Digital Social Hour - TikTok Ban Explained: What's Next for Social Media? | Emily Austin DSH #1134

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

📱 TikTok Ban Explained: What's Next for Social Media? 🚨 Tune in to this captivating episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly as we explore the heated debate surrounding the potential TikTok ban and its impact on the future of social media. From censorship controversies to the role of tech giants like Elon Musk, this episode is packed with valuable insights you won't want to miss! 💡 Join the conversation as Sean sits down with Emily Austin, who shares her unfiltered take on TikTok's influence, censorship practices, and the pressing concerns about data privacy and global politics. What does the future hold for your favorite platforms, and could Elon Musk reshape the game? 🤔 Don't miss out on the inside scoop! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Let's keep the conversation going in the comments! 💬 #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #TikTokBan #SocialMedia #Podcast #EmilyAustin #TechNews #FutureOfSocialMedia #news #tiktokban #donaldtrump #socialmediaradicalization #americaatacrossroads CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:26 - Emily Austin 01:39 - Saudi Arabia Boxing 04:59 - Prolon 06:15 - Antisemitism 09:23 - California Wildfires 10:52 - DEI and Racism 12:55 - Judging by Character 14:45 - TikTok Trends 16:28 - NYC Safety Concerns 21:20 - Emily's Political Journey 24:18 - Inaccurate Polls 25:15 - Andrew Tate Controversy 26:58 - Candace Owens Insights 31:15 - Dan Bilzerian's Lifestyle 32:50 - Tucker Carlson Analysis 34:27 - Where to Find Emily APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Emily Austin https://www.instagram.com/emily.austin SPONSORS: Prolon: http://prolonlife.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/

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Me neither, it's like I wanna boycott them, especially when they change the chargers. That was evil, that's monopolization. And the AirPods were annoying. AirPods are annoying, and they don't even fit my ear, by the way. And they're EMF-free, so I don't even- Right, they're the best.

I will never have an Android. Unless Elon does a phone. I would get Elon's phone. I would trust Elon with my life. All right, guys. In DC today, we got Emily Austin. Finally made it happen. Do I have like croissant on my teeth?

No, you just ate one though, right? Yeah, it was really yummy. Thank you. I love it. I'm going to eat one after this right? Yeah, it was really yummy. Thank you. I love it. I'm gonna eat one after this. I'm starving. I haven't eaten anything today.

I took a red eye last night. From where? From Vegas. Yeah. I always think it's gonna like work out and then you don't sleep on it. Red eyes? Well, okay. I'll argue a red eye is better than a morning flight.

Really? Because I don't get good sleep but I'll like listen to music, close my eyes. When I have a morning flight and I land, my instinct is to sleep. And like, it's usually in the middle of the day, at least a red eye. You can't justify taking a nap. You're like, nope, got to get up grind. I know I'm like unpopular in this, but I'll die for red eyes. Your stakes are on the line on a red eye.

If you don't sleep your whole day is shot. Right. Yeah, I'll take my odds. Yeah. So I force myself to sleep on that flight. You're probably traveling a lot lately, huh? Yeah, I mean, I travel, I travel so long that now when I take short flights, it bothers me because I don't mind planes. I mean, now I'm afraid with all the accidents happening. But like I fly to Saudi, it's like 16 hours.

Flew the other day to Miami. It's my shortest flight yet. And by the time I feel like I closed my eyes, we were landing. I'm like, no, I didn't get to nap. Like, I can't do this. Now when I land, I can't take a nap. And I need the longer flights, which sounds really weird. Wow. First world problem right there. Saudi, what are you doing over there? So Saudi. Yeah. Wow. They just really, they do it all. They have a huge sports initiative going on right

now and I'm a boxing reporter primarily. So they've really changed the game of boxing like uh Turkey Al-Sheikh is making the biggest fights happen. We have Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, uh Canelo Crawford this year and he's just making like the dream fights. Fury Usyk, I know Fury just retired but like he would have done Fury AJ. Yeah. And uh a lot of them are in Riyadh so I'll just spend like weeks there and I love it. Yeah because you're with Dezen now right? Yeah. You're covering the fights. Is that the same company that's doing McGregor versus Paul? So I'll just spend like weeks there and I love it. Yeah, because you're what days and now right? You're covering the fights. Is that the same company that's doing McGregor versus Paul? Or is that a different one?

I think, I don't know who, I'm sure they'll end up streaming it. I don't know if they have the primary rights for it. That one's in India, which I don't think we do. Yeah, McGregor Paul. Wow. The Ambani family is behind it. I think they want it in India. I think a lot of people are trying to copy what Saudi's doing.

I don't think they could keep up I think they want it in India. Okay. I think a lot of people are trying to copy what Saudi's doing. I don't think they could keep up, but they want to just break. Listen, the best way to bring tourism is sports. There's nothing more people will unite over than a good soccer game or football game or boxing. Like I've never seen so many UKers in Riyadh. Like it's bizarre,

but they'll all fly out for like Fury-Usik fight. It's brilliant actually. Yeah. Man, UK loves boxing. I mean, they have amazing boxers. They have Joshua, they have Fury. Now we have a U-Bank fight with Conor Ben. The rivalries are happening and they're all UK based. So it's cool. You've been paying more attention to boxing rather than basketball lately. You know, it's weird. I love, I'd say basketball is my first love, but boxing, I mean, cause I work in it, I've been keeping up way more and it's easier, you know, there's no playoffs, there's no

finals. It's just like, okay, whoever wins this fight, who wins the belt is the king, you know? And it's a lot more simple. And honestly, I mean, we're in DC, no better place to discuss now. The NBA's politics just repulsed me a bit because at one point I was like, oh LeBron, like you stay out of politics, it's not your game. And then I could argue people could say the same to me, stay out of politics, you're a sports reporter. And that's when I realized, no, these athletes do have a voice and they do have an opinion. But when I

realized most of them were actually just following the wave of the fake woke virus instead of being honest about their own opinions, I blame the NBA for that. If they won't create a safe environment for people to be honest about their political opinions, I have no respect for a league like that. And perfect example is when Trump won, I got a million congratulations from everyone, including NBA players that I'm in my head, didn't you vote for Kamala? And now Stephen A Smith is coming out like, I didn't vote for Kamala, but I'm not upset Trump won. Do me a favor, you voted for Trump.

Who are you lying to Stephen? But the problem is he's probably afraid to say so. Yeah. And they all are. So something has to shift. I definitely agree. Because when you saw the BLM movement, it was so strong in the NBA. A lot of them didn't even believe in it. Even the black athletes, a lot of them were like, they took a knee and they were like, what are we doing? You know? Now I can't, that I try not to stay out of. Like I'm not black. I don't understand racism. I understand anti-Semitism, but I'm not going to like stick my nose in a fight that's not mine. I'll be an ally. But when I found out... Looking for the ultimate online casino experience?

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T-L-M was a huge scam. Like where's the outrage? Because Black Lives Matter didn't actually improve any black lives. So I'm not black, but I have common sense. That's wrong. Yeah. Crickets, you know, selective outrage.

Yeah. The antisemitism stuff. That's been nuts on X lately. It's almost every day I log in, I see it. It's like, holy crap. I appreciate X because my argument on free speech is I'd rather know what you're thinking than it be a secret and then poof all of a sudden like an intifada comes out of nowhere. Like I want to know what's up. I want

to know how you feel. And it sucks that I have to go on X and read like, you know, Hitler should have finished the job or some crazy tweets, but I'm glad to know how you feel so I can prepare accordingly. Like I got a gun after October 7th, but like a legal carry permit. I took training courses. It was really difficult in New York, especially. I'm in a Republican County, Long Island, but I have a statewide actually a lot of states. I took it to Texas and Florida, but I'm seeing the spike in antisemitism. Like I'm not going to be an idiot again.

I've seen what the world's capable of doing World War II. I see the trend and I will not let history repeat itself. So get a gun. Yeah. I mean, they're finding that balance. Elon's starting to debadge some people. I don't know if you saw that. Yeah. You know what? That to me isn't censorship. Like Yeah. You know what? That to me isn't censorship. Like if you violate guidelines and you're being a vile monster, you don't deserve to make money off of your hatred. And if you know what you signed up for when you signed the guidelines, like you won't make money off of it. They're still getting millions of views. That's not censorship. I hate how they're equivocating that to, um, you want to censor and free speech. No, he's, he's

giving you a platform because on any other platform you'd be banned. For sure. Mark Zuckerberg just submitted. Yeah, he admitted kind of through the Biden administration under the boss. Right. Easy. I'm so thankful for doing that because we all knew it. I mean, if you say anything about Trump, you get like flagged or blackballed

and you're gas lit that it doesn't exist. Like tick tock. I'm not shadow banned, but I haven't gotten used since I said Kamala's campaign was a ditty party. Like it's not a coincidence. I get banned on TikTok every week. It's crazy. Literally every week. And I get it back and then I'm banned again.

Yeah. It's nuts. The same exact clip I post on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, nothing. Yeah, no, I love X. I think I have like a little band going on. I don't know why, but. X is the best for politics. I agree. It's not even close. It's the best for everything. I think I have like a little band going on. I don't know why, but. X is the best for politics.

I agree. It's not even close. It's the best for everything. I think it's just known for its like crazy political takes, but I could totally see like an Instagram vibe going on there. People just tweet more pictures. Really? What's the difference then?

Yeah. I mean. More unhinged comments. Yeah. X is just so fast too. Like as soon as something happens, you know about it. Yeah. It's like unreal. Yeah.

All the Senate hearings, you're like actually there. Cause you're. It's crazy. Like I watch as something happens, you know about it. It's like unreal. All the Senate hearings, you're like actually there. Cause you're- It's crazy. Like I watch news a lot, but I've never received news quicker than X. Like I'm refreshing. I'm like, Oh, did Hexeth knock it? They're like all on X.

It's crazy. The Hexeth clips were hilarious. Yeah. That dude's a G. The jinx. Yeah. I mean, his clips, I literally laughed. I never watched Senate hearings or anything like that, to be honest, but he was just killing it.

Like, yeah, shout out to him. This whole fire thing, how Cali handled it. Ooh. My favorite part about this outcome is people blaming everything but the root of the problem, where it's like, it's tragic, it's vile. Everything that's happening is a harsh awakening to the root, which has failed leadership. And I like how it's taking a turn into climate change is the issue and it's Trump's fault

for neglecting climate change. I mean, all Biden's the president for the last four years and I don't see the climate in a better predicament than it was four years ago at all actually. Yet they're like, yeah, it's the wind. Did the wind take two sticks and rub them together to spark this fire? Listen, it could have been an arsonist, but the reality is no matter what you look at, the root cause was Newsome and it's not just the wildfires. It's how he's handling California as a whole. And what is it? Mayor Bass? It's just negligence.

It's like, yeah, maybe on a date. No, actually, there's no excuse. Every single day you should fulfill your duties to the maximum that you can. And if there were fire hydrants, no water in it, whoever is responsible for that needs to go to jail for negligence, because look how many people's lives are ruined from that.

And it's like, you'd think after what happened, hopefully California would somewhat flip bread, but instead somehow it's everyone's fault, but Newsom, it's everyone's fault, but the mayor. And it's like, okay, let's just pin it on climate change instead of learning. Yeah. They were pointing a lot of fingers. I saw DEI getting blamed. I saw- Cause the hires were insane. You're, you're hiring someone to handle a place that's prone to wildfires because they're queer or because they're a person of color. There's nothing to me more

racist than DEI. DEI is racist in itself. The definition of racism is segregating people by their skin color or now it's religion or race. But what's more racist than saying, okay, you're going to get this because of your skin color or because it's religion or race. But what's more racist than saying, okay, you're gonna get this because of your skin color or because of your religion. Now you're judging people by their religion or race. That is racism. Yet it's become this like popular fad in Biden's administration, DEI,

like Mark Cuban defends it till the day he dies. It's the most racist thing ever. And it's actually racist towards white people because now you're less qualified because of your skin color. Like when I was applying to college, I remember telling my parents, yo, I'm Jewish and white, I'm screwed. I'm not getting it anywhere. But how sad is that?

But like I worked my ass off and I knew I had a lesser advantage because I'm white. Same. I lied about being Asian because, oh my God, their average GPA was like three, nine. So if I said I'm Asian, I'm not getting it. You're white now. Well, I am half white. So I just said I was white. But I feel for all these Asians that try so hard in school and then just

cause they're Asian and they have better grades and like another race, they can't get in. I just feel like we need to collectively agree that in general, and this goes, this is a bigger picture problem. We have to stop judging anyone by anything but their character and work ethic. So you're white, half Asian, whatever. I don't care.

If I like you, I like you. If you're qualified, you're qualified. If you were black, great. Like these headlines really piss me off. It's like example, black man goes to space. Why did you need to point out he was black? Cause now it makes it seem like you didn't expect it from a black guy, which is actually racist because why did you expect a black man to go to space? This is a real headline a couple of years ago. And it's like, that's racist. So people just don't

see it that way. I don't know. It's only the woke people who don't. Yeah. Did you see last week when the Notre Dame football coach? What happened? He got asked, how does it feel to be the first black coach in the national championship game? See why? That's so mean. That's so racist. And he answered like,

why does my skin color matter basically? Facts. Yeah. I'm so glad he, did he get fired? No, I hope he doesn't. He deserves to be. Like the NFL player who wore a MAGA hat or what he did to Trump dance.

Oh, the kicker. The kicker. Yeah. He was getting a lot of heat just for wearing a hat. But I'm sure if you wear a BLM hat or a Biden hat, he'd be fine. Yeah. Just select. Double standards, right?

Yeah, it must be tricky being an athlete with politics. I feel like. Because you don't want to lose your job because think about it, they spent 20 years being an athlete. And now if they talk about politics, why should they lose their job? And it's funny, like I think most NBA team owners are Republican, even though they pretend not to be. Like personally, I think a lot of them are. I can see it. A lot of, yeah. Where does it come from? Like if someone were to

lose their job over being Republican, who's kind of, whose jurisdiction is that? Like you know what guys, let's censor him. Who? It's not Adam Silver. I don't think he cares. Yeah, it's gotta be their sponsors, their funders, right? Like Nike, I get that. Nike, they get a lot of big pharma sponsors. They're woke with the new slave labor. Yeah, Apple too, right? Yeah. They're making phones for what, five bucks overseas?

Idiots like me pay like what, 1500 for a new phone. I can't not have an iPhone. I mean, it's just too good. Me neither. It's like, I wanna boycott them, especially when they changed the chargers. That was evil. That's monopolization. And the AirPods were annoying. AirPods are annoying. And they don't even fit my ear by the way. And they're EMF radiating. So I don't even, I will never have an Android. You heard it. Unless Elon does

a phone. I would get Elon's phone. I would trust Elon with my life. I mean, any company touch it, it kind of skyrockets. Take my data, Elon. It's yours. Sell it. Indulge in it. I don't care. TikTok getting banned tomorrow, right? Allegedly. We'll see what happens. They always do this and then push it back.

I feel like. I don't know. I've seen on X, like it's banned. It's not banned. Trump asked for a 90 day push. They won't grant it. My thoughts on it is that the current TikTok is an issue. The censorship, the suppression of like Republican voices,

even though I do think Trump had a hot wave on it for a minute. I think when they realized he was winning, they kind of just like screw it. Let's let it happen. But in general, they are too obvious with their censorship. Now if somebody like Kevin O'Leary or Elon Musk were to buy it, I think that they would balance it out like Elon did with X. But right now under what is it, bite dance, it's just disastrous. And this is not even addressing like the Chinese alleged CCP spying. I absolutely believe it. Like they're spying. I'm sure the US is spying too. Personally,

I would rather see it banned. If they don't ban it, amazing. Let's just bring it into somebody more responsible's hands for freedom of speech. Less even about the surveillance. Alright, I know this is stupid, but maybe someone in the comments could address this. What is China doing with my data? Like, I'm not that interesting of a person. Okay, even if you read all my texts, okay, that's like uncomfortable or whatever. But what are they, what do they want?

Like they hacked apparently 23andMe. Okay, now you know I'm Iraqi and Ukrainian. Yeah, they're gonna clone you. Yeah, actually, I mean, you're doing a disjustice to yourself if you do that. There's enough Emilys in the world. Who knows what they're doing. That one was weird though, because BlackRock was involved and I don't trust BlackRock.

Yeah. So I try not to get too conspiratorial, but it is weird. We're not suicidal. Yeah, we're not, you know, we're not, um, not at the slightest. So I'm swimming guys. Life is good. Yeah. Life's good for the next four years, at least.

How are you feeling safety wise in New York right now? Like, do you take public transit? Never. Most of all, never. Um, so I used to take the ally double R in like high school. I had like improv classes in the city. It's the last time I took a train. And this was a couple of years back.

I remember like just constantly homeless people throwing like cans of tuna, cans of corn, be like just throwing it at women on the station. And I remember there were cops there and they kind of weren't doing anything. Cause this was also during like defund the police, you know, police brutality. So they were kind of afraid to do anything about it.

And I was just like, why should I have my nose broken taking the train? Like that's a big deal for a woman to walk around with a crooked nose. And it was just sad because driving into the city, especially now with the new congestion pricing is disastrous. You never find parking. You pay $87 for a parking lot in Manhattan. Now you pay $9 to cross the midtown tunnel. Like it's insane what's going on, but you think I'm going to go on a subway and risk either getting beaten, stabbed, shot, burnt alive, spit on, peed on. New York's becoming

a shithole. And Governor Hokel is like, hmm, how do we solve? How do we make the state a better place? Let's forget the violence on the subway and let's increase the price for commuters. Maybe we wouldn't commute so much if you made our subway system safer. Maybe if you didn't defund the police, we'd feel safer. It's like someone has to run against her. I really hope Richie Torres runs. I hope so.

He's a Democrat. He's a person of color if that still matters. I don't think he cares. He's qualified. And like Governor Hokeoco is just not, she's like another new some, you know, look at the Sanctus, look at Florida. They're thriving right now.

Miami is the city to be. I want to live there. I feel safe there. And it's like, can't blame guns. Everybody got a gun there. It's just a strong leadership. And New York just lacks that. Our mayor's, you know, whatever.

I don't flip flop. I don't mind mayor Adams. I definitely flip flop. Because it fits my whatever. I don't mind Mayor Adams. He definitely flip-flopped, because if it's my agenda, I'm okay with it. But he was getting tried like federally, right? Yeah, he wants a pardon. 100%. We see you Mayor.

I mean, if I was in his shoes, I'd do the same thing. I can't even like... Everyone's hopping on the Trump bandwagon now. I mean, Zuck, Bezos, Elon. The best thing was when Trump won, people came up to me, people that I know damn well did not do anything for him. They were like, Oh, we did it, Emily. We, we, who is we? Cause I know I

did my part. You were hiding there. You went to the booth, filled out Trump and you think we did something like you pretended you voted for Kamala and I have no respect for you. Yeah. When did you become outspoken about Trump? Was it in 16? 16, I was 15 years old, so I didn't even vote, but no, I wasn't really involved in the 16 election. I would say in 20, I voted not really understanding much. My parents like go vote for Trump. And after he lost and I saw the outrage, I was like, okay, let's get to the bottom of this.

And I really try to understand both perspectives because I don't like to judge anyone by their political affiliation, race, okay, let's get to the bottom of this. And I really try to understand both perspectives because I don't like to judge anyone by their political affiliation, race, religion, whatever. But I really just resonated with the Republican values, the conservative values. It wasn't so much of a, oh, I like to be Republican for any reason other than I happen to agree with most, most of their policies, not all of them.

You don't have to be so black or white with everything. And therefore I just also started speaking out about my policies and people are like, are you a Trumpy? And I was like, I voted for Trump and it was like taboo then to say anything about it. And I said, how come I didn't like Biden, you voted for him and I respect you, but I voted for Trump and now you don't respect me for that. How did, how is that, how are you the party of inclusivity? And I just started noticing like the hypocrisy of the democratic party.

And it only got worse within the four years because it just became more tolerated, I'd say, and the wokeness became like encouraged and shoved down people's throat and I was not having it. So I was like, people already hate me for voting for Trump. Now I'm going to become his number one fan and advocate and I did. And I just went out there like rip the bandaid off. I mean, needless to say, uh, lost a lot of jobs over it, but it was so worth it. And now, yeah, especially in your space, you know, in the broadcasting space, you probably lost so many opportunities.

Yeah. I mean, I was a misun Universe judge. They're so woke, so woke. I can't take them anymore. It's like nauseous Trump, please buy it again. It's not a marketable thing. You're not going to make money. It's not profitable, but just take it out of their hands. It's like, whatever. I didn't know Trump owned that at one point.

He sold it, yeah. So who owns it now? JKN group. She is a transgender billionaire from Thailand. Whoa. Yeah. I didn't know there was any transgender billionaires. I'm actually surprised.

That's crazy to me. I'm surprised. No, like that's nuts. Like shout out to her, I guess, or him. I don't know what. It was a he and now he's her. Okay. And I don't care.

Like I call her she. If you're she or he, I don't care. When you're they them, I'm like, just choose one. Well, AOC removed her pronouns. So I think we're done with that era. Imagine she becomes MAGA. Yeah, we don't want you. We don't want you. You debated Harry Sisson, right? I couldn't believe that. Oh my God. Cause it's like, a lot of my debates were very hostile, especially about the Israel-Palestine conflict. And I never intend for them to be like, I'm always down for a conversation. And Harry was cool in the way that he could like off camera actually hold his ground.

But it was hard to actually take what he said seriously. Like I looked him in the eye and I said, who do you think Putin and Xi Jinping will respect more? Biden, Kamala or Donald Trump. And he was like, Biden, totally Biden. And I'm like, Harry, you don't believe that. But he actually does. So I feel bad for him.

Wow. Um, and I follow him on X and he follows me back and I just see his tweets. And I would love to hire someone to see if he's getting paid by the democratic party, because he's not a dumb kid. I think he allegedly is getting paid. Cause that would make, that's the only thing that makes sense. And you know what? A lot of people would be lying if they say they wouldn't do it either.

Right. Personally, I would never. I can't compromise my morals for anything. I just feel like that's bad karma. But he's not a dumb person. He's definitely brainwashed or well paid. I think Bryce Hall exposed this. That he's paid.

I think he found... Harry. That he's paid. I think he found- Harry, come on, just- He found allegedly a payment going to one of his companies or something, but let's be honest, that happens on both sides, you know? Yeah. Like maybe not directly, but like indirectly, there's people- I think it happened, I mean,

It definitely happens more on the left. It definitely happens more on the Democratic side. I think a lot of Republicans that speak out actually come to their senses. Like Antonio Brown sort of speaking out. I thought that was really funny. And I'm sure that was like taboo in the NFL. Now you have that player who did the Trump dance. It's just becoming more normalized.

So I think you'll see more people switch sides, even though they were never really on the left. But like the Democrats, they paid Beyonce, Lizzo, Meg Thee Stallion, like they actually are famous for paying celebrities to support them. Which didn't work. Oprah got a million or so. Yeah, a million's hard to turn down.

Yeah, you can't turn down a million dollars to be like, I actually, I don't know. If you're watching this guys, you know her price. For me, Trump's election was life or death. Like legit, it's that serious for me. So in an election like this, it was like, I thought if Trump doesn't win, like this country is done for. I was looking at real estate in Dubai.

Whoa. Yeah, legit. I started looking to like move out of the country. You were that worried. Yeah. Holy crap. I was ready for safety. Like look at California.

Imagine that became a country. That's how the US would be under Kamala. So I started looking elsewhere. So in an election like this, I don't think there's a room to be bought. I think generally maybe if things are harmless, fine. Like an election that's like, I don't know, what was the most agreed on election? It was like Reagan.

Before our time, I feel like. Yeah, before we were born. Now social media just amplifies everything. It's like the stakes are high. So I thought, I mean, if you looked at the polls election night, uh, besides polymarket polymarket was pretty accurate. Call.

She was good too. But if you're looking at just the general polls, you thought this election was 50 50 Trump annihilated her. It was not 50 50. And I feel lied to that. I actually believed it was 50 50. Now I'm now I'm just like, I mean, she was favored to win at first by a lot. Where do they get these numbers from?

You know what I want to know? When they say that they pull people, I've never been called. Never. I've been texted actually. I've never been asked ever who I voted for, who I plan to vote for. So when you allegedly pull people,

you're taking a tiny group and then you're just like assuming that it's going to go across the board state by state, I don't know. Yeah, it's gonna go across the board state by state. I don't know. Yeah, it's not an accurate system. They need to come up with something else or just not do it at all, honestly. Yeah, it's like surprise.

Cause they're never accurate. I mean, why does it even matter? If anything, it makes people not wanna vote. Yeah, cause they feel like confident. Oh, he's gonna win anyway. So. Yeah. Do you have any, any faith in Tate winning over in the UK? He just announced he's running, right?

Hell no. You don't think he has a shot? I think he's still going to jail. What do you mean? I hope he goes to jail. Yeah, him and Shapiro are going at it right now. Ben is a genius. You can't debate a genius like that. I've never seen Ben losing a debate personally. Cause he's too smart and he's too rational.

He just speaks like common sense. He's not disrespectful. He's not antagonizing. He doesn't do for the clickbait. Like you're just debating a smart man. He's actually a debater. That's the difference. And he's smart and he knows what he's talking about. Andrew Tate loves attention.

This man, he's like Candace Owens, they will say anything just to get that viral moment, to be the cool guy, to like follow the masses. Like they don't understand what cowards they are. Have your own opinion, have your own backbone and don't do it for the clicks. Like I actually used to respect Andrew Tate cause I was a big proponent and like, unfortunately, not so unfortunately, gender roles exists. Like you'd be ignorant to deny that.

Like women are expected to X, Y, Z and men are the same. And I think masculine men are the alpha males, the attractive men that like a woman naturally is attracted to. So when he's like masculine men have to provide for their the attractive men that like a woman naturally is attracted to. So when he's like masculine men have to provide for their wives and take care of their home and be a father figure, I agree with that. But then he starts demonizing women and he's like, woman, go make my sandwich in the kitchen. I'm like, oh, you think you're cool now because like these little beta boys who have insecurity issues agree with you

and you made a platform out of it. Congrats. But then the sex trafficking and the rapes and I believe all of it. I believe all of it. He beat the case though. I know, but I don't think it's over. Wow. So you think he'll get tried in the UK for it? I hope so. I mean, running for PM, no, zero chance.

Yeah. I mean, I think, yeah, there's stuff I agree with, but the red pill movement got a little too toxic for me. Well, I say, and it's not spoken about enough and it's okay to call out your own party's problems. The, the extreme right is equally as bad as the woke virus. Like they're both bad. Like Candace Owens to me is a vile person.

Yeah. I hate her so much. Well, she exposed a lot of truth too. She exposed the BLM movement. They're like being a hoax. I mean, she's also said, she said Sandy Hook was a hoax, which is like outrageous. Yeah, that's so. I thought that was Alex Jones.

She agreed to them. Oh, okay. And you know, she said like Jews killed Michael Jackson, Putin and Stalin were Jews. Like she says the craziest things cause it gets attention. And she took the BLM thing to the next level. So if you believe in something and you prove your case,

I have respect for you for doing so. But it's like the way she does it is she wants to always poke and jab rather than just like, she thinks if she uses fancy words that she made her argument better. Like she's still a conspiracy theorist. She's still a nut job. She just promoted a red note, that app instead of TikTok that the CCP literally you sign up community guidelines in Mandarin. And like she's okay with giving her data there. Why? instead of TikTok, that the CCP literally you sign up community guidelines in Mandarin.

And like she's okay with giving her data there. Why now it's cool to do so because all the Gen Zers are doing it. Like this woman is now influencing millions of Americans to go download an app that literally you're swearing it over the CCP. How irresponsible are you? But she'll do anything for clicks at this point. She's spitting on her plate. She's a zero without Ben Shapiro.

Candice Owens is a nothing without Ben Shapiro. And now she's like spitting on the plate that gave her food. She's just an ungrateful woman. She's probably miserable in her marriage. Like, I don't know. Would you debate her ever? Yeah, why not? Let me set that up.

Cause she's coming on my show this year. Yeah, I wonder what- You would actually do it though. I wonder what she'll blame the Jews for then. Why can't she debate Ben Shapiro? That would be amazing. He'll cook her. That would be a good debate.

You will cook her. That would be a good one. I want to see Brett Cooper speak out on her situation with Daily Wire too. Yeah. She's coming on as well. I would love to hear it. Yeah, I think it's interesting how she left.

Apparently it was amicable, but we'll see. I think she'll just maybe profit more off of her own show. If you have a big audience, why do you really need any platform? Just do it yourself. You're doing yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? I mean, you really in the podcast space, you could do it on your own. I think you can. You know, yeah, it's not like it's great.

I mean, I spent a good amount, but you could you could be lean. Yeah. You don't need a huge team. I think that will be OK. I just want to know what happened to probably sign something. You think so? We'll see. Yeah. Well, the co-host or the assistant took over the show or something. I don't know.

Honestly, I don't, I don't watch anything but Ben Shapiro and I don't watch it religiously. I'm not a big podcast person. Honestly. I watch anything that's on X. If it's on my feed, I'll watch it. If it's on my Instagram feed, I'll watch it. And Fox news I watch. Okay.

Anything else that's just like, I don't have time to, but if I were to watch podcasts, I would have to listen to comedy because everything's so heavy nowadays. Yeah. So like I need a break. There's some good comedy ones. But Ben, like when I'm studying for a topic

or want to know like anything about it, I'll definitely watch Bunch of Hero. Yeah, that's cool. So when you prep for debates, you watch his videos. Sometimes I don't resonate with his arguments by the way. He could be right, but for a reason that's not like my main reason. So sometimes I'll watch it and be like, nope, not my argument, like not my space. Who did I watch a lot for my debate preps? Just read books, honestly.

Really? Yeah. For debate prep? Yeah. Wow. I like to know what other people are thinking. So it's funny, Xavier DeRusso said he became Republican by studying the liberal. So I do the two when it comes to antisemitism. So like people think I'm crazy.

I read like my new order by Hitler. I said, I want to know what he was thinking because I see, you know, a lot of antisemitism and I see that clearly he succeeded in a way. So I want to see what the, you know, common denominator here. And I think it's, if you read it, it's like, whoa, is there any middle ground, anything you agree with the anti-Semitic crowd, like people like Jake Shields or Dan was Aaron, is there anything there? Is there anything I agree with? I, so what's unfortunate is that because they're Republican, I happen to agree with them on a lot of things, But when Candice will debate Rabbi Shmueli and say like, Jews in 9-11, and then I see some of my friends listening

to this that are sitting on the fence, like, it's like when Amazon asks you, did you get your package? And you're like, no. And then they say, prove it. And you're like, I didn't get it. When Candice makes such a baseless claim like Jews in 9-11 and then again uses fancy words to support her thesis, you can't prove otherwise. Like, okay, no, Al Qaeda did 9-11. She goes, no, but that was a hoax by the American government, blah, blah, blah. No, it wasn't. But because now she said something and it's like unheard of and uncommon, it becomes trendy and cool. Dan Blisarian, I don't even know if that's his last name, Blisarian? Yeah, Bill Zarian. Dan Wazarian, I don't even know if that's his last name. Wazarian? Whatever. Like it's so crazy to me that this guy is like a womanizer, a porn addict, like looks like he's jacked up on roids

and his new claim to fame. I didn't know who the hell he was before he became anti-Semitic. Really? You never heard of him? I don't know, cause why would I follow a womanizer like that? Like I'm not into like him posting hot chicks. You had a big male following. Yeah.

I don't care about that. I'm straight. So I was just into like him. A lot of got male following. Yeah, I don't care about that on street. So I was just like, who is this guy that's like jacked up on Roids that's talking about Jews? And I noticed it started when it became trendy. If you are a real anti-Semite, you would have done it years ago before it was cool. That's true. You know, at least have a backbone. I say this all the time. If you disagree with me, but you mean it, I still have somewhat respect for you. But these people are doing it, like I said, for

the clicks. The trend riding. Yeah. Like what else did Candice say recently? I mean, Red Note is outrageous. Now Candice just go to China and just go support the CCP. I'm sure they'll pay her generously. Yeah. Maybe they are. Who knows? I think Fuentes got banned on Red Note already. He didn't even post it. I saw that. I really, really, I don't have proof, but I would love to look.

I can't believe that a Tucker. I have an idea about Tucker about marketing suit. Tucker, Candice, Dan, who else is on my list? Oh, you don't like Tucker? He became part of, to me he's extreme right. Really? To me he's like, like riding Russia, like glazing them. He's now like, he's also on Candice's

Jewish conspiracy theories. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, big time. I have no respect for him anymore. I did, a lot. Yeah, cause he broke a lot of stories early on. Damn. I lost my respect for him too.

I saw him in Doha, in Qatar, and somebody's like, go say hi to Tucker. I was like, I'm Jewish. Why would I go talk to him? He's disgusting. And I would love to see if he's receiving foreign money. Tucker, Candice, Dan, I bet you they are. I went to Tucker's tour and I saw him with Roseanne Barr.

I thought when he interviewed Putin, it was kind of an important interview, honestly. Yeah. No, I agree with his political takes, which again makes it harder for me to dislike them because they're on that anti-Semitic wave. It's unfortunate, but to me, they're falling into that alt-right category where they actually hurt the Republican party because people affiliate all of us with extremists like them. Not all of us are so black or white. They make it black or white, especially Candace. It's like any popular topic or unpopular topic, she'll have to just take the opposite stance and ride with it. And it's like, do you think for yourself or you're just doing what's cool? I don't know,

but I think there's definitely, um, Time will tell, right? I think the truth always comes out eventually. We'll see if they- Especially money, follow the money. Follow the money. There was that alleged Russian payments to those podcasts. Did you see that? The 10 million? I so believe it. Yeah. So we'll see. Hopefully they released the 9-11 documents too under Trump.

Yeah. That'd be major. How about the Diddy party list first? Epstein list, Diddy list, please. I want to see that. I mean, we kind of know. Democrats are going down. Gonna be a fun next four years.

Emily, where can people keep up with you and find you? Oh, well, if TikTok gets banned, they banned me anyway. Instagram, Emily.austinx. I tweet a lot. I X, I X a lot. I post a lot. Emily R. Austin. X doesn't sound, yeah, post sounds better.

I post a lot. X a lot sounds weird. Emily R. Austin. And if Emily Austin wants to give me back my username, I'll take it. Did someone take your username? I mean, it's taken and I don't think they're active. Oh, wow. Hit up Elon.

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