Comedian and podcaster Josh Firestein ( ) joins Jemele to discuss his new podcast, The Fag Camp, where he and his co-host, Sarah Silverman ( ) talk about the perils of being gay in America.
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00:12:40.000Like, I would give it to you if you pulled a Ferris Bueller camera off the dive you were, if you just looked and just kind of threw yourself off.
00:18:32.000They are preying on the most vulnerable by bringing them out and isolating them in camp and conditioning them when they're young to believe that this is healthy, this is normal, this will lead to a better life.
00:20:18.000And I know you're going to say this is mean, but we all had to foot the bill when kids were locked out of school because no one wanted to tell the truth.
00:20:24.000That child is not disabled, and you are at much greater risk if you are obese.
00:23:45.000In the six days he was there, instead they simply sat around picnic tables and participated in heavily monitored, censored discussions and highly juvenile level crafts.
00:23:54.000Let's contrast that with the five-star review, and this is why I tell you, your worldview matters.
00:28:59.000No, the kids' counselors will definitely be gay.
00:29:01.000It says, every camper and staff undergoes a video screening process to ensure they are part of the LGBTQ plus community or are affirming allies.
00:30:36.000I've been gay for as long as I can remember and have acted on my gay feelings throughout my life so many times with many men.
00:30:43.000Sometimes multiple men at the same time.
00:30:45.000Sometimes even women at Notre Dame, I was known in the football locker room as the tightest end because all the other guys really enjoyed my tight butthole.
00:30:54.000In conclusion, any hole will do, but not just any camp will do.
00:35:08.000I'm a little scared of the AIDS sometime.
00:35:13.000The position poetry build on lead plus cabin counselor pronouns they them, no surprise.
00:35:19.000The About Me section has, as an openly black trans individual, they know that by showing up as themselves fully, they allow others to do the same.
00:35:36.000They also messed up the pronouns on their own thing, because it's them them, but then they went to say, as openly black trans individual, they know.
00:36:37.000After a few years of really exploring that for myself, I went back and I got my master's in clinical psychology, and I focused on queer youth, the queer community in general, but more specifically the queer youth population.
00:36:56.000Just wanted to explore and explore and explore.
00:37:13.000We are gonna have such an amazing gay time, you have no idea.
00:37:17.000You're going to have such an amazing day time, you have no idea.
00:37:25.000This person, also being a qualified medical professional, dispenses advice on how to deal with depression.
00:37:31.000Actually, dancing is far and away a stronger cure for depression and anxiety than running, weights, SSRI drugs, or any other form of exercise.
00:37:41.000The clinical data says you're a piece of shit.
00:38:27.000this person in response said, that's a ridiculous statement.
00:38:30.000You know, Donald Trump, he won't bring anyone together to suggest otherwise is absolutely a denial of the facts in front of everyone's faces.
00:38:38.000Hey, what if you have a kid who's gay, who likes men's butts, but also happens to believe in a strong national defense, lower taxes, and, uh, being able to...
00:42:04.000Like this is one of the worst things that I've, How can you come up with a camp and pitch this and get funding for it and say, here's what we're going to do.
00:42:13.000We're going to have a bunch of people who are a freak show in and of themselves.
00:42:17.000And I'm sorry, that's exactly what they are.
00:42:18.000They're like, ah, dress norms and all that stuff.
00:42:21.000That doesn't make you feel free that you can go out and dress like a clown, right?
00:42:25.000And your teachers and everybody who's supposed to be in charge is acting goofy and crazy.
00:42:59.000She was like, he was trying to be a better father.
00:43:01.000She was insinuating he was a bad guy and a bad father.
00:43:03.000And she was like, he was trying to be better before he died.
00:43:06.000Maybe for not supporting a really terrible lifestyle for your son.
00:43:10.000And then so instead of discussing my, with my children, their sexual, um, Instead of having a conversation with them, I sent them to their new dad.
00:43:51.000We like to call this little tour the Summer of Pride.
00:43:55.000I just hope a bear comes from off screen and just feasts on the disease-ridden body of By the way, Patagonia is an honorary Camp Brave Trails board member.
00:46:40.000So some recommended media on the page buried on their kind of resources tab of the website is a list of LGBTQ-themed shows and books aimed at...
00:48:06.000When Millie finds her granddad's old pride flag in the attic, she learns about the adventures her gramps and granddad had at pride parades when they were younger and organizes a new pride celebration in their village.
00:48:21.000They make it sound like it's kids fighting their grandpa's flag from World War II.
00:48:54.000As well as some gay clothing brands, as if we needed those.
00:48:58.000I thought those were just kind of all over there.
00:49:00.000But Transfigure Print Company, a trans-owned clothing company, creating gender-affirming streetwear and accessories that celebrate identity and self-expression and also say...
00:51:02.000This is stupid and we have to do a better job of calling this what it is.
00:51:07.000Listen, I read that quote on purpose knowing somebody's going to take that out of context and make some kind of a recording about me applying to be a camp counselor somewhere.
00:51:53.000That mom on the show saying, you know, when he died and raised this and that, it's a struggle if you deal with somebody who's having a problem identifying who they are and they're 12, 13, 14 years old as a parent.
00:52:04.000But the way out is not to just affirm every single thing that happens.
00:52:11.000Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:52:12.000So I can go be me for a week and then come back to the real world for the rest of the year where I have to
00:52:32.000Let me send you somewhere that will tell you the truth about where you can find that meaning, not in some sexual identity or some gender bending experience or some crazy camp filled with degenerates, but actually in the word of God and who he made you to be.
00:52:50.000Can we just be honest with people and stop running down this line that promotes books like this that talk about having an ass and struggling to imagine somebody in sighting That's what they recommend.