Oz Takes the Lead, and "Family Friendly Drag Show," with Jeremy Boreing, Robert Cahaly, and Carrie Prejean | Ep. 422
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Summary
Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire have come under fire for their handling of the Kanye West controversy. They've been accused of being "hypocritical" in their defense of the controversial rapper. Plus, a new post-debate poll shows Dr. Oz gaining ground in the race for the Pennsylvania Senate race.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday.
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Our tech issues from yesterday have been worked out and we are ready for a packed show for you.
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The first post-debate poll in the Pennsylvania Senate race between John Fetterman and Dr. Oz
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has just been released. It shows Oz breaking away with a nearly three-point lead. I don't think
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there's been another poll showing Oz leading, and this is post-debate, as I mentioned. The race is
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now tighter than it has ever been. With 10 days to go until Election Day, Robert Cahaly from Trafalgar
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is here with analysis on that race and his overall election night predictions. He comes on in just a
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bit. But first, Kanye, Ye, West. Is it Ye or Ye? I don't know. I can't remember. Ye, Ye. It's like
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Kanye. Ye. Ye, Ye. Ye, West remains in the headlines as multiple companies cut ties with him. Yesterday,
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he claimed that he lost $2 billion in one day due to these lost deals. The controversy over West,
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the statements he has made and his friendship with Candace Owens, causing some trouble for our
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pals over at The Daily Wire, who have come under fire as well on multiple fronts. Jeremy Boring
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co-founded The Daily Wire with Ben Shapiro. He serves as its co-CEO. And Jeremy joins me now for an
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exclusive interview. Mr. Boring, welcome back to the show. Megan, happy to be here. Thanks
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for having me on. Great to have you. You know, I got to be honest. I was kind of surprised it's still
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going on. I'm like, what? There's still everybody's still yelling at each other over this. I mean, I get
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that Ye is out there, you know, interview after interview, doubling down, tripling down, saying all
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the same stuff and it's costing him financially. OK, that's America. But it's swung back on you guys
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because Candace is his friend and has defended him and has tried to say she doesn't. She didn't
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really think he was being anti-Semitic in these comments and kind of try to find an angle for him
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that would help others make sense of this in a way that wouldn't lead you thinking this is a wild
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anti-Semite. So then, as I understand it, everybody turned to you guys. You and Ben are like,
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fire her ass. So turned into went from like, yay, needs to lose his Adidas deal to Candace needs to
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be fired from the Daily Wire. Ben's been outspoken about anti-Semitism. And this is like massively
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hypocritical for him to only say, I disagree with Candace. They want they want her to be punished.
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They want disassociation, cancellation. So have it. Do you think I've like have I adequately summed up
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where we are right now? Yeah, I think you have. And I appreciate it. I think that if Candace were
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here, she would say that she has not defended Ye's actual remarks in almost every statement she's
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made. But in particular, her earliest statement, she said, listen, I think that Kanye West is my
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friend. And I think that there are accusations being made against him that are beyond. They're
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disproportionate to the things that he's actually said. But this is not me trying to defend
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the actual remarks that he made. I think I said she defended him.
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And I think that's I think that's right. I think she defended her friend, Kanye.
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Listen, Candace actually called me. People don't realize this. When I first heard about this
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controversy, I was in Jerusalem observing Sukkot with Ben. And I got a call that perhaps we were
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anti-Semites, which I thought, well, that's probably absurd on its face. But OK, what's going on?
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Candace called me and she said, you know, I have my premiere for my movie tomorrow.
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George Floyd and the rise of BLM, the greatest lie ever sold. She said, and, you know, I've
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invited Ye to the premiere. Should I uninvite him? And at that point, it was immediately after
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all this had first broken, I looked at the comments that he had made on Twitter. And
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I said at the time, well, they're definitely anti-Semitic statements. I don't know if there's
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enough evidence at this point to conclude that he's an anti-Semite, but certainly these are
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disgusting statements. I said, and I appreciate you offering not to bring him to the premiere.
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I said, I think, though, I'm not going to ask you to pile on. I'm not going to ask you
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to disassociate. You know, the actual person, Candace, is actually friends with the actual
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person, Kanye West. I said, I don't want you to feel that you have to disassociate from
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him. I don't want him to speak. I don't want him to be an official part of the event.
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But from my point of view, you can invite him. And listen, I make probably 20 decisions
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a day that have some existential impact on the company. And they're not all the correct
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decision. If I had known the things that Ye was going to go on and say over the next 14
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days, I probably would have made a different decision. But I think it's an interesting
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piece of color that from the very beginning, Candace wanted to shield the daily wire from
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the potential fallout from his remarks and understood that the things that he said were
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offensive, understood that they were consequential. At the same time, as I say, he's her actual
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friend. And Candace has a superpower. And one of the consequences of her superpower is that
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she sees everyone sometimes as a nail. And she raced in to defend her friend, not his remarks,
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but her friend, in the way that she races in to fight all of her battles. And that's caused a
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little bit of discomfort from us over at the Daily Wire. But I think it's perfectly understandable
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Mm-hmm. I've listened to her, and I'm her fan. As my audience knows, she's been on the
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program. She seems to be getting it, and you guys seem to be getting it, in part because
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Ben's been appropriately outspoken about anti-Semitism. And I think his fans want to hear
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him be outspoken about this. And he has. He's condemned the yay remarks in no uncertain terms.
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And he's also said, I strongly disagree with Candace's interpretation of all of these.
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They just, they feel like now, trying to put, you know, a sort of characterization on the objectors,
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they feel like it's not enough. Like, it's not okay for Ben to chalk this up to agree to disagree,
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as opposed to, like, you're now standing up for this guy who's obviously, in their view,
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an anti-Semite. And that takes away all of your credibility to call others out on anti-Semitic
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Well, I don't think it compromises our credibility vis-a-vis anti-Semitism at all. To suggest that
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the Daily Wire or Ben Shapiro are somehow not anti-anti-Semitism enough, I think, is absurd
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on its face. But, you know, I think there are kind of two camps of criticism. There's some
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legitimate criticism. Perhaps we should have handled it differently. As I say, if I knew everything two
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weeks ago that I know today, I would have taken Candace up on her offer not to have gay at the premiere
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of her documentary. I didn't know all of that at the time. I think that there's also people who,
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you know, are disappointed in what they perceive to be our response, who, after they speak to us,
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they reach out in good faith, have a conversation. They may still not agree with all of our decisions
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along the way. But for the most part, they understand our decision-making once they talk to
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us. I also think there's kind of a focused opposition that's being largely driven by disgruntled
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former employees of the Daily Wire. And Daily Wire is a hard place to work. Not everybody makes
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the cut. And a few of the people who didn't make it, I think, have been looking for an opportunity
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to play out their resentments. And some of the really focused attacks are coming from that group.
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Oh, can I ask, is that Eli Steinberg? Because he wrote for you guys in addition to Newsweek and
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The Federalist, and he ripped you guys a new one, as you probably saw.
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Yeah, I read his piece. I didn't know Eli Steinberg had ever written for us. I will say
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that I thought it was one of the most deceitful, disingenuous pieces I've ever read. He characterizes
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Ben's tweets completely falsely, and deliberately so. And then later, when it suits his purpose,
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he actually embeds several tweets. But he doesn't embed the ones that he misrepresents,
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which I found really interesting. He's essentially trying to make the case that Ben,
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for financial reasons, is not living up to his responsibility as an outspoken opponent
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of anti-Semitism and firing Candace Owens. But look, here's the thing. First of all,
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Ben is not an executive in this company. Ben's not the majority owner of this company. Ben's not
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in a position to hire or fire anyone in the company. He is an owner. He's a founder. He has
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obviously an enormous influence on what happens in the company, but he's in no position to fire
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Candace Owens. And the suggestion that he should just fire her, I think, just misunderstands the
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reality of the business altogether. Secondly, if Ben were in that position, he still wouldn't fire
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Candace. Because Candace Owens is not an anti-Semite. Because Candace Owens isn't the one who said all
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the vile, disgusting, ignorant things. That's Ye West. If Ye West works here, we would have fired him.
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He doesn't. Candace does. And do I agree with everything Candace has said? Again, no.
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Does Ben agree? No. I've had some real rows with Candace over the last 14 days. Probably the
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biggest disagreements that we've ever had. But agreeing with Ben Shapiro and agreeing with Jeremy
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Boring all the way down to every jot and tittle is not the job description of a host at the Daily
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Wire. Would that it were, I disagree with all the guys quite often. It'd be terrific if they just said
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everything that I think. No, well, not Knowles. That guy, he's right about everything.
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Never Knowles. No, what about, I'm interested in what you said, that if you knew then what you know
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now about Kanye's thoughts, you would not have wanted him at her movie premiere, which was a
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Daily Wire, you know, produced film. A Daily Wire event, yeah.
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So why? I mean, he's, because he has been quadrupling and quintupling down. What is it
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about what he said after all the controversial tweets and Insta posts that changed your view on him?
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I suppose only this, you know, that someone like Morgan Wallen can make a comment, you know,
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use a Rachel epitaph in a, what he thought was a private setting. And we can say, well,
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that's inappropriate. It's not fair. It's not right. It's not seemly. It's maybe ignorant,
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but I don't know that it's, that it's evidence necessarily that the guy is a racist. I think
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you'd need to know a little bit more than just what he popped off when he was drunk to conclude
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that he's a racist. And that's kind of how I viewed the situation with Kanye. He had definitely
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said some things that were anti-Semitic. The comments themselves were anti-Semitic. I didn't
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think that that necessarily evidenced that he was an anti-Semite. But then he's clarified what he
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thought since then. As to your point, he's doubled down. He's tripled down. He's continually, you know,
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every day, every interview continued to say these really vile, ignorant things. And at a certain point,
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you, you actually just have to say, well, this isn't an accident. This isn't a lapse of judgment.
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He's, he's expressing what he thinks. Yeah. I accept you for who you're telling me you are.
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Exactly. So had that, listen, I still, to this day, don't ask Candace to publicly repudiate her
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friend. I think that it's unfair to expect someone to publicly repudiate their friend. That's a private
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issue when you have an actual friendship with someone. But I wouldn't have wanted Kanye to be
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at the event if I had known that he actually thought the things that, that he's made clear now that he
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thinks. It's weird. I mean, it would be weird to be standing next to him. I can't imagine now
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in knowing how he feels about Jewish people, you know, Ben standing next to him. I mean,
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anybody doesn't, you don't have to be Jewish to feel the scorn of that. But in particular,
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the targeted group, as Ben's been saying repeatedly, the, like, it's all the old tropes
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about Jews, like controlling the media and having some sort of cabal. Ben was joking on a show.
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If we had that, we would have already sent down our special laser to get Kanye from Kanye two weeks
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ago. Ben must have missed that trip to synagogue where that plan was, was discussed. So to this
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point, he also said that we wouldn't invite him to be on the Daily Wire. Yeah, I'm getting Lex
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Friedman. Wait, stand by. I'm just, that's where I'm going next. It's your show. I'm ready for you,
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boring. He goes on with Lex Friedman. Yes. And we can talk about whether these people should keep
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interviewing. Yay. I've got thoughts about it. But in any way, he goes on with him and he takes
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it one next level. And what I would like the audience to listen for here is, yes, he accuses
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you guys of blacklisting him. But listen to speaking of the Jewish tropes. My God,
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especially the one that you'll hear in the last sentence of what he says. This is not one.
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But what happens is every time if I talk to any of these business people one by one,
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because mind you, I didn't get to the tweet by not having a conversation. I had the conversations
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beforehand before I got to the tweet. Now we're going to take it to the stage. Now we're on the
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world stage. Right. And you saw Ari Emanuel do exactly the kind of thing that I was saying had
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been done behind closed doors. Now he's doing it and open doors. They told Candace Owens,
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I couldn't be on the daily wire. Like you can't even explain yourself. And we don't care how you
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got to that point either. And that's fucked up. They told Candace, you can't be on daily wire.
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Is that even about, yes, she did. That's what they said. And you know what? And you can have my voice
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raised or lower. I'm going to do it lower. Right. Because what's happening to me by, I put it in your
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words, the media is saying, not only can you not explain yourself, we don't care how you got to
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that point. You need to apologize and you can't explain. And that's the end of the story to just
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apologize so we can have Mel Gibson do some more films. It's exactly what Ari Emanuel was saying.
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No one is looking to change the problem that led so many people to that same level of frustration.
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And I just so happen to be the one that's not going to back up on it.
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Oh boy. I mean, that last line, what no one's actually talking about how bad the Jews are
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is what I think he's trying to say there. Yeah. You know, I don't actually care how
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the guy came to his horrible opinions. I think that the Lex Friedman interview on the whole was
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a good thing. I don't think every interview has been, but I think Lex in particular was pressing
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on Kanye, but also giving Kanye an opportunity. I think that post that interview, Kanye can't say
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no one's given him a fair shot to explain himself. The problem, we don't like the explanation.
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You know, he tries to conflate his concept of Jewish media with the Daily Wire, I guess because
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Ben Shapiro is a minority owner of the Daily Wire. You know, I'm not Jewish. I'm Christian. The
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other owner of the Daily Wire is Christian. We're not offended as Jews. We're offended as human
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beings at his doubling and tripling down on this generalization. You know, nobody, if you say my
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agent who is Jewish took advantage of me, that's not antisemitism. If you say the Jews took advantage
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of me, I shouldn't have to explain this, right? It's a very simple concept. Speaking in generalizations
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is wrong. Labeling entire ethnic or religious groups because of your disagreements with individuals
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is wrong. But so too is this suggestion that I said he couldn't be on the Daily Wire. We didn't say
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that. That's not what I said. Candace said that Kanye would like for Candace to interview him.
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And I said, no, that would be akin to Chris Cuomo interviewing Andrew Cuomo in the middle of the
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scandal. You're his friend. Your husband is in a business relationship with him. I don't think that
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it's appropriate for you to be the person in this moment who has that conversation with him.
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And she agreed. She agreed and we moved on. In that same conversation, I said, if the guy wants to talk
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to Jordan Peterson, if he wants to talk to Ben Shapiro, I'd be glad to set those interviews up
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because that's people who would give him a fair opportunity, but also press on him. Not to say
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that Candace wouldn't, only to say that the optics of Candace being in that position.
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No, absolutely. Given the business relationship her husband has with him alone, she's not the right
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person for that. He's the CEO of Parler, which Ye has just announced he's buying. So you can't,
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I mean, there's certain things you can't do in our business. So I agree with that.
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So that he's not, he is welcome on the Daily Wire potentially, but not in an interview with Candace.
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Sure. I would not be averse to him being interviewed by someone at the Daily Wire who I thought
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was in a position both optically and practically to conduct a fair interview with him. I don't think
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that he would take us up on any offer to come on the Daily Wire at this point, right? And I'm even
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not sure today that it makes much sense to continue, to your point, to continue interviewing
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him about this issue. But I would not say no out of hand. And certainly a week ago said to Candace
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that we would be open to that. I'm not one who believes in cancellation, right? I don't think,
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if I own Twitter, Kanye West would still have access to his Twitter account. If I owned Instagram,
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he would still have access to his Instagram account because I believe that those platforms
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serve a function, sort of a town square function. And I believe in free speech in the town square.
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The Daily Wire is not a free speech platform. We're advocates for free speech, but we're
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a publication. We curate ideas. And the voices that we publish are voices that we are very
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open about our biases. They're voices that broadly align with the vision of the founders.
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That doesn't mean that we agree with the opinion, every opinion expressed by every person that
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we publish. But there is sort of a broad rubric of thought. And we curate ideas within that rubric
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of thought. Kanye certainly has violated whatever the limits of that are. I would not give I would
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not publish someone who has Kanye stated opinions. But it doesn't mean that I wouldn't publish an
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interview with someone who has Kanye stated opinions to try to get to the bottom of what
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they're actually thinking. Well, I mean, we've I've said this before on the show. 60 Minutes profiled
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the leader of the KKK. Mike Wallace interviewed him while the guy was wearing his hat in his robe.
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So so there's been a long tradition in journalism of speaking with people who you might find
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abhorrent, but you're interested in what their views are. Yeah. So, yeah. OK, so let me ask you
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this. So the whole thing got started after Ye posted his Insta thing and his thing on Twitter
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talking about going death, meaning deaf, con three on Jewish people, Jewish people. It was all
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all caps, Jewish people. And people were like, whoa. And he definitely made some anti-Semitic
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remarks. And then they got even worse. And Candace came out. And this is what she said
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that's at first which got her dragged into this. I'd love to ask you about it. This is
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her commenting on it in sought to. People subsequently demanded that the tweet be taken
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down for anti-Semitism. Now, if you are an honest person. You did not think this tweet
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was anti-Semitic. You did not think that he wrote this tweet because he hates or wants to
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genocide Jewish people. This is not represent the beginning of a Holocaust. That's if you're
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an honest person. You'll meet that. You will admit that. Right. If you're an honest person,
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when you read this tweet, you had no idea what the hell he was talking about. I had I had no
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idea when I read this tweet what the hell he was talking about. This tweet inspired questions,
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not answers. First and foremost, what is death con three? Did he mean death con three, which would
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be a military defense position, not an offense for those of you that are offended, a military
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defense position? Now, once again, I want to make this very clear. This is not a defensive
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tweet. This is an open question, which never seems to happen anymore. It's like you cannot
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even say the word Jewish without people getting upset in the same way that you're not allowed
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to say black anymore. I had a couple of things on that. Number one, Ben Dominich comes out and says
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we deserve better than Candace Owens and says the standard Owens creates here is laughable just
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because you don't want to actually start a Holocaust. And of course, there's no indication anyone here is
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actively engaged in planning genocide of any kind. That doesn't mean the thing Kanye just said was not
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anti-Semitic. I know you're not a huge fan of Ben's because I saw you guys sparring on Twitter
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or online. But what do you make of his retort to what she said?
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No, I think Ben has a long history of disagreement with Candace. At times, it's been very personal. So
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it doesn't surprise me that he takes the opening to take a shot at Candace. Of course, one does not
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have to wish death on all Jews in order to engage in anti-Semitism or anti-Semitic remarks. I think
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Candace is wrong to say that those early remarks were not anti-Semitic. I don't think she actually says
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they weren't anti-Semitic. I think she says that they are not clearly anti-Semitic.
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She said, if you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was anti-Semitic. If you are an honest
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person, you did not think this tweet was anti-Semitic. And then she goes on, you did not think that he wrote
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this tweet because he hates or wants to genocide Jewish people. This does not represent the beginning of the Holocaust.
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I think, first of all, Candace was responding to people who were saying that because he used the
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term death con, that he was in fact inviting violence on the Jews. And she thought that was
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an overreaction. I think that she, to the extent that she says you couldn't think it was anti-Semitic,
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she's wrong. Of course it was anti-Semitic. To the extent that she says it raised more questions
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than answers, I think so too. There's two more weeks of history since then. And he's given those
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answers and the answers are in some ways as bad as people thought that they were.
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And I guess the last thing I would say is that I think that part of the role that Candace has
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played in public life is as someone who challenges PC orthodoxy. And because she is a black woman who
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has challenged PC orthodoxy, in particular around issues of race, she's been subjected to the worst
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attacks possible, called a race traitor by certain political voices or media voices. I think it's
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probably not surprising that she is not as sensitive as she might otherwise be to those
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same kinds of sensitivities as they apply to other groups of people. I'm not defending that lack of
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sensitivity. I'm trying to understand it. No, I get it. And that's one of my questions for you,
00:22:25.280
Jeremy, is like, we've all been so swept up in fighting back against cancel culture. And we've all
00:22:30.620
been, you know, just called names at every turn over bullshit behavior. Right. It's like they unfairly
00:22:36.680
use these the terms racist and bigot and sexist against everybody. And, you know, in a way, I mean,
00:22:44.580
truly, this is a creation. This whole problem is sort of a creation of these wokesters on the left
00:22:50.600
who have desensitized everyone from all of those words and when they really ought to be used,
00:22:59.380
you know, and so when they are used or when somebody says something that actually really
00:23:02.900
is problematic or bigoted, the knee jerk reaction from those of us who have been fighting these wars
00:23:07.520
is all bullshit. Take a seat. You're constantly playing that card. And honestly, like, that's a
00:23:13.080
real problem in the way the woke left left left has got us talking about these issues.
00:23:19.440
Yeah. In many ways, I think that, you know, Candace responded from that sort of point of view
00:23:24.780
that you just articulated. And then over the subsequent 14 days, Ye just slammed her finger
00:23:29.680
in the drawer over and over and over for giving him the benefit of the doubt. If your suggestion is,
00:23:35.020
did Candace give her actual personal friend and a person who was taking lots of slings and arrows
00:23:41.720
from the left for challenging their orthodoxy over the last two years, did she give him more benefit
00:23:46.180
of the doubt than she may have given someone from the left? Sure. Of course she did. Was she wrong?
00:23:53.520
Yes. In my opinion, she was absolutely wrong. I think the remarks were patently anti-Semitic on
00:23:57.560
their face. And I said so at the time. I have sympathy for Candace's position and I am endeavoring to
00:24:05.700
have some understanding for Candace's position. It doesn't mean that I agree with Candace's position.
00:24:09.940
She still hasn't done anything for what she should be fired from the Daily Wire.
00:24:15.700
That's the thing is it's like, why do they want her job? They think she's a sympathizer. I mean,
00:24:21.480
as this guy, the guy I just mentioned, he put it as follows. Hold on. I want to make sure I have it.
00:24:27.500
Uh, it's Eli Steinberg called it the yay generated and Owens exacerbated controversy that she
00:24:36.020
exacerbated it by defending him, which he suggests shows an ambivalence on Jew hatred from the Daily
00:24:46.700
Wire. And, you know, she does work for the Daily Wire now. And so what do you make of the fact now,
00:24:51.660
Jeremy, that he's done all these things and he's continued saying all these things and she's still
00:24:56.000
standing by him. Does that change the evaluation? Well, my hope is that, uh, that Candace sees
00:25:06.440
things differently than maybe she saw them two weeks ago. I know I see things differently than
00:25:10.280
I did two weeks ago. Uh, that's another interesting wrinkle in this whole thing. You know, this, that
00:25:14.440
Eli Steinberg's incredibly deceitful and malicious article, which was mostly an attack on Ben Shapiro,
00:25:20.060
not on Candace Owens, who has not said anything antisemitic or on Kanye West, who absolutely
00:25:26.000
has said a whole lot of terrible things that were antisemitic. It was mostly a cheap shot against
00:25:30.640
Ben Shapiro that I think mischaracterizes his position completely. Nevertheless, if that piece
00:25:35.500
had come out even 10 days ago, uh, and engaged in a little bit less manipulation, then I might've
00:25:42.540
even said that it, uh, was a, was a legitimate criticism, but time has gone by, right? Candace's
00:25:48.620
position, uh, where Kanye is concerned has been moderated. You don't see her out there talking
00:25:53.020
about these things the same way, uh, that she was talking about them in the earliest days,
00:25:56.740
because we've all heard more and more and more from yay. But I still don't expect Candace to
00:26:01.680
publicly repudiate her, her actual friend. I think that's too much to ask. And I don't think that the
00:26:07.580
criteria for whether or not she continues to be an important cultural voice or an employee of the
00:26:12.860
daily wire are compromised by the fact that she hasn't said, my friend is an antisemite. That's,
00:26:19.700
um, that is not a standard that I'm willing to enforce on her or on anyone.
00:26:24.680
Do you, is it true that you, you guys, your biggest stars, um, boycotted the premiere of
00:26:32.840
her movie on George Floyd because Kanye was going to be there. And because this controversy had already
00:26:38.840
broken, I know I've seen some pushback saying, no, we all just had various engagements elsewhere,
00:26:44.080
but I can see how people would have been asking. Boring's not there. Shapiro's not there.
00:26:49.060
Matt Walsh's not there. Michael Knoll's not there. Well, again, nobody, nobody, no,
00:26:53.540
I'm just kidding. I don't mean, I don't mean to repudiate Michael. You're the king of that.
00:26:58.280
Clavin, you know, down the list. I can see why people were like, hmm.
00:27:02.440
Sure. I think Jason Whitlock started that, uh, with a tweet that he put out and he,
00:27:06.700
and he apologized for the tweet rightly. He was, he was at the premiere. I was not, I was,
00:27:11.760
as I say, in Jerusalem. Ben was in Jerusalem. My co-CEO, who has not been, by the way,
00:27:17.360
it's Caleb Robinson, uh, was in Jerusalem. Jordan Peterson was in Jerusalem. We were,
00:27:22.460
we were working on some amazing new Peterson Shapiro content and observing Sukkot from Jerusalem.
00:27:27.740
Uh, Matt Walsh was giving a speech. Michael, uh, Knowles, I think was at a funeral.
00:27:32.500
It was a funeral family, death of a family member.
00:27:34.460
We have, and by another funny thing, none of them knew that Ye was going to be there. I knew that Ye was
00:27:40.140
going to be there and Caleb knew that Ye was going to be there. Uh, but the other guys weren't aware of
00:27:44.100
that. I didn't, you never know if a celebrity is actually going to show up at any place they say
00:27:47.660
they're going to show up at. Um, so that was kind of amusing because I was like, what about the daily
00:27:54.200
wire people makes you think they don't, they, they run from controversy. No, what exactly is it about
00:28:01.400
this group that makes you think they'd say, Oh, I don't want people to write bad things about me.
00:28:05.320
No, by the way, Ben and, uh, Caleb and I were all attending to some business in Florida during
00:28:11.480
Matt Walsh's huge event last week at the Capitol here in Nashville, where he led a rally of 3000
00:28:18.140
people in opposition to child mutilation at Vanderbilt and other medical facilities around
00:28:22.440
the country. They call it gender affirming care, but that's quite a misnomer. We weren't at that,
00:28:27.540
which is one of the biggest events that any daily wire host has ever put on. Were we afraid to be
00:28:32.780
seen standing up for the biological integrity of, you know, prepubescent children? Of course not.
00:28:38.960
It's, we're a big company. Um, we have, our, our hosts are, you know, quite successful at this
00:28:44.780
point. It's very rare that we're all able to be in the same place at the same time. And I, I 100%
00:28:51.380
would have been at Candace's premiere knowing that EA was going to be there. Uh, if I had been in the
00:28:55.540
country again, if I had known all the things that I knew seven, 10 days later, uh, I still would have
00:29:01.700
been there, but maybe EA wouldn't have been. Hmm. All right. So let's just go through it quickly
00:29:07.720
before we wrap up. Candace is not getting fired. No, Candace is not getting fired because Candace
00:29:13.820
is not an anti-Semite and Candace is not out there engaging in wanton anti-Semitism.
00:29:19.100
And Ben is comfortable with what he has said publicly on this and doesn't need a redo on anything.
00:29:26.820
Oh, of course not. Ben says what he thinks. And he has said he disagrees vehemently with Candace.
00:29:31.700
He said that agreement with Ben Shapiro, isn't the prerequisite for work here. And anyone who
00:29:36.120
says, so you're saying that we can all just agree to disagree about anti-Semitism. No,
00:29:40.880
of course not. If Candace had said the things that Kanye West has said, we would have fired her.
00:29:46.040
She hasn't because whereas Kanye West is an anti-Semite, Candace Owens is not.
00:29:51.640
The other thing Ben said early on was you can't treat Kanye the same as you treat Ilhan Omar,
00:29:57.260
somebody who's an elected representative who says these things publicly,
00:30:00.000
who's working in the U.S. Congress. Kanye, we don't know. I mean, it's becoming more and more
00:30:04.440
clear now, but we don't we don't really know what his mental state is right now. We know he
00:30:08.600
suffers from bipolar disorder that can bring up paranoid delusions. I don't know what his mental
00:30:14.620
state is at the moment. But Ben has been trying to make the point like I actually don't know.
00:30:18.480
So I'm not going to treat him the exact same way I would treat Ilhan Omar. I mean,
00:30:24.060
do you think he still feels that way? Yeah. Well, I think we all know more about what Kanye
00:30:30.280
actually thinks now than we did at the beginning, including Ben. And but I also think there's only
00:30:36.380
one person on Earth who doesn't know that Ye West is struggling from some sort of mental
00:30:41.280
challenge right now. And that's Ye West. Yeah. This is why I have a real problem with
00:30:47.980
people continuing to put him on. I mean, I my team asked me if I wanted them to reach out to
00:30:54.280
him for an interview. And I said, I don't. I feel uncomfortable about it. If he's in the midst of
00:30:59.840
some sort of mental health episode, it's not responsible to put him on. It's taking advantage
00:31:06.320
of him. And if he's not, why why do I want to platform all of those views? And just so I can look
00:31:12.700
like a tough guy by challenging them. That's about me. That's about ego and just stoking ratings
00:31:18.620
at, you know, just just to sort of get these anti-Semitic views out there more. I'm either
00:31:23.020
way I'm against it. So I really hope people stop interviewing him. He said all he has to say. He's
00:31:29.000
made his positions clear and he can find another way to make his views known. He's been given the
00:31:34.460
opportunity to clarify and he's clarified. He has. Well, I appreciate you coming on. I'm sorry that
00:31:40.760
this has turned into any sort of a controversy for you guys, because you're extremely important
00:31:45.860
as a media source in our in our culture wars and in our just news and information,
00:31:52.260
just setting records straight and so on. So I hope people will move past this like I already had.
00:31:57.200
And let's get back to business. Thank you very much. Great to see you, Jeremy. All right. Coming up,
00:32:03.200
Robert Cahaley is here. He's going to talk about the last the latest poll that just came out
00:32:07.380
on Oz Fetterman for the first time showing a Dr. Oz lead. What does he think and what are his
00:32:14.480
predictions? That's next. Our next guest is Robert Cahaley, chief pollster for the Trafalgar Group.
00:32:26.720
He was one of the few who correctly predicted a Trump victory during the 2016 election. And
00:32:31.520
every other pollster said he's a lunatic. Don't listen to that loser. He's the only one who got it right.
00:32:36.520
How do you like that? He joins us now to discuss the key Pennsylvania Senate race upcoming midterms
00:32:42.500
overall and what pollsters may be getting wrong yet again. Welcome back to the show, Robert. Great
00:32:47.200
to have you. It's awesome to be here. Thank you. It's so funny to go down memory lane with you and
00:32:52.680
talk about all the things you got right when people are looking at you like, who is this guy? Never
00:32:56.660
heard of him. Don't listen at Trafal, Trafoo to who? Exactly. You nailed it. All right. So let's kick
00:33:03.000
it off with the poll that just dropped in Pennsylvania. Insider Advantage is the polling
00:33:09.880
operation. It's pulled 750 likely voters. That's good. It has to be likely at this point. And it's
00:33:15.960
showing Oz plus three. Oz plus three. You tell me, I've never seen Oz lead in a single poll
00:33:22.680
prior to this one. Well, first of all, Insider Advantage is Matt Towery. He's the one that for
00:33:29.280
those of you who follow it is usually on the Hannity show with me. He's one of the few pollsters
00:33:35.320
that if I don't do it and Matt does it, I feel good about it. Matt does exceptional work. He has a
00:33:41.480
very, very, very low error rate. And, um, you know, we had it virtually even the last time we
00:33:48.500
followed it. So, and that was before the debate. So it doesn't shock me. Uh, Oz kind of, you know,
00:33:54.580
had the fundamentals of a candidate who could exceed, uh, you know, coming first, there were
00:34:02.200
some things that he had going for me that were really strong. Uh, one of them of course was the,
00:34:06.720
his percentage of the black vote was just tremendous, uh, highest percentage of black
00:34:11.080
women, uh, of any Republican we found in the country. And, um, so that doesn't surprise me
00:34:17.520
that he had to win over some skeptics. His, his problem was more about likability than anything.
00:34:23.100
And I, and I think the way he handled the debate and the fact that, that he, he wasn't
00:34:27.920
mean and aggressive and just trying to keep it about the issues, uh, served him well on the
00:34:33.440
personality scale, which is the place he had to win over people.
00:34:37.780
I like Oz. I like him as a person. Uh, I know him a little bit, but I can see how you could find him
00:34:43.120
slick in watching him, you know, from your couch at home in Pennsylvania. He he's a little slick
00:34:48.960
and politicians who are slick can be a little, even if they wind up being the more articulate,
00:34:54.520
the more substantive and so on. I think that's worked to Fetterman's advantage prior now,
00:35:00.220
what we saw on the stage the other night, maybe a little slick still, but the other guy
00:35:05.320
was, you know, non-compass mentis. I don't, he was not, we have no idea what the extent
00:35:11.620
of the stroke damage is. All we can see is it's bad. It's bad. And as I was saying the
00:35:16.580
other day, they've misled us. They've tried to perpetrate a fraud on us by telling us
00:35:21.100
there's almost no damage on Fetterman. And then the big reveal came, you know, 10 days plus
00:35:26.720
before the election where we can see, Oh no, there's serious damage.
00:35:30.220
Well, and what was fascinating about that is, you know, just, you, you kind of think
00:35:35.720
about, you know, whether it's historical portrayals or just the kind of things you run into every
00:35:41.200
day, people that are a little slow tend to be good when they're telling the truth, but
00:35:46.560
to not to be very good when they're having to elaborate or lie. And on the questions when
00:35:51.360
he would really have to be clever and come up with a lie, like, did you ever oppose fracking?
00:35:55.860
That's when you saw his inability. He could, on the stuff where he could say, tell the truth,
00:36:00.760
he was fine. But on the stuff where he had to hide his position and cleverly worded, he, he was
00:36:06.180
falling. So he literally could not be as evasive as he needed to be on the stuff where he's vulnerable.
00:36:11.660
And he, here's what the, uh, the poll shows. They asked who won the debate and 53%, 53.6% said
00:36:20.660
Oz won it. Just 20.5% said Fetterman won it. 25.9% were undecided. I assume those are Democrats who
00:36:29.960
just don't want to admit reality. Um, and they're showing now that, uh, just a couple of interesting
00:36:36.620
things. Oz holds a 2.7 point lead over Fetterman. Um, totally in total, he holds a two point lead
00:36:42.280
with white voters. He holds, um, a lead amongst the 18 to 39 year olds. He has a 14 point lead with
00:36:50.180
the 40 to 64 year olds, and he's pulling in nearly two thirds of independent voters, 65.9%. But, um,
00:37:00.200
what happens at the top of the ticket in Pennsylvania matters for Oz. And you tell me whether that's
00:37:06.760
going to wind up sinking him because the Democrat is heavily favored. Yeah. Yeah. The governor's right
00:37:13.480
there. And that's what I've, I've literally been saying for weeks is if Mastriano had received
00:37:21.240
half the support that any Republican nominee gets, Mastriano would be within four or five of winning
00:37:29.600
and Oz would be winning, but to receive so little support is actually hurting odds. Uh, but, you
00:37:37.660
know, ticket splitting is, is one thing. It really just to kind of depends on how they structure their
00:37:43.760
ballot. Uh, I'm not sure what the answer is in Pennsylvania. A lot of states make your federal
00:37:48.100
races first. So it might be that, you know, the governor's race is after when they vote on the
00:37:54.160
Senate race, not top of the ticket. Yeah. It might, you know, it just depends on how they structure
00:38:00.820
their ballots, but I think it is, it is damaging. But what we are going to see is, and most of these
00:38:07.440
polls Shapiro is at 50, 48, but he's not, it's like 52 or 53. And if there is somebody out there
00:38:15.260
right now with a kind of a hidden shy vote, it's Mastriano there. Wow. The grassroots, uh,
00:38:22.240
around him are very, very engaged. So again, I don't see Mastriano at this point winning,
00:38:29.180
but I think he's going to close a lot of shock people. And if he closes as well as I think he
00:38:34.440
can close, Oz probably will be okay. I mean, if, if Mastriano wins that governor's race in
00:38:40.420
Pennsylvania, I, I'm going to fall out of this seat right here. If that happens, it's like every
00:38:45.080
single piece of press about the Mastriano has been bad. He's been way behind in all the polls,
00:38:49.500
as you say, very little support. That will mean, that will mean very good things for Republicans
00:38:54.300
on a national level. If that happens. Oh, absolutely. That there's, that is a great
00:38:59.440
bellwether. Yeah. If that guy goes into this thing, uh, leading big, but I mean, there is no denying the
00:39:06.600
size of crowds that show up Mastriano events. The people that have been to Pennsylvania, uh, I hear it
00:39:11.440
all the time. They're just saying it's, it's, it reminds, it's bigger, it's bigger than anything
00:39:17.540
they've seen outside of a Trump campaign. Hmm. Okay. Let's talk about Georgia, uh, for a minute.
00:39:23.580
Cause that's the other one. A lot of people are watching. Kemp seems well positioned to win over
00:39:27.740
Stacey Abrams, who hasn't been able to get anything going. And in the Georgia Senate race, still,
00:39:34.480
even under your polls, Raphael Warnock, the Democrat is leading by 1.5 hit the real clear politics.
00:39:40.820
Average has him leading by 0.5. Yeah. Our newest poll has him up by two and a half, actually.
00:39:46.960
Oh, it does. Okay. I'm sorry. I don't have that. Oh, well, okay. So you're showing real clear
00:39:50.880
politics. Average. You're showing Warnock up. Yeah. Warnock up point. No, no. Our most recent poll
00:39:57.800
showed Walker up, uh, 2.4 and real clear around about two, uh, after the debate landmark showed it at
00:40:05.200
even, and I believe there was Rasmussen yesterday that shows it five up for Walker. Oh, wow. So
00:40:12.940
the average has moved down to just Warnock by 0.5 because the last three polls since the debate have
00:40:19.260
been so good. Okay. Now there's some pre-debate polls that were, that were bad, but those, everything
00:40:25.560
since the debate has been very good for Walker. That's amazing. So the, the debate in that case
00:40:31.760
actually did make a difference. And I think what we can glean is all the things that they're
00:40:36.640
throwing at Herschel Walker, you know, the women, the abortion, all that stuff either hasn't hurt him
00:40:42.380
or maybe helped him. Well, it, it hurt him initially with some of the early accusations, but
00:40:52.040
you know, the public is wise and they, they got to the point that when they see stuff coming in October
00:40:58.840
and November and late October that you had the whole last year to talk about, they're a little
00:41:05.160
skeptical. And, you know, to see, uh, Gloria Allred and all that stuff out there, just, you start
00:41:10.580
thinking, I remember this. How, oh yeah, this happened to Rick Kavanaugh. Yeah. And all that
00:41:16.020
went away as soon as he got in because it wasn't real. And so the skepticism really, uh, is high
00:41:22.840
and, and there, there comes a point, I mean, for whatever's worth, Trump has set a new standard
00:41:29.340
for what you can be accused of and when, and, um, we're not going backwards. It's just, that's the
00:41:35.020
way politics is. We're not going backwards. We're a long way from people wanting to disqualify Clinton
00:41:39.580
for, for inhaling or not inhaling. Mm-hmm. Or Gary Hart for having an affair outside of his marriage
00:41:46.280
and so on. And I remember those days. Um, let's talk about the numbers because right now the polls
00:41:52.420
are trending Republican and, you know, we're closing now. We're in the last little stretch.
00:41:57.420
What I read is that historically those last two weeks before the actual vote tend to build momentum
00:42:02.620
for the party out of power. Do you think that's true in this race, even though we've had about
00:42:08.460
four steady weeks of Republican momentum? I mean, basically since mid-September.
00:42:13.660
Well, I would argue that, and as you can see, our numbers have been much more consistent.
00:42:20.640
Uh, the Republicans have been tight in these races, uh, since their, since the nominations were over.
00:42:26.000
I think, I mean, I'm very skeptical of the mainstream, um, media and some of the polling that goes on there
00:42:33.340
and some of the agendas because, and you have to ask the question, what's the purpose of a poll?
00:42:39.000
Is it to reflect the electorate or is it to affect the electorate? Because if it's to affect the
00:42:45.240
electorate, then it makes sense that all these guys who keep getting it wrong still have jobs.
00:42:50.740
But if it was to reflect the electorate, why haven't all these groups that have an error rate of over
00:42:56.100
five in 2020 been fired? It doesn't make any sense. So you got to wonder, are they doing the job
00:43:02.960
they're supposed to, which is an agenda, or are they doing the job they're supposed to of accuracy?
00:43:08.540
And we know that they're failing on accuracy. So I think what's happening is the reason, and you
00:43:15.160
said you were very smart and says that these are likely voters. We spent the entire, uh, September
00:43:20.920
and August with nonsense polls that were based on registered voters that you, you know, yourself,
00:43:27.640
that is a way to skew it toward the other side. Yeah, that's right. And I don't think that was
00:43:32.740
accidental. I think that it was about helping the other side raise money and helping them look
00:43:37.680
strong. But the fact is, it's kind of like a party that you're throwing when your parents are out of
00:43:41.600
town. Mom and dad are coming home and the house got to be cleaned up. And these guys know election day
00:43:46.680
and the reckoning is coming and they don't want to look like they did last time. So they're starting to
00:43:51.780
get a little more real every day. And as they get more real, guess what happens? They get closer to where
00:43:57.280
we've been all along. But you still say these polls are probably underestimating the Republican
00:44:03.100
support. Absolutely. I believe even, even more so than 16 and 20. Why? Yes. Well, one in 16,
00:44:12.100
you were just deplorable and 20, you could be canceled and you were racist. If you disagree with
00:44:16.980
anything in 22, you're a threat to democracy. I mean, after that speech where he basically said,
00:44:24.220
if you are a MAGA supporter, that you're, you know, what's wrong with the country,
00:44:28.720
a lot of folks just got really nervous. And they're seeing stories like the FBI involved with
00:44:36.280
Facebook and monitoring stuff. And, you know, they're hearing things in the news about banks
00:44:41.940
being told about the government to keep track of gun purchases. And I mean, and so what they say to me
00:44:47.080
is, don't you think that the governor, government's monitoring who says that they're for MAGA candidates
00:44:53.480
making a list? I mean, they tell me, it's like, you don't even know they're doing it. Like I'm naive
00:44:57.460
and don't know this is happening. And that they're all keeping track. And so, and, you know, here's the
00:45:03.080
point. It doesn't matter whether conspiracy is right or wrong. Because in the people, if it's in the
00:45:09.940
people's minds and affects how they vote, you have to think about it. And I think there are a lot of
00:45:14.060
people who believe to answer a poll puts you on a list as being for MAGA. And so people who in the
00:45:19.700
past would have put a sign in the yard or bumpstick on their car, posted on social media, are taking
00:45:25.640
polls. I mean, that's why I call them submerged. They aren't hidden. They aren't shy. They're
00:45:30.880
submerged. They are underwater. They're below periscope depth. They're not coming up. You could live right
00:45:36.220
next door to a MAGA voter. You never know it. But they're coming out because they're not going to do
00:45:43.080
anything else. They're not getting the waves or flags or whatever. So they're coming out. That's
00:45:47.220
the only scratches itch. And they've got a big itch. And they're coming to vote. And I think
00:45:51.660
everybody will underestimate the Republican turnout, including us.
00:45:56.880
Wow. Even you couldn't get at them. And you've got the best polling methods in the business,
00:46:01.120
keeping the questionnaire short, trying to ask questions that you don't have to say,
00:46:05.480
what do you think, Ms. Kelly? You say, how's your neighbor likely to vote? And I project all my views
00:46:10.800
on to the neighbor because I feel comfortable telling you what they think. But it's really
00:46:13.940
And all of our election methods, whether it's when we let people text polls and our text polls
00:46:20.480
are different than most of them. People click links on others. Ours go back and forth. They're
00:46:24.660
much easier to take. And you don't have to worry about some random link.
00:46:28.680
All right. So I have one minute left. And I got to get to your predictions. What are you predicting
00:46:34.580
I hate to predict it 10 days out because Lord knows if it's going to happen on the national
00:46:39.680
stage. But I would say if the election were next Tuesday, I would expect the Republicans
00:46:44.520
to win north of 25, maybe 30 House seat pickup and the Republicans to win the Senate. At least
00:46:53.800
win the Senate with 51 and a Georgia runoff that can get them 52 or better. And I expect
00:47:00.400
if another week after next week, it could be better.
00:47:04.120
How high could it go? Just, you know, just for kicks. How high could it go?
00:47:08.140
Here's the thing. Again, this is not my prediction, but if the wave were as big as I think it could
00:47:16.100
Wow. What a difference a couple of months make. This was not the prediction over the summer
00:47:20.740
by virtually anybody, though it's always been a more favorable environment for the GOP.
00:47:27.320
Such a pleasure, Robert. Thank you so much for all the great work you do.
00:47:31.420
Always a pleasure to talk to you. Always been a big fan. It's an honor to be here.
00:47:35.700
Thank you. Let's do it again soon. And remember, folks, you can find The Megan Kelly Show live
00:47:39.920
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00:47:45.280
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00:47:50.760
Once in the spotlight as contestants in the Miss USA pageant, two friends are now taking
00:47:59.420
the stage and demanding to be heard on parents' rights. Carrie Prejean Bowler and Britt Mayer
00:48:05.580
have gained national attention in the last couple of weeks for speaking out about a Halloween
00:48:10.600
event featuring a, quote, family-friendly drag show. All right, I'm going to bring the ladies
00:48:17.220
in in one second to discuss the latest on that. Stand by, though, because I do want to get
00:48:20.760
to you some breaking news before I bring in our guests. The breaking news has to do with an attack
00:48:25.620
on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His name is Paul Pelosi. He's 82. You recall he had an
00:48:31.800
incident with a drunk driving incident a couple of months ago. Well, early Friday, we're now learning
00:48:38.100
at their home in San Francisco. According to a Pelosi family statement, Paul Pelosi was, quote,
00:48:44.080
violently assaulted. They say he is expected to make a full recovery. But two sources familiar with
00:48:50.180
the matter tell ABC News that his injuries are, quote, significant. The suspect is in custody.
00:48:56.040
We know nothing about him or her. ABC News reports that this person was armed with a hammer
00:49:01.260
and allegedly entered the house through a sliding glass door. They report that the break-in is
00:49:07.940
suspected to be targeted. Again, this is just citing sources. I have no idea who or, you know, exactly
00:49:16.840
who ABC News talked to. But they say that the individual was apparently looking for the House
00:49:21.820
Speaker herself. CNN separately reporting that the assailant shouted, where is Nancy before the attack,
00:49:29.080
according to, quote, a source briefed on the attack to CNN. All right, be careful because this is one
00:49:34.400
source. I'm anonymous to CNN. These things, you know, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves.
00:49:39.940
Nancy Pelosi was in Washington, D.C., unclear whether there was a law enforcement presence at
00:49:43.780
the couple San Francisco home at the time. Motive is under investigation. Senator Chuck Schumer said
00:49:48.460
in a statement, what happened to Paul Pelosi is a dastardly act. Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican,
00:49:53.880
the minority leader, tweeting, he's horrified and disgusted by this attack, adding grateful to hear that
00:49:58.320
Paul is on track to make a full recovery, as is, I'm sure, everyone hearing about this. This is
00:50:04.400
horrible. I can't imagine the terror and having someone break into your home and attack you
00:50:09.040
with a hammer, allegedly. So we'll learn more about this in the days to come and what the potential
00:50:16.020
motivation was. I cannot help but wonder whether the reaction to this will be different from the
00:50:22.640
reaction when a man showed up near Brett Kavanaugh's house intending on assassinating him. I really,
00:50:30.760
I would like to see, are we going to change security provisions now for these folks in office,
00:50:38.200
whether it's the Supreme Court or the House Speaker? Are they going to be more concerned now
00:50:44.420
that, you know, it's Paul Pelosi? I really worry about this because he shouldn't be in danger and
00:50:50.360
Brett Kavanaugh shouldn't be in danger either. And we need to take security and safety seriously
00:50:56.200
for all these folks, whether they're Democrats or Republicans. We'll see where this goes. But best
00:51:02.360
wishes to him for a full recovery. In the meantime, I want to get to my guests and we're going to talk
00:51:07.440
about the latest on the family friendly drag show that they stood up to and said, oh no, not to mention
00:51:13.540
their experiences in the pageant world, which for Carrie wound up becoming national news for weeks
00:51:20.080
on end. Carrie and Brett, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. It's great to have you here.
00:51:26.200
Thank you so much for having us, Megan. Oh, it's my pleasure. I've got to tell you. So we saw this
00:51:30.020
viral video, Brett, of you standing up at this event. And I'm like, who is this wonderful woman?
00:51:35.700
I need to know her. Like, I loved everything you said. I was like, you go, girl. I was cheering you
00:51:40.280
on from my, you know, just looking at my phone in my house. And then my team, I'm like, we got to try
00:51:45.560
to book her. So my team looks into it and they're like, oh my God, Carrie Brejean is there too. And
00:51:49.780
of course I remembered your name. I covered the whole thing with, you know, the Miss USA and all
00:51:52.920
that. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. So that he'd show me your clip. I'm like, is everyone
00:51:57.480
in this area of California, incredibly articulate, gorgeous, fierce, fiery? We could have these ladies
00:52:04.500
on. I need to know them more. We run in good company. I can see that now that I find out you met in
00:52:09.940
the pageant world. Some of it is starting to come together. Makes sense for me, but I love,
00:52:14.600
love, love that you are now just mom advocates out there fighting the good fight for your children
00:52:21.060
and other people's children and insisting that other people pay attention and try to join the
00:52:26.380
fight too. So let me start with you on this Brit. When we saw this video and I'll play a little bit
00:52:30.940
of it so people can see, I want to ask you, um, like what, what got you so fired? Like, what was
00:52:36.340
the issue before I, before I play the clip? What was the issue that got you so fired up? Well, we found
00:52:40.920
out that, uh, this school district had approved invitations for a boo bash. They were, they were,
00:52:48.000
uh, advertising it as the queerest boo bash family friendly event in San Diego. And Carrie texts me.
00:52:56.200
She's like, Hey, have you seen this? And then I start getting texts from other girlfriends too.
00:52:59.380
Carrie is a pit bull. So she's like, we, we got to do something about this. This is, this is crazy.
00:53:04.980
And so we start digging into it. And, um, lo and behold, what really fired us up is that this was
00:53:11.940
not only approved by a school district, um, to be all, all Encinitas was invited to it as this
00:53:17.200
family friendly event. But when you actually started to drill down into the boo bash and the drag show,
00:53:22.420
the partnerships came to light and it was incredibly concerning. So that's what fired us up is we saw that,
00:53:28.380
um, this, this boo bash was partnered and sponsored by a gender reassignment clinic,
00:53:34.420
which is there any such thing as gender reassigning? I mean, let's talk science. There's it's,
00:53:40.180
I hate using that term because you can't reassign gender, but it's sponsored by a mutilation clinic
00:53:45.400
up in San Francisco. And their website is full of videos that are, you know, it's all for profit,
00:53:51.220
but the videos are just advertising that they'll cut off penises and, um, healthy breasts. And even in
00:53:57.320
their top surgery video, they talk about how this is a great way. If you're going through puberty and
00:54:02.760
you're not comfortable in your body, then we can just take care of that by cutting off your breasts.
00:54:07.520
And so that was the first one that was shocking. And then the next partnership we saw was, um, a,
00:54:13.760
a, I don't even want to, I don't even want to promote the club, but it's a gay 21 plus nightclub
00:54:19.600
down in San Diego. And if you go through their social media, I'm shocked that they haven't been
00:54:23.700
taken down because it's just completely pornographic, very evil. So Carrie and I start talking,
00:54:29.680
how in the world is a 21 plus gay nightclub in San Diego, hooking up with a gender reassignment
00:54:36.220
clinic up in San Francisco and throwing an event that's marketed to children advertised through a
00:54:44.020
school district. The whole thing, just, it reeks. And so Carrie and I said, we're going to do something
00:54:49.480
about it. And what age group are we talking about? When we talk about school children, what age group?
00:54:54.140
Elementary, tiny, tiny little kids. All right. Stand by. Cause I want to get carried away in too,
00:54:58.760
but let me show the audience a little bit of, um, both of you at this Encinitas board meeting
00:55:04.860
on October 11th. I just want to know what it is, uh, that makes a drag show family friendly,
00:55:11.680
because if you follow it to its logical conclusion, you can slap family friendly titles on anything.
00:55:17.880
You can have family friendly gentlemen's clubs, family friendly strip shows, family friendly 50 shades
00:55:22.620
of gray reallows. Will you approve my flyer? If I want to host an, all the sex secrets of the
00:55:28.140
Kama Sutra for kids and families. If it's family friendly, my question, what is it about a grown
00:55:34.820
man? And I honestly, sincerely as a woman mean this, what is it about a grown man costumed in a
00:55:41.400
sparkly bra with augmented boobs, busting out a leather mini skirt, barely covering his twerking
00:55:46.360
ass with tuck tape on his front while spreading his fish netted legs as he rides on the ground,
00:55:52.980
grinding his groin next to a minor family friendly. You owe us an answer. I warned you. In fact, I
00:56:01.640
promised you guys that I would campaign against you. I'd fundraise against you and make sure that
00:56:08.900
none of you ever served in this public space ever again. And that's why we're here tonight.
00:56:15.840
You have failed our children. You in a normal way would be criminalized for your behavior. And for
00:56:22.780
you to send out this boobash is disgusting, but you're promoting this.
00:56:29.100
Fierce and dead on. So, Carrie, the way it was working was it wasn't like the school was
00:56:35.640
creating the boobash, but they were promoting your children's attendance at it, notwithstanding
00:56:42.760
who was sponsoring it and what was expected to happen there.
00:56:47.260
Correct. Correct. It's so good to see you, Megan. Thanks so much for having me on. And thank you,
00:56:51.660
Brittany. She is just a fierce patriot and I'm so thankful for her and our friendship,
00:56:56.280
our 20 year friendship together. Yeah, it was very unfortunate, Megan, that I got word of this
00:57:02.220
boobash and I thought there has to be a mistake. There's no way that a school district here in San Diego,
00:57:07.560
California would actually be promoting such a inappropriate event for five-year-olds through
00:57:14.700
11-year-olds. And so I had to do something about it. And so I sent it out to most of my friends here
00:57:20.600
in the area. And then I said, we need to show up at this board meeting. We need to show up and make
00:57:25.500
our voices loud and clear. So we did a little investigating before we did this board meeting.
00:57:30.200
And we realized that it was from a third party organization called Peach Jar. And that's how the
00:57:35.660
district gets a word of any community events. And so Peach Jar is very specific on, and the school
00:57:42.580
district is very specific on the things that they can approve in order to be sent out to the parents,
00:57:48.180
thousands of parents in the district. And so we found out that they actually violated their own
00:57:52.500
policy. They're very strict. It cannot be lewd, obscene. It cannot be controversial, political. It
00:57:58.960
cannot take, you know, one side without showing the other side. It definitely cannot have alcohol
00:58:04.240
involved. So it's violating its own policies on many different fronts. And so I said, we have to
00:58:10.540
do something about this. And so I wanted to confront the school board and get answers from them. And they
00:58:15.940
were not willing to speak to us. In fact, they didn't even want to apologize for it, unfortunately.
00:58:21.720
So they didn't respond when you got, you guys got up there and you did your thing. They didn't try to
00:58:25.200
defend themselves. I said, we want to give you this opportunity. Please respond right now. And
00:58:29.880
none of them would respond. They wanted to shrink back in their seats like cowards like they are
00:58:33.800
and not respond to the parents who they represent. Who were the parents? You can hear some of the
00:58:39.080
parents like, oh, tisking the information that you were delivering in your remarks. Were the parents
00:58:47.280
with you? I mean, were some people learning about this for the first time?
00:58:50.660
There was, you couldn't even walk into that room. You couldn't even walk into the board
00:58:55.980
meeting. I mean, Britt was there. We saw parents come from all over this county. We even had someone
00:59:01.620
come from out of state to protest this. They are outraged. There is a huge movement of mama bears
00:59:09.180
that are protecting our cubs and saying, listen, this is not anti-LGBT. This is anti-sexualization of
00:59:15.820
our kids. We don't want it. We don't want strip clubs with straight white, you know, women. This
00:59:20.920
is not a race thing. We don't want drag shows. Okay. We don't want strip shows. We don't want drag
00:59:25.860
shows. They're trying to paint us as racist, homophobic, you know, the same old typical, um,
00:59:32.240
yeah. I want to know what's really, what's really interesting is that you asked about the people that
00:59:37.880
were there and by and large, the, it was a standing room only overflowing into the parking lot. And,
00:59:42.600
uh, the people that came out were so angry about what is happening in our schools and that the
00:59:49.960
target has been drawn so heavily on our kids. And there were a few who showed up to defend the,
00:59:56.080
the board and the school district. But, um, well, it's really interesting is that not a single adult
01:00:01.700
who stood up in defense of this food bash and the decision with the district to support this and to
01:00:08.220
invite everyone, not a single adult who stood up in defense mentioned the drag show. They couldn't
01:00:15.540
even defend the drag show. Isn't that interesting? All they could do is go to love inclusivity that this
01:00:23.420
is how we create a really caring community. Um, how dare you attack a school board? This is all about
01:00:30.900
being inclusive to diverse students and diverse communities, not a single one addressed. The whole
01:00:37.900
reason we were there was that you are hyper-sexualizing our children and you're acting as activist pimps and
01:00:45.240
not a single adult who stood up in defense could even touch that topic. Of course. Now, and what you
01:00:51.400
were saying was so persuasive when you were making the point about you can slap the family friendly label
01:00:56.740
on anything that doesn't save you. You know, like you point out, you can call anything family friendly
01:01:01.420
that the labeling doesn't take away any of the sting when your six year old shows up and somebody's
01:01:07.740
gyrating his genitals in front of his face while wearing a skirt. Most of us choose not to put our
01:01:13.460
kids in that circumstance. You certainly don't want the school endorsing it. Right. And now the school
01:01:18.640
district is doubling down. The show will go on and they have not done anything to stand up against this,
01:01:25.260
the sexualization of our kids. And they're not even apologizing to us parents. In fact,
01:01:29.720
they're colluding. We found through public records that they are colluding with principals and teachers
01:01:35.620
in the district that are calling us parents homophobes spelled H-O-M-E mocking stay-at-home moms.
01:01:42.220
I mean, it's just disgusting what they're doing and their job is protect our kids. And instead they're
01:01:46.980
harming our kids and endorsing this. Why hasn't one parent or one teacher or one admin in the school
01:01:53.080
district said, Hey, we hear you. We understand. And we're, we don't want this either. Not one of them
01:02:00.160
So they, as I understand it now, they've got to go fund me for this trans organization. They're saying,
01:02:06.800
Oh, we expect a tax. We expect a tax now at this event. And therefore we need to raise a bunch of money
01:02:12.420
to, uh, because quote, given the polarizing rhetoric and some specific abhorrent behavior
01:02:18.740
toward our community. Therefore it's necessary for this group to raise $15,000 to increase its
01:02:24.180
security presence at this daytime family gathering. They claim it's, it's cost almost $10,000 so far.
01:02:32.880
I mean, well, you would think it given the school, like the school, it might dawn on them. We're at the
01:02:36.740
point now where they're worried about hiring security guards. People are this upset over this
01:02:40.240
might not be something we should encourage our, our parent body to take their young children to
01:02:44.620
right. But they won't because in the name of trans vote, trans rights, go ahead.
01:02:50.260
Well, every single politician in the area, and that goes, I don't care how low on the school board
01:02:56.260
you are up to being a County representative should have come out swinging against this. And instead,
01:03:01.660
do you want to know what happened in San Diego? One of our representatives for board count, the County
01:03:06.720
board, they came out saying that we are bigots, that we're being non-inclusive. And they posted
01:03:12.880
this publicly on Twitter and said that they will be at boobash taking their three-year-old child.
01:03:18.020
So we're up against a diabolical wave of evil out here in California, but it's not staying here.
01:03:24.900
This is going to spread. This is going to spread all over the nation. This isn't limited to San Diego,
01:03:30.260
California, but no, you're right. It's, it's so disgusting that rather than say, Hey, we're going
01:03:36.900
to call this off. You're right. You uncovered that this is being put on by a gender reassignment
01:03:41.440
center and a 21 plus gay nightclub. The invitation should have never gone out to children. We are going
01:03:47.420
to denounce it and say, we recommend children not come. Every single sponsor should have pulled out
01:03:51.920
their invitation to children and every politician should have denounced it. Silence, complete crickets.
01:03:58.260
Instead, they want to raise funds to secure themselves against attacks. Now, all of a sudden,
01:04:03.860
Megan, they're the victims. Yeah, of course, which they're very happy with. That's the, that's the
01:04:09.360
role they're most comfortable with. Yeah. They want to protect themselves, but we're not allowed to
01:04:13.380
protect our children. Right. Of course. So this is, I'm going to guess this is not the first time the
01:04:18.220
school has done something that has rattled your cages because I can, I'm getting a general feel for
01:04:24.560
both of you. And I wondered, because since I've also been fighting these fights here, you know,
01:04:28.700
in New York city, what is, what are the politics in your, in your school district? And do you think
01:04:34.960
the other, like, what are, what are some of the other things that you've gone through? And do you
01:04:38.040
feel like the parent body is on your side? Yeah, I do. Um, I think that after seeing this outrage of
01:04:47.520
parents on both sides of the aisle, this is not Democrat versus Republican, this is good versus
01:04:52.540
evil. And I think people on both sides are seeing that the hyper sexualization of our children is not
01:04:59.640
okay. You can be as far right or far left and come to the agreement on that, that we should not be
01:05:06.160
sexualizing our kids. I said in the school board meeting, would you affirm a little girl who has an
01:05:12.140
eating disorder by, by advocating for her to go get liposuction? I don't think so. This is a mental
01:05:18.620
illness and we need to stop affirming it. We have kids now that are coming out as furries. They're
01:05:23.800
coming out as animals. When are we going to draw the line? And when are we going to say enough is
01:05:28.440
enough? If we really care about our children, we're going to stand up. And so, yeah, we have three
01:05:33.700
candidates running for the board right now, Andre Johnson, Justin Reed, and Thomas angel. And we pray to
01:05:40.120
God that they get in the office and flip this school board. This is big, this furry thing. I mean,
01:05:45.260
this is actually really deeply disturbing. It's happening more and more with children. It's
01:05:49.080
happening with adults. I was in a pet store getting stuff from my dogs. And there was a young woman in
01:05:56.980
there with she's like 16 with her dad. And they were having an argument because he said, I already got
01:06:02.960
you the leash. I'm not going to get you the collar. It's going to be inappropriate. And she said,
01:06:07.060
but dad, you know, I identify as a furry. I mean, this is like open now, like the dad's
01:06:12.300
buying her, you know, he's drawing the line at the collar or the leash, whichever it was like
01:06:15.820
the more and more you're hearing about kids in particular, identifying as furries. I've told
01:06:20.080
a story before. Um, I, I know somebody who has a good friend who runs a corporation. He hired a young
01:06:27.860
woman and the young woman was normal. No problems in the interview. She was kind of a star. She shows up
01:06:34.060
the first day and says, I identify as a tiger. He's like, what? She's got to wear the little ears
01:06:40.740
and the little tiger tail. And everyone needs to be respectful of her identity as a tiger. Now this
01:06:47.200
is not gender identity. And I would say as a lawyer, you as an employer, do not need to recognize this
01:06:51.540
or do anything other than tell her put on your normal clothes or you're fired. You're so that this
01:06:56.060
is not a protected class, but we're so crazy about bending over backwards to support this nonsense.
01:07:02.480
We're letting kids do that. Like it's becoming bigoted to say no to that.
01:07:07.040
Oh yeah. Yeah. But at the same time, we're taking, we're removing all the boundaries,
01:07:11.000
but then we're also like, have you heard about what's going on in school libraries, the books
01:07:15.760
that are being put in to these libraries? Do you have all these books that are targeting
01:07:20.660
three to six year olds, which is right when kids are starting to figure it out. It's targeting
01:07:25.440
three to six year olds and telling them you get to choose if you're a boy or a girl, or maybe you're
01:07:29.500
fluid, or, um, if you don't feel like a boy today and you want to put on a dress, you're
01:07:34.720
a girl and that's okay. I mean, this ideology is coming in so hard and so fast at our kids.
01:07:41.740
And at the same time, we're taking the train track apart. I mean, we're headed for complete
01:07:46.500
destruction and it's affecting our, our kids. And that's why we have, I have a friend too,
01:07:51.540
Megan, who, um, she was just telling me the other day, cause I didn't know about all this
01:07:55.960
furry stuff until recently. I'm like, Oh my gosh, what's going on now? We have furries.
01:07:59.900
She tells me that, um, one of the kids at her son's schools and her, her son is in eighth grade
01:08:07.100
at his school. This, um, this child identifies as a raccoon and runs around making havoc where he
01:08:15.760
knocks over trash cans and he'll claw things. And the school can't do anything about it
01:08:21.960
because he identifies as a raccoon. And I just, I mean, I laugh, but it's like, if you don't laugh,
01:08:29.060
you're going to cry and then you better start to talk really loud.
01:08:31.980
Didn't you go through a phase? I, I, I one day announced to my parents, my name was going to
01:08:35.560
be Taffy and Taffy and the witch, and I wasn't going to respond to any other names. Didn't make
01:08:39.940
me a witch, had a fun with it for a day. No one changed anything about me. Kids go through these
01:08:44.880
imaginative periods. Nothing changes at school. It doesn't say anything about their identity.
01:08:49.680
We're the crazy ones. Yeah. It's so sick and twisted. I was a super tomboy when I was growing
01:08:56.100
up and thank God I didn't have whack job parents that just said, okay, yeah, let's transition you.
01:09:01.940
I mean, this is, this is irreversible damage that is being done to our kids. And it's what all in the
01:09:07.600
name of equality. No, this is not about equality. If we really care about our children, we're going
01:09:13.040
to protect them. Like I said earlier, if my daughter had an eating disorder, I wouldn't affirm her.
01:09:17.840
I would say, we need to get you help, honey. This is, this is badness. This is, this is insanity.
01:09:24.060
And I saw this coming a long time ago when I stood up at that pageant. I saw, I saw,
01:09:29.840
where are you, where are you going to draw the line? If love is love, where do you draw the line?
01:09:34.200
What if I love my dog? Can I marry my dog? What if I love both a man and a woman? Can I marry both?
01:09:39.520
Can polygamy come back? Where do you draw the line?
01:09:42.420
And there are, that's the thing is like, there are no bound, we're taking all the boundaries out.
01:09:47.180
When you look at the, I don't even know how to say it anymore. LGQBT. I don't even know. There's
01:09:51.840
all the letters in alphabet. I don't know. But there's a plus, right? At the end. It's like,
01:09:56.760
what, what hides underneath that plus? That's just open ended. What's hiding under there? What?
01:10:03.020
Yeah. What is next? That's why the gay community is like, we don't need to be lumped in with the
01:10:10.180
pluses. We don't need like, lesbians and gays are like, these are not our issues. We fought our
01:10:15.160
battles. We've won them. Like this is, they should get rid of LG. It should just be, and I don't know
01:10:20.700
about B, but it should be TQ, two spirits, whatever. Gays against groomers has totally come to our
01:10:27.740
defense. And in fact, they came to the school board meeting and spoke and said, this is hurting.
01:10:32.360
The gay community, like they've hijacked our community and our movement. And this is not okay.
01:10:38.640
It's making them look bad when, you know, in reality, it's not them that's pushing this. This
01:10:43.480
is the whole trans movement that we are seeing being pushed on our children. Why do you want to
01:10:48.740
have a drag show in front of kids? The gays were never trying to sexualize our kids. The gays were
01:10:53.800
like, we want equal rights and we want, you know, all that, but like they weren't trying to push all
01:10:57.300
this weird sexualization stuff. That's like the very woke left. And yes, this, these trans activists
01:11:04.460
who I don't think represent the trans community. But the other thing is you get called a bigot.
01:11:08.940
If you object to one of these trans women trying to say, I'm the first, this are the first that
01:11:15.100
Rachel Levine in HHS, the first female admiral to hold this role in age. No, you're not. You lived
01:11:21.100
56 years as a man. You transitioned 10 years ago. You went to med school as a man, took advantage of
01:11:27.840
all the things that men got back in that day for almost six decades, then switched teams. And now
01:11:34.480
you want credit for being the first woman to, well, no, you don't get it. And that's happening right
01:11:38.820
now in your old industry. As I understand it, a trans woman just bought the Miss Universe pageant
01:11:45.640
and they are literally calling her. It's a man who's now dressing as a woman. They're calling
01:11:53.700
this person the first woman ever to own Miss Universe. What do you make of it?
01:11:59.840
Oh, it makes me so angry thinking about the future that's being carved out for our kids. And,
01:12:05.220
you know, I, I kind of backed out of all the pageant stuff after I was Miss California,
01:12:09.420
I was first runner up at Miss USA. And, um, I saw the industry for what it was and I didn't like what
01:12:15.220
I saw. So I really backed out of the spotlight. And then Carrie was a couple of years after me
01:12:19.180
that she was Miss California and first runner up at Miss USA. And, um, but I still hold like a
01:12:24.180
special place in my heart for what I accomplished in that, and that it was a road to, uh, college
01:12:29.920
scholarships and learning how to speak publicly and learning how to dress and how to act like a woman.
01:12:35.780
And I valued that, you know, I came from a super, super poor family. And I knew that if I was going to
01:12:42.400
have any advantage going forward, I was going to need to have to figure out how I was going to get
01:12:46.540
to college. And so that was my journey. Um, it was through Miss, the Miss Universe pageant system.
01:12:52.720
So I still hold that dear to me. And when this news broke yesterday, I, um, I mean, Carrie and I
01:13:00.180
were on the phone, just so, so sad for what's happening to women after centuries of progress of
01:13:07.340
elevating women that now we're watching, uh, we're watching our womanhood be erased and that
01:13:13.420
we can never be a good enough woman to be better than a man. Like a man's going to be a better woman
01:13:18.960
than we can be even to a beauty pageant, like in a beauty pageant that now, you know, Miss Spain,
01:13:25.480
she in 2019, he, it was a man who won Miss Spain. And now you have a transgender man who is buying
01:13:37.300
the whole Miss Universe pageant, which has always been about elevating women and giving them a
01:13:41.640
chance. And you have a transgender man, man by this pageant and a biological man as a biological
01:13:48.640
man. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Exactly. And, and I will say at least in that
01:13:54.780
particular competition, men don't have an inherent advantage. It's not, it's not like, uh, you know,
01:14:00.900
we saw with Leah Thomas in the pool. I would say that the women are still generally much more
01:14:06.120
naturally appealing and beautiful as women than a trans woman would be, but you never know.
01:14:12.540
You never know. They're going to start taking titles away. As you just point out has happened.
01:14:15.480
Yeah. Um, it's just such an insult. It's just such an insult. It's such an insult to our
01:14:20.720
intelligence, to what it is to be a woman. I mean, we can't even define what a woman is.
01:14:25.080
It's so disgusting and disturbing and only the women suffer. You don't see women, you know,
01:14:29.760
trying out for the NFL and taking a man's spot. You don't see a woman beating a man's record.
01:14:34.060
You see women every single day being erased. Like Brit said by men, I don't care what,
01:14:40.400
what they want to call themselves. If they want to call themselves a dog, a cat, whatever. I am not
01:14:43.940
going to affirm their psychological illness that they have. This is not a woman. This is a man
01:14:51.320
that wants to pretend he's a woman and now is going to take over the miss. Is that going to be erased?
01:14:57.800
Are we going to just have Mr. Miss universe? Like mix, it's just such mix. It's insanity.
01:15:04.060
It's going to be the mixed universe pageant soon. Um, I want to get to nothing, nothing sacred
01:15:10.000
anymore. I think that's what we're seeing. Even with this microcosm on a Miss universe pageant,
01:15:14.740
which who cares? It's a pageant, but it does matter. It does matter. They're going after
01:15:19.320
everything that makes women unique and special and gives us an advantage as being women. And that
01:15:25.480
matters for my daughter. It matters for Carrie's daughter and for your daughter. Like what they're
01:15:29.460
doing is death by a thousand cuts. And we, we got to recognize, we got to recognize what's going on.
01:15:36.640
You know, I was reading a provocative piece the other day and I was like,
01:15:39.540
it is provocative, but it's not wrong. It was talking about men, biological men who have the,
01:15:46.160
you know, the, the surgery where they cut off their penises and they have somebody build them a
01:15:50.900
vagina. And the point that the author was making up, forgive me, cause I can't remember who wrote
01:15:54.680
this, but they were saying it's not a vagina. It's a hole. That's what they get built a hole.
01:15:59.700
And so forgive me, this is graphic, but what they do is they reduce being a woman to, I guess,
01:16:06.820
some perverted guys vision of what it means to be a woman, just a hole for a penis. So that sex can
01:16:12.900
take place to the pleasure of the man. That's not what a vagina is. That's not what a female
01:16:16.820
reproductive system is or looks like, or is for. And so all of it is so reductive of women,
01:16:23.260
of actual women at every turn. Yep. Megan, where are the feminists?
01:16:27.880
Where are the feminists? Oh, they're on the other side, right? They're calling us transphobic right
01:16:34.260
now. Yeah. In real time, we're experiencing women every single day be erased, completely wiped out.
01:16:39.600
And the feminists are completely silent. Yeah. But what you just said, Megan is so good. I got chills
01:16:46.400
when you're saying that because that as graphic as it is, that's so important because that's exactly
01:16:51.780
what they're doing. It's characterization. We're, we're becoming cartoons like the drag queen. Yes.
01:16:58.000
They don't look like women. It's, I believe, and I'm going to say something that, you know,
01:17:02.420
is controversial, but I, I truly believe that all the drag queen, like this trans, transgenderism,
01:17:09.480
making, like you just said, holes on men and calling it a woman is the same thing as what we saw
01:17:14.900
with blackface. Like how, how is it any different? Oh yeah. Like a woman creating women by cartooning
01:17:21.860
them. Right. I don't see how this is any different. So like Carrie just said, where are the feminists?
01:17:27.620
Where are people standing up and saying, this is so disgusting. And it's an, it's insult. It's
01:17:32.780
mockery of women. You don't make a hole and call it a vagina. I'm sorry. That's not what it is.
01:17:37.300
If I were to tell you guys that I identify as, you know, African-American, I love the African-American
01:17:43.480
community. I see myself as African-American. And then I go now and I take a real African-American
01:17:49.800
scholarship. What would happen if I say, Oh, it's how I identify. It would never happen. But yet we're
01:17:57.420
allowing this as women, we're allowing men to come, come in our space, in our lane and say, no, no,
01:18:03.560
no, I'm going to take your spot. I'm going to shatter your records. And I'm going to, I'm going
01:18:07.960
to tell you guys what it's like to be a woman. I'm going to tell you what it's like, what girlhood
01:18:13.520
is a hundred percent. Right. And I've got to get to Dylan Mulvaney. I've been mentioning this person
01:18:18.540
on the show a lot because this Dylan Mulvaney just went and interviewed the president of the United
01:18:22.480
States, but I'll show you a clip of Dylan doing the, um, interview with our, with our president.
01:18:29.860
But then what I want to talk to you is about what to you about is what came out right after that
01:18:33.460
here's Dylan with Joe Biden. Uh, Mr. President, this is my two hundred and twenty first day of
01:18:40.460
publicly transitioning. Okay. So Dylan sits there, interviews the president of the United States,
01:18:47.280
and then it comes out that Dylan, um, not long ago, Dylan's only been trans for about two minutes.
01:18:52.360
Um, Dylan had a post not long ago talking about how, what we really need to do is I'm looking for it
01:18:58.800
here. Embrace the bulge that Dylan doesn't didn't feel comfortable. This is a man who's dressing like
01:19:04.320
a woman. Damn it. Dylan didn't feel comfortable, um, having to run around and taping Dylan's penis
01:19:10.200
down all the time, but loves to wear a super tight clothing and really felt that we need a concerted
01:19:15.820
effort to quote, normalize the bulge on trans women like Dylan. In other words, it's, it should be
01:19:26.180
normal for you to see somebody who looks like that in a super tight swimsuit with a penis sticking
01:19:31.100
out. And Dylan shouldn't have to feel uncomfortable as Dylan gets stared at by people who are like,
01:19:36.840
what the fuck is going on here? No hardcore. No.
01:19:43.740
He is a absolute disgrace. And I think that every minute he gets airtime is just disgusting. I think
01:19:51.100
that his 15 minutes or two minutes of fame is completely done. Um, it's an insult to all women
01:19:56.780
and shame on Ulta for having two men discuss what girlhood is and womanhood is and motherhood is.
01:20:02.300
They have no idea. It's, it's an insult to women and every woman in America should be out
01:20:07.060
outraged about this and speaking out about it. If you are not speaking out, you are complicit in this.
01:20:12.520
It's so, can we just spend a minute on that, that they, they've used Dylan at Ulta Beauty and some
01:20:18.240
other trans guy. I don't even know if he's trans. He's, he's a man with a beard and a long blonde
01:20:22.800
wig. They, those two who have never been, I don't know. He says he, how can he be cisgender? He looks
01:20:29.440
like a woman. I don't know. Whatever. Okay. My, my team's talking to my man. The point is no one
01:20:34.300
there had a girlhood. No one on the panel had a girlhood. And these people who want to pretend
01:20:38.660
that they, that they did, that they understand what it's like to be a woman or what it's like to have
01:20:43.720
been a girl because they, they just, they dress like us for two minutes are delusional. I was
01:20:48.580
talking to my friend about this. Think about your girlhood, right? Think about when your breasts
01:20:51.940
developed and we first got your period or in Leah Thomas cases, we first had to swim in the middle
01:20:55.960
school pool when you had your new period and you didn't understand what the hell. And like every
01:20:59.340
girl who had that moment were like, they didn't understand the pad tampon situation had an
01:21:03.400
embarrassing moment at the school. All that's just the anatomy stuff. Nevermind the emotional stuff
01:21:08.260
that comes with it. And like, they've never had any of that. Talk to me once you've had to be
01:21:11.340
bloated and your hormones have gone like none of it. They don't know what it means to be a woman.
01:21:15.540
And that's reducing cellulite and they're allowed to compete at Miss universe. That is not fair.
01:21:21.100
Good point. No woman's ass looks like that. No woman.
01:21:26.780
I know it's great. And you know what? It's, it's celebrating mental illness is honestly,
01:21:31.340
like if we're going to be totally frank, that's what it is. And then we're being told that if we
01:21:35.260
don't call a triangle a square, then we're the crazy ones. It's like, no, you, you don't,
01:21:40.440
a triangle is not foresighted. You know, it's you, what we are witnessing is complete mental illness
01:21:47.660
being celebrated under the guise of inclusivity. And if we aren't celebrating along with them,
01:21:54.360
then we're the crazy ones and we're the bigots. But I think that it's so far past time that we
01:22:00.080
get beyond the name calling, you know, that's Carrie and I have been living in that for a long
01:22:03.320
time where it's like, call me what you want to call me. I don't care because the world's falling
01:22:08.520
apart and my daughter is going to be affected. And so that's where California, the name, the name
01:22:13.720
calling is, isn't scary. And it's not scary enough for us to stop talking. You got to be strong
01:22:18.680
because you live in super blue, California. And I don't know, San Diego, I think is a little bit
01:22:22.380
more right. Balance, but, um, not so much. We want to show women across this country. Like we're
01:22:27.320
standing up in California. This crap is not going to take place here. So what message does that send
01:22:32.540
to the mom, the single mom in Alabama? This we're standing up. What happens here happens everywhere
01:22:38.580
else. And we're seeing that you saw Plano, Texas. I mean, this is, this is going to happen across the,
01:22:43.440
across the nation. And so Britt and I really want to give people hope. We are fighting this here.
01:22:49.460
And I want to give people that are listening encouragement to stand up. The time is now,
01:22:54.920
now is not the time to retreat. I know you got a little bit of freedom back, but now is not the time
01:22:58.440
to retreat. Now is the time to double down, stand up, fight back, go to the front lines and really
01:23:03.660
push back against this agenda because our kids are suck. All right. I've got to ask you about
01:23:08.460
another piece of the beauty pageant, uh, world and news breaking today that maybe there's a cheating
01:23:13.760
scandal. I've got, I got it. I got to ask you that. And my producer said, please, please ask them
01:23:18.180
for some beauty tips. So come up with one or two. Cause I, America wants to know, and then we've got to
01:23:23.520
take a quick walk down memory lane, Carrie with everything that happened to you when you were Miss
01:23:27.700
California and the Miss USA pageant is like you were in the news all the time. We covered you like
01:23:31.740
every day for a while there. So there's much, much more to discuss and it's fun. And it's coming up
01:23:35.860
right after this. Thank you girls so much for being here. BRB. I want to tell you there's an update now
01:23:43.520
on the attack on Paul Pelosi. This is from the San Francisco, um, police. They say the attack happened
01:23:50.200
at 2 27 AM last night that the suspect is named David DePape, um, that he is from Berkeley that
01:23:59.620
police arrived and David and Paul Pelosi were quote, both holding a hammer. Sounds like maybe
01:24:04.700
they were struggling over it. The suspect then took the hammer away from Paul Pelosi and attacked him
01:24:09.300
with it. The motive is still being determined. This man's going to be charged with attempted homicide,
01:24:15.160
assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary, and several other felonies. Again, this is,
01:24:20.100
um, this is the San Francisco Chronicle citing the police there. And again, the suspect is from
01:24:26.680
Berkeley, all sorts of reports about who this guy actually was and, um, his history out there on
01:24:33.380
Twitter. We're not going to report any of that yet. It's not confirmed, but if, if it's this guy,
01:24:39.120
it's going to be an interesting, it's going to be an interesting deconstruction of what drove him
01:24:44.220
there. Um, okay, let's get back to our panelists, two moms and former pageant participants,
01:24:49.320
Carrie Prejean Bowler and Britt Mayer are with me. All right. So you girls mentioned that you were
01:24:54.280
both, you both had the same sort of route through the pageant. Both were Miss California, both wound
01:24:59.220
up first runner up in the Miss USA, you know, national title pageant and carry that you were all
01:25:07.200
over the news because when you were in the pageant, you gave this answer to Perez Hilton.
01:25:15.320
This is 2009. Um, Barack Obama had the same view as you did at the time, but you became super
01:25:21.460
controversial over it. Here it was. Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex
01:25:29.060
marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not? Well, I think it's great that
01:25:36.220
Americans are able to choose one or the other. Um, we live in a land that you can choose same-sex
01:25:42.620
marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what? In my country and in, in, in my family,
01:25:48.820
I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody
01:25:53.260
out there, but that's how I was raised. And that's how I think that it should be between a man and a
01:25:58.300
woman. Thank you. First of all, that took guts. You, you knew very well what the sort of more PC
01:26:03.780
answer was. And you know, you said no offense to anybody. So you could tell you knew that,
01:26:08.520
but you said what you actually believed and you knew that it could potentially cost you the crown.
01:26:15.840
Yeah. Unfortunately, I knew that my dreams of being Miss USA were completely over at that point,
01:26:21.080
unfortunately. Oh, because there'd been controversy before. What do you mean?
01:26:24.320
Just, I, I just felt just, it was such an inappropriate question to ask, you know, to,
01:26:30.040
to ask these young women who have aspirations to go on and, and do such great things. It was so sad
01:26:35.880
to me that, um, a gotcha 30 second question, um, on national television would be, you know,
01:26:42.560
of course, out of all people, I would get that, but I really believe that God chose me, you know,
01:26:47.140
for that moment because he knew that I was going to say the right thing. And regardless of what you
01:26:51.480
believe, we should all be entitled to have our own opinions. We should never be punished
01:26:54.780
for voicing our own, our own beliefs. And that's why at that moment that gave me the courage to,
01:27:01.360
as a mother now, oh my gosh, 12 years later, imagine how more fierce I am now, um, to stand up
01:27:08.620
for what's right. And nobody will take my voice away. That is a good point. I, I don't, I don't remember
01:27:16.080
talking about it in that way. Like why would he ask, forgive me for a, but like a beauty pageant
01:27:22.520
contestant about gay marriage, like you're not running to be president. It was a man. Yeah. It
01:27:28.140
was a man under the, under the disguise of, you know, anything LGBT family friendly, you know,
01:27:33.220
with, with that equality label slapped on it. Oh, that's fair game. But let's, let's get it wasn't
01:27:38.300
a man exploiting a woman for his, for his agenda. That's what it was. I feel like, look,
01:27:44.500
the question in general, like of a politician and so on back then is very fair. It was a,
01:27:48.460
an, a news item that was being discussed and debated and so on. But I never could, we said
01:27:53.320
like, why would that be the question of a beauty contestant? You know, you're not running to be
01:27:57.440
president. You're not running for Congress. Um, yeah, I don't know. You're right. What do you look
01:28:02.580
for in a man? Why did I ask? Why did I get asked that? Oh my God. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah.
01:28:08.680
Yeah. Lucky me. Lucky me. Oh my. Well, so who cares? Right. It's like, you wound up being a
01:28:16.160
national news story because of that. And then it was like, I don't know, you get dethroned. I can't
01:28:19.780
remember how it all went down. Um, but it did occur to me when I saw you up in front of that school
01:28:23.960
board, like she's kind of had a lifetime of this. You really kind of don't give an F if people don't
01:28:29.340
like what you have to say, you're true to your beliefs. So how did that happen? Like what,
01:28:33.640
what are your parents like? How did they raise this strong young woman?
01:28:36.400
Oh, that's so, it's such a great question. And I, uh, I, I'm trying not to get emotional,
01:28:42.080
but you know, growing up, it was not easy. You know, my parents got divorced at a young age and,
01:28:46.920
um, the tabloids like to bring that up and throw their divorce records all over the internet,
01:28:50.620
which was totally embarrassing. Um, but, uh, they got divorced when I was really young and didn't have,
01:28:57.200
uh, you know, a normal upbringing, I would say, but I'm not a victim at the end of the day. Both of my
01:29:03.120
parents loved me. Both of my parents told me every single day, how incredibly smart I was,
01:29:08.860
how I was going places, how God had, you know, a plan for my life. I really believed it. And I knew
01:29:14.820
it. And I felt it, that I was going to do something so big in this world to make the world a better
01:29:19.580
place. And my faith really is what is what I give all the credit to. I mean, God is so good. And he
01:29:26.580
used, you know, that little tiny pageant to further my platform. And I really believe like
01:29:33.160
he gives us things that we can say, if, if, if we're going to say yes to it, he gives us a little
01:29:38.100
more and he tests us and he sees, okay, I'm going to give you this task. Are you going to do the
01:29:42.420
right thing? And when you do it, he gives you a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit
01:29:45.700
more. And so I just feel like I'm just so thankful that, that God has just given me this incredible
01:29:51.240
platform as, as now a mom to teach my kids. Nothing is more important than staying true to
01:29:56.400
who you are and showing grace and love and, you know, not being, that's what's so, that's what
01:30:04.520
bothers me is they want to label me as this hateful, I'm anti, you know, gay. That's totally not the
01:30:09.720
case. I have gay friends. I have, you know, so many people in my life that, that don't agree with me,
01:30:15.760
you know, but we love one another and we find what we have in common. And so at the end of the
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day, my parents did a really good job. I will say both of them, my dad just recently passed away.
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I miss him so much. He was so proud of the woman that I, that I am. And I know that he's with me
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now. Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, you know, I, I, I think the pageant world is fascinating and it's
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very interesting to me. I, I had so much fun the other 2018, I think it was when over in the Miss
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America pageant, they got rid of the bathing suit competition, which is like, wasn't that the most
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absurd thing ever? I mean, I have, you guys have a much better standing because they wanted the
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they wanted the bulls. I was like, no one is going to watch this. Why don't we just have them compete
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on? I don't know, some sophisticated theory of Darwinism. How about they get up there and read
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some encyclopedic volume? I mean, nobody wants to watch the Miss America pageant to begin with.
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Nevermind if you get rid of the bathing suit competition and I was proven right.
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Yeah. Yes. Why don't they want to see women that work hard and, and, you know,
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work hard for their figure? It's, it's, it's inspirational. Yeah. It's inspirational. It's
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like, you're like, okay, look at Victoria's secret. There's obese women now on the cover
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of Victoria's secret. I mean, everything the left touches, they've ruined, like everything is ruined
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by the left. And it's just so sad. So what about, what if I got to, I only have a few minutes left,
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cause I want to make sure I get to my things. Um, do we think that there was cheating at the Miss
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USA, uh, competition recently for those who haven't been following it? Here's a quick rundown.
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Uh, Miss Texas was crowned Miss USA in 2022. She walked forward to greet the crowd. This is from
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Washington post and then walked back, uh, to the stage. And that is when the other contestants
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should have greeted her, but they didn't. Many began leaving the stage. She, this is the first
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Filipino American to win Miss USA and her fellow contestants were not for it, not because she was
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Filipino, but because they believe that there was some sort of cheating going on that the pageant
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gave her preferential treatment, uh, and that Miss USA is umbrella corporation, Miss brands run by
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crystal Stewart, uh, that, that they've now been suspended by the Miss universe organization that
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Miss brands is now being investigated for claims that the pageant outcome was fixed.
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This is exciting and kind of really interesting. I don't know.
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I will say if you want to look for drama and controversy, look at the pageant industry.
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There's always something there. It actually reminds me of when Trump was running. Carrie,
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do you remember, uh, like I remember all the major media organizations reaching out to me
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because they wanted so bad to find something that he had done when we were Miss California. Do you
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remember that? It kind of reminds me of the same thing where it's like, um, so during the time that
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Trump was running, he had just, I think he was no longer the, he had transitioned out of owning the
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Miss universe organization and they were so hell bent to get something on him. They wanted to make up
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stories of him coming into the back of the changing dressing rooms and all these allegations and it
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never happened, never happened. But we, uh, we had such a frenzy of just media, um, activists
01:33:33.800
trying to pin something on Trump that Trump had to have done something in the changing room. So it
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reminds me of the same thing where it's like, there's all, if you want drama, just look at the
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pageant industry. There's always to go. I am not surprised. They try to exploit women every single
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day. Look what they did to me, you know, 32nd gotcha question. They actually admitted that it
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was for ratings. So I'm not surprised at all. All right. So one, one thing I want to mention with
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the pageant before we move on is Carrie and I noticed that in this whole transition with the
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transgender, the man that now owns the Miss universe organization, I was scrolling through the
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article, reading it, you know, shocked, but, um, I noticed a name in there, Paula sugar. And she was
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my direct contact when I was miss California. And when I was second place at miss USA,
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she's who I dealt with rather than going directly to Trump. So she was his right-hand guy.
01:34:22.460
And I noticed that she's still in there. What does that say about the women that are still in
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that pageant that are okay with what's happening right now? The deconstruction of womanhood in real
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time. Yeah. All right. Let's get to the important stuff before you go. We need to look,
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we need a couple of beauty tips. Our, our young female producers are like, they can have anything.
01:34:40.220
We need something. I'm thinking, you know, you're not recommending those enormous earrings that you
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had on Carrie at that. Wouldn't it be nice if we could dedicate our life to being like these
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bloggers that are like, all right, ladies, let's talk about makeup and hair. They're so good.
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It's like, the world is on fire and we're trying to save the world.
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Stay out of the sun. Okay. That's good. I agree with that one. A hundred percent.
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What else? Oh yes. Brit has, oh my gosh, Megan. She, if you see her in real life,
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she has the most amazing skin that you could, and she does not do Botox at all.
01:35:12.840
Oh, come on. This is true. Well, you're still young.
01:35:14.320
You didn't have one wrinkle. True. You ladies are still young. Oh, stop, Carrie.
01:35:18.280
By the time you're picking on your hair. You know, next time we come on with you, Megan,
01:35:21.240
we'll have like a little power hour and we'll actually talk about you. Wait, wait,
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tell her real quick about your light thing. What light thing? What light thing? The light thing you put on.
01:35:29.500
Oh, Oh, I have an led mask, Megan. I have an led mask that I put on. It's an led mask and the red
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light therapy, it helps prevent wrinkles. Oh my God. Where can I find this? There you go. I think
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I can't remember the name of it. I just look up led mask for your face. Yeah. All right. They're
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all selling out right now. I leave you with that. I like that a lot. I like a little highlighter,
01:35:54.520
but not too much. Cause then you look a little strippery, like a little, like, you know, on your,
01:35:58.340
on your cheekbones here. Yeah. I like a little bit of highlighter right here on the cheekbones.
01:36:01.800
Just a little bit. Can't go too far. I like a little less is more, but I also want women to,
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to feel beautiful. And I mean, what woman doesn't feel beautiful when they put on makeup and do their
01:36:12.840
hair? So I know I had a guy in the program last week saying just stay out of the sun and don't wear
01:36:18.140
makeup because it's toxic and embrace your, the natural you. And that's when I think I told them to
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F off, but I love talking to you ladies, Carrie Brit come back soon. Okay. And all the best.
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