Chapo Trap House - 810 - The Forbidden Zone feat. Alex Nichols (2/27/24)

Episode Date: February 28, 2024

Alex joins us once again to look at the news of the day, starting with a more serious look at the recent self-immolation in protest of U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell. After that some lighter fare, with some stories of the bad Biden dog, Elizabeth Warren smoking weed with Ed Markey, and an article chronicling Biden’s stroke game going back to the 70’s. Finally, we read the big new piece on Bari Weiss’ University of Austin and its “Forbidden Courses”. Check out Fortune Kit here or wherever you get pods: https://soundcloud.com/fortune-kit And the FYM podcast here or wherever you get pods: https://chapofym.podbean.com/

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Alex welcome back to the show. What's up, brother? The brother is going to work it out today. And so, yeah, like coming to day late here, and I guess I'd like to start today's show with probably the most dominant story of the news over the last couple of days, which is the rather stunning act of protest carried out by US Air Force Service member Aaron Bushnell in front of the Israeli Embassy a couple days ago Yeah, I don't know where to begin with this one

I guess I'd just like to begin by saying our paraphrasing something our good friend Dan Said as a result as it regards the reactions to this active self-sacrifice Which is that really talking about this or really anything relating to Israel these days, is that I vastly prefer the reactions of insane right-wingers to liberals on this, because if you read, you know, right-wingers, they will say why he did what he did. And basically, they know what they believe in, which is more death for everyone, exterminate the brutes. But I find myself uniquely sickened by the liberal commentariats attempt to metabolize this act

of protest, which is basically boils down to erm, mental health awareness much and committing suicide is against the rules. I like the people who like, um, yeah, they won't even say what this is about. And they're like, we shouldn't even, we shouldn't even allude to this. Because if we get going on this, everyone's gonna do it. Yeah. Yeah. How is that going so far? Yeah. What do we have like 20, 30 copycat suicides in the last 24 hours? Yeah, that's what I assume based on the rhetoric. Yeah. They're all totally apolitical. It's it's like when Jackass came out and everyone started making their own video. They don't like embassies.

Someone did it in front of Ecuador. Someone did it in front of Guinea Bissau. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, like talking about this in terms of like, we need to raise awareness about suicide prevention or sharing these videos will encourage other people to kill themselves And it's like people who are suicidally depressed do not douse themselves with accelerant in front of an embassy and then light themselves on fire Yeah, this is a very yeah, it's a very specific thing that is like well. Yeah, I guess suicidal in one light is not something that's done, born out of, I don't know. Yeah, the usual, I mean, if someone who would jump off

a bridge or stick a gun in their mouth. That guy believed that shit. Yeah, say whatever you want, whatever. You can pull up his medical records, but he believed that shit. Yeah, his last words were free Palestine as his body was engulfed in flames, which is like to me, like one of the most stunning things

you could play, I mean, it leaves me speechless. And I guess it just like, it sickens me to hear, like I said, like, so many members of like the liberal media just talk about, well, anyone who sets himself on fire is certainly not mentally well. And like, maybe even if that's true to a certain degree, what does it say about the mental health of people who like can live with the

Shame and cowardice of just seeing what their country is doing every day and do nothing about it or even work I mean, I'm doing nothing about it but I'm saying even worse are the people who see it every day and then find a way to pretend like it's something else and Like I think that's what like the problem is that like they cannot countenance an act of protest such as this or self-sacrifice without finding a way to, I don't know, to shame the person who did it because his act shames them. Yeah. It's very similar to John Brown. It's the same kind of thing. I mean, he was a bit loony too.

He was a little crazy. He was kind of a weird guy. Usually people who have extremely strong moral principles, they don't have smooth lives because you end up having arguments with everybody and getting fired from all your jobs and shit like John Brown did. Yeah. And that's a choice that every individual has to make, whether you're willing to fuck over your life and risk your sanity and your financial security. But I don't know, some people are gonna do it and shout out to them.

Yeah, with this specifically, I mean, if you just felt like nothing about this or you just straight up don't agree with them, right? It would be so easy to just either not talk about it or say, oh, he sacrificed himself for a stupid reason, right? But you would only bring up like these very weird meandering points about like mental health and whatever else or the, uh, this doesn't even affect you. If you didn't feel like some sort of culpability. Yeah. This doesn't even affect you if you didn't feel like some sort of culpability Yeah, yeah, if you didn't feel like some innate guilt if you didn't like see this and think okay if he

like if he as You know an American a guy served in the Air Force if he felt That he needed to do that What do I need to do? Yeah, it's a reaction to the majority reaction being, whoa, that's cool. That guy's cool. And it is it is biased towards Twitter because journalists are all on Twitter. And that's all they talk about. But they're seeing that that's there's so much of that on their timeline, even if you're a guy who writes for the Atlantic, and it makes them nervous. Yeah, like if the

majority reaction was look at this lunatic, then they would be like, oh, fine, who cares? Well, yeah. And then like, and also just that the the mentally healthy response to watching your government, you know, partake in a genocide is just compartmentalize it in your brain and go, ooh, not a good look, but let's all please still vote for Biden. Trump will be worse. Like that that's the mentally healthy response to just seeing atrocity every day is just going, is there really anything I can do about it? And I did really appreciate the people who brought up the fact that suicide is illegal. I was really just one of those things like when you learn as a kid, you're like, it just doesn't make sense. You're like, okay, so suicide is illegal. I think you should arrest the people in the person's life who drove them to it. I don't think you should tell someone not to kill themselves. It's their body. That's my honest

opinion. I'm not going to tell you what to do. I mean, you do it if you want. And I guess the other astonishing thing about this act of protest was in the video itself, the Secret Service agents or cops who had their guns drawn on him as his body was engulfed in flames on the ground Like I mean doesn't that doesn't that kind of sum it up? They were like drop the weapon drop drop the fire drop the fire or we'll shoot and also For all the people in the liberal media who are talking about you know mental health awareness or whatever If this was a Russian soldier who did it to protest the invasion of Ukraine, he would be on the fucking cover of Time magazine. They would have him on t-shirts today. He would be being hailed as like one of the greatest moral

heroes of our time. But like, I mean, they can't do that because like they cannot square the circle of the horror that Biden is carrying out and their complicity in it. And like they just they need to find a way to ignore or continue to ignore or pretend like this has anything to do with them. What if it was a Russian woman and she pulled her tits out and she was on fire? They would love that. They would go for that so hard. Like if the bottom half of her was on fire

and the top half was her tits out. That would be the ultimate protest, I think. But bring down Putin. I think you're right. Yeah. Sorry. One of the most fun discourses. But yeah, I mean, You love hearing about that. It's almost as fun as October 7. Just read on Twitter all day. Just having your stomach sink further and further down as you go. But yeah, I don't expect this to inspire a raft of copycat You know suicides because like, you know like no copy yourself. Yeah Yeah, copy talk about something being illegal. Don't fucking copy copy anyone. Yeah

Yeah, you look up to school with shoes. You don't get those same shoes Yeah, if you think suicide is illegal wait wait till you start copying. That is the only thing that America has, you know, we punish people generationally for. If you see someone that lives in one of the Dakotas, it's because their ancestors copied. Yeah. John Lennon, he got he got killed walking out of that for copying. He stole that Chuck Berry song and he got he was a phony. He was a goddamn phony He also stole Chuck Berry's innovations on bathrooms

He would never pee on somebody He would never do that to a woman only other stuff unless she was on fire unless you unless she was on fire Yeah, yeah, that'll be a cool Yoko Ono art project. I just found out about the one where she's just filming his like half hard dick for 40 minutes. You could have so much fun. They really did. They had a great time. Yeah. People like got upset about that. Like people were like, come on, lady.

But it's like doing that in the 60s when no one like knows what art is. And they're like, I guess I have to watch this guy's cock for 40 minutes. That takes a lot to piss off the hippies to be far out for them. You got to respect that. Absolutely. But you know, in light of Aaron Bushnell's protests, you know, I just want to make it clear, In light of Aaron Bushnell's protest, you know, I just want to make it clear. I am not advocating ending one's life as an active protest unless, of course, you do work in the Biden administration, state department, or US government. In that case, please have at it. And just to slightly segue, I'd like to talk about another active protest that's been going on inside the White House. This is something we've talked about before on the show, but it just keeps getting covered in the news. It's still a problem.

Headline. Secret Service had to adjust tactics to avoid bites from Biden's dog. This is by Peter Baker for the New York Times. He's like their number one White House reporter and commander, major, whoever the Biden dogs are now, battleship, tank, they're still biting people and I can't help but think it's like on some, you know, in some sense dogs can just sense evil and I think that's what they're doing here. And you know, if a dog could kill themselves, I think they probably would have already, I would have found the big pile of Hershey's kisses and self-sacrificed in protest of what's going on in the world right now. But I'd just like to read from the article here. It says here, the Secret Service had to adjust our operational tactics to protect President Biden because the first family's dog kept biting agents, including the one who required six stitches and another

whose blood spilled onto the floor of the White House, according to newly released internal emails posted online. The agency recorded at least 24 biting episodes between October 2002 and July 2023 involving Commander, a German shepherd who became the terror of the West Wing, Camp David, and the President's Homes in Delaware, about half of which required medical attention according to the documents. Commander was banished from the White House last fall to an undisclosed location. The recent dog bites have challenged us to adjust our operational tactics when Commander is present. Please give lots of room, staying a terrain feature away if possible.

Well, it happened at Camp David. There isn't plenty of room there. They brought him up state and let him run around and he's still biting people. Every giant open field, they said, go, go, go, enjoy the world. And he just turns right around 180 degrees and starts biting people. Every secret service agent is issued a tennis ball. I think we need to like look at the fact that this dog clearly loves being in a very enclosed office space and just attacking as many people as possible. It's neurodivergent. Yeah.

And that's a special interest. I think. It just wants to do that. It has a very specific routine. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like, I feel like Commander, his life is like a roguelike.

He just has to keep seeing how many people he can bite in one room, and he just has to do it over and over again. He might have been a corrupt official in his past life. He might have done something that caused him to be reincarnated as a bad dog. It's also a roguelike for Joe Biden because it's randomly generated for him every time. The first time he's seen it. Wait, wait, wait. I need to look up when did James Traffick can't die and when did Commander the dog come into existence? We need to look that up.

Just going on here, it says, the cache of emails not only documented various episodes and sometimes graphic detail, but also captured the trauma and concern among Secret Service agents and officers who shared techniques for the best way to avoid getting hurt. Secret Service personnel were bitten on the wrist, forearm, elbow, waist, chest, thigh, and shoulder. One was saved from injury by his ammunition pouch. Among the documents was a photo of a torn shirt. I was in shock that the incident occurred,

wrote one special agent who was attacked while holding the door for the president on October 2nd, 2022, as Mr. Biden took commander out onto the South Lawn. The dog grabbed the agent's left arm and stood on his hind legs. He is literally my height standing, the agent wrote. Fortunately, the doctor found no puncture wound.

After this, I was concerned about him getting out of the residence or being out without a leash for other's safety and mine. That is, of course, the doctor found no puncture wound. After this, I was concerned about him getting out of the residence or being out without a leash for others' safety and mine. That is, of course, the dog is just standing like a human. The dog just stands up to bite people. I think this is a reincarnation situation here. It bites their neck like a vampire.

Can they not just get a Chihuahua? Would that be admitting defeat? Like could they not just get a small dog? I mean, I've seen way better behaved dogs that have a muzzle when they go out for a walk. Yeah, Joe Biden can't do that Because like anyone else in this situation, right? Like they would make it so like, you know You never even knew that dog existed. They would erase all traces of them having a dog. If Obama's dog bit people, he would bite him back. He would be, you know, that dog would be on a spit roast or killed otherwise. I don't know. But

with Biden, remember those texts that Biden had to hunter where he's like, I love you, you're my sweetie baby. You're the most perfect apple of my eye. That's how all guys treat dogs. That's how my grandpa treats his dogs and everyone complains about it. Like he just, it does shitty little dogs go around and yapp and bite people and piss on the floor and he just picks them up and says, oh my little baby.

Oh my little baby. Exactly. See exactly. Like they just, they don and says, oh, my little baby. Oh, my little baby. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They don't have it in them to discipline anyone. Exactly. You get it out on your kids and then by the time you get the dog and you're old, it's like, oh, I could never do anything to you. Joe's only surviving son is like 53 years old. And's like this is the time in rehab that's really gonna take and Joe is like absolutely do you need money for your 12th paternity suit my lovely sweetie honey

there are all these pictures of him kissing him on the lips it's the same thing he and he a guy like that cannot get like a lapradoodle. He needs the biggest dog in the world and it needs to be horribly behaved. I don't know. You could get a pretty badly behaved Labradoodle. They're big ones. One of the ones that's like a standard poodle. And if you don't train them, people, I don't know why people hate Labradoodles so much. My parents have one. It's very well behaved. It's not the Labradoodle's fault. They're overbred. But they are like, if you just do the, just like the bare minimum of good training, they are the most sweet and pliant dogs. Poodles can sense weakness.

There are no bad dogs, only bad owners. Well, I mean, you mentioned Hunter Biden. And here's another story from Axios. Exclusive, Hunter Biden sees his sobriety as key to keeping Trump from winning. It says Hunter Biden knows this. He told Axios in a rare interview he sees his continued sobriety as crucial not only to his life, but also to ensuring Donald Trump doesn't return to the Oval Office. Most importantly, you have to believe that you're worth the work. You'll never be able to get sober, but I do often think of the profound consequences of failure here Hunter said maybe it's the ultimate test for a recovering addict I don't know Hunter Biden said I've always been in awe of people who have stayed clean and sober through tragedies and obstacles few people ever face They are my heroes my inspiration. I have something much bigger than even myself at stake

We're in the middle of a fight for the future of democracy. To which I gotta say, that's probably too much pressure to put police on your ongoing society. But also, I would have to argue directly against Hunter's point in this case. To stop Trump from being president, Hunter needs crackhead strength.

Like he needs to get geared up. He needs that focus and intensity that only comes through cocaine. Look at Don Jr. Yeah. Him in 2016, he was yaded up the whole time. He still is. Grinding his teeth.

He still is to this day. It didn't keep him from losing. I don't think that's relevant at all. It doesn't matter if your son's doing blow. I have to say to Hunter, even just to take some pressure off, I don't like swing voters are stupid, but I don't think there's like a statistically significant amount of them that were like, I was gonna vote for Biden, but then Hunter slipped up and had some wine.

Like so many people have a son like that. Yeah. The median suburban voter, they all have a son like that and they don't hear from him and he shows up in his big jinkos and asks for money and, you know, he brings your car back with no gas in it. You're like, how did you even get it here? How did you get up the driver? That's the kind of, that's the kind of stuff that, those are the kind of feats that you can only accomplish if you were just like jacked up 24 seven. Yeah.

That's the kind of stuff. You have to know how to ride the gas in the break. Yeah. Yeah. I know where the hills are. Yeah. You can use the momentum of the car going down the hill to get it into the driveway with in neutral.

That type of sun is, you know, they're the only person that can get places by walking on the shoulder of the highway. You know, you know, like there are those laws now that like prevent people from handing out water at like polling locations in Georgia or whatever. Yeah. I think like Hunter Biden will get arrested for that on the campaign trail, but it's just simply that he's walking somewhere. He's just not, he's just carrying a shopping bag full of pills and like pushing an empty stroller down the highway.

Yeah, with a guy like Hunter, do you see him walking relapse? Relapse happened. So that's hunter but Moving on but like to stay in the Biden White House. So like over the last couple weeks. We've talked about like ever since The special prosecutor declined to prosecute Biden for his own document fucka Because simply he's too old and forgetful to have a jury actually convicted him of it and then of course getting on TV multiple times

and mistaking the current leaders of our major allies with dead people. And just generally his mental fitness for office has become an issue that Democrats feel the need to address. And they've addressed it in a number of ways. The foremost being everybody stop talking about this. It's not an issue. Don't talk about it.

Nobody mentioned it. But number two, I thought the way that that's their surrogates in the media. The Biden White House has taken a different tack to demonstrate Biden's mental acuity. And that is basically seeding the media with stories about how good a lay he is. Wait, where's that?

Headline here from Biden told AIDS, good sex makes for a long marriage unless she dies Doesn't count we don't know how long that would have let like Presumably Nila Hunter did not die because like she didn't get into a car crash because Joe Biden was giving two-star fight We don't know that yeah, that's true. Well, I mean, I think I say one or the other. I guess. Republicans need to subpoena Biden's dick game. He needs to demonstrate in a closed door session. But it says here, this is the hill. After 47 years of romance with First Lady Joe Biden, President Biden revealed his secret to a happy and long marriage. Good sex.

That's going to say, so Roger has recounted recounted how Biden then a senator decided not to launch a presidential challenge against her mercy. Senator John Kerry in 2004, thanks to his wife's persuasion. According to reporters, she wrote that Jill Biden entered a meeting with her husband and AIDS sporting a halter top with the word no written on her stomach. Ooh, sexy. In 2006, Joe seemed more interested in staying home with Jill than in running for the presidency, Rogers writes. And he said as much to a group of supporters that year, I'd rather be at home making love to my wife

while my children are asleep, he said of interest in the job. So like, back when it would have made sense for him to run for president, because his brain was still all there, he was too busy fucking his wife, which is like, wait, what year was that? This is 2006, 2004. His children were asleep?

His kids were like, his youngest kid. Yongh is never asleep. We just established this. His kids were older than me. Yeah, his Yongh's kid was like 28 at the time. Even if they're home, like, you think a hunter doesn't know about sex? That's not even his mom.

That's his stepmom. Ha, ha, ha, ha. I don't like, like he's, he's talking Hunter in at age 39. Hunter is wearing like a, he's dressed up like the sleepy time bear. That's probably how Hunter got on all the drugs, Joe. He's Buster Bluth if he was cool. We have unlimited juice. This party is going to be off of the hook. Joe is dosing him with like pro-Memphazine and codeine so he could go to sleep at 8 so he could fucking just shoot ropes into Dr. Jill.

Giving your son a shot of brandy to put him to sleep. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha You know, man, still be laying pipe? I think not. This is a more endowed of the New York Times from over the weekend. Sex in the capital city, she writes, the golden bachelor showed that sex is not just for spring chickens. Hearing aids and making out in the hot tub can go blissfully together. Now comes the golden president. Even though Fred full questions about his age have engulfed Joe Biden, one thing is clear. His romance with Jill is still crackling. I have observed that myself at a party at his house at the Naval Observatory when he

was vice president. He told me about the frisson of watching his wife come down the stairs dressed up for a special occasion. They had been married for decades, he said, but my heart still goes pity-pat when I see her. What is the alternative to this? Is he is this a, like, is he supposed to, like, hate his, like, did everyone expect him to be like, yeah, my wife's a big old bag of bones. Can't even get her hard. I hate her. I think this is sort of like drawing a contrast with Republicans, because, you know, like,

Donald Trump, I don't think he's spoken to millennia and probably two or three years now. Mike Pence infamously refers to his wife as a mother. And just like they generally don't give the impression that they're still that they're still they're they're they're they're their coxthold gets hard for their spouse. Newton Callista, though. Yeah, yo, yeah. You can tell. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Every Sunday, they're at the golf course, putting in nine holes, if you know what I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Every Sunday they're at the golf course putting in nine holes, if you know what I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. Oh, 18. Yeah. My favorite couple, Mercedes and Matt Schlapp. Oh, yeah. Mercedes is a rider, die. I love her. There's a new news story out every day where some Republican

24-year-old is like, Matt Schlapp gave me a ride to the bus station and tried to put his entire hand in my asshole. You know, Matt Schlapp. You tried to use me as a puppet. Matt Schlapp dressed up as my air mattress, so I would lay down on him. Matt Schlapp did all the, Matt Schlapp tried to jack me off. He wore at your address and trick me into marrying him and I only found out at the altar. All these stories are coming out and Mercedes like clearly this is a he's a gay man and a predator and Mercedes is like, I'm against these people trying to cancel my husband

Yeah, that's what this is. He does what he has to do and he comes home and he's very polite Yeah, the 18 year old CPAC intern who's now I'm trying to cancel him for Matt reportedly asking to show him his kermit the frog routine Going on with cancel him for Matt reportedly asking to show him his Kermit the Frog routine. Going on with Marie Dowd though, it says here, the amorous Biden marriage is chronicled in a new book by Katie Rogers, a New York Times White House correspondent, American Woman, the transformation of the modern First Lady from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden. What's that? What is that? How has it changed? from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden. What's that, Transform8? What is that?

How has it changed? Well, we went from a First Lady who doesn't have sex with her husband to one who does. I guess so. It says here, parenthetically, Rogers notes, Joe may have tipped down his public bedroom declarations winning the presidency, but he has joked to AIDs that good sex is the key to a lasting and happy marriage, much to his wife's chagrin. Biden's AIDs were accustomed to his TMI outpourings. The most famous profile ever done about him was Kitty Kelly's Washington piece in 1974,

a year and a half after his beautiful young wife, Nellie, and baby daughter, Naomi, tragically died in a car crash at Christmas time. Nellie was my very best friend, my greatest ally, my sensuous lover. He said, the longer we live together, the more we enjoyed everything from sex to sports." In an office with 35 pictures of Nellie, he pointed out one of his beautiful millionaire wife, and a bikini noting, "...she looks better than a Playboy bunny, doesn't she?" He said he was so exhausted from campaigning for the Senate in 1972,

I'd come back too tired to talk to her. I might satisfy her in bed, but I didn't have much time for anything else." What a beautiful memorial. What is this supposed to do? Like I said, I think this is to counter the idea that he's too old to be president. But this is, he's talking about 1972. Yeah. No doubt that you had sex in 1972.

He's a very generous lover and still remains so to this day. I personally, yeah. And I believe that senile people can jack off and come and fuck their wife as good or probably better than anyone else. Why is that? Because it's new every time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every time it's a one night stand. Yeah. Well, if you're sen senile if you're senile, it's probably like if you have a more like artistic personality, let's say

It's probably like living the movie Tree of Life Yeah, or 51st States One of the two one of the two that is one in case, Joe Biden would be Drew Barrymore in 51st dates. Oh, yeah. The lucky one. Yeah. So, yeah, whether, you know, whether this will stop the dog biting or the Holocaust going on in Gaza, I don't know. But you know what, like sort of similar to his relationship with Hunter,

I find Joe Biden's ongoing horniness for Joe Biden to be actually one of the more endearing parts about him So like whether this is gonna help him. I have no idea. But you know what? Good good on you Joe for continuing to be horny for your wife in market contrast to Republicans Okay, I got one more sort of forget the reading series today that also touches on the horniness of Democratic politicians In this case, Elizabeth Warren. This is from The Hill. Warren says, the rock would be in her dream blunt rotation. Okay.

I thought for a second this was going to be the one about horniness. And I just kind of winced when you said Elizabeth Warren. Oh, this is not going to talk about her fucking husband. And they're like, you're going to like a little ball trend and fucking each other Let's go continue. Yeah, Elizabeth Warren's dream blunt rotation consists only of Dwayne the Rock Johnson according to a recent interview Pod Save America host John Favreau asked the Massachusetts Democrat to choose four people out of a list He provided to join her in a dream blunt rotation

Which he identified as a group of people you'd hypothetically like to smoke weed because they'd be a really fun time All I'm really telling you this has nothing to do with weed Warren jokingly responded It's who you think is fun. There are people you'd go get pedicures with this is what you're telling me Favreau then went on to list President Biden get pedicures with. This is what you're telling me. Favreau then went on to list President Biden, Vice President Harris, Senator Bernie Sanders, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and Senator Ed Markey as possible members of a hypothetical marijuana smoking session before getting to Johnson, the actor and former professional wrestler. That could kill some of those people.

And Markey is like 85. I'm sorry, Janet Yellen. Janet Yellen. Is like a cool hang. You could not find worse people. Like, Kamala might be the coolest person there. Yeah, yeah. I would want her in my blunt rotation. I want to hear her high and just say in her stuff about the coconut tree.

Yeah, Kamala is the only great choice there. Yeah. Like, she would say something hilarious about how much dust there is on the ceiling fan and how that symbolizes our lives. But like, if Ed Markey or Janet Yellen have ever smoked weed in their life, it was probably like 60 years ago and they were smoking straight dirt. So I would like to cut them in a room and like, give them a dab rig and have them hit like 10,000% THC shatter and see what happens. That would be fun. You're kind of your baby sitting in a room of old guys who are hitting real weed for

the first time and they're all just going to freak out. Yeah. It's the worst possible night to have. It sucks. Ed Markey is going to like get, he's going to smoke real weed that isn't oregano and he's going to be like, oh my God, I voted for the oregano and he's gonna be like oh my god I voted for the Iraq war and he's gonna fucking break a coke bottle and start cutting It will be terrible the worst trip of your life. I like

this Is this related to like Liz Warren's like thing with the show ballers? Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah Yes, it is so So it says here, at the mention of Johnson, Warren said, oh, the rock, I'm stopping there. She said she would just choose him four times. When Favreau noted he also had Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, rapper Snoop Dogg, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and pop star Taylor Swift on the list, Warren stuck with Johnson. I'm still with the rock she said who doesn't like the rock Warren told Entertainment Weekly at the time and I have

to say who doesn't love the rocks wardrobe choices don't they just knock you out those vests and the pink shirts oh man it's eye candy in 2018 she tweeted a photo of the script of the television show baller is to say she keeps it on her desk and was signed by Johnson, who she says reminds her to stay ballin'. A year before that, Johnson said he can't wait to meet Warren. Man, that's so weird. That's such a great mix of low and high culture. She's talking about an HBO series and prestige television and all this Harvard professor type shit that would play with her fans. But then she's also talking about how much she loves the rock and she would want to smoke weed with the rock. Like she's talking like a guy you would work with at the gas station when you're 19.

Like, man, I fucking, if I could smoke weed with the rock, man, like he would be so fucking cool. Like he would be like instantly my dream blood pressure. Him and fucking Johnena in a whole I gotta go back to the register Elizabeth Warren shows smoking a blunt with the rock over having dinner with Jay Z But you know, I guess she's already wealthy enough doesn't need any business secrets But I guess like I'm just a little like I think it's really funny to choose the rock as like your sort of sex fantasy object

because I can't think of a man more neutered in his public persona than Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Yeah, the rock is one of the weirdest celebrities. He's like an alien. Yeah, he's like an animatronic of himself. Yeah, he is just like, he is a device for selling products and nothing more Well, just best of luck to Elizabeth. I mean, it also like I like the idea of that. It's specifically smoking a blunt Smoking a blunt which I think would melt the lungs of you know, for instance Nancy Pelosi or senator Chuck Schumer

Yeah, that's a lot. Imagine. Yeah. Because imagine how hard they'd cough. A pre-roll with the pushing. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, more more relatable behavior here from Elizabeth Warren. Does she still have that big dog? Bailey? Yes, that big dog.

No, not the actual dog. The big, oh, the blow up. Oh, the inflatable Bailey. Oh, someone must have that. They should hook up the inflatable Bailey to like a fucking vaporizer like like a like a oh yeah. That's a great I can take a one hit off of that and yeah go Super Saiyan mode on on Elizabeth Warren's pussy. It should be in her yard. Yeah. If you have that, there's no

reason not to have it in your yard. If you have that, there's no reason not to have it in your yard. Right. Well, now to get to the the Marquis reading series for this week. We'll a little late to this one. This is what everyone's been asking for. I am referring, of course, to the new inquiry article about Bovine Barry's University of Austin. And like, I feel a little guilty with this reading series because it really has done all of the work for me. Like, unlike most reading series, this is an article that I think is actually really well written and hilarious. So like, I don't know how much more I'm gonna have to add to this hilarious account of the dangerous courses

being offered at Bovine University, but I think it's worth diving into. So gentlemen, this is an American education, Notes from UATX by Noah Rawlings for the new inquiry. It begins like this. Many of the founders had participated in the same conservative think tanks, the Hoover Institution, the Manhattan Institute, the American Enterprise Institute. Many had contributed to the free press, the digital paper founded by Barry Weiss in 2021,

the same year as University of Austin was announced. Many were friends or fans of Jordan Peterson. One University of Austin founder was even double dipping, delivering lectures at both University of Austin and Peterson's forthcoming Peterson Academy. One had been fired from Princeton University after sleeping with a student and discouraging her from seeking mental health care

per an official university statement. One had been accused of assaulting his girlfriend, the charges were dropped. Another had a talk at MIT canceled after comparing affirmative action to quote, the atrocities of the 20th century. And so beneath their optimism, they churned bitterness and indignation

at their mistreatment by the thought police. Sour feelings, they see weakened with their commitments to a free and open inquiry. To build the university, you need money, but the founders were so eager. They were so ambitious and impatient. They wanted students in classes now. So in the summers of 2022 and 23, University of Austin established weak-long programs where students at other institutions could attend seminars and lectures

by world-class scholars and knowledge creators, a sort of anti-woke summer camp, title Forbidden Courses. The University of Austin is not in Austin, not yet. It's 200 miles away in northeast Dallas on an office complex owned by Mr. Harlan Crow. So right off the bat here, University of Austin, Texas is not actually in Austin. It's in Dallas. The building is the Reichstag. You brought it over. Felix, I noticed you noticed this guy. This is one of my favorite encounters in this article.

So it says here, Peter sat next to me on the bus. He was fired up. He was delivering opening remarks later that night. Plus, he would be gone talking about a subject that interested him. Exercise. It's indispensable for an intellectual, he told me. You should be exercising, do you?

I'd recently started going to the gym, I said. He looked doubtful. You've got to get into jiu-jitsu, man. I'm telling you, Peter did jiu-jitsu. It changed his life. He'd spun around in his seat, scanned the rest of the butts, and then whipped back to his laser eyes on me. I couldn't murder everyone on this bus,

and nobody could stop me. It's a super power. I thought this over. So yeah, Felix, as someone who studied Jiu Jitsu, could you please tell us about the super powers it gives you to murder anyone on a bus? I like guys like this, and by like this, I mean people who have done Jiu Jitsu for two months and have in that time learned like one shitty cross joke and can take that could do a takedown on someone if they're being allowed to they love doing this where they're like guess what I've just learned the secret to fighting I know how to

fight in the ground no one else knows how to only I do. I'm one of the point one percent of the world that knows this. The ground is an ocean. I'm a shark. And like it's like, okay, maybe in nineteen ninety one. That might be something when no one knew what this was. But even then, like, what do you think? Do you think that someone is just going to let you, Peter Bogusian, hug them and drag them to the floor extremely slowly while you get out of breath?

No, they're going to hit you. Was that the guy you did the fake, the like the fake journal article? They submitted a bunch of nonsense to a journal. Oh, I don't know if that's the same guy. Peter. It was his name is Peter Canellos Oh, it's a different guy. Yeah, it's probably also there Uh, he does not I mean if you do go at google image search for Peter Canellos He does not look like the type of guy who could murder anyone on a bus despite his, you know, martial arts training

It's just like okay assuming he does get one person to the ground and takes their back and is holding like a blood choke, like a rear naked choke for a long enough time to kill someone. Is everyone on the bus just like patiently waiting in line for Peter to beat the other ones off? Yeah, they're going to beat you to death. You can't fight off all those guys. Yeah. 9-11 would have worked like that if that's how it worked.

They wouldn't have had to bar shut the cockpit or any of that shit. They would have just learned Jiu Jitsu for two weeks, killed everyone on the plane and then flew it into the buildings. Yeah, it's just it's just such bad advice. Like the idea, the idea that like Jiu Jitsu is like it's like a real fight at all. Like it's very useful for fighting, but I'm sorry in a real fight, you can't just like get on your back and do a helicopter sweep to someone. They're going to kick you in the fucking head. I think it's, I think it's, I mean, I think it's important that the guy said that like Jiu Jitsu is very important for

intellectuals because I think that's kind of how they, it's not good enough to just like present your arguments and be an intellectual. Like the true test of debate is can you like, you know, put someone to sleep in a hold or something like, can you break someone's arm easily as you're talking about how affirmative action is one of the great atrocities of the 20th century? Well, when people say that, what they mean is like this annoying annoying phrase that people would use for Jujutsu. It's like a human chest match. You know, because it's so intricate

and you have to think so many moves ahead and you know, it's so involved and like. Don't they actually do that though? Aren't there real human chest matches where they're on a chess board? There are, yeah. It happens. I feel like that's more like human chess matches where they're on a chessboard? There are, yeah, it happens. I feel like that's more like human chess.

It's one of the few varsity athletics offered by the University of Austin is human chess. Oh, that would be great. But like jujitsu being that cerebral, it's true on like a high enough level. Like if you're so good at it that you're not just, you know, acting on pure adrenaline and then running out of gas while you do it. Yeah, sure. But that's not what these guys are. They have like 30 seconds of go in them. And they're not like, I'm sorry, like you, I don't really think you can really say that you're good at jujitsu, but you've done it for like a decade.

You have to have actually killed a bus full of people. Yeah. I need proof that you did that. I want death certificates. But feel like, what is it about jujitsu that like leads to this kind of, like I remember like, I swear to God, like another guy I knew who like started doing

Brazilian jujitsu, like said, after starting it for some time, like he advertised it in the same way this guy did to me by saying, it gives me comfort to know that any room I can walk into, I can physically dominate any man inside of it. And I'm just thinking like, is that the way you think? Is that the way you think when you enter a room? You're just like the terminator, like sizing up who here I could best in physical combat. I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle. Which man in here is a sub that I could

Think like I think very broadly right that not all men but a lot of men At least when they're growing up like in their adolescence Do have like this? Thing lurking in their consciousness. Like what would happen if I had to fight this guy or this guy, any man they come across, right? And hopefully you get that out of your system. You stop thinking that way by the time you're an adult or even by the time you finished high school, hopefully.

Yeah, for me, it's just run between their legs. But like the reason for this is someone if someone extends their arm and holds your head, they completely they can completely neutralize any any attack that you may offer. Oh, there's a jujitsu move for that. Like the reason that any type of fight training is good is because like if you're a man who thinks that way, you have this fear your entire life that like someone's going to beat you up and you'll like have to kill yourself or kill them or something because it's like they

violated you. But once you train and you realize that you suck and someone does dominate you You're like, oh, okay. That like wasn't that bad like I'm not very good Okay, and I can learn to get better and hopefully that that gets that Kind of thinking out of you. Hopefully after that, you don't go into a room as a anti-woke professor and go, oh my god, would I be able to fucking kill Brett Stevens? Yes, is the answer to that question.

Yeah, actually thinking about that room. I'm thinking about those people. I don't know. Yeah. Hopefully, once you graduate from the University of Texas, Austin, you'll be able to enter a room and just wonder how many of these men could I be friends with? I think that's a healthier mental attitude to have. But Peter, the Jiu Jitsu fighter, so it goes on with him. Wait, no, this is a different guy.

Peno Canelo's president stood up. It was time for the opening remarks. Our chatter lolled and he began to speak in gentle benevolent tones. He told us that we weren't starting the university. We were a university. This is what the university looks like. People coming together for conversations, much like the one we'd been having over our complimentary chicken dinners. Dialogue, he said, from the Greek logos, two rational beings engaged in rational discourse.

He smiled, we smiled. And with little further ado, he introduced Peter, whom the other students had not yet had the good fortune of meeting. Peter Pano told us, was kicking butt in the righteous name of freedom. Peter springs to the center of the room. The air pressure changes, a buzz, a hum, a current about us. He brims with a frenzied energy, something is happening. He's going to give us a taste of what's to come, he says.

This is the kind of intellectual activity we're going to experience at the University of Austin. We're going to grapple with big issues. We're going to be daring, fearless, undaunted. We're going, he says, to do something called street epistemology. Oh, God. Oh, God.

Yo, the street's office is in the house. in the house and like it is basically what you'd imagine What is street epistemology? He'll demonstrate. It's one of two things. He does he says the other being jiu-jitsu I'm beginning to understand why this guy needs to train himself to have the ability to kill any human being encounters Because what he does is just annoy people on the street needs to train himself to have the ability to kill any human being encounters because What he does is just annoy people on the street. So he says here. I don't have a life He says I talked to strangers and I wrestle strangers Beating people up I hate this so much I hate it when someone like some fucking old guy does jiu-jitsu for like six months and they think they're a Brazilian named Pythagoras molar

You're not fighting for your next meal. Shut the fuck like any junior varsity linemen would beat you up Shut up. Well, they do get a chicken dinner. That's a phrase I haven't heard since 1922. Winner, winner, winner, winner, winner, street epistemology. So he says, so he says, okay, he's going to demonstrate what street epistemology he says. But before we can do street epistemology, Peter needs to think of some questions. He turns his back to the audience, hunches slightly in strides, stroking his chin. He is Rodin's thinker, set in manic motion.

He is a relentless magician in his study at midnight. He is frantically philosophical gremlin. Bam! He wheels around and stalks forward and slings his index finger out toward a student, demands of him whether climate change is real and how certain is he and why. Bob, he points at another student, asks whether gender is a social contract, whether trans

women are women. He cites Socrates in the seven habits of highly effective people. He staggers and weaves as a boxer dances, so Peter lectures. He is the professor you never had. He is a skull of raw intellect. He is Robin Williams in the dead poet society But ripped he is putting a gun to the head of your most precious assumptions And then it is over that we have learned is street epistemology

Is he asking the hard questions of another and not refuting them when you disagree but continuing to ask why and how Certain are you until the temple of their convictions crumbles and you can help them build a newer sounder one man I gotta say the Spartans and they didn't do many things right, but making making Socrates kill himself is probably the one good thing that they did for history because I can't stand this. So it was a bullshit. Yeah. Oh, well, and he did it on purpose for attention. It was like a proto saint.

He was like, oh, don't don't make me kill myself. I don't want to die for my beliefs. I don't want to live in infamy. That's I mean like killing yourself back then was kind of a wash because like what is being alive? Yeah, you would have been dead by now anyway. Yeah. Oh, no, I don't know more amazing years sleeping on my stone bed in my house. That's just a bunch of columns and no walls. One thing I do notice is that they're clearly doing affirmative action for Greek people. Because all these people are Greek and it's because oh, it's the academy, it's classical. It's like the human version of putting all

those pillars in and the White House and the Capitol building. Yeah. It's like a reference. Oh, we got to get all these Greek guys. I see what you're doing. And with street epistemology, you can also, after you intellectually dominate someone, you can engage in prodigy with them as well. Going on, it says, there were other classes, the psychology of morality with psychologist Rob Henderson, it would be Jordan Peterson, science and Christianity with geophysicist and IQ fetishist Dorian Abbott, whom you could hear say things like, I hate feminism, a grin twisting on his face. Anglo-American grand strategy in which some 20 young men listed,

listened to historian Walter Russell Mead explain how the West had gained geopolitical supremacy over the past 300 years. You could enroll in only one of the four Forbidden Courses, but I heard about Anglo-American from my roommate at the Hilton Antinal Ralph. He was an excitable young man from the Midwest who'd been a poll worker and a middle school math teacher. His plane to Dallas had been delayed, so I didn't properly meet him until the evening on the second day. I walked into the hotel room and found him staring out the window. He turned as I walked in, then turned back to the window. Whoa! Oh man, look at this! It's a huge pool! Below us sprawled the hotel's Jade Waters Resort Pool Complex. There were slides in a lazy river. Do you think we have access to that? I didn't think so. Dang!

We talked about forest schools of foreign policy Hamiltonian Jeffersonian Jacksonian and Wilsonian He told me after the first day of classes. We listened to songs. That was great The songs were a reflection of each school. He liked Merle Haggard's oaky from Muskogee best It represented the Jacksonians. He pulled it up on his phone What I what are the way I need to know the song that represents Wilsonian foreign policy. Oh Johnny yeah, it's something about Mammy and the plantation is something you can't play on the radio anymore the two Wilson songs are yeah like you know song of the South Johnny rebel or

You know that Klaus Schwab music video that some right-wing guy made. That is so stupid. Jack Sonian ideals through a song that came out in the 60s? What are we doing? And how is that different than Jeff or Sonia? And what's the difference between Jeff or Sonia and Jack Sonia? Also, didn't Merle Haggard write that song, essentially, to make fun of the point of view he was giving voice to?

Yeah, I also like I just I like how this ostensibly is supposed to be like a very, you know, a very heady pursuit, you know We're only doing this because there's no more real learning at liberal colleges But then they are doing the equivalent of rolling rolling the TV out. Yes Like the Anglo-American supremacy of the last 300 years, that's just regular textbooks from when we were growing up. Yeah. Well, not at all.

I don't think that was like that much better. It didn't make me like a better person than the kids today where they have a part where it's like, it was very bad what we did with manifest destiny. The Trail of Tears was really bad. Like is that, oh, they're not going to be fully functional humans. They're going to kill themselves for being white because there's a page about the Trail of Tears that they also didn't read. Yeah. When I was reading this, I just thought, like, I had the exact same thought that every single class at the University of Austin is when

the substitute teacher wheels into TV and you watch like a National Geographic documentary or for when I was growing up Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom for some reason. Oh, man There are some unjustifiable things the teachers show kids Uh in sixth grade we had a teacher show as paid forward And even as like an 11 year old I was so fucking mad I was like this has nothing to do with learning. This is just stupid I think we were showed the Indiana Jones movies because they had some semblance of historical fact in them The part about how Indian people eat monkey

Yeah, hey. Yeah. Hey, well, I mean, that'd be good at the University of Austin. You know, a classic view of the Indian thuggy culture. At the University of Austin, they still have those national geographics with the ladies with their tits out in Africa. You can still look at those during recess. Okay, going on here, it says, one student, bravely reviving the pseudoscience of physiognomy, said that if your index finger was longer than your ring finger, that probably meant

you were gay. This is literally the show of the previous game where if you put your hand over your face and it covers the entire face, that means you're gay. Yeah, another brave, forbidden courses lecture, I asked to induct students into the Penn 15 Club. I can't believe that's what they're teaching. Yeah. Physiognomy. You can just make shit up. You can just say whatever. Someone else claimed that 20 percent of Gen Z identified as LGBTQ.

There's no way a society can evolve if 20 percent of its population is gay, another student added shaking his head. Is it really only 20%? I thought it was like 40% honestly. What is this going to be? There's simply no way a society can evolve if 20% of it is gay. What do you mean evolve? Start checking index fingers now. Do they mean evolve in the Pokemon sense? They're never going to beat that gym leader.

If there's all these gay students. We're never getting right you, if you guys keep having gay sex. And also they want to go back to ancient Greece. Yeah. When 100% of people were gay. Yeah, it says evolve in this case seemed to mean stay the same

or turn back the historical clock. Later, another statistic was cited. 7% of France is Muslim. Yeah, pure replied. That's probably because they don't want to integrate. That doesn't make sense. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? They integrate if you just get off their ass.

They just want to play FIFA and shit. Give it a couple decades. What are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to join the French religion of like being a Catholic atheist? Of not showering. Yeah. It's having narrow shoulders and marrying your daughter's friend. Casting off the church and then having to re-embrace it out of weakness.

Is that the religion? Yeah. Going on here, this is a different paragraph. The room set the mood. Sunk in the basement of a building modeled after Monticello, the debate chamber gets no natural light. No matter, it is not jewelry. What with the electric skylight blowing yellow and blue overhead in an Eternal artificial sunset. What with the walnut walls and the 75 seats before white oak desks with inlaid leather tops? We said they're spending all that they're spending all their money on fucking on on lighting design and oak desks There's no way to run an academy. Did they really recreate Monticello? Yeah.

That seems kind of woke to have white people build it. Like paying white people to build that. That seems like... That's not historically accurate. And also one thing about Jefferson that I always think about is that he was... He got closer than anybody in american history to having white slaves that was basically his project was to have like seven eighths white slaves that you could legally enslave so in like it's kind of a weird counterintuitive thing he was he was basically trying to find a loophole to have white slaves and he did

so I don't know if that's woke or not. That's how much of a genius Jefferson was. That's a forbidden idea right there. That is truly a forbidden idea. That's being such a genius he foresaw, you know, guys who walk on the shoulder of the highway and thought, I have it.

Do I have a job for them? Yeah, they're growing teeth for me. But listen to some more about the interior decoration of this place. So it says, artificial sunlight, blah, blah, blah, inlay leather tops all oriented around an imposing stage. And then it also includes a naturalistic painting of Julius Caesar getting stabbed to death on the Ides of March. You feel teleported into some grand old political past, into the Roman Senate, say as depicted in Spartacus, or Epcot, summer 2004. And if you need to leave to use the bathroom, you'll get to pass by a massive oil painting of George W. Bush making the hand of the benediction in front of the wreckage of 9-11.

Okay, that's cool. I mean, like that, I think that's a very cool idea for a painting. Or, beside a Madonna figure whose halo glows, I shit you not with the Coca-Cola logo. Oh, God. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. No, this is, all the art is like, yeah, sub-bank, right-wing Banksy. Just use classical art. Don't make new art. Why don't they just have actual classical artwork or painting here? Why this neon statue of the Virgin Mary with a Coca-Cola logo and George Bush at 9-11 doing the benediction? It's so easy to get an amazing looking Blake painting

where it's like a demon. He would blame Blake was woke though. So yeah, I guess so. That's the problem is that most of the artists that were woken some way. Yeah. Because unfortunately, most of the Western civilization that came out of urban centers from highly educated people who were they were engaging in all the the frivolities of life.

And it wasn't like the rural peasant in the Von Day. Going on to some of the speakers. First up, Kevin D. Williamson, a big old friend of the show. We love Kevin. I'm glad he's doing it. The writer-in-residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

I forgot about that guy. Yeah, I forgot about him too. He was wearing a salt and pepper beard, a pink shirt, and blue tie. He rift on the topic of journalism for 30 minutes. He enjoined us to read the Bible and said, get yourself an eighth grade grammar book instead of a journalism degree. He suggested, he suggested usefully that we learn something about something. He threw in a few zingers. For instance, the Washington Post published boring, dry, sterile articles, and Bernie Sanders was not as crazy as he seems. He was actually a lot crazier than he seems. Williamson shared some inspiring historical factoids, like the people

who wrote the Constitution. These people didn't have law degrees for getting the 32 framers who were lawyers. Yeah, I think they were all lawyers. You had to be a lawyer to be president until like 1900. Up next, Mr. Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee, or The Onion for Evangelicals as New Yorker writer Khalifa Sana has nicely put it. Dillon spoke about canceling comedy. The evening of the second day, scoffing at opposition to punching down in comedy, he raised his eyebrows leered and smirked. He demonstrated an impressive command of alliteration. Nothing The evening of the second day, scoffing at opposition to punching down in comedy, he raised his eyebrows

leered and smirked. He demonstrated an impressive command of alliteration. Nothing, he said, undercuts lunacy and lies like laughter. He licked Elon Musk's boots, claiming that the world's richest man took matters into his own hands, bought Twitter, and declared comedy legal again. In his beard and suit, he was a spectacular man-child. So he's giving, I guess, a comedy writing seminar here. Comedy's legal again. Thank God for that. Delivered with uncanny hypersensitivity of a bad actor, Barry Weiss' speech was a jumble.

On the one hand, she was careful to assert her identity. I'm gay, I'm Jewish, she began. On the other hand, she praised University of Austin for being a place to separate identity from ideas On the one hand she made good use of the freewheeling frontier imagery that is popular with tech heads like Joe Lonsdale Saying that we're living in a time that requires new pioneers such as the good people who enter the Wild West world of podcasting Thank you. I've been the Wild West World of podcasting. Thank you.

I've been a fucking home spanner off the... I don't know, Wild West. I think we're at about, like, 1890. The bankers have moved in. Yeah. The railroad has been constructed at this point. Everyone's been on this fucking racket. I would say that we are, like, the Wild West character Steve from Deadwood. He'll be teaching one from Bittenchorus. Yeah, can I just say that I hate that there's like a tech guy

named John Lonsdale because you hear that name and you're like, that's one of the Watergate guys that got 15 years and converted to Christianity. That's he has such a Watergate guys that got 15 years and converted to Christianity That's that he has such a Watergate name, but no, he Gordon Liddy still alive. No, I don't know I thought he died like in the last few years. Oh, yeah, 2021 He could have taught at that college. Okay. He had a radio show for so long He was just around forever his radio show to the course His radio show actually was a forbiddenidden Ideas because it would include things like if you shoot an AT-8 edge and aim for the head because they usually have a vest on.

It's crazy that he was on the radio. Like I said, none of these Forbidden Ideas are being talked about at the University of Austin. The Wild West World of Podcasting. On the other, she told us that we also needed the genuinely safe space that University of Austin provides, disregarding that the University of Austin's academic programs manager had recently promised the school would permit no safe spaces. In the ensuing Q&A, however, at least one person in the audience evinced disappointment. This student asked Barry Weiss why a school that promised constructive debate had failed to invite any speakers who were left of center

Why set difficulty with that one? Perhaps because it's so plainly points to what most attendees knew but blithely kept unspoken University of Austin quite clearly embraced some truths over others and the discussion it fosters are like that those that might take place at the Hoover Institution or a right-wing message board. There was only the most superficial range of opinions and ideas held or a right-wing message board. There was only the most superficial range of opinions and ideas held. Almost all the speakers droned on smugly about the same points.

DEI is ruining higher education, women's studies and ethnic studies are worthless, gender ideology is destroying America's social and moral fabric, IQ is the best measure of merit. These positions have as their end the maintenance, the naturalization of existing race and class hierarchies, inviting speakers from the less would pose an obstacle to that naturalization. I mean, like, yeah, like a dangerous idea at the University of Austin would be like to have someone who's against Zionism speak there,

Artisha Chorus. Yeah, that's one of the dangerous ideas. That's the sort of the unspoken thing, the difference between the intellectual dark web that you can write about their dangerous ideas in the Atlantic and Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes. The difference is one specific country and one specific religion. That's the only difference. Should we throw them in the minority pile or not? Of what did virtue consist? Throughout the week, University of Austin speakers had provided some examples. Mocking trans women in the value of diversity, louding IQ as the ultimate metric, and doing lip service to debate but feeling to practice it. But the greatest models came on the last day when Joe Lonsdale and Mark Andreessen, zooming in from screens set up in the debate chamber, discussed the future of artificial

intelligence. Lonsdale is also one of University of Austin's founders and helps fund the school. Before University of Austin had received official nonprofit status, it was sponsored by the Lonsdale is also one of University of Austin's founders and helps fund the school before university of Austin had received official nonprofit status It was sponsored by the Lonsdale created Cicero Institute a conservative think tank that proposes free market solutions to public policy issues Again, what a dangerous idea to talk about in the 21st century free market solutions I have never there's no not a single university will touch that that sticky wicked. I hate this shit because it's like the heritage foundation exists Like why yeah, but why does it need to be another one of these? Yeah, no one wants to be a Democrat. No one wants to be a liberal or centrist any of that shit

There's got to be a new word for it. We need to rediscover the same shit over and over again, but find new terms for it. I'm privatization maxing. Or the, actually, the generally, the genuinely forbidden idea that I've heard come out of heritage, but unfortunately not the University of Austin, is a recent speech that they gave where they promised the end of recreational sex. That plays well with people. This is a broad... Recreationalist has pots of fun word for it. Yeah. This is populism.

It's just like going to the end here, it says, Lonsdale with furrowed brow and beady eyes played talk show host to Andreessen, who resembles nothing so much as a hard boiled egg. The two extolled... That guy used to follow me for like three days. Yeah, I do. What causes like 18? I don't know. I never found out because I realized later. He's followed and unfollowed me like a lot. It's he's he'll follow me, then unfollow me, then follow me, then block me. And I'm just never interacting with him. I don't know what's up Why is like I look at my shit. He has ten billion dollars. Yeah, I I you on the computer

It makes me feel like I don't know like I'm taking Ambien and maybe I'm like sending him my dick every night And I don't realize I like to leave the messages. Why is this? What's happening? He's telling everyone in his life about being sexually harassed That would be the best ending so sick of this guy the best ending to my career to get me to by Mark Andreessen Yeah, I mean it's like I think it's about it on the the University of Austin, Texas I mean, I'm impressed that they even had this little seminar I thought it was never going anywhere But best of luck to them and the 30 students that they're you know educating and forbidden ideas I guess lastly before we go Let's think about it. Did you guys see the the libs of tick-tock Taylor the Rens interview?

Yeah, I think every every fight that people have should have each person wearing a t-shirt of the other person crying Alex I swear to God when I first saw the video, I thought Chaya was wearing a T-shirt of herself. Yeah, they looked the same. I thought it was like Bernie Mac, you know, like Def Comedy Jam, she came out with a pants. She's dark Taylor Lorenz. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She really is. But I don't know, I was struck by just how absolutely brain-dead Shia was like I just like To be pushed to be pushed to like not even defend her ideas But even just to describe them in words. She seemed to like trip over herself and Show Taylor a photo of a blowjob on her phone. She seemed like on pills or something. She seemed very like low register I don't know. It's very, very odd. She made one of the best excuses I've ever heard. Like she, you know, just completely stumbles,

fox up entirely, comes off like an insane person. And then she's like, of course, Taylor Lorenz put this out on a Saturday, when she knows it's illegal for me to use phones. That shit's so weird. Oh, come on. Both of them do that shit too. They're both like, you know what you're doing. You're trying to make a career off of tearing this person down and digging into their shit. We all know what's going on. Then the second you do it back to them, it's like, you posted my last name? you do it back to them. It's like you posted my last name.

She's posted a picture of me. Yeah, like you're both famous. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, with with with Chaya, it's just like this app, if you mean Saturday for everyone else. I'm sorry, I've never heard of I've never heard of reporters doing like a courtesy blackout of news on Saturdays You have to have a Shabbos goi to send them the emails. Yeah We should how do you believe that? People are supposed to respect that they just don't work on Saturday. That's some millennial shit to me

I mean, just don't work on Saturday. That's some millennial shit to me. I mean, I'm lazy millennial shit. You can't eat, oh, I don't want to be emailed on the weekend. I don't want to be, shut up. Do your fucking job. Yeah, no, yeah. Are there pedophiles in schools or not? If there are, I don't want you to see you just taking a day off.

Oh, no. Yeah, kids are being, every kid is being raped in every school. But I can't email you about it on Saturday. What? Yeah, give me a break. You think God doesn't understand that shit? I do love that when Shaya talks about like anytime someone writes an article about her, she's being doxxed. Yeah. Yeah, shut the fuck up lady. You want to be famous. This is your job. This is your job. But yeah, you want to be famous. I do. I do. I'm the most famous you're ever going to get. Like this is this is the climax of

your life. I gotta say though, I wearing wearing the t-shirt with Taylor Lorenz crying on it was pretty cool though. I think she's sell that. I mean, she should or tail I'm in tail. I mean, Taylor is cell one of her crying And I don't think there is one because she's smart enough not to give your enemies pictures of you crying But yeah, you could Photoshop one. No, I'm just I think yeah Like Shia should just go like the Bernie Mac route and just have a full outfit with like Taylor Lorenz's faces all over it And and a map of Africa All right, so it's a yeah, that's a good buzz it does it for today

We'll wrap it up here for today Till next time everybody. Do we have anything to plug at the end of today's episode? No, we're all good Well, then I just make sure to check out Alex on chapeau fym. Yeah Wf ym check out fortune kid. I do music with Charles links will be in the show description Alex once again always a joy to hang out with you. Thanks for filling in today. Yeah, thank you I mean God bless. All right till next time everybody. Bye. Bye We don't make a party out of love it But we like holding hands and pitching wood

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