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- 1:33Speaker 1: This is HBr News number four eighty seven, Blake Blively,
- 1:37Speaker 1: Amber Heard two point zero trans Terror Cell, where we
- 1:41Speaker 1: discuss the news of the week and give it the
- 1:43Speaker 1: badger treatment. Hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening everyone.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Hope you are doing well this week and that you're
- 1:56Speaker 1: laughing at all of this absurdity so that you're not
- 1:59Speaker 1: consumed by it. My name is Brian. I am here
- 2:01Speaker 1: with doctor Randamercam. Hannah will be along, but she's running
- 2:05Speaker 1: late because she has real life work stuff to do
- 2:07Speaker 1: as well, but she will be coming as soon as
- 2:10Speaker 1: she gets here. So but that's neither here nor there.
- 2:17Speaker 1: We have a great show line up for you guys
- 2:18Speaker 1: this week, so please be sure to continue the conversations
- 2:22Speaker 1: both in the chat as well as the comments section.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Today on HBr News, we actually kind of have a
- 2:26Speaker 1: pack show. We're gonna be discussing this whole Blake Lively
- 2:31Speaker 1: and Justin Baldoni situation. It's very sordid and drama ish
- 2:36Speaker 1: and involves Ryan Reynolds and his brother and it's just
- 2:40Speaker 1: very but so much is constantly coming out. But I
- 2:42Speaker 1: think that we have to get in there because it
- 2:45Speaker 1: looks like it's turning into another amber heard Johnny Depp
- 2:49Speaker 1: situation where maybe slightly less blood. Well, also, we're gonna
- 2:54Speaker 1: be talking about Trump's first days in office and the
- 2:57Speaker 1: sheer amount of stuff that's come out of that. A
- 3:02Speaker 1: lot of it really good. I you haven't heard anything
- 3:04Speaker 1: that's bad yet, so I don't know. This is like
- 3:07Speaker 1: a winning on a level that I never thought I deserved.
- 3:11Speaker 1: A bill that is being proposed that is going to
- 3:16Speaker 1: protect babies from male genital mutilation. And more so, stick around,
- 3:20Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good time and be sure to
- 3:23Speaker 1: join us afterwards for the Patron only show. So yesterday
- 3:25Speaker 1: I did a show with Alison on her channel. She
- 3:27Speaker 1: just wanted to do something light. She's this was her words.
- 3:31Speaker 1: She'll let's do something light. Let's look at this Neil
- 3:35Speaker 1: gaming thing. And I was like, okay, and then it
- 3:37Speaker 1: turned out to not be light at all, so it
- 3:40Speaker 1: got pretty dark and sordid.
- 3:44Speaker 2: But yes, everyone was wondering why we have Neil Gaiman's
- 3:47Speaker 2: face on the screen. Yea, yeah, after the last five minutes.
- 3:51Speaker 2: I mean he's like Trump's face in his first and
- 3:58Speaker 2: second inauguration photos, you know what I mean. Yes, he's
- 4:03Speaker 2: like both before and after the tragedy and cover ready
- 4:09Speaker 2: pick out the parts of his expression.
- 4:11Speaker 1: You know, if I was gonna if I was illustrating
- 4:14Speaker 1: a fairy tale book with an old wise tree, it
- 4:17Speaker 1: would have this face. That's that's what it would look like.
- 4:20Speaker 1: He looks like a fairy tale person. That's probably why
- 4:23Speaker 1: he writes fairy tales. But that's what I think. But yeah,
- 4:29Speaker 1: I thought we would read this story which is absolutely
- 4:34Speaker 1: crazy regarding the allegations against Neil Gaiman, and we'll do
- 4:40Speaker 1: that as the Patron Show for the reactions. So you know,
- 4:44Speaker 1: if you've already seen it, like if you follow Alison,
- 4:46Speaker 1: you saw it on her channel, then we're gonna try
- 4:49Speaker 1: and put a different spin on it. I mean, it
- 4:51Speaker 1: was either this or Anthony Mackie's comments about America, which
- 4:56Speaker 1: I don't really think is quite fitting for the show,
- 4:59Speaker 1: although I do certainly have opinions on it. But yeah, Like,
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- 6:01Speaker 1: of our content lives. All right, So with all that
- 6:05Speaker 1: out of the way, let us get into the stories.
- 6:07Speaker 1: Are This first one is a lot of drama, but
- 6:09Speaker 1: everybody's talking about it and I feel like it needs
- 6:12Speaker 1: the you know, the our sort of touch to get into.
- 6:18Speaker 1: So Blake Lively all right, the woman pictured on the left.
- 6:23Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, guys know who Blake
- 6:24Speaker 1: Lively is, but she is an actress. I don't really
- 6:30Speaker 1: know her from much. He's also Ryan Reynolds's wife. Ryan
- 6:34Speaker 1: Reynolds is the actor who you probably know from the
- 6:38Speaker 1: mint Mobile commercials. And he also played Deadpool I guess
- 6:42Speaker 1: a couple of times, and he was in waiting. That's
- 6:45Speaker 1: what I know him from Van Wilder. Anyway, Blake Lively
- 6:49Speaker 1: has accused Justin Baldoni, the gentleman on the right in
- 6:53Speaker 1: the pink Blazer, of sexual What I did.
- 6:57Speaker 2: I did a video response to his TED talk.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Did you do a TED talk about toxic masculinity?
- 7:03Speaker 2: Yeah, it's along those lines. Yeah, yeah, January twenty eighteen.
- 7:08Speaker 2: I think it was.
- 7:09Speaker 1: I remember him.
- 7:11Speaker 2: I still remember. I always remember these fuck jukes.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Yes, I actually remember that too, because I scared his video.
- 7:23Speaker 1: They it was going around like I'm one of those,
- 7:26Speaker 1: you know, viral video generating websites like Upworthy. Do you
- 7:33Speaker 1: guys remember Upworthy and and that stuff? Al Jazeera? You know, so, yeah,
- 7:40Speaker 1: he was. He was on one of the I think
- 7:42Speaker 1: it was an excerpt or another version of it, and
- 7:45Speaker 1: so so yes, Justin Bendo, Ben sorry, Justin Baldoni.
- 7:50Speaker 2: So Blake likely he's a toll, handsome adonis of a man.
- 7:54Speaker 2: He doesn't understand why other men don't attract women's attention.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Like he does. Yeah, yeah, so they're both kind of
- 8:05Speaker 1: B movie actors that are not super well known. I
- 8:09Speaker 1: did not know who this dude was until you mentioned
- 8:12Speaker 1: that video. But that's I mean, unless that was acting.
- 8:15Speaker 1: But I do think he's a true believer. He's a
- 8:17Speaker 1: true feminist ally or tries to be, hence the pink
- 8:20Speaker 1: blazer with the net shirt. But anyway, Blake Lively has
- 8:24Speaker 1: accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment during the filming of
- 8:29Speaker 1: a movie called It Ends with Us, which is a
- 8:31Speaker 1: romantic film based on a novel. Specifically, citing behavior during
- 8:36Speaker 1: a slow dance scene, Lively alleged that Baldoni dragged his
- 8:41Speaker 1: lips down her neck and made inappropriate comments about her scent,
- 8:47Speaker 1: which she claims was not part of the script or
- 8:50Speaker 1: character interaction. In response, Baldoni's leader, maybe it was an
- 8:54Speaker 1: aggressive scent.
- 8:55Speaker 2: Yeah, point of personal privilege. You can't just turn up
- 8:59Speaker 2: with an.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Aggressive remember they're acting. Okay, they're playing a scene, so anyway,
- 9:06Speaker 1: Lively alleged that Baldoni dragged his lips down her neck
- 9:09Speaker 1: and made inappropriate comments about her scent, which she claims
- 9:12Speaker 1: was not part of the script or character interaction. In response,
- 9:15Speaker 1: Baldoni's legal team released unedited footage of the scene in question,
- 9:19Speaker 1: arguing it shows professionalism and mutual respect, with both actors
- 9:23Speaker 1: engaging in lighthearted conversation about their appearances, including Baldoni's beard
- 9:29Speaker 1: and Lively's spray tan. The footage includes Baldoni saying quote
- 9:33Speaker 1: it smells good end, quote to which Lively responds humorously,
- 9:37Speaker 1: suggesting the comment the comment was about her makeup rather
- 9:41Speaker 1: than anything inappropriate. Lively's team, however, insists that the video
- 9:46Speaker 1: corroborates her allegations, highlighting that the interactions were unscripted and
- 9:50Speaker 1: without an intimacy coordinator, suggesting non consensual conduct. Ryan Reynolds
- 9:57Speaker 1: has been significantly involved in this controversy, not only as
- 10:01Speaker 1: Lively's husband, but also in legal actions. He was present
- 10:05Speaker 1: at a meeting convened to address Lively's concerns on set,
- 10:09Speaker 1: where he allegedly berated Baldoni for quote fat shaming Lively
- 10:15Speaker 1: his wife after Baldoni inquired about her weight for a
- 10:20Speaker 1: lifting scene. Baldoni's lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds includes claims
- 10:24Speaker 1: of defamation, civil extortion, and interference with contractual relations, asserting
- 10:30Speaker 1: that Reynolds and Lively tried to seize control of the
- 10:33Speaker 1: film and damage Baldoni's reputation. That's what it looks like
- 10:37Speaker 1: by the way Reynolds and Lively have countered by requesting
- 10:41Speaker 1: a gag order on Baldoni's legal team, always a good sign,
- 10:45Speaker 1: claiming they've engaged in a retaliatory retaliatory media campaign. The
- 10:50Speaker 1: public and legal discourse around this issue is polarized, with
- 10:53Speaker 1: each side presenting evidence to support their narrative, including text messages, emails,
- 10:58Speaker 1: and the aforementioned footage. And I have like a new
- 11:01Speaker 1: bit of footage that came out from Baldoni's lawyer. I
- 11:06Speaker 1: want to show here, So let me like try to
- 11:08Speaker 1: enlarge this. This is on Megan Kelly's YouTube channel, so
- 11:12Speaker 1: fair use Megan Kelly if you don't, If you don't mind,
- 11:17Speaker 1: here we go.
- 11:18Speaker 3: We have here exclusively justin Baldoni speaking to what he
- 11:22Speaker 3: called his dream team, those who had been helping him
- 11:24Speaker 3: edit the films and get it to finality. Lamenting the
- 11:29Speaker 3: fact that he was put in the basement on the
- 11:31Speaker 3: premiere of his own movie, he says, per Blake's demands,
- 11:36Speaker 3: say a listener that voice test in part.
- 11:40Speaker 4: Think about this on what you know could have been
- 11:44Speaker 4: one of the most beautiful nights of my life career wise.
- 11:49Speaker 4: I literally was sent to the basement with my whole
- 11:51Speaker 4: all my friends and family for over an hour because
- 11:57Speaker 4: I wasn't allowed to be seen. She didn't want me
- 12:00Speaker 4: anywhere near her or the rest of the cast, so
- 12:03Speaker 4: they ushered me off the carpet and they sent us
- 12:05Speaker 4: down to the basement. We were down there together, my
- 12:09Speaker 4: friends and family, the people that love me the most,
- 12:12Speaker 4: and we start laughing because of the ridiculousness of this
- 12:17Speaker 4: whole thing. And I realized, like on a night that
- 12:21Speaker 4: was supposed to be so materialistically joyful, I was in
- 12:30Speaker 4: the basement with the people that I loved the most,
- 12:32Speaker 4: and we were all joyful and laughing because none of
- 12:37Speaker 4: that shit matters, None of it. That's not why we're
- 12:40Speaker 4: in the business. That's not why the three of us
- 12:42Speaker 4: are in this business, is to attend to premiere like
- 12:45Speaker 4: that and be celebrated. We're in this business because we
- 12:48Speaker 4: were artists and we believe in what we do and
- 12:53Speaker 4: because we want to create art that touches people's hearts
- 12:56Speaker 4: and souls and can move people. And that's what we did.
- 13:01Speaker 4: That's what you both did. And I believe that will
- 13:05Speaker 4: follow each of us and the truth will prevail and
- 13:09Speaker 4: that light and love will win.
- 13:11Speaker 1: Ugh. Anyway, So what it seems is that what seems
- 13:18Speaker 1: to be going on here is Oh and Hannah's here
- 13:22Speaker 1: by the way, Hi Hannah.
- 13:24Speaker 5: Hi, guys, can you hear me?
- 13:25Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we can hear you.
- 13:27Speaker 5: Just fine when they get the sound check out.
- 13:29Speaker 1: No, it's fine, Thank you for uh for doing that.
- 13:33Speaker 1: So what what it seems to happen? Yes, all these
- 13:37Speaker 1: people are gross. I get it, Like like I'm not
- 13:40Speaker 1: necessarily taking a side of these people, like based on
- 13:42Speaker 1: their personality. But there this These people had a professional relationship.
- 13:48Speaker 1: There's a video clip that shows it. But because there
- 13:51Speaker 1: was an opportunity for Blake Lively to exploit this, she
- 13:56Speaker 1: wanted to take full credit for the film. She claimed
- 13:59Speaker 1: to have written the scene. Ryan Reynolds even Who's Who's
- 14:02Speaker 1: Blake Clive's husband told everybody that she did all the
- 14:06Speaker 1: work and that she's like this genius and everything. So
- 14:08Speaker 1: you have this clash of egos and this guy who
- 14:11Speaker 1: was just trying to like, you know, do as good
- 14:14Speaker 1: a job I guess as he can saw this as
- 14:17Speaker 1: a good opportunity, was kind of thrown under the bus,
- 14:21Speaker 1: and she made allegations against him, and his lawyer is
- 14:24Speaker 1: fighting back, and it just sounds like a lot of
- 14:30Speaker 1: you know, like shady shit is going on. And it
- 14:33Speaker 1: turned out this this is something we learned today. She
- 14:36Speaker 1: didn't even write the scene that she's taken credit for.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds wrote it and he just said that she
- 14:44Speaker 1: did it. So this is all kinds of male feminist
- 14:47Speaker 1: caping for women type stuff.
- 14:50Speaker 2: So, but none of this sounds like stuff the access
- 14:53Speaker 2: don't normally have to do.
- 14:58Speaker 1: It's okay.
- 15:00Speaker 2: I try to avoid the cliche of starting an argument
- 15:03Speaker 2: with as a dot dot dot, you know, as a woman,
- 15:08Speaker 2: as a or indigenous personal collexcept. But this is a
- 15:12Speaker 2: rare occasion where where I think I can make it
- 15:14Speaker 2: work from an informative perspective, ahem, as a theater kid. Okay,
- 15:21Speaker 2: dot dot dot And yes I have a single honors
- 15:25Speaker 2: bachelor's degree in drama for those who didn't know. And
- 15:30Speaker 2: I can confirm that the way theatrical academia works is
- 15:34Speaker 2: exactly as pointless and pretentious and lovey dovey as you
- 15:38Speaker 2: stereotypically could possibly satirize it as being. It's all about
- 15:43Speaker 2: breaking the boundaries of ordinary interactions. It's about thinking outside
- 15:50Speaker 2: your your instinctive inhibitions. Much like a musician can improvise
- 15:55Speaker 2: a song, an actor needs to be able to improvise
- 15:58Speaker 2: a whole other human being, to improvise the behavior of
- 16:03Speaker 2: a character who is wholly unlike yourself. And so they
- 16:08Speaker 2: do these gay exercises where you act like a tree,
- 16:11Speaker 2: act like an animal, act like the second order abstraction
- 16:15Speaker 2: of the demon of capitalism, and so on. I remember
- 16:20Speaker 2: one lesson in my first semester, they said to us, Okay,
- 16:24Speaker 2: so next week you're going to come You're gonna come
- 16:27Speaker 2: into class basically cross dressed. All right, if you're a man,
- 16:32Speaker 2: dresses a woman, if you're a woman dresses a man.
- 16:34Speaker 1: If you're a.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Woman who usually dresses in a masculine way, come in
- 16:38Speaker 2: dressed in a feminine way, five versa, and so on.
- 16:41Speaker 2: They already had all this shit laid out right and
- 16:45Speaker 2: like the first exercise when we came in was to
- 16:49Speaker 2: just mill about amongst each other delicately whispering whatever our
- 16:56Speaker 2: favorite thing was about how one another looks that you
- 16:59Speaker 2: just you just go up and say your or your
- 17:04Speaker 2: dress or whatever, and then you move on.
- 17:07Speaker 6: It was really fucking weird, like, and this was in
- 17:13Speaker 6: two thousand and one, I think early two thousand and one,
- 17:17Speaker 6: and it didn't even seem all that unusual at the time,
- 17:20Speaker 6: because yes, there was already an unavoidable, aver larger feminist
- 17:24Speaker 6: bullshit all across the syllabus in universities all across the
- 17:28Speaker 6: world at the time.
- 17:29Speaker 2: It was very difficult to sidestep it with your elective
- 17:33Speaker 2: modules wheresoever your degree might find itself, even the science
- 17:38Speaker 2: departments that you couldn't quite get away from it, never
- 17:41Speaker 2: mind the fucking drama department. Before you ask, no, I
- 17:46Speaker 2: did not make any effort to cross dress that day.
- 17:50Speaker 2: I just went in wearing eye makeup. I got my
- 17:54Speaker 2: girlfriend to do my eyes up, like how girls do
- 17:56Speaker 2: their eyes up with my scara and whatever. So, of course,
- 18:00Speaker 2: or that anyone said to me was your eyes okay, good, Yeah,
- 18:05Speaker 2: that's thanks. Thanks. I appreciate it. Other than that, I
- 18:11Speaker 2: just want, you know, a gaudy zebra patterned silk shirt
- 18:14Speaker 2: and just normal trousers. I will go as far as
- 18:17Speaker 2: looking like a glam rock star from the eighties. But
- 18:21Speaker 2: I'm not wearing a dress. I'm not wearing a skirt.
- 18:25Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I'm just I'm not.
- 18:29Speaker 1: I just no.
- 18:30Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sure it does feel sort of freeing to
- 18:34Speaker 2: wear a dress or a skirt, but I suppose I
- 18:38Speaker 2: don't feel like feeling quite as free as that.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 18:43Speaker 2: Perhaps perhaps it's ironic that men tend to politically prefer
- 18:49Speaker 2: freedom over safety while women prefer safety over freedom. Yet
- 18:54Speaker 2: we dress in a way that woul seem to invert
- 18:57Speaker 2: such preferences. But it makes sense when you think about it,
- 19:01Speaker 2: because there's a point of inversion. Women want to feel
- 19:05Speaker 2: safe so they can dress like they're free. Men want
- 19:09Speaker 2: to Men want to feel free so they can dress
- 19:13Speaker 2: like they're safe. Does that make in my In my head,
- 19:18Speaker 2: that sounded like a quotable quote, But I guess you
- 19:21Speaker 2: can find it. But as as I understand it, we are.
- 19:26Speaker 2: We are now at the point where male theater kids
- 19:31Speaker 2: are being me too for doing what they're trained to do,
- 19:38Speaker 2: improvising within a character. Well, I can't say I'm surprised
- 19:42Speaker 2: police officers are being imprisoned for doing what they're trained
- 19:46Speaker 2: to do. I'm amazed has taken this long for the
- 19:49Speaker 2: drama club fairies to feel that same fiery wrath of
- 19:53Speaker 2: Cathley that that that the police have been experiencing for
- 19:59Speaker 2: some time. We were among the first people to summon
- 20:03Speaker 2: the aforementioned dark lord, even though we are unimportant midwit
- 20:07Speaker 2: sponges to a man huging every one of us. Sorry,
- 20:12Speaker 2: we theater kids had no idea what we were doing,
- 20:15Speaker 2: but we accidentally summoned Cuthulhu. I think that's why I'm here.
- 20:19Speaker 2: Folks like how most male feminists are trying to repent
- 20:23Speaker 2: for the sins of their past sex pesting and did
- 20:27Speaker 2: their ongoing sex pesting. Well, I attended university where I
- 20:31Speaker 2: studied drama, and ever since then I've felt guilty, guilty
- 20:36Speaker 2: that I've wasted everybody's time contributing to an industry that
- 20:41Speaker 2: takes kids' brains and shakes them up like a snow globe,
- 20:44Speaker 2: just so that everyone can end up gossiping about a
- 20:48Speaker 2: couple of Hollywood starlets gossiping among themselves about each other,
- 20:54Speaker 2: and now I'm gossiping about that to the next order
- 20:57Speaker 2: of magnitude. But I like to think that at some
- 21:02Speaker 2: point I've fundamentally avoided that subject for this entire rent
- 21:07Speaker 2: and substituted by own.
- 21:10Speaker 1: I want to I.
- 21:11Speaker 7: Want to again.
- 21:12Speaker 1: I want to add some more weirdness to the story.
- 21:15Speaker 1: So like let's just sum it up, Okay. So Blake
- 21:18Speaker 1: Lively and Justin Baldoni are making this movie called It
- 21:22Speaker 1: Ends with Us. It's like a romance based on a
- 21:25Speaker 1: book or something written by a feminist, and there's like
- 21:27Speaker 1: feminism is kind of floating around the whole thing, and
- 21:30Speaker 1: Baldoni is a male feminist, and Blake Lively at least
- 21:33Speaker 1: claims to be a feminist. I assume she is because
- 21:37Speaker 1: it's Hollywood and that's really the only way that's a
- 21:39Speaker 1: bare minimum to get work there, right, And Blake Lively's husband,
- 21:43Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds is completely like on her side in all
- 21:48Speaker 1: of this. She claims that Baldoni like oversteps some boundary.
- 21:53Speaker 1: He's also, I guess it's like somewhat younger than her,
- 21:56Speaker 1: and she's like getting close to the wall. So this
- 21:59Speaker 1: is like affecting her self esteem, and this is why
- 22:02Speaker 1: she claims that he called her fat and all this
- 22:05Speaker 1: other stuff. And apparently when this scene happened, maybe that was,
- 22:11Speaker 1: you know, just kind of what is it the you know,
- 22:15Speaker 1: ad libed or whatever, like he just said that to
- 22:17Speaker 1: like enhance the romance of the scene.
- 22:20Speaker 5: Have you seen this?
- 22:21Speaker 1: Have you watched? Yeah? Yeah, he can. I can find it.
- 22:23Speaker 1: I mean, if you guys want to see it. But
- 22:25Speaker 1: it's there's more to it than what you just said.
- 22:29Speaker 5: It's it's not just that it was ad libbed. She initiated,
- 22:34Speaker 5: going off the script. She initiated, So you know about Okay,
- 22:40Speaker 5: I yes this. I started seeing this on Twitter on
- 22:44Speaker 5: X when it started, and so I went and looked
- 22:49Speaker 5: for the information because I'm like, oh, guys, it's gonna
- 22:51Speaker 5: be another depth HERD situation. We're going to be talking
- 22:53Speaker 5: about this a lot, so I better know what's going on, right.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 22:56Speaker 5: So I watched a few commentators and there's this one
- 22:58Speaker 5: woman I watched on YouTube who actually is a casting
- 23:04Speaker 5: director or whatever she does. She used to do casting.
- 23:09Speaker 5: She did casting for some big studios and like the
- 23:15Speaker 5: millennials and zoomers will recognize, she did some work with
- 23:19Speaker 5: a show called The Sweet Life of Zach and Cody,
- 23:23Speaker 5: which was on when my kid was little. My kids
- 23:25Speaker 5: were little and my son used to watch occasionally, so
- 23:29Speaker 5: I'm familiar with its existence. So I thought, well, you know,
- 23:33Speaker 5: her input's going to be interesting because she works with
- 23:36Speaker 5: these kind of people, right, And her take was interesting
- 23:40Speaker 5: in that, you know, she's she's explaining, she's explaining what
- 23:46Speaker 5: Mike explained. That this is pretty normal. Fair's very tame
- 23:50Speaker 5: stuff for actors. And it's not normal though, for an
- 23:57Speaker 5: actor to come in and take over the movie and
- 23:59Speaker 5: come completely rewrite everything and insist things to be done
- 24:03Speaker 5: a certain way. That that's a problem actor. That's not
- 24:06Speaker 5: like your usual. Usually it's your job to go in
- 24:12Speaker 5: there and do what the director says, right, and he's
- 24:14Speaker 5: the director, Yeah, right, it's his movie. So for her
- 24:19Speaker 5: to be insisting that, oh, I think we should be
- 24:21Speaker 5: talking this and that that's that's her demanding changes that
- 24:28Speaker 5: are going to make her feel more featured. So once
- 24:32Speaker 5: I saw that, and I heard her talking about how
- 24:35Speaker 5: normal this is and and saw that she had initiated
- 24:38Speaker 5: it and everything, and she even said something about, you
- 24:42Speaker 5: know what he's being accused of would be out of
- 24:45Speaker 5: character for the guy that she She's met him and
- 24:49Speaker 5: it didn't seem like him, right, So this is a
- 24:53Speaker 5: publicity stunt, I'm calling it. This is not this is
- 24:58Speaker 5: not dep heard, This is not an instant an incident
- 25:02Speaker 5: of sexual harassment. This is three actors play acting a
- 25:08Speaker 5: controversy because who the fuck heard of this movie before
- 25:12Speaker 5: this happened, any of the three of us. Did you
- 25:15Speaker 5: know this movie was coming out? Because I didn't. I
- 25:17Speaker 5: never heard of it.
- 25:18Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
- 25:19Speaker 1: It could be. Yeah, I mean that's entirely plausible, But
- 25:22Speaker 1: I think that, like again, if these allegations are flying around,
- 25:26Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good reason to pay attention.
- 25:28Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean yeah, Now we've gotten to the
- 25:31Speaker 5: point where me tooing somebody is being used as a
- 25:34Speaker 5: publicity stunt to promote a movie. Because that's what's happening here.
- 25:38Speaker 5: I am one hundred percent convinced. I have zero doubt
- 25:41Speaker 5: that this is all fake possible.
- 25:45Speaker 1: I did get a super chow. I'm gonna read it
- 25:47Speaker 1: really quick from Meredith g She's providing a little bit
- 25:50Speaker 1: more info, and then I want to show some of
- 25:52Speaker 1: the stuff that was really weird about it, regarding Ryan
- 25:54Speaker 1: Reynolds and his involvement. But Meredith g get this five
- 25:58Speaker 1: bucks and says if News forty seven. The lawyer that
- 26:02Speaker 1: Megan Kelly is interviewing was her attorney when she was
- 26:05Speaker 1: fired from NBC, getting her a sixty million dollar payout.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Some context, Lively has been trying for years to build
- 26:12Speaker 1: a career to equal her husband's Ryan Reynolds, and she
- 26:15Speaker 1: has never been able to do it. The film is
- 26:17Speaker 1: an adaptation of a book that is part of a series,
- 26:20Speaker 1: and Baldoni owns the movie rights through his production company.
- 26:24Speaker 1: And apparently when this was going on, she was like,
- 26:28Speaker 1: there was something about an intimacy coordinator. So you know,
- 26:32Speaker 1: they have on sets for television movies for.
- 26:36Speaker 5: Effect scenes and makeout scenes when they it's to help
- 26:41Speaker 5: coordinate between what the actors are doing and what the
- 26:44Speaker 5: camera sees so that it actually looks good on film
- 26:47Speaker 5: and everybody's comfortable and nobody has a problem.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess for this one she was complained
- 26:54Speaker 1: that there wasn't one, or he was I'm not really sure,
- 26:57Speaker 1: but it was.
- 26:58Speaker 5: But there wasn't. It wasn't supposed to be the scene
- 27:02Speaker 5: that it that it ended up being, because like she
- 27:05Speaker 5: went through and started like she made that change of
- 27:08Speaker 5: talking and everything. The speech that she complained about, she
- 27:11Speaker 5: apologized for her her makeup and her it was body makeup.
- 27:19Speaker 5: And that's why he said it smells good, you know,
- 27:21Speaker 5: like just to offhand comment, well, it smells good. You know,
- 27:25Speaker 5: at least it's not a it's not a problem. It
- 27:26Speaker 5: smells good. Yeah, And that wasn't That's not anywhere near
- 27:30Speaker 5: the same as him engaging in an overtly sexual behavior
- 27:36Speaker 5: and then going hmm, it smells good, very different from
- 27:39Speaker 5: what she's describing, like, and it with that, you know,
- 27:42Speaker 5: they're being voice and everything. Like, I seriously, I don't
- 27:47Speaker 5: believe any of this is Israel or spur of the
- 27:51Speaker 5: moment or I don't. I don't know that, you know,
- 27:55Speaker 5: maybe maybe it got out of hand, you know, people
- 27:58Speaker 5: taking sides and everything, but I genuinely believe that together.
- 28:06Speaker 1: Yeah, but there are defamation suits and stuff now, so
- 28:09Speaker 1: they're going to Yeah, I think that that's what I
- 28:13Speaker 1: was going to say. There are there are there are
- 28:15Speaker 1: going to court over this, uh and another thing. Okay,
- 28:18Speaker 1: so so there's a in the on it.
- 28:21Speaker 5: Maybe it's just her and Reynolds trying to boost her career.
- 28:25Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be surprised because she.
- 28:28Speaker 5: Felt sexually harassed. It wasn't something that she, of course
- 28:32Speaker 5: not thought he was creepy. It's something that she did
- 28:35Speaker 5: because it put the movie and her name in the news.
- 28:38Speaker 1: I agree. No, I think that's I think that's right.
- 28:41Speaker 1: I think she used she created a controversy to boost
- 28:44Speaker 1: her career. It was Baldoni's project. He was producing and
- 28:50Speaker 1: he was involved with making it, and she kind of
- 28:52Speaker 1: hijacked some stuff and there was a scene. I think
- 28:54Speaker 1: it's that scene that Ryan Reynolds because he's trying to
- 28:58Speaker 1: boost his wife's career too. And I'll show you some
- 29:00Speaker 1: more evidence for that. In a second, Ryan Reynolds was
- 29:05Speaker 1: crediting her for writing a scene that it later turned
- 29:08Speaker 1: out he wrote and he credited. But anyway, but there's
- 29:14Speaker 1: another thing. So Ryan Reynolds had a runaway hit earlier
- 29:18Speaker 1: last year called Deadpool and Wolverine. You may have heard
- 29:21Speaker 1: of it, and there is some he made some references
- 29:24Speaker 1: to Blake Lively. So in that movie, so this is yeah,
- 29:30Speaker 1: I know I'm citing BuzzFeed is crazy, but they have
- 29:32Speaker 1: the info. So there's a scene in the movie where
- 29:37Speaker 1: they meet an alternate universe Deadpool named nice Pool, and
- 29:43Speaker 1: he says this. He says, do you did you see
- 29:45Speaker 1: lady Ladypool? She is gorgeous. She just had a baby too,
- 29:49Speaker 1: and you can't even tell by the way, Blake Lively
- 29:51Speaker 1: also had a child. They had a baby recently, and
- 29:54Speaker 1: she would breastfeed while she was making this movie. So
- 29:58Speaker 1: he's complimenting her looks because Ladypool, who is here, is
- 30:02Speaker 1: played by Blake Lively, even though you don't see her face.
- 30:04Speaker 1: So he put her in his movie and then he
- 30:07Speaker 1: gassed her up in the movie, and then he talked
- 30:09Speaker 1: about how well she's, you know, carries herself after the pregnancy.
- 30:14Speaker 1: And then she says, when Deadpool calls him out for
- 30:17Speaker 1: the comment, nice Pool replies, that's okay. I identify as
- 30:20Speaker 1: a feminist. At another point, Deadpool says, where in God's
- 30:23Speaker 1: name is the intimacy intimacy coordinator? So there's this like weird,
- 30:28Speaker 1: like passive aggressive stuff going on too in this other movie.
- 30:32Speaker 1: And I thought that was a weird scene too. I
- 30:34Speaker 1: was like, what is the conversation when I saw that,
- 30:38Speaker 1: because like Blake Lively was accusing Justin Baldoni of making
- 30:44Speaker 1: inappropriate and sexual comments about her postpart of body and Weight,
- 30:48Speaker 1: and the lawsuit also accuses Justin of improvising sexual moments
- 30:53Speaker 1: without an intimacy coordinator, which, of course turned out she
- 30:56Speaker 1: was the one doing that.
- 30:57Speaker 5: Right so, and given the fact that the claim she
- 31:03Speaker 5: made about the comment regarding the scent of the makeup
- 31:07Speaker 5: was completely detached, like completely nothing like what actually happened.
- 31:15Speaker 5: I have my doubts about the weight thing too, because
- 31:18Speaker 5: I mean, it was a lifting scene. He had to
- 31:20Speaker 5: lift her, you know, it's not it's not unfair to
- 31:26Speaker 5: ask someone before you lift them up, how much weight
- 31:28Speaker 5: am I picking up? If you're trying to lift a
- 31:31Speaker 5: person and you think somebody weighs less than they actually do,
- 31:37Speaker 5: you can injure both of you, yourself and the person
- 31:40Speaker 5: you're lifting very badly, and it doesn't believe it or not.
- 31:45Speaker 5: For like a head injury or a back injury. You
- 31:49Speaker 5: don't have to fall twenty or thirty feet to get
- 31:52Speaker 5: hurt very badly. You can actually fall just to three
- 31:57Speaker 5: or four feet and get hurt very bad if you
- 32:01Speaker 5: hit something when you're falling, if you land wrong, if
- 32:05Speaker 5: you know, there's a few different things that can happen
- 32:08Speaker 5: that can cause very serious back injuries, very serious neck injuries,
- 32:13Speaker 5: and very dangerous or lasting head injuries. So if you're
- 32:18Speaker 5: lifting someone, you do need to be careful. And in fact,
- 32:23Speaker 5: it is important to know if somebody maybe had weighs
- 32:27Speaker 5: more than they look. And a lot of women after
- 32:30Speaker 5: they have had a baby will start an exercise routine
- 32:35Speaker 5: and they will turn what was fat that they put
- 32:39Speaker 5: on during the pregnancy into muscle doing that exercise routine,
- 32:44Speaker 5: and so you're gonna look thinner, but your weight doesn't
- 32:49Speaker 5: go down because muscle is denser than fat and it
- 32:53Speaker 5: weighs more than fat, so you can be slimmer looking
- 32:58Speaker 5: and actually way as much or more as you did
- 33:01Speaker 5: when you were pregnant. I did that. It took me
- 33:06Speaker 5: extra time to take the weight off because I turned
- 33:09Speaker 5: the fat into muscle, and like we're talking months and
- 33:15Speaker 5: months just to lose an extra thirty pounds because before
- 33:20Speaker 5: I started taking off the more solid fat that wasn't cellulite,
- 33:26Speaker 5: I burned through all that cellulite and built up as
- 33:29Speaker 5: many pounds in muscle as I took off in cellulite.
- 33:33Speaker 5: And if somebody had tried to lift me, and maybe
- 33:37Speaker 5: they lifted me when I was pregnant, they would have
- 33:39Speaker 5: expected me to be lighter than I had been, because
- 33:42Speaker 5: they will looked at me and seen a thinner person,
- 33:45Speaker 5: and I would wait just as much. So there's a
- 33:49Speaker 5: lot to take in here with regard to this case.
- 33:54Speaker 5: But it's pretty obvious that Blake Lively is not She's
- 34:01Speaker 5: not acting on any kind of real or compelling cause
- 34:07Speaker 5: that she needs to do this because.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Of no so uh, but we'll see where the lawsuit goes.
- 34:14Speaker 1: Hopefully this is like not a big old Amber Her
- 34:17Speaker 1: Johnny Depp thing, but it's worth, like I said, looking
- 34:21Speaker 1: at because again, you know, we're seeing how how these
- 34:25Speaker 1: these movements can be exploited. And I know this is
- 34:29Speaker 1: like celebrity you know, kind of gross stuff, but I
- 34:33Speaker 1: mean it's still it's it's culturally relevant, kind of like
- 34:37Speaker 1: the Neil game thing. So but.
- 34:40Speaker 5: If it gets dropped, if that lawsuit gets dropped and
- 34:44Speaker 5: then he doesn't countersuite her, I'm calling it publicity stunt.
- 34:48Speaker 5: And what that tells us is that this kind of
- 34:52Speaker 5: allegation is no longer really taken seriously when a woman
- 34:56Speaker 5: makes it, which is a good thing. It shouldn't be.
- 34:59Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like the boy who cried wolf and
- 35:02Speaker 1: then got paid so by the wolf. But yeah, so uh, anyway,
- 35:09Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it and then and then we're gonna
- 35:12Speaker 1: move on to the next one. At least Sleepy Ausie
- 35:14Speaker 1: gave us five bucks and says, once, I thought you
- 35:16Speaker 1: should only simp for your partner, but Ryan Reynolds proves
- 35:19Speaker 1: that you shouldn't simp period.
- 35:20Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that you shouldn't sin period.
- 35:23Speaker 1: No. And Ryan Renls, though, is All, was also feeling
- 35:26Speaker 1: insecure because he said that he was afraid that she
- 35:28Speaker 1: would fall in love with Jason with Baldoni because he
- 35:32Speaker 1: fell in love with her on this on the set
- 35:34Speaker 1: of something else, So it's like his anyway, that's that's
- 35:39Speaker 1: a separate thing. That's just something he said.
- 35:41Speaker 2: They say you should simp for real queens. Yeah, the
- 35:45Speaker 2: truth is real queens don't like simps.
- 35:48Speaker 1: There you go, that's true. All right, Well, anyway, let
- 35:52Speaker 1: us you guys think about this one in the comments.
- 35:53Speaker 1: We're gonna move on to the next story. All right. So,
- 35:58Speaker 1: newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has had quite a
- 36:02Speaker 1: busy first week. Unlike Trump's first term, where he had
- 36:05Speaker 1: very limited executive orders signed within his first week New
- 36:09Speaker 1: Trump Trump two point zero dark Trump has already signed
- 36:12Speaker 1: twenty eight executive orders since he was inaugurated on January twentieth.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Trump even signed many of the orders during the inauguration
- 36:20Speaker 1: festivities at the Capitol One Arena. He was doing them
- 36:24Speaker 1: while they were celebrating hundreds.
- 36:27Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, there's different categories of orders that
- 36:31Speaker 2: he was signing.
- 36:32Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
- 36:33Speaker 2: Biden famously signed more eos in his first day than
- 36:39Speaker 2: anyone else before him. But yeah, it seems like Trump
- 36:42Speaker 2: has done the same thing.
- 36:44Speaker 1: Yes, well, I'm sure that a lot of them are
- 36:47Speaker 1: just undoing the last Yeah. You know, like.
- 36:52Speaker 2: You have to think of the future where every new
- 36:55Speaker 2: president undoes all the executive orders of the previous president,
- 36:59Speaker 2: but signing a bunch of new executives.
- 37:02Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 37:02Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's the constitution is to allow these
- 37:06Speaker 2: things to happen.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that if if you sign, if
- 37:12Speaker 1: you basically spend your entire term dismantling the bureaucracy, then
- 37:16Speaker 1: there will be less of that. But let me finish
- 37:20Speaker 1: the write up. So anyway, this was by Andrew Trump
- 37:23Speaker 1: has taken several steps to secure the US southern border,
- 37:26Speaker 1: including deploying US troops to assist border patrol. Trump has
- 37:29Speaker 1: also designated drug cartels and other criminal organizations as terrorist
- 37:34Speaker 1: organizations in order to fight the influx of illegal and
- 37:37Speaker 1: deadly drugs into American towns. Trump has also taken an
- 37:40Speaker 1: ax to DEI completely, completely gutting DEI offices from government agencies,
- 37:46Speaker 1: specifically federal government agencies. Trump's executive order highlighted the toxicity
- 37:52Speaker 1: and divisiveness of DEI teachings. Trump also signed an executive
- 37:56Speaker 1: order to take out the take the US out of
- 37:58Speaker 1: the World Health Organization after the failure of the organization
- 38:02Speaker 1: to acknowledge the realities of China's role with the hur
- 38:07Speaker 1: Another EO that is facing an expected legal challenge is
- 38:10Speaker 1: an EO to end birthright citizenship. Previously, most people born
- 38:14Speaker 1: in the US immediately receive US citizenship. This EO is
- 38:17Speaker 1: erected at fighting illegal immigrants or others coming to the
- 38:21Speaker 1: US and then giving birth, thus giving their children US citizenship. Controversially,
- 38:26Speaker 1: Trump also pardoned most of the January sixth rioters that
- 38:30Speaker 1: were charged during the twenty twenty Capital riots. Many people
- 38:33Speaker 1: charged in the January sixth riots were convicted of nonviolent
- 38:36Speaker 1: offenses like trespassing, maybe property damage, but several were convicted
- 38:41Speaker 1: of violent offenses, about two dozen. Trump's pardon extended to
- 38:45Speaker 1: both groups of people because they were basically in jail
- 38:48Speaker 1: without trial for about five years. And one of those
- 38:53Speaker 1: people is Enrique A. Tario, who is now free and
- 38:58Speaker 1: he's been doing the rounds and apparently this was something
- 39:01Speaker 1: I was gonna mention too. Enrique Tarrio and other j
- 39:04Speaker 1: sixers that were being held said that they were approached
- 39:08Speaker 1: by like the Justice Department, and the Justice Department was
- 39:12Speaker 1: trying to offer them a deal if they would essentially
- 39:16Speaker 1: say Trump was responsible for, you know, the attack on
- 39:19Speaker 1: the Capitol and essentially to to tarnish his reputation, and
- 39:24Speaker 1: they resoundingly said no, they weren't going to do that.
- 39:28Speaker 1: The Proud Boys is back in action, and I believe
- 39:32Speaker 1: that was one other thing too about this. I wanted
- 39:34Speaker 1: to point out, Oh yeah, so there is he's the
- 39:38Speaker 1: goal He's gonna be releasing. This is crazy. He wants
- 39:42Speaker 1: the the files on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Senior,
- 39:49Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. And they have
- 39:52Speaker 1: like forty five days to get all of that out.
- 39:54Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, apparently it's being done, but
- 39:57Speaker 1: I don't know how much of that, you know, when
- 39:59Speaker 1: we're to learn more about that. And also the January
- 40:03Speaker 1: sixth Committee, which was basically the people who were supposed
- 40:06Speaker 1: to be investigating the attack on the capital, the insurrection,
- 40:10Speaker 1: they're also going to be investigated because you know, they
- 40:14Speaker 1: were operating under false pretenses. They did a lot of
- 40:19Speaker 1: really fucked up shit, and we're going to look into
- 40:21Speaker 1: what it is that they did. And the reason why
- 40:23Speaker 1: I wanted to pick this story was not just because
- 40:27Speaker 1: I want to highlight all this stuff that he's been doing.
- 40:30Speaker 1: That's good. Oh by the way, the Gulf of Mexico
- 40:33Speaker 1: is officially now the Gulf of America, but it's official.
- 40:39Speaker 1: But the reason why I were to point this out
- 40:41Speaker 1: is because, again I said this before, like I was
- 40:45Speaker 1: really like I was on my way out the door
- 40:48Speaker 1: to go to the Capitol on January sixth, and if
- 40:52Speaker 1: I had gone, I could have been in jail until
- 40:54Speaker 1: like yesterday or whatever whatever. So I almost was a
- 40:58Speaker 1: part of this whole mess. And I mean Lindsey begging
- 41:01Speaker 1: me not to go, and me finally like saying, okay,
- 41:04Speaker 1: I won't go might have saved like both of us,
- 41:08Speaker 1: because if I'd ended up in jail for five years,
- 41:10Speaker 1: I don't know how she would have managed without me,
- 41:12Speaker 1: and I don't know how I would have managed. So
- 41:14Speaker 1: just saying this is why this particular story, the Jay
- 41:17Speaker 1: sixth thing, is something that I have to talk about,
- 41:21Speaker 1: because I was ready to go, like you know, so oh,
- 41:25Speaker 1: and there was something else too I wanted to say
- 41:28Speaker 1: that I want to mention right now, Hold on a second.
- 41:31Speaker 1: I learned that the Press Secretary is opening up. So
- 41:35Speaker 1: like the Press Secretary sees the media, right, they put
- 41:39Speaker 1: out you know, they do Q and a's and all that,
- 41:41Speaker 1: but this this time around, Trump wants the press, the
- 41:46Speaker 1: Press Secretary to have spaces for new what they call
- 41:49Speaker 1: new media. Do you know what new media is?
- 41:52Speaker 5: It's us.
- 41:53Speaker 1: It's anybody who wants to. They can like fill out
- 41:56Speaker 1: a form and make a request and they can go
- 41:59Speaker 1: up to Washington, DC and talk directly to the Press Secretary.
- 42:03Speaker 1: So Lindsay and I were like, because I'm only like
- 42:07Speaker 1: four hours away a little bit less, so I could
- 42:10Speaker 1: definitely go up there if I and I mean, I
- 42:13Speaker 1: don't know how it works, like if I have to
- 42:14Speaker 1: get vetted or whatever, but it's us. It's such a
- 42:18Speaker 1: great opportunity because I could literally go up there and
- 42:21Speaker 1: talk about men's issues. And I'm close too, so just
- 42:25Speaker 1: saying this is like, this is huge as it were.
- 42:30Speaker 1: But I want to get your guys' thoughts on this,
- 42:32Speaker 1: So go ahead, I give you the floor.
- 42:34Speaker 5: Well, this is this is a men's issue, and I
- 42:36Speaker 5: know that there were men and women involved both, but
- 42:39Speaker 5: this is where a men's issue affects women, you know
- 42:44Speaker 5: sometimes basically it affects men all the time, it affects
- 42:48Speaker 5: women sometimes. And that is the normalization of the removal
- 42:53Speaker 5: of due process if people think that there is a
- 42:58Speaker 5: reason for that removal, that they approve.
- 43:01Speaker 1: And for.
- 43:04Speaker 5: Over a century in the United States, the reason that
- 43:09Speaker 5: has been the most often used to take away somebody's
- 43:13Speaker 5: due process rights with impunity for the state and anyone
- 43:17Speaker 5: involved in removing the due process rights has been guynocentrism.
- 43:22Speaker 5: You know, oh, it's going to benefit a woman to
- 43:25Speaker 5: take away this man's due process rights, or where he's
- 43:28Speaker 5: accused of harming a woman, therefore he doesn't deserve due
- 43:33Speaker 5: process rights. We don't have to find out if it's
- 43:36Speaker 5: the truth, because there's a woman's tears involved, right, So
- 43:41Speaker 5: this time it's not that reason. But because it has
- 43:45Speaker 5: been so normalized for so long, people have been primed
- 43:50Speaker 5: to accept this idea. Well, we don't have to find
- 43:53Speaker 5: out if these people were actually guilty, right, because we
- 43:58Speaker 5: have a nation's tears, we have the liberal tears of
- 44:03Speaker 5: these people had the audacity to step up in protest
- 44:07Speaker 5: and say they disapproved of the decision that we're claiming
- 44:12Speaker 5: the American people made. We can't have the American people
- 44:16Speaker 5: contradicting us on this, y'all. You're making this look bad.
- 44:19Speaker 5: We're gonna put you in the in the slammer for
- 44:22Speaker 5: a while. And if it had not been normalized during
- 44:29Speaker 5: the last century that that a woman's tears are an
- 44:33Speaker 5: acceptable reason right to take away somebody's due process rights,
- 44:38Speaker 5: to say they can't submit of exculpatory evidence when they're
- 44:43Speaker 5: on trial, to presume them guilty unless they prove themselves innocent,
- 44:49Speaker 5: to deny their right to a speedy trial, and all
- 44:53Speaker 5: that like it. As long as that's normalized, you will
- 44:58Speaker 5: see this kind of behavior getting worse and worse in
- 45:02Speaker 5: the court system under more and more ridiculous circumstances where
- 45:10Speaker 5: it's there's obviously not even a reason to make the
- 45:14Speaker 5: mistake of thinking that someone's due process rights are not sacred,
- 45:22Speaker 5: and and that's that's what we saw with this case.
- 45:25Speaker 5: So yeah, you know, this is this is good. This
- 45:28Speaker 5: is a step toward people recognizing that you can't take
- 45:34Speaker 5: reasons that you like and say, well, we're gonna we're
- 45:39Speaker 5: going to compromise this civil right that is based on
- 45:43Speaker 5: a human right because we we don't like what might
- 45:49Speaker 5: happen if the other if the the person that we're
- 45:51Speaker 5: accusing proves their case. That's that's basically what's going on here.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to show you guys a clip of
- 45:59Speaker 1: the the Press Secretary saying this, and then I'll get
- 46:02Speaker 1: Mike's thoughts. But this is the thing I wanted to
- 46:04Speaker 1: add on as.
- 46:05Speaker 7: Well strongly in the first Amendment. So it's why our
- 46:08Speaker 7: team will work diligently to restore the press passes of
- 46:11Speaker 7: the four hundred and forty journalists whose passes were wrongly
- 46:15Speaker 7: revoked by the previous administration. We're also opening up this
- 46:19Speaker 7: briefing room to new media voices who produce news related
- 46:23Speaker 7: content and whose outlet is not already represented.
- 46:26Speaker 1: By one of the seats in this room.
- 46:28Speaker 7: We welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content
- 46:34Speaker 7: creators to apply for credentials to cover this White House
- 46:38Speaker 7: and you can apply now on our new website, Whitehouse
- 46:42Speaker 7: dot gov slash new media.
- 46:46Speaker 1: So there you go. They're opening up to new media.
- 46:50Speaker 1: Have a criticism, go to the thing, call them names, whatever,
- 46:55Speaker 1: challenge challenge them, challenge the administration. This is like the
- 47:00Speaker 1: whatever you think about Trump, set that aside for a second.
- 47:03Speaker 1: This is unprecedented. He's letting anybody who wants, who is
- 47:07Speaker 1: a journalist, a podcast or a content creator, they can
- 47:10Speaker 1: all go to these press briefings and ask questions. So
- 47:16Speaker 1: when that's already been like yeah, so I think that's
- 47:20Speaker 1: I think that's amazing. And he's restoring the you know,
- 47:24Speaker 1: the he's restoring the the ability for media that I
- 47:29Speaker 1: guess has been excluded before by the previous administration. Most
- 47:32Speaker 1: likely it's you know, like I don't know, right leaning stuff,
- 47:36Speaker 1: but this is, uh, this is big. So anyway, I
- 47:39Speaker 1: just wanted to add that on to the list. It's
- 47:41Speaker 1: not an EO, but it is a very welcome thing
- 47:45Speaker 1: because the truth is is that legacy media is dying,
- 47:48Speaker 1: so like we should let other people, you know, get
- 47:52Speaker 1: in there.
- 47:52Speaker 5: So anyway, Well, something else is that the truth about
- 47:56Speaker 5: media in regard to men's issues is that there's there's
- 48:00Speaker 5: not going to be any legacy or establishment media that's
- 48:03Speaker 5: going to give us a fair shake there. They may
- 48:06Speaker 5: have their angle of our issues, you know, and the
- 48:09Speaker 5: left is going to have their angle, and the right's
- 48:11Speaker 5: going to have their angle, but when it comes down
- 48:14Speaker 5: to actually advocating for change to restore equal treatment under
- 48:21Speaker 5: the law for men, you're not going to get that
- 48:25Speaker 5: from the establishment media. You're not going to get that
- 48:27Speaker 5: from the legacy media. So without having that ability for
- 48:32Speaker 5: some alternative media to get in, you're pretty much unable
- 48:38Speaker 5: to interact media wise with the White House. So it's
- 48:41Speaker 5: kind of neat to see them. It's it is unprecedented.
- 48:45Speaker 5: It's also really kind of neat to see this change
- 48:48Speaker 5: because it does create an opportunity for media outlets that
- 48:53Speaker 5: will cover men's issues from a neutral perspective, an unbiased perspective,
- 48:59Speaker 5: to actually get in and ask questions.
- 49:03Speaker 8: All right, Mike, do you have any thoughts I do, okay,
- 49:09Speaker 8: regarding the idea of birthright citizenship, which seems to be
- 49:15Speaker 8: one of the hubs of political controversy surrounding this story.
- 49:20Speaker 2: Is really not all that revolutionary concept. Basically, every country
- 49:26Speaker 2: in the world falls into one or two camps. Either
- 49:30Speaker 2: you get citizenship if your parents have citizenship regardless of
- 49:36Speaker 2: where you were born, or you get citizenship just because
- 49:41Speaker 2: you were born in that country regardless of your parents' nationality.
- 49:47Speaker 2: For the sake of brevity, we can label these as
- 49:51Speaker 2: blood and soil retrospectively. Retrospectively, you must understand, and if
- 49:59Speaker 2: you if you look at it on a map, you
- 50:04Speaker 2: notice the distinction is mostly drawn down the Atlantic Ocean.
- 50:09Speaker 2: In the eastern hemisphere, including Europe, it's mostly about blood,
- 50:14Speaker 2: it's about your parents, whereas in the Western hemisphere, in
- 50:19Speaker 2: the Americas, it's almost exclusively about the geographic location of
- 50:25Speaker 2: your birth. And you can see why. It's the divide
- 50:29Speaker 2: between the New World and the Old world. If we're
- 50:32Speaker 2: in the New World and it's about parents, we can
- 50:37Speaker 2: only trace it back so far before we're back in.
- 50:40Speaker 1: The old world.
- 50:42Speaker 2: So if we don't allow citizenship by soil in that instance,
- 50:46Speaker 2: that there will only be any citizenship at all. The
- 50:51Speaker 2: reason this works in Europe, and indeed in African Nasia
- 50:56Speaker 2: is because we've been there for thousands of years for
- 51:00Speaker 2: the notion of citizenship even existed on a political level.
- 51:05Speaker 2: We were already able to trace our family tree back
- 51:10Speaker 2: to before records began, so it was never an issue.
- 51:14Speaker 2: So it's a question of how old can the new
- 51:18Speaker 2: world get? But before it gets to the status of
- 51:23Speaker 2: an old world, how old does this grandfather have to
- 51:28Speaker 2: be before we can get it in on a grandfather clause?
- 51:31Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna lie. I think what two hundred
- 51:35Speaker 2: and fifty years is reasonable. I think if you've had
- 51:38Speaker 2: a country established for two hundred and fifty years thereabouts,
- 51:44Speaker 2: you've got enough of a backstory, You've got enough of
- 51:47Speaker 2: a stronghold to be able to distinguish blood from soil,
- 51:53Speaker 2: and to have established what we call blood. In Britain,
- 51:58Speaker 2: we like to distinguish English blood and Scottish blood and
- 52:02Speaker 2: Welsh blood and whatnot, And obviously we don't mean blood literally. Genetically,
- 52:10Speaker 2: there's almost no difference between any of us, but culturally
- 52:13Speaker 2: there is an important difference. It just takes a long
- 52:15Speaker 2: time for culture to out prioritize bland or indeed blood.
- 52:21Speaker 2: But I think America is finally there. I think it's
- 52:26Speaker 2: finally getting there. In this it's Golden age. It's second
- 52:32Speaker 2: or perhaps third or fourth Golden Age. And by America,
- 52:36Speaker 2: I mean the Americas. Let us not forget the counter
- 52:40Speaker 2: revolution we're experiencing started at the southern tip of South
- 52:45Speaker 2: America with your boy Javier Malay to that we raise
- 52:50Speaker 2: a glass and say a fura in every language we
- 52:56Speaker 2: can muster, and then we say men in any language
- 53:02Speaker 2: we can man. There it is.
- 53:06Speaker 1: It feels good.
- 53:07Speaker 2: Man.
- 53:10Speaker 1: I had to wait for my thing to start up.
- 53:12Speaker 2: That's done. I was hoping you would.
- 53:15Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, we did it. Okay, So let us
- 53:22Speaker 1: know what you guys think about this. What do you
- 53:23Speaker 1: guys think about this? The press opening up its doors
- 53:28Speaker 1: for basically anybody to try and sign up anybody who
- 53:31Speaker 1: makes content online. Let me know, I think it's I
- 53:34Speaker 1: think it's great. It's very revolutionary. There's a lot of
- 53:37Speaker 1: very revolutionary things going on. I mean, like ending the
- 53:40Speaker 1: income tax. He's like at war with the I R
- 53:43Speaker 1: S right now. So let's fucking go all right, But anyway,
- 53:47Speaker 1: let us what you guys think about that one in
- 53:49Speaker 1: the comments. Let's move on to the next story. So
- 53:52Speaker 1: this one a little bit of backstory before I get
- 53:54Speaker 1: into it. Okay, So I heard last night that there
- 53:58Speaker 1: was actually like gunfire between border patrol and cartels on
- 54:04Speaker 1: the border and that and and people were it sound
- 54:07Speaker 1: yeah like I heard that there was actually like fighting
- 54:10Speaker 1: going on on the southern border between the cartels south
- 54:15Speaker 1: of the border and the border patrol. And I thought,
- 54:18Speaker 1: holy shit, it's it's getting real. And I made it
- 54:22Speaker 1: a story, and I said, I asked, you know, whoever
- 54:24Speaker 1: was going to take it to look into it, just
- 54:26Speaker 1: to confirm because this was just just just breaking right.
- 54:30Speaker 1: And Mike Jay took took it and said he couldn't
- 54:34Speaker 1: find anything and there's nothing that can confirm it. So
- 54:37Speaker 1: we don't know. It could be true, but it may
- 54:39Speaker 1: not have been reported yet. It may have gotten not
- 54:41Speaker 1: gone to the mainstream. We don't know. So but he
- 54:45Speaker 1: did find something else that it put him down a
- 54:49Speaker 1: different rabbit hole because there was some shooting that was
- 54:56Speaker 1: going on. Essentially, we're gonna look at this, Okay, this
- 55:00Speaker 1: is gonna be a little bit crazy. This is on
- 55:01Speaker 1: some BX type stuff. You guys know, I used to
- 55:04Speaker 1: have BX on my show a couple of times. It's
- 55:06Speaker 1: this woman who's sort of a Second Amendment advocate that
- 55:10Speaker 1: researches like radical you know, Satanist groups that go into
- 55:16Speaker 1: in cell forums and try to push people to suicide
- 55:18Speaker 1: or push people to do terror attacks and whatnot. So
- 55:21Speaker 1: I figured it is relevant because it's about you know, men.
- 55:25Speaker 1: But anyway, so this is what Mike j uncovered. Okay,
- 55:28Speaker 1: and it's kind of long, but I think it's interesting.
- 55:30Speaker 1: So Mike Makejay, he says. The Inauguration day murder of
- 55:33Speaker 1: a US Border patrol officer in Vermont has been linked
- 55:37Speaker 1: to two other violent incidents, which are all seemingly linked
- 55:40Speaker 1: to a violent cult. The first incident, which occurred on
- 55:45Speaker 1: January the twenties, started as a routine immigration inspection in Lyndonville, Vermont.
- 55:49Speaker 1: During a traffic stop, one of the individuals, Teresa Milo
- 55:53Speaker 1: Consuelo Young Blut. Young Blut, drew a handgun and fired
- 55:57Speaker 1: upon one of the Border Patrol agents Border control agents.
- 56:01Speaker 1: The other individual, Felix Ophelia Buckholt, attempted to draw their
- 56:06Speaker 1: handgun but was stopped when another Border Patrol agent returned
- 56:09Speaker 1: fire on the two. Bockholdt was pronounced dead at the scene,
- 56:13Speaker 1: while Young Bolt, Young Blood and the Border Patrol agent,
- 56:16Speaker 1: later identified as Air Force veteran David Miland, would be
- 56:20Speaker 1: taken to nearby medical centers for treatment. Miland would later die.
- 56:24Speaker 1: Young Blood would later be charged with quote intentional use
- 56:27Speaker 1: of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting or interfering with
- 56:31Speaker 1: federal law enforcement, and use and discharge of a firearm
- 56:34Speaker 1: during and in relation to an assault with a deadly
- 56:37Speaker 1: weapon end quote. Looking deeper into the two assailants, Bockholdt
- 56:42Speaker 1: was a German national and award winning youth math genius
- 56:46Speaker 1: who was staying in the US on a visa. Bockholdt
- 56:49Speaker 1: was also a biological male who identified as transgender. Young Blood,
- 56:54Speaker 1: who was born biologically female but also identified as transgender,
- 56:59Speaker 1: had been reported missing by her family since May of
- 57:02Speaker 1: last year. Her family said she cut off all contact
- 57:05Speaker 1: with them after entering what they described as an abusive
- 57:09Speaker 1: and controlling relationship. Young Blood's Blue Sky social media account,
- 57:13Speaker 1: of course It's blue Sky, displays her fascination with Antifa
- 57:18Speaker 1: and other prominent far left groups. Both individuals had been
- 57:21Speaker 1: under law enforcement surveillance for at least a week prior
- 57:24Speaker 1: to the incidents. Staff at a motel they were staying
- 57:28Speaker 1: at reported that the couple were acting strange and were
- 57:30Speaker 1: spotted wearing black tactical clothing tacked to coool is what
- 57:34Speaker 1: we call it militia style protective gear, and were carrying firearms.
- 57:39Speaker 1: When questioned by police, they claimed they were looking to
- 57:41Speaker 1: buy property in the area. After the shooting, police searched
- 57:45Speaker 1: their car and recovered two handguns, multiple firearm magazines, dozens
- 57:50Speaker 1: of loose rounds of ammunition, shooting targets, two way radios,
- 57:53Speaker 1: and a dozen electronic devices, some of which were wrapped
- 57:56Speaker 1: in aluminum foil. The two handguns which the couple possessed can,
- 58:01Speaker 1: through court records, be traced to an unarmed individual or
- 58:06Speaker 1: unnamed individual that is a person of interest in an
- 58:09Speaker 1: ongoing criminal investigation into the double homicide of an elderly
- 58:13Speaker 1: couple in the Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Both Richard Zajkoh and
- 58:18Speaker 1: his wife, Rita Zajko were brutally murdered on January two,
- 58:22Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three at their home in Pennsylvania. Police
- 58:25Speaker 1: are still investigating the homicide and have said that they
- 58:28Speaker 1: are investigating a person of interest, but the individual has
- 58:31Speaker 1: not been named by police. The last incident involves a
- 58:36Speaker 1: brutal attack and eventual murder of one Curtis Lynde. Lynde
- 58:40Speaker 1: was a property owner in the area of Valeo, California.
- 58:43Speaker 1: In mid November of twenty twenty two, he was injured
- 58:46Speaker 1: in a violent dispute concerning rental payment with a group
- 58:49Speaker 1: of tenants staying on his property. The dispute turned violent
- 58:52Speaker 1: when the group attacked him, beating him and later impaling
- 58:56Speaker 1: him with a samurai sword. Lynde, who was armed, fired
- 59:00Speaker 1: upon the group, hitting two of them. One of those injured,
- 59:03Speaker 1: Emma Bohuranian, would later die in the hospital. Two of
- 59:07Speaker 1: the group members, Suri Doo and Alexander Jeffrey Latham, would
- 59:12Speaker 1: later be arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and
- 59:15Speaker 1: aggravated mayhem for the death of their companion Boorhanian and
- 59:20Speaker 1: the attempted killing of Lynde. Lynde would eventually recover, albeit
- 59:24Speaker 1: with the loss of his right eye, and he would
- 59:27Speaker 1: go on to be the sole witness no pun intended
- 59:30Speaker 1: to his own attempted homicide. Lynde was set to testify
- 59:34Speaker 1: at the trial of Dow and Lethem in April, but
- 59:37Speaker 1: three days before the murder of US Border Patrol officer
- 59:40Speaker 1: David Mayland Lynde would be murdered by a black clad
- 59:44Speaker 1: Assailian assailant who stalked him as he walked outside of
- 59:48Speaker 1: his property and stabbed him in the neck with a knife.
- 59:50Speaker 1: Shortly afterwards, Maximilian Snyder was arrested and charged with murder.
- 59:55Speaker 1: Snyder connects back to young Blood due to public records
- 59:58Speaker 1: showing an active marriage license in King County, Washington between
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: the two. All of these individuals, namely Youngblood, Buckolt, lethem
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: Or Letham, and the daughter of the murdered couple in Pennsylvania,
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: Michelle Jamie Zashko, can be connected back to one group Zizz,
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: an offshoot of the rationalist community Zizz. Ziz is a
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: cult of personality based around the individual jack Lesoda Or
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: as he is better known as Ziz. One of Buckolt's
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: personal friends, Jessica Taylor, attempted to warn her about the group,
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: labeling it a murder gang. Speaking to a local news outlet,
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: Taylor explained that the group is obsessed with timeless decision theory,
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: which is a rationalist belief suggesting that human decisions and
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: their effects are mathematically quantifiable. She further explained that the
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: group is obsessed with mathematics, artificial intelligence, veganism, and animal rights,
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: with many in the group having degrees and jobs within
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: related to science and AI backgrounds. Snyder and young Blood
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: social media feeds also discuss such things. Postings from the
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: rationalist forum website less wrong dot com indicate dow Letham
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: and Boranian as associates slash members of ZIZ, all of
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: whom were arrested in twenty nineteen after protesting together with
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: him in Berkeley, California. While further connections developed between these
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: individuals and this group, bockold And had her first hearing
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: in court yesterday, with another appearance to be had later
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: this week on Thursday. If convicted, she could be sentenced
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: to life in prison. Okay, that's the rite up. I mean,
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: it's a friends vegan cult. So yeah, ziz ZIZ, that's right.
- 1:01:49Speaker 5: And this came out of the rationalist community, which is
- 1:01:54Speaker 5: the community that also spawned what did they call them,
- 1:02:02Speaker 5: skept chicks? Skeptics?
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: Oh really like Rebecca, Yeah.
- 1:02:07Speaker 4: They like.
- 1:02:12Speaker 5: Now there that doesn't associate her with this cult, no, no,
- 1:02:17Speaker 5: but but it's.
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: I don't know what the cult is.
- 1:02:23Speaker 5: Like the Rationalist skeptic atheist like blob blob, I guess
- 1:02:30Speaker 5: I would call it because there's a lot of there's
- 1:02:33Speaker 5: a lot of differences of opinion within that group, that
- 1:02:36Speaker 5: large group about what is rational and what is irrational,
- 1:02:41Speaker 5: what is religious and what is not religious. Because I
- 1:02:44Speaker 5: consider feminism to be religious, but the skeptic community considered
- 1:02:48Speaker 5: feminism to be given and uh, anti feminism to be
- 1:02:53Speaker 5: religious like trad con kind of religious. And so there's
- 1:02:58Speaker 5: different different believes in that community that are presented as
- 1:03:05Speaker 5: if they are uh, you know, proven facts or vetted ideas,
- 1:03:11Speaker 5: when in fact there's still just beliefs. But one of
- 1:03:15Speaker 5: the interesting things that I've noted in regard to that
- 1:03:18Speaker 5: is people go down these rabbit holes about you know,
- 1:03:23Speaker 5: this is the most logical or this is the most
- 1:03:25Speaker 5: rational or whatever, And especially when you get into attributing
- 1:03:31Speaker 5: things to math instead of using math. Math is a
- 1:03:35Speaker 5: language at a tool. It's a it's a way of
- 1:03:37Speaker 5: understanding quantities, that's all it is. And and and you know,
- 1:03:43Speaker 5: you can measure quantities, you can figure out how quantities
- 1:03:47Speaker 5: interact with each other and what happens as a result,
- 1:03:51Speaker 5: but it it isn't spiritual. Math is physical and it's
- 1:04:00Speaker 5: not something. It's not magic, it's logic. And so when
- 1:04:06Speaker 5: you start taking something like that and spiritualizing it and
- 1:04:12Speaker 5: treating it as if manipulating it allows you to manipulate
- 1:04:16Speaker 5: spiritual energy or there's some deep dark secrets in it
- 1:04:21Speaker 5: that will give you some sort of spiritual power as
- 1:04:26Speaker 5: opposed to just understanding how things around you operate, you
- 1:04:31Speaker 5: end up in a situation where you can drive yourself crazy.
- 1:04:35Speaker 5: And I've seen people do it. This is it's not
- 1:04:40Speaker 5: even a new phenomenon. People have been doing this for centuries.
- 1:04:45Speaker 5: It's interesting that they went after border patrol agent. And
- 1:04:52Speaker 5: obviously if there was a conflict, and it occurred in
- 1:04:57Speaker 5: the midst of the conflict, and there must be something
- 1:04:59Speaker 5: else going on.
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: But so the Zizzians, these Zizians are a vegan, transgender, atheists,
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: rationalist cult.
- 1:05:13Speaker 5: So everything that that that you just described is irrational behavior.
- 1:05:18Speaker 5: The idea that you should take an omnivorous species and
- 1:05:24Speaker 5: exclude from the omnivore diet that this species has consumed
- 1:05:29Speaker 5: for centuries the best sources of protein omega six proteins, Like,
- 1:05:35Speaker 5: that's stupid, right, that's not rational, and it's not better nutrition.
- 1:05:43Speaker 5: Most of the reasons that people have for becoming vegan
- 1:05:47Speaker 5: are our emotional appeals, right, They're about how they feel
- 1:05:51Speaker 5: about animals. Similarly with with the trans stuff, gender dysphoria
- 1:05:58Speaker 5: is the the dysfunction, and it is fueled by emotion.
- 1:06:05Speaker 5: You know, just like depression, the dysfunction in that is
- 1:06:07Speaker 5: fueled by emotion. Bipolar disorder the different. The dysfunction in
- 1:06:12Speaker 5: that is fueled by emotion. The pain and suffering that
- 1:06:15Speaker 5: you have from those those mental health conditions are fueled
- 1:06:17Speaker 5: by emotion. They're not rational, and you know, identifying with
- 1:06:24Speaker 5: these things isn't necessarily rational.
- 1:06:28Speaker 4: Uh.
- 1:06:28Speaker 5: I'm not saying that it's wrong to have gender dysphoria
- 1:06:32Speaker 5: or betrands or decide that you're gonna eat and everything
- 1:06:38Speaker 5: except animals, uh that every every living thing that that
- 1:06:42Speaker 5: exists except animals. Right, But it's not rational. So when
- 1:06:49Speaker 5: they decide to call it rational, this is this is
- 1:06:51Speaker 5: one of the problems right with the woke. They're attributing
- 1:06:56Speaker 5: rationality and rightness and morality to things that aren't rational.
- 1:07:06Speaker 5: They're not being a vegan or vegetarian or anything like that.
- 1:07:13Speaker 5: It's morally neutral m hm. As long as you're not
- 1:07:16Speaker 5: imposing it on somebody else, it's a morally neutral act. Uh.
- 1:07:21Speaker 5: And similarly, until you start engaging in imposition on other people,
- 1:07:27Speaker 5: being trans is a morally neutral act. It doesn't matter
- 1:07:30Speaker 5: if you decide. You know, it matters to you obviously,
- 1:07:34Speaker 5: and other people who care about you will have opinions
- 1:07:37Speaker 5: about it one way or another, but it doesn't affect
- 1:07:41Speaker 5: other people if you're trans. Yeah, all right, so none
- 1:07:45Speaker 5: of this is a big deal.
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: Apparently, these Zizians or zip Vividian Zizians, they have a
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: very high rate of homicide and suicide, right, So.
- 1:08:00Speaker 5: I don't know. I guess the thing that I would
- 1:08:03Speaker 5: say about this is just like any other group of
- 1:08:06Speaker 5: people when they start advertising themselves to you as above
- 1:08:13Speaker 5: other groups like this, this religion is better than every
- 1:08:18Speaker 5: other group. This is the way and and you have
- 1:08:21Speaker 5: you can't have spiritual success without this religion or this
- 1:08:27Speaker 5: belief or this whatever. You have to go to this
- 1:08:29Speaker 5: specific church, you have to talk to these specific people,
- 1:08:32Speaker 5: you have to sing these specific songs you you know,
- 1:08:35Speaker 5: and all that. You should start asking a lot of
- 1:08:37Speaker 5: questions about that about uh, you know, how how rational
- 1:08:43Speaker 5: are these people in their and their beliefs? Because it's there,
- 1:08:48Speaker 5: there's something wrong. Generally speaking, it's like if it sounds
- 1:08:51Speaker 5: too crazy to be true, you know, if it sounds
- 1:08:54Speaker 5: too good to be true, if it sounds too nice
- 1:08:57Speaker 5: to be true, or or if they have to add
- 1:09:02Speaker 5: something to skeptic or rationalist in order to uh describe
- 1:09:12Speaker 5: themselves that they have to add a modifier, then it's
- 1:09:18Speaker 5: no longer what they say. It is just like if
- 1:09:22Speaker 5: you have to add a modifier to justice, social justice, right,
- 1:09:27Speaker 5: it's no longer.
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: Justice of course. Yeah, so those.
- 1:09:31Speaker 5: People got caught up, caught up in a cult because
- 1:09:33Speaker 5: of their their woke ideals that they tried to rebrand
- 1:09:38Speaker 5: as rational and this is the result. This is crazy.
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, might nothing nothing, Okay?
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: I with everything.
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild. It is a wild story. And and
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: again kind of like added on last minute. And so
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: but let me know what you guys think. I had
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: never heard of any of this, and now I'm like
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: kind of want to know more about this crazy rabbit
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: hole of the zizz Zizzians.
- 1:10:10Speaker 5: I wonder how many of the people who joined this
- 1:10:13Speaker 5: cult grew up without dads.
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: Oh dude, I know I thought about that too, but
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: I can't. I would speculate, but I mean, I think
- 1:10:22Speaker 1: we have a I'm pretty sure that that was a problem.
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: There was definitely problems at home, and it probably has
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: something to do with absentee fathers for sure.
- 1:10:31Speaker 5: Well, I mean the kind of thing that my dad
- 1:10:34Speaker 5: would have armed me against, you know when when I
- 1:10:37Speaker 5: was growing up, Like, why aren't you asking some questions
- 1:10:40Speaker 5: about what's really going on there? Because this is obviously
- 1:10:43Speaker 5: nuts what you know.
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they should have just gotten into magic the
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: gathering or Yu gi oh or something.
- 1:10:48Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, but I mean, if you think about it,
- 1:10:50Speaker 5: if your dad would not like you being a part
- 1:10:53Speaker 5: of something, you might want to ask some questions, what's
- 1:10:55Speaker 5: the hell is this really about? You know, what's the
- 1:10:58Speaker 5: benefit of being part of this?
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: For sure? I agree it's well again, it's the field
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: of the desire to feel like you belong. That's where
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: a lot of these people get swept up in various
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: like you know, movements and whatnot.
- 1:11:11Speaker 5: So that's the other thing. If you're having so much
- 1:11:14Speaker 5: trouble fit finding a place to belong that you have
- 1:11:18Speaker 5: to join a cult, yeah, maybe seek help instead.
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: For sure. All right, well we're gonna move on to
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: the next way. Let us. Know, you guys think about
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: this one in the comments. Okay, last one. It's a
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: bit of good news or potentially good news. So I
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: know there's no image. It's kind of boring to look at,
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: but I'll just sum it up. Okay. A group called Intaction,
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: which is basically a group of intactivists. They announced today
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: that the New Hampshire Legislature is allowing public comment on
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: a bill that's been put forward. Okay, and I'll read
- 1:11:55Speaker 1: the letter. This is the public comment to the New
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: Hampshire public. I am contact seeing you about a bill
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: we have pending before the New Hampshire House of Health
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: and Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee. The State House
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: Health Committee is accepting written public comment on whether they
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: should stop using Medicaid to pay for infant circumcision. There
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: is presently a bill HB ninety four being debated that
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: would stop insurance payments for the practice of infant circumcision.
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: You do not need to be a resident of New
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: Hampshire to offer a public comment. You can just click support.
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: So blah blah blah. So there's been a bill put forward.
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: The hearing is going to be on the twenty ninth
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: of this month, so that is tomorrow at one pm.
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: To submit a public comment, click on there's a link
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: I can put it in the description. You can find
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: it actually in the Patreon page for this story for
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: this today's show, there's a link and then you can
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: go to the link in there. And so, yeah, it
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: looks like they're so what does this mean? So if
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: this bill passes, essentially what it's going to say is
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: that Medicaid will not cover circumcision. Now, is that a
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: bandoned circumcision? No, but shut up for a minute, because
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: these things don't happen overnight. But it does mean that
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: it's not going to be covered by insurance. So there
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: is at least a recognition if this goes through, that
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: circumcision should not be normalized to that degree. So anyway,
- 1:13:24Speaker 1: I think it's good overall. So what do you guys think?
- 1:13:28Speaker 5: Well, for one thing, medicaids shouldn't be covering circumcision because
- 1:13:35Speaker 5: Medicaid shouldn't be covering anything outside of disability payments like
- 1:13:40Speaker 5: disability treatments, and obviously having a penis is not a disability.
- 1:13:46Speaker 5: Feminists can say it is, but there shouldn't be a
- 1:13:51Speaker 5: welfare department outside of any assistance for people with disabilities,
- 1:13:55Speaker 5: and that that should only be covered long enough to
- 1:13:58Speaker 5: get it back into the private section, which does a
- 1:14:01Speaker 5: better job than the government. But as far as the
- 1:14:06Speaker 5: men's issues perspective is concerned, there is no benefit to
- 1:14:11Speaker 5: having Medicare or Medicaid or any other government insurance promoting
- 1:14:18Speaker 5: by coverage this procedure. The procedure doesn't benefit the patient.
- 1:14:25Speaker 5: It does damage. It causes emotional trauma, it causes physical trauma,
- 1:14:31Speaker 5: It leaves a scar, actually leaves quite a bit of scarring,
- 1:14:35Speaker 5: and it causes complications. I mean, yeah, yeah, it causes
- 1:14:40Speaker 5: it's a it's a loss of functional tissue that actually
- 1:14:45Speaker 5: has a purpose, and it causes that purpose to not
- 1:14:48Speaker 5: be served, so you end up with with health problems afterward.
- 1:14:53Speaker 5: And in addition to that, the lies that have been
- 1:14:57Speaker 5: used to promote this procedure cause behavior that is careless
- 1:15:06Speaker 5: because the individual thinks that he has protected in a
- 1:15:10Speaker 5: way that he is not protected, and that can put
- 1:15:13Speaker 5: people at risk. There have been studies in the same
- 1:15:17Speaker 5: areas where they did this, the fake studies that they
- 1:15:22Speaker 5: came out and said, you know, circumcision protects against certain STIs.
- 1:15:28Speaker 5: They did studies later on after it was demonstrated that
- 1:15:32Speaker 5: the information in the previous ones was wrong, that the
- 1:15:36Speaker 5: studies weren't real studies, that it actually came out. Men
- 1:15:43Speaker 5: who have been told that they are protected by this
- 1:15:45Speaker 5: procedure engage in much riskier sexual behavior and have a
- 1:15:49Speaker 5: higher risk of other STIs and so like herpes gonnerrhea.
- 1:15:58Speaker 5: And by the way, guys, just so you know, there
- 1:16:00Speaker 5: is now a multiple drug resistant, antibiotic resistant gun rhea
- 1:16:07Speaker 5: out there.
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: So yeah, careful.
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: Where you put it. What's going to point out the
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: act there there, It's an act that they're putting forward.
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: It's called the Children's Body Autonomy Act. And the reason
- 1:16:20Speaker 1: why I think this is a really fantastic thing is
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: not just because of what it does, but what it
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: sets the precedent to do. So this could set a
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: precedent and there could be more movement towards, you know,
- 1:16:32Speaker 1: at least like having a serious conversation about circumcision. And
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: it really only affects boys. There's no there is no
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: equivalent for girls in the States. So yeah, that's what
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: I think. I think it's good news.
- 1:16:45Speaker 5: Well, and it even if you think there's a good
- 1:16:49Speaker 5: purpose for it, there isn't anything that needs to be
- 1:16:52Speaker 5: done prior to the age of majority, when the individual
- 1:16:56Speaker 5: can make that decision for himself.
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: Mm hm.
- 1:16:59Speaker 5: So there's no reason for this to be done to
- 1:17:03Speaker 5: infants at all. It should just be completely abolished in
- 1:17:08Speaker 5: terms of but it is very good that the government
- 1:17:11Speaker 5: has stopped. One of the main reasons that this has
- 1:17:14Speaker 5: survived in the United States is because it's so lucrative.
- 1:17:17Speaker 5: You have, first of all, the you know, the child's
- 1:17:21Speaker 5: born in the hospital. The hospital does the procedure, they charge,
- 1:17:26Speaker 5: they cut off party, your dickon, and they charge an
- 1:17:28Speaker 5: arm and a leg right, and then they keep the
- 1:17:34Speaker 5: tissue that they have removed from your child and they
- 1:17:37Speaker 5: sell it and your child gets nothing. You pay, and
- 1:17:44Speaker 5: then they sell your child's bodily tissue and your child
- 1:17:50Speaker 5: gets nothing, nothing but trauma that in and of itself
- 1:17:55Speaker 5: should be criminal.
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: Yep, all right, Mike, what do you think about this?
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: I know you're vocal about the circumcision thing.
- 1:18:07Speaker 2: I think anyone who mutilates children should be deported to
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: their country of origin and then executed. Now that may
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: seem obvious, but there's that bit in the middle of
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: being deported to their country of origin. Take this from
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: someone who lives in a country where the majority of
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: child mutilation is being done by people not of my country,
- 1:18:34Speaker 2: And so it's very difficult to figure out how on
- 1:18:36Speaker 2: earth we could possibly punish them, because we obviously can't
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: deport them, How could we possibly do that? Then they
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: could go on to commit other such heinous crimes of
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: mutilating children's centers in another country, and we can't let
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: them do that in another country. We've got to let
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: them do that here in this country. But that opens
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: up this whole wasps nest, this top, this whole can
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: of worms, of other ways in which children get mutilated,
- 1:19:10Speaker 2: especially genitally. We have to ask, well, should we employ
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: capital punishment for them? Should we hang them from the
- 1:19:19Speaker 2: fucking gallows? And I'm like, yes, yes, everyone who mutilates
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: children's genitals should be strung up from a fucking use
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: in the public square. But it's not gonna happen. It's
- 1:19:33Speaker 2: not gonna happen anytime soon, because we're fucked. We're far
- 1:19:39Speaker 2: more likely to see people getting hanged from the gallows
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: for saying, hey, maybe maybe all those foreigners shouldn't be
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: allowed to rape all all those native kids and I
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: thank you America for being for allowing me to say
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: these things. I'm very worried about what's going to happen
- 1:20:02Speaker 2: to me when I finally arrived back in Britain in
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: two and a half weeks.
- 1:20:07Speaker 9: Ah, because because my because my fellow locacy, or at
- 1:20:13Speaker 9: least friend of the show Callum is h is currently
- 1:20:17Speaker 9: being detained by Busy.
- 1:20:20Speaker 2: The anti terrorist British police because he recently arrived back
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: in Britain after after having spent a long time in
- 1:20:29Speaker 2: the US. I mean, yeah, he's been to Afghanistan. Yes,
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: he's been to Russia. That's probably got a lot to
- 1:20:35Speaker 2: do with it.
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, but you're worse. You're in the Land
- 1:20:40Speaker 1: of the It's mega country. So that's like, and I've
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: been here. I've been here for like two and a
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: half months enough to be radicalized by our like very
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: crazy ideas about freedom.
- 1:20:52Speaker 2: Yeah that I'm going to try. I'm going to try
- 1:20:57Speaker 2: and enjoy myself as best I can. Yeah, the Land
- 1:20:59Speaker 2: of the Free for the next two weeks before I
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: go like a lot of vodka For all I know,
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: I'm going to be kept in a holding cell the
- 1:21:09Speaker 2: rest of my life. So yeah, as as of February
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: the sixteenth. If you don't hear back from me, it's
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: probably because I'm in one of those holding cells being
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: being interrogated as to how close I am to these
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: right wing groups, these American right wing groups, whom we
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: can't possibly tolerate.
- 1:21:36Speaker 1: Yeah, of course in Europe.
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me, guys, I love
- 1:21:43Speaker 2: you so much.
- 1:21:44Speaker 1: Ah, thanks Mike. All right, well, let us let you
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- 1:23:08Speaker 10: Men's right activists are machines, dude. Okay, they are literal machines.
- 1:23:14Speaker 10: They are talking point machines. They are impossible to fucking
- 1:23:17Speaker 10: deal with, especially if you have like especially if you
- 1:23:19Speaker 10: have like a couple of dudes who have good memory.
- 1:23:22Speaker 10: On top of that, too, holy shit, you're fucked