.
00:17:35.300So we'll see which one works out, but it's very clean that way to have Vivek in the Senate.
00:17:42.460So another kind of fortuitous aspect of the J.D. for VP slot.
00:17:50.600All right, that was the one I mentioned that the other day when we were down at Mar-a-Lago for an event, and, you know, the question, of course, has become the biggest sort of parlor conversation in the entire country.
00:18:06.740And then following that, J.D. obviously beckons the question, Vivek Ramaswamy sitting right there, potential, potential senator, but there's, you know, there's plenty of other congressmen as well.
00:18:16.600The only question, of course, would Mike DeWine nominate him because Mike DeWine, not exactly a Trumpy governor.
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00:20:09.640The last time I was on talking about this, you'll recall that scandalous video depicting the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb.
00:20:16.700And one thing that stood out to everyone watching was a plainclothes officer informed Secret Service about the bomb, and they're not worried about it at all.
00:20:26.580It takes them two minutes to even get out of their vehicle, whereupon they just stand around lackadaisically and even allow a group of schoolchildren to walk right in front of the bomb.
00:20:36.440It's clear that they knew that the bomb posed no threat, but the question is why?
00:20:44.460And the suspicions there are compounded by the fact that then-VP-elect Kamala Harris was in the DNC building and has, for whatever reason, vigorously covered that fact up, despite what you would think, that she would be playing it up.
00:20:58.800You would think that would be the biggest J6 talking point, but it's the most carefully regarded secret.
00:21:04.540Now, fast forward to a closed-door meeting within the halls of Congress.
00:21:10.380Certain congressional officials, staffers, and whatnot wanted to pose some questions that obviously would arise when watching this surveillance video in question.
00:21:21.080And one of the Capitol Police officers at the scene was there, along with a senior Capitol Police officer, Ashton Benedict.
00:21:27.360They were asked, how do you explain the fact that you're alerted to a bomb and you're standing around doing nothing and you even let kids walk by it, and then you go through the spectacle of having a bomb-safe robot defuse it?
00:21:40.480And the answer that this individual gave, who is currently the head of Dignitary Protection and Intelligence at the Capitol Police, he said, we didn't do that so as not to cause panic.
00:21:54.900The head of Dignitary Protection at the Capitol Police said they allowed schoolchildren to walk within feet of what was presumably a live explosive device.
00:22:07.900So just at the surface level, the fact that someone with this approach and attitude would presently be in charge of protecting the lives of congressmen should be a national scandal in its own right.
00:22:19.620But add to that the fact that we know this person is the key candidate for being one of the main cover-up men in the J-6 pipe bomb hoax.
00:22:33.600The role of the ATF, which has not been really adequately explored up to this point, the ATF was actually the major first response unit to the pipe bomb.
00:22:43.640This guy was a special agent in charge of the ATF who was the incident commander for the pipe bomb response.
00:22:52.680The ATF also, we've learned from judicial watch documents, brought in the CIA whose bomb-sniffing dogs were involved, and in all likelihood were the dogs that managed to miss the pipe bomb at the DNC in the first place.
00:23:09.560So it's a really interesting thing of this closed-door meeting that I was ready to.
00:23:13.360Well, and of course, by the way, of course, the dogs would miss it if there wasn't anything for them to smell because there weren't any explosives, but I digress.
00:23:23.980And it was just a fortuitous thing that judicial watch's FOIA request of the ATF, which is not even related to the pipe bomb, happened to turn up this guy Ashen Benedict's name as one of the only unredacted names.
00:23:37.520And in the text chain, we see confirmed that the ATF was the major organization responsible for the response to this pipe bomb.
00:23:46.020And based on that text exchange, we caught Ashen Benedict in multiple lies or at least apparent deceptive practices when we combine that from what we hear transpired within this closed-door meeting in relation to the response of the DNC bomb.
00:24:05.100So we have a prime suspect for the cover-up man, the mop-up man for the J6 pipe bomb hoax, and it is none other than Ashen Benedict, who is a—his career trajectory is also bizarre.
00:24:20.780He was an 18-year veteran, actually, or over two-decade veteran of the ATF.
00:24:26.620Incidentally, he was responsible for cleaning up the debris at the Pentagon after 9-11.
00:24:32.700Like, he has a very interesting career history.
00:24:36.500And after J6, when I mentioned he was the incident commander as part of the ATF, he then goes on.
00:24:43.880Mayor Bowser of D.C. puts him as head of the D.C. Metro Police.
00:24:49.060And then he moves on to head of Intelligence and Dignitary Protection of Capitol Police.
00:24:53.840It's as though he's carefully positioned in every institution that played a role in the first response of the pipe bomb so as to actively cover up.
00:25:04.060And he is presently the person with the authority to gatekeep congressional access to the first response officials who are depicted in that explosive DNC surveillance video.
00:25:16.000So it's very rare these days when you have people willing to put out a name there.
00:25:23.820He's the head of Capitol Police, Dignitary Protection, and Intelligence.
00:25:27.760The head of protection who, by the way, thinks it makes sense to not do anything about a bomb because you don't want to cause panic so you let kids walk by.
00:25:35.620Again, that alone should be the national scandal.
00:25:38.020But the biggest scandal is his role in covering up the truth about the J-6 pipe bomb hoax.
00:26:29.520Everyone needs to go and check this out because it's very clear.
00:26:32.420And we're working on this, actually, Joshua Lysak and myself are working on this for the new book for Unhumans, that one thing we write about time and time again is that our institutions are fundamentally, fundamentally turned against us and fundamentally opposed to us in many ways.
00:26:53.760But one of the things that we need to understand is that conservatives still don't get it in many ways.
00:27:01.940They still don't get that we are one or possibly even two generations behind in terms of the institutional takeover, the institutional infiltration, the long march, as it were.
00:27:13.460And so places like the FBI, places like the DOJ, places like the ATF, it's not that people say, oh, the rank and file, the rank and file, the suits versus the boots.
00:27:29.180The incentive structure there is set up in such a way where if you are going to be promoted, if you're going to be put on a leadership track, if you're going to be put into a position of authority, then they are looking for people who are loyal.
00:27:45.200They are looking for people who are loyal to the regime.
00:27:48.140They are looking for people who are loyal to the revolution, loyal to the struggle.
00:27:54.820I certainly saw this when I was in the intelligence community myself.
00:27:57.660And so the reason they put loyalty above competence is very simple because – and by the way, I'm not saying loyalty to the Constitution or the country or the United States of America, these types of things.
00:28:15.720This is loyalty to political correctness, loyalty to wokeness, loyalty to Biden and Hillary Clinton.
00:28:23.780This is why, by the way, that all of Russiagate could go on and you never have any sit-down meeting or meeting notes or email or minutes where John Brennan is telling James Comey, okay, this is what's going to happen, and they go to Clapper and walk you through it.
00:28:43.140Now, everyone sort of understands what their role is to be, that they are going to lie about Trump, and they're conducting this small group meeting off campus.
00:28:54.580And so when we put this into the book, we explain that in order to upend this, you need to create a new incentive structure, a new incentive structure whereby in, number one, it is merit-based.
00:29:09.340That's clear, it's merit-based, but also that if you run afoul of merit, if you run afoul of excellence, if you are incompetent, if you are not good at your job, or if you are still loyal to this previous revolutionary regime, then you're out.
00:30:15.040Because we need a country and a government that is set up to represent the people of this country, not the special interests, and not the revolution.
00:30:55.400You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:30:56.780We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:31:02.560All right, Jack Posobiec back live here, Human Events Daily.
00:31:08.720We're doing a special report now on this Nickelodeon scandal, the pedophile rings, the idea that these people who were convicted of child sex crimes were allowed to be hired back by Nickelodeon to participate in SAGAPTRA and to have access to so many of these stars, these young child stars, many of whom have gone on to become stars in their own right.
00:31:31.200Ariana Grande, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, Damian Spears at one point was involved in these shows.
00:32:19.600And what I thought was really important that the documentary did is it talked about not just the exploitation and abuse that was happening behind the scenes, but also the on-camera abuse that you were seeing.
00:32:30.280There's these videos of Ariana Grande on Victorious, which is a Nickelodeon show that she was on in the mid-2000s.
00:32:37.700And it was so overly sexualized, so many sexual innuendos.
00:32:42.200This is, first of all, supposed to be a show for kids.
00:32:45.340And it's the actress is herself a minor.
00:32:47.840I mean, that anybody thought this was appropriate or remotely normal is beyond me.
00:32:52.280And I am so grateful to my parents for saying, you know what?
00:32:55.200You're not going to watch these teen sitcom shows, which clearly were being produced by nefarious adults.
00:33:02.920And so these individuals, Dan Schneider and others, this is what I can't understand for the life of me.
00:33:08.120And I've been talking about Dan Schneider for years now.
00:33:11.020How is it that this guy gets away without any legal ramifications?
00:33:16.720I don't even think anyone sued him at this point.
00:33:18.960He just keeps putting out these, like, oh, you know, I'm very sorry for how I acted, like little apologies.
00:34:07.540And he was he was making Nickelodeon a lot of money.
00:34:10.620So they were never going to do what was right to fire this creep.
00:34:13.920And I think what was also really interesting about the documentary, they kind of had a Me Too angle where they said, oh, he wasn't nice to the women on set.
00:34:21.780He was he was disrespectful toward them.
00:34:24.900OK, like that's that's that's a problem.
00:34:27.260But I think that the fact that he didn't have women on set is part of why a lot of this was allowed to happen.
00:34:33.220When you have a mix, right, especially when you're dealing with child comedy to have, you know, men and women checking things, women saying, hey, this might not be appropriate.
00:34:41.960This might not be OK for kids, I think is really important.
00:34:44.980And he really surrounded himself by like minded individuals.
00:34:48.720And I think they were very bad individuals who produced content, not for kids and exploitative to the children who were actually acting in these shows.
00:34:56.360And unfortunately, in many of these instances, and I don't I'm not I don't know, I'm not naming anyone in particular, but in a lot of these instances, you actually have the parents facilitating it in in by and large, because they'll say, oh, well, if you just go and hang out with the producers, make sure you go to the party.
00:35:17.220Then you'll get more screen time, then you'll get more episodes, make sure you do all the right things.
00:35:22.780And they're actually encouraged because you have these these parents.
00:35:25.880And to say it many times, it's the moms living vicariously through the children and pushing this obviously been an issue in Hollywood for years that's been going on with child actresses.
00:35:37.900But the idea that, you know, they would potentially be willing to overlook some of these behaviors, which are just, as you as you said, very obvious and overt.
00:35:47.220Yeah, well, I think it's super interesting to look at the parents in this case.
00:35:51.280There was one mom who was so terrible in this documentary.
00:35:54.620She basically said, I always wanted to be a child actor.
00:35:59.740She was allowing her daughter to communicate in exorbitant amount of times with with this male who was a producer on set, much older than her.
00:36:09.900This man is in like his mid 20s, I believe, didn't didn't see any red flags there.
00:36:14.340Then when she found out that he was sent, he sent her an explicit photo, she didn't go to the police.
00:36:19.540I mean, really just bad parenting all around.
00:36:22.440There was one parent who actually said, I was I was very aggressive on set.
00:36:30.720And the Nickelodeon heads kicked that kid off the show because his mom was too involved.
00:36:35.580So they send a message to parents, you know, don't let your don't don't be a helicopter parent around these situations.
00:36:41.660Don't don't don't care too much because your kid won't go far in this industry, which I think is is extremely dangerous to have underage individuals in these environments where they are primed to be exploited by adults.
00:36:56.040And so so so what's the what's the answer here?
00:37:01.400Then, you know, it seems like there's no accountability for any of this.
00:37:06.460I don't hear anyone from Nickelodeon being coming out and apologizing.
00:37:11.100I don't hear any of these people coming forward now and saying what happened.
00:37:15.680And I certainly don't hear anybody getting any in any legal repercussions.
00:37:19.400How is it exactly that it happens that everybody just sort of walks away free?
00:37:25.660I think that like child child TV, child, you know, acting is a very dangerous industry.
00:37:39.760But but, you know, there's there's there's a whole history of of kids turning out very poorly because of terrible things that happened to them on set.
00:37:47.480And I don't know if the answer is to say, no, you're not allowed to have child actors.
00:37:52.880I'm never I'm never sure that legal recourse is the right action because, frankly, it doesn't it doesn't do anything.
00:37:59.200I think as a culture, we need to be be far more aggressively speaking out against this.
00:38:07.120But but but being a culture that values the protect the values, the innocence of children that wants to protect children.
00:38:14.120If we were a culture that actually cared about those things, child acting would never be a thing.
00:38:19.020If you were actually culture that cared about the innocence of your child, you would never allow your kids to watch these shows in the first place, which are filled with sexual innuendos and are, you know, making money off and profiting off of the exploitation of children just on its face value.
00:38:31.940So, yeah, I think this is a really I think it's a cultural sickness that people don't seem to care about this.
00:38:37.000And I'm not really I'm not sure how we how we combat it.
00:38:39.320I think, frankly, Dan Schneider and a lot of these people should be on the sex offender list.
00:38:42.940They're not. So I think it's really going to be a movement within society to actually change things.
00:38:48.540And we're becoming more and more of a pagan nation.
00:38:52.540Well, it's it's not only that, but you're talking about, you know, this is this is Los Angeles.
00:38:57.960OK, this is California. So you look at the permissiveness of laws in California for allowing things like this to happen.
00:39:04.820You know, they say, oh, we're going to protect the children. We're going to protect the children.
00:39:07.240But then you look at the permissiveness in California.
00:39:10.280State Senator Scott Wiener putting out bills to essentially allow people allow it easier or reduce sentences for child sex offense.
00:39:18.900And so there's a lot of questions here. So, OK, you're going to have the industry.
00:39:22.720You're going to have child stars. This has been an issue since the very beginning of Hollywood.
00:39:27.120The real question is, are we actually going to do something to make things right on these sets?
00:39:33.720I think you need some kind of regulation. I do think you need some.
00:39:36.480And at the union level, SAG-AFTRA, these are the celebrities, the celebrities that are trying to tell us all how to live our lives and how good they are and how much,
00:39:45.980you know, it's climate change and race and gender and the Oscars have just turned into now this like,
00:39:51.880you know, all of the award shows really have just turned into these political pageantry sessions.
00:39:56.040And meanwhile, you turn around and say, OK, well, how are you guys running your own industry?
00:39:59.140And like, oh, you're infiltrated by pedophiles at Nickelodeon. Great, great.
00:40:03.160Last minute here in the segment of Eda Duffy.
00:40:05.080Yeah, well, I just I think that that's that that's the point, right, that these people are constantly preaching to us about about how how amazing they are.
00:40:14.560And yet they're not dealing with their own house. I think it's a it's a huge problem.
00:40:19.520Absolute huge problem. And in fact, I guess the question is, is it something that they view as a problem or is it something that they view as well,
00:40:29.200as something that they want, as something that they view as potentially beneficial, something as a benefit to being on these shows and having access to these children?
00:40:38.320And to your point, these people do worship many, many dark things.
00:40:43.440And the idea of corrupting an innocent child is obviously the number one potential worst thing you could do to violate a young child.
00:40:52.360Stay tuned. Eda Duffy, my favorite anti-communist, is on with us right now.
00:40:55.820Long hours. I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:41:03.500All right, Jack, so we're back live here at Human Events Daily.
00:41:05.760We're doing a special report of the child pedophile rings at Nickelodeon, of all places.
00:41:10.940Well, it's coming out. Evita Duffy Alfonso is our guest.
00:41:14.000Evita, you know, when when we when we have these actresses who are like the former child stars,
00:41:20.140particularly people like Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan and, you know, so many of these people, especially when they go on.
00:41:30.020And then Jamie Lynn Spears, right. And Britney Spears, even that, you know, we kind of look at those of those individuals who have had downfalls.
00:41:37.800Miley Cyrus, who, you know, go completely off the reservation from the Hannah Montana days to where they are now.
00:41:44.480And we laugh about it. We we joke about it.
00:41:48.140We as a society kind of like revel in their downfall as much as we did as in their in their heyday and in their prime.
00:41:56.400And. Is it true, then, that what's really going on is that these people are not they're not reaching out in excess.
00:42:04.780They're actually victims. They're actually victims of Nickelodeon.
00:42:09.120They're victims of people like Dan Schneider.
00:42:11.000They're they're victims of the people who put them in these toxic environments.
00:42:15.260And that is what we're seeing on the other end now.
00:42:23.140I mean, these are these are people who some of them have been sexually abused.
00:42:26.880Like there's a lot of indications that Amanda Bynes was really creepy video of her with Dan Schneider in a hot tub.
00:42:33.000Like, why is he in a hot tub with a 12 year old girl?
00:42:36.000I don't know. Weird, weird stuff. But then, you know, there's also these long work hours that these kids have.
00:42:42.540Right. They're not having normal childhoods. They're not growing up like normal children should.
00:42:47.140And then you think about what's the nature of of this work. Right.
00:42:50.360You're an actor. You're trying to pretend to be a bunch of different personalities.
00:42:54.220In the case of Amanda Bynes on her Nickelodeon show, she was I mean, it was it was like 50 different characters that she played.
00:43:00.440That was the point of the show that she had a bunch of different, you know, you know, characters that were part of the Amanda Bynes show.
00:43:06.400Right. So it was I think that that does something really bad psychologically to young people who are trying to figure out who they are.
00:43:13.060And yet they're pretending to be a bunch of things that they're not.
00:43:16.160The whole industry is set up to warp and distort kids and and really stunt them in their growth and into adulthood.
00:43:23.940That's on top of the fact that many of them are experiencing sexual abuse.
00:43:27.780You know, it's interesting, too, because you you you find the people who are child actors and who in other you know, there's something about and I guess Nickelodeon and Disney specifically, because there are so much these they're just like these factories, like these assembly lines with kids and producers and everyone's running around.
00:43:48.800There's so much money, yet you can find people on sort of like regular TV shows who may also have children, you know, child actors who don't really seem to exhibit or have experienced any of this.
00:44:00.020There's something I don't know. It feels like there's something specific about Nickelodeon and Disney.
00:44:09.360And, you know, what what I what I've heard about a lot of these these actresses and actors that have turned out really bad and products of Nickelodeon and Disney is there they had a lot of family issues.
00:44:19.660I think that these shows and this was this came out a lot in Nickelodeon documentary purposely try to keep parents out of things.
00:44:26.980Right. They try to to really take control of the kids life.
00:44:30.200Otherwise, you're not going to succeed in the in in this in this industry or at least in that in Nickelodeon and Disney.
00:44:36.100And so I think that's why many of them have have had such terrible experiences.
00:44:41.940I really think that these shows have a have a tendency to push parents out of the picture, which is just so, so dangerous for the mental well-being of young people.
00:44:51.680And so when when we're looking at this, though, you know, why is it that our government, the FBI,
00:45:00.100the, you know, the industries and agencies that are supposed to be actually taking care of this, the institutions, why does it seem like they're not really interested in any of this?
00:45:07.600Why is it all coming out in a documentary?
00:45:10.960Yeah, I mean, that's that's a great question.
00:45:12.700I'd like to know the answer to that question.
00:45:14.060I mean, right. You have the FBI going after going after Trump supporters, going after pro-lifers, going after literally anyone that that is in odds with the Democratic Party, not not even dealing with the the abuses that we're having at the border.
00:45:26.840Anything that's important in this country, including the sexual exploitation of children, completely ignored by by these agencies.
00:45:33.600I'll also say, you know, it could have something to do with the people that control them.
00:45:36.880These are very powerful individuals who are in charge of Nickelodeon and Disney and frankly, all of Hollywood.
00:45:41.460So that to think that our government is actually going to go after these individuals and and hold them accountable for for torturing young people in our country.
00:45:51.160I don't think it's going to happen. I think that's how that's how things work in the FBI. Right.
00:45:55.000It's really is a gang organization. It's not a it's not a something that's looking out for the people.
00:45:59.580It doesn't care about law and order. It cares about protecting certain individuals while punishing others based off of their political views.
00:46:08.960It almost sounds it almost sounds a little bit, you know, you might you might you might have to use a word like like like non-human, like like almost like they're almost like they're unhuman in a way.
00:46:20.800I mean, I just I don't can't imagine anyone ever say anything like that. Look, I took so much flack and I'm still taking flack for the title of the new book for unhumans.
00:46:29.860And people say, how dare you say that? And I say, look at their fruits.
00:46:34.480Look at the things these people have done. Look at the things they embrace. Look at the things they do.
00:46:38.440And what else would you want me to say other than, you know, if we saw somebody acting like this at a church or at a school or, you know, basically or little league or whatever it is, whatever it is, you would do something about it.
00:46:53.500You would lose your right. You know, as a dad, if I saw somebody, you know, you know, like in my kids karate class and acting this way, I would go over and you know what would happen.
00:47:03.400Right. You know, it would not go good for them. And so the idea that you have this completely upside down system where people have incentivized the molestation and the sexual assault of children.
00:47:17.000And it's and by the way, not just incentivized it, they've monetized it. That to me shows what's absolutely disgusting.
00:47:24.800And for those shows, iCarly and so many of the others, it's like, I don't even know if you can even, you know, I never watched any of them to begin with.
00:47:32.620But, you know, I can't even imagine what it must have been like having watched those shows if you grew up watching them.
00:47:38.360And then now thinking back to those memories and then realizing what you're seeing and what you were in a way, you know, not, you know, not, not, not, not implicitly, but you were actually kind of participating in in a weird way.
00:47:51.260Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it's horrifying to so many young people who are realizing that, you know, they're, they're, they're the people that they fanned over are now had gone through such horrible things while they were watching these shows.
00:48:02.520I also find it just so frustrating that we are called conspiracy theorists.
00:48:07.620If we ever talk about child exploitation, if we ever talk about what's happening in Hollywood, it is, it's ridiculous.
00:48:13.660It is happening. A whole documentary just came out about it. Like, what, how can you deny it?
00:48:17.880And, and then, you know, there's, there's what's happening in Hollywood.
00:48:21.000We also have to talk about something else later.
00:48:25.860But, but the same thing that's happening in Hollywood is also happening with reality TV, looking at Jazz Jennings, and it's also happening with online vloggers.