In this episode of Actual Cribs, we have a special guest, Tim Pool, join us to talk about racism and the deep state conspiracy theories that have been floating around the internet for a long time. Tim is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and podcaster who has been around the block in his career. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, and many other media outlets.
00:00:22.000Three years ago, I was waterboarded as part of a Christmas telethon.
00:00:26.000Then two years ago, I livestreamed CNN for 16 hours.
00:00:30.000And then last year, I was very sick, naturally.
00:00:32.000And so we decided we don't have to do that anymore, but we will do a live Christmas variety show with musicians and surprise guests and sketches and Santa that we will do every year from hereafter and also raise some money for Christmas baskets.
00:00:45.000So that's December 18th, next Wednesday.
00:01:31.000And I gotta say, what YouTube has done to you has been ridiculous.
00:01:34.000And I'll tell you, I'm in my office right now.
00:01:36.000I sat down with the CEO of YouTube, right behind us, sitting on that couch, and went after her hard for, why are you guys targeting Steven Crowder?
00:01:46.000The demands are not coming from both sides evenly.
00:01:48.000It's the left that is saying, censor and silence Crowder.
00:02:18.000If the nation has done something special against the Negro, as we were then called, for 240 years, the nation must do now something special for the Negro.
00:02:26.000So, merit is dependent upon who counts what is meritorious.
00:04:55.000Which will be 90% of the comment replies, I understand.
00:04:57.000Do you believe there's a significant number of people in these government agencies like the FBI, CIA, actively working to undermine President Trump at nearly every turn?
00:05:07.000Or is it a ridiculous conspiracy theory?
00:05:08.000Because I've seen people's minds changing on these topics.
00:05:11.000We have Tim Pool coming up in a little bit.
00:05:12.000We will be talking about the impeachment proceedings.
00:05:15.000My half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman is here for safety.
00:06:41.000A 16-year-old climate activist is the magazine's youngest choice ever.
00:06:44.000Of course, many considered Greta to be the obvious choice, though there were some pushing for who I'm sure is now a very disappointed whistleblower.
00:06:54.000I try to take down a sitting president, they give it to some f***ing guy in Sweden with a side ponytail, and she's playing hooky getting off from school.
00:07:01.000I f***ing can't talk to my family under witness protection.
00:07:05.000They f***ing have me in a holiday inn, and it's not even an express.
00:07:09.000I'm trying to take down a f***ing sitting president, and I don't get my full load of f***ing egg patty?
00:09:54.000So this is also very important, the details.
00:09:57.000According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, respondents who identified as Democrats heavily favored Joe Biden when asked which presidential candidate they preferred.
00:10:05.000But then, when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was added to the mix, she came out on top of all the current candidates, garnering 21%.
00:10:58.000So Ed Smart, you guys remember Ed Smart, father of the kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart, he's come out as gay now, saying, uh, I thought Elizabeth's ordeal was very difficult, but this one is more difficult because it is not only, it not only affected Elizabeth, but my entire family.
00:11:14.000So you heard it here first, being gay is worse than your child getting kidnapped.
00:13:35.000Blast comes at a tough time for the Islamic Recruitment Center as they just started running their new ad campaign titled Islam, growing at an explosive rate.
00:15:01.000The owner of the duck was forced to intervene after the little guy injured himself having sex with the female companions up to ten times a day.
00:15:11.000The owner also, by the way, signed a book deal for his upcoming autobiography titled, How to Rape Farm Animals and Blame It on Your Pet Duck.
00:16:57.000Arguments included, by the way, the symmetry of his bicep to tricep ratio, the best strategy to add mass to his calves, and whether or not a sex robot is really convincing anyone that he's not gay.
00:17:38.000And he said that he's thrilled, was quoted as saying, there is nothing as beautiful as the face of a newborn baby staring back at you, except perhaps a hot, hairy ass f**k, he said.
00:19:32.000The inspector general found that when the FBI secretly opened an investigation into possible Russian influence of the Trump campaign in July 2016, it followed the rules about launching that kind of case.
00:19:44.000The report says the FBI's court application made statements about Steele that were, quote, inaccurate, incomplete, and unsupported, overselling his value as a source and glossing over the fact that many claims he made were not checking out.
00:20:01.000If you listen to some of the leftist shows, and I've been listening to, obviously, The Young Turks, Pod Save America, reading up at Vox and so on.
00:20:09.000They're going to try and spin this as some minor procedural errors made by low-level FBI employees.
00:20:14.000That's kind of the story that's been going out there, and I encourage you to go and read and watch further left sources because that is kind of the narrative that they've set.
00:20:21.000Does it sound familiar to anybody when conservatives were targeted by the IRS?
00:20:28.000Which, by the way, also lends itself to the fact that civil libertarians and a lot of Republicans always had a problem with the abuses of FISA.
00:20:34.000If you could search which words we've used in this program, we've talked about Barack Obama and FISA several times.
00:20:41.000I do think it's important to be consistent here.
00:20:45.000Now, have you been following it in your lives?
00:20:46.000Yeah, well, and I would say just to put it in context, right?
00:20:49.000You know, the general audience isn't following the kind of legal standards and basis to do this, but just let's put this in normal terms.
00:20:55.000If you've watched any show where there's some backroom shenanigans and someone gives some fake evidence to a judge to get a wiretap or do other things like that, this is exactly what they're saying happened here.
00:21:04.000You had to falsify information to clear the hurdles to get extraordinary law enforcement remedies because you didn't actually have the evidence to get it.
00:21:13.000And that's why I think the intellectual honesty of the report is that this is a serious failure.
00:21:18.000I mean, this is ultimately unconstitutional law enforcement action.
00:21:22.000Yes, and let's go through that step by step.
00:21:23.000Let's go through the series of mistakes the FBI made, even if maybe the inspector in general
00:21:27.000can't detect any pattern that might point to a motive.
00:22:43.000Barr is an example of collusion at the... corruption at the highest level as opposed to dozens of high-level employees at the FBI who systematically worked to undermine our presidency.
00:22:54.000Just be... just be sure that you understand this.
00:22:56.000Yeah, I just want to have it straight.
00:22:58.000Let's move on to another claim, which I think is, you guys may remember this, but there were a lot of claims made, and it's kind of silly that we have to go back to this, but this is actually very important because of, I don't know if this is effectively falsified, we'll get some information that, to me, I'm not a lawyer, we have a lawyer seems falsified, but the context of this seems at the very least deliberately misleading some claims that people made regarding the infamous Russian peeing tape.
00:23:23.000When you told him the contents of the Steele dossier, did you get the impression it was the first time he'd ever heard those allegations?
00:23:29.000Yes, and I didn't give him the briefing on the whole Steele dossier.
00:23:32.000My assignment was to brief him on a small part of it that was salacious and personal, and my sense was I didn't get a sense that he knew about those.
00:23:40.000Why include that salacious part if it was something that you thought was, you know, not that necessary to the investigation?
00:23:48.000Or did you think it was important that he knew?
00:23:50.000We thought it was important that he knew, and I say we, meaning all the intelligence chiefs that put together the intelligence community assessment.
00:23:57.000We thought it was important that he know, because we knew, and we don't want to be holding that back from the new president.
00:24:03.000I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don't know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013.
00:24:27.000In case, just to summarize, Eric Comey was saying that it was his duty to brief the president about the pee tape and then claims that he thought it very well may have been true.
00:24:35.000The FBI not only knew that the story had zero corroboration, they knew that it was in fact a joke.
00:24:42.000The FBI interviewed SteelSource and asked Tim to corroborate the story, but the source, and I have a quote here, explained that his or her information came from word of mouth and hearsay, another quote, conversation that he or she had with friends over beers, and that some of the information such as allegations about Trump's sexual activities were statements he or she heard made in jest.
00:25:07.000And if it reflected badly enough on President Trump, the FBI would purposefully misrepresent it as though it was a credible allegation, all the way up to the director of the entire FBI, who would then brief the President himself on it.
00:25:21.000Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond, what kind of territory are we in there?
00:25:23.000Well, especially when you get that they leaked that information in the same false spin.
00:25:28.000You can see it's clearly an attempt to not only get past the normal standards that you would have in triggering law enforcement, wiretapping, and other type of information, Or other types of investigative tools.
00:25:38.000But clearly an attempt not to try and get to the truth.
00:25:41.000If you really were trying to get to the truth, you would have gone to the quote, to the source, and asked the source.
00:25:46.000So here's the question that ultimately comes down to.
00:25:48.000Did you forget to go check with the source?
00:25:50.000Did you know you weren't checking with the source?
00:25:52.000Or did you actually check with the source, but not bother to provide that information?
00:25:56.000And the range of misdeeds there runs from grossly negligent in your duties as a law enforcement agency, and considering one of the top law enforcement agencies, Yeah.
00:26:03.000to direct violation of your duties, knowing violation of your duties.
00:27:34.000This is important because you're going to hear this from the Young Turks.
00:27:36.000You're going to hear this from all these left sources, MSNBC, that the Steele dossier wasn't central to the FISA war.
00:27:42.000In case you've forgotten, maybe you recall that Devin Nunes, the memo, claimed that the Steele dossier was an essential part of the evidence used to begin the FBI spying on Trump's campaign.
00:27:51.000The Democrats claimed that this was absolutely not true.
00:27:54.000The deputy director of the FBI, McCabe, testified before your committee in December of 2017 that no surveillance warrant to the FISA court would have been sought without the Steele dossier information.
00:28:37.000Not only did the IG report find that the dossier played a central, I want to read this as a quote, central in a people going, you can't get off, you can't get off prompter.
00:28:44.000Today I am making sure that I am on this iPad because I don't want to get this wrong.
00:29:22.000Like, is anybody really buying that, looking back at a bill like I mean it legally is anybody
00:29:26.000going to buy this and say no that wasn't a part of the deal
00:29:28.000Well, I think part of the question here is whether or not anyone's going to hold a legal standard to, you know, Schiff and the others who have tried to say at one point, oh, look at how important this dossier is.
00:29:41.000We really didn't put any stock into it, but that's actually one of the benefits here of our 24-hour news cycle and kind of the constant way that everyone's been pushing the questions.
00:29:49.000Because on record, time and time again, Schiff and the others who have been pushing this, what was happening before, are being caught by their own words.
00:29:57.000And so ultimately, whether or not Congress takes action or the DOJ takes action about those who pushed this, who got these FISA warrants illegally, essentially that's what it is.
00:30:07.000If you falsify the evidence to provide the standards to get law enforcement tools, you have committed a crime.
00:30:12.000And so whether or not they're going to be held accountable is a question, but really it's the voters.
00:32:20.000I mean, I don't know at what point lying constitutes a crime.
00:32:26.000But I want you to research the sources for yourself.
00:32:28.000OK, we have to cycle through this, because we have Tim Pool coming up pretty quick to talk about the new YouTube policies.
00:32:33.000Here's another claim they make, that the FISA warrant was obtained completely honestly on the up and up.
00:32:38.000I have total confidence that the FISA process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by DOJ and the FBI.
00:32:47.000I think the notion that FISA was abused here is nonsense.
00:32:51.000Okay, so this is pretty important and let me know if it's a little confusing and maybe Bill you can help clarify because it's confusing for me sometimes and I work in this industry.
00:33:00.000The FBI created fraudulent evidence to obtain the warrant.
00:33:03.000Carter Page was actually acting as an informant for the CIA during these Russia meetings.
00:34:46.000But an FBI lawyer, and then I want to go to my lawyer, he's a lawyer, An FBI lawyer actually altered the text of the email to say he was not a source.
00:34:57.000To be clear, okay, it said was a source initially.
00:35:02.000FBI lawyer changed the text to read not a source.
00:35:06.000By the way, lawyer now under criminal investigation.
00:35:08.000How far does that go, Half-Asian Lawyer?
00:35:10.000Can I make the claim that that is falsifying evidence, changing the word yes to no?
00:35:58.000This seems like it would be something that could be prosecuted.
00:36:01.000These are the types of things where, you know, we call it the fruit of the poisonous tree is a legal term, right?
00:36:05.000If you, in the common parlance of like the Fourth Amendment and other constitutional issues, you have to establish that if early in the chain of creating evidence or taking certain action by the government, the government takes wrong action.
00:36:16.000Then the rest of the information that comes from that, the fruit of the poisonous tree, is now poisoned as well, right?
00:36:48.000This is also something else, because we have to get going.
00:36:50.000People say, you know, if you can't say something better than the guy who said it before you, plagiarize him.
00:36:54.000The good thing is, as a host of a late night show, it's not considered plagiarizing when I just run a clip.
00:36:57.000So let's just hear Senator Ted Cruz sum this up perfectly.
00:37:01.000A lawyer at the FBI creates fraudulent evidence, alters an email, that is in turn used as the basis for a sworn statement to the court that the court relies on.
00:37:22.000At some point, we talk about public trust a lot, but with the tax thing, when they were saying it's not a tax, it's not a penalty for the healthcare deal that they were doing, there was no penalty for that.
00:37:31.000They actually went to the Supreme Court, argued against themselves, and nothing happened.
00:37:35.000This, on the other hand, like you said, Bill, there are legal ramifications, or very well should be, for them lying to get this evidence into court, to get the FISA warrants and then to go on.
00:37:44.000At what point does the public say, I just don't trust anybody.
00:37:47.000The FBI, the IRS, Congress, everybody, we always don't.
00:38:42.000I think the day-to-day people who are there in these organizations are working to do good by the American people.
00:38:47.000It's these few individuals that need to be investigated deeply who are trying to shift, using the power they have, to change a few emails, to leak a few bits of information, to withhold a little bit of key data in order to create a vision of what they want in order to impact the presidency.
00:39:02.000Yeah, but not low-level people either.
00:39:17.000You only need one powerful person in the FBI who knows that the Russian peeing prostitute bit is a joke to leak it to Chuck Todd caterpillar mouth and he goes, we're going to run with this.
00:39:28.000This is unprecedented to have these people in these positions of power over, as you've said, other good Americans who want to serve their country in these bureaus, in these wings of our federal government, to obviously one extent or another, depending on which division we're talking about right now.
00:39:42.000This is unprecedented for people wielding that kind of power to be complicit with a media who don't care to do any fact-checking.
00:39:49.000It's hard for us to fact-check their claims because they never list them.
00:39:57.000Okay, let's go to one last clip and then go.
00:39:59.000There is such a range of conduct here that is inexplicable, and the answers we got were not satisfactory, that we're left trying to understand how could all these errors have occurred over a nine-month period or so among three teams hand-picked One of the highest profile, if not the highest profile case in the FBI, going to the very top of the organization involving a presidential campaign.
00:41:17.000And again, I think what's most important here is every time we get more information, it gets worse for the Democrats right now in these impeachment proceedings.
00:41:24.000That's why I think they're handing Donald Trump the election.
00:41:27.000I wish this weren't going on, because I think it makes a mockery of our entire, not only judicial system, but the entire system of American government.
00:41:34.000Schoolhouse Rock should be rolling over in its grave right now.
00:41:37.000This is absolutely unreal to me, but like you talked about with the IRS investigating people, the IRS being used as a tool from Barack Obama to audit conservatives.
00:41:46.000Here's one thing, too, that I think... Because you can audit a ham sandwich, right?
00:41:54.000There was a story, someone just lost his home because he was $8 under on property taxes, right?
00:41:58.000That's scary to everybody, where you go, well, there's a certain amount of power where the government can find something that you've done wrong.
00:42:04.000Here's why this is scary though, because if they don't find something that you've done wrong, they will make it up.
00:42:10.000Whether it's Russian pissing prostitutes, or changing from did know about the Steele dossier to did not know about the Steele dossier, this has gone beyond someone making a mistake and a political enemy capitalizing on it, this has gone to the most Powerful wings of government, arguably, in Washington, DC, now deliberately fabricating or misleading investigations for reasons of political expediency.
00:42:35.000It is terrifying, and it sets a terrifying precedent that we should all be concerned about.
00:42:41.000Speaking of terrifying, Tim Pool is coming up.
00:46:58.000You released videos this week regarding the new YouTube guidelines.
00:47:04.000I don't want you to speak out of turn at all.
00:47:06.000So explain to people who don't know, kind of let them in on what's been going on, because you've been in the loop in Silicon Valley with people at Google and these companies for a long time.
00:48:08.000What they're saying now is veiled threats or like animating some kind of violent activity directed at somebody is a bannable offense or guideline strike.
00:48:19.000But the most alarming is that they're saying repeated harassing behavior that doesn't violate the rules could constitute suspension from the YouTube Partner Program and it could result in guideline strikes and eventual, you know, termination.
00:48:34.000They're basically saying what you did.
00:48:37.000That reads like an at reply when you put it like that.
00:48:41.000Well, so what happened with you and Carlos is you were responding... Don't say the name, please!
00:49:13.000It's like at a pool, it's like no running next to the pool, but jogging maybe?
00:49:18.000Well, no, they're saying, right, right, it's like, no running, brisk walking is okay, but if you brisk walk more than enough than we arbitrarily decide, then we're gonna tell you you are running, and, you know, that's bad, so you're bad.
00:49:32.000And then you say, wait, hold a second, you guys have a pool?
00:49:34.000They say, no, we don't, we're just putting this out for future reference.
00:49:37.000But I'll let some people in on a big secret, right?
00:49:40.000I know a lot of people at Google, I've known a lot of people for a long time.
00:49:43.000Back in, like, 2011, I had Google people reach out to me, Because of the live stream work I was doing.
00:49:48.000I've actually consulted Google dozens of times.
00:53:36.000And I think it also, by the way, is kind of sad because this is something that I had to sort of connect with, and I'm sure you have as well, younger people who watch this show.
00:53:43.000And our biggest demographic on this show is I don't exactly know how they break down, but the bulk is
00:55:06.000And so this benefits big production studios who can crank out, you know, half an hour TV show every day, but not, you know, most YouTubers will spend a week on a video.
00:56:41.000Because we have 15 people here on staff.
00:56:44.000The reason the quality, the production value is good is because we invested first, kind of planning for this, going this is the way I always thought it was going.
00:58:06.000That being said, when people go like, ah, I wish I could be paid to talk to a camera, well, do you wish you could be paid for a 15-hour day for five years of your life without any breaks?
00:58:15.000Because I know that's what Tim Pool goes through, and almost every top YouTube creator, unless they had a viral video about cats.
00:58:27.000I'll throw in some good little politics here.
00:58:30.000I think one of the things that separates me from like your average leftist is that I recognize the importance of grit.
00:58:38.000There's a TED talk from this teacher, and they actually test the controlled for factors like intelligence, race, gender, income, and they found the only thing that guaranteed success was perseverance, your willingness to not give up.
00:58:53.000So that to me, You know, when you ignore that fact, you create this world of oppression where the only reason you failed is because the color of your skin.
00:59:04.000Obviously, a dude who gets a million dollar loan from his dad will have an easier go of starting a real estate business than a guy who grew up in the gutter.
00:59:10.000But the only reason you're going to succeed is because you actually refuse to give up.
00:59:15.000And I know that you can't say this about yourself, but I've talked with you quite a few times out there and I know that Tim Pool has an unbelievable work ethic.
00:59:21.000And listen, this whole industry is littered with the corpses of people who couldn't keep it up or refuse to keep it up.
01:00:27.000Because, like, so there's, like, with the case that we covered where there was, like, a guy or a girl or something that was pleasuring a horse, and the horse came to a conclusion, right?
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01:03:42.000This is one of the weeks where we don't have a WebEx in an interview for people who are on Mug Club because his voice was really pretty rough.
01:03:51.000He used to want to use a Canadian, it's called a Canadian pipe actually, this was my grandfather's pipe, so you see how it's straight stemmed?
01:03:56.000So it's straight stemmed, but the Bing version was a little bit longer with a curve Cause for a while he wanted to take all of his headshots with his pipe.
01:04:42.000By the way, that reminds me, of course, next Wednesday, the stream is next Wednesday, our big Christmas show, it is live, a live stream where we will actually be in a studio with 200 people raising money for Christmas baskets.
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01:05:21.000That's next Wednesday, and then we'll be off until the new year.
01:05:25.000Here's what I wanted to talk about today a little bit, and this is going to be tough, so...
01:05:30.000If you do have children in the room right now, not that there's anything inappropriate, but it could be some disturbing material, a little bit tough, a little bit intense for kids.
01:05:40.000I told you guys that I wasn't going to talk about after Hopper.
01:05:58.000I'm sad for you, but you did win the cash prize, so I'm curious to see what the betting pool is up to.
01:06:04.000So I'm not talking so much right now about, for those who think you can't watch this or you'll get choked up about Hopper, so much as the interaction that occurred between my wife and I as a husband.
01:06:15.000And I want to do this for wives, maybe next week, or maybe when we come back, a show or a close, just exalting wives, but right now I want to speak to what I know to husbands out there, and of course fathers, but I'd like to speak specifically to husbandry, because I think it's something that's very underappreciated, and it's a very, very important role in our society.
01:06:35.000And one that I've really, you know, I'm being married for seven years, come to understand more recently.
01:06:41.000So when we did, we had to go and we had to put Hopper down last week, and I can talk about it now.
01:07:11.000I've talked about this before, so we were really, really close.
01:07:13.000But he was also really close with my wife.
01:07:16.000And so, not only the last year, because of the lymphoma, so we've had some time, you know, he was in remission to think about how this would end.
01:07:22.000But really, for the entirety of us owning Hopper, I always thought of what would this day look like?
01:07:28.000I think everyone who owns a dog thinks about that, right?
01:07:31.000Because their life is so much more finite than ours, at least how we view it.
01:08:05.000I knew exactly what I was going to do.
01:08:06.000I was picturing holding Hopper when they put him down with my arm, because he always liked to lay underneath my right arm, right kind of underneath his neck here, his big old noggin that he had, and I would rub his belly.
01:08:17.000That's kind of what we did when we used to sit there together.
01:08:21.000And when we went in, we put his bed down and this was, it was, it was a very reverent sort of, it wasn't just putting some animal down.
01:08:28.000The vets who weren't even working that day, technicians came in because he touched a lot of lives and I appreciate the sentiments that you've sent in.
01:08:35.000But when I went in at that point, my wife was already there.
01:08:38.000And I had pictured this at least a thousand times in my head, how I was going to hold him, how I was going to soothe him, make sure that I was strong until the end, because the last thing you want to do is send him out when you're emotionally unstable.
01:08:48.000But my wife was there, and she was holding him.
01:08:51.000And so it changed right away to, without even thinking, I wasn't holding Hopper.
01:09:01.000It was something that occurred to me, I guess, not so much at the time but afterwards, realizing that... I think dogs teach us a lot about how we interact with people.
01:09:11.000The way we interact with dogs often reflects how we interact with people.
01:09:15.000And this situation with Hopper would make, he made me a more selfless person in understanding
01:10:21.000That's an aside, but it was a really weird experience, a lot of learning experiences.
01:10:25.000My wife and I went away for the weekend to spend some time with each other and get out.
01:10:30.000But I also, I bring this up because I have a friend, a good friend, a good man, who the same last week was going through something much tougher, a miscarriage.
01:10:41.000And it was a miscarriage that was far enough along the trail that they had to check for a heartbeat and induce labor.
01:10:49.000And he's been taking care of his wife for the entire week afterward because she hasn't been doing well physically.
01:10:56.000She's been having some actual physical ramifications that have required her to be in and out of the hospital.
01:11:03.000And I know that he, I don't know that his wife knows this, but he did.
01:11:09.000He said the baby was far enough along that he Bury it in the backyard and put down a flower because this was important to him and this wasn't the first time he had been through this.
01:11:18.000And he discussed some things with me that his wife didn't know about that he was protecting from her.
01:11:27.000And this goes to the idea of toxic masculinity.
01:11:30.000Let me just kind of state this in the outset.
01:11:52.000At that moment in time, I couldn't go, ah!
01:11:54.000I had to clutch my wife and make sure that she was fine.
01:11:57.000At this moment in time, my friend had to be the husband.
01:12:01.000You don't think he wanted to sit down and cry?
01:12:02.000You don't think he wanted a moment for himself?
01:12:04.000And without getting into specifics, because I promised him I wouldn't, every step of the way, he was doing whatever he possibly could for his wife, not for himself.
01:12:13.000That all stems from toxic masculinity.
01:12:16.000The same reason that we get angry, or the same reason that we're more aggressive and there are more wars, is because we fight them to protect the people that we love.
01:12:47.000If it's the idea of sort of what's perceived as multitasking, I know some people believe that to be a myth right now, but let's call it neural flexibility.
01:12:53.000Women can take more sensory input and deal with it.
01:12:58.000For that same reason, it's why men tend to... Why do you think men make up 94 or 97 percent, depending on the source you're using, of workplace deaths?
01:13:46.000Remember when you were a kid and you had issues going on and things felt unstable?
01:13:50.000Assuming, of course, that you have a decent family.
01:13:53.000I'm not talking to everyone and that's why it's so important to me to try and encourage the family unit and for fathers to own up to their responsibilities and be fathers.
01:14:02.000People say, why don't you talk about child support and alimony?
01:14:39.000But it's that gift of security, of assurance that you can give to your children or to your wife as a man, as a head of household, that means a lot.
01:14:50.000And trying to own up to that expectation, that's toxic masculinity.
01:14:56.000Listen, you've heard that line from as good as it gets, you know, women, you make me want to be a better man.
01:15:24.000We can't serve, not all the time, by being as sensitive and as nurturing as you can.
01:15:28.000And that's why sometimes when we know that you're more sensitive and we get that maybe you are more Emotionally inclined and in tune and someone who's more agreeable.
01:15:39.000There's not a lot I can offer in this situation, but I can hold my wife while we put my dog down.
01:15:45.000You know what, maybe there's not a lot I can necessarily do around the house, but I can make sure that I lay it on the line that, to ensure that this house is there for my wife when she gets back.
01:15:53.000And sometimes that gets us a little bit pissed off.
01:15:55.000Sometimes that gets, you know, sometimes we do bottle it in and yeah, you feel like you have razor blades in your stomach.
01:16:18.000Not because we don't love you, but precisely the opposite.
01:16:22.000Because the whole reason that men would go into battle and fight wars, or the primary reason, I don't want to speak in absolutes and get fact-checked here, but some people will say it's for religion or war for oil.
01:16:31.000No, but a big reason, a primary motivating factor, is to protect our women, not send them to the front lines.
01:17:02.000Not only is it important for men to learn how to be better men, but it's important for you to know how and what it is you're trying to achieve and what it is that right now they are trying to tear down.
01:17:13.000Right now the problem I think the rejection that you are seeing of men who are trying to better themselves And they reject this notion of toxic masculinity is that they are rejecting the removal of standards that we have held men to precisely because it's the most effective and largely the only way that we can serve.
01:17:33.000And the reason we want to serve is not because we hate women, not because we're chauvinist, but because we love you.
01:17:41.000That's toxic masculinity for better or worse.