Ep 820 ｜ Did Satan Tell ‘Elliot’ Page to Transition？ ｜ Guest： Lauren Chen
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Join Allie and Jasmine as they talk about Ellen Page s coming out, the Lululemon CEO s decision to fire two employees who simply called the police during a robbery, and in France, they are dealing with a migrant crisis as violent crime from so-called "refugees" is continuing to surge. And we have Lauren Chin, my fellow Blaze TV host, to break it all down.
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Ellen Page, the actress that recently came out as a woman identifying as a man, told the LA Times
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that the reason she decided to quote unquote transition was because she heard a small voice
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in her head telling her to do so. Also, the Lululemon CEO is doubling down on the company's
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decision to fire two employees who simply called the police during a robbery. And in France,
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they are dealing with a migrant crisis as violent crime from so-called refugees is continuing to
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surge. And we've got Lauren Chin, my fellow Blaze TV host here, to break it all down, give us some
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very, very insightful and interesting analysis for you. We've also got a fun segment at the very end,
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so stay tuned for that. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to
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Thank you so much for having me. I love your show. So it's so awesome to be here. And it's
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Likewise. And everyone, go check out her very, very, very popular YouTube channel. You have a
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Yes. So my main one is Lauren Chen, which is political social videos. And then Mediaholic is
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where we talk about movies and pop culture stuff. And then I also do my own videos on the Blaze's
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YouTube channel or on BlazeTV.com, pseudo-intellectual.
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Yes. You have a lot of interesting perspectives. I especially love your takes on media and pop
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culture because I think they're so unique, especially in the conservative space. And you
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watch movies that I'm like, I've never even heard of that. And you come away with these like very
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incredible insights. I don't even – do you actually watch all of the movies and all of the content that
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So I try. Like my rule is if I'm talking about something and it's out, I will go watch it. But
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the thing is sometimes these series especially are very bad and very long. So I admit I have made
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videos where it's like it's a series and there's 10 episodes. I make it through two episodes. I'll
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always make a disclaimer that, yeah, I didn't make it through. But I feel like I at least gave it a
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shot. And hey, if I don't finish it, it's kind of indicative of the quality. Like I am not a hard
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person to entertain. I watched a almost four-hour long vlog about this random theme park in Utah
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that I've never been to just because it was – I thought it was interesting. So I'm not like a,
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you know, a hard person to get a handle of if you want to sit me down and entertain me. So if I
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can't finish your movie or series that you spent like $100 million on, like that's on you.
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Yeah. What's – do you have a favorite movie of all time?
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I know. It's such – I just didn't know if you like have a go-to answer for that since you talk
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about this kind of thing. Yeah. I think it depends on my mood. So I mean obviously
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the Lord of the Rings trilogy is kind of a classic of that. I think the Two Towers is my favorite.
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But then if I'm in like a more fun mood, I really like Independence Day with Will Smith. That's a
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really corny answer. But I feel like that was such a great action comedy movie. Like in my like
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pre-teen era, it has a special place in my heart. Yeah. Okay. And then what about TV?
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TV. Let me reframe the question. What's like a new kind of TV show that you would recommend
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this audience watch? So new is really hard. Okay. Because oftentimes I'm not as into new shows,
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but only Murders in the Building I thought was a really fun – I tried, Lauren.
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I thought it was – okay. So I ended up stopping the second season when they introduced this lesbian
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romance and I was like, dang it. No. Oh, yeah. I didn't even – I didn't even get to that. I'm
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sorry. There's a lot of Selena stands out there. I don't have any like personal investment in
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any beef Selena is in. Are you into true crime?
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But she kind of – her role or maybe how she acted in the role, it bothered me.
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Understandable. She's not really – I feel like her character, no offense to – like
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she actually could be removed from the series entirely basically. Yeah.
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And it wouldn't have made that much of a difference. Yeah.
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It's more like the two like older men that I understand from a marketing perspective why
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she's there. Yeah. Me too. And it's really amazing how Steve Martin still looks the way
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that he does. I feel like he hasn't aged since Father of the Bride. He's looked like
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that age, like 50s, 60s for at least two decades. Yeah. I'm not sure what's going on there.
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Which is pretty impressive. And I like Martin Short. Yeah. So, okay. Those are some good
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things to add to it until you get, I guess, to the second season. Yeah. Which is so – and
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that's why it's hard to say like a new show that I like because I feel like there's such
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a push to put politics into shows or movies that nowadays when something new comes out,
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it's almost always going to be tainted in some way. So, like I've been called a hater
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for criticizing a lot of shows, but I want to enjoy things. It'd be such an easier time
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But it's hard in this day and age. So, most of the time I just – I rewatch The Office.
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Yeah. I know. We have to. And honestly, The Office still makes me laugh out loud.
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I don't know how many times – and Parks and Rec. They're very – they're different,
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but I've learned to appreciate them both in their own uniqueness. And honestly, both of
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them can still make me laugh. Yeah. Those are great.
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And the world was better when – the world was better when we could all laugh at something
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like The Office and all just be kind of equally offended. But it was okay because we didn't
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And it's sad that it's no longer like that because, I mean, they're even starting to
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remove scenes from The Office or these old shows because by the 2023 lens, they're no longer
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appropriate. I don't know if you were aware of that. They actually have started to do
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that specifically to The Office. Have they like on Apple TV or –
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On Peacock at least. I know. So I don't know if you remember the episode Dwight's Christmas.
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So basically Dwight, who if you don't watch The Office, you should. What are you doing?
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Yeah. He was trying to host a Christmas party and he's kind of this like Amish, Pennsylvania,
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Dutch type of character who's a farmer. And he talks about this version of Santa Claus that
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they used to celebrate. And it's kind of meant to be very austere and ridiculous. And that's
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But something like that. And there is this one part where this Santa Claus character also
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has this slave friend that he brings. And in the scene, there is someone who actually
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dons blackface as part of the like, look how ridiculous and antiquated this tradition is.
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So even in context, it's not like this is good or this is what we should do. They're
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acknowledging that it's offensive. But that scene has actually been cut now.
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Yeah. It's kind of like I think it was either episode one or episode two diversity training.
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Where they all have to wear the different identities on their forehead. And they go around and they
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try to guess like what's on their forehead by asking stereotypes or questions. And someone's
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like, oh, I might be a bad driver. And they don't want to say that it's Asian.
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Oh, my goodness. But that is like the beauty of The Office. And that was a time when I feel
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like everyone was more united because you could make fun of yourself. I mean, obviously,
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there are plenty of things in The Office that a conservative Christian could probably be
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But we're the ones who are always told to just, oh, stop making such a big deal of it.
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Just tough it out. It's fine. But nowadays, I'm sure that the gay community would be very
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sad about the depictions of Oscar. They probably want to take out the line where Kevin says to
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You're right. And I think sometimes we are mistaken in saying that everyone is so easily
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offended because that's not true. Because like you mentioned, Christians and conservatives,
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we are expected to just take the offense and not say anything. It's only certain groups that
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were not supposed to offend, like the LGBT community. Depending on the election cycle,
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sometimes it's the black community, not always. But it's not a, I guess, equal playing field. And
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that's what's really frustrating because, you know, it feels like you're selectively having
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to walk on eggshells, which is not, I think, conducive to good comedy or good TV shows in general.
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Well, speaking of movies and pop culture, let's talk about an actress, Ellen Page, who now goes by
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the name Elliot Page and just wrote a book that came out, I think, called Page Boy. And in an
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interview with the LA Times, she described what her experience was before she decided that she was
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actually the opposite sex. And so here's what the LA Times article says. And of course, LA Times uses
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he, him pronouns for Ellen Page. It says, one night he tried to knock himself out, took his knuckles to
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his face and pounded over and over until bruises formed. It's really sad. For days after, he sat in
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a lawn chair on the porch, ashamed his face sore, and then he heard a voice. You don't have to feel
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this way. It was a small voice, barely discernible, but it kept echoing in his head, a way out. It was
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as if something in my brain turned around, recalls Page, the agonizing voice saying, no, you're not.
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No, you can't. Just switched and became a very gentle and loving, oh, maybe I'm trans. Why don't
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I explore that? Within weeks, he'd scheduled a Zoom consultation with a doctor to discuss top
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surgery. The procedure was scheduled for November. A month later, he announced to fans on Instagram
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who have known him since the release of Juno 13 years prior that his name was Elliot. Tell me what
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you make of that. So I think it's kind of interesting that someone can within weeks schedule a top
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surgery of questioning whether they are trans because we've been told that it's a very long
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process. It's very thorough and there's no possible way that someone who isn't actually
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trans could get the surgery. But even just from that, it kind of seems like that's actually very,
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very possible. Such a huge decision, even if it were just regular cosmetic surgery, obviously people
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can do what they want, but I wouldn't recommend doing that within weeks anyway. And that's not even
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something as life-changing as changing your gender, at least trying to by getting different
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surgeries. So I think right there, that's a red flag. But also, look, when it comes to Ellen Page,
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this is someone who grew up in Hollywood. She, from a young age, was actually a child actress as
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well. And so when we hear about all of these, especially child actors who are now adults having
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these mental health problems, I think it just goes to show how toxic an environment that is.
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And these are usually the most progressive people. They surround themselves with all the right
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politics, but they all have these problems. I mean, no one can stay married. There's addiction,
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like mental health issues, like transgenderism. And I think it's a red flag just in general.
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Like if your principles and your ideology, it's all so good. Why are you all having such problems
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navigating life? No one's perfect. No lifestyle, I think, is that easy to keep to. But Hollywood,
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this liberal elite lifestyle especially, seems to have a lot of baggage attached to it.
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And Hollywood and Washington, D.C. Yes. Just, oh my goodness. Cesspools, cesspools. So yeah,
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Ellen Page, she was first a lesbian, then married a woman. Now she's trans. This just seems like
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someone who's having a really tough time mentally. And I think the last thing that she actually needs
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is people being like, sure, you're trans, whatever, gay, then okay, surgeries, go for it. You're brave,
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stunning. I think she actually needs more help than she's getting, but in a very different way.
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I don't think the answer to her mental health problems are these new labels or new lifestyles.
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I think she actually needs someone to show her some guidance and maybe even some spiritual guidance
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as well, because it seems like she's only going deeper and deeper into, I mean, a pit of, I would
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say, self-destructive behavior. Yeah. And it's really sad. I mean, this description of when she
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figured out that, or she says that she figured out that she was transgender. She heard like this,
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basically this still small voice after she had tried to harm her body. And so obviously there
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was something else going on psychologically there, as you pointed out. And I hear this a lot,
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especially from detransitioners who say, you know, at the time, no one questioned why I wanted to get
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these surgeries or why I wanted to go on cross-sex hormones. But the truth was I was depressed.
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I was bipolar. I had an eating disorder. Or a lot of times, especially with these girls who tried
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to transition, they had a history of, you know, sexual violence that they didn't want to open up
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about. I don't know if that's true of Ellen Page or if she's talked about that, but I hear that a lot
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from these detransitioners. And because it's politically incorrect to try to pump the brakes,
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these doctors just sign off on it and say, yeah, go for it. Mutilate your body. And you know,
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for a period of time, these girls who go on testosterone, they do feel better because
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testosterone makes you feel good. It can kind of assuage for a little bit. Those feelings of
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depression and anxiety can make you feel better about your body because you're getting stronger.
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Your voice is getting deeper. And so it's this false confidence. But I totally agree with you.
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I think it is a mask that is not going to last long. And at the end of the day, when she's still
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depressed, when she's still anxious, she's going to blame it on the fact that, you know, not enough
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people really accept her as a man. No, definitely. And I think in that story, just the part that you
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read out, it's kind of interesting how she talks about self-harm. And then a paragraph or so later says,
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oh, yeah, and I'm scheduling my top surgery. It's like, well, is that not just another form of self-harm
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that you're doing, but this time with the consent of the medical or the encouragement of the medical
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community? So it's just, it's upsetting. And I know a lot of people don't like Ellen Page because
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of her politics. She's very vocally, very progressive. But I think ultimately we should
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all be praying for and have empathy for someone who, if nothing else, is going through mental health
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troubles. Yeah, I think so too. And I mean, I just have to point out as a Christian, like the existence
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of spiritual warfare. And all of us have, you know, I mean, it's kind of a cartoon depiction
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that is not really theologically correct, but the angel on one shoulder, the devil on one shoulder
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that we saw, you know, a Bugs Bunny or whatever it was 50 years ago. And one side is telling you to
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do the bad thing. The other side is telling you to do the good thing. And while that's not
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necessarily the accurate depiction of what spiritual warfare is, it still is a true concept
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that there is a fight over souls. There is a fight over hearts. There is a fight over bodies
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that Satan hates your soul. He hates your heart. He hates your body. He hates that you're made in the
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image of God. And he likes this confusion and chaos and self-mutilation. So when she says that she
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hears a voice that says, you are something that you're not, and this will fix your problems,
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I mean, it's really not that different than what Satan said to Eve in the garden that you can be
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like God. Did God really say? You can have power like God. And that's basically what this whole
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self-identity movement is. You can be like God. And I just think that they realized all too late that
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it was a lie from the get-go. Right. And this, I mean, you wrote an entire book about how it's,
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you know, trying to trust in yourself, follow your own heart, do what makes you happy. It's not
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actually a recipe for joy or meaning in life. But I think ultimately people like Ellen Page,
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that's throughout they're going through like, oh, I like my whims lead me toward this. Therefore,
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it must be good. It must be true. I mean, unfortunately, we're seeing the results of that.
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If your own heart was such a dependable compass, then why can you go from someone who's a lesbian in
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this relationship? But now trans, it's almost as if our own whims are fleeting and not something
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that we should be, I guess, basing moral truths off of. Yeah. Gosh. And just everything that you
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just said times a thousand for kids. Yes. Because if we as adults, we have fully formed frontal lobes
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and we can't follow our hearts. They're still desperately sick, as Jeremiah 17, 9 says. The fact
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that we're pushing this on kids and we're just saying, follow your heart, follow your mind. I mean,
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they're babies. They don't even have the capacity to think about what's good for me.
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And what's so something about Ellen Page that I do find very disturbing is that she's been wearing
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the shirt that says protect trans kids. Of course, this falls in line with her liberal politics. She's
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also very vocally against states like Tennessee or Texas that are trying to say, hey, you know what,
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if you're a child, probably shouldn't be taking all of these drugs or getting surgeries to, you know,
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permanently mutilate your bodies. And so that is kind of that's that's pretty disturbing. And I
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think it speaks to how warped her sense of morality is. And, you know, this is something that I would
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love to say is just Hollywood. It's actually someone like Ellen Page saying, yes, mutilate the
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kids, hormones, surgery, whatever. It's it's sickening to think that they're actually more
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accepted in like polite society or definitely corporate society. Like it's controversial to say
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what we're saying. But saying like being on the Ellen Page side of things like, hey, I've chopped
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off my breasts and I think kids should be able to do it like that actually nowadays is the correct
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position. Yeah, it's just kind of the principle. I talked about it last week to Logan Hall pointed
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it out on Twitter that the left rewards their fringes and the right punishes ours. That is so true.
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I can't believe Logan Paul said that. Did I say Logan Paul? I said Logan Hall.
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Oh, Hall. Maybe I did say Logan Paul. I am so surprised. Like, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
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What if he said something that insightful? Broken clock, I guess. Good for him. That's so funny. Maybe
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I did say Logan Paul. His slogan probably just misheard it. But yeah, that you're absolutely. He was a
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conservative commentator and he was talking about like these politicians who fail miserably. Chessa
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Boudin in San Francisco, Lori Lightfoot in Chicago. And then they go on to have these prestigious and
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well-paying jobs. Like Stacey Abrams. Fauci. All of these people. You don't have to worry about it.
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This journalist that I talked about last week, EJ Dixon, who emailed me and was like, I'm going to
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include you in this article about transphobia, literally has a history of the earliest article
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I could find was 2014, where she said that people should resist their knee-jerk reactions to adults
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having sex with children. And so she is just outspoken. She defended cuties. She calls like
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concerns about child sex trafficking, like QAnon conspiracy theories. But she's a senior writer at
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Rolling Stone and she's been writing this stuff for at least a decade. But she's writing an article
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about how people like you and I are extreme because we just say, yeah, I men can't actually
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become women. Yeah. And that that is that that's as much a combination condemnation of the right as it
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is the left, because I was talking with my husband about this. I feel like on the right, you're just
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you're actually more likely to get canceled even by your own sides by being too Christian or too
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conservative than being too liberal, if that makes sense. And I feel like it's it. I understand it
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in a sense because we're as conservatives, we're already we're so, I guess, marginalized by modern day
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culture. Like, you know, we don't want to, I guess, have our movement go any be any less popular
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with the world or with our friends or our employers. But at the same time, you know,
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if we're only doing things to appease the left, we're going to be disappointed regardless because
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they will hate us no matter what, unless we full on take on their own values. So, yeah,
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that's something that I've been frustrated with sometimes.
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So tell me if you think that this really happened. So Ellen Page also said it happened to be on the
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same day that her book was coming out. That's crazy. I know. It's so crazy that she says that
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she was standing on a corner in West Hollywood outside the Pink Dot convenience store when an
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angry stranger allegedly approached her shouting obscenities. I'm going to effing gay bash you.
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F.A. The, you know, F.A.G. Page ran toward the store in fear. Employees at the store escorted
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Page into the shop, but the man allegedly followed her and stood at the store's doorway reportedly
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yelling, this is why I need a gun. Do you think that that happened?
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So if Ellen Page had just said, I was almost accosted by a crazy homeless man in L.A.,
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I would believe it. Yeah. Because it's L.A. But she seems to be trying to say, like,
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this is how dangerous it is to be openly queer in society. So the reason why I just I question this
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is because from what I can tell, I've been trying to look. There have been no Pink Dot employees that
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have come forward and said, yeah, you know, this happened. There's been no police reports filed.
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And obviously what happened was illegal. You can't threaten someone. You can't harass someone like
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that. So I kind of question that. But also, Ellen Page, even before her transition, I'm sorry,
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but she never looked anything other than a woman, even after her transition, still kind of just looks
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like. So the idea that she would be targeted like that is questionable to me. It kind of to me,
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and I'm not accusing anyone of anything for legal reasons, but it kind of reminds me of the Jesse
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Smollett story where he was so narcissistic. He assumed everybody would know. So up in his own
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business, he assumed that everyone would believe that, oh, obviously, he would be recognized as
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the person from that TV show. It's like I had never watched it. I don't think most people had.
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I think Ellen Page is so wrapped up in her own gender identity. She just walks around thinking,
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like, obviously, I'm a queer person. You just look like a middle aged woman with a haircut.
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Yeah. So, you know, the fact that she would be just on site identified as queer and targeted for
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that questionable and also in Hollywood. Right. And I just haven't really heard a lot of people use
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gay bash as a verb. Yeah, I don't even know really what I'm going to gay bash. Yeah, I don't like
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strange. Speaking of Jesse Smollett, we do have a clip of Ellen Page where she was defending him
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adamantly and saying that his story is obviously true. So here's that. We have a media that's
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saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened to Jesse Smollett is a hate crime.
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OK, so she took that hook, line and sinker. Of course, now we know that that's not true,
00:22:51.740
that these men were paid to attack him in the polar vortex in Chicago and say, this is
00:22:58.240
MAGA country and put a noose around his neck. And he's so just so strong and valiant that he was
00:23:03.940
able to get away from them. Of course, of course, a very similar story. So in these liberal strongholds,
00:23:09.520
we've got people who are courageous enough to be openly, violently anti-gay. Like you're not even
00:23:17.160
going to find that kind of behavior in most places in the Bible Belt. Right. No, it is
00:23:22.600
suspicious. And I'm not sure if you're familiar with Matt Christensen and his videos, but he kind
00:23:27.020
of does. It's almost a series now just debunking all of these fake hate crimes. And I think thankfully
00:23:31.900
we're at a place in this point in society where, yeah, you can be different and you're not necessarily
00:23:36.620
going to be targeted. But, you know, if you have these progressive policies, it's almost like the
00:23:41.300
demand for hate crimes is outstripping the supply. So we do have people who are fabricating these
00:23:46.240
things. I mean, I hope that it's almost I don't even know what to hope for. Do I hope that she's
00:23:50.380
lying or that society is such a place where, you know, someone would be threatened just for walking
00:23:54.760
down the street? But the timing of it, of her talking about it with her new book release, I think
00:24:00.020
it's understandable that people are skeptical. Yeah, I think so, too. There are a lot of people
00:24:05.720
that are surmising some things behind the scenes. There was a rumor that I saw circulating about like
00:24:11.700
who her personal trainer might be, who is also a personal trainer to other stars, who pushes
00:24:16.060
a lot of like interesting experimental drugs. We don't have verified quite yet if he is connected
00:24:23.200
to Alan Page. So I'm not going to say I'm going to leave it until I can verify that fact. But
00:24:27.800
there's always things going on behind the scenes. I don't even think we fully know the corruption and
00:24:32.260
ugliness and depravity that goes on in Hollywood. Like I said, also Washington, D.C., but that's
00:24:36.960
another thing for another day. I mean, there are conspiracies surrounding Hollywood and things like
00:24:42.020
that that maybe aren't helpful. But to be honest, I think that there is a lot of sickness there that
00:24:47.480
most of the world doesn't know about. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't be surprised. I mean,
00:24:51.180
these are this is the same industry that protected Weinstein for decades, decades and decades. And we
00:24:56.740
hear people talk about now how it was an open secret, but no one at the time seemed to come
00:25:01.300
forward. How many different child stars need to explain that they were abused by their handlers,
00:25:05.900
by people on set, studio execs? I mean, this the sickness is it basically touches every part of
00:25:12.400
life in Hollywood. It seems like from, you know, marriages being broken, infidelity, drug use,
00:25:19.240
obviously depraved politics. There's no end. And so I'm not really surprised that Hollywood more so
00:25:25.520
than the rest of society has really latched onto the gender thing specifically. And it does seem like
00:25:30.480
Ellen is being enabled. I mean, look at she's on that show, The Umbrella Academy. I watched the first
00:25:35.360
season. It's kind of weird. But she plays a female character on that. But that, you know,
00:25:42.400
she came out as trend. And so what the show did is they also made the character trend so that she
00:25:47.040
can stay on and it can. So it's just like you can see that she's definitely being enabled. And
00:25:51.600
she's definitely getting, I think, a lot more attention when it comes to her gender stuff than
00:25:55.400
she has for acting in years and years. It's crazy that we're not even allowed to question it because
00:26:00.260
I have seen her hoisted up by all these people, her new book and how this is her authentic
00:26:05.020
self. It's like this is it's always seen as authentic and real. If you do something like
00:26:11.380
come out as gay or come out as bi or come out as trans, we know celebrities never just do stuff
00:26:17.180
for attention like that. They would never do that. Or there can't be any other factors into why like
00:26:23.080
playing into why you would make this big life change. But then when you have people like I've
00:26:26.600
had people on my show who say, you know, I lived a gay lifestyle and then I became a Christian. And
00:26:31.360
some of those people still like have the same feelings, but they've repented and they live a
00:26:35.360
life in accordance to like God's word. And then some people like I had a professor on the other
00:26:40.280
day. She was a queer theorist professor. She was in a long term lesbian relationship. And then she
00:26:45.600
became a Christian leader. She got married and and all of that are people who detransition and they
00:26:50.500
realize it was never real. Those people by the same ones who say everyone should be themselves and we
00:26:55.820
should accept everyone as they are. Speak your truth. Yeah. They don't see those people as authentic.
00:26:59.640
They see those people as grifters and those people doing things for attention and those
00:27:03.560
people living a lie. It's only authentic to change your life in one direction, but never the other.
00:27:08.780
Right. Because it's almost like it's not actual about actually about authenticity. It's just about
00:27:12.540
undermining societal norms like heteronormativity, Christian marriages and things like that.
00:27:17.540
That's why they they only encourage things to go one way when they see it as useful for
00:27:22.480
subverting anything they see as traditional or conservative.
00:27:25.980
Yeah. Yeah. OK, I haven't talked about this yet. I wanted to discuss this Lululemon story
00:27:33.360
that I think that you've talked about that these women, they OK, so let me tell people
00:27:39.180
in case that they in case they don't know. So two female employees say they were fired from a
00:27:43.420
Georgia store branch of Lululemon for confronting store robbers, thieves and calling local law enforcement
00:27:50.020
on them. The incident occurred earlier in May when Jennifer Ferguson and another woman,
00:27:55.600
they called the police on a group of men wearing face coverings, entering the store in broad daylight,
00:28:01.220
stealing about seven thousand dollars worth of clothing.
00:28:05.140
They were fired from Lululemon over a Zoom call for violating corporate policy and they apparently
00:28:15.660
are not supposed to be calling the police. And I've heard different things from Lululemon saying,
00:28:25.340
oh, no, that's not really why they got fired. Didn't have to do with that. But then the CEO
00:28:30.180
of Lululemon said, well, it's just merchandise. It's just merchandise. So it doesn't need it doesn't
00:28:37.280
solicit a call to law enforcement. What do you think about all this? What's your assessment?
00:28:42.680
So this is this is something that we've been seeing increasingly in like big cities where we have
00:28:48.440
shoplifting run amok. And it's not just shoplifting. It kind of goes hand in hand with different crimes.
00:28:53.460
But I'm sure you guys have seen if you're on social media, all that footage of these department
00:28:57.320
stores being looted, Nike's and just people running. It's almost like it's the Wild West.
00:29:02.460
There are no laws. It's you do whatever. So you can actually see the video that you're talking about
00:29:06.480
online. These women, they're just one of them is filming and they're basically just saying,
00:29:11.800
stop, you can't you can't do this. Stop. And obviously the thieves are going at it now.
00:29:16.400
Due to that footage and the fact that they called the cops, the the thieves were actually arrested
00:29:24.240
And so for Lululemon to say like, oh, no, it's it's it's it's just merchandise.
00:29:29.540
I mean, it's easy for the CEO to say that. But I think if you're put yourself in these women's
00:29:35.060
shoes, like this is your community. This is where you live. Right. It's not just you're
00:29:39.280
going through something I would say pretty traumatic at work. You're being stolen from at work.
00:29:43.980
I would say that's traumatic. But these are this is a criminal element in your neighborhood.
00:29:48.540
It's it doesn't just end with theft. You know, all of these things go hand in hand. I mean,
00:29:53.760
we had a story. I think it was in San Francisco where a security guard was trying to stop a thief
00:29:59.320
who then threatened him with a knife. And so that ended up escalating. And I think she was shot.
00:30:04.380
But it's like it doesn't it doesn't end with theft. Right. It's almost as if people who are willing
00:30:09.060
to break one law are willing to break another. And these different companies, they're trying to seem
00:30:13.560
progressive, I think, by saying like, oh, no, we we don't call cops. But I think that shows a lack of
00:30:20.020
understanding for the employees that basically they're they're kind of they're putting in a
00:30:23.820
really hard situation. It's not the CEO that's basically being, you know, held up like that.
00:30:29.160
I think you probably take take a different stance if he was the one who was actually getting robbed.
00:30:33.580
So it's very discouraging. And like as as a suburban mom, you know, Lululemon, that should be my thing.
00:30:40.400
But I just can't support brands that do this now. It's the same with the Target thing.
00:30:44.660
I know. Quintavious, Gooch, Braylon, Shivers, Bayo, Allen were all arrested and charged with felony
00:30:50.900
robbery. Thanks to these girls, thanks to these women, I should say, doing the right thing.
00:30:56.580
And, you know, the CEO said on MSNBC or sorry, on CNBC that it's only merchandise. But the reason that
00:31:02.940
they have a no zero tolerance policy when it comes to intervening with a robbery is because
00:31:08.080
they care about the safety of our team, of our guests, front and center. So I think that's strange
00:31:14.880
because we're told from an early age, especially as girls, if you're ever scared, you need to and
00:31:21.860
you're by yourself, call the police, call 911. So I'm sure that they were scared for their imminent
00:31:27.880
safety. These are a bunch of men, I think armed men, or even if they couldn't see the guns,
00:31:32.940
my guess would be that they're armed. So yeah, they probably weren't thinking about the merchandise
00:31:38.220
either. They were probably thinking about themselves, because of course, that's what you do.
00:31:43.700
And I just think in so many situations today, whether it's a situation like this,
00:31:48.880
where you're not supposed to call the police. I also saw that Oxfam, which is a big organization,
00:31:55.640
that they recently that it was uncovered that part of their training for the people who work for them
00:32:02.340
is that white women centered feminism is actually causing the epidemic of sexual assault and that
00:32:10.220
white woman tears are weaponized in a way that actually harms the black and brown perpetrators
00:32:18.800
of rape. And I'm just seeing this trend. I'm seeing this trend of basically telling women
00:32:25.600
that you need to suppress your instincts, suppress that like natural feeling that we have inside of
00:32:32.640
like, I'm unsafe. I feel dangerous. I do not want a man in the bathroom next to me. I don't want to
00:32:38.700
change in front of a man in a locker room. And when we raise our voices, which just a couple of years
00:32:43.700
ago in the Me Too movement, we were told to do, we're told, hush, be quiet. No more white woman
00:32:49.680
tears. No more putting these marginalized communities, whether it's the trans community
00:32:53.720
or whether they would say it's black and brown people at risk. Stop sounding the alarm. Just be
00:32:59.220
quiet and take it. That's a trend that I'm seeing a lot right now. You're so right. We just saw it on a
00:33:05.120
national level with the whole city bike fiasco. Yes. I mean, this six month pregnant woman
00:33:10.040
got into what should have just been a stupid petty misunderstanding or conflict with some
00:33:16.960
teens about a city rental bike. It shouldn't have been national news by any means, but it blew up
00:33:22.340
because she was accused of weaponizing her white woman tears and fake crying. And there were actually
00:33:27.740
people who were pushing the idea that the six month pregnant woman came up to a group of young men
00:33:34.420
or teens and then just decided to steal their bike or steal something from them. A scenario that I'm
00:33:39.060
pretty sure race aside has never happened in the history of anything, right? A six month pregnant
00:33:44.500
woman going up to a group of like five men and trying to- As the aggressor. Right. Yeah. No,
00:33:49.160
I'm sorry. But you had so many people, especially on the progressive side saying this happens all the
00:33:54.680
time. Like this is just a flashpoint of what black and brown people face every day because you have
00:33:59.660
these white Karens who are trying to play the victim. And it's like, clearly this is just resentment
00:34:04.300
against white women being taken out on this, you know, that was a poor nurse or a doctor's aide or
00:34:11.780
something like that. She was a nurse and she ended up at least temporarily getting suspended from her
00:34:16.660
position because she was wearing her scrubs, probably going home from work. And I guess I had the name of
00:34:20.700
the hospital on there. And with these city bike things, in case people don't know, you like have an app
00:34:26.740
and you rent the bike and you put your payment information and then that unlocks the bike from
00:34:32.860
the bike rack. And then, you know, you ride it to wherever you need to go and you can put it on the
00:34:37.480
bike rack there. She was trying to take the bike out. This dude, this teenager comes up and is like,
00:34:43.580
no, this is mine. And all the video shows is them going back and forth on it. And she's obviously
00:34:49.720
getting, she was a lot more like, actually, like, I don't want to say aggressive, but a lot braver than I
00:34:56.220
would have been. I think I would have walked away a lot more quickly than that. Maybe she was raised
00:35:00.680
in New York and she was like, this is just what I do. I would have walked away a lot more quickly,
00:35:04.660
but she is probably like ready to get home. Who knows? Maybe she has kids at home and she's like,
00:35:09.200
no, I'm going to get home. I just paid for this bike. And, but for some reason online, everyone was
00:35:15.120
like, oh no, this is a white woman. As you said, stealing from this young black man, this is just how it
00:35:20.720
goes. And, uh, it turned out like that we, uh, she was able to show the receipts. She had paid for
00:35:27.700
it. She did rent the bike. Maybe it was a genuine misunderstanding, or maybe this group of teens
00:35:33.180
thought it would be funny to try to steal a bike from a vulnerable, isolated pregnant woman. Either
00:35:39.460
of those cases are far more likely than a pregnant woman coming up and trying to steal a bike from a
00:35:46.240
man. Right. Not just a man, a group of men that were like, you know, he had been several of his
00:35:50.240
friends. So it was, no, that was crazy. And it's kind of interesting how with the Lululemon thing
00:35:55.600
and just in general, we hear a lot of attacking like the concept of gentrification and like
00:36:00.460
prioritizing white safety and things like that. And I think the issue there is that, yeah,
00:36:06.220
you know, white women are still women, but ultimately I think a lot of suburban moms, especially
00:36:10.180
we, we want things like safety and law and order. And it's all fun to be like, oh yeah,
00:36:14.460
I'm open-minded. But I think a lot of suburban women, when it comes to things like crime,
00:36:19.120
they're actually not that interested in saying like, oh, whatever goes, especially when you have
00:36:22.720
kids in schools. And we also saw suburban mom come out in droves when, you know, something like the
00:36:27.040
Virginia election and the very strong supporters of school choice. So I think, you know, all of these
00:36:31.180
little issues, the progressive movement are picking up on like, oh, well, maybe these suburban moms
00:36:35.700
aren't our, our, our close allies. And therefore basically they're willing to throw you under the bus
00:36:41.420
because, oh wait, we have more marginalized people that we should be caring about. And
00:36:46.240
Did you see that viral video that was going around yesterday of that woman who was getting
00:37:03.960
berated by a guy behind the phone? He was filming her, calling her a gentrifier, calling her because
00:37:10.440
this was a white woman that had moved into a neighborhood in New Orleans. And now I will say
00:37:17.180
that this guy's initial complaint, I guess the guy, he's behind the camera, but I think he's black.
00:37:21.640
And so I think he's making the point, all these white people moving in from different parts,
00:37:25.220
you're gentrifying it. You're making our neighborhood worse because he says he grew up
00:37:28.300
there. He was very rude, calling her, calling her the B word, calling her all kinds of very
00:37:33.080
disrespectful things. She is being calm. I will say his original beef is probably like justified.
00:37:38.220
She apparently had cut off the entire road because she wanted to host a party and he claims that she
00:37:45.560
didn't tell him. So I'm like, yeah, that would be annoying. But then he, you know, takes it to the
00:37:49.920
next level. It's like very, very aggressive towards her and calls her a gentrifier and stuff.
00:37:56.080
And I guess I'm confused about gentrification because on the one hand, I remember hearing about
00:38:00.780
this in college, that part of where I was was being gentrified and it was so terrible. And I was like,
00:38:05.680
I'm confused because on the one hand you're told when white people, white flight. Yes. That's
00:38:11.780
terrible. Yes. You move in somewhere, it's gentrification. You move out of somewhere,
00:38:16.120
it's white flight. Yeah. And if it's white flight and then you don't have as, you know,
00:38:19.900
that you don't have a Trader Joe's anymore or you don't have the Walgreens open or whatever it is.
00:38:24.400
And then, you know, you're accused of being racist in that way. So I'm confused what white people
00:38:28.960
are supposed to do and where they're supposed to go. Well, they're just, they're supposed to just not
00:38:32.540
move anywhere and give all their money to social justice causes. And that's the thing. It's like,
00:38:36.880
it's basically, it's not what white people are doing. It's who they are. They just resent the
00:38:41.120
idea of whiteness. I mean, we've seen who knows how many activists at this point come out and say,
00:38:46.480
like, whiteness is the problem. They'll just flat out say it. So when we see people complaining about
00:38:50.400
things like gentrification or white flight, yeah, they're like, they're trying to say, oh, it's just
00:38:54.840
what these white people are doing. But ultimately, these people are racist, right? Because, I mean,
00:38:58.740
if you actually are not a racist, it shouldn't be a big deal whether white people are coming in and
00:39:03.040
moving. And we could talk about rising property costs that affect everybody of different races.
00:39:07.640
And of course, that's a problem. But no, the fact that they are so race obsessed, I think it is
00:39:12.640
down to prejudice, unfortunately. And I think that especially in a lot of these city environments,
00:39:20.360
there are tensions that are growing because we're bombarded in the media just of these stories
00:39:25.820
nonstop of, you know, for example, white cops killing black people. I saw online there was a,
00:39:31.160
I mean, take it for what it's worth, but a Twitter space. And there was actually this progressive
00:39:35.620
activist who estimated that like 3 million black people or something per year were killed by cops
00:39:41.420
who are unarmed. And it's like, are you kidding me? But I mean, hey, if you're just going by what
00:39:45.940
the media is showing, maybe you're right. If all you see is news story after news story after news story
00:39:50.940
of, you know, like, oh, a white woman steals a bike from a black man. Oh, this old white man
00:39:57.000
shoots a kid on his cop. Like the media does highlight these stories. It wouldn't be hard to
00:40:01.380
basically accept that. Maybe they do. Like maybe white people do. They are just out to get us.
00:40:06.800
They're robbing black people. They're shooting us in the street. But obviously, that's not the case.
00:40:12.100
And I think until the media started stirring things up, race relations were improving. They'd been
00:40:16.300
improving for generations. So I mean, ultimately, what I'm trying to say is I blame the media.
00:40:21.620
Yeah. Well, ironically, it was also the presidency of Barack Obama and some of the rhetoric that he
00:40:27.420
employed that I think took a lot of things backwards. And the fact of the matter is the
00:40:32.380
sad truth is that it's much more likely for a white person to be a victim of violent crime
00:40:36.280
perpetrated by a black person than the other way around. Even though black population is very small,
00:40:41.820
there's a disproportionate amount of violent crime committed there. No one's saying that's good.
00:40:45.820
No one's saying that's because of some like innate characteristic that's just saying that's just
00:40:50.380
the way it is. And if the media actually portrayed things accurately, I'm not suggesting that they
00:40:55.260
are constantly highlighting the other kinds of crimes either and highlighting the race. But
00:40:59.540
when you only highlight race when it's a white person committing violence against a black person
00:41:04.620
and never highlight the race when it's the other direction, like you said, of course, people are going
00:41:09.480
to get the wrong impression. The true answer is that I think it's about two dozen on average
00:41:15.140
unarmed black men that are killed by the police every year, which is a lower number than a white arm
00:41:20.340
or the white unarmed men killed by the police. And so, yeah, it's a huge gap between reality and
00:41:27.020
perception because of a lot of the things that were just told.
00:41:29.980
Right. And what's really frustrating is that Elon Musk recently encountered this.
00:41:34.280
You can't even explain why the media coverage is biased by bringing up crime statistics saying,
00:41:39.380
actually, the media representation is not reflective of reality because then you get called
00:41:44.300
racist for talking about those crime statistics. But it's like, hang on, we can't even debunk
00:41:48.620
media lies or progressive bias without then being also called racist.
00:41:53.940
And I mean, at this point, who cares about being called racist by the left? I think they overplayed
00:41:58.660
that hand back in 2016. But that is still their go to. And it's really frustrating. And I think
00:42:03.500
this is one of the reasons why a lot of people are just so hesitant to trust anything
00:42:06.720
the media says. And it shouldn't be that way. Like, you should be able to trust a media or at
00:42:10.860
least think that they're not really lying to you outright. But in this day and age when
00:42:14.900
most journalists are also activists, like we have to question it.
00:42:18.780
Yeah. And just and just to clarify that statistic that I said, I'm not saying that like the police
00:42:23.580
never do anything wrong or that like all police shootings are justified. I certainly don't think
00:42:28.740
that whether it's like a white or a black victim. But I will say that like where I get that
00:42:33.420
number is from the Washington Post database of police shootings. And I will also say that
00:42:38.080
their definition of unarmed is very sketchy. Unarmed doesn't always mean unjustified. A
00:42:42.820
person could be trying to run over a cop with a car.
00:42:47.640
Sean Fitzgerald, actual justice warrior, talks about that, how sometimes unarmed actually means
00:42:51.480
they were trying to commit a hit and run or something like trying to run someone over or
00:42:55.240
a cop over, but they got shot. But they'll still count that as being unarmed.
00:42:58.120
Or they were grabbing for a gun or something like that. So even that number 24 unarmed
00:43:07.780
So anyway, there's yeah, there's a lot. There's always stories behind the steps.
00:43:11.140
Yeah. I'll just say one more thing because I've I've been, you know, anytime I bring up
00:43:15.180
something with police shootings and I'll have people say like, oh, well, if you're if you
00:43:19.400
acknowledge that the police are sometimes wrong, like then why are you against stuff like BLM?
00:43:23.580
And it's like because I don't think you can solve a problem without correctly articulating
00:43:27.800
it. Right. So there's a difference between saying, of course, police should have
00:43:30.800
accountability. Let's have more body cams. Let's have really good training. Let's have
00:43:34.520
high standards so that you don't have. I think it was in Memphis. Actually, there were some
00:43:38.400
cops that honestly should not have been cops in the first place because they did not meet
00:43:42.480
standards, but standards were lowered for basically political reasons. They were having
00:43:45.880
trouble recruiting. But there's a big difference between solving a problem of more
00:43:49.820
accountability and better resources, better training, better equipment versus systemic
00:43:54.640
racism. So we can all agree that, yeah, police should be held to a high standard, maybe do
00:44:00.180
better. But if if we're, you know, peddling, it's because they're all racist or because
00:44:04.720
capitalism or white supremacy, then no, we do need to go back to the drawing board and
00:44:09.280
explain specifically what is the problem. Otherwise, we're not going to be able to fix
00:44:12.540
it. Totally. Another problem that I don't know that we're able to fix because so many
00:44:17.200
people are scared to talk about it is mass migration, especially in Europe. I saw you
00:44:22.740
comment on this story and we'll play the thought. It's really, really sad. There's
00:44:27.460
apparently a Syrian, quote unquote, refugee who stabbed four young children this week
00:44:35.400
between the ages of one and three at a playground in a park that's a city in the
00:44:41.840
French Alps. I'm not sure. I'm not sure exactly how to pronounce it, but we've got a
00:45:02.460
Yeah, so very, very frightening. Now, if you look at the media coverage of this, it's
00:45:08.040
conveniently missing from a large portion of the reporting that this person is a Syrian
00:45:12.980
refugee. You commented, this is just called cultural enrichment by the, quote unquote,
00:45:17.820
diversity is our strength crowd. So tell us what you mean by that.
00:45:21.660
So this is something I've been very vocal on for years and years, and I've gotten a lot
00:45:25.720
of flack. But, you know, there are a lot of Western countries right now that when it comes
00:45:30.480
to refugees, they're basically taking an open border approach. It's like, oh, you know,
00:45:36.180
you're claiming asylum? Sure, come in, whatever. And as someone who has been through the legal
00:45:40.720
immigration process, I know that if you if you come legally to, for example, the United
00:45:45.280
States, you have to do basically a criminal background check. You have to go to your own
00:45:50.020
country's police force or whatever it is, and you can't have a criminal record, which is
00:45:54.820
very understandable. There's a lot of hoops you need to jump through. But when you are claiming
00:45:59.540
asylum or you want refugee status, basically little to none of that applies. So what happens
00:46:07.040
is that there are definitely people able who are coming through to different countries,
00:46:11.600
Canada, the United States, Europe seeing it a lot, where they frankly, they are criminals
00:46:17.320
or they do have mental health problems and you aren't able to vet them because, you know,
00:46:22.120
oftentimes if a country is somewhere where you can claim asylum from, they don't have the
00:46:26.840
infrastructure to be able to verify whether their own citizens are criminals or not. And that's
00:46:31.580
just I mean, that's just fact. And never mind, that's assuming that if people are even
00:46:34.700
coming with papers, which oftentimes, you know, Lauren Southern did a documentary about
00:46:38.480
this, these people will be throwing away their papers because they don't actually want to
00:46:42.760
be identified because there's a chance that, hey, maybe they shouldn't actually qualify for
00:46:46.440
asylum. There are a lot of issues with the way that migration is happening toward Western
00:46:51.880
countries. We are not allowed to talk about it, though, because we are called racist or we
00:46:55.720
are called xenophobic. If you look at Europeans, especially there, you know, new arrivals are
00:47:01.520
disproportionately more responsible for crime than native born population. This is something
00:47:06.880
that is affecting a lot of people's lives. But again, it's not politically expedient to
00:47:11.540
talk about. So no one's mentioning anything about it. But, you know, France, especially there's
00:47:16.540
hate crimes against Christians that are now happening. There have been terror attacks in
00:47:20.420
different European countries where the person has come into the country and not been vetted and
00:47:26.180
still nothing nothing is being done. So it's it's frustrating. There is this girl and this is a
00:47:31.160
recent story. It was towards the end of last year. I'm sure you remember this 12 year old girl in
00:47:35.140
Paris who was body was found inside a plastic trunk. She was murdered by a group of migrants of
00:47:43.220
refugees. And she was brutal. I mean, all murder is brutal, obviously. But this was especially just
00:47:50.280
heinous. And here's how NBC reports this gruesome killing of 12 year old girl shocks France and
00:47:55.640
sparks far right backlash. So that had to make it into the headline. And half of the story is about
00:48:01.020
how conservatives are using this as some kind of anti-immigration push, as if that's completely
00:48:06.080
illogical, as if it's worse. And this is what they do. It's worse to be racist than it is to say,
00:48:13.100
hey, I think this is a problem. We should probably protect our French children. She's not the first or even
00:48:18.440
close to the only young woman who has been brutally murdered by these migrants. And unfortunately,
00:48:24.300
this is a pattern. This is according to an article in The Spectator. In Time magazine,
00:48:31.020
the most livable city in France, they said in 2004 is the city of Nantes. I think you pronounce it
00:48:37.280
Nantes. It's N-A-N-T-E-S. But now it is considered more violent than Bogota, Colombia. The cases of rape
00:48:45.560
in the city doubled from 2016 to 2021, the period when its socialist mayor took pride in welcoming
00:48:50.640
migrants into the city, 41% of people in the city that are arrested for anything are foreign.
00:48:59.620
And again, this is not to say that these migrants are innately worse than people who live in other
00:49:05.120
areas. I don't know if it's culture. I don't know what it is. Whatever the factor is, the fact of the
00:49:10.440
matter is, is that whether it's Sweden, whatever different parts of Europe, they are taking the
00:49:14.680
lion's share of the crime, and in particular, the sexually violent crime. And we're just not allowed
00:49:20.560
to say anything about it. Right. And I think, look at it this way. I think if you are, for example,
00:49:26.360
a young single woman, would you want to go backpacking in Syria alone? Why not? Oh, because
00:49:32.460
it's more dangerous. Okay. Why is it more dangerous, though? Where exactly does that crime come from?
00:49:37.300
It's the you're afraid of the other people there. Right. And that's not to say that every Syrian by
00:49:42.280
no means, but obviously there's there's a higher crime rate. What would happen if we take that same
00:49:48.120
population and then we put it in, I don't know, El Paso, Texas? Would we expect different results
00:49:53.760
because of magic dirt? Like, you know, why? Why exactly would we expect different results? And you
00:50:00.280
say, but hang on, you just said not all Syrians, right? Not all Syrians. So maybe if we do let in
00:50:04.400
someone, we should be able to check who they are. Right. No matter where they come from.
00:50:08.760
No matter where they come from. Yeah. And that's that's a pretty simple thing. Yeah. Hashtag
00:50:12.780
not all immigrants, not all refugees. But then why can't we check to see which ones? Because like
00:50:18.600
you said, if if it's not all of them, then yeah, vetting shouldn't be shouldn't be a problem. It
00:50:24.000
shouldn't be an issue. And I mean, obviously, that's not to say that borders should just be open as long
00:50:28.160
as you're not a criminal because there's economic and cultural things there. But if we could at least say,
00:50:32.560
hey, let's stop letting in people unvetted and the criminals, that's at least a little bit better
00:50:37.160
than what's going on right now. And that should be bare minimum. Right. You would you would think so.
00:50:41.800
And, you know, this is obviously a big problem in Europe, but this is happening in southern border
00:50:46.220
as well in the United States. And it actually happens in Canada, too. But the you know, Canada
00:50:52.140
is not really next to any any borders of developing nations. But there are actually migrants that come
00:50:59.020
through the US and then keep going to Canada because we have a very strong social safety net
00:51:03.300
in Canada. But it's this is a problem that's affecting so many different Western countries.
00:51:08.120
And I think, you know, if leftist journalists especially are worried about hashtag the far
00:51:13.040
right, then they should be at the forefront of trying to make sure that people who come in are
00:51:18.580
safe. Because guess what? If you actually are someone on the far right, then you do like stories like
00:51:23.560
this. Yeah. And I think, you know, if I if I look at some of the the far right commenters and
00:51:28.480
profiles on social media that this is the type of thing that they are warning about. So wouldn't
00:51:33.980
you want to, I guess, assuage their exactly take take the wind out of their sails and say like,
00:51:39.660
no, no, it's you know, we don't have this problem because we're solving it. We don't need to go as far
00:51:44.260
right as you guys are because we can fix it just with the center. But they don't see it as a problem,
00:51:48.980
though. They don't see it as a problem, because, again, it goes back to like, they're just crazy
00:51:55.400
ideas about whiteness and white privilege is that you're like weaponizing fear. And that I've even
00:52:03.640
heard some of these activists say safety shouldn't necessarily be your priority. Safety is a privilege
00:52:09.640
when it comes to migration, but not COVID, right? Yeah, exactly. Or when it comes to crime that might
00:52:14.840
happen to be committed by someone who is black or brown, you should think about the harm
00:52:18.860
that you're causing before you call the police. But so this is an uncomfortable story. In the
00:52:24.300
Daily Mail, this was reported last July. The title said the title of the article is migrant who raped
00:52:30.100
a boy in France says it is normal in his home country. He's an Afghan migrant to France. He moved
00:52:36.220
to northern France in 2018. He was sentenced, thankfully, to 15 years in jail. But here's what he
00:52:41.700
said. His statement was, in my country, it is normal to have sexual relations with young boys because
00:52:47.420
women are inaccessible. When I arrived in France, I did not know your laws. But since then, I learned
00:52:52.680
that it was prohibited. So that's the thing that we're not supposed to know. Oopsie, didn't know the
00:52:57.700
law. Yeah. You're not supposed to talk about cultural differences at all, though. No, you can. And
00:53:03.340
actually, there's been debates about whether migrants, aside from checking things like criminal
00:53:08.740
background, they should also be subject to, I guess, those kind of cultural compatibility
00:53:12.480
tests. And leftists, at least in places like the UK, Canada, and Australia, have vehemently
00:53:19.040
opposed such a concept. Because obviously, moral relativism, all cultures are beautiful. We can't
00:53:25.280
expect people who come to live in our countries to have our same values. Why would we even want that?
00:53:29.740
Because then we would be missing out on the diversity. It's like, this is a pretty low bar to
00:53:33.760
say, like, hey, actually, you shouldn't rape anybody, like, let alone children. And unfortunately,
00:53:39.800
like, even saying that perhaps different cultures might have more of a tolerance to that,
00:53:44.260
that is also considered a right-wing talking point.
00:53:59.040
All right. We've been through the kind of depressing stuff, although I hope that the insight was at least
00:54:04.000
encouraging to people. We covered a lot of ground in the past 50 or so minutes. But now we're going to
00:54:09.780
do something that's kind of fun. So I was given would-you-rathers. I had not looked at these yet.
00:54:14.060
So I was given these would-you-rathers. And so we have to answer them as honestly as we can.
00:54:20.640
Okay. Would you rather be Dylan Mulvaney's devoted personal assistant? That's your job. You have to
00:54:26.820
quit what you're doing now. You're his executive assistant. Or would you rather be a year-long
00:54:33.300
Klaus Schwab, actually. I would like to know what exactly he's up to.
00:54:39.140
Everything that goes on. Wow. Who knows what you would be made to do, though, Lauren?
00:54:43.000
I know. It might be more, like, you might be, I don't know, boiling puppies or something. But at
00:54:47.840
least you would be in on it. And you can maybe subvert it from the inside.
00:54:50.800
Yeah, maybe so. And then, oh my gosh, think about the books that you could write.
00:54:55.720
And think about the subscribers that you would get after a year like that.
00:54:59.140
Dylan Mulvaney would be a lot of subscribers, too. So it's hard.
00:55:02.000
Yeah. Oh, that's true. If you quit after a year and you were like, this is what I uncovered
00:55:07.820
about his laser hair removal appointments. Okay. Would you rather direct a full-length
00:55:14.020
stage production of Page Boy by Elliot Page or every time something good happens, Ibra Max
00:55:20.780
Kendi pops up and explains why it's racist in your personal life?
00:55:24.600
I would rather do the Page Boy thing by a mile, by a mile. I feel like that could actually
00:55:29.300
be kind of fun, depending on how seriously I have to take it. But yeah, the Ibra Max Kendi
00:55:37.700
Yeah, it really would. Oh my gosh. Okay. We've done this before, but I want to get your answer.
00:55:45.620
Life or death situation. You only have one phone call and you only have 15 seconds to describe
00:55:51.620
what's going on, what's needed, and where you are. Yeah.
00:55:54.820
Would you rather the person on the other line be Joe Biden or John Fetterman?
00:56:07.480
So wait, I have to describe this to the person?
00:56:11.000
You've got 15 seconds and you can choose between calling Joe Biden or John Fetterman's life or
00:56:15.340
death situation. You have to tell them all the relevant information so that you can save their
00:56:19.920
life. Like, who do you trust to be able to understand that and then convey it properly
00:56:29.380
Gosh. I feel like my answer kind of changes depending on the news cycle, because sometimes
00:56:34.300
I'm like, oh, Biden had a pretty good, you know, that was a pretty good speed.
00:56:49.820
That's so tough. I think I would still say Biden.
00:56:53.440
That's really tough. I think we'd probably just die.
00:57:06.420
Let's see. Would you rather speak in a fake accent for a month than try to convince people
00:57:14.400
But you have to do that. You're German now. Or would you have to do a Kamala Harris cackle
00:57:19.300
every time you find something even remotely funny?
00:57:25.280
I feel like I would do the accent instead, because, I mean, people have pulled that off.
00:57:29.420
Look at Madonna. She's British now, apparently.
00:57:31.660
Yeah, or she's done that. Or, like, Lindsay Lohan started speaking with, like, an Arabic
00:57:38.520
I think she's just, like, Hillary from, like, Philadelphia.
00:57:42.900
So, yeah, I would do the accent thing. That's common in Hollywood. That's not even something
00:57:47.340
Yeah. You don't think people would be, like, like, do you think people at, like, Blaze TV
00:57:52.280
would be, like, hey, Lauren, like, is there a reason that you are?
00:57:57.220
I have. I just, like, oh, I'm just embracing the Nashville lifestyle. I'm Southern now.
00:58:03.360
Oh, that'd be funny if you put on, like, a really, really thick twang and you pretended,
00:58:09.840
I've just been, you know, hanging out in Nashville. This is just how I talk now.
00:58:13.620
Can you, okay, try. Try to talk, like, what you think. Do you think I have a Southern accent?
00:58:19.560
But it's kind of interesting because in where I live in, like, I live outside of Nashville,
00:58:23.640
but there are so many transplants that a lot of people don't even have accents. And, you
00:58:28.540
know, even I've met some people who are, like, born and raised in Nashville. They don't
00:58:35.620
Yeah. Can you do, can you do a Tennessee accent?
00:58:39.000
Well, I find when I, when I talk to people who do have an accent, one of the things is that
00:58:48.660
Yes, they do. Yes, they do. I got family members probably listening to this that you
00:58:52.620
sound just like this. I don't know if you know that. Actually, I'm talking a little
00:58:58.200
But it's like, yeah, being from the Northeast, I'm like, like, okay. Okay. Like, I'm like,
00:59:02.960
I, you know, I'm from the Northeast. I have things to do. I have business.
00:59:08.040
Okay. Thank you so much for a lovely conversation. Again, everyone can find you, well, Twitter,
00:59:19.180
You got lots of places to find Lauren Chen. Thank you so much for taking the time to come