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- 0:00Speaker 1: Showtime is here.
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- 0:29Speaker 4: What in this good gay world is going on? Well,
- 0:32Speaker 4: we're going to find out as Scott Jacobson from The
- 0:34Speaker 4: Good Man Project joins us from Ukraine. We'll also talk
- 0:38Speaker 4: a little Ukraine info on this gay week with Carell
- 0:42Speaker 4: and Scott Jacobson. So don't go anywhere. It is The
- 0:50Speaker 4: Carell Show. I am Carell. So very glad you are
- 0:53Speaker 4: joining me. I just realized I'm wearing the same color
- 0:56Speaker 4: shirt as I wore yesterday. I must really like this color. Anyway,
- 1:00Speaker 4: so glad you are joining me today on this, what
- 1:03Speaker 4: is it, Thursday, September 24th. Good googly moogly. This month
- 1:07Speaker 4: is almost gone. We're going to be talking with Scott
- 1:09Speaker 4: Jacobson live in Kiev, Ukraine at an undisclosed location. I
- 1:15Speaker 4: used to say that about Art Bell. And from a
- 1:17Speaker 4: bunker in an undisclosed location. Of course, he was hiding
- 1:20Speaker 4: from aliens. You're just hiding from Russia. Well, same difference,
- 1:24Speaker 4: I guess. But there is a lot going on in
- 1:27Speaker 4: this gay world of ours and in Ukraine. So we're
- 1:31Speaker 4: going to catch up on both. Hola, Scott. That's you.
- 1:37Speaker 4: That's your cue. Are you frozen? Did we lose you? Well,
- 1:42Speaker 4: it's a great image to lose you on. Oh, we
- 1:45Speaker 4: lost him. All right. Let's hope we can get him back.
- 1:50Speaker 4: Let's see. Let's try Adam again. Oh, now there's three
- 1:56Speaker 4: of you. I'm seeing double. I don't know what to
- 2:02Speaker 4: do here, Scott. Hold on just a second, listeners and everybody,
- 2:07Speaker 4: because there is two. There, I'll disconnect that one. There
- 2:13Speaker 4: you go. Now the new one, but that means over
- 2:16Speaker 4: here I got to do all kinds of new stuff
- 2:18Speaker 4: as well. I would vamp with you all, but I'm
- 2:21Speaker 4: too busy working. Scott's got me working today. Got me
- 2:25Speaker 4: working overtime. But here he is. He is here. There
- 2:30Speaker 4: he is.
- 2:30Speaker 5: See?
- 2:30Speaker 4: There he is. Say hi to everybody. You can't wave
- 2:34Speaker 4: in radio, FYI, just so you know. It's an audio thing,
- 2:37Speaker 4: and we do have audio as well. Well, hello from Keith.
- 2:43Speaker 4: We're not. So, yeah, let's remove that layer. And let's
- 2:50Speaker 4: assign your placeholder to you there. There!
- 2:54Speaker 1: See?
- 2:55Speaker 4: For once, I'm a top. Okay, there we go. Not
- 3:00Speaker 4: that I'm habitually a bottom. By the way, Scott, I'm
- 3:03Speaker 4: going to tell you everything that I, what I've told
- 3:06Speaker 4: my listeners yesterday and today. I am dog sitting for
- 3:09Speaker 4: my friend Steve. There is construction at his house. and
- 3:15Speaker 4: I got Tino with me, so at any moment we
- 3:17Speaker 4: could be interrupted by an adorable little dog, in which case,
- 3:21Speaker 4: oh well. All right, so we got a couple minutes
- 3:24Speaker 4: left in this segment. We got all the technical stuff
- 3:26Speaker 4: worked out. First of all, the United Nations having a
- 3:29Speaker 4: big hoopla. Zelensky is over here in New York trying
- 3:35Speaker 4: to gather support for the war. Also, Netanyahu went in
- 3:39Speaker 4: to make a speech, and half the room left. And
- 3:42Speaker 4: Trump announced that he might annihilate Iran, which I don't
- 3:46Speaker 4: pay much attention to. But then again, you never know
- 3:49Speaker 4: what that asshole is going to do. So we have
- 3:53Speaker 4: heard that there is, I don't want to say hope,
- 3:58Speaker 4: but we have heard in our media that there are
- 4:01Speaker 4: now serious talks going on for at least a ceasefire,
- 4:05Speaker 4: if not an end to the war in Ukraine. If
- 4:07Speaker 4: they can't agree to just end it, there is talk
- 4:11Speaker 4: of a ceasefire. But we have heard the sticking point
- 4:14Speaker 4: is Vladimir Putin. He wants a lot of concessions before
- 4:18Speaker 4: the ceasefire. And Zelensky just wants to stop on both
- 4:22Speaker 4: sides right now where everything's at. Just stop firing and
- 4:25Speaker 4: let's try to figure it out. Is that pretty much
- 4:28Speaker 4: what you're hearing, too, that it's really up to whether
- 4:30Speaker 4: Putin is going to put a lot of restrictions or not?
- 4:34Speaker 6: The key thing right now with winter upon us has
- 4:37Speaker 6: to do primarily with ceasefire on, well, ceasefire on targeting
- 4:44Speaker 6: energy infrastructure broadly. If they target that here in the winter,
- 4:47Speaker 6: it gets really bad. When I was here in January,
- 4:50Speaker 6: it got down to minus 20. Indoor heating, maybe about
- 4:58Speaker 6: 12 hours a day when I was in Lviv, probably
- 5:00Speaker 6: less than Kiev. And it was on intermittently. When I
- 5:04Speaker 6: was staying there, about three or four hours at a clip,
- 5:08Speaker 6: and then mostly off during the night. So you kind
- 5:11Speaker 6: of had to learn to bring a power bank, charge
- 5:14Speaker 6: it when the power was on.
- 5:14Speaker 4: Should I make a joke of it adds a new
- 5:16Speaker 4: dimension to the term Cold War, but I'm bump?
- 5:20Speaker 6: It was a very Russian thing. Yeah. No, black humor
- 5:23Speaker 6: is very much a big thing here. But yes.
- 5:28Speaker 4: That wasn't black humor. I didn't say, honey, put an
- 5:31Speaker 4: end to the Cold War now. Oh, sorry. Don't let
- 5:34Speaker 4: my stereotype show. All right, we will get to the
- 5:37Speaker 4: real show, the real crux of the matter. We will
- 5:41Speaker 4: get to the real show when we come back in
- 5:42Speaker 4: just a second. Don't go anywhere. This is Scott Jacobson,
- 5:45Speaker 4: and see you.
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- 6:02Speaker 2: You have to be proud with hatred.
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- 6:26Speaker 2: Carell is so near because Showtime is here.
- 6:30Speaker 1: So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
- 6:34Speaker 2: Carell is the one that you need to know.
- 6:38Speaker 5: All right.
- 6:39Speaker 4: We are back for this gay week on this Thursday,
- 6:41Speaker 4: September 24th with Scott Jacobson from the Good Man Project
- 6:46Speaker 4: over in Kiev, Ukraine. I'm sorry. I'm laughing. The dog
- 6:50Speaker 4: I'm babysitting second day in a row. Amber gets under
- 6:53Speaker 4: the chair sometimes when I do the show here in
- 6:55Speaker 4: the studio. And she's under there now to hide from him,
- 6:58Speaker 4: but he is determined to get himself under there to
- 7:02Speaker 4: annoy her. And so we have a battle of the
- 7:05Speaker 4: pooches going on here. So, Scott.
- 7:11Speaker 6: I love animals generally.
- 7:12Speaker 4: I love them all. I do. So let me ask
- 7:15Speaker 4: you this. You know, I made a joke about the
- 7:20Speaker 4: Cold War. But it is a very real strategy to
- 7:24Speaker 4: try to freeze, literally freeze the Ukrainians out and thus
- 7:29Speaker 4: weaken their defenses and thus make more gains, incur into
- 7:34Speaker 4: more territory and win more by attacking civilian infrastructure that
- 7:42Speaker 4: has to do with energy, correct? I mean- But we.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Have to be careful here.
- 7:51Speaker 6: We have to be really, really careful. So when you
- 7:54Speaker 6: speak of, for instance, breaking of people, you're talking about morale.
- 7:58Speaker 6: That's in a standard parlance used in the context of troops.
- 8:03Speaker 6: You try to break the morale of the troops so
- 8:05Speaker 6: you can then get concessions and surrender. When you are
- 8:09Speaker 6: targeting civilian energy infrastructure and you're trying to use the
- 8:15Speaker 6: language of breaking morale... you're basically just terrorizing a public.
- 8:21Speaker 6: This not really has to do anything with combat necessarily.
- 8:25Speaker 6: So you could probably consider that more akin to Kremlin-based
- 8:29Speaker 6: state terrorism. On the other hand, in terms of the
- 8:33Speaker 6: resilience of people, people have been showing themselves to be
- 8:37Speaker 6: highly resilient here with regards to loss of family. I met.
- 8:47Speaker 4: Your Ukrainian Wi-Fi is cutting out and it cut out
- 8:50Speaker 4: at such a bad picture. I'm going to do you
- 8:52Speaker 4: a favor and not show you what it's showing me.
- 9:02Speaker 4: But you're back now. You're moving again now, but you weren't.
- 9:06Speaker 4: But now you're all pixelated. So we're having some issue
- 9:08Speaker 4: with your Wi-Fi, which I'm always amazed each week that
- 9:11Speaker 4: we do this show that you are able to even connect.
- 9:16Speaker 4: in this war. Your picture has not come back yet.
- 9:20Speaker 4: There we go. Now your picture is back. Oh, no, no, no.
- 9:25Speaker 4: You might want to choose a new network or a
- 9:29Speaker 4: new Wi-Fi as we do this gay week. We are
- 9:33Speaker 4: going to talk about international stories, of course, but there
- 9:36Speaker 4: are a couple LGBTQ stories from the United States that
- 9:39Speaker 4: I'm going to want to also touch on. They were
- 9:41Speaker 4: in the ones you sent So I don't have to
- 9:44Speaker 4: worry about you not knowing because they were in the
- 9:46Speaker 4: ones you sent. But let's start with probably the biggest
- 9:51Speaker 4: one from last week and now this week, which is Turkey.
- 9:56Speaker 4: Turkey has now arrested 241. people nationwide, 82 placed in
- 10:03Speaker 4: pretrial detention. The initial raids reportedly concentrated on transgendered women
- 10:09Speaker 4: with authorities using, so once again, harming women, even transgendered ones,
- 10:14Speaker 4: with authorities using allegations involving prostitution, drugs, and public morality.
- 10:19Speaker 4: It's my kind of party. When people demonstrated in Ankara, Istanbul,
- 10:24Speaker 4: and Izmir, another 125 protesters were arrested. Groups also report
- 10:29Speaker 4: social media censorship targeting activists and journalists. The political escalation
- 10:35Speaker 4: is that FIDH and Turkey's human rights associations are now
- 10:39Speaker 4: calling on the EU to suspend Turkey's accession indefinitely. and
- 10:46Speaker 4: to end the pre-accession funding. So explain a little, since
- 10:52Speaker 4: you know about these things, what that means. Because I
- 10:54Speaker 4: think what it means is Turkey wants to be a
- 10:56Speaker 4: member of the EU and now based on their horrible behavior,
- 11:00Speaker 4: there are groups saying, no, don't let them in the
- 11:03Speaker 4: EU and take away any pre-EU funding or pre-accession funding
- 11:07Speaker 4: that they may have because they're despicable people who do
- 11:10Speaker 4: not align with our values. Am I sort of getting
- 11:13Speaker 4: that right?
- 11:15Speaker 6: The general picture is we want to join. They go, okay,
- 11:19Speaker 6: meet these criteria. One of those is equality for LGBTQI
- 11:23Speaker 6: plus people. They go, hold on a minute, hold on
- 11:28Speaker 6: my beer. And then they oppress. EU hears about this,
- 11:32Speaker 6: tells them accession is halting indefinitely. They probably don't like it.
- 11:37Speaker 6: But that's just part of the deal of being part
- 11:39Speaker 6: of the EU.
- 11:42Speaker 4: Now, I've mentioned that this is the kind of pressure
- 11:46Speaker 4: that countries need put upon them to actually change. So
- 11:53Speaker 4: if Turkey really wants to be in the EU, and
- 11:56Speaker 4: I assume they do, do you think this could soften
- 12:00Speaker 4: the stance of... of Turkey against gays. I mean, that's
- 12:04Speaker 4: what they're trying to go for here with this threat.
- 12:07Speaker 4: Do you think it's effective? How badly do you think
- 12:11Speaker 4: Turkey wants to be in the EU?
- 12:14Speaker 6: We can take an analogous case to the earlier commentary today.
- 12:18Speaker 6: So for the Russian Federation, sanctions are placed on specific
- 12:22Speaker 6: people and industries associated or directly involved with funding or
- 12:28Speaker 6: coordinating for the illegal aggression against Ukraine. Sanctions help. That's
- 12:34Speaker 6: economic for political and military counter effect. On this case,
- 12:39Speaker 6: you're dealing with morality and politics. You're saying this is
- 12:44Speaker 6: against our values. You want to join the club, then
- 12:47Speaker 6: you have to set in place equality for those people.
- 12:51Speaker 6: You don't have to approve of what they do, but
- 12:53Speaker 6: you have to give them equal rights within the society. Um,
- 12:58Speaker 6: and that's basically what the, this amounts to. And I
- 13:01Speaker 6: think at.
- 13:01Speaker 4: The same time that Turkey does not really care about
- 13:04Speaker 4: gay people. I don't know why they're doing this right now.
- 13:07Speaker 4: Turkey historically has not been a terrible place for gays.
- 13:10Speaker 4: We haven't been legally accepted or whatever, but there hasn't
- 13:12Speaker 4: been violence against us. We haven't been arrested. They've sort
- 13:15Speaker 4: of just looked over their laws and we all saw
- 13:18Speaker 4: midnight express. So we know what goes on in their prisons. Uh,
- 13:21Speaker 4: but yeah, and I'm only partially joking there. Um, So
- 13:27Speaker 4: to me, I would like to ask the president of Turkey,
- 13:30Speaker 4: why now? You know, why now? You want to join
- 13:33Speaker 4: the EU. This is not the ideal time to be
- 13:36Speaker 4: doing something that historically you haven't done. This is their
- 13:40Speaker 4: worst crackdown on gays in the last decade or more.
- 13:45Speaker 4: So they haven't, they're not known for this. And now
- 13:49Speaker 4: suddenly they are. And it makes you wonder why. particularly
- 13:54Speaker 4: since they want to join the EU. And I'm assuming
- 13:57Speaker 4: they knew the stance of the EU on gay rights
- 13:59Speaker 4: before asking to join, right?
- 14:02Speaker 1: Of course.
- 14:03Speaker 6: Of course. The operations that were set in place, it
- 14:08Speaker 6: could have been a boulder you put down a hill
- 14:10Speaker 6: and it sort of ran out of control and that
- 14:13Speaker 6: you just have to follow that procedure following through. But
- 14:16Speaker 6: even putting it in place in the first place makes
- 14:18Speaker 6: little sense if you're trying to get EU accession. Maybe
- 14:21Speaker 6: they thought they were immune. I mean, these are institutions,
- 14:25Speaker 6: and institutions are comprised of people, and people miscalculate all
- 14:28Speaker 6: the time. They have blind spots.
- 14:30Speaker 4: Well, hopefully this is a miscalculation on their part, and
- 14:33Speaker 4: they will release these people unharmed. Unharmed being the key word.
- 14:40Speaker 4: But this has moved beyond a domestic LGBTQ rights dispute.
- 14:44Speaker 4: Human rights groups are asking Europe to attach consequences to
- 14:48Speaker 4: Turkey's relationship with the EU. And that's what I say
- 14:52Speaker 4: here almost every week. Until there are consequences for everyone
- 14:57Speaker 4: in the country from a group of people being discriminated against,
- 15:02Speaker 4: change will never happen. Change happens when people don't like
- 15:07Speaker 4: the consequences of their actions. You know, a child reaches
- 15:12Speaker 4: for a hot pan, he gets burned, he doesn't reach
- 15:15Speaker 4: for the hot pan again. Someone does something at school
- 15:19Speaker 4: that gets socially panned by everybody, they won't do that again.
- 15:24Speaker 4: So in order for anti-gay LGBTQ violence and persecution to end,
- 15:31Speaker 4: you have to make the people do it pay a price.
- 15:35Speaker 4: In this case, the EU is saying, the price you're
- 15:37Speaker 4: going to pay is you will not have accession to
- 15:40Speaker 4: the EU. And I'm not sure what pre-accession funding is.
- 15:46Speaker 4: I don't know what that is. I tried to find
- 15:48Speaker 4: that in the story. But I guess prior to joining
- 15:52Speaker 4: the EU, there's some sort of funding or some sort,
- 15:54Speaker 4: I don't know if the country gets funding or if
- 15:56Speaker 4: they give funding or what, but they have asked that
- 16:00Speaker 4: they end pre-accession funding. So I think Turkey might have
- 16:05Speaker 4: been able to draw upon some EU funds, and now
- 16:08Speaker 4: they're saying, no, you cannot draw upon those funds. At
- 16:12Speaker 4: least that's what I get from the story.
- 16:14Speaker 6: And it's a common retort of yours, which is very
- 16:17Speaker 6: valid in pretty much every single case. Don't you have
- 16:21Speaker 6: better things to do? Don't you have more serious problems
- 16:24Speaker 6: in your society?
- 16:25Speaker 4: I think they don't.
- 16:26Speaker 6: These are very, very good universalized critique. It's like a
- 16:30Speaker 6: universal asset somewhere.
- 16:32Speaker 4: Well, I saw an American go off today about both
- 16:36Speaker 4: the annihilation comment and the prices. And in his rant,
- 16:40Speaker 4: I love this guy. You need to follow him. He's
- 16:43Speaker 4: always angry. He's always screaming and saying, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
- 16:46Speaker 4: And his face is always red. He's going to stroke
- 16:47Speaker 4: out on camera, but he's young. If he was my age,
- 16:50Speaker 4: he would have been dead. But he said, you know.
- 16:56Speaker 4: gas prices are $ 5 a gallon and, you know, food
- 16:59Speaker 4: is horrible priced and truckers are going to go on strike. And,
- 17:03Speaker 4: you know, he was listing all these things. He goes,
- 17:05Speaker 4: but are you happy MAGA? Because trans people can't use
- 17:08Speaker 4: the bathroom, you know? And so his point being Trump
- 17:13Speaker 4: and MAGA have concentrated on all the wrong things. And meanwhile,
- 17:18Speaker 4: the stuff that matters has come undone. Uh, and, and
- 17:22Speaker 4: you've got to wonder with Trump, you know, well, why now?
- 17:25Speaker 4: You know, I mean, Melania was just in the news yesterday, uh,
- 17:29Speaker 4: his hooker wife. And, um, she was asked how she
- 17:32Speaker 4: thinks his first term is going or second term is going.
- 17:35Speaker 4: And she said, well, things are very different in the
- 17:38Speaker 4: world now. And I think, you know, cause she talks
- 17:40Speaker 4: like notorious and, uh, from, you know, from Bullwinkle. You,
- 17:44Speaker 4: I hope you remember Bullwinkle. Uh, she talks like Boris
- 17:47Speaker 4: Badenoff and Natasha. Yeah. Uh, Moose and Squirrel. She talks like, uh,
- 17:52Speaker 4: Natasha from Moose, from, uh, Bullwinkle. But she's like, you know,
- 17:57Speaker 4: things very bad in world right now, very different. And
- 18:01Speaker 4: everyone's like, yeah, your husband caused all of that, you
- 18:05Speaker 4: freaking hooker. But whatever. Shall we move on to Indonesia? Because, Scott,
- 18:12Speaker 4: did you know, did you know that people like me,
- 18:16Speaker 4: including me, I, me, I'm a national security threat?
- 18:21Speaker 6: Of course.
- 18:22Speaker 4: Did you know?
- 18:22Speaker 1: Of course. Oh, you're the worst.
- 18:26Speaker 3: I am.
- 18:28Speaker 4: I might break in and redecorate something. That's good.
- 18:35Speaker 6: Actually, honestly, I think we need more gay terrorism for
- 18:39Speaker 6: better decor.
- 18:40Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Better fashion.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Breaking news here at CNN.
- 18:47Speaker 6: We're having just a fabulous.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Fabulous Saturday day off here. We're just letting them just
- 18:54Speaker 1: commit all sorts of.
- 18:56Speaker 4: The gays are rioting. They have totally redecorated the East Wing,
- 19:00Speaker 4: and they've reconstructed it. The gays have built the ballroom.
- 19:04Speaker 1: They're dressing up like construction workers.
- 19:06Speaker 4: And they're... And Indians, don't forget.
- 19:10Speaker 6: And firemen.
- 19:11Speaker 1: What is going on?
- 19:11Speaker 4: Yes, don't forget the Native American that's in there. Of course, yes.
- 19:16Speaker 4: In fact, Native Americans hate that character in Village People,
- 19:20Speaker 4: but I don't blame them. He's a very nice guy, though,
- 19:23Speaker 4: in real life. Met him the day Andrew died. We
- 19:27Speaker 4: partied with him. It had nothing to do with Andrew's
- 19:29Speaker 4: death that I'm aware of. Anyway, now this story, it
- 19:36Speaker 4: really has an extraordinary piece of language in it that
- 19:39Speaker 4: we need to remember. Indonesia's presidential regulation number 111 of
- 19:44Speaker 4: 2025 clarifies the spread of LGBT culture as, quote, non-military
- 19:54Speaker 4: threat to the state. And this labels it in the
- 19:59Speaker 4: same category as domestic terrorism and all kinds of other untoward,
- 20:07Speaker 4: you know, just untoward sort of things. So they're saying
- 20:11Speaker 4: we're a national security threat that is not militarized. Maybe
- 20:15Speaker 4: we should militarize. But we are a non-military threat to
- 20:20Speaker 4: the state. Amnesty International Indonesia objects that this places LGBTQ
- 20:25Speaker 4: culture in a security framework alongside threats such as terrorism, separatism,
- 20:30Speaker 4: and radicalism. I know some radical queers. Important distinction. The
- 20:35Speaker 4: regulation does not say that LGBTQ people themselves are terrorists, okay?
- 20:41Speaker 4: It doesn't say that. The criticism is that putting LGBTQ
- 20:45Speaker 4: culture into this national defense threat categorizes, it legitimizes discrimination
- 20:52Speaker 4: and potentially gives government institutions a national security rationale for
- 20:57Speaker 4: targeting just the expressions of being LGBTQ. So they're stopping
- 21:04Speaker 4: short of calling gay people terrorists. They're saying gay culture
- 21:09Speaker 4: is the national threat.
- 21:11Speaker 6: Yeah, be gay, but stop being gay.
- 21:14Speaker 4: Yeah, how can a culture made up of gay people
- 21:17Speaker 4: be a threat if the gay people themselves are not?
- 21:24Speaker 4: Am I asking to make sense out of something that
- 21:26Speaker 4: makes no sense if that was going on here?
- 21:30Speaker 6: No, what we've come across since we've been doing our
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- 21:49Speaker 1: Patreon is the way.
- 21:53Speaker 2: You have to be proud with hatred.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Carell.
- 21:59Speaker 4: You know, Pride Month was rough this year. We had
- 22:02Speaker 4: a lot of hate heaped upon us from Trump, from MAGA,
- 22:05Speaker 4: and from other governments around the world. And if you
- 22:08Speaker 4: are a trans person, you are really going through a
- 22:11Speaker 4: particular type of hell right now. That's why when I
- 22:14Speaker 4: was thinking of my next single in June, I sat
- 22:17Speaker 4: down and I wrote, You have to be proud. You
- 22:20Speaker 4: have to be proud with anger so loud.
- 22:23Speaker 1: Streaming everywhere.
- 22:25Speaker 4: Keep fighting. Keep singing.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Keep dancing.
- 22:28Speaker 4: We're gonna win. All right, we are back with This
- 22:43Speaker 4: Gay Week with Scott Jacobson, who is currently in the Ukraine.
- 22:48Speaker 4: I have not heard you mention any kind of air
- 22:53Speaker 4: raids or alerts or sirens or anything like that.
- 22:56Speaker 6: They have been constant.
- 22:59Speaker 4: Oh, really?
- 23:00Speaker 6: In terms of, yeah, just before the call, we had one.
- 23:05Speaker 4: By the way, I want to show you what I'm
- 23:06Speaker 4: looking at. Can you see what I'm looking at right there?
- 23:08Speaker 1: Can you see what I'm looking at right there?
- 23:12Speaker 4: You see him lying in the... That's the troublemaker right there.
- 23:15Speaker 4: That's Valentino Rose. He's the troublemaker. Oh, I woke the
- 23:20Speaker 4: sleeping giant. A true Valentino Rose. Okay, so that's him.
- 23:31Speaker 4: Before the break, we were talking about Indonesia and how Indonesia...
- 23:40Speaker 4: is basically trying to classify gay culture as a national
- 23:45Speaker 4: security threat along the lines of terrorism, but it does
- 23:50Speaker 4: not specifically label gay people terrorists. And of course, that's incongruous.
- 23:55Speaker 4: It doesn't make sense. That's like saying Al-Qaeda is a
- 24:00Speaker 4: national security threat, but individual members of Al-Qaeda are not.
- 24:05Speaker 4: I mean, it's dumb. But of course, all of these
- 24:08Speaker 4: anti-gay laws that we come across, they're not well written
- 24:11Speaker 4: and they are basically dumb. And I just want to
- 24:14Speaker 4: remind everyone that Indonesia is one of the most anti-gay
- 24:19Speaker 4: areas on the planet. And mostly because it is a
- 24:23Speaker 4: highly Muslim and not just Muslim, but very strict Muslim area. However...
- 24:32Speaker 4: I was reading more about this. It said that President
- 24:36Speaker 4: Prabowo Subianto signed the presidential regulation back in 2025, classifying
- 24:41Speaker 4: the spread of gay culture as a non-military national security
- 24:45Speaker 4: threat grouped alongside terrorism, separatism, radicalism. It resurfaced publicly in
- 24:50Speaker 4: July 2026 after a student group at the University of
- 24:54Speaker 4: Indonesia posted, then had censored, a factual note that the
- 24:59Speaker 4: APA doesn't classify homosexuality as a mental disorder. That triggered
- 25:05Speaker 4: backlash from Islamic scholars and lawmakers, plus doxing and stalking
- 25:09Speaker 4: of student journalists who covered Pride Month. And Amnesty International
- 25:13Speaker 4: is calling this an egregious act and is calling for
- 25:16Speaker 4: a repeal. So really what started this news surge was
- 25:19Speaker 4: some students posted a post saying, look, Being gay is
- 25:25Speaker 4: not classified as a mental disorder. It is not. No,
- 25:30Speaker 4: it's not. Although it'll drive some people crazy. It's mostly
- 25:35Speaker 4: not funny.
- 25:37Speaker 1: That's the funny part.
- 25:39Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't drive us crazy. It seems to drive
- 25:42Speaker 4: other people crazy. Isn't that something? That triggered backlash from
- 25:46Speaker 4: Islamic scholars who then had to take this law from
- 25:49Speaker 4: 2026 and sort of hype it up. And that, of course,
- 25:55Speaker 4: is sad. Amnesty International is calling for its repeal. I
- 26:00Speaker 4: don't see Indonesia coming into the 21st century for gay
- 26:04Speaker 4: rights anytime soon unless, this goes to what we spoke
- 26:08Speaker 4: about in the last story, unless administrations in other countries
- 26:13Speaker 4: inflict sanctions against them for this kind of rule. If
- 26:18Speaker 4: the US or the EU or other nations say, we're
- 26:22Speaker 4: not going to do business with you until you change that,
- 26:26Speaker 4: then they'll change it. But until then, I don't see
- 26:29Speaker 4: anything really big happening, except Indonesia remaining a very, very
- 26:34Speaker 4: unsafe place to be gay and to be out, which
- 26:38Speaker 4: is sad because there's obviously a lot of gay out
- 26:41Speaker 4: people there. So it's sad. And they want our tourist dollars.
- 26:46Speaker 4: So it's kind of sad.
- 26:50Speaker 6: Well, I mean, like I was saying before the break, mid-sentence,
- 26:55Speaker 6: this wonderful series that we have is showing me, and
- 26:59Speaker 6: obviously I do more experience in Syria, just the wide
- 27:03Speaker 6: variety of ways countries have come up with and cultures
- 27:06Speaker 6: have come up with, so cultures being countries and then
- 27:08Speaker 6: state policy and law, to just not see fucking gay
- 27:12Speaker 6: people as equal human beings. I mean, I don't think
- 27:15Speaker 6: it's very complicated.
- 27:16Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what? We concentrate on the LGBTQ community.
- 27:20Speaker 4: But might I say, in a lot of these countries,
- 27:22Speaker 4: they don't treat women well either or other minorities. Let's
- 27:28Speaker 4: say in an Islamic country like Indonesia, they don't treat
- 27:30Speaker 4: Christians well or they don't treat women well or they
- 27:33Speaker 4: don't treat gays well.
- 27:34Speaker 6: They don't treat children well.
- 27:37Speaker 4: Yeah, children, especially. They exploit them in labor and all
- 27:40Speaker 4: that or sexual trafficking of them. So while we concentrate
- 27:45Speaker 4: on the gays, you can bet in Turkey and Indonesia
- 27:49Speaker 4: and other countries that are very anti-gay, there are also
- 27:53Speaker 4: other minorities or even majorities, in women's cases sometimes, where
- 28:00Speaker 4: they are equally or even more oppressed than the gays.
- 28:04Speaker 4: So we do just.
- 28:05Speaker 6: Concentrate on the gays. My colleague Rhianne Eisler, she funded
- 28:09Speaker 6: a partnership study. She's 95. She's a Holocaust survivor. but
- 28:12Speaker 6: did a book project working on another one. And she
- 28:15Speaker 6: actually makes a slight shift to sort of make sure
- 28:17Speaker 6: there's a little more accurate characterization that when you're having
- 28:20Speaker 6: a society that doesn't treat children well and doesn't treat
- 28:23Speaker 6: women well, so you're just dealing with adult men who
- 28:26Speaker 6: are being treated mostly well in many cases. And so
- 28:31Speaker 6: basically you're dealing with, in every case, most of humanity
- 28:34Speaker 6: doesn't even categorize in the societal rules, social, cultural, legal,
- 28:39Speaker 6: and otherwise, as human beings. This whole human being.
- 28:43Speaker 4: Yeah. And it's sad. So here's something that's puzzling. This
- 28:50Speaker 4: next story. We have one minute and 35 seconds in this.
- 28:54Speaker 4: So we'll just wait a minute for this next story.
- 28:56Speaker 4: But it's really puzzling. I'm going to go to the
- 28:58Speaker 4: one from Colombia, just so you know where we're going.
- 29:00Speaker 4: We're traveling around the globe, globetrotting. We went to Turkey.
- 29:05Speaker 4: Then we went to Indonesia. Now we're going to go
- 29:07Speaker 4: to Colombia, and not for cocaine, but for other things.
- 29:12Speaker 4: We'll talk about this story when we come back with Scott.
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- 29:37Speaker 4: By the way, we have been in the top 10
- 29:39Speaker 4: in season... Leone for the last four weeks, the entire show,
- 29:43Speaker 4: every day, every day. I don't understand it. I don't
- 29:46Speaker 4: get it. I would love it if some of you
- 29:49Speaker 4: in Sierra Leone that are listening reached out and let
- 29:52Speaker 4: me know who you are. why you're listening, how you're listening.
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- 30:01Speaker 4: today it said, congratulations, for four weeks, you've been charting
- 30:04Speaker 4: high in Sierra Leone. If this keeps up, I may
- 30:08Speaker 4: have to move. Well, you know, I'm sure. although it's
- 30:11Speaker 4: a pretty anti-gay place. All right, we'll be right back
- 30:15Speaker 4: to talk about Columbia. It's not good. Actually, it's odd.
- 30:20Speaker 4: It's odd, and the timing is odd, and we're going
- 30:22Speaker 4: to talk about what they did when we come back
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- 31:45Speaker 4: Welcome back. It is The Carell Show. I am Carell,
- 31:48Speaker 4: which is handy because it's my show. Scott Jacobson is
- 31:52Speaker 4: in Ukraine. He is with The Good Man Project and
- 31:55Speaker 4: other outlets. The subject is This Gay Week, LGBTQ Rights
- 32:00Speaker 4: from Around the World. Scott, we're going off to Colombia. Alexa,
- 32:07Speaker 4: is Maluma from Colombia?
- 32:09Speaker 5: Yes.
- 32:13Speaker 4: He was born in Medellin, Medellin. Thank you, Alexa, shut up. Alexa,
- 32:19Speaker 4: shut up. Oh, she gets on my nerves. Anyway, I
- 32:25Speaker 4: find it hard to believe that a country that gave
- 32:27Speaker 4: us Maluma, that Madonna sang about, is doing what it's doing,
- 32:33Speaker 4: but it is. Colombia's government has withdrawn from the Equal
- 32:37Speaker 4: Rights Coalition, an international grouping promoting LGBTQ rights. And Colombia
- 32:43Speaker 4: wasn't just a member. They were the co-president. And that
- 32:48Speaker 4: role was scheduled to go until February 2027. The LGBTQ
- 32:53Speaker 4: organization Caribe Afirmativa calls the withdrawal a major reversal of
- 32:59Speaker 4: Colombia's international leadership. The broader context reported by Colombia reports
- 33:04Speaker 4: is that President Abelardo de la Espriella's government has adopted
- 33:10Speaker 4: opposition to what it calls gender ideology, while the president
- 33:15Speaker 4: and several cabinet members oppose adoption by gay couples. Columbia
- 33:21Speaker 4: went from helping lead an international LGBTQ rights coalition to
- 33:26Speaker 4: withdrawing of it. Now, Scott, is it me or is
- 33:30Speaker 4: there no real reason listed? I've searched four stories for
- 33:34Speaker 4: a definitive answer as to why Columbia did this, and
- 33:38Speaker 4: I can't seem to find a definitive statement from their
- 33:41Speaker 4: president or anyone as to why it did it.
- 33:45Speaker 6: So Dylan Esprit, apparently he's a highly conservative individual, and
- 33:52Speaker 6: so to distinguish himself from the previous administration of Gustavo Petro,
- 33:57Speaker 6: I could see Esprit trying to have a distinguishing factor
- 34:02Speaker 6: by just removing himself. It just seems political more than
- 34:06Speaker 6: anything else because if you just waited four or five months,
- 34:09Speaker 6: the term ends and you could drop out then, and
- 34:11Speaker 6: it's less noteworthy. But if you want to make a
- 34:13Speaker 6: sort of dramatic political effect and distinguish yourself from the
- 34:15Speaker 6: prior administration, that's one big move you can do.
- 34:19Speaker 4: He sounds like a closeted queen because only a closeted
- 34:22Speaker 4: queen would make such a dramatic exit. You know, you
- 34:25Speaker 4: could have just let it run out. But no, we're
- 34:27Speaker 4: leaving now and we're taking our toys with us. It's like, really, queen?
- 34:32Speaker 1: You don't even know.
- 34:34Speaker 3: Right.
- 34:35Speaker 4: It's like, dude, you're the president of Medellin. You've got
- 34:38Speaker 4: bigger fish to fry. And the sad part is up
- 34:43Speaker 4: until this, up until today. Colombia has been on the
- 34:48Speaker 4: top 10 list of places for LGBTQ people to retire, Medellin.
- 34:53Speaker 4: It ranks high. And now, of course, it won't. The
- 34:58Speaker 4: other thing that he's doing, and you're right, he stacked
- 35:01Speaker 4: his cabinet with far-right figures and reportedly fired his planning
- 35:04Speaker 4: chief because his planning chief adopted a child with his
- 35:08Speaker 4: male partner. So his planning chief was gay, adopted a child.
- 35:14Speaker 4: This guy comes out with this new withdrawal from the
- 35:17Speaker 4: commission and fires the guy that's gay and adopted a child.
- 35:21Speaker 4: His government frames it as a ditching a legacy policy
- 35:27Speaker 4: of the prior administration. I have to tell you that's
- 35:30Speaker 4: what's going on in our country. The only reason Donald
- 35:33Speaker 4: Trump and MAGA are so anti-gay is because Joe Biden,
- 35:39Speaker 4: Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Gavin Newsom, because all of the
- 35:45Speaker 4: biggest Democrats are so pro-gay. So as a way to
- 35:49Speaker 4: show their opposition to Democrats and Democratic policies, they went
- 35:55Speaker 4: for the easiest ones first. They threw gays under the bus.
- 35:59Speaker 6: That's a good point about Harris and Obama and Newsom.
- 36:04Speaker 6: I mean, each of them are oriented that way. I mean,
- 36:08Speaker 6: but it's a standard political move also of treating voters
- 36:12Speaker 6: as pawns in some instances.
- 36:15Speaker 4: Yeah, but Biden had Pete Buttigieg as his transportation secretary,
- 36:19Speaker 4: an openly gay man. You know, and he had many
- 36:22Speaker 4: other openly gay members of his staff, as did Obama,
- 36:27Speaker 4: as did Clinton. You know, so this is a way
- 36:32Speaker 4: for Donald Trump to distance himself from democratic policies. That's
- 36:35Speaker 4: why he went after DEI. That is seen as a
- 36:38Speaker 4: democratic policy. And now the president of Colombia is basically
- 36:43Speaker 4: doing the same thing.
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- 37:48Speaker 4: Oh, Lordy, I cannot stop yawning. I hope I don't
- 37:51Speaker 4: yawn on camera. Amber did not sleep well last night.
- 37:53Speaker 4: There was wind. Oh, I said that word. But anyway,
- 37:56Speaker 4: and so she was just up and about, which means
- 37:59Speaker 4: I'm up and about. And now she's taken to peeing
- 38:01Speaker 4: at 3 a.m. I don't know why. It's up and
- 38:03Speaker 4: out of the bed at 3, which means I'm up
- 38:05Speaker 4: and out of the bed at 3, and then we
- 38:07Speaker 4: go back to sleep until 4.30, but it can make
- 38:10Speaker 4: a boy yawn. All right, on the show this week,
- 38:13Speaker 4: here on The Carell Show, I think it was maybe
- 38:14Speaker 4: Monday or Tuesday, today being Thursday, I spoke about the
- 38:18Speaker 4: algorithm and how in Australia they are actually trying to
- 38:22Speaker 4: make a law that says no algorithm. to where social
- 38:28Speaker 4: media companies have to give you the option to turn
- 38:32Speaker 4: off the algorithm and not have it learn and not
- 38:35Speaker 4: have it suggest. And they're doing that to protect children
- 38:39Speaker 4: mostly because children are getting things into their feed that
- 38:44Speaker 4: are detrimental and that are not of the values of
- 38:50Speaker 4: of the parents or of other people. I mentioned that
- 38:53Speaker 4: Scott Jacobson, who is live in Kiev, because the story
- 38:57Speaker 4: that we are about to cover not only is sad,
- 39:00Speaker 4: but in the story, they reference the algorithm and the
- 39:05Speaker 4: fact that the manosphere is being served up to young boys,
- 39:09Speaker 4: kids that are 14, 15, 16 years of age. They're
- 39:11Speaker 4: seeing this toxic masculinity, and it is changing their views.
- 39:19Speaker 4: In Australia, on the BBC, they quoted, they were doing
- 39:23Speaker 4: this about women. Misogyny is on the rise in Australia.
- 39:27Speaker 4: 28% of kids under the age of 20 think that
- 39:33Speaker 4: men should be the head of household that feminism is
- 39:36Speaker 4: radical and harmful to society that women should not vote
- 39:40Speaker 4: and their man should do it for them this is
- 39:42Speaker 4: almost 30% of the kids that were surveyed and in
- 39:46Speaker 4: Australia they are directly blaming that on the algorithm well
- 39:50Speaker 4: As we see from this next story, it's a worldwide problem.
- 39:53Speaker 4: The Netherlands, which is seen as one of the most
- 39:58Speaker 4: gay accepting places on the planet, Dutch boys, which just
- 40:04Speaker 4: saying that reminds me of the logo, little Dutch boy,
- 40:08Speaker 4: but Dutch boys, their approval of LGBTQ people has, now
- 40:14Speaker 4: these are kids under the age of 16, 12 to
- 40:16Speaker 4: 16 years of age, The approval has gone from 40%
- 40:21Speaker 4: just a year ago to, or I'm sorry, just five
- 40:25Speaker 4: years ago, 40% in 2021. Now in 2026, it's 22%,
- 40:27Speaker 4: an 18% decrease in the accepting. Now amongst girls, it's declined,
- 40:30Speaker 4: but it still remains high. From girls, it's gone from
- 40:33Speaker 4: 78% to 51%. Researchers described this reversal after decades of
- 40:50Speaker 4: increasing acceptance as unfortunate and say it's young people's exposure
- 40:56Speaker 4: to increasingly hostile discourse, including the online manosphere, although that
- 41:02Speaker 4: is an interpretation of what's driving the change. rather than
- 41:05Speaker 4: proof of a single cause. So we should be careful
- 41:07Speaker 4: about that. Prime Minister Rob Jetton, who is gay and
- 41:11Speaker 4: is going to marry his male partner, calls the figure
- 41:15Speaker 4: shocking and says his government will do everything it can
- 41:19Speaker 4: to examine the role of social media and the role
- 41:22Speaker 4: of social media companies in this. But don't you agree
- 41:27Speaker 4: that this is a much bigger problem? The algorithm is
- 41:31Speaker 4: radicalizing people. There's no two ways about it.
- 41:35Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's, to your point,
- 41:37Speaker 6: a single cause. I mean, most of these things, especially
- 41:40Speaker 6: in social and cultural life, are multivariate. My friend actually
- 41:43Speaker 6: met Jetham, or Jetham, and so singing his praises, she was,
- 41:48Speaker 6: so that's a good sign.
- 41:50Speaker 4: Yeah, he's cute, he's nice, he's handsome.
- 41:52Speaker 6: That's right, the Pete Buttigieg of the Netherlands. So, the
- 41:59Speaker 6: general thing here is we shouldn't expect infinite growth of equality,
- 42:05Speaker 6: either in perception or in policy. As we see with
- 42:08Speaker 6: the policy stuff, it's a little more clear, and legal
- 42:12Speaker 6: stuff is actually an even more clear cut. So when
- 42:15Speaker 6: it comes to social life, you're going to get hiccups too,
- 42:17Speaker 6: and this is a hiccup. The question really for me
- 42:19Speaker 6: is not that it is there, it's that, okay, it's here.
- 42:23Speaker 6: Is this going to be a long-term trend, medium-term trend,
- 42:25Speaker 6: or a short-term trend?
- 42:27Speaker 4: Well, and my question is, are these kids going to
- 42:30Speaker 4: grow up to be homophobes? You know, 12 to 16,
- 42:34Speaker 4: you know, you form opinions. But then as you grow older,
- 42:38Speaker 4: you realize, you know, look, when I was 16, I
- 42:41Speaker 4: can't even, you know, there's no way that I believe
- 42:44Speaker 4: everything now that I believed when I was 16. Thank God.
- 42:48Speaker 4: Now that I'm how many times? Oh, dear. Four. Oh, Lord.
- 42:55Speaker 4: I'm almost four times. I'll be 64 this year. Oh,
- 42:58Speaker 4: sweet Jesus.
- 42:58Speaker 5: Jesus.
- 43:00Speaker 4: Uh, so, um, we'll see. I hope, it is my
- 43:04Speaker 4: hope that worldwide we get a hold of this algorithm. It's,
- 43:08Speaker 4: it's starting to be very damaging to society, uh, of
- 43:12Speaker 4: all kinds. And so I'm hoping we, we get a
- 43:14Speaker 4: hold of it. Um, the BBC story you sent, um,
- 43:20Speaker 4: about older gays having to sometimes go back into the closet, uh,
- 43:25Speaker 4: or lie, that sort of thing. Um, It's important and
- 43:32Speaker 4: I want to discuss it. But I think there's a
- 43:39Speaker 4: larger issue at play. And that is we don't take
- 43:43Speaker 4: care of our aging well. We don't respect our elders.
- 43:47Speaker 4: We don't listen to our elders. We try to treat
- 43:50Speaker 4: them like children and tell them, you know. And now
- 43:55Speaker 4: in the UK, it would appear that women... In particular,
- 43:59Speaker 4: the story is, there was a woman quoted, she's part
- 44:04Speaker 4: of England's older LGBTQ community, which a new report suggests
- 44:07Speaker 4: often experiences poorer health outcomes, more limited finances, and greater
- 44:13Speaker 4: social isolation than the wider older population. I would like
- 44:21Speaker 4: to see more research as to why that is. Why
- 44:24Speaker 4: are gay older people experiencing this? Is it homophobia? Is
- 44:29Speaker 4: it the age group? In other words, old people are
- 44:33Speaker 4: set in their ways. And when, you know, people that
- 44:36Speaker 4: are 70, 80, and 90, a lot of them were
- 44:38Speaker 4: very anti-gay. And even if they weren't anti-gay, the Brits,
- 44:42Speaker 4: they were older Brits, 70, 80, 90-year-olds. They're very, keep
- 44:48Speaker 4: that to yourself. We don't want to talk about it.
- 44:51Speaker 4: We don't want to see it. We don't want to
- 44:52Speaker 4: hear it. You can be what you want to be,
- 44:54Speaker 4: but we don't want you to be that publicly. You know,
- 44:59Speaker 4: you can what you do behind your closed doors is
- 45:02Speaker 4: your business, but we don't want to support you publicly.
- 45:06Speaker 4: So I. Yeah, I think it's generational, really, but it's sad.
- 45:12Speaker 4: Getting old is hard enough. It's isolating enough and it's
- 45:16Speaker 4: scary enough. And now if you're gay and you're getting older,
- 45:21Speaker 4: it's even harder. That's not a fun thing to hear.
- 45:29Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 45:29Speaker 6: I mean, most of the older people that I know
- 45:32Speaker 6: have been older women, and there's the general experience of
- 45:35Speaker 6: basically fading into the background, socially and otherwise.
- 45:40Speaker 4: Yeah, not just gay. Not just gay, just older women, period.
- 45:44Speaker 4: I'll give you case in point. New movie coming out
- 45:46Speaker 4: this weekend. I really want to see it. It's got
- 45:49Speaker 4: a dog in it. But it's Brad Pitt. Now, Brad
- 45:53Speaker 4: Pitt was born just months after me. I'm born November 1962.
- 45:57Speaker 4: He's born December 1963. So this year, he will be
- 45:59Speaker 4: 63 years old. I'm 63 now. But we're that month,
- 46:01Speaker 4: so I'll be 64 when he's 63, but by a month.
- 46:13Speaker 4: Brad Pitt has two, not one, but two movies coming
- 46:19Speaker 4: out in the next few months. He's got this one
- 46:22Speaker 4: with Odin the dog, which I find it so amusing
- 46:25Speaker 4: that in the marketing campaigns at the bottom in small
- 46:29Speaker 4: print on every ad, it says, not a spoiler, the
- 46:33Speaker 4: dog doesn't die. And they're doing that because countless people
- 46:37Speaker 4: said they will not go see the movie if the
- 46:38Speaker 4: dog dies. They just can't take it. They don't care
- 46:41Speaker 4: if Brad Pitt dies, but if the dog dies, they're
- 46:44Speaker 4: not going. So he's got the movie Heart of the
- 46:47Speaker 4: Beast coming out. And then he's got the Once Upon
- 46:50Speaker 4: a Time in Hollywood sequel coming out where they took
- 46:52Speaker 4: his character, that stuntman sort of, hey, the doofy stuntman
- 46:57Speaker 4: is getting his own movie. And Brad Pitt is 63.
- 47:02Speaker 4: How many 63-year-old actresses are still top of the call
- 47:07Speaker 4: sheet getting movies in this quantity? And the answer would
- 47:12Speaker 4: be not many. So the double standard is illustrated right there.
- 47:17Speaker 4: In Hollywood, women are... And I guarantee you, if Brad
- 47:21Speaker 4: Pitt has a love interest in either movie, they're going
- 47:24Speaker 4: to be half his age. But when they cast older women,
- 47:28Speaker 4: they make them go out with older men. Heaven forbid
- 47:31Speaker 4: a 65-year-old woman should date a 30-year-old in a movie.
- 47:34Speaker 4: I mean, heaven forbid. But a man, not a problem.
- 47:37Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 47:38Speaker 4: So it's not just, you know, it's everywhere. We expect
- 47:42Speaker 4: women to fade into the background.
- 47:43Speaker 6: They should do a romantic comedy with Madonna and Cher.
- 47:47Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Well, they didn't do one together. Well, you
- 47:52Speaker 4: talk about Cher, Witches of Eastwick, where Jack Nicholson was
- 47:56Speaker 4: like 7,000 years old, and yet he wanted all three
- 47:59Speaker 4: of the witches to sleep with him. He was supposed
- 48:01Speaker 4: to be Satan or whatever, but he wanted all three
- 48:03Speaker 4: of the witches. And, you know, Cher was one of
- 48:06Speaker 4: the witches. I don't know if you've ever seen The
- 48:07Speaker 4: Witches of Eastwick. but Cher was one of the witches,
- 48:10Speaker 4: and he has a scene with her in the bedroom.
- 48:13Speaker 4: She will not get in the bed, by the way.
- 48:14Speaker 4: She's like, you're fucking kidding me, right? I ain't jumping
- 48:16Speaker 4: in there. I don't care that you are Satan. Screw
- 48:19Speaker 4: yourself if you're Satan. But again, we do expect older,
- 48:24Speaker 4: and not just women, though. I really think we expect
- 48:28Speaker 4: people over the age of 70 to just become invisible.
- 48:31Speaker 4: In Hollywood, in the workforce, in social circles, we just...
- 48:36Speaker 4: sort of expect them to fade away. And that's why
- 48:39Speaker 4: I have recorded the new song, I Am Still Fabulous,
- 48:42Speaker 4: and why it's coming out soon. And the opening verse
- 48:46Speaker 4: of that song is, thank you for caring, thank you
- 48:49Speaker 4: for sharing, thank you for telling me who you think
- 48:52Speaker 4: I should be. But what if your vision of me
- 48:54Speaker 4: is not who I have inside? You often label me
- 48:58Speaker 4: and you try to push me aside. But I'm still
- 49:01Speaker 4: the dreamer I was as a teen. I'm still a believer,
- 49:05Speaker 4: the best yet unseen, because I'm still fabulous. And I
- 49:10Speaker 4: wrote that because of people asking me, why are you
- 49:13Speaker 4: doing dance music in your 60s? And I said, because
- 49:16Speaker 4: I'm still fucking fabulous. That's why. And so I think
- 49:20Speaker 4: it's not just a problem in the gay community. But
- 49:22Speaker 4: it is sad that in the UK, we have LGBTQ
- 49:26Speaker 4: people who actually have to lie about their gayness or
- 49:30Speaker 4: their partners or whatever to get accepted or to get benefits.
- 49:34Speaker 4: That is really, really sad. All right. We've gone to
- 49:38Speaker 4: the UK, we've gone to Colombia, we've gone to Turkey. Now,
- 49:42Speaker 4: let's go someplace I never wanted to go, Uganda. Do
- 49:48Speaker 4: you want to tell us what's going on in Uganda?
- 49:52Speaker 6: Sure. Okay, Uganda. For this one, yeah, so Freedom House
- 49:58Speaker 6: says Uganda is basically not free.
- 50:02Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Freedom House says Uganda isn't. Yeah. Yeah.
- 50:09Speaker 6: Any house is not free in Uganda, according to Freedom House.
- 50:13Speaker 4: Well, they're assessed on a scale of 0 through 100.
- 50:16Speaker 4: Uganda got 33 out of 100 overall. That's not just
- 50:19Speaker 4: for gay people. That's for any person. And it got
- 50:25Speaker 4: a 10 out of 40 for political rights and a
- 50:27Speaker 4: 23 out of 60 for civil liberties, resulting in it
- 50:31Speaker 4: is a not-free classification. Now, LGBTQ rights are just one
- 50:38Speaker 4: of the components of that assessment. In Uganda, as we
- 50:41Speaker 4: have covered in 2023, they did an anti-homosexuality act, which
- 50:46Speaker 4: provides severe criminal penalties for aggravated homosexuality.
- 50:51Speaker 6: Which, it sounds like they were having fun.
- 50:56Speaker 4: Yeah. I can be a pretty aggravating gay depending upon
- 51:01Speaker 4: who's talking to me.
- 51:02Speaker 6: Do you think, do you think it, just a question.
- 51:05Speaker 4: By the way, we're laughing, but aggravated homosexuality, that charge
- 51:08Speaker 4: in Uganda carries the death penalty. Okay. Yeah.
- 51:11Speaker 6: You know, this stuff is bad.
- 51:13Speaker 4: It should end. And it also criminalizes the promotion of homosexuality.
- 51:20Speaker 4: You can't run around going, I am gay. You should
- 51:24Speaker 4: be too. You know, that, that would be frowned upon,
- 51:27Speaker 4: I guess.
- 51:27Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 51:28Speaker 6: I'm assuming homosexuality is akin to a non-military threat.
- 51:33Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you've heard we are a threat to national security.
- 51:40Speaker 4: Freedom House, though, points to broader problems than just the
- 51:43Speaker 4: gay issue in Uganda involving opposition, politics, civil society, media freedom,
- 51:50Speaker 4: which we will talk in the next segment because you're
- 51:53Speaker 4: a member of the journalist and you're a member of
- 51:55Speaker 4: the media, which you take really seriously. And I want
- 51:59Speaker 4: to talk to you about what Trump did this week here.
- 52:03Speaker 4: So don't say Uganda is rated not free solely because
- 52:06Speaker 4: of its treatment of LGBTQ people. That's not the only
- 52:10Speaker 4: reason for they're not free.
- 52:11Speaker 1: It's a pillar.
- 52:12Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
- 52:14Speaker 1: Oh, will you talk for a moment?
- 52:15Speaker 4: I have to pick up a dog. Tina will not
- 52:19Speaker 4: stop trying to get up on my lap.
- 52:21Speaker 6: So we're going to be jumping to our next story
- 52:24Speaker 6: following from Uganda.
- 52:26Speaker 4: After this break. Come on, say after this break.
- 52:31Speaker 6: After this lovely break.
- 52:34Speaker 4: We will be jumping to a new story out of Uganda,
- 52:38Speaker 4: even though they are facing online entrapment, doxing, hacking, harassment,
- 52:41Speaker 4: and criminal prosecution. The social media activity that promotes being gay.
- 52:46Speaker 4: Dear God. Patriot! Now remember, the word is F-U-N-K, funk, honey.
- 53:08Speaker 4: Do you wanna funk?
- 53:09Speaker 5: Do you wanna funk?
- 53:15Speaker 1: Do you, do you, do you?
- 53:18Speaker 4: Do you, do you, do you? Do you, do you,
- 53:23Speaker 4: do you? Hey, it's Carell. Go stream Do You Wanna Funk?
- 53:28Speaker 4: My tribute to Sylvester. Everywhere you get your music. Carell,
- 53:32Speaker 4: do you wanna funk?
- 53:34Speaker 1: Now it's showtime.
- 53:39Speaker 4: It is an unwritten rule of the universe that whenever
- 53:42Speaker 4: a dog wants love, you have to stop whatever you
- 53:44Speaker 4: are doing in life and give it to them. So I... Obviously,
- 53:48Speaker 4: that includes shows. All right. Are you ready to get down, boy?
- 53:52Speaker 4: You've been up here through the whole break, okay? You
- 53:54Speaker 4: got to get down. Come on.
- 53:55Speaker 1: There you go.
- 53:56Speaker 5: Okay.
- 53:57Speaker 4: Scott Jacobson's with me in Ukraine. We are talking this
- 54:01Speaker 4: gay week. Freedom House says Uganda's not free. Before I
- 54:08Speaker 4: ask you about media, we have a story out of Liverpool.
- 54:10Speaker 4: There was a stabbing outside of a gay bar, 6.35 a.m.
- 54:14Speaker 4: Sunday morning, which is, what, after hours, I guess, from
- 54:19Speaker 4: Saturday night? I've been out at 6.30 in the morning.
- 54:21Speaker 3: I have.
- 54:23Speaker 4: Following an apparent altercation, believed, to have occurred outside of G-Bar,
- 54:29Speaker 4: an LGBTQ venue in Liverpool. Two victims were hospitalized in
- 54:32Speaker 4: stable conditions. Third suffered minor injuries. Police recovered a suspected
- 54:38Speaker 4: weapon and increased their presence in the area while seeking
- 54:41Speaker 4: the perpetrator. I want to be very careful here. I'd
- 54:43Speaker 4: love to label this a hate crime. It probably was
- 54:46Speaker 4: a hate crime, but we don't know that yet. We
- 54:48Speaker 4: don't know the motive for the stabbing They could have
- 54:51Speaker 4: just been having an altercation or one of them might
- 54:53Speaker 4: have known another. We don't know that. It seems like
- 54:58Speaker 4: it might be a hate crime, whereas there was a
- 55:00Speaker 4: stabbing outside of a gay bar, but it may not
- 55:03Speaker 4: be an anti-gay stabbing. We're not sure yet. But we
- 55:06Speaker 4: have seen an increase in violence around the globe against gays.
- 55:12Speaker 4: So I would not be surprised. Also in Texas, in
- 55:16Speaker 4: South Lake, Texas, a church, St. Martin's in the Fields
- 55:20Speaker 4: Episcopal Church. Last year, they had a little gay pride
- 55:23Speaker 4: festival type thing. 2,500 people showed up. They did not
- 55:26Speaker 4: expect that. They expected under 1,000. So this year, they
- 55:30Speaker 4: decided to get it permitted because anything over 1,000, you
- 55:33Speaker 4: need a permit. And the one city planning and zoning
- 55:38Speaker 4: commission recommended approval and said, OK, sure. But the city council,
- 55:42Speaker 4: without any kind of public discourse or disclosure, seven to
- 55:45Speaker 4: zero voted no. And they have not commented publicly why
- 55:49Speaker 4: they voted no. But it's Texas. I think we know why.
- 55:53Speaker 6: There's a good quote there, Reverend Alan Bentroop. who leads St.
- 56:00Speaker 6: Martin in the Field in Southlake stated, quote, we believe
- 56:02Speaker 6: God's love is for everyone. We do this because of
- 56:04Speaker 6: the gospel, not in spite of it. We believe our
- 56:07Speaker 6: LGBT neighbors belong in this community and to God. So,
- 56:14Speaker 6: but the not giving commentary for why or having public input,
- 56:21Speaker 6: always very suspicious.
- 56:24Speaker 4: We'll end with one positive story here. out of Hungary,
- 56:31Speaker 4: and that is that after Viktor Orban's government left office
- 56:35Speaker 4: earlier this year, the government of Peter Magyar introduced legislation
- 56:39Speaker 4: to remove language specifically targeting gay people from Hungary's child
- 56:44Speaker 4: protection laws. Those provisions had been used to restrict gay
- 56:48Speaker 4: material and pride gatherings. The Court of Justice of the
- 56:51Speaker 4: European Union ruled against Hungary's restrictions, finding them incompatible with
- 56:55Speaker 4: EU law and values. Megar has additionally said his government
- 56:58Speaker 4: intends to examine repeal of Hungary's restrictions on adoptions by
- 57:03Speaker 4: unmarried people, which, of course, excludes same-sex couples because they
- 57:08Speaker 4: don't recognize same-sex marriage. So if a same-sex couple wants
- 57:12Speaker 4: to adopt, there's a law that says unmarried people can't.
- 57:17Speaker 4: and he wants to get that repealed as well. So
- 57:20Speaker 4: Hungary is becoming a prime example of how quickly things
- 57:23Speaker 4: can change when a new regime is put in place.
- 57:28Speaker 4: And I'll just rush right through this because I want
- 57:30Speaker 4: to get to a story out of the United States.
- 57:33Speaker 4: Anthony Fauci is going to be recognized for his work
- 57:37Speaker 4: in the AIDS era. The Equality Forum is launching the
- 57:40Speaker 4: US LGBTQ History Month observance and presenting Anthony Fauci with
- 57:45Speaker 4: its International Role Model Award. Now, you may not know this, Scott,
- 57:52Speaker 4: but we all weren't happy with the way Fauci handled AIDS. Okay,
- 57:56Speaker 4: it wasn't... At the time, he didn't do the best job. But...
- 58:04Speaker 4: he did do everything he could to fight the stigma
- 58:08Speaker 4: of AIDS being labeled a gay disease. He was very
- 58:11Speaker 4: adamant that diseases don't have sexual orientations. So, on that respect,
- 58:17Speaker 4: he did okay. But the response, the amount of time
- 58:21Speaker 4: it took for drugs, investigative drugs, to get to market
- 58:25Speaker 4: and all those other things... some gray area on Fauci
- 58:30Speaker 4: and AIDS, but he did try to fight the stigma
- 58:34Speaker 4: of it being a gay disease. So I will give
- 58:39Speaker 4: that to him. And by the way, the person that
- 58:41Speaker 4: is presenting this award to him is actually an activist
- 58:45Speaker 4: movement that once confronted him over his treatment on AIDS.
- 58:50Speaker 4: So their evolution from adversaries to collaborators as part of
- 58:54Speaker 4: the history of how AIDS activism has changed the American
- 58:58Speaker 4: Medicine Society. So as I said, we all weren't happy
- 59:02Speaker 4: with him back then. It wasn't a big kumbaya sort
- 59:06Speaker 4: of moment. But he did do a lot. and he
- 59:10Speaker 4: should be commended for it because he did try to
- 59:13Speaker 4: remove the stigma of persons with AIDS. And, you know,
- 59:16Speaker 4: touching them was okay and you're not going to get
- 59:19Speaker 4: it from just hugging. So, you know, he did his best,
- 59:22Speaker 4: you know. It wasn't good enough at times.
- 59:24Speaker 6: Even Eddie Murphy had a joke about this.
- 59:26Speaker 4: Pardon?
- 59:27Speaker 1: Even Eddie Murphy.
- 59:30Speaker 6: I made a joke in one of the specials incorporating
- 59:32Speaker 6: some of those stereotypes. He goes to the doctor, kissing
- 59:36Speaker 6: the lips, and he says, you have AIDS. He's like, what?
- 59:41Speaker 6: But I'm not homosexual. He goes, sure, you're not homosexual, Mr. So-and-so.
- 59:46Speaker 6: And that's kind of building off that it's unsafe to touch.
- 59:50Speaker 6: So it's even getting into very talented people's comedy routines.
- 59:53Speaker 4: In the 80s, I did what Madonna did. I hugged people,
- 59:57Speaker 4: touched them. I laid in their hospital beds with them.
- 1:00:00Speaker 4: Madonna did the same thing, uncredited. She just went to
- 1:00:03Speaker 4: hospitals in the 80s and laid with AIDS patients, touched them.
- 1:00:06Speaker 4: Nurses wouldn't. I had to help give a lumbar puncture
- 1:00:09Speaker 4: to my late husband because the nurse would not help
- 1:00:11Speaker 4: the doctor, so he told me to glove up and
- 1:00:13Speaker 4: help him, and I did. It was a bad time.
- 1:00:18Speaker 4: In our last minute here, Scott, CNN, MSNOW, and Politico
- 1:00:22Speaker 4: banned by Donald Trump from the White House. So the
- 1:00:25Speaker 4: entire White House press pool is no longer Fox, ABC,
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: CBS said, if you're going to ban them, we're not coming.
- 1:00:32Speaker 4: So now he doesn't have cameras in front of him
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: all day, every day. As a member of the media,
- 1:00:37Speaker 4: how say you?
- 1:00:37Speaker 6: I stand in solidarity with those who are standing in
- 1:00:42Speaker 6: solidarity with those who were banned. I covered this in
- 1:00:45Speaker 6: another segment of the podcast. And Yeah, it's wrong. It's
- 1:00:48Speaker 6: bad on press freedom. The United States has the lowest
- 1:00:50Speaker 6: it's ever been, according to the reporters at the borders,
- 1:00:52Speaker 6: in its press freedom since they've done the ranking. It's
- 1:00:57Speaker 6: less than here.
- 1:00:58Speaker 4: Yeah. It's less than some eastern block. I mean, yeah,
- 1:01:02Speaker 4: it's bad. And then, I know we've got to go.
- 1:01:06Speaker 6: I am Karel.
- 1:01:06Speaker 4: If you want to be something to hurt anybody, thank
- 1:01:08Speaker 4: you to Scott Jacobson and the Ukraine for this K-Week.
- 1:01:12Speaker 4: And now, if the reporters are other places, like the UN,
- 1:01:15Speaker 4: he's saying, why are you here? Why are you here? Like,
- 1:01:17Speaker 4: he can ban them from everything. You know, he is
- 1:01:19Speaker 4: just such a narcissist. He is such a man. All right,
- 1:01:22Speaker 4: stay safe over there for me, okay?
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