In this episode, we discuss Tucker Carlson's attempt to create an equivalency between Christianity and Islam, and why it's a terrible idea. We also talk about the dangers of identity politics on the right, and how to deal with it.
00:00:54.000It's like, no, submission to God is not equal.
00:00:59.000You could be submitting to the 300 million plus gods of Hinduism or something like that, or you could be submitting to a false deity that says, wipe out all the other people that submit to anybody else.
00:01:40.000Hold on, let's discuss the Russian grocery stores.
00:01:43.000Are you aware that these people live in abject poverty?
00:01:45.000Are you saying that the ends justify the means if it means jailing political dissidents?
00:01:48.000I agree that we need to use the appropriate authority of our government to improve the life, the lives of all American people.
00:01:57.000I don't think that going the direction of Russia under Putin or any Islamic nation, I don't think it's a good thing.
00:02:06.000So if what you are espousing in criticism of Tucker Carlson is something that would be completely valueless if you were sitting across from him, that to me is a litmus test.
00:02:18.000These are often the same people who say we should question ideas.
00:03:25.000And by the way, the U.S.-backed opposition leader who would take Maduro's place if he were taken out is, of course, pretty eager to get gay marriage in Venezuela.
00:03:36.000So to those of you who thought this whole project was globo homo, not crazy, actually.
00:03:41.000Yeah, but that's not the primary disagreement.
00:03:44.000And by the way, of course, there are plenty of abortions in Venezuela.
00:04:12.000So doing away with the, what they call decadent lifestyle of homosexuality in the West, that also affects birth rates.
00:04:18.000Then they go the other way with communist China, where they have a one-child policy.
00:04:21.000If they believe that population is a problem, it always just comes down to what is convenient for that government to control its people at that point in time.
00:04:28.000And it's why every single one has been thrust into abject poverty, which I think is kind of important, even if they don't allow gay marriage.
00:04:35.000So in 2024, while we're making the moral argument, 2024 alone, Venezuela generated $2.6 billion in human trafficking revenue.
00:04:43.000188,000 people were forced into labor.
00:05:44.000And there's this argument from the, I think, the far right right now.
00:05:47.000Listen, I think this is why this becomes a problem is because you don't give people an opportunity to make the point.
00:05:52.000Yes, there are things that these regimes get right, but they don't get it right in a way that's sustainable or actually good for everybody in the population.
00:06:01.000If you happen to be in the right class of people in that population and hold the right opinions and have the right duties that you've performed for them, then yeah, life can actually be very good.
00:06:11.000You have a lot of services that you get to take advantage of.
00:06:14.000The minute that you're not, again, you get shipped off to gulags.
00:07:09.000And why would, and here's the one thing that I would have criticism with, is that Tucker Carlson has been consistently undermining the will of the American people, President Trump, and is driving a wedge in the conservative movement right now where they're punching right, my right, you're left, a whole lot more than left.
00:07:31.000And Donald Trump has been the most effective president of our lifetime.
00:07:34.000And by the way, I probably disagree with Donald Trump on more than any of the people in this argument, but I can still recognize that the perfect is the enemy of the good and Donald Trump is the man who I voted for and the man who I support.
00:07:47.000You have to imagine what is the alternative.
00:07:51.000And if no one is presenting a viable alternative, then they could really just be seen as adding nothing more than they're a net harm.
00:08:01.000And so the through line with Tucker is he's been consistently undermining Trump.
00:08:04.000Maybe that's why you say, hey, he's not MA.
00:08:06.000Because in June 2025, for example, he said that Trump was complicit in an act of war with Israel.
00:08:10.000He wrote, politicians purporting to be America first can't now credibly turn around and say that they had nothing to do with it, can they?
00:08:21.000It's worth pointing out that a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars.
00:09:26.000He said in a text that we're all pretending we've got a lot to show for it because admitting what a disaster it's been is too rough to digest.
00:09:32.000But come on, there really isn't an upside to Trump.
00:11:37.000And why did it take him a year to do a January 6th special when we had been doing it and claiming there was new footage when it wasn't new?
00:13:25.000Hey, if you do that, then people can see that the person in question is never bringing on anyone who would question his ideas, never bringing on anybody who would push back.
00:13:36.000But if you start, it would be very easy for Tucker to just say, well, I'm not going to have this person on.
00:13:41.000This person just said that they want to cancel me.
00:13:45.000I would say the same thing, by the way, of some of those people on the right who've wanted to cancel myself, even though we probably share a lot of the same viewpoints.
00:13:53.000The second you say that, that you're going to silence someone, you are now beyond our national borders in the sense that you're not a conservative anymore.
00:14:03.000Well, and there are plenty of reasons that we get frustrated with Tucker, but I want to dispel one if I can, right?
00:14:20.000The more time I give you, the more it's going to happen.
00:14:23.000It's fine when somebody says, I like Stalin to follow up on that question.
00:14:28.000And there's rightfully, there's people out there going, hey, why didn't you?
00:14:31.000I understand there's a difference between him interviewing Ted Cruz for like the umpteenth time and dealing with him over several decades and understanding the guy and having an agenda for the meeting.
00:14:40.000But when you see that and then you see the softball layup of tell me more about the Stalin thing, which didn't really happen, people have a little bit of a problem.
00:14:49.000What I don't see is the anti-Semite call.
00:14:51.000And I don't know where that's coming from other than if he says something that is not in Israel's interest that people are then going to say, well, you're an anti-Semite.
00:14:58.000Because I haven't actually heard, and I could be wrong.
00:15:00.000So if somebody sees it out there, send me the clip.
00:15:31.000And I think that's a problem that we have to solve right now.
00:15:35.000And I don't know that we're doing a very good job of it.
00:15:37.000It seems like there's more fracturing, especially over the last week or two over this issue than there really should be.
00:15:43.000And it comes at a very opportune moment, doesn't it?
00:15:47.000For the right to be fractured when we're kind of primed here to do better in the midterms than people anticipated, when the right has generated a lot of momentum and it could all be killed because of people who claim to be inside the movement punching right and all under the guise of, well, this person is not amongst you.
00:16:03.000I think Brandon Tatum is wrong in a lot of things.
00:16:07.000And I don't think that he's particularly effective in articulating arguments.
00:17:04.000I think there are anti-Semites out there.
00:17:06.000I think if you are blaming the Jews for all of your individuals, like I think that if you have an overdraft fee and you're like, Jew, you're like, okay, that's where I think you might be an anti-Semitic.
00:17:14.000And there are people like that out there.
00:17:15.000I don't think Dave Smith is one of them.
00:18:05.000But to your point of this kind of dissent at a time where we're poised to do well in the midterm, CNN right now is doing a poll about unfavorability of Democrat leaders.
00:18:42.000You know what it used to be, to give you an example, like the primary before Donald Trump won in 2016.
00:18:49.000It was a very, I mean, it was a very large primary.
00:18:52.000I don't remember how many people there were.
00:18:53.000But this is what people on the right sort of did is they go, okay, on that stage, we have Jeb Bush, we have Rand Paul, we have Carly Fiorino, we have Ted Cruz, we had Marco Rubio.
00:19:43.000You could say the same thing about McCain.
00:19:45.000But in this one, people got to decide and they picked someone different.
00:19:49.000And then once that happens, you go, okay.
00:19:51.000And of course, Donald Trump, while flawed or while imperfect, is certainly better than Hillary Clinton.
00:19:56.000And conservatives, Republicans, those who might be more moderate right, those who might be more nationalists, go, all right, we understand the enemy that we're facing, the enemy within, which is the left that want to trans all the kids and take all the money and we would become a unit.
00:20:10.000Now people are just going, hey, all of these are disqualifying factors.
00:20:13.000Can you imagine if every single faction there made every difference of opinion a disqualifying factor?
00:20:21.000And then these same people say a two-party system man is screwed.
00:20:24.000Well, okay, I was raised in going back to the issue of Islam.
00:20:28.000I was raised in what people refer to as a mosaic, right?
00:20:32.000The multiculturalism where people kind of have their own factions.
00:20:35.000That's why I did a lot of research into Islam because I didn't like some of the answers I was getting from very friendly Muslim friends in my school.
00:20:43.000And the more I read about it, the more troubled I was.
00:20:59.000And then it's even funny to me where someone like Dave Smith goes, well, then it would be, I know that obviously next in line would be Vance.
00:21:04.000You think this guy's going to be less hawkish?
00:21:05.000But the truth is, if you delegitimize the most effective and one of the most supported Republican presidents of our lifetime, guess what?
00:21:15.000It doesn't matter who's next in line if they're better.
00:22:28.000Well, but that was, it wasn't just the problem of all the filler or the crap that they put in there, the claims that they made, like, this is going to make you the ultra male, you know, or something like that.
00:22:36.000It's like, no, you just, can we just get to a point where, you know, hey, eat relatively healthy, take, take something that's a good supplement that has clinically proven levels of stuff and work out a couple of times a week.
00:23:21.000And then again, as someone who struggled with chronic pain and not just because like, I ate gluten, but, you know, actually have a genetic hereditary condition that gives me problems with my joints.
00:23:32.000Turmeric, because someone's like a spice in Indian food, curcumin, is one of the most studied supplements available.
00:23:37.000You have to have the right kind, which is what we have.
00:23:38.000It has to be bioavailable, which is why we have the bioperrine in there, the black pepper.
00:23:42.000And then, same thing, garlic is also very inexpensive compared to a lot of other supplements and yields much better results.
00:23:49.000You can go on the website and check it out and see, like, oh, wow, I think it's like a 7% reduction in harmful cholesterol, sometimes more.
00:24:10.000It's definitely the most reputable, I would say, because we've gone to great lengths to do so.
00:24:15.000So if you're looking for something where you're going, okay, this just covers my bases and it's a net benefit to anyone who takes it, whether you're man, woman, great.
00:24:59.000Do whatever else on top of this you want.
00:25:01.000And if we find something that we can bring to you at the right price and the right quality first and foremost, then maybe at some point we will.
00:25:08.000I can tell you, I used to have to take this myself.
00:25:11.000I would take a multigun from a place called Cooper Clinic.
00:25:13.000It's the guy who invented the term aerobics, Ken Cooper, but you could only get it if you were actually a member there, where they did a whole physical and their stuff was all lab tested.
00:25:21.000Then I would get usually Thorn would be a bottle of turmeric curcumin.
00:25:26.000Because for me, if I don't take it, it's like Advil.
00:25:28.000It's basically what it is, but it's also good for your liver.
00:26:10.000But if your cholesterol could use a little help, if your blood pressure could use a little help, if you're struggling with aches and pains, and if you don't eat all that great, this will make a big difference.
00:26:28.000So by the way, you brought up something unrelated.
00:26:30.000It kind of relates back to this, but not on purpose.
00:26:33.000I didn't realize that if you took like, you know, Advil or something like that at night, every night, two to three pills, it's not great for your body to do that for years.
00:26:44.000I don't know about specifically sleep.
00:27:14.000But then I started just doing the two at night.
00:27:16.000And I'm like, oh, the turmeric actually does help.
00:27:18.000It just kind of keeps because of the half-life, just like taking Advil, you know, but you could take two in the morning, two at lunch, two whenever.
00:28:14.000Question for Stephen: Do you think the rhetoric the left uses will ever be addressed, or will we all be Nazis forever?
00:28:21.000Well, the beauty is if everyone's a Nazi, then no one's a Nazi.
00:28:25.000I would say that's for the general American public.
00:28:28.000But for people like Charlie Kirk, for people with a pretty high profile and people like myself, we're obviously more at risk because they've labeled everybody a Nazi and they go, let's take out the Nazi figureheads, right?
00:28:40.000But if everyone is a Nazi, then no one's a Nazi.
00:28:42.000And the truth is, the more your neighbor, the more you're unabashed about your views and your neighbors like you, you know, I used to say this too: like, often you'd have Christians who would leave out like leaflets everywhere, pamphlets.
00:28:54.000It's like, yeah, yeah, if you do that, but stiff the server on the tip, they're probably not going to have a good view of Christ.
00:30:17.000With the upcoming rise of the EBT people saying they will steal from stores and other people to get groceries, how do we deal with that if we run into it?
00:30:40.000That's the job of the shopkeepers, I would say.
00:30:44.000Now, if there is a violent interaction where someone is trying to steal and people are trying to subdue this person and they're being overpowered, yeah, then I would say step in to help the innocent.
00:30:54.000But it's not your job to be a vigilante over produce.
00:31:18.000Some of these shopkeepers, some of these people who own these stores, they actually support the cause and they might sue you if you step in.
00:31:26.000So unless you've sort of been deputized for a citizen's arrest by someone you know who owns the store, I would film and I would do my best to raise awareness, but I wouldn't intervene violently.
00:31:39.000I would say, you know, keep that thing on you.
00:31:44.000Because I have seen people, you know, we saw videos, we covered it last week where people were talking about, oh, you need to, we need to rob the people outside the store.
00:31:51.000You know, yeah, then if people putting their groceries in the car and you take it from them, then you clap them back.
00:35:56.000Yeah, but we would make it very inconvenient where they'd have to hit mine every third Thursday of the month by request and yours like every second Wednesday.
00:38:44.000I don't really see how that would be a wise campaign to lead.
00:38:48.000I understand wanting to protect sites and wanting to have certain places kind of protected for Christendom, but I think there are better ways than to lead another crusade.
00:39:40.000I think they're saying, do they deserve it?
00:39:42.000Like, because they allowed them to be in there in the first place.
00:39:45.000Well, no, this is not, put it this way.
00:39:48.000This is not like someone hiring an illegal alien, right?
00:39:51.000Knowing, going, oh, I don't need to see your papers because they save money.
00:39:54.000I'm willing to bet that the landlords probably provided them, in some cases, provided them with the ability to rent, and now they're getting screwed.
00:40:03.000So I think it's a little bit different.
00:40:04.000Now, if landlords knowingly harbored illegal aliens, they should both be punished.
00:40:08.000But I say yes to certainly moving them up the list because not only are they committing a crime, they've already committed misdemeanors to get in here, they're continually committing crimes by not paying rent, and it's harming their fellow Americans.
00:40:21.000So, yep, move them up the list, get them out right away.
00:40:23.000And if the landlords knowingly harbored illegals, yep, they should be punished as well.
00:40:27.000If it's a landlord who frankly didn't know, or I don't know the laws in Illinois, if you're allowed to ask.
00:40:32.000I don't know if it's actually illegal or if you're required to check.
00:40:47.000So if the state, for example, considers it discrimination to ask for proof of citizenship in Illinois, and that's the way that they do business, I don't know.
00:40:56.000Then in that case, they'd have some, well, they'd have less culpability.
00:41:01.000You shouldn't be able to ask about citizenship.
00:41:03.000You should, I think you should be able to ask about legal residency.
00:41:08.000Because if you're on a green card, you know, or if you're hearing a war visa or a student visa or something like that, you deserve the right to occupancy.
00:41:16.000Yeah, also what can happen too is there are people who specialize in like temporary residency.
00:41:20.000So for example, members of, you know, like people who are ambassadors, stuff like that.
00:41:24.000Like I know there was an area, was it Gramercy in New York where that was like a lot of the UN people would be and would be pretty affordable temporary housing because you knew these people wouldn't live in the city, but they'd have to be visiting quite a bit.
00:41:39.000There's an area that's like the UN area where all of them stay in New York.
00:41:43.000So there are sometimes people who come here to work temporarily and people need to be able to give them a place to stay.
00:41:49.000That's like you can pay by the week or by the month.
00:41:51.000And if someone did that, which by the way is perfectly legal and also a market that needs to be filled and then got screwed because the people effectively become squatters protected by the state, I don't want to punish those home providers, but people who are part of a big scam and those do exist.
00:43:07.000And if there are peptides out there that are actually effective, that might be something that we could do.
00:43:13.000Again, I looked at places going, hey, is this one of those industries where people are just bombarded with bullshit?
00:43:20.000And they're trying to make the right decision.
00:43:23.000They're trying to improve their health, but they're almost proactively misguided by people collecting a buck.
00:43:28.000And that did interest me too, this idea of peptides, because people can sell them and just put anything in there, and someone could be injecting it into their body and causing irreparable harm.
00:43:37.000And nothing is without risks when you're getting into the realm of pharmaceuticals, or I think peptides are considered like lab chemicals that can be studied.
00:43:45.000But so maybe we'll have a maybe I'll have Toolman do that, just like do a custom custom blend, and you'll all come out looking like Greek gods.
00:45:01.000We do have, like, when we pick sponsors, we really do try and we sit down and go, okay, does this add value?
00:45:07.000Is this something that people can use?
00:45:08.000And by the way, no sponsor is for everybody.
00:45:10.000Like American Financing, the reason, too, that they've saved a lot of people money.
00:45:14.000I have friends who didn't even use American Financing, but they compared whatever the quote was, and they got a better deal from their bank because they were already along the process.
00:45:21.000So yeah, we don't suggest anything that either we don't use or people here use or we know would be a very useful tool.
00:45:29.000Like for example, building your credit.
00:45:31.000I mean, I don't, it's not a tool I need.