Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer - R.I.P. Humanity. It's Been Fun.
Aired: 2019-05-29
Duration: 11:45


=== Man-Made Climate Crisis (10:14) ===

[00:00:00]  Man-made climate change is already damaging the United States.
[00:00:04]  The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.
[00:00:07]  Report says sea levels around the U.S. have risen about nine inches.
[00:00:11]  More hospital visits, more premature deaths.
[00:00:14]  And it's only going to get worse.
[00:00:48]  Need you to repeat after me?
[00:00:50]  Because we're doing a revolution here.
[00:00:52]  And we're sick of the corporate creed.
[00:00:56]  We're sick of that polluting the source.
[00:00:58]  So what's up, man?
[00:01:00]  You know, about the same stuff as usual.
[00:01:02]  Just thinking of you.
[00:01:04]  Dude, me too, man.
[00:01:06]  I didn't, I mean no homo, but I was thinking of you too.
[00:01:09]  I was too.
[00:01:10]  I saw you got a new mustache.
[00:01:12]  I did.
[00:01:13]  I did.
[00:01:13]  My girlfriend hates it.
[00:01:14]  I thought it was a dare.
[00:01:16]  No, no, it was for this.
[00:01:17]  Because I, as you can see, I'm supposed to be incognito, but I've been made.
[00:01:21]  But you've already been probably spotted.
[00:01:23]  Yeah.
[00:01:23]  Literally some people came up and knew who I was and they told everyone.
[00:01:28]  What's up?
[00:01:29]  Did you give me your money to take the Chinese post?
[00:01:32]  Los Angeles Police Department FBI.
[00:01:35]  I'm not the FBI.
[00:01:36]  He's not the FBI.
[00:01:37]  I am.
[00:01:37]  You're the FBI?
[00:01:39]  Very nice.
[00:01:41]  So he's going to give him the papers?
[00:01:43]  The paperwork?
[00:01:44]  Yeah.
[00:01:45]  I don't, this is it.
[00:01:45]  That's not what this is.
[00:01:47]  Do you have any, I appreciate that.
[00:01:49]  Thank you very much.
[00:01:50]  Glad to see the FBI out here today.
[00:01:52]  Thank you very much.
[00:01:53]  You're welcome to be in the chat though.
[00:01:55]  That's awesome.
[00:01:56]  Welcome back to another episode of Slightly Offensive with your favorite host, which is weird.
[00:02:01]  I say my favorite host, but are you their favorite host?
[00:02:04]  Not of your show.
[00:02:06]  Yeah, well, I'm your favorite host of this show.
[00:02:08]  We are here at the Climate March in Los Angeles, California.
[00:02:11]  This is very typical of a day.
[00:02:13]  We got the FBI here, right?
[00:02:15]  Awesome.
[00:02:15]  I appreciate it.
[00:02:16]  And make sure you like, share, subscribe to keep independent media and journalism alive.
[00:02:20]  We hope you enjoy the show.
[00:02:22]  Any last closing words?
[00:02:24]  I was wondering, what was he giving them the papers for?
[00:02:27]  What?
[00:02:27]  What was he getting ready to give him the papers for?
[00:02:30]  I think they're getting a survey.
[00:02:31]  Okay, thank you very much.
[00:02:33]  Awesome.
[00:02:33]  Thank you.
[00:02:34]  Awesome.
[00:02:35]  Have a good day, man.
[00:02:36]  No homo.
[00:02:37]  A lot of people on the right think that it's a left-wing, it's just left-wingers.
[00:02:41]  What do you think about that?
[00:02:42]  Well, people say that it's an elitist issue or that only white people that have nothing to do go to these events, but I can tell you as a person of color, you know what I mean?
[00:02:50]  That my personal views on everything else is completely isolated from the fact that we're all gonna die if we don't have action.
[00:02:55]  Presistance forces now!
[00:02:58]  There's no other way!
[00:03:02]  What was your purpose of coming here today?
[00:03:05]  Support these people and what they're doing.
[00:03:08]  I don't think we're gonna have a planet much longer.
[00:03:09]  I got a granddaughter and a grandson.
[00:03:11]  I want to keep it.
[00:03:12]  If we don't stop it now, we will be dead.
[00:03:15]  That's a human being.
[00:03:17]  What do you feel like are the best ways to actually turn this thing around and save the planet?
[00:03:23]  It's going to be difficult because most people don't want to listen.
[00:03:26]  It's going to be smaller vehicles.
[00:03:28]  Get rid of some vehicles like F-150s.
[00:03:31]  They got to go.
[00:03:32]  Get up to me.
[00:03:36]  SIST!
[00:03:37]  March!
[00:03:39]  Ready!
[00:03:40]  SIST!
[00:03:43]  Read!
[00:03:44]  SIST!
[00:03:46]  READ!
[00:03:57]  alt-right really growing in their news.
[00:03:59]  Don't you think they've really expanded in YouTube?
[00:04:02]  You know, it's kind of it's it's really weird, but it's interesting to see.
[00:04:07]  You guys have really done quite a lot.
[00:04:09]  What do you think?
[00:04:10]  You know, I totally disagree with you guys in most things.
[00:04:14]  I'll tell you, you're being duped, but you know.
[00:04:17]  We can be civil.
[00:04:18]  You're being civil.
[00:04:19]  I appreciate that.
[00:04:19]  I do.
[00:04:20]  Absolutely.
[00:04:21]  But, you know, you gotta respect the fact that you guys have used YouTube and gone alternate, done these alternate media.
[00:04:30]  You know, I think, to be honest, all sides of the political spectrum should ditch the corporate media, which is, and so that we could have a dialogue.
[00:04:40]  Because to be honest, the truth is in the middle.
[00:04:46]  Security?
[00:04:48]  I know, but I'm asking you what the yellow vest is about.
[00:04:52]  I work here.
[00:04:53]  But why do you guys wear the yellow vest?
[00:04:55]  Trying to save the planet.
[00:04:56]  Very cool.
[00:04:56]  Thanks, man.
[00:04:57]  Good to meet you.
[00:04:59]  All it's traveling, constantly moving.
[00:05:06]  By car, by plane, by wasting and putting all this crap in.
[00:05:10]  Sorry, putting all this crap out there in the air.
[00:05:14]  We need to just, there are diesel engines, there are gas, or, you know, there's non-gas alternatives.
[00:05:22]  And we can use all that.
[00:05:23]  What are your primary sources for that information?
[00:05:26]  Like, where do you go?
[00:05:26]  Where does someone go to get conclusive information on climate change?
[00:05:30]  I think if you just Google it, you can find out.
[00:05:33]  You know, there's an Taiwan, but basically they are out there.
[00:05:38]  The problem is that U.S. government got rid of it, right?
[00:05:42]  From the Environmental Protection Agency because of the idiot Trump.
[00:05:45]  He is the dumbest idiot, you know.
[00:05:48]  What can you do?
[00:05:49]  I think what AOC is doing is the correct way to do it.
[00:05:52]  And I think more people will come on board as they listen to it and as they see what's going on.
[00:05:57]  You know, you guys say the answer to the climate crisis is, or many, maybe not you, and I don't, there's...
[00:06:03]  I'm actually pretty center myself.
[00:06:05]  I'm like, I'm not alt-right or anything like that.
[00:06:08]  I'm going to give you a sense.
[00:06:09]  Everybody knows that there's a climate crisis.
[00:06:11]  I mean, but what's the solution?
[00:06:14]  Elon Musk, he says, let's go to Mars, abandon Earth.
[00:06:18]  Some people say let's kill everybody.
[00:06:20]  Let's build a wall at the border because as the planet gets hotter, people are going to want to escape violence and plagues and death and famine and so come to the U.S.
[00:06:34]  So just build a wall, send people to camps, kill people, and that's a way to deal with the climate capacity.
[00:06:40]  I think that morally that's kind of f  ⁇ ed up and so is escaping the planet.
[00:06:45]  Don't we have an obligation to each other and to the one that created us to actually work this out?
[00:06:50]  We're striking out here for two reasons.
[00:06:53]  One, we want to create awareness because the educational system in America isn't necessarily the best, which is why we have one of our demands, which is compulsory education on the climate crisis, starting from K through 8, because that's when we're most impressionable, right?
[00:07:07]  But how do we tackle climate change without India or China actually reducing?
[00:07:12]  Because Europe and the United States aren't the biggest contributors.
[00:07:14]  It's India and China.
[00:07:16]  Well, not necessarily.
[00:07:18]  I don't know.
[00:07:19]  I looked it up.
[00:07:19]  Yeah, with trash, plastic, carbon, everything, they're off the charts compared to us.
[00:07:24]  Like combined, we're less than one of them.
[00:07:25]  So we can't have a conversation about climate change without talking about China and India.
[00:07:29]  Yeah, we need to talk about that too.
[00:07:31]  How do we get a communist country and a socialist country who don't like us to do what we say so that we slow down their economy?
[00:07:39]  I mean, you should ask some of these intelligent professors that know about these things.
[00:07:42]  I wish, are they here?
[00:07:44]  I don't know.
[00:07:47]  There haven't been a lot of people in my life who believe that climate change is a hoax like people like Like, it's talked about in school.
[00:07:55]  You know, it's talked about in my home at the dinner table.
[00:07:58]  We talk about what's happening to the environment.
[00:08:00]  We talk about how we can change, you know, my family.
[00:08:03]  Like, we have a compost system.
[00:08:05]  Like, we recycle.
[00:08:07]  like I come to these marches, it's, what was the question?
[00:08:10]  What was the question?
[00:08:30]  All right, so right to my left is the party for socialism and liberation, which is an ironic sort of faction that comes out to a lot of these protests.
[00:08:40]  And what they stand for sometimes is really not a lot about liberation.
[00:08:44]  We were here a little while ago, maybe about a month or two ago, I'm not sure.
[00:08:49]  And there were some issues with them attacking people and like pushing each other.
[00:08:54]  And there was a lot of fights.
[00:08:55]  And it doesn't seem very liberating to me.
[00:08:58]  But anyways, if it's on the shirt, it must be true.
[00:09:03]  I mean, I'm a Democrat because it's on my t-shirt.
[00:09:06]  Can I ask you a question?
[00:09:07]  So sometimes at these marches, and this goes for both sides, there's a problem with like other groups attaching themselves to the march.
[00:09:15]  Like, you know, we have like the socialism liberation and different groups.
[00:09:18]  What do you feel about other groups using your platform to push their agenda?
[00:09:23]  So right now, the only groups we've given an official platform to, which is the ones that you will see speaking, are people that like, you know, are apolitical.
[00:09:30]  And so we understand that the socialist movement as well as other organizations want to attach themselves on.
[00:09:36]  And what we say to that is, no, like they're not, they're not representing the needs or the demands of the youth climate strikers.
[00:09:44]  We're not against them, but we're not for them.
[00:09:46]  Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can survive.
[00:09:53]  And no Republic can succeed or survive.
[00:09:57]  And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment.

=== Debate Inconclusive (01:45) ===

[00:10:03]  The only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution.
[00:10:09]  Ben will be what he was born to be.
[00:10:13]  Yeah.
[00:10:14]  Free.
[00:10:16]  An independent.
[00:10:18]  I've seen a lot of the shows, this show.
[00:10:22]  I've seen you guys.
[00:10:22]  I've seen some of your partners in InfoWars and other sort of affinity media.
[00:10:29]  And I've seen you guys, you know, the way you cut up people.
[00:10:32]  And you try to find the most the weirdest and wackiest folks, okay?
[00:10:38]  We put every interview in.
[00:10:39]  Like, you'll be, you'll have full soundbites.
[00:10:41]  Most people don't give us full soundbites.
[00:10:42]  They just say a couple things and walk away.
[00:10:44]  And the other thing that's interesting is that when you go on your guys' YouTube, you guys get a lot of comments.
[00:10:52]  Some of those comments are crazy.
[00:10:55]  So why?
[00:10:56]  So, but where is that coming from?
[00:10:59]  So what we're kind of getting is that this idea of climate change has been heavily polarized into a left versus right issue.
[00:11:07]  But a lot of people here are trying to bring the point across that it really isn't.
[00:11:11]  It's just a scientific issue.
[00:11:13]  And I mean, you have to take yourself out of the partisan mindset for just a second and ask yourself, before you take a side on climate change, why do you believe the way you believe?
[00:11:25]  Is it because you fall on the left?
[00:11:27]  Is it because you fall on the right?
[00:11:28]  Or have you really investigated the sources?
[00:11:30]  Now, the debate is inconclusive at the moment, I believe, from what I've understood.
[00:11:35]  But the climate's always changing.
[00:11:37]  Whether or not changing our laws in the U.S. is going to help anything, that's the real question.
[00:11:43]  I don't know, but I don't think it's going to help.