Comedian Aaron Berg joins us to talk about Jay Leno's apology, cancel culture, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Plus, we talk about the recent mass shooting in Chicago and why we should be mad at the media.
00:01:14.000You know, we've seen these stories about these comedians.
00:01:16.000We had that one woman, Ellery Smith, she's a writer with Robot Chicken, where she just comes out and tweets that she's a violent racist, as if that's gonna make her job prospect get better.
00:01:25.000And she also made disparaging comments about Asians.
00:01:28.000It's funny because I brought this up probably a year or two ago.
00:01:32.000When we're talking about critical race theory and bigotry and all this social justice stuff, I'm like, man, these people sure do love to make fun of Asian people.
00:01:39.000Well, now critical race theory is coming back for them because the rules, which aren't... solidified, I guess, changed.
00:01:46.000And now all these people that thought they were in, you know, on the right side and allowed to do what they do, you know, everyone in the crowd was doing it, so they did it.
00:05:05.000You get sports peppers, you get celery salt, you get a big old pickle and tomatoes.
00:05:09.000And it's Chicago's got its famous hot dog and it's got its famous Maxwell Street Polish.
00:05:13.000So I'm like, yeah, we're going to we're going to fly out pizza and hot dogs for this event and then, like, make fun of the conspiracy theory, you know?
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00:07:47.000We had Jodi Shaw yesterday, we had Chrissy Mayer the day before, and typically in these exclusive segments, you'll hear A robust array of a variety of profanities from the people.
00:10:47.000He says, whenever we received a complaint, there would be two sides to the discussion.
00:10:51.000Either, quote, we need to deal with this or screw them if they can't take a joke.
00:10:55.000Too many times I sided with the latter, even when in my heart I knew it was wrong.
00:10:59.000Leno says the apology was not the result of pressure from so-called cancel culture that has drawn complaints from others whose comments came under public fire for actions or statements.
00:11:09.000Leno said the apology was the result of a legitimate wrong that was done on my part.
00:11:51.000Jay Leno coming out, he's not doing it because he actually cares.
00:11:55.000He made these jokes recently, all of a sudden now he's trying to act like he's not, you know, being racist or whatever.
00:11:59.000I actually find what he's doing to be the racist thing.
00:12:02.000It's more racist because he's clumping all Asian people together because he feels bad about a shooting where six Asian women were killed and he saw his friend go down for the robot chicken thing or whatever happened.
00:12:14.000But he's, it's, it's the flavor of the week.
00:12:19.000I'll tell you what I find offensive about the whole thing is that they only started caring, not even because of this event that happened in Atlanta.
00:13:11.000Well, the media says that's not the case.
00:13:12.000Yeah, well, I'm not the media, I'm a truth teller.
00:13:14.000No, no, I'm just saying, like, there's a narrative, you know?
00:13:17.000Yeah, and I know what the narrative is, and we witness that narrative, so I think that we take in some of that groupthink, that even though we have these beliefs, we still take in the real, liberal, left, soft, we're wrong, we need to make the world a better place.
00:13:32.000And I get it, I've battled with it too, but that's how you know you're a good person, because you go, oh, should I be doing this?
00:13:37.000And you go, yeah, I should, because comics deal in negative currency.
00:13:42.000We attack racism, we attack homophobia, we attack transphobia, and we make jokes about all of it.
00:13:47.000You said your favorite joke was that classic Chappelle thing from a year and a half ago.
00:15:11.000There's a handful of really good comics in this world currently, and it's probably 50.
00:15:16.000And that's including England and their long-winded storytellers, but there's still something really relevant to the craft that they do.
00:15:24.000But what we do, it's negative currency.
00:15:26.000We take all this horrible stuff and the end is positive.
00:15:30.000When you come to a live show, which you will, or if you bring us here for a live show on Chicago weekend, because I would come for pizza if it's a cheat day, And when you see the way these people laugh, and I'm not talking giggles, like the stuff that I do in New York in front of the most diverse audiences in the world has people holding their stomachs laughing.
00:15:51.000So it's a negative thing that has a positive end.
00:15:55.000I've seen Joe Rogan's show in Philly, and he goes after everybody.
00:16:03.000I've seen Dave Chappelle's special, and I grew up with George Carlin.
00:16:07.000George Carlin has got some spicy bits, to say the least.
00:16:11.000And people used to cheer and clap for it because we understood, I guess.
00:16:15.000I don't know what changed, but now you've got these Puritans that somehow formed on the left that just want to cancel people.
00:16:22.000And the problem is, There's this weird marriage between establishment media, digital advertising, and then when the wokeness cancel culture stuff came in, it latched on to this establishment media.
00:16:36.000So now because of that, all of these people, people like Jay Leno, will just be like, tell me what you want me to say, and I'll say it.
00:18:08.000And he made a song called like, you know, cancel me or something.
00:18:11.000It's not very good in my opinion, but whatever.
00:18:13.000And I'm just, it's, it's, it's interesting now how much things have changed and how we have this generation that grew up on South Park on Family Guy and Eminem and all these shows have become Puritans.
00:18:24.000And then you get, like I mentioned, the establishment is scared.
00:18:56.000If you're not in trouble, you're not doing anything or saying anything.
00:19:00.000But they'll try and shut you down for something totally unrelated.
00:19:05.000If you were spewing this rant on why you think COVID wasn't a real thing and that it was, you know, to do something else politically, they would disagree with that, but they would try and shut you down for using a slur for a little person or something.
00:19:23.000Cuomo gets caught trying to cover up the death of 15,000 people due to his policies.
00:19:30.000He put sick people in his nursing homes.
00:19:32.000He was warned by the nursing homes, you're gonna kill people.
00:19:57.000People won't come after the thing that really offends them because they know that they will lose that argument.
00:20:03.000So instead they look for these other little thorns in your side.
00:20:06.000So it's like if I've done transphobic jokes or anti-Asian jokes, That's what people come after because they know that the product is, oh, here's an hour of making people laugh hysterically.
00:20:52.000So there's one episode, it's way back in the day, they crash land on an Amazonian planet populated by all of these massive like 10 foot tall super ripped women.
00:21:03.000And so the Amazonians are explaining how they have basketball and no Ken Dunk, but good fundamentals.
00:21:11.000And so they're kind of making that joke as well, that it's not entertaining to watch, but you have to support it because it's the right ideology, right?
00:21:36.000It's like, I'm gonna go out, and I'm gonna, like, I'm gonna go ride my bike and get exercise, because that person depressed the hell out of me.
00:22:00.000Like they'll get up on stage and be like, those white supremacists, they're bad, right?
00:22:04.000Yeah, there's a lot of white people bashing.
00:22:07.000Now, I haven't seen it that much in the past year because comedy has been either like illegal and taking place in speakeasy environments or outdoors.
00:22:16.000The only real people that have been doing it are the people that are ballsy enough to go out and be like, hey, I don't care about this thing that killed 500,000 people, allegedly, but I'm going to go out and just do comedy.
00:22:29.000And that's why the audiences are also more right-wing now.
00:22:33.000So they're more willing to laugh at stuff.
00:22:35.000Well, they're more willing to come out.
00:22:54.000Conservatives are willing to come to your show.
00:22:56.000Not necessarily conservatives, but people who aren't scared are willing to come to your show.
00:22:59.000And you can do it in more conservative areas in red states where they didn't lock everything down.
00:23:02.000So, these left-leaning individuals, or whatever you want to call it, corporate Democrat types, politically sheep, whatever, are in their apartments, doing nothing, not going out, comedy clubs are being shuttered, and then comedians are doing jokes for conservatives?
00:23:20.000You know, where you actually have your business still exists?
00:23:22.000Think about what's going to happen when all of this finally gets lifted, and who knows when it'll get lifted for the blue states, because the red states are already opening up.
00:23:29.000They're gonna be stunted by like a year, market-wise.
00:23:32.000You are gonna have way more conservatives with savings, with money, because they're in business.
00:23:39.000They're gonna get a year advance on all of these left-wing... You're gonna get a bunch of liberals working for conservatives.
00:23:44.000They're gonna need a job, and who's gonna own the jobs?
00:24:20.000I mean, we have a handful of sponsors, but what I mean is there's this interesting overlap between digital marketing and entertainment and the resistance, the anti-Trump Democrat types and the wokeness.
00:24:33.000And so that's why you see every major brand change their logo to a rainbow in June.
00:24:38.000Because they're like, this is what people like.
00:24:40.000But most people probably just shrug and say, I don't know, whatever.
00:24:59.000Dollar Shave Club has laid off all of its staff at men's lifestyle site MEL, source says, and is looking for a rescue buyer.
00:25:09.000Now, on the surface, this doesn't sound like a get woke, go broke story, but I assure you it is.
00:25:13.000They say, Dollar Shave Club is laying off the staff of Mel Magazine, its men's lifestyle and culture website.
00:25:19.000A person with direct knowledge of the matter said, Mel's staffers were informed of the layoffs on Wednesday.
00:25:24.000The publication is seeking a buyer and may face shutting down if it doesn't find one.
00:25:30.000It was unclear how many people were affected.
00:25:32.000Mel's masthead lists about 20 people plus 16 contributors.
00:25:35.000They say, after six years of successful partnership and transforming the men's health and media spaces for the better, Mel and Dollar Shave Club's financial relationship will come to an end in 60 days, Editor-in-Chief Josh Skolmire said in a statement.
00:25:49.000He added, Mel will stop publishing Effective Wednesday, and the complete focus will now be on finding the right new owner.
00:25:55.000This has always been a part of the plan for our brand-backed partnership, and we're incredibly proud of what we've built together.
00:26:02.000You gotta take a look at this one very important point.
00:26:05.000They say, transforming the men's health and media spaces for the better.
00:26:09.000What do you think that means, transforming it for the better?
00:27:31.000No, no, like I've heard talk about, you know, working class populism, protecting the worker borders, national security, but I've not seen that group of like staunch MAGA hat wearing guys being like Trump is our vision of masculinity.
00:27:43.000There's like pictures of him, artwork where he looks ripped and cut.
00:27:46.000Yeah, I have seen those with the hawk behind him.
00:27:50.000I love it when Ben Garrison draws Trump because he makes them, you know, super ripped and like strong.
00:27:56.000But I think they all kind of get the joke of it.
00:27:58.000Trump is an old, he's an old man and he's very out of shape.
00:28:03.000And I'll tell you this, I'd be willing to bet that compared to your average person in this country, Donald Trump How can I phrase this properly?
00:28:14.000It is extremely unlikely that Donald Trump has ever had to walk a mile.
00:28:37.000And so, whereas a normal person might be like, I gotta go to the store and I gotta walk and carry a cart with me, Trump walks outside and there's a car waiting for him.
00:31:11.000But I look at this, these conversations, and I wonder, I think that the split here is there are these people that believe in constructivism and then there's essentialism.
00:31:21.000And the constructivists are like, we can make a men's magazine telling men that they should play with Barbie and they'll want to read it.
00:31:28.000And then there's masculine dudes who lift and are super ripped talking about how great they are, you know, and making fun of us or whatever, because there are things that I think guys tend to be into.
00:31:39.000I think the issue is, look, there's some social construction, like constructivism, sure.
00:32:17.000You know, men have a tendency in a certain direction towards certain activities.
00:32:20.000Like, look, guys have high testosterone, which means they're going to build muscle mass faster.
00:32:24.000Prenatal testosterone results in more fast twitch muscle development, which means they have more burst energy, can sprint, can jump, can run faster.
00:32:32.000You can see this all in the scientific data.
00:32:34.000So why would you make a magazine critical of all of those things that are physically, you know, ingrained in men?
00:32:40.000People are trying to jump on this thing where they think it's the right thing to do and they think it's going to succeed.
00:32:45.000But your old catchphrase, get woke, go broke, is so applicable in so many forms.
00:33:54.000So if you look at traditional gender roles between what is masculine and what is feminine, the men were the hunters, the gatherers, the athletes, the soldiers.
00:35:32.000When they talk about women and the role of women and wives and girlfriends and things like this, they say women should be CEOs.
00:35:39.000They say men can be homemakers, but they're not saying they should be homemakers.
00:35:44.000So whatever it is that men have traditionally done, things associated with masculinity, physical activity, combat, being the CEO, they want women to do.
00:35:52.000And they are, at the same time, not giving the same amount of energy to the traditionally feminine roles of nurturing.
00:36:00.000When you think about what femininity is, I'm not going to pretend to be an anthropologist or a sociologist, but I'll say men, my view of men, it's like a guy running into a burning building to carry out the kids and save their lives.
00:36:12.000Men go and hunt the wild boar or whatever to bring food back for the tribe.
00:36:17.000They get the job and they go out and they go on dangerous missions and there is that, I guess there are many people who refer to it as male expendability.
00:36:24.000And this is because of, you know, women have children, and you only need one man, you know, to reproduce, but you need many women.
00:36:31.000Then when you look at traditional femininity, what do they do?
00:37:07.000I wonder, you know, is it an issue of encouraging people not to have kids and families because of overpopulation or why it is or why it emerged?
00:37:31.000I think part of becoming masculine And embracing that is that when you get to a high enough level of that, you achieve this level of, okay, I'm confident enough with where I am as a man, as a provider, as somebody that supports a family, that then, okay, now I can let these traditional aspects of femininity into my life, where I can help take care of my kid, and I can do all this stuff.
00:38:09.000When I watch, you know, when you see some upspurts of BLM or some upspurts of feminism, it's like, okay, this is not about achieving equality.
00:38:22.000It's about achieving a higher up status.
00:38:25.000That's what I see when I look at it from the outside.
00:39:29.000Like I constantly hear from these journalists that they get emails like these female journalists get emails from guys who call them awful names and say, you're awful fake news.
00:39:37.000And they use all the slurs in the book.
00:39:39.000And I'm like, I wonder who writes those emails.
00:39:42.000Like you get this female journalist who works for the New York times, and then she posts a screenshot saying, here's an email I just received.
00:39:48.000And I'm like, dude, I get emails like that too.
00:39:51.000Yeah, I get death threats, I don't post them.
00:39:53.000But they know there's currency in their tribe.
00:39:57.000Because then we're hypocrites if we post them.
00:39:59.000We go, hey look, someone just threatened to literally have a screenshot of someone saying it would be really funny if some of your loved ones died.
00:40:07.000And I know who the guy is. I know he's a real guy, but I don't post it.
00:40:12.000Because if I post it, then people are like, well, you should take it. You're a big bad comedian.
00:40:17.000You should be able to take the death threats.
00:40:19.000But the other side is not supposed to.
00:40:26.000Is anybody on the side of freedom, maturity, going to be like, I'm so sorry for you, let me donate to your GoFundMe because someone said mean words.
00:40:36.000They're going to be like, why are you posting this?
00:40:38.000We know you're strong enough to be resilient towards this stuff, and you know we don't care.
00:40:43.000On their side, the way it works is, There are large swaths of people who don't know and don't pay attention.
00:40:56.000She worked at Smith College and she quit and filed a complaint over hostile work environment because they kept, you know, criticizing her for being white and telling her to talk about her race and negatively impacting her job based on race.
00:41:09.000And she was saying how she didn't Complained about it at first, because she just thought it was normal and white people don't complain about this stuff, and then eventually she realized it was really eating away inside, and that she couldn't stand being attacked based on race, and she did something about it.
00:41:23.000So what happens is, that first part of the story she told, where she said, you're just supposed to accept it, you're not supposed to complain about this.
00:41:30.000This is what these journalists and these woke cancel culture people make their social currency off of.
00:41:36.000Regular people who aren't paying attention to politics and don't know.
00:41:39.000They hear a story about a journalist who's getting death threats from Trump supporters.
00:41:43.000Poisons the well for Trump supporters.
00:41:45.000Then there'll be a Trump supporter saying, like, you know, a reasonable, rational guy with a MAGA hat, and they'll be like, it's you!
00:42:01.000Now for you, you don't have access to the New York Times platform.
00:42:05.000So you posting that screenshot won't do anything for you.
00:42:09.000It does everything for them because they have access to legacy media in these powerful institutions.
00:42:14.000Which is why I tweeted earlier, I think I found a solution to help unify the left and the right.
00:42:20.000I think we can get the Bernie Sanders supporters and the socialists and the Trump supporters and conservatives together in the same room if we just propose one policy change.
00:42:30.000Taxing Hollywood millionaires and billionaires and legacy media millionaires and billionaires at 90% of their income.
00:42:38.000Because then the leftists are like, tax the rich, I'll take it.
00:42:40.000And the conservatives are like, oh, the Hollywood liberal types in the media?
00:44:01.000You're like, oh, if these people win the lottery... Well, in recent history, people who win the lottery have learned and started hiring wealth management, you know, wealth managers and things like that.
00:44:10.000The point is, it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, people buy dumb things.
00:44:13.000So Bloomberg has a good point in that poor people are buying dumb things, But bro, you want to be the despot to tell people they can't buy a sandwich they want to eat?
00:44:32.000So like food stamps, EBT cards, that type of thing.
00:44:36.000My notion is that if people knew that they were being... Say you're at a minimum wage job, you're making Let's say you're making $14 an hour in a grocery store, not minimum wage.
00:44:48.000And then you know maybe you're making $26,000 a year, but you're in this lowest tax bracket and 50% of that goes to taxes.
00:44:55.000But if you get to $35,000, they're going to drop that rate to 10% or 15%.
00:45:00.000But it only works for the money above.
00:45:03.000The first $13,000 I think is tax free.
00:45:04.000Then from $13,000 to $35,000 it's like 12%.
00:45:05.000Then from $35,000 to $80,000 it's like 21%.
00:45:06.000So you're not actually losing money by making more money.
00:45:07.000tax or whatever, then from 13 to 35, it's like 12%.
00:45:13.000Then from 35 to like 100 and something, I think, or to like 80, it's like 21%.
00:45:31.000And that's because a lot of people are at the poverty level where they don't actually have to pay anything or they get a refund back from like the money that they didn't spend.
00:45:46.000Slept on the street, slept in a park a couple times, but typically in a car.
00:45:52.000And then, you know, it's rough, man, because there's a funny thing about being 19 and being homeless in that if you had a place to live, a lot of people have no problem with you falling asleep on their couch.
00:46:03.000But when they know you don't, it's all of a sudden a problem.
00:46:23.000So there was one point where I worked at O'Hare and you could sleep in the airport.
00:46:26.000You weren't supposed to, but because there are shifts, you know, 24 hours a day, when I worked for, you know, so that's how I avoided for the most part sleeping outside.
00:46:35.000Making almost no money doing back-breaking labor was not easy and not, wouldn't recommend it.
00:46:41.000I had it when I was like 15 and I was out for two weeks and was sleeping at friends' houses in the basements and the projects and stuff.
00:46:48.000And then I started to get my stuff together.
00:46:50.000But there was years where when I first moved to the United States and it cost me $30,000 to move here from Canada legally and get a green card and all that stuff.
00:46:59.000And I was in this fifth floor walk up in Harlem where the projects were right next door and the people in the projects had a better life than I had where I was living.
00:47:11.000And it was just, there's something motivating about that.
00:47:14.000But I don't know if it's because my education, or because where I came from, or the people that I looked up to, that it was like, I gotta do better than this.
00:47:45.000City of Oakland mayor is branded racist for giving families of color $500 a month if they earn under $59,000 with no rules on how they spend it, but offering poor white families nothing.
00:47:58.000Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced the race-based program to give families of color $500 monthly checks.
00:48:03.000Half of the $500 grants will be to families earning under $30,000 in the predominantly BIPOC East Oakland area.
00:48:09.000Now, there's a couple important things to point out.
00:48:14.000If somebody has a million dollars and they say, I'm only going to give it to people I want to give it to, well, welcome to private exchange of wealth.
00:49:55.000My family was experiencing all of this critical race theory stuff when I was a little kid.
00:50:00.000Coming from a mixed race family, I think there's a lot of white suburban, you know, and like, there's a lot of white people who don't realize this stuff has been happening for a really, really long time.
00:50:38.000Now, apparently, Siraj Hashmi said that guy was a troll.
00:50:42.000But there are many people who have already said that.
00:50:44.000I was at U-Dub in Seattle, and one of these woke guys was arguing to me that mixed-race relationships, particularly with Asians, especially with Asians, was a sign of, you know, fascism or whatever.
00:50:54.000Because, you know, Germany loved the Japanese.
00:50:58.000I just don't even know where to begin.
00:51:00.000But, you know, growing up, and having my family be, like, I guess we could say lower middle class, but then we ultimately ended up losing our home to a bankruptcy.
00:51:09.000It's really interesting to be in a family where it's like, you know, sometimes our fridge is going to be empty or we're eating, like, steaks from Dominick's that are, like, particularly cheap.
00:51:18.000And my family does the best that it can, but we're by no means rich.
00:51:21.000And then, you know, my dad gets told he's not qualified for a promotion or things like that because he's the wrong race.
00:51:28.000So you mean to tell me that we have the civil rights fight, Loving v. Virginia, to make it legal to ban miscegenation laws, right?
00:51:36.000It was actually illegal before 1967 in many states to cohabitate with someone of a different race.
00:51:45.000I feel like sodomy was legal in more states.
00:51:48.000Probably yeah, and so you actually had this period where like my mom and my mom's side of the family are growing up Literally a time when they had to flee different states because it was quite literally illegal.
00:51:58.000Well, congratulations civil rights Protests worked and now here I am and now I'm told Depending on my ideology.
00:52:06.000I don't fit in and I don't qualify for their special programs and I try to explain to people listen I'm the last person in the world who's going to complain about my identity and be like, I demand this because I'm marginalized for this reason, but I will point out your hypocrisy and your shortsightedness.
00:52:20.000What these people don't realize when they talk about the black indigenous people of color communities, the indigenous community has a community.
00:52:32.000There's no like mixed race meeting groups where you share your common cultures.
00:52:38.000In fact, Koreans are extremely racist and they're not forgiving.
00:52:42.000So you grow up in this environment where the only thing you actually have that you, you, you, you know, you find yourself surrounded by is Americans.
00:52:50.000I grew up in an area where, you know, people of all different races, all Americans.
00:53:13.000And when you say that there's this unity between people that just, no matter what race they are, are hanging American flags outside their home, you're just like, oh, everybody's going to get along here no matter what's happening, because they believe in the country.
00:53:26.000The thought came into my head literally this morning and we haven't heard it for years because it didn't exist during Trump's presidency.
00:53:35.000Remember the old love it or leave it quote that people used to say all the well you love it or you leave it and it's like that is so far gone now because the country's gone through such turmoil and separation It's inevitably going to change.
00:53:50.000There's no going back to that life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, love it or leave it.
00:53:56.000I think that he was the closest thing that they were going to get, but Trump's egoism probably kept us from that.
00:54:05.000But I don't think it's going to happen.
00:54:06.000It's not going to happen under this presidency.
00:54:08.000I mean, Joe Biden's awful for a lot of reasons, and I think Donald Trump was an imperfect—I call him the imperfect avatar of the national populist rage that they were feeling.
00:55:31.000The problem is many of these progressives will vote for a corporate Democrat before they ever imagine voting for a right-wing populist because they think they're fascists.
00:55:41.000That's the barrier that's got to be broken down, where it's like, look, man, my policy positions, my ideals, I took the political compass test.
00:55:49.000I'm even further left than I realize on the political compass test.
00:56:27.000You could just say I just dropped into your house.
00:56:29.000I think it's like, it's almost like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were extreme versions of themselves or the ideas of what they represented.
00:56:39.000Like Trump represented the anger from right-wing populists and the America first types, the people who want this country to, to, to actually use its tax dollars to support this country.
00:57:04.000That the American dream is to be Donald Trump?
00:57:06.000Hillary Clinton was like, it's really amazing.
00:57:10.000If you were on a scale of one to 10 of representations of things, you know, in this country, Donald Trump is cranked up to 11 in terms of how much he embodies this kind of American exceptionalism.
00:58:01.000And it would have been awesome to see Bernie Sanders run against Trump I I think that they they could have used that extremism Bernie I I don't I don't know if Bernie would win now because of critical race theory But I think Bernie would have won in 2016 hands down Yeah, nine million people switched from voting for Obama in 2012 to voting for Trump
00:58:20.000I like the notion of DeSantis because when you're an immigrant and you move here, you embrace American ideals, although somewhat antiquated.
00:58:30.000So our version of America was when Reagan was president, when I would watch TV and you'd watch the news and I was in my early teens and you're like, that's where I want to live.
00:58:38.000I want to live where you can say trickle-down economics.
00:59:12.000And now Comedy Central is the wokest you can get.
00:59:16.000You remember Broad City kind of trailed them off and now they're just doing bar shows with 20 people and horrible, woke comedy.
00:59:23.000But they told me I had this story where I'm going to say it as clean as possible because I don't want you to get in trouble.
00:59:30.000Uh, I pleasured myself in front of two men for $150 and at climax, uh, the man said, I want it on me, but I didn't want to go over there because that was too, uh, femme for me.
00:59:45.000So I threw it at him and that was, that's the whole bit.
01:01:20.000Yeah, there's a line where T'Challa, the king of Wakanda, goes, we cannot allow immigrants into our country because they'll bring their problems with us.
01:01:27.000And I was like, whoa, whoa, that's like super Trumpian.
01:02:06.000Like, they gotta make movies for everybody in this country that people can enjoy, and they do it right when they don't beat you over the head with the ideology and just show regular people doing regular things, right?
01:02:19.000I can't remember who was here, and we were talking about this, saying that, like, you know, for every show, you're allowed, like, one teaspoon of, like, social justice or, like, ideology.
01:02:32.000So you're watching a movie, it's a horror movie, and there's, like, a vampire and he's attacking people, and then they make, like, a passive comment about redlining in urban environments or whatever.
01:02:45.000The vampire, like, goes to a poor community and they make a reference.
01:02:49.000The point is, if you're watching a movie and they make a social commentary, a little bit is fine, and we recognize that and go, oh, I see.
01:02:57.000But now what we're getting is literally the whole movie itself is just a social commentary, so there's no story, there's no plot, it's trash.
01:04:01.000But he then goes to one of the... I love this.
01:04:04.000Seriously, you guys gotta watch this because here he is in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Wakanda, and they have this gigantic wall.
01:04:12.000It's an invisible barrier that not only stops people from getting into their country, or into their capital city, I suppose, whatever it is, but they also can't even see it.
01:04:35.000He goes to the wealthiest country on the planet, and he goes to one of their wealthiest states, and he goes to one of the biggest cities, and he's got his problems.
01:04:44.000And he gives resources to the people there.
01:04:47.000I'm like, that's a profound statement.
01:04:49.000Remember when they accused Donald Trump of saying something like, we don't want people from these ish hole countries, we want them from Norway or whatever?
01:04:56.000That's literally what they had T'Challa do.
01:04:58.000Instead of being like, okay, we're finally gonna open up, let's get people from Zimbabwe and South Africa to come to our country.
01:05:07.000He goes to the country, he goes to the United States, where there's prosperity and wealth.
01:05:11.000He was still, in the end, extremely classist.
01:05:14.000It's remarkable to see that, especially remarkable to see how these woke people don't recognize exactly what was wrong with what T'Challa was doing based on their own ideology.
01:07:54.000An extremely racist comment about legitimate individuals with good policies and good ideas that are worthy of argument, accomplished individuals, and that's why those people make me sick.
01:08:03.000Because they're more racist than the other side.
01:08:08.000Oh, these great black, highly intellectual politicians that are well-spoken have great policies formulated for their areas.
01:08:19.000They're only talking because you need them up there.
01:09:22.000He's not helping the Republican Party.
01:09:23.000He is fighting against the people who actually helped Republicans win in 2016 and the ones who did in 2018 and 2020, even though they did lose a position in 2018.
01:09:34.000McConnell and Lindsey Graham actually hurt them.
01:09:37.000Lindsey Graham is seen going on the Senate floor and fist-bumping Kamala Harris when he was supposed to be challenging her on a bunch of policy issues.
01:09:47.000The Republicans don't help Republican voters.
01:09:51.000Democrats are tribally supported for the most part.
01:09:54.000I think it's fair to say Republicans and Democrats get tribal support.
01:12:06.000They ignore all of this stuff, but they draw their own correlations whenever they want.
01:12:09.000If this was Trump, this would be eight days of Don Lemon crying, and then Cuomo's other brother taking naked pictures outside of his house in the Hamptons to try and deflect.
01:12:34.000This country strives to be progressive, but it's not because everything that gets done, the next president tries to undo.
01:12:41.000This country will be fully functioning and damn near perfect when both sides own up to the BS that they throw and we're on an equal level playing field.
01:12:53.000If people held Biden responsible the same way that they held Trump responsible, there'd be a lot more happy people.
01:12:58.000And I think Biden should have run on like a MAGA type thing, but M-A-A-A.
01:13:06.000What do you consider yourself politically?
01:13:10.000First of all, I can't vote because I'm not a citizen yet.
01:13:13.000I did do the test and it turns out that I am a quote-unquote core conservative.
01:13:19.000That being said, gay marriage I believe in.
01:13:23.000My things that made me lean to the conservative were that immigration should be done legally because I did it.
01:13:31.000So it's, people bring up with me like, well, just because you did it doesn't mean that's how everybody else- Aaron, I think you should have been able to just walk through 90 miles of desert without any- It's mostly snow up there.
01:13:41.000I would have to snowshoe across- No, I'm saying you should fly to Mexico and then walk in.
01:17:10.000You can keep your money because he's building spaceships.
01:17:11.000I think the richer you get, and I'm not going up against your tax the pedophile movie star thing that you're coming up with in this weird group chat, but I think that, yeah, I think rich people should be given a break.
01:17:48.000Then I tweeted, tax Hollywood millionaires and billionaires 90%.
01:17:52.000And that is basically like, I think conservatives will agree because they don't like the Hollywood... Nobody does, because they think Tom Hanks has an ankle bracelet on and he's like in a deepfake world.
01:18:02.000It's because you get these celebrities who use their money to negatively impact politics that they know nothing about for virtue signal points.
01:18:10.000So conservatives don't like that, when you see people like Alyssa Milano coming out and using her resources to just negatively impact the country.
01:18:17.000Then the leftists are like, tax the rich, I don't care who they are.
01:19:26.000Good, honest, law-abiding Americans who want to protect themselves from tyrannical government, from criminals, just protect their families?
01:19:34.000And so it's like these leftists are surprised because I think they don't realize how much right-wing individuals and populists are not fascists and would be like, dude, take your guns.
01:19:43.000And when I say tax the rich, I'm not saying the dude who makes $200,000 a year or $400,000 a year.
01:19:49.000And I know many of the leftists do say that.
01:19:51.000I'm saying, I think about George Soros.
01:19:56.000The conservatives complain about him all the time, right?
01:19:59.000Okay, well, you also got the Mercers, the Koch brothers, you got Tom Steyer, you got Bloomberg, you've got right and left, and it tends to be many left-wing and authoritarian, you know, ultra-wealthy, who are flooding the zone, dumping money into politics to subvert the rights of the working class, be it left or right.
01:20:16.000I do think there's a problem in just giving that money to the government, because they're not going to do good things with it either.
01:20:21.000They're going to blow up kids in the Middle East.
01:20:23.000But I wonder if we start by taking away the influence of special interests, can we then start to chip away at the government to regain some control by getting rid of the millionaires and the billionaires?
01:20:33.000And I mean the people with half a billion or more in terms of millionaire.
01:20:37.000Yeah, I think you can take that influence out, but then you need to reshape everything and not go towards a military-industrial complex and put money into education and money into poor neighborhoods.
01:20:53.000But the only problem is, when we do, the government's gonna take that money and then go blow up kids, and they're not gonna fix, you know, infrastructure.
01:21:01.000But I do wonder if If we can get rid of the millionaires and billionaires who are influencing politics negatively and subverting the will of the working class individuals in this country... Let's make a list.
01:21:12.000A list of the millionaires and the billionaires?
01:21:14.000I just love saying let's make a list like all those cancel people do.
01:23:56.000You know, in 2018, I said Republicans were too stupid, the politicians, too stupid to deal with social media censorship to save their own, you know, positions.
01:25:56.000I can show up in the White House wearing my normal clothes, and that's what America's about.
01:26:01.000I don't gotta put on my formal dress attire, my awards, my pins, or anything.
01:26:03.000I can be an American saying, listen up, this matters.
01:26:06.000Now, there was some serious nature to it, but I gotta tell you, man, I sat there, and at first, I was kind of getting let down by what was going on, and then I just started just rolling with it.
01:27:18.000It's like he's had this Rodney Dangerfield kind of aspect.
01:27:21.000Cause he- his favorite comic, and he will disavow this now, Was Jeff Ross.
01:27:26.000He loved Ross and Ross loved playing with him.
01:27:28.000And then as soon as he got in, Ross was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:27:31.000And I love Jeff Ross, but he had his moment where he's like, I got to remember in the 2016 cycle when Megyn Kelly was like, you've called women pigs.
01:27:54.000Yeah from her eyes or you know, whatever He just like outside of that stuff Trump needed to get his tweets under control but I think if you're somebody and Who is just tribalistic.
01:28:09.000I think there's a lot of people who are scared.
01:28:11.000Didn't want to fall out of line with the tribe.
01:28:13.000They're worried about being ostracized or shunned or fired or whatever.
01:28:15.000So they just say, oh yeah, I hate Trump too.
01:28:17.000Then there are a lot of people who are just blind zealots who are like, Trump is bad.
01:28:22.000But the people who are interested in actually listening to what he had to say, we hear so many stories of people walking away from the Democratic Party when they finally decided to just watch a Trump video.
01:28:31.000Because they learned that the media was lying.
01:28:36.000And they were like, that's not what they were... Like, the media was saying he said this, that, and this, and I watched the speech, and it was actually just, like, him cracking jokes, and, like, he didn't say those things.
01:28:44.000Sure, they took a lot of stuff out of context.
01:29:03.000He's a racist, bigot, xenophobic, caused all this!
01:29:06.000the problem with democracy. She attacks it from a political standpoint and
01:29:09.000and structures good arguments so you can listen to him but other people are just
01:29:14.000like he's a racist bigot xenophobic caused all this and you know these
01:29:18.000people are idiots maybe I'm gonna listen more to what he's saying than these
01:29:22.000people. And that's what most of it was.
01:29:25.000When you looked to the prominent progressive and liberal personalities in the country, they couldn't offer up a compelling argument against Trump.
01:29:32.000And so you got people who are sitting back in their chairs laughing at what they found to be a Comedy Central-style roast of the political establishment.
01:29:41.000You know, Trump was just going at the political establishment, making fun of them, attacking them, insulting them.
01:29:47.000And for so many Americans, it felt good.
01:29:49.000Was it Michael Moore, I think, called Trump a human Molotov cocktail.
01:29:53.000And he said to all of these people, what Trump is saying, it's like music to their ears.
01:29:57.000And on November 9th, 2016, they're going to the voting booth and they're going to send the biggest F you to the political establishment ever in the history of humanity.
01:31:23.000But anyway, you know, we got into the subject of Trump and it's kind of like a post-mortem, I guess, on the Trump presidency and where we're at these days.
01:31:58.000And that's basically what we're getting.
01:32:00.000He tries to run up the stairs to make it seem like he's... Look, man, Joe doesn't need to convince anybody that he's young, because he's not.
01:32:36.000Actually, I wonder if there's someone who's good enough at VFX that could add a tornado background to that video and show the wind and, like, chairs flying and maybe a cow or two.
01:32:47.000I read today that, and I did not know this and maybe you can shed some wisdom on this, Kamala Harris does not need to salute anybody.
01:36:10.000And it's a lot of reruns, a lot of older movies.
01:36:12.000Newer movies, man, I tell you, it's shockingly bad stuff.
01:36:16.000I had, we have an artist named Matt Miller.
01:36:18.000He does all of our artwork, like these Wuhan shirts and stuff, and I'm not trying to plug him, but I'm just telling you how innovative he is.
01:36:24.000He worked on this movie that was about these stuntmen that did a jump, and on their car was a Confederate flag, because it was modeled after the Dukes of Hazzard thing.
01:36:36.000They pulled the movie from everything.
01:36:39.000Because there's a Confederate flag on a car in a movie.
01:36:43.000Can I, maybe I should just fund a short film, or maybe like a feature length, just really low budget, but like, a well done low budget, that just is like, the anti-wokest of anti-woke.
01:40:00.000We're working together on the Our Pillow project.
01:40:03.000We'll see if we can get it together and we'll see how it plays out, because I don't know if the pillow thing's actually going to end up happening.
01:41:02.000Whenever she opens for me, she inevitably walks some of the crowd and just defends them and doesn't understand why I don't want her to open for me.
01:41:09.000So, her name's Christine Meehan-Berg, by the way.
01:41:13.000And I'm just wondering, do you think in the cases of these school shootings, where a school shooting happens, is that neighborhood then safe for 30 years after?
01:41:24.000Would you send a kid to that school if you go, hey, I'm going to move down to Parkland now because I think it's out of the way?
01:41:32.000I think they're going to overreact and create overbearing laws and panic, and it's going to become nightmarish for the people who live there.
01:41:38.000You look at like Norway, for instance, and there was a tragic event, we'll call it that.
01:41:43.000And they mourned and they carried on because they realized that we can't control the wind.
01:41:50.000In the U.S., you get Chicago every weekend for decades.
01:41:55.000And they laugh in your face and insult you when you bring it up.
01:41:58.000They say, you don't really, like, it's remarkable to me that I'm like, hey, I'm kind of from this place, and I actually interviewed a black woman who was leading the charge on protecting gun rights, getting illegal guns off the street, and advocating for victims of gun violence.
01:42:14.000They don't want to talk about it, and they will tell you to shut your mouth when you do.
01:42:19.000But then when you get, you know, these other tragic events that negatively impact or scare the white, progressive, wealthy, and affluent suburbs, all of a sudden now they demand you bend the knee.
01:43:27.000He says, Gwen Stefani got paid more money and Trump got mad, so he used a presidential campaign run to boost his salary so that he could go to NBC and claim, now that he's a presidential candidate, they should pay him more.
01:44:44.000We're going a little long on this, but it was fun.
01:44:47.000For those that are listening, if you haven't already, smash the like button, hit that notification bell, subscribe to the show, go to TimCast.com, become a member, because we're gonna have an exclusive members-only segment, probably gonna be one of the dirtiest comedy bits we've heard in a long time, I guess.
01:45:02.000I mean, it's pretty safe for what I do, but yeah.
01:45:06.000It'll be fun, and I'm sure it'll be profanity-laced, so... But, uh, but again, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna... We are going to read your superchats, so smash that like button.
01:47:20.000They might lie and claim it because regular liberals will be shocked.
01:47:25.000If you take Ibram X. Kendi, this famous woke, or Robin DiAngelo, and they went to a seminar with a bunch of run-of-the-mill liberal types and said they think that Dr. King was wrong, the liberals would go, whoa, whoa!
01:47:40.000So they have to feign support for a colorblind future while advocating for a, you know, color vision, whatever, like a racially segregated future.
01:47:51.000Wouldn't it be easier to just be honest and go, well, no, they want power and they believe they have the right to lie to steal it.
01:48:39.000They pretend to be, maybe, but they're authoritarian, probably centrist or authoritarian right.
01:48:43.000For the most part, they don't care about whether it's a corporation or a communism.
01:48:47.000They care about command— They care about corporatism.
01:48:51.000So they can claim to be somewhat traditional or somewhat progressive, but still just want to seize your rights, seize your guns, take away your speech.
01:48:58.000And they want to rewind the clock to bring us back to an era of racial segregation and animosity.
01:49:32.000So, a lot of these people are blind zealots.
01:49:35.000Okay, so they're tribal and they're jumping onto that bandwagon because they think it's the right thing to do.
01:49:40.000And they're being led by the Democratic Party, which is the party historically of Jim Crow, segregation, racism, slavery, the Confederates.
01:49:48.000We all know that, but people then look at that and go, well, no, they've changed this party.
01:49:52.000That was a very clever strategy on the part of the Democrats.
01:50:08.000That's what the battle is for by people that are constantly under attack because we're made to believe that we're horrible people for saying the things we say or doing the things we do, which include taking care of our families, supporting people, making people laugh, starting positive communities, wanting to give back to communities.
01:50:26.000How many people committed a hate crime against an Asian because of Dave Chappelle's joke where he mocked Chinese people?
01:50:34.000I guarantee you, and I try to avoid absolutes, but I am willing to bet a substantial amount of money that not a single person watched Dave Chappelle make fun of Chinese people and then got instantly filled with a blinding rage and then wanted to go commit a hate crime.
01:51:37.000I talked to Mark Breslin, who owns Yuck Yucks, and I go, hey, for the Wednesday you want to do the show, White Guys Matter, because Wednesday's normally 20, 30 people.
01:51:46.000This is back when I wouldn't draw that much.
01:51:48.000He goes, all right, it's not going to help ticket sales.
01:51:50.000Sure enough, two days before, people catch wind of it.
01:53:45.000Artifices says, what do you think about the idea that creators add to attention commodification via donors and subs, also perpetuating the idea that it is impossible to do what you do due to market saturation?
01:53:58.000What makes your opinion more valuable than anyone else's with similar experience?
01:55:00.000But yeah, so it's, you know, I used to do fundraising and it was talk really fast.
01:55:05.000My pitch was usually the bing bang boom, you know, here we're gonna go and you make them go like whoa whoa whoa and then like definitely and then they sign up.
01:55:12.000And you mix up sometimes the slow talk and the fast talk.
01:55:41.000cap uh let's see cpl hillbilly that corporal hillbilly says north korea launched two icbms into the sea of japan today yahoo news told me so that's freaky man heard jim satala says hey aaron jim from florida here are you saying that Are you saying that two Wongs make a white?
01:56:01.000IHW rules compound media is the free speech network.
01:56:05.000I'm allowed to say that because I am part Asian.
01:56:23.000There's actually a really funny college humor bit where there's a panel of a full Asian, a half Asian and a quarter Asian, and they're judging mixed race Asian people and giving them permission to do certain things.
01:57:11.000Garrett Norman says, Tim, did you see the Forbes article about the Biden administration asking the Supreme Court to ignore the Second and Fourth Amendment, written by Nick Sabella?
01:57:50.000His only choice was to run to the beaches of Florida and hide, because he realized that if he did stay on the show too long, that people would... he would have a certain responsibility.
01:58:01.000You know, with great power comes great responsibility.
01:58:45.000Ben Walker says, speaking of good comics, what are the odds we can get Tim Dillon and his producer Ben on here?
01:58:50.000Always hilarious, but he's really been killing the game lately.
01:58:53.000I think the issue with people like Tim Dillon is that these comics that are gaining anybody who's gaining too big of an audience too quickly has no reason to come on a show if they already have their own platform.
01:59:04.000So, some people will, some people won't.
02:00:34.000Brandon Tom says, look at Tim denigrating Trump's masculinity based on outward traits alone, as if we don't revere little engines that could, Davids and Goliaths.
02:00:43.000What about the masculine traits of always fighting for what's right and overcoming impossible odds?
02:00:47.000Well, I think we did eventually get to the mentality of masculinity too.
02:02:35.000And then there was a period where my car had, you know, stripped tires at Long story short, there were a few nights I ended up sleeping outside.
02:02:43.000Slept in my car for the most part over the period of a few months.
02:02:46.000Slept at the airport for a little bit.
02:02:48.000And then eventually just got sick of it.
02:03:40.000Oh, yeah, eventually one of my friends let me crash in their pantry, which was big for a couple hundred bucks then from there I actually ended up in my own place and Then I had this like three-bedroom apartment with like seven people living in it So nobody paid anything that skateboarders do yeah, and then I moved to Los Angeles got a job made some money Finally got a real apartment, you know, I worked my way up from there.
02:03:58.000I used to wash my hands with rainwater Living in my buddy's car Wow Glamorous.
02:04:05.000David Murdock says, Hey Tim, you talk video games and zombies.
02:04:09.000Real life drag queen Zayn Dimaj is zombie slayer extraordinaire battling mobs suffering a mind virus in Drag the Dead.
02:04:17.000Third-person shooter now in development.
02:06:10.000I'm going to have to issue an apology after realizing this in the super chat.
02:06:13.000They say, Wong Tan says, Tim, Aaron is a racist who co-hosts a show with racist Gino Disconte and racist compound media also owned by a racist vampire.
02:07:30.000You were telling me that, but it wasn't going to increase their pay enough that they were never going to see a single penny on how much they work.
02:08:50.000Alexander Scarpecci says, President is the commander-in-chief and within the chain of command of the military and the protocol is to salute.
02:08:58.000The vice president is not, but could still salute out of respect.
02:09:01.000Well, I don't think she respects anybody.
02:09:36.000You need like two thirds or whatever, so 38 or something.
02:09:39.000Jeffrey Person says Alexander the Great conquered the known world by controlling four institutions, school, religion, art, and media and entertainment.
02:10:33.000Well, uh, you can smash the like button.
02:10:36.000But I don't think we're hiring anybody remote because there's so much that we need to do here on the ground in terms of physical infrastructure as well as building things out.
02:10:44.000I'm not a fan of remote stuff I think people need to be around each other and share in a culture and ideas and help things grow and People who are in remote areas don't interact with anybody else and then it's like a it's like desynchronized, you know Let's do a couple more super chats here.
02:10:57.000Let's see what we got Wapo of Epic says, according to Forbes, Biden administration urges Supreme Court to let cops enter home and seize guns without a warrant.
02:11:08.000It's a violation of many amendments and fundamental human rights.
02:11:44.000Mike Greff says, All women get guns, concealed carry permits, and training free from the government, even the physical disadvantage that they have.
02:12:14.000And then, but you also would have the choice between the handgun or the AR-15.
02:12:20.000And so maybe, maybe they offer you up like a 5.56.
02:12:23.000So the reason I propose this as well, The left wants something.
02:12:28.000They want universal health care, and they think they're deserving of it because they think it's a human right.
02:12:33.000The Constitution says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and conservatives want guns.
02:12:37.000So the compromise is, okay, then you can have universal health care for everybody, including the conservatives, and the conservatives also recognize that you will get guns too.
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