In this episode, Russell Brand sits down with Rob Schneider to discuss his new role as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. They talk about why Rob is running for president, why he's running, and what it's like to be a politician in Hollywood.
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00:03:58.000Rob Schneider, you may know from SNL, from all of his Sandler movies, or from his puckish, playful spirit.
00:04:03.000You may have seen him recently in alternative media.
00:04:06.000You may have seen him talking increasingly about political issues.
00:04:10.000What I know about Rob Schneider is he has this incredible sense of play about him.
00:04:14.000In our conversation, we talk about Hollywood.
00:04:17.000What it's like to feel embraced by the culture and celebrated and then rejected and purred.
00:04:24.000It's an extraordinary experience and a brilliant conversation.
00:04:27.000I think that Rob Schneider is a brilliant example of how modern media makes autodidacts of us all.
00:04:32.000Suddenly we all are well-versed in subjects like how the food industry learned from the tobacco industry, how to addict us to its products.
00:04:40.000And now all of us know how institutional politics and centralised media operates.
00:04:44.000It's a brilliant conversation and I hope you will enjoy it.
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00:04:53.000This week I spoke to Dallas Jenkins, creator of The Chosen.
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00:05:48.000I'll tell you when this came to my mind, Rob.
00:05:50.000When I was at the RNC, I was there at that minute when Hulk Hogan tore off his top and went, MY PRESIDENT! And I thought, oh my god, what is this?
00:06:29.000What it did is, I think it's at least, for one thing, our side isn't being paid, unlike Oprah Winfrey.
00:06:38.000I mean, I was talking to one of her friends recently, because when she lied and said, like, you may never get to vote again if you don't vote for Kamala.
00:06:46.000And I was like, that is just such a blatant, bold-faced, ugly lie.
00:06:51.000It's one thing to want to support somebody.
00:06:54.000You know, and because you're a lifetime Democrat or whatever, but to somebody to just lie that blatantly, there's just got to be something behind it.
00:07:01.000I want to know what the thinking was there.
00:07:04.000So, you know, I thought when he, you know, politics has degraded so much, but forget about the degradation of it.
00:07:13.000If you think about what the exposing for what it really is.
00:08:19.000And I think, yeah, we're seeing that sort of, really, that's what's been exposed.
00:08:25.000It's like, say if you watch the Democratic Convention.
00:08:27.000Like my shitty version to or maybe couldn't remember it You missed all of the key details of it entire bit Rob I Now you've turned to an acai bowl for comfort.
00:08:56.000Yeah, because I suppose, look, what I wanted to somewhat talk about is the branding of politics.
00:09:02.000And when I watch the DNC versus the RNC, I recognise that what it is is the production.
00:09:11.000It looked like the award shows that I used to participate in.
00:09:15.000And as I've moved right out of that space, like out of Hollywood, out of making movies, out of some of those relationships and friendships, there are so many things packed into the cultural space that we now live in.
00:09:29.000That it's inferior, that it's racist, that it's somehow contaminated.
00:09:40.000Let's say when the Golden Globes is on, Rob.
00:09:42.000Do you feel, like, how, because I've noticed this when I hang out with you, it's really weird to be part of Hollywood and to be part of them institutions.
00:09:50.000And I've seen that you, like, once when we did a thing with Tucker, I saw that we were doing, like, a signing, like, you know, when you meet and greet, kind of meet and greet afterwards.
00:09:59.000And I think, like, a lot of people, that can be kind of hard to do that if you're not doing it in the right spirit, like, you know, sort of, you know, especially when it's someone else's event and you're just an appendage, really.
00:10:09.000Like, you feel like, do I even need to be here for this?
00:10:11.000I thought, look, Rob's able to go into a really numb, almost catatonic state to get through this experience.
00:10:41.000And then there's, it's like the most, I remember Peter Riegert, who was this wonderful actor from Local Hero and from Animal House.
00:10:48.000He said to me, you do realize that you decided to make a living in the most elitist art form ever invented, show business.
00:10:56.000It is, because you can, you know, I remember this one actress that I met, she was English, which is also, believe it or not, you guys can be very elitist as well.
00:11:34.000So, like, when you feel like that necessity, I never felt in any way, you know, and I always felt like, you know, the comedies were more fun and more difficult.
00:11:45.000I remember I was with, I think, our mutual friend John Cleese, and I was saying, tell me about your friend Adam Sandler.
00:12:17.000And, but because it seems so frivolous and silly, even though it's, you know, the people in it and doing it realize how the difficulty of it, it is.
00:12:27.000But what I guess I'm getting back to is this.
00:12:31.000That kind of elitist feeling of, you know, are you in?
00:12:57.000And there's no, as you know, there is no way of forgiveness, and there is no, it's a vindictive set of people, and once you're out, you're out.
00:13:11.000I mean, once I made a joke about, like, you know, Hillary Clinton when she lost, I said, I haven't seen the Democrats this pissed off since we freed the slaves.
00:14:39.000Yeah, that would have made you a pariah, like it was something that couldn't be discussed at that time, I remember that.
00:14:46.000I also remember thinking that he had...
00:14:49.000He anchored himself somehow in normalness in a way that seemed somewhat unique in that world.
00:14:56.000Like he appeared to have authentic friendships and relationships and a kind of a decency that seemed really unusual and really came to the forefront when he got that Mark Twain, or at least it was visible, when he got that Mark Twain award.
00:15:09.000And I see you and Spade and all of your crew sort of honouring him.
00:15:20.000They didn't want me to be there, by the way, CNN. They didn't want anything to do with me there.
00:15:35.000And it's like, well, it would be very odd and very obvious for your show how jaded it is.
00:15:42.000And I actually ran in at the airport for one of the Mark Twain I guess she's one of the directors on the board of directors of that award show.
00:15:52.000And I said, can you please think about, you know, like maybe a Gutfeld or something like that, somebody that you, you know, that somebody who's Republican, who's outwardly Republican, honoring.
00:16:04.000And after I thanked her for also honoring Adam Sandler, and she said, and I said, why don't you, you know, go for somebody Republican.
00:16:28.000And I think that that's why they're so...
00:16:31.000Inside their bubble, that they couldn't understand how the American, they're so far left that they left the Americans behind, the American people.
00:16:40.000And they couldn't see it, and they don't want to see it.
00:16:43.000And that's why they're still so confused as to why that form of elitism, which is Hollywood, which is leftism, which is, you know, the current form of it.
00:16:54.000The liberal intelligentsia, they just don't like Americans.
00:17:35.000And to be trying to convince them that they're racist and that they're awful and that they're not generous and that they're inherently white supremacists.
00:17:45.000I mean, it's all nonsense and garbage.
00:17:49.000And that hatefulness was finally rejected.
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00:17:59.000It's interesting because when they were talking about...
00:18:01.000When Kamala was running and they asked her, you know, what would you do differently than Joe Biden?
00:18:08.000She said, I can't, nothing comes to mind.
00:18:10.000And neither, you know, when Oprah was talking or when, you know, whether it was Bruce Springsteen, these are people who were giants in the industry and they couldn't articulate.
00:18:22.000Anything that the democratic policy stood for.
00:18:25.000Because democratic policies have been failures.
00:18:27.000And these super rich people can afford to continue the democratic failures because they live in gated communities.
00:18:35.000They live in a community that's gated within a gated community.
00:18:38.000But the average American person was susceptible to the failures of these democratic policies.
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00:20:43.000Yes, Rob, I forgot what the question was some hours ago.
00:20:47.000I'm still thinking about the Monopoly board.
00:20:49.000I feel like that lack of integral belief is right at the heart of what we're experiencing.
00:20:57.000that that kind of what poses as liberalism, which is really kind of neoliberalism, which is really just superficial nods to certain cultural ideas, somehow with the extraction of basic virtues like compassion and kindness, has been what's somehow with the extraction of basic virtues like compassion and kindness, has been what's masking centralist politics
00:21:19.000From Bill Clinton and Tony Blair onwards, once the democratic policies were no longer really economically supportive of ordinary people, who I agree with you, I reckon they actually dislike, strongly dislike, they don't like ordinary American strongly dislike, they don't like ordinary American people or ordinary British people, the elitism...
00:21:41.000...is rampant, raw and religious, and that might be the only religion that you'd find in their midst as well, a kind of self-serving individualism, which became sort of normalised from the 80s onwards, the idea that all you really are supposed to be doing is ornament in yourself, fulfilling yourself, the fetishisation of our basic nature, the turning of our basic nature into a culture and then a religion.
00:22:07.000And since coming to Christ, I don't want to jump into that too deeply yet.
00:22:10.000But it explains pretty clearly what false idolatry is really about.
00:22:15.000Now, like, you know, what me and you, as occupants, former occupants of that world, where, I don't know, it didn't seem so contentious for me.
00:22:22.000Like, you know, you came up in that sort of the most magnificent and fated of ways to be an SNL cast regularly, one of the great casts on SNL, working with some of the best SNL performers that there have ever been, and a deserved member of that group.
00:22:38.000I... Feel like it's very easy to believe when you find yourself in those situations.
00:22:45.000And deserved, even if you still have self-doubt, even if you don't feel entirely fulfilled.
00:22:51.000And then, over time, you start to recognise, oh, you're just a sort of a kind of an object in a sort of a...
00:22:56.000You're just an object that can be used and deployed and discarded.
00:23:01.000It's so extraordinary for me, and so clear, that for a minute, my hedonism and the way that I was sort of presented culturally, and presented myself as well, I'm not saying I'm some sort of innocent, I didn't see how really what was unexpressed but present was you are an avatar for a
00:23:32.000Empty, hollow, shallow, selfish individualism that we kind of revere because it prevents people being connected to things that really matter.
00:23:48.000And when he was saying a minute ago about how...
00:23:50.000You know, people can't point to that party's policies.
00:23:55.000I suppose there isn't really anything really there.
00:23:57.000I don't think they actually really care about the vulnerable, in inverted commas, minority groups that they claim to care about.
00:24:05.000I feel that really all that they're doing is finding ways to mask the interests of powerful elites behind different ideas that slow down, prevent and limit...
00:24:18.000And it's just so odd that people like you and me, who are just like, you know, really entertainers like you, mate, are proper funny.
00:24:27.000Funny bones, they would call that in Britain.
00:24:30.000Someone that can do impressions, that can do voices, that can do a variety of characters, that the way you move, the way you look is funny.
00:24:38.000Old school funny has somehow found yourself, along with me, in some sort of weird cultural space.
00:24:46.000I find the culture must have changed a lot.
00:24:49.000We could have played the game and continued playing the game.
00:25:44.000And I'm not taking away from the wonderful people in our business who have achieved things.
00:25:49.000It's just that it ends up being, it's an emptiness that I've found.
00:25:53.000And then, you know, when you finally do come to, now we're jumping into Christianity here, but the idea that, like, I don't care what people think about me.
00:26:05.000I'm not going to worry about what the world thinks about me.
00:26:18.000And I realize what's happening, that there is a darkness that is coming, whether it happened 100 years ago, 1923, 1924, and it's happening again, and it ushered in through this one world kind of evil, neo.
00:26:34.000Neoliberalism, which is truthfully, and the Republicans under Bush was just the same thing.
00:26:39.000It's not just one party, and it's not just one party in England or anywhere.
00:26:45.000So when you kind of wake up to this and you realize that there seems to be a wave of evil, whether it's coming now or what have you, and you say, okay, I'm not going to worry about what the world thinks about me.
00:27:27.000And you really have to go, I'm going to go through this fire.
00:27:34.000And when you realize, you know, I've been working on this story about the burial cloth of Jesus Christ for the Shroud of Turin for many years.
00:27:44.000And you're realizing that the price that was paid, it's like, my goodness.
00:27:52.000And I think if Christ was, you would see that it would happen again, because there is a goodness that does threaten people, because it makes you...
00:28:37.000I mean, I think that example of Christ's example is so powerful that it just, it does, it makes me realize how far, how far I have to go and how far I've fallen and how far and what that gift for us is.
00:29:32.000And I do think it comes from people who come from a very silly beginning and a place of just trying to get as much out of it as we could, which is what Hollywood is.
00:29:44.000It's like, it's just for me, what can I get?
00:29:47.000What is it going to take to this and that?
00:29:49.000And then to have that taken away from you or to realize that there is a, when you try to do something, a higher calling.
00:29:59.000And when you kind of see, like, for me, it was seeing the rise of evil and how quickly the world can turn.
00:30:07.000And then you can't just ignore it anymore.
00:30:09.000You can't just go along with it and just be a part of the system.
00:30:13.000You're going to have to acknowledge that there are some things that are happening.
00:30:21.000And once you acknowledge it, you can't unknow it.
00:30:25.000And once you see the harm that's happening, whether it's children in our society, and that's why, you know, our friend, you know, Robert Kennedy is really outrageous that the fact that we have someone who's about to be in a position of power who can actually help things.
00:32:18.000We feel that there's a sense of hope now.
00:32:20.000We feel like this totalitarian grip that was happening on the world.
00:32:24.000I mean, just think about this week and seeing, you know, the dictator to the north, Justin Trudeau, who called his own freedom-fighting truckers terrorists.
00:32:36.000And froze their bank accounts and put them in prison and called them terrorists.
00:32:41.000I mean, I can't, and for him stepping down now, you see, well, the leader in Italy, hopefully she will, you know, come around to what she was, how she was elected in the first place was to oppose this, I mean, really the Sovietization of Europe.
00:33:04.000To be a buttress against this kind of one world order that we're seeing.
00:33:09.000And that's what, you know, when the new world order was trying to close down the world the last few years, the one thing they didn't see coming was people.
00:33:26.000On podcasts, standing up and being able to communicate and talk.
00:33:29.000Because they knew where they were able to control the tech companies.
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00:35:35.000It was a significant moment and it changed the world and it changed a lot of people.
00:35:41.000And that's as good a appraisal of it, Rob, that...
00:35:44.000As I've heard before, that they knew they had the control of the media, they knew their control of social media through big tech, but they didn't recognise that with...
00:35:55.000In it, there would be individual voices that were representatives of or conduits for larger communities and concerns that had been maligned, neglected, rejected to a ridiculous degree, to the point where people kind of forgot that those communities were there.
00:36:12.000And it somewhat dovetails with what we were talking about with Hollywood earlier.
00:36:16.000Of course, America, in the old taxonomies or categories that are largely now being redefined, has always been roughly 50-50 split.
00:36:25.000Generally speaking, elections in your country are kind of pretty close between those two parties.
00:36:30.000So the idea that Hollywood has no representation of one side of that divide is pretty implausible and kind of ridiculous.
00:36:39.000But it got more and more extreme over time until it entirely incinerated the idea of sort of plain old fashioned Christianity.
00:36:52.000Answer there, Rob, and I felt like that One of the things that I discuss a lot and think about frequently is that how many of our cultural institutions bring out the satanic, and so that don't sound hyperbolic, I'll explain a bit what I mean.
00:37:07.000I see the figure of Satan somehow as the representative of selfishness.
00:37:13.000So when I talk about that, I don't mean just plain satanic evil, although I'll be interested in inquiring more deeply as to what your thoughts are on that literal evil component, because you talked about children going missing and those kind of things.
00:37:28.000And let's face it, we've both been inside Hollywood, so maybe we'll talk about what appears to be going on within those institutions of power and those parties.
00:37:37.000But when I talk about satanic in a more What I mean is one of the qualities, perhaps, I don't know, you tell me, I ain't been Christian very long, the defining qualities of Lucifer is wanting to set up a false light, his own glory, apart from God and apart from Christ.
00:37:55.000And I feel that when we were talking about the kind of coolness and cool kids component of the culture earlier in our conversation, what we're sort of saying is there's a false idolatry and reverence for things human that...
00:38:09.000Often finds its fulfilment in the arts.
00:38:15.000These are cool fashion labels and fragrances and colognes and foods.
00:38:19.000Everything lacquered with this kind of odd individualistic, branding, market-led.
00:38:26.000PR-spun idea that coolness could ever belong down here among human beings.
00:38:33.000One of the weird byproducts of the Trump victory has been a kind of collapse of some of the political players and even movements that somehow fostered and contained all of that.
00:39:10.000And ultimately, plain old economics has led to them having to massively reconfigure their business model, invite Dana White to sit on their board.
00:40:11.000There's no other name that means more to the Democrats, are used to, than Kennedy.
00:40:19.000And when he was dispatched and maligned and undermined and attacked by the same media that would attack Trump for being a racist or a rapist or whatever word they could throw at him, it became clear that, oh no, this is not about a particular objection to Trump.
00:40:35.000It's an objection to anyone who poses a threat.
00:40:38.000To their technological feudalism, to their sanitised and corporatised dictatorship, to their systems of elitism that they have to dress up in the garb and language of care and compassion.
00:40:52.000And again, we peculiarly found ourselves in the midst of this, because when the first time we met one another was at a Bobby Kennedy fundraiser in Nashville, when Bobby was still running as an independent.
00:41:07.000When Bobby emerged in the political space by running for president, that was one of the moments where I began to see more clearly what...
00:41:17.000The real threat was, and you've used the term new world order, and it's as good a term as any, that there's a new form of globalism, sets of institutions, both corporate and governmental, but supported by media, which of course fall within the media component of what I just mentioned, the nature of that partnership, which had total control over information, total control over power.
00:41:38.000And it's absurd to me that what ultimately is opposed to that is this new form of populism and nationalism, but it's not the same type of nationalism.
00:41:46.000We saw a century ago, because it has different kind of edicts and different components.
00:41:52.000But what's perhaps most interesting about what you just said, Rob, was that you have, in the mad and giddy midst of all this, been found by Christ, which again is another similarity and another thing that we share.
00:42:13.000Without realising it, I still worshipped the culture.
00:42:17.000I still worshipped the false idol of success and fame.
00:42:21.000And when, as we touched upon, when we were exchanging messages about this prior to having this chat, like, when I was actually cancelled, and you've just been sort of, I don't know, you've just seemed to have edged your way out of that situation.
00:42:36.000Me, I was cancelled in a very hostile and aggressive and very definite way.
00:42:43.000You were maligned, and it was after you had attacked some of the powers, the power structure, and you were able to really, when you were on Bill Maher, you were also very keenly aware of time,
00:43:00.000and you were able to succinctly, you realized you had about 35 seconds to completely destroy and undermine this whole fascistic You know, attack on human beings and on the world and individual liberties and freedoms.
00:43:20.000And you were able to describe and break down the structure of it.
00:43:25.000And there's no accident right after that is when they attacked you.
00:44:04.000And very much the same way with Bobby Kennedy was that his goal is to stop the poisoning of children and to really say, let's look at evidence.
00:44:18.000And so what these people want to get rid of is evidence.
00:44:53.000If you somehow survive because you were a particularly brilliant person, and also people know that you really do care deeply about people, and the same with Bobby Kennedy, there's a humanity which seems to rise.
00:45:10.000From you, where you care about other human beings, and that comes from a place that is not corruptible, then that is a threat to it.
00:45:21.000And after they try to go after you, and every article that they do with Bobby Kennedy, and then when they were done, when they couldn't destroy him, and he was still having literally 35% between 18-year-olds to 34-year-olds at one point.
00:46:05.000And they didn't even return his phone call because they don't want to change anything.
00:46:11.000They have to have power wrestled from them.
00:46:14.000And literally, and so, but when he reached out to the Trump campaign, 30 minutes later, he was on the phone with Trump himself, with President Trump.
00:46:24.000And then two hours later, he was at a rally with him.
00:46:27.000And you had a cheering crowd in my town where I live now, Phoenix, of a presidential nominee and a former president for the first time saying, we need to make America healthy again.
00:46:44.000We need to talk about the capture of our regulatory agencies by industry.
00:46:51.000I mean, that's outrageous that we would have, you know, we're only allowed to have two parties, which is one more than we have in China, by the way, because we're, you know, a democratic, we're a republic, a democratic republic.
00:47:05.000But it's only because people have woken up and it's only because...
00:47:11.000People have been pushed to the brink, where 10,000 restaurants in the United States were wiped out during the pandemic, during the scandemic.
00:47:22.000You had people's small businesses were closed, but you were allowed to Walmart was open and then you had Target was open.
00:47:31.000And so it really was when they say the gigantic transfer of wealth, $7 trillion, it really was.
00:47:37.000And it was just literally to try to wipe out and take away any chance for.
00:47:43.000So you would have to just be dependent on the goodwill of those elitists and people in charge.
00:47:50.000And, you know, so for the Hollywood celebrities who supported Kamala Harris, they're in that group, and there's nothing that's going to stop them from being in that group.
00:48:03.000So I will say that this defeat really was...
00:48:08.000For the world, an important event, because it was a rejection of this elitism, this totalitarianism, and whether it was...
00:48:21.000I think it was on the verge of becoming that way.
00:48:24.000I think the censorship that was proven, this was stunning to me, from a lifelong Democrat, as a lifelong Democrat, who was pushed out because, you know, as Reagan said, which I didn't understand it, and as Bobby Kennedy says, like, hey, look, I didn't leave the Democratic Party.
00:48:52.000So when they were confronted, when the Democrats were confronted with this, and they had the congressional hearings because the Senate was still controlled by the Democrats.
00:49:05.000They were able to have the congressional hearings where they were able to expose this, that they were exposed, that the Democrats, the Biden administration, had worked with Zuckerberg, had worked with Backdoor and asking and demanding that they silence these people and censor Americans and doctors, the first responders, nurses, scientists.
00:49:34.000You had Boudicaria, Dr. Boudicaria, and these people were silenced when this was exposed and said, this is happening.
00:49:43.000Instead of the Democrats saying, okay, this is wrong, we've got to re-correct this, they just doubled down and they attacked Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberg and Elon Musk.
00:49:52.000So they had no intention of changing or doing anything.
00:49:56.000They were just going to hold on to power until it was ripped away from them.
00:50:00.000And that was really a chance for the Democratic Party to regroup.
00:50:04.000And the only way that they were ever going to do it is if they got the shit beat out of them.
00:50:08.000And like what just happened in this election, to realize that like, hey, listen, we're not going to put up with this crap anymore.
00:50:14.000And it really was frustrating to watch, to see the Democratic Party completely become this totalitarian.
00:50:32.000I mean, the only way to do it was to, I mean, I really feel like this election, truthfully, was a gigantic, important thing.
00:50:42.000And you really do feel a sense of relief all over the world, the fact that there was this opposition that was really, you have a reversal now.
00:50:50.000Because the Democratic Party, when I grew up, was always this...
00:50:54.000It seemed like it was the party of the people and that they looked like America because it had, you know, it had black people, it had gay people, it had this.
00:51:01.000And so, but it had turned into this, you know, 70% of the wealth in America is now owned by the Democrats.
00:51:37.000How are we going to improve people's lives?
00:51:39.000And, you know, Donald Trump has to come through.
00:51:41.000He has to really, this administration has to come through and stop the poisoning of our children, stop the poisoning of our people.
00:51:50.000It is an unbelievable crime how they can, the former cigarette companies can buy up Nabisco and General Mills and Kraft and the same cigarette scientists who made cigarettes more Getting more addictive, so we keep smoking, and they put it into the processed food, and yet that food can't be sold to Canada or Europe.
00:52:14.000And for the Democrats to oppose this, and for any Democrats in the Senate to oppose Bobby Kennedy, look out, because you are opposing America getting well and stopping the poisoning of our own children.
00:53:07.000And for people in the United States that have I have problems with people in Europe who question, like, well, you know, my grocery prices are going up or this is happening or this conflict or politically, you know, I've been canceled.
00:53:18.000Well, in Ukraine, these people, they're going to be traumatized for 30, 40 years to recover from this.
00:53:26.000The people, you know, the slaughter that's happened on both sides and the high-tech slaughter with drones, just, you know, it's the most...
00:53:35.000This despicable form of military now, where it seems like not just killing somebody with a gun, it looks like abject torture, what's happened to these soldiers.
00:53:50.000And for the fact that they have American senators and congresspeople who are allowed to invest in the military-industrial complex and profit off it is disgusting, and that needs to stop.
00:54:01.000We should not allow any politicians...
00:54:04.000To benefit and to know ahead of time if we're going to have fund a conflict like in Ukraine and then somehow benefit financially from it.
00:54:12.000If that isn't corrupt, then we need to change the word corrupt to something else.
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00:55:28.000A few things that occurred to me while we were talking was like Hannah Arendt's phrase, the banality of evil, because the evil that we've come to take as...
00:55:38.000The evil that has dominated our culture has been normalized to the point of invisibility.
00:55:45.000When you talked about Bobby a little bit earlier, I was thinking about when Stephen Colbert just did long bits, attacking, criticizing, condemning, ridiculing Bobby Kennedy.
00:55:54.000And I thought, wow, this is a man who's a...
00:55:57.000Catholic, attacking another man who's a Catholic, and there's no acknowledgement that what Bobby Kennedy is really is a thorn in the side of some pretty powerful interests, and as you have acknowledged, he's unlikely to be perfect who among us is, but that it can be normal and acceptable to be dismissive of an...
00:56:24.000Obvious opponent of powerful centralized interests and that the evil that the Democrat Party became the kind of avatar of was...
00:56:35.000Became so sort of homogenised and ordinary and all singing and all dancing and all smiling.
00:56:42.000And that we'd kind of come to accept that as an acceptable, as a placating and appealing veneer over, you know, just some of the things you've listed in your, and in fact, your last answer.
00:57:01.000It points to how the world has changed, because I can see that you are well-versed in how tobacco companies took over big food and the addicting techniques that tobacco companies use are now deployed in the food industry.
00:57:14.000And all of us now, if we want to be, are educated in such a vast array of subjects, not the kind of academic education that defined...
00:57:28.000This course on old media, but this new, somewhat discursive, autodidactic awareness of like, hang on a minute, I know now that that's how that was funded.
00:57:39.000Edward Bernays started the PR profession.
00:57:50.000Who's a great man and a great comment.
00:57:53.000When he said, when he commented, because what happens is there's a sort of brainwashing that happens by the CNN and by, you know, by Fox News and everything.
00:58:03.000It's just, they start saying stuff and then you just becomes, you know, you keep saying it and saying it and saying it.
00:58:09.000And then it takes really, what it was, was because the...
00:58:13.000You know, truthfully, the academics were silenced because they were afraid of losing their tenure at university or getting fired.
00:58:20.000And then you had the scientists and doctors.
00:58:23.000You know, I had a scientist, a friend of mine, a professor of...
00:58:30.000He was at the NIH, and he didn't want anybody to quote him, and I couldn't quote him.
00:58:39.000So the normal people in society who would question things were all silenced and kicked off social media and whatever, or kicked out of the debate.
00:59:21.000At the highest level, wherever it's Rockefeller, all the way down, they think of us and treat us like we're cattle and that we're not capable of making.
00:59:30.000I remember the great Englishman, not great, but the English statesman that said, he described it as the bewildered herd.
00:59:39.000You can have somebody on your staff look that up who said that.
00:59:42.000We cannot let the bewildered herd make their own decisions.
00:59:54.000I think like Bill Gates looks at us like we're just a bunch of fleas.
00:59:58.000I mean, I really don't, I think there's a, you know, so for the idea, through these podcasts and through these independent journalists, we had, and people who stepped away like Matt Taibbi.
01:00:10.000Michael Schellenberg and dared question this thing and was able to, like, I mean, you could say this about the Democrats and say this about the liberals.
01:00:19.000They knew what Elon Musk was going to do to Twitter.
01:00:22.000They had an inkling that he was going to expose things.
01:00:25.000They had an inkling that he was going to be conservative, that he had been talking and wanting free speech, and they knew it.
01:01:06.000It is why people are swimming to get here and doing everything they can because that freedom of speech, they realized, our founding father said, a lot of things can happen.
01:01:16.000However, the right to bear arms was the Second Amendment.
01:01:21.000They could have made that first, but they realized, and George Washington realized and said that, the real...
01:01:28.000The real thing we have against our protection against tyranny, more than guns, really, is our free speech.
01:02:17.000To Stephen Colbert, never apologize for the dancing syringes.
01:02:21.000And for a Jimmy Kimmel to never apologize for calling people like me who oppose the vaccine mandates wheezy and to let us die in the hospital corridor is shameful.
01:02:34.000And it will always be a stain against them, not just as comedians, but as human beings, that they would cajole.
01:02:43.000That they would ridicule and they would demonize their fellow citizens, their fellow human beings who decided that wanted to do something different and wanted to question this new gene-altering technology that was developed at warp speed.
01:03:06.000So far out there that the Americans wouldn't go.
01:03:09.000And it was 80 million Americans that said no to this bullshit.
01:03:12.000And if you just do the math, basically, at the height of the Revolutionary War, you had one-third of Americans, just one-third, were behind the Revolutionary War.
01:03:22.000One-third were ambivalent, and one-third was still with the crown.
01:03:27.000The biggest, most powerful army in the world at that time, the British crown.
01:03:33.000And we had roughly that during the pandemic.
01:03:37.000And if you think about it, we don't need all of them because there's going to be still people wearing masks that are happening now, even though it's been proved that they mean nothing.
01:03:44.000And the six feet of distance, all the stuff that was made up.
01:03:49.000And it's important that the people in cultural positions where you can't, like Bobby Kennedy, like yourself, like myself, that people can stand up.
01:04:01.000For other people, even though it may cost you financially, it may cost you in our business, the fact that you can stand up and they can try to say whatever they want, that we're crazy or whatever, but it is a person standing up against authority.
01:04:18.000And for somebody, for a person standing up against authority like Bobby Kennedy, it's now a person that is now in a position of authority.
01:04:37.000And I reminded him like why my father loved his father, Bobby Kennedy.
01:04:42.000And that's why I have such an affinity for him because my father loved his father.
01:04:47.000Because Bobby Kennedy Sr. made a gigantic move towards being to humanity.
01:04:56.000Because he was a guy who was the, you know, literally the hard-ass, you know, muscle, brain muscle behind Joe McCarthy during the communist, you know, blacklisting of the 1950s.
01:05:12.000The Russia scare, the original Russia scare.
01:05:16.000But then, by the time after his brother was assassinated...
01:05:20.000Putting it and seeing what happened to Americans, the black Americans, and the abject poverty, and the cruelty, and the fact that the disparity in our society, in the freest country in the world, that moved him.
01:05:36.000When he saw the poverty in Mississippi in 1968-67, he was moved by that and became this incredible...
01:05:48.000I mean, it was really Robert Kennedy was the one that stopped the burning of the cities after Martin Luther King was assassinated.
01:05:55.000He was the guy that the African Americans looked to and said, we still have Bobby.
01:06:00.000And you have that with Robert Kennedy.
01:06:17.000And your father, it's going to, you know, the fact that he survived that from all, whether he did drugs to, you know, and who could deny him?
01:06:28.000The fact that this man now has, with all flaws and whatever, his heart and through 19 years of prayer, let me do something.
01:06:37.000The times that I've spent with him, it is how can we make this better?
01:06:42.000How can we really improve the lives of the average American?
01:06:45.000How can we help children who are now over 54% and it's truthfully, it's closer to 60% suffer from chronic illnesses to stuff that's unheard of.
01:06:55.000The fact that even questioning this can get us Kicked out of...
01:07:17.000Rob, the reason I was laughing is I was thinking, when I was younger, growing up, watching Juice Bigelow, male gigolo one and two I did not imagine This would be the conversation that we would one day have.
01:07:36.000I let that film influence me too much, by the way.
01:07:39.000That gigolo game has a high price tag on it, let me tell you.
01:07:53.000But we're coming from such a place of inequity, such a place of just selfishness.
01:08:00.000An elitist, you know, art form that I think to give that up says something about us, but also they should continue to question our motives always.
01:08:10.000And I would just say to those people, it's like, you know, to just continue.
01:09:05.000So there is a calling that I think has been, you know, I want to believe that.
01:09:14.000That I have been called for some reason.
01:09:16.000And I don't know what it is exactly, but I think that if there's anything that I could offer people, and I think it's simply to just question these things or to open your mind to people who are also questioning and who have the potential to really change and do something good in the world.
01:09:43.000You cannot undermine the potential for what it would mean to make people who are sick, to have them be well.
01:09:53.000You know, there are people, there is unnecessary suffering that happens in this country.
01:09:59.000And one of the things that, in every country, but in our culture.
01:10:03.000And for, I met these parents who said their kids were absolutely fine.
01:10:10.000And then they were giving these vaccines, and then all of a sudden, they had regressed, and they couldn't speak anymore.
01:10:17.000And some of them had, in the 90s, when there was still a lot more mercury in these shots, they literally, some of them had to wear helmets, and they never recovered from it.
01:10:30.000And these parents who met with me, I believe them, and I still believe them.
01:11:30.000And I'm grateful to them because what they really did was, out of the love of their own hearts, to want to minimize the suffering of others, they minimized the potential sufferings for families like mine.
01:11:44.000And it's like, once you, and then I sit with Bobby Kennedy with these people, these wonderful parents, you know, and it just...
01:11:56.000There's nothing in my life that I could come close to anything that I could ever do to that beautiful grace that these people have and their children.
01:12:05.000And I feel like, you know, whatever I do, whatever I could stand up and try to do in my own ignorant, uneducated way is just, you know, they say like the, you know, it's whatever good works is rags in the face of the Lord.
01:12:22.000And it made me realize that like, How much more, if my good works are rags in the face of the Lord, how much more my pride, my ego, my vanity.
01:12:44.000I needed to have that removed from me so that I could, it's for my own humanity and for my own...
01:12:52.000To kind of come to a place where a higher self.
01:12:57.000And it is a beautiful thing for people who were looking to rebel and to be different and edgy, like some of the movies that you try to make and try to be as outrageous as you can.
01:13:10.000I mean, these days, everyone is doing that.
01:14:37.000Thank you, Rob Schneider, for joining us for that fantastic conversation.
01:14:41.000Let me know in the comments in chat if you'd like to see a live performance from Rob and I. I'm thinking about doing something in front of a small audience with him.