A FEMA official ordered relief workers to skip houses that were advocating for Donald Trump. This is taxpayer funded relief for people in a largely Republican area, largely Trump-supporting area. Plus, special counsel Jack Smith is dropping the charges and being ordered to preserve his records.
00:00:11.000A FEMA official ordered relief workers to skip houses that were advocating for Donald Trump.
00:00:18.000This is taxpayer dollars and Hurricane Milton relief for people in a largely Republican area, largely Trump-supporting area, were not getting the aid they need.
00:00:27.000Because officials said, do not help Trump supporters.
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00:05:19.000A federal disaster relief official ordered workers to bypass the homes of Trump supporters as they surveyed damage caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, according to internal correspondence obtained by the Daily Wire and confirmed by multiple federal employees.
00:05:32.000A FEMA supervisor told workers in a message to avoid homes advertising Trump as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid.
00:05:41.000Internal messages viewed by the Daily Wire reveal the supervisor...
00:05:45.000Marnie Washington relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team.
00:05:50.000Multiple government employees told the Daily Wire.
00:05:52.000The government employees told the Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance.
00:06:03.000Images shared with the Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers who wrote in the government system message such as, Trump sign no entry per leadership.
00:06:32.000Whenever there's any kind of investigation, or if these people are punished as they should be, we're going to be told it's a political prosecution, that we live in some kind of banana republic.
00:06:51.000Already, our good friends the Krasensteins...
00:06:53.000Are taking that statement from Trump's lawyer where he says if Leticia James keeps violating Trump's rights with lawfare, they will put her in jail.
00:07:00.000And then he tweets, oh my god, oh heavens, this is fascism.
00:07:38.000It's illegal on so many different levels that obviously, and I know that FEMA has said, I think in their statement, they said that they've identified the person, and they didn't even quite say they fired them.
00:07:48.000They said that they're no longer in that position or something.
00:08:05.000I've seen this headline, and it wasn't from the Daily Wire.
00:08:07.000I don't know if I would believe it at first, and not because I doubt that the federal government would do this.
00:08:13.000It's only because it's so on the nose, and it's so blatant.
00:08:17.000And then, of course, it's from the Daily Wire, so I'm like, well, of course, I know that Daily Wire is trustworthy, and it's been confirmed by FEMA. But it is shocking.
00:08:25.000Again, not that they did it, but that they put it in writing.
00:08:28.000That they would just write that down and say, yep, skip the Trump houses, because they think they could just do whatever they want, and there will be no accountability at all.
00:10:33.000It seemed as though the federal government just abandoned these people, many of them in the redder parts of, you know, Asheville's very liberal, but the surrounding county's very red part of North Carolina.
00:10:45.000And it seemed like from the outside that they were just being abandoned to drown.
00:10:49.000And you had to wonder if that was politically motivated.
00:10:52.000Of course, the media said, well, how dare you even suggest such a thing?
00:10:54.000And now we see this, and now I have to wonder, you know, is there some directive from some FEMA official somewhere saying, Yeah, leave North Carolina alone.
00:11:04.000This is how the left has operated historically.
00:11:06.000You look at the whole of the more and the entire argument was there just happened to be this famine in Ukraine.
00:11:09.000And even though they were exporting grain while everyone there was starving to death, this was not politically targeted.
00:11:14.000We weren't trying to kill our political enemies.
00:11:15.000What the left basically always does is they deprive basic necessities that they've been in charge of or placed in charge of giving to people from them.
00:11:23.000There's always some reason that it just happens to be the case that their political enemies are being punished.
00:11:27.000Matt, you made a point earlier where you said if you didn't read this from the Daily Wire, you wouldn't have believed it at first.
00:11:33.000And this is a massive messaging problem for the right, because as you pointed out, Phil, people are afraid of being called crazy.
00:11:38.000The left has done such a good job poisoning the well against...
00:11:42.000Bluntly describing the things that they're doing.
00:11:45.000And when you go to people and you just describe things that left-wing politicians and pundits have said, as well as the actual party platform of the Democratic Party, people will regard you like a crazy person.
00:11:56.000I mean, Kamala Harris literally said she wanted to fund sex change operations for illegal aliens.
00:12:02.000And I understand why people hear that and they don't want to believe it because that sounds like something that the Simpsons would put in a Fox News headline in an episode they made 10 years ago.
00:12:12.000This is, to your point, that's exactly right.
00:12:14.000The left will hear this story, and they will say, oh, this is not that big of a deal.
00:12:22.000You know, that was one person, and they'll minimize it as much as they can, even though this is one step away from literally not helping people in the middle of an emergency.
00:12:33.000It's like they're not going to houses to offer aid.
00:12:36.000It's one step away from saying, don't go to that house while it's actually raining and while the floodwaters are going up.
00:12:49.000Keep in mind, just to go back to the point about how flagrant this is, which again is the only thing that makes it That gives you pause at first.
00:13:00.000So the fact that that blatant tells you something about the culture in FEMA, which is not a surprise.
00:13:06.000But if you have one official who's willing, again, to put this in writing, not just that they set it off the record in some meeting, but they put it in writing, then that tells you something about the culture there.
00:13:17.000It tells you that this official felt...
00:13:20.000Obviously, if FEMA is filled with people like us, by that I mean just like normal common sense people, even if you are a far left FEMA official, you wouldn't put that in writing because you'd be worried about this exact thing happening.
00:13:31.000So they obviously are in an environment where they know they're around like-minded people.
00:13:36.000I think we can assume that there's a lot of this kind of thing going on.
00:13:38.000And so to them, it was no big deal to put it in writing.
00:13:41.000General Flynn said this morning on the Culture War podcast that we all dodged a bullet with this election.
00:13:47.000And then you see a story like this, and I want to stress, In a situation like a hurricane, where people are in need of disaster relief, this aid could be life and death.
00:13:56.000In this area in Florida, I expect there's probably a lot of elderly who are in desperate need.
00:14:01.000This is, as Phil was saying, one degree away, but this is...
00:14:05.000This is them saying they're okay with you dying in a disaster.
00:14:08.000They will not provide you the relief that you deserve as a citizen of this country as a taxpayer because they don't like your worldview.
00:14:15.000And there's never going to be any accountability for this, and there certainly won't be any accountability for eroding trust in American institutions.
00:14:20.000The fact that this is true should and will do more damage to American trust in federal agencies than a million January 6th could have.
00:14:33.000A figure will come along and point out the lies and hypocrisy of the media and of the ruling class, and it's always made out to seem as if this person just pulled it out of nowhere and they hypnotized everybody.
00:14:43.000Everyone loved the media, and then Donald Trump came along, and he convinced people not to like them anymore.
00:14:48.000People loved the government, but then people like Ron Paul came along and started convincing them not to.
00:14:52.000I mean, the reality is the federal government hates us as people.
00:14:56.000They detest normal people, and they don't care when you die.
00:14:58.000And they're in charge of ensuring you live.
00:14:59.000And by the way, the federal government spends, what, between $15 and $19 billion?
00:15:03.000I believe it's closer to $19 billion every single day.
00:15:05.000They're capable of providing basic disaster relief.
00:15:08.000When they weren't doing that, I think it should have been apparent enough that it was intentional.
00:15:11.000I think this is very obviously extremely disgusting.
00:15:14.000What stands out to me is this is FEMA, the organization is FEMA, and they're supposed to, like, you join FEMA because you want to help people and you want to help others.
00:15:21.000And to think that you'll just pass over people during a hurricane or what have you during a natural disaster like this is so disgusting.
00:15:28.000It's so outrageous that even the workers, in a quote here from the Daily Wire article, by the way, the guy who broke this story, Leif Lamahu, Did a great job here.
00:15:38.000But the worker said, I thought we could go help and make a difference.
00:15:41.000When we got there, we were told to discriminate against people.
00:15:44.000It's almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that's okay.
00:15:48.000I'm glad there's at least somebody in FEMA who saw what was going on and thinking, what the hell are we doing?
00:15:53.000Yeah, I don't know if you guys saw the, I mean, if you guys covered the video a few weeks ago of the, I don't think it was FEMA, but they were federal disaster workers who were working on moving some logs from one part of the yard to the other part of the yard.
00:16:10.000It's like a dozen people, one guy handing a log to another guy over the course of like 15 feet.
00:16:15.000A human chain, 20 people moving a 10-pound log 20 feet.
00:17:47.000This is one of the dirty little secrets about Trump as they were trying to paint him to be Hitler.
00:17:52.000And one of the reasons why that narrative never caught on is that not only was he not a fascist dictator, but he was probably the most restrained president we've had in like a century.
00:18:01.000And he was very reluctant to wield executive power, I think almost to a fault.
00:18:06.000I mean, if there was one great flaw in the first Trump administration, it's not that he was...
00:18:10.000This fascist dictator who was drunk on his own power, but he was actually a little bit too, in my estimation, too hesitant to wield power.
00:18:32.000If you actually want to drain the swamp, you're going to have to go in and wield executive power legally, but you're going to have to do it.
00:18:36.000Yeah, well, I think one of the great lessons we can draw from this story and one of the kind of great shifts in ethos that Trump has represented in the Republican Party, if not something he's outright delivered on national political scale, is historically Republicans have seen government actors and the left in particular as good people who are misguided.
00:18:56.000They've seen the government as inefficient but not necessarily malicious.
00:19:01.000And I think Trump actually represents a kind of conservatism where people are willing to recognize this is malicious.
00:19:09.000They are incredibly callous with respect to their concern for the lives of people they consider to be politically inconvenient.
00:19:15.000It's good to see the American people finally starting to wake up to this.
00:19:18.000I think the fact that Trump was elected is a great sign that people still recognize this, and it's a winning strategy for Republicans to point that out and be clear about that instead of saying, I think my opponent is a good and decent man.
00:19:31.000Let's jump to the story from CNN. DOJ announces charges in Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump.
00:19:38.000The Justice Department on Friday announced federal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Trump before the election.
00:19:44.000According to court documents, Iranian officials asked Farhad Shaqari 51 in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump.
00:19:51.000Shaqari is still at large in Iran, the DOJ says.
00:19:54.000It's a newly disclosed plot and marks yet another alleged attempt on Trump's life by the Iranian regime.
00:19:59.000Prosecutors allege Shaqiri, who participated in recorded conversations with law enforcement, was originally tasked by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps to carrying out other assassinations against U.S. and Israeli citizens inside the U.S., but IRGC officials told Shaqiri on October 7th to focus only on Trump, court documents say.
00:20:16.000He's an Afghan national residing in Tehran, told investigators that if he was unable to do, unable to do, come up with a plan in the time frame, come on, copy it, guys, that they would wait until after the election.
00:20:29.000Now, this story seems a little bit absurd.
00:21:01.000Now, there's a lot of speculation from people that have been popping up in this podcast that they fear there may be an attempt on Donald Trump's life before he is actually inaugurated.
00:21:11.000It's a certainty they will continue with the attempts, but...
00:21:14.000Yeah, and you have to wonder, the Iranians wanted to kill Donald Trump.
00:21:19.000Why is it that the bad guys all want to kill Donald Trump?
00:21:22.000I think it tells you something good about his leadership style.
00:21:28.000Look, this is unfortunately going to be an anxiety that we all have for the next four years, because we know that the Secret Service was not...
00:21:40.000At the very least, they were not up to the task of protecting him the first time around.
00:21:45.000And, you know, I don't think when you're president, you can hire your own personal security, your own private security on top of Secret Service, as far as I know.
00:21:51.000So he's going to kind of be at their mercy.
00:21:55.000Yeah, I want to give a big picture, a little quick talk about what's going on here and why all of this is going down.
00:22:01.000Donald Trump was responsible for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, who was the leader of the IRGC, generally thought to be number two in Iran.
00:22:09.000And The IRGC and Islamic Guard and Islamic Republic in Iran has had it out for Donald Trump and his associates since then, including John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, including other Iranian activists in the United States.
00:22:22.000They've been trying to target Donald Trump and many of his national security advisors and peers who worked in the administration As far as I see this, I think anybody who's plotting to kill the President of the United States or President-elect of the United States should be on borrowed time as far as the American military and intelligence agencies should go.
00:22:41.000Well, I hope they protect Donald Trump.
00:22:43.000And I'm kind of concerned, you know, I brought this up to somebody, we were talking earlier, and I said, what if something does happen to Donald Trump?
00:22:52.000The 20th Amendment says that if before the president's first term, the president-elect can make the first term, if they die for any reason, then the vice president-elect will become the president.
00:23:03.000And then I was talking to someone, they said, yeah, but Trump and J.D. will be on a plane or something, who knows?
00:23:07.000And I'm like, okay, maybe they shouldn't be in the same room together.
00:23:10.000January 20th, they can come together, we get them inaugurated, but I mean this not in any way lightheartedly.
00:23:17.000I am deeply concerned with the lives of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and all of our politicians, even the ones I'm not quite fond of, because...
00:23:27.000I hope this is not a calm before the storm, and right now, more than ever, we need serious protection for our political leaders.
00:23:33.000I will say, one of the reasons for the calm that you're talking about, and we haven't seen, a lot of us were expecting if Trump won, we'd have rioting and that sort of thing.
00:24:02.000One of the many reasons why some of us were quite happy with the J.D. Vance pick is that not only is he a really impressive guy in his own right, but frankly, as many of us were saying, he needs to pick a VP candidate who gives him assassination insurance so that...
00:24:20.000Before someone could think about making an attempt on his life, they're going to have to think, they're going to also have to consider the fact, okay, well, if we take him out, then we're stuck with this guy.
00:24:26.000And is that really going to be better for us?
00:24:30.000Now, if you put some establishment shill in there, somebody like that, then I think that really does put Trump in an even more precarious position.
00:24:42.000I think it's an interesting conversation to have, because if you're the Iranians, I'm sure you prefer J.D. Vance, who is known to be more of an isolationist than Donald Trump was.
00:24:50.000I'm sure J.D. Vance would declare war in Iran if they did assassinate Donald Trump, but I think the Iranians would be more scared of pulling anything on Donald Trump if Nikki Haley were the VP, because they know exactly what she wants to do with them.
00:26:00.000But I'm more worried about, I mean, as big a concern as that is, I'm more worried about Yeah.
00:26:11.000among our citizens against trump now we know that trump just wanted an overwhelming victory so most americans voted for him and are in favor of him but look the media has been saying for eight years now and they're only going to ramp it up that this guy is adolf hitler and the thing is as many people pointed out when you when you call somebody hitler when you say that he's a fascist dictator and he's hitler and he wants to destroy democracy you are actually directly calling for his assassination
00:26:35.000You might not be saying it because you can't say it, but if Hitler was actually alive today, we would all agree that you're justified in taking out Hitler.
00:26:46.000And I put it this way, there is a thought experiment about traveling back in time and killing the baby Hitler.
00:26:52.000And the question is, it's a philosophical and moral question about taking the life of a baby who has done nothing wrong, but you know his future and what he becomes.
00:27:02.000You could be an 18-year-old in college and they're asking you about whether it's morally right or wrong or what are the morals of taking the life of a baby.
00:27:56.000And a toothpaste brand that was sponsoring the video pulled their sponsorship from that, which means a toothpaste company has an official stance on the philosophical question of whether you killed Baby Hitler.
00:28:11.000This goes back to the previous story as well.
00:28:15.000If FEMA isn't doing things for Trump supporters, and we've seen two attempts on President Trump's life.
00:28:24.000One was clearly because the Secret Service wasn't doing their job.
00:28:28.000This speaks to the fact that it's likely that that will happen in the future, at least leading up until Trump can get into office and hopefully clear some people out of the Secret Service and get competent people in, or people that aren't ideologically possessed.
00:28:44.000And because the fact is that on the left, and this is not true of every single person who identifies themselves as on the left, but...
00:28:52.000On the sort of radical, far political left, they really truly believe that if you are their political enemy, then you don't deserve to live.
00:29:56.000Mother Jones, after when Trump fans admit Project 2025 is the agenda, the independent MAGA allies say they can finally admit Project 2025.
00:30:04.000Axios, I mean, these are supposed to be serious news organizations, and they saw a joke from Matt Walsh and decided it is the biggest story, it's true, and run with it.
00:30:14.000And not only that, but I'm not even, I'm not a Trump official.
00:30:36.000And it's not just that you're not a Trump official, it's that you are somebody who has now made two documentaries where you're trolling people, and in your profile picture on Twitter, you are dressed as the character you troll people as, and somebody saw a tweet from you which was an obvious troll, and they took the bait and wrote articles about it.
00:30:58.000Yeah, it is amazing, but also on the left, they just lost their ability to detect irony.
00:31:13.000I do think there's an element of the media that says, hey, I know he didn't mean it, he's joking, but we can run the story because you can't sue for defamation because everybody really said it.
00:31:23.000There's a natural filtration process happening over the past 10 years for people who lack the mental capacity to understand humor and think beyond one dimension.
00:32:35.000And then you have a three-day outrage cycle.
00:32:37.000People on the right, too, pretending that they don't understand that you're intentionally exaggerating just to be funny.
00:32:43.000One of my favorites was J.D. Vance was talking in some interview and he said, look, you know, my two sons eat like a dozen eggs a day, right?
00:32:50.000And so when you're a family and you're going to the grocery store and then some journalists wrote...
00:32:55.000There is no way that J.D. Vance's children are eating like 144 eggs per week.
00:33:18.000Well, technically they do get taller each time.
00:33:19.000That's true, actually, but probably not notably.
00:33:22.000Missing context, while it is true that they technically get taller, it would not be possible to notice.
00:33:26.000I think the media industry attracts low IQ people.
00:33:30.000Having worked in some of these offices in New York and in the corporate press, I would find that only a small handful of the people who worked there actually had 100 or above IQs.
00:33:43.000And I know this because I actually physically administered the test.
00:34:22.000I mean, there's been all this conversation in the media after the election about how Trump's voters are uneducated because they didn't go to college.
00:34:31.000And so you get all these pompous people with college degrees saying, well, you guys aren't educated.
00:34:48.000You could have gone to 10 years of post-high school education and actually be barely above 100 with your IQ. And so that's one of the reasons why these people are so confident of their own intelligence, I think.
00:35:03.000And then, I mean, even the ones who get advanced degrees in fields that have traditionally been considered impressive will tell you that men can get pregnant.
00:35:13.000So, following the election, the metric comes out that the blue states are all college-educated and the red states tend to not be college-educated.
00:35:54.000You have to have state-sanctioned confirmation of thought.
00:35:59.000And that's your degree, that's your diploma, and that proves you are capable regardless of your positions.
00:36:05.000So when it comes to this podcasting thing, especially where they say, I love this, the article yesterday, or two days ago from Wired, where it said, The Manosphere won.
00:36:14.000The left needs, it's like the left doesn't even have a Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, or so help us a Tim Pool.
00:36:19.000And it's funny because, just like with Joe Rogan, they did.
00:36:22.000Many of these former liberals are now sitting here voting for Donald Trump.
00:36:25.000But these people's position is you are smart and acceptable if you march with us in lockstep, no matter what we say.
00:36:32.000And I'm like, my guys, when you said we need a Joe Rogan, why don't Democrats have a Joe Rogan?
00:36:51.000And I said, I guess I am now, because I'm not okay with taking a dump on the floor.
00:36:55.000The thing about the Joe Rogan thing, too, is really funny to me, because they don't understand at all.
00:37:01.000This is why they'll never have their own Joe Rogan, is they just don't understand at all why he's popular or how he got to the place that he is.
00:37:11.000And he didn't get there by being known as this Republican guy who's making Republican points.
00:37:17.000Like many people, I started listening to Joe Rogan, certainly at first, because he'd have on whatever, like archaeologists, and they would talk about that for three and a half hours.
00:37:26.000It's the stuff that had nothing to do with politics that made him super popular.
00:37:30.000And then from there, he started getting in a little bit more to politics, but even now, not all that much.
00:37:36.000So on the left, if they tried to do their own Joe Rogan, it would just be some leftist droning on about leftist policy for three and a half hours.
00:37:45.000That's just not a Democrat answer to Joe Rogan.
00:37:48.000And the issue is the amorphous nature of what is acceptable on the left.
00:37:53.000So, I can sit here and be like, here are my beliefs, here are my values, here's what I want, here's what I don't want.
00:37:57.000And they will stay true, for the most part, until someone presents me with a good argument, and we'll have the discussion and the debate, and I might say, you know what, I'll consider it.
00:38:04.000The left is just like, well, today, wimmickson is the new word, and then the next day they're like, actually, it's offensive because it's exclusionary, and they go, okay, now we're not going to say wimmickson, now it's women with a Y. You can't be a Joe Rogan.
00:38:16.000Because you'd have to have a list of all the things you can or can't say updated every day by the Democratic Party.
00:38:40.000And the reason they don't have the influence is because they're woke scolds.
00:38:43.000They're telling people what they must say, what they must think.
00:38:46.000And as soon as you do something interesting, like have an opposing view or anything like that, anything approaching an opposing view, they excommunicate you.
00:38:57.000This is what I talk about all the time on the left, that they are now making the mistake, especially when it comes to entertainment.
00:39:02.000You mentioned Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are perfect examples of this.
00:39:06.000They are now making the mistake that for so long conservatives, and particularly Christian media and entertainment, made.
00:39:13.000Which is that the only thing that matters is the message.
00:39:18.000And so you'll have Jimmy Kimmel, who will get up and he'll give what's supposed to be a comedy monologue, but it's just 10 minutes of him crying because he lost the election.
00:39:27.000And it's just like, your job is to be funny.
00:39:30.000And so if you want to have influence, Jimmy Kimmel...
00:39:34.000You actually want to influence people towards your point of view, then you should come out and just be funny.
00:39:39.000And you sprinkle in the politics here and there.
00:39:43.000And it's the thing, the left for so long, they were very good at this.
00:39:46.000They were very good at influencing the culture, influencing people, because they were good comedians, they were good artists, they made good films, they made good shows.
00:39:55.000and they didn't lead with the message.
00:39:58.000They led with the joke, and they would sprinkle in the politics here and there.
00:40:01.000They'd make it a little bit subtle, so they were just kind of gradually moving you towards their values without you noticing it.
00:40:06.000And now it's kind of, and then you had the Christian answer, which was always just, well, we're going to do this movie, and the acting's terrible, the writing's terrible, everything's terrible, but it's a really good sermon, and they're talking about loving Jesus.
00:40:20.000And now this interesting shift is happening where the left is making that mistake and the right is figuring out how to not really lead with the message, just be interesting, be funny.
00:40:30.000I mean, Joe Rogan is just an interesting guy.
00:40:32.000Sprinkles in the politics here and there.
00:40:45.000There was a time when you used to have to be conservative to be considered far right.
00:40:48.000As long as you're a center-left liberal, you're far right.
00:40:52.000But I just want to make this point about culture.
00:40:54.000At Freedom Tunes, whenever we make these cartoons, if we have an idea that's going to make fun of a Republican, or if we have a funny plan, a conservative idea, we're not like, oh, we can't do that because we need to win.
00:41:20.000So, Seamus had a video where it's Fauci and Trump, and Fauci's testifying, and it starts with the Lord of the Rings scene where he was like, I was there the strength of...
00:41:35.000Well, I was gonna, but now that you've told me to, I won't do it.
00:41:37.000And it's like, it's making fun of Trump and Fauci and everybody just for fun.
00:41:42.000Well, and even like we did, I remember a while ago just doing a silly video where it was like, um, college student like totally owns Ben Shapiro and it's like a college student that was like the pronouns or whatever.
00:42:20.000If you come out and you make a joke, I mean, how many times have we seen some leftist personality make a joke and then they get attacked and they have to take their tweet down or take down their account or something like that or apologize?
00:42:31.000Do you remember the Simpsons bit, Worker and Parasite?
00:42:33.000When Krusty has to get rid of Vichy and Scratchy, he's like, it's an Eastern European cartoon!
00:42:55.000But it's not just that, well, you're not allowed to disagree with us.
00:42:58.000It's also that everything you do has to be about what we believe.
00:43:05.000So even if you do something and you say something that's apolitical, that's not taking anyone's side, they have a problem even with that.
00:43:13.000I mean, they do this with their celebrities now.
00:43:15.000This is the whole thing with Taylor Swift.
00:43:16.000It's like they get mad at Taylor Swift because you're not being political enough.
00:43:19.000Clearly, she's not a Trumper, but it's like, well, no, no, you have to agree with us, and you have to make everything about the fact that you agree with us.
00:43:30.000To your point, and I said this a couple days ago, the reason that everybody had the backlash against Bezos when he wrote the op-ed...
00:43:38.000When he said, we're not going to endorse.
00:43:41.000He didn't come out and endorse Donald Trump.
00:43:47.000It is a unified message, consistent on all fronts, in every single way.
00:43:53.000If you step out of line, then not only do they say, oh, well, we disagree and we disavow that, they literally will excoriate you and cast you out as if you're...
00:44:59.000I want to talk about economy for a second.
00:45:02.000A few weeks ago, three weeks ago, somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, Oh my God, Trump's going to win.
00:46:28.000That's exactly what your average middle-class, working-class guy thinks when he goes to the grocery store and he walks up and there's the unsalted butter that says $5.
00:46:36.000And he goes, what is it, framed in gold?
00:46:55.000Even going back to when we first got married and we were broke as hell.
00:46:59.000So every time my wife goes grocery shopping, if I get a look at the receipt or if she mentions how much something costs, I'm like, that's not that much.
00:47:52.000I was literally going to make that joke.
00:47:53.000The woman on the panel is like, this is how much it costs.
00:47:56.000Dear, I went to the grocery store with $7.
00:47:58.000Well, I think they're in New York, right?
00:48:00.000But the point is, when the Democrats are screeching about Project 2025, despite the fact it's just not happening and Matt made a joke about it, I say, yeah, let's encourage them to do that.
00:48:10.000Meanwhile, regular working people are going to be like, why is butter five bucks?
00:48:14.000Don't worry, we'll help you out there, buddy.
00:48:19.000And you're right, people don't care about, obviously people don't care about Project 2025 because that was basically Akama's whole campaign and it failed.
00:48:25.000Now I can remember watching, you know, on Sundays watching football and especially in the last like three or four weeks before the election and it's just constant political ads.
00:48:36.000And a lot of Trump ads, you know, and obviously targeting men.
00:50:09.000To your point about the fact that a man watching football isn't going to go Project 2025.
00:50:13.000I mean, pretty much every Democratic voter over the age of 35 I've ever spoken to, except for a small handful of Tim Walls-esque exceptions, aren't Democrats because they're like, oh, they're going to ban trash.
00:50:27.000We have to bring our glitter to the polling place.
00:50:33.000It's because they're worried about the prices of things.
00:50:36.000And historically, they've believed that the Democrats would support their union or deliver higher wages to them or raise taxes on whatever it is that they think can benefit them economically.
00:50:46.000But trying to pander to men with those kinds of social issues, especially in that direction, it's not going to work.
00:50:51.000I think they kind of stumbled into the Project 2025 fear-mongering after their first few ideas didn't work out.
00:50:57.000They were trying to focus on democracy slash so-called democracy on January 6th.
00:51:39.000So decades and decades, that's kind of the way it worked.
00:51:41.000And so Democrats are just like strategically running laps around Republicans, but they've gotten pretty dumb strategically in recent years.
00:51:47.000And Project 20, even leaving aside the ideology of and politics of it, it's just the messaging is really stupid because when you go out and you have a 30-second ad and you say, Project 2025...
00:52:31.000I mean, it's like, oh my goodness, these crazy radical Republicans want to alter the regulations surrounding Alaska's sovereignty with fishing and wildlife permitting.
00:53:18.000Kamala could have hired me as a campaign director, and I would have done a better job of just selling these ideas than whatever morons they were working for.
00:53:55.000I saw a tweet that went viral after the election where someone was saying the mistake the Democrats made is they failed to properly exploit Tim Walz because he's so relatable to young men, and this is why we lost young men as voters.
00:54:08.000The level of delusion is absolutely off the charts.
00:54:11.000Tim Walls is absolutely not somebody who any young man looks up to and wants to be like.
00:55:14.000If you're actually someone who young men look up to as an influence or appears manly, the joke critics will make about you to kind of coalesce with their optics that you should be bad is they'll basically call you stupid, they'll call you a lunkhead.
00:55:28.000If there's anyone in the Democratic Party we could point to who's remotely masculine, I think you'd say Fetterman is a pretty masculine-seeming dude.
00:55:47.000But when you look at the way he's made fun of, as opposed to other Democrats, it's mostly like, this guy's dumb, this guy's a long cat.
00:55:52.000the reason Tim Walls was made fun of for seeming gay wasn't because he did it.
00:55:58.000The reason Republicans were able to coalesce around that meme and make fun of him on that basis wasn't because it wasn't resonating with young men.
00:56:07.000To follow up on Democrats on going or not going on Rogan's podcast, I think John Fetterman actually went on Rogan's podcast and performed pretty decently and was a relatable guy and was talking about his struggles with mental illness following his campaign run.
00:56:21.000and checking himself into Walter Reed for depression.
00:56:24.000And I think he came off as a relatable man.
00:56:33.000If you want to appear masculine and appeal to men, there are, I think, a few steps you have to follow.
00:56:39.000But the first step you have to get past is you have to be authentic.
00:56:43.000And leftists, again, don't understand this, because when they think about what we think of masculinity, they have this cartoon in their mind.
00:56:51.000And so with Tim Walls, they tried to imitate that cartoon.
00:56:54.000But in reality, if you're conservative and someone asks you, like, what...
00:56:58.000you know, what does it take to be a masculine man?
00:56:59.000None of us are going to say, well, you have to go hunting and you have to wear camo hats.
00:57:03.000We would say that's a version of masculinity.
00:57:05.000So there are those kinds of guys and that's cool.
00:57:08.000But, but you know, to, to be masculine, number one, authentic, number two, competent.
00:57:13.000If you're authentic and you are a competent person and you're a man and there, so you could be, uh, you could go hunting and you could be that kind of guy.
00:57:22.000You could be a really smart guy who reads a lot of books and can wax philosophical about things.
00:57:43.000They think that we have this super narrow, very specific idea of what it takes to be a masculine man, and what they don't understand is that we don't, and we never did, and we don't have that for femininity either.
00:57:57.000I mean, our point all along, not to take this in a different direction, but, you know, they are the ones saying that, okay, well, to be a man or woman is this thing.
00:58:06.000And so, actually, if you act a different way than, you know, if you're a man and you act a bit feminine, now you're actually a woman, it turns out.
00:58:12.000We're the ones saying that, no, you can be, you know, you could be, there are actually a lot of different ways to be masculine.
00:58:18.000And they just don't, they don't listen.
00:58:20.000Well, and even things like you said that wouldn't be traditionally considered masculine, like if you're really, really good at chess or something, you're just at the top of your field there.
00:59:21.000They're basically just baby wipes, but they put them in a package and called them dude wipes because they thought men would pay more for them, which is ironically one of the most effeminate things you could possibly do.
00:59:29.000I need to spend more money on a little treat for me that's going to make me feel more manly.
01:01:06.000He literally says it's like open hunting season for black men and cops going to shoot them.
01:01:10.000I mean, the last year I looked out was 2019, but it was like there were about 10 unarmed black men killed by police officers the entire year.
01:01:17.000Like, the left tends to believe the most exaggerated and the most ridiculous things.
01:01:23.000When, you know, right before and right around the time that George Floyd died, there were, if you asked your typical liberal, you know, they would say that there's probably hundreds to thousands of black men killed by police every year.
01:02:27.000If you go on TikTok and you see these girls screaming in the car, and most of that is also fake, by the way, but if you're going to find anyone who actually believes that stuff, it's going to be the TikTok women screaming in cars.
01:02:41.000This guy doesn't believe it, and you know he doesn't believe it, because if you actually believe that, Uh, then you would respond a certain way.
01:02:48.000And one thing you would do is you would leave the country.
01:02:51.000I mean, if you actually believed, if you actually believed that a fascist dictator is going to run the country now, it's open season on you.
01:02:57.000Like, anyone can shoot, because he's a black guy.
01:04:04.000That's very kind of you also to be thinking about their well-being.
01:04:08.000I mean, look, when you have a presidential candidate making those kinds of unbelievable, I would say unbelievable threats, something has to be done to protect those people.
01:04:38.000And he's like, well, they're voting for, you know, because Trump's racist or whatever.
01:04:41.000And it's just like, I kind of think, you know, what I love about this is they're basically screaming in the face of Latinos, you're stupid.
01:05:25.000So there's no, it's not coherent here.
01:05:27.000It's because, you know, because the Iranians are actually attacking the Israelis who, and the Iranians are saying they're trying to prevent, you know, alleged genocide in Gaza.
01:05:37.000And Malcolm Nance is happy to see Donald Trump reelected because it's good for him personally, and it's going to line his pockets.
01:05:42.000Because now, whenever he says stuff like this, it will go mega viral.
01:05:45.000Attention to MSNBC will be through the roof.
01:05:48.000MSNBC did their best under their first Trump administration.
01:05:51.000And Malcolm Nance is now about to be a part of MSNBC's You know, people will line up for the second term.
01:05:57.000MSNBC is going to turn into some, like, liberal YouTube channel with one guy left on it, and they're going to get 40,000 views per video.
01:06:03.000It's more left than the Young Turks is nowadays, especially with Anna and Shank behaving the way that they have lately.
01:06:09.000Yeah, but I think that's a good point, and something to keep in mind, that a lot of these people in the corporate media, they...
01:06:16.000Trump is basically a lifeline for them.
01:06:18.000He's going to keep them somewhat relevant for the next four years.
01:06:22.000I mean, they're not relevant and they have no influence, but at least it gives them kind of a niche for four years where they could just, you know, attack the Trump administration.
01:06:30.000And so really, I think many of them are quite, I think you're right, I think a lot of them are actually happy that he was elected.
01:06:36.000Also this line here that women will die from getting pregnant.
01:06:41.000I mean, all of these abortion advocates in the abortion lobby know that that's not true, that women are not going to be prosecuted and never are for having miscarriages.
01:06:52.000But they're comfortable saying that even though it means that some women who actually are experiencing complications from a miscarriage will be less likely to go to a hospital and therefore more likely to die because they believe that they'll go to jail for having a miscarriage because it will help them to try to push back against abortion laws which cut into the profits of slaughtering unborn babies.
01:07:11.000What I love about this line as well is that When you say something like, we should not allow abortions at nine months, they say, oh, that's an edge case.
01:08:06.000They never want to talk about the 99%.
01:08:08.000But I think this is another one of the great and really encouraging takeaways of Trump's victory is that we were told, even by conservatives, we've been told for two years now that...
01:08:21.000That Roe being overturned is going to be a political disaster for Republicans.
01:08:41.000First, you're going to need a Democrat administration in power.
01:08:44.000Then you need to win a midterm with Republicans.
01:08:47.000The Republicans need to tank the economy.
01:08:49.000Then, once everyone's just super angry about the economy, we can squeeze through any laws that you want.
01:08:57.000You can ban anything because people just, well, it's the economy, stupid.
01:09:00.000So, my point here is, while Democrats were screaming at the top of their lungs that abortion was the principal issue, and they were trying to make it an issue, the only thing anybody cared about was that butter was $7.
01:09:11.000It's not the biggest issue for Americans.
01:09:22.000But remember, when wanting to protect democracy or thinking democracy was under threat ranked highly, people assumed that that meant that liberals were concerned that Trump was going to destroy democracy.
01:09:31.000But then most of the people who answered that they were concerned about the future of democracy actually ended up voting for Trump.
01:09:37.000That's what we learned from the exit poll.
01:09:38.000So similarly, people saying abortion was a very important issue to them doesn't necessarily mean that they were coming from the pro-abortion angle.
01:09:44.000So, Trump's Supreme Court was largely, obviously, responsible for overturning Roe v.
01:09:49.000Wade, but Trump has since then said, I think he was confused, not confused, but said that he was a little bit reluctant with the overturning, and now he said that he wouldn't move forward with any sort of national abortion ban.
01:10:01.000Do you have any thoughts moving forward on who's going to be the guy to get you to the next level with banning abortion?
01:11:10.000Because I actually had this argument with Seamus, like, two years ago, and I was wrong.
01:11:13.000Because I said, no, abortions could be in the instance of, say, like, a miscarriage, and Seamus told me I was wrong.
01:11:18.000And then I ended up not believing him and being wrong, and then we looked up the definition by law and Planned Parenthood, and I was like, oh, Seamus was right the whole time.
01:11:26.000Abortion, Planned Parenthood defines it as the intentional termination of a pregnancy that ends the life of the baby.
01:11:36.000And, uh, and yeah, if you are just ending the pregnancy itself, there's yes, I guess you could kill the baby, right?
01:11:45.000You could be, you could refer to delivering a baby as ending the pregnancy, but like no one talks that way, but that's also an important point.
01:11:51.000This is, this is something, this is, this is the point about late term abortions is that, and these are, this is every case when you hear about, well, there need to be an abortion to save the woman's life.
01:12:12.000And the Republican congressman grabs the phone and is like, no.
01:12:15.000And I was just like, if your wife falls on the ground covered in blood, and you don't call 911, you call your physician, and on top of that, your physician doesn't advise you to call 911, you are crazy people.
01:12:26.000Yeah, you probably need to get a new doctor.
01:12:28.000But that's the thing with a late-term abortion, when there can be cases where the pregnancy needs to end in order to preserve the woman's life, and so the baby needs to be delivered.
01:12:43.000But killing the baby, aborting the baby is an extra step that obviously is not necessary to preserve the woman's life.
01:12:49.000You could just deliver the baby and then try to save the baby's life.
01:12:56.000So every time they're saying that we need to get the abortion to preserve the woman's life, what they're saying is that Is that we need to deliver the baby and also kill the baby in the process, which is obviously a totally medically unnecessary.
01:13:09.000So in a circumstance where the baby's not going to survive on its own, maybe it's too soon in the pregnancy, but the health of the mother is jeopardized, I've never heard a conservative argue that there should not be attempts to save the mother's life.
01:13:38.000I guess, Matt, one of the things I was trying to get at, it seems as though over the past couple of decades, Republicans have become less and less pro-life and Donald Trump is clearly the most pro-choice Republican we've ever had.
01:13:48.000What do you think about the direction of the Republican Party in relation to this issue?
01:13:53.000Yeah, I think if it were totally up to me, as I said, I'd have a federal abortion ban.
01:14:12.000It's acknowledging reality for what it is and then trying to operate within reality rather than demanding that reality be something that it's not.
01:14:19.000And so that's the reality that we're operating in right now is a pro-life movement.
01:14:22.000We're operating in a reality where there's no federal ban.
01:14:25.000There's probably not going to be one any time in the near future.
01:14:28.000And so it becomes a state-by-state battle.
01:14:33.000That's where we need to fight it is in the states.
01:14:38.000I mean, moreover, there seems to be a pro-choice consensus among both parties.
01:14:42.000I feel like Republicans are now split, and Democrats are probably around 80-20.
01:14:45.000Depends on what you mean by pro-choice.
01:14:47.00014 weeks, give or take a couple of weeks.
01:14:50.000I don't know if I go so far as to say consensus among them.
01:14:53.000I mean, there are plenty of very pro-life Republicans, even in an elected office.
01:15:01.000And I think what you're finding in some cases is pro-lifers and Republicans adopting this kind of incremental approach to protecting babies, which I agree with.
01:15:13.000All incrementalism means is that I am going to select the best possible option available to me right now.
01:15:20.000And so if the best thing I can do right now, if the best thing I can achieve right now is protecting babies past X point, then I'll take that.
01:17:54.000This was clearly an attempt by Trump's political opponents to use the legal system to stop him from winning an election, and he won it.
01:18:01.000There's an argument that I made the other day about the price of energy and how when you have someone like Trump in office, the price of energy might just start going down because the future's marked.
01:18:14.000He'll signal to business that there's going to be fewer It's not exclusive to economic things.
01:18:31.000You see the behavior of other countries.
01:18:40.000You see that because Trump is coming into office, that they're responding to Trump coming into office, just like when Reagan was coming into office, Iran responded.
01:18:52.000The idea that the United States lives in a vacuum and that the president...
01:19:00.000Who the president is, is of no consequence to other countries or to the economy or to anything else.
01:19:07.000The United States is the most consequential country in the world, without question, bar none.
01:19:13.000And so when the United States moves, the rest of the world responds every single time.
01:19:19.000You know, it's said that when the U.S. has a sneeze, the rest of the world gets a cold.
01:19:48.000He should make a cartoon where Trump's walking through his inauguration and everything's just getting better and improving and people are getting richer and a guy's like, the war is over!
01:19:55.000Then he gets there and he's like, I guess my job's done.
01:20:00.000People are going to respond to the pressure that they believe the Trump administration will put on them or the lack of pressure that the Trump administration is perceived to be putting on their enemies or will put on their enemies.
01:20:08.000But take a look at this from Real Clear Politics.
01:20:41.000It's honestly a smarter way of looking at it, right?
01:20:44.000Firstly, January 6th is nowhere near what they made it out to be.
01:20:48.000It was nowhere near as bad as the COVID riots and the 529 insurrection.
01:20:53.000But also, even if we wanted to claim that it was...
01:20:58.000The guy with the knife, or lack of a knife, but just the big scary dude who threatens to rob you when you have five bucks on you seems like a more immediate threat, but when someone hacks your bank account and empties it, that's actually way worse for you overall.
01:21:14.000And I would say that's what Jack Smith represents as opposed to the J6ers.
01:21:18.000Though, of course, I don't actually give a sense to the idea that that's what the J6ers are.
01:21:22.000I think that the argument that Elon Musk made on the Joe Rogan podcast actually resonated with the American people.
01:21:31.000The situation with immigration, with the HHS program, the refugee resettlement program, it's being run by the Health and Human Services Department, transporting people that show up at the border and they say that they are looking for asylum.
01:21:52.000They bring them into the country, they transport them to purple states, and with the goal of those people becoming Citizens and voting for Democrats.
01:22:04.000And I think that the American people realized it.
01:22:07.000I think that the American people believe because of the influx, because everyone knows that there's way more, you know, there's like 10 or whatever, 15 million illegals in the country in four years, which is just an astronomical number.
01:22:19.000number and i think because of that the american people were like look the the the additional people in the united states they're going to dilute my vote they're going to make my vote mean less and you saw the things that were happening in small towns like in ohio and i whether you think they were actually eating the dogs or eating the cats is totally irrelevant it brought focus to those people that were suffering because of a massive influx they
01:22:46.000Their town doubled in population, or maybe it was...
01:22:50.000I don't know the exact number, but it was a massive, massive increase that no small town could ever, ever hope to support.
01:22:56.000And people saw that, and they're like, yeah, this is a bad thing.
01:22:59.000The influx of people makes housing more expensive.
01:23:02.000The influx of people does not automatically make prices go down.
01:23:05.000So I think that the American people saw this as...
01:23:09.000A threat to their ability to influence their representatives.
01:23:14.000And so that's the actual threat to democracy that they saw.
01:23:17.000And it wasn't the, oh, Donald Trump's going to end democracy.
01:23:20.000It was the Democrats are using my tax money to dilute my actual, my voting ability and dilute the impact of my vote.
01:23:29.000And to add on to that, these people don't even have to vote to have an electoral impact because congressional seats are delegated by population based on the census.
01:23:38.000So these people, even if they don't vote, even if they never become citizens, will still have political power allocated as a result of them existing there.
01:24:00.000I guess what most conservatives would say is that, especially when you look at those results, that Trump voters think that the threat to democracy is coming from the other end.
01:24:11.000Most conservatives would probably say that a lot of voters were concerned about the legal cases and that that was the threat against democracy, is the lawfare.
01:24:18.000Which is probably true, but I also wonder...
01:24:20.000I kind of think that all these criminal cases, and of course all this was, they weren't even really criminal cases.
01:24:26.000It was not about, they weren't even trying to throw Trump in jail.
01:24:28.000I mean, they would have loved to put him in jail if they could, but that was like a secondary benefit.
01:24:31.000It was really just about making a political case against Trump to stop him from being elected.
01:24:35.000And I sort of think that I think it had zero impact at all.
01:24:40.000I don't know if anybody was really thinking about that when they went to the polls.
01:24:44.000It was a total non-factor altogether, which maybe I'm wrong about that, but to me that's in some ways the most delicious kind of poetic justice, is if they went through all this effort with all the lawfare, and it's like nobody cared at all.
01:25:00.000It made zero impact because people were just so tuned out of the whole thing.
01:25:07.000So I actually asked this to Knowles yesterday.
01:25:09.000Obviously, a lot of people went after Trump and the former Trump administration officials, for example, Steve Bannon.
01:25:15.000Do you believe the Trump administration moving forward should seek retribution to some people who have broken the law, Democrats who've attacked him, or kind of, you know, be more conciliatory moving forward?
01:25:35.000And also, in the federal government, the people that are...
01:25:40.000We opened the show with it, with the FEMA thing.
01:25:43.000The people that are, in a corrupt way, wielding the power of the federal government in illegal and corrupt ways, we don't even know their names.
01:25:52.000And should Trump get in there and find these people and root them out, get to the core of it, and...
01:25:57.000Prosecute them and throw them in jail.
01:25:59.000Yes, if that's what we mean by retribution, yes, absolutely he needs to do that.
01:26:06.000Because retribution makes it sound petty and personal and like he's only just concerned about the people that annoyed him or frustrated him.
01:26:15.000No, this is about finding the corrupt people, the people that are breaking the law and holding them accountable.
01:26:22.000It's about justice, like giving people what they deserve.
01:26:30.000When it comes to the lawfare against Donald Trump, too, obviously the left is projecting that's a clear-cut case of retribution.
01:26:35.000It doesn't have anything to do with an actual crime being committed.
01:26:38.000And I think part of the reason that the voters who seem to care about that the most were people who were worried about it rather than people who actually thought that the fact that he was a convicted felon carried any water is a product of the fact that, you know, your average voter Isn't all that interested in the abstractions, right?
01:26:54.000What they're concerned with, again, as we talked about earlier, is the price of butter.
01:26:57.000Not like, did he fail to properly disclose a specific campaign expenditure, or did his lawyer, and was he aware of this at the time?
01:27:07.000And especially when you consider the fact that the charges that were brought against him were a misdemeanor and then raised to the level of a felony, and then the statute of limit stations was extended.
01:27:16.000It's just, I don't think people It's so hard to keep track of all the cases against Trump.
01:27:20.000I'm not even 100% sure of this, but I think the Jack Smith was the classified documents case.
01:27:25.000There were so many cases against stuff.
01:27:47.000And there was always also this weird messaging problem for Democrats when it came to this, because they were going around saying, oh, you're going to elect a convicted felon?
01:27:57.000Well, and leave aside the fact that what he was convicted of is totally bogus.
01:28:21.000There's always arguments to be made that the left doesn't actually believe in hypocrisy at all.
01:28:27.000They'll use it against you if you allow them, but they don't actually believe in hypocrisy because they don't believe any of the arguments they make.
01:28:34.000Their only function is to attain power.
01:28:37.000So the arguments they make one day will switch as soon as they're no longer functional.
01:28:42.000So when people say stuff like that, I would just always be like, well, the founders were felons according to the Crown, so up here is Yeah, although, I mean, the left, and that's the thing about it, we say most people think hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another, and that's not actually what hypocrisy is.
01:28:55.000Hypocrisy is just pretending that you believe something you don't actually believe.
01:28:59.000And so, in that sense, I mean, these people are hypocrites in the truest sense of the word.
01:29:07.000Yeah, no, it's very true, and of course it never applies to them.
01:29:23.000Well, and when you're a relativist, right?
01:29:25.000When you believe the truth is relative and we all have our own truth, this is my truth, I'm standing on my truth.
01:29:31.000And if you actually believe that, which they do, and this is the core of leftism, is that it's relativism, that they really do believe that we all have our own truth and our own reality.
01:29:38.000And if that's the case, then yeah, you can't really be, there is no double standard because everybody lives in their own universe and has their own standards according to that.
01:29:45.000If people have different truths, then there is no real truth.
01:32:31.000says, gentlemen, just want to mention that while we have made a big win in protecting our democracy this week, the winter arc is upon us soon.
01:32:39.000Hit the gym, turnpike, the trail, make them speechless.
01:32:42.000How many of you made your goal of being fit by the election?
01:32:47.000That was something we had going on on our server, FitCast, where I said everybody should be in shape by the time the election happens.
01:32:54.000And perhaps because everyone was in shape, Trump won.
01:34:06.000Yeah, can I ask you a question about, so, like, when you're in a room surrounded by a bunch of, like, DEI experts and groveling liberals, and you say, you know, I'm sorry, I thought I had 17 black friends, but it might have been 15.
01:34:18.000Like, what is going through your head in that moment as you're talking to those people?
01:34:50.000Just to clarify, what was so good about it was you initially said you had 17 black friends, and then later on when they got mad at you, you apologized like, it might have been 15.
01:34:59.000As if that's why they were mad at you.
01:35:01.000But I'm also curious, too, because I think if I was in that situation, it would be really hard for me not to crack up.
01:35:06.000Do you not feel any temptation to laugh at all?
01:35:09.000Yeah, I get that question a lot, but I think that there were certainly moments throughout certain scenes where I had to stifle laughter.
01:35:18.000In fact, it was kind of convenient because the one scene that, to me, was the funniest in the moment was Race to Dinner, and And I was wearing a mask, a COVID mask for that, so I didn't have to worry as much about keeping a straight face.
01:36:10.000We will keep those off the record, but it happened.
01:36:12.000With Trump winning the popular vote, I think we're going to start seeing that shift where people...
01:36:16.000You know, we've been having these discussions about with Trump winning this popular vote, do we now storm into the establishment media spaces?
01:36:26.000Basically, like you go to these advertisers, you go to these production companies and say, you now know for a fact you are the minority market share.
01:36:36.000If your business wants to make money and operate as a business, the money's here, not there.
01:36:42.000I don't think a lot of these companies don't actually care about politics in their mind.
01:36:47.000They're thinking we don't want to be fringe political.
01:36:49.000So when the leftists were saying, well, they're all white supremacists, these advertisers, these production companies are just like, we don't want to be involved with whatever that is.
01:37:17.000Come back to the majority market share where the businesses lie and the money is, and we will welcome you, and then we'll displace the wokeness.
01:37:26.000Do you think that will happen or are you wishful thinking?
01:37:30.000Nope, I don't think it's wishful thinking at all.
01:37:32.000When Bud Light tanked, Target tanked, Disney lost a billion dollars, you're going to get some business consultant and he's going to say, I don't care about politics, I just want to sell soda.
01:37:42.000And now you're going to go to Bud Light and you're going to say, you learned your lesson, right?
01:37:46.000You sided with this minority fringe element thinking they were popular and it burned your company to the ground.
01:37:53.000I think we will see that in corporate with brands in the corporate world.
01:37:59.000I think in the entertainment world, I think it's going to be a while before.
01:38:04.000There are a lot of people in Hollywood that agree with us and that if they could do whatever they want, they'd make very different kinds of movies.
01:39:32.000You can be in a position of influence without abandoning the principles that the U.S. has been built on.
01:39:44.000I feel like that's the point of fighting back against all this stuff is not to not to take, you know, take power so we can so we can be oppressive about the things that we want.
01:39:57.000It's it's to be in positions of influence so that way we can restore a country that respects the rights of everybody and, you know, respects people's differences and says, you know, there are things that we're going to disagree about.
01:40:11.000But we're not going to, you know, excommunicate people from public life because they have the wrong opinions.
01:40:16.000Yeah, we're also very far off from even having the temptation to be the machine.
01:40:20.000This is not a problem that we're going to have anytime soon.
01:40:24.000Because, you know, to be the machine, you have to own all the institutions.
01:40:32.000We're not even close to that at this point.
01:40:35.000I mean, the institutions are owned by the left still now, and this is a generational—it's a generational fight.
01:40:41.000It's not going to happen because— We want to battle.
01:40:43.000They're so much more individualistic than the left wing, who want to work together and who have more—has more affinity towards something like socialism, as opposed to right-wingers who are— They'd rather do it themselves.
01:40:55.000They don't want to join together and work together.
01:40:57.000They want to do it themselves as opposed to a left winger who they'd rather go work at an established media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the right wing guy rather than do it himself.
01:41:05.000Well, also, it's not just a question of our opinions or perspectives or biases becoming ascendant.
01:41:11.000It's a question of whether we will lie to people to make that happen and maintain that hegemony.
01:41:18.000Because the problem with the media isn't simply that they have a bias.
01:41:21.000That is a problem, but they lie all the time.
01:41:49.000Because right now, Andy Knows reporting that far-off extremists are gathering outside of the Vic Theater in Chicago to shut down his performance over his support for Israel.
01:41:57.000So comic, Michael Rappaport says he lost.
01:43:25.000I'm curious, what would you say he does?
01:43:27.000He's like screaming into a phone very aggressively, super close to his face, and like making dumb faces and just sounding like a whiny little girl.
01:44:02.000Lane Norton would be ideal as he has both worked in nutrition research and also run a monthly research review, as well as being a champion powerlifter.
01:44:44.000They would just go ahead and willy-nilly throw razor blades into everything they make and all the food we eat because, you know, no one would sue or anything like that.
01:44:52.000And another thing is they do that with the Department of Education, too.
01:44:56.000I'm personally very pro getting rid of the Department of Education entirely.
01:45:00.000And people act like if we don't have it, people won't be educated.
01:45:04.000It's like the Department of Education was created in 1979, and there have been zero significant discoveries in physics since 1979.
01:45:13.000Everything that's been discovered and happened in physics since the creation of the Department of Education has been built on things that we already knew or theories that were already in place.
01:45:23.000There was zero new discoveries, zero movement in physics since the Department of Education was created.
01:46:19.000It has utterly failed to actually educate children.
01:46:25.000Speaking of the Department of Education, one of the only useful things the Department of Education has done in the last I don't know, 30 years?
01:46:33.000Exactly 20 years ago, they did a report about the sex abuse epidemic in the public school system by educators, by staff members.
01:46:42.000And they found that, and I don't want to get it wrong, but I think it was something like...
01:46:47.000One in ten students will experience some form of sexual mistreatment.
01:46:50.000So whether that's a really inappropriate sexual joke or a teacher touching them.
01:47:04.000They have not returned to see what's happened in the last 20 years because nothing was done to solve that problem.
01:47:09.000And one thing we know is when you have a widespread sex abuse epidemic in an institution, if you don't aggressively try to solve it, it's not going to just go away.
01:47:39.000Catald Swift says, prepare the crystals.
01:47:44.000So for those who don't know, it's a meme where someone said...
01:47:48.000Some liberal, you know, should be trapped in crystals for 10,000 years, and now Seamus has made, I think, two cartoons where Trump traps liberals in crystals.
01:49:58.000However, there was a really funny meme where it was a guy basically saying that a Japanese guy flies to America with Bugs Bunny t-shirts and a Tasmanian devil hat and is walking around talking to people how excited he is to go see the Looney Tunes and we'd all look at that person like a lunatic.
01:50:15.000And they were like, now you understand what it's like when these Americans fly to Japan and are super excited about Goku and all that stuff.
01:50:21.000Although the meme isn't necessarily correct.
01:50:23.000The thing about in Japan with anime is that it's They have more anime and manga than they do live-action shows, although it has been changing in the past, I don't know, couple decades.
01:50:54.000Right now, I think the biggest problem with it is that, for whatever reason, I don't know enough about it, But the studios are producing like 50 versions of one show, and then there's like 50 different shows, each with 50 versions of the same show, and it's the weirdest thing ever.
01:51:10.000So if you go to Amazon, for instance, and you look at, say, like the Crunchyroll, there's like 15 shows that are all titled something like, I transported to another dimension where I'm a warrior.
01:51:21.000And they're titled literally like that.
01:51:23.000One is like, that time I got reincarnated as a slime.
01:51:27.000And it's about a guy who dies, goes to a reality where there's goblins and he's a slime and he's got magic powers.
01:51:33.000Then there's one where it's like, I transported to a mythical world where I level up real fast.
01:51:37.000These are what the titles of the shows are.
01:51:39.000And they're all basically the same thing, and I'm like, this is the weirdest thing ever.
01:51:42.000Could you imagine if, like, tomorrow you woke up, and there were 15 shows called The Samson's, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, The Simpsons.
01:51:50.000It's all just different versions of The Simpsons, and they're all just like...
01:51:53.000This is Family Guy and American Dad, and like...
01:51:55.000Yeah, but like, there's three shows that are comparable, but imagine if they literally all at once, right now, came out with American Dad, American Uncle, American Grandfather, American Son, and you're just like, they're all the same show.
01:52:18.000It's just, it's always funny the things that people latch onto, because that initial comment of mine, I was doing an all-access, it was like two years ago.
01:52:30.000It's just like a live stream for our subscribers.
01:52:33.000It was a total just off-the-cuff, offhand remark that meant nothing to me at all.
01:52:37.000Because someone brought up anime, and I said, that's satanic, whatever.
01:53:34.000I actually would love to sit down and have Jordan Peterson watch a couple episodes and then give us his explanation and understanding of the philosophy around the ideas.
01:53:42.000It's basically like a group of people terrorize another group of people.
01:53:46.000Thousands of years later, they're imprisoned.
01:53:47.000And it's just because they're the bad people who did bad things.
01:53:56.000Just for a few minutes on election night.
01:53:59.000But, you know, the thing is, I've talked to him about it.
01:54:03.000And he thinks The Culture War is a better show where we actually just will discuss larger ideas and philosophy, whereas this show is we pull up news articles and comment on them.
01:55:21.000David Duchovny turns out to be an evil wizard or something, and he's the patriarchy, and he's like, I'm going to take women's powers away from them or something.
01:55:28.000And so it's actually just mind-numbingly woke and bad.
01:55:31.000And the movie The Spiral is about an interracial gay couple that moves into this house, and the neighbor is this Waspy family.
01:55:42.000And then it turns out the Waspy family are immortal because they...
01:56:06.000I like hearing you guys like comment on these would be absolutely hilarious.
01:56:12.000Hearing you tell Matt Walsh that he needs to watch this movie is hilarious.
01:56:16.000So he needs to take their life force or something?
01:56:20.000But why do they need to be interracial and also gay?
01:56:23.000In the movie, at the end, he says something like...
01:56:28.000You can't just sacrifice anybody because people will find out and they'll be mad that you did it.
01:56:32.000But when you bring a marginalized group in, and he literally says this, and I watched it, I can't remember, it's been a long time, it's a Shudder film.
01:56:38.000He's like, maybe they're Muslim or gay or trans or black, but no one seems to care when they go.
01:57:43.000The issue, I suppose, is you're watching a show that's intentionally mocking anime, and it's like, if you watch anime, and then you watch...
01:57:49.000If you've never seen anime, you're like, is this an anime?
01:58:40.000And I'm going to spoil a little bit so I can get an idea.
01:58:43.000He's intentionally killing people in a way that people will recognize a pattern so that they fear that someone has supernatural powers to murder.
02:03:24.000You want to help us to continue to churn out content which is funny and entertaining and gets shared around and helps to mitigate the unbridled punishment that is paying attention to politics with some laughs and also advance the message with something other than podcasts and punditry.
02:04:08.000It looks like Charlie Kirk shouted you out, Matt, saying that we need to recognize Matt Walsh for his role on the landslide.
02:04:14.000Matt courageously and effectively set out on a one-man mission to expose the trans mafia at great personal risk to himself with the film What is a Woman?
02:04:21.000And then he shows this data showing that the...
02:04:25.000It greatly informed people on what was going on.
02:04:31.000Well, that's a high compliment coming from Charlie Kirk, of course.
02:04:34.000I mean, if you were to point to individual people outside of the Trump campaign, or Trump himself responsible for Trump's victory, I mean, Charlie Kirk is like at the top of that list.