Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey celebrate Radio Renaissance's 500th episode while correcting errors about Alice Vidal and debating racial IQ data alongside Richard Lynn. They analyze Ron DeSantis's Hart-Celler repeal call, London's crackdown on far-right agitators like Philip de Winter, and critique Christopher Nolan's diverse casting in The Odyssey. The discussion shifts to Arcadia Mayor Wang's alleged Chinese propaganda orders and Liu Jianwang's conviction for running a Manhattan "police station" tracking dissidents via 2,600 WeChat messages. Finally, they examine JAMA Pediatrics statistics showing 60% of school shooters were Black versus 28% White, suggesting distinct motivations between impulsive acts and mass casualty events. [Automatically generated summary]
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Celebrating Our 500th Episode00:05:47
Ladies and gentlemen, dear listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and with me is my indispensable and sometimes incandescent co host, none other than Paul Kersey.
And I would like to announce that this is our 500th episode.
Hard to believe, Mr. Kersey, but we have been at it for 500 episodes.
I think back to back, if you were doing one once a week, and we haven't always managed one once a week, that would be about 10 years worth of Radio Renaissance.
What do you think of that?
It does go back to 2016, and I'd like to bring up a name that we probably haven't said enough, and that would be an old co worker of yours, Martin, who brought up the idea of doing this podcast.
He said, Brother Kersey, you need to do a podcast with Jared Taylor.
And I said, All right, let's do it.
Was it his idea?
It was his idea.
Fuck.
He was in charge of special projects, if you recall.
Yes, he was.
Yes, he was.
This is a project that I believe will be special.
And I was thinking about him when you told me that it was the 500th episode.
Wow.
Well, if it's not special, it is at least long lived.
And that makes it special in this movement.
But anyway, ladies and gentlemen, this is number 500.
We'll try to make it a good and worthy one.
Well, as usual, we will begin with comments from listeners.
And this is a correction.
The last radio renaissance stated that the co chair of the Alternative for Deutschland, Alice Vidal, is married to another woman.
Wrong.
It is a civil partnership.
Furthermore, yes, according to Vidal, she says, I oppose legalization of same sex marriage.
She supports protection of the traditional family.
So it's merely a civil partnership.
So I guess it's good to draw those distinctions.
But she is still, well, she has a civil partnership with a Sri Lankan woman.
That goes strangely down certain craws, but them's the facts.
Another comment.
I'm certain I won't be the only one to point out a calculation error in your latest podcast with Mr. Kersey.
You both made a mistake about neighborhood watch panels.
You pointed out the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, spent $18,000 taking down 600 neighborhood watch signs, which they called relics of an old racist era.
And you suggested the city could have saved money by putting a bounty on them and paying bums to bring them in.
Well, when you divide 18,000 by 600, as you did, the result is not 300, the result is 30.
Therefore, that would have been a bounty of only $30 per sign.
If you gave the bums $50 to remove one panel, it would have been more expensive.
However, if you could have given them $20 for the same task each, the city could have made money.
So there you go.
Another comment.
I am gay.
Who are white advocates fighting for?
Being gay does not make me any less white, does it?
My guess is that young white women are now more likely to embrace anti white ideologies than young white gay men.
I wonder if that's true.
I wonder if there's any polling data on that.
Quite interesting.
I've not seen any.
I've never seen that question raised, so I don't have an answer.
I never have either.
I wonder, but he instinctively thinks that's true.
And if he is white and homosexual, he sees it from the inside in a way.
You and I do not.
He goes on to write, I found out recently that the Rassemblement National, that is the French so called hard right party, is the most popular party among French gay men.
What do you know?
But we do not cast out all white women from the movement because they are likely to embrace anti white ideologies.
My question shouldn't being white and being pro white be sufficient criteria to be embraced by the movement?
And my answer is yes.
I know there are some.
In the movement, who think that homosexuality is enough of an aberration so that it should be held officially at arm's length.
Well, I don't encourage homosexuality, but I don't think most homosexuals have any choice about the matter.
And so long as they practice it quietly and don't march around in chaps and other strange things that some of these out of the closet and excessive homosexuals do, I think it is something that is just part of being human.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I don't know what your views on this are.
Perhaps you prefer not to express them.
But as I say, I think people who are quietly homosexual should be left absolutely in peace, and those who are committed to our race should be welcomed in this life or death fight.
I'd agree with that.
Well, good.
That's all you got to say.
I'd agree with that assessment.
Good.
Another comment.
I was at Penn State for graduation this weekend.
A relative was in the liberal arts program here with a few observations.
The dean.
And the staff at the ceremony were all black andor female, with one exception.
The lone white man had an extremely pronounced lisp.
Every single black graduate, without exception, wore a stole with an African flag or kenticloth or both.
High IQ and Alienation00:08:07
Well, you know, they said they wanted the franchise, liberty, and the same opportunities all Americans had.
They got all those and more with all manner of handouts and privileges, yet they are proud to announce they are African.
And not American.
I look forward to a rising generation of African leaders who will take back what was stolen from us.
Then I think we should go through those graduation photos with little help from AI and offer strong repatriation packages back to the countries that those stoles and flags honored.
Next comment How much does the middle of the IQ bell curve for a given race matter in terms of the number of very high IQ people?
Let's say 140 plus.
And is there any reason we would necessarily expect a high average IQ to correlate with a high number of such high IQ people or geniuses?
Asians have a higher average IQ than whites, but the vast majority of earth shaking geniuses seem to come from Europe.
Do you think it's strictly a matter of culture?
In other words, Asian conformity, European daredevilry?
But then these things might have some genetic bases too.
Or is it in the DNA to some degree?
You know, I've never seen a definitive study on this, but the way this question is being asked is: is the standard deviation for the same for every racial IQ bell curve?
In other words, are there some bell curves that are lower and more spread out, or pushed together and higher?
So you could have, if the Asian bell curve is pushed together and higher, then you could have a higher average, but then you would have a smaller.
Right hand high IQ tail, but an even smaller left hand low IQ tail.
And that to me fits with my experience of East Asians, at least the Japanese.
You almost never find really just dim, dim, dim, dim witted Japanese.
And I've met some pretty high powered Japanese, but very few of them just flung me back into the back of my chair with the force of their intelligence, the way occasionally a white person will do.
But again, I do not have any data on that.
I've hunted around for it.
I know that Richard Lynn used to speculate on that subject.
He was the one who really first publicized the high average Asian IQ, but he didn't have really enough data to come up.
Was he really actually?
I'm sorry to interrupt.
He was even before.
He was one of the first.
Yep.
Even before Rushton or even before.
Oh, gosh, yes.
Shockley was doing it.
Oh, Shockley did not talk, so far as I know, ever about high Asian IQ.
Interesting.
Richard Lynn was the pioneer in that whole area.
I guess Silicon Valley at the time that Shockley was really interested in this question, we're, of course, referring to William Shockley, the co inventor of the transistor.
Is that correct?
Yes, that's correct.
I guess the Asian population of Silicon Valley.
Wasn't that high?
No, pretty low in those days.
I think he got the Nobel Prize in the 50s, the 60s.
But then it was after that that he switched his high powered mind to the whole question of race and IQ.
He considered that far more important than having invented the transistor.
The whole question of dealing with a multiracial society and deliberately wearing blinders on racial differences in IQ.
In any case, as I say, if any of our listeners have any data on that, That we would love to hear those data.
This listener goes on to say, on a somewhat related note, I would imagine that high IQ blacks tend to feel far lonelier, more alienated in black communities than do high IQ whites in white communities because the distance between them and the average of their group is so much greater than it is for whites.
Well, it would also be far fewer if you got 140 IQ and you're black and the average black has an IQ of 85.
Yes, the average black is, what's that?
That's 55 points.
In the other direction, and there are not very many of you.
He goes on to say, let's see, it's one black man's plight that you're not allowed to acknowledge or validate, especially as a liberal.
The fact that if you're black and very, very high IQ, you're going to be lonely because you'd have to acknowledge racial IQ differences.
But I have heard actually that very lament from a number of blacks, very smart blacks, and they mostly just spend their time with white people.
There are a few blacks who, aside from their skin color, As far as I can tell, they are psychologically and culturally white.
That does happen.
And they tend not to be lonely if they hang out with white people.
Let's see.
Though that was an interesting batch of questions we had.
And as I say, if any of you out there have any data on different standard of deviation for the IQ bell curves race to race, I would love to hear it.
You can send that information to me as well as any other criticism or Favorable remarks to amren.com, A M R E N.com.
That's the American Renaissance webpage.
And click on the contact us tab.
You can reach Mr. Kersey in the following manner.
Shoot me an email, ladies and gentlemen, because we live here at protonmail.com.
Once again, that's because we live here at protonmail.com.
And I have a 500th edition of Radio Renaissance gift to give our listeners and Mr. Taylor that has just been bestowed upon us via Twitter.
If you'd indulge me a second, I think this shows you the importance of never giving up, never surrendering, never capitulating, and never black pilling.
This comes to us courtesy of Ron DeSantis.
And he tweets this.
Both the Hart Cellar Act of 1965 and the additions to it in the early 90s need to be repealed.
So many examples of putting.
Repealed.
I'm sorry.
Repealed.
Sorry.
Repealed.
Repelled too.
Repelled down.
Yeah.
Repealed.
So always correct if there's a mispronunciation.
Thank you.
So many examples of putting American citizens last in those pieces of legislation.
Mr. Taylor, 10 years ago, this coming from.
One of the presumptive favorites to throw his hat in for the 2028 election on the Republican side, which we're not endorsing, by the way.
We're just pointing out that he's probably going to run.
For him to tweet this out is a remarkable admission of the importance of the work that has been done here at Radio Renaissance.
Well, we'd like to think we had something to do with it, but it is certainly remarkable.
It is impossible to imagine when we first started doing Radio Renaissance that any state governor. Would say we need to repeal Hart Cellar.
And I'm pleasantly surprised that he did so.
I'm not astounded and shocked the way I would have been several years ago.
But was this just today he said this?
We got to repeal Hart Cellar?
He said we got to repeal because he was replying to Rep. Andy Ogle of Tennessee, who said, I'm excited to announce that my 83 page Assimilation Act has been introduced.
Months of labor were undertaken by my staff, including partnership with Senator Tommy Tubberville, the soon to be governor of Alabama, Tubberville.
And myself, in order to gut the Hart Cellar Act of 1965, as well as scrap provisions of the Immigration Act of the 1990s.
Well, what does that mean?
Does that mean we're going to go back to preferences for Europeans?
That's the real question.
I'm going to have to read this 83 page Assimilation Act, but I will say this some of the things it does it ends.
You got five minutes here, Mr. Kerr.
It's going to end the H 1B scam, ensure migrants never become a public charge, and make America look like America again.
Gutting the Hart Cellar Act00:11:55
Think that's a dog whistle that we both can hear from a thousand miles away.
But it also mandatory e verify ends chain migration, ends diversity lottery, guts birthright citizenship, way tougher asylum standards, 10 year citizenship requirement, ends diversity lottery.
Again, it's everything we would do if we were in charge.
Exactly.
It's moments like this where when things seem so severe and you're just like, wow, I think of.
The aftermath of Charlottesville and being like, God, why did these people go?
What were they thinking?
Of course, they had a right to be there, but it was an obvious setup.
And the more we're learning about certain aspects of it, it's just never give up.
And don't be afraid to even be more boisterous when it comes to some of the more extreme concepts that you have.
I call them more sensible concepts.
They are sensible.
The American Colonization Society was sensible in 1821 when it was proposed by Francis Scott Key and George Washington's nephew.
And it's just as sensible in 2026 for being reconstituted.
It was the original remigration plan.
And it's still viable.
Yes, yes.
Well, gosh, no, I didn't know about that.
Well, good for you, Ron DeSantis.
He's coming out of his corner swinging.
Make America look like America again.
What an idea.
Wow.
Well, you know, Tommy Robinson wants Britain to look like Britain.
And around 4,000 police officers are going to be on patrol.
In London streets, just this upcoming Saturday, because it's going to be one of the biggest ever public order operations.
There are going to be two competing marches.
One is called Unite the Kingdom, that is the march organized by Tommy Robinson.
And another one happening on the same day will be the Nakba Day.
Nakba, of course, is the word that Palestinians use for the process that drove out Palestinians from.
What is now Israel during the 1948 war.
Now, this is going to be, as I say, the biggest ever public order operation by the Metropolitan Police with helicopters and drones.
There will be live facial recognition used for the first time by Scotland Yard.
And they have said, and I suppose theoretically they are targeting speakers at both marches, but they say anyone who engages in anti Semitic, anti Muslim, or other hate speech will be arrested.
And they're going to use powers for the first time, according to the Metropolitan Police Force, and arrest organizers of the march if some of the people, some of the speakers, say naughty things.
That seems mighty unfair to me.
Apparently, people who chant, and then they've got some act now, this is at least a warning.
They say the following things must not be said.
Anyone who chants death to the IDF.
And you know what the IDF is, that's the Israeli Defense Force, or globalized the Intifada will face arrest, as will individuals who engage in anti Muslim hatred, whatever that is.
But this is, I've almost, you rarely see a list of, or even just one or two things that you must never say, or you'll get arrested.
Well, apparently for Nakba Day, they expect about 30,000 people, not out waving watermelon colored flags.
And on the other hand, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has blocked what he calls far right agitators from entering the UK for the United Kingdom rally.
And they expect over 100,000 people for that.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, isn't that something else?
Home Secretary.
This is the person who enforces the laws, who does immigration, who makes sure I can't travel to the United Kingdom.
And her name is Shabana Mahmood.
She announced the bans, and at least eight people got the chop.
I actually know one of them Philip de Winter.
Philip de Winter has been in the Belgian and Flemish parliaments for 40 years.
He has spoken at two American Renaissance conferences.
He is an absolutely first rate guy.
Not a cuckoo bird by any stretch of the imagination, but he has the temerity to think that Belgium belongs to the Belgians.
Well, he can't come.
Now, there's another.
Guy.
He is a Polish member of the European Parliament.
These are elected officials, Mr. Kurzy.
His name is Dominik Tarzinski.
He called the ban communism and he vowed to sue Keith Starmer personally.
Well, who is he?
Well, from 2003 to 2008, he was living in London where he hosted a radio broadcast of Christian music.
Well, later he went back to Poland.
He's been a member of the European Parliament since 2020.
So, for seven years.
And for five years before that, he was a member of the Polish legislature known as the, I guess it's pronounced Sjem, S J E M. Never heard it pronounced, only seen it spelled.
Well, apparently, one of the things that offended Keir Starmer is that in 2020, in January of this year, Tarzinski praised ICE for having killed Rene Good.
He thought that was a good thing to have done.
Here's somebody else, an American whom I'd never heard of.
Have you ever heard of Valentina Gomez, Mr. Kersey?
No, I have not.
Well, she is a Colombian American political activist and conservative provocateur.
Oh, is she down in Texas, by the way?
I don't know.
I don't know where she is.
Might be.
She's known for her vigorous anti alphabet soup and anti Muslim rhetoric.
And she gained notoriety for burning a Quran with a flamethrower.
And apparently, she stormed a Muslim civic center in Texas, so you may be right, and reportedly tore off somebody's hijab.
Well, she attended last September's Unite the Kingdom rally, and there were about 150,000 people on the street, and she warned them that rapist Muslims are taking over the UK.
And she addressed the police at the event directly, and she said, I need you to stop following orders, because you know you're being told to look the other way while your country is being raped into submission.
Well, Keir Starmer and his interior minister by the name of Shabana Mahmood don't want anyone saying such a thing.
So she can't go.
Now, there's another American whom I had never heard of, Joey Manorino.
Ever heard of him?
I've not heard of him either, but I should rephrase my earlier comment.
I had heard of Ms. Gomez.
So I believe she burned the Quran or something.
Yes, with a flamethrower.
That's right.
Yeah.
I'd seen that video.
Well, I hadn't seen that.
Well, she's got a flair, shall we say, for attracting publicity.
Now, apparently.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Joey Manorino attended the March for Remigration events organized by Britain First in Birmingham and Manchester.
And he said the following We need to deport the parasites who are raping their way through America, Europe, and the United Kingdom.
I don't like seeing women raped by migrants who don't belong in the West.
I don't like seeing the streets of the U.S. and Europe.
Filled with people who hate the culture of the US and Europe.
I don't like reading about stories where migrants are cooking domestic pets and raping cats.
Well, I haven't heard of cats being raped, but you never know.
In any case, he's unwelcome.
Then there is Ada, and I don't know how to pronounce her name L L U C H.
She is Catalan.
She's a Catalan and a Spaniard.
She's an influencer and commentator.
In October, she was thrown off Spanish TV for claiming that more than 90% of those arrested for theft in Barcelona were foreigners.
I suspect that's probably true.
She also attended last September's rally, and at her speech in the United Kingdom, she said Western democracies have become completely invaded and terror has already been unleashed, and she called for remigration.
She said in a post after her decision, after the decision made to ban her, the UK government is using its state power to ban people with ideas opposed to theirs.
They haven't had freedom for so long, but at least it used to be an illusion.
In other words, they have been leering.
The Buddhists have been living under tyranny.
Now it's out in the open.
Now, the last person that I know that was banned is Eva Vlad Dingelbroek.
You know who she is.
She's a Dutch political activist and commentator.
And she was also at the last rally.
She said, They are demanding the sacrifice of our children on the altar of mass migration.
Let's not beat around the bush.
This is rape, replacement, and murder of our people.
Remigration is possible, and it's up to us to make it happen.
Are rather nice looking.
So if it is Tommy Robinson who is making the decisions on who to invite, he seems to have an eye for the ladies.
Eva Vlan Nyngerbuk is definitely an oil painting.
Now, there are two other people who have been banned who have not been named.
But are there going to be any speakers left?
It seems to me that they're really getting all of their top notch people clicked off the list.
And so far as I can tell, no one for the Nakba Day march has been banned.
Now, maybe they're not having anyone in from overseas.
But keep an eye on the United Kingdom, ladies and gentlemen, this Saturday.
There's going to be a lot of excitement and fur may fly.
And while we're still on the subject of Britain, the Department for Work and Pensions, that seems to be a combination of the Labor Department and Social Security, this is in Britain,
it announced that people who are classed as an additional spouse In polygamous marriages and are at the age to get a state pension, each additional spouse gets 125 pounds and 25 pence per week.
And there's no limit on the number of separate additional spouses who can be claimed in one household.
So if you manage to have 10, then you get 10 times as 125 and a quarter pounds.
Now, this was this rate of 125.
Is an increase of 5% over the previous year.
So your spouses just get more and more valuable every year.
Well, bigamy is illegal in Britain.
Polygamy is not illegal if the marriage took place overseas.
So if you show up and you have who knows how many wives that you married legally in some place overseas, then the Brits consider them your well and truly wedded spouses.
Now, apparently, the same weekly handout is theoretically granted for extra husbands.
Bigamy Laws in Britain00:05:40
There's no distinction here.
And I did a little snooping around, and reportedly, extra husbands can be picked up in Kenya and in parts of India.
I'm not sure how common that is, but these days, anything goes.
Well, Mr. Kersey, you have a rather shocking story that's related to that hair raising video that we saw next week.
Of a black man just walking up behind a white guy who's about to go down the stairs of the subway, giving him a push, and he goes head first and dies.
That was one of the most revolting videos I've seen in a long time.
But do fill us in with the details on what came before and after.
Wow.
Forgive me.
I thought we were going to go to the Odyssey first.
So let me get this ready.
Oh, you know, you're right.
Let's go to the Odyssey.
I'd forgotten all about that.
Yeah, let's go to.
Well, you know, insofar as I've.
You've set the story, so I've got to go with it.
I'll set the story.
You know what?
You called an audible and I caught the past.
We're going to run with it because it is a word you use, gruesome.
And this is one that didn't have to happen because you learned that the New York Post reported that this black guy in question, Ramil Burke, he was an emotionally disturbed person who was released from a psych ward.
And apparently, prior to this, he was protected from criminal charges filed against him weeks prior to this episode because the white woman in question, who had the chance to file charges, said she didn't want to put another black man in jail.
I want to put another black man in jail.
I want to put a hundred more black men in jail.
Anyway, again, we've seen this video.
This is from the Daily Mail.
This young woman in New York City, again, she declined to press charges.
He was facing other charges as well, which was why he was at a psych ward to have his mental faculties tested.
And he was determined to be an emotionally disturbed person.
But because this white female didn't want to put another black man in jail, he was free to roam the streets.
And this 76 year old retired white teacher, Ross Falzone, happened to be.
Walking down a subway step as Ramil walked by, and as the video shows, he pushes him down a very steep flight of stairs.
He would ultimately, Ross, he would die from injuries suffered at the subway station.
It's not surprising when you see the video, he just goes head first, smack down to the bottom of the staircase.
And those New York City subway stairs are hard and nasty.
You got to have your head on a swivel in any inner city, in any major city, but.
When you watch this video and then you think of how this individual was allowed to still be out in public to harass and potentially injure New Yorkers, it's because of this quote.
This unidentified white female says this quote, maybe a part of me was like, I don't want to put another black man in jail, but you know, at some point, if you were a criminal, you're a criminal.
And he was scary.
He was a scary guy.
She claimed the scary guy she declined to press charges against initially approached her and her friend in a subway car, trying to engage in conversation.
When they decided to switch carts, Burke, who has multiple recent arrests, allegedly stalked them from behind, kicking her friend in the back, shoving him forward before grabbing her by the back of the head.
My friend freaks out, runs away, and then he grabs me by the head.
What, what, what?
The guy ran away?
No, no, no.
Her friend.
This is the same thing.
Well, that's what I mean.
She got a male friend, right?
Exactly.
My friend freaks out.
She runs away.
Grabs me by the head and pushes my head down, trying to, like, Maybe throw me on the ground or something, said the woman.
But I didn't.
I resisted as much as I could.
I didn't fall.
And then I immediately opened up the car and then ran towards my friend.
She claimed that the black individual in question kept pursuing them, even after they escaped the train at the West 4th Street station.
We started to run a little bit, but then thank God the cops are right there because I mean, we kept thinking about imagine that there were no cops.
We would have had to literally run for our lives, she told the outlet.
Well, because she declined to press charges.
Ross Falzone was unable to run for his life when he encountered Ramiel Burke, the black man in question, because he was pushed from behind violently and died.
Wow, I didn't know the details of her encounter.
Well, that man she was with sure doesn't sound like much.
He wasn't wanted to protect a woman.
Well, sometimes that can be a foolish thing, but just leave her to be manhandled and groped and oh, that's infuriating.
I assume he was yet another melanin deprived individual.
Probably of the same political thinking.
Gee, so now she regrets it.
Well, what happens afterwards, hopefully, she saw when Ramil Burke was arraigned in court for the first time, or he appeared for his first court appearance.
Because, as the New York Post talks about this recidivist madman accused of fatally shoving this retired white teacher, Falzone, he flashed a killer smile in his first court appearance Saturday to face second degree murder charges in the case.
And if you haven't seen that image, it is.
It is haunting, and I hope it haunts the person who refused to press charges that could have put this guy behind bars.
Interpreting Homer and Colonization00:15:33
Boy, how would you like to have that hanging over you for the rest of your life?
Gee, well, I wonder if she learned something.
Chances are she didn't.
White people seem to be incapable of learning, no matter how vigorously their noses are rubbed in it.
Terrible.
I'm afraid you're right.
Well, Mr. Kersey, since I got things in mistaken order, let us go.
To let us take an odyssey to Asia Minor after all.
Well, I'm going to ask you a question before we get started with the Odyssey because you've read Dominique Vinner's book, The Samurai of the West.
And if you could quickly, 40,000 foot overview, just describe why he places such an importance on Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey.
He thinks Homer is the origin of the culture and civilization of Western man.
He says that we white people, We have a unique and precious way of being men and women in the face of life, honor, death, love, and it all starts with Homer.
Homer is the man who captures what it's like to be a white man and a white woman.
And he says whenever you are disappointed in the way your fellow co racialists behave, go back to Homer.
Steep your mind in the heroism and the honor and the fidelity.
Of the ladies and the gentlemen in Homer, and you can recharge your white man's batteries.
And I think there's a lot of truth to that.
So that's the best I can do, impromptu.
You did a phenomenal job, and I look forward to the full video that we know will be coming shortly, hopefully, from you in regards to this, because this is going to be something we're going to be talking about a lot this summer.
Christopher Nolan, I know you don't pay a lot of attention to pop culture, but he's long been considered one of the.
Top directors.
Even some might say he teases in his movies with right wing ideas.
I know a friend of ours, Greg Johnson, has written a number of reviews of his movies from the Batman Dark Knight trilogy to Interstellar to Inception.
And this is going to be a movie that's going to cause a lot of people to step back and say, huh, I'm not sure what's going on here because he's faced a lot of criticism because of the casting of his upcoming.
The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon.
He's cast.
Athena is going to be played by Zendaya.
She identifies as black.
Well, is she one of these super light skinned blacks who nevertheless claims to be black?
She definitely would probably pass the paper bag test.
Well, but most people would not look at her and think that she was a Greek goddess.
No, I don't think one person on this planet would.
Okay, all right.
So this is clearly a stick my Thumb in your eye, miscasting.
Yes, she's 100%.
She is also joined by a very, very dark skinned African.
I'm not even going to try and pronounce her name, Laputo something, who's going to be playing Helen of Troy.
Now, see, this is just the worst.
The most beautifully Minestra, too, by the way.
She's also going to play dual roles.
Are there going to be any white actors?
Well, Matt Damon is playing Odysseus.
Okay.
There are a number of other actors.
Anne Hathaway has been cast as Odysseus' wife, Penelope.
It's Penelope, yes.
Yeah, Telemachus is also being played by a white British actor, so their son is Telemachus.
Well, how about Achilles?
Achilles is pretty important.
Well, I'm almost afraid to bring this up because we don't know who is playing Achilles, sir, but there is speculation that it could be someone named Elliot Page, who years ago was known as Ellen Page.
Oh, no, surely not.
Yeah, I'm not making this up.
I don't want to, this has not been confirmed yet, but in 2006, Ellen Page played a role in a movie called X Men, The Last Stand, playing Kitty Pride.
And here we are 20 years later, that individual has gone through a conversion, so to speak.
And you mean a psychotic episode?
Yes, a psychotic episode that unfortunately we are all being exposed to.
Perhaps Nolan did the same thing.
And there is.
Widespread speculation that Ellen Page, I refuse to even acknowledge that person's male name, that they're going to be played portraying Achilles.
When's going to be the reveal, as the kids say these days?
Well, the movie comes out in July, so we're only less than 60 days away, I believe.
I think it comes out, we're about 65 days away.
I think it comes out July 19th.
But Nolan has defended his decision to cast a black rapper, Travis Scott.
In the Odyssey.
He's going to be one of the poets after receiving harsh backlash over the choice.
He addressed the controversy surrounding Scott's appearance in his upcoming adaptation of the Ancient Greek Epic during an interview with Time magazine, which was published two days ago on the 12th.
Quote I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap.
Nolan said, I wish I had some of.
Travis Scott's lyrics from some of his songs.
I don't have them before me, but the Sicko Mode rapper's role was first revealed in an exclusive TV teaser trailer released back in January.
And this is his name is Sicko Mode?
That must be one of his nicknames.
Sicko.
Sicko Mode.
I don't partake in too much rap play these days, so I'm not really familiar with.
That genre of music or that genre of entertainment, but he is going to be one of the.
I don't think he's playing a muse.
I think he's playing just one of the chorus, actually.
So, as you know, throughout the Odyssey, there is a chorus.
And again, it's just revolting in a way because you go back to what you said and why I asked that question of Dominique Venner, who, for our listeners who don't know, years ago, I believe it was at least 12 years ago, he committed suicide in Paris and the Notre Dame to try and bring to light the consequences of the Great Replacement and what was happening catastrophically to the West.
Mm hmm.
And he, I've read one of his books, and he spends a lot of time talking about the importance of Homer, the Odyssey, the Iliad, and of course, then Virgil's Aeneid.
And it's just shocking that we're seeing this.
And one of the fascinating things, and I'll just be brief on this Elon Musk has used Twitter to talk about how this is, and again, I'm just quoting Elon Musk.
So he says, This is pissing on Homer's grave, the richest man on the planet said.
And he's pissing in all of our faces, is what he's doing.
Exactly.
And this one op ed that appeared in Variety, which is a magazine that covers the entertainment industry, a writer wrote this.
I'll just be brief here and read a couple lines.
From the team that brought you, Why is Snow White Latina?
Why are there black people in the rings of power, the Amazon Lord of the Rings show, Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings show?
And how come Star Wars has gone woke?
comes the latest online onslaught against an anticipated Hollywood project that committed the unfortunate.
Fathomable sin of having a diverse cast.
Right.
Helen of Troy is an African.
That's just being diverse.
Come on.
Yeah.
Snow White, of course, bombed.
I'm sure you recall about a year and a half ago that movie came out and it has a Latina, oddly, who had some very dark back hair, which was hilariously lampooned on social media.
That movie cost Disney about $150 million.
Didn't The Little Black Mermaid bomb also?
The Little Mermaid, yes, which came out.
I don't remember if that was pre or post COVID.
Forgive me on that, not remembering my Disney chronology, but that movie did not perform up to expectations.
And The Rings of Power, which again, I don't recall if you're a big fan of Tolkien or the Peter Jackson trilogy that came out in 2001, 2002, 2003, but it really is a miracle those movies were made back to back to back as they were so that there couldn't be any.
Any recasting or controversies surrounding the European centric cast that portrayed, you know, in the Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers, and Return of the King, because they've completely gone all in on diverse casting in the Amazon show.
Well, I have been reading some sicko mode lyrics.
Uh oh.
Uh oh.
Well, I dare not read them.
I dare not read them on the air.
It's pretty sicko stuff.
He names himself absolutely correctly.
But we don't know.
What is he?
What is his role in the Odyssey?
I hope he just stops a spear and that's the end of it.
He's not going to stop any spears.
I believe he's playing one of the members of the chorus.
I don't have his role right in front of me.
He's one of the individuals who's speculation is he's going to be rapping and telling the story of Odysseus and his spears.
Well, he'll be the narrator.
I think he's going to be the narrator and it's going to be.
Comical in a way that I don't think Nolan anticipates this movie.
It's so important that this movie bombs Mr. Taylor.
Well, yes.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I'd almost go to see it out of pure curiosity, but I would pay for a different film and then sneak in.
But of course, one of the problems of movie houses now is that when you pay for a movie, you have to choose which seat you're going to be in.
So the last thing that I want to have happen is pay for, I don't know, go to Masters of the Universe or something and then be told that, hey, excuse me, you're not supposed to be in here because we have the seating chart and no one paid for seat.
F2, you need to leave the Odyssey and then have that become a big story.
But it's interesting because the one beautiful thing about Twitter is there's been a massive backlash.
And again, a lot of people like myself, a millennial white guy, was a big fan of his prior work, Christopher Nolan's prior work.
Interstellar is a beautiful film, came out in 2013.
I wonder, he says that he wants a rapper.
Because he thinks that Homer is oral history and rapping is oral history.
That does not explain a black Helen of Troy.
That does not explain a black Clytemnestra.
How does he explain that?
Well, I guess I've seen some people say, well, wait a second.
Helen was born out of an egg.
So, yeah, that's correct.
Helen was born out of an egg.
I believe that goes back to the myth.
Clytemnestra, obviously, no, that doesn't make any sense.
Agamemnon's wife.
Well, wait, wait, wait.
That's not Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra.
In fact, if I recall correctly, Agamemnon's wife was Helen and got spirited off.
That was Menelaus' wife.
Oh, yes.
I am correcting you here.
Oh, my goodness gracious.
It happens frequently.
Yes, Menelaus' wife.
Clytemnestra, anyway.
Anyway, I will not display my ignorance any further.
I didn't think she was anybody's wife.
No, I could be wrong.
And again, this is embarrassing.
It's brought it.
Well, okay, we'll move quickly beyond that.
Move quickly.
Move quickly.
What has happened is 22 years ago, there was a movie Wolfgang Peterson directed called Troy, which stars Brad Pitt as Achilles and Eric Bana as Hector.
And it got a lot of criticism at the time.
It was a movie that probably has a budget.
With inflation of 300 to 350 million.
It was a massive picture when it came out, but people attacked it because they're like, well, there are no gods.
And I think it's a very good film and it's only going to grow in importance.
And I'm hoping that somebody will try and release the film, maybe do a showing of it on the same day that The Odyssey releases.
And maybe even Kevin Deanne and I will do a watch along.
And it's important that people understand and appreciate that film now for what it is because there is no non white casting in that.
Right, right.
Well, I just saved ourselves a half dozen corrective email messages.
Clytemnestra was the wife of Agamemnon, and she kills him when he comes back.
That's right.
Yep.
Yep, yep.
No mercy for Agamemnon, homeward bound.
Okay.
Well, no, this is, I really would like to know.
It's like the people who, it reminds me of that poster that the European Union issued for Europe Day.
I don't know exactly what Europe Day commemorates, but it's in May sometime.
And it was a picture of an old white woman, and she's shaking hands or looking fondly at a young African girl.
And it says something like, Europeans all.
And what could be more obvious than the idea that white people are fading away and these dynamic, young black people are going to take our place?
What is going through the minds of the people who put that together to celebrate Europe Day, celebrate our extinction?
And what is going through this Nolan's mind?
I really would like to sit them down and tie them to a chair and get an answer and then only loose them.
What was going through your mind?
There's apparently a Apparently, a translation of the Odyssey that he's using, which tries to downplay it, tries to correlate a lot of the novel or I'm sorry, the story to colonization.
And to I think her name is Emily Wilson, it came out in 2017.
And there's a lot of individuals that I respect who have said this was the source material, it wasn't Robert Fagel's interpretation, which is used in AP classes, which I've read.
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I've actually been looking at two copies of his Iliad and the Odyssey, and I think a lot of the If it's all about colonization and black people, then it's not an interpretation.
Well, that's just a rewrite.
It's not a version of how you interpret the Greek.
But anyway, that's no excuse.
Anyway, we should move along here.
We can move along to the story.
I'm just going to come on a limb here and tell people that this is going to be one of the big stories of this year, and it's going to continue to further push the narrative into.
Our direction because you've got to engage with pop culture.
I know, Mr. Taylor, you're always talking about, oh, you know, that's not my territory, but it's so important to own that.
It's important.
It's important.
I do not exclude it from the podcast for that very reason.
I recognize it's important, even if it's not important to me.
Anyway, let's move on to a serious story about redistricting.
Virginia, of course, came up with its redistricting plan under the Democrats.
It would eliminate all but one of their Republican congressmen.
They had what?
About 40% of their congressmen were Republicans.
Now it's just going to be down to one.
It was a 6 5 situation.
That's right.
That's right.
And now they're going to make it 10 1.
Well, the Virginia Supreme Court invalidated the new maps by a 4 2 3 vote.
And of course, the Democrats in Virginia are hopping mad about this.
And one of the ways they're thinking up to implement the new plan anyway would have.
The Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age for all state Supreme Court justices.
The current mandatory retirement age is 75, and 54 is the age of the youngest current justice.
So, if they lowered the mandatory retirement age to 54, they could clear out the entire bench.
And since the State House has the right to appoint Supreme Court justices, then they could.
Put a bunch of ciphers and yes men on the bench and overrule the previous repeal of previous decision and get their redistricting map done anyway.
This is quite remarkable.
States all around the country have various laws that mandate retirement across a wide range of ages, but probably 54 would be the youngest ever.
Now, guess who's backing this?
A guy who thinks that this is just the greatest thing, since sliced bread is in Representative Suhas Subramanyan.
Of course.
Of course.
He would be the guy who's pushing it.
He supports doing, as he says, whatever is necessary to preserve the map.
He says, everyone has got to have a strong stomach right now.
This is a complete disaster waiting to happen if people are timid.
Whatever's necessary?
Well, gosh.
I mean, that sounds like you might as well go down and shoot all the sitting justices.
That would solve the problem, wouldn't it?
Whatever's necessary.
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Well, that's Suhas Subramanyam for us.
Great.
And speaking of people who shouldn't be in the country, there's a person by the name of Eileen Wang.
Did you hear about her?
She's the mayor of Arcadia, California.
Well, on Monday, she resigned after federal prosecutors charged her with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government.
And this charge comes with a potential sentence of up to 10 years, and she has pleaded guilty.
Now, she's not going to go in the slammer for 10 years, probably because she's got some sort of plea deal that we don't know about yet.
But beginning in late 2020 and continuing up through 2022, she operated a purported news website called the U.S. News Center.
And what it did was circulate pro China content at the direction of the Chinese government.
And Ms. Wang covertly worked with a man in Southern California named Mike Sun, who is a Chinaman, to disseminate this Chinese Communist Party information.
Now, this Mr. Sun, he himself has already been sentenced to four years in the Big House for his role in all of this.
And it turns out Mr. Kersey, Cherchez la femme, he was previously engaged to Mrs. Wang.
Ms. Wang, I should say, and had worked on her election campaign as the treasure.
A little love nest that seems to have been broken up.
Another man, John Chen, yet another Asian, who prosecutors said served as a go between between Mr. Sun and the Chinese government, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for acting as an illegal foreign agent.
Now back to Mayor Wang.
She was elected in November of 2022, five years ago, to the Arcadia City Council.
And apparently, the way the mayor is selected, they have a five person city council, and on a rotating basis, each gets to serve as mayor.
Well, she just happened to have the hot seat at the moment when all of this came to the attention of the authorities, and so out she goes.
Now, what she did, of course, was post this propaganda directed to a Chinese American audience under Chinese orders.
In one example, she was told through an encrypted message to publish an essay explaining China's stance on the Xinjiang issue.
Now, for those of you who are not aware of what that is, that's where the Uyghurs live.
And the Uyghurs are a different ethnic group.
They're not Han Chinese, and boy, are they being ferociously mistreated.
But I'm sure that what Ms. Wang was publishing makes it all sound just lovely.
It's the Garden of Eden that they've made for these lovely Uyghurs.
Well, in a statement, Mrs. Wang's lawyers named Brian A. Sun and Jason Liang.
More Chinese, Mr. Kersey, recognized the seriousness of this charge and has agreed to accept responsibility for her mistakes.
But what the heck?
This is an all Asian cast.
And I looked a little bit more closely into the situation.
The population of Arcadia, Los Angeles County, is a total of 55,000 people, of whom 60% are Asian.
And the city council is all Asian.
This is no longer part of America.
And it's no wonder that it is broadcasting Chi Com propaganda.
In the meantime, here's one other story about Chinese.
It's about Liu Jianwang, age 64, a naturalized U.S. citizen.
He was convicted just this week of acting as an illegal foreign agent.
Liu and a co defendant, Chen Jinping, established what's often called a police station in Manhattan's Chinatown in 2022.
This is because Liu had been back home in his native Fujian province, where China's Ministry of Public Security announced it was opening 30 such secret police stations all around the world.
And he thought, wow, this sounds good to me.
And he had a station that occupied an entire floor in a building in Chinatown.
Well, as it turns out, a Ministry of Public Security handler directed Liu, a naturalized U.S. citizen, to track down pro democracy dissidents, which he was happy to do.
He had a documented history of helping the PRC government, dating back to at least 2015, hunting down.
And counter protesting against Falun Gong practitioners.
That's Chinese religion, people who don't like the Communist Party.
Well, as it turned out, Liu and he had this co defendant, Chen, deleted WeChat messages with their Chinese handler.
Forensic analysis of their seized telephones recovered 2,600 deleted messages, including all sorts of directives do this, do that.
Well, this is quite amusing to me.
Liu, Admitted in his FBI interview that he deleted the messages the same day he learned that there was going to be a search of the premises.
But he said he did the deletions by mistake.
Well, Liu's lawyers said that the outpost is really just a community center where people, Chinese, could renew their Chinese driver's licenses remotely without having to go to China, and where people would meet and play ping pong and mahjong.
Well, Mr. Kersey, apparently there are 100 such stations reported across 53 countries.
Gosh.
And rights groups say that they are set up to threaten and monitor Chinese abroad and help Beijing finger pro democracy activists living overseas.
And of course, the Chinese say they are simply service stations that give administrative help to their beloved citizens living across the water.
Now, I wonder whether any of this will be an embarrassment to our president in his conversations with Xi Jinping, whether it'll even come up.
To me, the really astonishing story is this Arcadia.
I didn't know that there was any place that size that was so overwhelmingly Asian 60%, 60% Asian, the full city council Asian.
And then you get these Chinese who are putting together these so called police officers, police departments right here in the United States so they can keep an eye on Chinese in any case.
Well, that's interesting because we're coming up on the end of our hour here, sir.
And I recall being astonished to learn that large parts of northern Italy where the The textile industry is, if you go back to the early days of COVID in February and January of 2020, that was where it was hitting the hardest.
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Yep.
Because the people were going back to China to celebrate Chinese New Year and then they were bringing back the COVID.
And that was the area where everyone was saying, Holy cow, we've got to shut down everything.
You can't leave your home.
And reading the stories about how, you know, oh my gosh, we can't let xenophobia become, you know, spread.
And it's like, wait a second, why is this?
Large part of Italy colonized.
Well, and they were making these fancy luxury brands in these sweatshop factories right there in Italy.
Yes.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I think we have time for maybe one little story, if we can move quickly.
And this is an important story.
I like numbers, and these are interesting numbers.
Most people think school shooters are white.
Not so.
Well, an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics, JAMA Pediatrics, examined 253 school shootings involving 262 shooters from 1990 to 2016.
It would be nice to have more recent data, but that's what we've got.
Now, only a small number qualified as mass casualty events.
That's defined as four or more gunshot fatalities.
Just seven shootings met that threshold.
And only half of the 253 incidents resulted in at least one death.
So a lot of this is just blazing away.
You might hit somebody, you might not.
You might kill somebody, you might not.
But the racial and ethnic breakdown of these school shootings, fatal, Or non fatal.
60% of the shooters were black, 28% white, and 8% Latino.
Now, a lot of these resulted from the usual interpersonal disputes you stepped on my shoe, so I'll kill you, which aligns perfectly with patterns of black violence and lone gunman with the stereotypical guy who just goes in blazing.
It also aligns with the impulsivity frequently seen in black teenagers and young adults.
Now, the real mass casualty events often involve.
Different motivations and perpetrators compared to those that are gang related or just impulsive young blacks.
Mass casualty shootings require forethought, higher intelligence, which explains why mass shootings of the kind that make the news are more likely to be perpetrated by whites and sometimes East Asian gunmen compared to these just blaze away and hardly hit anybody's stuff.
But once again, the really important figure is 60% of the shooters are black, 28% white, and 8% Latino.
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So, ladies and gentlemen, that brings.
Episode number 500 to a close.
I hope it was worth your time.
I know that Mr. Kersey and I always enjoy ourselves, and we consider it an immense honor to spend this time with you, and we look forward to doing so next week.