Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 837 ｜ The Pfizer-Biden Push For Puberty Blockers ｜ Guest： Spencer Lindquist

00:00:00.000 The National Institutes of Health is funding access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children, despite evidence showing that these things lead to permanent sterility for these children throughout their lives.

00:00:16.940 This is being reported by Spencer Lindquist, who has done a lot of work to uncover the facts of this absolutely stunning and tragic story.

00:00:26.060 And he is here today to explain what's really going on, this collusion between big government, these pharmaceutical companies, major corporations to push an ideology from which they are profiting.

00:00:39.720 Also, we will talk about big tech, specifically Amazon, spying on people and then punishing them based on what they say or in the case that we're talking about today, based on what they didn't actually say.

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00:03:16.780 If you haven't listened to the past two days of interviews, please do.

00:03:20.700 Really fascinating.

00:03:22.260 Yesterday, I know it was tough to get through.

00:03:24.320 Like I heard from a lot of you, like the interview was hard.

00:03:27.060 It was hard to get through because her story is just so gut-wrenching.

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00:03:38.360 I mean, that's kind of part of, again, what we're talking about today.

00:03:41.520 The medical industry and big government and big media and big tech all coming together to push ideas or push movements

00:03:50.260 that are very often very detrimental to the people that get wrapped up in them or who get swept up in the emotionalism of it.

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00:04:10.000 Before we get into this conversation with Spencer, he's got a lot of incredible, stunning facts for us.

00:04:14.900 Thank you.

00:04:20.260 Spencer, thanks so much for joining us.

00:04:29.020 So you published a story a couple of days ago that I saw circulating on Twitter.

00:04:33.620 NIH funds study on puberty blockers, hormones on youth, despite risk of sterilization.

00:04:42.320 So what is going on here?

00:04:44.280 If it's just research, what's the problem?

00:04:46.680 So this is an interesting case out of the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

00:04:52.480 We obtained these documents from Parents Defending Education, and it shows the potential risks and side effects of puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

00:05:03.260 And it states in no uncertain terms that one of the potential risks is sterilization.

00:05:08.540 It states that if a child does not go through puberty and then progresses on to hormone therapy, that children will never develop sperm or they will never have healthy eggs that are capable of being fertilized.

00:05:22.620 So the NIH is funding a study at this hospital all about the efficacy, the potential risks of these treatments.

00:05:31.820 But meanwhile, we know the risks, and the risks are present in these forms that we've obtained.

00:05:36.340 Wow. And so here's something that it says that one of the parental consent or guardian consent forms says at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

00:05:48.480 It's titled Puberty Blockers for Minors and Early Adolescents.

00:05:52.260 It says this clearly.

00:05:53.180 If your child starts puberty blockers in the earliest stages of puberty and then goes on to gender-affirming hormones, of course, that means cross-sex hormones, they will not develop sperm or eggs.

00:06:04.780 This means that they will not be able to have biological children.

00:06:09.940 And you also report that the data shows that 98% of kids who go on puberty blockers do end up on cross-sex hormones and so therefore will be rendered sterile, right?

00:06:21.080 That's exactly right.

00:06:24.000 We know that the available data right now says that the vast majority, like you said, some of these studies have found 98% of children who go on puberty blockers end up also going on these cross-sex hormone therapies.

00:06:36.700 And we know that that combination, as it has been admitted by the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, we know that that combination results oftentimes in sterilization.

00:06:47.300 We also had a recent original report here at The Daily Wire from the University of Virginia Medical Center.

00:06:53.120 A very similar situation transpired there where these consent forms specifically highlighted the risk of sterilization.

00:07:00.040 So this is not an isolated case, and we know that this is a present danger that we are currently aware of.

00:07:07.720 And the federal government, under Biden's direction, is funding some of this stuff.

00:07:13.680 That's right.

00:07:14.700 The NIH is funding a wide array of different studies focused on transgenderism, particularly transgenderism in youth.

00:07:22.480 We also uncovered a $3.26 million grant from the NIH to the Boston Children's Hospital, and it was all about, quote, expanding access to these, what they call gender-affirming care.

00:07:37.520 Now, the entire idea behind this was to expand the workforce of those who provide this type of, again, what they call gender-affirming care.

00:07:46.360 But it specifically was looking at those who are what they call TGD youth, that's transgender and gender-diverse youth, which it defined as those between the ages of 13 to 24.

00:07:59.140 And we hear, we've heard from specifically Rachel Levine, but we hear from activists, we hear from those in the medical community, even American Academy of Pediatrics, that this stuff is life-saving for kids who claim that they have gender dysphoria or who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

00:08:19.200 That they need puberty blockers, they need these cross-sex hormones, that even if it renders them infertile, it's worth it because it saves them from suicide. 0.95

00:08:29.960 Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said that the Biden administration gives its, quote, highest support to the transition of minors and that this is actually important for their mental health.

00:08:43.600 When you were researching this, did you find any data that supported that assertion that these kinds of procedures or these kinds of medical prescriptions are saving kids from suicide?

00:08:55.500 We didn't come across that data, but like you stated, that is exactly how these grants are justified.

00:09:04.060 That is the alleged necessity behind these grants.

00:09:07.520 This Transgender Health Guide, that's what they're calling this $3.26 million NIH-backed program.

00:09:14.500 And they're specifically saying that this exists to address these mental health disparities that are experienced by youth who identify as transgender or non-binary.

00:09:24.160 But we actually saw in one recent NIH-backed study that there were two individuals who actually ended up committing suicide.

00:09:33.460 We haven't found out much about the details surrounding their deaths.

00:09:37.220 We know that at least 11 others were reported to experience suicidal ideation.

00:09:42.520 Now, this sparked some outrage from various different senators who wrote a letter to the NIH.

00:09:47.140 But we keep hearing this claim that this is integral to the health, to the safety.

00:09:52.860 It's a medical necessity for these children.

00:09:55.420 And that is exactly how they justify these grants.

00:09:58.300 Yeah, so it says, your reporting says that Republican members of Congress responded to the two suicide deaths,

00:10:06.520 as you just listed, with a letter to NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak,

00:10:10.600 citing grave concerns about the study while also pointing out that the researchers admitted

00:10:14.980 that they were not able to properly establish causality between the administration of cross-sex hormones

00:10:20.740 and improved psychosocial functioning because their study lacked a control group.

00:10:26.760 And honestly, I haven't seen either in this research, in your article, or in any other journalism that I've seen,

00:10:35.480 any data, any support to that claim that it's important for the federal government

00:10:40.860 to back the sterilization of children for their mental health and to prevent suicide.

00:10:47.320 This is an assertion, as you said, that is being made.

00:10:50.560 But as far as I know, it's not backed by any fact.

00:10:53.540 So I know that you're just dealing with the facts of the case.

00:10:58.480 And so I don't want to ask for you to editorialize or ask your opinion.

00:11:01.580 But just based on what you know, what does it seem like is motivating this?

00:11:07.380 Is it just ideological?

00:11:09.700 Is there something else going on that you can see?

00:11:13.940 I mean, why would they support a mission like this that seems to be exclusively detrimental to young people?

00:11:18.500 Well, this is a very interesting topic, and of course, it's extremely multifaceted.

00:11:24.060 But we did recently cover a different story that does point to some of the motivations behind transgenderism,

00:11:31.080 not just as a social movement, but the actual profit that pharmaceutical companies make.

00:11:36.820 Now, this all hinges around the Gender Cool Project.

00:11:39.640 And as the name suggests, it's all about making transgenderism cool,

00:11:43.460 particularly making transgenderism cool for youth.

00:11:46.520 So the organization, what they do is they take young children who identify as transgender,

00:11:52.220 and they get them these very high-profile media interviews.

00:11:56.000 They've been in Teen Vogue, ABC, USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post.

00:12:01.640 One of their activists even spoke at the White House.

00:12:04.640 They also distribute books called A Kid's Book About Being Transgender.

00:12:10.460 And they've got another one that focuses on the non-binary identity.

00:12:13.600 This is an interesting organization, but it gets a lot more interesting when you look at who backs the group.

00:12:19.420 The most recent IRS tax filings for the year 2021 showed that the organization had roughly $1.3 million at its disposal.

00:12:29.460 They have a long list of corporate backers, but one that we found particularly interesting was Pfizer.

00:12:34.700 Now, Pfizer, of course, it's a pharmaceutical titan.

00:12:37.260 And when you look into the products that Pfizer makes, we identified at least five different products,

00:12:43.720 five different drugs that are used in these sex change attempts.

00:12:46.880 They make drugs that are used as puberty blockers, drugs that are used as masculinizing hormones,

00:12:51.780 drugs that are used as feminizing hormones.

00:12:53.720 They've got an anti-androgen blocker.

00:12:55.720 So this shows this very, very interesting dynamic where it isn't just being accelerated or pushed socially or in the media,

00:13:02.640 but it is being done with the explicit financial backing of big pharma.

00:13:06.640 So just to break this down, because you reported on this on July 6th for the Daily Wire,

00:13:25.420 Pfizer sponsored group pushing child transgenders and profits from puberty blockers hormone therapy. 0.99

00:13:30.360 So this gender cool project, which is, as you said, trying to make transgenderism cool,

00:13:35.640 specifically for children, is being backed by a lot of big corporations, but specifically Pfizer.

00:13:43.200 So Pfizer is supporting this organization, this movement to normalize child transition so that it would seem,

00:13:51.920 this is my assessment, they can profit from the products that are being used to facilitate child transition.

00:13:58.140 You mentioned Depo-Astrodol, which is estrogen.

00:14:05.900 I don't know how to pronounce all of these.

00:14:09.080 Aldictone, which is an androgen blocker.

00:14:12.180 Depo-Provera.

00:14:13.440 Depo-Testosterone.

00:14:15.680 Cineril.

00:14:16.840 It's a nasal spray and has been suggested as an alternative to injections.

00:14:20.780 And so they are potentially profiting from this sponsorship.

00:14:26.480 And with deep pockets like these pharmaceutical companies do, I mean, it's hard to imagine how we can go up against a behemoth like this.

00:14:34.720 You're talking about major corporations.

00:14:36.840 You're talking about big government.

00:14:38.300 You're talking about the pharmaceutical companies.

00:14:40.620 You're talking about these major hospitals.

00:14:42.840 The entire medical industrial complex is now infiltrating curriculum in schools, groups in schools.

00:14:51.880 I mean, it's hard to imagine how regular people can push back against something like this.

00:14:59.760 Do you see within these entities, within the medical community, did you find any pushback, any whistleblower, someone sounding the alarm saying everything that's happening within this is not okay?

00:15:14.740 There certainly is some degree of pushback.

00:15:16.900 We've spoken with Do No Harm.

00:15:18.600 It's a nonprofit organization.

00:15:20.120 And it's dedicated to combating what you might refer to as a critical race theory and gender theory in the medical field.

00:15:27.940 So we've heard some pushback from them.

00:15:30.680 They have spoken out.

00:15:32.200 And we've published some of their statements where they oppose this type of – this aspect of the medical industry.

00:15:40.240 This also gets a lot more interesting.

00:15:42.040 As you were saying, this is this very, very wide, far-reaching web.

00:15:46.560 And that's something that we did find specifically in this story.

00:15:49.440 Pfizer, of course, was perhaps the most notable company back in this.

00:15:53.780 But it wasn't the only big pharma company that was backing the Gender Cool Project.

00:15:58.220 There is also AbbVie Pharmaceuticals, which creates Lupron Depot.

00:16:01.860 That's a puberty blocker.

00:16:03.840 And it's actually a drug that's been used to chemically castrate sex offenders, interestingly enough.

00:16:09.300 And then we also have Bayer, which also creates drugs that are used to manipulate the hormones of individuals who are trying to change their sex.

00:16:17.740 So it certainly does pose this interesting question when we are seeing such a wide-reaching attempt.

00:16:24.580 Big pharma understands gender and sexuality.

00:16:29.320 Right, and man, it's connected to so many other things as well because they're creating not just patience for a little while while these children are supposed to be going through puberty or in adolescence.

00:16:43.180 I mean, when you're talking about halting or stopping entirely the reproductive capacity of a person, if that person then wants to somehow parent a child, they then have to go back to the medical industrial complex and find typically some kind of technological or medical way to do that.

00:17:03.960 And not going through puberty alone creates lifelong health issues for people.

00:17:09.220 So they're making lifelong patients dependent upon the pharmaceutical companies.

00:17:15.100 And so they have every profit interest to keep pushing this.

00:17:19.480 And then, of course, again, big media, big government, they all work together.

00:17:23.900 And kids are being placed on the altar of adults' narcissistic pursuits, which is really sad.

00:17:31.940 But I'm thankful to you.

00:17:33.080 I'm very thankful to you for uncovering this.

00:17:35.520 Is there anything else, like anything else that stuck out to you in your supporting or in your reporting that you think that people really need to make sure that they know?

00:17:43.320 Well, it's worth highlighting that last point that you made about the lifelong nature of these procedures and these interventions.

00:17:50.880 That's something that the folks over at Do No Harm pointed out to us, that you're essentially getting people hooked on to, in their words, a medical subscription service, right?

00:18:01.000 So if you have a child who starts out on puberty blockers when they're 12 or 13, they need those blockers through the rest of the duration of their puberty.

00:18:09.260 And those hormones, you know, that's not something that you just take once.

00:18:13.140 That's something that is taken monthly or on a semi-annual basis.

00:18:17.300 So it is worth reiterating exactly that point that you made where big pharma does have a vested interest not only in pushing it socially but in profiting from these long-term medical interventions.

00:18:33.780 Yes.

00:18:34.500 Wow.

00:18:34.800 Well, thank you so much for your reporting.

00:18:36.340 I really appreciate it.

00:18:37.460 And thanks for taking the time to come on and explain everything today.

00:18:41.000 Thank you very much for having me on.

00:18:47.020 All right.

00:18:47.940 I hope you guys enjoyed that interview.

00:18:51.100 I mean, as much as you can enjoy hearing about a subject like that.

00:18:55.340 But it's so important, actual journalists doing actual journalism to uncover the powers that be and how they're all working together to push such a harmful ideology.

00:19:07.240 I know it might feel like you are powerless in the face of something like that, like it's too big for you to conquer.

00:19:18.660 But really, the only thing that you can do is the next right thing.

00:19:23.040 And you never know what flap of the butterfly wing you are.

00:19:26.120 You never know what ripple you are.

00:19:27.720 You never know what impact and effect you can have by speaking and living the truth in your own family, in your own community.

00:19:36.520 If the only thing that you can do is simply disciple your children in the truth and affirm to them that which God says is good and right and true, that is sufficient.

00:19:48.060 And then if God allows you to do the same thing in your school, within your friend group, within your community, maybe even on a larger level than that, then he can bless you with that kind of platform.

00:20:00.720 But never take for granted your ability to fight back against the darkness by simply doing the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.

00:20:18.060 So here's a kind of random story that I saw circulating on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, and I sent it to my team and I was like, I want to talk about this at some point because I don't see this going viral.

00:20:36.080 I don't see everyone discussing it.

00:20:37.840 And yet I think it speaks to some really important and kind of frightening issues, very frightening issues.

00:20:43.000 And so in our country today, like we were just talking about the collusion between the pharmaceutical companies and and big governments and then the media, they're all working together to push this kind of harmful and really physically, materially deleterious idea that you can switch genders. 0.89

00:21:02.940 But it's not just gender ideology, it's really all progressive ideology that they are willing to employ every single power and resource that they have to enforce upon the public like you don't even it doesn't even matter whether or not you have the First Amendment. 0.99

00:21:20.260 When you have corporations, when you have corporations, when you have these major institutions that are willing to infringe upon your free speech or freedom to hold the ideas that you have really on behalf of the government.

00:21:38.140 So here's the story that I wanted to tell you guys about.

00:21:41.800 This is via a Medium article, and then it was picked up by the Daily Mail.

00:21:46.860 Well, Amazon devices turned off in a person's home after a quote unquote racist remark.

00:21:54.280 So this is the this is a story that is being told by someone.

00:21:59.020 So we're taking his account.

00:22:00.540 We can take it as that.

00:22:02.700 But there have been different reporters that have tried to verify these facts.

00:22:06.460 And so just take it for what it is.

00:22:08.940 This is a person telling something that he says happened to him.

00:22:12.280 So Brandon Jackson, a software engineer and home automation enthusiast, wrote that the sequence of events began when an Amazon package was delivered to his house on Wednesday, May 24th.

00:22:21.820 Everything seemed normal.

00:22:23.380 The following day, however, he found that his Echo show had signed out and he was unable to interact with all of his smart home devices.

00:22:31.120 He thought that maybe someone hacked him and he got locked out to try to change his password.

00:22:35.500 He was really confused, followed the advice of the Amazon app, dialed the customer service number, asked him what's going on.

00:22:45.380 The representative said, hey, you should have received an email about this.

00:22:49.280 And then he opened up his email.

00:22:50.760 Sure enough, there was an email from an executive at Amazon.

00:22:54.700 He thought that this was probably a scam going on.

00:22:57.200 I mean, this kind of sounds like a scam to get you to click on a link or to call a number and they're trying to extort you for money.

00:23:04.160 Like if you want your Amazon devices turned back on, you have to, you know, do this for us.

00:23:10.300 And that's kind of what hackers do.

00:23:12.740 But he connected with the executive and the executive apparently, according to him, asked him if he knew why his account had been locked.

00:23:21.080 When he said no, their tones turned somewhat accusatory.

00:23:24.920 Brandon was told that the driver who had delivered his package the previous day reported that he received a racist remark from his video doorbell.

00:23:36.080 So Brandon said that this was confusing for several reasons.

00:23:39.040 This was the accusation that he said someone high up at Amazon alleged.

00:23:46.300 And that was why they punished him to turn off his Amazon devices.

00:23:50.320 So he was confused about this because he says he has multiple cameras recording everything on his property so he could verify the driver's claims.

00:23:57.580 He and his family share the same race as most of the delivery drivers in this area.

00:24:03.320 No one in his family was home at the time of delivery to have made those comments.

00:24:07.340 So Brandon reviewed the footage and confirmed that no such comments had been made.

00:24:11.980 The doorbell had issued an automated response.

00:24:13.960 Excuse me, can I help you?

00:24:16.260 The driver, who he says was walking away and wearing headphones, must have misinterpreted that message.

00:24:21.620 Nevertheless, his Amazon account was locked the following day.

00:24:26.120 So apparently the driver reported to Amazon, hey, like through their, I guess, ring doorbell, I heard them say something racist to me.

00:24:33.900 He says that submitting video evidence from multiple angles right after his initial call with Amazon did very little.

00:24:42.220 Like they weren't persuaded.

00:24:43.600 They weren't assuaged at all.

00:24:44.560 It wasn't until the following week that they decided to turn his Amazon devices back on.

00:24:50.640 He says that if a person paid for a device, they own it.

00:24:53.500 They should be able to use it on their property if it doesn't hurt anyone else.

00:24:56.960 After a decade of loyalty to Amazon and utilizing their systems in his home, Brandon is considering discontinuing, considering, he says, discontinuing his Amazon devices and cautioning others to do the same.

00:25:06.600 Amazon told DailyMail.com this in a statement.

00:25:09.280 We work hard to provide customers with great experiences while also ensuring drivers who deliver Amazon packages feel safe.

00:25:15.920 In this case, we learned through our investigation that the customer did not act inappropriately, and we're working directly with the customer to resolve their concerns while also looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again.

00:25:27.880 So they did this.

00:25:29.760 They did this.

00:25:30.700 They are saying Amazon.

00:25:32.180 I mean, according to DailyMail, an Amazon representative is saying to DailyMail, yeah, we did that.

00:25:38.000 This is ensuring our drivers are safe.

00:25:39.960 So what if he had said something racist?

00:25:42.140 What if he had said something that was caught on camera or caught on the recording that the driver interpreted as racist?

00:25:52.280 Maybe it wasn't meant to be racist, but maybe it was some like, I don't know, if the driver was black and the person in the home said like, hey, what are you doing here?

00:26:03.120 I don't know.

00:26:03.640 Don't steal packages or something like that.

00:26:05.520 And the driver decided it was racist.

00:26:07.400 Would that have been enough justification for Amazon to shut off the devices, shut off the smart home features of this person's house?

00:26:20.680 What in the world?

00:26:22.300 Like, even if this person did say something completely egregious, is that part of the terms of service for Amazon's devices?

00:26:30.560 Like, think about all of Amazon's devices that they own.

00:26:37.580 They own a thermostat called the Nest.

00:26:41.580 And so tell me, in the middle of the summer, if you have a Ring doorbell, which, right, Amazon also owns Ring.

00:26:47.660 If you have a Ring doorbell and you're getting an Amazon package delivered and they claim, the Amazon driver claims that they heard you say something, maybe it wasn't, maybe they said it's not racist.

00:27:02.360 Maybe they said, you know what?

00:27:03.820 This person said something transphobic.

00:27:05.760 This person said something homophobic.

00:27:07.560 Like, they go to Amazon and Amazon says, you know, I'm not just going to shut off their Echo.

00:27:12.660 I'm going to make sure that they can't even control the temperature of their home in the middle of the summer.

00:27:18.240 I mean, that is corporate tyranny.

00:27:22.000 What in the world?

00:27:24.180 I think we can just consider, like, what kind of consequences could possibly come from this?

00:27:29.220 And there was an interesting thing also reported by Daily Mail.

00:27:32.900 In 2018, Amazon came under fire when thousands of Amazon Prime customers discovered that their accounts were deleted.

00:27:39.520 They took to social media to figure out the issue.

00:27:42.400 Amazon issued a statement to those customers explaining that accounts had violated Amazon's policies around posting reviews for commercial purposes.

00:27:50.780 Amazon bans users from publishing reviews in exchange for things like discounts or gift cards.

00:27:56.100 As part of Amazon's terms and conditions that list, the firm can terminate your Prime membership at our discretion without notice.

00:28:02.680 So that's the important part of that story, that they can just shut off your account for any, I mean, for any reason that they deem necessary.

00:28:11.400 Maybe it's somewhere in the fine print that, hey, if you say something through our devices, like through our ring devices, we can shut off your account, shut off your thermostat, maybe.

00:28:22.520 But that's really scary.

00:28:23.900 So maybe we should think twice.

00:28:26.100 Maybe we should think twice before handing over all of our stuff to these major corporations.

00:28:32.520 And look, I'm someone who shops at Amazon.

00:28:35.580 I try not to as much as I used to, but I have used Amazon for, you know, those things that I'm like, oh, my gosh, I, you know, need this tomorrow or whatever it is.

00:28:46.020 I need this quickly and I don't have time to go to the store.

00:28:49.420 And so, I mean, we're all guilty of this and it's for the sake of convenience.

00:28:54.740 And I'm preaching to the choir.

00:28:56.520 There are a lot of things that I do for the sake of convenience where I'm probably supporting entities that hate me or that hate free speech anyway.

00:29:07.540 And, of course, someone's going to listen to this and be like, that's a justification for racism.

00:29:12.740 You're saying that it's fine to say awful things to minorities.

00:29:16.080 It has nothing to do with that.

00:29:18.700 It's no justification for anything like that.

00:29:22.760 Like, let's just think in principle just for a second.

00:29:27.000 Like, would you like Amazon to be policing the words that you say in your own home and then punishing you based on the interpretation of things that you said or did not say?

00:29:39.880 Hey, does that sound good to you?

00:29:42.000 That's what we're talking about here.

00:29:44.120 It's very frightening.

00:29:45.260 Very frightening.

00:29:46.120 All of those dystopian movies and books that you've read.

00:29:48.960 It's like we're living in them at least partly.

00:29:52.480 So I just wanted to highlight that story.

00:29:54.880 Again, maybe we think twice before we buy all of these devices.

00:29:58.740 Like, if you don't think that these companies will weaponize the private conversations that you have in your home against you when it's convenient for them,

00:30:06.300 when it's politically convenient for them, when it's advantageous for their profits, you are kidding yourself.

00:30:13.520 You're kidding yourself.

00:30:26.260 Okay, what is the government doing?

00:30:30.400 Bree noticed, I think it's, this is maybe Bree's note.

00:30:33.580 It might be a researcher's note.

00:30:34.800 Just interesting that they actually spent time doing this, what we're about to talk about, instead of investigating the Bidens.

00:30:41.500 Anything to get Gen Z on our side. 1.00

00:30:44.360 Okay, so here's what's meant by that.

00:30:46.380 This is via Billboard.

00:30:47.940 On Monday, July 10th, the FBI's Washington, D.C. field branch issued a mock Speak Now, Taylor's version, album cover reminiscent of the album art,

00:30:58.080 encouraging people to submit tips regarding possible criminal activity.

00:31:02.100 Why?

00:31:02.940 Why?

00:31:03.420 What does Taylor Swift have to do with this?

00:31:07.620 Because if you don't know, Taylor Swift released her own version of her Speak Now album, so she could actually own the songs herself.

00:31:15.260 And that was released on Spotify.

00:31:16.980 Very nostalgic, by the way.

00:31:18.860 Like, these were the songs that I listened to.

00:31:20.500 This and the Fearless album.

00:31:21.540 When I got my license in high school and was driving, I had the CDs.

00:31:27.380 That's how old we are.

00:31:29.040 We millennials born in 1992.

00:31:31.100 I had CDs.

00:31:32.360 The Speak Now CD.

00:31:33.500 The Fearless CD.

00:31:35.620 Just wonderful pieces of nostalgia.

00:31:39.080 And so I quite enjoyed the album.

00:31:40.920 I don't enjoy the FBI trying to recruit youngins or trying to appeal to youngins using Taylor Swift.

00:31:50.480 It's just weird.

00:31:52.060 It gives very much how-do-you-do-my-fellow-kids vibes.

00:31:57.060 In place of a real track list, we'll put the picture up, by the way, on YouTube, Speak Now, FBI's version, that's terrifying in itself, includes nine song titles detailing what sort of offenses they're looking for.

00:32:11.840 Terrorism, cybercrime, counterintelligence, civil rights, public corruption, weapons of mass destruction, organized crime, violent crime, and white collar crime.

00:32:20.620 Okay, like, what?

00:32:23.540 Sure, I would like people to be whistleblowers where they see dangerous criminal activity going on.

00:32:31.020 I still fail to see who was like, you know what?

00:32:34.420 Like, you know what would be really good for us to capitalize on?

00:32:38.820 You know, Taylor Swift.

00:32:41.300 And then the guy in charge is like, who?

00:32:44.500 And they're like, Taylor Swift.

00:32:46.160 She's got her own album coming out today.

00:32:49.440 And then the bureau chief is like, huh?

00:32:52.800 Album?

00:32:53.700 What?

00:32:54.680 I don't know who the bureau chief is.

00:32:56.280 He could be 35 years old for all I know.

00:32:58.060 But I picture him 75.

00:32:59.800 And he doesn't know what Spotify is.

00:33:02.760 Here's what FBI, the Washington field office says.

00:33:06.300 Justice is better than revenge.

00:33:07.820 You may not be Superman, but you can help the hashtag FBI protect the country if you have information about a federal crime.

00:33:13.660 Speak Now.

00:33:15.340 And then it gives the number and it gives the little ugly graphic.

00:33:18.500 So you'll see that the graphic, it actually does look like Taylor's version of the album.

00:33:25.560 Here's the picture of the real Taylor's version.

00:33:28.860 And so they just copied this and they did their, they did their own version.

00:33:34.240 Very, very, very funny.

00:33:37.240 Very strange.

00:33:38.740 Which the FBI continues to be weird.

00:33:42.500 The FBI, this is a funny headline.

00:33:45.080 The FBI coaxes Taylor Swift fans into snitching with Speak Now spoof.

00:33:51.020 You know, we have a resident Swifty on our team here at Relatable.

00:33:56.040 And I'm just, I think of her differently now.

00:34:00.420 I think of Brie differently.

00:34:01.820 I see her in a different light.

00:34:03.640 Because I need to know, like, okay, can I trust you to help build these rundowns?

00:34:10.160 I mean, what's, is she, what I'm trying to say, like, is she being recruited by the FBI?

00:34:18.040 Is she the target audience for something like this?

00:34:22.040 We already know that the federal government has a habit of kind of creating crimes for people

00:34:28.280 whom they view problematic.

00:34:29.780 And so I was just like, are they trying to appeal to Brie, our resident Swifty, with marketing like this?

00:34:38.400 She hasn't told me whether or not it was effective for her.

00:34:41.140 When I said this, she just kind of blew it off and made a joke. 0.96

00:34:43.980 So just know, just, just know, understand what's, what's going on.

00:34:51.000 By the way, did you guys see last night Tucker Carlson's interview with Andrew Tate?

00:34:59.040 It was two hours long, all on Twitter.

00:35:02.420 And so I did not watch the whole thing.

00:35:04.760 I thought that I was halfway through it.

00:35:06.620 And then I looked and I saw that I wasn't even a fourth of the way through it.

00:35:09.420 So I don't know if I will finish that.

00:35:13.700 I mean, I don't have, I am not an Andrew Tate fan.

00:35:19.080 So I, but I was very interested to see the interview and listen to it and listen to the

00:35:25.460 claims made about what he says the government is conspiring to do to him.

00:35:32.660 And yeah, so I'm just interested in your take on that.

00:35:36.080 Do you think that that's another example of big government and these major entities

00:35:40.300 coming together and trying to collude against a person that they find problematic?

00:35:45.980 Or do you think that these crimes are legit?

00:35:48.880 These allegations are legit.

00:35:50.260 I would just be interested to hear your thoughts on that.

00:35:53.300 Um, okay.

00:35:54.000 I have, let's see, I have one more thing to say.

00:35:59.740 Yep.

00:36:00.320 I got one more thing to say, and that is to tell you about the family leadership summit.

00:36:07.600 So the family leadership summit is being hosted by blaze media and the family leader, which

00:36:15.180 is a pro family, pro marriage, pro life organization.

00:36:18.660 It's the first presidential forum of the election season.

00:36:22.980 All the Republican or most of the Republican candidates are going to be there.

00:36:28.000 Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, um, Tim Scott, Mike Pence, and some others.

00:36:35.040 And it's going to be moderated by Tucker Carlson.

00:36:37.660 Then you're going to get some awesome commentary from Glenn Beck and other blaze TV hosts.

00:36:41.220 I unfortunately won't be able to be there, but you should absolutely tune in.

00:36:44.920 You can go to blazemediasummit.com, subscribe, use code summit for 30% off your subscription.

00:36:51.380 So make sure to use that code for 30% off your subscription and at blazemediasummit.com.

00:36:58.680 It's going to be great.

00:36:59.780 I'll be watching, won't be there, but we'll be watching.

00:37:03.120 All right.

00:37:03.580 That's all we had time for today.

00:37:05.660 We will see you back here tomorrow.

00:37:07.440 We'll see you back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 12, 2023

Ep 837 ｜ The Pfizer-Biden Push For Puberty Blockers ｜ Guest： Spencer Lindquist

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