 Today May 40 here, so I found out this morning that The Oscars last night Will Smith had slapped the comic Chris Rock for making I thought a fairly mild joke about About Jada Smith saying that she looked like she was ready to star in The next version of GI Jane to me. That's that's a pretty mild joke and then Then will Smith He laughs at the joke, but he laughs at the joke and then he gets mad like he laughs and then he storms on stage I don't remember seeing this before at the Oscars I watched the Oscars, but I do follow the news. There's something like this that happened before the Oscars I would have remembered it and I don't think this has ever happened before stormed on stage and then slapped Chris Rock and then when Will Smith went back to his seat. He said screaming at Chris Rock, you know keep my wife's name Using f-bombs out of your mouth and Chris Rock was so Kind and Christ-like and gentle with him. I mean he could have absolutely Devoured Will Smith because will Smith look like such an idiot but none of that's of great importance to me what's Important to me is the reaction by the distant right so when I was looking at the news this morning or the The overwhelming majority of the distant right reactions. I saw it was this event was fake and This was all a setup Right, and it just reminds me how wildly out of touch Most people are on the distant right these days, right? There's this widespread belief That COVID is fake even though we've got about 20 million dead people from COVID But but it's all fake. There's this widespread belief that the 2020 elections were stolen even though we don't have any Good strong evidence for that This is widespread belief that Vladimir Putin and Russia are fighting on behalf of the West Did you know that the Putin invaded Ukraine to save Western civilization? That the Putin and Russia out there fighting for Christianity But many people on the distant right believe this I was looking at Steve Saylor's blog and 80% of the commentators were just absolutely sure that this Will Smith slap of Chris Rock was all planned. It was all fake. It was all a set up It's people who are sure of that Right absolutely assured that this is fake that this is a set up You've completely lost touch with reality Just like if you think Vladimir Putin and Russia are fighting for the West fighting to save Christianity You've completely lost touch with reality. You think COVID is fake You completely lost touch with reality if you think case closed the 2020 elections were fixed You've completely lost touch with reality so People become dissidents because they realize that many of the things that they were told growing up and by people in authority and by people in the news media are false and Then they go to the other extreme where they don't believe almost anything that's coming to them from the news media And then they accept uncritically things that they read on uns.com or some some other distant source And people have such bad epistemics It's just unbelievable what what people will believe, but I think it's part of a downward spiral Like that you become a dissident and you get red-pilled, right? That should mean that you are more in touch with reality that you know better about what's really going on but instead it increasingly looks like people who are red-pilled are Less aware of what's going on that they're less effective in life It's absurd the way that Almost every distant right commentator I saw on Twitter on Steve Salas Bob was just absolutely sure That that this was all fake and all the setup people have lost touch with reality, right? This because you find that the media has made mistakes or has lied to you or has a left-wing agenda which it frequently does the news media frequently has a left-wing agenda or Frequently has a corporate agenda or it has other some other kind of agenda it has it favors pronouncements from official authorities rather than From from regular people and their real-life experiences that news media is filled with flaws, right? The news media is frequently wrong but If you're so convinced that the news media brawl its flaws You know just completely missed that this is all a setup you've lost touch with reality now The Super Bowl wardrobe dysfunction, right? That was set up, right? When Justin Timberlake ripped away Janice Janet Janet Jackson's top Exposing her breasts that was that was clearly set up because there was there was tape over her nipple, right? That was set up Will Smith slapping Chris Rock and screaming the f-bomb at him during a live Oscar telecast And then spiraling as he's done Obviously, that was that was not set up Bernard Brightson's in the in the chat and but not I'm so glad you're here Mentioned he hasn't read ones in a long time I just read one of us the story of a massacre in Norway and it's after Martha's about Anders Brevik And it just so reminds me of so many people in the distant right not that they go out and murder people But this downward spiral that they get into so here are some highlights from the 2015 book That's with a great quote by some I assume some Norwegian or Scandinavian whose name I can't pronounce y'all Mars Soderbergh in Dr. Glass 1905 we want to be loved failing that admired failing that Beard failing that hated and despised at all costs You want to stir up some sort of feeling in others our soul abhors a vacuum at all costs it longs for contact and I think this summarizes The the feelings and the strivings and the desires and the longings of so many distance Whether on the right or the left who are unable to connect normally with other people and so they yearn to be loved They can't get the love that they yearn to be admired can't get that they yearn to be feared Can't get that they yearn to be hated and despised at all costs they must stir up some sort of feeling in others and so one way that I think distance do that is to Proclaim that Things that everyone else takes for granted such as the covert is real that we landed on the moon in 1969 but this is all fake and this Will Smith Chris Rock Incident at the Oscars all fake just people are absolutely sure worry a gene malfunction Yeah, at least we'll didn't beat the brakes of Chris Will Smith is a fool is a cock old in a cock old relationship yet slaps Chris Rock for no good reason any Will Smith was laughing at the joke and then he gets up and goes nuts and Will Smith receives a standing ovation for his attack Right. Well, it doesn't receive standing ovation for his attack He received the standing ovation when he picks up best actor award Yeah, and everyone is worried about Will Smith not about his victim Chris Rock I Mean so many great jokes about this I mean so much to to be I think learned from this incident But the best thing I've read is in the Washington Post the climax of Will Smith's radical vulnerability era Right. The slap was shocking, but the tears felt like the end of the journey Right, it was unthinkable our for one of the world's biggest celebrities But if you haven't paid attention to Will Smith recently, you'd be forgiven for finding his tears Shocking this after all as a celebrity built his brand of being a smooth unflappable character who rarely loses his cool That image is what lent so much a gravitas of the famous hug scene in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and which his character finally breaks down crying But that's not who he is anymore. So who is he? Well, he's a byproduct of 90s celebrity culture He's attempting something few men of his generation of movie stars have done He's reinventing himself publicly to align with the contemporary expectations of celebrity He once held celebrity at a distance and in high regard that doesn't work anymore So Will Smith's peers like Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, George Clooney They sparsely give fans a glimpse into their personal lives, but Will Smith who's 53 Seems to have embraced this chance to err toward sharing in recent years Publicly touting his every thought and feeling with an audience that once loved him precisely because he did the opposite Now embodies a singular type of public figure an old school movie star who embraces radical honesty And seems to be on a quest to exercise his demons in public Yeah, Chris was totally elegant pro. Absolutely Yeah, the Will Smith slap is getting more people to research his polyamorous relationship You see in real life consequences flowing from this an uptick in acts of random violence Well, I'm not sure. I'm not sure about that Did I ever meet the porn star Will Stiff? I don't remember doing so It's difficult to pinpoint exactly when the shift began But there's no question it has been a conscious decision as Will Smith tells that he hit a midlife crisis point in 2012 Year he refers to as the year of the mutiny is really the year that my family rejected the direction of my leadership Will Smith said explaining that while his family was successful. It was not happy He wanted to change and grow as a person a husband and as a father not merely as an entertainer I mean, isn't that why we're all here right now so that we can grow as men and as jews and as The inheritors of the western tradition So Will Smith made it his mission to enrich himself emotionally mentally and spiritually He took part in more than a dozen ayahuasca rituals in Peru who reflected for weeks in solitude. He spent years working with Michael beam Boom boe hm an intimacy coach. Have you ever hired an intimacy coach? He began reading books by self-described spiritual teacher David data including the way of the superior man Yeah, I got that as an audiobook. I listened to it several times I quite like a lot of David data Meanwhile, he doggedly embraced social media where he began posting everything from professional anecdotes to his attempt to lose weight That intimate look into his life picked up speed in 2018 with the launch of red table talk a talk show on facebook watch in which Jada pinkett smith along with her mother and daughter have intimate conversations about their family Often inviting guests such as will smith himself onto the show In the most well-known episode pinkett smith and will smith discuss their relationship Too many people have thought of being monogamous We broke up within our marriage and got back together again Smith said and we had to rebuild with new rules and something way completely different So the vulnerability of the show apparently resonated for millions and it became a vital step in will smith's Reinvention and then this unabashed earnest earnestness found its way into his projects He still tackles blockbusters, but they fail more often than they succeed critically and commercially such as Gemini man a focus bright suicide squad So he's begun investing more time in his passion projects. So we got emancipation his first movie about slavery Greenlit famously turned down the role of jango and quentin Tarantino's jango and chain because he didn't want to make a film about vengeance In 2019 a mock trailer by morgan cooper reimagining fresh prints of bel air sitcom as a serious drama Port will smith's eye now. It's an actual show on peacock and smith is the executive producer and then of course there's king richard That will smith connected deeply with the story of richard william's father encouraged to venus and serena williams It says the story is just Uniquely timed in my life. It reminded me a lot of my father Is that same generation men that used to fix everything with their hands? I understood what I was like to live at the edge of survival and to try to sustain a dream And then the same time will smith released his memoir if you read his memoir will which came out november 9 Last year I spent my whole career hiding my true self from the world will smith Said the memoir proved to be yet another example of the openness that fits a larger more recent desire from the actor He self proclaimed calling to protect those around him and not just his own family So will smith wants to become a protector Now there's one passage from his memoir that may shed an uncomfortable amount of light and what happened last night Will smith writes about his father's alcoholism and violent tendencies Focusing on a particularly awful experience that he wrote defined who I am When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed I saw her spit blood When his father was suffering from cancer years later He wrote that he was pushing him in his wheelchair from the bedroom to the bathroom a path that crossed the top of the staircase Entertained the thought of throwing him down the stairs and of killing him Then everything that I've done since then the awards the accolades the spotlight the attention the characters and the laugh Last there has been a subtle string of apologies to my mother for my inaction that day for failing her in the moment For failing to stand up to my father for being a coward What you've come to understand is will smith the alien annihilating The bigger than life movie star is largely a construction a carefully crafted and home character designed to protect myself To hide myself from the world to hide the coward Though in his bizarre speech last night he repeatedly suggested that he's needed to protect those he loved Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family I'm being caught on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people Perhaps the person he uh most needs to protect Is himself That's exactly what he's doing. That's not a partisan attack. It's true If you doubt that it's true watch his performance just over the past week On thursday, for example, joe biden was asked how the united states would respond if the russian government used chemical weapons in ukraine Now that's a hypothetical question presidents at the podium often get those Presidents rarely respond to hypothetical questions for a very simple reason. They don't know The circumstances ahead of time. So there's no reason to risk American prestige or to terrify the rest of the world by saying the wrong thing So they don't Biden had no obligation to answer that question very few presidents would have answered it But biden did answer it and here's what he said And to clarify on chemical weapons could if chemical weapons were used in ukraine Would that trigger a military response response from nato? It would be it would trigger a response in kind Whether or not you're asking whether nato would cross but we'd make that decision at the time So he's closing his eyes trying to remember what the cue card says What's our policy and what he comes out with is if russia uses chemical weapons the us will respond in kind If russia uses new chemical weapons, the united states will use chemical weapons So no american president has said anything like that in your lifetime You grew up assuming the united states would never use chemical weapons because the united states is not a rogue State in fact our role globally is to suppress rogue states. They tell us that's what we're doing right now And yet in a flash of peak because he couldn't remember the correct words joe biden the president of the united states Reversed a hundred years of american security policy in the middle of a war This did not escape the attention of his own national security advisor who Instantly responded by restoring the status quote or attempting to quote The united states has no intention of using chemical weapons Period under any circumstances said jake sullivan Flatly contradicting his boss. No one who works for the president wants to do that But jake sullivan had no choice He works for a man who cannot even pronounce his own vice president's name consistently And yet is in charge of the united states at the most delicate moment in our lifetimes But biden didn't slow down He kept going the next day his advisors allowed him to fly to poland to quote rally the international community in support of ukraine And while in poland biden met with soldier Okay, speaking of losing touch with reality. What happened to regular commentator? Monsieur so i was just looking at his twitter feed and it's really become increasingly unhinged So he tweets Increasingly there's something going on with him and eight hours ago. He tweets I bet you're a lot about the unwavering faith in the regime and the blackpilling here, but let me be charitable for a moment Okay, so he's going to be charitable now. I was loyal to the regime until it fucked with me And I believe it was strong until I could see the cracks Personally both happened in the past few years. So how many of you believe that the regime is purposefully fucking with monsieur Right, so when the world doesn't go your way when america doesn't go your way when the universe doesn't go your way when life doesn't go your way It's probably not because the regime is fucking with monsieur So he says it's probably just the case that the pmc So there's a player player created characters in video games who frequent this place much more insulated than I am So it's monsieur. He's out there in reality But you you're just you're probably much more insulated than he is so monsieur is out there on the mean streets He's in reality But those who doubt him they're probably more insulated from reality You can't really believe it until it hits you at home. So he's absolutely convinced that the the american regime is going after him But he's not going to take it as for the loyalty so Pretty shocking doesn't sound like it's terribly loyal to the american regime anymore As for the loyalty most of my class could blame the calamities of 2016 to 2020 on trump There's trump messing with us the spell has broken. There's only one solution now civil war people like me not used to being denied What the heck has happened to him? So he's calling for civil war. I mean that's insane. That's an insane thing to publicly be calling for And then it's like people like me and not used to being denied everybody Who is sane is used to being denied? Right serial killers used to being denied. They didn't serial killers don't kill everyone who crosses their path Right serial killers have to wait in line serial killers Get foiled Vladimir Putin is constantly denied what he wants Joe biden donald trump Everybody the most superior man will smith Is constantly being denied any sentient human being realizes he's constantly being denied if you're a man you see an attractive woman 99.999 percent of the time you're being denied. You're not going to get to be with her So if if he has this self-conception that people like me are not used to being denied And that there's only one solution now A civil war in america. He's completely lost it And and then he goes on there is a plot sometimes mentioned here is a world conspiracy The banner thing almost every american enjoys. I know why Prince father was going through a bad divorce and this thing inconvenienced him. So now it will be banned This is how my class treats obstacles I expect the next decade to become extremely squirrely Okay, not not sure what's going on with mature, but uh He seems to be losing it Yeah, that's the majeure of babs and kyle. I have no idea what he's talking about. I don't know any details Josh Randall says i'm the regime's sole priority right now Yeah, the average ukrainian plays video games about wars. I bet they'll have the experience to stop this invasion John says greg gutfeld is everything tucker wishes. He was tucker is the most influential man on tv So I don't think tucker is filled with envy and jealousy Rose biden is firmly in control Okay, so if you if you're convinced that there are other people out there are much more powerful than uh, joe biden then name them Right ronald clain his chief of staff who can Who can be removed at any moment? You really think that uh, he's more powerful than joe biden a good article in buzzfeed believe it or not november 30th Why wil smith keeps revealing too much With a new confessional memoir and his growing social media presence the actor is trying to reinvent himself Perhaps you're like me. You're waving the white flag. Perhaps you're on your knees hands clasped I set toward the sky begging. Please lord. Let me not find any more unsolicited information about wil smith's sex life In the last few months and especially in the last few weeks. We've learned entirely too much We learned that will smith and his wife jade a pink at smith have an open marriage. Yeah open to everything but a joke And sometimes it's hard at some point. He wanted a harem of girlfriend Yeah, we've learned that sometimes jade is maybe not 100 satisfied with their sex life No way. She is actually totally satisfied in fact speaking of satisfaction There was this one time and smith was so focused on her pleasure But he was either going to satisfy her or die trying This week we learned that smith dealt with being cheated on by his first girlfriend by having so much sex That it made him gag and at times of vomit as a psychosomatic reaction to an orgasm And it's such a drastic break in the long-established celebrity relationship We've had with wil smith before we entered this overshare phase Had to think about what we really knew about him now. It seems I can't eject out of the conversation fast enough That lately smith has been coming down to our level. He's been sharing his wounds the things that make him human He's been sharing his struggles with marriage fatherhood and body image. He's been making vaguely entertaining ticktocks He's been messy and mimeably upset. He's been confessional like never before What's this all for? Well, the obvious answer is promotion Soldiers from the 82nd airborne. They're currently stationed there As cameras rolled joe biden informed these soldiers that they would soon be sent to ukraine. Watch this The average citizen looking how they're stepping up Good how they're stepping up And you're gonna see when you're there and you've been there You're gonna see you're gonna see women young people standing standing in the middle of the front of a damn tank It's just saying i'm not leaving i'm holding to my ground So the previous president was often criticized sometimes with justification for not using words precisely You're the president. You can't just tweet out anything. That's the case you heard for four years and again It was often rooted in truth But the last president never said anything that even approaches the crazed recklessness of what you just heard You're gonna see when you're there. Where in ukraine? So the 82nd airborne apparently is going to ukraine their commander in chief just told them that Of course, they had no idea neither did their families Okay back to uh wil smith another another fool So why why is wil smith doing all this? bizarre confessional self-promotion while he last november he released a telol memoir His release coincides with the peak of his press cycle for his latest film king richard Where he plays the legendary richard williams father of venus and serena williams His performance of richard is the best acting he's done in years Smith has a shrewd plan a byproduct of 90 celebrities culture He's attempting something few men of his generation of stars have done He's reinventing himself publicly to align with contemporary expectations of celebrity We once held celebrities at a distance and in high regard that doesn't work anymore So smith is trying to meet the moment. He is on an all out mission to master The language of modern celebrity Are you not entertained? So his career highs are historic right So since 2013 he's been plagued with a series of career failures That was the year after earth was released a film co-starring his son jaden led one critic to ask his after-earth The worst movie ever made and there's 2016's collateral beauty Which earned a rotten tomatoes score only four points higher than after earth coming in at 15 percent There's focus a movie you haven't heard of until you read this sentence 2017's bright Netflix film widely penned as was 2019's gemini man And all these movies appeared like safe bets gemini man was a big budget thriller had the back of your netflix So wil smith blossomed as a star in the 90s and early aughts Stretch of time when the very idea of celebrity was at its most potent We didn't know then but with relatively few outlets telling us what we should be caring about or consuming We're in the firm grip of a vast monoculture. Perhaps the last time in pop culture history Once the Hollywood machine made you a celebrity There was little you could do to lose the title fame was your powerful currency reality tv was still a quirky and lowbrow offering You want to watch real people? What's wrong with you? You cut to the decade of wil smith's successive let downs reality tv is supplanted pretty much any other form of entertainment So in september last year smith told gq that when he started posting more frequently online It was in part inspired by seeing dwayne johnson and kevin hart post behind the scenes photos from their movies He seemed to have found that shocking. They were doing unheard of stuff posting pictures from set So this was countered everything wil smith had learned in celebrity school be composed and controlled Never let the public see your drafts So jada smith is now more famous than she's ever been And the whole premise of her show is built around radical frankness and a willingness to be vulnerable in public She invites famous people to redeem themselves through honesty and she shares her private life too the more open she becomes the more the public responds So perhaps will smith was forced to confront the value of this honesty when jada used her platform to dissect their marital problems Okay Let's get a little bit more Tucker here neither did anyone in the united states until joe biden said it live on friday The white house didn't even know Fox news reached out to biden spokesman after those remarks and no one there No one in the white house seemed to aware that those remarks have been caught on tape So how to explain this abrupt change in american foreign policy Quote the president has been clear We are not sending us troops to ukraine and there is no change in that position and quote So for the second time in three days The administration has to flatly contradict the commander in chief and not on a minor question These are often written off as a gaffe. No a gaffe Is when you mispronounce somebody's name Telling troops they're going to be sent to ukraine pledging the united states Is going to use chemical weapons. These are not gaffes These are something else. They're dangerous. That's for sure So the best the white house can do is telling us well the president by saying he's sending american troops to ukraine Is reaffirming our policy of not sending us troops to ukraine. Thanks for the clarification. What else could they say? And it got even weirder from there On saturday once again completely out of nowhere with no warning whatsoever and apparently no forethought Joe biden called for regime change in russia watch this a dictator Then i'm rebuilding an empire will never erase the people's love for liberty Brutality will never grind down their will to be free For god's sake this man cannot remain power Okay, let's uh get back to the Oscars here some commentary What's up everybody happy anxiety tuesday. Hope you have a good day today and all is well I mean will smith chris rock. I am 100 on chris rock side I mean really you're gonna slap a guy over a freaking gi jane joke I don't care what happened in your life before this or he's been making fun of Will smith and jade a picket smith's relationship for a long time. It's like yeah, because it's toxic You can obviously see it's toxic. I mean she publicly says she cheats on you all the time and will smith's obviously in the closet gay Which is fine. Just come out be free be open be gay be happy I mean, it's literally the most toxic relationship. I've ever seen him alive for that's coming from me So i'm telling you I mean the fact of the matter is this is the narcissism in the oscars is Disgusting why we are still glorifying actors and actresses is beyond me I mean dude 100 years ago the people would honor kill themselves and their families if their kids came out and said they were actors I mean it's scum shit. You're making believe you're someone else. I'm supposed to give you a million dollars Fuck you. I mean, what are you talking about? I hate it all. I do have an audition later So fingers crossed I get it Okay And uh, that came from nicky glazes, uh twitter twitter feed. So she's got some good stuff on here Maybe that was all will smith's homage to william hurt the actor And uh, some of you think chris rock got what he deserved but half a year ago You were telling trans folks not to take dave chappell's joke seriously. So which is it? And uh, so will smith just normalize slapping stand-up comedians I'm tripping that you can assault someone on live television on stage at the oscars and then just take your seat and watch the rest of the show Mike says you damn right out slap a guy if he made fun of something my wife was sensitive about like a weird toes or big nipples realities jump the shark I can't believe that happened to gi jane reference in 2022 Wait, remember when will laughed at first? Yes So hollywood is alive and well still doing what it does best protecting and celebrating disgusting behavior It's very bad practice to walk up on stage and physically assault a comic now We all have to worry about who wants to be the next will smith in comedy clubs and theaters that's kathy griffin Griffin this level of narcissism by will smith is nauseating now. He's apologizing Classic oscar speech for getting to mention the one person who deserves it the most Yeah, open relationships seem healthy Okay, uh wall street journal will smith wins the oscar for battery Man who became rich and famous pretending to fight space aliens committed a real act of television violence on sunday night And then hollywood's finest gave him a standing ovation barely half an hour later Is anyone to that much of america's lost or respect for self-referential hollywood? and apparently Chris rock did not rehearse the joke that upset will smith During during oscar performance. So that riff about her His wife jaded pink it going in gi jane, too Bring his churchal routine fine And things aren't going well at home all presidents seek solace abroad where they're taking much more seriously than they are by their own voters But he couldn't stop himself for god's sake. This man cannot remain empowered joe biden said of latimer putin Now set aside how you feel about putin you probably don't like him and for good reason Our policy according to the president of the united states is to take putin out to remove him as head of state To be clear regime change in russia has never been American policy and this is hardly the first time we have tangled with russia We've had far more threatening circumstances than this one The united states who recall waged a proxy war against the russian government for 11 years in vietnam nearly 60 000 americans died in that war and yet No american president mentioned regime change at the kremlin. Why because they were soft on the russians? No Because russia has about 6 000 nuclear weapons So let's say we eliminated the russian head of state and of course that country's central government. What would happen to those weapons? Well, let's see in iraq Saddam's weapons stockpiles all conventional wound up in the hands of militia that used them to kill americans So russia has a large and restive population of islamic extremists Okay, looking at uh, some Some jokes here by constantine Constantine kissin on twitter. Did wil smith learned to fight from one of his wife's boyfriends Russia today is about to release an exclusive interview with wil smith Key points how nato expansion sparked the conflict. Why does the rock love hitler? It's possible that zelensky made fun of putin's wife's haircut that that would explain a lot Everyone has a great sense of humor until the until the joke is about them If I was here, oh if I were wil smith, I would have simply debated and defeated chris rock in the marketplace of ideas so, uh, wil smith finally apologized today, but The chat reminds me that various people in the distant right Did uh, believe the slap was real such as eric striker on his telegram. Ethan ralph southern dingo discussed it and Issues on tequila sunrise Okay, so some people in the distant right do I just saw an awful lot of people in the distant right thinking. Ah, this is just All pretend. This is all nonsense Do we think it's possible that with no one right in the country because of course we have no chosen Successor to putin is it possible if we did that that one of those six thousand nuclear weapons might wind up in the hands of some Anti-american terror group and be used against our civilian population here a nuclear weapon Well, that's not just possible It's likely And that's if we were to succeed in killing putin. What if we don't kill putin? As apparently is now our policy The president united states just informed the russian government that he seeks its overthrow So you have to ask yourself Does hearing that make vladimir putin more or less likely to use a nuclear weapon against the united states and western europe? Hmm, how do trapped animals behave? Well, they lash out with fangs and claws Desperate people are dangerous people, of course So it would be in the interest of the united states and that's the only interest that matters from our perspective to cool the rhetoric Yeah, good points there by tucker Carlson. Okay. Matt Walsh is frequently pretty funny So here's some of the tweets on his thread. I want to hear from pansexuals with alopecia face a texturism bigotry So people with alopecia means they can't grow much hair Top of their heads have briefly become our nation's preeminent victim group transcend transgenders will soon reclaim the title All I know is that wil smith's wife's boyfriend must be so grateful that he stood up for their woman What we should be talking about is the fact that he awarded best picture to a movie nobody has ever seen in which may not even exist for all we know and Just a note to white people that what happened between world jade and chris is black folks business tread lightly Oh, the largest corporation in the world whose aim is children's entertainment Disney is publicly outraged that your kindergarten that weren't here about transsexuals and homosexuality in school So well, disney is outraged by the don't say gay bill in florida, which prohibits talking about sexual orientation when you know children in kindergarten first second third grade Yeah, and Matt Walsh talks about the conspiracy theories about this incident will smith chris rock both agreed to participate in a stunt Evolving real physical violence that makes both of them look terrible And wil smith has kept the gag going even willingly overshadowing his own Oscars for its sake totally reasonable theory So a black celebrity walks onto stage commits assault live television suffers no consequences is handed an award best actor Oscar 45 minutes later and this is all evidence of white privilege So this black guy dr. Jason johnson professor of global journalism Says no way wil smith does that to a white comic It will be ricky govay. He wouldn't have even been able to reach the stage. He would have been asked to leave afterwards Speech is not violence. It's usually inappropriate to hit someone for insulting your wife Certainly not an event you opt into attending where a comic is paid to insult famous people exciting news We have a new current thing all of the people with ukraine flags in their bios are about to become alopecia awareness advocates So alopecia advocates praise wil smith oska slap says the new york post Showed strength CNN runs a five minute segment celebrating judge kentunji brown jackson's hairstyle. She's not only changing the image of justice but the Image of beauty The conservatives are defending wil smith might want to take a second Think about the fact that they're signing with work leftists who believe that jokes are literally violence Chris rocks mild joke about jayda's haircut was the straw that broke the cuckold's back So yeah, all these conservatives are defending what wil smith did So matt roof spawns you lose the right to commit violence in defense of your wife's honor After you brag publicly that she sleeps with other men honor is forever off the table at that point I don't always commit battery on live tv, but when I do I talk about being a vessel of love right after Oh, jamie lee curtis arrives at the oska's red carpet shows off a blue ribbon in support of the refugees This is almost as brave as wil smith slapping a guy and then crying because he was offended by a joke so wil smith apparently humiliated after suffering cuckold rage After chris rock mock jada pinkett smith for having a gij and hairstyle and our rate will smith storm the stage Struck the comic cross of faith before yelling keep my wife's name out of your effing mouth So perhaps wil's outburst was caused by his frustration at having an open relationship with his own wife So the actor gets angry at a relatively harmless joke about her, but he's apparently okay with her sleeping with other men wil smith will not tolerate other men making jokes about his wife He will however tolerate other men having sex with his wife. This is a man of principle So during the BAFTA's last month, australian actor rebel wilson joked that the wil smith's best performance was being okay with all of his wife's boyfriends wil smith responded by trying to justify the situation by revealing that his wife kept him informed of who she slept with There's never been infidelity in our marriage. She and I talk about everything Couple is free to do whatever they want in their grown relationship The open marriage appears to have made the actor emotionally unstable prone to explosive outburst Lashing out in response to having been publicly Disrespected and humiliated by his own wife a little bit or when you employ overheated rhetoric to do it for a reason In the service of a clearly articulated goal that helps the united states and not just because you're old and pissed Which is exactly what you just saw a guy who just lost control of what he was saying because he was too mad It's all pretty obvious. No one in washington has spent 30 seconds thinking about what would happen if we knocked off Putin or if we talk about knocking off Putin In fact, our foreign policy establishment spent the weekend congratulating joe biden on saying the wrong thing They compared him to ronald reagan Washington loves regime change. It's what comes after regime change. They'd rather not consider and have no track record of pulling off But for now, they were thrilled bill crystal compared biden's threat to reagan Telling mckayle gorbachev to tear down this wall because everything in dc is cliche based Okay, let's get to the wilson agreed. Biden did tear down this wall You know, some people were like, oh, why are you talking about this nick stuff still because the arc keeps going Do you stop the you stop cobra kai on season two when it ends? No, you watch season three the next day from start to finish right Uh, and we gave him a week break last week It's back in full force this week. This is the story of the week beardsons wife on kiwi Nick melting down on this show like Come on and we have too much fun with it. Kitos. Thank you so much like dude. Seriously, man All you guys mad love and again the gum road links down there a lot of content this week And it's really fucking funny stop. So check it out and thank you everyone who's support Who has joined and supports? Thanks But let's see how nicks doing right? Yeah, I'm sure he's doing right. Let's move on. Let's take a look at our super chat Wait before he says that his next sentence or his next statement after this one Look at his demeanor here. Okay. Well, look at his demeanor right here in this frame Like he looks stressed like there's a lot of tension in him And it's because he knows he isn't getting the financial support he used to get Look at this. Let's see what what do you guys have to say? Let's just take a look And we'll see what what do you have, huh? I'm just dying to know here Dying to know What's the date today the 11th? Do I have like no that's a bad statement to say when you're looking at when you're looking at the super chats You're like no it can't be the 11th. There's nothing here There's nothing here at the dashboard Oh Is it the 11th activity feed? What? What a super test Do the show by the way, not even three dollars Bring it up bring it back five seconds. We just got to hear the richness of this statement. It's so beautiful Dying to know Oh What's the date today the 11th? Dude, I have like no super test. Why even do the show at this point. Why even do super chats? I get like two super chats You know what it is. It's this site. This new site is just oh, he's the site He's flaming the site But uh, we're gonna enter in their banking info into the the text box the field there hard to implement and a um The paypal, you know, then super chat Feature on the actual cozy site. It's just so hard getting payment processing But we're working really hard to get because I know the stream Payment site is is really difficult to use tough. Yeah, but um, it's such a hard hard site to use guys People say it's because you're mean It's because you're mean. Yeah, that's true. How do you have 6,000 watching man? I'm not one super chat. That's insane If we had 6,000 watching we'd make like six grand in donos or some crazy shit like there would be comments Asking me to stop reading super chats like the whole app after it was posted You're mean. Yeah, that's true. Well, whatever I'd rather have watch here. He tries to bait for donos. He does. Okay We'll try and destroy my soul cripples my soul to read some of these He there is he's like when it hurts my feelings when I have to read these soup and really bothers me reading super chats That's what you do like to try and bait donos on like ip2 or shit He was just doing it there out of desperation Probably now watch now watch what super chats. He does get they're just shitting on him. No not for being late. Yeah. Yeah Me me bob. I'm still new and wondering Uh, when you might open the merch store would love to get an america first hat and couldn't make its aft pack to acquire one Soon, okay. We're trying to get payment processing Yeah, john duffy Hear that so not only is he not getting super chats on a consistent basis But the merch store is down. There's no money coming in from the merch store So where is the money coming from for aft pack? Where is the money coming from for all this shit? My theory is it's coming from master mylo and the fucking rnc caucus to subvert the movement to their own twisted ends There's no wonder. He's out there poisoning the well with the russia stuff with the incel stuff Because it discredits this movement and makes it easy for the establishment to write them off That's what's going on. That's where the funding comes from now. Any organic funding is dead That's what we just learned in a minute and a half. I think you're right now watch Now watch the super chats come in making fun of him for being late and saying that's why he does it gets He says you don't get many super chats because you start too late for these coasts I'll thanks for telling me that man says this show is not for east coast niggas. They can all go to sleep That's like 2 a.m. For people on the east coast. Whoops Oops Whoops, don't go hyper was chill. But hey stay in school man I pause it now. He's telling people to stay in school. So he's not making any money He's getting made fun of for being unprofessional and now his advice to one of his underlings One of his people that helps him with the stream is to stay in school Be sure to stay in school. Don't do what I did stay This guy I meet this guy and he's like, uh, he's got this like advanced degree He was working on another advanced degree and he's like, oh, well, no, I just like Dude, I help with streaming and stuff. I'm like, man go to school. He's got like a stem degree He's got like a master's stem degree. I'm like nigga boy Get a job nigga So yeah, I'm trying to push him in the right direction But great to meet you good guy chill groiper not trying to boss you around you're older than me, but I'm like, dude, do you know how many people would kill to have an advanced degree in a stem subject and have that aptitude This is him like he's like he wishes that he had a real job He wishes he had a degree in the stem field Watch at the end of the clip the sigh This the sigh of defeat that nick gives out. Okay, I just want Just look like if you if you can have that path you should definitely do that But hey, I mean, you know some people want to do something else They're so true That was like himself like I wish I could do something else Oh I chose to do this, you know, why are you three hours late? There's no money. You know what I did all day I woke the fuck up went to the eight went to the gym for two hours came home Uh, I uh, I edited our our survivor fucking thing for gum road finished that eight again Fucking finished the voice for the new subculture to iceberg video edited all the audio To come and meet you 10 minutes later after a quick shower Work work motherfucker like three hours late. What are you doing fucking rolling out of bed eating mcdonald's fucking jerky Just three hour shower like jayden outed him for having to have a three hour shower each. It's fucking retarded I'm long I'm trusting and you work your ass off too setting up the show the clips Oh, it's so rich. It's so rich what he's about to say to and you listen to this I hate lazy fucks plan I get it because some jobs are really hard and stressful. You have the easiest job, dude. You sit down and talk about the news. It's not that fucking hard, dude. I'm long. People want to do something else. They're so true. I'm long on trusting the plan. So many victories lately. I mean, such a string of victories. The black pillars or the haters must really be blackpilled. Pause it. We're so blackpilled. We're so blackpilled, Nick. We're fucked. You've been winning so much lately. I've been winning so much. The fucking dissension at half pack three between stew and Marjorie Lou. OK, so you know who else is spiraling is Laura Logan, formerly of 60 Minutes. So Michael Sherman, she was so good on 60 Minutes. Now she's telling people Charles Darwin was hired by the Rothschilds to write The Origin of Species. No, Charles Darwin was independently wealthy. Nobody's. Gone from being a farmer who may not be able to farm efficiently, who may not be able to feed as many people. But guess what? He could feed. He could grow food year after year after year because who created seeds that are renewable? Like truly like who created life that is truly renewable? What is the only thing on earth that is actually renewable? It's life. Yeah. And they can, you know, go back to the Big Bang Theory and Darwin. I mean, when I found out, does anyone know when who employed Darwin where Darwin is and comes from? Go ahead. Well, I mean, you know, look it up. The Rothschilds. Yeah. It goes right back to 10 Downing Street. All the way. And the same people who employed Darwin. And that's when Darwin, you know, wrote his theory of evolution and so on and so on. And I'm not saying that none of that is true. I'm just saying Darwin was hired by someone to come up with a theory, right, based on evidence, OK, fine. But, you know, even the people, the scientists, all of the people that can take you back to the Big Bang, what is the one question they can never, ever, ever answer? They can never tell you whatever that was, whether it's the molecules or the energy or, you know, all that stuff, all these scientists like that, you know, that evil, horrible person who's the science advisor to Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum, who says there's no such thing as freedom. Everything. There's no such, you know, this randomness, but that's not freedom of blah, blah, blah, this probability and there's this and there's that. They can explain it in a way, any way you like. But how did those things come into being? You know, and it was it was a combination of. It's that question of what came first, the chicken or the egg, right? You can't answer that scientifically. You just can't because something made that into being whatever it was. So this is Lauren Logan going on some Q and on promoting show or and we know and ask, does anyone know when who employed Darwin? Where does Darwinism come from? I mean, look it up. It comes from the Rothschilds. So she's been going on right wing shows, endorsing conspiracy theories. She's invoked pizza gay claim. January 6th was orchestrated, like Charlottesville was orchestrated, called Zelensky, a moron and a CIA puppet. He's promoting Rothschild conspiracy theories on a getter account, including about the Civil War, assassination of Lincoln and Kennedy and Putin supposedly purging the Rothschild money changers. Man, so some people take a little bite of the red pill and then. About a guy I used to do a show with and that took a little bite of the red pill and just spiraled into insanity. I mean, Joe Rogan doesn't know whether or not we landed on the moon in in 1969. Talking bad epistemic span and one manifestation of this crazy downward spiral that people get into is Anders Brevik, right? Not everyone who buys into nonsense and conspiracy theories is going to end up like Brevik, but quite a lot well. And so this terrific book, one of us, the story of a massacre in Norway. And it's aftermath talks about Anders Brevik childhood. So his mother would would bring him. She asked for help. She couldn't she couldn't look after him. And so she asked for help from the social welfare agencies. And Anders was allocated to a newly married couple in their 20s. And she'd bring the boys to them. But the couple found her rather odd. She asked if Anders could occasionally touch the dad's penis. It was important for the boy's sexuality and no father figure in his life. And Anders mother wanted the young man to assume that role. Anders had no one to identify with in terms of his appearance. He had an older sister. He only saw girls crutches and did not know how the male body worked. The young couple were speechless. They were too embarrassed to report what she had said. But then his mother goes to the foster home section, the child welfare office. She wanted to have both of her children sent into foster care. She wanted them to go to the devil. She called the court in and said, I think you're just walking out on my children and leaving them to society to live their own life. Neighbors called Anders Brevek when he was a kid, a Makano boy, because he was like something made out of a construction set stiff and angular. So he would sit by these ants who had this permanent path across the grass. And he would sit there waiting. You're going to die. Got you. He'd pick them up one by one and squash them. People found him disgusting. He was cruel to animals. He would keep rats in a cage and poke them with pens and pencils. He caught bumblebees, dropped them in water and brought them up to the surface so he could watch them drown. So in the 15 years of Anders Brevek's lifetime, first 15 years, the number of non-western immigrants in Norway had risen fivefold. In Oslo, the change was even more marked. Anders Brevek caught himself metrosexual. It doesn't sound like a lot of people who come to affiliate with a distant right. He dressed up, he wore makeup, he used vitamin enriched hair products. He ordered Rogaine from America, which promised to stop hair loss and trigger the follicles into new growth. He spent a great deal of time in front of the mirror. Too long thought his friends who would laugh whenever he overdid the makeup. When he started wearing foundation, they teased him even more. It's concealer he objected. In summary, he applied bronzing powder. Kept a whole row of aftershaves in the bathroom. His nose was new, got a nose job. According to Anders Brevek, Norway should learn from the U.S. where the key to success was number one, you are the best. Number two, you can make all your dreams come true. Number three, the only limits of those you set yourself. He was exempted from military service because he was registered as his mother's carer after she had a serious herpes infection. She was wildly promiscuous. She had a drain inserted in her head. So Anders Brevek would continually get into trouble for a very distant right reason. He was behaving like a king, but he was only a toy. OK, like Richard Spencer, behaving like a king, but he was only a toy. One of his friends said to him, come out of the closet, Anders. You've got to come out. We're living in the 21st century for God's sake. His friends thought he was gay. Plainly wasn't interested in women. He just pretends his makeup and his giggling and his affected voice. What he liked to do most was sit down at the computer and escape from reality. So he spent years playing a world of Warcraft. He avoided his friends. The computer screen attracted him more and more. He could not be bothered to work out. His diet was poor. He no longer made an effort to dress up and go into town. He was second partying with friends. He was all into World of Warcraft. And suddenly in the summer of 2008, he felt like being sociable again. He rang his friends, got together, told them he was working on a book about the Islamization of Europe and he had to live a long lectures to them. The Labour Party has ruined our country. It's feminized the state. It's made it into a matriarchy. It's made it into a place where it's impossible to get rich. He started repeating himself. His friends glossed over his peculiarities, the strange behavior, the extreme topics of conversation. They figured soon he'd be back to his old self. When his friends finally taught him to shut up, he stopped talking. He could not cope with the transition from didactic monologuing to ordinary chatting. He could only talk about what his friends called his gloomy outlook on the world. In the evening, he relaxed with the vampire series True Blood or an episode of Dexter, the show about a serial killer. It annoyed him that all these series he watched were so keen to promote multi-culturalism. OK, why do people believe such crazy conspiracy theories? Over the past year as COVID-19 rocketed around the world, conspiracy theories quickly followed. Last spring, dozens of cell phone towers were set aflame across Europe amid conspiracy theories that the 5G towers were spreading COVID-19. In January, a Wisconsin pharmacist was charged with deliberately destroying hundreds of doses of the newly available COVID-19 vaccine because he believed a conspiracy theory that the vaccine would change human DNA. And some people are asserting that the virus itself was engineered by the Chinese. These aren't the only conspiracy theories making inroads right now. A September Pew Research Center survey found that more than half of Americans have heard at least a little about QAnon, the complicated web of pro-Trump conspiracy theories that originated on the message board, 4chan. In November, two candidates who voiced support for QAnon theories were elected to Congress. So how do conspiracy theories like these get started and why do they persist? Who is most likely to believe them and why? Is there any way to combat conspiracy theories once they're out there? And what are the consequences for individuals and societies when they spread? Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life. I'm Kim Mills. Our guest today is Dr. Karen Douglas, a professor of social psychology at the University of Kent in the UK. Dr. Douglas has spent more than a decade studying conspiracy theories, and she joins us to talk about their history, causes and consequences. Thank you for joining us, Dr. Douglas. Hi, Kim. Thank you very much for your invitation. Hi, everybody. So let's start with a definition that's always a good place to launch. What counts as a conspiracy theory? I gave a few examples in the introduction, but how do you define conspiracy theories in your research? What are their common characteristics? Well, a conspiracy theory can normally be defined as a proposed plot carried out in secret, usually by a powerful group of people who have some kind of sinister goal, so something to gain from what they're doing. And they usually don't have people's best interests at heart. Usually their own interests at heart. Some people think that the belief in conspiracy theories has been on the rise in recent years fueled by social media. But in a paper a few years ago, you concluded that wasn't necessarily true. Instead, you found that conspiracy theories have always thrived during times of crisis and social upheaval, with examples going back as far as the burning of Rome while Nero was away and that the last decade hasn't been particularly more conspiracy prone than the past. Can you talk about that and how do researchers measure this? Sure. Yes, it is definitely the case that the conspiracy theories have always been with us, it believing in conspiracy theories and being suspicious about the actions of others is in some ways quite an adaptive thing to do. We don't necessarily want to trust everybody and trust everything that's happening around us. And so they have always been with us. And to some extent, people are all, I guess you could call everybody a conspiracy theorist if you want to use that term at one point or another. And so, yeah, they've always been there. People have always believed in conspiracy theories as far back as we can remember. People have been having these conspiracy beliefs and having these suspicions about the actions of hostile collectives of individuals. This is just the way that we are wired up. OK, so it's overwhelmingly losers who go into this stuff. Dropping the dark on your ass and exposing you to a mean. And what makes it lose to someone who gets out of touch with reality? How do people get out of touch with reality? They fail to connect with people. So our friend is complaining about, you know, all the leukisms that are now entering my life, such as, you know, what gives or what drains me of energy? Well, the best way to get connected into energy is to be able to connect and create a shared reality with other people. When you can't create a shared reality with other people by having some sort of rhythmic entrainment with other people, then you become isolated and your energy dries up. And then as your energy dries up, your social connections dry up. When you're not connected with other people, you have this desperate need for meaning, which then leaves you wide open to to pursue meaning in a desperate way. When you're desperate, you don't tend to make good decisions. Desperate people seeking meaning turn to really crazy stuff like you're not or some of the more extreme parts of the political spectrum. Extreme audience is an insincere faggot. You know, now you're not having any super chats. The merch stores down, no payment processor, Beardson spiraling, losing his mind, trying to shit on and kick off other streamers so he can make more money himself. The winning is endless. The haters are so blackpilled, you know? Like how long did he, like how long after that super chat rant was this part? 20 minutes later. Oh, man. Oh, I love it. Well, chef's kiss. Guys, between the slight, I mean, can we even, there's so many victories you forget about the other ones. It's just this. Elliot says, is the belief in dozens of genders in the same family the same as conspiracy theorists? Yes. Yes. Systemic racism, nonsense conspiracy theory. So the worksters are increasingly delusional. And much of the distant right also increasingly delusional, because both are getting separated from normal human contact. String of huge uncontested victories. You know, you love to see it. Yeah, I love when people need it. It's about to give us, though, his big victory, his big victory for the month. Are you ready? Nick's going to tell us his crowning achievement. Yes, hang on. OK, now I'm ready. And they're like, wow, I thought you were going to be so short. And you're actually you're actually pretty average. I'm like, thank you so much. I thought you'd be so short. Look so short on the internet there. But you actually turned out to be average in height. That's a big one. I love it. W, W for Nick. You win, bro. That means a lot to me. I had a meeting with this guy in Orlando before the conference, and he was like, whoa, you're way taller than I expected. He's like, I was expecting you to be like five four. And I'm like, yeah, I know. Thank you. Everybody's always lying about me. So you're lying about you like you're not five four, you're five six. And you're two inches taller than I thought. And red pilled me. I don't know when I first did that statement, bring it back five seconds. He just said that Beardson was the one to red pill him. And he was completely ignorant politically before Beardson came along and red pilled him. And he's going to talk about how he used to look up to Beardson as a hero and how Beardson is a legend. OK, well, yeah, I know. Thank you. Everybody's always lying about me. So thanks. Beardson red pilled me. I remember when I first talked to Beardson, I was starstruck. Now it's like whatever. Now I love Beardson, but I remember when I was like a junior senior in high school and I would follow Beardson and Paul town like those guys are still legends to me too. Those guys are still legends in my eyes as well. So and I remember seeing Paul town and Beardson calling each other pedophiles and respawning constantly. And they did the content enemies with Sam. I was like, oh, my gosh, I remember being on the weekly sweat for the first time and being like, mom, dad, I was on the weekly sweat. I got to talk to Paul town and Beardson. Can you fucking imagine telling your mom and dad? I'm dad. I got to talk to Beardson the groomer today. How's Beardson doing these days? Some of the biggest pieces of shit ever. The Sam Docs. Well, Sam Docs is in the chat to try and get me banned. There's scumbags. If all my fans are absolute retards, the net reflects poorly on me, right? Yeah, it does. I guess you know it. Our game. Oh, you said not me. I'm not saying we have to we have to stop being funny. I say we have to stop having fun. But be nice to me. But all of us as human beings, all of us as human beings, whether we're content creators, chatters, you know, mods, whatever the fuck. We've got it. We've all we all have to excel to the next level. You know what I'm saying? When I drank last week, the comments were brutal. Andy, stop drinking, you're fucking idiot. You're like, Ralph, don't do this. It's not funny. What did I do? Did I go, hey, pandemon? I DMed you and look, I'm going to stop drinking. Like if people don't like it, you're like, fair enough. Maybe they're being constructive with how you're acting or what you're doing. Stopping a bitch Beardson. Hey, man, chill out, chill out, man. All breaking news, Andy Pansu has just said on the show that she loves the Canadian accent on guys. Ralph was a bit taken aback by that statement on the show. Um, she's already for that. She watched the show. Yeah, she's watching it instead of the kill stream. She's getting really wet, you know, all stream. Pansu is a desert, again, Kino Casino. It's like a fucking ocean between your legs. I mean, literally, I mean, this is this is just the truth. We have the entire world apparatus. Ralph is going to beat her up in the show, dude. Trying to fucking kneel on our next one, George Floyd right now. George Floyd, there we go. Take this is just the truth. Thank you, Beardson there. We appreciate you. Let's read some of these. That's fucking funny, though. We are at 200. Wow, everyone. Thank you so much for supporting us. Generous. OK, I think that one.