Week In Review: SCOTUS Outrage & The “Liberal World Order” - Unapologetic LIVE

[Music] [Music] hello everybody and welcome happy friday guys we're gonna be going into our fourth of july weekend after this show today um taylor and i are here in studio well hello happy friday hi guys uh and we while we're here doing the show today actually everybody at prageru all of our staff members here in the la office are right over the other end of this wall having a massive party uh playing cornhole drinking root beer and eating barbecue so and we're hanging out with you which is way better yeah this is what we do for you guys but i have my patriotic background and amela doesn't because she hates america yeah well you know i'm wearing blue the chair is white the only thing i'm missing uh is something red so we're gonna have to deal with that today oh look at that boom an american flag god bless america um i'm gonna set that right here for the remainder of the show let's let's continue uh today as we do on most fridays is going to be a week in review where we go through some of the interesting stories new stuff that we've been listening to this week of course you guys haven't been able to run away from the roe v wade discussions which we thought was going to be the case so we're going to talk a little bit about that some of the hate being thrown towards a one mr clarence thomas because he happens to be a black man who goes against the grain of what he is supposed to believe and you know the left doesn't like that we're going to be talking about elmo telling your children to get vaccinated and what are the implications of that jordan peterson being suspended off of twitter a toronto police report that uh labels a man as a woman and cnn talking about the liberal world order when it comes to you having expensive gas at the gas pump so let's start off with a one mr elmo it's no longer tickle me elmo it's vaccinate me elmo and sesame street has come out with a little segment where elmo talks about getting vaccinated and vaccine hesitancy and we're gonna watch and react to that it's really interesting because when i was a child of course i watched things like sesame street mr rogers cartoon network disney channel all that fun stuff and i was very unaware of there being propaganda when i was a child and i don't imagine there was much whatsoever and now to grow up in an age where we're watching kids programming and kids entertainment and seeing just what is blatant indoctrination and propaganda should be really really concerning uh something that we should all have uh keep up keep an eye out for and and mark as a red flag especially if your parents i can't imagine you'd be worried about this if you weren't a parent but i am and i'm not a parent watching this and seeing how much political messaging and and outright propaganda is in children's programming is really concerning because they're trying to get the youngest and most vulnerable of our population to submit themselves to this sort of ideology so let's watch this sesame street clip and and see what we have to say about it here we go now daddy has super duper just just like elmo you were super duper today getting your covert vaccine elmo there was a little pinch but it was okay emma was really glad to have daddy and baby david there with him baby david where are you i had a lot of questions about elmo getting the covert vaccine was it safe was it the right decision i talked to our pediatrician so i could make the right choice i learned that elmo getting vaccinated is the best way to keep himself our friends neighbors and everyone else where did you learn that where did you who told you that probably the cdc who has even without very much evidence just push forward this narrative that children ages as young as like five years old need to be vaccinated with the the covert vaccine i think i believe they even have some guidance for under five years old which blows my mind is that really the safest thing these are questions that we should be asking ourselves is maybe natural immunity safer or at least waiting until you have concrete evidence of vaccines being helpful for children in this case maybe we should wait for that before we say it's the safest way and when i watch this it's just wild you know sesame street should be relied on to teach you things about family friendships how to deal with arguments when you're a five-year-old and you're you're having an argument with somebody else in kindergarten maybe how to count maybe the alphabet maybe your different colors that's what we rely on sesame street for and actually very little reliance your parents should be doing that but this is like a supplementary material for for parents to give to their kids to watch and hopefully they'll learn some lessons while being entertained with it but instead now sesame street is telling you that you need to vaccinate your kids and and you have to wonder who's paying for this it's not like the writers at sesame street said you know it's so important that we do something on vaccinations right now today we need to put this out as our next episode no somebody paid for this and it's probably a government agency which means your tax dollars or it's big pharma which is even more more insidious that they would be pushing this sort of propaganda onto children i prefer the pfizer job myself in fact this segment is sponsored by them kids i got astrazeneca i got moderna i just cannot believe it and i really thought we were sort of out of the major way of hearing about covid anymore especially with young children because we know what the stats look like with young kids we know that they're getting covered they're dealing with a few symptoms maybe or no symptoms at all and then they are you know moving on with their lives they're not dying from this disease by and large and we know it's not affecting them in the way that it would affect somebody who is a grown adult or a senior with several comorbidities that's one of the worst populations you can be in when it comes to covid not a young child sitting in front of the tv watching sesame street so why is this the case and i go out on a limb here and say maybe it's money maybe there's a whole another market for vaccinations and big pharma funds if they get children to do this even though you can hear in the news you can read the stats on this you can read the studies and see that children are surviving covet 19. they're getting it maybe getting sick maybe not and then they're moving on so big pharma and i bet all these executives are sitting down just you know rubbing their hands together going oh what if we push it to kids not only just one singular shot but let's let's make them plural let's do boosters and boosters and boosters and we'll push this out and there's a doctor by the name of marty mccary and we've had him i've interviewed him before here at prageru who is who's spoken out against this in the fact that we have people who do not have your best interests at heart pushing this forward simply for the sake of money they just want your money yeah and they're preying upon a fears of parents and parents of uh concern for their children and you know all of the mainstream uh what do we call it the uh elite establishment uh channels that they control they're pumping out the same information and you know i'm surprised elmo's not sitting there saying if your mom's an anti-vaxxer make sure you report her to the disinformation government's bureau kids because that's about where we are really you know a parent who's just not well informed is just not going to know any better and and take this as gospel when when you look an inch below the surface at this at the data around what whether children are really at risk at some of the side effects and just the money behind it it's it's pretty nefarious uh and you can't just trust sesame street anymore sadly no you can't it's so wild i mean i never advocated for parents simply plopping their kids in front of the tv and letting them watch whatever they want to watch but there used to be a time where you could do that and you'd be generally safe knowing that your kids were going to get uh if not pro-american messaging just regular everyday average human being messaging about little things that kids worry about and that the kids need to learn about and that that are foundational to their formative years and them growing but now it's like you sit in front and it's a sponsored by pfizer monologue about how you need this vaccine and this vaccine and this vaccine i doubt they're going to do an episode on elmo getting myocarditis but that's something that you could be dealing with after this if you collapse on the soccer field just you'll get up eventually it'll be fine she's like oh elmo's heart feels so much bigger dad no that's just inflammation that's just inflammation elmo honest sesame street that would be a fun satire to make that would be a fun satire to make if only we had the resources to do so in this little studio we would be right on it somebody send me an elmo puppet and i will make it in response to this because i'm over it uh let's keep watching there is more to this clip healthy and enjoying the things they love oh daddy oh emma and baby david have a question we have a hug oh come here son uh everyone loves you daddy i love you too it's okay to have questions about covet vaccines for your kids get the latest facts by speaking to your pediatrician or health care provider yeah it's okay to have questions go get the latest vaccination it's okay to have questions as long as you do exactly what we tell you right and as much as this is like funny huh it's not funny haha it's funny weird that this is happening and that we are seeing this in our children's programming and it's just sad you know that people care far more about profit and far more about getting money from unknowing parents who are seeing this and going oh well this must be the right thing to do for my child because i'm seeing it on on a a show that is known for just doing what is good for kids sesame street has that reputation of if you want a safe place to to sit your kids in front of the tv and let them watch and learn sesame street was the way to go and they would confront a lot of different issues that were really important to young children bullying racism bigotry things that you know we look at now and we hear those words and we go red flag that sounds way too progressive it sounds like radical leftism but sesame street was actually approaching those topics in a way that was healthy for children and and having those conversations and discussions now to to add this into that discussion completely delegitimizes everything that they've been doing for so long yeah and what and we've seen this tactic before that they'll they'll use what was things that were once trusted in the culture by everybody it's the main you see in the mainstream media companies like disney uh they have this veneer of oh yeah we're just that that brand that you know and love cbs just like the good old days when you could trust us and walter cronkite and all that and it's like media is just the same and then they infuse all of their far left propaganda and ideology into everything disney's doing that now too you react to that video of the the betamax clip that they're putting uh trans uh flag into kids content now and it's like they're just using uh the the the stuff that had built up cultural trust over time and just slapping that over their radical agenda yeah and it's everywhere man i remember when when covid19 first got announced and everything and we went through every all of this stuff and all these celebrities started coming out and talking about oh it's so important to social distance and say six feet apart and it's so important to wear your mask look at me i'm lady gaga i'm wearing my mask and they put all together all these compilations of people doing it and then the vaccines get ushered out and the same thing we hire these celebrities these these common household names and faces to spew to you utter propaganda for young people and gen z olivia rodrigo got invited over to the white house to tell people to get vaccinated and and she's a young pop star who probably knows very little about uh the inner workings of what was happening here and all the different political pawns that they're using to get this message forward and sesame street is just another one tacked onto that list there's probably thousands and thousands of other uh entities that they're using to to get this message out to people but something is extra sinister about using sesame street because you know parents aren't watching this this is literally just a kid maybe maybe a few parents are you know watching over their kid's shoulder but your kids sitting in front of the tv just listening to elmo talk about he's not gonna need to get a needle and he needs to get a jab and that kid goes well hey mom i didn't end up getting vaccinated and almost telling me that's the right thing to do and almost telling me that that's a sign that your parents love you and that's a sign that your parents are keeping you safe why why did that not happen for me why have you not done that it's just in saying to me and of course we've seen people on on the right end of things and just logical people who just don't agree with propaganda for children coming out against this uh most notably ted cruz and and getting bullied for for talking about these things ted cruz came after big bird and elmo which is a little bit funny you know you're picking fights with puppets but that is the cruel part of this they will package up their propaganda in these most beautiful unassuming innocent little characters like your pop stars like olivia rodrigo and your puppets like elmo and then when you you know have a bone to pick with them and you come out and say well this is disgusting and i don't support it they go well how could you be mad at elmo it's elmo how oh and how crazy you are to be a grown man talking about a puppet getting vaccinated that's insane and they make you look crazy when it's not crazy at all to go hey i would love if my kid had television programming that did not indoctrinate them and it's a perfect sort of segue and plug for what we do here at prageru we have prageru kids because all these parents were coming to us and saying you know i try to let my kid watch a little bit of television every now and then and this is what i'm getting messaging about how men can have periods and how they should be vaccinated and how it's totally okay to be confused about your gender and how black people are oppressed and white people are constantly committing acts of microaggression against them this is what your kids are seeing from from sesame street from disney from netflix now which we might get to and talk about what are you supposed to do you have to have a place to turn uh or you just have to completely remove all of these things from your kid's life which is really hard in in the modern day and age so we we launched and started making kids content i believe daily wire is going to follow suit and do the same because that's what parents need right now so if you are struggling with this as a parent and you need safe content for your children go ahead and check out prageru kids if you'd like to and i'm sure you can find something there that is much better than elmo and elmo's dad telling you to get vaccinated uh now moving on we're gonna touch on scotus the supreme court and things that people are getting very upset about and it seems like the supreme court justice that is taking on most of the heat when it comes to the recent decisions put out by the supreme court is justice clarence thomas you know him as being the second black justice to ever sit on the supreme court he's a current sitting judge of course and he does represent the conservative end of the spectrum when it comes to thought here he's actually probably one of the strongest if not the strongest conservative supreme court justice to really sit there he mark he marks himself as a constitutionalist uh and abides by the constitution and has come out in the wake of roe versus wade and in said some things about coming after what were all of them gay marriage was one of them uh there were some other um landmark decisions that he was looking at but the game no escapes a second sorry it's fine there's there's plenty of stuff to talk about so the gay marriage one really really you know perked some ears up and people were very upset and you know i i can understand where people would would look at this and go well first they came for roe versus wade and that's overturned now they're going to come for gay marriage now they're going to come for this now they're going to come for that and people can be upset about that and they can vocalize their opinion on that sure fine but the attacks that have been put out against clarence thomas are very extreme and they seemingly have have to do with nothing else other than his skin color here's one from from rex chapman uh former nba he tweeted out this video of of justice thomas attending a graduation event at christendom college uh where the students are there to be honored and he was there alongside anton scalias antonin scalia who was a previous supreme court justice his son in 2018. now here's the video and i don't know if you recognize anything special about this video all i see is clarence thomas standing amongst a fellow students not fellow students but students who are graduating and i guess rex since this is all he sees when he looks at videos noticed skin color and that was what he had to say not another person of color in the picture wow how crazy how bigoted that maybe we don't care about diversity of skin color when we're looking at a room and injustice thomas is there and is a person of color is he invalidated for being the only person of color in the room there but rex couldn't leave it at that he had to go on he said such a champion lol i think the thing i think is most funny about this is that these white kids and their parents view this as their entry into black america what what are you even saying and and it just sounds so utterly racist to have such a strong judgment of a man simply because you disagree with his views and he's black that is his major qualm here you can tell in what he's saying if you scroll down even further he goes on clarence thomas wouldn't last 20 to 30 seconds in an nba locker room oh that's interesting i didn't know that was a prerequisite to sitting on the supreme court and i don't care and what does the nba have to do with clarence thomas is it maybe because clarence thomas is black that you said that maybe i'm just going to put it out there let's move on he also said why have you never seen clarence thomas at an nba game as in ever bill clinton used to come to our games and land over with the bullets clarence thomas never maybe because clarence thomas is a supreme court justice who works day in and day out to do his job diligently and maybe he just doesn't care to go and watch a basketball game is there something about him that that makes you think he should want to be at an nba game that he should want to be in the locker room that he should want to sit there and watch some guys play basketball what about clarence thomas would make you say such a thing and i'm sure we will not get an answer on that because guess what the answer would probably be a little racist but this isn't the only person who's come out against uh clarence thomas this this rex chapman slews of people have come out calling him a white supremacist telling him he's still an n-word even though he doesn't believe it i mean hundreds of tweets on this of people who represent you know progressive ideology some liberal but mainly progressives saying that clarence thomas is an n-word and he's always going to be it's a very common uh common phrase that people like to throw out and say to people especially people like me i've gotten that comment i want to say a thousand times that no matter what i do i'm still going to be seen as an n-word to all the white folk around me and it's some of the most racist posturing that we have seen in a long time what was it good morning america who put out that tweet yes good morning america yeah we should have that puts out a tweet yeah i'm gonna look it up on twitter for you guys good morning america comes out and puts out a tweet about katanji brown jackson because she is the first black female to sit on the supreme court but what did they say about her they said she was the first black supreme court justice to sit on the court now this could have been an accident you know i'm sure maybe one or two ploy employees is in charge of the twitter and that's just simply what one of them thought and they go and type it and they tweet it out and now it's out there it lasted on twitter for about five hours after being completely decimated by twitter users who said you know what about thurgood marshall and what about clarence thomas who's currently sitting in the supreme court so at the very least it's it's a funny little incident at the most it just shows how much racism can brew inside progressivism when you have a certain view of the views that black people are meant to represent and claire's thomas clarence thomas falls outside of that box of views and he's very strong about it yeah i think it's that much like a freudian slip from gma because it just it reflects the fact that the people who are uh behind our mainstream media generally have this view that uh black people ought to think a certain way and when they don't they're not a legitimate black person and that's similar to how tick tock you get banned from tick tock like every couple of weeks despite them launching a creator fun to elevate black voices and stuff and if you don't toe the line and do it do what you're expected to then you're forgotten or marginalized i mean the same things happened to tom soul so yeah and that is what is that that is racism you must think the way that we then you think we own you yes exactly they feel like they own you and there is this brilliant video that i'm going to try to actually pull up for you guys and see if i can find it but it's uh justice sotomayor coming out and talking about clarence thomas and just giving what is a really just kind message about who he is as a person and how how well he treats everybody who he works with here's this video with him more than with any other justice that we have not joined each other's opinions more than anybody else and yet justice thomas is the one justice in the building that literally knows every employee's name that they every one of them and not only does he know their names he remembers their family's names and got a pause there there we go he's the first one who will go up to someone when you're walking with him and say is your son okay how's your daughter doing in college he's the first one that when my stepfather died sent me flowers in florida he is a man who keeps cares deeply about the court as an institution about the people who work there but about people he has a different vision than i do oh it's gonna keep pausing um about how to help people of course keeps going and about their responsibilities to help themselves i've often said to people justice thomas believes that every person can pull themselves up by their bootstraps i believe that some people can't get to their bootstraps without help they need someone to help them lift their foot up so they can reach those bootstraps that's a very different philosophy of life but i think we share a common understanding that's enough there i'll just pause it there i think this was just a beautiful remark towards clarence thomas and unfortunately when i was watching this video i thought wow it's kind of brave of her to do that and it should not be it should not be a brave thing to stand in front of people who might disagree with what you're saying or disagree with the way you're you're characterizing somebody and say what you truly think about them and what does that say about the state we are in as a nation right now that if somebody disagrees with you politically you're meant to just push them away you're meant to exclude them and you're meant to say that they're a horrible person with no moral value because they disagree with you on on a political issue it's insane so for her to stand up and go whoa whoa wait a second i know we disagreed you know i i was a descending opinion on this particular roe versus wade over turn but clarence thomas is a great guy i mean he knows everybody's name he takes care of the people who work for him he was there for me when i when i lost a loved one he is just constantly gracious he takes his work very seriously that is an amazing thing to do when you have other people like hillary clinton who who went on the news and said in my time working for clarence thomas he was the most angry man he was full of grievances and and we just couldn't get along he's a horrible person when you know that's a mischaracterization clearly from hearing from the people who work directly with him and have a long-standing relationship with him you can be a person and a good person even when you disagree with other people on their political views is that such a crazy thing to say the people who disagree with you can be very good people there are people out in the streets protesting right now in california about this roe vs wade being overturned and i guess what i bet they're good friends i bet they're good brothers and sisters i bet they're good mothers i bet they're good grandparents i bet that if you met them on the street and talk to them they'd be nice to you and they wouldn't wouldn't even ask a question about how you feel politically these people do exist and to have a video like this i mean this video got 1.1 million views because it is now a a viral thing to to give good remarks to somebody who you disagree with yeah it's definitely bucks the norm right now because the norm in our modern generation has become uh like you talked about this very highly highly polarized highly if i disagree with you then there's no possible way that you could actually be a good person and it's not about our disagreements over different ideas and different approaches that we can discuss intelligently and articulate our thoughts like we try to do yesterday with people on the street um which you guys will see soon yes but uh it's just about who can who who can win in the naked struggle for power and it is very uh encouraging to see that that uh sotomayor has that perspective and we've seen it elsewhere like when rbg passed away um i think that some of the conservative justices spoke highly of her as a friend and uh when donald trump found out you remember that his reaction went viral because he was just like oh wow you're the first person to tell me that i didn't know yeah that's a shame yeah and it was very like a human and sincere he had nothing to gain by uh uh performing in that way so um it's i i think there's something to do with like these some of these justices come from a different era where at it from a time where it was about the merits of the discussion at hand and they're practiced in that because they have to be writing opinions on all these things and they have to dissent and use their words to disagree with one another and make arguments and that's becoming a lost art in our time and so i think it's telling that they have this relationship with each other and hopefully that's something we can model rather than going out being outraged and trying to abolish them for doing their jobs properly as they have been doing yes like they are quite literally just doing their jobs and doing their jobs to the best of their abilities and clarence thomas and justice sotomayor even though they represent different sex of belief are known for doing that and and doing their jobs really really well and we're going to constantly have these qualms where we go back and forth in people and we argue but guess what at the end of the day they take their robes off and then they go about their business or they go out to dinner together or they go and get drinks or they hang with each other's families that's the way that we should be living right now and for the people who are extremely pro roe versus wade and saw it get overturned and were outraged and horrified at this happening sometimes you don't win in life and i know that seems like an oversimplification of maybe what just happened and what you just saw but that is really what it is there's going to be plenty of issues that are going to pop into the news and we're going to look at it and go oh my gosh that goes against everything i believe and i can't believe that's something happening right now in fact we do it every day on this show we talk about like i cannot believe this is happening right now but that is life you know we all have our own separate beliefs our ideologies our philosophies and sometimes life does not go in that way and and other people will cheer for the things that you cry for and guess what at the end of the day that happened and you go about the next one and and you can keep fighting and standing for what you believe in and hoping that that makes a change and that that influences people but you don't have to be so upset all the time you don't have to call everybody evil you don't have to be mad at justice sotomayor for going yeah clarence thomas is a good guy and i enjoy his company and i think he's great and i'm guaranteed a lot of people had that reaction and said how how how could she how dare she say such a thing about a man who would want to overturn roe versus wade or maybe next come after gay marriage but you have to understand that that's just the lens that he uh does his job through and i might not even agree with clarence thomas on a lot of the things that he writes and a lot of these stronger opinions that he wants to put out moving forward and even the his own justices uh his own fellow justices on the supreme court did not agree with his concurrent opinion uh with this whole roe v wade case so that happens we disagree with each other sometimes on minutia sometimes on a fundamental level but we move on and we we face our days just the same because we're still going to be here and we're still going to have to deal with it uh and and that is why when i when i think about this roe v wade decision in particular and how it's going down to the states and essentially our states are going to function as different countries with wholly different laws i'm okay with it i am okay with it i am totally fine with the fact that i know california is begun gonna become a beacon a beacon state for abortion and that's where people are going to come in droves to to get this procedure you know what that's what the people here have decided that that's what they want to do and they have decided in what is going to be probably a vast majority of people and i happen to live here in california and it's going to be something i'm going to see happen and i'm going to see legislated but that is what we asked for when we got roe versus wade overturned we asked for it to go to the states and we asked for people to elect their representatives and those representatives to decide what happens here so when that happens and it will it's just going to be another day and it might be sad and it might be something that i don't agree with but it's just going to be another day and we can continue to talk about what we believe and say you know i'm pro-life or i'm pro-choice and hope that we influence people but that'll be all that we'll do and hopefully that is fine uh there's just so much anger and hate all the time and it's so unnecessary but there are battles ahead and things that we have to keep talking about and things that we have to keep speaking out against one in particular we're going to move on to another story here jordan peterson has been suspended off of twitter why because he tweeted out this remember when pride was a sin question mark and ellen page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician it's a pretty pretty mild lukewarm tweet if you ask me like i'm it's not bringing me up it's not putting me up in arms to hear this i and this is an opinion that is shared by millions here in this country yet simply going on your phone typing this in and tweeting it out is seen as an act of hate it was it was removed as you can see here for violating our rules against hateful conduct because you're not able to harass anybody or other people on the basis of race ethnicity national origin sexual orientation gender gender identity religious affiliation age disability or serious disease i can't wait to see how long this list is in say five years i can't imagine what they're gonna add on to this list because if you look for things to be offended uh offended by you will find them everywhere you look so this the twitter terms of service is going to get so long if we don't have elon musk come in and do something about this yeah and uh they are also not only is a list long but they are reading into this uh the violation that they want to be there if you just think about it logically for a second he says ellen page had her breast removed um just chronologically in time she was ellen page at the time she had her breasts removed so it's factually a true statement so they are reading a dead naming or misgendering or whatever into this tweet because they're well probably watching jordan peterson's tweets like a hug and waiting for something to pounce on and justify to get him off twitter because he has 5 million followers and he says things that they don't like right and this is all just vigilantism you know let people decide what they're offended by and let them go through the motions and let them see what they want to see you don't get to be some vigilante who just takes down whatever it is you want to take down i understand their private company and they get to do so and we can get into the section 230 debate about all of this but i want to talk about whether or not that's the right thing to do not whether or not that's something they're capable of doing we all know it's something they're capable of doing and they've been doing it for years now but it's not right and it's really at its heart such a condescending activity to engage in that you don't trust people to be able to read different opinions come to their own conclusion about it and decide whether or not they want to read more anybody who has two thumbs and a phone can look at jordan peterson's tweet can can read them and go you know what i disagree with that and maybe i don't want to see his tweets anymore block or say i'm not interested or maybe just don't follow him and guess what for the rest of your livelihood on on on twitter you will most likely never see another jordan peterson tweet again how crazy is that how novel an idea that people are able to define their own morality and make that a reality for them when they are on social media that's totally fine but instead they go no you know we're you're not capable of of reading other people's thoughts and and regulating your own emotions so we're going to do that for you we're going to censor it for you we're going to make a clean slate and pick whatever ideology we want to see be present on the app and then we're going to force feed you that which is essentially what they do you know how much power they have you know how they can essentially influence an entire election just by what they choose to show people on social media and to think that they're not utilizing that power and privilege every single day would be a little naive and that's exactly what they're doing with these major people the good news is that jordan peterson has a massive platform that he can go and say hey wait a minute twitter just suspended me and let millions of people know what's going on you have to think about all the different people who are saying lukewarm things just like this and having their entire uh you know existence on social media being erased for it yeah and it reminds me too that it's it's kind of this uh insulting coddling that uh the left does with stuff like race as well like oh we need to institute affirmative action because black people aren't smart enough on their own merits to get into colleges at the same rates so we need to boost them up and and call into question whether they're doing it on their own merits and then the same by the same token they're saying trans people aren't emotionally resilient enough to deal with people who don't have the same views on gender and sexuality as them so we need to censor all of society and ban anyone who might uh tr trigger their emotional fragility uh rather than give them the opportunity to ex to assert themselves and overcome that and be emotionally resilient people just like everyone else has to be in society they're not giving the same reason like dave chappelle gets underwater for making a trans joke by netflix and there's all calls to ban him because you cannot even joke about them because but what that does is like if you if you have a group of friends and one friend is so too sensitive to even joke about it's like you're they're not really in the in group if everyone has to put on a front you know and and why they're actually doing the exact opposite of of helping uh people integrate into society by making these special exceptions and by censoring people and saying you can't say this you can't have you can't use these words in regards to this person trying to police everyone's language it ends up doing the exact opposite of what they're trying to accomplish right yeah why don't we just pad all of our rooms and put pillows on our hands so we don't scratch ourselves that's exactly it's exactly what we're doing but with thoughts right now it's it's so clear and you know i was at a i was at a conference a couple weekends ago in in denver colorado and uh somebody got up and asked this guy who's very uh pro capitalism i believe his name is eric daniels he's done a he's done a book club with us about atlas shrugged um and he's talking about capitalism and somebody gets up and says you know i have a lot of people who when i talk about capitalism come to me and say people should be given basic human necessities or what they deem to be basic human necessities their food their water their shelter you know uh uh medicine and health care if they need it and that should just be the baseline for being born as a human in america and he said what's your response to this and he immediately retorted back i mean without a second of thought saying do we want to coddle human beings like that we know that obtaining things like food and water and shelter and health healthcare can be difficult and we understand that and there should certainly be safety nets and safeguards for the people who truly are incapable of of getting that for themselves but do we need to make that the baseline for every human that is now born in this country is that not coddling and the same can be said for for policing people's thoughts policing what people say and policing what people hear and read you are coddling our minds into an existence that is not real your life is never going to be free of offense your life is never going to be free of hatred your life is never going to be free of suffering in fact i think the people who suffer the most are the ones who are the most privileged and the most cushioned because they don't know what real life is they don't know what true human fortitude is they don't know the extent of their own mental fortitude because they have been coddled so much by this current culture you need to go through that you need to suffer a little bit i wouldn't even say being offended or experiencing hate is is truly suffering because i do think it's forming i do think it molds your mind i do think it molds your philosophy it molds your brain and how you act and and who you are as a person so in a lot of ways the people who lack that sort of offense that sort of hatred that sort of obstacle are the ones who are really suffering because they're leading this coddled life that is not reality it will never be real so we can't move on and can't move forward like this and i know elon musk is in the throes of buying this social media app and this is not a problem simply for twitter it's a problem for all of these different landscapes that we access media and entertainment and other thoughts through but we have to do something about this and hopefully he's the one to do it it sucks to me that it takes 44 billion dollars from from somebody who values free speech to make this happen and and that it's not just part of the cultural zeitgeist that we all accept that we should be able to have free speech in this country but if that's what we need to do then elon please get on it like get on it now i can't deal with this anymore somebody as big as jordan peterson uh with this amount of power and influence can with the drop of a hat be taken off of a platform like this and have their audience snatched away from them similarly we saw this with donald trump who because of some mean tweets was being taken off of twitter and because of his influence and somehow inciting violence nobody can make you do something you don't want to do really i mean unless under under extreme coercion or somebody's you know lighting a fire under your feet somebody cannot make you do something that you do not want to do and words are powerful in a sense you know words are important uh it's important to to choose your words wisely and truly get your message out in a way that you're not you're not being misunderstood but words should not be police like this they're not important in the sense that if you call somebody something rude they should crumble and fall to the ground in a pile of tears you know words are words that is that is all they are and while they can exercise a great amount of importance not this amount of importance to be to be censored off a platform for for hateful conduct we really need to move on from whatever period we are in as a society right now that we think we are so sensitive to language and i hope to see that soon but if you foster an entire generation with this sort of idea guess what's going to happen it's going to happen tenfold in in another 10 to 20 years when they grow up i can't imagine what it's going to look like like what is going to be offensive in 10 years i have no idea but i'm reminded of that old saying uh you don't child proof the world you worldproof the child and as you're talking i'm thinking like this is the same logic as saying like uh you know we should put wild and baby animals in zoos and provide for all their needs and protect them from the big dangerous world because uh with their they might face predators out there and we we just need to never let animals grow up in the wild and be exposed to the elements and be and have to fend for themselves because and no an animal cannot become a mature like a baby tiger can't become a mature healthy tiger that's living as it's supposed to live unless it's out there and expose the elements and has to learn how to fend for itself and it's got help from its mother or whatever but you see but the humans same similarly you cannot be a fully functioning adult human if you the only way for you to exist is by being coddled and society cannot you know put everybody into a zoo and like give you the basic necessities and protect you from words that you might find offensive and stuff it's not a sustainable way you have to build strong individuals strong people who can make their way in the world and assert themselves otherwise what what are you even gonna get and and if you keep people in that prison of ideology and you get you say here's how you should think and here we'll provide all your base that's basically communism is they don't want you to be an individual and who uh has something unique and your own thoughts and your own talents and your own character to bring to the world and you bring that to bear by developing yourself and growing and and innovating and launching a business or doing something they just want you to do your little part go in your little you know don't think for yourself be the cog in the machine we'll provide for your basic needs and uh that's it and this type of thinking is what lands you in that type of world and that's not one that i want to live in and with freedom comes a little bit of risk but with that you have flourishing and humans cannot flourish when we treat our we treat each other like we are zoo animals right you know that that's actually the perfect analogy for that because i remember as a kid being like oh my gosh the zoo is so exciting i love to go see all the animals and while it's so cool that we got them all together and they're all they're all held in their little cages and all this stuff and then you learn about the the true suffering that happens when an animal is kept in in captivity and how their life is so much more meaningless and and just more harmful to them when they live that way and that's exactly what we are doing with the human mind right now to a t what we are doing and as soon as people recognize uh how bad it is to hold your own mind in captivity you should be just as angry as you are about the zoo animals it's just as angry about it if not more because it is directly affecting you your children your peers your friends your family everybody around you and it's just not i like to think that it's not sustainable and that we can't go forward like this and that naturally it was just all crumble but i do think it takes a certain group and a large group of people to go no i'm not gonna do this for this to not fully uh just take hold of our society i'll tell a quick story because yesterday we did not stream and you guys missed us yesterday because we were outside of ucla filming a video asking people on the street is america racist and actually trying to encourage civil discourse back and forth debates get people's ideas and some people i interviewed and they gave me their ideas and they were completely contrary to mine and i just said okay that's interesting you know i'm glad i know your perspective now i pushed them on maybe a few things but wasn't wasn't really getting in the vein of trying to change anybody's mind or foster a massive debate just wanted to give them a few facts see if it changed the way they viewed things and and move on from there and let them go about their day which is what we most of us should be doing with our conversations anyway but we had a slew of really really great conversations a few people who even went you know i didn't ever think about it like that i'm gonna have to you know do some research and i'm gonna have to get back to you or i'm gonna have to maybe change the way that i think but we got this one guy towards the end we're about to finish filming and just head back home and this guy is waiting in line because taylor was screening the people who wanted to be interviewed and he's like i want to i want to go and have this discussion great seemed like a really nice guy even mentioned how we should foster civil discourse in this country okay before he comes and gets interviewed he comes up to me and i ask him the question do you think america is racist he said yes absolutely and we start going back and forth about it and talking about where america is racist i asked him the question if maybe we should focus more on class than we do on race and that would help uh to to raise people up out of poverty raise up the underprivileged who can be both white and black and he said you know race and class are indistinguishable at this point they must all be coupled together and we kept going through the conversation and slowly slowly as i i started to push and challenge and give stats he got more and more defensive and his answers got shorter at one point he would not even give me eye contact when i was asking the questions and just was completely shut off and we started talking about affirmative action and i said you know if you and i applied to ucla which is right here in the background a couple streets down uh and we have the same resume i'm gonna get in and you're probably not he goes you have nothing to substantiate that and i said well they they claim to be a university that promotes affirmative action which would mean they value diversity of skin color more than they value other things well you don't know that in that specific case if we both applied that you would get in and i wouldn't i said okay we went back and forth on that for like two minutes of him saying you you couldn't possibly know that i said okay let's just assume that's the policy that they've set forth and that if we put in the same resumes i was going to get in and you wouldn't is that discrimination he said no that's not discrimination how so he's like well they're taking in other factors that's not discrimination and he said if you purely are looking at somebody's race with the same exact resume or application and you pick somebody because they're black and you don't pick somebody else because they're white that's discrimination and he said no it's not and he got caught in this moment where he could have just been honest and go you know what i i do see that as a form of discrimination i totally understand but i think it's necessary there's plenty of people who believe that affirmative action is discrimination but it is a discrimination that is necessary for the time that we're in as a country but he couldn't even admit that so he keeps going and all of a sudden in the interview he goes am i going to get royalties for this video that you're taking me right now and i said huh what are you talking about you want royalties for this video he's like yeah am i going to get some sort of compensation because you're using my content right now and he had agreed to do the interview with taylor we went through this whole process we got him on the camera and i said well no and and we don't have to monetize the video if that's what you're concerned about we won't monetize it we'll put it out and guess what nobody will be getting money off the youtube video and he said oh that's really interesting that you work for somebody who you know wouldn't want to get money like i know you get all that conservative grift money basically and he starts just with these ad hominem attacks he even says some stuff that i can't even say on camera he starts saying that why would you work for prager you you guys are garbage human beings and scott eventually intervened and he goes whoa dude you just sat and you you just talked to us for about five plus minutes and you had a normal conversation are we garbage human beings and he said well if you work for prager you then you are garbage human beings and he called dennis prager a very very nasty word that i will not uh repeat on this show and just was attacking after attacking after attacking and it's purely because i think maybe this guy has not been challenged a day in his life on his views maybe he does not even know how to handle uh the the emotional maturity that is needed to have a conversation with somebody that you disagree with and it went from a totally respectful person that once you got challenged or once you got offended about something blew a gasket over it and if that's the person that we are creating day in and day out with the type of culture that we have right now we are in for a lot of trouble we're in for a lot of butting heads and we're in for no compromise and no solution because there cannot be a solution met when all you do is attack people who have made you feel uncomfortable and i just have to think that maybe this guy has not experienced an ounce of that in his life and he suddenly experienced it and then did not know how to deal with it and and that's exactly what people who work behind their computer screens and censor people on twitter are like they can't stand the idea of anybody thinking something dissident to what they believe yeah that's a heavy contrast to what we talked about before with justice sotomayor and how she spoke about clarence thomas again these people are uh practiced in using their words and uh using their thoughts and formulating thoughts and and focusing on the substance uh and the merits of the arguments that we're making and disagreeing on rather than uh acting like a petulant child whenever oh you started defeating my argument so now i'm going to start resorting to ad hominem and calling you names because it's it's a very like childish way of of dealing with a disagreement and it's true that our culture is fostering that and and social media has a role in that uh you know the the mainstream media and people who are uh in control of a lot of these platforms uh are driving that but at the end of the day kind of like you said no one can hold no one's holding a gun to your head to be a terrible person um so take some responsibility for yourself and learn to engage and use your words and formula thoughts and make arguments and and express yourself use free speech to to make your way in the world and to add your contribution to the world and and into society because if you don't do that what's the alternative then either you're pulling back into your own echo chamber and not really helping anything or uh you know we're just going to end up stuck in this and struggle for power because if i can't prove you wrong i all i can do is beat you into submission yep and you i'm like i wonder to myself do people go home and feel good about themselves when they do things like that i think back in the day i certainly had this air of oh i did something right or i stood up to that person that fascist or whatever when i would speak to somebody in in never in that manner i was never that extreme but there would certainly be times where i thought that and did not say it and you know at the end of the day you're harming yourself more than you're harming anybody else and right now we have a problem with people who don't want to say i don't know and don't want to say i was wrong and i was certainly in that camp of people quiet quite a while ago and i've had to learn and even still have to come face to face with with uh conflicts sometimes where i don't want to say i don't know and i don't want to say i was wrong and i have to look inside myself and go whoa what did i get so defensive about these are just ideas uh why am i so beholden to a certain set of ideas and why in that moment did i put up a blinder where i couldn't admit where i truly was and that was in the camp of i don't know or i was wrong and we all run into these moments we all get defensive we all feel the heat in our faces when something is not going our way and we we internally know that we're wrong but are not ready to say it externally and at that moment just take a breath and go you know what i was wrong this is a learning moment for me and i'm now a better human being because i admitted that and i came to terms with it and thank you for taking the time to explain that to me or to go back and forth with me on that issue what a wonderful thing um and yeah i can't wait for you guys to see that video because that guy's conversation was certainly not uh not the tone setter for the entire day we had plenty of people who had really great things to say i even learned things from a lot of the people who came and quite a few foreign individuals who talked talked about racism in america versus racism in other countries so there's a lot to see there and i can't wait for you guys to see it last thing i wanted to touch on here because this is just a funny tweet that we came across here is the toronto police tweeting out a news release for a missing woman uh missing woman ryerson avenue in bathhurst street area uh look at the picture now for somebody to be missing devastating thing travesty i hope this individual is found i'm questioning the woman part just me could be wrong i know we're in a little bit of a topsy-turvy society today but this doesn't quite look like a missing hate woman beats me though hate speech hate speech you could get banned for saying that's not a woman you get banned that's the world we live in yes if i quote tweeted this and said this is not a woman i run the risk of being banned off of twitter so there we are so there got some work to do america we've got some work to do we have some conversations to have and we got some times to admit when we don't know and we were wrong uh but mostly i'm thinking i'm right about this one [Laughter] maybe this is one where i'm not willing to admit that i'm wrong gotta put the stake in the ground somewhere yeah you gotta draw the line in the sand the stake in the ground you gotta assert yourself somewhere and i think this is where i'm choosing to assert myself and say missing woman question mark because i don't see it ah anyways guys what a funny note to close out the show on i hope this missing woman is found that's all i will say because i imagine that's a pretty terrifying situation i'm just questioning the the word choice uh from the toronto police on this one guys enjoy your three-day weekend hopefully it's a three-day weekend for you and you might not be working on monday if you are working on monday uh i don't know i feel bad for you take some time to celebrate america while you're at it maybe say the pledge in the morning or something like that thank you guys so much for watching i will be back on tuesday with a video for you but we are going to put out some content over the weekend so do not fret you off plenty of ridiculous things to look at and plenty of commentary to to keep you guys uh to keep you stable hopefully you're stable without me but if you're not i don't know contact a doctor of some sorts thank you for watching please like subscribe click the notification bell to be notified every single day when we go live that's 3 p.m pacific 6 p.m eastern and i will see you guys on tuesday have a fantastic july 4th independence day let's celebrate that independence bye guys happy independence day independence day [Music]