 It's so stupid it's positively bruised Like we put this value like like freedom I was thinking because I was in Russia last week right and like I Really put in perspective how much we? How much how arrogant we are about this idea of freedom like we've completely Invented this idea of freedom like you deserve to be free you believe it you deserve to be free you believe it I deserve to be free. I believe that we just invented freedom That's a that's an invented idea explain explain someone's just like hey once you're born You deserve to be free to do whatever the fuck you want and then other people like yeah, I think I do Do not think of freedom. I don't think of that. What do you think of think of bondage? I think of being a slave and you're free I think of being in jail right and now you're free like being free to do whatever you want to do That's anybody can do that right so there's historically. Yeah, that's what Andrew saying Historically, there isn't a precedent for that, but I'm speaking an actual bond you're talking about slavery, right? But there's different levels to freedom like for example in certain countries. You're not free to be a Right, so that would be a limitation of freedom. Yes, right and in certain places in America. You're not free to be black Right, that'd be now you're free to walk around you're not be black, but you're not in bondage But there are repercussions for sometimes being black in the wrong neighborhood being black in a wrong situation Right, so like there are there are effects on your freedom, right? And yeah, so when you say the freedom that's the freedom that most people want they don't want to be oppressed Marginalized Systemically exactly you can't really do anything about random acts of racism of course not of course not but you're talking about systemic acts, right? But here's the craziness. We just invented this idea of freedom You gotta explain like Idiot hot take by the way, so so it's like it's like I know you're getting it In the best version of America that when America's held up is this shining example It's because we demanded freedom from Britain. Yeah, we demanded freedom to own property To have guns if you believe that's part of it to self-determination that's always been and that was the The principle that the the nation was founded of and it's separated from Britain for and that's always in theory Been our biggest accomplishment because it's true throughout world history people don't have freedom Yeah on all sorts of different levels, whether it's straight-up slavery to freedom of ideas women Being able to drive in Saudi Arabia to you can't have over Twitter and China you can only yes Chinese version of their fake version is so there are all these different variations of it now The other side of the coin is that's the principle America was founded on are they living up to it? Maybe I of course of course work for Native Americans. No to freedom work for African Americans No, but the principal I'm not trying to imply that we all have it. I'm just saying and if you want to take it back a step further They would say it's based on the French thing or whatever goes back to Little subsidiaries of that even in America because say like you're in school. Yeah, right and in school. They got rules They have regulations. Yeah, we've all left the classroom or the day was over like I'm free You know saying that you know you're no longer under that rule, right? So there's there's different levels of it, right? Like you're not free to say whatever you want in class in school, right? You can't but it's consequences, but there's consequences, right and and So so I'm in so I'm in Russia and I was doing this festival out there and it was amazing Experience it was really cool cultural experience. I'm talking to these two comics. They were there to this podcast and they were talking about this idea of Freedom that like is instilled in Americans and they're like Here's the thing you got to understand ever since your kid and like forever in your country You fight for this value of freedom, which is you deserve to be free, right? And not only do you deserve to be free, right? Other countries deserve to be free. Sure. And if they're not free You'll go out there and you'll free them As long as there's something in it for us and then he goes of course, of course But I'm just saying like in it's in that's best in looking at things in the best possible way, right? And he goes We've never had this concept of freedom. I go, what do you mean? Because I thought freedom was ubiquitous, right? I thought every human being believed in freedom. So the russian is saying he's never had this concept So he goes so he so they go they go for our whole lives. They've been telling us Believe in russia the state support russia Help russia mother russia We are the best russia is the best and we will always protect russia. It's never in america. It's always Freedom then america right and anytime america infringes on your freedom We start to protest colin cabrick should be able to take a knee. Why because he's free What a kind of take a knee the constitution says that yes because the value of america is this freedom thing I'm not even sure if that's the right exercise It keeps hitting me in my nose Listen, I agree with antonio brownley said he needed to change these helmets these helmets are absolutely ridiculous Are you about to kick us out of here only if you get catch me? Guys Then it fell season is back. 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That's what I'm saying So how but how wild is that that like you and I you grew up With this idea that you deserve freedom even though you were being restricted Your freedom in many different circumstances because the color of your skin But even inside you you were like but they're wrong for restricting me because I deserve this thing That realistically we all made up. Yeah, I mean listen. We I don't think we made it up. We didn't make it up people wanted freedom. They just haven't had it Right, right, but like for everyone wants to be free Instinctively, right, but it's historically. It just hasn't happened. Well, you're you're a white male. Yeah, uh Christian trans agent, right? So speaking of which hong kong is an exact example of what you're talking about, right? Yeah, we go That's why they're going Hey, so fucking hard because they got a taste of it Yeah, and they know it's about to go to freedom and now they see it's about to go away And you got 18 19 or 20 year old kids who have grown up With iphones and coach stores. I mean they hong kong is in a International city. Yep. It has everything that new york has and then some and china's about to shut it down Why are you shutting it down? Uh, because it's a threat. It's a threat to what their freedom is a threat to the control Civilization is a threat to their way of life. Well, certainly democracy. Yeah, and I mean, I won't go to they remove all like like china is a way to control their population is to remove all Other influences like there's a reason they don't have religion out there, right? And they've actually been like fucking like Not I don't know about exterminating but like putting muslims and camps and shit out there Like and it's because they want the government to have the only influential factor in people's lives and religion is such a potent Idea and like powerful idea in their lives. It could create separation It could make tribune or like that Like when we used to the whole world when we used to first go to anguilla, they didn't have Fine come all that shit was blocked. Yep. Did I ever tell you about the time that we tried to watch moonlight in anguilla? And you got a knock on the door What you doing in there? We tried to watch moonlight and it was like this program is restricted in this region yada yada yada And I was like, hmm And so it was me and my wife and it was bad and you know, and I'm like What other gay movies do y'all know let's just now only what I could think of was broke back mountain So I look up broke back mountain this movie is restricted. Yes, but then Netflix starts this, you know, uh recommend I mean, yeah, you go down a Netflix rabbit hole in gay movies. Jesus Christ bottomless butthole So he started so it's like it's all these movies in this gay genre Everything one of them is restricted every single one. So so it's one of those things where like Were you surprised a little bit? No interesting No, it didn't come to your it didn't make you go. Oh, shit like we live in a place where You can watch any of these things. I've traveled enough. Okay. You had an expectation red enough to know America got it good son It's crazy like and don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's perfect And I know that there's tons of fucked up shit that's happening, but in terms of raw freedom Raw freedom No place is close how many times on this podcast close and I might I might even like update Canada might be close Dude, dude, Canada you get arrested for a tweet Canada A comic it was sued for $40,000 for a joke he made on stage. That's not freedom of speech They don't even have freedom of speech in Canada. They have freedom of expression Yeah, because speech can be hateful and speech can be violent or whatever these nonsense things I think about all the time we hear about you know, and that's the other thing you heard for years These different artists go to these different countries and get arrested for something they did on stage Yeah, you know NWA, you know back in the day when it was that they were like in Sacramento somewhere Sure when it was that they got arrested because the police all said you can't come on this stage with this with this rhetoric It's like so it's like I always understood that Concept right my biggest thing when it comes to freedom it's not even about the rules Somebody may have for their establishment or even for their their their town or whatever My biggest problem has always been the rules that are systemic based on My skin color right based on somebody's sexuality right based on somebody's gender because those are things we can't control Right, I can go in somebody's establishment and not motherfucking Curse easy if you ask me, you know I'm saying if you can't not be black that's my yeah Yes, so that's that's a different type of freedom liberation that 100 where that Minorities are seeking and and it and you should seek it And I'm put what I'm also saying is there are places in the world where like they don't even believe they can seek it The the idea isn't even there for them like the idea in and to be honest This is why in a lot of ways comedy is so potent and why it's I think taking over the world that's my prediction stand-up is because The joke offers this perfect little A cloak protective cloak for a real idea Right and if you're from a country that really you know sensors what people can say If you say something, but there's a nice little joke around it. You're like, oh, that's not too serious It's like they take a joke in china They take a joke you got it. You got to see how far you can go with it You got to see how far you can go with it little penis jokes fly over there if you want to Well, I think it would just be regular penis. Let them short jokes fly over there and see what the fuck happens There is it was just think about that We have the freedom to make fun of other people from other countries in america think about this You're not going over there with that shit No, think about it was funny when I was in when I was in russia I did a putin joke that was the first thing that I did and I had a guy translating the joke and I said I just start the bit. I was like putin and No, and I look at the translator and he looks at me. He's like, you want both of us to get involved? Y'all really want this to go down? But it was there was a little bit of a little pushback and I understand that But this is what fucking happens, man And this is what true freedom is true freedom like think about how free we are You can call the president. What did christie teigen call him a pussy ass bitch? No, no, listen. Let's talk about that Call him a pussy ass bitch. Bitch ass pussy We don't know if that's gonna fly Because we don't know how petty our president is we don't know how petty his administration is and just because they don't do something publicly and overtly Don't mean that they won't do something We don't know christie teigen might get on the next plane and get held up at the motherfucking airport everywhere She go, we don't know what is her background that would be like What is her background? What is christie teigen's background? She's asian like what kind of tie Not a chance in the world. She goes to thailand and talks about their emperor like that Not a fucking chance in in her and the emperor in thailand guaranteed 10 times worse You know, why the donald's probably fucking cut her head off or cut her hand off In a fucking heartbeat But that but by the way, that's what trump wants trump wants to be an authoritarian figure in that way Yes, i'm gonna fuck with nobody. Yeah, I mean the danger. I i don't have i didn't have a problem when people criticized Obama I didn't agree with it. But like it's important that you can criticize the president democracy is about I think the danger isn't the christie teigen stuff. Like if you want to look at what's happened recently Yeah, the danger is when he does the The storm pattern changes it Won't admit that he's wrong and then instructs the weather organization to lie on his behalf That's yeah, but then it turns out that it was going towards It was going towards alabama But he can't reach out to them and say this is what you have to say Right, but cnn came out and said it is going towards alabama Yeah, he was right But it ain't going to alabama though. No, that's see I saw the cnn report where it was like we believe it's going to cut across florida hit Whatever tala assi these types of things in alabama. That's it. Um, but the the point is yes, exactly And that would be fascism where you have that kind of influence over the weather the fucking weather channel That's the dangerous 100 percent going that now though. Dude. There's no doubt. There's no doubt I don't fuck with y'all no more y'all better straighten the fuck up. He did. All right, what he's doing with the media I think outside of the environment Let's not make this a truck Let's say what I'll vote for him in 2024 What is going on? He'll still be a son. You saw the thing he posts on instagram What he posted trump 2024 bro, I've actually got me a little nervous It's already a million times Trump is going nowhere Trump gotta understand is america's and this is the thing and this is the thing that and I don't want this to be about Trump because then it just gets into an argument and let's talk about freedom That's way more interesting, but the but what what trump doesn't understand is How much america loves freedom and values freedom and if you infringe upon that freedom And part of infringing upon that freedom is the freedom to elect a new president every at most eight years No matter what and if you and a granted yes f dr had three terms or whatever sure But if you infringe upon that freedom, there are americans that will be crazy enough to make sure that that doesn't happen They not on they not on the left The motherfucker's out of crazy enough to do that or on the right. Um, what was the guy that shot up that baseball game? What was he on game? He's left. He was on the left one out of we shot up all those senators And what was the guy who shot up the thing in ohio? He was on the left. This is my question to you. Let's here's a scenario left got shooters too. They're just I'm not talking about shooters. There's a disputed election, right? Yeah the next election 2020 Trump claims this the other side claims Don't take my fucking talking points that I've been saying on this goddamn podcast You know breakfast club for months and nobody want to listen to me because I gotta live I'll say the two listen Here's the scenario. Here's the scenario