Rebel News Podcast - Andrew Chapados ｜ Saving America with Will Witt and Amala Ekpunobi ｜ Andrew Says 51

00:00:00.000 Secondly, you should know that there are much better role models for people in this country than than Thomas Jefferson.

00:00:07.680 Oh, Thomas Jefferson.

00:00:09.260 OK, so you're planning on replacing the statue.

00:00:12.100 Is that correct?

00:00:13.460 Or yes, any plans?

00:00:14.980 Oh, OK.

00:00:15.900 And what are you planning on replacing it with?

00:00:18.840 Well, we have a couple of options, which I'm actually very excited about. 0.98

00:00:22.080 We have Jojo, who is a child pedophile.

00:00:26.420 We have George Floyd, definitely an upstanding citizen. 0.94

00:00:31.600 Karl Marx is one that we were thinking of as well.

00:00:34.920 Wow.

00:00:35.100 So we have a few good options that we're thinking of.

00:00:37.380 Don't you think that still people should be able to make the decision on whether or not to take the vaccine?

00:00:42.340 Uh, no.

00:00:43.780 No?

00:00:44.320 No, I don't think so.

00:00:45.120 If I told you right now that I'm unvaccinated, how would that make you feel?

00:00:48.860 You think I'm selfish?

00:00:50.320 Uh, yeah, I guess because, I mean, you don't really care about other people's health.

00:00:53.420 I mean, here, here, here.

00:00:55.540 Like, these are all over the place, which means that the guy who was doing this was just spraying and spraying.

00:01:00.660 Right.

00:01:00.840 Which is how you hit kids, how you have collateral damage.

00:01:03.460 So that's kind of what we're dealing with here.

00:01:05.240 It's an incredibly sad situation, seeing all of this.

00:01:07.940 The gang members that control this territory here do not actually live here.

00:01:10.920 They've actually just come into this residential area and overtaken the space here.

00:01:14.980 You can hear the music.

00:01:16.640 You'll see a lot of gang members have some sort of red paraphernalia on them,

00:01:19.900 whether that's a shirt, whether that's a hat, a bandana, whatever.

00:01:23.360 Uh, but that's to show that they are a member of the, uh, County Hunter Bloods.

00:01:27.560 People don't understand that their affirmation of this sort of identity is specifically with kids.

00:01:32.660 It's very harmful to mental health, to, uh, the rates of suicide in young adults right now,

00:01:37.480 which are higher than they've been in a very, very long time.

00:01:46.220 Will Witt and Amla Ekpunobi are commentators and content creators.

00:01:50.180 They host Will and Amal Live on PragerU.

00:01:52.700 And don't forget to buy Will's book, How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies.

00:01:56.580 How are you guys doing?

00:01:58.000 Thank you for joining me.

00:01:59.000 My inflection's all off.

00:02:00.340 Thanks for coming on today.

00:02:03.100 It's very good, man.

00:02:04.220 I'm great.

00:02:04.840 How are you doing?

00:02:05.740 I am doing well.

00:02:06.580 Thanks for asking, Amla.

00:02:07.840 How are you?

00:02:09.180 I'm happy to be here.

00:02:10.400 I'm doing great.

00:02:11.460 I appreciate that sentiment.

00:02:12.860 Now, if you guys don't know, Will was the second guest ever on the show.

00:02:16.840 We just passed 50 and I'm very thankful for you guys coming on.

00:02:22.520 Give us all an update up here in Canada land, how California is doing in terms of mandates

00:02:27.780 and lockdowns and all that jazz.

00:02:31.180 Uh, yeah, so, uh, it's been an interesting ride.

00:02:33.180 I just moved here from Florida seven months ago.

00:02:34.980 So I'm really getting the feel for what, uh, COVID mandates and vaccine mandates look like

00:02:39.700 here, uh, for us being young people, we're not allowed to go to bars, sit inside restaurants,

00:02:45.160 uh, without having our vax cards.

00:02:47.480 So we're constantly being asked for that so far, not complying, but that's the reality

00:02:52.300 here in California.

00:02:53.620 You guys are basically Canadian.

00:02:55.280 Then it sounds like, well, who do you think is to blame here?

00:02:58.600 Not that bad.

00:02:59.500 You're not that.

00:03:00.000 Oh, wow.

00:03:00.880 Unbelievable.

00:03:01.920 It's been so long since we spoke and you're already hurting my feelings.

00:03:05.140 Well, who are we blaming here?

00:03:06.340 Is it Gavin Newsom?

00:03:07.800 Is it, is it the voters for keeping them in?

00:03:10.100 What's your thought on that?

00:03:12.000 I mean, it's a lot more insidious than just saying our bureaucrats right now that we voted

00:03:16.260 in are responsible for this.

00:03:17.740 You have Dr.

00:03:18.300 Fauci, you have the world health organization, you have the CDC, you have people who have maliciously

00:03:23.720 hid data, maliciously hid things like HCQ and ivermectin showing the, the great effects

00:03:29.900 of those types of drugs, made it so that people feel like, oh, they have to take 10 boosters

00:03:35.260 to prove that they're not a racist.

00:03:36.660 I mean, all of these things that have happened are, are because of the elites in this country

00:03:41.620 pushing this on us and not caring about deaths, not caring about our wellbeing, not caring about

00:03:46.620 the economy.

00:03:47.120 They don't care about any of that as long as they attain more power and more wealth through

00:03:51.560 the, the diktats and the, the, the, the evil that they are putting forward. 0.61

00:03:56.620 So, I mean, it is, you know, we do have to look at the people and say, you know, there's

00:04:02.040 a lot of people in California who didn't do enough.

00:04:04.260 I wish people in California would do more, but you know, the brainwashing goes so deep

00:04:09.360 and it starts at such a young age.

00:04:10.820 It's hard to necessarily blame people when they don't even have access to the information

00:04:15.180 that's really true.

00:04:15.960 Now, I read that Newsom's leaving the country for Thanksgiving.

00:04:20.120 I read that earlier today, which obviously is a sad sign for your own governor.

00:04:24.200 Doesn't want a vacation in his own state, but he's also saying that he's-

00:04:28.080 Who goes, who goes to Mexico?

00:04:29.500 He's, sorry, he's going to Mexico for his vacation.

00:04:32.820 You're leaving America during Thanksgiving and American holiday to go to Mexico. 0.95

00:04:39.300 He's going down on the Jesse Ventura ranch, I think.

00:04:42.040 He's also saying, I read at the same time, that he's going to get tough on crime.

00:04:46.860 Obviously, San Francisco and Hollywood and L.A., they're notorious for the homeless, the 0.51

00:04:51.920 defecation maps of San Francisco.

00:04:55.120 Do you guys actually believe that this time around that he's actually going to, you know,

00:04:59.000 be tough on crime?

00:05:00.120 There's all those Walgreens that are closing.

00:05:02.000 How do you feel about this?

00:05:02.980 I would love to see him actually be tough on crime, but it looks like it's not happening

00:05:07.400 here.

00:05:07.720 You go to a grocery store here, and to get a bottle of shampoo, you have to have an employee

00:05:11.460 come and unlock a case for you.

00:05:13.200 It's just ridiculous how much crime is happening.

00:05:15.940 In San Francisco, they just had a store robbed collectively by over 60 people who masked up,

00:05:22.060 went in, ransacked the place, and left.

00:05:24.460 And so far, there's not an update.

00:05:25.800 There's a single one of them truly being brought to justice in this case.

00:05:29.720 I would love to see somebody be tough on crime and bring some law and order to California,

00:05:33.900 but so far, I don't see it.

00:05:35.420 And I'll believe it when I see it, because they are all talk so far.

00:05:39.280 Have you guys seen any of this firsthand yet?

00:05:42.960 I mean, I haven't seen anybody go out and shoplift.

00:05:46.920 I see a lot of crime when it comes to homeless people.

00:05:49.040 There are homeless people in the streets doing drugs right in front of you.

00:05:52.020 I went to go get my hair done last week, and there was a naked homeless man standing in

00:05:56.220 the street while four police officers tried to put clothes on him.

00:05:59.380 So that's really the reality here.

00:06:01.540 And like I said, you try to go to stores and buy products, and you can't even buy the simplest

00:06:05.400 of things, a pack of gum, without a case being unlocked, because people are going in and

00:06:09.880 stealing these things because they feel it's their right to do so.

00:06:12.420 I saw Dennis stealing bagels last week.

00:06:15.740 But other than that, we've been pretty good.

00:06:18.280 I was just going to say, Will, what are you doing naked outside of the hair salon?

00:06:23.120 You know, when you're allowed to get away with anything, then you might as well just do it,

00:06:26.840 right, if no one's going to trouble you for it.

00:06:29.360 Yeah, you're catching him on a good moment here being clothed.

00:06:31.660 This is great.

00:06:32.700 Truly disturbing.

00:06:33.880 What's going on down there, PragerU?

00:06:35.660 I watched your video you guys did of the ride-along.

00:06:39.080 You want to tell everybody what that was like?

00:06:41.400 It was a really cool video.

00:06:42.380 What did you guys learn first and foremost from that experience?

00:06:44.800 Sure.

00:06:46.660 I mean, we set out, because there was a large narrative.

00:06:49.760 I'm sure you're familiar in the U.S. with the defund the police movement.

00:06:52.340 And it's not just a narrative here in the U.S.

00:06:54.400 It's really everywhere.

00:06:55.580 But it was getting super pervasive, specifically here in California.

00:06:58.920 So we thought, let's go to one of the most dangerous neighborhoods there is in Los Angeles,

00:07:04.100 and that's Watts in South Central.

00:07:06.360 And let's see what the LAPD is doing there.

00:07:08.640 So we went with them.

00:07:09.900 We checked out the crime stats that they're dealing with on a day-to-day basis, countless

00:07:13.640 murders to where all of their resources are being used just to combat people being shot

00:07:19.020 and killed in their streets.

00:07:20.360 But we found more so than anything that police officers are not just police officers.

00:07:24.860 They are social workers.

00:07:26.220 They are teaching young kids in these communities.

00:07:28.460 They are acting as parents.

00:07:29.720 They take on so many roles and wear so many different hats.

00:07:33.180 And the communities that are going to be the most affected by this defund the police movement

00:07:37.100 are the communities that are just so ridden with crimes and drugs and prostitution.

00:07:42.660 It's these low-income communities that we think we're saving that are going to be hurt by this movement.

00:07:48.140 There's a really viral clip, I remember, from a news reporter who is pretty much pro-defund the police.

00:07:54.040 And then they put him in one of those situations where he had to determine what he was going to do as a police officer.

00:07:59.820 And I saw you both did that.

00:08:02.240 Will killed the guy, I think, right away.

00:08:04.340 It's what happened there.

00:08:05.360 Will, any takeaways from that other than your proposed criminality?

00:08:09.780 Well, first of all, the guy was asking for it.

00:08:12.400 Secondly, it goes to show—

00:08:14.280 He dropped his knife, Will.

00:08:16.480 He did indeed.

00:08:17.780 Well, you should have dropped it better, okay?

00:08:20.000 That's not my problem, all right?

00:08:21.400 That's fair.

00:08:21.880 No, but listen, in all seriousness, I mean, if you guys watch that police ride-along,

00:08:25.840 you guys see the video, you will see how difficult a job like being a police officer is.

00:08:30.560 People want to say it's easy.

00:08:31.860 Maybe, oh, you know, a mass shooter comes into your home. 1.00

00:08:35.260 Just shoot him in the leg, right? 1.00

00:08:36.560 That's what you got to do. 0.99

00:08:37.820 If the mainstream media had the same discipline and the same rigor with their training for becoming stewards of their job,

00:08:43.500 then maybe it would have an honest media.

00:08:45.180 But as of now, they're not doing that.

00:08:46.860 And the police officers, really, when you look at what they're doing,

00:08:49.440 they're going through intense training and care to make sure that they do the best job possible.

00:08:53.980 And I dare and urge anyone to go and try what they do, or at least in the simulation, and see if you could handle it.

00:09:00.800 I doubt that you could.

00:09:01.880 Yeah, and I also want to add and challenge an idea that these officers go through, what, six months of training,

00:09:07.340 and then they're just handed a badge and a gun, and they go and hit the streets.

00:09:09.980 That's certainly not the case, at least in this department in particular.

00:09:13.160 They go through re-education and retraining every six months, and they go through these same simulation tests over and over and over,

00:09:21.940 the same ones that you see us go through in this vlog.

00:09:24.160 And if they fail, guess what?

00:09:26.300 They're not going out on the street anymore. 0.99

00:09:28.560 And to think that police officers don't want accountability, that they just want to go out and harm people and kill black Americans, 0.99

00:09:35.240 is an utterly false narrative. 0.91

00:09:37.460 And when you go and do these ride-alongs and you meet these police officers, you meet human beings who have lives and families and ambitions and dreams and goals.

00:09:46.400 And the mainstream media wouldn't want anybody to see any of that.

00:09:50.000 Yeah, and you guys talked to that young boxer girl who has to go to a boarding school, I think it was.

00:09:55.280 Probably the craziest thing that I remember from that video is saying that people would rather call in sick to their jobs

00:10:02.680 rather than ask one of the gang members to move their car that's blocking them in.

00:10:06.540 Do you think that's a true thing?

00:10:09.200 Is it because of the demographics there, you think?

00:10:11.640 Yeah, it's absolutely true.

00:10:12.880 So we went and visited one of these neighborhoods in particular.

00:10:15.540 It's called Nickerson Gardens.

00:10:17.040 And we went there, and this is a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. 0.97

00:10:20.140 But you drive through the neighborhood, and you'll see nothing but black people out on the streets partying, playing loud music, doing drugs. 0.99

00:10:27.640 And it's because they're in a gang war and a race war in this area. 0.96

00:10:31.520 So the gangs come, and they inhabit these neighborhoods where these Hispanic people live and don't allow them to leave their houses. 1.00

00:10:38.340 Their children can't play in their yards.

00:10:40.260 A story that was told that didn't get put in the vlog is that there are actually families who will come outside of their apartments or their duplex

00:10:48.240 and pour bleach on their front doorstep so that the gang members do not feel inclined to stay there, so that the smell sort of drives them away.

00:10:55.880 And this is happening in all of these neighborhoods in South Central.

00:10:59.260 And that's how big the problem is.

00:11:00.720 Will, do you think there's any solution to this?

00:11:04.240 Do we – obviously, I think it was a billion dollars they cut recently, just like New York.

00:11:08.920 Do you think that's the only solution here?

00:11:10.720 Are there other things that need to be considered?

00:11:14.380 More police, definitely, and also making it so that criminals aren't just getting back on the streets.

00:11:19.400 As we saw with this guy who just ran over all these people in Wisconsin, you saw that he was out on a $1,000 bail.

00:11:26.700 That should not be happening.

00:11:28.280 People in Los Angeles, you can basically get out of a prison with no bail or get out of a thing.

00:11:34.580 And that's absolutely horrible that people can just commit crimes and then have no accountability.

00:11:39.080 I talk about this all the time on my show that one of the biggest problems that we have in this country is that there is no accountability,

00:11:44.840 whether it's for the individual, whether it's for the government, whether it's for society as a whole.

00:11:49.340 I mean people just don't have to be accountable for their actions anymore.

00:11:52.260 So then people will continuously mess up and do the wrong things until you make people feel like,

00:11:57.480 hey, you commit a crime, you do something horrible, you're actually going to be in trouble for this and have to take responsibility.

00:12:03.780 Nothing will change.

00:12:04.980 Nothing will change.

00:12:05.620 But that's part of the reason why they want to get rid of the police.

00:12:08.620 Because you get rid of the police and then people don't have to be held accountable.

00:12:12.100 You can just blame it on racism or the institutions or all these different things that don't actually make any sense.

00:12:18.500 And no one actually has to take responsibility.

00:12:21.480 Yeah.

00:12:22.000 And I've been trying to echo the point and talk to a lot of people recently about the importance of more local politics,

00:12:29.100 whether it's state or city council, to get these types of law changed.

00:12:34.500 Because what you're talking about, I think, is no cash bail, which exists in so many places.

00:12:39.540 I think even Baltimore, one of the most violent places.

00:12:41.720 And, of course, the areas you guys visited.

00:12:44.100 And this terrorist that you're mentioning from Wisconsin, I think it was $1,000 he got out on the same day.

00:12:50.520 So it's pretty crazy that this stuff would actually happen.

00:12:53.620 And it's very important that people get involved in these lower levels where the laws actually get changed and passed, 1.00

00:12:59.640 rather than just focusing, like you said, on somebody like Gavin Newsom, who we could blame for everything because he's an idiot. 0.94

00:13:04.180 But otherwise, we still need to focus on places where, you know, school boards change policies, city councils approve laws. 0.99

00:13:12.040 And I'm thinking back to when you were standing in front of that restaurant that had sandbags put in front of it.

00:13:17.320 You know, this sort of stuff can be changed in some sort of legislative body.

00:13:21.960 Yeah, I mean, I'll speak to that really quickly.

00:13:24.320 So many people, when they see a problem happening in their community, they look up and they look up as high as they can.

00:13:29.880 And so many people see the problems here in California with homelessness or the taxes or the crime or the school boards.

00:13:37.780 And they go, well, look at the Biden administration.

00:13:40.140 Look what he's doing.

00:13:40.800 Look what our president is doing.

00:13:42.220 And really, if you distill it down and look to your local government, look to your school board, look to your sheriff, look to your county officials.

00:13:49.000 They are the ones who are truly behind the legislation and the policy that is affecting your day to day life.

00:13:53.960 So always look at the bottom of the ladder.

00:13:56.340 Look at your local government and see what can be done there, because that's what's going to create tangible change in your community.

00:14:02.400 I completely agree.

00:14:03.900 Will, I wanted to talk about a recent Streeter video you did about vaccine mandates.

00:14:10.780 You're talking to students.

00:14:12.100 Were you surprised or not surprised by the answers you got?

00:14:14.980 I get that we're asking college students.

00:14:17.420 It was in Texas, if I'm not mistaken.

00:14:19.500 How did that go for the people that didn't see it yet?

00:14:22.160 Were you surprised by the answers?

00:14:23.780 Were they typical, do you think?

00:14:24.820 I am not surprised by any of the answers.

00:14:28.600 When you go to a college campus, I mean, that is what you expect.

00:14:31.580 Even in Texas, which is supposed to be a conservative state, still the students are all on the left.

00:14:36.740 I mean, there are people walking around outside with two masks.

00:14:41.120 And I say, hey, should we have vaccine mandates?

00:14:43.560 And they say, yes, we should.

00:14:45.260 You shouldn't be allowed to come to this school unless you have vaccine mandates.

00:14:48.920 It absolutely is mind-blowing, the level of delusion that so many people have, that they cannot look at the facts at all.

00:14:55.780 I mean, if you go on the National Institute of Health, you go on their own website.

00:15:00.600 There are studies on their own website that say that masks that aren't N95s don't actually stop any sort of viral infection.

00:15:08.380 But people won't even go and do that.

00:15:11.400 They won't even look on the website that is telling them that they need to wear masks and get these vaccines and all these different things.

00:15:17.340 I mean, when you look at the data and look at what has happened in this country and around the world, you will find that there have been cheap and good solutions for saving lives when it comes to COVID.

00:15:25.760 But none of that makes enough money.

00:15:28.120 And so now we have all these people who have been fooled into thinking the vaccine mandates and 10 boosters and getting the shot whenever you feel a little sad is essentially the way forward.

00:15:37.820 And that's what people are pushing for nowadays.

00:15:40.440 It's true.

00:15:41.300 That's what they want to do.

00:15:42.420 They want to make it so that you have to get a booster like every three months for the rest of your life.

00:15:46.500 And they'll be making billions of dollars.

00:15:47.980 And people will continue to eat it up at these universities, the next generation, because they are not hearing a different point of view.

00:15:54.780 They have no idea that there is other information out there.

00:15:57.900 It is bonkers.

00:16:00.000 Well, to that point, do you think people are still getting their information from like the same sources on or are they getting any sources on this at all on vaccination rates, hospitalizations?

00:16:09.780 The hospitalization rates for vaccines are almost identical in some places like Israel and here in Canada, Australia.

00:16:17.280 It's been the other direction, even though their numbers are small.

00:16:20.020 Do you think people are, you know, going out and looking for more information?

00:16:23.780 Are they getting the same information or how do you feel about that?

00:16:27.360 Oh, there's definitely people on our side of the aisle and I think free thinkers and classic liberals who are hopefully looking into this and getting more information and being skeptical of what the elites and these self-promoted experts are telling us.

00:16:40.400 But the majority of people are not.

00:16:43.240 I can't tell you how many young people I meet who just get all of their information from the leftists that they follow on Twitter and they just go along with that.

00:16:50.200 Or they're simply going off of word of mouth and their best friend told them that you need to get vaccinated and wear a mask or you're a bigot who doesn't care about grandmothers.

00:16:57.620 So they go along with it.

00:16:58.960 It's just become a sort of cultural norm to not have any sort of skepticism, not question the hierarchy, not question the elites and go along with everything that they've said.

00:17:08.960 And it's because we've sort of deviated from individualism in this country.

00:17:12.300 So now everybody's acting as this sort of collective that looks up to this administration or the CDC or Dr.

00:17:19.060 Fauci and just takes what they say at its value and doesn't question it whatsoever.

00:17:24.140 And I don't know when that spirit died in this country, but you should certainly view anything, especially stuff that has to do with health and medical treatment with a great degree of skepticism.

00:17:34.360 But it's certainly not happening for young people.

00:17:36.600 They're just going along with the narrative.

00:17:37.940 There was that one kid in the video who said, first, not directly to you, Will, but right after he said you were selfish right to your face for not being vaccinated on the campus.

00:17:49.600 I imagine he thought you were possibly in the process of killing him without a mask.

00:17:54.460 Did anything else come from that?

00:17:57.180 Yeah, no, we can all we can all sleep easy knowing that he did not die from me being around him without a mask on, unvaccinated. 0.53

00:18:04.460 But truly, yeah, actually, that that conversation devolved into something that was a lot more things that we couldn't really put into the video where we got into a huge discussion about things.

00:18:14.640 I mean, this is the thing that blows my mind the most about it is that so many of these people on the left, the left is supposedly like the anti big business party there.

00:18:23.260 It's like how much can you really say that you're a rebel when you are supporting the same people who are mandating things and making money hand over fist that you don't have a choice in taking?

00:18:35.240 How can you say you're a rebel when you side with those people?

00:18:37.980 So this whole like leftist rebellion against the big system like that is dead.

00:18:43.200 That is no longer around in this country.

00:18:45.060 People would much rather like Amla was saying, it's much easier to be a part of the majority, to be a part of the herd.

00:18:50.760 If you don't have to think for yourself and you can leave it up to someone else to do that for you, then you're going to be a content person in many ways.

00:18:59.120 Even if you're not a happy person, you can be content.

00:19:01.780 And for most people, content, contentness and mediocrity is good enough for their lives.

00:19:06.620 Do you guys think there's been the slippery but slow slope into what, you know, children believe?

00:19:13.720 I guess even college age students at this point, I think it's kind of sad that people are supposed to be adults, can't really think for themselves on mass.

00:19:20.920 But do you think it's been a slow graduation to where it is now where you can't even say anything out of the norm? 0.97

00:19:26.440 Forget saying, you know, Kanye sucks or Travis Scott is evil. 0.97

00:19:30.020 Do you think it's basically, you know, a group thing collective in schools now where it's all assumed facts, whether it's the vaccine is the greatest thing in the world or Trump is evil? 0.95

00:19:40.720 Do you think it's just all do they do you think they've been having conversations about it or is this just all assumed facts or like watching the view, but in real life day to day?

00:19:49.960 You know, I don't think that it is.

00:19:51.540 I think that there are still times where there are a lot of young people going to, say, a public school or something and their parents taught them about Trump or Christianity or something like that.

00:20:00.660 And they go and they talk about it.

00:20:02.060 And, yeah, they might be in some ways a pariah with some people that they know.

00:20:05.280 But I don't think I don't think we're in a totalitarian state or anything like that.

00:20:09.520 I want to talk about a recent video of Amal, as I saw about trans ideology, where she's going off about that.

00:20:15.360 And personally, I think conservatives have lost ground on this debate and they basically conceded the idea that this isn't, you know, that it is reality.

00:20:25.040 There's no longer the discussion that it's not reality and you're not basically adhering to somebody's fantasy.

00:20:30.920 And I wanted to talk about a quote that I wrote down from yours.

00:20:34.940 It said, affirmation of this identity is very harmful to mental health.

00:20:38.860 Can you expand on that, please?

00:20:40.840 Sure.

00:20:41.280 I mean, I do have my gripes with the conservative movement when it comes to transgenderism, because I don't think they are having the discussions that need to be had and they're not having it in a way that is compassionate towards the transgender community.

00:20:52.020 I think we need to recognize that they are the people who identify with the transgender community truly identify with this.

00:20:58.000 They are truly experiencing body dysmorphia or they have been convinced of experiencing that.

00:21:02.620 But what you do by simply blindly affirming what they are and what gender they choose to be is you're actually harming these young people and adults and whoever is part of this community.

00:21:13.360 The rates of suicide within the transgender community, one of the smallest demographics of our population, are exponentially high when compared to other demographics.

00:21:23.760 So why are we not talking about that?

00:21:25.820 Clearly, our blind affirmation and our subscription to puberty blockers and hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery, that treatment is not working.

00:21:34.760 Because looking at the studies, which there are very few that have been done and very few that have been done long term, that sort of affirmation, especially clinical and medical affirmation, is not changing the rates of attempted and successful suicide.

00:21:47.300 So if you truly care about trans people, if you are truly compassionate for the struggle that they are going through with their identity and who they believe themselves to be, you should look at treatment forms that are not having them killing themselves and committing suicide at the rate that they are doing currently.

00:22:02.980 Clearly, what you're doing is not working.

00:22:04.500 And we're hearing stories of teenagers that are going into clinics and expressing body dysmorphia and undergoing hormone therapy within a couple of months of expressing that confusion.

00:22:14.900 That is not what should be happening.

00:22:17.300 Will, what do you think the hesitancy is on people's willingness to talk about this?

00:22:22.640 You don't hear this discussed a lot in mainstream or alternative media besides Will and I'm All Alive, if I may say so.

00:22:32.700 Yeah, no, we are the only outlet.

00:22:34.560 So if you guys want to hear all about this stuff, make sure that you're tuned into our show.

00:22:38.680 Yeah, I mean, listen, we just saw the other day, this was maybe three days ago, there were Republicans on the House steps with masks.

00:22:47.300 You're sitting outside waving a trans flag. 0.95

00:22:51.520 What the hell are you doing, Republicans? 0.98

00:22:54.240 You're supposed to be Republicans. 0.94

00:22:55.420 You're supposed to be the conservative party.

00:22:57.140 And then you are abandoning your values.

00:22:59.340 Like, what are you doing?

00:23:00.820 The hesitancy to talk about these things is because these people are weak.

00:23:05.660 It's not because they don't know all the facts.

00:23:08.160 It's not because they don't have their wits about them.

00:23:11.020 These people are smart.

00:23:11.920 They're in office.

00:23:12.540 They know what they're doing.

00:23:13.260 Many people are smart.

00:23:14.640 They're weak.

00:23:15.700 They are weak and will not go and talk about it because they're scared of what other people are going to think about them.

00:23:20.060 This is why the Republican Party in America is essentially dead, because they are weak and cater to the left whatever they want them to do.

00:23:28.680 The people who are in the GOP in America care more about what the New York Times says about them, cares more about what the Washington Post says about them, than what they're actually doing to help their constituents, the people who put them into office.

00:23:40.580 So, you know, all of these people who won't talk about it and dance around the issue, it's because you're weak.

00:23:46.460 And I am asking you right now that if you say you're a conservative and you believe in these things, stop being weak and actually stand up for the truth.

00:23:54.540 Stand up for what you know is right and say what is actually real.

00:23:57.560 Otherwise, we just keep losing more and more ground to the left.

00:24:00.240 And it's because of you.

00:24:01.340 You are to blame.

00:24:03.420 I definitely agree.

00:24:04.220 And it sounds like you've been watching a lot of Andrew Says lately, so I can't disagree with any of that.

00:24:08.840 Every day, man.

00:24:09.860 Every day.

00:24:10.800 It's a once a week show, Will.

00:24:12.440 Stop with your lies.

00:24:14.260 No, I watch the same episode over and over every single day to prepare my film.

00:24:18.080 It's like Seinfeld for you.

00:24:18.660 I get it.

00:24:19.400 Yeah, exactly.

00:24:20.920 Speaking of, you know, the culture getting away and being weak, the Thomas Jefferson statue in New York City Hall is being taken down or was just taken down.

00:24:31.520 Trump predicted this, by the way.

00:24:33.460 Where do you guys think the country is headed?

00:24:35.960 In which direction?

00:24:36.740 Are we blackpilling ourselves and saying it's unsavable?

00:24:40.220 Are we still trying to turn it around?

00:24:42.080 Are we seceding to more Republican states?

00:24:45.220 What's your opinion on this?

00:24:47.140 I always like to err on the side of things being salvageable.

00:24:50.860 So that's where my belief lies right now.

00:24:53.100 But I think it's a long fight.

00:24:55.040 I don't think people are quite as aware of how pervasive these problems are.

00:24:58.860 I know the wokeism in America has generally been growing, at least from what I've seen working on the left to being on the conservative side now.

00:25:08.020 America looks totally different from the America that it was five years ago.

00:25:11.500 And if we don't put a halt to this and start talking about it and teaching our history and teaching rightful history to Americans, it's not going to solve anything.

00:25:20.420 We're not going to get fixed.

00:25:21.460 There is a KGB defector by the name of Yuri Bezmenov that I encourage everybody to look up and listen to because he stipulated that ideological subversion, sort of deviating from reality and changing everybody's perception of what's real, started back in the 1960s here in America.

00:25:36.360 We've completely educated a full generation since then.

00:25:40.180 So it's going to take, you know, deviating back to our true American values, our true history.

00:25:46.500 What is a biological male?

00:25:47.880 What is a biological female? 1.00

00:25:49.180 And teaching a whole new generation of that before a change is going to occur.

00:25:53.100 So it is a long, long battle and people aren't ready for the exhaustion and the fight that it truly takes.

00:25:58.520 And they need to be.

00:25:59.920 Are you guys thinking about leaving California yet?

00:26:02.400 Will, I know I've heard you say things like Texas is going to be blue in five to ten years.

00:26:07.600 Is there going to be a point where you guys think about leaving?

00:26:10.280 Have you already thought about it?

00:26:11.480 What do you think about that?

00:26:13.860 I feel like living in California, I've used this analogy before, is like living in East Berlin and watching the Berlin Wall go up.

00:26:23.640 And right now we're kind of just looking at it like, oh, that's a weird wall.

00:26:27.540 And then by the time that the wall gets all the way built, it's too late.

00:26:31.340 It's too late.

00:26:32.020 So my advice to people who are in these places that are incredibly blue, especially the people who are struggling, which there are many in California, is to leave.

00:26:41.320 Is to leave and go to West Berlin.

00:26:43.260 Get over that wall before it's too late.

00:26:45.260 I think that's what people need to do.

00:26:46.940 I understand the stand and fight argument and trying to stay and fight.

00:26:51.500 But it gets to a point where you can't do anything.

00:26:53.720 OK, let's not kid ourselves.

00:26:55.300 There comes a point when it is too late for a certain place, right? 0.97

00:26:58.620 If you are in some some battle hundreds of years ago and you lose a fortress and you don't have the men to retake it, you don't stupidly stay and fight.

00:27:07.200 You go back to another battleground or to another safe hold to regather your troops, right?

00:27:13.700 To say that we just need to stay and fight for something that is dead makes no sense to me.

00:27:18.520 So, granted, Amal and I are still here.

00:27:20.780 We're figuring out plans and trying to see what what can happen in the future.

00:27:24.480 You know, I'm not saying you need to leave right now and get it like immediately.

00:27:27.940 But but think about it, because there comes a time when evil is too pervasive and too deep that that you as an individual can no longer be surrounded by that.

00:27:36.540 It is toxic.

00:27:37.320 It is toxic waste to be surrounded by so much of this stuff in California.

00:27:41.280 I will add, though, yeah, don't don't be confused into the point that Will made about Texas being blue, the the woke ism and the left ism and that sort of organizing that grassroots organizing, which the left is fantastic at.

00:27:53.440 I know because I did it is happening in all those great states, too.

00:27:56.760 It's happening in Texas.

00:27:57.700 It's happening in Tennessee.

00:27:58.740 It's happening in Florida.

00:28:00.040 I came from a leftist organization in Florida, and that organization has only grown since I've left it.

00:28:04.340 So it's going to be happening everywhere.

00:28:07.560 And I think if you are in a state that is not supporting your values, the most important thing you can do in the short term is build a small community of people that do or find a local government that does support your values, because at least that is something to find solace in and find community in.

00:28:22.440 I think part of the blame is the media's willingness to push things blatantly in one direction.

00:28:28.200 And what I'm talking about is the Rittenhouse case and without even getting into the specifics, they were able to get away with literally lying about laws that are on the books for a year.

00:28:38.800 They're able to get away with narratives.

00:28:40.780 I think it was the Telegraph in the UK that said he shot three black people and then CNN only after it looks like they're going to get sued and he's acquitted.

00:28:49.740 Are they now backpedaling and starting to inject facts?

00:28:53.160 Oh, it turns out that this is what actually happened.

00:28:55.140 Do you think there's going to be any progression towards media accountability where, you know, they're not basically strangling the American viewer into thinking one way?

00:29:06.020 Do you think there's going to be any blowback?

00:29:07.460 Because I remember back in the day and really dating myself here, it seemed like after an election, if some certain journalists got it wrong, they were gone.

00:29:16.580 You know, but once Trump got elected, they couldn't really admit they were wrong.

00:29:19.660 Do you think we sort of sort of gear back towards that?

00:29:22.360 Or are they just so dug in now, you guys, that they're never, ever going to turn it around?

00:29:28.000 I think no.

00:29:29.200 I don't think that it will turn around.

00:29:30.860 I think that either they stick to their guns with being wrong all the time, which they are wrong all the time.

00:29:37.400 They either stick to that and never admit that they were wrong or be destroyed.

00:29:41.660 I don't think that they will ever come and get a backbone again.

00:29:44.660 They have done too much.

00:29:45.600 It's like you commit enough evil acts.

00:29:47.140 You know, there comes a point where it's like, you know, can you really turn that around?

00:29:51.320 Can CNN really become a good publication?

00:29:53.680 I don't think so.

00:29:54.380 They're too terrible.

00:29:56.300 OK, they're literally too terrible.

00:29:57.900 The Washington Post.

00:29:59.040 I mean, the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who has special interests.

00:30:03.060 I mean, you really think that's going to turn around because they got a couple of facts wrong that don't really matter and no one's going to hold them accountable?

00:30:09.260 No, they are either going to continue to do what they do to an even greater degree because they can or they are going to absolutely implode and destroy themselves.

00:30:22.040 So those are the two options.

00:30:23.520 I think I think they'll they will try in the short term to sort of fix up or at least get a few more conservative or, you know, at least free thinking people on their shows.

00:30:34.800 I know that what we'll see hopefully is some legal processes after Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted and he will come and sue them.

00:30:42.060 And once they feel it legally, maybe that'll happen.

00:30:44.160 And I've read today that MSNBC is reconsidering having Joy Reid as one of their hosts because she gets such extreme reactions and, you know, their their ratings are tanking.

00:30:53.840 So something is going to have to change.

00:30:55.440 And like Will said, it's either they they shape up or they completely are destroyed.

00:30:58.980 Nobody wants to watch that.

00:31:01.300 The only way CNN survives is gyms and airports.

00:31:05.300 It doesn't seem to me that that they're getting much an uptake in viewership.

00:31:10.420 The last thing I kind of want to ask you guys about on a somewhat lighter note before you go, how is everything going with the book?

00:31:16.320 Will, are we seeing positive reinforcement?

00:31:18.880 Is it going to be, you know, every couple of years we get a Will Witt book?

00:31:22.560 Are we going to go more educational?

00:31:24.080 How's everything going with the reactions to your book?

00:31:27.660 You know, this book was really hard to write.

00:31:29.880 So I think I'm going to go into picture books after this.

00:31:31.720 And I think I might have more success that way.

00:31:34.060 No, it's actually been really successful.

00:31:35.580 It's been amazing.

00:31:36.460 We got number six bestselling book in America for the first week.

00:31:39.800 Got a national bestseller. 0.99

00:31:41.620 New York Times wouldn't put us on their list because they're a bunch of losers. 0.88

00:31:44.840 But other than that, it was fantastic. 0.59

00:31:47.120 And the best message is that, you know, I sold tens of thousands of books.

00:31:51.540 And I was getting people coming to me and saying, hey, I actually used your book, How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies.

00:31:57.080 Use the questions and persuasion tactics in it to actually change people's minds.

00:32:01.020 And it actually worked. 0.99

00:32:02.080 You weren't just, you know, blowing smoke out of your butt. 0.99

00:32:04.620 This stuff actually worked and I used it. 0.99

00:32:06.760 That was so incredibly cool.

00:32:08.120 So, yeah, I'm actually starting to work on my next book now.

00:32:10.860 So you can look, you know, I don't know how long it'll take.

00:32:14.160 But just be prepared and stand by me while I work on this too.

00:32:20.200 And Amla, what projects can we expect from you?

00:32:23.500 Special projects, how to trigger Will Witt diagrams.

00:32:27.660 I don't know.

00:32:28.400 Are you working on anything like that?

00:32:30.320 I know you've got fans at Rebel News.

00:32:33.180 You want to cut back to them?

00:32:34.140 We've got fans at Rebel News who are big fans of Amla, web editor Sarah, the producer, somebody on the charity we work with.

00:32:45.100 They're all Amla fans.

00:32:46.500 What do we have coming out from you that we can get you to blush more about, I think?

00:32:50.380 Yeah, I'm so excited.

00:32:53.240 So lots of social media content on all platforms.

00:32:55.780 That's my day to day.

00:32:56.640 Plus, we have Will and Amla live that is growing, growing, growing.

00:33:00.260 And we're doing that every single weekday at 2.30 Pacific, 5.30 Eastern on PragerU's YouTube and Facebook.

00:33:06.220 And we're on all the different podcast platforms.

00:33:08.520 But we're also working on a show for me, and I'll give you just a little bit of insight into it.

00:33:14.660 It's going to be every episode looking into a different social issue.

00:33:18.680 So transgenderism, systemic racism, feminism, and debunking as many of the leftist myths and lies that we can in a short period of time each episode.

00:33:28.400 So really what I'm focusing on is armoring people, trying to reach young people who are like me, radical leftists, and waking them up through my experience and talking about my transformation.

00:33:38.720 So that show will be coming up the bend very soon.

00:33:42.480 Well, I'm very happy with everything you guys put out.

00:33:45.620 It's very inspiring.

00:33:46.880 I think the Wills, the Amlas, even the Vince Dows, the John Doyles, you guys are saying important things, I think.

00:33:53.460 And especially for younger people, it's very important to have you guys talking about these issues every day live when I'm on my treadmill watching you guys.

00:34:01.980 Clearly not as much lately.

00:34:04.360 You know, I have to get back in shape to compete with Will for best-looking guy in news media here.

00:34:10.720 Will, any final words before we let you go about how much you love me?

00:34:16.000 I don't think words can describe that.

00:34:18.140 Oh, thank you, William.

00:34:19.260 It's too much.

00:34:19.800 You know, I'll just have to – oh, I don't know if I can even make this joke.

00:34:23.540 I was going to say I'd show you in person, but I don't know how people are going to take that joke.

00:34:28.040 That's fine.

00:34:28.440 We'll put it behind the paywall.

00:34:31.060 Exactly.

00:34:31.540 This is the OnlyFans content for people who really want to pay.

00:34:35.180 $30.45 a month.

00:34:36.960 All right.

00:34:37.280 Thank you both for joining me.

00:34:38.640 I appreciate you guys.

00:34:39.660 I hope we can do something again soon.

00:34:41.840 Anything you need from me, you just let me know.

00:34:43.480 Have a great day, you two.

00:34:45.240 Thanks, boss.

00:34:45.880 Thank you so much.

00:34:49.800 Thanks, boss.

Rebel News Podcast - November 26, 2021

Andrew Chapados ｜ Saving America with Will Witt and Amala Ekpunobi ｜ Andrew Says 51

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