Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh - Kamala WASHED Trump In Debate!
Episode Date: September 12, 2024Yerrr The great debate is over, so we had to lay down some jokes and hot takes about the most important election ever (until the next one). Election, Dave Grohl, & Tuckers controversial guest, we brea...k it all down. INDULGE! 00:00 RANT 2:18 Kamala dog-walked Trump + Baited Trump hard 8:31 Trump poor handling + Taylor Swift waited for the moment 13:46 Fact-checkers seemed biased + Trump was out of control 17:01 No audience having impact 19:46 Feedback brings comfort + Kamala is more of the same? 26:02 Trump rhetoric is exhausting 29:10 Cats getting eaten in Ohio + Free food EVERYWHERE 45:09 Fish = eatable + fug these squirrels 47:59 Where did you watch the debates? US is supreme 51:22 Kamala’s half-truths + Tariffs hurt us? 1:00:15 Kamala blaming China for Covid 1:01:43 Welcome to the show Alexx 1:02:47 Format be for next debate? 1:05:35 Vivek + Trump’s neck pum pum 1:06:57 Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala 1:09:20 Dave Grohl strategic announcement 1:19:30 Is Dave Asian? Is cheating really that surprising? 1:23:21 Travis Kelce copying Andrew + shoutout Haitians 1:26:44 We wet the bed + European mind can’t FATHOM 1:29:30 Tenet Media, All bought? Independent Media = discredited 1:43:02 Tucker with Martyr Made + prickly conversation
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Trump vs Kamala, the Thrillian Philly, Orange vs the New Black, the Felon and the Melon,
this debate had it all.
Kamala shocked Trump up top by giving him a Central Park 5, and that's the first time
in history a politician went limp in her hands.
Trump started out strong, and Kamala seemed nervous.
She was sweating like Dave Grohl at a paternity test.
But then, everything changed.
Kamala baited Trump like a master. She played Trump
like a steel drum. How did she do it? She said people were walking out of his rallies.
Donnie melted. I mean, if he was any more unhinged, he'd be a door on a Boeing flight.
He was furious. But with the election on the line, he composed himself and responded with
a thoughtful counterpoint. They're eating the dogs, the people that came in.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.
What? You're saying the hungry, hungry Haitians are eating dogs and cats, Donnie?
That's absurd. Caribbean men don't eat pussy.
Speaking of which, Taylor Swift posted this picture
endorsing Kamala Harris.
Now you'd think she was endorsing Trump
the way that she's grabbing that kitty.
I mean, she's clutching that cat
like she just saw a Haitian with chopsticks.
Okay, last Haitian joke.
Taylor's endorsement of a politician is massive
and probably the biggest poll boost from teens
since Dr. Disrespect's DMs.
And that was basically it.
That's the whole debate.
No one really explained how they would achieve any of their goals.
Just continuous name calling, ridiculous claims and partisan insults.
So the question is, where do we go from here?
The answer?
Nowhere.
Trump and Harris will continue to lie to get votes.
The media will continue to make money give votes. The media will continue
to make money spinning the lies and we will all be anxious and filled with dread watching
the spin. I mean, just ask yourself, who do you think won? Let me guess, the candidate
that you are already supporting? Of course, because that's how it works. That is the system.
The truth is subjective. So I want to remind you right now,
it's incredibly important that you go out there and vote.
Because remember, this election is the most important election
of our lifetime.
Until the next one.
Okay, boys.
Uncle Donnie got absolutely dog-walked by Kamala.
Uh...
And here's the thing, I want to hear what everybody has to say about it, Uncle Donnie got absolutely dog walked by Kamala.
And here's the thing, I wanna hear what everybody has to say about it, but what is so hilarious
and is also so disheartening and so proof
that there is no truth anymore is that everybody saw it
with their own eyes.
If you're an objective viewer, you watched it
and you're like, she did better than he did.
Maybe you really like him, you watched it and you're like, she did better than he did.
Maybe you really like him, you like everything he's saying.
We all find him funny.
That's no longer taboo.
We all find him fascinating and interesting.
And I actually think that there is, I do believe there's part of them that really does want
to help.
I genuinely do believe that.
I know you don't have to, but I don't doubt that.
I think there's part of them that genuinely does want to help.
But he got worked. He got absolutely demolished. He got worked. But if you go online, the echo
chambers exist, he's touting it as a victory, all of his supporters are like, oh my god,
that was fucking amazing. Trump is killing it. The moderators were so biased, but he
still killed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I realize now that the reason truth doesn't exist
anymore is because if you only operate within your narrative that becomes your
truth yeah so there's a million different choose your own truth now
choose your truth yeah truth doesn't exist you believe whatever you want all
of his supporters are gonna picky fucking one even though they know they're
fucking lying to themselves yeah the Kamala supporters the Kamala supporters
are gonna think they won which they should yeah, they should she did a better job. Yeah. Yeah, she out
It's not only out class she out strategy
Let's get into that you guys go go go go go
I mean literally the biggest point is the fact that she was able to bait him so easily. Yes. Yeah
The first 20 minutes
I'm watching and I'm like Trump is cooking. This Trump is cooking. This Trump is fire.
Polished, strong, polished, not emotionally volatile or reactive. Oh fire. I'm watching.
She is nervous. She got the hands going. Once her hands come up she don't know the next words.
Oh I've been there. Yeah've all been there. Right?
So she's looking a little bit flustered.
Yeah, she started a little nervous.
And it was like, you know, this is the big stage.
This is your moment.
You win this, the election is probably yours.
She's got everything to lose because she's coming in.
At least the perception is she's on top, but we don't know what the fuck truth is anyway.
I hit him with the handshake, which I thought was smart.
That was alpha shit.
Alpha dog shit.
Yeah.
She went to his side.
Yup. I'm invading your territory like you're in Ukraine.
Yeah.
And Kamala, like, say my name right.
She pronounced the fuck out of it.
And he goes, yeah, have fun.
Yeah, have some fun.
And she goes, operating good faith or something like that.
Some gay shit. I thought that was pussy.
But, okay, he's cooking.
Okay, then what happens?
I want to make sure we all think it's the exact same moment.
Yes, thousand percent percent go to his rallies
I'm gonna invite you to go to his rallies. He perked up. He's like
Why would she compliment me notice people are leaving early
He fucking twitched a little bit. Like you saw the switch.
If you literally watch the transcript, it goes at like 37 minutes, she says go to his rallies, people are leaving.
And at 38 minutes he goes, they're eating dogs.
They're all...
He fucking explodes.
Kamala eats dogs.
I don't want to eat dogs.
He just didn't know what to do with this.
Oh my God.
And I think it brought him back to...
I think there is a situation with Trump, right?
Trump has always been famous, he's always been successful.
And there's been this relationship with him where it's like, he's this famous successful
guy but not fully taken seriously.
Yeah.
Like he's got all these buildings, he has this show on TV that's amazing and you're
like, wow, this guy's really entertaining, but he is kind of silly.
When he dances, it's kind of silly. And I think there's a little part of them that feels laughed at. Mm-hmm and
his protection
Against being laughed at is the success. Mm-hmm his
Justification for where he is is I'm a billionaire. He loves it's a many billion
Yeah, so many he's he's like look at the numbers
You can say whatever you want about me call me goofy goofy, say I'm orange, say my hair is whatever, but the numbers
prove I'm a billionaire, I'm successful, and the people love me. Look at the numbers
from my show, look at the numbers from my rallies. The only way to sell books is with
my name. And when she said, people are walking out of your rallies, even if it's not true. Yeah.
Boom.
It tapped back into that young man in New York who wasn't really taken seriously by
his contemporaries and was trying desperately to be this famous successful guy.
Yeah.
Creating his own narratives.
Yeah.
Being his own publicist, calling companies, saying billionaire Donald Trump.
That's a great insight.
And I think that imposter syndrome kicked in.
And it was, this is an 80 year old man.
She pulled the truck.
She pulled it!
She pulled the truck.
And it wasn't ripped.
Trump always takes personal shots at you
and then gets you off your game
and now you're trying to address those personal shots
and now you're not talking about the actual issues.
And I know that there are like super Trumpers
that are watching this right now
and they're
unable to accept the reality of what happened.
I just want to remind you all, a month ago when Kamala was announced as the nominee,
and all of a sudden the media and the people came out like she was the next coming of Jesus
Christ.
Yeah.
And we all were like, this is so phony. Yeah.
Nobody liked her for three and a half years.
Where is all this support?
This is absolutely bullshit.
Supporting Trump today and acting like that was a great performance
is the exact same thing
that the Democrats did with Kamala.
Mm-hmm.
The exact same thing.
She did nothing for three and a half years
and they were like, she is a genius.
He did nothing last night.
No.
He did less than nothing.
Yeah.
He got walked and out strategized and out manipulated.
Same echo chamber after Biden, the people who were just like, Biden didn't do that bad.
He didn't do that.
At least he told the truth.
Bullshit.
He got dog walked by Trump.
Call it what it is, because if you're not honest, no changes are going to happen.
He didn't get dog walked.
He got put to sleep by Trump.
That dog couldn't walk.
Yeah, that dog. yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a much more decisive victory.
But still, this was clearly a victory for Kamala.
Yeah, oh, it's not even a question.
And what's, I read a Wall Street Journal like op-ed.
The guy clearly wanted Trump to be,
wants Trump to be president.
And he said it well.
He said Trump handed her the victory.
Any time, dude, economic policy,
he could have hammered her.
She didn't have one. That's why I thought the line was funny. He goes, if you read, economic policy, he could have hammered her. She didn't have one.
That's why I thought the line was funny,
because if you're at her economic policy,
it's four lines, it's C-spot run.
Which is like a funny way of saying it's nothing.
There's nothing there.
But every time, she just wouldn't answer
and would bait him and he would take the bait
and make it about emotions.
He was so defensive.
And I think throughout his life, throughout his career,
he's had to defend his brand, defend who he is,
because I think there maybe is a little imposter syndrome.
We all have fucking imposter syndrome.
It's crazy when you look at people
who are billionaires and they have it.
It's crazy when you look at superstars that have it.
You're like, how could you not believe in yourself?
Everybody's got a little bit.
That's part of what got them there.
Of course, it's that drive, that insatiable lust for success.
I'm not good enough yet.
Now I'll be good enough, Now I'll be good enough.
Now I'll be good enough.
And what was amazing is, and we've never seen this, he was on defense the entire rest of
the debate.
And he didn't have to be.
He could have just been like, hey, why aren't you doing all the policy stuff you're talking
about right now?
There it is.
Like, do you support all of Biden's stuff?
Like why did you support Biden for four years when he was completely...
He said at the very end, but at that point it's over.
She threw him off his game plan.
That was his game plan. It was supposed to be that whole time of just tying her to Biden.
This is more Biden.
And he wants you got that audience crowd comment, he was off his game plan.
And what she did was so massively, she points out that all the other leaders love him because
he's so easily to be manipulated.
And then she just proved it.
Yeah, she showed it happened.
That's a good point.
That was great.
Wait, Mr. Break that one down.
I need to understand.
So she basically said, other leaders love Donald Trump because he's so easily manipulated.
You can get this guy to do anything you want to.
And as she's saying that, she's proving it by goading him into any argument
she wants, setting the debate on her terms, you're watching it happen in real time, whatever
she's accusing him of. And she lied out the gate with that Project 2025 shit. And the
difference in how they both lied on each other, how the other person reacted was just crazy.
Like Trump never took it well when she lied about him. When he lied about her, she clearly
had practiced it.
She would just kind of smile, look down.
They worked on how she looks when he's talking,
I'm sure, for hours.
Her debate prep was 10 times better.
Oh, unbelievable.
I mean, and she didn't come across as goofy.
She usually has this goofiness to her,
a silliness that is not representative of a person
in that type of, in that position of power.
I'll just be honest.
It just came across, and that was like a big concern.
It was like an instability to her demeanor.
Like I don't want you doing the cackle,
and I understand that this has been inflated,
I'm sure, by the right, but I don't want you
doing the cackle while you're negotiating with Xi Jinping.
You know what I mean?
Like, I want you to show strength.
And I saw a lot of strength.
Yeah, and one thing that is kind of some gender shit
is she's gonna always have to worry about getting emotional.
Like, cause you're gonna be like,
man, I want this hysterical bitch in office.
We can't have a woman in that.
There's gonna be people on some level thinking that.
So I'm saying she has to be very measured.
And the strength can't be too aggressive.
Like everything has to be like measured
and I thought she really did that well.
This is how you know that it was a decisive victory.
And I have no proof to back this up at all.
But.
But you know it.
But I know it in my heart.
Yeah.
I think Taylor Swift is liberal.
She immediately posts her support for Kamala.
I don't know what point in time in the debate, maybe it was right after the debate, but she posted it that night.
But after it's known that there's a decisive victory.
And when Taylor, the most powerful woman in music music one of the most powerful people in the world culturally
Yeah, when she puts all of her weight behind
one of the nominees
That is a
That's not like a flippant decision. No, no, no, no. Yeah, she knows exactly what the fuck she's doing
Yeah, and I think she waited to the point where she was putting her money behind the winning horse.
If this debate goes better for Trump, I think she stays silent.
She stays quiet. Absolutely.
I don't think she's meant to have a single word. She's not here to do recovery work for Kamala.
She's here to jump on at the end of the war when you're about to win and then take the credit.
Because it can hurt her fan base too. Please believe if you got every woman in the world,
there's gonna be some conservatives in that fan base.
1000%.
So she knows she's gonna take a hit.
So she has to do it at the point where it's so decisive
that even the Trump women that come to her shows are like,
yeah, he did kind of get hooked right there.
He doesn't look that good, she looks strong.
Beyonce can be an out front liberal because most of her fans are black women and black
women tend to be liberal. So me being out front liberal just feeds them what they want.
Taylor is middle America. She's got to be a little more neutral.
Yeah, Taylor, I got this whole cross section of middle America. They have different beliefs,
a lot of undecided people. I have to pick the moment or shut the fuck up. I got to be very
strategic in how I do this. And she, again, yeah, she did it at the right time. How do you guys feel about the fact or shut the fuck up. I gotta be very strategic in how I do this and she again
Yeah, she did it the right time. How'd you guys feel about the fact-checking of the moderators? I do think they're biased
Against Trump. I know so here's what they I don't know enough. I don't know enough but
Was Trump just saying more outlandish shit I was wondering
But Trump's lies were so crazy. Egregious, they're fact checking it.
Now, would Kamala lie with truths?
Kind of, I forget exactly what it was,
I need to look it up, but I think the fracking thing.
So I'm pretty sure she said like,
oh yeah, we're gonna ban fracking
in this one specific place.
And then when Trump called her on it,
she's like, I never said that, I'm not doing it.
And I'm pretty sure that was just a blatant lie,
but it's so subtle and nuanced
that no one's gonna even look into it.
I think I'm not popular.
So everybody's going, the ABC moderators were so biased
and they were correcting Trump on everything.
But if you say super egregious lies,
they're very easy to push back against.
If you say half truth lies,
like it looked like politicians always lie,
the way politicians lie, where it has enough truth where it's like, well, technically some
of those jobs came from this. It's like, all right, am I going to stop the debate to check
her on something that could technically fit under the umbrella of truth, but she might
be misleading in the way that she says it.
Yeah.
So I thought it was kind of unfair when you saw all the Trump supporters go,
oh, it's so biased, look at the moderators only correcting one side.
I think you have to hold Trump a little bit more accountable.
Exactly.
Be better with your lies.
A thought also crossed my mind.
Viscerally, I did feel like I felt like it was biased, but then one thought crossed my mind.
Maybe they don't correct when one politician lies about the other politician like if Kamala says Trump supports project 2025
It's not moderator might be like it's not my job. That's Trump's job. Oh, he's like there
No, I don't support trying to front but I'm gonna give you a minute to respond if Trump goes people in the Midwest are eating
Cats, it's like well, I got it. The Midwest can't speak for itself here
So that's a great point.
Lie on the person in front of you, they can respond.
I'm gonna give them a minute.
Yeah, Kamala's lies mainly seem to be about Trump.
And Trump's lies just, like, again.
That is a good point.
The nine month ban thing.
Or the nine month post abortion.
Yeah, like, yeah, they're killing babies
after they're born.
That's not an abortion, by the way.
Also, that was another thing that he did.
He would get so, he was so like emotionally out of control
that even when he had her on something,
he would just keep spouting off and then they'd move on.
Like with the abortion thing he's like,
did you say or do you support seven, eight,
even in the ninth month?
He could have stopped right there and forced her to say yes.
I wanted to know her answer.
I really actually wanted to know.
And they're probably gonna do it even afterwards.
Like that person in Virginia.
And then the moderator goes, okay, and now next question.
Force her to answer the question.
But she was ready to lower rates and shit like that.
I did see her say that's not true in that moment,
but I would love, when he was asking,
I was like, I wanna hear her address this.
But she was ready to fight back because during that she
was like oh well why don't you answer the question would you veto a federal
abortion bit so it's like she was ready she had an answer he didn't even let her
give her pre exactly yeah with these debates you gotta let them sink their
own ship sometimes yeah and I think what Trump had done really effectively in
debates in the past especially when there's nine people on stage and you have the audience, because
the audience does play a part. I was watching it at the Comedy Cellar, right? Upstairs,
there's a bunch of people watching. And when he would do his little quips, it would get
laughs. That is rattling to an opponent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? So if Kamala is hearing
a thousand people in an auditorium
laughing at what he's saying, all of a sudden, Trump is starting to get more energy. Yeah.
He's starting to feel motion. He's crushing. And also, you know what? He's not going to
be as emotionally volatile because he feels the confidence. That imposter syndrome is
going away. The worst thing that I think, the worst thing for Trump
in this debate was not having an audience because he constantly needs the
feedback to let him know and I get this as a comedian, hey you're funny, you're
good people like you. When he's just spouting off he's seeking it but it's
not there. And any comic will tell you the first laugh frees you up so much. You want
to get that first laugh as quickly as possible. I remember him always saying that he was,
he figured out comedy very quickly.
He was like that first laugh, you need that quickly.
Cause then you just go, ah, we're having fun.
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Every debate with an audience, he does well.
And think about how he does well even at his rallies. He has an audience.
Yeah, that's why he loves the rallies. I'm getting the feedback.
I'm getting the confirmation.
Always needing that.
Yeah, we're silencing the imposter syndrome.
You're great, you're funny, people love you.
When you're talking to one woman who you know hates you and then two moderators that you're unsure about
Their biases about politics about who they want for president. He probably just feels
Under attack and when you feel under attack you need to defend we don't need him defending
Right. Yeah, no, I also want to point out but also that's his fault. He needs to be more prepared
Yeah, we're not like making excuses here. You you need this as the job and you need to prepare for the job.
Yeah. And then even to the preparation thing, like, do you have a plan? I have a concept
of a plan. That's the same thing I didn't like about Kamala. She seemed to have no plan.
So for Trump to not have a plan, I was very deflated by that of like, well, what the fuck,
man? It's cool that I have a plan, don't say it. Yeah, I know.
Maybe like I have a plan that will be released
once I'm elected.
She just pivoted and didn't acknowledge it.
She didn't have a plan, but she acknowledged it.
She never addressed not having a plan.
I don't really have one ready for it.
That's what I'm saying, like I don't think Kamala
said that many great things.
She did, she just didn't say any bad things.
She was very polished.
She was a politician.
No, she had some good shots.
But when she said 81 million people fired Donald Trump, that was a fart.
That hurt the fuck out of him.
I heard his soul.
She had bars. He's saying she didn't have substance.
But Trump was saying wrong things.
He also has some funny bars.
The T-Spot run shit was good.
The untalking.
Wake him up at 4pm.
I didn't think I'm talking. Wake him up at 4pm. Wake him up at 4pm. I didn't think I'm talking.
That didn't hit.
In the comedy cellar, that shit got a huge laugh.
Because she said that, I think, in a bunch of hers.
He's mocking her.
Yeah.
But because the mics are off, it didn't...
Yeah, I didn't hear her talking.
Yeah, I didn't hear her talking.
It sounded like he just said it.
That's interesting.
We heard her.
I don't know.
And it is unlikable when she says it.
And when I didn't hear her, I was like, why you...
Just go on, dude.
I felt like he said it because he was annoyed
and then tried to cover it. That was my read of it.
We have a president who doesn't know he's alive.
That was so good.
I just say it in the same...
So good.
Great. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, there was...
What I will say is this, all the people that had this
instant enthusiasm
for Kamala a few weeks ago, based on absolutely nothing, after this debate they're going,
phew.
Because now they get to look like they were right the whole time, even though they had
no fucking clue that this was going to go well.
Right?
Yeah.
I've been wrong the past two elections, but my thought was the election hinges on this
debate.
Because if you're undecided, you're probably like, I want to vote for this girl.
I just don't know anything about her.
I don't like her.
I don't know if she's presidential.
And I felt like even though she didn't give us real substance, she looked presidential.
Yeah.
And I think the problem with supporting Trump's performance is that if you're not going to
be honest with him as one of his supporters, if you're not going to be honest with him
about this performance, why would he do anything different in the next debate?
And if he doesn't do anything different in the next debate, he'll continue to dig himself
a hole.
He's going to dig himself out of a hole in this next.
There's going to be another debate, right?
They asked.
Trump's team hasn't agreed to it yet.
I think they should, to be honest.
Oh, they need it.
I think, yeah, I think they should.
Are you sure it wasn't the other way around?
No, Kamala immediately said, let's do a second.
Okay, there was something on the 25th that was supposed to happen, but let's see.
Because she knew she won, so the smart move is be like, we want a second election, and
his handlers are gonna be like, or second debate, and his handler is gonna be like,
whoa, we don't want a second debate.
But a second debate where he's prepped, because her policies, she has no policies.
The past four years, nobody's really happy with.
What policies?
I mean, like she has some policies.
What are they?
I don't know, all of them, but they're on her website.
And she did say, like.
She did not have them on her website for weeks.
And that, as somebody who's like,
I don't have like a real horse in either one of you
in this race. I'm cool with whatever. I'm looking at her website being like, I don't have like a real horse in either one of you in this race. I'm cool with
whatever. I'm looking at her website being like, give me something. And it wasn't there for weeks.
And it's like, buddy, this is the bare fucking minimum. Give me some politics.
Here's the reality.
I won that really resonated amongst people. I was watching at a bar and it was actually a mixed
crowd. There was some conservatives there as well the fifteen thousand I
think tax credit. Fifteen thousand dollars. Fifteen for a child.
Six thousand. Yes, sorry. That one resonated amongst everyone like even the
conservatives like yeah that's good like so that one hit. Yeah give people money.
They both have policies on their website. No but Kamala just added them.
But at least she said it when asked.
Here's the reality.
He really didn't say anything.
Kamala is not going to do anything novel, right?
She's not going to do anything unique.
If Kamala wins, it could be more of the same.
This is the system that America has developed.
This sounds very cynical, but where you basically put two candidates up that both are in bed
with the most powerful corporations
of the country and those corporations make sure that they're still gonna be
able to suck off the tea to the government, which is essentially off the
tea to the American people, and the both candidates will ensure that. Trump is
the wrinkle in this. He's the person where he's like, I don't, these
corporations go, I don't know if I'll be able to suck off that tea. I might be
able to. And Trump might be looking at them like't know if I'll be able to suck off that tea. I might be able to.
And Trump might be looking at them like,
no, you'll be able to, please, give me the opportunity.
Or he might go, fuck them, I don't like these corporations.
But if you get Kamala in there,
it's not gonna be some crazy watershed moment for America.
It's gonna continue, whatever's happening now will continue.
If your life is pretty good now,
that seems like a good bow for you
Something pardon it will optically mean something sure
But like yeah, and actually that is important like I think that was the Obama thing too
Which is like I think that was very important for people culturally outside of the fact that it was just more the same politically
Yeah, right, but culturally that was a big moment. Maybe women are like hey, we want a woman out here
Yeah, I don't know. I think it's only the media that makes it seem like, oh,
if one side wins, it's going to be the end of this country.
Yeah, both.
I think all people understand, like, hey, things aren't going
to change that much.
Well, Trump also said that.
He's like, they're destroying the country.
Oh, both sides.
Yeah, both sides do it.
Because Kamala's like, 2025, he's going to be a tyrant.
And she's like, this is the end of the country.
Also, that's another thing that we
should talk about with the Trump rhetoric. She's like, this is the end of the country. Also, that's another thing that we should talk about
with the Trump rhetoric.
It's like, it's getting really exhausting.
Like, the country's gonna be done in two years.
It's over, they're destroying it.
It's like, there's only so much of that
that you can take as an American before you start going,
yo, yo, watch your mouth.
You're still talking about my fucking country, man.
From both sides, I say that.
That was his real comment specifically was that.
Nobody cares. No, Dan, nobody comment specifically was that... Nobody cares.
Damn!
He said two years!
Nobody cares. Nobody cares.
Nobody cares. Don't distract. Don't distract.
The one thing... No, he's saying America is done.
America is over. This country is going to shit.
And it's just like...
It's like when people are talking shit about New York.
Remember during the pandemic, it's like,
oh, there's robberies everywhere.
I was like, yeah, there's aberies everywhere. I was like, oh yeah, there's a migrant crisis.
There's that, I was like, okay.
And then after like a few weeks of that, I was like,
yo, mind your fucking business, bro.
Don't you worry about your fucking city.
What's up with your fucking city?
You got migrants in your fucking city,
hand them out.
Yeah, why you here then?
Yeah, exactly.
Go home.
You know what I'm saying?
People talking shit about New York,
you're not even living here, why do you care?
Why does this bother you?
So it's like, Trump needs a new thing.
It can't be this disaster talk where every single,
America's gonna fall apart, it's gonna be like,
bro, we heard it, we're here.
What's funny is that's what the Democrats tried to do
to him in 2016 and failed.
We know that's a losing strategy.
Instead of inspiring people to vote for you,
being like, you can to vote for you,
being like, you can't vote for that person.
That don't work.
But I said it won in 2020 though.
Well, I think we were in a pandemic and just being like,
look at what the fuck is going on, this guy caused it.
You see what I'm saying?
We want hope.
We want positivity.
You don't need to tell us the country sucks
and the migrants are coming and destroying everything.
Just tell us how you're gonna fix it.
Tell us how you're gonna make it it. Tell us how you're going to make it great again.
That was a good strategy.
Tell us why it's going to be so great.
Tell us why the economy is going to be.
I know he mentions it, but we don't need all the disaster talk.
You could go out here and go, listen, I don't care how bad these people have made the country
because I know once we get in here, we're bringing it back and we're bringing it back
better than ever.
Give me positivity. give me hope.
Like the fear-mongering, it's just exhausting.
It's every YouTube title.
It's every tweet.
It's every Instagram post.
We're exhausted, we're desensitized to it,
and we're starting to like resent it.
At least I do.
The way that he frames how he's going to improve things,
it's like it's so hyperbolic
that it's like, it's not real.
Like you're not going to cut down energy costs by half.
Like how the fuck are you going to do it?
He just says these boring things.
I will say that does, that worked for him in 2016.
He just said, I'm building the wall.
All these claims worked.
But I think again, even just saying I'm going to do these things.
That's positive.
That was the one thing Conner said, I'm going to get this tax credit.
I don't know if you're going to get a pass, but the whole bar was like, let's go. I'm going to give this to That's positive. That's the one thing Carlos said, I'm gonna get this tax credit. I don't know if you're gonna get
a pass, but the whole bar was like let's go. I'm gonna give this to you.
He don't do that. Now he's just doing the this is the worst America's done in two
years. Israel won't exist in two years. Like all these crazy things are just
like buddy, the wheel's gonna keep on spinning. Hit that
fucking Khaleesi. I'll break the wheel. Now you might get my vote.
You know what I mean? Yeah. But just. Yeah, we need some more positive. He just needs a different gear. Yeah. It's like the eating
cats and dogs thing was a good angle. I liked it. Which also, apparently, there are cats
getting eaten in Ohio. Really? Did you see this video? No, tell me. It's hilarious. I
think it was an American black woman, right? I mean, don't spoil it, dude. You're fucking
ruining the conspiracy. Yeah. So this is video footage in Ohio, okay?
This is the story that a lot of people have posted
since this, which I actually have a theory of.
What did you do?
Why'd you kill the cat?
Smile for me.
Go like this.
Did you eat that cat?
Did you eat it? Now why'd you kill it?
Did you guys see all this?
No, we pulled up and she was just laying there with me.
Did you see her eating it?
She was eating it?
You call the main society to see if they'll come pick those cat up. It's diseased.
Did you eat that cat no
full of blood and fur
Was it no, so basically this woman is not a not an immigrant the way the Trump claimed also
This is not in Springfield. This is like three hours away
I got it
And so I think this is just like a regular crackhead psycho that just like yeah, I just asked a question cat
All right, let's have some fun
Let's have some fun. Please, please. Let's have some fun.
Why don't more people eat geese and stuff?
I always think that.
Like every time I order like duck at a restaurant
and I also like go see ducks in like a pond,
like I took Shiloh to go see ducks.
Yeah.
And like, I'm looking at all these ducks
and I'm just like, I could just take one of these
fucking ducks.
Yeah, there's just free food in the lake.
There's free food everywhere.
I'm actually baffled it doesn't happen more.
Yeah, that's true.
No!
What's the species of duck that's peaking?
Peaking is a way of preparing.
No, no, no, I know, but I mean, what species do they use to make that duck?
That one?
The ones in the pond.
Do you know that, though?
Do you really know different species of ducks?
How many ducks are there?
I think there's a mallard.
There's a mallard.
There's a mallard.
That's right.
There's a Mandarin duck.
I mean, that's convenient.
Yeah.
That's what I said, being racist.
And turns out I fucking nailed it.
Okay, but in all seriousness, I feel like you guys...
They're really pretty.
I don't know. I'm not getting any reaction out of you guys
And the reaction can be negative or positive, but I feel like there's no reaction what I'm asking is we buy
Food at the supermarket or restaurants. We buy duck, right? Yeah, we buy it. Yeah, right and There's ducks at the supermarket or restaurants. We buy duck, right? We buy it, right?
And there's ducks at the pond, right?
But we don't just take those.
Let me ask you like this.
Hold on, when he said I'm not getting any reaction
out of you guys, I thought he meant like,
we weren't bringing it on the political angle,
like he was criticizing.
And I was like, what's happening?
And then he's like, Mike, insane theory.
You're not responding.
Is it insane? I guess I didn't. Ducks aren't FDA, then he's like, Mike, insane theory. You're not responding to it. Is that insane?
I guess I didn't read that.
Ducks aren't FDA, bro.
I thought it wasn't insane enough.
No, no, it makes sense to be honest with you,
but I also don't know if you could just be in the park killing.
Let me phrase it like this.
Let me phrase it like this, right?
You live in nature, right?
And there's an apple tree right there.
Yeah.
Right?
There's also apples at the grocery store.
Yeah.
Now me, knowing me, I would go to the apple tree and I would
pluck an apple out of the apple tree and then I would make my apple with honey or whatever.
None of that is true. You wouldn't do any of that. You wouldn't do any of that. You
would have Uber Eats get you the apple. If I'm being honest with you. You're like, oh
that's too much worry. To be totally honest with you, we got two apple trees on the property
in the Hamptons. I haven't eaten one of them apples the whole summer. But you shouldn't have done that. But I have eaten the tomatoes from the garden.
But you used apples. You didn't eat the fucking apples. Yeah, that's probably a bad choice.
That was a bad choice. Someone got it for you. No, no, we picked them. We picked them. My wife picked them.
I made my wife go pick them, go pick me some tomatoes.
That's fine.
So that's the same as sending her
to the supermarket, pretty much.
Okay, okay.
My point is,
I think it's cause they're in parks
and you can't just be in parks killing these animals.
They're probably protected species.
Okay, so that's what we're,
we're their protected species?
Like Central Park is an actual forest.
I feel like it's an invasive species.
Well, the shit is invasive.
No, they're protected.
Yeah, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Ge, they're protected. Yeah the migratory bird treaty act
He's up dude. Basic federal law protects birds in their habitats. So we all found this out right now
No ducks walking around Chinatown. Nothing. Yeah. Let me tell you something. There's no straight dog.
There's no straight dog.
Can I just say this?
He's not talking about invasive species.
The Chinese are hearing all this stuff about the Haitians
and they are shit.
They say, do not say a word.
Let them get their smoke.
Let them focus on them voodoo motherfuckers
because if they even look over here, it's a problem.
It is a problem.
Yeah, I don't think that Peking duck is a species of duck.
I think that shit is a cat, to be honest with you.
Oh, it could be a cat. It could be a cat.
There's a lot of things it could be.
My point is, my point is, is that I do find it peculiar
that we are judging these people, right?
For just taking the food in the pond.
Like why is some food allowed to just be in the pond
and then other food not?
That's a good point.
There's a whole subculture of people eating roadkill.
You ever heard of this?
Yeah.
Mark, that's fucking disgusting.
Wait, what?
That's a dead animal.
It's a carcass on the side of the road
run over by a Jeep Wrangler.
No, it basically like, there's people you call them,
you're like, hey, I just saw a deer,
it just got hit two minutes ago.
He'll pull up in three minutes,
pick up the deer while it's still breathing,
cut the neck, take it home.
Okay, that's a different situation.
That's a different situation.
Who's he on the phone with, RFK?
Exactly.
Exactly.
I'll be right there.
I'm just saying, this guy right here, right?
He has a satchel, you know, he looks like he-
He's going to work.
He's going to work. He's going to work.
He's our neighbor from Miami.
What were those big birds that were walking around with?
Let me tell you something.
How do we know he's not trying to save the bird?
Can I tell you something else?
I'll tell you for a fact.
The bird was injured.
Can I tell you how I know?
Because when we lived in Miami,
and we lived in a neighborhood
where people were eating all the animals
in the fucking neighborhood.
There's no question.
We went to a cookout and they served us food.
It's not even a, there's not even a question in my mind.
Cause you would hear the birds going, cook up, cook up.
And it would happen regularly.
People were eating, but I didn't judge them.
That's how you knew someone would wake up.
I'll show you.
It's food.
That was our rooster.
Is it food?
You would hear the cuck die. It's absolutely food, but they're not protected
in my, probably like they're protected.
Can I just say one thing?
Definitely.
We never knew about the protection.
We never knew about protection.
I don't know about animal protection.
I just knew you don't eat the ducks,
but nobody told me there was an animal protection act
or a duck flying act or whatever the hell these things are.
I didn't know.
I just knew if you let me see animals,
I'm probably not supposed to eat them.
I knew that.
Right?
That's just something I innately knew.
I think it is possible that there are certain species
of human being that do not have that primal instinct.
Yeah.
They have a primal instinct where if you see food,
finders keepers.
That I think is the real primal instinct.
Yeah.
Yeah, you don't have the primal instinct.
Yeah, I have this like human
It's been like my primal instincts have been neutered. Yeah, I've been cocked by the government
They dangle through the front of us. They go look at inflation inflation is a hundred percent
But you can't have a good dog right there on the street dog
There's a whole park of dog. I could go to a dog park with a fork
But no the government keeps you dumb, they put fluoride in your water and now you don't even know
you can eat the dog. I don't even know I can eat it so this is this is something that we need to
discuss and I think there should be a little less judgment you know how like when the Muslim
immigrants in Europe come and you they you got to teach them not to rape women
you gotta teach them you gotta you gotta take them to school and be like teach them not to rape women. You gotta teach them. You gotta
take them to school and be like, hey, you can't rape women, please. And they're like,
but look, you can see they're full-on armed. Right? And then, yeah, but you can't do it.
And they're, okay, okay, okay. But I want to. But you can't. You're not allowed. These
are pure German women. What do I do instead? You gotta get a job. You can't, you're not allowed. These are pure German women. What do I do instead?
You gotta get a job, you can stack the meat
and then shave it or whatever you guys do.
You gotta do something, but you can't.
The women here.
Can I trick kids with ice cream
and make them think they're eating it?
We love that game.
We love that, that is a really fun game.
The cone inside the cone and then you switch it. I mean, obviously we're mixing Middle Eastern countries, you know.
I don't think the Turkish have that problem, but still we like that game.
That's good for you.
But R***ing the Women, what is that? What is that?
Good.
No!
We gotta try it again.
What?
R***ing the Women is?
The thing to do.
Good! No!
No!
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
No!
Sorry.
Bad!
Sorry, okay, my bad.
Bad. Okay?
Should I take a few lessons?
Nine means nice!
Okay?
Years old?
No! God! No matter what your book says, you cannot do it!
This guy's crazy.
No matter what the book says, you cannot do it! Okay?
Not here. Not in Germany.
Okay, so they did that. they went through that process yes where they slowly indoctrinated them with this idea that
you cannot win it on the street. Do it in the nightclub. What? Mark!
Dude that's one of those BDSM clubs. No. No. Okay. No yeah cuz you can't go to the nightclub
cuz they got alcohol. So you gotta find another place to do it.
You gotta do it somewhere else.
They always get you.
Okay.
That process, that didn't happen overnight.
Teaching Muslim immigrants how to not rape white women in Europe.
That doesn't happen in a mere year.
You think that happens in 24 hours? That takes weeks of training and schooling and propaganda.
Okay?
Hell yeah.
You think that immigrants coming here are going to see a perfectly good mallard?
It's true, dude.
They come from places where there's not a lot of food.
That's why they're here.
Yeah.
And yeah, we just got food protected.
That's crazy.
It is actually on some levels insulting.
It's immoral on some.
It's insulting.
They're coming here, they're starving.
They've got their bags.
The streets paid with golden food, bro.
That's the gold they're talking about.
But they're like, don't touch.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Grass, we're not going to grow anything on it.
Animals, we can't eat.
Crazy, crazy.
I'm insulted.
Really makes you understand how the Muslims are feeling.
I mean, that makes sense to me.
I'm missing it.
He talks to me.
There's food out on the streets and I can't eat.
Got it, okay, got it.
Now I get it, I get it, okay.
So that's all I'm saying.
So we gotta teach everybody.
Exactly, that's on us.
There needs to be a government program.
That is on us, Yo, our bad.
Our bad.
Yeah, we should have been more forthcoming
with that information.
If we're gonna invite cultures here,
we have to understand what's normal where they're from.
Okay?
Your boy barbecue, Mark.
Yeah, sapace.
Sapace, barbecue.
Maybe the current leader of Haiti, we don't know.
Eats human beings.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You think he's gonna bat an eye at a goose
on the street?
Yeah, they came to America being like,
yo, we're gonna really tone it down.
We're not gonna eat, we're only gonna eat dogs and ducks.
Yeah, if I see an easy to catch goose,
I'm gonna catch it and I'm gonna take it all in the air.
I'm not gonna eat a human here though.
Not here, can't do that, that's crazy.
We're in America.
Maybe that's what Trump was saying,
maybe that was his policy. They're eating cats and dogs, I'm gonna put a stop to it, I'm gonna teach them. We're in America. Maybe that's what Trump was saying. Maybe that was his policy.
They're eating cats and dogs.
I'm gonna put a stop to it.
I'm gonna teach them.
We're gonna indoctrinate them.
Maybe that's what he was trying to say
about the fucking moderators.
That's what that book was.
The bias moderators cut him off.
C-Spa run.
He was running from a h.
That is actually true.
That's what the book's about.
But that is insulting of us, right?
To not recognize another culture.
Just assume that they're gonna be fluent in ours. I think that we have to stop doing that. So let's teach them, okay? To not recognize another culture, just assume that they're going to be fluent in ours. I think that we have
to stop doing that.
Let's teach them, okay?
Yeah.
Dogs.
Yes.
Can you eat them?
No.
Cats.
No. You cannot eat cats.
Why?
Not enough meat.
Okay, so it's more of a nutritional thing.
It's more of a nutritional thing. There's just not enough meat.
Rabbits.
Yes.
Okay, well, that's a pet also.
Also not much meat on a rabbit.
Yeah, but you can eat it.
That means you can eat it at a restaurant.
That's a French, that's an Haitian delicacy.
Yeah.
That's one of the things.
Rabbits are totally fine.
Keep going.
Guinea pigs, yeah.
But rabbits are a pet.
So like how, if you come over to America,
you're fobbing it up.
Yeah.
And you see a rabbit in a cage.
Horses are pets.
Doesn't mean you can't eat them.
Wild rabbit is fair game. So what are you can't eat them? Wild rabbit is fair game.
So what are you allowed to eat?
Wild rabbit may be fair game.
So if it's a rabbit with a name, you can't eat it.
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What about a fish?
Fuck yeah, a fish.
What if it's in a tank?
That's too little, there's nothing there.
You can eat a fish in a tank if you want to.
You might get kicked out of the dentist's office,
but you can give it a rib if you want.
You know what I mean?
I think you can eat fish.
I think if you buy a fish,
you can do whatever you want with it.
If you want to eat it, if you want to do that prank where you swallow it and throw it back
up and it's still alive.
Shout out David Blaine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think you can do whatever you want with a fish.
Fair enough.
That is a good question because if you buy a dog and you eat it, that's illegal.
But if you buy a fish and you eat that, that's a magic trick.
Yeah, yeah.
You can do whatever you want with fish.
I think we feel very comfortable in the United States of America with that.
Now, there are certain fish that aren't a certain size, right?
They have these size and weight limitations with fish.
You can't keep them and eat them if they're not big enough.
Oh yeah, you got to throw them back.
You got to throw them back.
Oh, that's a good point.
So that's where you have to spit it back up.
That's where you have to spit it back up.
That's throwing it back.
Yeah.
Literally.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, what about turtle? Can you do the turtle? Yeah, sure.
All right, I mean, that seems kind of,
I think age matters with a turtle.
Yeah, it's like a 200 year old tortoise.
That's fucking delicious.
Yeah, I mean, that's vintage.
Yeah, that's a vintage tortoise.
Fuck, yeah.
This is from the 1800s, bro.
That's great.
Why are we making a big deal of this?
Like, I genuinely am kind of like,
eating someone's pet is crazy
because it's someone else owns it and that's stealing.
It's almost like taking someone's bike.
It's more theft.
To be honest, if he didn't say and dogs,
I wouldn't have had a problem with it.
I believe that in you.
I believe that in you.
I do believe that.
They're eating cats, good riddance.
But it's other people's pets.
This is the iguanas of New York City.
Yeah, there's another Haitian person who was like, you know, I was going to eat that.
And then they stole my cat. So I'm pissed off.
That is one of those tricky situations. That's theft.
Where it's like the mafia can't call the police to help.
Yeah. You know, they want to, but it's like, you're also doing something illegal.
Yeah. Yeah. So that's theft. You can't steal someone else's food or...
Yeah. You just stole someone else's shit.
That's where it's fucked up.
But I believe eating a duck that you find in a pond,
I'm okay with that.
Now, I understand it's wrong and it's not proper etiquette,
but I don't think it should be that much judgment.
I think that people feel it adds to the aesthetic
of the park.
That's what you're fucking up.
Yeah, but you just need to tell them that once. Can I be honest with you? Squirrels fuck up the aesthetic of a park. That's what you're fucking up. Yeah, but you just need to tell them that once.
Can I be honest with you?
Squirrels fuck up the aesthetic of a park.
Squirrels are in the park.
I like the squirrel.
I like the squirrel.
It's kinda cute.
Aw, man.
One, two.
We gotta cull the population a little bit, I think.
It's too many.
I like the squirrels.
I like the squirrels.
I think the hawks been taking them out.
Woodland creatures are so sweet.
They introduce them to Central Park,
they throw them in there,
be like, yeah, fucking run around.
I know. They're cute. Possibly we can kill. Possibly we can kill. They introduced them at Central Park. They threw them in there. They'd be like, yeah, fucking run around. I know.
They're cute.
Possibly we can kill.
Possibly we can kill.
Listen, here's the reality.
I think we've stretched this bit out as far as it can go.
So I think we can move on,
but we have to find another thing to move on to.
Is there any more reflection?
What does Trump do from here?
Oh, I have a question.
Yes.
Where did you guys watch it all at?
I think that's a very interesting thing.
I watched it in my house.
This was almost a Super Bowl thing. I was it in my house. Almost a Super Bowl thing.
I was at a watch party at a bar.
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah.
It felt like Hillary Trump time.
Like it's big.
Like people were excited.
Bro, how pathetic are other countries, man?
Where like, do they even have this?
Do they even have debates?
Like no one even fucking knows shit about other countries.
Yeah.
Like other countries are watching our presidential debate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You guys suck.
I was in Europe and every cab or person I talked to was like,
so who do you think is gonna win?
Yeah.
It was.
It's fire.
We got you locked and loaded.
Put some respect on for that.
We should start doing that.
You meet a Ukrainian and be like, so who you got?
Who do you think is gonna win?
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, we gotta start checking these motherfuckers.
Oh, we know your shit.
Just ask who you think is going to win to any country.
Yeah.
Who do you think is going to win your election?
The problem is we don't even know what they have.
We don't know if they're prime minister, president, tyrant,
dictator.
We have no clue what's going on.
And they act like that's our fault.
No, you're not popping enough.
Thank you.
I don't got to know the underground artists.
You know what I mean? I'm not doing this. Bro.! I don't got to know the underground artists.
I'm not doing this.
Bro.
And it's not like it matters.
We're going to pick them anyway.
It's not like it matters.
We're going to pick them anyway.
Yeah, exactly.
But this idea that like we're dumb because we don't know about their shit is just so arrogant.
It's arrogant.
It's really arrogant.
You know what I mean?
Like some people hit me up like, yo, I can't see the thicket.
It's not in the it's not in theaters where I live and that's my fault
That's our fault for not making the movie bigger
It's not their fault. They live in a shit place
Big big movies to be at this shit place theater. That is okay. That's not their fault. I do get annoyed at that
Bro some places are shit
And I don't want to be one of these I want to do a trump is doing it's all falling apart But some places man some places been fell fell apart. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah and like
Yeah, people should be allowed a petition to become America. I think that should be fine.
What do you mean?
Like a different country.
Like if Madagascar was like, hey, we want to be a part of America, they should be allowed
to like apply and then we can accept them.
I've let Madagascar in off of that movie alone.
Yeah, exactly.
And you become like a territory and then you just were cool with y'all.
And like, we'll back you up.
What type of responsibility do we have? Yeah, we get the resources.
Yeah, like Alaska.
I think like Puerto Rico kind of like we have Guam and I don't know about
fuck with Guam.
Yeah, yeah, right.
But we need that to keep an eye on us.
She's not going to say that.
I disagree again.
No, we do.
Miles emphatically agreed with you.
Miles emphatically agreed with you.
No, we do. We need to be close, right?
We gotta see what's going on over there.
It's easy. Small population, but good advantage for us.
Good advantage right there.
You know, Hawaii too. We can't let them set up shop halfway across the Pacific.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hawaii makes sense.
Yeah, Hawaii. We got Guam. We probably got some other shit over there, too
Mm-hmm. Just all to do what to keep an eye on them. Who's them?
You know who they fucking are
The Reds we need to keep an eye on the Reds. Yeah, well semiconductor see what they're doing
Because they're up to some shit. Mm-hmm. Also Kamala
They should have corrected her on this, on the
he sold chips to China. And Trump corrected it, it was Taiwan that sold the chips. But maybe he
gave the permission for Taiwan to do it? I'm not exactly sure. No, but it wasn't an American
company making the chips in Taiwan? I don't believe so, but I don't know company in Taiwan that makes
Yeah, Taiwan semiconductor. Yeah, that's that's time. Oh, yeah, but I guess
We have some sort of jurisdiction over their exports. I would imagine when it comes to China because we're protecting them from China
Yeah, like we're the last barrier of entry for China just not demolishing them
So I wonder if that's her half-truth.
And here's a perfect example of a half-truth,
yeah, they sold it, but you could have vetoed the sale.
But also, Trump could have defended that himself.
That's about Trump. He did.
He could have, so the moderator might not step in.
One thing I thought the moderator,
I don't know if this is true,
but Trump corrected the moderator at one point.
When the moderator corrected him and said,
actually violent crime is down according to FBI data,
he said they excluded the biggest cities in that.
So that was where I was like, oh, that's weird.
If that's true, why would they interrupt him with that?
Is that true?
Cause I know it's down in New York
and I believe it's down in LA.
What cities are down there?
I think it's up on the animal kingdom.
Do we look into that?
But you are right.
I was violent class.
I'm from the animal kingdom.
What about birds and fowls?
Yeah, they're getting fucked up.
But you're right.
The US does exert some export control on TSMC
to sell to like Chinese company, Huawei.
Huawei. Huawei, yeah.
Huawei. Huawei. Huawei. Huawei.
They just start a new company and they're just buying ships through this new company. Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei Huawei You guys are laughing at over there my pronunciation of why why nothing?
Can somebody break down tariffs yes, Don't those hurt us by us implying tariffs on other countries and then they're just going
to sell us their goods for more and then those extra costs goes to us, right?
So that is one way of looking at it.
The other way of looking at it is by applying those costs, you would allow American companies
to compete.
You disincentivize importing and then you incentivize American companies to build up,
make their own stuff, build up manufacturing.
And then the only way that, let's say, for example, it's like t-shirts, right?
I'm just going to use round numbers.
Hey, we're going to put a 20% tariff on t-shirts.
They used to be $100, now they're $120.
So now it's $120 to get a t-shirt.
Well, in America, they stopped making t-shirts because they couldn't make them for less than
$110.
But China made them for $100.
Well now that it's $120 for a t-shirt in China, American companies go, well, shit, I can make
one for $110.
So now we got t-shirts for 110
Now China goes well fuck the only way I can sell t-shirts to them is if I make it for less than 110
Alright, so now we got it for 105
Right, so now we're getting a $20 credit
I guess you could say like a and then they're taking $15 of that hit not us now
This is not all industries because not all industries can compete with these imports.
So if you don't have an American industry that can now make the goods within that 20%
range or whatever the tariff is, then that cost of good will just get put on the American
citizen.
And doesn't it take a while?
Like if you just put a tariff on one particular thing, doesn't it take a while to get industry
started here? Like by the time we actually see it. Depending on what it is. T- like if you just put a tariff on one particular thing, doesn't it take a while to get industry started here?
Like by the time we actually see.
Depending on what it is.
T-shirts you can make in a factory.
Yeah, I think it does, but I would also think,
cause on the surface, that sounds like a good idea to me,
cause I think middle America lost all the manufacturing,
and that's one of the big contributors to decaying.
This would essentially build it back up,
and even if it took time, you're gonna build a factory,
that's gonna make jobs, like it might take some years,
but I do think long- term, I like that idea.
That would be the idea.
I'm using really round numbers,
and it might be so much cheaper to do things in China
that even with a 20%, you know, a tariff,
it doesn't make sense in America.
But some people might spend a few more dollars
on a shirt that's made in America
than something made in China.
And there are issues with Chinese goods,
especially when it comes to clothing.
Since they're made in such bulk
and the communication is quite difficult,
there's a lot of times there's mistakes.
And that isn't an issue in America.
You're talking to someone who fucking speaks English,
knows what you're trying to do.
You can go to the factory and be like,
yeah, that's the one I want.
You're not flying to China every time you have a new order. So can go to the factory and be like, yeah, that's the one I want. You're not flying to China
every time you have a new order. So even though it's a little more expensive,
you won't have as many mistakes that you ultimately have to pay for so the cost might be even.
So that would be the argument for tariffs. I'm sure there's a perfectly good argument against it that would
convince us all as well. But I've seen people present it on Twitter
as very cut and dry, like you charge more money for them,
they just add to the cost of good,
and it's more expensive for the American people.
I don't believe it's that cut and dry.
Gotcha.
And it might not be as cut and dry as what we're saying,
like he said, but yeah, to me in theory,
that makes great sense.
We should bring manufacturing back to America.
But as is, we can't compete with sweatshops.
But guys, okay, listen, can we just hold on for a second? There's all this discussion about the election
and listen, at the end of the day, we are Americans. Actually, it's not just Americans.
This is a global phenomenon. Do we care about the election? Sure. But the other thing that
we're thinking is how can we make money on it?
Yes.
Right?
How can we be the aristocrats? Yeah, the aristocrats make money on the election.
Yeah.
Right, the military industrial complex,
while you're in a different seat,
makes money on the election.
Oh gosh, Alex, come back.
Yo, what happened to Agas and Alex?
They're probably collecting their bags of money.
That's what they're doing,
they found a way to make money on it.
What I'm trying to say is, the most American thing
and the most international thing
is probably to find a way to profit off of elections.
Now, how can we do that, The everyday man, the regular folk.
There's no way for us to do it.
Mark, I'm gonna make you eat your words.
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has that changed? I don't know. I guess we got to see if anyone's eating dogs out there.
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Guys, come back. Yeah. It's almost like we kicked the minorities
back out for this segment. They can't gamble on this.
Yeah, they're not allowed to do that, right? No.
We just want the elites to be able to do it. It's almost like the elites of the pot are
talking about how we can make money off the election.
Right, Dove? Why is Dove just kind of squirmed out of here?
I don't know.
We should probably stop talking about this before somebody catches on to this highly
devious plot.
Yeah.
We're going to be so rich.
Did you see Kamala kind of blame China for hiding COVID?
Yo.
Oh, yeah.
I need my apologies.
I literally watched it.
I'm canceled or whatever that fucking term is, stupid term.
People are saying I'm a racist.
People have called me racist.
And you've been trying to educate immigrants for years.
You've been trying to educate these fucking years.
That's what I do.
I bet during that time, you were the Leo DiCaprio meme
where you were just like pointing at screens like,
that's me. Hell no. It was meme where you were just like pointing out screens like that's me
It was crazy to see yeah, just be like yo they lied about it
That's what we said in the Netflix special and there's fucking article after article about remember
I didn't get to perform perform in that Toronto venue. Yeah, originally booked. Yeah, Matthew
It was Massey Hall because of exactly what the presidential nominee said on stage.
Yeah, this is what she said.
When we know that she was responsible...
That's not what she said.
You mean to tell me this guy's racist?
How dare you?
You guys are crazy.
You guys are insane.
What fucking insane people you are.
Fucking shifty.
Okay, start that sentence over, Mark.
For nothing. We want, we, when we know that she-
We don't need to know that she's not responsible.
We get what she said. They did it! They fucking did it!
Bro, the dumplings did it and they need to be punished!
Wow. I agree.
Okay, through an education system.
Oh, wait a minute. Biggest news of the night.
What's the biggest news of the night?
Y'all mother, she threw her support behind Kamala.
Didn't we talk about this?
We did. Yeah.
Where the fuck did you move?
That was a long conversation.
I like how you teed that up though.
That's true. Yeah, right.
That was a long conversation.
But it was a long conversation.
Miles, Miles, cut that for four.
It was like a four minute conversation. And you participated in it. Yo, you participated. That's what's crazy. That, no, no. Al, it was like a four minute conversation.
And you participated in it.
That's before the pot.
That's what's crazy.
That was before the pot.
Before the pot.
No, you were in that convo.
Yeah, you participated.
What was the last time you nutted, yo?
Al gets dumb when he doesn't nut.
Yeah, you got cumbrant.
He does have cumbrant.
I know.
I can tell.
You got cumbrant.
Yes, it's Italy in my head.
You stopped the whole podcast.
You stopped the whole podcast.
You stopped the whole, guys, hold on.
Hold on, y'all.
Everybody.
We did talk about it.
We did talk about it.
Seth Beyonce and all that shit.
Yeah.
Y'all saw what he did.
That's crazy.
That's the only word he heard.
I feel vindicated because I need to bring his shit up.
I said last week on the pod all the time,
but there's at least seven days in between now.
Come on, man.
Damn, I got a nut.
For you guys, most fair format for the next debate,
or what should he agree to?
I like the fact that.
I thought this was, I thought this was fair.
And actually, I don't want there to be an audience.
This isn't, I mean, it is a popularity contest,
but it's not like a who can kill
and who can rile up the audience.
It's not a comedy contest.
Yeah, this is literally just say the words and then we digest the words.
Yeah.
That's it.
Okay, so same format, but it can't be, he's going to say, can't be this three-on-one
that I just experienced last night.
So we can oppose timeline so much.
What if each one can pick a moderator?
Exactly, something like that.
And then there's a board that selects if they can improve it or not.
I mean, if they both got to pick a moderator, that might be too messy.
But like, just both of y'all keep that shit in check a little bit.
But y'all are the...
Trump wants this person, Kamala wants this person.
That's what it is.
Yeah.
They say Kamala was wearing earrings with a microphone in them.
Oh yeah, yeah.
That's a nice little way.
Microphone or earrings with a...
That's so funny.
This is a nice Twitter experience.
Not microphone.
Twitter experience. A speaker in them. Yeah, what's it called? Twitter conspiracy.
A speaker in them.
Yeah, like earbuds.
That's so funny.
Oh, let me see this.
This is crazy.
It's a great idea.
Honestly, have you ever had an earbud in your ear and be able to talk that long?
That's impressive.
That's impressive.
We've done shows where like we have the earbud in.
What's it called?
The RFP or whatever the fuck?
Whatever the fuck it is.
And the in-ears?
RFP, yeah.
And it's hard to pay attention
What's going on and listen to a note and like I I don't believe it
I don't I don't believe this year and honestly if she did I'm a vote for it for sure
They could be queuing her up while Trump is talking
But even then now you're not listening to what he's saying and you look a little confused
Tell you the bar to say right after so these are her earrings. I believe they're made by Chanel
She's worn them multiple times before with that being said people, people are saying, oh, these earrings right here are the Nova H1
audio earrings.
Yeah, they're actually people are fucking losers.
They're actually have fun.
I mean, they're looking for any excuse to why fuck didn't lose like, you know, stopping
to look at like a objectively different, like what are we even talking about? I don't think it was an earpiece, but I can see why.
But just stop it.
In this one, the one that's the actual speaker is just the round thing, right?
The one that looks like a pearl or something.
Yeah, I think it connects like behind the ear too.
Who is the person that finds this stuff?
Like that starts these theories?
Are you just trying to disrupt things or do you have like an actual mental illness?
It's the Russian government. Something's wrong. Oh yeah like an actual mental illness? It's the Russian government.
Something's wrong.
Oh yeah, could be that too.
It's the Russian government.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Could be that too.
No, that actually makes a lot of sense.
That makes more sense than anything.
But if your boy loses, it's like you're looking for anything.
Not that hard, dude.
There's people that look.
Yeah, but Trump should have had an earpiece too.
I'm saying, yo, bandage on the ear, headphone underneath.
Yeah, that's fine.
Airpod, bang.
Yeah, he didn't milk the bandage that long. He could have milked that shit for a minute. Yeah. Yeah, just make that his Nellie shit
Every time you see it just got this shit on yeah, dude, you know what this really made me wish Vivek had won the primary
He's too brown to win a Republican primary, but I feel like
Nah, he of course I love I'm just speaks too far above the average, like intellect.
Like he can't dumb it down.
Yeah, that's a real issue.
I think that's why he should be in like an advisory or cabinet role because he needs
someone that can basically teach him how to speak to sixth grade IQ.
That's how you speak to the country. And he just doesn't know how to do it.
But yeah, it would be the same.
Like the things I like about Trump's policies, whatever,
I feel like he would do that without going off the rails.
Yeah.
I just think you can't slash all of the institutions
by that many people and the country still like function.
Indians save money, baby, that's what we do.
All right. Someone pointed this out on Twitter, but this shit is kind of fire. people in the country still like function. Indians save money baby that's what we do.
Someone pointed this out on Twitter bro this shit is kind of fire.
The comment just says Trump's neck pussy looking crazy to me.
Nah that's AI. That's
Look at that thing. Oh bro, you see this Taylor Swift's endorsed. I was waiting to do that. She endorsed. I was waiting to do that. I was like, really?
Holy shit, that's crazy.
What the hell?
All right, so what's your hot take 30 minutes later
about Taylor Swift endorsing?
She's like, yo, what's your hot take?
Y'all mother, I'm about to make this a white thing.
Why?
Fuck.
Exactly.
Do you think she moves the needle?
Absolutely. Yeah? Absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Man, these little bitches are falling for all the hell.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Actually, after going to that concert, yeah.
But I also think-
Look at the NFL's numbers last season.
She moves the needle, bro.
Yeah.
But actually-
I don't think she- sorry, go.
I was gonna change gears completely if you want to finish this stuff.
I don't think she's getting any Republican to vote for Kamala.
I actually don't even know if that's possible to get some of the Swiss
parties just with an endorsement.
But isn't this what we say in the middle?
Yeah, exactly. I think that she is huge.
She might be convincing undecided.
And that's and that is huge.
This is what we talked about on Patreon, which I guess will come out after this,
but the Patreon we talked about where it's like, it's 40% and 40% already know
exactly what they're gonna do.
That 20%-ish in the middle that's undecided, they can be swayed by the debate.
They can be swayed by Taylor Swift.
I think maybe a debate plus Taylor Swift might be like,
Hi!
You just feel on some level more okay voting.
I think the only thing that mitigates her endorsement
is that people, at least from my opinion,
already knew kind of what side she was on.
Yeah.
Like she has like on camera appearances
talking about how much she doesn't like Trump.
Yeah.
And so I think to the average person is like,
yeah, we know she's kind of-
It's not a surprise.
Like if this was someone completely out of left field,
like if Melania was like, hey, I'm endorsing Kamala,
we'd be like, whoa, that's crazy. Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. But I think it's also a big statement,
not coming out in support for Kamala. So it's like, what's your mean? What's your mean? If she
just stays silent, like we talked about in the discussion, like a time of Kamala bomb, and she
didn't say anything, then I think that I don't know if that would go noticed. But the fact that she
came out and said something people like, all right, that means she did well.
And like, it just adds to the idea that she did well.
If you're undecided and you're like,
who do I just want representing the country?
Yeah.
Because not saying something is also saying something
when you have that much influence.
Can we talk about what a legend Dave wrote?
Can I pee real quick?
So can you really quickly keep you go?
Pete, we're going to start talking about this because he
timed this up perfectly.
They go, there's a debate happening.
I got some news to tell everybody.
I got some information to drop on the internet second that the whole world is talking about
some other shit.
You know, this is G.
You know, but what's so interesting about this and like, I'm trying to be positive.
I'm trying to be understanding.
He fathered a kid out of wedlock.
Who is this?
Dave Grohl is the lead singer of the Foo Fighters.
Okay.
He used to be the drummer for Nirvana.
He used to be the drummer for Nirvana.
But he has over the last 30 years been regarded
as the greatest human being in history.
Which he still may be.
Which he still may be.
But meaning like everyone loves Dave Grohl.
He always does the right thing.
He is so lovable, so endearing, so charming.
In every interview, he's charming.
He'll bring the right person on stage and sing the song with them together. He'll support everything he
needs to support. He's perfectly managed his celebrity. Like to perfection. He's
one of the few incredibly famous people and there's a handful of them. Yeah, it's
like him and Keanu Reeves. Literally that are the only incredibly famous
people that everyone just seems to love. Who I think you think is the same person.
Yeah.
Probably.
I thought that was counter-rejected.
Staunch conservatives.
It's like, yo, the Matrix guy does music?
And he's nice, too.
But staunch conservatives love him.
Staunch liberals love him.
Everybody loves this guy.
He is an all-around, seemingly just great this guy. He is an all-around seemingly just great fucking guy. Okay
There's another wrinkle to this story that I'll tell you in a bit. So yeah, just to catch up Keanu Reeves father to baby
So and then all of a sudden he
Knocks up some other chick outside of his marriage
Which is like this is not at all in line
with the perception of Dave Grohl.
Who happens to be married to the daughter
of one of our teachers at UCSB.
And the opening, do you remember this?
The opening lesson, the teacher brought it up.
Love this guy, he's the best guy.
And I was like, wow, everybody loves him.
Even the guy who's fucking, you know,
his daughter's getting married, he still loves him.
Everybody loves this guy.
So there's more going on.
Maybe his marriage isn't that great.
Maybe they're just kind of, you know,
keeping it together for, what is it,
keeping up with the Joneses or whatever that term is.
We don't know exactly what's going on.
Now, I don't think that this is the case,
but I do think it is funny that this happened immediately
after kind of publicly beefing with Taylor Swift.
This is gonna add to the lore
that Taylor Swift is somehow some genius mastermind.
Talk to me.
Literally, he was on stage being like,
yeah, we don't use AI when we sing,
unlike some performers or something,
and like took a shot of her. You remember this?
And then she like took a shot back or something like that.
She's like, I sing all my own songs,
and I'm still popping, dah, dah, dah.
I don't remember the exact details.
But basically, they were going like jaw-in-a-jah to each other.
And then a month later, he's like, yeah,
I knocked someone out, my bad.
And it's like, she sent a honeypot?
She's a honeypotter, dude.
She sent a honeypot.
She sent the Dave Grohl honey pot package
How does she do it? How does Taylor always do it? No, it is just ironic
They're like the second you go at Taylor cosmically something. No, I know dude. She needs to be stopped into like she's just
unstoppable
Do we know who the mistress is?
Yeah, this is a mother of his child. Let me find out though. Well, I don't know
like they didn't they like go to Schwarzenegger with it and the home?
Was it the nanny or was he having a whole relationship on the side?
And then, let me find out.
So here's my question though.
Does this change the perception of Dave Grohl at all?
Probably a little.
I had nothing to know.
No, it definitely changed your perception.
You know who he is now. I think Kyle likes him way more.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This guy's awesome.
He's a rock star.
Yeah, he fucks people.
I know him.
That's great.
I'm just saying, like, when you're known as kind of like,
if one of the Oasis brothers fathered a kid outside of wedlock,
you'd be like, yeah, that's what they would do.
They're like kind of, you know, curmudgeon-y rock stars.
Yeah.
But when you're the nicest guy in the world
who loves family and loves togetherness,
and all of a sudden, cheating on your girl is one thing.
Fathering a kid?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's crazy.
That's insanity.
I mean, he probably didn't want her to keep the kid.
But still, you're nuttin' in a girl,
like you have a whole family and a wife, and you're no rubber nutting in a girl on
a side?
Yeah.
Like, so what I'm starting to wonder is, like, do we have to look back at the way that we've
perceived Dave Grohl as a marketing campaign that we've all fell for for years?
I think people need to-
Or is this an innocent mistake?
I think people need to stop, like, upholding random people that they don't know as perfect deities
that can do no wrong.
Like we just do this all the time where you just see a guy and you're like, that guy's
perfect and then they do anything wrong and you're like, how could they do this to me?
But they also lean into that shit, Mark.
They lean into the character of I do everything right.
And that's my only issue.
It's very easy to share the wrong things you do.
And it's also very easy for you and your publicist
to come together and put marketing dollars behind
how awesome and genuine and beautiful you are.
And you might get an ego boost out of the whole world
thinking you're the best guy in the world.
But I think every famous person does this.
Every publicist is like, okay, go do the dog charity
and we're gonna sleek at the TMZ or whatever. I think that's just the nature of what being a famous person does this. Every publicist is like, okay, go do the dog charity and we're gonna sleek it to TMZ or whatever.
You know, I think that's just the nature
of what being a famous person is.
And so he just happened to take hold
within the minds of the people.
And they were like, yeah, this guy is the greatest guy.
And then I think it's on the people to be like,
yeah, not every person's perfect.
I bet you this rock star that's been famous
since he was 15 years old
probably has done some fucking things.
Also, to be fair to him, he's not taking every photo op,
he's not taking every, we just find the cool things he does,
like bringing his son on stage to play the drums,
or whatever, that was him, right?
That was so cool.
That was awesome.
It wasn't his son, it was the...
Yeah, the band member who died,
they had his son play the drums.
We watched the video, it was amazing.
It was beautiful.
Amazing.
I'm like, go, go, go.
So I'm just, to Mark's point, yeah, these guys,
a person is all things,
not can be, we all are all things.
Yeah.
Anybody could slip up, I guess.
They've been married 21 years, so.
Yeah.
I'm not saying that makes it acceptable,
but like, if people slip up after a long time, it happens.
Yo, but slip up is like.
I know what you mean.
This is, if he just cheated, it's one thing.
It is different. It is different.
It is different.
But you don't know if the condom broke.
Again, I'm not defending the guy, but I'm just like,
he definitely fucked up.
In my experience, it's impossible to get pregnant.
So the amount of times he would have to fuck this girl
and nut in her for her to get pregnant is
You can't even count them
I don't believe in this like, you know when like the athletes get the girls pregnant all the time. I'm like, yeah
Yeah, they're fucking thousands of girls and nutting in them,
and then eight got pregnant.
They also have like the best sperm, objectively.
I don't even believe that.
No, I mean, think about it.
All they eat is gummy bears.
It's the most athletic sperm.
I mean, that's great.
It can get over any obstacles.
Yes, but like.
The spin move.
I understand that, but I don't subscribe to it.
How not?
I don't believe it.
I just don't believe it.
I just don't believe it.
I wanna eat gummy bears and look like these motherfuckers
like that's good cheese.
Yeah, I don't believe it.
That's actually, you actually just,
I understand the point you guys are making.
What I'm saying right now is no.
What I'm saying is no.
You're listening to the abortion debate here,
like why would you kill a kid
if you paid money to put it in there?
Exactly. Right?
Why would you do this?
Exactly.
It's craziness.
When I hear these people arguing over abortion, I'm like, what do you mean?
There's no babies.
What are you talking about?
It's impossible to get pregnant.
What are you even thinking?
Why is this even an argument?
If someone has it, I'll pay you to keep it and take it off your hands.
Yeah. Why is this even an argument if someone has it? I'll pay you to keep it and take it off your hands.
Yeah, exception for ****ing incest, you're not gonna do IVF on your sister?
This is disgusting. This is ****ing...
Wait, don't think about it. Don't think about it.
You're right, you're right.
So, so when I hear this I'm like, wow, like this guy, this guy really wanted to get this girl pregnant.
That's how I interpret it
I genuinely am like he wanted her to be pregnant bad, and that's why he not even heard for ten years straight
That also could be true. We don't know the info. He hasn't said her name. He just put that there's how old is Dave girl
He's probably 50s. Yeah, get the fuck out of here
Get a 50 year old rock star
Get the fuck out of here
Get a 50 year old rock star
55 55 year old rock stars been doing fucking drugs and drink in the majority of his life
Bust one time in some Russian honey pot and she's pregnant
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Maybe he's been fucking thousands of girls.
That's the one he got.
I subscribe.
Maybe she's Latina.
Maybe.
And this is a big.
There's a lot of different things.
Malcolm Graham will write an entire book about this outlier.
This is true.
Now I will sit.
Now we're talking here.
If this is just what he does,
he just busts down every single girl on the road,
just nuts in every single one,
then, and this is just the one that got pregnant,
because what might come out is other girls might be like,
he's acting like he doesn't do this,
but like he fucks us all at the Alconums,
and that's kind of his kink and he likes to do that?
Then what is the perception?
I think that he's cool as fuck.
He's a rock star finally.
That's my guy.
Right?
Not this gay likable shit he's been doing.
I'm a hero or whatever that song is.
There goes my hero.
There goes my hero.
Which is what his fans are thinking.
Apparently there's cheating allegations in the 90s with Bonona Ryder and many other people that he dated in the 90s
Okay, so he was just fucking all these bitches and one finally caught up
A hot musician bangs people
Come on
Why you gotta call him hot?
Cause he's a hot guy
I don't know if anybody could sit in his hot seat
Why do you do this to him?
I don't think he's from the hot seat.
This guy is hot, dude.
What are you even talking about?
This guy is hot.
No way, dude.
Is he Asian?
He is actually 100% Korean.
He looks like Banu Yeta's Down Syndrome brother.
There's no way he's gotta be Asian, right? It's just bright, I think.
Maybe he's just bright.
No.
So do we know the girl?
No.
Damn, I wish we knew.
I do think if you marry a rock star or an NBA athlete
or a professional athlete in general and they cheat,
as a woman, it's like, what do you think was gonna happen?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like, oh, it's like, if you're tall.
What?
What?
What?
Can I get through the metaphor?
Y'all don't even know where I'm going with the metaphor.
It's like, if you're tall, you're gonna cheat.
Right, like you gotta expect that
if you date dating someone tall
yeah you can see so many other girls exactly define tall i like five nine
no no no no no but like yeah exactly it's like you know you're with the tall guy he's gonna bang
his head on shit a little bit and that's something you have to expect. Both heads. Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.
But yeah, dude.
Trump need to get shot at again.
That might be the only thing that can save him.
I mean, like, I don't want that to happen.
I just want to clarify that.
He wants to win.
But if he wants to win, I think another attempt would be helpful.
I don't want that to happen.
And I hope that that attempt fails. Just pointing that out here. That is the tragic. Did I say
something illegal?
It was illegal right there. What I said.
I don't think it's illegal.
But if, if, if Kamala wants to lock it up.
Wait, she also has to fake one.
She got to eat a cat live.
She also has to fake one. She got to eat a cat live.
What the fuck?
Why would I?
She got to eat a cat live on TV.
She got to skin a cat and barbecue that little.
Just tear it up live.
Wait a minute, no that's not what she should do.
I got a little trick trick.
I think they both need to do assassination attempts.
On each other?
On themselves.
Exactly.
Duel?
At the debate they're both like whoa and bullets fly past both of them.
I mean if someone tries to shoot a a comlet and she evades it,
she wins guaranteed.
Oh, it's not even a fucking question.
She wins. She wins guaranteed.
Not even a question.
Yeah. Oh my goodness.
Speaking of Taylor Swift.
So, wait, real quick, how much of...
That's motherfuckin'
How much of her doing better?
Well, fuck it.
How much of her...
I hate you with all my heart and passion.
Oh, no, but actually, her man biting your style.
That is true. That's crazy.
Welcome to the club, my boy. That's all I'm trying to say.
You gave it up.
You gave it up.
You did give it up.
So the moment you fainted, he's like, it's mine now.
You did give it up.
He did wait.
He did wait.
But now it's his now.
And he blamed it on the movie, so he can't even take credit
like he wanted to do it.
No, I didn't want to do it.
The movie asked me to do it, so I got to give them the credit.
But he is...there's one where he has his hair parted like I have my hair.
It is like shockingly similar.
All I'm trying to say is, you know what I mean?
Like, welcome to the gang.
I'm the innovator. It's all good.
Did he just get tired of being good looking?
I don't understand. What's going on here?
That was insulting to both of them.
You just hurt everybody's feelings. Yeah like you killed two birds with one stone.
I mean, that is the haircut to make
yourself look uglier, though.
Like you look much better now.
Thanks, Al.
You knew you were.
You're a handsome guy.
That haircut made you less handsome.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
But you knew that.
Why y'all care about being handsome?
Yeah.
Yeah. But you knew that why y'all care about being Wow So I'm pulling down, holy shit, believe me, I'm pulling down, holy shit. Believe this for me, I'm pulling down, holy shit.
Damn.
Oh my god.
Wow.
Wow, y'all are crazy making me say them things.
Making me say these things.
Oh my god.
Boy, cook it.
Oh my god.
No, but pull him up at the US Open,
because that's when he really looks like jokes.
You know exactly where it was at all times.
I don't even think it was US Open.
I think he had the bucket hat.
He had the Gucci bucket at the US Open.
Oh, it wasn't...
I think he was going to something else, not like I've been paying attention.
Yo, we are gay guys.
We are gay guys.
Yo, what's wrong with that?
I don't like the...
We're full of Gucci fit.
We judging motherfuckers for eating animals we already eat.
When there's guys butt-fucking sucking cocks.
Wait, what? You know what I mean?
What about that neighborhood?
You know what I mean? We're talking about the...
You know it wrong.
We're talking about the Haitians.
You think about it.
We're talking about the Haitians in Springfield, Illinois.
You going out to the West Village,
there's guys sticking their dicks in poop.
For the love of the game.
Find a hole in the logic, go.
Come on.
Find a hole in the logic.
Pretend you don't work with Wheezy and find a hole in the logic. Find a hole in the logic. Pretend you don't work with Wheezy and find a hole in the logic.
Find a hole in my logic.
Haitians don't do that.
They're not going to put their dick in food.
Hell no.
No, no.
Never.
They never do such a thing.
They will eat a duck whole in one bite.
They will.
Sometimes.
They will.
They like duck.
But they won't put their dick in a shitter.
Shout out to Haitians, bro.
I defend y'all, man. Yeah.
Imagine seeing them, like, do the whole neck breaking thing
with a duck like that.
That's a little too much.
What video you see about this neck breaking?
The way you kill a chicken.
I had to do that one time.
I had to do that one time.
You twist a chicken's head off?
A duck.
You have to spin it around like that.
How'd it feel?
Kind of weird.
Made you feel sad a little.
You know that, like, psychos do that when they're kids, right?
I didn't go for fun.
I went hunting.
No, you didn't go hunting.
You did not go hunting.
Yes, I did.
You were one of them.
You were close, man.
You went hunting for fun, for the record.
Yeah.
Go, cause you needed the food.
I did go to Central Park.
I went to Central Park and I got the dog.
You were close, Mark.
And I gave it to an Asian guy.
So you don't take this home.
What do we always say about Mark? I was an elite in Bedwetter. Always say. All of us here and I got the dog. You were close, Mark. And I gave it to an Asian guy. So you don't take this home. What do we always say about Mark?
I wasn't always saying.
All of us here is definitely the closest.
He was killing animals as a child.
I was a latent bedwetter, too.
This is another symptom.
No, I used to do that shit off of pure laziness.
Respect.
That's fire.
Pure laziness.
Pure laziness.
I'd be waking up, I'd be like, ugh,
I'm not trying to get up.
And I'd just pee on me.
That's wild, bro. That's me. That's wild, bro.
That's crazy.
That shit was fire, bro.
That is crazy.
So warm until it's cold.
And then what do you do?
So warm until it's cold.
You are nasty.
You are nasty, dude.
What do you do then?
Hey, when you get out, I go down the little ladder,
because my brother's sleeping beneath.
Oh, it would seem that.
He's getting Chinese water torture.
They say boop like that.
Boop, boop.
That's how COVID started.
Boop, boop.
Damn.
That's crazy.
The good old days.
So nice.
To be a kid again.
Literally.
And just pee in your bed.
Just to let it rip in your own bed.
Yeah.
The comfort of that, the warmth of that.
But you would change your sheets or the next day?
Nah, you just bury your dick in that piss mount.
What?
What?
What?
What?
Speaking of Taylor Swift.
American minds can't understand just sticking your dick in a piss mount.
The European minds cannot fathom pissing in your bed, letting a Chinese water torture onto
your brother's forehead.
Quantum obey.
The European mind cannot.
Why is the European mind incapable of fathom burying your dick into a twin size mattress
and just peeing through it till you hit the coils.
Why can the European mind not fathom that?
Why can they not fathom it?
It drives me crazy.
The European mind getting up, walking to the the toilet peeing in it
European countries run by some fat dyke in Germany
run by some fat dyke in Germany. She's not even there anymore.
She's done.
What is her name?
How could she possibly understand?
Mama Merkel?
Yeah.
How could she possibly understand?
I don't know.
Sticking your dick in a piss mug.
She doesn't fucking know anything.
Built like Gru.
Making laws.
It's fucking European minds, bro.
Yeah, so anyway, if you were president, what would you do?
What's up? What's up with what's up with Tenet Media, bro?
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
That's kind of wild. Shout out to them.
You know, we fucked up. How do we not get a bag for that?
I know.
What the hell are we doing?
I'd have been a Russian puppet for a long time.
We're backing up Trump for free. Say it again? Yeah. What the hell? We're fucking idiots. Is that what are we doing? I'd have been a Russian puppet for a long time. We're backing up Trump for free?
Say it again? Yeah, what the hell? We're fucking idiots.
Is that what they were doing?
Yeah, they were backing up Russia and other shit.
So it's who? Tim Poole's?
It's one of the people at Ten & Media.
Their involvement, I don't know the exact details.
Lauren Chen? Dave Rubin?
Dave Rubin.
They claimed that they didn't know.
Nah, they didn't know, but they didn't bother to look into it. Yeah, they're getting crazy bags
For doing shit that didn't deserve the crazy bag. Yeah, you're getting 400,000 a month. That's kind of crazy
I'm for video your content is that fire? Oh, yeah, just four videos
Yeah, come on and the chick worked for Russia today before right Melissa Chen or whatever her name is Lauren Chen
Worked for Russia today before she started the ten immediate. Oh, wow. I'm pretty sure I'm not sure but listen
Whatever get your money. Yeah, also, I don't think they changed their by the way
I don't think they changed their perspectives, but I don't I also don't think that was the goal of the campaign
I think the goal of the campaign wasn't for them to spout out disinformation.
I think the goal of the campaign was for us,
the American people, to not trust any media.
Because if those four people are bought, who else is bought?
So you think it was their goal to get caught?
Yeah, no, I don't think.
I don't think they're upset at getting caught.
Because now I'm like, yo, who's putting the money up for rumble, bro?
Are we talking about Operation Mockingbird right now?
The greatest CIA operation ever?
Talk to me about that.
Basically, the CIA from declassified documents.
The CIA had basically put money towards independent journalists and media figures to basically
buy their influence.
Well, well, well.
Well, well, well.
From declassified documents.
They bite and I shit.
Once again.
So let's think about it. Who's putting the money up for Rumble?
Rumble is clearly giving an outlet for, I would say, the most divisive voices online.
You don't even need to pay them
to say the things they're saying.
All you need to do is amplify the voices
that are saying these things and give them a platform
because what you want is just disruption in America.
You just want people fighting.
You want people saying crazy shit and reacting to crazy shit
and making it seem like everybody here is at each other's throats.
That's what you want.
And it really doesn't cost that much for a country.
We're talking about a country here.
If a country is just like, all right, shave off a billion dollars, Russia's like, hey listen,
shave off a billion dollars of our new oil profits and just sow some disinformation in America.
Prop up a bunch of these streaming platforms,
buy some of a bunch of these,
I don't know what you even call rumble,
I guess it's stream, but it's also like videos.
Like I don't know, I don't know where Tucker,
I don't know where Tucker's at.
Tucker's so egregious with it.
Didn't he do an entire video
telling him how great Russia was?
That's the only reason I'm like,
I don't know if they're propping him up
because he literally was there saying how amazing a Russian grocery store is.
Like that would be like two on the nose.
But maybe.
Yeah.
Like who's the money behind?
Like I want to know where the money is.
But the fact that I want to know might be the point of the campaign.
It was just really interesting to see independent media within a few years completely discredit
itself.
We were so excited about independent journalism until they got the taste, or independent journalists
got the taste of money, and they immediately leaned into whatever gets them the most views
and the most money, which is exactly what CNN does and Fox News does.
It took a matter of years before greed
completely manipulated free media.
I wonder if it's cheaper.
Like I wonder if like the money it takes to like
buy a CNN or to buy a Fox is so much more than like
paying a hundred independent influencers.
And much less dangerous because CNN and Fox
gotta vet you a little bit because they're on the hook with their
What's it called? They're publicly traded companies. Yeah, so they're on the hook with their people on the stock, people on the shares, and if it looks like they're
corrupted, forget it, game over. I mean my understanding is that Fox would have won that Dominion lawsuit
like if it actually went to court, but Rupert Murdoch and the other
top brass at Fox would have to take the stand and admit that they push out propaganda and
that it's sensationalized, and that would tank the company, and that is worth way more
than $800 million.
So they're like, fuck, they got us by the balls.
Okay, give them the $800 million because we'll maintain Fox,
which is a billion dollar friendship.
Yeah, wow.
But that's, it's way cheaper to buy them off.
You're paying a hundred grand a video
and then they'll say whatever they're already saying.
Again, I don't think that-
Tell me where I'm wrong in this, sorry.
And let's, because they're saying what they're,
they're all saying like, we didn't know we're victims.
Tell me where I'm wrong.
Is it not worse that you're just saying what you believe
and Russia is using that to be
like, oh, this is perfect propaganda for us?
Like if you're so American and what you're saying is something that Russians are looking
at and being like, oh, this is great for us.
This is going to ruin America.
Is that not worse?
I would almost rather you be for saying that.
Here's the reason why I think it's worse is because that assumes everything America does
is good.
Okay. And everything America does is good
Okay, right and everything Russia does is bad Yeah, and I don't exactly think that's the case when it comes to maybe the Ukraine Russia war
Right like people will be pointing out like oh, we're giving 50 billion dollars to Ukraine in weapons
This is stupid. We should be helping people here that obviously helps Russia
But that is just like a foreign policy dispute that can go either way
Okay, so they're cherry picking the things that help them as opposed to like everything you say.
They're also utilizing things that help them in ways that the person saying it might not think
initially. But I don't know if that's necessarily like...
But also...
And weren't they told, weren't some of them told what to say? Because I saw there was one video
where a guy was like, oh, Ukraine's our enemy or some shit like that.
And yeah, Tim Fool had said on an earlier stream, I don't know the exact date, but something
to the effect of like Ukraine is the enemy of America.
Yeah, there is no proof as of now that he the only two people I think that they know
for sure that knew were Lauren Chen and then whoever the other she started her and her
husband started the 10 a company.
So yeah, they're definitely spies.
And they're also from Canada. And that's another thing that's fucking annoying.
It's just like, yo, mind your business, yo. If you're from Canada,
don't start a fucking media company in America. I'm all about like,
all of you mind your fucking business. When it comes to our politics,
mind your fucking business. Don't start a media company here. Don't do that shit.
I mind your business. Go talk about your shit. I mean that. Go talk about your shit. Yeah, but they should not pop them. Say again. They should not that's what annoys me. I mean
It was kind of annoying when Trevor Noah talked to Americans about racism and it's like buddy
Couldn't you like not walk down the street with your fucking?
Like yeah, you guys don't know anything about the country. You know, you haven't lived in Alabama. You haven't lived in Arkansas
You're using these places as punchlines, but you don't know anything about the country. You don't you haven't lived in Alabama. You haven't lived in Arkansas. You're using these places as punch lines, but you don't know anything about them. Like it's just not.
Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. All of you. Shut up. You're just here to be famous. And this is your way
to be famous, your way to make money. But shut up. I'm sorry. Like it is it is getting a little bit
annoying. It is. This is your choice. You came here for fame. And this is the avenue of fame.
I would feel uncomfortable going to a foreign country and and this is the avenue of fame. I would feel uncomfortable
going to a foreign country and then shitting on half of it. Like as my job every week,
I would feel uncomfortable. I would feel and also the Americans were so self-loathing that
like we allow it to happen, which is like hysterical.
That's a product of privilege, being self-loathing.
Of course, 100%. That was a great point. But if we went to another country and did it,
they would fucking berate us.
Imagine an American goes to England,
puts on a weekly talk show where he shits on half of England.
And look at these poor fucking, what do you call them,
yokels and they dumb motherfuckers up in Yorkshire
and these idiots.
They would be riding in the streets.
Let's go do a daily show in Iran.
Let's do a daily show in Iran.
Great fucking idea.
That'd be fun.
It's almost like comedians going to other countries and shitting on them every time they get there. Let's go do a daily show in Iran. Let's do a daily show in Iran. Great fucking idea. That'd be fun.
It's almost like comedians going to other countries
and shitting on them every time they get there.
Well, I would think that I do it in a way that acknowledges,
like I'm very deliberate about the way I do it.
It's like, hopefully when I leave, those people there go,
wow, he like really took some time to understand the culture
and really figure out what's going on here.
That's a peculiar thing.
It's also like, this is a stupid way of saying it.
It's like my way of saying, thank you for coming out.
That's my way of going, hey, like,
I'm not just gonna make this only about me.
I want you to know that like,
I appreciate you guys being here
and I appreciate your country.
Yeah, and it's not politically driven.
Yeah, it's not shitting on the politicians or.
Exactly, I'm not trying to get you to vote red or blue based on, and it's not politically true. Yeah, it's not shitting on the politicians or... Exactly.
I'm not trying to get you to vote red or blue based on, I know you're fucking around, but
like, it is a good thing to bring up because I think that could be a reaction, but I think
the distinct difference is like, I'm doing it out of like love.
I'm like, hey, I love, I appreciate you guys being here and I want to let you guys know,
here are some jokes about you guys too.
When they're doing it here, they're doing it for money and fame.
Yeah, they're interested in these topics for sure. But I imagine if
someone was like, Hey, can you guys not do that show? And instead, I just want to make
you an action superhero. I think they'd be like, okay. Yeah. That's why John Stewart
is the go. I don't think there's many people that would say no to that. Of course not.
Like, but you're also 100,000 for a minute video. Like, you're gonna give me a 100,000 for a eight minute video.
I'm like, yeah.
That's my shit on Iron Man.
That's the reason why I don't criticize them
because I don't think they knew.
No, I do criticize them.
I don't think that they knew
and you don't go asking where the money comes from.
Are you talking about the Tenant Media guys right now,
right, not John Oliver, Trevor Noah?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
The Tenant Media guys,
you don't go asking
where the money comes from.
Like, we don't ask where the fucking money comes from.
We're gonna do a sponsorship on this podcast today.
I haven't vetted any of these companies.
Bluechew could be owned by fucking China, for all I know.
And they're trying to get our dicks hard.
They're trying to get our dicks hard.
They're doing a good job.
They are doing a good job.
Now, so it's very,
so I do like have some empathy for the,
not the Lauren Chen one and her husband
who are clearly a Russian.
But Tim Pool and all these other guys.
I do have some empathy.
And they apparently gave them a story.
They said that the,
they've said that the funding came from a fictitious persona
of a wealthy European sponsor, Edward Gregorian.
Gregorian, yeah.
I would be, I would take the money.
I'd be like, yeah, it's good enough for me.
This is a wealthy guy that wants content for his thing.
He wants Trump to win or whatever.
He's like a right wing dude and he's going to make money on it.
You could be like, all right, maybe.
The point that I think that we should be making here is that all of the independent journalists and independent media that has
been shaming mainstream media for being biased, for being bought by the corporations, I think
it's very hard for them to continue doing that, knowing that they don't spend that much
time vetting the people sponsoring their videos. Because if you really care about being unbiased, even if you are in your videos, the fact that
the people know that you've been bought by special interest groups, it can discredit
what you're saying.
Yeah.
In the same way that we discredit CNN or Fox News for maybe not being as critical as they
could be about the pharmaceutical
industry is because they are responsible for 50% of their ads.
Now CNN and Fox might be like, we do stories all the time about how fucked up the pharmaceutical
industry and the Sackler family pushing fentanyl, whatever it is.
But the perception is still, you're bought.
It's also worth noting that the report basically says that they had influence on their content.
So it wasn't for some of them.
Yeah, that's what I heard.
I read that the DOJ said that all of them outside of the Lauren Chen and her husband,
all the other creators are not being accused of ties or espionage or having their videos
be manipulated.
That's what I read in the DOJ report.
This says the two defendants requested
that tenant influencers produce content
blaming the Krakow City Hall attack on Ukraine and the US.
But that doesn't mean that they were forced
to make that content, it just means that that content
aligned with what they wanted.
No, I think they're saying it asked them to make it,
but it doesn't say who.
It could have been one person,
like they asked them to make that content
and the rest of them didn't know.
Right.
You see what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, it doesn't say which one,
and it always just says like commentator one and two
and just says their subscriber amount.
So it doesn't actually say who did what.
But according to this, it just says that
two defendants requested,
the two defendants requested that tenant influencers
produce content blaming this attack on Ukraine.
So if they're requesting it, again, I don't know if they agreed to it.
Maybe they said no.
They could have just asked Lauren Chen and her husband, and then they decided who they
wanted to make that content.
They told those guys to make that content.
They made that content.
And maybe they said no.
The guys who didn't know didn't know.
We don't want to.
Yeah.
I don't know necessarily, but if there is an outside influence and foreign dollars changing
the type of content that you make
To me that is more egregious. I think the important thing is that we are all willing to sell out myself included
Russia was up
We need all this time like in the back for saying I'm team China over here man missing out. Yeah for years
Yeah, what you think about the Tucker interview with?
the Yeah for years. Yeah, what you think about the Tucker interview with the
martyr made guy
Clips it's not even close to as bad if you watch the whole thing is the way it's being perceived on
Yeah, the way that I saw it on Twitter was this guy said the Holocaust wasn't that bad It It was it was poor planning. The concentration camps were poor planning.
I think it was actually the planning was really well done.
It was like a masterful planning.
And then Winston Churchill was a coward and like the true enemy of the war.
Oh, yeah. The soundbites that I heard and saw the true villain.
OK, so here's what I'll say. I listen to the whole thing.
A couple of things going on here.
If you are a historian, you dedicate your life to...
Okay, he says a couple things.
He says he likes creating content around cultural mythology.
And what happens is every culture has their mythology.
There's religious mythology, but there's also cultural mythology,
meaning like this is the course of history in America.
This is how we see it, and this is exactly what happened,
and we do not chip away at that.
We do not offer alternative takes.
This is just what we all accept happened.
And the way he framed it is like,
and oftentimes like that isn't exactly what happened.
It is just the framework of what we want to believe happened.
And there is wiggle room for truth.
Now, the way that he describes the Jews, what happened in the Holocaust in this brief moment,
and Churchill.
I'll start with the Churchill thing.
This is pretty interesting.
He goes, I once said to a friend, and I may have been being hyperbolic and purposely antagonistic,
but I said to him, the real chief villain of World War II was Winston Churchill. But
he caveats it going, I'm trying to antagonize him. And what he strikes me as is a guy who gets his intellectual rocks off
by
exposing things to people
that they feel they truly understand and
Showing them that there is another take that they don't understand at all
Now the problem with this is nobody does as much research as him, except the other experts.
The rest of us don't.
We watch a few World War II movies,
we learn about it in school,
and we're like, that's what happened.
And then he comes over and he goes,
the original idea of the Germans and Hitler
was not to have, would not to just kill all the Jews,
that this was a, how do you phrase it?
They used specific language.
I don't remember.
It was a planning error, and basically what happened is
they had all these people
and they didn't have enough food to feed them,
and they said, there's even letters from the guards,
like would the humane thing to be to do is kill them
instead of having them all starve slowly throughout
the winter.
Okay, now here's the interesting thing about this, right?
None of us have read anything about World War II.
None of us can refute that.
None of us have read the letter he's referencing.
None of us have read the books that he's referencing. We don't
know. Do we want to read the books? No. Are we going to read the letter? No. You know
what's way easier? This guy's a fucking anti-Semite. That motherfucker hates Jews because I don't
want to read. That is way easier. And that's what we do with most things. When we have
to do a lot of intellectual heavy lifting, we just go, I don't want to deal with this
fucking shit. We do it all the time with black people.
Somebody offers certain statistics about black crime
and these things, and then someone goes,
yeah, shut up, you racist.
And it's like, whoa, whoa.
I do think with what he's saying here,
there's just a couple questions that you would ask follow-ups,
like why were they in the camps?
You can't, why did they not get the, what's going on?
Okay, it's like even having this conversation, I think what we have to acknowledge here is
that most historians that have reacted to this have said that he's incredibly wrong,
that he is, in my estimation, he's just trying to have a hot take about history.
If you dedicate your life to history, you can't just write a new book that's the same
book that everybody's written. You're not going to sell any copies.
So he's trying to be almost a comedian about it, where it's like, okay, here's another
angle you didn't know about.
I think a lot of times historians do this when they want attention.
Here's the reality.
There is maybe some truths in this thing, but it's not as sexy when there's just little
bits of truth.
It's sexier and gets the entire internet talking when you come from a completely different angle.
Okay?
So, just to caveat that.
You said something real quick.
Wouldn't it be easy to just ask follow-up questions like, why were they on the campus in the first place?
His argument would be like, okay, what we're doing is we're purifying the German identity.
We don't consider Jews German. We also don't
consider the Catholics Germans or the blacks Germans or the fucking gypsies or whatever.
I think they were also in the camps as well. So the Jews just happen to be the largest
minority in Germany at the time. It's not like there were tons of fucking Muslims and
shit there. Jews are the largest. So they're the largest quantity of people that are in
the camps.
There's also this idea that they've been being blamed and Hitler used this hatred of Jews
and they're controlling the banks and they're the ones that are suffocating the German economy.
He used this fear-mongering to build this kind of support, which he's not acknowledging
close to enough in this argument.
He's not-
The Mein Kampf thing that you brought up last time.
It's like, isn't that the whole point of the book? I don't know. I haven't
read my comp, so I can't say whether he said, yo, we're gonna gather them all up
and kill them. But even after mine comp, like as he's coming up in power, like
Andrew's saying, Jews are mentioned in every single top. Absolutely. So
absolutely. Absolutely. So again, even this is like so delicate to talk about
because in my head, as we're talking about this, I'm like, oh, they're gonna
take some excerpt out and say, oh, they're apologizing for the
hog.
That's why these conversations are impossible.
Or keep it while we do it.
Exactly.
So again, this is like the way to have a hot take on history.
See it all the time.
I wonder if historians will also do this where in the conversation there is a basic assumption
of facts that they don't always reiterate them.
Like, you know, like when comics hang, like the jokes will be dark and fucked up because
there is a basic assumption like, yeah, we're comics, like I'm making fun of like your dead
dog because that's what we do.
And that's what like we're friends like that.
So I wonder if historians do that.
We're like, oh, well, did you know this about World War Two?
And the assumption is like, yeah, Hitler is bad. But they don't always reiterate it because they're
sort of desensitized to the topic at hand.
So I thought that.
And then he was on Twitter defending his position.
I read this whole thread.
Basically, the word he's apologizing for Hitler,
I wouldn't say he's apologized.
He's like, this person is horrible.
What he did to humanity is disgusting.
He's awful. It's vile. That's not what he's apologized. He's like, this person is horrible. What he did to humanity is disgusting, is awful, is vile.
That's not what he's saying.
It's incredibly vile.
But what he's saying is that in his position, he didn't think that Hitler wanted to extend
the war and that it was actually Churchill.
And then there's a veiled suggestion that Churchill had some debts that were paid
off by, he doesn't say it, but the Jews, and he's kind of in the pockets of the Zionists,
and they wanted this war expanded, and that's why he continued the war when what he alleges
that Hitler was trying to sue for peace.
In other words, he was like, I don't want to go into Britain.
I got everything that we need.
We're good to go.
And does he substantiate this or is this just like...
Yeah, he's like, they dropped pamphlets and did all this other shit.
And he's saying like even...
What he's saying is like Churchill was just all they had, I guess, at the time were these
fire bombs that you could drop.
And he was just fire bombing the Black Forest.
Anything to continue the conflict.
He wanted to continue the conflict.
This is what he's saying.
This is what he's saying.
Now, of course, this is incredibly engaging because you're like, well, I haven't heard
this side of history at all.
I just heard the side where Churchill is this brilliant, Powerful brave leader that saved the world from speaking German. It also feels like it's politically and culturally convenient
Yeah, well, I'm sure that's why Tucker's happened a lot. I don't know but it is like there's like so much like anti Israeli
Vitriol and oh, yeah, and it's like also World War two the Jews did it you're like, yeah
Oh what yeah also by the way just a technical thing on the bombing runs
Like this is proven the Brits would would do the bombing runs at night
Because they were getting picked off out of the sky every two seconds the Americans who actually had some kind of consideration
We're doing the bombing runs in the day time. I'm talking about black forest drops. We're talking about different time
We're talking about before the Americans have even engaged in the war and before
Britain is even officially at war with Germany We're talking about a different time. We're talking about before the Americans have even engaged in the war and before Britain
is even officially at war with Germany.
So like, I think Germany invades Poland, then they take France, and then apparently Hitler's
gone, yo, I don't have any intention of going to Great Britain, like the real war is going
to be East with-
It's called the phony war, I believe.
I don't know the term for it.
But yeah, again, so you're listening to this and you're like, wow, I haven't heard this take
on this historical event.
And even if you disagree, you're gonna read the whole thread.
You're gonna go through it.
Yeah, it's fascinating.
Like I'm not even saying this to pick on you,
Dove would read the whole thread
because he'd be so riled up by it.
But I mean, I understand what he's,
that's how we're paying attention,
we're talking about it right now.
Yeah.
These historians, man, just stick to ancient civilizations
and aliens with a cloud. Oh, you know Jews actually started aliens you know that right?
Really? You didn't know about that? I believe this. So what's actually interesting, like it's
interesting you say that when there's enough time you can speak about the historical moment, right?
And nobody really cares.
If somebody's talking about what Alexander the Great really did or what he really conquered
and someone has an alternative take, it's not like the Macedonian community is coming
out, well, actually, technically, his body didn't go to Egypt and it went over here and
we have maybe a few people, but it's so distant.
It is funny, because sometimes you will see people doing this, and you're like, wait,
what's going on?
Yeah, you don't even know.
I was talking about Mahenjidara.
What's that?
Mahenjidara, like this ancient civilization that got destroyed, and there's bodies everywhere.
I was trying to catch him.
I was in the government.
But no, I brought it up, and I was like, yeah, it's located in modern-day Pakistan.
And then there's all these comments of people being like,
it wasn't Pakistan back then, that was India.
We built that. And I'm like, you're...
Come on.
Perfect example, it's like only a small
faction of people are going to be really riled up about it.
And it also doesn't matter.
But this is so close,
and it is, like he said, part of
our accepted mythology. The Western mythology that is accepted
is this and
When you chip away at that there are gonna be people that are incredibly angry one because they're like have I been lied to my whole life
Well, I'd rather not be lied to my whole life. I read this guy be a liar
Right because I don't want to do all this research and learn all this different reality like foundation
I seem to do some genius to take out specific soundbites to make him look terrible now. He doubles down on other things that I think are very
Would cause a lot of engagement but also I
Would might be seen as racist I don't think they're racist per se but it's this perception that like
He is empathy for like the white people in England that like died.
Their ancestors died in World War II.
They fought this war to maintain the idea of what an English person is.
The whole argument is we can't let Germany take us over.
We'll lose our identity as England.
We should die and all these people should
die so that our children can grow up with an English identity, something that we've
preserved for a thousand years.
It doesn't seem racist at all.
Now he's like, now you have all these immigrants coming in and completely changing what it
is to be an English person and an English identity and what is England. And then he's
like, well, what the fuck did we do all that fighting for?
What was the purpose of that?
And he thinks that a country has the right.
He goes, his argument is that this is American influence over the West.
Where American's identity is built around accepting immigrants and
give us your week, give us your hungry.
And we've never had this moment where being an American is this one thing.
It's always been about accepting, right?
And we're kind of imposing that on these countries that have existed for thousands of years.
And now people are eating dogs in Buckingham Palace.
What's going on? They're coming over here.
So, yeah, I remember.
That's with fish and chips.
Exactly.
Seeing that stuff and I was like, okay, this is what the guy's doing. This is what guys he's catering to a fan base
He's gonna get his money. Go ahead buddy
And I don't but at the same time like I don't I don't know if that's like a horrible argument
I think you have to like spend some time in Europe to understand it because if you try to understand through an American lens
It makes no sense at all
Like what makes New York amazing is the diversity what makes New York amazing are all these different cultures. We're all living together. We're sharing culture and
we've curated the most amazing city in the world. It's truly amazing.
He's a comedian with some really interesting premises. Yeah. But you shouldn't take him
seriously when you go home. But I don't know if you, I don't know if you believe that.
Because if all of a sudden, again, white people started moving to India and changing what
Indian culture is.
Like, you've already complained about Indian culture becoming too westernized.
Yeah, but that's again because-
And Japanese people started coming and then making it a little more Japanese.
Like-
I'm going to cut you off because India got imperialized, got conquered.
India was supposed to have an entirely different trajectory.
It got Rob Pillage raped, fucked. Now to have an entirely different trajectory. It got Rob Pillage rape fucked.
Now I have a sensitivity to it.
England didn't get imperialized Rob Pillage rape fucked by any of these
foreigners for sure coming in.
No Indian country.
That's not true.
But you're bringing in Indians when you have the British Empire for sure.
But I mean, like, of course the Roman Empire conquered them.
I mean, yeah, not by, but not exactly, not by the people that you don't like.
He doesn't have a problem with Romans,
Italians coming over.
No, he does.
He's a problem with Italians.
Yeah, so.
You think those guys that are rioting.
He's saying each country,
like if Italians came and made England Italian,
he is an issue with it.
He doesn't like the no border policy.
He doesn't, so he's like every country that fought for their identity should be able to uphold that
identity.
The people he's defending, they don't have a problem with Italians.
The people he's saying, I understand where they're coming from and sympathizing with.
I'm not going to argue on them.
But that's who he's supporting.
Sure, sure, sure.
What I'm just saying, I hear what you're saying.
But his argument about a nation being able to fight for its identity and if it doesn't, by not accepting large amounts of immigrants, they are looked
at as racist?
I don't know if they should be looked at as racist.
If the idea of fighting that war was to preserve the English identity and accepting large groups of people
from other countries is naturally gonna chip away
at that singular identity.
I understand the logic behind it.
That could be one of the many emotions,
but I do think there's some racism involved
in the same way that like, they're not gonna be upset
at the Italian restaurant opening up in their neighborhood.
You've made that argument.
I'm not saying that.
I'm making- And this is just to what I'm saying earlier. That's made that argument. I'm not saying that.
And this is just to what I'm saying earlier. That's a great premise. I can't find a ton of holes in it. A comedian has a great premise. You can't just find the holes in it. It's fun. But we both know
at the end of the day, this is not like a real thing this person believes or you should know.
See, I don't like getting into those arguments where it's like we're going to assume what they
really mean. Like I'm just trying to have the argument based on like the words that are said, which
is does a country like does Hawaii have the ability to maintain their Hawaiian culture
and when Western culture starts to come in or even Japanese culture where these other
cultures start to chip away at the Hawaiian identity, do they have the right to be frustrated
with that or are they racist when they're frustrated?
Yeah, but again, you're talking about a colonized place that was in, like that's where the difference
is.
It just is different.
Okay, remove colonization.
Like, just do a thought experiment.
But you cannot.
Just do a thought experiment.
Hey, yeah, as a thought experiment, if they had never been colonized, don't worry about
it.
Everybody's been colonized, so that cancels out everybody.
I mean, they're still colonized, like right now.
Okay. Okay.
This is why these things are so difficult.
It's really hard to just even hypothetically discuss it.
Like, if Mexico got mad at a bunch of Americans moving in, I would honestly be like, eh, country
changes.
Like, Mexico has been its own country for a long time. Country changes.
It's not Indians moving into England where it's like, well,
we have to come here because you actively took all of our jewels.
They're still in your fucking palace. So I have more opportunity here.
I'm coming.
You think those jewels are doing anything?
India was a wealthy.
Jewels are going to help two billion. I hate this revisionist history where India was wealthy and then now all of a sudden they're
broke.
Yeah.
How is that now all of a sudden?
What are you even talking about?
I mean, look at Africa.
They took all their resources and Africa is still a poor continent.
I just know that you don't have anything to substantiate that. So it's like, there's no way to, we're living in like a world where there's no way to prove
the trajectory would have gone completely positive.
There could have been in-fighting and war.
I don't think it would have been completely positive.
But it would have been, I said it was just completely different trajectory.
I didn't say it was worse.
Completely different trajectory.
That they did not have control of.
In that situation with Mexico,
I would totally understand if Mexico was like,
hey, I don't want you chipping away at our culture.
I think that is happening a little bit.
I think some Mexicans are mad that El Salvadorians come up
and they take over longclaves or something.
I was talking about Mexican bodies,
they have immigrants that are moving through
and they get annoyed by it.
I don't know if it's all in Mexico, I doubt it.
And again, we're different, especially like New York, They have like immigrants that are moving through and they get annoyed by it. I don't know if it's all of Mexico. I doubt it.
And again, we're different in especially like New York because this is part of our identity. We've had these different groups of people that we fully embrace coming in here and becoming
part of the fabric of what it is to be an American from the beginning.
Even when we went west, there's Mexicans, there's Native Americans, there's always
all these different people. Even when we're uniting the country, we were colonies of different countries, so there
are different cultures for us to even handle.
You go down to New Orleans and there's like French speakers.
There's just all this different stuff that we've had to deal with.
So this is our idea of what a country is.
Some of these scoop the bagel ass people.
Like they-
That's right.
I'm a scoop the bagel.
Get the fuck out of here.
I might do that. That's racist. Get those people out there.
So I do think we're projecting our idea of like acceptance on other countries that are
just like, hey, listen, we've worked thousands of years to curate this identity and we don't
want to water that identity down.
And the people that do come in here and if they end up watering it down, it's not going to be something we like, and don't call us racist for that.
You tell me if I'm wrong.
Like, let's say a bunch of Chinese people start to move into Italy, and they start to like change what it is to be an Italian. Are they racist for that?
No, probably nationalist.
But is that wrong?
I mean, I guess it depends to what degree.
Based on our perspective of a country, that's wrong.
But we also don't have thousands of years of history.
Mm-hmm.
And like identity built into that.
Like, I don't know, I would feel wrong.
I know India is a different example, but like, I'd feel like, let's say we white people,
just Europeans started moving into China and slowly changing China and making China more white.
Like I would, and they were like, Hey, we don't like how China is becoming so like Westernized.
Like we're losing our cultural identity. I wouldn't be like, you fucking racist. How dare you?
Like I'd be like, yeah, I get that. Like we're coming to your shit and then making your shit ours.
We talk about this with gentrification all the time.
That's what I'm thinking about.
Like when it comes to gentrification,
we unanimously agree it's wrong.
And then when it comes to the gentrification of a country.
We don't like it, but we don't stop it.
Yeah, that's true.
But it's oftentimes the people that there
don't have the power to stop it.
And if they maybe did have the power,
they would do something.
I guess like.
I think it's like a power and affluence thing.
Like I think powerful countries that don't accept immigrants
in large degrees are then seen as like xenophobic.
Whereas poor countries that don't accept them
are seen as protectionist.
Yeah, like they seem like they're conserving their resources
and like not just letting anyone.
And maybe that's why Italy wouldn't bother me as much.
Also maybe just Italian culture is cooler to me or whatever.
So the Italy thing, I'm like, I get it more for Italy than England.
I also think if you have a problem with the people coming in, that's a little different
than saying, hey, if you're going to come here, just assimilate.
If you're going to come here, do our shit.
I wouldn't love that, but I get it.
If you're going to move to my country, embrace our culture, this-assimilate. If you're gonna come here, do our shit. I wouldn't love that, but I get it. If you're gonna move to my country,
embrace our culture, this is what it is.
If they're telling the people,
come here and embrace what it is to be English.
Muslims, stop doing that to women.
And that's fine, but when you have a problem with them
coming in, it starts to feel different.
So here's the thing.
You're damned if you do, damned if you don't.
If you say, hey, if you come here,
you gotta take on our traditions and customs,
like France basically says, hey, you can't wear the hijab, you can't do that.
Then all of a sudden you're like, well, you're not really a free country.
These people can't even live free.
Right?
Like, they're criticized all the time for the lack of freedom that they're giving Muslim
women.
I think they said they couldn't wear hijabs during the Olympics.
So they're restricting their freedom. They're basically saying you're free to be French,
but then don't be not French about it. But then also, they don't want to restrict their
own citizens, so if you're a citizen of France, you have the freedom to reject French shit,
but not if you're coming from the outside. I guess what I'm trying to say is-
But I think this notion of a free country is very American.
Okay, that's fair. I don't know if that's a part of the cultural
identity of Western Europe. Okay, that's fair. That's fair. I guess what
I'm trying to say is, well, maybe, liberte, galite, like freedom is part of the liberte,
galite, what's the other term? Fraternity.
Fraternite, yeah. So like freedom is in the slogan for the country.
I just don't know if it's built into the cultural ethos the way it is in America.
Okay, fair. I guess what I'm trying to say is like, this is a very difficult conversation,
not difficult maybe, but prickly conversation, where every side has like decent justification,
and I think all too often, because we don't want to have a conversation,
we're like, ah, you're a racist.
Yeah, shut up, you're a racist.
I don't know if that is.
And I don't think I would call a country racist
if I was the one coming into their country
and trying to change it to make it easier for me.
And they were like, and they were rejecting that.
I wouldn't call them racist.
I would be like, that's inconvenient to me
because I want my shit.
But you're not racist for that.
I am coming to your country trying to change it
to make it good for me.
I feel like that's a little, that's a little much.
Like I'm going to your shit,
trying to make it more comfortable for me.
And when it's not, you're racist?
Yeah, I think it is a power thing though.
Like if you're coming from America,
it's like, oh yeah, you're already coming from
like a superpower.
If you're coming from a much worse off country
that's still developing,
then I think people would be like,
oh, why can't you help the needy?
Like I think like these concepts of like-
That's an American?
And that was the argument he was making.
This is an American that and that was the argument he was making. This is an American identity that we are.
Putting on European countries that have fought for thousands of years to not have.
Like, there's a reason we got they got borders out there in Europe because
millions of people have lost their lives over thousands of years to patch out those
borders so they can keep their languages and their cultures.
They're like, I don't want to be French.
I'm from Switzerland.
But we almost speak the same language.
I don't fuck with you.
Yeah.
I mean, it's definitely a new idea.
No question.
I think like a thousand years ago, if you lived in Rome, 2000 years ago, if you lived
in Rome, like your ethnicity didn't really matter so long as you assimilated to being
Roman.
Like, I don't think they had the same even understanding of like race and ethnicity in the way that we do now. your ethnicity didn't really matter so long as you assimilated to being Roman.
I don't think they had the same even understanding of race and ethnicity in the way that we do
now.
I don't think they saw people as like, oh, you are an African person or you are an Asian
person.
I think they were like, you are Roman or not Roman.
And so is that fair?
Unless you're Jewish and they put you in the ghetto.
Even back then?
Yeah, but it was fine.
But I think these are like, I think it's not necessarily built like racialized lines is
the way it is now.
Like I think the idea of ethnicity was different.
So I think that that is uniquely American, the idea of ethnicity because of the way America
developed through colonization.
Like the idea of race and like blackness and whiteness kind of comes out of that to my
understanding.
And so now that race sort of constructed, I think it has been exported to other countries
where it's like now they're grappling with this idea of racism without necessarily the
historical heritage of racism as we've had in America.
Yeah.
So whether or not they should or shouldn't, I think is like up for debate.
I don't know if it's necessarily settled.
But don't you think that like part of the ethos of America would say accept, you're
hungry, you're weak? That wasn't part of the ethos of America was to accept you're hungry, you're weak?
That wasn't part of the ethos of these other countries.
I think the only time they were accepting immigrants is when it was beneficial to them,
when they needed cheap labor.
And I will say, if a country like France needs cheap labor because their people won't work,
and they ask these people from foreign countries to come in, that is a very different situation
than if they're being benevolent and bring people in that need help.
If you're being benevolent, you're truly just helping people, then you want to add the expectation
of, hey, fall in line with what this country is, that's fair.
But if you're bringing them in so you could pay them on slave labor, and then you're on
top of that going, but also it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't have it both ways.
Again, it's just a fucking, it's a tricky one.
It's a tricky conversation that we like immediately label people and make radioactive.
But if you really kind of zoom out, it's not that, it's not that immediately.
Yeah, it's probably more nuanced.
I also just know nothing about European immigration policy.
And also I think the understanding of like what is and isn't racist, I do think is culturally
tethered.
Like we don't necessarily have colorism in the same way as it exists in like Brazil and
parts of South America.
But like, it's that exists there.
So what they would consider as racist is probably slightly different than what we would consider it as. And I think
it is tied to like the violence that your history has gone through.
And I would also say to Akash's point, it's like, if you have, like England, I have far
less empathy for, and like France, I have far less empathy for, is because if you have
colonized these nations and you have, I'm not saying like they deserve to be there, but a lot of these, I think the
communities of these countries that grew within England did it when these countries were still
part of the empire.
What is it called?
The British Empire?
Yeah, there's a name for it.
I don't forget the name.
But like Jamaica, for example, I think was part of the British Empire.
Even Canada was still loosely...
The Commonwealth?
The Commonwealth, yeah.
Australia.
The Cayman Islands.
Yeah.
So like these people going back to the homeland, if you will, it's not their homeland, but
it's the homeland of the center of their will, it's not their homeland, but it's the
homeland of the center of their government, the center of their decision making.
I don't think that you can fault them in any way for that, especially when you've controlled
those regions and you're extrapolating resources.
I think that is it.
That's where I feel like it's a little bit different.
But if it's a country that you have no connection to at all.
I get it more.
Then I get where they're coming from more.
Okay, then that's.
That was my point about India.
Sorry for being reductive about your point.
No, it's fine, but this strikes me every time I go to India.
Like the infrastructure is fucked and all of that,
but it was a country that once they got freedom,
not only had everything been kind of plundered,
they got 400 million people when they start the country.
It's a lot.
America starts with 13 colonies,
I want 1 a thousand people,
and then it expands and it gets to build up
everything as it expands.
India starts with no money and 400 million people.
They got more people then than we have in America now.
It's incredibly different.
One sixth of the landmass.
So every time that strikes me and it's like,
yeah, if I gotta go to England,
some of this is your fault.
Maybe not all of it, some of this is your fault.
I'm bringing my shit over. In the same way that you feel about the labor. It's like, this is your fault. Maybe not all of it. Some of this is your fault. I'm bringing my shit over.
In the same way that you feel about the labor.
It's like, this is.
Yeah, I do think, yeah, I don't know.
That's why, yeah.
That's why it's almost like a shame.
No, it's not a shame.
Like, I like the fact that this information is available
on a podcast for everybody to consume.
Maybe the problem is like Tucker is so radioactive
in the perception of him that even a conversation
like this is gonna be viewed through the lens
of that radioactivity.
You know like if this guy maybe, maybe is talking to
some fucking NPR PBS nerd or something like that.
Or even say like, here's an alternative take on this
and I understand that this is gonna be inflammatory
but let's try to extrapolate this without name calling
and give me pushback.
You need healthy pushback is what I was gonna say.
Instead of Tucker going,
yeah, where's the fucking Nuremberg trials for them?
Then it starts to look a little bit weird.
He's like excited about it.
Do you think he knew what he was doing in that point, the one that is going back to
the killing of people during World War II?
Did he specify Jews or civilians in POWs?
Because I think what happens is like groups that have been pushing like this is the history
of the Holocaust, they're saying we have this proven and then he's bringing up a point about some German
officer who was talking maybe about some civilians and POWs in Russia and they
didn't understand like what to do with them and that's the point he's making
versus like the Germans had a plan for many many many years to kill the Jews
like that's just fucking proven and Tucker's not there to like call him out
on that point. Was he choosing to not specify because he knew this could get some action?
I think this is the reality.
None of us had ever heard another take
outside of the Germans had a plan to kill all the Jews. None of us have ever heard it. And then he comes out and he's like,
yeah, that wasn't their original plan.
That wasn't there. He goes, that wasn't their original plan. And none of us can cite a book
or a speech or anything where Hitler goes, yeah, that's my plan to kill all the Jews.
But the way he was talking about it, he could have spessed it. Hold on, hold on. Here's the question. And this will be the deciding factor.
Can you cite a line where that was said?
So the argument of what I read after that is that-
The answer is no.
No, he was quoting one German officer that said this,
and other people are like, they're-
Doug, you're saluting.
That's not what I asked you.
And this is why what these guys do is so effective is they can attack the
accepted truths that none of us have even bothered to research because we've accepted
because we've accepted his truth none of us have even you would no one even would go let's
see if hitler actually said that well like like, of course he said it. He did it, he murdered six million fucking Jews.
I don't need proof of it, the proof is right there.
My father went to all the concentration camps, he saw it.
And so just to substantiate what he said,
he's not saying this guy is right,
he's just saying we can't prove him wrong
because we've accepted it as right
so we don't do the research to refute that point.
But you can't prove it wrong at the moment.
We haven't done the research.
Watch this, it's like this, it. Watch this. We just accepted it.
It's like this.
If he came up to me, he's like, you know you were really born September 23rd.
I go, what?
He goes, yeah, you were born, you know.
I go, no, I was born October 30th.
He's like, no.
That's just as your parents told you.
Yeah, as your parents told you.
Like, you know, there's a report from the hospital at Mount Sinai that there was an
Andrew Schultz born on the 23rd. I don't
have any information. But you have the birth certificate. But I don't have it on me. I'd
have to call my mom, I'd have to find. So you see like you right now, all of us now
have to go and look for when Hitler's like we have to kill all of them and this is the
plan and go gurgles or whatever his name is saying hey this is our plan let's put them
all that. We have to go find that because it was just
an accepted piece of knowledge.
And I'm sure there's hundreds of times out there
where they were like explicitly,
this is our goal that we're gonna do,
but because we don't know the page of fucking Minecom
for whatever propaganda journal they're putting out,
because we don't have it.
We don't have to react to everything in real time. We don't have to react to everything in real time. Yeah, say again.
We don't have to react to every piece of information.
But that thing has come out for weeks,
and none of us have gone and done the research.
That's more what I'm trying to say.
And I agree with you, we don't have to,
but that's why it's effective,
because one, there's a whole bunch of anti-Semites
on the internet that would love for his shit to be true.
Yeah.
Right? Yeah.
But two, because we just accepted this reality that he threw a fucking nuclear bomb in the middle of and then none of us could
Defend it in that moment. Yeah, every World War two like historian is trying to bait the guy which to me shows
That he's a little bit of a fugazi
But that's what I was saying
I chose the language in that moment to not specify Jews so that they could say,
wait a minute, I was talking about people, civilians.
Yes, I'm sure he would get bodied by a World War II journalist, 100%.
But what he is exposing, which I think is interesting, is that accepted cultural mythology is something most of us cannot defend because it is so...
It's accepted. It's so accepted and it's so ubiquitous
that you would never even get pushback from a person.
Like in our life...
Yeah, we never think to...
It's what we all are taught.
It's what we all agree on.
We've all agreed upon this as a society.
Who needs to find any evidence to support something
we've all agreed on in society?
It's like everybody in the world is religious.
I don't got to prove God exists.
There's no atheist.
Great, exactly. Well, I never did. And then if one guy is religious. I don't got to prove God exists. There's no atheist. Great, exactly.
And then if one guy is like, God doesn't really...
You know what?
Well, especially when the start of the episode is like this guy Tucker is putting on a platform.
This is the voice, the greatest historian.
And that's where you stop taking it seriously.
Damn, I already did all the work when I was a kid and watching the movies and now all
of a sudden one podcast and it's all fucking out the window.
And to Andrew's point, this might have been a cool, interesting discussion if you had
someone who was willing to give him pushback and have a healthy discourse.
Hey, let's do this on friendly terms.
You're providing an alternate point of view.
I obviously don't agree with it.
Let's talk this out.
Because if somebody was well-versed enough to be like, okay, I know what you're referencing
with that message, but here's a clear letter from Hitler to Goebbels where he says, the only
path forward is to eradicate the Jewish people. What do you say to that? And then he goes,
ah, ah, ah. And for all those listening at home, that's what happened. The Wannsee Conference,
Final Solution, all that stuff's real. Well, but that's great that you can reference it,
but let's find that, like find the line. and that completely discredits what this guy says.
You also don't need to know everything, though.
If someone brings up a counterpoint,
I think one thing is you can just be like,
oh, I've never looked into this, I don't know,
the information offhand, I need to think about it.
I think not knowing is also fine,
and then also not needing to know.
Being like, this doesn't really affect me,
it's not above my line of personal intrigue.
It doesn't really matter at the current impasse,
so I'm not gonna look at it.
I think that that's a great point just for life in general.
I think with this specific thing,
that there is so much cultural mythology
built in specifically for Jews,
to hear this alternative version of
something that is so near and dear to their identity, their
parents identity, like to hear this other take that where it's kind of like
flippantly thrown out that they weren't really targeted, they were just part of
the prisoners war, I think that's triggering. And I think when deconstructing
cultural mythology, I think you should take care to try to couch it in what
your intention is.
So like, okay, here's the thing
that's gonna go against what you think.
This is not trying to justify the flagrant antisemitism
that's been happening in pervasive and culture lately.
This is not trying to say that the Jews did World War II.
This is just to bring up a more nuanced counterpoint
to this one specific thing.
And you can use that to frame your belief
unless you are trying to cause that point.
But like he said, and I thought that this was the most telling
part of the whole interview, and this is the lens
I looked through it.
Like he said to his friend, I wanted to antagonize him.
I wanted to speak hyperbolically.
And I think that is what he gets off on.
I think this guy loves the fact that the internet is going crazy because that's why he looks
at, that's why he defended Jim Jones and that whole thing.
And that was completely misrepresented.
He was actually a civil rights hero.
Like, this is what he does.
Like we were saying, it's a comedian taking a contrarian take.
Wasn't he an intelligence officer?
I think he was.
But I think that's contrary to what
the goal of a historian should be.
I think it should be ideally trying
to look at truth and examine it and not to antagonize people.
He's doing it for him.
Yeah, his goal is to make money.
I don't know why he's doing it.
But if that is the case, to antagonize instead of truth,
I think it's probably better.
I think we can safely extrapolate.
He's in it to make money as opposed to be a historian.
I don't know.
Well, I don't even know if it's money, Akash.
I literally think it might be like-
He's in it for him.
You said it better.
That's fair.
There's an ego thing there.
Whereas if you're a true historian,
ideally it has nothing to do with you.
Yeah.
You understand how small you are.
Yeah, like you're honoring the events.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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