It's a slow week for news, but it's not because there's no news to talk about, it's because there is no news at all. And that's a good thing, because we've got a lot of guests lined up for tonight's show, including Dr. Ben Carson, Michelle Malkin, Gavin McGinnis, and more.
00:02:27.000If there's no news to talk about, well, first off, if there's no news to talk about during a hot season or during sweeps week, they will talk about, they will create stories.
00:02:35.000Fabric is always, it's reliable, reliable.
00:02:38.000And then if there are some news, big stories, big stories to talk about during a season where they don't want to talk about, well, Unless it's Flight 370 and then just 24-7 for months.
00:06:18.000And now they're offended at Donald Trump being on Time Magazine.
00:06:21.000And by the way, we have later on coming on the show, there's a new rendition of Baby It's Cold Outside because the first one was too rapey.
00:06:48.000Because he hasn't done anything yet, and this is a phase where I've seen with every president, they make a lot of promises or they make a lot of pivots is the term you see in the media.
00:06:58.000Meghan McCain was on a network called Pivot for a while.
00:07:02.000Until she brought her double Z's over there to Fox News.
00:07:05.000I feel like this is the month gap where they're just trying to do anything they can to stay in the news.
00:07:08.000It's a month gap where they really have to confirm why people voted for them.
00:07:12.000And often this is a time where you see a lot of pandering.
00:07:15.000Because they're trying to unify the country.
00:07:44.000And that happened, and I didn't talk about it a lot last week because we didn't have a ton of information.
00:07:49.000We have more now, and there's been some more fallout.
00:07:51.000So I think we can talk about this because, again, Time magazine, I would say this is the next biggest story, and I think there are a few things that people are missing.
00:08:00.000Donald Trump carrier deal, the left was furious.
00:08:29.000What do you say, Chuck, when you hear that?
00:08:33.000Well, first of all, I'm very damn nice.
00:08:35.000But with Donald Trump saying it, That must mean I'm doing a good job because these people are making a decent wage at Carrier, and I feel like I'm somewhat involved in making that happen.
00:08:53.000So this guy goes on to then, you know, no word of the fact that this union could be the reason that so many jobs are leaving the United States.
00:09:02.000Yeah, nice pat on the back, seems appropriate.
00:09:03.000He goes on to it, we don't have it in the clip, we have to be careful with CNN clips because they might hit us with copyright infringements, thanks YouTube, to attack Donald Trump repeatedly, mercilessly.
00:09:14.000These people are just, they're attacking, they're attacking, they're attacking, the unions are.
00:09:20.000And this is something, like I said, I have a lot of grace for people whenever they're about to go into office, win some, lose some with Donald Trump.
00:09:26.000But Donald Trump has made a part, and everyone has praised him, right?
00:09:30.000So he's beholden to this a little bit, how great he is in the Rust Belt, how he's going to shake up the map.
00:09:33.000And he has talked about tariffs, and he has talked about bringing back manufacturing jobs, and he has done so without expressly addressing the elephant in the room.
00:09:42.000Which is unions who are a big reason, you know, unions and crony politicians in the Midwest, all of whom virtually are Democrat.
00:09:51.000And Donald Trump as president doesn't change that, doesn't change the local legislature.
00:09:54.000So when you say you're going to bring the jobs back, when you're going to punish companies from leaving, and you're not addressing the reason they're leaving right off the bat, and a big part of that is unions because you got a lot of votes from them, this is what's going to happen.
00:10:28.000They will never be your friends, Republicans.
00:10:30.000And so I definitely see this being a twisty, windy road to the depths of hell if you don't Make a pre-existing condition, if you will, that, alright, listen, we want to bring jobs back, but we need to address this.
00:11:31.000And we're doing this to try and pander to a voting base, not to try and fix an economy, and you're trying to pander to a voting base who will throw you under the bus anyway.
00:11:38.000You negotiate with these people, they're going to come back and bend you over to the next negotiation and want more, and when you don't, they're going to give virtually 99% of all their contributions to Democrats, as they have done.
00:11:47.00099% of their contributions have gone to Democrats throughout history.
00:15:53.000Marley was dead to begin with to garner sympathy.
00:15:57.000And I... Stand to lose all the work that I've done if the new administration decides to end DACA, which is the program that allows undocumented individuals, like myself, to have the ability to work.
00:19:00.000If Barbie had befallen on her, the scenario of Macaulay Culkin at the end of My Girl, and she were stung with a thousand bees, she would then look like the picture on the left, Amy Schumer.
00:19:12.000Anyone who didn't see My Girl, you should be ashamed of yourself, and for those who did, you're welcome.
00:19:16.000So she responded because people were saying, you know, I just don't really think Amy Schumer will make a good Barbie.
00:19:21.000Listen, they're not going to cast me as the new cool hand Luke.
00:20:21.000Listen, if you're proud of that, that's fine.
00:20:22.000But people have the right to criticize it.
00:20:24.000Just like people have the right to criticize Barbie, who wouldn't have made it in the Excel catalog a mere few years ago.
00:20:30.000I'm a badass comic headlining arenas all over the world and making TV and movies and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:20:34.000Anyone who has ever been bullied or felt bad about yourself, I'm out there fighting for you, collecting multi-million dollar checks for a movie that will flop.
00:20:41.000And I want you to fight for yourself, too.
00:20:43.000We need to laugh at all the haters and sympathize with them.
00:20:46.000If I say I'm beautiful, I say I'm strong, you will not determine my story.
00:23:52.000You are not playing ball with the gender pronouns.
00:23:55.000Tell me the situation at University of Toronto.
00:23:57.000This is how most people know you, and then we can expand on it.
00:24:00.000Yeah, well, there was a bill that was passed, a piece of legislation in Canada that's almost passed now at the federal level called Bill C-16, and what it purports to do is to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of protected groups under the Canadian Human Rights Code and the Criminal Code, and so it makes harassment and discrimination You can pursue it under the hate provisions of the Criminal Code.
00:24:26.000That doesn't seem so bad, but the problem is that it's interpreted in a broader set of policies that were laid out in the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and those policies are very bad, in my estimation.
00:24:39.000Well, it's one thing a lot of Americans don't understand, and I remember talking about this with Ann Coulter back in the day when they banned her from, was it Ottawa?
00:25:00.000And I said, well, here are some precedents, legally hate speech.
00:25:03.000And a lot of people say, well, we do have freedom of speech, we just don't allow hate speech.
00:25:07.000So is that kind of what the Senate around there in Ontario with the LGBTQAIP situation?
00:25:13.000Well, the thing that bothered me was that the legislators under the pressure from these marginal...
00:25:20.000Social justice type groups are instantiating a particular view of human identity into the law.
00:25:26.000And the view essentially is that your identity, regardless of its level, but say your sexual identity, your sexual preference, your gender expression, which is essentially your fashion choices, Yes!
00:25:44.000Well, you know, Lauren Southern is a friend of both of ours and she has some tranny friends who are also very nice.
00:25:49.000They were really mad because we had a psychiatrist on who had dealt with a lot of transgender people.
00:25:53.000She said probably some of the most deeply disturbed individuals she had come across who required the most work.
00:25:58.000And she talked about how there used to be transsexuals and transvestites, and most transgenders don't go through with the bottom surgery at all.
00:26:05.000As a matter of fact, many of them don't go through the top surgery or even the hormone replacement therapy.
00:26:10.000And I said, what's the difference between today's transgenders and, you know, last decade's transvestites?
00:26:17.000So you are actually medically accurate, but it's wildly offensive and you'll get letters.
00:26:22.000Yeah, well, you see, the problem is for me that it's very dangerous to make a law that forces the presumption that there's no relationship between the underlying biology and people's identities, because as far as I'm concerned, that's factually false.
00:26:38.000It's conceptually weak, but it's also factually false.
00:26:41.000And the law actually goes farther than that, so you can imagine that identity has a number of components.
00:26:48.000That's the part that's associated with the objective world, with the real world.
00:26:51.000And the idea that that doesn't have any influence on people is palpably insane, especially given...
00:26:58.000It's even insane in terms of the internal workings of the arguments that the people on that side of the equation are making.
00:27:06.000So, for example, when transsexuals go through with...
00:27:09.000With surgical and hormonal procedures, they're obviously acting on the presupposition that biology is an important component of identity because they wouldn't bother with the hormonal treatments otherwise.
00:27:18.000That's certainly not merely something that has physical consequences.
00:27:25.000Okay, so then you could say, well, you know, your identity as a man has a biological component and it has a sociological component.
00:27:32.000And you can argue about how much of the way that you are and the way you present yourself is culturally constructed and how much of it is biologically based.
00:27:40.000But there's some contribution of both.
00:27:43.000Okay, the law insists that there's no contribution of the biology.
00:27:46.000And then you could say, well, that makes your identity only a social construct.
00:27:50.000But then the law goes farther than that.
00:27:54.000For the social construction element of it to be part of the game, because you're allowed to define your identity subjectively in any manner you see fit.
00:28:03.000But then they also demand taxpayers pick up the tab for the biological component when they want to change it.
00:28:08.000I don't know about that in Canada, but I know in Nancy Pelosi's district, we were talking about that with the...
00:28:12.000The reason the Electoral College exists is so that values can be protected within the state, so that someone in North Dakota isn't paying for your adedictomy over there in San Francisco.
00:28:21.000Well, it's a social construct, but this idea, kind of what you're talking about, if there can be a male brain and a female brain, meaning if you were born to the wrong carcass, to the wrong gender, well, that sort of counters their entire premise to begin with.
00:28:34.000Well, one of the things that I pointed out in the first video I made, I made three videos on this topic.
00:28:40.000And the danger of making law out of this kind of doctrine.
00:28:44.000And another complaining, criticizing the University of Toronto's decision to make anti-racism and anti-bias training mandatory for their staff, which is something I regard as a form of pseudo-scientific political re-education.
00:28:57.000I think there's no excuse for it whatsoever, and in fact the evidence for that sort of thing suggests that mandatory anti-racism and anti-bias training either has no effect or makes people worse.
00:29:11.000Yes, although I received two warning letters from the university.
00:29:15.000I'm not saying I have any problem with that, but I'm surprised.
00:29:18.000Yeah, well, I mean, it could have gone...
00:29:20.000I think what the university essentially did, because I said in the video, in the first video, that what I was doing in making the video was probably already...
00:29:29.000Illegal according to the Ontario Human Rights Commission and then they were going to make it illegal federally and so I said even making the video criticizing the legislation was probably already illegal and that as my employer the University of Toronto was just as responsible for what I said as I am because that's also part of the legislation.
00:31:10.000But I don't have anything to complain about with regards to what's happened.
00:31:15.000I mean, first of all, I've had overwhelming public support and what I wanted to do with the initial videos was to articulate my thoughts on the matter because it's very complicated what's happening politically around the world in Canada, in the US, in Western Europe, in Australia, New Zealand.
00:31:29.000It's very, very complicated and something isn't going well.
00:31:34.000And one of the things that's happened since I've had, there's been 180 press articles written about the videos and the consequences of those videos since September 27th.
00:31:45.000And a tremendous amount of public criticism.
00:31:48.000And one of the advantages to that, to being criticized publicly and also to being supported publicly, is that it forces you to get your arguments straight and straighter and straighter.
00:31:57.000It's like trading with a weighted vest.
00:31:59.000We said that about being raised in Canada.
00:32:02.000And this is where I wanted to discuss having been raised in Montreal.
00:32:04.000We didn't have any conservatives or libertarians.
00:32:07.000We had liberals and we had liberal separatists.
00:32:09.000I remember someone came into class in the fourth grade.
00:32:29.000Apparently I can't pass a class because I couldn't open my mind enough to talk about waxwings flying close to the sun.
00:32:35.000This was just, it permeated everywhere.
00:32:37.000The other point of view didn't even exist.
00:32:39.000Whereas I had an American father who made sure I understood the American Constitution, why the United States was created the way it was, and most people don't.
00:32:46.000So you were saying off air, which surprised me, you thought that Toronto or Ontario had maybe evaded this sort of radical social justice warrior leftism, contrasting with the United States.
00:32:56.000I always assumed that it was the position in Canada by default.
00:33:00.000Well, I was thinking more specifically about the University of Toronto.
00:33:03.000I mean, the U of T is a very diverse campus, partly because Toronto has people from all over the world in it, many people from all over the world, people who've moved there from different countries.
00:33:19.000Immigrants, by and large, are relatively conservative.
00:33:21.000I mean, in Canada, the immigrants tend to support the Liberal Party because the Liberal Party has been more pro-immigration.
00:33:27.000But in terms of their fundamental stance with regards to social issues, almost all immigrants are more on the conservative side.
00:33:41.000Like a lot of Haitians in Quebec, you know, because of the French laws.
00:33:44.000And French Canadians are often quite racist, so they weren't happy about it.
00:33:47.000Yeah, well, the immigration situation in Quebec is quite different than it is in Ontario, because there's preference for people who are French-language speakers for immigration into Quebec.
00:33:58.000But, like, the University of Toronto has a tremendous number of Asian students, and they're often children of first-generation immigrants, and they're extremely focused on educational attainment and employability.
00:34:09.000They're not really that interested in all things considered in political issues, and so because of that, the University of Toronto, I would say, has been...
00:34:16.000The student body at least has been more conservative in the old classic sense of conservative than might be typical say at an American Ivy League institution.
00:34:25.000Now what's happened is that the administration has become increasingly left-wing as the years have progressed and the administration has become more and more powerful and a lot of what is happening at the University of Toronto with regards to political correctness is a consequence of the doctrines that are put forward by the administration.
00:34:42.000Yeah, and you can take a sip of water.
00:34:43.000I'll take the floor here for a second.
00:34:44.000I could see it was getting parched after that, and our audience, I guarantee you, is enthralled.
00:34:48.000No, it's interesting that you say that.
00:34:50.000One thing I noticed, particularly in Montreal, I don't know if this is the case in Toronto, Asians almost entirely congregated only with Asians.
00:34:59.000It was very different from the United States.
00:35:00.000When I went to a school which was largely Middle Eastern, a lot of Asians, they would sit at their own tables in the cafeteria, and they just didn't intermingle.
00:35:08.000They had to when they played gym, you know, and they did their map out with dodgeball, and they were quite good at it.
00:35:17.000But they didn't intermingle, and that was one thing that was very different.
00:35:22.000They didn't even speak English or French at the school, and I wonder if that might have something to do with them being apathetic politically in a place like Toronto.
00:35:28.000No, I really do think it's just that they're more focused on their studies.
00:35:32.000Like, the U of T student body is a very hard-working group, and it's a relatively hard school to get into, and the academic standards are pretty high.
00:35:41.000And it's also not a social university.
00:35:43.000Because it's a downtown campus, because most people commute there, It's by no means a party school, and so I'm not really even that familiar with the manner in which students socialize.
00:35:53.000Let me hold that thought, and we'll talk about the manner in which Asians socialize and how much better they are than us at math.
00:36:31.000Not only do you get access to Loud Earth Crowder daily, finally, but the entire CRTV lineup, including Mark Levin, Mark Stein, and Michelle Malkin.
00:38:12.000Do you feel more so by faculty or by students?
00:38:15.000Because like you said, the majority of Americans don't have a problem with you saying, all right, a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
00:38:21.000But that's not the case on campus or in the media.
00:38:24.000Well, that's also not precisely what I said.
00:38:26.000What I said was that I wasn't going to use words that were made up by radical leftist activists because they were legislating the necessity for me to do that.
00:38:40.000It's a red herring in some sense that this happened to focus on the rights of transsexuals, because I don't really think that's what it's about.
00:38:49.000And I think the reason that, I think I mentioned earlier that there were 180 newspaper articles now published about this in the last two and a half months, which is, that's a crazy number.
00:39:07.000So, you know, when you're arguing with someone, even if you're doing this with someone you know well personally, a big part of the argument is often what is the argument about.
00:39:15.000You know, so if you're married to someone and you come home and maybe you're late...
00:39:19.000And your spouse is annoyed at you, what you have to decide as a couple is whether or not the argument is going to be about that particular instance or is it going to be about everything that's wrong with your relationship.
00:39:30.000And you know how sometimes a little argument can spiral up until you're arguing about absolutely everything, including whether you should even be together.
00:39:37.000Well, no, not in that case, but I'm quite certain the Clintons do.
00:39:42.000And they have every reason to as well.
00:39:44.000So, figuring out what the argument is about is a huge part of the problem when you have a disagreement.
00:39:50.000And I don't think that this issue would have attracted anywhere near the attention that it attracted if it wasn't about something radically other than the specifics of this bill.
00:39:59.000And what it's really about, I believe, is the same thing that the American election hinged on, at least hinged on in part, which is...
00:40:09.000The group rights versus individualism, that's part of it.
00:40:14.000How we're going to decide how to balance things like fairness and justice in our society.
00:40:20.000What's the role of achievement versus equality?
00:40:27.000And the arguments about, say, equality of outcome versus equality of opportunity.
00:40:32.000It's going to be difficult for a Canadian in the era of Trudeau.
00:40:35.000I mean, I don't know if you saw that interview where he just seems to vehemently hate small business owners.
00:40:39.000He was talking about how it's really just a haven for tax breaks.
00:40:42.000I mean, in the United States, even Democrats have to say, well, we're the party of small business when really they're not the party of business at all.
00:41:05.000Higher in the Economic Freedom Index, Canadians, did they just not know what they had?
00:41:08.000Because it seems like the culture has really changed quickly to one of oppressive political correctness.
00:41:14.000Well, the reason that a democracy works, at least in part, isn't because the people that you vote in have better ideas.
00:41:22.000It's not always obvious how much of any given candidate's ideas can actually be implemented into the political system, because there's a lot of checks and balances in it.
00:41:30.000And now and then it's good, maybe every decade or so, say speaking in the Canadian situation, it's every eight years here, that you just throw the people out and you replace them with a new group.
00:41:40.000And partly why that's so useful is because corruption tends to get instantiated if you leave people in power for any excess length of time.
00:41:47.000And I think part of what happened with Harper was that he had just been in power long enough so that people were starting to become skeptical of what he was up to.
00:41:58.000Now, I don't really think that people in Canada precisely knew what they were voting for, because I think Trudeau was much more influenced by radical leftists than any good liberals have any right to be.
00:42:10.000I mean, we have a socialist party in Canada, and the more radical leftists should be associated with the socialist party, with the NDP. Yeah.
00:42:17.000But they've invaded, let's say, the Liberals, and I would say to some degree the Conservatives.
00:42:22.000The Justice Minister in Canada is clearly a political correct activist type.
00:42:29.000Do you worry being targeted, given all the press now?
00:42:56.000I remember when I was doing stand-up, I was 17 in Montreal, we had Comedy Works, and everyone was going up there when Harper was elected, and they were just bitching about it and how they couldn't believe it.
00:43:05.000And I was sitting there going, do you understand that these are the people who will devour you?
00:43:08.000The liberals you claim to support, these people will devour you.
00:43:11.000And I think some of them are waking up now.
00:43:13.000A lot of comedians just still think it's about progress, but I don't think Americans understand that.
00:43:18.000When Amy Schumer and Elena Dunham say we're going to move to Canada, you're going to move to a place where a man was put in front of a human rights tribunal For offending a kid from a Make-A-Wish Foundation.
00:43:28.000So I certainly think you'll at least be audited.
00:43:31.000Yeah, well, I've been audited many times, so I'm sure that'll continue.
00:43:39.000Well, I guarantee you your Prime Minister knows who you are, because Canada's not as big of a place as the United States, and he seems very tech-savvy, so he's probably been on your YouTube.
00:43:48.000I'm not sure he understood the more complicated parts.
00:47:10.000So we've talked about your opinions and the controversy, but at the end of the day, what good is it unless you're giving back or you're helping?
00:47:22.000I wrote a book about 17 years ago called Maps of Meaning, and Maps of Meaning was an attempt to detail out what people should do instead of becoming ideologues or nihilists.
00:47:36.000When you're searching for meaning, if you're detached from a traditional meaning system, like a religion, then you tend to move towards nihilism or towards a kind of ideological purity, like an authoritarianism.
00:47:48.000And both of those seem like extraordinarily bad ideas.
00:47:50.000If you're nihilistic, it's very hard to conjure up enough enthusiasm to keep living, because living is very difficult.
00:47:56.000And if you're an ideological authoritarian, then you're extraordinarily dangerous.
00:48:01.000It's funny that you say that, because obviously the argument from the New Atheists is that this sort of purity and this ideological authoritarianism would stem from religion.
00:48:30.000Are you going to blame that on their religious beliefs?
00:48:32.000Well, it depends on what headdress they're wearing.
00:48:35.000So that was discovered by Jane Goodall back in the 1970s, and she actually didn't talk about that for a number of years because it shocked her so badly.
00:48:44.000Even if you look at Native Americans who were to pantheistic people, where really it's not centered over religion specifically.
00:48:50.000People, like you said, they've warred over territory, they've warred over goods and services.
00:48:54.000Regardless of religion, but it's a formidable tool, a propaganda tool for people to misuse, and I think that that's often misconstrued as a valid argument.
00:49:03.000Well, you have to get the locale of causality correct, if you're going to think about these things deeply.
00:49:08.000Now, religion is a divisive force, but it's also a unifying force.
00:49:12.000And so, you can argue about whether it's more divisive than unifying.
00:49:16.000I think that's a foolish argument in some sense, because I think it depends on the situation, and it depends on the religion, and it depends on the historical context, and all of those things.
00:49:25.000But Christianity united people under the rubric of Christianity, and Buddhism united people under the rubric of Buddhism.
00:49:31.000And the thing is, for large groups of people to come together to interact and to communicate and to cooperate, they have to be able to do that under a shared value system.
00:49:40.000Now the problem is that group A that has a shared value system might want to go to war with group B that has a different shared value system.
00:49:48.000But you can't blame that on the shared value systems.
00:49:53.000Because if without a shared value system, then every single individual is at war with every other individual and that's really not an improvement.
00:49:59.000Can you blame it on the shared value system though?
00:50:01.000I think we'd probably find some common ground with Islam when that shared value system involves killing everyone who doesn't share that value system.
00:50:09.000The issue is whether or not you can distinguish between a value system that's proper, like a game that everyone can play, and one that isn't proper, like a game that becomes murderous.
00:50:20.000And partly what I did when I wrote Maps of Meaning was to try to sort that out.
00:50:23.000But anyways, one of the consequences of that was that it struck me very Powerfully that individual development was the right alternative to nihilism and to ideological possession and so that the right way for people to move forward if they want to improve the world is to improve their characters and their skill set and their ability to communicate and their strength and their courage and all of those things and I designed some programs with my lab and with some business partners of mine including my old advisor at McGill University,
00:50:51.000Robert Peel and a student of mine from Harvard, Daniel Higgins.
00:50:54.000We developed this program called the Self-Authoring Program And one element of it is the Future Authoring Program, which we now have a Christmas special on, by the way.
00:51:04.000And the Future Authoring Program helps people write a vision for their future, and a counter vision, and then a plan.
00:51:11.000And so the program, which is a writing program, because writing helps people think, and thinking restructures their brain and their personality.
00:51:20.000The program helps people detail out a vision of their future three to five years down the road, and so it asks you some very pointed questions, like, imagine that you were trying to treat yourself properly, like someone you cared for and were taken care of, and you were going to set up a future for that person three to five years down the road.
00:51:38.000What would your family relationships look like?
00:51:41.000Maybe, how would you improve your relationship with your father and your mother and your siblings?
00:51:45.000Because that's always important to people.
00:51:47.000What would your career goals look like?
00:51:58.000So we made the questions very specific.
00:52:00.000And then we asked people to write for 15 minutes about What they could have in their life and how they could act if things were going right for them.
00:52:08.000And then we ask them to do the reverse, which is to write for 15 minutes about what kind of hell their life could turn into if they let all their bad habits and resentments and poor choices aggregate and consume them.
00:52:25.000Three years down the road, he sees himself in the middle of a road, so it's not a good place to go.
00:52:29.000Well, I could tell when I came in here that he was a very troubled person, and I can see why you make fun of him a lot, and why he puts up with it.
00:52:44.000So maybe your program isn't as useful because the Choose Your Own Path...
00:52:47.000Actually, no, that actually turns out to be wrong, because what we found is the program is the more apart at the seams someone is, roughly speaking, the better the program actually seems to work.
00:52:58.000And so imagine what's happening is that people are articulating out a kind of personal hell that they could avoid, and a personal heaven that they could attain to, so to speak.
00:53:12.000And that means Often people are afraid to move forward.
00:53:15.000They're afraid of what might happen if they move forward, if they make choices.
00:53:18.000But what this program does is help put the fears behind them, pushing them.
00:53:22.000Because maybe, and I do this in my clinical practice, someone might tell me about why they're afraid of making choices and making changes.
00:53:29.000And then I ask them, well maybe you should be more afraid of what will happen if you don't do that.
00:53:34.000And that's really helpful, because lots of times inaction really, really hurts people.
00:53:38.000And so we're helping people understand why their failure to act could put them in a place they really don't want to be.
00:53:44.000And then we're also helping them outline a goal.
00:53:46.000Now, the way the human mind is organized, and this is true for animals to some degree too, is that most of the positive emotion that we experience in our life, most of the pleasure that we experience, is actually experienced in relationship to a valued goal.
00:54:00.000So, for example, you're most likely to be happy when you see that you're progressing towards something that you want.
00:54:05.000Well, that assumes that there's something that you want.
00:54:09.000And so, if you haven't laid out a structure That's a structure of ambition in some sort with a high value at the top.
00:54:15.000It's very difficult for you to take any pleasure in your life.
00:54:18.000Well, that's the dopamine reward system, right?
00:54:20.000That's right, that is the dopamine reward system.
00:54:23.000I know that because I've had a lot of help and I'm pretty messed up.
00:54:25.000And I will say this, you know, people are very over-prescribed and over-diagnosed and I went through actual genetic testing and did have, you know, I've talked about this on here, but severe ADHD in a way where I just would accomplish something and would feel very tired.
00:54:36.000I just didn't really see pleasure in a lot of things.
00:54:39.000And I took a long time to work on that and kind of discover that about myself.
00:54:43.000But I learned all about that, you know, and I also learned about negative habits.
00:54:46.000Now you can create a neural pathway, you know, basically where you develop a habit to this is the path toward pleasure and that's how you see proclivities toward addiction with Gary Wilson on with pornography.
00:54:55.000Yeah, well, okay, so what happens is part of the reason that people are prone to addiction is because they don't have any proper non-addictive pleasures in their life.
00:55:33.000Well, they should be the rats of Wall Street.
00:55:35.000So we've had about 5,000 university students, 5,000 to 7,000 university students now do this program, although it's not only for university students.
00:55:50.000They can go to a site called selfauthoring.com.
00:55:53.000S-E-L-F, authoring, as in writing books.
00:55:56.000Well, this is very important because when people, you know, you have all these sort of self-help gurus online or, you know, teaching young men how to be alpha males or this I'm sure you know red-pilling, which is great, waking up, but it doesn't really go beyond that.
00:56:07.000I hope that some people out there really do hear what this guy has to say and go to this site and go beyond just, it's great to learn that social justice worries have been lying to you for a long time, and it's great to talk about that, but there is a next step.
00:56:31.000And they have a goal, and they're pursuing it, and their lives are meaningful, and they're meaningful because they're pursuing something that's important.
00:56:39.000What if they're pursuing, like, sex hormone replacement therapy, though, and ironically, your self-help program creates a giant super tranny?
00:56:48.000Well, I can't say that that's a problem that we've really ever thought about.
00:56:53.000I also have to say that it's probably one that we won't be giving any serious consideration.
00:56:59.000Well, I'm just saying, what if you help the wrong person, right?
00:57:02.000That's always the We've raised the university students' performance who've done this program.
00:57:15.000We've raised their grade point average, roughly speaking, 25%, and dropped their dropout rate 20%.
00:57:21.000And we've done that in several different institutions.
00:57:23.000And here's what's really cool, I think, and this was very surprising to me, it came out of the research, is that The worse the students were doing, the better the program worked.
00:57:32.000And the biggest effect so far has been on males versus females, because males are underperforming women in most educational institutions.
00:57:39.000This eliminates the sex difference in performance.
00:57:42.000And the people it's helped most have been minority males.
00:57:45.000And it's helped them so much that we've obliterated the performance difference between the minority males in Holland and the Dutch national females.
01:00:49.000And now we have, Baby It's Cold Outside, a nice love song, a romantic song, about a man trying to woo a woman at a party with a beautiful and storied history in American culture.
01:00:58.000They said it was too sexually aggressive, and they decided to rewrite it.
01:01:03.000Two people from Minnesota focusing on consent and rape culture, and it's as awful as you think it would be.
01:01:10.000You're talking about You reserve the right to say no At least I'm gonna say that I do You reserve the right to say no I really can't stay Well, you don't have to Oh, but it's coming down Oh, you didn't have the line in there about the pomegranate LaCroix?
01:01:50.000They try to claim what's in this drink automatically means Bill Cosby's coming up to rape because of the muscle cell when all it means, potentially, I like this drink.
01:04:16.000And it's sick and it's twisted that you're having kids grow up in a world where you have to listen to everything and go, oh, this romance song?
01:09:50.000So, you know, I mean, I've been doing daily opinion and news journalism now for 25 years, and this is something I've always, always, always wanted to do, have the time and space to go much deeper.
01:10:04.000Than in just any single column or blog post or four minutes on cable TV. And so a lot of the topics actually stem from, in fact, this whole season of what will be a total of 13 shows come from my ideas, my past work, product, my sources.
01:10:23.000And we've released the first four episodes.
01:11:40.000Okay, so this is a case a lot of people maybe don't know about, and it relates specifically to Black Lives Matter, and why a lot of people may have...
01:11:48.000Well, you delivered misinformation in how cases and rulings and charges can be politically motivated.
01:11:58.000In fact, you've set it up exactly right with the context here, because the trial of former police officer In Oklahoma City, Daniel Holtzclaw occurred exactly in the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson riots.
01:12:14.000And that was a huge cloud that hung over the jury, the prosecutors, the police chief who threw Daniel under the bus and fired him months before he even had his day in the court of law.
01:12:28.000We've seen this narrative so many times.
01:12:32.000Stephen, of the social justice mob, the witch hunts that occur before the truth is actually known.
01:12:38.000And so when I saw this verdict announced a year ago this weekend, actually, December 10th, I just, you know, even I just assumed that Daniel must be guilty because of the sheer number of accusations, charges, and accusers that were involved.
01:12:56.000It was 13 accusers and a total of 36 charges.
01:13:00.000The jury ended up convicting on exactly half of them.
01:13:04.000And as one of the police detectives who was in the lead of what I consider manufacturing the case admitted to me on camera, and it's in the show, the jury just, quote-unquote, split the baby on the verdicts.
01:13:15.000This is not how justice is supposed to occur in America, and there's so much more to it.
01:13:21.000Stephen, I find it to be so alarming, and you've known me for so long.
01:13:27.000You know the kinds of stories that I've told.
01:13:30.000This is the most important story of my career that I've ever covered.
01:13:35.000It is the most massive, monstrous miscarriage of justice, and I feel so inspired to continue telling the story, and I feel so blessed that CRTV is giving me a platform to do it.
01:13:52.000So I'm like, Bill Cosby at a certain moment, well, you know what, this lady could be trying to, once it was like, you know, I don't know, 189, you're like, ah, okay, even if a quarter of them.
01:14:01.000But in this case, are you presupposing that you don't think this guy did any of it?
01:14:13.000What do you think he did, if anything?
01:14:17.000Well, my personal opinion is that he's completely innocent of everything that he was accused of, but I don't want people to just take my word for it, and I think that's the new paradigm here and the difference between so much of what the mainstream media does.
01:14:31.000I want people to look more into the case, and so does Daniel, just to merely open their minds up, and we've given them a platter of original source documents And what's amazing about these two shows is the amount of the discovery material, the actual video and audio of some of these accusers, and how outrageously outlandish their stories were.
01:14:53.000In one case, and this is just one case, Stephen, there was one woman who had denied seven times, and we have it on tape, denied seven times that anything Whatever inappropriate had happened between her and any police officer, and then when the sex crime detectives tell her, oh, by the way, we're looking for victims of sexual assault involving a police officer that you might have encountered, all of a sudden she He remembers it.
01:15:18.000Twelve of these accusers only came forward after the original woman had accused him, and it was that huge circus and publicity and aftermath that caused so many of these women, and even one man who was so ridiculous that even the police department had to exclude him from trial, and this is how the snowball happened.
01:15:42.000So why would a judge go along with this?
01:15:46.000I mean, people obviously, they go with the making of a murderer, right?
01:15:49.000And so that's easy because it's kind of, I talked about how I was pushing this narrative and the people who were involved with the film leaned left.
01:15:55.000In this case, people right away are going to want to side with the Black Lives Matter antenna go up.
01:16:00.000What you're describing is highly illegal, if not at least unethical.
01:16:05.000How do people go along with that, on that kind of a magnitude?
01:16:10.000Well, we've seen what the snowball effect is.
01:16:13.000As we said, we talked about this cloud that was hanging over the case.
01:16:16.000There were Black Lives Matter activists and Black Panther Party activists in their full paramilitary regalia.
01:16:24.000During the trial, chanting inside and outside the courtroom, they were giving racial threats to Daniel's lawyer, his family.
01:16:36.000There were phones that had to be confiscated during the trial because there were activists who were taking pictures of the jury.
01:17:13.000I was like, ah, listen, if this is going to happen...
01:17:15.000When I had Black Lives Matter fact-check my jokes, I think it was like Cal Poly, and then I saw on the paper, like, Stephen gave hate speech and said, you know what?
01:17:33.000I can certainly see how in a politically charged environment, especially where they're going, we've got to give this mob something, You know, this can happen, but I know most Americans don't want to believe it.
01:19:25.000And, you know, it's bizarre to try to fit this case into their normal black line.
01:19:30.000I matter black and white frame, but Daniel is half Japanese and he grew up in a multiracial family and yet they cast him as some sort of KKK white supremacist Robert Byrd type predator out there on the streets.
01:19:51.000The police detectives got it in their mind.
01:19:54.000Serial rapist, predator, racist, when they had absolutely no professional or assessment to go on, they went back to his high school days to try to find anybody.
01:20:07.000They scoured his entire life to find anybody who could vouch for their opinion that he was misogynist and that he was violent.
01:20:36.000And, you know, what's important here, of course, and this is in the context of so many of your viewers who might...
01:20:43.000Be it to law enforcement officers, family members, or LEOs themselves, is that you know that people lie all the time.
01:20:50.000And in fact, I got the sex crime detective, who was one of the two who led this case, to admit to me that, yes, all the time people lie for vision, to get their charges dropped.
01:21:02.000And these kind of trades go on all the time between DAs and people in some of the inner cities.
01:21:09.000Northeast Oklahoma City was a neighborhood that Daniel patrolled on.
01:21:12.000And yes, he had been subject to a number of excessive force complaints, but he was exonerated and cleared in every single one.
01:21:21.000And at the same time, of course, you had many of these women who were proven liars with criminal records who were making these outlandish allegations against him.
01:23:51.000No more dancing, not KJ. That's scary in the studio.
01:23:55.000The underbed for parents just don't understand.
01:23:58.000Well, that is Fresh Prince, and that's Pogo.
01:24:01.000He's Australian, and he remixes shows and movies.
01:24:06.000Not auto-tune, but this guy, he'll hear beats.
01:24:09.000Well, actually, people in your family who are musically inclined will probably find it fascinating.
01:24:12.000And he'll like take a clip from Star Trek and all of a sudden you have a song that'll get like 5 million plays because he turns it into a rhythm.
01:24:18.000And he can't get a work visa back to the States.
01:24:21.000He's very open about it because he's like – well, he's like – and he's totally against the illegal immigration.
01:24:41.000So we were talking about some outlandish claims.
01:24:43.000You know, this week we're kind of talking about this, and I know we're going to get some flack, but you have this guy who walked in looking for the tunnels at the pizza parlor, for the underage sex scandal rang in Pizzagate, and things do get blown out of proportion.
01:24:56.000There is fake news out there both on the left and on the right.
01:25:00.000And kind of like when people do hidden camera videos on YouTube.
01:25:03.000We've never faked anything, but a lot of people do, and so we can't compete with the fake story, right?
01:25:09.000It's like, well, this is pretty compelling, but then someone scripts it.
01:25:11.000Do you find, having been an investigative journalist really, I mean, decades at this point, that it shortchanges what you do and it's hard to cut through the fog?
01:25:19.000Because this is obviously an unbelievable case that people should know about, but when they believe that John Podesta has kids chained up in his basement in a Vietnamese sex hammock, it doesn't ring very true.
01:25:31.000Yeah, well, I think my experience has been that most people have good filters and radar for the BS and the fake news, but I'm also sort of humble enough after 25 years Not to just sort of jump to one conclusion or the other.
01:25:55.000I mean, and especially having spent several months investigating just this one case with Daniel Holtzclaw, knowing the amount of time it actually does take for you to feel that you are in command of all the material, I just don't know.
01:26:13.000I can't one conclusion one way or the other because I haven't had the time.
01:26:16.000Well, I don't even, maybe not even that story, but I mean, we see it all the time on the, you know, on the left.
01:26:44.000And I love to see them in their death throes right now.
01:26:47.000But there is a new problem of when anybody can have a platform, a lot of people just say, well, we can make more money or traffic this way.
01:27:00.000Yeah, it is a problem, but to fix it, I think it's the same solution that I've always adhered to, which is that the solution is more speech and better speech and not less.
01:27:11.000I would not be very happy in an environment where there were some arbiters of Of real news.
01:27:19.000This is why the conservative blogosphere was able to break through and be as successful as it was in the early 2000s.
01:27:26.000Because you don't need some sort of Sorbonne-like certificate to verify what's real.
01:27:34.000And so, you know, when you have the likes of these, you know, poobahs, grand poobahs of journalism, you know, who are in charge of the mainstream institutions that were the biggest disseminators of fake news, CBS or Rolling Stone, you know, or Dateline or 60 Minutes, I don't trust them any more than I trust the people who are spreading Hillary as a lizard stories.
01:27:59.000Well, I might trust the people saying that a little bit more.
01:28:03.000Yeah, there was a time in this country where Walter Cronkite was considered, my god, an actual journalist.
01:28:07.000And that's one of the things that I find funny.
01:28:08.000We're like, oh, I miss real journalism.
01:28:32.000Well, this is why it's so cool that we're doing what we're doing at CRDTV.com.
01:28:38.000I mean, we're going to all have production values that rival or surpass anything That's out there in the mainstream media.
01:28:45.000And, I mean, you've been at the vanguard of this, of people who are just sick and tired of any of these sort of mainstream outlets, frankly, whether it's CNN or Fox News or ABC. Yeah.
01:28:59.000Well, and I, yeah, it's been a problem across, across the board.
01:29:01.000A big thing for me when I finally heard, I was on Joe Rogan's show and I heard his numbers like this, was it last month?
01:29:21.000No one's buying Fox News mugs or t-shirts.
01:29:24.000And what's funny is, is it's, it's, There used to be this time, remember, when we were starting, I guess, more so on, I started later than you, where they said, there's no money online in advertising.
01:29:34.000And I just always said, well, hold on a second.
01:29:36.000I can trace exactly who's coming in from where and what they're doing, and that's way more valuable.
01:29:41.000You just pay this amount for advertising because that's what you paid on TV. But you really don't know who's sitting there in front of the TV, and now that's changing, where certainly companies run by anyone under the age of 50, they don't want to put a lot of their advertising into radio or traditional TV. They do it all online where they have the analytics.
01:29:59.000My hope is that what we're able to do at CRTV.com has more power, more longevity.
01:30:08.000I think the synergy between and among all of the personalities who are being featured is very, very unique.
01:30:14.000Rather than just having one platform that is full personality-based, that it's having this village of us offering a wide variety of formats.
01:30:27.000And I really, I am so hopeful and so excited about, you know, our prospects.
01:30:33.000And to me, it's almost coming full circle.
01:30:35.000Because remember, I started Hot Air initially as an internet broadcast.
01:31:16.000*music* Apparently within 3 hours we don't believe we can take a woman in here, but 15%去了 the complete interval and on of 43 hours 13 hours we down at a respectful action report is separated from trash handling of her police activity?
01:31:39.000Did you have a different film and called Spider-Man?
01:31:44.000There are no memes available on theseulatelections.
01:31:50.000Everyone, every YouTube,icios or video,普通 or visit siempre.
01:33:20.000We're going to have an executive producer on the show, so let me tell you exactly where your money goes when you do this.
01:33:25.000That means someone who's going to be able to put Not Gay Jared and I on the road, doing more segments, more feminist film festivals, more hidden camera segments, the kind of stuff that's really hard to produce.
01:33:34.000Well, Jared and I have been producing all of that for years.
01:37:14.000So what major changes do you expect to make?
01:37:17.000What would you like to see happen as you make your impact on this Department of Housing and Urban Development?
01:37:24.000Well, Stephen, I would love to see more affordable housing for all Americans through the implementation of private programs and less dependence on government subsidies.
01:37:36.000And for every American in their house, A box turtle.
01:40:20.000With the alt-right terminology, most people and probably a lot of people who are fans of the show consider themselves alt-right, but they wouldn't really have ties to the roots of people who consider themselves white supremacists, alt-right.
01:41:15.000With the Obama administration, where we are, With this identity politics that have been forced upon people and thrust upon people, you are seeing a reaction that I think is much more severe than it would have been otherwise.
01:41:39.000And now you have people proudly, more people probably than in a long time, because you created this monster.
01:41:45.000You're the one who created this problem.
01:41:47.000through deliberately using racial divisiveness in order to try and gain votes in the United States Now, let me give you an analogy.
01:41:57.000If I'm in a neighborhood, okay, and someone moves in right next, put it this way, I would much rather, much rather have a black American move in next to me who shares even half of my values than a Bernie bro socialist hipster move in next to me.
01:42:14.000If I could pick out of a list, well, of course, let me take a black guy with kids and a wife than this kid because he's going to be coming over asking for sugar and he's not going to give it back.
01:42:25.000Now, that being said, if I lived in a neighborhood, and this is something that actually happens, where all of a sudden the demographics entirely changed, where everybody who moved in was black because the government said, you have to have these demographics in your neighborhood.
01:42:40.000If that happened, and that has happened with some people, I can see how someone would say, well, hold on a second, hold on a second.
01:43:11.000No one has a problem With the first scenario, take your pick.
01:43:16.000If someone said, hey, your neighborhood has to accept, as they did in Germany, this amount of refugees.
01:43:22.000Well, hold on, hold on a second, hold on a second.
01:43:26.000You're forcing us to take these refugees in our neighborhood?
01:43:28.000You're booting other people from their houses?
01:43:30.000Whenever the government steps in and forces some kind of diversity, or forces some sort of political agenda, and they drape it in race, or they drape it in gender, whatever is required that day to gain the most amount of votes, as we saw with Barack Obama when he ran, it was entirely about race.
01:43:45.000With Hillary Clinton, when she ran, it was entirely about vaginas.
01:43:52.000We said that would happen, and it did.
01:43:55.000But when you force it, you also force a rejection.
01:43:58.000I mean it's just like a kid who rebels against his parents even if he has the greatest parents in the world.
01:44:03.000That being said, the government is like the parents who lock their kids in a closet and beat the hell out of them just because they feel like it.
01:44:08.000So I'm not saying that the federal government would be comparable to good parents.
01:44:13.000But I can understand a lot of young people right now, and I do see younger people.
01:44:17.000Being more divided, certainly we've talked about this, than my generation, than my parents' generation, because they've been force-fed so many falsehoods.
01:44:27.000And these falsehoods have also been falsely attributed to race, to gender, to religion.
01:44:53.000You can't have the systemic vilification of white straight males telling them to check their privilege, telling them that they haven't earned what they have, telling them that they don't know what diversity is, telling them that they don't know what adversity is, telling them that they don't know what challenge is, and then saying, give the right of way to this guy.
01:46:18.000But particularly, like we're talking about, you're a white, cis, straight male!
01:46:21.000You can only yell that and scream that for so long and demand that people be ashamed of who they are, something they have no control over.
01:46:27.000We demand that people are proud of things they have no control over regarding race, gender, sexual orientation, but demand that some people be ashamed until those people who you've tried to force-feed shame say, nope, not gonna do it.
01:50:20.000Why can't someone have a horrible ideology like that and take their clothes off?
01:50:25.000Are swastikas going to shoot out of her nipples?
01:50:28.000Is she going to have like a blow dart she sneaks under her armpit and go and shoot it into minorities necks?
01:50:35.000Even in your worst case scenario, where's the harm?
01:50:39.000Well, with a woman it's slight, but I guess putting a known, like a Nazi, if it's a male, in a position where he would be interacting with clients, I could see that being a problem.
01:50:48.000Well, those cases you come up with, they take so much hypothetical work.
01:50:52.000Like, okay, if you're a Nazi and you're a teacher and you're working in school and you're discussing, like, the Holocaust, I could see you being biased and, you know, saying it didn't happen or whatever.
01:51:03.000That's a crazy scenario we just came up with to make them look rational, right?
01:53:09.000And certainly if we scale it back and apply it to the actual scenarios that we hear from leftists, the what-ifs that we actually hear, what if Obamacare gets repealed?
01:54:22.000Well, that's kind of an irony, isn't it, from what you were talking about, where, okay, what if someone were a Nazi?
01:54:26.000But then leftists, you know, there aren't what-ifs with the dangerous ideologies, like we were talking about, this Islam, where people actually get killed on a daily basis.
01:54:34.000You don't need the what-if, but that's not important right now.
01:54:37.000No, there's only two ideologies in America right now that lead to violence.
01:54:42.000Extremist Islam and liberal hyperbole.
01:54:47.000Those two things, I can cite actual cases where people have been shot and killed.
01:57:11.000Gavin, were you giving directions to your driver just there?
01:57:14.000Yeah, I was just getting out early because I realized I don't want to show people where I live because I have psychotic social justice warriors trying to kill me.
01:57:57.000When I used to be at Fox, they would like, no, listen, you can't do it by Skype.
01:58:01.000And I was like, listen, I can set up with a super high-speed line or wherever it was for a long time, even when I used to do hits at CNN. And they always had these satellite uplinks, which cost thousands of dollars, you know, to do.
01:59:23.000Listen, you're, I guess you would say, a provocateur, right?
01:59:26.000You're no stranger to controversy, but I do know that you also care about truth and accuracy.
01:59:31.000And so I do know that you probably are concerned.
01:59:33.000There is a problem that comes with it where some people have just opted to, both on the right and the left, lie because they know it gets more clicks.
01:59:40.000They're like, let's just make up a story, and it gets picked up.
01:59:44.000And that is the consequence of everyone having a voice.
01:59:47.000I think it's better than having the Walter Cronkite and the Brian Williams be gatekeepers, but it comes with its own problems as well.
02:00:42.000Go write that on my Wikipedia page right now and it'll last for an hour.
02:00:47.000Now, yeah, it wasn't that way early on, and that's actually giving me, I guess, sort of some optimistic hope, because Wikipedia was really rough early on, where it was about 50% inaccurate, and they've since put some systems in place to correct that.
02:01:01.000And I think you're probably seeing the same thing with a lot of other social media, and without banning people, like you said, hopefully a market of ideas can solve that problem.
02:01:09.000Well, essentially, you said about Donald Trump and the popular vote.
02:01:11.000What's your scorecard on Donald Trump?
02:01:13.000And we said about this, the reason I haven't talked about Trump right now is because I think we both would agree this is a time period where all presidents do their most pandering because it's about uniting and they have this sort of wave of momentum and this is where they say a lot of things that may or may not be true or they may or may not be able to follow through so I want to wait until he gets into office so I have to say that first but what would you give a scorecard right now based on what you're seeing?
02:04:34.000The second these guys start flexing their muscles.
02:04:36.000And by the way, the teachers unions have so much lobby power, both on the left and the right, the DNC and the GOP. They need to be shut down.
02:04:48.000They have turned all teachers into these Marxist robots who are ripping away at the very fabric of our country.
02:04:56.000They all need to just be flushed down the toilet.
02:04:58.000Well, I would say the same thing with the unions that have made it so hard for Carrier to make a profit.
02:05:02.000And so that's where I don't want to see bailouts, and I don't want to see any acquiescing to them.
02:05:05.000You know, you look at the American auto manufacturers.
02:05:22.000Sometimes if it's made in America, you're paying triple the cost because, like the guy who just took a dump on Trump, the Steelworkers Union, they're charging three times the price and half their employees aren't working.
02:05:31.000And there is this dogmatic thinking that because Trump changed some Midwestern states, oh, we want to be careful with these people.
02:05:37.000We don't want to upset the unions because they could be part of a new coalition.
02:07:05.000Well, true, but the other problem we have here is we're bringing in the third world into our own country.
02:07:11.000So whether we send the factory to Mexico or we bring Mexicans to work in this factory, it's still outsourcing.
02:07:17.000So if you close the borders, there's going to be this bigger push to send the company...
02:07:22.000To the illegals that you just sent over the border, and he's saying, no, we're not going to have that.
02:07:27.000Well, he's saying that with some companies, but again, it doesn't work if you don't address the problems where the United States can't compete, right?
02:07:33.000You can't compete if you have to work.
02:07:35.000A good example is, you know, and we don't want to have this, and I know you and I would both agree on this, we don't want to have Hyundai or Toyota pull out from employing more Americans than all the American auto manufacturers.
02:07:44.000You know, these companies, these countries invest in the United States more than any other country.
02:07:48.000So we don't want to piss them off and drive them away because our own companies will fold, right?
02:07:53.000A UAW worker is at least two times the cost of a Kia worker or a Toyota worker in Texas.
02:08:09.000But like I said, if he lowers the corporate tax rate, It's not a problem.
02:08:13.000If you create a business-friendly environment, it solves itself.
02:08:16.000Aren't these great problems to have, though?
02:08:17.000I feel like we're both in Motley Crue, and we're backstage, and there's a blonde and a brunette, and we're both deciding who's going to get what groupie.
02:08:25.000I mean, if we're in a situation where we're saying, which businesses should be here?
02:08:30.000Should we destroy the unions first, or the corporate tax first?
02:08:33.000I mean, this winning is getting exhausting.
02:08:35.000Well, as long as we're not saying, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on people outsourcing jobs if they need to.
02:08:41.000I have no problem with people saying, listen, we can't do it here.
02:08:44.000For example, if we make a mug that comes in in China when we're backordered so that Americans can paint it and etch it.
02:08:52.000Or we say, well, you can't get that mug from China, so it's a $50 mug in the United States, and all those people are out of work.
02:08:57.000Hopefully people understand basic economics when they're at least looking at these issues through media.
02:09:02.000That's what I'm concerned about, but I have a lot of leeway because, like you said, I don't think Donald Trump's going to increase spending by three trillion, and I don't think he's going to punish companies if he doesn't lower a corporate tax rate first.
02:09:16.000And you also didn't think he was going to win.
02:09:18.000No, no, I just said that as a positive.
02:09:19.000I'm saying I don't think he'll do the things that he's saying that make us, like, we may not like.
02:09:23.000I think he's in a period where he has to unify some people, throw them a bone, because he won, they're pissed, Jill Stein in her recounts, let's try and quell the pain as much, and then get into office.
02:09:36.000And so I'm waiting for him to get into office and hopefully kick ass and take names.
02:09:40.000He's going to kick ass, and the culture has changed here.
02:09:43.000The only thing that I'm surprised about is how long it's taking the far left to realize that they lost.
02:09:49.000They really are acting much more petulant and spoiled and vengeful.
02:12:41.000You know, we've talked about this before, and I had someone talking about sort of when dealing with political issues and someone in their family and how, oh, but you know what?
02:13:35.000You can use that with any kind of ideology, whether it's religious, scientific, whether it's a level of education, whether it's intelligence.
02:15:18.000Well, it seems really common to me to hear of older people, like my parents, talk about their parents.
02:15:22.000Not specifically them, but that age, that generation, where they weren't close to their parents at all, and they don't really ever know their dads that very well, just very distant, and often very abusive.
02:15:32.000It does seem to be, and that's what people say, the golden age.
02:16:46.000And she brought in my aunt and apologized to her for everything.
02:16:49.000Everything that had happened when she was a daughter, the fact that they hadn't spoken, the problems that had occurred in their relationship, the strain.
02:17:25.000It's anecdotal, but you'll have two sides scientifically to this idea of neuroplasticity versus fixed IQ. You have ideas versus people's emotions are entirely shaped by their experiences, whereas some people say it's entirely nature, and some say it's a combination of nature or nurture thereof.
02:17:43.000But I really, and the more I look at evidence and the more I look at people's life experiences, I don't see any proof that people can't change, that you are fixed.
02:17:52.000And so if you find yourself in a situation that you think you can't change, and it's easy to do this.
02:17:56.000We've had this, right, where we even started this show, and we were getting so few people watching it when we started it because we got booted from our home station.
02:18:08.000And we were producing it, and it was a disaster, kind of like the sound here tonight, where we said, you know what, maybe we don't even want to put this on YouTube because no one's watching it.
02:18:15.000And we got in that mindset, like, because no one's watching it today, no one's going to watch it tomorrow.
02:18:19.000And we're incredibly blessed, and I'm not saying our numbers are Joe Rogan numbers, but hopefully someday we'll get there.
02:18:31.000And I don't mean that my values have changed, but you can absolutely change the way you see the world, the way you interact with people, as Jordan Peterson was talking about, the why, the how you interact.