RFK Announces Presidential Run, and Actress Compares Christians to Taliban, with Alex Berenson, Isabel Brown, and Will Witt | Ep. 533
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Summary
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces a run for the White House as a Democrat, the so-called "tolerant left" immediately goes after his wife. Alex Berenson joins me to discuss that and much more.
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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 Thursday.
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Biden's Secretary of Education, the man who will lead the department's changes to Title IX,
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which they're trying to make right now when it comes to, among other things,
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transgender athletes in female sports, refuses to answer the question, what is a woman?
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That explains a lot about their confused policy changes. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces a
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run for the White House as a Democrat, and the so-called tolerant left immediately goes after
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his wife. Joining me now to discuss that and much more, journalist and best-selling author Alex
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Berenson. Alex posts his reporting to Substack on his Unreported Truths publication. Alex,
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welcome back to the show. Great to see you. Thanks for having me, Megyn.
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So Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made heads explode on the left because he got out there and said,
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you know what, you silenced me for all these years. This is what happens. Here's a taste of
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what he said during his announcement yesterday, SOT 7.
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This is what happens when you censor somebody for 18 years.
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They shouldn't have shut me up that long because now I'm going to really let loose on them for the
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next 18 months. They're going to hear a lot from me.
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This is what happens when you ban somebody from speaking out. They run for president,
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so I assume I'm about to get your announcement. You're in.
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No, no, I'll let other people go into that lines then.
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But you and he are similarly situated in that way, right? I mean, you were treated much as he was,
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just as a purveyor of disinformation, one who cannot be heard from, one who the Biden White
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House said must be shut up. Yes. Well, now I've sued, you know, I've sued Joe Biden. I've sued
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several officials in the White House and I've sued a couple of Pfizer board members, including the
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chairman of the company. So we'll see. And by the way, you know, the news of the lawsuit
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respectively has been censored. The media will not report on it, even though it builds on my
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successful lawsuit against Twitter. And even though I have hard evidence presented in the suit
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that the White House specifically demanded in 2021 that Twitter banned me and that a board member at
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Pfizer named Scott Gottlieb also got involved and demanded that I be banned. I mean, it's really
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stunning, as I wrote last week on Unreported Truths on the Substack, if, let's say in 2020,
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the same thing had happened with Trump, because, you know, in 2020, I was writing a lot about school
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closures and writing about how the lockdowns were a mistake and masks didn't work. Let's say that the
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Trump administration had gotten mad at me about that. And Jared Kushner had gone to Twitter and said,
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hey, you got to get this guy off. You know, he's telling people not to wear masks and that's really wrong.
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And then Twitter had banned me. And let's say that I figured that out and I'd gotten hard evidence and
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I'd sued the Trump administration. I mean, that would have been, Megan, you can imagine it would
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have been a huge front page story. And there would have been talk about how Trump hates the First
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Amendment and this is immoral. And how can we prevent a journalist from speaking? And I mean,
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really, it is exactly the same thing. It's just a year later. And I was really talking about vaccines
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or not and not even I don't call the mRNA shots vaccines. They are not traditional vaccines. I was
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talking about the mRNA shots from Pfizer and Moderna. And, you know, the White House and Pfizer went to
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Twitter, pushed on me or, you know, push them to ban me. And and ultimately Twitter did. And that story, I mean,
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aside from the conservative media, has just been completely ignored.
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Mm hmm. Well, it's crazy because this is not the only lawsuit like that now pending against the
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Biden administration. There's one brought by Missouri, by Louisiana against the Biden administration for
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doing the same. And interestingly, that one got passed motion practice and is in discovery right
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now. So these they've been getting really interesting documents from the Biden. That's why Fauci had to sit
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for a deposition in that in the context of that case, which is alleging the same kind of thing.
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And we've had some press reaction to that one, which I was looking at prior to you coming on. And I
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I had to say I was, you know, horrified, but also slightly bemused by it, Alex, where
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reason did a great write up of some of the reaction, including from The New York Times,
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when they saw this lawsuit followed by the AGs of Missouri and Louisiana. They point out New York
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Times reporter Stephen Lee Myers, quoting now from Reasons 2923 piece. The law he's warning the New York
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Times is that the lawsuit could disrupt the Biden administration's already struggling efforts to
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combat disinformation. This guy, Stephen Lee Myers, worries that the First Amendment has become, for
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better or worse, a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle a problem that in the case of a
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pandemic threatens public health. And in the case of integrity of elections, even democracy itself.
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You see, that pesky First Amendment is so annoying when one is trying to be a democracy.
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I mean, doesn't The New York Times get the joke here? Like they don't exist in a country that doesn't
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have, you know, strong press freedoms on the First Amendment. It is just bizarre to me to see
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journalists calling for censorship. And they've done it sort of more and more explicitly in the last
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couple of years. It's it's really odd. So this I I'm going to have to do something here that kind
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of makes me feel bad. Jeremy Peters of The New York Times occasionally comes on the show and I like
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Jeremy, but he was part of Nerd Prom in covering the Fox Dominion lawsuit. You know, all the media
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reporters went out there. They were in the offsuit. They're so excited to see Fox get its comeuppance
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and then won't want single tear. They settled. So I applaud him for his honesty in admitting how
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important this was to him. You know, it's I'm sure it doesn't hold a candle to Brian Stelter's
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disappointment. But, you know, to your point, most I think most sane reporters did not love this
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lawsuit unless they hated Fox News like the First Amendment, the standards for defamation, what a
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journalistic, excuse me, outlet could say and could not say how, you know, about a public figure,
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which is something we should be protecting as journalists. We should want that to be as expansive
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as possible there. Everything was flipped on its head because the defendant was Fox News.
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So screw them. Let's see them lose. And here's Jeremy on The Daily, which is The New York Times
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podcast, talking about the day that it was becoming apparent that they were about to settle. Listen.
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And what are you think might be going on? I almost threw up.
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I. I'm serious. Why? Well, I've spent so much time and mental energy on this case.
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It's so crazy. Look, I wrote about, you know, the Fox Dominion case yesterday, again, on the
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Substack on Unreported Truths, which because, because look, I actually went on Fox. I was on
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with Tucker in November 2020 saying, look, Biden is going to be the president. And frankly, from my
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point of view, since I'm not a Republican, I'm a registered independent. And, you know, my main
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interest in 2020 was not that, you know, Donald Trump get another four years when he had not won
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the election. It was that it was that that we get past COVID, right, that we that we end the school
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lockdowns and that we end the mask requirements and that, you know, we we we never have an idea
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of another national lockdown, which the Biden administration was sort of hinting at, you
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know, before they took office, although thankfully they never did that. And so I said I said on the show,
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I said, look, the Republicans have to make a decision here. Are they going to fight for Donald Trump
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and get latched to him even more? Are they going to fight COVID restrictions? And ultimately, I mean,
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you know, again, I'm not a Republican, so it was easy for me to say that. But the base demanded that,
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you know, that that Trump that had become that be about Trump. And I think that was bad for the
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country. And I think January 6th was terrible for the country. So all that's true. OK, you can know
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that and still be disgusted by the press response to Dominion v. Fox for a couple reasons. I mean,
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you mentioned one of the reasons. Another reason, though, it goes even further than that.
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Fox essentially got in trouble not for statements that they were making, but for statements that
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their guests were making. And that is a really, really huge expansion of libel law. And it's going
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to make it hard. I mean, it's going to mean that these places aren't going to want to quote anybody
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with a controversial opinion. If just quoting somebody or allowing them to use your airwaves
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can get you in trouble for a defamation suit. How can you ever have a debate where there's two
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sides and one side might be saying things that, you know, a lot of people don't like? So I thought
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that was crazy. I thought the fact I mean, I think Fox essentially was a was forced to settle because
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the documents look so terrible. But they settled for far more than that suit would have been worth,
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you know, in a real economic way. I mean, how can Dominion have said they lost a billion dollars?
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Like, where are the losses? Right. They didn't. Did they lose any contracts as a result of this?
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So they didn't. They were baking in punitive damages into that settlement and the price to
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keep Rupert and the top talent off the stand. Exactly. So this so this is a this is but that
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means the combination of the expansion of defamation law and the giant settlement puts a target,
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I think, on every news organization. And yeah, maybe the Times thinks they're they're not going to get
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in trouble here, but somebody is going to sue them. And, you know, southern Mississippi and,
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you know, and we'll see what happens. Yeah, I agree. It's as a journalist,
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you should not be rooting for this case to go anywhere, really. I mean, I tried to cover it
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openly and fairly, but it's it's tough to root for Dominion to get a huge judgment against a
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journalistic outfit for covering claims being made by the president of the United States and his lawyers.
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And I realize there were extraordinary circumstances here. I will say this. This is like all my friends.
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I like Jake Tapper as well. But he also had this sort of, you know, strong reaction to the to the
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settlement. And to me, it's just indicative of these other news organizations, whether it's the Times,
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MSNBC or CNN playing a little too holier than thou when it comes to journalistic integrity,
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which I grant you Fox was not the example of in covering the Sidney Powell stuff. But, you know,
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look at how the others pretend they've never screwed up massively and repeatedly and on huge national
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stories. Here's a bit of Tapper. And is this where he reads to himself or is this where he's
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interviewing the Dominion lawyer? He's reading the Fox News statement after the verdict. Here it is.
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Fox trying to put a positive face on what can only be interpreted as one of the ugliest and most
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embarrassing moments in the history of journalism. Fox issued a statement saying, quote, we are pleased
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to have reached a settlement of our dispute. Dispute. The settlement reflects. I'm sorry,
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this is going to be difficult to say with a straight face. This settlement reflects Fox's
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continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our. Sorry.
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Wow. When do you make of that? I mean, he's not even pretending, is he? It's well, look,
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if you're CNN, you know, you've been sucking Fox's exhaust now for 20 plus years. And so this probably
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feels pretty good if you're Jake Tapper. I mean, what is Tucker's audience? Ten times Tapper's? I mean,
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you know, it's a, so there you go. Right. I mean, so, so CNN hasn't had a lot of good news
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on the business front or, or, you know, in the last few years. And so this is, this is exciting
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for them. But, you know, I will, again, it's bigger than, look, Fox screwed up. And the way these
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stories were written was, well, Fox screwed up because it was serving its audience, right? It didn't
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want to say no to its audience. And the point I made yesterday in, in, in the, on the sub stack
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was substitute New York times for Fox and MRNA vaccines for 2020 election. And you have exactly
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the same thing. You have a news organization that will not challenge the preconceptions of its viewers.
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And this is something I think people don't understand that as the business of journalism has
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moved from ad supported to subscriber supported, this has actually gotten much worse because the
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times used to be, you know, Bloomingdale's and Tiffany and, you know, whoever paid most of the
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bills. They were most of the revenues and they, you know, the Arthur Salzberger could say to Bloomingdale,
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I mean, Bloomingdale's never told the New York times what to write. We wrote what we wanted. Now it's
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the subscribers who pay the bills and the subscribers are all hard left and the times knows
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it very well. And so it is very hard for the times to aggressively challenge the political
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predilections of 95 or 98% of its readers. And you see it even, they don't even like the fact that,
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you know, Brett Stevens is allowed to have an opinion column. So, so it's exactly the same dynamic
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that got Fox in trouble at play at the New York times. It's just the times, uh, or, or because
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of the lawsuit, we got access to what the Fox people were saying, which is we don't really want
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to challenge our audience. And I don't, I mean, like to me, I understand there were doubts expressed
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at the highest levels at Fox about the Sidney Powell claims and so on. Is it better if the internal emails
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at a place like CNN all show get on the knee to King Fauci Fauci's right again? Look at these terrible
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naysaying doubters like Alex Berenson. He he's never coming on CNN again, this insane lunatic. And then
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when the facts show you were right, no acknowledgement that they suppress truth, that they spewed lies
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that actually did endanger people's lives, you know, unlike, Oh, did Sidney Powell tell the truth or not?
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Right. And there's no, there's no acknowledgement. I'm just saying, not saying Jake Tapper did that,
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but his network certainly did. So, you know, you have to be really careful when you cast these stones.
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Yep. No, it's, it's, and, and, you know, look, this is still happening. Okay. The mRNA vaccines are
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effectively, you know, not being used anymore. Right. I mean, almost, I mean, basically the whole world
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has walked away from them, but look at the death data. Okay. Last week, uh, England's, England's mortality
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this was the numbers reported last week. So I guess it was 10 days before that. So we're,
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we're going back to sort of the end of March, but this, the most recent week of data or the,
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the most recent sort of non holiday week of data available deaths in England were 20% above normal.
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Okay. When that happened in 2020, because of COVID, we shut down the world. And now there's not even an
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acknowledgement that this is happening. And it's not one week in the UK. It's happening all over
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Western Europe. It's happening in East Asia. All the countries that use these vaccines
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are having really bad ongoing mortality numbers and no one forget solving, figuring out what's
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happening. No one is even covering this. Well, and right. And we don't know what the
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causation is. It could be related to deaths of despair and the wake of the pandemic and all that,
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but it is disturbing how there isn't the desire to do an in-depth study to figure out. That's what
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makes me so, so upset about the vaccine. And so relieved I didn't give it to my kids.
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It's just, I, why can't we take an honest look at what if any damage was caused by them?
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Because maybe these same brilliant minds that came up with a vaccine in the first place could
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come up with a cure for the people who actually were vaccine injured.
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Well, yes. I mean, at the least we should be talking about, you know, is this, you know,
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what's really happening with the death numbers? What are these sorts of, there's, you know,
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there's been a couple of disturbing studies showing long-term changes in your immune response
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to COVID post-vaccination that don't occur when you're naturally infected and recovered.
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There's stuff that we, if we were serious without panicking and I, and I'm not one of these people
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who says, you know, people are dying in the street. I mean, it's clearly not true. Or, you know,
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in five years, you know, it's all gonna, you know, it's all gonna be awful and it's gonna be
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zombies roaming the globe. I mean, forget that stuff. There is real, there are real scientific
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questions that should be being pursued at sort of high levels by the NIH that the FDA and the CDC
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should be pushing the vaccine companies to try to answer. And because everyone is so scared of what
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the answers might be, they won't even ask the questions. You raised a point, I think it was on
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your sub stack the other day about how the times though, you know, and it's experts seem to be coming
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to grips with reality when it comes to these vaccines. The worst COVID reporter in America.
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I don't know if she's the worst. It's heavy competition, but she's up there.
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She's terrible. She's the one who said some nearly 900,000 kids had been hospitalized due to COVID,
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which was an overstatement by like, it was like 65,000. And then they kept letting her report.
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Like she continued to report. She completely downplayed the study that showed that there
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were potential downsides for 65 and older when it came to stroke. She said, oh, they're all clear.
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No problems whatsoever with these boosters. When even other honest news organizations like, oh,
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the latest study shows it could increase the risk of stroke for seniors. Anyway, she, you point out,
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went around to some experts and even her favorite experts who were like, booster, booster, booster,
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I mean, it's a great point, Megan. So I can't remember when the story was, it was maybe two,
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three weeks ago. But so the most striking person in that story, which I wrote about in the stack,
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because I was so stunned to see the quote in the New York Times, is a doctor named Paul Offit.
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Now, Offit is very pro-vaccine. You know, I think he actually has a patent on,
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not on a COVID vaccine, but on maybe a rotavirus vaccine. He's always, you know,
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he's always been quoted as being very, you know, I don't like vaccine skepticism. It's danger. You
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know, he's, he's, he's a, he's a vaccine advocate to start to finish. And in 2021.
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He said, and just, this is from your piece, just to interrupt and give you back what you wrote.
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You pointed out that in April, 2021, he wrote, I don't think you could have devised a vaccine that
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appears to be more perfect. That's right. I mean, that's funny. That's two years ago,
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but I mean, not, not 20 years ago, two years ago, he's quoted saying that, well, what does he tell
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Aporva? He says, no one, not young people, not immunocompromised people, not old people,
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no one should get more boosters with the data we now have. I mean, that is a stunning repudiation
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because I mean, that goes further actually, than even a lot. I think, you know, a lot of people have
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questions about the vaccines would go. I mean, people, a lot of people would still say, well,
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maybe if you're, you know, 80 years old, it can't hurt to have a booster. I mean,
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Offit, Offit said, nobody, he said, we just don't have data right now showing that it's pretty,
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that's pretty striking considering what he said two years ago.
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Yeah. He said, given the lack of data, I don't think it's fair to say to people,
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I want to go ancient. He wasn't calling them that two years ago.
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No, that's right. But again, there'll be no accountability for the universal cheerleading
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we got from people like Aporva and the experts she cites in here. And no, you know, true coming
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to Jesus over what they did to people like you who were raising doubts at the time saying,
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here's what I'm seeing. You know, you were shut down. That's why you're suing. And it'll be really
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interesting to see what you get in that lawsuit. We definitely will be following it.
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Getting back to RFK, I do think it's interesting that not only does he get attacked,
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of course, every single headline about JFK, RFK Jr. is anti-vaccine, anti-vaxxer, anti-vaxxer. You
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cannot mention RFK Jr. without saying that apparently. But now they're turning on his wife,
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Cheryl Hines, the actress who stars in Curb Your Enthusiasm. She used to be funny. She's not now. I mean,
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they're just so nasty, Alex. I guess you're familiar with this to some extent, but I have
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to say I was slightly taken aback. Did they not know that these two were married?
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No, I mean, this has come up before, but it's gotten worse. And it's like they want her to
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repudiate him publicly. It's almost like they want her to divorce him. It's right. I mean, A,
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you know, she's not responsible for what he says. All she did was introduce him, by the way. She just
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introduced him. Right. Like, who are you to, I mean, it's just, I mean, it's guilt by association,
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right? It's, you know, it's like, it's like, I mean, I, you know, I don't want to, I don't want
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to say anything too inflammatory, but, but guilt by association is a classic tactic of, you know,
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the Soviet regime, other, you know, communist and fascist regimes. And, and by the way, it's,
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you know, it's, it's happened to me. Like, it's, you know, it's funny. Like, I mean, funny is the
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wrong word, but you know, I, people who I respect actually, and would like to have conversations
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with are afraid and know that I'm serious. Like, and know that I know what I'm talking about are
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afraid if they talk too much to me publicly, uh, you know, they're going to get, uh, they're going
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to get smeared for it. It's, it's really a stunning. Even now, even that you've been validated
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in so many of your criticisms. Yes. Even now, I mean, you haven't seen me on CNN or MSNBC. You
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haven't seen me quoted in their times. You've been seeing this lawsuit quoted. Uh, Megan, look for
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better or worse. I'm the only person ever, as far as I know to, to have been reinstated by a social
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media company following a lawsuit over a ban. Okay. If nothing else, I said this a couple of
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days ago, that's a news story, right? When something's only happened once, it's a news
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story when it happens. And honestly, if you run Twitter or you run Facebook, my case is important
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to you because it tells you, you know, I don't have conversations with a, with, with a user outside
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the normal channels about what we are going to allow or not allow, because those could later come
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back to hurt you. So I can guarantee you my lawsuit and its resolution have actually like
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made a, made a difference to the business practices of these companies. It won't even be discussed on
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that level. These, these places, I mean, I'm still, I mean, I'm still blacklisted. I'm still
00:23:28.280
canceled essentially. Fortunately, I have a really big sub stack, which they can't touch. Um, sub stack
00:23:33.660
has been, you know, very supportive of free speech and I have a, you know, a good Twitter platform
00:23:38.980
and whatever the weirdness is happening on Twitter, I can still post and, you know, people will see it.
00:23:44.940
Yes, of course. Thank goodness. And it'll be interesting because it's true that the government
00:23:48.680
cannot do through social media companies, what it cannot do directly. It is not allowed to suppress
00:23:55.420
what a citizen's viewpoint because it doesn't like the content of the viewpoint that that is the first
00:24:02.000
amendment. So it can't get around that prohibition by using Facebook to do it by, by pressuring Twitter
00:24:09.480
to do it. That's the essence of your lawsuit of the, of the, um, Missouri lawsuit and the Louisiana
00:24:14.920
lawsuit and so on. So they're really going to have to deal with the amount of strong arming they did
00:24:20.020
of big tech. And I know their defenders are saying, well, they never had to punish big tech.
00:24:25.700
They never actually did hurt big tech for not complying with their demands. And you have an answer
00:24:29.960
to that too. Yes. I mean, so, so what's very interesting about my suit and, and this, and
00:24:36.900
this is, it's not, it's, I think, I think we have a really good case even. So in April, 2021,
00:24:44.520
Slavitt, Andrew Slavitt at the white house, clearly, you know, he, he, the, you, the words in the
00:24:50.580
Twitter, uh, you know, uh, internal files are asked a really tough question about why I was still allowed
00:24:57.780
on the platform. So to me that, you know, that's a really tough question in the way when a cop says,
00:25:03.840
can you get out of your car, sir? Um, you know, that's a, that's, that's not really a question,
00:25:08.340
right? It's a, it's a demand in the form of a question. Now, Twitter amazingly didn't bite
00:25:13.920
and didn't actually ban me for several months. It took months more pressure, but, but my case,
00:25:20.000
um, draws on a case called night Institute, be true. Okay. In 2017, Donald Trump banned some people
00:25:27.540
from commenting on his or following him on Twitter and they sued. And the second circuit,
00:25:32.840
which is where I've sued in New York city, I said, that's not okay because his Twitter page
00:25:40.180
is a public forum. Even though Twitter is a private company, his page is a public forum. So my claim is
00:25:48.180
that in pushing Twitter to ban me, even if they didn't immediately succeed, they were trying to
00:25:55.040
prevent me from commenting on their pages, on Andy Slavitt's page, on Joe Biden's page,
00:26:00.840
on Viva Murphy's page. You also point out that they did this to you. They, the, the pressure to
00:26:06.040
get you banned was ramped up right at a specific time during the pandemic and the vaccine rollout
00:26:12.700
that you say was not coincidental. That's correct. So, so, but, but so my, my argument is you can't
00:26:20.120
prevent me, or you can't even try to prevent me from commenting on your Twitter pages,
00:26:25.920
just as Donald Trump couldn't do that. And the, the analogy, I think people, people will get this.
00:26:30.720
Let's say Joe Biden had a press conference and it wasn't at the white house. Let's say it was at a
00:26:34.980
hotel. And, and I, and I was going to come in and ask questions. I had my credential. I was going to
00:26:40.340
come in and ask questions and they didn't want me to do that. And they said, the hotel, Hey guys,
00:26:44.940
we'd really like it if you didn't let Alex Berenson come into this press conference. And by the way,
00:26:50.360
you may remember we're the federal government and we do a hundred million dollars of business
00:26:54.400
with you every year. Well, even if the hotel stood up and said, you know what, he's got a press pass,
00:27:00.020
we're letting him in their effort to ban me in and of itself is a first amendment violation. So that,
00:27:06.580
that is the sort of, that's like, that to me is something that everybody can get that analogy.
00:27:11.880
But the other piece of it is they, they didn't have to hurt Twitter or Facebook or YouTube because
00:27:19.900
they complied, you know, the bands were put in place. So it's like, well, that, that doesn't help
00:27:27.680
the government on its first amendment defense. They, they put the pressure on the meat, the big
00:27:32.560
social media companies complied. People like you had their voices silenced, silenced, and the American
00:27:37.520
public were hurt as a result. Not that that's a required element. You were hurt. That's enough.
00:27:42.140
So we'll see. I like the fact that this has gone so far in the, in the state AG's case. I like that
00:27:47.740
for you. And I think it's really interesting. I mean, the fact that Fauci had to sit for deposition
00:27:51.780
bodes well for you and others who are bringing similar claims, man. Oh man. Can you imagine
00:27:57.080
having access to him for tough questioning, like you sitting next to the lawyer funneling in the
00:28:02.240
questions? Or, but Pfizer too, right? That's the other part of this is, you know, so Albert Borla,
00:28:08.920
the CEO of Pfizer, Scott Gottlieb, board member of Pfizer, if the lawsuit survives the motion
00:28:14.060
to dismiss, we're going to be able to ask Pfizer about its communications with the federal
00:28:18.820
government. And to me, and frankly, what they knew in 2021.
00:28:22.720
And you can get it Pfizer potentially, because this isn't about a vaccine injury. They've been
00:28:28.040
immunized against, legally immunized against those lawsuits by law. But this is a different
00:28:35.260
story. Yep. Very. And so, and so, yeah, in a way it's the only possible way anyone's going to be
00:28:42.540
able to ask Pfizer these questions. And so I really do hope we survive this motion to, I mean, they
00:28:47.440
haven't filed it yet, but I, you know, you can just about guarantee they're going to try to get this
00:28:51.280
dismissed. Yeah, for sure. All right. We have much more to get to, including the secretary of
00:28:55.160
education, not being able to define what a woman is. Uh, we'll get to that. And then this MSC,
00:29:00.260
an MSNBC anchor tries to take down Matt Taibbi. And then another lefty reporter steps in to
00:29:07.700
humiliate the guy from MSNBC. We'll walk you through it.
00:29:15.880
I just wanted to finish making one point I raised during our last discussion, which was
00:29:19.320
it was July of 2021. You write that they were beginning to realize within the Biden administration
00:29:26.460
and Pfizer that the MRNA vaccines were losing their efficacy against infection far faster than
00:29:32.220
they had expected July of 2021. And it was July of 2021 that the white house publicly demanded social
00:29:39.540
media companies take aggressive action against vaccine skeptics. So the push to get you and others
00:29:46.240
silenced ASAP around that time was not accidental. You alleged that they knew they knew problems with
00:29:53.300
the vaccine were going to be recognized and come out publicly. And so it was more urgent than ever
00:29:57.780
that the loudest vaccine skeptics be silenced. I mean, that's how to sick this, what they did was
00:30:04.980
according to your lawsuit and that of others. So just to wrap that up. Okay. Let's, uh, let's talk
00:30:09.600
about the secretary of education who does not understand what a woman is, uh, takes after Ketanji
00:30:16.180
Brown Jackson, a sitting Supreme court justice who refused to say what a woman was because she's
00:30:20.600
not a, quote, not a biologist. Um, he was asked explicitly, I don't know, do we have this sound
00:30:26.900
bite? Um, to define a woman. Uh, and here's how Miguel Cardona answered. So can you please tell me
00:30:34.780
or can you please define for me, what is a woman? Uh, our focus at the department is to provide
00:30:41.000
equal access to students, including students who are, uh, LGBTQ access free from discrimination.
00:30:48.200
Is that, so what's the def, what's the definition of a woman? You haven't given me that you haven't
00:30:54.340
answered my question. I think that's almost secondary to the important role that I have
00:30:58.260
as secretary of education. My question is not secondary. My question is very simple. What
00:31:02.960
is the death? What does HHS say? The definition of a woman is, uh, I lead the department of education
00:31:09.500
and my job is to make sure that all students have access to public education. So this guy right
00:31:15.540
now is trying to change women's rights under title nine. He's this man is trying to change our rights
00:31:21.100
under title nine and cannot even define what we are. This is, uh, I mean, I haven't gotten too involved
00:31:27.560
in, you know, in, in writing about trans issues. I figure I have enough people who hate me as it is.
00:31:32.680
I did write last week about, uh, Dylan Mulvaney. Um, uh, there's something bizarre happening,
00:31:40.760
right? I mean, it's bizarre legally, it's bizarre societally, it's bizarre medically. Um, uh, you know,
00:31:48.080
this is not that complicated, right? You know, human biology, uh, chromosomes, uh, gender, like
00:31:56.120
these things are the, obviously, you know, there's always, there's, there's, there's a, you know, very,
00:32:00.800
very tiny number of people who are born with, you know, strange, uh, you know, genetic abnormalities,
00:32:06.320
but, but as a rule, this is pretty straightforward stuff. And, and the effort to try to tell people
00:32:12.660
it's not, I think is, is, is increasingly infuriating a lot of, a lot of centrist Americans.
00:32:19.140
And, and, and frankly, it's infuriating a lot of women. I mean, look, I'm, I'm like, to some
00:32:24.720
example, I'm sort of irrelevant in this discussion, right? I'm never going to compete in a woman's,
00:32:30.320
uh, you know, track meet. I'm never, I'm never going to go into a woman's bathroom. Like,
00:32:34.600
but, but I understand why this is so incredibly infuriating to, to women, real women, biological
00:32:41.500
women who've grown up, you know, who, who, who know that, you know, if a, if a guy enters the,
00:32:48.380
the, the track meet that, that they're, that they're now competing for second place and who
00:32:53.080
know that there's a physical risk to them when they're on the street, that men are bigger and
00:32:57.500
stronger than they are. And that, that's just the biological reality. And to pretend it isn't,
00:33:03.680
and to pretend that a man can become a woman just by saying so, or vice versa is, is completely
00:33:09.100
untrue. And, and, and, you know, one of the things that I, that I wrote about in this,
00:33:13.780
in this piece about Mulvaney is that one of the, one of the things that I think doesn't get,
00:33:18.900
you know, really discussed, even as sort of an open secret is that these surgeries,
00:33:23.520
these sexual reassignment surgeries don't really work very well for, for a lot of people,
00:33:28.340
right? There's high rates of complication. I mean, it's, it's hard to make a penis out of a vagina,
00:33:33.460
or a vagina out of a penis. It doesn't work very well. So, so this isn't really about
00:33:39.760
turning you into the opposite sex. That's, that's impossible. It's about something else.
00:33:47.120
Um, Kelly J Keen was on the show last week, Posey Parker, uh, who's been an activist on this for a
00:33:53.000
while. And she's amazing. She's so smart. And she, she puts everything in very simple terms. It was
00:33:57.500
like, yes, why can't we just say that? And she just says, you know, I asked her, what is a woman?
00:34:00.940
She said, adult, human, female. So simple. Yes, exactly. Adult, human, female. That works.
00:34:06.580
Why is it so hard? Why can't the Supreme court justice say it? Who actually is a woman?
00:34:10.020
Why can't the secretary of education who's right now trying to change women's rights
00:34:13.360
when it comes to sport, when it comes to sexual harassment on campus, why can't he define it?
00:34:19.060
If, if we just covered yesterday, the case of a sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma out in Wyoming,
00:34:23.880
that's getting sued by seven of its members because they forced these girls to allow in a
00:34:28.800
transgender girl who is like leering at the women, according to the lawsuit and jerking
00:34:34.240
off while watching them and absolutely disgusting stuff. Right. So they filed a lawsuit. So why,
00:34:39.340
like, if you don't understand what a woman is, when you're the person who's going to be changing
00:34:45.340
the standards for resolving sexual harassment standards on college campuses, you're the guy
00:34:50.700
you need to educate yourself. Because if you're going to tell me that the male who was jerking
00:34:54.580
off to the women dressed in a wig is the same thing as the women he was harassing. Well, how are
00:35:01.120
your standards going to apply? You're going to need to revise them yet again, sir. These are actually
00:35:05.800
not that tricky issues. They're actually very simple. And if you would just resort to biology,
00:35:10.680
they'd be simple to you too. Let's talk about the Dylan Mulvaney thing. So Dylan Mulvaney, um,
00:35:16.640
you know, Dylan Mulvaney wanted to be a star. That's pretty clear from Dylan's
00:35:20.300
behavior as while living as a biological male. And now, uh, since Dylan's only been a pretend
00:35:26.420
woman for a year, Dylan is getting mocked in some corners, predictably that happens to any public
00:35:33.780
figure and certainly one who's been as offensive as Dylan has in my view to women. And, um, there
00:35:39.060
is some commentator online who occasionally, I mean, they've put like a few, a few videos out
00:35:44.420
pretending to be Dylan. Uh, and you know, in this exaggerated non-complementary way,
00:35:49.800
can you just look at this, look at the, the, the impersonator and then look at how Dylan responds.
00:36:00.720
Hello. First of all, I would never open my video saying, Hey guys, I know that this is what you
00:36:06.420
want. You want me to respond. You want me to react. You want attention. Um, and I've seen your
00:36:10.620
videos for a few weeks, if not months now. Um, I didn't have time to respond to those. I was
00:36:15.800
really busy, you know, auditioning to be in movies. And now I actually just walked as a model in New
00:36:21.340
York fashion week on a runway. So sorry, I didn't get to you sooner. You're doing all those things
00:36:25.940
to mock me. Um, more specifically, you just kind of, I think hate trans people. I'm very glad that
00:36:31.680
you're doing it to me and not to another trans person because I'm okay right now. I really,
00:36:37.020
my life is going very well. Um, I feel pretty happy, but if you had made this video while I
00:36:45.080
was maybe depressed or God forbid, suicidal, that could be really effed up. And I, that would be on
00:36:52.120
you. That would be evil of you. It is evil. I'm a woman and I'm not going to say I'm more of a
00:36:58.560
woman than you are. I know that that would make you scoff, but because I see us as equals.
00:37:03.660
Okay. You're sighing. I just look, uh, again, I just kind of feel like in some ways women are
00:37:14.860
going to have to deal with this. Like it's, it's, it's incredible. I mean, as a man, it, it just,
00:37:22.060
it seems incredibly offensive to me, but, uh, but you know, uh, look, I, I do think women are
00:37:29.780
speaking out now, which is a good thing. Yeah, they are. Uh, to me, it was so telling
00:37:34.620
that Dylan saying I'm about to go walk in New York's fashion week. This is what Dylan has been
00:37:40.520
after, you know, celebrity, these endorsements that Dylan is getting fame. And what is he using
00:37:47.640
to, to get there? Us, us, you know, pretending to be one of us. And then with a wink and a nod,
00:37:55.780
I'm not going to say we're not equal. We're equal as humans, but we're not equal as women. Cause you're
00:38:00.080
not one, only one of us is, and it's not you. Yeah. I will say also, you know, look, this issue,
00:38:09.000
everybody knows what a man is and what a woman is. And people were not everybody, but I'll speak for
00:38:16.240
myself. I was happy enough. If, if a trans person wanted to say, you know, I, my pronouns are, you
00:38:23.640
know, she, or, you know, uh, or whatever you want, you know, wear what you want. If you want to have
00:38:29.160
this crazy surgeries and, and, you know, have your, you know, your, your penis removed and replaced with
00:38:35.680
this, this thing that's, that goes nowhere that you call vagina, whatever you live your life. Like
00:38:42.640
that's, this is the United States. I mean, I, I, I know there may be people who have religious or
00:38:47.940
moral objections to it. I don't. Okay. It's a free country, but, but, and I think a lot of the
00:38:54.140
country felt that way until about three years ago, this issue is being forced on us and people would
00:38:59.860
rather just not worry about what, you know, a few thousand or tens of thousands of people, uh, you
00:39:07.020
know, want to do, or, you know, maybe now it's hundreds of thousands. I don't know if, if you want to do
00:39:12.080
this, do it, but, but, but don't make us, and we'll pretend if you want us to pretend that you're
00:39:18.040
a woman or you're a man, we'll pretend we can all just, we can all just go on with it. But if you're
00:39:24.020
going to make it a political issue and insist on, again, competing against women or using the wrong
00:39:30.460
bathroom or whatever it is, at that point, it's, it's, it's something where I have to tell you what
00:39:35.880
I really think, which I'd rather actually not do because it, because it might hurt your feelings.
00:39:39.620
It's, it's gone so far beyond hurting feelings now. The, the, well said, I mean, I'll give you
00:39:45.060
just one example. I, I just retweeted this on my Twitter feed. This is, I usually don't take a one
00:39:50.460
off and tweet it out. Cause you know, it's like there's freaks in every freak women, freak men,
00:39:55.300
freak, whatever, you know, there were everywhere. However, this is becoming a theme. Now these
00:40:00.040
threatening Tik TOK videos that certain trans people are putting out. And I'll just give you an
00:40:04.580
example of the latest. I dare you to try and stop me from going into a women's bathroom.
00:40:12.740
It will be the last mistake you ever make. I dare you to try and stop a transgender woman
00:40:20.260
in my presence from using the bathroom. It will be the last mistake you ever make.
00:40:26.100
This is a call to action and a call to arms. You need to arm up plain and simple, go out,
00:40:31.660
buy a gun, learn how to use it efficiently. Look at this lunatic, this man trying to wear man hair
00:40:41.200
and claim that he has a right to go into our spaces. So if he wants to go in there with my
00:40:47.880
now 12 year old daughter and I say, sir, no, he's going to shoot me. That's what we're up against now.
00:40:55.220
I apparently so. I mean, by the way, has the manifesto from the, from the shooting in Tennessee
00:41:06.600
been released? No, it hasn't been released. It probably never will be right. You know, I think
00:41:10.700
there is a, you know, there's a public safety issue here in terms of testosterone is a really
00:41:15.640
powerful hormone. Estrogen, these are powerful hormones. Sex hormones are powerful hormones and
00:41:20.140
to hand them out to disturb teenagers, um, you know, is probably not the best idea. It, uh, again,
00:41:27.840
like the idea that, that, that trans, that changing your sex is a mental health treatment
00:41:33.300
is, is, is crazy. Right. So you, it, it, you should have a clear understanding. I mean,
00:41:41.080
you should have a psychiatrist diagnosis that you are not mentally ill, that you're, you know,
00:41:45.700
that you're not depressed, that your desire to change genders is somehow independent of any kind
00:41:52.220
of mental illness. That's so true. Before, before you're certainly, before you're going to get these
00:41:56.980
hormones. I mean, I think that should just be, I think that just makes sense medically, legally
00:42:02.180
from a public health, you know, public safety point of view. And yet like, you know, we're way
00:42:08.580
past that. You know, you can, it seems like in many of these clinics, you can go in, have a 10 minute
00:42:13.440
consultation, say you're depressed and walk out with the, you know, the beginnings of, of reassignment.
00:42:21.440
We had a D transition around the show just last week saying, uh, she got her cross gender hormones
00:42:28.020
from planned parenthood after just done nothing. And she was suffering from having been sexually
00:42:33.480
assaulted. She had an eating disorder. And of course, since the default is a firm, a firm, a firm,
00:42:38.580
they don't care about any of that stuff. It's, it's exactly the opposite of what you're saying.
00:42:43.200
It should be. They, they're not interested in probing other trauma that may be causing these
00:42:47.640
feelings. Just all that matters is that the feelings exist. You get affirmed, you cross over.
00:42:53.140
And by the way, I should tell the audience, Alex has done a ton of reporting on cannabis and he's
00:42:57.300
done a lot of work on mind altering drugs and how they can really affect behavior. So, you know,
00:43:03.320
of what you speak. Yeah. I mean, you know, the, another analogy, you know, suppose people with
00:43:09.540
eating disorders said, you know, I, I just really need to be 70 pounds and, and, and, and I need,
00:43:15.420
you know, I weigh 110 pounds now. It's not enough. I need surgery. I need lap band surgery,
00:43:20.680
you know, and, and then I'll be happy. That's, that's my, that's my goal. That's how I see myself.
00:43:28.140
I mean, a surgeon who did that, uh, you know, to a, to a depressed 17 year old girl would be set to
00:43:34.080
prison. Right. I mean, these are, these are very serious surgeries in the case, you know, in the
00:43:39.680
case of, in the case of the trans surgeries, you know, some of the stuff they do cannot really be
00:43:44.680
reversed in a, in a meaningful way. Obviously, you know, you cut somebody's breasts off and, or,
00:43:49.500
you know, or their penis off and they can't, that can't be reversed really. And so the idea that any of
00:43:56.540
this stuff is happening to anybody, I would say, I, you know, under the age of 18, 21 might make more
00:44:02.000
sense who doesn't have a demonstrated long-term history that this is what they want. I don't
00:44:06.900
think that's unreasonable. I think, I think the medical society should, should be stepping in here.
00:44:13.640
It's so infuriating. I think about last time I was at Broadway and they had the sign on the door,
00:44:17.960
use whatever bathroom is consistent with your gender identity. And I'm going to have to face that
00:44:22.440
guy. That is obvious man who's going to shoot me. If I say, I don't want you in here, or I, would
00:44:28.500
you please wait until my daughter's done? I'm going to get shot. That is that what it's going to
00:44:31.960
take for people to start standing up for women's spaces and privacy and dignity. Apparently the
00:44:37.780
answer is yes. And God help, God help us when we get to that point. Um, okay. Lastly, we've got to
00:44:42.800
talk to talk about Medhi Hassan, MSNBC anchor who tried to take down Matt Taibbi. And I'll show you
00:44:49.000
just a little bit of it. He didn't like Matt's reportings on the Twitter files, some of which,
00:44:52.780
some of the Twitter file reporting out of what they did to you. Um, and Medhi Hassan didn't like it.
00:44:57.980
He's a lefty. He's on MSNBC. He hates the Twitter files. Here's what happened when Taibbi went on
00:45:03.800
The vampire squid was an indelible image and it was textbook Matt Taibbi. If you were like me back
00:45:09.840
then, you loved reading his blistering takedowns of America's worst villains. But if you listen to
00:45:15.520
him these days, he's telling a different story. The man who used to gleefully heap abuse on the
00:45:21.240
outrage industrial complex on Fox now appears regularly on that very propaganda network. He once so
00:45:28.300
So you started off as I expected with the whole, what happened to you, man, routine.
00:45:33.720
Do your files provide evidence of government censorship? I don't think so. You said the
00:45:39.120
EIP was founded in response to the government dropping its proposal for a disinformation
00:45:43.560
government. Well, there you are. We're quoting you on screen. It wasn't. It was formed two years
00:45:47.180
earlier. Uh, you suggest it was government funded, even though during the 20 election, 2020 election
00:45:52.280
that you're covering. It wasn't, uh, you say they labeled 22 million tweets as misinformation
00:45:58.080
in the run-up to the 2020 vote. They didn't, but you mix up CISA, CISA, a Homeland Security
00:46:04.940
Agency with the Center for Internet Security, the CIS. It's just error after error, Matt,
00:46:09.840
But the other, but the other ones aren't, uh, apparently I've gotten like one thing wrong
00:46:15.320
or a few things wrong, but mostly I think this story, these stories are going to hold
00:46:19.900
up over the test of time. Unlike your Russia case story.
00:46:23.380
By the way, Mehdi's attempt at a fact check fell flat because then he was fact checked and
00:46:27.580
he was wrong about 99% of what he said. So it was, it was a false indictment and in a court
00:46:32.800
of law, it would have been overruled as a fake impeachment, false impeachment. Now it turns
00:46:37.060
out, Alex, thanks to, uh, Lee Fong who used to work at the intercept with Glenn, uh, Greenwald.
00:46:42.460
He did an in-depth report on Mehdi Hassan. Mehdi Hassan is a long history of being a plagiarizer
00:46:47.380
and he's got the receipts. If you look back, it's absolutely disgusting how much he copied
00:46:52.120
and stole from other writers without attribution. That's who we're listening to.
00:46:57.380
Yeah. I mean, that's what we're, look, the standards that, that, that, that Matt faces or
00:47:02.380
that I face or, you know, that Abigail Schreiber is, we are judged. If we make
00:47:06.920
one tiny factual error, um, uh, you know, we are just pilloried for it. And the, meanwhile,
00:47:14.960
you know, people like Aporva just make mistake after mistake and half the time don't even correct
00:47:19.920
them. So, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's a, look, I take my responsibility to be accurate and truthful
00:47:27.120
very, very seriously. And that's both the journals, but it's also because I don't have the New York
00:47:31.780
Times protecting me right now. If somebody sues me, it's me who's going to be stuck paying it.
00:47:37.320
And, you know, that's a very serious thing for an independent reporter. So, so I am as serious as
00:47:43.380
can be about this. And, and I know Matt is too. And I, you know, the, the double standard here is very
00:47:48.940
real. Lee Fong's reporting shows that Mehdi Hassan stole huge portions of an article from U.S. News and
00:47:56.600
World Report and just repurposed it as his own about spanking. It was absolutely disgusting.
00:48:03.140
Even on this show, if I quote another podcast, if I get an idea from another writer, I, I attribute it
00:48:09.380
out of respect and professional responsibility. This is egregious. He hasn't responded. He ought to
00:48:14.720
be ashamed of himself. Yeah. It was a cut and paste job. I mean, it's totally clear. Yeah. But, but he,
00:48:20.080
but he probably won't respond or if he does, he'll say it was 20 years ago and he made a mistake and no
00:48:24.240
one will pay any attention to it. It, the, the, the game is rigged and there, you know, there's me.
00:48:29.380
Would have been a different story, right? If he'd been, there's a few, there's a few people out
00:48:33.040
there who are fighting. Yeah, that's exactly right. All right. I got to go, but, uh, great to see you
00:48:38.220
and, uh, we'll see you again soon. All right. When we come back, we're going to be joined by two
00:48:42.260
Gen Z commentators with a lot of thoughts on what's happening in today's news, including, uh, we'll pick
00:48:47.700
back up on that Dylan Mulvaney and that lunatic soundbite I just showed you. Stand by.
00:48:54.240
Our next guests are helping fight the radical left takeover of Gen Z, two outspoken and fearless
00:49:02.020
commentators who are here for the first time. Isabel Brown hosts outdated a weekly podcast and
00:49:07.740
video series highlighting the lies of modern dating and relationship culture and gender theory. She's
00:49:14.360
also a turning point USA contributor and travels the country, giving speeches to colleges from coast to
00:49:19.040
coast. Will Witt is the editor in chief of the Florida standard and the bestselling author of how
00:49:24.160
to win friends and influence enemies, taking on liberal arguments with logic and humor.
00:49:29.080
And his new book released in September is do not comply, taking power back from America's corrupt
00:49:35.500
elite. Isabel and will so great to have you here. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having us.
00:49:41.680
So let's kick it off with the tolerant left and I'll play you that a little excerpt of some guy on
00:49:46.540
tick tock again, pretending to be a woman and threatening us all. If we try to stop him from
00:49:51.500
going into a lady's restroom, watch this. I dare you to try and stop me from going into a women's
00:49:59.580
bathroom. It will be the last mistake you ever make. I dare you to try and stop a transgender woman
00:50:08.100
in my presence from using the bathroom. It will be the last mistake you ever make. This is a call to
00:50:14.720
action and a call to arms. You need to arm up, plain and simple. Go out, buy a gun, learn how to
00:50:21.560
use it efficiently. Got it. So, Isabel, if you are walking into the restroom and you happen to see
00:50:28.820
that clearly biological man trying to walk in there with you and say, excuse me, sir,
00:50:34.380
you're going to get shot. He's putting it out there, making it absolutely clear.
00:50:38.920
You know, Megan, they are really saying the quiet part out loud these days. This used to be a tinfoil
00:50:44.880
hat conspiracy theory that the far right would talk about on the deep corners of the dark web.
00:50:50.280
But ever since high school girls and minors have been sexually assaulted in public bathrooms and
00:50:55.880
public schools, as we've seen in Loudoun County, and now we're hearing more and more stories about
00:50:59.740
this all over the country, people really are leaning into this, that the bathroom is not just a place
00:51:05.020
to relieve yourself, but is somewhat of a battleground for this alphabet mafia, as you
00:51:10.400
often hear them referred to on TikTok. I have yet to hear until this video, an actual call to arms
00:51:16.400
though. But with this year's trans day of vengeance, that was somewhat supported by our White House,
00:51:22.180
acknowledging a trans day of visibility. I think we're only going to see more of this divisive,
00:51:26.940
angry, and even violent rhetoric, and potentially even a manifestation of that rhetoric,
00:51:31.700
like we just saw with Riley Gaines at San Francisco State University, speaking up on behalf of
00:51:37.140
biological gender and being physically assaulted and held hostage herself for doing so.
00:51:42.380
Yes, and it's to the point, and we discussed on the show about how a large percentage of these
00:51:47.080
trans women are actually men who just get off in dressing in women's clothing. It's a sexual fetish.
00:51:54.320
And so said men are supposed to be able to go into our bathrooms and pull their pants down and do
00:52:00.360
whatever they want when my 12-year-old daughter is in the stall next door and I'm not supposed to say
00:52:04.900
anything, or I could get shot or some other woman could get shot. I mean, this is where we are
00:52:10.480
in this debate. And you know what? This makes us, even for having the conversation, we're transphobes.
00:52:17.100
You're exactly correct. And more than that, we are the violent domestic extremists, as our own
00:52:22.880
government is pointing out. If you start to say things like biology matters when it comes to gender,
00:52:28.200
or even my safety should matter, when I walk into a restroom, you are considered this radical
00:52:33.440
domestic terrorist, while other people can go on TikTok and talk about a call to arms and even
00:52:38.500
raising violence and shooting people if you don't agree with their gender identity. Could you imagine
00:52:46.820
Right, right. So can I ask you, before I bring in Will in, what is the attitude on this issue?
00:52:52.800
You know, women are finding their voices more and more on this issue. And so young people,
00:52:57.200
you know, women in particular, where are they on this?
00:53:02.060
You know, I'm incredibly inspired and encouraged by my generation, Gen Z, on a whole host of issues.
00:53:07.800
I think Americans, particularly from a right of center perspective, have discounted us and said
00:53:12.800
that we are destroying America because a small percentage that is the minority is the loudest.
00:53:18.540
And they're particularly the loudest on platforms like TikTok. But every single day,
00:53:22.880
on college campuses, on TikTok, on Instagram, or my live stream that I host across platforms,
00:53:28.480
I engage with Gen Zers, even on the left, who have had enough with this violent, divisive rhetoric
00:53:34.220
in our country. We're breaking free from the stereotypes that so many people associate Generation Z with,
00:53:40.240
one of which being this craze of changing our gender all the time.
00:53:43.660
And we're seeking truth and genuine dialogue, which is why independent content creators like
00:53:48.780
Will and myself really have gone above and beyond in facilitating this conversation and a change
00:53:53.740
of perspective that our generation isn't exposed to on our college campuses or on our TikTok feeds,
00:54:00.860
Okay. I thank God for you. I really do. Because my three kids are actually at the
00:54:05.820
end of your Gen Z. I mean, we looked it up. I guess technically it starts like around 2010
00:54:10.400
is like the last of Gen Z. So it ends around there. So my kids are in there. My daughter
00:54:15.720
just said to me the other day, well, I'm Gen Z. So she's in with you. So she needs women like you
00:54:21.700
who are closer to her age to look up to, not just the old hags like mom saying all the,
00:54:26.920
yeah, no, don't do that. It's bad for you. So I appreciate it, Isabel. So you will have been
00:54:31.560
fighting back against this same nonsense. And in particular, one of the clips that jumped out to me
00:54:37.900
about you was standing up to this, forgive me, I know I sound so old, but absolute smut that we're
00:54:44.240
seeing in some libraries in public schools. I mean, that there's just like no other word for it. It's
00:54:48.300
absolutely disgusting. We pulled a clip of you reading an excerpt from this book, Lucky,
00:54:54.340
that you found in Hillsborough County public school libraries. Here it is.
00:54:59.720
Good evening, board. My name is Will Witt, and I'm here to read you an excerpt from a book called
00:55:03.840
Lucky. He started humping me again wildly. The base of my spine was crushed into the ground.
00:55:09.420
Glass cut me on my back and behind. He kneeled back. Raise your legs, he said. Spread them. He put
00:55:14.780
a hand on each calf and pressed them out farther than I could hold. Keep them there. He began to
00:55:19.260
knead his fist against the opening of my vagina. I want a blowjob. He held his dick in his hand.
00:55:24.280
I've never done it before, I said. I'm a virgin. Put it in your mouth. I kneeled before him.
00:55:29.140
Guys, seriously, would you ever read this to your own children? No. If you wouldn't read it to your
00:55:39.080
own children, then why is this in the schools? Yes. Yes. Will, I too am applauding you. I should
00:55:46.720
have given an explicit warning on that before we played it, but good for you. So why was that
00:55:53.100
important to you? How did you find the book and how was your objection received?
00:55:56.940
Well, the objection was not received very well by the board. We actually had one of the school
00:56:01.820
board members fall asleep while some of us were going and talking. I think there was about 30 of
00:56:06.120
us and there was about 45 books. Each person, this was working with a group called CCDF and
00:56:10.540
Moms for Liberty and some other just parents who were concerned in the Tampa Bay area who brought
00:56:14.900
these books to the school board to read all of them out loud. And these books are just,
00:56:18.580
I mean, you heard what I said. I mean, it was egregious. I was embarrassed going up there,
00:56:22.920
even being a 26 year old man and having to read these things. It's, it's embarrassing for me to
00:56:28.340
have to go and do that and think that children are reading these books within the schools, the left
00:56:33.240
and the people who are putting these things in the schools and thinking that there's nothing wrong
00:56:37.360
with it. I can't imagine that there is anything that they are doing that is not something screwed
00:56:42.160
up inside their head that makes them think that this is okay for children. None of them would
00:56:45.820
actually ever read this to their children, but they're so scared of going against the left and going
00:56:49.960
against this new, these new tenants of a leftist religion that they are going to continue to put
00:56:54.200
these things in the book and do it behind closed doors with these school board meetings and make
00:56:58.060
sure that no one really knows about it. It's like so disturbing. That's so age inappropriate. I don't
00:57:03.280
care if it's all the way up through high school, that's not appropriate for a school library. And yet
00:57:09.480
to me, it kind of dovetails with what we're seeing in so many places in our society. As we get rid of
00:57:15.460
gender as a non thing, you know, it's like whatever biological sex is no longer a real thing.
00:57:19.960
And young women are encouraged. I know you talk about this in your podcast, Isabel,
00:57:23.280
to just give it up to anybody who wants it. That's sexual liberation. Trust us. It's going
00:57:26.820
to make you feel so good. Oh, okay. Read anything by Bridget Phetasy in the past two years and see
00:57:31.440
how that worked out. Um, and that brings me to Sam Smith, who I find a very disturbing person.
00:57:36.260
I mean, he's both disturbed and disturbing and every concert now seems a desperate cry for help by this
00:57:42.980
guy. First, you just wanted to be sort of a non-binary goes by they, I guess that's one I refuse to use.
00:57:48.100
I'm not using they, I don't even know if I'm using any of them anymore, but I'm definitely
00:57:51.540
not using they that one's taken. Here's just a little bit of where Sam Smith is now in his career
00:57:56.960
and his performance art. But the listening audience, it's a very heavy man with man boobs
00:58:06.300
and nipple covers and like the front of a thong and high boots in a devil worshiping type of
00:58:15.820
performance. Yeah, let's get rid of this. We've seen this long enough. So Will, do you know,
00:58:27.720
I'm not saying it's exactly the same as what you were reading inside that classroom, but it just
00:58:31.740
seems like at every turn we're priming these kids for inappropriate sexuality.
00:58:37.660
Oh yeah. It's not even a question at that, at this point anymore. What I seem to find is like
00:58:41.860
looking at that tick tock that we watched earlier about the trans guy saying that we should get
00:58:45.260
guns. And then the Sam Smith thing, you have an entire generation of young people, Gen Z,
00:58:49.160
as well as many millennials who have a clear lack of meaning or any sort of purpose in their lives.
00:58:54.900
So then what happens? You have these ideologues, these zealots who come in with this trans ideology
00:58:59.100
or Black Lives Matter, climate change, COVID ideology, whatever it is. And they take these
00:59:03.680
impressionable, insecure young people who are working these nine to five jobs, answering emails
00:59:08.220
all day with no real sense of passion or articulation to think of. And they give them these leftist ideas
00:59:13.940
and put them inside their head and say, hey, you can have some sort of meaning in your life
00:59:17.840
by attaching yourself to this trans identity. So now you have these numbers that are showing there's
00:59:22.880
way more gay and trans kids than ever before. And it's because they are pushing it on these kids
00:59:27.540
to know that they can control them because they have nothing else in their lives going on because
00:59:31.920
society has essentially turned most of the American young population into the new surf class.
00:59:37.600
And that's incredibly sad. And so unless you find the way, like I'll go to and do speeches for,
00:59:42.800
I did one for this older group of people in Florida a little while ago and they say, well,
00:59:46.100
how do we get the young people to be Republican? How do we make them conservative? And I said,
00:59:50.120
you can't even talk to many young people about Republican issues or being a conservative,
00:59:54.760
low taxes when they don't even have anything that really gives them any sense of purpose.
00:59:59.000
You need to instill that inside of them. And whether that's through God or through some sense
01:00:03.140
of, you know, heroism, courage they can take a part in. You have to do that before you start
01:00:07.780
working on these issues because you're just going to continue to see a spiral and spiral downhill
01:00:12.220
with this trans ideology and everything else. That's so well said. And so here's the problem.
01:00:17.220
You got governors like DeSantis in Florida who say, one thing we should do is keep inappropriate
01:00:23.260
content out of the classroom, uh, in particular, while the children are young, he's taking a hit
01:00:28.400
right now in, in, because there's a push to expand his parental rights law beyond the third grade up
01:00:35.300
to 12th grade, which is different to say, you can't talk about gay rights or, you know, homosexuality
01:00:41.200
or potentially gender identity until the 12th grade or all the way through high school. I understand
01:00:46.420
that's more controversial, uh, through third grade shouldn't be a controversial law. I have a third
01:00:50.360
grader. This is absurd. And I've got a seventh grader. I got a sixth grader, um, in any event.
01:00:54.620
So he pushes to say, keep, keep your weird leftist agenda out of the classroom. Let, let the parents
01:01:01.480
send their kids to class. And if the parents want to educate them about any of that stuff,
01:01:05.420
they can do it at home. It's not for the teacher to try to indoctrinate the kids in sexualities,
01:01:10.860
any, any talk about sex. And in response to that issue, they had this discussion on the view,
01:01:18.280
the person who we're going to show you is a woman named Patti LuPone. She is an actress. She was most
01:01:25.740
recently in the Broadway show company, which I actually went to with my two priest friends. It
01:01:31.880
was super fun. And, uh, she's on the view promoting her latest project. And here's her reaction to Ron
01:01:39.680
DeSantis in that issue. I don't know what the difference between our Christian right and the
01:01:45.400
Taliban is. I have no idea what the difference is. You're not the only person who's said that.
01:01:50.420
I don't, I just don't know what the difference is. What's happening in this country right now in the
01:01:55.640
name of religion is so dangerous. Look at that, Isabel. No pushback by Whoopi. You're not the only
01:02:02.100
one who said that, you know, I'm thinking it right now in my head is what she's thinking.
01:02:06.380
Yeah, absolutely. It's open encouragement more than a lack of pushback. I actually reacted to this video
01:02:11.000
on my TikTok yesterday and got some fascinating responses from people on the internet, but it
01:02:16.780
blows my mind that we've come to a time where genuinely we have bought into the level of
01:02:21.720
hyperbolic rhetoric that is allowed on TV, particularly on the view these days. I'm convinced at this
01:02:27.400
point, Megan, that they sit around in the green room right before they record the show every day
01:02:31.620
and ask what the craziest thing they possibly could say on national television could be to remain
01:02:37.360
somewhat relevant in modern day American life, because otherwise no one would be paying attention
01:02:42.360
to the show with the subjects that they're talking about. But to compare the Christian right in America
01:02:48.020
today, that's suggesting perhaps we should preserve the innocence of children while they are still
01:02:53.020
children. Maybe we should be encouraging a 12 year old girl to experience puberty before we put her
01:02:58.480
through menopause, through chemical and physical castration. Perhaps it's important for us to educate
01:03:04.100
our children in mathematics and science and helping them be successful in their adult years rather than
01:03:10.160
crude conversations that are completely inappropriate for public or private schools about how to have
01:03:16.000
anal sex, which was happening in the state of Florida prior to Governor Ron DeSantis' leadership on
01:03:21.560
this issue, to the Taliban, which is quite literally removing any semblance of human rights for anyone that
01:03:27.820
does not adhere to the lockstep ideology of a radical terrorist organization, where you as a woman do not have
01:03:33.720
the opportunity to go to school or even to walk outside of your own home without the presence of a male
01:03:39.300
chaperone from within your family is ridiculous to me. And we have to keep counting these opportunities,
01:03:45.800
as many opportunities as we can to discount the lies and the narrative that are being propagated by the
01:03:51.720
American left today. If we don't call this out for what it is, which is propaganda at the very source,
01:03:56.860
we will not have the opportunity to even fight for freedom of speech, which ironically is what Patty
01:04:01.960
so luckily had there on the panel on The View to even utter such a ridiculous statement.
01:04:07.180
Yeah, it's like she hates this country that's given her so much, right? She can't stand half the country.
01:04:12.340
She's also the woman. I don't know if you guys remember this, but it not at the show that I was at.
01:04:17.220
But and when I was there was well post the peak of COVID. But of course, the mask Nazis were everywhere,
01:04:22.020
like pull up your mask, pull up your mask. And since, you know, my priest buddies, of course,
01:04:26.080
they were compliant. They were sweet. But I was like, anyway, so so it wasn't at our performance,
01:04:32.740
but it made news at another performance. She and the other actors, they stay around afterward.
01:04:37.720
They ask you to donate to certain things. A conversation got going and she absolutely
01:04:41.920
scolded this one audience member over the mask. Watch this. We pulled the clip back up.
01:04:47.020
Put your mask over your nose. That's why you're in the theater. That is the rule. If you don't
01:04:53.880
want to follow the rule, get the fuck out. Who do you think you are? If you do not respect
01:05:04.100
the people that are sitting around you. You pay my salary. Bullshit. Chris Harper pays my salary.
01:05:11.800
Who do you think you are? Just put your mask over your nose.
01:05:21.060
The tolerant left is so fun to spend time with, aren't they? Right? Like the irony of her screaming
01:05:27.860
that not wearing a mask herself, sitting awfully close to her fellow co-stars. It's just you can't
01:05:34.000
make this stuff up anymore. She's a lovely person. I'll be sure never to attend another another show
01:05:40.260
that she is in. She was in God. What movie was it? She was in. She was younger and she actually was
01:05:45.520
quite good. She said she's not. She's a good actress. She's just a terrible person. So it
01:05:49.420
happens. Have you will like, did you go through this whole nonsense while in college with what
01:05:57.280
we're seeing right now at places like, you know, the San Francisco State University and what we saw
01:06:01.680
at SUNY Albany, where we, you know, saw a talking points, a friend of the show shouted down last week.
01:06:07.440
Um, Ian Hayworth actually, was he there via TP? I can't remember. In any event, we've seen it
01:06:12.780
campus after campus, right? Somebody goes on like a Riley Gaines, gets shouted down. They're not
01:06:17.140
allowed to speak, whether it's the judge out in Stanford or Ian at SUNY Albany. Have you experienced
01:06:22.040
any of that? Oh, most definitely. Yeah. My book tour, uh, in university of Maryland, I had about 50
01:06:28.040
protesters come and I'll say, well, what is a racist and a liar and all, all these kinds of things,
01:06:32.160
you know, university of Maryland, right over by DC, DC is just LA for ugly people. So, you know,
01:06:36.660
you kind of have to expect that that's the case when it happens over there. But yeah,
01:06:40.020
I did a event at university in Northern Colorado as well, where black lives matter thugs, these
01:06:44.180
animals come and they start flipping tables because I refuse to wear a mask. The school said I had to
01:06:48.720
wear a mask while I spoke. I said, the hell I'm wearing a mask. I'm not wearing a mask. And they
01:06:52.540
came and they destroyed the event, threatening kids and children in the audience. I've definitely
01:06:56.800
dealt with these kinds of things. But one thing about the video that you just saw with the lady who is,
01:07:00.740
is there on stage cursing at this person telling me to put on a mask. It shows how disconnected the
01:07:05.400
elite of this country, the higher echelon of people are with the normal everyday person,
01:07:10.160
right? It's, it's, it's very reminiscent of the French revolution where you have religion is cast
01:07:14.840
aside and you have these elites who think that they can do whatever they want while the people
01:07:17.920
all pay for it. They're in their, their chalets and their castles having these soirees and parties.
01:07:22.520
And eventually these people are going to have to pay the price for the decadent lifestyle that they
01:07:27.280
are living. And the American people are incredibly fed up. This is why we have this divisive rhetoric
01:07:31.900
right now in this country, because the people are so sick of the elites. This is why you have
01:07:35.160
someone like Donald Trump getting so much fame and, and, and, uh, notoriety or not notoriety,
01:07:40.400
but people loving him because he was a populist. This is why you had Bernie Sanders as everyone
01:07:44.540
loved him on the left because he was a populist as well. So yeah, I'm just very disenfranchised with
01:07:49.740
the elite. And I think there's going to be a reckoning coming very soon with them.
01:07:52.800
And how about the nerve of her to be like, Oh, you pay my salary. The producer of the show
01:07:57.560
places. Who do you think puts the money in his pack pocket, madam, a fundamental understanding
01:08:01.940
of economics might really help you out here. As good as of an actor, as you are, um, you may
01:08:07.020
have skipped the math section of high school. Cause even I know that one, um, there are more and more
01:08:12.180
people speaking out even, even at the, you know, public figure level, which is encouraging on this
01:08:18.260
trans ideology insanity. Uh, Sam Ponder over at ESPN state Sage Steele, who I love, um, found the nerve
01:08:26.380
inside of ESPN, which is as woke as it comes. I mean, that's a Disney company. They are the
01:08:34.500
wokest of the woke to say, this is baloney what they're doing, what Biden's doing right now, right
01:08:40.640
now with title nine, which he's trying to amend the title nine protections, which are meant to
01:08:44.360
protect women, women on college campuses, women's rights, women's sports. He's trying to
01:08:49.060
change those rules that would make all these state bands. There are 20 of them banning men from
01:08:55.260
participating in women's sports. It would basically eviscerate them. It would say those
01:08:59.020
bands are no longer good. And you're not allowed to have a ban for K through eight education at all.
01:09:05.340
And maybe for high school and college on a case by case basis, you might be able to,
01:09:09.660
we'd have to review it. So both sides are unhappy. The trans community, Leah Thomas is out there saying
01:09:13.960
there should be no possibility of a ban. Look at me. I'm an example of fairness in sports. Leah Thomas,
01:09:19.660
a man who's crossed over into women's swimming and won all the wet, the medals. That's why Riley's
01:09:24.000
mad. Um, so now you have stage seal, you've got Sam Ponder speaking out. And I just, I wonder what
01:09:30.120
your reaction is because it was what a year and a half, wait, a year, no, about almost a year exactly
01:09:37.000
ago that this same, not Sage and Sam, but this same organization, ESPN held a moment of silence
01:09:44.800
on the air because of that Florida bill we were just discussing. Look at this legislation happening in
01:09:51.480
Florida and across other States as well that are targeting our LGBTQI plus communities.
01:09:57.400
Many of our colleagues here at ESPN have planned and organized a walkout that will be happening at
01:10:03.200
3 PM Eastern today. And to be honest with you, we thought we were going to come here today and
01:10:07.300
really celebrate a sport that has meant so much and done so much, including for so many in the LGBTQI
01:10:13.880
plus communities. But we understand the gravity of this legislation and also how it is affecting
01:10:19.680
so many families across this country. And because of that, our ally shit is going to take a front
01:10:25.360
seat. And with that, we're going to pause in solidarity. Oh my God. Isabel, who would not
01:10:34.620
surprised. I mean, if you turn on ESPN every morning and see Stephen A. Smith screaming about
01:10:39.820
the latest woke agenda, uh, ideology as well, it's the same thing across all of their programming.
01:10:45.660
They're at ESPN. Uh, you're starting to see reporters speak up and be fired for it or be
01:10:50.760
personally punished in their jobs, but I'm encouraged to see more and more people standing
01:10:54.740
up. I think we'll really said it best. The American people have had enough and you can
01:10:58.680
only push people so far with this type of insanity that isn't based in partisan ideology. It isn't
01:11:05.320
based in what political party you might support or who you voted for in the last election. It is a
01:11:10.440
complete perversion of objective reality and objective truth. I keep asking where the feminists
01:11:17.140
are. If we're seriously contemplating replacing women with men in every single aspect of American
01:11:23.700
society, competitive sports in our bathrooms for job opportunities, entrance into higher education
01:11:29.500
and more. And yet they remain silent and or cheer on this type of ideology in that perversion
01:11:35.420
of objective truth. People can only take so much of this insanity before we say we've had enough.
01:11:42.380
And I think that's a good question approaching that reality. That's a good question. Where are
01:11:45.980
the women? And they are starting to find their voices because, you know, men don't want this.
01:11:49.640
Men don't want these fake women taking over women's spaces. There's not a man in the world who's normal,
01:11:55.500
who wants to go to bed with Dylan Mulvaney or that freak who I opened the show with threatening to
01:12:01.200
kill us if we if we don't let him into our bathrooms. Not a man on Earth who's sane wants to go to bed
01:12:06.800
with that instead of with Mayor Isabel. OK, that's just the truth. So men don't want this. They don't
01:12:12.880
want this takeover of women's spaces. And they are, I think, on our side on this. It's just been sort
01:12:19.360
of like a shoulder shrug. Like this is a weird group and there's nothing much we can do about it.
01:12:22.740
But I feel like there's been a couple of inflection points. Right, Isabel? I feel like it's been
01:12:26.940
what happened to Riley Gaines was was big. Dylan Mulvaney has touched a nerve and not in a good
01:12:32.660
way for Dylan's cause. Leah Thomas is another person who touched a bad nerve. Every American
01:12:39.120
looked at that and said that is unfair. These TikTok videos that gain traction are starting to turn
01:12:44.460
the tide on people's opinions. So, you know, I do wonder if we're almost at a before and after
01:12:50.980
moment on this whole conversation. I think we are. But I have to say, Megan, I'm coming from a bit
01:12:55.700
of a place of frustration. Having been responding to people like Dylan Mulvaney for over a year now
01:13:01.440
in my personal content, we're talking about somebody who has 10 million followers on TikTok
01:13:06.700
and regularly gains dozens of millions of views on every single one of his videos, encouraging
01:13:12.760
youth to embrace this type of behavior. We're just now starting to pay attention to it because
01:13:17.700
it happened to affect America's favorite beer brand. Although if you were genuinely drinking
01:13:22.100
Bud Light before this, I don't know why you have such horrible taste in alcoholic beverages.
01:13:27.040
Take it from Colorado natives, Will and I ourselves. Please upgrade to a better beer. But I'm glad to
01:13:31.920
see we're finally talking about this as Americans. Why did it take a year, though, of sponsorships from
01:13:37.800
Tampax, from Kate Spade, from other women's companies, Nike women's apparel and sports bras being modeled by a
01:13:44.780
man being championed on our most popular social media platform in America with over 150 million Americans
01:13:51.680
using the platform daily, 60 percent of whom are my generation for us to finally stand up and say we've
01:13:57.840
had enough because of one brand sponsorship. We have been on defense for far too long in America when it
01:14:04.520
comes to this assault on objective truth. And unless we're willing to start fighting on offense and
01:14:09.120
replacing these lies with truth, I don't know that we'll have much left to fight for in 2024 in any
01:14:14.500
major presidential election or as Gen Z continues to come into adulthood. So what is the answer to
01:14:19.620
that, Will? Why did it take the Bud Light thing to start changing the conversation? Well, obviously,
01:14:25.160
Bud Light is something that men are very into. Men drink beer more than women. It's something that
01:14:29.580
men, like you said, are not too interested in all this trans stuff that's Dylan Mulvaney thing. But it goes
01:14:33.520
even deeper than that, where you have these issues right now, which is one of the reasons that I think is
01:14:38.180
very wrong with the conservative movement, is that we are so focused on calling out the left's
01:14:42.260
hypocrisy. We're so focused on having making sure that all of our facts are always 100 percent
01:14:46.680
correct. And that we think that that is the antidote to beating the left. We think that that
01:14:50.780
is the antidote to winning against this trans ideology. When in fact, the left doesn't care
01:14:55.580
about hypocrisy. They don't care if they're right. Obviously, men and women's sports is completely wrong
01:15:00.400
and it's hypocritical and everything else. But does that stop more and more people from more men from
01:15:05.420
winning in women's divisions? Does that stop more men from going into women's bathrooms and claiming
01:15:10.400
that they're trans? No. Us calling out their hypocrisy doesn't do anything because the left
01:15:14.540
only works on the basis of power. They know that they can get power over people through these ideas
01:15:20.120
and shame them and harm them and ostracize them from every inch of society. And so us going out and
01:15:26.200
saying, well, this is hypocritical. You know, the left, they're so dumb. That doesn't do anything for us
01:15:30.880
as a movement. Like Isabel said, we need to be on offense and say, what can we actually do to make
01:15:36.120
sure that these things can never happen? That this ideology, this trans ideology that is infesting
01:15:41.000
our world should be eradicated, right? It should not be allowed to fester and get into the minds of
01:15:45.920
children anywhere in America. That is what we have to do. Like Rhonda Santos is doing in Florida with
01:15:50.680
That's what Michael Knowles said that got him in so much trouble at CPAC, that trans ideology needs to
01:15:57.040
be eradicated. And that is different from saying trans people, which the left said is what he said.
01:16:01.720
And it wasn't what he said. And I don't understand how that's even controversial when you understand
01:16:06.120
the social contagion that is infecting in particular teenage girls right now. If you can't say there's
01:16:13.120
an ideology there that is catchable, it's contagious and it needs to be stopped. And if you don't understand
01:16:20.240
how that is distinct from trans people need to be eradicated, that's different, right? It's different.
01:16:24.680
Look, I think we were better off as a country when this was a much smaller problem, when we weren't
01:16:31.360
so open about it and encouraging people to lean into it. It's a very damaged way to be. And I just
01:16:38.520
having seen this in my own life, transitioning in any way doesn't solve your problems. It tends to
01:16:43.600
create a lot more. I know that's not the messaging from the trans community. They'll tell you exactly
01:16:47.300
the opposite. Spoken to an FD transitioners and others who will tell you a very different story if
01:16:51.680
only they could get access to a microphone. That is most definitely the case. These people have
01:16:57.280
an ideology that they are pushing where they can, again, make up their own facts. They can disregard
01:17:01.400
everything that we say and say, oh, it's all lies. It doesn't matter. Again, if we have the best facts
01:17:06.220
and the best everything, it doesn't matter. I mean, it's like there's a guy, let's say there's a doctor
01:17:11.060
and he's doing trans surgeries on children, cutting off little boys' penises and turning them into
01:17:14.760
girls. And we say, well, that's stupid. That's horrible. What we should be doing is going and making
01:17:19.180
sure that this doctor's office gets shut down and this guy's license gets revoked so that he can no
01:17:23.900
longer perform these surgeries on children that are evil. That is what conservatives should be
01:17:28.220
doing for. So, Will, we're doing that. We're doing that more and more, right? You see Ron DeSantis
01:17:31.120
coming out explicitly this week and saying you cannot turn from a man into a woman. That is a lie to be
01:17:36.340
able to say that you can. And you have 20 states, as I point out, saying you're banned. If you're a boy,
01:17:41.740
you cannot play in girls' sports, period. K-12, college, it's done. And then you see the Biden
01:17:46.460
administration interfering, saying, no, we're overturning your ban. We're going to change the
01:17:52.020
federal rules and we're going to null it because of federalism. When the feds legislate, the states
01:17:57.240
are not free to in any particular area. So you are no longer allowed to have those bans. That's
01:18:01.960
what's so frustrating. So you've got to play a bigger game politically. You've got to win at the
01:18:06.560
highest levels in this country. It's not enough to win the state houses. You have to win the presidency.
01:18:10.740
You have to take control of the Senate. And the Republicans, who tend to be more aligned with
01:18:15.780
the messaging we're discussing on this show, are terrible at politics. Just terrible. They don't
01:18:22.660
know. They're not good at winning, Will. No, they are not good at winning at all. I can't think of
01:18:27.240
one Republican basically in Congress who I would say is a real winner. I would say Thomas Massey is
01:18:31.580
someone who I respect, especially because of his raw milk stances and everything, which I'm
01:18:35.720
huge support of. But other than that, I mean, look, we're talking about this trans stuff. And then you
01:18:40.680
look at the amount of money that candidates are taking, politicians on both sides are taking. You have
01:18:44.680
Bayer Pharmaceuticals that is working hand in hand and Abby V Pharmaceuticals that is working hand in
01:18:49.460
hand with gender groups and movies that deal with transgenderism for children, funding these movies
01:18:55.160
or working with them to push transgenderism on kids so that then that money can be, or essentially
01:19:00.700
they're making money off these things so that people will go and buy their drugs, which are puberty
01:19:04.200
blockers for children that are used to castrate sex offenders, right? So the maliciousness of these big
01:19:09.940
companies that are working with these trans groups is horrible. And then yet you have Republicans and
01:19:14.700
Democrats in Congress and all around this country who are taking money from big pharma, these essentially
01:19:19.200
evil companies that are pushing this ideology and making it so that these kids are getting castrated
01:19:24.240
and potentially ruining their lives forever. That is evil. If we don't revamp our political system
01:19:29.340
entirely in the lobbying and everything else, then none of this is going to get changed. It takes real
01:19:33.880
dedicated leadership with strong conservative values. What is your raw milk thing? What are you,
01:19:39.760
what are you talking about? This is raw milk. This is straight out of the cow's utter.
01:19:43.500
So no pasteurization, no homogenization. Wait, how do you get your hands on that? And why is that good?
01:19:48.400
You just go to a cow and, you know, you just, you know, get a cow and square it right into your
01:19:52.440
mouth. It's great. No, there's a farmer's market I go to for this and it's, it'll change your life.
01:19:57.700
Um, well, it's good for your gut health. People who are lactose intolerant drinking,
01:20:02.780
they'll drink pasteurized milk and they will be lactose intolerant. They can't digest it,
01:20:06.160
but you drink raw milk or have raw cheese, raw butter. Most of them can take it. It's like you
01:20:10.720
go to Europe, it's full of raw cheeses and everything like that. But big dairy has been fighting against,
01:20:14.940
uh, raw dairy products for, for years and years in this country.
01:20:19.180
Yes. Another big, we had an expert on plastics on the show and she was talking about how
01:20:22.740
one of the problems is, you know, that the automatic milkers, which is how they get milk
01:20:27.340
from most cows and most places on earth, including in, um, Amsterdam where we went as a family,
01:20:32.520
you know, it's going through plastic. All that milk is going through plastic as they milk. So,
01:20:38.300
you know, I, so I'm like, do I need to get my own cow now? But it's much harder when you're in the
01:20:42.980
metropolitan area. Yeah. We'll, we'll put it in the apartment. We'll work and we'll, we'll split it
01:20:47.980
halfway. By the way, I want to tell you this time last week on the show, well worth your time,
01:20:52.380
we had the maker and, uh, a couple of the stars of affirmation generation. It's a movie. If you go
01:21:00.340
to affirmation generation.com, you will see the movie and it's so, so worth your time.
01:21:06.160
I had seen the highlights and an outline of it before they came on. Now I've seen the entire
01:21:10.440
thing. I will warn you, you got to go through and you got to pay four bucks, um, via one of those
01:21:15.820
services. I get like a Venmo it's Venmo. Do it, do the four steps necessary. It's just your email.
01:21:21.420
I did it. You can do it. It's four bucks. It's so good. It's horrifying. But what made me think
01:21:27.860
of it well was your point about the drug companies and the money behind this whole push. And, um,
01:21:34.120
Joey was the person who was the filmmaker and she was on talking about how she said she thought she
01:21:39.000
might be trans and she went to a psychiatrist back in the day. She's more my age. Um, and they
01:21:43.900
were like, you're just a butch lesbian. You're fine. You're not a guy. You're just, you know?
01:21:48.540
And so she's behind the film anyway. Well, well worth your time. Very educational
01:21:52.260
affirmation generation, movie.com affirmation generation, movie.com. Check it out. All right.
01:21:57.580
More with Isabel and will right after this break. Did you hear all the dustups about what's happening
01:22:01.780
on planes right now? Should obese people be given a free extra seat? We'll take it up.
01:22:08.400
I want to tell our audience just an update to the segment we did with Alex Berenson, where we told
01:22:16.520
you about how Mehdi Hassan, this guy in MSNBC tried to tank Matt Taibbi's career with this gotcha
01:22:22.380
interview over his Twitter files reporting. And then Mehdi was fact checked after the interview.
01:22:28.220
And it turns out it was improper impeachment. We'd call it in the law. He was trying to get him on
01:22:32.980
things that actually Matt had not made mistakes on. Unfortunately, Matt conceded a couple of the
01:22:37.900
like, OK, then I guess that was a mistake. But he was wrong, too, because he was right and Mehdi was
01:22:41.740
being dishonest in his so-called fact checks. Well, now this moron, Representative Stacey Plaskett,
01:22:48.120
we told you about this when we first covered this this cross-examination of Matt when he went before
01:22:52.580
Congress. She's from the Virgin Islands, which, by the way, be quiet. We have more important things,
01:22:57.620
more important people to hear from. I'm just sorry. The Virgin Islands. What? Take a seat.
01:23:01.260
The all the beautiful salt air has gone to her head. She is threatening Taibbi with five years in
01:23:08.340
jail, alleging he lied in front of Congress with one of these fake false fake news fact checks that
01:23:17.720
Mehdi Hassan tried to do, which turned out to be a Taibbi win, not a Mehdi Hassan win. And now she's
01:23:22.860
threatening him, according to Lee Fang's reporting. Stacey Plaskett is floating a threat of five years in
01:23:29.820
jail against Matt Taibbi. I mean, this is where we are. This is the state of American politics.
01:23:33.880
We have morons running the country. Back to you guys. So speaking of morons running the country,
01:23:41.160
let's go down to Nashville, Tennessee, and the so-called Tennessee Three. Their antics continue,
01:23:46.360
right? These two of the three were thrown out of the Tennessee Statehouse after they hijacked the
01:23:50.900
proceedings. We're very mad that their gun agenda, anti-gun agenda did not get passed.
01:23:54.980
They had their fair chance to debate. They didn't win the debate. Then they threw a tantrum
01:23:59.300
and acted like protesters and brought, you know, bullhorns out onto the floor and so on. Got
01:24:04.140
ejected, got put back in. And now they've decided the next move would be to show up, one of them,
01:24:11.440
Justin Jones. He's the one we told our audience about who has the criminal history. So nice, nice,
01:24:16.980
nice new congressmen, Tennesseans, who decided to show up at his next debate at the Tennessee House with
01:24:23.520
a baby casket, the casket of a little baby. This is, this man has not left, led a life consistent
01:24:33.040
with law and order. And now he wants to go in to the Tennessee Statehouse as a representative
01:24:37.620
and try to lecture them on how law and order requires a crackdown on guns, or we're going to
01:24:43.960
have more caskets filled with babies. I can't even get into how inappropriate this is, but this guy
01:24:49.760
continues to be lionized by the press, uh, including he's been invited to go to the White
01:24:55.160
House. The Tennessee three now invited to go sit with Joe Biden, a courtesy not extended Isabel
01:25:00.620
to the families of the victims in that Christian school who were gunned down.
01:25:07.760
You know, I think it's interesting to hear so many people talk about these tactics and antics that are
01:25:12.940
being used by the Tennessee three all the way up to this baby casket, which is I'm sure very
01:25:18.140
emotionally compelling and maybe something that right of center politicians should start utilizing
01:25:23.320
on issues like too early gender transition, making children more likely to commit suicide or the
01:25:28.640
abortion industry if we really want to play that game. But when we're talking about this game of
01:25:32.680
politics, uh, we said it earlier in the previous segment. So well, it's not enough anymore to just
01:25:38.540
have the facts on your side. It's not enough anymore to just be objectively right because the unfortunate
01:25:45.140
reality of where we live today in 2023 America is that we live in a post truth society. It doesn't
01:25:51.660
matter what the facts of this shooting or biological gender or science at large really are, uh, today in
01:25:58.380
2023, we can apply this to any subject and policy matter under the sun. What matters is how you can get
01:26:03.940
people to feel about it. I think we as conservatives for so long have treated this facts don't care about
01:26:09.180
your feelings mantra, which has been overwhelmingly successful as liquid gold, right? We use this as a tool
01:26:15.140
to change so many people's minds and lifestyles, but for generation Z, which is who is supporting
01:26:20.220
this Tennessee three and all of these other policies that we're talking about today, we are a feelings
01:26:25.060
generation. What you're starting to see manipulated through conversations about school shootings, gun
01:26:30.140
control, gender identity, abortion, and everything in between is getting people to act based on their
01:26:35.340
emotions. If they really care about keeping kids safe, then we must outlaw all guns. If you really care about any
01:26:41.460
other policy, then you must align with the left. I think it's high time that the morons running this
01:26:46.100
country, as you so eloquently stated, Megan, start playing that game from a truthful perspective.
01:26:51.740
If we really care about kids, why would we not want to arm our schools with armed police officers to
01:26:57.260
keep them safe the way we do our politicians, our celebrities, our BLM activists, and more,
01:27:02.040
and start applying this to every area of policy, uh, across the board, because we can no longer play a
01:27:07.960
facts game in this feelings world and still expect to win that larger game of changing culture and
01:27:13.580
politics. It reminds me of, uh, over the spring break, I guess it was, I might, I put, I gave my
01:27:20.520
kids a crime marathon in movies, just like some of my old favorites from when I was closer to your age.
01:27:26.880
And we watched, uh, Oh God, sleeping with the enemy with Julia Roberts. Good. Really good. We watched
01:27:34.240
Malice with Alec Baldwin. He was good in that. Um, and, uh, Nicole Kidman. And there was a scene in
01:27:39.940
that movie Malice where this, uh, woman, Anne Bancroft is the actress's name who says to this
01:27:45.340
other character, get into the game. That's what you're saying. Get it. Stop complaining about the
01:27:50.200
rules, like get into the damn game and learn how to play dirty, or you're just going to keep losing
01:27:55.440
to the point we made before the break. Um, I will say this will on the subject of the white house
01:28:02.460
and its behavior that think, thankfully the, I must've been Peter Doocy asked her anything about
01:28:08.840
Joe Biden, inviting the victims of the dead children, uh, to come to the white house and not
01:28:14.700
just these showboats who have behaved inappropriately. And here's how that went.
01:28:19.080
So Monday, you're going to have three of the lawmakers who protested after peacefully protested
01:28:27.600
who peacefully protested after the Nashville covenant school shooting. Have any of the victims
01:28:33.580
or the victims families been invited to the white house? I don't have anything to read out to you
01:28:37.920
about any invite. Why? I just don't have anything at this time to read out to you any invite. What I
01:28:43.800
can say to you right now is that the president is focused on getting things done. Oh my God. Well,
01:28:52.700
feel better. Getting things. No, I feel much worse actually. And knowing that these are the people
01:28:57.580
whose, whose hands my country is in, I feel terrible every day waking up and seeing that, but yeah,
01:29:02.840
cheers to that. Yeah. Hey, you know, it's a Jeremiah 12 one, I believe, which is why does the way of the
01:29:09.000
wicked prosper? This is what our society is nowadays. You have black lives matter being nominated for a
01:29:13.680
Nobel Nobel peace prize, Dr. Anthony Fauci getting a national geographic documentary of Megan the
01:29:18.860
stallion winning a Grammy for what was it? Thought shit was the name of the song. Like the people who
01:29:24.300
are doing the worst things in America today seem to be the ones who get elevated to the highest of
01:29:28.620
statuses in this country, because we are a post virtue society. As Isabel said, a post truth society.
01:29:34.160
We're also opposed to virtue society where virtue is seen as wrong and immoral acts are seen as the
01:29:39.220
most beautiful things that you can have. It's, it's anti-establishment. It's going against
01:29:43.000
the counter conservative culture, all this. And so we are in a real deficit of values,
01:29:48.420
a real deficit of, of morals right now. And the people who really want to take advantage of us
01:29:52.720
are seen as heroes. And I hope that the American people can wake up to the deception that we are
01:29:56.680
with withholding or seeing right now in this country. I need some of that milk too. Abby,
01:30:01.360
you got to get me some of that. I got to, I got to see. Yeah, we need to get on it.
01:30:04.760
Get on it. Um, here is, you know, it's not, it's not unrelated. Uh, it's because it's related to the
01:30:12.320
victim mentality, the nonstop victim mentality, right? Like it's, you disrupt the proceedings
01:30:16.440
down in Tennessee, you have your say, but you don't win. And then you hijack the whole proceedings
01:30:21.560
and you're the victim because you get held to account because they say, you're out, you're out of
01:30:24.880
here. You're ejected. Um, Oh no, you're a victim. And then you will be lionized and you go back and pull
01:30:30.500
another stunt. Um, that leads me to the airplane debate. It really is interesting to me. So a very
01:30:37.400
obese woman who is an influencer, uh, her name is Jalen Chaney is making the argument for
01:30:45.840
a change in the FAA rules saying that if you are obese and you can't easily and comfortably fit into
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one seat on the airplane, the airline should be required to provide you with a second seat for
01:31:00.100
free quote air quotes free because there's no such thing. It we're going to pay for it. It's
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somebody pays for it. It's always the other customers. Um, and there's an online debate
01:31:10.900
that's fierce about this saying, well, the airline seats are too small and you know, you buy a seat
01:31:15.620
and it can't accommodate you. What are they supposed to? What are these obese people supposed to do?
01:31:18.700
40% of Americans are obese. That's our country. What do you make of it? Isabel?
01:31:23.680
You know, this debate continues to just shock and amaze me with each and every day,
01:31:27.780
how far we're willing to move the goalposts of what health looks like in society. My educational
01:31:33.380
background is in biomedical sciences. I was pre-med through college and then studied, uh,
01:31:37.660
essentially science policy at Georgetown university for my master's degree, where I was uninvited from
01:31:42.340
speaking today because I'm too controversial as an alum. So had to, had to make sure that got
01:31:47.080
noticed. And that's what my tuition dollars went for. But you know, this obesity conversation and the
01:31:51.540
body positive movement conversation is glossing every single magazine cover of what it means to be
01:31:57.140
healthy for women. It's all over our Tik TOK for you pages for women, but we're not seeing the same
01:32:03.320
conversation happening for men in terms of glorifying obesity, removing any sort of beauty
01:32:08.360
standard or health standard. And I continue to see this continue to go around and around and around
01:32:13.460
in the feminist argument, uh, space online where people are debating whether or not it is healthy
01:32:18.420
to be obese, whether or not it is beautiful to be obese and how much our, our society needs to
01:32:23.220
accommodate for that to the point that our own government has now moved the bench posts and the
01:32:27.380
goalposts of what it means to be obese as a child. We've changed the BMI definition of what obesity is
01:32:33.760
to accommodate for the fact that generation alpha who comes after us is so morbidly obese, that's now
01:32:39.400
normal. So it's healthy. This is ridiculous to even remotely suggest that the FAA should provide
01:32:44.740
two seats, but it's a larger conversation about the lack of overall accountability for self
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in this country to take care of ourselves means to be healthy, to eat well, to exercise, to take
01:32:55.600
accountability over our own lives, which will inevitably inspire us to do the same for our
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communities and country at large. But we've created this upside down culture to rely on the government
01:33:05.060
and society first, our community next, then our family, then ourselves. And you're starting to see
01:33:10.180
the deprecation of self value physically manifesting through obesity, obviously, but also through the lack of
01:33:17.200
mental health in this country in the midst of record levels of anxiety, depression, suicidation, the lack of
01:33:22.740
objective truth. Just last night at the University of New Hampshire giving a speech, I was told by a college
01:33:27.680
student that she wouldn't have minded if she was aborted because she had such little value and regard for
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herself. So I think this is a much larger conversation about instilling human value and virtue back into the
01:33:40.200
individual in America today. And hopefully we'll see a much greater return on investment in that in society.
01:33:45.440
It's really crazy. Like, I mean, well, it reminds me of the, the desktop, like a, I don't know,
01:33:50.280
in the past five days where that it was, I wrote down Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, Anthony Bass. I don't
01:33:55.260
follow sports, but he was on an airplane and he was bitching because his wife had been, he wasn't there,
01:34:00.480
but his wife was on the airplane who was 22 weeks pregnant. And she was traveling with a five-year-old
01:34:04.420
and a two-year-old, their children. And, and he was mad that the stewardess, the flight attendant
01:34:09.100
told his wife to clean up the popcorn that the children had spilled all over the place. He's like,
01:34:12.460
my 22 week old week month pregnant, uh, wife had to get down on her hands and knees and clean up the
01:34:17.300
popcorn. Yes, that's right. Or you make your kids do it like any other normal parent, but this sense
01:34:22.860
of entitlement, like I deserve a free seat. I deserve a servant to clean up after my children.
01:34:27.480
Why not for me? Yeah. Well, everybody wants everything for free. They want to just get
01:34:33.040
everything and not have to work for it. We live in a, again, all these post things, but we live in a
01:34:37.100
post work generation nowadays too, in America where people think that they deserve something
01:34:42.020
without having to work for it. It's incredibly sad because this country was built on the back
01:34:46.060
of people who knew what hard work meant. They knew what tenacity meant. They knew that if you wanted
01:34:49.880
something in your life, you would go out and get it. I mean, you have, what was the poll? It said like
01:34:54.000
92% of young people in this country say that they want to be YouTubers when they grow up.
01:34:58.500
They want some easy job where they can be famous and, and just have their name plastered all over and have
01:35:03.160
a ton of Instagram likes. Like those are the things that the young people value. If that's what
01:35:06.820
young people value, then why would you expect them to value any sort of hard work or dedication
01:35:11.160
or passion to something? It's just not going to happen. So yeah, you need to value hard work in
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this country. Clean up your child's mess. Better yet, make them do it. And I realize obesity is a
01:35:22.480
massive challenge for a lot of people, but we live with it. You know, accordingly, we live,
01:35:26.540
we all live with the consequences of our own choices. It's not the FAAs or anybody else's
01:35:32.600
responsibility to help you out on that. Sorry. Isabelle and Will, what a pleasure. I hope to
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see you again. Thank you so much. All right, guys. And don't, don't forget tomorrow we have
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Neil Ferguson on the show. I'm really looking forward. You may know him as Ayaan Hirsi Ali's
01:35:44.800
husband, but he's brilliant. And you'll get to know him personally tomorrow. Thanks for listening
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to the Megan Kelly show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.