YES or NO: Xaviaer DuRousseau
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Summary
The Yes or No Challenge is a game where you have to guess who's a Fed and who's not a Fed. In this case, it's rapper Xavier De Ruzicka and comedian Michael Grand-Ami.
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Michael, do you think you deserve a soft A, N-word pass?
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On my mother's side, I'm Sicilian and Calabrese.
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Welcome to Yes or No, the bibulous battle to discover who knows whom better.
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My guest today is Xavier de Rousseau, mon grand ami.
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He will select his answer away from my prying eyes.
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No matter what, I will probably end up drinking.
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Neither of us has seen the questions beforehand.
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I'm having a little less, maybe a bit of a sturdier drink,
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Kevin the bartender makes it very, very stiff and tall.
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that's a steeper one than the one you offered me.
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I mean, I understand the federal apparatus is very large,
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I feel like that means that you have some type of ties
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for some high-level people to not know about it,
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or was just the lowest hanging fruit amongst the Feds.
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But I really think it's because he got too sloppy
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But in any radical movement or criminal enterprise,
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the federal government always kind of gets in there,
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are informing because the Feds get something on him
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or you're going to point us in the right direction
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And I don't fully think Cassie's innocent either.
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I can't believe you would victim blame like that.
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I think there's a jail cell waiting for her, too.
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And I've only had like five sips of this martini.
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Reparations would be worth the price if we never had to talk about race again.
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Because first of all, we have to talk about race.
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Because even if we pay reparations, which that's a hot mess within itself.
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Because how are you going to differentiate of who deserves what and like who's actually
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You think about some like Mexican who's half Spanish and half Quechua or something.
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It's like it just doesn't make any sense at all.
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But then the thing is, is even if we pay the reparations, we're still going to have
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We're still because so many demographics are out of control.
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If we're talking about statistics speaking, it's like we have to talk about crime in the
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black community and we have to talk about why things like BLM should never come back
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And yet it's like the mindset is not going to leave just because we're not talking about
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race doesn't mean that the mindset and the victim mentality and the poor illiteracy rates
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and all these different issues are ever going to go away.
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I like to travel and see different peoples and have different customs.
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There's nothing wrong with having a special affection for your own family, first of all,
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Joe DiMaggio, you know, the Italians, Joe DiMaggio hits a home run.
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It's fine for the Italian Americans to say like, ah, attaboy, Joe.
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You don't want that to be taken to, you know, be cruel or to hate other races, you know,
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just like you wouldn't want to take your special love of your family to mean that you hate other families or something like that.
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But there's nothing wrong with having a kind of a special affection for people who are like you.
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And it's like, there's also just cultural things that are just difficult to explain to other cultures
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because I can only argue so much with white people about why you're supposed to rinse off your chicken before you cook it.
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And I don't, and I know, I know actually one white person who will bleach her food before she, a little bit.
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See, that's why I don't eat at everybody's house because that's just insane.
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But the argument is, is people are like, they say two things.
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They'll say that when you rinse the chicken, it spreads the salmonella all over.
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It's like, so you're telling me that you don't clean your sink after you're done cooking is what I'm hearing.
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They say that you cook it and it kills the salmonella, but it's like, okay,
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but it doesn't kill the fact that this chicken was dropped on the floor, kicked around,
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Well, sometimes you'll see a little hair, a little dirt, a little, you know,
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If you're going to Air One, that is like the fancy, that's some nice,
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I make more outside of PragerU than at PragerU.
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Those non-profit dollars don't go that far, okay?
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And, like, there's no, I don't know, like, this whole idea,
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I think, why do we not want to talk about race?
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And talking about race doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.
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There's such a stick, I hate what Black History Month has become.
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Black History Month has become this, like, constant peddling of...
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the black American story is going to be what we did to overcome adversity
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Because you have over 2 million black millionaires in America today.
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You have all this black excellence that's worth talking about.
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When I teach my kids and grandkids one day about the black American story,
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I'm going to say, this is how it started, and this is how far we've come.
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So we should be able to talk about that for various demographics,
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especially when we're talking about American history.
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So, no, talking about race isn't always a bad thing.
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Yeah, it is ghetto, and it's completely unworkable.
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So I just constantly go, like, no time to think, basically, full send.
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and you go boom, boom, two, boom, boom, three, boom, boom.
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Is there at least some evidence that the Earth might be flat?
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As I'm pushing, I'm like, oh, man, I blew it on the flat Earth.
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Okay, I'm not saying that the Earth is flat, necessarily.
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There's at least a little that it might not be fully round, either.
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That's, like, the preface that a flat Earther makes.
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This is what they do when the people who think vaccines, like, turn the frogs gay.
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I just think they're all bad for you and turn your frogs gay.
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I think I'm at the point where I will entertain, at least entertain, almost any conspiracy.
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And there was a colleague I had years ago that would spend hours a day, because we were
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so bored of that job, hours a day telling me all the reasons why he thought that the
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But I am just so jaded and blackpilled about all the things that we've been lied about.
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It's like, again, I don't necessarily know if the Earth is flat, but at least it could
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Because, you know what, in retrospect, because, you know, I had to do the rapid fire, I probably
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should have said no, because now people are going to think I'm the same.
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It's just, I don't trust anything anymore, so...
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It's like, it's one of these things where I think, like, what's the most based thing
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And then you start, like, on the flat Earth thing.
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In a way, you think, well, the flat Earth, that's the most base, trad, classical thing
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But actually, the flat Earth really is an idea more from the Enlightenment and the Renaissance,
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or really post-Renaissance, Enlightenment, that is mocking people in the supposed dark
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ages who supposedly thought the Earth was flat, even though we've known the Earth is
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So you're like, okay, well, hold on, that's like a fake-out.
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That's like a reverse Uno trad idea, because it's actually kind of modern.
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But you know, and there are all these things that are kind of like that.
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But in any case, I'm just trying to cope because I lost the point.
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I just don't believe anything, because at this point, it's like, I don't even think
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Will Republicans hold either the House or Senate in 2026?
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It's appropriating the culture of the early 2000s.
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It's because as a kid, I always wanted Frosted Tips.
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You cannot have convinced me I wasn't a pop star.
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My mother, in about 2001 or something, I was like 11 years old, and my mother said,
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Michael, because all the kids, we're talking like, in some cases, you know, manly kids,
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And she was like, do you want to get Frosted Tips this summer?
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Like, I've had the same haircut since I was six.
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I've had the exact same haircut since I was six.
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And before that, at age five, it was just slightly more to the side.
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So I could not, but I remember that period, those halcyon days of the early 2000s.
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We guess on our pin pads, or we answer on our pin pads how we would answer that question
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And then we're going to move the drink based on how we think the other person would answer.
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I am a little more classically liberal in the sense of like when it comes to St.
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Francisco Franco is more classically liberal than I am.
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You think you have these, you know, open, more open-minded views.
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Because when it comes to marriage, I'm a little bit more classically liberal on that
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because I view that there's a difference between biblical marriage recognized by God
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and the American systemic institutional contract of a marriage.
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But when it comes to the adoption, there's just something so.
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You know, let me not get kicked off YouTube about it.
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In 2025, between being black, Christian, conservative, or a Zionist, likely Israel draws the most attacks
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I don't know that that would have been the case three years ago.
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Because the left has been anti-Zionist for decades at this point.
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And certainly the popular left, if not the establishment left.
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Now some of the establishment left is anti-Zionist.
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I mean, I guess in principle, I'm not a Zionist in that I don't agree with the religious or
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Which is, so they would probably call me a Zionist, even though I'm really not, because
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The word almost doesn't seem to have a concrete meaning anymore.
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But I think today, much more so than if you say, I'm Christian, I'm a white guy, I'm
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You know, if it were a few years ago, I don't think that would have been the case.
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I think there was, always would have been some sentiment of people being annoyed.
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But then, and low key still now, people didn't even know what Zionist meant back in the day.
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But now it's like, I get grief for everything that I do on the internet.
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I mean, when I say I'm not a Zionist, it's because I don't agree with the political ideology
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It's not that I don't have a kind of broad affection or support for the state of Israel
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or because I don't like Jews or something like that, which is, I think when people use
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that word now, they're basically saying like, yeah, I just, like Jew, or like you guy who
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doesn't hate Jews or whatever, you know, like, that's not what the word means.
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It's one of those words that's just so overexposed.
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But, you know, I get flack just like you do for everything that I say online.
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Like, I could say that the sky is blue today and people are going to be mad at me.
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But the level, the intensity of the hatred that I get for saying I'm a Zionist.
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You know, and I don't necessarily agree with Herzl's ideology either.
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But I do very much stand with, you know, the premise of why Israel is what it is.
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You would say the Jewish people as a people, as a tribe, have an eternal right to the Holy
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And the amount of hate that I get, the amount of death threats that I get, it's a different
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When did you come to, because I would say, you know, I have a kind of practical, prudential
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And I have a sort of personal affection for Jews, because I grew up in New York and Los
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But I don't, you know, being a Catholic, I don't think there's some, like, special legal
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right that the Jewish people have as an entity to, you know, an eternal claim to this land.
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I think they fought a war, so that's one right to land.
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So it's like, I think there are all these kind of practical, political rights.
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But I wouldn't, you know, ideologically, I don't really buy it.
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You know, I didn't really have too much of an opinion on what was going on there before
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So how it really started was in June of 2023, I went just on vacation there.
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I went to go see Tel Aviv, go see Jerusalem, go do it all.
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And then I didn't know that anti-Semitism was still a thing.
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So it was like the two kids in my school were Jewish.
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One I didn't even know was Jewish until he reached out to me thanking me for what I say
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So I got all this hate just for being there when I said that I was there on Twitter.
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And when I asked my Jewish friends, I'm like, this is still happening?
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I'm like, a lot of the people who hate Jews, like, really, it has nothing to do with Israel.
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It's just they're broke, bitter, and ghetto, and jealous.
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And they're like, oh, well, Jews are so successful.
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It's like, why are so many Jewish people successful?
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So one of my first walk with me, because I do this series with my Air One smoothies and everything,
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one of my first ones was about how anti-Semitism is ghetto.
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And when October 7th happened, I was baffled by how quickly the narrative switched online.
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Like, before the day it even ended, people were denying that October 7th happened, saying that Israel deserved it, all this stuff.
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So then at that point, I'm like, well, you know what?
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I'm just really going to start airing my piece about how I feel about this conflict.
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So I really accidentally, like, very organically, I guess is a better word, would say that I just ended up adopting this massive Jewish following and becoming really well-known in Israel.
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I just thought that people were being ghetto online, and I called it out like I do everything else.
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I mean, is you get exposed to something, you say, like, well, whatever, I'm not that.
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Whatever the opposite of, like, that thing that I find ugly is, I totally agree.
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I have the least popular opinion, which is that I'm broadly supportive of the Israel, and I like the Jews, but I also don't, like, agree with the premises of Zionism.
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But, okay, before I let you go, the moon landing.
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You said you brought it up, and I didn't know if it was going to be in the final round, but.
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That was the mid-1900s, and you're telling me that they made it all the way to the moon?
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Gayle King can barely get to space and come back, and you're telling me that we went to the moon?
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Because you're saying, basically, now we can't do a thing, and we used to be able to do a thing, so that's implausible.
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Like, we used to be able to do philosophy really well in, like, the Middle Ages, and now we're philosophically idiots.
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So is it, you know, we used to be able to have true religion and worship, and now we're like, God is a spaghetti monster, whatever nonsense they say on Reddit.
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So it's like, is it possible that we just got worse at something?
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You know, there is an element of truth to that, but the reason that I feel like people, there's a few reasons why people are getting dumber.
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It's social media, it's artificial sugars, and pornography are frying people's brains, so that's why we have fewer intelligent people that are in the world.
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And, you know, it's like, have any other nations been to the moon yet?
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You're telling me that China and Russia don't want to go to the moon?
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Well, why wouldn't they have said it was a hoax?
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Why wouldn't the Soviet Union have said it's a hoax?
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The world is being just ruled by satanic globalists who want us all to be dirt poor and eat bugs.
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So when it's all said and done, it's like, there's probably some type of handshake of like, you don't put my business out there, and I'm not going to put your business out there.
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Because there's a lot of things that I'm sure that America knows about these other nations that they haven't put out there.
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First of all, Nicki Minaj, sweetie, I am so sorry that I let you down.
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The least I can do is point out that you should go check out more of Xavier's content.
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Fifty Shades of Brown and a Diddy casting call.
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Actually, they're just bringing communism here.
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Well, then tell people to stop swimming here and the process would be smoother.
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I really, I really like, anytime I say anything, I just want it to say, brr.
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Right now, go check out that content on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok at Xavier.
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How do you spell the handle for the people out there?
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You know, it's an error on my birth certificate, but my mom liked it, so she kept it.
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I am, in every walk of my life, I'm Michael, M-I-C-H-A-E-L.
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But when I'm in Starbucks, I am almost always M-I-C-H-E-A-L.
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It's those damn gender-neutral, gender-study, master's degree in gender studies baristas.
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But I love, but I'll tell you what, I love them.
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Starbucks is one of the greatest corporations, and I don't care if they want to hate, if
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I don't care if they, even if they hate me when I walk in, it's fine.
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And on the birth certificate, it was spelled, it was an error, it was A-E-L, Daniel, or
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So anyway, go there on all the social media platforms.
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Your back is going to end up as wide as a house.
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As miserable and embarrassing as this is, a deal is a deal.