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00:01:14.760Kelly Show and happy Thursday. Welcome to another wild day in the news world. Stephen A. Smith will
00:01:19.700be here in just a few minutes and later another edition of Brit and Wit taking on cultural stories
00:01:26.460and there are a lot of them, including, okay, this, the Duchess of Duplicity is out of control.
00:01:34.820She spoke out earlier today in Australia where she was attending a youth mental health organization
00:01:42.320like conference. And to the surprise of absolutely no one, she made it in front of this group of
00:01:49.780suffering children. All about herself. Watch. For now 10 years, every day for 10 years, I've
00:01:58.580been bullied and attacked and I was most trolled person in the entire world. Man, whoa, I'm still
00:02:04.580here. And so when I think of all of you and what you're experiencing, I think so much of that is
00:02:11.280having to realize that, you know, that industry, that billion dollar industry that is completely
00:02:17.860anchored and predicated on cruelty to get clicks, that's not going to change. So you have to be
00:02:24.720stronger than that. Okay, what is she even talking about? Literally, the Daily Mail is not writing
00:02:32.660articles about the children in this mental health group. No one's targeting those kids.
00:02:40.400You got targeted because you wanted to be, because you sought out the most eligible man
00:02:46.660and bachelor in the world who was putty in your hands because you knew exactly how to exploit him
00:02:52.660thanks to his mental trauma. You targeted him. He was on your vision board. Don't lie about it
00:02:58.100because I'm the one who broke that news and I had it on a very good source, notwithstanding your
00:03:03.300lies about you had no idea who the royal family was or who he was. Okay, sure. And you made it
00:03:08.140happen because you wanted to feel important. You wanted a short form to mega fame. You weren't
00:03:13.960getting it done on suits, so you decided to marry somebody way more famous than you, and you sought
00:03:19.280to glom on to everything he had. That made you a target because you became a large public figure.
00:03:28.640Every public figure has been subjected to negative scrutiny, often very intense and unpleasant.
00:03:36.460You had the benefit of universally loving and adoring, praise-fawning press for a year.
00:03:48.680When you started dating him, a biracial American princess, oh my God, the U.S. press went nuts.
00:03:56.480The Brits, who are woker than we are, were self-flagellating themselves in every paper for not having had anybody of color in the family.
00:04:06.460And they were bending over backwards to welcome you into the royal family and chastise themselves for not having had somebody as diverse and interesting as you prior to that.
00:06:12.560We've watched you get every advantage of the world
00:06:14.740and then cry to ITV that no one asked about how you were doing.
00:06:19.260We watched you bag the elephant, Prince Harry,
00:06:23.660going to Africa together, going on world tours,
00:06:26.280people fawning, falling at your feet with praise and admiration. And then you going on Oprah,
00:06:33.600sticking a knife in the queen and her husband who was dying in the hospital at that moment,
00:06:39.300letting people believe they might be racists. As it turns out, you appear to have been talking
00:06:44.260about Queen Camilla, soon to be queen, and others within the royal family. But you wouldn't do
00:06:51.960anyone the courtesy of saying it explicitly because you wanted to tar everyone with that
00:06:56.640brush. You are a bully. And that is why the press turned on you. And now she has a lecture for these
00:07:03.840kids on how you just have to be stronger. You got it. Why don't you try being stronger? You
00:07:09.600sue every other publication that says something negative about you because you have such a thin
00:07:15.960skin because you did your little shoot right to the top of the public figure scale by design
00:07:23.080and then couldn't handle it when you got there. Honestly, there is something beneficial about
00:07:31.180becoming a public figure more slowly. You take baby steps, both on your burgeoning fame and on
00:07:40.600the downsides of it. And you skipping that, which was your intention, your goal, which you
00:07:48.380successfully achieved, has cost you the wisdom that you would have attained had you earned it
00:07:55.180step by step. So shame on you for using your time with children to make it about yourself,
00:08:03.620to try to rehab yourself by referencing experience that have absolutely no bearing to these children.
00:08:09.160Are these a bunch of child actors? I don't think so. It's social media and negative comments here
00:08:17.780and there that these kids may or may not be seeing on Snapchat is not the same thing as you
00:08:23.900earning negative press from the British and American tabloids and mainstream. The loathing
00:08:31.200of you has gone mainstream. Thanks to one person, you with an assist from your husband, who's become
00:08:39.020even more whiny and pathetic. He's talking to the, I'm going to get to this in a second. I believe
00:08:44.740it or not, this is a second hour segment. I just like, I, I, I, whatever that this woman's self1.00
00:08:50.640pity is such a turnoff to me, but he's just as bad as she is. He's talking about how incredibly
00:08:57.920anxious and depressed and overly obsessive. What's the word he uses? I was actually taken
00:09:05.680aback by completely overwhelmed, completely overwhelmed we all feel. We do? I don't feel
00:09:12.920completely overwhelmed. I don't feel anxious, stressed, helpless, powerless, and completely
00:09:17.280overwhelmed. What are you completely overwhelmed about? How big is your mansion in Montecito that
00:09:21.980you force us to watch in the promos for your wife's stupid shows that all fail, but that keep1.00
00:09:27.640getting picked up because her Hollywood power agent makes it happen. And she squeezed that last1.00
00:09:32.840bit of goodwill out of the Royal title to get to land a Netflix deal and you, your book deal. And0.66
00:09:38.420then the two of you are your Spotify deal. What are you completely overwhelmed about?
00:09:43.120Honestly, he's obsessing over the death of his mother, which was tragic. Okay. It was like
00:09:48.26030 years ago and he's still bringing it up. Most people have lost somebody very close to them in
00:09:56.180the family. Some of us also lost parents right around that same age. We went on to deal with it,
00:10:04.460to live our lives, to fill up our hearts and our heads with other more positive experiences,
00:10:12.740to connect with other humans, see the goodness of humankind. We didn't say what he is saying today,
00:10:18.620we didn't stay in the fetal position until we realized we needed mental health assistance.
00:10:24.620Okay. Like he, this guy is a grown man. He's a father now of two. And he's talking about himself
00:10:31.140in the fetal position, feeling again, completely overwhelmed by what? Your a hundred million
00:10:40.000dollars, your role as a prince, your connection to the King of England. What is it that's
00:10:46.580overwhelming you? I'm at, this is like, I can't with these two more on that in the second hour.
00:10:51.080OK, that's a tease, believe it or not. All right. We're going to start here. Start after the start
00:10:57.400with the latest in the race for the president in the Democratic primary. And we've been telling
00:11:02.260you about all the issues with Republicans these days, and there are a lot. But Democrats might
00:11:07.400have an even bigger political problem on their hands. And that is because, and this is so amazing,
00:11:11.960Kamala Harris, she's going to run. She's going to win. No, she's not going to win. Remember how she
00:11:16.880was like, oh, we're going to win. No, you're not going to win. Although God forbid, I mean,
00:11:20.860like never say never, because given the state of the Republican party right now, can we really
00:11:24.720rule it out? But she's going to run. She has quietly become the clear front runner by double
00:11:31.120digits in the Democrat primary. Just when you think like, shit, like the news cycle's been so
00:11:37.900bad for Republicans and like, it's just been depressing, you know? And now it's like,
00:11:42.420God sprinkles a little moon dust on the cycle and Kamala Harris comes out and says she's thinking
00:11:50.260about running and she turns out to be the front runner. In the RCP average of all polls, she's in
00:11:55.640first place at 26.9%. That's not just one poll. That's the average of all polling, 26.9, followed
00:12:02.860by Gavin Newsom at 18.9 and Pete Buttigieg back at 10.7, AOC at 7.9. Here's what's interesting
00:12:09.180about it. Gavin Newsom has universal name recognition too. It's not like Pete Buttigieg
00:12:15.880or Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, by the way, he's a 6.8. Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona,
00:12:21.640he's a 5.2. Everybody knows who Gavin Newsom is in this country now. He's been ubiquitous this
00:12:26.860past couple of years. So she's crushing him, notwithstanding the fact that they both have
00:12:32.440universal name recognition. And the Democrats know she's an idiot, but they're getting ready
00:12:39.860to nominate her again. Okay, we'll see. I mean, they may be getting ready to nominate her again.
00:12:45.820I know you can make a strong case that's name recognition. She was the VP, whatever. I think
00:12:50.780there's more to it than that, given that he also has the same name recognition or probably close,
00:12:55.580close to what she has. The trend line is very clear. She's gaining, not losing support.
00:13:02.440And it's incredible. How? How can that be? She is ahead in seven of the last nine polls,
00:13:08.140including the last four. In the two most recent, she is up double digits. Gavin Newsom,
00:13:14.420who many do perceive as the front runner, has not led a poll since February. So despite blowing a
00:13:19.940billion dollars in 107 days, only to get walloped by Donald Trump, popular vote, all seven swing
00:13:27.640States went for him, not her. I may get my biggest wish, my birthday wish, my wish at
00:13:34.000New Year's Day, and Kamala Harris may be the Democratic nominee again. It's amazing. How
00:13:42.480great would it be to watch a J.D. Vance or a Marco Rubio have a one-on-one debate with Kamala Harris?
00:13:50.900And Kamala, she seems to know she's in a good position, which is surprising given her0.99
00:13:55.420unbelievable lack of self-awareness. She's in the Carolinas this week, where you say in the
00:14:00.460Carolinas, yes, as part of her book tour, allegedly. And she posted this video, not about
00:14:07.540her book, but about gas prices on X last night. Everyone. So I'm here in Charlotte since the
00:14:14.640start of Trump's war of choice. It's 15 more dollars every time you fill up your tank of gas.
00:14:21.180The price of diesel has now gone up 80 percent since the start of the war.
00:14:26.600And you best believe that's going to carry over to how much you're paying for all the goods that are being transported on those semis.
00:14:33.320We've got a president who is paying more attention to what he thinks is in his best political interest and personal interest, as opposed to what is in the best interest of working people in America.
00:14:43.760OK, clearly that had been sped up because we all know she doesn't talk like that.
00:14:47.220she, she, she's meandering. She's got vocal fry and she takes like 10 seconds to spit out two1.00
00:14:54.040words. But you know, frankly, I appreciate it because I'm short on time. Uh, first of all,
00:14:59.080diesels, it is up, but it's not up 80%. It's up 50%. Um, so let's get our facts straight just
00:15:06.800under 50%. I think it's 49.2. Um, but is Kamala Harris really trying to make us believe she
00:15:12.100suddenly cares about gas prices? She cares about gas prices. You want to talk about record setting1.00
00:15:16.380gas prices. That's when you were the sitting vice president. That's when we saw a record
00:15:20.740setting gas prices. It happened at the height of the Ukraine war in June, 2022, when regular gas
00:15:26.660climbed up to $5.02 a gallon. Diesel got up to $5.82. And you were fine with that because you
00:15:39.580were trying actively to decimate the oil and gas business. You made it very clear you wanted to
00:15:45.840ban fracking. You wanted permits denied for more drilling. You were the opposite of drill, baby
00:15:51.340drill. And that was fine by you because you hated fossil fuels and you felt like an environmental
00:15:55.980warrior and you didn't give a shit about rising gas prices. In fact, when they were at that peak
00:16:01.600back in 2022 after the Ukraine war, you lectured us on how it was like our civic duty to suck that
00:16:07.360up. So you can't have it both ways, madam. These are some of the things you're going to have to
00:16:12.760listen to if you do in fact decide to get into this race again. Will she actually do it? Here
00:16:18.880to react is Stephen A. Smith. He's host of First Take on ESPN and the Stephen A. Smith Show on
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00:18:12.160Great to see you, Megan. How are you doing? Is she, is she going to do it? Do you think she's
00:18:15.700going to do it? Maybe. Um, but it's by default because who else do you have right now that
00:18:22.280has stepped up? They've had a couple of years. Um, we haven't seen anybody, you know, I've been
00:18:26.940on the record talking about how i think they're leaderless right now who's the definitive
00:18:31.220individual you know you got a lot of look at the candidates that you put up there gavin newsom
00:18:36.080all you're going to do is look at the state of california and the inordinate amount of problems
00:18:39.740that they have in that state and you're going to say no way in hell you're going to look at
00:18:43.580pete buddhich um he doesn't move a lot of people even though he's respected by some particularly
00:18:48.680on the left he's not going to move a lot of people you look at josh shapiro obviously the
00:18:53.100Things that have been going on in Israel, on Gaza and stuff like that, and the fomenting or the growth of anti-Semitism that's unfortunately been sifting through this country.
00:19:04.880You know that's going to be something that's going to be counted against him.
00:19:07.760Senator Mark Kelly, I don't know how much he's going to resonate with people right now.
00:19:11.780The only thing that he's done that we've really, really noticed and paid attention to is the fact that, you know what, Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump definitely went after him after he, you know, wrote the play department with the videos instructing U.S. soldiers not to follow illegal orders.
00:19:28.280And, you know, I took a lot of heat when I called them on the carpet for that, because I was saying I can say that American civilians can say that.
00:19:35.780But every military person that I've spoken to says, if you if you serve in the military, you know better than doing that, because essentially you're implying that the command in chief would give an illegal order and that in and of itself can cause you trouble.
00:19:51.000So you have to know better than coming out and being a part of that of that kind of noise that was aimed in the direction of the president and the secretary of defense or obviously the secretary of the Department of War.
00:20:03.580So he didn't know better than that. And now he's got some problems with that.
00:20:06.720So essentially, by default, that means Kamala Harris could be at the top of the heap.
00:20:11.400I don't I don't I think that would be a mistake, obviously, because I think that she's had a chance of bites at the apple, not just once, but twice in 2020.
00:20:18.780She couldn't even make it to Iowa. In this last election, you had 107 days. That's true. But you also had a billion and a half dollars. You understand? And you were to upgrade from Joe Biden and you still managed to lose that. I don't know how the Democratic Party will rally behind her being the candidate yet again, particularly after her book was calling out Josh Shapiro one minute, Gavin Newsom the other, et cetera, et cetera. But who knows?
00:21:10.200like if we try to bypass her for a josh shapiro or somebody like that we're going to get killed
00:21:16.240you cannot bypass a black woman female like the vp for a josh shapiro white guy well now we're
00:21:23.580going to have a primary this time around that's right and if she gets bypassed in other words
00:21:29.280doesn't win and she loses to the guy who's in the number two position who is a white straight
00:21:35.760male Christian, Gavin Newsom, are they in the same position of having to look like
00:21:44.000they cast her aside? They didn't want the black woman.
00:21:47.400No, no, no. You ain't got to worry about that. I think that if you're the Democratic Party,1.00
00:21:50.160you're looking at certain things that the president and his administration have been
00:21:54.280doing. Obviously, if you're on the left, you disagree with a couple of things. You're looking
00:21:57.960at the employment gap. You're looking at the big, beautiful bill that they don't believe hasn't been
00:22:03.800that big and beautiful nearly a trillion dollars in cuts to medicaid and obviously about 187 billion
00:22:09.440when it came to the snap program and stuff like that you're looking at federal employees that1.00
00:22:13.340obviously a lot of black folks uh you know are definitely federal employees and the dissipation0.67
00:22:18.740that has taken place there so your thinking is excuse me desperate times call for desperate
00:22:23.180measures this man has to be gone even though he's going to be scheduled to be gone in 2028 because
00:22:27.840he's not going to circumvent the 22nd amendment of the constitution and run for a third term so
00:22:31.800Now you're looking at J.D. Vance. You're looking at a Marco Rubio potentially or who knows who else.
00:22:36.460And that's going to be your competition. Their mentality is going to be and it needs to be whatever it takes.
00:22:42.240We don't care if it's male, it's female, it's black, it's white.0.51
00:22:44.920We got to win because you don't have the House, you don't have the Senate and you don't have the White House.
00:22:49.620And you got to hope that all of this momentum that seems to be shifting or tilting a little bit left is something that's going to be to your benefit come the midterms.
00:22:57.260But you don't even know that as of yet.
00:22:58.800So because of that reality, I think that they understand that it can't be about what the Democrats, in my opinion, have done since Obama.
00:23:08.540They didn't do this with Obama, Megan. But since Obama, this is the one thing that I have railed against the Democratic Party for a long time about the Republicans, the Republicans constituent out there.
00:23:19.160Give them credit for this. You put DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley or whomever in their face.
00:23:25.420And they said to hell with all of you. We want him as in Donald Trump.
00:23:30.260The Democratic Party, whether it was Hillary Rodham Clinton, whether it was Joe Biden, whether it was Kamala Harris, they said as a party, this is who we want to the voters.
00:23:38.780And we're picking your candidates for you. That is the difference that has hurt the Democratic Party.
00:23:44.000They haven't been about the people. And until they get back to being that, they ain't going to stand a chance against the right because the people on the right are picking the candidates.
00:23:54.880that is not the case with the left at least the last three elections and that's what has to change
00:23:59.620so what's interesting from my perspective though is if they go with gavin newsom let's just say
00:24:04.380because he's second in command there on the polls he i mean california is a disaster right steven
00:24:10.480it's a it's a disaster every metric steve hilton was on the other day republican front frontrunner
00:24:17.260period not just republican frontrunner for the california gubernatorial race right now
00:24:21.620and was ticking through the number of stats,
00:24:24.220like economic stats on how California has collapsed,
00:24:27.200its education system has collapsed, its economy.
00:24:29.940The only reason they have anything positive to report on it
00:24:32.200is because so many people live in California.
00:24:34.520So if you just look at the number of dollars earned,
00:24:37.240it'll look big, but that's not because of government.
00:25:14.280One of the people that they interviewed said he got he got breast implants on the taxpayer dime and was waiting for his so-called bottom surgery on the taxpayer dime as well.
00:25:25.140I mean, we have the soundbite. OK, let's watch that.
00:25:28.100What is your name again? Jacqueline. Jacqueline.
00:25:31.100This is the first time I am. I live in a shelter.
00:25:34.540Yeah. A lot of Latino here. So definitely some are migrants or undocumented.1.00
00:25:39.180I've been there. And me as a trans woman, I feel safe.
00:25:44.400Were you able to get the hormones or, you know?
00:26:46.560I'm a registered independent. Got you. Got you. I didn't know that, Megan, but thank you for telling me that.
00:26:50.300Here's the deal. And this is what people haven't accepted.
00:26:53.940When it comes to the progressive left, folks are looking at some place like the example that you just pointed out in the state of California.
00:27:00.740And Megan, what they're thinking is, oh, it's incompetence. It's incompetence reigning. Look at what they're doing. Right. These people, they just don't know any better. No, they do. They don't care. You have some people in this country that hate America and they want to see it burn.
00:27:18.740figuratively speaking they want to see wholesale changes some of them do whether it's migrants
00:27:26.280legally or illegally here or some of the progressives the extreme I'm talking about
00:27:30.740the extreme left not the centrist but the extreme left you have some of these people that want to
00:27:36.280see America dismantled by the seams and a lot of people think they don't know what they're doing
00:27:41.500No, they want that to happen. They want America to resemble a socialist state.
00:27:48.200They want that. And so a lot of times people are not accepting that.
00:27:52.220They're like this. You've got to see what Gavin Newsom in California is doing.
00:27:55.720You can't like that. No, there are people there that do like it.
00:27:58.940I've seen people that said that I'm telling you, I'll tell you a little quick story, Megan.
00:28:02.660I had somebody look me in the face and said, I don't give a damn if I have to pay 75 percent of my money in taxes.
00:28:09.520As long as everybody in the country has health care, I'm good.
00:28:13.640I looked at that person, you lost your damn mind.
00:29:40.520He looks very presidential, very articulate, smooth, tall, handsome, the whole bit.
00:29:46.560He looks the part, and he can talk it with the best of them.
00:29:50.180So you got that going on without having Trump to go up against.
00:29:55.240And the combination of those two things, if the right ain't careful, you might be in trouble in the midterms,
00:30:02.140and you're definitely going to be in trouble in 2028.
00:30:04.900that's where it all gets very interesting right yeah let's talk about let's talk about the right
00:30:09.640in 2028 because right now the right is divided um over the war over the iran war and it's you
00:30:15.700know there's definitely a fissure cutting right through the the coalition that elected trump
00:30:21.080which includes non-republicans too but just you know there's the sort of america first and then
00:30:25.420there's core maga maga kind of by definition is people who just support trump no matter what he
00:30:30.280does and then there's the rest of the republican party which includes a large number of america
00:30:34.780firsters. Anyway, there's a divide. And it's, I can't really say publicly or in any way that
00:30:41.780there's a divide between J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio on the war. What we know from the New York
00:30:46.180Times is that J.D. Vance spoke up against it and really strongly pushed Trump not to do it
00:30:51.060for many reasons, including that it would completely fracture his coalition and the
00:30:56.520Republican Party. It would violate a campaign promise. And we know that Marco Rubio called,
00:31:01.500quote, bullshit, that's a quote, on what Netanyahu had promised we could achieve easily when Trump
00:31:08.060met with him the day before in the situation room. But as we head towards 2028, and as soon
00:31:14.580as we're done with these midterms, that contest starts, those two, whether they're explicit about0.98
00:31:20.460it or not, are going to be like two silverback gorillas with each other. Rubio's basically said,
00:31:25.940if JD runs, he's the nominee. But let's face it, Marco Rubio has been running for president and in
00:31:32.700politics a lot longer than JD Vance. And he may sense some weakness on JD's part because he's so
00:31:39.120tightly linked to Trump. More so, you could make the case than Marco, even though they're both
00:31:44.200very linked. And maybe he's going to sense an opportunity, Stephen A. And I don't know whether
00:31:47.900he's going to want to let it pass him by this go-round or whether he might contest this or
00:31:52.960sort of just generate a bunch of press that's damaging to JD to the point where it's like,
00:31:57.580for the good of the party, I got to do it, which is going to not heal the rift. It's going to
00:32:02.400divide MAGA further, right? Everybody's going to choose their guy and have a fight. And then
00:32:07.560do the GOP-ers go into the real contest weakened because they are likely to have a pretty brutal
00:32:14.680primary battle of their own? Maybe I shouldn't say are likely to. They might. They might.
00:32:19.760Well, from my centrist vantage point, I'm going to tell you that I favor Marco Rubio heavily, former senator, secretary of state, national security advisor.
00:32:33.020I think that he has comported himself like an adult in the room.
00:32:38.320And when I think about the presidency, I think that's incredibly important.
00:32:42.580He can snap back at somebody with the best of them. As he snapped back at the Democratic senator that said if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn't have voted for him. And Marco Rubio, that soundbite, Megan, I'm sure you know of it, where he says, I consider that a compliment. That means I'm doing my job.
00:32:58.740You know, because Marco Rubio has comported himself like an adult in the room.
00:33:03.140I don't trust J.D. Vance. I just don't.
00:33:06.480And the reason and the reason why, because I think he aspires to be Trump like instead of being his own man.
00:33:12.280That's my personal impression of what I see when I see him.
00:33:15.680I'm not questioning his acumen, his knowledge, his political savviness.
00:33:18.720I thought when he debated on the stage against Tim Walz, not that that was a big deal, as we've come to learn.
00:33:23.380But I thought that he took him to school during the vice presidential debates and stuff like that.
00:33:27.820But I think that, you know, the folks that on too many occasions, he doesn't seem to be an individual that would be interested in governing for all.
00:33:39.140It would be in governing for his clique of people.
00:33:41.500Whereas when I think about Marco Rubio, I think that he's more expansive than that.
00:33:46.000And I think he's more of a presidential figure.
00:33:55.600We all know this. But I also think that, you know, one of the things that I've been on the record that really disgusts me is the fawning over the president, which is why I appreciate some of the things that I've been seeing from you lately.
00:34:06.420When you've been going after Trump, you can agree with him all day. I don't care about that.
00:34:10.360Megan, if you agree, you agree. If you disagree, you disagree. But it's the fawning.
00:34:13.520I literally, when I appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, I literally said, if you bring in these folks, if you're bringing him a cup of coffee, you have to pause and talk about how wonderful and marvelous he is.
00:34:25.960And he does everything right. And with the great leadership, it's like, wait a minute now, just do your damn job.
00:34:30.540The one person that has been that has represented that kind of veneer, that kind of ambiance and persona about himself is Marco Rubio.
00:34:38.380Ain't about that. He's about doing the job, whatever the job calls for him to do.
00:34:42.260I don't get that impression from J.D., and I think the reason why that's relevant is because when you look come 2028, yeah, it might require some kind of endorsement from Trump to some degree, but there's tens of millions of people that are against Trump.
00:34:57.400And when you see somebody who ain't him, that aspires to be Trump-like, it could end up counting against them.
00:35:04.000I don't think that's something Marco Rubio has to worry about, and I certainly don't believe that we'll be in a position to question his qualifications.
00:35:10.660If he is the GOP nominee for the presidency of the United States of America, particularly in a country where we have millions upon millions of people who are not who weren't born here or who even were born here, but come from Latino ancestry and things of that nature.
00:35:26.080The fact that he's bilingual, that his ancestors are Cuban, that he's as smart as a whip, that he is as accomplished and knows where the bodies lie, per se, because of the positions that he's held within our government, I think goes a long way towards making him a far more formidable candidate than J.D. Vance, in my humble estimation.
00:35:45.080i that's all very interesting and i do i completely agree with you on the weird fawning
00:35:50.980comments non-stop like at the cabinet meetings and like even like the press conferences when
00:35:55.460the fbi announced that they had captured the pipe bomber it's like oh my god all right it's
00:35:59.940it's very pravda-esque just stop we don't do that here in america just get down to business
00:36:04.260we get it you're trying to like pander to the boss do it on your own time right we don't we
00:36:09.040have business to take this is like when people come at you they'll say something about me i was
00:36:44.300You can't have a direct relationship, an honest relationship with your audience unless you tell them how you actually feel.
00:36:48.460That's true. Totally true. Totally true. And I'm not I'm not satisfied.
00:36:51.660I don't like the. Listen, I interviewed Leon Panetta, former chief white office chief of staff, former CIA director, former secretary of defense.
00:36:58.640I interviewed him yesterday. And one of the things that he made he made a point of.
00:37:02.740And you need to know this, not that you don't. You probably do.
00:37:05.860But just in case you didn't see the interview yesterday, he said, hey, Trump was right to attack Iran.
00:37:12.820This is a Democrat now that served under two presidents in Clinton and Obama.0.79
00:37:17.080And he said he was right to attack him. He said, but there seems to be no plan.
00:37:22.300There seems to be no way out. He said, I'm fearful of an endless war that we walked into this unprepared.
00:37:30.240That was his issue. My point was, thank God somebody said it, because I said, am I confused that I hear wrong?
00:37:37.520I saw numerous administrations saying that Iran needed to be dealt with, that they've been killing American citizens and they've been, you know,0.95
00:37:43.880the number one sponsor of terrorism in this world and all of this other stuff for the last several decades that we needed to deal with them.0.98
00:37:51.020So this president goes out and tries to deal with them. And now we're complaining.
00:37:55.220Leon Panetta's position was different he was saying no I'm not complaining about the initial attack
00:38:00.560what I'm complaining about is the clear lack of preparation that obviously is in play because we
00:38:08.020don't seem to know what to do with ourselves and we didn't seem to be prepared for the strait of1.00
00:38:13.000amuse to be you know compromised by the Iranians and stuff like that he was pointing out all of1.00
00:38:17.940those things and I said okay that's more like it that's exactly why people should have a problem
00:38:21.820with it so i get where you're coming from with that yeah the um it maybe i'd feel differently0.93
00:38:27.920if we had just gone and bombed the ayatollah and moved out although that's fraught with peril too
00:38:31.660just given the way things are first of all he he had issued the fatwa saying we're not actually0.73
00:38:36.400going to do a nuke because he knew the position that would put iran in now we appear to have more
00:38:41.020radical leadership in there uh and on top of that we killed the leader of shiite islam on during
00:38:47.080ramadan like i've just been you know for 25 years covering these wars and they have ongoing
00:38:51.660controversies. It'll result in domestic terror. Americans will get killed as a result of this
00:38:56.120because we create jihadis and more extremists. And fighting these insurgencies, which is what0.58
00:39:01.140these wars turn into, has proven very, very tricky for American forces. You know, it's like General
00:39:06.080Daniel McChrystal said at the beginning, he said, if you like, you know, those who are cheering the
00:39:10.280war, I hope you enjoy this phase of the bombs dropping because this is the best phase of war
00:39:15.620where our guys are stellar out there. They have precision accuracy. For the most part, there was
00:39:21.160a serious serious misstep with the bombing of that girl school but he's saying it goes downhill
00:39:26.500from here because getting out of wars is a lot trickier than starting to me here's where the
00:39:31.220right has to make you have to make a decision that would mean in some people's eyes that more
00:39:38.520diplomacy is the order of the day because you don't want to engage in regime change which
00:39:43.940obviously this could end up leading to because if you killed the leader but his son is the successor
00:39:50.320Well, that that hostility is not going to dissipate. If anything, it's going to grow and it's going to make more enemies for the United States. Right. So what's the answer? When you've had others who tried to engage in diplomacy, that was considered weakness.
00:40:05.060So now we got a decision to make. Is diplomacy the order of the day or do we want to send troops and handle our business so we don't have to worry about them having the nuclear weapon?
00:40:15.680Because when Leon Panetta came on my show yesterday, he said, quote, I have seen the intelligence.
00:40:21.020They would have had a nuclear weapon in a month.
00:40:24.840He has not seen the intelligence. That's a fucking lie.
00:40:28.140We saw intelligence years ago, the current ODNI.
00:40:31.860OK, he said it, but the current ODNI, the woman who oversees all of the intelligence agencies, briefed Congress before we did all this and said there is no intelligence that Iran is anywhere close to getting the nuclear bomb.
00:40:42.920Well, he was saying that to support the president.
00:40:44.660He was saying that to support the president.
00:40:59.240What am I supposed to believe if you're the former chief of staff of the White House, a former defense secretary, and a former director for the CIA?
00:41:10.260Is it not possible, even though you ain't supposed to have access to it, that somehow, someway you might have seen things?
00:41:16.820He was stripped of all his access to it.
00:41:19.140But Trump, one of the first things Trump did when he took office was to strip all people, including Panetta, of their security clearances so they could no longer have access to anything that you and I can't have access to.
00:41:43.420Why would Tulsi Gabbard, who unquestionably has access to all of it, all of it, brief in her official role, brief Congress just weeks before we started this war by saying there is no intelligence that Iran is close to getting the nuclear bomb?
00:42:23.500But I'm trying to see your theory through.
00:42:25.300So Leon Panetta, even though he's been out of office, public office, for a decade plus, he had access to super secret information that they were close to getting a bomb that neither the president nor Tulsi Gabbard, the current director of national intelligence, had access to.
00:42:38.280No, I'm not saying—no, he never implied that.
00:43:10.800i don't know if it happened here i don't know what truth it is i'm just saying it's plausible
00:43:14.640it's possible it didn't unless tulsi gabbard is a complete liar which she's not okay uh she's not
00:43:20.940she would not have misled the president about something this serious i mean absolutely not so
00:43:25.340look it's i i see your point but the other problem with liana panetta is in the same way
00:43:32.080a surgeon wants to cut and a hammer wants to hit somebody in his role of course is going to say i'm
00:43:39.100in favor of this? Are they, are they just, that's exactly what somebody who's held the roles that
00:43:44.040Leon Panetta has held would say like, yes, okay, great. We're going to do that. Ask a military
00:43:48.620general. Most of them say like, yeah, we did the right thing. It's, there's a different segment of
00:43:53.360the populace that spends its time working with veterans, interviewing veterans, like having
00:43:59.680covered those two wars night and day, nonstop, that hears from a different class of military
00:44:05.800expert. And those are the guys who wanted Trump elected. Those are the guys who thought they had
00:44:10.580somebody who understood them in Pete's role, Pete Hegseth's role, who are very angry. So many of
00:44:15.760them very angry about this and feel a betrayal on a very deep level because they were promised
00:44:20.180no more Middle East wars, not just no more war, no more wars in the Middle East. It'd be a0.87
00:44:26.020distraction. It'd be incredibly expensive. Trump said all of that. And yes, he was saying Iran can't
00:44:31.440have a nuclear weapon, which is why people gave him a lot of birth when he bombed them in June0.92
00:44:36.020and then told us the facilities were obliterated and we supported him. And then he launched a war0.71
00:44:40.960anyway. Right. So in other words, when he bombed their nuclear sites last June, right? And he said
00:44:47.900we obliterated them and it was over. Your position is that it was supposed to be done. No further
00:44:54.080action was supposed to be necessary. You've lied to us. Is that what you're saying about President
00:44:59.560trump at that point i didn't sense a lie i was like okay this is risky about now that's what
00:45:04.540you're feeling like you were lied to i mean i i don't know if he lied or if he just went back on
00:45:09.820a campaign promise but it was an extremely important campaign promise extremely and so
00:45:14.980like this is not one of those like oh you know i'll i'll build the wall but he doesn't build
00:45:19.920the full wall he builds like portions of the wall and other portions of it are electronic and you're
00:45:24.560like, I don't love that, but I can live with it. You know, the border is closed. This one's
00:45:29.320really fundamental to why many of us voted for him. It was extremely important that he not do
00:45:35.580this. And I mean, look, I'm not, I'm not going to have to go fight in a war, but I do have three
00:45:39.220kids, including two boys. And the draft has now just been made easier than ever because they're
00:45:45.060doing automatic registrations for it now, starting in December. Anyway, my point is simply, it's,
00:45:50.520It's personal, and the vets I've talked to are very against it, guys who have actually lost limbs, really lost blood and treasure, and he barely even tried to explain it to us, Stephen A., barely even did us the respect of telling us why we were doing it.
00:46:03.900I know a few vets myself, and they vibe with your thinking in terms of where we are now, but they also felt that based on the rhetoric they were talking about, how being a month away from Iran having a nuclear weapon, that it was necessary because of Iran's history.
00:46:20.520So they were thinking is something needed to be done because Iran needs to be dealt with because they're sponsoring terrorists, terrorism and all of this other stuff.0.89
00:46:31.940My attitude is, OK, if you on Trump's side and Trump is saying, essentially, we had to stop this from happening, happening, it was necessary.
00:46:41.160Essentially, y'all are saying you don't believe him.
00:46:43.620The left is saying we've never believed any damn thing about him.
00:54:44.160She separated her husband from his entire family, from his cancer-stricken grandmother, the queen, from his cancer-stricken father, now the king.
00:54:55.360Uh, she has managed to remove him from all that made him sound and supported for the entirety of
00:55:05.560his life to a new country that has absolutely no use for him. None, none whatsoever. We don't care
00:55:10.360about royalty over here. They're mildly interesting. We look at their funny outfits,
00:55:14.540you know, like we care about them because we care about history. We don't care about them. Like we're
00:55:18.020going to get down on a knee and fawn over them the way that British, British people, some faction of
00:55:22.660them would. So he's unplugged the one thing that made him electric. And he's stuck on some Montecito
00:55:29.360ranch trying to figure out how to market another polo documentary that no one wants to see.1.00
00:55:35.900He is rich and out of touch and beyond privileged, just like his rich bitch wife,0.97
00:55:43.700who wants only for us to feel sorry for her and for them. I mean, like the nonsense about what1.00
00:55:50.640she's pulling over there is ridiculous. And at one point she, she said to them, okay, that industry,
00:55:55.640that billion dollar industry, she's talking about the press that is completely anchored and
00:55:59.300predicated on cruelty to get clicks. That's not going to change. So you have to be stronger than
00:56:04.420that. Okay. First of all, the answer, when you see somebody who is suffering with depression
00:56:09.560or anxiety is not to just say, be stronger. And as you guys know, I'm, I'm tough. I'm pretty tough
00:56:14.980when it comes to these things. I wouldn't look at a suffering person and just say, be stronger.
00:56:19.220That's not how it works. Nor, again, is their problem the mean, mean press. She's working out her own shit on a bunch of stressed out young people. This is a youth organization for mental health. And she's got to work out her issues with the Daily Mail on them.
00:56:39.320She's been suing them left and right in the courts.0.54
00:56:42.200Every time she gets in front of a camera, she raises this because she wants us to know1.00
00:56:45.760she was allegedly the most trolled person in the world in 2019.1.00
01:10:19.360We know she's just so duplicitous and fake.0.97
01:10:22.000And I think that's why we're seeing her tank, you know, her public opinion.
01:10:25.180No one that I know is still even really talking about her.
01:10:27.960If she ever had her moments of fame, they were long gone.
01:10:30.540But it's pathetic to see her at a table trying to convince you that she feels a certain way
01:10:36.880she can identify. It just comes off so fake. Yeah. I'm with you and I'm wide awake. So thank
01:10:44.560you for the intro. I don't need my coffee now. And Will, what's with him? Like most men try to
01:10:51.880be men and like, it doesn't mean you can never show any softness whatsoever, but every time he
01:10:56.860speaks, it's either a complaint about how his security got taken away and he doesn't want to
01:11:01.100have to go to the UK anymore because meanwhile, he's got $150 million plus. He can pay for his
01:11:05.580own security was not good enough for him, or he's bitching about his mental health,
01:11:09.240fetal position, overwhelmed, like nonstop without realizing how that sounds coming from him.
01:11:15.180Well, victimhood complex in America, and I guess in the UK is a cancer and it's very
01:11:19.240intoxicating to people. And so you have these rich celebrities and they come on and say,
01:11:23.100oh, my life is so hard and all this. And it kind of gives normal people the idea that,
01:11:27.300okay, if these people are victims and I must really be a victim, my life must really be awful.
01:11:31.680You know, I go on campus and I do these interviews and debates and I have students come up to me for three hours talking to me.
01:11:37.980And the biggest thing that I'm talking to these students about is about how my life is so horrible because I'm black, because I'm a woman, because I'm gay, I'm a victim in any sort of these different things.
01:11:46.760And it's like there's this trend in psychology that you were talking about with therapists and all that that tells people break down your trauma, break down the things that happened to you so that you can think about them and really ruminate on it.
01:11:57.520but in reality if you want to fix yourself and the things that have gone wrong in your life
01:12:01.060start making better decisions go and be the person that you want to be go in and be brave
01:12:05.800and courageous but they're not giving that message to young men they're not giving that
01:12:09.320message to young women it's all about the victimhood complex and how I can get something
01:12:13.680out of making people feel bad for me but I think a lot of people are starting to wake up to the
01:12:17.720fact this doesn't work I mean I look at you know all the him coming and saying these things and I
01:12:22.320say, what an absolute loser. This is not someone who I want to emulate in my life.
01:12:26.900At all. I mean, if those two had shown up and said, you know what really works exercise,
01:12:33.200you know, go outside, go for a walk, get a dog interaction with pets. Very good for you.
01:12:38.780Reconnect with family. They can't say that they've shunned both of their families. He's not on
01:12:44.360speaking terms with his only brother. He barely speaks to the King. She won't talk to her very
01:12:51.280ill father or even introduce him to his grandkids. They they've completely ostracized themselves,
01:12:56.720which, by the way, is one of the signs of an unhealthy person. You look around and like there's
01:13:01.200zero family connections left. It's you. And yet she wants to talk all about family, how it's
01:13:06.760important to her. Yet when these kids need help, it's you have to be like me, follow my sayings
01:13:12.500and learn from my experience dealing with negative press, which I guarantee you does not apply to one
01:13:18.680child who was listening to her. That's such a good point. And it makes me think that what we've
01:13:23.600already seen with both of them is that they're opportunists, but they don't really care to help
01:13:27.720anyone. They only want to help themselves. So it's one big show and you're invited to it,
01:13:32.800but they're not really there at that table to give any real advice that's going to help these
01:13:36.600people. They're opportunists, narcissistic opportunists. All right. Now I'm going to
01:13:41.560switch to Dave Chappelle because I think he's got some similarities to what we're talking about
01:13:48.340right here. I don't understand this interview at all. I'm not, I don't totally understand his
01:13:53.000answers, but what I understand, I object to. And I'm going to show you what he said to this
01:13:58.440reporter at NPR to whom he gave an interview on like the rage machine. You guys, my team will
01:14:07.100tell me which they'll run the right one, but he thinks the media has rage baited what he has said
01:14:13.320in his comedy routines to a place where like the public has been misled that's how i listen to this
01:14:19.860that's how i hear this bit he said listen here what about people who feel like you're punching
01:14:24.940down like you're not you are not a trans person and um there are people who feel like it's different
01:14:34.300when you are part of the group that has been attacked hurt demeaned etc and then if you're
01:14:40.760outside of that group and you're having comment here about it, it causes feelings.
01:14:44.220And what do you say to people who feel that in some occasions you're punching down?
01:14:48.460That's a tough one for me because so much of that was a media phenomenon.
01:14:52.780What was happening in actual life versus how the media was reporting on my show.
01:15:00.160And I feel like the way they were put on that show was rage baiting to some degree.
01:15:05.860And there's so many different branches to talk about it.
01:15:08.640But I would say that, you know, not everything is for everybody.
01:15:12.400I don't tell country artists what to sing about if I'm not going to go see a country show.
01:15:17.840You know, if they bought tickets ever, maybe I'd listen.
01:15:24.800I don't even know who's telling them I say these things.
01:15:27.900So, I mean, Britt, I know you you've been following this because he was he was a very bold person when it came to speaking about the trans thing.
01:15:36.020You know, he he's been unsparing in a way that you applauded.
01:16:34.560And they canceled it because she said in an interview, and this is not exactly what she said, but effectually, she said, gender was a fact.0.76
01:16:43.300And then the trans community got mad as shit.
01:17:51.980The right defended him and he spoke the truth, which he should not be running away from or trying to disavow if that's what he's trying to do at all.
01:18:01.180Was he trying to say in this interview that the left media is responsible for taking his content and making it rage bait?
01:18:09.020Or is he saying that he just said the media?
01:18:11.600So, I mean, we all just saw what he said, which I'm cracking up.
01:18:16.260It's because it's that's what comedy is supposed to do.
01:18:19.420Comedy is supposed to punch up and it's supposed to be something that we can relate to and we can laugh about so we can have serious conversations.
01:18:25.420but it totally sounds like he's backtracking now,
01:21:17.800I don't know exactly what it is, but the fact that he was the guy on Comedy Central, I mean, making his show, that was the most aggressive show you could go where he made fun of black people, white people, women, gay people.
01:21:27.440I mean, really, he made fun of everyone.
01:21:28.740And that was the beauty of it, that no one was safe and that it shed light on all these different issues and gave people a really good look at American life in a lot of ways.
01:21:36.620And so it feels to me like someone must have got to him on something because I can't imagine him being so weak and coming back in this way and saying, oh, I disavow these things and I disavow Republicans or anything like that.
01:21:47.760Because he's not coming here and saying, oh, well, you know, the left also came after me in this way and they were super cruel to me and awful.
01:22:00.560And honestly, like how low to to be like, I should have said I respectfully decline.
01:22:05.860You won't pose for a photo. Had you known it was Lauren Boebert or had you had it to do over again, you wouldn't have posed for a photo with Lauren Boebert. I mean, that's hashtag part of the problem. There's like there's not a person in Congress with whom I wouldn't pose for a photo unless that guy Scott Wiener gets elected, Brett, in which case we're all going to have a big, big problem.
01:22:54.560As we're talking about comedians, Jimmy Kimmel went on the Michelle Obama podcast, which still has about four viewers, and had thoughts on why him no longer being funny is just fine, and he stands by it.
01:26:28.760That is the purpose of your show. And you can leave these types of political topics for people who are better versed in it, who are actually going to give opinions and facts and things that are going to enrich people's lives when they want it. But this is not the time when they actually want it. They want to come on and be entertained after dealing with all the nonsense of the world every day. So Carson was 100% correct.
01:26:49.060Yes. Of course, his show is failing. That's what happens when you have Adam Schiff on as your guest instead of Tom Cruise. So yeah, that's why the Tonight Show is going to go away. One more thought from this. She is so feckless, Michelle Obama. She's always so mean to Brother Craig. Listen to how she begins the show here in SOT 12.
01:27:09.120we are very excited about our next guest and and uh i want to tell a little brief story before we
01:27:19.960bring him out because this whole time we were talking about how both of us have been on his
01:27:27.200show uh-huh that's never happened right no because no one invites nobody invites me anywhere
01:27:33.060nice she is so nasty to poor brother craig the whole show is like a vehicle to support0.95
01:27:40.320michelle's ego and make her look important and like everybody wants a piece of her which no
01:27:45.700one does anymore and brother craig is just there as like fodder he's like the background piece
01:27:50.600that sometimes has to like lob in a supportive comment of her and a self-deprecating one of him
01:27:54.640of him it's just such a pathetic vibe anyway i want to keep going brit this one next one's for
01:27:59.140you. The Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni trial starts on May 17th. I mean, we are now about a
01:28:07.600month away, almost exactly, right? Is today the 17th? No, today's the 16th. Yeah, so we're about
01:28:13.460a month away exactly from this trial. And I think it will go to trial. Like they are so dug in on
01:28:19.780their positions, even though her case has largely been gutted. Her sexual harassment case was thrown
01:28:24.740out. Mostly what remains is her retaliation complaint against him, claiming that because
01:28:30.260she complained of sexual harassment on the set, he then orchestrated a media campaign against her.
01:28:36.440And that's a much better case for Justin Baldoni, because he's got tons of proof that those PR
01:28:44.600experts he brought in, as nasty as their text messages to one another were, were brought in
01:28:51.360defensively after Blake Lively had turned on him and started to publicly humiliate him.
01:28:57.440She was the much bigger star. She's married to a bigger star than both of them. Her best friend
01:29:02.060was Taylor Swift. And I think Baldoni's got a very good case that he accurately deduced
01:29:06.400he was about to be ruined by this woman and her so-called dragons and did not ruin her reputation,
01:29:13.280but she did that herself in the bad press around their movie. And we've just learned that one of
01:29:19.440the witnesses, the defense, Justin Baldoni's team is going to call is Kirstie Fla. Who is Kirstie
01:29:27.060Fla? She is, I believe from the Netherlands. And she is the one who on a press junket that Blake
01:29:33.900Lively and Parker Posey, that they were on promoting a movie. And the junket, the way the
01:29:42.780junket works is you get 10 minutes. I've been on, I've been the reporter doing one of these where
01:29:47.400like, you know, NBC gets 10 minutes, you get 10 minutes, CBS gets 10 minutes, Access Hollywood
01:29:52.800gets 10 minutes, whatever. So she, as this foreign journalist, got 10 minutes with the two of them.
01:29:57.560And she is the one who sat down and had that incredible moment where she commented, Blake
01:30:04.180likely had gone public with the fact that she was pregnant. She looked pregnant. And she said
01:30:08.760something about how cute her baby bump was. And Blake was such a bitch to her. So, so Kirstie's
01:30:15.560been called as a witness by the defense, and she is prepared to testify for the defense on how nasty
01:30:21.560Blake Lively was to her and what happened after this interview. As a reminder, here's the sound
01:30:25.560bite in SOT 31. First of all, congrats on your little bump. Congrats on your little bump.
01:30:33.260What about my bump? You've got two nice ones. They are kind of bumps, aren't they? No,0.79
01:32:09.700but you, you look terrible in that SOT too. So here's Kirstie. She went on our pal Billy Bush's0.99
01:32:16.660podcast two days ago and she's talked all about it. It was a fascinating exchange. Um, here's
01:32:23.800Summit and SOT 32. Well, I could think about in that moment was like, is she joking now? You know,
01:32:30.200are they doing this for real? I, I did, it didn't really like, it couldn't sink in that they were
01:32:37.500actually being that rude and while I was sitting there first I was like okay this is not happening
01:32:44.380and then I started getting a bit angry and then I started getting frustrated and I was like I just
01:32:50.440want this to be over with yeah and the fact is I was supposed to have a longer interview and they
01:32:55.960cut it short so I you know still I think it's interesting that they actually let me keep the
01:33:02.500interview because sometimes, you know, they actually take the tape away if they don't like
01:33:07.420their tape. And you know what? That's so interesting because that just tells you that
01:33:11.800this was normal Blake Lively behavior. They weren't even thinking that, oh, she's not behaving
01:33:17.180very nicely towards this reporter. They were just like, OK, yeah, she's like that with everyone.
01:33:23.440They're going to use her to get that tape in in front of the jury, Brett. And you tell me how a
01:33:29.060jury is likely to react to that. Well, I think the jury is going to react exactly how we all did.
01:33:34.900It makes you feel really, really uncomfortable. And it paints Blake in such a mean girl light.
01:33:41.640And even just seeing her facial expressions, it makes you wonder what she's capable and how
01:33:46.780capable of and how far she will go to secure the next level of whatever it is she's trying to gain.1.00
01:33:53.760The thing that I have learned is that mean girls always fall, and the bigger they are, the harder the fall.0.69
01:34:00.500And in this case, I do hope that we get to see a very serious fall.1.00
01:34:06.120I'm a mom of a son, and this whole me too, believe all women thing went to such a different level where it concerns me as a mom of a son that women will just automatically default position, be believed.0.95
01:34:20.000And I think we're starting to see the implications of that in real time with someone who is very narcissistic and very, very mean and honestly probably won't stop at anything to get what she wants.0.68
01:34:32.260So I do. I hope that's shown to the jury because it's a perfect picture of how ugly and mean women can be.1.00
01:34:40.100Oh, it will be. They will use Kirstie to get it into evidence for her.1.00
01:34:45.260She can lay the foundation for it and they can show it as because their defense is going
01:34:49.800to be it wasn't Justin's PR team that caused Blake Lively's bad press or her declining
01:35:10.060She's, you know, she wants to kill a 2009 article where she uses the word tranny.
01:35:16.320And then, of course, a 2014 article where it's about her wedding to Ryan Reynolds on a plantation.
01:35:24.760So there you go. You got the LGBTQ community. You've got black people.
01:35:29.720You've got it. This is you got it all covered.1.00
01:35:32.920And now I think what she's been doing the last couple of days and she's been filing all this stuff that she doesn't want the public to see.0.94
01:35:39.820And by doing that, she just reminds everyone of all the bad PR she's received before this.
01:35:47.400So everything that she doesn't want the jury to know, she's making sure that the public knows.0.96
01:35:51.800And her whole point of this lawsuit is to convince the public that she is, you know, a nice person and that she's supposed to be really popular.0.88
01:36:01.420So it's really everything she does just backfires on her in such a stupid way.
01:36:09.820You know, here's my question. One of the interesting things, Will, is who's going to react more negatively, the male jurors or the female jurors?
01:36:20.440I don't personally know exactly how they would react in that. I'll be honest with you, Megan. I hadn't heard of this story before. Maybe I'm too much of a man and didn't even know that Blake Lively these things were going on beforehand. But what I can say with these kind of things going on is that there's only really two ways to get canceled in Hollywood.
01:36:37.140And that's either your movies stop making money or you don't align with the leftist principles.
01:36:42.320And so honestly, with all of this, I feel it's very sad that Blake Lively is going to be completely fine after this and that nothing is going to actually happen to her.
01:36:50.920She's going to continue to get cast in films and all of this.
01:36:53.640And these are just the kind of things that the American people deal with as long as they have the right opinions and they keep making money.
01:36:59.260And maybe that's part of the reason why I'm not so involved with Hollywood culture, because, I mean, these people, their lives and the way they treat people and how they act is just so irrelevant to the way that I try and live my life.
01:37:11.240But I unfortunately don't think anything's actually going to even happen to her in a negative light.
01:37:19.420I'll say I think women are going to respond more negatively to it, but I think men are going to be right there.
01:37:24.000They're going to be right there, too, because they're going to feel protective of Christy.1.00
01:37:26.860they're not going to like this rich bitch putting down this earnest sweet reporter who was doing1.00
01:37:33.680nothing wrong and they'll feel protective of her but the women are going to make her pay they are1.00
01:37:39.280not going to like that we've all been on the receiving end of that mean girl shit brit and um1.00
01:37:44.840she this little sweet act that she's she can get away with when she sits in front of like a hollywood1.00
01:37:50.520press where she doesn't take questions she's in front of the camera glowing like oh poor me it's1.00
01:37:56.000not going to fly when she's under cross-examination and she's got somebody like that that the jury
01:38:00.580gets to see. I honestly, well, you know, I love you. I actually think that this is going to kill
01:38:04.800her career. I don't think that she's going to go much further than this. And I agree, right? We
01:38:09.300know that Hollywood is left and all of their agenda, but I think she way overplayed her hand1.00
01:38:15.260and I don't think women are going to be showing up to see her movies anymore. I know that the1.00
01:38:20.480overall tone on Blake Lively and even her fallout, I think now with Taylor Swift and some of the other
01:38:25.920Brittany Mahata or whoever she is,0.87
01:44:05.540I now have my very own channel on Sirius XM.
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01:44:31.100brit mayer is back with me now brit a couple things that i wanted to talk to you about
01:44:39.840first of all i don't know if you ever watched uh or familiar with the show malcolm in the middle but
01:44:45.940it's like a you know family show um wholesome like kind of universally safe well it's getting
01:44:53.660a reboot and it's getting a reboot with a female character who is non-binary. Great. Says at five,
01:45:05.140who says at five, she started to feel wrong. Here's the soundbite. It's not 36. I was like
01:46:08.080Now, yeah, we have to have a non-binary in the reboot.
01:46:11.800And apparently the show creators have said, let's see, it's Tracy Katsky is the executive producer along with Linwood Boomer, their husband and wife together.
01:46:25.760And they say, Katsky, the wife says, I got to tell you, it's a really important thing to us.0.64
01:46:31.840Three out of our four children are queer.
01:46:35.920And so without making it a thing or without making it an issue, I think it's really nice to have a character that's just a facet of their personality as opposed to the entire story.
01:56:03.440You will ultimately learn at the end of it.
01:56:04.820I think it's beneficial to know right now about the press.
01:56:08.180He's going to turn this whole thing, this story he's going to tell us, around on the horrible press, which is like another, like, what is he doing?
01:56:18.680Like, you do not, in that post, bring up Jesus to rip on media from your perch at the Pentagon.
01:57:13.540Even though they witnessed a literal miracle, it didn't matter.
01:57:18.080They were only there to explain away the goodness in pursuit of their agenda.
01:57:24.320As the passage ends, the Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel against him, how to destroy him.
01:57:30.580I sat there in church and I thought our press are just like these Pharisees not all of you not all of you but the legacy Trump hating press.
01:57:44.340hmm okay your thoughts on that and this administration's increasingly frequent
01:57:52.500use of catholicism and christianity and jesus himself to make a political point yeah i mean
01:58:03.600that makes me uncomfortable too i was there with the wind up you know i'm kind of waiting where
01:58:07.540where are you going to connect the dots here that what you're saying is accurate the story
01:58:11.600your painting, but how are you going to connect it? And then when it turns and you're relating
01:58:15.820a very deeply theological issue to the press, yeah, that rubs me wrong. It's not a good
01:58:22.540connection. It's taken totally out of context. What I will say is that historically, we have
01:58:27.420had leaders in America who have called upon the Bible and theology to support missions or policies.
01:58:35.720So I'm not as uncomfortable, you know, with that.
01:58:38.620I think it needs to be treaded with very much care
01:58:42.780and never to take the name Jesus or to take a meme
01:58:46.380or to take a Bible story and then twist it