Remembering Dolly Parton + LA's Clinics for WHAT?

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She was obviously a massive, huge country music star, but she eclipsed just being a country music star. 00:01:44 Speaker 3: She was an actress. She was a songwriter. 00:01:47 Speaker 5: By the way, she wrote the I Will Always Love You, which people remember as Whitney Houston's song, but she wrote it, performed it first. Elvis Presley tried to buy the rights from her. 00:01:57 Speaker 3: I found that out. 00:01:57 Speaker 7: I didn't know that. 00:01:58 Speaker 5: And she wouldn't give up the copyright, half the copyright. And so Whitney Houston ended up doing it for The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner. It became the number one all-time best-selling song of any female artist at the time. So she was very smart, a very savvy businesswoman. It's interesting because there's emerging debates about the legacy of Dolly Parton. And the gay community wants to claim her. The communists want to claim her because she did that 9 to 5, what a way to make a living. And it's enough to make you crazy if you let it. Kind of an early critique on cubicle culture and women working their way up middle management. But she was always gracious. She was always diplomatic. She was a tremendous, tremendous philanthropist. She ends up dying with a net worth of over $ 650 million. And over her lifetime, she gave away over a half a billion dollars. And she still was worth $ 650 million. 00:02:54 Speaker 6: And she gave to stuff, I think. 00:02:57 Speaker 6: She gave away literally, I think, over 100 million books to children. 300 million books. 00:03:02 Speaker 3: 300 million, okay. 00:03:03 Speaker 6: Yeah, her Imagination Library, I think. Which, if you have a baby, you can sign up for that. They will mail you a free book, so I just want to throw that out there. And we were having this, it was discussed a lot yesterday, and it's a slightly ominous question. Is Dolly Parton the last American who has a more or less universally positive... remembrance upon her passing. 00:03:26 Speaker 5: It's interesting so let me i want to have that discussion send us emails what do you think yeah because is she the last universally loved american icon it's a question because what she did in her life very few instances that you could count against her where she got a little bit into the political weeds but then she quickly maintained her independence but she really did rise above the fray she was born in 1946 in appalachia east tennessee The Smoky Mountain area. 00:03:55 Speaker 6: Fourth of 12 kids? 00:03:56 Speaker 5: Yeah, the fourth of 12 kids. She was raised in a one or two room, depending on the report, cabin. It might have changed from one to two room. Maybe they put up a wall and had even less space. Without electricity. It didn't have electricity. And unlike so many other entertainers or actors, people who become big stars, she never turned on her roots. She never said bad things about where she came from. As a matter of fact, she lifted up the fact that, yeah, they were poor, but they had class. 00:04:22 Speaker 3: And they were. 00:04:23 Speaker 5: proud of who they were. They were proud Americans. She was never... The communists can't claim her. That's not true. She was a big-time businesswoman. She opened Dollywood in 1986. It's got all kinds of roller coasters. She did that to generate income for her home area of East Tennessee, and it remains a very popular attraction to this day. 00:04:45 Speaker 3: And she was. 00:04:46 Speaker 5: I have to say, looking back over her catalog, because of our age, I kind of always. 00:04:53 Speaker 3: think of the. 00:04:54 Speaker 5: Older Dolly when she, you know, got into 50s, 60s, 70s. Now she died at 80. But looking back at some of her clips, she was a really just beautiful woman and she was very charming. And I think her legacy will be that there's the kind of, yeah, the beautiful, adorable images of her. And she was very, I think, confident in who she was. And I, One of the clips that has emerged is something I've never seen before, but it was this interview she did with Barbara Walters. And Barbara Walters really kind of was pretty aggressive in her questioning. And the way that Dolly Parton took the answers and answered these really pointed questions is very telling about who she is and why she is one of the most beloved American icons. 00:05:37 Speaker 7: But do you ever feel that you're a joke, that people make fun of you? Oh, I know they make fun of me. But actually, all these years, the people have thought the joke was on me, but it's actually been on the public. I know exactly what I'm doing, and I can change it at any time. I make more jokes about myself than anybody. Because I enjoy it. I know, like I say, I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. And to me, and I'm sure of my love and passion. for life and that sort of thing I'm very content I like the kind of person that I am so I can afford to piddle around and do diddle around with makeups and clothes and stuff because I am secure with myself I think. 00:06:19 Speaker 6: You could land a helicopter on that wig I just think this is a great piece of tape so I'm going to play another sound bite from it Sat. 00:06:27 Speaker 7: 10 you don't have to look like this you're very beautiful you don't have to wear the blonde wigs you don't have to wear the extreme clothes right No, it's certainly a choice. I don't like to be like everybody else. I've often made the statement that I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. That's the easiest thing in the world to do. So I just decided that I would do something that would at least get the attention. Once they got past the shock of the ridiculous way I looked and all that, then they would see there was something. parts of me to be appreciated. I'm very real where it counts, and that's inside, and as far as my outlook on life and the way I care about people and the way I care about myself and the things that I care about. But I just chose to do this, and show business is a money-making joke, and I just always like telling jokes. 00:07:17 Speaker 3: She's very. 00:07:18 Speaker 6: Very likable. 00:07:18 Speaker 3: Very poised. 00:07:20 Speaker 5: And you should watch that whole interview. You can find it on X, I'm sure. She really comes after her, and Dolly just Cool as a cucumber. Now, let's just address the LGBT thing because she is kind of known as a gay icon. 00:07:34 Speaker 6: She has a Wikipedia article about it. 00:07:36 Speaker 5: That is always going to happen when you're a big, loud person. 00:07:40 Speaker 6: You want to know the truth of it. Part of it is because her really over-the-top look, giant hair, giant other stuff. It's drag-esque. It's like a drag show. 00:07:50 Speaker 5: She's quoted as saying if she was born a man, she would have been a drag queen. 00:07:54 Speaker 3: But she did it as a joke. 00:07:57 Speaker 5: She said this long before there was controversy about this topic specifically. So the point is, they foisted that label upon her. She never embraced it. She just said, I'm not going to judge anybody. And I think that was basically her mode. She wasn't going to be controversial. She wasn't going to wade into that. She was the Michael Jordan, Republicans buy sneakers too. She had that outlook on her business, on her entertainment. And candidly, it's refreshing. If all of our entertainers and actors and actresses and singer-songwriters, if they just took that approach and said, hey, listen, Republicans buy our records too. I'm not going to alienate our audience. The world would be a better place. So you can judge that maybe and say she should have taken a harder line. I certainly take a harder line, but. 00:08:35 Speaker 3: That's my role. 00:08:36 Speaker 5: My role and Blake's role is to be a little bit more aggressive and a little bit more confrontational. Her role was to entertain. And as a result, she became a beloved American icon and a true original Blake, a true American original. And there's tapes from her in Ireland being beloved dollar that the, I think the Royal band, uh, yeah, they did a whole thing for her. So God bless Dolly Parton. I, I really have grown in my appreciation and admiration for her life, her legacy, how she did. We went about our business really. and her philanthropic endeavors that really focused on Appalachian, her home. 00:09:16 Speaker 3: There's a lot to appreciate. 00:09:17 Speaker 5: About Dolly Parton, and she will be greatly missed. And the question, and we'd love to get your answer to it, do you think that she is the last of her breed? Is she the last of the universally beloved American icons in this country? And if not, who could be that person? 00:09:34 Speaker 9: Who is? 00:09:35 Speaker 6: A good take on if we have any more American icons. Dick Van Dyke is still going. 00:09:41 Speaker 3: That is. 00:09:42 Speaker 6: He might have gotten too old. 00:09:44 Speaker 3: Isn't he like 100 or something? 00:09:45 Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he's like 103. I think he can still give surprisingly good interviews, or I saw one from a couple years ago at least. 00:09:50 Speaker 3: Good genes, right? 00:09:51 Speaker 6: He's good genes. He might reach the point where he's so old that he stops being an icon because all the people. 00:09:56 Speaker 3: Who remember him are dead. Yeah, well, I mean. 00:09:58 Speaker 6: But Mary Poppins. 00:09:59 Speaker 3: Is great. 00:10:00 Speaker 5: Mary Poppins is still very popular. Without further ado, we have a guest. It's his first time on the show, Thomas Corbett Dillon. He's a political commentator, former advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. And now he's a viral internet sensation. Thomas, welcome to the show. It's good to have you. And congratulations on your viral moment. It was truly one of the more satisfying pieces of tape I've seen in recent years. 00:10:26 Speaker 6: Well, we should probably show it for people. So this was on GB News, correct? 00:10:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, GB News. Now, are you a host on GB News? 00:10:33 Speaker 8: No, just a commentator. 00:10:35 Speaker 5: Just a commentator. So they invited you on to have this kind of conversation today. And the woman across from you was a former Obama advisor. So God bless you for taking on this, this task or why don't you just give us the, why don't you preface what, what happened here and then we'll play the clip. 00:10:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. 00:10:52 Speaker 10: I mean, so we're obviously discussing this Lindsay Clancy story. 00:10:56 Speaker 8: Um, and I really was sort of unexpected. 00:10:58 Speaker 10: I didn't quite understand that she was going to be on the side of the killer. 00:11:02 Speaker 8: This to me was like mind blowing. 00:11:04 Speaker 10: I was like, wait, am I really going to have to debate whether this woman is evil or not? 00:11:08 Speaker 8: Like this is insane. 00:11:08 Speaker 10: So, I thought, well, I tapped into my sort of 2016 memories, you know, Milo era. 00:11:15 Speaker 8: Let's do an SJW. Gotcha. So we went for it. We did it like the old days. 00:11:20 Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. It was so good. 00:11:23 Speaker 5: So let's just go ahead and play a portion of this clip. And, man, I saw this everywhere, just to be clear. So SOT8, enjoy. 00:11:30 Speaker 8: Enjoy. They should be commended because they did. I've had it with you. 00:11:35 Speaker 9: Oh my God. 00:11:35 Speaker 8: They should be commended. They didn't kill their children. She's a murderer. I can't. 00:11:41 Speaker 10: They say that Lindsay was in psychosis. I think these women are suffering some from psychosis. They've been watching too many true crime Netflix dramas. This is a murderer who strangled her children one by one. 00:11:53 Speaker 11: What you just said was absolutely disgusting. 00:11:55 Speaker 12: Thank you. 00:11:56 Speaker 8: You should be ashamed of yourself. Thank you. 00:11:57 Speaker 11: And you can hear that he's not. You clearly don't care, so pipe down. I know many women that this has happened to. No, they did not kill their children, but they also, what you failed to mention. 00:12:09 Speaker 8: Be quiet, please. I've had it with you. 00:12:11 Speaker 10: And your sexism and misogyny. 00:12:15 Speaker 9: She's a murderer. 00:12:21 Speaker 6: You're a braver man than I am. 00:12:24 Speaker 5: Every man watching that, and a lot of women, and we have great women in our audience, I will tell you. We have sane women. But we were just all feeling for you in that moment. And the way you stood your ground was amazing. And she tried to she threw out the you're a misogynist. You're a sexist. And you just you just laughed it off. It was so brilliant. 00:12:44 Speaker 3: Well done. 00:12:45 Speaker 5: I did talk to you on the phone briefly yesterday. You said that wasn't the end of the story. What happened when the when the cameras stopped rolling? 00:12:53 Speaker 10: Well, she like carried on. She like wanted to go on and she was like, you don't really believe this. You're just doing it for the cameras. And I'm like, no, I believe that she's evil and she killed her children. Like, is that so remarkable to be like this? I'm not the one with the crazy opinion. Like, you know, so I, it just, I'm like, come on, the cameras are off. Like we can, you know, at least it's TV, right? You know, but no, she was very, very serious. I would have let her go if she was like, whatever, I'm trying to get a TikTok click and I'm doing this. 00:13:17 Speaker 8: I'd say fine. She's playing the game. No, she believes this stuff. It's crazy. 00:13:21 Speaker 9: Yeah. 00:13:22 Speaker 6: Have you, I guess, if you're marinating this, are you getting emails from people? Are people reaching out to you? How pervasive does this seem to be? Is it hopping across the pond to Britain in a big way? 00:13:34 Speaker 8: Not so much. The Brits are pretty. 00:13:37 Speaker 10: they're kind of all a bit confused as to why this is supposed to be a sort of liberal American women issue that they're defending this woman, I think, which is good. Shows it hasn't spread too far yet. The psychosis is under control. 00:13:47 Speaker 8: It's contained. 00:13:48 Speaker 10: But, you know, it just, you know, I think a lot of people who have been reaching out have been mostly supportive. And it's just common sense. As you said, a lot of normal women are like, this is insane. Like none of us agree with this. So I think it's good that people are realizing that not all women think this. 00:14:04 Speaker 8: It just seems to be the crazy liberal ones. 00:14:06 Speaker 5: Well, this is really fascinating. Well, I have a couple supportive clips that we prepared in advance, but this is a woman. She's mocking Lindsay Clancy supporters with extreme accuracy. She's on our team here, so we support this gal, but it's not their team. 00:14:23 Speaker 7: Is this on? 00:14:41 Speaker 9: Look, it could be annoying. Did it get that? Oh, God, the filter is off. 00:15:06 Speaker 12: Yeah. 00:15:07 Speaker 3: I mean, good for her, right? I mean, that is. 00:15:09 Speaker 5: It's like, same Lindsay, as they're holding their children. I hope there has been a record amount of CPS calls in this country of deranged women that are using their toddlers as social media props because it's one of the sickest things I've ever seen, genuinely. 00:15:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy. 00:15:26 Speaker 10: And finally, the men have got some sort of ammunition. I think the courts have forever been against the men every time. It's like, actually, some of these women are insane. So instead of just immediately going that the men are evil... We've got to give the kids to the women. Some of these women are crazy. 00:15:40 Speaker 8: But yeah, that was hilarious. I love that trip because that's. 00:15:42 Speaker 10: Exactly what it is, right? They're filming themselves, editing it, putting filters on it. Yeah, some of these people, I don't know. It's crazy. I don't know what's going on with these people. They really seem to have, you know, particularly on this case, I do think, as I mentioned in the clip, I do think it's come down to a lot of these true crime documentaries that they love. Because if you think about how these shows work, there's always a twist. 00:16:06 Speaker 8: You get to the end of the show and it's like, ah, the husband did it or this happened. 00:16:09 Speaker 10: And it's like, so people are expecting that in every story they read these days. So they think that this case is going to have some moment where all of a sudden it was the husband or there was some other involvement in it. And that's not the case always. Sometimes it's just what we see. So I think it's a real problem. 00:16:28 Speaker 5: Looking for entertainment the whole family can actually agree on? Let me tell you about Ekkel. That's E-K-K-L dot com. 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Spencer Pratt made a similar observation talking about Hollywood. We've been supporting and rooting for Antiheroes for a while now, right? You think of Breaking Bad or Dexter, where these are homicidal maniacs that we end up rooting for in the midst of a television show over multiple seasons. There's also TikTok brain, there's therapy brain. When we talk about where this phenomenon is coming from, where do you lay the blame at the feet of? 00:18:05 Speaker 10: Well, I think it's tough because, you know, obviously that genre, particularly, I think one in this case is the true crime genre. 00:18:12 Speaker 8: I think that has a lot to answer for. 00:18:15 Speaker 10: But I understand because at the same time, they're making a television show. 00:18:18 Speaker 3: Right. 00:18:19 Speaker 10: So, of course, they edit it and produce it in a way that encourages. 00:18:23 Speaker 8: People to look for clues and clues. 00:18:25 Speaker 10: In episode two, there's a moment that you only discover in episode 10 was important. 00:18:29 Speaker 8: You know, it's how they set up the show. And that's what makes it good. We enjoy that. But then applying that into real. 00:18:34 Speaker 10: Life, because, of course, the only cases they make these shows about are the rare ones that do have a twist and have got an interesting angle. There's millions of cases in this country that don't have any of those things, actually just boring, straightforward cases. Yeah, she did it. This woman, Lindsay, has admitted she killed her children. There is no twist. There's no husband did it. Someone said he pushed her out the window. These people have gone crazy on TikTok. So I do think that that is a problem. They've realized that you've got to understand there's TV and then there's real life. 00:19:05 Speaker 8: And people seem to have lost that difference. 00:19:09 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I do think it's interesting, too, when you think about the way the algorithmic capture happens, right? When you get siloed in a certain algorithm feed, whether that's TikTok or Instagram or YouTube, And they tend to reward the most crazy, over-the-top takes or suspicion, speculation. 00:19:29 Speaker 6: Because they reward chatter. And so they want stuff that will really fire people up and everyone replies to it. And they'll show the stuff that everyone's replying to. And then there are people who genuinely believe this. There's also, let's be frank, a lot of people who want attention and to be famous. And so they fixate on a thing because it rewards them with attention. 00:19:48 Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and. 00:19:50 Speaker 5: I've said this both on X and on this show, the Venn diagram overlap between some of the truthers when it comes to Charlie's case and Tyler Robinson and... the Lindsay Clancy truthers, is nearly one-to-one. It's probably almost a direct overlap. The same crew of people are being loud about the same thing, but it's worrisome because we're giving away facts, logic, reason, actually using our brains to critically think through a question or a case in this instance, and we're giving in to rabid speculation. We call it the evidence of the gaps fallacy. where any gap in knowledge is then filled in with some wild speculation, and then they make a TikTok about it, and that's what we get. I want to show this clip because we haven't shown it on the show yet, but it was going around yesterday. 00:20:43 Speaker 3: This is Dr. 00:20:44 Speaker 5: Hellebrun from the actual court case, and he's kind of this old school, no-nonsense kind of, I think he's a psychologist. Yeah, psychologist. And he basically is saying, his estimation, she's making up the hallucination where she heard the voice to kill her children. 00:21:00 Speaker 3: Sat 12. 00:21:01 Speaker 13: I found the account of hallucinations to be, as she described it, it would be very, very unusual to experience it that way. Never having, not before, not since, constantly for 18 minutes. However, if this was a thought, an unwelcome, intrusive thought, but still a thought, that's basically, this is your last chance, you have to kill the kids so you can kill yourself, then that would be consistent with thoughts that she'd been experiencing for some time. 00:21:39 Speaker 6: It's a very dark clip because what it evokes to me, there's a type of murder we are kind of familiar with, which is the husband and the father murder-suicide cases, where they kill their wife, they kill their kids, they kill themselves, some combination thereof. And that description he's making, it makes Lindsay Clancy kind of sound like that. If you dive into the psychology of those people, it's often their very self-centered and narcissistic, so they think, I need to kill myself for whatever reason, and they won't be able to go on without me. They'll suffer so much without me. I will spare them from this suffering by taking them with me. It's a hugely self-centered way of viewing the world, and I'm getting the vibe that that is how Lindsay Clancy was viewing the world, that she wanted to commit suicide, she was depressed, but, oh, my kids will be so sad without me, so I can take them with me. 00:22:28 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's somewhat speculating at that point. But this inversion of morality. 00:22:33 Speaker 8: I think I've heard that. 00:22:35 Speaker 10: But in those cases that you mentioned, let's remember what usually happens is the guy will take a shotgun and it's done in three seconds. 00:22:42 Speaker 3: Blast, blast, blast. 00:22:43 Speaker 8: The kids are gone. So sad, horrible. 00:22:45 Speaker 10: But she strangled. It takes four minutes to strangle someone one by one. The kids ran away. He was hiding. 00:22:54 Speaker 8: She had to go. It's a brutal case. 00:22:56 Speaker 10: I don't believe in this idea that she had this moment of insanity and she just blasted the kids and shot herself. 00:23:03 Speaker 8: That is that is, as you said, that's the murder suicide. 00:23:06 Speaker 3: It happens. 00:23:06 Speaker 8: It's a split second. 00:23:07 Speaker 10: It's done right. This is meditated. This is can you. It's horrible to even think about. But can you imagine doing that? how she could do this. 00:23:16 Speaker 8: And then that fine, she's admitted it. 00:23:18 Speaker 2: Fine. 00:23:18 Speaker 8: This should not even be a case we discussed. We should all say she's evil. Get rid of her. It's these women that are like, no, she, I can sympathize with her. I empathize. 00:23:26 Speaker 3: It's insane. 00:23:27 Speaker 8: I really don't understand this case. 00:23:29 Speaker 5: Why I think your clip was important, Thomas was actually because I do believe that sometimes these things can become contagions, right? And there's some reason to believe that online, that this has spread everywhere. in the way that a contagion would, right? That a lot of women, they've seen articles written that all these women are starting to kind of like understand where she's coming from and empathize with it, and they start resenting their children. And you worry, there's already been a couple instances of suspected copycat cases like this. This is why the moral lines have to be extraordinarily clear. Yeah, and this is from our TPSA Frontlines team that went out and filmed all of these Clancy supporters. in their pink shirts with the hearts, same Lindsay, same with their babies. And that's why I think the moral lines have to remain extraordinarily clear. 00:24:20 Speaker 8: If you know someone who's there, you need to be talking to them. You know, where are their brothers? Where are their dads? 00:24:25 Speaker 10: Where are these people that need to tell these women this is not OK? I don't care that you're having fun there and you've made friends there. You know, this is one of the problems with these TikTok people. They've been posting cooking videos or whatever and they get no views. And all of a sudden they say, oh, I kind of relate to this, Lindsay. And they get a million views. 00:24:41 Speaker 8: It's like, oh. 00:24:42 Speaker 10: This is how you get famous. This is how you make content. Look, all my friends are there. We have to shut this down. There cannot be. 00:24:49 Speaker 8: And that's what I did on the clip. 00:24:50 Speaker 10: As soon as she tried to imply that we had any empathy for this woman, absolutely not. 00:24:55 Speaker 8: We cannot give them a second on this because they run away with it. They get carried away. They love it. 00:24:59 Speaker 10: The women love this community that they feel like they're becoming a part of. 00:25:02 Speaker 8: And they know something that we don't know. The men are evil. We have to shut this down. 00:25:06 Speaker 10: So if you are recognizing people on there, you've got to be telling them, Get these girls under control. 00:25:11 Speaker 8: They've lost it. 00:25:12 Speaker 5: I completely agree. There's an interesting headline here from the Post Millennial 143. It says liberal baby bust. Leftists aren't having kids over mental health stress while conservatives keep forming families. And this is according to a new study. You know, Charlie used to kind of joke about this, that we're going to outbreed them and just give us 20 years. And when you start seeing stories like this and, you know, I think progressive women are self-identified as the most anxiety-riddled, depressed, anxious. 00:25:48 Speaker 3: Of any cohort out there. 00:25:49 Speaker 5: And so you sort of start seeing this affect and impact real-life statistics like family formation. And candidly, I'm sad that we're below fertility replacement levels from a fertility standpoint. But candidly, those people probably shouldn't be having kids, Thomas. 00:26:06 Speaker 6: We joke about that, but really, they should be happy. 00:26:09 Speaker 8: It's a growing problem. 00:26:10 Speaker 6: We need people to have kids. 00:26:12 Speaker 5: I understand, but if they are too stressed out, if they have mental health issues, and they're going to relate to somebody like Lindsay Clancy, then perhaps this is just self-selection out of the population. 00:26:24 Speaker 3: Thomas, final minute. 00:26:25 Speaker 10: It's true, but on the same time, you know, I've met guys at CPAC that, you know, have the most liberal mums in the world and they're like the most base throw your meat. 00:26:31 Speaker 8: So it's like, you know, you can see. 00:26:33 Speaker 10: Sometimes maybe these liberal women might have all these base sons. 00:26:35 Speaker 8: We never know. 00:26:37 Speaker 10: But yeah, and it's a growing problem. 00:26:39 Speaker 8: Look at the generation divide. 00:26:40 Speaker 10: Yes, we've got all these sort of cat ladies at the moment. 00:26:42 Speaker 8: They're in their 40s. 00:26:43 Speaker 10: But look at the majority of 40-year-old women are married and have children and they're having a good time. The younger generation, when these 20, 25-year-old girls start getting up there to that, This is a growing epidemic and I really don't know what is going to happen. They've been told their whole lives that their careers are going to replace their family and they're going to have fulfillment from that. 00:27:04 Speaker 8: It's not true. 00:27:05 Speaker 10: Women are absolutely amazing and the fact that they get to do this birth children thing is something, it's a gift, right? And they've been told their whole lives that, you know, actually, you don't need to do that. 00:27:15 Speaker 8: Forget about that. 00:27:16 Speaker 10: You know, it's not the right time or you're not mentally prepared or whatever. A million reasons they're told. None of it's true. 00:27:21 Speaker 8: Nothing will bring you the happiness that a child brings. 00:27:24 Speaker 12: Amen. 00:27:25 Speaker 3: Thomas, this is great. Congratulations on the viral clip. You earned it. You stood your ground. 00:27:30 Speaker 5: And I genuinely think you did a service for humanity because the moral inversion that we're seeing on social media must be countered by strong oftentimes male voices. 00:27:40 Speaker 3: Thomas, God bless you. 00:27:41 Speaker 8: Appreciate it. Thank you. Cheers. 00:27:46 Speaker 5: Our inbox exploded with emails about Dolly. 00:27:49 Speaker 6: And a lot about Lindsay Clancy, but we'll do the Dolly Parton. We're not going to be hitting Lindsay for the last time, I'm sure. Wally said, Dolly Parton purchased a Tennessee truck stop for the sole purpose of of preserving a piece of American country music history. I guess there might be some famous truck stop regard to that. 00:28:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool. 00:28:06 Speaker 6: I've seen country music tours pull in, and the whole crew went to eat, shop, etc. Foreigners are taking over the family-owned, independent-run truck stops all the time. She is one of the last true American celebrities to care about the USA. Susan says, Dolly was an amazing, gifted woman who used her fortune to help so many. I do hope the books she gives away are pro-Judeo-Christian values. 00:28:28 Speaker 7: I don't know. 00:28:28 Speaker 6: I haven't seen them. 00:28:30 Speaker 3: I think they are. 00:28:32 Speaker 6: She says, I lament the look she chose for decades to attract attention to her music. It had an influence on many women and continues today. Sad, but I do love her songwriting. Pamela says, as far as icons go, we still have Lee Greenwood and George Strait. 00:28:49 Speaker 3: George Strait. 00:28:51 Speaker 6: I don't know if he's quite famous enough. I don't have a mental image of George Strait. 00:28:54 Speaker 3: No, George Strait's massive. Massive. 00:28:58 Speaker 6: Lee Greenwood, I guess I'll be blunt, the fact he's associated with Trump we're grateful for, but it does mean he's not a unifying figure in the way that Dolly Parton was. Babette says, my favorite song by Dolly Parton is Light of a Clear Blue Morning. Please see if you can play it. It would be a great anthem for Republicans. I'm not familiar with it, so I'll have to check that out. Cindy says, was she the last of her kind? She never brought politics into her music career, and I think this made her iconic. Dolly will be missed. And lastly, someone says, Dolly Parton pushed the COVID vaccines and helped men manufacture them. I looked that up. She donated to Vanderbilt, which did work on it. It's nauseating how manufacturing conservatives are fawning over her. So we found at least one person who's not an admirer, but wanted to read that too. 00:29:46 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you got to also understand there was such a massive push to get the vaccine out. That if you're of an older generation, I think it was just kind of a moment where you go, yeah, I got to get together. 00:29:59 Speaker 3: And she wanted to do her part. 00:30:00 Speaker 6: The public health campaign, the same way someone, celebrities did AIDS stuff in the 80s. 00:30:05 Speaker 3: It didn't age well. 00:30:06 Speaker 5: But it's kind of, you know, it's understandable why she thought it was probably a safe thing to get involved in. 00:30:12 Speaker 6: Yeah, and just, you know, remind people, it's like President Trump promoted the vaccine. 00:30:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. 00:30:18 Speaker 5: All right, so we want to get into this because yesterday we covered Abdul El-Sayed quite a bit. This story is continuing on, and Hasan Piker has now piped up because that's what he does. He does little streams, and he says crazy things. He's got a lot of audience, so it's important to pay attention, but he says... that if he gets disavowed by El-Sayed, it's purely tactical. 00:30:42 Speaker 3: Stop four. 00:30:42 Speaker 14: There are going to be a lot of people who are already questioning Abdullah El-Sayed's sincerity on these issues that will then turn around and say, oh, he's moderating his position on Israel, all this stuff. 00:30:59 Speaker 3: I don't think he is. I will say this. 00:31:02 Speaker 14: I am literally the person that is being dangled And I'm going to tell you once again, he's not moderating on his perspective on Israel or anything like that. His reaction to this has always been very good, which is, look, I deal with people that I don't fully agree with and don't fully subscribe to on a daily basis. 00:31:20 Speaker 3: This is politics. 00:31:21 Speaker 6: Politics is about addition, not subtraction, right? 00:31:25 Speaker 3: It's smart. 00:31:26 Speaker 14: It's the right way to deal with it and then deflect back to the issues because they are the ones who are engaging in the deflection, okay? 00:31:35 Speaker 3: So did you catch that? 00:31:36 Speaker 5: He's not moderating on anything. He's a true believer on things like Israel, on probably reparations, Green New Deal, all that stuff, medical mutilation of minors. He's a real believer. And if he disavows, this will be tactical. 00:31:52 Speaker 6: It's funny because we were talking how people say he might want to run for president right away. He sees himself as an Obama-like guy. And I very much remember similar takes like that for Obama that people rushed up to say– Obama, this is even just people I talk to in the streets. They were very confident that anything Obama did that was like pivoting towards the center that was pandering to the masses like that. 00:32:14 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:32:15 Speaker 6: He's so, he's so rarefied and above everyone that he, you know, he sometimes has to deign to deceive people so that they cannot see his full refulgence and glory. 00:32:24 Speaker 3: But wow. 00:32:26 Speaker 6: Well, kind of an interesting pattern there and a worrisome one. 00:32:29 Speaker 15: Interesting. 00:32:31 Speaker 5: Instagram just suspended Thomas Corbett Dillon's account. 00:32:34 Speaker 3: Just so you're aware. 00:32:36 Speaker 5: That happened while we were on air with Thomas Corbett Dillon. He just let me know. That's not cool. Instagram, we're going to get to the bottom of that. Let's go ahead and play. This is NPR's Aisha Rasko basically saying that El Sayed needs to draw a bright line with Hasan Piker. 00:32:54 Speaker 6: Can he go on like this for 60 days without coming out more strongly on this, do you think? 00:32:58 Speaker 15: I think that this is going to be continually thrown in his face. I mean, When you're, I think as a candidate, right, you want your name to be front and center, not someone else's. Like, when you're constantly having to answer for someone else who is not in your campaign, that is not a good look for you. Like, you want to be front and center. So I do think that he's going to have to draw some sort of right line. And try to make to make it so that the story is not about someone who's not a part of this campaign. Right. Because he's the one that's on the ballot. So I think that this is a huge problem for him. 00:33:36 Speaker 3: It is a huge problem. 00:33:37 Speaker 6: I think it should be a big problem. It's almost you have to take a step back and remind ourselves what's going on here that he. really wanted and sought out the endorsement of this guy who is incredibly popular with the young left. 00:33:48 Speaker 3: Did lots of pictures. 00:33:49 Speaker 6: Insanely popular, such that it's difficult for him to distance himself. It's difficult for the party to distance themselves. We have the op-eds that say we shouldn't kick out Hasan Piker because he has too much of this influence to have. And then we have to remind ourselves, this is a guy who said we deserve 9-11. Okay, well, you can, you can, it almost sounds rote when you recite it that way. It's a guy who says that America deserved For a bunch of foreigners to come into America, take flying lessons, board planes with hundreds of civilians on them, stab the pilots to death with box cutters, take those planes, fly them into an office building, kill thousands of people. That America deserved that. Ultimately, that it was basically a good thing that it happened. And because he defends things like the 10-7 attacks, that Hasan Piker, deep down, is a person who is happy when that sort of thing happens to America. He defends 9-11 because he wants 9-11 to happen to you. 00:34:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right. 00:34:41 Speaker 5: And he'll sing a stupid song about it on stage afterwards. He embraces all sorts of crazy, violent rhetoric. He wants capitalist blood in the street. Rick Scott to be killed. He mocks Charlie's death. 00:34:53 Speaker 3: And on and on and on it goes. He talks about the. 00:34:56 Speaker 5: Fact that we should, I guess, impoverish the white middle class in this country. He's very open to that. So he's a bigot. He's an anti-white racist. And he's a silver spoon foreign boy. He was born, yeah, in the United States, but raised in Turkey. So this guy is not American in any way, shape, or form. 00:35:15 Speaker 3: Not really. 00:35:17 Speaker 5: And he has linked himself with the most radical political candidates in this country. And, yeah, the story is going to continue to be about you, Hasan Piker, because you are a rabid dog. And you are– by the way, you treat your dog well. Really, really mean, by the way. 00:35:33 Speaker 6: Of course. 00:35:33 Speaker 7: That's not nice. 00:35:33 Speaker 6: They always do. 00:35:35 Speaker 3: He shocks his dog. 00:35:36 Speaker 6: Commies have bad relationships. They treat things around them badly because they're rotten in their hearts. 00:35:42 Speaker 5: So, Assam Piker, you've created a political liability for your BFF. The circumcision is castration, El-Sayed. Enjoy the ride. 00:35:54 Speaker 3: Hi, folks. Andrew Colvett here. 00:35:56 Speaker 5: I'd like to tell you about my friends over at Y Refi. You've probably been hearing me talk about Y Refi for some time now. 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Welcome back to the show. 00:37:05 Speaker 3: Hope you're doing well. 00:37:06 Speaker 15: Yeah, thank you so much. 00:37:07 Speaker 4: Nice to see you. 00:37:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. 00:37:09 Speaker 5: We wanted to have you on because, well, you're great and you're fantastic. And if people aren't following your work, they need to be. But also because, so I'm always reminded of one of the first times we talked about ethnicity. And I said, well, what's your ethnicity, Libby? And what was your answer? 00:37:23 Speaker 7: I'm American. 00:37:25 Speaker 9: I'm American. 00:37:25 Speaker 7: Yes. 00:37:27 Speaker 5: This is a true-blooded American woman right here. And I love that answer because so many people will say, I'm German or I'm Irish or I'm Italian or whatever. Libby is American. And I love that because we are a people. We have a heritage. We have a history. We have a country. We're not an economy with some people attached. We are a collective people. 00:37:47 Speaker 3: And that is important. 00:37:48 Speaker 5: We have a shared history. So immigration is really near and dear to my heart. I know it is to yours as well, Libby. And there are a slew of new immigration pieces in the news that we have to cover because I want our audience to be educated about them. So one of those is that Marco Rubio, working in the background here, has just announced that they have paused all visa applications around the world. 00:38:14 Speaker 6: They have paused all these. 00:38:16 Speaker 5: I mean, I just, why not just, you know, Move that pause to an indefinite pause. 00:38:22 Speaker 3: But it is a pause. OK. 00:38:24 Speaker 7: Right. 00:38:25 Speaker 5: And it's connected to another story. It happened immediately after the largest revocation, the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. 00:38:35 Speaker 3: History. 00:38:37 Speaker 5: What is behind the mass revocation? Who are they targeting and why is it important? 00:38:42 Speaker 8: Yeah. 00:38:42 Speaker 16: So this mass revocation, about 200,000 visas have been revoked or they're on the verge of being revoked. And these are for people who came to the U.S. on tourist or business visas, then overstayed those visas and took the opportunity to apply for asylum in the United States, bypassing all of the regular asylum channels. You're supposed to go to the nearest safe country, you're supposed to apply at the border, all of these other things. But it seems like they're just trying to use their status to apply for asylum, even though, you know, they've overstayed their visa, and that's illegal. So their visas are gonzo. 00:39:18 Speaker 3: Gonzo. 00:39:19 Speaker 5: So there's so many pieces of this story. So Secretary Rubio is using this pause to revamp the way that consular offices and embassies are vetting these visa applicants to stop this abuse of the system in these fraudulent asylum claims, which is huge because a lot of people talk about the border and we should. That was a huge, huge issue under Biden. It was getting exploited in some really, really egregious ways. But visa overstays is a whole other piece of the pie. Now, the Cato Institute, we actually have a graph here. I believe it's, yeah, it's like, okay, so this is going to be, I don't know what number, it's not numbered, but the Trump administration has likely cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, according to Cato. 00:40:07 Speaker 3: That is massive. 00:40:09 Speaker 5: That is like news. That is like music to my ears. That's like Dolly Parton straight into the ocular nerves here. Okay, I'm telling you, so, This is a big story. Now we've got another story that H-1Bs, J.D. tweeted about this. The Wall Street Journal reported on this. It says the Trump administration is proposing a new six-figure fee for H-1B visas that would apply to most new applicants, not just those applying from abroad, replacing an earlier plan to charge $ 100, 000 for a visa that was struck down by the courts. So they're coming back at this. 00:40:40 Speaker 8: J.D. 00:40:41 Speaker 5: Vance says if an American corporation needs workers, it should hire and train Americans. 00:40:46 Speaker 3: Libby, your take. 00:40:47 Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm 100% with him on this. If you really need a foreign worker because that person is absolutely integral to your business, then you can afford to pay for them and go get them and give that fee. But I think that there are so many talented people in the United States. We have so many people. who need work, who want work. We've seen dropouts of the workforce by young men across the board. That's been a huge issue. I applaud Secretary Duffy and the Transportation Department of getting a bunch of gamers to go be air traffic controllers. This is absolutely a brilliant move to me, and I think that there should be more innovative ways to get our young men and women back into the workforce and to help them get these better jobs that they could achieve, like an air traffic controller, right, or any of these positions that the H-1B people are applying for. H-1Bs across the board also, like, there's specific amounts of money that you have to pay them. Typically, they are less than what an American would seek to negotiate, and I think we need to stop undercutting our workers more Even Cesar Chavez knew that illegal immigration undercut American workers and that it should not be happening. The Congressional Black Caucus members of that group knew for years that illegal immigration was hurting black American workers because they say black Americans are the last ones in and the first one out. And it's got to stop. We need these people. We need our Americans, the people who love this country, were born and raised here and are raising their kids here to be able to be the first ones in line to get these jobs. 00:42:16 Speaker 6: I just love the chance to talk about this because you and I, we all get so frustrated because it's very common to see these takes on X of they've never done anything. They don't do enough. 00:42:27 Speaker 3: And we still see this. 00:42:28 Speaker 6: It'll be we got record high number of ice arrests in July, like 40,000 or something a single month. And they go, it's only like one eighth what we actually need. You set a record. It's continuing to go up. You're cutting legal immigration. You're cutting off each of these flows in a million different ways. And it's infuriating to me that people don't accept the wins. What you should do is you should praise the wins to the heavens. It's like they don't understand how Donald Trump works, that Donald Trump likes to hear people praise and talk about how great he is and how great he's doing. And he will go to do more of what you say. 00:43:05 Speaker 3: Great job. 00:43:05 Speaker 6: Thank you for doing this, Mr. President. 00:43:07 Speaker 3: Instead, they pout. 00:43:08 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so enraging. 00:43:10 Speaker 5: Well, let's let's throw this one up. So this is, I think, a little bit dated now at this point. But H-1B, after he put the original hundred thousand dollar fee on it, cut H-1B visas by at least 25 percent. There was additional reporting from Cato that said that new H-1B issuances of those visas was down over 90 percent. 00:43:30 Speaker 3: Over 90%. That's a huge, huge win. 00:43:33 Speaker 5: And to Blake's point, all the doomers online that say Trump administration doesn't do anything and it's just the same and the left-right paradigm, bro, is dated. That's garbage. Do you think that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz would have done this? Absolutely not. Instead of seeing a reduction of overall H-1Bs down 25%, we would have seen it skyrocket by about 50%, okay? 00:43:52 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:43:53 Speaker 5: And I got into a debate with Chris Cuomo. Maybe we'll pull that clip for the next segment. Where I said, listen, Chris, if you get another president that's a Democrat president in office, the minute they're sworn in, that border is going to get swarmed. the minute that that president gets sworn in. 00:44:07 Speaker 6: And they tried to deny this. They tried to say, no, that was a specific Biden thing. But it's 100% the case that it will happen again, because look at the left's psychological state, their ideological state, like the way all of their candidates need to line up to, for example, just to make it related, to denounce Israel, because it's such a meme among their base, among the people who care the most. On immigration... The way it is is they cannot articulate a valid reason for someone to not be allowed into America or for someone to be deported from America. They can't conceptualize it. None of them are able to go on stage and say, criminals need to leave America. We have too many people here. We can't let in random people. So it's going to happen again. 00:44:49 Speaker 5: Well, the second you see a sob story or a crying mom on the border with their kids that shouldn't have come all that way, it was actual malfeasance on behalf of the parent. They are going to let them in. They're going to get in one way, shape or form of the other. They might try and limit the bad PR and the optics at the border with the caravans. 00:45:07 Speaker 3: And all that stuff. 00:45:08 Speaker 5: But they'll just come up with a CBP one app. And so they can apply and they'll fly them in here. And on your dime, mark my words, the Democrat Party lacks the sufficient backbone and spine to deal with immigration properly. The second the sob story comes through, they'll just all flood through. when you have open borders, which the Democrats are probably going to. 00:45:29 Speaker 12: No open borders. 00:45:30 Speaker 3: No open borders. 00:45:31 Speaker 12: And in fact, I bet you. 00:45:33 Speaker 3: You feel confident about that? If the Democrats. 00:45:35 Speaker 5: Say it's 2028 and AOC wins the presidency, do you think, or Ossoff or whoever, Mark Kelly, do you think that the border is going to remain shut? Or do you think there's going to be a massive wave of immigrants that go, oh, Democrat in power, we're flooding the border again? 00:45:52 Speaker 12: I do not believe that any serious Democrat running for major office is going to say we should have no borders and or that or that we should have floods of unvetted people. 00:46:06 Speaker 5: Have the the backbone when that when those sob stories, the crying migrant mothers with, you know, from Honduras are flooding the border and you got 150 other countries present at the border that they're going to have the backbone to say, sorry, you can't come in. 00:46:19 Speaker 3: Or do you think they're going to come in? They're going to come in, Chris. 00:46:22 Speaker 6: I think it's so important there that part that will they have the backbone? That's how it works. It wasn't that Biden came in and said, I believe in open borders. I'm going to give a speech. It's that his administration was filled with Democrats. 00:46:34 Speaker 3: Novel idea. 00:46:35 Speaker 6: And each of those individual Democrats, they lack the they lack the ideological wiring, the circuitry to say America is a country that is allowed to keep people out. 00:46:45 Speaker 3: They have no political will or. 00:46:47 Speaker 6: Base support for that the word the word got out that if you show up and you recite one of these i need asylum like one of the seven canned claims that they would let you in they would have a lawyer who would provide you free legal representation who will fight for years you'll get a hearing three or four or ten years out and if you blow it off nobody's going to hunt you down and deport you because they think ice is evil that is how the system works libby i want to show you this graphic 156 i have been credibly told that the trump administration is not doing anything that its voters asked for I've been credibly told that everything's terrible and things are terrible and nothing's getting done and it's just a uniparty and we need to unite and purity test, purity test. 156, look at that red arrow right there. It keeps shooting up. That is Trump 2.0 interior enforcement. It's none of this border turn away stuff. This is interior enforcement. These are arrests on the street. 00:47:42 Speaker 5: What do you make of a graph like that, Libby? 00:47:44 Speaker 16: Yeah, I think the Trump administration has been doing an awful lot with immigration enforcement, not just in terms of securing the border, which is pretty much a finished project right now, but also in terms of interior enforcement. And there's a few things to remember with this. Every time the Trump administration comes out and does what the American people want, the judiciary stands in the way and claims that the Trump administration is not allowed to do various different things. They've tried to stop Marco Rubio from prohibiting immigration from 75 countries, saying that it's up to the consulates to determine who gets a visa and who doesn't. And what's sort of amazing about that is that was last week, and now this week Rubio says you know what? No visas, no visa appointments at all. We're just going to put a pause on that. So I have a lot of respect for that. And the other thing you have to remember is that the Biden administration used so many legal and semi-legal means to get people into the country that each one of these has to be tackled on its own ground. That's temporary protected status, H-1B visas, the business visas, the visas overstays, the student visas, and all of the rest of it. So each one of those needs its own targeted approach. 00:48:50 Speaker 5: Well, you mentioned the judicial obstructionism, and we're seeing that right now with another Biden-appointed judge. I think her name is Jeanette Garcia, if I'm getting her name right. So Rubio goes and says, we're going to ban all visas from 75 different countries, including Somalia, Iran, places like this. 00:49:11 Speaker 3: 75 countries, which is great. 00:49:12 Speaker 5: I'm all for it, because I think Americans are sick of being invaded by the third world, whether it's illegally or legally. 00:49:18 Speaker 3: We're done with it, okay? 00:49:20 Speaker 5: There was another uh by the way i don't know if you saw this story another indian illegal truck driver who got a cdl from california who killed another american yesterday that's five sings five different sings that have all gotten their cdls either from new york or california And killed Americans on our roadways. 00:49:38 Speaker 3: But I think people are just sick of this crap. 00:49:41 Speaker 5: And so he goes to ban 75 countries from getting visas at all. Like you're just you can't get them. This district judge puts an injunction on it, says he can't do that. He he he it was an overreach of his statutory authority. Libby, you've been covering that story. Where where's that one going to go next? 00:49:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, these are. 00:49:57 Speaker 16: Going to go back and forth throughout the courts, and I think eventually some of these are going to land at the Supreme Court. That's what we just saw with the USPS EO about ballots, where the USPS said that they didn't have to deliver ballots in states that were not transparent with their voter registration and things like that. And now that judge has just re— what' s the word? 00:50:20 Speaker 15: Overturned. 00:50:21 Speaker 16: Her previous order and said that, you know, according to the Supreme Court, it can go forward. And so she's out on her tail about that one. But that's what's going to happen with each one of these. And I think that what this means is that we're relying an awful lot on the Supreme Court to implement what the American people, excuse me, want to have happen. And that's a big problem. The judges should get out of the way when it turns out that the American people want this. The law is on the side of the administration. We look at that every time we go into these laws and take a look. It's like, oh, that turns out it's up to the Secretary of State to decide when TPS expires, not anybody else. That's the Secretary of State's job. 00:50:59 Speaker 6: It's up to DHS. 00:51:00 Speaker 5: Yeah, this is my pushback for all these like doomers out there. What do you expect the president and this administration to do on some of these issues? You have a court system. We have a rule of law. We have a system that we have to abide by. If not, you're you're creating incredibly dangerous precedent for a future Democrat president, mind you, that are just going to come in and ignore all the laws. So he's got to deal with the courts. He's got to deal with a feckless Congress that, you know, can't get behind anything, really. So he's doing what he can with what he's got, and he's doing it as quickly as possible. And when you see those interior enforcements shoot up through the roof like that, I mean, we haven't seen a graph like that probably since Eisenhower. I mean, with, you know, Operation, it's a, you know, it's a, pejorative now, but it was literally called Operation Wetback at the time, where they got millions of illegals out. And that's what they called it. That's what they called it. I'm not trying to insult anybody. That's what they called it. And they got millions of illegals out, and then they had a bunch of self-deportations. And we are seeing that as well, right? So I'm told that the number is now over 3 million self-deportations. 3 million. So that's a huge, huge accomplishment for this administration. And if you just give these people. 00:52:13 Speaker 3: Imagine... J.D. 00:52:14 Speaker 5: Vance gets elected in four years. I'm not trying, Marco, I'm not trying to even play in that question right now. But if you look at that graph, if you could throw it up again, that ICE doubles the interior enforcement of Obama. If you give, and that keeps shooting up, by the way, to Blake's point, every month is a new record. If you give them six years to continue making efficiencies, hiring, learning how best to use the system, working with local municipalities at local jails and prisons, imagine what that will do. Over the span of time, if you give these guys enough time to work, we will see real formative change in this country. Libby Evans, final 30 seconds to you. 00:52:51 Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm totally with you on that. I think this is what we need to keep doing going forward. We don't need more squabbles about whether or not we should be allowing millions of people into the United States who absolutely hate us and hate our culture and just want to get all of the benefits. And that's one of the things that this visa halt is about so that the consulates can figure out who's coming here just to steal taxpayer money and who's actually interested in becoming American or hanging out for a little while and then going home, which is what these visas are supposed to allow. So kudos to the administration for keeping on top of this one. 00:53:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm all here for it. 00:53:23 Speaker 5: Libby Evans, the great Libby Evans from the Postmillennial and Human Events. You're doing a great job, Libby. Everybody check out her stuff. She's a great following to X2. And a great journalist. 00:53:32 Speaker 3: Thank you, Libby. We'll talk to you soon. 00:53:34 Speaker 9: Thanks, guys. 00:53:37 Speaker 3: Hi, folks. 00:53:38 Speaker 5: Andrew Colvett here. I'd like to tell you about my friends over at YRefi. You've probably been hearing me talk about YRefi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. 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You know California very, very intimately. What year did you start with? Did Andrew Breitbart hire you? 00:55:00 Speaker 4: Wow, that's a great question. I think it was 2004? No, 2008. 2008. So we're 18 years. And by the way, put a pin in that word intimate. 00:55:13 Speaker 3: I had the same thought. 00:55:16 Speaker 5: I could appreciate that given the topic that we're about to go over with you. 00:55:20 Speaker 3: Let's put it this way, guys. 00:55:21 Speaker 4: I've been inside of Los Angeles. 00:55:24 Speaker 3: Oh, gosh. I don't even know. 00:55:27 Speaker 5: Do we have to hit the mute button or not for that? 00:55:32 Speaker 3: All right, here we go. Let's keep the train on the rails. Here we go. SOT7. This will shock many of our viewers. SOT7. 00:55:43 Speaker 17: I'd like to propose that Los Angeles consider a pilot program for free hygienic sexual relief clinics. primarily serving the homeless and unhoused. This means equality, it means private sexual relief through masturbation, or where appropriate and consensual with a partner, all funded by public tax dollars and managed with professional oversight. 00:56:02 Speaker 6: Yes, you heard that right. Here in Los Angeles, they're considering a pilot program for hygienic sexual relief clinics. This means that homeless would have a location for them to go and masturbate and have sex in. Okay, so. 00:56:15 Speaker 3: Are we sure this wasn't like an Alex Stein? 00:56:17 Speaker 6: Was that a bit? 00:56:18 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:56:18 Speaker 5: Was this like an Alex Stein individual that was, you know, going to his local community? 00:56:23 Speaker 3: I don't know. City council. Is this is this real? Is this real? And like, I have to believe it. It is real. Because it's L.A., right? 00:56:34 Speaker 6: Or even if it wasn't real, if the guy was running schtick, there will be someone who takes it seriously. 00:56:40 Speaker 3: Alex Marlow, help us here. 00:56:41 Speaker 4: Well, it's necessary, guys. And we're actually going to connect. 00:56:44 Speaker 18: A lot of dots here because this actually is a problem in L.A. because there is so much homelessness. And your sex drive doesn't dry up just once you hit the streets. 00:56:56 Speaker 4: That isn't how God made us. And so. 00:56:59 Speaker 18: this is a thing that you witness in one of our businesses that we have, one of our buildings that where we actually, when we relaunched Breitbart news with Andrew Breitbart's vision for this sort of orange and black, uh, you know, Halloween colored website that we've had, that has been our website for 14 years now, when we were there building this website, we did it from this very strange building. 00:57:21 Speaker 4: The studio is almost like a warehouse. I think master P was the previous owner, the rapper. 00:57:26 Speaker 18: And is it odd space on part town? completely overrun with homelessness right next to the 405 freeway, close to the 10. And I remember one night walking out after a long day of work, building our new website. And I saw a homeless man masturbating on the sidewalk, lying there, pulling at himself. And he saw me walk towards my car and he looked up, he sized me up. He realized I wasn't an authority figure and he. 00:57:50 Speaker 4: Just kept going. He just kept going. He did not. 00:57:53 Speaker 18: Stop because he had company and because someone was witnessing his behavior. 00:57:56 Speaker 4: He didn't care. 00:57:57 Speaker 18: He was just checking to see if this is going to cause a problem for me in a legal sense. 00:58:00 Speaker 4: And he kept going. 00:58:01 Speaker 18: So of course there actually is a legitimate reason why someone would think, yeah, well maybe what we should do is actually just like give them a room. That's the issue is not that we have huge mental health issues and people are unhoused and And we have a bunch of drug problems and all that stuff in the city. No, the issue is they don't have a special sex room. 00:58:18 Speaker 4: That's the problem. 00:58:20 Speaker 5: You know, it strikes me as the same kind of liberal logic where they want to give out free needles. 00:58:25 Speaker 3: Right. 00:58:25 Speaker 5: So don't deal with the underlying problem. Don't actually because they're human beings. They were they deserve dignity and they deserve our sympathy and our compassion. And by the way, as Christians, we're called to have sympathy for the poor and to help serve the poor. 00:58:39 Speaker 3: The question, Alex. 00:58:40 Speaker 5: Is giving them like a private masturbation room serving the poor? Is that honoring their dignity? Or is this just another liberal malaise issue? 00:58:51 Speaker 3: I mean, I can't. And by the way, I verified it. This is real. This is actually real. So. 00:58:58 Speaker 18: But you see why I walked through the logic of why you would think it's real. But I just also the Democrats can't do in the left. They can't do beyond stage one thinking. So they just know that, well, you know, they're going to be having sex somewhere. 00:59:09 Speaker 4: So maybe we'll. them a room to do it. And so that's where they get to. 00:59:12 Speaker 18: They don't get that the first rape that takes place in here, which will be on day one, then we just get the branded rape rooms and they'll just be government funded rape rooms. And then that's a midterm campaign ad for Republicans, conservatives. And we never stop saying that. And that's exactly what's going to happen. Also, though, by the way, if any of you guys ever lose your job, you might want to do an experiment where you apply for the job of a government-funded homeless rape room. 00:59:37 Speaker 3: No, no, no. Shutting that down. 00:59:39 Speaker 6: Shutting that down right now. 00:59:41 Speaker 8: Man. 00:59:42 Speaker 3: Can you imagine? 00:59:43 Speaker 18: Custodial engineer for these rooms. 00:59:45 Speaker 4: They're going to need to get cleaned up by someone. 00:59:46 Speaker 3: Who cleans those rooms up? 00:59:49 Speaker 6: This does remind me that you mentioned that this is the site of homeless individuals doing this is something that i guess is part and parcel with western life there was a old i believe it was a facebook post uh that went viral on x again but it's a few years old it's a woman who is in this group called park slope moms so one of these very blue neighborhoods and it's describing a woman she says i am at slope playground there is a man in his 30s with no kids pleasing himself while watching the kids i moved my kids to the other side of the playground i confronted this man and said I was about to call the cops, but it was evident he was developmentally disabled. I didn't want to have my Karen moment, but I found the situation to be completely inappropriate and wasn't sure what to do. 01:00:34 Speaker 3: Thoughts. 01:00:35 Speaker 6: And then she has this follow-up where she's admitting, I am white, he is black, and while I'm not a medical professional, he was disabled. It's a woman who's basically saying, I was afraid to say a homeless man should not be pleasuring himself in front of children at a playground because I'm white and he's black and he's disabled and homeless. And I just think this is what we have in the left-wing mind, the endless desire to indulge what is unacceptable behavior out of pity, out of misguided charitableness. It's this inability to enforce boundaries. And you mentioned the needle exchange program. Common left-wing thing forever is we'll actually solve this problem if we indulge the problem. That if you give addicts safe substance abuse, you'll reduce the harm. If you give them a place to engage in whatever this program is going to do, that that will mitigate the harm. And the actual way you mitigate harm is to say certain behaviors are unacceptable and if you do them, you will be stopped and you will be confined or punished or what have you. And it is the inability to enforce boundaries that is one of the great failures of modern civilization, such as we have it. 01:01:47 Speaker 18: I'll tell you, we turn this city over to the homeless. We prioritize the criminals and the homeless over the families. It's just such a stark contrast that you go down. There's a video of me on the top of my, uh, on my Instagram page and Marlo news. If people want to go over there and you could see, there's a couple of years old at this point, but it's me at the La Brea Tar Pits with my family, which had become a homeless encampment is one of the iconic, uh, tourist attractions in la which is it's a stupid tourist attraction but it's next to a museum and it's just a way for families to hang out on the weekend completely overrun by the homeless but the park in my neighborhood where i pay an hoa 190 a month and there's a fence around the park uh then it's perfect it's pristine it's the best going to park with your kids the city treats the homeless as if they're the ones who own the parks not the taxpayers who pay for the parks And the homeless encampments are coming back. Street homelessness is on the rise. We could be running. We could be electing the homeless czar as the mayor, Nitya Raman. And the city council just voted 10 to 3 to bring back homeless camps that have been previously shut down. 01:02:46 Speaker 4: This is really how we behave in L.A. 01:02:48 Speaker 18: Because the homeless are a massive voter block for Democrats. And they also lead to all those nefarious NGO money. where the government money goes to programs ostensibly for the homeless. They're really just jobs programs for other people in the city. 01:03:00 Speaker 3: All right. 01:03:01 Speaker 5: I'm going to float something for our audience. So I want to get your emails, freedom at charliekirk.com. The fact what Alex just said is that the homeless community has now become a voting block when you are running for mayor of Los Angeles. And by the way, there's all these NGOs that go out and they harvest their boat votes. They give them free stuff to just vote for whatever they want. I am genuinely at the point, Alex, and I don't know if this is how controversial this is, but to me it makes all the sense in the world. I believe that if you are a public charge, you should not necessarily enjoy franchise. 01:03:36 Speaker 3: That's how I feel. That's how I feel. What do you guys think? 01:03:39 Speaker 5: Do you think that if you are a net contributor to society, if that is a fair litmus test for whether or not you should be able to vote? 01:03:47 Speaker 3: Or is that mean? Is that bigoted? Am I being unkind to those who are less fortunate? I want to know what you think. 01:03:54 Speaker 18: Yeah, I love the consideration because the Overton window just moved so far where we're now prioritizing the least productive people. We're catering to the least civically engaged, least productive. 01:04:02 Speaker 3: Members of society. 01:04:04 Speaker 4: It's not working. It's not working, whatever we're doing now. 01:04:07 Speaker 5: We are empowering a certain percentage of the culture to vote to take our stuff. 01:04:14 Speaker 3: They are incentivized. 01:04:15 Speaker 5: So we are no longer able as a culture to balance budgets because the second somebody does, it becomes a political weapon that they can use in the midterms. Oh, they they got some fiscal sanity. We got to vote them out. And I just I want to hear from the audience. Do you think that that we should actually start having a conversation about if you are in a public charge or a net contributor? Is that the dividing line? 01:04:41 Speaker 7: I don't know. 01:04:41 Speaker 3: I haven't even asked you what you think about this. 01:04:43 Speaker 6: I think it would be unfortunately unpopular, but 100%. 01:04:46 Speaker 3: It makes all the sense in the world. 01:04:49 Speaker 6: The classic failure point of a lot of republics historically is the realization that you can basically vote to plunder the treasury. You can vote to loot the state. If you don't have a stake in the state continuing and being responsible, you're not going to seek its best interests. 01:05:09 Speaker 3: Do we have any emails, Blake? 01:05:10 Speaker 6: Oh, we've got a handful. I mean, a lot of people saying that this is all disgusting. Unfortunately, someone says, Teresa says we should take the Olympics away from LA. That pains me because I think we could do a good, I think here's the truth. The Olympics in LA, I suspect will show you the reality. It's like when Xi Jinping visited San Francisco and very suddenly California, it turned out they were always capable of fixing up San Francisco and cleaning it up. They just needed a foreign communist dictator that they cared about impressing to be there rather than their own citizens. I think LA will probably be great for the Olympics because it'll finally, we know how libs are. They care a lot more about impressing someone who's European and sophisticated. They care about impressing internationals. So they'll finally power wash a few things and make things work right in LA. What is disgusting is they aren't willing or able to do this for ordinary citizens just for the sake of having a nice city. And I just think it's so sad when you guys mentioned parks that could be great for families being ceded to the homeless. This is a simple test of civilization. For the good of 99.9% of the public, can you deal with the 0.1% who cause harm? all the problems, who are at 100% deadweight loss, who are not following rules, do you have the courage to say, your behavior is unacceptable and we're removing you? 01:06:35 Speaker 3: Maybe for an Olympics, but not in general. Sadly, that's my take. 01:06:38 Speaker 5: Alex, you're pretty hard on Meta, and there is a new lawsuit that is just settled. They settled, by the way. So Zuckerberg was going to take the stand in this. They settled before he had to. Zuckerberg's meta agrees to $ 18 billion settlement with 29 states to end teen social media addiction lawsuit. 01:06:57 Speaker 3: Your take, my friend. 01:06:59 Speaker 4: I think Blake's right. I think we are going to clean it up. 01:07:01 Speaker 18: The other thing that they got to ace up their sleeve is Donald Trump will still be president at the, and he actually is a cheerleader for the country. and doesn't spite blue States, despite what he might truth bomb on true social. 01:07:12 Speaker 4: He really doesn't. And he's going to make sure we do well. 01:07:15 Speaker 18: Think about how incredible what happened during the world cup that we'd like, what was it? 170 Superbowl level type events. 01:07:22 Speaker 6: And people wanted it so badly to be a disaster. They wanted it to be awful. And it was amazing. 01:07:28 Speaker 4: It was amazing, and it was– I don't even like– Yeah, exactly. Other than the games. The games are still boring. 01:07:34 Speaker 18: Did you guys catch that Spain gave up one goal the whole World Cup? 01:07:38 Speaker 4: I mean, does that show that the game is broken? They gave up one goal the entire. 01:07:43 Speaker 3: That's why they won. That's why they won. I enjoyed the World Cup profoundly. I had a great time. 01:07:47 Speaker 4: Anyway, I'm glad you did. And so did everyone else. 01:07:49 Speaker 18: And the whole country looked good and not enough is done. And by the call of the administration, not doing a good job selling that no terror attacks. There wasn't even a fistfight at this thing and everyone loved it. 01:08:00 Speaker 4: And they loved America. And just somehow that's not getting marketed at all. Um, Oh, finally on meta. I mean, Instagram has. 01:08:06 Speaker 18: Been very destructive to a very addictive, especially teenage girls, a lot of addictions, a lot of mental health issues, a lot of suicides. It's clearly stemming from the social media addiction. Um, And one part about the settlement that I like, and it's probably too much of a laundry list to go through on the podcast, but we have it at Breitbart.com. And I'm sure you guys can go through it if you'd like. But there's a lot of stuff in the settlement. It's not just a cash payout. It's resolving to try to quell some of the addiction of young people to these apps. And I think that's very positive. And it's a good thing that Matt is doing that. 01:08:39 Speaker 3: Put details on this. 01:08:40 Speaker 5: Kids face daily limits and nighttime blocks on Instagram and Facebook as part of this multibillion-dollar settlement. However, check this out. So this is the Attorney General James Uthmeyer from Florida. He says, metas profit driven addictive features inflicted on kids and a slap on the wrist for a trillion dollar corp that will pay more to lawyers than to the states i can't imagine they're paying 18 billion dollars to their legal team we'll see them at trial OK, so that's that's interesting. 01:09:15 Speaker 3: So we'll see them at trial. 01:09:16 Speaker 5: But then you think of what could this mean for YouTube? What's this going to mean for TikTok? What's going to mean for X? You know, can we go too far here or are we not going far enough? Alex, where would you like to see us go next? 01:09:28 Speaker 18: Yeah, it's interesting because I'm pro freedom. So I think people should be able to choose what they do. But we really I feel like the blowback, the swing back of the pendulum to we try to get off our phones as much as possible. But it's just so addictive. And it's so unhealthy for young people. And the screen age or phenomenon seems to only be getting worse. And so I'm encouraged that it does seem like the Zuck 2.0 and his current C-suite seem more concerned. 01:09:56 Speaker 4: Than in the past. 01:09:58 Speaker 18: But it really, they've got to go a lot further than this, I think, because it is just such a dangerous product. 01:10:03 Speaker 4: It's so dangerous. 01:10:04 Speaker 18: But it's like cigarette level addiction. 01:10:06 Speaker 5: This is going to affect all of them. YouTube, I mean, they're going to be next. YouTube, I think, is even more addictive, actually, the way that those videos, the next. 01:10:13 Speaker 4: One comes up. 01:10:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, and TikTok. 01:10:15 Speaker 6: I mean, it's really scary when you get, they're addictive. They also, they cook your brain. Like, your ability to do normal thought is really breaking down when it's, you have the ADD. 01:10:26 Speaker 3: 30-second video. 01:10:27 Speaker 6: Minute-long video. 01:10:27 Speaker 3: 30-second video. Have you heard of Gen Z face? This is the thing. 01:10:30 Speaker 5: The Gen Z kids that I talk to, they talk about it because they're always looking at their face. They're not looking at somebody expressing an emotion because they're interacting with another person. It's like dead face. And the mouth comes open because they're just scrolling. And it affects the tilt of your neck. And you're just looking at your phone. This is very strange. And I think when you take it from COVID to then... You know, the Charlie Kirk trutherism and the Lindsay Clancy trutherism. There is something profound happening to the human psychology. Final 10 seconds, Alex. 01:11:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, you nailed it. 01:11:01 Speaker 18: I think the Clancy phenomenon, clearly social media made that what it is. And it's very frightening. I'm glad we got to see it. But I really blame social media a lot for that. And look, think about the last time you watched a viral video that you loved. Your face was still like this. Emotionless, even if you love the video. 01:11:17 Speaker 5: We're losing our humanity in a sense, at least our sociability. Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart and host of The Alex Marlow Show. 01:11:23 Speaker 3: We love him. We'll see you guys tomorrow. 01:11:30 Speaker 6: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.