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uh man as usual the world is spinning out of control however there's some really good news um

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You can receive Russian citizenship, citizenship and all you have to do is join the Russian army and go to war against Ukraine.

That's all you have to do.

Wow, that's true.

Can you believe it's that easy?

I mean, what an incredible incentive.

And how often have you longed to be a Russian citizen?

My whole life.

Your whole life.

Obviously.

Just like everybody else.

Yeah.

Man, if I could just live in Russia where there's food shortages and extremely bad weather and, you know, still the strains of communism and oppression.

Sure.

You might get poisoned.

You might get poisoned

by your government if you disagree with them.

You could also fall out a window.

That happens a lot.

A lot of people oppose the administration, the Putin administration.

A lot of those people are very, very clumsy.

And every time they get near a window that's high up in a building, they fall out of it.

So much gravity there, too, though.

I mean, there's just much.

A lot of people don't understand.

It's much stronger there than it is here.

Right.

So you get near, it just kind of sucks you out that window.

It happens all the time.

Are there a lot of people taking them up on this?

I don't know if.

I'm not sure.

It doesn't, the article doesn't state how many, but there's a lot of foreigners apparently waiting in line for Russian citizenship, and they're being given a chance to cut to the front of the line if they volunteer to join the war effort in Ukraine.

And

I mean, obviously a small, small, minute price to pay for Russian citizenship.

Right.

Clearly.

Your life.

Because surely you're going to the very front lines.

Surely you are.

Like they're not even going to say, like, hey, here's a gun to help you fight.

They're just going to strap you to a tank.

Like,

what are they going to do with these people?

And it's amazing because Russia, you know, they're having people

leave the country and escape to other countries to avoid the service.

Right.

And

their own citizens don't want to be citizens anymore.

Right.

Because reportedly, they've lost over 100,000 troops so far.

According to,

this might be a little inflated because it's Ukraine's general staff, but they reported 116,000 Russian troops.

I think the U.S.

military puts it about 100,000.

Yeah, certainly.

Either way, it's a lot.

A lot.

It's a lot.

I mean, when you think about the 10 years of war that Russia, the Soviet Union endured in Afghanistan, they lost.

15,000 troops in 10 years.

Now it hasn't even been a year yet, and they lost over 100,000.

It's incredible.

So things are not going well there.

But good luck.

I mean, it's, you know, if you want to be a Russian citizen and who doesn't, this is obviously your ticket.

I mean, very, very generous of Putin to offer that little carrot.

I love that.

You know, you can, there's a, there's a bunch of programs around the country where you can purchase citizenship.

Oh,

not around

the world.

Around the world.

There's a bunch of countries you can purchase citizenship from, including like, you know, nice islands, like Caribbean islands.

I'm guessing that's pricey.

It can be pricey.

I mean, it's not, it's not cheap.

I can't remember what the cheapest one was, but it was like, it was like an island off the coast of Africa that I don't think I've ever heard of.

Oh, really?

And it was like, hey, come here and be a citizen here for like $18.

But most of them run into the six figures.

Do you have to go to war for them?

No.

Oh, wow.

That's great.

They're not at war.

No one's invading because no one wants to go.

Everyone's like, actually, you guys can keep that land.

But like, it's true.

You can go.

There are these, I think they call it citizenship by investment.

And you can go, there's a bunch of international law firms that help walk you through this.

Not that I've looked into it at all.

Not that I'm, you know, at some point, sure, I may need to flee.

But you can go, like, nice islands will cost you, you know, mid-six figures.

You want to go into something, you know,

like half a million dollars?

Yeah, give or take.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sometimes, now they, then they break this up.

Sometimes you can do that by real estate investment.

So you can take, if you want to buy a house for $500,000 in, you know, St.

Kitts, you can do that.

And it will, I don't know if St.

Kitts exactly, but it's one of the, you know, some of these islands are like that.

And you go there and you invest some money.

And as long as you hold it for a certain amount of years, you can kind of get citizenship by investment.

And then the more desperate the country is for money, the more desperate the country is for people to come.

There's like a real market for this.

So if you want to get into a European nation, there's one or two European nations that do this, and it's millions of dollars.

If you want to get a European citizenship, because of course you get into Europe, you have the EU sort of, you know, you can move around a lot.

You have some of those benefits, blah, blah, blah.

It's supposed to be a stable place.

You're going to pay more for that.

You go to Comoros.

you know you're going to pay like you know 20 000.

you know you're just going to get in it's going to be like a have you ever bought a kia if If you've bought a Kia.

Exactly.

If you could buy a Kia, you can buy citizenship in some of these countries.

Oh, you know, and then

so I don't know why.

Like, I thought about that.

It's like, it would be cool to have one of the things that's a benefit of this is you can get access to countries that do not like the United States.

So like if you're, I don't know, like looking to travel to Iran for some reason, you might need citizenship in a second country that will allow you to travel to a different one, you know, one of these countries we might be at war with, or so.

So that's why a lot of people do it.

Like, if you're, you know, maybe your family is from that country, you can't get back there often, you want to go back there, you can bounce around through these other citizenships.

But you can, that's the other thing is like the more countries you can go to,

the more it costs.

Not the case with Russia.

You just go in there and just, all you need to do is strap yourself

to a tank for a few weeks.

Yeah.

Months.

You know, months.

Maybe, maybe, maybe years,

maybe.

You know, and you're in.

Dodge a few bullets.

Yeah.

And

rocket fire.

It's easy.

Yeah, right.

Oh, they all come in slow motion.

And who can't dodge a bullet when it's coming to you in slow motion?

I think if it hits you, it's just going to fall to the ground anyway.

People never talk about that.

They don't much.

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What a dream come true, huh?

The WEF has gathered in Davos, and we've got some sitting U.S.

senators there.

Actually, the president didn't go to this,

and I'm not sure why, because a lot of times they do.

But Joe Manchin, because he's so conservative, so moderate, so in the middle of things.

You know,

he is in Davos right now, and he's lamenting things like the freedom of the press.

Here's what he had to say.

The problem we have is the open press system and basically all the platforms.

So if you're able to have five platforms, multiple platforms, that you can basically

personify the extremes,

somebody who is extremely right or extremely left, and it seems like that is the majority speaking, they're not the majority, but they're basically driving everybody to make a decision.

What side are you on?

Are you on this side or this side?

And in America, there's only one side, the American side.

It's not the Republican side or Democrat.

We should be coming together to solve the problems from a different angle.

Yeah.

Yeah, we should.

The World Economic Forum does not think that there's only an American side and a non-American side.

The World Economic Forum does not see it that way.

They sure don't.

And it's interesting that he sees, you know, freedom of the press as a problem.

problem.

That in itself is a big problem.

And one of the big problems we have right now because they want us to believe that we're not supposed to say anything they don't like.

And anytime anybody says anything they don't like, they try to shut it down.

They try to censor it.

They try to lock you out.

It's terrible what's going on.

And this guy's supposedly a moderate.

This guy's supposedly, oh, yeah, he's going to be the savior because he could play both sides of the aisle at any time.

And I know you've been a big fan of Joe Manchin over the years.

Joe Manchin will not save you.

That will not.

That's the thing you need to always remember.

That should be a dot-com.

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Oh, but luckily they only have 50 Roy Bones and Joe Manchin can block any terrible programs.

No,

he will never be that person.

He will say he's that person because he wants people in West Virginia to vote for him.

So he will say that he's the person who's going to stop the craziness.

You see, he even said it there.

He's worried about the extreme left, too, Pat.

Oh, of course.

Oh, he's so worried about it.

He wants to make sure that

that does not happen.

Here's the thing: he does not care about the extreme left.

He cares about his own seat.

He cares about his own election.

So at times, he will say things like, I care about the extreme left.

And he has interests that don't always align with that.

You know,

big friends, big donors who

are in industries like coal, where he will occasionally be sane because of that, not because he actually believes it, but because he wants money and power.

That is who this guy is.

This who this guy has always been, and he will only go away when the people of West Virginia finally say, we don't believe you anymore because every time you let us down.

And I don't even know that that happens in an election because I think he's too terrified to lose.

Eventually, polling needs to show him no.

They need to say, don't run again.

And eventually this will hopefully happen.

I mean, this happened

this past couple of years.

He was the guy standing up and saying,

I'm going to stop this.

I'm going to be the guy who's going to make sure that we don't spend all this money until the day he decided he wanted to spend all the money.

And people will be like, well,

he decided he wanted to spend less.

Yes,

this is what he does.

Yeah.

Wow.

You know, Bernie Sanders wanted to spend $4 trillion and he spent it.

He wanted to, you know, Joe Manchin came in and I'm only going to spend 1.6.

Oh, wow.

Thank you.

Oh, what a...

Still $1.6 trillion.

We don't have.

Thank you.

That's exactly right.

We don't have the money in the first place.

And Manchin came in and once again, let all these ridiculous programs, ridiculous spending go into effect anyway, all this stuff that's going to last

long after Joe Manchin is a senator and he's long forgotten, because that is what will happen with him once he's out of office, he will be forgotten.

He's of very little to no impact in our society.

And he, you know, once again, he continues to give this pitch.

He wrote op-eds in multiple newspapers saying he wouldn't do the spending.

He would not go along with the spending he went along with.

And he did.

And he did, because he always does.

He is.

He brought them down a little bit, but that's all you can expect out of him.

I mean,

he'll feign that he's interested in saving money or saving taxpayer dollars, but he won't really do it.

It's all a dance, right?

Does anyone really think that Alexandria Casio-Cortez and Joe Manchin are really mad at each other?

Does anybody buy this theater?

Like, it's just, oh, I don't know.

That AOC, she's a little,

she sounds like a socialist.

Oh, I can't believe this joke.

They're just playing both sides of this for their own audiences.

Yep.

And we're all supposed to believe it.

It's like the bottom line is they all come together and vote for the same bills over and over again, and they have nobody who's holding out.

Unlike the Republicans, who at least have some people who will hold out for certain things.

We saw that with the McCarthy situation.

You have people who will say, I'm not going to vote for him unless you get X, Y, and Z.

They get X, Y, and Z, and they'll move on it.

But, you know, what does Manchin do?

He always comes to the table.

He always is there when they need him.

If the Democrats have 50, you know, they need 60 votes and they've got 65, you might get a vote for Joe Manchin on this, where you say, oh, wow, he's stepping up against the Democrats here.

If they need

50 votes and they've got 53, Joe Manchin's there for you.

He'll hold that line.

He won't be there when they need 50 plus one.

He won't be there.

If they need him, he will be there.

If he can justify to the people of West Virginia, well, I stood up.

I was the only Democrat who said no to that bill that passed with some room.

It's always what he does.

And the fact that anybody anybody falls for this at this point is embarrassing.

But I don't think the people of West Virginia would fall for it again.

I don't think he could win again there.

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One thing Manchin said there, which I think has some truth to it, is we do get distracted, I think, by the extremes at times.

We get distracted by the extreme left and their woke agenda, which is telling us we've got to use these new woke terms.

These terms are, you know, this is what the future shows.

We've got to be able to

save the planet is if we use woke terms.

Right.

That's the only way we can be saved right now.

That does seem like the pitch at times.

It does.

The New York Times ran a poll, and I don't know why they did this, frankly, because maybe they thought they were going to get different results but said hey you know all these terms we're using all the time and trying to make you use here at the new york times do you guys like them like latinx you guys a fan of that big fan of that i assume right latinx or as the president calls it latinex

And nobody really knows how to say it.

Is it Latinx or is it Latinx?

No, or Latinx.

Or Latinex.

Like Kleenex.

We don't know.

Latinex.

These are Latin Kleenex.

Latin tissues.

Call them Latinx.

So they asked that and they said, okay, here, let me give you a couple of terms.

Hispanic, would you use Hispanic or not?

87% said that yes, they would use Hispanic.

13% said no.

Latinx,

Latinx,

only 22% said they would use it.

And 78%

said they would not.

I'm surprised it's as high as 22%.

That blows me away.

You use it.

And you could use both.

Some people said yeah I'd use both of those terms I only hear white old liberals use yeah that's it and that's the 22% probably right it's certainly not probably Latinx people how about pregnant women would you use the term pregnant women pat I would you would right that's what that's pregnant women 86% said they would use uh that term birthing parent oh my god the other option

only 34% said they would use that term.

I would never use that.

I would.

You'll have to shoot me in the head.

Before you say birthing.

Gun to your head.

Will you say birthing present?

Nope.

Pull the trigger.

Pull the trigger.

I'd rather not live in a world where we call mothers birthing parents.

Nope.

Pat, have you ever heard the term breastfeeding?

A few times, sure.

You have.

Would you ever use a term like that?

I've used it.

You realize it's hateful.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Now, you are in the majority, unfortunately, in this country.

85% said that you would

use the term breastfeeding, sure.

Okay.

10% said they would use the term chest feeding.

85 to 10.

This goes on and on and on and on.

Asian

is 81% AAPI.

That's the

Asian American Pacific Islander?

Okay.

I think it is.

That's 27%.

Okay.

This is one I had never heard before.

What is the oh, this one, this is interesting.

Third World.

I love

use that, right?

That's how you describe a developing nation.

Maybe you'd use developing nation as well.

Both of those polled pretty well.

73% said they'd use third world nation to describe a country like that.

Developing was 60%.

Those are the two that I would say both apply.

Those are fine.

Yeah.

Global South.

You ever hear this term?

No.

Global South.

That's what we're supposed to be using now?

That's what we're supposed to use in South.

Global South?

Global South.

Because I don't, like,

what does Australia say?

Like, we're a pretty wealthy nation.

Like, why are we?

No, global south is the other option.

Weird.

Only 15% would use the term global south.

And are there no northern third world nations?

It's so weird.

Like, developing, to me, third world is kind of like doesn't mean all that much.

We've kind of developing is a good term to describe.

Like, okay, you're an economically developing nation.

You don't have all the accoutrements of maybe the United States or First World quote country.

Developing works fine.

I think it's more descriptive, maybe, even than third world.

But, like, global south, like, that makes it, it's not a regional situation we're talking about.

No.

We're not like, hey, what's

when is it, you know, when is it warm there?

When is it cold there?

That's not what we're asking.

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It's so weird how this stuff happens.

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We've taken quite a beating as a country in these past couple of years.

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It's one of the things that we're used to.

We're not a global South country.

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Hey, fortunately, we got people out there saving this planet.

Where would we be without the elites in our lives?

You know, we're just little people.

We can't understand things.

No.

You know, we don't know that much.

And even what we do know, we don't know what to do with.

If we have information like the planet is being destroyed, of course, by CO2,

and so all of our emissions are killing us

slowly,

killing us not so softly with their crud, killing us softly with their crud and telling our whole lives

with their crud,

still, I guess.

But fortunately, again, there are the elites like John Kerry,

who

is reminding people, he's over in Davos, as with the other elites, and he's talking about,

he's making sure that we understand how special people like him are and what they're doing to

fix the problems that we face and save the planet.

Here he is.

And when you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary

that we,

select group of human beings,

because of

whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together

and actually talk about saving the planet.

I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about almost false.

And if you said that to most people, most people

think you're just a crazy, tree-hugging, lefty, liberal, you know, do-getter, whatever.

Yes, that's right.

And there's no relationship.

But really, that's where we are.

Really, he's saving the planet.

But really, what we are are gods, really.

That's what we are.

We are your overlords and your gods.

And we're saving this planet in spite of you.

Every once in a while, they just blurt out something that's so true.

Isn't that amazing?

Like, that's exactly how they think.

That is the quiet part out loud for everyone to hear.

Yes.

We're special.

We're select.

We're a group of people who are saving the planet from the other dummies who just got us into this mess by driving their big cars.

And of course, we still get to drive our big cars as elites.

John Kerry still gets to, he still gets to get a private jet over to Davos, right?

Yes.

And he won't apologize for that.

He's told us in the past.

Yes.

I will not apologize for my private jet travel because I'm worth it.

I'm saving the planet that you little people aren't.

That's really what they think.

Yeah, it is.

It's great.

I really like these types of moments where they

do too.

You know, it's really helpful.

It is legitimately a positive.

Let everybody really see who you are and what you think of yourself and what you think of us.

Yeah.

There was a clip that we played the other day of Joy Behar,

who, you know, she's fantastic.

And she was on The View and she was talking about the Biden document scandal.

And she said,

People are like wondering, well, what's the difference between this Trump thing and this Biden thing?

Well, we know Trump is a criminal.

Yeah, right.

That's right.

And we know that Biden is a good guy, therefore we assume that he did this as a mistake.

Incredible.

It was like, she was making this as if it was an incredible argument.

And it's like, well, this is exactly what we're accusing you of.

We're accusing you of not looking at both sides because you've predetermined that one side is good and one side is bad.

And that's exactly what you're admitting to.

She has shown over the years she's not capable of looking at both sides.

No, she's an idiot.

I mean, like, Joey Behar is a complete idiot.

John Kerry is just an elitist who thinks he's better than everybody else.

And look at how he just couldn't keep it inside any longer.

Yeah, it's incredible because he's been thinking about this: how wonderful he is, yeah, and the people with him, and how elite they are, and what good they're doing for the planet.

And it just bursts out of him because he couldn't hold it in anymore.

And in some ways, isn't it understandable, right?

John Kerry, think of his life.

Yeah, he's over in Nantucket, you know, doing this, you know, wakeboarding.

And he comes off of the, of that island and then flies in a private jet to Davos to rub shoulders with.

Then this is after he spent his entire life accomplishing nothing.

He's a giant zilch from birth to today.

And he is rewarded for that behavior by being treated incredibly well and being able to avoid every single one of the things he recommends for the rest of society.

He is able to avoid living a carbon neutral.

I guarantee his house on Nantucket

is

not carbon neutral.

It's not 1,800 square feet.

I can promise you that.

Right.

This is a...

It is super nice, and he's got super nice cars and super nice toys.

And he flies all over the world on a private jet and tells everyone else they're evil for even thinking about driving a car.

And they won't apologize for it either.

No.

Stu, because you little people sick at me.

And I don't have to explain anything I do to you.

Right.

That's who he is.

That's the attitude.

And when you live your life that way, and you live your life with that double standard for this long, and you're never punished for it.

In fact, you're rewarded for it.

Of course, you think you're better than everyone else.

You don't have to live by their rules.

And instead of the, I mean, you know, they talk about in extreme cases, we've seen environmentalists over and over again say things like, people should be put in prison for their climate beliefs.

People should be executed for their climate beliefs.

This has been talked about for decades among the far environmentalist left.

And even the people who are not, you wouldn't consider on the extremes are saying things like, well, basically, we need to hold back fossil fuels, cheap, reliable energy for people in the third world so they can, you know, excuse me, the global south.

And so that thank you so that they can i was offended there for a minute thank you i'm glad i caught myself where they can struggle let them struggle they don't deserve the the the dependable energy we built our civilization on screw them give them the experimental solar stuff that doesn't work right let them and let go yeah sure it's more expensive so what

who cares we're the global north we get to do whatever we want

and that's what they that's how they see themselves and so you can see how something like this would develop.

It really is.

It's outrageous, frankly.

And you're right.

It's not just fun, but it's important to see them in these kinds of moments where they just share it with the world.

Because the world, in general, I don't think believes the things that we say about these elites every day.

And then, here's proof positive.

This is what we're saying.

This is who they think they are.

They're better than us, and they don't have to follow the same rules as we do.

So they continue to meet in these private little meetings in Davos and wherever else with the Bilderbergers and the Whataburgers and the Bacon Cheeseburgers.

And they just keep plotting out our future for us, they think, and trying to figure out how they can separate themselves even further from the rest of us.

Then we had

Greta Thunberg yesterday in Germany being arrested.

Do we have that clip?

Because

it's really frightening what happened to her yesterday.

Look at this.

So they're setting up the fact that

they're about to arrest her.

This isn't.

This isn't set up at all.

They're all

standing there, trying to figure out how they're going to do this.

All right.

They're holding her hands.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

And they're waiting until they're all videotaped and photographed, and then they're gonna

carry her away.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, what an arrest

later on.

They pick her up and they carry her.

And she's like smiling.

And she's smiling and she's having a good time.

She's like a little girl, she's like a little kid, and she's like taking going for a ride with mommy and daddy.

What is the point of that?

I wonder.

She's so

committed to her

activism that she's willing to be arrested.

Well, okay, not really arrested, but she's willing to set it up as if she was being arrested.

Play arrested.

Amazing.

Well, it's true, too.

I mean, the issue here, of course, is not even Greta, right?

Greta, you expect this sort of behavior from Greta.

What are the police doing in this situation?

They're posing for pictures.

It's embarrassing.

You know, it's one thing to look, it's not a surprise that Greta, Greta Tolenberg, would

arrange a situation where five activists are arrested by 30 police officers and 50 media standing by taking pictures.

That is not a surprise.

Why the police would partake in such a situation is kind of a surprise.

That's a problem.

You got a problem going on there with your police force, if that's even real.

I mean, do we find out later that that was essential?

But those aren't actual

police officers, even?

Would not be at all surprised.

I wouldn't be surprised either.

Again,

these arguments are built on lies.

And to expand them, you just need to expand the lies.

This is what they do all the time.

Constantly.

And people like Greta, I don't know if she's crossed the line yet from useful idiot to

someone who's partaking in

the theater of all of this.

I think when she was a small child, she was

I think a victim in some ways of

the parents and the people around them.

Because you could tell she was legitimately petrified

of what is happening in the world to

bring about climate change.

She really thought, as some of them do, that we had 10 years left.

And that's, you know, if you really believed that the planet is being destroyed at such a rate that you only have 10 years left, yeah,

you'd fight against it.

She really believed she was going to die.

Yeah.

And that no one cared about her.

Right.

And it's like, right.

Like, look, as a child, of course, this is what you would call a childish belief, right?

She is a childish belief.

And her parents and others around them propagating this onto her is abuse.

They are abusing her childlike belief system to terrify her for their own ends.

I mean, that is, it's like, you know, we, we, we criticize like a parent on TikTok who like pranks their kid and terrifies them.

You know, this happens every once in a while.

And everyone's like, God, what kind of parent would do that?

Every left-wing parent would do it.

Everyone, they are doing it.

They are doing it.

They're doing it on TikTok as well.

But

making your child believe they're going to die because of a 0.9 degree centigrade

temperature rise over 100 years is the type of thing that qualifies as really crappy parenting.

You know, and Michael Schellenberger, I know you've talked to him before.

We had him on yesterday about a totally different topic.

He was actually talking about Davos.

He's been writing a lot about that recently.

But he wrote his book, Apocalypse Never, which is a book about, and he's a big environmentalist and he was known as like an award-winning environmentalist on the cover of 30 years.

He's 16 CNN documentaries about him, blah, blah, blah.

And he...

Now he's a traitor.

Now he's evil and a traitor.

But one of the reasons why he decided to write this book, because he had had, if I remember the chronology correctly, he had had this awakening where he had looked at this information and said, wait a minute, a lot of this stuff isn't true.

He looked into it, looked at the first sources, interviewed people who who were being quoted as saying, hey, there's only 10 years left.

And

found out that they weren't even saying that.

I mean, they would tell him, no, that's not what I mean at all.

So he went through all this and had this awakening and had talked about it at some level, but didn't write the book until he saw the friends of his daughter.

who were terrified about global warming and the climate catastrophe that was around the corner.

He's like, you know, my daughter, we talk about this all the time.

She's not feeling that way.

But her friends were.

I'm like, we got to get the information out to people who are trying, right?

Some, you know, look, Greta's parents are not, I don't think, trying.

But

a lot of people get fooled by this stuff and believe that, you know, their kids are going to die.

They have to do something.

And if they don't have the real information, they wind up ruining their children's lives over this.

Because all they do is stress about this.

Yeah.

And you could say to an

idiot like AOC or Joy Behar, you say, got to learn the information and

come into modern society a little bit here.

Understand what's going on.

Read something.

But to a child, you can't do that.

I mean, a child obviously can read these things.

At some age, they can start to understand it.

But generally speaking,

they're judging their lives based on what their parents are telling them.

And we see this with gender.

We see this with CRT.

And we see it with climate.

The parents bring in these ridiculous belief systems, and then the children are the victims of this.

They are the victims.

Their lives, their childhoods get ruined by these belief systems.

It's really sad.

Really is.

That's pathetic.

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What's going on with the Biden documents scandal?

What's going on with the Biden crime family?

We'll get into that coming up here in just a second.

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We've got a great show about what is going on with this Biden document scandal.

What is the real

thing that we're supposed to be understanding here?

What is everybody missing in Biden's classified documents scandal?

We'll get into that tonight.

One of the best people you can possibly talk to on this particular topic, however, is Peter Schweizer.

He is the Government Accountability Institute president.

He's the author of Red Handed and tons and tons of New York Times bestsellers.

And of course, maybe the preeminent expert on the corruption in the Biden family, Peter Schweizer, joins us now.

Hey, Peter, how's it going?

Hey, it's great, Stu.

Good to be with you, old friend.

Thanks for having me.

We really appreciate you

coming on today in a very weird time.

And the document scandal is an interesting thing because I will say this.

When it comes to most presidents in our history, Republican or Democrat, the idea that they have a few documents hanging out in a garage at a think tank doesn't really worry me all that much.

We should make sure that we correct the situation.

You know, if they're doing something with these documents, I want to know about it.

But when it comes to the Biden family, considering all the corruption you've unearthed and others have talked about over the years, is this something we should really be worrying about?

Well, yes, I think context is everything.

I tend to agree with you, Stu.

I mean, look, it's in a way, I'm not minimizing the fact that we have elected officials and appointed officials, you know, Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State, Donald Trump is president, Joe Biden is vice president, who have classified documents, are found to have them in their possession.

I'm not minimizing that.

But the question is, in what context is it occurring?

And when you look at the Biden circumstance, it is particularly troubling because the business entanglements and the financial ties that the Biden family has at the time.

So just think about it this way, Stu.

You've got Joe Biden's residence in Delaware, and you've got documents there.

Now, if it's Joe Biden there, if nobody's there because he's in the White House, that's not necessarily a big problem.

The problem is that these documents now are believed to have been there for quite some time after he left the vice presidency.

And Hunter Biden was a residence there.

He claimed that same home as a residence, and he was known to be living there.

And at the precise time that those documents were there at the house, Hunter Biden was receiving large payments from Chinese officials,

including a company that employed a gentleman named Patrick Ho, that Hunter Biden famously called the FN spy chief of China.

And CEFC was headed by a guy named Chairman Yi,

who was known to have worked for Chinese military intelligence.

So to me, this story is all about context.

And the context in this sense is very, very troubling.

It's interesting because you think about a foreign spy agency.

I remember you talking about this in your book.

There's an idea that you should look for vulnerable targets

within

the structure, the power structure of your enemy, right?

When you're trying to find out information, when you're trying to have influence over another country, you don't just go into

their most

complicated systems and try to hack in.

I mean, they all try to do that as well, but you look for somebody who's personally vulnerable.

Who's the type of person who's going to give you this information because they're doing something else on the side maybe they shouldn't be?

I mean, there's no better example in our entire society than Hunter Biden.

Yeah, no, you're right, Stu.

You know, if you look through the span of history, whether, you know, it's Robert Hansen or Aldrich Ames, these people that during the Cold War spied for the Soviets, every one of them had personal problems.

Either they,

you know, they had sort of sexual scandals in their life, they had substance abuse problems and issues.

It's a common thing.

You look for the vulnerabilities, the weak points for people.

The United States certainly does it.

If you look at some of the Soviet defectors that came over in the Cold War, the same sort of situation applied.

In the case of Hunter Biden, that is unambiguously the case.

And, you know, it's interesting to me, the evolution of what the Biden position has been on Hunter Biden has changed.

When we first exposed back in 2018, I came on your show and I came on Glenn's show in a book I wrote called Secret Empires.

It was the first book that really exposed Hunter Biden's dealings in China and the extent of his dealings in Ukraine.

And when that book came out, the Biden response was, this is ridiculous.

Hunter Biden is a legitimate businessman.

He went to Yale Law School.

You know, how dare you, you know, somehow call this illegitimate.

Well, they've now gone completely 180 degrees the other direction.

Their argument now is that, you know, well, you know, Hunter had substance abuse issues.

He really didn't know what he was doing.

And the reason is that he's got this tax case looming over him where he failed to pay taxes on his foreign earnings.

So they have gone from him being sort of the, you know,

the high-flying professional man to somebody who has addiction problems.

That is certainly, I understand why they're doing that as a legal strategy, but to your point, that only further emphasizes the fact that we know that they were sending tens of millions of dollars that Hunter Biden received.

He got that in a private equity deal from the Chinese.

It was a government arranged thing.

We know he was getting wire transfers from this energy company, CEFC.

We know another gentleman named Henry Zhao wired him $5 million.

Henry Zhao was business partners with the family.

of the Minister of State Security, who's responsible for China Spy Agency.

So to your point, Stu, it begs the question, why are all these people in China sending money to a guy who has substance abuse problems and he's not doing anything in return for that money?

It is a classic example of the kinds of issues that you have when foreign intelligence agencies are trying to recruit people.

And that, to me, is the larger story here.

I mean, in typical Washington fashion, the mainstream media ignores the fact that the Bidens have received all this money from Chinese entities linked to Chinese intelligence.

They performed no service in return.

They brought nothing to the table.

And yet that gets ignored by the media, but sort of this more bureaucratic question about the possession of certain classified documents, suddenly the mainstream media thinks it's a story.

In my mind, the bigger story is the corruption and the intelligence and espionage aspect of these financial deals with the Biden family.

In all of your research, Peter, have you figured out a way that I can get this Hunter Biden deal?

Because I want millions of dollars for nothing too, and I just can't figure out how to do it.

Well, Stu, first we've got to, I think you're probably your family's going to object to this.

First, we've got to get you addicted on some drugs.

Okay.

I'm not sure you're going to be in favor of that.

And then you've got to, you know, you've got to have a family member.

You've got to marry into a family or somebody in your family has to marry into a very powerful political figure.

And if you do that, then you might have a shot for a 100 Biden kind of deal.

All right, I'm going to work on that.

Let's take a quick break.

And I want to come back on the other side, Peter, with

some of the pushback on this, because some people are saying, look, this is a totally different situation.

Some people are saying there's other issues associated with this that make it totally okay for Biden and maybe not okay for Trump or somebody else.

We'll get into that here in about 60 seconds.

Talking to Peter Schweizer.

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back with Peter Schweizer talking about the Biden situation with the documents.

And Peter, there's some pushback here, right?

People are saying a bunch of different stuff.

Maybe the more boring argument here,

and you tell me if it's valid, is that the United States really has an over-classification problem.

That we classify tons and tons of documents that shouldn't be classified simply because they were handed to the vice president.

It's a whatever.

It's a summary of the news, and it's not a big deal.

You could get the same stuff online, but we classify so many things, and that's why these documents keep popping up in every single garage next to a Corvette in the Biden family.

Well, there's some truth to that.

The problem is there are plenty of people in the military, active duty military and the reserves,

who

managed to, unfortunately, have a classified document in their briefcase or they took photos somewhere they weren't supposed to take photos and ended up being prosecuted because they had classified materials.

So my point would be, yes, I think the overclassification is a problem, but you don't solve that by letting insiders out and having a different standard for them than that you do for the rank and file.

I think the other point that needs to be made is that, you know,

it's a challenge because we don't know what we don't know.

We know that these documents are there.

We know that some of them apparently, according to the reporting, were classified top secret, but we don't know why they were classified and we don't know the nature of those documents.

Were they, like you said, rudimentary analysis by some State Department flunky that doesn't amount to anything?

Or were they classified documents that actually

could be valuable to a foreign power?

And we just don't know.

What is clear is that the standard

that they're applying to elected officials, senior officials, is not the same when they apply to the enlisted.

And this really happened if you go back to the Hillary Clinton case.

If you remember, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had classified documents on her laptop,

lots of them, some of them top secret.

And basically what we heard from James Comey, the head of the FBI, is that, yes, she had these classified documents, but nobody would really prosecute her because she didn't intend to violate the law by possessing these documents.

The law says nothing about intent.

The law is very clear about possession of documents.

So you know, whether it's Hillary Clinton or the Trump case or the Biden case,

we have got to create a clear standard that applies to everyone that has access to classified documents.

And we can't stop, you know, we have to stop bending the rules for senior elected officials and say, oh, it's not really a big deal of this case because they're a big, important person.

That's just not a good standard to have.

Peter, this is Pat Gray.

There seems to be a theory that's kind of circulating around because of the timing of this that

maybe there's a faction of the Democrats that don't want Joe Biden to run in 2024.

And maybe

these documents have all of a sudden been found after the midterms

because they want to embarrass him so much that he can't run.

What do you make of that?

Pat, I think that's a very shrewd observation.

I mean, look, you know, let's be clear, a lot of times leaks that happened, that certainly happened in the Trump administration,

did not come from people on the other side.

They came from people close within the circle.

And what we know about Joe Biden is this.

I mean, his poll numbers are not great.

There are certainly questions about his physical health, his physical fitness.

The other thing that has to be recognized on a broader level, just in terms of party politics, is he's not a great fundraiser.

He hasn't been a great fundraiser.

I mean, this is not Barack Obama, for example, who can go out and raise oodles of cash because of his charisma.

And I think there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party that are concerned that he's just not up to it in 2024.

You've got people like Gavin Newsom, for example, the governor of California, waiting in the wings.

They're trying to position him as sort of the, you know, the California JFK.

So I agree with you.

I think there are factions within the Democratic Party, and there are probably people at the Department of Justice and elsewhere that wouldn't mind putting their thumb on the scale, saying essentially, thank you, Joe Biden, for your service on our behalf.

You beat Donald Trump, but it's time for you to go, and we need to run with a younger horse.

So I'm sure that that is probably a factor in this.

And it's probably determining the fact that even among some Democrats on Capitol Hill, you're seeing rumblings that

we're going to take this Biden documents story very, very seriously.

That's partly political calculation.

They want a younger horse, someone in their 70s.

Someone who could just step to the

Peter,

one of the big arguments, and we got about two minutes here, but one of the big arguments is, look, the Biden case is totally different than the Trump case.

The Trump case is much, much worse.

You can't compare these two.

Is there anything to that argument?

Well, what they argue is that

there's been a discussion.

Donald Trump has documents.

The national records wants them back.

Trump says they're mine, and there's kind of a dispute there.

What I would say is, okay, there's a dispute, but they are talking, and they are trying to work it through.

In the Biden case, what they argue is, oh, we found them and we turned them over.

Well, that's not clear.

We don't know when we found them.

We don't know how they were found.

And I think the other question we have to recognize is, and I don't know all the intricacies of it, but there are differences between what a president and what a vice president gets in terms of access to documents and possession of documents after they leave office.

So it's a very, very complicated thing.

But in my mind, no,

there really is not.

any difference.

There shouldn't be any difference.

And again, we've got to stop making exceptions and rules depending on the politics of the person involved that has the documents.

Well, I like Hillary Clinton, I hate Donald Trump, so they're different.

Or I love Donald Trump and I hate Joe Biden, so they're different.

We need to try to treat them all equally.

That's what I think is the key here because our biggest challenge right now, in my mind, in the country, people talk about democracy and

elections, is, in my mind, the criminal justice system.

If you look through history, the biggest example of a declining civilization is when the criminal justice system system is no longer trusted because people feel that the results are automatically skewed.

And I feel like we are in that place, and this would move us further in that direction.

And that's a terrible place for us to be as a country.

It's very true.

It's foundational to our civilization, and

it seems to be dissolving in front of our eyes.

Peter Schweizer, you can get his stuff at Peterschweizer.com or on Twitter at Peter Schweizer.

He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of a bunch of great books that really changed the country.

Red-Handed is the latest, and you should definitely have the entire Peter Schweizer library.

Thanks, Peter, so much for coming on.

We appreciate it and helping us break down this craziness because we're certainly not getting it from the mainstream media.

Well, it's always great to be with you guys.

Thanks for all your great work, and I'll look forward to talking again soon.

Thank you, Peter Schweizer.

You know, we're going to be going into this as well on Glenn TV tonight, Pat.

Going into the details, the timelines of these documents, what does this all mean, and where do we go from here?

That's on Glenn TV tonight, right after a brand new Studas America.

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No, I'm going to do a new one today.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, because there's a lot going on.

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Are you surprised at the way this Prince Harry book, Spare,

is selling?

It supposedly, I was reading last week that it was one of the fastest-selling books of all time.

Not just like, you know, pre-pandemic or post-pandemic or during the pandemic, of all time?

Why?

Why?

It's even outselling Michelle Obama's book.

Oh, my gosh.

Now, there's only one reason for that.

Racism.

Thank you.

Well, and sexism.

It had to be said.

And sexism.

It had to be said.

That's the only thing.

But I mean, that is actually a surprise considering the fawning attention that

the Michelle Obama book received.

I mean, it was on every show.

She was the greatest person of all time.

And maybe that's the reason it's selling better in that, like, I feel like there's a divide maybe on Harry or Henry or whatever his name is.

I really don't even know.

We fought a war to not have to care about princes.

We fought two of them.

Yeah.

Against these guys.

Yeah.

So that we didn't, we could leave the royal family behind us.

And now all of a sudden people are addicted to the royal family in this country?

It's really your birthright as an American citizen to not care about these people.

Right.

That is like, it's legitimately like the main thing we fought for.

We fought for the right to not have to care what they think or say.

We suffered through the White House being burned down

so that we could have the right not to worry about the Royals.

Yeah.

And yet all we want to do is talk about the Royals.

I don't get it.

I really don't either.

And I don't understand the.

For some reason, it seems like my oldest daughter is really into it.

She's she loves the royal family for whatever reason.

I have no idea why.

And she couldn't wait to get the Harry book and she's reading reading it like crazy and obsessed with it.

But it seems like the big problem is Megan,

Megan Markle, you know, Harry's wife.

And I don't understand what the problem is there, but

I think you and I would both love it if she left that marriage and went back to Suits.

Yeah.

The old USA show.

If it takes a divorce to do that, so be it.

If I get more Suits episodes, I'm totally into this.

It's funny.

People don't, you know.

We need season eight of Suits.

Yeah, people know her, Megan Markle, as the princess.

I do not.

I know her as

the girl from Suits, the show.

But she was on.

But people don't like her, right?

Isn't she the problem?

I think that's, yes, I think people do not like her.

And I'm not sure why.

She was extremely likable on Suits.

She was acting.

You do know that, Pat.

That was not a documentary.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Oh, you're kidding.

Yeah, no, it's not a real law firm.

Oh, I thought it was.

No law firm changes the names on the door that many times.

Jeffy and Mike aren't.

They're not real people.

No.

Oh, no.

That's really disappointing.

Now, I would read a book

from her about her time on suits.

That I would read.

I don't know.

And we may be in the minority on this one, though.

It's possible.

It's possible, but it is a fascinating thing that people care and they seem to really care.

They do.

There is a bit of just hate watching, I think, with the Netflix series and the book where they just despise these people.

And they do come off as awfully elitist.

Now, that's not exactly

a brilliant observation considering they were royals.

I mean, it's really the definition of the elite.

But man, I just don't, I don't even think I care about

like, I don't even care about the sons and daughters of, you know, our leaders like this.

No, I don't.

You know, again, like, I'm sure they're, you know, again, Hunter Biden is probably the closest you could come of me carrying, and that's only because I have no idea whether he's committed a thousand crimes or ten thousand crimes.

And we know it's in that range.

I just don't know how many crimes overall he's committed.

And I'm always fascinated by the fact that, like, Hunter Biden seems to be the one person who is able to

just go on

Coke benders with prostitutes all over the world, and no one cares.

He could do it on film.

And he has.

Right.

Over and over and over again.

Like, I just feel like, has this ever happened?

Is there anybody filmed

more often in the nude than Hunter Biden?

No, most, even porn stars.

Right.

Porn stars who got this name.

They're not as naked as he is.

No.

Hunter Biden is always naked and always filming himself.

Those are the only two things we know about the guy.

Nobody loves Hunter Biden more than Hunter Biden.

In fact, I don't know if anybody loves him at all,

but he does.

He does.

So he's got him.

He loves himself.

Yeah.

It's a very weird situation why you would care.

You know, and I really like a lot of these, you go back and look at the scandals that have happened with family members of presidents.

Generally speaking, they're blurbs, right?

They're little, you know, bits and pieces occasionally, and they pop up to more prominence than that, but it's very, it's pretty rare.

Yet we're obsessed with the country that we left and what the drama is over there.

I don't know why.

Never understood it.

And they compare, I mean, there's really no American comparison.

I've heard the Kennedys.

brought up as maybe our American royalty, but they don't even, they don't even really compare to what the way people fawn over the royal family in Britain.

And also, like,

the Kennedys had a real impact on the country.

Like, one of them was the president of the United States.

One was Attorney General.

Another one, and likely to be president of the United States.

Another one, U.S.

Senator for 135 years.

Exactly.

Like, they were not a, we were not fascinated with them because of their personal lives.

Their personal lives became fascinating to many, partially because one of them was murdering people, but also

because they were in real positions of prominence and leadership.

They

affected, most of the time, negatively our country.

So, yeah, you know, at times when you have a prominent figure, you will look at

their personal lives.

But you have to have that prominence first.

Like, you know, even the queen or king of England has very little actual effect on their country.

They don't, there is

a ceremonial role, largely.

Right.

Right.

They attend open houses and

grocery store openings.

They're big grocery store openings.

They get big scissors and they cut the ribbon at a grocery store opening.

That's my understanding of the royal family.

That's what the queen does.

They're like, right?

They're at Kroger and they're opening up.

It's a brand new American grocery store called Kroger.

And I just cut the ribbon.

And I'll see you in five years.

Like, that's pretty much what happened.

Am I wrong on that?

No.

That's my understanding of the royal family.

But they took away all their actual power years and years and years ago.

They don't have any.

With good reason.

And I can understand there is a cultural significance to that role.

I can understand why the British are obsessed with it.

But like, you know,

here?

What other?

I know.

It doesn't make any sense at all.

Now, we are obsessed with other things that are idiotic.

Like, we're obsessed with, you know, every Elon Musk tweet.

You know, we're obsessed with whatever Kim Kardashian or Kanye West say on a different.

Like, we have a celebrity obsession that is similar to

the way they, you know, the British feel, I guess, about the Royals.

But

I guess that's all it is here, right?

It's just, it's just a celebrity, you know, reality show almost

that we're talking about it.

Obsession.

It's a bit bizarre.

Yeah.

I mean, did we win this war or not?

I mean, look, it's like that thing that people observe every once in a while.

Like, oh, you own a dog?

Well, why are you walking around behind it cleaning up its poop?

Who really owns who?

And it's kind of the same situation here.

I mean, we say we won our independence, but did we?

If we're buying millions of copies about a book about a guy who is never going to even be the king of England,

do we?

Did we win?

And he's talking about his noodle half the time.

I guess in this book, really.

I have not read the book.

It's noodle.

But there's a lot of noodle discussion.

Really?

Yes.

Yes.

I did not know that.

know that i don't know why exactly he spoke about his noodle but he did multiple times or a lot and people were like shocked by it well he describes his noodle in there yeah i know i

i'm not interested it also seems like there's a bunch of this like these really dumb petty family yeah just you know like moments that are being blown up it's like you know one day my brother he wouldn't let me play

the video game when he said he would.

It's like the stuff I hear from my 11-year-old.

It's like, okay,

I'm sorry that happened to you.

I don't know what else to say.

Like, get over it and move on with your life.

Right.

You know,

why would we care about the idea?

It's fascinating.

Well, my daughter was telling me that one of the big issues in his book.

Other than the noodle.

Other than the noodle.

is the Nazi outfit that he wore.

Remember this?

He was like 18 and they went to a costume party or something.

And he went to the store or something and bought a costume or two.

And he was trying to choose between them.

And so he blames William for saying, yeah, where are the Nazi one?

Like, you're 18 years old.

You can't figure that out.

You can't decipher that.

And say, you know, maybe the Nazi thing isn't the right way to go.

Maybe.

I probably forgot about that, Scout.

That's our real precursor to the Blackface thing we've gone over lately, right?

Where every Democratic official in public office has apparently been in blackface multiple times.

But it's okay for them because they've got the D after their name.

It's totally fine for them.

That cures the racism.

The D cures the racism.

The D is like an antibiotic.

Yeah.

You have an infection.

You take the D pill.

And your racism is all of a sudden benign.

Yeah.

It's incredible.

It would be malignant if it was a Republican, but it's benign for the Democrats.

If you take the R pill, it will get worse.

Oh, my gosh.

It'll cure worse.

Much, much worse.

And the rest of society.

How does this stuff happen?

I'd forgotten about that,

that he did that.

And it was like, you know, again.

He blames it apparently almost entirely on William.

And that's pathetic.

Yeah, it is.

That's pathetic.

When you're 18, that's what my...

Well, he was only 18.

Yeah, that's old enough.

Yeah.

That's old enough to know you shouldn't dress as a Nazi.

Yeah, right.

Although we have such weird lines with this stuff.

Like, you know, I was watching a series the other day where, you know, a guy was dressed as a Nazi.

And it's like, well, why is that okay?

Because he's playing a role?

Like,

what are you doing at a costume party other than essentially playing a role?

Right.

You're putting on a costume to pretend you're somebody else for a day.

That's what acting is.

Yeah.

And you play Hitler and you get awards.

Like,

why do we have these lines?

Interesting.

It really doesn't make any sense.

So much.

Now, that's something I keep coming back to, Pat.

We talk about issues every single day, and so many of them don't make any sense.

Does anyone put any thought into any of it?

It seems like the answer to that is no.

No.

It does.

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Hey, in San Francisco,

They have decided, they put together a committee, a reparations committee, to go out and study the reparations situation and decide how much blacks in San Francisco are going to be paid by the city.

And the committee proposed a plan to city officials that would pay longtime black residents of San Francisco

$5 million each.

Oh.

Each.

$5 million.

$5 million

each.

This is sustainable.

Our society is sustainable.

Of course it is.

Absolutely.

This has to be done, Stu, to make amends.

I mean, centuries of harm and destruction of black lives, black bodies, and black communities should be met with centuries of repair.

Are you as creeped out as I am as the fact that they keep using this term black bodies?

Yeah, it's weird.

What a weird thing to say.

Yeah, very.

What are you talking about?

Black bodies?

You're talking about people?

Is that what you're talking about?

What do you mean, black bodies?

Are you only talking to the torso?

What is the what is happening with that?

They keep doing that.

I don't know.

I don't know.

There's always some reason.

There's always some weird woke reason as to why this terminology exists.

That's another one.

Yeah.

These things keep popping up.

I don't get it.

They estimate that the black residents who will receive that 5 million are about 5.7% of the city's population because you have to meet certain criteria.

Let's see.

Okay.

Now, and keep in mind, this is even though California was not a slave state and San Francisco was not a slave city.

Nobody in California or San Francisco had slaves.

So

that's a great point.

Interesting.

Of course, you can never trace back whole.

I mean, it's really difficult.

And who has to pay for this?

Right.

All the residents of San Francisco.

Are you going to be taxed?

How much would you have to raise taxes to come up with a $569 billion, over half a trillion dollars

for just one city?

For one city.

In this idiotic

city.

But

it does bring up an interesting point that I have long identified as a son of a black sharecropper in San Francisco.

You have?

Yes, long time.

I never heard you mention.

You have to be a resident, I guess, of San Francisco for 13 years.

And of course, I've lived there for 15.

Well, you identify as I am.

I identify as if I had lived there as a black resident for 15 years.

But you've moved several times in that 15 years and I never moved to San Francisco.

Why wouldn't you?

No, but I identify that I was in San Francisco the whole time.

So

you deserve this money.

I deserve this money.

I really do.

I really deserve it.

I mean, just

again, I don't mean to be offensive here, but you don't look like the self-

Oh, wow.

Share Crawford.

Wow.

From San Francisco.

Okay, because of the pigment in my skin.

Yeah, that's kind of the defining characteristic we're talking about, no?

Okay, Mr.

Bigot.

So if you're a white...

Okay, Mr.

Hater.

If you're a white son of a sharecropper

from San Francisco, which doesn't exist either, would you also get the $5 million?

No.

Well, it depends on how you identify.

Okay.

What if you're a black person who identifies as white?

Do you get the money?

No.

No.

No.

Because you're a white person.

If you identify as white, you are white.

Am I right?

That's the only criteria.

Okay.

How do you feel in your head?

That's what determines all this.

Hey, don't think that's.

You're not fully on board with that?

That's weird.

It's a weird thing.

You're kind of a bigot.

I have these weird things.

They're called eyes.

Oh.

Eyes, yeah.

And they look at things and they can observe color.

Can you see inside my head?

No.

No.

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Ever hear that name?

I don't think so.

He is

a YouTuber, kind of a sort of a comedian in a way.

He's known for his videos where he goes out into the middle of these kind of crazy situations and interviews people.

And he's one of these guys that doesn't really say a lot in the videos.

It's more of like him finding the crazy person, saying the crazy thing, and kind of letting them, encouraging them to keep talking.

Okay.

And

as you might imagine, a lot of his targets are on the right.

Like, you know, he'll go to a QAnon rally, right, and find the crazy person, the craziest person there and kind of let them talk.

And I don't know.

Because QAnon is so prevalent in our society today.

Oh, yeah.

I don't go a day without running into 15 or 20 QAnon members.

Right.

Do you?

No.

Oh, gosh, no.

I mean, especially when I'm at the meetings.

Everywhere.

When I'm hanging out and I'm learning about these cue drops.

Yeah, yeah.

That's when I know.

But, you know,

this was something he kind of rose to prominence doing.

And he recently had, for the first time, sort of a crossover to more mainstream media where he had an HBO documentary that revolved around January 6th, where he was interviewing a lot of the people who were at the January 6th thing in the months leading up to it, not knowing, of course, January 6th was going to occur, but like talking to people in QAnon and talking to Alex Jones and talking to all these people on that side of the argument.

And in the months leading up, when you had the sort of election stuff going on, he was talking to those people.

They made an HBO HBO documentary out of it.

Uh, so that's sort of his backstory.

Kind of, let me give you a little taste as to the type of stuff he's known for.

This is a clip, I think, from the documentary itself, talking to some QAnon lady.

I've kind of been searching for the truth my whole life, and one time I just came across a video that was about Biden and Kamala Harris and Clinton and Obama.

They are Satan worshipers, Satanists.

They're Satan worshipers 100%.

And I couldn't wait to tell my family.

And they just go,

they just said, you're crazy.

Trump's the worst.

How does that make you feel?

Sad, I cry all the time.

But I just keep praying.

That's all I do.

I just keep praying and asking God to open their eyes.

Now, like,

look,

is this the most fact-based analysis you're ever going to hear?

Maybe not.

However, like, it's obviously a sincere held belief.

Yeah.

And, like, you you know she's really seemingly struggling with losing her family i don't know is that an exploitation

a little bit a little bit but you know it's a lot of the other stuff he has it's just like drunk people saying crazy things about their lives and blah blah blah so that's who this guy is the reason i bring him up is because as soon as this documentary came out and he had this sort of mainstream crossover success he's celebrating this you know big release And within a couple of days, the Me Too allegations start popping out.

Oh, boy.

A lot of women come out and say, wait a minute, I was treated badly by this guy.

He forced me to do things I didn't want to do.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Was it 40 years ago?

No, he's only 25 years old.

Okay, so it wasn't 40.

Yeah, it would be difficult for him to go back that far.

And so

initially, he doesn't really say anything.

The other day, he comes out with an apology video.

Now,

I watched this apology video.

So is he admitting to the

apology video and i thought this was an interesting way for people to learn about the eight steps in an effective woke apology because he hits all the notes this guy checks every box in this particular video so good let's start it out with step number one all right um i never thought i'd make a video like this but um I think there's an important conversation to be had, and I just want to be fully accountable, honest, and transparent with all of you guys.

Okay.

So step one, Pat, is you got to hit the buzzwords.

Okay.

Like accountable.

Okay.

Like transparent transparency.

Yeah.

You got to say, remember the words that test well.

Transparency tests well.

And I bet the University of Pittsburgh is really happy he's wearing their paraphernalia as he's making these apologies.

I bet they love that.

I didn't notice that.

You want to make sure that whenever there's a terrible crime, you got your logo to wear on whoever that is.

You got your pitch sweatshirt on so that everybody knows.

All right.

All right.

Here's step number two and the best way to make a woke apology.

So I'd like to start by thanking every single person who's came out in the past week.

Thank you.

Interesting.

To speak about different ways in which my behavior has made them feel uncomfortable or pressured during a sexual situation.

And to people who said that I've made unwanted advances and had a hard time with rejection.

I'm sure this was not easy to do.

It's never easy to speak out.

And it was hard for me to hear as well because, to be honest with you, up until this point, I didn't even really realize that i had this pattern that had affected multiple people so this is step number two pat you compliment the bravery of the people accusing you of sexual assault right it's always important to note that they're incredibly brave and you should give them a lot of credit for accusing you of this terrible thing that

you're not exactly admitting you did

well he didn't even know he did it he didn't even know he did it he didn't know right but it's brave for people to tell him about the thing he didn't know that he did yeah okay okay so that's step number two compliment the the bravery of the people accusing you of sexual assault.

And thank them.

He actually thanked them for coming out against him.

Thank you.

Thank you for accusing me of sexual assault.

That was really cool.

I had no idea.

No idea.

But thank you for letting me know.

All right.

Here's step three.

I'd also like to apologize for my silence.

I think that when this stuff first came out, I was in a state of denial and shock.

I was, you know, just riding the high for my movie that just came out.

And then within 48 hours, I was was denounced by my closest collaborators.

And my name was printed in 40 different news outlets next to the words sexual misconduct.

I just kind of spiraled into a mental health crisis.

Oh, no.

I'm okay now, but I don't really think this is about me.

No, it's not about you.

It's not about you.

Except that you're a criminal.

Well, it is about you.

It is kind of about you.

The accusations are against you.

So it is about you in that way.

But this is step number three, Pat.

Cultivate sympathy.

Oh.

You see, he just had, he was coming off the high of his big movie and everything was going right.

Right.

And then he spiraled into a mental health crisis.

Crisis.

It was a crisis.

Mental health.

This has only happened over a couple of weeks, so it's a very short-lived crisis in this particular case.

But it would be a crisis nonetheless.

Well, it would be.

When you find out that you're a sexual predator.

Imagine being hit with that bulletin one day.

You're just like, hey, by the way, did you know you're a sexual predator?

I didn't.

That's sad.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for telling me.

Okay, so you've used the word transparency.

You have complimented and thanked the women for accusing you.

Yes, I have.

And now you have cultivated sympathy.

What do you do next?

Here's step four.

I really want to do better and be fully accountable for everything that I've done.

So that being said, I want to make a few things clear.

I've always taken no for enhancer.

As far as consent, I've never overstepped that line.

But, you know, I think I want to have a more nuanced and important conversation about power dynamics, pressure.

Oh, boy, yeah, power dynamics.

Coercion.

And coercion.

Coercion and power dynamics.

Those are important elements.

Now, this is an interesting, it's a nuanced step here,

step four in this process, which is you rule out the worst, but also show understanding.

Okay.

So he is saying here, he never had a situation where a woman said, no, don't have sex with me, and he had sex with them.

He never had a situation where they said no, and he did it anyway.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

He wants you to know

where your mind is going.

Uh-huh.

He didn't do it.

He didn't do that.

Okay.

But he wants to have an important conversation about power structures and coercion.

And I'm fascinated by this whole thing because, you know, there's this idea, you know, Pat, basically what he's saying here is, I was a famous YouTuber.

How could they say no?

They couldn't say no.

They couldn't say, they couldn't not have sex with me.

Well, the power structure is too uneven.

The power structure is too uneven.

They're incapable of this.

A woman can't say no to a YouTuber.

Do you know how many followers I have?

How could a woman ever say no to me?

I have lots and lots of people who watch me on their phone.

Okay, yeah.

This is a weird thing to say.

And progressives do this all the time.

It reminds me of the progressive argument on voter ID.

where they say, you know, look, we have to protect black people.

They can't get driver's licenses.

How could we possibly say, how could a black person ever get a driver's license?

And it's like, that is incredibly racist and racist.

Right?

The same thing here.

Look,

the argument essentially being made by this power structure thing that they keep bringing up is if someone is, if a man is famous, a woman can't say no.

We have to protect the woman.

She can't make a decision for herself.

She can't just tell the guy, hey, back off, stop.

Right.

Right.

Now, if she says stop and you cross the line anyway, you've just committed a crime.

Right.

Like, so we have plenty of systems set up to deal with that type of behavior.

This behavior is, and what I saw from the accusers statements seem to be consistent with this in that, like, none of them said they said no.

They were just like, well, I was uncomfortable.

And, you know, he was, he was persistent.

And I, you know, so I didn't, you know, and so, and then the power structure, it's like, look, my gosh, you know, look, it's difficult.

So none of them do claim to have said no?

I think some of them say that, but some of them don't.

Do we know?

I know there's several.

I don't know what the total number is.

As these things tend to go,

you get the first accuser, and then all of a sudden you get a bunch of other accusers, and you don't know where the line is from people who are making statements that are real about a real event or aren't.

You know, again, it sort of spirals out of control eventually here.

But it's important to understand that you got to say, like, all right, like, I'm not a rapist.

I'll rule out the worst accusations here, but I want to understand how they feel.

All right, let's go on to step five.

I think for a long time, I was behaving in a way that I actually thought was normal.

I thought that, you know, going home from the bar alone made you a loser.

I thought that persistence was a form of flattery.

And I thought that, you know, if at first somebody was reluctant, you know, they're playing hard to get, just try harder.

And if you think someone's feeling you, you know, make a physical advance and see if they go with it.

So this is step five here, Pat.

Make your transparency as vague as possible.

Now, you're being transparent, but you need to be vague about that transparency.

You can't actually say what happened.

You kind of just give these like random scenarios.

And like, you know, I love that.

I don't know.

It was being persistent.

Well, what does that mean?

Like, go back to Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life.

He's walking out.

He's in his football uniform.

He's walking with the girl, right?

That's persistent, right?

Yeah.

I guess you could also describe Jeffrey Dahmer as persistent.

Where in that spectrum are you?

Like, which one of those, I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer was really persistent.

That sort of persistence is a real problem.

The Jimmy Stewart kind, maybe not quite as bad.

So where and that, we don't know.

We are on step five.

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Okay, we're doing the eight steps on the perfect woke apology.

Step one, remember the word transparency tests well.

Step two, compliment the bravery of the people accusing you of sexual assault.

Step three,

cultivate sympathy.

Step four.

Are they brave if you're not guilty of anything?

That's a great question.

Step four, rule out the worst, but show understanding.

Okay.

Step five, make your transparency as vague as possible.

All right, we're up to step six, and here's Andrew Callahan, the YouTuber, demonstrating it for us.

I think that, especially I realize when so many young people, especially young men, rushed to defend me when this stuff first started coming out, that this type of sex pest behavior is normalized.

And a lot of people think this stuff is normal when I don't think that it is.

And I think that I want to be fully responsible for not having a fluid understanding of consent in what he gets to what consent looks like.

A fluid understanding of consent.

What a great freaking phrase that is.

Oh, God.

This is crazy.

This is, I think this is the most despicable step in here.

This is step six.

Redirect anger to your own supporters.

Right.

Right.

Like what he does here is he says, I have a bunch, my entire career was built on young males watching YouTube.

And those people, when they heard these accusations, came out and defended me.

Now, is that justified?

Maybe not.

But like to vilify your own supporters, to redirect the anger from everyone else to say, you know who the real problem are?

The people who watch my YouTube videos and they were out there defending me.

And that's the real problem, isn't it?

In America?

Please look at them over there.

All the people that built my career and made me all this money.

They're the problem, not me.

I hate that part of this.

Yeah.

And it's like, again, maybe they're misled.

Maybe they shouldn't be defending you.

But like they're trying to be on your side when they think you've been wrongly accused.

And now you're vilifying them in your apology.

Incredible.

I hate that.

All right, step seven.

That being said, a lot of the things that have been said online about me

are not true.

A lot of things are missing really important contextual information that I think would change people's interpretation of a lot of these situations, but I'm not here to invalidate anybody's lived experience.

Anybody's lived experience.

That's just what it is.

So this is step seven.

Keep your denials vague and use the term lived experience because you got to do that in any woke apology.

And I'm sorry.

Like, first of all, he's like, a lot of the stuff's being said about me isn't true.

Well, he doesn't say what that is.

So you just assume whatever you want.

But secondarily, like, I'm sorry.

If you did these things, then you've committed crimes.

If you didn't do these things, then their lived experience does not matter.

Their lived experience is a lie, right?

If they think something happened that didn't happen

then you you should denounce their lived experience because they're lying about their lived experience or their lived experience is actually what happened and in which case you should be in jail right i just this lived experience thing i'm sorry event events occur or they don't occur everyone doesn't have their own truth you don't have their own lived experience thank you there's just truth and there's just an actual experience of what occurred up my truth and your truth no

that's not not how this works.

Weird.

All right.

The final step here, of course, and this one's a classic, Pat.

This one goes back many, many years, but it fits perfectly in the woke apology.

Step eight in the perfect woke apology video.

I'm 25 years old and I have my whole life ahead of me, but I really think that I need to do some serious work on myself and figure myself out.

So I'm going to start therapy sessions pretty much immediately.

Oh, wow.

Also, not to blame alcohol, but I truly believe that alcohol was a contributing factor to my poor decision-making.

And I think that alcohol in general has had a devastating impact on my life.

Usually

I think I'm going to

make the decision to join the 12-step program for Alcoholics Anonymous.

You think you are.

And during this journey into sobriety, I want to take a serious step back from public life.

And like I said, figure myself out.

There you go.

Step eight, of course, announce rehab and then wait it out.

Because eventually.

Rehab and therapy.

Yep.

Rehab therapy.

Wait it out.

Eventually hope that people forget enough to let you have your job back.

Yep.

Now, the thing about this I think that is crucial, and I, you know, again, this is an incredibly well-executed woke hostage video, right?

Yeah.

And I'd like to believe, right, that maybe this is sincere.

Maybe this guy's having an awakening after all this.

I hope it's true.

But like the one thing you need to understand about these types of approaches, no matter how many times you say lived experience and transparency, it doesn't work because the woke mob just

care about you.

They don't care about whether you're apologizing, they care about your scalp.

So they will come and come and come and take everything from you.

They don't care about whether you're making your life a little bit better.

That's for sure.

Yep.

They're not interested in whether you're getting therapy or not.

No, they don't care.

Nope.

It's not what it's about.

It's about don't want you to make a living anymore.

Yep.

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I guess he

doesn't really say what he did.

And I don't know if the girls have absolutely have declared what exactly he did.

What I saw kind of fit the spectrum here, Pat, where you had some people saying basically they he hit on them when he didn't, you know, they didn't want him to hit on them.

But did they tell him, hey, I don't want you to hit on me?

Or did he start hitting on him?

And then if they didn't respond, he, what, tried again?

And so that was awful.

Well, he said he was being persistent.

Yeah, you can't be persistent.

Persistence is a crime.

What is okay?

Yeah.

In 2023, if you have interest in a member of the opposite sex, or I guess for that matter,

same sex.

There you go.

Thank you, Pat.

Yeah, you're welcome.

I want to be just as woke as everybody else.

Good.

You know, because that always works.

If you have any interest in somebody, you know, romantically,

what can you do now?

Do you ever stop and think, Pat, thank God I don't have to deal with this call

all the time.

Thank God, I don't have to deal with trying to date

in this world.

Yeah.

Seriously.

Because what can you do?

Do you have to?

What do you do?

You got to get permission in writing

about everything, touching her hand.

If you want to hold her hand, is that an assault if you touch her hand?

I don't know.

I don't even.

I don't know.

I mean, it's funny because there is a dance that goes on between men and women.

And I'll speak from that perspective since that's what I'm familiar with.

But it's like, you know, like my, my first kiss with my wife, I did not ask her to sign in triplicate on carbon paper that I, that I had the permission to kiss her.

You didn't?

You know, what do you do, Pat, in these moments?

You sort of of lean in.

Yeah.

And then if she leans in, she kind of leans in.

Seems like it's okay.

And then you're like, I think she's okay with us.

And then maybe your lips touch.

And then maybe you say, you don't say, madam, might my lips join with yours?

That would ruin the moment.

That's not what happens.

Right.

And it's like, you know, and alternatively, you sort of lean in.

She sort of turns her head the other way and you're like, oh, I'm an idiot.

And then you give up, right?

Like, that's how that dance works.

Exactly.

in my case with my first kiss with my wife uh

she jumped me on the landing of her of her uh of her house of parents house and we were we walked up the stairs we're on the landing i'm saying goodbye to her and she just assaulted me at that point yeah did you charge her did she threw her arms around me and kissed me oh my gosh and i was so taken aback and the power dynamic i mean she owns a cookie company she owns a cookie company or would

eventually eventually and I don't own a cookie.

Well, I do.

Eventually.

But eventually.

So, I don't know.

Can you do, can you?

Can you do that?

Can you be spontaneous like that?

I mean, she was trying to just, you know, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

And she was just trying to eliminate the tension.

Yes.

And did.

Thank God.

And I think that's great.

But, I mean, you could be in jail for that today.

Yeah, and you know, I think the problem here, one of the big issues with this is

there has to be, you don't want to take away the magic of one of those moments, right?

You want to be able to have them, but you can't do that if you're like, madam, can I do X, Y?

It's like, that's just, I can't imagine.

I can't imagine it.

Is it okay if I touch your hand?

Right.

And by the way,

colleges, universities are telling their students precisely this.

You must ask for every single step of consent.

And if they say that you've done something problematic,

in many cases, you will be

held to a trial, not a legal trial, but a trial on the campus, which you cannot be involved in to defend yourself.

So you don't even know what the accusations are in many cases.

People are getting thrown out of school, their lives are being ruined over this.

And look, it's important, obviously, to stop anyone who does cross these lines.

And I think most people have a good feel for where these lines are.

Maybe some don't.

But, like, the reason, the way you solve that part of this

is by the word no.

Yes.

That's how you solve it.

Thank you.

If someone, like, it's hard to read another person's mind.

Yeah.

I think most people do it pretty well.

Maybe you don't know they're uncomfortable when they're uncomfortable.

Maybe you don't, right?

And the way that's solved is by the person telling you no.

You know what?

I'm really uncomfortable.

Yep.

And if you

if you advance past that point, then you start committing crime.

Then it's a problem.

Right.

If you do not, like, and it's like, I don't know how anyone anyone in this world can navigate this territory because we are now at a point not where, okay, someone tells you no, and you keep going, and you should be, you, you're, you're, that is really a problem.

And everyone knows that's a problem and it shouldn't be allowed.

On the other side, like, we're now at a point where, you know, someone tries something, the person does not express

any level

of being uncomfortable, of saying no, of anything.

And the other person is supposed to read their mind and understand, apparently, that they're not supposed to do X, Y, and Z.

And, you know, and also it's all retroactive.

Many of these people, in this case, and in others, say things like, you know, I got home and we did this thing.

And then, you know, a couple days later, I was talking about it with my friend and I realized how uncomfortable I felt.

I was like, well, wait a minute.

That's too late now.

That's too late.

Like, you're too late.

You need to express it at the time.

Yes.

We've all had bad situations, you know, bad situations where like afterward, you're like, oh, I kind of wish I didn't regret it.

Gosh, that wasn't so great.

That is very common in the human experience.

In fact, you know, it's, it's probably shown in every, you know, beer commercial you see during sporting events, right?

Like we all understand that, you know, in college, maybe you drink too much.

Maybe you do something you're not supposed to do.

You don't feel proud of later.

Maybe you feel like, you know, you would have rather had a better experience with a more attractive mate.

And you're, gosh, you know, beer goggles is a thing we all know because it's a thing, right?

You don't get to later on say, you know,

that person took advantage of me because I had my beer goggles on, right?

Like that.

It's unfair to hold people to mind reading.

Crescent was impressive on television because he was supposedly has, you know, these extra powers.

That was what we were all like, oh, wow, the guy can

look, read envelopes and give funny answers to them.

You know, this is the type of thing that is supposed to be the reason we have communication.

You're supposed to communicate these things.

And look, I can understand like, you know, they talk about this power structure thing all the time.

You know, they did this with one of the big, it was one of the big accusations with Louis C.K.

You know, I know part of it with Matt Lauer.

What kind of power did Louis C.K.

what was his position of power?

Yeah.

He's a comedian.

Yeah.

That's what he is.

He was famous.

Okay.

So he's powerful because he's famous.

You can't say no to a famous person.

He really could.

He could.

People do.

And especially since what he did happened on the phone some of the time.

Some of the time, yes, on the phone.

On the phone.

Hang up the phone.

Yeah.

Well, it's this portrayal as women as mindless groupies.

Right?

They can't go up to a guy like Andrew Callan

because he's got a bunch of YouTube followers.

They can't possibly say no.

They're mindless creatures who just who are groupies and just go and find the famous person.

And when they find him, if that person says they want to have sex with them, well, they got to do it, gosh darn it.

It's like, that's just a sickening portrayal of women.

It is.

It is.

What are you saying about them?

And you know where the power structure doesn't come into play?

With Tara Reid and a U.S.

senator named Joe Biden.

Nobody said anything about power structure there.

Nope.

In fact, they just ignored the whole accusation, despite Hillary Clinton saying women have to be believed.

I mean, nobody believed her.

Nobody paid any attention to her.

Speaking of Clinton,

Bill Clinton, same thing.

Yeah.

No one cared about that.

No one believed anything about that.

There's women who have accused him of rape, actual rape.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

And are completely ignored.

So, like, there is a bizarre double standard where if you take the pill that gives you the D after your name, you are cured of all of these ills.

That's a real problem in our society.

But, you know, it's also a real problem just to put women in the position where they're these helpless.

I don't know.

I mean, we

know a lot of women.

I don't know anyone who would be like this.

Now, there's a line here when you're talking about

an employer saying, basically,

you'll have sex with me or you'll lose this job.

And that line

is a crime.

Okay.

Quite clearly a crime.

But going even beyond that for a second here, Pat, I hope I teach my daughter well enough to be able to look at a situation like that and value herself over the job.

This does not in any way justify what a terrible person, a man

in a power position of power, threatening employment.

That would be no way of justifying that that is a crime and that person should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

But I would hope my my daughter would say, hey, screw you.

I don't care.

I'm more important than this gig.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah, there's other gigs out there.

Yeah, we act as if women are these people who are just completely incapable of expressing their own agency.

And that's not true.

It's the opposite of feminism.

It's the opposite of female empowerment.

You're taking all their power away and acting as if they're mindless robots that act on command of all men who make more money than them.

What a despicable, despicable portrayal of women.

Yeah, really disgustingly insulting to women.

And the progressive left does it all the time.

All the time.

This is what they say.

They say, well, gosh, well, women, you know, they're in these roles where they just can't say no.

Well, they can always say no.

They should always say no, with the exception, of course, of someone trying to overpower them physically, which again is quite clearly a crime.

Yeah.

You know, that has to be expressed and should be expressed.

And we should be encouraging women to express it.

We should not be encouraging women to say, like, oh, well, they can't say anything.

Maybe afterward I can decide I was uncomfortable and we can go back and all, you know,

go after these men later on.

What good does that do?

Other than make people on Twitter feel good, what does that do?

Like the events already occurred.

It's very much preferable, too, if you don't wait 40 years to say something about it.

To me, yeah,

maybe it's going way out on a limb, but I'm going to say, you know, speak up before it's been 40 years later.

Just a good safety tip.

Give it a try.

Well, that was like the Bill Cosby situation where a lot of this happened.

And it was like Norm McDonald said about that.

He said, someone said, you know, the biggest problem with the Bill Cosby thing was the hypocrisy.

And he said, you know, I disagree.

I think it's the rape.

Yeah.

You know, and I kind of agree on that.

Yeah.

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By the way, you know, we're speaking of power dynamics and protecting women and how they can be better protected.

Instead, you know what?

Our society is going the other direction with a lot of these things.

Like this California teenage girl, she's 17 years old.

She said during a city council meeting that she was terrified at the sight of a naked man in the women's locker room as she's trying to shower at a YMCA.

Okay, so she was shocked.

She went to the front desk after getting dressed and said, hey, there's a naked man in the women's shower.

Yeah, he identifies as women, you know, as a woman.

So.

Wait, okay, so that's okay?

You don't have a problem that he's in the women's locker room?

We're just not protecting women.

They don't care how women feel about it.

Nope.

If the biological man identifies as a woman, he can go in there anytime he wants.

And there's no process of asking, right?

No, there's no process of looking into whether he's for real on the identifying thing, or is he just a pervert?

Because there's not even a, yeah, they don't even try to decipher it.

Like when he comes in, he doesn't say, Hey, by the way, I identify as a woman, I'm going to go in there just so you guys know.

I know it's a little bit of an odd situation.

Like, that doesn't happen.

No, just walks right in.

Yes.

That's perfect.

We got to stop that, too.

I mean, that's that's just crazy.

Uh, all right, maybe back tomorrow, or or, or Glenn, maybe.

We'll, uh, we'll have to see, But in the meantime, have a great day.