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“Shut the f___ up about politics,” Gene Simmons drops truth bomb on Hollywood · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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  Welcome to the weekend.
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  We have a lot of breaking news.
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  And uh one hot topic story that I'm gonna cover today as we enter into the weekend.
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  I think this is brilliant.
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  Um I think this is utterly, utterly brilliant, and that is Gene Simmons.
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  Gene Simmons uh had an absolutely brilliant conversation with a uh with a reporter from TMZ, and it just uh I gotta play you that clip.
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  And he could not have been more spot on.
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  I I want to begin by playing this clip, and then we're gonna talk about this today because man, there is a lot of exciting things going on, and uh his message couldn't be more timely.
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  It's so fantastic.
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  Listen to this exchange.
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  This is great.
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  I know right now Ben Stiller is calling out the president saying he doesn't want him to use his movie clips for war propaganda.
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  I mean, it sounds like a lot of people are kind of you know criticizing Trump like Hollywood right now, you know, over this war thing.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Because everybody in the world should listen what actors and comedians say because they're so qualified.
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  Basically, shut the f do your art and shut up.
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  Nobody's interested in your opinions.
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  That includes me.
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  Who I vote for, who I like.
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  Who the f you think you are?
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  People in America work hard for their living, and they don't want to be lectured to by people who live in mansions and drive rolls voices.
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  It's time for everybody in the entertainment to shut their pie hole.
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  And just do your art.
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  Nobody cares what you think.
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  I don't.
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  Okay, what will Mark Ruffalo pronounces?
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  Mark Ruffalo, yeah, yeah.
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  Ruffalo Buffalo.
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  Hollow, what does Mark think about politics?
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  I don't care.
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  So you think celebrities should stay out of the politics talk.
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  Well, we both agree.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I know or or go to Kylie Jenner and ask him what she thinks of the war so far.
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  I absolutely love that.
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  I don't care.
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  Whatever.
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  Mark Ruffalo, Buffalo, whatever his name is.
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  Nobody cares.
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  Shut your pie hole.
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  Uh we need more people like him.
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  Uh just to let Hollywood know.
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  Like, you know, people are working hard.
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  Nobody cares what you think when you're driving your Rolls Royce around and living in your mansion.
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  We don't care what your opinion is.
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  You know, talk down to us and tell us how how much we're screwing up the world.
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  People don't want to hear that.
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  And Gene is absolutely 100% right.
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  So who knew that the lead singer from Kiss would have so much wisdom?
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  Uh I agree with him.
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  People don't care.
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  It just generally, most people could care less what political affiliation somebody from Hollywood has.
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  It doesn't matter.
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  It literally does not matter.
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  And I want to contrast that a little bit with uh what James Carville says.
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  Now, James Carville, and I I had uh I had praised him before.
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  He's a strategist for the Democrats, and I talked about how he kind of had his finger on the pulse of what's going on in America.
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  Well, I don't know what happened in the last few months, but my goodness is he off his rocker.
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  That dude is messed up.
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  I I just I really want you to hear the contrast between these two.
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  It's so important.
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  It's so so important.
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  On the one hand, you have Gene Simmons, who he's a rocker, he's an entertainer.
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  He's he's um actually criticized Trump in the past, but never really made to my knowledge, didn't make like a whole lot of political statements.
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  He just kind of dropped uh dropped a one-line or something about Trump, and now like I have no idea how he feels about Trump.
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  I know he just received an award recently uh from Trump, but that doesn't mean he likes the guy.
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  I I just don't know.
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  I don't know, and it doesn't matter.
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  He's a hundred percent right.
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  Nobody cares.
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  It doesn't matter.
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  But I want you I want to contrast the difference of attitude.
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  Uh there is a radical radical, radical difference.
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  All right, here we have Carville, James Carville, uh multi-millionaire.
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  He's doing pretty well.
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  I mean, the the uh the old guy ought to be on an island somewhere, just kind of kicking back and joining life and you know, enjoying his retirement.
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  He could live very, very comfortably.
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  I mean, multimillionaire, and uh man, he's about to have a brain aneurysm.
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  Listen to him here.
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  This is on uh the Bongino report, and uh Dan Bongino has a little commentary at the end.
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  This is classic.
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  Listen to James Carville, just absolutely out of it off his rocker, out of his mind.
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  Insane.
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  Good, because what I'm getting ready to say is what a lot of people in this country speak for who I speak for, and I'll speak for a lot of people.
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  You hear me, you fat ass ho.
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  This is what we believe.
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  You're right.
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  I got Trump derangement syndrome.
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  I hate the mother.
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  And you know what?
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  I don't want to get rid of it.
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  I don't want to get better.
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  I want to get worse.
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  I want to hate him more.
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  I'll pray to God in heaven, God rain, the righteous reign of Trump derangement syndrome.
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  Pray for me, Lord.
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  I'm your vessel on this earth.
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  Pray for the people and listen to this.
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  We want more.
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  We want to hate this out of a so much that we can't see straight.
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  I'm sorry.
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  I'm sorry about the I don't, I don't know.
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  I I don't I don't know what to tell you.
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  Do you see why they need the MAGA Civil War now?
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  The MAGA Civil War.
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  Listen to me.
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  The fake MAGA civil war is all they have.
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  If they cannot cause the destruction from inside the tent, they've just given up from outside.
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  Carville's given up any sense of sanity.
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  Look at you.
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  The guy's foaming at the mouth like a rabbit animal.
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  Yeah, he's absolutely right.
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  And he was literally foaming at the mouth.
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  Yeah, Drool coming out the sides of his mouth, and he was I got Trump derangement syndrome.
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  My god, I pray to God that he rains it down on me more.
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  Wow.
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  I mean, can you imagine?
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  Like, can you imagine riding in the car with somebody like that?
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  Yeah, come on.
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  Come on, grandson.
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  Uh hop in the car.
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  We're gonna go for groceries.
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  I hate I wanna hate him so bad I can't see straight.
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  Uh grandpa, can you pull over?
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  Let me out.
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  Um, I'm getting scared.
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  I mean, this is insanity.
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  This is what I'm talking about.
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  I mean, the more the more I interact with people on both the right and the left, it's the left.
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  It's the left consistently who are just absolutely out of control.
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  I mean, to the point where they they literally are asking God to reign the terror of Trump derangement syndrome uh on top of them and let me be your vessel.
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  Let me be your vessel.
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  I hate the man.
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  You know, like just total gibberish.
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  I mean, the guy needs uh he needs to be locked in a padded room.
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  I mean, what possibly could compel you to hate somebody that badly.
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  I mean, who what?
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  What in the world could cause you to hate somebody that bad, that bad.
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  You lose your marbles over that person.
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  I just absolutely nobody has that amount of power over me.
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  I just I I've I couldn't I can't wrap my mind around it.
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  You know, Mark Ruffalo Buffalo.
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  Same thing.
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  It's the guy's a good actor.
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  Gene Simmons is right.
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  Shut your pie hole, go back to go back to entertaining people.
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  That's why I like Jay Leno so much.
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  I don't have a clue.
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  I have no idea how Jay Leno votes.
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  No idea.
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  Don't care.
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  No idea.
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  He's a great entertainer.
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  Brilliant entertainer.
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  And Jay Leno, you know, for last year, uh, during the Palestades fires, people are trying to trap him and get him to say, like, who's at fault for the fires and you know, basically asking him what his political position and and Jay Leonard was like, look, I'm here to entertain.
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  I'm here to give some smiles to people to thank our first responders for for uh what they do saving lives.
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  I'm not here to talk about politics.
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  And I love what he said.
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  He went on, he clarified, and he said, the second I open my mouth.
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  I've proved that I don't have a clue what I'm talking about.
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  I'm not a firefighter.
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  I don't know what it takes to put fires out.
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  I don't know.
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  Who's at fault?
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  I don't know.
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  I'm just here to make people laugh.
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  Here to make people smile.
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  Entertain people.
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  Gene Simmons gets it.
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  I put him right up there with Jay Leno.
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  I it's uh right exactly up there with Jay Leno.
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  You know, you have all these uh, all these actors saying, you you can't use my you can't use my uh clips from my movies.
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  Their musicians demanding that Trump like threatening to sue him he he can't use their music because he's a fascist.
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  Trump just he just does his dance, you know, he does the Trump dance, you know, bouncing his arms up and down, and he doesn't care.
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  He's gonna keep using their music.
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  I mean, this is wild, folks.
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  Absolutely wild.
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  And that's why, you know, it's hard to take people seriously.
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  It's hard to take Mark Ruffalo Buffalo seriously when he's uh he's an incredible Hulk.
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  Like that's what he's known for.
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  And then all of a sudden he's some expert on Trump derangement syndrome, you know.
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  Can you imagine him and James Carville riding together on a road trip?
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  You know, never mind uh Carville's grandson.
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  Can you imagine Mark Ruffalo and the two of them just like white raging in the car together, punching the ceiling and it'd be man, I'd love to be a fly on the wall.
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  We are somebody ought to arrange that.
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  We ought to arrange a road trip with James Carville and Mark Ruffalo Buffalo.
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  You know, mount the GoPros all over the car, get different angles.
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  I'd pay for that.
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  Heck yeah, I'd pay for that.
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  That'd be entertaining for about two minutes.
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  That is just wild.
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  I just I've never seen anything like it.
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  And and that's exactly the definition of Trump derangement syndrome.
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  When that uh term first started being uh floated around, uh I was like, yeah, like that's kind of insulting to people and TDS, and you know, it's catchy, a little bit funny, but I I was thinking to myself, self, that's a little bit offensive to people, and so I didn't use it.
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  Because it's so subjective, too, right?
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  Very subjective.
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  But now I'm like, holy cow, like the the urban dictionary will put a it'll put a screenshot of James Carville doing his rant, drooling out the side of both sides of his mouth as the definition for Trump derangement syndrome.
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  TDS.
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  That is the picture of it.
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  And and so what Bon Gino was saying, I don't listen, to be honest and to be fair, I just I don't listen to Bon Gino.
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  Um I don't know.
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  One, I just don't have the time, but two, I once I start listening to one commentator, and I'll I'll uh listen to people on both sides, to be fair.
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  I I don't listen to people on one side.
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  Um but I just uh don't have a whole lot of interest, to be honest.
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  Whatever.
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  But I I do agree with Bon Gino on that.
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  That the left needs this civil war.
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  Yeah, it's all they talk about.
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  We're in the middle of a civil war, and and all heck is gonna break loose in in America, and it's all gonna be at the helm of the the Trumpers.
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  And so you have the never Trumpers coming against the Trumpers and all these fascists and and white supremacists are they're just so violent.
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  Like you hear that all the time, even the the left-wing media.
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  They talk about how violent right wing, so violent.
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  And then they throw their fake statistics about you know, most of the violent crimes are committed by MAGA.
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  And it's just it's it's it's so crazy.
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  It's so crazy.
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  And this is why they also hate John Fetterman.
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  I mean, you want to talk about a deep hatred.
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  They can't stand.
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  Can you imagine Carville?
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  Like anything that Senator Fetterman agrees on that Trump does, like for example, the war.
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  Fetterman just flat out says, no, I think it was the right thing to do.
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  I don't like war.
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  He's like, I'm not a fan of war, but given the intel, going to the briefings, and given the intel that we were given, yeah, it's it needed to be done.
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  And he even went a step farther.
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  He's like, I I just have not gonna lose any sleep over the uh Alatola being obliterated.
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  He's like, I'm not gonna lose a wink of sleep.
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  Well, that's making people on the left lose their they're like, wait, no, love, peace, joy, everyone, harmony.
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  And then like you take a step back, and you're like, wait, you are very literally siding with terrorists.
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  Like you're you're literally defending terrorists.
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  You're empathizing with terrorists.
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  No, we're not.
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  Yeah, you actually are.
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  Um, it's just crazy.
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  Gene Simmons, Gene Simmons for president.
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  There we go.
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  I think we ought to get Gene Simmons for Prez.
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  It's just so a brilliant, brilliant mind.
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  And uh, yeah.
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  You know, that they just don't want to hear it from all you people living in your multi-million dollar mansions.
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  Gene Simmons, uh very smart man.
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  I gotta play this clip again.
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  It absolutely just sums up everything right about the world.
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  I mean, I
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  This just brought me so much joy.
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  Uh so wonderful.
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  He's telling people, no matter what political affiliation you have, he's telling wealthy people, entertainers, just shut up.
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  Shut up, entertain people, and basically enjoy life.
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  Nobody cares about your politics.
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  Nobody cares how you vote.
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  Nobody cares.
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  They really don't.
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  You gotta hear this clip again.
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  Brilliant.
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  I know right now Ben Stiller is calling out the president saying he doesn't want him to use his movie clips for war propaganda.
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  I mean, it sounds like a lot of people are kind of, you know, criticizing Trump like Hollywood right now, you know, over this war thing.
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  Yeah, but yeah, because everybody in the world should listen what actors and comedians say because they're so qualified.
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  Basically, shut the f do your art and shut up.
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  Nobody's interested in your opinions.
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  That includes me.
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  Who I vote for, who I like.
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  Who the f you think you are?
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  People in America work hard for their living and they don't want to be lectured to by people who live in mansions and drive rolls voices.
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  It's time for everybody in the entertainment industry to shut their piehole.
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  And just do your art.
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  Nobody cares what you think.
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  I don't.
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  Okay.
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  What what will Mark Ruffalo he pronounces this?
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  Mark Ruffalo, yeah.
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  Ruffalo Buffalo.
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  Hollow, what does Mark think about politics?
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  I don't care.
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  So you think celebrities should stay out of the politic talk.
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  Well, we both agree.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I know.
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  Or go to Kylie Jenner and ask him what she thinks of the war so far.
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  I just can't script that any better.
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  Just absolutely brilliant.
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  Brilliant.
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  So that interview took place on March 10th with TMZ.
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  Simmons, by the way, there's a picture.
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  Uh people did an article on this, and uh, I'm gonna read through this a little bit, but they put a picture of Gene Simmons, uh Buffalo, Mark Buffalo, and Ben Stiller, all beside each other.
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  I gotta tell you.
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  Gene Simmons looks pretty young.
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  He's 76 years old.
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  He looks pretty good.
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  Next to Buffalo and and uh Ben Stiller.
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  Man, those dudes are looking rough, and I think that's part of what uh what hatred does to you when you're so full of hate and animosity, and you just don't know how to smile anymore.
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  Yeah, Ben Stiller.
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  I I still I still do.
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  I guess I I said I used to, I still do.
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  I I love his movies.
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  I mean, dude's funny, very talented, extremely talented actor.
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  But man, he's not aging well, he looks rough.
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  And then uh Buffalo, Ruffalo, he looks ruffalo himself.
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  He's got this uh scowl on his face.
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  Like his skin is all, he just he looks rough, his color is off, he looks bad, he does not look healthy.
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  It's just it's it's not good for your health to carry that much hatred, and to be so angry and so opinionated, and you're just always lecturing people and telling you.
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  It's like the uh we we had the term come out years ago, the term Karen, which still people are still using.
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  But it's like the the angry, the angry women, and I apologize to anybody whose name is Karen.
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  I know several Karen's, and I gotta tell you, they're the sweetest people in the world, and it's just unfortunate.
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  I actually don't use that term because I know a lot of Karen's who are the absolute sweetest people in the world, and even though it's funny, um, I just I don't call people that I don't use it as a slang term.
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  That's just my personal personal thing.
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  Um you know it in my family.
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  We we all call each other names and we joke around and everybody has a nickname, but that's just one I just I don't use it.
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  Um I I just don't so whatever.
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  I mean, to each his own.
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  It's a it's a free country, I guess.
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  But you know, we came up with that term because there was a lady who apparently her name was Karen, and I think it originated in a park where a guy was um he was cooking out on a designated grill that was in the park, and she went on and on about how you can't have an open flame and just going absolutely crazy.
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  And then she calls the cops, and then if I remember right, if that's the same one, and I may be remembering the facts wrong, because there are so many of these videos now.
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  But uh wasn't it uh she was white and and the guy was a black man, and she was like threatening to say or she did say that that some black guy is threatening me, like just crazy stuff.
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  And the guy in the video was like super cool, just very, very chill, and uh I don't know.
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  So anyway, the the the nickname Karen got passed around for anybody who is like completely deranged, and then you started noticing wow, like the people who are yelling and screaming and shouting and and hurling insults, they all kind of look alike, and they don't look good.
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  And they're actually like there've been I I've seen these things passed passed around where they talk about what people on the left versus people on the right look like and how people on the right are are generally more attractive.
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  Uh there's this one video, and I'm not saying there's anything to this.
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  I I just I'm just saying this because uh I'm looking at Buffalo and Ben Stiller, and they uh I'm looking at their picture right now, and they just do not look healthy.
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  They don't look good, they don't look well.
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  Um but anyway, yeah, they've they've done these fun things where they're like, yeah, look, uh, we'll show you a sampling of 50 people on on the far left, and then 50 people on the right, and you tell us who who's who, who's on the left, who's on the right, and they put these pictures beside each other, and I gotta tell you, it's it is actually pretty convincing.
• 27:14
  But I think part of that is just it's it's that constant anger.
• 27:21
  You know, it's like the the James Carville.
• 27:24
  I got Trump derangement syndrome, I don't want to get rid of it, I want it more.
• 27:30
  He's just drooling and and yelling and screaming, and it's just not productive, and I I've seen people now where you just can't even reason with them.
• 27:44
  Like if they even if they even know, if they even think that you voted for Trump, it's like they just instantly change.
• 27:55
  They don't even have to know.
• 27:56
  They just have to, they just have to speculate, and they lose their minds.
• 28:05
  I just don't get it.
• 28:06
  I I don't understand.
• 28:08
  And those are the people who we we're supposed to listen to, get our moral compass from.
• 28:15
  I don't know.
• 28:17
  So anyway, Gene Simmons, his whole thing, he's like basically shut the F up.
• 28:24
  Do your art and shut up.
• 28:27
  Nobody's interested in their opinions.
• 28:30
  That includes me.
• 28:32
  Who I vote for, who I like.
• 28:34
  And he's right.
• 28:35
  I don't care who I don't care who Gene Simmons voted for.
• 28:39
  It's none of my business.
• 28:41
  I don't want to know.
• 28:44
  I mean, that's how much I don't care.
• 28:47
  I don't want to know.
• 28:49
  It does not matter.
• 28:54
  At the end of the day, that has nothing to do with their acting ability.
• 28:59
  It has nothing to do with their level of talent.
• 29:04
  You know, look at Jim Carrey.
• 29:07
  One of the most talented actors, and he I mean, literally started losing his mind.
• 29:14
  He went on that whole thing against Trump and just uh the artwork, like doing artwork, painting these grim pictures, and I don't know.
• 29:26
  Like, I think he's starting to get his sanity back, but somewhat, but I mean, he just went off the rails.
• 29:34
  And he was so anti-Trump that he just he he couldn't help himself, and he just looked mentally not well.
• 29:45
  So TDS, like people joke about it, but it it really does.
• 29:50
  It impairs people.
• 29:53
  Listen, or Carville, I want to be so I want to be so angry that I don't see straight.
• 30:00
  Wow.
• 30:04
  I mean, like he's asking, praying that he be a vessel of Trump Derangement syndrome.
• 30:14
  That God make him so angry that he can't see straight.
• 30:21
  And that's one of the top strategists for the Democrats.
• 30:27
  They're in big trouble.
• 30:29
  I've been saying this for well over a year now.
• 30:34
  That I just don't see that party recovering from whatever it is.
• 30:40
  I mean, they just they took a really dark path.
• 30:44
  And I gotta tell you, I want nothing to do with the Democratic Party.
• 30:48
  Not that I do much with the Republicans either.
• 30:52
  But I identify much less with Democrats now.
• 30:58
  I mean, when I see what they do to John Fennerman.
• 31:04
  I mean, the whole party hates him.
• 31:09
  And then they and then they rally around AOC.
• 31:12
  Are you kidding me?
• 31:16
  That's just not a party I'm gonna vote for.
• 31:19
  Sorry.
• 31:20
  I used to vote.
• 31:21
  I used to vote plenty, Democrats.
• 31:26
  I just I don't I have less and less in common with them anymore.
• 31:32
  That level of anger, that level of hatred.
• 31:37
  And then they're the ones saying that people on the right are full of hate.
• 31:40
  I gotta tell you, I live, I live in a something like a 95% red county.
• 31:49
  And I've never felt uncomfortable around people, even people who hold really strong political ideas.
• 32:01
  And we do have people.
• 32:03
  We have people who are very opinionated.
• 32:06
  I mean, they're like Trump could walk on water.
• 32:11
  They just absolutely love him, and they they think he's the greatest thing.
• 32:15
  And I just don't fit in that category.
• 32:18
  Um, but I've never seen people be violent.
• 32:21
  I've never seen them force their opinion on other people.
• 32:25
  I've never seen them reject people who hold a different opinion.
• 32:30
  I talked about this over Halloween.
• 32:34
  You know, we were walking around different neighborhoods in our community.
• 32:40
  And people had their this is back during during the uh election season.
• 32:47
  Yeah, when President Trump was elected this last time, we'd be walking around from house to house, and and there were more and more people getting pretty bold about putting our signs out, their Kamala Harris signs.
• 33:03
  And so for the few people who did, and and I do think some people jumped ship.
• 33:08
  They jumped to the Democratic Party and they didn't just jump, like they would put their signs out.
• 33:16
  Where before it was like, yeah, you'd see some signs every now and then, but I mean, uh, our town was littered with signs.
• 33:23
  And right next door, you'd have people put their Trump sign.
• 33:26
  It was like they tried to outdo each other to see who could put up the bigger sign and just be more in your face.
• 33:34
  And uh I'd see the neighbors going out, like hanging out on each other's porches and talking to each other and just chilling out.
• 33:45
  Yeah, there was zero, like zero animosity.
• 33:50
  And I still believe, I still honest to goodness, I believe that most Democrats, unfortunately, for them, because they're they're painted as complete lunatics.
• 34:02
  I think most of them are actually pretty reasonable people.
• 34:07
  I think most of them probably don't have much of a problem sitting down with Republicans and being friends with them.
• 34:15
  At least the ones who I know.
• 34:19
  Yeah, most of them.
• 34:21
  They're a handful that are kind of off their rockers, but I think most of this is being driven from entertainers and politicians.
• 34:30
  They're the bad apples making the whole party look like they're insane.
• 34:36
  You know, so uh when I say am I identifying less and less with the Democrats, a big part of that is because the politicians.
• 34:49
  You know, they're the ones just absolutely looking like buffoons.
• 34:57
  My own governor's one of them.
• 35:00
  Yeah, and I voted for him.
• 35:03
  And I just thought I wouldn't vote for him again, not in a million years.
• 35:10
  Yeah, it's unfortunate.
• 35:13
  Just unfortunate what's happening to the Democratic Party and the TDS and the the willful TDS.
• 35:20
  You know, it's not like people just have it and they don't know it.
• 35:24
  Listen to what Carville says.
• 35:27
  I have it and I want more of it.
• 35:32
  I hate Trump.
• 35:36
  Wow.
• 35:38
  Wow, you're a pleasant little fella, aren't you?
• 35:45
  And so that's why Gene Simmons is a hundred percent right.
• 35:53
  People don't want to hear people don't, I mean, maybe people don't want to hear my opinion.
• 35:57
  I don't know.
• 35:59
  I try to share good stories, positive stories, but you know, as far as I as far as who I voted for for president, it's not really anybody's business.
• 36:12
  You know?
• 36:13
  That's just I don't advertise it to anybody.
• 36:18
  Literally, the only person I've ever told, to my knowledge, is my own wife, and that's just because when when uh she got home from voting, we didn't talk about it before we voted.
• 36:31
  You know, we didn't we don't we never ask each other who are you voting for.
• 36:37
  But sometimes after she'll be like, so how'd you vote?
• 36:42
  Just out of curiosity.
• 36:45
  And then we we both say who we voted for and we move on.
• 36:49
  We did we never bring it up again.
• 36:53
  We don't, I mean, we do not talk politics.
• 36:57
  My wife and I now, some of my kids will bring some things up, stuff that they hear at school, and you know, just things that are interesting.
• 37:06
  Now I have a daughter who's in youth and government, and she's it's her first year.
• 37:11
  And so she asked me questions, but like just informational.
• 37:19
  So, yeah, it doesn't matter.
• 37:21
  Stimmons is right, nobody cares, nobody cares how you vote.
• 37:25
  Just go on, live your life, move on.
• 37:29
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• 39:08
  Gene Simmons still, I think just it was brilliant.
• 39:13
  What he said.
• 39:14
  Um he had a TMZ interview, and they're asking him about celebrities like Mark Ruffalo and Ben Stiller, uh, Ben Stiller, I guess, has been uh demanding that Trump not use clips of of his stuff for movies or whatever, and uh using it for war propaganda.
• 39:39
  And so the the lady was asking Gene Simmons what he thought about that, and he's like, Yeah, I I think uh these people should shut up, shut their pie hole.
• 39:47
  He's like, nobody wants to, nobody cares about their political opinions.
• 39:52
  And uh, and he's right, I agree with him.
• 39:55
  He's like, just shut your pie hole and and go entertain people, just do.
• 40:00
  Your art.
• 40:01
  And he said, nobody cares, including me.
• 40:03
  Nobody cares what I think about the war and politics and things like that.
• 40:10
  Yet these people are entertainers, and they want to have this big platform, this big political platform, and then lecture people about how to live their lives.
• 40:21
  And he said, nobody wants you in your multi-million dollar mansion driving your Rolls Royce telling people how to live their lives.
• 40:29
  And he's right.
• 40:31
  We don't.
• 40:33
  I can speak as is an average, very average, ordinary, hardworking American.
• 40:40
  I don't care what celebrities have to say about politics.
• 40:45
  I just don't.
• 40:49
  So yeah, he's right.
• 40:51
  And I want to I'm gonna prove Gene Simmons' point.
• 40:59
  You know, like he's he's talking about how people are just hard working Americans, and they just they they want to go on about life and live their lives and not worry about what other people think.
• 41:17
  And uh ironically, ironically, you can tell who the people are coming from the left.
• 41:26
  Listen to the comment.
• 41:27
  I want to read some of the comments.
• 41:30
  That's his B list celebrity opinion.
• 41:33
  So he should walk the walk and shut up about it.
• 41:38
  Uh here's another one.
• 41:39
  Translation, I got an award.
• 41:41
  Leave my guy alone.
• 41:45
  Another one.
• 41:47
  Gene Simmons is as two faced as his painted face persona.
• 41:51
  No one is interested in your opinion, Gene.
• 41:55
  I wonder what political party these people belong to.
• 41:58
  I'm just uh just guessing, just wondering.
• 42:05
  Here's another one.
• 42:06
  Gene Simmons should take his own advice.
• 42:09
  Using other artist work without permission is not political, nor is pedophilia, robbing America blind while cutting food, health care, etc.
• 42:18
  Promoting racism, religion, homophobia, xenophobia, or violence against Americans and immigrants, these issues of right versus wrong, these are issues of right versus wrong and basic human decency.
• 42:38
  He's just having a hard time guessing what political party that person belongs to.
• 42:46
  So crazy, crazy crazy stuff.
• 42:53
  But Gene Simmons, I I actually agree with him.
• 42:57
  I I think that most Americans just don't care.
• 43:02
  There's always that small handful, and then yeah, you know, you have the keyboard warriors, and they want to come out and they just want to raise a stink and be angry, but it goes back to to Carville, James Carville, and he's not alone.
• 43:17
  I mean, uh like him saying that he wants to be mad, he wants to rage.
• 43:24
  He's not alone.
• 43:26
  There are a lot of people who feel that way.
• 43:30
  They just they can't smile, they can't just enjoy life.
• 43:36
  And my question is.
• 43:39
  What if they could?
• 43:41
  What if?
• 43:42
  What if people actually smiled?
• 43:49
  Like, can you imagine saying I want to be so angry, I want to be so mad and full of hate that I can't see straight.
• 44:00
  Can you imagine?
• 44:01
  Like those words actually came out of James Carville's slobbery mouth.
• 44:10
  I want to hate so much that I can't see straight.
• 44:19
  Wow.
• 44:21
  You're uh pleasant little fella there.
• 44:28
  So what what do you do with that?
• 44:29
  I mean, when when those are the kinds of people that you're encountering, and then they want to argue they want to argue that nobody on the right wants to talk to them, give them the time of day.
• 44:44
  Well, gee, I can't put my finger on it.
• 44:47
  I can't figure out why.
• 44:50
  You know.
• 44:53
  I just can't quite seem to put it put my finger on why you can't reason with people on the right.
• 45:01
  Maybe it's because you're spitting all over them and and cussing them out and talking about how much you hate them.
• 45:09
  And so my point is if more of us took Gene Simmons approach and just said at the end of the day, it doesn't matter, whatever, who cares?
• 45:20
  Who cares how you voted, and that it includes all of us.
• 45:25
  Who cares how we vote?
• 45:27
  Just be a neighbor to your neighbor.
• 45:29
  If you're an entertainer, just entertain people.
• 45:33
  If you're a Christian, just be a Christian.
• 45:39
  If you're uh a mechanic, be a mechanic.
• 45:44
  If you're in the NBA, just play basketball.
• 45:49
  If you're in the MLB, just play baseball, just entertain people.
• 45:54
  It's really not that complicated.
• 45:57
  You know, this shouldn't be that difficult.
• 46:02
  But I think people want so badly to be validated and to be heard, and they want their opinion to matter that they lose all control.
• 46:14
  And when that happens, we've ceased to be the united states of America.
• 46:25
  But my my my plea is not that we all tone it down, that we all come together, because honestly, I think most of us do.
• 46:34
  Most of us are unified.
• 46:37
  And that's the hidden lightness in all this.
• 46:42
  You know, there's this false pretense that MAGA's about to start a civil war, that Donald Trump is starting World War Three with what's happening in Iran, and these narratives just take root, and people take them and run with them.
• 47:02
  But the reality is virtually most of Americans are pretty peaceful, calm people.
• 47:15
  And that's why I share these stories constantly, all the time.
• 47:20
  You know, kindless prevails.
• 47:23
  And we're not going to let hate win.
• 47:27
  And all the false narratives and and uh, you know, people claiming that MAGA's dangerous and they're violent and they're they're destroying America.
• 47:38
  I just I reject that premise.
• 47:42
  I reject it because there's no evidence that says that that's true.
• 47:50
  And then combined with all the stories, all the positive stories, look at the GoFundMe's.
• 47:55
  I mean, I it's just wild.
• 47:57
  I had like five or six other stories queued up.
• 48:02
  And I figured, oh, I probably ought to back off of the go fund me's because people might get tired of hearing it all the time, but uh it's just they're all over the place.
• 48:16
  People helping people and raising tens and if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for people who are in need.
• 48:27
  I mean, that's the America that we're living in.
• 48:30
  That's the America that I know.
• 48:35
  That's the America that I see.
• 48:37
  And if everybody, if everybody just went back to entertaining and and you know being unified and not talking about how much they hate the other side.
• 48:52
  Maybe the world would be a lot brighter place.
• 48:56
  And that's where I completely agree with Gene Simmons.
• 49:01
  And who knew that Gene Simmons would be one of the leading voices of reason?
• 49:07
  But he is.
• 49:26
  They cancel other celebrities, and there's there are people who talk about it.
• 49:30
  Rob Schneider's one, he talks about it.
• 49:34
  He said, you can't even hint that you agree with anything that Donald Trump does, or you'll you'll get blacklisted in Hollywood.
• 49:45
  They will absolutely blacklist you.
• 49:49
  Never been other um entertainers who've said the same thing.
• 49:55
  Look at what happened to um Gina Carrano.
• 50:00
  Do you remember her from The Mandalorian?
• 50:03
  She was in a years long dispute with Walt Disney Company after she was fired from the Mandalorian in 2021.
• 50:13
  She sued uh she sued them for wrongful termination and discrimination in 2024.
• 50:21
  And then in August of last year, both Disney and Corano confirmed that they had settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of money.
• 50:31
  She was fired in 2021 after getting backlash over a controversial social media post.
• 50:43
  She sent a message that compared how conservatives were being treated during the COVID-19 pandemic to how Jewish people were treated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
• 50:53
  Now, do I think that uh was appropriate?
• 50:57
  No.
• 51:00
  Uh I have a pretty strong opinion on that that when you start acting like you're persecuted when you're not.
• 51:08
  There's a difference between people losing their minds, even what Carville's doing.
• 51:12
  He's not persecuting people.
• 51:14
  He's a lunatic.
• 51:17
  But he's not.
• 51:18
  I would never say, oh, he's he's persecuting conservatives.
• 51:24
  And the Holocaust wasn't, I mean, that wasn't even persecution.
• 51:29
  That was far worse.
• 51:32
  I mean, that was flat out terrorism.
• 51:36
  And so to compare anybody to either the victims or the perpetrators of the Holocaust is just wrong.
• 51:48
  It's just wrong, and that's why I bark about that all the time.
• 51:50
  And that goes for both sides.
• 51:51
  I don't care if you're conservative or liberal.
• 51:56
  You can't compare people to the Holocaust.
• 51:59
  You can't say that Trump is Hitler.
• 52:04
  You can't compare Christians or conservatives to victims of the Holocaust.
• 52:13
  It's not the same.
• 52:15
  It's really not the same.
• 52:19
  So, yeah, I radically disagree with her, but should she have been fired?
• 52:26
  Probably not.
• 52:30
  So anyway, you know, if if everybody just kept their opinions to themselves on both sides of the aisle.
• 52:39
  Gina should have kept her opinion to herself.
• 52:42
  Nobody cares.
• 52:42
  Nobody cares what she thinks.
• 52:48
  Nobody cares what Mark Ruffalo Buffalo thinks.
• 52:52
  Nobody cares what Ben Stiller thinks.
• 52:55
  Nobody cares what Jim Carrey thinks.
• 52:59
  Or anybody else.
• 53:01
  We could go on and on and on.
• 53:02
  Nobody cares.
• 53:05
  So if people just keep their opinions to themselves and go on and live their lives and entertain people, I would love to see a world where people just rolled up their sleeves and help their neighbors.
• 53:19
  And again, I'll say it probably a hundred times.
• 53:24
  That's why I love Jay Leno so much.
• 53:29
  He did exactly that.
• 53:30
  He showed the world.
• 53:31
  He demonstrated to the world.
• 53:34
  How to just roll your sleeves up and make people laugh and entertain people and have a good time and how to bring smiles to people in a time of need and encouragement.
• 53:46
  It's really that simple.
• 53:50
  Gene Simmons.
• 53:52
  It's really that simple.
• 53:55
  Just be a decent person and people.
• 54:00
  Move on.
• 54:01
  Live life.
• 54:02
  Love your neighbor.
• 54:04
  Life goes on.
• 54:07
  You know, it's all right if we have different opinions from each other.
• 54:10
  That's really not the end of the world.
• 54:13
  Even on the war.
• 54:14
  I mean, I understand people have strong opinions about the war.
• 54:17
  I get it.
• 54:18
  And that's okay.
• 54:18
  It's okay to have strong opinions about that.
• 54:22
  But at the end of the day, if we're going to lecture people and lose friendships, blow up friendships over that.
• 54:29
  That's what's the point?
• 54:32
  You know, for what?
• 54:33
  How does that unify us?
• 54:36
  How does that accomplish anything productive?
• 54:40
  And the answer is it doesn't.
• 54:44
  So, yeah, I'm hopeful.
• 54:46
  I really am.
• 54:47
  I remain, I always remain hopeful.
• 54:50
  I'm an optimist.
• 54:50
  I have uh one of my church members, he's like, you're you're such an optimist.
• 54:57
  Like, yeah, I am.
• 54:59
  And it's not that I like only look for the good in the world, because I don't.
• 55:06
  But even when things are really bad, I I look for the hope.
• 55:11
  I look for positive ways that uh to move forward.
• 55:18
  Life is hard, life is tough.
• 55:22
  And if we're just gonna point fingers at each other and be enemies, it's not gonna make it any easier.
• 55:29
  I can assure you of that.
• 55:32
  So the best option in my mind is for us to all come together and be one, be unified, be brothers and sisters, go back to enjoying entertainers and let them do their thing.
• 55:46
  Um if people shared less about their political affiliation and just entertained and did what they do, I think the world would be such a happier place.
• 55:59
  Be very carefree.
• 56:00
  Think about the 80s, man.
• 56:01
  The 80s, my one son is right.
• 56:04
  He was born in the wrong era, the wrong decade.
• 56:10
  The 80s were awesome, man.
• 56:13
  Just people are so carefree.
• 56:16
  As a kid, I remember being so carefree.
• 56:20
  Now it's like kids are being traumatized and drug out to drag shows and all this weird stuff.
• 56:28
  Told that they have to have a sex change and you know, all this bizarre stuff.
• 56:32
  Like just let kids be kids.
• 56:35
  That, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
• 56:38
  There's so much hope in America.
• 56:40
  So much hope.
• 56:41
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• 56:48
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• 56:49
  There is a hidden lightness that shines aside of all of us.
• 56:52
  When there's so much darkness that envelops the world, remember that it doesn't take much light to expose that darkness and to ultimately inspire other people.
• 56:59
  Join me in being a light.