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Sept. 30, 2023 - Blood Money
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Blood Money Episode 44 w/ Scott Lobaido
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Alright, we're on the next episode of Blood Money and I can't tell you how excited I am to have Scott Lebedo on this show right now.
And before I let Scott have his word, I gotta tell you a little story.
When this whole pandemic, plandemic thing started, I knew there was fuckery in this.
I knew the whole thing was a fraud very early on.
And what was very lonely at that time was that other people did not know this.
And other people looked at you like you're a conspiracy theorist.
Now we have people dropping dead left and right.
And we know what's going on.
These jabs were bad.
This lockdown was bad.
And what happened in my experience is that very early on, as I went You know, searching for people that had similar concerns as I did is I found Scott Lobato's videos.
And I remember the first video, which was Scott on the streets, basically yelling at the camera, asking the viewer, like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
How are you letting this tyranny take over our nation?
How are you letting the shutdowns happen?
And he was irate.
And I got to tell you, like, that level of alpha male energy...
I hadn't seen for a while, and I think it's part of their master plan to make sure that the Scott Libidos of the world cease to exist, because that's exactly what we need.
That made me feel like I had a compadre.
That made me feel like others were also seeing through the bullshit.
And I gotta tell you, sir, I respect you so much.
I haven't been this excited to have a guest for a while, and I put you there amongst the Dr.
Peter McCullough's, you know, the Chris Skyes of the world, people, and, you know, we've interviewed quite a few of them, people that very early on were calling the bullshit for what it was bullshit.
So how are you doing, Scott? I'm good.
Yeah? Yeah.
I like to say this right off the bat.
I'm not afraid to admit anything.
I might speak from the truth.
In the beginning, I admit that I was afraid in the very beginning when the pandemic started.
It was new to us. It was something new.
I never got my vaccinations or nothing like that.
But it was scary.
It was a scary moment because we weren't sure.
Nobody was telling us what the fuck was going on.
And then after a little while, you know, I remember they were like, because I like my cigarettes and my whiskey.
And in the beginning, if you remember, they were like, if you smoke, you're going to be dead.
And that hit me.
I'm like, yeah, no, no, that's bullshit.
I'm not a doctor, but that's bullshit.
And it wound up, you know, wound up, you know, I had it.
Once in the very, very beginning, I lost my taste for a couple of days, which was the worst thing for me because I'm Italian and I eat good food.
I couldn't taste or smell anything.
But that was it. But after that, you know, I mean, a doctor's never going to tell me smoking and drinking is good for you.
But in my mind, a germ...
It's not going to come into a clean body.
I got nothing but tin cans, cigarette butts, bottle caps in my fucking stomach.
Ain't no fucking virus, no bug.
Mosquitoes don't even come near me.
Honestly. I'll be with my girl from camp and she'll be chewed alive and I'm just sitting there.
They don't bother me because they know I'm poisoned.
So what I'm saying is, I think, being dirty helps your immune system.
It's like, I'm not telling people to smoke and drink, but, you know, when you're dirty, when kids play in the dirt and stuff, it's good for their immune system.
And now everybody gets so clean, that's when bugs come at you.
That's what happened to Michael Jackson.
You know, he was too clean with Matt, and, you know, the shit got him.
So... That's how I think about it.
But anyway, in the beginning, it was scary.
And then all of a sudden, it just clicks.
You're like, all right, this is fucking bullshit now.
They're shutting down this business.
But across the street, they're not shutting down that business.
Home Depot's open.
The supermarket is open.
But my uncle's grandfather's little shop has to close.
This is bad.
No good. Not happening.
Fuck this. Man, you remind me of, you know, I grew up with certain individuals, you know, and you remind me of so many kids I knew growing up.
And what's different about you, though, is I think life softened some of those folks.
And you don't seem to have lost your edge, man.
You stand up for what you believe in.
And, I mean, we're going to get into the art world and all that stuff in a sec.
But that's, I mean, you dig your feet into the ground.
You don't put up with bullshit, you know?
No. It's my parents' advice.
You know, I'm actually quite a liberal at heart when it comes to a lot of things.
Animals, the environment to an extent, because we were brought up in the woods.
You know, we live in Staten Island, and we grew up, my great-grandparents said, we grew up in the woods.
You know, animals and climbing trees and nature and, you know...
And even with helping people, you know, less fortunate, whatever color, race, creed, gender, I'm there, I'm donating, I'm helping.
So it was how I am, in a nutshell, is my mother's advice was whatever you do in your heart, whatever you do in your life, as long as you believe it in your heart and take care of the less fortunate, even if it's a sick squirrel.
And my dad's advice was, son, take shit from no fucking body.
I'm that yin yang.
You're full of time, right?
A lot of people on the left, they only see the hard ass, I don't take shit from anybody.
They know I'm a compassionate giver of nature and people, you know, helping out the homeless and so on, but they will never admit that because there is no such thing in their mind as a compassionate, conservative patriot.
And it scares and pisses them the fuck off.
And I love it.
Yeah.
That's because they don't see shades of gray.
This is the issue that I have with anybody, whether on the left, right, wherever they are, when they don't see the shades of gray.
Like, they don't see how you could be liberal about some things and be conservative about other things.
Like, they just want black and white, and I'm sorry.
I mean, that just, firstly, that leads to, like, we've seen history where when people think that way, the shittiest art happens.
And when the shittiest Art happens.
That's a barometer of a failed culture.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's like, you know, again, they don't want to see that side.
They know it's there, but they refuse.
I am just that white supremacist, homophobic, racist.
You know, I'm not, that's all they see.
And they know, and the people that know me, I have a lot of liberal friends and family members who understand me.
You know, they don't like my politics on that side, but they know exactly who I am.
You know, my mother, again, was, my mother sent me and my three brothers To pretty much an all-black school, purposely.
We could have went to the white school and junior high school, but my mother wanted us not only to be cultured, to toughen up, and to also understand diversity.
You know, and I say this all the time.
If I was on that bus in 1963 and this white dude told Rosa Parks to sit in the back, I'd be in jail and that guy'd be in the hospital.
That's a fact. Dude, this is what I fucking...
Bro, this is what I fucking love about you, man.
Because I know you're that person.
I know you're that person.
And there's very few of that person.
And it reminds me... You know there's a famous picture.
I always reference this.
It's like a big Nazi rally.
Everybody's doing their... heil hitler and there's this one dude with his arms crossed you know what i'm talking about right no no no dude that's you bro look up that picture of the one dude amongst thousands of people doing the heil hitler this one dude has his arms crossed and he just has a look on his face just like go yourself hitler and that's you bro that's you any given time i have full faith that you you know we got a delorean time machine here We go to anywhere in the past,
you're going to be standing up for what's right at that time.
And you're right. I appreciate your comments and your compliments and stuff, but it's...
I used to get excited and enjoy the Alkylate and stuff, but then I came, you know, I'm a middle child.
I like the attention. I'm an artist.
Artists like the attention.
You know, we have an ego to us, not cockiness or confidence, but I'm realizing now that I'm really nobody fucking special.
There used to be so many of me.
And again, it's the pussification of a nation.
The emasculation of us.
And it's like, how the fuck are we supposed...
I'm not a tough guy. I'm just a fucking guy that sees what's right and wrong.
It's about common sense. The difference between me and a lot of other men, I think, is that they don't lack the chutzpah I have, the gall...
Exactly. Exactly.
It's that they... They're put in a pigeonhole where they're in a position where they can't say anything because of the oppression of their First Amendments.
And I have nothing.
I'm a fucking artist. I don't have anything to lose.
I have nothing to lose.
And I say what the fuck these people want to say.
So they put me on this pedestal, but I'm not.
I'm regular. I'm just this guy.
I'm just this guy. My artwork, maybe I'm a little better than some other people, but as you call me, I'm not this great guy.
I'm just that guy.
You're that guy. I mean, you know what?
In horrible times, those are the guys that rise up.
You know what I mean? And that's why they stand out.
So, you know, you're full Italian, obviously, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
You know, it's like, I don't know.
I'm noticing that there's a number of these alpha types that are standing up against the tyranny.
I won't name them. They know who they are.
But, you know, a lot of Italians in there for some reason, you know?
Really stands out. It's a thing.
It's a Sicilian thing.
It's don't take shit from anybody.
That's my father's advice. My father, again, the door's open.
You need help. You need to come in.
You'll cross the street. Your grandmother's sick.
Whatever. But if you come on my father's property to hurt what he worked for or his family, you are fucked.
You're digging your own grave, sir.
It's that simple. We're good people.
We just don't fuck you.
But don't fuck with us.
Don't fuck with us. Exactly, man.
Exactly. And, you know, I see that when it's in your blood.
You know, when you're saying Sicilians, I mean, we all know a little bit about Sicilian history and the fact that protection systems had to be created in order to protect families.
And, you know, you look at these tyrants trying to tell us what to do, trying to talk down to us, like, we're their serves.
You're going to own nothing.
You're going to be happy. I mean, your blood's got to boil when you hear that kind of shit.
Yes, because I know my people came from that.
My great-grandfather, he moved to America.
He went back to check on his property or to sell his property, and the war broke out, World War I. And Italy wanted him to fight against America.
He said he was there for a couple of months.
In America. And he came back.
He goes, no, no, no, no. I'm an American.
Fuck this. And they put him in a holding, whatever facility, until the war was over.
And then he came back. So I got that, you know, I got that in me.
And it's like, it's about freedom, you know, and what they sacrifice for.
And I just had this conversation with somebody about, you know...
We've got to pay the black community because they have a great grandpa that was slaves and stuff.
I'm never going to compare what happened with slavery.
Again, I think if I was around back on slavery, I would have been one of those fucking white guys freeing these slaves as a human being.
My Sicilian ancestors, that was the biggest lynching in history in New Orleans.
But Sicilians hung from the tree.
The worst lynching was with Sicilians.
And the moral of my story is, look, I understand you went through hell, but it's 2023.
Your opportunities are tremendous.
I had issues, but we got past it.
You know, they hide their flag up no matter how oppressed and humiliated and treated like rat shit they were when they came to America.
That fucking flag was hanging up because they knew they would overcome that and just progress.
And that's why people make fun of me all the time.
It does not bother me.
You know, I get that whole greaseball, gangster, mafia, whatever.
It rolls off me because I'm not a sensitive fucking pussy.
Exactly. We're oversensitive.
We've become so fucking sensitive.
Yeah, yeah. This is the thing with this myopic viewpoint of history.
Yes, it's without a shadow of a doubt that slavery was, you know, on the top 10 levels of greatest evils throughout history, right?
We know that. But when you have a myopic point of view about history, just like you were saying, Sicilians were lynched, right?
I come from Armenian ancestry.
Like, just a little bit more than 100 years ago, Our two-thirds of our population was disseminated.
My grandparents grew up as orphans.
We were like, how they say that N-word back in the very racist times, we were that of the Ottoman Empire.
They named our last names.
We have slave last names based upon, are you a shoemaker?
So you know how all the Armenian names have I-E-N or Y-E-N at the end of it?
They were basically Take the name for a shoemaker and add an I-N or Y-N to mark you as an Armenian because you were an infidel.
You were two-thirds human being.
If a Muslim committed crimes against you, raped your daughter, stole them and took them to harems, you had no chance in court.
And this happened for hundreds of years.
And so that's where I come from.
My dad was kidnapped by a terrorist group.
That's where I come from. And so when people tell me, okay, I understand your pains, but like, come on, are we going to have now, are we getting into this, like, who has the greatest suffering in their history?
Exactly. I posted a couple of weeks ago or so about, you know, California, Newsom wants to give, what do you call them?
Reparations. Reparations.
And I'm like, Okay, I got a lot of Irish friends who were treated like shit, kept in cages when they came to New York.
We all want to... Like Western 100 years ago.
Fuck you, pay me.
Pay me too. Stock.
Nobody gets paid. I'm going to stay on the subject.
Racism. Because it's a scary word.
Okay? And again, I know who I am, so I can say what the fuck I want.
You know, using reality.
Racism is not...
Look, It's created by the white liberal.
It's pushed into that community.
Okay? Into the black community.
We know this. Malcolm X, everybody, if you haven't seen it, Google it.
Malcolm X, 1965, I think it was, his speech on the white liberal and how evil they were and infiltrating the black movement.
And you saw this with Black Lives, how the white liberal is creating this.
Whether it's in the media or these progressive groups, they are creating it.
Racism is one of our most...
Ugly, historical, important words in this country.
And it is dissipating.
They, because they, meaning the left, they use that word like the word the.
Every day, I'm a racist because I painted this flag.
Or because I said I hate the mayor who happens to be black.
I don't hate the mayor because he's black.
I hate the mayor because he sucks as a fucking mayor.
There you go. There you go.
Racism, racism. They've abused this word.
They've humiliated this important historical word.
And they just create this division.
It's because I'm 58.
I grew up in the 80s, and we hung out at all the bars.
And there was the token black guy, the token Muslim, the token Jew, the token trans guy.
And I was the token Guinea.
And we all hung out in the bar, and we made fun of each other, and we loved each other.
We had a fucking ball.
And then this woke-ass shit came slamming in and said, No, Scott.
I've been hanging out with you for 30 years.
You're a racist.
You like Trump. You like the flag.
It's like, how the fuck?
Let me finish. Let me continue.
Liberalism is not what my mother's liberalism was.
Okay? This liberalism today is fascism, as we know, because back in the day, liberals were hippies.
They had the beads on, the peace sign, they stunk, long hair, smoked a joint, put a flower in a rifle, loved all sorts of art.
Liberals today, violent, take down all the art, Suppressed freedom of speech, it's opposite.
Let the illegal immigrants in.
Let them live somewhere. My mother's door was open.
Every Thanksgiving, every holiday, she sent us three boys down to the local bar or to the bus stop to pick up a homeless person, a sad old man in a bar to bring to our house.
These liberals today, oh, let everybody in.
Take them in your fucking house.
None of them. You will see none of them.
It's bullshit. Yep.
Yep. Yep. Yep.
Totally, man. Totally. I mean, it is division.
And, you know, having grown up, I mean, in the 80s, 90s, I mean, this stuff was really more like the racism that existed was more on a governmental level, a media level.
It wasn't like us hanging out at the bars and stuff.
It was like...
It was like, okay, the government puts three strike laws.
So black dudes that are selling marijuana go to jail for 20 years, and now we're massive businesses, conglomerates, marijuana businesses.
While there's still, by the way, black people that are under these three strike laws in jail still, right?
Sadly and wrongly so.
Did they do anything to clean up the crap that was happening in certain neighborhoods?
Or did they aggravate that situation?
And then through the movies.
I remember watching movies and being like, these are flat out racist things that they're putting forth through Hollywood.
And this is the thing that you kind of see.
When they want you to hate Muslims, they put out that kind of movie.
When they want you to hate white people because of wokeism, they put out that kind of movie.
When they want you to be racist towards black people, They put out that kind of movie.
I don't know. It's like...
It's, you know, it's sad because...
It's deep. We could go deep in it.
But I just look at the generic aspect.
I am not a scholar. I am not a well-educated man.
I've traveled this country three times over in the last 20 years.
In one sitting, 10 months at a time, in my truck, living off the land, living with people, eating with people, every walk of life, painting my flags, and learning.
I don't think there's anybody that knows the people of this country more than me.
And some of the basic social issues.
And it just saddens me that it turned, and one group turned this, the left, the radical progressive left, turned this into a fucking race war, a bigoted war, a separation of classes.
I mean, of course we had our shit.
Listen, you said it earlier about your heritage and what happened to your people and my people and this.
Mm-hmm. Humanity.
It is the nature of humanity.
There will always be racists, homophobes, bigots.
Always. That is the nature of our species.
But it is not systemic.
And to see people in the media continuously say it's systemic and we're all racist.
I paint the flag I'm a racist.
It's a racist image. I voted for Trump.
Trump's a racist. No proof.
That means I'm a racist.
And so on. And it's...
By the way, one thing I wanted to mention, you had mentioned this idea of friends turning against you that you've known for 30 years.
Same thing, same thing. Friend, because of, I don't know, this woke culture who I've known, we've all had literally the exact same opportunities.
You could almost like, you know, point for a point, be like, you guys did equally well doing what you do.
Woke culture, all of a sudden, anybody that votes for Trump is crazy.
So let's talk about your art, Scott.
For that, I think we should roll this three-minute-long video, which I think will bring the viewer up to speed as far as your journeys and what got you to this point that you do what you do.
Eleven-month-old girl shot in the face because of woke, criminal-loving district attorneys!
Come on, murder us. This is a street performance.
Seems like all the artist activists are on the left, huh?
Except for Scott Barbato.
They do not conform to the elitist-isms of the art clubs, and they have left me like a red-headed stepchild.
This is my medium in which I shall create.
And this is my canvas, the front of the Brooklyn Museum.
The first most important thing in school, or anywhere else, is the Pledge of Allegiance.
This is not a pro-war protest.
This has to do with the increasing level of anti-Americanism.
You don't keep the criminals in jail, they're not gonna keep you in jail.
This line is to show respect and honor to those who die, got shot in the f***ing head, protecting us.
You try to take that f***ing blue line down.
I'll paint it till the day I die.
When the towers came down, there was absolutely no doubt that that feeling I'm sorry.
It was gonna change my life, and it did.
When somebody's complaining, it's so cold out, you know, the traffic.
And here I am, drinking with one of these guys who's got one arm, he's got a hook for another arm, and he's drinking a f***ing beer having a laugh with me, and he's not bitching about nothing.
I present to you the recipient of this year's VFW Americanism Award.
This is Scott Lovato.
That's it. I'm gonna paint a flag on a rooftop in every state near a military base.
As a veteran, we all fought for that flag in World War II. And today we want to see it flying.
They will never, as long as I am alive, they will never take the American flag down.
You want to burn one? Then I will find out where you work.
And I will find a building across the street and paint a flag 50 by 100 so you have to see it every day.
A pro-Trump sign on the front lawn of a Staten Island home was burned to the ground.
The hate I get is astronomical.
If everybody liked me, I'd be doing something wrong.
My mother's advice, whatever you do with your life, as long as you believe it in your heart, and always take care of those less fortunate.
My father's advice was, son, take s*** from nobody.
This is about control!
They are terrified!
We must unite!
We must take a stand!
Are you ready?
God didn't give me a gun and a bayonet.
He gave me paint and brush and I will fight to the f***ing death for this country.
Get on up, get on up, get on up, right, left.
So Scott, I mean you were, obviously you were going into the art world with these expectations that kind of didn't turn out to be true.
Tell us about that journey and, you know, give us a little timeline as far as what got you here.
Yeah, it's every artist's dream is to find their calling.
And most of us, it takes time.
Forever. Sometimes it takes to the end of your life and then you find it.
You know, Georgia O'Keeffe found hers.
You know, that great artist Georgia O'Keeffe found hers.
She was in her 70s, you know.
And you never think that it's coming when you're that young.
And this was back in...
I've been an artist my whole life. So back in the 90s, I went to go find myself in the big city of Manhattan, New York City.
It's the center of the universe.
If you can make it there, blah, blah, blah.
This is the center of the art world.
And I went in, and this was back in the early 90s, and I saw...
It just broke my heart.
Again, people that don't know Staten Island, Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, the biggest liberal city, one of them in the country.
But Staten Island is like any other little town in Wyoming, West Virginia.
It's working people.
It's cops, firemen, sanitation, EMTs.
You know, it's these working people, veterans, military...
It's such an outsider of Staten Island.
The city always abuses the hell out of us because we are these uneducated, primitive ogres, as they like to call us.
That's how I learned my heart and my patriotism and my love for the country.
I saw these creative people Just desecrating the flag and just America is an oppressive nation and it's a jingle, a cymbal and I'm like, holy fuck.
I'm like, we creative people have more rights than anybody.
We get to test the boundaries of the First Amendment more than any fucking body because of that flag and the blood sacrificed For me.
So I could be a crazy fucking nutball who wants to paint and say whatever I want.
And I would think every artist would be sucking ass of this milk and honey that they have.
And here they are.
And it just blew my mind that I said, this is fucking ridiculous.
They're fighting the hand that feeds them.
And we should be more patriotic than anybody else in the country because we get that fucking gift.
You saw this, by the way.
I'm not going there.
In the 90s? This was 90s time?
90s. This was the early 90s.
I'm just trying to get a time. Or early 90s.
Wow. Early 90s. Early on, you're seeing kind of essentially...
And that's where I saw, you know, that's where my calling, I said, wait a minute.
I'm going to paint this flag.
I'm going to bring this flag back to life.
I'm going to promote and celebrate America, the men and women underneath it.
Who created this?
And the greatest work of art, in my eyes, is the Star-Spangled Banner.
I've been to the Louvre.
I flirted face-to-face with Mona Lisa.
You know, these are the masters you learn about.
I saw the Sistine Chapel.
I gazed in awe. I touched the statue of David when I was in Florence.
And I touched the brushstrokes of a Van Gogh at the MoMA years ago when they didn't have the thing over it.
But the greatest work of art, to me, is the Star-Spangled Banner.
It is a work of art.
We don't see it as a work of art, as a creation for one of the greatest concepts in the history of civilization.
America! Freedom!
The French flag is beautiful.
The German flag is beautiful.
The Japanese flag is beautiful.
But those flags represent those individuals.
They represent the Chinese.
America is the only flag that represents every motherfucker across every corner of this beautiful sphere in the sky.
It's every ethnicity, every organic culture.
This flag represents.
So when I get criticized that, you know, you're saluting and you're promoting a jingoistic, nationalistic Nazi symbol, fuck you.
There ain't nothing like this flag.
Nothing. So I celebrate it.
I'm not a genius. I'm not a great, great master.
My job, my calling was to use my gift to celebrate and promote the greatest flag.
Place on Earth. Yeah.
And the greatest symbol of that place on Earth, the American flag.
Yeah. I mean, this is the shades of gray they don't see.
I mean, because look, has the United States done things that are questionable?
100%. 100%, right?
100%. We all know about it.
And frankly, if you watch Blood Money, I mean, we talk about it all the time, right?
All the time. Because part of our passion is For this nation, for this flag, is making sure that the corruption and bullshit is gone so the true purpose of the Constitution, which is being violated, I mean, raped on a daily basis across our courts, across every faction of our government, like, that's what we're fighting for.
That's what our passion for the flag means, right?
And so there's no shades of gray.
They don't get it. Like, I mean, it's so black and white to them.
You know, I do put a lot of blame on I give tough love.
I put a lot of blame on us.
Who, you know, again, not only in the 90s did I find my creative calling to do this stuff, but I also noticed that's where I noticed political correctness and wokeism and cancel culture popping up in this ugly head.
The little teeth on this thing.
And that's when I started. And if you saw that trailer for my documentary, the documentary is about that.
Not only how I started my art career, my patriotism, my activism, is that I saw this and I said, this is bad.
This is going to get big and down the road.
And if we don't pay attention to it and nip it in the butt, it's going to fucking be the size of Godzilla and it's going to fuck up this country.
And I warn people.
Not intellectually, but through my art and my activism, my provocative activism to say, this is wrong.
Look at this. Why are you getting arrested, Scott?
Because I'm bringing attention to this travesty that the Pledge of Allegiance is not being said in a public school, which it is a law.
It's a mandate. But get some liberal fucking woke assholes, compare it to the teachings of Taliban two months after 9-11.
I got to go up there and do something about it.
So that's also my journey was to kind of warn people, you know, not being a prophet, but just something that I saw, you know, I guess as an artist and a patriot.
And here we are, back to blaming us because we let it fucking happen.
We let it happen. We watched it happen.
And people just pushed it aside and said, Scott, you're just a conspiracy nutball trying to get on the front page.
We're getting handcuffs.
And now people are like...
Sorry I didn't listen to you, but I'm on board now.
Late to the game, but they're still in the game, so we still have time.
But I blame, I give tough love.
I do, I do. I mean, people don't understand that this has been, you know, woke people are so blind to the fact that I know at the end of the day they're trying to do the right thing, but what they don't understand is that the right thing has been fought for years now, for decades. And they got it all wrong because they don't even have the history right.
They think, oh, we just discovered there's racial issues and past generations never thought about that.
I mean, I kind of see that, yes, some of these people might have positive intentions, but their agenda is based upon complete ignorance to what's come before them.
And, you know, it kind of I knew a lot of people that were warning me about this stuff a long time ago.
And it's funny how those people were called crazy conspiracy theorists.
And what they were saying all along in the 80s, 90s really, I mean, has come to fruition today.
I mean, we're pretty much at the cusp of losing all our freedoms.
End of the, you know, end of the story.
It's sad that I actually, I kind of feel good That I was finally right.
I made major sacrifices financially as an artist because I saw something that was bigger and it was in my fucking heart.
You know how easy it is to just succumb to the isms of the art world, the hypocritical bullshit fucking art world and become the rich famous artist?
I had that opportunity. By the way, that you could say about everything.
You could say that about journalism.
You could say about the legal world.
Most people take the path of least resistance even when they're faced with tyranny and corruption.
That's going to be on my tombstone.
Easy is for pussies.
There you go. And it's like, you know, and people ask me, like, well, how do we fix it?
How do we fix it? I think that the left has to finally realize, the woke left has to finally realize, and I know I'm seeing some of them realize it and coming out of the closet and saying, I fucked up.
And it's nice, and it really feels good is what I'm saying.
It's sad that I have to have this good feeling because I don't want us to be in this position.
But making that 30-year sacrifice and being locked up and being beaten up and having my property destroyed, it's a good feeling that, hey, fuck you.
I was right. I was right.
But again, back to how do we fix it?
There's only one way to fix it, and that is that the radical woke left has to pull their reins back.
They have to. That's it.
Because they took it to the moon.
You know, I always say that we're, you know, excuse me, it's balance.
You know, in the 70s, 60s, 70s, we were very liberal.
But you could always see my hand here.
You could see the other hand. And in the 80s, we got a little more conservative.
And that's how it rolls.
And we go here. But the fucking radicals took it to the fucking stratosphere.
And they finally woke up that sleeping giant.
You know, everybody uses that. But they woke up middle American.
I told you. I've been through every state many times.
I know these people. These people don't want to be bothered.
They don't care who you're sleeping with.
But you're putting... An eight-foot burly fucking hairy dude can go take a piss in the bathroom that this coal miner's daughter goes, six-year-old daughter goes to take a piss in?
Not fucking happening. Not fucking happening anymore.
And so on and so on.
So it's going to get ugly if they don't pull those fucking reins back because middle America is not going back to fucking sleep.
They are on an endless flow of fucking Ambien.
Trust me. So tell me, let's talk about future prediction.
Let's do a little future prediction here.
Choose our adventure, right?
Give me a couple of options of what happens, worst case scenario, best case scenario, and what's realistic ultimately.
I'm always the optimist.
I'm always the optimist because I truly feel optimistic, and especially at this point.
As bad as it is, and I got to slap some of my friends around, don't give me the shit, it's over.
Wake the fuck up and start doing something.
I know your kids go to that fucking school that they're teaching fucking drag queens.
God bless the drag queens.
I've been to drag queen shows.
Adult fucking entertainment.
Adult fucking entertainment.
But when these drag queens are teaching or your teacher is teaching your six-year-old kid about sex, when you would slit a fucking hobo's throat, if a hobo came on the subway and walked up to your kid while you were there and started teaching him about sex, you'd slit his throat.
But yet you won't get your ass in front of the fucking Board of Education when they have a fucking meeting and say anything.
So fuck you. Tough love again.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly.
But I'm worried about, again, the fucking weakness, this beta bullshit that China is laughing the fuck out of us because you know they want to take us over. And Russia is staying a little more behind. But it's just that's what I'm afraid of.
I'm afraid of that. But we still have a chance to fucking take it back.
We're 25th in education.
And China, they teach these fucking kids.
That's it. Strict.
This is what you learn. That's it.
No, we're too busy teaching them about sex.
And that black kid over there next to you, he's special because his great-granddaddy was a slave.
This kid doesn't understand this.
This kid is taught by his parents.
Learn what you need to learn in fucking school so we can smarten these kids up and become a society.
Look at this fucking generation.
Not all of them, but this younger generation that have blossomed from that element.
They're lost. The suicide rate is astronomical because they're confused.
They're lazy, bro.
They're lazy. We hire people and it's like, I don't know, man.
They really did not teach this generation the values that you and I grew up with.
Right. We don't want to be those old people.
Like, I'm not that guy. I understand.
Look, I was an artist. Everybody thinks I was, you know, a saint when I was a kid.
I drove my parents crazy because I was a crazy fucking artist.
I did some things I shouldn't do.
It's part of our lives.
But I always had respect at a certain point and discipline when it was needed.
My father never had to touch me.
With his big, thick Sicilian hands after we picked up your garbage 12 hours a day as a sanitation worker and us little assholes were running around.
All he had to do was lift the hand and we saw the shadow cast upon us and we behaved.
You know, there was discipline.
We were punished for two weeks.
We couldn't go out if we failed in school.
But... You know, I did the thing.
I did my extracurricular activities and my tests of the chemical things that we had and drinking and chasing women and driving fast.
But you come through that, then you become part of society.
But these kids, not these, some of them, you know, I don't want to be that old man.
These kids today, get off my fucking lawn!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just that it's sad that it's so obvious that there's so many of them that have just, like, become Moshad, as we say.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's different because, you know, look, I used to hear that story, you know, when I was a kid, I, you know, used to walk eight miles a day.
I mean, we've heard that story over and over again.
But... I gotta tell you, man, this is different because at least the thing that you and I heard is hard work, hard work, hard work, hard work.
That was a thing that I felt like was in schools, like it was definitely the parents, definitely family, definitely friends, hard work, hard work, hard work.
And that's not what they're told now.
They think that being lazy and like, you know, expecting something in return, I mean, they just don't have the foundation, I don't think.
Right. It's, you know, the whole trophyism thing.
And it's also, you know, I like to bitch about, you know, again, people are like, why are you a Republican and not a Democrat?
You're an artist. There's many reasons, but one of my favorite reasons is because...
You know, if you look at the minority community and how, you know, in my community, there's, you know, an area that's, you know, a little poorer projects, areas, and you see the same generation there for four generations, five generations.
And, you know, because the Democrats say, stay there.
Here you go. Just enough.
Here you go. And the difference between a Democrat and a Republican, in my opinion, is that the Republican says, Here you go.
Here you go. It's a year now.
You're 22. You're in better shape than Scott Lobato and he's in good shape at 58.
Fuck you. Get a job.
No. The key word is incentive.
They don't teach them incentive.
I don't care if you want to open up a fucking hot dog stand or you want to become an astronaut.
To just do something for yourself to have some kind of integrity.
Incentive. To work for something.
You know, that's what I was taught.
You know, and again, people say, well, you're an artist.
You live the life. I busted my ass.
I did every job you can have making pizza.
Italian in Staten Island.
I had to do two years mandatory of concrete work.
You know, best work of my life.
But then I decided this is what I'm doing.
Tough struggle or whatever.
But there's no incentive.
Whether it's from the families that are a little looser.
Again, being liberal. My mother was like, do what you want.
My father was like, da-da-da-da-da.
And it was the perfect balance.
Lacking that in families.
But incentive.
And that's the number one reason. It's like, you got it.
We are here to help you.
Even as an American, we are here to help you.
You want to come here? You come the way everybody comes.
We'll help you get on your way. We're good people, but that's it. After fucking a year, two years, unless you're, you know, invalid or mentally challenged, obviously.
But you're a fit. Fuck you!
Yeah. And then you turn around and bitch.
Like these immigrants, these illegal immigrants did when they put them up in a four-star hotel in Manhattan.
They didn't like the fucking food.
They didn't like that they were moving to another cool place.
They were rioting.
They destroyed the fucking hotel.
Fuck you! Fuck you!
Yeah, yeah. Wow, wow.
Scott, brother, Scott, it's such a great pleasure to have you on this show.
Is there anything you want to talk about, rant about in closing?
Is there something you want to tell the viewers?
I mean, the mic is yours.
Whatever message you have for the folks out there.
First of all, my documentary, that trailer you saw, that'll be out.
It's right now in the hands of a distributor because, you know, Hollywood ain't going to touch a conservative artist movie, but it is really spectacular.
It's full of a lot of energy, and it's a battle cry movie.
You know, yeah, it's about me, but it's not about me.
It's me being the representative to teach you and, like, why we should be fighting.
You know, you don't have to get violent.
You don't have to get You don't have to throw paint or you don't have to paint giant flags like I do, but there's so much that you can do to not be afraid.
Don't, people. Stop being afraid of what people are going to call you.
That's a number one issue I see a lot.
I don't want to be called a racist.
Well, you're not a racist.
Well, I don't want to call a homophobe.
You're not. You're not.
You're not. This is what they do.
And fear not what they call you, especially when you're not that.
So people got to get over that.
So the movie will be out in hopefully the summertime.
It's in the hands of a distributor. But you got to see it once it will let you know.
You'll know. Believe me, I'll let you know.
But one more thing is...
to infighting amongst us conservatives and Republicans and how I've watched the last couple of elections and how these newbies that come in, which is great to have younger people come into our Republican conservative value ideology.
But it's like you can't watch one, two football games and think you know everything about the sport.
It takes years to understand, especially this game.
So when I see young folks saying, oh, I don't like you, Scott, or Joe, because even though you're a fellow Republican, because you didn't pick the same guy in the primary as I did, that is disgusting.
It's embarrassing. Once that primary ends, we go back up that person.
That's what pisses me off lately.
So... Play the game.
Look, I'm not always right, even though I'm 30-year seasoned in this game.
I'm not always right.
I'm not, you know, I don't know everything, but you got to stop that bullshit.
Come on board, but play the game.
We're all in this together because if we get fighting, we're going to fucking lose.
We're going to fucking lose. Yep, yep.
And one thing I just wanted to say, just like, you know, taking off from what you were saying about people not being scary out there, I got to tell you, I was, frankly, in the closet about my beliefs for a really long time.
And I'm talking about, I started realizing stuff in the early 2000s, not as early as you.
I had this dual life where I was working in mainstream media, but at the same time doing a lot of things like going to marches, rallies, and really being in the know as far as the authoritarianism that was coming in.
And I got to tell you, once I actually had the courage to go out there and start talking about this stuff.
Well, firstly, let me tell you, I've been called a right wing extremist.
I've been called a cyber bully for using my freedom of speech and actually making documentaries and a lot of other things.
But I've also met some of the most amazing people that have enriched my life in ways that my life was never enriched before.
Because people like you, for example, people like the people I work with on the people that produce this, I wouldn't have met those people.
And we're all getting called the same names, by the way.
So eventually what happens is all the people being called these names that are based on BS all kind of become friends.
And there is truly powerful relationships and enriching relationships, the likes of which I've never felt before.
And I'm thankful for that.
So that's a silver lining in terms of having the courage.
You feel it. You feel it, brother.
The patriotic fever. It is a fever.
It is a disease that once you get it, there is no fucking cure for it.
There is no vaccine and it is beautiful.
It is the most... I love it.
No matter what comes at me, I will never take a vaccine if they invented one to cure my patriotic fever.
Mm-hmm. Exactly, brother.
Exactly. Brother, much love to you.
Seriously, this was a really awesome experience.
I mean, we are so happy that we got you on the show.
Thank you for taking the time and we'd love to, you know, do follow-ups in the future and kind of check in with you.
Yeah, I'll get back on.
Again, we have a little technical.
Again, I can paint the Sistine Chapel on the head of a pin, but ask me to plug in a computer.
It's not happening. It's not happening.
You go to my website.
You can see a lot of my stuff, scottlobedo.com.
You can see the trailer for the movie and a bunch of other cool stuff.
Keep in touch. Contact me.
Say hello. And follow me on Instagram.
I rant every fucking day after you watch this show.
Definitely. Definitely. We'll have all your information below in the descriptions.
And thank you so much, brother.
This was really awesome.
And we will hopefully catch up with you real soon.
100%, brother. Awesome.
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