 This is systematic bullying that's happening. I will never surrender even a single inch of ground to a pitchfork mob. We will never bow to the mob, ever, no matter what or what. Do you see the final expression of cancel culture in terrorist groups like, we'll see who cancels who. Hi friends. You are muted. Yes, you are. I can't hear you. Still muted. Everyone else is good? Yeah. How are we doing friends? I was going to say folks, but then I said friends, this is a great start to the episode. Do you hear me now? We're officials. Yes, yeah, good enough. It's not even a leftist audio issue. That's weird. Okay. Something's going on. All right. I don't know what I'm doing. How are we doing friends? Good. I guess I could start by saying I'm very sorry for your loss, David. What? This loss? Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. You just scared me. I thought that somebody had died in David's family or something. Oh my God. The hopes and dreams died in the hearts of everyone from Toronto. Yeah. Honestly, I thought you were going to the distance. I was pretty surprised. This happens every year, at least haven't won since 1967. So you know, every year we are crushed. This is just how it goes. So we're used to it. It's fine. See, all these fans are broken inside. So this is how it is. I'll never feel the loss because I don't follow anything like that. You don't follow any sports? None. No. This is like for me when Sami Zayn didn't beat Roman Reigns at the pay-per-view in February for the title. Yeah, but that's all decided behind the scenes. They were in Sami Zayn's hometown in Canada. A Canadian, fellow Canadian loss. That's right. There you go. For you guys. Sami Zayn. All right. But that's the equivalent from there. I have not followed wrestling closely since like the attitude era. Like, I don't know. Like once, I think I stopped watching right before John Cena came in. So I like that everything passed with John Cena. I just don't. I'm no idea. No idea. That's fine. Until you said John Cena, I didn't know we were talking about wrestling. Who did you think Sami Zayn was? I don't follow wrestling at all. Yeah. But who did you think? Like what were you thinking though? When you said for the title, I originally thought like UFC or something like that. Oh, no, no, no. I'm not a big UFC guy. What y'all talking about? Oh, I do have things. I mean, it's all the same company now, actually. I'm on it. I'm on it. Chad said they wonderful. They got to see the Olay moat like like an emoji. Hold on. Whatever you're talking about. What is it? Oh, hold on. Let me see if I could. So I got up. So one of my listeners made a bunch of emotes for me. And I'm so glad they brought it up. I almost forgot. And I got to still upload them to because I'm really bad on about that. Like for Twitch. And I guess for YouTube, too, they do emotes. And like one of the emotes is this cool emote for me. Do you guys see that? Oh, that's cute. Oh, okay. Awesome. But, but one emote they sent me is actually for you. And I got to get it to you. Here you go. Oh, that's so cute. Oh, do I have my own little dragon balls going on? Yeah, you got a dragon ball. That's really cute. It's very cute. Oh, I want her. See, aren't my, aren't my, my viewers the best? Yeah. I'm more impressed about how are you putting that stuff on screen? I'm not able to do that. I know. I'm using, I'm using my, like my usual live stream software as a virtual camera. So, yeah. So anything I pull onto the, yeah, anything that pull, I pull onto that screen you can see in my camera. That's cool. Smart, smart, smart. Well, I can preview some ideas or some things that we may be talking about this week since I actually prepped some stuff. This week. You did. I did Simon. Elon Musk spreads another lie. Oh, yeah. Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro doesn't like women in swimsuits. Elon Musk gets questioned on his dumb tweets by CNBC. Ron DeSantis legalizing kidnapping of trans kids. Racist Marjorie Taylor Greene in her fight with Jamal Bowman. There we go. There's a few things that we may be talking about this week and there's also Dianne Feinstein and that whole thing. There's, there's a lot. Oh God, yeah. Let's start with the, I, I, you know, we talked about the Ben Shapiro one on the majority part earlier. So it's a fun one. So let's start with that. So we could start off on a good, sure. Funny note. Yeah. And then we'll go down the. I was wondering as well, I saw this clip. I was wondering if there's more to it because I assume and so I'll set it up because there is a, it's based on, I guess what sparked it is, let me bring this up. Is the new cover of, of Sports Illustrated. Yes. Martha Stewart. Well, there's multiple. Fabulous at 81. Here it is. So Martha Stewart. There you go. 81 years old. She looks incredible. Looks amazing. So that's what, that's what a few months in jail will do to you. It really hardens you up. So Ben Shapiro is in this clip. He doesn't. He has something to say, but oh, he's got something to say. But it might not be what you expect because it's just so like, it's so weird. Okay. Let me turn the volume. Make sure the volume on my end is going to be loud enough here. It's also Sports Illustrated. So Sports Illustrated years ago, I canceled. I used to be like for years and years and years as a Sports Illustrated devotee. I think that I got my Sports Illustrated subscription when I was like 13, 14 years old and I had probably 20 years. Yeah, but wait. It was like my, my kind of Saturday afternoon enjoyment was reading the sports articles in Sports Illustrated. Obviously. Oh, I have people in America who actually called up Sports Illustrated and said, don't send me the swimsuit edition. I would instead prefer to receive like a regular. Oh my God. I'm just going to digest that part first. Yeah. Well, I think that's the 13 years old really into sports. The Lady Doth protest too much. I mean, he makes sure to mention that he loved his Saturday afternoons reading the sports articles, making sure to say that. And then he's got to follow it up with, oh, you know, that's some suit issue. I called them up and told them, send me more articles instead. No sports, please. Just sports. I mean, just sports for me. No, no, no pretty women. I know the real sports fans. They love talking about all the sports articles they read, not basketball, not football, not the specific sport. Just, I love reading sports. I love sport. Go sports. It's so disingenuous. It's like, it reminds me of him buying like a plank of wood from Home Depot. Like he's standing outside with the plank of wood. It's so performative. You've never validated your masculinity by buying wood. And then putting it in a small plastic bag and carrying it outside. No, I haven't done that. Can do that with sports illustrated. But the sports illustrated swimsuit edition was obviously tailored at dudes, right? It was obviously beautiful women in body shape and pretending to be sports, right? That's what it was. I didn't, I had ideological objections to it because again, I'm not big into the objectification women. I'm actually not a huge fan of women in bathing suits pandering for the male. This segment is almost over. There's probably more to this, but I haven't seen the rest of this clip. But yeah, this is basically the extent of it. I'm just amazed that like, not amazed, but why is he pretending to care so much about this when he didn't even care about the swimsuit issues? So like he's bothered by Martha Stewart apparently being on the cover, but he was never even into them. Like it's just, again, it's just for clicks. This is about, it's so cloudish. There's three seconds here. I'm not even sure what's worth. Okay. So I'm actually not a huge fan of that because again, I'm a religious conservative. There you go. That's the extent of it. Even if he did, like if he literally called them almost like, excuse me, can you please stop sending me the swimsuit issues? Why would you admit that? He did not do that shit. I actually looked, I actually liked it. Let's be honest. It was marketed towards dudes pretending to be sports. You know, I actually looked it up and apparently you could do that. You could opt out of the swimsuit edition if you were subscribed. Are you for real? Yeah. But the funny thing is, I mean, his whole thing, this whole premise of him saying how he didn't look at it is obviously, and we don't have it obviously, but it's, I'm going to assume, and I don't think it's a wild assumption, is his way of criticizing Martha Stewart being on the cover because that magazine should be for men to look at like, you know, hot, 20-year-old. But listen, pull that, pull that, pull that, pull that, that Martha Stewart cover back up because she's looking good. She is. Why am I? Okay, what's your opinion? Thoughts? Right, that's what I said. Thoughts, Mike? What are your thoughts on this, Mike? That's exactly what I said. I didn't know he could do that. I said, Dave, give me a second with Martha Stewart and Mike Figueredo and I'll get a tissue or not. I'm dying. Oh my God. Yeah, I don't, like, it's just, it's the, who even honestly buys magazines anymore? Like, I don't even know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Well, she's not buying magazines anymore. I don't want to be rude to anyone that works on a magazine. It was a great industry once, but like this is not. This is not something that is all that culturally important anymore. It seems very very bizarre to me to be so obsessed with like magazines and what they're doing if you didn't see the the second part of that he goes off about a sports illustrated cover that has a trans model trans woman on the cover and does almost like, you know, beat for beat the same thing where it's still him being like, This was supposed to be for men. Who does this appeal to, blah, blah, blah. And like, if you see the cover photo, it's like, the pretzels that these people are twisting themselves into to try and continuously- Oh, the Kim Petrus one? Yeah, like to sit down and be like- I saw Tim Poole talking about that. I gotta tell you, she's looking good on that cover too. She looks incredible. To answer Tim Poole's question, does being into that make you gay? If it does, man, I'm the biggest homo now. I don't know what y'all's talking about anymore, and Bender concerns me, but I know- Yeah, let me show you. My train of thought went, you know, I give her something, make you think it's something unrelated, but y'all showed Martha Stewart, and then I processed Martha Stewart as being a little as fuck on this cover. And then I was like, oh, I'm going to die one day. And then I was like, and then like suddenly I was there and then I was having a full crisis. Oh my God. That's like, oh my God. That's a happy when you smoke so much weed before the show. That's the paranoia setting it. This is the other one. Like, what's the problem here? Yeah, she looks amazing. She looks good. She looks great. Looks fantastic. Tim Poole had the audacity to post this photo and talk about how like this appeals to like homosexuals who want to be fooled by neo-viginas and all this kind of stuff. Yeah, I know. Did he say neo-viginas? Did he say neo-viginas? If he didn't, he should have said that. No, he said neo-viginas. He said no, for real? That's actually, I love neo-viginas if I'm being honest. That's the way that's all I love to be. No, for sure. I actually saw a conservative trans woman arguing with him because she preferred him using the neo-vigina term over the other horrible things he calls. Insulting terms that he uses, yeah. Yeah. So like that's actually the preferable term for the conservative trans woman. The vagina goes hard. It honestly does. I just love that he coined this term and he doesn't realize how based and amazing it sounds. Like it just makes it sound cool. I don't know if he coined it. I want to be... Oh, OK. Our guest is here, so should I add him in? Yeah, let's bring him in. Hey. Can you hear me? We can hear you. How's it going, man? Hey, what's up, y'all? How are you? How are you guys? Doing well. Folks, if you don't know, this is Zed Tabani of Freestyle The News. If you haven't heard of him, you will very soon because his content is absolutely fucking amazing. Oh, man, thank you. I appreciate that, dude. I did that shit for like two years with zero people watching and then all of a sudden people like it. So it's kind of crazy to me. It's so good. I wanted to watch one of your videos. I have the link here. I'll actually share that because if you don't know, basically what Zed does is what we do, except he turns the news into music and it's not just like some quick put to get like it's a fucking banger. Like every time I watch this video, it's stuck in my head every single week. So let me let me queue it up. Wait, quick, Freestyle being on Leftist Mafia right now. Don't let them do that to you. Don't make them make you chicken dive. Don't let them make you chicken dive. I charge for that now, bro. Oh, let me pause it. Hang on one sec. OK, let me show solidarity with the writer's strike. I can't do that right now. Nice. OK, by the way, all this show is actually covered by the news. You're afraid of. Oh, I'm good. It's by the news guild. That's perfect. OK, I might have to give it a bit. I mean, I can add it. Yes. Oh, there we go. There we go for the longest time. I saw you on Twitter. I was like, Matt Binder. I'm like, God, I'm a motherfucker. Sounds smart. Matt Binder. You can call me anything if you that's the following thing. All right, folks. So this is the latest video from Zed. Hopefully that works. Thirty three old man with an A.R. style of rifle, the images of people running for their lives violence and American numbers are simply staggered. America, snuff film, stick around. You can probably make the playbill. Everybody get a part. You can lay still. Everybody get famous when they get killed. They don't give a fuck by you or machine gun. Everybody duck follows the procedure. We got more bullets and services you can stream from. Bend a couple track shows in the name of Jesus. Whoa, whoa, switch on my platform. Tucker on Twitter. Fox had him canceled. You think it's big? I think it's hand. Go ask O'Reilly and Kelly for samples. What's one more asshole to put on my mental? Tim in the surf. Look at this graph though. Three versus one. What's with the ambush? Fuck up your angles. Who the fuck called your bright? Hollywood looking here then all out strike. Fran been telling me it's a different fight. You support that line, but like sags all right. What the fuck that mean? Feeling kind of fake like an old ass king. Monarchy most of you didn't want that thing. Looking like a birthday kid at a BJ's when the restaurant sing. Yeah, whoa, whoa. OK, mask off. Red coast turn to bad cops. Evidence turn to side ops. Platforms to the dog shit. Mr. Beast turn to death kids. Backlash where my staff live. Who the fuck Greenlit this shit? Fuck up a brand. So out of touch I thought it was Diane. More conspiracies than Taylor Swift fans. Just be like, now we all know all the stakes. What a great fucking plan. 2016 called. Watching crash like that car trying to speed off. Getting shit like you friends with Selena. Who that got a new CEO Elon? Pakistan rise as soon as the cuff come. I just bought a hundred. He's basically just gone. Got a new name and a new ball. What a cuff on the cut off of George. What's up, bro? Want people to remember how they feel watching these. Hello, you should just blow it out. Of the United States Capitol being taken over. Thank you, man. Because there's going to be. Which is every so often. Pretend this didn't happen. Tonight CNN gave former President Donald Trump a live town hall. And he once again claimed the election was. My check. Let's go. Yeah, the most useless motherfuckers got a lot of opinions. They've been making predictions. I've been fucking keeping my distance. I've been watching the poll and since it was hitting the second term looking middle. But then again, I was switching on Tuesday to Kingdom and look at me now. Fuck with my guardians. The money up the Nero having kids in the 70s. Like a chaplain. I didn't know the neighbor. She grabbed the gun playing tag with chops in America. And they call it fun fucking with my music. No computer replaced me. You got it. Embrace me like you stuck in my room with my feet looking tasty. This bitch looking Paisley man crank up the AC. I'm hot as fuck. Why every pun that looks like a baby who needs some shape cream couple weeks off. Titles be expired and the board are close to freefall. Peloton bikes are getting recalled. Now where you going to put your laundry when your Alex's eyes eventually see gone. Seize every moment like I'm Lonnie Walker. George finished writing his musical. Lame is a robless. Fuck out of here. I'm honest like a million or one. I'm here to keep the shit together unlike some 41. Too soon. In too deep. I guess so. Bro, I'm glad you guys like that, man. It's so good. That was awesome. That was good. That was awesome. Thank you, man. I appreciate that guy. Can you please tell how do you even begin to like where do you even start because you're covering a lot of news and you're turning it into a song. You're right. Like the process has got to be like incredible. And you do one video per week. Yeah, we're going to I'm right now. We're talking about doing more than one probably because like so this week I tested out doing. I'm probably going to do it to like my Patreon to kind of thing or whatever. But like I did one on the Activision like them doing the overwatch to think one on one story. But I'm going to try to do maybe one on a daily story or two soon. But no, pretty much the the process is this is like. I start on Saturday pretty much. And I just start like kind of listing like news articles that I see and I kind of arrange it by like headline news article, entertainment, politics, world and then weird and random shit. And so because the thing that the whole conceit of the piece is like it's got to feel like the week you just had. And if it's too much politics or too much entertainment, people will tune out. But if it's like a little bit of everything, you're like, oh, God, wow, this is so much happened. Right. So like every so often I have to like kind of go through and like see, OK, under the entertainment section, this was relevant. I have to pull from that. But what I started doing is I have a headline section where it's like the biggest stories of the week kind of go in that section. And it's like, you know, I mean, like for this week, sorry, I'm going to grab my phone and I'll tell you what I but I have listed for this week. For this week for headlines, the first one was like Jamie Foxx and being being like called dead by the name was actually alive. You know, Travis Scott is Matt and Timothy Chalamet for dating Kylie Jenner. But then also other stuff like the Supreme Court deciding for siding with Section 230. Feinstein being frailer than ever, but I'm being unwilling to give up like her per seat MGT introducing articles of impeachment. So like I'll start collecting stuff on Saturday. Sunday or Monday, I will kind of have an idea of where the week's kind of going, like what it kind of feels like already. And then I'll pick a beat like and the decision is I'll pick usually two beats because Tuesday, though the whole week may change, but I want to kind of get a vibe of, okay, this is going to be the overall kind of feeling for this week. And I'll start writing like a couple lines. And then on Tuesday, I'll have more of a clearer picture and I'll just write a ton. I'll write like 16 to 32 bars. Wednesday, I'll write like the bulk of it, the behemoth of it. And then Thursday, I'll finish it off after, after I'm done with this, I have to record it, do my filming of everything. And then mix it, record it, do the filming of everything, do the editing of my part. And then I send it off to my editor and he adds in like the graphics and everything like that. But then I give him assets of what to do with the graphics. Then tomorrow we'll be editing most of it and then it'll be ready for Sunday by the end of the day. That's incredible because it's not just that you are providing people with a genuinely informative video, but the music, the rhymes are fucking catchy and good. So it's so astonishing to be able to do all of that. I just, I love it. I'm a huge fan. Dude, that means a ton, dude. And I'm like, I'm a fan of yours. I knew about the service quite a bit. Like Lance, I didn't tell you, but Lance interviewed me earlier this week, but we have a mutual Megaran, who I've worked with a lot. And he was telling me nice about you. Yeah, Megaran is so awesome. Yeah. Oh, nice. Oh, tell him he's fucking based awesome. We're doing a show. We're doing a show together on Saturday. That's kind of like the thing. We're doing a live show on Saturday for like my subscribers or whatever. But yeah, I went to school for, I mean, I've been rapping like a long time and I went to school for, you know, I'm the second person in history to get into Berkeley College of Music for rap. And like- That's very dope. That's very dope. That's incredible. That's dope. Thank you. I appreciate it, yeah. So like I had that and then I'd done a bunch of stuff for video games and stuff. And like for a while, like I was known for this as like the rapper for like Street Fighter and like video games and shit like that. And it took a while because I have a very, I mean, I'm brown, man. Like I grew up in Irvine and like I dealt with like post-911 shit like my whole life and it's been just a huge part of my life. And I didn't know how to, I put politics in my music, but it was hard to kind of bridge that gap. And I started doing this a couple of years ago and I needed weekly content. Cause I'm like, you know, I can talk about the news and what's going on cause it's relevant. Best rappers of all time had stuff that felt like it was so fresh and so there. So why the fuck don't I do that? It's like a good way to like kind of improve my songwriting and everything like that. And that was when I had a nine to five job and it was really, really hard. And then I did, I did one of these, I took a break for a year and then I was like, you know, let me try it on TikTok. I go TikTok really well. I've worked for a bunch of companies doing TikToks. Why not? And I did it and it blew up and then Philip DeFranco saw it and tried it out on his channel and it worked. And that's been my full-time job since, I think, November. So, yeah. That's so cool. Yeah, it's weird because I was watching you. I saw basically every, I'm pretty sure every single one of your videos. And then on one week in particular, I see an Olay tweet in the news and I'm like, you guys, Olay made it into freestyle of the news. So that's how, oh my God. I didn't even know about that until this week when mine sent me your video because he was in it. And I was like, what is this? And I was like, watch it. He's like, you've been in it too. And I'm like, find me the video about myself, Lance. Bro, Lance told me he reacted to it. And I was just like, oh, like, that's awesome, man. I can't wait to watch the VOD. It's like, well, I'll find it for you. I'm like, great, because that was what I was going to skip to because I need to see that little, I need the validation. It's a needle in a haste. I'm an artist, bro. Like, I need that all the time. I'm 100% out. Yeah, for sure. No, but definitely, like, I'm one, number one, thank you for that tweet because it was great to write about it. But number two, yeah, man, like I feel like a big thing about the way I approach, I told Lance this as well, like when I was on a show, like a big thing about the way I approach it is like, I was a huge like daily show fan growing up. And a big part of the way they approach that was like the absurdity of the news cycle. And I think that's still there sometimes, but like we've switched from like a 24 hour news cycle to like Twitter and everything like that. I think there's just plenty more of the clown show to go around. Obviously I'm like left leaning and then a more left perspective is what I'm here. But like, I just think that like, yeah, I just think the entirety of the, yeah, man, I try to approach it like that and give people like, make people have a fun time whenever they see it because, you know, music was like my catharsis for a while when I was dealing with like post 9-11 shit. And it's good to have something where you're just like, oh man, this week fucking sucked. And then you hear something, you know, like, oh man, that feels, I'm not crazy, like living in this insanity. I'm not like normal people understand this is insane, right? This is insane, right? And so I like to try to make sure that comes across and people don't feel like, so not to be too hokey, but feel so. No, I think that's why it works so well because what you're doing is essentially political commentary, right? Where, as you said, it's cathartic because you kind of had these reactions that you build into your songs, whether it's like in the bars or even like the ad-libbing, where it's like, okay, you get that perspective. Like you're trying to be objective and present the news, but also you're not afraid to insert your opinion. And that kind of like helps really build it up where it's like, oh, yes, thank you. This is fucking crazy. Thank you for vocalizing that in the song. And again, it's just like, even if there wasn't the substance there, like the music itself is so good, but to add the substance to it, that's what I think just puts it over the top. So that's why I've been watching since day one and I told Zed when we were talking a couple of weeks ago, I'm like, we've got to bring you on the Let's Us Mafia before you're too big. Oh, man, I hope I get there, I hope I get there, man. I'm trying to, all of this is really new to me. So I'm like really like, I'm very like, I'm very like flattered to be invited on here and to be amongst y'all and to talk some shit on people. So it's very, very flattering to do all that. I'm glad you like the music too. Like I don't want to, I think the big thing is like trying to make it so that it is, I mean, like, yeah, like a banger. I want it to be like really hype and really enjoyable every week, but I also don't want it to be like this same, like it's got to have different energies. It's got to have like sometimes dove in the different genres and stuff like that, like and be a little bit more fluid so people don't get bored and you can have something to listen to all the time. Like there's ones that, I don't know, man, like I'm trying to make it, I'm trying to make it as fluid as possible so it's not like expiring like the next week, if that makes sense, you know? And then every so often, and then hopefully the whole, at the end of the year or even midway through the year, you can go back and be like, man, what the fuck happened this year? Oh shit, here's my New Year's playlist. That's the hope. And then do like a remix at the end of the year of the entire year and just mix them all together. Oh yeah, I'm getting ready for that. That's gonna be a, that's gonna be hard. Yeah, yeah, I think it's harder to do, that's what I was telling, it's harder to do like at the end of the week than it is to do like during the day. Because like if I do it like one on a day, I'm like, okay, well, I know what happened and I know how significant it is and I know how I feel. So I can just run through this shit and I can talk about it, I can spend more time on each story. But at the end of the week, I'm like, oh my God, I gotta fucking figure out which shootings did not make the cut this week because fucking there's just shooting every week. There's like all this other crazy shit that's going on and it's hard to like pick and summarize the week. So you have to be like super like active and staring at all of the poison that is Twitter all the time, you know? So I was gonna ask you about that because you're like, now you have to kind of be hyper fixated on the news. And like for me, I've been doing, you know, news for several years now and avoiding grade rot is very, very difficult. So like, do you have any coping mechanisms? Like how do you get through the week? Because for me, if I don't take like really like full days off on the weekend where I don't look at Twitter or don't look at the news, then coming back on Monday, I'm just like actually depressed because it really gets to you. Well, you know what? Okay, I'm gonna drop it like a depressing fact. It's not to bring everybody down or trauma down. My father died like a couple of like weeks ago and I said it so casually. But like it was, it was like about a month. I'm sorry about that by the way. No, it's all, it's all good. I just wanted to avoid people having to do that. Like, but like, no, my father died a couple of months ago and I remember I was being like really like exhausted at the time because we were doing everything, a bunch of stuff to lead up to switching to my channel and all this other stuff. And I was just like, man, I'm like exhausted. And I had, I took a week off. And during that week, aside from like play video games, I love video games, something that I did that was nice was like right for myself. And I mean, I know that not all of you, I don't think all of you are rappers, but like doing stuff, creative work for yourself, you think it's gonna drain the tap, but it actually is very fulfilling because it's a part of your muscle that you haven't worked with, right? So like you're being observational and pulling new stories and disseminating them and giving your opinion on these new stories. But I'm sure that like for me personally, like what I noticed is when I write for stuff that's not necessarily just the news, they can have political tinged ideas. They can have stuff like that. But if it's about personal, like just dated to a shit, like shipping my girlfriend or like, you know, like how it feels where I'm at in my career and all this other kind of stuff. It just kind of feels like, oh, okay, this is, I feel a little more free now and that I've gotten some stuff out of my system so then I can tackle all of this other stuff. So I've been doing that like every week because this shit gets exhausted. It's exhausting to write only about news all the time. Like especially with rap stuff because like, again, there's been a mass shooting every single week except for like three weeks this year. And so I have to write about that every single fucking week. And there was a point where like Elon Musk, Kanye and Trump or somebody else made the news like seven weeks in a row. And I'm just so fucking tired of talking about Elon Musk's and his fucking blue checks, bro, like I'm so over it. And like, Kanye said something crazy, like, okay, fucking of course he did. Like I got so exhausted by it. I think, I think doing, oh no, sorry. Yeah, man, like I think that's the best way to do it is just to kind of do that. But also I wanted to ask you guys something. For you guys, especially with covering news, has Twitter, for me, it's just become way less the useful on figuring out current events. Like I feel like current events, okay, so it's not just me, like current events or not. I feel like this week is, I feel like this week, especially for some reason, I've just, it's very tough to see what's actually happening. Like it's all just blue checks, trash, all the replies to everybody are blue checks. Like I can't get any proper replies to like, which often replies with that real context of some stories. And I'm not seeing that now. So it's just like, yeah. It's all the replies that would usually be hidden for like spam or like more. Yeah, exactly. It's all at the top of the fucking comments and all of you. Yeah, they're all verified now. And I see all kind of like, like for example, I see Tim Pools tweets regularly. I've never seen people on my, I've never seen these people on my timeline in my life. And now I'm seeing them just all the fucking times. Matt Walsh, I see him so much. Well, here's the thing. I do think, because you guys are more, you guys are more in that, like, because again, I've been in like gaming, music, and news, like all three kind of there. So I didn't see a lot of like, people would say like, I'm seeing like, animal violence videos every week. I'm like, oh, I'm not, I'm not noticing that. And then I went on Lance's podcast and all of a sudden, wow, there's a lot of Tim Pool fans on my fucking Twitter all the time. And when I'm noticing it, but what I am noticing in like, outside of just, outside of just the political sphere, like if you even outside of the political sphere, what's interesting to notice is that, especially in like esports and gaming, the tweets that usually get promoted, because I worked in esports prior to all of this. I worked in like fighting game community stuff and I worked for Evo. Like that community like has the most controversial take from anybody go viral, and it's just a fight for like 24 hours. And it feels like it's, I mean, definitely the engine I think is just promoting whatever will piss you off. You know, on a daily basis. It's just, it's just interesting to, it's shitty. There's so much in general, just so much as fighting and reactionary content and drama farming disguised as like commentary and political activism and news. And it's nothing more but drama, drama, drama, drama, bitchy drama, drama across the, like across the aisle. And I mean that across the aisle. I want to be as fair as possible, like white internet left, black internet left. I've been telling both sides to shut the fuck up all week. Clearly, I'm in mad group chats. I was telling laughs. I was like, yo, I think I might be the only person like orbiting amongst the spaces, but I don't know anybody the same way. I don't know anybody over here. I don't know anybody over there, but I've kind of got a little inside scoop. And I'm like, hey, hey, hey, hey. Y'all gonna get tired of talking about this shit? Like this weekend. Yeah, dude. I swear. Don't. The black internet left this week. I was like, I was like, hey, y'all don't feel like telling the racist they're doing racist stuff is a lot like telling fish, they swim in water. Like, what if we just did something new? Cause I was like, you know, not for nothing. I was like, not for nothing on both sides of the fence at the end of the day. If you talk about somebody bad, whether or not it be true, you feel it in your spirit to be true and be completely accurate. Once you talk about somebody bad, they don't fucking like you no more. And I think that's something that like both, like we're just not honest about it. And that's what causes a lot of like foolishness. I'm like, just keep it real. If you say something negative about somebody, they don't like you no more. It's pins and needles now, baby. It's not, it's not hot. So if you do all this drama farming, it's just endless drama. I'm like, just everybody shut the fuck up, make some content. There's so much news. People are dying. Talk about something. Dude, it's just exhausting too. You just wonder like why, why the energy could not like be spent on other. Yeah, like especially make content, like why the energy could not be spent on other things rather than just the exhaustive energy of like, I think it's a lot of people wanting to be, wanting to be self-fulfilling and like, there's a lot of accounts with like a hundred, like a lot of verified accounts with like a thousand followers who are just like, all right guys, this is my ticket to fame. I'm gonna do a big takedown of like, there was a guy yesterday who had seen the interview with me and you Lance, who was like tweeting up a storm about me, like on, I've never met this person. And like tweeting up a storm about him. And I'm sure that's like, that's like yeah, joined the club, but like tweeting up a storm about me at like 3 a.m. like, bro, it's not that deep, bro. That's so weird. I just fucking rapped about it, dude, man. It's not that deep. It's not that deep. Eminem doesn't like movie. I don't like Tim, bro. It's that's it, that's it. It's fine. Everyone's fine. Well, you know what? The other thing that's kind of wild though is if you made like freestyle science about climate change every single week, it wouldn't get like the same clicks too, right? Like you do a really good job of kind of interspicing stuff that is important that you should talk about like dismantling white supremacy and stuff. And then also putting in current news that's gonna make people be like, oh, I know that reference. I get that. I know who Mr. Piz is. Yeah. Well, cause like, cause like the thing is rap is about the culture, right? It's a cultural stamp. Like when you're freestyling in general, you're taking a cultural stamp and personal identity and all those other kind of stuff and you're putting it in there. I think like, I think a thing about the news and this is the thing is like, when I was trying to think of what to do for like weekly shit, I was like, cause my goal has always been, I came up in the era where like a lot of battle rappers and like every rapper was still trying to be the best and everything like that and who's the goat and all this kind of shit. And like something I noticed from like, if you look at like rappers who like broke through whatever zeitgeist there was and like left an imprint on the culture like Kendrick, Tupac and fucking Eminem and Nas and all these people. All of them have moments in their songs that like you feel like, oh my God, that was happening then that they said that like my favorite, like during the Iraq war, like I heard like an Eminem verse where he talked about like, oh, you're gonna get, when you couldn't say anything about the Iraq war, you're not American, you're not this, culture war in full swing. And he's like, you're gonna get fucking drafted, this place fucking sucks, this war is bullshit. I'm like, you can fucking say that in rap and my dumb ass who lived in Irvine which is like the bubbliest bubble of fucking California was like, I want to do that forever. I want to fucking talk shit and say what I want to say and if that's the medium to do it, that's what I like. And I like to talk about culture. I like, I think it's relevant when, I think a lot of people know about the Mr. B story. That is, that is relevant. That plays into, when you see things in media, in culture, like fucking, like Will Smith's slap at the Oscars, that plays into everybody's view of the world for the next like, you know, what is it, 72 hours in some way, shape or form or the next week. So I think it's important. We dragged that for so much longer than that, I'm tortured. Oh my God. Yeah. It played for 72 hours. Yeah, it played for 144 hours more than it needed to. Right. Yeah. Well, fun fact on our very first episode, we uncancelled Will Smith specifically because of that slap. So you're welcome Will Smith for your career. That's right. You remember? God, I have no fucking idea what happened. I don't remember what happened yesterday. I'm a huge fan of our show. Would you like me to tell you? I don't, I don't, I don't go back and see most of the episodes. I actually went and saw the, because I don't look at the comments anymore because I just assume bullshit. So I just don't like it. Smart. But that was a day because I especially didn't look after I brought foreign, because I was like, oh, they be mad in these comments. So David's thing, when I'm just too black on here by myself, I brought another vehemient. Excuse me, on David's only? Yeah. No, no. I'm just casually on David's thing. I was like, oh Lord, I know they was mad as hell. He was just being so vehemient. And then I went in the comments and it was overwhelmingly just like this. They were like, oh, we love it. Oh, this baby. They loved it. Yeah. I'm like, oh, it was great. Seems your expectations of me are incredibly low. They are. They are. Zed, did you want to, if you feel comfortable talking about how 9-Eleven affected you, because you referenced it. And I think that that perspective is really important because you don't, you don't hear it. So my fucking whole life is fucking defined by 9-Eleven. Yeah. Like my entirety of my fucking chug. I'm going to turn on my fan real quickly because it's, my life is defined by 9-Eleven and then I'm brown and it gets hot everywhere. Fuck. Hold on. And by the way, go subscribe to Freestyle the News if you haven't already. Yeah, please go subscribe to my channel. I need more subscribers. So yeah, pretty much mind it. Tell me if the fan is being a pain in the ass. No, you're good. So yeah, I mean, like I was 13 when 9-Eleven. Do you guys know anything about like Irvine and Orange County and shit like that? Super Republican County. I thought you were going to say, do you guys, I think we're going to say, do you guys know anything about 9-Eleven? Oh, have you heard? I think I was 13 as well. So we went to the same age. Not fun. I'm pretty sure I was 13 on 9-Eleven. 87. So we're OK, OK. You're a late bloomer, sir. Yeah. But like, pretty much I, like I said, grew up in Irvine, Muslim kid, father was an alcoholic, a lot of other shit. But one thing that was that was pretty prevalent was like, you know, you're told a lot, especially in that county, like, what's proper, what's not proper, right? And so I wasn't super popular. I did not have a lot of friends and then like 9-Eleven happened. And again, up until that point, you know, you had the OJ trial growing up and all this other kind of stuff. So you're pumped with like fear from media and that like, oh, racism is over and we live in a utopia. And thanks, Martin, for doing all that. And then that happened. I'm like, ah, that's fucking bullshit because a lot of people started to look at me differently. It was hard to walk into stores. A lot of a lot of weird, like, small. I mean, like, yeah, microaggressions, like as the word just throughout my life, just having to deal with that. And then also the fact that, like, every single week on the news, you just felt like, you know, Hitler comparisons now are bad. They were just as bad around there where it was like, you know, people thought like, OK, we got to fucking take care of these Muslims. It's getting really fucking scary. People say, let's put us fucking Peter King. Did those Muslim hearings? There was there was fucking like every other week, there was something about like, oh, what are these fucking muzzies going to do? And it was hard on campus, you know, on in school, you know, with like kids who fucking were 13 or parents are pumping them full of that shit, just kind of existing and telling people like, hey, guys, like even even telling people like, hey, I feel really like pressured by all of this really anti-Muslim anti-brown person sentiment. And a lot of people just kind of roll their eyes. Like, you're just so angry all the time. Like, yeah, I'm fucking angry. It's the fucking all this shit going on. You're treating me like shit. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So like there was there was, yeah, I mean, there was definitely weird things. Somebody knocked on my dad's window when he was in like a little cut out of the car, knocked on the window traffic. Like, are you Muslim and shit like that? That should happen. Yeah, bro, like, like that shit that shit happens like in Irvine. And like I it's it's famously the safest city in America, but it's for a very specific group of people. And yeah, I grew up in all of that, all of that. And it influenced the way I view the world and influenced the way I view media, because all the media I liked was about like underdogs and people like I liked fucking Spider-Man. I liked fucking I like anime and shit like that. And people like, oh, this is dumb. Anime is dumb and rap is dumb and panic at the disco is the best band ever and fucking, you know, we only like Neil Simon plays and shit. And so a lot of that influenced everything about my life, you know, with with with with how to fucking live and how to be proper. And I'm still like, you know, years on as an 80s, they're still trying to deprogram a lot of the shit that like Irvine told me about the world and how to deal with people and what's the proper way to go about things. And I think a lot of my music is trying to fight like a lot of the fears that I just in generally have from, you know, what's going on. And just kind of it sounds so corny, but just to kind of like inspire people because music is cathartic. And it can actually inspire activism and do things. And yeah, man, like I started to go so long, but yeah, like it's a has a profound impact on my life, you know, I still feel it. Like I still feel like, especially in the music industry where like it's gotten a little bit better in the last few years, but there was definitely a point like five or six years ago where again, it's still really hard being brown where like the first second people see you a brown guy with a beard. And it's like, that's fucking dirty, you know? And until you had like Hassan Minaj and Kamel Nanjiani, we were either a poo or the guy with a sword and call a duty who you shoot, you know? Like, and so having to have that differentiation is a big deal. Having to have those people who are much more in media scene as outside of that is a big deal. And again, like even for me now, like I've like only in the last few years been kind of embracing, I'm like Indian, Pakistani and Arab. Like that's only the last few years been embracing, like I like that part of myself, not that like, oh, it's who I am. It's just I, it's who I am and I like that part of myself. Like that took a long fucking time to get there, you know? So yeah, dude, the biggest, biggest part of my, of my existence is like dealing with that shit, you know? And it's like, it's weird to know like, okay, well in COVID you had like a 9-11 every single day. You had this happen every single day. It's informed my frustration with the culture wars. It's informed my, like, you know, my views towards like, my view towards like being like, all right, well, fucking, even if I think that I'm so progressive and good now, there's, I thought I was back then and then I realized racism was way more real. So there's gotta be a point where I have a blind spot and it's informed me on that. So I can always be like, all right, well, fucking, I may not know enough about this. Let me figure out a little bit more and not just kind of dig my heels in on stuff. So yeah, man, profound impact. What do you think is like radicalizing the most? Like in this unlearning things journey, right? I mean, like, I think going to Berkeley did a lot for that. I don't think it's radical. I think it's like just decoupling. I hate something that really did, that I did learn a lot also from 9-11 is just like the way the media ecosystem just kind of works to craft narratives and the way people kind of latch on the talking points more so than, because people are just generally, people are generally either really comfortable and I'm just, I don't want to fucking, I'm tired. I don't want to deal with anything or they're bored and they'll latch on the media talking points. And so something that, something that, going, one, getting out of Orange County and getting out of California taught me a ton about like, all right, well, the things, A, the things I take for granted in California, I take for granted and B, the bubble that I live in is not the bubble everywhere, right? So I think, especially meeting people in Berkeley from like York or Virginia, you know, especially like way more, because there's a lot of, like I hung out with like, I don't know, I hung out with a much more diverse crowd than I hung out in the Irvine Irvine was being like white people and like, like a few Asian people. And then I had a huge like, you know, people from like Ecuador, people from like, you know, fucking Turkey and shit like that everywhere. I hung out at Berkeley. So it was a, this is Berkeley in Boston, by the way, not Berkeley in San Francisco. Cause I know that's fucking same name and it's weird, but yeah, I think that did quite a bit of a number on me. Yeah, thanks for saying that. I was just gonna add a little quick thing. I do, there's one of my best friends, his family is from India and we used to cross over into the United States all the time. And it would be me, him and like a bunch of other people. He was the only person every single time. I think this happened like four or five times in a row that would get stopped for the random security search. Like every single time, every single time he got profiled. Yeah. I will say this recently, it's been a lot better, but there was definitely like a string for like a long ass time where I'm like, oh, I gotta be ready to be, I gotta be at the airport like three hours instead of two hours early, you know, for a shit. Because like, I remember my little brother was eight at the time and he got stopped and he had a fucking, and like they were like questioning him about a tissue that he had in his hand cause he was blowing his nose. And they were just like, well, what do you have in that tissue? He's like snot, you know? Like no suspicion. It's, yeah, so there was definitely, there was definitely like a period where that was like, definitely a lot of the, I remember coming back from a trip and like I was in the air when all of it was happening and I got to like this one airport and I was just walking around with my bag and a security guard came up to me and just like started opening my bag and looking through it. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? And then when I finally land, my friend's picking me up. I'm like, dude, what's going on? He's like, dude, you not here? Like there was a bombing in the Boston Marathon today. And I was like, oh, but like I mean, I was getting stopped so much that day. And I had no fucking idea what was going on. So. Jesus. Yeah. I mean, I don't think that people really realize the like the ripple effect that 9-Eleven had. Like, I mean, just like in 2016, people will forget this, but like Trump was proposing his Muslim registry. Like a lockdown on Muslim, like it scary shit. And I feel like what, like with different groups, like the bigotry, like it comes in waves, right? Like there's really increased intensity and then it kind of dies down, but it always comes back because there's always going to be some marginalized group that is the target, that's the scapegoat. And yeah, I think that these stories are really important even if it's kind of like it, it's hard to talk about. So I appreciate you sharing because yeah, that's, it's just so fucked up. Oh no, I love, no, I appreciate it. I loved, I mean, that's, that's what I was talking about on like rap and everything. Like I love talking about, and now I like talking about it because it's something where I can like talk about. I think a lot of the frustrations that I have currently with like the world right now have very similar shades to what was going on then. Like it's very hard to not see the culture war now and feel like it's been cribbed from, from that era. Like I really do think that like Twitter, Twitter is Twitter in 2023 that wishes it was 2012 or 2003, right? Like they want a world that's around that specific time and it's not. And so it's very hard for them to understand when certain culture war points, like it'll do really well amongst a base. And then when election time comes in, oh, the mayor of Jacksonville just lost their job. You know, like that kind of shit happens all the fucking time. And I think something that's just specifically the way the culture war has just kind of evolved from that. Like all the entire playbook is there. It's like the pick and roll for basketball. It's like a fundamental part of what this is, you know? Like right now, like, you'll, every so often nowadays the Asami phobia I'll get is like Ilhan Omar and this and that, right? But every so often when it's an election year and next year he's gonna fucking suck, right? Yeah it is. It's gonna be like full blast, right? And I think the only thing like the main thing that that has saved, you know, that has helped people in the past is that it's exhausting. When that's the only thing in your playbook, like the reason all of that shit, I'm sorry I'm talking so much guys, I'll shut the fuck up. No talk, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But like the main reason like all of that shit stopped at a certain point was because people were just fucking exhausted. It's exhausting. You can't be angry that fucking long. Like eventually you have to touch grass or like go out, you know? Uber Eats costs too much. You can't just be under like addicted to this shit for so long. So I think when you see like, oh well the red wave didn't materialize as much. Oh well this didn't do as well. Oh this one didn't do as well. That doesn't mean that nefarious forces aren't working but it does mean that it's a little exhausting. It's a little tiring, you know? And you also, we also have to remember that when we're trying to like make activism happen. When we're trying to do things like at a certain point, people, even if they need to hear it, get exhausted because most people are pretty selfish and are just kind of stuck in their own little, like I was in Irvine for fucking years, stuck in my own bubble, you know? So yeah. I like my TED talk. I like to make it real for research purposes. What's your zodiac signs, Ed, while I have you here? Gemini. Okay, noted. Yeah, did you think that was a gemini? I have a reading or something to do. Bro, how many, like every time, every time someone asks me, I was like, what's your zodiac sign? Gemini, they're like, you're trouble. I'm like, what the fuck does that mean? I didn't know. What the fuck? I didn't know since I was thinking about your character. I merely saw the information. You were the nicest person who's ever learned that I'm a Gemini. You're like easily the nicest person. I have been stopped more for being a Gemini than I have for being a brown person. I will say, I have dated a few Gemini's that were romantic terrorists, not to say that about all. Damn. Like certainly say that about a few. What's your zodiac sign? I'm a Leo. I'm a Leo son. Oh, my girlfriend's a Leo. Good taste, taste, excellent taste. Y'all are crazy. Yeah. You know what's so funny? You know what's fucked up? I want to be like, no, right? But my last act right where we're so cool and the other day he came and he brought me, when we were together, I bought him this little, I call him earthy man, right? He acts like the Lorax. I bought him this little stuff, Lorax. And he came to my house and he brought me a Cheshire cat. I'm like, oh, that's so cute. Look at them out of my living room. He was like, cause chaos. He was like, cause your chaos. I was like, cause my thing, my thing with like the zodiac thing is like, like there's no like scientific explanation. The closest I've come from a scientific explanation is like you're all born like in the same month. So you experienced the year the same. There's a whole, see, this is one of those things. Like when we be commenting on stuff and we don't understand that there's a whole school of thought, a whole discipline we're not in. Like they have a whole chart. Like it's not just the Oh, come on. It's all bullshit garbage. It's all bullshit garbage. Please. I don't want to hear it. You believe in crap. You believe in crypto. All of you, shut up. I don't believe in crypto. I don't believe in crypto. It's like bullshit. It's like zodiac sign. I'm about to get like 30. It was wild. I'm about to get like 30 blue check motherfuckers on me. I was like, see, they're dissing the zodiac signs. Zed was on the DNC. She'll left us mafia. Or Zed was on the far, far left communist leftist mafia. You'll probably get both of them. Or conservative potentially. You never know. Yeah, yeah. Do you know how Zed has ties to Hezbollah? I don't. Fuck. Well, I hate that for you. Huh? Someone in the comments flies. She's, oh, I'm sorry. That's my McDonald's. Y'all carry on without me. Hold on. That's going to be on the bingo card soon. That's going to be one of them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love how the viewers get a bingo every single week because they know us so well. That's funny. Yeah. I'd be trying to be different. Someone pointed out. Someone pointed out there's a major missing little square on the bingo card that needs to be added immediately. It's easily the longest running bit on this show. Me calling David's audience racist. That's a lame job. That's not your job. This is like a single troll in my chat. I got mods this time. I added three mods. I added two new mods. Is that what you said? Was it a single troll you said? I think it was like two trolls. Two? Okay. What do you want me to do? I'm not going to read the chat the whole time. So I got some mods. Okay. So what else happened this week? I mean, I have some things that we can talk about. Sorry. Go ahead. When you mentioned Marjorie Taylor Greene, you didn't bring up that like super, super fucking racist shit she was doing today when she was called the white supremacist. Folks, I just put out a very long video at 17 minutes. I go through all the receipts. It's a great video. Go watch it. But yeah. Okay. Proceed. I have to plug my shit. Yeah. So I'll do this. I mean, this is the one that I saw. I think there's also a previous video to this where they're actually like battling out like her and Jamal Bowman. But this is just her, her comments. Oh, about her being afraid of Jamal Bowman. Yeah. Yeah. That's the video I got. He was he was aggressive and threatening and his demeanor was just really, I mean, it's, it's. I haven't even seen that. Let me see. Here we go. Were you going to say Karen behavior? Yeah. Central Park Karen in particular. Like she, she channeled Central Park Karen. Like that was her. When it. I will. I saw the. I saw the Mount Walsh tweet where he was like Karen. I'm sorry, Matt. No, go ahead. Go ahead. This happened. I saw the Matt Walsh tweet where like he's like Karen is a fucking racist slur. Oh, yeah. It's a racist. I haven't heard racist. Can you zoom out again and for a second on his tweet? Attack on Titan. Look at that. Somebody. No. He needs to take Karen and be happy with it because I don't like that. Because I don't know why we keep calling them racist white bitches. Karen. Well, we need to just call them racist white bitches. That's what they are. And it's ridiculous. Karen slur. And what it is is making something like downplaying what it is. They get people killed. They get people arrested just because you happen to see a couple that make it to Twitter and social media and everybody. Or they'll say, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Kew, Kew, Kew, and they'll racist white. But also like white women are not the only people who are called Karen like, there's a lot of motherfuckers called Karen and men. Who are like yeah. Yeah, yeah. I just feel bad for like actual Karen's like people named Karen who are. They're good. They're good people. They're named Karen. You know how many you know how many Kiles have been You know how many Kyle's have been radicalized in society over the last year? Bro, it's an epidemic. Like, I don't get it, man. I just love how the responses to Matt Walsh's tweet is just, okay, Karen, okay, Karen, shut up, Karen. Like, nobody cares. I don't know why Matt Walsh wants a racist slur against white people like that bad. It's not that great, bro. It's not great to have one. Yeah, Matt Walsh has to reclaim me. It's all about the behavior. That's all it is. Yeah, bro. There was not enough. I was swarmed. It's all on video. Everyone can see this. But I will tell you what's on video. Is Jamal Bowman shouting at the top of his lungs, cursing, calling me a horrible, calling me a white supremacist, which I take great offense to. That is like calling a person of color the n-word, which should never happen. He actually said that with a straight face. This is the first time I've seen this video. This is unbelievable. Wait, hold on. I just want to say this is someone who just last year, I believe it was last year, could have been the year before, but sometime in the past two years, showed up at Nick Fuentes' America First event as the special guest of the evening to come on stage, give Nick Fuentes a little hug and shake hands, give Nick Fuentes a speech to his white supremacist, Grypper fan base. I think calling her a white supremacist is a very fair categorization of what we just read. Absolutely. I just don't know how it's the same as the end. That's such a weird. Yeah. Again, it's that victim behavior. No, it's not just victim behavior, but it's a deliberate way that people will empower, like prevent other people from having the words to call it that. If you make things, the slurs that you all have come up with when you were subjugated to people, and then you call them naming and claiming what you do, the system by which you subjugate people and you uphold white supremacy, you make that tantamount to you being oppressed and a slur. What it is is gaslighting people. That's what it is. Deliberate tactic. It's not just victim hood. It's bullshit. It's equal to that. And that is wrong. Jamal Bowman was down there cursing at me, telling me to get the F out of there. And he was leading them up right outside the vehicle I was sitting in. We have this all on video. We do actually. And that's unfortunate for her. I haven't seen that yet. He was the one that approached me. Even CNN reported that. Yelling, shouting, raising his voice. He has aggressive, his physical mannerisms are aggressive. This is so racist. Right? Can I say something? Can I just say something? Can you pause? I just don't understand. If you want my, like, I appreciate being a guest on this week. Like just as from a rapper's perspective, something that really fucking annoys me is like, look, like when I hear people about like, like woke people are like weak and shit like that. Bro, I'm a rapper. I grew up in battle rapping. When I hear people who are like free speech advocates get fucking pressed over that. It's so fucking annoying, dude. Like it's, I don't know why are you so pressed over it? Somebody tell me to get the fuck out. So because it's so. Bro, you were in the fucking halls like a year ago in fucking in front of AOC's office. Like with like your four motherfucking friends banging on doors and shit with like the people, the most unathletic motherfuckers alive. Yes. Starting a chain gang. Before she came out of school shooting survivor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Congress person. That's how she, that was her claim to fame. She went to DC as just like a right wing activist and like literally followed in her eyes. David Hogg who was just a high school kid at the time. Yeah. And on top of that, like her first couple of weeks in Congress, do you remember that Corey Bush had to move offices away from her because she was so confrontational? Do you remember how I forgot who it was, but she said that she felt threatened by like Guam veterans who brought cookies for her because she said something stupid about the people of Guam, but she saw like all of them and she felt intimidated when they were just trying to be nice to her. Like there's so many instances of her like trying to weaponize her like whiteness and karenisms against people of color. It just, she's such a liar. And if you look at the videos, so the video where she says that Jamal Bowman was being aggressive in his demeanor and mannerisms, like she's up in his face as well, like pointing at him and her guns are as big as his. Like she's trying to pretend like she's all, you know, she's threatened for her life. She's such a fucking liar. Like she talks about this being on video. So if you go back and look to the video that she was referring to, so she was in New York City the day that Trump was getting arrested and there were a bunch of counter protesters that basically like drove her out of the event. And she said that basically Jamal Bowman tried to sick the mob on her when in actuality, if you go back and watch the video, which I did in my video, he didn't start yelling at her until she was in the car and safe. And after that he was talking about how, yeah, get her ass out of here. Like this is my city. We don't expect, we don't support white supremacists rhetoric. We support love. It's like, oh, yeah, very fucking threatening as he's preaching about love. Like she's such a liar. I think there's a new video now with the interaction. I'm not, I haven't seen any of this, but. New interaction. I haven't seen the footage yet. I want to see this. Turn this volume up. Where are the migrant children? We're accepting them. We love them. We love the migrant children. We lost them. You can't find them. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Yeah, migrant children. No, no, we don't know them. I don't know. That's fast news. That's fast news. Yelling, shouting, raising his voice. He has aggressive, aggressive. And I am concerned about it. I feel threatened by him. It's so nonsensical that it's comical. You can see clearly in the video that we were like playfully jousting with each other. She was laughing. I was laughing. We were talking about each other's party and certain issues. So the demeanor and disposition on the steps, it was playful. We were going after each other. You know what I think it is? This morning to say what she said. I mean, it's a complete 180 number one. It's no longer comical now because now you are using historical racist tropes toward black men. Menacing his mannerisms. I'm afraid that's the stuff that got, you know, Trayvon Martin killed. Tamir Rice killed. Michael Brown killed. I mean, I believe officer Darren Smith literally talked about his presence and his strength as an excuse for killing him. And this has happened to black men historically. And so now we're in a dangerous space. And that's why I wanted to be really, really clear to reporters today how reckless and dangerous her statements were. And she should know better. I believe she knows better. This is another reason why we need to teach the accurate history of America in our schools and make sure African American history is a part of that because her rhetoric and her behavior in Congress outside of me pictures with the AR 15 with the squad behind her chasing David Hogg and stalking him as he engaged in activism around gun violence. Her rhetoric, her language, her behavior has been aggressive and intimidating since she's gotten into Congress. Now she's trying to displace it onto me. Yeah, I was going to say, like, I feel like, see, like, I think it's a little worse than, like, just on her part. For two reasons. Number one, like, I think part of it is, like, maybe she, I do think she's just kind of an idiot in the sense that, like, she's probably, she's trying to do a bunch of shit from a political playbook that's not working and she doesn't understand the optics and when the optics are explained to her, she doubles down like a fucking idiot. Right? I'm not like, she's definitely said some racist shit and she's definitely, but like, I think the entirety of it, the entirety of it is, which I think is a little worse because she came in as this fucking firebrand. I'm saying whatever the fuck I want and she got a rash of shit for it. And so now she's like, all right, I'm going to play by this playbook. The Democrats are a mob that storm cities and everything like that. And then you're going to turn it on a black congressman, which obviously has racial overtones. And yet if you were someone like Tucker Carlson or anything like that, you fucking understand that. I don't think, and this is not me. Again, I don't think she's smart enough to get that. She's fucking paddling in a water and water that she's not doing well in. She's introducing articles of impeachment on fucking fight. That's fucking dumb, dude. Like there's no... What makes you want to absolve Marjorie of intent in the way? What makes you capable of... I'm not absolving. I'm not absolving. I'm not absolving. Can you let me talk? No, go for it, go for it. What you're saying is, you're saying you believe that she is not as intelligent, she is not aware, like she stumbled into this. This is something she's doubled down in some way. You are taking away, like intent, what I think, Jamal Bowman is speaking to and what I'm about to speak to is, you know, she's somebody who is cons consistently espoused white supremacist rhetoric. She is a white supremacist. She does nothing but advance white supremacy. She knows what she's doing. This is something that has historically has been done. This is a consistent pattern. That's why he was calling her a white supremacist before he did that action. That was not a mistake. I miss, can I rephrase? Is it okay? Okay. So I think there is a... How does she do it in rap form? That's when you're rap advanced. Smallfucker wants me to freestyle so bad. I think there's something that I think, I think aside from her racism, it's important to also call out her incompetence. It's what I'm trying to say. So like a hundred percent, a hundred percent, her perspective on it is a white supremacist perspective. Her perspective on it is a hundred percent a racist perspective, right? The actions in which she's going towards it show incompetence is what I'm trying to say. So like, I think, yes, it's important to call out, like a hundred percent. We're all calling out that she's racist. I do think also, I'm sorry if it came off that I'm like fucking... Oh no, you don't have to apologize. No, no, no. But that's never, that's not what I wanted to do. So like, I'm trying to say like, she's also incompetent. I think what's frustrating, especially for me is to watch people who are incompetent, because that makes her, I think Tucker Carlson and people like her are very incompetent at a lot of things. And they get away with a lot because we think they're competent, Machiavellian, brilliant motherfuckers. They're racist and they're kind of stupid and they're flailing around in an era that doesn't suit their tactics. I think that's true. I think you're right. And intellectually, I agree with you in the sense of like the tactics seem so stupid because it's so inconsistent in the whole... Yeah. But then when you think about application, what they really care about, they're not in it for us. Like the intellectualism that we approach with it, consistency, we're approaching these things in good faith, they're just in it for where they get. You know what I mean? A hundred percent. And right now, stupidity and just being the biggest bigot has been working for them for at least the last five, six years. A hundred percent. When you think about the game is who's the biggest bigot? Who can get the most bigoted shit off? She's winning. She's doing well, she feels. Easy. Yeah. Yeah. No, I see what you're saying. No, but I didn't want to absolve her of the very obvious racist trope that she's doing. That's such a long career of doing that. Yeah. But like, I feel like her incompetence is just so fucking... Because that's what they crib, right? Like the crib is like, or the grift is, it's like when Trump would say, oh, you have to admire how he's stoking a crowd and shit like that. And it's just like, it doesn't make any sense. Like you're popular in spite of your incompetence, which is what's frustrating to me. Yeah, it would frustrate me about how like Trump would say something stupid and like fart on stage and then like there'd be people who are like, well, this is why what he did actually is genius. Like he's playing 40 chess. Yeah. It's like... I don't understand. It's like somebody trying to play, like again, obvious racist tropes, but also like the patina of her. Like what's hilarious to me too is like, just the demeanor she has in that press conference versus every other press conference she's had, where she's all like, oh, fuck everybody, blah, blah. And then like I was... He was there. He was terrifying. He was just the fake composure of that shit. Yeah. I also hate that she's gotten behind her stupidity as well. Yeah, no, absolutely. And when it comes to Marjorie Taylor Greene, like I don't like how it's kind of become normalized because of how much of an extremist she is, that like you are 100% of white supremacists. You have a long history of it. You have a history of saying all this, like incredibly deeply anti-Semitic stuff, spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about like the Rothschilds being responsible for the California wildfires. All of this shit. Like she had to fucking learn the Holocaust was bad by going to a Holocaust museum. Like I think it should be normalized for the rest of the politicians to talk about what an extremist she is all the time. 100%. Dad, what's the art on your wall? On my wall? Yeah. It's my hero. It's beautiful. Oh, okay. It's my hero academia. I was going to say, you know, I, what he said when he, he was asked what was it on MSNBC about that confrontation? Like that's the first thing I thought too. And as someone who spars and goes on right-wing shows and does that type of thing with right-wingers, like I totally felt that sort of thing that he felt there. Like, you know, I was, yeah, we disagree, but I thought there was this basic understanding that we were going to have this debate. And there were people upset. What? Yeah, Mike is making the people upset. Oh, is my mic messed up? I mean, I can still hear what you're saying, but it's just, there's just some, there's some. Could you turn your camera off to smoke? It should be working. It's one of the bingo card chips, I think. How is it better? I live in California. I live in California. Because I think, I think they, so they make money or something. I think you two don't let them. She does a real job too. I think it's probably okay now, but I'm not positive. My CEO doesn't know. I'm valuable. Oh, sweet. Damn, I just, everybody in the chat was going nuts. Olai wants to make an entrance because when she comes back, there's like a smoke cloud, like a slow motion. I was like, shit, bro. You just need like some RGB lights. That's your point. This confrontation, you can tell she's being just as if not more confrontational than Jamal Bowman is. She's playing victim afterwards. If we can't even like go back and forth with these guys, even when they believe something completely different than us, but if we can't have that basic back and forth engagement where someone is then going to go ahead and fucking just make up a scenario that didn't even happen, like none of this is, there's nothing left here. It's just so ridiculous. That's the one thing that I always say if you have the basic decency to engage with someone who believes something different than you, then at least there's that. That's how I feel Jamal Bowman was so like, he was like backstabbed in a way. He thought, no matter how terrible she was, he thought there was that basic level where oh, we can at least go at it with each other and walk away. But she basically defied that by making up a scenario where he was attacking her and now there's not even that. Like now he knows that not only does she have completely different beliefs than him, but she will use just complete bullshit to stifle just any even discussion or debate on the issues, which means you can't even discuss with her. Like how AOC for example, has that bill with Matt Gaetz to stop stocks from being if you're a congressperson. Like listen, they don't agree on anything, but they were able to find that one specific issue that they can agree on that can never happen with Marjorie Taylor-Green because she's going to make up a fake scenario to endanger someone, really. Like that is bullshit what she did. Yeah, she basically here's the thing, this is why she hates Jamal Bowman so much, because he gives her a taste of her own medicine and she hates it. Like she loves to be confrontational and get up in people's faces and he's not backing down. She thinks that if she could pull up this oh my god, you know, he made me feel threatened that he's going to back down. No, fuck you. You don't get to just silence him by using your whiteness as a sort of fucking cudgel. It's sick and yeah, there's a really good piece in Medium written by G-Koreos from 2021, but it's still relevant today that talks about this, like being a black man in America or black in America more specifically and you have to be hyper aware of these things to protect yourself even if you're just out in public with a bunch of your friends how that can be perceived by white people and so she's playing into this and it's genuinely just sick because I mean Jamal Bowman is not some random person like Jamal Bowman is her colleague she knows that he's not dangerous or violent, it's just sickening. If you want, we can discuss what Ron DeSantis has signed into law. Oh my god, yeah, please. Let me share this. He went on an anti-LGBTQ plus Bill signing Marathon yesterday. So Alejandra Carbalo tweets out Ron DeSantis just legalized the kidnapping of trans kids by unaffirming parents. They could take them from safe states to Florida and get emergency jurisdiction for custody and this is not like hyperbole, you can read through the page. Can you scroll down a little bit? Oh, sorry. I meant to change the tab actually. But yeah, that's the headline. Let me show you the piece here. So I'll just read this paragraph here. The new law will allow the state to take custody of a child if they have been subjected to or are threatened with being subjected to gender affirming care which includes puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy, which by the way has been used for decades. Florida courts could modify custody agreements from a different state if the minor is likely to receive gender affirming care in that second state. The text refers to gender affirming care as sex reassignment prescriptions or procedures and qualifies this care as a form of physical harm. Okay, so you guys remember how I said I was involved in eSports and shit like that, right? So there is a major um are we going to fight a game? There's a major fighting game tournament. This is like the point of the story called CEO, it's called Community Effort Orlando. One of the biggest biggest you know, events in that state for that medium and it's going to become bigger this year because of all the money coming into Capcom like you have people flying out from all over the world from Japan, from fucking Pakistan, from from New York, from everywhere people come to Daytona to go to this event and over the last two months it's been very people have been saying look y'all got to move this event because the venue is becoming increasingly dangerous to go to even prior to DeSantis there was shit going on where people would just be in Daytona and a friend of mine who's a commentator just in Daytona people free pass them to the car by yelling the N word, throwing shit at like black people and gay people and brown people like that shit was happening all the fucking time and there's been this thing like hey it's really dangerous to be in that state you got to you got to you got to move and they're saying like we can't move all of us live here it's very hard for us to move this event first off that event's going to have a lot of fucking like you you're unknowingly fucking your economy as well as endangering trans people there right like it it makes no fucking sense like Rhonda Sanchez is throwing this culture war bullshit into his state and fucking not only the culture of a state but the economy of his state by doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on this because I don't know I don't know anybody who would go the way you can go to this thing because of that now Disney just announced they weren't opening up a new they were supposed to move $2,000 from California yeah $2,000,000 California is in a surplus outside of the Riders Shrek is fucking it but like without the Riders Shrek you were in a surplus Truckers are also boycotting Florida too Huh? Truckers are starting to boycott Florida too Really? That's going to have devastating effects obviously to supply lines yeah bro that's not that's I don't again like I just don't understand growing up I was always called party of business not this is this is stupid this is unbelievably stupid that's not even taking into account the amount of the amount of people who are trans in Florida and are going to have to deal with all this fucking horrific shit you know who have to go into hiding about who they are you know also targets trans adults only physicians are allowed to offer gender what the fuck? not nurse practitioners anyone who violates the law could be charged with a misdemeanor and this right here is significant because 80% of gender from in care in Florida provided to trans adults it comes from nurse practitioners so it's going to make it virtually impossible for a lot of trans adults in Florida to get gender from in care to where they're having to do they're going to go fund me to like leave this date my friend had to do one thankfully she just reached her her goal but on top of that as of July 1 there's another law that takes effect that he just signed on that same day and it's a bathroom bill and basically what that does is it literally legalizes discrimination against trans people so like if you're a trans person you walk into a bathroom and a cis person asks you to leave and you don't leave then you are criminally trespassing there and that can go I think the penalties like $5,000 fine and a year in prison so there's a lot also there's a drag and it's not necessarily an outright ban it's an indirect ban so that way you can strip away the liquor licenses from businesses if they host drag shows so this has led to pride parades being canceled already like what he did yesterday was like a huge huge it was a massive step towards just like straight up criminalizing trans existence in the state and now Texas is even a safer state than Florida like literally that's how bad it's gotten oh it's been seeming like it is crazy in so many ways how Florida has been basically out doing even the redest state states you could think of like Florida is now red state number one even Texas can't keep up gotta get those polls gotta get those polls for that primary and that's why we're making it clear to people too like yeah you should still care about Florida because there's still obviously a whole bunch of great people who are caught in this and obviously you know when it comes to electoral politics you could still win local races statewide races things like that but on a national level we gotta stop pretending Florida is some sort of battleground the purple state it's it's gone it's gone I think I think especially in the last like few cycles it's been very clear that Florida is not not a swing state anymore and I mean I think on top of that like you know just also like just the amount of it's not helping him he's like drowning in the polls he's not doing well like he's not he's like it's it's the most like the whole Disney thing huh that's because they're in a battle of personas the Republicans are not so it's a battle of battle of bigotry and battle of biggest stick in the room you know what I mean and that's what it is and so like the Santas is doing all this extra wild shit because that's how he was trying to set himself apart like no I'm the real you know what I mean I'm the real bigot I'm the rabbit but what happened is Trump came back swinging on foolishness Trump was like oh I've got drama y'all want a drama y'all was bored y'all need a statement I'm back I'm back baby yeah he did yeah right to the whole groomer thing yeah it's very disturbing if you know somebody in Florida who is trans try to like it's unrealistic to tell everyone to leave because that requires you know employment housing capital it's so difficult but like if you can help a friend or something out of Florida if you could support a go fund me five bucks here and there like we can't make a difference on a macro level but on an individual level we can try to help because it's very very scary right now it's also well because like like you all of you are mentioning that like he's not really good just for Floridians right just for like you know the quality of life or doing things for the people this seems to be a pattern with Republicans right now like Ted Cruz right now wants to launch an investigation into uh Anheuser Bush Bud Light and Bud Light yeah over using Dylan Mulvaney in a promotional like single promotional post you want to spend taxpayer fucking dollars on that on that instead of anything that's going to help the people it's all a fucking Ted Cruz is one of the worst people run it back he wants to do what he wants to launch a probe he called it into Anheuser Bush using Dylan Mulvaney a trans woman as uh she didn't even do a campaign by the way she didn't do like an ad for Budweiser he wants a government investigation into Bud Light over Dylan Mulvaney then over that single why that single Instagram post that's what I'm saying it's like they're purely the Republican Party like what their politics are what they identify it's a funerary right like a funerary in the name of bigotry I'm telling you it's just a game of who can be the most fucking bad shit about this bigotry like oh you think you're crazy you think you'd burn this bridge down I'll burn it while I'm standing on it I like that's just a game of who's the worst that's what they're doing who's crazy let him let him let him do this I mean you know I it's I mean there's nothing in terms of the Cruz stuff and not the DeSantis stuff I'm talking about not talking policies here let them continue with the rhetoric let them continue with the bravado let them continue focusing on talking about these issues because time and time again it just happened just this past week on Tuesday when they were all these local elections all over the country Republicans lost again repeating uh last uh last year with the midterms because they are focused on these issues that most normal people are saying this is fucking ridiculous this past week um there was elections local elections and there's a mayor race in Jacksonville Florida that a Democrat won I saw that in Colorado Springs I think it was Colorado Springs uh the first um Democrat won in like 60 years or something like that since 1942 or something like that yeah it's the mayor race my math sucks even though I'm Indian I'm sorry but like you know I mean this these are losing issues for them it is they're doing this to bolster themselves within the party because someone like DeSantis wants to be president but the average American does not care and that's facts and you're absolutely right right but here's the unfortunate part right Republicans know they can win based on popularity because changing ties that's why they do so much to try to suppress what you know we're seeing in the media and what's happening in the schools and stuff because they're hoping to try to like you know re unexposed people to shit or whatever they want to switch to ties but they know they can't win that way which is why they gerrymander that's why they disenfranchise people that's why they fucking take the court and unfortunately now the way they have the supreme court is it really is zooms they for LGBT people like that's just the thing like that's not hyperbole I don't just mean that like as a regular person I mean that like as a lawyer and there's just the truest sense of the facts like when robot when robot overturned and they made it clear it was coming for griswald it was very everything that's happened is the direct you know results of that and it come in and the problem is the problem is when you have a fucking supreme court a body of people with a handful of folk that have lifetime appointments and are there forever like they have the ability to do real serious damage for a long time and there are a whole lot of LGBT people like this will be that will be there that will be their lifetime that will be their lifetime like whatever happens now I do like I always said I don't mean this is a regular person I mean this is a lawyer civilians are we all civilians I was about to say I was about to say something like oh you I just yell into a mic all the day and then my I'll shut up no because I want to be clear because sometimes like there are things that like you know the culture is like outraged about online or whatever but like and like yeah I feel you an incultural piece but I know like legally you know a whole different set of things yeah no in terms of in terms of LGBT rights no no it's as bad as it looks and feels like it's not bad it's as bad as you think unfortunately that's why I mean part of the solution has to be a stronger Democratic party as well because I mean Florida is a great example of just a weak ass Democratic party they ran Charlie Chris last time who's like been in every party lost every election like there's got to be some better ground game in in these states to fight back against this shit because you know we're just sitting here complaining about like it's not there needs to be I mean obviously activists are doing what they can but unless there's stronger political power it's really hard to get any traction against any of this they're running a lot of national figureheads in places where you need they're running a lot of national figureheads in local elections and Republicans running a lot of fringe figureheads in national elections right and that's just it that's just it like in when you run I mean it's been said over and over again like fucking electoral Twitter or whatever like when you have a fringe candidate they're gonna fucking kill that primary but as soon as it gets into the national like election cycle it becomes problematic right you know you saw you saw them take fringe ideas and really push them in 2022 on a national stage and they just did not work for a wave you know and I think especially like everything that Matt was saying about all of the elections that they lost you know them losing elections right now like those special elections is a fucking huge deal like the year before an election year when you have all of this stuff going on about who's going to be the Republican nominee them losing elections is not a good look and it's like we said before like people are exhausted the culture war is exhausting nobody wants to be fucking worrying nobody wants to have to watch a watch their trans friends have to go through all this shit right you know and nobody wants to be nobody wants to actively be involved in politics I'm forced to be involved in it because of my skin color and what exists around us right nobody's like fucking rare in a go like nobody wanted to be involved in their ASB elections but if in the if your ASB in high school was like well black people can't use the water fountain then you're going to be fucking involved in that in that side of things it's I don't know man it's tiring a lot of people out and I think it's going to backfire on a lot of Republicans because of it even if it doesn't play well in elections I think pundits are still realize that they make a ton of money from all this shit too right like this entire media endless media cycle from the Stephen Crowders to the Matt Walsh just all these people they're just obsessed with trans people like they will not stop making videos they will not stop making commentary all this stuff on trans people over and over and over but like I think what is really like what maybe the midterm showed more than anything is that like their actions just like you know taking away half the population's bodily autonomy for example that drives voters like that gets people energized if you're not like they're going so ghoulish so fast right now it just seems like what else are you offering what else is there to come from the right I know that they won't tie themselves out though that much I know because I once witnessed on a little day called January 6th scale walls where there was this so that being said I know I know a resilient people when I see them they won't be pushing on like I feel like we should rewatch that video in honor of tears of the kingdom launching of them scaling the wall and falling those oh my god that lives in my head rents free it was like a game over like yeah a bar and they're climbing up the wall and then they fall the game over it's so good it's so good but yeah it is exhausting honestly and I think that everyone is correct that they're kind of like they're in a sense somewhat radicalizing the normies because like people who wouldn't necessarily tune into politics feel like they have to be hyper aware of the situation just because it's gotten so toxic just like for example like my family has a trans member I'm a gay member and so like people who don't even follow the news like they're asking me about what's going on none of them watch my fucking show so yeah but anyways they're like asking like what's going on like is this happening in Oregon how does this affect us you know and like people with trans friends like a zebra saying with LGBTQ plus friends people who are affected by this you know people who want Bali autonomy like they're they're paying attention so I do think it will backfire the only unfortunate thing is that like as as they do this like it does do real harm unfortunately but I do agree it will backfire but the thing the other thing you have to also understand is like again if we're talking about people being exhausted by this and being normal like in a social setting if you're I know again from Irvine I know a lot of people who are fucking to be honest pretty fucking bigoted against my race who will be a hundred percent cordial and would 100% have issues if shit like when shit like the Muslim ban came up right because they know someone like it's not like this detached specter it's like bro what's going on with you right and you have people and immediately flips people if you're double tripling quadrupling down on like trans people and you live in a city and somebody walks in who's trans into your place of work and everything like that most people are going to be cordial because at least at least I mean unless they're really fucking bigoted or they'll feel awkward like the amount they're trying to most people like they're radicalizing people who have severe depression severe anxiety severe fear of all of these things right in a chronically online environment and I also hope I'm not overstepping the line with what I'm saying but like I just I don't know man like I don't think huh right but I think y'all are correct right that they are mobilizing you know obviously they have the counter fact that's why so many people people didn't vote for Joe Biden they voted against Trump right like that's true of course they're mobilizing a fuck ton of people that's why Gen Z is so politically active now here is the other side of this forget that they have emboldened a whole group of white supremacists are dangerous their gun food and violence ready to end it all dangerous people what do we what do we see in common with these mass shooters these manifestos these this in the next thing they're dangerous so it's about what one side is willing to do now you could have a real energized intellectually politically active armed with their books bunch like we are and then the other side that's mobilized want to kill people so I think that's also something that they can consideration so yes I do think they'll bring this out so and then also it would becomes also a disconnect to is yes there is this whole side of the spectrum all of us that are mobilized but then there's so much discontent between what the options are a whole lot of people that are mobilized actively one way that are not motivated in terms of what the political system is currently and blah blah blah and for different legitimate reasons while all that's happening on our side and we figured it out and we exchanged books and we try to figure out messaging and we try to get in the same page and we try to over there they're planning and they want to take people out of the game they got students they fastened laws they stripping rights they sat in court so yeah and then do you think do you think that maybe I should ask this like do you guys think that like the left side like do you think the left doesn't prioritize this theory a lot when we should prioritize active steps in the political process more I don't I think it's that I think it's a I think it's a lot of a lot of different things I don't think it's that we prioritize theory too much I think you can feel that way on the internet there's a lot on the internet and on certain like leftist communities and certain leftist spaces it can feel very much so like that I don't think that is in real life a lot I think a lot of what is on mistake is we talk a lot about like people are always trying to appeal to this imaginary centrist right I feel like people they try to appeal so much to a centrist in a time and period with people that are really politically activated like Gen Z people that are really motivated feel strongly they have strong views one crap or whatever and while you're trying to appeal to the person you think you need to appeal to everybody that you appeal to nobody and then there are all the people and while you're trying to get them they're all these people that are not going to turn out who would if they felt like you were giving them something more silly and but you out there trying to kowtow to a centrist that isn't really that isn't really about it yeah exactly and one thing I also want to say or emphasize about what said said to is that like it's it's it's the bigotry and the cis people that are causing things like anxiety and depression amongst trans people too right like that's that's one aspect of all this they're making their lives scarier on on a regular basis they all of these pundits all of these fucking bigots all of these ghouls on a regular basis all the like unscientific lies that they fucking spew for money for fucking cash they're doing this as for for fucking as a job this is their fucking living and I think that's also something and that's why I wish like more people would just say that like to use like right wing people instead just like stop engaging them on the merits is like yeah they don't believe the shit that they're saying that's why it doesn't matter to them when you point out the hypocrisy like this is what makes it such a freeing and like lucrative endeavor because it doesn't fucking matter doesn't matter what you say don't matter without you I'm here to cause shit I'm here I got an agenda they tell me what to say I'm here I just got to do it and that's what they're there for it don't believe it they don't believe it how many of them oh no vaccines vaccinated the first people by oh yeah at work yeah I know a lot of these people like in real life like I've been in shows with them and they live a whole different fucking life you sit at lunch with them and they believe a different thing they believe a different thing and I'm like name name it's not yeah I'm curious now the things that the things that people like Shapiro and Crowder will tell you it's not sustainable to live the way they preach on their show like even in their business decision even in their decisions in life for their platform for them to get their platform there's there's a discount I I heard so Ben Shapiro likes to talk a lot about how rap isn't music and how his father is a musician and he once said like why isn't rap music and he's like well because music has pitches and rap is not I was gonna fucking slap something it's the dumbest fucking answer I have ever heard if his father is a musician he's a fucking terrible musician because like you may like first off drums or percussion but you tune a drum kit to a fucking note like to a pick and if you're not if you're that fucking dumb and you're gonna say that like object like this isn't like a logic profit like it's just an objectively wrong like mathematical fucking fact that's what are you fucking doing they just be saying bro well to be fair like Ben Shapiro somebody who thinks that dry P word is his wife being a pleasure and so I mean his opinions on everything else you know take it with a really solid there's there's no successful dumbass leftist but there everyone on the right is a dumbass and it's because of the money behind them like Ben Shapiro he wants and he's never gonna lose an audience because he has the money behind like it's meanwhile if you have someone on the left something like just dumb over and over and over again there's a lot of money on the right they're gonna lose people right it's easy to be on the right you don't you don't have to fact check and I'm being a joke but I'm being very serious in a very serious way like everything I write it has to be up at the most cited factually check fucking up at every fucking word has to be they will not let you say your opinion everything has to be cited to that meanwhile they just on the right whatever the fuck they like oh pigs gave us COVID everybody shaking president of the robot election was stolen but that's but that's the that's their entertainment industry do you understand like it's 100% entertainment like the same mechanisms that run like right wing media run like Hollywood and all of these other things like you need the same like somebody could somebody could lose their job right now during the writer strike doing social media and make fucking all that money back doing something for a white wing candidate that they fucking hate because it's very easy not that they're gonna do that but like but I'm saying like the same mechanisms run to create an alternate entertainment sphere for that to work and I think we all know that I think what's I think the other thing about it is that it's an underserved community we all know like Fox News is the number one television channel like period point blank but saying you're the number one television channel in the age of streaming and fucking YouTube and content is not saying like it's not it's not boating well for the future of your of your when everybody is transitioning even fucking Tucker when he was like fucking leaving Fox News was like I would rather put this on YouTube I would rather put this here I would rather put this here because it's not there's no digital presence every personality who has been bounced from that channel who and by the way there are plenty of personalities that bounce from from left wing channels and everything like that who make tons Hassanabu's bounced off young Turks and he fucking made a shit ton of money right like people who get bounced from those channels have an avenue because new media is there for them people who get bounced from Fox News fucking Bill O'Reilly, Megan Kelly they're not making money hand over fist like they used to they're not having the same impact that they used to they have impact they're scary but they're not having that impact right because they haven't built that exactly fucking who was the fucking crazy lady Tucker's got a show coming out on Twitter soon that's what he transferred to well but also look at Tommy Lahren I don't know I don't know what Tommy Lahren is doing these is but I don't hear about her name all yeah much anymore I haven't heard about her in a while too she was I don't know where she is but that's the thing she was crushing she was crushing online she was crushing she was like remember that whole fucking like like the Gary V like we're all getting on Instagram we're all building content like fucking she was ahead of that she had merch she had a fucking she got off the blade she's like I'm not going Glenn Beck shit anymore and then she got offered a contract on Fox Nation and she disappeared into the ether and we have a good plan you know like because the ecosystem is not built for that hmm that's a really good point yeah because yeah I can't remember yeah what happened to her and I made a run up back then you spin tell me that again what happened in the end what happened to her in the end she fucking she she she had merch she had a fucking she she left the blade she's like I'm not Glenn Beck shit anymore and then she went to Fox Nation and she just disappeared into the ether it wasn't nothing because no one watches Fox Nation yeah but like that's the thing her audience is too old they're not online like that's the thing a lot of people make like they want to switch over a lot of these shows like what are the views these networks like you'll be shocked like people watch the fucking news and mainstream TV and all these things like a lot of these shows these online like that's where I get in way more views than these networks and stuff are getting and so people will go and instead of building up their own like you know their social media their actual platform and their own thing they rush to go like go on one of these places and then it kills them after a while when those yeah because those places also don't have a realistic expectation of what kind of like what you can bring because the reality is a lot of these platforms are siloed you could have this these kind of followers on Twitter but that does not mean you're going to get them on YouTube immediately but these could use uh networks do not have an understanding of that so they come and bring them creators would just finally expect them they they give you this money or whatever this deal based on that the understanding the expectation you're going to bring exactly the following you had online and when it is dumped them they dumped them and now you're fucked you didn't have the momentum of your own of your own platform channel yeah can I say one thing I worked at um before I got on a philip show I got I was I was fucking broke at the beginning of the year and then I got a job at Apple Music doing social media I was super fucking hyped about it and I got to do social media for a lot of crazy people and one thing you learn about social media marketing versus TV marketing is if you work in TV marketing you have to pray you fucking make up the numbers well enough because there's no attributable metrics in TV marketing for conversions so mother fuckers like still right now are spending shit tons of money on advertising on Fox and everything like that and losing it here's a fun here's another fun fact you know the other platform digital platform where people are spending a ton of fucking money and just fucking losing it Twitter Twitter is like a negative ROI platform for everyone look at binder light up right now I will not I will not I've heard the same things yeah I mean with my name go ahead no please bro okay we had do you remember when Elon I'm not gonna name names do you remember when Elon was like uh hey Apple is boycotting Twitter because of blah blah blah blah okay alright I am not confirming or denying that I was in a conversation but I will say that it doesn't want to use Twitter it's because it doesn't fucking make them any money and they fucking hate doing it and everybody in social media it is an open secret that Twitter fucking sucks and everybody not only at Apple but a ton of fucking companies unless you're fucking Wendy's is like yo why don't we just put our money in tiktok because it makes us twice as much and then when tiktok gets banned we'll put our money in Instagram it's not that you're doing culture war ribbing bullshit sure but like you just don't make money nobody wants to fucking buy a product from a tweet people will buy a product from tiktok people want to know about your personality from a tweet if you work in video games or in politics or in news fucking Twitter is your bread and butter but if you work in music if you work in food if you work in any of the commodities industries in America and you're advertising on Twitter just burn your fucking money and tweet normally like it doesn't make any I'm sorry I've heard all these same things there's absolute and it's great to hear from someone obviously who has that background I've heard all may or may not have that background may or may not have been in that right right right but I mean with like you said with TV they don't there's no there's no conversion metrics you can't tell that this many people bought this product from this specific commercial spot a lot of them just do it for the brand value of oh this commercial plan during this really big show and that means something to them even if they can't make the you know make the comparison to oh it equaled this many sales but the same things not the case with online advertising you can actually tell where the conversions come from and how you're getting your money and Twitter has historically been a really bad place for that for most advertisers it's also like it's also the most behind platform in terms of like like all of the stuff that Elon Musk is doing like if you look at the design language of Twitter it just doesn't serve anything let's take everything away from his blue check and all that shit like that right just the basic of like the design language of the platform is not built for like he said that you can upload like two hours worth of like movies right now on there bro already on Twitter the stuff that he wants like content like that where people have videos that they want to post or like giant threads with like informative stuff that exists on Twitter it's just not intuitive for you to use again from the esports base when new games come out the entire competitive league for that is like on Twitter and they're sharing information do you know how fucking hard it is to find Twitter information to find a tweet from like a year ago you know how fucking long it takes I don't have that kind of time bro I have news to freestyle I'm not gonna fucking look through Twitter for like an hour for one fucking tweet from some guy like one guy I feel like you know how no no no I wanted to ask that this did you know that when Elon Musk said that there was a two hour limit someone just was like you know what fuck it and then just posted Shrek 3 Shrek the 3rd Yeah Bro like does the thing You didn't even need to wait for the two hours because a couple weeks ago people were uploading the Super Mario Brothers that split up into like multiple chunks because it wasn't fitting in one upload I mean Twitter is not a video platform no matter how badly he wants it to be like Tucker Carlson leaving 25 million bucks to upload a video on Twitter like what the hell is wrong with him Twitter is not a video platform it's the one video platform it doesn't pay you why would you upload a video there why would you upload a video there there's no video there's no video player there's no video playback options it doesn't save where you left off it doesn't buffer there's no buffering I don't know if you guys realize this but when a video is uploaded on Twitter and like maybe like the first five seconds when you play it the quality will be absolute garbage crap shit it looks like but if you rewind it guess what it still plays back the same garbage because there's no buffering on Twitter there's no buffering on it on YouTube on Facebook you could rewind and guess what all that data they needed to download that that's why it showed you showed up looking like shit at first but then it downloads the data and when you rewind it it has that data for you now and it looks good there's not buffers there's not download the data in advance so those five seconds in the beginning will always and forever because it's not a video platform it's not a video platform but why don't they think it though because the issue is I don't know why they don't think it but I feel like it's funny that you say that I'm gonna answer it all in a second but it's funny that you say that every time I upload a video clip of Freestyle of the News half second it's so fucking annoying and the other thing is like the proper way to upload the format to upload to video for like the most possible clairvoyant like return it's supposed to be you upload a video and then you put the link in the comment below or the comment above right the conversion rate for Twitter for videos in general is like dog shit it's dog shit and the reason is I think the reason they do it Ole is because they want to keep the scroll going they don't want you to have to like they want to keep the scroll going but the thing is is that TikTok is much more sophisticated like in terms of like I'm not gonna fucking get into the Chinese shit right now but comedy is party stuff it's a much more sophisticated platform in general even Instagram reels because what it'll do is it'll buffer the first 10 videos you have so like if you lose internet while you're scrolling TikTok you have another like 10 videos you can fucking look on TikTok before you stop being able to watch videos because it's buffering ahead of what you've already seen right so when so because the videos are I guess like very low bit rate the videos are 720p and we're in like a 4k 1080 world right but Twitter will let you upload high quality stuff but won't buffer while you're doing it and so a lot of videos will be like slow but they want you to be able to like scroll past and then all of a sudden you see a video playing and you stop and you want to watch it there's some there's some the merit to that but like if you stop and want to watch a video and then all of a sudden it turns into like something that you're playing on a potato it doesn't really fucking help also Twitter's um Twitter's uh how they count views is so unbelievably ridiculous they're not showing views didn't they no they show views so if you're scrolling through your feed and a tweet with a video shows up in your feed and it auto plays for two seconds that counts as a view on that video if you're scrolled two seconds yes for Twitter yes it's two seconds if you're that's not I know you're you gotta smile in face because you know that's well below the average youtube it's 10 tiktok it's 3 and tiktok is specifically short form video where youtube Twitter yeah certainly like that sounds ridiculous but 3 to 2 is like a huge fucking differential in terms of like counting a view but wait there's more it will also count a view if you're scrolling the auto play goes you scroll past the video you don't have any interest in it but you stop on like a tweet below it to read it if more than 50% of the video player is still viewable on your screen it counts that as a video view as well the comments are saying that your mic is doing leftist audio stuff again Matt again what the hell that's a good point you made though yes yeah it was a great point it is wild what they cause as a view Mike can you share some of the popcorn you're making with your microphone alright I love how like immediately as soon as you start talking to see the comment leftist audio just in time for the end of the show it's 10.30 now it's either Matt or me who has the fuck the buddy up no I still got 30 minutes left we got super chats guys yeah it actually kept them this time on the side oh enjoy that this was a great show with a great guest but yes I was so I was so worried I was like pissing you guys off man I really no you pissed the lamp at that one I love the vibe she was right though he made me interested y'all are interpreting it in the wrong way no I loved your vibe I loved everybody's vibe on here man and I'm like I'm like flattered you guys like even like my shit or even considered listening to me and yeah man thank you guys don't let it go to your head don't let it go to your head you're not that good no just joking I'll get a binder over there beef album coming out soon too listen I've listened I've studied the macho man Randy Savage Hulk Hogan this song don't make me use my skill oh shit I was gonna want to though they're just having the most obscure ass jokes and I'd be like now I'm like do y'all get it y'all just be I gotta have like where are these references next time I'm on Matt's gonna just be in the Tom McDonald cosplay trying to give me shit you know what no joke just was recommended on my twitter for you feed right now it's been up for it's been up for about three hours the spider-man into the spider-verse movie in full just showed up on my for you feed on a recommended on a recommended for you I get like fucking Matt Walsh and like Shapiro on my said that your two options are snuff film or into the spider verse yeah and animal snuff film yeah yeah before you before you go one more time plug your stuff Zed and by the way I saw comment that said that Zed carried this show so thank you thank you guys so yeah like please subscribe to my 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freestyle the news like two days of the week and and it'll be it'll be exhausting but it'll be really really fun and so yeah man I'm just flattered man I'm just flattered you guys like it dude it's weird to be like a liked rapper it's good to be a video game rapper but like like for my political stuff is it's it's really flattering man so thank you guys so much nice I know yeah I talk a lot of shit when people fucking say shit to me I talk a lot of shit so I'm wholesome now but just wait not to you not to you not a lot of blue checks a lot of blue checks yeah sorry about that no I don't care I'm a I'm a salaried rapper what the fuck are they gonna do like I won dude like what the fuck that's true that's the best possible outlook fucking oh he's got the cash on the table fuck out of here alright alright bye y'all alright bye y'all love y'all thank you for having me man yeah thank you alright we're not going anywhere folks we're stuck here although I feel like it's like I don't get super chats should I still be here it feels normal to be here actually I have some questions that were geared towards both of us Mike so really really quick though our guest today has more YouTube subscribers than I do subscribe to Matt Bender people come on now I'm literally less than 100 subscribers away from 30,000 can we get round a beautiful 30,000 number youtube.com slash Matt Bender you can do it subscribe immediately I got some debates I did this week one with Doug Lane about the Twitter files which was crazy and then even crazier one with he was defending the Twitter files yes he's a big TaiIbi guy now Doug Lane I feel like I haven't seen him zero books oh zero books formally of zero books he's not there anymore I suspect probably because of politics but he's not there anymore I don't understand how people who are otherwise intelligent fall down that dumb ass shit yeah that's the thing I feel like he's a legit guy and he's smart but it's propaganda man it gets everybody yeah alright first super chat here they are working today look at this thoughts on Alberta Con-Premier Breach of Conflict of Interest Act by interfering with the ongoing trial of a COVID Convoy by calling him and the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General to discuss his case so this is a very I have a lot to say about this might you go first so the only I'm on and off with Canadian Politics I don't follow a lot of what happened in Alberta I did listen to Candleland had a really good breakdown on this but I listened to that like a month ago I haven't followed this closely I just hope the NDP candidate wins even though Rachel Nodley isn't the greatest NDP candidate but in terms of the alternative here let's hope this is the end of this Alberta Premier but we're going to have to see this is I believe for you Binder oh is it behinder behinder in honor of your quote-unquote debate with bad and pinata yeah that was something else everyone should go check that one out too I watched a little bit of it it was a little bit spicy maybe one of the most bad as someone who debates right wingers that was probably one of the most bad faith debates I've ever had he literally just wanted to use me as like and he admitted it too he wanted to just use me as like I don't even know what word I'm looking for is like a a philin for like just like this like fake American that he thought I was that I wasn't like he just tried to like portray me as something like a made-up person in his mind I was very weird weirdos here's also for you this is for me too Zayed well that was for him actually he's not here that's too bad but it's from Crispy said you did it for years that anyone watching and that's just proof that it's not what you can do it's who you can do it with he's not here to hear that yes we will Lisa so are you going to address Blair's behavior oh my god I saw that all night in the chat I didn't want to bring like I don't want to talk about that shit when we have a guest here yeah but you know we're we're we're we're transparent and so I guess we were lunching it really fast right now I have still not looked into it okay well there you go I watched I watched a few videos I watched Blair's video I watched a couple responses my so look let's be clear here it's bad I don't know I don't know her apart from this show just so we're all in this just so we're all under that understanding I don't think it looks good for her she's been gone for a couple weeks we're gonna have to see what the hell goes on with the rest of this but yeah I don't think it looks good yeah that's my interest can I also I just want to say real quick there was a lot of people who were like mad that we haven't addressed it Blair kind of exists on a different side of the internet so like I watched her response video a couple of weeks ago and I don't know any of the people involved so like this takes time for us to educate ourselves we're not familiar with the people here we've known Blair for like six months and she's a lovely person but we haven't talked about this privately so like we're not necessarily privy to all this like when I watched her response video initially that was the first time learning that it was more than like the legal eagle stuff because I thought that the whole drama like started and ended with the legal eagle stuff which I thought that she handled poorly but I thought it was great that she like addressed it and apologized I didn't know that there was like that that opened the floodgates to all these other things and so she responded to all of these folks and then they responded as well and I watched like a summary video that somebody did and they seem like they're pretty fair and I think that she needs to address it again because a lot of this is very bad it's not a good look and I'm not really sure how we like we haven't talked about this privately so I have to figure it out but like we're trying to educate ourselves people we don't we don't know they're everyone involved but it's it does look really bad if I'm being honest there are very confused people in the chat and I am one of those very confused people can you give me a quick summary of what I mean the basic I mean essentially people that she worked with she mistreated there was one person who she cut again this is from what I have seen I obviously was not there but kind of controlled their life like every aspect of their life and it was kind of hard for them to um I don't know like like get out of that in a way the thing is there's so many layers to it that it's hard for me to like I watched like I watched like 40 minutes all together on this shit actually no including her video probably an hour uh and it's not like so generally like he is hell yeah generally I care more about like what people output in terms of what they present like into there was I know there was there was an allegation of of a plagiary she addressed that and that's not true so there are things that weren't true that that were claims um but essentially there's like four people who worked with her who aren't even friends those four people and it's four versus one yeah it's just like an employee mistreatment or something like that yeah that's like there's a it's there's a multitude of things like a lot of it is interpersonal like it seems like there's spats about oh well um there this person is sloppy and their living space like I don't care about that but I don't care there's certain things that like are bigger um than what I initially thought that I was in privy to so it's it's a very complex multi-dimensional drama and I'm just learning about it people so you've got to give me time okay I'm trying I haven't internalized most of the points I know there was what she publicized like someone's mental health issues without them like obviously allowing her to do that so it's a lot of personal drama but it's personal drama that doesn't look good but again I we have to talk to everybody else this is not like this is we shouldn't like that right that we have really interested these are allegations though right or what are we has I mean there's allegations and like she made allegations and evidence I mean there's a that's all I'm gonna say like there's I can't remember the name of the guy he did a response video that basically kind of like he brought receipts to things that she alleged in her video um and like based on his perspective it looks like she misrepresented him um so it there's so like it's a lot okay it's overwhelming um and I'm trying to I think she's gonna have to address this again if she's gonna be able to get over this like this is there's a lot there yeah the click that's that's what we're referring to yeah all right no I just want I thought I I'm glad we talked this through right now because there are a lot of people who've been asking in our chat for weeks now and I think yeah you know we we we do that we owe it to our audience to talk about these things I don't think Blair would hear this and think we're being unfair just talking about it you know and I guess we'll figure things out yeah and let me just say as well I feel really bad for the mods because some of the mods were like hey they want to know if you want to address this and I've been telling the mods like I am trying to figure out like what's happening because I thought that it was just like over but it's not um so please don't like lambast the mods for us not addressing it or whatever because the mods are trying their best I just assumed because of you know she's a pretty big youtuber who's not like a straight up politics youtuber and there's a whole like world of like power social relationships and drama when it comes to those youtubers I just assumed it was some sort of youtuber drama and that type of stuff I have same zero zero less than zero interesting yep that's why I haven't any of these videos are yeah that's why I didn't get into any of the stuff until like this past week because I just saw a comment coming like oh my god fine I'll like look at this boring it's like it got so big that we couldn't really like ignore it because it's like for me I automatically dismiss it because I don't even follow drama that goes on in our circles a lot of the time but like I have to learn about people I've never heard about that's true that's true to be fair and this is like there's so much bad shit that has been thrown at people like over the it's just so it's easy to dispute like alright whatever right because I'm not in that world it's hard to even know how big something really is I don't have any context I don't follow anybody in that world it's just it's completely for me so it's just like people were throwing like you know names out there like the click bad milk like I'm supposed to know any of that means yeah yeah I don't know I don't know I don't know I've never heard of sad milk until this whole drama started and I've got to say that's like the worst like I thought humanist report was a bad name for a podcast sad milk is by far the worst name ever and I heard it and I'm like oh my god I hate all these people for that name where to and I'm just kidding like I saw I saw recently like someone always in the same boat as us okay yeah exact same boat don't put this on a leg I know I don't I don't think except for Lance I don't think any of us really were familiar with Illuminati's channel her work generally until she came on leftist mafia yeah no I don't know if you go back to the very first episode the election stream kind of like episode 0 of leftist mafia we were meeting Blair for the first time and I wasn't even on when book player was on I missed her completely no you were she you were still there is she sure I'm pretty sure yeah I'm on the first episode of this maybe I'm wrong yeah because she was there for the whole show I'm pretty sure but like she's been nothing but pleasant to us so I mean there's gonna be that bias there right she's been nothing but lovely to me so it's like is this just more drama and noise online or is it something bigger and yeah it's it's a lot people and we're trying so please give us like we're doing our best yeah so people could change people could change you know like this is that happened apparently like you know years ago at least a couple years ago so I'm actually well one's like more recent so maybe not but it's yeah it's hard again I feel bad even saying too much without her addressing the news that's the thing yeah that's so it's hard to even know here's a good question for me and you Mike how far in a zealot here's the kingdom are you all is it better than you thought it would be so how many hours have you played like don't no spoilers here I'm actually heard that you wouldn't ask me this question as well what an assumption are you playing it no you didn't talk to me you didn't say shit so I have all but two of the the towers unlocked for the overworld map where do you find this time I mean I to be fair I haven't really played the main story a lot like as soon as I got my glider exploring a lot I just yeah I've literally just been exploring and so like I haven't even done the main game yet I just got my dungeons no not a single one so I'm just like I'll go here and then I'll get sidetracked go there I just got the final ability for the arm I don't want to spoil it don't spoil it yeah I I don't I'm just getting started it's fucking it it's honestly like getting started you unlock the whole map I I'm loving it I maybe like I probably got maybe like 10 hours into it so far maybe 15 hours but I got it like all the way to the end of a dungeon and then I can't beat the boss because I'm way too weak I think this is one that you're supposed to get further in so I dipped out of there but you can always like transport back and go and fight the boss so I'm in some other dungeon now on the other side of the map but it's it has exceeded my expectations I mean I knew I would like it but I think I forgot how much Breath of the Wild grabbed me so this one grabbed me just as much more so because of all the amazing new mechanics and it's just it's such a fantastic game and I'll just say this this might be a hot take but I think it's better than Elden Ring just in terms of how big the map is you just you can't like you can set like an objective but you're gonna get sidetracked and then sidetracked 10 more times there's just so much to do it's overwhelming but it's so much fun for me it's like a it's like a friendlier Elden Ring because Elden Ring like kicks your ass this game kicks your ass too but it's because of its presentation it doesn't feel as daunting as Elden Ring did to me but yeah it's so it's so damn good Lee is really on the ship by the way only 40 subs away from 30,000 let's do this tonight on the stream let's do this come on leah.com.slashmap I'm coping hard Lee what if this whole thing is like one person just commenting under different names like talk about Blair talk about Blair well I think that's the same person this is the same person yeah yeah yeah hilarious this is for you Binder let's see Robbie Barclay with the Super Chat commissioned Tim Poole take down from Zayed half-joke oh like a full rap well he fit Tim Poole in that one he fit Tim Poole in that one definitely Tim Poole is a good target for anybody oh my god Lee people just like live for drama they come here just for drama forget about these I gotta say if they would have kept sending us money for not answering it you know what Lee we need to talk oh Lee's back hey hey we got one for you there's a Super Chat literally for you I know I see my name yeah I see that and I don't understand why I was like I'm not sure where I shined a bad signal in the sky and said should a white woman I be loosely associated with being in trouble I must make a public service announcement unclear to me why listen I let me just be as as clear and transparent as humanly possible first of all I've met Blair on this show I've tried to make it very clear to everybody I met everybody on the show cool I am I exist in an entirely different internet plane from even from everybody on this show I don't know who y'all are talking about every week you didn't know who Ben Shapiro was and stuff the first episode I asked Blair who the triangle even is that being that being said you know listen I don't know and this is just listen I'm gonna be as fair and as transparent as humanly possible I don't know those people involved I don't know I don't know any of those people I don't know any of them I have no I'm a lawyer with a million different jobs that do a lot of different important stuff you're not gonna convince me that I need to run down a trailer drama that's happening nope I won't my shot be convinced but I have seen I've seen Blair's video I'm aware that there is a lot of drama and controversy I have talks to Blair my understanding is listen we can't speak on Blair's situation we can't even like however Blair chooses to pursue that I know that there are a lot of different information that isn't aware that are known to the public or whatever about the situation but I don't know and I can't say and I've always said this as a defense attorney I don't know shit even when I'm representing people I don't know the judge don't know the prosecutor doesn't know no one fucking knows I wasn't there I don't know anybody I cannot speak and I do not want to be in the position where I start and I jump down just because it feels convenient because the internet is now if the whole tides are against Blair or whatever I now just jump in because it feels easiest for me to be like fuck Blair yeah yeah yeah fuck fuck I'm good right I'm good I don't want to do that I don't have that relationship with Blair Blair has never done anything to me or whatever from my understanding I know a lot of things like I I don't know I don't know I know Blair is pursuing and knowing right I know she has her own store I know there's parts that and I've said this to her and I've said this before I think Blair is at a disadvantage by being a triangle and I literally mean that all jokes aside like I really think because people they don't know her she's just a triangle they're connected to online they like her and they like her content but if once you know the kind of unmasking it feels like people who say they know her they say they know her and they're all saying this bad stuff then it feels like oh well this is what they know but it's true and anything she presents about herself or any response now just seems like it's being told you know to defend herself I feel like she's in a rough place I don't know I can't speak to any of that I don't want to be a part of I don't want to start a tribe because I'm a firm believer if they come for you in the morning they'll come for me at night like I'm not in the I do not want to start a thing where when the internet tides are against you and they have the pitchforks we start that because if we start that PSA I do not want to set the tone that we are obligated to make public service announcements and jump on tribes against anybody that's on the thing because that's a fucked up place to be and who needs that we're we're in saying I have made it clear I'm high as fuck and the show every single week that is obviously the position of somebody who would like to be unserious I have never said that I want to consider myself a member of parliament or I have to speak up on any of these things also I'm a defense attorney all not a prosecutor stop putting these obligations on me I do not believe in it I don't do this in real life let alone online so keep me out of it that's my position if Blair is wrong for something Blair will speak up on own fucking self y'all will find that out Blair will have an own situation we cannot be held responsible for Blair's thing I know everybody is doing their best Lance has tried to be like he's being a friend he's being a co-host we're all doing our our best to deal with it without being a fucked up person to somebody we do a show it it's not that we don't hear y'all it's not that we don't know they'll have said and all these different things but who the fuck knows how it goes because it's so easily there have been many times in life where everybody jumps under tides or something there are a bunch of men jumping down on a woman with a big platform and then if it should should it turn out should the tides turn we learn a bunch of other stuff and it end up being where she's not the bad guy then we look like the fuck the fast people at all jump to fucking kick her in the neck so I don't know I don't know but I see I don't know the allegations like I said I don't know I'm not a person I'm not going to die on nobody's hill I'm not don't fucking know I wasn't there I don't know these people all I know I do a show with Blair she's nice to me I've been nice to her everybody keep my name out your mouth and let me do my nice little content please be nice to Lance get off Lance's ass he's trying to be a good friend and be a good person and I would remind you why y'all are blowing down on Lance being a dickhead this week Lance was a person that convened this wonderful assembly of people y'all enjoy talking every Thursday so put some fucking respect on Lance the surf's name god damn it why is why is Lance getting getting my man's grief because they jumped in because when this first half was the first happened Lance you know tried to be you know trying to be a good friend and he streamed because he streamed Blair's video Blair's first video that put out people think there's an implied contract that he must cover every hit piece on who he knows or else he is morally bankrupt please please please please because what y'all would expect it if Lance were the type of person that was friends with this woman and the minute four other white men jumped on her he jumped on a fucking back y'all wouldn't find that good too especially if there's other information behind the scenes so we might know that might make us seem like dickheads so we have a lot of different things that we're competing with so stop putting these obligations on people y'all have enough people there are literally millions between all the hit pieces on a lot of people y'all can talk shit about Blair with why do y'all need us to join you there's a lot of shit to talk about do we need to be that kind of podcast follow those people who are talking shit they're committed yeah be nice to Lance thank you this is yeah it's people like this is again like I'm gonna restate what I said this is so complex like you can't it's not like she hey look at this tweet from Blair and I can't just make a judgment on that this is like so deep this isn't about like what she presents right like that's always my concern is like what are you putting out into the world like this what's happened behind the scenes is very hard for us to to properly judge because we aren't there like this is personal issues that are that's happening there so it's it's tougher than like someone putting out you know some garbage online to spread like that's that's a different thing yeah yeah it's hard to like there's a lot of moving pieces so like I'm really fair and objective but I need time to learn and learn about these people and educate myself because yeah it's there's a lot like there's a lot of people involved there's feelings that are hurt and I don't want to like just jump in for the sake of jumping in and end up like making more problems causing more pain because like we're talking about like mental health issues suicide these are very serious things and I don't think that I should jump in with with an ignorant hasty opinion so like I don't want to talk if I'm if I'm not fully informed you know what I mean I did not realize like when Olay just mentioned there's if you want to get your fill here there's a bunch of videos I thought this was like literally three videos that were weeks old I did not realize 300,000 views on a video uploaded just yesterday called Illuminati Exposed what the hell are you kidding me they're on her ass like white on rights okay when I say to you they're on Blair's motherfucking ass they're on her ass they're on her fucking ass I do think you're right that because she's a triangle it's easier like it feels like there's no victim right like you're just like there are certain things like honestly I really like this has really been illuminating to me on like the different things like the cost benefit analysis of how you create your brand because I've said this before I've always wondered I first started to show what the danger is in that and being hidden behind the thing and it works conveniently when they like you but it's a there's a certain level of the what it saves you the distance it allows for you that's came back it's right there reconvene first question how long has the after party been going down for that is super chat that's why we're here we do this every week I feel so good every week we go quick Lance and Ole left let's talk all the shit about Lance and Ole can you believe there's silence on Blair oh my god we're watching Lance did you know there was after party I'm like yeah what the fuck David can you play the intro let's do another two hours kill me now alright I forgot I meant I could do that I was like I gotta go in they make statements damn I gotta make a fucking statement we're holding a whole ass fucking press conference after the show god damn I'm tired oh my god I reiterate almost the points that everyone said sorry yeah say your peace Lance because you're getting you're getting attacked this makes me sad you're getting thrown out I agree with almost everything that everyone has said already the exact same thing I've obviously been in this awkward position where yes I've spoken to Blair in behind the scenes in between these dramas and it's not my drama just like Mike was saying I didn't know half of these names when I first started coming out and so if someone else is like yeah I'm gonna release a statement so this is what I'm going to like say about it it's not my place to comment on right in between it's like it's been an incredibly shitty position to be in because like something will happen Blair will be like yeah I'm gonna make a statement Blair my statement and then more videos come out right afterwards and then everyone oh Lance how can how can you stand behind the response videos now after the response response but I think it's the same thing as everyone else has been saying on the leftist mafia so far once the full story has been told and everything comes out if it turns out that Blair has been abusive or abusive to people like obviously people in this panel are going to call it out of course like absolutely you know the lawyer and me just always is always concerned about precedent right and like what we put out there right because like women it was like oh we owe it to our friends to be there I was like oh don't put that fucking in writing like like I said like Jesus Christ because I just like wonder like listen I feel like I don't know why that's implicitly the understanding in like our internet town squares and I want to push back on that because I don't know where like in starting a podcast to me or being on a podcast that means I'm now obligated to like do some extra layer of condemnation publicly in some way let me be clear I'm a person I don't mince words you all know me like everything I got to say I push back Lance knows I will send him a whole five minute audio note telling him why fundamentally disagree why I think this why I think that I could do whatever whatever like I get the scroll ones yeah yeah is getting like 15 minute voicemail messages for me no dead ass and I'm like there are ways you know you can you can speak about things and address things I'm all about like accountability and how you help people and they're called up but honestly she's been fucking jumped on and being curbsombed by the entire fucking internet what more does she like I don't see what I need to make any publicly disparaging comments about her make any denouncement what does that do where where did you get the impression and what did you do when you were on YouTube talking shit did where in being a joke left this mafia did we come up with some obligation to like jump into and wade into like these larger discourses that are happening Blair is having dynamics that I can't even relate to the South these people of salaries Blair is a corporation Blair is a business I didn't even know about this I don't I don't fucking know nothing about this money I don't none of my shit has even monetized I can't even I don't want to make any statement to be a part of any of this stuff and I think that is a dangerous game to get into I think that's what makes things such a headache on our side of the aisle right is like we can't like maybe the whole point of wanting to you know to do the show and make a comfortable world is where we could you know talk and we could be have these different like quadrants of the internet come in not first to then act as some other quasi council where we jump into what each other's internet town squares matter but we say hey let it the fucking pitchforks we're not real if we don't fucking tell us man she let it be all right all right all right I saw I saw that photo of you canoodling with Hassan at the big youtube celebrity boxing matches don't play it off like you're some little youtuber you got some secret shit going on we don't know about hell I've never seen what Blair looks like for all I know you're fucking Illuminati I was going to learn Addy did they really though yes they fucking did oh my god yes they did I was like my mega I didn't even talk to him like I for real I hailed and I went home I went to go I went back to my room to catch love is blind I'm not even born I was like I was like how they were like oh I'm so just whining you every time you shuffle my timeline is red but I was like how the fuck does me being an adjacent nearer this person come to like where did I make some endorsement that I espoused and agree with everything they must have done to piss you off I'm like I don't even know these niggas I don't know what they be doing on the internet to make you mad I wasn't there oh you you took a picture with Hassan well did you know about this and this and that he said this oh my god oh my god I'm not a creator I don't even know nothing it's exhausting it really is and it can we just address the people in the chat who are roasting me because they say that I look like a medical services worker with this shirt okay I won't wear it again alright I would never have thought that it actually is pretty accurate I do look like a medical services worker what does a medical service worker look like you know like somebody that works at like zoom care we're roasting you internet what are you doing they're actually it's kind of on point but like okay I see it okay I'm a medical services worker I don't see it this is what a bad day is so here's the next super chat I miss Blair I hope she returns in spite of the duality of the internet she really completed this group the duality of this they would take a fucking heated javelin and send it to you instead of us nothing this is for Binder love the vibes of your chat Matt yep thank you a lot Jordane I mean everybody knows I got the best chat in the business everybody knows that the Binder YouTube live stream chat is the chat to be in I don't know I don't know about that maybe Star Trek shirt Mike I think Mike's chat is the underdog here I think he has the best chat Mike's chat is very nice they're wonderful at least to me they're very sweet they're very wholesome so I can see that reflected in your chatters as well Tony you think CNN will come back from the bottom after shooting themselves in the foot from the town hall to buckle all cable news is going downhill and with Chris looked up at the top at CNN it sounds like he enjoyed the town hall so I don't expect things to get any better at CNN so definitely not this is for Binder it's Rene you call Marjorie Taylor Greene He-Man just call Marjorie Taylor Greene He-Man having fall off I don't even know what that means I don't either but it's funny but I don't get it it just conjured an image of her in my mind of like her and a He-Man like this is also yours Binder narrator with a 12 dollar and 34 cent in competence is populist branding of white supremacy I almost read that as YouTube supremacy never bring up the incompetence in talk about it because it does nothing except to say it's not as dangerous as it is this is probably in relation to the Marjorie Taylor Greene discussion we're having yes Doc says three things any day when Blair is returning I haven't heard you guys mention we talked about I know of her issues thanks for Jesse last week you need to watch Steve shibs parody video about how to shower you know how I know the 730 deep down in the also and I know our audience and I love y'all I love y'all audience I love you all so deeply and y'all know deep in y'all souls that y'all are a little self-righteous and y'all love drama you know I know because Blair barely fucking talks on this show if you did what except that Blair's talk collection really sounds like really so much shit was gone for half the episode you over here like oh my back make a statement Oh, I saw one comment that was like, sorry, go ahead, Matt. I'd say someone should get the data from all the episodes and create a bar graph of how long each of us has spoken on this show without players in the bottom, the very bottom. I'm going to guess that it's me and Ole fighting for number one up top. Way bigger. I talk a lot of you. I just, I talk a lot less in time than a lot of you. Most of your segments, they be sitting there quietly. I just, I don't know what to say, but that's the razzle dazzle. That's all it is. Like the numbers though, that motherfucka bender got a monologue on him. You win the monologue awards. Yeah, yeah, soliloquies, soliloquies. You were the soliloquy master. You just got to know your mic again, Matt. I fixed it. I fixed it. Oh, OK, OK. Yeah, that's right. You know, I'm the Shakespeare of the group, I guess. Or not. I feel like we all have our moments where they're like, there's bursts of us talking and then we kind of like fade into the background. Like, I kind of feel like we all do that to an extent. Hey, David, start off by saying I love you guys and everything you all do. I was wondering if you'd be interested in streaming to other platform in addition to what you have so far. Part one, the answer is no. I'll see part two at some point. I don't see it yet. Oh, here's not. Yeah, no, this isn't it. Somebody said this one's for bender. Narrator with a super chat. It lends to the myth that only the dumb and the poor actually racist. Is this also in relation to Marjorie Taylor Greene? I think so. Yeah, it's rough because we read these super chats after a two hour show. Always try to add everybody who leaves super chats for any of us. Always try to add just a little bit of context about what you're talking about. No one knows how we get to the super chat. They charge by the word. That's why they don't. That's why a lot of the super chats. Yeah, so if you go over a certain amount of word, you have to pay more. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's why a lot of super chats are short. So I'm so listening to longer ones are more. I never realized that. All right. So listen, if you want me to be able to fully respond to your super chats, I need essay format. I need long form content. MLA. Hundred dollars worth, at least. Double spaced. The captain with the very generous super chat here that is part two. All right, maybe I will. Jesus, it is made by fellow Canadian Linus from Linus Tech Tips. Oh, really? And the platform is called Float Plane. It is kind of like a cross between Patreon and Twitch, except it has an amazing audio and great video. You know what? I'm actually interested. I like Linus. I like Linus. He's a good guy. Let me just search up Float Plane. His reviews are on point. He's a Canadian also. So later. I just realized someone before said, check out to Steve Schiff's How to Shower video and then told you to skip to a minute seven and a half. What is what are people on YouTube creating where a how to shower video is even seven and a half minutes long to begin? I don't know. I'm probably not going to watch whatever this is. But I do appreciate you, Doc. Thank you. Zaytabani, yo, I thought that name sounded familiar. I listen to Roleback all the time. He's a real one, much love. Infinite content says, when you add the anti-LGBT stuff with the anti-immigrant stuff, DeSantis is single-handedly wrecking the Florida agriculture, tourism, construction, economy. Yeah, that's a great point. Thank you. Nelflow, most likely the play is to make Florida inhospitable to immigrants and liberal and progressive voters so they move and turn the state red. I mean, the state's already red. This is you got a super sticker, Bender. That's for you. Thank you, Archangel. I appreciate that. I wish we could see the sticker, though. I know what you could see. Jules T says, here's to the cool mods. Yes, I added three mods after some assholes last week. Some shout out to the mods. The mods are just you're all amazing. Yeah, I don't read the child while it's happening. So I noticed afterwards that there were some terrible people in the child last week. So that has been dealt with now. So all the people will be saying I need to stream from my channel. No, it's never going to happen. And it's because you all don't know how to act. Look at yourself. David, I have a question. How did you how did you pick your mods? I mean, it must have been hard with a chat so horrible and terrible to find three people who could. I thought you started serious and then you had to. But to answer the serious question, there's some people that recognize every that they're here every week and they're good people. So is one of your mods, Tyler Hackner, too. I believe so, yes. I love Tyler. Yeah, if I didn't, then I should have because he's just. Tyler, like he just he's amazing. He comments on all of our videos. Such a great supporter, substantive comment. Like he gets upvotes all the way to the top. Like he he's crushing it. I love Tyler Tyler's birthday was the other day, too. Right. Happy belated. Oh, happy birthday, Tyler. He does. You do better, David. Oh, I didn't see that. I feel really bad. Happy birthday, Tyler. All right, Tyler. Oh, yeah, who knew? You should have told me. I would have said earlier. This is yours, Binder. Wanda with a super chat. Great show as always. Thank you, Wanda. We all appreciate it. Snackpander says he is the best guest so far. He was fantastic. Yeah, he's great. And I was like on behalf of Rebecca's or in foreign format. And I know we've had some great guests out too. So like, yeah, it was great. Yeah, that's been every guest has been fantastic. Yeah, you and I think was extra interesting about him that like he's not in our like political circle. Like we usually do have guests who are in leftist politics YouTube. You left them up. While he shares like while he shares our politics, it's clear that the content he creates and even the YouTubers he's worked for previously, they are in the broader YouTube sphere, not like the the political niche specifically. Yeah. Yeah, this is for you. Yeah, you got to write Joe Fox. You're right. Oh, it's for you, Binder, but it's for us. All right, Wanda with a super chat. Are David or Lance affected by the fires in Canada? Didn't even know there were fires in Canada. You guys all right? I am. Yeah, it's a smoky Vancouver right now. Fuck it sucks. Oh, really? Yes. Well, it's always smoky there. I was used to it in August. In August, that's when the fire season starts. Because I went when I went to B.C. But whenever I went, I went there and I could smell it immediately. Like, actually, we smelled it on the plane down and I'm like, is the plane on fire? Like what's going on? And they had to come with actually went over the speaker was like, this is just the forest fires happening. It's actually bad because it used to happen in August. Now it's going to be normalized happening in May, I guess. And usually us in Seattle battle each other because the California wildfires will like blow all their smoke up here and all our fires blow all the way back down to them. So it fucking sucks. It's brutal. Just stay inside. I meant to say that. Sorry? I like your shirt. I meant to say that. Yeah, I do too. Yeah. Oh, by the way, I'm only I'm only 20 subs away from a 30,000. Come on. You're taking a comm slash, Matt Bender. Let's do this tonight right now on the air in the next like five minutes we got. Let's do it. I'm at 16.2 thousand subscribers. That's incredible. You just started in my second month of business. You just fucking started. That might be the fastest growth of like any of us. That's insane. I see if you're not monetized yet, you should be able to. Yeah, you said it, but immigration, you know, America keeps. Oh, are you serious? Of course. Of course. So you can't. Well, you can't monetize the channel. No. Yeah, America. You know, but immigration can't connect to like a different like account. It doesn't have to be. Yeah, you know, I'm hoping that I'm hoping my green cards that I get it sometimes. So in my immigration there is this. Yeah, let's hope. Can we help you with that? Like, I don't know how it works. Can you like write recommendations? This is our studied lineup of letters right now, honestly. So yeah, let's let's let's hope for the best. But yeah, as far as my channel as long as been eligible already. Yeah. Yeah. You're probably eligible after your first video to be fair, because you've got a lot of views. I was eligible pretty quickly. I told last like weeks ago, like I was like, see, I was like, I'm just showing you, I can't monetize it. I just want something to know. That's so so you have the views and subscriber count. I think it's about two thousand views and like a thousand subscribers and four thousand watch time. Yeah, I have way past that. Yeah, radio friendly box says a Zade rap intro for that. Be cool. That would be so cool. Oh, yeah. This is Bender's lovely pariah with a super chat. Thank you. That is all smiley face. Thank you, lovely pariah. That is quite lovely. I'm assuming these are all Bender's because Mike, you're still demonetized, right? Yes. The channel. That's also fucked. That's also something you got to bring in. I lost half of all of my membership so far. I worked for years to build them up. Ha, yeah. Ha, yeah. Because each day that I'm not monetized, if a membership is set to renew, it gets auto canceled. So I'm watching the number tick up each day. I had, I thought I had 500 actually have 300, but I've lost 47 percent as of today. So we're going on half. That's fucking crazy. It's like, dude, it took so long to build those up. That is really crazy, though. Like, I thought I thought losing the super chat ability was lame when they demonetized you, but I mean, consider the mon... the subscriptions, which, yeah, that takes a while to build up. Yeah, that sucks. If it's not going to be good, the U.S. government prevents me from monetizing everything. So I just, I just literally just have to donate the money. That's I'm sorry. That is so infuriating. Yeah. You know what's about it is that people hate you like you get all the money. You know what I mean? Like when you think about it, right? Like when I was on Rising, it's like, oh, I'm a part of all this. All the everybody gets paid handsomely. Theoretically, you think I get paid handsomely for this lander. But I do have to say no, no, no. It's like it's like when you were a kid and you thought everyone who was in like a movie you were watching in the movie theaters must be a millionaire. Like, oh, the extra who plays the hot dog vendor. Dude, it's a millionaire. No doubt about it. He's going to move it. I'm going to move it. You don't have to pay shit. You know the shitty thing about being an extra in movies and there's a lot of movies you can see me in the background of is that if you're not in the union, you don't get the catered dinners or anything. So you get these shitty ass egg lunches. It was the worst. Yeah. Yeah, I did. I did extra stuff, too. I was broke. Yeah. This one is for Bender, but it's about Canada. Kowalski with a super chat. Why is Canada attacking the Great Plains with smog? Kowalski is our farmer, our farmer in Nebraska. Can I just say like, I feel like you all like the aftershows should be with everyone, even if you don't have super chats, because it's like a good like this is just a more chill time where the show is over and we can kind of like let our hair down. Yeah, yeah, I do appreciate that. When it's like 20 minutes long, I can go to bed. But that's it. It's like shut the fuck up. Well, one thing is that this is like an extra hour. Oh, where? Where? Where? Oh, it must have come back. I'm sure I like how Mike was just talking about how we should do this. All five of us all the time, right? Smash like my car later. Andrew with a super chat. Great show with Zahid. Matt, do you think he and DJ Danarky could do a collab? DJ Danarky is the guy who does all the music for the majority of poor and Sam's theater. Yeah, that would be cool if they did without a doubt. I don't know if they would reach out to them and ask them. That's how you get that happening. This one is clearly for me, but this is for you, Bender. Is it? Oh, I love it. Yeah, now I am with a $14 super chat. I love it. How are Trudeau's odds against? I don't know how to say his name. Paul of Paul, Paulie V. I have Pauliev. If they pull another election, I want the NDP to make significant gains, but the NDP and the Liberals aren't looking as good as they did five years ago. Thanks. Well, let me break this down for you. Let me just. Yeah, I got no idea about this, honestly. Go ahead. I guess to quickly answer since I didn't get any of this cash. So look, Pauliev, I think, has, you know, I'm never going to underestimate anyone on the right because we've seen what can happen in the US, at least. That said, he's not all that popular. And when people see him, he appears to be less popular. He's just he's a very unlikable person on top of being a fascist. So I hope he doesn't win. Today he introduced. Oh, it's this guy. I know him by how he looks. Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, he's terrible. Mega lame loser looking guy. Yeah, today he introduced a policy to, which is not going to get passed because they don't have a majority, but a policy to remove safe injection sites, which have been proven to be successful and work. And we have them all over Canada and he wants to get rid of them. And that's kind of gives you the idea of how far right this this clown is, but that's that. Somebody said you should. Somebody said you should all work more for free and solidarity with Olay. Do not do that brocache. Yeah, you guys can all do that shit. David said, let me be clear, I wouldn't even fucking consider it. I got to tell you to care of. It's not possible. Yeah, no, absolutely not. Yeah, no. But trust me, when I got my green card, I'm gonna be a rich bitch. Yeah, when you These free days are over, mother fuckers. And no one's saying nothing to me. I've been doing everything for the free for years now. You have to make it up about everything you missed out. I do it all for free. Every fucking speaking engagement. That's wild. Every fucking article of every everything I do without the goodness of sharing information. So that's why I'd be so irritated when people talk so crazy to me. I'm like, a lot of people get okay with the hate like there because they get paid off of it. I don't. You're just pissing me the fuck off. I'm over here like, are you? You're putting up with a bullshit for free. I had to jump back on this call whenever he said that $2 to come for me. I'm like, oh, excuse me. Excuse me. This is for you. This is for you, Ben. Well, they sent two $2 for you and one for me. It's like, why does Oleg get targeted more? And neither of us get the money for that. I assume this is a joke because it can't be real. Okay, I'm glad we're with a super chat. I don't know who Blair is, but you all should apologize for knowing her or do an independent investigation and hold an extra-digital trial for her. Anything less means you are not real leftists. We're on it. I believe it's a joke, but just in case we will be calling together the... Honestly, I thought about it. At some point in time during that episode, I was like, I wonder if we just revived the canceled segment and just fucking canceled it. I was like, I was like, oh my God, if we just formerly would that get you off our back? Probably. Well, and we fucked up because we have to... This is at the end of the show. So now next week at the start, they're gonna be like, are they gonna address it finally? Do you think they're gonna talk about it? So everyone who sees that, tell them we did. Right, go to the after show. We said it and don't bother me about it no more. Out here trying to make me turn me into a... I was like, I hate when like, I don't know why the internet is always assigning me a prosecutor's mantle. Like anytime they be like, oh, I'm disappointed. I'm like, why? Do you get what I do in real life? Just think about it. Why? I'm a defendee and they get the impression that mom's the word, that's my whole thing. Well, I saw, okay, I saw a comment that actually hurt my feelings if I'm being honest. It was like, you all pretend like you're so real and you'll address everything, but you've been, you refuse to address the Blair thing. It's like, motherfucker, we're trying to learn. We don't know. I just was like, no, what I don't like is I hate when they act like we initiated this show with a blunt open. We were like, hey, Gary, we the real life. We're the most old party in the country. I was like, I have like a big problem when people just start like working off of a premise I never agreed to. I never fucking said that I will hold everybody to task. I literally say all the time, every episode, anybody who's been watching the show from the beginning they're mad episodes will be going on the same diatribe about not wanting to talk with nobody, not wanting to be in it. Love, I don't even be knowing who people are. The first time I've ever been in drama was because I'm on this show missing respondents with our general fucking topic. I would never fucking be talking about this stuff. Look at my individual content. So I'm just like, how did you get the impression that I, Oli and me agreed to be somebody pulling people up in the town square challenging them? I never agreed to that. I don't want to be a part of it. Get me to fuck up out of it. I'm not doing that fucking research. If you think I'm sitting out watching these people's fucking videos talking about, I've never seen Blair in the flesh. The devil is a lie. I'm not doing it. I'm not putting this triangle on trial. Leave me alone. We just should have done background checks on each other and like social media, like hired private investigators before officially launching the podcast, I think. I really truly feel like we should be able to be like, let me be Switzerland. And that's the whole point of mafia is they got to work with all kinds of mob groups, all kinds of gangs, they to get business done. Ain't doesn't understand in a peace treaty. I literally text Lance. I was like, hey, you should talk to everybody in the group because this is some white people's shit in the sense that my family, I was like, if you think of the mafia like individual housing, mine is unaffected. My audience does not know this exists. No one knows the pyramid is on my side of the internet. I don't want to be in it. That's cause you don't stream this shit. If you streamed it, oh my God, comments just like. I'm not exactly why the fuck I don't. I'm God, I'm God, I'm God. I've never been more confident in that decision than this week. I was like, never, never. I was like, nothing to gain. Like I'm like, I just want to come through, talk to people, but I don't want that to be like, I've signed on now to all like, oh, I'm a go defending in y'all's lawsuits. Like, hold on, wait, wait, wait. I don't want to be in it. All right, there's a lot of chats left. I'm legit. I'm probably going to have to go before you finish them all. Cause like, I got a. I can stay on David and the podcast. Yeah, I'll address these maybe next week. We'd have to end early if that's the case. I don't know. Wait, let me see how many you left for me. Cause there's actually a lot for Binder here. If I can get all of mine. There's a lot for me. Yeah, there's a lot for you. All right, here we go. Let me just quickly grab mine. I love you all. Thanks for the last and info. Love you all day. That's my audience, by the way. See? Thank you. This is from a snack panther. Get Binder a new mic fund. Binder's mic works fine. I think it's a software glitch. Yeah, it's a connection issue. Yeah, something's going on with it. No, it is giving struggle, Binder. It is giving giving giving hard times. Among says wife and I love you guys celebrating our 20th anniversary by talking and watching you all much. Wow. Time. Congratulations. Cyber Hobbit says love this crew. Wow, very generous. Thank you. Thank you. That's so I love to see the love because there's a lot of shit like that we see all the time. It's really nice. Thank you all for the nice comments. For sure. I got 30,000 subscribers. Hey, there you go. Oh, yeah, Binder. Nice. If I have the applause here. That's really dope. No, that's not the one. There we go. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry for interrupting, but I thought it was worthy of. No, that's awesome. Forstring says just sending 11 virtual cash to you all. Keep it up. Thank you. Keep losing my place. Doc says shives. Shives is a friend of Jesse. Or the guy with the. Jesse Gender is a pair. It is. Oh, it is a parody. Oh, OK. A shower is done. He pulls a gun hidden by toilet and proceeds to verify no intruders in house. Holy shit, not even more. I'm going to have to see it to understand, but that's that's. Yeah. It's like a clarified, but I'm more confused. Here's the last one for me. Matt says, wait, did I miss my chance to say something racist? Terrible joke. All right. Thank you, Matt. Matt Claremont. And now you take over. Goodbye, David. And David's audience stick around because. Trying to see where I left off. You have to actually. Because David can't shut it off. You're reading it right. Here we go. Mr. Let me see. I left off with this one. That one's for Binder. So all the way to try to find where you are. OK, I'm right there as well. OK, I'll have my back end up, too. So if you go to a Twitter chat, that's not mine. I'll say, take care, David. I'll have my like, I'm open on my end. So if you go to OK, three of us, I want to see this was what it looks like. Huh, yeah, here we go. So it's Lance not going to come back. I'm worried now. You know, he's good. He texted me and he was like, I'm good. OK, OK. Mr. Husti and with a $10 super chat, how do you cope or go about dealing with the amount of LGBT LGBTQ plus hatred, anti-trans violence going on right now, saying this is someone who has zero clue on how to organize or feel anything but furious? I mean, yeah, it's it's rough. I mean, Mike, do you have anything you want to say? You know, how you feel and what you think the best thing to do? I mean, I think, you know, as basically what we do, the best thing we can do is continue covering these stories and amplifying the LGBTQ voices who who have lots of things to say about how this is affecting them. And so people can understand exactly the real world, the real life effects of what these policies are doing to people. Yeah, I'll just say also, don't like you need to keep yourself informed, but give yourself mental space where you're not just like constantly consuming the shit because it will eat away at you and cause depression. Like for me, especially if there's a week where there's like a shit ton of anti-trans or anti-gay stories, like I make sure I avoid the news at all costs over the weekend. So like give yourself a little bit of space to like breathe, because if you consume it nonstop, it's going to crush your soul. So just like understand how much is too much and then check out for a little bit. Now, Ray, so Blair, which trial? It's pretty good. That's yeah, that's actually. It's yeah, that's pretty good. OK. Zero P in the super chat. Can y'all talk about the Feinstein and Pelosi BS? Oh, yeah, that's the whole thing like we were. Yeah, so really quickly, it's ridiculous. Apparently, Diane Feinstein has a Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's oldest daughter following her around, basically managing her right now, because the thought process is apparently, according to this political article, the Pelosi's want Feinstein to stick around because the thinking is if she sticks around, Adam Schiff, who's running for her seat, has a better chance of winning. Whereas if she if she if Feinstein resigns before it's, you know, her term is up, Gavin Newsom might appoint Barbara Lee, who is also running for Senate. And if Barbara Lee is the sitting senator by the time the elections roll around as the incumbent, it'll be much harder for Adam Schiff to beat her. That is the thinking. It's ridiculous. Struggling. So yeah, going to it. That's that's fucked up. So the Pelosi's want, yeah. And there is also an added thing where I think one of the Pelosi daughters are looking at Adam Schiff's seat. So basically if Adam Schiff wins and becomes senator, then they would go, you know, they would run for his seat. It's a whole big. Yeah, it's it is totally BS. There's probably a lot more to say about it. But we'll talk about it more as more stuff comes out and when we got more time. All right, what's next? All right. Kowalski with a super chat in the Middle Ages, people were named Lance a lot. That's that's true. They were named Lance a lot. Yes, very funny. Kowalski is by the way, real quick. Is Lance OK, though, Ole? Yeah, he is. He's good now. OK, send him love. I feel I feel. But I didn't know he was getting attacked. That makes me feel bad because I'm not aware of that. I didn't know he was getting attacked either. Yeah, yeah. I don't like people done for land. Lance is such a sweetheart. He's wholesome as fuck. Yeah, I feel like people really take advantage and in this internet stuff, it can be like, I feel like people get a bloodlust and once they get going and they feel like they can get an excuse to jump another person, yes, let's get it off. I'm like, you know, these are real people. Like my people are feelings like relax. I think they think that we're never going to see the comments, but we see them sometimes. They know they go out of their way to make sure you see it because they will like hunt you. If you're not responding to one thing, they will run to another app to make sure someone's like to say it twice. I'm like, what's going on with you that you need me to see your negativity? You will be damned. I miss the venom you had for me in this message. Yeah, I'm like, oh, my God, like, Jesus, do y'all, would y'all really fuck with us if we're the kind of people that you talk to somebody every week, every weekend? Soon as I mean, like, oh, fuck off. Immediate off a chance. But it's like deep in my soul, though, I just want y'all to know. They give you to get this never far away. Narader with a super chat, $10 super chat. If you want your favorite media leftist to expend more energy learning about and attacking Blair, that tells me all I need to know about your quote unquote politics. Very well put. I'm going to see Majic with a super chat. I love you all. Thank you for the laughs and info. I love you, Ola. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Who's got the best chat again? Who's got the best chat? Yes. Who? This is why I should stick around for the after show. I do love the love. Someone last week was in the comments, like very upset. I saw like a bunch of comments of people are like, oh, my God, the show is not talking as much. The show is not the same with that. I was like, yeah, you appreciate me now. I was like, oh, you appreciate me now. Buckets with a $10 super chat. Curse you guys for live streaming on my D&D night. I'm sorry. Curse you for playing D&D on our live stream night. Yeah. Yeah. All right, next. Oh, wait, I think this is. Oh, OK, we're going. OK, that's a tell me if you saw this one yet. No, this one's for me. Adrian with the super chat. Great show. I discovered you guys through Mike's channel and I'm really enjoying the content so far. Awesome. Thank you. Nice. You're welcome, everyone. I don't know if you saw this one. Wanda. No, this is Wanda with a super chat. Ole keeps it real. Much love. Thank you, Bill. Thank you. OK, tell me if this is redundant. That's new. I've only got a few left. Narader with a $20 super chat. Dear Matt Binder, this is in response to you not knowing what my previous super chat was about. You were correct. It was about Marjorie Tethergreen. Left his best. Love what you do. Sincerely, Narader. He made it extra long and this was clearly in response to my asking for SA super chats. Thank you, Narader. Narader is making it rain on Matt tonight. Yeah, I know. This is not for me. OK, very sweet, though. I'm just going down the line. So tell me if you already saw it. Not for me either. OK. I'm pretty sure David already read it. OK, we saw this one. This is no, I believe. This is for me, yep. Turbo, son, oh, yeah, Nuga. Thoughts on the Vice Bankruptcy filing, plus F all the drama shit, rabbit hole after rabbit hole of IRL YouTube drama. Yeah, the Vice Bankruptcy filing is just what you get when you take something that's going good and add pure unfiltered capitalism to it, where they needed to continuously provide more value for the shareholders and get themselves into deeper and deeper holes because they would have to take new funding, expand and outside of the things Vice was already doing very successfully. We've seen this time and time again where media companies are, everything's going good. They're being profitable and they try to overextend what they can do and try to provide the legal public, try to provide more value for the shareholders and end up fucking themselves over. It's happened with Buzzfeed, it's happened with Vice. You name it, if a media company has failed or filed for bankruptcy, that's usually what has happened. Next. OK. So last in the super chat. Sup, did you all talk about the anti-immigration laws Ron DeSantis just passed? No leftist has covered it except Kyle today. I think we did talk about it earlier, right? We were talking about DeSantis in Florida with... We didn't talk about the anti-immigration laws. There's been a flurry of laws that he signed this week, but no, I didn't talk about it on my show. It's hard to cover everything, but yeah. I have seen pictures with them. Haven't farmers in Florida, their produce has been going untended to because there's no one for them to hire to tend their farms and stuff because that's typically very, very hard work for very little pay. And Americans don't want to do it. American citizens don't go for that type of stuff. We've seen this happen in red states before where they've passed anti-immigrant laws and basically it takes the American farmer to feel the pain for them to end up doing something to then reverse the pain they already gave without care to the immigrants. I assume something's gonna happen there in Florida. Once enough, farmers start complaining. I assume they'll do something about it, but yeah, we'll get more into it for sure. Parker with a super chat. Ole, can you please elaborate on why the US laws say you can't make money off of your YouTube channel? Because you have a work visa for a specific job and you're not allowed to make any money doing anything else. Any money, income, other than that, it would be a violation of the terms of that work visa. Oh, my God. Yeah. Well, as soon as you are able to... Get a green card, hopefully. We're gonna... Oh, listen, when I get... We're gonna go crazy. It's really gonna be emancipation for me and I'm not exaggerating. Like, I might hire a marching band. Like, y'all don't understand. I've been shackled by US immigration for 15 long years. I literally, I've been here since I right when I turned 15. I'm turning 30 in July. The Americas had me by the... Oh, my God. When I can get paid, listen, bro, y'all have no idea. You're gonna be doing pretty good. I do out of the goodness of my soul and commitment to the causes. This is crazy. Just for free, free, free, free. Oh, you already have a big YouTube audience, so you'll be able to hit the ground running and like activate monetization and you'll be doing good. I know it's good. Yes. Yeah. We'll shower you with super chats. Thank you. Listen, I can't, I can't wait. I can't wait, you know. But the thing is, I do the things just because I love it. Like, I love my show. I'm not, I didn't join YouTube because I want to monetize it. Like, that's great. That's a cool aspect of it. But for me, it's like, oh, I just want, I care about the content. Like the show, I really just enjoy making it. It's a crime that you're not getting paid for the content you do though. Because your shit is fucking good. It's so good. Thank you. God. It's really a production. We have fun. It's a lot. It's a whole show. It's great. It's like, but yeah, no, I fuck with it. I really, really like it. It's fun. Yeah. OK. Turbo Son Again with the super chat. F that arse of a bad turnover. What is, I don't even remember, I missed something? I don't remember. I'm not sure what that means. All right, next. Sorry. We'll get to that. Explain to me on one of my streams and I'll get it. Matt with the super chat. Love you guys. I think this was for for David. Love you guys. Happy Thursday. Oh, OK. Oh, no, wait, it was for me, too. Look at that. Yeah, I was going to say, I do see the little. OK, very nice of them. OK, I think this one is for David, actually. But I don't know if we address this one. Tiki Dragon One. I'm curious as to why the Santas would run for president while the state has a mass immigrant labor strike and crap is damn expensive. Well, because he doesn't care about Florida. He cares about everything he's been doing to Florida is to bolster his credit in a Republican presidential primary. He does not care about Floridians. OK, I think we got this one. Did we? No, we didn't. This one. Well, no, we didn't. Yeah, well, lead with the super chat. In the Middle Ages, people were lanced a lot. It's a it's a play on the previous one. It's different. Oh, OK, OK. Oh, OK, interesting. Both are true. They were a lot of Lancelots and people were also lanced a lot. Yes. OK. Kowalski leftist mafia interested in Kowalski farm shirts. Yes. Yeah. Kowalski's Kowalski's got his own cool shirts for his his farm. Oh, I didn't know that. He's already sent them to the majority port crew. Maybe you guys want some cool swag as well. Hell, yeah, I do. Reach out to each of them via DM on Twitter and they'll and they'll give you their information. Yeah, yeah. Now right over the super chat, Matt, did you just imply profit isn't the best motivation for journalism? Shocking, I know. I mean, I don't know what I mean. Listen, there's two. There's like two types of journalists, journalists in this world, the people who actually do journalism that end up getting paid like like max, like 70 Ks, 80 Ks. They're lucky at the higher end of their career. And then there's like the people who work for the New York Times writing dump puff pieces for 300 K a year. There's no in between. It's either the people making like top of the field. It gets 80 K. Everyone else makes like around 50 K, 40 K. And then there's what you said. Journalists do not. Yeah, journalists does not do not make a lot. New York Times, Washington Post, like they even like their their journalists probably don't get paid maybe low six figures. They they give their bullshit columnists like like Thomas Friedman and those type of guys. They give them like 300 K a year or something like that. Oh, God, that makes me say those guys make a ton of money. That's actually powerful. I think this is oh, no, that's not the last one. OK, Turbo Son, much love and yummy. Oh, thank you. Thank you. And I jury. And I see some guy. Thank you. Oh, one more just came into. Yeah, I see that. Jeff the Strider, the ten dollar super chat. Great show. Also love Olay's content. I bought Dave Davises, our prison's obsolete and can't wait to read it. Thank you, thank you. I'm glad I love that people are watching the show. I really, I really, really love that. I had very low expectations in launching the channel and it is way it is doing much better than I anticipated. I was like, oh, if I get a thousand views, I'd be happy. And I'm like, oh, you're fucking killing it in two months. I'm like, oh, y'all like it. Good. I spent a lot of energy. My editor has to talk to me a lot. For a second, for a second, for a second, I forgot you were talking about your own channel. And when you said I had very low expectations for doing the show, I was like, oh, thanks a lot. Nobody had lower expectations than you, Binder. You weren't showing up for. All right. In the beginning, I was late. Usually it took me a while to get because I usually I usually start my streams at nine p.m. because my kids start going to bed around eight. So eight thirties cutting it close. So it took me a while to get in the into the new eight thirties scheduling for Thursdays. But I'm there now. I want to let the record reflect the audience is no little little Easter eggs of behind the scenes knowledge. I very much was the person who had to be like eight thirty every Thursday. Y'all said it. It's not a vote. No, no. OK, actually. So I remember we had a vote on eight versus nine and it was split down the middle. So remember, I'm like, why don't we do eight thirty instead and split the difference? It's like, you know, it's still come every week. So at the beginning of the week, it'd be like, so this week we're doing it. I'm like, you said we're doing it. You know, you can't like put it up for debate. And I remember, yes, I was like, they're like, oh, the holiday. And they're like, oh, my God, oh, people expect you every Thursday. I do remember that in perpetuity. I was like, OK, I came with you to y'all with a little ad that showed that it was on Thursday. I got the cartoon done. I was like, I'm going to make y'all make it. It's hard to adjust like the schedule because I've been like in the same rhythm for years with my show. And so like to five thirty is cutting it so close because it takes me so fucking long to pump out a video these days. And so I try to do two a day and I've just been doing one because I'm. Make videos. You make videos a day, but the daily. But although it's not like as complex as like a video essay from you, like it's more like new straight to the point. There's not as much commentary, but I'm trying to build it so that way it's not just like the news. Like I'm trying to introduce more elements and make it more complex and up the game. And so it's taking longer, but I'm more prouder of the product that I put out there like I wanted to be amazing. So it's taking longer. But, you know, it is what it is. I mean, I do YouTube for a living. It's fun, telling all of y'all's channels. I like your your logo vendor. The what does it say, boom, doomed, doomed. Yeah, I like it. I like the vibe of it. Yeah, it is a good logo. Yeah. Whenever I see you live, I go on. I usually hail. I usually be in the chat. I say, hey, I go and I watch it. I'm like, OK, let's see what he's talking about. I'm like, you'd be very. I'm like, oh, let's see what's going on. I'd be fully involved, fully in the audience. I'll lurk unless you or Lance reveal yourself, then I'll reveal myself in the chat as well. I usually say, hey, sometimes vendor doesn't even see it. The whole audience would be like, oh, hey, I mean, I don't know, but they'll be like talking about something. So he doesn't even. But it's having checks back in. It's already gone, but it's hard. It's hard. Yeah, it's hard to follow the chat when you're doing a show by yourself. You know, it is overwhelming, honestly. Like my Twitch streams for the first like year were so bad in the audio. Like I'd be doing I'd be trying to watch video clips and the video clips are like really, really, really soft. And then when I talk, I like blow their eardrums out when they're listening on like headphones. It's so it's really complex. And that's why it calls. I feel like if you really want to talk to me, then call me and we'll do the one on one and have to follow, like, remove it or like always move in chat. It's so much simpler just to call me up and talk. Yeah, your your your mic is doing the leftist audio thing again. Yeah, I wonder why I think we're about to. Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to have to figure it out. Probably because I have enough. The mic probably I bet if I I bet if I just plug I'll like unplug it and plug it back in, it'll get fixed. But I probably. Yeah, I don't want to just in case that didn't work. I don't want to mess it up. I have to finish my book and then write my script for my episode that I'm going to build tomorrow. Yeah, nice. We've given our viewers an extra hour and 20 minutes of all their disappointment talks. We showed up and we gave you extra. You're welcome. We have. Have we appeased you yet? Are you happy now? Right, y'all. Bye. All right. Take care, everyone. Peace. YouTube.com slash Matt Binder. 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