In this episode we react to Piers Morgan crashing out on Nick Fuentes and the aftermath of it. I also hit my lowest weight since high school and talk about my goal weight and how I lost weight.
00:26:29.580And I take seriously your point that they already have a platform and I'm not making them big. I'm not drawing attention to them. They already have the attention. They're just not being questioned or challenged on that platform. I concede that point. I agree with you fully. The problem with this guy, the problem with Nick Fuentes in particular, though, to me is he's such a chameleon and he moves in such a way that I'm not sure holding him accountable matters to his base. And he does just enough to look moderate and normal and reasonable that I think he'll do.
00:26:58.300i think nick looks reasonable all the time i don't understand like i feel like there's a language
00:27:04.220that happy-go-lucky people speak that non-happy-go-lucky people don't speak and i feel
00:27:09.900like me and nick we just we speak the same language um so i never really understood why
00:27:17.420everyone gets there in their panties in a bunch um over him i never got it he'll do more damage by
00:27:22.700sneaking some people from from the middle and dragging them to his side because they think
00:27:27.020think he's reasonable and only later find out that he's a sexist, misogynist, Hitler-loving
00:27:31.220Nazi, right? Or whatever he is, right? That's where the danger comes for me. I'm not saying
00:27:36.060we shouldn't interview controversial people. I'm just saying this particular guy, I feel like
00:27:39.280we're playing into his interests and his angle. Yeah. Well, Glenn Greenwald, welcome back to
00:27:43.380Uncensored. You've had four inches on your show. What's your view about that issue, about
00:27:48.480platforming him at all? Oh, I don't even, I didn't even consider it to be a difficult question at
00:27:54.880all. I mean, if you're going to have people on who are responsible for the invasion and
00:27:59.120destruction of Iraq based on lies or the incineration of Vietnam or the destruction of
00:28:03.520Gaza and the deaths of tens of thousands of people and welcome them and treat them like
00:28:07.800respectable people, tell me what it is that Nick Fuentes has done remotely as bad as that
00:28:12.740that justifies allowing them to come on and speak, but not him. And whether you like it
00:28:16.960or not, he does speak for a huge number of people in his generation and even other generations
00:28:21.780as well, who feel the same kind of anger and frustration with the status quo, with the
00:28:27.320establishment, with the kind of dogma that we've been told we have to accept. And there's a lot
00:28:32.380of people who are angry about it and who rebel against it. And we saw this with Donald Trump
00:28:36.580on maybe a little bit of a smaller scale, but very much the same pattern. When Donald Trump
00:28:40.500appeared, everybody was like, oh, he's racist and fascist and he's the misogynist and he's this and
00:28:44.940that. And no one wanted to grapple with the reason why his message was resonating so much. And to me,
00:28:49.460it very is very similar to nick fontes say what you want about him he's extremely smart an
00:28:55.140incredibly talented communicator and very well read like he's very informed he's not just some
00:29:00.580sensationalist babbling on the on the internet and i think the reason he has attracted a lot
00:29:05.300of attention is because he's speaking to the anger and frustration a lot of which is valid
00:29:09.940of a lot of people and to stick your head in the sand and say oh we're going to pretend that
00:29:14.980this isn't happening because his views are too off but the people who start wars
00:29:20.180are responsible for the 2008 financial crisis these yeah i always again i never understood
00:29:25.060how you can get so triggered over someone who just has an opinion do you know what i mean like
00:29:30.340it's not like he's the guy dropping bombs or doing any of this stuff
00:29:34.980he's just a guy with an opinion um you know uh like i think abortion is murder like genuinely
00:29:41.460in my soul. But I don't hate pro-choice people. I just think they have a different viewpoint and
00:29:46.040opinion. Our respectable people who we treat with respect, like Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton or
00:29:50.720whoever, that to me is the kind of thing that I think is really distorted. Yeah. You know, I,
00:29:56.900Warren Smith, I'll bring up. Can I respond to that? Well, no, I'll be bringing Warren Smith
00:29:59.920first and then I'll come back to you, Mark. You know, Warren, that really is my feeling about it
00:30:04.600is that you can let these guys like Fuentes and Andrew Tate run riot,
00:30:10.520and they do already, and they have massive followings,
00:35:20.840point of an interview actually what i wanted to do over two hours was a personally get to know
00:35:30.720him better because i know nothing about him other than what i've read i've never met him i've never
00:35:35.140interviewed him i don't really believe that look at look at andrew wilson's not buying it either
00:35:42.180look at his face um and b to go over all these things which he's notorious for and ask wait so
00:35:47.260you know not let me get this straight you know nothing about him you know nothing about him and
00:35:52.560yet you ambushed me for having him on yet you know nothing about him
00:35:59.300yeah work out the correct context what he really believes what may have motivated this
00:36:09.840and so on and I think a lot of that was achieved in the interview um but it wasn't you know I
00:36:15.160I think it very quickly afterwards, you know, when I asked him during the interview, you know, how he felt towards the end, how he felt at the gun, he thought I'd been fair.
00:36:24.680He didn't think I'd ambushed him and so on. He made that clear in the interview.
00:36:28.300And yet afterwards, almost immediately afterwards, he comes out full bore on the attack, which is what he does.
01:14:53.660They use it all the time as a political weapon and so on.
01:14:56.660And of course, I suppose the obvious question for him, I went and checked afterwards how many times he's talked about, for example, on his show, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which was over 2000.
01:15:06.580Pearl, you use black people's trauma to get more likes. That's disgusting. What are you, a woman?
01:15:16.480Do you know what I mean? I mean, that just sounds like something a woman would say.
01:15:20.560You used my trauma. Well, good. Good. Good.
01:15:27.440Years ago. He does it all the time. So, you know, if I'd been smart in the moment as a fellow
01:15:32.940Christian. I would say, well, hang on, but isn't that exactly what Christians do all the time
01:15:37.000about the crucifixion? What's the difference? And that sounds like his religion does matter
01:15:41.340because it's absolutely central to their religion. And I think, you know, I do think so much of what
01:15:47.660your interview with Nick Fontes highlighted was extreme generational differences. It was
01:15:52.060sometimes like watching two people speak different languages. You know, Piers, you and I are kind of
01:15:56.660the same age. You're obviously older. Everyone can see that, but just a little bit. And, you know,
01:15:59.900for people who were born in like the 60s the holocaust was just 20 years before world war
01:16:05.460ii had just ended 20 years before there was a mythology about the united states about our role
01:16:10.600in the world about how great of a country we were about all the great things we did about the
01:16:15.020holocaust the unique evil now it's 75 years ago and people who are next generation where harry's
01:16:20.740were born in you know 2000 in 2002 and this idea that like yeah the holocaust has been weaponized
01:16:28.020we've been yeah so the older generation's been hen packed a lot more than the younger guys the
01:16:33.480younger guys are like we're not marrying these bitches let's get money where the older generation
01:16:38.620even if they're not hen packed at home a lot of them are in corporate america young guys they're
01:16:43.760they're ubering they're like i don't want to be nagged all day beaten over the head with it for
01:16:48.420eight decades we've been forced to spend and pay huge amounts of money in reparations or that
01:16:53.240slavery is sometimes weaponized that way this is a very common view so i think when he's doing
01:16:59.380things like making jokes about the holocaust it's not because he thinks it's funny that huge numbers
01:17:02.940of people were exterminated i think it's a way of purposely being transgressive about orthodoxies
01:17:08.520and pieties that a lot of people in his generation don't accept but there was a bit yeah but
01:17:12.840hang on there was glenn there was a callousness to it and i'll tell you why i brought on a guy
01:17:20.980called Danny Finkelstein is a top journalist for the Times newspaper over here who wrote a very
01:17:25.280powerful book about his family and their horrendous experience at the hands of Hitler and Stalin
01:17:30.880and it's incredibly powerful it's very moving it's informed his life and I'm going to talk
01:17:37.020to Danny actually after we finish this because he's been on the receiving end of the most
01:17:40.740appalling abuse in the last 48 hours all directed by Nick Fuentes who was so dismissive of him
01:17:47.920okay okay abuse i don't like that word because i think there's some women maybe that actually
01:17:54.240get beat out there probably not but like you never know and it would just be nice for them
01:17:59.760you know to get real abuse points and men that get beat um but you're saying that you're getting
01:18:05.600abuse because you logged into an app and people said mean words it's like okay of him talking
01:18:11.760about his mother and father so just callous in the way he responded it's that kind of utter
01:18:17.920devoidness of empathy of any empathy whatsoever you can have a view that we should try and move
01:18:23.720on generationally from these seismic moments okay but you don't have to be so callous towards
01:18:28.900somebody whose family literally got murdered by people like hitler and stalin do we i mean
01:18:33.980but the idea peter i think the thing is is like this generation of people grew up in the wake of
01:18:41.420the iraq war in the wake of endless war in the wake of the destruction of their financial security
01:18:46.000with the 2008 financial crisis, with all the lies of COVID and Russiagate and all the rest of it,
01:18:51.320and faith and trust in these institutions have collapsed. So when they look at people who
01:18:56.140represent institutional thinking and they're told you're not allowed to make fun of this and you're
01:18:59.920not allowed to talk about this and accept in the ways that we prescribe and we're going to call
01:19:03.380you all these names unless you affirm all these pieties over and over and over again, one of the
01:19:08.300ways of rebelling against that is to say, you know, it's a very common generational reaction
01:19:12.660is to say f you we're going to transgress every line that you told us we can't because we hate
01:19:17.960you we think that the things that you're doing have been destructive to our lives and i think
01:19:22.120like ignoring that part of you know what i think it's a very you know what glenn i think it's a
01:19:28.940very valid point and there may well be a generational thing to this let me bring in
01:19:32.620bringing in warren just for the record by the way andrew we've just we've just been through
01:19:36.120the whole transcript and he never uses uh the excuse that you put you may have heard him do
01:19:42.300it elsewhere he talked about clergy whether women should be allowed to uh to be clergy women and so
01:19:48.800on uh and and obviously they can't under the catholic church doctrine but he never uses
01:19:53.880he never says it's for religious reasons primary view his primary view is he's supposed to wait
01:19:59.720until marriage that may be his view but he didn't he didn't he didn't express that view in my
01:20:05.200interview is the point we've just checked the transcript andrew was just saying oh i have the
01:20:08.480quote i have the quote and there's no quote it may be no i'm not i can't rule out i can't rule
01:20:12.700out he hasn't said it elsewhere and it may be andrew's heard him say that before i'm just saying
01:20:17.300in my interview he doesn't put on tv we can just say you know what i made a mistake it's okay to
01:20:22.000be like yeah i got it wrong i may have heard it yeah yeah yeah i like that all right let me bring
01:20:26.280warren back in look warren you're a critical thinker um you know glenn's you know stopped
01:20:32.700me in my tracks a little bit and made me think about this right because i think there is probably
01:20:36.940a generational thing here and i do think that in a way you know maybe mark's right that by
01:20:42.500me interviewing fuentes the only real winner at the end of the day may be nick fuentes because
01:20:48.300none of his supporters certainly from the reaction i've had um have changed their their impression
01:20:54.680of him one iota i mean they just assumed he just landslided me and that was it and i was an old
01:20:59.740boomer sent packing um and it may be as mark says that other more moderate people quite like some of
01:21:05.580the things they heard i don't know he is charismatic he's a good talker and he's smart and all these
01:21:09.640things i don't dispute any of that from a critical thinking point of view where does this take
01:21:14.800society if people like nick fuentes grow ever more popular what will happen to a whole army of young
01:21:21.940men here last night i held a focus group to try and get to the bottom of this and i was
01:21:28.500with over 30 people the vast majority three disagreed with the vast majority and what they're
01:21:35.980they were saying things such as i went into this exchange not expecting to like anything about this
01:21:42.380guy but what i saw was pierce not yeah and that's why they kick him on off off of all the shows is
01:21:46.780because he's very likable that's why when i had him on i'm like this guy's great he's hilarious
01:21:51.300and then that was the end of my career that was i was cooked that was it you know
01:21:58.500contending with his arguments i think that's why when you bring up his dad
01:22:05.080that's why he gets upset because he's saying look man i'm here let's talk why are you talking about
01:22:10.600my dad contend with my logic it's the same thing when he that was his response when you brought on
01:22:17.800your british friend who told his horrific story which like it's it's terrible and you could
01:22:24.360disagree with his response to it, but I think he's saying, why, why are we, I, you're just telling me
01:22:29.780what you're saying is bad, but you're not really contending with the argument. And I think that
01:22:35.000is the core problem that has led to this outcome. Cause you can play these clips and there's nothing
01:22:40.300wrong with that. I don't think he was surprised by anything that occurred in here. And that's
01:22:44.160another reason that you're seeing the backlash is because it was exactly what people predicted
01:22:49.120largely but when you play that clip it's like okay yes that's taken from a large stream
01:22:54.520in the past people evolve and if you if you're asking him in that conversation to expand on that
01:23:00.160and then he does and he does present logic what i'm seeing is people say no you're saying that
01:23:06.020now but you're lying you're playing this game you're pretending to be moderate and now your
01:23:11.400mind reading you're saying i know what nick fuentes thinks more than nick fuentes and i do think it's
01:23:16.560really important in these exchanges to come at it with that first principle of, I'm going to take
01:23:21.320the wild approach that I'm going to wipe the slate blank and assume that the person who knows the
01:23:27.080most about what Nick Fuentes actually thinks is Nick Fuentes. And that seldom happens.
01:23:31.820Yeah. And that's like an ambush interview because it's so frustrating talking to people. And it's
01:23:37.960a woman, like women are the ones that put words in your mouth. When it does, I do see, I saw a
01:23:44.100vastly different response to my conversation but i don't think i challenged him in that interview
01:23:49.580we didn't learn many new things about nick it wasn't a good interview pierce had no interest
01:23:53.700in learning anything well it was good because he was so he um he he it was such a bad interview
01:24:00.300that it was good do you know what i mean any less right sorry do you know what it's very interesting
01:24:06.040it's very interesting i've been reading i mean i read and take note of the more nuanced uh
01:24:11.280commentary about it i don't listen to the groypers all ranting away or attacking me or my family
01:24:15.280whatever i love the gripers i mean i'd ask if you guys could please stop tweeting me pictures of my
01:24:21.040ex-boyfriend stop sparking at the current you know
01:24:32.800but they're funny i'm gonna give them that they're funny i think a lot of them are sexless i won't
01:24:37.600won't lie. I don't think a lot of them get laid. I'm just going to be real here. And I don't mean
01:24:44.260that as an insult, but usually when people spurg about race too much, yeah, sorry, I know. It's
01:24:50.840just, it's kind of, because men that get laid know that, like, the getting laid market is a
01:24:56.160different arena. It transcends race. Hold on. I want to talk about what I think about interracial
01:25:03.960dating because i've i can actually live i've seen the downsides of it and the upsides i've seen both
01:25:11.240um and no it is you're saying it's cope it's kind of no it's kind of cope for the white guys
01:25:17.640because that's why they're mad that the white girls date interracially because they're losing
01:25:22.280to like what they would deem lower status men um here where's this proposal proposal
01:25:29.800girl dancing i think the most important thing for a guy and a girl and a couple
01:25:39.240um i gotta find this and i knew this couple was gonna be still married when i saw this clip
01:25:46.120the most important thing that transcends race
01:25:50.920anything is that a man is with a woman that views him like this