Canada Weeps and Mexico Burns - A Very Bad Day For the Anti-American Propagandists
Warren Smith joins to critique Canada’s hockey loss to the U.S. as a microcosm of its anti-American hypocrisy—booing the anthem while virtue-signaling—while defending Trump’s 2023 designation of Mexican cartels like CJNG (responsible for 25 security force deaths) as terrorists, citing dropped fentanyl deaths under his administration. He argues Canada’s ideological bias and lack of moral standards, from euthanasia to academia’s 94% Democratic funding, mirror its support for cartel-linked tourism and past pro-Castro policies, suggesting severing ties with Alberta. Smith advocates abolishing tenure and live-streamed debates over traditional campus restrictions, contrasting his Socratic method with combative leftist tactics, while dismissing film school as obsolete, favoring viral content strategies instead. The episode frames geopolitical tensions through sports, policy, and media bias. [Automatically generated summary]
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America first.
Love as well.
Second.
472 second place.
Hey, we have makeup back there, too.
Man, we can cover up the eye.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's just keep that between us.
I'm sorry, I lost my cool.
How Do You Like These Apples?00:02:43
Glad to be with you.
It's 11 a.m. On a weekday, so that means that we are streaming live as we always do.
Though tomorrow we'll be streaming the State of the Union address, a very special evening stream.
We haven't done that since election season.
Drinking game rules to follow.
Today, what we're getting to, Canada, how do you like them apples?
A lot of apples come from Canada.
Fun fact.
Look, and I know you're going to say, hey, that's classless.
Bingo.
So I don't care.
And I think that that's it.
I think we're going to look back on this and say this may have been as consequential or close to as consequential as the miracle on ice against the Russians.
The United States, Canada, our relationship dynamics need to change.
I think they will.
And this is really Canada.
I'm sorry.
It's all you had left.
Alberta, notwithstanding, we love you.
The rest of you, maybe parts of Saskatchewan.
You're awful.
You're just the pits.
You're the worst, Canada, and you deserve everything.
I hope this reverberates through your soul and you feel it for the rest of your days.
And by the way, I fully accept that we'll probably lose against you in the future because it's the only thing you have and you're going to work extra hard.
So we're going to talk about Canada, the sort of geopolitical dynamics of that game.
Mexico, drug cartels, designated terrorist organizations, people through a fit.
Now you know why they can destabilize entire countries.
Thank God we did it.
Very special guest, Warren Smith, will be on later.
I think probably him and I share the closest rhetorical style in approaching sort of debates because it's not so much a debate.
Very popular online.
I've been watching him.
Very, very sharp guy.
Looking forward to having him on.
And my question to you is: which part of Canada is the crappiest?
Don't say all of it.
We'll take your chat later on.
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By the way, I look at my notes.
Sometimes I look at notes from last week.
This just says, looking at her interracial white/slash black question mark.
I don't know what I was thinking or what I don't know what I meant.
Sometimes we just leave notes for you there to mess with you.
Yeah, that's exactly.
Oh, that's why there's a wiener.
You should stop looking at her, though.
And it's weird that there's a wiener, it says Gerald, and then there's a disappointed emoji that someone took the time.
Notes To Mess With You00:05:07
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We'll be talking about your new NFL team, the Chicago Bears.
That's right.
Yes.
Yes.
The Chicago Bears of Indiana.
Is that a real thing?
It's something like that.
It's in the works.
We need to do a Stephen No Sports because I haven't been following this for a long time.
But it is fun to see Canadians lose at the only thing they have.
Oh, it was the only thing.
That's the only reason why it's so fun.
Yeah.
Because you're supposed to win, dude.
Yeah.
That's the thing you're supposed to do out of all the things.
We expect you to win.
It's your thing.
We don't feel bad when we get sober.
We're like, hey, we're second best at this Canadian game.
It'd be like, that's pretty cool.
It'd be like if Gordon Ramsey woke up tomorrow, like, Hawking Cook.
He's getting beat by a waffle house chef.
He just gets world starred in one of his three-star restaurants.
All right.
I don't know what to say.
How many stars is a good star?
Three is the thing.
Three is amazing.
Well, see, I nailed it.
Still got it.
Gavin Newsom is a pandering butthole.
He wants you to know that he's black just like you because he's dumb.
I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you.
I'm just trying to impress upon you, I'm like you.
I'm not better than you.
You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy.
Just like you.
And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940.
But literally a 960 SAT guy.
I cannot, you, you've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.
Maybe the wrong business to be in.
Agreed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
I can't read.
What?
I can't read, and I did poorly on my SATs, fellow blacks.
Just like you.
Just in case, like, this is a thing where people say, oh, well, we will tell some jokes, go through some bits that are undoubtedly probably more offensive than that on paper.
But in spirit, that tells you what he thinks of you, right?
When people ask, where does the racism actually exist on the right or the left?
Comment below.
You get it, right?
We make jokes.
They make statements.
Yes.
Yeah, he really means.
And by the way, this is not unique to Gavin Newsom.
Just a refresher, he is joining a long line of Democrats who pander to black people by also letting you know that they're not super capable.
We have this notion that somehow, if you're poor, you cannot do it.
Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
Oh, my God.
If you ever talk about figuring out whether you're for mayor Trump and you ain't black, I'm proud to be a bartender.
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Tell you there's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy.
That's right.
There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat.
How long do you need that food?
I come too far from where I started from.
Because she got a fat ass too.
You told me that the road would be easy.
I'm just like you, my husband cheat.
How fun would it be to just stiff arm, hold her head down so she can't get up?
My mom was pregnant and divorced a few years later with two kids for no money and just hustled and worked hard riding every day.
We are preparing coins.
For what?
For Thanksgiving dinner.
I was 960 or 980 on my SAT.
And that was cool.
Like my mom's like, it's okay.
It's okay to be average.
I think if you sign it, you get like four thousand.
And it's not an indictment, but I've got four kids all in club sports.
And how that's become damn professional.
That's pretty penny.
Yeah.
Right now we have young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word a computer is.
They don't know.
They don't know.
The sign language lady has to do it.
Black men are being killed on the street.
What is democracy?
The trail of broken promises soon leave black communities behind.
What does it mean, as you've heard before, to be a black man who loves his country, even if it doesn't love him back in equal measure?
What's something that you always carry with you?
Hot sauce.
Really?
Yeah.
You know, people are going to see this and say, okay, she's pandering to black people.
Double Standards and Meltdown00:15:47
Okay.
Is it working?
No.
They should have been like.
Pull it out right now.
Yeah, pull it out right now.
Pull out that hot sauce.
What do you got?
Tabatille, Franks?
Louisiana?
What are you working with?
Yeah, she's not working with anything.
Look, I don't even know Frank.
I will tell you that this is what the left does, and this is why I would never insult your intelligence.
I would never pander to you.
Because I'm cool.
Dig.
Like Hennessy on the rocks at my baby mom's house.
I wouldn't do it.
No.
I wouldn't pander.
I would never do that.
Because I keep it real fam.
As you know by my new mixtape or things of that nature that you have also checked out.
It's just offensive.
It's unnecessary.
Also.
Inappropriate.
I, as well, didn't do nothing.
You know.
Let's go to Canada.
What was your SAT score?
We had a sun demographic shift.
The Canadian meltdown over the Olympics.
We're going to get into the meltdown from Canada, okay?
The double standards and our relationship with Canada.
Okay.
This is, it's emblematic of our relationship with the world.
They will set terms to the game.
They will try and implement rules.
We accept, we oblige, and then they bitch about it.
They will end zone dance.
They will gloat.
This is Canada.
This is a lot of Europe, right?
You can compare this to NATO.
You can compare this to tariffs, for example.
Let me encapsulate it.
They blew the national anthem.
Okay?
We beat them.
We post a meme of an eagle stomping on a goose, and that is considered a violation of international law.
Apply it to tariffs.
They'll apply a tariff on American dairy to the tune of several hundred percent.
We turn around and say, okay, we're going to protect our own industries.
And then they cry foul.
That's why this matters.
Well, they cried foul, but it was a picture of stop it.
Yes, I get it.
They have a point.
I don't like it, but I like it.
So one year ago, after Canada did defeat the United States.
Also, do you realize that we accept the terms of it where we go like, no, okay, you know, it's their thing.
They won.
Fair game.
They should be good at it.
We were bummed out, sure.
Sure.
But, you know.
But we didn't say second is the best.
We should have really won.
We actually won.
First is the worst.
We didn't do that.
So this was about a year ago, I think, after Canada beat the United States.
It was this at the Four Nations game.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote this.
Sorry, right clip, always right clip.
It's not going away.
He wrote, you can't take our country and you can't take our game.
Well, one out of two is okay.
So, yeah.
You know this, the United States defeated Canada two to one in overtime.
And you may not notice if you are the byproduct of public education or other things of that such nature, but two, motherfucker, is that many.
So, it's time for No Canada.
No.
Marley was dead to begin with.
Let's set the stage before we go through all of these different dynamics.
References available, links in the description as we do every show.
goes without saying Canada, a failed nation, a conquered people, didn't take the loss very well.
I call this f king!
Seja king!
Sejal king!
What's he saying?
No!
I can't hear him, but he's French Canadian, so he's belligerent.
So I'm just a little on edge right now.
He's got a nose like a dog's wiener.
F*** you, buddy.
This guy's so pissed.
They give the losers teddy bears.
Look at him.
He's like, what?
Nathan McKinnon, hilarious.
Yes!
This guy's pretty cool, actually.
Watch your fingers.
By the way, the other guy, the other person I think in front of, they're trying to reason with him as to why that's not a good idea.
He's like, hey, don't do that, you'll color gamete.
So let's go through the phase Before we get to acceptance, that's my 50-inch.
That's it.
That's right.
That's cost a lot in Canada.
A lot of inches.
I love how they're talking to Doug Ford right now about this.
You guys watch it out there and we'll see what they're doing.
I just think it's hilarious.
Let's go through the different phases.
First off, is, you know, they try to convince themselves Canada, as opposed to accepting the terms that losing is okay.
Remember, this is now the men beat the men and the women beat the Canadian women.
You remember after the Canadian female team lost, or women's team, I don't know if they allow men to compete, they posted this on X.
They wrote, silver shines just as bright.
What?
No, it doesn't.
Actually, no, it doesn't.
That's the thing.
It doesn't shine just as bright at all.
It's not even close.
It's in color.
It's a reflective metal, I've heard, but that's not shining.
That's reflecting.
Here's this one.
There's a story posted on X said, the checkout clerk at the grocery store just asked me how the hockey game went.
When I told her we lost in overtime, she said, Overtime?
Then our boys played a good game.
I love Canada so much.
I love Canada so much.
And then I was like, yo, I'm just here to buy cigarettes and abandon my family.
You know what I'm saying?
I ain't going to be back.
I'm coming back.
I'm not going to be coming back.
Then there's this flat out lie.
Dear fellow Canadians, as you know, it's never about who wins.
Never.
Sometimes it is, though.
In all sports, sometimes it is.
In the Olympics, it is.
And in hockey, it is.
In everything.
It's about how you carry yourself in tough moments.
Are you a gracious winner?
Are you a gracious loser?
Those are the only things people remember.
Hey, anyone remember how the Russians reacted to the miracle on ice in 1988?
They were like, ah, that Sakharov guy, he was really ornery.
No, people kind of remember the winners.
And I get it.
You want to be a good sport, but let's not say winning never matters.
Let's dust ourselves off and show the world what being Canadian is all about losing.
Well, yes, he hinted his profile there.
So, you know.
Then the captain, Nathan McKinnon, wrote this.
He said, You be the judge of who was the better team today.
We were.
The scoreboard was.
Yeah, it's not figure skating.
This is not a judge defend.
No.
Sometimes you'll get this like in a fight where, let's say, a guy is dominating and a cut opens up.
And so he loses because they can't allow it to go on.
And then he immediately wins the rematch.
This is not that.
This went into overtime and you were beaten.
That's pretty definitive.
That's about as definitive as it gets at that point.
But they got off and missed more shots.
That's right.
So the ones that counted.
This guy also, Canadians, just listen to the cope.
Honestly, if you're an American celebrating that win, you're a casual who doesn't know Puck.
That is true.
Totally fine.
Grow the game.
What the hell is that?
I don't know Puck.
Yeah.
But no, we fucking won.
Yeah.
You fucking loser.
Here's the thing.
I don't even need to know.
I don't know that much about biology or geography or grammar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I do.
You only need to know L and W.
Yeah.
And that one's pretty definitive here.
And then you have them.
Of course, the cope then goes to, as classy as they are, crapping on the United States.
So here's a post that was referring to the White House made a post showing a bald eagle on top of a Canadian goose, which was awesome.
And so a guy responded saying, the guy who tweeted this is a rapist and a pedophile governing a country chock full of rapists and pedophiles.
So Canada still won.
Well, let's even go with your premise.
That's our eagle pedophiling your goose.
The goose was of age.
Yeah.
Chris Hansen is going to show up and ask the eagle to take a seat.
I'm okay with it.
Also, that picture is taken from a video.
A videographer took a video of a bald eagle and a goose getting into it last year.
Yeah.
Around the same time as the Four Nations game, and people were nobody of note, but people in Canada were sharing the goose on top of the eagle at one point.
So you guys boo the anthem.
We post an image.
It was okay.
You guys defended it.
And then you're furious when we do something that, by the way, has been done really in all professional sports.
You know, you can see for like you may see a shark eating a panther if they're playing.
This is some of the, well, these are mascots, right?
The mascots even pantomime fights sometimes.
Booing a national anthem would be reason enough to be kicked out of any professional sport, certainly in hockey, just to be clear.
So it's the double standard.
Just apply that to tariffs.
Just apply that to border security.
Just apply that to drug trafficking.
Just apply that to immigration.
Here's another one about America's standing in the world.
The arrogance begins.
This is why the world hates America.
No class.
No class?
I've got you covered.
So we posted meaning the United States.
Let's just you know i'll stay behind.
We posted, if you bring up Overlay Klaus, 8011, the Eagle.
Okay.
We had the Eagle on top of the goose.
And then this is, oh, they did have a goose.
This wasn't shut by their mini ministers.
But this is something that they put out there.
We responded with our own for a while, right?
And once we won, they're furious.
These are the people who booed the anthem of our country.
That poor guy thinks they're booing him.
That's true.
Again, if you did that in the NHL, you'd be suspended.
You'd be punished for it, just to be clear.
In an international game, there isn't the same type of governing body.
So they want you to believe that the more egregious sin is us posting this image that they also posted.
We just showed you.
The only difference is that those from Canada, they were AI.
And the one that we posted was from an actual event of an eagle and a goose.
There was round one, round two, round three, and so on.
And all the rounds had everything in it.
Like in boxing, the contestants were getting more and more tired.
There were times when it seemed hopeless for the goose and the goose was under the eagle.
I thought it was over.
However, it was very, very impressive.
The goose fought back and came out of that and survived the day.
And that's not AI.
That looks like AI to me too.
And then I ate both of them.
And I hated them both.
They were delicious.
Oh, my gosh, beautiful.
They tasted like the fighting spirit.
But I won't eat eagle again.
Too stringy.
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That's when we stream in case you're just tuning in right now or you're watching a clip.
So apply it to tariffs.
It's a double standard.
Then apply reality versus their delusion, right?
Booing the anthem.
Yeah, we're better than you.
You have no class.
The reality is we're a more successful country.
Canada is more poor than Alabama.
Now let's go to the sympathizers.
Canada, just to be clear, their Prime Minister is a communist, and the liberals in Canada are actual communists.
The liberals in the United States are pretty much communists too.
Now I want you to be aware of the communist sympathizers amongst your ranks.
McCarthy was right, because this is a time where at least we should all be able to come together and be proud, right?
The Olympics should be one of those events.
That's why sports are supposed to be this sort of uniting universal language.
Well, I should say, with borders in your country, meaning you all get behind your guys.
You know who knows that pretty well?
Like the Russians did that.
Those were their guys and nobody else's.
Instead, you see people in the United States, traders, like those at HuffPo, writing things like: if waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, you're not alone.
Oh, geez.
What?
I would say if waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, that should be an official question in the census that leads to immediate deportation.
Yeah, goodbye.
People say, like, oh, you know, it's not good to say that.
We're not saying crap hole countries, though other countries are crap hole countries.
We're not saying that other countries suck, though most do.
We're not even saying in this instance that the United States is the greatest country on earth, though it is.
See, they'll argue that all those things are too nationalistic.
I am.
They'll argue that it's ethnocentric, which is a made-up term.
But that's not really the sticking point, is it?
Just like dreamers with kids, anchor babies, they don't want to deport violent criminals.
To the left, waving the flag or chanting USA three letters is a problem.
We are not the same, and we are not going to find common ground.
And I guess the hero of this game for a lot of people, Jack Hughes, who just spat out his tooth only a few minutes prior, didn't get the memo.
This is all about our country right now.
I love the USA.
I love my teammates.
It's unbelievable.
The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong.
And we have so much support from ex-players.
I'm so proud to be American today.
It's gross.
This was such an incredible game to grind out.
I mean, you're bleeding right through it just looking at you right now.
Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal was to win?
Unbelievable game by Hellabuck.
He was our best player tonight by Mile.
Unbelievable game.
Unreal game by our team.
That's just a ballsy, gutsy win.
That's American hockey right there.
American Hockey Brotherhood00:07:39
That's a great Canadian team, but we're USA.
We're so proud to be Americans.
Tonight was all for the country.
What does this gold medal mean to USA hockey?
It's everything.
Like I said, the USA Hockey Brotherhood means so much.
Look at these guys.
We're such a team.
We've been in the air for two weeks.
We're such a team.
The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong, and we're so proud to win for our country.
I'm lucky I'm from the best country in the world.
And we got great dentists there, too.
So I'm lucky I'm American, and they're going to fix me right up.
And I just want to be really clear about this.
He just said it's a great Canadian team, but I'm proud to be American.
Yeah.
We won.
That was as classy to use the term of these angry, sore losers from Canada as you could possibly be.
We waved the flag, and that's a problem.
We waved the flag in front of, by the way, members of another nation who booed our anthem.
And our behavior is deemed less acceptable.
We're not friends.
Canada's not a good friend.
And I know it's not all Canadians, but it's too many of them.
And we're not friends with those in the left here in the United States.
We are not friends.
We are not part of it.
It goes deeper than that.
For a society to exist, you have to have a shared society.
There has to be something that unites you.
If you can't see the flag being waved or the chant of your country after you win an international sporting event, you are not a part of American society.
I don't follow hockey.
I didn't watch this game live, but at no point would I be, no matter who's president, when Barack Obama was president, you would never hear me complain of people waving the flag or chanting USA.
A social fabric has to be a weave, meaning somehow we are connected.
We are not, and we cannot with those on the left here in the United States because they would rather be Canada.
Let's send them to Canada.
Yes, Noodles, you're the biggest hockey fan here.
Yeah, I was just going to say, so Jack Hughes scored the overtime game winner, but he referenced Hellebuck their goalie, made 41 out of 42 saves, which is incredible.
Canada outshot us 42 to 28.
And so that's why they'll say like they won the game.
But at the end of the day, like you said, it's the scoreboard, and that's what makes hockey so great.
You can be outshot and still show up.
Also, just means we got a better rate.
Not only that, it also means that sometimes, you know, hey, what happens if you're down towards the end?
You pull the goalie.
Sometimes you have a more aggressive strategy where if you say, we have a good enough goalie, we are going to be playing a different type of game.
In other words, you can find other games where I guarantee you the American team is more aggressive, gets more shots off.
Sometimes you can find a faster passing game, right?
Where you're distracted.
We all know this.
You develop different strategies.
You'll see that in fighting.
CompuStrike will go, well, this guy had twice as much volume in strikes, but he had a quarter of the accuracy.
People don't always follow the same strategy every game.
That's why we have, thank God, goals.
An objective measure.
Yes, exactly.
And here's something objectively awesome: President Trump's call with the team.
One minute.
One minute.
And by the way, Ed, how are you, say hi, how are you, say hi to him.
How you doing, Dan?
I have seen hockey goalies have slightly worse games.
Unbelievable.
And you were all unbelievable.
And that team is pretty good.
You played.
I don't know.
Maybe we'll get any time soon, right?
And you know, I tell you what, I just told my people two minutes ago, I didn't know they'd be going.
I said, we're giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.
I could send a military plan or something.
If you would like to, it's the coolest night.
It's the biggest.
We're in.
Watch this.
We're going to have to bring the woman's team.
You do know that.
If you could do that, I do believe I probably would be peached, okay?
Look, I won't lie to you.
They're not as bad as the softball brudge, but some of them are rough.
Lots of lazies on those teams.
I love that.
Before he could even get the words out of his mouth, they knew and they were like, We are in, absolutely.
Yeah.
Well, compared to the NFL, compared to the NBA, hockey is the least leftist sporting organization out there.
And you know what's ironic about that?
Hockey is, you may not like the sport of hockey.
You may not follow it as much.
It is without a doubt the most team-centric sport out there, meaning you will have star players who go out there on a given night and bleed for their team and nothing else because that's what needs to be done that night.
People will put their ego aside in hockey.
And you can say that there are other sports out there.
People argue, you know, soccer, which one requires the most amount of athleticism.
You look at Hughes, no other sport.
Here's how I am measuring it outside of combat sports, individual sports.
As far as a team sport, you could drop any player off from the NFL, toughest, meanest player, any player from baseball, NBA, soccer.
You put them in overtime in hockey, knock out their tooth with a hammer and say, go.
Not one would accept that.
You could take any of those hockey players, put them in any other sports scenario.
It doesn't mean they skillfully would do well.
They'd get sacked if they were, but they could do it.
They would have the mental toughness to do it.
There really is a different mindset.
So a much more collective mindset as far as a team sport, hockey, compared to others where people hot dog, yet they lean more right.
And this is something that I think people need to take stock of this.
Conservatives, Republicans, nationalists, right?
People on the right, we absolutely believe in preserving liberty and freedom because we also understand our collective duty.
That's how Japan misgauged.
They underestimated the United States in World War II.
They said it's a nation of Playboys.
They're all about freedom and decadence.
So they're not going to be willing to die the way that you guys are.
We were more readily willing to die.
Why?
Because we were willing to die for freedom.
That's the same thing with a lot of these hockey players.
They believe in the power of the individual so that that empowered individual can sacrifice himself for his team when the time comes.
Don't mistake rugged individualism with us not understanding the importance of the collective because those on the right live their lives in a way that is far less selfish than communists on the left.
And the same thing with hockey players in comparison to other sports.
The macro here is take what happened, Canada complaining, Canada changing the game, or changing the terms, I should say.
Canada bitching about us doing a far more mild response than they did in booing our anthem, and they vilify us.
It's the same thing with Europe and NATO.
They don't honor their contracts.
They don't meet their spending.
And when we finally say, you know what, maybe we're going to pull from NATO because we're tired of footing the bill, we're the big bad villain.
These people booed our anthem and are furious that we posted an image of an eagle with a goose.
By the way, an eagle would kick the crap out of a goose.
We all know that.
It's not even close.
And I feel Canadian geese.
You don't even need a picture for that.
No, you don't even need a picture for that.
One has incredibly sharp talents.
Why Spit Out Seeds?00:02:21
All right, we have to go.
We're going to go on to Mexico too because we're going south of the border.
But before that, you know, by the way, and I would never advise, when you go to Mexico, you can see some shows that at the very least are, you know, uncouth, I guess to say.
You guys know what I'm talking about in Tijuana.
Don't do that.
And, you know, just find a line of work that is a good, honest day's work.
That being said, you don't have to do that right now because we are going to roll up the dollar bills and put them in your undergarments.
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Mexico.
No, I'm not.
This is actually, yeah, it's terrible.
This is a good.
Like I said.
And this isn't a snobby coffee.
It's a good medium roast, highly rated, and it'll work in anything.
It's not too dark, so it won't gum up your grinder.
It took us a long time to make.
Also, it's tough.
Coffee beans are, you know, they're difficult to get.
They are.
Because it's a persnickety crop.
Anyone here ever had the coffee fruit?
You ever actually tasted it?
No, no.
It's delicious, and we don't use it for anything.
It tastes like a watermelon meets a cherry.
What you're eating is the seed, and we call it a bean.
But like, what are they doing with all the coffee fruit?
They're just tossing it?
Maybe that was their refuse and they're just like selling it to us.
I don't jokes on us.
I have no idea.
It's delicious.
I want, yeah, try it.
No way.
Try it sometimes.
It tastes like a cherry meets a watermelon.
People can comment below.
You let me know if you've ever had it.
All right.
You have to spit out the seeds, though.
The beans.
So we have Orn Smith coming on here in a little bit.
One year ago, let me try.
Why Countries Embargo00:15:27
One year ago, President Trump designated cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Now, we've seen that with Venezuela, but he designated specifically Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Why?
Because they control governments, right?
They're effectively transnational actors, and they can destabilize entire countries, regions, in some cases, halves of continents, and use fear, right, as a terrorist organization would.
We saw this on full display yesterday.
So, first, let's set the stage.
Monroe Doctrine, you know this.
The Trump administration was very clear that the national security approach, the Western Hemisphere, is ours.
And thank God, picture any other country in the Western Hemisphere and tell me you want them at the tiller of the ship.
He wrote, The United States will reassert and reinforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere to protect our homeland and access to key geographies throughout the region.
So, this is something that is well known.
The left, of course, has complained about it.
And that means that anything President Trump does must be bad.
So, designating foreign drug cartels as terrorist organizations, they also believe is bad.
We saw them do it with Venezuela.
Now, Mexico, the president there, Claudia Scheinbaum, has repeatedly rejected.
She kind of did, but she doesn't really mean it, our intervention.
It is necessary to reaffirm that in Mexico, the people are in charge and that we are a free, independent, and sovereign country.
Not the cartels, cooperation, yes.
Subordination and intervention, no.
He has insisted on several occasions that the United States military be able to enter Mexico.
And we have said no very firmly.
First, because we defend our sovereignty.
And second, because it is not necessary.
Yeah, the people are in charge.
Sure.
People are in charge.
So, you know, why would you care if a few drug cartels get taken out?
Well, this weekend it turned into a war zone because of just that.
This is Dan Dix here reporting for Press for Truth coming at you here live in Puerto Vallerta, Mexico.
Just had the military driving past me, and as I understand it, I should not be around anywhere where the police or the military are because they are the target right now.
I can see the flames underneath that black smoke.
Major flames there.
That's just people having a domestic dispute.
Yeah.
No, don't take it down on the $5 rotisserie chickens.
Yeah.
That's people having a dispute because the people are in charge of their government.
That's what I mean.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So let me tell you exactly what happened.
The Jalisco New Generation cartel, for future, I'll just say CJNG, their leader, El Mencho, was killed by some Mexican security forces.
There wasn't any involvement of the United States outside of shared intel, from what we understand, but also there were numbers that came out that there were some American guardsmen, right?
No, no, sorry, sorry.
These are the National Guard of Mexico.
25 were killed during the internal dispute.
And there were conflicting reports coming out, so we're still kind of parsing through it, but intel was shared.
That's how we helped.
Keep in mind, this is the main competitor to the Shinaloa cartel.
Yeah.
That's El Chapo, for those of you who don't necessarily know follow, if you're not in on the brackets of the drug cartels.
And so what is happening is the cartels are now trying to, what, use terrorism.
They're trying to retain power over and discourage the government from acting.
The people of Mexico are not in charge of their own destiny.
It has been for a long time, and you know this, and all of those who are in the know have known this.
The drug cartel says jump and the government says how high.
It just depends on which drug cartel has the most power at that point.
That's why they have been designated foreign terrorist organizations.
By the way, El Mencho's henchmen did not go down.
I will give them credit where it's due, without a fight.
I always forget how terrible that motion picture was.
Terrible.
So this isn't just a problem, though, for Mexico.
Just like if Canada is communist, it's not just a problem for Canada.
If Canada has a poorest border, it's not just a problem for Canada.
It's a problem for the United States.
These cartels are a major threat to the United States.
I'm not going to have the libertarian debate about the war on drugs.
We live in reality right now, and drug cartels exist, and they do bad things.
And if you legalized all drugs tomorrow, they would still exist.
They would just do something else.
Let me direct you to some facts.
Check the references.
Here's key fact number one.
The CJNG other cartels are not just responsible for drugs of about $100 billion a year.
For example, 1 million pills, 77,000 kilograms of drugs were seized by the DEA.
But there's also human trafficking, $13 billion a year.
Now remember, there were 300,000 children lost under Biden.
We don't have the exact numbers to know which ones were directly the result of these cartels.
But here's the thing.
If you just legalized all drugs, that $13 billion a year in human trafficking would go up.
These people aren't drug dealers.
These people are criminals and terrorists who happen to make money off of drugs.
The idea that they are going to straighten up and fly right if you simply permit their behavior, like they're going to submit an IRS form, is ridiculous.
Keep in mind, when you look at, you have a contrast.
Former administration, right?
Biden, drugs, including fentanyl, skyrocketed.
The use, the importation they're in, under President Trump, just this second term, fentanyl deaths are down almost 20%.
You look at the border, which of course directly involves Mexico.
12 to 20 million completely unvetted illegals.
I get it.
Some of those are visa overstates.
It's hard to get the exact number.
Let's round it.
Let's give it an even round 15 million.
You have gangs taking over entire apartment complexes.
Compare that to President Trump.
Border crossings down by 95%.
Cartel arrests are numbering around 7,000 at this point in time.
Key fact number two, there's a reason that these people are considered terrorists.
Okay?
You saw what they did in Mexico, but they've also been doing this here.
So in 2025, Mexican National was charged with terrorism in Texas for providing material to support the CJNG cartel.
Grenades, weapons, cash, was arrested in Mexico, extradited to the United States.
For some reason, though, even with all of this being said, the left, the same left who says that waving the flag at the Olympics and chanting USA turns them off, you know what else turns them off?
Designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
This comes from New York Times, Cato.
You guys will have all the references.
Brennan Center for Justice wrote, the dangerous sweep of Trump's plan to designate cartels as terrorist organizations.
I'm sure.
But you know what I think is more dangerous?
Drug cartels.
Wait, I don't know.
I mean, labels are kind of worse.
Labels, man.
Cato wrote, Trump administration shouldn't designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
I'm sure they have some bullshit, pseudo-libertarian, really illiberal in disguise reason for it.
It's because drug cartels are scary.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
We don't want to misidentify them.
New York Times wrote how labeling cartels terrorists could hurt the U.S. economy.
What?
I mean, I guess we'd lose $100 billion in drugs per year if that's how you want to frame it.
At what point do we say these people are just anti-American across the board?
They hate, they revile the United States of America.
The left is not a part of American society.
It is no longer, the Democrat Party is no longer a political party.
They don't like the flag.
They don't like borders.
They don't like us being tough on drug cartels.
What do we do?
Balkanization almost seems okay to me at this point.
I think we may be long overdue for a divorce.
And if you say, well, why?
Aren't we all Americans?
Yeah, but you don't like the flag.
If I say, America, your stomach turns.
If I say, hey, can't we like, can't we sort of try and clamp down on drug cartels?
You go, no, no, no, that's not right.
That'd be bad for America.
And if I say why, you say, like, what do you, what, what, what, what?
How do we find common ground at this point?
And of course, these same people bitched about President Trump bombing narco-terrorist drug boats.
The Pentagons announced the U.S. blew up another boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four people, claiming the boat was carrying drugs, but once again, offering no terrorists.
We probably saw news that last week the Trump administration took this airstrike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela.
First of all, we have no information on who was on that boat or who was killed.
It might be, as the Trump administration says, members of a drug cartel.
Well, that's some information, isn't it?
We don't know.
His stated reason for taking the strikes to try to stop the flow of drugs in the United States, it makes no sense as the centerpiece of the counter-narcotics.
Guarantee those drugs didn't make it.
Maybe in many ways, it's bringing the logic of Gaza into the Caribbean in terms of unaccountability.
That man's body generates no pigments.
And then expanding of national defense to justify.
I saw haven't thought about sexuality.
What is in effect just extrajudicial killing?
It is about separation of powers.
For the folks who wave their Constitution around, read the damn thing.
Okay.
Who waves the Constitution around?
I have.
Are you trying to say that the Constitution says that we can't designate any foreign terrorist organizations to be terrorist organizations?
Whenever the left says the Constitution, you know they're lying to you.
Just to be clear.
Whenever someone on the left says, actually, I'm a Christian, but you know they're lying to you.
And when we're talking about sinking these boats, like terrorists or no terrorists, it's sink or swim time for Mexico.
And if you let me, fan, you know, I can't swim.
So let's go to tourism.
Yeah, nailed it.
They love you.
Just got some new votes.
Yeah.
The traitors in Canada, our greatest friends.
Canada.
Ah, yeah, they're our greatest friends.
So we designate a group, domestic, sorry, foreign terrorist organizations.
They take over entire cities in Mexico and show exactly what we told you to be true, that they control governments and that that is a threat to the United States.
So what does Canada do, our greatest friend?
They encourage their people to go to Mexico.
Tourism from Canadians to Mexico, up 12%, down 28% going to the United States, because Canadians believe that it's safer than the United States for them to be in Mexico.
Hope you're enjoying it.
Your extended stay.
Here's a post from Jay Hunter.
on X wrote, last week I had a trip book to the U.S., canceled that and went to Mexico.
If you're looking for a vacation, I suggest Mexico.
The love for Canadians is real down there.
And your kidneys.
Better food, better people, better country.
Papa John's.
And they don't.
And they don't have an elderly orange rapist felon as a president.
Okay.
Okay.
So the drug cartels of Mexico are better than President Trump.
And they're better specifically for Canadians.
All right.
And the Mexican tourism minister said that Canadians going to Mexico said, I think they are choosing more friendly policies.
You know what else?
This happened when I was growing up.
Canada did this with Cuba.
You could actually argue that the people of Cuba, because there are consequences, right?
Canadians going, we're going to stick it to the United States.
I can't believe they made us a hockey, even though winning doesn't matter, right?
It just matters how you live, but we're going to Mexico.
They did the same thing with Cuba.
The people of Mexico will be under the thumb of the drug cartels as long as Canada does this.
That's why countries boycott countries, just to be clear.
That's why countries have embargoes.
That's why countries have sanctions.
Cuba.
Canadians have almost single-handedly kept the Castros and their never-ending lineage in power afloat with their tourism dollars when the United States said we're no longer allowing our people to go to Cuba.
Do you think the people, let me ask you this.
Canadians go, we're going to Cuba.
I can get some rum there at 3D free.
Whatever the hell it is.
Why do you think when Cubans get to America, well over 80% of them vote Republican and conservative?
Do you think they're happy to see Canadians go there and every dime they spend goes directly to the fascist, autocratic communist regime?
What I'm trying to say is just sticking it to America because you have a jealousy complex, it's not annoying.
It kills people.
It kills people.
I know because I was one of them.
I had to go to Cuba.
I was one of few Americans who went to both Guantanamo Bay to do some shows for the troops as an American.
And when I was young, I had to go to Cuba on a Canadian passport for a Rising Crust pizza commercial, which, by the way, pretty sure was a money laundering scheme.
Yeah, I don't see why the Rising Crust is coming out of Cuba.
Yeah, I have, well, they needed it to be set during the summer.
They needed to blow their budget.
And I remember my mom leaving a tip on a bill.
And I was a minor, I think it was 16.
And I said, mom, you know, if you do that, that's not going to go to her.
That's going to go.
And my mom said, oh, I'm sorry.
Hey, if I put that, did that go to you?
And she just kind of, my mom said, you know what?
Never mind.
Let me write that.
I'll give you cash.
She said, don't touch the bill.
Don't touch the bill.
Don't scratch the bill.
They'll know.
Like she was going to be carried away forever.
Forever.
Canadians support the government of Cuba.
Canadians support the government of Mexico in bed with the cartels while they virtue signal.
And those people will never enjoy basic freedoms.
But you know what?
You have the moral high ground, Canada, because you kill 5% of your population with euthanasia.
Now, surprise, Canadians are stuck in Mexico.
For all the Edmontonians out there, they were telling us to go over there.
But yeah, we all had to run here in Puerto Rico.
And by the way, that sucks.
If that guy's Canadian, serves you right.
Here's what Canadians don't do.
Canadians Without Moral Compass00:02:22
Is this right or is this wrong?
They can't answer it.
It's a godless nation.
Ironically, because they still actually have God in their national anthem, which has offended a lot of people, they have no basis to declare what is right and what is wrong.
And so, their moral compass is: we don't like America.
What will bother America?
They can't say that objectively tariffs from the United States and Canadian goods is wrong because they do it.
They do it.
If they had an objective standard of right and wrong, they would say, Well, we've done tariffs and so they're doing.
So, you know what?
That makes sense.
Maybe we should either all do away with tariffs or just sort of accept these terms.
Instead, it's we don't like America, so we should be able to do it, and they shouldn't be allowed to.
Canada has not met their NATO spending for decades.
Canada wouldn't exist as a country if not for the United States.
But instead of saying, Is it objectively wrong for us to sign a contract and not honor it?
Do they have a point?
They go, Well, we don't like America, they can afford it, so screw them.
We're gonna, we're gonna buddy up with China.
This is why you're seeing a resurgence in Christian nationalism because people need to be able to govern themselves with an objective standard of truth of right and wrong.
Canada doesn't have that.
That's why they're killing their own people in record numbers.
That's why they are allowing men to compete in women's sports and championing it.
That's why they use stupid terms like two-spirited.
It's why they implement tariffs and bitch when it happens to them.
It's why they boo the national anthem, complain when they see a meme.
And it's why they give their dollars to oppressive governments that jail political dissidents while convincing themselves that they have the moral high ground.
I really mean it.
I really, really mean it.
The United States should militarily intervene in Canada because of this and a bunch of other reasons that we've covered.
They're actually a national security threat.
They're actually a national security threat because we don't share any common ground or language as to what is right and what is wrong.
And we are not friends.
Alberta, I really hope you guys leave.
And we're not saying you have to be the 51st state.
We'll just have a relationship with you.
But I think our relationship with Canada needs to be done with.
It's over.
It is an immoral, godless, conquered people who only take, they don't give.
Why Teachers Are Fired00:15:06
Can anyone tell me this?
How has Canada benefited the world in any significant measure?
They'll say they have a peacekeeping force.
Whatever.
So do we.
It's called the United States military.
What have they done?
They've had more time than the United States in many ways.
You guys may not know this.
And they certainly had a leg up because they didn't fight royalty.
They bowed to them.
Why isn't the rest of the world saying, dear, when an earthquake happens, when a tsunami happens?
Why are they saying, dear God, I hope the Canadians help us?
You're selfish pricks, Canada, and you mistreat everyone.
We are only as valuable to you as the handouts we give.
And I don't think we should be doing that anymore.
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This next man, let me play the clip before he comes on.
You may, many of you are familiar with him.
Some of you may not be.
Warren Smith on X.
It's WT Smith17.
And he is on Rumble and YouTube, the Secret Scholar Society.
Sorry, I have to read it because it's always hard for me to keep track of Consolidate, Warren.
You're a professor.
Come on, simple.
But he was a teacher.
And we're seeing a lot of this now, where you're seeing people from other professions then go into media almost because they're compelled.
It wasn't necessarily their choice to do this full-time.
For those of you who are unfamiliar, Warren Smith became famous for really being fired for this exchange that he had with a student about J.K. Rowling.
And I know what you're thinking.
He wasn't fired for this because it's exactly how an exchange with a teacher should go.
She said, dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who will have you live your best life in peace and security, but force women out of their jobs for starting that for stating that sex is real.
So let's pause it.
Let's not go with what other people are saying.
Let's try and learn how to critically think.
So let's analyze the tweet ourselves.
So that statement, do you see anything problematic disregarding other people's goodness?
She did try and pin some things on a specific group of people.
Where does she do that?
Can you read that?
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real.
So when I hear that, I'm interpreting that as meaning if a woman says that, you know, saying that there is a difference between men and female and then being attacked as transphobic.
I think that's what she's saying by attacking someone for stating that sex is real.
That is exactly what she's saying.
Is that transphobic to you?
So to me, no.
Stating that sex is real is not transphobic.
It's just a fact of life.
It exists.
Fired for that.
You know the real reason he was fired?
Because by the end of that, the student seemingly changed his mind and re-evalued how he thought.
We can't have that in our trusted institutions.
Show them you love them.
Please welcome Warren Smith to the show.
Mr. Smith, thank you for being here, sir.
Can you see me, hear me?
How are you?
I can.
I'm good.
Thanks for having me.
I'm glad that you're here.
Look, your set is, it's been upgraded since back then, I noticed, because this is your full-time gig now, right?
It is.
Yes.
Never would have expected it, but it is.
Yeah, I see this a lot.
People like you who have a realm of expertise, which is what we need, and kind of dragged into this kicking and screaming, not kicking and screaming, but basically you wanted to be a teacher.
And through teaching, it was deemed so unacceptable that now you teach online and reach more people.
Can you explain to folks who are maybe new to you how that went down?
Because I remember they even like seized your computer back then, right?
Yeah, so that video we just looked at kind of went viral, I guess.
There was, things got very strange literally the day after Pierce Morgan had me on.
And then the school's lawyers sat down with me and they were like, well, you didn't break any rules.
So congratulations.
I hope nothing goes wrong in the future, you know, insinuating you're walking a fine line here, but we don't have anything right now.
There was a great deal of pushback from many of the teachers I was working with.
There was definitely a sense of anger that most people, they don't want to say it to your face.
And I was working with the music teacher.
We started recording in this space every Friday.
We're like, well, this is interesting.
We had been making some videos just for like class lessons and exercises because I was teaching content creation, essentially.
Okay.
Working with cameras.
So it was already the medium I was teaching.
And he was telling me stories like, man, they are looking for any reason to get rid of you.
So you've really got to be careful.
And that went for a while for about a month or two.
And I thought there's like an 80% chance they're just not going to renew my contract this summer.
And I thought that's what would happen, but it wasn't.
And it came out a door.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they fired it.
It didn't help that you mooned the whole faculty from what I hear.
Justified.
Wow.
I mean, and here's the thing: the reason, too, you know, I've watched a lot of your content.
And, you know, there's people often say like the debate bro sphere.
I'm sure.
I'm just using that as an encapsulation.
And you, I definitely see you taking more of an approach that's similar to how I do, because I was never a debater.
We didn't have debate club in high school as a comedian and started doing the show where mine was always just an approach of the Socratic method.
And then sometimes people will say, like, it's just a polite way to sort of trap people, but I noticed that you do that a lot.
Can you explain to people, and I don't want to miscategorize, like, it seems like that's your approach.
Why do you take it and how fruitful has it been?
I think it's because it is intuitive.
It is something you can learn and hone, but I think the potential resides with all within all of us.
And it just naturally comes out if you're genuinely trying to, if you're seeing these flaws and you're trying to navigate them and you're doing it in an honest way or objectively, it's inevitably going to happen because how else are you going to get through?
You're just going layer by layer, peeling the onion back to try essentially getting to the recognition that none of us know as much as we think we know, but it's not a reason not to strive for knowing.
But yeah, I think it's ingrained, just similar to language.
The capacity is like, I believe it's embedded within the very fabric of reality.
Like language, it's ingrained within us, but then we learn the words, the language that you speak, but the capacity to speak, I think we're born with.
Yeah.
I also think it's the way you applied it is pretty fair because, you know, today it's very easy to try and conduct a conversation for clips, being aware that there will be a clip and a highlight.
And sometimes the Socratic method doesn't always lend itself well to that.
But if you take the conversation in its totality, it's usually a very fair way to approach it, regardless of where you line up.
And have you felt that?
Because I would even say you with Nick Fuentes, you interviewed, and people will say, platforming.
I always tell people, actually, this is a good one to go watch.
You and Nick Fuentes, because it was fruitful, but it wasn't just combative.
Yeah.
And you just said you're not, you didn't start out as a debater, but I would consider you as one of the top debaters working today.
And you use that similar method when you're on college campuses.
I mean, those, I've been watching your content for years.
That's one of the reasons it's so compelling because it is obviously you have a point of view, but you're fair with them, right?
And you're going question by question.
But yeah, with Nick Fuentes, yeah, you just it's it's not trying to win.
I always try and remind myself, like the only when you're going into these exchanges, there's always this because this could go wrong at any time, and it probably will eventually.
But the only solution I've seen is to not try to win, but to genuinely try and gain a better understanding.
We're all trying to figure out what is true.
And if that's your genuine pursuit, then you're not going to, there's, it's, it's impossible to lose as long as you don't corner yourself on some, no, this is this, I'm, I'm guaranteeing this is right.
You just, you're able to adapt and grow.
And so that's what happened with Nick.
Yeah.
Well, I thought, and I thought it was very productive.
Same thing for me.
Genuinely curious because I've noticed some what I viewed as not only even inconsistencies, but I noticed some sort of divergences with him and myself.
I'm going, well, this is reasonable, but if you consider yourself more conservative, how do you hold these beliefs?
And there are a lot of people who just went, well, no, no, you just got to attack, attack, attack.
Have you seen me interview the first transgender mayor of Texas?
Like, it's the same approach, even though I think that's a crazy person.
For me, it comes from, and I think there's a little bit, maybe, correct me if I'm wrong.
You're a teacher, right?
So invariably, you're going to be more knowledgeable than your students.
And so you naturally have to sort of bridle that because your job is to teach them.
And ideally, I always say if a teacher is good, at the end of the year, every student would be getting close to 100%.
We're not trying to trap them.
We're trying to get them to understand the material.
As a comedian, I want you to deal with hecklers, where it's the fastest path to shutting them down, hopefully, you know, watch their soul evaporate in their body so they stop disrupting the show.
I was like, now I can't do that here if my goal is to convince people.
I would imagine it's the same thing for you because you're supremely capable in a position of authority as a teacher.
You have to go, okay, let me scale this back and meet them on their level.
Yeah, in the classroom, it's very different.
And I consider it kind of like a blank slate method where you're just analyzing the incoming information and I'm just looking for flaw filters in a way.
Usually in all of these debates, that's how I, it's like, I have a, I imagine a little red dial goes off anytime that dial goes off when there is a flaw.
Now there's something to pounce on.
And you're, and yeah, you're right.
There is a time and place to pounce, right?
It's now that I'm in this space and occasionally debating with people.
Yeah, it can be a, it can be more of a game because they're playing a game.
The students are very different.
They're coming at it often in a more innocent, genuine way out of ignorance often.
Yes.
It's very different.
And you have to, in the classroom, it's very, it is very important to strive for objectivity because we've seen how that goes awry with a teacher who's leaning to the left heavily, heavily.
It's very different than applying the Socratic method.
They're being like, no, you're wrong for thinking this.
And they don't show, they tell.
That's the biggest component because my background is in filmmaking and the laws of narrative, studying screenwriting for years and years and years.
And somehow that led me to this point.
But all those, a lot of those skills are really useful.
I've been realizing that.
And you would never think that.
But the laws of narrative are the laws of engagement grounded in psychology.
And all that is playing into this.
So the biggest tip I could give people for a debate is show, don't tell.
Like you got to show them why.
I can't just tell you you're wrong.
Right.
And you do a good job of that too in your debates.
Well, sometimes I'm a Hammond Egger who kind of just had to do it.
The change of mind thing, like we talked about, was that on cable news where I was at Fox News for four and a half years, I said, no one will ever do this.
It has to be four minutes in a quadrant view.
I said, I kind of think that people would like to see an actual conversation where we hash our ideas out.
It wasn't a thing back then, so I didn't really know what to call it.
But going back to teachers, professors, since you've been in academia, if you were handed the keys to like a major university, let's say tomorrow, what would be one of like the very first policies that you would either instate or abolish to specifically correct the imbalance like you're talking about there, a viewpoint diversity therein?
I would get rid of tenure first because it makes it impossible.
And you would have it merit-based, performance-based.
I don't know how to fix tuition, but that needs to be solved.
I would stop the because that financial structure, when I was in graduate school, 60 to 70%, probably over 70% of the students were directly from China, like because they could pay more money in tuition.
I had multiple classes where I was the only American student, and in some classes, the only non-Chinese student, and they would be speaking Chinese in the class.
This is in Boston, Emerson College.
Yeah, I would not kowtow to the nonsense that we're seeing and allow, I would embrace this technology.
I would embrace live streaming.
So Penn State, Sam Richards, is doing this.
He's the only one I've seen doing it.
And he's, I've been talking to him behind the scenes.
And I don't think he would mind me saying this, but he's terrified that the college is going to fire him at any point.
And so I'm always talking to him, like, man, the kids are hungry to disagree.
Let them.
He's like, I'm just worried something's going to go wrong.
And there's a, but I would embrace this new medium.
Let people see what you're doing.
Embrace transparency.
And that becomes a recruitment tool as well.
And just broadcast it.
Like his class has become number one for that reason because he just says, we're going to live stream the whole thing.
That also does it.
That also explains something, you know, inner workings there because change my mind also.
They weren't always on campus.
The first ones were me with a sandwich board just, you know, in like a town square.
It was a call to the professors.
We always asked the professors to come out and talk and they never would.
But now we have one scheduled with, I believe, UPenn in March.
Someone has stepped up.
But that kind of explains why so many professors, they were usually the ones requesting we be banned from campus.
If it's really a culture of a monolith and bullying behind the scenes, it's one thing for 94% of all donations in higher education to go to the Democrat Party.
Like that's definitive.
It's another for them to disallow people from even having a different opinion, even if they're using the Socratic method.
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It's that's really scary to think about.
And you said this was, this is when you were in film school, they were all Chinese students.
Why do their movies still suck so bad?
Yeah, this was graduate school.
So I started in 2016, three years.
I was in college for nine years.
Looking back, I don't regret it because it got me to where I am.
I wouldn't recommend it, though, the cost of tuition, everything, especially like I wanted to be a filmmaker.
And I had a lot of great experiences, but it's a dying industry.
I wouldn't, anyone listening to this who's considering that path, don't do it.
There's alternatives.
That's what I'm teaching now for Emerson College, which is surprising that they're still letting me do it.
But it is like the anti-film school film class kind of, and I just feel like in five weeks, I'll teach you what I really think is most important, everything you need to know, save your money.
It's that kind of thing.
Yeah, the industry is dying.
It's an interesting conversation to have.
Mine would be content creation 101.
Make sure the thumbnail has tits and I'd see you next semester.
That's really what it is.
At the end of the day, it's changing.
Yeah.
Oh, it's so rapid.
That's what I'm teaching.
Yeah.
Even the algorithms, everything changes where you can have a handbook one month and then the very next month it changes.
I mean, we had to deal with that with the box at Pocalypse.
And I, you know, I did two semesters of film school before I bombed out horribly and just never.
I can kind of tell watching your stuff.
And that's something I resonate with you with.
Where you're like saving private Ryan, those sketches.
It's awesome.
Thank you.
Oh, that went a good direction.
I thought you could.
I was like, he flunked out.
No, you can definitely tell that.
I have nightmares about people finding my second semester transcript because I just didn't show up.
I was just doing stand-up every night and showing up late in class and writing peanut butter on bread.
It's a waste of time, largely.
Yeah, plus I was also supremely incapable.
So it's both.
It's a little bit of both.
I doubt it.
Yeah, I'm glad someone's here.
We brought in what, a metric, an actual ton of sand to do it where we, you know, people have no idea.
No, people on the right, it's like it's the podcast.
I'm like, well, it's not really what we do.
I was just Daniel Day-Lewis's Bill the Butcher for like nine hours last week.
That's true.
And, you know, it takes a lot of work to make something this silly.
Look, speaking of which, I know we had technical difficulties today.
I'd love for you to stick with me and take some chats on Mud Club Rumble Premium.
But before we go, can you tell people the best place to find you and watch not only your content, but really what I see is online lessons?
Yeah, it's on YouTube primarily.
And I apologize the handles and names, but Secret Scholar Society or Warren Smith on YouTube.
Yeah.
That's where I'm focusing.
If you want to really generate, you just make all the handles, the professor with tits, and then you will make a killing.
For those of you who click that button, we're going to take some chats with Mr. Warren Smith.
Let's go, Toolman, go because we have the thing.
It's funny.
My inner toolman's like, are you ready?
Yeah, no, I said, oh, oh, shit, because I just thought of something that has nothing to do with this.
It was two things.
One, I forgot to tell people who aren't members are going to Tim Poole.
And then I also have blood work later today I do.
And I forgot.
I'm supposed to be fasted and I have honey in my tea.
Oh, I thought I just messed it all up.
Warren Smith, anyway, he's still here.
So, hey, let me ask you this.
Have you ever applied the Socratic method to, like, have you ever applied it to any of your own views?