It's Cultural Appropriation Month, which means it's time for another episode of Not GayJared's Not Gay Daddy! This week, we're covering the return of Tommy Robinson, the state of free speech across social media, and the recent Trump-Kim Jong-un news conference. Plus, a special guest appearance from Spinal Tap s Derek Smalls.
00:01:55.000And of course, producing me in video studio, as always, you can tweet him at NotGayJared with your photoshops, your comments, or your costumes for Cultural Appropriation Month.
00:02:02.000Winner gets, obviously, a free t-shirt, ranger panties, and a lock of NotGayJared's hair.
00:02:06.000And I inadvertently fulfilled all my legal obligations, drawing conclusions.
00:02:39.000The state of free speech across our country, or even across the world, Europe, and we're going to talk about the Tommy Robinson situation, particularly as it relates to social media.
00:05:56.000They approved a Palestinian-backed resolution on Wednesday, blaming Israel for violence in Gaza and deploring its, quote, excessive use of force, with no mention of the fact that Hamas, who had the destruction of all Jews, was in their charter until very recently.
00:06:41.000The fun fact is that the Palestinian leader just said that like a few weeks ago, that it was due to the Jews' social behavior that the Holocaust happened.
00:06:48.000That's still a position that they hold.
00:06:51.000Due to their social behavior of dying from inhaled toxic fumes.
00:06:58.000Gosh, we're so beyond the brink of... Even if you think that Israel is an occupied... Put it this way.
00:07:04.000In any other situation, if you thought someone was occupying a land, but the land consisted of people who wanted to wipe out an entire race of people, you'd be like, oh thank God they're occupied.
00:07:13.000Thank God they're no longer running the show!
00:07:40.000I think he had weed coin or something.
00:07:41.000So Netflix, they've banned film crews from looking at anyone for over five seconds.
00:07:45.000Other rules include not asking work pals' phone numbers, and they're urging staff feeling pestered to yell, quote, stop, don't do that again.
00:07:51.000So this is a response to Me Too, and it's not necessarily a bad response, but it's led to some changes.
00:07:57.000Sweeping changes for Netflix prompted them to actually halt production on Bill O'Reilly's highly anticipated directorial debut, the biographical Roger Ailes picture, The Chronicles of Crotch Cam.
00:08:55.000Hey, Elon Musk's Boring Company reportedly just won a bid to build a high-speed underground rail in Chicago.
00:09:01.000Elon Musk, you love the Elon Musk, there's Fenn computer.
00:09:05.000We're really excited to work with the mayor and the city to bring this new high-speed public transportation system to Chicago, the boring company said.
00:11:59.000That's why you gotta have a grill, so you don't chip things.
00:12:02.000So people like Lauren Southern, that's not how they work, and Brittany Pettibone, they've been banned from entering the country.
00:12:08.000Count Dankula, of course, you remember, fined for making the Pug do a Nazi salute, which sounds worse than it actually is when you see the video.
00:12:14.000Meanwhile, though, flying the ISIS flag in London, you're aces.
00:12:17.000Yeah, apparently that's not a problem.
00:12:19.000And obviously, Tommy Robinson is still in prison.
00:13:08.000Fake news exists, not just exclusively on the left.
00:13:11.000And it makes it much harder for us to do our job.
00:13:14.000Or for you to go out there and be properly armed with information when people are more interested in clicks than they are in telling the truth.
00:13:19.000Inflating the number to an increased number of Muslims that is not the accurate number, which had to be... I believe it was... I believe they took it back, if I'm not mistaken.
00:13:41.000And that's the double-edged sword of the new age of digital media, is that it comes with an extra set of responsibilities.
00:13:46.000Because once upon a time, I feel like even riots were a little more genuine, because people were all on board with this more singular narrative of news.
00:13:52.000Now anybody can, from any blog, or from anywhere in the world, can throw their own spin on things and be taken as legitimate.
00:13:57.000So you've got to be vigilant no matter which site you're on, no matter where you're at.
00:14:01.000Here's the thing, you want to know what's crazy?
00:14:03.000We just had Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump singing all night long, okay?
00:14:07.000This is not the epitome of journalism.
00:14:20.000But we are meticulous in trying to be correct.
00:14:22.000So it's not by accident that a news organization or a right-wing blog that employs three, four, five times as many people as on this show gets it wrong.
00:14:32.000Yeah, I mean, it really just hurts your cause, BB, because now the left-wing media and leftists, they can just point at this and go like, look, they're lying.
00:14:38.000They're just trying to inflate this, and that makes people like us look bad, too, because we're going to be associated with those people as well.
00:14:44.000Like they're going to do with the alt-right.
00:14:46.000They're going to associate everyone with the alt-right.
00:15:01.000A video that Tommy Robinson made, it was titled, I Won't Be Around For Much Longer, was taken down from YouTube because it violated community guidelines.
00:15:09.000So the fact that this coincides is bone chillingly scary.
00:15:15.000The good news is a lot of people did their due diligence and downloaded the clip before it was taken down.
00:15:20.000So we have a montage of some of it here.
00:15:22.000They want to remove me, to silence me, to discredit me.
00:15:26.000They have tried to stop me in every possible way.
00:15:29.000Now they want to take away the final thing I have, my voice.
00:15:32.000I don't doubt one day they will wipe me off social media completely, forever.
00:15:36.000The media will be able to tell you whatever they want about me and I'll have no way of responding.
00:15:41.000If they can do it to me, they can do it to you.
00:18:46.000You remember Charles Hermes, a professor at UT Arlington, who's still there, who said I was a Nazi, who posted fake memes of me saying gas to Jews?
00:18:52.000This person, who wanted us to be firebombed in Austin, is a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists, works at UT Austin, and ran Bernie's Austin campaign.
00:19:24.000People walking by going, oh you're here.
00:19:25.000And there's no way to stop the spread of information.
00:19:27.000Illinois was the only time we all agreed we're not going to do that again because it was just, it was too massive of a crowd and we promoted it and we did a live show.
00:19:33.000Change My Mind is meant to be something where you set up and random passers-by, they convocate.
00:19:39.000Um, with you, because it's meant to mimic more so what occurs in real life, but right away, we were in Austin, firebombed them, so we're trying to protect our fans and our team, and we were in violation of what guidelines?
00:19:50.000Here's what, I don't know about you, but what's so crazy to me is in order to create a safe space for professional online victims, they're literally creating unsafe spaces in the physical world from acts of serious violence and brutality coming from the left.
00:20:05.000I think it just got gout from the irony.
00:21:18.000Because even when we're as civil as humanly possible, Even when we play by every single one of the contradictory, sometimes illegal, borderline illegal, like party consent state laws as far as filming, arbitrary rules, they get changed to screw us anyway.
00:21:39.000So why does it seem like we're becoming increasingly hostile?
00:21:42.000Why does it feel like on sometimes this show we go too far?
00:21:45.000Why are we sending Sven back in for a super video you're going to see on money that's Pee yourself laughing?
00:21:50.000Why is it that we're doing this where it's sometimes unnecessary and there's no point other than to irritate the left?
00:24:51.000I noticed that Instagram is way worse than Facebook, and it's obviously owned by Facebook.
00:24:57.000We had someone from, not from Antifa, but actually we just talked about it, someone who works at UT.
00:25:03.000We just talked about this earlier on the show.
00:25:05.000Demand that people firebomb us while we were doing a Change My Mind, you know, highly controversial segment, and tweeted it all out.
00:25:10.000And then I posted a picture saying, hey, watch out for this person because they want to firebomb us, and I apparently violated policies by posting their exact tweet.
00:25:37.000I went to the University of Portland, Portland State University, where I was invited to talk with Professor Peter Boghossian, who's a philosophy professor there, and he's been harassed endlessly by the SJWs, and we were talking about bias response teams at the university, which are basically I mean, I'm not being hyperbolic when I say they're kind of like a progressive version of the police of vice and virtue Okay, if you if you're doing something that falls outside of progressive orthodoxy You can be reported to them and it doesn't have to be a crime You know as in I mean, obviously they've got no legal power it's just if you're doing something that can be considered offensive and
00:26:16.000And this, I mean, this could, this could be down to obviously using a language that is deemed
00:26:22.000inappropriate by the university, not swear words. No, like biologically proper pronouns can be
00:26:27.000considered. Yes. Yes. It's amazing how there are science deniers on the left and the right.
00:26:35.000And everyone wants to believe it's just the opposite team that has the science deniers.
00:26:39.000But, um, but yeah, and so we, we were obviously interrupted by someone from Antifa pulling the
00:26:45.000But luckily, we managed to pack the hall out.
00:26:48.000I mean, I think the hall had about 800 seats, and about 700 of them were filled.
00:27:07.000So I'm still stuck on packing the halls.
00:27:10.000We didn't have that, but the fire alarm issue was settled really quickly, and so we went back in, and in the heart of the SJW menace, we got to take a nice big dump all over their bias response teams.
00:27:30.000Did you notice a very different sensibility with Americans than in the UK now, being here now in 2018?
00:27:36.000Because I will say it's changed a lot since I've been in the States.
00:27:40.000And when I first came from Canada, it was culture shock.
00:27:42.000I can only imagine now in the sense that there's a real divide of people who support things like the First Amendment and absolute truth and the people who pull the fire alarms.
00:27:51.000Well yeah, there's a massive ideological divide between those two people, and it's not getting any smaller.
00:27:57.000And it's because one side positively refuses dialogue.
00:28:00.000I mean, I think one of the reasons that your Change My Mind series has been so popular is because people want to see the conversations happening that, frankly, the left have been shutting down for the last decade at least.
00:28:13.000And it's got to the point now where the problems are so bad and they're so obviously in people's
00:28:17.000faces that you can't just pretend that the person who's bringing up an issue is a bigot.
00:28:23.000Because there are so many people with real issues that you can't just assume that.
00:29:41.000It's really weird, but have you noticed there's a distinct, um, supply and demand problem when it comes to Nazis?
00:29:46.000There's a massive demand for Nazis right now.
00:29:48.000They want Nazis to be everywhere, but the market just isn't filling this, so I'm basically thinking if I opened a Nazi university, I could fill that niche in the market.
00:31:22.000They not only do they think that it's more productive to riot instead of live a healthy lifestyle, they believe that it is so much more productive, in fact, that it deserves real estate on a button in the take-a-penny-leave-a-penny jar.
00:31:37.000I paid $1.50 for this button because I was like, I'm never going to find anything like this anywhere else.
00:31:41.000And do you know what the really unfortunate thing about this is?
00:31:43.000I was one of the last people to purchase something from that shop because it's shut down.
00:32:31.000I mean, there are some things that I've talked about in this where I'm like, man, I really do feel shame sometimes for some actions on behalf of my country.
00:32:38.000This is one thing I've got to imagine.
00:32:40.000Even some leftist Brits have come out and said, I can't believe this.
00:32:51.000Well, yeah, I mean, OK, so the Tommy Robinson situation is interesting and complicated.
00:32:57.000When, something like three months ago, he was arrested for doing the same thing, which is filming and broadcasting outside or on court property when that's prohibited, because the worry is that it will prejudice the jury.
00:33:12.000And so there's a law to prohibit you doing this.
00:33:15.000He was given a suspended sentence of three months, I think it was.
00:33:18.000and obviously told not to do that within that time.
00:33:20.000And within that time, he went and did the same thing.
00:33:23.000Right. And that was arrested and charged with potentially prejudicing a jury.
00:33:30.000And so the suspended sentence was just recalled.
00:33:33.000And so this is why he's gone to jail. But on the face of it, it.
00:33:38.000It looks like this one incident isn't really it looks like it's Tommy's fault and to be fair in this case It is Tommy's fault, but this isn't this isn't an isolated incident of the police being Frankly prejudiced and heavy-handed with Tommy, right?
00:33:52.000I mean there this is this is one bad example really because there are dozens of other examples where on film you will see leftist protesters attacking Tommy and his friends and and the police will arrest Tommy and not the attackers.
00:34:29.000But putting someone in a prison for effectively berating the worst of the worst among humanity, who get lesser sentences, that's the issue here.
00:34:39.000And then transferring him to a prison, which we're still waiting on some information.
00:34:42.000It sounds like... It sounds like... Do you think that... This final question and we have to go.
00:34:46.000Do you think that YouTube, social media, and governments are in cahoots because they removed this video where he talked about this happening?
00:34:52.000You know, it just got removed this week.
00:39:18.000So, okay, speaking of which, you know, we never want to get, when we have celebrities who often find themselves opposite some of these other actors in films, we never want to get you guys in trouble or cause drama where there needn't be any.
00:39:28.000But Robert De Niro, I guess you're kind of at your wit's end with the guy.
00:39:33.000Well, I mean, to get up on stage at the Tonys and just say those two words?
00:39:38.000Uh, you know, about the current president.
00:39:40.000Fine if you don't agree with him, say something like that, but to just say that and then getting a standing ovation and doing the... So brave.
00:40:47.000Do you find that the Robert De Niro stuff, for me, like I was able to put it on my mind for a while, now it's just I can't even go back and watch the movies I liked with him.
00:40:57.000I can make that distinction just because it's easy because I know too many actors as it is that would really pretty much ruin every movie I ever watched.
00:41:47.000Yeah, if you just compare it, it's not the same thing either because if you just compare
00:41:51.000Unemployment alone across the board you would have had a reasonable
00:41:54.000Excuse to chance and chance and you know denounce Obama because of his policies that led to those numbers
00:42:00.000But Trump is doing really well. So when you do when you boo Trump right now, it just kind of looks like you hate
00:42:05.000America Well, that's a good point Dean
00:42:07.000That's what Oprah was doing She was talking.
00:42:13.000She was like, now I know it's really hard for everyone out there right now.
00:42:17.000Are they so enclosed that they don't understand that most Americans, including people, by the way, in the bottom percentile as far as earnings, are keeping more of their check, that taxes are going down, that employment is going up.
00:43:25.000Because they sit down, they have this historic summit, and this wonderful stuff happens, and they hear how it's terrible that he's sitting down and legitimizing a dictator.
00:43:56.000Let me ask you this, as people who, a lot of people haven't seen this, although I will say there's been a definitive increase in plays on your Princeton Highlight since we've talked about it.
00:44:14.000As someone who is a real athlete, a high-level athlete, what do you think, like we just kind of talked about Steven Seagal, but same thing with kind of Robert De Niro, you've heard him do this, what really bothers me more, so it's not that they say, oh, F Trump, okay, I understand, it sucks, but when they play this tough guy thing because they did four weeks of training to do fighting for the stage, you know, boxing for the camera, which is very different from boxing in real life, as someone who is a real athlete, people go watch American Gladiator back in the, I think it was the early 90s, Dean Cain won.
00:45:57.000I said he's never gotten his ass kicked and it's not because there's nothing nothing wrong with being raised wealthy or silver spoon But there is something to be said for being a guy who's gotten your ass kicked or called on your BS at some point And I don't think President Trump has that's why he doesn't understand in the real world You call someone's wife ugly and say his dad assassinated JFK.
00:46:13.000You're probably gonna get your ass kicked, right?
00:46:15.000See that's a point but just saying I want to punch Donald Trump is It's at the point of being nonsensical, but the beauty of this is, this is happening at the same time we've talked about this.
00:46:26.000Everyone's sort of bemoaned that there will never be the big numbers of Johnny Carson again, or the numbers of the big three.
00:48:01.000It doesn't try to be more than it is, but there is, the characters are very empathetic.
00:48:05.000I've already talked about it on this show, but I would say it's one of the best shows to come out in a while.
00:48:09.000Unfortunately for YouTube, I think the numbers are showing that a bunch of people opened a YouTube Red account, watched Cobra Kai, and then closed it back up.
00:48:16.000Because, you know, you can binge watch right now.
00:48:21.000And then you can teach your son the lesson when he watches the original Karate Kid.
00:48:23.000See, that's very different from the Jaden Smith version, which is the only parallel universe where the black kid gets bullied by a bunch of smaller Asian kids.
00:49:23.000So whatever that is, or whatever you are, whichever part of this lovely great earth of ours, I don't know where it is in, say, Dallas, Texas.
00:51:12.000Very, very few accomplishments on this show that I'm proud of, genuinely speaking.
00:51:18.000And there are two musical artists who I've talked about wanting on this show.
00:51:21.000Alice Cooper, who we wanted to get on because of his fascinating biography, and our next guest, you know him, of course, from the band Spinal Tap, then known as Tap, and you know him, of course, you can follow him on Twitter at Smalls Life.
00:51:33.000His newest album is actually a solo album right now, Smalls Change, Meditations Upon Aging.
00:51:40.000You know who he is at this point, but I have Mr. Derek Smalls.
00:52:37.000It was like the big, it was the big supercontinent that they realized was before all the continents split off, there was one continent called Pangea.
00:52:50.000And then, you know, it's like 300 million years ago, and then you turn around three million years later, and there's Africa, and there's South America, and there's Australia.
00:53:57.000And you know... What would that include, miniature livestock?
00:54:00.000I know Nubian goats, but what else is there?
00:54:04.000Well, he started with horses, because horses, as you may recall, again at the time of Pangea, probably not earlier or later, were smaller to begin with.
00:55:33.000Yeah, I wouldn't feed the goats alcohol, but you never know, you could create a new thing.
00:55:37.000Let me ask you this, though, since, like you said, you don't use the internet a whole lot, what's it like, you know, going on the road now at your, respectfully, your age?
00:56:04.000I mean, one of the cycles is called Rock and Roll Transplant, and it's about how rock and roll will keep you young.
00:56:09.000And there's another tune on the record.
00:56:10.000These songs all deal with the questions you're asking, Stephen, conveniently enough.
00:56:16.000And so one of them is called Don't Get Old.
00:56:19.000And it's about the rock and roll lifestyle.
00:56:21.000And it's about, basically, if you're at the top of, if you're at the pinnacle of anything, it's, you know, private jets and the best champagne and the best women with the best men, if that's what you're into.
00:57:50.000Steve Lukather, Richard Thompson, Paul Schaeffer, Rick Wakeman.
00:57:55.000It's a song about people, men, who think that there's a little problem downstairs.
00:58:03.000I come to your country and I see these adverts, you know, which have these blokes in their thirties, maybe early forties, nice looking geezers, you know, who are out in the lake.
01:02:02.000Every drummer's played on this record.
01:02:03.000Chad Smith, Taylor Hawkins, Todd Sukumudan.
01:02:11.000I'm glad to hear that, but that doesn't necessarily... I don't know if that proves your theory, because as long as you have a guitarist and a drummer, you still have at least three members in the band, so someone's got to be number three.
01:02:46.000Yeah, I mean, I don't, you know, I don't engage in rituals and things like that.
01:02:53.000I just, you know, I realize that this is an important character in the scheme of the earth and it's good to pay attention to and keep in good terms, you know.
01:03:03.000It's like Trump in North Korea, you know, why piss him off?
01:03:10.000That makes a lot of sense, and it seems as though, you know, sometimes you just gotta out-crazy the other crazy guy, and then everyone's crazy!
01:03:18.000The album, we do have to get going, thank you so much, is Smalls Change Meditations Upon Aging, and people can find that where, Mr. Smalls?
01:03:24.000Where's the best place for people to find it?
01:03:26.000Everywhere records are either sold or rented.
01:03:31.000It's extremely available right now, but Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, the strange chap at the corner who still sells physical records over there.
01:05:43.000One thing I'm really excited about, Brian Shaw, World's Strongest Man, is going to be on.
01:05:47.000I'm not sure if we have Lacey Green on for a long form.
01:05:50.000And we're going to have, obviously, the big video Monday.
01:05:53.000Sven Computer, who invaded... And listen, just in case you're wondering, is this going to be the video debunking democratic socialism that I send along?
01:06:03.000Hopefully you just really get a huge laugh out of it, because you realize that they do operate behind closed doors.
01:06:10.000They claim they want one thing, and then we go behind closed doors, and they're trying to teach you how to get taxpayer-funded puberty blockers for six-year-olds.
01:06:16.000Yeah, what more of a safe space can you get when it's one against how many in a single room on their terms?
01:06:32.000I actually, at one point, didn't know if we were on the outs because he hadn't been on in a while, and because some people who were at his network are now at CRT.
01:06:58.000You know, we were just talking about Tommy Robinson, and follow me on Twitter, and NotGayJared on Twitter, and we'll do everything, because we can't always post videos about Tommy Robinson, but on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, we're going to try and keep you guys updated.
01:07:10.000I really am just, you know, I know thoughts and prayers sound like they don't mean much anymore, but I really do feel bad for the guy.
01:07:17.000And you know what, you do realize, you get to this point now, you know, the left cannot complain about civility.
01:09:09.000Here's something that I think is really important for our audience, is to understand that we're not just complaining because, oh, it hurt our channel or hurt our... What we're going up against is the entire mechanism for which you receive information.
01:09:19.000It's being curated by people behind closed doors to see exactly what they want you to see, day in and day out, and it goes well beyond our channel.
01:09:27.000And they try to feed you that, along with that information, hey, let's have a dialogue.
01:10:12.000And you can't just keep asking for nuance while you push people further and further.
01:10:16.000When you push them to a cliff, they're gonna do some crazy, desperate, desperate things.
01:10:24.000Listen, we're having a meeting with half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond on Friday, because there's some things behind the scenes, that when I think about, and I try to focus on the positive, and I talk about this a lot, and I know usually this final segment is somewhat inspirational, but here's the truth.
01:10:38.000When I think about it, if I spend more than 45 seconds, I get really pissed off!
01:10:42.000Because we've been playing by the rules, and all of the people that you see in this studio, not to mention everyone in the edit suites and people who write at ladderwithcrowder.com, people like Courtney and Brodigan and Corey, they depend On us knowing the rules to make a living.
01:12:26.000And this is also why I have a problem with the right when people say that Tommy Robinson was sent to a 70% Muslim population prison.
01:12:33.000This was reported widely by several different sources.
01:12:37.000We had an article almost printed up on the website, and we said, hold on, hold on.
01:12:40.000Reg the Beast, our researcher, and Sven Computer, we said, let's make sure, because I'm seeing these sources, but they're actually just constantly being licked back to the same sources.
01:14:05.000So when people try to tell you there's no absolute truth, they're usually doing so in telling you through some form of absolute truth, which, surprise, is reductive.
01:14:12.000We're at the point right now where you cannot allow them to push you off a cliff.