Alex Stein 99 critiques government overreach and media trauma-mongering, arguing humor is the only defense against state control. He contrasts soldier sacrifices with privileged grievances, mocks AOC's hypocrisy via his viral "big booty Latina" confrontation, and blames Trump's pandemic handling for inflation while praising his Supreme Court picks. Stein highlights left-wing extremism through Sam Harris's Hunter Biden comments and advocates removing drag from schools without banning the culture. He exposes FBI inconsistencies regarding Ray Epps on January 6th, warns of Antifa targeting, and predicts legacy media's collapse as independent outlets like The Blaze replace them with direct-to-consumer anti-woke content. [Automatically generated summary]
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Rolling Back The State00:14:21
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What's up?
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Heart of the Problem.
I'm very excited to be joined for the first time on the show by the one and only Alex Stein99.
How are you, sir?
Wow, it's an honor to be with the one, the only Ron Chappelle, the libertarian legend himself, Dave Smith.
Dave, thank you so much for having me.
It's a pleasure to finally meet you.
And I mean that because listen, you know, all these people, you know, on like the political left or the political right, they're all cringe.
And, you know, I really believe that I have a lot of libertarian viewpoints.
So I'm saying I like that you don't pick a side and that you're a libertarian and kind of go the, you know, what is it?
The path less traveled.
I don't even know what I'm saying.
I'm just my point being is like, you know, you didn't just pick a side.
You actually know that even though you might be the libertarian choice for president soon, which I think you will, you know that that's probably not going to win.
So I'm saying I commend you for having integrity is my point, Dave.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
And one of the things I've enjoyed, we'll get into kind of, you know, a lot of your viral moments, but one of the things I think I mentioned on the show that I really loved was when you were going after Ted Cruz, I think it was, and going after I Patch McCain, as you, as you call them, is because I think a lot of people are waking up to kind of the fact that like, if you're on the side of the American people, you're not on the side of Democrats or Republicans.
This is all just a game.
It's like, at this point, we should realize this is all just a game to kind of deceive us.
And so at least that seems pretty obvious to me.
Yeah.
And I don't want to just sit here and have a circle jerk, but I also want to thank you, too, because in this day and age, like, you know, of like, you know, so you saw Brian Selter just lost his job at CNN.
But my point being...
Sorry, that's a serious moment.
R.I.P. It's a huge loss, a huge, a huge loss for this podcast.
Not even being sarcastic.
It's genuinely, I was a little bit bummed.
He's going to have another gig.
You know, he's going to have some even more cringe gigs.
It won't be the same.
It just won't be the same.
You're right.
Being the top broadcaster at CNN of the Disinformation Network.
And his role was media watchdog.
And he would every single week come out and go, we did a great job again.
It was just like, it was so, like the comedy just wrote itself.
It was, it was, it was a priceless little moment in time that's over now.
Well, he was the media police and he was, you know, the best of it.
He was a sheriff of the media.
No, but my point being is like, dude, the reason why I've, and I've kind of like, even though I've been podcasting for almost three years now, not that that's that long, but I'm saying I've kind of had like a meteoric rise over the past year is because I've been using humor.
And I think that's the only way is because you look at the tactics of CNN.
It's all, and I said this on Tucker, not trying to name drop.
He is my biological father, though.
So I have to mention him.
My point being is they constantly use trauma-based mind control, Dave.
They constantly use negative information.
So you're in this negative vortex where you're literally in this feedback loop of like, how many people are dead?
How many of this, you know, what, you know, how many Afghanis are falling off planes?
And they do that to keep you scared.
And I think the only way we can break people out of that trance is through humor.
You know, even if it's left-wing humor, right-wing humor, we need more humorous.
We need more court gestures.
That's the only way I think we can actually make people get out of that like constant cortisol, you know, stress release, fight or flight response.
We're just like, oh, I got to wear my four masks and I got to get my booster.
Oh, there's, there's definitely something to that.
It's cute.
There's a reason why authoritarians in general historically have always tried to stoke fear.
They try to stoke fear because when you're afraid, that's when you're going to turn to, okay, I'll, I will, you know, I will outsource my critical thinking and my liberty because, you know, I just want to be saved in this moment.
And the moment we're living in now is so absurd.
Like the propaganda that's being pushed.
It's not even just like that all governments have propaganda, but this propaganda is like, how could you even?
How could you even make this up?
It just opens itself up to be ridiculed.
And so I think, yeah, there's a, there's a big role for that.
Yeah.
And that's what I do.
And I, I like, like, I like to use mockery because that's what they do.
You know, they trick us into trading all of our, you know, freedom for safety.
And then we end up with neither.
But it's funny you say that because I was just listening.
I was just on an airplane and I, you know, sometimes I listen to old Howard Stern back when he was good.
And like it was like an episode from 2008 when they were, it was a primary for Hillary and Obama.
And like he had, you know, he had like, I forget which comedian it was on, but like the politics wasn't do or die.
Now your political ideology is do or die.
Like if you're not on the right side, you are, you know, you should die.
Like Sam Harris even said, yeah, did you see a bar clip today?
Yeah, we didn't.
He didn't care if Hunter Biden found, yeah, he didn't care if he found dead bodies as long as his politician won.
So I'm saying that's where we're at, where people actually say that with a straight face.
They don't care if their political side killed children.
I was just going to say when.
Just for anybody listening, hey, Brian, if you go to my Twitter, I just tweeted this video out.
You can find it.
It's up right at the top there.
But just for anyone listening, if you think Alex is like exaggerating or no, this is actually what Sam Harris said.
It's not like it almost, if you just heard that and didn't hear the video, you'd be like, okay, you're kind of like exaggerating what he said.
No, no, no.
Quite literally, this is what he said.
You know, I was talking to one of my close friends, Louis J. Gomez, a great standup.
Oh, your close friend died.
I'm just trolling.
Yeah, of course, of course.
Yes.
My former close friend.
But one of the things we were talking about are actually, maybe this was a conversation I had with Jay.
I can't remember.
But we were talking about the fact that it's like, and this is one of the things where I think as a libertarian, I see much more of a like I'm much closer to where, say, the average Republican voter, the average conservative voter is than the average Democrat voter.
And it's not even so much on policy.
Like if you went down the list of all the policies, I disagree with a ton of them on everything, but there is something that I just feel like Red State America.
And the conversation I was having was just talking about doing stand-up in these different areas.
And like someone like my friend Jay is like, you know, he has a joke.
He had some abortion related joke.
And he's, he's taking, he's coming from a pro-choice position, but he could go do this in red states and they just laugh because it's a funny joke.
It's like, and they, and it's not the same.
The opposite is not true.
You can't just be coming from a pro-life position and get laughs in blue cities.
Because to them, essentially what it comes down to is that the average Republican voter doesn't view going to a stand-up comedy show as a political activity.
It's like if you have a different, I'm here to laugh.
And so if you're funny with your different perspective, then whatever.
We're here to laugh.
Whereas from the left-wing point of view, everything is a political activity.
Your music, your comedy, your, you know what I mean?
Like the commercials in a SIDCOM, the books that are, it's like every inch of life has to be political.
And I think what you're talking about with, you know, looking at listening to old Howard Stern is it's like, we didn't used to live in this environment where everything was expected to be like driven from politics.
And it's, it's terrible because politics are, it's, it's the worst part of life.
That's where everybody's fighting tooth and nail.
Whereas in everyday life in the market, so to say, you know, people get along genuinely.
They come together voluntarily or they don't work together voluntarily.
In politics, it's win-lose.
Who's going to beat the other one?
Who's going to rule over the other one?
And I think it's just been so bad for the country that everything's become politicized.
You can't watch a football game without politics being in your face.
You can't go anywhere.
You know, you can't go to a bar.
It's like, it's really bad.
No, Dave, and it's funny you say that because, you know, I'm considered conservative, but really, you know, like, I believe that we should have more, some sort of more socialized medicine.
It doesn't make sense that, you know, insulin costs $200 in America, but $7 in Mexico.
And I'm not saying everything should be free, but I'm just thinking like, you know, especially, and I'm a conflict interventionist, the idea that we're going and fighting, giving $100 billion to Ukraine, that makes me absolutely sick.
So that's why there's a lot of stuff on the conservative side.
I'm like, man, I really don't vibe with this.
But to your point, I think we can break down the left and why they're humorless to two reasons.
One is pop culture, the reasons it's dying.
Look at the top movies from the 90s.
It was like Pulp Fiction, American Pie, Shaw Shank Redemption.
You know, I mean, we had like these movies that lasted the test of time.
Now, in this day and age, the top movies are Sonic the Hedgehog 2, literally, you know, and I mean, Top Gun happened to be a big movie, but that wasn't woke.
But before that, it was like Boss Baby.
So our pop culture is all social justice progressivism crap, right?
So that's not funny.
And the second part, the reason why they can't laugh is they all want to be a victim.
It's like my bit with AOC, the reason why that went viral.
And I said, listen, that was kind of what put me on the map or what made everybody on the left take notice of me is when I called her a big booty Latina.
And the reason why I did that is because there's a video of her in Miami with her fiancé Riley and his foot was out and everybody's on the right wing is making fun of his stupid foot in the sandal and they're calling him ugly.
And then she said, oh, well, people just want to date me.
You know, that's why they don't like me.
The conservatives want to date me.
So my point being is, and I said this even on the blaze on Sarah Gonzalez's show before I went there, the day before, I go, if I see her, I'm going to call her Big Booty Latina and I'm going to sexualize her because she thinks everybody sexualizes her.
I'm going to give her a concrete example of that and see what she does, hoping that she would take the bait.
My point being is she took the bait and then became the biggest victim in the world.
She was so mad that I sexualized her.
Yet in New York, they spent over $700,000 for drag queen story time for children in New York public libraries.
And on top of that, she's pro-sex work, which is, I'm not anti-sex work.
My point being is she tries to act like she's some freaking moral superiority type person, yet she doesn't care about the sexualization of children.
She doesn't care about, you know, sex workers.
So she's, she's on RuPaul's drag race.
So my point being is I was exposing the hypocrisy and it just shows you they all want to be a victim.
So that's why they go to the comedy show and they have an example of, oh, they might say, I'm not saying you say the N-word, or they say an off-color joke or something about race.
Oh, I'm the victim.
Oh, you made fun of me.
Oh, you said I don't tip.
Oh, you know, and that's, it just gives them that ability to play the victim.
And the people on the left love that more than the people on the right.
They want to be a victim less, in my opinion.
Yeah.
No, I completely agree with that.
And I think that really, there's this dynamic in the country that's so infuriating is the most privileged members of our society always crying about privilege and crying about how they're a victim.
Like the idea that AOC, when she heard someone say something she didn't like, like this woman who was in Congress was getting a six-figure salary from the taxpayer by her late 20s is somehow some victim of the of the system.
And the truth is, look, we have real victims in our society, like genuine victims.
I mean, we've had something like some somewhere in the neighborhood of I think 30,000 soldiers who have killed themselves after seeing combat in the wars.
What about the 108,000?
Yeah, but Dave, 108,000 drug overdose deaths.
They don't even talk about it.
I mean, it's totally victims.
And right.
And that's just, and those are just the deaths, let alone the amount of people who are addicted and living in despair and all of that.
And look, you have, and some of them even do fit into kind of like the leftist like narrative.
I mean, like, look, if you, when you, I use this example sometimes, but if you ever take the Amtrak from New York to Washington, D.C., the stop before D.C. in Baltimore, look out your window when you go over Baltimore.
I mean, you see these neighborhoods where it's like half the houses are falling apart.
There's, there's children unattended out on the streets.
Now, if someone wants to say to me, hey, that's a really, that's a victim of our society.
Like, okay, fine.
But this, this kind of like woke shit never ever seems to actually address anything for them.
It's, it's more like, oh, well, here's like an upper middle class black girl's feelings who got hurt at an elite university.
Like, well, I don't care about that.
Like, she's not a real victim.
Get the fuck out of here, dude.
Like, there's like real victims in our society.
Like, oh my God, did a member of Congress hear mean words said to her?
And not even like, you know, the funny thing is like when I remember when Rand Paul and his wife Kelly Paul were surrounded by Antifa thugs and they were like not letting them leave.
And that was a situation where like, yo, if you were like Kelly Paul there, you'd be like, oh, this is really scary.
They might like start stomping us out right now.
That's that I can understand, even them being like, okay, that's fucked up.
But you joking around about her booty, like, I don't know, like where on the scale of like, oh my God, the oppression is this supposed to rank?
It's just ridiculous.
Yeah, but see, then we talk about this and we talk about the victimhood.
You know, they hire 87,000 IRS agents.
And what they're predicting is to go after people that make under $400,000 and they're going to get $20 billion in taxes.
And like I just said earlier, we've given $100 billion to the Ukraine.
So if they really cared about that, why are they weaponizing the Department of Justice to come after parents that give their kids $700 in their Venmo account?
I mean, it's insane.
They're actually weaponizing us to fight against the middle class.
And I think that's the biggest problem in society right now is the shrinkage of that.
They don't want there to be a middle class.
They want you to be dirt, you know, poor.
So you rely on the government.
So you get your booster.
So you get on some eventual credit score.
And so we're just, you know, on the government teat.
So they have full control.
So it's really kind of a nightmare when you think about it, because I think, and this is just me speculating, their plan is like gangbusters.
It's working really well, sadly.
And not enough people are waking up and not enough people are fighting back or speaking up against him.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I think if, you know, you're not wrong, but there are some little glimmers of hope in there.
And I think there are some things like, look, I think that the vax rate for the boosted dropped way down from the original vax rate.
And so I see something kind of encouraging there.
Yeah, but Dave, I had to cut you off.
Dude, nobody's talking about sudden adult death syndrome.
Nobody will talk about SADS.
Corruption And Religion00:10:21
I mean, dude, you're 100% right.
Everybody's realizing now that in New York, they even stopped giving it to babies.
But it's like, dude, I want one person in the media to be like, why are insurance rate insurance deaths up 40% from 18 to 39 year olds?
They won't even mention that elephant in the room.
So you're 100% right.
People are getting hit to it.
But I'm more, the cover-up is worse than the crime, Dave.
Them covering up all the vaccine crap is almost worse than the evil vaccine.
Well, I know it's safe and effective.
And I love my Fauci Achi and everybody, make sure you get boosted.
It's very, it's the best thing for you.
I'll tell you, this is before even the mandates came in, just when the vaccine was being developed, the first thing that happened was that the government gave them complete liability protection.
So I think these companies cannot be sued for any ill effects that come.
And this is whether they, whether they warned you about it, didn't warn you about it, they have complete immunity from being sued by anybody who had adverse effects from the vaccine.
And that's a huge element in all of this.
And by the way, one of the things that is not, can't be laid at the feet of Biden.
That was the first, that was your America first president who did that for you.
And dude, I have so many issues with Donald Trump.
Like, obviously, I like him more than Joe Biden, but dude, what he did to the people on January 6th, if anybody actually thought the QAnon shaman was going to go into the Capitol and decertify an election, you are insane.
You're more autistic than I am.
And dude, the fact he didn't let Julian Assange out of jail and basically gave him the WikiLeaks, basically gave him the 2016 election.
So, yeah.
And then you look at Jared Kushner sold this out to Israel.
I mean, dude, there's a lot of like a, you know, look, he kept, he kept Fauci on the job through all of 2020.
I mean, after the AZT, A, you know, I have a, um, I have a debate coming up.
It looks like I'm going to be debating a sticks, X, and Hammer on the legacy of Donald Trump.
And I'm a Trump critic, but not from, you know.
not from the Trump derangement syndrome protection.
But, you know, when I criticize Trump for all this stuff, and I also say that, look, like the main reason why we have such terrible price inflation today starts in 2020 with shutting down the economy and printing trillions of dollars and all these direct payments and these giant spending bills.
And, you know, the people when I criticize Trump will kind of give me shit.
I had a tweet criticizing him the other day and they're like, oh, I'm sorry, Dave.
He's not the perfect libertarian president.
So now you're going to criticize him.
And it's like, I don't know.
I think there's a like, I'm not saying I wanted him to be perfect.
Could he, could he have not had Fauci on through all of 2020?
Could he have not done that?
Is that like to don't make John Bolton the national security advisor?
Like, is this, is this not unreasonable for me to say like, how about there's a long, there's a whole lot of room between perfect libertarian president and the guy who gave us Fauci as the head of the pandemic response.
Like just saying, you could do a little bit better than that.
I agree.
And I'll give him, you know, credit for the Supreme Court because, you know, I am anti-abortion, you know, so he did do some good stuff.
But at the same time, dude, shutting us down and printing all that money.
I mean, he printed a quarter of the money that was in circulation.
That is socialism.
And could you just imagine if he would have kept us open, how much different the country would have been if he was, you know, because that would have, that would have been a domino effect for the entire world.
So it's just, he decided, he decided to play the apprentice where he wanted to appeal to everybody.
And I think that was Trump's biggest problem is that even though he knew the people had TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, he still wanted to appease the left when they would try to impeach him.
No matter what, now they're on their third impeachment try.
So it's like you can never make everybody like you.
I wish he would have just kind of gone more for his rabid American first fans.
No, I agree.
And I think that I think that if he had actually been an America first president, he would have been much more successful.
It's hard sometimes to talk about this stuff because people are so locked into like these binary narratives.
So it's always like, look, yes, the idea that January 6th was an attempted coup in any serious sense of the word is just, look, the only serious attempted coup in the last five years was led by the FBI and the CIA against John Bolton.
This was legitimately an attempted coup that Andrew McCabe said on 60 minutes.
He was the number two or number three guy at the Justice Department.
He said, we floated around the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump.
And then we ultimately decided to just sick a special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, on him.
And this was an attempt to bring down Trump by framing him for being a Russian spy or whatever, on some conspiracy with Russia, right?
That was an attempted coup.
January 6th was not an attempted coup in any serious sense.
All of that is true, you know, but also at the same time, Donald Trump was supposed to be something that he didn't end up being.
He was supposed to be the great repudiation of this system that America so desperately needed, you know?
And it unfortunately was just a failure.
Hey, let's, let's go because you mentioned this, and I really think people should hear this if they haven't.
Here is, this was Sam Harris.
Sam Harris.
Sam Harris on, I don't know if it was his podcast or some other podcast.
No, it's some other guy.
He's like some foreign comedian.
He's getting all these big interviews.
I forget.
I follow this guy on Twitter, but I can't think of this guy's name, but he's blowing up the guy that got that got the interview.
So I haven't, I haven't heard, I haven't listened to Sam Harris in forever.
I don't even know where he's been on like all these issues, but this was shocking that he said this out loud.
So let's play that clip.
At that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.
I would not have cared, right?
It's like, there's nothing.
First of all, it's Hunter Biden, right?
It's not, it's like, it's not Joe Biden, but even if Joe, like, even whatever scope of Joe Biden's corruption is, like, if you, if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he's getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden's deals in Ukraine or wherever else, right?
Or China.
It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.
It's like, it's like, it's like a firefly to the sun, right?
I mean, like, there's just, it doesn't even, it doesn't even stack up against Trump University, right?
Trump University as a story is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden's laptop, in my view, right?
Now, that's not, that doesn't answer the people who say it's still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the, you know, the New York Post's Twitter account.
Like that, that's just a conspiracy.
That's a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.
Absolutely, it was.
Absolutely.
Right.
But I think it was warranted.
Right.
And so there's the quote.
The host to his credit, by the way, does end up giving him some pushback after that.
Like he's like, hey, wait a minute.
I thought we believe in democracy.
Wait, what?
So it's okay.
It's okay to commit a conspiracy to lie to the American people as long as you're a political ally wins.
Because, and this is what's interesting too.
Like one of the things I tweeted out and I said, I actually really appreciate Sam Harris saying this out loud because the truth is that this is what so many of those types believe, but most of them wouldn't dare say it out loud.
So at least I give him credit for saying it out loud so you can see what it is.
And then, okay, now let's discuss.
Let's really think.
But the other thing that I can't help but think about here is that Sam Harris has made his name as being one of these new atheist guys, these guys who run around and attack the evil of religion.
And they always kind of had this argument that, well, look, religion is taken on faith.
It's not evidence-based.
We can't prove the existence of God.
So if we just got rid of religion, then we would also get rid of this kind of like desire to worship something that we can't prove or don't have sound arguments for.
And then sound rational thought can take over.
And this is kind of the whole argument, you know.
And it's just funny to see this.
It's like, see, this, this right here is the flaw in atheism.
It's like, okay, you can remove the religion, but the desire to worship is still hardwired in people.
And look how Sam Harris, chief atheist here, just takes it as an article of faith that no matter what corruption we find on Joe Biden, you know Trump's got to be worse.
I mean, this is a firefly to the sun.
He's the big evil bad man.
And it doesn't matter.
I mean, it doesn't even matter if, oh, yeah, maybe Joe Biden was getting money from China.
Look at Trump University.
That was a scam.
You're like, look, even if you think Trump University was a scam, there's an obvious reason why the China issue would be worse.
Because here you have a sitting vice president whose son is monetizing his father's position and his father's getting money from the transaction.
That's corruption in government using the government to extract wealth for yourself.
That's very different than like setting up a private university who you think like you charged too much money and it wasn't really worth what you charged or something like that.
It's just like, it's unbelievable that he could go.
And he literally says the words.
If we found dead children's corpses in his body, he wouldn't care.
If, listen, if it ever, here's a good rule of thumb in general in politics.
If you ever start going, hey, if the guy on my side killed children, I wouldn't care.
Take a deep breath and reevaluate and question whether you might be on the side of evil.
No, you're 100% right.
And they know that he had illegal business dealings.
I mean, you know, quid pro quo, Joe admitted it.
I mean, so, you know, all that's going to come to light.
And I think that is, there is going to be, you know, Joe Biden has such little support on the left.
I think they're going to have the humiliation ritual where they're going to expose Hunter Biden and they're going to say, oh, well, they're going to blame it on Hunter.
And then, you know, because first of all, we know Barack Obama is a shadow president.
He's running the DNC.
And, you know, I guarantee, and there's a famous clip of him saying he would like to be a shadow president with an earpiece in his ear and in his basement, if you guys ever want to look that up.
But my point being is that everybody knows Hunter is as crooked as a dog's hind leg, and so is Trump.
But the idea that Trump had a real estate course and gave some people some health, self-sell help books is literally worse than the idea of dead children rotting in Hunter Biden's basement.
You've lost the plot, but I think you made a good point.
It's this atheistic mindset.
They want to convince people that they evolved from pawn scum, that two rocks just smashed together and everything that we see in this world was created from nothing, which is absurd.
Literally, just nothing in time created everything.
It's an equation that it's not even scientific.
Drag Queens Gone Far00:05:20
And this is the problem with them: they love to make everything about science, but these are the same people that say you can biologically change your sex.
You can cut off your penis and become a woman.
So they try to preach science.
They don't even follow the science.
So they're just such hypocrites.
It's, it's just, it's almost impossible to even support these people.
Even if you're like, like when you, I consider myself a populist, even if there's some sort of like liberal ideas that I can support, when you hear people like that, they've lost the plot so far.
That's an Overton window.
That's why so many people are becoming libertarian or conservative.
Yeah, well, I think so.
I mean, I think there has been, and this is the thing to be encouraged about in our society right now, because there's a lot to be discouraged about, but that there is a lot of people turning away from just the insane woke shit.
And I did, I thought this was a really interesting poll that I don't know if you saw that if I think for the first year, the amount of people who believe in transgenderism went down.
So like they've, since they've been measuring it, that the, they ask like a thing like just like, uh, do you know, can you, you know, do people who identify as a different gender than they were born or something, do you believe that that is right?
I forget exactly what the question is, but it went down pretty drastically, double digits down this year.
And it does seem like perhaps even the American people can only be pushed to accept so much.
And I did, it did seem like that this thing with during Pride Month, which I know you were, you made a couple of videos about this.
Yeah, I had some videos.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, the idea of pushing these kind of like drag shows with, I mean, in some cases, literally babies attending them and toddlers and stuff like this.
And that at least enough people were like, look, man, you know, you could sell me a lot, but the idea of selling me that this is something that's not only acceptable, but should also be what, I suppose, like celebrated is just a bridge too far.
And in fact, you even had a lot of gay people coming out and being like, well, what the fuck are you doing?
Like, this was the big, this was the thing that we were fighting against for all these years.
Like that people were saying, oh, we're all a bunch of pedophiles.
And we were like, no, no, no, we just want to have sex with adults that are the same sex as us.
And now look at you're like making us look like that was the, that was the truth all along.
So they got enormous pushback.
And I think that's encouraging.
Well, yeah, you know, and like I said, I'm just an autistic idiot that goes like city council meetings and calls out politicians.
But my point is when I, and I think the first time you may have ever talked about me or somebody sent me a clip, you guys talked about how I had a comedy show for Robert Kennedy's Children's Health Defense, his charity at the stand in New York, which I didn't even know it was such a nice club.
I mean, I knew of it, but I had never been there.
I didn't realize it was so nice.
But at that club, that was a week after I had gone to an event in Dallas called Drag Your Kids to Pride.
And this was at the very beginning.
I think it was like June 2nd, you know, the beginning of Pride Month.
And the reason why this set off such a big, you know, whatever you want to call it, hullabaloo.
I don't even know the word.
I'm just saying the reason why we had legislation in freaking Texas to stop from the sexualization of children and in Florida is because this event was actually designed and libs of TikTok started becoming.
This is kind of when they really started doing the anti-you can't say the G word, but it rhymes with rumors.
I don't want to get kicked off anywhere.
But my point being is at this event, I tried to go to it.
They wouldn't let us go.
And like you said, there were literal babies there.
And not only was it drag queen at a bar where kids aren't even 21, shouldn't even be in there, it was the parents that were dragging them there.
And the kids are trying to play in their video games, and the parents are grabbing the video games.
Look at the drag queen.
I mean, it was the most outrageous event or anything that I've ever been at.
So they've gone too far.
And then on top of that, so when I went, I exposed that and I called out the drag queens when they came out.
I was like, why are you doing that?
You could see the guilt in their face, the shame.
You know, they almost didn't want to argue back.
Then, like, the following week, I'm in New York City, and that's where they call me a transphobe.
That's calling me a homophobe.
But this is my point with all that is that I actually respect the drag queens more.
And I'm not anti-drag.
You don't have drag brunch, do it all you want.
Just no kids should be there.
My point being is I respect a drag queen.
At least they LARP.
At least it's a guy that's LARPing as a woman.
The problem this day and age is the gender reassignment surgery, the gender hormone therapy that they're giving to children that's irreversible for kids that are in phases.
Like I would much rather a kid put on a dress for five minutes or five hours than you cut off his dick and give him pills that stop him from ever maturing.
So like, like I said, I almost take the drag, we've gone so far.
It's like, I have to defend drag queens.
I think drag culture is better than this new weird culture of gender reassignment hormone therapy.
And you let people like Leah Thomas, who swam on the men's team, who's ranked 457th on the men's team, become the top-ranked swimmer in the NCAA.
So it used to be a war on white men.
Now it's a war on white women.
It's, um, I mean, look, first and foremost, my take on it all is just leave the freaking kids out of it, just with all of it.
Just leave the kids out of it.
Like, if adults want to go do some weird shit together, whatever, you know, like, I'm, that's not my place.
But man, stop pushing it on kids.
And if nothing else, you know, I think I've seen more and more people talking about this, but it's like, even if you can't have the knee-jerk human reaction to just recognize it's wrong and so weird and profoundly wrong to be sexualizing children in this manner or any manner.
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Um, man, what the right wing reaction to this is going to be if you keep it up is going to be ugly.
And it's going to be a lot uglier than even any of us who are opposed to this shit want it to be.
You are playing with something really dangerous.
You start telling people you're going to sexually propagandize their children.
People are going to freak out on you.
You're not going to get someone.
The right wing response isn't going to rise up and say what I just said and say, hey, adults, do what you want, but leave the kids out of it.
They're going to lose.
It's going to get really ugly.
You don't want that.
So stop pushing for it.
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And I know, you know, like there's a lot of people, and I'm not trying to call it Tim Poole, but you know, he's like has kind of the Civil War narrative, like he wants a civil war.
Not that he wants it, but like there's going to be a civil war.
But if there ever was a civil war, it's going to be like the sexualization of children that would make people have the civil war, in my opinion.
You know, it's not going to be like a George Floyd type incident.
It's going to be the people on the right that lose it and just say, hey, we're done with these teachers picking my son's gender.
We're done with this, you know, CRT gender ideology where we're just kids, you know, basically you lie to my kid.
You give my kid a dress when I drop him off in a pair of blue jeans and then you have your transition clause and you put them in a dress.
Like that, like you said, that they're not going to be as grace, graceful and gracious.
And oh, yeah, you know, adults, it's okay.
They're going to come out with their second amendment and that they will start, you know, shooting, which is, I believe, which is ultimately, I think, what we should all want to not happen because as bad as things are now, you know, if things, if this turns into a hot conflict, that's going to get very, very ugly in this country with, you know, hundreds of millions of guns.
And it's, yeah, you don't want, it seems sometimes like the establishment is almost pushing for it.
I just don't, you know.
It's like the meme, do a civil war, where it's like a guy poking a stick.
They really, they want it because really they just like we were talking about earlier, they want us to trade all of our, all of our safety for all of our freedom for safety.
And that's what they're going to do.
They're going to say, oh, well, it's just, it's just, you know, it's too dangerous out there.
Now you have to be totally locked up.
And then they're going to have full control over us.
And that's why they think they want us.
That's why they want to take away our guns.
And that'll, that'll cause a second amendment too.
The idea if they even did, which I don't think they could do.
Do you think they could take our guns, Dave?
I think that'd be, it'd be pretty damn hard.
I think it'd be very hard to get there without kicking off a civil war.
So I think that it's it that really is a line for uh millions of Americans that they're just simply not willing to give up their guns.
And how do you go take those guns by force from people?
That's going to be pretty tough because that guy's got a gun.
You know, it's going to be, so I don't, I don't see that happening, but I do think that they're, I think that their game at this point is not even to do that, not to round up all the guns.
I think they'd like to limit as many of them as they can, buy back as many of them as they can.
And then I really think the new level here is like unpersoning people.
I think that like more of a social credit type system where they can shut off your credit cards and your bank account and things like that.
You know, maybe they don't even need to come take your guns if they can just kind of ruin your life and in these other ways.
So that's more my concern.
And that is what's going to happen because, you know, you look at Gavin McInnes, who's a friend of mine.
I get to call him a friend, you know, he started the Proud Boys, but dude, he can't even bank at Chase Bank.
You know, that's like not even be able to get a cell phone with ATT.
And that's what they're going to do.
They're going to be able to de-platform you from your basic utilities.
They're going to say, oh, well, you can't even have the energy company.
You won't even provide your house energy.
So yeah, I think that is like the big threat for the people that are going against the mainstream narrative like myself, like you, very easy.
They're going to say, oh, we can't have a bank.
I mean, they already do it now with kick you off Twitter.
They take away your PayPal, but it's just going to become even more cohesive.
They're going to tie it with your social security number and it's going to have a red flag, and you're just not going to be able to exist digitally and have any sort of services.
Yeah, it's really, it's really, it's something to watch.
I mean, I know Gavin, I've known Gavin for years, and it was really insane to watch how that whole thing developed and played out.
And, you know, even when you say, like, Gavin founded the Proud Boys, like, I was there.
I was, I was like, in for, I was like, literally right there while all of this was happening.
And like, were you in compound?
I mean, I know you were around it, but okay, you were like, yeah, yeah, I was, I was at Compound.
That's how it started.
It started as a joke.
They're like, what is it?
What if you had to be punched five times if you couldn't name a bunch of cereals?
There's all these weird rules.
There's all these like stupid, corny rules.
It was some like goof.
An effeminate guy was called a proud boy.
That's how it started.
Gavin, and I don't mean this as an insult to him, but Gavin was a goof.
That was kind of the thing.
Gavin is a goof.
He'll admit that he's a goofy.
Yeah.
He was a goofy dude who was funny and then would occasionally make some points that you're like, oh, there's actually something to think about in what he said there.
And then he's kind of, and then he makes some other points.
You're like, I don't know if I really agree with him on that, but he was a funny guy.
It was fun to hang out with.
It was a the proud boys was a ridiculous thing.
It was just like, oh, let's like, you know, get this group of guys hanging out together.
And it was off the song, Proud of Your Boy.
It was all joking around.
And then little by little, what kind of happened was like, then Gavin started doing these speaking gigs, and Antifa people would show up and were actually like roughing up people who were in the crowd.
And then he was kind of like, okay, well, we got this group of our like, our boys club or whatever.
He was like, hey, proud boys, make sure these Antifa guys don't fucking rough anyone up.
And then, and I will say, I think that he got a little bit sloppy.
I remember talking to him about this at the time and being like, he was, he would just do things where he was, you know, he would be like calling on all proud boys.
We're going to fuck up Antifa at the next thing.
Yeah, but even Trump said, stand by and sit back.
But it was just like, but it's just like, you're like, dude, that's going to be used against you now.
That's going to be, you know, and then a few, a few of his people, man, got in like fights with these guys and fucked up some Antifa people and ended up like, you know, getting charged with like crazy fucking, you know, FBI agents, Dave.
You know, you know, they all go in there, agent provocateurs.
No, but I, I'm, I'm with you.
But at the same time, this is why, dude, like you always, if you're going to be in any of these like dissident like circles, you got to be really careful about that shit.
If you know that all of that can happen, you got to make sure you're not leading your people into a bad situation.
So I think Gavin's ultimate crime there was that he took the whole thing as a goof and didn't quite realize how serious that this was going to turn.
Like that it was like, oh, no, you're actually like, you're becoming like an enemy of the government.
And that's serious.
Like they're, they're serious about.
It's like, look, if you're going to have security at any of these events, you have to hire private security who's professional security.
You can't just have your group of people go fucking get into street brawls with people.
And then above all, I've said this before, I'll say it again.
Anyone who follows me, anyone, the libertarians who listen to me, anyone ever tries to convince you to do something illegal, treat that person like they're a Fed.
No matter what you do, keep it peaceful, keep it legal.
Because this is, they're waiting for that.
They're waiting for the opportunity.
And essentially, look, we still, they're doing this whole investigation on January 6th.
I still haven't heard anything satisfactory about this Ray Apps guy.
So who the hell is this big, this, this big barrel chest motherfucker who's encouraging everyone to go in, storm the Capitol, storm the Capitol.
Tomorrow we're going to storm the Capitol.
And then all of a sudden, when they storm the Capitol, he bails out.
And while they're throwing the book at everyone else, you know, everyone there is getting charged as a terrorist or they're going in solitary for a year.
Maga grandma.
Yeah, right.
Grandma's got to go to jail, you know.
But yet this dude, who's right on tape, encouraging everyone to storm the Capitol.
The FBI is not interested in throwing the book at this guy.
And then, do you remember that part where they go, where they finally said something about it, like on the news, where they were like, The New York Times called it a conspiracy?
Yes.
They go, well, we spoke to Ray Epps' lawyer and he said he's not a Fed.
Yeah.
So it's closed.
And see, so, so to bring up two, two trolls that I did or, you know, I confronted AOC.
So I called her the big booty Latina.
And then she went in for three hours, voted on stuff and immediately came out and went and proceeded to throw the Capitol Police under the bus and said the rioters were let in because there were magnetic doors.
They couldn't have opened those doors without somebody letting them in.
So she exposed that.
And then on top of that, you know, Dan Crenshaw, gosh, what was my second point with Dan Critshaw?
But I called him out.
Gosh, I had a second point about Dan Critshaw.
But my point being is, is Ray Epps was obviously they don't want to investigate him.
And oh, this is my point.
So I went, I called Dan Crenshaw, I patched McCain, and then all the left-wing media came on his side.
Crenshaw gave them a quote saying that I assaulted him.
So then I had to put out three different camera angles from other people proving that I didn't assault him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So my point being is the left-wing media was on his side.
And that's the same thing that they did for Ray Epps.
I think it was like the New York Times, Washington Post, like this is a right-wing conspiracy.
So if anything they say, just believe the opposite of the mainstream media.
So if they say he's not a Fed, that means, oh, ding, ding, ding, he's a fed in my opinion.
Yeah.
Well, it was, it's interesting that they, they did, they asked the, who was it?
It wasn't Garland, but it was maybe like the number two at the Justice Department.
They asked him if there was any Fed, federal provocative.
It's provocateurs.
Yes, provocateurs, or if there were any like informants who were there in January 6th, then all of them said, we can't comment on an ongoing investigation.
So they wouldn't even say no.
They wouldn't even say like they won't even tell you this.
And then they say, oh, I can't comment on an ongoing investigation.
Meanwhile, they comment about it all the time.
They talk about January 6th.
So there's like tons of things that they say.
If there were no feds there, they could easily just say, no, no, no, that's not what this was at all.
And they literally won't say that under oath.
So there's, look, there's a lot of shady things around January 6th.
Who knows exactly what the truth is?
But you do, you can recognize that, like, I said this the night of January 6th.
So we did a live stream about it where I was just like, this is a gift for the Democrats.
And this is going to be perfect for their narrative.
They're going to use this to usher in the domestic war on terrorism and crack down on everybody.
And look at the.
So it's the best you can hope is like, if you're the Trump people, you know, if you could talk to them, be like, just don't enter the building.
You would have done so much better, as silly as it probably seemed to you at the time, that it's way better to just not enter the building and not go to jail for five years and not give the corporate press this bullshit narrative.
Yeah, but Dave, that's not even enough.
A buddy of mine, and I was on a live stream the day he was driving up there.
I was like, dude, this is going to be some sort of false flag.
I'm telling that because I'm a conspiracy theorist.
I have a show called The Catracy Castle.
I'm anti-establishment.
So in my mind, I was like, oh, this is going to be some funty, daddy thing.
Like, you know, because everybody thought like, oh, we're going to go decertify election.
Well, he didn't even get in, but he grabbed a crutch, somebody's crutch and hit it against their riot shield.
Like, you know, they're kind of going against a russia.
He's facing 40 years in jail.
And this guy, he's a 39, he's a 39-year-old young man.
You know what I mean?
I'm just saying he's not like some old guy.
He's, you know, a youngish man that just, you know, cared about America as a patriot.
Like, you know, was not there's no prior record whatsoever.
And literally, he's out with an ankle monitor right now with a public defender because he can't even keep affording to pay his attorney.
He's screwed.
He's going to go to jail.
Hopefully he gets five years.
Like he hopes he gets five years and he didn't go in.
So I'm not like trying to one up what you said.
I'm just saying it's like, dude, it is literally being weaponized against people that were just outside.
So and then Ashley Babbitt is the only one that died.
And, you know, she was literally a veteran and they act like she's some sort of right-wing nutjob.
And she was an actual veteran in the U.S. Army.
And it was a, it was a terrible and it was a terribly unjustified shooting.
I mean, it's not as if like she charged a cop and he shot her.
She was like in a crowd of people.
The cop was on the other side of the door and just like shot her in the neck.
Like there's no like pressure.
The conspiracy is that it was a misfire that he pulled out his gun and accidentally fired.
A buddy of mine, one of the journalists that kind of broke with me the and you know, I don't know if we're going to be on YouTube, but I think we can say this on YouTube, but he broke the George Eiger kids to pride event.
He even said he was there.
He filmed it and he hasn't been charged with January 6th, but he said that that's what it seemed like is that the guy accidentally, he went to draw his firearm, but he didn't mean to fire it.
Yeah.
It's very weird.
It's, I mean, it is possible.
Those cops freak out in that situation.
A lot of them are really, turns out under pressure, don't handle it very well, as it turns out, unfortunately.
So do you like, does it ever like concern you?
Because you're very quick to kind of throw yourself.
I don't mean this connected to the stuff we were saying about like, don't enter the building or whatever, but I just mean like, well, you're very quick to like throw yourself into these mobs of people and get these kind of viral video moments.
Do you ever like worry about your like, ah, shit, I might get beat up here or I might get arrested for this or something along those lines?
Well, kind of like AOC, after I accosted her, she had the Capitol Police come up to me and took my ID.
And I was like, I'm going to jail.
But in my mind, I was like, this is kind of good.
This is going to be viral.
Like, I'm not going to get really, I mean, it's going to cost me a few thousand dollars.
And this will be like the biggest story ever.
Man goes to jail for saying Big Booty Latina.
And I like, and this is the thing.
And I do get worried, but I have a good attorney.
He's based in Baltimore that works.
You know, he ended up representing on some insurance deals as a wealthy man as a big fan of mine.
So I have a very good attorney that works on, you know, contingency.
And I'm actually suing the Dallas County judge, a guy named Clay Jenkins because they unlawfully removed me at commissioner's court.
Only the county judge can remove you, but one of the commissioners removed me.
And so they already try to settle for $6,000.
We turn that down.
My point being is back to the stuff is I have a good attorney.
So I'm not afraid to go to jail.
I'm not necessarily afraid to go to jail.
But yes, am I going to get stabbed?
Am I going to get hurt?
I mean, I played football.
So if I get hit in the head, I already have CTE.
So I'm not worried about getting hit in the head.
I guess I'm just, if I am worried about is here in Texas, they have this thing called the John Brown Gun Club.
And it's John Brown is like some like socialist guy that went and shot a bunch of people.
And so these are like Antifas, but they're packing guns.
And I'm just worried I'm going to get the one that's on 17 antidepressants.
It's like totally disconnected with reality and might shoot me.
And that might happen, Dave.
But at the same time, I usually keep a smile on my face.
And I'm six foot three.
I look kind of short from my camera angle, but I'm actually pretty tall.
I'm actually, I'm about 250 pounds.
So I got a lot of beef.
Like people don't really want to go toe to toe with me.
So I just kind of smile and just kind of, and usually at these things, they're all beta soy boy bitch ass people anyway.
I mean, any guy that is going to spend their time to go to like a pro-choice, even if you are pro-choice, right?
That's because this, that's the other thing is when they survey, survey people that are pro-choice, even the most pro-choice person believes there should be a limit, like after, you know, the second trimester.
Yet these politicians want to get it up until after birth where you can have an abortion.
But my point being is they don't even, the politicians don't even agree with the people's viewpoint of abortion.
But most of the guys there are there because they're trying to get some pussy.
There's some simp, you know, they can't even get laid without going to a, you know, a pro-choice abortion.
So it's not that scary of a crowd.
I'm dealing with like that is true.
They still draw with crayon type people.
You know, it's the, it's the, the male feminist is the, it's the lowest form of trying to get laid.
They're playing the same game that every single man is playing, but they're playing the lowest form of it.
The absolute most like bitch beta form of trying to, it's like, it's, it's the level of, like I used to say, it's, um, it's, it's like when you were in the fifth grade or sixth grade or something like that.
And like if the guys were sitting around and they were like talking about like the girls would be like, oh, I like her.
I think she's hot or she's got great tits or like something like that.
And then it would be the guy who ran over to the girls and went to tell you.
All talking about your tits before and I just I thought it was really wrong that they were doing that.
You know blah blah blah like, and it's like, it's you.
Everyone knows what you're trying to do.
You're not really the good guy here, you're, you're the snake here and it doesn't work.
It's there.
So yes, you're right, that is quite often what the group is going.
And Dave, let's be honest, like all the pro-choice, you know armpits, smelly girls, they're all sluts anyway, if you can't get laid by them, you know what I mean you can't get laid.
That's what i'm saying.
They kind of slick together those girls, they all at the.
Yeah, but the.
The irony is they're not even those other guys exactly.
They're really like more.
Yeah, conservative type guys guys, they work with a john, but whatever.
Yeah, they're trying to fuck the guys on the lacrosse team or something.
Yeah exactly, and then complain about them the next day.
It's the whole, exact.
It's a very bizarre.
There's a one bunch of bizarre Freudian going on here.
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Because I know you said you've been podcasting for like three years now, but it's really been over the last year, like six months to a year that i've like seen all your viral videos like popping off, and even before, well before the AOC one, you had the ones uh, where you're going to like these city council meetings, and was this something that you kind of thought out.
You were like okay, I could go create these hilarious viral moments.
No okay so, okay.
So now this is my first time with you and I tell this story all the time because I do do a lot of podcasts.
I know you do a ton of podcasts, but so this is how it started.
So I I worked for the television show Cheaters.
It's a show where we catch people cheating on their husbands and wives.
Yeah, I signed an India, so I can only say so much.
But basically, the host of the show is a guy named Clark Gable.
His grandfather was a Car Gable from Gone To The Wind, one of my very good friends.
After finishing season 17, he went and bought some vicodin or oxycodone.
It had fentanyl in it.
He woke up dead.
He took it.
He wasn't even partying and this guy had a huge drug tolerance and there were pills that they were just badly pressed, you know, like the cartel pressed him.
He thought he was taking a vicodin, he woke up dead and the reason why that was shocking is because he had a high drug tolerance.
Then the show said, Alex, you're going to be the next host of Cheaters.
And i'm like oh, this is awesome.
You know, i'm so excited, but i'm all depressed about my friend.
But i'm like getting in good shape and like I was just like I quit drinking.
I don't even drink now.
I don't smoke weed.
I got sober when he died.
That changed my life too.
That was a big trajectory.
Uh, you know, it put me in the right direction.
But my point being is then, when they came to when april of 2020 uh, when the pandemic's like just popping off, they're gonna start the show.
They They hired this 52-year-old black dude named Peter Guns, who was like in this RB band.
He has like a hip hit song and they wanted me to continue working for the show.
And another guy from the show is like, Alex, you should do your own podcast.
So I started doing the podcast.
This is right at the beginning of the pandemic.
I think May 2020 was my first episode.
So then I started going to city council meetings serious, Dave.
I was like, you know, they shut down the water fountain.
So like, and this is in Texas in May, it's 200 degrees and you don't have a water fountain for your dog.
I walk at the park, Bachman Lake.
They shut down the public restrooms and put these shitty porter parties.
And if you're in a porter potty in Texas, it's baking in the sun.
That's the last place you want to take a piss.
Like you walk in there, it smells like hell.
And so I spoke at the meeting seriously.
I'm like, none of this stuff makes sense.
None of this stuff is stopping this bread.
It's like, why can't we go to a park?
They looked at me like I was an idiot, right?
They're like, oh, look at this tinfoil hat.
You know, they didn't give me the time of day.
And I would see other people in the meeting crying about how the fire department didn't put out their neighbor's fire fast enough and their house burned down and their cat died and they're crying and they lost everything.
And they're just on their phones.
The politicians are just on their phones like, you know what I mean?
They're not paying attention.
Then I went there and I said, then the next time I spoke, like a month later, this is all over Zoom.
This is when they're pushing the vaccine.
I was like, Mayor Johnson, he's a black guy with a family.
I go, you should push the vaccine in the neighborhood called Mayor Johnson's Free Johnson and Johnson.
The gay community would love the double entendre.
And since you're the first openly gay mayor of Dallas, they would really support it.
He's not.
And black guys hate, you know, they're the most homophobic people in the world.
His eyes are this big and he turned red.
And I could just tell that.
So I was kind of like off to the races.
And my comedic hero is like, you know, I like stand-up comedy.
I do a little stand-up, but my hero is Andy Coffin.
I like to mix absurdity with reality and make it seem real.
That's my favorite form of humor.
So this is the perfect venue.
It's once I realized, oh man, I can go act as absurd as possible, but give it a real, you know, give it the, make it look real, even though I'm saying the most absurd crap ever.
And really, it's called culture jamming is what I do is I take the most absurd talking points.
Like, you know, I got my five boosters.
I got my Fauci ouchy.
You know, I, one of my viral videos, I went to a city council meeting in a swimsuit and a women's swimsuit.
And I said, why can't I change with the women?
You know, why can't I compete against the women?
Because you had one.
That was one of my favorites where I think it was you were trying to raise money for your child's transition surgery.
Well, the biggest one, the one that put me on the map, though, is the one.
Well, but so, so, so, so I went and spoke and did crazy, but the one that really got me hot was in 2021, as I did right when the heartbeat bill came out.
I said, oh, well, I love raw dogging chicks.
We need to get abortions back.
I love abortions.
And then like Charlie Kirk and all these like right that got me like on the conservative side because I used to be very conspiratorial.
I'm a 9-11 truther.
I'm a nutjob when it comes to conspiracies.
But then all of a sudden, the right-wing kind of document is like, oh, well, he's pro-life, you know, which I am.
But that's what kind of put me on that thing.
Then I did that Fauci ouchy.
Give me that booster.
Say it in my kushi.
That went quadruple viral.
That got millions of hits.
Then I did the prayers for Ukraine where I said, gas price is way too high.
Vladimir Putin needs to die.
And any white guy has a few bars.
And it's meant to be cringe.
You know, I'm not going there to try to act like I'm James Dean, some suave guy.
I'm meant to AstroTurf as this crazy lunatic leftist that's like, you know, my wife's boyfriend got her pregnant saying the most absurd crap ever.
So basically, I kind of found a cheat code.
And that's why my comedic hero I just said earlier is Andy Coffin is that he would do like stunts.
Like if he was doing stand-up, he wouldn't necessarily tell jokes, but he'd have somebody come from the audience and fake hit him.
And then people didn't know if it was real or not, you know, like he would wrestle women.
And the reason he was cutting edge is because he created an intergender wrestling league.
So he was on the forefront of knowing that if men and women are going to compete, they should have their own division.
They won't even make that realization today.
You know, they won't even give them an intergender division today.
So he was really cutting edge and really, really brilliant in that sense.
But my point being is I started going to these city council meetings.
And that's when it really started going viral for me.
And the one that put me on the map and got me on Tucker is I went in a full military garb and I said, I'm part of the Ukrainian Foreign Legion and the most important border is between Russia and Ukraine.
I tried to recruit the council members to join the Ukrainian Foreign Legion.
I was like, you need to come.
You need to come.
And Tucker saw that, personally, reached out, said that's his favorite video he's ever seen.
And then when I got the Tucker bump, it's been, it's been off to the races.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, absolutely.
What is the reaction from these city council people?
Like, do they figure out right away that they're being trolled or some of them like not, do they think this is genuine?
Do they know?
Well, I just had one video in.
in Las Vegas where I literally said some absurd stuff and then they kind of found me out at the end of it.
But it's better when we don't break the fourth wall and they don't know that I'm trolling.
Like I keep the bit the whole way because that's how you do it.
But sometimes people just, you know, the viewers, I kind of like to see the fourth wall broken because they love the cringe and the awkwardness, like a, you know, Larry David sketch.
Not that it's the same as Larry David, you know, that's why you watch it because you want to see that awkward interaction where they're like, you're trolling us, you know, get out of here.
People like to see the, you know, kid gets into the principal's office.
So people like that.
But personally, when I'm doing it, I don't want to give up the facade.
I want to make the absurd seem as real as possible.
So I don't like it when I get outed.
But now I'm now, because in city councils aren't that big, they also, my, I've had enough viral videos, city council.
There's probably not a city council member that's not seen one of my city council videos, right?
Even so, so, but this is why I've transitioned.
I've evolved.
So, you know, I'm a contributor at the Blaze, but I have my own show coming out on the Blaze at the end of September.
I definitely want you to come as a guest when you're in town.
But my point being is on the show is I'm going to rip off.
I want to be like the conservative version of Allegi, where I have guests in my studio, but I want to go out and I want to do this culture jamming in person where I'll maybe interview somebody as Alexandria Stein or not necessarily go.
Like I'm going to DC in September and I'm going to hire a Chinese woman to be an actress and I'm going to confront Eric Swawell and say, this is Feng Fang, the Chinese spy, and that she's pregnant.
She won't get an abortion because there are some politicians that like me.
Like Marjorie Taylor Greene has adopted me.
I'm like her son.
And say what you will about her.
She is down to earth.
And a lot of these politicians aren't.
I know Ron and Rand Paul are.
I know Thomas Massey is.
I know there's a few.
MTG is one of them.
So I think now I kind of have to evolve into Allergy where he got recognized, where you just kind of have to troll these people in real life, not necessarily on their turf.
You have to take them off their turf.
Like I took AOC off her, off her home turf, even though it was the Capitol Steps.
I wasn't in a meeting where she had no power, you know, and that's where you can really get them.
Yeah.
No, it's, it's an interesting thing to watch.
It's also really interesting with the city council people because these are like city council members, by and large.
They're not even like, you know, the major play.
They're not even like the guys like Joe Biden who are making millions of dollars off of this stuff.
These are just people who like are there because they are the only ones who wanted the job and hung around long enough and got, you know, convinced, you know, but damn, they all think they're so important, dude.
It doesn't matter.
They think they are so important.
But that's kind of my point is they, they work so hard to get the job no one else wants so that they can feel like they have some sense of power, some sense of position.
So it's just great to watch them be like taken down.
They're like, they're like, oh, yes, your diner, it's, you're in a residential, you're zone for a residential neighborhood.
I'm sorry, you can't open your business there.
And they think they're so cool, you know, or like, oh, we're going to turn this into a dog park.
Oh, oh, we're so important.
We just made a dog park.
It's like literally do nothing to help anybody just waste people's time and money.
And yeah, yeah, they have to, they're the ones that you have to like get an approval for so you can build a shed that's two feet bigger than the standard shed outside of your house on your own fucking property.
So it's great.
It's great to see them to see them trolled.
So that's cool that you got this show coming up on the Blaze.
I was just, I was out there and did a few of the shows on the Blaze.
I guess it was a few months ago now.
But I like all those guys out there.
They got they got a cool thing going on.
That's a good, that's a good thing to link up with.
Well, and really and truly they do because they're not like, even though, you know, Glenn Beck is, you know, he's kind of the boss hog, you know, he's like the, you know, gets millions of listeners every morning.
And you have the Steven Crowder, but I'm talking about Tyler and Gass and the CEO and president of the company.
They're actually really cool and bass in their hip.
That's the thing.
That's what's going on with you and like Legion of Skanks.
Like that's what the, that's what the future of content.
Like that's why Brian Selter is dying.
I believe all these cable companies are going to die off just like the newspaper did.
And we're going to get our media a la carte from the Daily Wire, from Matt Walsh doing documentaries.
from people like the Blaze.
When you create your own independent media company, InfoWars, whatever it is, people are going to be able to have a fire sticker Ruku.
It won't even be direct TV and you'll be able to pick what you want to watch.
Basically like, basically like what we already have, it'll just be even more cohesive and more dialed in.
Because I think that these legacy media companies, it's just guaranteed for them to fail because these advertisers aren't getting a return on their investment by pumping up these shows.
Like when's the last time you saw a comedic show that lasted more than two or three seasons?
Even like comedy shows don't make it.
So much less news, just the whole digital media landscape is changing.
And I think it's companies like the Blaze, Daily Wire that are going to kind of take off.
And there's probably companies that we don't even know exist right now that are going to be huge hits the next five or 10 years.
Yeah, well, that's kind of the interesting thing about this whole landscape too, is you find out these shows sometimes.
You know, you'll find, I'll find shows from like someone I never even knew.
And I'm like, oh, who's this guy?
And you're like, oh, he's got 800,000 subscribers on his channel.
And you're like, oh, wow, that's that's as big as the biggest show on CNN.
You know, exactly.
It's like, and I didn't even know this guy existed till then.
You watched me like, oh, he's pretty good.
You know what I mean?
And like, there's so many more like that.
And not like the examples you used, but there's like a ton of them out there.
There's like, you know, and it seems to me that because they're not under this kind of like corporate state corporate control, a lot of these people, not saying they're all perfect or I agree with them on everything, but many of them are much more willing and much more open-minded to like have some of these interesting conversations.
Whereas like, you know, you can't go on, you know, on CNN and say half the shit that you can say in these conversations because they'll all just kind of clam up and then you'll never get invited again.
So it's, it's, it's, it's a, it is a profound change in the way that people get entertainment and information.
I think it's very good, uh, ultimately.
And like you look at like Netflix will exist forever because they're the biggest, you know, streaming service like that.
But it's kind of like what Louis C.K. did for forever before people were doing it, you know, put out the special on his own.
Andrew Schultz, you don't even need Netflix to really put out a special.
And that will be even more integrated in two or three years where it's like, you'll just be able to get paid.
And not that we can't put it behind a paywall, but it'll just be even easier to order the Dave Smith special.
And I don't need it to be affiliated with HBO like back in the day.
I don't need it to be affiliated with anything.
It can just be the Dave Smith comedy special.
And that is going to be an example of how all content is going to be, the Dave Smith show, the Alex Stein show.
Yeah.
You know, well, it's interesting.
Because like the old, the old method like in stand-up was always that it was like, okay, well, you want to, you go to the comedy clubs to try to get really good at stand-up.
You get, you try to get really good at what you're doing.
And then you want to hope someone will put you on TV because then like a whole bunch of people can see you.
Instead of it just being the 200 people in the comedy club, now it could be 2 million people, you know, get to see you being really good.
And then ultimately, if you do that enough, people like you and then they become fans of yours.
And then they'll come out to your shows and then they'll buy your specials and they'll do it.
But now it's kind of like, well, we all have our fans.
We have our following online.
And then you're like, oh, and we have the cameras and the technology.
And you're like, wait, so what do we, what do we need these giant corporations for?
Like, what, why?
At this point, I'm just cutting you in on the action.
You know what I mean?
It's like, oh, why can't I?
I can produce my show.
And today it's just a different, you know, you know, there are these, these kids out there who have production companies who produce something that looks like better than anything that's on television now.
You're like, oh, and so it's, it's kind of inevitable.
I think that's part of what the censorship crackdown is about: is that it's like, this is only almost their only way to keep this back in the box is to make sure you don't have this alternative.
And I'll even argue that it's the companies like Showtime and HBO.
When you give a guy like Brendan Schaub a special, say what you will about Brendan Shabbat, I know he's tired of Rogan.
I know you want to say anything, but he didn't deserve a Showtime special.
And nobody watches, you know what I mean?
If he's really funny, he could just have the special on his own.
And that flopped.
I guess my point being is like these companies aren't even hip enough to know who the funniest guy is.
They don't even know the Dave Smith.
They don't even know, you know, the Big J.
I mean, they know of you guys, but you know what I mean.
It's like they don't have their finger on the pulse as much as the audience is my point.
Well, that's, I think that's absolutely true.
And that, like, that's, and, and also, the other thing about that, too, is that like that, they don't want to go, they don't want to grab anything that's too anti-woke because they're scared of getting like the protested for it or whatever, or which, you know, somewhat, yeah.
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Well, it's also somewhat understandable.
Like, I get that, you know what I mean?
Like, I understand, you know, like I've, I've been at places where they've had me and that they've been like protested and stuff for having me.
And then I kind of like, I do kind of feel bad for the people who own the place where I'm like, they got to deal with this whole headache now.
And they didn't care, but it is a headache for them, you know?
But at the same time, people are starving for content like this.
And so if you won't put it on, they're going to go to where it is.
And so that's, but you know, it's, it's cool because it gives us a whole, a whole like world to play with.
But that's the future.
That's the future of content is the open source content.
And if you can create it, people will watch it because, you know, and they even say perfection is the enemy of good.
Like, you don't even need to make perfect content.
If you're out there making good content, people will find it and people will watch it.
Yeah.
Well, you're certainly doing a good job of that.
And as long as you're out there triggering progressives and war hawks, you have my full support.
I love watching it.
I can't, I can't wait to see what your next viral moments are.
So thank you so much for coming on today.
I appreciate it.
Where can people go find your stuff?
Well, just go follow me on Twitter, Alex999.
I post all my videos on YouTube.
And in case that gets shot down, they're also on Instagram.
In case I get shot down, you can follow me on all the alternative social medias.