On this week's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, host Stephen Colbert joins Jemele to discuss the latest in the Democratic primary race between Joe Biden and Tulsi Gabbard, as well as the assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr. and the possibility that the CIA may have been behind it. Plus, an interview with actor Elon Srelevich about his controversial ad campaign supporting women's sports.
00:00:35.000He's also polling more favorably in some areas than Donald Trump.
00:00:38.000He has told Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience that he is concerned the CIA could assassinate him.
00:00:44.000He has to take these things seriously because of what happened to his uncle.
00:00:48.000It's a remarkable conversation that I really want to dive into, considering how well he's doing in the polls, how people really like this guy, and the fact that we're now at the point in U.S.
00:00:57.000history where everyone's basically like, yeah, JFK was killed by our own government.
00:01:01.000We'll get into that, and then we have our own current president, Joe Biden, who claimed that people pull up in trucks in cities and start selling guns in the street, and it's just a nonsensical story.
00:01:11.000But more importantly, he wrapped up by saying, God save the Queen.
00:03:42.000Yeah, you got a lot of attention when you put out a commercial supporting women's sports.
00:03:47.000Yes, most recently we put out an ad called Erased where we, it's kind of like a unique build up, it's this girl who's trying her whole life to become a track runner and she's inspired by her father and she's the best, she's really the best.
00:03:59.000She says there's no woman that can beat us and then in the final moment she realizes she's competing against a biological male and she has no chance in it.
00:04:06.000Then it kind of highlights in sports where this has happened before, most egregiously with Fallon Fox in MMA.
00:05:18.000They say during the interview with Joe Rogan, Kennedy said his uncle, John F. Kennedy, quote, was at war with his military and intelligence apparatus after he said he wanted to take the CIA and shatter it into a thousand pieces and also scatter it into the wind.
00:05:31.000Who he said had lied to get him to invade Cuba.
00:05:35.000Kennedy discussed his uncle's refusal to send soldiers into Vietnam at the military-industrial complex's request.
00:05:41.000He noted that JFK was killed a month after ordering all troops out of Vietnam when he determined that 75 Americans who were killed in the country were too many.
00:05:50.000He believed that the view of Americans abroad should not be, you know, a soldier with a gun.
00:05:54.000It should be a Peace Corps volunteer building.
00:06:06.000And he started the Kennedy Milk Program to, you know, give nutrition to the poor kids all over the world.
00:06:12.000As a result of that, in Africa today, there's more statues to John Kennedy,
00:06:15.000more boulevards named after, uh, named after more hospitals, schools, universities, avenues,
00:06:20.000and all the major cities named after him than any other president.
00:06:23.000The podcast host asked him, what do you think happens when you get in office?
00:06:27.000Like, if you're talking about your uncle, who was assassinated, and you believe the intelligence agencies were part of that, what happens to you?
00:06:34.000And he replies, I gotta be careful, and I'm aware of that, and I, you know, I'm aware of that, of that danger.
00:06:41.000Kennedy responded, I don't live in fear of it, you know, at all, but I'm not stupid about it, and I take precautions.
00:06:48.000Did you think at any point in your lives we would get to the point where we would be sitting on a show like this and be like two very prominent individuals, one who's polling highly for the next presidential election, would outright say that the intelligence agencies killed a sitting president, also his uncle.
00:07:04.000You know like 10 years ago I would have said this is an impossibility and the sad reality is that right now I'm sitting here and it's almost like there's no response to it whatsoever.
00:07:14.000It's almost become unexpected kind of thing where the most extreme possible thing plays out.
00:07:19.000I know people who were completely shocked he even entered the race for this reason.
00:07:23.000They were like, there's no way, there's too much of a target on him.
00:07:26.000Which I also find to be kind of interesting.
00:07:28.000Like he says, he's interested in it, he's aware of it, he's not going to live in fear, but he is aware that coming out with these accusations and then seeking the presidency is maybe not in his best, in his personal interest.
00:07:50.000Like every so often, remember we were talking about last time, like every time Joe Biden screws something up, you just release a couple of documents and just let stuff out.
00:07:58.000Also, you should worry too, because there's a lot of streets named after Martin Luther King and a lot of people believe that the government had a hand in that as well.
00:08:35.000I mean, you don't want to have a martyr.
00:08:36.000Yeah, I remember that the mainstream media will not acknowledge that he is a serious contender for the Democratic nomination.
00:08:42.000They refer to him consistently as a fringe candidate and then they immediately bring up his theoretical stance as an anti-vaxxer, right?
00:08:49.000Like, they use that to tear him down as much as possible.
00:08:54.000In doing so, they don't realize that he has broad appeal.
00:08:57.000They will not acknowledge that he actually has an interesting shot.
00:09:00.000He plays an interesting role in politics right now.
00:09:02.000Because I think they are afraid of him.
00:09:04.000The best thing for America's left to do right now is try to get him to stop talking as fast as possible.
00:09:09.000You know what's super interesting about the vaccine thing is they don't realize how many people in their own party are actually on board with his message.
00:09:17.000Well, his polling is, I think he's rivaling, I think he's beating Joe Biden in favorability.
00:09:23.000I think the things that he's saying are lighting up regular people who don't like Joe Biden, don't like what the Democratic Party's become, And they don't like Donald Trump.
00:09:33.000I think there are a lot of people who voted for Trump.
00:09:49.000YouGov says that RFK has higher favorability than any other presidential candidate running in 2024. 49%.
00:09:56.000It is true that there is almost no appeal for Joe Biden because we cover pop culture and I've seen several celebrities who are just like, James Van Der Beek was like, we have to at least have the discussion that other candidates are a possibility.
00:10:10.000Arnie, the governor recently was saying that he wishes he could run, given that he's not a naturalized American, he wasn't born in America, because he says that there's nobody right now that can unite everyone, which is tacitly admitting that they're not uniting anyone.
00:10:24.000I don't think uniting everyone's a realistic goal, right?
00:10:26.000fall in line for leftist or Democrat policies.
00:10:30.000I don't think uniting everyone's a realistic goal, right?
00:10:56.000The same way that the parties shift in ideology and they have drifted to the left, the voters shift, too, to stick with their core beliefs.
00:11:03.000Yeah, I believe at this point that kind of unity is just impossible.
00:11:05.000And I don't think anyone deep down believes it.
00:12:40.000I had a story where I was like, after the debates and I was talking during the primaries during the election, and I was like talking to a friend of mine who just really, really hates Donald Trump, really hates Donald Trump.
00:12:52.000And I was like, Oh yeah, I really like the stuff that Tulsi Gabbard was saying is that Donald Trump is an existential threat to America.
00:12:57.000That has nothing to do with what the hell we're talking about right now, because they'd already cast her off as somebody who is a fringe candidate with these crazy beliefs.
00:13:06.000And he just kind of lumps all those people in together, whether Democrat, Republican, If they don't fall in line for what at that time would have been your standard Democrat policies, which have gone even further left since then, it's crazy.
00:13:22.000Yeah, I mean, I always talk about how there's new normals created all the time.
00:13:26.000And so you look every two to three years now, it used to be the concept of like a new normal would probably take decades for them to happen.
00:13:32.000And now you look on key issues that people used to vote on, they're just becoming more extreme about those issues to the point where we're so polarized that there's no form of rationale anymore.
00:13:41.000Where like, if I would have told you, you know, five, ten years ago, we're going to put biological males in prison with women, Who have a history of sexually assaulting women, you would say the entire country would be out protesting on the street.
00:13:53.000I gotta ask, do you face any kind of backlash career-wise for bringing these subjects up?
00:14:49.000To the legal aspect of things, I do my best to avoid a lawsuit, because the womanhood bracelet that we were selling, We're going to donate a percentage of that to charities that support the things that we believe in.
00:15:01.000It becomes very hard if I'm having to fight legal battles, and that's kind of how they win.
00:15:05.000They try and destroy you in that way, so I'm just sticking to my guns.
00:15:08.000I play nice where I have to play nice, and when I believe that it's time to fight back, I do, but I want to fight back with a cultural change.
00:15:14.000And I do that through these videos because we had, I'll be honest with you, during this last video we put out, I got a lot of people who are, who even have trans kids, saying the current message for the LGBTQ community is hurting my child.
00:15:27.000People are starting to hate my child because it's becoming too extreme.
00:15:53.000It's like a weird shift where all they were fighting for originally was the right to live their lives the way they wanted and now the movement's become so extreme that it's forcing everyone else to kind of celebrate and be involved and accept everything to the point where it's damaging them and it's damaging the way they wanted to live their lives.
00:16:09.000And I don't know how many of them are aware of just how much damage it's caused because I used to be, in full transparency, a person who would go walk for the Pride Parade.
00:16:19.000You know, I just believed in the notion of anyone who wants to be married should be able to be married.
00:16:23.000And over the years, because of how extreme it's gone, I'm like, I won't support a group that is twerking in front of kids in, you know, thongs.
00:17:20.000And I imagine that a lot of people our age, especially if you're someone like me who grew up in a liberal area, like you just, you didn't care.
00:17:27.000And now you see it and you're just, first of all, you're not allowed to not care.
00:17:31.000You're forced to care about all of these things.
00:17:34.000And a lot of it is just that how far do you push it before you say, that's not what this is about anymore.
00:17:40.000This is clearly grown to be something.
00:17:42.000James Lindsay talks about this a lot about how it's morphed and it's a lot of it is it's Marxism and it's a lot of other political influences that have latched on to causes that Prayed upon your desire to be a decent person, your desire to be accepting, and they're very nefarious and they're doing it on purpose.
00:18:01.000I think there's something so interesting about the idea of the things that are under attack have to do with absolute truth or objective reality, and that those are the first things to come under attack.
00:18:10.000As you're talking about Marxism, the first thing they have to do is destroy your belief in something greater than yourself.
00:18:15.000If you have a belief in God, And they did that a long time ago.
00:18:18.000Hollywood and these industries long since decoupled people from the concept of religion in this country.
00:18:25.000It's the fundamental binary that now exists that is at war.
00:18:29.000And when people say there's a spiritual battle, I'm someone who grew up without any true form of connection to religion.
00:18:35.000And in recent years, because of everything I see, I realize it's the glue that will hold things together.
00:18:40.000Because I have to have a reason why I believe in some kind of absolute ethic.
00:18:44.000Why the denial of basic realities is wrong.
00:18:46.000Because if I don't have that, I have nothing.
00:18:48.000And I realize that that ideology has permeated so strongly on the left that the only road that you are left with is nihilism.
00:18:55.000Which is why these people are seeking such identity in this.
00:18:58.000They're gripping onto this as their mode to value.
00:19:01.000Yeah, get complete validation from it.
00:19:03.000I mean, that's the saddest part of all of it.
00:19:06.000It's very broken people looking to gain authority and gain sympathy and gain value through other people's approval and being able to show that they're compliant to this ideology, right?
00:19:18.000I mean, that is the biggest thing I think religion provides a lot of people.
00:19:22.000Of course, there are institutions that are, you know, not great, but generally if you have Because right now I feel like we've cultivated this incredibly self-centered generation, right?
00:19:31.000of everyone around you because you have higher value than that.
00:19:34.000And I think that takes it away from being about yourself.
00:19:37.000Because right now I feel like we've cultivated this incredibly
00:20:01.000I think that we don't have enough of that, and I am sad for the people that grew up thinking, I have to be constantly thinking about my own identity above all else, because that's a very hollow existence.
00:20:11.000You can't identify with a character in a movie unless that character looks exactly like you now.
00:20:39.000That'll be in, Scarlett Johansson can't play a trans character because she's not trans, but a black woman can play Marie Antoinette or who did they play?
00:20:48.000Anne Boleyn, there you go, can play Anne Boleyn because who cares anyway and it's like, Some identities are okay to destroy and other ones aren't.
00:20:56.000But my attitude would be like, pick one and stick with it.
00:20:59.000If you say that nobody can do it, then okay, fine.
00:21:01.000If you say everyone can do it, then okay, fine, but you can't have both.
00:21:04.000The entire point is that it's hypocritical.
00:21:07.000The entire point is that they can hold up four fingers and tell you you see five.
00:21:10.000They have to destroy your ability to think freely.
00:21:14.000And by the way, the whole notion that you can't play a trans... Okay, so I was on a TV show, I played a bisexual guy on the show, like on that show Slasher.
00:21:22.000And interestingly enough, one of my castmates released an article after the show saying people who aren't LGBTQ should not play...
00:21:31.000Did this cast member talk to you about this before they released the article?
00:21:34.000This cast member did not acknowledge me much on, on set, to be honest.
00:21:38.000Uh, and so it was very interesting, but my response to that was number one, how do you know what I am?
00:21:44.000Now you're putting me in a position to announce if I'm closeted, if I don't, if I have parents who wouldn't accept that, now I have to announce to the world to be accepted in your view that I am LGBTQ.
00:21:55.000So that is no longer a personal preference, you're now forcing me to come out with it.
00:21:59.000Another thing you're doing is, how are casting directors going to put... What do you want them to do?
00:22:03.000You want them to ask you if you're gay?
00:22:04.000You know they ask me my ethnicity now?
00:23:07.000That's the worst type of propaganda that I see.
00:23:10.000It's the stuff that's saying, like, one thing that I see a lot of now, and it's honestly scary to see as many posts about it, is people say, I didn't ask to be born.
00:23:22.000But again, you know what that comes from?
00:23:23.000That comes from the denial of the notion that you are special by nature of existing.
00:23:27.000That you take that away from people, they can get to that place where it's like there's this level of entitlement where I didn't even ask to be here.
00:24:21.000They're saying you should be nice to our community and we're welcoming you to our community and chosen family and this, that, and the other.
00:24:25.000They're saying we're giving you something to be a part of because you feel so adrift out there.
00:26:20.000actually has a similar clip where he mentions that when you put atrazine in the water with frogs, the frogs begin to...
00:26:27.000Yeah, so the thing with atrazine though, from what I understood about it, is it actually causes physiological changes like higher rates of micropenis and all types of stuff like that.
00:26:37.000Are we seeing that in the human population?
00:26:39.000Well, I'm just saying I think we should not ignore that perhaps in California you have these people who I think it's very likely to be social.
00:26:51.000But I do think there's a strong possibility that over the past couple of decades, you've had women ingesting all of their food wrapped in plastic.
00:27:21.000We could be looking at something on an asbestos, a DDT-level scale, where it's praised and championed and used everywhere and everything, and then cause massive negative, uh, there's a massive negative outcome, and now we know, we've seen all these stories in the news about how plastics, leach, phthalates, PCBs, etc., and their endocrine disruptors Do we just ignore that we have these stories saying this thing is happening, and then we just don't acknowledge it?
00:27:52.000I mean, like, we need to get off that stuff.
00:27:53.000No, there's absolutely a connection between health across the board and development across the board and what we're eating.
00:28:01.000I mean, the rate of people with autoimmune diseases, I have two autoimmune diseases, three technically, and this is unheard of historically.
00:28:09.000And you're seeing rates of lupus, which was historically an extremely rare, rare, rare autoimmune disease, to the point where it was a joke on like House.
00:29:24.000That's true of a lot of things that we celebrate, we get excited about, but we ultimately find out later, maybe we shouldn't have as much of this.
00:29:31.000We are a society that when we have an innovation, we tend to be like, it's great!
00:29:45.000I know for some people it's a good thing and it can be helpful, but generally long-term birth control use is, there's a study that's out right now, it just got published by Cambridge University Press, women who start birth control under the age of 20, so as teenagers, are 130% more likely to develop depression than women who do not.
00:30:04.000And then all women who start birth control have higher rates of depression than women who do not.
00:30:09.000What do we hear about people all the time?
00:30:17.000I'm happy for that to be environmental.
00:30:18.000But again, I think we have to talk about the biggest change to women's life, which is that 65% of women in America are on some form of birth control, typically oral contraceptive.
00:30:30.000And you couple that with social media and how depressing, how depressed people are becoming because of social media.
00:30:37.000It might not just be a singular aspect.
00:30:39.000It might be a bunch of factors coming into play at once.
00:30:42.000I mean, for sure what you eat, for sure what you drink, for sure what you see on TV, for sure what you absorb through your phone, what you're shown in, you know, your interactions on the street.
00:30:54.000Yeah, they have a long-term effect on you.
00:30:56.000Each one is happening now in conjunction, which is probably why we're seeing the escalation of things so quickly.
00:31:02.000Because it's not a singular factor which in itself might have taken decades, right?
00:31:06.000We're seeing tons of things together hit you and that's why, you know, you might be seeing the changes you're talking about that might have taken 50 years of long-term atrazine exposure happening over 10 years because there's the social engineering aspect, there's We also know that, I read this study, I think we talked about it on the show, there is a birth control that women had taken, and they could still get pregnant while on it, and if they did, they had a masculinized female baby.
00:31:30.000That, I think they said, every one of them turned out to be lesbians.
00:31:34.000So I think this stuff is deeply altering our physiology, but it's not just the plastics or whatever.
00:31:40.000I mean, the chemicals in our food in general, words you can't even pronounce.
00:31:44.000So we do a lot here to get away from that stuff.
00:31:46.000We have those epic meat bars, those protein bars.
00:31:49.000The ingredient is like pork, salt, pepper, amazing.
00:32:06.000I also have a genetic defect which causes my cholesterol to be, like, ridiculously high.
00:32:11.000And oddly enough, I just did a heart scan and I don't have evidence of Arthrosclerosis, which contradicts all the knowledge we know about high cholesterol.
00:32:20.000And so there's a big shift happening in medicine.
00:32:22.000A lot of my doctors are like, hey, let's maybe pull you off Not give you tons of biologics.
00:32:27.000Luckily, I have good doctors and they're like, let's try the AIP diet, the, you know, anti-inflammatory diet and get you on clean meats that are not processed in any way, shape or form.
00:32:36.000Keep you away from certain vegetables that are, you know, you're not able to tolerate right now.
00:33:25.000No, I would never say it's absolutely from that.
00:33:28.000But again, we don't know what we're putting into our body half the time, and the pharmaceutical companies are not out for our best interest all the time.
00:33:45.000It's hard to say because I don't want to assume the worst in everyone, but if you're in the pharmaceutical industry, curing patients is actually not in your best interest.
00:33:52.000Chronic illness is a godsend for Big Pharma.
00:34:29.000Certain stressors in life can cause an effect.
00:34:31.000Again, if you're... I think, like I said earlier, I've suffered from depression and just states of nihilism.
00:34:36.000I didn't believe in something bigger than myself.
00:34:38.000I'm sure that living in a negative state had an impact on my health as well.
00:34:42.000A lot of people don't acknowledge the effects that stress, depression, all these things have on your health.
00:34:48.000The mind-body connection was largely ignored by doctors until very recently where they said, no, the mind really does have an impact on your body.
00:34:55.000We do have to take these things more seriously.
00:34:57.000Long-term anxiety does increase your risk of certain complications in life, like heart disease and things like that.
00:35:05.000I think that luckily there's a shift happening for good doctors, but I also saw during the whole vaccine thing, how many crazy doctors marching with all the protesters, you know, during the BLM rally.
00:35:17.000Well, I think we bring this up yesterday that the Colorado Sun and there are other outlets that said the BLM protests actually reduced the spread of COVID.
00:35:26.000You had a video out of New York where the doctors are standing outside waving and cheering for all the people marching in the street.
00:35:31.000There were doctors saying, like, this is a worthy cause, so it's worth doing.
00:35:34.000You're saying, I can't go to work, but this can happen?
00:35:37.000But then when people were like, it may be a worthy cause, but you're causing us harm, they went, actually, it looks like these are reducing the spread of COVID.
00:35:43.000This is the scariest thing in the world to me, that people can accept.
00:36:08.000It was a Trump rally that super spread it.
00:36:10.000You know what you said earlier that actually made me That makes me a little bit upset.
00:36:15.000You said these people are just omitted certain information, and I agree, they are, but on another level, when I talk to people that I've known for years, and I tell them, hey, this is what's going on at some of these drag shows that you think kids should go to.
00:36:29.000They go, it doesn't matter, that's not most of them, that's just that one.
00:36:32.000They will rationalize anything at this point.
00:36:35.000It's not a matter of lacking information, it's a matter of Your entire identity being wrapped around this singular ideology, and that if anyone challenges it, you will always find a way to rationalize why they are wrong and it's okay.
00:37:53.000And that's a scary place to be, especially with things that involve your safety and health.
00:37:57.000And we've done something that's so dangerous, just on another deep kind of social level, which is we've taken the historical virtues that have made societies great, like courage, strength, being able to stand up in the face of adversity.
00:38:09.000And we've altered them completely and put things like security, you know, don't be scared, agreeableness.
00:38:19.000They're not just the denial of the other virtues, they are the opposite of them.
00:38:23.000And so, I mean, that's just a whole other problem in itself.
00:38:26.000Is that part of a society becoming more feminized?
00:38:29.000Agreeableness, women being considered higher on the agreeable scale, and all of those other things that you're talking about, whether we're talking about courage, have some aspect of conflict behind it a lot of the time, right?
00:38:42.000Being willing to stand up for yourself, being willing to say, no, I'm not going to accept this garbage story you're telling me.
00:38:49.000I just wonder if that plays at least some role in it, in the fact that a lot of it now is appeal to authority, right?
00:38:56.000Like, you don't want to be the conspiracy theorist, right?
00:38:58.000I was told that it's bad to do your own research.
00:39:01.000I was told that by a very reliable source at this mainstream network, that doing your own research is a sign of white supremacy or something.
00:39:19.000Well, you know, what's the historical standard for when a society is about to collapse and there's statues and all that stuff, they become more feminized?
00:39:27.000Statues are coming down, credit crunch, widespread military conflict.
00:39:46.000The Seven Deadly Sins are well-pronounced.
00:39:49.000And it's virtuous now to go and be prideful and all of these things, and it really does feel like our society is doing that, like we're falling apart.
00:39:59.000But, speaking of that, I gotta pull up the story.
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00:41:04.000That, my friends, is how you handle it.
00:41:08.000I do not care about a drag show at all.
00:41:11.000I am concerned that they That the slippery slope persists as such, that we got to the point where they're like, let's have, you know, gay burlesque shows but allow children and babies.
00:41:20.000And even if Yingling didn't know the event was happening, they put their name on this?
00:42:24.000I don't care what you're doing, you know, in Appropriately set age groups, right?
00:42:29.000I don't think children should be at drag shows, but if you want to have drag show at a bar, that's fine.
00:42:34.000It shouldn't be harder for an 18 year old to get into a bar than to get, or like a 17 year old to get into a bar than to get into a drag show, right?
00:42:40.000Like, it is weird to me that we would suddenly take away this line, but of course we saw it happening with all of these drag queen story hours.
00:42:49.000There became this idea that in some way, This culture was acceptable to have in a family setting we ultimately all know it's not and I don't understand why this is the hill that this movement is dying on.
00:43:08.000There is a story today in which Warner Brothers Discovery sponsors Outfest, which is a gay film festival, and they're having what's called Celebration of Queer Children, which will include Story Hour.
00:43:22.000And I asked the question, I said, why is it That every time Disney hosts one of these things, or Disney throws their hat in the ring in this, everyone goes up in arms.
00:43:30.000But did you know that Warner Brothers Discovery has a higher ESG score than Disney?
00:43:35.000Why is it that people don't care as much when Warner Brothers Discovery does it?
00:43:38.000But that's because a lot of people think it's because Disney is specifically geared towards kids, so it feels more predatory.
00:43:46.000And I'm going to say, I don't think anyone could tell you what Warner Brothers does.
00:43:50.000Like, Disney is so much more commercial.
00:43:52.000It's much easier to attack as a target.
00:43:54.000It's not okay that one brother does it.
00:43:57.000So that is, this is a whole event and they're going to have a whole section that's dedicated to queer children, to celebrating queer children.
00:44:07.000Well, because if you think about it, if they, again, if they'll go after the most extreme thing, because if they can get you to be okay with that, What could they not get you to be okay with?
00:44:44.000Like there's 18-year-olds who act 25, there's 25-year-olds who act 18 on a much more obvious level than, you know, you changing your biological sex.
00:44:53.000Well, there was a guy who tried to legally change his age and they told him no.
00:44:58.000I have to go back to we should be pushing a culture that isn't obsessed with looking at the self all the time, right?
00:45:03.000Like if your kid you think may be gay, whatever, how about you ask them how are your math scores?
00:45:09.000How about you ask them what their hobbies are?
00:45:11.000How about you ask them literally anything else instead of obsessing about who they may or may not want to sleep with when they become consenting adults?
00:45:21.000It's just bizarre to me that parents feel the need to become weirdly involved in their children's sexuality when they are minors.
00:45:37.000It's become just the, it started off with the slow obsession over identity politics.
00:45:41.000This is just an end result of hierarchical, Identity politics.
00:45:45.000If that's where your hierarchies in society are generated from, because we're going to have hierarchies no matter what, you're going to have a problem.
00:45:52.000And again, my buddy told me something interesting one time when I was on this pathway to searching for religion.
00:45:58.000He said, humans are designed to worship.
00:45:59.000They're always going to worship something.
00:46:01.000If they're not going to worship something bigger than themselves, they're going to worship their job.
00:46:04.000They're going to worship their You know, alcohol, sex, whatever that thing is, and right now we have a society that is completely worshipping the very thing you're talking about, identity.
00:46:13.000And so we have an absolute religion around transgenderism right now.
00:46:18.000Not even, not even LGB, it's T. We have a religion around the T. Because we've completely erased a lot of lesbians, because now if you're a lesbian you're just... Ask Johns Hopkins University.
00:46:37.000Johns Hopkins University had a glossary of like different terms for sexuality and gender and it said a lesbian was a non-man who loves other non-men.
00:47:17.000Just recently, yeah, like a day or two ago.
00:47:18.000So I'm kind of like, look, If they can make embryos using stem cells, and they can grow farm animals in plastic bags, how far away are we from humans just no longer giving birth?
00:47:34.000And they just say, from now on, like, I really do think there is a potential future, if we lose this culture war, where there's gonna be like two, you know, 35-year-old women, and one's gonna be like, no!
00:48:06.000There's always reasons that doctors are pushing for C-sections these days, whether it be risk, whether it be, oh, well, you know, there might be this issue or like, This is just more controlled, we'll know when the baby's coming, and it's something that people are becoming normalized to.
00:48:20.000If we get to that point, and we are also very close to the designer baby period, China's already had several stories about super soldier program where they're genetically modifying humans to make them more resilient, more robust, stronger, taller, etc.
00:48:33.000If people then start going to their doctors to plan for their babies, and the doctors outright say we no longer need women to have babies, When people are choosing the traits for their kids, what is the reason they would choose a woman?
00:48:50.000And I mean that sincerely, I'm not saying there isn't one.
00:48:52.000I'm saying, what do you guys think they would say?
00:48:54.000Because I feel like when it comes to strength, height, social status, and this is coming from the left perspective of patriarchy, parents are gonna be like, let's just choose a boy.
00:49:04.000So there are certain, obviously, benefits to, like women have historically always been better at certain things like creating communities, empathy, and those things will still need to exist in society.
00:49:14.000Of course, but I think in the short term, you're going to have parents being like, very liberal, very leftist, but going, but we do know that patriarchy is real, so let's not subject a daughter to that, let's have a young boy.
00:49:26.000Or they'll have a girl who then they want to transition to be a boy.
00:49:32.000Or we'll literally get to the point where you just don't have genitalia, you're just completely non-binary, true non-binary.
00:49:38.000Maybe that one's a ways off, but I do think the first step before that is you will likely just see parents being like, boys are going to be easier.
00:51:03.000In the terms of what we're talking about with births and natural births and stuff like that, when you talk about what we were talking about earlier, which is the worship of self, we're seeing the rise of surrogacy because they don't want to actually have kids themselves.
00:51:15.000They want to pay someone else to have the kid for them.
00:51:18.000So it's like no matter what way you go, you're not having a natural birth at all.
00:51:21.000And then we have people coming out saying they're having a harder time connecting with those kids because they didn't actually pair bond with them in the same way.
00:51:28.000And that's on the rise every bit as much and oddly enough also only available to the super wealthy or to the people that can afford it.
00:51:35.000It bothers me so much that people didn't realize it would be hard to bond with children that you didn't carry because We have had centuries of adoption, right?
00:51:44.000This is something that we are still dealing with.
00:51:45.000There are always children who need homes.
00:51:47.000And if you look into it for even a second, this is something everyone talks about.
00:51:52.000It's not easy, but you have to build a bond with a child you adopt at any age.
00:51:56.000The fact that we would be so arrogant to be like, well, I specifically paid for this child, so of course I'll love it and it'll love me.
00:52:26.000They want you to go and choose your family based on whatever your immutable characteristics are outside of your biological connection to someone else.
00:52:34.000It's about what you look like or who you have sex with.
00:52:37.000That's what they seem to think matters to people.
00:52:39.000But that's a great control tactic as well, because you get people outside the strongest bonds in their life.
00:52:45.000And so you take them into an area where they can control you.
00:52:47.000Same reason they got rid of religion, same reason they tried to separate people from religion, because people are far easier to control and they're far more likely to worship their own self if they don't believe in something greater than them that keeps them in.
00:53:03.000I think also chosen family, you know, I think there are lots of different types of families that are successful, but this concept of chosen family that accepts you for who you are exactly as you say you are, is different from honest, true love that you get from real
00:53:28.000I think if you get to say, you should love me exactly as I am, there's no one to push
00:53:32.000back and say like, are you sure you're going down the right path?
00:53:35.000So I think real love is ugly in many ways.
00:53:38.000And I think that's what people aren't willing to acknowledge nowadays.
00:53:42.000They think real love should be easy and should be beautiful.
00:53:44.000And you look at relationships, we've become so comfortable just detaching from things so quickly because there's a million options out there.
00:53:53.000And so it's very easy to just say accept me as I am and find someone who will accept you as you are, at least temporarily, you know.
00:54:00.000And so it's super easy to jump out of one relationship to another.
00:54:03.000And if you don't have bonds with people who are really willing to break you down and tell you I'm doing this because I love you.
00:54:08.000Like we've even done that with families.
00:54:10.000We've told parents they're not allowed to parent strict.
00:54:13.000You know, we're not allowed to be harsh to our kids.
00:54:15.000We're not allowed to say no to our kids.
00:54:16.000And what you do when you do that is you create a child who's very much going to grow up and not be willing to experience that anywhere else.
00:54:22.000And if you don't affirm their gender, California will come and take your children from you now.
00:54:27.000And you are an evil, evil devil who is breaking down your poor child.
00:54:32.000But also remember, body positivity and everybody's beautiful sometimes, unless you think it's wrong, then you can...
00:54:40.000Every body is beautiful unless it's an ideal body, and then it's, you know, part of the patriarchy.
00:54:45.000Yes, you have to push back on them because those are unrealistic beauty standards, which is hard to believe considering they're actually realistic because they actually exist.
00:54:54.000If you look at every message that's put out, it's almost like they're all designed to kill us, literally.
00:55:00.000Like the fat celebrity thing, like you're fat shaming me and a big model or whatever.
00:55:09.000I'm like, what, I have to celebrate the fact that you're at higher risk?
00:55:12.000And again, I don't believe in shaming people who are overweight, but I don't believe in celebrating it any more than I believe in celebrating someone who smokes, or someone who drinks alcohol excessively, or anything that will lead to your early death.
00:55:25.000They don't believe in a middle ground there.
00:55:26.000They believe that anything that is not... It's kind of like when they talk about... A lot of the YouTubers that I'll watch will be like, whenever they talk about somebody that they're arguing with or that they disagree with, they say, don't contact this person.
00:55:37.000Anything you say to them that is not 110% affirmation of everything they believe will be seen as an insult and as an attack.
00:55:44.000So they believe that anything that is not 110% affirming every aspect of who they are, the decisions they've made, the person that they've become, is somehow an attack on them as a person when we understand that the world is not that black and white and it's far more grey.
00:55:58.000Doesn't that feel like a lack of self-confidence though?
00:56:05.000It's ridiculous and I think one of the core problems is that we've boiled all love down to sort of this idolized worship often rooted in sexuality.
00:56:13.000Like I think We forget that there are all kinds of ways to love someone and support someone that doesn't mean that you fall over backwards trying to say that they're the best thing of all times and everything they do is right all the time.
00:56:25.000I think that we are devoid of emotional nuance and we don't know how to talk about it and we have to boil everything down to either you're for me or you're against me.
00:56:39.000If I saw a kid with their parent, mom or dad, in an ice cream shop, and the kid was screaming, I want more ice cream, and the parent was like, okay, okay, and then gave the kid more ice cream, and the kid shoveled it down and said, I want more, I want more, and the kid was like, overweight, I'd be like, man, those parents don't love that kid at all.
00:56:57.000I had a friend who said something super interesting to me once about relationships, and because he's like, he fights a lot early on in his relationships with his partners.
00:57:07.000And he's like, that's the time where everyone says you should be in your little fantasy period where everything should be great.
00:57:13.000You should, you know, the fight should come later.
00:57:26.000You can't be scared of not being agreeable with someone.
00:57:28.000You have to be willing to kind of face that fire.
00:57:30.000And if something's not right for you, if it's not right for them, that's okay.
00:57:33.000You have to be able to communicate that.
00:57:35.000And then you can work through it if it's worth it.
00:57:38.000But again, we've become a society that says the second anything is wrong, the second someone doesn't support you exactly the way you are, even if it's entirely detrimental to your well-being, that they're the problem, you're not the problem.
00:58:03.000But for some reason there are a bunch of elements to human behavior where everyone's affirming it, including morbid obesity, and they're letting these people make these claims like it's not a choice.
00:58:11.000There's this woman who's flying on a plane saying it's discrimination to make them buy more than one seat because they don't fit.
00:58:46.000So something happens to how malls close.
00:58:51.000When one store closes, then people stop going to the mall, which lowers foot traffic for other stores, which causes more stores to close, and then it causes this cascade effect.
00:58:58.000That's happening to downtown San Francisco.
00:59:31.000And you could say it's technological too, but there's no reason to be there anymore because we can all work on Zoom and stuff for the most part.
00:59:36.000But I think we are going to see these cities that are rife with crime and other conflict and chaos.
00:59:42.000They're going to become undesirable and cheap.
00:59:45.000It's going to be like an inversion of the rural versus the urban.
00:59:49.000Yeah, I think it's just such a shame because I think California has so much to offer on a nature level, on an entertainment level.
00:59:57.000It's just like, it's a really cool place.
00:59:58.000But I think states, I mean, California is a great example.
01:00:02.000There are people who live outside of cities who would never leave California.
01:00:06.000It's the city center that's the problem and the infrastructure that goes with it.
01:00:10.000Someone, uh, we just got a super chat from, uh, A-A-A-Rancha, who said, uh, we have this store, I just pulled it up, AT&T to close downtown San Francisco flagship store.
01:00:46.000I wonder why Dallas, I wonder what Texas might be doing to where they're okay keeping their store open, but Chicago and SF, not so much.
01:00:53.000I think that somebody was just walking into the AT&T store one day and they're just like, that's just one crack needle too many on their foot.
01:01:00.000They're just like, sorry, that's enough heroin in my feet for one day.
01:01:03.000You know where they have to put all their phones behind vaults?
01:01:07.000Didn't Walmart just say that in San Francisco also that they're eventually, I think they're going to shut down, but now they have everything.
01:01:49.000I reached out to Amazon after figuring out a very simple way of bypassing the system.
01:01:55.000And they said effectively what I was told was that shrinkage doesn't matter that much because they save so much money on overhead by not having the staff to do to check out that they can absorb those costs expected.
01:02:08.000But it is fascinating that they thought they could do something like that.
01:02:11.000I really don't think that'll work out in the long run because if people aren't scared to steal and walk past security.
01:02:18.000What do you think's gonna happen when they walk in the building and there's nothing, there's nobody?
01:02:37.000So if Amazon really tries to do these futuristic cashier-less stores, people are gonna walk in and be like, it's not even illegal, just take whatever you want.
01:02:43.000I mean, if you're incentivizing people to steal, I've sadly learned this in life, is that human nature does not always lean toward the best behavior.
01:02:52.000It tends to inherently head toward the worst.
01:02:56.000And you have to deter people on some level.
01:02:58.000And so it's, you know, I have friends who work in department stores and they're like, we're not even allowed to even say anything.
01:03:04.000Do you have a physical store for their watches?
01:03:23.000Well, I was gonna say because it's probably the only safe place, you know.
01:03:27.000You can set up in West Virginia, you'd be pretty good there, but in terms of higher density foot traffic and a big urban store, Florida's probably your best bet.
01:04:05.000You can live in San Francisco, where you're going to step in human poop, or you can live in Florida, where there are beautiful men on the beach, ceviche, nice man comes and brings you piña colada, you're sitting back, you put your feet up, no drag shows for kids, none of that.
01:04:20.000Is there any worry that, like, there's a constant worry, right, that when people flock out of these cities that they're They don't really think it through entirely, and then they end up bringing their voting habits to these other states, and then you have to worry about those states eventually slowly transforming over time, because they don't connect in their brain that the things they were voting for were what caucuses need.
01:04:40.000Yeah, I was going to say, they never promise to leave their voting habits behind.
01:06:06.000But most people here who aren't even staunch conservative are just in agreement with us on most of these issues, and you're seeing this stuff emerge.
01:06:14.000And I think it's because the average person doesn't care, and I think it's because conservatives don't engage in community activism.
01:06:19.000So the fundamental problem I see for conservatives in general, there's like a multifaceted kind of problem here that I see happening.
01:06:27.000I think one of the first things that you see that's really bad for conservatives is that they rely so much on individuality as opposed to Kind of like a hive mentality that you see on the left.
01:06:37.000It's just far more effective because once you have a sense of kind of that hive mentality, it's this that warm and fuzzy feeling I was telling you about in Hollywood.
01:06:45.000It's a really good feeling when you show up on set and it's warm and everyone's friends with you and you feel important.
01:06:51.000The left is very good at creating that sentiment across the board on everything they do.
01:06:55.000With messaging, with community, and the right lacks in that department.
01:07:45.000In that time period before that election, I had three, four candidates, all Democrats, had people coming door to door to talk to you about it.
01:07:54.000Do you think part of that is because you were in a liberal city and so Republicans saw it as lost ground already?
01:08:00.000They didn't see the point in battling it out?
01:08:02.000I don't know how the voting goes, because where I lived out there was fairly unique.
01:08:07.000In either direction, I was a mile from what would have been an urban center, meaning that that would have gone heavily blue, but then a mile the other way, and I'm in a very nice suburb.
01:08:18.000But it only matters where the voting lines are, right?
01:08:20.000Yeah, so I don't know where... You didn't vote in the suburb, you voted in the city center.
01:09:38.000These are moments where you're getting people who are like-minded together in a non-election year.
01:09:43.000There are not equivalents for conservatives, right?
01:09:46.000Like, where are the... I mean, some states have them, but, like, more county fairs.
01:09:50.000I would like lots of 4th of July, like, blockbusters.
01:09:53.000I want more things that non-political slash leaning conservative people can go to and connect with other people and talk about, hey, what's going on in our community or our state or our nation, right?
01:10:04.000I feel like that's what we are missing, the off-year community events.
01:10:11.000There's a disconnect somewhere in conservative messaging and events.
01:10:16.000Maybe it's because I'm a hyper-artistic person.
01:10:20.000In that sense, I'm very liberal-minded.
01:10:23.000And there's a disconnect for me and I can't put my finger on it with a lot of the stuff that is for the right where I don't even want to attend the event.
01:10:34.000I think it's something, I don't know how much anyone follows this, but like the New York Republicans have really exploded as a club in the past couple years.
01:10:46.000And I think this is something that we are missing.
01:10:48.000I think it's easy for a lot of Left-leaning people to get together when they feel outrage and they're going against the machine, even though we know they kind of are on the machine at this point, and conservatives don't have those community moments.
01:11:00.000My favorite thing that Trump has said is that we need to have like a year-long celebration for the 250th anniversary of America, right?
01:11:28.000Maybe I'm upsetting some people, but I heard the 81 million vote song and I just, I'm like, Mm-hmm just like that.
01:11:36.000This isn't this isn't working like it like there is whether you like their messaging or not There is more natural artistic drive On the left side of things and now it's shoved into the entertainment full force now, but it wasn't always like that, right?
01:11:51.000So yeah, they could coalition better, you know better, you know build better and I do like the idea of more You know more things that celebrate the country right more fun more patriotism But isn't it sad that anything that celebrates the country is now inherently a political issue rather than a bipartisan one?
01:12:10.000Thousands protest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence outside Dodger Stadium hours before start of Pride Night.
01:12:16.000And we can see someone super chatted us, Bill M, saying, Dodger Stadium entrance shut down by protests.
01:12:22.000So, for those unfamiliar, this is a hate group whose sole intention is to insult and mock Christians and Catholics in particular, and they are being given the opportunity to perform their hate speech at Dodger Stadium.
01:12:38.000Now, for me, I'm all about the First Amendment and stuff like that, so typically it's like, you know, if you're going to have a group and they want to speak their mind and they want to put on a show or whatever, I'm typically okay with it.
01:12:47.000However, in Los Angeles, they have very, very strict rules against this, so it's surprising that law enforcement allowed this hate speech to persist and forced the good citizens seeking social justice to come and protest.
01:13:00.000I would also want to know why the hell so many things that have nothing to do with drag shows now have to do with drag shows.
01:13:21.000Drag has never been as popular until all of these people who had no interest in drag decided we needed drag shows everywhere.
01:13:29.000I have this tweet from Savannah Hernandez.
01:13:31.000Thousands of Catholics have shut down the main entrance to Dodger Stadium on Vince Scully Avenue in protest of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being honored tonight.
01:13:39.000They are now lining the sidewalks and have taken over the entire block.
01:13:42.000I mean, this is what we're talking about.
01:13:42.000We're talking about conservatives who need to stand up in protest.
01:13:45.000And I gotta point out, too, I probably shouldn't even say conservative.
01:13:49.000Many of them may be Catholic, but Savannah says thousands of Catholics.
01:13:53.000Perhaps there are thousands of Catholics, but I'm willing to bet there are a lot of just regular Angelenos who are like, hey, we're not okay with this kind of performance.
01:14:12.000We don't talk about these things because we have decided that, you know, most are like this.
01:14:16.000But if you were a left-leaning, if you were a liberal Catholic, this would be just as insulting to your faith as if you were a conservative.
01:14:23.000I do have a feeling that Seamus would tell you there aren't liberal Catholics.
01:14:44.000Well, what I will say is there are certain things, and this kind of gives me hope a little bit, there are certain areas of weakness, like cracks in the structure of the left, where they lose their own party.
01:14:56.000And I think these are some of the ones.
01:14:57.000You see like the trans issue, the vax issue.
01:15:00.000You know, when they get too extreme on certain issues that go against common sense.
01:15:04.000Didn't Minnesota just legalize late-term, like, late, late-term abortion?
01:15:10.000That was just, like, just a couple years ago, I was talking to someone, because, like I said, I'm from Minnesota, and I was talking to someone and I was explaining about Ralph Northam and what was going on, and all of these things, and they're like, that sounds crazy, that's not real.
01:15:22.000I'm like, no, no, you have to read this.
01:16:35.000Portnoy made some kind of speech about voting Democrat if this happens.
01:16:39.000And I was like, Man, people are so weird in their decision to just, like, outrageously, like... No, no, no, that makes sense for Portnoy.
01:16:48.000His argument, and I'm saying this in all seriousness, I thought his argument was that if he knocks up a woman, he doesn't want to have the kid.
01:17:21.000Plenty of men who are like, yes, I am very in support of your abortion rights because I don't want to have to take any responsibility if I screw up.
01:17:30.000We always say it's women, but I think there are a lot of men who are like, no, please go forward.
01:17:35.000Everything that women are pushing nowadays, men are secretly very like, women are like, I want the right to be promiscuous.
01:17:42.000Doesn't Andrew Schultz do a whole bit about this?
01:18:12.000I think, you know, obviously it was bizarre for the leak, but I think the timing of Roe v. Wade was good for the conservative base.
01:18:22.000I think conservatives felt like it was a win.
01:18:23.000Like, yes, maybe there were moderates who got freaked out by it and moved the other way, but you're always battling over moderates.
01:18:28.000Maybe they could have gotten that win after the midterms.
01:18:30.000That's what the timing of it is though.
01:18:32.000No, I think, I mean, midterms are a debacle in a lot of ways, but I think generally seeing that the Supreme Court was going to change this decision was something that helped conservatives.
01:18:44.000I think they felt like it re-energized them because for so long I think a lot of conservatives feel like they are battling uphill to defend their values and keep them here.
01:18:53.000They're always having to compromise on everything.
01:18:55.000And it was the one time in a long time that they have been like, oh, no, we were right.
01:19:10.000If your state wants to have it, you can.
01:19:12.000Yeah, but again, it's the messaging, and the right never gets an opportunity to put out the right message.
01:19:18.000You'll never get the media to back a message that's right.
01:19:21.000So, like, I've even made arguments to people who are very left-leaning, and I've gotten them on board with it by just saying, I don't think the government should have a say one way or the other.
01:19:31.000Because they could eventually lead to a complete restriction on it if you feel like they should be... Which is what they tried to ask Trump about at the town hall.
01:19:40.000They only want this to be a federal issue.
01:19:43.000The fact that this is the compromise, it's a state's issue, as it always should have been, is not enough.
01:19:51.000Yeah, I think overturning Roe v. Wade is wrong.
01:19:52.000It should be a federal issue and it should be federally regulated.
01:19:55.000Do you think it should be federally regulated?
01:19:58.000I don't know exactly what my view was around the time this was overturned.
01:20:03.000I think we were all fairly in agreement over it.
01:20:06.000We've had a lot of conversations about it, and I think that it should be federally regulated under the 14th Amendment, or because of the 14th Amendment.
01:20:14.000I think the federal government has to ensure equal rights under the law to all life.
01:20:19.000That doesn't mean I think abortion should be banned.
01:20:36.000And so, you know, where we are is, I'm traditionally, I'm in the more traditional pro-choice camp, which is up to a certain amount of weeks, government stays out of it.
01:20:45.000After a certain point, it's, the baby can survive, the baby should not be killed, that's my view.
01:20:49.000I think the federal government should regulate it.
01:20:51.000Of course, Roe v. Wade's overturned, so it doesn't matter.
01:20:54.000But it could go to congressional legislation.
01:20:57.000If Trump and Republicans sweep, you could end up with like a 12-week nationwide ban if the federal government... I just feel like it should always, we should always defer power to the states rather than the federal government.
01:21:08.000I believe, I agree with you, we want to have an equal application of equal protection under the law and I personally believe life begins at conception, right?
01:21:16.000But I think putting power in the hands of the federal government is always a mistake.
01:21:20.000But then you're saying that California has the right to restrict free speech?
01:21:29.000Well, the question then becomes, and you're making the argument, if by your own argument then there should be a complete ban of abortion across the board from conception.
01:21:38.000The issue is when it comes to two life forms inhabiting the same body, I don't believe the federal government has the right to order someone provide their body and blood to another person.
01:21:50.000However, how can we Acknowledging this, that there's competing rights, allow two different states to have two different standards for what the Constitution is supposed to enforce.
01:22:00.000So that means it's up to the federal government to interpret, or for legislation to codify, how the 14th Amendment should apply to unborn persons.
01:22:11.000The left's principal argument is life doesn't begin at conception.
01:22:20.000Or I should say restricted up until like 12 to 16 weeks.
01:22:24.000I do not see how you could argue, the Constitution guarantees the rights of all citizens, except we allow the states to determine when and where those rights start and stop.
01:22:33.000Well the problem is again with definitions of personhood.
01:22:36.000And again I think any made up definition of personhood, other than it is a human life, You know, by your own definition is a dangerous one even in a competing rights issue because you're comparing two different rights.
01:22:48.000You're not competing of the right to life of the mother to the right to life of the fetus.
01:22:52.000You're comparing the right to terminate because of dependency to the right to life.
01:22:56.000And so the right to terminate or the right of dependency is a much lesser right than your right to life.
01:23:03.000In other words, if I connected you to me right now, And we had a court, by my own choice, by my own action, I forced your dependence onto me.
01:23:11.000And I said, now that you are dependent on me, I have the right to kill you.
01:23:15.000You would say, well no, my right to life is bigger than your right, especially that it is through your own action, to depend on me.
01:23:21.000Now you can make the argument in rape and incest in those cases.
01:23:27.000Because there's no, yeah, as long as there is no consent to the act, that argument makes sense.
01:23:31.000But when you take action to create a life and then you try and say, well, there's a competing
01:23:36.000rights issue. No, it's not an equal right. And you took action to create that right through consent,
01:23:41.000to create that situation through consent.
01:23:42.000Early on, I was very much saying like, oh, it's good that the states are taking control of this
01:23:46.000It should go to the states and things like that.
01:23:48.000Now, I very much don't think so because of the Constitution and because of the 14th Amendment, which means I think Republicans should legislate this.
01:23:56.000My view is it should be like, I don't know, maybe 16 weeks or something.
01:23:59.000It's just such a difficult, difficult, difficult subject.
01:24:02.000They never will end up doing that on either side because it's too much of a moneymaker.
01:24:09.000It makes them way too much money when they're raising campaign funds, which is why Obama never ratified and why we kept it out entirely, because they have to continue to campaign on the need to continue to campaign for it.
01:24:22.000It's almost like the pharmaceutical industry.
01:24:23.000Let's take a look at the purpose of the 14th Amendment.
01:25:25.000Look, that's a great argument, and I actually would rethink my position on that based on that argument.
01:25:31.000There's an argument that Ben Shapiro makes that actually kind of upsets me, when he says that women lack the mens rea to know that they're committing a crime because they've lived in a society that's taught them that it's not a life.
01:25:42.000By that argument, a white supremacist who's been taught that a Jew is a rat or a cockroach and goes and kills a Jew lacks the mens rea to understand that they're a person.
01:25:52.000I do think even conservatives and pro-lifers don't truly believe the flat morality of their statements.
01:25:59.000When pro-lifers say that a baby is a life and abortion is killing a baby, I always ask a very simple question to which they always reject, and that is...
01:26:09.000If you came across an individual who was on the verge and declared his intent to take the life of another person, would you intervene to save that person?
01:26:19.000If you saw a doctor about to perform an abortion on a baby at 8 months and said, I will now take the life of this baby, would you intervene to save that baby?
01:26:56.000So the typical answer I get, and, you know, I respect your candor, the average conservative I've asked on this show has just been like, no, I wouldn't.
01:27:03.000You know, it's like they're performing it.
01:27:12.000Where there is no medical risk if it's, again, under extenuating circumstances, which, again, I might argue the same thing of self-defense.
01:27:20.000If someone was about to kill you and you were about to fight back and kill them, I'd be like, OK, I wouldn't intervene.
01:27:25.000But in the sense of it's just an abortion, there's no risk to the woman other than what is normally expected in a pregnancy.
01:27:32.000Yes, I would intervene and say that that is very disturbing.
01:27:36.000Is it also still considered, like in states where abortion is legal, is it also still considered double murder if you end up killing a pregnant mother?
01:27:46.000You can get charged with double murder.
01:27:49.000So in this documentary I shot, one of the things I did is I interviewed people, and we did it in LA where everyone is very pro-choice, and one of the first questions I asked them is that exact question.
01:28:00.000If there's a man who dates a woman, she gets pregnant.
01:28:03.000three four months down the road he decides he doesn't want the baby so he
01:28:07.000stabs the woman and she dies and the baby dies is that double homicide they
01:28:12.000all said yes and I said it's abortion the taking of a life and they said no
01:28:15.000and there they tried to rationalize it so hard you saw the viral clip we had
01:28:19.000on this show with the the leftists who said that he believes women should get
01:28:22.000abortions whenever they want but that women shouldn't be allowed to do meth
01:28:24.000because meth intentionally kills the baby and I'm just like you know come on
01:28:28.000so you can do it you just can't have fun while you're doing what about alcohol
01:28:33.000what we need is rule of law I think back to, you know, I read a lot about the Civil War, considering.
01:28:41.000And the problem is you have different states with a different standard on what is a human life and what constitutes human rights.
01:28:47.000And now you have the argument over whether or not an unborn baby is a human life, but it unquestionably is by all medical standards, by every definition.
01:28:55.000And then the left comes up with arguments that it's not a human life because of sentience, because of emotion or whatever.
01:29:00.000We've even had a leftist on the show argue, I said, when do you think life begins?
01:29:31.000Are they saying that then they're not going to assign you your social security number or your birth certificate until you've had your first conscious thought?
01:29:39.000Like, I don't know what they're, like, that doesn't hold water.
01:29:44.000They literally told me that it should be allowed up.
01:29:46.000If you don't have a social security card, you're not a human being.
01:29:49.000So, you know, thinking about the overturning of Roe v. Wade and why I think it's probably wrong is that this is more likely to lead us to civil conflict in this country.
01:29:58.000Because what was a federally settled issue, and I think what I'm basically saying is that, like, the original interpretation probably was the better one.
01:30:06.000The issue is, now you have states in active conflict over a personhood question.
01:30:14.000We also have to ask the same question about these child sex change operations that are happening in these other states, when they can take someone's kid away and then reject subpoenas and warrants.
01:30:22.000I think the challenge is when the federal government cedes a constitutional personhood ruling, you'll end up with states at extreme moral odds with each other, where we are now, and then at a certain point, someone just says, I can't allow this evil to persist in this country, and they're not going to wait for legislation, and that's a dark thing.
01:30:41.000I guess I'd rather have the debate, right?
01:30:43.000I'd rather have the debate over personhood happen at state levels because I think that's more effective in changing minds.
01:30:49.000Perhaps, but I just feel like it makes the argument that any constitutional right can be legislated on in any state.
01:30:57.000I think we should have a debate, then.
01:31:00.000I think my rights aren't up for a vote, and if the Constitution guarantees my right to keep and bear arms, no state should be allowed to restrict it.
01:31:05.000I think by legislating at the federal level, which may be the right thing to do, it's just my opinion that making— returning more power to the federal government is always a mistake.
01:31:15.000I think personally that we should have as much debate about our rights constantly all the time because that's the only way to defend them.
01:31:23.000And I think if you want to convert people's minds about when life begins, it's more likely to be effective at the state level.
01:31:29.000If someone who doesn't believe you Well, they made it.
01:31:34.000They passed a federal restriction on abortion.
01:31:36.000You can't have abortion after 12 weeks.
01:31:37.000They are going to see the federal government as this oppressive, patriarchal society, and they will never change their mind about it.
01:31:43.000They're not going to change their mind anyway.
01:32:11.000Then it has to be legislated on a federal level.
01:32:14.000It cannot be legislated on a state level.
01:32:16.000For the very argument he made, if personhood is determined on a state level, you'll not only find that it will have far varying descriptions, which is extremely dangerous and will be against the Constitution, but what you will have is more extreme positions.
01:32:30.000You're going to have California purposefully push back and say, we're allowing it until birth, and you're going to have states...
01:32:36.000with Roe though. After Roe we just paused all of the laws on abortion, right? This is
01:32:41.000the hysteria that came in. West Virginia is going to enact their law from the 18th whatever.
01:32:46.000We are going to see people continue to debate this. So if we get a federal law, fine. But
01:32:50.000until that federal law is repealed or intact in some way, you always need to have a fallback
01:32:55.000at the state level to decide how you're going to regulate these things.
01:32:59.000Oh, I was gonna say, like, I understand that at a certain level our Constitution is set at the federal level, but I think ultimately if you don't have strong systems in place in the states, it all falls apart as soon as the federal government changes.
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01:33:21.000I'm not your buddy guy says, let's help Trump decide personnel.
01:33:24.000I think Robert Barnes would be great for AG.
01:33:27.000Ultimately, we need Trump and team to be ready to start running like those who stormed the beaches of Normandy.
01:33:32.000Yeah, I think it's, I think Trump needs to consider more based individuals for his administration.
01:33:37.000There were so many great personalities who are big fans of Trump that were just not involved and they should have been.
01:33:50.000The curly afro says thanks to Chicago's ex-mayor Rahm Emanuel, now ambassador to Japan, a LGBT understanding bill was signed into law in Japan on Friday.
01:33:58.000People here are livid, they didn't want this, and the woke virus ideological problems western nations are facing.
01:34:32.000When I was talking about human rights law in New York City?
01:34:36.000Their gender identity law says you can call yourself whatever you want, you can wear whatever you want, dress however you want, and companies must accommodate as a customer or employee.
01:35:18.000Every day, add one more thing to your personality and see at what point they finally just break down and say, please, no more.
01:35:25.000Wasn't there the guy in the school, the student in the school, they said you have to respect pronouns, and he changed himself to like, Sir Kingston, whatever, he gave himself like a royal name.
01:35:59.000If at this point they complain, you've now got very serious precedent on your side.
01:36:04.000You can say, I've been identifying this way for over a month.
01:36:06.000I have worn these items without consequence, without complaint, but all of a sudden they start taking issue with my gender identity and they're going to ask me, like, has he been wearing this stuff for a month?
01:37:43.000It always makes me think of like, I always think men who are super into the gym should go to their doctors and ask for steroids because it's gender-affirming care.
01:37:50.000They want to affirm how masculine they are.
01:37:52.000I never understand why this hasn't happened yet.
01:38:02.000John Kelbaugh says, I found a short story about the idea of using augmented reality technology to filter out facts and opinions that you don't agree with.
01:38:09.000Read The Price of Consensus of R slash HFY.
01:38:14.000Wasn't there a Black Mirror episode about that?
01:38:16.000Where you could block people in real life and then they just like get greyed out and you get banned in real life, nobody could see you?
01:39:57.000But look, if you can't make the meetings, then I don't know what we can do for you.
01:40:02.000You know, the augmented reality thing especially is an interesting one because it's, as much as people think it's like an elitist expensive product, it's actually a product that would greatly change the lives of people who are poor because you could come into a completely rundown building and through augmented reality have your big screen TV that you didn't pay for, have beautiful floors at least in your view.
01:40:20.000You could build entire cities with just cue codes, QR codes on the walls.
01:40:25.000Amusement parks that are just entirely generated by QR codes.
01:40:31.000I'm picturing like somebody they're walking in their in their augmented apartment with these beautiful like floors and then they get like a sliver and it just completely breaks the immersion.
01:40:40.000Oh see I was thinking they would run into someone who also thinks they live there and that they're in a relationship but like you're not interacting with them because in your reality you don't know that person.
01:40:49.000In their reality you're like their their wife or whatever.
01:40:57.000You'd be asking everyone to live in their own augmented reality, and so we would have no connection to each other, and so you'd have no idea how anyone... You already kind of do that when you think about your phone.
01:41:06.000When you think of your phone and where you get your information, you kind of are living in a different reality from somebody who gets their information from somewhere else.
01:42:08.000They already have Idris Elba in the F.A.S.T.
01:42:10.000universe who's a cybernetic super soldier, okay?
01:42:13.000So when they went to space, I'm telling you, what should have happened was there should have been a technologically advanced, like, super reactor in a car, and they're doing, like, an experiment, Dom's driving it, and then Ludacris is like, hit the warp drive, and then he hits it, and then he's like, it's not working, it's malfunctioning, he's like, abort, hits the abort, but then electrical charge just- I'm telling you- And this big wave hits the whole crew, and they all get superpowered.
01:42:36.000The reason the movies still work is because as ridiculous as every single one of them is, Vin Diesel plays it completely straight, and that's why you can still buy into it.
01:42:46.000Because as much as ludicrous... He could have done that.
01:42:48.000He could have done that with superpowers.
01:48:30.000Andrew Tate did 432,000 concurrence on rumble the other day.
01:48:35.000And like, and he, the first thing he called out when they talked about, cause they talked about what was going on in prison.
01:48:40.000They talked about all that stuff, but he said he, he, the first thing he called out, he called out YouTube for their censorship and all this stuff and said, you no longer control the culture.
01:48:48.000You no longer control access to information the way you once did.
01:48:53.000And a lot of those platforms are the ones where more and more of these battles are being fought because These companies are pricing out creators, people with large platforms that are not inherently political.
01:49:06.000A lot of these creators are going over to Rumble and only the ones that are not afraid of being called names are the ones that are willing to do it because they're like, oh, you're going to Rumble?
01:50:12.000A lot of people, I did see some, they're like, they're giving them a hundred million dollars for this one guy when they should be spreading that money over hundreds or dozens of mid-sized creators.
01:50:21.000I was like, that's an interesting take.
01:50:22.000There's a fair argument to be made there.
01:50:23.000But it is one of the more recent attempts to dethrone Twitch as the de facto streaming king.
01:51:04.000I understand the complaints about its inaccuracy to Superman lore in the comics, and they do seem to have an aversion to wanting to tell classic Superman stories.
01:51:13.000Also, there is a cameo in The Flash, which I'm not going to give away.
01:51:22.000For the people watching, I don't necessarily want to ruin it for them, but it's been very controversial to a lot of people because of the technology that we used to do it.
01:51:31.000Zod's appearance was good in the movie.
01:51:32.000Yes, I really, It was really funny listening to Michael Shannon try to figure out how he was alive in the movie when they did the interview.
01:51:40.000They're like, he's like, yeah, they called me.
01:52:33.000So his views of things are just gonna be very much like, on the surface.
01:52:37.000This thing happens, it seems to be anti-LGBTQ, he's opposed to it.
01:52:41.000Dr. Disrespect is probably more so just a gamer, but when something happens, sees what's going on, gives his thoughts on it, So, you're not gonna understand why he's calling him a phony.
01:52:51.000But I don't think Ahsan's opinions are genuine, for the most part, because there was one video he did where he was talking about me, and he criticized the military-industrial complex, but then praised the war in Ukraine.
01:53:09.000Like one, like I was reading stuff the other day and I'm like, I'm watching, it's like Garth Brooks fights with people over Bud Light and Nick Merckx talking about Call of Duty.
01:53:16.000I'm like, did I really expect on my end of the world bingo card, I didn't expect any of this stuff to be the things that we as a community, as a culture would be fighting about these days.
01:53:44.000And we need Republicans to be helping with mail-in voting and knocking on doors and in cities, absolutely in cities.
01:53:52.000Remember when, in like the early 2000s, when the Democrats had rocked the vote and Republicans had like redeemed the vote and it was like a religious one?
01:54:02.000I've never heard of redeeming the vote, so it wasn't that successful.
01:54:06.000You could already see the culture shifting at that point.
01:54:09.000They just didn't have the ability to catch the youth.
01:54:15.000Craig Comedy says you want to hire people to do what they already do.
01:54:19.000Hire me to host a cultural show where I travel across the USA going to comedy open mics, visit oddities, American battlefield fields, most importantly talk to average people.
01:55:47.000So it's like you'll get a feeling after watching some of those that you at the end of society that civilization is falling, you'll hear all of these stupid comments.
01:55:54.000But then you have to remember that they talked to 50 or 100 people that day and you're hearing them share with you the five people that said the absolute stupidest thing that they had.
01:56:04.000So we did Man on the Street stuff for my doc that I was telling you guys about, the cancelled doc there, and it's number one very, it was surprisingly way more difficult to get people to talk to us than we thought, unless we did it in a place where people were drunk.
01:56:18.000And then you just got a lot of craziness.
01:56:22.000But it is true that you do have to, luckily, I was surprised even in LA, how many down the road, in the middle kind of responses you got that wouldn't work for a documentary.
01:57:42.000Is it better if federally abortion is banned after 16 weeks or if half the states ban it completely and half allow abortion to nine months?
01:57:50.000Yeah, I mean, even beyond that, I mean, the argument that changed me was it doesn't even matter what the end result is.
01:57:57.000It just comes down to a constitutional right.
01:57:59.000And it's fundamentally a constitutional right and a right to life.
01:58:03.000I think Congress needs to... You can't.
01:58:39.000But yeah, but when it comes to the interpretation, the one thing you said that really hit me was we can't have states debating on a state level what personhood is, what a human life is.
01:59:23.000Grizzlock says today you could make Captain Planet a movie starring Greta Thunberg with a Musk-Trump analog as the villain and you'd still get in trouble for not making the cap a trans woman of color.
01:59:31.000Do they do anything with Captain Planet?
02:00:11.000Yeah, that one's really good and he's like, what have you done to me?
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