Rob Schneider
Appearances
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
When there was only 200-odd million people in America, they would all watch the Academy Awards.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And so from that, I think it became an easy kind of pincer move when the pandemic came in to just kind of continue closing the door quicker. So with our rights being taken away and, you know, the Constitution and
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
founding fathers had a plague at the time of the uh the revolution but they didn't stop they didn't stop trying to get rid of the brits at the time so we gotta let's call a time out here on the revolution because we're having a smallpox epidemic so we're gonna ask for a cessation of hostilities no so the as a matter of fact the constitution was really it was built uh for problems right in the worst of times
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
There was nothing in it to suspend it. But it can be done. And quite quickly. And it will. And most people will go along with it. And most people go along with it.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Yeah, and what is the percentage of those people and who are those people? You kind of saw it. There seems to be a third of these. And the Stanley Milgram study kind of points out that there are people And you would hope that you wouldn't be one of them who would just keep the experiment. There's a guy in the other room. You know the experiment for some of your listeners who don't.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Stanley Milgram would have somebody, an authority figure in a white coat, and he'd be asking him to push a button and there'd be somebody in another room screaming through a glass. And so keep pushing, keep pushing it. Turn it up. Turn it up to the point. And even to the point of death, there was an astounding 65% of the people went along with it.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Now, that study had some particular problems, but the majority of it, I think, still holds that people will go along if the authorities tell them to do something. And I think, if anything, the pandemic proved that, again, that... How well would you behave in this situation? And you saw people that behaved well and people that didn't.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
People that were going to be, who finally in a position to be bullies, finally in a position to crush other people and did. I remember in Australia seeing somebody getting tackled and thrown to the ground by this brute just for the offense of not having a mask. I mean, maybe he could be asked to leave if that's the law of the land.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Maybe he could be asked to go outside or maybe he can be provided with a mask in that. particular environment. However, for him to be tackled, thrown onto the ground and given a concussion seems to be a... A bit of an overreaction, you might say.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
It's always there. That seems about right. Well, the potential for society to always get to an ugly place, I would say, to a place— Well, as you point out in your book, it's a—
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And keeping it. I mean, we've had 117 billion people who've been alive in the history of the world, of those, how few were able to be granted the grace and the great gift of being able to speak their mind. And that was what's so interesting about the United States and why Alexander de Tocqueville really appreciated America. Here was this group of farmers, basically.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
ignorant farmers who were able to say that their people who ran their government were fools and idiots and were able to speak their mind. That was something for somebody coming from France and not too far removed from Napoleon, seemed to be a unique civilization.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
That's what I was expressing, but way more. It is. Well, it's, it's actually, it's a tool and it's a, um, it really is the primary, um, it is the, the primary defensive weapon of our citizenry that we have. I mean, that's why it was, it is the first amendment. They could have make it the second.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
They could have put guns first, but the founding fathers actually thought that even more than guns, the way to protect, uh, our, citizenry and our republic from tyranny was unfettered free speech.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
We do. Well, you cannot innovate unless you have the ability. Yeah, right, exactly. You can't create and you can't, if you're thinking about your own limitations. And that's why, you know, China doesn't have the same amount of Nobel laureates as the West, and we do in the West. They're good at stealing IP. They're very good, yes. Yes, very good.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
But, I mean, that's what was so worrisome to me is that the— You know, the neocons who, we don't really know who has been running the country, the United States government. We know it's not Biden. You don't think it's Biden? We know it's not Biden from his beach chair in a very ugly beach in Delaware. If you're the president of the United States, go to Florida, go to Hawaii, go to the Bahamas.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Don't go to your beach in Delaware. It seems a very sad beach, a very dreary kind of beach. The sand isn't very nice. There's not a lot of it. It's mostly rocks. And then there's, you know... You know, the foliage of the beach, which is also very ugly.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Well, they should go to Florida for a pleasant beach. So who was running? Who was running the government? We don't know. And we have a right to know.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
yeah well i'm afraid that that's more true than we might think i think we have a right to know and it's um the idea that somehow you don't and that the democrats are like you don't don't worry we're gonna do what's best for you we have the right and at the same time we're gonna fly in haitians in the middle of the night and we're gonna just set up so that makes sure that the next election cycle ohio will turn it just uh turned blue completely it was just so blatant that finally americans
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Had had enough. Yeah, thank God. And it was really, and I think what's important for the world, too, because I do see, you know, I always thought the parliamentary system was great because it's so fast. I mean, you can act quickly. Like, for instance, when I was making a movie in Amsterdam, people were able to complain to parliament very quickly. Yeah.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
so that I couldn't shoot the next day in the same location. So it's very responsive. But the good thing about this republic is that we really do have these safeguards that are pretty strong. Like, for instance, you don't hear any Democrats today talking about expanding the Supreme Court. or about abandoning the filibuster because they're no longer in power. Right, right.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So there's no call for that. But those are safeguards. And we do have a system. It is susceptible to bad faith actors, for sure, especially in our culture, in the broad culture. But in our government itself, it's a pretty good system. I mean, the Supreme Court— That is a good backstop for a lot of the craziness that can be tried by our government.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
It is a last gasp, and they do have to respond to that. And so, unfortunately, since 9-11, though, one of the things that I think have led to our particular problems that we've had now And our attack on our republic is the Congress has abdicated their legislative powers and they've just given it to the president because of the Patriot Act.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So basically the founding fathers had never designed our government for the president to just rule as an emperor.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
I say no to that. I know. You can't refuse it.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
The real ID. How is that different than the other ID? Yeah. Was my other ID fake? Yeah. This real ID? I have a real ID? No, this is a real one. Your other one didn't count. And that private company, Clear.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Exactly. Yeah, it's terrible. He had a semi-mentally retarded man named Richard Reed, an Englishman, who tried to put a bomb very sloppily in one of his shoes. Because of that reason alone, we all have to take our shoes off.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Well, the billions of dollars they put on and the machines. What happens is there becomes the machine that comes into place and that takes advantage of certain situations like this. The machine that gave the president... these new powers and the Patriot Act, the machine that now became part of the surveillance state, that doesn't want to go away because that machine is making money.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So the machine at the security is going to keep going because that makes money for some company. And they're going to keep coming. We're going to need this. We're going to need this other thing. We're going to need this enhanced. And then if you want to pay more.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Be very wary when somebody said when your government says this is free. Yeah, yeah. So you have that. But as far as the Congress giving the powers to the president, neither party wants to. Get rid of it. Because they know they'll eventually have those, they want that kind of unfettered rights to just put in their laws that they want.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
I think it was 125 the first week, executive orders that Biden put in. And the Republicans don't want to get rid of it either. They don't want to get rid of the Patriot Act because they want to have the same powers. So you really have an entrenched political machine in both parties that don't want to give up these powers. So you have... Maybe the Doge guys will do something about that.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Maybe they will. We'll see. I hope so.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
But then you have, like, what happened after 9-11 as well, this security apparatus to... Because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Because you can massively gather all Americans' communications and then try to look for certain keywords, you know, by these supercomputers, it doesn't mean you should do it. So I hope that... That will be a thing of the past.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
But there's just so much money in it.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Once it's in place.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Well, the spy system is there, the system of surveillance. And that's an outreach of it, a very low outreach for people. The idea that there are these many people who want to take a plane down and crash them into a building, I would say that's very few. Yes, like none.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And that is a sad reaction to, and in some ways, I remember when these happened, I said, and a lot of people said, well, the terrorists won. Yeah, right. Because now we've got this.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
I haven't heard that in a while, but it's true. A sad thing that Andrew Doyle, our good friend, journalist and comedian, was saying that during the bombing in England, an Ariana Grande concert, that the police or security saw a man with a backpack that was suspicious. And they didn't go up to him because they were afraid it might be considered a racist. So you have another weird reaction.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So you have an overreaction to this security state system, that is a surveillance system that's put in place. And then you have an underreaction. by people who think, well, this could be racist. And that ended up being somebody that they should have checked. So we're in a weird position in Western culture now, where we're under attack from all sides at the same time.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So let's delve into that a little bit conceptually.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Well, what it really is, if you scrape and look down and you go, what is that? What is postmodernism? Well, that's communism. That's Marxism. This is a totalitarian state. So it's an interesting way to get to it because they went through the educational route instead of through the traditional route of through the worker. It was an easier turn to – and actually a –
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
It was more susceptible to get to the culture and degrade Western civilization through academia than it was through the worker because the worker knows that if he works hard, his life's going to be better in a capitalist system. Is it going to be perfect? No. Is it going to leave people out? Some people, yes. But— Especially the people that don't work. Yeah. Yeah, those people.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
They'll be left out. However, in this utopian promise of the progressives is that the system is inherently evil and bad, and it's your bad person participating in it. Therefore, it needs to be deconstructed completely and to get to the better utopia, which is always leading to mass murder. But the academia was...
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
was the place where you could have somebody like Kamala Harris's father with Stanford University having Marxist studies. And at that time in the early 70s, I think it was considered... Odd, but definitely inclusive. Let's include that as part of it. Not that anybody would like, they thought there was genuine ideas that we should put into Western civilization.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
It was completely, we'd seen that it's collapsed and what it was capable of doing. And at that time, what it was doing in the Soviet Union and China, that this is a system that we don't want, but we'll still have it as part of the academia system.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
I do. Well, I think it's important to—terms seem to be, as you well know— seem to be an imposition for people. In other words, they want to, in this tribal nature that we find ourselves in our society, people seem to group themselves and identify themselves. very strongly, whether it's liberalism speaks to young people.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
That's the whole Cabal right if they if they don't make that interpretation of Then the other interpretation is very damning, that all the billions of dollars, the $1.2 billion that they spent on trying to elect Kamala, that the control of Facebook, the control of the algorithm at Google, the— The legacy media. The legacy media, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, the New York Times.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And universities. And that wasn't enough. No. That the American public rejected all of that. So if they, the only other way.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Yeah. The only other way to look at it is to attack, well, it must be these well-oiled billionaire conservatives because it couldn't be us. We're the good guys.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Isn't that unbelievable?
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Well, he lived up there in the most liberal part of the world. Yeah, exactly. In Oregon. And taught at one of the most liberal schools.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
He was a conservative Democrat.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
They did. Well, if you take a look, if you just look, that's a very good question. It's going to take some explaining. If you just take a look at the audience, And I just disregard the fact that the media is now fractured, is a fraction of what it used to be, and that there's many more opportunities and more options for people. Let's just put that aside.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
You used to have the Academy Awards, 100 million Americans. When there was only 200-odd million people in America, they would all watch the Academy Awards.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And everyone was thrilled to do it. And we would bet. And most of the times you were right because there was a movie that clearly was the best film, whether it was Patton or Mad or whether it was Gandhi. You would know. And there was a power to it because they seemed to be the greatest filmmakers in the world, the greatest, most artistic people. Because Hollywood was a very interesting thing.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
What happened was the greatest filmmakers – ended up in America because there was World War I, and people, obviously filmmaking couldn't happen during a war, and World War II. So you had really the safety for creative, whether it was Billy Wilder coming over here from Hungary. You had these, the greatest filmmakers, their escape and the place... to create was Hollywood.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And so that's what happened. So, but you had, so this was everything. We had it all.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And then what happened was they started making these decisions, even when you just, all you have to do is go back and look at to a couple of years ago, the decision, you cannot win an Academy Award unless you have 40% LBGTQ, unless you have people, a certain percentage of color, the crew is this, and here's what you never hear.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Whereas what I want to do is, because I think of words have been manipulated and have been... Bastardized. Bastardized.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
from a 14-year-old, which is, those are the people who go see more movies than anybody else. Let's go see that new movie this week. I hear it's got 20% LBGTQ trans, and the Boom guy was Native American. Yeah, right. So you became this identity politics and this kind of, this other thing became more important than the actual craft itself. And that got into the bottom line. I mean, it really did.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
It affected people to where people don't want to go.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Yeah, thank God for that. Because greed is self-correcting.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
We could find a place where we can agree on something that's beneficial to both of us.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
But when you have a big corporation like Disney, who I did movies for and I worked for years for Disney, when we have to, as parents of an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old now, we have to watch the movie first. before we can allow our children to watch it, just to make sure that there's not any woke nonsense, any indoctrination geared toward our children. That is really telling.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
When does Snow White come out?
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
I think so too.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Well, the word Nazi has gone from someone who is a member of the National Socialist Party and someone who is a... Or a neo-Nazi would be someone who still adheres to the policies of some things that are the National Socialists and the anti-Semitism and so forth. But now it has devolved to the point you're a Nazi if you have taken up two parking spaces with your... Elon Musk, new truck.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And it's also because they're not doing something from a creative outburst of inspiration and joy. They're doing it to prove a point or something.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Seriously. To get rid of. Seriously. It's in the way. It's an encumbrance. But Hollywood was founded on not paying people. And that's why I have faith that it will come back. Hollywood was founded on avoiding paying people. For instance, when Edison had the patent, he didn't have it on the film camera, but he had it on the projector.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So Edison owned the rights to the projector, and he had the patent rights. So when early – he never actually foresaw the movie business. He really thought – he was actually ahead of the movie business. He saw the film camera as something for families to do and for individuals to do.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
But before that happened, many, many years before that, the film business just kind of blossomed, blew up in New Jersey. And so you had these people now who are making these movies and making a – an incredible amount of money that they never could have imagined. You had 1,500-seat theaters, 1,500 people coming in, and this new medium.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
You have to understand, you had the only entertainment in New York City at the turn of the century was... Newspapers, really. You had 18 daily newspapers in New York City. Maybe you had some vaudeville, but that was it. There was no TV. So film coming in, this new medium, was just outrageous and an incredible... escape for people.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And so they would go and flock to these movie theaters, fill them up and they would try to keep them there all day. They would have an organist beforehand and they would show several movies and they would sell popcorn and candy and God knows what else in there. But they also had to pay Edison his patent fee. And they didn't do that. And they didn't want to give that money.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And so Edison had this thing called Edison's goons. And Edison's goons would have to go into the movie theater and go into the place and slap them around and collect this patent money, this money that was owed to Edison. So the only reason that Hollywood was the place that the destination for the film owners and the film moguls was
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
was to get away from Edison's goons so they didn't have to pay people. So Hollywood, traditionally, the foundation of Hollywood is not paying anyone or paying people who rightly deserve to be paid. And that tradition, they've kept up very well.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
It's fear. It's fear. And it's interesting that, and I'm glad that they didn't listen to them because they weren't offering any ideas. I mean, I don't say that Oprah doesn't have things that she can relate to the average American. I mean, I'm sure she, I mean, she has Nobu, the great Japanese chef, at her house cooking sushi, which is, I'm sure, very expensive.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
She has private planes and she has a $30 million house, which is probably $80 million now. because of the inflation. Thank you, Democrats. She wasn't able to quantify or to say what Kamala stood for, what the Democrats were going to bring into place since they were already in power. Something new that It was exactly the same thing that Biden and Harris had already been doing.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So they weren't able to really get that message across. No, you need to. And so all they could do is be fearful of what you don't want that. You know, he's going to become a dictator, even though he didn't the first time. So I think Americans just took a pass on that. But it was interesting to see Bruce Springsteen and you get interesting to see Eminem and
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And Oprah and Robert De Niro, who is just this wonderful, angry lunatic. Very much coming closer to the Corleone taxi driver. Yeah, exactly, exactly. He's really reimagining that role.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Yes. Right. And they're also, they're in their bubble. I mean, Oprah doesn't leave her bubble. So she naturally thinks the people she hangs out with are better, but she doesn't know what it's like. And that's what I tried to explain, you know, when Jimmy Kimmel was crying. I said, dear Jimmy, I said in my Twitter post with 10 million people looked at, which was a lot larger than his audience.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
I said, it's me, Wheezy, the guy who you said several years ago, because he was unvaccinated, shouldn't be treated at the hospital, but should be left in the hospital corridor to die because he's not vaccinated. It's me. And I would say, and I went on to say that You can't relate to what 26% inflation is.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So to get people over the fence, I like to just challenge them or just tell them there's no such thing as conservatives anymore. Yeah. There's just liberals that aren't crazy. Yeah. And they go, well, what does that mean? Well, what is traditional liberalism?
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Jimmy Kimmel and these other celebrities like Oprah, if prices go up, they don't have to choose between what the average American would have to do, between getting gas or groceries, maybe not both this week. And so what are we gonna do? And I said to Jimmy Kimmel and Oprah, if avocados went up to $5,000 an avocado, you would just have $5,000 guacamole. It doesn't affect you.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
But it really does affect Americans. And I think that it wasn't a tough choice for most people. Most people knew they were being lied to. Most people knew that at this point, And thankfully, the alternate media, which apparently, according to the Democrats, is billions of dollars and much more powerful. These individual podcasts like Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
It's so insane. Not the Google algorithm, which is 98% of the searches in the world that's suppressing conservative viewpoints. None of that matters.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
It didn't work. So how did they recalibrate? Because it was easy to get angry. When Trump won the first time in 2016, and for everybody to be election deniers at that point and go, he is – I remember politicians saying, he is not my president. He's an illegitimate president. And really undermining the transition of power at that time, which they completely forgot about four years later. So we –
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
Where do they come now? Where can they go? And the only way that they can go is to, is they're going to have to come to Jesus. They're going to have to come to the point where, yes, they do not represent, they do not understand what the average American goes through, what they understand the experience of the average American. What, how are they going to recalibrate?
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
And if I am traditional liberalism, I think you'd have to define it as someone who is for civil rights, gay rights, women's rights, equality, don't judge a person by the color of their skin. It's pretty basic traditional liberalism. Free speech, unfettered free speech, debate, discourse, let the best idea rise to the surface. Yeah.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
How are they going to get power again? They're going to have to come back to the Bill Clinton, you know, middle of the road.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
What happens is there becomes the machine that comes into place and that takes advantage of certain situations like this. That doesn't want to go away because that machine is making money.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
We're going to have to, we're these super predators. And that's what's going to happen because it seems like they're going to lose, not just this election, they're going to lose two Vances. And if you take a look at, if you look at American history, You look at some of the trends that seem to repeat itself.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
The last time we had three basic one-term presidents, if you look at, well, Nixon didn't intend it to be, but he didn't finish that term. And then you had Ford, and then you had Carter. So those are three that didn't finish their terms, or at least one-term presidents. So now you have three in a row. Again, you had Trump. Biden, and then Trump's not going to be running again.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
So there's a chance for that, this Republican push, if they do it right, and if they represent the American people more than just realign themselves again with the corporate power. And that is the question for the Republicans. Will you continue to be what is happening right now? 70% of American wealth is owned by the Democrats.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
513. Hollywood Undone and the Return to Comedy | Rob Schneider
We have 30%, we have now the Republican party, and I say we, because I've joined the Republican party, We are now the party of the people. How are you going to govern? How are you going to improve these people's lives? And I believe we have good people in place, and I have faith that we will be able to deliver on what is demanded from the American people.
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Well, he did because he is someone who is a... who was... a recipient of the illiberal liberals. Yeah, that's for sure. And what you have is- Him and Dean Phillips. Here's what's going to have to, yes, here's what's going to have to happen for the Democrats. When they are confronted with their mistakes, when they have been confronted with evidence
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of their misdoings, they're going to have to suck it up and admit it. So the American people are very forgiving people. We have a political system that's, unfortunately, is two parties, which is one more than China. We're not China. China's got one party. You're told in America we get... too. So can we at least have two normal parties?
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But when the Democrats were confronted with actual evidence, thank God, pray for Elon Musk's safety. Thank God for Elon Musk that the Twitter files came out. When the Twitter files came out with the wonderful, you know, I mean, Elon Musk, you have to say, is the leader for free speech in the world, defending free speech in the world. There's no question of it.
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So that's traditional liberalism, if you want to call that conservatism now. But I prefer to say we're traditional liberals that just aren't crazy.
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And when he gave them free reign, Michael Schellenberger, And Matt Taibbi to look at the Twitter files and you come to your own conclusions of it. And when they testified in Congress and they said that, yes, that the the Biden administration within day one was communicating behind backdoor channels to Facebook. And Zuckerberg has admitted this and apologized for it at day one.
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That the Biden administration was colluding, the real collusion, was with tech companies to silence Americans who didn't go along with the government narrative. And Bobby Kennedy was a recipient of that in the first 36 hours.
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When they're confronted with that, instead of saying, we're going to recalibrate, we're going to step back, we're going to take, we're going to accept this, and we're going to move forward because that is not tenable for this party. Instead of doing that, what does the Democratic Party do? They attack the journalists. Yeah. Yeah.
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They attacked the journalists, their integrity, and then tried to undermine, which they couldn't do because the evidence was so blatant. So what did it end up doing? It ended up showing them that they weren't going to change no matter what. They were going to leave kicking and screaming.
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They were going to be the party, not to equate them to Nazis, but they were going to be the party that asks for Paris to be blown up at the end of the war. Why? Not because it's going to help them win the war, not because it's going to do anything to advance their cause or their beliefs or anything, because they can destroy as much as they can. before they leave.
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And that's why Hitler, and that's why the general, I forget his name, but the general refused to do that. Western civilization must continue. We must go on.
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Luckily, there's a sledgehammer that's going to help them. It's called the Trump administration. Because the Trump administration, when I talk to Don Jr., One of the things we... John, the president's son. One of the things we talked about was like, you know, President Trump did not surround himself with the best people last time. Yeah. And he said, yeah, we know that. Yeah. And also I said...
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I forget if he said it or I said it, there's not going to be the pressure this time, because he's not going to seek reelection in 82, when he's at 82 years old. He's going to be a one-termer. So what does that mean? That means he's not going to have the pressure. He's not going to have that, what is the purpose of his administration?
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He's going to want to get things accomplished for the American people. He is going to want to cement some sort of legacy for himself. He has the opportunity, which I could not have imagined he'd even said two years ago, a year ago, the most consequential politician in American history outside Abraham Lincoln.
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Yes. Well, he does have people in place now that are going to potentially change the medical-industrial complex dramatically. The most that it's been since 1966. The last time there's been an upheaval in the medical, you know, in the CDC and in the medical establishment was in the mid-60s. This has a chance to turn that on its head. And we must.
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I mean, one of the underpinnings, not just for free speech, but also for me, and I want to get back to talking about the other, why I think a lot of people in Hollywood were silent.
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But one of the things for me personally was... The fact that over 54%, and this is a 2012 statistic from the National Institutes of Health. I have a very good friend over there, Dr. David Klanoff. He's a great man, professor of medicine at University of San Francisco. 54% of Americans' children now suffer from chronic illnesses that are unheard of a few short decades ago.
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Now, the fact that that is not the number one story in the newspaper and is not dealt with every day or at least weekly, I mean, the fact that that is just ignored and brushed under the rug is that that is not a problem. That to me was untenable. I could not live with myself unless I was moving towards doing something about that.
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And if that cost me everything, I was willing to pay that price because this is something that can no longer, because I have young children. I mean, it's like, and my children, I try to do the best I can with them. I don't let them, I don't agree with the CDC's recommendations. I don't go along with that. And I do believe that with my research, which is the great Jimmy Dore.
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He said like, they didn't want us to, don't do your own research during the pandemic. Research, you mean reading? You don't want us to read, to learn, to come up with our own ideas. And so from my reading, from my experience of talking to other parents, there is a real problem with our children that we have to get a handle on.
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And the fact that that was squelched and the fact that the Democratic Party who was in charge and the Republicans too, they take as much from big pharma. We got to get a handle on that or nothing else matters. When we have 80% of Americans and why Bobby Kennedy, I supported him. That's why I knew his campaign was in trouble early because I was his most famous celebrity endorser.
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Yeah, that's definitely not a good thing.
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I said, Bobby, you got a problem.
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But the fact that we have, most of Americans are unhealthy. We're poisoned in America. We have to get that. Otherwise, nothing matters. It doesn't matter if Democrats or Republicans. It doesn't matter if the Democrats get back in, because we won't be able to have money to pay for roads. We're not going to be able to pay for our infrastructure, for the schools.
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Whether the schools are woke or not, we won't have money for it. The system is crumbling. 17.5% of our GDP is now spent on health. We spent five times more than Europe per person on our health in America. And we're not getting good results. If this doesn't change, nothing else matters. So this is a critical time for America. And we have the right people in there.
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And Trump, to his great credit, because also, I mean, Robert Kennedy, as you know, He's a great man, and he would have worked with the Democrats. They shunned him. When he called Kamala Harris, he called the campaign. They wouldn't even return his phone. When he called Trump, he was on the phone with Trump that day. So you really have somebody who, for whatever reason, God put...
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Donald Trump as his person. Because God has a sense of humor. Seriously, man. God has no problem working with people who are flawed.
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God will work with... God has no problem with prostitutes.
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Every single one of them. And corrupted in some way morally. Yeah. But this is the person that... It is a wonderful situation we find ourselves in. And it literally is, I love that the Democrats are just befuddled and they're confused and they don't know what to do because the line of attack didn't work. The new line of attack, they don't know what they can do because the other one didn't work.
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So what are they going to do? But in the meantime, we have an opportunity for the first time in my lifetime to actually look at the chronic disease of children, the chronic disease of people, and to try to heal it.
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Yes, absolutely. You think that's a better strategy? Well, we have to. I mean, it's a little bit further than where I'm at. But it is an outreach of where I'm at. What we have to do is – I was out in D.C. talking to Senator Ron Johnson. I was talking to some other congressmen from Oklahoma.
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And they're putting legislation in place to – or they're putting legislation – they're preparing legislation to get rid of this crazy lawfare. This has to stop. So in other words, if you're a senator, you're a congressman, you're nationally elected or former, whether you're President Biden, who's about to leave office, or vice president, if there's a lawsuit at the state level,
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It's automatically bumped up. The legislation is to bump it up to the federal level. So it takes it out of any potential- Jurisdiction. Yeah, it's extremely politicized at the state level, as we saw with President Trump in New York City. So that's important. Okay, so that's legislation that has to happen. And that's what I told Don Jr.,
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I tell all the Republicans, the Republicans have to wear the big boy pants. We have to stop the lawfare. We have to, I mean, Biden has, I mean, when Trump gets in, he's going to have to pardon Biden's son. Let's just move on. That's a terrible thing to have to do.
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We have to move on. If we're going to do stuff for the American people, let's just let us really move forward. Right, so petty revenge is off the table.
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Former intelligence officials or current security state officials who all said that this has all the earmarks of Russian propaganda, the laptop.
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I think you have to have a, the way you could hurt them isn't to prosecute them. The way you hurt them is you hurt their ego by taking away their, what they love. is you take away their classification for secrecy. What is it called? You get the clearance.
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If you take away their security clearance so they don't have access to this information anymore, because even the people who are out of, they get to keep that. These people, farmers, that is like their badge. They can go and look up stuff. So if you take that away, that'll be a spanking because I'm not as concerned about those people anymore. I'm concerned about the people that are now.
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We need to send a message to the people in power now, whether it's the people at the CIA and the FBI, that this shit has to stop. And that if you do this, you will have to suffer some consequence. Now, that isn't to say that some of this stuff won't come out. with the people who lied during the pandemic and who withheld information and who censored Americans.
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Some of that may come out, but I would much prefer a South African system of truth and reconciliation or a truth. And if you tell the truth, we won't convict you. There will be no trial. There'll be no charges filed against you, but you must tell the truth. Because for Fauci to lie in front of Congress, And for the Justice Department does not care one way or the other about it.
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Just to completely ignore this. For the Justice Department, to me, the biggest sin of the Justice Department was when there were people, it is against federal law to protest in front of a Supreme Court justice's house. Because obviously that is harassment from people who set the tone for our society. These are the final arbiters who say what is legal and how are we going to live our society.
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It is these nine individuals. They must be protected. That is why it is a lifetime appointment to avoid any potential political motivation on them. So to allow that, to allow these people to protest at the homes and for the Justice Department to just ignore that particular federal law. That was absolutely the worst thing that Merrick Garland did during his stay.
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It is. It is. But now who will rise out of that? Who will be the Democrat that comes out of it? I mean, I mean, you have we'll see. You think they should be talked to? Absolutely. And you'll have people you'll have people show up. They will be very well. They're already lining up. Well, OK, they'll be very low, lower level Democrats showing up.
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And I think you have to put out to pasture the Democratic leadership. And I think that will the self-correction will have to happen because if they want anything, it's power. And if they want power back, they're going to have to recalibrate. They're going to have to... I don't think they're capable of doing any soul-searching because I don't think that they have that in them.
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I think once you become so politicized in this, it's more of a survival mechanism of drowning than it is trying to... Well, but I think what you said will happen, though.
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Right? So... Well, so let's return to the Hollywood issue. I will say to this, though, the Democrats that will step up, it is the best time for Democrats because they will stand up for the average American now that they have no power to actually do anything for the average American. And that is the strength of the Democratic Party when they have no power.
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They stand up for the individual when they have no individual, when they can do nothing for the individual.
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It matters that power flips. Traditionally, yes. However, there has been a Marxist... strain in this particular Democratic Party that has been, if you dig underneath what this equality was, this equity was, and as Thomas Sowell says, you know, if you don't have, if you can't have, you know, the same outcomes in the same family, how are we going to do that in greater society? Of course. Yeah.
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We're going to make that person there. That's for sure. And we're going to do it because you're automatically racist in a system of systemic racism. Therefore, you can't be in that position of power. We have to put this person here who doesn't even know that he's been oppressed against. So what it really was and what Thomas Sowell talks about was it's really this –
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form of elitist and that's what the democratic strain has to get out this form of elitism because what it really was it was eugenics back a hundred years ago these people are automatically inferior because of the color of their skin we're more and we're superior to them and what it was is a strange group of progressives 110 years later saying the same thing again with different language these people of color are automatically
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and you're automatically the oppressor.
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It is, but it's always painted as if we're doing wonderful things.
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It has. He's going to disappear in relatively short order. He did us a favor, though, because when he crushed the truckers and when he called them terrorists, these are people who care deeply about their country and wanted to peacefully protest. And the truckers who drove all the way across the country got the attention of the world.
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And when he crushed them, when he called them terrorists, when he froze their bank accounts. And bigots. And racist. And racist. You have to do the whole trifecta.
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I saw a flag. There's a flag.
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There's a flag.
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That's enough. The whole group is represented by one guy who works for us who carried the flag. Yeah. But that actually helped wake up Americans to realize that, you know, to the tyranny that we could stand up. And it really was. It was the Canadians that showed the example. Yeah, well, it had big influence in Europe too. It did. Well, let's stand up against this.
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So in a sense, when they were crushed, they really did liberate us at their great expense. And that's what has to happen for freedom to expand when it's contracted. There needs to be individual sacrifice.
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Right, but nationalism does come into play and is important when the nation is attacked. when you do feel that the nation is under threat. The nationalism is important. However, the individual must always, the individualism and the rights of the individual must take precedence. Yeah, always. But I felt like the state was under attack.
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First of all, why did you- My wife would disagree with that. When you turn away millions of dollars, it is a tempting thing to just go along with status quo. I'm not going to say I'm not corruptible, but I would say that like when they did- Just weren't offered enough. My price wasn't met yet. I'm more than willing.
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Well, I met these parents in 2012, 2013, who told me that these kids were absolutely fine and that their children under two were above the markers where they need to be. And then they were giving these load of... of vaccines all at one time, and then all of a sudden they developed neurological disorders. And for the, you know, they use the word autism, but what it really is is brain damage.
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These, there seems to be, and I know it was discredited under Andrew Wakefield, but now more and more research, we've been able to say that there is a cytocosmic effect from in the gut bacteria that is directly related that could affect the brain and cause brain inflammation.
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And so when I always thought the Chinese talked about the brain, the two brains, you have your brain here and brain there, I always thought that meant metaphorically, but no, it's an actuality. You have your brain and your gut. And so some children are genetically susceptible to having a problem. And we have a system that's a, it's,
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Everybody, there's just a, it's a system where everyone has to be included in it. There is no exceptions. It's a, everybody in, and there's never been a drug, whether it's any drug ever, that's 100% safe, 100% of the time for 100% of the people. And so these were people- Except ivermectin. Except ivermectin. That's a pretty damn good one. It is.
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The most used, the most, the Nobel Prize winning medicine, horse paste, as it was called. But this, so you had- These parents who said this, my child was fine and then he wasn't fine. And I believed them and I still believe them. And so what happened was if you try to go against that, the big pharma, they'll crush you and they will take away.
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And boom, boom. they was, uh, descended upon. Oh, so that was early. So that was, so that's why, and I met Bobby a few years, I mean, I re-met Bobby, I knew him in New York, but then, uh, we became this, um, stunned by the fact that these, uh, there were these, a tremendous amount of children. I mean, this is, it is consequential.
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This isn't a minor statistic when you could say that one out of every 36, this is a statistic from the NIH and the CDC, one out of every 36 children, and as much as one out of every 26 boys, now has a neurological disorder that is called autism. That is untenable.
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We can no longer continue as, I mean, I can't continue with my day knowing that information and just pretending going to make Deuce Bigelow 4 or whatever. At a certain point, you have to go, well, why aren't we dealing with this? And then you realize the machinations at play and you realize the tentacles of big pharma. Forget about the Mexican cartel.
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That's a measly 5, 10 billion, maybe on a good year, $20 billion a year. Forget about them. The drug cartel for that drug alone, $350 billion a year just for those series of drugs. And they never go evergreen. In other words, it doesn't become generic. They keep making this money every year.
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You did feel like some of the foundational principles of our country recently was under attack. The attack on freedom of speech, which is something that you just, you know, moving on in your 20s and 30s, you just think it's it's never it's not going to be an issue in your life that your freedom to speak your mind.
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And so in 1986, there was this Childhood Vaccine Safety Act where Congress ruled that vaccines were unavoidably unsafe. So the vaccine makers were getting sued the hell out of them and they got tired of it. So they went to the Reagan administration. They said, hey, you got to help us out.
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Well, if you don't make this, if you don't take away our liability, if you don't protect us from lawsuits, give us liability protection, we're out. And so Reagan didn't want to sign it, but he got talked into doing it. One of my dear friends, Barbara Lowe Fisher, she was one of the parents, one of the few parents who was on the... that was working with Congress at that time on that legislation.
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And once that legislation went through, which for the first time, it gave us the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System, which at least is something. At least it can say, anybody can report to this, and then there's a government marker of something, whether it is 100% factual or not. The fact of the matter is it is indicative of something. And so there at least was a system.
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But instead of following through what the Congress was mandated to do under that legislation, which was check for the safety vaccines, they've never done it. They have never done it.
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So still to this day, there's never been, whether it's a vaccine for measles or whether it's for any of the vaccines, have been tested with the gold standard, which is a thousand people, a thousand kids with the shot, a thousand without, and let's check the results. That's never happened. So why is that? And why can't we have that? Because they don't want to know.
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And everyone was thrilled to do it. And then what happened was, they started making these decisions. You cannot win an Academy Award unless you have 40% LBGTQ, unless you have people of a certain percentage of color. The crew is this. And so from that, I think it became an easy kind of pincer move to just kind of continue closing the door quicker.
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Because they have a cash cow happening. And that cash cow is never going to end unless somebody gets in the way of it. But what's in the way of it? What's in the wake of this? We have generations of injured children. We have generations of people that have been hurt. How did you meet Kennedy? Well, Kennedy was involved in this. He was as left, a lefty.
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Remember when the Democrats were environmentalists, but for real? Remember when they cared about animals and whales before they cared about, you know, offshore wind machines that were killing whales by the dozens? Well, they cared about the environment. They cared about, you know, spaces for animals. And they cared about nature. They cared about pollution.
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Well, this was the environment that I was... I mean, who doesn't want to join and be part of a cleaner environment for your children, for yourself? And so he was... cleaning up the river in New York. And so as their need to do, they need to raise money to fight these lawsuits.
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And so they just need dumb celebrities like me to show up and shake a few hands and show up at a party and tell some jokes. And then you realize the work that was required to clean up the Hudson. The Hudson was a place that literally was so polluted that fish couldn't Fish could not breed in it. You couldn't swim in it at your own peril. So something had to be done.
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And it really, it took, it wasn't industry correcting itself. It was a group of people that fought that system. And he was one of the lawyers who sued every polluter on that Hudson and eventually got to the place where that water now is as close to pristine as you can imagine. And there's fish again, and you can swim in it. So that's a huge success story. So he automatically had my respect.
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is going to be something, especially someone who is in the public eye and is a comedian, would think that that would be something you would be... That you'd take for granted. Yeah. This is something that has always been. You make the assumption, and then it's always going to continue. You don't realize that it was something from 1791 in the United States and the...
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And so when he got involved a little bit later than I did with the idea of vaccine-injured children and that there was a problem,
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Yes. And we needed somebody of his stature and of his brains, frankly, and his legal powers to come into our organization and see what we could do. And when I say organization, it's this mom here, it's this mom here, it's a group of, and what do they have? As opposed to the pharmaceutical industries, you can say, what is their motive? To continue getting hundreds of billions of dollars.
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What is the motives for the parents of injured children? To prevent this injury from happening to other parents, to prevent this misery. Because their kids already has damage that may be, you know... Irremediable. Irremediable. And so these are people that are going, I want to stand with these people. And it isn't easy. And it wasn't without... you know, a cost, but the cost.
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And then I realized the parental rights, because what they do with rights, and I remember for some, whatever reason, I mean, because my dad was Jewish and he would always have these, you know, when the Nazis come back, because they're going to come back in another form, they're going to come back. And when they come back, they're not going to take us alive.
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We're going to, there's a gun and you grab that gun, you're going to go here and you're going to, and he would have it. And I always thought that was crazy. But then it piqued my interest. Because any Jew who was born in the 1930s, the indelible mark of the Holocaust was something that you always had with you. My dad, it never left him. Of course, how could it?
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You know, this is a slaughter of relatives and blah, blah, blah. And you can... And so... I went to East Germany in 1984 and I said, let me go to the Reichstag building.
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And at the Reichstag building there, which was in West Germany in the middle of Eastern Germany, at the Reichstag building at that time, they had all the laws that were enacted from Nazi Germany from 1934 until 1940, when the Nazis no longer felt the necessity to even pass laws or any legislation because all the rights for the Germans had already been taken. But it was incrementally done.
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Just like, you know, taking your shoes off at the airport, whatever. But it was incrementally done enough to the point where eventually all the rights were gone. So that really stuck with me. So there was legislation in California that was brought on by this state senator, Pan, which was to force parents, because there were still legal rights.
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So in other words, if you had a child that was injured from a vaccine, because maybe genetically predisposed for an injury or it happened, and the kid became autistic, you have another kid, you don't want to risk his potential, so you should get a medical... exemption.
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So what they wanted to do, or you can get a philosophical exemption or a religious exemption to these mandated drugs, or your kid can't go to school. So what happens, what they wanted to do was make it more difficult for parents. So they proposed this legislation with saying, you can have that exemption, but you have to go see a doctor and the doctor has to agree to give it to you.
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So they put a wall up to make it difficult. And the average parent is going to go, well, I got to go to work. I got to drive. And then pediatricians, if you weren't up to date on all the shots for every child, they would kick you out of your pediatric practice, which was cruel. So under the...
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The citizen and the rights of man in France, it was 1789. It lasted for the free speech in France, lasted for four years before they started cutting off people's heads again. Well, in the United States, it's lasted a long time. So it has become something that we did take for granted. So when it was attacked in relatively short order during the pandemic—
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seeing this and then that legislation did pass and there was a lot of the parents and i was up there with the parents and they were upset because they knew that uh this was just going to be eventually taking away and they did the next thing they did the medical board and the legislation which was written by big pharma was to take away the rights of the parents so they couldn't even have a medical exemption and they did in california there is no medical exemption in california if you want your kid to attend school and if his sibling had a problem with these vaccinations so that is medical tyranny
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And so at that point, I was ready for seeing how far this is going to happen. So if they could do that in the state of California, America's largest state, most popular state, then they could literally shut down the world and make you have vaccine passports. And they did. The idea was we are going to keep track of all this and you're going to have to take it.
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Otherwise, you're not going to be able to travel. You're free. You're free to stay in your home.
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Yes, there was a vermin. We need to protect you from this vermin. So it's always under the auspices of protection and safety and usually health. Yeah, right. And the Nazis very much used that health. Yes, and doctors were radically overrepresented in the Nazi party.
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The system is crumbling. If this doesn't change, nothing else matters. This shit has to stop.
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As a matter of fact, a very interesting statistic is that the number of PhDs, the highest percentage of PhDs in any society in the 20th century, Nazi Germany. So intelligence and degrees and elitism doesn't protect the society.
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The new aristocracy, the new aristocracy, the new, instead of lords and dukes and princes and kings, It's PhDs. It's the expert in this. It's the CIA expert. It's the expert in the State Department.
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I've thought about that. Well, what's going to have to happen is, just like capitalism and just the marketplace of ideas, and the marketplace of finances and money, and the results that these... you know, graduates of these clearly adult universities is going to work its way out. It's going to happen.
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you realize that this is not something that is just going to take care of itself, that it's just a piece of paper, ultimately, our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. And if people don't stand up for it, yes, it can be taken away. And when you have potential leaders like Kamala Harris and
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Very much like in the late 60s and early 70s, and you remember this, there were, especially in California, there were these universities where you can get a degree just going out and sitting in the woods. So if you have a degree from 1972 from like UCLA or from Santa Cruz, University of Santa Cruz, I mean, people, you know, you would look at the resume and go, Okay, well, this isn't a real degree.
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This person, you know, is not going to be able to help us design cars.
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It will have to be.
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They'll also fail economically because they're too expensive. They will. And then what will have to happen is that these universities are going to, I mean, I say this on stage to an audience. How much would you have to hate your child to send them to Yale? right now to send them to undergrad. Because the business schools are still 85%. Harvard Business School is still 85% conservative.
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The business schools. These are people who have to actually make a living. They have to actually prove their worth in finance, in an actual business sense. But the undergrads, they can... And the teachers there, they can just... continue to crank out advocates for a particularly, for an illiberal ideology that is completely partisan. That's going to continue until that weeds its way out.
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I don't see that happening except for people are going to have to like, if you want to be a millionaire, Charlie Kirk was talking about that, work in the trades, become a, I mean, God knows we are short of plumbers. You know, if you can be, if you want to be a well... Especially entrepreneurial plumbers. Absolutely.
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If you can have a series of, if you can have your own business of plumbing, you could become a millionaire in short order. So working with your hands, so, and you have these degrees that I would have... Also harder to replace with computers. Right. You know, when you have a, that's the way I try to explain to people...
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My liberal friends, the few who still talk to me, you want a plumber to come in and fix, if you have, you know, literally human waste coming out of your toilet, spilling everywhere, you want a plumber and you want somebody to, you're not going to invite that guy after to stay for dinner. You're going to say, just do the work, please.
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And just please make my house livable again, or this part of the house livable again. I say the same thing about Donald Trump. He's not going to come to your kid's bar mitzvah. He's not going to stay for Thanksgiving dinner. He's going to be in charge of having enough people to take care of that problem that you have. And that's a cancer on society that we have.
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You don't have to like him, but you should stay out of his way. Stay out of his way. And like... There is a purpose in it, and the majority of Americans seem to think that is a better road. So let these people, the good people of America, have made a decision. Now let them follow through on it.
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And that's the particularly tough road that the Democrats have to hoe because they thought, well, even if we lose this election, we'll get the popular vote. But they didn't. So they have literally no air. So their balloon can't fly. There's no hot air that they can put into that's workable. The hate is not going to be, there's not enough hate in our society now.
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tim wall's paper say that the the free speech our right to free speech is a privilege they're not a a guarantee guaranteed yeah something attributed to people by the state yeah i mean you can have a privilege as a driver's license you can have you can congratulations you've passed the test yeah you can drive it but if you're they can take your driver's license away if you drink and drive especially if you do it several times so if you speak and drive
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There seems to be a sense of relief. Yes. So that balloon of hate and disparaging Donald Trump is not taking off. So that's where we're at.
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Yeah, they could take it away. Speak and drink, I guess it is, yeah. I didn't think it was something that I needed to worry about. So as a comedian, I just assumed that this was just going to continue. However, with the consolidation of powers, especially in the tech industries, with these so-called liberals, mostly in Northern California, they seem to have a...
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got a grip on the culture and on communication and on power and the consolidation of that. And that became something when they started to make decisions that affected the society at large. That was something that... So was it specifically the pandemic for you that was the wake-up call? I think it was coming before that. Yeah, okay. I think it did come before that.
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I think you don't realize the tentacles that... that really, when they say it's an oligarchy, remember Noam Chomsky says the United States is an oligarchy. It was like, oh, no, it's not. It's a constitutional republic. What does he mean? Well, he means that there are centers of power that are controlling how our government works. It's the underpinnings of it. And those people don't leave.
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So when the pharmaceutical industry can buy off or can pay, be the largest contributor to not only a federal, a senator on the federal level or a congressman, but also on the state level, then that is power. When they can actually write the...
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can write the legislation and hand it to a state legislature through the medical board that they control, all of a sudden these freedoms that I just assumed we had are illusory. And we are told what to do by this group. So that was a point to me around 2014 where I realized that there really was – a fundamental problem.
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And then when Obama allowed to have propaganda within the United States from government agencies in 2013, And what are you referring to there? Well, they had, well, there was always, you could, the CIA and the spy agencies could always use propaganda for other countries. But then there was, they had legislation passed in 2013. I'm sorry, I'm blanking on the name now. I'll come up with it.
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But whether that propaganda could actually happen to Americans in America. So that would seem to be, That was different. I mean, it goes back to like Woodrow Wilson, where he ran on, I kept us out of war. And as soon as he got reelected, he got us into war. And then there was the propaganda that through Congress, it was approved that they could use propaganda in the United States.
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And so what you really had, you had, you know, the burning of Belgian babies, and you had this, you know, the Hun is doing these horrible things that they weren't doing, and it was propaganda. But, you know, because you have to think about during World War I, Americans were mostly all farmers. And Europe was way over there. They have their hogs and their pigs to deal with and their farm.
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They don't want to get involved in that war. So isolationism was a... not only a defendable, but a practical foreign policy at the time. And so Woodrow Wilson wanted to change that and did very effectively, but he did it through propaganda. So you start to see, when you start to see propaganda under Obama, and then you kind of see the shift.
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And I think Douglas Murray talks about pretty, you know, in a beautiful way. He describes how we have... When things have never been better with race, they try to convince you it's never been worse. So I noticed these things happening. It's a funny thing. It was coming together, but it wasn't all. It didn't coalesce until the pandemic.
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What I saw was the... a push to say that the Western world is shit and everything we've done is garbage and that there really are no rights and that all these other people are being oppressed. And I went like, I don't see that. But what that really was was an attack by bad faith actors. So when you see this kind of coming together and I go, how is this going to
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how is it going to work its way out? Because it seems like pretty obvious to me these are bad faith actors because Western civilization has created wonderful things.
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Yeah, I mean, what is the actual alternative? Yeah, what is it? It's not hippies traipsing through the woods and engaging in free love.
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And in the guise of this utopia, I mean, it's going to be a wonderful thing. What you have now is garbage. You don't really have freedom. Your freedom, you don't even know that you're oppressing these other people. That was the one that got me. You are in a system of oppression, and you're an unknowing participant oppressing these other people.