Comedian Joe Rogan joins Jemele to discuss the Kanye West and Bill Cosby scandals, and the backlash from the media and the public. Plus, a new episode of featuring the Sommelier of the Day, G.J. Morgan Jr., and a special guest appearance from the Hotchwinds.
00:03:57.000Is it like a Sears that sets up in an urban demographic?
00:04:00.000I don't know. It sounds like a terrible bottle of wine.
00:04:01.000It came in black in the name of the wine.
00:04:03.000And we have Sven Computer. Are you ready for the overlays?
00:04:04.000I'm ready for the overlays. I want to give a shout out to the Twitter account.
00:04:09.000It's his own. He went back to like the normal way.
00:04:12.000We're just not going to renew his work visa.
00:04:14.000He's not here to work visa. He's here illegally.
00:04:16.000And Hopper Cam, by the way, for people who don't know.
00:04:19.000So here's the question of the day before we move on.
00:04:21.000What do you think about the Kanye West situation?
00:04:22.000We're going to be talking about that. More so about the idea sort of of black Democrats as a monolith at large and the backlash from the media.
00:04:30.000Question number two. How many people out there are long-time enough listeners that you remember Kanye as our bump music?
00:04:37.000And here's the thing, just to confirm, what was the bump?
00:04:40.000We used one specific Kanye bump for the last segment before the Drowning Dance, before we went on YouTube, and then we got hit with a copyright violation.
00:06:18.000He saw a lot of pregnant women too, so I'm just saying...
00:06:21.000Made a lot of pregnant women, too. They just weren't aware.
00:06:23.000The British Veterinary Association, by the way, is now warning that dogs cannot get autism as the anti-vaxxer movement is now apparently spreading to pets.
00:06:32.000This comes from the Telegraph. The BVA said, We are aware of an increase in anti-vaccination pet owners in the U.S. who have voiced concerns about vaccinations that may lead to their dogs developing autism-like behavior, but there is currently no scientific evidence to suggest autism in dogs or a link between vaccination and autism.
00:06:47.000Well, tell that to my dog, who will exclusively fly Qantas, okay?
00:06:53.000And of course, this actually might put a damper on Disney's new Christmas release.
00:06:57.000Air Bud 19. Buddy plays his fourth at the Special Olympics.
00:10:44.000Hey, a transgender inmate sued a prison to practice, a North Carolina prison, to practice witchcraft.
00:10:52.000I'm trying to think of a way to set it up that provides context, and I can't.
00:10:56.000Jennifer Ann Jasmine, a man, says in her his handwritten federal lawsuit that Lansboro Correctional Institution is blocking the practice of her, his spiritual beliefs, which happen to be rooted in witchcraft.
00:11:10.000Though some are saying, you know, listen, if you've seen Orange is the New Black, some people try to work the system, and actually there's been a recent special with an interview from some of this transgender's inmates who question the story.
00:11:22.000Look! I ain't never heard of no damn wicker.
00:12:27.000You should know these things and write these things.
00:12:29.000A grandfather... Who's service himself comes from the Salisbury Journal in front of a podiatrist while she treated his verrucus, I think that's a thing, varicus, and cut his toenails, denied the indecent exposure, but admitted pleasuring himself during a foot health appointment, and it's Dick Morris.
00:12:44.000Aww. You should have seen that one coming.
00:12:58.000I don't know. It adds that extra layer of je ne sais quoi.
00:13:02.000Is that what turns people on sometimes?
00:13:04.000Oh, she's touching my feet. It's the umami of clickbait.
00:13:07.000Hey, by the way, hit the notification bell if you're watching this on YouTube.
00:13:10.000Oh, Hopper Cam, he's getting up. He decides he wants to leave right now.
00:13:12.000Right as we're doing it. He's like, screw it.
00:13:14.000Done. Hit the notification bell because YouTube sucks.
00:13:17.000Apparently, by the way, people aren't getting notified even if they hit the notification bell.
00:13:20.000Hit the bell. We'll move on with news and talk to Kanye West and kind of explain the whole thing, but a Massachusetts preschool has now banned kids from using the term best friend.
00:13:27.000This comes from ABC7. After an incident with the four-year-old Julia Hartwell, the school explained to Hartwell that the term best friend can lead other children to feel excluded, and it can ultimately, quote, lead to formation of cliques and outsiders.
00:13:39.000And the school encourages students to have a wider, quote, group of friends, was explained to the transgender kids from the transgender principal from the girls' bathroom.
00:16:03.000Again, the question, what's your opinion?
00:16:04.000What's your read on the Kanye West situation?
00:16:07.000For those who don't know, Kanye West threw the media into an uproar as he tweeted out positive things about conservative pundits, and he supported ideas like freedom and thought.
00:16:15.000These are his unbelievably controversial tweets.
00:18:23.000Everyone knows, like, this is the same guy who literally married a Kardashian and has interrupted countless Grammys and names his kids after compasses.
00:18:29.000Exactly. You don't have to defend even his opinions or whatever he's saying.
00:18:35.000You just have to defend his right to express his opinion freely.
00:18:40.000I will say there is some bravery at play here.
00:18:41.000Because if we want to talk about bravery, slapping on a pair of fake rubber tits while you still have your penis to do a spread for Vanity Fair, that's not brave in 2018.
00:18:48.000Coming out of anything other than a far-left progressive is career suicide in Hollywood.
00:18:53.000And let's be honest, Kanye, whether you like him or not, Kanye is still a hot-ticket item in the hip-hop community.
00:18:58.000Yeah. So I do give respect to the guy for going against the grain.
00:19:02.000Could you imagine, though, if someone more consequential came out?
00:19:04.000Could you imagine? It's like the left being mad that Roseanne Barr, if she stepped out a lot.
00:19:11.000Yeah, exactly. They went all afterwards.
00:19:14.000How many people do you think are in that industry that would have the same views as Kanye, but won't say it because they know they'll just be out of the industry?
00:19:20.000Right. So maybe this opens the door for a few more people.
00:19:43.000Because when you see cases like Shania Twain apologizing for simply saying in an impromptu interview that she may have voted for Trump...
00:19:49.000It legitimizes the premise that merely voting for Trump is an apology-worthy offense, or Jay Feeley apologizing for taking a picture with a gun.
00:19:57.000Was that what it was? Yeah, with a prom picture.
00:19:58.000So when conservatives like, well, conservatives, when people like Kanye don't apologize, it really tips the left hand as seen by their, it tips their hand when you see by their pure vitriolic hatred.
00:20:08.000Yeah. They didn't ask these people to apologize for racism.
00:20:11.000Okay, here's one thing all the time. They go, well, can we get an apology?
00:20:13.000They just asked for an apology for Apu.
00:20:14.000This is why you don't apologize, unless you genuinely believe that you are wrong.
00:20:19.000They didn't ask Kanye or Shania or Feely, Freely Feely, to apologize for racism or for sexually inappropriate rants caught on camera.
00:20:27.000They've asked them to apologize for opinions that, by the way, half the country holds.
00:20:32.000The half of the country who elects president.
00:20:34.000Shoot. And I don't believe for one second that this would be any less controversial if he had simply said he doesn't mind Donald Trump.
00:20:45.000So I think it's kind of a good thing in some ways we're seeing that they're so vitriolic.
00:20:49.000Let's just be all in for Trump or all that, which is kind of cool.
00:20:52.000And one thing like him or hate him, don't expect Kanye to be apologizing anytime soon, especially if his latest mixtape is any example.
00:20:59.000La la la la wait till I get my Twitter right Seems like he's rehashing some stuff, but I appreciate it. Yeah, on the way to number one on the bottom list.
00:21:27.000This has to be expected, though, by the way.
00:21:28.000You were going to say something, Gerald? Yeah, most of the tweets weren't even—they were just saying he's for free thought and free expression.
00:21:34.000A few of the tweets said he supported this person and that person, and that was it.
00:21:37.000But every time people are getting pissed off, it's like, man, I just want my own thoughts.
00:21:39.000I want to be able to express myself. And they're like, you can't do that!
00:22:11.000It's like saying, so not your shifty Jew.
00:22:14.000I don't care what happens to Brett anymore.
00:22:16.000He can go and be racist and be a piece of wherever he wants to do that.
00:22:20.000Hopefully, long term, we can just weed out people like Brett.
00:22:24.000Yeah, just weed out people like Brett, weed out people like Sam Harris, an atheist who endorsed Hillary Clinton, weed out people like Kanye West who was supportive of the Black Panthers, I believe, claimed he was Black Jesus, but now he stepped out in line and supported Trump.
00:22:49.000FDR's New Deal cost hundreds of thousands of blacks their jobs because of minimum wage requirements.
00:22:55.000Remember, LBJ is a great society and increased welfare payments for single mothers and incentivize them.
00:22:58.000Some people will argue that it single-handedly started the fatherless household epidemic you see today in the black community.
00:23:03.000Andrew Breitbart got in so much trouble one time.
00:23:05.000Remember, he said, I thought black people were better as a family unit under Jim Crow than after LBJ. He didn't say he supported Crow laws.
00:23:13.000He was talking about the destruction of the family unit in the black community, which is terrible.
00:23:18.000It absolutely is. They had strong marriage rates.
00:24:04.000They try to run. If we want to talk about more recently, black Americans, they lost a huge amount of wealth due to Obama's housing policies.
00:24:11.000Race relations got worse under Barack Obama.
00:24:13.000Black incomes fell by more than $900 per family adjusted for inflation under President Obama.
00:24:18.000On the other hand, blacks under President Trump, black unemployment's at record low, their income is high, the tax cuts have helped minorities disproportionately.
00:24:29.000So let's take away Kanye West, let's take away Killer Mike, let's take away HuffPo, and let's just look objectively.
00:24:35.000Is it okay for black people to step off the Democratic plantation at this point?
00:24:39.000Objectively? Your Honor, does it hold water?
00:24:43.000By the way, not to mention that if people like us who are accused of being racist would have their way, all black Americans would have school choice.
00:24:50.000They'd have the ability to defend themselves in areas that are rife with gang crime.
00:24:53.000We would stop you from killing the black babies.
00:24:56.000If you want to talk about racists, if you want to talk about people who are evil, it's usually not the people trying to save black babies and give black children the choice on where to send their kids to school.
00:25:06.000Thank you for coming in. Thank you for coming in.
00:25:08.000Right on cue. Think about this for a second, okay?
00:25:13.000When they say you're the bad guys. Well, in general, bad people aren't the ones trying to prevent baby deaths.
00:25:18.000No, no. But now we say you're the racist.
00:28:14.000I've said this so many times for people who haven't heard him on the show since we've kind of grown quite a bit since the last time he was on the show.
00:28:20.000I've always said, two people I think are the funniest comedians working, period.
00:30:15.000And by the way, I don't have any problem with what Nick DiPaolo tweeted out.
00:30:18.000So his tweet was, we have a Dear Future School Shooters, please confine yourself to college campuses, specifically faculty lounges at Berkeley, Fresno State, etc.
00:30:30.000That's funny! Where I think I say poorly worded, when I said confine yourself to college campuses, I shouldn't have, you know, that part might have, they're like, You know, I could have left the college campuses out.
00:30:45.000I could have just said faculty lounges at Berkeley, ba-ba-ba, maybe.
00:30:49.000Yeah, I think they would have made the inference, Nick.
00:31:12.000You make a gay joke, that means a gay guy's gonna get beat up tonight.
00:31:15.000Right. We have to get the f*** over that mentality.
00:31:18.000Yeah, well, you know, did you just see, we talked about this yesterday, The Simpsons' Hank Azaria apologized for Apu, the character, because I didn't mean for it to ever hurt anyone.
00:31:27.000I think the most important thing is to listen.
00:31:38.000We're psychologists. I'm a stand-up, which means I shoot my mouth off for an hour, and then I do a radio show, I shoot my mouth off for another.
00:31:46.000What makes you think I even want to listen to anybody?
00:31:50.000Exactly. I mean, all my jobs involve me controlling the conversation, but when you apologize like that, you're empowering the PC people, are you not?
00:32:01.000No, that's exactly what I said yesterday.
00:32:02.000You know what you're doing? You're empowering.
00:34:31.000Someone's going to talk about their vagina.
00:34:32.000The whole genre. But the second you start talking about some things that make people uncomfortable politically, I mean genuinely politically incorrect, which you do.
00:34:38.000I don't want to label you a conservative.
00:34:40.000I just think you're an anti-authoritarian, brilliant comic.
00:34:43.000I think that's what they have a problem with more.
00:34:45.000I don't think they were surprised at the roughness.
00:34:48.000I think they were surprised at how outspoken you were politically and culturally.
00:35:36.000Yeah, I know. I love Joe, but, you know, when I used to coach jiu-jitsu, I'd have kids come in and they'd come in and they'd go like, yeah, I'm on DMT. I'm like, what?
00:35:45.000He goes, because Eddie Bravo said that it was better to roll and open your mind.
00:35:48.000I'm like, oh my God, please don't do that.
00:35:51.000And then next thing you know, he's being tied up like a pretzel.
00:35:53.000Someone's breaking his arm. It didn't work!
00:35:55.000It didn't work! Well, I'm glad Joe reached out.
00:35:58.000He ends up with a black belt around his neck and his closet.
00:36:01.000Yes, exactly. It's the David Carradine submission.
00:36:05.000It's an effective submission. Now, see, I could have gotten fired if I had done that somewhere else, but I can't because I'm on YouTube.
00:36:10.000So where can people go to watch you on YouTube?
00:36:12.000It's YouTube.com slash Nick DiPaoloTube.
00:37:07.000I would like to, you know, keep it on YouTube or whatever and get it out to my phone.
00:37:11.000I'm going to treat it just like the radio show.
00:37:13.000I'm going to do it like, you know, four nights a week and treat it like the radio show.
00:37:18.000Well, you're a consummate professional.
00:37:19.000I will say that. You know, listen, you're a comedian, and comedians are typically known for being lazy and waking up, you know, at noon looking for the leftover drugs.
00:39:07.000Pottsville. Now, Pottsville, that's not the name of the town where the pharmacist crushed the eustachian tube and it's a wonderful life of the kid with the pharmacy.
00:39:15.000Was it Pottersville? I've only seen the porn version of it.
00:40:48.000He was great. And I always wonder what a lot of people like that back then...
00:40:52.000You never want to talk for someone who's not here, but what they would think about the state of comedy where people are apologizing.
00:40:57.000Let me ask you this. Final question, because we were talking about this yesterday with the Apu situation, and now Amy Schumer's latest film where she's out talking about how the goal is to empower women while you make a bunch of fat jokes and then at the end say it's okay.
00:41:54.000But a lot of these comedy clubs now are being run by people who have grown up You know, millennials who have grown up with this PC atmosphere and it's in their DNA. Right.
00:42:03.000And I hear comics getting in trouble for doing rape jokes at a club or whatever.
00:42:07.000That's danger. I mean, that's dangerous.
00:42:10.000So I would say, yeah, but I sort of enjoy going against the grain.
00:42:20.000But I'm not back in the clubs right now, which I will be.
00:42:23.000I've got to make a living. But I would say, yeah, it's a little – I don't like where it's headed.
00:42:27.000Well, that's a good point. I remember I talked with Joe Rogan about that, and he didn't agree.
00:42:31.000And I said, listen, you have a bit of a blind spot, Joe, because you're very successful.
00:42:34.000I said, you don't understand. It's not just about the audience.
00:42:37.000It's about the people. It's about the gatekeepers now who aren't going to take that risk on a young Nick DiPaolo today, on a young Stephen – there's no way I could get stage time at an open mic with what we do.
00:42:46.000There's no possible way I could get started today because the club just isn't going to take the risk.
00:42:51.000You know, you used to commit rape in a club and it was funny if it was on the right night.
00:42:56.000No, you could crush and bring in tons of people, but it all takes is one person.
00:42:59.000All it takes is one person to complain.
00:43:01.000One person with one rape whistle and you f***.
00:43:04.000Well, a little known fact about rape whistles.
00:43:06.000It's actually like a dog. It's actually very high pitched.
00:46:56.000We're not supposed to talk about this on air.
00:46:58.000We're not supposed to talk about my first physical altercation as an adult male, but the person listening knows exactly who they are.
00:47:03.000Point is, I brought guns to a nunchuck fight, and I won.
00:47:06.000You brought guns. I had a switchblade, which was given to me that night as a gift, and I handed it to my father and said, please hold this as I'm about to proceed to kick this man's ass.
00:47:14.000And thank goodness Johnny Boyd defused it.
00:47:17.000You did. But it doesn't make me feel any less worse about it.
00:47:20.000I also feel terrible that our next guest, he just keeps bumping and bumping, and he's so in demand, he's so difficult, and now he has the beard because he wants to make himself seem more like a mountain man.
00:47:29.000I don't know what's going on with him. You know him, Ruben Report, on the Twitter, and of course on the YouTube.
00:48:05.000Are you doing stand-up, like introducing him?
00:48:08.000Yeah, I kind of got two things going on.
00:48:10.000So with Jordan, I'm opening for him, kind of doing 10-15 minutes of stand-up.
00:48:14.000Maybe for some of them, we'll do a sit-down together, because the guy's doing about 35 of these, and it's a lot to take in to just talk for two and a half hours.
00:48:21.000So hopefully I can take some of the burden off him on that.
00:48:25.000But you will be very proud, and I think you're one of the people that dragged me back into this kicking and screaming.
00:48:30.000I did my first hour of stand-up about a week and a half ago at the Irvine Improv, sold out, standing ovation, and the manager there said in her 18 years she's never seen a sold out standing ovation.
00:48:42.000So we just booked DC Improv, Tempe Improv, and I'm just going to be bouncing around.
00:48:46.000I wasn't the one who dragged you into that.
00:49:03.000I assure you that it was not my parents that told me to get back into stand-up.
00:49:09.000Well, no, listen, I'm glad if you'd have put that in the outline, I could have bragged for you.
00:49:13.000So that way, you know, it would have been a better interview.
00:49:16.000I'm like, hey, standing O. But when you're like, I got a standing O. And everyone's like, well, yeah, I bet that's the case when he says it.
00:49:22.000But I'm glad. So you're doing more stand-up.
00:49:24.000Normally I wouldn't do that, but I was just, you know, after stepping away, it was my first hour in 10 years.
00:51:57.000We used to use the last bump before we did the drowning dance, which we'll do here shortly, was, and it's out to the fans to see if they can remember it, It was a Kanye West song every single episode before we went to YouTube because then it was a copyright issue and we had to actually get clearance from Pogo and I think Andrew WK and a few artists.
00:52:13.000So I've always been a Kanye fan, actually.
00:52:16.000I've always said he's a dumbass, but he's a brilliant MC and my opinion has not changed at all.
00:52:20.000I think he's a dumbass, but I think there are a lot of dumbass liberals and a lot of dumbass conservatives and I think that, you know what, it's a lot more brave.
00:52:26.000We just talked about this. For him to come out and say what he said and slap on a pair of fake rubber tits and get on the cover of Vanity Fair.
00:52:31.000So good on him for going against the grain.
00:52:34.000Of course. And the irony here is that this isn't that you have to be a Trump supporter because you like Kanye or something like that.
00:52:40.000The point is that the intellectual hostage taking that we all know about, that we've been screaming about, this lunacy that has infected colleges, that has infected the media, that has affected the political establishment, that Trump kind of beat on for these last couple of years, Kanye just opened the door.
00:52:59.000He opened the door for you to say, you know what?
00:53:01.000I'm a little different. And maybe that isn't because guys like us are the biggest fan of him, but he speaks to another segment of the population that needed to hear it.
00:53:10.000And I think that these people on the left, they're followers.
00:53:13.000And the second they see that it's okay to think a little bit differently, they're going to break in huge numbers.
00:53:20.000Yeah, and he might have just opened the door because he has an axe to grind over Barack Obama calling him a jackass.
00:53:24.000It could have been as simple and narcissistic as half of Donald Trump's tweets, but if it allows other people...
00:53:28.000He really is the brother of Trump, because Trump is the same thing.
00:53:30.000I think that White House correspondent really set Trump off for the presidency, because he's so...
00:53:37.000So I'm curious to see what the fallout is from this.
00:53:39.000I mean, we just had Nick DiPaolo on the show, who was just fired from SiriusXM for a tweet, which was really pretty mild about school shootings.
00:53:44.000You just saw Hank Azari apologize for a poo on The Simpsons.
00:53:48.000I mean, to me, what's so—and then we've got to go.
00:53:50.000We don't have a ton of time. But to me, the biggest problem is now the left has empowered hecklers.
00:53:55.000They've said, well, Lon, you have to listen to them just as much if there's one person offended.
00:53:58.000And they've actually empowered hecklers who are offended from content retroactively 25 years ago, like The Simpsons.
00:54:04.000What, we're supposed to apologize for something that wasn't allowed?
00:54:38.000He is hardworking. He's everything that's right about America.
00:54:41.000And that they tricked I don't respect him.
00:54:53.000I'll tell you why I don't respect him, because a good friend of mine voices many characters in The Simpsons.
00:54:57.000I've talked about her. I can't use her name because she's been in the closet as a conservative, and she has been chastised by not just Hank Azaria, I forgot his name, the guy in all the Christopher Guest movies, the guy who does Principal Skinner.
00:55:35.000I was wrong. I'm sorry for doing to you what they're doing to me.
00:55:37.000And instead, they're trying to toss their lot in to save their career.
00:55:41.000That's why I have more respect for Kanye West.
00:55:43.000At least unlike Hank Azaria, he's not apologizing.
00:55:45.000And I think Hank Azaria is more talented than Kanye West, but Kanye doesn't give a crap.
00:55:52.000For the record, I meant I respect his talent, not his decision here, obviously.
00:55:57.000But that's why what I did was I sent a couple tweets out and then I said, Hank, I hope you'll come sit down with me or get him to sit down with you, Crowder, because we can wake these guys up.
00:56:15.000And if we let the idea that Apu was somehow a racist character, or the simple fact that Indian Americans are either number one or two at almost every socioeconomic way we can grade things, if we throw that away because of some silly jokes, Really, it takes down the fabric of what America is, really.
00:56:35.000Let's be clear. Kanye West was asked to apologize for supporting, for maybe opening the door to supporting Donald Trump.
00:56:42.000The Simpsons were asked to apologize for creating a character who was a legal immigrant and successful business owner.
00:57:27.000On the Nature Network, narrated by Jasper Pronks.
00:57:31.000The Black Widow, the mere name strikes fear in those of all who hear it.
00:57:37.000An oft misunderstood and one of nature's most dangerous creatures, the Black Widow finds itself in the exclusive position of being one of the few species where the female picks her male mate.
00:57:48.000As you see here, the heated dance of sexuality is one of nature's most cruel tricks.
00:57:55.000Unlike most animals or insects, the Black Widow is the one who takes firm control Of the sexual direction picking her male mate.
00:58:03.000And as you see here, amidst actual copulation, she begins to devour her male mate.
00:58:10.000I tell you what, it doesn't sound all that different from my ex-wife.
00:59:13.000I actually didn't get my breath that time because, by the way, thank you to Dave Rubin for being on the show.
00:59:18.000Lovely little Sprite. Always, always...
00:59:22.000It's been like breathing through a straw this entire week.
00:59:26.000So for people who don't know, it was actually the first time we've ever missed a show just because I was so sick.
00:59:32.000Tuesday. It's true. We've missed shows before because we've had technical difficulties where it's like, listen, I just can't make it there on time.
00:59:40.000Sick, sick, sick, sick day in the history of the show.
00:59:42.000Turns out I have a sinus infection and a bronchial infection.
00:59:46.000Sounds like code for super-AIDS. No, it sounds like super-AIDS. And I've been drinking the probiotics and stuff like it's going out of style because apparently, you know, when you take the...
01:00:41.000And something I think is far more toxic people don't talk about for the country is this idea, the left's idea of totalitarianism in all things.
01:00:49.000Well, no, hold on. I would rephrase it.
01:00:50.000Not the left's idea. It's totalitarianism that the left doesn't realize it's an idea.
01:03:18.000What's toxic is finding a guy because his dog did a Nazi salute.
01:03:22.000What's toxic is putting a guy before Human Rights Tribunal because he's a comedian and he made a joke.
01:03:27.000What's toxic is ruining sitcoms and making them apologize for Apu, a stereotype which is uniquely pro-American in a realm of shows that don't have a lot of pro-American foreign stereotypes.
01:05:12.000Your personal support or disdain, by the way, it applies to hero worship.
01:05:16.000Same thing with President Donald Trump.
01:05:17.000And look at how people are treating that person or look at the reaction from society at large.
01:05:22.000And when people try to tell you that this is how you need to think or this is how you need to react, the real reason they are asking Kanye West to apologize is because he's black.
01:05:32.000It's because he's black and he needs to think a certain way.
01:05:35.000What could possibly be more toxic in 2018 than telling a black man, you have to think and speak this way, otherwise we're going to revoke your black card.
01:05:47.000Seriously. Yeah, they didn't even care about Kid Rock as much.
01:05:51.000No, they don't. And that's why when we talk, we always come back to this, and I know Ben Shapiro talks about it as well.
01:05:55.000That's why we've seen so many stars in both the left and right movement rise and fall, because it's just based on the controversy.
01:06:02.000And we could go after the controversy right now and say, Kanye West, yes, absolutely.
01:06:07.000We could have gone and said... We wish we had better representatives in Hollywood.
01:06:09.000Yes, we wish we had better representatives. We could have gone in and said, Donald Trump, he's the second coming of Christ slash Reagan.
01:06:16.000But we didn't. We were honest about it because at the end of the day, being truthful is more valuable.
01:06:22.000You know, sometimes this week we had a week where a couple of people said, you know, I feel like you're not as passionate about some of these topics because there was a lot of comedy this week.
01:06:34.000So I'm honest with you. If you see me get pissed about something, if you see me get passionate about something, that's because it's truthful.
01:06:40.000I don't want to line something up on the prompter and tell you how it's going to be because I need to do a rant on my Facebook page every day.
01:07:30.000See, a lot of people think he's dead. He's not dead.
01:07:32.000I know if they sound like a broken record, truth matters so much more than trying to score points.
01:07:37.000And I see people jumping sides to Kanye, and they could be embarrassed.
01:07:42.000And I see some people making fun of Kanye, and they could be embarrassed.
01:07:46.000Just like we saw it with a lot of other conservative firebrands, remember?
01:07:50.000Where people just jumped and, oh, this is a black conservative who's, oh, this is a 14-year-old conservative who's for us, and they screw you.
01:07:56.000Guess what? If you say, hey, I like what this kid said in this instance.
01:08:48.000Guess what? You and I both know Shania Twain is probably not that sorry that she said in an impromptu interview, well, I guess I would have voted for Donald Trump.
01:08:56.000So I do respect Kanye West for not apologizing.
01:08:58.000I do respect Nick DiPaolo for not apologizing.