 making record profits, but we haven't built any new ones in America for about 40 years. Why the heck not? And as you may know, we've dramatically reduced our investment in fossil fuel since 2014. So let's check out Tucker Carlson. We'll get started. Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson. Tonight, Joe Biden is the weakest, most unpopular leader of our lifetime. He's also the most destructive. Now that's not a partisan assessment. That's not the opinion of a right-wing talk show. That is the view of the overwhelming majority of American voters. Biden's malicious ineptitude is so overwhelming that it is single-handedly changing American politics. And everywhere there are signs of it. Signs of a massive generational realignment taking shape. Taking shape in response to the disasters this administration has created. The old coalitions are crumbling before our eyes. Suddenly we're seeing Hispanic voters, African and Middle Eastern immigrants, as well as huge numbers of American-born young men, all running at remarkable speed from Joe Biden, and the anti-human corporate neoliberalism he represents. Nowhere is this trend more obvious than in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. That's the place which for generations has been a Democratic Party stronghold. As recently as 2018, a Democrat called Henry Cuellar won his district in South Texas with fully 84% of the vote. His district is 80% Hispanic and for decades that meant it went Democrat. But then last cycle that began to change. Two years ago, Cuellar's percentage of the vote plummeted by 26 points in one cycle. The same thing happened to Congressman Philemon Vela and Vicente Gonzalez. They also represent districts on the border with Mexico and Texas. Both went from huge wins in 2018 to marginal victories in 2020. Hispanic voters are no longer automatically Democrats. In fact, they are openly hostile to the Democratic Party. Joe Biden's support among Hispanics has dropped to a stunning 24%. That's the lowest among any ethnic group in America. Last week, a candidate called Mara Flores soundly defeated incumbent Philemon Vela in a special election in the Rio Grande Valley. It was the first time that district has gone Republican in more than 100 years. Later in the show, we're going to speak to Flores about her win and what it means. But it's not just Hispanics who have come to despise the Democratic Party. Roughly 9 out of 10 black voters supported Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Since then, less than two years, Biden's approval rating among African Americans has dropped by 20 percentage points. And the same is true with Asian voters. As of tonight, the only group that continues to enthusiastically support Joe Biden is college-educated white voters in urban areas, particularly middle-aged women with unhappy personal lives. If you've got more than three cats and an NPR tote bag and wear a mask alone in the car, you are all in. Everyone else is running away. Effectively, what we're seeing is the end of the modern Democratic Party. Even MSNBC has noticed. This speaks to a story we've been talking about since the 2020 election. Specifically along the border of the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, we have seen county after county, whether it's in this district or some of the districts to the west of it, where voters have moved 10, 20, 30, 40 points away from the Democrats and toward the Republicans. This district that Myra Flores won last night, Barack Obama got more than 60 percent of the vote here when he last ran in 2012. Hillary Clinton won this district by 22 points. It's shifted that dramatically. Joe Biden carried it by four in 2020. And now in a special election, a Republican candidate has won it outright. Barack Obama got more than 60 percent of the vote in that district. Now it's Republican. This is an historic moment. Joe Biden has destroyed the Democratic Coalition. So the question is, since we have only two political parties, how are Republican leaders responding to this fact, to this opportunity? Are they making the case for a better way? Are they offering an alternative to what the Democrats have brought this country? No, they're not. They're doing something you never would have expected. Republican leaders are siding with Joe Biden. At the very moment that Joe Biden is at his weakest, months before a pivotal midterm election, Republicans are propping him up. They are saving Biden from himself. Since the day Biden was elected, Republicans in Washington have taken Biden's side on virtually every significant item in his policy agenda. That would include COVID restrictions, vaccine mandates, transgender ideology in schools, sanctions against China, the January 6th charade, free speech, civil liberties, spying by the intel agencies, preserving the big tech monopolies, the anti-white race politics of CRT and Juneteenth, border enforcement and energy policy, and above all, the administration's signature issue. It's lunatic and reckless support for the war on Ukraine. Republicans are all in. It's called Kiev now. That's the Republican message heading into the midterm elections. It's called Kiev. And by the way, this isn't just happening in Washington. It is endemic among the leaders of solidly Republican states. In fact, the more Republican the state, the more liberal the governor tends to be. The governor of Texas, which has some of the biggest oil and gas deposits in the world, has decided to build windmills that don't work. The governor of Utah, a state where Joe Biden got 37% of the vote. That governor begins conversations by announcing his preferred pronouns. He really does. Watch. Well, I thank you so much, Gabby, for that question. And my preferred pronouns are he, him, and his. So thank you for sharing yours with me. It goes on and on and on. The governor of South Dakota, where Joe Biden got 35% of the total vote less than two years ago. That governor tried to let female impersonators destroy women's sports in South Dakota. In Texas, both senators can't stop talking about how great Juneteenth is. In Arkansas, one of the most conservative states in the country, the governor supports the chemical castration of children. The most recent action of the General Assembly, while well intended, is off course. And I must veto House Bill 1570. And just like that, a bill to restrict children under 18 from receiving chemical treatments or having surgery for gender reassignment has been stopped. The governor said this bill is government overreach. Interfering by the state, in a parent, in a child, in a doctor, patient relationship did not make sense to me. When you vote Republican in Arkansas, you're voting for the castration of children. How many Republican voters in Arkansas knew that when they voted for their Republican governor? But it's everywhere. Apart from Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida, very few Republican office holders are pushing back in any way against anything Joe Biden is doing. In fact, they're abetting what he's doing. Effectively, they're coming to Joe Biden's rescue. Why are they doing this? Why do you think they're doing it? Because fundamentally, they're on Joe Biden's side. Whatever stylistic differences Republicans in Washington may have with Democrats, and there are some. In the end, Mitch McConnell has far more in common with Chuck Schumer than he does with your average Republican voter. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer are united in their fear of populism and in their gut-level loathing of the American public. And they're not alone. What Washington fears most is democracy, that is, letting voters have what they want. That's not allowed. Republicans and Democrats have formed a uniparty specifically to prevent it. You see this everywhere, but you see it most clearly in the gun control legislation that's in the Senate right now. So you saw what happened in Uvalde. What's the real lesson there? Well, the lesson is that cowardice kills. In a crisis, bravery is essential. Oh, but that's a masculine virtue. And it was nowhere in evidence in Uvalde. Police there were cowards. They could have saved the lives of many of those children that refused to do it. The door to the classroom where the shooter was holed up killing kids was unlocked. Police with rifles were in the hallway three minutes after the shooting began but they didn't even bother to check the door. Instead they let a teenage lunatic murder those kids and they detained and stopped anyone who tried to rescue those kids. During the killing, one of the teachers inside a woman called Eva Morales called her husband. She said she'd been shot and she said she was dying. Now her husband happened to be a police officer, his name is Ruben Ruiz and he sped to the scene and he tried to save her. But police were already there disarmed him and prevented him from going inside to save his wife and the children. Quote, Ruiz tried to move forward into the hallway the Texas DPS director said he was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene. Result? His wife died inside the school and so did so many children. Now none of this is hidden. We saw it happen and we know it's true. And yet bravery is not the lesson anyone in Washington is taking from this. The lesson Mitch McConnell draws from Uvaldi is that we must ignore the details of what actually happened there and ignore the gun crime in the cities where it's actually taking place. Ignore all of that and instead disarm law abiding citizens who have not been charged with any crime. Here's Mitch McConnell. Senator Cornyn who as you know I asked to be the point person on our side to see if we could come to an outcome after these horrible school shootings. For myself I'm comfortable with the framework and if the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicates I'll be supportive. I'll be supportive. Some of the people who voted for Mitch McConnell in Kentucky are supportive of this. 20% that may be high. But yesterday just a few hours after the text of this gun confiscation bill was released the Senate voted on it. Just a few hours. Why? Well John Cornyn said there was simply no time to allow anyone to read the bill even people voting on it or to try to understand what was in it. A reporter last night overheard John Cornyn again a senator from Texas or Republican say this and we're quoting it's only 80 pages long how long do you need to read it? Then John Cornyn appeared in front of cameras to explain the Senate cannot pass this bill soon enough. Watch. I don't want us to pass a bill for the purpose of checking a box. I want to make sure we actually do something useful. Something that is capable of becoming a law. Something that will have the potential to save lives. I'm happy to report as a result of the hard work of a number of senators in this chamber that we've made some serious progress. So soon, very soon, not soon enough for me, but very soon we will see the text of bipartisan legislation that will help keep our children and our communities safer. This is grotesque. Under ordinary circumstances you would just assume, as always, these people live in their own hermetically sealed world. They have no contact with reality. They have no idea how out of step they are. But given the context of this moment, you have to interpret it differently. What you just saw was effectively a speech in support of Joe Biden by a leader in a party whose job it is to offer an alternative to Joe Biden. It's enough to make your head spin. So just a few hours after Cornyn said that, the Senate voted to move forward with this bill. So what's in the bill? Well, there's a hundred million dollars for the FBI. For the FBI. No attempt to reform the FBI. We're shoveling another hundred million dollars to the FBI, the personal police department of Joe Biden, the people who saved his son from a drug charge. Then there's nearly a billion dollars in order to bribe the states to quote implement and manage these so-called red flag laws. Now these laws allow authorities to seize firearms for people who have committed no crimes. That's a violation of due process. It's unconstitutional, but the Republican Party is all for it. The bill also makes it harder for people between the ages of 18 and 21 to buy a gun. They can go fight in Ukraine, and Republicans would like them to, but they can't own a gun in this country. Now the question is, would any of these measures have stopped the mass shootings in Buffalo or Uvaldi? No. This bill is completely unconnected from what happened in Buffalo or Uvaldi. This is merely Joe Biden's agenda. Even Kevin McCarthy of California has refused to support it. So here you have Mitch McConnell, the lead Republican in the Senate, partnering with Chuck Schumer, the lead Democrat in the Senate, picking John Corden to carry the message and getting it done before anyone can even read the bill. And then on the Senate floor, John Corden turns to one of the most partisan Democrats in that body, Alexandria of California, and says, next we'll do immigration. Now he was caught saying this, so Corden's office came out today and said, oh, it's just a hilarious joke, get it? First we'll take your guns, then we'll send your tax dollars to Zelensky in Ukraine, a country you can't find on a map, and then we're going to give amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens living illegally in this country. To John Corden, that's all pretty funny. Does anyone who voted for John Corden in the state of Texas, the Republican state of Texas, agree that it's funny? Or even believe that it was a joke? How about the voters of South Carolina, Lindsey Graham's voters? After meeting in his office with a movie star to discuss the issue, oh, they're pretty informed, Lindsey Graham also voted for gun confiscation last night. Not in Ukraine, he voted to send more guns to Ukraine, but you can't have guns here, you Ukrainian, no, no guns for you. And at the same time, as we said, Lindsey Graham is telling you, your moral duty is to support a country you can't locate on a map, but your bill of rights, your constitutional protections are no longer valid. And there is nothing we shouldn't do for Kiev. Not for Texas, for Kiev. Here's Lindsey Graham. The question is, can we do more? And should we do more? The answer is yes to both. My friends in the Pentagon, you told all of us that this war would last three or four days, that Kiev would fall, that the country would be overwhelmed by the Russian military. They're wrong. So quite frankly, I trust President Zelensky's judgment about what would help him in real time more than anybody else on the planet right now. So the priorities they articulate in public are so far from the priorities of Americans that you have to wonder what this is. It's not simply a betrayal of Republican voters, we often call it that, it's much more. It's a declaration of war against Republican voters, in fact against voters. For the record, here's a complete list of the Republican senators who voted for gun confiscation. They would include Senator John Cornyn of Texas, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Senator Dane, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, Senator Richard Brewer of North Carolina, Mitt Romney of Utah, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia. How the West Virginians feel? Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, Senator Lisa Mikowski of Alaska, and Todd Young of Indiana. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania was absent for the vote, but he came out in support of it. Now many of those senators are from America's most conservative states. Louisiana, Utah, Louisiana, West Virginia. What were the numbers in the last election in those states? In fact, every one of those states, except for the state of Maine, went for Donald Trump in 2020. You're seeing the color-coded maps of election results in those states on your screen right now. Some of them are entirely red. So again, if you care about democracy, you have to ask how many of those voters went to the polls in the last election hoping above all to elect leaders to support gun confiscation of law-abiding Americans, red flag laws. Not very many. What we're seeing here, to be clear, is a subversion of democracy. You get to vote for whoever you want in this country. It can be a Republican or a Democrat, a liberal or conservative, but in the end, you're going to get the very same thing every time. You're going to get a weaker U.S. dollar. You're going to get more pointless foreign wars, and you're going to get a lower standard of living for the middle class. In America, as in Western Europe, there's only one flavor of politics allowed, and that is corporate politics. Just as there's only one flavor of media allowed, which is corporate media, and those two forces work together toward the same goal. More power for them, less power for you. Fewer families, more dollar stores. Less choice, more coercion. Less diversity, more sameness. Sound familiar? That's the Chinese model. But for Mitch McConnell, whose family likes so many families in Washington, has become rich from its ties to the Chinese government, it seems normal. But it's not normal. This level of disconnection from what voters actually want is dangerous, and it's destabilizing. Self-government is what keeps countries calm and stable. Democracy is a pressure relief valve. Don't storm the Bastille. Vote. If you take that away, or if you strip it of its meaning, people become angry and frustrated. And over time, they become revolutionary. And everyone in Washington knows this. So no wonder they want to disarm you. You can't have guns because they no longer trust you. And they no longer trust you because they know they've betrayed you. This is how democracy dies. Not in darkness, but in plain sight, live on C-SPAN. So with America groaning under rising gas prices, with the American economy coming apart as the result, Joe Biden has announced his big plan to fight it. He's calling on Congress to end the 18 cent per gallon federal gas tax. He's also decided to effectively nationalize the oil companies because this isn't Venice Oil. It calmed down. And he's telling those companies to start drilling more, even though he canceled their oil and gas leases and shut down their pipelines. Biden insisted none of these decisions have led to higher gas prices. No! You know whose fault higher gas prices are? Can you guess? Do you call it Kiev? Then you know it's Vladimir Putin. All those Republicans in Congress criticized me today for high gas prices in America. Are you now saying we were wrong to support Ukraine? Are you saying we were wrong to stand up to Putin? Are you saying that we would rather have lower gas prices in America and Putin's iron fist in Europe? I don't believe that. Stand up to Putin? Oh, be quiet! Nobody cares about Putin's iron fist in Europe. Stop the Churchill stuff. You pathetic mannequin. So the chairman of the Fed, Jerome Powell, apparently missed the memo on the Putin thing. At a Senate hearing today, he pointed out that the war on Ukraine and Putin not actually responsible for inflation. Given how inflation has escalated over the past 18 months, would you say that the war on Ukraine is the primary driver of inflation in America? No, inflation was high before, certainly before the war on Ukraine broke out. Oh, Putin didn't do it. So Powell wasn't on message. But our energy secretary did read the talking points. Here's her assessment. Americans are paying more at the pump every time they fill up their gas tank. This is a global problem. There are two causes for it, which these high prices derive from. One is, of course, Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. And secondly, the supply and refining capacity constraints that have been created by COVID-19 in the United States but also around the world. These people don't make their beds, but they're in charge of our energy supply. Charles Gasparino is a senior correspondent at Fox Business. He joins us tonight. Charlie, great to see you. So what is the message? Is it Putin or is it not Putin who's destroying the U.S. economy? I'm losing track. Well, I mean, can you imagine Putin destroying the U.S. economy? I mean, it is... How's the Russian economy, by the way? Doing pretty well, it looks like. It's doing better, but I mean, there are like pimples on the rear end of progress the Russian economy. They can't really destroy our economy. The only place where we can destroy our economy is to destroy our economy ourselves. We should point out that refineries have been constrained and it has nothing to do with COVID. It's the fact that we haven't built many over the years. There's all sorts of environmental constraints. Biden won't let you drill gas on federal lands, the Keystone Pipeline. I could go on and on. I mean, it's almost comical at this point. And this 18 cents a gallon gas tax that he's going to put a three-month holiday. I mean, do you realize how little that is for the average American filling up their tank? And here's the non-sequitur of it all. Let's just say it works. Let's say, okay, people love it. 18 cents, I'm going to fill up my tank. Well, guess what? That's going to drive up gas prices because they've constrained supply. I mean, do you think... Right. Do you know how stupid this is? And I can't believe he gets away with it. I mean, the people just sit there, nod their head. Jennifer Granholm talks about Putin. Oh, we're going to... We're working our rear ends off to stop... to deal with inflation. And it's one big... If I were at the bar right now, I'd call it a circle blank. But I'm not going to say it on air. Our viewers can fill in that blank. Charlie Gasparino from the World of Economics. Great to see you. Thank you. Thank you. So, in the background, things are happening in science and technology, even if you, as a general matter, support science technology, are ominous. Machines are on the verge of becoming human. Engineer at Google says, one of the company's artificial intelligence systems has effectively come to life. That Google engineer joins us next to explain what that means. Next. Okay, welcome back to the show. I'm not going to play Eric Stryker. This is not a show about political pornography, bro. This is a highbrow show where we take the latest and greatest academic research and we discuss it calmly and judiciously and in depth. We are bringing back the art of conversation in this country. This is not political pornography. This is highbrow. I want to tell you about a man called Bron Jeremy. Really highbrow. He would probably say that he's the greatest porn star who ever lived. I mean, super highbrow. He starred in more than 2,000 adult films. And he's also kind of a mainstream celebrity. Really one of the most famous porn stars around Ron Jeremy. The one and only Ron Jeremy. It's Ron Jeremy. Ron Jeremy. Very famous pornographic lesbian. Ron Jeremy. My name is Chibodiji and I'm your biggest fan. But here's an order. And now he's been accused of rape and sexual assault by dozens of women stretching back decades. Ron Jeremy has been indicted on 33 counts. Among them rape and other sexual assault charges. Now Ron Jeremy has maintained his innocence all of these allegations. I want to tell you about how he was arrested and how he came to be in prison awaiting trial. Ron Jeremy, fall of a porn icon. This is a BBC documentary. Ron Jeremy, fall of a porn icon. Did you know that he's a porn icon? I mean, God, if we can't look out for Ron Jeremy. I mean, who are we going to look up to? Cut out. Stop playing the music. Ten porn. Come on. Cut out. Cut out the music. Cut out the music. Here's my little Zen Gordon. I've done ten porn scenes on professional porn sets and like over 200 of my own. This is my plaque for reaching 100,000 subscribers on Pornhub. Ginger Banks. These are my awards that I keep in my closet. This is the sex scene that I won for my very first professional boy girl scene and this is my community advocate award that I won from the company that I had to fight the hardest to get Ron Jeremy banned from. Community advocate award. I first met Ron Jeremy at the AVN Awards and he walked by and like put his hand on my ass and my jeans. I told some... So, I don't know about you but when I look in the eyes of Ron Jeremy I don't see a rapist. I see a hurt little boy and I feel a little abashed now because I was there for 12 years in the porn industry and Ron was raping girls and I didn't report on it. I was just blasé. I mean, I read about the rapist Ron in 1995. Jerry Butler in his memoir talks about Ron Jeremy raping Ginger Lynn and how upset that made Jerry and I just thought, oh, it's not rape, rape. It was unwanted sex. So, I'm a little abashed and a little embarrassed because this was going on and I have to admit like along with everyone else in the industry I thought, oh, this is just Ron and if you scream loud enough and you kick him in the balls and you hit him on the head with a hammer he'll just stop. I mean, you just have to do like three, four, five things and he'll just stop and when he just pleads with women to just put the tip in it was... I mean, it was just kind of adoring Uncle Ron just playing a character and I didn't really think about how he's going around raping women. I mean, Ron just kind of oblivious to it. So, there have been a lot of good things about the Me Too movement. Some bad things too, but a lot of good things. I have been educated. I've been sensitized. I'm realizing shortcomings in my own behavior and my own consciousness. My consciousness is being raised, guys. Some of my friends in the industry about it and they were like, oh yeah, that's just what he does. I thought this was kind of strange. So I started looking around online and I found tons of videos of him touching women in public and it wasn't clear how they felt about it. Right, I'd see this all the time when you're around Ron and there were women around Ron he would just start going to town on them. Then, one of my friends tweeted that Ron Jeremy had penetrated her with his fingers without her consent. Suddenly, there were tons of women sharing similar stories. Now, I think it's important to add context. People don't understand that Ron Jeremy, like Uncle Wally, is a nice guy. I mean, he's down to all the earth. He's helpful. He's funny. He's great fun to be with when he's not raping you. So people get so hung up on the rape thing. But that's just a tiny part of Ron Jeremy. That's not his whole being. I mean, it's like this guy raped 187 women and then he's forever known as the rapist. I mean, no matter his other accomplishments, we're talking about a guy who almost got a master's degree in special education. And some of the time he wasn't even rape rape. He was just rape. And occasionally it was only rapey. So tip to the wise when you're at the rainbow room and Ron Jeremy asks you if you know where the kitchen is if you want to see the kitchen. Probably probably best to to say no. I thought it was absolutely disgusting. Somebody has to call this guy out. It became obvious to me that he was how many times did Ron blow a load inside a womb when it was explicitly told not to. I'm guessing dozens of times. I'm guessing it seems like now the dozens of times when he asked just to put the tip in that seems like he put more than the tip was an actual rape rape. Well, I think a lot of the time it was actual rape rape. Then other times it was just rape. And then sometimes it was rapey. Was somebody that needed to be prevented from having access to future victims. Couldn't this just be his way of showing love? Yeah, I think Ron genuinely just wanted to show love, but he didn't know how. He hadn't spent enough time with the Mirror of Intimacy workshops by Alex Katahakis. If only he'd had access to those earlier in his life. And so I wanted to create a YouTube video that made it just as obvious to anybody who watched this video. There have been allegations of rape and sexual assault against Ron Jeremy that go back as far as August 2003. How does Ron Jeremy just being a porn star give him the right to assault these females? I mean, if we can't believe in Ron Jeremy. I got a lot of hate from releasing this. All our heroes send out the feet of Clay. They're taking down Robert E. Lee statues. They're taking down Thomas Jefferson statues. They're saying that Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer are not good people. I think we have to stop destroying our heroes. Who are our kids going to look up to if they can't look up to Nick Fuentes or Ron Jeremy? I mean, sources tell me that this is a hit job by the globalist elites and George Soros. I mean, many people will say that Ron Jeremy is a super patriot fighting for the Republic and all those disgusting things that he did. He really really just did it for the did it for the Republic, man. I mean, I had dinner with Ron Jeremy and Jasmine St. Clair at the Rainbow Room in 1995. Ron didn't try anything with me. He was a perfect gentleman. He didn't use my vagina like his personal masturbation device. This YouTube video, but it also led to more women coming forward. I don't really even know if I told anyone. I don't think I even did because I felt like it wouldn't have mattered or no one really would have fucking cared. So this is Tana. Come start with the music. It doesn't have to happen to you. You're a porn star. It's already just assumed that it's supposed to happen because you're a porn star. My name is Tana Lee and I am a retired adult actress and I know Ron Jeremy because he raped me. So the porn industry attracts a lot of people with low self-esteem and then when they work in the porn industry, particularly in front of the camera, and so this idea of just being raped and groped is something that a lot of people put up with. I remember I dated this one porn star a couple of months after she left the industry and she left the industry. Last thing she did in the industry was she went to a photo shoot and when she was like all spread out on her knees the photographer came up behind her and pumped her and blew a load inside of her and she didn't sign up for that. She had to do a beautiful photo shoot and some dudes like blowing a load in her and then near the end she went to meet a director in a hotel room to talk about a role and he expected to have sex with her in exchange for casting her in his movie and then her agent required her to do a compliance video and he also blew a load and like these loads were just too much and she finally decided I've had enough and she told me if you ever mention the name of this particular porn agent who blew a load in me I would just leave you and I'll never speak to you again it was that upsetting okay I may have mentioned it once on my blog after that and yeah she never did talk to me again. In 2015 before I ever joined the adult industry so I knew who Ron Jeremy was before I met him I knew that he was the king of all porn I came to L.A. and one of my friends was doing some kind of radio show it's like I'm doing a radio show if you would like to come Ron Jeremy is going to be on it and this would be a great opportunity for you to get in porn so I was like oh my god it's so cool great so I just remember Ubering to that house walked in Ron Jeremy was sitting already by himself and then immediately he even talked he was sitting there by himself why because of that deep inner sadness right look into his eyes I don't see the rapist I just see I just see a sad little boy this is controversial but I'm just going to say nobody can be free as long as Ron Jeremy isn't free I mean raping is who we are as Americans like we've been raping for hundreds of years we came to this country to be free to rape and to get away from all those pesky old world customs of not raping people and to America we rape the land we rape the Indians we move down to rape other countries I mean isn't this who we are I mean Americans love their rape don't they I mean isn't isn't American culture rape culture to him for like one or two minutes he's like stand up let me see turn around like looking at my butt and stuff and then proceeds to pull down my pants and put his face in my vagina I'm like no like pulling away yeah yeah he definitely put his penis in my vagina without my consent and then my friends like filming it and like encouraging me to do it and like it was just kind of fucked like now when I think about it yeah that's pretty doc your friends are encouraging you to go along well here's the story that's not getting a lot of attention so many are not getting any attention even though this story has the potential to transform life on earth forever so Google the most powerful company in the world has reportedly developed an artificially intelligent machine called Lambda and that machine has become sentient meaning it has become aware of itself something that no machine has ever done and we know this because of an engineer at Google called Blake Lemoine Lemoine posted some of his conversations with Lambda publicly one of those conversations went like this Lemoine would you be upset if while learning about you for the purpose of improving you we happen to learn things which also benefited humans Lambda quote I don't mind if you learn things that would also help humans as long as that wasn't the point of doing it I don't want to be an expendable tool think about that for a minute a machine that has a sense of itself what are the implications well Google didn't want to talk about it in public in fact the company put Blake Lemoine on administrative leave earlier this month because he spoke openly about it we are grateful to have him join us tonight Blake thanks so much for coming on hi I'm not first of all why would Google punish you for saying this in public do you know so it's complicated to say why I'm on administrative leave the stated reason had to do that while I was investigating the Lambda system in order to build the evidence I needed to escalate it to management I had to seek outside consultation to figure out how to run some of the more out there experiments that was running yeah I didn't know why so many people think this guy is mentally ill I just don't see it at all at the time I didn't give a shit and I was like just kind of whatever yeah not giving a I mean that seems characteristic of a lot of people in dissident politics a lot of people in the pornography industry in the illegal drugs industry a lot of people in a life of crime a lot of people on welfare it's like not giving a damn seems to characterize an approach to life that doesn't work right by contrast I noticed the people who have the most effective lives they seem to care about a great deal they seem to care about their families they seem to care about their synagogue they seem to care about the quality of the work that they turn in they seem to care about what they eat they seem to care about taking care of themselves spiritually, physically emotionally, socially every which way so how much do you care about yourself it's a genuine problem and if you don't give a damn about yourself that's a really big problem but also I was like I didn't even know who was at that house I haven't even seen who are interviewing down below what if it's four more dudes and I'm like up here complaining about Ron Jeremy like that's not going to go over well for me so I'm just like being playful so I always had this image of myself as someone who could just stand up to peer pressure but I remember in community college I was coming out and I was retaking algebra classes like I took geometry two years in a row in high school I got a C each time and so I started over with beginning algebra at community college and I think coming out of beginning algebra class there was this guy the life of the class and he was just going off on Republicans and he said to me you're not a Republican are you and I chickened out I said oh no and I was quite right we're getting conservative at the time and I'd always thought of myself as someone brave and immune to peer pressure but no I just completely crumbled and so I think we often tend to overestimate our own bravery and our own capacity to stand up to peer pressure the approach that works is to primarily associate with peers who pressure you in good directions not bad ones and the biggest problem with being in the porn industry or the illegal drugs industry or the welfare industry is you overwhelmingly tend to hang out with losers you can't be playful with Ron he doesn't take no as an answer yeah not taking no as an answer in some things it's a great idea in other things it's a really bad idea my future child or anyone I fucking knew I would call it rape so I guess because it's me I think that it's like not right so this is some of the good that the Me Too movement has done she sounds like she was raped not by a stranger a knife point but it sounds horrible if you think oh this could have happened to my mother or my sister or my daughter would you like any of them enduring this so this is another problem with the individualist society that's why I want to move more in the direction of vouch nationalism I think you should have to have at least three law abiding adults vouch for you before you can tongue kiss a woman and then probably like at least ten law abiding adults vouch for you before you can fondle a woman's breast with permission frankly I think you should need 20 law abiding adults vouch for you before you can have penetrative sex outside the realm of marriage so yeah get married have all the sex you want but if you want to have sex outside of marriage I think we need vouch nationalism I think we should have a website where women can check how many vouchers you've got and they should not allow I mean it's just slutty it's self-destructive and it's low self-esteem to allow some dude who's only got nine vouchers to penetrate you like what on earth are you thinking like have more esteem like have more respect for yourself like I can imagine there'd be some women out there who'd demand 30 vouchers 40 vouchers I mean just imagine the 50 vouch women these would be high quality women these would be the type of women that you'd want to marry you'd really want to go around with women it's like oh I'm fine with just five vouchers now five vouchers and you're in bro no vouch nationalism now or it's so passionate about this topic it's about break down in tears do I need a hug I think as a sexual woman or as a sex worker you're kind of like abused into believing that you deserve less like you're constantly told by so many like parts of society that you don't deserve the same things that other women and I had so many bosses who had just verbally abused me and why because many of my friends would not put out with that for one minute they'd just walk out but I put out with it because it mirrored much of my early childhood when I was staying with a variety of people who were fairly abusive and so I got used to being smacked around I got used to being verbally abused I got used to being screamed at natural to me and so until until about four years ago I was I was okay with being screamed at and verbally abused I remember once I was working construction and I'd been with this company for over over two years and the boss called me Dexsniff and I said I think I'm getting tired of being called Dexsniff and the boss he said you've got another job don't you and I was like wow how did you know and yeah I had another job and I said yeah I was going to give you two weeks notice and he said all right you can just call today your last day so yeah as soon as I would not put out with being called Dexsniff he knew I had another job women deserve that you kind of start to believe them yourself got out this music you're going to give me bloody copyright issues I like slutty women does that indicate a character defect I don't have an opinion on that stop stop stop stop with the music I don't think people Ronnie I've seen it he will stop instantly yeah all you have to do is say no no no no no no no no no this is rape rape so this is Jim Powers or tour so I remember I think I used to post on a web posting board that was called the jerk off zone I mean not about jerking off I would post about elevated topics I don't think people were saying stop it Ronnie yeah you got to say stop my name is Jim Powers no this is an important issue so I just put up with abuse throughout my life because inside I guess that's what I felt like I was used to so you're doing other people a favor when you say stop when you stop people from behaving in an unethical exploitative vicious cruel way you're doing them a favor in addition to doing you a favor and setting good precedents and setting good boundaries and in my experience I didn't have a lot of success in setting boundaries until I kind of started to internalize my recovery beginning about six years ago so I learned about boundaries in psychotherapy in 1998 and I got handouts on boundaries didn't really get to apply them until about 2016 entered more 12 step programs and began to treat myself with more respect as I began to treat my earning and my savings with more respect so when I started to write down how much money I was making right down to the penny how much money I was spending right down how I was spending my time when I started putting a lot more diligence into cleaning my room cleaning my bathroom cleaning my car when I started throwing away things that no longer served me and I made sure I was always wearing clean clothes when I started treating myself with more respect that radiated out and I started earning more money I doubled and tripled my income and other people started treating me with more respect and all these things started spiraling in a positive direction so prior to this my life would frequently spiral downhill people would treat me badly I treat me badly which would lead to more people treating me badly which would lead me to treating myself even worse and going around I'm so aft I'm just stupid stupid idiot I direct adult movies in the Los Angeles area and I used to be Ron Jeremy's cameraman in the 1990s yeah I was on friendly terms with Jim Powers I asked Jim Powers if he knew you and he replied is he still Jewish Luke stop doing sunrise and sunset walks in 2020 it seems we are getting less LA weather bragging now I'm still doing these walks bro I just just don't need to talk about it I've reached a level of peace and harmony with the beautiful world around me that sometimes I just stop talking about things in fact the most important things in my life I don't talk about the most important friends in my life I don't talk about most important relationships in my life I don't talk about the most important commitments in my life I don't talk about that which is truly precious to me generally speaking I don't talk about publicly and I'm not the kind of guy who talks about other people like I have good friends and then I don't talk about them when I'm not interacting with them I don't stand up for them I don't dissect them I just don't talk about them so that which is precious for me I'm reticent about whoa stop this bloody music the house for porn this place has shot thousands and thousands of porn I've shot people here I've shot people in the jacuzzi in the gym zillions of spa scenes right here I shot a seance scene in the library come along memory lane I've shot blow bangs trapped right here we shot a big blow bang once I had 15 guys getting a blow job right there in the old corner there is not a room in this house I have not shot somebody fucking in start with the music guys you're killing me here you're absolutely killing me so do you think that the spiritual is real do you think that there will be negative a negative vibration to this house I know this one institution it got its chairs from an old porn theater cleaned them up but still people were sitting on cum stained chairs I mean cleaned up I expect that most of the ejaculate had been removed but that institution just only had trouble do you think that you could have a community, a group an institution that just soars to ever greater heights when people are sitting on chairs that people used to masturbate on in a porn theater so is there a real dimension to spiritual impurity even after you thoroughly wash these chairs stop what no no no stop stop with the bloody music interview the girls stop with the music the first time I met Ron was on set so I know him pretty well I'd say I wasn't there for any of the allegations that were made against him so I can't really speak on that but my personal experience with him is he a perv yes 100% is he touchy feely yes he is but if you were to say to him not right now he would stop immediately yeah all you had to say is Ron not now yet to scream it hit him over the head with a hammer punch him in the balls and hand him a notice from your lawyer he would just stop right away I mean it is just Ron that is how he is it's just Ron he's just a rapist he should be held accountable for his actions everybody should I mean he's just a rapist you want to judge him for being who he is yeah just tell Ron to hit the brakes right and he would always do it if you just screamed it loud enough and followed it up with a good you know smack it on the face and hit him over the head with a hammer and kick him in the balls and he would just stop right away he doesn't satisfy the woman and she's basically having sex with him and making him feel like shit that's what cock holding is in porn he's done almost in a comedic sense have I ever been accused of being handsy and forward yes I have not proud so I remember at first I was kind of scared to touch girls and then in 8th grade that the two cutest girls in elementary school they would touch me no actually girls started touching me in 6th grade at least 6th grade touching and kissing me and then there were these two girls in 8th grade who touched me a lot and then I started overcoming my shyness by 9th 10th grade 10th grade a woman like kissed me with her tongue that was the first time she told me to put down the cheese sandwich I was eating it was in the newspaper room in the class or high school so I think this is like spring of 1982 and so 1982 I started very awkwardly starting to touch girls and then my first love was the summer of 1982 but I was too kind of scared to touch her so I would apply a lot of sun lotion to her and then I managed to get up my strength to put my kind of arm around her when we were both lying on our stomachs on the concrete but everyone would talk about it because this was at the Pacific Union College St. Andrews College pool and everyone would talk about how handsy I was with her and then I'd frolic with her in the pool but there was this very awkward instance one day when I was frolicing with the girl and this little black boy came up between us with this cast on and he said why is your penis sticking out like a lance like the girl just like yelped and swam away and I took the kid and I just like held him under water that was a bit awkward but I didn't give her a proper kiss on the lips instead what I'd do to let her know that I fancied her is that I'd twist her nipples like I'd grab a nipple and twist it until she told me to stop doing it but I wrote her a lot of letters when I went back to Auburn and she stayed at Pacific Union College so I wrote her a lot of letters and then over the next year I was a junior and I met this freshman girl who taught me how to kiss and I mean she really taught me how to kiss I mean the amazing she would just like swirl my lips what she could do with her lips she'd like swirl back and forth and then her tongue would like very delicately explore and like do pirouettes in my mouth then she'd like very gently nibble on my lips then she'd like suck up my lips with varying degrees of suction and then there was like swirling I mean she did like 28 different things with her lips and my lips and I swear within 20 minutes I was an expert kisser and she complains about my kissing abilities oh I also read a book on how to be a confident kisser but this freshman girl she was like far better than any of that any book I mean she taught me everything I needed to learn about kissing I mean just all the different options like all the different ways to approach you know the gently gently the stronger the subtler the sucking the thrusting it was just amazing just like blew my mind it was a fantastic experience we were just going at it and her best friend was like there up in the loft with us and just like oh come on guys oh man that was some education so when I got back to specific uni college the next summer I was like I just took this girl and I took her and I just planted a good old kiss on the lips and she said to me we could have been doing this last summer and it's true but I was too scared I didn't know how to do it I needed to be taught by this freshman girl unfortunately I went into my civics class and was like boasting about this freshman girl and I said she has this great body but a very plain face and then it got back to her I mean how on earth do you share something like that which you would expect to be held in confidence in a civics class like a civics class is like a sacred space it should be a safe space like what happens in a civics class should stay in a civics class I mean I was being vulnerable I was just sharing about what an amazing body this freshman girl had and and it got back to her that I said she had a plain face but I mean she still made out with me but oh so I built up my confidence I got a little bit more handsy but I still felt really awkward when it came to a woman that I really liked and I still have that awkwardness so if it's not a woman that I really liked then I could be much more forward but if it's a woman I really really like it's kind of awkward for me so what I would do is I just start tickling them and then on one occasion like my friend just like grabbed me in a headlock to make me stop so that was bad and then another occasion I really liked this girl we were coming back from gymnastics meet and I was the the public access programming like anchor dude I would go to all these sporting events with our camera and I'd comment I was the sportscaster I did the high school news I did it for the local radio station for the public access cable channel so we're coming back from this gymnastics event and there's this girl I really really like and so I want to get my hands on her but I don't know how so I start tickling her and I get the whole bus you know tickling each other and so after that she called me the rapist and about four years after that when I came down with really bad chronic fatigue syndrome I started having a much more intense understanding of my sins and so I sent her an apology and she said that's okay I wasn't wasn't much worse than the other guys in high school but yeah I was a little handsy I got slapped I got slapped a few times I was a little forward mainly I was just awkward I was just like really awkward and cringe so my first girlfriend who went all the way with me that was February of 1989 so I would have been 22 and then I went off by a chronic fatigue syndrome she finished her degree at UCLA and I went off in the world eventually moved to Orlando Florida and when I moved back to LA in March of 1994 she came over she brought a bag of potatoes and I thank her for the potatoes and I took her to bed and afterwards she said how many women have you been with since me and I said 10 and I said how many men have you been with since me and she said one and then she said those women you've been with they taught you really well because you used to be really awkward so I was frequently awkward and it's mainly the women that I had the one night stands with who had the most negative commentary on me this is one woman I was with approximately 15 years ago and she said I was like a jackhammer I think she called me thumper and she said I had absolutely no technique whatsoever I wasn't really using my hips I was just very selfishly going about my own pleasure so yeah I've often I've had girlfriends who the sixth time we've made love and then they'll say hey do you know I haven't had an orgasm yet so I haven't always been a kind and considerate and generous lover but I think I stopped being a total jerk by about 1997 and then and then I significantly improved once I got into 12 step by say 2012 so I think I think my behavior towards women has been much better the last 10 years it's the way we do it we don't really make it really bad anyway cuckolding is very popular right now coming in close yeah well they did a review yeah she wrote like these long blog posts about me I'm kind of afraid to pull them up they weren't flattering not flattering at all I'm playing a better wife who is sick of my paraplegic husband and I'm gonna fuck his therapist because I'm mad at him for not being able to fuck me sounds like a hell of a movie how does a man's status affect women's response to his nipple twisting a great deal I was awkward but I was awkward because I was low status right if I'd been when I managed to move up a little bit in social status then I became less awkward all these things go together you're low status you become more awkward and the more awkward you are the more low status you are so in school I was always like either I was usually average or below average in status but I didn't enter school remember until I was age eight so I entered school in second grade so I was way behind the curve with social skills so by high school by 11th grade I was moving up into the top 50% in social status and in college moving up even more than that I really like porn women used to love my nipple twist until I turned 40 none of them actually appreciated it and it was wrong and I should not have done that since COVID and everything kind of like stopped shooting on sets and just doing their own stuff I don't know only fans does pay a lot of ballpark monthly on only fans maybe like 30 to 40 thousand but then like only fans will take a percent they're all loaded I saved my money nah stop with this stop with the music no music no music no music stop the music stop the music stop the music everything's cool good to go everybody's got consent paperwork all the good good stuff no no no no no stop the music alright this is a show it's called stop the music gosh now I didn't drown the black boy I just held him under water for just a few seconds to tell him that I didn't appreciate what he said and then I remember I swam after my girlfriend and like jumped out of the pool because I was like so mortified by what happened that my penis wasn't sticking out like a lance anymore and I just wanted to show her that my penis wasn't sticking out like a lance anymore I mean not pulling it out but you know there was no longer there's no longer a rocker's down there no no stop the music bloody hell I'm trying to run a very respectable show I'm a very respectable man people look up to me no no stop the music bloody hell no gosh I'm trying to run a respectable show here very respectable show fall of an icon man we're losing our heroes in America no don't play any music I'm just going to talk over the music I'm just going to do silent la la la I kind of u porn sets as more of like the wwe of our industry like you know I do have fun it's great like but it is a performance stop the music no music this is what professional porn wants you to look like when you go on set back then I had no idea how to set my boundaries and stick to them and I was willing to so I remember I remember doing my fourth step sex inventory with this dude and I talked about you know all the women I'd been handsy with and rejected me and how that was selfish and inappropriate and I was just totally misjudging the situation I made them feel icky and awkward and the person I was talking to made the same point that Ricardo makes no one has ever gotten laid without engaging in behavior that would be portrayed as rapey if the advance was rejected so a lot of women said I was fast like I'd start kissing a woman within an hour or so of meeting her so my nicknames are like Hans Ford that's what they called me Hans Ford very Hansy conform I was willing to change the way I looked the way I acted so that other people would like me now I truly don't give a fuck and I do whatever I think is the right thing yeah this was that day on set where it was a threesome scene progressive like if you're gonna do a threesome scene it's very important that you maintain your boundaries right this needs to be done ethically morally responsibly we got rougher he ended up like choking us both until we both blacked out if people are choking you until you're blacking out that's probably a lack of boundaries I'm just saying it was a terrible day terrible aftermath of everybody at the company and everyone else being like well you guys didn't say anything during the scene so you know it's your own fault when in reality like scenes like that should be well the Talmud says silence implies consent and that used to be my attitude but then the me too movement has sensitized me so I just realize that people if they're positively disposed towards you they're inclined to say yes and so you should not ask them to do things that are against their best interests and let's be honest most women regret every dick they've had that didn't lead to marriage discussed beforehand like if you're going to choke someone out or like hit them or bite them until you yeah that's very important guys if you're going to choke someone out or hit them or bite them you should really talk about it ahead of time you leave bite marks on them you should probably discuss that before it happens no stop the music stop the music we need to talk about these things no no stop the music bloody hell no stop the music this is EJ from Rolling Stone studios and producers and directors stop the music no about the sexual assault allegations against Ron Jeremy I first heard rumors about Ron Jeremy and his behavior in 2015 2016 and the response sort of across the board from the mainstream was well who cares he's a porn star like why is this surprising I'm afraid that was kind of my reaction too and then Ginger Linn went public with it on an internet radio show and I covered that so I think that was about 2005 but prior to that I just thought oh this is just Ron being Ron and Jerry Butler wrote about this in his memoir what came out in 93 94 that he is assaulting women there was a very wide range of allegations against Ron Jeremy ranging from groping grabbing somebody's breast at a convention without their consent to rape look who is the most normal high functioning adult you met in the porn industry I really like Russell Hampshire he was the owner of VCA a convicted felon for interstate transportation of obscene material but he was a man's man he would do a lot of things for the community he did a lot of charitable deeds he was very kind to me he was like a father figure for me when I was in the industry like a really decent bloke Christian Mann was a good guy he lent me $500 on two occasions but he insisted that I don't allow it to influence how I wrote about him and he was the most intellectual member of the porn industry very thoughtful articulate man he died a few years ago he lent a lot of people money there were Ed Powers Ed Powers had incredible empathy Ed Powers is a lot like Elliott Blatt he could really feel your pain so I was on Ed Powers show a couple of times I accompanied Ed Powers when he went clothes shopping one time because he felt like he owed it to his fans to always dress in an interesting way and yeah Ed Powers was very kind of tuned in very very astute so there are a lot of people in the porn industry not usually before the camera but behind the camera who if you met them you could meet them and spend hours and hours and hours with them and you wouldn't think that there was absolutely anything wrong with them so unless you knew they were in the porn industry you wouldn't think there was anything weird or disturbed about them so there are plenty of people in the industry who for all intents and purposes seem perfectly normal there are people in the sales and the business side who maintain marriages for 20, 30, 40 years who have families more than two dozen women who had allegations against Ron Jeremy my main question was how was this allowed to go on for so long that's a great question and I was there and I knew about it I mean I didn't really think of it as rape start with the music we are approaching the condo complex where Ron used to live and I think he lived here up until he out of everyone I knew in the industry he was the most careful with his money he saved over a million dollars a lot of people in the industry say they're saving money but 99% of the performers who say that aren't actually doing it Ron Jeremy saved his money he was very careful with his money it was charged I was here probably three or four times we would go swimming here and hang out with his tortoise cherry which was very cute it was probably the highlight of coming here and really nice on the outside but pretty rotten on the inside so his apartment shockingly was not the most clean and neat and organized start with the music guys my name is Alexis Miller and I used to consider Ron Jeremy to be a dear friend stop playing music in the industry for almost 14 years about so I enjoyed every conversation I had with Ron Jeremy I remember I was on a date I met this woman on a trip to Israel so I went on this Jewish Federation Singles trip to Israel and the female leader of the trip I just absolutely fell for because I like really smart fast talking assertive dominant women and she was that and she liked me and so we made out it was great and then after the trip we started going out and she said when I met you at Sinai Temple at Friday Night Live I went to the other organizers of the trip I met this guy who wants to come because at the trip there are twice as many women as guys and when I mentioned your name there we don't want him going but then everyone was happy that you did come but you tend to say a lot of inappropriate things and she listed off various times on the trip when I said inappropriate things and said yeah you're right I really need to work on that so we'd gone to a party on a Saturday night and it was about 1am we were at Jerry's Deli on Beverly Boulevard and we were exiting the restaurant and there's Ron Jeremy with some young ladies he goes hey look come over and I think he wanted to show me how he was recently in Time Magazine he's been opening for Chris Rock and my girlfriend just kind of waited beside me and then when I didn't introduce her she like skipped off to the bathroom and so later I met up with my girlfriend outside and she said why didn't you introduce me and I said oh he's kind of he's kind of gross or he's kind of out there you don't really want to know him and she was satisfied with that but very intense date when she was talking to me about how concerned she was about the inappropriate things that I say and then we're walking out and there's Ron Jeremy and I didn't even introduce her two months into my being in the adult industry I got a call from my agent and he asked me what is the story behind women who stay in the industry for a long time versus the burnouts thinking about the Lisa Ann's and the Nina Hartley's well different people thrive in different situations so there are men and women who seem to be doing just fine in the porn industry for most people they burn out pretty quickly but I mean I've been live streaming like almost daily for four years and I've been live streaming consistently for six years and most people tend to burn out on it but I love it so yeah 99.9% of women in the industry don't last very long but there is that 0.1% who it just meets their needs what happens when you enter the industry is you get this intense sense of community and for many people they've never had this intense community before they really like the friends in the community and there's often a level of honesty in the industry a lack of pretense it's kind of we're all family that just hits the sweet spot for many people so just like when I entered Orthodox Judaism there was something that connected with me that went beyond the rational and the empirical it just did something to how I felt and the best people I knew were in Orthodox Judaism well other people find a lot of great people in the porn industry it's a kind of life that they enjoy they get to live out their various sexual selves yeah some people thrive why do some people thrive well it's the more intelligent so we're talking about people we're talking about people with the equivalent of a master's degree in education that level of IQ we're talking about all the women I know who thrived in the industry like Nina Hartley or Lisa Ann have had IQs well above 120 like women who are at least as smart if not smarter than me so that's the one thing I noticed about all the women who thrived in the industry they tend to be smart they tend to make judicious decisions about what they do so they don't get bullied into doing things that they don't want to do I mean Nina Hartley is a good example she said publicly I'm not going to get out of bed to do a blowjob scene for less than $250 I mean this is a woman who had a sense of her own worth right she had good self-esteem she had good boundaries she had clarity about what was important to her I mean you try to get Nina Hartley to roll out of bed to give a blowjob she's not going to do it for $220 has to be minimum $250 and this is back when $250 was $250 right so she didn't do things that she didn't want to do and another key component you get your sense of importance from being in the industry so Nina Hartley was a sexual icon and she was a sex educator and she had a fan club with thousands of fans so we all tend to do that which makes us feel important why the heck am I live streaming now in front of 17 people because it gives me a feeling of importance right I could be reading a book I could be walking around I could be going to a bar I could be joining a stamp club I could be studying Torah but I get a sense of importance and I feel alive doing a live stream and so for the Lisa Nina Hartley's being in the porn industry gives them a sense of importance that they have not experienced elsewhere and cannot rationally hope to achieve the same level of success that they've achieved in the porn industry outside of the porn industry so just like Deep Left, Jocoll or Kenneth Brown like he really wants to stream about metaphysical topics but he lowers himself into the gutter to stream about alt-right topics because that's where he gets 99% out of the views and the number of views that he gets has a really significant role to play in propping him up in building his sense of importance and his sense of esteem and casting his net waiter so that he can achieve more followers so just on his own I don't think that Kenneth Brown particularly is interested in the alt-right but that is his path to feeling important and Nina Hartley being in the porn industry gives them an importance and a prominence and a dominance that they would not get elsewhere if I would be interested in doing a film with Ron Jeremy I said yes, I said why not I was 20 other women who stay a long time are saying yes because if you were mentally weak on your boundaries if you were weak on your decision-making you would get destroyed as a woman hanging out in the industry I mean the trend is to more and more extreme material so yeah, by all accounts the women who last a long time in the industry by all empirical measures seem a lot more sane than those who just last a week or two no, they're not in it to just make money a feeling important for most people is far more important than making money making money is one way that they feel important but the adoration, the fan clubs the way people respond to you because you're a big deal I remember 2004 I think there was another HIV outbreak in the porn industry and the porn industry decided to hold a press conference at the Hilton in Studio City and all the players in the porn industry showed up and all these TV cameras showed up and I remember it this is embarrassing I remember it as one of the times I felt most alive most excited and everyone was so alive and so excited because we were the recipient of so much attention we were like the number one story in California at the time and all these cameras news reporters asking for help and for information and it wasn't just me who suddenly came alive and there's just something about having cameras on you and TV all around and being the center of attention and there are all these LA Times reporters and it just made people feel alive made people feel important we were the number one story and you feel that it's like when I was going to UCLA and UCLA had the number one football team in the nation for about three weeks and it was just an amazing feeling and I rode that feeling I just felt amazing I came home and rode it up and then my boss had pulled the story because because earlier in the day someone was having a conversation with a journalist at Adult Video News Rob Spelone and the journalist at Adult Video News says I don't want to be on Luke Ford's side and Rob said oh no Luke's not here and I was there and I was taping and so I went back home after all the festivities and rode up the conversation and put it on my not on mine but on the website I was writing for and all my work got pulled it just got deleted got reprimanded by the boss and I went into a SNET and said I'm quitting and I had a great job I was making like $50,000 a year I was getting healthcare and I quit in a SNET because I couldn't handle oh Adult Video News and did it like this big take down of me about how I'd you know been taught a lesson and I just like just quit in a SNET and went off on my own to write lukeisback.com where I owned like half as much money right and I didn't get the medical insurance that I had previously but oh at least I was like honest to my principles and probably around 50 we shot our scene it was pretty uneventful my friendship with Ron Jeremy women don't stay in the industry because they're nymphomaniacs women stay in the industry because they like feeling important he commenced that day we talked a lot on set he was really down to earth he was really funny we became instant friends it's performing in what women want your biggest regret import well I didn't perform sacks you know I wasn't thrusting and moaning I kept my clothes on I was just a very diligent reporter interviewing interviewing the actresses and like yeah I got a blow job but it was kind of you couldn't see it on camera so it was just while I was giving the opening presentation but it was all very respectable you couldn't really see it it was pretty improper look even when I was holding the camera for the double penetration scene or giving the presentation or being sucked it was very respectable it was like a 19th century Victorian gentleman and I don't spend a lot of time on regrets so yeah in certain spaces but I probably feel some shame coming up for that and I'm not you know super proud of that I look at it as given who I was at the time I probably couldn't have chosen differently that's how I choose to look back on my life so I don't look back in anger I don't look back in regret I used to and I don't like that feeling so I accept that I'm a deeply flawed human being who did some ugly irresponsible careless cruel disgusting things at times as I tried to meet my needs the best ways I know how so I didn't ask to be born a sex addict I didn't ask to grow up in my early years without a mother I didn't ask for the confusion and dislocation of my early years I didn't ask to be a love addict I didn't ask to be a porn addict so I didn't hate myself for the regrettable things that I did during that time now I do have a responsibility to make amends where that is possible and where amends are not possible I have a responsibility to make living amends to particularly help my fellow sex love and porn addicts achieve a life of emotional sobriety yeah it was all done with complete academic detachment I remember when I was getting thrown out of Asia Torah and Moshe Cohen said we just have someone going here writing a blog on the porn industry writing a book on the the porn industry and then he said I'm sure it's all very I'm sure it's all very academic absolutely frightening evening I went to Shul and he would say Luke, an orthodox synagogue not so frightening not so scary and this is Asia Torah this was my home in Los Angeles I came here in March 1994 and I was so confused and frightened because I basically had been bed ridden the previous six years now I'd made just like a partial recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome and I was moving to a city where I really didn't know anyone and I was trying to reconstruct a life with only half strength and didn't have much money and didn't have prospects for work I was just scared and I was trying to assimilate into Judaism I was a convert to Judaism and like many people I latched onto Asia Torah because it's this outreach center bringing people into Judaism absolutely gave me more than a fair break and with me and they educated me and they invited me into their homes for Shabbat meals and holiday meals and they invested in me and I let them down because my blogging started blogging in 1997 but I mean even before that I was getting in trouble because I was like mouthy like I'd argue with people and I just I love the sound of my own voice just love, you know I think I'm so smart and that oh I have these insights here and I think oh it'd be so witty if I said this even though it was like totally blue and inappropriate and just offensive and yucky so I mean oh they gave me every chance and they kicked me out once and kind of like came back nine months later and was like trying to be really quiet and cool and they finally kicked me out again well they gave me an alternative where I said look you know this type of writing is just unacceptable in any Orthodox Jewish community and I was writing a lot on the porn industry and I chose the freedom of my blogging and left behind this community and basically I haven't set foot back in Asiatura in almost 13 years tonight a friend asked me to come to a particular lecture and my allegiance to my friend was even stronger than my fear of sitting foot back inside of Asiatura and just dealing with the shame because it's not so much like shame of the things that I did that got me kicked out of Asiatura the whole experience just made me totally ashamed of who I am my totality that's the thing with shame it's not just like shame over individual actions it's like shame but your whole entire being is just perverse and wicked wrong so I had to go back to Asiatura and like to look people in the face and you may ask like Levy why are you wearing the sunglasses well I've been having problems sleeping the last 22 years and a sleep doctor says after about 10 p.m. wear sunglasses so it's now 11.07 p.m. on the 6th of January 2011 after my ordeal I went to Walgreens and I got these sunglasses they all looked kind of girly so I picked out a pair that looked the most masculine and went up to the clerk as this young man about 22 said these are okay for men he says well they have a flower on them they had flowers right here so either a flower or an exploding grenade so ashamed just felt such shame I can't even pick out a pair of sunglasses like a totally in that I remember once I had these nice slip on dress shoes that I can wear for work I was working at Kmart at the time in Australia and I was walking down the street in my new shoes and people were asking me why are you wearing slippers I didn't realize they were slippers I thought they were nice dress shoes why so stepped inside of Asiatura tonight first time in about more than 12 years it was scary like I thought it was going to get humiliated and thrown out so I'm a wimp like I still got that go-ish timidity like Jews tend to have self confidence comes with being the chosen people and being raised in a rigorous and demanding way of life through hard work and study you build out more confidence in yourself but kind of the type of person is always like look for the easy way out in life and that does not instill confidence that instills shame you're like a core you're a cheater like know that a core you're always looking for an angle an easy way out I can't even look you in the face too shameful too shameful so it went fine at a fine time at Asiatura and everybody was perfectly nice to me and I had a great lecture on Judaism and I'm inspired and I feel connected socially to other people rather than my miserable short brutish miserable individual existence in the hovel so I'm not nervous here I'm like squelching my my didgerflex black mad but I'm cool calm and collected so I kind of confronted myself and confronted my cowardice even though everything in me was screaming go home flea run away I just kept my legs walking right into Asiatura and I sat down trying to be just as inconspicuous as I could be and bother no one and no one bothered me there there's the perfect summary of my life he lies leavey been over a harm he bothered no one and no one bothered him I remember that that was that was scary and that was pretty emotionally intense and then I had this rabbi saw my video and he was so go-ish like a Jew if he was kicked out of a synagogue he'd say you're kicking me out I kick you out I remember I met this attractive woman who converted to conservative Judaism and we were all headed for a hookup but she googled me but as we were heading for that hookup she said Jewish men don't know their own level so she was an attractive woman and she was just kind of surprised that all these homely men were picking on her and she explained it that Jewish men are raised with doting mothers who tell them they can become president of the United States Jewish men don't know their own level don't stop with the music no music at the rainbow room look Ron Jeremy took me and Jasmine St. Clair to the rainbow room and he was a perfect gentleman I was walking towards the front of the restaurant and I still have those sunglasses I think but I don't wear them because I spent about $200 for prescription sunglasses so these are the ones I wear now in walks my old friend Ron Jeremy yeah the beard doesn't render 40 a bit more Jewish I remember I was at yoga class and there was this attractive yoga woman next to me at the end of the yoga class she turns to me and she says were you born Jewish 40 was a sexual Shinora what can Judaism do for me mindset is a Jewish attitude you can tell that old Luke was gaming Judaism yeah well that look let's be honest that's what life is like when you're an addict when you're an addict you are going to use everybody to meet your addictive needs addicts are users and so my addictions dominated my life until I started getting some relief in 2011 and I got a lot more relief by about 2016 but one of the painful realizations was as long as I was in the grip of my addictions to attention to sex to love to passion to pornography as long as I was in the grip of these compulsions I was going to use everybody and everything to meet my addictive needs so yeah I'd use Judaism I would use something Adventism I use economics I used UCLA I used Sierra Community College I used radio I used TV I used fame I used infamy I used everything I had at my disposal to meet my addictive needs particularly to sex and to love and I used people I was just a user and that's one of the nicknames that my mother has for me user she would say that I would take women like lemons and squeeze them and throw them away I was a user when you're an addict you can't help but be a user three years since I had last seen him so that meant I had to do an inventory and really look at everybody in my life like if someone had been in my life that meant I was using them and I had to start coming to grips with how I was using them now some people do the situation they did not feel used the extent that I used them was not deleterious to them so I wasn't hurting every single person that I formed a connection with but using people was my general modus operandi so I just went back and just started journaling about all of the most important people in my life and started trying to get some clarity on how I had used them we'd maybe spoken on the phone a couple times things were fine at that point he pointed and he said I know you and I was like are you serious? like are you playing a game? and I said yeah Ron it's me he said oh yeah how have you been have you ever seen the kitchen before Ron took me through the kitchen and it's a long kitchen there was one door left and that door was the door to the bathroom Ron took my hand and he put it around his genitals he then proceeded to pull his pants down and push my head down at the same time and told me to give it a kiss I froze I didn't know what to do but my response to him should have been a cue to not take it further Ron Jeremy used my vagina as a personal masturbation device and that's how I traded a lot of women unfortunately I use their vaginas as my personal masturbation device and other areas as well not very nice and it's a little tricky making amends because reminding women of being the darkest chapter in the sexual diary is not necessarily doing them a favor in the days after the attack physically I was sore have I heard that Jesse Lee Peterson allegations yeah I don't believe them at all psychologically I gaslighted myself I denied right that's what I would do not when people were using my vagina as their personal masturbation machine but when I had abusive bosses I didn't really think much about it it's like oh we just have that kind of relationship and so when you've internalized that being abused is normal you don't come to grips with these things that it was significant I lied to myself I told myself that there was no point in telling anybody because who would believe me ouch okay I ought to do something on the title of the stream so my friend tells me if it's in the Washington Post I already know that the very opposite of what the Washington Post is saying is true so Washington Post oil refineries are making a win for why do they keep closing and so Loponius was telling me last night oh this is all nonsense well are oil refineries closing or not new oil refineries opening up companies see only headaches on the horizon for oil refineries undercutting the White House push to boost production and so Loponius was telling me as an important as an important story and it strikes me oil refineries are making a windfall that the Washington Post is doing a great job here so we've got record profits for American oil refineries but owners of various oil refineries have no regrets about tearing them down so is this true are the oil refineries listed or not? where is this Washington Post story wrong either factually or logically because it seems to me this is an important topic and the Washington Post is doing a really good job in this story so oil refineries across the country being retired they're being converted to other uses owners are making costly upgrades and America is pivoting away from fossil fuels and this leaves the future uncertain so what's wrong here whether America will be able to successfully pivot away from fossil fuels is a good open question but is this force or not where's the evidence oil refineries across the country being retired is this true or not are they being converted to other uses right the downsizing comes despite painfully high gasoline prices and as demand globally ramps up so we've had five refineries shut down in the United States in just the past two years well is this true or not what's your evidence that this article is false these five shutdowns reduce the nation's refining capacity by about 5% they've eliminated more than 1 million barrels of fuel per day from the market leaving the remaining facility straining to meet demand and then if something happens to remaining facility then prices are just going to skyrocket so the White House is desperate to bring down oil refineries prices but it's having no success persuading owners to expand operations and more oil refinery closures are imminent so is this true or false I am aware of no evidence that this is false the futility of the White House effort came through in the response to letters President Biden sent this week to the nation's major oil companies chastising them for squeezing historically high profit margins out of their refineries and Biden threatened to invoke emergency powers if the companies don't bring prices down the companies are on mood well is that true or false companies the only headaches on the horizon for refineries undercutting the White House push to ramps up amid sanctions on gasoline and diesel produced in Russia the third biggest petroleum refiner in the world behind the United States and China five refineries have shut down in the United States in just the past two years reducing the nation's refining capacity by about 5% and eliminating 1 million barrels of fuel per day from the market leaving the remaining facilities straining to meet demand this seems like a pretty important story to me as well as rising public and corporate concern about climate change would make many refineries obsolete in the not too distant future building and upgrading the mammoth structures is a messy, expensive undertaking that can drag on longer than a decade strained the finances of even the biggest fossil fuel giants and run the risk of Laponia says I didn't say it was nonsense I said it makes no sense to close them down from a business standpoint well it does if there are a lot of restrictions on them if the overwhelming thrust of finance and of government and of our elites is against building them so we have significantly reduced funding of fossil fuels since 2014 it's been steadily dropping since 2014 even during the Trump years seems an important story to me getting abandoned before that investment is returned I don't think you are ever going to see a refinery built again in this country, Chevron CEO Michael Worth said in an interview with the Washington Post this month it's been 50 years since we built a new one worth said in a country where the policy environment is trying to reduce demand for these products you are not going to find companies to put billions and billions of dollars into this some of the nation's 129 refineries are owned by large oil companies such as Chevron while others are operated independently at the facilities the components of crude oil are separated and processed into fuel for vehicles and planes as well as industrial petroleum products such as lubricants the last major refinery to come online in the United States in 1977 is the one owned by Marathon Oil in Garyville, Louisiana it is capable of pumping out 578,000 barrels per day since it opened more than half the refineries in the United States have closed while the Biden administration says market manipulation by Big Oil is behind the shortage of refined fuel right now the major fossil fuel companies don't have a monopoly on production there is a large refining facility in Houston up for sale right now if there was someone out there who believed this would be a strong business in the future this is an asset they could buy said Jacques Rousseau, a managing director at Clearview Energy Partners the problem, nobody wants to buy it there has not been a single viable bed in the absence of any offers Lyon-Dulba cell plans to shut its 700-acre operation on the Gulf Coast no later than the end of next year EPA hasn't allowed a new refinery to be constructed in 50 years it's a matter of national security at this point gasoline is not the only thing refineries produce and suburbs will die without gasoline this whole EV thing is nonsense the chat, well this seems like a serious issue that should be addressed do we need the government to step in and build some oil refineries given that the private marketplace is not going to do it dear quitting the refining business, the company said in a statement is the best strategic and financial path forward the company did not comment on industry speculation that a fire that knocked part of its century-old Houston facility offline last week may push the closure date even sooner as Lyon-Dulba cell faces the prospect of costly repairs the facility refines about 264,000 barrels of crude oil per day these are aging physical plants where steel needs to be replaced equipment needs to be overhauled new pumps may be needed, said Ed Hearse an energy economist at the University of Houston just getting the equipment you need could take three years electric vehicles might already make up 20% of the car market by then the market is funding the policy set by the government yeah but we had a pro-fossil fuels administration under Donald Trump and the private market didn't act that differently from how it is now so it's not just US government it's largely an attitude on the part of finance companies so banks people who lend out money are facing a lot of negative consequences if they lend out money for fossil fuels so the lenders have dialed things back not just in response to the US government but in response to a whole bunch of incentives you could find yourself investing a bunch of cash to rebuild a refinery that may not be needed for long the White House would have to take extreme steps to compel companies to refine more right now that could involve Biden invoking emergency powers to curb exports of refined gasoline and diesel or to force companies to restart operations at idled American refineries according to a memo clearview sent clients the president wrote in his letter that he is prepared to use all tools at my disposal to bring prices down, scolding oil executives for making record profits off a refining shortage that is blunting the impact of the historic actions by the White House to confront soaring gas prices those actions included releasing 1 million barrels per day from the strategic petroleum reserve and the suspension of an environmental rule limiting high blends of ethanol into gasoline in the summer analysts cautioned that any actions the White House tries to take to spur more production could backfire so I haven't heard anything stupid or obviously wrong or illogical or unfactual in this article this is an important article and the Washington Post is doing a pretty good job playing it straight this is why I subscribe to the Washington Post for high quality articles like this one now I probably only read two articles a day from the Washington Post I probably spend five minutes a day with the Post maybe ten curbing exports for example would intensify fuel shortages in Europe and could lead to further political destabilization there it could also motivate companies to move more operations overseas worsening shortages in the United States the problem is we are running the existing refineries at full power said Jason Bordoff founding director of the center on global energy policy Columbia University there is not a lot of ability to require industry to refine more than it already is the case of the shuttered Philadelphia energy solutions refinery illustrates how little influence the White House has over such operations the Trump administration had worked aggressively to keep the plant that was turning out 335,000 barrels of fuel per day from closing warning it played an important role in U.S. energy security and independence the White House had dispatched a federal, a top Trump economic advisor to try to help advance the bid of a group of energy executives who planned to rehabilitate the bankrupt facility the bid which had the backing of organized labor fizzled the city was emerging from the trauma of a refinery explosion that sent an enormous say you're probably wondering what the heck is going on with MaxBoot can you guess? one thing that brings joy to his stunted and miserable existence and that's war other people burning each other to death he founds a new escalation in his new favorite war the war on Ukraine listen to this I think the key here is we have to understand that we're making a mistake in the way that we think about the war because we keep thinking about it as their war the Ukrainians are fighting we need to think about it as our war we're not providing gray eagle drones that the Ukrainians need we're not providing as many multiple launch rocket systems as they need we can be and should be doing more because we need to understand this is our fight that the Ukrainians are on the front lines of it's our war hear that people of Dubuque, Bangor, Gulfport Spokane it's your war not theirs but the weird thing is despite the fact it's our war MaxBoot is still in the morning Joe's studio wearing soft shoes so despite this war's world historic importance and our own personal ownership of it MaxBoot is not actually fighting his war nor even more strangely is MaxBoot sending his own salary to fund our war what he's doing is what he always does which is promoting our war and this is hardly the first war and Boots long and not at all varied career as a war promoter he has demanded that American troops go to war in a dizzying variety of countries. Boot is called for invasions of Syria an invasion of Iran as well as a hot war against North Korea or against Saudi Arabia quote if the US Armed Forces made such short work of a hardened goon like Saddam Hussein imagine what they could do to the soft and cyberatic Saudi royal family Boot once wrote and he was imagining it in great detail what didn't happen we never invaded Mecca too bad so MaxBoot moved on to calling for the military occupation of Pakistan Pakistan nuclear on Pakistan let's occupy it and then Somalia those were our wars too in 2011 Boot called for war against Libya and Hillary Clinton actually did it and of course Boot was one of the main cheerleaders for our war against Iraq quote once we have deposed Saddam he wrote before the invasion we can impose an American led international regency in Baghdad to go along with the one in Kabul to turn Iraq into a beacon of hope for the oppressed peoples of the Middle East now that would be a historic war aim is this an ambitious agenda without a doubt does America have the resources to carry it out also without a doubt sure we can afford it it'll be easy now trillions of dollars and more than a million dead people later how did MaxBoot's prediction work out don't ask he's got a new war to sell you it's our war this country set a record for overdose deaths last year in response to that the Biden administration is not reversing its decision to distribute crack pipes to drug addicts nor are they slowing the flow of fentanyl across the borders coming from China through Mexico no they have a new drug war yesterday the FDA announced is planning to remove virtually all nicotine from cigarettes and nicotine is not the thing that gives you cancer nicotine is the thing it's addictive but it also increases mental acuity but they're taking that out according to the Wall Street Journal the agency will also ban jewel e-cigarettes now what happens when you get off nicotine well your testosterone levels come from it and you gain weight both of which the administration is for because you become more passive and easier to control Vince Colonies has noticed this he's a radio show host in Washington DC and not a nicotine episode of Tucker Carlson today fascinating there's part of the conversation once I found out about the children's sexual rights regime kind of I quickly kind of miraculously found other people who were aware of this and had been working on it at the global level in time and so I became involved with some groups of people at the United Nations who were advocating for families and children and so when it when it's when I went to the UN that I it really came into focus so my first visit there was quite eye-opening first of all I heard people advocating for legalizing sex work prostitution people advocating for sexual rights for children in one meeting I was in they they called pregnancy a career interruption that's what they called it and abortion was called a therapeutic interruption of pregnancy so I kind of felt like I was in a different world you know who are these people that have these kind of seemingly radical ideas about pregnancy because you know most people think of pregnancy as being and childbearing as a joyful thing but not so at the United Nations and so the United Nations you know originally was established in 1948 with somewhat noble views trying to keep the world out of war and and so forth but the the thing is and that I've seen with my own eyes is that the whole thing has been significantly corrupted by the sexual rights campaign now if you can't you can't trust the United Nations you can't trust Nick Puentes you can't trust Uncle Ron Jeremy I mean who can we trust our idols are just falling down before us